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Compiled By Jack Nichols
Pulitzer Prize Winner, 
These men talk to her as they have probably never talked in their lives before, and the rich and intricate tapestry she weaves from their stories is enough to make one rethink our entire Western value system. Time Magazine Pulitzer Prize Winner, Susan Faludi, Exposes Men Today it is men who cling more tightly to their illusions. They would rather see themselves as battered by feminism than shaped by the larger culture. Feminism can be demonized as just an "unnatural" force trying to wrest men's natural power and control from their grasp. Culture, by contrast, is the whole environment we live in; to acknowledge its sway is to admit that men never had the power they imagined. To say that men are imbedded in the culture is to say, by the current standards of masculinity, that they are not men. By casting feminism as the villain that must be defeated to validate the central conceit of modern manhood, men avoid confronting powerful cultural and social expectations that have a lot more to do with their unhappiness than the latest sexual harassment ruling. Susan Faludi--STIFFED: The Betrayal of the American Man--Perennial Publishers, a Division of Harper-Collins (softcover) Hustlers Choose Easy Money News coverage reflected trouble in the mid-1970s when the Roanoke Police Department conducted regular stings of gay prostitutes in Elmwood Park. Police decried the difficulties of prosecuting such crimes, because most offenders were given light sentences and required to get psychiatric counseling. Many of those convicted of being prostitutes denied being homosexuals, saying they engaged in sex with other men only because it was "easier than stealing." Cody Lowe-- "Gay in Roanoke"-- Roanoke Times, January 28 '80s Retro Craze Sweeps Executive Branch
The Bush Administration, according to The Onion, including '80s icons as Robert Bork (top right), Casper Weinberger (bottom right), J.R. Ewing (cowboy hat) and Alf (middle left)
Washington, D.C. -- Remember SDI, deregulation, and tax cuts? The new administration does. That's right, '80s retro fever is sweeping the executive branch, with President Bush and his nostalgia-crazed colleagues going wild for the people and policies of that "totally tubular" decade. The Onion www.theonion.com Traditional Values Coalition Loves Ashcroft Too The latest attacks against the nomination of John Ashcroft for U.S. Attorney General center around his opposition to the appointment of homosexual activist James Hormel as Ambassador to Luxembourg in 1999. Rev. Louis P. Sheldon-- Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition--"Senator Ashcroft Should Be Applauded For Opposing James Hormel As Ambassador" www.traditionalvalues.org Log Cabin Loves John Ashcroft
Mr. Ashcroft, in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee,
echoed the president's pledge to protect gay federal workers from
discrimination. His pledge to maintain the Department of Justice's gay and
lesbian employee organization was a positive and impressive development.
Kevin Ivers--Director of Public Affairs, Log Cabin Republicans--"Letters" Washington Post, January 27, 2001 Advice for Artists Seeking Fame Plays such as Corpus Christi, which bring together publicity-seeking artists and promoters, are always likely to make headlines and are almost guaranteed box-office appeal…Corpus Christi comes a year after the exhibition Sensation. It appears that the most certain route to fame or notoriety for any young artist today is to make art offensive to many Christians. Neil Aykan-- "Letters"--The Sunday Age, January 28-- Melbourne, Australia Jewish Centers Boot the Boy Scouts
Palm Beach County's two Jewish community centers have become the
area's first private organizations to kick out the Boy Scouts until they
stop discriminating against openly gay members…At the Adolph and Rose
Levis Jewish Community Center west of Boca Raton, 14 Cub Scouts in
Pack 342 already have moved to Calusa Elementary School…In suburban
West Palm Beach, Scoutmaster Michael Horwitz has until
June 30 to find a new home for approximately 100 Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts
who meet at the Kaplan Jewish Community Center on Military Trail.
Ron Hayes--" Two Jewish centers boot Boy Scouts"-- Palm Beach Post, January 25 Hollywood Protest at Southern Baptist Sissies True Christians™ have been sounding the warning call on the Hollywood liberal elite agenda for years now. After decades of True Christians™ selflessly witnessing and giving Hollywood Jews and Homosexuals an opportunity to be just like us, they have willfully continued to live their lives the way they want to live them. This demonic disregard for how True Christians™ insist they act has caused them to litter their short-cut to Hell with celluloid reels so filled with pornographic poison that they might as well be strips of Satan's human fly-paper dangling before innocent children. Landover Baptist Church-- "Hollywood Theatre Tricks Christian Audiences into Becoming Homosexual"--www.landoverbaptist.org Remember David Buller, a Murdered Gay Art Teacher
Buller's final painting was placed outside the entrance to the memorial and printed on the program. It includes the photo of a bare-chested man and the prophetic words, "History counsels Patience." Michele Mandel-- "It is not an abomination to call someone gay" --Toronto Sun, January 28 |
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