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While praising the book's analysis of antihomosexual sentiment, many gays reject its arguments. Self-acceptance is still a major hurdle for gay men and women, critics insist. But they are most riled by the suggestion that gays need to tone down and blend in: that would slash at the heart of the gay- rights movement, they charge. Says Sherrie Cohen of the Fund for Human Dignity: "We're for embracing diversity and for protecting the civil rights of anyone who is perceived as 'different.' " Toby Marotta, a sociologist in San Francisco, finds the book's thesis the same "homophile...
Women in the speedy suburbs need a guilt-free place to gather. Old-fashioned women's clubs no longer seem to fill the bill. The country-club lunch -- a large helping of chitchat served with a garnish of innuendo -- is too fattening and "unsupportive." Self-employed or with part-time jobs, with homes to run and volunteer work to do, what woman can spare three hours for the afternoon bridge club? "Even though there's been a revolution," says instructor Anne Grossman, a part owner of the Pennington Jazzercise Center, "we women have been taught that you don't waste...
...They are the cement that holds the classes together. Says Grossman: "There's a sense of shared community here about the fact that there's not enough time, the kids won't do the dishes, and father paces the floor when daughter is out on the first date. You need to hear that everybody else is going through...
...provocative new book argues that most Americans still fear and hate homosexuals and that to overcome the hostility, gay men and women need to tone down and blend...
Later books grew out of the need for fresh subjects. "England is not laid out like Trinidad. Its life goes on behind closed doors," he notes. "To get material, I've had to travel." What Naipaul conveyed in nonfiction such as An Area of Darkness and The Loss of El Dorado and in his novels Guerrillas and A Bend in the River changed Western perceptions of the underdeveloped world. Free of their colonial keepers, new nations had to confront their own hearts of darkness. In Africa the author found tribalism overgrowing hopes of progress; in India he observed that poverty...