Word: antigay
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...that she played just an hour apart, Navratilova set aside competitive advantage for queenly benevolence and conceded the (not so crucial) points. When she adjourned to the pressroom after winning both matches, she spoke briefly and blandly of her play, then waded more eagerly into political controversy over an antigay amendment to the Colorado constitution that she is suing to have overturned, and vowed to quit her beloved Aspen home if she fails...
Among other state measures of national significance were antigay initiatives in Colorado and Oregon. Colorado's Amendment 2, which forbids civil rights protections for homosexuals, passed, 55% to 45%. But Oregon's Measure 9, which sought to define homosexuality as "wrong, unnatural and perverse," went down to defeat, 44% to 56%. In Maryland voters approved a proposition guaranteeing the right to abortion. Iowa voters turned down an equal-rights amendment after a bitter fight that drew such national figures as Phyllis Schlafly and Pat Robertson to the state to lobby against...
...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...