Sociology SOC-R 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kinsey Scale, Sodomy, Bisexuality

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Homosexuality (adjective): ppl of same sex have sex--behavior (doing) Homosexual (noun): ppl who prefer to have sex w/ own gender--identity (being) Only relatively recently that our society has made distinction. 1982: homosexual came into oxford dictionary (ppl had always had homosexual sex though) Foucault the sodomite had been a temporary aberration, the homosexual was now a species. Late 80s, early 90s got label of queer . (ppl use terms in incorrect way): is he gay? (we mean is he having sex w/ own gender, not is it his identity) Anyone can adopt the identity gay even w/o having same-sex sex. Oscar wildes was gay. <

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