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TO THE EDITOR:
hat I want to know is, just what exactly is a
“community public forum"? Isn’t it a place
where them wihi IJ he sufficient time for many petv
pie to voice their thoughts and feelings, especially
when this latest deadly incident of police violence
is “the straw that broke the cam el’s Kick’’?
Yet Sgt. Brian Schm autz, a police spokesm an,
fretted that the Rev. Roy Tate interrupted the
detective’s presentation “after less than one
hour" |T/w Portland Tribune, July 4|. Taken out of
context, this forgets the two m onths— yes, 60
days— the com m unity “w aited" for this public
forum so they could express their feelings and
frustrations. T h e format: 5 to 8:15 p.m ., police
and detectives speak; 8:15 to 10 p.m ., the com
munity gets to speak— m eaning that people who
cam e on time waited even longer, having to keep
their em otions in check. Is this C h ief Kroeker’s
promise o f “ intense com m unity debate"?
So, let’s have another forum— for us, the petv
pie. We in the white community especially need to
hear what Portland’s communities tit color have
experienced at the hands of the police. We need to
hear firsthand the brutality, the injustice, the
harassment, the intimidation. Then all of Portland
can he aroused to he on fire with the injustice of
not only thus latest deadly event, hut the historical
record of racism in the City of Roses.
L inda K anzinger
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B oy is like T h e Bachelor but w ith a tw ist:
Some of the contestan ts are straigh t! Is this an interesting and playful
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his is mean and wrong. It is hard
enough to meet someone who is
nice without being teased by not knowing
if he is going to share your life choices or
not. Besides, it might scare the straight
guys! This isn’t a social experiment; gays
have been pretending to be straight and
vise versa for years just to fit in.
Reality shows have taken the fun tnit
o f television, and except for the one
where a straight man gets a m akeover by
a bunch o f gay men, l don’t plan on
watching any o f them. T h at just might
be the one that is worth something.
Sin ce 1987, I ’ve h elped g u id e c o u p le s, d o m e stic partn ers,
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ein g an “o u t” fan o f reality television , Pm
curious to see how this is spun and tran
spires. But bravo to B ravo for includin g and
acknow ledging th e gay com m un ity in the real
ity television d atin g universe.
Having just seen and LO V ED Queer Eye for the
Straiffu G uy, I’m thinking that any straight guy
who’s comfortable enough with himself that he is
willing to be perceived as gay on television will ulti
mately lessen homophobia, and I’m all about that.
It’s definitely goin g to be a “ w ait an d see’’
experience, but overall, I’m en th u siastic that
B ravo is w orking to be an inclusive network.
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his is an insult to gay men everywhere. To
place gays in a position where they may come
up against a heterosexual is just inviting trouble.
M arty L ostheart
Portland
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roviding a slight twist is there for the r a tin g
but doesn’t appear to respect or acknow ledge
that being a gay m an is acceptable. W hy do we
need to walk through the world o f stereotypes? It
is simply a boost for their ratings, not a boost for
the world o f equality. Did they announce the
sexuality o f m embers o f The Bachelor program? If
they did, I must have missed that.
M icheil M ac C utcheon
Plymouth, N . H .
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that they can tap another 10 percent o f the
population by appealing to the gay com m unity.
It is an experim ent to m e, but it will be an
insulting joke to the boy if he ch o oses unwisely.
If the boy picks the hetero, it will hopefully
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turn in to a n igh tm are for som e poor gay m an.
W e h av e th e trouble o f falling for straight guys
anyway. W e d o n ’t n eed to see it o n TV .
If they are going through with this show, on
the next Bachebrette I want to see some o f the guys
being gay and the woman having to weed through
the men not knowing. O f course, that wouldn’t
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