Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 16:30:51 EST
From: gaynet@gallifrey.kent.edu
Reply-To: gaynet@gallifrey.kent.edu
Subject: GayNet Digest Volume 11 Issue 13
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.gaynet

In this issue:
                       military bigots silenced.
                         Protecting Gays (fwd)
                             gay newsfeeds
                               Thank you.
                            Lesbian Sources
                  Mailing Address of Gay Radio Station
                       warning about *Heartlands*

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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:47:08 -0700 (MST)
From: WERLING <awerling@nmsu.edu>
Subject: RE: military bigots silenced.
Mime-Version: 1.0

> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:52:39 -0500 (EST)
> From: Gary Geise <gggeist@bach.udel.edu>
> Subject: military bigots silenced.
> Mime-Version: 1.0
>
> i cannot believe (well, yeah, i guess i can) that some of us are
> CELEBRATING the silencing of a viewpoint expressed with a banner on the
> streets of washington.  folks, if we are going to replace the abuses of our
> fundamental rights with the abuse of the rights of those who disagree with
> us, we are no better than they are.  all people must be permitted the
> expression of their beliefs, however unpopular.

Unpopular, and damaging to gay youth, and causing of violence against
gays, and...

No, not as bad as they are.  Merely sick of being murdered.

Andrew Werling   awerling@nmsu.edu   yip@acca.nmsu.edu
"Books are burning/ I hope somehow, this will allow/ A phoenix up from the
			flames"
					---XTC

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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:35:50 -0700 (MST)
From: WERLING <awerling@nmsu.edu>
Subject: Protecting Gays (fwd)
Mime-Version: 1.0

Andrew Werling   awerling@nmsu.edu   yip@acca.nmsu.edu
"Books are burning/ I hope somehow, this will allow/ A phoenix up from the
			flames"
					---XTC

- -------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:13:05 EST
From: Shad Brown <brownsh@libra>
To: awerling@nmsu.edu
Subject: Planet Yip: Protecting Gays

>
>From the Albuquerque Journal, 1-22-93 (Friday):

EMPLOYERS SURVEYED ON PROTECTING GAYS
By Jim Martin
Journal Staff Writer

     The city is mailing 602 local employers a survey that could
be a step toward Albuquerque and New Mexico passing laws
prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals.
     The city's Human Rights Office asks in the survey if
employers already have personnel policies protecting workers or
job applicants from discrimination based on their sexual
preference.
     A letter attached to the survey says the results will
provide guidance to the city's Human Rights Board, which hears
discrimination cases and can impose penalties on employers.
     The board is trying to change the city's human rights law
and state law to protect homosexuals and others from
discrimination in employment or housing, new board chairman Bill
rothanbargar said Thursday.
     If the survey shows several employers already have such
policies, it could indicate changing the law would have community
support.  If there are only a few employers with the policies
now, that may mean changes are needed.
     "The board has taken a rather proactive stand on this
issue," Rothanbargar said.  "I think President Clinton's efforts
to lift the ban on gays in the military makes the timing good for
changes in our community."
     The nationwide controversy over Colorado's anti-gay rights
law has nothing to do with the board's position, Rothanbargar
said.  The board began considering the issue about a year ago
after hearing from gay and lesbian rights activists, he added.
     The board sent a letter to the New Mexico Human Rights Board
asking it to support any bills introduced at the Legislature to
ban discrimination based on sexual preference.
     The board is also planning to ask the City Council to amend
the city's law to include sexual orientation as an area protected
from discrimination, Rothanbargar said.
     The city law applies to almost all employers in Albuquerque,
both in the public and private sector.
     Council President Vincent Griego said he would discuss the
issue with other councilors if he gets a request from the board.
"I don't know if the council will take it up, but I certainly
don't think we should discriminate against anyone for any
reason," he said.
     City Hall's personnel policies protect employees and job
applicants from discrimination based on a wide range of
categories.
***30***

Wow!  We don't live in such a backwater state after all! :)

brownsh@libra.unm.edu (temporarily until the VAX gurus fix JURIS)
That's Captain Shad to you, buoy!
"I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it!"
  -- Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart

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Date:     Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:53 EDT
From: John Hollister <BB05246%BINGVAXA.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject:  gay newsfeeds
Original_To:  IN%"gaynet@GALLIFREY.KENT.edu"

Hi,
I'm looking for a source of news stories to print or reprint in a local
monthly gay/lesbian newsletter (Amethyst/Binghamton, NY).

Thanks,
John Hollister
BB05246@Bingvaxa.bitnet

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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 93 20:53:58 MST
From: Gabriel <G9348712@NMSUVM1.NMSU.EDU>
Subject:      Thank you.

Gracias.  Grazie.  Todah Rabbah.  Tausend tak.  Dank U Wel.  Merci bien.
Danke sehr.


Gabriel (in New Mexico)

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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 22:25:14 -0800
From: lizhutch@garnet.berkeley.edu
Subject: Lesbian Sources

After five years of research and related work, I've finally finished Lesbian
Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, 1970-1990, and it's now a
700+ page reference book available from Garland Publishing.  Here's the basic
information about it; I think it will be a very useful resource for anyone
doing queer studies work:

Comprising over 3500 entires by and about lesbians, this bibliography is a
 one-of-a-kind resource for the blossoming field of lesbian and gay [and
 bisexual!]
studies.  Citations are cross-referenced and multiply-listed in over 100
categories, including traditional topics in the humanities and social sciences
as well as lesbian and feminist political issues pertaining to race, class,
disability, nationality, homophobia, popular culture, and more.  The author
 gathers information that currently is scattered throughout libraries into teh
 first comprehensive bibliography of lesbian studies articles published in
nationally and internationally distributed periodicals.

According to historian Lillian Faderman (who wrote the introduction), "Lesbian
Sources will be the most useful volume in the lesbian researcher's library.  It
will change the way all scholars of lesbian studies do research."

Unfortunately the cover price (@$75) is prohibitive to individuals.  Please
be sure to let your university library know that the les/bi/gay community of
students and scholars needs this book and other resources like it.  Librarians
will know how to order from Garland.  For individuals who are interested in
this or other Garland titles -- there's an entire gay and lesbian studies
series -- a catalog is available by writing or calling (sorry, I don't have
an email address; you'll have to do it the old-fashioned way):
Garland Publishing
1000A Sherman Ave
Hamden, CT  06514
(203) 281-4487
Fax: (203) 230-1186
Toll-free number for orders: (800) 627-6273

Sorry to toot my own horn, here, but as a student and teacher I'm painfully
aware of the lack of reference works in queer studies.  I wish someone else
had created something like lesbian sources before I came along!

Peace, and thanks for the support,
Linda Garber

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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 12:14 EST
From: DRPINELL@CC.OWU.EDU
Subject: Mailing Address of Gay Radio Station

Does anyone in NetLand know the (snail-mail -- USPS) mailing address of the
gay radio station that recently started operation in Colorado?

Dan Pinello
Ohio Wesleyan University
DRPINELL@CC.OWU.EDU

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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 93 13:45:36 MST
From: Gabriel Lampert <G9348712@NMSUVM1.NMSU.EDU>
Subject:      warning about *Heartlands*

I am one of the people who was interviewed in the compilation of Darrell
Yates Rist's new book, *Heartlands*.  This post is to warn people about
some defamatory inaccuracies that appear in the description of my hometown.
I want to make clear that I am not objecting to how I myself was portrayed,
because (1) it wasn't so bad, and (2) I had known from the start that an
interviewer's assessment of his/her interviewee is always subjective.

In the book, I have the name Iosh Levy, and the section in which I appear
starts on page 201 at the bottom.  There are two particular errors I want
to correct.  First, on page 202, the book reads:

        A recent bishop in this Roman Catholic diocese had often
        preached against the Jews as *asesinos*, Christ killers.

In actuality, the Bishop never did anything like this.  In fact, he visited
our synagogue to preach a sermon on reconciliation between Christians and
Jews, in the course of which he was willing to accept that perhaps
Christianity's past anti-Jewish preachments may have been partly responsible
for the Holocaust, a position few Christians have been willing to take.  It
was after his sermon that *I*, Gabriel Lampert, mentioned to him that the
word *asesino* was still in the Spanish vocabulary.  Apparently, Darrell's
notes were quite sketchy, and he never got back to me to verify how he
reconstructed them.

Immediately after this passage, the book reads:

        Not long ago the local university where Iosh taught math
        had placed an ancient Navajo symbol on the front of its
        yearbook.  It resembled a swastika, though for Indians it
        evoked brotherhood, not nazism.  A Jewish student had
        protested, bringing separate painful histories into conflict.
        A barricade of police vans had had to be stationed at the
        synagogue.

Here is what really happened:  The New Mexico State University yearbook
had been called The Swastika since 1907, and it is true that the symbol
was taken from a Native American symbol (though the word Swastika is
South-Asian Indian).  The Native American tribes in New Mexico had dropped
the symbol around 1940 because of the Nazis, but the school kept it.  In
1983, the Hillel organization here asked that the school change the title
and symbol of the yearbook.  The Native American organization on campus
(as well as representatives from elsewhere in New Mexico) actually sided
WITH the Jews, so it was not a Jew-vs.-Native American fight.  The opponents
were Anglos who simply wanted to keep an old tradition going.  It turned out
that the African-American students at the University of Mississippi were
also protesting that year, asking that the Rebel flag be dropped as Old Miss'
school flag, so both issues made the national news.

The result was that the Governor ordered the NMSU Regents to change the
name and symbol, which they did.  It is true that there was some police
security around the synagogue that night, but it was intentionally not
very visible.  It certainly was not a barricade of vans -- I don't know
if the Las Cruces Police Department had enough vans to make up any kind of
barricade.

These inaccuracies are quite painful to me.  They not only rake up old wounds
but portray them as being far more evil than they were, and totally distort
and ignore some of the fine ways that people here have taken great steps
toward getting along.  I was sufficiently upset by reading this section that
I have read very little else from the book.  Darrell Yates Rist is known for
his adversarial depiction of people and organizations, in *The Nation*,
*Christopher Street*, and elsewhere.  If he wanted to show how much at each
other's necks we are, then he should have written a novel.  Correction:  He
did write a novel, but is calling it non-fiction.


Gabriel Lampert
Box 4455
Las Cruces NM 88003

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