          The American dream, which put much emphasis on equality and freedom, is considered as the heart and soul of the United States, and citizens have a strong awareness of defending their own rights. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has approved the bill of legitimizing same-sex marriage, some biases still exist when homosexual people defend their own rights, such as public votes and employment, which are contested and deserve paying more attention to.

          For this research project, I would like to argue that there is little difference between heterosexual and homosexual lifestyle, and people need to protect the rights of homosexual people. Protection includes zero tolerance of discrimination in jobs by creating equal opportunity employers and enacting hate crime laws. In addition, I am going to discuss what attitudes people are supposed to have towards this topic, including how homosexual people should view themselves and their lifestyle.

          The reason why I would like to study on this topic is largely based on my own experience. One year ago, one of my best friends had a serious conversation with me, telling me that he had fallen in love with another boy, which was shocking to me. To be honest, I had never imagined the life of homosexual people, and known nothing about what exactly homosexuality is like and how a man was able to define himself as a homosexual person. I think I am qualified to discuss this topic because I could get access to the real and direct feedbacks and opinions from my homosexual friend.

          The first source is from Timothy Cook's article, "Tim Cook Speak Up." This primary source tells that he is attempting to tell the public in a calm way that he is proud to be gay. He also appeals to the public to have much more appropriate attitudes and understanding toward homosexuality. One value at stake for the topic is what kinds of attitudes people are supposed to have towards homosexuality. More importantly, the other is what kinds of attitudes homosexual people are bound to have towards their own life and others' opinions. What is more, this source is credible because the speaker, Tim Cook, is not only the chief executive officer for Apple Inc., but he is also a homosexual person. All the feelings and opinions in this article are vivid and subjective, which could be a good example for the research project. However, this article did not present a sound image of same-sex marriage. He excludes the pros and cons and the influence on society of same-sex marriage in his article. 

 The second source is "Pride and Prejudice: Employment Discrimination against Openly Gay Men in the United States" by Andras Tilscik. It is a secondary source that presents via plenty of scientific experiments that the geographic variation in the level of discrimination largely reflects regional differences in attitudes towards openly gay men in real labor markets. Moreover, the employers who greatly emphasized the importance of heterosexual traits were more likely to engage in discriminiation of openly gay men. The value of this article is that it discusses employment rights of homosexual people by conducting two main precise and logical experiments. The discussion followed by the experiments clearly points out the three main contributions to maintain the employment rights of gay men, which could be an excellent theoretical concern in the aspect of employment rights. Yet, this article has some biases, such as only gay men being discussed. Lesbians also belong to the homosexual group, which might be associated with some other problems like gender in employment.

The third source is "Marriage and Family: LGBT Individuals and Same-sex Couples" by Gary J. Gates. This secondary source mainly considers that same-sex couple are as good at parenting as their different sex counterparts. This article was published on September 1, 2015, two months after the U.S. Supreme Court approved same-sex marriage. Since society has begun to treat same-sex couples more like difference-sex couples, the differences between the two groups have narrowed. The effects on LGBT relationships, especially homosexual relationships, family, and child health are demonstrated to have almost the same outcomes as heterosexual relationships. The value of this article is that it has explored the relationship between stable family and homosexual relationships, which is more evidence supporting same-sex marriage as feasible under the same circumstance being charged by heterosexual people. However, the bias might be that some statistics listed in the article were about bisexual relationships, which has slight differences from homosexual relationships. 

What is more, the reason why rights of homosexual people are still arguable is that even though same-sex marriage has been recognized as valid, people still have some biases, and even discriminiation toward these homosexual people no matter in the workplace or daily life. For example, in the hiring process, employers who emphasized heterosexual male traits are more likely to discriminate the gay applicants, although they will not show disrespect apparently to the gay applicants. When homosexual people suffer abuse, some authorities might blame them for the gay bar, and would not write up the police report to help them defend their basic human rights. Based on the sources I found,  I might argue the different aspects of homosexual rights, including marriage, employment, attitudes, and behaviors towards them. I basically agree with the articles, and they might be able to support my position.

