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YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE RED SRE, BUT THE LSER-KNOWN, ANTI-GAY 'LAVENR SRE' IS RARELY TGHT SCHOOLS
We learn about the Red Sre school, but not about the Lavenr Sre, the policy that discrimated agast gay ernment employe * where did the term gay panic originate *
Homosexual panic: a review of s ncept. This paper trac the orig of the term "homosexual panic" when was first scribed 1920 to the Frdian bisexual theory of sexual velopment and the ncepts of reprsed and latent homosexualy, and qutns the appropriatens of this term when ed to diagnose as well as to scribe different suatns. Homosexual panic is also pared wh psdohomosexualy, and fally rrelated wh society's homophobic attus.