SOCIOL 2C06 Lecture : Becoming Homosexual.docx
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Case study: becoming homosexual steps to accepting my label. Looked at how that happens, steps that lead to you coming out at being homosexual they identified different steps. This is descriptive and does not prescribe how pple result to being gay, everyone is diff yet a common pattern can be noted (some pple are still diff: sensitization (under 13 years) Start to recognize they are different (some pple recognize when they are very young) Feeling different : dissociation and signification (late teens) As you start to learn about sex and sexuality: It"s a possibility but they are working very hard to keep coming coming to conclusion of being gay. I thought i was into men but passed it off as my loneliness, or that i am engaged to a women and maybe im just lonely cuz my fianc isn"t around and im lonely .