Word: homophobia
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Stewart attributes much of the hype over AIDS to homophobia. "Anti-gay feelings which previously could not be articulated are now being expressed in the name of health. Some people use AIDS to claim pseudo-scientific justification for their bigotry," Jake Stevens says...
Throughout, Reilly maintains the properly ironic tone. There is no special pleading about British homophobia; Wilde is a collaborator in his own misfortune. Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Frank Harris and the Edwardian elite are given delightful cameo roles, and the prose has the appropriate drawing-room astringency: Shaw and Wilde might have been close friends "if they only had less in common." If this is a novel with an excess of surface, that was, after all, its subject's salient feature. The important part, as Wilde would insist, is that the thing glitter. And so it does...
...unknown to most students, making complaint routes impossible to follow. He said he would encourage students to learn the procedures and to file complaints through proper channels. In addition, the article misquoted Dorothee E. Benz '87. She did not say that racism is more prevalent at Harvard than homophobia, but the opposite...
Many gay activists fear that the stigma of AIDS will wipe out almost two decades of progress in homosexual rights. Tales of AIDS-related homophobia abound: in New York City, some diners avoid restaurants that have gay waiters. In Washington, D.C., a doctor requires gays to be tested for AIDS before he will give them hair transplants. In Louisville, city detectives donned rubber gloves before entering a gay bar to check for underage drinkers. Says Ken Vance, director of a gay counseling center in Houston: "It's going to get worse before it gets better. As more people become aware...
Another area which deserves attention is undergraduate housing. There is not now any comprehensive statement which addresses the homophobia many gay students face in residential houses. Instead, house master and tutors handling complaints from students about anti-gay hostility now deal with these cases on an individual basis. Additionally, understanding of and sympathy for the unique problems faced by gays and lesbians (and indeed, other minorities) varies widely from house to house...