Among our last survivors from the golden age of midcentury music is Gian-Carlo Menotti, whose operas have brought delight to millions and whose name will forever be linked with that of Samuel Barber. The Nazi Fiction of William Pierce Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was reportedly a big fan of the fiction of William Pierce, whose white-supremacist heroes are shown routinely murdering Jews, blacks and gays. It's sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Readers of his autobiography, however, should not have been surprised that Paulk was still strongly drawn toward homosexual environments. Yet his book The Pleasure Principle still contains much that will cause integrationists to nod in assent.
Applause is in order.
The hectoring passion is there, but the analysis mostly isn't. But considerable strengths remain, including vivid, well-documented reporting based on a wealth of interviews. This maturation in media portrayals can't help but promote respect and dignity for real-world gay people. Which Speech to Subsidize Under pressure from conservative Christians, Idaho legislators voted to block state-owned Idaho Public Television from airing documentary programs friendly toward gay interests. The episode demonstrates the dangers of letting government insert itself into the business of subsidizing the dissemination of speech and opinion, something that cannot be done in a principled way without offending either majority or minority opinion or both.