Word: gays
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...spent predominantly in trees. But it is the bonobos' social behavior that fascinates humans. While gorillas beat their chests and chimpanzees fight savage wars, bonobos appear to be largely animals of peace. They live communally, enjoy gender equality and, when disputes occur, resolve their differences through sex--straight sex, gay sex and sometimes, when different bonobo troops cross paths, group sex. "Their basic disposition is compassionate," says Sally Coxe, president and a co-founder of the Washington-based nonprofit group Bonobo Conservation Initiative (BCI), who is guiding our trip...
...same thing that happened on Columbia’s campus when Ahmadinejad came.” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in case anyone’s forgotten, is the current President of Iran, who, in addition to favoring the dissolution of Israel and denying the Holocaust occurred, is anti-gay and anti-gender equality. The only equivalent denouncement conducted by the HRC that Zafran could think of was the club’s criticism of last year’s worker’s wages hunger strike led by the Student Labour Action Movement. But as Zafran conceded, that was a denouncement...
...wanted to title his lecture “History Ate My Homework.” “Plays are really more about arguing than storytelling, more about combat than plot, more about dialectics than narrative,” he said. Kushner’s work has engaged with gay life and AIDS in the 1980s (“Angels in America”), the political situation in Afghanistan (“Homebody/Kabul”), race and class during the Civil Rights movement (the autobiographical musical “Caroline, or Change”), and, most recently, the broad...
...last few weeks, Jay Leno was railed against for asking Ryan Phillipe to give his “gayest look” to the camera after discussing the actor’s early role as a young gay man on “One Life to Live.” The event, a pop cultural incident salient and accessible to millions, vocalized a broad consensus that casual jokes based on gay stereotypes are not acceptable...
...Well, most of it. I like living in Manhattan (#26) and by the water (#51), and going to Wrigley Field (#30). I preach the educational value of liberal arts degrees (#47) and study abroad (#72) - and I have big plans to raise my children multilingual (#78). I love my gay friends and wish I had more (#88), and I have a thing for NPR (#44), Asian fusion food (#45), The Wire (#85) and Patagonia fleeces (#87). I appreciate microbreweries (#23) and Mos Def (#69). And I have two last names...