Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most emotional issue was abortion, the thorniest was the question of homosexual rights. Many delegates feared that inclusion of a plank calling for the end to discrimination on the basis of sexual preference would discredit the whole national plan in the eyes of the public ?and Congress. During the debate, Betty Friedan, who had long argued that endorsing lesbian rights would hurt the women's movement, rose to announce a change of heart: "As someone who has grown up in Middle America and has loved men?perhaps too well?I've had trouble with this issue. But we must...
...counterrally voiced the concerns of large numbers of women (and men) who have instinctive and philosophical objections to abortion and homosexuality. Some may agree that homosexuals should not be discriminated against in jobs or housing and still draw the line at the notion that homosexuality is a mere sexual "preference," morally neutral and not damaging to children. Critics see the conference program as leading to the erosion of the family and further blurring of male and female roles in a society whose standards, they believe, have substantially declined. Many of the pro-family supporters are religious fundamentalists whose views derive...
Lesbian Rights. "Sexual preference," the feminist euphemism for lesbian rights, was not on the original agenda for Houston, but under the rules any subject had to be considered if ten or more state conventions asked for it. The demand for a lesbian rights provision came thundering down from no fewer than 36 state conventions. "It was obviously a grass-roots movement," says Lenore McNeer, who chaired the Vermont delegation and was one of the delegates who felt that lesbian rights is a civil liberties issue inappropriate to the agenda of a women's rights convention. But in the interest...
...calls for an end to discrimination on the basis of "sex" and "affectional preference" in child-custody suits; in housing, employment, credit, public accommodations, Government-funded projects and the military; and in state laws restricting "private sexual behavior between consenting adults." Recognizing that many women feared that the resolution would hurt chances for passage of the ERA, Arizona Delegate Sue Dye explained: "It was a matter of sympathy, even though it makes things more difficult politically." Agreed Kentucky's Allie Hixson, chairwoman of her delegation: "This is a women's rights issue because if any group of individuals...
...Braddick (Diana Gamser) an innocent, honest and studious girl from the midwest who enjoyed bake sales in high school, Susan Ward (Victoria Allan), a high falutin' preppie from Milton; and Maggie Cochran (Lisa Beach), an aggressive, sexy wise-cracker. Maggie tells Stanley after he shrinks in tension from her sexual advances, "How do you whistle? Just put your lips together and blow...