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sex, abortion and homosexuality is responsible
and age-appropriate.
“Girls Inc. doesn’t pretend that young
women instinctively know how to respond to
all the mixJem-day peer and media pressures.
So, in spite of all the violent, unhealthy and
oppressive messages that teach girls
to hate themselves and their Fxxl-
ies, Girls Inc. helps them value
what makes them unique,”
Mitchell wrote in The Oregonian.
Heralding news of a new queer rag in Port
land, publishing newbie Tony “le tigre” Lock-
wtxxl posted an announcement on the classified
site Craigslist.org stating: “Are you a queer or
queerophile who thinks Just Out sucks?”
The listing, fueled by bravado,
according to Ltx^kwixxJ, continued
to read: “Me too! Would you like
to do something about it?”
From the listing and a cadre of
buddies, Lockwood has assembled
a motley crew of artists,
T ime T aps
writers, Satanists, mis
Q ueer T eens
anthropes and others
Time magazine, a publi
champing at the bit to get
cation whose political tone
published.
has been caught shifting
L<x:kw<xxJ describes the
with whichever team is win
project, called Dreck, a$> a
ning, printed the Oct. 10
“mega-zine,” combining
cover story “The Battle Over
the irreverence of The Port
Gay Teens.”
land Mercury with the queer
The article was well-
audience of Just Out, plus
researched and chock full of
the content of a literary
statistics about teens coming
journal.
out at earlier ages and creat
“I envision Dreclc as the
ing record-breaking numbers
Mercury meets Just Out Tony “le tigre” Lockwood is starting of Gay Straight Alliances in
meets a literary periodical,”
middle and high schools.
a new queer rag titled Dreck.
said Lockwood. “In other
Among the handful of queer
words, crass humor plus queemess plus literature teens featured was Matthew Vail of Gresham,
and arts.”
who spoke about his family’s growing accep
Lockwocxl’s prior publishing high point was tance of his sexuality.
winning a “letter of the week” award in the
The mainstream magazine article, with clout
Mercury for writing a letter to the editor stating to help set the national temperature, printed
that Willamette Week would have to pay him to statements such as “At many schools around the
continue reading the free publication.
country, it is now profoundly uncool to be seen
He expects to debut Dreck by late November as anti-gay.”
or early December and plans to distribute the
Time readers made their voices heard in a
free publication quarterly.
mixed bag of letters both applauding and
“1 want Dreck to be the Addams family with scolding the publication and its coverage of
in the rainbow family,” LockwixxJ said.
gay teens.
For
more
information
e-mail
One particularly vicious reader from Studio
dedril@hotmail.com.
City, Calif., wrote: “Homosexuality is a mistak
en concept. Evil has become good, and good
S iding with G irls
evil. We Americans are witnessing the moral
Oregonian writer S. Renee Mitchell dedicat death of our nation.”
Such a letter was balanced with the fol
ed her Oct. 26 column to defending Girls Inc.
against accusations that the national organiza lowing, from a Los Angeles reader: “Oh, if
tion is a “pro-abortion, pro-lesbian advcxracy” only my generation had had gay-straight
group.
groups back in the 1950s, when I was a lonely
The accusation came from the American teen who thought of myself as a disgusting,
Family Association, a Mississippi-based reli repulsive pervert!”
gious group, and the Pro-Life Action League, an
anti-abortion group from Chicago. The organi O n G uard in E ugene
zations are promoting a boycott of products
The city of Eugene is facing a decision about
produced by one of Girls Inc.’s top financial sup whether to join 79 other cities, counties and
porters, American Girl, which sells children’s states that have added gender identity to the list
books and collector dolls.
of classes protected from discrimination in pub
From the group’s Web site, www.girlsinc.com, lic employment, housing and accommodations.
Mitchell points out that the group’s stance on
According to the Eugene Register-Guard’s
coverage from Oct. 19, “Commissioners are
united in their support for such a law; the
sticking point is whether it should include a
requirement that people claiming to he of a
certain gender show proof—such as a driver’s
license or therapist’s letter—that they really
are that gender.”
In a political twist, some transgender women
support a caveat requiring proof of gender from
people attempting to enter restrcxjms, locker
nxims and public showers.
The article stated, “A handful of critics,
including some transgender women, say it’s
appropriate to require documentation—in the
interests of protecting women and children
from being exposed to male genitalia in female-
oriented public spaces.”
Others suggest this requirement begs for
abuse.
“Such d(x:umentation is discriminatory and
smacks of Big Brother,” Judy Moseley, a member
of the Lane County Human Rights Committee,
told the Register-Guard. “Who’s going to ask for
the documentation, and who’s it going to be
Time magazine outraged conservatives with a
cover story on queer youth.
asked of?" JT!
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