Being of this sexual orientation has impacted the credibility of the LGBT writing because of discrimination of the LGBT community. This correlates with the stereotypes because readers that read articles written by a gay man have a stereotypical idea of what the writing will be like and what voice they’ll hear being read in their head, or may persuade the reader to not read the article for reasons as in “they don’t agree with homosexuality” or do not find them credible. Geneva Smitherman states, “Both authorities and norms is based on race and class position and is simply attempts to make the “outsiders” talk like the “insiders,” (Smitherman pg. 312). Smitherman is discussing the discredit that those who are deemed to be “the minority” are silenced in their writing styles. Homosexual discriminations are a problem in both lifestyles and in writings; discrimination between a piece of writing and sexual orientation, along with race and ethnicity is a problem in the way the media is portraying them. Heilker and Yergeau states “Defined generally as a trope for interpretive invention, she says, rhetorical listening signifies a stance of openness that a person may choose to assume in relation to any person, text, or culture,” (Heilker 490). Pieces of writing have reflected discrimination of opinions of minorities in both culture and in writing. This affection of genre, media and rhetoric is silencing a population of voices that have the ability and language that has the right and capacity to be heard.