This article the bat surroundg the age of nsent as a broad umbrella to qutn the ntued efulns of Queer Theory. The bat surroundg the age of nsent illtrate that Queer Theory has not fulfilled s origal promise and that is not (and possibly never been), “f for purpose”. Towards the end of 2013, the topic of lowerg the age of nsent England and Wal was once aga much the news. This article suggts that much of that bate foced exprsly or impliedly on the age of which men and boys have sexual terurse (whether gay or straight), rather than when people have sexual terurse. Queer Theory (origatg om femism), was tend to be a liberatg phenomenon, but ntrary to the hop and tentns, Queer Theory evolved to bee synonymo wh whe gay men, th nyg s origs and beg distctly anti-femist. Those who argue for a rctn the age of nsent have ed (whether knowgly or not) an approach which is nsistent wh this evolved versn of Queer Theory. Consequently, the bate on the age of nsent has ignored, or given sufficient attentn to, the effect(s) a lowerg of the age of nsent will have on girls and women. This article, therefore, seeks to qutn, dispt and unsettle, what Queer Theory has bee, suggtg that, several signifint aspects, fails to fully acknowledge patriarchy; renr (lbian) women visible; acknowledge and acmodate the lived experienc of women.
Contents:
- STRAIGHT VS. GAY AGE OF CONSENT: THE DIFFERENCE
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
STRAIGHT VS. GAY AGE OF CONSENT: THE DIFFERENCE
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Much of the bate foced exprsly, or impliedly, on the age of which men and boys have sexual terurse (whether gay or straight). Brief History of the Age of ConsentThe velopment of the laws surroundg the age of nsent has differed acrdg to whether the foc has been on girls or boys and whether the sexual activy is heterosexual or homosexual.
In England and Wal, the current age of nsent is 16 for everyone, by virtue of sectn 9 of the Sexual Offenc Act 2003, which removed the remag legal distctns the crimal law between heterosexual and homosexual sexual activy. In 1994, the age of nsent for gay men was lowered om 21 to 18. Queer inty and Queer Theory have rted on the assumptn that lbians and gay men are “all this together”, that there is a mon e to fight.
(a Brish prsure group, formed 1990 to mpaign for lbian and gay rights), for example, was to mpaign for a change the age of nsent laws. Given that there was no age of nsent rtrictn at all for lbians until the Sexual Offenc (Amendment) Act 2000, this was an issue which did not affect lbians, yet Queer tried to nvce women to jo a movement based almost solely on a gay male agenda ([25], p. Queer Theory Triggered partly by homophobic rpons to AIDS, Queer Legal Theory emerged the mid-1990s rponse to polil and legal events [26].
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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The term “queer” ed to be a slang word for homosexual, or a term of hate speech, and as such, nstuted homophobic abe. It draws heavily on femist theory’s mment to “distablishg patriarchy; Cril Race Theory’s ditn to unmaskg the ep racist stctur wh society and life; Cril Legal Theory’s examatn of how class stctur are perpetuated and rerced, and Gay and Lbian Legal Theori of unrstandg how heteronormativy is nstcted and reproduced [26].
Th, society only unrstands what “homosexual” means relatn to the ncept of “heterosexual” to which is opposnally posned.
a refal of heterosexualy as the benchmark for all sexual formatns;an attentivens to genr pable of terrogatg the equent assumptn that lbian and gay studi is a sgle, homogeneo object;an sistence on the multiple ways which race ccially shap sexual subjectivi.