To what extent can house fathers truly identify as heroes?

Résumé du document

Ce document est la présentation orale d'anglais portant sur le thème Myths and Heroes du baccalauréat d'anglais. Il répond à la problématique "To what extent can house fathers truly identify as heroes?" de la façon suivante :

1- Gay community until the 80's
-violences
-AIDS myths

2- Identity struggle
-in black and latino communities
-the look of the others, rejection

3- Birth of the ball culture - creation of families that those people didn't have before
-feeling to belong somewhere
-what is the ball culture? What are the houses?

Extraits

[...] These outcasts, mixing ethnic minorities and sexual nonconformers created "Houses", giving these people families that they didn't have before who could care and protect each other, giving a feeling to belong somewhere to these people. These houses compete, and interact, with each other in balls influenced by hip-hop, giving way to the term "ball culture". It is a setting of freedom, happiness and self-satisfaction whose aim is providing a safe haven to any and all people discriminated by wider society with no discrimination of ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or ideology. For this reason I believe the leaders of these Houses, called "fathers", are true modern heroes who care deeply about their "children". [...]

[...] To what extent can House fathers truly identify as heroes? Non-conforming sexuality has long been a factor of violence and discrimination. Over the years, the gay community organized into `Houses': small, tight-knit safe spaces working as families, in which these people, long being harassed, could enjoy their sexuality and culture freely, without risk of harassment. In the past years, homosexuals went from being derided for their `effeminate' role to celebrating them for their courage in facing all the challenges of daily life. [...]