Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill, aimed at prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing or the granting of credit, passed the state House of Representatives just before last summer's legislative recess. Last Monday, it won a major procedural victory as the Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading passed it on to a vote before the fullSenate...
...doing is adding `sexual orientation'to the list of categories of people who may not bediscriminated against in some of the most basicelements of our lives," adds O'Bryan...
...rights activists say that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation along with violence or "gay bashing" has reached gigantic proportions against the gay and lesbian community...
...survey by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force of 2000 respondents found that 40 percent of gay and lesbian people had been threatened with violence and 90 percent had experienced some kind of victimization because of their sexual orientation. The task force's 1987 report found that the number of cases of violence and intimidation against gay people rose 300 percent since...
Osborne says that a 1985 report by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination found that the Commission received 170 complaints of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the first half of that year alone...