From: snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil Snodgrass)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Hispanic Journalists to Meet in Colorado
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:11:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Dec28.221109.1028
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

In article <1992Dec28.215328.23278@PacBell.COM> rjwill6@pbsdts.sdcrc.pacbell.com (Rod Williams) writes:
>
>A story in the Business section of today's (12/28/92) New
>York Times...
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>That decision has split the organization, which has 1,400
>members.  Some members have assailed others as homophobic,
>and some have defended the decision by saying that the
>homosexual-rights cause is not a prime concern of Hispanic
>people.


This almost sounds like what is happening in a discusion in the GALA 
Mailing list about our 1996 GALA convention in Tampa.....


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>Patricia E. Duarte, a member of the board of the Hispanic
>journalists' association, said she resents what she said are
>"pressure-group tactics" being used against the organization.

Start eating grapes people!!!!!  Start pusing for English Only
people!!!!  Patricia is a bigot....


>She said the convention does not have to be moved to show
>that Hispanics are sympathetic to homosexuals.  "We should
>not be pressured into taking a political stance," Ms. Duarte
>said.  "I don't think I have ever recalled gays taking a
>stand on Hispanic issues."

And me being a Gay white male have never been helped by Hispanics
taking a stand on my issues, so I shouldn't care about the Hispanic
cause either, should I?????


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>Ms. Duarte, editor of La Familia de Hoy, a Whittle
>Communications magazine, said she thought the issue arose
>partly because sexuality in general is viewed as more
>"natural" by Hispanic people.

Sex in General in the hispanic culture is not seen as natural.  It is 
highly controlled by the males and the male dominated Catholic
Church.  My ex.  was wonderful in bed, but after orgasim it was
as though he needed to go to confession!

  That, she said, may have made
>board members less aware of discrimination against
>homosexuals than some of the board's critics.  "The fact that
>'gay' is a movement is to me a white Anglo thing," she said.

SO SORRY ALLGO (AUSTIN LATINO LESBIAN GAY ORGANIZATION) you and your
parent group doesn't exist!!!!!!!
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>Some members of the National Association of Hispanic
>Journalists said they were distressed by the board's action
>and were organizing a campaign within the association to get
>the convention moved out of Colorado.  "This is active
>discrimination against a group," said Maria Hinojosa, a staff
>reporter at National Public Radio in New York.  "We have been
>victims of discrimination and could have been victims of this."


Why are these hispanics seperating themselves from the Gay issue.  There
are Hispanic GLBOs out there aren't there?  If not I am going straight!!!



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>"The point is: Do you support bigotry or not?" Ms. Price said.
>"For a Hispanic group to hold this convention there sends a
>message."
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Bil Snodgrass III