Word: antigay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homosexuality itself," write the authors. Americans, they hold, continue to harbor distorted perceptions. Among them: people choose to be gay, homosexuals are kinky sex addicts and child molesters, they are untrustworthy and antifamily, and they are suicidally unhappy. Such social attitudes give tacit approval to bigoted behavior, from antigay jokes to violence...
...threat to morale. Wrote Norris: "Even granting special deference to the policy choices of the military, we must reject many of the Army's asserted justifications because they illegitimately cater to private biases." Judge Stephen Reinhardt dissented, arguing that he was bound by earlier cases, but denounced antigay laws and regulations and predicted some precedents would one day be overturned. "Were I free to apply my own view" of the Constitution, he wrote, "I too would conclude that the Army may not refuse to enlist homosexuals...
...antigay backlash is for the most part a peculiarly American phenomenon. Britain, West Germany and the Scandinavian countries repealed antihomosexual laws years ago, and France and Japan never had any. There has been no discernible change in attitudes since AIDS came to public attention. Homosexuality is illegal throughout the Islamic world and in the Soviet Union and India, but even there, legal punishment is infrequent. It is more common in Latin America, where gays sometimes face extralegal violence as well. An extreme example: self-appointed vigilantes have gunned down 65 suspected homosexuals on the streets of Cali, Colombia...
...believe that AIDS is a public health issue and should be treated as such. We do not believe that it should be used to fuel antigay prejudice. Jim Sanks '86?? Lori Stewart '86 Co-Chairs, H-R GLSA
Using unflattened, living language does not commit one to an antiabortion, antigay or antiwelfare position. One can argue forcefully for free choice in abortion, rights for homosexuals and aid to fatherless families without pretending that the issues here are merely clinical, aesthetic or statistical. They are moral too. But to make, or even follow, moral arguments, we need language that has not yet obliterated any trace of distinctions...