Kvalita života u žen a mužů s homosexuální orientací (2009)

As late as the past century, the possibility of professional scientific progress on the subject of homosexuality as one of the options of sexual behavior without prejudice and ideological limitation was not possible. The attitude towards homosexuality has changed rapidly during different time periods and among various cultures. By already making homosexuality legal in the early 60{\\crq}s, Czechoslovakia was ranked as one of most progressive countries in the world during the last century because it had already legalized homosexuality in the early 1960{\\crq}s. Also thanks to the effort of sexologist, this also happened earlier than in the majority of European countries, thanks to the efforts of sexologists. However, the quality of life of homosexual men and women is still limited up to a certain level. This limitation is distinct. Especially in the impossibility of starting a family, which corresponds to the traditional picture of a heterosexual marriage. Among other things, taking care of children in a homosexual relationship is also controversial. Unfortunately, the majority of individuals still has a negative approach towards homosexual people, and therefore this doesn{\\crq}t put their quality of life for homosexuals on the same level as that of heterosexual society. The aim of my thesis has been to do research and an analysis of the quality of life of homosexual men and women in several areas, especially in the biological/medical sphere, as well as with the psychological, moral/ethical, educational, cultural, historical, political and religious spheres. The partial aim has been to compare the differences between the quality of life of homosexual men and homosexual women as compare to the differences in the quality of life of the homosexual and heterosexual population. In order to process the empirical part of my thesis, I have chosen the method of qualitative research; for data collection, I have chosen the technique of the interview. The results of this research clearly show that the quality of life of homosexual men and woman is limited, up to a certain level, precisely due to their sexual orientation. On the other hand, it is necessary to say that the majority of homosexuals I spoke with, lives a satisfied life, consider life to be good one and wouldn{\\crq}t exchange the position in life with heterosexuals. The majority of those who were interviewed sees the biggest difference between the life of homosexuals and heterosexuals as being the possibility of having children, whether these children are physically their own or adopted. Unfortunately, today there are still people who force some lesbians and gays to hide their sexual orientation. It would be good to a deeper elaboration of the results of this research into smaller units. For example, the influence of family, childhood and adolescence on the individual{\\crq}s later orientation could be analyzed more closely. A big topic would definitely be the subject of sexual-based discrimination and another interesting thing would also be to explore more the process of coming-out etc. This diploma can help the students gain further knowledge about our homosexual fellow citizens, and also elementary school teachers could find this information to be useful during sex education classes, during the same time the children are also being taught about other kinds of sexual orientation, apart from the heterosexual one.