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Sidewalk caf?s along Oxford Street, the city's most famous strip of nightclubs and the center of gay Sydney, fill to capacity with international partygoers, many of whom look like they have spent the past six months in a gym. Local shops are crammed with astonishing outfits that can only be described as fit for a queen. Even the elderly lady who runs the corner bookstore cashes in. "Well, dearie," she says, "we have everything here: books on leather, S&M, bisexual, lesbian, whatever...
...colored sequins, feather boas and fluorescent lights, as representatives of all aspects of gay life, from lesbian grannies to members of the Australian army, take to the streets for the annual Mardi Gras parade (this year on March 2). Dykes on Bikes, who traditionally lead the marchers down Oxford Street, rev up the crowd of more than 500,000, honking horns, raising fists and baring breasts along the way. They are followed by drag queens in full regalia and troops of shirtless muscle men dancing to the rhythms of Madonna, Cher and Australia's homegrown diva, Kylie Minogue...
Although the event is put on for the queer community, most of Sydney sees this night as the party highlight of the year. And Oxford Street is at its gayest. Bars and clubs there are generally packed on the final weekend. The Stonewall Hotel, The Oxford Hotel, ARQ and The Midnight Shift are the most popular for gay men. Lesbians gather at clubs and bars such as Caesars, the Green Park Hotel and Home nightclub. Straight and mixed venues include the Burdekin Hotel, the Exchange Hotel, NV and DCM. So, as strangers greet each other in Sydney, during the celebratory...
Take, for instance, the case of pain as an example of conscious experience. Distinguished philosopher of mind Jaegwon Kim writes, in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, that anti-physicalists have adduced the argument that “even if, say, pain should turn out to have a single neural-physical correlate across all organisms and other possible pain-capable systems, how could the painfulness of pain be a neurobiological property? In moving from the mental to the physical, we lose, it has been argued, what’s distinctively mental about mental properties...
Doubtless Holland had to hurry down to New Haven in order to deliver his testimony, but if he had crossed over from his offices on Oxford Street and paused a moment to look up at the inscription above Langdell Library, he surely would have reconsidered his misguided journey. Etched into the stone, the maxim of Harvard Law School reads “Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege”—“not under man but under God and law.” The notion that all people are equal before...