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MARTIN
LUTHER KING CEREMONY MARRED BY HOMOPHOBIC OUTBURST
OGLPC's male co-chair Paul Thompson
reports that this year's Martin Luther King Parade and
events was a success for the GLBT community despite an
ugly incident which occurred at the closing ceremonies in
the Myriad Convention Center: "In this year's Parade
we experienced even less negative reactions than we have
in the past (practically none) and more seemingly
positive responses." Thompson says OGLPC always has
a decorated car in the parade, as well as a banner which
clearly states "Oklahoma Gay and Lesbian Political
Caucus": "In past years we have experienced
both positive and negative reactions from parade
attendees, generally more positive than negative, though
one year a woman did step out of the crowd and gesture at
us with her hand as though she was shooting at us. OGLPC
has recognized that Gay and Lesbian Human and Civil
Rights is a cause not universally embraced by the Black
community and felt this participation to be an important
part of our commitment to networking and concern for the
full spectrum of minority rights."
The experience of marching in this year's parade was
relatively upbeat, then, until the closing ceremonies.
After an invocation by Rabbi David Packman and stirring
speeches by Calvin and Marilyn Luper (son and daughter of
Clara Luper, a participant in the original sit-ins in
Oklahoma at Katz Drugstore and John A Brown Luncheonette)
the Bridgeforth Show Choir was scheduled to perform. A
long time participant in both the ceremony and the Cross-cultural
event held every year at Temple B'nai Israel, the
Bridgeforth Show Choir is a group of young people led by
Nadine Smith, who has served on the Martin Luther King
Coalition organizing committee which arranges the events
every year. According to Thompson, as the Choir was
entering the stage to prepare to perform, Smith began to
address the audience. Reportedly, Smith made remarks
"about how she's doing all these things to help
these kids and how we need to be a more moral and
Christian society and how the devil had gotten hold of a
lot of these churches and they were afraid to tell the
truth but she wasn't", so she started telling her
idea of the truth, part of which was that homosexuality
is a sin. At this point, Thompson, as well as Victor
Gorin, got up and walked out. Later that evening,
Thompson says, "I received a number of phone calls
from Parade committee members and NAACP members saying
that they were shocked and horrified by what she said and
they were calling her to tell her that she could not
participate in the Martin Luther King parade committee
again, nor would she be put into a position to have a
microphone to go off on another tirade."
Thompson added, "OGLPC is confident that her
attitude does not represent the attitudes of the Martin
Luther King, Jr Festival Coalition or the attitudes of
anyone in the NAACP. We expect to continue our
involvement with the Parade and to put this ugly incident
behind us."
OUTART
BOARD LOOKING FOR NEW MEMBERS
According to chair Tony Francis, the
OUTART 2000 organizing committee is looking for
additional board members to take on the responsibilities
of putting on this year's festival. Specifically, they
are looking for people with financial expertise to help
with bookkeeping, a graphic designer, a webmaster, and a
person who will work with the artists and select and
arrange the art display. If you would like to help with
these or any other tasks, call Tony at 752-2762. The
success of last year's festival has inspired organizers
to expand to 5 days instead of 3. OUTART 2000 will take
place Oct 13-17. The board will meet once a month until
September, when things kick into high gear. To get some
idea of the effort involved, visit the OUTART 99 website
at www.gayokc.com/outart99.
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