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...public knew or cared, he was just an ordinary homosexual living and working in a world that, by tacit agreement, did not pry into people's sex lives. Even when the media came out of the closet -- pencils erect and cameras hot -- to chase stories about the New Libido, homosexuality was still a taboo subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Out The Closets | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...they played nanny. Now, with the empire in eclipse, Britons have turned inward to the late 20th century task of controlling themselves and found that the new ordeal is no less vexing than the old. Their hearts may explode through their Savile Row vests, but it's stiff upper libido all round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stiff Upper Libido | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...Broadway musical Falsettos. He certainly isn't interested in autobiographical pain of the kind that Larry Kramer so affectingly revisits in his off-Broadway drama The Destiny of Me. He seems especially unsympathetic to closet cases and bisexuals, as personified in a Mormon character whose ambitions clash with his libido: the man's straight wife and gay lover both cast him aside. Politically, Angels preaches to the choir, celebrating gay anger and self-righteousness (to gleeful whoops from the audience) rather than explaining gay angst to the uninitiated. The author and the delighted spectators reflect an evolution in attitude akin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrating Gay Anger | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...moment when the American libido seems to oscillate between Puritanism and rampant exhibitionism, how significant is it that for the first time in more than 30 years the nation has elected a President with sex appeal? The last six Presidents -- Bush, Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson -- combined do not conjure up enough erotic energy to fill a single room at the No-Tell Motel. Forget Gennifer Flowers -- this is not the moment to descend into the muck of her sleazy allegations. Rather, the swooning and the cooing on the rope lines during the last breathless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby-boomer Bill Clinton: A Generation Takes Power | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...this is Prince's libido on parade, then ithas seen better days. Nothing on this release cancompare to the ingenuity of earlier sex-mindedtracks like "Kiss" (from Parade) or, forvulgarity comparisons, "Darling Nikki" (fromPurple...

Author: By Danielle A. Phillip, | Title: Princely Smut | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

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