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Absolutely. I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd "never met one" were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open. Certainly groups like ACT UP [and] Larry Kramer brought a lot of it into the open. But I think there also has just been a willingness on the parts of people like myself...
...fans tell you about being gay when you talk with them...
...there are large Asian and Turkish communities, only 11% of officers come from ethnic minorities. That's better than the Met as a whole, where minorities account for just 8.3% of police. But, says Dann, "we have independent advisers who are community representatives: Jewish, Turkish, black, faith, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
...from agreeable fable into wan satire. Why 10 days? To show that the electoral process is a shameless sham in which politicians pretzel their principles to get elected. The two candidates come courting Bud. Drawing their own inferences from his cryptic remarks, the Republican (Kelsey Grammer) suddenly plumps for gay marriage, while the Democrat (Dennis Hopper) turns pro-life. The movie says these are decent men forced to reverse field by their Machiavellian advisers (Stanley Tucci as, essentially, Karl Rove; Nathan Lane as, more or less, Robert Shrum). If this is the case, then they're not decent, and neither...
Obama has to run up a healthy margin among Oakland's affluent independents and Republicans, who have been crossing over to vote Democratic in recent elections. David Woodward, the county Democratic chairman, says many potential Obama supporters "are really moderate Republicans. They're pro-choice. Their hairstylists are gay. They don't get worked up about teaching evolution...