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PUBLISHER AND EDITOR
Renée LaChance
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VOL 12 NO. 23 OCTOBER 6,1995
REPORTERS
Bob Roehr
Inga Sorensen
Rex Wockner
FEATURES
A lesbian presence
CALENDAR EDITOR
Women bring the Beijing U.N.
conference home to Oregon
(PP- 15-19)
Kristine Chatwood
PHOTOGRAPHER
Linda Kliewer
Reader’s survey
Part 2 focuses on the
demographics o f our readers
( P P - 21-23)
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR
Meg Grace
ADVERTISING REPS
E. Ann Hinds
C. Jay Wilson Jr.
DEPARTMENTS
World news
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
E. Ann Hinds
The Philippine Congress may
gain a sexual minority seat
(p- 5)
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Rupert Kinnard
COPY EDITOR
National news
Kelly M. Bryan
Black gay men and lesbians
join the Million Man March
(pp. 6-9)
TYPESETTER
Jann Gilbert
Local news
DISTRIBUTION
Ambling Bear
Human rights leader
Cipriano Ferrel dies
(PP- 10-11)
OFFICE MANAGER
Teri Ventura
CONTRIBUTORS
Kristine Chatwood
AI Kielwasser
Risa Krivé
Lee Lynch
Craig Machado
Andrea L.T. Peterson
Steve Warren
C. Jay Wilson Jr.
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COLUMNS
editorial
Youth
Officials and service providers
come out for queer youth
(p. 13)
Flotsam and jetsam
After the media hurricane has passed, a day without O.J.
will be a day full of sunshine
by Renée LaChance
Amazon trail
Write a note to your teacher
(P- 36)
Bear tracks
Rex Wockner cruises fo r talk
(p. 37)
ARTS
Cinema
ere I am trying to write an editorial, and all 1 can
think is that there are currently so many things
disturbing me that I can’t clearly focus on just one
of them for 500 words. Most of it has been stirred
up by the O.J. Simpson trial. There are some real
issues that have been raised by the trial and the verdict that need
examining. Hindsight will no doubt bring adeeper analysis than
is possible two days after the verdict.
On the subject of racism: Racism is alive and well in the
United States. The O.J. trial clearly demonstrates that. We have
Mark Fuhrman. new king of the racists. Many white people will
look at him and say, "He’s a racist. I’m not like him. so I’m not
a racist.” Racism is a fact of life in our society. Until we each
confront our own racism in all its subtleties, we will not advance
on the race issue.
On the subject of battering and violence against women:
Now that O.J. has been found not guilty. I fear men who batter
will believe they have society’s permission to continue to abuse
the women in their lives. And not much has been said about how
a privileged man who repeatedly batters his wife or ex-wife can
get away with brutally murdering her.
Many of us watched the movie To Wong Foo and sympa­
thized with the character played by Stockard Channing. We
cheered when Patrick Swayze—doing a marvelous impression
of Gunsmoke's Miss Kitty—rescued Stockard and punched out
H
her husband. A Hollywood version of domestic violence. The
husband apparently rides off into the sunset accepting both his
wife’s new-found independence and his defeat. That doesn’t
happen in the real world. In the real world, the husband would
likely stalk the woman and eventually murder her. Ask anyone
who works at a domestic violence shelter. Ask any woman in
a battering relationship who now fears for her life because of
the O.J. verdict. Ask the family of the Scott Mills, Ore., woman
who was murdered along with her three small children by her
abusive ex-husband just last month.
On the subject of sexism and misogyny: Women are still
relegated to second-class status in this country and in the world
(see the story on the Beijing conference on page 15).
On the subject of the Just Out Reader’s Survey: Many
respondents criticized Just Out's "political correctness,” our
constant focus on “minority issues,” and our alleged “gay white
male-bashing.” Here is another editorial that may feed that
criticism. The reality is, I will never stop addressing the
oppression in our society and the part each of us plays in it.
Just Out welcomes your letters and guest editorials.
Please limit to 500 words.
Mail to PO Box 14400, Portland, OR 97214.
Thanks to Kristine Chatwood, Rupert Kinnard and E.
Ann Hinds fo r fo o d fo r thought.
Clive Barker has no fear
(p. 28)
Music
Janis lan sings out
(p. 29)
Theater
Six D egrees o f Separation
makes fo r a wild ride
(p. 30)
Comedy
Marga Gomez blazes into town
(P- 31)
Media
Letterman lays an egg
(p. 32)
Books
AIDS comes to the heartland;
stock up on winter reading
(pp. 33-35)