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Compiled By Jack Nichols
Ricky Martin Tells Barbara Walters
I'm not concerned about my reaction. I'm concerned about my people's reactions. Like my nieces, they go to school and they start reading things. …My mom goes to the beauty parlor and, sexuality and homosexuality should not be a problem for anybody. I think that sexuality is something that each individual should deal with in their own way. And that's all I have to say about that. Ricky Martin-- responding to Barbara Walters' “Are You?” provocation “Barbara Walters Special”-- ABC News, March 26 A Relationship's Success Secrets We maintained independent lives rather than becoming joined at the hip, we acknowledged on our second date that human males are not biologically programmed for monogamy and dispensed with the whole jealousy abyss, we kept our finances relatively separate so as to not fight over how we spend each other's money, we are both involved in causes we care about which means our relationship does not bear the onus of meeting all our intellectual and social needs, and we don't believe in any god-type stuff so we never argue about religion. Rex Wockner—The Wockner Wire #87--www.planetout.com/pno/news/wockner/ Unconscious Homo Propaganda?
Roger Kaufman— a clinical psychologist and family therapist quoted writing in the Los Angeles Los Times by the Calgary Herald—"American Beauty issues spark gay debate"—March 30 Aren't Governments Grand? More than two thirds of the world's nations are failing to supply safe blood to their populations, according to the World Health Organization. Their failure adds significantly to the spread of the virus that causes AIDS, as well as potentially deadly forms of hepatitis and other diseases. Barbara Crossette—“Most Nations Fail to Supply Safe Blood, W.H.O. Finds”—New York Times, April 7 Kissing the All-American Game Goodbye
There is a growing consensus among (baseball) team owners, fans and experts on the
game that the disparity between high revenue teams and those in small markets threatens
the sport's future popularity.
James C. McKinley, Jr.—“For Have-Nots of Baseball, Dream of Next Year is Gone”—New York Times, April 7 Parsippany's Prude We don't think the government should be endorsing homosexual parenting. Joshua Vazquez--New Jersey Family Policy Council in Parsippany in responding to the New Jersey Supreme Court decision granting visitation rights to the former partner of a lesbian mother—quoted in The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, April 7 Lips that Touch Lea's
Actress Brooke Shield had the audience cheering after locking lips with a lesbian presenter at a gay awards night. Brooke, wearing a virtually see-through evening gown was grabbed on stage by comedy actress Lea DeLaria…Lea then pulled the stunning blonde star towards her and refused to let go as their lips met. Brooke joined in the fun by wrapping a leg around Lea…
Glasgow Daily Record & Sunday Mail, April 5 Scientific Nay-Sayers A strong genetic basis for homosexuality has never made sense to one group of scientists – those who study evolution. Deborah Smith--“The Strands of Gay Science”-- Sydney Morning Herald, April 8 Experience Helps Before you find your handsome prince, you've got to kiss a lot of frogs. Paradox—“Murphy's Laws”—April Prophet Blake
Arthur Evans—“The Myth of Mathematics”—Chapter 3, Critique of Patriarchal Reason, White Crane Press, 1997 |
My sense is that a lot of what he was doing was unconscious -- but that
doesn't make it any less real. . . . There's nothing new about gay people
writing Hollywood screenplays or helping produce Hollywood movies. There's
nothing new about gay sensibilities appearing in Hollywood movies. What's
different about American Beauty is its immense success critically and how
thinly veiled its concerns are whereas in the past they have been more
cloaked.
(William) Blake was a great defender of the integration of sexuality, spirituality, and reason in the individual person, and of peace, equality, and harmony in social relations. In the name of this integration, Blake denounced Newton's new mathematical science as the intellectual prop of a new system of social oppression that was destroying nature in Europe and elsewhere, subjugating native peoples in newly found lands, fomenting larger and ever more devastating wars, and fragmenting and twisting the emotional and sexual lives of Europeans themselves. Viewed in the context of the historical and ecological cataclysms that were to follow him, Blake appears as one of the earliest and most passionate
prophets against the burgeoning horrors of patriarchal-industrial civilization.
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