For more than three decades the gay and lesbian rights movement has been a political subject to fight against the social discrimination and to seek for equality. The legalization of same-sex marriage has come with many challenges but one of them is to continue to seek social justice even today. Most people today dont favor same-sex marriage because it goes against their religious belief and affiliations with church. A research poll was done and found cultural divide amongst Canadian over same-sex marriage. 7 percent of respondents of European descent backing the right versus 44 percent support from respondents of East Asian backgrounds and 42 percent support from respondents of south Asian descent (Little, 209).
Its no secret that being gay or lesbian has influenced the persons career because the society today is viewed at heteronormative and those views are carried over to workplaces/business. Even today there are people in Canada who choose not to disclos
e their sexuality at work in fear of losing their job. On July 22, 209, London-based engraving company Laser in Motion wrote on their Facebook wall: Please do not come to us, we dont have to deal with it. We are not the only business that does engraving& We fully support traditional, heterosexual marriage, and if this is wrong in your eyes, theres nothing we can do about it (Drolet, 209). This is a classic example of why many homosexual people dont prefer to disclose their sexuality. In 204, the General Social Survey on the safety of Canadians was conducted and the results were impressive. 3% of gay and lesbian people reported experiencing some form of discrimination in the last five years at their workplace (Camilleri and Gogolishvilli, 208). In a supportive workplace comes better health outcome, better job satisfaction, greater sense of their responsibility and commitment to the job. All which gay and lesbian workers do not feel because of discrimination.