Word: gays
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...Bank robber Cleopatra Sims in] Set It Off. Going to work every day with Jada Pinkett and Kim Elise and Vivica A. Fox, shooting guns and driving cars, was just a lot of fun. Plus, it was kind of controversial because I played a character who was gay. People were like, "You gonna kiss a girl? In a movie?" People were against it, but I knew I could do something special with that role...
...different American and African cities in which he has lived in. Harris discussed the progression of his art over what he called a “remarkable 20-year journey.” During this journey, his art was at times an interpretation of his life as a gay African-American man, Harris said. “What does it mean somehow to... use art as a way to negotiate, to restructure the structure,” Harris said. The lecture featured a slide show of Harris’ past works, including early self-portraits, collages, and numerous photographs commissioned...
With three weeks left until Election Day and less than one week since the reversal of Connecticut’s ban on gay marriage, prominent members of the gay community visited Harvard yesterday for “An Open Discussion on LGBT Issues and the Candidates.” Organized as a debate between two prominent national LGBT advocacy groups—the Log Cabin Republicans and the Stonewall Democrats—the night’s discussion centered on gay marriage, “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” federal AIDS...
...blackboard. Other situations, however, are more ambiguous. Consider the class of first graders at a San Francisco charter school, which recently had a school-sponsored outing to attend the wedding of their lesbian teacher. Three weeks from now, California voters will vote on Proposition 8, an anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, and proponents of that measure decry the field trip as overtly political. "This is promoting same-sex marriage and indoctrinating young kids," says Frank Schubert, co-manager of the Yes on 8 Campaign. Liz Jaroflow, principal of Creative Arts Charter School, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the nuptuals...
Dining halls across campus served giant rainbow-covered cakes on Saturday as part of the weekend’s celebration of National Coming Out Day. Marco Chan ’11, co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance, said the group’s primary goal for the day was to expose Harvard students to available resources on campus. “There’s still a lot of people coming to terms with their sexual orientation,” Chan said. “One of the important things is to raise...