Word: antigay
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...week, critics might chide the writers for inventing a character so hyperbolically resolute. After all, how believable is a venerated female Army colonel who raises four fine sons, runs a seizure clinic, attains a doctorate in nursing at 49, and then makes a career of challenging the military's antigay policy...
...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...
...taking," said Linda Gryczan, the lead plaintiff in a suit challenging the state's sodomy law. "This is different from being one in a million in New York or San Francisco. We are not anonymous anymore." Unlike gay parades in some big cities, the kind depicted in alarmist antigay videos used for fund raising by conservative Christian groups, this 30-minute procession had no men in nun drag, no topless women on motorcycles. The marchers mostly looked like the cowpokes and earth mothers next door. Even so, many closeted gays stayed away. One would-be participant watched longingly from...
...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...