It can be said that there are definitely connections between gender and sexuality. Gender and sexuality can combine to make a huge difference in people's lives. There are social influences around sexuality that affect us all. Expectations about how women and men, boys and girls should behave, and how each will be male or female pervade society. And as a man or woman it is believed that one must act and behave in a completely heterosexual manner and remain in line with these socialized gender stereotypes. Heterosexuality and homosexuality depend on sex and gender as concepts. Gender typing and social stigmas about sexuality are two very widespread things in today's society. Sociologists have argued that people learn gender roles and gender stereotypes through socialization. Gender role socialization often reinforces gender inequality because men and women are expected to respect their specific “gender roles.” We live in a society where there are only two perceived genders. Gender is implicated in homophobia more generally and “faggot talk” in particular. In this article I will talk about the connections between gender and sexuality. The article “What it Means to be Gendered Me” by Betsy Lucal examines how gender is structured and socialized in the United States. It also examines the social construction of gender and the implications of gender. Gender is pervasive in our society with people constantly attributing gender to other people because it is what we are socialized to do. Betsy Lucal provided an analysis of her experiences as a woman whose appearances often lead to gender misattribution due to the fact that there are “two and only two” genders (Lucal, 301). These socialized gender types make life difficult for people who are not... middle of paper..."masculine" and label those who deviate from the social norm as homosexual. Fag Discourse is less about sexuality and more about maintaining gender inequality and the boundaries of masculinity. Gender is implicated in fagot discourse in the way that heteronormative nature determines what does and does not make a fagot. Ascribed gender roles indicate how to behave appropriately. Gender roles and sexuality are continually constructed and reconstructed. We live in a gendered world where there are rules of both behavior and appearance. We learn our gender identity as soon as we are born because parents begin defining their children's gender from the moment they first meet such children. There appear to be normative conceptions of both femininity and masculinity. "Gender manifestations are simply read as evidence of one of two categories" (Lucal, 312)