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A Sociological look at heterosexuality attends to the ways the heterosexuality developed in relation to other social contexts

true

A transgender person is someone whose biological sex at birth is different from their true identity

true

A transgender person is someone whose gender identity is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.

true

According to Foucault, when a man goes to church and confess his sexual desires and his sexual behaviors, he is demonstrating the ways that sexuality discursive

true

According to Marxists, there are two phases of capitalist development including consumer capitalism and market based capitalism

true

Defecation is a mode of representation that positions marginalized individuals as "above the fray" and is a process that further excludes/ ostracizes them

true

Essentialism is the idea that sexuality is a basic/ natural part of being human

true

From the point of view sexology, sexuality is understood as essentially a matter of biology and physiology and is geared toward reproduction

true

Heterosexuality is an example of strategic social location

true

One of Seidman's points in this chapter is that by denying women the right to have an abortion, the state was exercising control over their sexuality

true

One of the goals of queer theory is to deconstruct identity categories. This means that queer theory is as interested in deconstructing what heterosexuality is, as it is homosexuality

true

So long as homosexuality was understood as a mental illness or abnormality, individual adjustments, not politics was the remedy

true

So long as homosexuality was understood as a mental illness or abnormality, individual adjustments, not politics, was the remedy

true

Someone who identifies as heterosexual can also identify as queer

true

The "sexual revelation" of the 1960s signaled some dramatic changes, however, the notion of marriage, monogamy, and family-making have remained remarkably stable.

true

The Mattachine Society was a reform-minded organization supporting gay men during the 1950s and 1960s

true

The identity marker "queer" is something that members of the hetero- and homosexual communities can, and do, adopt.

true

Throughout the 19th century, homosexual behavior was legally classified under the category of sodomy, a criminal offense that include a wide spectrum of non-procreative, non-martial sexual acts

true

The bisexual community has always been pretty well represented and supported by gay and lesbian political movements

false

The process of deification helps bring queer characters into the mainstream by making them visible in positive/ favorable ways.

false

The term "metrosexual" refers to a gay man who approximates the norms and expectations of heterosexual masculinity (Career oriented, ambitious, and stereotypically masculine in appearance).

false

Visibility politics is good for all LGBTQ identifies people because visibility equates to legitimacy and recognition within civic life

false

When someone identifies as cisgender, that means they are heterosexual

false

World War 1 and 2 had nothing to do with the ways that sexuality is theorized in the united states

false

During the 1930s lesbian feminists emerged to challenge the institutions of marriage and the family and as a response to the gay liberationist movement

false

Gay liberationsim developed in response to lesbian feminism

false

Gayle Rubin is a notable feminist and psychoanalytic scholar

false

Heterosexual people, and the systems that protect/ preserve heterosexuality, utilize tactical rhetoric's to do so

false

Homosexuality is an example of a strategic social location because it allows individuals who identify this way to frame the world around them through their own lens.

false

Popular culture films of the 1990s have generally continued to communicate the image of the homosexual citizen as polluted

false

Sex and gender are the same thing

false

Sigmund Freud was a notable sexologist

false