Articles 38 & 39
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. According to Weston, a lesbian or gay identity has been portrayed as a rejection of:
a. | the family and a departure from kinship. |
b. | dominant society values. |
c. | the community. |
d. | freedom. |
____ 2. According to Weston, two assumptions surround the divide between gay life and family:
a. | the absence of children or lasting relationships and alienation of adoptive and blood kin. |
b. | too many children and poor relationships. |
c. | numerous children and only one biological parent. |
d. | none of the above |
____ 3. Weston believes assumptions about gays and lesbians are but a short step from placing them somewhere beyond the family, unencumbered by relations of kinship, responsibility, or affection to portraying them ____.
a. | as timely destroyers. |
b. | as a menace to family and society. |
c. | as assets to family and society. |
d. | as beneficial to family and society |
____ 4. According to Weston, a long sociological tradition in the United States of studying the family under siege or in various states of dissolution lent credibility to charges that this institution required protection from:
a. | destructive forces. |
b. | societal ills. |
c. | the homosexual threat. |
d. | lesbian threat. |
____ 5. Based on Weston's research, some lesbians and gay men have embraced the popular equation of their sexual identities with the:
a. | hope for a better future. |
b. | renunciation of access to kinship. |
c. | renunciation of fear. |
d. | remnants of power and success. |
____ 6. According to Weston, people who equated their adoption of a lesbian or gay identity with a renunciation of family did so in the double-sided sense of:
a. | fearing rejection by the families in which they had grown up, and not expecting to marry or have children as adults. |
b. | fearing acceptance by the families in which they had grown up and choosing not to have children. |
c. | fearing rejection by co-workers and not having a family to rely upon. |
d. | fearing a life of loneliness and wanting acceptance from the family. |
Essay
7. What is the significance of Childs' reference to the miner's canary?
8. What are the implications of the white families' discussions about their opposition to interracial relationships in non-racial terms? What are the implications of the black families' clearly identifying race as an issue with regard to interracial relationships?
9. What are some assumptions that heterosexuals make about the homosexual lifestyle?
10. Why is it necessary to understand one's biological family before grasping the meaning of one's homosexual family?
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