Identity - Sexuality

Question 1

In which ways can you be attracted to someone

Answer 1

• sexually
  -physically
• emotionally

Question 2

When/where was homosexuality criminal/mental illness

Answer 2

•historically UK
•Uganda, Pakistan

Question 3

Heteronormativity definition and statistics

Answer 3

•heterosexuality dominant
•ONS - 93%
•Weeks - people don’t come out as straight. Shows impact

Question 4

Cross Cultural Research
Quinn and the Subsaharan Africans

Answer 4

•Berdache - feminine male
-2 males. Berdache 12-20 then turns warrior

Question 5

Cross Cultural Research
The Kindsey report

Answer 5

1950s American (criminal to be homosexual)
-37% men gay sex until orgasm
-4% openly gay

Question 6

Additional research

Answer 6

1. Weeks
2. Reiss
3. McIntosh
4. Plummer

Question 7

1. Weeks

Answer 7

Sexuality more complex than other identities
-gay people have straight sex, straight people have gay sex

Question 8

2. Reiss

Answer 8

Young straight male prostitutes sleep with gay men and resent them

Question 9

3. McIntosh

Answer 9

•Homosexuality socially constructed eg specific mannerisms
•self forfilling prophesies
- gay men married to women = no mannerisms
-gay men openly do

Question 10

4. Plummer
   (Linked to McIntosh)
   Homosexual career

Answer 10

Homosexual career - gay males seek out gay behaviour for it to feel like the norm

Question 11

Functionalist perspectives

Answer 11

•Not functional and leads to poor socialisation
•Murdock - don’t reproduce
-support laws against homosexuality eg Local Government act (prevents media representation)

Question 12

What is the Local Government act

Answer 12

prevents media representation of homosexuality - Margaret thatcher

Question 13

Marxist views

Answer 13

Heteronormativity promoted by capitalism
Homophobia divides and distracts

Question 14

Feminist views

Answer 14

Heterosexuality oppresses women
•political lesbianism
•Rich - compulsory heterosexuality forced up on women
-homosexual threatens homosexual men

Question 15

Changing sexual identity
Positive
5

Answer 15

•1967 - homosexuality decriminalised
•1970 - gay subculture emerged
•2010 - equality act
•2014 marriage legalised
•2021 promised to ban conversion therapy

Question 16

Hatred of queer people % in 1990 to 2010

Answer 16

•2010 - 27% gay 23% lesbians bad
-1990 - 60% gay 58% lesbians bad

Question 17

Changing sexual identity
Negative
(2)

Answer 17

•2022 - dropped ban on conversion therapy
- changed after backlash
-still applies to trans and consenting
•2016 - EU referendum. Hate crimes risen 147%

Question 18

MEDIA
Media portrayal

Answer 18

•70s and 80s homosexuality stereotypical
•today less so - role models

Question 19

MEDIA
Media portrayal in the news
Lovelock

Answer 19

•Lovelock - still negative today
-The sun - outrage about book in library that has two dads
- The Daily Express - Tom Daily’s wedding ‘marriage’

Question 20

EDUCATION
What clause effected queer rep in media and education?

Answer 20

Local Government act clause 28

Question 21

EDUCATION
What happened in 2020 regarding same sex marriage?

Answer 21

•PSHE same sex cruicial on curriculum
•Backpack from Muslim parents in Birmingham

Question 22

WORKPLACE
3 sociologists

Answer 22

1. Winstandley
2. Browne
3. Ahlstedt

Question 23

WORKPLACE
1. Winstanley

Answer 23

How open an individual is on sexuality depends on environment and colleagues

Question 24

WORKPLACE
2. Browne

Answer 24

Hard to come out
Businesses should try harder to provide comfort to employees

Question 25

WORKPLACE
3. Ahlstedt

Answer 25

•Many queer youths thrive at jobs
•scared to come out incase opportunities influenced