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...otherwise wouldn't have, and it woke up our heterosexual friends and family," says Michael Cashman, now a Labour Member of the European Parliament. In 1989, Cashman and actor Ian McKellen co-founded campaign group Stonewall. Around the same time, Cashman played the role of a kindhearted gay man on popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. As Cashman says: "We moved on and politics eventually followed." (Read: "Bad News...
...when Tony Blair's Labour government came to power, the ground was shifting. Chris Smith, the only out MP for 14 years, was named Minister of Culture. "The really astonishing thing was that no one pointed out a gay man had been appointed to the Cabinet," he says from Britain's Environment Agency, which he now runs. The same year in Exeter, a constituency in southwestern England, Conservative party candidate Adrian Rogers attacked his openly gay opponent Ben Bradshaw by describing homosexuality as "a sterile, disease-ridden and godforsaken occupation." Voters awarded Bradshaw the seat, in one of the biggest...
There's a scene in the video game 24, based on the popular television show, in which the player takes on the role of government agent Jack Bauer and tortures a terrorist. To extract a set of codes, Bauer shoots the man in the gut, slams his head on the table, refuses to call a doctor, and places his pistol against his victim's head...
...main characters of your films tend to be socially stigmatized: a tobacco lobbyist, a pregnant teen and a man who fires people for a living. What makes you work so hard to humanize these characters...
TIME has got to be kidding in naming Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Person of the Year for 2009 [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. In my opinion, the benchmark for this title must have been considerably lowered for this man to receive it. The choice of Bernanke is an insult to all the hardworking Americans across this great country who because of the routine miscalculations and failed leadership of this Federal Reserve chairman lost their home, financial investments, retirement account or steady employment through no fault of their...