Word: sexualizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This same policy was probably used 50 years ago by people who didn't want a black roommate. This same policy could be used for the benefit of anti-Semites, anti-Asians, anti-Catholics. With slight tweaking, any bigot can get roommates of the ethnic background, religious beliefs or sexual orientation of his or her choice...
When was the last time you talked about sharing a room with someone who is gay? If sexual orientation has come up lately, it was more likely over dinner, when you and your friends analyzed the political implications of a policy on gays in the military...
...your legitimate representative government, the Undergraduate Council has just spoken on our behalf when it passed a series of anti-homophobic bills last week. The University will now have to think again about its automatic policy of switching students out of their suites because they experience discomfort with the sexual orientation of their roommates...
...lesbian delegates, "I will be vigilant in assuring that we do not make statements that can be construed as sanctioning hate or antagonism against homosexuals." Visitors said Falwell apologized for making hateful diatribes against gay people, and called on parents to love their children regardless of their sexual orientation...
Back in Laramie, arguments began in Aaron McKinney's murder trial this week. McKinney's lawyers chose the familiar "homosexual panic" defense, portraying Shepard as a sexual predator who licked McKinney's ear and touched his genitals. Enraged and frightened, his lawyers said, McKinney responded with brutal violence, beating the slender college student over and over with the butt of a gun. In at a summit in Lynchburg, Jerry Falwell vowed to help keep such violence from ever occurring again. For Matthew Shepard, the minister's promise comes too late. But that promise--contradictory, halting, uncertain, well-intentioned and human...