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...bill, called the "Sapphic Safe Sex Task Force Authorization Act," asked that ROTC cadets bring back dental dams from MIT, where they are freely distributed. Anna M. Baldwin '00, who co-authored the bill,said it was "a parody of the ROTC bill" and shewas not surprised when the council did not vote toconsider it. But she said she hoped to send amessage just by introducing it. "Since theyhaven't been really willing to discuss or debatethe issue or address our concerns, this is justanother way to get the point across," Baldwinsaid
...train. In a climactic scene, one horrible man, a whip-mean, pockmarked little sheriff, literally eats another horrible man, the abusive husband, whom the ladies have barbecued and served up in their restaurant as an ingenious method of disposing of the corpse. Interesting fantasy: Render the heroic women crypto-sapphic, mutilate the men, or cook them, and reduce one to unwitting cannibal. Let the one good male in the bunch be a sort of big black watchdog, faithful and sexually neutered, probably the great grandson of Big Sam in Gone With the Wind. White women loved the movie...
Enter The Color Purple, an epistolary novel about incest, sexual brutality, sapphic love and the indomitable will to survive. It did not seem the sort of material Steven Spielberg would touch with a ten-foot wand. Which is precisely why he went for it. "The Color Purple is the biggest challenge of my career," he proclaims. "When I read it I loved it; I cried and cried at the end. But I didn't think I would ever develop it as a project. Finally I said, I've got to do this for me. I want to make something that...
...amount of wishing could prevent her from becoming the most publicized child of the '30s. Appalled by whispers of Gloria Sr.'s loose life of pornographic orgies and sapphic lovers, Little Gloria's paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sued for custody of the child in 1934 and won. In the best account of this celebrated trial, Little Gloria, Happy at Last (1980), Journalist Barbara Goldsmith argued that a greater anguish lay below the ten-year-old's fear of being torn from her home in some Solomonic decision. "I was afraid she would take me away," Gloria had testified...
...relations, as shrewd and sure as her court sense, told her that you only win if you control the game. She knew that the story was shaking loose, and that more denials would only put reporters into a feeding frenzy. She knew that if Barnett had to prove the sapphic connection in court, she could organize a parade of witnesses who would keep the tabloids happy for weeks. So King decided that she herself must manage the stagecraft of her public humiliation. Her parents on one side, her husband Larry on the other wearing an expression of indecipherable calm...