Contents:
- TIMELE: BILL CLTON'S EVOLUTN ON GAY RIGHTS
- GAY POLICS GO MASTREAM
- LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS DURG PRINT CLTON'S SEND TERM: A WORKG PAPER PUBLISHED BY THE CIZENS' COMMISSN ON CIVIL RIGHTS
- PROCLAMATN 7203—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 1999
TIMELE: BILL CLTON'S EVOLUTN ON GAY RIGHTS
“Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds.
GAY POLICS GO MASTREAM
“I realized that all the stori I was readg, and the personali and phenomena, whether was McCarthyism or the Reagans, FDR or JFK, that there were the gay stori lurkg the background, ” Kirchick stori lurked the background out of necsy: The st of g out as gay — or, more likely, beg outed agast one’s will — was enormo profsnally and socially.
LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS DURG PRINT CLTON'S SEND TERM: A WORKG PAPER PUBLISHED BY THE CIZENS' COMMISSN ON CIVIL RIGHTS
“It was the specter of homosexualy that provoked the first and only suici by a member of Congrs his Capol Hill office, ed Lyndon Johnson to et that his historil lead would evaporate, and seized the paranoid md of Richard Nixon send only to the plots of his ever-expandg enemi list, ” Kirchick wr.
PROCLAMATN 7203—GAY AND LBIAN PRI MONTH, 1999
“To asss the full sle of the damage that the fear of homosexualy wrought on the Amerin polil landspe, one mt take to acunt not only the reers ed and the liv cut short, but somethg vaster and unquantifiable: the possibili thwarted, ” Kirchick wr.