12/5 Reflection

Now that I'm in the final stages of my essay, I thought I would use my final post as a way to reflect on all of the things I learned this year in my research on social dynamics on the LGBT community.
I had a suspicion that we as a nation were in the midst of legalizing gay marriage, and that we were definitely in a transitional period, but I realized that we are in a full-blown revolution at this point, and I love it.

We are now in a time where the homophobic opinions of the past are now being drowned out by the voices of people wanting equality for all in this country, and in the amount of time it took to legalize, the paradigm shifted as well. I think this was a beautiful change that our country needed, and I'm glad that I am alive to see it.

On that note, I did want to add that I was stunned to see how homophobic these contrary opinions were. I thought that this kind of hatred towards gays was at least closeted, but now I realize that the people that don't want this change to happen are backed up against the wall so hard, they have no recourse but to scream their hatred to listening ears.

At the beginning of this course I had no conception of the powder keg we had been sitting on as a nation, and I'm glad that I am rallying for this change, now that it seems all the more worthwhile to do so.