Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style and vaulted from comic realism to soap-operatic mannerism. Matador is a contemporary vampire story: an ex-bullfighter and a woman lawyer, believing that death is the ultimate climax, impale each victim on the cold steel of their lust. Law of Desire draws a bent triangle: a gay movie director, his transsexual sister (Maura) and her adopted child's rightful mother (played by a Spanish drag queen). Revelations of murder, incest, suicide and lotsa hot sex follow, but the tone remains knowing, tender. As Matador is about desire, Law is about caring; the first picture is a morgue shot...
...Doris Day in another. Thus his pictures are both bleakly comic and defiantly romantic, hipper than tomorrow and nostalgic for a pre-AIDS era when love's most toxic complication was a broken heart. "To classify movies is to impoverish them," he says. "Law of Desire was about a gay couple. But passion is the subject. I was trying to tell a love story...
...AIDS from Queens to Kokomo were barred from attending school. Police officers donned rubber gloves when apprehending drug abusers thought to be infected with the AIDS virus. Churchgoers declined the Communion wine they had once quaffed from their common cups. Everything from Florida's mosquitoes to food touched by gay waiters was suspected of carrying the virus...
...magnolia-lined grounds of the University of Mississippi last August, arsonists torched the first black fraternity house before its members had even moved in. At Memphis State University last fall, the Jewish Student Union was spray-painted with swastikas. Gay men and lesbians at the University of Texas at Austin have been pelted with rocks and beer bottles while participating in campus parades. At Temple University in Philadelphia, 130 undergraduates have formed a White Students Union dedicated to fighting affirmative-action programs and promoting "white pride...
...Judge Hampton said it himself: 'No one will remember this in 1990,'" William Waybourn, president of the Dallas Gay Alliance, has said. "But we will remember...