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...came out of that closet one night, when he bounced onto Merv Griffin's TV show to make "a terrific major announcement" about his Dan August series. "Oh, that's great," his host encouraged. "Yeah, I've just been canceled," said Burt, chortling merrily and adding that he now had the distinction of having been canceled at one time or another by all three of the TV networks. "I thought?and it was very calculating?that I could get on television and say, 'Hey, my last picture was a turkey,' and people would find it funny...
...encouraging to see that in so conservative a community as Harvard, people like Chuck are taking the courageous step of articulating this process in a public forum. Homophobia--whether the heterosexual variety or as it is internalized by closet gays who cannot risk openness--stems largely from fears of the unknown. It is only by making our presence and experiences known beyond the gay subculture that such fears will ever be dispelled or social change effected...
...through--in our society as a whole and here at Harvard. It will, hopefully, encourage many people, straight and gay, to confront their feelings and come to terms with them--so that there will be fewer gays going through the emotional gymnastics necessary to life in the closet and fewer paranoid and stereotype-ridden straight people to contend with while coming, and being...
...against the wall, gays, or go back in the closet...
Anita Bryant finished for me last June--and I suspect for many other gay people--what I had been building for nine years. Ms. Bryant brought gay rights out of the closet--she focused the issue very well: the issue was whether or not our society would treat homosexuals as inferior and as dangerous. She made many straights realize how stupid they sounded, and by sounding amazingly like Wallace in 1961 or Goldwater in 1964, she made many straights realize that they had not thought out their positions on gay rights very well...