Lavender Starship/Page 15/Pay 10-1972

Gays Against Against The War

by Tony Rogers, Cleveland

Kalle protesting the war in Indo-

in Cleveland along with cur ontre of SDS, Peace Action Con11, Veterans against the War, and other peace-seeking groups in the grester Cleveland area, the question arose What are fags doing at an anti-var ally?...Everyone knows that gay men don't go into the Armed Services." Everyone seems to think that because the stereotype limp-vristed variety of "homosexual" is basically gentle and tiid by nature, none of our gay brothers. have been forced to lay down their lives in this cruel and inhuman war.

People aren't told about how gay nes are honored" by the Armed Services. if it happens to come out that they are gay. The game of "Dump the Fag" is becoming even more popular these days in Vietnam. "Dump the Fag" is played the same way the Oriental game of Dump the Gook" is played. You ake a man up in a helicopter to about 3,000 feet, open the door, and yell "Geronimo!" (without a parachute). Some other popular ways to deal with faggots in Vietnam is to use them for

e practice (after they've been -reped, of course -a good piece is la o ace by in Han...) Castration is also by this year (after all Dage 22 ant to be vasen anyway; so what difference does it make?...) And

if you're lucky and manage to stay a live after being forced out of the closet, you might just make it to a mili tary hospital to be used as a human guinea pig.

We all know how bad our straight brothers have it in Nam, but no one seems to know that our gay brothers, friends and lovers have also died in this fucked-up war. We at home have felt the loss as much as anyone else.

Why is it that a man is honored for killing another man in the Armed Services, but is dishonorably discharged, or worse, if he is caught loving another man?

In Carl Whitman's Gay Manifesto be gives advice on how to relate to white radicals and ideologues:

"No country or political/economic system has treated gay people as anything other than non grata so far. We know that we are radical, that we are revolutionaries since we know the system we're under now is a direct source of oppression, and it's not a question of getting our share of the pie. The pie is rotten.

"We can look forward to coalition and mutual support with redical groups if they are able to transcend their anti-gay and rale chauvinist patterns. We support radical and militant derands when

they arise, BJ only

we can't compromise a vá-we or gay identity."

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society. We aren's plates the more colliders to play their g with. Instead we wishe ren who have already had the stre tune to stable to tats fucking world and to teach the test 's son WHO you love, or you Love, but most important 20 you Love, to brin us our long overdue peas The only ver ve es pays Justifiable is the ver going

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Let's bring the var boze. Out 30%, forever.

AUSS

DRAG OHIO

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BEAUTY PAGEART, DANCE, AND SEOM

SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1972, 9 P.M.-1 A.M LAUSCHE BUILDING, COLIS, OCTO

OVER 50 DRAG QUEERS

Competing for cash awards and the title

"Miss Drag Ohio 1972"

BOBBY MAN'S ALL NEW SCANDAL REVUE

A mini version of the International Jewel Box Revue

LEZ COMIC TINA THUNDER PUSSY AND THE DISTICS

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D.R.A.G.

P.O. Box 7151

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(614)252-0976

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