Tuesday Talks presents Dr. Lee Thorpe, Jr. 2/18/25

[Kristin Short]

Tuesday Talks presents Dr. Lee Thorpe, Jr., Assistant Professor in the
Sociology Department at SUNY Plattsburgh, speaking on " Does Sexuality
Trouble Homophily? An Exploratory Study" on *Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at
5pm* in the Angell College Center's Cardinal Lounge. Below is an abstract
of Dr. Thorpe's presentation.

Dr. Thorpe investigates the role of sexual identity on homophily, and its
effects on romantic partner selection. Homophily states that individuals
tend to befriend and seek romantic partners who are most similar to
themselves based on social characteristics (i.e., birds of a feather flock
together). The majority of the homophily literature focuses on heterosexual
friendships and coupling. Recently, homophily research has included sexual
identity in their analyses. However, recent studies have only investigated
friendship formation/bonds for lesbians and describing certain racial
coupling types for individuals based on their sexual identity. He fills the
lacuna in research by exploring LGBTQ+ individuals decision-making
processes when determining who to date. Dr. Thorpe incorporates queer
theories (queer theory, queer of color critique, and queer sociology) to
understand how sexual identity may alter homophily patterns. He explains
how sexual identity influences homophily by race/ethnicity, social class,
education, age, sexual identity, politics, religion, and geography.
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