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Metaphysical gays
To the Fid i tor:
I very much enjoy reading each issue of
Just Out. It keeps getting better and better.
Your efforts and fine work are appreciated.
I look forward to finding a copy each
month.
I was very much drawn to your current
issue, having Tarot cards depicted on the
cover. However, while 1 enjoyed the
Spirituality: Altaring Sensations article, I
would at some point in the future, enjoy an
article on gays who are truly into meta-
physics.
Something exploring Portland’s pagan
groups would also be of interest (I feel
pagans ar one aspect of the full spectrum of
the esoteric wisdoms).
1 am enclosing this letter in the first
issue of The Silver Pegasus; you may find
some of the articles of interest. Being both
gay and a metaphysician, 1 find the two
worlds are finally beginning to blend for
many of us.
Highlights and Lowlifes by Laguna
Bitch & Tippi was excellent. A good re
minder of the past year, and how humor-
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ously absurd life can be. Hopefully they
will write more.
Also, if they are not aware of it, it may
be of interest to them that “ Terry” Dolan
Who needs empty
promises?
To the editor:
Did anybody else have as tough a time
as i [sic] did, trying to donate a Christmas
gift to a person with AIDS (PWA) through
the CAP/City Week program?
It was a wonderful, charitable idea,
spread across City Week’s front pages in
mid-December.
And so i tried. Honest, i did. Being new
in town, i didn’t personally know anybody
in need. Also, i didn’t want to give some
thing redundant. A gift collection was the
perfect solution.
So i called someone at the CAP office
on Dec. 17 to ask what was needed most.
He referred me to City Week. They're
organizing it, he said.
has filed for the March 3 election to the Winston-Dillard School Board.
Billy’s column, The Roseburg Report, has appeared in Just Out since the
newspaper first began publishing three years ago.
He has been instrumental in developing the Southern Oregon gay com
munity and has been continuously open and vocal about issues in the
gay/lesbian community and in the Southern Oregon area.
Billy is highly respected by many citizens as well as community leaders in
Winston, Oregon, and he has an excellent chance of winning this school
board seat.
We urge you to send your contributions to:
Friends of Billy Russo
P.O. Box 942
Dillard, OR 97432
This ad paid for by Just
Just Out 4 February. 1987
Out and Friends of Billy Russo
Three unretumed phone messages later,
on Dec. 23, i stopped by CW’s offices to
ask someone in person about the program.
The man i spoke to said there was no one in
to handle donors’ calls, but he assured me
somebody would call back if i would leave
my name and number. (A fourth message9
OK.)
Guess what! No one has called back.
And it’s Dec. 26.
It’s bad enough for PWAs to suffer. But
who needs the added aggravation of
empty, bungled promises?
Whoever organized this holiday gift
program (and i’m still trying to find out
who’s in charge of it) has it backwards.
You're supposed to make it easy to donate
to a charitable cause, not impossible.
Someone royally dropped the ball.
Sincerely,
David McCartney
The Great Peace March
B Y
Billy Russo
E. Charles Engel
C O M M E N T A R Y
Open days, evenings and Saturdays
Oregon gay activist
died recently.
Best wishes and a fulfilling ’87 to you.
A M Y
S M I T H
y sister, Rebecca Smith, walked
3,700 miles in THE GREAT
PEACE MARCH FOR GLOBAL
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT. My
mother and I joined the march for the last
three days as the original 600, plus several
thousand newcomers, marched trium
phantly into Washington D.C. on
November 15th. Eight thousand people at
tended a final rally in front of the Lincoln
Memorial. Speakers and singers at rallies
throughout the day included Dr. Benjamin
Spock, Carl Sagan, Pete Seeger, Sweet
Honey in the Rock, and Holly Near,
among others.
Three thousand people began the walk
March 1st in Los Angeles under the direc
tion of PRO-Peace. PRO-Peace went
bankrupt waiting for enough funds to cross
the Mojave Desert but 600 determined
marchers incorporated as a self-governed
mobile tent city they named The Great
Peace March. The peace city travelled
across America to revive the peace move
ment and call for global nuclear disarma
ment, a test ban, and a halt to unsafe
nuclear power.
Hard work by each and every partici
pant, constant fundraising and many sup
port vehicles made “ peace city” a reality.
They travelled across America walking 15-
25 miles per day and camping in church
yards, state parks, and coliseum grounds.
Four semi trucks carried all the gear (tents,
clothes, guitars . . .). Three porta-potty
trucks, affectionately named Daisy, Rose
and Lilac, became the one place marchers
had privacy, and media trucks, the kitchen
trailers, and numerous other vehicles sup
plied day to day necessities.
Life went on during the nine months of
the march. Each child in the march
attended school on one of three reclaimed
school busses. The oldest person held his
89th birthday party on the march route.
There were several marriages, two deaths
and two births.
The “ Wimin’s Village,” “ the Anarch
ists” and other less than mainstream
groups participated in teaching tolerance
and acceptance to the diverse group of
marchers. The marchers certainly taught
more than nuclear disarmament to small
town and big city residents they encoun
tered on the way; direct conversation was
the most interesting, inspiring and educa
tional facet of the march for everyone.
Rebecca recalls the diversity of America
1 and the friendliness of the people as high
points of her trip.
As the Great Peace March disbands,
plans for a peace march through Florida
this winter and an international march to
Moscow through the U.S.S.R. next year
are under way. Marchers ask us to join
them in the greater peace march by work
ing for peace in our homes, in our cities,
and our world.
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