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The Læft has pretty much shunned their defense, some sectors of the left branding thom
as "Ultra-Iæftists" or possible Police Provacateurs, and "moral witness" paciflsts, of

those corporations who influence US,foreign policy in Southern Africa.
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Finally, an economic boycott of Gulf
products is a practical action for 'little"
pçople who want to effect freedom in Angola
People can avoid Gulf products and institutions and stop contracting with Gulf. Gulf
knoùs this; witness its 1970 threat to sue'
thêrunitéd Church of Christ for urging a
boycott, rilhen a corpôf¿tion fails to respond
to etliical pressure, then we must hit them
wheíe they feel it-in the pocket book! The
Gulf Boycott Coalüion believes an intema-

don't want to even hear about such,
terrible things ai Urban Guerilla actions.
In conclusior¡ leave Hoffman's defense '
and money raising to the "cock-¡òck" stars
who often put thousands of dollars up their
noses ¿nd in;their veiûs a month. ¡
Thére are just a few other p¡io¡ities, suçh.
as the Attica, Wounded Knee, and "Black
Liberation Army" defense funds, Those
people, despite whatever political and/or
tactical faults they may or may not have,
a¡e ¡evolutionaries working for a society
where smack, coke, and whiskey aré just bad
memories of a decadent, opp?essing society. '
course

tional boycott of Gulf can work-the initial
responsé world-wide has been t¡emendous

Until Gulf stops assisting the Portuguese dic'

tatçrship by huge annual paymentg a bo¡
cott can be efrective in pressing Gulf to take
ac!þn to enable Angolans to become inde'.

STANWOODS
Denver, Colo.

WHAT CAN GULF DO? They have

statesmanship they can certainly cary out
effectively. In adäition to 1) presrure on
in Southe¡n Africa: Nixon's èmbracing of
Portugal leading to possitle f) with{rawal
minority white regimeq; British and US
3) Gulf could recognizethe Angolan.liboraencouragement of Rhodesian white rule; US
tion movements and pay them taxes, 4) Gulf
foreign aid to maintain the Portuguese econcould supþort the United Nations policy re
omy allowing thém to fight an expensive
garding Angola, 5) Gulf could influence'üS
which
war; and a Uqited Nations
can do
policy for freedom in Angola for a change,
little more than issue pronouncements. We
and 6) Gulf, under contract with Portuguese,
who live in the industrialized world must con- pould "save" the oil at Cabinda until such
sider now tactics to do our part to help liblime as the Angolans gain their independence,
erate Southern Africa. , r
" The Gulf Boycott Coalition* stands
The best strategy ftir breakthrough in

We must recognize recent dismal happenings

ready to assist a{ individuals and grqups tg
boycott Gulf whère they are. Hit thêrñ/ '
where it
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not the same as dealing smack."
You're right, Not quite, But damn close'

bocaine is

The CIA's

"Air America" opium

runs in,

Indochina don't have coke in their cargoes'

wasted, even at the risk of being caged or

but that's only because of cocaino's geograph- possibly losing his life, (either by O.D.ing or
à trigger happy nalk or prison hack.)
ical location. But theil Mafosi comrades in
I deeply hope that Hoffman and his as'
Miami take ca¡e of the cocaine distribution
sociates, (not to mention thousandÒ 9f drug
in the U.S. just fine'
The nitty gritty of my letter is this, many users aiA-petty dealers in New York) aren't
caged under Rocky's new revised drug
non-white activists are tlying to eliminate
"Lynch'em" laws.
oacifying poison from their communities,
But if they are guilty they have commitwhether it be smack and coke in New York,
eà a criminal act in the real sense of the word
or bootleg whiskey at Pine Ridge Resewa'
and Abbie's friends should deal with that
tion in South Dakota. Many revolutionaries
fact.
were
at
one
particularly Blacks and fatinos,
One more comment concerning a trial
time strung out o¡ close to it. Birt various
comins up that has no defense committee
factors including gradually acquiring a reve
of ¿'"o-unier culture" or left notables to de'
lutionary socialist consçiousness changed
fend them, Joanne Chesmind, Herman Bell,
that,
Richard Moore, Alfred and Anthony Caine'
Hoffman, according to your appeal has
Andrew Jackson and Frankie Washington.
a "longand enviable" movement ¡ecord. So
Black revoluìionaries who are alleged'to
are
him
between
difference
huge
a
there
isn't
of an alleged Black Liberation
be
members
to
mainenough
kid
dealing
and a strung:out
Armv and who are accused of killing cops in
tain his own habit and having only enough
confiontation in Ney York City' Their trials
political consciousness to realize he's living
in a stoned miserable society and to him it
seems tire only way to deal with it it to stay

are coming up this fall. They are all facing
life sentenies, or possibly even execution.

Anti-Gay Violônc,e, the.

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Telling lt'Like lt Wasn't:'
Vietnam History irl the Schools. . . . .8
Bill Griffen

Gulf Boycott Coalition
Box 123, D.V, Station
Dayton, OH 45406

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Cover: East Side by"JVlarky Sulwinkle
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WHAT'S,THE ALTERNATIVE?
The number-of alternative enterprises and arrangements that people are
into nowadays is quite,impréssive. We've
all heard about food co-ops, underground
newspapers and alternative schook but
there are also alternative garages, construc'

tion co-operatives and some commun¡ties
are eveiì experimenting w¡th completely

f.NO_TÇ¡ Membois qf th€ advtsory board
of
he G u f B oycott Coà tt on i nct ud-o -R-o;.- R;n
oollums, John Kenn€th Galoralit¡ añà-Ãrjâiå'

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thing of this s'ort or know about such pro:
do, why not write to WlN.
iects? lf you
'!Ve
can't afford to pay'fot'a.rtiâbout it.
cles but our readers are vitally-coirceriréd
with theie problems and can benefil fro¡n
reading about your experiences. :l ,'
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alternative economies. Are you into any

started a $15Ó millio¡i oil operation there7 57o of iotal US investments in Angola. The,
United Nations called this action an exploi- :
tation ofhuman and material resources, harmful to the programs of Angolans towatd free
dom and independence. The people ofany
land have an inalienable right to independence,
lile believe Gulf is guilty of unethical, ir¡e- -

LCTTERS
In the September 13 issue of 'IVIN you
had an appeal from seve¡al staff membe¡s
from WIN and others to raise bail money for
a certain Mr, Hoffman and three associates
who recently (allegedly) had a $30,000 co'
cain deal terminated by some N.Y'P'D.
Narks (Who must have not been paid ofi unlike many of their collegues).
In case you've forgotten, junk has broqght
the world an Opium war, barbaric lawsggainst
grass, millions of addicts throughout the
years, some of them truly fine citizens of
their respectîve communities and thus quite
able to finance their habits' (Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle and Hetman Goering being
among the most notable) but many more
are dirt poor who have had to rip off, stick
up,jack up, pimp their lovers (and them'
selves) and various other devices just to keep
their body and soul (temporarily) together.
You might counter with "Well, dealing'

CORPORATION BOYCOTT. .
WHY GIILF? The¡e are ethicai,þoliticat,
educational,-dntl practicàl reasons, Five yeats
afte¡ the Angolan revolution began, Gulf

hurts!
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Changes.

mànl options which with their years of

the five major white minority ruled nations
(South Africp, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Angola) is to pirt our resoutces
where the "enemy" is most vulnèrablè. \ile
believe the action most able to d¡ive a wedge
for change in Southern Africa is a GULF OIL

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Gulf paid Portugal $61 million in L912 and
will pay $10 million moie each year for the

next several years. This enables Portugal .
to fînance 150,000 troops fighting to maintain its colonies. Gulf, ifpressed, can be influential in convincing Portugal to change.
In addition, Gulfs controlling stockholder,
the Mellon family, gave $1 million of President Nixon's sec¡et $10 million fund! Gulf
if pressed, could be influential in changing , .
Mr. Nixon's policies toward Portuguese colonialism. Politically there are good reasons to
boycott Gulf.

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The Gulfboycött is also an excellent
way to educate the Western world to ter¡i:
bly uniust conditions in Southern Africa. . :,
Distribution ofhundreds of thousands of
leaflots, etc. can make Americans awa¡e of
the inter-relationship of Gulf and other Amer
ican conglomerates with these white minority
regimes. Knowing the issues, Americans can
take political and economic action against

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ANTI -CAY
VIOLENCE,
THE PRESS

and got lnto a vehicle w¡th the sìx men.

After driving around sectìons of Forest Hitts ond

Jomoica Ploin, Tuscher said the vehicle stopped neor
o rear entronce of the Arnold Arboretum ot South and
Bussey streets, Police said the e¡ght men got out of
the cor and conyersed until someone yelled: ,,Now!"
Lynch and Tuscher were repeotedly struck with
"clubs, knives ond other weapons," according to police, and "severol sticks covered with blood"-were
loter dlscovered ot the scene. Tuscher told pot¡ce thot
'both men were olso robbed of cosh, woileti, jewelry

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ond watches.
Pollce quoted Tuscher as saying the six men drogged Lynch and him to a sewer main at the edge of the

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old A rboret u m grounds,

Lynch reportedly was dropped frrst through the
27-inch openìng lnto the deepest Nrt of the sewer'
with Tuscher thrown on top of him, Police said the
cover of the main wos reploced ond the six assoilanis

droveowoy,
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, Tuscher told police he woited until he knew his os-

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D.et, Sgt. Arnold White of Station l3 are conductìng
the investigation of the attock. Robbery hasbeen described as the motive.

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Marky Bulwlnkle

A Bostgn Report
by Allen Young
The following appeared on page 5 of the Boston Globe

on Saturday, luly'' 4:.
Mon killed, 'l hurt in Arboretum ossault

By Thomos Dotton, GlobeStaff
One møn was killed and onother seriously injured
early yesterdoy mornlng when they allegedly were
lured from o downtown Boston bor to a nonexistent
prty, robbed and beoten by sìx assøilonts and thrown
lnto o sewer at the edge of the Arnold Arboretum.
Police identifìed the deod man as Jeremioh Lynch,
21 , of Barrison street, Boston, ond his injured companion os 22-yeor-old Stephen Tuscher, of Oak street,
llayland, who wos odmitted to Foulkner Hospitol,
Jornaico Plain, for "multiple contusions" and was
listed last night in fair condition.
Medicol examiner George Curtis said Lynch had inhaled a mixture of mud ond water and suffocoted after being thrown unconscious into o sewer,
According to police, Lynch and Tuscher had met
casuolly near closing time in a Bay Villoge bar ond
were invited to o porty by six fellow potrons. Tuscher
told detectives thot, lured by promises of "booze,
some pot and a lot of fun," he and Lynch left the bar
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had gone before calling for

tuolly heørd by qn unidentifred possing motor¡st.
DeL Sgt: John Doley of the homicide division ond

ced'ing article, I knew that Jeremiah Lynch and Stephen Tuscher were victims of faggot haters. By the iime
I was finished with the article, I guessed that the bar
referred to was The Other Side-Boston's most famous

gay dancing bar-and I pretty much could imagine the
whole situation.
My emotional response was complex. One element
was fear, but I'm almost immune to fear. Cruising
can be a dangerous business, and while unlike somepeople, I am not turned on to the danger, I am alvgays
aware of it. W¡ll I give up cruising because of fts põtential danger? Probably not. (Perhaps I shogld give
it up for other reasons-because it has so little to ão
with the iense of cominunity which we want to build.)
Another element of my response to the Lynch-Tusche'r
story was sadness, on many levels, for dead Jeremiah
and hospitalized Stephen. And there was curiosity
about how their families were dealing with the situation. (Had the cops told them their óns were faggots?
Maybe they had known previously, maybe not).
But my strongest emotional response was anger, directed at the Boston Globe for not telling its readers
the true story of what happened to .f eremiah Lynch
and Stephen Tuscher, for neatly excising homosexual
oppression out of the story. I remembered the class I
took in libel law at the Columbia Journalism School;
it's libelous to say that someone is a homosexual, and
even ifthe person is dead, his or her descendants can
sue and collect! ls that why the Boston Gtobe hid

the facts, I wondeied.
Well, it turns out that Thomas Dotton, the'Gtobe
reporter, is a black gay brother, and of course he knew
the gay aspects of the story, but the police told him
gqy facts "off the record," and besides, the Globe
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"is a faniily newspaper." So the story appêared in its
truncated fo¡m, which, Dotton says, "was unaccepta-

ble to me and still is."
. I sympathized with Dotûon having to put up with
his editors' dishonesty-on what is supposedly one of

not going to protect us faggots' (Protect us so we can
commit felonies in the municipal bushes?) But I
would be the last one to preach about the need for
self-defense. On this, I féel I am a very typica! fagggt..
I have neither the sk¡ll nor the w¡lltofight. I have al' - .
most no experience fighting. I have ma4agqd tg avoid 1'
every opportunity I hãve had qo fight; and th,at includes
.everything from childhood squabbles to recent gay
classes in karate held during thê prime of New York
Gay Liberation Front. tn the hey-day of Studehts für
a Democratic Society (SDS), wnón ttre slogan was ,Î'
"pick up the gun," I bòught a .22 rifle, wh¡ch I itill
own, but I have no idea what I would use it for. Two
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faggot friends I know bought rifles under similar circuiristances, and they too nò longer have any upe for
their firearms. (Dld we ever really have any use for
them, other thah to i.mpress upon ourselves and others
.how tough we were?)
ln theory, I believe in self'defense, inc[udihgãrmed
self-defense, but I feel incapable of it. I abhor violence,
and it also frightens me. I would like to stop it. There
is; of course, v¡olence running through thp 8ay cqmmi¡nity, and some gay people seem to get off on it'
That gôes for the fãscistic neo'Nazi 5eçtor of the leath'
el crowd as well as for the effeminists gleefully"predicting a sex war. But I think such peo¡ile are a minority. lt-is no coinciderrce that gay people have alwayq
had a leading role in the pacifist movement (David
McReynolds] Bayard Ruitin, Allen Ginsberg, eti.).ln practice, i suppose I am a pacifist, though I doubt

rhe nation's most liberal dailies-and beyonüthat I
of h-ow right I
øt ftãópy with this new affirmationpress
five years ago'
*ãi to'ttãv" quit the establishment
."-i aimost såt down to write á letter to the editor of '
journalthe' Ctobe to complain about their dishonest
í.ã. urt I decided instead to direct my energy into an
irticle tor the Advocate, The editors of the,$duoëate'
iåiiow¡ng st¿ndard journalistic procedures, would want
pro;;tai; fãcts for their article, and l, as'a "trained
them'
journalist,"
knew
how
obtain
to
iessional
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foun'¿ out that Stephen Tuscher was still in only
balked
"fa;r;'-;ondition and could receive no visitors. I

i¿.u of talking to his family; what would I ask
I called the policeofficeis mentioned þ the
but theY weie not in.
article,
Globe
j¡volved
I called Charley Shively, a friend of mine

"iì'ú"
iñ"rl
w¡t'h

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Foi Rag,

whose lover happens'tb be a

ú"i1"ñJãt at The-othei Side. Charlevfonfirmed all of
ru intuit¡ons. ln fact, the police had-atreadV þeen to
i'tte Ottrer Side askirig questions. Charley said that he
ü;"1;;Ï.;ã il'tàt lJt.t¡ah Lvnch's familv had re' :l
fused to take his bofly, though this could noJ be confirmed. and later it was learned that his family did indeed táke care of the burial. (The gay-vine reflects our
cruel realitY.)
By the time the next day dawned, I felt I could no
lonsór proceed with this rout¡ne reporting project.
Wáil ¡ltt being lazy? I felt uncomfortabþ with the
standard iournalism expected of me by the Advocote'
What did the specifi"ò details matter anyway? Could

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ii i*ori¿ í.ra:ln'pæ¡f¡it¡c ¡f I were persoñallv

about this incident thát wôulil be

uuíidity of the doctrine of pacifism (as in "love thy
enemy" and "turn the other cheek"). (Readers can
make'their own puns as far as the "other cheek" epi'

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tUVung.t at Dotton'särticle subsided after tålking
with íì¡m.- He said he was willing to let me'älçntify
him as "gay" in the pages of the Advocare (though he
'told
me ñe'doesn't titJttre Advocate)' He told me
that he was a founder of the Student Homóþhile
League at Columbia University in 1966, but has not
beeñ involved in the'gay movement recently. As a result of the Arboretum incident-plus.a new wave of '
assaults on gay people in Boston cruising spots-Dotton has receivèd the OK from his editors to work on

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a long piece
'ln discussing the escalation
lencel
addition, he decided tb attend a rneeting of
the Gay Media Watch, a new Boston gay community

group ipecializing in monitoring and ccirrgcting media
coverage.

The obvious response to all this violence, as gay
community leaderi have already stated, is organized .
self-defensô, and some Bostonians are attempting such
a group. Who could disagree? We are vulnerable, and
thã poiice, who hardly proteot ordinary citizens, are

assault''

ed, and I am not convinced of the effectiveness or the

other gaY PeoPJe?

decided to cãll Thonìas Dotton to tell him how I
felt about his article, but also to iarner some mdre
information. Dotton told me that the police were less
than vigorous in their investigation. He ¡i{ that one
''' ' of the 6artenders at The Oîhèr5ide could definitely
identify at lèast one of the assailants, yet the police
. seemed uninterested. "Queer entanglemênts," one ofthe cops said to DÒtton and other reporters, as if to
dismiss the murder.
Later, t got through to Det. Sgt. W'Éite, who informed me ttrat two arrests had been made and more
were expected. He said that,routine investigation had
led to the arrests, and he assured me, when I asked
him whether policê were less than vigorous in solving
the murder of a queer, that the police would;go "as
far as possible" in finding the culprits: r'

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gram is concerned.)
' 'l do think we need to find a way to take destruct¡ut po*äi-óut of the hands of those who are us.ing itwheiher it is Richard Nixon or the people who killed
Jeremiah Lynch. But t am very confused. I do not
í.now fot córtuin how to take ihis power away. Pèi]
haps we are accomplishing this over the long run,-by a
erádual process, as people learn to overcome the fears
'lhat drive them to violence. Perhaps violence won't
end until there is an end to the,domination of women by men, until there's an end to the domination

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of the poor by the rich. Perhaps it is true that as each
of us stïives ágainst the destructive values of our soci' "
ety-competitìon, greed, racism, sex¡sm-we are ef'
fectively coñbatf!ngthis destructive violence.
Footnstes to all bf this:

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Phaent*,.aserts he'is not gay, but "AC/DC," and he' ''
said he áesperately wants shock treatments to

help

him erase the memory of that awful night.
2.) The two men arrested in the case were released on
th'eir own recognizance, that is, with no cash bond re'

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3.) Thomas Dotton's proposed long article on gay
. people as victims of violence was scuttled by the

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' 4.) lfinallYsold mY.22rifle.'

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journolism ãnd a former reporter for varlous stolght
'newspapers.
More recently he has worked with Liberqt¡on News Seruice,

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Telling ¡t like

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vietnam history
in the sc hools
BY BILL GRIFFEN
After every war in which America haó:fôught, schools
have been used to interpret that war to the next genera-

tions. The interpretation

has always been character-

ized by (1 ) stressing the necessity of our involvement,
and (2) defending the correctness and morality of
America's role and conduct in the war. The blindness
of self-righteous nationalism has always subst¡tuted
for objective, honest analysis of American policy.
This should not be allowed to happen with the Metnam War.
As we are urged to accept America's role in Vietnam as, at worst, a mistake-a policy misjudgment. or.

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and democracy"; every effort should be made to accurately and honestly describe the Vietnam decadefrom our picking up the bloody sword of the departing French imperialists to the'1972-7 3 barbaric civiþ
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ian bombings cynically described as having achieyed
"peace with honor."
Consider the pathetic irony of all those peace-movement leafletters, sign carríers, letter writers, pet¡t¡on
signers, speech-makers, demonstration-goers, article
writers, and teach-inners having their child.ren read in
school textbooks that "their country came to the defense of democratic South Vietnam." The State Department-Pentagon version of aggression from the
North will wash only if wè realize Washington, D.C. is
in fact north of Saigon. But a generation of school
children are about to get the State Department-Pentagon version of "history. "
As early as 1966, the.Defense and State Depart:
ments were putting out lnstant history on the Vletnam *
War to millions of school children. They produced
sixteen hundred copies of lUhy Wetnom,,a film the
noted American historian, Henry Steele Commanger,
described as ". . . . it is not history. lt is not even
journalism. lt is propaganda, naked and unashanied."
ln a Soturdoy Review article of April 1 5,1967 , Coì,mmanger wrote, "Let us look briefly at th¡s film, for it is doubtless a kind of dry run of what we will get increasingly in the future."
Conímanger's preview look is frighæning as dejo vuwe've seen this Cold War çascade before, applied almost universally to different historical situations.
Here is the Munich appeasement analogy, the dividing
at the 17th parallel into two countries-free and com-

munistic, communist terror¡sm, communist aggression
for world domination, America fullilling solemn
pledges in the free world, etc. The government f¡lm
is described by Commanger: ". . . . now the scene
shifts to Vietnam. ln 1954, says our nariator, 'the
long war is over, and the Communists are movir¡g in.'
It is a statement whích has only the most fôrtulióus
relation to reality. The long war was indeed over-the
war between the Vietnamese and the French. But to
label the Vietnamese who fought against the French
"Communists" and to assume that somehow they
'moved in' (they were already there) is a distortion of
history. Yet there is worse to come. For next ther
camera is turned on to the Geneva Conference. . . ."
Even five years before Watergate, Professor Commanger could say, "What is needed is a Truth in Packaging Act for the United States Government." He
elaborated by observing "The dissemination of Why
VÌetnom in high schools and colleges is no isolated
episode in the manipulation of public opinion by government, but ¡iart of a larger pattern. We must view
it in connection with the publication program of the
USIA, the clandestine activities of the ClA, and the
vendetta of the Passport Office against travel to unpopular countries, or by.unpopular people, as part of
an almost instinctive.attempt (we cannot call it anything so formal as a program) to control American
thinking about foreign relations. We had supposed, in
our innocence, that this sort ofthing was the special
preogative of totalitarian governments, but it is clear
we were mistaken."
Add to the publication program of the USIA and
the Defense and State Departments the self-serving
publication programs of the merged corporate business and textbook industries and the direction of the

For most Americans and for almost all of the young,
the Pentagon Papers are still unread and still a secret.
There can be no rationale for schools not making ex'
tensive use of the primary source materials of ,the
Pentagon Papers and Congressional hearings in order
to understand the difference between what we were ..
told and what was actually happening. .The Pentagon
Papers and the discovered lies of the military-admin. istration partnership spilling opt gf Congressional Committee investigations should be the history school '
children
will rõad-nor rhe legend of the Greèn Bèiâq.
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qeneration's "history" lessons become clear. Pàrents,
ieachers, and students not tolerating textsrtating

2+ 2= 5 or that the earth is the center ofthe solar
system, should not be forced for political national
chauvinistic reasons to tolerate texts and materials

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stating that:

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hod no interest in Vietna¡n other thùn
ossuring South Vietnam's self-determlnotion,
o the U.S, octed to counter communist oggrgsslon ln
from the north
*Vletnom
the North Vletnomese would not permit.free electionsos prescribed by the 1954 GeneVo Accords
* the U,S. has always been wìlltng to negotiate, while
the North Vietnomese hg.ve not.
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of present school offerings-

2. Develop and collect biblography lists concentrat.
ing on primary sources such ãs ihe'Pent4gon Pâpers,
transcripts of Congressional hearings, Vietnam Veteran
testimonies, etc. Check if your school has the Alter'
native Press lndex, published quarterly 4nd. indç¡ing
õver 1'30 t¡nderground and alternative magazines¿nd

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Get on tþeir r¡ailing list for newsletters and biblie

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North Vietnam definitely agreed to direct peace discussion. LBJ responded with'December 13 and 14 bombing raids near Hanoi. North Vietnam withdrew its
agreement. (Robert K. Estabrook,The lloshington

popular, nationalist.patriots while the dictatorial Sa¡gon military/rich landowner clique is our "ally"; violations of international law; deliberate deception of
Congress and the American public and the circumventing of Constitutional guarantees by the government
sworn to uphold them-

Assess the adequacy

newspapers (Alternative Press Cenler, BAG Service
2500, Postallgtation "E", Tgront-q 4, Ontariq'Canada)
3. lntroduce into your school tapes, slide shows, pictures and exhibits, films and resource speakers availa'
ble irn the Vietnam War and its affect on the Vietnam-

bomb the North. (Phillips Devilhers, University ôf
Paris, December 5, 1966) (3) ln December of 1966,

Papers public, the "secret history of the Vietnam War"
was no longer secret.
History teachers and other educators must not be
allowed to "re-classify" the Pentagon Papers by keeping them out of the curriculum thus makiþg them
"secret" again. The Pentagon Papers tell thê ttue history of the war: America as aggressor;. U.S. leaders
trying to convince the public that the'"er¡emy" is the

should immedately:

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decade.

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with an American emissary in Rangoon, B[irma. Refused. (Eric Sevareid, Look November 3O,1965)
(2) A North Vietnamese peace-feeler dellvered through
France in February'1964. American response was to

ing out of "war powers."
One can readily predict the reaction of those who
will want to remember Vietnam through the misty
eyes of John Wayne, Bob Hope, or BillyGraham, qith
the stars and stripes still flying over lndochina's shores.
But their self-serving remembrances will l¡ave to be
shattered, not shared. lt isn't a question of..our propaganda versus their propaganda, because the case for
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what really happened in Vietnam can be inade by presenting the warmakers in their own words. When
Tony Russo and Daniel Ellsberg made the Pentagon -,

ers

texts, curriculum, library holdings on the Vietnam

Vietnam rejected Íhese peace overtures." Such "history" carelessly (or carefully) ignores: (1 ) A 1 964
offer by North Vietnam to send an emissaryto talk

Pôst, F ebruaiV 4,'l 9671
!'history" disJust as,important as the textbook
,tortions are the omissions: the long, barbaric series
of war cri,rnes, the extent of long-range destructiôncultural and ecplogical, our war.planners motives and
strateg¡es contemptuously hidden fröm the public,
the repression at home aga¡nst the anti-war mcivement,
and the construct¡on of a presidential monarchy growo

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What must be done? Students, parents, and teach-

ing out in the early 1970's find all these distortions '
ru"nning through most of them. Herg.is one example
of the kind of "history" we are in får if we don't act.
According to a Ginn ànd Company (A Xerox company
they po¡nt out on the title page) high school textbook,
Decisions in U.S. History, "President Ly.ndon B. Johnson made repeatedefforts to stop the war. . . .North

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past, should create an atmosphere for understandings
that go beyond the simple, nationalistic patriotism of
the past.

The alternative to an honesthistory of this period
to allow the same power-fo.rces that initiated and orchestrated the Vietnam V/ar to explain that wár to
our children. That should never happen

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Bìll Grlffen teoches ot the Stote Unlversity of New
York at Cortlond. He has long been octive ¡n the move:
ment for peace ond civil rights,
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670,000 persons need helP, but the

COKE CAUGHT CHEATING
Coca-Cola found out this summer that
a United Farm Worker contract is "the
real thing", when their citrus workers
won an important contract settlement.
The.company was ordered by a
. Federal mediafor !o pay Union members a roral of $80,000 to $1'00,000 in
back pay-the amount the comPanY
had been underpaying their workers in
the past 15 months.
Farm workers who were Picking
citrus by the tubful were being paid at
a rate of ten boxes per tub. When *
measurements were taken b! the suspiciòus farm workers, it was found the
tubs actually cont¿i ned 1 O/¿ boxes.
Coca-Cola maintained the difference
wasn't worth haggling over, but it
added up to $80 to $100 per worker!

-ElMalcriado

FARMWORKERS BEAT
TEAMSTERS
RIT

ChAN
SOLDIER GIVES
lsoo fo AFRtcANs
Specialist 4 John H. Robínson, Jr., a
9th lnfantry Division soldier has spent
9500 of his re-enlistment bonus for
starving families in Africa and has
pledged to match a similar donation by
other G.l.s. [WlN Sept 3,1973
Changes]

Robinson, a member of the 709th
Maintenance Battalion at Fort Lewis,
presented a check for $500 to the Af'
rican Chamber of Coilcmerce's Project
Survival in San Francisbo, set up to aid

victims of the drought in Africa. He
pledged to match each of the next five'
$100 donations to the fund made bY
any soldier.
Robinson comes f¡om the Washing'
ton, D.C., ghetto and "l can readilY
imagine what it feels like to be hungry,"
he said.

Last winter Robinson worked as a
recruiter for the 9th Division is Wash'

the grape and l'ettuce fields of Califor'
nia. An agreement, negotiated bY
Cesar Chavez and officials of the Team'
sters and the AFL-ClO, affirmed the '
UFW's right to organize field workers
in California. The Teamstçrs were
given jurisdiction over pac[
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ington, D.C. His success was reported
on network television news when he
set up shop in the most li,kely place to
find Army volunteers-the city employ'
ment office. He recruited several doz-

en.

-WlN Seattle Bureau

DROUGHT TAKES 50,000
LIVES AT LEAST
According to sources in the London
Sunday Times, the famine which has
menaéed the Saharan countries in Africa most severely has extended into

Ethiopia.
A report prepared bY UNICEF indicates that more than 50,000 persons,
victims of the famine caused bY
drought, have probablY Perished bY
now. The total number of victims
might be even twice this figure.
the area north of Addis Ababa in
the Wollo Province, an arid plateau region, has become a wasteland.
- Ethiopian authorit¡es estimate that
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canneries and warehouses, where thê
UFW has never had an interest. But
this inter:-union settlement does not

end the labor strife in California. The
growers, who initially signed sweetheart
contracts with the Teamsters in an effort to break the UFW, are still adamently opposed to recognizing the
Chavez

union.

-Marty

fezer

For a comolete l¡st of ,,"in", to O"
óoycotted s'eê wlN, Oct 4, 73 P 12.1
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TELEPHONE THE TOP
Do you have a complaint about poor
merchandise or service?
New York News Service reports
there is now a phone directory available that gives the home phone numbers'
of the presidents of most major corporations. The directory enables consumers to make a phone call to bend
the president's ear for awhile.
The directory sells for 50 cents from
a group called Everybody's Money,
Department S.S., Box 431, Madison,

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Thereare many.factorsenc.ouraging
prisoners to be less subservigll
thev-have been ín thg pl¡!
officials tend to emphasize radical
fluences, sometimes to the exclusion
of all others, including serious and
gÌtinlâte grievances, In recent
the revelations coming out of Washingtoh'öbncerniñg "dirty tricks," coverups and a variety of illega! actions
the part of White House staffers, have
undoubtèdly contributed to prisoner
discontent. Many letters coming from

the courts. ln a guest editoriál in the
New York Times, Chief Justice Warren
E. Burger pointed out tliat in fiscal
prisons these days refer !o.Watergate. 1972 there were 16,000 petitions chalA letter from a prisonei aT Leai¡enworth lenging the validity of óonvictions even
to Prisoners' Dlgest lnternltionzl makes after full review by the available coufts,
r'! and another 40Q0 cases under the Cithe
Conspirotorlol lnvolvement is o
vil Rights Act in which petitioners
ious crlme, a crlmlnal charge for
claimed they were mistreateU or were
pqor, but it doesn't seem to apply
denied their rights. To relieve the burthe rich, why? lf Mr, Nlxon wos
den on the courts, Justice Burger propocil nun.he would have a prisÒn num- posed creation of a statutory procedure
ber by now, There are men in pritory,
for Federal prisons to provide a heardoing long tlme for o íess sçrious crlme ing of complaints, establishing inforthon whot Mr, Nlxon ond hls thugs
mal grievance procedures by state authority andlor submitting habeas corpus or civil rights cases tõ a U.S. magisithy doesn't Justice apply to
trate sitting as a special master and reporting to the court. Another course,
U.S. District I údce A ibert V. Btvan.
not.me¡tioned by J usrice Burger,
Jr. ;ñk';;ËÉry Ei"*'ã;
bt for prison officials to treat
iighrs wh.en t'eïráereO'ån;"ã'ä;ì''

point:

raise íssues

this organization is concerned about.
The other half supports hurhanitarian
and medical work in both North and
South Vietnam and other peace action

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INCARCERATE THIEU'S
PRISONERS
$20.4 million of the $376 million economic aid for Southeast Asia provided..
in legislation now pending will go to
strengthen the South Víetnamese police force and prison system. So
charged Jane Fonda at a rally in San
Francisco September 17 opening the
lnt'ernational Days of Concern ,for
South Vietnamese Political Prisoners.
She and Tom Hayden will speak in
25 cities over the ensuing three weeks
on a tour sponsored by the lndochina
Peace C:mpaign. During the week of
Sept. 17-24 a number of demonstra.
tions and public meetings were held
across

the country to focus attention

on the thousands of ooliticals still in
Thieu's prisons. There also was lobbying in Washington in opposition to the
pending South Vietnam economic aid

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antee the constitutional rights of þrisoners. The sweeping nature of J udge
Bryan's decision, which resulted from a
cl$s action suit on behalf of for.ty-one
prisôners, can be seen by the'suinmary

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A revölt of prison guards against
what they often term "permissive regulãtions" seems to be becoming a pattern following prison insuirections.
On occasion guards even go on

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stril€ to re-establish their power.
of us who are concerned about
soli-'
tory ðonftnement ln "the hole" for
.prisons must make an effort to undermole than 48 hours-without a.lieartn$;*.1-sJ.?n4 th.e fears and frustrations of the
PrÌsonerc under investigûtr-gn. for ãl- 'þüaräs"ånA offiii¿i4s as well as those of
as pg¡blished inthe l&ishlngton
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OPPOSE U.S. FUNDS TO

dßclplinary boord hedring. { '
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Prlsonen shall be lnformed of thelr
right to renøin silent ot both the; ¡n-

;;;ti;rti;;;;¿-iiá nüni'"iresen'iiànA
of tisr
th.an rtgní
to hove an attorney
yl,qllt9n o7 thetr rtsht'to appea:tiie ,uiiii,:inirn
in- íiràjïø" aát¡r"reà'¡h irit¡rg.i
lemonths Legal actions brought on þehalf of
have grown lo such a large
- prisoners
number in recent years as to give con,
on cern to iudges and others invõlved with

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projects.
, Tom's and Dave's run endéd on' '
Sept. 1 6 at the Third. Annual Peace
Fair'sponsored by the AFSC and Northern Nevada Peace Cehter at Foresta
lnstitute, an ecolo_gy study center at

"Reosonably detailed minutes or o
tape recording" shall be mgde'of eøch.

Nores

Annual Nevada Peace Fair in Washoe
Pines, Nevada, in a Peace Run sponsored by the American Friends Service
Committee in SePtember. They were
David Chatfield and Tom Courtney
who úsed this means to dramatize the
ever-present U.S. involvement ín South,
east Asia, whose material sypport'underwrites the continuance of carnage,
repression and torture.
They left San Francisco on Sept. 1
in a group of about 20 runners who ac. ¿
companied them. Along the way they '
were joined by local runners who traveled with them for shorter distances.
They averaged about 19 miles a day.
The Peace runners Stopped for community meetings each evening in cities
and towns along the way, voicing their
concern about the war. The run wâs
also a money-raiser for the AFSC.
Aborit one-half of the money collected
went to finance the AFSC ti"avelling
bus which ranges country outside the

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Dßclpllnary boards sholl not tnclude
ony officlal who eÌther investigoted, reported, or witnessed on allejed offense,

PnisoN

Two hardY distance runners Plowed
their way for a rugged stretch of 268
miles from San Francisco to the Third

San Francisco Bay Area

to
drive the United Farmworkers out of

The Teamsters have given up efforts
SPI

AFSC ATHLETES FINISH
268-MILES PEACE RUN

first shipments of grain reached this
province only last *""IL"
Monde/prs

legedoffensesshallno¡bè'he.id,¡n'tlrc thêprisoners. Oftentheguards'as: ,t'
nnximum securlty unlt wìthout a hear- sumptions are totally unacceptable to
lng on whethersuch actlon is justlfied. us, yet we must try to relate to them

Before a hearlng ls held, prisoners as individuals. Nonviolence should
shall recelve wrltten notice of it, the
speak to the oppressor as well as the
oppârtunlty to preryre a defense and oppressed. ln Coming Out, which he
to call'witnesses on thelr own behalf wrote just after leaving prison, David
up to o "reosonoble" nutnber. "No ln- Harris sàid of prison guards:
tircte con ny he vvants liÍs whole dor"t'm not gónna põtend I likq ihose
people. And I obviously hate what
mitory to testify for him," Judge
those people do. .But I am gonna say
Brygn sold.
it's their revolution too. lt is not any
A list of posslb'le offenses and the
moxlmum punlshment for eoch shøll set of people that we act against. We
act against a set of social processes
be compiled ond made avalloble to

prlsonerc,

that victimized all of us."'-Larry Gara
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poets, consciousness-raísíng groups, gay songs, nieetings all

sexual society, which has relentlessly persecuted ànd murdered homosexuals and lesbians since the oppresor has had

mix. And with gay liberation, we came together
quite painfully. Gay men brought with themselves male supower,t'
premacist attitudes absorbed from their straight upbringing; '
A socialist/commun ist oersoective clearly distinguishes
some. hated women, some looked to them for comfort or
whatever gay liberation wás (an¿ is) from other gay groups.
support. or even to do service work and some just ignored
After all in taking the title ,,Liberaiion Front" we meant to
them. Gay women on the other hand were not about to' ally ourselves with the NLF: ,,Ho. Ho Ho Chj-Minþ. Ho, Ho, take any s'h¡t from a bunch of faggots; they weré already i
Homosexual; the Rulins Cláss is láeffectual!'"ln Out of
more liberated in some ways than their straight iisters in
the Closets, Sandy Blixlon lists our revolutionary teachers:
not needing the support or lovercf some man-yet they suf"The Black Panters have tausht me. Al Fatah has taught
fered doubly as homosexuals and'as women. . . ' ' ,4-,
me, and Mao and ehe have taüsht mã that only by joining
Most "radical" lesbians left gy liberation entirely to
the. str uggl e_ agai nst sex is m and "capital ism-the root causes of work within the women's movement (even though mány
racism, fascism and imperialism-åo I have a greatør chance
issues there were oriented toward heterosexual love-day
for_helping to build a truly egalifarian society."
care, abortion àn¿ b¡rth control). Within gay liberation, ,
ln following these teacheri. we have made gne disastrous
women and men have been able to get together only on ele:
mistake in misreading Mao's éssay ,,Combat Liberalism."
mentary issues: coming out, le8al reform, job dlscriminaGay revolutionaries have taken it on themselves individually
tion and other "çivil" rights issues. The two anthologies reto attack almost every one for being ,iopportunistic" and
flect these diffculties. The Gay Liberation dook includes
"liberal." But unless we have an or-g*.úzation among
only material from men in the evident belief that.radical
ourselves we cannot combat liberalism. lndividuals alone
lesbians would not want their work conn€cted in any way
cannot combat liberalism.
with fag:gots. Originally they advertised ihat profits from
Because we lack organization, because we have rhetothe book would go toward a gay women's anthology, ncw
ric and theory without social substance, we cannot speak'dog- they simply talk of returning some of thé profits tö the
matically of what is ieformist, counter-revolutionary, oppor- "gay community." Out of the Closets is co-edited by a gay
tunistic or liberal. J uliet Mitchell has written that "Only
man and a gay woman; they do as well as any two people can
when a revolutionary theory and str4tegy of women's oppres- to balance their material. But this is'no easy task since so
sion is develbped. . . can we decide which issues are réforms
much gay liberation writing has been male dominated.
and subordinate them to the struggle for freedom and soWhere is gay liberation now? lronically the strongest
cialism. ln the absence of such a strategy, fhese 'reforms'
and môst i¡uccessful efforis have been in law, religion and
may well turn out to be its first stepping stones." lilomen's
psychiatry-our thre€ great enemies. Every state has or

the time, contingents in all the anti-wai effo-rts and a lot of

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THE GAY LI¡]ERATION BOOK:
Writings and Photographs on Gay (Men's) Liberation
Len Richmond and Gary Noguera
Ramparts Press. $3.95 paperback

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OUT OF THE CLOSETS:
Voices of Gay Liberation
Karla f ay and Allen Young
Douglas Books. $3.95 paperback
When these anthologies were planned-now almost two
years ago-we all believed gay liberation would soon explode
across the country into a mighty circle of beauty and love;
our hour in the sun had come-no more dark bars, suicides,
smelly tearooms, shrinks, cheap baths, meatracks, movies,
arrests, greyhound stations, guilt, trucks, fear, parks and

other backsides-we were coming out.

ln Boston we had an ear-piercing pagoda, several gay
commune-collectives, a prison.mental hospital group, Fag
Rag, atwenty-four hour gay phone, guerilla theater, gay
yoga and karate classes, a gay work collective, the good gay
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hard loving. The same was happening in Los Angeles, San
Francísco, Austin, Ch icago, Mad iso n,-New york -Ci ty¡ Washington, Baltimore, Ann Arbor, Detroit. Atlanta. philadelphia,
Lawrence,-Seattle and elsewhere. The'Gay Libóration Book
and Out of the Closets come out of th¡s eipér¡ence (particularly in New York and San Francisco), reiord it unä in u
sense preserve it because too much of ihe movement is now
more history than reality.
The publication of these two anthologies shows not only.
how far we have come but also how far ñe still have to go
to be taken seriously. Both publishers are small. little kñown
concerns, who have not put top priority on gettíng these
books o. ut quickly; nor will they'probably tike grðat pains

in distri'bution. By contrast, Abbie Hoffman, Jeiry RuU¡n
and Ed Sanders (all rather sexisr, anti-gav) retóiveä a $30,000
advance to write a "book" on last rur"m'ai"', co,,ventions;'
within weeks after it had been written, Warner paperback
had Vote on almost every newstand in the country (in Boston Vote was advertised on billboards). Fortunatóly, gaj,
liberation has yet to be co-opted so blãtantlv as the',?Counter-culture." Unfortunately, we still lack the means of getting
our message out to the people.
The Gay Liberation Fronrs had ar least rwo sides: (1) ine
counter-culture interested in closeness, authentic¡ty, poetry,
. beauty and love and (2) the socialist/communist
cöncerned'
with organization, power, contradictions, oppression and
armed revolution. Although both anthologies have a broad
óelection from the many sides of gay men'i lib'eration (some
four articles appear in both anthologies), The Gay Liberation Book swings closer to the counter-culture and Out of
the Closets more toward the socialists.
Len Richmond and Gary Noguera's The Gay Liberation
Book makes easy reading; lots of open space, pictures, cartoons, plays and poetry. Their layout and presentation in
some ways conveys the gay message as much as their text
(relatively short with 208 pages). Their ¿pproach to Cuba
is representative. They print "Out, Out,.Damn Faggót,"
"A very dramatic letter, in five acts of gross indignily.'t¿
(First publishedin Fog Rag No.3) Here Patrick Wiggleknife
("4 Lowly Faggot Who Fortunately Knows How toÍype")
exposes the contradictions of Red Bird l,4cThane, "Great
Red Bird of Right-on Revolutionary Rhetoric." By contrast, Out of the Closets devotes over forty pages to Cuba
and reprints lots of documents including the offensive parts
of the Cuban IDeclaration by the First National Congress
on Education and Culture."
The Gay Liberation Book is a lot of fun, but it includes
some dubious selections by "stra¡ght" authors. John Lennon
in a "cute" sketch-poem equates Bayness to playing with
oneself. Allen Watts says, "Although some of my best
friends are men, and homosexual men at that," his sexual
preference is "with women." Paul Jacobs proves how liberal he is while carefully mentioning Ímy wife." An anonymous "brother" says, "Maybe homosexuality is good for
some people. But l'm pretty sure it's destructive, really
damaging for me;" and he talks about how tiring he found
gltting his cock sucked. -Even "Dear Abby" has a page. Why
should space in a "gay liberation book" be devoted to these
people? They can be published almost anywhere. We have
few places to publish our work, to present our ideas and to
reach each other or the world.
Karla Jay and Allen Young's Out of the Closets is by far
the heaviest work (both in tone and size: over fifty authors
in 403 pages with a b¡bliography and international listing of
gay groups). ,lay's forward gives a taste of their perspectìve:
1'We perceive our oppression as a class struggle and our
oppressor as white, middle-class, male-dominated hetero-

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soon will have some bill to change sex laws and discrimination; a fewof thèse'have passed iirto law. Gay religious
groups are spreading like shopping centers. The Metropoli-'
ancillary "strategy." I believc "se¡ism is the primary contan Community Church out of Los Angeles is the largest
' tradiciion"-that it underlies
all ttie other inequäfïties faggots, protestant group, but there are also Greek orthodox, Epislesbians,and other women face and that ¡t is the root of capgo along with gay groups of Catholics
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(qlÇNlTY) and Jews. Gay counseling_seryices are thriving
"' But believing this means nothiÍìg'unlêss I can unite meaning- , âround the country. The Homophile Community Health
fully with others. ln the past, women haveat least had or- ' Service in Boston maintains trad¡t¡onal individual and group
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tion, Ladies''Auxilliaries, Women's Christian Temperance
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help rap sessions; in New York, ldentity House prom¡ses a
Union, etc.). Gay people haven't even,been allowed to meet Masters & Johnson type advising. Gay liberation has.thus
'together, even to support the ruling class, except for
the
in many ways come to reflect our enemies. And gay organi:
last few years. Our few meeting places have been furtive,.
z4tions that once contained third world gays, transvestites,
secret and usually illegal; conversations have been either
some working-class and uneducated const¡tuents have either
superficial or forbídden. (ln tearooms sometimes not a sin:
folded or bèen absorbed into predominately male, white
gle word is exchanged.) We still need to búilcl gay living-bemasculine and middle class groups.
ing space.
. Although now circumscrlUeA, Say liberatioil stiil contains
"tn
OuitOing a gay community and consciiitrs4e¡s we have
añ enorm"ous potential for change. We have experimented in
'three areas much morejntensely than the rest of society.
faced many obstacles among ourselve5. We fp.ce about the
same divisions as straight soc¡ety. All sorts of '15çis¡¡¡t¡r"
(1 ) .Androgyny has beèn encouraged both among gay men i
have tried to figure out what distinguishes us fliom the gen-,
and gay women;tra-ditional ideas about what men or women
eral population besides our sexual behavior..'"Not one of
should.hé'haveþçç¡"overt[rown in our líves. (2) Equality:
them have come up with a generally acceptable explanation
LoVe'bçtween wonlen andrwirmêri ôr.'between men and men
on their own terms of "scientifically" verifiable facts; ln .. .. .hasbeén mt¡ctr closer to equality than that between hetero
truth, we have about the same things right and wrong with
sexi¡al men and women. (3) Sensuality: we expect pleasure ..
us as heterosexuals; we contain about fþe same divisions in
from sex and have no interest in reproduction. Love itself
race, class and temperament. The big difference is that'
isoften an end in our relations; we feel no pressúre to keep
"they" are everywhere united in believing in the superiority
the family, nation, army going with the products of our
of their sexual preference. We are everywheng burdened
bodies.
with having to hide, protect and defend ourselves. And in
The existing capitalist society could turn these trends to
this burden we have for generations stood alone-more alone its own purposes; androgynous sybarites could probably
than any other i'minority."
:rfiaintain the military-industrial complex better than the
Among ourselves as with¡n straight society gender makes
present upt¡ght assei (who show little sign of changè). And
a big diffðrence. Lesbians and faggots are not.at all the same; they will never allow any kind of equalíty. Thus our liberathey-are persecuted by the same laws, put in the same chaption encompasses not only us but all society. l|e are everyt"rt in ubnottal psyci¡ology textbooks, and are often herd'
where; l4/e are in everyone; nowhere ore we free.
Even msre than the women's movement, the gay move!
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