October 12, 2016
Ochs, who has taught courses on LGBT history and politics in the United States, the politics of sexual orientation, and the experiences of those who transgress the binary categories of gay/straight, masculine/feminine, black/white and male/female, opened the conversation by sharing her own story of discovery and evolution of identity.
Historically, the statistic for people identifying as something other than heterosexual is 10%. This number has been used throughout the gay rights movement and can be found in Kinsey’s research.
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