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The BGLTSA members designed signs at "creativity day," a poster-making event, according to Sulmers. The posters featured a spectrum of slogans such as: "Homophobia is so passe" and a Guess Jeans symbol with the slogan "Guess who is gay?"
If mass protests are passe, a new personalized activism is growing. Grandiose is out; pragmatic is in. Asked if "all products that pollute the environment should be banned," only a third of Xers agreed, vs. half of boomers. Self-righteousness has given way to situational ethics. Their parents fought attack...
Adams was off by a couple of days (he was marking the resolution of independence; we celebrate the signing of the Declaration). But regarding the guns, bonfires and illuminations, he was right on target. In typically American fashion, fireworks displays have grown passe by overuse; they embellish everything these days...
The vogue for southwestern decor and food may be as passe as the vogue for Northwestern rock bands, but New Mexico retains its grip on the national imagination, fighting off contenders like Florida (South Beach! Backyard gators!) and North Dakota (Partial site of a Coen brothers movie!) for the title...
The Soviet empire is so passe. Diplomats gloat over the fall of the evil empire while economists gleefully herald the triumph of The Market. The same liberal intellectuals who had once defended the notion of a socialist society now denounce it as merely another imperialist ideology propagated by dead white...