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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film's politically correct earnestness. One of the group, Natalie (JoBeth Williams), is a movie critic who raises money to make a film about homeless women. Another, Maggie (Talia Shire), is a nun who faces a spiritual crisis after she helps a woman get an abortion. There are lesbian revelations, a discussion of the Anita Hill hearings and rampant man bashing. Rheza (Lindsay Crouse) has been dumped by her husband and bears a grudge. Hannah (Helen Slater) is married to Natalie's ex-husband, and the two compare notes about the stinker. "If you can love him, love him," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hot-Tub Big Chill | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...link to mothers may help explain a conundrum: If homosexuality is hereditary, why doesn't the trait gradually disappear, as gays and lesbians are probably less likely than others to have children? The answer suggested by the new research is that genes for male homosexuality can be carried and passed to children by heterosexual women, and those genes do not cause the women to be homosexual. A similar study of lesbians by Hamer's team is taking longer to complete because the existence and chromosomal location of responsible genes is not as obvious as it is in men. But preliminary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born Gay? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...realize that our of political necessity some sort of compromise was necessary," said School of Public Health Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Organization member of the Harvard Leadership Council of gay, bisexual and lesbian campus groups, "But I don't think the compromise language is morally acceptable...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: President Announces Compromise on Gay Ban | 7/20/1993 | See Source »

Fellow Leadership Council member Charles L. Outcalt, a member of the Divinity School GABLE, the school's gay, lesbian and bisexual student organization, said he was not really surprised that Clinton failed to end the ban on gays in the military...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: President Announces Compromise on Gay Ban | 7/20/1993 | See Source »

Outcalt said he thought the policy could not possibly work for both the military and the gay and lesbian men and women serving in it. "If the goal is unit cohesion. I think lying to your fellow soldiers destroys unit cohesion," he said, "If it does work, it will be bad for the military...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: President Announces Compromise on Gay Ban | 7/20/1993 | See Source »

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