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The relationship between '''homosexuality and medical science''' has a long and controversial history, covering many countries and stretching across a wide sprectrum of specialities, from [[psychology]] to [[epistemology]] to [[genetics]]. This article seeks to provide a brief summary of this history and a deal with some of the issues regarding [[homosexuality]] and [[medical science]].

==History==

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The term ''gay disease'' is mostly used by religious objectors to homosexuality, who feel that homosexuals are deserving of punishment or [[Religion and homosexuality|divine retribution]]. The term is also used by other homosexual objectors, particularly individuals and groups within the wider medical community who see it as evidence that the 'gay lifestyle' is inherently unhealthy or dangerous. It can also be a form of [[homophobic hate speech]]. 
WIt is thought among many gay rights activists, that widespread anti-gay prejudice and his own spinelessqueamishness caused Ronald Reagan to avoid saying the word AIDS in public till 1987.

[[ACT UP]], the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, who's famous slogans include, "[[Silence Equals Death]]," organized and inventively protested on many AIDS issues including, treatment, research funding, drug access, and discrimination.
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===Lesbianism===

It is worth noting that [[lesbianism|lesbians]] are less at risk of exposure to sexual disease than many other groups.

==External Links==

* [http://www.suphawut.com/gvb/gayly/ A Gay History of the World]
* [http://www.affirmation.org/jeff.htm  Homosexuality: A Psychiatrist's Response to LDS Social Services]
* [http://www.actupny.org/ ACT UP NY]