Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dade County Democratic Party has endorsed the ordinance. So has the National Council of Churches and 125 local clergymen. Gay activists have persuaded a variety of big names-including Feminist Gloria Steinem and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark-to come to Miami. The biggest surprise has been contributions: some $350,000 has poured in, mostly in small sums, much of it from anonymous donors, at least half from outside Florida...
...county will hold a referendum to decide whether or not to rescind the law. Already the issue has grown into a symbol of the countrywide battle for homosexual rights-pitting the zeal of Singer Anita Bryant, the pro-repeal crusader, against the anti-repeal efforts of newly energized gay activists...
Replying to Bryant's charge that homosexual teachers could harm their pupils, Miami's gay activists say there have been no such incidents in any of the 38 other cities and counties with similar laws. They claim, with the backing of some psychiatric evidence, that a person's sexual orientation is fixed between the ages of three and five...
...heat of the campaign, emotions have got out of hand. A gay worker was hospitalized after a beating; others have received crank calls. Urges a bumper sticker: KILL A QUEER FOR CHRIST. After receiving many telephone threats, Jack Campbell, a gay-rights leader, has installed guards around his house. Bryant has also hired security men because of phone warnings...
...clean, conditioned air at Dr. Kenneth Cooper's $2 million Aerobics Center, a lavishly renovated antebellum mansion in north Dallas. The center is a gym. and people sweat there, but the locker rooms are cozy with rust-colored carpet, and their smell is more Brut than Ben Gay. Cooper is the author of Aerobics, the exerciser's Old Testament, The New Aerobics, and two other books about the exercise system he developed while he worked as a health researcher for the Air Force...