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Article: How the culture war was won: lesbians and gay men defeated the right in the 1990s, but tougher battles lie ahead. (State Of The Debate).
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- The American Prospect
- Article date:
- October 21, 2002
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IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT THAT WE live in an alternate universe where the United States is openly hostile to lesbians and gay men. How hostile? Well, in this world, the liberal state of Massachusetts bans lesbians and gay men from being foster parents. The only gay person you might find on TV--and you'd have to search hard--is either a lisping hairdresser or a young man tragically dying. Three Maine teenagers confess that they've thrown a young man over a bridge to his death because he's gay, and the national media don't even notice; ditto when hundreds of thousands of lesbians and gay men hold a civil-rights march on the nation's capitol. The U.S. Supreme Court issues a major ...
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