Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvey V. Fineberg, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, noted, "We understand enough about the cause and spread of the AIDS virus to give people the knowledge they need to protect themselves." Yet, outside the gay community, this is not being done...
...deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary. Newsrooms have provided electric settings for popular entertainments: in the theater, The Front Page; Citizen Kane at the movies; Lou Grant on the tube. The public has even proved curious about the facts of the matter. The Kingdom and the Power, Gay Talese's anecdotal book about the New York Times, was a national best seller...
...demanded a repentance that he did not feel. And his conservative colleagues disowned him while his former enemies on the left showed compassion. This realization, which inspired a newfound fervor for civil rights, forms the centerpiece of his disorganized but surprisingly poignant autobiography. Bauman's dilemma was that being gay was incompatible with political life. So he wed and started a family but went on cruising for boys, for which he shows scant contrition. He asserts that homosexuals number at least nine nameless other members of Congress and key aides to President Reagan. But other closet gays do not rattle...
...year, in a virtually unprecedented step that was long kept secret, John Paul stripped authority from Hunthausen on moral teachings, marriage annulments, sacraments and the training of priests, bestowing those responsibilities upon the conservative Wuerl. Among Hunthausen's supposed transgressions: allowing altar girls and permitting a cathedral Mass for gay Catholics...
Updated Rip Van Winkle. Two old train robbers, stylishly played by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, are let out of jail and are forced to confront the changes -- everything from light beer to gay bars -- that have occurred during the 30 years they were penned up. Partly the tale is Cocoon with cojones. The ) two old poops take an even harder line with the young people who want them to act their age than the retirees in last year's film did. Mostly, though, Tough Guys is a lot of fun, particularly when Eli Wallach, as a furious, nearsighted...