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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exempt organization with a staff of six. Their detailed reviews of new textbooks under consideration by Texas schools, and Norma's motherly testimony before the State Textbook Committee have great impact in Texas, where schools have tossed out a number of new dictionaries that included terms like "slut," "queer" and "bed, verb transitive." Their objections to a number of health and government texts aroused elected officials on the Texas Board of Education, who last month dropped five of ten books that the Gablers had opposed. What Texas does affects textbook publishers nationally, because the state selects all elementary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Was Robin Just a Hood? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...wrote my will. Left everything to my little brother, and told him not to be so stupid. Mother was right. These drugs were kicking in my brains, and they had won. All those queer movies, they must have been right. I was dying. I looked out the window and saw that it was night. When I looked again, it was day. I called the phone company, and they said it was day. Then I looked a little closer and noticed a construction crew working out on the street. With mean jackhammers and hard, old faces, they penetrated concrete and dredged...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...that mind continued to function, in its own queer way, long after his body could no longer support it-a final proof that, as had long been suspected, Wayne's pronouncements had been beamed in from UFOs. When Wayne went to that big Chuck Wagon in the Sky, he went with a Congressional decoration tacked to his left pap honoring "the actor, the man, the American." The Duke, as he was known; a fine name for a dog, a big dog, a Labrador maybe, or the kind of dog they eat in places like Vietnam...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Ding Dong | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...city hall, the demonstrators smashed windows, set nine police cruisers afire and threw bricks at the officers. "You've killed your last fag, you pig!" screamed one protester. "Get out of here, you queer!" a cop shouted back. The toll: 124 people injured, including 59 policemen. When Dan White comes up for sentencing in mid-June, the maximum penalty he can receive is seven years and eight months in prison. Said Moscone's successor, Mayor Dianne Feinstein, of the verdict: "A very hard decision for almost all of us to handle. As I look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rage in San Francisco | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Homosexuals have been called freaks for centuries. Isn't it time to do an article on the queer habits of hypocritical heterosexuals? Incest, cheating husbands and wives, child abuse, mate-swapping parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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