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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:17:02 EDT
From:         gaynet@GALLIFREY.KENT.EDU
Subject:      GayNet Digest Volume 6 Issue 5

In this issue:
                    OP-ED REPUBLIKKKANS & DEMOKKRATS
                      sesquipedalianism revisited
                             dee mosbacher
                          Republican platform
                                  YMCA
                            clubs in Boston

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:22 EST
From: GANDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: OP-ED REPUBLIKKKANS & DEMOKKRATS

Here is an OP ED I wrote:

Nazis, Buchanan, RepubliKKKans and DemoKKKrats
by Jerry Cheney

"We National Socialists are fighting against abortion and homosexuality...in
order to strengthen German health and morals...Therefore we deem it
necessary to proceed against homosexuals and professional, that is paid,
abortionists. even if these are Poles." -Gestapo Memorandum, Occupied
Poland, 1942

"The agenda Clinton & Clinton would impose on America - abortion on
demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights,
discrimination against religious schools, women in combat - that's change
all right. But is not the kind of change America wants. It is not the kind of
change America needs. And it is not the kind of change we can tolerate
in a nation that we still call God's country." -Patrick Buchanan, Republican
National Convention, 1992

        Family values, taking back the culture from the cultural elite, anti-
gay & lesbian, anti-choice, anti-women, anti-Semitic; part of the Nazi
agenda 50 years ago and the far right's agenda today for the Republican
Party nationally and,  yes, the Democratic Party locally.

        I am a marked man.  Evidently I am now part of the dreaded
cultural elite. How did this happen? Let's see - my family values include:
child care for working women (single or coupled), universal health care,
the right of tax paying couples of the same or opposite sex to equal
spousal benefits, reproductive choice so every child is a wanted child,
expanded family leave benefits, support for lesbian and gay youth to
prevent suicide; in short that the government's role is to assist families not
to define them.

        Ah, but these views do not fully account for the mark the far-right
has placed on my forehead. My other "sins" include: being a Humanist
and a Unitarian Universalist, empowering youth and adults with life saving
information on HIV and providing them with condoms to protect
themselves,  enjoying "Murphy Brown" and "The Simpsons," believing that
the answer to inner-city problems lies in economic justice not the end of
the barrel of an M16, and, here's the clincher, being an unapologetic,
proud gay man.

        Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson, Jesse Helms, Dan and Marilyn Quayle
and other far-right ideologues are trying to convert the Republican party
of Lincoln into The RepubliKKKan Party of David Duke. In central
Massachusetts, just to show bigotry is bipartisan,  we have folks like Peter
Blute, (a RepubliKKKan) and Marie Parente, (a DemoKKKrat, along with
several gay-hating, good-old-boy state Reps from Worcester). 50 years
ago another group of extremists wrapped themselves in family values and
set out to take back the culture from the Jewish and homosexual cultural
elite. Thousands of men and women, wearing  Stars of David, or pink or
black triangles, perished simply for not fitting the definition of family or
racial purity.

        We need a kinder, gentler nation made up of folks like the ones  I've
come to know - folks like the gay man cradling his dying lover in his arms
while a passerby in the hospital corridor mumbles "faggots" - the caring
social worker at the rape crisis center counseling a lesbian who was raped
to "turn her into a real woman" - the mental health counselor holding the
bandaged wrist of a young man who tried to end his life because some
preacher said he was evil and going to hell - the young straight kid who
gets beat up sticking up for "his sissy friend", or the proud parents giving
away their daughter in a same-sex Ceremony of Holy Union.  These are
the 1,000 points of light George, Pat, Marie, Peter, Dan, Marilyn, and Jesse
missed.

        Thankfully we do have choices.  There are Republicans Like Bill Weld
and Democrats like Paul Tsongas.  In this election you can vote for Bill
Clinton, Kevin O'Sullivan, Arthur Chase, John Walsh, Gerry D'Amico or
other politicians who have avoid the politics of divisiveness in favor of the
politics of inclusion.

        When you go to the voting booth pull the lever for tolerance and
genuine family values.  If you're tempted to pull the pseudo-family values
lever, remember those often said and still true words; "Those who don't
learn from the past are condemned to repeat it."

Jerry Cheney C/O "GANDERSON@Clark.vax.edu"

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Date: 03 Sep 1992 10:46:07 -0500 (EST)
From: HARKINS%BUTLERU.bitnet@UICVM.UIC.EDU
Subject: sesquipedalianism revisited
Mime-Version: 1.0

As for "sesquipedalian grammar," some of us have a most pronounced
predisposition to extended and complicated sentence structures, even
when we aren't at the moment engaged in the study of Henry James (my
namesake, incidentally). For something really peculiar, read lots
of Alexander Pope and watch those iambs creep into your writing...

H. James Harkins -- HARKINS@BUTLERU.BITNET

"In vain thy Reason finer Webs shall draw,
Entangle Justice in her net of Law,
And Right too rigid harden into Wrong,
Still for the strong too weak, the weak too strong."
(Pope, Essay on Man) -- tell THAT to the AFA...

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 12:40:19 -0400
From: info-25@info.umd.edu
Subject: dee mosbacher

FYI: there is an article in the style section of the washington post
today (09/03/92) about dee mosbacher, lesbian daughter of
robert mosbacher. she sounds really cool, he sounds like pretty much of
a jerk. also, the post seems very sympathetic to her side. :)

paula
info-25@info.umd.edu

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:25:55 -0800
From: b_blumberg@macsch.com (Bryan J. Blumberg)
Subject: Re:  Republican platform

Dear G. Albert Ruesga,

>Where can I obtain a copy of the Republican platform, or of the indicated
>sections (I understand it's a very lengthy document)?

You can get copies of the Republican Platform by sending $5 to

California Republican Party Headquarters
1903 West Magnolia Boulevard
Burbank, CA   91506

========================================
Bryan  J. Blumberg, The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation
815 Colorado Boulevard, Los Angeles, California  90041-1777
(213) 259-4914, B_BLUMBERG@MACSCH.COM

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From: <MARKD@urjwc.ucla.edu>
Subject: YMCA
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 11:07:00 PDT
Encoding: 22 TEXT

To fill in those missing "YMCA" words.  It's a little awkward, but the words
are:
    "You can make real your dreams."

BTW, has anyone seen the LA production of the Real Live Brady Bunch?  The
actors who play Greg and (I think) Bobby do an impromptu lipsynch version of
YMCA just before the lights go down.  It is very, very, very funny.  The cast
of the show is very queer friendly too, or seem to be.  Oh heck, they gotta
be since they have a drag queen doing the Carol Merle role in the first half,
the Real Live Game Show.

I was onstage the third time I saw the show as an audience participant in the
Game Show.  The woman next to me was clueless.  The third time the lovely
Dana (the aforementioned drag queen) whispered instructions to us, the woman
next to me got this horrified look on her face and whispered to me "Is that a
man?"  My appropriate response "Duh."

Mark
"Homosexuals, women with children, short insomniacs, we're a teeny tiny band.
Lovers come and lovers go, lovers live and die fortissimo.  This is where we
take a stand.  Welcome to Falsettoland."  -- Mendel, "Falsettoland."

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Date: 03 Sep 1992 14:59:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: clubs in Boston
From: An Anonymous Sender

Hi !  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.  She'll be in Dorchester, but my impression of the mass-transit in
Boston is that she won't be limited in her traveling.  She is very much
into "culture" and intellegent conversation so any "alternative" night
spots would be a plus.  Thanx ;)

"Women comprise fifty percent of the world's population, perform two-thirds
of the work, earn one-tenth of the world's income and own one percent of
the property."
        	       	       	       	       	       	       	       	       	-
_The Beauty Myth_ by Naomi Wolf

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