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^ Liberace, though, had died just the year before, and I can recall my grandmother saying,
with all sincerity, how sad it was that he never found the right woman to settle down
with. “He must have been so lonely without a wife,” she remarked, nearly in tears that
day.
In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed banning the fast-food chain in 2013
because, in his words, “their values are not Chicago’s values.”
^ C f and <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Family_Association >.
^ C f The University of Chicago News:
http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2011/09/28/americans-move-dramatically-towardacceptance-homosexuality-survey-fmds >.
^ For a transcript of Foster’s speech, see <
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/l 3/entertainment/la-et-mn-golden-globes-2013transcript-of-jodie-fosters-speech-20130113 >.
® Robert B. Marks Ridinger, “Things Visible and Invisible: The Leather Archives and
Museum,” Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 43(1) 2002: 2.
^ My thanks to Steve Ingeman in helping to think through this question of technological
identity and music.