Life in gay communities took an abrupt turn in the 1980s when

a. the Supreme Court ruled that companies could not provide insurance for gay workers.
b. the American Psychiatric Association classified homosexuality as a mental illness.
c. Congress supported passage of national equal rights law for homosexuals.
d. a worldwide AIDS epidemic began to impact the population of the United States.


ANS: d

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