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WINDY CITY TIMES
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Media Watch
by JIM EDMINSTER 2003-04-23
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This article shared 2029 times since Wed Apr 23, 2003
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From the 'Good Lord' file, the Economist (4/19-25) in a review of a book about the translators commissioned by (gay) King James of England for his version of the Bible, reports that one of the linguists mentioned in God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (author: Adam Nicolson), one Laurence Chaderton, a Puritan who translated the 'Song of Songs,' was very likely thinking of a sweet boy whom he wished to 'embosom' when they were in school together.
The New York times (4-20) has an article that is virtually an encyclopedia of gay rappers: mentioned in the piece are Caushun (who 'wants to be hip-hop's homosexual Jackie Robinson'), Man Parish (who recorded the first gay hip-hop CD, 'Hip-Hop Don't Stop'), The Deep Dickollective (including Juba Kalamba and Tim'm West, the last also an AIDS activist and school teacher), Semaj, Tori Fixx, Miss Money (a lesbian), Maasen, Katey Red (a New Orleans transvestite), Dutchboy (of the group Rainbow Flava), Hanifah Walidah (a lesbian). Many aficionados of this type of music say the best openly gay rapper is a short white lesbian named Cyryus (pronounced 'serious') who released an album in 1988 called The Lyricist.
The NY Times (4-10) says that the original stenographic transcript of the 1895 libel trial of Oscar Wilde has been rediscovered. The BBC reported that the transcript, donated several years ago to the British Library, was not even known to exist. This was the trial in which Wilde sued the Marquess of Queensbury whose son was having an affair with Wilde. The Marquess had accused Wilde of homosexuality. Wilde lost and was disgraced.
The U.S. armed forces, according to many media, are still discharging Arabic language specialists who are gay. The N.Y. Times (4-18) in an item about gay partners of those in uniform tells of gay couples not being able to greet one another at home comings. In a letter to the Times (4-20) re this partner issue, Nataniel G. Butler, who was a gay lieutenant in the Navy during the Vietnam conflict, asks if the Pentagon still believes that openly gay women and men will corrupt morale. He says he didn't observe this to be so then and that Britain and Israel, our allies which allow gays to serve openly, don't believe it now.
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