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Coming out is the term, often used to describe individual's public disclosure of his/
her homosexual identity. However, many researchers, who use this term in scientific
context, believe that instead of simple public disclosure, it is the process of becoming
aware of and acknowledging one's homosexuality as integral and positive aspect of
one's own self, which includes rebuilding of relations with other people and with
society. So, coming out is a long process, where public disclosure is only one of
important elements. The concept of coming out was first introduced in 1869 by Karl
Heinrich Ulrichs, German journalist and advocate of rights of minorities, as subtype of
emancipation. Claiming that invisibility was a major obstacle toward changing public
opinion, he urged homosexual people reveal their same-sex attractions.
Community is the complex of links between people, who have something in common,
like goals, interests, views, activities, hobby, place of residence, gender, nationality,
problems and circumstances. Communication between people is the basis of the
community.
Community centre — see “Public centre”, “Drop-in centre”.
Community mobilization stands for consolidation of community leaders and activists;
development of joint strategies and goals to address specific issues and to foster
development of the community.
CSW means male and female sex workers who offer commercial sex services.
Discrimination (lat. discriminatio — differentiation) stands for restriction or violation
of rights as a result of superiority of certain groups over other, based on such criteria as
age, sex, race, gender, social status, religious and political preferences, sexual orientation,
health status, occupation, rather than on groups' merits or needs. Restriction of rights
may be corroborated by the legislation (legal discrimination de-jure), or may be based
solely on the established moral norms (informal discrimination — de-facto).
Drop-in Centre — see “Community Centre”.
Drug-related behaviour is behavioural patterns of an individual who consumes
chemically active substances (narcotic drugs, alcohol, tobacco), that cause addiction
and dependence. Drug-related behavioural patterns develop as a way of addressing
psychoemotional issues; they significantly depend on the way of thinking and social
environment of an individual.
Encouragement — different ways to motivate one's self or other individual to do
something.
Facilitator is a specialist who encourages the work of a group or subgroup to complete
specific tasks in the process of training/workshop.
GB — gays and bisexuals
Gay is a man who links his psychoemotional and sexual sphere with other men, and who
acknowledges being a gay.
Gender, or socio-cultural sex of human being is the broad set of social expectations,
norms, values and responses that shape specific features of the personality and
characterize “masculine” and “feminine” social behaviours in the society. In patriarchal
heterosexist culture, the notion of gender is closely linked to biological and anatomic
human characteristics, acquiring the nature of norm.
Gender role behaviour — see Gender stereotypes.
Gender stereotypes (gender-role behaviour) mean standardized perceptions of
behavioural patterns and traits that correspond to social roles of men and women in
any patriarchal, traditionalistic society.
Hate crime is a special legal qualification of crimes against personality, motivated by
hatred of representatives of other racial groups, nationality, religion, ethnicity, political
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