Word: antigay
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...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...
...activists now claim a moral right to "rip people out of the closet" -- either to force them to help the movement or to nullify them as opponents. The main targets are elected officials and religious leaders who may enjoy a gay life in private but who endorse antigay measures to safeguard their careers. Radical gays go further, pointing the finger at entertainment and media figures and even ordinary citizens...
...Representative Barney Frank threatened to expose Republican officeholders who really are homosexual. Few in Washington doubted that there were such officials, or that Frank, an acknowledged gay, would be able to name them. Republicans were already keenly aware of the ironic fates of two of their most prominent antigay voices, Maryland Congressman Robert Bauman and conservative fund-raiser Terry Dolan. Bauman's political career ended in 1980, when he was charged with soliciting a teenage boy for a paid sex act; Dolan died in 1986 of AIDS complications. Republicans backed off, so Frank did not carry out his threat...
...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...