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...promoting understanding between gays and the straight world, as is fostered by the current Broadway musical Falsettos. He certainly isn't interested in autobiographical pain of the kind that Larry Kramer so affectingly revisits in his off-Broadway drama The Destiny of Me. He seems especially unsympathetic to closet cases and bisexuals, as personified in a Mormon character whose ambitions clash with his libido: the man's straight wife and gay lover both cast him aside. Politically, Angels preaches to the choir, celebrating gay anger and self-righteousness (to gleeful whoops from the audience) rather than explaining gay angst...
...CLOSET, YOU'RE OUT OF THE service. For 50 years, that has been the firm rule of the U.S. military. But the day after Veterans Day, following a bitter court battle, Petty Officer Keith Meinhold managed to regain his Navy job at Moffett Field Naval Air Station in Mountain View, California. The 12-year veteran had been discharged in August after announcing he was gay on national TV. When U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. ordered the Navy to take Meinhold back the first time, the Navy balked. But after Hatter reaffirmed his order, Acting Secretary of the Navy...
...president-elect has promised to put an end to regulations that require homosexuals to remain in the closet if they want to serve their country. I believe Clinton when he says he genuinely opposes discrimination by the military, but I also believe it's an issue he would rather avoid...
...wanted him to win the election. We tolerated all that talk about him being a "moderate" and a "New Democrat" but we never believed it. In fact, the one time we agreed with soon-to-be-former President George Bush was when he insisted that Clinton is a closet liberal...
...Clinton has already made some reference to it. He promised to "focus sharply on the fact that we do have people who are homosexuals who served our country with distinction, who were never kicked out of the military." The reason, of course, is that they remained in the closet...