Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's homosexuals, still smarting from the successful anti-gay rights drive of Anita Bryant in Miami, the news of the California murders came at a bad time. The Bryant group had argued that many male homosexuals prey on the young-and indeed some of the California victims were teenagers. What was more, the press began rehashing the sex-thrill murders of 27 youths by three Texas homosexuals in 1973 -still the largest proved mass murder in America...
...pink triangles that gays wore in Miami are more than "reminiscent of the yellow star that Jews were forced to wear in Hitler's Germany" [June 20]; they are analogous. Gay people in Hitler's concentration camps were forced to wear pink triangles to show their status, just as Jews were forced to wear the yellow star. Hitler exterminated an estimated 220,000 gays in the concentration camps. Gay people wear the pink triangle today as a reminder of the past and a pledge that history will not repeat itself...
...from driving America's homosexuals back into the closet, Anita Bryant has lured them out onto the streets. Less than three weeks after Bryant and her supporters persuaded Dade County, Fla., voters to repeal the local gay civil rights ordinance (TIME, June 20), demonstrators marched last weekend in at least eight U.S. cities to protest that decision. In New York, some 50,000 gays and nonhomosexual sympathizers crammed Fifth Avenue sidewalk to sidewalk for almost 1½ miles. In San Francisco, the West Coast's gay capital, 125,000 turned out. Because previous San Francisco parades had been...
Flurry of Firings. Though the parades reflect growing solidarity among gays, the increasing militancy is undoubtedly offensive to many "straights" and could produce a backlash among them. Bruce Voeller, co-executive director of the National Gay Task Force, concedes that there has been a "flurry of firings" of homosexuals in Dade County and that at least one state legislature -Oklahoma's-has passed a resolution endorsing Bryant's position. But in Illinois a similar motion was withdrawn after being sarcastically attacked by a number of legislators. Said Representative Harold D. Byers: "Next we'll be passing...
...episodes and traumas often veer toward the neo-Gothic, with social secretaries replacing spinster govenesses, and gay cousins occupying closets that mad old women once inhabited. Auchincloss also occasionally mires himself in melodramatic ramblings that he evidently perceives as powerful prose ("Orgasm with David was like the raising of a communion cup before an altar that knew no sacrament but love.") but these indulgent tirades are only sporadic; Auchincloss is generally a smooth and vivid writer...