Word: antigay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surveys data on gay bashing in six cities -- Boston, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York and San Francisco. For 1992, it reported 2,103 episodes. While cases in other cities declined substantially in 1993, they jumped 12% in Denver, perhaps as a result of emotional debate over an antigay referendum question on the 1992 Colorado ballot...
That fear is why anonymous calls threatening to "slit your throats and watch your faggot blood run in the street" drove Jon Greaves to drop a grass- roots campaign last year against an antigay resolution adopted in Cobb County, Georgia, a prosperous and fast-growing Atlanta suburb. He and his lover moved instead to Atlanta, or Hotlanta, as its large and lively gay community likes to call it. "It wasn't a surrender," says Greaves, "just a retreat to safer ground." The resolution, which stands, declares homosexuality to be "incompatible with the standards to which this community subscribes." That apparently...
...crusaders of the culture wars point out, there is more to America than its coastal metropolises. In Cincinnati, where Oh! Calcutta! was shut down briefly in 1974, where a museum was prosecuted in 1990 for displaying the late Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, and where an antigay ordinance was enacted last November, the play is potentially shocking -- so much so that Ensemble Theatre, which commissioned the world premiere, voted at one point to cancel it. "A number of directors who are involved with big corporations in town felt queasy," says board chairman Paul Rogers. Ultimately the board decided that dropping...
Court kills Colorado antigay amendment that triggered boycott...
...think gays should be criminalized," he said, although he also said he thought enacting antigay legislation was acceptable...