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Why would gays be upset at Bush? Is the new administration plotting some grand crackdown that would jail people for homosexual acts? Is it planning to send out the BATF to gay clubs to crack skulls? Is it preparing tanks to mow down gay churches or burn them to the ground? Is it agitating for a law that would prevent or otherwise punish private businesses and associations from hiring gays?
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Owen, like Reinaldo, refused to be silenced about the Castro regime's abuse of gays. He had been jailed in sordid dungeons in Varadero Beach and in Havana. He was tortured and beaten by Castro's henchmen. He was apprehended with other gays in massive raids usually conducted after midnight. He tells of indiscriminate daily violence, insults and beatings. For him and other gay people around him, Cuba is a jail where gays are treated as beasts without rights.
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Despite these changes, many of Wall Street’s gays and lesbians continue to feel pressure to stay in the closet. This may be especially true on the trading floors. One Citigroup managing director, a lesbian who hopes to be a mentor for others in her industry, suggests to Bloomberg the culture on the floors has not changed as quickly as at the corporate offices. “Of thousands of people trading stocks, she knows about three lesbian women and no gay men,” Bloomberg writes.
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There are some wide demographic variations in support for gays in the military. For example, 83% of self-identified liberals and 72% of moderates favor allowing gays to serve in the military, while less than half (46%) of self-identified conservatives agree. Three-fourths (73%) of people who rarely attend church support gays in the military, compared with about half (49%) of weekly attendees.
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Human rights groups have long railed against the Iranian government's persecution of gays, which Ettelbrick calls "a campaign by the government to draw attention to the risks of people expressing their sexuality." Some believe that repression has only worsened since Ahmadinejad became president.
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As for tolerance, Florida urges communities to welcome and support gays, bohemians, and immigrants, because culture and diversity attract the creative class. His analysis of census data consistently shows gay and creative people congregate in the same regions.
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