Sublime

There is no doubt that this was a time of extreme homophobia, and we can trace a clear, though chronologically interrupted, path to the Germanic peoples of Tacitus’s time. He relates how men found guilty of homosexual acts were pressed into bogs and held down to drown under wicker hurdles. Archaeologists have found many male corpses from the Iron A

Hollibaugh sized up the audience and saw that many there were over fifty, and she realized how she could isolate the pastor. “Well, you know, Reverend Blue,” she said, “my guess would be that most of the people in this audience fought against someone who had that position in World War II, and my guess is that the audience does not support genocide.

Did the Ancient Hainish postulate that continuous sexual capacity and organized social aggression, neither of which are attributes of any mammal but man, are cause and effect?

Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-laced apple.

“You’re a transsexual,” Barry said. “I know exactly what you are.” Reese had never heard the word before—he hadn’t even known that there was a word to describe him.

Thompson, tireless and unrelenting, brought her case to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. There her lawyers argued eloquently that it was “astonishing” that a judge would issue an order that would “have the effect of limiting Sharon Kowalski’s contact with Thompson and the love Karen feels for her.” The lawyers demanded to know, “In what moral framew

In regard to the question of etiology, it should be noted that what “causes” homosexuality is an issue of importance only to societies which regard gay people as bizarre or anomalous.13

“Only family are allowed in. You need to find her next of kin,” was the answer. Strong and Fleming had had a commitment ceremony, officiated by Fleming’s progressive aunt, who’d been a nun for sixteen years. But a commitment ceremony had no legal standing.

As a gay, illegitimate artist twice accused of sodomy, he knew what it was like to be regarded, and to regard yourself, as different. But as with many artists, that turned out to be more an asset than a hindrance.