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that there are no statues of American women in New York City. A 3-foot
high statue of Gertrude Stein in Bryant Park (behind the Public Library)
will be the first; an 8-foot statue of Eleanor Roosevelt is planned for
Riverside Park. New York Times 14 (August 29,1992) (letter to The Editor,
August 14). The New York City Board of Education adopted the "Children
of the Rainbow" curriculum guide for first grade, which urges teachers to
be "aware of varied family structures, including . . . gay or lesbian
parents ..." New York Times s.4 p. 16 (September 27, 1992) (editorial).
Hurricanes, which used to be named exclusively after women, now
alternate between men's and women's names.
65 ILEA(1982).
66 Reinhold (1991); Bromwich (1992); Berman (1992); Aufderheide(1992);
Schlesinger (1992); Partisan Review (1991); New York Times s.1 p.65
(December 15, 1991).
67 Dickey and CPBF (1985) (Working Group against Daily Mail Racism;
TUC; National Union of Journalists Code of Conduct; Association of
Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians Code of Conduct);
GLC Women's Committee (nda: 13) (London Transport Code of Conditions
of Acceptance of Advertising).
68 New York Times A27 (December 11, 1991), A14 (December 30, 1991). I
question The Nation's judgement in accepting an advertisement from a
Los Angeles group called Positive Realism.
Gay to Straight. It Can Be Done? Sexuality derives from personality. Just
as you make personal changes in your life, so heterosexuality can
become a natural, self-fulfilling, joyous experience. How? You don't
need to be converted or insulted. Instead, you can use a proven, well
thought-out, positive and understanding approach. Any gay or bisexual
man or woman can do it even if they've never experienced a heterosexual
desire. Many already have.
Although the editors timidly characterised these claims as "borderline
offensive," knew they would anger staff and readers, and worried that
"printing more ads with a similar message would change the nature of the
magazine and undermine the broad cultural values our editorial policy
seeks to advance," they concluded that the ad "does not seem fraudulent
to us .... Bad politics and wrong ideas are best challenged by good
politics and ideas, not censorship." 254(5) The Nation 148 (February 10,
1992). But that is just the question. Sometimes it is better to expose
homophobia, sometimes it is wiser to deny it further publicity. Calling the
latter decision censorship does not advance the ethical inquiry.
69 New York Times 47 (December 14, 1991). The Council of Islamic
Education, founded to combat stereotypes, objected to the statement in a
sixth-grade textbook that all Muslims are Bedouins who rub sand over
their faces before kneeling to pray to Allah. A seventh-grade text attributes
a white face to the angel Gabriel (respected as God's messenger by
Muslims, Christians, and Jews). It uses a camel to symbolise Islam's
"moment in time," comparable to Spanish cartographers, Samurai war-
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