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SOUTHERN VOICE
OCTOBER 14/1993
NEXT WEEK
Atlanta's
Next Leaner
The three leading candidates
for mayor—Bill Campbell,
Myrtle Davis and Michael
Lomax—sit down with
Southern Voice to talk
about their agendas for the
lesbian and gay community.
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EDITORIAL
Stand up for two politicians who stood for us
We have spent a bit of energy on these
pages as of late focusing on politicians who
have done us wrong, pondering how we might
be able to snuff out their little careers before
they have the chance to do any more damage.
So it is a welcome change this week to talk
about two politicians who have done us right.
Unfortunately, these two women arc pay
ing a price because they did.
Carolyn Long Banks and Barbara Asher
arc both long-time members of the Atlanta
City Council. They serve in at-large posts,
meaning that voters throughout the city will
decide whether they will be returned to office
in November.
Both Banks and Asher supported contro
versial measures, approved by the City Coun
cil, that created a domestic partnership regis
try for unmarried people who live together and
extended benefits to the domestic partners of
city employees. Both stood with the lesbian/
gay community in winning this fight, even in
the face a backlash from the forces of hate.
And both have drawn right-wing opposi
tion in November’s election because of those
stands.
Jackie Livingston, running against Asher
for at-large Post 16, and John H. Lewis Sr.,
running against Banks for at-large Post 14, are
both believed to have ties to the Christian right.
Lewis’ name may be a particularly problem
for Banks. Though he is not the father of the
popular and progressive U.S. Rep. John Lewis,
that bit of misinformation is being floated in
some parts of the city.
Lesbian and gay voters in Atlanta, how
ever, can help our friends in these races be
cause of Atlanta’s system in selecting mem
bers of the City Council. In addition to 12
councilpcrsons elected from specific districts,
there arc also six at-largc posts, including those
of Asher and Banks, for which everyone in the
city gets to vote.
Carolyn Long Banks
Though they may be far down the ballot
and aren’t attracting as much interest as, say,
the battle in the gay-friendly 6th District or
two other districts with gay and lesbian candi
dates, voters in our community need to make a
point of voting in these at-largc races, particu
larly posts 14 and 16.
Asher and Banks stood with us. Now is die
time for us to stand with them.
RICHARD SHUMATE
Barbara Asher
L E T T E
Former resident applauds Morningside Chase
We’ve heard a great deal lately about the
controversy rc 0 arding the management com
pany for Morningside Chase Apartments.
Belcore & Associates (the management com
pany) issued a notice through the rental office
manager to residents stating that public dis
plays of affection cannot be tolerated in the
public areas of the apartment community,
prompted largely by residents recent com
plaints about such activity.
As stated by Gaetano Belcore, the
[company’s] president, this notice does not
apply to such innocent activities such as kiss
ing or hugging, but to the more “intimate”
ways some residents (and non-residents) have
been showing their love and/or lust within the
complex’s public areas.
Having lived at Morningside Chase sev
eral years ago, I applaud Belcore & Associates
for their stand to discourage this kind of public
behavior. I moved from Morningside because
I, too, was sick by “harmless” skinny dipping
romps turning into late night oral sex festivals,
and of seeing two (or more) people emerge
from the single toilet restroom in the
laundromat.
Those who arc hiding behind the usual
cries of discrimination are simply sexually
starved fools who can’t keep their zippers up
long enough to make it to a bedroom. If those
people wish to live in the Parliament House,
they should by all means move there.
Greg Henry
Atlanta
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DeAundra wants
Danny Roble back
Hey y’all. Maybe 1 ain’t been told the whole
story or somethin’, but 1 just thought I would
write to y’all an’ say how sorry I was that y’all
has done fired Mr. Danny Roble from y’all’s
staff.
A couple of years ago when he done joined
up with y’all, 1 said to myself how glad I was
that a bit of humanisticism had done gotten on
board. Part of what I wanted more of in y ’all’s
publication was some fun (1 mean, hard news
is great, but entertainment is pan of what people
is lookin’ for too). Anyway, when he done
come on, he added culture an’ excitement to
the paper better than any other writer like him
in town.
Mostly what 1 liked so much about his
column was that not only did he pay attention
to budding superstars like myself, but that boy
was all over this city writin’ about benefits an’
entertainment of all kinds.
I just thought that I would let y’all know
how I will miss his column an’ how I hope that
y’all consider rchirin’ him—soon.
DeAundra Peek
Atlanta
Editor’s note: Watch for an exciting new
nightlife column, coming to SoVo in Novem
ber.
A cartoonist by
any other name...
Peigman? Deiman? Deignau?
Your regular editorial cartoonist is fabu
lous!
Who is he?
Mel Hart
Atlanta
Editor's note: The name of our fabulous
cartoonist is Deignan. And we’re sure she
would thank you for the compliment.
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