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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:17:03 EDT
From:         gaynet@GALLIFREY.KENT.EDU
Subject:      GayNet Digest Volume 6 Issue 6

In this issue:
                     GayNet Digest Volume 6 Issue 3
                              Boston Clubs
                 Pro-Gay school program causes protests
                         Places to go in Boston
                           Repeating history
                              William Weld
                 An opportunity to inform and educate!
                             something cool
                             cultural elite

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Date:         Thu, 03 Sep 92 14:56:16 EDT
From: Bill Beeman <WBEEMAN@BROWNVM.brown.edu>
Subject:      Re: GayNet Digest Volume 6 Issue 3

With regard to the California Civil Rights Bills
AB-2601 and AB-3825.  Pete Wilson's office
is not taking names, so anyone can call and urge
him to sign these two bills.  The last time
the Orange County legions swamped his office
with negative calls.  Everyone reading this
should call to urge him to sign.

The numbers again:  San Francisco (415) 703-2218
                    Sacramento (916) 445-2841
                    Los Angeles (213) 897-0322

With the doings in Oregon, we must do everything
possible to protect our civil rights.

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 16:35:20 edt
From: "South Street Slut (Sandone, J. T.)" <SANDONE@DICKINSON.EDU>
Subject: Boston Clubs

Hey there....

To you who asked about boston clubs, when I was there, I was at Studs
(located really close to the Boston Marriott at Copley Place) and it was
relatively cool...a dance-bar setting.

....................
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  .             .           		    Dickinson College HUB 1984
   .           .                            P. O. Box 4888
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     .       .                              (717)240-3273
      .     .          			    SANDONE@DICKINSN.BITNET
       .   .        			    SANDONE@DICKINSON.EDU
        . .
         .

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From: Jason Anderson <anderj2@rpi.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 17:00:16 EDT
Subject: Pro-Gay school program causes protests

Hello all,

I saw this article from UPI about a Brooklyn school program, called ``Children
of the Rainbow.''  I think some of you might find it interesting...


The following is copyright 1992 by UPI, and it is reposted with permission
from the ClariNet Electronic Newspaper newsgroup clari.local.new_york.  For
more info on ClariNet, write to info@clarinet.com or phone 1-800-USE-NETS.

	NEW YORK (UPI) -- Nearly 200 vitriolic parents Wednesday rallied in
City Hall park to protest a school program that encourages respect for
students with gay parents and for gay people in general.
	``You can't teach a child what their parents don't want them to
learn,'' Dolores Ayling screamed into a microphone at a rally sponsored
by the Brooklyn-based Concerned Parents for Educational Accountability.
	Among about 150 cheering protesters were signs that said,
``Homosexuality is not normal,'' in protest of the city's multicultural
curriculum, ``Children of the Rainbow.''
	Some in the crowd said they feared the program would encourage their
children to be gay themselves.
	``They're trying to confuse them and make them accept it for
themselves,'' said Barbara Kay, 35, a mother of three from Governor's
Island.
	``I don't believe the homosexual lifestyle should be taught in the
schools. It's not an acceptable lifestyle for us,'' she said, adding,
``It's not what we send them to school to learn. It's not going to help
them get better jobs.''
	Her neighbor, 34-year-old Martha Bottoms, agreed emphatically,
shouting, ``They're teaching our children that it is normal to accept
this. They're trying to teach our children that it's OK.''
	Frances Kunreuther, executive director of the Hetrick-Martin
Institute, a gay youth counseling group, defended the curriculum, saying
it does not teach about sex but about ``who likes each other.''
	``The idea that we convert, promote or make people to be gay is a
stereotype that proves the need for this kind of education,'' she said.
	The Rainbow program was introduced last year for First Graders, with
revisions for some older grades, but was rejected by five of the 32
school districts. Those that rejected it must submit alternative
proposals by Oct. 31, said Board of Education spokesman Frank Sabrino.
	``That's ludicous,'' he said of the parents' fears. ``The point of
this curriculum is to sensitize teachers and students to the fact that
students, classmates and fellow citizens are going to come from homes of
varied strtuctures -- single and two-parent, divorced, adopted, foster
and gay.''
	Chancellor Joseph Fernandez supports the program, he said, ``because
bias or discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has to be
condemned with the same vigor and force as you would condemn bias based
on race, ethnicity or whatever.''
	Ayling threatened to organize a strike against public schools and
called for Fernandez' resignation.
	The Lesbian Avengers, a newly formed group, planned a different
response, however, promising to go to P.S. 87 in Queens on the first day
of school, Sept. 9.
	The action was to be a protest of the rejection of the Rainbow
program by District 24, which includes P.S. 87 in the Middle Village
section.

-End of Article


Jason
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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 20:54 GMT
From: "G. Gabriel Ben-Yosef" <0003505072@mcimail.com>
Subject: Places to go in Boston

 > My friend is moving to Boston this weekend with no ideas on the cool
 > places to hang out.  She is strayt, but I don't think that will have a
 > big effect on the question I am going to ask.  Basically I'm wondering
 > if someone can post the name of some cool clubs, pubs and places for
 > live music.

OK, here you go (in no particular order).  Have her try: Avalon on Sundays,
Wally's, Indigo, The Loading Zone, Paradise, Western Front, 224 Boston Street
(which is in Dorchester), 29 Newbury, Papa Razzi and anywhere in Harvard
Square.

There's lots of variety there, so she should find something she likes.  Also,
suggest she picks up a copy of the Phoenix (buy a real copy, the free one
really only has the sex ads) which has lots of ideas and reviews.

Gabriel (the other one, in Boston)
gbenyosef@mcimail.com

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Date:         Thu, 03 Sep 92 17:14:36 EDT
From: "Michael D. Calabria" <MDCBB@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject:      Repeating history

Thanks to Jerry Cheney for his insightful comments and comparison of
the present American political scene and National Socialism. In the course
of political discussions with a colleague, I am frequently drawing analogies
to the Nazi regime, but he just thinks I'm over-reacting. And he hasn't led
a priviledged life - a black male who grew up in NYC. The distorted view of
"family values," the holy war against homosexuals, abortionists, and all other
"non-American" types, the repeated attacks on freedom of expression, the
attempt to restrict access to information -- what year is this anyway?

My question is, if we try and yet fail to change the system because the
american public buys into this warped version of the "American Dream," at
what point do we leave the country? Many before us chose to stay, or when
they finally saw the end coming, it was too late. When is too late? I'm
willing to fight and die for a revolution, but not be herded into a camp.
Is the end near?

Michael D. Calabria
Baruch College
City University of New York

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Date: 03 Sep 92 18:16:30 EST
From: Larry Goldsmith <LGOLDSMI@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: William Weld

Over the past few months, I've seen a number of postings here with praise
for Massachusetts Governor William Weld.  Recently he was held up as an
example of decency, in contrast to other "RepubliKKKans."  Now it's true
that Weld, a Republican, is "liberal" on certain social issues:  he
supports the right to abortion, and lesbian/gay civil rights.  But let's
remember that this is the same William Weld who, in the midst of a
recession, has cut thousands of unemployed and disabled people from already
grossly inadequate public assistance.  He has nearly destroyed public
education in Massachusetts, from kindergarten through the universities.  He
has conducted a "law and order" campaign to take away "luxuries," like
education, rehabilitation programs, and AZT, from the state's prisoners.
And he has defended these and other reactionary measures with a
condescending and callous elitism rivalled only by his favorite President,
Ronald Reagan.  Which lesbians and gay men has Governor Weld been "good"
for?  Not those who are disabled or unemployed, or who are trying to get an
education, or who are in prison.  This is the problem with single-issue
politics:  we need to look at the larger picture.

Larry Goldsmith
Boston, Massachusetts

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:51:39 -0800
From: evansg@cgrb.orst.edu
Subject: An opportunity to inform and educate!

Our university's athletic department has a new coordinator of student
athlete services. She's a breath of fresh air and has contacted me (I was
the long-time advisor to our student Gay and Lesbian Association) with a
request. She's especially interested in obtaining copies of posters and
brochures that can assist in combatting homophobia and heterosexism. Target
audience: student athletes.

So I'm shopping for ideas and materials. If you have any to share, please
let me know.

Gwil Evans
Oregon State University
evansg@cgrb.orst.edu

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:06:41 -0600 (MDT)
From: WERLING <awerling@nmsu.edu>
Subject: something cool
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Found this in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, in response to a religious fanatic
who tried to show how homosexuality, single-parent households, and
abortions was leading the US straight to hell (literally....when the
second coming comes [heh], the country is to be damned....

Anyway, here's the super-cool response...by the way, religious people
MIGHT find this to be offensive, so be aware of what you're getting
yourself into (by reading).

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From: tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: A few quotes from a few years ago
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:19:43 GMT
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Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group

[A whole bunch pro-christian quotes deleted]

All of these quotes seem to come from mid 1600's to mid 1700's.
During that time they believed in bleeding, the four humours,
tomatoes were thought to be poisonous, flies spontaneously
generated from dead meat, transmutation of metals, and
that black people were inferior to white people.

They also beleived in ghosts, ghouls, goblins, God, and Jesus.

Well,  we haven't gotten rid of all of the old fashioned
baggage yet,   but we are working on it. Maybe by 2200 Jesus
and Jehovah will finally be properly relegated to the same
scrap heaps as Set, Quezicoatl, and Odin.

It's time to bring mankind out of the superstitious
reliance on witch doctors and priests.

Booga booga - amen.
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That's it!

Andrew Werling    awerling@nmsu.edu    yip@acca.nmsu.edu

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Date:         Thu, 03 Sep 92 21:09:00 MST
From: "Gabriel (in New Mexico) " <G9348712@nmsuvm1.NMSU.Edu>
Subject:      cultural elite

I've been told that "cultural elite" is a code word for "Jew."  In other
words, B/Q have found a way to invite anti-semitic voters to vote for them
without having to face up to saying openly anti-semitic things themselves.
(It's certainly true that David Duke used this tactic when complaining about
the newspapers in Louisiana, and his audience certainly understood his meaning.

If this is the case, I certainly want to see someone ask Q the question direct-
ly : "Mr Vice President, is it true that the term "cultural" elite really means
Jew?"  There's no reason those folks should be let off the hook if they are
making that pitch.


                  Gabriel (in New Mexico)

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