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Compiled By Jack Nichols Melissa's Sister Dearest
Ann Oldenburg--"Etheridge unearths pain in her new memoir and CD"--USA Today- June 15 Consumer Kiddies Prefer to Shop My wife didn't go to counseling but I know she talked to her parish priest, who helped her a fair bit. She kind of just accepted it. She said that in a way she was pleased that it wasn't another woman. I told the children about eight months after that and I was expecting a huge drama but they just said, "Come on, Dad, let's go shopping." Warren Loy--president of the Gay and Married Men's Association- "The Answers-Relationship Column"-- Sunday Life! magazine, (Sydney Sunday Sun-Herald, June 10 
Know Them Better-- Despise Them More
If my party has reached down that far to make a point, then the Republican Party is worse off than we thought. Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel- (R.-Nebraska)who voted against Helms' Boy Scout amendment, in regard to an offensive anti-gay memo being circulated among Republican lawmakers-quoted by Matt Kelley in "GOP Power Play Behind Debate on Boy Scouts, Gays"--Omaha World-Herald, June 15 Conversation in Hoo Hoo Park One guy says to another guy, "Nice out tonight," and the other guy replies, "Then I'll keep it out." Linda Stasi-"You've Got Male"-New York Post, June 15 Under Attack
Doug Ireland-"Same-Sexers Under Siege"-The Nation, July 2 We're Everywhere! In the macho world of the mob, John D'Amato appeared to fit right in. He was close friends with crime boss John Gotti, hanging out every Tuesday in the all-male world of the Ravenite Social Club on Mulberry St…He rose to the top echelon of New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family, becoming the acting boss and overseeing all the tough-guy rackets: extortion, loansharking, the works… The married mob boss also had a secret gay life, a new mob informant recently told the FBI, according to sources. And his sexual preference apparently cost him his life. Greg B. Smith-" Mobster Killed for Being Gay"-- New York Daily News, June 15 Missile Defense = Cold War 2
U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)- "War is Better Left to Experts in Hollywood"- www.Truthout.com--June 12 Unprotected HIV+ & HIV+ =Risk Although much of the unprotected anal sex was reported to be with a seroconcordant partner, that activity carries some risk for transmission owing to a lack of knowledge about -or incorrect disclosure of -current HIV status. American Journal of Public Health (06.01) Vol 91; No 6: P 953-958 Calling All Hispanic Lesbians!
In the Hispanic community, women don't really come out. They lie
to their families, lie to their co-workers. They're afraid of being
judged. In the Hispanic community, things are kept in silence. What
people think is very important.
Lisette Garcia-" 'Gay Riviera': A real look at Beach folks" --Miami Herald, June 14 Exciting Southern Baptist Entertainment? The Rev. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said Disney would have to stop cooperating with gay activities and causes in its theme parks, television programs and publications. In addition, Land called on Disney to "establish an advisory committee of Southern Baptists and other evangelicals" to provide "advice and counsel" on entertainment projects. Mark I. Pinsky-"Baptists offer Disney deal on boycott"-- Orlando Sentinel, June 14 |
The singer also writes of the "shame" she felt when she was 6 years
old and her 10-year-old sister began to "want things from me." "She would
tell me what to do and I would follow her directions," she says in Truth.
"I knew that touching her was wrong and I knew that it was something that
would never be talked about. Not in our family."Now, Etheridge says, she's not
"angry" at Jennifer. "It makes me who I am today." However, she also says they
don't speak. "We kind of choose not to communicate."
The warning signs of a real crisis for the gay rights movement are
there for all who care to read them…Across the nation, the right-wing
crusade to roll back gay civil rights gains and block further advances -
already well under way before the election of George W. Bush -
is gathering momentum. At the same time, gay conservatives--many of
whom oppose laws protecting gays against discrimination--are increasingly
vocal and well organized. These twin developments present the established national
gay institutions with the urgent need to rethink their missions and strategies,
a challenge already taken up in some states.
Since the Reagan Administration, we have been urged by right wing wishful thinkers to
deploy a system for which workable technology does not exist. Now many years, and
many billions of dollars later, the Bush Administration is still pursuing this irresponsible,
unnecessary, and unrealistic policy. I fear that moving forward with NMD will reverse
the diplomatic progress made over the last decade and deployment will actually undermine
our security by igniting Cold War II.
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