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What are the key issues of discrimination, legal confusion, and sexual orientation and their relationship to social inequality and homosexuals?

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Discrimination,sexual orientation and legal confusion is related to.homosexuality, sicial equality, human rights and issues familiar to the lgbt community. Resources are listed.

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LGBT & Human Rights

The topic of discrimination, legal confusion and sexual orientation in terms of social inequality and homosexuality all point to the topic of LGBT and human rights. When thinking about gender discrimination, it can vary between the topics of sex, social role to gender identity. In a patriarchal society, it is proposed that women are discriminated against socially and politically because of their sex and as such, social role and gender identity attached to being a woman or a man are 'boxed' within what is socially acceptable. Anyone going against it usually feels resistance and discriminative response, especially in the case of lesbians, ...

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