Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should see some leveling off [in the number of new cases] among gay men," Curran said. "I am not so optimistic about I.V. drug users...
...muck." Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a young Pakistani on the dole in London, takes these words to heart as he aspires to the comfortable status of his assimilated (and sleazy) uncle and pursues his own commercial dream of "a laundrette the size of the Ritz." With the assistance of his gay lover, Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis), an ersatz National Front hoodlum, Omar dreams up "Powders," a designer cleaning service replete with neon signs and high-style furnishings--even a fish tank...
KUREISHI AND DIRECTOR Frears cleverly handle the ensuing development both of the cleaning service and the gay love affair, often adding sweet and ridiculous touches. On opening day, Johnny and Omar make love in the plush back room while customers form a comically eager queue for the bannered and streamered laundrette...
...human family. And so we ask, help us the last peaceful instrument available to us: your pressure. For nothing in South Africa has changed without pressure. My dear friends, I wish to declare here my endorsement for election to the Board of Overseers of Kenneth Simmons, John Plotz and Gay Seidman." (Bishop Desmond Tutu, LLD '79, January 10, 1986 at the Kennedy School...
...time Mayoral candidate has also received endorsements from the Boston gay community newspaper The Guide...