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2 ▼ 1 « . 1 ju s t out since 1 9 8 3 ste p pin’ out PUBUSHER AND EDITOR Renée LaChance contents VOL. 12 NO. 20 AUGUST 18,1995 REPORTER Inga Sorensen FEATURE CALENDAR EDITOR Kristine Chatwood Out for business PHOTOGRAPHER Linda Kliewer Gay and lesbian entrepreneurs utilize business networks to promote both commerce and community visibility ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Meg Grace ADVERTISING REPS E. Ann Hinds C. Jay Wilson Jr. (PP- 17-19) CREATIVE DIRECTOR E. Ann Hinds DEPARTMENTS GRAPHIC DESIGN Rupert Kinnard World news Bulgarian television forbids depictions o f homosexuality; the Catholic Church steps in on the drafting o f the Polish Constitution CO PY EDITOR Kelly M. Bryan TYPESETTER Jann Gilbert DISTRIBUTION Ambling Bear OFFICE M ANAGER Teri Ventura CONTRIBUTORS Kristine Chatwood Bob Rochr Richard Shumate Steve Warren C. Jay Wilson Jr. Rex Wockner Just out is paMMwd m the first and third Friday of each m onth. 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A woman living above the store, hearing gunshots, looked out her window and saw a 16- to 26-year-old male wearing a hooded shirt riding from the area on a bicycle. Shortly thereafter, the woman heard breaking glass and phoned police. Donations to repair the windows came in from customers and other neighborhood businesses and, on Aug. 17, the windows were replaced. g u e st editorial Front-line conflicts Amid the crisis o f family and community that people in this country are living through, gay men, lesbians and bisexuals become easy targets v by Jo h n D ’E m ilio and the removal of the stigma of mental illness took prece he Republican Party’s Contract with America— dence. But now, the gay and lesbian community across the and its younger sibling, the Contract with the American Family— have dominated political re country is reclaiming family. Lesbians are choosing to have children, gay men are seeking to become foster parents, both porting for most of the year. Because both have men and women are insisting that their intimate partnerships be chosen to sidestep a head-on discussion o f homo sexuality, lesbian and gay issues have slipped from the recognized national by law. Lesbian, gay and bisexual parents want their children— and their children’s peers— to be taught toler media’s radar screen. For many gay men, lesbians and bisexu ance in school, while the parents and advocates of gay youth are als this must come as a welcome relief, a moment of respite in insisting that the schools respond to the needs of their sexual a hard political season. Who could enjoy being the target of the kind of rhetoric generated in the last few years—at the Repub minority students. In almost every area of public policy that lican convention in Houston, in the Senate hearings on the impinges on family and youth, gay voices are being heard. military’s exclusion policies, or in the fight over the National These voices are new, and not yet well organized. And so the radical right has rushed into the void, playing upon the Endowment for the Arts? emotional flash points that run through U.S. culture and fo The lull, however, is more apparent than real. Congress is menting fear. It is not hard to do. With the crisis of family and not the only body that legislates. At the state level there is no community that people in the U.S. are living through, gay men, Contract with America to discipline local right-wing political lesbians and bisexuals are easier, simpler targets than a chang leaders, while in many states there is an infrastructure of gay ing labor market with wage structures that compromise family organizations eager to move forward for respect and equality. The result is that state capitols rather than Congress have stability, or school systems without the resources to educate. become the battleground upon which the issue of equal rights This year’s legislative record at the state level suggests that for sexual minorities is being fought. battles over family are likely to remain front-line conflicts. It also suggests that the sexual minority community needs to This strategy speaks both to the history of gay oppression apply to the arena of family the lessons it has learned in its fight and to the contemporary state of lesbian and gay concerns. In for health care and against hate-motivated violence: patient, the past, medical, legal and religious discourse defined homo deliberate and sustained organization; broad-based education sexuals in opposition to the heterosexual nuclear family. In of sympathetic allies; and the careful articulation of an agenda flammatory stereotypes defined queers, whether male or fe rooted in the real needs of its members. male, as predators seeking to invade the sanctum of the home and to steal the young. Author and historian John D'Emilio is director o f the For previous generations, the price of adopting a gay, Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in lesbian or bisexual identity has often been to live outside the Washington, D.C. family When a gay political agenda took shape after Stonewall, basic goals such as sodomy law repeal, civil rights protections. T (p- 5) National news Controversy breaks out anew between queers and the Atlanta Committee fo r the Olympic Games; Clinton signs an executive order eliminating sexual orientation as a block to security clearance; Washington Sen. Cal Anderson leaves a legacy o f hope (PP 6-12) Local news Voters don’t want a proactive initiative on sexual minority rights, says Basic Rights Oregon ( P P - 13-14) ARTS Books A Detroit columnist and her partner bring lesbian family values into the homes o f millions (p- 27) Cinema Love and Human Remains gives every sexual orientation a bum rap, comically (P- 29) Entertainment Carol Channing is as sparkling and elusive as the gem she immortalizes in song (P- 30)