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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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For many outside of the Axis territories, WWII itself was a sexually liberating experience, particularly for homosexuals. The aftermath, however, brought renewed conservatism and emphasis on family values. Homosexuals were frequently forceably subjected to psychological treatments such as [[chemical castration]], [[sexual reassignment surgery]] and [[electroconvulsive therapy]].
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=== AIDS crisis ===

When the [[AIDS]] virus first appeared in the [[1970]]s, baffled [[Epidemiology|epidemiologists]] sometimes described the collective symptoms they were seeing as the '[[gay disease]]' or 'gay cancer' because, at first, it appeared to be largely restricted to the male homosexual community. The United States [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] naming the syndrome Gay Related Immune Deficiency ([[GRID]]), a name which was later replaced with Acquired Immun(contracted; show full)

The AIDS crisis also helped to publicise homosexuality in a positive light, as homosexual issues received more coverage. In many ways, it helped jump-start and unify the gay rights movement in the aftermath of the disapointing sexual liberation movement and set the scene for the gay liberation movement during and after the [[1990s]].
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==Issues==

===Gay Rights and Medicine===

Many gay advocates object to the labeling of any medical condition as being gay specific because of its implicit assumptions.

===Genetics===

The advent of modern genetic science has seen revived interest in the argument of nature versus nurture as a cause of homosexuality as well as advances in the treatment of AIDS and other diseases. The precise ramifications of this and modern biotechnology are not yet apparent. See [[genetic basis for homosexuality]] and [[causes of sexual orientation]] for more information.


===Lesbianism===

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

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==External Links==

* [http://www.affirmation.org/jeff.htm  Homosexuality: A Psychiatrist's Response to LDS Social Services]