Oral Majority's President,
Bob Kunst, says he feels as if he’s taking on the world what with boycotting
the Cayman Islands and the State of Maine while demanding an end to such
Sexual Witchhunts as are affecting President Clinton.
Kunst is also promoting his
organization’s Declaration of Gay, Bisexual and Heterosexual Rights, in
a Florida bid to make such rights a part of the constitutional amendment
on that state’s November ballot. Such an amendment, he says, could possibly
set a tone for Federal Legislation.
“If a full plate of activism
is in order,” Kunst told GayToday, “the Oral Majority is delivering.” Kunst
recently protested at the "G-8" Summit of World leaders in Birmingham,
England where he was interviewed by the BBC. In England he collected
800 signatures toward his organization’s Cayman Islands boycott.
His crusade will continue on July 4 when he takes part in London’s Gay
Pride festivities where 100,000 are expected to attend.
Addressing Prime Minister
Tony Blair, the veteran gay activist informed the British government that
the U.S./U.K. Gay and lesbian communities were united in their determination
to boycott the former British colonies and protectorates that are using
anti-gay witch hunting to divert attention from their own failed social
and financial policies. He also encouraged Blair to overturn 'Clause 28',
holdover anti-gay legislation from Britain’s Thatcher era. The repeal of
this Clause, he says, will be the theme of this year’s British gay pride
celebration.
The Oral Majority President
also asked Blair to take the Cayman Islands case to the Court of Human
Rights in the Hague and he addressed the European Commission's High Court
on Human Rights suggesting an International boycott of trade, foreign
aid and any non-emergency commerce until the Caymans anti-gay issues are
resolved in support of everyone's human rights.
Kunst has even talked with
Labor Unions asking that they not load ships going to the Caymans.
With 9000 signatures collected
on petitions from only a few cities, the Oral Majority has drawn considerable
attention to its cause, encouraging reactions against and resistance to
the politics of bigotry. A major push in this direction will take
place on the weekend of June 5, 6, 7, 1998 at Orlando’s Disney World and
in Key West.
After addressing Lambda Democrats
in Key West, Key West Pride has invited Kunst to be its keynote speaker
June 7 at a citywide rally that is scheduled for 5 P.M. on Duval St., by
the Bourbon Pub. The Mayor of Key West will be a participant at the rally.
“June 7 marks the 21st Anniversary
of the repeal of ‘Gay Rights' by Anita Bryant and Jerry Falwell in Dade
County” recalls Kunst, “which was the turning point in the struggle and
which Key West 'remembers'.”
A Key West-sponsored "Pride
Ride" composed of two vans and 24 people will leave Key West at 8 A.M.
on June 5, from The Atlantic Shores. Pride Riders will then arrive 4 hours
later for an “official kickoff”, destined, according to the Oral Majority,
to be a media event at the world-famous "News Cafe", 800 Ocean Drive, Miami
Beach (from Noon to 1 P.M.).
The News Café is best
known as a spot where the beloved late designer-giant GianniVersace
was a daily customer. There, the Pride Riders will be wined and dined,
as they wend their way to GayDays at Disney World, where over a 100,000
are expected to attend.
On the following day, June
6, at 10 A.M., Oral Majority members will demonstrate at the intersection
of 192 and 535 in Orlando, with the media present to record the antics
of hordes of anti-gay fundamentalist protesters who have promised to be
present.
“Meanwhile,” Kunst exults,
“ we will be collecting many signatures in and around Orlando. We’ll alert
the world about our Agenda and make known the need to give it support.
On June 7 Oral Majority members
will return to Key West to kickoff Gay Pride festivities there. “We are
expecting a great deal of media attention in pushing this outreach to organize
and galvanize within, and extend our impact to the State of Florida, to
the nation and to the world, just like we impacted 21 years ago when we
confronted Anita. We're back, I tell you, for Round II “.
“If ‘Deep Throat’ Saved America
from Richard Nixon ,” laughs a serious Kunst, “well.. Oral Majority is
doing it again to Save America by Stopping this Sexual Witchhunt now.”
Kunst says he’s convinced that the majority of Americans are tired of politically-motivated
sexual diversions.
“Real political issues are
being ignored, and this view is held by two thirds of the public who could
care less about President Clinton's sexual trysts.” says Kunst. “The
Oral Majority,” he assured GayToday, “counts on this same public’s votes
and support and through our boycotts and public demonstrations and rallies
against these stupid sex witch hunts we know we’re galvanizing the
public’s voting patterns bigtime. America has finally grown tired of bedroom
peep hole politics.”
Oral Majority
Telephone: 305-864-5110
FAX: 305-867-1976
E-Mail: bobkunst@bellsouth.net
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