Word: lesbian
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...before he was stomped to death, according to a detective on the case, Truong pleaded, "Please stop. I'm sorry I ever came to your country. God forgive me." In Salem, Oregon, in September 1992, three members of the American Front group fire bombed the apartment of a black lesbian named Hattie Cohens and her roommate, a gay white man named Brian Mock, killing both. And a few months earlier in Birmingham, Alabama, three young skins awakened a homeless black man named Benny Rembert and knifed him to death. It was the killers' idea of celebration; they had been drinking...
With studied dramatics, Nunn posed several possible statements to Defense Department general counsel Jamie Gorelick. "I am a homosexual," he read from his paper. "Yes," answered Gorelick, that would trigger the presumption. "I am a lesbian," Nunn intoned. "Yes." "I am bisexual," said Nunn, who once fired two staff members for being gay, claiming they were security risks. "Yes." Finally, Nunn sprung one Gorelick hadn't expected. "I have a homosexual orientation," he said. Gorelick hesitated. Homosexual "orientation" was exactly what the new regulations tolerated in a military man or woman; admitting to it, however, was not. Yes, she agreed...
None of which will dissuade the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and the A.C.L.U.'s Lesbian and Gay Rights Project from initiating a class-action suit against the Department of Defense on First and Fifth Amendment grounds this week, in anticipation of the policy's October introduction. Some of the plaintiffs will allow themselves to be named. Others have elected to remain anonymous -- hoping to challenge Sam Nunn's rebuttable presumption without affording their military employers an opportunity to clobber them with...
...acting as God or nature -- in other words, their genes -- intended. Says spokesman Gregory J. King of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, one of the largest gay-rights lobbying groups: "This is a landmark study that can be very helpful in increasing public support for civil rights for lesbian and gay Americans." Some legal scholars think that if gays can establish a genetic basis for sexual preference, like skin color or gender, they may persuade judges that discrimination is unconstitutional...
While many gay leaders welcomed the study, some are queasy. Its very existence, they fret, implies that homosexuality is wrong and defective. Says Donald Suggs of the New York chapter of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: "Homosexuality is not something to justify and explain, but something that should be accepted. Until people accept us, all the scientific evidence in the world will not do anything to change homophobia." Moreover, gays are worried that precise identification of a "gayness gene" might prompt efforts to tinker with the genetic code of gay adults or to test during pregnancy and abort potentially...