Homosexuality in the view of culturology

The subject matter of this degree paper is homosexuality as a biologically given sexual orientation and, at the same time, as a cultural phenomenon. An attempt to treat it from a culturological point of view issues from its duality; the duality we can observe also in the case of sexuality itself. The culturological perspective allows for interdisciplinary understanding of the problem with the help of psychology, sociology and cultural anthropology, taking account of the historical development of attitudes to homosexuality and current trends like the cultural and queer studies. The first part of the paper is dedicated to the psychological development of an individual and peculiarities of such development if the individual is homoerotically oriented. The section named "Homosexuality in the Cultural Context" summarizes the situation of homosexually oriented and homosexually behaving people in the history of Europe and North America. Special chapters describe the state acknowledged forms of bonds of marriage of the people having the same sex in the world and in the Czech Republic. The paper is further aimed at the institute of family, its transformations in the course of times and at the current trend being directed at its new forms. One of such forms is homoparentality, too. The subject of the last section is..