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...Owens had watched it start, hearing what she called "a queer swishing noise" and then a "ploop" as a big sycamore tree in the next lot plummeted straight into the earth. She called the police. They could do nothing but cordon off the area as thousands of sightseers arrived to watch the hole grow. The owner of a $40,000 1979 Porsche 928 hired a helicopter and then a construction crane to retrieve his car, in for repairs at a garage bitten into by the hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Sinking Feeling... | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...their ammunition." Lieut. Jorge, a squad commander, struggled to set up a 60-mm mortar while his men fired M79 grenade launchers at the enemy gunners. When the first mortar shell overshot its target, a taunting cry echoed from the guerrillas' hilltop position: "Come and get us, you queer cowards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: We Are from These People | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

Gays are oppressed. The early life of every gay is filled with taunts of "fag" and "queer." These teach him to hate what he is. They make admission of his homosexuality to himself a crushing blow. The gay with enough courage to step out of his closet is also oppressed. He is ostracized by many of his friends, often completely rejected by his friends, often completely rejected by his family, regarded as misguided or demented by the rest of society, harassed, ridiculed, and sometimes even physically attacked. Even if a gay is accepted by his family and friends, he still...

Author: By Nathan S. Szanton, | Title: When Your Best Friend Tells You He's Gay | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

...Kill a queer for Jesus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Writings on the Wall | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...Paterson, a wily scavenger escaping from the Great Depression, sleeping on box cars, eating from cans, living like a tent peg in a one-ring circus. And then one night the star of Bethlehem Steel leads him to the private game reserve of one queer millionaire, autobody magnate F. W. Bennett, drawing-room Zeus, master of Loon Lake...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Conjurer of Words | 11/8/1980 | See Source »

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