Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:40:37 EST
From: gaynet@gallifrey.kent.edu
Reply-To: gaynet@gallifrey.kent.edu
Subject: GayNet Digest Volume 11 Issue 8
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.gaynet

In this issue:
                       New Mexico Needs your help
                       South Africa BBS, Anyone?
                    well, it's nice to be back.....
                      spring NELGBSA conference...
                             Report from DC
                          glb astronomy folks
                    Clinton Acts on Military Queers
                                 unsub
                     Queer wins White House lottery
                   ?Upcoming GLB Campus Conferences?

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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 93 00:15:21 MST
From: Chuck Smith <CSMITH@NMSUVM1.NMSU.EDU>
Subject:      New Mexico Needs your help

Friends--
   We have been working very hard to get sexual orientation added to the
catagories protected from discrimination by the New Mexico Human Rights Act.
The chances are fairly good that this will pass the legislature in February.
It is less probable that the governor will sign the bill.  I you have friend
in New Mexico, please contact them and ask them to write the Governor and to
encourage him to sign the bill.  They should ask him to sign Senate Bill 91,
If they need more information they can contact me.  The Governor's address:
                          The Honorable Bruce King
                          Office of the Governor
                          New Mexico State Capitol
                          Santa Fe, NM 87503
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Chuck Smith <csmith@nmsuvm1>       505 523-9507 (H)
Depaartment of Government          505 646-4712 (W)
New Mexico State Univeristy
Las Cruces, NM 88003
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From: Mark Hertzog <mwh8h@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:01:30 EST
Subject: South Africa BBS, Anyone?

Howdy!
     If anyone of y'all know of a news or discussion BBS on South Africa,
would you please zap that information to me at mwh8h@virginia.edu ?

Nkosi sikelel' i Afrika,
Mark in Virginia
**************************************************************************
Mark Hertzog, Militant Homosexual Agitator
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the
oppressed."  --Steve Biko, 1971

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From: rcrawfor@bell.susqu.edu
>To: gaynet@GALLIFREY.KENT.edu
>From: rcrawfor
Date: Mon Jan 18 10:55:16 EST 1993
Phone: 1-900-HOTMANN
Subject: well, it's nice to be back.....
Ua-Message-Id: <PMXSTAR-2.2.1a-rcrawfor-000000real-49>

        it seems that in my absence i've missed a lot of stuff....including 12
bounces of the digest to someone in alaska (did that person ever receive this
stuff?)....i just wanted everyone to know that i am back for the second
semester this year and already i think that i should have stayed in puerto
rico (which is rapidly becoming my second home).....well, that's all for now:
i've decided to write a little something for the paper in my hometown about
some matters that are becoming urgent....so what's new in gaynet-land....?
        avec cela, je m'en vais....
        hasta luego
        rob

        rob crawford, el mas pingon
        susquehanna university
        selinsgrove pa 17870
        rcrawfor@bell.susqu.edu

______  the pink triangle...membership has its privileges....
\    /
 \  /
  \/    out since 1987......

     " y si no te gusta---mala suerte m_____ f_____---!me la pelas! "
                ----mellow man ace  "me la pelas"

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From: rcrawfor@bell.susqu.edu
>To: gaynet@GALLIFREY.KENT.edu
>From: rcrawfor
Date: Thu Jan 21 00:13:37 EST 1993
Phone: 1-900-HOTMANN
Subject: spring NELGBSA conference...
Ua-Message-Id: <PMXSTAR-2.2.1a-rcrawfor-000000real-73>

    anyone know where and when it is?.....since i'm not receiving these gaynet
bulletins (AHEM!!!!!), please try to emale me personally...

    rob


        rob crawford, chillin' en la casa
        susquehanna university
        selinsgrove pa 17870
        rcrawfor@bell.susqu.edu

______  the pink triangle....membership has its privileges....
\    /
 \  /
  \/    out since 1987...

            " nadie me gana porque soy el mas pingon.... "
                    mellow man ace  "mas pingon"

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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 93  08:50:34 EST
From: "Leonard P. Hirsch" <INCEM005@SIVM.SI.EDU>
Subject:      Report from DC

From: Leonard P. Hirsch

DC is a better place since noon on Wednesday. The festivities were wonderful,
inclusive and open. Some vignettes (brief):

..at the parade, hundreds of lesbians and gay men, friends, and family
congregated at 10th and Pennsylvania, many rainbow flags, signs etc. At about
2, a few men in military uniforms across the street unfurled a (about 12 ft
long) sign saying something like "Military is Straight Forever." Within a few
minutes, the police/military on the parade route got the sign down and the
people out. The rainbow flags remained.

..at the Triangle Ball (thousands in regalia at the National Press Club),
Governor Celeste of Ohio (no he is not, just a great friend of the community)
gave a wonderful (short) speech, Kate Clinton, and many others entertained.

..at the NGLTF Dinner, singer/songwriter Janis Ian came out. (And performed
wonderfully.)

Looking forward to seeing y'all in April at the March.

+------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Leonard P. Hirsch, Office of International Relations      |
|  Smithsonian Institution 202 357-4788/202 786-2557 fax     |
+--------------------------INCEM005@SIVM---------------------+

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:55:35 EST
From: Eric Howard <ehwd@sherman.pas.rochester.edu>
Subject: glb astronomy folks

Since gaynet seems to be up and working again...

This is to announce to formation of a casual distribution list
for glb astronomy folks. If you work in the astronomy field or
are a student, qualify as glb folks, and want to join, send me
(ehwd@sherman.pas.rochester.edu) your e-mail address. At this
point this is just an alias that I have set up that sends mail
to everyone in the group.

This means that if you send me mail with the phrase "glbastro"
in the subject line, I'll forward it to everyone else. Everyone
in the group has access to everyone else's e-mail address at
this point. If we start getting any sort of heavy volume to
this I'll look into automating it.

Later,
eric

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From: Mark Hertzog <mwh8h@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 09:04:30 EST
Subject: Clinton Acts on Military Queers

Howdy!
     This morning's Washington Post reports that President Billy Bob has
decided how he will act to get us into the military.  In true Billy Bob
fashion it's convoluted and people-pleasing, but it seems to do the trick.
     Next week he'll formally instruct Defense Secretary Les Aspin to draft a
formal proposal on ending the ban on us and on sexual conduct in the
military.  This proposal probably will take three to six months to draft,
basically in order to negotiate with and cool out the opponents in the brass
and the Congress.  However, during that period, (1) no new investigations
will be initiated, and (2) no one will be questioned about their sexual
orientation.  It won't be safe to come out yet, but at least the witch hunts
and the dismissals will stop.
     The one question remaining is what Clinton will do about cases already
in the works.  This is a thorny point, because a fair number of them involve
not mere sexual orientation but "sodomy."  The latter is a felony under the
Uniform Code of Military Justice, and that can only be changed by Congress.
     Clinton evidently is taking this circuitous route because, at this
point, it was likely the Senate would have voted to overturn his lifting of
the ban if he signed it formally now, and that a couple of members of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff would have resigned in protest--right when we've got
troopers in Somalia and Iraq.
     If you want to write to Mr. Clinton on this issue, the address is:
     The President, The White House, Washington, DC  20500

     P.S.: Virginia readers: Senator Chuck Robb has come out strongly in
support of the lifting of the ban.  This coming from a moderate Southern
senator who's a former Marine officer and Vietnam combat vet is tremendously
helpful.  Please write to thank him at:
     The Hon. Charles S. Robb, Senate Office Building, Washington, DC  20510

     All readers: If you wish to contact your senator or representative in
Congress, write to:
     The Hon. [fill in the blank], Senate Office Bldg., Washington, DC  20510
or   The Hon. [fill in the blank], House Office Bldg., Washington, DC  20515
or call (202) 224-3121 and ask the operator for the office of the senator or
representative in question.

Semper fidelis,
Mark in Virginia
**************************************************************************
Mark Hertzog, Militant Homosexual Agitator
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the
oppressed."  --Steve Biko, 1971

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Date:    Fri, 22 Jan 1993 9:18:04 -0600 (CST)
From: VFK57016@VAX1.UTULSA.EDU
Subject: unsub

please remove me from the list--I'm finding I don't have enough time to keep
up with it.
kay

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:15:12 EST
From: aruesga@cc.gettysburg.edu
Subject: Queer wins White House lottery

Clinton's symbolic opening of the White House yesterday was more P.R. than
anything else, but CNN did show an unidentified man shaking Clinton's hand
in the reception line, and thanking Clinton for his support of the gay and
lesbian community.

This same man also goosed Al Gore ... just kidding.
-----
G. Albert Ruesga
Department of Philosophy
Gettysburg College

<aruesga@gettysburg.edu>

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Date: 22 Jan 1993 11:21:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Burrton Woodruff <Woodruff@Butler.EDU>
Subject: ?Upcoming GLB Campus Conferences?

Are there any upcoming conferences for campus GLB groups?

Gee, I've missed this network. Nice to see have you all back

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