Paula-Michelle Umali
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Social Inequality on the College Campus: A Consideration of Homosexuality

Larry M. Lance’s article, “Social Inequality on the College Campus: A Consideration of Homosexuality” describes the tales of society’s perspectives on homosexuals from the late 1970s to 2006. How these ideas changed, and how discrimination would be involved in an American College atmosphere. In 1973 roughly 75% of American adults responded to association with homosexuals as "always wrong" or "almost always wrong." In the midst of American college students, their tolerance with homosexuality opposed to adults produces a comparable trend. As of 1980, essentially 50% of the college students encouraged laws refraining homosexual affiliation. By 2004, 33% shared this corresponding attitude. The volume of alteration for their field of vision was initiated by the Gay Rights Movement. A community held the belief that if you were not heterosexual, you were known to be “sick” enough to be thrown into a mental institution in hopes of being cured. The American Psychological Association described these assumptions as not an “illness”. They concluded homosexuals’ actions appearing to be a configuration of “Sexual Behaviour.” As the Gay Rights Movement progressed, they introduced the expression, “homophobia” to describe one’s uneasiness amongst personal interactions with another individual who others presume to be homosexual. Homophobia is associated with the absence of a well-being person not just with gays, but characteristics and actions that show relation to homosexual behaviour. While frequently hesitating to present affection toward an individual of the same sex, the main fear is being classified as “gay.” The Gay Rights Movement required answers to “What’s wrong with people who are Gay?” and “What is wrong with people who can’t accept a different sexual orientation?”. The answer they presented: perspective of the “fear of sameness”. Unfortunately the