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and not the domination of the male over the female of the
ethnic/racial (or whatever) group. We will not allow such domination.
Part of the refusal of male domination was what led many women to
become lesbians in the first placel
Culture and Us
The power of our culture, is most often positive. By participating in
this March and by buying this magazine, for example, you are par-
ticipating in culture. You are helping to support the many people who
contributed to this, and perhaps you will also contact them and give
them positive feedback so that they will continue writing. Also, every
time you buy a lesbian or gay male record, book, or magazine, or eat
in a lesbian or gay male restaurant, or have your car tuned by a les-
bian, you are giving lesbians and gay men encouragement-and the
resources-to continue. You are also making a political statement that
you will no longer let your culture-your very lives-be defined, con-
trolled, owned and operated by others, that you are the supportor,
creator, and intricate component of a new society (for the distinction
between the active creator and the passive consumer is again a false
choice-we all create something and we all consume).
Finally, by supporting and being part of the lesbian and/or gay male
culture, you and I will prevent ourselves from becoming co-opted into
the mainstream heterosexist culture, again subsumed and eventually
consumed by the so-called majority. Our goal is not to see one lesbian
pursuing another across a field to advertize some product like hair col-
oring but to create a world in which hair coloring is not the basis for
pursuit. Only by remaining outside that "acceptance" can we ever
change ourselves, our gay brothers, straight sisters, and eventually the
oppressive male heterosexist culture in general. Change will not happen
if we are co-opted or bought by compromises. Only if we turn our
double-alienation (as women and as lesbians) into a positive force and
if we create, learn, and grow from that which is not a part of this
male-dominated, nonnurturing, polluted world can we change
ourselves and create change. For lesbians are not just another minority.
If our goal becomes equal rights, we will only become the same as
those who pollute, destroy, kill, rape, cherish property over life, one
type of person over another. Instead, we must hold onto the practice
and support our lesbian culture so that we can create a world in which
we and our real and spiritual children shall be free.
Byline: Karla Jay is also the co-author of The Gay Report (Summit Books, 1979).19
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D.C. Media Committee. National March! On Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights: Official Souvenir Program, pamphlet, 1979; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc276226/m1/21/: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.