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History
from page 15
Fall 1985 — Five organizations in the Greensboro,
Winston-Salem and Hi^ Point area charter the Triad Gay
and Lesbian Network; Richard Gray and LGBT historian
John D’Emilio are elected as the group’s first officers.
October 1985 — Project H.O.P.E., an HlV/AlDS service
organization, is established in Asheville. The group
changes its name to Western North Carolina AIDS Project
in summer 1986.
1986 — Charlotte’s first PFLAG chapter is established.
Feb. 4,1986 — Piedmont Gay and Lesbian
Association, the LGBT student group at Clemson
University, claims they are being censored after editors
prohibit the group from placing advertising in The Tiger,
Clemson’s student newspaper.
June 1986 — Queen City Quordinators establishes Q-
Notes as a monthly print newspaper and the first issue is
published, after an almost three-year run as the organiza
tion’s newsletter.
Summer 1986 — Triad Health Project is established in
Greensboro to combat the HIV/AIDS crisis there.
July 25,1986 — For the first time in Charlotte, media is
allowed unrestricted access to cover an LGBT community
event. WSOC-TV,WBTV and The Charlotte Observer covered
the 105-person demonstration “American Vigil for Truth and
Decency” in response to a Charlotte visit by anti-gay
researcher Paul Cameron.
Dec. 22,1986 — The first local cable show in Charlotte
about gays and lesbians airs its first episode on a public
access channel. The “Gay/Lesbian Forum” was produced
by activist and Q-Notes editor Don King’s Closet Buster
Productions. I
— Information compiled from the public archives of
The Front Page, Q-Notes and the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill GLBTSAs Lambda.
T-Notes
from page 19
ognize the essential nature of individuahty and both chose to
marginalize and eliminate that which they neither understood
nor tolerated.
Yes, Stonewall is history and celebration is in order. Lest
we forget the lessons of history, however, we’d be wise to pay
closer attention. As much as has changed over the past 40
years, we still face the very same bugaboo — the “ick” factor,
the problem some straight persons have when they allow vis
ceral “gut” feelings to fester in the stew of denial. The inno
cent and natural behavior expressed in gender diversity is
just too much for some. This mindset allowed events such as
Stonewall to transpire.
What is most appalling 40 years later, however, is that we
are still hearing the same assimilation tack, a variant of the
“ick” factor, from many in the LGB community. In the guise
of incrementalism, this same old bigotry tells us to be
patient, wait our turn while we continue to educate (as if no
efforts have been made heretofore). The implication is that
the world is not ready yet for our blatant and deviant gender
transgressions. If we would only tone it down, try to blend...
Regardless of the degree or substance of such bigotry, or
its basis —assimilation or religious intolerance, Mattachine
or Family Values Coalition — the inabihty to abide by a “live
and let live” model amongst these hypocritical so-called
judges of societal behavior has the same net result:
Intolerance, Inequality, Injustice.
The lesson, for today, of Stonewall, Compton’s and Dewey’s
is that, for all the progress we have made, the world is still nei
ther a very prosperous nor safe place to live in if you are a gen
der transgressor. Maybe its time to take to the streets a^ain —
I still have my copy of the Stones’“Street Fighting Man! ’ I
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