SOCIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Before Stonewall, Marriage Law, Sexual Politics
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In film, stories of lesbian and gay people. Sexual subcultures: without community, nascent community, with community, how do communities create around sex and sexuality, what struck you about the lives of these people before community, secret society. There is still something there. an identity that is beyond the individual. Sexual politics: marriage law, even though it is not titled coupled with who you can have sex with, it is very fundamental institution around sexuality and us understanding who we are having sex with. Expect our partners not to have sex with other people. Laws against interracial marriage are laws against racism, through controlling sexuality. Laws against interracial marriage were not always the case. It was not a part of common law. We see how marriage law has privileged hteroesexuality: age of consent laws across the globe the age of consent is different for homosexuality, and the age of consent to marry is like 13.
