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. I that do happen at places like

— Creating Change (the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s
yearly conference).

PL: How will member input
work?

JS: There will be member
panels and surveys on our
programming page. And there

states, and No Censors Here,
which will basically be all the
pieces we couldn't do on In
The Life; all the stories I’ had to
censor. A -

PL: Do you think the LGBT
community is well informed
about increasing media con-
solidation?

Scagliotti receives a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
award from Kinsey Sicks. PHOTO BY DAN HUNT

will be reader panels for new
programs. We have to be some-
what cautious, no libelous
material, and we need some of
those readers to have a back-
ground in journalism. We want
to have journalistic standards
and involve the grassroots.

PL: Are there projects in the
hopper?

JS: The Four Homosexuals,
which is about early Christian-
ity and St. Paul, and how things
Change in the context of Asia
and southern Africa. What liv-
ing from sacred texts means in
a post-modem age. If you’ve
read about the Gnostic gos-
pels, or other things by Elaine

. Pagels, you have an idea. And

there is a project called aBus
Tour of the D. C. Scandals,
Which traces gay scandal in_
Washington through time.

We’ll be offering this stuff
Online and to be downloaded.
Something like one dollar a
download, or fifty cents if
You’re a member.

We will have G-Span, which

‘' Will cover the news, maybe by

The mereiiberal
media love gay
victim steries, but

they don't do many
empowerment A
stories. We neecithart. ,,h,,,kof.,u,med,a

-—- JOHN SCAGIJGTTE,

ability has been thrown out.

We don’t discuss ideas and get
responses anymore. There was a
time when you might be careful
of what you said.

PL: And then the idea of
political correctness came

in, which in my memory was
a joke stated in the lesbian
community, but
it became a way
to stop all these
discussions as

if just having a
discussion about
politics. and eth-
ics is a bad thing.
J S: That’s what I
mean by account-
ability and having
an intellectual
discussion - being
able to get these
ideas into the com-
munity and get a
response. Being
able to get a tape
of a conference on
Feminism and War,
for example, and
having crossover
issues discussed.

PL: What should
we be doing
around these
issues, besides
supporting Go-
GayDVD.com?

J S: As a political
person, I’m aware
that the media has
all been bought

up by huge con- V
glomerates, V Fox
News, Viacom. We
have got to be
creating our own
media and alterna-
tives. We need to

as important, in-
cluding our local

caemoa C)? in! THE use _media- And we

JS: No, absolutely not. I travel a
lot and I am shocked at the lack
of historical knowledge, and a
little shocked by racism ... con-
nections people aren’t getting.
There is queer theory and there

r are academics, but that is within

the university world, and there
isn’t an effort to popularize

this. Very little intellectual stuff
comes through. There used to be
a discussion in the community
around ideas. And I’m shocked
that the concept of account-

have access to the

Internet; it’s not a

wild idea anymore.
The more liberal media love

' gay victim stories, but they

don’t do many empowerment
stories. We need that. We don’t
need to follow the path of Will
and Grace on NBC. We need

to take our own media and
ourselves seriously, and tell our
own empowering stories.V

Longtime activist Peggy

S Luhrs has taught gender
variant film at Burlington
College.

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