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ACT UP to
name names on
capitol steps
to create a climate where it is chilling to be
gay? Are we using homosexuality as a
weapon?”
HRCF and NGLTF, along with openly gay
Congressmen Gerry Studds (D-Mass.)and
Barney Frank (D-Mass.) would probably be in
the best position to help ACT UP compile its
list of closet cases.
Three months ago, before the current
outing rage, Bray said on the record, “If we
were to compile it, I think [it’s] 35
[Congressmembers] — that is people whose
sexual orientation is reported from the grass
roots level."
Six months ago, London, England’s The
Pink Paper quoted Bray as saying the list
would have 50 names on it, but Bray believes
the British interviewer misunderstood him.
Frank, meanwhile, once threatened to
“out” Congressional Republicans after former
Republican National Committee
communications director Mark Goodin
released a memo suggesting that House
Speaker Thomas Foley was gay.
Michael Petrelis, a spokesman for ACT
UP, is “infuriated” that NGLTF and HRCF
will not help compile the list of closeted
Congressmembers.
"What good does it do to have a list and
then keep it locked up in the closet?” Petrelis
asked. “Now is the time. This rainy day that
the leaders seem to be waiting for has arrived.
We need legislation protecting the civil rights
he Washington, D.C. chapter of ACT UP
announced plans to name names of
closeted members of Congress at an early
June press conference on the steps of the U.S.
Capitol.
But the group hit an immediate roadblock
when both the National Gay & Lesbian Task
Force and the Human Rights Campaign Fund,
the country’s two largest Congressional gay
lobbying groups, refused to help compile the
list.
“This organization does not endorse
outing, which this press conference would be
an exercise in,” said NGLTF spokesperson
Robert Bray.
“We are a resource for other gay and
lesbian organizations, so if they want
background or voting records of any
legislators, we would be happy to provide
that,” said HRCF political director Eric
Rosenthal.
“But if they want a list of legislators who
have been alleged to be gay, I don’t think
HRCF would be able to provide that. We
don’t have one to start with . . . . Do they want
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of gays and lesbians and an end to the AIDS
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crisis.
Petrelis dismissed the argument that outing
is causing a loss o f respect for the gay and
lesbian movement, pointing out that “there
wasn’t much respect for the people at the
Stonewall Riots either.
“We celebrate a riot every year,” he said.
“We don’t celebrate a bake sale. We have to
embrace our history and our history is a bit
violent and nasty.”
ACT UP has invited gays and lesbians
from around the country to send them names
of Congressmembers who should be included
on the list.
At the moment, only Sen. Barbara
Mikulski (D-Mary.), Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-
Ore.) and Rep. Steve Gunderson (R-Wis.) are
set to be outed, Petrelis said.
“But this has to be done quickly. We have
the Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emer
gency Act up for a vote, the bill to remove
HIV from the immigration list, and, frankly,
I’d like to see the gay and lesbians rights bill
passed early in this decade,” Petrelis said.
The leadership of most all U.S. gay and
lesbian organizations opposes outing.
The chief proponents o f the tactic are some
staffers at OutWeek magazine in New York,
scattered ACT UP chapters, the supermarket
tabloid newspapers, and a few isolated gay
journalists.
—
Rex Wockner
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