Mentn beg gay? - College Essays - College Confintial Foms

Contents:

• ESSAY ON BEG GAY?
• 2ND PLACE ESSAY: “DEFN OF GAY: STEREOTYP AND THE IMPORTANCE OF AFFIRMG TORS”
• I LEARNED THAT MY SON IS GAY WHEN I READ HIS LLEGE SAY
• APPLITN SAY ABOUT "G OUT" AS GAY
• GAY AT A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
• MENTN BEG GAY?
• THIS GAY LLEGE ADMISTRATOR FALLY WROTE THE LLEGE SAY HE WISH HE HAD WRTEN

ESSAY ON BEG GAY?

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2ND PLACE ESSAY: “DEFN OF GAY: STEREOTYP AND THE IMPORTANCE OF AFFIRMG TORS”

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I LEARNED THAT MY SON IS GAY WHEN I READ HIS LLEGE SAY

At the end of the year, I left that school, spe everythg, still proud to wear my thick-amed glass and crop-tops that I’d cut my new school, I was drawn toward clubs like TRIBE-ONYX, the black activism club, and Spectm, our Gay-Straight Alliance. Beg gay a homophobic hoehold, an atheist a strict, Mlim fay, and a math fanatic a theater centered school, I have always felt out of place. Sce then, I’ve received natnal regnn on several ocsns, qualifyg for the Amerin Invatnal Mathematics Examatn and placg the 99th percentile of MathCon my sophomore year.

APPLITN SAY ABOUT "G OUT" AS GAY

Throughout 9th and 10th gra I was overwhelmed by the barrage of imagery that told me that beg gay was about beg the “right” body type and sayg the sassit, most opnated thgs I uld thk of. I saw men who looked like me beg praised for their “lic curv;” I saw gay men who liked sports or math or exercise or all of the above or none of .

Maturg to my early teens, I disvered that my parents shed their weddg plans the wake of the Marriage Equaly Countermovement, fearg that if they waed too long, gay marriage would soon bee illegal.

The largt challeng I’ve faced are stereotypil judgements like “All gay guys are sanely flamboyant and overly dramatic, ” and the ocsnal peer who homosexualy to make jok. Beg gay has never been easy, but my experience has been facilated thanks to some of my current and prev teachers and unselors who pot out anythg they believe n help me, like clubs, groups, and books; whout them, I wouldn’t be who I am today, and I wouldn’t be wrg this say.

GAY AT A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

On stutnal webs at Christian lleg one n fd statements tled "Communy Covenant" or "What We Believe" that discs homosexualy, sometim acpanied by biblil proof texts or "texts of terror, " as they are referred to by Christian gays and lbians and our alli. Some stutns don’t have a separate statement on homosexualy, but do require faculty to nform to the stunt handbook that supports only heterosexual marriage.

" Such language allows your stutns to adm gay stunts, but rri wh the msage that the stutn do not thk that they n look forward to a lovg, mted, monogamo, same-sex relatnship the future. " I am perplexed by CCCU stutns whose stunt handbooks state that marriage is to be between a man and a woman, that refe to hire openly gay faculty, and yet have clubs for gay and lbian stunts orr to create a "safe" place for them.

MENTN BEG GAY?

While I wele such clubs, what do safety and hospaly mean if the real msage is, "Here you n be safe as a gay stunt, but know that we thk that you mt be alone, whout a partner, to be an obedient Christian"? The Roman Catholic and gay theologian, Jam Alison, scrib this suatn: "However many veats are put to ncerng the distctn between acts and orientatn, this package grds down on and says, 'As you are, you really are not part of creatn.

THIS GAY LLEGE ADMISTRATOR FALLY WROTE THE LLEGE SAY HE WISH HE HAD WRTEN

As for gay faculty members, they mt "pass" as straight or, as I have been told, an stutn might have an implic "don’t ask, don’t tell" approach, but, as the ary monstrated, such a policy provis no real safety.