Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four Harvard professors this week announced the creation of a new project at the Law School to discuss traditionally underrepresented issues of social justice such as gay and lesbian legal thought...
Kennedy said that problems of gender, workplace democracy, gay and lesbian legal studies and corruption are often overlooked in legal studies and therefore will be given special attention...
...Navy's discharge of three people accused of homosexual conduct. In 1981 it ruled against a soldier who charged the Army with selective prosecution because the military antisodomy law was not being enforced in heterosexual cases. This time, however, Judges William Norris and William Canby sided with openly gay Sergeant Perry Watkins, 39. They said the Army had improperly refused to re-enlist him and marshaled constitutional reasoning that could, if upheld, enable gays to win pleas against all levels of government...
What made Watkins' case different, said the judges, was that he was charged only with being gay, not with a specific act of sodomy. Wrote Norris: "Any attempt to criminalize the status of an individual's sexual orientation would present grave constitutional problems." Watkins has never denied his orientation. The son of a career Army man, he admitted "homosexual tendencies" when he enlisted in 1967, at 19. Later he worked during off-duty hours, with his commander's permission, as a female impersonator. In his job rating, he was regularly praised for spit-shined professionalism. Although previous investigations had upheld...
...elected leader of the Greater London Council. Livingstone turned the council, responsible for such matters as public transit, garbage collection and social welfare projects, into the biggest-spending local government Britain had ever seen. He attracted headlines by doling out tax funds to every group imaginable, including a gay community center, a Welsh harp society, a graffiti workshop and an organization called Babies Against the Bomb. The council declared London a nuclear-free zone, earning plaudits from the Kremlin...