SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Heterosexuality, American Psychiatric Association, Heteronormativity
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Sex is not just innate, something we instinctively know; it is something we learn about as we grow into adulthood - has a strong cultural context- sex is fundamentally a social enterprise. What is sex", what is normal", when, with whom, how long, under what conditions, and to what purpose are learned from various agents of socialization. Word gay" emerged in 1940s and 1950s to refer to both men and women homosexuals. Gay women claimed lesbian" as their identi cation during 1960s and 70s because the claim was that the way in which men and women homosexuals were treated differed and thus warranted a separate identity. Bisexual and transgender were added to form glbt in the late 1990s - replaced by. Lgbtqqap - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (reclaimed from the derogatory sense, used as an umbrella term), questioning, asexual, and pansexual. Each of these contributes to a person"s sexual orientation:
