Faced with the deaths of so many, the only viable and bravest reaction available to the gay community was defiance, a reassertion of their pride.
This not only risks giving the adherents a kind of counter-cultural glamour they formerly lacked, but may also provoke a further hardening of their views, or even a violent reassertion on the part of the adherents themselves (or those who take offence on their behalf).
Critical to reforming our health care is the reassertion of these values, their reinsertion into practice and training, and reimbursement that reflects the time and attention needed to treat the patient in all of his or her humanity.
Their vision "is a nativistic one, a reassertion of traditional values that have lost the force of ideals they may once have had and have become a set of imperatives, biblical and legal, that demand discipline rather than aspiration, repetition rather than creation".
The Brotherhood's leaders also said they would call out their supporters for a major demonstration on Tuesday against the reassertion of military rule.
It entails less equivocation, less democracy, less blurring of the line between commerce and content, and a reassertion of authority on the part of museums, which must restate their convictions about esoteric beauty, the ethical import of aesthetics and the special, if intangible, power of the things they possess.
The activity by Ayatollah Sistani represents a reassertion of his efforts to ensure that the country's long-suppressed Shiite Arabs translate their majority status into political power.
The reassertion of royal authority over the feudatories, which took place at different times in the different kingdoms and led to the formation of centralized states of the modern type, meant that most counts lost their political authority, though they retained their privileges as members of the nobility.
Such a resolution, it is assumed, would include a reassertion that any final accord would recognise Israel and guarantee its security, and that the mutual border would be based on the 1967 line, with land swaps; that the states would share Jerusalem as their capital; and that the Palestinian refugee problem would be resolved.
The attack on multiculturalism - so often sold as a reassertion of Enlightenment principles - often masks a distinctly unenlightened reassertion of hierarchic and traditionalist thinking.
