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by Sandy Lowe - FACT: The "little town" of Healdsbuig FACT: The ' majority of the parenu of preaeiited*si wide base of siqipoit for a school Healdsbuig were so outraged by an attempt on First: Briggs esune to Healdsbuig as a teacher knowi^to have an excellent record of the pan of a few fanatic people to railroad a / carpet-bagger of bigotry and deceit. He had read of achievement. dismissal, that they overwhelming^ threat the controversy surrounding Larry Berner in a Bay FACT: The teacher has lived a quiet ■«H ened to withdiaw mU their children horn the Area newspaper and, by his own admission, he private life as a resident of Healdsbuig for schooLif the school boaid dismissed the gay invited himself to Healdsburg in order to grab a few more than 5 years. He began to "campaign teacher. headlines and scare up some semblance of pubBcly" in defense of human l i g ^ only q/ker grass-roots support. Briggs annouDced hh intent to attack the A small but powerful group of mMant The fact is that, Briggs’ trip proves that in the -J riglus of an teacheri. ' ______homosexuals is determined to impose iu jffe-style on whole State of California he had not been able to the majotity of decent cUixent. Just who is really fmd any napm scandalqiiTn ease to exploit than t he School officiab tell pai euu their hand» aw tied; being harassed, the hompsexuat-advocffia or tlie~ existence of one excellent and popular openly Gay the existing law leaves them powerless to deal with public? teacher in Healdsburg. A year ago even this one case the prolilem. . . FACT: There b a lai;^ population of Lesbians did not exist s i n c e “came out” politically only —arid C ay men- who work, - live, ^ r i ^ thelr" in response to Briggs' bigoted campaign against Gay school offidab to deal with misconduct. In families, and h e ^ compose the majority of school workers- Hesddsbuig there has been no misconduct. decemcitiaeM, taxpayers, and home owners of The second and more insidious reason that There is no problem, which is why school Sonoma Couiuy. It b Briggs and hb few Briggs came to Healdsburg was his attempt to officiab have been "powerless" to act. siqqmiteiB who have come buo our county to authenticate his published lies. The fact is that impose their bigoted Ufe-styl^bn a "quiet Iktle Briggs' office had already issued a statement In desperation, twelve families have removed their town". concerning Larry and'the pdqp^ of Healdsburg children Grom-che schcml rathe^than expose them to which will appear as'^a rebuttal argument in the the example of an openly homosexual teacher. According to homosexual leaders many Voters Manual and Sample Ballot for the Noverhber Four of the Gve members of the Healdsburg homosexual teachers hâve hept silent unriZ now, but election. This statement, which is a loose weave of school board have voted to support Proposition 6 .' if Proposition 6 fails, they will “go public” and lies, win be mailed—at. taxpayers expeiue—to every They see it as the last hope o f restoring to parents the announce their life-style to the world, thus providing voter in the State of rialifnmia_All thU wa« freei^n^tocontToliheiLJchools. _ their students with a living example of the completed long before Briggs came to Healdsburg acceptability of the homosexual way of life. arid without consulting the people of Healdsbuig. We are reprinting b^ow a .copy of the Briggs Heoldsburg teacher FACT: Gay teachers remain silent about their “Healdsburg Argument” togetjjn with a point by * -a ■ intimate 1 ^ because they recognise, along,., point refutation. The refutation^ppear as indented with most good non-gay teachers, that the paragraphs in bold type. speaks September 18 classroom b not the proper place Coir such The homosexuals and the their supporters 'tell discussion. us the present law is jiBt fine. L any Bonier, Heaidsbury area, teacher who So the next time someone telb you “It can't WeU, let them'teU that to the citizens of has come out to tight John Briggs and iVopo- happen here” tell him to talk to the parents of Healdsburg. Those parents know we need Healdsburg, California. They know better. atioa 6, will qieaJt before local Healdsburg This quiet little toum in the Sonoma wine parents and lesfdonts S ^ tm b e r lB at 7 PM '■'“''liC B ifi.iw s , Sinclair Leiris used the phrase country has been Gg^ting unsuccessfuly to remove a ^ the IWa Chmtkieerj N: Fitch Mouo- T t canit happar here" to warn a|idast~tlie second grade teacher who has-openly admhtedTus oin Road, Healdabutgi threat of fadsm in America. Here Briggs homosexuality and has campaign pubUcly to keep perverts the phrase, failing to lesiember that homosexual teachers in our public schools. ~Tbe event, sponsored by SCRAP 6, is' open to the public. Krse childcare will be- om oOfitle^ first acts of rrprrssinn was the FACT: The quart of Healdsbuig was disnqwed dismissal of'all gay teacheia faom the Mari provided. For Airtfaer iniormation call byafewmiqpiidedbfgocs—not by a gay school schoolsystem. r r CAN HAPPEN HEREl Vote teacher. ' " SCRAP 6 headquarters at 526-1240. NO on 6 .

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by KarenRycc. “That house doesn't look veiyfriendly," Joanna the No. on IS bumper^sticker b,” I suggested. ~ ' said. We divied up the tasks; she would start by doing m rilo, ette you famUmr with Pmpoeition 6f “Well, how about the one where the VW with voter regbtradon, then I would calmly ask if the Not WM, neither are we, gpodbye." voterwas familiar with Proposidon 6. We walked up "StOo, I bet yossW wotsdering tuhy rurVv The Dor to Door Conomittee of Sonoma Cqunty and knocked. No ansvrer. loMvbsg brossm paper hags a ver our beads Residents Agaiiut Proposidon 6 (SCRAP 6) will be “Well, that was easy; I hope they’re all like "HsUe, sae^ yeter heat lesbiam ..." doing a workshop Saturd|lf( September 16, from that,” I said, more than half-serious. 10:45 a.m. until S p.m. at the SCRAP 6 office, We found out quickly that we had a knack for There were no two %vays about it, going Califomia Teachers Associadon Bldg., 2490 picking the houses where no one was home, so we canvassing against the Briggs Initiative was scary. Guerrteville Road. finally found a house where the front dom was wide The first day we went we spent ejose to one half-hour Thb workshop b designed to assist and support open. We ventured down the path and up the stairs. being nervous, laughing hysterically, wondering why anyone who wishes to do door to door canvassing. Joanna knocked on the screen door, “Thb b it, a month ago we had thought b was such a good idea The first hour of the workshop b devoted to a folks,” I said-to myself. Joanna's opening line was C n to go door to door in Sonoma County to educate detailed explanadon of Proposition 6.. Later on in pêct, “Are you registered to vote?” T ^ woman people about the Briggs Initiative. P e o ^ I had told ,the day small group discussioiu and role playing are who answered said yes, she was . . Silence . . . about it reacted ominously. "Good luck,” they said, used as preparation for various types reactions Joanna was staring at me; the woman was staring at “you have lots of guts." I pictured eggs and tomatoes likely to be encountered when canvassing against me. I had forgotten the possibility that the woman thrown, doors slamiqed as wril as hostile sneers and Proposition 6. mig^t My yes and had been andcipadng a space of bodily threats. 1 wondered if wecould have the nerve The workshop also pipvides very good time to re lu while Joanna registered her. Quid: to to come out, (“There áre 25,000 gays in Sonoma guidelines for door to door canvassing and also recover, however, I blurted out something about an County, that's 24,998 besides us," . . . or the button teaches pardcipanu how to register voters.' issue oB the November ballot, and started laughing. from the Eugene, Oregon, campaign, “What do ‘ Information packets will be fundshed for '--In true comrade spirit, Joarma started laughing too. Gays want? Ask me.”) canvassers. Canvassing has been going on for over The woman was looking at us curiously and I So there we were, the day of the trial canvassing, two months and the public reaction has generally managed to get out, "I’m sorry but we’re really the time we’d planned to get so m solid “experience” been a good one. There have been'no' major nervotb.” The woman said she ctwdn't think about behind us, laughing likq,we were in grade school. I problems or hassles and the public b wilUng to listen. anytbing except her husband’s illness. We left, still couldn't rememher a sing^ logical argum t^ against Participants should bring a lunch or plan on buying laughing, with Joarma tripping in the wonum’s the Initiative. All the preparation, talking and lunch nearby. garden. role-playing fell by the wayside in the face of my Childcare will be provided and the CTA ('Truly’' a grass-uproots organization,” I nervousness. yf building b vdieelchair accessable. thought). , j We walked the street, picking and choosing For more information call SCRAP 6 office at In evahiatii^ our first door, we realized we where we’d start. 526-1240. n :, ■ Continued on Page 7 Napa man warns of entrapment Inside the clublinu 8 e''with \p^ggs When you visit our advertisers I want to share an experience with anyone by Judy Freespirit involved in casual Gay encounters. tell them you saiv their ad Last May I came on to a firiendly man in a park Imtaiedtí» Tainan auhhouss a t p t ^ ^ y ? in Napa; he was a Vice Sqiud oCBcer and I was o Week, having mado a im minute daemon to do so. in the SCLGA NEWS arrested for soliciting. At best, this experience wUl , Hooked around, trying to cost me a great deal in legal costs, in time without see how things were stacking up. People with n * SCLGA NEWS invites letteis firom the work, and especially in struggles vdthguik and social arabaiids and crepe paper bbws pinned to but consideration by the writer of the limited censure. — — . - ",___ *■*•<1 5 ” °® tubjecu regarding the lives of space of the paper is appreciated. their ^ r t s were everywhere. I recognised a few L^bians ai^ Gay men in Sonoma Coimty;.needs, At worst, I wUl be fined, lose.my profttskmal local Healchburg teachers with whom I had Letters may be'sent to: SCLGA, P.O. Boat credentiab, and have to register with the poUce as a hopes, ambitkms. There is no Umit to the length of 4S01. Sanu Rosa. CA 95402. before they were interviewed by sex offender. — KNBC-TV reporter There were sdP a— During tbe~paiMUonihi I've worked to' become nM ber of seats left in the audience, but a row personally stronger and politically more awaye. I am of üg^t lipped, pinched faced Healdsburg concerned that in an increasingly hostile political rm dents were standing, propped up against Cocditioii climate, more people nuiy find themselves in the back will drthe Clubhouse, as if afraid to ...Jraiq everywhere situations similar to mine. Take care of yourselves; «t down amongst the seated gays for fear of supports teacher be aware. contaiiunation. Someone hrou^t out,more To Beople at SCLGA, (Please withhold my name m the legal process is chairs and gave them to thefti, and they sat oontmuing.) (The iolkming letter was sent to the Lcsbkn and Gay Recently a friend from San Francisco tent me a > together alongé Ae biick of the roonw. . Amanee. ]| h add>Med_|gL.lJssiy Bamer; vi^ . copyofyeur pnper. I enjoyedlntading it and found it The’TV cameras seemed to be the most important thing in the room. They biased Healdsbmg area* teadiCT.-iar. Tl itiwUt h the informative, supportive and fun. trymg to ask . intdligfcnt and reasonable their hot lighu on us ik ff we were" there for IBtncIpel of tfir school at which he teaches.) .... I support-your-efforts-in any way 1 can. ---- quations, which were answered Tiynmd large Dear Ifr. Berner, Love you all, “ their benefit, and would put up with anything because of their importance. with stupid and iirationdl attmreix-;.'rieiiously It VI the vrishtrf the Coalition for ___ Andy Slavin GetfingT^rour osses t^ b t ^ t anyone in the audience changed of Shasta County to convey our support in your little Rock, Then there was a stfr¿Íu,th|2room. and their minds. The bigots who came to hear how ^ o ie I saw them 1 felt their piSimce. John period ttfemockmaldistreM. Wehaveh«>ei» fur S C R A K they could rid their fair city of the Gay the actions on both sides of this controveisy M ggs and Tom ConnoOy waUulid up to the • pestdence left angry and determined to keep c ■ . ■ front and sat down at the table fading the conclude that you personally are not the target. up their fight. The L t ^ i^ and Gay men and ^ It seems there is a negative mood, perhaps To^Whmn fr M iy Obiioein: Having spent the majority of the last nine years au d itée. Connolly looked like an angryûrt I am thoroughly alarmed by the dairgen Reynolds, and Briggs was smiling a sickly nniU , “,1V’ left determined to fight both cynical, in the area of hunum r i i ^ . .It appears firom in Alaska with my only political th o ii^ts having to this insidious initiative and whatevN battles ^be various articles that you have genferal Support represent^ by the B r ^ Initiative. Though not do with the pipeline and itt efieca on the state, Thow from behind ''tire 'm icrophone,. his natty eUgible to be amember of the Alliance, sucha hiîly M»ere are to come. Perhaps a few supportefk firom your co>vrorhers and community at large. It f i ^ myself Uving in Santa Rosan suburbia witn my (^plexion seeming to glow with an eerie innk came away more supportive than they had bigoted and unconstitutioiul attack «« *u^y* luved very Httle~time ava^ble because of my job wondered at times where it an wiU end. I know now ™*cumented in the local newqiapert. Briggs situation but periiaps tbere'ls something I could do. that it’s not going to. M true to forrn, showing his ignorance and demonstrators who had been ralljrmg outside aione as the year heads towards the Sincerely. u fl^ u ^ candía and. macchiiy dotvn - the NovepBhCf ' ballot deasion>makii^ proemss. The I’w had many discussions with SCRAP 6 folks homcqihobia, skirting issues, trying to act Dave 'wmding gotf courm rosii. liniiig the way for the Brigj^ Initiative, having touched off this whchhum, . over the problem of getting people invirived in this c b « in i^ and- responsive and never really retreating cars and marching through pulling it off. Once or «vice one of our people need exposing to all persons so *h«* they realise cause (Proposttkm 6). Up dO now Fve heard requests Healdsburg to St. Johns Church, letting the *he th m t not just to thousands of teachers, aides, like. . . y y o u wawW to kêlp”ût "fUaao, jfyow am ” JiV^^couldn’t take the abuse anymore and town and anyone else who was there know that a d n u n h ^ to n apd supporters in the school systems, and I thought that was great. However. SCRAP 6 is called out an insult, but mostly people were *te indeed here, and that inrimd but to me ptqHilace in general. stiD a smaU, and I mesui smaU, group of people who We, therefore, u r^ those personf'and board are woridng their asset off for aU of you/us. niembert who may be in a position to make.that SeK Dufente efans I just, finished reading the article entitled important decision to make a positive and AMERICA TURNSRimm, N n$1^Sopt. 1977 responsible one. Jn FmrBiiville I mad. People sD over thw country are Yours in support, /----- T O b in ^ for the tide purpose of DOING U1 INI Yes, I kixnv you’r Sbaam County CoaBthm fin Human R%hts — Dear News: ” “ " ‘ bly aware of that la a but what I want !r juk what the hdl you are RE self-defense in your last issuissue, maybe you doing about it.'^r would like to S d f «Efensemse techniques of Readers write 'Amis If you think this win stop with Ftopositkm 6 or if •^**^*8 i". . fifl^hting) are being taught in you believe you’re going to be safe in your ongefag (start anytime) at the following IM o I 'c l^ /p ria o n (it’s the sune thing) then you’re sadly mistaken. There are approxknately 25,(KK) Lesbians I saw a of your newqraper last nim and vras’ orestviUe Methodist jC hurch 7-9 p.m. wondering how I could get a copy or subscripdon to and Gay men in Sonmna County . . . I can’t bdieve J ays; Institute for Better Health. S9S6 Mayette you’re all content. the paper. Ave., Santa Rosa, 7-9 p.m. Thursdays, 6:S0 p.m. Thank You, I don’t p ^ c u la rly care if I’ve nffrnded you Fri^ys and 10 a.m.-noon.Saturdays. because dammit I’m sesured and real died of ««Hwg Susy Oeaewater The Institute is CETA funded to give these Costa Mesa, CA _ ^ getting no response. We’re not just dealing with c la s ^ free to wmnen of all ages. Men are also larea, causes, orprdidcs. . . we are working for your welcome but must pay. For exact amounts, ect., call , the Institute at 528-S691. ask for Dr. Frank Scalerdo. , I’m telling every one of you that you better get ti thi m s Thank You, off your asses b^ o rek goes so danm ^ that we’ieall herded into the gas chamber . . . iâin. MA ■* does repeat itsdf. GaemeviDe K.D. FeieD The NEWS is published monthly by the Sonoma County LcsbUn and Gay Alliance, a persoiial support, information and community action group of Gay people. A LLIA I^ NEWS DISTRIBUTION POINTS . Mailing Address: SCLGA NEWS/P.O. Box Saaea Rom: 4801/Santa Rosa, CA 9 5 ^ . GaemeviDe: Monte Rió: Books Inc. Sebastopob This issue was assembled by Deborah Kelley. River Queen Morue Rio Conununitv Rising Woman BotAstore Myst Books Sandy Lowe. Pat McCloakey. Robert (Mdvin) Country Grounds Market Perqde’s Music ■ Sawy^s News Service ~ R fes Muller and Pat Urquhart. Bartlett’s West of the Laguna Typesetting: Von W. Wall Santa Rom Cotnmunity Madt«t,;-:.i ^Cota^ —'■ n ...... • Saa PkanciMo: Deadline for c a p f Ifa t the Oember -Orgknic Grocery • 'Bahw Sr.' Bdiscrimination against efiemihate males. Workshops include Class-Race-Sex Scapegoat ABC-TV^pist This was a ruling in the Fifth Circuit Court of ing on the Job. Legal Rights of Gay People. Role of Appeals here. The decision was based on a case~in Women Against Violence Against Women has which an effeminate male sought federal protection launched a campaign against, . the Anierican, under the act’s classification “sex". Civil libertarians Judge chollenged Broadcasting Company for offering a convicted have been attempting to expand the act for some rapist^lOO.OO for the screen righte to his life sto^ in years so that it will include hommexuals. ' on sexism order to turn it into a TV movie. -BayA^ji Reporter - THlrî^rs^^ -liras -ocmvicted receiitly for Connecticut Governor Ellas Q)tisao hfu called impersonatihg fashion photographer Richard for ail inquiry into Judge Walter Pickett's fitness to Court asked for Avedon and luring women to pose for him and then remain on the bench after he dismissed charges raping them. ^ agîittt a man accused of attempted rape by saying ____ WAVAW charges -that A R T i« ... "Toil can't blame him for trying.” doner anonymity sensationalize and make promts off the rape of State Rep. Paul A. LaRosa isitiated the call for women: The California Court of Appeal has been asked investigation by the state judicial review board after to allow contributors to No On 6 (the Briggs a Hartford-based group called Neighborhood initiative) to remain anonymous. Current law Women Against Rape called the incident and requires that anyone who donates more than |50 to a similar incidentt by Picket to laRosa's attention. Lawyers reject political campaign must b« identified. The accused man was one of four men arrested The brief, filed by .the ACLU of Northern in the rape 6ase; the three others were bound over for Go t rights California, claims that potential contributors to the trial but the fourth was released-by Pickett who said campaign against Prop. 6 fear “subsuntial 350 SoR

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•ÊM O RIBS •THAT A Rdrathini Expoienoe I . RcvdMkMk cool ddkIoMs «nooBrici, M l friiit Nostalgic itam fron taladt and dw moW cqptrtiy piopawd wqplarian 1 9 aO'stotlM l9 S(rs Mndwidw* and •aladi hi townl bfjoy poor wwal CCXiECTABLES in iha hir condHioiwd ftataoiant or outdoors fai BUY TRADE SELL our picnic area. 13882HwyUti Across iIm Bridge GosmeviHs' r OBI 1978 SCLGANEWS \ 9 ^ / SCRAP 6 rallies oßainst Briggs s a y y WE WIN hadn’t even mentioned Proposition 6. At the next Gay, my stomach turned. I was afraid she wouldn’t 1) 'Very few people are outright hostile. The by Anoclier Gay Healdfbuig Native existing law; with the exception of the doOT, we were joined by Andre, who’d done a few know^he word or that it would provoke her. Whpi I doors with Jane. An experienced canvasser, we most I’ve gotten is a man slamming the door provision oudawing Gay school workers or any finished, there was uimerving sUoace. We waited. after we’d said thank you and walked off. . After 36 houn of increcUble hig^ school worker who supported Gays. Se^gs were thought. Armed with new courage, we on Was she freaked? and iQtenae work, all we had planned for w started to shutde people up to the golf course. Parish HaU. thou^t up all the arguments and tried them on her. When we tried to support her thought that good 5) A edrrunon feelh^ expressed was that it is Where were the buttons? The placards? The As we walked, we passed people standing She was essentially supportive and kept giving us teachers shouldn't be fiie d ,'.|^ would swing back d u y to do whatever you want in the bedroom, information packets that were written in one out in their yards, people stopping work on encouragement to continue our work. “You know we and contradict herself with the against nature but please don’t flaunt it. Somej^^ple seem to day? It was aU right. They .would he dii^ b u tl^ , their pick-up engines, people sitting out on talked about this in our churdr-group, about argument. We realised, after spending too mudi th i^ that if i^ys would just not parade their . at the golf course. ‘ ^ their ftotait porches, people standing out on hcnnosexuality,” she explained, “and at first time vrith her, that she was an exgmide Of a voter we satOality, people would leave them alone. _ The police ‘arrived. "Who’s ir^ duuge street com ers, people waving, as this loiig line everyone was embarrassed, but then we got used to shouldn’t try to convince. No inSdftlr tihat we said, 7) Another common response came ftom êre?”, said the officer. “1 am, I guess,” I said. of flickeimg candles passed them silendy in the It. she had an argument iii response and wasn’t willing parents who did ixx want their children ' surprising myself. At SCRAP 6 decisions are night. Soànxtdteâ^êo sang; “Ain’t gorma At the next door, the wtîî,needed to be to hear us. exposed to positive Gay role models. This made collectively except where responsibilities let nobodyAum ' W around/tum me registered and was really appieciathw that we had We-went back to Andre’s house and evaluated. feeling was expressed desinte the fact that these come to do just that. She was in her 80's with poor- ^ Since then over 30 people have been trained to people tended to be informed and aware of the are taken or assigned. well up the drive to the golf course d u b h o u se_ - around/tum ine around/Ain’t gorma let —— ■ The officer aiked'Edw matiy people we ~^body/tum me around/Goima build me a ~ ~ canvass and aie piesentiy canvassing in Sama Rosa. pomible witcMianc effect of Pioporitiun 6. where.l^nggp vrouldâk. to register. We sat in her living room and talked Our experieix» on that first day and subsequent expected. I said we didn’t know. I said the ..HtrPlW ofith^raMniton warned us when we brand hew world/*' - 8) Women who canvass are automatically ^ media, both newspapers and television, had Half way into town, a young blonde kid on while registering her. When it was doiie, I started canvasmg, as well as the enpiftrletidi' OT Other assumed to be Lesbiaiw; many people associate would leave for the puking lot at the top of the telling her about the Initiative. As I said the word worker;^ has brought up a few pennts: been notified. KNBC in Los Angles w u hill. Then, itwastimeandwe walkedslowly up a bicycle came tip to us and asked, “What ifié— homosexuality with men only. ’Ihis miscon lending a crew. Wdl, he said,.nnake sure the asphalt path to the parking lot. you în g ?” _ _, ception enables women who are Lesbians to keep your people off thenass. i wondered if he There was Briggsl A short man with “We’re having a candlelight march,” 1. ' choose whether to come out or not, but remOTbered me fronimgh school. brown hair teased forward over his bidding said. A direct answer is always the best. Á half Sonoma Coimty Lesbian & Gay Alliance detracts from the point that women are Gay, as ___ head, wearing a business suit and black patent block later he asked another quesdon. well, and that we also are everywhere. leather shoes. His bodyguard was an enormous “What are you marching for?” presents 9) Those people who do support us tend to see Letbiaiis Unite Now! man. Another man, seemin^y shorter than “We’re marching against Proposition 6.” the Initiative as ridiculoSs, so ridiculous that it Again this seemed to satisfy his curiositY .__ doesn't have a chance of passing and therefore Briggs himself, and in his 20*s who had asked ^------The Lesbian and Gay Experience ^ coriK to Heahfsburg to meet with all We were now three blocks from the parish they won’t vote. The fact is that the polls qje I weru back inside and handed out and a man’s voice came out of thé darkness; ,Xeroxed instructioiu. They explained child of his maybe 50 supporters (or maybe just the A Conference foi: the Goy_Community an^ Friends _ running close to 40V4 pro. 40Vi eon, Í0V4_- curious) out a ^ p u la tio n of 6500. “FaggotsI QueersI” Again women are ignored, ~ undecided. care, the rrdes of the monitors and the security . I thought. people and' stressed that this was to be a Briggs stood talking to reporters and a It has becoiiK clear to me tha. canvassing is one Karen said, “Don’t react.” * with workshops concerning: peacefiil demonstration. Suddenly, the word ' nriddle aged blonde woman hdd up her purse of the most important and effective political tools we The voice faded quickly, like it was a voice came. Briggs was there. He hadanived early. I to bhxh the view of a woman photographer, have available to us. Not only are we able to do from a long time ago, butnot because we were Substance Abuse Third \yorld E x p e r i e n c e spun on my beds and aO I could see were adults but then gave up. one-to-one educating of people who aren’t directly walking fast, and I wondered if the voice and children andjugs of apple juice and No on ' exposed to these ideas, we are also learning very 6 buttoiu. The childcare people SMTS there but belonged to anyone I had gone to school with. Cqming Out at School and Y/ork Talking to Family and Neighbors concretely'from the people we talk with. From our should I go now? Suy longer? People were I had had a problem since Tuesday,, when experiences going door tadoor, and learning which finding the shuttles to the golf course and at we foqndaut that.Btiggawas coming and rb»r Spirituality Ya'uih r>. uPelatlonshlps Becoming Polltlt^SniÂYtlve' issues concern people most, we have had to come word spread that Briggs was there,'the shuttles get edecotM oboet Goyt. we vrould demonstrate in Healdsburg. I would ' .back and refigure some of our approach. We have seemed to arrive and leave faster and faster. find mysdf booting invtduiuariiy and very also learned just how strong an effect the media has Karey Ryce, a woman who works on the A police officer ashed, at one point, who loud. Sometimçs driviiog by myself in the car. Thursday,, ôptom ber-20,. 7 PM on the average person’s view of Gays. att the bids belonged toljjus, "'was the reply. Sometimes outride the SCRAP 6 headquar Most people have heard of the Briggs Initiative, door-to-door committee came up to me and L Californio teachers Association Building said, “Let’s gol” That was all I needed and I "I don’t know why thot^didn't occur to ters. And I had asthe puuxh started into town. " but don’t know or understand its implicatkms, At But back at BJs in Sanu Rosa after the was in a black van vritfa à Cay mpn.apd his four rnet What sr the childcare shuttle fort" he the very leaM we are informing those who would march, the music on the juke box was turned 2490 Guerneville Road Santa Rosa children and 10 to U othiér'pè<^le",'.«ôinç ' ttenturedagain. Itwas'explamedthatitwasfor support us iáboul the tniitiative and the urgency to get children who got tired at the derrsorutrdtion up loud and there^vrere hundreds of people children. I Ujred my picket ngn ddiin~flat and out'áiíd ''^ e'; ire aré’ conftonting those who are and could be taken bach to the childcare there (yes, men toó) and they were aU hooting Free Childcore Pfovlded Donations Requested _____ agairut us with the very clear and direct reality that looked at it again, as I kept doing all evening, center m town. at the top of their lungs, hiud, at I hhd bear since I wrote it at 4:30 that we are out here fighting and vrill not be quiet; and we ‘nrhere’smeonfl" he asked. hugging one another and sniiling a whole lot.' afternoon: “Another Gay Healdsburg Native" are offering information about Gays and a it said. My heart pounded. The officer had asked for a copy of . ". .'.gonna b t i^ mea braiKl new world.” demystification of our lifestyle to those who are A straight woman teacher, supportive of Proposition 6, and ashen one was fin ally gotten neutral. Gay people and Gay Rights, would later to him he was heard to essdaim, ’*This is Our canvassing experience has made us ridiculous! This w ill never pass!" question whether a sign rlodmg “Lesbians optimistic about our chaitces of winning the ^ Unite Now"should be sued. It was pointed out The sun was setting and Briggs vrent election. Support has come surprisiii^ and with that when the general population thmks of inside. Most of us, because of the site of the strength from unexpected places, and tte number of ‘XJay" people they thinh of homosexual nien, lUU, kuyed outside arid Jistened to rnembers of people openly agsiiist'us is smaller than we had thus Lesbiatu,' because they are women, are SCRAP 6 ti^ what Propdsitkm 6 Ivould do and anticipated. We can win. WE CAN WIN. But we excluded artd made invisible [hence the nasne how it was duplicating much of already need more help, more people willing to walk against of this publieation\. It was pointed out the Briggs. importance of stressing the fa c t that w e a n everywhere. t n a i H i a i d We stopped inside the gate tcTthe golf course at South ntch Mountain Road and held our picket signs and smiled at thé people arriving in thdr cars. A lot of people had little ON T H i BEAUTIFUL silver and black fish stickers on th À can. They W ’Vn RUtSlANlUVER didn’t kxdi like they were having a good time. 9117 RIViR ROAD, FORÍ8TVILLE. Some drove up to the clubhouse and then left. - Many looked dead, like thejr had died ftom 707-887-9966 some horrible affliction; like fear maybe. By actual count, our number was 350 O ptn^D eyt Ytar Round people. The line of picket sign holdcn reached u o . » M e . too - »-Jo McNi^ri Noon tU Two

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