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- From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Re: Colorado: My 2 cents
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.170826.13842@PacBell.COM>
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
- References: <1992Nov17.212937.22438@athena.mit.edu> <mattm-171192161603@mcmelmon.apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:08:26 GMT
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- I haven't seen anything about this here, but I'm informed
- that Colorado was much discussed at last weekend's Creating
- Change conference in LA. The consensus from that gathering
- of ~1500 activists from across the country was that, instead
- of boycotting Colorado, queers should kill the place with
- *niceness*.
-
- There's a plan to set up "sister city" partnerships between
- the GLB communities in cities in Colorado and everywhere else.
- Through these partnerships, GLBs would increase queer
- visibility in the Colorado cities, work on heartwarming
- projects like cleaning up parks, helping the homeless, etc...
- When the next Amendment 2 comes around, straight citizens
- will know some real queers, see the good that they've done in
- their communities, and reject the Evil Fundie Agenda.
-
- Sounds pretty clever to me, and this strategy would completely
- disarm the opposition, while a boycott would play right into
- their hands...
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