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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:07:03 -0400
From:         gaynet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject:      GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 644

In this issue:
                           Old GayNet Issues
                    GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 643
                           I hope this is it
                     They Shoot Puppies Don't They?
          CLINTON/GORE ISSUES OF CONCERN TO GAYS AND LESBIANS
                 THE LIVING END: NuArt Theatre Sat 8/22
        (A Little) More on Lesbian Reinstated in Australian Army
                         Gay Pride in Argentina
                         CLINTON NEW TEXT: AIDS

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 20:57:47 EST
From: Mike.W.Miller.40@nd.edu
Subject: Old GayNet Issues

Thanks to all who sent the back issues I had missed.

And uh, about that "confidential" information I accidentally posted, uh, well,
(in my best Emily Latilla) -- never mind.

Crackerjacks,
Mike!

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 22:45:21 EDT
From: Tim Pierce <twpierce@cs.amherst.edu>
Subject: Re:  GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 643

Loren Meissner <lmeissne@u.washington.edu> said:

> TO: The person (name withheld to avoid this seeming like a personal
> attack) who apparantly said that Burning the American Flag at the
> Republican Convention site in Houston last Sunday during the ACT-UP
> demonstration would "Wake up" the American People:
> COME ON!!
> Wake people up? Turn them totally off to your message and turn them into
> enemies of your cause is more like it, if you attack what is dear to them
> (American Flag). HOW you deliver the message IS important.

You'll run into a number of people here who are of the opinion that
there's no such thing as bad publicity as long as they spell your name
right.

I'm really not interested in the opinions of people who view the
American flag as so sacred that burning it should put you in prison.
You might respond "but then you'll never get your rights."  If that's
so -- that the U.S. is politically dominated by people to whom the
flag is a sacred idol -- we've got much more basic things than queer
rights to fix.  (And I don't say that lightly.)  Freedom of expression
is high on that list.

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____ Tim Pierce                / The Queer Resources Directory: access via
\  / twpierce@cs.amherst.edu   / anonymous ftp at nifty.andrew.cmu.edu in
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) / directory /pub/QRD.

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From: buckmr@rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: Re: I hope this is it
Distribution: local
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 02:55:51 GMT

"GEOFFREY SCHRAMM" <gschramm@gmuvax.gmu.edu> writes:

>	Enough of my ranting. *SNAP* Please email me with any responses,
>comments or concerns. They will be greatly appreciated. I will keep in touch
>with major updates when the school year begins.
>                              Cheers, Queers,
WELCOME to GayNet, honey! :-)


>"When my brother fell/I picked up his weapons/and never once questioned/whether
>I could carry the weight and grief,/the responsibility he shoudlered."
>         -Essex Hemphill

Anyone who ends their posts with Essex Hemphill has *got* to be good! *Snap!*
--
RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735.  ``D.C. in 93!''
vox:(518)-276-8910 fax:(518)-276-6920 buckmr@rpi.edu buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet
``Racist, sexist, anti-gay! Operation Rescue GO AWAY!'' --heard in Buffalo.

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Subject: They Shoot Puppies Don't They?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 00:30:28 -0400
From: Ron Buckmire <buckmr@rpi.edu>

NYT today:

_AIDS Speech Brings Hush to Crowd_, p. A21

"Many of the delegates at the first seemd not to be listening.  They
could be seen chatting and wandering about the floor.  But as she went
on, the room gradually feel to attention.  By the middle of her speech
almost everyone was staring up at the podium, quiet and with grave
expressions.

"There were exceptions.  A television camera caught Vice President Dan
Quayle, standing in his box in the rear of the hall, glad-handing a
beaming Arnold Schwarzenegger."


- -
RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. "D.C. in '93!"
uunet!rpi.edu!buckmr||buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet||buckmr@rpi.edu||+1 518 276 8910
"I don't think 'so called' dirty books inspired anyone to commit any crime
more serious than masturbation" -- William Burroughs, author of _Naked Lunch_

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Date: 21 August 1992 00:30:44 CDT
Subject: CLINTON/GORE ISSUES OF CONCERN TO GAYS AND LESBIANS
From: An Anonymous Sender

SEND COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS INFORMATION TO THE
CLINTON/GORE CAMPAIGN AT 75300.3115@COMPUSERVE.COM
(This information is posted for public education/information purposes.
It does not necessarily represent the views of The University.)
========================================================================
           CLINTON  GORE ON ISSUES OF CONCERN TO GAYS AND LESBIANS
Stop discrimination against gays and lesbians at all levels of government:  As
to repeal the ban on gays and lesbians from military or foreign service and
to prohibit discrimination in federal employment, federal contracts and
government services.

Support federal civil rights legislation for gays and lesbians: A Clinton/Gore
Administration would support a federal gay civil rights bill that respects
freedom of religion by exempting religious organizations; and that provides
clear evidentiary standards to be used in court.

Make the fight against AIDS a real national priority and implement a coordinated
Clinton and Al Gore believe that continued indifference and further delay in the

The Clinton/Gore Plan

Appoint an AIDS policy director to head a "Manhattan Project" that coordinates
federal AIDS policies, cuts through bureaucratic red tape and implements
recommendations made by the National Commission on AIDS.

Speed up the drug approval process and commit increased government resources to
research and development of AIDS-related treatments and vaccines, and
ensure that women and people of color are included in research and
drug trials.

Fully fund the Ryan White CARE Act.

Promote a national AIDS education and prevention initiative that disseminates
frank and accurate information to reduce the spread of the disease, and educates

Provide quality health coverage to all Americans with HIV as part of a broader
national health care program; work vigorously to improve access to promising
experimental therapies for people with life-threatening illnesses; and
improve preventive and long-term care.

Combat AIDS-related discrimination and oppose needless mandatory HIV testing in
Corps and the Foreign Service; stop the cynical politicization of immigration
policies by directing the Justice Department to follow the Department of Health
removed from the immigration restrictions list.

Crack down on hate crimes: A Clinton/Gore Administration will be tough on
anti-gay violence.  As President, Bill Clinton would direct the Justice
Department to aggressively prosecute hate crimes perpetrated against any
individuals because of their sexual orientation, race, creed or religion.

The Record
Senator Gore supported the Hate Crimes Statistics Act which provides for the
collection and publication of data about crimes that manifest prejudice based on

Supported the AIDS Federal Policy Act of 1987 which bans discrimination against
persons with AIDS or the HIV infection.

Al Gore has supported legislation to remove HIV from the immigration
restrictions list.

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Subject: THE LIVING END: NuArt Theatre Sat 8/22
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 01:51:31 -0400
From: Ron Buckmire <buckmr@rpi.edu>

Well, if anyone is interested, I'm trying to get a bunch of people together
to go see the new ``irresponsible movie by Gregg Araki'' called THE LIVING
END at the NuArt theatre on Saturday night/afternoon. Check the LA Weekly
for showtimes, then call 310-479-7037 and leave a message for my boyfriend,
Dean. I won't have access to my email account after 3pm EDT FRiday. I'm
arriving in LA 1053pm Friday.

THE LIVING END has been described as ``an HIV+ "Thelma and Louise"''.
Should/Could be lots of fun...

See ya there!
---
RON BUCKMIRE
Fundraising Committee for the Procurement of a mesh tank-top for LL Cool J
11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735
uunet!rpi.edu!buckmr||buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet||buckmr@rpi.edu||+1 518 276 8910

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Subject: (A Little) More on Lesbian Reinstated in Australian Army
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 01:55:31 -0400
From: Ron Buckmire <buckmr@rpi.edu>

The Full Text of the MELBOURNE AGE (aug 4) follows:


>From the MELBOURNE AGE, Tuesday 4 August

LESBIAN IS BACK IN THE ARMY

The army has reinstated the lesbian officer whose complaint of discrimination
when she was sacked led to the row over the ban on homosexuals in the Defense
Force.

But the army refused to return the sergeant to her parent unit in Perth and
has instead posted her to headquarters.  The woman refused to comment last
night, citing the Official Secrets Act.  [This is mysterious.  Either it
explains her anonymity, or it hints at possible strong-arming by the Defense
Force.  --ed.]

The woman, sacked after 18 years of service in the reserve and several months
as a full-time officer, had complained to the Human Rights Commission.

This triggered a Defense Force review after which, under pressure from
Defense Force chiefs, the Defense Minister, Senator Ray, overruled the
Minister for Defense Science and Personnel [who had ordered the ban
abolished] and endorsed the ban in late June.

The Attorney-General, Mr Duffy, will ask Cabinet this month to overturn the
ban on the basis that it breaches [Australian Labor] party policy and
Australia's international obligations to stop sexual discrimination.

The move is seen by officials as a tactical ploy to avoid a report by the
Human Rights Commissioner, Mr Brian Burdekin, to Mr Duffy advising of a
breach of international law.  Mr Duffy would have had to table the report
in Parliament.

*********

I have been learning more from the radio show THIS WAY OUT which talked to
some women in Australia by phone and said that the woman's name is NOT
being released and that the issue is supposed to be tabled in Parliament 15
days after the breach of international treaty [Intenational Labour Organisation
has nondiscrimination with respect to sexual orientation and the Australian
Armed Forces is considered a workforce].

- -
RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. `D.C. in 93!''
vox:(518)-276-8910 fax:(518)-276-6920 buckmr@rpi.edu buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet
"I might be President by now if it weren't for this 'queer' thing" -Gore Vidal

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Subject: Gay Pride in Argentina
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 02:19:51 -0400
From: Ron Buckmire <buckmr@rpi.edu>

/* Written  9:50 pm  Aug 20, 1992 by jbinder in cdp:queerplanet */
/* ---------- "Gay Pride in Argentina!!!" ---------- */

Argentina Celebrates First Gay Pride Week

>From The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
540 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA  94114
phone: (415) 255 86 80
fax: (415) 255 86 62
email: jbinder@igc.org


An estimated 300 gay men and lesbians marched through the streets of Buenos
Aires on the evening of July 3, in the culmination of the first-ever gay pride
celebration in Argentina.  Representing seven gay, lesbian, and transsexual
organizations, they paraded from the Government Palace to the Congress carrying
pink banners and placards demanding equal rights.  "Respect!" the demonstrators
shouted.  "Respect for the gays and lesbians marching the streets of
Argentina!"

Coming only four month's after the first legal recognition of a gay
organization in the country, the success of the week's events surprised even
the organizers.  The recognition followed a three-year legal battle, in which
the case eventually reached the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice, which
denied legal status to the gay movement.  Following international pressure
orchestrated by the San Francisco-based International Gay and Lesbian Human
Rights Commission, Argentine President Menem finally granted legal recognition
last March.

Other Gay & Lesbian Pride Week events played to overflow crowds.  A gay rights
forum was held under the sponsorship of several human rights organizations,
including the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the most important organization in
the struggle for human rights under Argentina's former military dictatorship.
The event also featured an exhibition of gay and lesbian art, which was on
display at the city's main cultural center.  Latin American and Spanish
gay-themed films were shown to a packed house during the country's first
lesbian and gay film festival.

Especially successful was Expresida, a separately organized exhibition of AIDS
education materials from over 50 countries.  In its fifteen days, an incredible
130,000 people passed through the exhibit hall, participated in debates, and
watched a screening of the American film Longtime Companion.  The exhibit
featured posters, books, videotapes, and brochures from around the world
promoting AIDS prevention.

"We are extremely satisfied with the progress weUve made in the visibility of
gays and lesbians in Argentina,S said Carlos Jauregui, organizer of many of the
week's activities.  The Argentine press treated the march as a major happening,
with all of the principal newspapers and television stations providing mostly
favorable coverage.  One newspaper explained that the event was a commemoration
of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York, which it called the beginning of the
gay rights movement worldwide.  Another paper noted its surprise that the
demonstrators were not all young upper class men, but were ordinary-looking
people of all ages, men and women whose clothing suggested that they belonged
to the lower and middle classes.



For more information, photographs, or videotape, contact Enrique Asis at (415)
255-8680 or (415) 281-0763.

- -
RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735.
uunet!rpi.edu!buckmr||buckmr@rpitsmts.bitnet||buckmr@rpi.edu||+1 518 276 8910
"In any battle for freedom of identity there can be no distinction between the
 private and the political." --David Leavitt's _Family Dancing_

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Date: 21 August 1992 04:05:27 CDT
From: "Mary Jacobs  " <U45301%UICVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: CLINTON NEW TEXT: AIDS

CLINTON TEXT NOW POSTED ON ALT.POLITICS.CLINTON

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              CLINTON GORE ON AIDS



Fighting the AIDS epidemic will be a top priority of a Clinton/Gore
Administration. If we fail to commitour hearts and resources now to
fighting AIDS, we will pay a far greater price in the future, both in
deaths and in dollars. We need leaders who will focus national
attention on AIDS, to encourage compassion and understanding, to
promote education and to speak out against intolerance.

We can't afford another four years without a plan to declare war on
AIDS. We can't afford to have yet another President who remains
silent about AIDS or who puts the issue on the back burner.


THE CLINTON/GORE PLAN


Increase funding for desperately needed new initiatives in research,
prevention and treatment.

Appoint an AIDS policy director to coordinate federal AIDS policies,
cut through bureaucratic red tape and implement recommendations
made by the National Commission on AIDS.

Speed up the drug approval process and commit increased resources
to research and development of AIDS-related treatments and
vaccines, and ensure that women and people of color are included in
research and drug trials.

Fully fund the Ryan White CARE Act. Work closely with individuals
and communities that are affected by HIV to create a partnership
between the federal government and those with knowledge and
experience in fighting HIV.

Promote a national AIDS education and prevention initiative that
disseminates frank and accurate information to reduce the spread of
the disease, and educates our children about the nature and threat of
AIDS.

Provide quality health coverage to all Americans with HIV as part of
a broader national health care program; work vigorously to improve
access to promising experimental therapies for people with
life-threatening illnesses; and improve preventive and long-term care.

Combat AIDS-related discrimination and oppose needless mandatory
HIV testing in federal organizations such as the Peace Corps, Job
Corps and the Foreign Service; stop the cynical politicization of
immigration policies by directing the Justice Department to follow
the Department of Health and Human Services' recommendation
that HIV be removed from the immigration restrictions list; promote
legislation based on sound scientific and public health principles, not
on panic, politics and prejudice.

Prevention and education

 Launch a strong and effective AIDS education campaign.

Reevaluate the AIDS prevention budget at the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control to ensure that education is a top priority.

Ensure that increased funding for prevention and services goes
directly to community based organizations that are on the frontline
of the battle against the HIV virus.

Promote AIDS education in American schools.

Provide drug treatment on demand to stop the spread of HIV by
intravenous drug users.

Increase funding for behavior and social science research so that we
can better understand the behaviors that put people at risk for HIV.

Support local efforts to make condoms available in schools.


Treatment and care


Provide health care for all Americans, including those with HIV,
through coverage they obtain either on the job or through
government-mandated programs, which will include:

 - Comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, including
frequent diagnostic monitoring, early  intervention therapies, and
psychological care.

 - Prescription drugs and improved access to experimental therapies.
Because treatments are not  accessible unless they are affordable, a
Clinton/Gore Administration will support legislation that denies  tax
breaks to companies that raise the cost of drugs faster than
Americans' ability to pay for them.

 - Adequate options for long-term home and community-based care
that minimize unnecessary and  wasteful hospitalizations.

 - Voluntary, confidential, or anonymous testing and counseling for
AIDS and HIV for every American  who wants it.

Encourage the Centers for Disease Control to review periodically
their definition of AIDS to ensure that symptoms and infections that
occur among women, people of color and drug users are included in
the federal definition, and promptly made eligible for all federal
benefit programs for people with AIDS.

Develop programs with the Department of Health and Human
Service to ensure that America's health care professional are kept fully
and regularly informed aobut diagnosing and treating HIV.

Have the National Institutes of Health (NIH) develop a formalized
mechanism to make sure that state-of-the-art informations is broadly
and rapidly disseminated to health professional and people with HIV
disease.


Treatment and drug development

 Work vigorously to develop a vaccine against AIDS and to find
therapies that will destroy HIV, repair the immune system and
prevent and treat AIDS-related infections.

Increase funding for both AIDS-specific and general biomedical
research.

Expand clinical and community based trials for treatments and
vaccines, and raise the level of participation of under-represented
populations.

Reorganize the NIH infrastructure to streamline AIDS research
efforts and improve planning efficiency and communication.

Promote a more rapid review by the NIH of research grant
applications and a speedier distribution of funding for approved
studies.

Facilitate greater access to drugs and work to speed up the drug
approval process.

Ensure that the FDA has the resources to assist in the efficient design
of AIDS-related drug trials and to review their results rapidly. The
FDA will also make possible greater access to promising experimental
therapies without compromising patient safety.

Discrimination

Fight all AIDS-related discrimination and discrimination based on
race, gender and sexual orientation.

Fully implement the Americans with Disabilities Act and resist any
efforts to weaken its provisions.

The Department of Justice and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
must make it a high priority to monitor the occurrence of
AIDS-related discrimination and the enforcement of the ADA with
respect to HIV-related complaints.

Forbid health insurance companies form denying coverage to
HIV-positive applicants.

Prhohibit all health plans from adopting discriminatory caps or
exclusions that provide lower coverage for AIDS than for any other
life-threatening illnesses. No American will be denied health coverage
because he or she loses a job or has a pre-existing condition.

Oppose mandatory testing in federal organizations like the Peace
Corps and Foreign Service.

Lift the current ban on travel and immigration to the U.S. by
foreign nationals with HIV.


The Record

As chairman of the National Governors' Association, Governor
Clinton formed the first working group of governors to develop an
AIDS policy. Clinton was a moving force in the creation of an AIDS
action plan adopted by the Governors' Association which called for
education and prevention efforts at the local, state and federal levels.

Governor Clinton supported teacher training for AIDS education and
a detailed study of the availability of HIV education at the local
level.

Since 1990, AIDS education has been required in all Arkansas
schools, and there has been a 40% increase in HIV counseling and
voluntary testing in Arkansas.

The Arkansas AIDS Advisory Committee was established in 1987.
This committee makes recommendations on HIV policy and
program services. HIV services in the state currently include
anonymous testing at two centers and confidential testing and
counseling at public health clinics in all 75 Arkansas counties.


Senator Al Gore voted to ban discrimination against people with
AIDS or HIV.

Voted for legislation to remove HIV from the immigration
restrictions list.

Supported funding for the Ryan White AIDS Act.

Voted to provide emergency relief to metropolitan areas hardest hit
by AIDS, to health care facilities serving many low-income
individuals and families with HIV and to states to assist in improving
the quality of treatment and support services for people with HIV.

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