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2 ▼ d * c* m b «r 2, 1004 ▼ just out just out steppin’ out since 1983 PUBLISHER A N D EDITOR Renée LaChance contents VOL 12 NO. 3 DECEMBER 2,1994 EDITOR-AT-LARGE Ariel Waterwoman REPORTER FEATURE Inga Sorensen CALENDAR EDITOR Babes in dykeland! Jann Gilbert A lesbian fam ily finds an outpouring o f support following the birth o f triplets (PP- 17-20) PHOTOGRAPHER Linda Kliewer ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Meg Grace ADVERTISING REPS DEPARTMENTS E. Ann Hinds Jewel Robinson World news Ontario gives support to queer youth hotline (P- 5) CREATIVE DIRECTOR E. Ann Hinds GRAPHIC DESIGN Rupert Kinnard National news COPY EDITOR Car rental companies adopt progressive policies (pp. 6-9) Kelly M. Bryan TYPESETTER Jann Gilbert DISTRIBUTION Ambling Bear Local news G abby’s earache doesn 7 faze Sam (left) or Risa (right), but it gets her m om s' attention. Fora tale o f three babies , turn to page 17. OFFICE MANAGER Aaron Bong How the election shakes down fo r No on 13, Right To Privacy, and Oregon’s queer legislators (pp. 10-14) CONTRIBUTORS guest editorial Reality bites Aaron Bong Howard N. Dana Jann Gilbert Prof. IB . Gittendowne Al Kielwasser Risa Krivé Lee Lynch Rex Wockner th ird F riday of each m onth. Copyright €>1994 by Just M lt No part ofjust out may be reproduced without written per mission from the publisher. The submission of written and graphic m aterials is welcomed. Written material should be typed and double-spaced Just out reserves the right to edit for grammar, punctuation, style, liability concerns and length. We will reject or edit articles or advertisements that are offensive, demeaning or may result in legal action. Just out consults the Associated Press Style Book and Libel Manual on editorial decisions. I-etters to the editor should be limited to two double-spaced typed pages. 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OR 97214-0400; (503) 236-1252. Our fax number is 236-1257. Getting beyond a mistrust o f straight men (p. 35) Amazon trail V Sorting through treasured political buttons (p. 36) by A aron Bong I Queer thing ...and Generation “Q tries to chart previously traveled territory—possibly alone ” fust out is published on the first and COLUMNS t used to be that I was immune. No one that I knew had Pedro’s life and death is to state my feelings lightly. HIV or AIDS. Well, at least they weren’t my age. The In my world— where AIDS has been a fact of sex since I can people that got sick were older. The people that died remember— Pedro is the first person from my generation to were older. Even the people telling me to practice safer publicly pass from this life due to AIDS. He gave me and my sex in ads and commercials were— and are—older. generation mortality through his death. All of the people, both Their generations were, and very much still are, removed from public and private, that I have seen mourned have been from mine, in our terribly divided and fractured communities. other generations—though their passing has at times affected Intellectually I learned how not to become infected. I took me, too. a crash course in educating myself emotionally earlier this Every week I can watch what I now know to be the last year. But still, my generation was removed. We didn’t need to months of Pedro’s life agonizingly played out on the screen of worry. Until MTV chose Pedro Zamora for The Real World. my television set. Pedro was the show’s first HIV-positive cast Two years ago MTV producers came up with an idea to put member. And, as long as the information is needed, I hope not six twentysomethings in a loft together in New York. MTV’s the last. Through his personal disclosures to the television The Real World was bom. The most recent season was filmed cameras, he turned the light on in the room and showed my in a house in San Francisco. Pedro was selected out of over generation what has been quickly spreading and killing us. 30,000 people to be a part of the show. Pedro said, “For a number of reasons, some legitimate, we When Pedro was eight his family emigrated from Cuba. At fail to include young gays in our community; partly because 14 Pedro began having sex with other males. He came out to his we are afraid. Mention young gays and immediately the family by the time he was 18. His life story is replicated by association is with pedophilia and recruitment. But young gays many young gay men I know. But then it changes. Before he exist. To open our arms and accept them means accepting the graduated from high school, while he was still a senior, he unique responsibility that comes with them. But, if our goal is tested positive for HIV. to be a whole community, it has to happen— and it has to Immediately Pedro began to educate his peers, my genera happen now.” tion, about AIDS and HIV. He spoke locally in Miami, then I am learning to mourn a person who has died from AIDS. nationally and internationally. He became a resource and an I am learning how to deal with my own mortality. It’s difficult. inspiration for many. I want to learn how from people who have been there before In the late spring of this year. Pedro’s already low T-cell me. But our communities have been too fractured, too com count was obliterated when he contracted pneumocystis pneu partmentalized. To echo words I recently read; I’m 21. I’m monia (PCP). He soon overcame the PCP, but by then his body your son. Please get over your differences so you can teach me, had progressed into AIDS. together. On Friday. Nov. 11. at about 5 am. Pedro Zamora died due I only hope that my generation learned something through to complications of AIDS. He was 22. The same age I will be Pedro’s openness before too many of us fall. in less than 20 days To say that I have been mildly affected by ARTS Interview Alison Bechdel gets serious (pp. 27-29) Music The Fallen Angel Choir spills the beans (P- 31) Entertainment Women ’s spirituality on OPB (p. 32) Media Roseanne ’s Halloween episode draws boos (p. 33) Aural gratification Can just anyone do a holiday album ? (p. 34)