After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90sGays remain the nation's untouchables, according to the authors of this controversial look at the trampling of homosexuals by our society. After the Ball launches a double-barreled critique of both straight oppression and the misguided gay movement. |
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Page 131
... bigotry pays to logic -the pathetic effort by a bigot's cortex to run a quick reality check on the reasonableness of his feelings . Since the bigot ac- cumulates , along the way , quite a shoal of such beliefs , his mo- mentary pause ...
... bigotry pays to logic -the pathetic effort by a bigot's cortex to run a quick reality check on the reasonableness of his feelings . Since the bigot ac- cumulates , along the way , quite a shoal of such beliefs , his mo- mentary pause ...
Page 168
... bigotry on the other . When the gun- smoke finally clears - and it can take years to do so - the stronger sentiment emerges more or less victorious . If it is the stronger , affection for the friend wins out and subdues bigotry , the ...
... bigotry on the other . When the gun- smoke finally clears - and it can take years to do so - the stronger sentiment emerges more or less victorious . If it is the stronger , affection for the friend wins out and subdues bigotry , the ...
Page 234
... bigotry . Dangerous homophobic bigotry . The Ku Klux Klan is waging a campaign of fear and hate against gay people , just as it has against blacks . And now they want you on their side . Will you join them ? Or are you like millions of ...
... bigotry . Dangerous homophobic bigotry . The Ku Klux Klan is waging a campaign of fear and hate against gay people , just as it has against blacks . And now they want you on their side . Will you join them ? Or are you like millions of ...
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