[Mpls] GLBT COMMUNITY WINS SUPPORT IN ELECTIONS/

[Tim Bonham]

>I am happy that the Stonewall DFL has gone to a
>questionaire for endorsements instead of just having
>people showing up and saying "I have gay friends and
>like gay people" and getting their endorsement.
         David, what the heck are you talking about here?
I personally have copies of Stonewall Screening questionnaires going 
back over 6 years, and I remember them being used for some time 
before then.  Yet you are talking about this as if it were something new?

>However, to be a voting member of
>Stonewall DFL you don't need to self identify as part
>of the glbtiq community or be a parent or child of a
>glbt person or have any other personal tie
>community(as the case with Lisa Goodman, who lived
>with a gay male friend for example).  As a result,
>many DFL activists who have their own agendas apart
>from glbtiq issues pay dues and join Stonewall DFL to
>push for endorsement of their candidates.
         Membership being open to anyone who supports our principles 
is a result of something called Civil Rights Laws; something most of 
us in the GLBT community look on with favor.

         But just in case we ever do decide to restrict our 
membership to only GLBT people, do you have a suggestion for an 
accurate test we can use to "spot the straight", so we can exclude 
potential non-queer members?

Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson