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Working Toward a Just Society
EMILY SIMON
The phone won’t be ringing
anymore...
Government pushes “clean art”
loyalty oath
Six arrested over anti-gay
housing policy
O
n months to come, hundreds of writers and
other artists whose work is funded through
the National Endowment for the Arts will be
forced to sign anti-obscenity agreements
before cashing their checks.
The clause alerts the recipients that no
NEA money may fund art that is “obscene,”
as outlined by last year’s controversial
legislation. The legislation defines obscene as
“including but not limited to depictions of
children, or individuals engaged in sex acts.”
Those who have received the forms so far
(mostly writers) say they are confused as to
exactly what it means, vis-a-viz anything they
wrote in the past or anything they write in the
future being held against them.
The inclusion of “homoeroticism” in
Congress’ definition of obscenity has
naturally upset many gay artists, despite
federal assurances that the legislation protects
work deemed to have artistic merit.
I
ix students at the University of California
at Irvine were arrested recently for
protesting against the university’s denial of
allowing gay and lesbian couples to live in
family dormitories.
About 100 students blocked a door at a
noon rally, but most left after two warnings
from campus police. The demonstration
organizers said the blockade was symbolic of
nontraditional couples being “locked out” of
campus housing.
Students and administrators said the rally
was so planned that police already knew
whom they were going to arrest and had
finished most of the paperwork before the
protests started.
The protest followed an ultimatum last
month to Chancellor Jack Peltason from a
student group called the Shantytown
Committee. It demanded that the university
recognize domestic gay relationships and hire
openly homosexual teachers.
The six will be arraigned April 7th.
ver the past several years I had grown
clairvoyant of telephone calls from Jay
Brown. Somehow I knew when Jay was on
the other end of a jangling phone; usually
about two days before copy deadline.
But Jay’s last call to my office didn’t
mention anything about getting off my ass and
putting another column together. We just
talked about things in general, and then he
paused for a second or two between labored
breaths and said “Jack, just keep on doin’
what you are doin’.”
And then we said our good-byes. It would
be Jay’s last phone call to me.
Thanks, Jay. You were a great editor and
inspiration to me. You never told me what I
should or could not write. And when one of
my items ruffled some feathers or attracted
attention from the established media, you
were the first to call with congratulations.
Even though that phone won’t be ringing
again. I’ll just keep on doin’ what I’m doin’.
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e calls himself “the most vulgar, vicious
comic ever to walk the face of the earth,”
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and as far as I am concerned the title is his.
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Andrew Dice Clay, one of the most
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popular standup comics today, is a
swaggering tough guy in a rhinestoned leather
jacket
emblazoned with “Dice Rules.” His
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verbal target is anything and everything that
challenges white heterosexual male
dominance. “I pick on everything.,” he
admits.
As New York Times critic Jon Pareles
observed, “Mr. Clay’s persona, a kind of X-
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J A C K
R I L E Y
rated Archie Bunker, could be amusing in
small doses. But as he lashes out against
women, gays, the Japanese or anyone else
who would seem to stand in the way of his
Can a gay or lesbian cop hurdle gratification,
his popularity shows that others
identify with that anger, whether he intends to
tests and background checks?
exorcise or stoke it.”
Ironically, I got my first dose of Dice at a
he Portland Police Bureau has a rare
gay video bar in Portland (Boxx’s to be exact)
opportunity to add more women and
and the house was eating up his every word.
minorities to its force when 100 new
Sorry the tape never got to his especially
vacancies are filled in the next few months. caustic
remarks about gays.
But while there are sizeable numbers of
women and minorities among the 2,000
Johnny Ray was openly gay
applicants, how many will be able to hurdle
the psychological and background checks,
especially if the candidate is openly gay or
hen pop 50s singer Johnny Ray died
lesbian?
recently, we read a great deal about his
Are such checks skewed in favor of
meteoric rise to fame out of a small town in
“normal” heterosexual behavior? Will
Oregon to some of the biggest showhouses in
background checks reveal involvement in gay
America. For a fleeting instant, he was on top
organizations and activities?
of the charts.
As a recent Oregonian editorial pointed
What we didn’t read in the Oregonian was
out, "This is not merely a matter of making
that Johnny Ray was gay...and somewhat
jobs available to minorities; it is a matter of
open about it. A recent issue of the Bay Area
giving the police force officers who are able
Reporter shows Ray and longtime friend and
to relate to the wide variety of citizens with
BAR columnist Wayne Friday out on the
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The Supreme Court: not for
drag queens
A
poll recently released by the National
Law Journal reveals that Americans are
generally ignorant about the US Supreme
Court For instance, less than one in four
know how many justices serve on the high
court and nearly two-thirds are unable to
name a single one.
The poll of 805 Americans was designed
to test the public’s understanding of the court
and Americans’ views of leading court issues.
Interestingly enough, the poll found that
two-thirds of those surveyed believed
homosexual acts among consenting adults
should be protected by privacy rights.
Also, 53 percent of those questioned said
the present Supreme Court has not done
enough to help women and minorities fight
discrimination.
House Party is anti-gay
T
he hit movie House Party is a lot of
laughs. Billed as a black version of
Animal House, this movie has it all: dancing,
music, comedy, goodlooking actors.
The only problem is that a lot of that
laughter is at another minority’s expense. As
Oregonian film critic Ted Mahar wrote, “The
film seems to go out of its way to include anti
gay humor.”
We could use some Act-Up pickets down
at the KOIN Center Cinemas where it is
currently showing.
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