Analysis Of Imre: A Memorandum By Edward Prime-Stevenson

It is 2015, and the US Supreme Court has recently ruled that on June 29, 2015 the US Constitution guarantees the right for same-sex marriage in all 50 US states. Citizens across the US, (homosexual and heterosexual) were ecstatic! After years of protesting, marching, and being killed for their sexual preference, there has finally been a law passed to make any type of love legal. But the question still remains, does legalizing same-sex marriage end the sexual discrimination many homosexuals face daily?

In 1906, “Imre: A Memorandum”, a novel written by author, Edward Prime-Stevenson was the first English- language novel that did not belong to a specific genre openly dealing with the positive outlooks on homosexual passions. The novel is narrated

by Oswald, who was at the time in his early thirties. The novel discusses how an English man met, befriend, and later fell in love with 25 year old, Hungarian lieutenant Imre Von. Christopher Lobby, a scholar who researched and discussed Prime-Stevenson’s novel stated, “Oswald’s narration is replete with the terminology of late nineteenth-century sexologial science.”
Gay and lesbian rights have pursued passage of legislation that especially states workplace discrimination is forbidden based on sexual orientation in 1970.

This prohibited workplace discrimination on the grounds that homosexuals are the target of discrimination practices. Studies have shown that homosexuals receive lower wages than their heterosexual coworkers. Therefore, antidiscrimination laws have the ability to affect the estimated four million gays and lesbians who currently reside in the United States. Along with twenty-one other states, Columbia prohibits labor market discrimination against gays by private owned companies. However, wage differences between homosexuals and their heterosexual colleges cannot be taken as proof of labor discrimination. In attempt to overcome difficulties in measuring discrimination, some researchers have set their own studies on labor market experiments to test for its existence. In these experiments, they find that homosexual males experience discrimination more in male-dominated work places, and lesbians in female workplaces. Currently, there are not any federal anti- discrimination legislation regarding sexual

orientation.
In 1933, Buss and Schmitt’s conducted a research, their theory used mating strategies varying by sex and relationship duration could be applied to homosexual men and women. Most researched theories using sexual mating strategies have overlooked homosexual samples. While reproduction with homosexual relationships are not natural, many would consider gay men and lesbian women would possess mate preferences that changed in heterosexuals and show qualities of potential mates. While homosexuals may not meet reproductive needs via romantic relationships, they are still impacted by their history; which has shown factors that predicts mate selection from our ancestors can also apply to homosexuals. Furthermore, homosexuals might adjust the traits they have in accordance to the prediction of sexual strategies theories.
For years, studies have been carried out on viewpoints towards homosexuality and towards people with a homosexual sexual orientation.

In “Etiology of Homosexuality and Attitudes toward Same-Sex Parenting: A Randomized Study’, an article written by Dolores Frias-Navarro, he discusses their study which was to find out views on homosexual sexual orientation and if it produces more or less of a rejection of homosexual parenting and whether they affect opinions about social rights of individuals with a homosexual sexual orientation. The dictionary definition of Etiology is “the investigation or attribution of the cause or reason for something, often expressed in terms of historical or mythical explanation. In the study, they used one hundred and ninety Spanish students from The University of Valencia in the psychology degree program. They asked questions such as: their opinions about the right of individuals with a homosexual sexual orientation, their beliefs on the etiology of sexual orientation, and their beliefs about children’s adjustment in same-sex homes. The outcome of the survey showed that “normality” can be assumed for each of the questions. The belief that the homosexual sexual orientation is normality, produced a greater rejection of same-sex parenting, compared to the scores of the participants who believed in a genetic

etiology