Course Packet, pp. 28-43.
1. Katz suggests that it was only in the 1920s that heterosexuality was established "as a stable sign of normal sex" (28-29). What evidence does Katz use to argue that heterosexuality was not always viewed that way?
2. What does Katz mean by "historically relativity" (29)?
3. What discourses, or types of knowledge, were involved in the analysis/creation of the concepts of homosexuality and heterosexuality? Who were some of the experts involved in the heterosexual "coming out"?
4. What were the two components of the new sex norms that Katz discusses (31-32)? How was the creation of the heterosexual tied up with "men's anxiety about gender difference" (31-35)?
5. What might Gore Vidal mean when he writes, "there is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts" (36)?
6. Write a paragraph that examines the knowledges about homosexuals and heterosexuals produced by experts that refers to Foucault's analysis as truth as an effect of power.