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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:34:47 EDT
From:         MKLINE%VDH.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Gays are not violent
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Subject: Gays are not violent

    Angela said that Gays are not normally violent. I said that the
article was not meant to be a stereotype of all gays, but then when I got
home and listened to the 700 Club, this article came up....

    Pat: Inside the convention hall, the Republicans have been charting
their course to make sure George Bush stays in the White House, but
outside the convention it's a different story. Groups of militant
protesters have burned a police car and they're demanding something else,
Deborah Whitson files this report...

    "One group in Houston is definitely not happy with the Republicans,
the president, or their platform. That group is homosexuals.

    Wade Lee, Queer Nation: I'm just real tired of George Bush, and his homopho
bic,
raciest, sexist attitude, and we're tired of the Republican party.

    "At daily demonstrations, groups like Queer Nation and Act Up have
been blasting Bush and backing Clinton.

    Gay 2: The Bush Administration and this hetero-sexist (that's us,
right?) culture on the agenda concerning queers is killing us, how they
can kill us. A third of all young people who kill themselves are gay and
lesbians... (Gee, maybe "gay" is not all that gay? And yet, not call to
turn from their ways...)

    "Who are you guys backing for president race?

    Gay 4: Clinton, of course.
    Gay 3: Bill Clinton.
    Lesbian 1: Pro-Choice candidates.
    Wade Lee, Queer Nation: Pro-Choice, Pro-Queer, Bill Clinton. Raciest, Sexis
t,
Anti-Gay, George Bush. forget you, you're out.

    "Actually, homosexual rights is one issue in which there is a
crystal clear distinction between the Democrats and the Republicans. The
GOP platform opposes efforts by the Democrat party to include sexual
preference as a legally protected minority. It also stands against any
law which legally recognizes same sex marriages or allows homosexuals to
adopt children.

    Leading Republican Pat Bucanan contrasts those stands to what
happened at last month's Democratic convention. '...yet a militant leader
of the homosexual rights movement could rise at that same convention and
say 'Bill Clinton and Al Gore represent the most Pro-Lesbian and Pro-Gay
ticket in history.' and so they do...'

    The Democrats platform clearly supports special protection for gay
men and lesbians. It also backs letting homosexuals serve openly in the
military which the GOP platform opposes.

    Monica Lopez, Queer Nation: ..the Democratic platform supports Civil
Rights for all, basically... including gays and lesbians, and Bill
Clinton has been very open towards the gay and lesbian community, unlike
the Bush administration.

    Wade Lee, Queer Nation: He also promises to relieve the ban on
homosexuals regarding the military, which is something that we deserve.
It's our country, we have the right to serve, if we want. That
immediately puts so much of us at an educational disadvantage(Not to be
critical, but do they want to serve or do they want access to GI
benefits?), we are sick and tired of hearing the rhetoric regarding the
Republican Platform and the ban on the military ban, that's ridicules, (I
don't know. Could I take showers with military women soldiers? No. And
yet we should have gay men taking showers with the male soldiers? I think
not.) and we want it lifted.

    Lesbian 2: George Bush is evil.

    "As the conventions and platforms have sharpened what both parties
stand for in this election year. Those who feel strongly on both sides of
the homosexual issue have a clear choice when it comes to picking a party
and a president.

    I'm Deborah Whitson, CBN News, from Houston.

    Pat: The people inside the Convention Astro Dome haven't paid much
attention to a handful of demonstrators, but it does show how the forces
are lining up in November in relation to this particular issue.

...........................end of article .............................

   They didn't show any violence in this. I saw quite a few gay people
that didn't look "gay"(happy). One young man was trying to hold a
tattered "High School Fag" crayon sign on his chest. He didn't look
gay.

   The main speaker that wanted to "serve" in the miltary skimmed over
the part about serving and immediately seemed to dwell on the
disadvantage that "immediately puts so much of us at an educational
disadvantage". Hey, I don't qualify for the GI Bill, and I forgot to
feel disadvantaged. It seems to me that they want, want, want. And,
please, I know it's not just the homosexuals.... I don't expect
any of my children will get the GI Bill either. Should I be out there
protesting? I don't think so. Of course, my 14 year old Rachel is
in the Civil Air Patrol and likes it. Maybe she would like the
military, if so, fine.
   Is this speaker trying to say, "Us homosexuals have no talent and
need something like the GI Bill and then laws that FORCE people to
hire us if we are going to make it."
   Colleen Grace from Chester Virginia in our local paper writes to
the editor: "Regarding homosexuals in our armed forces: Being a good
soldier is not the issue. I invite those who doubt that homosexuality
is a dysfunction to visit gay bars, and go behind the scenes to the
little rooms hidden from the public eye. Look around and see gay men
hitting on heterosexual men - in public places.
   Our soldiers have enough to fear without being exposed to the
wandering thoughts, eyes, and subtle touches of the sexually
dysfunctional.
   Personally, I think the gay movement is just the "in" thing to
do to get attention in the '90s.

Hope someone was able to get something from this. Amazing what goes on
in the US, ain't it?

Maks.
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