SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Gay Liberation, Richard Florida, Pierre Trudeau
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Jamie hubley"s suicide in kanata ontario; was bullied, and was openly gay; pg. 2009, 202 canadian teens ages 15-19 took their lives; suicide accounts for quarter of deaths at that age. Pascoe dude, you"re a fag; book explaining how boys say this to make masculine boundaries. Social construction: something that is a product of our social context. Social context matters; eg. defining homosexual; someone who only did it once in the past, someone doing it regularly, occasionally, etc. Has to do with our fascination and confusion about sex in general; think about 2 hypothetical scenarios; 1 society where sex was pleasure, other being defining sex as a social construct; deviancy impossible, because normal preferences do not exist. 175 sexuality is also multi-layered; leads to development of. But, the social factors help contribute to construction of sexuality and its conception; eg. 30 years ago, homo. (homosexuality) was viewed as legal medical condition; in 2005,
