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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 2003)
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In this issue of Just Out, more than 73 percent of the 60 pages contain advertis ing. Of those 60 pages, 55 percent of the pages are actual ads. I realize the need to have advertising, as it helps pay the hills and helps provide businesses that portray “acceptance” of gay and lesbian cus tomers. But isn’t that the purpose of Portlands Gay Yellow Pages? I read your newspaper to get insight and information on local issues, not to he hashed with ideas of where I need to spend my money. When the Just Out newspaper is “just out” of rexun to provide informative articles for its read ers, maybe it is time to re-evaluate where money is being spent to eliminate the horrendous need for Si> much advertising in order for your publi cation to survive and thrive. Your intent toward filling a need in our com munity can he better served if you eliminate this mother lcxle of advertising and get on with the business of informing and entertaining your audience through articles of interest, not trying to sell so much space in your newspaper to make money. Where must the line he drawn? How about you publish this letter and ask for response from your readers and hump off one of the spaces you would use for one of your adver tisers? Would you eliminate a full-page ad to pose this question to your readers and publish their responses? Probably not. It’s too bad that the need for money has taken over the intent to provide a great resource for a community that deserves better representation of who we are and what we accept as being our voice! 73 SATISFIED CUSTOMERS TELL THEIR FRIENDS ALL CALLS ANSWERED THEY ALL COME BACK 5 0 3 -2 8 2 -0 1 5 9 Rat race ) Careful and eangelic handling of all your home financing needs Office 503*297*9900 Ad it up J ackie P etrase Portland Free for all? To the E ditor : i used to live in the United States, and I am full of wishes that I may live there again. My departure was quick and not so planned, as the war was approaching and the borders were tightening. Within two weeks my life was trans formed, fleeing from the government that discrimi nates against the LGBT community nationwide to one that recognizes all diversities (Canada). My partner of three years was illegal, and our daily lives were becoming so filled with the fear of being separated by the government that rep resents freedom. H ie same government that is killing women and children and has been for a while in Iraq. The war is called “Operation Iraqi Freedom" and is being fought under this screen. It is obvi ous to anyone reading the news outside the United States or England that the war is eco nomic. It is a shame that the citizens of the United States will allow a fight for others’ free dom yet will not stand up for the oppressed on the home front. Same-sex hinational couples struggle daily in the United States, fighting a war for the freedom to he with the person they have chosen to love. Where are all those freedom-fighting people on this issue—out eating "freedom fries” ? J effery T. C arlton Vancouver, British Colum bia E d it o r : here is a scene in the film Schindler's List in which Oskar Schindler pur a Nazi pin on the lapel of his coat. How many American fas cists now wear another pin on their lapels? Adolf Hitler asked Germany to defend their “Fatherland.” President Bush asked the United States for a “ Department of Homeland Security.” Nazi propaganda referred to Jews, Russians and many others as “rats.” U.S. propaganda has referred to Iraqis as “rats hiding in their holes.” Hitler “freed" many nations before Poland in 1939. Bush is killing now in his “Operation Iraqi Freedom." Since our War Department became our “Defense Department” in the 1940s, the fascist military corporate industrial complex has pushed the United States into the largest bully on earth. This is not the “American dream”; however, it has become an “American night mare” for every living thing. A nn A rmstrong Fairvieu) Fight for your rights To t h e E d it o r : S tate Sen. John Minnis, who introduced Sen ate Bill 742, and those who set a hearing for this blatantly unconstitutional hill are clearly unfit for office. Tliis hill threateas anti-war protesters and labor strikers with life sentences for broadly defined crimes of “terrorism.” The hill also overrides laws that forbid the police from spying on people who are not committing crimes and from working with the FBI to target immigration violations. Anti-war activists, unionists and immigrants have the right to organize against this profit- driven war on Iraq, to fight President Bush’s attempt to smash unions under the guise of fighting terrorism and to live free from police persecution. SB 742 is a major building block in the police state that we are supposed to he pro tected from by the Bill of Rights. The dictionary defines patriotism as devotion to one’s country. What country are Minnis, Bush, John Ashcroft and company devoted to? I think they are patriots of big business and cor porate ruthlessness. For them, war is necessary and unions are an obstacle to their inhuman greed. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is left to fend for itself. We are doing that hy standing up for the wages and working conditions of ordinary people, organizing to stop this war from forcing us to kill and he killed for mega-CEOs’ profits and exposing the racist roundup of immigrants. Stop SB 742. Stop John Minnis and his cronies from savaging our state and federal constitutional rights. A drienne W eller Freedom Socialist Party A few good men To the .E ditor : X \ J i l l there he a special float in this year’s ' Pride parade honoring gay military peo ple who are serving in Iraq, losing their lives and possibly being tortured as prisoners? The “don’t ask, don’t tell" closet creates even more isola tion, plus many gays sometimes lose their fami ly’s support during the coming-out process. This is a lonely position to have to he in under such stress. Let’s give support for Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine people from the gay world, who, as far as emotional support, have it tougher than anyone else. Personally, I have been e-mailing the White House, senators and anyone else. It may not be
