Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your husband may be a homosexual, Redbook tells its 4.5 million women readers, but your marriage can survive if you make an effort. In her "Dear Abby" column, Abigail Van Buren reassures the distraught parents of a lesbian: "Why do you assume that her sexual preference will necessarily 'ruin' her life?" There are gay* studies classes in 50 colleges, gay dances in churches, gay synagogues, gay Alcoholics Anonymous groups, a lesbian credit union, even a gay Nazi Party and a Jewish lesbian group formed to fight it. There are now more than 800 gay groups in the U.S., most...
...several other big corporations and the Civil Service Commission have announced their willingness to hire openly avowed gays. In a special issue on homosexuality, the teachers' journal, College English, went so far as to suggest editorially that although it may be painful, homosexual teachers should reveal their sexual preferences as a matter of "academic responsibility." If they do not do so, argued the editorial, they will contribute to a "cycle of oppression for our gay students, who, without gay role models or support, will very likely experience self-loathing, ignorance and fear...
...usually a sexual marketplace. Though most bars are classless?a college professor may walk out arm in arm with a welder?the trend in big cities is toward variety and segregation. There are bars for writers, artists, blacks, collegians, businessmen, middle-class women, "drag queens," transsexuals, male prostitutes and sadomasochists. At the Eagle, an s. and m. bar on Manhattan's Lower West Side, the uptown "Bloomingdale's crowd" is derided by a tightly packed throng of men in leather and Levi's. They come by subway or taxi rather than motorcycle, but they often wear motorcycle outfits, chains, handcuffs...
...Professor Martin Duberman, himself a homosexual: "Gay men are freer in terms of time and responsibilities to act on the sexual needs that all human beings share." In Gay Spirit (Grove Press; $6.95), a sex manual for homosexuals, David Loomis reminds his readers that they do not have to contend with "pregnancy, diaphragms, daily hat compliments, paying for every damn thing, marriage contracts and divorce settlements, alimony, babies that screech in the night and adultery...
Other friendships were more intimate. Well into her 40s, Edith met Morton Fullerton, an American journalist in Paris, who finally unlocked her sexual passion. Fullerton, who seems to have been irresistible to both sexes, later hinted that he taught a very willing partner his many tricks. Edith was never again shy about sex. In her old age she even tried her hand at writing pornography in a never published story of father-daughter incest entitled Beatrice Palmato...