Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been passed by California, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. Insurers are being accused of attempting to identify and screen out homosexual men, one of the groups at highest risk of contracting the disease, by denying policies on the basis of occupation, marital status and neighborhood. In California, National Gay Rights Advocates has filed a $10 million sex-discrimination suit against Great Republic Life Insurance, charging that the company has decided to refuse coverage to unmarried males working in such occupations as antiques dealer, florist and consultant...
Some people would clearly prefer not to talk about poison at all. Sex educators face a powerful array of detractors and doubters: Fundamentalist and Roman Catholic leaders, antiabortionists, opponents of the gay lobby, psychologists worrying about the impact of AIDS messages on the young, blacks who consider sex education racist, and even a few capitalists who think that school clinics offering birth-control information should be turned over to private enterprise...
...Surgeon General's intervention brought new doubts about sex education. Some critics who spoke out reacted angrily at the prospect of explicit teaching about homosexuality and anal sex. "Where do we draw the line?" roared Joseph Casper, an outspoken member of the elected Boston school committee. "The gay community would love to come in and say theirs is an alternative life-style that's really O.K. But then what's next? Do we bring in people who want to talk about safe bondage too? Chimps making it with chickens? It's insane." A few people talked as if AIDS were...
...brought up anal sex to third-graders, they would be in a state of shock," said Marilyn Huriwitz, a health teacher at South Boston High School. "How are you going to talk to kids that age about anal sex?" asks Al Wardell, a Chicago high school teacher and a gay activist. "I guess that's my teacher's prudishness." Young children's brains cannot assimilate such information, warns William Chambers, director of pediatric psychiatry at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. "For them, anal sex is going to the bathroom...
While the gay imagery in White Shroud may account for the book's notoriety, it does not account for the book's significance. Ginsberg presents an accessible and fascinating collection of new verse that is worth reading, at the very least because it is a historical document of what Ginsberg terms the "post-beat modernist" generation...