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…, and that is a triumph on its own.         In the 1950's, it was not common to openly express homosexuality, but the beats did, as they expressed every aspect of their life so openly. They publicly protested war before the hippies were out of junior high. Tuli…

…expectancy is 80 for females and 73 for males. A grandparent plays the role of playmate, caregiver, role model and a mentor. 6.Single gender parents: Homosexual and lesbian couples who have children. 7.Commuter family: One of the parents lives away from…

…, but do not believe that they can contract AIDS nor do they think that their partner would have AIDS. In a way, society portrays AIDS carriers as prostitutes, drug dealers and/or homosexuals, which is false. People of all races and genders are and can carry…

…they described the new disease it sounded exactly like the AIDS virus. Later on, when the government did Hepatitis B experiments on thousands of male homosexuals. ALL of these men had HIV after the research project. At the same time, the AIDS virus sprang up in Africa…

…in Warhol’s life. He was not yet a celebrity and he had just revealed to the world that he was a homosexual, while at the same time the effects of the Vietnam conflict were being felt across the country. These turbulent emotions can be seen in many of Warhol’s…

…and communication for those of homosexual groups, indicating their sexuality and interests. (Winterson, Written on the Body) Tattoos, body piercings, scarification, and three dimensional body art have served both of these purposes, detachment and communication, though…

…poorly. Why take the risk, he reasoned, until we were forced to by public exposure of our shortcomings.” Many times during his life, Hoover was accused of having…homosexual tendencies. Even though this was true, anyone who even uttered a suspicion about…

…acts the way she does, and why certain events affect her the way that they do. In the end, these events cause Blanche’s total mental breakdown. The event that started Blanche’s mental deterioration was her husband’s suicide. Her husband was a homosexual…

…sentence. Men that were thought of as dangerous to the state or immoral, such as homosexuals and pro-choice doctors in pre-Gilead United States, met their doom on the Wall. The Commanders were the men positioned higher on the hierarchical triangle…

…at the existing laws against homosexuality drug use, and abortion and found the laws to be futile. Schur argues “… the laws against abortion points up some of the major consequences of attempting to legislate against the crimes without victims.”(qtd.in Sykes) He also…