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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1990)
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Christopher Eskeli, Ph D, LMFCC.CAS Specializing In: • Recovering Alcohol & Drug Addiction • Co-dependency / Adult Children • Interventions • Relationships / Intimacy 811 NW 20th, #203 Portland, Oregon 97209 (503)635-6803 "We must educate ourselves about our opressors". “eliminate” the homosexuals. On Sept. 25, there was a nationwide phone action against New Dimensions magazine. For n becoming “aware,” we cannot afford to those who couldn’t get through in September let bias and prejudice keep us from making and who want the publication to know exactly informed decisions. As the saying goes, what you think of their conservative “There’s a little bit of good in the worst of us homophobia. New Dimensions can still be and a little bit of bad in the best of us.” We reached at 1-800-877-3227 or 1-800-866-9499. must educate ourselves about our oppressors On another front. Concerned Women for and those who claim to be friends. America are calling for a boycott of “any and The first two companies mentioned would all products by sponsors of the gay soap opera: like our business. They are in the b?ycott Secret Passions—or any other similar perverted category. We need to make it our business to shows,” Actually, the name of the program is get to know them better. Forbidden Passions and it was to debut in 16 For those of you new to this column, let me major cities in late January or early February of explain. A b?ycott is my way of asking for this year. Beverly Lahaye of Concerned your input. I give you the information I have and you give me any information you may have Women is hoping to generate more than 100,000 responses from “pro-moral Ameri (in care of Just Out) that will determine cans.” They are asking their supporters to write whether the company should be boycotted or to network executives to ask them not to allow “buyeotted.” A “buyeott” is the purposeful purchasing of a company’s product or services this “primetime perversion” on their networks. Let’s try to flood the same executives with our to show support for that company. own message. The executives to send letters to Earlier this year, Apple Computer gave a are: William S. Paley, Chairman CBS-TV, 524 grant to the National Minority AIDS Council, W 57th St., New York, NY 10019; Thomas S. (NMAC) and the National Association for Murphy, Chairman ABC-TV, 24 E 51st St., People with AIDS (NAPWA) which enables these groups to give Macintosh computers and New York, NY 10022; and Robert Wright, software to 46 comm unity-based organizations president NBC-TV, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New providing AIDS services and education. While York, NY 10112. If you want to let Concerned Women know what’s on your mind write them this is more than laudable, what is Apple’s at: Concerned Women for America, PO Box track record on other issues of concern? Levi’s wants to know “What are you doing 65433, Washington, DC 20035-5453. Too often we opt to be reactive as a first in our jeans?” so badly that they’ve given us a toll-free number (1-800-24-LEVIS) so that we choice instead of the proactive. We must realize that different tactics have different can call and tell them. We’ve certainly given effects. We need to understand that we can’t them a LOT of our money. What have they done for us? always boycott effectively. Sometimes, perhaps The business to “buyeott” this month is the many times, we need to buyeott, which means Tarheel Leather Club. These fine folks are going out of our way to purchase something to selling T-shirts and lank tops with a “Beat show our support for a company. Also, it is im Jesse” logo emblazoned on them. The shirts perative that we rid ourselves of the notion that come in S, M, L, and XL sizes and cost $10 everyone of us will agree about which method each plus $2 handling. Proceeds are being used will work. to Help defeat Jesse Helms. Make your check or We are a diverse community which cannot money order payable to the Tarheel Leather afford the sibling rivalry and infighting we Club and mail it to them at PO Box 16457, sometimes seem to thrive on—separatists vs. Greensboro, NC 27416-0457. drag queens vs. S/M vs. activists, ad nauseum. Now for boycott news you can use. First, an We have common enemies. In any war, a update on Philip Morris. The “little bit of good” consolidated, proactive battle plan that makes here is that they also support the Alvin Ailey use of all the troops has the best chance of American Dance Theater, the NAACP, winning. Our job is not to make ourselves National Political Women’s Caucus and they palatable to mainstream society and thereby be supplied food and water and emergency aid to assimilated. Rather, it is our responsibility to victims of hurricane Hugo. And we are, of celebrate our differences and demand accep course, aware of their drive to help promote a tance in such ways that it must be granted. “fundamentalist understanding” of the Bill of That’s all for this month. 1 leave you with Rights. Recently Philip Morris used Lech this quote from Francis Bacon: “Silence is the Walesa’s photo in one of their ads. 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