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Renée LaChance
EDITOR-AT-LARGE
Ariel Waterwoman
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CALENDAR EDITOR
Jann Gilbert
JUNE 3,1994
Ground zero
We commemorate the silver
anniversary o f our
Independence Day —
Stonewall 25
ADVERTISING
Fred Allemann
Meg Grace
E. Ann Hinds
Jewel Robinson
(pp. 17-19)
Havana journal
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
E. Ann Hinds
Columnist Howard N. Dana
researches the Cuban
“queer thing ”
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Rupert Kinnard
(pp. 13-15)
CO PY EDITOR
Kelly M. Bryan
FORMATTER
Fred Allemann
DEPARTMENTS
TYPESETTER
Dee StarDancer Fultz
World news
The pope blasts the European
Union's groundbreaking
equal-rights resolution
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Aaron Bong
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CONTRIBUTORS
Martha Allen
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contents
(p- 5)
National news
The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Ceremony, a multicultural service honoring those who have
died o f complications o f AIDS. The program featured poetry by Judith Barrington and an original musical piece
by David York entitled “AIDS Requiem. ”
Queer leaders get a lesson;
AIDS groups call fo r Gebbie’s
resignation
(pp. 6-9)
Local news
guest editorial
Why dean up our
parades?
To clean up parades in hopes of immediate political expedience
is to deny queer experience and culture,
and to sacrifice it to and for the values of others
A lesbian sues the
owner o f D ooley’s
(pp. 10-11)
COLUMNS
Amazon Trail
Lee Lynch writes about where
she was during Stonewall
(p. 31)
Legal
Sexuality discrimination in
employment is still common
(p. 30)
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by R ic h a rd D . M o h r
his June, lesbian and gay parades will be
getting more media attention than ever.
With this country’s love o f centennials
and su ch ,
the media will have
their lenses focused on
the 25th anniversary
o f the Stonewall riots.
Add to this the atten
tion the Gay Games
and Cultural Festival
in New York City will
draw— especially
with the triumphal
march on the United Nations— multiply, in turn,
by the national press’ recent fascination with all
ARTS
things gay, and we will be seeing a veritable media
frenzy centered around our public displays o f
queer life, queer love and queer politics.
Paralleling this in
creased press atten
tion to gay and les
bian presence, gay
con servatives like
Hunter Madsen, Mel
White and Bruce
Bawer have been call
ing ever more fre
quently and loudly for
us to clean up our pa
rades— to throw out not just NAMBLA but leather
folk and drag queens, too. Their argument is that
D o n ’t be mistaken:
Bigots cannot be appeased
by denying queer
experience
Cinema
Grief and The Last of England
at Cinema 21; Indigenous
America Film Festival at the
N W Film Center
(pp. 24-26)
Television
One Nation Under God looks
at attempts to “reform ” queers
(p. 28)
Radio
Stonewall documentary
airs on KOPB
(p. 29)