The way we view homosexuality has very much to do with how we were raised and taught depending on where we are from, our parents beliefs and what others around us tell us. Because of this we believe what we believe and will stand by them unless we ourselves come to a different conclusion as we grow older. I was raised a Catholic and was taught by the Bible teachings that homosexuality was wrong and will go to hell if that is what you practiced. In this paper we will look a little at the historical and scientific perspectives of homosexuality.…
Neither Shane’s or Tom’s family were not familiar with the life style of same-sex relationships. Shane’s family valued family, happiness, and acceptance. However Tom’s family valued family, masculinity, and religion. They had little to no acceptance with same-sex relationships. This situation between both families was a roller coaster because all Shane wanted Tom’s family to accept him into their family. He had a fantasy that they would wake up one Christmas at Tom’s parents house, and he would say a funny joke that would make his family laugh. Many people in their communities did not accept the way they were. These people would make fun of them, and call them horrible names. The only thing they wanted in life is to show people that they are human too, and they deserve the right to love…
1. The politics of space are profoundly gendered – the discourse of exploration, development, and colonization reproduce heteronormative hierarchies and ensure the continuation of patriarchy in space.…
The concept that I have chosen to focus on for this week’s journal article is “gendered homophobia” that comes from the Dude You’re a Fag reading (Pascoe, 128 2005). This concept explains that sometimes it is okay for one sex to act a certain way but not the other. In the article the author tells us that the boys that she interviewed stated how they hated guys who were gay but not girls who were gay (Pascoe, 2005). For example the author states, “For example, while Jake, a handsome white senior, told me that he didn’t like gay people, he quickly added, “Lesbians are cool though” (Pascoe, 128 2005). From this you can see that guys see it to be okay for girls to be gay but to not accept it if a guy is gay. The author goes on to explain that some…
2. The term that refers to an erotic attraction to and preference for developing romantic relationships with, members of the other sex is…
People will always judge others that are different based on anything. Even though it is still a problem in some areas of the world, race used to be the major object of discrimination. Now the more popular issue is a person's sexual orientation. Though it might not seem like a big deal to many people, there are many people who think otherwise; and they are usually the ones that create an environment that can be sometimes difficult to live in.…
What is sexuality? Sexuality relates to a person’s capacity for sexual feelings, their sexual activity, and/or their sexual preference or orientation. This description sounds simple, but sexuality is complex and difficult to study. There are many different opinions on what causes sexuality and how to handle it. Some believe that homosexuality is a natural variation, while others believe that it is a psychological disease. One thing that most can agree on is that sexuality is a foggy subject.…
The definition of sexuality is different for everybody. The sexuality definition of people is formed by the some factors such as culture, religion, sexual orientation etc... Sexual orientation is important factors for the form of sexuality. People have very different sexual orientation. But homosexuality, heterosexuality and bisexuality are best-known and prevail among people. We start to explain the meaning of key words. Homosexuality involves a variety of behaviour related to a same-sex sexual orientation. Although definitions of term often focus mainly on sexual acts and attractions between persons of the same biological sex ( Herek, 2000, p.1). Heterosexuality is attraction to member of the other sex. And finally accoding to LGBTQI (Lesbian,…
In this paper I will be talking about the historical and scientific perspective on homosexuality. This paper I will discuss three different perspectives on the subject them being the biological, historical and psychological perspective on homosexuality. Another thing that I will go over is the impact that all these perspective may have on how homosexuals look and feel about themselves. Looking at and analyzing the experience of a homosexual coming out as gay and being able to adjust to their new life. And last, how the biological, historical and psychological perspectives have impacted my sexual orientation and how its made me look…
According to my research it states that throughout the history women have been treated as second- class citizens. Women have had fewer rights and job opportunity. The status for women in the history has been for them to be house wives and take care of the children, while the men worked doing hard labor. Women had little opportunity to get an education. Women in the workforce in the 1850’s jobs includes domestic services, clothing textiles, teaching, making shoes, wools, and hat making. The women were making as little as $2.00 per week and the more job opportunities, and an education.…
andYou have just learned how single mothers in poverty and the school uniform debate would be analyzed using the three sociological…
Gayness metamorphoses from an institutionally imposed pathologization to an individually given, or claimed, identity, whereby not only is an individual given the agency and accorded with the knowledge to out themselves as gay, but also society at large has been lent the ability to out an…
These factors play into students school settings. Students can feel out of place or awkward in situations where they do not fit the identified gender norms. Often this is seen when students identify as homosexual. Gender roles are often misconstrued when it comes to students who identify as gay or lesbian. Society has deemed that there must always be a female and male counterpart in any relationship, including homosexual relationships. Two men or two women will be asked which person fulfills which rule. However, this is preposterous question since it is possible for both individuals to fulfill both male and feminine…
A lot of the information I found while researching can intertwine with our textbooks as well as my topic the LGBT community. One of the topics in the book is Cultural heterosexism (pg 268). “Cultural heterosexism refers to a dominant culture defining heterosexuality as the norm and anything else as deviant”(Koppelman,2014,pg 268). One of the sources I am using perfecting supports what the term means, Understanding issues facing LGBT Americans. The entire books provides a number of examples of how cultural heterosexism is a true concept. It shows all the struggles one deals with being in the LGBT community and how if heterosexism was not considered to be so dominant none of the issues listed in the book would be there. From all the research,…
With many homo-centric and homonormative stories, the plot of the story revolves solely around the fact that the main characters are not straight. All the challenges that a character might face in during the story, as well as the entirety of a character’s development, are related to the sexual orientation of the character. This does not reflect the reality of queer experience. There is more (or should be more) substance to a character’s story arc and development than their sexual orientation to the same extent of that of any heterosexal character. When one happens to stumble across a heterosexual love story, the common reaction is not along the lines of “this is a straight love story, about straight people, they story is about them being straight”, reason being that more often than not the plot has more substance than just its heterosexual aspects. However, when it comes to queer-centric love stories, the most common reaction follows the lines of “this is a gay story, about two gay people, and is about them being gay”, due to the lack of substance to the plot. Weather the plot actually lacks substance or the public’s reaction to the work reduces the plot and reception of the work, the result is problematic. In regards to the plot of the film “Brokeback Mountain” , John Bebe explained : “ in the screenplay that emerged little happens to the young men until they suddenly get sexual with each other, and relatively little happens after. The most intense scenes in the film are really flashbacks, colored by fantasies about the fearsome consequences of male coupling in Wyoming and Texas” (John Bebe, pg…