Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settlement, signed by Reagan in August, gives the Wampanoags more than 400 acres of undeveloped island land. The state and federal governments are to pay $2.25 million each to buy 180 acres from private landowners in the island town of Gay Head, and the town is to contribute 238 acres of publicly owned land...
...federal appropriation is included in Senate-passed legislation but is not in a House appropriations bill. In asking the Yates committee to delay the funding, the Reagan administration said the state of Massachusetts had not allocated its share, that the town of Gay Head had not transferred the public land and that the Wampanoags should first be required to sign a waiver to future land claims...
...controversial gay rights bill moved one step closer to becoming Massachsetts law when the state Senate decided yesterday to sent the proposal back to committee for final fine-turning...
Massachusetts state law currently provides limited protection to homosexuals. The law allows "handicapped persons," which includes persons with AIDS or those--such as gay men--in a high risk group for the disease, to bring discrimination complaints to court...
Although a chronological account of Turing's life might make a solid social- problem drama, Whitemore and Lead Actor Derek Jacobi, who shared in the play's conception, plainly wanted something beyond gay-rights advocacy. In successive productions they have focused ever more on the intellectual insights that made Turing unique without losing either his eccentricity or his humanity. The complex structure of flashbacks and flash forwards, monologues and dreamlike incidents is meant to convey something of the flavor and psychological sources of his genius. Much like Mozart in Amadeus, this sophisticated thinker seems suspended emotionally in adolescence. As Turing...