All We Want is Equality
I found a report on the website, Human Rights Watch titled All We Want is Equality, and it is a human rights text that is a call to action to stand up against discrimination from LGBT people. The report talks about how this issue has gone on long before the freedom to marry was gained. Even after then nothing has been done in the federal government to protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity when in the workforce, housing, and access to services (Ryan Thoreson). This report relates to Gilmore's idea of testimony in how there are multiple accounts of LGBT people who are discriminated against from August 2017 to January 2018. Through this research they can show how this is having an effect on their community.
This report also relates to Gilmore's idea about trauma discourse. The report gives one account by Brandiilyne Mangum-Dear, a lesbian pastor in Mississippi, who states, "We’re not being melodramatic. You’re being treated with disrespect, as a second-class citizen—not even a citizen, an outsider. And after a while, that begins to tear a person down, to hurt them emotionally and spiritually" which we all have experienced some type of disrespect in our lives, which allows us to try and feel the trauma that is happening right now (Ryan Thoreson). Of course we have all not been hurt by what is happening in our society today, but that doesn't mean we can't do our part to try and end this discrimination from happening ever again.
David Ibarra
Class Preparation
https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/19/all-we-want-equality/religious-exemptions-and-discrimination-against-lgbt-people
This report also relates to Gilmore's idea about trauma discourse. The report gives one account by Brandiilyne Mangum-Dear, a lesbian pastor in Mississippi, who states, "We’re not being melodramatic. You’re being treated with disrespect, as a second-class citizen—not even a citizen, an outsider. And after a while, that begins to tear a person down, to hurt them emotionally and spiritually" which we all have experienced some type of disrespect in our lives, which allows us to try and feel the trauma that is happening right now (Ryan Thoreson). Of course we have all not been hurt by what is happening in our society today, but that doesn't mean we can't do our part to try and end this discrimination from happening ever again.
David Ibarra
Class Preparation
https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/19/all-we-want-equality/religious-exemptions-and-discrimination-against-lgbt-people
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