Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Enquist's version the mistress be comes a beer-swigging lesbian, Marie Caroline David (Eileen Atkins), and the wife, Siri von Essen-Strindberg (Bibi Andersson), proclaims her love for her to Strindberg's horror, anger, jealousy and despair. The lines, mean and many, are sulfurous fumes straight from the marriage pit. In much of Enquist's play, Strindberg spews vitriolic putdowns at both women. These speeches are used to indicate the large feminine component in Strindberg's nature of which he was fully aware and which he wished to exorcise through a bludgeoning masculinity...
...added that the issue raised basic questions about the representative nature of RUS, because if RUS house representatives had consulted their constituents about the funding of the lesbian group before the meeting, there might have been opposition to the grant...
...group is only informally connected with the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association (HRGSA), and the lesbian organization decided to request RUS money in part to establish a gay group without the male predominance that has characterized the HRGSA, Rabkin said...
Mary E. Stokes '78, RUS treasurer, said yesterday the issue raised little discussion at the budget meeting because the lesbian group "seems a very natural thing for a women's organization to support...
Another vexing issue has been widening the schism: homosexual priests. In January, New York's liberal Bishop Paul Moore ordained Ellen Barrett, a lesbian, to the priesthood (TIME, Jan. 24), thereby outraging many lay Episcopalians. In a carefully worded statement, the bishops distinguished between a priesthood candidate with a "dominant homosexual orientation" and an "advocating and/or practicing" homosexual. In the latter case, the bishops said, their "present understanding" of theology makes ordination "impossible...