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VOLUMNVIII, ISSUE4, April 2003
©2003MAKAW
Homosexuals Vs the Bible and the Constitution
by Billy Glover
Almost everyday there is news about religion attacking
homosexuals and homosexuality. So it must be repeated
why most homosexual citizens ignore such things, but then
fail to speak out in their own defense.
Fact: The Bible and the U.S. Constitution allow for slavery so they can notbe quoted as accurate, since I know of no
one who now promotes slavery by quoting either the Bible
or the Constitution.
Also they have been used to keep women second-class
citizens, and to try to stop citizens from drinking alcoholic
beverages, from entering interracial marriages, and even
inter-religious marriages, and have been used to justify racial segregation and the stealing of American Indians' land,
among other issues they have been used to justify.
Yet these same writings are used to justify attacking
homosexual citizens and invading our privacy, as they were
used to prevent the use of contraceptives, abortion, etc.
Both writings were compromises, and did a valuable
service to humanity by getting us started toward a better
world which they aimed at by their words in general such as "All men are created equal," and "Do unto others as
you would have them do unto you," etc.
The idea was that those founders did what they had to
do to get the nation, or the people of faith started, and they
fully expected the later generations to build on their efforts,
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clearly stated in the Bible and the writings of the nation's
founders, discussing slavery, separation of church and state,
etc.
Why do we let ignorant people with their own religious
agenda keep confusing us with their false "reading" of the
bible and Constitution? If we don't speak out, we will end
up at this time with a Southern Baptist Taliban, and later
we, and the Baptists, might end up with a Muslim Taliban
running the nation, quoting theirKoran to force everyone to
follow theirbeliefs.
And following our experience in the field of homosexuality, it is people who actually do not really believe what
they are claiming,that are our worst enemies, such as closet
queens who attack in us what they fear in themselves. Too
many religious fanatics must have less faith in their beliefs
than they claim since they protest too much how great they
are.
Think on these things, we are told, and homosexual citizens must think and act. We've had 50 years to get ready. A.
BillyGloveris ViceChairand Co-Founder
of the
Homosexual
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SouthernCaliforniain LosAngeles.
All Good Things...
All goodthings,as they say, must cometo an end. So it is
with this littlelaborof love, - it is with mixedfeelingsthatI'm
announdngthis will be the last yearfor T'1e, ~n:de,,
NewJl,et't"er.
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will continueto get LPN/LPMthroughDecember,
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but thebadnewsis thatDecember
2003willbethelastmonthofpublication.
It's beena greateightyears,but it's time now to be on to
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- Mel
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I am a beautiful part of the univer.se
The Bible says God suroeyed all of creationand saw that it
was good; that goodness includes me. I koow I was created to
be exactly as I am and that my sexual, orien:ta:ti,onis a naturol
and lovely pa,t of me, despite others' attempts t.opronounce me
euil or perverted.. Now /find ajJirm.ation
in the very Bible that has
been used t.oooridemn.my same-sex loving.
As I rome to trust myself more and rnon; I let
myself 'krww that I am a good person and that my
capacity to love someoneof the same s& is an important pa,t of my 'beauty. The universewas created as it is meant to be. I am wlw I was int.ended
t.obe. I feel. in harmony mth my higher power, and
I let that sense of my 'beautyJill,my being.
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A short co.ursein good v evil
I've already alienated a goon number of my well-meaning liberal
friends with my writings about the war in Iraq lately, so I might as
well go all the way (lesbians are always allowed to think independently and disagree with each other, as I learned long ago when some
of my politically correct friends thought every lesbian should be a
vegetarian and a witch).
As I write this, the war with Iraq has just begun; television is coving every minute of it, whether there is anything to cover or not, and
things change so fast that I have no idea what will be happening by
the time you read this.
But I do know some things that will be true no matter what, especially this: as far as the two leaders of the current conflict are concerned, President Bush is the good one and Saddam Hussein is the
bad one. I don't know why that is so hard for some folks to understand.
Over and over I hear people suggest that that Bush is the one who
should be deposed, not Hussein. And I've watched more than one
Hollywood honcho - along with a good many lesser known liberals
- say pretty much the same thing, sometimes, oddly enough, comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler.
What are people are thinking when they say things like that? Of
course the obvious answer is that they are not thinking at all, but I'm
inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they
each have at least half a brain. How those half-brains come up with
the conclusions they do, however, is a mystery to me.
Maybe the faulty thinking can be blamed on our education system. Maybe when the idiots who compare Bush with Hitler studied
World War II, even with the knowledge gained through hindsight,
they did not quite get it that Hitler was evil, that his final solution to
the problems facing his country was to torture and kill millions of his
own citizens along with conquered innocents.
Does it take a rocket scientist to know that that description
sounds a lot more like Saddam Hussein than George W.? No; I'm not
a rocket scientist but I do have a brain and I do know that Bush does
not use chemical agents on US citizens or our neighbors, and I under-
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stand that he does not want to conquer or expand his empire. I know
that Saddam does all of the above, and that he is not about to stop ...
until he is stopped.
Maybe the faulty thinking is a partisan issue. For instance, every
time the Democratic Party tries to block Bush's economic plans, I
think about how it is in their best interest to keep things bad in America - how else will they get more Democrats elected in a couple of
years? Maybe the same is true about the war.
Some of those famous Hollywood Democrats (check out
www.hollywoodhalfwits.com) would seem to prove this theory. When
Clinton rushed in to save Kosovo (coincidently, just in the nick of
time to shift focus away from his uncontrollable libido), Mike Farrell
(Honeycutt on the old MASH series) said " ... the bottom line is that I
think it's appropriate for the international community in situations
like this to intervene. I am in favor of intervention. On some level
you have to say that at least somebody is doing something." But to~
day, when it's a Republican who is doing something, Farrell is one of
the most vocal critics.
I wonder if a good part of the current anti-war movement is really
just anti-Bush. How else can it be explained that some Americans
claim they would rather have the evil one remain in power - to keep
killing and torturing his own people and to plot the demise of America
and a number of other countries - and have the good one (the president who drops flyers to let the Iraqi people know when and where we
are bombing and how they can save themselves, and who is sending
in supplies to make it easier on the people, and who offers the hope of
a democratic, self-ruling government in their country when the dust
settles) step down?
I've not always been a big fan of Bush either, but then, I'm not
really a fan of most politicians. Once I was a Clinton fan, especially
when he was campaigning and promising gays would be accepted in
the military as soon as he got to be president So we-the-GLBTcommunity elected that good ol' boy, and as soon as he took office he
backed down and pretty much abandoned us on that issue (and others). And that was just the beginning of my disappointment in him
At any rate, the difference between good and evil seems pretty
obvious to me, but since some people still seem confused, I'd like to
offer a few simple and easy-to-understand rules-of-thumb: freedom
and democracy are good, dictatorships (especially sadistic ones) are
evil; respecting your citizens' rights to criticize you is good, killing
the citizens who disagree with you is evil; stepping up to the plate to
protect yourself and to liberate someone else is good, surrounding
yourself with your own citizens forming a human shield - or kiting
them if they won't cooperate - is evil.
hargtoUIKientand,
does
it? ~
'fluit doesn't really seem :so
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by Lee Lynch
The Resistance
Eugene, Oregon. Sebastopol, California. Burlington, Vermont.
Northampton (aka Lesbianville), Massachusetts. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Denver, Colorado.
All of these cities and by now more, have passed resolutions calling for a full or partial repeal of the so-called Patriot Act This act
allows the U.S. government to detain without showing cause any person who is not a US citizen. It allows the federal government to enter
any American's home or office to search property and computers
without a warrant, without probable cause, and without notifying the
owner. The act declares that the Federal Government can listen in to
client/counsel communications through wire taps that require no
judge's order, only a belief that someone is connected with foreign
terrorists.
We're not just talking suspected terrorists, we're talking about any
one of us who steps over a line drawn by the hands of unfettered
power, something gay people do every time we fall love. The Bill of
Rights and the Constitution have been found irrelevant in the current
climate of fear and belligerence. We may not have struck against Iraq
yet, but we're deep into a war on freedom. And gay people have more
to lose than most when our government tells loses sight of protected
rights because we are being attacked.
And yes, the U.S. is being attacked, of course we're being attacked, and like any other scared animal I want to be protected, to run
and hi~e in my burrow until it's over, until I feel safe. I had a physical
problem a few weeks ago which caused me more pain than I've ever
felt before. Although I have no love for the medical establishment or
the pharmaceutical industry, nothing would have kept me from that
emergency room and from test results that calmed my fears. I was
grateful to the point of tears when they jabbed that intravenous morphine into my hand and increased the amount until the pain stopped.
\So I _unders~d the imp~e of a nation suddenly in a world of pain,
surprised by its vulnerabihty and at last convinced of its own mortality. A virtual emergency room was set up in Washington, D.C. on
?111/01while most of the nation wasfocused on the recovery efforts
m New York. For some months after, we Americans were in great
pain, stunned to acquiescence by our wounds. We gave ourselves over
to the supposed professionals who ran with our pennission and created not sane policies, but a reign of paranoia marketed as the highest
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patriotism.
. Goodness knows I'm glad to be an American and glad to be living
tn a country created as a democracy. What I can't understand is how
the enemy without formed a twisted enemy within Did the initial urge
toward protection somehow sour with a desire for revenge? Did the
power we gave the administration in our helplessness burgeon into
madness? I've received the passage below from more than one ecorrespondent since the passage of the Patriot Act and the escalation
of the "War on Terrorism."
"Why of course the people don't want war. But after all it is the
l~ers of the country who detennine the policy, and it is always a
s~mple~tter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger."
•
This quotation is attributed to Hermann Goering, Hitler's designated successor. I've read that after World War I, he was admitted to a
?Iental hospital and, in September 1925, to an asylum for dangerous
mmates, becoming a morphine addict in the course of his extended
recovery. At the Nuremberg
Trials he was found guilty of conspiracy
to wag_ewar, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against
hwnaruty. We've seen the result of his particular combination of madness and power.
The pain of the Patriot Act is not as immediate as the pain that
put me in the hospital, but it's bearing down fast. When will the stalwart groups of pacifists be deemed too dangerous to be allowed our
dissent? When will the entertainment mega-corporationsbe enlisted to
flood airwaves with propaganda?
Can public radio survive more cuts?
When will the alterative press find our howls of objection censored?
And when the right wing bulldozer rolls over our inalienable rights,
who will lie among the crushed, patriot or not, Republican or Democrat, Muslim or Jew, but the time-honored scapegoats, gay Americans.
We have a major stake in prodding our municipalities to pass
more resolutions calling for full or partial repeals of the so-called Patriot Act. I suspect it's no fluke that Lesbianville already has. This
mostly symbolic campaign echoes the outraged cries that turned the
country against the war in Viet Nam and against segregation. Whenever l~a~ ~buse power it is only the voice of the people refusing to
do therr bidding that can stop their madness.
.
©Lee Lynch
Editor's Note: This column was postponed from an earlier date, printed this month
because we haven 't heardfrom Lee lately - if you know what happened to Lee, let me
know. Lee, if you 're reading thfa,email me! -Mel <Morntngland@msn.com>
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ual It was an extremelyuglybattle,and neithersideappearedparticularly
victorious.
It mademe thinkaboutthe manylesbiansof the pastwhoworemen's
clothesand adoptedmalerolesso theycouldsecurea measureof freedom
to live and loveas they wished.I thoughtof the butchheroinesof lesbian
herstory,reveredfor theirrebellion,not from theirbirth sex,but fromthe
expectationsand dictatesof straight society.I thought about my own
femmeidentityandmy loveand respectof butchesfor their courageto be
partof a proudtraditionof "otbemess,"a traditionI unders1and
as mriquely
female, a celebrationof queernessand rules broken, not the aping of
"maleness"
asheterosexualshavemisunderstoodit. I wonderedhowmany
of my lesbianforemotherswould have changedtheir sex had they had
accessto ~ and surgicaltechniques.Whatdoesit meanif evena small
fragmentof the lesbiancultureI ta1cesuchpridein is basedon a lie? Add
to this, largerissuesof self-inflictedhomophobiaor the way in whichthe
dominant straight culture continues to reinforo: the superiorityof
"maleness"at eveiy tum, and for me, the decisionsof the FIMs in The
PhallusPalaceto Jiveas "nonnalmen"ratherthan"queerwomen,"is very
mucha lesbianissue.
My reactionisn't born out of ftm, prejudiceor "transphobia,"
a term
coined by transsexualactivistPatrick Califia The Phallus Palace reinforcesthe rightof everyoneto definetheiridentityon theirownterms,and
to live and love as they choose,with dignity.AB a lesbian,how could I
everdenythe necessityof thisto anyone?AndI don't knowthe answersto
my questions.But I do knowthat ThePhallusPalaceis a distwbingand
courageousbook that shookme to the core. It provesthat we need more
discussionand moreopenness,less fear and a refusalto weakenour comnnmitywith in-fighting.Andtoo, morebookslike this one to help us figure it out [77rePhalbuPalaceby DeanKo1ula,(coo1ributing
editorWilliamE. Parka-),
0n :s11credgroun
l
The end of butch?
Recently,whileinterviewinga writerwho identifiesas transgeooered,
I was askedif I thoughtshe lookedlike a man. I struggledto avoidanswering.Granted,I could see how she might be mistakenfor a teenage
boy by the straightwomenin the airportladies'roomswho screamedand
swungtheirpursesat her.Or evento her agingmaleneighborwho seesthe
worldin binary"hims"and "hers."But as a femmelesbianwho can, with
laser-likeprecision,seekout the subtlestaspectsof femalemasculinity,I
thoughtshelookedbutch.But I was afraidsayingso wouldoffendher.
This exchangemade me think about the writingson transgemered
individualsand transsexualsthat appear in my mailboxwith great frequency.And how and why these issuesrelateto lesbianism.So I finally
worlcedup the courageto approachThe Pha/msPalaceby DeanKotula,
(contributingeditorWtlliam E. Parl<er),
a bookthat I'd been avoidingfor
monthsout of the fear of writingsomethingthat's boundto makesomeone
angry.
The PhallusPalaceis a collectionof writingsaboutFIM (femaleto
male)transsexuals.And it's unusualin that it offersup accountsof personalexperiencesof FIMs and theirjourneysfrombirth as femaleto the
male bodiesand lives they now possess,alongsideacademicstudiesand
ratherclinicalmaterialon reassignmentsurgery,
E;veiy singlepersonalstoryin this collectionis moving;so manyof
them de.alhonestlywith the pain of beingtrappedin a body or a gemer
that felt wrong from childhood.It's imposslblnotto feel for .Jeny,who
tried "his damnedest"to liveas a butch lesbian,only to be criticiz.ed
for
being overlymasculine,and confessesthat the one thing that kept him
from suicidewashis hightestosteronelevels.Or Max,who seeschanging
sex as a crimeof pas.g.onOr Ken, who talksof how right it feelsto have
made the leap from ''bull dyke"to "straightman." Still, I couldn'thelp
readingthesestorieswithsomediscomfort.Lookingat the "before"photos
of the authorswhilethey still inhabitedwomen'sbodies,I bad to admit
that I couldhavebeen attradedto severalof these "men."But whatreally
disturbedme was when I read "AlanHart"by MargaretDeaderO'Hartigan and learnedof an argumentthat severelydividedthe Port1andGLTB
community.The strugglewas as to whetherDr. Hart, who was born Alberta LucilleHart and died Dr. AlanL. Hart,was a lesbianor a transsex10
AlyBOOBlda,$19.95]
t
Sacred ClaMic:Orlando VirginiaWoolfinstinaivelyunderstoodthe
genderwas a powerfulissueand deahwithit satiricallyin the wonderfully
comicOrlando.This "biography"bas beenlongviewedas a llO\lel-length
loveletterto VitaSackville-West
and a celebrationof Vita's skillin underminingthe expectationsof her femalerole. Orlandojumps both time and
gender,beginningthe book as an Elizabet.ban
noblemanand exitingas a
self-assuredwomanof the 1920's. This novel demonstratesa delicious
that insense of humorthat one hopes was a by-productof the pas.gon
spiredits creation.Orlandois not onlya true lesbianclassic,but also one
of the most belovedbooksof 20th centmyBritish literature.(Orlando:A
Biography,by VirginiaWool(OxfordUniversityPaperback,
$3.99)
OJoyParb
Ask for these books at your local
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A Nun's Story
appho's Solutions
uccessfu.ILivin
g
y and © Stacy Chandler
Dear Savvy Sappho, I've fallen out of love with my girlfriend.
What should I do? - Cold Shoulder
DearShoulder,TellherNOW! No mattertheresult,you've
bothonly got onelifetimeto live - don't stringheralong
andwastehertimeandlove.- SS
Dear Savvy Sappho, My workplace is full of whiny nay-sayers.
I've got to spend 45 hours a week there. Any advice? - Smiley
I
DearSmiley,Eithersaypositivethingsand neverwhine,or
bequietanddon'tmakethingsworse.Lookfor a newjob.In
mostsituations,we areeitherpart of thesolutionor part of
theproblem.- SS
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by and © Stacy Chandler
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ARIES
March 21 - April 19
Set your sights, go to greater heights/
Move away from here - try the atmosphere!
Fight off lethargy, court boundless energies;
You can transcend gravity!
You will never have to scram,
because you are the MEGA RAM!*
*BE WARNED - THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ABOVE DO NOT
NECESSARILY REFLECT THE AURA OF THE COSMOS!
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A cab driver picks up a nun. She gets into the cab, and the
cab driver won't stop staring at her. She asks him why he is
staring and he replies, "I have a question to ask you but I don't
want to offend you."
She answers: ''My dear son, you cannot offend me. When
you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you
get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I'm sure that
there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive."
'Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."
She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that:
#1, you have to be single and #2 you must be a Catholic."
The cab driver is very excited and says, ''Yes, I am single
and I'm Catholic too!"
The nun says, "OK, pull into the next alley." He does and
the nun fulfillshis fantasy. But when they get back on the road,
the cab driver starts crying. ''My dear child." said the nun,
"Why are you crying?"
"Forgive me sister, but I have sinned. I lied, I must confess,
I'm married and a I'm a Baptist."
The nun says, ''That's OK, I am on the way to a Halloween
party, and my name is Kevin." ©
Lifeis an opportunity,benefitfromit.
Lifeis beauty,admireit.
Lifeis bliss,tasteit.
Lifeis a dream,realizeit.
Lifeis a challenge,
meetit.
Lifeis a duty, complete
it.
Lifeis a game,playit.
Lifeis a promise,
fulfillit.
Lifeis sorrow,overcome
it.
Lifeis a song,singit.
Lifeis a struggle,acceptit.
Lifeis a tragedy,confrontit.
Lifeis an adventure,dareit.
Lifeis luck,makeit.
Lifeis tooprecious,donotdestrayit.
Lifeis life,fightfor it.
- Mother Teresa
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Local Church Offen Scholarships
to GLBTYouth
For the eighth consecutiveyear, Cathedral of Hope is
o.flerlng6nandal awards from the Warren M. RickwaMemorial ScholarshipFund to assist students in need. The
fund, set up by Paul Luddnbillin remembranceof his partner WarrenRickwa,gives priority to gay, lesbian,bisexual
and transgenderedyouth,althoughapplicationsare opento
everyone.
A nativeof SiouxOty, Iowa,Rickwamovedto Dallasin
1985where he workedfor the MarriottCorporation,managing their corporate cafeterias.Aftll' being diagnosedwith
AIDSin 1989,Rickwaworked for four more years before
being .forcedto retire. He passed away, November30,1995.
Rickwa'sone regret in 1i!ewas that he never had an opportu11ilyto AOto college;it • for that reaaon that Lucldnbill
establishedthe scholarshipfund.
The Warren M. Rickwa MemanalScholarshipFund
giveshighestpriority to full-tuneGLBTstudents under age
25,who are enteringcollegefor the first time.However,heterosexualstudeats of '1lesameage,who me mem1,ersof the
Cathedralof Hope congregation,are also given high priority. Finanda1
meds and scho1allicperformance
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Homosexuals Vs the Bible and the Constitution
by Billy Glover
Almost everyday there is news about religion attacking
homosexuals and homosexuality. So it must be repeated
why most homosexual citizens ignore such things, but then
fail to speak out in their own defense.
Fact: The Bible and the U.S. Constitution allow for slavery so they can notbe quoted as accurate, since I know of no
one who now promotes slavery by quoting either the Bible
or the Constitution.
Also they have been used to keep women second-class
citizens, and to try to stop citizens from drinking alcoholic
beverages, from entering interracial marriages, and even
inter-religious marriages, and have been used to justify racial segregation and the stealing of American Indians' land,
among other issues they have been used to justify.
Yet these same writings are used to justify attacking
homosexual citizens and invading our privacy, as they were
used to prevent the use of contraceptives, abortion, etc.
Both writings were compromises, and did a valuable
service to humanity by getting us started toward a better
world which they aimed at by their words in general such as "All men are created equal," and "Do unto others as
you would have them do unto you," etc.
The idea was that those founders did what they had to
do to get the nation, or the people of faith started, and they
fully expected the later generations to build on their efforts,
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clearly stated in the Bible and the writings of the nation's
founders, discussing slavery, separation of church and state,
etc.
Why do we let ignorant people with their own religious
agenda keep confusing us with their false "reading" of the
bible and Constitution? If we don't speak out, we will end
up at this time with a Southern Baptist Taliban, and later
we, and the Baptists, might end up with a Muslim Taliban
running the nation, quoting theirKoran to force everyone to
follow theirbeliefs.
And following our experience in the field of homosexuality, it is people who actually do not really believe what
they are claiming,that are our worst enemies, such as closet
queens who attack in us what they fear in themselves. Too
many religious fanatics must have less faith in their beliefs
than they claim since they protest too much how great they
are.
Think on these things, we are told, and homosexual citizens must think and act. We've had 50 years to get ready. A.
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was good; that goodness includes me. I koow I was created to
be exactly as I am and that my sexual, orien:ta:ti,onis a naturol
and lovely pa,t of me, despite others' attempts t.opronounce me
euil or perverted.. Now /find ajJirm.ation
in the very Bible that has
been used t.oooridemn.my same-sex loving.
As I rome to trust myself more and rnon; I let
myself 'krww that I am a good person and that my
capacity to love someoneof the same s& is an important pa,t of my 'beauty. The universewas created as it is meant to be. I am wlw I was int.ended
t.obe. I feel. in harmony mth my higher power, and
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A short co.ursein good v evil
I've already alienated a goon number of my well-meaning liberal
friends with my writings about the war in Iraq lately, so I might as
well go all the way (lesbians are always allowed to think independently and disagree with each other, as I learned long ago when some
of my politically correct friends thought every lesbian should be a
vegetarian and a witch).
As I write this, the war with Iraq has just begun; television is coving every minute of it, whether there is anything to cover or not, and
things change so fast that I have no idea what will be happening by
the time you read this.
But I do know some things that will be true no matter what, especially this: as far as the two leaders of the current conflict are concerned, President Bush is the good one and Saddam Hussein is the
bad one. I don't know why that is so hard for some folks to understand.
Over and over I hear people suggest that that Bush is the one who
should be deposed, not Hussein. And I've watched more than one
Hollywood honcho - along with a good many lesser known liberals
- say pretty much the same thing, sometimes, oddly enough, comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler.
What are people are thinking when they say things like that? Of
course the obvious answer is that they are not thinking at all, but I'm
inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they
each have at least half a brain. How those half-brains come up with
the conclusions they do, however, is a mystery to me.
Maybe the faulty thinking can be blamed on our education system. Maybe when the idiots who compare Bush with Hitler studied
World War II, even with the knowledge gained through hindsight,
they did not quite get it that Hitler was evil, that his final solution to
the problems facing his country was to torture and kill millions of his
own citizens along with conquered innocents.
Does it take a rocket scientist to know that that description
sounds a lot more like Saddam Hussein than George W.? No; I'm not
a rocket scientist but I do have a brain and I do know that Bush does
not use chemical agents on US citizens or our neighbors, and I under-
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stand that he does not want to conquer or expand his empire. I know
that Saddam does all of the above, and that he is not about to stop ...
until he is stopped.
Maybe the faulty thinking is a partisan issue. For instance, every
time the Democratic Party tries to block Bush's economic plans, I
think about how it is in their best interest to keep things bad in America - how else will they get more Democrats elected in a couple of
years? Maybe the same is true about the war.
Some of those famous Hollywood Democrats (check out
www.hollywoodhalfwits.com) would seem to prove this theory. When
Clinton rushed in to save Kosovo (coincidently, just in the nick of
time to shift focus away from his uncontrollable libido), Mike Farrell
(Honeycutt on the old MASH series) said " ... the bottom line is that I
think it's appropriate for the international community in situations
like this to intervene. I am in favor of intervention. On some level
you have to say that at least somebody is doing something." But to~
day, when it's a Republican who is doing something, Farrell is one of
the most vocal critics.
I wonder if a good part of the current anti-war movement is really
just anti-Bush. How else can it be explained that some Americans
claim they would rather have the evil one remain in power - to keep
killing and torturing his own people and to plot the demise of America
and a number of other countries - and have the good one (the president who drops flyers to let the Iraqi people know when and where we
are bombing and how they can save themselves, and who is sending
in supplies to make it easier on the people, and who offers the hope of
a democratic, self-ruling government in their country when the dust
settles) step down?
I've not always been a big fan of Bush either, but then, I'm not
really a fan of most politicians. Once I was a Clinton fan, especially
when he was campaigning and promising gays would be accepted in
the military as soon as he got to be president So we-the-GLBTcommunity elected that good ol' boy, and as soon as he took office he
backed down and pretty much abandoned us on that issue (and others). And that was just the beginning of my disappointment in him
At any rate, the difference between good and evil seems pretty
obvious to me, but since some people still seem confused, I'd like to
offer a few simple and easy-to-understand rules-of-thumb: freedom
and democracy are good, dictatorships (especially sadistic ones) are
evil; respecting your citizens' rights to criticize you is good, killing
the citizens who disagree with you is evil; stepping up to the plate to
protect yourself and to liberate someone else is good, surrounding
yourself with your own citizens forming a human shield - or kiting
them if they won't cooperate - is evil.
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does
it? ~
'fluit doesn't really seem :so
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by Lee Lynch
The Resistance
Eugene, Oregon. Sebastopol, California. Burlington, Vermont.
Northampton (aka Lesbianville), Massachusetts. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Denver, Colorado.
All of these cities and by now more, have passed resolutions calling for a full or partial repeal of the so-called Patriot Act This act
allows the U.S. government to detain without showing cause any person who is not a US citizen. It allows the federal government to enter
any American's home or office to search property and computers
without a warrant, without probable cause, and without notifying the
owner. The act declares that the Federal Government can listen in to
client/counsel communications through wire taps that require no
judge's order, only a belief that someone is connected with foreign
terrorists.
We're not just talking suspected terrorists, we're talking about any
one of us who steps over a line drawn by the hands of unfettered
power, something gay people do every time we fall love. The Bill of
Rights and the Constitution have been found irrelevant in the current
climate of fear and belligerence. We may not have struck against Iraq
yet, but we're deep into a war on freedom. And gay people have more
to lose than most when our government tells loses sight of protected
rights because we are being attacked.
And yes, the U.S. is being attacked, of course we're being attacked, and like any other scared animal I want to be protected, to run
and hi~e in my burrow until it's over, until I feel safe. I had a physical
problem a few weeks ago which caused me more pain than I've ever
felt before. Although I have no love for the medical establishment or
the pharmaceutical industry, nothing would have kept me from that
emergency room and from test results that calmed my fears. I was
grateful to the point of tears when they jabbed that intravenous morphine into my hand and increased the amount until the pain stopped.
\So I _unders~d the imp~e of a nation suddenly in a world of pain,
surprised by its vulnerabihty and at last convinced of its own mortality. A virtual emergency room was set up in Washington, D.C. on
?111/01while most of the nation wasfocused on the recovery efforts
m New York. For some months after, we Americans were in great
pain, stunned to acquiescence by our wounds. We gave ourselves over
to the supposed professionals who ran with our pennission and created not sane policies, but a reign of paranoia marketed as the highest
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patriotism.
. Goodness knows I'm glad to be an American and glad to be living
tn a country created as a democracy. What I can't understand is how
the enemy without formed a twisted enemy within Did the initial urge
toward protection somehow sour with a desire for revenge? Did the
power we gave the administration in our helplessness burgeon into
madness? I've received the passage below from more than one ecorrespondent since the passage of the Patriot Act and the escalation
of the "War on Terrorism."
"Why of course the people don't want war. But after all it is the
l~ers of the country who detennine the policy, and it is always a
s~mple~tter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger."
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This quotation is attributed to Hermann Goering, Hitler's designated successor. I've read that after World War I, he was admitted to a
?Iental hospital and, in September 1925, to an asylum for dangerous
mmates, becoming a morphine addict in the course of his extended
recovery. At the Nuremberg
Trials he was found guilty of conspiracy
to wag_ewar, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against
hwnaruty. We've seen the result of his particular combination of madness and power.
The pain of the Patriot Act is not as immediate as the pain that
put me in the hospital, but it's bearing down fast. When will the stalwart groups of pacifists be deemed too dangerous to be allowed our
dissent? When will the entertainment mega-corporationsbe enlisted to
flood airwaves with propaganda?
Can public radio survive more cuts?
When will the alterative press find our howls of objection censored?
And when the right wing bulldozer rolls over our inalienable rights,
who will lie among the crushed, patriot or not, Republican or Democrat, Muslim or Jew, but the time-honored scapegoats, gay Americans.
We have a major stake in prodding our municipalities to pass
more resolutions calling for full or partial repeals of the so-called Patriot Act. I suspect it's no fluke that Lesbianville already has. This
mostly symbolic campaign echoes the outraged cries that turned the
country against the war in Viet Nam and against segregation. Whenever l~a~ ~buse power it is only the voice of the people refusing to
do therr bidding that can stop their madness.
.
©Lee Lynch
Editor's Note: This column was postponed from an earlier date, printed this month
because we haven 't heardfrom Lee lately - if you know what happened to Lee, let me
know. Lee, if you 're reading thfa,email me! -Mel <Morntngland@msn.com>
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ual It was an extremelyuglybattle,and neithersideappearedparticularly
victorious.
It mademe thinkaboutthe manylesbiansof the pastwhoworemen's
clothesand adoptedmalerolesso theycouldsecurea measureof freedom
to live and loveas they wished.I thoughtof the butchheroinesof lesbian
herstory,reveredfor theirrebellion,not from theirbirth sex,but fromthe
expectationsand dictatesof straight society.I thought about my own
femmeidentityandmy loveand respectof butchesfor their courageto be
partof a proudtraditionof "otbemess,"a traditionI unders1and
as mriquely
female, a celebrationof queernessand rules broken, not the aping of
"maleness"
asheterosexualshavemisunderstoodit. I wonderedhowmany
of my lesbianforemotherswould have changedtheir sex had they had
accessto ~ and surgicaltechniques.Whatdoesit meanif evena small
fragmentof the lesbiancultureI ta1cesuchpridein is basedon a lie? Add
to this, largerissuesof self-inflictedhomophobiaor the way in whichthe
dominant straight culture continues to reinforo: the superiorityof
"maleness"at eveiy tum, and for me, the decisionsof the FIMs in The
PhallusPalaceto Jiveas "nonnalmen"ratherthan"queerwomen,"is very
mucha lesbianissue.
My reactionisn't born out of ftm, prejudiceor "transphobia,"
a term
coined by transsexualactivistPatrick Califia The Phallus Palace reinforcesthe rightof everyoneto definetheiridentityon theirownterms,and
to live and love as they choose,with dignity.AB a lesbian,how could I
everdenythe necessityof thisto anyone?AndI don't knowthe answersto
my questions.But I do knowthat ThePhallusPalaceis a distwbingand
courageousbook that shookme to the core. It provesthat we need more
discussionand moreopenness,less fear and a refusalto weakenour comnnmitywith in-fighting.Andtoo, morebookslike this one to help us figure it out [77rePhalbuPalaceby DeanKo1ula,(coo1ributing
editorWilliamE. Parka-),
0n :s11credgroun
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The end of butch?
Recently,whileinterviewinga writerwho identifiesas transgeooered,
I was askedif I thoughtshe lookedlike a man. I struggledto avoidanswering.Granted,I could see how she might be mistakenfor a teenage
boy by the straightwomenin the airportladies'roomswho screamedand
swungtheirpursesat her.Or evento her agingmaleneighborwho seesthe
worldin binary"hims"and "hers."But as a femmelesbianwho can, with
laser-likeprecision,seekout the subtlestaspectsof femalemasculinity,I
thoughtshelookedbutch.But I was afraidsayingso wouldoffendher.
This exchangemade me think about the writingson transgemered
individualsand transsexualsthat appear in my mailboxwith great frequency.And how and why these issuesrelateto lesbianism.So I finally
worlcedup the courageto approachThe Pha/msPalaceby DeanKotula,
(contributingeditorWtlliam E. Parl<er),
a bookthat I'd been avoidingfor
monthsout of the fear of writingsomethingthat's boundto makesomeone
angry.
The PhallusPalaceis a collectionof writingsaboutFIM (femaleto
male)transsexuals.And it's unusualin that it offersup accountsof personalexperiencesof FIMs and theirjourneysfrombirth as femaleto the
male bodiesand lives they now possess,alongsideacademicstudiesand
ratherclinicalmaterialon reassignmentsurgery,
E;veiy singlepersonalstoryin this collectionis moving;so manyof
them de.alhonestlywith the pain of beingtrappedin a body or a gemer
that felt wrong from childhood.It's imposslblnotto feel for .Jeny,who
tried "his damnedest"to liveas a butch lesbian,only to be criticiz.ed
for
being overlymasculine,and confessesthat the one thing that kept him
from suicidewashis hightestosteronelevels.Or Max,who seeschanging
sex as a crimeof pas.g.onOr Ken, who talksof how right it feelsto have
made the leap from ''bull dyke"to "straightman." Still, I couldn'thelp
readingthesestorieswithsomediscomfort.Lookingat the "before"photos
of the authorswhilethey still inhabitedwomen'sbodies,I bad to admit
that I couldhavebeen attradedto severalof these "men."But whatreally
disturbedme was when I read "AlanHart"by MargaretDeaderO'Hartigan and learnedof an argumentthat severelydividedthe Port1andGLTB
community.The strugglewas as to whetherDr. Hart, who was born Alberta LucilleHart and died Dr. AlanL. Hart,was a lesbianor a transsex10
AlyBOOBlda,$19.95]
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Sacred ClaMic:Orlando VirginiaWoolfinstinaivelyunderstoodthe
genderwas a powerfulissueand deahwithit satiricallyin the wonderfully
comicOrlando.This "biography"bas beenlongviewedas a llO\lel-length
loveletterto VitaSackville-West
and a celebrationof Vita's skillin underminingthe expectationsof her femalerole. Orlandojumps both time and
gender,beginningthe book as an Elizabet.ban
noblemanand exitingas a
self-assuredwomanof the 1920's. This novel demonstratesa delicious
that insense of humorthat one hopes was a by-productof the pas.gon
spiredits creation.Orlandois not onlya true lesbianclassic,but also one
of the most belovedbooksof 20th centmyBritish literature.(Orlando:A
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A Nun's Story
appho's Solutions
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Dear Savvy Sappho, I've fallen out of love with my girlfriend.
What should I do? - Cold Shoulder
DearShoulder,TellherNOW! No mattertheresult,you've
bothonly got onelifetimeto live - don't stringheralong
andwastehertimeandlove.- SS
Dear Savvy Sappho, My workplace is full of whiny nay-sayers.
I've got to spend 45 hours a week there. Any advice? - Smiley
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DearSmiley,Eithersaypositivethingsand neverwhine,or
bequietanddon'tmakethingsworse.Lookfor a newjob.In
mostsituations,we areeitherpart of thesolutionor part of
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March 21 - April 19
Set your sights, go to greater heights/
Move away from here - try the atmosphere!
Fight off lethargy, court boundless energies;
You can transcend gravity!
You will never have to scram,
because you are the MEGA RAM!*
*BE WARNED - THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ABOVE DO NOT
NECESSARILY REFLECT THE AURA OF THE COSMOS!
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A cab driver picks up a nun. She gets into the cab, and the
cab driver won't stop staring at her. She asks him why he is
staring and he replies, "I have a question to ask you but I don't
want to offend you."
She answers: ''My dear son, you cannot offend me. When
you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you
get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I'm sure that
there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive."
'Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."
She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that:
#1, you have to be single and #2 you must be a Catholic."
The cab driver is very excited and says, ''Yes, I am single
and I'm Catholic too!"
The nun says, "OK, pull into the next alley." He does and
the nun fulfillshis fantasy. But when they get back on the road,
the cab driver starts crying. ''My dear child." said the nun,
"Why are you crying?"
"Forgive me sister, but I have sinned. I lied, I must confess,
I'm married and a I'm a Baptist."
The nun says, ''That's OK, I am on the way to a Halloween
party, and my name is Kevin." ©
Lifeis an opportunity,benefitfromit.
Lifeis beauty,admireit.
Lifeis bliss,tasteit.
Lifeis a dream,realizeit.
Lifeis a challenge,
meetit.
Lifeis a duty, complete
it.
Lifeis a game,playit.
Lifeis a promise,
fulfillit.
Lifeis sorrow,overcome
it.
Lifeis a song,singit.
Lifeis a struggle,acceptit.
Lifeis a tragedy,confrontit.
Lifeis an adventure,dareit.
Lifeis luck,makeit.
Lifeis tooprecious,donotdestrayit.
Lifeis life,fightfor it.
- Mother Teresa
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Local Church Offen Scholarships
to GLBTYouth
For the eighth consecutiveyear, Cathedral of Hope is
o.flerlng6nandal awards from the Warren M. RickwaMemorial ScholarshipFund to assist students in need. The
fund, set up by Paul Luddnbillin remembranceof his partner WarrenRickwa,gives priority to gay, lesbian,bisexual
and transgenderedyouth,althoughapplicationsare opento
everyone.
A nativeof SiouxOty, Iowa,Rickwamovedto Dallasin
1985where he workedfor the MarriottCorporation,managing their corporate cafeterias.Aftll' being diagnosedwith
AIDSin 1989,Rickwaworked for four more years before
being .forcedto retire. He passed away, November30,1995.
Rickwa'sone regret in 1i!ewas that he never had an opportu11ilyto AOto college;it • for that reaaon that Lucldnbill
establishedthe scholarshipfund.
The Warren M. Rickwa MemanalScholarshipFund
giveshighestpriority to full-tuneGLBTstudents under age
25,who are enteringcollegefor the first time.However,heterosexualstudeats of '1lesameage,who me mem1,ersof the
Cathedralof Hope congregation,are also given high priority. Finanda1
meds and scho1allicperformance
arennportant considerations.An interview will be set with the Selection Committeefor eachappliamt who meets theaboveaiteria and whose applicationts receivedby the May 6 deadline. Studentswill be aekedto providea brief explanationof
their interest in the scholarship,a copy of their latest grade
point avemge,proof of fncomeand a Jetterof acceptanceto
college.Scholarshipapplications~ availableat Cathedral
of Hope,5910Cedar Springs Roadin Dallasor via the website WWW .catherdralofhope.com
Oithetlr,d of Hope,led by Rm, Miclm S. Puma n Dr,
Mona Wat, is tltl 'WOl'ld's
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