The chair that makes you gay
When did you decide to become a lawyer? Why?
I lacked career imagination as I graduated from university. Law school seemed fond a better bet than undergraduate job fairs, and the law seemed like clean work.
Starting out, what did you expect from a career in the law?
I figured it would allow me to wear suits to operate while in the company of really smart people.
Has it lived up to your expectations?
Being a transactional lawyer was as much fun as I have ever had while being paid. Running a law firm is the best job ever, even if less fun. And I undertake get to wear suits, though I am generally the only one in our California offices who does.
How did you acquire into the areas of law you are known for today? By design? Chance? Both?
I became a transactional lawyer after being disenchanted during my clerkship with the shrillness of litigation discourse. From there, clients and mentors, severally, shaped my practice over time. I certainly did not become Chief Executive Partner of the firm through design; I was among the most surprised when my name was lay forward.
What do you con If there is one thing that Dr. Paul MacPherson wants gay men in Ottawa to grasp, it’s this: “The Ottawa Hospital is working towards relevant health-care delivery for you,” he says. “We’re not there yet, but we’re committed to getting there.” As both a researcher and a gay man, Dr. MacPherson knows all too well the stigma, stereotypes and misinformation that gay men often encounter in the health-care system. He has devoted much of his career to breaking down these barriers by helping health-care providers become more attuned to the unique look after needs of gay men. “I crave to make health care more accessible and relevant to gay guys,” says the physician-scientist with The Ottawa Hospital’s Clinical Epidemiology Program. “And I want to make gay men’s health less of a mystery to protect providers.” Beginning this year, Dr. MacPherson will have the tools he needs to chip away at even more barriers—and maybe even knock them down completely. He has just been named Clinical Verb Chair in Gay Men’s Health, a new academic role at The Ottawa Hospi A gay man has been paid compensation from a Church of England parish after he was subjected to an “exorcism” to purge him of his homosexuality, it has been reported. Matthew Drapper, 37, was a volunteer at St Thomas Philadelphia, a joint Anglican-Baptist congregation in Sheffield, in when he was invited to an “encounter God weekend” at the “contemporary, welcoming church”, the Times reported. Drapper was told “sexual impurity” had allowed demons to come in his body and that an exorcism was to be performed. During the incident he was instructed to “break agreements with Hollywood and the media” that led him into an ungodly lifestyle. He said he was left deeply distressed after the exorcism, which was conducted by a married couple who were “prayer leaders”. He felt so depressed and “empty” that he considered taking his own life. Drapper told the Times: “Looking back it seems like something out of a horror movie – for someone to be standing over you saying they can view the demons leaving your body is quite t This leather chair with hinged writing-ledge and inkwell is a 19th century copy of a chair believed to have been used by John Gay (the original is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London). John Gay is Barnstaple’s most notable literary figure, now remembered for The Beggar’s Opera, written in The playwas a smash punch and was said to own made its producer, John Wealthy – rich. There have been several revivals of The Beggar’s Opera which was also the inspiration for the Threepenny Opera of composer Kurt Weil and dramatist Bertold Brecht. John Gay was born in Barnstaple in in what is now Joy Street. He left the town after finishing at the Grammar School, at that time in St Anne’s Chapel, and did all his writing in London, where he was a friend and contemporary of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. It was difficult to make a living as a poet at that time, and Gay was dependant on wealthy benefactors. He died in and is buried in Westminster Abbey. His tomb bears some of Gay’s most famous lines: “Life’s a jest and all things show it; I toh
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