Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) last week nominated longtime community activist and consensus-builder Geneva T. Malenfant as the organization's new president...
Citing her personal experiences, bisexual activist and author Lorraine Hutchins warned against labeling and oversimplification in the gay, lesbian and bisexual movement at a speech before an audience of about 30 in Harvard Hall last night...
Hutchins, whose speech was entitled "Bi Aloud, Bi And Proud--Transcending the Limits of Identity Politics and Binary Thinking to Create Queer Family Values for Everyone," is the co-editor of Bi Any Other Name, a collection of essays and literary pieces by bisexuals, and is a longtime activist for gay, lesbian and bisexual rights...
Hutchins also cited the civil rights movementas a catalyst in her own personal development asan activist. "When I was in college there was noQueen Nation, no gay bookstores, but there was thecivil rights movement, and it taught me to fight,"she said. "It gave me faith...
...that more than a few lone crazies have answered the call to arms. Boldly, and calmly, some people are advocating murder as well as arson and bombing to drive abortion providers out of business. "More violence is inevitable, and it is righteous," says C. Roy McMillan, a Mississippi activist whose obstetrician wife once performed abortions. "It wouldn't bother me if every abortionist in the country today fell dead from a bullet...