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...film goes on to detail gay life during the `70s in San Francisco, referred to by one man as "Babylon," an orgy of sex, alcohol, drugs, and disco music. One of the men says that, "there was a man behind every tree, every rock." In discussing the bath houses, Lulu, described as a "single housewife," recalls being scared and feeling like he was in "a heavy-metal nightmare...
...they found the same story: abandoned buildings and layers of volcanic ash and debris from fierce wind storms. After 300 years, when the rains returned, so did the people. The telltale scars of scarcity eventually were buried under 15 feet of new dirt. A new empire, whose capital was Babylon, arose and fell. Today the region is flush once again with wheat fields...
...once you get past the coffee bars of Portland, is still the Wild West. But in New York City, the nation's largest St. Patrick's Day parade took place without a gay contingent, a judge having ruled that its longtime sponsors were free to exclude one. The liberal Babylon also decided not to rehire its top education bureaucrat after he had promoted a curriculum suggesting that six-year-olds with questions about homosexuality be sent to sources such as Heather Has Two Mommies. An alliance of the Christian Coalition and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York then proceeded...
...faith. At its core, this is still the same band that was behind such antireligious hits as Personal Jesus and Blasphemous Rumours, but on Songs of Faith and Devotion, the group uses sacred symbols to add emotional weight to its typically secular songcraft, dropping words like heaven, soul and Babylon and such phrases as golden gates, kingdom comes and angels sing. Religious terms used to drive home a nonreligious point? Clearly this English alternative rock band is seeking a new covenant with its fans...
...from congregation to cult. He and a few select followers began recruiting new members on trips around the U.S., Britain and Australia. In 1990 he changed his name legally to Koresh, Hebrew for Cyrus, the Persian king who allowed the Jews to return to Israel after their captivity in Babylon. His apocalyptic theology converged with secular survivalism, with its programs for hunkering down amid stockpiles of food and ammo to endure a nuclear holocaust or social collapse...