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Homophobia exists, and it’s necessary that we all recognize it as a serious and deadly problem. It’s easy to insulate ourselves in a sexuality-savvy world, but just thinking back to high school conjures up a veritable hell for gay and lesbian teenagers, where they risk abuse, homelessness, eating disorders, depression and suicide. We may be in a supportive environment now, but there’s work to be done in housing, employment, education and healthcare in the larger world...
Ryan R. Thoreson ’07 lives in Grays Hall. He is secretary of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance...
...romantic comedies, Friends tends to end its seasons with weddings or births. And yet none of the Friends has had a baby the "normal" way--in the Bushian sense--through procreative sex between a legally sanctioned husband and wife. Chandler and Monica adopt. Ross has kids by his lesbian ex-wife and his unwed ex-girlfriend. Phoebe carries her half brother and his wife's triplets (one of the funniest, sweetest and creepiest situations ever--"My sister's gonna have my baby!" he whoops). As paleontologist Ross might put it, Friends is, on a Darwinian level, about how the species...
...anymore and that Americans--at least the plurality needed to make a sitcom No. 1--accept that. (To the show's discredit, it used a cast almost entirely of white-bread heteros to guide us through all that otherness.) In January 1996, when Ross's ex-wife married her lesbian lover, the episode raised scant controversy, and most of that because Candace Gingrich--the lesbian sister of Newt, then Speaker of the House--presided over the ceremony. "This is just another zooey episode of the justifiably popular Friends," yawned USA Today. Sure, sitcoms like Roseanne had introduced gays earlier...
...worked to reposition the family name on the political spectrum. When he began taking over the family business, its controversial workplace policies had earned it a long list of aggrieved parties--gays, minorities, women. Coors took steps to rebuild those relationships, including hiring Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter Mary as Coors' liaison to the gay community...