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protection in court
In such
period,
when homosexuality believed l!S
a
da."'lgerous
matter,
people
tried
to
protect their tami!y member from any
<Jfhomose:ll:uai desire. Family
played the m0st
importa..'lt role
in
suppressing the
forbidden sexual
acts.
The
sex-ually offending
filmily
members were corrected, punished, or even exiled. h• consequence, there were
a
lot of
poop!e migrate because they were throvm out by
L
eir
families or telt threatened by the
of
homosel'iS
were treated unwdy by
their
fumi!ies and
pec;plceswrouodingthetn. (Halperin, 1993: 17)
HomoseJrul:lley was a!so be!leved as
some
kind
of
menial
disease.
Individuals
who
do
homosexual
acr.s were
considered
to
be
suffered
from
mental
disorder.
such desh"e
would
cause personality
destruction" to
someone wl1o
possessed
it. In one
of
pS';eho!l!'.alytic srudies b)
living Bieber (1962) a!lm."t t..\e theory of homosexuality that
informed Bergman (1991):
!t codified the
&trong motheri wel!k father theory of
bomosewaHty and
asserred
that
parents
of
homosex-tlals
apparently
had severe amtional
problems. Homosexuality
was
the
result
of
pat'lobgy
in
parents
and
represented
tire of
the !rnditional family
structures.
Th<::Se
"severe
emotiooal
problemscould
accordl.'>g to
Bieber
and
his
associates,
be
passed
on:
homooexuality was a conlllgion
spre:rl frCI.n
pa.rerJs to their
children. (p.l90)
Beq,'lllan
it is
obviously clear
how
homosexuality is
regarded
as
"proble;n"
rather
something
that
positive. Biel:ler
believed
fum homosexual desire
emerges
because of
t,\e psychological
problem
that
spread
family
and
failure
of
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