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- Subject: APRIL 25 1993 MARCH ON WASHINGTON FINAL PLATFORM
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- From: Michael Bryan <michael@resonex.com>
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- The third meeting of the National Steering committe for the 1993
- March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Equal Rights
- and Liberation was held over the weekend of October 3 and 4, 1992
- in Denver, Colorado.
-
- The finalized platform (the March demands) and the calendar of events
- (as of 9/15/92) were presented to the NSC. The following is the
- platform of the 1993 March On Washington, voted on and approved by
- the NSC.
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- Action Statement Preamble --- The Platform
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- The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender movement recognizes
- that our quest for social justice fundamentally links us to the
- struggles against racism and sexism, class bias, economic injustice
- and religious intolerance. We must realize, if one of us is
- oppressed, we all are oppressed. The diversity of our movement
- requires and compels us to stand in opposition to all forms of
- oppression that diminish the quality of life for all people. We
- will be viligant in our determination to rid our movement and our
- society of all forms of oppression and exploitation, so that all
- of us can develop to our full human potential without regard to
- race, religion, sexual orientation/identification, identity,
- gender expresssion, ability, age or class.
-
- The March Demands
-
- 1. We demand passage of a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
- Civil Rights Bill and an end to discrimination by State and Federal
- governments including the military; repeal of all sodomy laws and
- other laws that criminalize private sexual expression between
- consenting adults.
-
- 2. We demand massive increases in funding AIDS education, research,
- and patient care; universal access to health care including
- alternative therapies; and an end to sexism in medical research
- and health care.
-
- 3. We demand legislation to prevent discrimination against lesbians,
- gays, bisexuals and transgender people in the areas of family diversity,
- custody, adoption and foster care and that the definition of family
- includes the full diversity of all family structures.
-
- 4. We demand full and equal inclusion of lesbians, gays, bisexuals
- and transgender people in the educational system, and inclusion of
- lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies in multicultural
- curricula.
-
- 5. We demand the right to reproductive freedom and choice, to control
- our own bodies, and an end to sexist discrimination.
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- 6. We demand an end to racial and ethnic discrimination in all forms.
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- 7. We demand an end to discrimination and violent oppression based on
- actual or perceived sexual orientation/identification, race, religion,
- identity, sex and gender expression, disability, age, class, and
- AIDS/HIV infection.
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- RON BUCKMIRE, 11 Colvin Circle, Troy, NY 12180-3735. `D.C. in 93!''
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- "I think every straight guy should have another man's tongue in his mouth
- atleast once." -Madonna, quoted in NEWSWEEK, quoting from The ADVOCATE.
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