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...intimidation and administrative discharges for gays and lesbians increase when the shooting stops. That employment practice was especially evident from the late '70s through the '80s, when the draft was replaced by volunteerism. On the eve of the Reagan Administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense Graham Claytor Jr., once law clerk of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, laid the groundwork for the Pentagon's current antigay policy. The essence contained in a Joint Chiefs of Staff statement was that "homosexuality is incompatible with military service...
...Jasion, upset at losing a promotion to a woman, killed one co-worker and wounded two others before killing himself. Later that day in Dana Point, California, Mark Richard Hilbun returned to the post office from which he had been fired and killed a letter carrier and wounded a clerk. He was arrested at a bar, about 20 miles north, early Saturday morning. Police said Hilbun is suspected of killing his mother, whose body was found at her home the day of the post office murder, and of shooting four other people before he was apprehended...
...households in turmoil. The focal point is the apartment shared by two effeminate gay men, one afflicted with the disease but unflinching in his courage, the other healthy but panicky, guilty and increasingly unable to cope. The healthy lover works at the same courthouse as a religious Mormon law clerk: despite good intentions and political ambitions, the Mormon is rapidly losing a lifelong battle to suppress his own homosexual urges. His mentor is Roy Cohn, the right-wing dealmaker who promiscuously savored homosexual sex but vehemently denied a gay identity right up to the moment of his death from AIDS...
...corridors of power are populated with many of Hillary's old friends, from White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who used to give his young law clerk Hillary a ride home when she first worked in Washington; to Deputy Attorney General Webb Hubbell, who was the managing partner of her law firm and the former mayor of Little Rock. Hillary had a strong say in the appointment of pal Donna Shalala as Health and Human Services Secretary, although the friendship grew complicated after Hillary grabbed the health out of the Secretary's title and Shalala blurted out that a value-added...
First Night revels in its dream-like nature, almost as if it is showing how much fun fantasy can be. As the straight man in the play, Irish Catholic Danny Fleming (Bill Selig), a clerk in the video store, declares the he is going to give up his dreams and lead the normal life destiny apparently has in store for him. Soon the audience becomes more and more convinced that rather than repressing his fantasies, Danny is actually constructing the entire play from Danny's fertile imagination. Selig reacts convincingly to the series of improbable events, portraying the tension between...