Word: gay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friday night, August 3 at Phillips Brooks House, the Divinity School Lesbian and Gay Caucus held a dance to raise money for a conference to be held in November. While the dance was held for a good cause, with very good music, and with a fine attendance, the reception in the Harvard community was, to say the least, mixed...
Second, on the night of the dance, summer school residents of Stoughton Hall next to Phillips Brooks House yelled "faggots" and "queers" throughout the evening to people attending the dance. Fortunately, they chose no to take their aggression any further than this, and gay people can generally pass off such taunts as ignorance of fear...
...because she was considered too old and haggard. For ten years Montana ran the Shack as a desultory go-go spot for males. Then in 1976 she decided to try exotic male dancers, insisting on a "classy, sophisticated, macho" program that would appeal strongly to women but would discourage gay customers. She has succeeded: the current stage show appears to strike the right sensual chords for women of all ages but attracts few male patrons. The revue also hits the right cash register keys: 150 to 200 customers flock to each performance. The audiences seem a notably wholesome and ordinary...
...slowly, tirelessly touring the U.S. heartlands and Britain in monodramas she wrote and staged herself. Her self-deprecating humor and satirical wit found an outlet in light verse and anecdotal magazine pieces, plays and books, the best known of which was her 1942 travelogue, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, written with Emily Kimbrough. She was a popular guest on radio, television and the lecture circuit, thanks largely to her flair for the bon mot. Sample: "A woman's virtue is man's greatest invention...
...rally, thousands of demonstrators trekked down an access road lined with hawkers trying to sell "No Nuke" t-shirts, and pamphleteers who would attempt to convince you that nuclear power was not only dangerous, it was racist, sexist, militaristic, anti-gay and a tool of imperialist capitalistic corporate exploitation as well. Then past tables filled with anti-nuke and alternative energy literature and finally down a dirt path to the beach, were old reliables like Dave Dellinger, former anti-war activist, and George Wald, Emeritus Professor of Biology, would speak and Pete Seeger and others entertain. Just before noon...