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Article: The lawyer, the poet.
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- May 27, 1997
- Author:
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IN FEBRUARY, TOM STODDARD, FOUNDER OF LAMBDA LEGAL Defense and Education Fund and the Campaign for Military Service, champion of lesbian and gay and human rights, legal luminary, and now a tutelary divinity of progressive people everywhere, arrived in Paradise: cocktails with James Madison and Ida Lupino, testimonial dinners, epic sex parties, day trips to hell to witness the agonies of slow-roasting homophobes. Two months later a round, bearded bald man, who on wings of gorgeous ecstatic poetry had been a frequent visitor to Paradise, also arrived (after a brief but intense and enlightening purgatorial for having supported the North American Man-Boy Love Association) to ...
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