The Flint Hills Observer
February 1997
Calendar of Events & Announcements
On The Calendar: February - March 1997
Feb 18 (Tuesday) Lesbian Comedian Elvira Kurt, KSU Union Station, 8 pm, FREE admission.
Feb 20 FHA Potluck, Vern’s, 6:30 pm. Southern dish (although any dish is fine).
Feb 23 BGLS meeting, KSU Union Room 206, 6 pm.
Feb 25 (Tuesday) Manhattan City Commission Primaries. Please vote!
Mar 6 FHA meeting, First Congregational Church (Poyntz & Juliette), 7:30 pm.
Mar 6 (7:00 pm & 9:30 pm); Mar 8 (9:30 pm) Total Eclipse movie at the KSU Union Forum Hall.
Mar 9 BGLS meeting, KSU Union Room 206, 6 pm.
Mar 13 (7:00 pm); Mar 15 (9:30 pm) Priest movie at the KSU Union Form Hall.
Mar 20 FHA Potluck, TBA
Mar 23 BGLS meeting, KSU Union Room 206, 6 pm.
For more specific locations to some of the venues listed above, please email Deb.
Announcements
Still Feeling Bruised Over the Last Local Elections in November?
Here’s Your Chance to Vote to Make a Difference!
The Flint Hills Observer Endorses these Manhattan City Commission Candidates:
Karen McCulloh
Edith Stunkel
Mary Nichols
Primaries are All three candidates have publicly spoken out against lesbigay discrimination. Please show them your support in the primaries!!! VOTE!!
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Notable Quotes:
"We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and
women' is not a way to become president of the United States."
--Former
U.S. President Jimmy Carter in The Los Angeles Times
"I believe strongly that what we are dealing
with here is the defining civil rights issue of this decade… What are you
trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount
of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara
or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.
Marriage licenses aren't distributed on a first-come, first-served basis
here in Iowa. Heterosexual couples don't have to rush out and claim marriage
licenses now, before they are all snatched up by gay and lesbian couples.
Heterosexual unions are and will continue to be predominant, regardless
of what gay and lesbian couples do. To suggest that homosexual couples
in any way, shape or form threaten to undermine the stability of heterosexual
unions is patently absurd. And I know, you'll say: 'What about the gay
agenda?' Well, just as there turned out to be no Bolsheviks in the bathroom
back in the 1950s, there is no gay agenda in the 1990s. There is, however,
a strong, well-funded anti-gay agenda, and we have an example of its efforts
here before us today."
--From
a speech delivered on the floor of the Iowa House by state Rep. Ed Fallon
in opposition to legislation prohibiting recognition of gay marriages performed
in other states
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Check out the BGLS Home Page!!
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Looking For Support? Join ICEBREAKERS!!
Icebreakers is officially underway!! Icebreakers is a support group for people who are just coming to terms with their lesbigay identity or who are just having questions about their sexual orientation. This group meets every Wednesday at 8pm. For location please contact BGLS at bgls@ksu.edu.
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Kansas Rainbow Listserv is Now On-Line
The Kansas Rainbow Listserv (KR-L) is now up and running. KR-L has over one-hundred email subscribers with representation from all Kansas Regent’s universities and Washburn. Non-university subscribers come from as far away as Italy and Australia; a few subscribers are Kansas alumni who live in other parts of the United States.
KR-L replaces the former mq (which was Manhattan specific) and the former kqn (Equality Kansas) listservs. KR-L is non-moderated, which means that subscribers can post freely post messages and initiate discussion on various issues.
Manhattan subscribers are urged to remember that KR-L is NOT Manhattan specific; therefore, in order to trim the growing volume of posts on KR-L, postings concerning Manhattan/KSU meetings and parties should be sent to bgls@ksu.edu.
Anyone interested in subscribing to KR-L may contact Deb at dtaylor@debtaylor.com.
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