Pro Gay Marriage

Framing is used as an attraction to get people to pay attention to the movement and maybe even start to feel that they agree with the movement based off of the way it is “framed”. On page 52 of the G&J text state that there are three different types of framing. There is diagnostic framing which is where a movement convinces potential prospects that a problem needs to be addressed. There is prognostic framing where the movement convinces people that there are appropriate strategies, tactics, and targets. Then there is motivational framing which urges people to get involved in the activities. I think that the gay marriage issues that I have chosen to follow has definitely addressed framing through both diagnostic and motivational. They have showed people that there is a problem with the fact that same-sex couples are not legally allowed to be married. Also, I think that people in the movement have been very big on motivational framing. As far, as a collective identity, I do believe that there are a few identities that people associate with the gay rights movement. Some people see the movement in a beautiful light, and others may see the identity as something that is sinful and wrong. A symbol that is associated with the gay rights movement that helped frame it is the rainbow flag.

However, not everyone frames the movement in the same way. People might see the movement in the form of a man wearing a dress in high heels with extremely heavy make up on. Or they might frame the movement in a religious way and how being homosexual is a sin.

The environmental movement and the gay rights movement have a couple of things in common. Both of these movements are trying to convince the world that there is a problem. The environmental movement states on page 75 of the G&J text that they way we behave is against Nature and that basically the way we behave will have its repercussions. In the end our children will suffer for our misbehaving towards nature. The gay movement is not trying to get this exact point across, but I can relate them both to each other in a small way. I think it would be great for children to grow up in a world where it is okay by the law to get married to someone of the same sex. I grew up believing that it was okay. Did that make me want to become a lesbian? No, but it did instill in me a respect for all people. However, it is stated in the G&J text on page 75 as well, that the environmental group is not homogenous. There are many different sections to this group. I think that the gay rights movement is working towards a same collective goal, which in a certain way makes them homogenous. So that is how they differ.

As far as the pro-life movement and the gay rights movement, there is one big area that these two movements take completely different stances on. That subject is without a doubt religion. The pro-life movement bases a majority of their arguments in what is right in God’s eyes, or what the Bible says is right and is not right. While the pro-life movement uses religion to power their movement, the gay rights movement continually has to fight off strict religious views. Religion is what is used against gay rights movement a majority of the time.

I do not think that there is a particular face that can be names the leader of the gay rights movement. I think the movement is based off a collective idea that a group of people had. There was not one particular person that is the “Rosa Parks” of the gay movement. The movement is a huge group of people who share the same ideal.