Final - Chapter 10: Homosexuality and Homophobia

Question 1

1. Know Myths

Answer 1

1. Gay men are more promiscuous than straight men.
2. Children raised by homo parents are more likely to experience psychological probs
3. Homo parents = homo kids
4. Homos are born gay
5. Most Americans are homophobic
6. Gay teens are so aware of homosexuality they call each other gay/lesbian
7. Transvestites are mostly homos who cross dress to feel like members of opposite sex

Question 2

2. Identify the three characteristics of defining a gay or lesbian

Answer 2

1. Same sex feelings.
2. Same sex behavior.
3. Identifying as gay/lesbian

Question 3

3. Identify: Kinsey Scale

Answer 3

• 0 exclusively heterosexual- no fantasies about same sex behavior, never engaged in same sex activities.
• 1 you are still heterosexual; but you may have thought or experimented with same sex gender
• 2 prefer heterosexual – but certainly have had experimentation with same sex, may have had relationships w/same sex partners.
• 3 YOU HAVE NO ABSOLUTELY NO PREFERENCE; very few people like this. Because people who are “bisexual” usually tend to like one more than the other, most of them have a preference. 3’s GENERALLY does not matter if it is a male or a female.
• 4 prefer homosexual- you may have dated other sex, ex: men who are married to a women, then become bi, then gay.
• 5 you are still homosexual but you may have experimented with different se
• 6 exclusively homosexual- only thought, fantasized had sexual experience with same sex person

Question 4

4. How are lesbians like other women?

Answer 4

• Want to be mothers
• Do not want casual sex
• Like making friends
• Want more secure future.

Question 5

5. How are lesbians unlike other women?

Answer 5

• More likely to reject traditional female role
• Less likely to know sexual identity
• More independent.
• Wont be Housewife

Question 6

6. Compared to parents are grandparents more or less accepting of a child’s same sex orientation?

Answer 6

More

Question 7

8. Situational Homosexuality

Answer 7

• Prison inmates
• Priests
• Strip teasers

Question 8

11. Identify: Homophobia

Answer 8

Anti-gay prejudice and discrimination “heterosexism”.

Question 9

12. What is the most common reason for defining same-sex marriage as deviant?

Answer 9

The Bible, Religion.

Question 10

13. Know the profile of homophobes

Answer 10

1. Less educated and less well off.
2. Conservative
3. Negative toward racial and ethnic minorities
4. More supportive of traditional gender roles
5. Men who see themselves as masculine and women who see themselves as fem
6. More likely to stereotype
7. Older men

Question 11

14. In Zimbabwe, who suffer more - lesbians or gay men?

Answer 11

Lesbians, they tortured them, rape women for her to get pregnant

Question 12

15. Major idea of theories of same-sex orientation

Answer 12

• Biological
• Psychiatric
• Sociological*