Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depressed to learn of the defeat of the gay job-rights bill in the Massachusetts Legislature last Tuesday. On Wednesday State Rep. Elaine Noble sponsored a watered-down version of the bill that excepted such groups as policemen and corrections officers as well as the public school teachers already excluded. While seemingly apologizing for her cause by her willingness to exclude the more controversial groups of gay workers, Ms. Noble was actually trying valiantly to get at least a foothold for job-rights legislation, and eventually gay rights. Thursday brought defeat again...
...bill with pro-gay orientation could get through the House, it was this one. State Rep. Barney Frank minimized the moral issue of homosexuality by cautioning the House that the bill was not a statement of support for gay rights but rather, as he says, "a request from one group of citizens that they want to work on the same terms as everyone else." Work, mind you, not love. That will have to come even later. And the bill failed. Why? Will it pass in 1979? 1989? Why do they force us to wait...
Nuclear arms production began 32 years ago when an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped a 15-kiloton atomic device on Hiroshima. Prior to this, the largest bomb developed had been the "blockbuster," so named because it was capable of devastating an entire city block. The Hiroshima bomb had a destructive force equivalent to 1300-2000 blockbusters and the one A-bomb virtually pulverized a city of more than 300,000 inhabitants. When President Truman heard the news, he said: "This is the greatest thing in history...
Moore, who asserted that there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of gay Episcopal bishops and ministers, insisted that Barrett was known only as "homosexually oriented," and had created no "public scandal" before he ordained her. Other bishops cited press reports to the contrary. But C. Kilmer Myers, the bishop of California who plans to license Barrett as a parish assistant, replied, "I don't know what she does behind the doors of her bedroom. If I were Ellen Barrett, I would sue you all." In a welter of confusion, the bishops finally tabled by 66-48 a motion to disapprove...
...sole source of Valentino's saintly patience and stoic courage. To illustrate this, the director concocts a sequence in which the star challenges one of his macho journalistic tormentors to a boxing match, takes a vicious beating but finally kayoes the nasty man, in the style of a gay Rocky...