SOC 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Heteronormativity, Gay Liberation, Bisexuality
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Lecture #13, 11/2: heterosexuality as cultural system and social organization. (2) specific cultural forms and/or ways of life. With new terms, comes with new rules and regulations. Link between broader content and shifts in politics and identities. Seidman notes that in the 1990"s bisexual things emerged in national discourses. *attraction to both genders, or attraction regardless of gender. (1) seidman - there were a number of countercultural movements/rebellion in the. Stonewall era that wasn"t just about gay liberation and experimentation. (2) gay liberation valorization of bi behavior claiming bisexual was the. (3) increased visibility of bisexuality as an idea. Almost all of them started by women. (3) need for queer identity politics for gay and lesbian organizing. International conferences (cid:1543) historically or spatially, there are moments where the meaning of bisexuality are contested (cid:1543) homosexual, gay, queer (cid:1543) (cid:1445)regulatory effects(cid:1446) (cid:1543) shifts come out as a result of culture and politics. Many groups didn"t see bisexual as real.
