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...sense I am an exile here in Boston as well. As a gay person I can legally be denied my home and my job. In the eyes of society I am a second-class citizen, barely tolerated but definitely not accepted. Examples are numerous of police refusal to aid gay people being harassed or beaten; in fact, harassment of gays, by police is still widespread. Any simple demonstration of affection or even simple acknowledgement of gayness can lead to verbal abuse or physical threats--and these I have encountered at Harvard on many occasions...
...TIME of increasing discussion of women's and Third World people's oppression, there still remains enormous ignorance about the second-class citizenship of gay and lesbian people. This segment of the population, which includes members of every race, religion, and social class, is subject to legal restrictions on employment in 50 states, and on sexual activity in 29. Unwritten but culturally approved discrimination, contempt, and fear are barriers which gays and lesbians, whether open or closeted, must encounter every day. For the numerous gay students at Harvard and Radcliffe, these obstacles help to create a hostile environment for open...
...Defense is an account of the events that take place while the lawyer attempts a holiday with his wife and teen-age daughter, dubbed Saigon because it was her timely birth that kept the attorney from being sent there. Kennedy is a variegated yarn of third-rate perpetrators, second-class citizens and first-person encounters. But it works. Under the author's increasingly deft touch, events blend like coffee and Irish whisky, and conversations ring as true as coins on a mahogany...
...This is our moment in the sun, our chance to feel vital," observes Julia Rivera de Vincenty, head of George Bush's campaign on the island. "We are starting to shed our second-class image." Agrees Mario Gaztambide, finance chairman for Howard Baker: "This should convince the people in Kansas that we're more than a winter playground...
...advance U.S. support among the Third World, not to mention contribute more to their welfare, than pumping yet more arms around the globe. Maybe even that will not be credible as long as we continue to support the South Africans and keep blacks and Hispanics in a state of second-class citizenship at home. If the oil-rich shieks and the Chinese are so afraid of Russia, let them arm and train the Afghan rebels. Let them get friendly with the Baluchis before the Soviets...