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BOSTON--Surrounded by a motorcade of police officers and mounted police, members of the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Pride Committee marched in yesterday's St. Patrick's Day parade amid catcalls and applause...
...After his arrest in 1983 for entering the U.S. illegally, the British government sought his extradition. But a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that the murder had been a political act and denied the application. Doherty remained in jail, and his cause was taken up by members of the Irish-American community, including prominent politicians...
...City, N.J., a seaside resort founded by teetotaling Methodist ministers who sought a prim and sober alternative to glitzy Atlantic City nearby. Growing up "olive-skinned in a freckle-faced town," young Gay felt himself an alien in Ocean City -- the butt, at parochial school, of ethnic slurs by Irish-American classmates whose brothers served with the American forces liberating Italy during World War II. He even felt somewhat of a foreigner in his own family. His father Joseph, a workaholic tailor and dry cleaner, was strict, austerely religious, often remote; his cool, fastidious mother Catherine froze at human touch...
...Irish-American, I have been constantly harassed by the pervasive images of the British Empire within our community, particularly the display of British flags in windows and common areas. According to page 87 of the Student Handbook, racial harrasment is "any action on the part of an individual or group that causes another individual or group to feel demeaned or abused because of racial or ethnic background...
...light -- light all around." Georgia O'Keeffe spent her life trying to recapture that elemental radiance on paper and canvas. The quest began obscurely on the loam of Sun Prairie, Wis., and ended famously in the desert of Abiquiu, N. Mex. O'Keeffe was the daughter of an Irish-American farmer and a Hungarian American of aristocratic descent. As art historian Roxana Robinson discloses in this romantic but insightful biography, both strains were apparent from the beginning. The child had six siblings, and she could be highly social and convivial. But it took great effort, and she once admitted...