Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faking that he's crazy?" she asks, repeating the question that frames the three-week-old murder and racketeering trial. She looks around cautiously and says, "Let me put it this way. Was Eleanor Roosevelt a lesbian? And the Gigante mother was wonderful. I don't know how she could have a son like that. Of course, another son is a priest, and one who died, I think he might have been homosexual." Not quite the holy trinity. But if true, it has to be some kind of trifecta...
These days, it seems better to refuse than to receive. LARRY KRAMER, bellicose playwright and activist, wanted to bequeath several million dollars to Yale for a tenured chair in gay and lesbian studies. Yale, which doesn't like to take instruction from benefactors, said "it was inappropriate to endow in perpetuity a professorship in an academic area yet to be well established or defined," and wanted to put his money elsewhere. Kramer opted out. "It has been a very distasteful experience," says the playwright. Meanwhile in St. Paul, Minn., artist LEROY NEIMAN withdrew an offer to donate $4.5 million worth...
...stale air," raved a critic. "Grunge Godot." Smith was 24 and already anointed by Hollywood, but his next movie, the $6 million Mallrats, flopped. Now, at 26, he is back onscreen with the acclaimed Chasing Amy, a witty, trash-talking, politically incorrect comedy on the theme Boy Meets Lesbian...
Oppenheimer takes credit for working with fellow activists to force College administrators to open a gay student center. In the same breath, he also blames the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) for avoiding the kind of flamboyant public image that he says is needed to foster an environment that fosters discussion about gay issues...
...says that as political chair, he made the then-Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students' Alliance (BGLSA) one of the most often heard, if not influential, voices on campus. And yet, during his term as political chair, he received no fewer than 10 requests by "more conservative, assimilationist gay students... almost exclusively gay men" to tone down his protests and to organize a gay Republican political group...