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Praise for OITM Website

Editor:

I happened to d_iscover you
through a link on Don Imus’
MSNBC Daily Update newsletter.
Your site is particularly well
designed, easy to negotiate, and
full of all sorts of interesting,
engaging, and very "well written
and presented features. I hope I
learned a good deal, and I know I
found my time enjoyable, and well
spent.

Were I gay, I’m sure I would
find you to be a particularly invalu-
able resource, especially if I lived
in the northeast. as it happens, I am
not gay, and hail from West
Virginia. Therefore I must simply
welcome you to the spectrum of
publications to which I look for
interesting, entertaining, and
informed joumalism.

Thank you,
George Rollins

Sorry to See Moes Go

Editor:

I am saddened to read of the
resignation of Chris Moes as editor
of OITM. The new design of the
paper is fabulous, and his never-
ending willingness to speak the
truth, no matter how controversial,
is refreshing! No longer is OITM a
community newsletter, but a forum
for diversity in though and opinion.
It is wonderful that our community
can argue about various issues
while (hopefully) respecting each
other’s opinions. Chris’s handling
of gay marriage, the AIDS Ride
and other hot—button issues has
been a valuable asset to the com-
munity and I hope he continues to

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write for OITM. Although I don’t
agree with his opinion, I was
thrilled that he had the courage to
go out swinging at VCLGR and
HRC in his final editorial!

I implore Mountain Pride
Media to strive to pay the OITM
editor a liveable wage, so that
someone like Chris can stay
involved for more than a year. It is
clear that his work was came from
love and activism rather than the
dollar sign, but we need to com-
penstate our editors adequately so
that they can stay in the position for
more than a year.

Chris, thanks for your never-
ending enthusiasm and love for the
Vermont queer community!

Tom Aloisi
Burlington, VT

Students Need Input on
Community Center

Editor: _

We are two UVM students who
attended our town meeting on
October tenth. Talk of a communi-
ty center in the area sparked our
interest. We were wondering what
the general feeling in the commu-
nity about this issue is.

'This is an idea that has been cir-
culated before. Are there any rea-
sons why it has not been taken fur-
ther? We would like to do some-
thing pro-active about this issue.
We are hoping for suggestions
from anyone in the community to
see where the interests and needs
lie.

Please contact us!!

Kate lerman

kjerman@zoo.uvm.edu
Mike Bensel

Art Critic Rebuts
September Editorial

Editor:

I have only recently read
Christopher Moes’s editorial titled
“Questionable Liberal Priorities”
in the September issue of Out in
the Mountains. Most likely I am
the ‘art critic from some art maga-
zine or another’ who called and left
a message on Mr. Moes’s answer-
ing machine about the censorship
of Dale Wittig’s painting from an

“0bscurantism has
certainly reigned. ”

exhibit at the Firehouse Gallery in
Burlington this past summer. Moes
retumed my call, leaving a mes-
sage on my answering machine.
Circumstances made it impossible
to get back to him in timely fash-
ion, unfortunately. He expressed an
interest, but he did not in any part
of his message ‘offer the pages of
OITM for (me) to say what (I)
wanted to say...’ This is simply a
false and impulsive assertion.
First, it is very disturbing that
Verrnont’s gay and lesbian news-
paper would treat a local instance
of censorship - particularly one
involving the censorship of gay
work — as if it were of no conse-
quence and in a manner that tacitly
supports the action. As so often
happens with censorship, opportu-
nities to address its structures and
subtleties — for example the
Christian Right did not, at least
directly, bring the Firehouse show
down - are lost in an eruption of
blind and perverse discourses.

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