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...example, in 2001, a gay student at the College of New Jersey faked death threats to himself and other members of a pro-gay rights student group. In 2004, a professor at Claremont-McKenna College vandalized her own car and spray-painted it with racist and sexist epithets. Last month, a freshman at George Washington University confessed to drawing swastikas on the door of her own dorm room...
...Steve Scheffler, head of the Iowa Christian Alliance, said Romney has a good chance of splitting off some Evangelical voters because his platform has the necessary core beliefs: right to life, ban on gay marriage, school choice. "They're not a monolithic group," said Scheffler, who is also not endorsing a candidate this cycle. "They're basically bound together by very common positions on a variety of issues, but beyond that - putting those priorities in order of importance is not always a uniform of thought. Certainly other issues then come into play...
...five years before an uprising at New York City's Stonewall Inn sparked the gay-rights movement, Canadian writer Jane Rule published a novel with a radical premise. A female professor goes to Nevada to get a divorce, falls in love with a woman, and the two live happily ever after. Desert of the Heart, a landmark in gay fiction, inspired the 1985 film Desert Hearts, the first major feature to favorably depict a lesbian relationship. Rule...
...Romney applies his data-driven approach to good causes. In July 1996, Bain Managing Director Robert Gay told Romney that Gay’s 14-year-old daughter had gone missing in New York City. Immediately, Romney closed Bain’s Boston office, shipped most of its 30 employees to New York City, and established a command center in a hotel, where they wrote a five-part plan. Romney recruited 250 people from associated Wall Street firms to help with the search. Together, they posted 250,000 flyers with the girl’s picture throughout the city...
...Americans for Tax Reform and the Club for Growth, may not carry much sway with the average Iowa Caucus-goer. So this little-known, foreign policy-challenged governor—best known for losing 110 pounds while in office—may be our next president. He may believe gay marriage undermines civilization, but at least we won’t pop a blood vessel just listening...