There are several commonalities between the far left and the far right — including a disdain for liberals — but the biggest divide is on the topic of intolerance. A group of neighborhood boys, each no older than 12, gathered around. At 6ft2in, he towered over them. Maybe you can think of another word to use. The boys conferred. A year-old activist with long hair and a full bushy beard, Neely had a full day of political activism ahead of him: Donald Trump was in Harrisburg to mark his th day in office with a speech at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex. In other parts of the city, the liberal opposition were also readying themselves: organizations such as Keystone Progress , Dauphin County Democrats and the local Indivisible group planned to march in protest. Instead, they had set up a picnic site in a small park, offering a barbecue and leftist pamphlets.
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Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission. A subset of these men who have sex with men, or MSM, live lives that are, in all respects other than their occasional homosexual encounters, quite straight and traditionally masculine — they have wives and families, they embrace various masculine norms, and so on. They are able to, in effect, compartmentalize an aspect of their sex lives in a way that prevents it from blurring into or complicating their more public identities. Sociologists are quite interested in this phenomenon because it can tell us a lot about how humans interpret thorny questions of identity and sexual desire and cultural expectations. But not all straight MSM have gotten the same level of research attention. Silva sought to find out more about these men, so he recruited 19 from men-for-men casual-encounters boards on Craigslist and interviewed them, for about an hour and a half each, about their sexual habits, lives, and senses of identity. It provides them with their fundamental sense of self; it structures how they understand the world around them; and it influences how they codify sameness and difference. In some of the subcultures Ward studied, straight MSM were able to reinterpret homosexual identity as actually strengthening their heterosexual identities. One way they did so was by seeking out partners who were similar to them. Whatever else is going on here, clearly these men are getting some companionship out of these relationships.
Try out PMC Labs and tell us what you think. Learn More. Although it is important that voices speak out and experiences are recorded and analyzed, no quantitative data on sex have been published previously. The purpose of this article is to inform, alert, amaze, amuse, and help in the planning of sex services. Further information came from the Archives of Sexology at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin; papers presented at sexology conferences; authoritative sexologic encyclopedias; data posted on Internet sites; and representative national surveys in the few countries where these have been undertaken, such as the United States. These data are not satisfactory. Few countries have comprehensive sex data, and some have none.
While the term divides us now, its history dates back to a time when mineworkers battled big coal — similar to teachers standing up for funding. Recent waves of protests and strikes in West Virginia invoke the memory of a now notorious figure in American history: the redneck. A West Virginian enlisted in the armed forces during the first world war was less likely to die than one working in a coalmine. In , black, white and immigrant mineworkers took up arms to battle the coal companies that controlled and exploited every aspect of their lives. United, they wore red bandannas to identify each other in battle. The West Virginia mine wars were the bloodiest labor conflict in American history. Culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain in , more than 10, miners marched from the Kanawha valley toward Mingo to join other striking miners in protest. Chafin commanded a private army of more than 2, mercenaries and multiple airplanes equipped to drop bombs on workers. Siding with Chafin and the coal bosses, President Warren G Harding sent federal troops too, armed with gas and more planes the fourth time that troops had been called in to squash organized miners in the mountain state.
