How does nonheterosexuality vary across cultures GN v GS Class status Development issues in GS R eligion may dictate norms Legality Women most affected Transgender people What factors contribute to nonheterosexuality invisibility ID: 527354
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How does non-heterosexuality vary across cultures?
GN v. GS
Class status
Development
issues
in GS
R
eligion may dictate norms
Legality
Women most affected
Transgender people
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What factors contribute to non-heterosexuality invisibility?
Compulsory
heterosexuality
Laws
Religions norms
To
hide from the family
To secure employment
F
ear
of losing
children
F
ear
for
safety
Mental health
Lack of community visibility
Lack role models
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Why
do governments adopt anti-gay laws?
Diversion from domestic problems
Gain political supporters
Find a new way to unite people
Encouraged by foreign missionary/churches
R
ebuke Western norms
Demonstrate authority
Few int’l repercussions
Little foreign interference
IOs ineffective
Have leverage
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Why do people and societies feel threatened by non-heterosexuality?
Difference is deviance and/or
otherness
View as Western
epidemic, threat
Goes
against the
patriarchy
Lesbians are independent of
men
Gay men are biggest threat
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How is non-heterosexuality a global gender issue?
Affects
economic opportunities
HR violation
Ousted
Finding ‘cures’
Forced marriages
Violence
Sexuality-baiting; lesbian-baiting
Way to discredit rights’ activists, esp.
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Foreign policy issue
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