What comes to your mind when you hear the word honosexual? The same things that comes to your mind are probly the same things that came to my mind years ago. I remember when I was little you never heard much about homosexuals, they are just seem to keep to themselves. But in the late 80's and the earily 90's I remember my father talking about them. It was during the time that they were beganing to come out and and the army didn't allow gays in the army. I chose the essay "Burls'" By Bernard Cooper because it is about him as a young boy and his coming to the realization that he was gay. I can relate to it because in the past ten years I have became friends with many gays and I have realized that they are no different then you and me.
If you wish to find out anything about the world of a homosexual it is fairly easy. In todays day and age they are all kinds of information out their and people are not afraid to come out and say that they were gay. So I had no problem finding material on the subject of homosexuals.
When it came to chosing my gernes I did have a small problem in tring to pick which on to use. With the help of my classmates and Professor Darby I came up with the gernes of a flyer for a Drag Queen show, a journal entry.
I chose the the flyer because I wanted to show that they are places to go that that homosexuals show their true self. There was a part in the esaay where Cooper for the first time get to see a drag queen outside the cafe Burls'. Next I chose to write a jounral entry of Cooper's point of veiw when he was waiting for the bus and realizeed that he did like women.
For my connecting devices I went back though the essay and found quotes to use that went with what my gerne was about.
This is the first I have every done a paper like this. I enjoyed writing and doing this paper although at times I find it differcult to come up with things to write in the gernres but all in all I would prefer to do a paper like this over a regruel reaseach paper.