Word: dangerous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have tightened their procedures and improved their machinery in an effort to prevent a recurrence. Middletowners have learned even more. At the time of the accident last year, the town had neither the instruments to monitor radiation levels nor a plan for moving its inhabitants out of danger. Since then, the town has installed radiation detectors on the roof of the borough hall and put together an 80-page program that provides for the evacuation of the town by road, rail, river and even, if it becomes necessary, snowmobile. Said Mayor Reid: "We can empty the town completely...
...homosexual males consciously seek danger...
...their world; hundreds of them hired on as extras and played themselves onscreen. "The most positive benefit of Cruising," says one extra, "would be for it to make gay men examine their promiscuity, the areas they frequent, the type of sex they seek out, even the thrill of danger. The life we save...
...other homosexuals remain touchy about the idea that gays consciously seek danger. They insist that only between 1% and 5% of homosexuals lean toward leather. Says Charles Brydon, co-director of the National Gay Task Force: "There just is not any evidence that gays are into S-M any more than straights are." Though they admit that activities at the bars are remarkably exotic, gays insist that the possibility of bringing home a dangerous sex partner is remote...
...These places are not hellholes of murder. There are no victors and victims. It is all theater, and these guys are pussycats." Well, not really. In various Village Voice articles on the leather bars, Bell has made the point that many homosexuals, far from being pussycats, seem to crave danger along with their sex. For example, one of the most popular trysting spots for New York gays in the mid-'70s was a rotting pier in Greenwich Village, where homosexuals regularly risked mugging, fire, police raids and the possibility of falling into the Hudson River through holes...