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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:42:09 -0400
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Subject:      GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 642

In this issue:
                           BUCHANAN'S SPEECH
                             Greg Louganis
                              Billy, OLTL
                            convention floor

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 10:20:53 EST
From: ALBRIGH@ucs.indiana.edu
Subject: BUCHANAN'S SPEECH

I've had a request to post Buchanan's Monday night speech, homophobe and
bigot that he is!  Here goes -- it's long:


                   Text Of Buchanan's Speech:
                                ---
                   Well, we took the long way home,
               but we finally got here.
                   And I want to congratulate
               President Bush, and remove any doubt
               about where we stand: The primaries are
               over, the heart is strong again, and
               the Buchanan Brigades are enlisted -
               all the way to a great comeback victory
               in November.
                   Like many of you last month, I
               watched that giant masquerade ball at
               Madison Square Garden - where 20,000
               radicals and liberals came dressed up
               as moderates and centrists - in the
               greatest single exhibition of
               cross-dressing in American political
               history.
                   One by one, the prophets of doom
               appeared at the podium.
                   The Reagan Decade, they moaned, was
               a terrible time in America; and the
               only way to prevent even worse times,
               they said, is to entrust our nation's
               fate and future to the party that gave
               us McGovern, Mondale, Carter and
               Michael Dukakis.
                   No way, my friends. The American
               people are not going to buy back into
               the failed liberalism of the 1960s and
               '70s - no matter how slick the package
               in 1992.
                   The malcontents of Madison Square
               Garden notwithstanding, the 1980s were
               not terrible years.
                   They were great years. You know it.
               I know it. And the only people who
               don't know it are the carping critics
               who sat on the sidelines of history,
               jeering at one of the great statesmen
               of modern time.
                   Out of Jimmy Carter's days of
               malaise, Ronald Reagan crafted the
               longest peacetime recovery in U.S.
               history - 3 million new businesses
               created, and 20 million new jobs.
                   Under the Reagan Doctrine, one by
               one, the communist dominos began to
               fall. First, Grenada was liberated, by
               U.S. troops.
                   Then, the Red Army was run out of
               Afghanistan, by U.S. weapons. In
               Nicaragua, the Marxist regime was
               forced to hold free elections - by
               Ronald Reagan's contra army - and the
               Communists were thrown out of power.
                   Have they forgotten?
                   It was under our party that the
               Berlin Wall came down, and Europe was
               reunited.
                   It was under our party that the
               Soviet Empire collapsed, and the
               captive nations broke free.
                   It is said that each president will
               be recalled by posterity - with but a
               single sentence. George Washington was
               the father of our country. Abraham
               Lincoln preserved the Union. And Ronald
               Reagan won the Cold War.
                   And it is time my old colleagues,
               the columnists and commentators,
               looking down on us tonight, from their
               anchor booths and sky boxes, gave
               Ronald Reagan the credit he deserves -
               for leading America to victory in the
               Cold War.
                   Most of all, Ronald Reagan made us
               proud to be Americans again. We never
               felt better about our country; and we
               never stood taller in the eyes of the
               world.
                   But, we are here, not only to
               celebrate, but to nominate. And an
               American president has many, many
               roles.
                   He is our first diplomat, the
               architect of American foreign policy.
               And which of these two men is more
               qualified for that role?
                   George Bush has been U.N.
               ambassador, CIA director, envoy to
               China. As vice president, he
               co-authored the policies that won the
               Cold War.
                   As president, George Bush presided
               over the liberation of Eastern Europe
               and the termination of the Warsaw Pact.
                   And Mr. Clinton? Well, Bill Clinton
               couldn't find 150 words to discuss
               foreign policy in an acceptance speech
               that lasted an hour.
                   As was said of an earlier
               Democratic candidate, Bill Clinton's
               foreign policy experience is pretty
               much confined to having had breakfast
               once at the International House of
               Pancakes.
                   The presidency is also America's
               bully pulpit, what Mr. Truman called,
               ''pre-eminently a place of moral
               leadership.''
                   George Bush is a defender of right
               to life, and life-long champion of the
               Judeo-Christian values and beliefs upon
               which this nation was built.
                   Mr. Clinton, however, has a
               different agenda.
                   At its top is unrestricted abortion
               on demand.
                   When the Irish-Catholic governor of
               Pennsylvania, Robert Casey, asked to
               say a few words, on behalf of the 25
               million unborn children destroyed since
               Roe v. Wade, he was told there was no
               place for him at the podium of Bill
               Clinton's convention, no room at the
               inn.
                   Yet, a militant leader of the
               homosexual rights movement could rise
               at that convention and exult: ''Bill
               Clinton and Al Gore represent the most
               pro-lesbian and pro-gay ticket in
               history.'' And so they do.
                   Bill Clinton supports school choice
               - but only for state-run schools.
               Parents who send their children to
               Christian schools, or Catholic schools,
               need not apply.
                   Elect me, and you get two for the
               price of one, Mr. Clinton says of his
               lawyer-spouse. And what does Hillary
               believe? Well, Hillary believes that
               12-year-olds should have a right to sue
               their parents, and she has compared
               marriage as an institution to slavery -
               and life on an Indian reservation.
                   Well, speak for yourself, Hillary.
                   Friends, this is radical feminism.
                   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
               it 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.
                   A president is also
               commander-in-chief, the man we empower
               to send sons and brothers, fathers and
               friends, to war.
                   George Bush was 17 when they bombed
               Pearl Harbor. He left his high school
               class, walked down to the recruiting
               office, and signed up to become the
               youngest fighter pilot in the Pacific
               War.
                   And Mr. Clinton? When Bill
               Clinton's turn came in Vietnam, he sat
               up in a dormitory in Oxford, England,
               and figured out how to dodge the draft.
                   Which of these two men has won the
               moral authority to call on Americans to
               put their lives at risk? I suggest,
               respectfully, it is the patriot and war
               hero, Navy Lt.j.g George Herbert Walker
               Bush.
                   My friends, this campaign is about
               philosophy, and it is about character;
               and George Bush wins on both counts -
               going away; and it is time all of us
               came home and stood beside him.
                   As running mate, Mr. Clinton chose
               Albert Gore. And just how moderate is
               Prince Albert?
                   Well, according to the Taxpayers
               Union, Al Gore beat out Teddy Kennedy,
               two straight years, for the title of
               biggest spender in the Senate.
                   And Teddy Kennedy isn't moderate
               about anything.
                   In New York, Mr. Gore made a
               startling declaration. Henceforth, he
               said, the ''central organizing
               principle'' of all governments must be:
               the environment. Wrong, Albert!
                   The central organizing principle of
               this republic is freedom. And from the
               ancient forests of Oregon, to the
               Inland Empire of California, America's
               great middle class has got to start
               standing up to the environmental
               extremists who put insects, rats and
               birds - ahead of families, workers and
               jobs.
                   One year ago, my friends, I could
               not have dreamt I would be here. I was
               then still just one of many panelists
               on what President Bush calls, ''those
               crazy Sunday talk shows.''
                   But, I disagreed with the
               president; and so we challenged the
               president in the Republican primaries,
               and fought as best we could.
                   From February to June, he won 33
               primaries. I can't recall exactly how
               many we won.
                   But, tonight, I want to talk to the
               3 million Americans who voted for me: I
               will never forget you, nor the great
               honor you have done me.
                   But, I do believe, deep in my
               heart, that the right place for us to
               be now - in this presidential campaign
               - is right beside George Bush. This
               party is our home, this party is where
               we belong. And, don't let anyone tell
               you any different.
                   Yes, we disagreed with President
               Bush, but we stand with him for
               freedom-of-choice religious schools,
               and we stand with him against the
               amoral idea that gay and lesbian
               couples should have the same standing
               in law as married men and women.
                   We stand with President Bush for
               right to life, and for voluntary prayer
               in the public schools - and against
               putting American women in combat.
                   And we stand with President Bush in
               favor of the right of small towns and
               communities to control the raw sewage
               of pornography that pollutes our
               popular culture.
                   We stand with President Bush in
               favor of federal judges who interpret
               the law as written, and against Supreme
               Court justices who think they have a
               mandate to rewrite our Constitution.
                   My friends, this election is about
               much more than who gets what. It is
               about who we are.
                   It is about what we believe, it is
               about what we stand for as Americans.
                   There is a religious war going on
               in our country for the soul of America.
               It is a cultural war, as critical to
               the kind of nation we will one day be -
               as was the Cold War itself.
                   And in that struggle for the soul
               of America, Clinton & Clinton are on
               the other side, and George Bush is on
               our side.
                   And, so, we have to come home - and
               stand beside him.
                   My friends, in those six months -
               from Concord to California - I came to
               know our country better than ever
               before in my life, and I collected
               memories that will be with me always.
                   There was that day-long ride
               through the great state of Georgia in a
               bus Vice President Bush himself had
               used in 1988 - a bus they called
               Asphalt One.
                   The ride ended with a 9 p.m.
               speech, in front of a magnificent
               Southern mansion, in a town called
               Fitzgerald.
                   There was the legal secretary at
               the Manchester airport on Christmas
               Day, who told me she was going to vote
               for me, then broke down crying, saying,
               ''I've lost my job, I don't have any
               money; they're going to take away my
               daughter. What am I going to do?''
                   My friends, even in tough times,
               these people are with us. They don't
               read Adam Smith or Edmund Burke, but
               they came from the same schoolyards and
               playgrounds and towns as we did. They
               share our beliefs and convictions, our
               hopes and our dreams.
                   They are the conservatives of the
               heart. They are our people.
                   And, we need to reconnect with
               them. We need to let them know we know
               they're hurting. They don't expect
               miracles, but they need to know we
               care.
                   There were the people of Hayfork,
               the tiny town high up in California's
               Trinity Alps, a town that is now under
               a sentence of death, because a federal
               judge has set aside 9 million acres for
               the habitat of the spotted owl -
               forgetting about the habitat of the men
               and women who live and work in Hayfork.
                   And there where the brave live the
               family values we treasure, and who
               still believe deeply in the American
               dream.
                   Friends, in those wonderful 25
               weeks, the saddest days were the days
               of the bloody riot in L.A., worst in
               our history. But even out of that awful
               tragedy can come a message of hope.
                   Hours after the violence ended I
               visited the Army compound in south
               L.A., where an officer of the 18th
               Cavalry, that had come to rescue the
               city, introduced me to two of his
               troopers.
                   They could not have been 20 years
               old. He told them to recount there
               story.
                   They had come into Los Angeles late
               on the second day; and they walked up a
               dark street, where the mob had looted
               and burned every building but one, a
               convalescent home for the aged.
                   The mob was heading in, to ransack
               and loot the apartments of the
               terrified old men and women. When the
               troopers arrived, M-16s at the ready,
               the mob threatened and cursed, but the
               mob retreated.
                   It had met the one thing that could
               stop it: force, rooted in justice,
               backed by courage.
                   Greater love than this hath no man
               than that he lay down his life for his
               friend.
                   Here were 19-year-old boys ready to
               lay down their lives to stop a mob from
               molesting old people they did not even
               know.
                   And, as they took back the streets
               of Los Angeles, block by block, so we
               must take back our cities, and take
               back our culture, and take back our
               country.
                   God bless you, and God bless
               America.


End of Buchanan's speech.

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Date: 20 Aug 92 11:30:00 EST
From: "GEOFFREY SCHRAMM" <gschramm@gmuvax.gmu.edu>
Subject: Greg Louganis

This is in reference to Mark Herzog's desire for Greg Louganis to "take
the plunge." Mark, sweetheart, Greg has been out for a little while. While he
has not come out in People (perish the thought) or a major publication like
that, he has voiced his sexual orientation in a couple of newspaper articles
(I will find them for you... give me time to excavate my clippings box).
	My friend, who was a diver, also dove with him for many years. My
friend says that EVERYONE on the diving scene knows of Greg's queerness and,
evidentally, Greg doesn't care. (I think this might be post 1984 Olympics).
Besides, my friend says he is the biggest *NELLIE* on the west coast.
	And, by the way, Morrissey has come out numerous times. I just don't
buy the "celibacy" thing. (and to the other Mark... listen to _Hand in Glove_
for chrissakes!!!) Also read Spin (5/87) and Blitz (4/87) for Morrissey to talk
of his bisexuality. Oh, and please remember the slew of interviews he did with
Pete Burns from (is it defunct now) _Dead or Alive_. Your sweet nature
dahhling was too hard to swallow!

                               looking for langston in metro dc,
                                       geoffrey

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:35 CST
From: SIMERLGD@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU
Subject: Billy, OLTL

More on Billy:
I seem to remember reading that Billy and hs family are very religious, and
that they prayed a lot about whether he should accept the role of Billy.  I
also think that he has a three year contract with OLTL.
Anyone else write Linda Gottlieb, the executive producer of OLTL. I received
what appeared to be a very stand "thank you for your opinion, and keep
watching" lett. I don't even think Gottlieb signed it hersel; looked like
a rubber stamp.
Cheers,
Greg
Saint Louis University

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Date: 20 Aug 1992 12:41:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: HAYESCS@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU
Subject: convention floor
Mime-Version: 1.0

Do I finally need glasses? Have I been duped by my own Optimism?

Please confirm:
		During Mary Fisher's speech last night to the Repeblican Convent		ion, at
 which point I cannot recall, a camera cut to a man on
 		the floor of the Astro-convention-dome. He was standing and hold		ing a sign
 with both hands above his head. I did not read the
		sign because I was focused on the text of his white t-shirt.
		I saw the words NOBODY KNOWS I'M HIV POSITIVE. Is this correct?
		There was another man with a camera behind him who was paying
		particular attention to him. And he was definitely not in
		Repulican uniform, with his white t-shirt and jeans. The NYTimes		coverage of
 the convention reports today that, "There are no
		openly gay delegates here, only two alternates. Gay Republicans
		said they had trouble finding gay people to run on slates for Mr		Bush or Mr.
 Buchanan. At the Democratic convention, there were
		110 openly gay delegates." Without stereotypically sandwiching
		civil rights issues for gays and lesbians and the AIDS crisis,
		I was hoping I saw a representative of both in this one man.
		I know its feeble, but I'll push for any efforts to wake the
		Republicans to my concerns. Even to the point of seeing things
		which are not really there.

		If anyone paid microscopic attention to the convention during
		Ms. Fisher's speech last night, should I have my eyes checked?

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