Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference of college homosexuals to be held at Brown this weekend has sparked campus-wide controversy over housing the gay guests, The Brown Daily Herald reported...
Brown's Lesbian Gay Student Alliance asked resident counselors and their units to house the conferees in their dorms. Freshman dorms were chosen to house the guests because they are equipped with spacious lounges...
...specified only one ground rule. "I told them I didn't want them trashing my folks in a mean way," he says. The one skit he rejected: portraying a gay hairstylist. There was, however, much skirting of the bounds of propriety, including a catty reference to Reagan's first wife, Jane Wyman, and a portrayal of Nancy as a chain-smoking lush by an actor in Adolfo-like drag. One White House aide thought the whole thing tasteless. Said he: "Some birthday present to his father...
...follies in Galveston are gay, the ice palace is grand, St. Paul's largest in this century. Its central tower is 127 ft. 10 in. high. Some 10,000 blocks of ice, 600 lbs. each, have been nudged into position. At night the palace is aglow: hundreds of computer-controlled lights line the hollow interiors...
...plan had been approved in Washington. Duvalier was told that he and his entourage should be ready to leave at 2 a.m. Friday. He agreed. Said one of those invited to the Duvaliers' risky coup de champagne in the palace: "They were both in high spirits. It was gay and filled with laughter. No tears." Meanwhile, France had agreed to give Duvalier's entourage temporary entry, while making it clear that permanent exile in the country was out of the question. When the couple finally boarded the C-141, they carried only one suitcase apiece. Nine hours earlier...