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In Chapter 2, the discussion to the 1970s and 1980s, a time when queer identity was de-pathologized by the medical community but then re-pathologized by terrified and opportunistic politicians, jurists and school officials because of the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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Lugg, C.A. (2016). Liberation and Restigmatization. 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_3

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