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Beyond “Eros:” Relative Caregiving, “Agape” Parentage, And The Best Interests Of Children., Sacha M. Coupet
Beyond “Eros:” Relative Caregiving, “Agape” Parentage, And The Best Interests Of Children., Sacha M. Coupet
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Fear Of The Queer Child, Clifford Rosky
Fear Of The Queer Child, Clifford Rosky
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This article is about the fear of the queer child — the fear that exposing children to homosexuality and gender variance makes them more likely to develop homosexual desires, engage in homosexual acts, deviate from traditional gender norms, or identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. This fear is thousands of years old, but it has undergone a remarkable transformation in the last half-century, in response to the rise of the LGBT movement. For centuries, the fear had been articulated specifically in sexual terms, as a belief that children would be seduced into queerness by adults. Since the 1970s, it …