Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps a refurbished closet with all the accoutrements that straights would have--a separate-but-equal morality that dare not publicly speak its name...
Happy days are here again in George Bush's America. A place where "there's a job for everyone who wants one"; where "women working outside the home can be confident their children are in safe and loving care"; where the environment is clean, equal opportunity abounds, the disabled are part of the mainstream, the homeless "get the help they need," everyone "has a roof over his head," every child "makes the grade," the streets and schools are "drug-free," we all "confront and condemn racism and bigotry," and "no American is forgotten...
...diary, Mencken tells the story of this group--his interactions with them, their personal foibles, their hypocrisies, and his fascination with all of the above. He recounts anecdotes about his friends and enemies with equal glee--one moment excoriating Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald as washed-up old drunks, the next extolling their work...
While we do not condone sex in public bathrooms, we recognize that some sex is more equal than other sex. In our society, bisexual, gay and lesbian individuals are marginalized by both public and private discrimination. The staff position implies that one can generalize a very specific circumstance, that the mens' identities are irrelevent to their arrests. But it is their very identities as gay men that are most significant in this case...
...concerned that the staff position tries too hard to avoid seeming oversolicitous to a "special interest group." It has minimized the issue of homophobia in its attempt to enforce equal treatment under the law. But in doing so it has ignored the fact that The Law only exists in the manner that it is interpreted. Laws and criminals do not exist in and of themselves; they are defined by a society with certain values and certain power structures...