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Even more damaging is the premise that all those who find themselves in the sexual-orientation minority are necessarily in a place of self-loathing until their interpersonal interactions in some way validate their identity. As Adrian Gillan of Gaydar Nation wrote, discussing United Kingdom National Coming Out Day: “Of course, the very notion of coming out implies you were once in a closet to come out of.” In a society rife with judgment and prejudice, being different is often all one needs to feel alienated and estranged from mainstream culture...
...course, we don’t live in an ideal world. Gillan himself acknowledges that “the closet...is surprisingly all-pervading and going nowhere fast,” since we are far from an era in which “sexuality is a genuine non-issue.” But the way to phase out flawed social constructions is hardly to indulge them. Coming out has become a highly ritualized process, an often-traumatic coming-of-age requirement for all those who deviate from arbitrary societal norms for sexual behavior. Rather than demanding, as glbtq, Inc. seems...
...really just calling for God's will to be done in this election," says spokeswoman Meagan Gillan. "We want people to vote their values." With an annual budget of $1.5 million, the Prayer Team says it will continue past November, even if God's plan includes a President John Kerry. "If that's the case," says Gillan, "we'll just have to pray even harder...
...puts on the list. It has become closely watched and uniformly accepted as investment gospel. Not only is it a public embarrassment to be singled out (Time Warner, this magazine's owner, was a target in 1992 and 1993), but people are making decisions based on the list. Kayla Gillan, general counsel at CalPERS, says Reebok was chosen last summer--before its recent stock surge. C'mon, there's no excuse for not having the flexibility to adjust this list to the market. Money managers do that every day, don't they...
...opposition over the course of 40 years. The thugs back off when he threatens them; they sense that this "crazy Hebe" would just as soon die as give them a dime. History is not so easily intimidated. When World War II begins, his adolescent son Joey (Tony Gillan), inflamed by news of the death camps, enlists in the Navy with tragic results. The surviving son, Charlie (Tony Shalhoub), becomes a prosperous novelist but fails at everything else, from marriage to filial affection. Zaretsky's very life is a reproach: the "dying man with a dead language and no place...