Heterosexuality

In this thesis, queer theory, as conceived by leading scholar Michel Foucault, will serve as the starting point in uncovering the extent in which Whitman’s at the time most scorned poetry employed either outright queer imagery or otherwise latent queer code in order to convey his message of free love as opposed to contempt, an issue most gay men had to face in the nineteenth century (men only, seeing that romantic affairs between women were disregarded as innocuous and platonic). The basis of…

Assumptions of Homosexuality in 18th Century Composers Phillip Brett begins his article on issues of sexuality in 18th century music with an observation from 20th century composer Virgil Thompson, who noted that no one in music ever talked about homosexuality. This assertion is quickly contradicted with a quote from Havelock Ellis, who states that “It has been extravagantly said that all musicians are inverts.” Ellis uses the dated psychological term “inverts” to refer to those displaying…

Personal Taste and Sungkyunkwan Scandal both portray gay men on a range – one that is questioning his orientation and one that is pretending to be gay, although the last scenario would hardly take place in a conservative society. Plenty of papers and theories have been written about the gay culture in western media but the conservative view on homosexuality in South Korea indicates that very less has been written about the issue academically and if they are written so, they happen to be written…

The trouble with normal is just as it sounds. It’s the idea of going against the status quo in order to express yourself and not care about what others think. I’ll speak briefly on this since our pop culture unit was the most recent, and because we spent so long on the trouble with normal. Way back when, when we read the article what’s wrong Michael Warner explains how normalcy or the idea of being normal was troublesome to many homosexuals during the late twentieth early twenty first century.…

The LGBT culture has become a common culture throughout the United States. With such expression of differences this culture is speaking out in a much more modern style than the past. It is clearer throughout history and throughout the world, that people are having sex with other people of the same gender (Burleson, 2014). Through art, anthropology and documented history has opened closed doors to same sex sexual practices. Although exposed, it’s still quite challenging to understand the full…

Medical/ Deficit Model Social Model Affirmative Model According to Swain and French (2008), the affirmative model is about allowing an individual embrace their differences. They state that that this model allows individuals with Impairments or disability to challenge the presumptions about themselves. The model allows them to challenge the presumptions that are not just related to how they differ from the stereotypical normal or average human being but also about the “assertion, on their own…

One of the first studies on testing homosexuality using twins was in 1952 by Frantz Kallman. Kallman’s study had 85 sets of twins. 40 sets out of 85 sets of those twins were monozygotic (identical twins) and the other 45 sets of twin were dizygotic (not identical twins). This study also included 112 individuals who were not twins but were homosexual and it also included 116 employees from Kallman psychiatric institute. All of the homosexual people either came from his psychiatric institutions or…

Imagine applying for a position; imagine putting your whole heart into the application process and placing everything you have into the pursuit of this job. What if you knew that in order to secure that job, and keep it, it would be necessary to conceal a part of yourself. Consider being passed over for promotions, treated poorly by your colleagues, and being unfairly dismissed from your position simply because of the way you chose to conduct yourself in your private life. This is the reality…

In today’s society, there have been significant improvements to legislate equality and advances in the general acceptance of lesbian, gay, bi, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community. However, the LGBTI community in Australia remains a marginalised group (Australian Medical Association, 2002; Flood and Hamilton, 2008; Mayer et al., 2008). While substantial gains have been made to reduce discrimination, LGBTI individuals continue to face significant social exclusion and inequity with…

Steven Universe is a television show on Cartoon Network about a boy cared for by three alien women called Gems. These Gems have gemstones attached to their bodies that give them magical powers to fight monsters and save the Earth, as well as Beach City, the small city where they reside. Young Steven is only a half-Gem, half-human, and has the gemstone that his mother Rose Quartz passed on to him when she gave up her physical form to give him life. The three women/Gems who take care of him,…