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Views expressed in letters to the editor, columns, and features may not be those of the editorial staff of Just Out Subscriptions to Just Out are available for $12.50 for 12 issues A free copy of Just Out and/or advertising rates are available upon request The mailing address and telephone number for Just Out are: P.O Box 15117 Portland. OR 97215 (503)236-1252 Willamette Reek Some people feed on the calamities of others. Edward Alhee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf S ay you want to discredit a ptxir queer — an acknowledged homosexual who has taken a public vow of poverty. He “ plays by his own rules“ and has earned a reputation of heroic proportions as an advo cate for the homeless. He recently “ announced plans to move Baloney Joe’s across the river to inner-northwest Portland. The proposed move threatened to interfere with an agreement worked out by a number of interests and, in doing so, frustrated the administration of Mayor Bud Clark.“ [Emphasis added. | What you do to the poor queer, of course, is accuse him of being a pedophile and recom mend that he “ seek treatment for his illness.“ You find someone who will listen to gossip and innuendo, someone who is willing to repeat what she or he has heard and sign it. You play to the myth that anyone under the age of eighteen is mentally deficient and a po tential victim of manipulation and corruption by anyone over the age of eighteen. You find a doctor whose questionable ethics and agenda will corroborate your allegations. You cloak your “ news” with serious high CA1HARTIC C O M IC S TUCK -BEEP: UH...HI, B.BTHIS IS I PATRICK A NO 1 THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO GET TOGETHER SOON. GIVE I M E A CALL. OX. ? WOW! WHAT A HUNKY VOICE! euT... PATRICK’ I PONY RECALL ! :V£R MEETING A PATRICK... Z Just Out • 2 • December. 1987 COULP HE BE THAT GUY I M E T ^ Z LAST WEEK ? 1 CANT REMEMBER} HIS NAME. OR WAS IT.... N O ! HIS NAME WAS PAUL. MAYBE THAT ONE GUY J MET... NO....THAT WAS PAOLO - OR WAS IT PETER ? OH.COME ON PIVA ... HELP ME OUT! mindedness so as to outrage your readers but not offend your large gay audience. You exploit the public’s willingness to be lieve and accept any salacious gossip about any public figure. I spoke twice with Kay Durham while she was researching her story on Michael Stoops. I did not know who she was when 1 returned her call. 1 did know that Willamette Week was planning an attack on Stoops based on old. unsubstantiated allegations of sex with minors. I also knew that Stoops had announced he plan ned to move Baloney Joe’s back across the river. Durham and 1 talked for more than half an hour about Michael Stoops without once men tioning his name (which I still think is quite odd). I did not, and do not, believe the accusa tions she made about Stoops, and neither does she, apparently, because nothing of what she told me was incontrovertible evidence was used in the article. On the occasion of our second conversation, Durham and I were in my office. She would not look me in the eye and deny that the story she was writing was politically motivated. “ I have been working on this since February,” Durham said with a shake of her head. “ And besides. The Oregonian has had two investigative reporters on this since then, too.” We know only too well how willing are Wil- larnette Week and The Oregonian to publish unsubtantiated proof of alleged sexual miscon duct. especially if it’s homosexual, when it con cerns a public figure. (Remember Gordon Shadbume?) I do not believe that Michael Stoops is a child abuser. Not one person with whom I have dis cussed this issue agrees with Willamette Week's allegations. I have heard such terms as ‘ ‘yellow journalism.” “ character assassination,” and “ lack of social responsibility” used to describe the sensational story. After my experience with Kay Durham and having read the story she and Mark Zusman wrote, 1 believe those terms tobe fair assessments of their “ news.” — Jay Brown Note: All quotations are from Willamette Week, Voi. 14, No. 4. • B Y R U P E R T K IN N A R D r ANp YOU THOUGHT THERE WAS NO PRICE TO PAY FOR BEING A S L M T /M m 3 Ê ^