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VOL 12 NO. 24 OCTOBER 20,1995
COPY EDITOR
Kelly M. Bryan
REPORTERS
FEATURE
Boh Roehr
Inga Sorensen
Rex Wockner
Pumps and
circumstance
CALENDAR EDITOR
On the eve o f Coronation ’95,
we take a look at the
bejeweled history o f the
Imperial Sovereign
Rose Court
(PP- 19-23)
Kristine Chatwood
PHOTOGRAPHER
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World news
Costa Rican police will
undergo training to respect
drag queens
(P- 4)
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E. Ann Hinds
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Rupert Kinnard
National news
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Jann Gilbert
DISTRIBUTION
Ambling Bear
A National Coming Out Day celebration was to take place at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Oct. 11. People
eager to participate came out fo r the event, not knowing organizers had canceled it fo r fea r o f rain.
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CONTRIBUTORS
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Rachel Ebora
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Richard Shumate
Daniel Vaillancourt
Teri Ventura
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guest editorial
Our kids, our schools,
our future
When necessary, we must challenge our own internalized pedophobia
enough to genuinely care about kids
▼
by Steve Fulmer
rights has been a growing sense of the political clout we can
t takes a whole village to raise a child.” This African
muster. In the process of fighting Oregon Citizens Alliance
proverb has become a motto for people who advocate
ballot measures, we’ve made many new friends and strength
for children. Its message is as real for sexual minority
ened old bonds. The mainstream faith community, big busi
people as it is for anyone else, yet the gay, lesbian,
ness, moderate Republicans and leaders of other marginalized
bisexual and trans communities remain shy of “kids’
groups now stand proudly beside us.
issues.” Perhaps it’s because so many of us do not have
Likewise, the HIV pandemic has demonstrated the awe
children. Perhaps it’s because of the insistence by self-righ
some power of people who care about one another to transcend
teous "save the children” hatemongers that all sexual minority
and even lead government response. Again, all kinds of people
people are pedophiles and child molesters. And maybe it’s
have reached beyond previous barriers to share our struggle for
because too many of us have “come out of the closet into our
life, liberty and happiness. The time has come for us to return
living rooms,” but choose to deny the importance of coming out
the favor— to use our new strength on behalf of the whole
in boardrooms— or even in the privacy of a secret ballot.
village.
Don’t misunderstand: This isn’t a pitch for injecting sexual
If you are a registered voter and live in the core Portland area
rights into every conversation from sewers to educational
you will be receiving a ballot for the local school bond levy.
reform, but a reminder that if we expect to be treated as equal
Measure 26-31. This is Portland’s first opportunity to support
members of society then we must take all of society’s issues
seriously, including sewers and educational reform— and espe
local kids since Ballot Measure 5, Oregon’s statewide property
tax limitation, put conservative (and often militantly anti-
cially the issues of kids. It’s important that we expose the myths
of pedophilia as an obstacle to our equality. It’s important for
urban) legislators in control of local school funding. Fill it out,
kids that they have as many advocates as possible. And it’s
vote yes for Portland kids, and return it by Nov. 7.
important to the future o f all sexual minority people— the old,
As individuals and as a community, we must take our
the young, even the unborn— that tomorrow’s leaders be better
rightful place in the affairs of the greater village.
educated, more tolerant and more creative.
In our civil rights rhetoric, we like to say, “We are your
Over the past two decades. Steve Fulmer has been active
children (your brothers and sisters, sometimes even your moth
in a variety o f gay and lesbian organizations in Portland. He
is currently serv ing as an out member o f the Multnomah
ers and fathers)." Well, the village children are ours. too. After
all. our futures depend on today’s kids. We will come to depend
County Commission on Children and Families, as well as on
on them as surely as they depend on us right now.
the Sexual Diversity Task Force and the Multi-cultural /
One of the silver linings of the struggle for sexual minority
Multi-ethnic Task Force o f Portland Public Schools.
I
The Supreme Court hears
arguments on Amendment 2;
A contingent o f black gay men
goes to the
Million Man March
(PP- 5-10)
Local news
The Sexual Minorities
Roundtable launches a Crisis
Response Team; Meet 10
historical queer Oregonians
(P P - 1 M 7 )
ARTS
Books
Virtual Equality by Urvashi
Vaid examines
our movement’s past,
present and future
(pp. 30-31)
In Virtually Normal Andrew
Sullivan trades freedom fo r
equality
(P- 33)
Linnea D ue’s Joining the
Tribe focuses on the needs o f
queer teens
(p. 34)
Cinema
Optioned! The tortured path
from theater to screen
(p. 35)
Theater
Miracle Theatre Group and
Imago will astound and
delight you
(P- 36)
Music
Introducing a new music
column: Tongue in Groove
(p. 37)