This will be sent to the Gay/Lesbian press - if you have your own contacts in the GLBT community or media, please forward this to them.
David McReynolds
Open Letter to the LGBT Press
Those of us signing this statement share two things in common - we are part of the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender community and we know David McReynolds, the Socialist Party's candidate for President in the current election.
We have differences - some of us are members of the Socialist Party or some other socialist organization, some of us support Ralph Nader and the Greens, some of us will hold our noses and vote for Al Gore - and at least one of us is a member of the Libertarian Party.
David McReynolds, who was a co-worker with Bayard Rustin, close friend of Allen Ginsberg and Quentin Crisp, as well as Barbara Deming, and who came out as an open gay as long ago as 1969, has earned the right to coverage by the LGBT press. It is in the interest of all of us that the two major parties not assume that our votes are in their pockets. Fair coverage of alternative campaigns is in our own interest.
Signed: Steve Ault Karl Bissinger, War Resisters League* Marla Brettschneider, Political Philosophy Professor at University of New Hampshire* Leslie Cagan Mandy Carter Christopher S. Cole, Gay Community Outreach Chair, Libertarian Party of North Carolina* Vern Davidson, Spokane, Washington Benjamin Doherty, Chicago Democratic Socialists of America, Queer Commission* Peter Drucker, International Institute for Research and Education, Amsterdam* Martin B. Duberman, author, Paul Robeson, A Biography* Prof. William Felice, Florida Annette Gagne, President, Pride at Work, Rhode Island Chapter* Jim Harlow, Graphic Artists Guild, UAW Local 3030* Jesse Heiwa, Queers for Racial & Economic Justice, Asia/Pacific Forum* Maureen Horowitz Lani Ka'ahumanu, BiPOL, BiNetUSA Advisory Board* Morris Kight, Commissioner on Human Relations, County of Los Angeles* Steve Koenig Bernard Mayes J.W. Maxie, Jr., Pride at Work, formerly Gay Community News, Socialist Party of Massachusetts* Scott McLarty, DC Statehood Green Party* Susan Moir, Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network, Boston* Markley Morris Walter Naegle John O'Brien, Los Angeles Kevin O'Connor Doug Pomeroy Marc Rubin Peter Schlosser Richard Thorne William L. White, Director, The Julia & David White Artists' Colony* Bill Williams Richard Winger, editor, Ballot Access News* *for identification purposes only