LGBT rights are human rights

The LGBT community brings together people loving people who feel romantic and/or sexual
attraction out of the heterosexual spectrum, from which the most visible are homosexuality
and bisexuality.

In 1992 the World Health Organisation declared that homosexuality is not a disease, despite
it being present from the beginning of the world. Some notable gay/bisexual historical figures
include Achilles and Patroclus, Aristotle, Alexander The Great, Traian- the Roman Emperor,
Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Alan Turing, Oscar Wilde, Hans Christian Andersen,
William Shakespeare, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Freddie Mercury.

Responses for the most used anti-lgbt excuses:

1) “It’s not natural”

In 2015, acclaimed scientist, Bill Nye said that “homosexuality is just a normal part of nature
that doesn't threaten the planet or the human race at all”. He backed up his affirmation by
mentioning the homosexual behavior found in our ancestors- the primates, primarily
chimpanzees and bonobos. He noted that there is a very wide spectrum of human sexual
preference and even folks on the more homosexual end of the spectrum can and do
reproduce.

Furthermore, scientists have noticed homosexual behaviours in all kinds of animals

(penguins, dolphins, lions, sheep, lizards). In some cases (penguins or lions for ex) this is
expressed as a same sex couple adopting eggs or animal infants after their natural parents
abandoned them and raising them as their own.

2) God is against gays

During the past years many Christian representatives all around the world have claimed that
at the heart of the claim that the Bible says "that homosexuality is forbidden by God" is poor
biblical scholarship and a cultural bias read into the Bible simply because in those times
there was no concept of sexuality. What Leviticus truly condams is the is the violence,
idolatry and exploitation related to the behavior, not the same-gender nature of the behavior.

In addition, Pope Francis is a lgbt supporter, telling a gay man that :God made you this way
and He loves you like this”.

After all, isn’t the Christian first and most important rule, to love your neighbour?

3) The community is vulgar and overly sexual

This is a myth that started from the pride parades.

What is a pride parade?
A pride parade is usually a safe space where people of the lgbt community come and
celebrate their sexuality. They sing, dance, wear costumes, fly flags and take pride in who
they are at heart.
The first pride started on June 28 1969 in New York when Marsha P Johnson, a transgender
woman of colour, threw a shot glass in a mirror as an act of resistance against being
arrested for being homosexual, starting what would history remember as The Stonewall
Riots since they started at the gay bar called Stonewall Inn. After years of persecution, the
gay community standed stronger, united, to fight for their civil rights. After miss Johnson’s
brave act, people all around the United States have become more aware of the existence of
the community and slowly but steady recognised their rights

Why do we need prides?

In 73 countries of the world, being lgbt is a crime and in some cases people are being killed
for this.
40% of the homeless people in the US are lgbt teens who were kicked out their own homes
by their own parents.
90% of the LGBT students have been harrased and bullied which leads to the lgbt
community having one of the highest demographics for suicide.
Additionally, due to hate crimes, according to a number of researchers and the CDC, the
lifespan of an average, gay, white male, is about 20 years less than a heterosexual man
born in approximately the same year.

Why are prides so vulgar?

The sexual revolution was initiated by those who shared a belief in the detrimental impact of
sexual repression, a view that had previously been argued by Wilhelm Reich, D. H.
Lawrence, Sigmund Freud, and the Surrealist movement. The counterculture wanted to
explore the body and mind, and free the personal self from the moral and legal sexual
confines of modern America, as well as from 1940s-50s morals in general.[17] The sexual
revolution of the 1960s was grew from a conviction that the erotic should be celebrated as a
normal part of life and not repressed by family, industrialized sexual morality, religion and the
state. This whole revolution was embraced by the lgbt community since it also celebrated
their own experience with their sexualities.

So, since at that time gay men and women were seen as fragile people who were supposed
to be dominated by the ideal man (the image of the strong man, head of the family, strongly
advertised after WW2), when the feminists and the lgbt community started to embrace their
own sexualities and refuse to be resumed as properties, the “traditional” media and society
depicted them as sexual beasts and prostitutes whose only mission was to break the perfect
families of America.

As a purely satirical response to that, the gay community especially, since at that time and
even now they have been more discriminated, started being more sexual at protests and
pride parades.
To sum it up, a pride parade is still a revolution. It shows how cheerful, colourful, supportive
and full of love the community can be despite all the hate it gets. It fights against stereotypes
in satirical ways and, by being out loud and proud proves that they have been here for a
while and won’t go anywhere anytime soon.
4) A child needs both a mother and a father

Scientific research consistently shows that gay and lesbian parents are as fit and capable as
heterosexual parents, and their children are as psychologically healthy and well-adjusted as
those reared by heterosexual parents. The range of these studies allows for conclusions to
be drawn beyond any narrow spectrum of a child's well being, and the literature further
indicates that parents' financial, psychological and physical well-being is enhanced by
marriage and that children benefit from being raised by two parents within a legally
recognized union.

5) Why do gays need to marry?

Same-sex couples should have access to the same benefits enjoyed by heterosexual
married couples. Benefits only available to married couples include hospital visitation during
an illness, the option of filing a joint tax return to reduce a tax burden, access to family health
coverage, and bereavement leave and inheritance rights if a partner dies. Married couples
also have access to protections if the relationship ends, such as child custody, spousal or
child support, and an equitable division of property.

To conclude, homosexuality is as natural as being blonde or having green eyes and it exists
since forever yet people who identify as gay have suffered great discrimination and they
should be denied no rights due to personal or religious beliefs since they are also people
with rights and duties and they have proven their worth since ancient times.