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VOL. 13 NO. 9 MARCH 1,1996
Renée LaChance
COPY EDITORS
Kelly M. Bryan
Jeff Boswell
FEATURE
REPORTERS
Fun to spare!
Inga Sorensen
Bob Roehr
Rex Wockner
W hether you bow l in the slow
lane o r the fa st, th e r e ’s a
queer league f o r you
CALENDAR EDITOR
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
R TP votes to change nam e o f
annual dinner; K ate Brown
will run f o r the state Senate
Rupert Kinnard
FORMATTER
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Profile
The road to equality
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N orthw est nonprofits
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Peach buzz
Faced with the backlash against civil rights and social freedoms ,
we must remember the gains we have made
Falling in love with M ontréal
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by Renée LaChance
Amazon trail
Singin ’ those house sitter blues
or every step forward on the road to equality there are
multiple waves of backlash. It’s an exponential rela
tionship.
As Hawaii seems on the verge of legalizing same-
sex marriage, 18 states whip into a frenzy to legislate
against such marriages— Washington among them.
While gay and straight teachers network together to eradi
cate homophobia in more than 600 schools nationwide, in Utah
a school board feels so threatened at the prospect of having to
allow the formation of a gay and lesbian student group that it
bans all student groups.
It has always been a challenge to be a gay man or lesbian in
the United States, but now verbal gay-bashing is being elevated
to an art form in the ultra-right’s “culture war.” Pat Buchanan
foams at the mouth while venting his homophobic rhetoric state
by state. When he won the New Hampshire primary, I began
mentally packing my bags to leave the country. There is no way
I could live under an administration that would “put the Bible
first and the Constitution second.”
Yes, he actually said that. Has anyone told Buchanan that
that sentiment is in direct violation of the Constitution?
As if that wasn’t bad enough, all of the Republican presiden
tial candidates— in their first (and possibly only) unified act—
hopped up on the gay-bashing bandwagon driven by Buchanan.
Before the Iowa primary, the Republican Party held a rally
where every Republican presidential candidate signed on to a
Gay Marriage Referendum (dubbed by gay-rights activists the
“Contract Against Homosexuals”), vowing to oppose the legal
ization df same-gender marriages. . Y
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The gay and lesbian group Log Cabin Republicans is
finding itself hard pressed to endorse any of the GOP presiden
tial candidates. Log Cabin officials have thus far balked at
choosing from a field of candidates that is overwhelmingly
opposed to equal rights for gay men and lesbians. They will not
make a decision on whether to endorse a candidate until after
the Republican National Convention, which convenes on Aug.
10 in San Diego. They are, however, advocating that people
vote against Buchanan if they are Republican or live in a state
that allows cross-party voting in a primary.
We can only hope that the fighting within the Republican
Party on issues other than legalizing same-sex marriage will
cause a political meltdown, and that no clear platform or
candidate will emerge from the ashes. In the meantime, faced
with the Republican backlash against civil rights and social
freedoms, we must remember the gains we have made on the
road to equality for all.
In this moment. I’m having a difficult time remembering
them.
Oregon's presidential primary is March 12. Ballots have
already been sent out. For those o f you puzzling about the
early primary, the Oregon Legislature voted last session to
change our presidential primary from May to March so that
Oregon would be seen as a contender. Legislators felt we
were being slighted, since each party's nominee was often
already decided by the time Oregon held its primary.
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