Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Gay Bar, Gay Liberation, Sexual Identity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

Gay pride day: commemorates first time that gay, lesbian and trans people openly fought back against police harassment, at a gay bar in. First gay liberation group made in vancouver. Note: cisgender and transgender individuals can be attracted to people of their own gender or of other gender. Behaviour/choice of sexual partners is bisexual but identity is: ex. person"s identity can be asexual, but they can often have sex with. Sexual orientation: person"s erotic and emotional orientation towards: *person"s attraction may not match their behaviour or sexual. Sexual minority: another all-encompassing term to identify those that don"t: for lgb, is an umbrella term, reflects fluidity of sexual identity identity (ex, men, women, trans, intersex) Lgb: les, gay, bisexual (men & women) identify as hetero. Women more likely to report changes in pattern of attraction than men. Nsfg- national survey of family growth (american)