Mounting political opposition to lesbian and gay rights: Julio Rivera, victim of a fatal gay-bashing; the campaign of Senator Jesse Helms; the controversy surrounding Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied (1989); Oregon Ballot Measure 9.
The US Navy's 1980 attempt to discharge 24 women sailors from the USS Norton Sound. Bowers vs Hardwick, the US Supreme Court's 1986 decision to uphold Georgia Sodomy law. Bill Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" compromise.
Queer teens share their experience of being young and gay in the homophobic '90s, including involvement with alternative schools for gay and lesbian teenagers and support groups.
