Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disco. With one platinum and five gold albums, Summer, 29, is the one incontestable star to emerge from the disco demimonde. Love to Love You Baby became a hit in the days when discos were not sprouting on every block, but were stashed in the closet along with the gay subculture from which they sprang...
...book can be read by any parent, married or divorced, gay or straight, working or unemployed, traditional or experimental. Open-mindedness is the watchword, and the authors view all family arrangements, even childless ones, with approbation. This openness makes the book generally accessible, an accessibility widened by the book's scope--from pre-parenthood to being the parent of an adult. In short, Ourselves will interest anyone in any stage of bringing up children...
...said, 'There are no classes in America!' Then she said, 'Of course there are, but we never talk about it.' " Most Americans have only a spectator's interest in the problems of social kissing (a phenomenon they witness mainly on Johnny Carson) or in the protocol of inviting gay couples to a party. The Milwaukee housewife who hauls trash barrels to the curb every Monday morning is not affronted when her husband fails to pull out her chair at dinner. She settles for watching reruns of the butler Hudson on Upstairs, Downstairs and for the knowledge that wherever she goes...
...primary activity is the publication of the Chronicle. Editorials have called for the legalization of all drugs, including heroin, on the grounds that the government does not have the right to prohibit their consumption by individuals. HLA also supports abortion and gay rights, while it opposes any form of taxation, a system under which the government deprives citizens of their private wealth...
Homosexuals won key ballot victories in two Western states. Californians followed the advice of civil liberties groups and conservatives and rejected Proposition 6, which would have enabled local school boards to fire teachers who are gay or who advocate homosexuality. Said Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley: "It was a measure against not just the rights of gay teachers but the civil rights of us all." In Seattle, voters retained a law that bars landlords and employers from discriminating against homosexuals. But in Florida, Miami-area voters refused to endorse a gay rights bill...