the Harlem police force had been augmented in March, and the unrest grew—perhaps, in fact, partly as a result of the ghetto’s instinctive hatred of policemen. Perhaps the most revealing news item, out of the steady parade of reports of muggings, stabbings, shootings, assaults, gang wars, and accusations of police brutality, is the item concerning s

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Disability, like homosexuality, carries a stigma (a word that comes from the Greek for a mark made by a pointed instrument—a prick, a brand, a puncture—of the sort Oedipus applied to his own eyes). When I think of how that stigma can be overcome, the most powerful example I’ve found is in gay pride and the LGBTQ rights movement. I’m not yet comfort

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Probably for the first time in the history of the world, hundreds of lesbians, dressed to the nines, drove up to a posh hotel in their Mercedes and BMWs and Cadillacs, asked the doorman the way to the dining room where a lesbian luncheon was being held, and there joined an overflowing crowd of other affluent lesbians for a public lesbian event whos

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