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6.18: Discussion Questions

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    Discussion Questions

    1. What are some of the characteristics of  pansexuality? How might it differ from bisexuality?
    2. What happened at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969  and why is it significant?
    3. What is the Kinsey Scale?
    4. How does sexual orientation intersect with other aspects of self like gender, race or age?
    5. What if sexual orientation was not looked at in terms of heteronormativity? People just were who they were? What would be different, individually and culturally?

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