Gay $. “Gays in fact pioneered the redevelopment of several North Side neighborhoods long before the real estate industry officially pronounced them ‘hot,’” in particular Lakeview, Wrigleyville, and parts of the DePaul area, writes Valerie Denney in Chicago Enterprise (December 1989). “So strong and predictable is the influence of gays that some realtors regard them as the grain of sand around which the pearl grows.” Next? Buena Park, Andersonville, Roscoe Village, and parts of Rogers Park and Edgewater.
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The end (?) of Christian phallus worship. “The arrival of the first Anglican woman bishop [Barbara Harris of Massachusetts] (and of those women bishops who will follow) provides outstanding opportunity for the phallocentric theologians to speak their piece on behalf of a god who gives men and boys a special, sacred thing that women and girls don’t have,” writes Reverend Carter Heyward in the Witness. “Happily, the debate about whether this ‘special thing’ is necessary to salvation has been over for more than a decade now in the Episcopal Church.” Amen.
“Each year a number of names are removed from the ‘Noted Personalities’ section if they are no longer visible or if they have died,” according to the publishers of the World Almanac and Book of Facts, who are not burdened by false modesty. Nondead individuals who were visible last January but are so no longer: Christopher Atkins, Irene Dailey, James Donald, Gil Gerard, Mort Lindsey, John Loder, Pricilla Lopez, Al Martino, the Mills Brothers, Donald Mills, Ken Murray, David Nelson, Barry Newman, Mills Watson, Emlyn Williams, and Jacklyn Zeman.
