Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite a number of recent setbacks, my vision for gay and lesbian rights remains positive. Our message, instead of being a footnote on the back page of the newspaper, is now front page news. We have fought and won many battles against state and local anti-gay initiatives. We have created a positive atmosphere for lesbians and gays in communities and families...
...coming out. Although violence and bigotry still exist, and although we must always remain vigilant, conditions for lesbians and gays continue to improve. Organizations like PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) are proving that strong families can exist within the gay community. And there are an increasing number of lesbian and gay candidates for office...
...same standard for homosexuals and heterosexuals: no sex outside wedlock. But its opponents point out a double standard: the church does not allow monogamous, same-sex couples to marry. "I feel like my church has slapped me in the face," says Scott Anderson, co-moderator of Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns. "This is an action rooted in fear and not in love." Anderson had been pastor of the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Sacramento, California, until members of his congregation, opposed to some of his policies, "outed" him in 1990. He had been closeted till then and involved...
...basis of faulty information and silly suppositions. Case in point: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck). He draws underground comic books with his boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee). Then he meets Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she?s a lesbian. Well, nobody?s perfect. And, indeed, she?s not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden?s passion. This makes him feel terrific?the superstud who has conquered the unconquerable. Except that Banky?who has some homoerotic issues of his own to sort out?discovers otherwise. Alyssa has had male lovers...
...basis of faulty information and silly suppositions. Case in point: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck). He draws underground comic books with his boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee). Then he meets Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), also a comix artist, and falls into obsession. The problem is, she?s a lesbian. Well, nobody?s perfect. And, indeed, she?s not perfectly gay, for eventually she succumbs to Holden?s passion. This makes him feel terrific?the superstud who has conquered the unconquerable. Except that Banky?who has some homoerotic issues of his own to sort out?discovers otherwise. Alyssa has had male lovers...