Word: granted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago or in many other major American cities just a few years ago. Gay Life, a local homosexual weekly, organized street patrols to stop the assaults. They were also aided by "straight" volunteers from neighborhood community associations. Moreover, they were helped by the Chicago police. Says a rather astonished Grant Ford, publisher of Gay Life: "The community groups came to our help right away. They saw us as neighbors rather than gays. The police were even more amazing. They were totally cooperative...
Among the gays, there is a basic split between those who flaunt a defiant lifestyle and the closeted, who grant that "drag queens" and "flaming fags" have called attention to the gays' plight by marching in the streets, yet would never dream of emulating them. There are other divisions. Black homosexuals charge, with some justice, that the gay rights movement is dominated by whites who are often no less racist than straight society. At the same time they are rejected, and vehemently, by heterosexual blacks. Says Terri Clark, a Washington lesbian activist: "The black community is extremely homophobic, because...
...Berklee, the Hotel Bradford Ballroom, and the Boston University Theater. Since Articulture is non-profit, funding for the $50,000 program is coming from the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, the Massachusetts Contemporary Dance Association, the Boston Phoenix, the Capezio Foundation, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and an $8500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts...
...universities would gain little from a ban on intelligence gathering under cover of overseas research. It would neither cause foreign countries to release secrets to American professors which they had not revealed before nor grant them any wider freedom of travel or access. Needless to say, strange research projects sustained by the CIA--such as MK ULTRA--discredit the agency and faculty concerned as do attempts by academics to spy on radical groups on campus. Congress must insist these activities cease immediately...
...Grant Davis...