Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program is modeled on the system of tutors for gay, lesbian and bisexual issues organized last year by Assistant Dean for Coeducation Janet E. Viggiani...
...year at Harvard began with an innocent enough reminder. In all College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences registration packets appeared a pamphlet entitled, "Working Toward a Community of Equals." In response to requests by gay and lesbian students, the office of coeducation published the University's explicit policy prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and included resources and tips on "insensitive" behavior. Six houses, at the requests of their masters, named tutors for bisexual, gay and lesbian issues...
...elected the next year by a 70% majority. Now the Democrat must again test his constituents' tolerance of his sexual habits. Last week, after the Washington Times broke the story, Frank admitted that in 1985 he paid for sex from a male prostitute who had advertised in a gay newspaper. The Congressman then hired him, with his personal funds, as a $20,000-a-year errand boy for his Capitol Hill apartment. In 1987, Frank said, he decided that the man was using the apartment for prostitution. He said he fired...
According to Montero-Seiburth, the panel of experts, which included Margarita Perez of the Children's Television Network, Professor of Anthropology John Ogbu at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Education Geneva Gay of Purdue University, was organized to answer the question, "What facilities augment better education for children...
...only outlawed censorship but discouraged censoriousness (another word for censure). Most civilizations have expressed their moral values by mobilization of social opprobrium. That, rather than specific legislation, is what changed the treatment of minorities in films and TV over recent years. One can now draw opprobrious attention by gay bashing, as the Beastie Boys rock group found when their distributor told them to cut out remarks about "fags" for business reasons. Or by anti-Semitism, as the just disbanded rap group Public Enemy has discovered...