
Kitty Genovese and “Bystander Apathy”
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The Social Construction of Lesbians in the 1960s
There is something interesting about the way that the experience of homosexual women and homosexual men is so different because society finds homosexual men so much more threatening. And yet men also have more societal power to change their circumstances than women do. So it feels like it's this weird double bind for lesbians at the time where in some ways they're better off and in some Ways they're worse off than gay men.
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