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...touchy time. Auden was, in fact, a great poet, but for all the public knew or cared, he was just an ordinary homosexual living and working in a world that, by tacit agreement, did not pry into people's sex lives. Even when the media came out of the closet -- pencils erect and cameras hot -- to chase stories about the New Libido, homosexuality was still a taboo subject...
...came to college with eyes wide open, an eager, closet liberal at last free to burst from my ideological chrysalis and to begin my intellectual growth at Harvard, capital of the liberal world. I believed that the color-blind society was achievable. I believed that we could save Mother Earth from heartless loggers. I even believed that we could be entirely accepting of all opinions...
...accounts for the surge? The gay civil rights movement, for one thing. The theater has always been home to a disproportionate share of gay artists because the environment was tolerant and, perhaps, because their lives already involved illusion, role playing and disguise. Many artists have come out of the closet in life and insist on doing so in their work. Says Destiny's Kramer: "Ten years ago, we would have been fashioning heterosexual material. Now people just...
Mixner was aghast, however, when Clinton offhandedly suggested that he might be open to treating gays in uniform differently from heterosexuals: giving them special assignments or separate accommodation, and requiring them to keep their sexual preference in the closet. This idea would have denied gays what they seek and what their critics want to withhold: recognition as a legitimate part of the community. Mixner telephoned the White House repeatedly to express his disapproval, but his calls were not returned. When he spoke at a gay- oriented church and agreed to appear on ABC's Nightline, a White House aide tried...
Like activists in any other movement, Mixner professes to have been inspired by the sacrifices of others, especially gays in uniform willing to come out of the closet at the cost of their career. Says he: "It is incumbent on the rest of us to meet those acts of courage. Nothing less than our total freedom will do." That was the message Sunday's marchers meant to send -- to themselves, to their President and to a watching nation, where proponents and opponents have come to see gay rights as a test of national character...