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Shortly after 8 a.m. last Friday, Dan White was freed from prison, having served five years of a seven-year eight-month sentence for killing San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay activist. At noon, 1,000 San Franciscans protested by marching noisily through the city's financial district, blowing whistles and shouting, "He got away with murder." Sister Boom-Boom, a transvestite dressed in a nun's wimple and veil and motorcycle leathers, told the crowd, "Dan White's got a new life sentence - and it's not going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uneasy Freedom | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...said only that White planned to live in Los Angeles County (pop. 7.6 million). Milk's former lover, Scott Smith, says that he is "pretty much resigned to White getting out of prison" and that most other gays are too. Milk would not want revenge, according to Smith. "Harvey was against the death penalty. He was a nonviolent person. He was in favor of gun control." The fear last week was that others would not be so forgiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uneasy Freedom | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...Cage aux Folies. The one megabit musical in a torpid Broadway season, Harvey Fierstein's gay valentine boasts a spectacular turn by George Hearn, as a Saint-Tropez drag queen, and surefire Jerry Herman songs that might have been composed on a calliope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: THE BEST OF 1983: Theater | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

...opening night. Worse, for the main stem's economic and emotional health, there have been no successful romantic comedies in more than a year. It says something dour about Broadway, its playwrights and its audience that the last laugh-till-you-cry hit was Torch Song Trilogy, Harvey Fierstein's savvy sudser about a not-so-gay drag queen. You may begin to wonder if there are any heterosexuals out there who both feel deeply and write funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Broadway's Big Endearment | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

Paced by Junior John Solomon's 19 points, junior Matt Acker's 17 and senior Chris Harvey's 13, the Harvard Classics basketball club downed Hanscom Air Force Base, 76-73, yesterday afternoon at Briggs Cage. The win raises the club's record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Classics | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

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