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Alex is a twelve year-old boy [Editor’s note: Keith a long—time You can now SPbmlt a_mCles and
who goes to the Unitarian Lexingtonian and early activist in the ads V13 e'mml:
Universalist Church and through that local gay rights movement has Peter (our revered editor):
community has become acquainted moved to North Dakota. He has PJTAYL00@UKCC-UKY-EDU
with a number of gay, lesbian, and agreed to send his perceptions front Elizabeth (our prankster typesetter):
bisexual people. Over the last few his new location on a regular basis. BEE@MIS-NET
years, Alex has heard an increasing I’ve entered a time warp. Up m
amount of homphobic harrassment at here in North Dakota, the gay TO THEM
his elementary school. Much of the community is at roughly the sanre Here isaprovocative item that ran
trtne it was the use of the word gay pornt in ’ their development as on the net last month. My handwriting
as a put—down or insult ( That s so Lexrngton 5 community was when I does nothing of the sort and 1,1“
gay ). . first came out some 15 years ago. In wondering about all the rest of you out

Because he knew and liked some respects it rs even farther back there. Does your handwriting have
members of our 7community and the ' evolutionary chain than arty or all of these traits? (taken from
because his mother s teachings about Lexrngton. There are no gay bars, no LavenderLists by Lynne Yamaguchi)
the need for all ofus to be allies With organized political or specral interest 7 Distinct Traits in the
people experiencing discrimination, groups (like Gay Rodeo Association, H d , , G P 1
Alex decided to say something about Lesbian Avengers, Names Project, an wntrng of ay eop e
what he was hearing. He told the etc.) for lesbians, gay men and (these traits were reported by
harrassers to stop using the word bisexuals. There isn’t even a lesbian graphologist Eldene Whiting @1116
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gay as an insult and to stop making and gay Alcoholics Anonymous here! . . , ,
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SO what was the response? As held in Fargo which quite a few {Ch Unwersrty Of Santa Cruz)
many of us could predict, Alex people from all over the state are Continued 0" [’1‘6’62
became the object of some of their willingto travel the 200—400 miles to .. h , 7 . _ g :
harrassnrent. When asked if he were attend. There is also a newly formed Liit‘lSlllDE (QQWEQBEBQ i
gay, he said no, but that gay people social group here in Bismarck which Community NEWS 4 l
he knew werejust normal people like meets in my conference room once a Companies with Domestic i

_ everybody else. There was one other month to chat. Some people drive Partnership Benefits ._......insett
student who would back him up 300 miles to attend these meetings. (3150 Camps Out ] 1
some of the time. That group, called Gala, had its GLSO/Exccl Partnership ....insert

The “responsible” adults in the September meeting recently and National News 5 ‘

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