CRIM 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pink Triangle, George Klippert, Detent

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 332
• Professor: Nicole Myers

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Outline: fou(cid:272)ault(cid:859)s histor(cid:455) of e(cid:454)ualit(cid:455, homosexual identity, history of legal regulation, gay rights movement, post charter legal cases, pride, a critique, trans folks. Foucault"s histor(cid:455) of se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455: fou(cid:272)ault dre(cid:449) a disti(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) , governing sexuality through acts, the homosexual identity, act-based vs. identity-based regulation. Identity based was first developed by the physician and psychiatric. Homosexual identity: emerges in the 1940s, advanced by the medical profession, homosexuality regulated as a mental health problem (category in the dsm) It(cid:859)s (cid:374)ot a (cid:373)oral or religious pro(cid:271)le(cid:373) (cid:271)ut a (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal pro(cid:271)le(cid:373), (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g gu(cid:455) is (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d (cid:272)a(cid:374) be cure by medical treatment. Decriminalization of the private homosexual sex, criminalization is not a right approach. He was labelled dangerous sexual offender and he is detent indefinitely. If you are a long term same sex couple, you are having common law benefits: equality claims, formal equality, we want to be treated the same, there should not be any differential treatment.