Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lavishly billed "OUT on the Edge 1995," this year's Festival of Lesbian and Gay Theater, sponsored by The Theater Offensive, features two intensely personal stories as its centerpieces. Peggy Shaw's You're Just Like My Father is a knockout slice of lesbian life while Craig Hickman '90 gyrates his way into the trials of growing up black in skin and ornaments. Written by its performers, the pieces explore the one-person-show format, to polar degrees of success...
Shaw is a formidable and charismatic figure on stage, introducing herself by wrapping her breasts and hands like a boxer preparing for a fight. She filters her identity as a butch lesbian through images of a military man and a male gigolo...
...definite slant. It was formed a group of campus liberals, largely editors of Perspective, and has sought to expand by actively targeting members of various minority groups: PUCC is wooing the Asian American Association, RAZA, the Southeast Asian Association, the Black Students' Association, and the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association. Introducing this element of partisan politicization to the council, where members should instead have a common interest in the non-partisan affairs of students, only divides an already fractionalized council along new lines of cleavage...
...group represent a particularly affluent brand of consumer. Childless more often than not, gays typically have far more disposable income than do straights. "They clearly spend disproportionately more on travel than any other group," says Rex Briggs, project manager for Yankelovich Partners, a polling firm that surveyed gay and lesbian spending patterns. Gay travelers also tend to be more loyal than straights: surveys show they are especially appreciative of good service, and, if pleased, will return to a restaurant, hotel or resort again and again--as Miami's tourism officials discovered when they noticed that gays were continuing to visit...
...American Airlines: in 1993 the airline was widely denounced after one of its flight crews had a man with AIDS removed from a plane after he refused to put away his IV bottle; a year ago, the airline appointed a sales manager assigned solely to the gay and lesbian market. "We realized that gay and lesbian people travel an awful lot," says American Airlines spokesman Tim Kincaid, and so far the company has booked more than $15 million worth of business from gay tours and conventions...