Sexual Orientations A new type of discrimination

Sexual OrientationsA new type of discrimination

According to the American Psychological Association “Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic and/or sexual attractions to men, women or both sexes. Sexual orientation also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors and membership in a community of others who share those attractions.”

So, in an easy way to understand this, "sexual orientation" means the capability to love of a human being to another one. This does not have relation with any other social, physical or psychological capabilities that a human being may have, although nowadays this is not understood by all people and it has become a reason for discrimination in our society.

We are normed in a heterosexual society and unfortunately this means that not being a heterosexual is a reason for being discriminated in almost everything. Interactions with others and even looking for a job are situations that are complicated for not-heterosexual people.

We can compare this situation with the one that lived the black people in the 60’s when they had to fight against a white people society just because laws and prejudices of the population were sort of biased and responded to an irrational hatred and belief of power over them.

It’s disappointing to know that even if our society has evolved it has not stopped on making mistakes such as discriminating people or communities based on stupid factors such as racial matters and sexual orientation. This only slows our progress as humanity because we insist on falling in old mistakes instead of unite us as an inclusive society. 


http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orientation.aspx