Currently there are a variety of sexual identities that individuals can classify with, such as pansexual, bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual and asexual. However , in past decades these terms were not utilized because sexual activities associated with these identities were seen as unnatural and taboo , therefore most individuals did not publicize their sexual identities. Homosexuality specifically, has been an identity that has faced a lot of criticism politically and socially because it is correlated with acts of sodomy (even though sodomy can be committed by heterosexuals). Homosexuality is defined as the romantic or sexual attraction between two individuals of the same sex. This fear of the “abnormality” of a sexual relationship between
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In September of 2011 , President Barack Obama abolished the “ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military” (Cloud, Washington Bureau). This is a repulsion to the “don’t ask, don 't tell” policy that was implemented during the Clinton president in an attempt to protect homosexuals from being discharged from the military because of their sexuality. But this also posed problems of intolerance because if a lesbian woman or gay man were found out then they risked the immediate removal from the military. Although there have been reforms to these types of laws , there is still a sentiment embedded into the military that homosexuals will pose a problem if openly included. There is still tension on issues such as whether to have “same sex housing and how the military will deal with discrimination complaints by gay service members” (Cloud, Washington Bureau). As far as domestic federal jobs, laws that once excluded homosexuals have also been reformed to protect them from job discrimination as a “step toward fairness and equality” (Jarret, the Advocate). In addition, there is a continuous trend of policies that create a more equal and safer society for homosexuals such as the passing of legal marriage among gays nationwide. This trend of acceptance and inclusion can be a result of the broadening of sexuality in society. Since …show more content…
During the Lavender Scare there was a widely held belief that homosexuals were abnormal and a threat to society, because they eluded the traditional morals of America. By claiming to be homosexual meant that they instantaneously had to participate in sodomy or unnatural sexual activities because their anatomy did not allow for the traditional penal-vaginal sex. As well during this era women were not thought to have sexual pleasures, they had sex for procreation and only for the pleasure of the man. Conclusively, since women did not have the pleasure , recreational sex was not common and sex before marriage was unmoral. In comparison to today , the topic of sex was very closeted which is why homosexuality was criminalized. With the evolution of the exposure of sexuality over the eras , the more sexualized society allows for fetishes and “unnatural” sexual acts to be more accepted because they main purpose of sex shifted from procreation to pleasure. Therefore , things such as anal are not seen as abnormal anymore because they are pleasure to a variety of people including those who are not homosexual. Therefore the change in the view of homosexuality is due to the LGBT movement but also because of the incorporation of governmental policy and shift into a more sexualized public sphere. As
In September of 2011 , President Barack Obama abolished the “ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military” (Cloud, Washington Bureau). This is a repulsion to the “don’t ask, don 't tell” policy that was implemented during the Clinton president in an attempt to protect homosexuals from being discharged from the military because of their sexuality. But this also posed problems of intolerance because if a lesbian woman or gay man were found out then they risked the immediate removal from the military. Although there have been reforms to these types of laws , there is still a sentiment embedded into the military that homosexuals will pose a problem if openly included. There is still tension on issues such as whether to have “same sex housing and how the military will deal with discrimination complaints by gay service members” (Cloud, Washington Bureau). As far as domestic federal jobs, laws that once excluded homosexuals have also been reformed to protect them from job discrimination as a “step toward fairness and equality” (Jarret, the Advocate). In addition, there is a continuous trend of policies that create a more equal and safer society for homosexuals such as the passing of legal marriage among gays nationwide. This trend of acceptance and inclusion can be a result of the broadening of sexuality in society. Since …show more content…
During the Lavender Scare there was a widely held belief that homosexuals were abnormal and a threat to society, because they eluded the traditional morals of America. By claiming to be homosexual meant that they instantaneously had to participate in sodomy or unnatural sexual activities because their anatomy did not allow for the traditional penal-vaginal sex. As well during this era women were not thought to have sexual pleasures, they had sex for procreation and only for the pleasure of the man. Conclusively, since women did not have the pleasure , recreational sex was not common and sex before marriage was unmoral. In comparison to today , the topic of sex was very closeted which is why homosexuality was criminalized. With the evolution of the exposure of sexuality over the eras , the more sexualized society allows for fetishes and “unnatural” sexual acts to be more accepted because they main purpose of sex shifted from procreation to pleasure. Therefore , things such as anal are not seen as abnormal anymore because they are pleasure to a variety of people including those who are not homosexual. Therefore the change in the view of homosexuality is due to the LGBT movement but also because of the incorporation of governmental policy and shift into a more sexualized public sphere. As