LGBT Education

This week at Montrose Counseling Center I volunteered by assembling education materials like condom packs. Even though this wasn't an "important" job per say, whatever I can do to help helps. Education materials consist of many packets and trinkets having to do with STD prevention and LBGT support materials.  Looking at the packets gave me an idea of how to make my brochure at the end of the semester. The packets were not only educational, but they appealed greatly to the audience which were the teenage LGBT community which is important because as far as I can tell, teenagers aren't really big on reading anything that they aren't assigned to read. Being a biology major, I am always interested in the science explanation behind things and also, the scientific researcher inside me was really curious on this whole LGBT issue. For example, there are many questions within the LGBT community that are very important for the scientific community to ask. Such as, Is there a gene involved in sexual orientation? or Can there been certain vaccinations for STDs? I started contemplating these answers and it seems super interesting to me to research. I started looking at scientific literature and saw many different kinds of research being done on model organisms to determine what exactly controls sexual orientation. It would be interesting if they start finding the same kind of things that are analogous to humans. Then, if there was a scientific explanation, the whole political issue would be void, hopefully and the world will be at peace. ha ha, but no really. Anyways, I am looking forward to volunteering next week!

Thanks,
Nadine Obeid