SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Civil Marriage Act, Gender Dysphoria, Stonewall Riots
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Hopkins, j. j. , sorensen, a. , and taylor, v: same sex couples, families and marriage: embracing and resising heteronormaivity. Explore issues relevant to gay and lesbian families: their historical and ideological posiion in opposiion ot the family (snaf, socio-demographic trends, family relaionships. Children in same sex families: social and legal recogniion. The invisibility of gay and lesbian families in research. Fears of disclosure of sexuality: tension within family of coming out . There was historical tolerance for same sex relaionships, although: homosexuality seen as mental illness : a 19th century noion. Stereotypes of deviance" coninue despite changes in the law. Heterosexual hegemony becomes public common sense (kinsman, 2006) Transgenderism and transsexualism are sill classiied as gender-idenity disorders in the. Gender idenity disorder reform advocates seek reform of this classiicaion. Queer families challenging binary classiicaions(clip transforming the family) Some countries permit civil unions, civil contracts or lifeime partnership. Stonewall riots(1969) and the beginning of gay/lesbian rights movement.
