Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need? Any anonymous getting-it-off-the-chest? Does anyone dial those phone numbers? Room 13, traditionally the peer counseling group with the broadest focus, fields an average of two calls per night, according to a staffer. When Response--a peer counseling service that focuses on women and sexual issues--counted several years ago, the group was averaging one call per week...
Among these needs, panel members said, are mandatory sexual harassment and rape education for first-year students, a woman's center, better support for the program on women's studies and an administration with a pro-active attitude towards women's issues...
There may well be more openly gay men and women in America now than in any other country at any other time in history. The long-ago sexual revolution, gay visibility in the media, the reckonings forced by AIDS--there are any number of reasons for this emergence. It has changed straight America, of course. Just go rent My Best Friend's Wedding, or watch Will & Grace on NBC. What's less noticed is that it has also changed gay America, which is a very different place now than when Shepard was born, or even when he was a teenager...
...Rights, one of Washington's most liberal legislative coalitions. It was 11 years more before the group took a consensus position on anything involving gay rights. In 1994 it backed a modest change in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation while permitting an exemption for churches. Two years later that amendment was defeated in the Senate by just a single vote...
...ground strategy worries his allies in Congress more than it does his opponents. Eager to get the impeachment process over with, Democrats on Capitol Hill have little appetite for adopting the President's defense that he was "legally accurate" when he insisted under oath that he'd never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. They would much rather quickly concede that Clinton was lying and then argue that the lies weren't serious enough to merit throwing him out of office. That approach puts them in synch with public opinion but at odds with the White House. "If people think...