ANDREW OF AMERICA on STAR TREK and Screen Actor's Guild Awards

Hey did you see *me* ANDREW OF AMERICA on the Screen Actor's Guild Awards?
Well, then you were hallucinating, because I wasn't there.

But I *did* watch it on Tee Vee at home and see STAR TREK receive an
award for best portrayal of THE AMERICAN SCENE, celebrating 30 years
of STAR TREK without a single LesBiGay character!  Yippee!

Yes in the vastness of interstellar space, where swarms of planets spin
around millions of suns...

	THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE HO-MO-SEX-YOU-ALL

In the pantheon of outstanding exotic civilizations and genders

	THERE ARE NO LESBIGAYS ANYWHERE

In thirty (count `em 30) years of four television shows and 7 movies,

THERE ARE NO RECURRING QUEER CHARACTERS

Yet millions of Queers tune in, watch faithfully, buy loyally,	slap
on Vulcan ears or Enterprise insignias, attend conventions, build
models and say Beam Me Up Scotty....

And yes, I know about the episode with the genderless race as a token
gesture of metaphor, and yes, I've heard token rumors about the actor
who played Wesley Crusher, and yes there was the token episode where
a character's gender was unclear to another.

Well if you think these tokens are enough recogition to payback the
dollars and hours we spent on TREK for three decades, the you can take
your tokens and spend them on a bus trip to the nearest Buchanan for
President rally.

I ANDREW OF AMERICA call for a TREKCOT to begin on this the 30th anniversary
of the show until there is an ESTABLISHED regular LesBiGayTrans character
on a Star Trek program or Film.  Don't buy it, don't watch it don't
support it.

CALL PARAMOUNT
ANDREW OF AMERICA
"We're ready for our closeup, Mrs. Roddenberry"
(C) 1996 The Author.  May be crossposted where appropriate.