Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus psychiatry and to a lesser extent the law have both heeded the new gay pleas for tolerance. Society in general remains hostile out of the conviction that its own way of life is mocked or threatened by homosexuality. This view is strongly influenced by Christianity and Judaism, which have traditionally taught that homosexuality is unnatural and its practice sinful. Though all the major churches and branches of Judaism have increasingly come to recognize that the homosexual's dilemma is a matter for pastoral care and understanding, they continue to refuse to ordain avowed homosexuals (with the exception...
...civil rights for homosexuals, the churches are split. In the past few years, the National Federation of Priests' Councils, the National Council of Churches, and scattered church jurisdictions have passed various resolutions condemning discrimination in law, employment, housing, etc. But several Roman Catholic bishops have come out against "gay rights" bills in their cities. With the tacit backing of Terence Cardinal Cooke, Catholics played a heavy role last year in defeating a New York City antidiscrimination bill that had been expected to pass. In California, an ad hoc Coalition of Concerned Christians recently tried?but failed?...
...Force sergeant, and was raised at airbases in the U.S. and England. Though he says he knew he was homosexual at the age of twelve, he did not act upon that knowledge till he was 30, when he finally got up the nerve to go to a gay bar in Pensacola, Fla. Though Matlovich feared he would be raped by frenzied homosexuals, the bar turned out to be a civilized place filled with airmen, blue-collar workers and middle-class professional men. He lost his virginity that night to a government civil servant. Says Matlovich: "I had never held another...
Though only dimly aware of the gay liberation movement, he ran across the name of Gay Activist Frank Kameny in a military magazine's article on homosexuals. He flew to Washington, met with Kameny and Addlestone, and enthusiastically offered to challenge the military ban on homosexuals. The two men urged him to slow down and think about it. Matlovich did-for nine months-before writing his letter last March...
Since then, Matlovich has become one of the best-known gays in the country. (His parents prefer to think he is more interested in homosexuality as a cause than as a way of life.) Addressing a Gay Pride Week rally in New York in June, he broke down and cried. Says he: "I found myself, little nobody me, standing up in front of tens of thousands of gay people. And just two years ago I thought I was the only gay in the world. It was a mixture of joy and sadness. It was just great pride...