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The Lobbyist No. 28 (Winter 2000), Maine Women's Lobby Staff
The Lobbyist No. 28 (Winter 2000), Maine Women's Lobby Staff
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The Lobbyist No. 29 (Spring 2000), Maine Women's Lobby Staff
The Lobbyist No. 29 (Spring 2000), Maine Women's Lobby Staff
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Homosexuality As Contagion: From The Well Of Loneliness To The Boy Scouts, Nancy J. Knauer
Homosexuality As Contagion: From The Well Of Loneliness To The Boy Scouts, Nancy J. Knauer
Nancy J. Knauer
In the political arena, there are currently two central and competing views of homosexuality. Pro-family organizations, working from a contagion model of homosexuality, contend that homosexuality is an immoral, unhealthy, and freely chosen vice. Many pro-gay organizations espouse an identity model of homosexuality under which sexual orientation is an immutable, unchosen, and benign characteristic. Both pro-family and pro-gay organizations believe that to define homosexuality is to control its legal and political status. This sometimes bitter debate regarding the nature of same-sex desire might seem like an exceedingly contemporary development. However, the ex-gay media blitz of 2000 represents only the latest …