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Compiled By Jack Nichols Who is that Bisexual,Tax-Dodging Hoarder? William Shakespeare was a bisexual tax-dodger who also tended to hoard food in times of famine. Helen McCabe—“Bard was bi and mean”-- Sunday Herald Sun newspaper, April 29 Just Now Discovered? Studies have found that scientists with financial ties to the companies whose products they study are more likely to write favorably about those products. Sheryl Gay Stolberg—“Scientists Often Mum About Ties to Industry”—New York Times, April 25 April Showers Bring May Kisses TV Guide.com reports the WB's teen hit Dawson's Creek will again venture into same-sex-kiss territory with this week's sweeps episode. Bob Adams—“Creek to sweep into May with steamy kiss”-- Philadelphia Gay News, April 27 www.epgn.com You're OK, They're OK Children brought up by lesbians and gay men are well adjusted, have good levels of self esteem, are as likely to have high educational attainments as children raised in more traditional heterosexual families. Timothy Biblarz--USC sociologist “Parents' sexual orientation matters, study finds” by Sarah Tippit, Reuters, April 27 Allen Ginsberg's Interviews The primary criterion I used in selecting interviews was Allen's concept of the interview as art. In other words, I tried first and foremost to select the interviews that are the most brilliant, that glow with Allen's unique genius as evinced in the originality and depth of his point of view, as well as with his generosity, candor, human warmth, and literary expressiveness. David Carter—editor of Spontaneous Mind—Allen Ginsberg's Selected Interviews 1958-1996, Harper Collins, publishers, 2001 Sex Censorship in the Wrong Place It's very disturbing…I've begun to feel very incensed about this and upset. They really are documents of art and history of the organization. In that sense it seems like real censorship and distortion of history. Dr. Lawrence D. Mass--a founding member of the Gay Men's Health Crisis about an altered City Museum of New York exhibit: "Gay Men's Health Crisis: 20 Years Fighting for People with H.I.V./AIDS” at the, quoted by Susan Saulny in the New York Times, April 27 BushSpeak becomes Bushonics The most striking features of Bushonics—tangled syntax, mispronunciations, run on sentences, misplaced modifiers and a wanton disregard for subject-verb agreement—are generally considered to be “bad” or “ungrammatical” by linguists and society and large. Tom McNichol—“Bushonics speakers strike back”— www.Salon.Com March 19 Getting No Respect Bill Whatcott of the Christian Truth Activists said he will file a complaint with the commission Wednesday afternoon against the City of Regina because it has failed to respond to his request that June 18 be declared heterosexual family pride day…The day would "celebrate our healthy and wholesome way of life," which Whatcott said promotes moral direction for children and stability for society as a whole. Michelle Lang—“ Regina Man Wants Heterosexual Pride Day”—CHEKTV and the Regina Leader Post Thank You, Philadelphia Gay News, for Thanking Us
Editorial—Philadelphia Gay News, April 27-May 3 www.epgn.com Does This Man Hope to See Penetration? But a kiss between Jennifer Aniston and Winona Ryder? By now we've seen women kissing each other on everything from "Ally McBeal" to "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer." Adam Buckman—“Kiss of Death”—New York Post, April 26 |