Just out., August 05, 1994, Image 1

P o r tla n d ,
INSIDE:
M T V ’s R e a l W o r ld
heartthrob
Pedro Zamora is
profiled on page 25
by Risa Krivé
s the millennium crashes to a close, queers are
caught on the crest of a wave of worldwide war.
It is waged in the bloody national civil wars
broadcast on television, in the silent genocide of sexual
minorities hidden in officially democratic countries,
and in the civilized electoral process and mean streets
here at home. We are besieged by “social cleansing”
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and environmental pollution.
This is a war of neighbor against neighbor, of ideol­
ogy against reality. It is a war of mythic proportions—
hate vs. love, greed vs. sharing, apathy vs. action,
harmonious interaction vs. complete annihilation. The
purpose of the war is Power.
Continued on page 15