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Discrimination against homosexuals - 0 views

    • Yanira EWSIS
       
      This quote is very important to me because it states what I have been trying to get across some peoples head that if they are going to discrimniate against homosexuals not only to do it to gay men also to do it to lesbians because it seems as if dthey are let oss easy just because they are hot or something like that and its unfair.
  • People in countries of the former USSR, especially Russian, are notoriously homophobic since they have been conditioned since the 1930s to regard homosexuality as deviant and criminal behaviour. This situation is even worse in the provinces. Homosexuality was only decriminalized in Russia in 1993, although those serving sentences for homosexuality were not immediately released
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Homophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

    • Yanira EWSIS
       
      This is important because it talks about Homophobia.This paragraph explains what Homophobia is about, it says that homophobics are very anti-gays they are scred to socializing with gays and they like to disscriminate against them or individuals percieved to be homosexuals.
  • [A] phobia about homosexuals….It was a fear of homosexuals which seemed to be associated with a fear of contagion, a fear of reducing the things one fought for — home and family. It was a religious fear and it had led to great brutality as fear always does.[8]
    • Yanira EWSIS
       
      Let me break this down for you, this sentence is explaining how and why people are against homosexuals, one of the reasons could be religion its a very serious thing because its a sin to be a homosexual but its no reason to discriminate against them.
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  • nd Related Health Problems). For some, homophobia is a non-clinical term.[27] David Hall contrasts homophobia with heterosexism, which he des
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