only national politician to address the rally at
the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay
Rights. Jackson’s name will appear on the Ore
gon Democratic Party primary ballot.
Lyndon LaRouche’s name will appear on the
Democratic Party primary ballot. Followers of
LaRouche gained enough signatures in each of
Oregon’s five congressional districts to enter
his name in the primary. Supporters of the
LaRouche agenda have also been successful in
putting on the ballot in California a duplicate of
the defeated 1984 ballot measure that mandates
quarantine of people who test positive for HIV
antibodies.
Voices in the wilderness
arcos was the first male chauvinist
1 ▼ M to underestimate me. He was not
the last to pay for that mistake ”
— Corazon Aquino, President o f the
Republic o f the Philippines
(Vanity Fair, February 1988)
“
■ ne real special interests in this country
.M. are not the issue oriented PACS, but
the business PACs who do actually buy support
for policies that financially benefit the wealthy
elite o f this country.’*
— John Kuster, Democratic Party chairman
from Jefferson County, Iowa
(Christian Science Monitor.
Jan. 19, 1988)
eese Resigns; Says Failure to Pass
Urine Test ‘Hampers’ His Ability to
Serve as Chief U.S. l.aw Officer.”
— Part o f an editorial headlined
' The Rest o f 1988 to You’’
(The Nation, Jan. 9, 1988)
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banning sexual orientation discrimination in
government employment (except for the mili
tary and security agencies), according to a
he mere fact o f school sponsorship
questionnaire he returned to the National Gay
does not. as the court suggests, license
and Lesbian Task Force. Simon's name will
such thought control in the high school, whether
appear on the primary ballot in Oregon
through school suppression of disfavored
Michael Dukakis has been the center of con
viewpoints or through official assessment of
troversy among lesbians and gays in his home
topic sensitivity.”
state of Massachusetts. Dukakis approved the
— Justice William J Brennan Jr.,
actions o f a state agency that pulled two boys
dissenting from the Supreme Court's 5-J ruling
from a previously approved gay couple’s foster
on January /.?, 1988. that upheld a Missouri
home. Dukakis told Mother Jones magazine
hiyli st hoot /trim ipal's t ensorship ofartii les on
(December 1987) that he still believes “ non-
teen-a^e pregnancy and the impact o f divorce
traditional” families should be utilized only as a
on students at the school
last resort, if at all. In his answer to NGLTF’s
questionnaire. Dukakis supports passage of gay
and lesbian civil rights protections but would
not issue an executive order. Dukakis is a
Gay and lesbian vote 1988
Democratic Party candidate in the Oregon
primary.
aul Simon is one of the co-sponsors of the
Jesse Jackson named civil rights activist
federal gay rights bill called the Civil
Rights Amendment Act of 1987 (S464/HR709) Randy Miller to staff the lesbian/gaydesk in his
campaign for the presidency. Jackson was the
and would issue a presidential executive order
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get really pissed at the term “ deviate sexual
intercourse.” It’s like waving a cape at a
charging bull.
Last week one of our faithful readers called to
alert us to an initiative petition being circulated
by Congressman Denny Smith. The initiative,
titled “ Requires full sentences without parole,
probation for certain repeat felonies,” amends
criminal-sentencing laws. Listed in the initia
tive are “ murder; and first degree manslaugh
ter. assault, kidnapping, rape, sodomy. . . . ”
The initiative doesn't specifically say
“ deviate sexual intercourse.” but a quick peek
at one of the statutes to be amended (ORS
163.405) reveals the following: “ A person who
engages in deviate sexual intercourse with
another person or causes another to engage in
deviate sexual intercourse . . . ” (emphasis
added). There are several other criminal
penalties for "deviate sexual intercourse” of
various degrees in the Oregon Revised Statutes.
My objection is, of course. “ Deviate from
w hat?"
Comparing these statutes with those regard
ing rape indicates an unmistakable bias, e.g.,
"A male who has sexual intercourse with a
female commits the crime of rape in the second
degree . . . ” (see ORS 163.365, et. al). The
sodomy statutes also contain the phrase “ or
causes another to engage in.” which is missing
from the rape statutes and which compounds the
anti-gay bias.
As long as the state of Oregon sanctions
anti-gay bias in its criminal statutes, gays and
lesbians will have little chance of changing
homophobic attitudes. The right-wing bigots
will always have those biased laws to point to,
unless we do something about it.
WNET). Last year. William Hoffman, author
o f As Is, claimed that American Playhouse
turned down his play for fear of offending
southern affiliates.
During the meeting. WNET referred to a
computer printout listing 33 programs broad
cast over the past year that dealt with gay issues.
On examination. GLAAD discovered that the
list actually covered two years, not one. More
over. a majority of the programs on WNET’s
list had AIDS, rather than gays, as the primary
focus. “ AIDS programming is not the same as
gay programming." G LAAD’s David Leibhart
pointed out.
GLAAD made several suggestions for
improved gay and lesbian programming,
including coverage of the rising epidemic of
anti-gay violence, the gay community’s
response to AIDS, the increasing number of
openly gay and lesbian political candidates and
officials, lesbian issues, and profiles
o f gay organizations.
With people like those in GLAAD keeping
tabs on the poor performance of public televi
sion we are likely to see some improvement in
lesbian- and gay-related programming in the
future. And it would be worthwhile for the local
community to start shaking up Oregon Public
Broadcasting — they don't seem to know the
difference between GAY and AIDS either.
Surprise!!
aito group seeks alternate site for
Baloney Joe’s,” read the headline
in The Oregonian on Jan. 25. “ Sources famil
with the negotiations said the site was on the
east side of the Willamette River,” the story
went on to say.
And the saga continues with state medical
examiners reopening the investigation of confi
dentiality violations by Dr. Neil Rendleman.
The board had previously declared itself
satisfied that Rendleman had not fed confiden
tial information from Michael Stoops's medical
records to Willamette Week editor Mark
Zusman. A member of the Burnside Commu
nity Projects’ board of directors has said that
Rendleman offered information from Stoops's
medical records to the board member in 1985.
If Zusman and Rendleman were really
interested in the welfare o f street youth, rather
than in protecting their own turf, they would
send Kay Durham to the stretch of Southwest
3rd Avenue between Morrison and Taylor
streets and watch just who is exploiting whom.
N
hat are the chances of seeing a tele
vision production focusing on the gay
community’s response to AIDS — politically,
Greed alive and well;
socially and through its own extensive educa
gay lib slips
tional campaigns?
What is the probability of the gay communi
espite Newsweek’s announcement that
ty's own experts appearing on the MacNeil-
greed is dead, our data show that it is
LehrerN ew s Hour when gay-related issues are
alive and well “ said A. W. Astin, director of the
being discussed?
22nd annual survey o f entering college fresh
In an effort to improve public television's
men conducted by the American Council on
often spotty coverage of the lesbian and gay
Education and by the Higher Education
community, representatives of the New York-
Research Institute at UCLA. The survey indi
based Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defa
cated that 75 percent o f college freshmen feel
mation Inc. (GLAAD) met on January 5 with
that accumulation o f wealth is an ‘ ‘essential or
executives at WNET/Channel 13. the largest
“ very important” goal, but at the same time,
— and richest — station in the Public Broad
only 39 percent would emphasize developing a
casting System.
meaningful philosophy o f life, according to the
GLAAD protested the system’s failure to
N ew York Times. The data came from question
cover gay and lesbian issues in its program
naires completed by 209,627 freshmen at 308
ming; the "ghettoization” of gay shows during
two- and four-year colleges. Twenty years ago,
June; the absence of gay-themed drama on
the same survey indicated the reverse: in 1967,
PBS s American Playhouse and Great
43 percent emphasized affluence, while 83 per
Performances (both of which are produced by
cent put great emphasis on existential questions.
The survey also showed an increase in liberal
attitudes in several areas; a record 52 per
cent said it was all right for two people who had
known each other for a short time to have sexual
relations. The liberal attitude toward sexual
expression did not extend to same-sex relation
ships. however: 53 percent of the freshmen (up
one percent from 1986) support laws prohibiting
homosexual relations. Not surprisingly, the
majority o f the freshmen (56 percent) identity
themselves as politically middle of the road.
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