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According to McGarry, the crushing of the strong twenties `gay culture drove homosexual relationships underground, keeping them under wraps and subject to harassment by police until the '50s. McCarthy's attempts to weed homosexuals out of positions of power then led to the rise of an activist body to counter his political manipulations. Instead of trying to define and establish a unique and separate culture, gay activists decided to strive for assimilation by attempting to establish a niche in society for homosexuals. Queer groups began fighting serious legal battles in the '50s and '60s over the right to distribute homoerotic...
Still, not all were pleased with the results of the referendum. A spokesperson for the reigning cock-fighting champion relayed his client's distaste for the people's vote, vowing to take the sport even further underground, into even dirtier back rooms of even seedier bars. All parties expect a court battle in the months ahead...
...Artery/Tunnel Project, affectionately (or not so affectionately) known as The Big Dig, was started to combat ferocious traffic problems in the Boston area. The plan called for Boston's exposed artery--its largest eyesore--to be buried. The Artery's traffic will be carried instead along a 10-lane underground expressway. Anyone living downtown better be ready to feel safe above hollow ground: most of the city's notoriously sludgy earth will be infiltrated by miles of tunnels traversed daily by as many as 245,000 vehicles...
...engineers and city planners among us, not everyone wants to know the force exerted by each 24-ton steel beam in the hole at South Station. The really interesting facts surface at the site; they come from people wearing hard hats who spend hours at a time 140 feet underground. And for the guy (or girl) who still hasn't given up a childhood passion for cranes and big drills, on-site glimpses of the massive holes in Boston can't be matched...
...Ronny's entry into Jim's life and how that entrance brings about revelations (opening up, as it were) and conciliations--between Nathan and Jim, Lily and Sara, Sara and Luke. Aptly enough for a novel about the neglected, Nathan works at the Lost Property office of the London Underground, the repository of the forgotten. Like the objects that pass through Nathan's hands, the characters stand in limbo--existing but unrecognised...