One population that often turns to counseling is the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, or Questioning (LGBTQ) community. ... Additionally, while counseling about gender issues, the counselor needs to be aware of co-occurring conditions such as depression, alcoholism, inability to perform at school or work, and victim to abuse, which are all prevalent in the LGBTQ population. ... They bargain with their child not to tell anyone about his or her sexual tendency for fear of the societal reaction. Many parents go into depression thinking that their child has such sexual tendencies. ... The par...

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Sexual orientation, biological sex, gender identity, and sex-role comprise sexual identity. ... Sexual identity therefore is of main concern. ... This theory implies that disordered family relationships, death, divorce, family abuse and other elements of a dysfunctional family atmosphere contribute to children becoming GLB. ... Recent legal rulings have set precedence for other cases dealing with abuse and harassment in schools of GLB students. ... Podlesny (1996), resulted in a settlement of one million dollars because school personnel ignored the constant abuse of Jaime Nabozny in a Wisc...

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In the past, almost all gays tried to hide their true sexual orientation. ... Over the years, homosexuality has been considered a crime, a physical weakness, a moral weakness, a mental disorder, and a normal kind of sexual orientation. ... Others equate all gays with pedophiles, heterosexual or homosexual adults who seek sexual satisfaction from children. ... intellectual, spiritual, as well as sexual. ... Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines loves as the following: Strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties; attraction based on sexual desire; affe...

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Trying to understand and control this, public officials studied and then characterized and grouped people as different types of sexual deviants, one of which was homosexuals. ... Unending detainments, physical beatings, rapes and sexual assaults were quite prevalent, often committed inside the police precinct. ... They were no longer going to be tortured and abused. ... (Ford) On the opposite side of the nation, citizens of Boston, Massachusetts were getting angered and complaining about gay men allegedly soliciting sexual acts and favors in the bathroom of the Boston Public Library. In respo...

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