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The threat is here and now, people
Are we going to hide again?
B
utilize the tremendous resources we have
y now, everyone in our community has
created
in our community. If you need
heard of the plot to bomb Neighbors
Disco and a synagogue in Seattle, as well as a support, go to a support group. If you are
few black bars and Korean businesses in enraged, become active in a positive
organization or political campaign. Do
•Tacoma, the FBI’s arrest of three of the four
whatever
you need to do, but let it never be
men involved and of the the grand jury
said of the Seattle lesbian and gay community
indictment of these Aryan Nation members.
that
we will ever again endure "Another
Get scared, folks. Get angry, people. Be
Season of Silence."
good scouts and PREPARE-These people are
Portland, too, needs to awaken to the
not going to go away by ignoring them.
definite responsibilities to ourselves and our
Just Out received the following from the
community.
president of Seattle’s Pride Foundation, Jim
How can we celebrate Stonewall, when so
Toevs.
many of us say, “Don’t rock the boat,” “Play
We can all be very thankful that the
by
their rules,” ‘Turn your back on ACT UP.
carnage planned by sick minds for Neighbors
They’re dangerous to all we’ve
Disco on Saturday evening did not
accomplished.’?
materialize.
Pardon me, but Bull S hit! We’ve
However, it is also very important that
lesbians and gay men deal with the fear which accomplished so much because there were
others who actively fought for us, for what
arises in each of us when incidents like this
few rights we have now.
occur. If we allow this fear to isolate us or
I’m sorry, but I refuse to “act just like
drive us back into the closet, then the
everybody else” — like mainstream America.
terrorists will have won regardless.
I’m not like them. I’m a lesbian, a dyke, a
Susan B. Anthony coined a phrase "Never
woman lover, among other parts of my reality,
Another Season of Silence." The Pride
and those very things have made me what I
Foundation is dedicated to the proposition
am. How can I be like someone who's never
that there will never again be another season
had
to Fight for legitimate identity, never been
of silence concerning the freedom of lesbians
and gay men to openly be who we are without refused work or insurance or living space,
because of what they are or believe in, never
fear of discrimination.
We invite all members of our community to had to fear the possibility of being killed for
what they are?
walk through our fear and to not be silent.
Jim Toevs is right. We need to confront
The terrorists have given us a wonderful
opportunity to educate and build coalitions if the other minority groups with this. We need
we will but seize the moment. What better time to support each other. We need to stop
bickering and stand together.
to point out to homophobic black ministers
I refuse to let groups like the Aryan Nation
that we share a common enemy? What better
and other neo-nazi — of which there are
time to confront Christian, Jewish, and other
between
150-250 in Portland alone — frighten
religious groups about where they stand on
me into hiding or inaction or silence. A large
the subject of civil rights for lesbians and
number of homosexuals, Jews and gypsies
gays?
died horribly (45 to 55) years ago because
Don't isolate, let's congregate! We all
they did just that. ’
need one another now more than ever. Let’s
It can happen again. Are we going to let it?
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Idiocies in general
I
feel myself to be in a quandary. Normally,
I would have started with, “Hi, there. My
name’s Mollie Sidhe. (That’s pronounced
‘Shee,’ folks.) I’m the new editor of Just
Out.” I would then proceed to tell you
something about myself.
But things aren’t normal. Jay Brown is
gone and a bright, warm glow has left us.
No one can be Jay — but Jay. No one can
take his place. But Just Out, his dream, needs
to continue, if we are to be true to his
memory.
Since I cannot — nor have any wish to —
fill his shoes, I must attempt to keep his dream
alive in my own way, adding bits of Mollie
here and there. However, I certainly can’t do
it alone. We’ve got a great staff and I’m sure
we’ll get loving support from you, our readers
and family.
Just Out is a wonderful community
endeavor and I want to keep it bright and
shining and alive.
No, I’m not Jay. But I am Mollie and I
hope you find out that I, too, have something
good to offer.
(Mollie Amber Brigid Sidhe (MABS) is a
lesbian (49), who has done a number of good
land honestly, a few not-so-good] deeds in
her lifetime. She has some 20 years of free
lance editing, typography and writing
experience behind her. She was also
managing editor for awhile. She has
published a short short in Ireland and several
articles in Chicago, Cleveland and Los
Angeles.
As a single mother of four, she went to
college, finished, got a paying job, and helped
create a performing arts group in Chicago.
She and Morgan, her spouse of four years,
have two young adolescent daughters. Life
blessed [or cursed] her with her own gremlin,
who insists on sitting on her shoulder and
giving her interesting times.)
Ron Wilkinson, an air traffic controller at
Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., was
removed from his job for taking the anti-
AIDS drug, AZT.
According to FAA spokesman Bob
Buckhom, the policy is to give controllers
who take AZT other jobs, because of the
possible side effects, which many impair their
ability to keep track of aircraft. He added that
they are reviewing the medical data.
Controllers found to carry HIV can continue
to monitor the air traffic screens as long as
they don’t take AZT.
The National Air Traffic Controller
Association has filed a grievance and said
there was no evidence that AZT affected a
controller’s performance.
So he’s supposed to not try to help himself
in order to keep his job. Or, take the AZT and
give up his career, right?
One wonders why we’re given so much
gray matter when most of it is never used.
Another example. In Camden, N.J., an
AIDS-infected jail inmate, Gregory D. Smith,
26, convicted of attempted murder after biting
a guard, was given a 25-year prison sentence.
Courtroom protesters shouted “shame, shame”
at the judge.
Superior Court Judge John B. Mariano
added this sentence to Smith’s five-year term
for robbery, saying parole would not be
possible for 12-and-a-half years.
It’s going to be a bit difficult for him to
serve the term if he dies, isn’t it?
Are those little white boys in Bensonhurst
N.Y. going to get 25 years each for the
murder of a black youth? Probably not. After
all, they’re not black, gay, hispanic or dying
of AIDS.
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