Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gay Student Association: a way to escape from a mad, straight world. The GSA provides fellowship, rap sessions and dances in Phillips Brooks House...
Another movie starring Al Pacino as a latent gay gumshoe was being filmed on the streets of Manhattan, and everyone within shooting distance seemed to have something to say about it. New York gays who live in the Greenwich Village area where much of the shooting was taking place were especially upset. Some who managed to get hold of a script protested that Cruising would be an insulting film because it depicts homosexuals as violent and sex-obsessed. Marshaling forces along the fringes of the street scenes and staging protest marches through the Village, the gays demanded that Mayor Edward...
...editors' carefree irreverence suited the disillusion and cynicism of the times. The magazine's New Journalism brought the techniques of the novelist to matters of fact-profiles were not concentrates of fact gathering but freewheeling, pinwheeling displays of the author's prejudices. Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese could be wonderfully readable ("I don't deal in direct quotations," explained Talese, "I'm into what people think"). Meanwhile, Esquire's black-humor covers became intentionally outrageous, such as posing a benign Lieut. William Calley with a group of Asian children. The magazine's basic...
Anyone having spent time in the gay and lesbian rights movement will know that destroyed flyers and ignorant taunts are par for the course. Yet it is nevertheless somewhat amazing that Harvard Students, many of whom arrive fresh from superior early education and intelligent, liberal parents, would respond in the crude manner of the residents of Stoughton Hall. Likewise, it is amazing that Cambridge, the center, some say, of liberal education and general enlightment should respond with the tearing down of signs...
...Gay people have waited hundreds of years to be where we are today, and in the flow of things, we tend to take "straight" people in stride. It would be nice though to think that Harvard could truly engender the integrity and morality which "Veritas" would seem to promise. Bradley Prunty HDS Lesbian and Gay Caucus...