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- From: mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Today's NY Times
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.192210.16849@panix.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:22:10 GMT
- Organization: (getting there)
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- I remember a time not so long ago when Rod would post anything that
- he saw in the NY Times of obvious glb* interest. It was a couple of
- articles a month at first-- no more than that.
-
- Recently the pace has picked up. Since the presidential campaign
- these topics have been hot in all the media. The _Times_ at least
- is keeping up with things. Today's paper had the following articles
- (that I caught):
-
- + Front page (continued in Sports): "AIDS Deaths Tear at
- Figure-Skating World" (with explicit reference to John Curry who has
- said that he was infected "during a homosexual relationship some
- years ago."
-
- + first section, p. 17: "Navy Fails in Attempt to Exclude Gay
- Sailor" (a continuation of the Keith Meinhold story, mentioning
- that Judge Hatter has hinted that he doesn't like the military
- ban
-
- + Op-ed page, Russell Baker's column, "By Sex Obsessed," satirizing
- the idea that glb* folk in the military would detract from
- "preparedness" more than regular sick-drunks and hangovers might,
- and comparing the supposed "lack of discipline" in open
- homosexuality with standards of heterosexual license that
- governed when Baker served during WWII.
-
- + second (regional) section, p. 3: "Teaching About Gay Life is Pressed
- by Chancellor" (NYC's "Children of the Rainbow" approach to
- teaching about cultural diversity in the elementary schools, which
- is being fought by a Queens district that has proposed its own
- curriculum with all the homosexuality references eliminated. I
- found the headline most interesting, because the _Times_ could have
- highlighted the refusal of the Queens Board, but didn't.)
-
- + second section, p. 9 "In 2 Cities, Unmarried Get Marriage Rights"
- (re. Domestic Partnership implementations in Cambridge, MA and
- in Sacramento, CA)
-
- + Sports: "At 36, Navratilova Still Has Fight" (Ok, ok, so I
- had to know to look for it, but still, the article includes
- the following:
- "'The bottom line is that Madison Avenue is run by
- white male yuppies,' said Navratilova, who feels her
- forthrightness about her sexual preference long ago
- scared the advertisers off.
- 'But I'd rather have it like this than pretend to be
- Miss Heterosexual America,' said the player who has
- added her name and clout to the class action suit filed
- by the American Civil Liberties Union in Colorado,
- where an amendment removing antidiscrimination
- legislation was passed two weeks ago."
-
- And last week I noticed that a 36 year old man who died of drowning was
- survived by his "companion" (among others). It's the first time I've
- noticed that except in an obit where AIDS was explicit.
-
- As I said, I knew enough to check the Navratilova story for explicit
- glb*-interest content. I wonder what I might have missed...
-
-
- --
-
- Mara Chibnik
- mara@panix.com Life is too important to be taken seriously.
-