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...neither guilt nor shame. He had two very public relationships in his life (both with white men), and he came to see his struggle as a homosexual as inextricable from his struggle as a black man in America. But neither mainstream society nor even the civil rights leadership could cope with his honesty. In 1953, he was arrested for sexual activity in a car--a "morals charge" that embarrassed his allies, humiliated him and was brutally exploited by, among others, Strom Thurmond. So, like many public gay men, Rustin was forced into a defensive crouch because of his sex life...
MENOPAUSE Sudden mood swings, irritability, inability to cope, memory lapses...
...have good days and bad days, and that his ups and downs were not necessarily related to how much medication he was taking. They became involved with mental-health groups, particularly the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Today Ed and Velma lead courses teaching other families how to cope when a loved one is found to have a mental illness...
...than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages...
TIME: Are there any specific things you've done to help cope with the stress...