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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1988)
Voices in the wilderness Lenora B. Fulani’s campaign for fair elec tions deserves a chance. Fulani has been the only candidate to consistently address the con cerns o f gays and lesbians and other minorities. Fulani’s campaign has successfully challenged the political establishment in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Fulani’s campaign may be the beginning o f a long-needed third party in this country. A friend said to me, “ I always vote my principles instead of my pocket b(X)k. I ’m voting for Fulani.” Just Out agrees: vote for Lenora B. Fulani for president. would be engaged or married; have a much better relationship with my parents and brother; be politically unconscious; socially irresponsible; professionally stifled, dis appointed and bored; nutritionally ignorant; mentally depressed and unhealthy; more resistant to change and difference; and no doubt more financially secure.” A vis Jackson, answering the question, “How would your life be different if you were born heterosexual?“ (The Washington Blade, September JO, 1988) I — he proposed law. more than anything in G oldschm idt's order, would create a special right — the right to freely discriminate B Y J A Y B R O W N against homosexuals. Discrimination is wrong, whether the majority supports it or not. Indeed, it is those groups that have the least public support that need the strongest protection 1 ’ he problem lies not in evil personalities against discrim ination” M . or traitorous acts, but rather in the From an editorial urging political orientation which believes that an readers to forego signing the oppressed group gets what it needs by being initiative petition that became careful not to offend the pow erful. The problem Measure 8 on the general- lies in the desire to protect the little that we have election ballot gotten by not risking a fight for what we deserve.” (The Register-Guard, Eugene, Bill Kraus, gay political Oregon. July I, 1988) activist and aide to Harvey Milk, quoted by Randy Shilts resident Reagan’s Strategic Defense in And the Band Played On Initiative (Star Wars) carries a price tag (Penguin Books) o f $3 trillion. With just one-third o f this, ahom e could be purchased for every household in the states o f Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Voting block? O klahoma and Iowa, with a $10,(KM) car for each thrown in. There would still be enough left urely everyone reading Just Out will vote over to build hospitals and libraries in 250 No on 8 — except Mike Wiley and cities, schools in 500 communities, and to pay Priscilla, o f course. I0.(XX) nurses and teachers an equitable salary.” War Resisters League, This year, and for the second time since I via Lesbian Connection, began voting in I960. I will vote for a black October 1988 woman for president. T — — S — rr presents Productions lofinn Lou Inn Author of ’’Lesbian Sex" and ’’Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves & Each Other" in a benefit for A Woman's Place Bookstore AN EVENING OF PROVOCATIVE HUMOR AND LESBIAN SEX EDUCATION Friday, December 9, 8:00 pm Northwest Service Center • $10.00/advance $12.00/door An outrageous evening of comedy and lesbian sex education featuring topics from JoAnn’s new book and updated research on lesbian sex practices and attitudes. Wheelchair access/childcare provided. r "RECLAIMING LESBIAN SEX WITH A PASSION” WORKSHOP Saturday, December 10, 10:00-5:00 pm PSU Dance Studio • $45-60 sliding scale Space lim ited for the workshop • Please fill out attached form Name Address Phone Please send tickets for the Dec. 9 evening performance ($ 10)_ Please send tickets for the Dec. 10 day-long workshop ($45-60). Make checks payable to A Woman's Place Bookstore, include 50c for postage and handling, and mail to A Woman's Ptoce Bookstore. 1431 NE Broadway. Portland. OR 97232 Fo r more information call 284-1110. just tHtt • 4 • Novcmher IWX J Bible lesson alling all lesbians! Read Leviticus 18:22__ you’re home free. C What’s happening avender Law: The National Conference on Lesbian and Gay Issues will convene at Golden Gate Law School in San Francisco on As with Measure 8, Just Out assumes that its the weekend o f November 12 and 13. The con readers will vote to keep Mayor Bud Clark in ference is being organized by lawyers and gay City Hall. Let’s keep Portland a friendly place bar associations across the country, as well as to live; re-elect Bud Clark for mayor. by national legal organizations. Distinguished lawyers will lead workshops and seminars on a As for the rest, our rule of thumb is “ When in broad variety o f issues, including family law, doubt, vote for the Democrat.” (See “ Congressional scorecard” on page 8 and read estate planning, employment discrimination, sodomy-law reform , civil disobedience, the Voters’ Pamphlet.) military and immigration policy, and AIDS. AIDSLaw, a separate conference sponsored by the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Free QUAC tracks OCA dom , will take place on Friday, November 11, at the San Francisco War Memorial Building. s if anyone needs reminding, it’s been For registration or more information, write to much more politics than usual this political season. W e’ve mostly been battling the BALIF, PO Box 1983, San Francisco, CA 94101, or call (415)431-1444. Oregon Citizens Alliance over Executive Order 87-20; w e’ve met them on the streets, on radio, Jewish Lesbian Daughters o f Holocaust on television, and Queers United Against Survivors will gather to commemorate Kristall- Closets has met them on their own turf. QUAC nacht (N ovem ber 9, 1938) on the weekend of has dogged OCA and actively demonstrated N ovem ber 11-13 in western Massachusetts. against them at several OCA functions. The gathering, the seventh semiannual meeting QUAC has outnumbered them at meetings o f JLDHS since the group began with six at the Church of the New Song in northeast members only three years ago, will consist of Portland and at an OCA-sponsored meeting on discussion, support and networking around taxes in Wilsonville. When they assembled in issues faced by children o f Holocaust survivors. Clackamas to discuss “ morality,” QUAC — JLDHS is for lesbians whose parents not OCA — made the front page of the local survived the Holocaust, including parents who paper. (In Clackamas, queers are news, but were in Nazi Europe or North Africa in 1933 or bigotry isn’t?) later, who survived death camps or hid by In late October, they imported a passing as non-Jews or by managing to leave for current favorite. Congressman William safer territories. Jewish and non-Jewish lesbian Dannemeyer. sponsor of the notorious Proposi partners o f daughters are welcomed. tion 102 in California and many anti-gay pieces For more information, write to JLDHS, PO o f legislation in Congress. Dannemeyer was in Box 6194, Boston, M A02114, or call (617) Portland to address a fund-raiser at the Jantzen 321-4254. Beach Red Lion for the No Special Rights Committee, the sponsors of Ballot Measure 8. Lesbians with one year’s demonstrated The Red Lion’s marquee read “ Welcome No com m itm ent to the feminist, gay or lesbian Special Rights.” communities who want to further their skills by QUAC politely assembled off Red Lion working directly with veteran lesbian leaders property. QUAC politely asked that “ Welcome are afforded the chance to join Pass the Torch No Special Rights” be removed from the A National Lesbian Mentorship Project. hotel’s marquee — to no avail. After politely Pass the Torch! grew out o f a workshop held demonstrating and politely suffering harassment at the National Organization for W omen- from Red Lion security, QUAC members sponsored National Lesbian Conference in San politely attempted to have coffee in the Red Diego last month. Many new lesbian leaders Lion's coffee shop. They were, however, not so expressed a desire for an organized mentorship politely denied entrance by Red Lion staff. At program in which they could further develop first. QUAC members were told they could not their com m itm ent and skills with direct enter so long as they were wearing “ No on 8 ” assistance from the veterans who built the buttons, according toQ U A C ’s Stewart Jolliffe. lesbian movement. After much wrangling QUAC was told they For applications or more information, write were not welcome under any circumstances. to Pass the Torch!, 2305 Canyon Drive, Under police escort, QUAC politely departed. Los Angeles, CA 90068. or call (213)469-4454. L A Hart Dinner honors restaurateur A new workshop exploring concerns in lesbian sex and relationships. Through group discussion, games and lectures. Issues such as rekindling passion for couples, sex, singles and dating, sexuality and recovery from addiction, aids and safe sex for lesbians will be explored. Co-sponsored by PSU Women's Studies “ All you fiscally conservative - socially progressive homosexuals help me get my party back from the crazies!” ) Last item olly Hart, veteran lesbian and gay rights activist, was presented with the Humani arvey Milk was assassinated 10 years ago tarian Award at the seventh annual Lucille Hart this month. Milk must surely be viewed dinner on October I. For almost three decades. as a martyred hero. I can still experience the Hart has been publicly involved in the struggle outrage I felt when I learned o f his horrendous for equal rights for gays and lesbians. In the murder. Harvey Milk taught that in coalition, in mid- 70s, Hart served as chairperson of a state working together, there is power. task force on sexual orientation during the On Sunday, November 27, the 10th administration o f Gov. Bob Straub Since 1980, anniversary o f Harvey M ilk’s death, bring a Hart has been the owner of Old W ives’ Tales, a candle to the north end of the South Park Blocks popular restaurant in Portland. (Southwest Salmon Street and Park Avenue) The more than 700 persons who attended the and walk to C ityU all (Southwest Fourth Lucille Hart dinner warmly welcomed keynote Avenue and Main Street) in remembrance. speaker Norma Paulus. a high-ranking Republi Gays and Lesbians United and others will can in traditionally Democratic Party territory. assemble at 5:30 pm. Join with people in cities Paulus told her audience that only through all across the country in paying tribute to bipartisan support will equal rights for gays and Harvey Milk. For more information, call lesbians be achieved. (But she probably meant. 233-7216. * H H