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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Basic training speaks through a language of homophobia--destructive epithets about gays articulated for motivational or provocative ends, as well as a sexist and often racist rhetoric. The terror of being perceived as homosexual is used to scapegoat weaker members, and to instruct the rest as nonconformant with the desired image of power. And thus are reinscribed sexist machismo, racist intolerance, and hereterosexist assumption of the dominator--to excel in the military you must dominate the other side, conquer them. Misogyny persists with assertion of superiority and necessary justification of violence. Contrast this to the ambience of Robert Coles' "Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...leading reformer who was elevated to the Politburo only two weeks ago, faced a parliament rapidly awakening to popular calls for more democracy. At an emergency session, delegates to the once ineffectual legislature proposed to remove the constitutional guarantee of a "leading role" for the party, a phrase as basic to Communist dogma as "We the People" is to the U.S. Constitution. On Friday Modrow presented a 28-member Cabinet that included eleven representatives of officially sanctioned minor parties that have begun to wean themselves from Communist domination. Modrow also announced the establishment of "the rule of law," "protection from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Irresistible Tide | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...adequate child care as well as a need to guarantee the safety of the small children and the general swimming population. At this point in time, Harvard hired one "safety expert" to look at the pool and make recommendations. Addressing only the issue of safety and only the most basic assessment of pool activities, he simply said, "No more strollers." And so it stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pool Policy | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

Such policies have evolved as the expression of a basic social value: that the traditional family, with its economic interdependence, is the foundation of a strong society. But what about a gay couple? They might be similarly dependent on each other, economically and emotionally. Yet no state in the U.S. allows them to marry legally, and nowhere are they offered the same medical, pension, tax and legal advantages as married heterosexuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Should Gays Have Marriage Rights? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...visitation rights and laws giving family members the authority to make medical decisions and funeral arrangements. "We are not talking about symbols here," says Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a well-organized gay-rights group. "These are bread-and-butter issues of basic importance to individuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Should Gays Have Marriage Rights? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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