BECAUSE

Message 1880
From: rainbodeklown@xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Jun 6, 1999 4:39 am
Subject: re BECAUSE

As I stated before, I recieved that message from a friend from Talk

City
...News Talk chat room that i participate in almost every night.... In
fact many of the attachments that i recieve in han-net I send to her.
And she shares with her co-workers the information.....and they
appreciate the information.....She is a (hetero) friend in the
community....in fact she used to live in Houston before moving to Los
angeles....

I knew when the "Because" copy was sent someone would take issue
with
it and add other groups...but I decided not to change it because I
wanted to leave it in the form the author wrote it... Now I thought Kat
did a good job in the rewritten version it flowed well.....

Now I would like to try one, a popular couple verses in the

community.....about the Nazi Germany situation in the 20's and 30's
with
the communists, the jews, the trade unionists,the cathoiics; these
groups were the low lifes at that time....

""They came for the very visible low lifes because they had nothing to
lose, but why should I care I was not a low life....Then they came for
the apathetic (silent-very quiet) starched shirt elite who had
everything to lose and there was no one to speak up for
them....sssshhhh
dont make so much noise........""

You see the (low lifes) of Stonewall had something to lose....it was
time,... it was freedom,..... it was the pursuit of happiness.

time: they should have had the hours to enjoy themselves...not lose
hours....with harrassment from the cops.

freedom; possibility of going to jail is a loss....(I know from personal

experience).

pursuit of happiness: lose the chance to be yourself (no matter what

'class' the world puts you in).
 Sometimes we need clanging cymbals so we can later enjoy and live
the
life we love. Thanks going to those of the stonewall riots who took a
stand like another no-body (Rosa Parks) who said I am sitting in the
front of the bus....No Focus group needed for that event.

rainbo, BECAUSE of the actions of those at Stonewall,,,no closet can

hold me...

hey fella, you've got the webtv savage... rainbo