AHSS*4070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gay Bashing, Heterosexuality, Hate Crime Statistics Act
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The canadian context: hate crime, disproportionate harm, exceeds harm inflicted on individuals; has as its goal to intimidate and/or injure an entire community, attack a core feature of a victim"s identity. Impacts the community; makes other feel fear (justice julian roberts, 1995) Gender identity: the gender that a person feels himself or herself to be, can be same or opposite to sex assigned at birth, can be fluid. Sexual orientation: the identification of individuals as heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual based on their emotional and sexual attractions, relationships, self-identity and lifestyle. Transgendered individuals: persons who do not fit neatly into either the male or female category, or whose behaviour is not congruent with the rules and expectations for their sex in the society in which they live. Legal illegal: minor penalties death sentence, trend: moving towards legal protection of sexual minorities, discrimination continues, murder, gay bashing, hate crimes.
