4 * ocToBER tE, t9731201 McREYNOLT)S Of.l GAYS AND NOI.¡VIpLENCE MORE ON WATERGATE AND TTIE MOVEMENT WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT CHILE PEACE AND FREEDOM THRU ruô¡øorc¡ç Acrtov oiirr't'rà ñ ii¡-r u¡o-ensi ,,,, r -!å .$ úê tÍl zF í\6 77? E jq J - tl:t ,¿ f{l S. f\¡ -¿ o¿ f.¡ tJ . ür¡ tÀl ' '' I man who tries to gain equal pay for equal work in comparison with men, not only in athletics but in all professions and jobs, I wanted Billie Jean to win, but didn't expect her to, having seen Riggs at his prime and in his victory over Margaret Cou¡t. Pe¡haps as impressive to nie as her victory was Rosemary Casals' exact prediction of thé 6-4, 6-3, 6-3'sco¡e. Rose¡¡ary, granddaughtet of the world famed ceÍist, Pablo Casals; and a ranking professional tennis player, was one of the ABC commentators for the match, I doubt that any man commentator has ever predicted that ¿ccurately thç outcome of a five set match. ' BRADFORDLYTTLE New York, NY Just a brief word on David McReynold's comments at the WRL Confe¡ence (WIN r ; 916173). While Dave is "weary of confusing the concept of nonviolent revolution with organic foods and compost heaps," I am equally.weary of t-alk of organizing bureaucratic mass movements to "seize power,"' A significant change has occured in the past twenty years in the way in which this nation feeds ftself. Food production has become a centralized corporate enterprise, with the predictable sacrifice of quality for profit, This centralized effort has also made possible a very extensive exploitation of third world countries. People have the opportunity through backyard gardens and in Bayslde, Queeris, q NYc. Photo by LNs women's Graphics collêctive compost heaps to "seize the means of production," and wèaken our dependence on the plastic foods industry. While this opportunity certainly doesn't exist for everyone, the majority of our population lives in rural, suburban, and urban areas that.offer tliese opportunities. ' LETTERS a I would hate to think WIN is losing, of all things, its sense of humor, but the review by Martha Thomases [WIN, 10/4/73] of the Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs "tennis" Jean's age advantage match makes me wonder, for it does appeâr to take the matte¡ seriously. Surely we have to realize that women's liberation conce¡ns were not involved in any way except as a butt of laughter, in a spectacle designed to make lots of money for the "contestants" regardless of sex. lt worked. Picture Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, now off camera, skipping along hand in hand and laughing, as the saying goes, all the way to the bank, Women's causes have a reputation for being defended humorlessly, but I do hope this is just a lapse, and not part of a new tone, in WIN of all places. KARL V. TEETER Cambridge, Mass. eran of 60, could beat the best woman player in the world. Furthe¡more, Bobby Riggs, at his prime, was one of the finest players who ever lived. Jack Kramer, rated by many as the greatest, places Riggs in the top 10. I saw Riggs play Don Budge in their first tour after the Second World War, and will never forget Budge's comment to Riggs, "You'¡e a great player, boy!" as ¿n unbe lievable backhand passing shot down the line answered one of Budge's sallies to the Billie Jean King's triumph over Bobby Riggs was important to the feminist movement in sevéral ways. For one thing, it was one of the first examples of feminine equality (or supremacy) in athletics, an arena in which men have always claimed superiority because of greater strength and speed. Billie of 26 years isn't important in this regard, for in tennis circles it's previously been almost axiomatic that ANY ranking man, a Junior of 15, or a vet- net. In addition, Billie Jean beat Riggs with a man's game, pressure tennis, emphasizing the serve, volley and overhead. Only the best players in superb phyòical condition can adopt a strategy based on winning points by outtight placements, rather than trying to coax the opponent into errors. Billie Jean demolished Riggs in 1973 the way Jack Kramer dethroned him fo¡ the professional title in 1950, with sustained, accurate power. Kramer is one of the most influential people in tennis, and an oppenent of equality for women players. He saw the match, and couldn't help but have been impressed. The success of a woman in'thisrway couldn't have occurred in a more imnortant spoit than tennis, for tennis is a very demanding came, taxing the player's skill, concentration and stamina beyond most sports, a traditional sport cif the "elite", and perhaps this countryt fastest growing participant sport. The match was able to attract the attention it did partly because great numbers of people in politics, business, the military (good or bad?), and entertainment play tennis. Billie Jean made the feminist point devastatingly to an audience that usually is remote from MS., and other radical and libe¡al publications. The amount of money involved is also important. Billie Jean is supposed to have cleared $200,000 outright for the match, and her final earnings including endorsements and other side benefits, may bring her income for it to more than half a million dollars, In a way, it is disgusting that anyone could make that much money for two hours playing a game. On the other hand, the amount places Billie Jean above such athletes as golfer Jack Nicklaus, basketball player Jerry \ryest, or pitcher Tom Seaver in yearly earnings. This will benefit every wo- Admittedly eating organic food and building compost heaps will not, in and of itself, provide radical soci¿l change. However I feel decentralizing food production tq. ' its maximum extent will allow us to regain control of this important area of our lives. I dòn't want to take over'General Mills, I want to disperse food production to the it can be maintained with a minimum of administrative ove¡head. To regain control of our lives requires es- lowest level whe¡e caping our dependence on those fo¡ces we are contesting. I feel living simply provides a means to achieve this physical liberation. While organic foods have little impact on the Blacks in Bedford-Stuyvesant, I suspect fìfty yeais of socialist rhetoric has.provided little more. ROBERTBRUCE Denver, Colo. F¡om the WRL Confe¡ence comments, [WIN, 9/6/?3] it seems there has been some òritici*m, through lack ofunderstanding, of those whose revolutionary commitment has led to rural residence for purposes of organ' ic g¡owing. Hopefully this b¡ief comment will contribute to gteater mutual support. CHOOSE ORGANIC ALTERNATIVES' Revolution/Liberation on each continent is led by those whose HOME it is. And we support one another to the extent that we have energy to share; this strength comes from home, Guided by those who've been at home with "No¡th America'iriince long bofo¡e the colonial name, and'by those who've bèen brought home here.by such guidànce, we learn that a movement of all people-not only humanS-is historically in -tune with out struggle for peace and free dom' ,.Ìi:l":itÏ,i. Punishment is a rotten teacher, læah Fritz tells us, Anyone disagree? She says she de nies herselfthe ease ofhaired. Yet she indulges a fantasy ofviolence. She envisions good women spanking the Seats of Power. [wrN, e/13/731 Can any reprimand be free ' October 18,1973 -DALE WHARTON Montrea! euebec Gays and Nonviolence-Part ll A response to Allen Young. David McReynolds Chile-WhatWeCan The fascist prisoncrats here are making a last effort to isolate those of us who are in struggle against S.T.A. R.T. People, one of the most fiabolical so called "Behavior Modification" techniques is to isolate or cut off all emotional ties, all averlues of any supportive communities, to be candid, to systematically destroy and withhold our mail! This is happening more openly now! The rieo-Nazióratic functionaries here realizing the extent and strength of our support have now subjected us to some so-called censórship rules, that suddenly have appearedjust recently! Recently they have been retuming letters and newspapers to us back to you stamped unclaimed on them. Do not be decieved, people, or discouraged. Do not stop writing and sending us your letters and newspapers! People, show your solidarity & support again by doing the following; w¡ite letters of protest to Norman Carlson, director of U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Dept. of Justice, Wash, D.C. 20037, requesting that he discontinue the censorship and tha| he removes the S.T,A.R,T, Brofhers, William Ruiz, Forrest Gustave & mysqlf from the program! 2) Letters written to DA P.J. Ciccone, Warden U.S. Medical Center for federal prisoners, Springfield, Mo. 65802. 3) Letters to Congresspersons, Bernie.Sisk, John Conyers, Charles Rangel & Louis Stokes, at U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Wash. D.C. 20515 asking them to iritercede in our behalf, requesting we be transferred from the S.T.A,R,T. Program, 4) Letters written to U.S, District Cou¡t Judge Oliver, Southern District, Springfield, Mo. 65801, requesting him to rule in our. favor. 5) That ¿ll members of the radical news media reading this pass it along for others to print and print it themselves in whatever papers they may work on. 6) That any people having high standing in large movement groups reading this, organize a protest such as picketing or other types of support in our behalf. 7) That any people doing any ofthe above contact me at the address below, advising . me 8) Vol. lX, Number 3l T of punish- ment or hatred or both? '' M ENU Lance Belville ..... Do.... .... ..... A Letter to the Movement. Arthur Woskow . 6i 8 . Mid-East Dilemma. Morty Je2er 10 .. 11 .. 13 Changes. Reviews. Cover: Colossus by Francisco Goya NO ¡SSUE nÉXr WEsr note. There'll be no issue of lVlN next week. We are taking a vacation.. The next issue will be dated November 1. (The missing issue would have been October 25). See you in two weeks. -WlN Readers please STAFF måt¡s cakars, .iditor susan cakats, stðfl mðrty je¿er, ed¡toriðl åis¡stant nâncy ¡ohnson. slaff ¡ulio mððs, design mary mayo. subscripl ions brian wgster. compoi¡tion FELLOW.TRAVELERS l¡nc. bolvllle + lynn. coffln + dlanâ drylrs ruth dcàf + trlph cllgla + paul cnclmrr + cht¡ck frdlr + sôth fotdy + jlm lof€st + mlkr f?anlch lc¡h lrltz + larry g6ra + nall ñlworth + backy Johnson + paul lohnson + ailson k¡7pal +_cf|la karp.t + clndy k.nt + pst€r klgcr + ¡l¡x khooó ¡ohn kypcr + dorothy tånr + 7ob¡n t.lbn .lllot llnzer + jackson måclow + dayld mcraynold3 + ganc mcahân + mrrk motrl¡.+ lgtl roodsnko mrrthr + wandy schwårtr + mlkc ittmít thomasa3 box:!f7 rifton nGw york l24tl tclcphonc 914 339.45&5 wtN two of such. And that letters of support be writteir to all the above prisoners at the same address.' GERALD WILSON, 19481-175 PO Box 4000, Springfield, MO 65802 . . .4 glútn. axpra3¡cd Sorly-menu3crlPtt raturnad unlass ¡ccomprnlcd drcÉscd st.mpÖd anv.lopa. Þy Pflntad 2 WIN wtN 3 I t GATS AND NONVIOLENCE -PARTII a fesponse toAllenYoung cô c ß c(J Ê o o o o o o so À BY DAVID McREYNOLDS q In ,n. October 11 issue of WIN Allen Young discussed the fatal beating of Jeremiah Lynch, 21, in Boston, víewed it as a typical story of a murderous attack on gays by the sfraight community, and then'raised the question of nonviolence and gays. I have stayed pretty much out of the gay liberation discussion after my article in WIN November 15, 1969. For one thing I did not want to become identified as gay liberation's gift to the pacifist movement. Perhaps I am simply too old to fully identify as a"gay"-a term that in my youth was synonymous with weakness and escape from social struggle. But also I think people should be judged in terms of themselves and what they say and do, not in terms of the color of their skin or their sexual orientation. Blacks within the movement must find themselves in the same danger of being swallowed up in darkness, so to speak; being called on and looked to for special insights on thot problem when, important as racism is to any racial minority, the blabk intellectual does, sometimes, want to discuss Vietnam, the Middle East, or Nixon without turning that discussion into a mini-symposium on "what it is to be a Black American". Another reason for my silence has been simply a lack of anything important to say that wasn't being said better than I could say it by people like Allen Young and a host of other militant young homosexuals. But I write now because Allen has raised two important problems in his piece, and I think he has accidentally fallen into the trap of accepting sex roles as defined by society. He ask, first, how homosexuals can defend themselves, whether violence is proper, 4 WIN . and, if they can't use violence easily-and Allen admits he feels he can't, that he never took akarate class, has sold his .22rifle, etc.-then what do they do to defend themselves and their right to community. Second, he said that ". . . it is no coincidence that gay people have always had a leading role in the pacifist movement," and then named three individuals, including myself, who have played such a role. Taking that last point first, I think one might also say ". . . it is no coincidence ihat gay people have al- " ways had a leading role in the church. . . in the school system. . . in the sports world. . . etc.". Wh¿t Allen has done, unwittingly, is to accept the social concept that pacifists must be a little queer.. I believe there are as many gay priests as there are gay pacifist bureaucrats; as many gay military men as gay peace leaders. The difference-and it is a crucial one-is that the pacifist movement is inherently permissive and supportive of the deviant personality. (l use "deviant" here in a very open way, not as a term of attack.) The pacifist begins with the assumption that every person is unique has special value, and:must be considered as an índividual to be respected. Others-including Marxists-tend to think in terms of a social norm and to measure people by how closely they fit that norm. ("Frank's Ó.K. but his wife is a little screwy-writes poetry and all that crap". . . "John's really weird, like I mean^he's into cooking, for Christ's sake". . . "You know what I heard about Eve, she's going to dance classesl". . . "You might think he was really a crackpot when you first meet him, he's got a beard, but if you just ge.t to know him, he's a pretty regular guy". . . "She's got a great face and body but she is kooky as hell-always wants to talk philosophy and Eastern religion"). ln our society individuals are judged by how well they fit the collective pattern even though the secret isthat no one fits the pottern, ("Jesus Christ was I shocked when I read about ít in the paper! I mean he t works in my office for Gods' sake, and therç is this big shot of him being arrested in front of the draft boãrdl I mean, he must be nuts or something;") The paclfist doesn't have 0 pattern, We uxpect peo' ple to be rdsponsible to themselves-ahd to others-but not to fit ¡nto a pattern. We like some indiyiduals and dislike others (oi, as lgal is wont to say, "Tliank God we only hâve to love everyone-it would be impossible if we had to like them") but not on the basis of beads, beards, barefeet, or braless breasts. The key is that wh¡le other groups may tolerate, the pacifist movement accepts. And therefore someone like myself may bê able to-"gurface" sexually without being fired, while in other parts of the soc¡ety the price cif openness is repression. ("You know what I mean, I mean I'd like to see him stay on as.pastor, . but it is really asking too much'of the congregat¡on. I mean, there are the young boys and'þe was rqnning the youth program. I mean, you know, we all admire his courage tremendously in admitting he was gay-or whatever term thBy use-but you cant, you just can't, . have a queer us puitor in charge of the youth program"), To list three homosexuals active in the pacifist movement and to note this is "no coincidence" is also something close to the old gay defense of gayne-ss, , which wai a kind of litany: Whitman, Auden, Ginsberg et al, and forgetting Eliot¡ Pound, e.e.cummings, Kenneth Patchen and William Carlos Williams-who were not homosexual. I prefer to take the position that homosexuality needs no defensei that if it felt right f or me it wouldn't matter if there were only two of us in the world, it would still be all right. I don't need to know who in the peace movement, or the church, or anywhere else might be homosexual. And what, inci' dentally, of A.J. Muste, Ralph DiGia, Jim Peck, Brad Lyttle, Jim Forest-or lrma Zigas, Lynne Shatzkin Coffin, Margie Rece, and Nor-lña Becker?-They aren't (so far as I know) gay and is it any coincidence that they are in the peace movement? So my first rambling point is simply that pacifists are permissive and supportive and make it possible for people to conduct their "search for selfness" in a pubfic way, so long as it is not genuinely destructive to 'them or to the group. My second point is that gayness and violence have no link, either pos¡tive or negativè. ln our society gay' ness has always been associated with a shift in.sex roles so that someone who is gay is considered (and usually feels) less masculine or less feminine than their sex would indicate. That is, the male who is perfectly able to engage in violence may feel, once he has come out into the homosexual world, that a direct violent response is no longer appropriate to his "new" role. This is too bad, because nothing has really changed at all. There is plenty of violence in the gay world anyway and it might be healthy if more of it saw the light of day. lt ¡s true also that ¡n our society men may be driven toward a homosexual pattern starting at the other end: that is, because they fail to meet the normal definition of male, i.e., they do not like to fight, avoid physical conflict, etc., they may be made to feel like sissies and accept that definition as valid and move from there to homosexuality. But in other societies homosexuals have played quite different roles. ln Athens, the legendary Atlant¡s of the homosexual psyche, men fought quite bravely, often alongside their lovers. ln Germany, Hitler depended on the homosexually-led Brown Shirts to bring him to power. Allen, working from his own distaste for violence (which I share) assumes that only a minority of gays enjoy violence, that by and large "it is no coincidence" that some pacifist leaders are openly homosexual. I suggest it is really entirely coincidence, that the individual homosexual is just as likely to be vjolent as any- .. one else. (One interesting exqmple of this occurred at ' the Gay Liberation March anö Rally this year. I had gone over to Washington Squa're to find Morris Knight and have a drink with him before he went back'tÒ'"' California-and to urge him to get to Asilomar, whiËh. he did. While looking for Morrii I watched an insane confrontation between a street transvestite named-l think-Sylvia and the gay bodyguards for the speaker's platform. Sylvia wanted to get on the platform to 't' ¡ make a speech and the arrangements committee was having none of it. ln all her finery Sylvia kept tryin_g ..to geiup the steps. lt was both funny and sad but fi' nally in ablaze of anger turned nasty. Sylv¡a, ôutraged when the guards pushed her back, finally tore open her blouse, ripped out the fake breasts, and screamed "ldon't know about you, sister, but llm a man,l'm a ínn , and I'll fight you mother fucking bitôhes to get on that platform. You want to fight? o.K., baby, She finally, thanks partly to Morris' interven' tion, was allowed on the plapform, wounded, bedrag' gled and pathetic, to scream out at the audience her own lonely alienation and anger. Truly a victim of the sex wal, in this case a war within her/his self.) But finally I think pacifists are pacifists and reiect violence not because they are any more or less homo' sexual than anyone elsê, but because from somewhere in a violent society they have tapped a hidden well and found the strength to belíeve in themselves; to see themselves in others, and others in themselves. !s there evil loose? Then it is in me, also. ls there good' fight!" ness, truly? Then it must exist in others too. Have I been hurt? Then others can be hurt as well. Why am I crying when someone else is hurt? Why does my mother weep when I break my arm? How complex ' we are, how bound to each other. And it is at this point, simply because it seems obvious' seems the åønnn (not gay, not macho, not normal) thing to do that we become pacifists. For what is the point of violence if, in inflicting it, I know that I hurt myself as much as any other? Or more. Or more. Allen will note that I haven't answered one of his central questions-how does the homosexual commun' ity defend itself-because I have no answer. On the evidence, people who have guns are more often mur' dered than those who don't. And on the evidence we know there are times when there are no defenses that work except, perhaps, rùnning,-{þe point is that l'amn pretty convinced violence is nbt the answer and sor' . . baffled like Allen, I have to stumble along without '' false hopes or illusions that karate or a .22 rifle will guard me from death. ln the end, nothing will guard me from death. The problem with violence is that it may guard me from life which, while I have it, is all that is truly worth having. And the paiadox remains: to find that sense of life, I may have to risk losing it. It is an ancient paradox. Like all paradoxes the answer lies in reality, not in print. David McReynolds is q þllN fellow traveler ond ou- thorof the book IUE HAVE BEEN INVADED BY THE 21st CENTURY. WIN 5 can be \ done. First you can write, telegraph and call Chilean authorities, world organizatioñs and individuals and branches of the U.S. government. The following is a suggested list of names and addresses. lf you live in a city with a Chilean'consulate you might shoot them off a.letter as well. "lf not, here are a few places you might write: G€n. Augusto Pinochet. presiclent c/o The Chilean Embâsiy 1736 Mass. Ave. N.W. Washlngton, DC 2OO36 Gêneral oscâr Bon¡lla, lnterior Minister Santlago, Chile Dr, Galo plaza, S€cretary cen€rat t,n" lTth St. & Constitutlon'Ave, Washlngton, DC 20006 N,W. O,^.r. Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General 'united Nat¡ons Building New York, NY lOOl.7 CHILE .ft ," Edward F, Konnedy, Chairman Senate Sub-Commlttee on Refugees Washlngton, OC willlam Fulbrlght, chalrman Senatê Forelgn Relatlons Commlttee Washlngton, DC Thomas Morgan, Chairman Hous€:Commlttee on Forelgn Affairs The House of Repr€sêntatlv€s Washlngton, DC Asa Khan, Hlqh Commlss¡oner on Refugees Tñe United Natlons Bulldlng New York, NY 10017 Dr. H€nry Klssenger, Sec. of State State D€partment Buildlng Wash¡ngton, DC 1 fâ t-¡ WHATYOUCAtrDO BY LANCE BELVILLE The horror stories get bigger and bloodier as the days go by. Thousands rounded up and herded into soccer stadiums around Santiago. For many the stadiums be' came tirrture chambers and death camps. The rumors of the murder count were whispered everywhere, At this writing the Junta which took power in Chile last month admits to around 400. But Newsweek's )ohn Barnes slipped into a Santiago morguq twice and learned the body count processed through that sad place up to September 25tht 2,796! The score from the Chilean countryside can only be guessed at. Alleged eye-witnesses tell of helicopters dumping bodies into the sea. Chile, Latin America's land of hope has, become the lndonesia of this decade. The comparison is an apt one: Reportedly the Chilean officers call their post-coup consolidation campaign "Operation Jakarta" an obvious reference to the 1 965 massacre in lndonesia of an estimated half million so-called Chinese Line Communists. So much for the future in Latin America. 6 WtN Reading the horrot stories coming out of Chile daily, the inevitable question pops up: What can / do? Well we (meaning our government) already did plenty. ln 1971 and"1972 we F;ave $30 million in military aid, arms, credit for arms purchases and military assistance to that military which prior to September 1 1th was thought of as Latin America's most democratic. During that period we trained 4,37 4 of those professional, democratic-institution-loving Chilean officers. And of course, thatis just the t¡p of the well-known iceberg. tühat our CIA and o¿rr businesses have been doing down there over the past few years would probably make the skin crawl. Although Allende ís gone, Chile is still a poor country in bad economic trouble. The fat underside,of the military-run governmental belly is economiis, wbrld public opinion and especially public opinion here in the United States. Our generals and our businessmen helped their generals get where they are. And their Benerals will need our money, public and pr¡vate, to stay where they are. Here is where all of us come in. Here is where the buck stops. With effort we all can have a very definite part in staying the executioners' hands in Chile. So here are a few suggestions of what t ln writing and telegraphing these people you might want to bring up the caie of political exiles as well as the general, barbaric situation in Chile. The lives of many political exiles in Chile are in immediate danger either from the Chilean junta. itsèlf or through the threat of deportation baik to their countriei oforiþin. This is particularly true of the many Brazilian and 'Haitian political exiles presently stranded in Chile. There are an estimated 8,000 Brazilian political exiles in Santiago alone. '¡ Ji vó,i*"nt to mention specific cases, the following is ã list provided by the U.S. Committee for Justice tJlatin American Political Prisoners (USLA)of Chil' eans and Latin American political exiles in Chile whose lives are in clear and immediate danger either from execution in Chite or deportation back to their homelands: Luls corvalan, qeneral secretary of Chilean Communlst Partv: pedro Enriouez. lawyel of the Ch¡lean MIR (Movement of R-€Ûotuflonary Left); Theotonio dos santos, noted Brazil¡an oollt¡cal ecoñomist; Vánl:r Banblfra, also a noted Brazil- lan bcilltlcal economist. niso Ruv Mauro Marinl. Eraz¡llan pol¡t¡cal sci€nt¡st; Ernan¡ Marla F¡ori.-Brazllian Þhilosopheri Ja¡me Bãrrios, economic adv¡sor to Ailendo; A¡elandro Chll€n Rojas, Chiloan state ouotlsh¡nq house¡ and Gustavo Bêghaut' Uiuguayan d¡rector Amorican Studies at the sorþonne' bf - lltin ÃlCð¡uán Lechin, Bollvian trad€ unlon leaclori Elsa Pena ' vda. Hernandez. wife of Dominican revolutlonlst Homero Hêróandez¡ Anna Napoleon, Haltian political refugse; Jullo cortazar. ßirqentine vúrlteri Emma de Torres, wife of former oresidenf of Boliv¡a Juan Jose Torrês and leader of defense èffofts for Bol¡vian polltlcal prlsonêrs. Also Huqo Gonzales Moscoso, leader of the Bolivian POR tcombatel:-Patr¡clo Gussman, Ch¡loan f llmaker; Marla Ester èlt¡o. uruluavan lawver who defended many Tupamaros¡ GulllórmoLoia. leader of the Bollvlan POR (Masas); Angel Parra. Chllean s'lnqer; Pedro Chaskel, Chileañ Fllmmakeri and ulrlck Jolv. Ha¡tian politlcal refugee. USLA