Word: hardwicke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following the Supreme Court's landmark anti-gay ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick, Phillip Bockman wrote in the New York Native, "What you can do--alone? The answer is obvious. You're not alone, and you can't afford to try to be. That closet door--never very secure as protection--is even more dangerous now. You must come out, for own sake and for the sake...
...when spoken to. But what she said was often brilliant. "Other students would turn to her and say, 'O.K., Gayl, what's the answer?' She always had the answer," remembers her 11th-grade English teacher, Sue Ann Allen. Gayl came to the attention of the Lexington-born poet Elizabeth Hardwick, who became an early mentor and arranged for a college scholarship. But as an adult Gayl resisted most offers of friendship. In Ann Arbor, she lived like a nun, alone in a threadbare apartment behind a grocery store...
Gays have always been among those least likely to be served by the courts. In the case of Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986, a 5-to-4 Supreme Court majority upheld a Georgia statute under which two men were charged with sodomy for practicing consensual sex in the home of one of them. Consistent with what one lower-court judge called this "criminalization" of homosexual acts, the Justices denied gays any but the lowest standing as a potentially disadvantaged group under the 14th Amendment. Since then, activists have achieved limited success with maverick lower courts by citing similar protections...
...campus Black Student Union to adopt guidelines for the behavior of men in the dormitory who had women guests on the weekends. The code included rules for dress, language and how to deal with the dicey bathroom issue. "He was acutely aware of these things at 21," says Clifford Hardwick, a friend who is now an attorney in Savannah, "when many of us weren't even thinking about them...
...women prisoners seems bound to keep soaring. Which means that their particular needs can no longer be ignored. Some steps have been taken. Rikers Island, for example, maintains a nursery for babies born to prisoners, allowing the babies to stay with their mothers for up to a year. Hardwick and other institutions have parenting and outreach programs for inmates' children. Federal legislation enacted last year makes pregnant prisoners and their newborns eligible for special food supplements. And more prisons are expanding drug- and alcohol-treatment programs...