Writer Dean Atta expresses his thoughts on the recent royal pardon given to Alan Turing, the World War II British code-breaker who was subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, in a poem for Pink News. I beg your pardon? Alan Turing’s pardon comes sixty years too late Our country showed him no love then, just…
Turner Classic Movies, Sunday, July 7, 1 p.m. The movie that made James Dean a star is about a, yes, rebellious teenager in the 1950s whose charisma persuades a girl (Natalie Wood) and a boy (Sal Mineo) to question the stringency of post-war America. Wood and Mineo were both nominated for Oscars, while Dean became…
(CNN) — The dean overseeing Johns Hopkins University Medical School said Friday that controversial comments made by faculty member Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon and outspoken conservative, went against the “core values” of the school. This follows remarks last week by Carson which some saw as equating homosexuality with criminal acts of pedophilia and bestiality. He…
