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Bisexual: A person who is sexually attracted to members of either gender
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Coming out Acknowledging to oneself: and then to others, that one is gay or lesbian
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Conversion therapy: The goal of this therapy is to convert gays' and lesbians' sexual orientation to heterosexuality
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Defense of Marriage Act: An act passed in 1996 that allows states to refuse to recognize gay marriages performed in other states and prevents one partner in a homosexual relationship from claiming benefits in the event of the other's death or disability; the act allows states to pass laws against same-sex marriages but does not oblige them to do so
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Gay: Term often used to refer to a male homosexual (often preferred to the term "homosexual," because the latter emphasizes the sexual aspects and can be used as a derogatory label)
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Gay Liberation Movement: Composed of several groups and contends that homosexuality is not a perversion or sickness but is simply a different lifestyle
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GLBT: The term often used to refer collectively to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals
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Hate crimes: Violent acts aimed at individuals or groups of a particular race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or gender
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Health Maintenance Organization (HMO): Managed care system that tends to have the two major functions of establishing policies and procedures that regulate benefits, payments, and providers, and employing gatekeepers to review and authorize services
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Heterosexual: The sexual or erotic orientation of a person for members of the opposite sex
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Homophobia: The irrational fear or hatred of people oriented toward homosexuality
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Homosexual: The sexual or erotic orientation of a person for members of the same sex
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Identity acceptance: A phase of sexual orientation identity development that occurs for lesbians or gays when they now conclude "I am gay or lesbian" and accept this identity
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Identity comparison: A phase of sexual orientation identity development that occurs for lesbians or gays when they ponder whether "I may be gay or lesbian"
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Identity confusion: A phase of sexual orientation identity development that occurs when a gay or lesbian person has had a history of assuming a heterosexual identity because heterosexuality is the expectation in our society
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Identity pride: A phase of sexual orientation identity development that occurs when a gay or lesbian dichotomizes people into gays and lesbians (who are good and important people) and heterosexuals, (who are apt to be intolerant and discriminating); a strong identification with the gay community
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Identity synthesis: A phase of sexual orientation identity development for gays and lesbians when they no longer believe gays and lesbians are "us" and heterosexuals are "them" because they recognize that there are some good and supportive heterosexuals
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Identity tolerance: A sense of identity for a gay man or a lesbian in which the person comes to believe that "I probably am gay or lesbian in sexual orientation"
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Lesbian: A woman whose sexual or erotic orientation is for other women
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Protestant Reformation: Began in the 17th century; work became highly valued for the first time and since then work has continued to be viewed as honorable and having religious significance
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Sex variances: Term that will be used to refer to sexual expressions that are of concern to certain segments of our society
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Sexual orientation: An inclination toward or preference for sexual activity with members of one's own sex (homosexual orientation), the opposite sex (heterosexual orientation), or both (bisexual orientation)
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Sexual scripts: Behaviors that result from elaborate prior learning in which we acquire etiquette of sexual behavior
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Ten Percent Society: A gay and lesbian organization that argues the incidence of homosexuality is 10 percent
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Transgender person: A person whose gender identity is the opposite of his or her biological gender
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Victorian morality: The moral values prominent in the later 19th and early 20th centuries in which sexuality was all but banished from discussion in respectable relationships, middle- and upper-class women were expected to be virgins before marriage, and it was thought that men were inherently more sexual than women
