Heterosexuality

According to the book person’s sexual orientation is one’s erotic, romantic and affectional attraction to the same gender, to the other gender or to both. (Pg 370). Questioning is when you go through a period where you’re not sure where you fall in terms of sexual orientation. This is a very confusing time for any young man or women. Someone questioning is someone for whom the question, "Are you gay or lesbian? Are you straight? Are you queer or bisexual? What's your deal?" is one that, at a…

Homophobia Homophobia is a well-known term in today’s world. The origin of homophobia is unknown but the term is credited to George Weinberg who came up with it in the late 1960’s and further publicized and discussed it in a book in 1972. Homophobia can be broken down into two words, homo and phobia. Homo: homosexuals. Phobia: an extreme or irrational fear or something. Altogether, homophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of homosexuals. Fearing or discriminating people because of what sex…

I have heard guys call each other ‘fags’ since I was in middle school and hearing Pascoe’s claim that using the word ‘fag’ is used to threaten adolescents masculinity makes sense from my understanding (Pascoe 333). Men use the term “faggot” for a number of reasons such as using the word as an insult, jokingly, etc. Even in Pascoe’s article, it mentions how “boys discipline themselves and each other through joking relationships” (Pascoe 330). The fag discourse comes into play as name calling…

The Stonewall Riots were violent, spur of the moment protests following the police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a popular meeting place for gay New Yorkers. The year was 1969- Nixon had just been sworn in, and Apollo 11 had landed on the moon barely a week before. It was the tail end of the Civil Rights Movement, but the Gay Rights Movement hadn’t even begun. The Stonewall Riots were pivotal in the creation of the LGBT rights, and their impact can be seen to this day. Prior to the riots, gay…

When I was deciding what topic I wanted to focus on for my Sustained Inquiry Project, I knew that I would need to choose something that I was personally invested in and I would be able to locate and utilize outside sources in order to strengthen my own argument. When I finally decided to make sexuality and how it has affected me the subject of my project, I began to look into some outside sources that I could add to my knowledge. I have been lucky enough to find multiple sources about my topic…

1. I think one reason why homophobia is more common among male to male relations rather than female to female relations, is reflected on the idea of machismo or being perceived as homosexual. When it comes to machismo, a man’s beliefs are deeply rooted to the idea that men should only like women. It’s an idea that is typically established early in a child’s life. Also being perceived as homosexual could have a lot to do with a man homophobia. It could be, being afraid of what others might think…

irst of all, in evaluating this website already implied a very conservative view on homosexuality. Usually the liberal(and everyone who supports and respects homosexuality)says sexual orientation is something that we cannot choose, but just an inborn nature that we have to accept and has to be respected just as other fundamental human rights. However, after reading this article and our textbook on queer theory and the four current theories on the different factors that may contribute to a…

Gay/ LGBT Rights Movements & the US The gay rights movement has been ongoing for over seventy years. From the rise in gay men and lesbians during the 1920s to today’s international policies on same-sex marriage. The US is instrumental, yet still lagging in the changing of how society views, treats, and the acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Historically in the US the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community has had to endure social…

This video is called “Who Sounds Gay?” This is an opinion piece that was made by a man named “David Thorpe.” He interviews two men with two different sounding voices. One who has a stereotypical “gay voice” and one man who has a deeper more masculine sounding voice. As it turns out the man with the feminine voice is a straight man and the man with the deeper voice has the “gay voice.” As class we have not touched on our connection of voices and the sexualites of humans. What I could connect to…

clear that she assumes that every woman experiences compulsory heterosexuality and that lesbianism is synonymous with any relationship between women, be they of romantic or sexual nature or not. To draw on this observation, one can identify that Rich's notion of compulsory heterosexuality goes hand in hand with the phenomenon of political lesbianism. This concept stems from radical feminist thought and describes the belief that heterosexuality can be equated with male violence which can be…