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La norma heterosexual o heteronormatividad son los términos que se emplean para describir el hecho de que los seres humanos se dividen en dos categorías rígidas, diferentes y complementarias: la masculina y la femenina. Bajo esto precepto, la hetero-sexualidad hegemónica se legitima como la única válida orientación sexual "normal" y las identidades de género femenino o masculina como las únicas aceptadas por la sociedad. El término diversidad sexual se creó en el siglo XX, bajo influencia de teorías psicológicas y contribuciones de la sexología y los movimientos sociales feministas, de lesbianas y de gays. Aunque el término sigue siendo polémico y relativamente nuevo en la academia, se empleará acá para periodizar como la sociedad cubana ha enfocado las llamadas minorías sexuales a lo largo de los últimos cincuenta años.

Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions, and pious denunciations, of sodomy, bestiality, transvestitism, and incest, abound in Western travel narratives, missionary accounts, and ethnographies. But what constituted indigenous sexual morality, and how was this influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, and Christianity over ti.

A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective

Early in the course of undertaking empirical research on the sexual diversity of the judiciary I had to address a particular challenge. Sexuality, I was repeatedly told, is not and ought not to be a difference that is taken into account. At best it ought to be disregarded or taken out of consideration. This generated a number of challenges for my research. How do you research and make sense of sexuality as a difference that key informants assert is absent or seek to make invisible and irrelevant? How do you research the operation and effects of that which is not to be spoken about? How do you research the sexual norm when its existence and operation is denied? This article explores one response. It is a project that may for some be surprising and unexpected. It is a study of judicial portraits. Drawing on the insights of queer theory and art historical scholarship on portraits I undertake a textual analysis of these images, focusing upon the aesthetic and artistic traditions used to make them. A small case study of portraits of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of New South Wales is used to explore how, if at all, sexuality figured in these portraits