The concept that social institutions control the hegemonic discourses that produce sexuality is troubling in today's modern society. The operations of power and discourses these employ to regulate bodies and pleasure, normalize behavior, and make them internal to our understanding of what it means to be an individual in Western culture. Societies have devised a sexual identity that is considered “norm” with the intent that individuals within that society will prescribe and follow that norm that has been established. The norm that has been established does not and has never accommodated sexual identities in the world around us. Therefore the search for a gay identity and inclusion in this type of society is something that individuals with alternative sexualities seek to somehow fit into the charmed circle of heteronormative status that our modern society adheres to. Discourse involves both communication and who is communicating, how they communicated, and what the context is for the communication. This is an important point in understanding how to define sexuality as nothing more than a social control. Sexuality has become the center of discourse in education, law, medicine, government, demographics, and within the LGBT community itself. We use social controls to prohibit certain types of sex, we conduct statistical studies that help the government label and classify sexual behavior, and we even use psychiatry to evaluate the mentally ill. Although at the end of World War II homosexuality was seen as a “disease or perversion that could be effectively counteracted not only by doctors and psychotherapists but also by homosexuals themselves” (Meems, Gibson, Alexander 75). .....middle sheet ......its roots in the discourse on sexual diversity. The differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals are considered a legitimate basis for privileging one sexuality over the other. Homophobia is the perpetuation of hetero supremacies, based on the rejection of sexual difference. The anti-gay majority declared that the “homosexual” must be labeled and pilloried as someone separate from the “heterosexual.” This process of differentiation and exclusion seeks to contain and control homosexual desire. Homosexuality is therefore a categorization invented by straight people to marginalize and limit queerness within an identifiable and demonized minority. Therefore, it is not in the interests of lesbians and gays to maintain sexual difference. Our liberation is irrevocably linked to the dissolution of rival, separate, and mutually exclusive orientations and identities..