The story I will tell is the gradual acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community throughout history. This narrative is important to learn because queer people were not simply accepted overnight. There is a long history of the struggle of queer people to gain fundamental rights. People tend to focus on the major events and landmark decisions of queer history, but these are just the results of the long battle fought by queers. By fixating on these few results, it ignores the queer narrative of resistance, failure, survival, success, and flourishing. It is essential to know and understand the full story of queer history to honor and celebrate all the people and their efforts to get us where we are today.

By learning about the LGBTQ+ rights movement and analyzing how society’s perception of queer people has changed over time, I hope to gain and share a greater understanding of what more can be done to make the world more accepting of the LGBTQ+ community.

As a queer person, it is no surprise that I am interested in the development of the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. However, I am also particularly intrigued by this topic because of the greater understanding that I can gain from it. I am an avid advocate for LGBTQ+ people and their rights. So, if I can determine what improves society’s opinion of the queer community and why this occurs, then I can take action that best enhances society’s acceptance of the LBGTQ+ community.

I’m going to keep the focus on the paradigm shift within America because the level of acceptance of queer people within other countries has varied greatly in comparison over time and would be too broad. Although there have been queer people in America since its founding, they have not been prominent until about the 20th century. Because of this, I will probably only mention them as background information and as a way to memorialize them as queer pioneers. Queer people and the LGBTQ+ rights movement have only really blossomed during the last century, so that is where I will begin the story. This is a good place to start the narrative because it is right where the story picks up after progress has been stagnant for all of history.

Since the main point of my story will be the paradigm shift of society’s acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community, my main research question will be: what is the main driving force that enhances society’s acceptance of queer people? The subsidiary research questions will focus more on the chosen eras to gain a deeper understanding of how they connect to each other and the main research question. Such as, what did each era have in common? How did the eras improve society’s view of queer people? Why was each era so effective in enhancing society’s acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community? With these questions, I will be able to tell the story of the development of the queer rights movement and gain a deeper understanding of how to continue and enhance society’s acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community.