同性恋 英文演讲.ppt

Q : What’s your attitude towards homosexuality,support, oppose or neutral? Calvin Klein(68 years old) and his boy friend Nick Gruber(21 years old) Kirio and J. Law Homosexuality is romantic and/or sexual attraction or behavior among members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions primarily or exclusively to people of the same sex; it also refers to an individual’s sense of personal and social identity based on those attractions, behaviors expressing them, and membership in a community of others who share them. 1.National Association of Social Workers ----heterosexual parents 2.The American Academy of Pediatrics ----established during early childhood 3. The American Psychological Association ----genetic or other factors 4. The American Psychiatric Association ----develop across a person’s lifetime The unfortunate history In 1952, when the American Psychiatric （精神病学的）Association published its first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental \Disorders, homosexuality was included as a disorder. The World Health Organizations ICD-9 (1977) listed homosexuality as a mental illness; it was removed from the ICD-10, endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly on May 17, 1990. The Chinese Society of Psychiatry removed homosexuality from its Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders in 2001 after five years of study by the association A 1992 study on male According to a 2008 poll Poland in 1932 Denmark in 1933 Sweden in 1944 the United Kingdom in 1967 German Norway Spain Canada Socrates--苏格拉底 Leonardo da Vinci-- 达芬奇 William Shakespeare--莎士比亚 Byron--拜伦 Plato--柏拉图 What should our altitude be Homosexuality is something that we can neither understand nor perform ourselves. But we should be tolerant and understanding .