Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

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Q1.Social and Historical Construction
Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
This section of the paper describes how behavior differs from identity among gay people and how they are shaped by the legal, cultural, and socio-economic processes. Gays are homosexual men. Gay people are usually born male, but their behaviors lean more to the female gender and would, in most cases, want to be identified as female or may have more sexual feelings for the same male gender. Some gays, though physically exhibit female characters. For instance, you might find one to apply make-up like a woman, dress in women’s clothes, and want to be treated like a woman.
The gay community has grown over the years to the point that they are accepted in particular political, social, legal, and religious spaces. Moreover, this growing phenomenon has been shaped by specific cultural, legal, and socio-economic processes. One of the social aspects of life that have supported gay culture is that there have been cropping up of social joints strictly meant for gay people in the recent past. In the article Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of Francisco’s Bars, 1950-1968, the writer A case in point is the writer Christopher Agee presents a scenario where gay people for the first time in the 1960s when gay people got space to interact away from the stigma and discrimination that they faced from straight people in traditional social joints. Through, gay bars were a social outfit for straight people. Today, there are many gay bars worldwide (Agee, pp 462-489).
Culturally, pop culture has contributed so much to the growth of the gay and lesbian culture over the years. From the newspapers, music videos, films, TV, magazines, and the internet, the media and pop culture have supported the gay community. According to the article Constructing the “Good Transsexual,” Christine Jorgensen, Whiteness, and Heteronormativity in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Press, Christine Jorgensen, we note that through Jorgensen’s talk shows he promoted the gay culture. Having undergone sex reassignment surgery, he became a role model to most gays in Denmark and worldwide. He also attracted the attention of the media. Through that, he introduced many Americans to the world of transsexuals, appeared in clubs, and starred in the film Christine Jorgen Story that was produced in 1967. Also, after the gay affair being driven in motion pictures, it moved to the magazines like News Week, Time, daily newspapers like Daily News, and tabloids like Whisper (Skidmore, pp 270-300).
Also, though the LGBT community today has seen some rights improvements, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender of color have seen more racial and gender discrimination than their white counterparts. The Hispanic and black LGBT community have been killed or discriminated against based on their sexual and gender inclinations. A case in point is Orlando's Pulse Club scenario that saw lesbians of color killed by straight allies and accused of being a terrorist. This cultural homophobic perception made the LGBT community live in fear and also fought for their rights in equal measure (Garber, pp 318-31.
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