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2 ▼ Jan u ary 2 0 , 1 0 0 5 T ju s t out just out contents since 1 9 83 VOL 12 NO. 6 JANUARY 20,1995 PUBUSHER AND EDITOR Renée LaChance FEATURES EDITOR-AT-LARGE Ariel W aterw om an In memory of Ariel Waterwoman REPORTER Inga Sorensen Readers share their remembrances o f Ariel and her gifts CALENDAR EDITOR Jann G ilbert PHOTOGRAPHER (pp. 12-13) Linda Kliewer Out in the industry ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Dan Butler has done well in Hollywood as an openly gay actor M eg G race ADVERTISING REPS E. Ann Hinds Jewel Robinson (p. 15) CREATIVE DIRECTOR E. Ann Hinds DEPARTMENTS GRAPHIC DESIGN Rupert Kinnard World news COPY EDITOR Sir lan McKellen tears anti-gay passages out of the Bible on stage in Scotland Kelly M. Bryan TYPESETTER Jann Gilbert DISTRIBUTION A m bling Bear (p. 4) Portland Police Chief Charles Moose received the FBI Director’s Award on Tuesday, Jan 17. National news OFFICE MANAGER Aaron Bong CONTRIBUTORS Aaron Bong A1 Kielw asser N ightshade Dale Reynolds Bob Roehr Rex W ockner guest editorial Redefining victory It is time to put ourselves on the line fo r one another |USt out is published on the first and th ird F riday of each m onth. Copyright <91995 by Just a u t No part of Just aut may be reproduced without written per mission from the publisher. The submission of written and graphic m aterials is welcomed. Written matenal should be typed and double-spaced. Just • U t reserves the right to edit for grammar, punctuation, style, liability concerns and length. 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Subscriptions to Just out are available for $17.50 for 12 issues. First Class (in an envelope) is $30 for 12 issues. A copy of Just out is available for $1 and/or advertising rates are available on request. The mailing address and telephone number for Just out are PO Box 14400. Portland. OR 97214-0400. (503) 236-1252. Our fax number is 236-1257 ▼ by Kathleen Sadaat "Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss o f all that gave one identity. ” Victory must mean more than changing the Oregon initiative process to make it harder to get issues on the ballot. (And if we — James Baldwin, exchange access to the initiative process for a false sense of Nobody Knows My Name safety and security, we lose big time.) If the OCA continues to successfully organize and we don’t, it will eventually meet any hen I hear gay men and lesbians talk as though fair requirement of the process. If it needs more signatures to put fighting the Oregon Citizens Alliance is unre a measure on the ballot, that means it must work harder. It does lated to other human struggles, or when I hear not mean that I am safer. I’ll be safer when more of us step only thoughts about changing the machinery outside our circles o f comfort to work with, organize, motivate of the “system,” I worry. The first thought and inspire more people to get involved. assumes our struggles are not connected, the second, that chang Victory must mean more than just waiting for courts to ing mechanics (laws, procedures, processes) somehow means decide the constitutionality o f measures the right wing has we won. Laws (and elected officials) express the philosophy, passed. W aiting will work only as long as judges and justices are understanding and attitudes of a group. A change in philosophy, not, themselves, part of the right wing. We already know that etc., is the only way to have “real” change. Real change means right-wing groups are busy getting people appointed and elected completely new ways o f examining issues, formulating prob into positions of power and influence. Instead o f waiting for the lems, developing plans and solutions. The struggle against the courts, we must actively seek appointments to boards, commis rise o f the right in the United States requires of us real change. As sions and task forces and continue to elect people (including part o f that real change we must reexamine our definition of a judges) who understand and support human and civil rights. victory. If, as lesbians and gay men, we know that to retain our We must support the people doing work to help heal our basic rights and to gain our full civil rights we must support and urban-rural split, and we urbanites need to get directly involved work for the human and civil rights of all, then we already know in helping heal that split. It is time to work with rural people. It we are connected to other struggles. I f we know our freedoms are is time to stop using the word “redneck.” There are groups and connected then wc know that our victories must be defined by organizations that have worked for years in the struggle against those efforts that help make liberty, justice and equity more bigotry. Some have it as their very purpose for existing. It is time accessible to all. to learn from them. It is time to talk with new people. It is time Victory must mean more than getting 50 percent plus 1 in an to talk about the rights o f sexual minorities and about child and election. The OCA uses its initiative work as an organizing tool. elder care, education, health care, jobs, choice, and surviving in It motivates and inspires frightened people to feel powerful by a time of fear, anger, and diminished regard for human beings. voting to legalize their prejudices. If we d on’t make a real If, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, “A threat to freedom anywhere change, and organize, we will lose ground and “they” will is a threat to freedom everywhere,” it is time to ensure your eventually get the 50 percent plus 1 they need. We must start freedom by working for mine, and vice versa. It is time to put now. educating and organizing real and potential allies and get ourselves on the line for one another. It is time lo define victory them involved in advancing the cause of human rights. ascach time wc walk forw ard,.logeiher'.'.W W San Francisco Police raid an AIDS benefit on New Year’s Eve; a local lesbian physician helps pave the path toward equality in health care (pp. 5-7) Local news A study finds that women with HIV die faster than men who have the virus; Salem’s 1995 session puts queer legislators on the alert (pp. 8-11) COLUMNS Out there An on-line activist makes small talk fo r big steps in understanding (p. 24) ARTS Media Cartoonist Matt Groening rewrites the Pledge o f Allegiance (p. 22) Aural gratification Portland acts Everclear and Mac Charles release their first albums (p 23) ..