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McRae Calendar Editor Meg Grace Staff Reporter Kamila Al-Nujjar Advertising Coordinator Jewel Murphy Advertising Representatives All the roads lead to Washington he weekend of October 9-12, hundreds of thousands of gays, lesbians and bisexuals will march in the nation’s capital to demand • passage of the Congressional lesbian and gay rights bill; • an end to discrimination against people with AIDS, HIV positive status, or those per ceived to have AIDS; massive increase in funding for AIDS education, research, and patient care; these monies are to come from the military budget, not existing social services; • the repeal of all laws criminalizing con sensual sex; • a presidential order banning anti-gay dis crimination by the federal government; • legal recognition of lesbian and gay male domestic partnerships and greatly augmented social services for gay and lesbian youth; • reproductive freedom, the right to control our own bodies, and an end to sexist oppression; • an end to racism in this country and apartheid in South Africa. If we’re lucky, the weekend will coincide with the floor debate in the Senate on the con- firmaton of Robert Bork as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. So far, the Bork confirma tion hearings have ignored evidence that Robert Bork would perpetuate the oppression of a whole class of people by denying gays and lesbians a Constitutional right to privacy. I wonder if they will be able to ignore our existence when hundreds of thousands of us suddenly appear in their backyard? On a three- day weekend? In October? T Meg Grace, Jeff Fritz Production Director Renee LaChance Creative Director E. Ann Hinds Graphic Inspiration Rupert Kinnard Distribution Terri Redbird Contributors Cathy Siemens Fred Auger Jack Riley Bradley J. Woodworth Steven Bailey, ND Kelly Masek Sandra de Helen Eleanor Malin Doris Wisher Billy Russo Dell Richards Lee Lynch Kathy Bambeck Dr. Tantalus EJ Westlake Michael S. 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OR 97215 (503) 236-1252 Voices in the wilderness ne need not be a lawyer or a Con stitutional law expert to realize that Robert Bork is simply a conservative idealogue who is bad for everyone's civil rights.” O Robert De Koven; Assistant Professor o f Law, California Western School o f Law. (The Advocate. 10/13/87) “ The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Com munity is that a 36-year-old writer trying to make plans to go out of town flips through her appointment book and hears herself say, “ Well, I have a funeral on Tuesday, lunch with my editor on Wednesday, a memorial service on Thursday, so I guess I could come on Friday, unless, of course. Robert dies.” Fran Liebowitz (The New York Times. 9/13/87) ‘ ‘A lot of gay white men thought that the political movement was irrelevant to them, be cause as white middle-class men the system basically took care of them. The AIDS crisis showed that when they really needed something from the system, the system saw them as gay First and as white men second.“ Jeffrey Levi, Executive Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. (Mother Jones. October 1987) CA1HARTIC COM ICS wow/ you W ERE GR EA T BACK JTHCRE...THE W AY YOU ENDED THAT INTERVieW.'TV/E I SUPPOSE X T IV O U L D V E B E E N J son b e d as a < CROSS B E T W E E N PATTI LA BELLE, SHIRLEY CHISHOLM AND L E O N T Y N E PRICE W ITH O U T HAVING) enough to J O M E T IM E S Y O U ^ M N E V R R SEEN YOU J U S T CAN t s t a n d t ^ r e a c t UlCE "THAT ! S TILL f o r t h a t ^ m TYPE OF ALSO, EH ? Ju st O ut NONSENSE/ • 2 • O ctober, 1987 Wm A romantic’s dream B Y R. t be th r o w n dc in J A Y B R O W N “ With no one actively in charge, the Na tional Security Council ran wild in support of the Contras, in the name of patriotism. They might just as well have been bombing abortion clinics and calling it patriotism, because abor tion was something the president was known to oppose. Barbara W. Tuchman, Historian. (Oregonian, 9/20/87) very romantic’s favorite novel of the 1970s is coming soon to a theater near you. William Goldman’s The Princess Bride has been translated to film by Rob Reiner and promises to faithfully follow the adventures of the princess and her knight in shining armor. The Princess Bride is no ordinary fairy tale, told as it is with pathos, humor and chutzpah. Peter Falk is the storyteller. Others in the cast include Cary Elwes, Billy Crystal and Robin Wright as the Princess Bride. A B Y R U P E R T K IN N A R D y e a h ... b u t d i v a ...> > ACTUALLY SMACKINQ BARBARA W ALTERS < r a l m o s t kino UPSIDE T H E H E A D v i O f 5ACRELI6/OOS D O E S N T tT 7