SOC 633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: School District 36 Surrey, Heteronormativity, Socalled

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 633
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Spells out all our rights and freedoms in a very narrow sense. Used to protect the rights and freedoms that people do have. Right to sexual orientation was not included until 1996. Sexual orientation has grounds of protection under equality, to be treated equally not equitably. One of the very basic notions in canada is that canada is based on building a white, british, settler nation. The effect of nation-building in canada was not just limited to colour or race, but also to expel any forms of sexuality that were not based or amenable to reproduction. The focus on nation-building has always been to create a protestant, monogamous, heterosexual, procreative white british settler nation. Created in opposition to the abnormal homosexual. 1869 (cid:858)(cid:271)ugger(cid:455)(cid:859) was classified as a criminal act on the basis that it was an unnatural offence: homosexual acts were classified as an offence against morality.