Puritan Left Joins With Reactionary Right

"...all too easy to plug your choice – alcohol, homosexuality, rock & roll music – into Mr. Hankin's style..."

May 10, 2005 Postmarks

Bashing Gays and Children

In a bill on child protection, the House votes to do its worst

"...he created marriage." He went on to talk about homosexuality as a learned behavior, "and I think a child..."

April 29, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...Robert Talton, R-Pasadena, who informed the House solemnly that homosexuality is "a learned behavior." Bigotry, as the song goes,..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Midaq Alley

"...love and sex is full of true devotion, betrayal, homosexuality, prostitution, violence, and death. Jorge Fons' 1998 film has..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Review by Sarah Abdurrahman

Rufus Wainwright

Record review

"...your sins," Wainwright warns. What sorts of sins against homosexuality are we talking about? Is this Wainwright's existential crisis?..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Possible Lives

The third annual Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...and the possibilities of friendship, between Israeli machismo and homosexuality...."

Jan. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

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"...re-reading your Bibles. The same books used to condemn homosexuality require animal sacrifice for pretty much everything, say having..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Column

Liberals Are Moral

"...re-reading your Bibles. The same books used to condemn homosexuality require animal sacrifice for pretty much everything, say having..."

Nov. 15, 2004 Postmarks

Naked City

School textbooks remain virginal (and hetero), thanks to the SBOE

"...suggestions, such as adding to the books' discussions of homosexuality the following: "Opinions vary on why homosexuals, lesbians and..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Letters at 3AM

As we approach the most pivotal election since 1860, the work of Stirling Silliphant comes to mind because he shows that our present situation was not created by 9 / 11 but has been brewing for a long time

"...the same counter, or share a classroom, with Anglos. Homosexuality was still against the law. It would be several..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

After a Fashion

Stephen weighs in on the whole Cipel / McGreevey thing (you know, the gay governor scandal), and lucky for us, we have never made untoward advances toward Our Style Avatar, especially now that we know how he feels

"...the fairly common (but usually denied) desire to explore homosexuality. In either case, by retreating behind the mask of..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Rev. Rigby Welcomes Same-Sex Showdown

The St. Andrew's pastor says a Presbyterian trial is 'what needs to happen'

"...like this one to force an open discussion on homosexuality. The pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in North..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Party for the Right to Read

The ACLU wants Banned Books Week to be a wake-up call

"...Ask Alice, along with works featuring positive messages about homosexuality and critical ones about the right to bear arms.)..."

Sept. 24, 2004 News Feature by Diana Welch

Cabaret

Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of Cabaret embraces the play's sexuality and hedonism but doesn't always convey its debauched defiance

"...Zach's Cabaret tackles the bisexuality and homosexuality in the script head-on, trading the effeminate male Emcee..."

June 18, 2004 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

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"...think is worthy of getting married? Some argue that homosexuality goes against God and Christianity. Last time I checked..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Column

Civil Rights for All

"...think is worthy of getting married? Some argue that homosexuality goes against God and Christianity. Last time I checked..."

Feb. 18, 2004 Postmarks

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"...thing to do, rather it will lead many to homosexuality, etc. To me that is preposterous, and it is..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Column

Let's Bring Hope Rather Than Despair

"...thing to do, rather it will lead many to homosexuality, etc. To me that is preposterous, and it is..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Postmarks

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...The Chinese recently took homosexuality off their list of official psychological disorders...."

Nov. 7, 2003 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Queer Like Them

"It seems like a mere 20 years ago that prime-time TV viewers were all atwitter about gays on television," writes Belinda Acosta. But now, with the success of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Boy Meets Boy on Bravo, "viewers are consuming TV's idea of gay culture as happily as a free pass at a day spa." Turns out, though, that there are still a couple of little problems.

"...Carrington on Dynasty in the early 1980s, back then, homosexuality was considered a curiosity. If there was a joke..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Austin Minister Targeted by Anti-Gay Campaign

"...Rolf Jensen, appear to have turned a campaign against homosexuality into a full-time job. Last month, Jensen succeeded in..."

July 25, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Fostering Family Values

The Legislature engages in its biennial exercises in gay-bashing -- families be damned.

"...week drew loud groans from spectators when he defined homosexuality as a learned behavior -- "just like pedophilia is..."

May 2, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

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"...with same-sex attractions make the personal decision to leave homosexuality. However, some refuse to respect that choice. As a..."

April 18, 2003 Column

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Beyond City Limits

"...the bulk of the pro-HB 38 speakers, who denounced homosexuality as an "abomination" and called on the committee to..."

March 21, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

TV Eye

Breaking more ground: Six Feet Under returns for a third season.

"...Hall) still carries some of the shame about his homosexuality, though it's less debilitating, while Keith's (Mathew St. Patrick)..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Mr. Smarty Pants

"...On Jan. 1, 1993, the World Health Organization deleted homosexuality from its list of diseases...."

Dec. 27, 2002 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

'Heaven' Sent

Writer / director Todd Haynes resurrects the gloriously overwrought weepies of the Fifties in Far From Heaven.

"...Heaven spins on two issues -- interracial romance and homosexuality -- that could never have been addressed in a..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

SBOE: A Green Challenge?

Green Party candidate Lesley Ramsey aims to bring progressive values to the right-wing State Board of Education.

"...schools, and opposes bilingual education, sex education, counseling on homosexuality, and school health clinics, which she called "government controlled,..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

King Rat (1965)

King Rat is a terribly honest and brutally realistic film about WWII P.O.W.s -- a perfect counter to its story of terribly dishonest people living in brutal times.

"...the book. Still a taboo subject in the mid-Sixties, homosexuality nonetheless winds its way in hints and undertones, and..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

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"...an automatic three stars to anything that's foreign, involves homosexuality, or is playing at the Dobie ... to the..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

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