Homosexuality refers to a sexual attraction to someone of the same sex. While 20% of the population anonymously reported some homosexual feelings in a 2006 study, homosexuality was criminalized in Germany after WWII and gay men who survived the Holocaust were imprisoned and denied compensation. The document aims to reduce stereotyping of homosexuals by noting that celebrities like Simon Amstell and Jane Lynch, as well as ordinary people, are gay and should be treated equally regardless of sexual orientation.
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Unit 8
Readings and Resources
eBook:
Zastrow, C., Kirst-Ashman, K.K. & Hessenauer, S.L. (2019).
Empowerment series: Understanding human behavior and the social environment (11th Ed.). Cengage Learning.
· Chapter 13: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Articles, Websites, and Videos:
The highly politicized topic of sex, gender and sexual orientation from the view of a health care provider will be discussed in this video. It provides information on how we utilize terms to describe others, yet these terms eventually become labels which do not consider the uniqueness of the individual and therefore, turn into stereotypes and assumptions.
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Unit 8: Chapter 13: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Sexual Orientation and Gender IdentityChapter Introduction
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Learning Objectives
This chapter will help prepare students to
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· LO 1 Explain sexual orientation and gender identity (including concepts such as homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgender people)
· LO 2 Review stereotypes about lesbian and gay people
· LO 3 Discuss conceptual frameworks concerning sexual orientation
· LO 4 Address discrimination and the impacts of homophobia
· LO 5 Describe lesbian and gay lifestyles (including lesbian and gay relationships, sexual interaction, gay pride, and empowerment and a sense of community)
· LO 6 Explore significant issues and life events for lesbian and gay people (including legal empowerment, violence against them, coming out, ethnicity, adolescence, parenting, aging, and HIV/AIDS)
· LO 7 Recognize gay and lesbian pride, empowerment, and a sense of community
John had been attending the state university for more than a year. He didn’t have a chance to visit his parents in their small Midwestern town very often. When he did get home, his visits were usually limited to holidays. So when Thanksgiving rolled around, he found himself hopping on the Greyhound bus headed for Slab City, Wisconsin, his home.
This trip home was a problem for him. No matter how often or how deeply he mulled it over in his mind, he couldn’t find an answer. He had something to tell his parents that he didn’t think they would like very much. Over the past year, John had come to realize something about himself. He had come out; he was gay.
As he watched the countryside roll by, he thought about his childhood, about his high school friends, and even about the girl, Millie, he had dated for two and a half years during high school. What would they think if they found out?
He had never really been interested in girls. Sure, he pretended to be. Once a guy got labeled a “fag,” he might as well run off to a monastery. He had always been pretty bright. He had learned really fast how men were supposed to act. As all-conference fullback on the high school football team, he became quite adept at telling the appropriate locker room jokes and at exaggerating t.
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Stonewall Uprising and the advent of homosexuality activism
Introduction
Stonewall Uprising is a film popular for the revolutionary start of the homosexual activism in 1969. The scene is at Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwhich Village, New York City. Prior to police raiding this bar was wide spread gay and lesbian arrests, and discriminations of the 1950s and 1960s. The raid sparked a six day riot, which was later named the Stonewall riots. This event marked the beginning of homosexual activism and seeking the rights for homosexuals. Homosexual was illegal in the whole of the U.S. except the Illinois State. However, homosexual civil rights movement begun to seek and fight for homosexual rights not only in the US but also in the whole world due to the Stonewall Uprising event. The movie is directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner based on David Carter’s “Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution” manuscript. There are several sexuality issues and themes revealed in this movie. This paper seeks to review the heterosexual, homonegativity, stereotyping and discourse themes in this movie. These themes as revealed in the film will prove an understanding about the beginning of the homosexual rights. In addition, the paper will discuss the categorization of men and how gay and non gay men are viewed in the society.
Heterosexism in the 1950 and 60s contribution to homonegativity
Heterosexism is a norm that the opposite sex is culturally accepted status. Those people who advocates for opposite sex relationship and do not recognize same sex intimate relationships are thought to practice heterosexism. For example, people who discriminate gays or lesbians practice heterosexism. On the other hand, gays and lesbians also do not like people who are attractive to opposite sex and have normal relationship. The Stonewall Uprising film directed by Davis can help in drawing a thick line between different groups of sexual orientations. In the 1960s, heterosexism was the norm of the day where lesbians or a gay had a criminal title. Although opposite sex relationship is protected by the law, gays and lesbians dislike these relationships claiming that there was inequality on relationships in the law. Hudson and Ricketts proposed the use of homonegativity to mean the negative attitude towards homosexual people (Mayfield, 53). Although homonegativity came later, the perceptions, treatment and discrimination of homosexuals in the 1960s and earlier year could have been termed as homonegativity. Heterosexism refers to negative perception towards any sexual orientation but homogenegativity would narrow down to refer to hate and discrimination of gay men and lesbians.
Stuart Hall’s definition of stereotypes in “ Stereotyping as Signifying Practice?”
Stereotype is a term used to classify people according to their social behavior. Stuart Hall indicates that stereotypi.
