Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:56:00 EST
From: gaynet@gallifrey.kent.edu
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Subject: GayNet Digest Volume 11 Issue 15
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In this issue:
                              angelou poem
                       LAN Mail sent via M-Bridge
                          Is David Wilcox Gay?
                             Inagural peom
                             Inaugural Poem
                            NEWSWEEK listing
                        March on Washington Info

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 11:44:09 -0500
From: gaber@info.umd.edu (Paula Gaber)
Subject: angelou poem

The Maya Angelou poem is also available on Info On-line. Directions
for getting into the system will follow. The path name for the
poem is Info-Gopher Interface/Teaching/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/angelou-poem.
To get to Info On-line, telnet to info.umd.edu. At the login
prompt, login as "gopher". Using number or arrow keys, select the path
as indicated above. When you get to the end of the poem, type "m".
This will allow you to mail the poem to yourself. Good luck

Paula
Gaber@info,umd.edu
(oops, that should be gaber@info.umd.edu)

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 15:39 GMT
From: Bill Rosenthal
 <BRosenth_+a_NOTES_+lBill_Rosenthal+r%Logical_Operations@mcimail.com>
Subject: LAN Mail sent via M-Bridge

MHS:   Source date is:     25-Jan-93 9:58:38:47 EDT

Nice to see GayNet back in it's past form!

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:43:31 -0700
From: neese@spot.Colorado.EDU (Tim Neese)
Subject: Is David Wilcox Gay?

The subject pretty much says it all.  Does anyone know if the folk singer
David Wilcox gay?  He's so talented, sensitive, and insightful (and cute),
that it would be a shame if he's not.

Thanks.
Tim

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:56:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Loren Meissner <lmeissne@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Inagural peom
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>
>	-- Following is the poem delivered by Maya Angelou at
>President Clinton's inauguration:
>	A Rock, a River, a Tree, hosts to species long-since departed, marked
>the mastadon, the dinosaur who left dry tokens of their sojourn here on
>our planet floor. Any broad alarm of their hastening doom is lost in the
>gloom of dust and ages, but today the Rock cries out to us clearly,
>forcefully:
>
>	``Come, you may stand upon my back and face your distant destiny. But
>seek no haven in my shadow; I will give you no hiding place down here.
>You, created only a little lower than the angels, have crouched too long
>in the bruising darkness, have lain too long face down in ignorance,
>your mouths spilling words armed for slaughter.'' The Rock cries out to
>us today: ``You may stand upon me, but do not hide your face.''
>
>	Across the wall of the world, a River sings a beautiful song. It
>says: ``Come, rest here by my side, each of you a bordered country,
>delicate and strangely made, proud, yet thrusting perpetually under
>siege. Your armed struggles for profit have left collars of waste upon
>my shore, currents of debris upon my breast; yet, today I call you to my
>riverside -- If you will study war no more. Come, clad in peace, and I
>will sing the songs the Creator gave to me when I and the Tree and the
>Rock were one, before cynicism was a bloody sear across your brow, and
>when you yet knew you still knew nothing.''
>
>	The River sang and sings on. There is a true yearning to respond to
>the singing River and the wise Rock. So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the
>Jew, the preacher. They all hear the speaking of the Tree. They hear the
>first and last of every Tree speak to humankind today:
>
>	``Come to me, here beside the River. Plant yourself beside the River.
>Each of you, descendant of some passed-on traveler, has been paid for.
>You, who gave me my first name. You, Pawnee, Apache, Seneca. You,
>Cherokee Nation, who rested with me, then, forced on bloody feet, left
>me to the employment of other seekers desperate for gain, starving for
>gold. You, the Turk, the Arab, the Swede, the German, the Eskimo, the
>Scot. You, the Ashanti, the Yoruba, the Crow, bought, sold, stolen,
>arriving on the nightmare, praying for a dream. Here, root yourselves
>beside me. I am that Tree planted by the River which will not be moved.
>
>	``I, the Rock, I, the River, I, the Tree, I am yours. Your passages
>have been paid. Lift up your faces. You have a piercing need for this
>bright morning dawning for you. History, despite its wrenching pain,
>cannot be unlived, but if faced, with courage, need not be lived again.
>Lift up your eyes upon this day breaking for you. Give birth again to
>the dream. Women, children, men, take it into the palms of your hands,
>mold it into the shape of your most private need, sculpt it into the
>image of your most public self. Lift up your hearts. Each new hour holds
>new chances for new beginnings. Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked
>eternally to brutishness. The horizon leans forward, offering you space
>to place new steps of change.
>
>	``Here, on the pulse of this fine day, you may have the courage to
>look up and out and upon me, the Rock, the River, the Tree, your
>country, no less to Midas than the mendicant, no less to you now than
>the mastadon then. Here, on the pulse of this new day, you may have the
>grace to look up and out and into your sister's eyes and into your
>brother's face, your country, and say simply, very simply, with hope,
>Good morning!''

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 08:41:23 -0800
From: Loren Meissner <lmeissne@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Inaugural Poem
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Did anyone notice that the text of the Inaugural poem as carried
over the wire services (I posted the wire service version earlier today)
omitted the reference to Gays?

Can any of the more literary enlighten us on this?
Are the wire services homophobic?
Dis Angelou ad-lib the Gay reference at the last minute?
Is the Gay reference part of the "original" written text of the
poem?

While I am anxious to find out what happened, please post
responses here, as I have no time to respond individually. Thanks.

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:57:59 -0700 (MST)
From: Bob <jacobson@selway.umt.edu>
Subject: Re: NEWSWEEK listing
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> _NEWSWEEK_ magazine has reported that anti-gay ballot initiatives are being
> organised in 11 states, namely:
>
> MICHIGAN
> IDAHO
> OHIO
> WASHINGTON
> MONTANA
> MINNESOTA
> CALIFORNIA
> MAINE
> GEORGIA.

There is not, as yet, any anti-gay legislation or group planned in
Montana.  Because we're in close proximity, though, we're probably next to
hear from the bastards at OCA.  Our struggle in Montana is an attempt to
reverse the "deviate sexual conduct code" that makes any sexual activity
between two motss illegal.

The bill (sponsored by my state representative!!) is presently before a
committee which will have hearings soon.  We are presently making many
phone calls to the three committee members to pass the bill on to the full
legislature.  As of last Friday, however, over 1,000 calls from the
Christian Coalition had voiced opposition to the bill.  The code was
revised several years ago to remove sodomy between consenting motos, but
the code has kept any "activity which causes sexual excitement" illegal in
Montana.  Shoot, I can't even kiss my boy friend, for fear we may get
excited!

The law is totally unenforced and unenforcable in the state, though.
County Attorneys have stated that they will NOT prosecute under this law.
The main way it is used is to deny prisoners parole because they are
"practicing felons."  Our new governor stated last week that he supported
passage of the bill, not because of human rights issues, but because of
health reasons, since people who commit this heinious felony may not seek
assistance or detection of AIDS....he still hasn't realized that AIDS
isn't just a gay disease.  Ah, the joy of living in such a backward, but
beautiful place....

With luck and perseverance, we can hopefully see this bill passed.  The
next step will be to add sexual orientation to the lists of protected
statuses in the states human rights legislation.

Keep your fingers crossed for us.

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 11:36:34 CST
From: Terence P. Ma <tpm@Anat.UMSMed.Edu>
Subject: March on Washington Info

Just some info for those wanting to go to the March on Washington
for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation on Sunday,
April 25, 1993. Please bear in mind that almost all nearby hotel
rooms and cheap airfares have already been taken.

For hotel accomodations, the best thing to do is to go through the
March on Washington hotel coordinating center. It is a company that
does this type of stuff for groups in DC. It is called "Washington,
DC Accomodations" Phone: 800-554-2220; Phone 202-289-2220; FAX:
202-483-4436. If a hotel comes up with a vacancy, they can reserve
it for you immediately. That's how I got my room ($79/night in
downtown DC).

You can also request "community housing," which is staying at
someone's home in DC. It is a catch-as-catch-can, but I knew many
wonderful people who took in strangers for the '89 march and had a
great weekend. To see if you can get space, call the national MOW
office at 202-628-0493. (There is also a lot of stuff going on that
weekend, call to get on the mailing list.)

For travel, on the East Coast, you should contact Capital Travel
(271 Lark Street, Albany, NY 12210, 800-800-9009) or on the West
Coast, Confident Travel (1499 Bayshore Hwy, Ste 126, Burlingame, CA
94010, 800-872-7252). The mid-west travel agency went bust and the
national MOW office says to call the other two. They should be able
to arrange the best travel for you.

For those who have a few extra bucks lying around, the MOW
desperately needs money. Send your donation to "March on Washington,
PO Box 34607, Washington, DC 20043". The March on Washington can be
contacted at the email address: "mow@glib.org".

I am not a member of MOW or its organizers. I simply want all of us
to support the march.

Regards!
Tere
--
Terence P. Ma, Ph.D.		Department of Anatomy
VOICE:	   601-984-1654		University of Mississippi Med. Ctr.
FAX:	   601-984-1655		2500 North State Street
INTERNET:  tpm@anat.UMSMED.EDU	Jackson, MS 39216-4505

- > If it were easy, some one would have done it already. Anon. <--

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