Sociology

Look around your surrounding and see how many people are striving for their rights. Look closer and you will know each and everyones struggle, and then look within and you will feel how they have struggled so much. Actually, resistance is attending of social inequality that is perceived by many as normal or part of life (Bond). Generally speaking people experience struggle from their own family, or also known as the smallest unit of the society, to other institutions like in school, in work, and in the society, at large. Admit it or not, this is due to the moral codes that are imposed to us that if we go against it we are called deviants or immoral (Bond). Race and sexuality are two concrete frameworks of this moral code.

Race actually refers to the category or group that will identify and shape or, at least define a persons identity (Bond). This term however has been an aversion by many. This term has heightened inequality among people because of categorizing them from their differences on race, referring to categorization according color, ethnicity, traditions, and geographical location. Through that concept it brought upheaval and led to civil rights struggle. Nowadays, it has been the basis of the status of a person, the capacity or capability of their ideology. As a result, there are conflicts between white and black, apartheid happened because of racial differences (Bond).

Sexuality or gender, at that, on the other hand exemplifies the role of a person. Good thing about this is that from two classifications of sexes, now there have been seven classifications of people according to gender, meaning, each persons struggle on their preference has been explored and now is included in many advocacies. To name those seven, these are male, female, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer. Among the seven, the last five or the LGBTQs experience discriminations more than the first two. Included in their struggles is employment discrimination, marriage, family, health insurance, or belongingness (Bond).

From a larger context, struggle of LGBTQs is seemingly a struggle of race. It is a combo of discrimination within discrimination. Definitely race and genders issue are fated in one struggle and that is civil rights (Bond). What happens when they are integrated is their scope larges, which is undeniably apparent. Race delineates the issue of LGBTQs rights, meaning, as example, a black race that is a lesbian or a gay, bisexual, transsexual or queer individual suffers more than a white LGBTQ (Bond). Thus their concentration on addressing their civil rights is in a more specific context that includes their race than the usual holistic social justice movement of an individuals entire life cycle (Bond).

They claim for civil rights, this claim is not something that is special in a sense, but their rights as a person must also be heard (Bond). There is no difference between white and black LGBTQs of expressing their rights because both of them are people who claim to be equal among the rest. However, black suffers, according to one of the articles that I have read, lesbian and bisexual black women are the least likely to have had a mammogram in the past two years. Only 35 percent of these women have had mammograms recently, compared to nearly 70 percent of heterosexual African-American, Asian or Pacific Islander, or white women (noelienoel). From this health issue against them, it follows that the impact of race in the struggle of gender is bigger and much harder, as they are oppressed in two sides.