Deck 12: Gays, Lesbians, and Homophobia

Question 1

People acquire homosexual identities often through long, interactive processes that depend heavily on the actions and reactions of others.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Sexuality:

A) is learned behavior
B) is dictated by body chemistry
C) is dictated by genetic inheritance
D) is strictly a domain of the personality

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Sociologists would argue that someone is homosexual if:

A) he or she has sexual relations with someone of the same sex
B) one can see himself or herself engaging in homosexual activity, even if the person has not yet done so
C) he or she has a homosexual identity
D) none of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

_____ are collections of norms that define socially accepted male and female behavior.

A) Moral scripts
B) Sex roles
C) Gender scripts
D) Masculine/feminine archetypes

Question 5

Homosexual organizations are very similar to groups like Alcoholics Anonymous.

Question 6

Homosexual women rejected the feminist movement early on and now largely refuse to participate in it.

Question 7

Kinsey found that ______ percent of men experience homosexual contact at some time in their lives.

A) 5
B) 12
C) 24
D) 37

Question 8

No single lifestyle fits all homosexuals.

Question 9

Biological claims for an inherited tendency toward homosexual behavior:

A) have not been supported by research at all
B) are supported only by limited research
C) are supported by a significant amount of research with strong methodologies
D) are unquestionable

Question 10

_______ describes the desire to adopt behavior patterns associated with one sex or the other, or the perception of this behavior as preferable to alternatives.

A) Sex role desire
B) Sex role adoption
C) Sex role preference
D) Sex role identification

Question 11

Most of the world's AIDS cases come from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Question 12

In a 1986 study, the majority of college students in the U.S. held negative views of homosexuality.

Question 13

______ is the social preference, but not necessarily an erotic attraction, for one's own gender.

A) Homosexuality
B) Homosociality
C) Homosexism
D) Heterosexism

Question 14

The Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) church tolerated homoeroticism until the mid-1950s.

Question 15

There has been ___________ in tolerance of homosexuality among most groups of people in the general population.

A) a rapid decrease
B) neither an increase or decrease
C) a modest but measurable increase
D) a rapid increase

Question 16

Homosexual practices do not appear to vary substantially from culture to culture.

Question 17

Homosexuality is considered inherently deviant by sociologists because it is so widely condemned globally.

Question 18

Most of the time, parents accept their son or daughter as they are when they "come out" as homosexual.

Question 19

The term "homosexuality" was defined in 1869 by K.M. Benkert as:

A) a man who exclusively engaged in sexual activity with other men
B) a woman who exclusively engaged in sexual activity with other women
C) failure to achieve a normal erection during contact with someone of the opposite sex
D) an excessive display of femininity by men

Question 20

Homophobia is:

A) an attitude
B) a motivation for behavior
C) not a valid term
D) a and b

Question 21

Twenty-five percent of those with AIDS in the U.S. became exposed through:

A) homosexual sexual contact
B) heterosexual sexual contact
C) intravenous drug use
D) blood transfusions

Question 22

The term ______________ comes from the name of the Greek island of Lebos, where the Greek poetess Sappho led a group of women in a network of homosexual relationships.

A) homosexual
B) homophobia
C) lesbianism
D) none of the above

Question 23

Male _______________ want to appear feminine, but they seek an image of femininity divorced from everyday lives of most mothers, wives, and other women.

A) transvestites
B) translitigants
C) transitions
D) none of the above

Question 24

AIDS spreads in Africa largely through:

A) homosexual sexual contact
B) heterosexual intercourse
C) intravenous drug use
D) blood transfusions

Question 25

Miller speculates that certain necessary characteristics define essential conditions for the development of homosexual communities. These include the following except:

A) some personal freedom and social tolerance
B) economic dependence and lack of social mobility
C) relatively high status for women
D) declining power of the family and religion in defining and determining every aspect of an individual's life

Question 26

People who eventually become homosexuals tend to acquire sex role identification:

A) in childhood
B) in young adulthood
C) in middle adulthood
D) homosexuals almost never acquire sex role identification

Question 27

Joe internalizes a homosexual sexual role and develops a self-concept consistent with that sex role's expectations. Joe's situation is best described as:

A) sex role desire
B) sex role adoption
C) sex role preference
D) sex role identification

Question 28

Homosexual communities:

A) don't provide much social support
B) distort gay norms and values
C) fail to provide most homosexuals with a milieu in which people may live every day
D) none of the above

Question 29

A 1990 study found that the homosexual brain features an enlarged suprachiasmatic nucleus compared that of the heterosexual brain. This type of research falls under what perspective?

A) Psychological
B) Biological
C) Sociological
D) Anthological

Question 30

A 1989 study by Fumento found that this percent of men participated "fairly often" as adults in homosexual relations.

A) 25 percent
B) 14 percent
C) 13 percent
D) 1.4 percent

Question 31

Same-sex marriage is legal in:

A) Iowa
B) Vermont
C) Massachusetts
D) All of the above

Question 32

The Southern Baptist Convention voted to boycott _______ because of the company's decision to provide health care benefits to partners of employees.

A) Lockheed Martin
B) McDonalds
C) Disney
D) 3M

Question 33

Ted has taken on a homosexual way of life and has disclosed his homosexual identity to friends and family members. Ted is currently going through the _____ stage of the coming out process.

A) sensitization
B) identity confusion
C) identity assumption
D) commitment

Question 34

"Coming out" is:

A) a single announcement
B) a process
C) is a declaration of a homosexual identity to other homosexuals
D) none of the above

Question 35

Jill associates with others in secret in the homosexual subculture. She has not told her heterosexual friends or her family members about her lesbian relationships. Which stage of the coming out process is Jill going through?

A) Sensitization
B) Identity confusion
C) Identity assumption
D) Commitment

Question 36

Staci feels attracted to other females but denies those feelings to herself, or at least doesn't act on them. Which stage of the coming out process is Staci going through?

A) Sensitization
B) Identity confusion
C) Identity assumption
D) Commitment

Question 37

The largest number of homosexuals report the development of a gay identity during which life period?

A) Early childhood
B) Early adolescence (12-13)
C) High school or college years
D) Late 20s to early 30s

Question 38

Critics have raised a number of objections to homosexual behavior, most of them derived from ______________.

A) religious prohibitions
B) social judgments
C) social norms
D) none of the above

Question 39

When first discovered HIV was known as:

A) AIDS
B) GRID
C) ARC
D) ARV

Question 40

The homosexual rights movement began on the West coast after what period in U.S. history?

A) Industrialization
B) World War I
C) World War II
D) The Vietnam War

Question 41

What is homophobia? What social categories of people are more likely and less likely to be homophobic?

Question 42

Do all societies universally condemn homosexuality and homosexual behavior? Why is homosexuality seen as deviant in the U.S.?

Question 43

Outline the different stages of the coming out process and provide an example of someone going through this process.

Question 44

How has AIDS impacted the homosexual community in the United States? How is the AIDS epidemic different in the U.S. from many other parts of the world, including Sub-Saharan Africa?

Question 45

Discuss the research mentioned in the text on the biological origins of homosexuality. What does this research tell us about biology and homosexuality? Do you think sociological explanations for homosexuality are more robust? Why or why not?