Gay And Homosexual Identity : Is It Defined As A Person?

This term is based on the assumption that we as a whole understand differences in color, race, and sexuality. However, this portrays the idea that we truly understand homosexuality; in reality we have not. The more this term is analyzed the more society will stamp homosexuals for being “diverse”. Which they would like to few equal. Sullivan explains, “But as obsession with diversity intensifies, the possibility of real difference alarms and terrifies all the more. They are marginalized as “stereotypes””. This fact demonstrates how homosexuality will be considered different no matter what day in age.

Being an openly gay student in high school, Brandon is subjected to torment, discrimination and marginalisation. Consistent deviance often leads to marginalisation, and gender deviance is a prime example. Brandon was beat up at school and rejected by friends. Gay individuals have long been marginalised by not receiving equal rights by law, and are habitually marginalised by the general public due to homosexuality being considered gender deviance. Taywaditep 's (2001) study suggested that due to the marginalisation gay boys received throughout their childhood and adolescence, many began to appear more gender-conforming towards adulthood to avoid marginalisation.

We are one of the most critical societies when judging males, and this is shown heavily throughout the play. At any point during the play when one of the male characters shows emotion or feeling either towards or in front of another male character, he is swiftly met with a barrage of homophobic phrases such as “queer dog”. In one case, Jarred is just having a conversation with Rachel and his mates Davo and Scotty are mocking the entire time. Scenes like this show that our society views being in touch with your feelings or simply caring about someone as feminine, as something only women should do. Some examples and comparisons to other cultures highlight how Australia is one of the most masculine countries in the world. Many other cultures embrace dancing and flamboyant dress for males at certain events, such as the Hindu. Weddings are covered in bright colours and lively music, and men and women all dance the same way. In Australia however men are much less likely to get excited at the thought of dancing, myself included, and the attire worn for such ceremonies is much more bland. I’ve always felt as though I have been in touch with my feelings and who I am, I’ve always been a sensitive person. I know many boys my age who I would say are more “masculine” than me, but it’s not something that I feel has disadvantaged me or made me feel out of place. I possible reason for me feeling less masculine is the fact that my dad passed away when I was young and I only had my mum raising me from then onwards. I feel as though I don’t have some of the typical Australian male characteristics shown by some of the characters in the play, such as misogyny or lack of

The word “gay” has gone through drastic changes. Traditionally, it was a positive term that meant to be “happily excited” or “jolly” (Merriam Webster, “Gay”). It was used regularly to express one’s feelings about life. Today, it has a far different meaning. Now people use the word gay to label homosexuals, those with feminine qualities, or those who do something thought to be outside of the norm for their gender. “Being gay” went from expressing someone’s happiness to describing his sexual preference. The definition of gay has changed so much that its original meaning has become archaic and lost to the times.

However if we look at how Chbosky portrays Patrick having him say things such as “Flaunt it baby! Flaunt it” Along with his flamboyant personality it seems he is simply painted him as the “Gay friend” Stereotype. Another point made is perks illustration of cliques. When patrick approaches his boyfriend, brad acts as if he has never met him before because he’s with the other jocks which starts a fight. However this scenes briefness combined with the fact that it gets overshadowed by charlie joining in and beating them up defeats its intended purpose.

For many members of the LGBT community, especially homosexuals, they usually discover their sexuality at a very young age, just like one of the characters in “Survivors”. While many of them chose to hide it from family members and friends for various reasons, others unknowingly display stereotypical characteristics of a gay person. These characteristics could be anything from a young boy

And, indeed, it does. This is how he comes to hold Oberon’s trust during the play; his love and obedience for his king lead Oberon to choose Puck as his deputy in his plot against Titania. His loyalty are also intricately tied in with his playful nature. He tries not to do anything that would anger or disappoint his king. However, even his kind nature is tested by human antics. Puck does not have a very high opinion of the mortal lovers or of the arrogant Bottom. His famous quote “What fools these mortals be” (III.ii.115) indicates his feelings about the lovers. If Puck were less loving of his King, and more in favor of his own amusement, he very well might leave the lovers as they are in the middle of the play if only for the entertainment value. Puck tells Oberon “And so far am I glad it so did sort, as this their jangling I esteem a sport” (III.ii.352-353). It is likely that he would think the mixed up lovers to be grand entertainment and leave them the way they are for his enjoyment. If Puck were meaner, then he might change Bottom completely into an ass and leave him that way.

I met with seventeen-year-old Derek Simpson in his school, at the request of one or more of his teachers. Their concerns revolved around his slipping grades, and staff witnessed, name-calling. This harassment took the form of slurs (“Queer”) associated with his perceived sexuality. Derek presents as a typical grade eleven student, both in terms of his physical appearance and his defensive body language. He is a white, middle class, only child, living at home with his parents, and seems to also spend some positive time with his grandparents. His best friend Ashley, provides a positive and supportive relationship, and seems to be his

“Look at the faggot! Watch out! He’ll get you!” (Pascoe, 53) this is the common response other heterosexual males have to their homosexual or suspected homosexual peers. C.J. Pascoe’s book (Dude You’re a Fag: Masculinity and sexuality in high school) goes into an average high school called River High and does a year and a half field study on homosexuality (specifically male homosexuality), masculinity and adolescence’s overall sexuality. Also, its relationship/impact on the struggles that the teenagers go through. In the academic article also written by him years later after seeing the public’s response back up how difficult it is to be an adolescence in today’s society. “The relationship between adolescent masculinity and sexuality is embedded

For instance, Bob's character which Jack meets at one of the support groups who is emasculated. (Fragment) Bob was a champion bodybuilder, an autonomous and strong male, but had his testicles detached and his hormone disproportion caused him to produce enormously large breasts and his voice to become higher (do you mean deeper). Therefore, Bob goes to a testicular cancer group so he could share his feelings, have strength and courage, to cry. He was previously a strong and independent male, but now he is pathetic and dependent. Bob becomes more of a woman than a man because of how society views what a real man considers. It is because of Bob's big breast and his feminine side has made him become emasculated. So, Bob somehow decided to join the Fight Club to make him not so emasculated.

In the movie Mad hot ballroom(2005), this specific view has been imposed on the children through ballroom dancing consequently with how the instructors were teaching the children to act and dance in a heteronormative way. One teacher in particular asks the boys to know what color their partner’s eyes are, and to look into their eye and treat them like a lady. The partnered dance presented in Mad hot ballroom portrays what competitive ballroom dancing is in a social constructed way. The view on heterosexuality generally was also shown to us in Mad hot ballroom with how the kids were partially focused on only describing the opposite gender and their differences in their interviews throughout almost the whole

I feel like this shows that there are gender stereotypes, but it doesn’t always have to be pointed out by a guy, it could be pointed out by another female. The Plastics put that into view especially when bashing other girls and guys in their classes. For instance, Regina made comments about joining the Mathletes was “social suicide”, and then when Regina made a derogatory joke about Janis’ sexuality. Gender stereotypes start from cliques, especially those cliques who look down on others. Regina even use to call Gretchen fat and not even pretty, because no one was as pretty as Regina.. The Popular clique in my school were the really beautiful/handsome kids, the girls would always make rude remarks about other girls in other cliques. They would say they were “fat and ugly” “four eyed loser” “band geek”; there were also ruder remarks that I don’t think are appropriate. Another gender stereotype from “Mean Girls” would be Karen being a dumb blonde girl. This is considered a gender stereotype because society has portrayed blonde women as being dumb in comedy movies/television shows and cartoons. Damien was the stereotypical homosexual that was boldly flamboyant. In society he would know as the stereotypical gay guy who has always been gay since he was born. He was in a outcast clique with Janis because they didn’t fit in to other cliques since Damien was gay and Janis was labeled as a lesbian (even though she wasn’t). Sometimes being labeled as homosexual is not always considered genetic because people start rumors about other being gay and it sticks. I feel like the clique Damien is put in should be considered sexual inequality because he is considered to be an outcast for being

Families were worried that if their child was exposed to homosexuality, or were themselves gay, that their morals would be tarnished and they would embark towards promiscuous behaviour. Books were given to teens providing advice on how to reach “normality”. They were trying to scare kids into believing that heterosexuality was the only option and anything otherwise was not normal. They also wanted to guilt the children into believing that being gay would not only ostracize yourself, but would also shame your family. Families would tell their children that they needed to be heterosexual to defend Canada. They would also use examples from Canadian society as per what would happen if they did end up gay. Examples like how the

Queer theory questions creations of normal and divergent, insider, and outsider.2 Queer theorists analyse a situation or a text to determine the relationship between sexuality, power and gender. Queer theory challenges basic tropes used to organize our society and our language: even words are gendered, and through that gendering an elliptical view of the hierarchy of society, and presumption of what is male and what is female, shines through. Queer theory rejects such binary distinctions as arbitrarily determined and defined by those with social power. It works to deconstruct these binaries, particularly the homosexual/heterosexual binary.4

Homosexuality is defined as a predominant sexual attraction to persons of the same gender. For example, men being sexually attracted to other men and women being sexually attracted to other women (Exodus Global Alliance, 2017). Heterosexuality however, is the opposite of homosexuality. A heterosexual person has a sexual attraction to a person of the opposite sex, as opposed to an individual of the same sex. In Western society, heterosexuality has been constructed to be viewed as the norm, this however was not always the case. Sociologist Michel Foucault coined the term ‘homosexuality’ arguing that homosexuality was not discovered but produced. “Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul.” Following on from the invention of the term known as homosexuality, medical doctors invented a counter-position, heterosexuality. Although same-sex relationships existed prior to the invention of this terminology, it encouraged people to identify themselves and others differently (Angel Daniel Matos, 2013). As a result, the judgment of gender and