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Thomas B. Stoddard
Thomas B. Stoddard (1949 – February 12, 1997) was an American lawyer and gay rights activist. He was the executive director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1986 to 1992. He also served as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law beginning in 1981. Activism In addition to his work opposing discrimination against homosexuals, Stoddard was active in opposing discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS. He wrote a bill prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in public accommodations that was passed by the New York City Council, and subsequently signed into law by New York City Mayor Ed Koch, in 1986; Koch later referred to the bill as "perfect". He served as the director of the Campaign for Military Service, which publicly met with President Bill Clinton in 1993 in the hopes of persuading him to end the policy of Sexual orientation in the United States military, prohibiting homosexuals from serving in the United States armed forces. Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
