SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nuclear Family, Anal Sex, Metropolitan Community Church

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1350
• Professor: Reese Simpkins

Document Summary

But gender, sex and sexuality are political and not natural (cid:224) heterosexual/homosexual dichotomy: approximately, 150 years of homosexuality, constructed as a problem , homosexual, was considered a offensive term (cid:224) heteronormativity in canadian law, 1859 1892: buggery laws, target gay men, form of social control, punishable by death, lesbians aren"t even mentioned, missing lesbians, 1892 buggery laws become reclassification as offence against morality , drops death penalty, but, prisoned for life, 1948 criminal sexual psychopaths, , 1961 dangerous sexual offenders , suspect citizens, pressured gay people to inform on other gay people, pierre trudeau, justice minister: that state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. (1967, 1969 decriminalization achieved, 1978 gays and lesbians get the right to immigrate into canada, law is still heteronormative, canadian charter of rights and freedoms (1982) gave certain degree of equality, equality: same rights as straight people.