Coverage of a domestic partnership bill approved Sunday by the Nevada Legislature over the objections of Governor Jim Gibbons hits close to a homophobic nerve.

Several instances suggest reporters in the Las Vegas area were feeling uncomfortable with covering the subject of gay and lesbian rights ...

REVEL WITH A CAUSE : LIBERAL SATIRE IN POSTWAR AMERICA by Stephen E. Kercher University of Chicago Press,

As a late Seventies teenager, I was exposed to two distinct brands of American humour -- or 'yomour' as it tended to be pronounced -- each diametrically opposed to the other. One was the Bob Hope school of urbane wisecrackery that drifted over the Radio ...

The Guardian, June 12 1954 Senator Joseph McCarthy was all over the front pages again this morning, but the instinct that put him there was for once not his. It looked as if, finally, an impulse of moral revulsion had galvanised the country and braced the backbone of an incongruous variety of his victims. The Department of the Army, a ...