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HOW STAR TREK: DISVERY SHOWS GAY SURVIVAL OF VLENCE AND TRMA
Hugh Culber, the first gay uple on a "Star Trek" TV seri. IntroductnThe term homophobia was ed 1972 and was origally termed “the dread of beg close quarters wh homosexuals”.
It has sce been broaned to enpass negative emotns towards nonheterosexual dividuals cludg “prejudice agast homosexuals” [1, 2].
It assum that sexual and maral relatns are most ftg between people of oppose sex [1, 3] acceptance of homosexualy was low the 1970s and 1980s, by the early 1990s, this trend began to shift [4]. Whereas over 70% of the populatn thought that homosexualy was always wrong 1973, this number had creased to 46% 2010 [5]. Until recently, homophobia and heteronormativy were mon Star Trek.