Throughout the article, "Feminism is Queer" the social construction of sexuality, it went into depth using rating scales and different culture's own definition of different culture's own definitions of different forms of sexuality. In 1999, a study of the percentage of Caucasian male and female college students who had been excluded homosexuals after adolescents was done by Kinsey. The results were 4% of males and 3% of females at the time. In ancient Athens sexuality was as a role that was given to them based on their social class. David Halperin also believed that during that time period adult males of a higher social class could have sexual relations not only with women, but men, younger males, and slaves of any age. In India Nijra was for
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There it has always been a strong argument when it comes to sexual paradigm and nature. According to Kuhn, "comes to seem more than just another puzzle of normal science." Many scientist and people have also always had their different opinions on sexual behavior and sexual identity. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Europe the homophile movement developed around the same time that homosexuality was actually classified and people actually consider themselves a homosexual. In the 1950's predominately in the U.S and Europe homosexuals was considered congenital or had this condition at birth assumed by the medical community. As homosexual identity was becoming known and movements were being organized a gay and drag bar by the name of Stonewall Inn in New York City which was predominantly Latinos and African Americans were being discriminated against. In June of 1969 there were even a police raid on the bar that lead to the death of icon Judy Garland. There were different organizations that continued to develop such as: GLB, LGB, GLBT, LGBT, LGBTQI, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAP, LGBTO, and LGBT. The G in the abbreviation always stood for gay, L was for Lesbian, T was for transgender, Q was for queer, O was for other, A was for asexual, P was for pan sexual, B was for bisexual, and I was for identity. In the article, Feminism is Queer" chapter 3 page 47-48 it quotes, "It is also about the constant need to acknowledge that, while categories may be useful, perhaps even necessary for understanding oneself and relating with others, no particular category or set of categories itself is necessary, and even the most deeply entrenched categories are subject to revision." Jagose believed, "broadly speaking, queer describes those gestures or analytical models which dramatize incoherencies in the allegedly stable relations between chromosomal sex, gender and
There it has always been a strong argument when it comes to sexual paradigm and nature. According to Kuhn, "comes to seem more than just another puzzle of normal science." Many scientist and people have also always had their different opinions on sexual behavior and sexual identity. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Europe the homophile movement developed around the same time that homosexuality was actually classified and people actually consider themselves a homosexual. In the 1950's predominately in the U.S and Europe homosexuals was considered congenital or had this condition at birth assumed by the medical community. As homosexual identity was becoming known and movements were being organized a gay and drag bar by the name of Stonewall Inn in New York City which was predominantly Latinos and African Americans were being discriminated against. In June of 1969 there were even a police raid on the bar that lead to the death of icon Judy Garland. There were different organizations that continued to develop such as: GLB, LGB, GLBT, LGBT, LGBTQI, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAP, LGBTO, and LGBT. The G in the abbreviation always stood for gay, L was for Lesbian, T was for transgender, Q was for queer, O was for other, A was for asexual, P was for pan sexual, B was for bisexual, and I was for identity. In the article, Feminism is Queer" chapter 3 page 47-48 it quotes, "It is also about the constant need to acknowledge that, while categories may be useful, perhaps even necessary for understanding oneself and relating with others, no particular category or set of categories itself is necessary, and even the most deeply entrenched categories are subject to revision." Jagose believed, "broadly speaking, queer describes those gestures or analytical models which dramatize incoherencies in the allegedly stable relations between chromosomal sex, gender and