User:BeckAugust/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1: LGBTQ+ History: Gay/Lesbian Comm Studies

Section Overview:

This topic is going to discuss important events and historical movements that helped the LGBTQ+ community grow and develop over the years.

Topic Focus:

I choose this topic out of my love for LGBTQ+ History. With this topic, I also hope to explore more about how people in the community fought and continued to defend their ways of life. Unlike other articles too, this was the only article that distinctly talked about Gay/Lesbian history. Other articles seemed more focused on Transgender and Queer History.

Source(s):

Gross discusses facts about how Gays and Lesbians fought throughout History to have the rights they have today. To them, it was important to not be seen as a community that needed to be eradicated.

Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s)

Sample: I would use the general Queer Studies page because...

Gay rights in America...explain why (use the little hyperlink to find things on Wikipedia).



Option 2: LGBTQ+ Friendship

Section Overview:

We are one: The dynamic of how friendships work in the community and how it doesn’t have to be stigmatized.

Topic Focus

I choose this topic due to the authors focus on how friendships in the community is harshly stigmatized especially in the college setting. He argues that since college students are adults, who have formed their own opinions, that they are able to get away from the thought of sticking to the status quo.

Source(s):

Koji takes a deeper look into how friendships work in the LGBTQ+ community I choose this source as it is in relation to a majority of us as college students. With the experiment the author conducted in this article, he is trying to show how the concept of friendship is not just belief, but a group of multiple ideas.

Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s):

Friendship Representation in the Media

Option 3: LGBTQ+ Friendship Representation in the Media

Section Overview:

We are one: The dynamic of how friendships work in the community and how it doesn’t have to be stigmatized based on how others think a friendship should work. My group mates and I came across this one as we were working together in class one day. They both thought it was an excellent decision.

Topic Focus

I believe the topic of representation is media is important especially when it comes to displaying the struggles and stigma that go along with the concept.

Source(s):

Noah Riseman explores the realm of Historical Fiction to display how some friendships turned sexual even though many of the soldiers claimed they weren't interested in same-sex relations or desires. Although this was the only source I was able to find to go with this topic, I choose this source as it discusses important historical concepts and stigmas of LGBTQ+ friendships.

Potential Current Wikipedia Article(s)