Word: stigmas
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...unlikely that the gay community could raise enough funds on its own for a center. The stigma attached to joining a gay alumni organization would make it difficult for the BGLSA to raise the necessary money through alumni channels...
...million film has no stars and has been critically drubbed. Its sole market value, beyond the Eszterhas-Verhoeven brand name, is its rating--the one most directors so fear that they will scissor their films (as Verhoeven did with Basic Instinct) to avoid getting it. Showgirls wears this stigma as a badge of honor and a sales pitch. "Leave your inhibitions at the door," the ads blare. Translation: Dirty movie ahead...
...political message, Shaw does not merely express it, she embodies it. Apart from the standard queer affirmation of homosexuality as natural (a theme of many gay and lesbian plays), Shaw confronts the political stigma of the bull dyke within the lesbian community...
Going public has not been easy for Jamison, 49. As a therapist, she well knows the stigma that mental frailty carries, and she worried about the effect her confession would have on her patients and colleagues. Some patients were shocked when she told them, she recalls. "They said, 'You're so normal, so Brooks Brothers. You don't look like you've had a problem in your life.'" But she was "tired of the waffling," she says. "My pro fessional life is devoted to helping people understand and accept this disease. And if a professor at Hopkins...
This year, in a departure from past practice, the competitors' height and weight are not listed in press releases, and several coaches took pains to note to reporters that they have no scales in their gyms. "We didn't like the stigma that we were driving people out of the sport," admits Kathy Kelly, women's program director for USA Gymnastics. "We're making an effort to respect the athletes." That put out of bounds questions about the effects of widening hips and budding breasts, though the more womanly shapes were evident in the scanty leotards worn by the competitors...