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  • Ehrlich Fires Appointee for Stating Homosexuality is Deviant

    06/17/2006 6:45:42 AM PDT · by academics · 220 replies · 2,515+ views
    Baltimore Sun ^ | June 16 | Jennifer Skalka
    WASHINGTON // Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. fired one of his appointees to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority yesterday after the board member asserted on a local cable talk show that homosexuals lived a life of "sexual deviancy." The termination came a few hours after Metro board member Robert J. Smith, an architect and unsuccessful Republican candidate for the General Assembly from Montgomery County, was publicly confronted by a transit board colleague. Board member Jim Graham, a District of Columbia councilman who is openly gay, called on Smith to disavow his remarks or resign during yesterday's regular meeting of...
  • Many Straight Guys Say 'No Thanks' to 'Brokeback Mountain'

    01/05/2006 4:21:21 PM PST · by Incorrigible · 330 replies · 7,500+ views
    Newhouse News ^ | 1/5/2005 | Dru Sefton
    Many Straight Guys Say 'No Thanks' to 'Brokeback Mountain' BY DRU SEFTON It's true, the movie "Brokeback Mountain" does provoke what one researcher calls "a very strong ick factor" in some straight men. What is it in this story of two cowboy pals in 1960s Wyoming who find themselves in lifelong love -- yet go on to marry women -- that elicits this response from heterosexual males? The answers are as complex as the plot. A psychologist who coined the word "homophobic" said the revulsion is precisely that. A scientist who discovered genetic links to sexuality said he simply does...