----- Original Associated Press, June 15,
2000
Fla. Man Convicted for Killing Dog
OCALA,
Fla. (AP) - A man accused of fatally beating a dog because he
thought it
was gay was convicted of animal cruelty.
George
Stephens Finley, 58, could get up to a year in
jail.
Witnesses testified that Finley was upset
that his wife's neutered male
poodle-Yorkshire terrier repeatedly tried to
engage in sexual activity with
another family dog, a male Jack Russell
terrier.
"He felt that the dog was a queer-type
dog and it made him angry,'' said
Sheriff's Capt. Mike
McQuaig.
Prosecutors said Finley hit the dog in
the head with a plastic vacuum
cleaner wand and hurled it against a
tree. The dog lapsed into a coma and
was put to
death.
Finley maintained he struck the dog
accidentally.
A jury found him guilty
Tuesday.
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Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 3:05 PM
Subject: Astonishing 2 think people get
paid 2 write this Crappo:
Queer Dog
Homo Pup Poetry
Edited by Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
Dogs are looming large in
America’s "collective unconscious" (according to a recent New Yorker article)
The lesbian/ gay community is at the very forefront of this trend, as seen in
recent features in lesbian and gay magazines like Girlfriends, Genre and Out
(which recently ran a dog fashion spread), and an increasing number of
queer/dog images and text from photographers like Bruce Weber and authors like
Paul Monette and Marjorie Garber.
"Why do gay men and lesbians have so
much to say on the subject of dogs?" asks Gerry Gomez Pearlberg in the
introduction to Queer Dog. "Perhaps because we’re masters at re-configuring
what it means to create family, what it means to be animal and living in skin,
what it means to exist in a state of exuberant, unapologetic disobedience…
Buy this book
$12.95
ISBN
1-57344-071-X
Poetry
"Dogs run
through every one of these poems, just as the very essence of poetry runs
through dogs. Poetry and dogs share a number of qualities—they’re both
immediate, temporal, social creatures; they are souls laid bare for all the
world to see, yet full of hidden implication. In any good poem, there’s an
invisible shade of energy, thought and emotion that lies beyond the grasp of
language. I like to think of that as the same realm where dogs come by their
unique powers, their sense of thrill and hunt and humor, their gentle
devotion," writes Pearlberg.
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg is a widely published
poet who has had a long-standing fascination with the strange intersection of
dog-mania with queer sensibility. She edits a queer dog zine called Dog Star
Girl, and has edited two anthologies of lesbian poetry, The Key To Everything:
Classic Lesbian Love Poems (St. Martin’s Press, 1995) and The Zenith of
Desire: Lesbian Poems About Sex (Crown, 1996).
A winner of the 1993
Judith’s Room Emerging Women Poets Award, her poetry and prose have appeared
in Women on Women 3, The James White Review, modern words, Fruit, The Beloit
Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Apalachee Quarterly, Global City Review, Pucker Up,
Sister and Brother, The Arc of Love, Best Lesbian Erotica 1996, Best American
Erotica 1993. She lives in Brooklyn with her boxerdog,
Otto.
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This
is just one of many manifestations of how morally corrupt
our
Nation has become.
Has
anyone seen the Story about the Homophobic
who
killed a neutered 'queer' dog? Been on all the
TalkShows
but
can't find it in print.
Bard
