Background of Study on the LGBT Community
Chapter I
Introduction
Background of Study This study tackles about the awareness of the Ninth Grade Students, School Year 2014 – 2015 of the Philippine Women’s University – Jose Abad Santos Memorial School Quezon City, on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community, or the LGBT Community. The first recorded instance of same-sex love and sexuality dates back to the ancient civilizations. *countries* In Africa, in the north of Congo, there were records of male Azande warriors who routinely took on boy-wives between the ages of twelve and twenty, who helped with house hold tasks and participated in sex with their older husbands. The practice had stopped by the early twentieth century, after the Europeans had gained control of African countries. In Egypt, an ostraca that was from the Ramesside period have been discovered which has an image that depicts homosexual sex, as well as heterosexual sex. During the Fifth Dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs (circa 2400 BC), Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, manicurists in the Palace of the King Niuserre, were speculated to have been gay based on a representation of them embracing nose-to-nose in their shared tomb. Also, King Neferkare and General Sasenet, a Middle Kingdom story, tells about a king’s secret gay affair with one of his generals. It may reference the actual Pepi II, who was likely gay. In Siwa, also in Egypt, anthropologists and sociologists held a special interest in this place because of its historical acceptance of male homosexuality and even rituals of same sex marriage. In this period, unmarried men and adolescent boys were required to live and work together outside the town, secluded for several years from any access to women. Mahmud Mohamnrad Abd Allah, writer of Siwan customs for the Harvard Peabody Museum in 1917, reported that “Although men from Siwa could take up to four wives, Siwan customs allow a man just one boy whom he is bound by a strict code of obedience. Among the Native Americans,
Introduction
Background of Study This study tackles about the awareness of the Ninth Grade Students, School Year 2014 – 2015 of the Philippine Women’s University – Jose Abad Santos Memorial School Quezon City, on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community, or the LGBT Community. The first recorded instance of same-sex love and sexuality dates back to the ancient civilizations. *countries* In Africa, in the north of Congo, there were records of male Azande warriors who routinely took on boy-wives between the ages of twelve and twenty, who helped with house hold tasks and participated in sex with their older husbands. The practice had stopped by the early twentieth century, after the Europeans had gained control of African countries. In Egypt, an ostraca that was from the Ramesside period have been discovered which has an image that depicts homosexual sex, as well as heterosexual sex. During the Fifth Dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs (circa 2400 BC), Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, manicurists in the Palace of the King Niuserre, were speculated to have been gay based on a representation of them embracing nose-to-nose in their shared tomb. Also, King Neferkare and General Sasenet, a Middle Kingdom story, tells about a king’s secret gay affair with one of his generals. It may reference the actual Pepi II, who was likely gay. In Siwa, also in Egypt, anthropologists and sociologists held a special interest in this place because of its historical acceptance of male homosexuality and even rituals of same sex marriage. In this period, unmarried men and adolescent boys were required to live and work together outside the town, secluded for several years from any access to women. Mahmud Mohamnrad Abd Allah, writer of Siwan customs for the Harvard Peabody Museum in 1917, reported that “Although men from Siwa could take up to four wives, Siwan customs allow a man just one boy whom he is bound by a strict code of obedience. Among the Native Americans,