Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clause in the U.S. Constitution guarantees any special safeguards to persons attracted to their own sex; gays are usually dependent entirely on protection supplied by legislatures or granted by changes in public mores. Even the embattled Equal Rights Amendment, if approved, would protect only against discrimination by sex, not sexual preference. And as last week's Miami referendum demonstrates, gaining popular approval for gay-rights-equality laws promises to be a long, perhaps impossible fight...
...society any more justified in discriminating against gays than it is in showing bigotry toward blacks? After all, some psychologists believe a man has no more control over his sexual preferences than a black has choice of his skin color. And gays, notes Attorney Walter Barnett in his book Sexual Freedom and the Constitution, "are human beings who suffer from their niggerdom as much as any black man ever did, even more so." With the rise of gay militancy, at least 38 communities (but no states) have adopted laws prohibiting discrimination in jobs or housing or public accommodations. A total...
Perhaps the most talked about event this year was the publication of an article in the MIT newspaper "thursday," in which two MIT women gave extremely frank evaluations of the sexual performances of 36 MIT men, listed by name...
...Considers sexual relations with animals to be pathological if a person prefers such relations even when "heterosexual outlets are available...
...detailed treatment of homosexuality, the report contends that biblical condemnations applied to practices associated with pagan worship or to homosexual activity by people who were naturally heterosexual. The committee thinks that priests can recommend stable friendships for homosexuals rather than sexual abstinence, but it does not think that these relationships should be called "marriages...