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...East Boston resident reports being assaulted by a 30-year-old male with blond hair who cursed at him and called him "faggot" while striking him in the back...
...long history of corruption. A common joke had it that Philadelphia's kids could play cops and robbers at the same time. This was especially true in the 1970s. The mayor was former police commissioner Frank Rizzo, who had promised to "make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" if he won election. "The way to treat criminals," Rizzo explained, is "spacco il capa" (bust their heads). Rizzo was as good as his word. A study for the U.S. Justice Department found that while individual Philadelphia police officers made no more arrests than New York City cops, during Rizzo...
...decision to broadcast homosexual feelings is fraught with the possibility of negative, even violent reaction. The students often dislike lying to classmates but know the consequences of coming out can be dire. After Legare circulated a petition last spring urging Cabot to combat antigay bigotry, some students yelled "faggot" at him. An athlete in four sports, Legare didn't suffer the worst abuse because, he says, "I'm not stereotypically gay." But he was once shoved and kicked. For De Vries, harassment came in the form of vulgarities whispered behind her back...
Once Legare and De Vries spoke up, however, administrators responded. Legare persuaded 34 of Cabot High's 100 students to sign his petition, which led to faculty meetings and his discussion with Governor Dean in a gathering with other gay youths. Since school started, Legare says, he has heard "faggot" just once. Similarly, even at the Catholic school De Vries used to attend, several teachers applauded her for fighting antigay attitudes. She's now enrolled at a private school where everyone knows she's a lesbian...
...able to marry in Memorial Church, but an academic department of Lesbian and Gay Studies remains a fantasy, a full-fledged student center for gay and lesbian students a distant dream. In the dormitories, a homophobic student scribbles "faggot" on the wall, as occurred in Dunster House this past spring. When Angels in America playwright Larry Kramer offered millions of dollars to Yale University, his alma mater, for the creation of a professorship of Lesbian and Gay Studies, it was denied. When students at Harvard agitated for a University-sponsored lesbian and gay student center, we were offered a tiny...