Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke frats, I saw pervasive, overt intolerance. And racial minorities are not the only victims. One Duke student told me "They say ten percent of the student body is gay. But they're so in the closet--if you're gay, no one knows about it. They just go to tearooms...
...gone gay all of a sudden!" yelled Cary Grant, dressed in a frilly robe, as he met a nosy visitor in the comedy Bringing Up Baby. Perhaps he wasn't trying to be funny. A new book on Grant insists that he was bisexual and had a fling with -- goodness gracious! -- Howard Hughes. He also spied for Britain and used LSD. Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, authors of Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, write, "The honest biographer cannot shirk the painful truth, even at the risk of being called deliberately sensationalist." Some risks are no risks...
Fifth, the editorial's criticism of long tables lined with "Blacks, Asians or Chicanos" misses on three points. Firstly, it calls into question the legitimacy of discussion tables about politics, gay and lesbian issues, women's issues and theatrical events, each of which is made up of people with shared experiences and interests. Secondly, it sees the one table filled with people of color, but misses the surrounding 20 long tables lined with whites only. Finally, it sees each of the individuals at these tables as a color instead of as a human being...
Meyerhoffer also said that Marx was a strong advocate for gay and minority rights. "He was more free of prejudice than anyone I have met," Meyerhofer added...
...about the people who inhabit them. The plot, such as it is, often seems like an unconscious cartoon of feminist dialectic. Two men stay close to the title character through the years: a pediatrician who is handsome, earnest, dedicated, kind, politically correct from a left-wing perspective and irreversibly gay, and a heterosexual who is grasping, impatient, domineering, shallow, as undependable as quicksilver and, for Heidi, sexually irresistible. This is the there-are-no-men lament reduced to a greeting card. The saving grace is Joan Allen in the title role. Winner of a Tony Award last year in Burn...