I think I should learn more about the present situation of gay people, their current problems they are facing now, the efforts that can done in the society to accept the fact about such population and to start to treat them equally. Even after such progess,people still have those narrow thinking about gay people. As I believe that America being the land of freedom, people`s desire of sexuality should not be restricted by any laws. These people also should be given equal health benefits and other benefits as other spouses in the land of America. I assumed that even if same sex marriages bills were passed in some other states. Still they are totally deprieved of all the facilities, which should should be granted to a married spouses. I heard that even anything wrong happens to anyone, then the other spouse will lose the right to take action on the behalf of other spouse then their family member will take power from that spouse and can deprived him/her to take care of their spouses. I learned about of this from a video where there were two men married to eachother and said that they are happy now but if any of them went sick or something wrong happened then both of them willl be separated and they will lose their power to decide any action for the betterment. No matter how open we have been thinking but when it comes in the topic of LGBT any intellect will stop for a wile and try to think twice before they speak. Since whole the society is against of this population, I might not find alot of resources about these topic and most of the readers will not be satisfied from my viewpoints.

I choosed PsycINFO which was found below the link education, psychology, recreation and sport.Subject specific database provided more relevant results for my topic. We can narrow down results in Academic Search Premier by using the keywords to find the articles and using the Boolean logics like "and", "or" and truncation"*".  We can narrow down the topic in subject specific by the same way as we did in Academic Search Premier by using the Boolean logics and truncations. When I tried to find the resources on my topic, I could not find in the first place so, I started to use other synonym, homosexuality. There I knew that additional synonyms can filter the resorces well and give you more accurate result than before. In Academic Search Premier, I found only two but in subject specific databse  I found  around 200 articles based on my topic. Of the relevant article that I have found, most of them were available via Findit  through other dtatabases. Since working with databases, my research questions had not remained same till now because I am interested to learn about LGBT people and their efforts that have been done till now to give equality to LGBT populations in the society. However I am getting challenges to get reources on the subject matter.

I found an article for my reasearch from a population magazine"New York Amsterdam News". The title is "Gay teens struggle for acceptance". It has citation as

Blandino, K., Brandini, M., Driskall, S., Gregoire, J., & Vasquez, D. (2004). Gay teens struggle for acceptance. New York Amsterdam News, 95(46), 16. I found a scholar journal "Tolerance in the United State". It has citation as SCHAFER, C. E., & SHAW, G. M. (2009). TOLERANCE IN THE UNITED STATES. Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(2), 404-431. The article of the magazine was 2 pages however the scholar journal was 29 pages. In the magazine article, there was image. In scholar journal there was no images but full of charts with the numerical values. Both of them were speaking for the rights of LGBT.

Based on my review of the Academic Search Premier feature, those features were advanced. These search give you the advanced result and save you time to get  through bunch of other useless resources. You have a full control over your search engine and chose only those topics which is useful in the piles of other resources. Yeah I have used Academic Search Premier for another class. I used to write research paper for my English class. I go to the SCSU webpage. Click on "Library" and by the next of  "Books and Videos". I clicked on the "Articles and Databases". I wrote the topic of my research and  clicked on advanced search and got the results. Yeah I have used  "Databases A -Z" to do research on another class. I have used Jstor for my reseach paper. After I clicked on "Aritcles and Databases", there was a titile called "looking for another databases search". U nder that title there were three options "Databases A-Z", "Database by Subjects" and "Newspaper and current events". From those option I choose "Databases A-Z", I clicked on the alphabet "J" and clikced the option "Jstor". I wrote the name of my research topic and clicked on advanced search. Since it has the most trusted academic research I dont think I have any fear for using this database to do reasearch.

After researching about these population, my assumption about this population has changed totally. I used to think that when they find themselves different than they might not be able to accept the fact and try to commit suicide. But  when I found out that they are struggling against such attitide and working their best to be successful. I have found that though they were treated unequally in few centuries back but now they are trying to protest against it. They are contributing a lot to provide them equal services as other citizens.

After learning about encyclopedia and wikipedia, the pro and cons of each type of the resources are:
The informations are not accurate. Any one can edit the webpage and give wrong information about the topic but still it is little bit useful to use it as the background informations. I found 2 print encyclopedias on my topic. I went to the library webpage and type homosexual an encyclopedia. I collect the call number and searched in the refrence section. I found one E-encyclopedias on my topic. I went to library webpage and went to references and facts. I  typed "gay people and social acceptance" and I found it. I think encyclopedia is more appropriate for my research presentation becuase they are little bit accurate than wikipedia.