'" , • • , • • ( , - . . , , " , I . , •, , , , , • ( . , , . , , - - . , , .. ... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • -I .erlnf! enSlons, .rUD, In • ueer ar • by Paul Rykoff,Coleman .. .' NEW YORK-The New Alliance Party is difficult to avoid, , , Strollers in Greenwich Village encounter its members soliciting money for the Castillo Cultural Center and the East Side Institute for Short-Term Psy- Ic,:hotherapy virtually every weekend. (The. party oper:it«;!sboth entities out of a buildiqg on Gran
"• "i'!< f 11; ,~, ( ~' \ '. , ~ ? • ~ ~ f, '. ~ •, ~: .' ~1 .' • •, ~ \ r i,., ". , ~ ! " ~, ~, ,~' , ~' , .. , ~ ~ ~ t ~ f. '5 !,,' ".', I'" -. - ~ 1 ., ~, • - • • ,. ,;~".' $'-' , • - .. ,\' • " - -_.-, ., '. , -• •, • ... 1; '. n ,.-l. . - " ' ' UPHILL BATTLE-Mayoral Liaison Majori" Hill , by Nina' Reyes , NEW. yo.RK-~town meeting sponsor~d by Queer'Nat'ion last week br,~ugh! mayora(liaison.MarjOrie Hill before ~'largely sU,pportlve, but occa- siopally hostile; crowd, effectively eas- • • ing the"~ension , that has mounted be- tween ¢e gilYand_lesbian direct-action group apd HilI.inthe last few months. _ A1ttiot\gh few observers express.ed · deep. satisfaction with the forum, which , " r. strayed far afield from'the slated topic of anti-gay Violence, many thought that ~', ¥ .the meeling facilitated a long-overdue • • • dIalog ~tween African-American, Lati- '.. no and wbiteactivi$ts, ',' 'i' . Paise rumors circulated priOl'to the forum"however, that Queer Nation • • planned,tocall fot Hill's resignation at the '; .' , ·event, fqeling anger among her 'support- ers and creating a.sense of underlying \ !J "'.'''.~,..~' ~"'-. ' .", , tension that permeated a good deal of . the exchanges througho\lt the meet.ing, -' • 1 , , Nov.... It... a1.... eo / , .. • , ".,J!< - • •• , on • - , \' \ • 10lence • hear from David Dinkins." "" . ~magreed to ask Police Commissioner Lee Brown to meet with lesbian and gay anti-violence activists, although she did admit that pulling' off a summit . , . like that would be quite a feat She also stated sharply, in response to a question, that i~uing veiled threats of resignation in the face of mayoral policy decisions with J;hich she did not agree is not her style. - . Probably the most overtly antago- . nisti.-, . '. '- --.. '. . \' ; called thereptark about he~ ward~obe!\ ~ '" drawing laughtedrom the 'crowd aQd As diss~tisfactiorvwith Mayor, making it more' than clear whose posi- David Dinkins' respopse to escalating tion the participants supported, anti-gay and anti-lesbian viQlence has ' When the discussicm touched on 1 '-," ,-.;, built, some activists have publicly persistent racism and sexism within the charged that Hill has not been appropri- communitY of a~ivists, Hill diplomaticalately attentive to the issue. In fact; dur- Iy remarked, "My style, which' has been ing recent genenll meetings of Queer criticized along with my dress, isnot to .. Nation, which has been closely associ- point fingers." ated both with al\\;-violence advocacy "We spend'far too much time and and with criticism of Hill, whenever the this is the story of oppressiotl-picking . ~, .,.. . . Iiaison',s name came up, members on each oth~r,~ she continued. '!Weneed hissed and booed, . to decide what the salient issues are." , At the Nov, 5,t<strong>OW</strong>Ilmeeting, how- A broad cross section of social and ever, an entirely different attitude to- political groups from both Manhattan ward liill prevailed. , and iheput~r borough~ attended, lend- "It took years to get into this ....ing the Qµ~ef';Nation-event a-multiculmess-it's not going to take four months tural and co-sexual patina. "It's not'that to get out," one member of the audience we suddenly wanted to attend a Queer remarked pOintedly, Another partici-. N~ion meeting;"explainedone,African--:pant, explicitly locating responsibility American woman"challenging forum - for the city's lethargy on the issue of partic'ipaMs ~o fi,ght ethnQcentrism. queer-bashing, said, "I hear your com- "What are you going to do to get us to mitment, Marjorie Hill, but I want to come back?"'" l , , • • • , • .," .' • • - ,
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