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Compiled By Jack Nichols The National Review: Prejudiced or Jealous?
A wedding ring on a straight man serves the same function as a brand on a Texas steer.
It's a warning from his wife to other women: "Don't bother. He's taken."
But with gays, the response from the Other Man would too often be: "I don't want to take
him. I just want to borrow him for 15 minutes."
Steve Sailer—“Gay Weddings”—National Review, July 1 Zimbabwe's Homophobic Tyrant To see Mugabe's personal transformation from freedom fighter to African tyrant and to see the way he has allowed this beautiful proud and important country in Africa to be brought to its knees is something that I find personally really tragic. British Foreign Office Minister Peter Hain—BBC Two, June 25 New York Times Reviews 'The Married Man'
Alice Truax—“An Ideal Husband”—The New York Times Book Review, July 2 Why Republicans Must Not Win in November The Court's decision permits the Boy Scouts to hide their discrimination behind the First Amendment and rejects the right of New Jersey to create a just society for its citizens. The Court has allowed freedom of association to become a tool by which groups unfairly exclude a group of Americans… Close rulings this year highlight the precarious future of our constitutional rights and liberties. The results of the November election will likely change the focus of this Court and either preserve our constitutional and civil rights or turn back the clock for all Americans. Ralph G. Neas—President of People For the American Way Foundation, June 29 Al and Jesse in the Voting Booth? Together?
Wayne Friday—“Could a Gore-Ventura ticket be a possibility?” —Bay Area Reporter, June 29 Boyscotts With the Supreme Court decision seeming to carefully pay heed to the undeniable success of the gay rights movement (Rehnquist and Scalia!) but nevertheless giving old-style rank bigotry one last victory, we are left with no option but to construct an impenetrable wall of shame around the Boyscotts. Every institution, unit of government, church, corporation or small business at both national and local levels must be targeted one-by-one until the Boyscotts are left with only the Mormons and Southern Baptists as supporters. And the boyscott should be applied as contingent upon their continued banning of gay people as leaders or scouts. The Boyscotts have not made clear if they are going to be tossing out Gay scouts who make the morally straight decision to live their lives openly and honestly about who they are --this case concerned a troop leader--but a Boyscott should lessen the likelihood that they will see this rump (pardon the pun) decision as a mandate for even greater banning or witchhunts. Isolate them, but leave the door open for them to come into the modern world. And let's start targeting for public opprobrium some of the specific leaders of the Scotts who have led this Fool's March backward, a la Rolling Stone's recent feature that began prying open the crypt on their Dallas (surprise!) headquarters. Let's turn the heat up, and plant them firmly in the pantheon of American bigots! Greg Carmack--founder: Frontiers newsmagazine, Great Outdoors, ASU & UCLA Gay Student Unions-- June 29 The NY Times Magazine Eats Humble Pie
CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, an article on May 28
about Calpernia Addams, who is in the process of
changing sexes to female from male, and the murder
of her boyfriend, Pfc. Barry Winchell, included an
erroneous statement about a meeting between
Addams and Kathi Westcott, a lawyer, and Rhonda
White, a gay rights advocate, after the murder.
Westcott did not say that Addams, “for the sake of
clarity” should tell reporters to refer to her as a
male. White and Westcott discussed the press with
Addams but did not make a specific proposal about
how the press should refer to her.
The New York Times Magazine—Letters, Page 8, July 2 Love's Sweet Name With a 9 a.m. appointment to get their civil union license from the town clerk in tiny Williston, 57-year-old Lynn Goyette said she and Eileen Blackwood, 41, would continue to call each other what for 13 years they always have: "Hon." Elizabeth Mehren—“Gays Flocks to Vermont for Civil Unions”—Los Angles Times, July 1 London's GLF was Witty, Daring, Irreverent
Peter Tatchell—Recalling early 1970s activism in the United Kingdom Answer? It Helps Tightly Tie Oppression's Knots The church must be where there is need, and homosexuals have suffered innumerable discriminations. If the church doesn't free people from oppression, what purpose does it serve?' Bishop Jacques Gaillot of France—Critical of the Vatican's Opposition to Rome's World Pride 2000 festivities, July 2 Press Conference |
(Edmund) White has suggested that every aspect of heterosexual life, no matter how bizarre,
is already an aesthetic cliché, immortalized in a poem or a pop song.
Seemingly fast becoming friends, the vice president and
governor spent the better part of two days together in Minnesota last
week, some of the time in private discussions that both described as being
"about everything except politics." While those who know both Gore and
Ventura say that "at the moment it isn't likely to happen" some of these
same people are no longer ruling out the long shot possibility that Gore
could pull off the "mother of all political surprises" and ask the popular
Minnesota governor to be his November running mate.
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