SOCI 3670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: You Can Play, Heterosexuality, Jonathan Toews
14 Jun 2016
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Any other sexual relation or orientation that isn"t heterosexual is deviant. Heterosexuality- only normal" if you are a heterosexual. Sexuality as a categorical concept is relatively new, only since 1900s: behaviours/ sexual deviance was known as being categorically medicalized. Binary of heterosexual and homosexual: how we learn about gender is how we learn about sexuality. Yet sf player discriminates on gay athletes and does not get fined. Study shows many athletes and coaches stay closeted" in fear of losing their job: only 4 players have come as gay after retiring from nfl. Dr. tom waddell invented the gay games: gay american sportsman and competitor in the 1968 summer olympics. Games: first gay games held in san francisco in 1982 in the form of a sports competition and arts festival. Brendan had come out as gay" and became an advocate for combating.
