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...longs for a meaningful, emotional connection with a man. He fantasizes about men all the time, ever since he was a little boy, but never acknowledged these feelings because he grew up in a conservative environment where the only acceptable way to deal with these emotions was to repress them. They are now contemplating divorce...

Author: By Loui Itoh | Title: A Good Place to Come Out | 5/26/2006 | See Source »

...what are now called mixed-orientation marriages. While there are a myriad of complicated factors that could induce BGLT (bi-sexual, gay, lesbian and transgender) men and women to enter into heterosexual marriages, it is a tragedy when they do so because conservative religious environments force them to repress their sexual orientation...

Author: By Loui Itoh | Title: A Good Place to Come Out | 5/26/2006 | See Source »

...often print their anti-Semitic material out of sheer anti-Semitism. This entire debacle highlights the problems that arise when a movement, bound together by a dogmatic faith, faces the seeming horror of a pluralistic democracy in which everyone has the right to blaspheme, offend, and shock others. To repress speech in the interest of curtailing blasphemy would be to subscribe to a particular religious dogma, which a liberal, secular government ought never do. Before democracy can be established in the Middle East, the violent protesters and conservative governments must demonstrate respect for freedom of speech. Ramya Parthasarathy...

Author: By Ramya Parthasarathy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dogmatism and Democracy | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...Ironically, the Court’s justification relies on British colonial emergency regulations that were themselves used to repress the Zionist movement,” he wrote...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Israeli Judge Speaks to Critical Crowd | 11/10/2005 | See Source »

...could be, of course, that advancing years and their own septennial celebrity have made the subjects unwilling to spill their guts to their show-biz Mr. Chips. Kids say the darndest things; adults repress them. Only in an extreme case--like that of Neil, a sensitive scholar who has become a derelict, with speech rhythms and nervous tics that suggest the young Tony Perkins--does 28 Up offer a character as full and mysterious as we might find in a novel, or in an old friend. But it is not Apted's failing that he refuses to unearth tabloid headlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Up, Old and Fat | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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