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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:17:02 -0400
From:         gaynet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject:      GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 658

In this issue:
                          Thanks for OLTL!!!!
                            Support AB 2601
                    GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 657
                             Melrose Place
                   Military Ban on Queers [a history]
                            obejct of beauty
                         OLTL, Tuesday, Aug 18
                Thoughts from the Republican Convention
             Vote, Baby, VOTE! (Are You Registered, Baby?)

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 16:20:47 EST
From: LAT <tate@siam.org>
Subject: Thanks for OLTL!!!!

          Thanks to the poster of the OLTL storylines.  Since I have
          no chance to see it, I really appreciate hearing what's
          going on, and I really am addicted.  (And that thanks goes
          out to the  other gentlemen who previously gave us OLTL
          updates as well.)

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Date: 25 Aug 92 13:29:12
From: CJones <CJones.MAILROOM@wylbur.kines.ucla.edu>
Subject: Support AB 2601

                      Support AB 2601
I see that our friend Lou Sheldon is already gearing up for his holy war
against AB 2601, which would ban job discrimination based on sexual
orientation.  You should remember that AB 2601 is the re-worked version od AB
101, which Sneaky Pete Wilson vetoed (despite his campaign promise to sign it)
last year, claiming it would be "bad for business."

Call, write, or fax Gov. Wilson and urge him to sign AB 2601.  If you are a
Californian, tell him how it would make you fell more secure in your job.
After all, we have a right to work, too.  If you are from one of the states
that already has such a law, tell him how it has improved your job security.
Anyone from outside California can threaten an economic boycott of California
products and tourism, claiming it would be "bad for business."

You can reach Governor Pete Wilson at:
State Capital
Sacramento, CA  95814
voice (916) 445-2841
fax (916) 445-4633
Los Angeles office (213) 897-0322

 Chad Jones
 UCLA Department of Physiological Science
 cjones@kines.ucla.edu
 "Ut scis te observare marmotam monacem ipsam?"

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 16:48:32 EDT
From: flg <flg@lan.asc.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 657

          This is one vote for continuing synopses of the One Life to
          Live gay story line. As someone who can't manage to spend an
          hour a day (in the afternoon, anyway) watching the program,
          I find them interesting and useful. I have been taping the
          shows, and will eventually edit them down to the
          Billy/Andrew storyline, which may prove to be terrific for
          class use in my gay studies course.
          Larry Gross

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From: buckmr@rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: Re: Melrose Place
Distribution: local
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:14:47 GMT

jasonl2167@aol.com writes:

>Episode #6 was supposed to be the coming-out episode.  But according to a Fox
>spokesperson, Episode #7 was aired last Wednesday and #6 will air next
>Wednesday.  BUT, I just saw an
>advance sattelite feed of next week's show, there was nothing in there worth
>watching!
I thought that there wasn't going to be a new episode of MELROSE PLACE for
awhile?

But I definitely agree that it is MOST ridiculous that they haven't covered
Matt *at all*, really. I guess it's time to get the addresses for Fox out of
the woodwork and start a letter writing campaign!

>Perhaps FOX is chickened out since the show is so popular?
Well, I hope not, but the Exec Producer/Creator Darren Star did say that we
 would
start seeing things on Matt's sexuality around the sixth episode and so far we
have seen NADA.

-
Ron Buckmire
Association To Save Madonna From Nuclear War [New York Chapter]
11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180
uunet!rpi.edu!buckmr||buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet||buckmr@rpi.edu||+1 518 276 8910

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From: buckmr@rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: Re: Military Ban on Queers [a history]
Distribution: local
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:19:32 GMT

hays@cwis.unomaha.edu (Scott Hays) writes:

>Good Day All.... Well found some more news from Omaha.
>Again from the World-Herald, Monday August 25, 1992. Page 5.
>It appears to be a reprint from an AP feed

>               Opponents Expect Military Band
>                On Homosexuals to Fall Soon

Here is a little history of the Military Policy that I found in the ORANGE
COUNTY BLADE, a Queer Monthly published in the Heart of Bush-Quayle Country!


a History of Discrimination in the American Military

1911: Rear Admiral Edward Barry , Commander of the US Pacific Fllet was forced
     to resign after an alleged liaison with a cabin boy.

1943: Military Psychiatrists define homosexuality as a medical condition, rather
       than a criminal act. Homosexuals are discharged.

1948: President Harry Truman allows African-Americans to serve in the military.

1976: Miriam Ben-Shalom is discharged honorably from the U.S. Army for
      acknowledging her lesbian identity.

1986: Army Reserve Captain Dusty Pruitt is discharged after stating that she is
      a lesbian in a newspaper interview.

1987: Miriam Ben-Shalom is re-instated.

1987: The Pruitt case is dismissed; the judge says the courts are required to
      give ``substantial deference'' to Army regulations.

1987: The U.S. Naval Academy forces Joseph  Steffan to resign.

1991: (August) _The Advocate_ outs Assistant Secretary of Defense Pete
      Williams, drawing attention to the hypocrisy of the policy.

1991: (November) Rep Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduces a resolution calling
      upon the president to rescind the ban against lesbians and gays in the
      military.

1991: (December) An 85 year old judge calls Joseph Steffan a ``homo'' and
      upholds the Navy's decision, citing AIDS.

1992: (May) Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-CO) announces the introduction of the
      Military Freedom Act of 1992, which wuld prohibit discrimination based
      on sexual orientation in the Armed Forces.

1992: (July) Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, a decorated 23 year Viet Nam nurse,
      is discharged for revealing her lesbian identity during questioning for
      a security clearance.

--
Ron Buckmire
Association To Save Madonna From Nuclear War [New York Chapter]
11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180
uunet!rpi.edu!buckmr||buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet||buckmr@rpi.edu||+1 518 276 8910

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From: buckmr@rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: Re: obejct of beauty
Distribution: local
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:24:40 GMT

info-25@info.umd.edu writes:

>okay, i am confused. the movie with andie macdowell and john malkovitch
>was called object of beauty, not object of desire. i don't remember seeing
>greg louganis in it. is there another movie called object of desire
>in which he appears? did i just totally miss him in object of beauty?
I'm sorry, *I* started the confusion by referring to OBJECT OF DESIRE as the
movie that Malkovitch, Macdowell and ``LosseAnus'' all stared in. This is
incorrect. You are quite right when you say that OBJECT OF BEAUTY starred
Malkovitch and Macdowell and Greg Louganis was not in it.

Richard Foster is looking for the movie OBJECT OF DESIRE, with Greg Louganis and
Traci Lords.
--
RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. ``D.C., April 25 1993''
uunet!rpi.edu!buckmr||buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet||buckmr@rpi.edu||+1 518 276 8910
"Jane." --Lily Tomlin, when asked "Who's your family in LA?"

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:27 EST
From: GANDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: Re: OLTL, Tuesday, Aug 18

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 15:59:20 -0800
From: b_blumberg@macsch.com (Bryan J. Blumberg)
Subject: Re: Thoughts from the Republican Convention

>This is just so ****ing amazing to me! Thank yu, Brian [Kaufman], for
>posting a first-hand account of what it was like as the ``vortex of
>evil'' transported itself from DC to Houston, TX for a week...
>
>Has the press covered the story at all?
>

Dear Ron,

     I have a friend named Richard Racklin.  He belongs to ACT-UP/LA and
QN/LA.  He also was arrested in Houston last week and held for three
days (one day in Houston Jail and two days in Harris County Jail) for
disrupting Falwell's luncheon for Bush.

     Anyway, he said that his picture appeared in Time Magazine today,
so I guess, you might say there was coverage.

Bryan [Blumberg]

========================================
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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Subject: Vote, Baby, VOTE! (Are You Registered, Baby?)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 20:06:35 -0500
From: Ron Buckmire <buckmr@rpi.edu>

This is a copy of a brilliant post to soc.motss I thought I'd share:

Michelle writes":


This isn't just "Clinton vs. Bush".

This is a referendum: "Freedom vs. Hate" -- superficially limited,
at the moment, to hatred of homosexuals.  But don't be fooled; the
hatred is a hatred of freedom.  A hatred of everything but the "right"
way, the "christian" way.

If you sit out "Clinton vs. Bush", you also sit out "Freedom vs. Hate".

Whoever thinks that she can sit out this election; whoever justifies
inaction and inattention with empty rhetoric about how "it doesn't make
a difference who wins"; whoever retreats from the world political
at this *particular crucial moment*:

There is NOTHING else.  This is the Big Showdown.  Now or never.
Judgment Day.

Not melodrama, but a perfectly appropriate pitch of discourse to
describe the situation we face.

We cannot afford to view the world as "all that stuff that complicates
my important life".  If we care at all for the 5,000,000,000 people
who share our planet, we must stop the escalation of hate.

At least 6,000,000 Jewish people were killed in Germany because a
plurality of a nation placed it's hopes in a man who told them that
the grave economic problems they faced were caused by a monster
within.  In 1932, the monster was the Jews.  In 1992, the monster
is us.  Gay people.

We have had 60 years to analyze this disaster.  Can we *please* act
*now*, before 6 million of *us* are dead, too?  It can happen here.
We are not immune from hate.  America is only as good as the people
who keep it good.  If we, good people, sit out this election, we
may die.

Your vote is one weapon in this fight.  Use it.


Michelle, who is absolutely dead, cold serious
---
RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. ``D.C., April 25 1993''
uunet!rpi.edu!buckmr||buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet||buckmr@rpi.edu||+1 518 276 8910
"Jane." --Lily Tomlin, when asked "Who's your family in LA?"

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