Is Homosexuality Acceptable to the Society?

There are a few of articles in guardian.co.uk (article 1, article 2) which is about discussing the homosexuality rights. They had this televised meeting in Los Angeles and discussing the “Gay Marriage-right or wrong?”

In these few years, the media industry had come out lots of series and movies about homosexuality. The most famous representative will be the academy award winning movie “Brokeback Mountain” in 2005, directed by famous Taiwanese director Ang Lee. It had caused a world interest about homosexuality issues. Although the movie was not shown in every countries but it shows that the society now is more open-minded and there are people who willing to accept this concept to exist in this world.

"Movie poster of BrokeBack Mountain"

Furthermore, there is also a comedy which contains gay content and it was launched recently. “I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry”, directed by famous comedy actor Adam Sandler. This movie also shows very obviously to the people that homosexual community also has the rights to live in this world.

"Movie poster of I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry"

Homosexuality is a term meaning the love between the same sexes. This is an arguable issue in the society nowadays. In this democratic world right now, lots of countries have given equal rights to homosexual people. For example, gay marriages are legal; there are also festivals and parades for the gay community and so on.

As what Schirato and Yell said (1996), narratives are used as ways of interpreting and structuring everyday life, and can take a powerful function in validating the events in people’s lives. Therefore, writing a heterosexual romance as a homosexual romance story. How does it affect when people they the narratives of homosexuality? Which cultural groups would accept and which would not accept it?

Whatever the text, we often need to ‘fill in the gaps’ to understand the cultural, social and specific contexts (Walsh, M 2006). To the religious groups, they may not accept homosexuality because it is against the nature. To the people in society, some may think it is acceptable because they are also human beings. So, different culture of people has their own interpretation of things.

Is homosexuality acceptable? It is just your own opinion.

Reference List:
Condron, Stephanie 2007, ‘Democratic hopefuls grilled on gay rights’, viewed 21th October 2007, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2146207,00.html>

MacAskill, Ewen 2007, ‘Democratic rivals tread carefully at gay rights forum’, viewed 21th October 2007, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2146724,00.html>

Schirato, T & Yell, S 1996, Communication and cultural literacy: An introduction, Allen and Unwin, St. Leonards NSW.

Walsh, M 2006, “Textual shift”: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian journal of language and literacy, vol.29, no.1, pp.24-37.