Several Years Ago,the Gay Community Applied for a Permit to March

question 75

Multiple Choice

Several years ago,the gay community applied for a permit to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Boston. When denied,the gay community filed suit and won. Rather than permitting the gay community to march in the parade,the parade trustees cancelled the event. Sociologists would suggest this conflict in values between the trustees of the parade and the gay community would eventually lead to ________.

• A)consensus that gays are evil because they caused a traditional event to be cancelled
• B)social change that brings attention to gay rights and eventual acceptance
• C)social integration of the gay and straight communities resulting in a bisexual society
• D)armed conflict,or "cultural war," between the gay and straight communities

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