Week 9 - Sexual Orientation

In class we had the LGBTQ team come in a do a presentation in our class. In listening to each of the speakers I learned something new and great about each and everyone of them. Too often sexual orientation goes unseen or discussed in media today. I believe sexual orientation to important factor about a person as this is their identity and who they are. During the in-class presentations about LGBTQ we learned that we dont really know much at all about sexual orientation. When the presenters were sharing personal experiences about coming out I instantly thought about every tv episode that Ive ever seen and it being a huge deal where people are hurt and rejected becuase of this moment of "coming out". I learned thats not always true and that families are sometimes not always accepting of changes but that many families are understanding as well as will to understand one another.

A statement in the reading of Dines mentions, "the promotion of gayness as a lifestyle tends to attach it to commodities rather than a practices of experssion of the self." I believe this to be an extremely true statement in regards to media now-a-days and unfourtunately I dont know if we ever look at peoples expression of oneslef and identity rather than promoting lifestyles to increase revenues.