SOCIOL 4DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Collective Identity, Operation Soap, Heteronormativity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 4DD3
• Professor: Julie Gouweloos

Document Summary

Question: you realize that, at least culturally speaking, oppression may have been the best thing that could have happened to gay culture. Thoughts to changes in gay collective idenity - study on lgbtq bar. How the gay collective identity shifted in terms of boundaries going from the exclusive. What this article is adding to literature, the gaps, what you assigned it. Finding the post-gay era, what came before this solidarity. Understanding the isolation that was experienced and is underbelly of today. Specifically build off of taylor and whittier. The sense of we-ness is important, therefore the post-gay era had to shift because there wasn"t a we"ness. The bridging - can it be applied to other movements. Struggle to maintain relationship do to boundaries. Movement boundaries shifted to understand that it goes beyond just a women"s issue. Associating the shifting of boundaries so that others can be included in the abortion movement.