Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul Cameron's maniacal rantings understandably prompted thoughtful students to wring their hands and shake their fists. A flood of expletives no doubt rushed into the minds of members of the Gay and Lesbian Students Association...
Secondly, School of Public Health Dean Fineberg is quoted as saying "The kind of people who are at risk are the college co-ed and her boyfriend." The single most undisputed fact about AIDS is that gay men, intravenous drug users, and hemophiliacs constitute the overwhelming majority of AIDS victims, and are unequivocally the greatest risk groups. To speak of "the college co-ed and her boyfriend" as a risk group is patently absurd...
...counterpart, lesbian author Kate Millet, would have agreed wholeheartedly; Millet's talk on "Sex and Censorship" frequently played to the crowd with lines such as "the gay shall lead the way...out of the hetero-straitjacket," which provided welcome relief from tense differences...
...within American feminism these days: increasingly, feminist practice has given up the habit of flirting with the familiar Man vs. Woman oppositions that deodorant commercials of the '70's depicted as feminist chic. The prevailing themes of conflict are now heard through a polyphony of women's voices--straight, gay, and other--marking the shift in strategy from reactionary to constructive politics. Millet's comment that women should focus their energies on "creating eroticism rather than fighting porn" drew loud applause from a packed audience consisting of scholars, housewives, critics, social workers, professionals, conservatives, students, and lesbians, in addition...
...SEXUAL REVOLUTION first formulated the equation between individual freedom and sexual selfexpression, thus raising the Freudian lid on both the porn industry and gay liberation. Millet, a self-proclaimed anarchist and lesbian in her fifities, places first priority on "freedom of expression," less out of respect for constitutional law than because she distrusts all legal institutions. She depicts anti-porn legislation as handing over "the power of judgment" to the "puritannical" realm of "patriarchal" authority--not necessarily male--whose legitimacy she mocks...