Gay is a word (a noun or an adjective) that primarily refers to a
homosexual person.
In the middle of his 1992 presidential campaign, candidate Bill Clinton pledged to follow Harry Truman's
historic Executive Order in 1948 banning segregation in the armed services. Clinton declared that upon
entering office he would, with a stroke of his pen, end the ban on gays in the military.
The military policy Clinton intended to change was explicitly status-based. In addition to the Uniform Code
of Military Justice's penalties for sodomy, the Department of Defense (DoD) had long required the
discharge of any service member deemed to be homosexual, defined as "a person, regardless of sex, who
engages in, desires to engage in, or intends to engage in homosexual acts." In practice, a soldier could be
discharged from the service if he or she met the SAM conditions: Statement of orientation (admission of
being homosexual), Act (including hand-holding, sex, dancing) or Marriage (commitment ceremony).
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Twins potentially provide us with one of the most powerful techniques available for separating the influences of genetic and environmental factors on psychological and behavioural traits. An identical (monozygotic) twin has exactly the same genes as his cotwin. Fraternal (dizygotic) twins, on the other hand, are no more closely related genetically than are normal siblings, i.e. roughly 50% of their genes are the same.
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TWIN STUDIES OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Unmarried couples face a quagmire of legal and financial issues. Throw in some bad credit and unemployment, and the complications multiply.
That's the situation faced by Jeffrey Saadeh and Michael Puig, a gay couple in Los Angeles who have put off financial planning rather than deal with many difficult issues.
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Case Study: Gay Couple
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British survey published last month found that one in 25 therapists would assist gay and bisexual patients attempting to convert to heterosexuality. That's despite the fact that many medical groups, including the American Medical Association, have for years condemned such practices, saying they don't work and can actually cause harm.
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Psychiatrists Really "Cure" Homosexuality?
"At about the age of thirteen I began to notice girls—or should I say, it was then that I
began to notice little else...It is, after all, only natural," Reports Thomas E. Schmidt. There are
many stories just like this one that come from homosexuals, but ironically they all sound the
same! "Rarely before have so many reacted so loudly to so little," said Dean Hamer.
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Being Gay Is Not A Choice
In 1977, San Francisco politics was taken by storm when gay rights activist Harvey Milk was elected to the Board of Supervisors. As the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, Milk’s election was a triumph over anti-gay stereotypes. Milk’s ability to mobilize gays and straights alike resulted in the defeat of a statewide proposition to severely limit gays’ employment rights. Though Milk was assassinated 11 months after he was elected to office, his legacy of fighting for gay rights has inspired a new generation of civic activists across the United States, fighting for sexual equality and the expansion of civil liberties for gays and lesbians.
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Gay Rights Movement in America
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