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...civil rights movement that until then had few public adherents and scant hope of success. It launched a social revolution that is still changing the way Americans see many of their most basic institutions -- family, church, schools, the military, media and culture, among them. A group long dismissed as deviant or perverted or simply beneath mention has been able to claim a sizable space in national life, to the joy of its members and the continuing consternation of many fellow citizens. Declaring oneself to be gay is no longer an automatic admission that psychotherapy is needed or an abandonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride and Prejudice | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...piano bench so low that he played the keyboard at eye level? Why did he keep 42 botles of ketchup in his hotel room? One hotel chambermaid earnestly explains how all the other maids refused to work for him, because they thought he was a sexual deviant. These firsthand stories slyly poke fun at the many critics and commentators who have attempted to offer the authoritative word on Gould...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: Glenn Gould's Infinite Variety | 5/5/1994 | See Source »

...means nothing beyond the biological. This is not to say Johnny is cold and malicious. O the contrary he is capable of sincere empathy and love. He happens, along with the rest of the characters of the film, save Louise and a few others, to exercise his wierdly deviant sexual urges...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Leigh Shows the Bitter Truth | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...wrong with them. On the same day that The New York Times presented, as Yu claimed, a "deceptive objectivity" when it covered the gay-harassment case in Ovett, Mississippi, it also excluded a very mater-of-fact news brief stating that Pope John Paul II recently affirmed homosexuality as "deviant" behavior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biased Coverage Can Help Gays | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

After hearing a comment like that, think to myself, "Is there something wrong with me? Is there a genetic disposition for Latino liberalism? Am I, then, some kind of political deviant, phony Hispanic, a mutant of sorts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Being a Conservative Hispanic In the Class of 1997 | 3/1/1994 | See Source »

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