Homophobia, culturally produced fear of or prejudice agast homosexuals that sometim manifts self legal rtrictns or, extreme s, bullyg or even vlence agast homosexuals (sometim lled “gay bashg”). The term homophobia was ed the late 1960s and was ed
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AM I GAY?
Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you. * richard is homosexual quizlet *
Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.
Homophobia, culturally produced fear of or prejudice agast homosexuals that sometim manifts self legal rtrictns or, extreme s, bullyg or even vlence agast homosexuals (sometim lled “gay bashg”). The term homophobia was ed the late 1960s and was ed promently by Gee Weberg, an Amerin clil psychologist, his book Society and the Healthy Homosexual (1972).
Although the suffix phobia generally signat an irratnal fear, the se of homophobia the word stead refers to an attudal disposn rangg om d dislike to abhorrence of people who are sexually or romantilly attracted to dividuals of the same sex. Homophobia is a culturally ndned rponse to homosexualy, and attus toward homosexuals vary wily across cultur and over time.
QUIZ: HOW GAY ARE YOU, REALLY?
Intolerance toward homosexual behavur grew particularly the Middle Ag, pecially among the adherents of Christiany and Islam. To unrstand the wir cultural impact of homophobia, awarens of the general societal nsens of the nature of homosexualy is necsary. In Wtern cultur the later 19th century, some psychologists began to view homosexualy as more than a temporary behavur, unrstandg that was immutable.
As dtrializatn brought migratn om ral to urban areas, the greater nsy of people ci permted same-sex attracted dividuals to anize (ially unr the cloak of anonymy), which ultimately led to greater visibily and the scientific study of homosexualy. The term homosexualy was first ed 1868, and the rearch of Richard von Krafft-Ebg two s later Psychopathia Sexualis (1886; trans.
To English 1892) portrayed homosexualy as a fixed sexual sire. In 1905 Sigmund Frd popularized the erroneo notn that homosexualy was the product of a child’s upbrgg, wrg, “The prence of both parents plays an important part.