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Word: gayness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though they still seem fairly bizarre to most Americans, homosexuals have never been so visible, vocal or closely scrutinized by research. They throw public parties, frequent exclusively "gay" bars (70 in San Francisco alone), and figure sympathetically as the subjects of books, plays and films. Encouraged by the national climate of openness about sex of all kinds and the spirit of protest, male and female inverts have been organizing to claim civil rights for themselves as an aggrieved minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Homosexual: Newly Visible, Newly Understood | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Their new militancy makes other citizens edgy, and it can be shrill. Hurling rocks and bottles and wielding a parking meter that had been wrenched out of the sidewalk, homosexuals rioted last summer in New York's Greenwich Village after police closed one of the city's 50 all-gay bars and clubs on an alleged liquor-law violation. Pressure from militant self-styled "homophiles" has forced political candidates' views about homosexuality into recent election campaigns in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Homosexuals have picketed businesses, the White House and the Pentagon, demanding an end to job discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Homosexual: Newly Visible, Newly Understood | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...lesbian love). W. Dorr Legg, educational director at Los Angeles' 17-year-old ONE, Inc., claims, "I won't be happy until all churches give homosexual dances and parents are sitting in the balcony saying 'Don't John and Henry look cute dancing together?' " Radical groups such as the Gay Liberation Front chant "Gay power" and "Gay is good" and turgidly call for "the Revolution of Free and Frequent Polysexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Homosexual: Newly Visible, Newly Understood | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...employee without first proving that his homosexuality would palpably interfere with the efficiency of the agency's operations. The New York Times, which for years shied from the word homosexual, in June permitted a homosexual writing under his own name, Freelance Critic Donn Teal, to contribute an article on "gay" themes in theater. In large cities, homosexuals have reached tacit agreements with police that give them the de facto right to their own social life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Homosexual: Newly Visible, Newly Understood | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

After Massachusetts, Connecticut has had the best experience with conservation commissions. Working with schools, the commissions have helped to create educational parks. Building public support, they have pressed laws through the state legislature giving tax breaks to farmers and other landowners who want to keep their lands open. Says Gay Ewing, president of the Connecticut Association of Conservation Commissions: "Faced with an environment that's going downhill, people get discouraged about their power to change things. But with a commission on the scene, people begin to feel that they can start to do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resources: Grass- Roots Conservation | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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