Word: antigay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quayle championed a zero-tolerance approach to "family values." But it was Mary Fisher, the HIV-positive daughter of a top G.O.P. fund raiser, who held the Astrodome rapt with her insistence that AIDS victims "have not earned cruelty and do not deserve meanness." Coming after several days of antigay rhetoric, Fisher gave what many believed was the bravest speech of the week...
...early 30s, Ice-T is a decade older than many of his rap compatriots, and that shows in his work. He is perhaps the only rapper who can admit that he was wrong. He has eliminated antigay messages from his raps. "I used to make fun of gay people, call them fags," he says. "But my homeys weren't down with that, so now I lay off." He has also left the most extreme, racist gangster rap to the likes of Ice Cube. Instead, he now focuses his energy on what he calls "intelligent hoodlum" material. Quincy Jones says...
...sameness of movie sex have become a bore, which is not a word anyone is going to apply to this film's skin scenes. They may be offensive to some, but they will be a turn-on for others. And, by the way, Basic Instinct cannot fairly be termed antigay. Catherine is certainly bisexual, but it is just another aspect of her cultivated air of differentness, her love of high-risk games and shock effects, which Stone plays very well...
While individual members of Congress have expressed their desire to change the antigay policy, the body has not yet moved on the issue...
...admire him. But they were determined to embarrass the Pentagon about its exclusion of gays from the armed services. To them, it was hypocritical for Defense Secretary Dick Cheney to retain a high civilian official, knowing -- or at least not caring -- that he was gay, while continuing to enforce antigay rules that apply to the uniformed ranks...