Homophobia As Rejection And Discomfort Towards The Lgbtq Community

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Homophobia as rejection and discomfort towards the LGBTQ community

Homophobia is fear, distrust, hatred and discomfort to people who are part of the LGBTQ community. This behavior is a problem that has grown in recent years around the world. This is believed that it is because more and more people make part of the LGBTQ community, awakening a kind of contempt from people who feel this as a new and different idea in which they feel discomfort. This discomfort can grow to be hatred and at the same time something harmful to the members of said community. Unfortunately a place where this type of discrimination usually happens a lot, is in schools. Many young people are beginning to discover their sexual preferences and identity;At the same time that many of the young people begin to generate contempt. This results in verbal violence, which can be expressed as comments or teasing;Physical violence that can come as abuse in some way that damage the person physically;And finally, this discrimination may not be shown so explicitly, but it can occur in some way of silence in which the person is rejected or “gossip” is said. All these presentations of contempt can become equally painful and harmful. Some consequences of homophobia could be fear, of being discriminated, judged, rejected and even injured. Reach extremes such as suicide for not feeling acceptance from society, and in turn contempt that can weaken them enough to feel that there is no support in their decisions. And finally a consequence is that a toxic and divided society is created in which instead of accepting, supporting and joining, we decided to separate and hate. In this society, too many things such as coexistence between human beings would be interrupted only by a difference. In this society an extreme pain would be caused and in turn, many more people who cause this pain would be generated. That is why this is an issue of urgent importance that still needs support from many governments and people, but that their solutions could also begin in the lives of young people, who are the ones who deal most with this, more specifically within theschools. That is why I propose five possible solutions or efforts that could be applied inside and away.

Solutions:

• Support: the best way to combat homophobia everywhere, not only at school, is to show your support in some way towards people who suffer discrimination. This makes them feel acceptance and are not afraid of being who they are.
• Awareness: a very effective way to solve homophobia, would be to attack it at the root. This means identifying their origins and trying to solve them so that they do not grow to something greater. That is why all of us must begin to identify and raise awareness about what we say and do.
• Education: If from an early age, people started educating themselves on the subject, there would be less doubts and less homophobia when it comes to growing. This is because people would already know what the subject is about and they would no longer take it as something new and different from what they have to fear or criticize. And in turn they know that it is normal and that we must let people live their lives as they want to live it. Therefore, in many schools classes and sexual education workshops are being implemented in which these issues are best explained.
• Importance on the part of authoritarian figures: in some cases young people may begin to express in an unseen and discriminatory way within the school. And sometimes authoritarian figures such as teachers and in themselves adults, do not take much importance. This will deal with no appropriate consequences for people who make these comments, and in turn they continue to do it because they think they will not be punished for that. This is why adults within the institution should take importance to this and apply consequences or warnings when appropriate.
• Stop making jokes or jokes: Many times even if people are not homophobic, they come to make comments, jokes or jokes that discriminate against people from the LGBTQ community. This does not seem like something serious, since we know that we do not do it to hurt or make them feel bad, but they may feel uncomfortable and even sad and angry at the time this happens. So before making any joke or comment it is better to think how what I am going to say will affect the other person. Will it be positive or negative? And if it is negative, it is preferable not to say it and thus open the way to better coexistence and environment for all.