How do the authors explain the invention of homosexuality?
What will be an ideal response?
The focus on eugenics led to efforts to locate homosexuality as something inherent in certain bodies. This resulted in members of the medical professions committing lesbians, gay males, bisexuals, and those who transgress so-called normative gender identities and expressions to hospitals, mental institutions, jails and penitentiaries, forced pre-frontal lobotomies, electroshock, castration, and sterilization.
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What are the conditions to be met by a person to become a naturalized citizen of the United States?
What will be an ideal response?
Which country had the highest NRR in 2005-2010?
a) China b) USA c) Russia d) Nigeria
Career disability results from:
a. formation of a new role b. engaging in primary deviance as a disabled person c. role adaptation d. none of the above
While support for gay rights was gaining ground among the younger generation at the end of the 20th century, the ______ generation was not as receptive.
A. baby-boomer B. GI C. silent D. X