Homosexuality or being gay is not primarily image oriented. ... There was a time when to take socially sanctified "woman's wear" and flaunt it on a male body was to send up and question society's most sternly guarded definitions of masculinity and femininity" (Faludi 452). ... The worst a metrosexual male might have to face is to be looked at as a gay person, but as far as the status of a homosexual is concerned, even the Indian Penal Code deems homosexuality a punishable offence. ... However, the homosexual or the gay is often available only for purposes of comedy....

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The definition of Bisexuality may be relatively simple, but in reality, the lives of a bisexual person are anything but. ... Becoming or having a bisexual identity is as difficult for people to realize and acknowledge as it is for someone to realize their homosexuality. ... This belief is held by not only the heterosexual community but by the homosexual community as well. ... Also, in the homosexual community, many people view bisexuals as homophobic in that they don't or won't accept their homosexual tendencies (either because they are afraid or believe it is wrong), but are able...

• Word Count: 1242
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Homosexuals were, along with communists, the objects of federal witch hunts and purges. ... I theorize that these systems of power can be further broken down into at least three subcategories: commodity lesbianism, erotic identity, and the notion of a homosexual body. ... Images suggesting homosexuality have appeared fairly extensively in mainstream fashion advertising for brands such as Calvin Klein, Benetton, and banana republic. ... The final subcategory of the systems of power that Jess has drawn upon is the notion of a homosexual body. The very notion of a homosexuality only exposes th...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

All lesbians are now in revolt because all Lesbians define themselves in terms of a woman and reject the male definitions of how she should feel, act, look, and live. On the other side of things the male society defines the lesbians as a sexual act, and the lesbian society rejects males sexual and political domination; she defies his world, his social organization, his ideology, and his definition of her. ... The terms "Lesbian" and "Homosexuality" are two terms that can easily be confused. ... The basic difference between lesbians vs. homosexuality is "A Lesbian" is one of the sexual categ...

• Word Count: 962
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is a sport where the definition of excellence is premised on strength, where there is a readiness to injure an opponent and where men have a considerable advantage over women. ... In this fashion homosexuality in our society is the least male attribute. "The behavior of these male homosexuals is as different from that of a group of average men as one could possibly imagine (Terman and Miles, 1936: 248, as cited in Peterson 1998). So to be a gay male in our society equates to not being a man at all: "Real men" avoid appearing feminine and since this group of homosexuals are seen to acti...

• Word Count: 2296
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Past research on partner preferences of homosexual and heterosexual men and women suggests that lesbians exhibit a unique configuration of partner preferences (Deaux and Hanna 1984; Gonzales and Meyers 1993; Groom and Pennebaker 2005). ... The study will be administered through the Internet via Qualtrics and subjects will be selected for reporting to be homosexual. ...

• Word Count: 1702
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This objectification, which manifests itself in the extraordinary emphasis on a woman's physical attractiveness in American culture, as well as in the almost continuous display of the nude or seminude female body in art, advertising, and the mass media, constitutes an eroticizing of sexual inequality - as opposed to merely a celebrating of female sexuality - because it implicitly imposes a male perspective on the definition of female sexuality. ... The dominant white male shows his power in advertising through more than just the degradation of women, but the plain exclusion of homosexual...

• Word Count: 1525
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most of the population, including medical professionals, often assumes that those who are transgender are also homosexual. ... As our society evolves, more will be known regarding the different categories and definitions that best express the diversity of these individuals. ... It called for the National Institutes of Health and Center for Disease Control and Prevention to revisit their definitions of male-to-female and female-to-male transgender people in relation to their preferred gender and personal sexuality. ...

• Word Count: 1712
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his article "Biological Limits of Gender Construction". J. Richard Udry attempts to apply the theory of sex-dismorphic behavior predispositions and the hypothetical normative structure of our society to a study of women that took place over the course of 30 years. In this study, scientists colle...

• Word Count: 2074
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Initially in the play, Shakespeare establishes the conventional definition of a man and a woman in the characters of Orsino and Olivia. ... It is possible that Shakespeare is suggesting Orsino's repressed homosexuality, which is supported by his fickle attitude to love and women. ...

• Word Count: 2131
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate