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Volume IV, Number 10

January 1990

Burlington

Yes, it’s sad but true.
OITM is officially folding
this month, on its fifth
anniversary. Our collective
energy no longer registers a
blip on the radar scale of
commitment. '

Come to our
foward-looking, open
meeting at the FletcherFree
Library, College Street,
Burlington on Saturday,
February 17th from 1:00 to
4:00 pm. No guilt strings
attached. We will discuss
what kind of newspaper our
Vermont lesbian and gay

~ community needs and can
sustain.

Come even if you’ve never
been involved with OITM.
Come even if you don’t '
regularly read the
newspaper. Come even if
you don’t intend to work on
a new incarnation of OIT M.
Come because it matters to
you that our far—flung I '
community finds a way to
keep in touch with each
other. We’ve scheduled the
meeting so people from
outside Chittenden county
can attend.

This is O|TM’s last issue ,

Maybe if new people step
forward to take over the
paper’s operation, OIT M
can live on.

Come to our
foward-looking, open
meeting at the
F letcherFree Library,
College Street,
Burlington on
Saturday, February
17th from 1:00 to 4:00
pm. No guilt strings
attached. We will
discuss what kind of
newspaper our
Vermont lesbian and
gay community needs
_ and can sustain.‘

Otherwise, help us
collapse gracefully. Many
of you have responded
generously to our pleas for
financial support. What
should we do with any
left-over funds? Donate
them to Vermont CARES,
the Statewide Coalition, or
another newspaper?

Could OITM re-surface in
another part of the state?
Too many good causes,
some people say, compete
for attention in the
Burlington area. They think

OITM might thrive in
surburbia. _

Others are enthusiastic
about launching a lesbian
feminist newspaper.

The bottom line is our
community needs a voice.
OITM, since it was
launched five years ago, has
grown tremendously. Each
new advertiser, from
Allstate to Capitol Lincoln
Mercury to Moutain View
Animal Inn, gave us.a new
way to do business with
each other.

When gay rights legislation
passed the Vermont Senate,
OITM offered a way to hold
legislators accountable.
Through the years, our list
of Vermont Resources grew
right off its page. Even as
we were deciding to shut
down, new subscription
requests were arriving.

Please come to our
meeting on February 17th.
Spend an afternoon
discussing how we might
salvage some of the
wonderful progress we’ve
made.

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