Rants & raves."I can talk about it now because I'm not afraid anymore." --Actor Richard Chamberlain, on coming out in his new autobiography, Shattered Love, on Dateline NBC Dateline NBC, or Dateline, is a U.S. weekly television newsmagazine broadcast by NBC similar to ABC's 20/20 or CBS's 60 Minutes. History The show, which has aired since 1992, is currently anchored by Ann Curry. , June 1 "What do you get when you lock six gay Jewish men in a room together? A Broadway musical." --Harvey Fierstein, after collecting one of Hairspray's eight Tony awards, as quoted in The Hollywood Reporter, June 9 "I long for the days when homosexuality was viewed by society as an illness and gays opted to remain in the closet." --University of Oregon student Vincent Martorano, in an editorial published May 9 in the Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald is an independent daily newspaper published at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The paper, which has been published for more than 100 years, has trained many now-prominent writers and journalists and has made important , Outraged fellow students staged a love-in (pictured) on May 28 to protest the article "Never mind the book; I'd like to see the goddamned god·damned or god·damn adj. Damned. god  damned illustrations."
--Poet Rod McKuen Rod McKuen (born April 29, 1933) is a bestselling American poet, composer, and singer, instrumental in the revitalization of popular poetry that took place in the 1960s and early 1970s. , upon announcing the nomination of The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories for a Lambda Literary Award Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the "Lammies") are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. , at the Los Angeles ceremony, May 29 |
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