Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening early in 1971, as Author Gay Gaetano Galante Septimo Talese (The Kingdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father) was walking home from a Manhattan restaurant with his wife, he spotted a sign on a Lexington Avenue third-floor window: LIVE NUDE MODELS. That was when Talese, a lapsed Catholic of conventionally moralistic upbringing, suddenly realized that the sexual revolution had landed almost literally at his doorstep. Next day he walked back alone for his first massage-parlor massage...
...easy matter. The official U.N. proceedings took place at the Foreign Ministry on the north side of the city. In the Medical Center five miles away was a separate U.N.-sponsored but nongovernmental "Tribune"-a more free-wheeling forum set up for representatives of organizations ranging from the National Gay Task Force of the U.S. to the Federation of Cuban Women and another group called the Aboriginal Island Women. Travel between the two sites involved a harrowing half-hour taxi trip through tangled traffic; many women complained that the conference planners had deliberately separated the meeting sites...
...include the manic Belgian mayor of B., who writes dotty memoirs on the rims of hotel towels and thinks everyone is a German spy; the curmudgeonly "Admiral," a half-deaf, near-blind British dowager who always seems to be bellowing for an elevator that never comes; and the defiantly gay Princess Bili, whose frenzied affection is divided between an absent Italian gigolo and an ever-present Sealyham dog that "sings" D'ye Ken John Peel? Waiting upon this odd lot of aging Everymen is an equally bizarre collection of German, Swiss, French and Italian servants who trade ethnic insults...
...gave more than 100 concerts and broadcasts that brought millions of listeners in on her waif length. Eventually her performances also exhibited-as at a sideshow-a manic-depressive grotesque who shrilled off-key and forgot once familiar lyrics. In the last years she attracted throngs of gay and melancholy Garland freaks whose adulation was a form of cruelty. Echoes of the cruelty and the applause that masked it can still be detected in three predatory biographies...
Fellow airmen at Langley continue to accept Matlovich as a fine noncom. He finds sexual partners by frequenting a gay bar in Norfolk twice a week, but now that he can be open about his way of life he is thinking of a more sedate arrangement: "I want a lover. I want to settle down." For now, his chief concern is working to dispel the military's timeworn fears. "We don't want any license to rape," says Matlovich. "We just want the right to work...