Word: 1980s
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...time, the most prominent nationwide gay-rights organization was the 35,000-member National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which grew out of the scruffy radicalism of the old gay-liberation movement. But after 25 years, it still has virtually no lobbying presence on Capitol Hill. In the later 1980s the AIDS epidemic brought forth the street-theater militancy of ACT UP and in 1990 the in-your-face tribalism of Queer Nation. "We here, we're queer, get used to it" was an interesting statement of the facts. But the cutting edge of gay politics threatened to cut gays...
After graduating with a degree in economics from Wesleyan University, Schor has made the study of work and leisure time her life's work. Until the late 1980s, she specialized in economics, but since then, she has also explored issues of gender and economics...
...late-1980s sedan, showed damage tothe lower right side of its front windshield andto its front bumper...
...late 1980s, a handful of student leaders from the Asian American Association, Hillel and other minority groups founded MSA as an umbrella minority organization with the goals of "intercultural understanding" and "progressive racial action." The idea was that all minority student groups would participate in MSA events and send a representative to MSA meetings...
...conclude that outrage on Pius' part "would have given pause to the Nazis and perhaps changed the complexion of what happened at the end of the war." McBrien contrasts Pius' silence with John Paul II's risky but successful support of Poland's Solidarity trade union in the 1980s. Some analysts speculate that valid or not, the impulse to protect Pius crippled the Vatican's March statement We Remember, a long-awaited and ultimately somewhat tepid repentance for Christian treatment of Jews up to and during the Holocaust. The document defends Pius in both its body and a spirited footnote...