Chapter 12

Question 1

Collective Identity

Answer 1

a shared understanding of one’s place in society

Question 2

Coming out

Answer 2

the act of a nonheterosexual person publicly disclosing his or her sexual identity

Question 3

cultural heterosexism

Answer 3

ideologies that uphold heterosexuality as a normative

Question 4

homphobia

Answer 4

prejudice directed at lesbian, gay and bisexual persons

Question 5

internalized homphobia

Answer 5

the repulsion some people feel in response to their own attractions to members of their same sex

Question 6

Queer

Answer 6

a term to describe a variety of non normative gender or sexual identities

Question 7

sexual identity

Answer 7

the way people classify themselves sexually such as lesiban, gay or bisexual

Question 8

sexual orientation

Answer 8

the gender to which a person is physically or emotionally attached to

Question 9

structural heterosexism

Answer 9

patterns of institutional discrimination whereby heterosexual relations are allocated more resources and opportunities

Question 10

how does society label homosexuality as deviant

Answer 10

by initiating an reinforcing sexual norms