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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?
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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.”
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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)
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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
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