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Word: deviant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impersonating a hooker at Hogan's Alley. Given the alias Wanda Lust, she swaddles herself in a mink coat and pearls that the FBI seized in a drug raid. Says she: "Where else can you act like a sleaze and get paid for it? It enables you to be deviant in a healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hogan's Alley, Virginia Crime Is This Town's Job | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

Many American historical documents have references to the systematic ferreting out and punishment of people who did not fit into the standard sexual mold. As Black Americans were seen to be somehow "subhuman," so were people who were thought to be "sexually deviant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blacks and Gays | 4/25/1990 | See Source »

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