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letters
What the OCA
initiative could
do!
To the Editor:
Do we actually realize how drastically OCA’s
hate initiatives could affect us? Many of our
community events occur in government facilities.
If the OCA gets its way. Gay Pride and National
ComingOutDay won’thappen. The Park Blocks,
Pioneer Square, and Waterfront Park would no
longer be available for our events, as parade and
rally permits would be illegal. The Portland Gay
Men’s Chorus could no longer sing at the Schnitz.
Carol Steinel couldn’t appear in the Main Audi
torium, and the Lesbian Choir would be barred
from the East Side Performance Center. The
Lesbian Community Project would be evicted
from its city-owned space. Our freedom of speech
and freedom of expression could be severely
curtailed. Our existence as a community could be
finished.
Our survival as human beings could also be
jeopardized. Extreme interpretations of an OCA
anti-gay law could result in massive firings from
our civil service jobs and denial of unemployment
benefits. Public employee retirement pensions
could be frozen and attempts to recover them
challenged. Gay bashers could declare open
season on us, and we would have no legal means
of redress.
Many in our community are poor, contrary to
OCA propaganda. Indigent gays and lesbians
could be denied Food Stamps, welfare, and public
housing. Access to state-aided medical care could
be blocked. State funding for AIDS programs
could be wiped out
OCA-inspired laws could exterminate us, just
as Hitler’s policies destroyed nearly 8 million
Jews in Europe. If the OCA succeeds in targeting
and eliminating us, who will be next? People who
part their hair differently from Lon Mabon, people
whose beliefs deviate from the “right” version of
fundamentalist Christianity? Where will it all
end?
Let’s hope none of these initiatives make it to
the petition-signing stage. But if they do, find out
what you can do legally to impede that progress.
Write and phone your city commissioners and
state legislators, come to “No On Hate" meetings,
stop your factional bickering, and above all, get
off your complacent butts (some of you), and
VOTE! Our votes will make a difference on a
state level between preservation of our basic
human and civil rights or our destruction as a
community.
If you value your freedom as gay and lesbian
persons in Oregon, do all you can to stop these
nazis in Christian trappings before it’s too late.
Sally Cohn
Portland
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To the Editor,
I would like to thank the Lesbian Community
Project for their fundraising efforts on behalf of
child abuse prevention programs and for the do
nations they have sent to the Kids Can program.
Kids Can is a program of Community Advo
cates. During this school year. Kids Can volun
teers will bring a message of empowerment and
teach assault prevention skills and strategies to
over 11,000 elementary and pre-school aged
children in the tri-county area. Community Ad
vocates also sponsors Fighting Chance, a self-
defense program for teen and adult women.
Seventy percent of Community Advocate’s
budget comes from private donations by indi
viduals and groups. The donations from many
caring people in this community are greatly ap
preciated.
Jan Kudema
Portland