Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infant heir to the throne of Barataria. That's bad. And to add to the confusion: the infant heir is supposed to have grown up in innocent obscurity to be a Venetian gondolier, or rather, one of two Venetian gondoliers, brothers, who have--rather awkwardly--recently married. Only one person can truly identify the next King of Barataria: that is Inez, coincidentally the mother of the grandee's solo retainer, Luiz, a lowly but virtuous drummer boy who is carrying on a secret but virtuous affair with Casilda. Although not exactly Newsweek cover story material, this complicated nonsense is just...
...interviews are brutal. Well, not brutal but comprehensive," Robert T. Puopolo '79, a big brother volunteer, said yesterday. "When they ask for references, they aren't kidding around. They send out questionnaires asking them, 'Would you trust your children with this person?'" he added...
...than that. It is an "autobiography" covering, at length, Joslin's family, the present and the past. The bored critic felt this was all "self-indulgence." But as a gay man I know the tribute exacted by so many people for this kind of honesty. It takes a brave person to face it and pay it, be it in the form of Mrs. Joslin's dislike of Tom's lover, his father's embarrassment, fag-baiting, physical abuse, or the activities and hatred of Anita Bryant. Unlike the critic of December 2, the audience of December 3 realized this...
...realize that coming out is a continuing process. Even though I am fairly openly gay, almost every person who meets me, perhaps for the rest of my life, will assume until told otherwise that I am straight--and will impose his or her straight expectations upon me. For the rest of my life, I will be surprising people--shocking some people, dismaying some people--for the simple fact...
...fact, the ruling may be more accurate than the magistrate intended. It may well be that no single person can be held guilty of the murder of Steve Biko; an indictment of the entire apartheid system is far more appropriate. Biko would not be dead if he had not been jailed for political activity, and he would not have been engaged in "illegal" political activity if his country's entire legal, economic and social system were not founded on racism and exploitation of 19 million blacks by 4.5 million whites. His death--like the deaths of so many other brave...