Common Decency, Common Sense
IGF Culture Watch Nov 18 09
by David Link
I’ve obviously been in a foul mood since Maine, and needed some good cheer. So Karen Ocamb’s interview with Charlie Beck, the new chief of the L.A. Police Department couldn’t have come along at a better moment.
As Stuart Timmons has documented, L.A. has a long history of pretty brutal police harassment against lesbians and gay men. That has been fading into the dustbin of history, and Beck embodies the view that is slowly but inevitably deflating our opponents.
Ocamb asks him, right off, whether he thinks sexual orientation is chosen or innate. Full story...
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IGF Culture Watch Feb 20 10
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IGF Culture Watch Feb 17 10
by Stephen H. Miller
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IGF Culture Watch Feb 14 10
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