Word: antigay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before the gulf war, there were some stirrings for change from within the military establishment. Two years ago, the Pentagon commissioned a study that concluded that the antigay policy was irrational. The report, which never got beyond draft form, was rejected as "technically flawed" and for exceeding its authority, but the results were leaked by sympathetic Congressmen. A second report, which was never submitted, found that gay soldiers were less likely to drink, take drugs, or have disciplinary problems than nongay soldiers...
...vicious story in a gay magazine claiming that a Pentagon official is homosexual. The Los Angeles-based Advocate tried to get publicity for itself by offering an advance copy of the piece to major news outlets that would agree to run it. Although the individual has not been antigay or hypocritical or done any of the other things gay groups use as excuses for "outing" people, Jack Anderson broke the story in his syndicated column, deciding that being first was better than being right...
...assistant scoutmaster. In 1981 he was expelled because officials had seen a newspaper photograph of him taking a male date to his high school senior prom. Curran was a student at UCLA when he was banned. He sued immediately; a decade later, the case is still unresolved. While an antigay posture might seem predictable for scouting, Curran argues that the organization's literature is silent on the issue and that the manual for scoutmasters specifically prohibits discussion of sexual matters...
...Harvard, this mind-numbing game of intellectual Ping-Pong has transcended the monotonous and entered the realm of the ridiculous. This April, after Hillel's Coordinating Council voted to condemn an antigay poster distributed by the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) and agreed to co-sponsor a Holocaust memorial service with the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA), AALARM co-founder E. Adam Webb '93 actually told The Crimson that Hillel was a "political, PC hack group...
Carney said he hoped Bok would use hisinfluence to lobby personally in Washingtonagainst ROTC's antigay policies, either bytelephone or letter...