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Some of the generational split is ideological. The younger gays are more apt to be publicly outspoken about their sexuality and militant about social issues. They provide the bulk of the manpower for ACT-UP and Queer Nation, the two largest militant groups, and they are the gays most likely to endorse such extreme tactics as "outing" -- exposing the secret homosexuality of people who are judged to have hurt the movement or, sometimes, simply to have failed to do enough to help it. Older gay men are more apt to be somewhat closeted, to emphasize working within the system rather...
...earnestness. Expo '92 must be the first with strong whiffs of deliberate irony and in-your-face perversity. The Red Cross, of all people, has erected one of the edgiest, most bizarro world pavilions of all, with red steel I beams shooting past thin white metal uprights at queer angles, red brick walls zigzagging crazily. Deconstructivism, a fading fad, has found its perfect project not a moment too soon: according to an Expo spokeswoman, the architecture is an allusion to the Red Cross's role in assisting victims of earthquakes...
...Reel Queer Lesbian, Gay, Bi Film Festival Longfellow Hall, Radcliffe Yard April 9 Through April...
...Anita": Film festivals are crucial because distribution's hard--the films are underfunded and often censored. Going to the gay/ lesbian/bi film festival is a chance to see another culture, as much as to go see a foreign film. Queer life has its own culture--and its own diversity--in race, class, region, eating style... Sandi: If we could do some things differently, I feel like it's good we have a lot of Black lesbian and gay work, but not much Asian or Latino work--there should be more of that shown here...
Meredith: It's empowering too, this film festival, it's a place to come and see what the community looks like., It's something really wonderful to be in a room of all queer or queer-positive people...