After completing a character analysis on a movie that had an LGBTQ theme…I started to wonder how many mainstream movies have been released within this topic. I figured there would be quite a few considering my instructor for my class had listed around 15 movies that we could choose from for our paper. After looking at a list of movies that Advocate.com had provided, I noticed that I have seen several of these movies and/or some that I never even…
I recently sat through a workshop on PREP and PEP. Before this workshop I had no idea what these two acronyms even meant. PrEP is short for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and PEP is short for Post Exposure Prophylaxis. So what are these medications about and why use it? Well the easiest way to think about these two medications is to think about PrEP as “birth control for women” and PEP as Plan-B (aka “the morning after” pill). Why should someone use…
Everyday there is some type of celebration day. Every year on October 11th, the LGBT Community celebrates National Coming Out Day (NCOD). The community celebrates with local discussions, parties, parades, and even with a simple table that offers information about the local LGBT Community. So how did this day even become a day to be recognized? National Coming Out day was created by Rob Eichberg and Jean O’Leary in 1988 (Human Rights Campaign, 2016) just one year after the Second…
Have you seen the movie, Philadelphia which stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, that came out in 1993? Philadelphia, was one of the first movies to address the AIDS epidemic, and won two Academy Awards. The story is set roughly in the year 1987, and is about Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) getting fired from his job after his employer found out that he was gay and had AIDS. Mr. Beckett decides to sue for wrongful termination. As he calls different…
Intro to Macro Project: September 12th, 9pm eastern standard time… I created this blog as part of a macro project for The LGBTQ Experience: Sexual & Gender Diversities Class that I am taking at University of Connecticut – School of Social Work. Students had several options on what one could do for their project. One could write a research paper exploring the histories of various important times in the LGBT world, others could keep a journal, etc. The option that…