Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:57:43 -1000
From: lambda@aloha.net (Martin Rice)
Subject: SB 215:  LETTER:  Comedy no laughing matter

Aloha auwinala kakou.
 
Carolyn, President, P-FLAG O`ahu, gets another letter published . . . .  If
the rest of our mothers were half as committed as she, we'ld be "there" already.



HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN
P.O. Box 3080
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96802
letters@starbulletin.com

September 19, 1997


LETTER TO THE EDITOR:  Comedy on gay teacher was no laughing matter

Last night my husband and I went to see the movie, "In and Out."  It's billed
as a comedy but I walked out in tears.  I remember Red Skelton saying
something about comedy being a sigh away from tragedy.

You see, I see nothing funny about teachers or anyone else losing their jobs
or being intimidated because of their sexual orientation.  I see nothing
funny about our military members losing their careers or their lives because
of their sexual orientation.  This is the way it is in today's world and it
has to change.

In the movie, there is a piece of black comedy about the military and the
audience laughs.  The whole equality issue for those whose sexual orientation
that does not match society's accepted heterosexuality, causes me great pain.
 
I'm looking forward to the day with I don't have to cry while the audience
is laughing.  You see, I have a gay son whom I love very much.  

Carolyn Martinez Golojuch


~~pau~~
 
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  "In some societies they execute gay people,
  we should castrate them in the least."
                               --Janice Judd
                          September 13, 1997
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               Fred and Martin,
         strangers before all but 16.7%
                  of the law.
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