Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...easiest argument to make against gay rights--and the hardest to defend--is the assertion that the American "mainstream" doesn't tolerate gays and lesbians. No debate. No thinking. Gay rights is just an issue for gays and lesbians and their wacked-out-Harvard-liberal friends...
...more than bow-tied black nationalists, peddling bean pies and hawking newspapers on street corners from Harlem to Watts. While they commanded respect for their neat appearance and abstinence from cigarettes, alcohol and drugs, the Muslims' rigid religious strictures and separatist political views kept them on the fringes of mainstream black America...
...time when the U.S. press seems to be abandoning its largely self-imposed rules about protecting individual privacy. The press once routinely shielded the identity of juvenile defendants. Now stories often name youths who have been arraigned on offenses major enough to warrant their trial as adults. Even mainstream publications have begun to practice "outing" -- that is, disclosing the homosexual preferences of closeted celebrities. Most papers now clearly state in obituaries that individuals died of AIDS. Within days of Malcolm Forbes' death, several journals noted rumors about the publisher's gay affairs...
...stations have generally refrained from using her name. "If she had merely been beaten and left for dead," Elliott notes, "she would have been named." One journal that did name the jogger was the black-oriented Amsterdam News. Editor in chief Wilbert Tatum argues that the city's mainstream press is guilty of hypocrisy for guarding the identity of a well-to-do white woman while it "stigmatized" the lower-class black youths accused of raping her by naming them even before they were indicted...
Lynch moved to Los Angeles in 1970 and spent five years making Eraserhead. The film became a cult hit and led to his first mainstream film, The Elephant Man. Lynch's next project, the big-budget sci-fi movie Dune, was a critical and commercial disaster, but Blue Velvet brought him widespread critical / acclaim. A couple of aborted projects later (including a script for Steve Martin called One Saliva Bubble), Lynch is finishing a new film, Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern...