Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When 600 demonstrators rallied a block from Independence Hall for a lesbian and gay bill of rights, police on foot and horseback assiduously enforced a federal judge's ruling that demonstrators could be heard but not seen: their constitutional rights did not include marching within sight of the main celebration. Hundreds of National Park Service rangers, Philadelphia police and U.S. Capitol police set up barricades and used metal detectors to check all visitors...
...York's beau monde. In October, 13 prominent dance companies will appear in Dancing for Life, which should raise $1.5 million for four AIDS groups. In November, Leonard Bernstein, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price and other luminaries will stage a Carnegie Hall concert to cadge $2 million for the Gay Men's Health Crisis...
...Perry Ellis, 46. Makeup Artist Way Bandy, 45. Charles Ward, 33, who left the American Ballet Theater to go Dancin' on Broadway. Production Designer Bruce Weintraub (Prizzi's Honor), 33. Allan Estes, 29, founder of San Francisco's Theater Rhinoceros. An appalling 27 deaths in the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. To list them and their dying or dead brothers is to compile a journal of the plague years...
...that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it. I'm not with any man. I'm not in love. People see Robyn with me, and they draw their own conclusions. Anyway, whose business is it if you're gay or like dogs? What others do shouldn't matter. Let people talk. It doesn't bother me because I know I'm not gay. I don't care...
...stores. Pressure groups have successfully lobbied the FCC to slap down Howard Stern and the other risk jockeys of raunch radio. In 1984 feminists won passage of an Indianapolis ordinance that defined pornography as the "graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/ or words" -- thereby implicitly condoning gay S-M porn (in which men may subordinate men) and much S-M heterosexual porn (in which men are bent, spindled or mutilated by very bossy women). Pornographers and civil libertarians, however, took out an injunction against the ordinance within hours of its becoming law. Finally, the Supreme Court tossed...