I¢nIIIt.ln.flIe.nnflntIlI|s l:.APRir2oo6 l MOUNTAINPR|DEMEDlA.ORG Inthe mnuntums llun’t Volunteer Here with Queer Fear. Volunteers make Out in the Mountains possible every single month! Come Participate in the Fun! ll SPECIIII IIIIIIIII III‘ TIIIIIIIIS Jenni Hurner Distribution Volunteer Last summer I walked up to Jenni who was attending our Pride Day Open House and, as I shoved a sign-up form into her hands, I asked if she would be interested in Volunteering with us. She immediately offered to. help distribute the paper in Montpelier and has been with us unfailingly ever since. We bid her a fond farewell as she moves back to Seattle. Thanks, ‘ Jenni — you've made a real difference. We thank the following volunteers who, in addition to our writers’ efforts, worked on last month's paper: IIEIIUEIIIIIG: . Thia Artemis, Rick Bersaw, AIDS Project of Southern Vermont, Tom Bivins & Bennett Law, Daryl & Dennis DePaul, Patrick DiDomenico, Kathy Donna, Thom Fleury, Danny Gates, Keith Goslant, Jeni Hurner, Nat Michael, Fran Moravcsik, Fred Pond, Rick Wold SIIIFFIIIII IIIEHT: Marie, Euan Bear-, Steve Ekberg, Tom McGlenn, David Lynch, Kate McTavish, George Parker, Jonathan Stauffer, Joe Swinyer, Greg Thompson, Greg Weaver, Bob Wolff Dana Anderson, Joe Swinyer TRAN SNATION BY JACOB ANDERSON-MINSHALL Passings IT IS A SEASON OF PASSINGS. WHEN controversial radical feminist writer Andrea Dworkin died last year, a friend said she “didn't recognize her name.” I guess that’s every Writer’s dream: for your ideas to outlive your name. The passing of Connie Panzaiino and Mary Francis Platt did not make major waves in or outside of our queer communities, although these fearless disabled lesbian activists transformed much of disability politics in this country — their legacy lives on in every ramped sidewalk in America. When I was young, I would often watch televi- sion with my mother who would gasp and cry at the death of some politician or entertainer that I’d ' never heard of before. That scene is now repeat- ed with my children. “Oh my god, Betty Friedan died," I gasp, and my kids give me that look. “Who's that?" they say disdainfully. How could That scene is now repeated with my‘ , children. "Oh my god, Betty Friedan died," I gasp, and my kids give me that look. "Who's that?" they say disdainfully. anyone possibly be important if they haven’t'per— sonally heard of them? A half century later my children have no sense of the pre—feminist world that detonated Betty Friedan’s dissatisfaction with married life with children, or Andrea Dwor- kin’s fury at patriarchy and pornography. , The icons of my youth are men and women pushing seventy and eighty now; a generation is passing away. I want to make note of some pass- ings whose stories may not have made it to the evgning news, but who have made the lives we live possible. Betty Berzon recently lost her longtime battle with breast cancer, leaving her partner of over 30 years Terry DeCrescenzo, and a long legacy of gay activism. Betty was a lesbian psychothera- pist, at a time when that phrase was an oxymo- ron. She was the author of nine books address- ing lesbian and gay life, including Positively Gay, and Permanent Partners. Additionally, she was a founding mother of the Los Angeles Gay and Les- bian Center, the largest gay community center in the world, providing services for over ‘A million people a year (!). Betty struggled with her lesbianism, suffering 3 Trans FTM writer Jacob Anderson-Minshall can be reached atjal