Contents
of Homosexuals Invention of Opposite Sex & Era of Oppression 1870-1970s The Dark Years 1970s & Beginning of Liberation Gender - New! Un-spot-able | Coming Out Queens | Butch from Birth | Unscripted Relationships
3 Layers of Sex | Lesbians vs Gay Men | Sharedness or Gender? Weaving Individual Identities Test 3: Biological Studies of Homosexuality Pesky Persistence of Non- Reproductive Evolutionary Advantage of Diversity in Bonding Types |
| In Western societies, rich business people are high status leaders. Western society also tends to celebrate youth. Teachers and religious people are poorly paid and at the lower end of the social hierarchy. The elderly are often considered past their prime, redundant and in decline. Traditional Chinese society saw teachers and spiritual people as the highest status people. The elderly had very high status as the holders of wisdom. Business people were viewed as dirty and immoral. Youth was considered fickle. |
| Some cultures treat same-sex attracted people as a high status group. The Mojave Indians of North America treat the ‘two spirit’ as being of important spiritual significance. Such people are deemed to have magical and healing powers and to be powerful forces in the spiritual realm. A two spirit is a blessing on a tribe and a bringer of good luck and fortune. The same-sex attracted Sharman of Chucki in north eastern Siberia were also deemed to be one of the spiritual pillars of society. They took up the role of the healer, preserving the physical and spiritual health of their communities. |
| Culture as System of Control |