Word: homophobia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...film looks at the ways in which males in hip-hop culture portray an exaggerated image of what masculinity is. Like many others, Hurt believes that the focus on misogyny and homophobia in hip-hop overwhelms its more creative aspects, but that the solution to this problem goes beyond merely creating more positive hip-hop. “That’s like saying, ‘I don’t like racism, but we just need more not racist things said,’” Hurt says...
...These examples all have aspects of opinion leadership in them—perhaps we are being told to think abortion is acceptable, casual homophobia is wrong, and philanthropy is imperative. More likely, though, pop culture is reifying our already-shared but unexpressed belief that the emperor has no clothes...
...smiles as she lifts a picture of the two of them on their wedding day, recounting the fanfare that accompanied her Memorial Church ceremony a few years ago.For many, the Lowell House masters are just one of a string of signs marking the decline of homophobia at Harvard. According to most members of the queer community, it’s easy to be out in Cambridge, the first American city to perform a legal gay marriage ceremony. Some of the College’s most powerful administrators are gay. The Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA...
...weeks ago in Oxnard, Calif., Lawrence King—an eighth-grader who had recently come out as gay and had begun wearing makeup and dressing like a woman—was shot in the head by a 14-year-old classmate. While crimes motivated by homophobia are unfortunately not unheard of, this incident struck many as particularly disturbing. This murder at a middle school in a comfortable, middle-class beach community has been classified as a hate crime for which the perpetrator—who is being tried as an adult—faces up to 52 years...
...classmate is just another reminder of how much work remains. If the “ceiling” that still confronts LGBT people in this country—“don’t ask, don’t tell,” marriage prohibitions, and homophobia in general—is going to be broken, silence will not be the tool that does...