To understand the linkage between sexuality and gender, it is important to reimagine the relationship between sexuality and gender and the rapport they hold with self-identification. Not long ago, sexuality was tied to procreation - becoming the core of one’s identity. Gender had always been tied to biological sex. However, a crisis of gender identity emerged and blurred the gender and sexuality binaries that had become commonplace social facts. A fluidity was created that allowed individuals to not feel the pressure of fitting inside distinct identification categories.
Who is given the right to declared something is “normal”? Society? Your parents? Friends? Isn’t normality a behavior where it’s comfortable and seemingly correct to oneself?
She communicates that they are in fact “normal” (in society standards of
Anything in relation to sexuality will always be controversial. There will always be different opinions, outcomes and even consequences towards sex related topics. I want to first investigate the key concepts and beneficial outcomes of the website by analyzing a three-way article review by Zoe Grimm, Kit Bangles and Karly Kingsley. These three women of the Vodka Press are known for their personal-oriented blogs and podcast who decided to personally experiment and critique MakeLoveNotPorn. “I applaud MLNP’s ideology, to be “of the people, by the people, and for the people who believe that the sex we have in our everyday life is the hottest sex there is.”
The article I chose to write about was called “Conflict between Religious Beliefs and Sexuality: An Autoethnography” written by Carlos E Gerena. An autoethnography is a narrative where the author relives his or her life and uses the important events that can be used as evidence to back up the main focuses of the text. In this story Gerena starts off by describing the Pentecostal church him and his family attended every Sunday. He was very involved with the church and enjoyed being a part of the choir, but a very common topic every Sunday was homosexuality. The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah was a story that the author remembers vividly.
As the film continued, there was a shift in the lesbian discourse as Shug is provided with a new husband and Celie moves to a different social environment. There, she is not able to openly accept her homoerotic desires. It 's as if the film director purposefully used the character, Shug, to seduce her into accepting her sexual identity. Perdigao argues that even though Celie may desire women and may express sexual longing in her encounter with Shug, “there no social reality exists so that she can express that desire in ongoing sexual practice” (p. 150). I truly agree with Perdigao because the film represented a period where black women couldn 't express their sexual identity or they would be going against sexual norms.
The 1920’s is traditionally viewed as an era for the freedom of sexual identity, but some critics such as Elise McDougald, argue that such freedoms raised unforeseen dangers for African American women (Monda 24) since being sexual was directly linked to satisfying racist notions (Scheper 682). In the eyes of white America, the African American ethnicity was teeming with ghosts of “barbarism” (Dawahare 23) that bled directly into the sexual lives of African American women, creating a racist expectation that all African American women are sexually “hypersexual, primitive, exotic, and always available.” In Larsen’s Quicksand, Helga Crane struggles with this racist and sexist “primitive” expectation (Scheper 682) as she attempts to explore her
Gender Identification and Sexual Orientation in Music As of 2017, the LGBTQ+ movement has progressed and slowly have been more accepted. This allowed for those in the community to express themselves through art and music. There are many LGBTQ+ artists and songs created to support the community, examples include Frank Ocean, Tyler, The Creator, David Bowie, Sam Smith, Mary Lambert, Elton John, etc.
Many older members of the LGBT community consider queer to be extremely offensive with a negative connotation. This is due to the fact of being gay during the most homophobic time of America and at the receiving end of much discriminatory compared to the younger generation. ABC published an article in 2013 about how an older gentleman in his sixties is disgusted by the way Millennials use the “Q” word so freely. He recalls being kicked out of his apartment and being fired from a job for being gay.
Although sexual orientation and sexual identity are significantly related, I believe they can exist independently. One doesn’t directly depend on the other and vice versa. Sexual orientation refers more to whom he or she is sexually attracted to, while sexual identity refers to the way people view themselves sexually. I believe that one doesn’t have to identify with either homosexuality or heterosexuality. In my opinion, there are certain situations where it could be somewhat impossible to label one as homosexual or heterosexual.
Sociological Perspectives Sexuality has three assumptions to it 1. Sexuality of members 2. Institutions of society such as family, religion, 3. What is appropriateness or inappropriateness of sexual behavior with in the cultural it occurs in.
Understanding gender and sexuality as socially constructed categories is important because it helps people understand a certain group. Gender and sexuality is expressed in many categories and people must be careful not to mix people in the wrong category. Simply because one expresses their sexuality different from another person does not mean they should be bashed or treated differently. Sometimes it does not matter what you identify as, who you identify with, people will always judge you, so its best people just do what they want. Putting gender in a category helps others not stereotype them as something they are not.
Identity is social construct that many have mistaken for something an individual is born with. There are many aspects of identity that one can inherit like genes that can drive a certain type of character and certain aspects of identity a person can adopt and build for themselves. However the most part of one’s identity is consistent of what the person wants and adopts for themselves and what the society/the people around him/her choose to give him/her. Identity is a said to not remain unchanged once established.
Like every word, it can mean a different thing to each person who hears it, but I think the word gay especially is the type of word that had definitions that vary so drastically from person to person. In my research, I found over ten different factual definitions for
We sometimes find ourself contemplating about who we are and what do we want in our life. As a gay man I have found myself stuck in many places, this is totally normal. We all try to find that perfect life but sometimes it involves barriers. Being wrong and owning up to what you want in life makes the ride easier. Thus being said, I would like to introduce myself with memories that shaped who I am and the struggles that I’ve achieved.
