SOC 633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Delwin Vriend, Dangerous Offender, The Butler
3 Sep 2016
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Discourses of equality, freedom of expression and the charter. Kinsman, 80s and 90s, gay bathhouse raids in canada. Kinsman looked at the regulation of sexuality through the policing of gay bathhouses and how it was important in canadian nation building. First nations individuals were seen as contaminated by primitive practices. Heterosexual, reproductive monogamous sex was the norm. Any other forms of sex were seen as unproductive activities. Sex was not meant to be for pleasurable, casual practices. Sexual practices in which reproduction was not the end result were to be avoided. Restrictive immigration practices were used to weed out degenerate people. The concept of homosexuality does not emerge until we see the emergence of industrialization. There was no naming of deviant practices until then. Public spaces were created in the city. It allowed for people to socialize and practice pleasurable, non-procreative sex. This began the emergence of a specific group, a sexual minority .
