Clintons helped Musharraf into power

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Thursday has focused world attention on the growing crisis in Pakistan. The violent terrorist attack on the former prime minister also prompted presidential candidates to weigh in on the assassination, U.S. bilateral relations with Pakistan, and terrorism.

Not surprisingly, each of the candidates tried to spin the event to his/her advantage, with Hillary Clinton declaring, “I have known Benazir Bhutto for more than 12 years; she’s someone whom I was honored to visit as first lady when she was prime minister.”

But what Hillary did not mention was the role that the Clinton administration played in the military coup that brought Pervez Musharraf to power in 1999.

True, after Musharraf came to power, Bill Clinton called on him to hold elections and return Pakistan to democracy; but there is no evidence that Clinton ever threatened to reduce the enormous U.S. foreign aid to that South Asian country, most of which goes directly to the Pakistani military. And Clinton’s meeting with Musharraf in March 2000 did nothing to move the dictator towards a restoration of democracy.

Investigative journalist Greg Palast reports on a connection between Hillary’s old Rose Law Firm partner Webster Hubbell and billions of dollars in contracting fees that Pakistan owed to British and American electricity companies.

Whether there’s anything to it, Palast’s story is intriguing at the very least, not to mention disturbing; but you certainly won’t hear anything about it from Bill or Hillary or the Clinton campaign.

QUESTION: Civil rights and voting

Place yourself in the timeline of the black civil rights movement (agenda).

If civil rights for blacks were put to a vote......

Well, we all know what the answer is.

So when I see people screaming and yelling about voting on gay civil rights.......

for shame, for shame...

OREGON: Civil Unions on hold

Many couples were anxiously waiting for the clock's first tick of 2008. They were waiting to publicly express their love for each other in a long awaited civil union.

Recent news puts it all on hold:

Opponents to marriage equality saw to it that the Oregon state constitution was amended to exclude gay and lesbian families in 2004. Now, with a law to permit civil unions poised to come into effect on January 1, 2008, anti-gay activists are targeting the state with a federal lawsuit, alleging that signatures were illegally declared invalid on a petition to require that the civil unions law be subject to a vote during next year’s election, rather than passed by state legislators and signed into law by the governor.

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Why American Men Are Afraid of Intimacy

By John Ibson, American Sexuality Magazine. Posted July 4, 2007.


Why do adolescent boys often leave empty seats between each other when they go to the movies? It's a product of the culture of male homophobia in America which pushes men to avoid intimacy and gay stereotypes.


Just where the empty physical, as well as emotional, space between men comes from has been the essential subject of my research as a scholar of American culture. My work has culminated in a recent book, Picturing Men: A Century Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography.

What accounts for that space? A short answer, something academics like me are notoriously reticent to provide, is that countless American boys and the men that they become are afraid of intimacy with each other, fearful of how intimacy might be construed -- of what others and maybe even they themselves might decide that the closeness suggests. What I’m alluding to, of course, is homophobia.

Though of course widely accepted today in the United States, the idea that one’s own identity is grounded in the sex of those whom one desires sexually, that the sex of the object of yearning identifies the yearner, rather than simply defining his desires, is a comparatively recent cultural notion.

But it isn’t a universal way of thinking about human sexuality.

We examine the ways that negative stereotypes of gay men, for example, not only stigmatize those males considered gay, but also coerce all men to stay within the boundaries of culturally prescribed “male behavior,” lest they be thought queer. It’s common in our culture for a gay male to be thought “unmanly,” but it’s not inevitable that this equation be in force, or even that sexuality be viewed as a simple question of one or the other, gay or straight, with bisexuality in the middle ground.

Such, however, has been our society’s obsession with sexual orientation -- and with “appropriate” manliness -- that an association with gayness came to include certain occupations, words, gestures, and items of apparel, as well as one male’s willingness to express intimacy with another. The greater the scorn heaped upon gay males, the more that all males have been discouraged from displaying behavior associated with gayness -- with anything resembling intimacy heading the list of taboos.

Because men’s doings have been given more weight, deviations from the culture’s prescriptions for men are particularly troubling for many Americans, with displays of intimacy between men arousing much more scorn than similar displays among women. For example, with a tiresome, utterly predictable, yet highly revealing frequency, the lead actors in Brokeback Mountain were asked what in the world it was like -- implicitly how they could possibly have endured -- kissing another guy. You’d have thought that Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal had climbed Everest. Culturally speaking, for male leads in a major American film, apparently that’s just what they’d done.

Apparently thanks to the cynical design of Bush partisans, debates over same-sex marriage, usually focused on proposals to ban the practice, have in recent years aroused the Bush political base, sending the president’s supporters to the polls in numbers larger than might have been the case without a “gay marriage” controversy. However, the recent Democratic electoral successes suggest that many voters weren’t as distracted by the sexual orientation of their fellow citizens as they had been in 2004. This allowed attention to be turned to more pressing concerns.

It might be well if sexual orientation were less of a distraction –– for us all –– in other aspects of American life beyond politics. We would be a considerably healthier society were we to see sexuality as a matter of much more nuance than a simple gay-straight dichotomy implies. And American men, whoever their sexual partners, would surely have a better time of it if they were able to restore some of that world lost to homophobia. At its heart, history teaches us that little in life is inevitable or immutable, that things surely don’t have to stay the way they currently are. In looking at the quite different way that things once were, Picturing Men reinforces that lesson.

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A coming out story

I can gladly say I feel more at peace with myself today than I did exactly one year ago, when I flailed wildly, resisting myself and hating my circumstance. It was so hard for me to understand...but I knew I was doomed to unhappiness and self-hatred and loneliness if I continued to let things be. I also had no idea what to do, where to go, and who to turn to.

Over the past year, my life has changed more than it had in the 20 years before it. For the first time I kissed and meant it, held hands and got the flutter in my chest, dated same-sex partners, gone to bed with them...

What surprises me the most about my experience is how hard it's been, even at my age. I was 20 when I started this journey, and everyone said how young I was and how I had my entire life ahead of me. I will never understand the younger gay guys, some even as young as high school kids, who somehow figure things out, come out and really get the most out of life as a young gay man. Even now after all my progress, I have relatively little gay 'street cred' compared to these twinky boys who were out at age 16. And jealous as I may be for their position in society, I am also overwhelmingly happy for them, that they did not have to go through so many years, when life is so simple, not understanding themselves and not being who they are.

This journey has been hard. Not a single step has been easy, unquestioned or painless. There have been times when my energy is tapped, when I have no more to give to myself and nowhere else to get it from. I have felt alone and afraid, with no one to turn to. I have pat the empty side of my bed and asked my eternal question, "Why?" I have cried with and because of my family.

Am I proud of myself? Who knows. I'm pleased that I know who I am now, that I understand myself and accept myself. I'm happy that I've come out to my friends and can live freely in my identity. I'm glad I have more to myself than the fact I'm 'gay', and that people seem to recognize that. I'm happy that I've tried (though failed) to love and be loved. Still, I feel there is so much to do... but maybe the worst is behind me.

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Florida doesn't validate signatures?

Most of us are aware of the conflict in Florida where they are trying to write discrimination into the state constitution. The tool being used is a petition which claims to have over 611,000 signatures.

I remember in Oregon there was a similar situation this year. It took many weeks for the signatures to go through the validation process. So many signatures were invalidated the petition didn't have enough signatures to reach it's goal.

There was much talk about the validation process in Oregon during the process.

If you read recent news about Florida, you'd think it's a "done deal". Almost as if the validation of signatures doesn't exist in Florida.

View a list of petition signatures: http://www.knowthyneighbor.org/florida/

"For The Bible Tells me so" possible academy award winner

The Free Press, in Mankato MN, is reporting on the incredible public response to the video documentary For The Bible Tells Me So.

The film focuses on the debate about gays-in-the-church. And many pro-gay veterans of theological discussions give their positions on the subject throughout the documentary.

For The Bible Tells Me So was a nominee for Grand Jury Prize, at the Sundance Film Festival; and won the Audience Award for Best Documentary, at the Seattle International Film Festival. Now it's one of several films being considered in the documentary category of the 2008 Academy Awards.

The film will be released on DVD in February and can be pre-ordered.

U.S.-Britain gay-bashed Afghanistan

In the months after the autumn 2001 imperialist military invasion, a rash of gay-bashing and gay-baiting articles about Afghanistan appeared in the U.S. and British corporate media.

In some of the coverage, “experts”—who are not Afghan—focused on sexual and social organization in Pashtun culture, the majority culture in Afghanistan, as though it was the only culture. Other non-Afghan “authorities” didn’t differentiate between the diverse cultures in that ancient land, including the Durrani, Ghilzai, Wardak, Jaji, Tani, Jadran, Mangal, Khugiani, Kuchi, Safi, Mohmand and Shinwari; or Uzbek or Arab. Most reports did not differentiate between peoples of the lowlands and those in the mountain ranges. Or between peoples who lead nomadic lives, and those who dwell in crowded cities.

Colonialism and imperialism have always studied the cultures they sought to conquer and destroy. The job of embedded anthropologists is ultimately always to claim cultural superiority—the rotten plank on which white-supremacist ideologues stand.

The organization of the sexes, socially accepted sexualities and gender expressions in Afghanistan are rooted in that country’s ancient history, and are not the same as in the U.S. or Britain.

“Maura Reynolds of The LA Times noted that ‘there is a strong streak of dandyism among Pashtun males. Many line their eyes with kohl, stain their fingernails with henna or walk about town in clumsy, high-heeled sandals.’ But this equation makes sense only if we accept two Western assumptions: that homosexuality and effeminacy are automatically linked; and that the practices described are in fact ‘effeminate.’”

“Despite statistical evidence demonstrating that pedophilia in the West is more common among heterosexual men, the association of homosexuality and the sexual abuse of children remains prominent in Western anti-gay discourse, propelling ‘save our children’ campaigns to restrict their contact with gay adults. By constructing age-stratified homosexual activity in Kandahar as pedophilia, Western journalists provided themselves a link to the ever-popular issue of child abuse—especially hot, what with the unfolding scandal in the Catholic Church.”

The claim that same-sex love arises from hatred of women or that misogyny is rooted in unexpressed homosexual desire pits sexes and sexualities that are both oppressed under patriarchal class rule against each other.

Most of the imperialist war-time media reports claim that many males in Afghanistan have sex with each other because of “extreme segregation of the sexes.” Some of the same journalists did not attempt to reconcile the contradiction to their theory when they quoted Afghan males who are married to women and have sex with other males.

Even after the U.S. and British invaded Afghanistan—dominating the country militarily and crafting a legislative and political façade of independent government and law—the imperialists did not remove the law which they had said in pro-war agitation made same-sex love a capital offense.

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Home for the Holidays

For many GLBT people, the long road between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is laced with potholes to be dodged or dealt with: isolation or exclusion from your birth family, disapproval of one’s lifestyle/partner choices, or the ultimatum that attending events means downplaying or denying who you are and what you do the other 364 days of the year.

"For GLBT people, the stressors are frequently compounded by unspoken rules," he continued. "Honesty and transparency are not always welcomed with family holiday gatherings. And for GLBT people who have children, these stressors are further compounded with trying to figure out how their biological families fit into their own lives ... But with the holidays being a season of hope, PFLAG knows how truly wonderful this season can be when families welcome and support their GLBT loved ones - through what they say and what they do, that all of their family members are welcomed and encouraged to participate equally in family gatherings. This usually takes some advance planning and some very open conversations with extended family members, particularly those who are honest about their discomfort with or lack of acceptance of gay people. GLBT people should clearly communicate their expectations of how they want to be involved in their families. And family members should do the same. So when the holidays arrive, there are no surprises or unfulfilled expectations."

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Lessons learned from kissing a straight boy

By MARK S. KING
DEC. 14, 2007

LAST NIGHT I kissed a straight guy full on the lips. Then he tenderly put his arms around me and kissed me back. Tonight I’m going to do it again.

The object of my affections is a man named Travis, and he plays my gay lover in the play “A Queer Carol” at Theatre Decatur.

At an early rehearsal, long before any kissing would ensue, the director motioned me aside to share some surprising words. “Let’s take our time working up to the kisses,” said the director. He lowered his voice a little. “Travis has never kissed a man. He’s straight.” It sounded like a condition.

And in a way, it was. It immediately colored how I acted around him, on stage and off. The play covers our courtship and as we rehearsed I felt another type of courtship happening. Was he watching me, thinking that’s the guy I have to kiss? Was I masculine enough? Did he think I was cute? Did he even care if I was attractive or not? Was he disgusted at the thought of touching me?

“So Travis…” I began. “You’re straight and you’ve never kissed a guy I hear.”“Yeah, yeah,” he said. “Sorry about that.” He was actually apologizing for being straight, and I felt like doing the same thing for being gay. “I guess it’s an issue for me but I’ll get more comfortable. I did a nude scene with a gay guy before, but I wasn’t playing gay and we didn’t kiss or anything.”

We’ve all learned a lot. I learned that if something got in the way of portraying a gay couple on stage, it wasn’t the straight man’s phobias.

It was mine.

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Seasons Greetings

Thailand's gay history preserved

By Isabel Berwick

In 1983 I was an Australian PhD student visiting Thailand to do research on Buddhism when, by chance, the first Thai-language gay magazine appeared on the newsstands. I bought it, and since then I have built up a personal collection of about 2,000 Thai gay magazines. Now, with funding from the Australian Research Council, I am developing an archive in Bangkok of gay culture and literature.

I am doing this to give something back to the Thai gay and transgender community, whose members I have been interviewing and studying for the past 25 years. I am an associate professor in Thai history at the Australian National University, and the archive will help younger gay and transgender people in Thailand, now in their 20s and 30s, who want to study their own history. The magazines are a unique record of how gay culture has developed in Thailand.

My aim is to develop the Thai Queer Resources Centre as an archive that can eventually be donated to a university in Thailand for safekeeping. There's a rich history in these magazines, and apart from a few private collectors in Thailand, no-one has kept them. The police regularly destroy gay magazines - as supposedly pornographic - and mount raids on newsstands.

The previous political regime of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra had conservative moral policies, and magazines and other gay businesses were often raided. Somewhat ironically, since the military coup that overthrew Thaksin in September 2006, the climate for homosexual people has improved markedly. There's been a boom in gay businesses, including new gay magazines.

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IN MEMORY OF: Allan Berube

Allan Berube, a pioneering gay historian who chronicled the contributions and tribulations of gays and lesbians in the U.S. military during World War II, died Tuesday at a hospital near his home in Liberty, N.Y. He was 61.

The cause of death was complications from stomach ulcers, according to friend and fellow historian Jonathan Ned Katz.

Taking the step from gay social activist to gay social historian was easy for Allan Bérubé--once he became aware that there was a gay and lesbian history to unearth. Twenty years ago, says Bérubé, X'68, "the assumption was that...you couldn't write gay American history, because there were no sources. Everything was covered up or censored or burned or never existed. Invisible, hidden."

No more. The independent scholar's research and writings--most notably his award-winning 1990 book Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (Free Press)--have helped lay the groundwork for gay and lesbian studies. They've also earned him a MacArthur Fellowship, one of 20 such "genius" grants awarded in 1996.

Allan Berube opened Green by Design in 2007. Since the 1980s he has organized the home offices of writers and researchers and the offices of small non-profits. And he has organized filing and storage systems for private research and archival collections (including periodicals, architectural plans, photographs and personal letters). Since the beginning of 2006, he has co-owned and operated INTELLIGENT DESIGN Antiques in Liberty, NY, which specializes in home furnishings and collectibles from the 1930s - 1960s, and features unusual "finds" that can be repurposed for workspace uses. Since 2002 he has owned and operated Carrier House Bed & Breakfast, also in Liberty, where he designed writing and reading areas for each apartment suite (visit the website to see the suites). He is an award-winning, community-based historian and speaker who has received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for two decades of creative work. In the early 1970s he was a pioneer activist in Boston who helped set up innovative recycling programs and other community-based Ecology Action projects.

Sources:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-berube16dec16,1,6474588.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

http://magazine.uchicago.edu/9702/9702BOBProfiles2.html

http://www.greenbydesignny.com/contact.html

Christians pulling children out of California public schools

If you can believe the biased religious sites many christians in California are pulling their children out of the public school system.

One of the sites making such claims is the notorious World Net Daily site. Here is a link to an article on their site: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59033

Perhaps California has found a way to provide a higher quality of education. After all, this should result in smaller class sizes.

Perhaps the remaining children will be the winners with a higher quality of education.

Applaud Alaska Air and Horizon Air

The heterosexual supremacist are screaming and yelling again. This time about the 10% discount Alaska Air and Horizon Air are giving to the LGBT community.

I applaud Alaska Air and Horizon Air for their diversity.

LGBTQ SURVEY

LGBTQ SURVEY
You are invited to participate in an academic study examining the social and political attitudes and behaviors of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals. As not much is known about the LGBTQ population in the United States, it is important to capture attitudes and behaviors in order to determine if there is indeed a distinctive culture that has the ability to wield social and political influence.

The researchers conducting this study are a graduate student of political science at California State University, Chico and a doctoral student of political science at the University of New Orleans.

www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KEN2HtTDZGr_2fX1unwOzKrQ_3d_3d

U.S. SET TO DEPORT GAY IRANIAN

President George W. Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may not agree on much, but tragically they may find common ground about the disposability of Hassan Parhizkar’s life.

Since November 7, this mild-mannered 40-year-old gay Iranian businessman from Rockville, Maryland has been sitting in jail in the Frederick County, Maryland Detention Center, housed with common criminals, in the living hell of limbo between the freedom he has known since he came to the United States as a young man 17 years ago and the certain persecution, imprisonment, or worse that will be his fate as a gay man if he is sent back to Iran.

"I am very afraid, and so very frustrated. My asylum request has never been before an immigration judge. I just don’t know what to do, I just don’t know what to do…" he added in a voice choked with tears."I work hard, I pay my taxes, and I live a quiet life without bothering anybody."

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WORD: HeteroFlexible

I’ve always felt every human is an individual who is unique.

Yet, for some reason, many feel the need to label people. Placing them in some type of “box” which comes with a set of “conditions associated with the box/label”.

I’ve also noticed many of the younger generation share my feelings.

So when I saw the word, HeteroFlexible I smiled.

It was linked to a Craigslist posting:
I'm sorry. You were taking so long in the bathroom and this guy was looking at
me. Next thing I knew we were making out and you came back and stormed out of
the bar. I just want you to know that I really liked you and I'm not gay, I just
have gay experiences sometimes. You are a beautiful girl and I'm glad that you
came on date with me. I would like very much to try again. This time I will give
all my love to you.

It was also linked with other postings claiming the guy must be gay.

Must like a public figure who claims to be heterosexual is automatically gay because he participates in some bathroom improprieties.

As a gay man I resent the fact that many in society are so quick to judge and generalize.

For instance, I don't think all heterosexual men are pedophiles because some of them pursue sex with underage girls.

In my mind, many people are limited to a "us and them" mentality. Their "black and white" outlook on life doesn't have room for "gray areas".

They are followers, not leaders. They think what they are told to think and say what they are told to say!

COMPLACENCY = DEATH

Frank Kameny Writes Tom Brokaw

Dr. Franklin Kameny
Kameny Papers Project

November 26, 2007

Mr. Tom Brokaw
c/o Random House Publishing Group

Ms. Gina Centrello
Publisher Random House Publishing Group

Ms. Kate Medina
Executive Editorial Director
Random House Publishing Group
1745 Broadway New York , New York , 10019

Dear Mr. Brokaw and Mmes. Centrello and Medina:

As a long-time gay activist, who initiated gay activism and militancy at the very start of "your" Sixties, in 1961; coined the slogan "Gay is Good" in 1968; and is viewed by many as one of the "Founding Fathers" of the Gay Movement, I write with no little indignation at the total absence of any slightest allusion to the gay movement for civil equality in your book “Boom! Voices of the Sixties". Your book simply deletes the momentous events of that decade which led to the vastly altered and improved status of gays in our culture today. This change would have been inconceivable at the start of the Sixties and would not have occurred at all without the events of that decade totally and utterly ignored by you. Mr. Brokaw, you have "de-gayed" the entire decade. "Voices of the Sixties"??? One does not hear even one single gay voice in your book. The silence is complete and deafening.

As a gay combat veteran of World War II, and therefore a member of the "Greatest Generation", I find myself and my fellow gays as absent from your narration as if we did not and do not exist. We find Boom! Boom!! Boom!!! in your book about all the multitudinous issues and the vast cultural changes of that era. But not a single "Boom", only dead silence, about gays, homosexuality, and the Gay Movement.

The development of every other possible, conceivable issue and cause which came to the forefront in that period is at least mentioned, and is usually catalogued: race; sex and gender; enthnicity; the environment; and others, on and on and on -- except only gays.

In 1965, we commenced bringing gays and our issues "out of the closet" with our then-daring picketing demonstrations at the White House and other government sites, and our annual 4th of July demonstrations at Independence Hall in Philadelphia . The Smithsonian Institution displayed these original pickets last month, in the same exhibition as the desk where Thomas Jefferson drafted The Declaration of Independence. The name of the Smithsonian's exhibition? “Treasures of American History”. In your book: No Boom; only silence.

About 1963, a decade-long effort commenced to reverse the psychiatric categorization of gays as mentally or emotionally ill, concluding in 1973 with a mass "cure" of all of us by the American Psychiatric Association. No boom in your book; only your silence.

The most momentous single Gay Movement event occurred at the end of June, 1969, when the "Stonewall Rebellion" in New York , almost overnight (actually it took three days) converted what had been a tiny, struggling gay movement into the vast grass-roots movement which it now is. We had five or six gay organizations in the entire country in 1961; fifty to sixty in 1969; by the time of the first Gay Pride march, in New York one year later in 1970, we had 1500, and 2500 by 1971 when counting stopped. If ever there was Boom, this was it. In your book, no Boom, only your silence.

About 1972, Elaine Noble was elected to the Massachusetts state House of Representatives as the first elected openly gay public official. I had run here in Washington , DC , the previous year for election to Congress as the first openly gay candidate for any federal office. Harvey Milk was elected to the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco . No boom in your book; only your silence.

Mr. Brokaw, you deal with the histories of countless individuals. Where are the gays of that era: Barbara Gittings; Jack Nichols; Harry Hay; Del Martin and Phyllis Lyons; Randolfe Wicker; Harvey Milk; numerous others? No booms in your book; only silence and heterosexuals.

Starting in 1961 a long line of court cases attacked the long-standing U.S. Civil Service Gay Ban (fully as absolute and as virulent as the current Military Gay ban, which actually goes back some 70 years and was also fought in the 60s) with final success in 1975 when the ban on employment of gays by the federal government was rescinded. In your book, no boom; only your silence.

The assault on the anti-sodomy laws, which made at least technical criminals of all gays (and most non-gays for that matter, although never used against them) and which was the excuse for an on-going terror campaign against the gay community through arrests the country over, began in 1961 and proceeded through the 60s and onward. In your book, no boom; only your silence.

In 1972, following up on Stonewall, the first anti-discrimination law protective of gays was enacted in East Lansing, Michigan, followed by the much more comprehensive one in D.C. in 1973, starting a trend which now encompasses some twenty states, countless counties and cities, and has now reached Congress in ENDA. In your book, no boom; only your silence.

The Sixties were a period of unprecedented rapid social and cultural upheaval and change. We gays were very much a part of all that. A reader of your book would never have the slightest notion of any of that. In your book, no boom; only your silence.

At the start of the Sixties gays were completely invisible. By the end, and especially after Stonewall, we were seen everywhere: in entertainment, education, religion, politics, business, elsewhere and everywhere. In BOOM our invisibility remains total.

The only allusions to us, in your entire book are the most shallow, superficial, brief references in connection with sundry heterosexuals. Where are the gay spokespeople? We are certainly there to speak for ourselves. But in your book, only silence.

Mr. Brokaw, I could go on, but this should be sufficient to make my point. The whole thing is deeply insulting. As I said, you have de-gayed an entire generation. For shame, for shame, for shame. You owe an abject public apology to the entire gay community. I demand it; we expect it.

Gay is Good. You are not.

Sincerely,
Franklin E. Kameny, Ph.D.

Dr. Franklin Kameny
5020 Cathedral Ave. , NW
Washington , D.C. 20016
FEKameny@webtv.net
202.362.2211

Kameny Papers Project
www.kamenypapers.org

Howard Kurtz The Washington Post
kurtzh@washpost.com

Dr. Harry Rubenstein
Curator, National Museum of American History
The Smithsonian Institution
Washington , D.C.
rubensteinh@si.edu

Dr. John Haynes
Curator, Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
jhay@loc.gov

Mr. Dudley Clendinen
Author, Out for Good
Baltimore , Md.
FindDudley@aol.com

Mr. Stephen Bottum
www.bandofthebes.com