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to lick his medicine
while the police
YES!'
(AMERICA continued from page 5)
O, let America be America again-
The land that never has been yet
And yet must be-
The land where every man is
free...
O, yes I say it plain,
America never was America to me.
And yet I swear this oath-
America will be!
America is still not America.
She has not fulfilled our dream. I
will fight until my death against
bigotry, discrimination, and
ignorance until America is America
- DANNIELLE LANDRY
NAT’L MARCH PARTY
On Saturday, December 5, 9pm to
1am, there will be a "Thank You &
Pre-Holiday Party" held at the
Durham YWCA at 809 Proctor Street
in Durham. There will be a video
of the National March shown, and
the March Committee asks that any
folks who have photos from the
March to bring them to share &
show. Final sale of March posters
& buttons!
The party is BYOB with a $1-$2
fee requested to help defray party
costs. There will be cookies,
snacks, cider & egg nog available.
After the video a massive dance
will ensue with Mandy "Cool J"
Carter spinning those discs!
Please come & celebrate the March!
with AIDS had
off the floor
looked on.
2) After being taken into cus
tody, we were not offered food for
almost 20 hours.
3) Some men smuggled condoms
into our holding cell (it is
illegal to have condoms in jail by,
the way...) and we blew them up
into balloons and played "rubber
toss" to while away the tedium of
jail life.
4) They didn't let us sleep at
all by moving us into different
cells and buildings every hour or
so. I counted thirteen different
cells. (We men could have given
the police a hint or two about
color schemes. Most of the cells
were done in the most hideous
"burnt sienna" imaginable!)
5) I sang Connie Francis's hit
Boys Are" in holding
received tumultuous
"Where the
cell B and
applause!
6) All the men in jail with me
treated each other with love and
compassion. We talked and sang to
each other, we snuggled up and
sometimes we kissed. We were "real
men."
As someone said in the rally
before the arrests, "Every night at
home with our lovers we commit
civil disobedience; today we're
just taking our act on the road."
- STEVE SULLIVAN
ARE YOU A BIGOT?
By homophobia, one does not
simply mean "the irrational fear of
homosexuals or homosexuality." The
word choice is perhaps unfortunate,
but until a better one comes into
common parlance, it is the one we
must use to describe the hatred of
and attacks against gay and lesbian
people by narrow-minded people we
call "homophobes".
There is one philosophy of
homophobia (which will explain the
reason for the word) that claims
that this hatred is due to a deep,
unconscious fear of the natural
homoerotic nature of some feelings
that even heterosexuals have,
especially in their adolescence.
Whatever the reason, however, the
attitudes and behaviors are still
called "homophobia."
And if you hate homosexuality
and are out to destroy the Carolina
Gay and Lesbian Association, then
you are BY DEFINITION a homophobe,
just as you would be a racist if
you incessantly attacked the Black
Student Movement. If you prefer,
however, we will gladly also call
you a bigot.
- JIM DULEY