These organizations try to shape individuals on many different levels to fit their needs, a process they call socialization ( Motta, 1993 Motta, F. This fact is even more accentuated when we consider the effeminate gay, especially within organizations that work very much like systems of social control. Cristianismo, tolerancia social y homosexualidad. In some societies today, being gay is still considered a social problem and a motive for exclusion, primarily because the homosexual is considered a strange and abnormal individual ( Boswell, 1998 Boswell, J.
