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IlIIPlieated CI&8('I' ::C:III:z:uta1 Gay S~ ~'Itturde.: and CIS Tbe' Mjency Onthe Conr: II-figflt~ ~::e1:ed 1.t. up The Covenant House Building on" •..I~!.!II> An. Photo: Michael Wekefleld Outspoken (Editorial) 4 IttteIs 5 Stooewa1I Riots (Natalie) 5 Blurt Out 6 S<tomayor 7 IS THERE A MURDERER IN TIlE HOUSE? Dykes to watch Out For (BecbdeV 8 Gabriel RoteUo Uncovers the Secret Faes Which Implicate Covenart House inYet Aoother Coverop New york Journal (Harris) 30 Obituaries 33 Out of Control (Day) 36 GLAADr~ 38 Out/Law (Ismard) 40 LoOkOut ' 48 Out {)f my Hands (Ball) 50 ~ipWatch 51 Out on the Town (Tracey and Pokorny) 52 . Meg Hentges.Kathy Komilolf. Gmehen Dancing Out (X) 65 Phillips end Pem Barger ere Twa Nice Going Out Calendar (X) 66 Girls. See paile 58. Tuning In (X) 67 Photo: Scott Yen 0.01101 Bar Guide 70 rnmmlln;hr"""'""" ..., Direct ory 72 Oassifieds 74 Personals 84 ~ocd (Baysans) 98 Gays and the Military In a society where overt homophobia is slowly becoming less acceptable, the American military remains one of the final frontiers of blatant, official discrimination. Without disguise or apology, the government continues to argue that gays and lesbians are freaks whose presence would inevitably contaminate the purity of the service, destroy morale, eompromise security and e'rode the nation's defenses. It's an argument that even the military's own think tanks can't muster evidence to support. In one celebrated case, the Pentagon commissioned a study to prove that gays and lesbians are unaccept- able security risks because we're supposedly more subject to black- mail than straights. When the report instead showed that gays are no greater security risks than others and actually make excellent soldiers, the report was suppressed. It took action by openly gay Congressman Gerry Studds to finally force the release of the document. TUne after time, the military's policy of exclusion has been shown to be narrow-minded, archaic and mean-spirited, But believe it or not, things are getting worse. Until recently gays were discharged from the military only when they were accused of or admitted to actually engaging in homosexual conduct. Recently, however, the mere admission of a homosexual orientation has becpme enough to warrant dis- charge. This new policy has crea~ed what never existed in such cases before; a whole class of individuals excludable on the basis of exercising free speech. In essence, free speech is now denied even to celibate gays in the military; merely saying that one is gay or lesbian can lead to discharge, often with less than honorable status. This crass denial of basic rights Americans supposedly hold dear is starting to engender ever more cruel and unusual punish- ments. Recently, for example, not only was a top ROTC scholar- ship student denied a commission when he voluntarily revealed his gay orientation, it was also recommended that he be forced to pay back his scholarship. Some members of our community argue that the military, as a vehicle of oppression and violence, is not a proper place for gays and lesbians in the first' place, They maintain that we could allo- cate our efforts toward goals other than gaining the equal right to kill, maim and destroy innocent people. They have a point. But equality is not divisible, If gays and lesbians begin to pick and choose which rights we want and which we don't, we only feed into the concept that we aren't really equal after all. Even those of us who oppose the concept of the military, or o,f mar- riage, should think twice before allowing our opposition to be institutionally imposed on all of our brothers and sisters. Part of freedom is the freedom to make mistakes or take unpopular stands, Gays and lesbians should have those rights too, What we then do with those rights, and whether we choose to exercise them or not, should be a matter for each individual to decide, .. 4 O~WEEK March 28. 1990 Chapters across this country I suggest editing "Nigger were thrown out of their Pile' from the LP,especially Roman Catholic houses of because I had not yet heard . WOrship. It. (If I had heard the song, I As a Roman Catholic would not hove forced them Sin and Bear " but caring, In It, Cardinal gay religious activist, I to take It off the LP)... In a March 2, New Yorl< Ratzlnger referred to our applaud Mr. Reaugh for his Had the Frogs selected Times article, . Earnest communlty'as "an Intrinsic frankness and dedication to "Nigger Pile' for Inclusion on Reaugh, Manfred Ohren- evil' and "a moral disorder' speaking the truth. their upcoming second LP,I stein's liaison to the lesbian end goes on to state that It Is Robert Pusllo would not have rejected It. and gay community, understandable that vio- President However, with such a back- referred to' John Cardinal lence should OCCU' when we Dignity/New Yorl< log of unreleased material, O'Connor as "monster' and fight for our rights (civil and their concerns are more "Hitler: The Issue being dis- human), Rights to which we FrogsBog artistic than racial ... cussed was whether the hOve "no conceivable right: Concemlng the 1/21/90 While I will not try and state should fund Catholic When lesbian and gay IssLle of OutWeek ("Stand deny anyone's right to be hospitals who care for peo- people are misnamed as and Deliver: Censorship and offended by the Frogs LP, I ple with AIDS In the face of "sin' and "evil: the church the Music Industry,' no 30)... will continue to defend the the hierarchy's "expressed subliminally calls for our ThisIs the ninth or tenth content of their music and outward and overt homo- "eradication' the some as time I hove told this story, The lyrics,something you and Jim phobia' and continued Hitler did when he named Frogs second LP, It's Only (Fouratt) have been loathe negation of us, "I view the the Jews as lessthan human. RIght and Nah.Jral,was pro- to discuss,save for the occa- Cardinal as a monster com- It Is a sad comment on duced and sequenced by sional song title (merely using parable only to Hitler: he our society that none of (the Frogsthemselves), At no the words "nigger' In a song said. Apparently, many pe0- these people who call for Mr. time did I suggest which title Is not a racist act, per se, ple In the "straight· commu- Reaugh's dismissal, In all sOngs would or wouldri't be and If It were, Jo~'ln Lennon nity objected to this probability, ever called for appropriate for the album and Patti Smith would have comparison and called for the Cardinal's or Pope's dis- (nor have I ever bugged a something to answer for).