Same-Sex Relationships

Question 1

Stonewall (2012)

Answer 1

The campaign for lesbian, gay, and bisexual rights, estimates that about 5-7% of the adult population today have same-sex relationshops

Question 2

Increased Social Acceptance - 1967, 2002, 2004, 2014

Answer 2

•1967 Male homosexual acts were decriminalised
•2002 Cohabiting couples had the same right to adopt as married couples
•2004 Civil Partnership Act gave same-sex couples similar rights to that of married couples (in terms of pensions, inheritance and property)
•2014 same-sex couples have been given the right to marry

Question 3

Chosen Families: Weeks (1999)

Answer 3

Gays create families based on “friendship as kinship” since they may find more comfort in their friends than their family.
These chosen families provide the same security and stability

Question 4

Chosen Families: Weston (1992)

Answer 4

Same-sex cohabitation as “quasi-marriage” where couples cohabit as stable partners
•Opposes 1970 gay-lifestyle where monogamy and family life was rejected

Question 5

Chosen Families: Allan & Crow

Answer 5

Same-sex relationships are more flexible yet less stable than heterosexual relationships because same-sex partners have to negotiate their commitment towards eachother since they are not legally binded

Question 6

Chosen Families: Einasdottir (2011)

Answer 6

While many LGBT+ people welcome their partnerships being legally recognised, they still want there to be difference instead of adopting heterosexual relationship norms