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V O L 11 NO. 21 SEPTEMBER 2,1994
PUBLISHER AND EDITOR
Ariel Waterwoman
CALENDAR EDITOR
Jann Gilbert
FEATURES
PHOTOGRAPHER
Keys to survival
Staying healthy with HIV
(p. 15)
Linda Kliewer
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR
Meg Grace
Communities within
communities
ADVERTISING REPS
Fred Allemann
E. Ann Hinds
Jewel Robinson
Between a homophobic rock
and a racist hard place
Ip- 16)
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
E. Ann Hinds
HIV and youth
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Rethinking our assumptions
(p. 17)
Rupert Kinnard
COPY EDITOR
Kelly M. Bryan
DEPARTMENTS
FORMATTER
Fred Allemann
TYPESETTER
World news
Jann Gilbert
Japan's lone openly HIV
positive citizen comes out at
world AIDS conference
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Up Front Distribution
OFFICE M ANAGER
Olympic great Greg Louganis autographs photos at the Beaverton Nordstrom store last month to promote his
new line o f wom en’s swimwear. Hubba, hubba.
(P- 4)
Aaron Bong
National news
CONTRIBUTORS
Domestic partners bill on the
verge o f enactment in
California
(pp. 5-8)
Martha L. Allen
Aaron Bong
Jim Clay
Howard N. Dana
Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D.
Rafael M. Diaz
Jann Gilbert
Colleen Hoff
Lee Lynch
Bob Roehr
Rex Wockner
Arlene Zarembka
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Local news
National field office o f
G IAAD moves to Portland
(pp. 10-12)
Playing devil's
advocate
C O LU M N S
Legal
Debunking the lie o f
protected “minority status
(p.9)
”
Who really makes up the sexual minority communities?
▼
by Ariel Waterwoman
t used to be that there were gay men and there were gay
federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And they don’t
women, and rarely did these groups meet with a com see any national leaders stepping up to include them. Where
mon interest. Some believed that there was little, if any,
does our responsibility lie? If we say we are struggling for the
common ground. With the onset of feminism, the chasm
rights of transsexuals, are we? Or is it just the current politi
between the queer sexes seemed to widen. Gay women cally correct thing to say?
reclaimed “lesbian” and “dyke” as positive identifying terms, Are we defined by who our enemies are? Is everyone
while also “losing their sense of humor.” Bisexual people were jumping onto this sexual minority bandwagon to escape the
largely invisible. Transgendered, transsexual, and cross-dress
fire from the right wing attack? Are we going to keep defining
ing individuals were misunderstood.
our struggle by our sexuality? What is the difference between
Now, there seems to be a big bandwagon that any individual
a cross-dresser and a cross-gendered person? And what does
who is not absolutely straight, 100 percent of the time, is
sexuality have to do with it? Cross-dressers and transsexuals
jumping on. The term "sexual minority communities” seems to
at one recent conference kept trying to reassure the hotel staff
be the current catch phrase for us. But, who are we really?
by telling them they weren’t “gay.”
When we talk about sexuality and sexual expression, that
Questions about who we are and how we define this
does not include gender issues— or does it? Calling ourselves
struggle for human rights need to be answered. We all need to
the sexual minority communities could include members of the
think and talk about whose life we’re willing to fight for. We
North American Man/Boy Love Association, as pedophiles
need to let the leadership in national civil rights organizations
are in the minority. Historically, transsexuals, transgendered
know how we feel. Do gay men and lesbians have the political
and cross-dressing individuals were just considered gay, no
strength and the energy to fight for inclusion of all the peoples
matter what their sexual orientation happened to be. So, whodo
now included under the banner of “sexual minority”? Because
we mean when we say “sexual minority”?
if we don’t then we better own it now, instead of tricking
There are some angry transsexual people who saw them
people who are already oppressed with a bunch of P.C. rhetoric
selves included in the 1993 March.op Washington banner, yet
about how the gay and lesbian community is fighting for their
now feel abandoned because they >are not included in the
civil
rights too.
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Queer thing
On being a man in
women's clothing
(p. 27)
Amazon trail
Allies join the rainbow
revolution
(p. 28)
ARTS
Aural gratification
CDs by imminent visitors to
Portland are reviewed
(p. 23)
Media
Harvey Fierstein is featured in
a new fall series on CBS
Ip. 25)