Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case of Jack Hampton, the anti-gay Texas state district judge, has spotlighted not only the persistent and virulent hatred against gays and lesbians in our society, but also the lack of special protection these citizens have in the criminal justice system...
...Richard Lee Bednarski to 30 years in prison for murdering two men--even though a lifetime sentence was the maximum. When asked by a Dallas reporter why Bednarski had not received a harsher verdict, Hampton replied that he had been lenient in part because the killer's victim were gay...
...resignation follows an unrelated incident in which an assistant football coach was accused of encouraging anti-gay harrassment of a dining hall worker. The worker, who was kissed by another male worker while he was preparing food, subsequently received a "homophobic" note...
...Vatican's main target in the U.S. was Dignity, an organization for gay Catholics that had been allowed to hold special Masses in many dioceses. Prodded by the San Francisco chapter, one of Dignity's largest (250 members), Dignity's next national convention responded defiantly to Rome, declaring that "gay and lesbian people can express their sexuality physically, in a unitive manner that is loving, life-giving and life-affirming...
...country's 187 dioceses have banished Dignity meetings from church premises. Among dioceses with large homosexual populations, the last holdout was San Francisco. But early in November that city's Archbishop, John Quinn, finally summoned the local Dignity leaders to a polite showdown. When they stood by their gay-is-good policy, he informed them that Dec. 18 will mark the last in a 15-year series of Sunday-night Dignity Masses in the city's Catholic churches. Last week Quinn took the final step by informing the archdiocese's priests that they may no longer celebrate Dignity Masses...