Word: lesbian
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...have three acres outside the city," she says of the home she shares with her partner Karune Neustadt near the small college town of Corvallis. But people know her -- and know how to find her. Ever since the youth minister of Corvallis' First Congregational Church came out as a lesbian and an advocate for homosexual rights, she has regularly received death threats. "We're very visible, and the police chief said these death threats were some of the ugliest things she's ever heard in her life. When people talk about coming after you with baseball bats and putting...
...thought about leaving," says Donna Taylor, a lesbian who lives in Talent, Oregon. And she has had good reason to want to. More than 20 years ago, before she came out, she was raped by an acquaintance "who knew enough about me to know I was a lesbian. The man said he was going to teach me how to act like a woman if it killed me." Taylor is still subjected to rude remarks on street corners. Tomatoes have been mashed inside her mailbox. Her partner's daughter has been harassed. But Taylor will not change her life -- nor will...
...Trousers lacks a certain substantiality and maturity that Falsettos contains, but it also thankfully lacks the "Cosby-Show" digestibility that made Falsettos such a hit. Falsettos seemed preoccupied with a "family values" message, even if that meant "alternative family values" that included son and father and gay lover and lesbian caterers...
Kathryn L. Schnaible, head of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Association of Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Graduate Students and a member of the Leadership Council of campus gay, lesbian and bisexual student and faculty groups, said she doubted if the gay community at Harvard would support "don't ask/don't tell...
...quite surprised to read in the June 10 issue of The Crimson that "the only [Harvard student] group that took a vocal stand against Harvard's connection to ROTC was the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA)." Although David Lat's article, "Where Have All the Liberals Gone?" highlighted partisan organizations, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) has been on record as opposing the continued affiliation of ROTC with the university since April...