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Chapter 1 highlights the long hostility towards queer people and information about queers, including sweeping witch-hunts of suspected queer public school personnel from the 1920s through to the 1960s. I also discuss how efforts to offer sexuality education were fraught with political controversy, only some of which was related to sexual orientation.
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Lugg, C.A. (2016). Before the American Psychiatric Association (APA). In: US Public Schools and the Politics of Queer Erasure. The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137535269_2
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