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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GLIB attorney Gretchen Van Ness said that gaysand lesbians are still the target of a bigotrythat goes largely unnoticed...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Gays Excluded From Parade | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

...Blacks, Jews or other protected minoritieshad this happen to them, it would be crystal clearthat this is discrimination," Van Ness said...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Gays Excluded From Parade | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

...Ness compared her group's efforts toparticipate in the St. Patrick's parade to thestruggles fought by civil rights leaders whosought to march in Selma, Ala., in the 1960s...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Gays Excluded From Parade | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

GLIB has appealed the lower court's rulingwhich permitted SBAWVC to hold this year's protestmarch and exclude gays from the parade. The U.S.Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on April25, Van Ness said...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Gays Excluded From Parade | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

This blatant association of "girlish[ness]" with an ability to formulate well-reasoned, logical opinions resonated loudly with the previous day's debate. Here was an unambiguously negative use of a term denoting femaleness, in which the negative implications sprang from the very gender being invoked. One could not ignore the gendered root of this word, without losing the idea it was expressing: that certain people acted in a way characteristic of young females, by arguing a point in an irresponsible, giddy manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat, McGuire Insensitive to Women | 12/3/1994 | See Source »

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