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...TITLE: QUEER IN AMERICA: SEX, THE MEDIA, AND THE CLOSETS OF POWER...
Nonetheless, Shilts' opus will be around much longer than Michelangelo Signorile's Queer in America. The deterioration begins in the first lines of the introduction. "There exists in America what appears to be a brilliantly orchestrated, massive conspiracy to keep all homosexuals locked in the closet." Four lines later, Signorile's great conspiracy is "a relatively unconscious one, ingrained as it is in our culture...
...least seven non-Harvard affiliated groups, including the radical ACT UP and Queer Nation, will rally in the Square on Commencement Day to protest speaker Gen. Colin L. Powell and the ban on gays in the military, Harvard anti-ban activists said yesterday...
...American Civil Liberties Union, the Fenway Community Health Center, the Lavender Political Alliance, Operation Lift the Ban and Queer Nation are planning "a rally in Harvard Square in between the morning and afternoon ceremonies," said Michael D. O'Laughlin, a member of the Graduate School of Education Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Students and a member of the Commencement Pride Coalition...
...useful and possibly progressive. Before the gay-rights movement, homosexuality was conceived as a diffuse menace, attached to no particular group and potentially threatening everyone, at least in its "latent" form. So, naturally, as gays came out, they insisted on a unique and prideful group identity: We're queer, and we're here! How else do you get ahead in America except by banding together and hoisting a flag...