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04/15/2004 

India
 
India, the largest nation in South Asia, is extremely diverse culturally. Indian thought about sexuality and gender has been shaped by many factors, including religious and ethnic traditions. Historical evidence suggests considerable social acceptance of sexual diversity in ancient times, but India appears to be less tolerant today than it was in the past.
 
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03/01/2004 

Women's Activism at the Turn of the 20th Century
 
At the turn of the twentieth century, women activists fought patriarchal oppression in many ways. Some crusaded for women's suffrage, others chose to live with other women rather than marry, others demanded the right to control their own sexuality, while others pursued careers once forbidden to them. Some did all of the above.
 
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01/01/2004 

African-American and African Diaspora Art
 
Early gay and lesbian African-American and African Diaspora artists did not openly declare their homosexuality, but in the late twentieth century, many artists began to explore issues of gender and sexuality in their work.
 
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11/15/2003 

Modern Drama and Dramatists
 
During the modern era, homosexual themes and characters were only rarely depicted in dramatic works. Official censorship of the theater caused most dramatists to encode homosexual content in publicly-presented plays.
 
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10/15/2003 

Monsters, Witches, Ghosts, and Goblins
 
Both male and female homosexuality or homosexual elements appear throughout the broad scope of ghost and horror fiction and in horror films. Particularly since the nineteenth century, ghosts, goblins, witches, vampires, and other demonic creatures symbolize the radically different and are ascribed thoughts and deeds that are marginalized or suppressed in daily life.
 
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07/01/2003 

American Literature: Gay Male, 1900-1969
 
There was frank and affirmative gay male American writing from the century's start, but it was usually published abroad or by marginal presses or remained private and unpublished. As the century advanced, there were marked increases in both the amount of frank gay male American writing and the amount of it issued by mainstream publishers.
 
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