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This is truly a sad situation and
does not promote Winonans in a positive light.
Laurie Lucas
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:41
PM
Subject: [Winona] Recent Newspaper
Letters
Anyone else getting depressed by the overwhelming ignorance
and hatred being spewed forth by recent letters to the editors verbally
bashing gays and lesbians? I found the following on the internet awhile
back. I think it puts things into
perspective.
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Remove My Name From
Your Rooster
The Best of Homophobic Mail
by Kathleen DeBold and
George Neighbors, Jr. (contributing writers)
Reprinted from The Lavender
Network Newspaper, February 1994.
[One of the joys of working
for a gay organization is the singular pleasure we get from reading the daily
dose of hate mail. We've arranged our favorite snippets in a letter form so we
could share with you the best of Beavises and Buttheads of the biblically
impaired:]
"Dear Faggots, Dikes, Soddomites, Lissbians, and Queer
Bates:
I recently came across your address in a magazine I was reading
and a plea for donations to support your perversions caught my eye. Their is
no excuse for you. Your all sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick,
sick, sick. Gays are barf-inducing because you know what they do in private.
Sex organs are not very sanitarilly clean. Regardless of a man's ability as an
artist, dress designer, or choreographer (three favorite professions, I'm
sure) the bottom line is that he enjoys [Lavender editors' note: a long,
explicit and obliviously well-researched description of gay male sex]. I'm
sure that lesbians engage in similar disgusting acts [Lavender editors'
note: no description: they still can't figure out what we do in bed!].
Who is Barry Goldwater compared to God? Check the following versus of
scripture: Genises, Romens, Leviticals, and Profits. God created Adam and Eve,
not Adam and Steve. The Bible makes it clear that Jesus preferred straight
men. That is why God sent you Aides. In our day Aids were helpers in the
principals office.
The homophiles are nothing short of a hatred
spreading group that has joined forces with the KKK, and the brown shirters
and the antisemetics. Homos have no right to teach in our public schools. You
just want to pray on our children and lead them in a stray. There isn't a
homosexual alive who fought and died for his country like we did.
My
wife is not a lesbian and neither is my son. I've never had sex with a man and
neither has my wife. I hope that your campaigning for homosexuals is due to
your being unknoweable rather than you thinking the things they do are just
`sexual preferance.' Keep your sexual perversions to yourself and I'll keep my
sexual perversions to myself.
I also challenge the word "homophobic"
as fear of hobosexuals. I'm not homophobic--I have no fear of your type, only
contempt. And now you have homophobia to wave around just like the jews have
anti-semenic. So lets get rid of the word homophobia: How about
"Homo-Blyiccch" (gag, choke, vomit)? Sure, you can call me homophonic if you
like but I know what's right and what's wrong. When all you perverts are in
hell it will be a much better place.
I am curious about how you got
our name. I suppose that's a secret you'll keep buried in your bosom. I do not
encourage anyone likely to place me on your mailing list to get more such
weird offers. I demand that you remove me from your rooster!
[Signed]
Satan
Hell Fire Lane
Hell,
Inc."
[As you can see, we have met the enemy, and they are
illiterate.]
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