Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catherine, 57, has suffered most visibly. Once a gay and irrepressible fixture on the Bay Area social circuit, she has become a virtual recluse, communicating with old friends rarely and then only by telephone. She has been neglecting her regular monthly meetings of the University of California's board of regents, was hospitalized briefly for nervous exhaustion after the kidnaping. She has since regained at least some of her old fire-and swallowed her disapproval of Patty's freewheeling pre-S.L.A. lifestyle. Still, friends describe Catherine as intensely bitter over the "persecution" of "my little girl...
...phrases that seem to imply that the Times speaks with a purely masculine voice, viewing men as the norm," writers and editors are warned not to use "designations that are obviously disparaging." Examples: doll, weaker sex, the little woman and, in certain contexts, words like housewife, divorcee and sculptress. Gay, says the Times without explanation, is not to be used as a synonym for homosexual...
...Haunted Host. A comedy about gay love in Greenwich Village and a revival of the virgin effort by Robert Patrick, whose Kennedy's Children previewed here successfully this fall. At the New Theatre, 12 Holyoke St., in Harvard Square. Performances Tuesday through Friday at 8:30 p.m., Sunday...
Fizzled Poseurs. Larry and Sarah's friends have a nodding acquaintance with both self-destruction and self-fulfillment. Robert (Christopher Walken) writes plays, lives off women; Connie (Dori Brenner) wants to be a novelist and plays nursemaid to her black gay pal Bernstein Chandler (Antonio Fargas), who claims his mother named him after the Jewish family for whom she worked 30 years as a maid. All of them keep an eye on the fragile, mad-eyed actress Anita (Lois Smith), who periodically attempts suicide...
...takes speed." A young man playing tennis says: "Right now I'm having a vasectomy." How does he do it? Golden Needles Voodoo Acupuncture-for those who don't have the time or money for costly operations. The put-ons have been too successful. The Gay Activists Alliance is mad at an ad that shows a homosexual reminiscing about the joys of dressing in his mother's clothes even as he places a long-distance call to Mom: "The next best thing to being...