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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:36:13 -0400
From:         gaynet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject:      GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 263

In this issue:
           Princeton University Gay Pride Week Nostalgia Trip
                    GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 262
        Colleges and Universities Anti-Discrimination Statements
                                 sundry
                   the book "Mayor of Castro Street"
                            the Flirtations
                         mass confusion in mass
                      NY Times Pink Angels article

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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 08:52:17 EDT
From: dwoolwin@cc.gettysburg.edu
Subject: Princeton University Gay Pride Week Nostalgia Trip

I was gratified to see the posting on the Princeton University Gay Pride
Week, although I will not be able to attend. I came out into the gay world
as a graduate student in 1979 at Princeton University through the then Gay
Alliance of Princeton, with less activity in the then Gay People of
Princeton (a townie group) and very very little activity in the then
Princeton MCC (since moved to Piscataway). (Not my liturgic cup of tea.) As
a gay alumnus (and member of Fund For Reunion/GALA of Princeton) I have
watched the gay/lesbian/bisexual group really re-group after a bad period
in the mid 80's and undergo a sort of rebirth. I have a lot of fond
memories of the GAP from 79 into the mid 80's, and especially remember a
close friend of mine from that period, a President of the GAP who died of
AIDS in the mid 80's. We spent a lot of time together in that office in
Aaron Burr Hall. I hope people don't object too much to this nostalgia
trip, but the posting from PU brought all this up. Its also good to see
that the Chapel is on board - through most of my time there the Dean of the
Chapel was old Dean Gordon (I believe) - a very conservative and dour old
Scotch Presbyterian. I think the activities and strength of the Princeton
group gives me reason to believe that some *progress* is being made on
gay/lesbian/bisexual activities despite the many problems we have all had
to face in the last 10 plus years.
David E. Woolwine                         717-337-6187
Sociology and Anthropology Department     dwoolwin@cc.gettysburg.edu
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA 17325

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Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 09:23:25 EDT
From: flg <flg@lan.asc.upenn.edu>
Subject: GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 262

          Re the New York Times and Queers:
          as someone noted in the previous Digest, the NYT has indeed
          made remarkable strides towards decent treatment of queer
          issues in the past year or so. This dates in part to the
          replacement of Abe Rosenthal by Max Frankel, in part to the
          efforts of some other editors, and in large part to the
          succession to the 43rd St Throne by the younger Sulzberger:
          a member of a kinder, gentler yuppy generation. Also, the
          NYT is not entirely unaware of the changing profile of the
          urban audience they need to reach. Stay tuned to the
          Advocate for an in-depth 2-part series on the New New York
          Times by Michelangelo Signorile (at your neighborhood
          newstands soon, if you live in the right kind of
          neighborhood).
          Larry Gross

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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 09:31:22 EDT
From: dwoolwin@cc.gettysburg.edu

David E. Woolwine                         717-337-6187
Sociology and Anthropology Department     dwoolwin@cc.gettysburg.edu
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA 17325

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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 09:36:26 EDT
From: dwoolwin@cc.gettysburg.edu
Subject: Colleges and Universities Anti-Discrimination Statements

I know that this has been over the net before, but I would appreciate it if
someone would send to *my personal e mail address* a list of colleges and
universities which have an *external* statement prohibiting discrimination
against gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals, or against any sexual
orientation. I would especially appreciate seeing versions of wording for
this statement. The reason I am asking is to be able to pass them on to the
Provost here at Gettyburg College as part of a continued battle to get the
Board of Trustees to pass such a statement. Apparently one of the "issues"
raised by the Board (I suspect in a stalling attempt) is that of
appropriate "wording" for the statement, as well as questions as to which
other colleges have such a statement. (As if they couldn't find out
themselves if they really wanted to!)
David E. Woolwine                         717-337-6187
Sociology and Anthropology Department     dwoolwin@cc.gettysburg.edu
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA 17325

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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 10:08:31 EDT
From: jeff@millie.loc.gov (Jeff Mallory)

Dear queer folks,

Below is a post from our local (Wash, DC) (and magnificent!) gay bbs (GLIB),
 reprinted
with permission. It is a remembrance of another of our own who truly has stoked
 the
fires of history.

04/02/92 11:31:32
From: ONE HOAR
  To: ALL
Subj: TOM KAHN
My recent absence has been to provide comfort to my dear, dear friend Tom Kahn
in his final weeks.  Tom passed quietly, in dignity and comfort last Friday
night. I will miss him as a friend and the world is a much richer place for the
contributions he made in this life. Tom was director of international affairs
for AFL-CIO.  He used that position to aggressively support human rights
worldwide.  He was most proud of the efforts he devised and coordinated to
smuggle printing presses, cash and other communications equipment to the
leaders of Polish Solidarity when it was outlawed by the Polish communist
regime.  He actively supported the rise of other free trade unions throughout
eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union.  Their rise accompanied and
hastened the fall there of communist regimes. (Historical Footnote: In the fall
of 1991 he sponsored the U.S. trip of a group of Russian miners who were
leaders in establishing the first free trade union in Russia.  He equipped them
and had them trained in using 10-or-so pc's.  The pc's were built and the
training was conducted by a GLIB member.)

Tom's activities to support human rights also extended to Asia, Central and
 South
America and Africa.  His commitment was to foster the rise of democratic
institutions built on a foundation of free trade unions.  Even as his health
failed he travelled to South Africa to meet with Nelson Mandela and to support
the growth of free trade unions there.  Mandela met with Tom and acknowledged
 his
role during his subsequent visit to the U.S.

Tom's early political development was strongly influenced by the years he spent
 as
assistant and lover to Bayard Rustin.  As Rustin's 23-year old assistant, Tom
 wrote
the initial plan for Martin Luther King, Jr's 1962 March on Washington.  He
 assisted
Rustin in coordinating that historic event in the civil rights movement. With
 Rustin,
he wrote "From Protest to Politics" which marked their sharp break with Students
for a Democratic Society (of which Tom had been a founder) because of what Tom
perceived as SDS's move toward non-democratic positions.  As a strategist,
intellectual, and writer he became equally disdainful of the far-right and the
far-left.  Later he became a speechwriter in the presidential campaigns of
Henry "Scoop" Jackson and Hubert Humphry.

The agenda set forth in "From Protest to Politics" strongly influenced the civil
 rights
movement.  That work is seen by some as providing a framework by which gay
 rights
activists could benefit in moving us toward equal rights and a rightful position
 in
this society.  He shared with Rustin the belief that as long as any are
 oppressed,
all are oppressed.  He often expressed to his friends that his human rights work
through the trade union movement was married to his wish to live with honor and
dignity as a gay man. To his friends, Tom will be missed for his generosity,
his kindness and his uncompromising insistance that we be all that we can be.
His sharp wit is probably best characterised by a recent comment he made about
Jane Fonda, a political advisary of some long-standing.  The only point he
would concede to her is that "She was sexy in Barbarella."  After a brief pause
he added, "and Ted Turner deserves her." I love him and I miss him.   I share
this with you, in part, because it is long past time that we lay claim to and
celebrate the many contributions that we, as gay men and lesbian women, make to
the betterment of this world.  As Tom said at the conclusion of each of our
many telephone chats: "Peace".

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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 08:16:12 -0700
From: Jessea N. R. Greenman <jnrg@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: sundry

The lesbian elected to Ann Arbor city council in 4/74 does have a name...
I'll get it eventually or anyone can look it up in the tome "Gay Book
of Lists."
Oliver Stone's production company seems to be involved (still) in
the negotiations around making a movie of "The Mayor of Castro Street"
since a representative of that company, as well as two vice presidents
of Warner Bros., as well as Craig Zaidan (one of the producers) will
be panelists at the community forum GLAAD/SFBA is organizing to be
held May 29 at a location in San Francisco (either the Women's Building
or the Swedish-American Hall, probably).
I am not sure that Joe Eszterhas has completed his script with a cop, who
is a good guy and also just happens to be gay.  If and when he does complete
it, it will be interesting to see whether, how soon, and for how much his
script is optioned, not to mention by whom.
Well, it sure looks like I'm wrong about "Basic Instinct" in terms of its
box office performance...still close to $10 million after third weekend.
Ugh.

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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 08:49:37 -0700
From: Jessea N. R. Greenman <jnrg@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: the book "Mayor of Castro Street"

This book, described by Tim Pierce (a while back, I'm way behind due
to work pressures and having just moved) as a "brilliant novel," is
actually nonfiction biography.  Since Time himself is quite brilliant,
methinks perhaps this was his very clever form of sarcasm.
Anyway, for the record, Shilts' book on Milk is nonfiction.
P.P.S. It is because I just moved that I can't find the info about the
Ann Arbor lesbian elected in 1974 until my files get re-set-up.
{oops, make that 'Tim' not 'Time' above...alto the typo is kinda funny}

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From: "The Queer Cavalier [K. Ritz]" <klr7a@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 12:17:02 EDT
Subject: the Flirtations

Hi all!

Does anybody know how to get in touch with The Flirtations with regards to
booking them, or getting information about the cost?  Please let me know, as
I would like to try to get them to come to UVa on Oct. 4 or 5, 1992 as part
of our Proud to be Out Week.  If you could contact me by private e-mail that
would be wonderful.  ADVthanksANCE!!!

Toodles!!

Kevin Ritz, klr7a@virginia.edu
Education majors make you do it over and over again until you get it
right.  --K. Ritz

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Date:        Wed, 08 Apr 92 11:20:39 CST
From: Allen Gathman <C741SCB@SEMOVM.SEMO.EDU>

I am the chair of the Faculty Senate at Southeast Missouri State
University, in Cape Girardeau, MO.  About six weeks ago I
introduced a bill that recommended that the University's Notice
of Nondiscrimination be amended to include _sexual orientation_
among the list (race, gender, etc.) of grounds that can't be used
to exclude people from admission, employment, etc.  Last week the
bill was defeated by one vote.  The Affirmative Action committee
has been studying the issue since the bill was introduced, and
some people on Senate were unwilling to vote for the bill until
that committee had reported.  I felt that was unnecessary, since
the Affirmative Action committee reports to the President, not to
us, and we would also be making a recommendation to the President
if we passed the bill.

In any case, the chair of Affirmative Action effectively blocked
passage of the bill by delaying the committee's report
repeatedly, then telling the Senate that it was a "complex
issue," and that the committee was looking into all the possible
effects of the bill.  Other than a general feeling that, if it
took Affirmative Action this long to study it, there must be some
problems that the Senate hadn't thought of, the only arguments I
heard against the bill were that a)There is no discrimination
against gays and lesbians here, so we don't need this policy, and
b) This will be used as an excuse to get rid of the ROTC
programs.

I will still be on Senate next semester, not as chair (Thank
God!), and I plan to introduce the bill again.  I am looking for
some ammunition to use in debate next fall.  Specifically, I
need:

1) current lists of colleges, universities, and other
institutions that have nondiscrimination policies covering sexual
orientation;

2) contacts (e-mail, snail mail, or phone) with affirmative
action/nondiscrimination officials at such institutions so I can
ask them for information about the effects of their policies,
etc.

3) information specifically on the status of ROTC units on
campuses where discrimination based on sexual orientation is
prohibited.

Of course, I need to be able to document what I say, so the most
important sort of information will be the addresses of officials
to contact.  Also, if anybody else has gone through this sort of
political effort and can offer advice, I would like to hear
it.


Thanks very much,


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Date:         Wed, 08 Apr 92 09:25:44 MST
From: MHERBERT@ARIZVM1.ccit.arizona.edu

Hey Matt at Pomona - sorry to hear you're headed for Wisconsin!  There are four
 lesbians and a gay man here at Arizona Soc - and another lesbian coming in
next year's cohort.  E-mail me if you want info about the ASA GLB Caucus, etc.

Good luck!

Melissa
mherbert@arizvm1

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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 13:07:53 EDT
From: Tim Pierce <twpierce@cs.amherst.edu>
Subject: mass confusion in mass

An Anonymous Sender said:

> Hello All,
>
>         I have been "out" for a long time (ie. 6-7 yrs) and I am
>         very comfortable with my sexuality, but recently I have
>         become quite confused.  I am a 26 year old male.  Recently
>         I have been thinking about having sex with a womyn.  I
>         have even gone so far as to fantasize about it.  I thought
>         I was so secure in my acceptance of myself being gay and
>         now I feel totally screwed over.  I did have a couple of
>         lovers that were female before I came out to myself, but
>         after I came out I never was turned on by womem until
>         about 2 weeks ago.  I don't want to be "straight", but
>         these feelings I have been having really freak me out.
>         What should I do?

Take heart.  Remember, and remember well, that there is no
contradiction in loving womyn and loving men simultaneously, and there
is no shame in being bisexual, if that is indeed what you are.

The feelings that you're having are not uncommon at all.  Many, many
people have been particularly confused about their sexual orientation
because they believed "I can't be gay, because I love MOTOS," or "I
can't be straight, because I love MOTSS," without even realizing that
one can do both at once, and remain a healthy, whole person.

If you'd like to discuss this further with me, but want to remain
anonymous, please feel free to send me email at
ap.7752@layout.berkeley.edu.  In doing so, your mail will be forwarded
to me but have an anonymous "alias" placed in the return address, so
that I can reply to your e-mail without knowing what your real email
address is.

Tim Pierce

P.S.  All those out there who believe that bisexuals are merely people
who can't face their true homosexual side ought to take a long,
serious look at the above letter.

-
____ Tim Pierce                /
\  / twpierce@cs.amherst.edu   /            See it and understand.
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /

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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 12:22:35 -0400
From: dill@world.std.com (David Kaufman)
Subject: NY Times Pink Angels article

'Pink Angels' Battle Anti-Gay Crime
New York Times, April 7, 1992
By Don Terry

	CHICAGO, April 6 -- Near the stroke of midnight every Friday and
Saturday, a group that includes a social worker, a newlywed and a former
Air Force sergeant gathers in a circle for a solemn pep talk before heading
out onto the restless streets.
	"Let's stay alert out there," one of them said Friday night as they
locked arms.  "I want to go home in one piece."
	For the next four hours and several miles, the group, a mostly
homosexual anti-crime patrol known as the Pink Angels, walked unarmed up
the neon-soaked streets and down the dark alleys of a largely gay and
lesbian section of Chicago's North Side, the scene of a recent shooting
that the police said was motivated by anti-gay bias.
	Dressed in black berets and jackets, they watched for hecklers in
passing cars and jotted down their license plate numbers, exchanged
information with the police and checked for trouble in the bars along
North Halsted Street, the soul of the homosexual community here.

'Seeing a Lot of Other Things'

	"The Pink Angels are performing a service maybe citizens in
general should do," said Sgt. Anthony J. Scalise of the police department's
civil rights section.  "They're taking more of an interest in their
community.  But they're not only doing a good job keeping the hate crimes
down, they're seeing a lot of other things and passing the information
along to us."
	Graunk Enzenberger, 30 years old, was on patrol Friday night.
"I think people are a lot more afraid of being out at night," he said.
"We're trying to ease some of those fears."
	The Pink Angels represent a small but growing movement of
homosexuals who are forming unarmed groups to patrol and protect their
neighborhoods, from the hills of San Francisco to the narrow streets
of Greenwich Village.
	It is a movement born of frustration and anger at increasing
anti-gay violence and, in some cases, the response of city and police
officials.
	Last year, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
in Washington, the number of anti-gay incidents, ranging from harassment
to homicide, was up 31 percent in six cities -- Chicago, New York,
San Francisco, Boston and Minneapolis-St. Paul -- with large homosexual
populations and organizations.

'Still Cutting-Edge Stuff'

	"The patrol groups are kind of sprouting up around the country
but it's still cutting-edge stuff;  they're still only a few," said
Robert Bray, a spokesman for the national task force.  "They have arisen
in the last three years or so as the level of gay-bashing has skyrocketed."
	New York City and San Francisco have the oldest and largest
patrol groups.  bHouston also has a patrol.
	The Pink Angels were formed about six months ago, and never have
the group's members felt more necessary.  Not far from their basement
headquarters, Ron Cayot, a gay man, was shot and critically wounded on
March 31 after he and a friend were confronted by a carload of men who
had been insulting them, the police said.
	A week later, Mr. Cayot is still fighting for his life in a local
hospital.
	"We shouldn't have to worry about getting beaten up or killed
just because we're walking down the street," said Wendy Rhein, 23 years
old, the president of the Pink Angels.  "That's why we're out here.
We're not going to back down anymore."
	The Pink Angels have about 50 members, but only 35 are willing
to patrol.  Because they are so few, they patrol only on weekends,
so they were not on the street at the time of the shooting.
	The Pink Angels are not strictly homosexual.  Ms. Rhein said
the group includes a rainbow of sexuality and race: blacks, whites,
heterosexuals, homosexuals and bisexuals.  "We're learning a lot from
each other," she said.
	Last Friday, the six-member patrol, two men and four women,
checked their radios and flashlights before splitting up into pairs and
heading into the uncertain night.  Two other members stayed in their
headquarters in the basement of an apartment building to operate the radio
and, if necessary, to call the police.

'Danger in a Hurry'

	The Pink Angels remain in constant communication with the
dispatchers, because an uneventful patrol can turn dangerous in a hurry.
Not long ago, a four-member patrol was confronted in an alley by up to
20 men, many armed with baseball bats.  The men were tapping the ground
with their bats like a scene out of "A Clockwork Orange."
	The patrol braced for an attack as one member radioed for help.
The men left without incident when they heard the police coming.  "We have
a very close relationship with the police," Ms. Rhein said.  "They've been
very helpful and supportive."
	On Fridays, Peigi Molumby, 21, who sells secondhand clothes, takes
a turn patrolling North Halsted Street.  She is married to one of the
dispatchers.
	"I do this because I think it needs to be done," she said.  "For me
it's an issue of people being hurt for loving each other."
	Ms. Molumby joined the group a few weeks ago.  Then her husband
joined because, she said, "otherwise his Friday nights would be very
lonely."
	Her patrol partner last Friday was a lesbian, Jackie Phares, 32,
who said she had joined because several of "my friends have been bashed
and I'm tired of taking the abuse."

'Flashing a Victory Sign'

	As they walked down the block, a man in dreadlocks hurried out
of a bar, disco music pouring into the street from the open door.  He
flashed a victory sign and said, "Thank you, Pink Angels."
	A few minutes later, a man leaned out of the window of a moving
car, his blond hair blowing in the wind.  "Sissy," he shouted as the car
zipped away.
	"I've been called 'fag' so many times that it doesn't bother me
anymore," said Friday's patrol leader, a former Air Force sergeant who
would give only his Pink Angels code name, Saladin, "because I don't want
to get fired."
	Saladin, who is 29, said he was in the Air Force for eight years
and hated to leave but felt he had to because "I was forced to lead too
constricted a life."  His military background showed clearly in his stiff
posture and his polished combat boots.

'Averting a Sacrifice'

	Two weeks ago, Saladin said, a patrol came across a group of white
men trying to force a black man into the back of a van.  They were saying
something about Satan.  The patrol ran toward the van, yelling and shining
their flashlights toward it, and the men sped off, leaving the black man
behind.  "He was grateful," Saladin said.  "He thought he was going to be
sacrificed."
	As a 19-year-old member the group calls Kidd stood on a street
corner, watching for trouble at a nearby bar, a woman approached her.
	"What are the hats for?"
	"We're the Pink Angels," replied Kidd, the patrol's youngest member.
	"Y'all gay, right?"
	"Some of us."
	"You trying to protect gay people?"
	"Everybody," Kidd said.  "We're trying to help the whole
neighborhood."
	"God bless you," the woman said.  "We need a lot more of that."

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