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...film's politically correct earnestness. One of the group, Natalie (JoBeth Williams), is a movie critic who raises money to make a film about homeless women. Another, Maggie (Talia Shire), is a nun who faces a spiritual crisis after she helps a woman get an abortion. There are lesbian revelations, a discussion of the Anita Hill hearings and rampant man bashing. Rheza (Lindsay Crouse) has been dumped by her husband and bears a grudge. Hannah (Helen Slater) is married to Natalie's ex-husband, and the two compare notes about the stinker. "If you can love him, love him," says...
...link to mothers may help explain a conundrum: If homosexuality is hereditary, why doesn't the trait gradually disappear, as gays and lesbians are probably less likely than others to have children? The answer suggested by the new research is that genes for male homosexuality can be carried and passed to children by heterosexual women, and those genes do not cause the women to be homosexual. A similar study of lesbians by Hamer's team is taking longer to complete because the existence and chromosomal location of responsible genes is not as obvious as it is in men. But preliminary...
...acting as God or nature -- in other words, their genes -- intended. Says spokesman Gregory J. King of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, one of the largest gay-rights lobbying groups: "This is a landmark study that can be very helpful in increasing public support for civil rights for lesbian and gay Americans." Some legal scholars think that if gays can establish a genetic basis for sexual preference, like skin color or gender, they may persuade judges that discrimination is unconstitutional...
Fellow Leadership Council member Charles L. Outcalt, a member of the Divinity School GABLE, the school's gay, lesbian and bisexual student organization, said he was not really surprised that Clinton failed to end the ban on gays in the military...
Outcalt said he thought the policy could not possibly work for both the military and the gay and lesbian men and women serving in it. "If the goal is unit cohesion. I think lying to your fellow soldiers destroys unit cohesion," he said, "If it does work, it will be bad for the military...