SOC244H5 : LGBTQ Families.docx
Document Summary
Late blooming lesbians find different kind of partnership: spontaneous shifts in sexuality can and do occur, debanks the notion that sexual orientation is necessarily stable and consistent thing. Not until 1969 in the criminal code of canada had it been no longer considered criminal for private acts between consenting adults. C. c. c reformed so consensual homosexual sex in private between two adults over 21. In 2005 canada is the 4th country to legalize same sex marriages. Lesbians and gays however are not a single unified group. Today there seems to be an underlying agenda to prescribe specific gender roles. Louis althusser social apparatus social instituitions that reflect and maintain particular power arrangements and are enmeshed in our cultural legal and economic systems and structures. Ontario had the largest number of same sex partners according to 2001 consensus. What research reveals on children in gay and lesbian families.
