WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:29:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Altman, Dennis – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Altman, Dennis -- The Homosexualization of America, ch. 1 (1982) https://wist.info/altman-dennis/13365/ https://wist.info/altman-dennis/13365/#respond Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:31:02 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=13365 There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.


Dennis Altman (b. 1943) Australian sociologist, activist
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