Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McLeod also disparaged Harvard for providing inadequate security for its buildings. In view of this incident and the rape that occurred in the Science Center on December 7, she said "Harvard should take the measures to insure that women will have a working environment free from sexual harassment...
...before he ever stepped in front of the camera. His father, a newspaper pressman in Danville, Ill., beat young Gene. "Though he left town when I was 13," Hackman recalls, "he'd drift back periodically to disrupt things. I was so shy that I never dated in high school. Sexual frustration, plus my unwillingness to live up to my mother's expectations or to be a father to my younger brother, gave me more than enough reasons to get out of town and join the Marines." His lone consolations were a doting grandmother -- "a great gal, a storyteller, a sanctuary...
...civil rights movement, Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch writes that by 1963 Hoover was so convinced King was a danger to America that the bureau no longer alerted him to death threats. In late 1964 FBI agents mailed a threatening letter and tape recording of King's sexual escapades to his wife, apparently in hopes that the revelation would drive him to suicide...
...anyone who believes in even rudimentary nations of justice, it is clearly disturbing that Hampton let a clearly disturbing that Hampton let a convicted killer off with a lighter sentence because of sexual orientation of his victims...
After being evicted, fired or beaten because of their sexual orientation, these gay citizens are left to fend for themselves before prejudiced state courts and officials. The problem is becoming more pressing as more gay litigants appear in cases related to AIDS, the treatment of which has been continuously tainted with homophobia...