Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same sex and thereby a hatred of those feelings in others." As you might expect, the gay community is painfully aware of homophobia when we experience it in discriminatory policies, in rejection by family and friends, in societal assumptions that we are straight, in our exclusion from mainstream culture, in censorship and misrepresentation of our culture, as well as in incidences of anti-gay epithets and violence...
...been a rather difficult year for Democrats. Political analysts had dismissed them and partisans had scolded them for losing touch with "real Americans"--that elusive mainstream which doesn't need social programs, political action committees or Mike Dukakis. Real Americans, that is, just didn't need Democrats...
...former Socialist mayor of Burlington, Vt. spoke at Dudley House last night, calling for Americans who seek to address the concerns of the poor and working classes to vote a third party into the political mainstream...
Counters Hunter: "Our program is designed to mainstream them back into society, but some kids refuse to go back to a traditional setting. They say this is the first place to tell them their career of choice isn't necessarily hairdresser." Adds Stephen Phillips, superintendent of New York City's alternative schools and programs: "If 100% of the youngsters are to get the education they are entitled to, we have to adapt to them -- go to the kids rather than expecting them to come to us. Like the addicted or the handicapped, Harvey Milk kids couldn't or wouldn...
...finally I stopped going. My parents support my being here because they support my being in school. They're handling my being gay, so I guess they're handling my being here." So far, eight students have graduated from Harvey Milk; a handful of others have returned to mainstream schools...