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Lóeme) - C O M M E N T R Littlejohn Keogh An open letter to a closed mind P ro o fre a d e r Melissa CaUisun Rupert KunrtarC. E Arm H más This may be difficult fo r you to comprehend, but w ere a thousand times more embarrassed by you than you are by us then you’re “really” not gay, anyway. And stop snickering at my button. If you haven’t seen one before than you must be either o me a favor. Please Don't pick me out illiterate or unable to afford a radio or televi of die crowd at the bar in order to subject sion. If you think pink triangles are funny, me to a 20-mmute dissertation on how you’re maybe you should consider joining up with “really not gay. just confused." Frankly. Mr. Lyndon La Rouche. And don’t you dare cop a Macho, I don’t give a damn. And slop glancing condescending attitude about those of us with over my shoulder. I doubt very much the AIDS or HIV positive blood. Honey, you have “homo spotter" task force is sneaking around a disease much more deadly. with hidden cameras. Look, it isn't that I don’t While I ’m at it, don’t bother telling me enjoy talking with new people. It’s just that I twenty minutes into your monologue that you don’t particularly care to talk to you. lied to me about your real name. I have no So please don’t tell me how your family problem with that. I can think of lots of things would just die if they even suspected you might to call you. And no, I certainly do not know be . . . well, you know. Those of us who are anyone who would be interested in being your openly gay don’t have die slightest notion of “date” for a family wedding or the office the fears and anxieties associated with coming Christmas party. Personally, I’d rather be out to parents We weren’t bom and raised in forced to have sex with Anita Bryant. the traditional manner. We just sprang up. fully Now how did I already know that you grown, m cabbage patches. campaigned for Bush and Quayle? And that And please don’t think you’re compliment you’re a registered Republican? Go figure. But ing me when you say I don’t “look like one." I please don’t refer to yourself as an enlightened find that comment not only offensive, but conservative. That’s a non sequitur. Try incredibly stupid. Despite your misconcep pompous ass. tions, you can’t usually "spot one of us a mile If I hear you say, “What I do in the privacy away ." And dus habit you have of smugly of my bedroom is nobody’s business and I looking around the bar and picking out four or don’t intend on shouting it to the world” one five people you don’t find attractive then more time. I’ll seriously consider taking a referring to them as faggots, bull dykes and picture of you and sending it to the local paper disgusting queers with whom you will not be with a caption that reads "Gay homophobe identified, is almost as repulsive as you are. demands the right to be a homo (but only in the They are not the reason you can’t come out of privacy o f his own room)." Gee. won’t your the closet (although you may be a reason for enlightened conservatives let you do that? Not them to consider going back in). Are you even if you spend the rest of your time openly always this obnoxious? Or do gay atmospheres advocating the enforcement of sodomy laws just bring out the best in you? and trying to get an ordinance passed restricting Look. I’m not a bad person. And I don’t go gay people to certain jobs, accommodations and out very often. So when I do, please stop housing? telling me all about that old queen in the comer I don’t understand why people in the closet who won’t stop cruising you. First of all, he’s always tell us about this privacy thing. What NOT even looking ai you. He’s cruising that do you think we do when we’re not running cute guy standing a couple o f feet in back of around making it more difficult for people like you. Actually, no offense (well, maybe a little), you? Meet in a parking lot and decide which but I don’t see one person in this whole place one of your bedrooms we’re going to bug this paying the least bit of attention to you. But week. Trust me. We have any number of BY Luma Cohen D V utocrtpU ufi Rohm beratei Jock Riley Shoe Silver L r 7 amaius Rex Wockner Laura White brodle) Woodworth Jeffrey Zmrlmden Cyd Athens R<a bechdok Roc barrim Terry buughner Nancy Lyn L eft Renard Francis Lee Lynch Norman Never s Jem Om » fw otjbcc « ttx f u r cey of m at i r 1TM No M JttM Om m ar M O m h fÊ m tlh d trU) me be lacer h W m :«r»0>eiUMmu Om «< PreL UyJmukamé IJod "* View* cApnaM) ■ k* ( c i 'j n i i x not neccMtn}« t n K «Í i m i KO Unriphum to A«?<9 m «re m û i b c for 117.50 for I I 2 im m » K e * Öm» (u> m m vciape, » IX ) for 12 temtm A froc copy of y orí O m i PO B ot 15117 Portland, OR 97215 (503)236-1252 juti out W 2 Y Auemt 1990 «KN T \m a i r NANCY LYN DEFINE other things to worry about. So if you have to spout off about privacy, go tell it to a judge. Preferably one sitting on die Supreme Court Better yet, stop by the office o f any number of your Republican Senators. Or go to Georgia. There’s a man named Hardwick who would love to hear your views on the subject And while you’re at it, you should consider writing to Virginia Apuzzo and Harvey Fierstein about the harm being done by all this openly gay stuff. I'm sure once you explained to them that normal people would allow us to live (under certain conditions X if we just stopped being so pu blic, they’d crawl quietly back to their closets and start writing about real issues like the terrible way the press treated Dan Quayle during the campaign and how those slanderous attempts to portray Liberace as a homosexual were really part of a commu nist plot to take over the world. H ell every body knows Mrs. Gorbachev is personally funding ACT UP. She got the idea from Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No" campaign. Get a grip on yourself. I hardly think major corporations send their people into local gay bars in order to ferret out the “undesirables." Well, maybe some like MCI or Kellogg’s do. But if you see someone you know from work, they’re probably just as “confused" as you are. Finally, there is no need for you to hide behind the dog food display if you happen to spot one of us at the grocery store. Believe me, wc will not, as you so delicately put it, expose you. Wc arc just as concerned as you that as few people as possible know that you are “really homosexual, not confused.” This may be difficult for you to comprehend, but we’re a thousand times more embarrassed by you than you are by us. After a ll we do have some pride. Come to think o f it, that’s what this is all about So. come on. Do me a favor. Pick someone else out of the crowd. Or go soak your head in your beer. But whatever you do, keep your misguided opinions to yourself. If you won’t help us by standing up, at least do us the favor of shutting up. Define Lx a regular columnist fo r numerous gay newspapers across the country as well as a contributor to such magasines as Christopher Street. The Advocate, Lesbian Ethics, LesCon and RFD, among others
