LABR 2Q92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heterosexuality, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Canadian Union Of Public Employees
3 Feb 2018
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Making generalizations (stereotyping) and/or treating a person or a group unfairly (discrimination) who are thought of as gay/lesbian or bisexual. Also, it is an irrational fear, hatred or repulsion of this group. Lgbt students hear anti-gay slurs an average of 26 times each day. 26% of lgbt youth are told to leave home. Lgbt youth are more likely to become homeless. The belief or assumption that everyone is heterosexual and that heterosexuality is the only. It results in the invisibility of anyone who doesn"t fit into the heterosexual norm. Imagine if you lived in a society which, for the most part, pretended that you and people like you did not exist. Where newspapers, books, films, television, radio, the education system, and hospital services all failed to acknowledge your existence or else defined it in a condemnatory and bigoted way. Privilege refers to something that you have not necessarily earned.
