Gay Pride Day is celebrated this month of June with which the LGTBI community remembers the first public demonstration against homophobia, following the events that occurred at the StoneWall bar in New York.
The protests against the police forces that violently broke into the Greenwich Village neighborhood took place in 1969. 21 years later, On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. Since then, being attracted to people of the same sex has been considered a sexual orientation.
However, historical events do not have an immediate impact on all social or personal environments, so Even today it is still considered important to educate minors in sexual tolerance
The family is the point of origin of this education against homophobia, since it is the person’s first nucleus of influence. The adults in this group are, therefore, those in charge of educating with words and attitude.
To achieve satisfactory results, it is first necessary to understand the reasons why human beings tend to reject others. Group identity is one of the bases: people who do not have their own identity very reinforced feel more comfortable in the group; They define themselves in relation to that group and are not flexible with those who are different.
However, a person with a strong individual personality is more likely to understand that everyone is different and that there are many diversities in people’s identities. That is, someone with a marked individuality and who understands that there are different individualities does not tend, in principle, to reject the other, the one who is different.
In childhood, the family is key to avoiding this rejection of those who do not belong to our peer group, while in adolescence friends come to occupy first place in terms of influence.
Although discriminatory behavior towards people with a homosexual orientation appears in the new school and entertainment environment, if during the first years the values of tolerance and respect have been solidly instilled, it will be more difficult for homophobic behaviors and attitudes to flourish later, as well as Behaviors of integration and support will appear, as well as rejection towards the people who are grateful against these rights.
Parents must, above all, be careful with their words (sometimes simply learned expressions without an exclusive intention) and loudly condemn behaviors against the LGTBI community that occur in the environment.
A false belief held by many adults is that validating other sexual tendencies will foster an environment of debauchery or induce them to have another intimate orientation It is totally wrong because if they learn from a young age that there are different options, they will learn to respect any type of orientation, and furthermore, if they are not heterosexual, it will facilitate the integration of their sexuality into their identity and normalize it in their environment. From the beginning
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These simple tips can help overcome some natural barriers that arise between parents and children when talking about sexual orientation. From Origin Clinics we recommend:
