Special Population Interview
Special population
Interview
Irene Antunez
What is your view on your culture including both strength and weakness?
One of the gay culture is the willingness to be able to speak out and be brave enough to confront people that try to degrade us for being gay. We believe in what we fight for, and some of us have died for the dream of being able to be as equal as everybody else. Our weakness is not being able to reach out to everybody.
Unfortunately, we cannot have the support of every person that opposes us, so we struggle gaining the equality we deserve, but recently people have started noticing that we are as human as anybody else and it's helped the gay community earn tolerance and acceptance
Have you ever experience prejudice? If so what have done to manage it?
Yes, I have. Unfortunately from my own family. I've learned trying to change somebody else's beliefs or ways of thought is like asking a narcissistic person to stop thinking about themself. All I can do is move on and hope that one day my family will accept me for who I am, and it should not and will not affect my ambition for the best for myself. If I don't love myself, nobody else will.
What do you believe would be important for a human service provider to know about your population?
What service do you believe will be helpful in today society?
I think it would be important to know that we aren't any different than anybody else. Being gay is not a choice, and a lot of heterosexual people need to understand that More acceptance and tolerance for each other regardless of sexual orientation, religion, race, ethnicity, and skin color. We need to stop judging and discriminating because it only causes more social problems
Has the different type of languages affected you to connect with your culture?
I don't think there's been any difficulty communicating with the LGBT community because the majority of LGBT people in the
United States speak English.
Have you experienced discrimination if
Interview
Irene Antunez
What is your view on your culture including both strength and weakness?
One of the gay culture is the willingness to be able to speak out and be brave enough to confront people that try to degrade us for being gay. We believe in what we fight for, and some of us have died for the dream of being able to be as equal as everybody else. Our weakness is not being able to reach out to everybody.
Unfortunately, we cannot have the support of every person that opposes us, so we struggle gaining the equality we deserve, but recently people have started noticing that we are as human as anybody else and it's helped the gay community earn tolerance and acceptance
Have you ever experience prejudice? If so what have done to manage it?
Yes, I have. Unfortunately from my own family. I've learned trying to change somebody else's beliefs or ways of thought is like asking a narcissistic person to stop thinking about themself. All I can do is move on and hope that one day my family will accept me for who I am, and it should not and will not affect my ambition for the best for myself. If I don't love myself, nobody else will.
What do you believe would be important for a human service provider to know about your population?
What service do you believe will be helpful in today society?
I think it would be important to know that we aren't any different than anybody else. Being gay is not a choice, and a lot of heterosexual people need to understand that More acceptance and tolerance for each other regardless of sexual orientation, religion, race, ethnicity, and skin color. We need to stop judging and discriminating because it only causes more social problems
Has the different type of languages affected you to connect with your culture?
I don't think there's been any difficulty communicating with the LGBT community because the majority of LGBT people in the
United States speak English.
Have you experienced discrimination if