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MT.,TABOR FLORIST Contemporary and Distinctive Design Created Specifically for You and Your Lifestyle • gift ideas • cut flowers • plants • silks • balloon creations • parties • all occasions Serving all hospitals and funeral homes O 256-2920 7819 S.E. Stark Voice in the wilderness e can only discriminate against openly gay people or those we think are gay. To avoid discrimination all you have to do is live a lie.” W — Representative Gerry Studds, Democrat o f Massachusetts, told an audience o f more than 700 persons at the annual Right to Privacy PAC Lucille Hart Dinner, that gay and lesbian rights are civil rights and that we must face the challenge o f our own convictions. Studds came out o f the closet on the floor o f Congress in 1983 after an ethics panel revealed that he had had a relationship with a male page 10 years earlier. UHcfkxa HAL JONES AUTOMOTIVE JOY ENTERPRISES Pentagon officials said the report exceeded its mandate of determining security risks posed by homosexuals in the military when it examined the question o f suitability of homo sexuals for military duty. The report, ‘‘Nonconforming Sexual Orientations and Military Suitability,” was completed last January by the Defense Department’s Personnel Security and Research Education Center in Monterey, California, and recently made public by members of Congress who believe that gays and lesbians should be permitted to serve in the military. The report rejected the military’s long held belief that homosexuals are security risks, concluding that they pose no greater risk than heterosexuals and are no more likely to be victims of blackmail. According to Represen tative Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Demo crat and member of the House Armed Services Committee, the report is ‘‘an excellent academic survey of the available literature.” ‘‘We asked why the Defense Department killed the report,” Representative Schroeder said in a meeting to discuss the report in late October. “We were told the report’s mandate was to look at the reliability of homosexuals for security reasons, not the suitability of homosexuals for military service. I found that a distinction without a difference.” Reactionaries still at it, contributions pouring in “This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for our Just Out clients.” Thanks! 5111 NE Fremont Portland, OR 97213 288-1130 ust in case anyone thinks that the oxy- moronic “No Special Rights Committee” has given up the ghost, think again. As of B__ Y J A Y B R O W N October 10, 1989, contributions were still pouring in to the rabidly homophobic far right organization. Between December 7, 1988, Remington tapped for Hart and October 10, almost $100,000 was added Award to the more than $265,000 raised to run the Ballot Measure 8 hate campaign in last year’s general election. Incidentally, only a very tevie Remington, Executive Director of small percentage o f contributors to the “No the Oregon Chapter of the American Civil Special Rights Committee” and the Oregon Liberties Union was named recipient of the Citizens Alliance live in Portland; almost all Right to Privacy Political Action Committee’s live in such places as Klamath Falls, Trout- Lucille Hart Award at the PAC’s eighth dale, Bend, Monroe, Sixes, Salem, Corbett, Lucille Hart Dinner on October 7. The ACLU’s executive director since Oregon City, Medford, and other towns outside the metro area. Isn’t it time gays and 1970, Remington has been in the forefront of lesbians did much more outreach to counteract the struggle for full civil rights for lesbians and gays in Oregon. The ACLU has been the reactionaries? instrumental in gay rights cases in Oregon What are the “No Special Rights Commit since 1971 when it represented a high school tee” and its führer Lon Mabon doing now? teacher who was fired because she admitted to They’re up in Tacoma spreading more lies being a lesbian. The ACLU was successful in and hatred against gays and lesbians. In May challenging the constitutionality of the law. of this year, the Tacoma City Council passed Since 1973, Remington has lobbied for legislation which added “sexual orientation” passage of civil rights protections for gays and to its anti-discrimination ordinance, and lesbians in every legislative session. Oregon’s homophobes, flushed with victory at the success in hoodwinking voters joined similar reactionaries in Tacoma to overturn Sign of the times the city’s human rights measure. Lon Mabon’s other bailiwick, Oregon he Clinton [Iowa] Herald is printing a Citizens Alliance, by the way, is attempting to coupon which its readers may return with repeal Oregon’s abortion laws by initiative the names and addresses of persons they sus petition. They have the money; they have the pect of being involved with drugs. The news organization; they just might win this time, paper’s manager, interviewed on All Things too. Considered, said he was pleased with the A few more additions to our bigot’s list: response. A week into the appeal, about 35 Richard J. Shimomura, Director, Good completed coupons had been returned and Samaritan Hospital, Portland; James D. turned over to local police. Lockwood, College and University Administrator, State Department of Higher Education, Eugene; Harry J. Mack, Research/ Pentagon told to end anti-gay Teaching Prof., Oregon State University, bias Corvallis; Brian C. Beals, Teacher, West Union School, Hillsboro; Virginia A. Johnson, report by a Pentagon research center Teacher, Mill City-Gates School District, Mill recommending that the United States City; Arthur and Elysa Gilberg, Teacher and military abandon its bias against gays and Student, Gresham Grade School District, lesbians and allow them full participation in Gresham; and Beverly Dunn, Probation the services has been rejected by the Depart Officer, State of Oregon Department of ment of Defense as biased, flawed, offensive Corrections, Albany. These people and 455 and wasteful of government resources, others contributed more than $98,000 to the according to internal Pentagon correspon “No Special Rights Committee” during the dence quoted by the New York Times. past 11 months. ▼ J S T T h is w o m a n w a s n 't c o n v ic te d for tipping. At G a ry L u ck e y on B ro ad w ay , w e w o n 't a c c e p t a tip fro m a n y b o d y . 1323 N E Broadway just oui V 4 V November 1989 cm / LUCXEY 281-7831 1 288-7831 I A