FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 7,1992

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Jim Garrison

CLAY SHAW, THE QUEAN NETWORK AND THAT KENNEDY KILLING

Iast issue, in Part One of this piece (based on an article that

appeared in Fag Rag back in 1975), Mitzel explained how direc¬ tor Oliver Stone came to make his “vilely anti-faggot” movie, JFK . That Stone was one of a long line of people who believed that there had been a conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy and that the Warren Commission Report investigating the assassina¬ tion was only so much hokum, was not the issue for Mitzel. He took Stone to task for “reviving the smears on Clay Shaw that were cooked up by New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison and his Mob back in 1967.”

Mitzel asserted that Garrison framed Shaw, a prominent gay businessman in that city, for conspiring to kill the President of the United States. It took a jury 50 minutes to acquit Shaw, but not before years of expensive legal wran¬ gling that brought about the virtual destruction of Shaw’s reputation and per-

Continued on page 7

’93 March on D.C. to include bi’s, but not disabled

First national meeting in LA., second New England meeting focus on title and representatives

By Carrl* Wofford

LOS ANGELES— The 1993 National March on Washington will be a march for “Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation,” at least in the official name of the march. Regional representatives from around the country gathered the third week¬ end in January in their first national planning session for the April 1993 march.

Planning details were dropped in favor of long discussions over what to call the march, according to Mandy Carter, one of five rep¬ resentatives from the Mid-Atlantic region, and the director of the North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Political Action Agenda.

“We spent most of the time coming up with the name of the march,” she and others reported.

Bisexuals in march title

In debating whether to include bisexuals and transgenderal people, the representatives decided the national movement is “not ready yet” for transgenderal people to be in the for¬ mal title — although their participation will not be questioned — and that “bi” is prefer¬ able over “bisexual” because of concern over public attention to anything “sexual,” as Carter described it.

“I was one of the ones who didn’t want bisexual [in the title]," Carter said. She said she was convinced in part because of the atmosphere of cooperation. “People were really struggling hard to make this work.... I like the group. I trust the group.”

Carter reported that there was no discus¬ sion of excluding certain people from the march, such as Republican men or Gulf War soldiers — a topic of debate at the New England regional meeting in Boston, Dec. 7 (See GCN, Vol. 19, No. 22). “Even [exclud¬ ing] NAMBLA didn’t come up,” she said. Additionally, Carter, an African American activist, was impressed by the “real commit¬ ment to racial [and] gender parity... that I haven’t seen in quite a while,” embodied by the decision that no votes would occur with¬ out parity.

No disabled representative

However, Carter found the exclusion of a seat on the steering committee for a differ¬ ently abled activist “odd,” especially given the presence of two disabled people who expressed interest. Seats for people with AIDS, people of color and women were set aside on the 20-odd member steering com¬ mittee.

While the work of determining a platform and budget were set aside for the next national meeting. May 8-10 in Dallas, repre¬ sentatives did establish task forces, including the national steering committee, which will be meeting in early February in Washington,

D.C. They also set a goal of one million par¬ ticipants, up from 750,000 in 1987, and decided to include a “real slant” on legisla¬ tive work, with an effort to register all partic¬ ipants to vote and a lobbying day for the gay and lesbian civil rights bill and other federal legislation, in addition to the traditional day for activists to commit civil disobedience.

Carter stressed that the real work organiz¬ ing the march will be accomplished at the local level, and that the march is on target.

“We’re on, we’re for real and we’re moving

Continued on page 8

New Jersey gets gay/lesbian rights

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey became the fifth state in the country to offer civil rights protections to lesbians and gay men on Jan. 19.

After the anti-discrimination bill passed the state Assembly 46-7 and the Senate 21-0 on the final day of legislative session. Gov. James Florio signed the measure.

The law amends the state’s civil rights statute by adding “affectional or sexual ori¬ entation” to the categories of people the state offers protection to, including race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sex and handicap.

Inclusion in the law allows gay men, les¬ bians and bisexuals who are discriminated against in employment, housing, public accommodations and public contracts the right to sue or file a complaint with the stale Division of Civil Rights.

Connecticut and Hawaii passed similar measures in 1991, following the lead of Massachusetts and Wisconsin.

Florio received more than 1700 calls of opposition to the bill in the three days before he signed it, according to AP, but Florio called the measure “common sense princi¬ ples of fairness” in a press release. “There is no room in our stale, or our society, for arbi¬ trary discrimination of any kind.”

Religious organizations are exempted from carrying out the law in the area of hir¬ ing, as they are in the other states where gay rights laws exist

— Carrie Wofford

... as does Israel

TEL AVTV — After a year of lobbying and a tremendous upsurge in public awareness of the issue, Israel adopted a gay and lesbian rights law late last year. In the Knesset vote Dec. 24, only 5 lawmakers voted against adding sexual orientation to the list of pro¬ tected classes.

Although the law, which took effect Jan. 3, marks the advent of the first gay rights legislation in Israel, it follows a trend of judicial rulings at all levels in favor of gay rights, according to Rick Scholl of the World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jews and Am Tikva, Boston’s Jewish lesbian and gay organization.

“In Israel, the gay community can still look to the courts for justice — judges often rule in favor of gay rights,” Scholl said. Israel repealed its sodomy statutes in 1988.

Hearings last year on the gay rights law provided the first opportunities for openly - gay individuals to testify before the Knesset, Scholl said, adding that lesbian and gay visi¬ bility as a whole has increased in Israel due to the unusually large amount of publicity given to the issue. Anti-gay and lesbian dis¬ crimination in the military is now the major focus of the gay and lesbian rights move¬ ment, he said.

Israel joins France, Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the list of countries with national gay and lesbian rights legislation. Some states in Australia, Canada and the U.S. also have such laws, and the Netherlands pro¬ vides some gay rights protections.

— Dawn Schmitz

Cracker Barrel backs down

NEW YORK— Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores has dropped its lawsuit against lesbian and gay activists whom the company had restrained from protesting at one of its restaurants in Tennessee.

The restaurant chain had used the lawsuit to prevent gay and lesbian activists who own stock in the company from attending its annual shareholders’ meeting last November in Tennessee, according to Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who is repre¬ senting the activists. The company’s volun¬ tary dismissal of the case came just weeks before a court hearing at which the company would have been forced to defend its actions against the shareholders and activists.

Protests across the country were sparked by Cracker Barrel’s decision in early 1991 to implement a policy that excludes from employment "individuals... whose sexual preferences fail to demonstrate normal het¬ erosexual values.”

The policy, imposed on more than 100 Cracker Barrel restaurants throughout the Southeast and other parts of the country, resulted in the arbitrary firing of at least nine gay and lesbian workers. Queer Nation activists advocated buying stock in the com¬ pany in order to reverse its policy at the annual stockholders' meeting.

Cracker Barrel has filed other actions

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against gay and lesbian activists in Michigan, Georgia and Indiana, but only the suit in Tennessee has been dropped to date.

Lambda is preparing to file a separate law¬ suit against Cracker Barrel to prevent the company from refusing to admit activists who own stock in the company from attend¬ ing next year’s shareholders’ meeting.

— Carrie Wofford

Dallas judge ends ban on gay cops

DALLAS — A state district judge over¬ turned the Dallas Police department’s policy of barring gay men and lesbians from being hired as police officers and became the sec¬ ond judge to strike down the state anti¬ sodomy law, the New York Times reported Feb. 5.

Prior to the ruling, Dallas was the only city in Texas and the only large city in the naiton that bars gay and lesbian officers. The Dallas Police Department asks recruits about their sexual practices while they undergo lie- detector tests.

Mica England, a lesbian, brought the suit against the police department and the City Council in 1989. She had applied to the force in 1987, but was disqualified when she acknowledged being a lesbian. England was presented with polygraph results that regis¬ tered her as lying when she denied having committed “deviant” sexual acts. Same-sex sex is considered deviant by the department

The ruling by Judge Larry Fuller said the Texas anti-sodomy law violated the right to privacy guaranteed in the state constitution. The 112-year-old anti-sodomy law, which was ruled unconstitutional last March by a state district judge and is being appealed by the attorney general, has been used as the basis for excluding gay men and lesbians from the police force.

Candidates for sherriff in Fort Worth announced their opposition to hiring gay and lesbian deputies (see GCN, Vol. 19, No. 28).

But last month the current Dallas police chief. Bill Rathbum, said the sexual orienta¬ tion of officers was not his concern.

The Dallas City Council, which voted at the end of January to uphold the ban on gay and lesbian police, has not decided whether to appeal the decision.

“We dragged the State of Texas into the ’90s screaming, but they’re here,” England told the Times, adding, “I can’t say how much harassment I will be able to take.”

— Carrie Wofford

DC’s high court reprimands judge for homophobia

WASHINGTON— The District of Columbia Court of Appeals found that a judge’s behavior and ruling demonstrated an unacceptable level of bias toward a woman he thought to be a lesbian, and reversed the judge’s decision and sent the case for a new trial before an impartial judge.

The case involved allegations of child abuse by a single mother and her three housemates, with one of whom she shared a bed. Judge Michael Rankin assumed the mother was having a lesbian relationship with her roommate and denied custody to her, saying she should choose between her children and her lifestyle.

The woman maintains that she is not a les¬ bian and shares the bed because of space limitations.

The Court of Appeals called Rankin’s questioning about their lifestyle "extensive and increasingly hostile,” and said Rankin “pressed aggressively” into their private practices.

The lawyer for the mother believes the Appeals Court’s decision will send a strong message to all trial judges that prejudice regarding litigants' lifestyles will not be tol¬ erated in the courtroom.

— Carrie Wofford

Australian police win money for presence of HIV

MELBOURNE, Australia — About 20 Victorian police officers have received com¬ pensation of up to $20,000 for pain and suf¬ fering caused by fear of AIDS, although none tested postivie for HTV, according to a report in the Melbourne Sunday Age. According to the newspaper report, the awards, ordered by the Victorian Crimes Compensation Tribunal, were made follow¬ ing police claims that they had been jabbed by syringes or bitten during struggles with drug users. One officer, for instance, was

awarded six weeks off work and $20,000 compensation after allegedly being bitten.

In a related event in Sydney, the police service has promised to review its policy on HTV/AIDS, following criticism of the police practice of recording details of HIV status and sexual orientation on police records, reported in the Legal Link Newsletter. A working panel, which includes a representa¬ tive from the government AIDS Council, has prepared a draft policy on HIV and infec¬ tious diseases to be circulated to AIDS orga¬ nizations for comment.

The policy should also go some way to allaying unreasonable fears of HIV infection, which have led to extensive time off work and large compensation payouts, such as in Victoria.

— Kendall Lovett

Gay activist appointed judge

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.— Florida Governor Lawton Chiles selected gay activist Rand Hoch to serve as a judge of compensation claims in Daytona Beach, the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council announced January 8.

Hoch has served on the boards of directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Gay and Lesbian Democrats of America, and the Florida Task Force, where he lob¬ bied for hate-crimes laws. He also co-found- ed the first two gay and lesbian political organizations for Palm Beach County, which drafted city ordinances that now prohibit dis¬ crimination against gay men and lesbians in housing, financing for housing, public acco¬ modations and public employment.

Hoch joins only a handful of openly gay or lesbian judges in the country.

— Carrie Wofford

Mass, anonymous HIV test at risk

BOSTON — State-run HIV testing sites will no longer administer only anonymous testing, since the Massachusetts Department of Public Health instituted a controversial new policy Jan. 1. AIDS activists have criti¬ cized the program because of provisions requiring participants to specifically request anonymous testing and allowing testing sites to ask for donations to cover counseling costs.

Although anonymous testing is still avail¬ able, it is now presented as one of two choic¬ es. Participants are asked whether they would prefer confidential — in which their name will be kept on file at the testing site — or anonymous tests, according to Jim McLaughlin of the AIDS Services Bureau of theDPH.

However, AIDS activists are pushing for tests to be anonymous unless participants specifically request they be given confiden¬ tial tests. “Even the hint that the test will be confidential, not anonymous, will dissuade people from being tested,” said Derrick Hodge of ACT UP/Boston, which is oppos¬ ing the DPH plan along with the AIDS Action Committee of Mass. One reason a person might choose a confidential test would be to obtain documentation of HIV status.

Testing should be presented as anony¬ mous, Hodge said, because although the names of people who choose confidential testing are not currently released from the testing site, future legislation could possibly make those names available to government agencies or insurance companies.

Confidential testing is being implemented in response to community needs, according to McLaughlin. He said the DPH is also responding to the possibility that the admin¬ istration of confidential, not anonymous, testing will be required in order for the agen¬ cy to quality for federal funding. Other DPH representatives have indicated to activists the possibility that future money meant for con¬ fidential testing could be steered toward anonymous testing.

Asking for voluntary contributions to cover the costs of testing can also “create a barrier to people being tested,” Hodge said, because if people expect to be asked for money, they may not choose to be tested. McLaughlin stressed that no one is refused a test who does not give a contribution, and adolescents are never asked to make such a contribution.

Currently, a task force made up of repre¬ sentatives from the testing sites and AIDS organizations are working with the DPH to amend the new policy. “The DPH has shown a real willingness to listen to the community, to change and to bold,” Hodge said.

— Dawn Schmitz

. 1992 • GAY COMMUNITY NEWS

High Court limits phone sex

WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court upheld a federal law Jan. 27 that requires a phone sex-blocking device on all phone lines to prevent access by children, the Boston Globe reported. The case was an appeal to that law by four companies that provide tape-recorded pom messages. The law forces individuals to ask their phone company, in writing, to remove the device. A lawyer rep¬ resenting the phone sex companies said the law would destroy the industry.

In the past year, about 700 Massachusetts residents have asked New England Telephone to remove blocking devices from their phone lines, according to the Globe.

In a unanimous decision striking down a federal ban on all phone sex messages in June 1989, the High Court ruled that Congress could regulate, but not outlaw, phone sex. Republican Sen. Jesse Helms sponsored the current law.

— Carrie Wofford

For the Activist in You

National

• International War Crimes Tribunal in New York City, Feb. 29. Info: (212) 254- 5385. Round trip reservations from Boston: (617)424-1176.

• Boycott Miller Beer and Miller’s sub¬ sidiaries: Miller Genuine Draft, Miller High Life, Meister Brau, Lowenbrau, Milwaukee’s Best, Sharps. Boycott called by Teamsters Union Local 122, representing the drivers, mechanics, warehouse employees and salesmen at the Mass, area Miller dis¬ tributor. The company wants to cut safrty measures, fire injured workers after one ye<u and cut medical and retirement benefits for injured workers in the first year. The compa¬ ny has hired one of the country’s oldest union-busting consultants to force workers on strike and then replace them. (ACT UP staged a boycott against Miller to protest N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms and the support he receives from Miller’s parent company, Philip Morris Co.) Info: John Murphy, Teamsters Local 122, (617) 247-0251.

• Phone zap and boycott Mazda: (800) 345-3799 for their new car, the “Navajo,” and their ad: “No one knows the land like a Navajo.” Tell Mazda a person is not a car; using Native American names or images as tokens exploits Native Americans. Also phone zap local Mazda dealers and other businesses that use Native American names but are not Native American businesses. Info: Practicing Anti-Racism newsletter, HC 73, Box 169 C, Drury, MO 65638-9724.

• Phone zap the “Partnership for an AIDS- Free America” for distributing HIV negative identification cards. Call (800) HIV-NEGT send a message to Mr. Jannsen.

• Send your presentation proposals for the 14th National Lesbian and Gay Health Conference and 10th Annual AIDS/HIV Forum, “Making Health Care Human: The Impact of Age, Gender and Race” (July 8- 12, Los Angeles). Info: Daniel Reichard, (202) 994-4285.

• Protest the police raid of two gay bars in Tijuana, Mexico. Write Presidente Municipal, Palacio Municipal, Zona del Rio, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico; and Gobemador del Estado, Centro Civico, Mexicali, B.C., Mexico. Info: FIGHT, Apartado Postal 3302, tijuana, B.C., Mexico 22000.

New England

• Protest Gov. Weld’s proposed new regu¬ lations for a workfare program to replace welfare in Mass., called “MassJOBS.” It would force the following people into mandatory job search requirements (but deny access to all others): women with children 16 years or older (3000 women), women who received benefits in 36 of the previous 60 months (44,000), parents under 24 who lack a H.S. diploma or GED, or who lack recent jobs (15,000 women), and two-parent fami¬ lies (2000 to 3000 families), TTiese people would be denied opportunity for further edu¬ cation or job training and forced to find work paying $6/hour with health insurance or $7/hour without. Weld is also considering banning outright their right to four-year col¬ lege or training programs.

Write/call Health and Human Services Secy. David Forsberg: (617) 727-7600, 1 Ashburton PL, Boston, MA 02108; and Gov. Weld: (617) 727-3600. State House, Boston. MA 02133. Urge them to serve all volun¬ teers first and drop the mandatory job.

Got activist news? Phone (617) 426-4469; fax (617) 426-2723. —Carrie Wofford

HIV-positive blood ruled not a weapon

Judge drops attempted murder charges for a PWA said to have spit blood at cops, but gives jail time for psychological assault

Dec. 23.

Anti-gay shooting in Hub

BOSTON — Over 400 activists marched near the site of an anti-gay shooting to protest anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence.

The shooting that sparked the rally occurred Jan. 25 outside a gym on Huntington Ave. near Symphony Hall where a gay man, Martin Lewis, stood with two of his friends.

Three days before the shooting the gunman, identified by police as Robert Christopher Ingraham, allegedly asked at the gym if Lewis, a 28-year-old fitness instructor, and a male friend were lovers. The woman he asked, a friend of Lewis, responded that the men were not sexually involved. Then on Jan. 25, at the entrance to the gym, Ingraham called them “faggots,” and Lewis’ friend, who is straight, tackled Ingraham to the ground and “held him until he said he took it back and that he would never call us faggots again,” Lewis told the Boston Globe.

Ingraham reportedly returned a few minutes later and shot them, hitting Lewis in the left leg and Pappas in the shoulder. Lewis’ female friend suffered a punctured lung and cracked ribs from being shot in the upper back.

Ingraham has four aliases and had been released from federal prison in 1 990 for sending threatening notes to two federal judges in 1986, the Globe reported.

Activists are calling for police to charge Ingraham with civil rights violations under the hate crimes law, as well as with criminal assault.

Two members of Queer Nation suggested at the rally that queers need to arm themselves to attack anti-gay bashers before bashers attack queers, a suggestion that drew several hecklers from the crowd.

Hate-motivated violence against lesbians, bisexuals and gay men increased 29 percent in Massachusetts last year, according to the Fenway Community Health Center’s Victim Recovery Project. Three hundred, thirteen people and organizations were the victims of 208 incidents. — Carrie Wofford

Magic Johnson criticized in first AIDS meetings

By Dawn Schmitz

CINCINNATI — A person with AIDS (PWA) who says he was assaulted by police was himself found guilty of misdemeanor assault and sentenced Feb. 18 to 20 days in jail in a case that AIDS activists have watched closely. The man, Steven O’Banion, had originally been charged with four counts of attempted murder for allegedly spitting his own blood at police while in a jail cell

O’Banion asserted he was assaulted by officers in his jail cell after being arrested for jaywalking and disorderly conduct — an arrest he and a citizen review board believe was motivated by homophobia. Police charged that he deliberately tried to expose them to HIV-positive blood by spitting it at than after sustaining facial injuries brought on when he resisted a physical examination.

O’Banion denies attempting to expose anyone to HIV. “It’s obvious I’m the one who was assaulted,” he told GCN. "For me it isn’t over yet. It’s been a five-month night¬ mare that just keeps going.”

He was sentenced to 40 days in jail and ordered to serve 20 days. Cathy Cook, one of his attomeyss, said she had not expected O’Banion to receive jail time and would appeal. His sentence also included an unspecified number of hours of community service at an AIDS service organization, which Cook said they had requested as part of the sentence.

HIV-positive blood not a weapon

The fact that the judge found that the pres¬ ence Of HIV-positive blood could not be con¬ sidered use of a deadly weapon signals a par¬ tial victory for those fighting AIDS hysteria, according to many familiar with the case. However, to some the fact that O’Banion was not acquitted entirely is a clear example of prevalent judicial prejudice against PWAs.

The ruling comes in the wake of findings of a national study showing that courts tend to be more influenced by hysteria than sound medical evidence when dealing with cases involving PWAs. The study showed that comparatively stiff penalties are meted out to PWAs who, like O’Banion, are charged with biting or spitting, despite the minimal medi¬ cal risk of such actions.

“[The ruling] is a victory, in a way, but we believe he should have been acquitted entire¬ ly,” said Scott MacLarty of the Cincinnati Gay and Lesbian March Activists (GLMA) after the verdict was announced. “I suspect the judge announced that verdict in order to make a civil suit against the county difficult” because O’Banion’s conviction would make it harder to prove the police were at fault in their treatment of him. GLMA, along with ACT UP/Cincinatti and other groups, protested O’Banion’s mistreatment and helped to publicize the trial, which ended

By John Zoh

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tensions between the gay community and District police have intensified after sex-related arrests of 14 men at two gay movie and bur¬ lesque clubs here.

Outraged activists denounced police enforcement of D.C.’s sodomy law, noting that legislation to repeal the antiquated statute is locked up in a city council commit¬ tee.

“They have used this law clearly to harass and intimidate a portion of the community and tell them they should not go to this place,” said Greg Scott of Queer Nation.

Some fear that an anti-gay, homophobic conspiracy may have influenced the decision by police to raid the Follies Theater and allegedely pose as fire inspectors to check the GH Gub downstairs — once known as the Glory Hole where two men were busted for oral sodomy.

The raids took place Sunday night, Feb. 8, and resulted in 11 men arrested for sodomy, two nude dancers arrested for indecent expo¬ sure and a bar owner arrested for operating a bawdy house.

On Feb. 11, the United States Attorney’s office, which has authority to prosecute felonies in this non-state, reduced the charges of sodomy — a felony — to attempted sodomy, a misdemeanor. The Washington Times print¬ ed the names of the arrested men.

Judge misread law

O’Banion had originally been charged with four counts of felony assault and four counts of attempted murder, but Judge Gilbert Bettman threw out the attempted murder charges on the second day of the trial and later reduced the felonious assault charges to misdemeanor assault.

Although it is unclear why Bettman did not dismiss all the charges, Cathy Adams, one of O’Banion’s attorneys and others who were in the courtroom, said that Bettman misread the misdemeanor assault statute.

According to Adams, Bettman replaced the word “physiological” with the word “psychological” in a phrase describing the kind of harm inflicted through misdemeanor assault, implying that O’Banion’s alleged spitting constituted psychological harm upon the corrections officers, even though it did not threaten to expose them to HTV.

O’Banion’s lawya questioned the validity of the ruling because of her perception that the judge misread the law.

Possible trend set

Despite the conviction, Adams told GCN she felt the outcome of the trial "is a big vic¬ tory” because Bettman, after hearing medical evidoice, found that blood could not be con¬ sidered a deadly weapon. Although the ruling cannot be used as a precedent for other cases, Adams said, it is likely to influence similar cases around the country.

In Chicago, a similar case was dismissed Feb. 3. AIDS activist Gary Lawman was charged with aggravated assault for allegedly attempting to bite a police officer who was arresting him during an ACT UP demonstra¬ tion on June 24 of last year. According to his attorney, Stacey Beckman, the police officer who made the charges did not show up at the trial. Videotaped footage showing Lawman’s brutal arrest would have been considered important evidence if the case had gone to trid.

O’Banion’s arrest

O’Banion was arrested and charged with jaywalking, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest Sept. 3. Both O’Banion and a citizen review board assert the police stopped him and his friend, David Johnson, for jaywalk¬ ing in an attempt to harass them, suspecting they were gay because the neighborhood they were in contained several gay bars. He said one officer, Mark Yontz, pulled up in a squad car and said to officer Charles Prem, who was questioning the two men, “I see you got a couple of faggots there.”

O’Banion told GCN his response to Yontz, “Cowabunga,” prompted Yontz to step out of his car, at which point a scuffle ensued Continued on page 8

Activists charged police officials with hypocrisy for delaying implementation of the Bias-Related Crime Act, passed almost two years ago, which police have not implement¬ ed because they claim to be designing the report form. “TTte rank and file still don’t know about [the Bias-Related Crime Act],” Tracy Conaty, co-chair of Gay men and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), charged.

The city “has slashed the AIDS education budget and says we don’t have enough money, but apparently we have funds to arrest people inside a gay club,” said Robin Kane, a lesbian activist with the direct action group, Oppression Undo- Target! (OUT!).

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force denounced D.C.’s law for barring oral and anal heterosexual or homosexual contact “even between consenting adults” at home. The laws “are routinely used to harass and intimidate gay and lesbian people," noted Kane, also a policy assistant at the national Task Force.

The raids “will only exacerbate tensions between police and the gay community, and will create an atmosphere of mistrust and hostility,” Kane charged.

Police claim the raids were warranted by citizen complaints, including calls from at least one gay man about unsafe sex at the Continued on page 8

By Adrl*n Saks

WASHINGTON — HIV-positive former basketball star Magic Johnson faced criti¬ cism during his first day as the newest member of the National Commission on AIDS Jan. 14. His lack of knowledge and economic wealth were berated by two lead¬ ing PWA representatives, while a fellow member of the commission criticized Johnson’s public service announcement ads for AIDS.

Johnson replaced Belinda Mason as the only person with HIV on the commission. The outspoken and politically liberal Mason died in September.

Derek Hodel, executive director of the People with AIDS Health Group in New York, confronted Johnson during his first commission hearing, calling on Johnson to “embrace us all — gay, straight, women, men, children — and have the courage to speak with humanity for us all.”

"I don’t see how a millionaire can repre¬ sent people with AIDS,” Bree Scott Hartland of the Living Well Commission, a New York-based PWA organization, said. The Living Well Commission announced their opposition to Johnson’s appointment soon after Bush announced it because of Johnson’s economic wealth. “The greater majority [of] people with AIDS/HTV find it more than difficult to meet the challenges.... They have little or no money to research their options, no insurance coverage that would give them the best available medical treatment, and few have the support systans in place like [there] are for Magic Johnson,” the group said in a press release.

Hartland expressed dismay that the com¬ mission should elect someone so unin¬ formed on AIDS/HIV issus. He believes that Johnson’s addition to the commission was an attempt to gamer publicity and pro¬ mulgate the message of prevention.

Johnson admits his need to leant more,

saying that he is doing his best, a claim to which Hartland responds, “We don’t have that kind of time.”

“Magic’s Athletes Against AIDS" public- service anouncements have also come under fire. Larry Kessler, executive director of the AIDS ACTION Committee of Massachusetts and a fellow member of the National Commission on AIDS, called the Converse-sponsored advertisements a waste of money during a commission press con¬ ference.

Kessler dismissed the ads as useless because they do not give information about how to prevent transmission of the HIV virus. In the ads, various basketball celebri¬ ties say that if Magic Johnson can get AIDS, anyone can. The only information provided by the ads is the number for the AIDS information hotline at the Centers for Disease Control. “Everyone knows AIDS is a problem. We need to know how to prevent it,” Kessler commented.

Kessler also expressed offense at the dia¬ logue in some of the ads. In one of the spots, an athlete suggests that AIDS is no longer a joke. Said Kessla, “It was never a damn joke.”

Others testifying at Johnson’s first hear¬ ing bemoaned the inadequacies and political content of current preventive measures. Speaking of AIDS’ disproportionate impact on the poor, Washington, D.C. PWA Janice Jireau stated, “We don’t need another hear¬ ing. We need to sit down and start to do some work. We need a national agenda.”

Johnson met with President Bush for 25 minutes after the hearing. Johnson lata said that Bush “needs to do a lot,” but he avoid¬ ed directly criticizing the President. Bush said that Johnson “had some good, con¬ structive suggestions.” Neither gave details of their conversation, but a follow-up meet¬ ing is planned in a month.

—filed from Boston

GAY COMMUNITY NEWS • FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 7, 1992 • 3

Police raid D.C. bars, claim unsafe sex

Activists charge city with stalling on sodomy repeal and implementation of anti-bias bill

Michael Galvin

GCN JOBS

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GCN wii be holding Board elections in March, with seven places available. The GCN Board is involved in setting policy, financial management, organizational development and fundraising for the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation, pub¬ lisher of Gay Community News. An effort is made to have socioeconomic, racial and cultural diversi¬ ty and gender parity. The board meets once a month and many board members also serve on a GCN committee. This is a working board with ample opportunity to become involved in a nation¬ al lesbian and gay newspaper which stresses feminism, antifascist work and economic justice. All interested persons are encouraged to submit a letter of interest by Feb. 28. For more informa¬ tion, call Laura Pierce at 426-4469.

Seven Sisters sex

Dear GCN:

I feel compelled to respond to the “Seven Sisters in Oklahoma" who believe that “pure” lesbian sex will not transmit the HTV virus. I am the HIV Project Manager at Neponset Health Center in Boston, and have encoun¬ tered numerous individuals who believed they had no risk factor, yet found themselves HIV positive because they had, indeed, participat¬ ed in risky behavior.

The only sexual activity that is absolutely safe is masturbation. These women are delud¬ ing themselves if they think somehow les¬ bians are a class of people exempt from HIV.

Here are the facts for women who practice “pure” lesbian sex. HIV is found in transmiss- able amounts in vaginal secretions. This means going down on a woman without using a barrier is risky behavior. It means penetra¬ tion, even with one finger, is a risky behavior if you have any cuts on your finger. Your risk increases in the presence of blood, and the idea of going down on a woman when she is bleeding may be repulsive. However, most lesbians would not be grossed out by going down on their lover on the sixth day of her period when she's not bleeding but still find¬ ing some pink spotting on her underpants.

Sisters, you are treading dangerous waters if you believe that sex with men or sharing needles are the only behaviors that put you at risk for HIV infection. Lesbians should not give themselves permission to be lulled into complacency by somehow believing that a virus knows your sexual preference and your sexual practices.

Sincerely, Jo Schneiderman Roslindale, Mass.

Dear GCN:

What I read the response (“Pure Lesbian Sex”) to Monica Pearl's letter from the “sis¬ ters in Oklahoma." my first reaction was to wonder if this was a dyke twist cm the famous Yalie letters Ann Landers gets. But in Bushwacked America, perhaps I should have known better.

These women, and others, really think they are morally superior and immune to those dirty people who “transmit AIDS” (sic). Lesbian sex includes everything two women (or more) can possibly do together from sex toys, SM (whatever one's definition of that might be and the sisters don't share that with

us), fisting, bondage, anal sex and oral sex under all kinds of circumstances (and periods are not the only time white blood cells are sloughed from women’s vaginas). Yes, Oklahoma, women even engage in casual, nasty sex. I sincerely doubt that is confined to urban areas.

But then who are these sisters — or anyone else — to decide what is and is not “moral,” “clean" and “perverse” lesbian sex? The CDC has decided that “lesbian sex” (unde¬ fined yet again) is not really sex — in 1987 so said the Assistant Director of the CDC’s applicable department — and thus we just don’t count within AIDS statistics. Maybe the sisters think HIV doesn’t exist in Oklahoma or in the “lesbian community?” In all it’s diversity. But, if so, they are wrong, tragically dead wrong. All kinds of people shoot drugs and share needles and “bodily fluids” (and have turkey b as ter babies to pro¬ duce children, at least in many parts of Amerika). Lesbians are no “purer” than other people.

Finally, I don’t know how long y’all have been reading GCN, but this kind of moraliz¬ ing in service of denial is just the sort of oppression many writers published within its pages — women and mot, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and assorted queers — are fighting around AIDS and other salient issues. I’d direct your attention to some of the most recent, including articles on HIV testing and misinformation in the lesbian community and coverage of both the National and Boston Women & AIDS conferences in par¬ ticular. Monica Pearl and her tireless col¬ leagues at ACT UP/NY and the ACT UP Women & AIDS Book Group continue to deal with the ignorance and hate-mongering attitudes like those contained within “Pure...” engender. Sadly, letters like that only illus¬ trate how far we lesbians fighting AIDS, denial and internalized homophobia and sex- phobia have to go within “our own commu¬ nity.”

AIDS is not a moral issue. It is about life and death — including women’s lives, all kinds of women who do all kinds of things in and out of bed.

In sisterhood, Marea Murray Boston, Mass.

Revulsion form of bigotry

Dear GCN:

I am responding to the letter by Steven Capra in the Dec. 22-Jan.4 1991 GCN (Vol. 19, No. 23).

He asks, “How many gay people are repulsed by NAMBLA, and repelled from the community?” Then goes on to say, “After all.we’re talking about a group that die over¬ whelming bulk of us find morally repug¬ nant.”

It seems to me that straight bigots use this same reasoning against gays. Just because straights are repulsed and repelled by gays, and that the overwhelming bulk of straights find gays morally repugnant does not give them the right to put us down, and do all of the other things that straights do to, and against gays.

The same thing goes in Mr. Capra’s case. Wanting to throw NAMBLA out of gay pride parades is just as bigoted as the things that straights do against gays just because we are gay.

Neal Salem, Ore.

Outrage at Burroughs Wellcome

/GCN received a copy of this letter sent to the C.E.O. and President of Burroughs Welcome.]

Dear Mr. Tracey:

I am writing to express my outrage at the behavior exhibited by Mr. Ron Shulteis, a member of your sales staff who represented Burroughs Wellcome at the American Public Health Association Annual meeting in November of 1991.

I am the coordinator of the Brown University AIDS Program. I was in the exhi¬ bition section talking with two representa¬ tives from AIDS Treatment News, a small publication which reports on experimental and standard treatments for HIV disease, about subscribing to their publication. Mr. Shulteis, who, incidentally, was playing with a yo-yo throughout the entire incident, walked up to the ATN booth and engaged Keith Griffith, one of the ATN representa¬ tives, in conversation. I overheard that they were arguing about the issue of profit. Mr. Griffith stated his concern over the cost of drugs for AIDS produced by Burroughs Wellcome. Mr. Shulteis became very defen¬

sive, and vehemently defended Burroughs Wellcome’s need to set the prices of drugs as they are.

I have no objection to this at all. Mr. Shulteis is a paid employee of the company. It is his job to support its policies. What upset me tremendously, however, is the man¬ ner in which he chose to do so. Specifically, three things occurred which I found unac¬ ceptable.

1. Mr. Shulteis did not appear willing or able to engage in a dialogue about the issues at hand. He raised his voice and interrupted Mr. Griffith repeatedly, all the while continu¬ ing to play with his yo-yo. He was aggres¬ sive and angry.

2. Later in the conversation, Mr. Shulteis changed his tactics. Instead of just yelling at Mr. Griffith, he demanded that AIDS Treatment News, a small organization which relies solely on subscriptions to support its operating costs, make free copies of its pub¬ lication available to all Burroughs Wellcome representatives. When Mr. Griffith indicated that it would not be possible for ATN to do so, and suggested that Burroughs Wellcome could easily afford the $230 annual subscrip¬ tion rate, Mr. Shulteis accused ATN. of “profiting from the pain and suffering of oth¬ ers just as bad as [Burroughs] does."

3. Mr. Shulteis, who by the end of the con¬ versation was shouting loudly enough to draw the attention of several others in the vicinity, then said the following to Mr. Griffith, who is HIV positive: “Your [CD4] count may be high now, but one of these days it’s going to drop, and you’re going to need our drugs. Then we’ll see what you have to say about Burroughs Wellcome.” With that, Mr. Shulteis stormed off.

In just a few short moments, Mr. Shulteis masterfully and perhaps permanently validat¬ ed and reinforced for those listening, criti¬ cisms which Burroughs Wellcome has encountered repeatedly from HIV-infected people and their advocates. As evidenced by the “face” it chose to present to the public, the message was once again sent that Burroughs Wellcome continues to exploit the community which it claims to serve.

The incident was discussed among confer¬ ence attendees throughout the remainder of the week. These individuals — public health professionals from around the country — returned to their communities with a reinforced impression that Burroughs Wellcome does not come from a position of compassion toward people affected by HIV disease. Rather, it appears to be focused only on retaining its profit margin.

The damage Mr. Shulteis did is irrepara¬ ble. A written apology to Mr. Griffith and a donation to AIDS Treatment News would certainly be in order. In addition, perhaps you will take steps to see that this type of incident does not happen again. Failure to do so will send a clear message to the public that Burroughs Wellcome Co. does in fact endorse Mr. Shulteis’ views.

Sincerely, Ellen LaPointe Pawtucket, R.I.

CORRECTION

In the interview with Hothead Poison cre¬ ator, Diane DiMassa (Jan. 26-Feb.l), phtog- rapher Jodi Wheat was incorrectly identified as the distributor for Giant Ass Publishing, when, in fact, she is not. Start up costs for the first issue of Hothead Poison were quot¬ ed as being in the S5-6.000 range, what, in actuality, it cost about $5-600 to get Hothead off the ground. Hothead’s cat. Chicken, was correctly identified as “ Chicken" throughout the article.

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FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 7, 1992 • 5

Paul Everett

BOSTON — Bom in Philadelphia, Paul Everett passed away Jan. 17 of a sudden heart attack. He was employed with the Jupiter (formerly Burt Reynolds’) Theater appearing in their production of Showboat in Florida.

During his 17 years in Boston, his passion for the stage was well known. Paul was instrumental in securing the gay and lesbian Triangle Theater’s present space and appeared in several of their productions including Boys in the Band, Franny: The Queen of Provincetown and A Night Out with the Boys. He appeared in the lesbian soap opera Two-in-Twenty, in various roles in murder mysteries for both High Moon Productions and Mystery Cafe. His first Equity production was the Hostage at the Merrimack Repertory Theater.

Paul performed in independent produc¬ tions of Boy Meets Boy, Street Theatre (the Stonewall uprising) and Royal Paste and Paper Circus (at New Ehrlich and other locations). He participated in various produc¬ tions for the New African Company and for Playwrites Platform. He traveled to local grade schools in a musical version of Jungle Book.

He also choreographed and directed. He was proud to have directed the first produc¬ tion of Ten Percent Revue (listed among the top ten plays that year by the Boston Herald).

A man with a big heart, he visited children with AIDS, raised money for the homeless and PWAs, visited and wrote to the incarcer¬ ated and opened his home to friends who had failed on hard times.

Paul was in constant search for spiritual growth. Besides being an avid reader of the Bible he was an ordained minister of the Order of Melchizedek and became a shaman under the tutorage of Lynn Andrews. He had a healing touch. He could melt clouds and calm waters. Many of those who passed before him spoke to him in his dreams.

Paul was also known as a teacher, most recently he taught English as a second lan¬ guage at Northeastern University. He taught kindergarten and fourth grade at David A. Ellis Elementary and taught kindergarten- Level 2 at Farragut Elementary. For many years he was head teacher at Children’s World Day Care.

Paul was the minister of music and the director of the youth theater group for the United Community Church of Roxbury.

He will be missed and remembered lov¬ ingly by his mother, aunt, three brothers, three sisters and 22 nieces and nephews. His other whole, Richard Gruender, will hold him in his heart eternally.

Anyone wishing to share their memories of Paul may write Richard at 510 Commonwealth Ave., Suite 141, Boston, MA 02215. Information about a Saturday, Feb. 22 memorial service may be obtained by calling 522-5006. — Friends

Stan Hadden

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A powerful voice in the forefront of the AIDS epidemic Stan Hadden, died of the disease on December 2, 1991 , at his home here. Hadden had been the senior aide to Senator David Roberti at the state capitol and had been instrumental in establishing legislative guar¬ antees of basic rights for the gay community and people with HIV in California. He was a man who cared very deeply and fought vig¬ orously for those living with HTV infection. In addition to his legislative duties, Stan Hadden also wrote a political column and served on the editorial board of the Positive Social Support Newsletter (PSSN), an HIV information publication of the Lambda Community Center in Sacramento.

Stan served as one of the founders of the Sacramento AIDS Foundation and as a three-term president of the board of direc¬ tors.

“I deeply admire Stan for his dedication and effectiveness in working on some of our most serious health and human issues,’’ stat¬ ed Roberti, Senate President pro tempore.

Others who paid tribute to Stan include former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos, co- workers at the Sacramento AIDS Foundation, legislative aides and members of ACT UP/Golden Gate.

Some of the legislative bills Roberti authored, and which Hadden helped realize, include SB.910 (1983), which created the California AIDS Advisory Committee, SB. 2244 (1984), which developed a plan for treatment, direct services and preventive health education, and SB. 1251 (1985), which promoted a coordination of AIDS services, including pilot projects for home health care

6 • FEBRUARY 23-MARCH

and the nation’s first AIDS mental health programs.

Survivors include Stan’s partner of eight years, Ken Topper, a devoted lover and many times Hadden’s right-hand man. “Stan brought dignity to a community that was desperate, and left behind a legacy that con¬ tinues after his death,” Topper stated. Hadden is also survived by his parents, four brothers, one of whom is also gay, a sister, numerous nieces and nephews, and many turkeys, pigeons, polish chickens, rabbits, dogs and cats, which were his beloved pets.

Donations in Stan Hadden’s memory can be made to the Sacramento Regional Foundation, the Stan Hadden CARES Fund, with funding earmarked for clients of CARES, an HIV model treatment center, at 1420 River Park Dr., Suite 140, Sacramento, CA 95815. — Arturo Jackson III

Les McAfee

OTTAWA, Canada — Les McAfee died at home on November 5.

Les was bom and raised in rural Saskatchewan. He became known as a politi¬ cal organizer and worked on and managed many campaigns in the 1970s.

In 1979 Les became executive assistant to the Hon. David MacDonald, Minister of Communications in Prime Minister Joe Clark’s cabinet. Les lata- ran an unsuccessful campaign for city councillor against the part- time incumbent Marc Laviolette in November of 1988.

Les was a familiar figure in the Ottawa lesbian and gay community. He was the owner/operator of Shades Restaurant and Bar in the mid 1980s. Not only was Shades the first gay-owned bar in Ottawa, it quickly became a focal point for gay and lesbian cul¬ ture through various plays and exhibitions, including local political events.

Les was best known in the lesbian and gay community as one of the founding members of Equality for Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (EG ALE). Without fanfare, Les devoted his considerable lobbying skills to ensuring that lesbian and gay rights stayed in the forefront of federal politics and on the national stage.

Les was the driving force behind EGALE securing $25,000 from the Court Challenges program to fund discoveries in five cases that challenged instances of discrimination because of sexual orientation.

Les was instrumental in forging links with other national equality-seeking groups such as the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, the Canadian Disability Rights Council, the National Association of Women and the Law, and the Canadian Rights and Liberties Association, to name a few. He strived to bring the issue of lesbian and gay rights into the mainstream of human rights issues by coalition building.

Les never sought personal recognition and was often approached by the media because he was a credible and knowledgeable source and gave a damn good interview.

Les also put his considerable talents and energies into a project that typified the human rights lobbying he had become known for. As General Manager of the Canadian Tribute to the Human Rights mon¬ ument, Les oversaw the bulk of the construc¬ tion and the phenomenal national fundraising effort for the project. If there was ever a fit¬ ting symbol of Les’s lifetime philosophy and work, it would be this monument.

— OttawaJHull Info.

Bob McNee

LOS ANGELES — Dr. Robert Bruce McNee, 69, died of asthma/emphysema/lung cancer/pneumonia in Los Angeles Wednesday evening, Jan. 8, and the earth shook. Then we all stood still.

Bom in Big Timber, Mont., raised in Spring Valley, Minn., he was the lover of Shane Que Hee for the past 13 years.

A former director of the American Geographical Society (1973-76), chair of the University of Cincinnati Geography Dept. (1963-69) and Faculty Senate (1971-2), Dr. McNee was also a Fulbright Scholar and served in the U.S. Navy during World War

n.

An activist who joined the NAACP in 1946, marched in civil rights demonstrations in the '50s and ’60s and helped to develop the U. Cincinnati affirmative action policy. Dr. McNee was awarded the university’s Margaret Core Tangeman Award for Human Dignity and Equality in 1987.

He also ran as a Jesse Jackson delegate in Hamilton County. Ohio for both presidential runs.

His gay liberation achievements include: being declared the Gay Mayor of Cincinnati

(1986); teaching the first for-credit under¬ graduate course on lesbian/gay culture at U. Cincinnati (and perhaps in the U.S.) (1983- 86); serving as organizer and president of the Lesbian/Gay Academic Union of Greater Cincinnati (1980-87), board member of the national Lesbian/Gay Academic Union (1980-92), advisor to the University of Cincinnati Gay Alliance.board member of Stonewall Cincinnati (1982-84) and board member of Project Rainbow Los Angeles (1990-92); being a radical faerie since 1981; marching in both national marches on Washington (1979 and 1987); and pioneer¬ ing the field of gay-related geography, including running a panel discussion of gay/lesbian geography at the American Geographers’ Meeting in Denver in 1983 clad in a pink dress.

Bob believed that truth and justice were not abstractions but things worth living and dying for. Never separated for long from his trademark cowboy hat. Bob was loud, hilari¬ ous, startling and angry.

During the 1980s, Bob was one of the Queen City’s most prominent queer citizens, outspoken and well informed. Bob left the pollen and pollution of Colerain Township in 1989 for a condo near the Pacific breezes of Los Angeles. His life partner Shane accepted a job at UCLA.

Bob worked for justice and racial equality all his life, but he lived a lifetime of denial until he came out of the closet late in life after a long and painful internal struggle.

In 1978, the police raided the parks, entrapping closeted gay men, and Bob saw injustice. He traded in a life of success and respect from the straight establishment, gave up his suits and ties, and became a cowboy, an activist with decades of experience, and a queer who was joyful and angry, at the same time.

His joy came from finding freedom after so long a denial. His anger had many sources and deep roots.

Bob cared about people. He was passion¬ ately interested in the gay liberation move¬ ment. He was a maverick, he beat his own path and he spoke his mind

He was critical of a gay community that practiced discrimination at so many levels. Bob would pound his fist on the table, he would yell; Bob would inspire others to extremes of anger or loyalty, but Bob always spoke the truth, most often when nobody else wanted to.

He was a Radical Faerie in a city noted for plodding conservatism. When Bob showed his slides of Faerie gatherings, which he loved to do, or when he came to a party dressed in nothing but war paint and a loin cloth, we laughed with him.

The ’80s were a time of caution and small steps for most local gays, but not for Bob. Sometimes Bob’s liberated style cost him friends. Bob was involved in the first begin¬ nings of Stonewall Cincinnati, but was later denied a seat on the Stonewall Board in an election still believed by many to have been rigged. Bob’s image was threatening to the suit-and-tie activists.

In 1983 County Prosecutor Simon Leis tried to destroy John Zeh, the founder of the radio show GayDreams. Bob and Shane organized the first local gay defense fund for John.

In 1989, Bob and Shane worked like demons in the bars putting together a coali¬ tion that carried the local March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights effort to a stunning success.

Bob organized Cincinnati Gays and Lesbians for Jesse Jackson, and his efforts broke down barriers.

Bob helped with the first AIDS demon¬ strations in Cincinnati, dramatic occasions in 1988 and ’89.

Bob was active in the early days of the Greater Cincinnati Gay and Lesbian Coalition and was a member of the Metropolitan Community Church and St. John’s Unitarian Church. Bob helped start Interweave, a local association of lesbian and gay Unitarians, and To the Roots, a local journal of “knock-down, drag-out radical queer politics.” Though in Los Angeles when GLUE began. Bob and Shane kept in touch with useful news clippings and gossip about life and education in “La La Land.”

Bob is survived by his life partner Dr. Shane Que Hee, his separated wife Doris, children Andrew, William, Margaret (Trikoupis), George (Outterson) and Douglas (Outterson) and sisters Florence Stanford and Margaret Madson.

Bob McNee was a great man. We miss him. Memorials may be sent to the Robert B. McNee Memorial Fund, 923 Levering Avenue. Unit 102, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

— Shane Que Hee, Dan Stephen, Larry

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sonal life. Part One ended with the question unanswered: “Why Clay Shaw?"

THE PLAYERS

Jim Garrison: Ambitious and homopho¬ bic District Attorney determined to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone (if at all) on that fateful day in Dallas. Garrison was unwilling to let facts stand in his way or worried about lives being destroyed as long as he was in the spotlight. (In JFK , Oliver Stone has Kevin Costner play Garrison like a hero out of Frank Capra).

Judge James Haggerty: Sat on the bench for the Shaw trial and believed in the secret homosexual underground presented by Garrison. In his book about the trial, American Grotesque, author James Kirkwood [whom Mitzel interviewed in 1975] quoted Haggerty as saying that, “The jury didn't get too much on the queer angle.... Queers know queersP'

Tom Dawson: A close friend of Shaw’s whom Mitzel corresponded with after the trial.

Mort Sahl: Liberal comic, political com¬ mentator and famous Kennedy assassination buff with a mean homophobic streak.

Mark Lane: Lawyer and an early critic of the Warren Commission Report who disap¬ pointed many committed assassinationolo- gists by aligning himself with Garrison for the trial of Clay Shaw.

David Ferrie: Gay right-wing New Orleans underworld figure whom Garrison tried to tie to Shaw, in order to prove his homosexual conspiracy. No such ties were ever proven.

Clem Bertrand: A name dropped by lawyer Dean Andrews; Garrison claimed that this and “Clay Bertrand” were aliases of Shaw’s.

Oliver Stone: Ambitious filmmaker unwilling to let facts stand in his way although his intentions seemed good: to get all the poop on a crucial story.

BY MIT/EL

o, there’s still the question. Why Clay Shaw?

Here’s the story Kirkwood got: "After Ferrie died, Garrison was frantic to get somebody.

k— He had to have a body.

The show had to go on. There was that name that lawyer Dean Andrews had dropped, Clem Bertrand or Clay Bertrand. So when somebody said that some lawyer said that a private person called up on behalf of Lee Harvey Oswald, his name was ‘Clem Bertrand’ or it was ‘Clay Bertrand,’ and somebody said Garrison said 'Find a Bertrand in New Orleans!’ Well, there was no Bertrand. Shaw’s arrest came out of a meet¬ ing that went something like this:

Somebody said, ‘We can’t find a Clay Bertrand.’ Garrison said: 'Find a Clay. Is there a Clay somebody?’ Someone said: ‘Hey! What about Clay Shaw at the International Trade Mart?’ Another said: ‘O! He speaks Spanish too!’ And somebody said: ‘And he’s homosexual!’ Once you had the two givens, that Clay led a homosexual life and that he spoke Spanish as part of his work at the Trade Mart, Garrison really wouldn't let go. I think the homosexuality is the prime factor that allowed Garrison to keep his claws in Clay.”

And how did this name of “Clem” or “Clay” “Bertrand” get brunted about any¬ way? It was a made-up name for a made-up person concocted by that slime-bag Dean Andrews. On the stand, Andrews finally told the truth: “Clay Bertrand is a figment of my imagination, or whatever you want to call it” No help, alas, to Clay Shaw.

Kirkwood: “I think that something that annoyed Garrison to no end was the fact that Clay Shaw was in his everyday dealings with people extremely masculine. He was not a ‘camp.’ He had great dignity, great strength. He had a great sense of business acumen. And then the idea that he was also a homo¬ sexual and was operating well on all levels of his life I think was absolutely infuriating to Garrison.”

A friend of mine, who was in New Orleans at the time of the trial and was personally associated with one of the principals, put it this way: “It is known that Garrison really disliked Clay, and the bit about the D.A. feel¬ ing inferior is based on much truth. Garrison was tolerated in polite New Orleans circles. Law enforcement has never gone over well with socialites anyway, but in New Orleans the law is considered akin to the Mafia — a result of all the obvious graft and corruption. I don’t think power-mad alone is the explana¬ tion for Jim [Garrison]. He half-assed believes his shit. The other half is a Nixon crusade to wipe out some inner demon he has wrestled with all his life. He hates Shaw because Shaw made it the right way. He hates fags because he is one and can’t come to terms with that. He hates Oswald because the man reached the pinnacle of notoriety in a

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matter of moments and Garrison is still try¬ ing."

Kirkwood: “I’ll tell you how I feel about Garrison. I firmly believe that he believed there was a conspiracy. I think he’s a mega¬ lomaniac, which I said in the book. I also think he’s an extremely dangerous man because he’s a bright man in many ways. He tends to have blinders on. He had announced to the world that he had solved the assassina¬ tion. Once that hit the papers, all you saw was Garrison on the news. Now Ferrie was dead. Garrison had a corpse on his hands and he had to get somebody else. But he was like a performer. He could not get offstage.”

Garrison was reelected D.A. in 1969, and then defeated in 1973 by Harry Connick. He went into private practice for a while and is now a judge in Louisiana

After perusing this crew, let’s look at Clay Shaw, a fine man. He was bom a country boy, his given name LeVergne. At age 16, he co-authored a one-act play. Submerged, which became one of the most performed plays by school and community theater groups. Shaw also wrote a full-length play, In Memoriam, which appeared in New Orleans in 1948. He translated the work of the Spanish playwright Alejandro Casona. He served and was decorated in WW 2, in which he suffered a back injury. For a time, Shaw ran a theatrical booking agency that handled tours for concert groups and the like. After the war, he began his association with the Trade Mart. As managing director, Shaw culminated his career there with the opening of the T.M.’s new building in 1965 (a com¬ mission won by Edward Durrell Stone).

Shaw was, in addition, a leader in the movement to buy and restore old homes in New Orleans’ famous French Quarter, trans¬ forming it once again into a fashionable dis¬ trict. Shaw had retired from the Trade Mart relatively early to pursue these pleasures: architectural restoration, traveling and writ¬ ing. Jim Garrison’s ambitions ruined all that Shaw’s savings and property were wiped out by his ordeal. Tom Dawson wrote me: “By the way, Clay’s lawyers never accepted a red cent, despite marathon work for him. But when it was over. Clay (then broke by the cost of private investigators and such) sold his house to give them something. He insist¬ ed.”

During the trial, Shaw continued to reside at his home at 1313 Dauphine Street in the French Quarter, even though many of his friends feared for his safety and prodded him to get some security. Though there were threats against him, Shaw was pleased by the wide support he received from people all across the country, shown in letters and small contributions.

Lawsuits tied him up until his death. A heavy smoker, he died in 1974 at age 61. Rod McKuen, the noted poet, was sweet enough to place an obituary in Variety. In his last years, Shaw went back into real estate development He did some public speaking. At one college engagement, he told the stu¬ dents: “It doesn’t matter what happens to me. Terrible things happen to everybody. But what I’m talking about tonight could happen to anybody within the sound of my voice. You think it’s impossible. I assure you it is not”

I write about Clay Shaw here because I think his odd ordeal was not just that of an individual at a time in a place caught in the specific confluence of events and ambitions. He was specifically targeted to show how power really works. These things bring out The Ugly, deliberately, in all. Judge Haggerty, later to be pinched in a cheap motel at a stag party with some prosties, was not only obsessed with Shaw’s homosexuali¬ ty but insisted that Shaw must have been a “Mongoloid-Negro,” and saw supporting evidence for his prejudice in that a number of Black males in the jury pool were named Shaw.

Mae Brussel, who had a radio show on Pacifica to run her conspiracy theories, held the view that Shaw “was CIA.’’ In 1975, as avalanches of CIA horror stories were being unmasked, it was not a pretty appellation. In January of 1975, 1 asked Brussel, at an assas¬ sination conference in Boston, what was her source for this line. She referred me to Marks and Marchetti’s book. The CIA and The Cult of Intelligence, which turns out not to reveal much. I later read a piece by Ed Sanders in WIN magazine. Sanders wrote that he caught up with Marchetti at a Yale conference on the CIA and asked about Shaw. Marchetti, who once worked for the Agency, said: “I was Deputy Director’s Assistant. I asked the Director’s [Watergate perjuror Richard Helms’] Assistant about what was going on down in New Orleans. He said, ‘A long time ago. Clay Shaw had been in contact with Agency. He was in the import-export business. He knew people coming and going from areas in which we were interested. So he would put the Domestic Contact Services in touch with people so they could be debriefed.” Now that Continued on page 11

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O’Banion

Continued from page 3

between O’Banion and the two police offi¬ cers. O’Banion fell to the ground, suffering an abrasion over his eye, causing him to bleed. As police were arresting O’Banion, Johnson informed them that O’Banion had AIDS. -From that point things got very weird,” O’Banion said.

After repeated demands to be taken to a hospital in order to obtain essential medica¬ tion for a serious condition arising from AIDS-related meningitis, a police supervisor called to the scene assured him his requests would be granted. However, he was instead taken to the jail at the Hamilton County Justice Center and charged by the city with jaywalking, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Then, following, procedure, he was turned over to the county authorities.

According to O’Banion, when three coun¬ ty corrections officers and a nurse entered his cell to treat his head wounds, he refused the treatment and asked to be taken to a hospital where he had received treatment for his AIDS-related conditions. He said he told them he feared he had a concussion, which could be very serious due to his previous meningitis, and wanted to have x rays taken.

According to O’Banion, the corrections officers denied his requests and forced him to submit to a medical examination while he was lying face down on a bench against the wall. In an attempt to subdue him, one of the officers put his hand on O’Banion ’s neck and pressed against his lymph nodes, causing him to choke and cough as his face was pressed against the bench. He said he sus¬ tained a fractured nasal bone from the pres¬ sure and had blood gushing from his head, nose and mouth.

According to the police, O’Banion verbal¬ ly threatened to kill them and forcefully spit his blood at them. O’Banion denied the charges, stating, “They’re in uniform. Their word holds more weight than mine does.”

O’Banion was finally taken to a hospi¬ tal — although not the one at which he had previously received care — where he was given an HTV test, despite his own acknowl¬ edgment that he was HIV positive. Two of the corrections officers woe also given HIV tests due to their perceived exposure to his blood, despite the fact that a test only hours after exposure to HIV would not have been positive even if they had been infected.

O’Banion then spent three days in jail, much of the time in his blood-stained clothes without a blanket. During that time, he said, he was given his medication sporadically and in inaccurate dosages. “It was hell, pure, simple, hell," he said. “I don’t know how I did it” After learning of the attempted mur¬ der and assault charges brought against him by the county, he was released from the Justice Center because he was perceived to be a risk to the jail population, and he spent three months in home incarceration.

The municipal charges against him — for jaywalking, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest — were plea-bargained to misde¬ meanors and he was ordered to pay $99 in fines Jan. 29. Cook said that while the defense team was reluctant to plea bargain, they did so in an attempt to ensure O’Banion would not spend any more time at the Justice Center. Although Cook said no decision had been made about whether they would sue the city or the county, O’Banion stated, ‘To me the only way of really winning is suing because it seems that money is the only thing that will get their attention.”

Citizen review faults police

An investigation by a citizen complaint board, the Office of Municipal Investigations (OMI), released last month, contained evi¬ dence verifying what several activists have stated: that Yontz and others were driven by homophobia in their decision to stop O'Banion and Johnson for jaywalking. Yontz testified to the committee that he had sur¬ mised the two men were gay “because of their attire and the area they were in at that time of night” The neighborhood contains a number of gay bars.

The OMI, which serves in an advisory capacity and does not have any direct power to discipline police officers, found that “O’Banions’ arrest for disorderly conduct while intoxicated was unlawful because it violated his right to free speech" and also found that he “may have been priviledged to resist arrest," although it was not found to be certain that he did in fact resist. Under Ohio law, citizens are privileged to resist unlawful arrest.

The OMI also recommended that Prcm be disciplined and the training for disorderly conduct in his department be reviewed. Judge Bettman also scolded the officers, say¬ ing the entire situation could have been avoided.

Activists demand reforms

Reacting in part to the O'Banion case, gay

8 • FEBRUARY 23-MARCH

and lesbian activists in Cincinnati are calling for major reforms in the Hamilton County Justice System, led by Sheriff Simon Leis. According to MacLarty of GLMA, Leis has a history of making anti-gay statements, including a recent comment in reaction to the O’Banion case that he was “against homo¬ sexuality.”

MacLarty told GCN, “He made our job a lot easier proving he is unfit to serve as sher¬ iff in a county where about 10 percent of the people are gay.... It helps when people announce their biases.” Leis is extremely popular with voters county-wide and is likely to run unopposed for re-election this year, according to MacLarty.

ACT UP/Cincinnati is working to curb Leis's power by making him responsible to die County Board of Commissioners and to set up a monitoring system for the county justice system, according to member Todd Kamm. He said that sheriffs are given exces¬ sive power, and although they are financially accountable to the commissioners, they are not accountable for the way prisoners are treated. Further, he said, “[Leis] has got a lot of good ol’ boys in the prosecutors office and on the bench.”

O’Banion said his mistreatment by the Hamilton County justice system is a symp¬ tom of the larger societal factors affecting the treatment of people with AIDS. “The fear of AIDS has created a really weird climate of both hostility and prejudice,” he said.

“I am a person living with AIDS,” O’Banion continued, “I’ve dealt with it very well. I don’t have a fatalistic attitude. The last thing I would ever want to do is infect someone else.”

—filed from Boston

Nat’l march

Continued from page 1 forward," she said.

New England organizing

Approximately 15 people showed up in Springfield, Mass, on Feb. 8 for the second New England regional meeting. Those in attendance focused on outreach for upcom¬ ing meetings and on the New England struc¬ ture, participants reported.

Two of the four New England representa¬ tives to the national committee — who were elected on a temporary basis because only seven people were in attendance to elect them in December — stepped down, but were not replaced Feb. 8 because of low turnout.

Participants debated the small attendance, suggesting poor publicity and/or disinterest were factors, according to veteran Boston Lesbian/Gay Pride organizer and Boston Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center board member Janet Kyle.

Kyle was chosen as the New England regional coordinator for the march, although she expressed confusion over whether her position was a permanent or temporary one. “Right now, I’m just trying to get things going, get people to the meetings and involved,” Kyle said. “We obviously need to do a lot more outreach.”

The first meeting for Greater Boston organizing takes place March 14 at the Boston Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center. The next New England meeting will be April 12 from noon to 5 p.m. at the gay center in Hartford, Conn.

— filed from Boston

Bar raided

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clubs. But one gay man who notified the police later told the local gay newspaper. The Blade, “I never intended to bring about a police raid. I was upset that this kind of [unprotected sex] should be going on while people are dying of AIDS.”

“If it is true that the [raid] was taken as a matter of public health, why wasn’t the [Health Department] notified so that educa¬ tion, not incarceration, could be used to solve the alleged problem?" Conaty asked.

Activist* rally

At a Feb. 16 rally to support the Follies, Queer Nation activists and others called for the resignation of police chief Isaac Pullwood, who they said okayed a four- month probe of the gay club but has failed to spend money on training for officers about anti-gay attacks and homophobia.

Activists also protested the day after the raid at the District Building, Washington’s city hall, and held an impromptu meeting with the City Administrator and a mayoral aide. Then, on Feb. 10, activists protested outside the police chief’s advisory board meeting. Roughly 200 people also marched Feb. 15 from the Follies to the police depart¬ ment.

Activists are planning a large demonstra¬ tion for March 6, as well as vigils every day that week for the hate-crimes law.

“It’s horrible that the police have perpe¬ trated this kind of violence on our communi- Continued on page 1 1

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With Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary Louise Parker, Cicely Tyson. Written by Fannie Flagg and Jon Avnet, directed by Avnet. At Loew's Paris, Boston, and open nationally.

Reviewed by Maria Vetrano

hen I first heard that Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe was being made into a major motion picture, I was elat¬ ed. For hours upon days I imagined how Flagg’s characters would be made incarnate. How could any film replicate the double- plotted novel with its interwoven patches of Southern story telling? More pointedly, and closer to my heart, how could a mainstream film stay true to the main yam: a love story between two women living together in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s and ’30s? Well, naturally, it couldn’t. Some com¬ promises had to be made, and they were. But just as soon as I rationalized my way back to the minor miracle that this book had been made into a movie at all, I dropped my Disney-esque expectations on the floor and looked at what was left.

This is what I saw: Kathy (yes-she-won- an- Academy- Award) Bates brings Southern- bred, middle-aged, food addict. Pushover of the Year, Evelyn Couch to the flesh. A woman of the 1950s, she’s lost in the ’80s: out of touch with herself, her slovenly, sports-addicted husband and the rest of the world. Should she be Marabel Morgan, the Total Woman icon of lost housewives who wrapped themselves in cellophane like an appealing sexual entree? Or Martha Stewart, with her perfectly served, perfectly timed, perfectly presented perfect dinners? Fortunately for us, Evelyn adopts a much funnier and more powerful alter ego, Tawanda, Tighter of wrongs, avenger of abused children and machine gunner of the male genitals of wife-beaters. Tawanda is the by-product of Evelyn Couch’s journey to self-empowerment, the way to which is not paved by cliched consciousness raising ses¬ sions, but the tales told her by a little old lady she meets in the Rose Terrace Nursing Home. None other than Jessica Tandy plays Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode, a Miss-Daisy-in-a- good-mood kind of character. It is through the memories of Mrs. Threadgoode that Evelyn comes to life. Weeks go by as Evelyn becomes engrossed in the tale of Idgie Threadgoode, tomboy, boy-woman, poker playing, silver tongued, big hearted bee charmer and accused murderer of her "busi¬ ness” partner’s deserted husband, the heinous Frank Bennett.

For all you Mary Stuart Masterson fans out there who noticed this good-looking-to- the-bone woman in the movie Some Kind of Wonderful, (a subculture classic that has frus¬ trated lesbians near and far), Masterson’s portrayal of Idgie Threadgoode as a Godamned Independent who persists in the good ole boy South without compromising her strength or stubbomess even for a mil¬ lisecond, does the character justice. For those of you expecting romantic themes to be played out, prepare yourself for some heavily restricted voyeurism.

Idgie’s romantic interest, Ruth Jamison, played by Mary-Louise Parker, is a pure young Baptist girl from neighboring Georgia. She is brought to the Threadgoode household by Idgie’s mother, as a last ditch attempt to rescue Idgie from a life of whiskey, smoke and solitude. With her graceful presence and expressive features, Parker is the kind of girl you might have stoked a fire for in high school, until you realized that she was hope¬ lessly heterosexual. But happily for us, in Fried Green Tomatoes fiction triumphs over personal experience and Ruth clearly returns Idgie’s affection with heartfelt warmth. Joanne Loulan might say that Parker is femme to Masterson’s butch. Physically those lines are drawn, but emotionally, both women exhibit great strength of character.

There are some carefully played intimate moments between the two, a moonlit swim, a touch on the cheek here and there, the long¬ ing look of love, a caress, comfort among tears. But what I really wanted to happen, a passionate kiss or a throbbing embrace, never made it to the screen. These are, instead, for¬ ever doomed to fantasy oblivion, catapulting into conjecture like the Entres Nous of our lives. And yet, the Idgie-Ruth relationship survives Ruth’s abusive marriage. It endures throughout the birth and maturation of the wonderful Whistle Stop Cafe with its fried green tomatoes, its com bread and its barbe- ques. It sustains childbirth and motherhood. It lives on and on in this story, even as char¬ acters and Cafe die alike.

The final and most important question is, is Fried Green Tomatoes worth all the com¬ promise or will you leave the theater forlorn and bleary eyed? Not to worry. Even though this movie was directed by Jon Avnet and not Steven Spielberg, it will leave you with that warm, gummy feeling you get when Bette Midler sings a lullabye. You will look around you in a theater filled with lesbians, gay men, senior citizens, heterosexual couples and Evelyn Couches. In fact, you will see that we are not so different from the world, and the world from us. This time, for as long as it lasts, we all get to eat at the Whistle Stop Cafe. □

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ty but the positive side is that political groups are pulling together to organize.” Eve Faber, a member of OUT!, said.

Police had previously assured the commu¬ nity that the sodomy law would not be enforced. Queer Nation’s Greg Scott told GCN. “We want the law repealed [immedi¬ ately] he said.”

Activists also fault Fullwood for failing to follow up on his pledge to release results of a police probe into a Halloween incident in which police are charged with harassing drag queens in a gay business district (See GCN, VdI. 19. No. 17).

The raid is the first conducted by D.C. police since 1976, when the vice squad bust¬ ed the Club Baths, which still operates two doors from the Follies in the southeast quar¬ ter of the city. The U.S. Attorney dropped charges then after protests by gay activists.

Homphobic conspiracy?

Conspiracy fears were raised because the husband of the council’s Judiciary Committee chair Wilhelmina Rolark, news¬ paper publisher and Black community leader Calvin Rolark, has chaired the police chief’s Citizen Advisory Council for 15 years.

“He has Chief Fullwood 's ear,” Conaty said. Council member Rolark has refused to let the full Council consider the sodomy repeal bill. OUT! has staged direct actions at her home and office, and continues phone/fax blitzes.

Participants said they worry that Sunday’s sweep may signal renewed crackdowns at the city’s gay clubs. *

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was a very overt-type Agency activity. It’s one of the more legitimate activities of the CIA [information gathering]. Then he said the contact [with Shaw] had been broken off long ago, but they just don’t want it to come up at this point because a guy like Garrison would distort it and the public would misun¬ derstand it” [Which is exactly what Brussel, Lane, Sahl, Garrison and Stone did.]

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...a brand new year (sigh). I’m young, single, not white and relatively fire. What more could a pro¬ gressive gay boy ask for? A little romance? A lit¬ tle fun? Write. GCN Box 144 (29)

SILY

Slow dancing, swaying to the music. Slow danc¬ ing, just me and my (my, my, my) girl. You’re the one I thought I’d never find. 15 years later it feels like only the beginning. Marian. (30)

DARLING SUGAR BEAR

Miss you! Happy Valentine’s Day! Love & Respect Cuddly Bear. (30)

Muscular, well-developed GWF. Looking for all sexual pleasures. Dominance and bondage o.k. Send most erotic photo and address. Let’s warm up with words, then physical passion. E. Jones, P.O. Box 5307, Cortland, NY 1 3045. (30)

Gardner, I’m sorry that you think I only want your body. I want your mind too. I just didn’t think you had enough of that left to spare. Box 588 (32)

Meet interesting men and women in your area, for list of names and addresses, send location request and $10.00 postal money order to: Charles Street 854769 P.O. Box 30, Pendleton, Indiana 46064. No cash or checks. (30)

Falman, thank you so very much for the wonder¬ ful times that we have had in the last 9 months that we have been together. I love you very much and always will. Your little Jake. (30)

letters of support I can’t hardly wait until we can finally be together as one. I love you very much. You’re always in my thoughts and prayers. Write soon! T.A. in Colorado. (30)

GWM passive, devoted, blue eyes, slim stature and very pretty. Seeking serious and masculine man to dedicate myself to and live for. While I’m temporarily incarcerated. I’m looking ahead to a life of serious romance, love and good times. I’m well educated, love poetry, (reading and writing) erotic art and sexual creativity. “Imagine passion as sly as a lover's hand" GCN Box ZX12. (30)

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I’m a man. I’m a one night stand I’m a slut. GCN Box 358. (32)

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MALE SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE

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GAY, LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL YOUTH

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Substance Abuse Counselor

Program assistant to provide drug and alcohol intervention services, community outreach, education and training. Two years minimum experience in services delivery. C.A.C. eligible a plus. Salary mid-20's, excellent benefits.

Development Officer

Development officer to research, plan and write grant proposals to develop foundation, corporate and government support for the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center. Development experience required. Salary commensurate with experience.

The Center is a non-profit organization serving 4000 lesbians and gay men each week. Excellent benefits.

Direct cover letter and resume to Personnel, Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, 208 West 13th Street, NYC 10011. Clearly indicate position desired.

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experience. Please submit cover letter, resume, and work and salary history by March 30, 1992 to: Executive Director Search Committee, GLRC Board of Directors, 126 E. Haley St., Suite A-17, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. An Equal Opportunity Employer. (32)

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OUTWRITE'92 IN BOSTON.

OutWrite '92 Planning Committee seeks eager beavers and diligent domo homos to serve on conference working groups. OutWrite ’92, the national lesbian and gay writers conference, will be here March 20-22, 1992 in Boston and will be co-sponsored by Oui/Look and Gay Community News. Call Sue at 695-0511.

See page 4 for exciting job opportunities at GCN.

Wanted: Organizer for group addressing funding of lesbian and gay organizations. Knowledge of gay community, foundations; self-starter, excel¬ lent writer. Consultant’s fee, 2dy/wk. Send resume by 3/16: WGFLGI, c/o Astrea, 666 Broadway, NYC 1 001 2. No calls. (30)

WEAVE, an economic self-sufficiency project for homeless women, helps women transition from welfare to the working world. Education is the bridge. We need a creative and compassionate teacher to lead our multi-level GED class. Please leeave message. (30)

BUSINESS MANAGER/SALES COORD.

wanted for established gay newspaper in CT. Will be responsible for developing business strategy for future growth. Must be creative, professional, aggressive. Service established advertisers and pursue new ones. Coordinate promotions and cover some club and arts events. Be a part of an exciting new direction for well-respected publica¬ tion. Base salary plus excellent commissions. Must be willing to relocate to CT. Contact: William Mann, Metroline, 495 Farmington Avenue, Hartford CT 06105. (30)

FUNDRAISER-LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE. Nat’l lesbian/gay rights organization seeks Development Director to plan strategy and con¬ duct all aspects of fundraising to meet $1.8 mil¬ lion operating budget. 80% from individuals through membership, direct mail, major donor program and special events; significant founda¬ tion support. Supervise 5 staff. Extensive fundraising exp. and success in related position rqd. Salary $45-55K; excel benefits. Send resume, letter and references by March 4 to Deputy Director, LLDEF, 666 Broadway, NY NY 10012. Women and people of color encouraged to apply. (30)

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Gay and Lesbian Resource Center, a nonprofit community service organization with a $500,000 budget serving the needs of lesbians, gay men and people with HIV/AIDS, is seeking and Executive Dir. The Executive Dir. will be responsible for fiscal management and planning, personnel and staff development, fundraising campaigns, community relations, and media contacts. Opportunity exists to develop innovative new programs.

Minimum Qualifications: Two years in a management position and paid or unpaid experience with nonprofits. AIDS-related knowledge absolutely necessary. Outstanding verbal and written abilities. Negotiation skills desirable.

Salary commensurate with abilities and

For sale

“TAKE A STAND FOR SEXUAL LIBERA¬ TION! SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS I” t-shirts w/pink triangle underneath (S-XL) $12.00, 2 for $20.00. Freedom Alliance, P.O. Box 240915, Apple Valley, MN 55124. (30)

BRAINTREE-“MINT COND.” $147,000.00

Colonial-completely remodeled. 7 large rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 new baths. Gunite pool, small professionally landscaped lot Low taxes, near T and Expressway. Owner; (617) 843-3407. (32)

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WELL HUNG:

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YOUNG BLACK MASSEUR

In Beacon Hill for complete full body Swedish massage you will never forget. $60, call for appt. (617)367-9107. (34)

Apartments

2 bedrooms, 6 room apt. near T, hardwood floors, modem kitchen, high ceiling, safe neighborhood. Please leave message at 894-2406. (30)

Roommates

ARUNGTON

LF & F seek F with sense of humor for large sunny apt., w/d, porches, fireplace, pkg., near T. Quiet, no smike, min. drugs/alc. 5310+. 648- 4107,648-8245 (30)

EAST ARUNGTON— WALK TO T

2 lesbians plus cat seek lesbian 25+ to share our home. Good communication, sense of humor, open to racial diversity. No smoke, drugs, mini¬ mum alcohol. Beautiful, spacious apartment. $340+, 643-2426. (30)

WEST OF BOSTON

LF + dog seeks m/F to share home in country set¬ ting. 25 min. to Boston. Lg. yard, deck, pkg., W/D, DW, fireplace, mod. kitchen. 2 private rooms + bath. No smokers. $450+. Call (508) 655-2623. (30)

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SOMERVILLE

March la or earlier, 3rd sought by 2 plus cat, 3rd fir. Quaintly beautiful large apt., 100 years old. Wood floors, laundry, clawfoot tub, big porch. Btwn Davis and Union Squares. Quick bus to Davis, Kendall, Lee hem ere and other T. Clean but releaxed. Good neighborhood, easy parking. We smoke. $325+. Rachel, Chris or Jenny 776-2811.

3 LF, LARGE HOUSE, JP, SK 4TH Independent, cooperative household with a sense of humor, a cat, low rent, near Ts and progressive politics seek LF, 27+, non-smoker, minimal alco¬ hol, experience with group living. Available 3/1, 522-757 Z (29)

PORTER-DAVIS SO

2 LF seek F for friendly independent household, nice big apartment, W fD, driveway. No smoke, $330+, 643-5903. (27)

HARVARD SQUARE AREA

LF seeks 25+ LF, Bi or SF to share 2 bedroom apt. 5 min from Harvard Square. W/D and fire¬ place. No smoking. $337.50 utilities included. Call 864-6609

Professional gay male seeks same to share 2BR in Jamaica Plain. Fully equipped, large, all oak, eat- in kitchen, pantry, W/D, porch, yard, ceiling fans, new windows, fresh paint, re finished wood floors, one block from orange line. No pets, drugs, partiers. Available 2/1 . 731-2205. NO FEE. (27)

FEMALE HOUSEMATE

DAVIS SQ (NEAR RED UNE/TUFTS)

Three women (womanist, of varied ages and sex¬ ual orientations) seek woman for our sunny, spa¬ cious, two Door apartment. Friendly, independent, quiet, homey. Next too laundromat, stores, park. Chem-free. $300+ utilities, 2 phones, 666-2851, 628-7687. (27)

FRIENDLY HOME-SOMERVILLE

2LFs and dogs seek ILF to share house in Davis Sq. Yard, walk to T. Short- or long-term. No smoke/drugs, minimum alcohol. $350+. 776- 6612. (27)

BIG HOUSE

2 LFs seek 3rd for 3 fir rent controlled house in Cambridgeport. Parking, yard, near T. Bdrm and study for $286/mo. 661-6771 eves. (hrs)

LOVELY CONVENIENT SPUT RANCH

3LF and 2 cats (no more please) seek fourth. Suburb, 5 min. to Tufts, 10 to Davis Sq. and Cambridge, near Rt. 93. Lovely 2 1/2 bath home, huge yard, gardens, patio, all amenities, fireplace, storage, parking , separate phone line. Non smok¬ er, 30+ desired. $330+, security. Available imme¬ diately. 721-2326.

HOME NEAR WORCESTER

seeking L for 4-bedroom home in Shrewsbury. Available immediately. Parking, washer/dryer, cable. Independent household, $275/month, plus utiltities. Leave message. (508) 842-1020. (ind)

QUIET COUNTRY RURAL LIVING.

SLF craftsperson seeks roomale, to occupy fur¬ nished room, shared kitchen/bath and washer/dryer. Vegetarian preferred, no smoking, no drugs, p>ets negotiable. 55 minutes north of Boston. 15 minutes to commuter rail. (603) 432- 1081. Anytime. (28)

TEELE SQUARE, SOMERVILLE

3 lesbians seek 4th womarnst/feminist to share the fun and frustration of creating a home communi¬ ty. Feb. $275+ 628-7604 (28)

MAKING A HOME IN EAST ARLINGTON

1 friendly considerate LF seeks 1-2 LFs for real¬ ly nice, spacious 3-bedroom. Convenient to T. Off street patting. Wood floors, surmv, porches, yard, basement laundry. Own phone line(s). Petless, smokeless. $385+utiL Call 648-0970. (30)

MEDFORD

Lesbian looking for housemate for large 2-BR apartment. Near Tufts, T, laundry, dogs okay. $350 plus utiL Loren 391-1084. (32)

NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Seeking woman to share townhouse Exit 8. Sunny, large bedroom/closet, washer/dryer fire¬ place, dishwasher, some storage. Friendly inde¬ pendent environment. No smoking. S290+utili- ties. (603) 886-9445. (32)

ON STREET W/DIVERSITY

GM 40 seeking non-smoker in large sunny flat on 2nd floor. Washer/dryer $400 includes utils. 524- 0095 Near T. (32)

Wakefield 3 bed 2 bath contemporary DW, W&D,

cable, parking. Near 128 & 93. >400.00 mo. includes utilities. Dennis 246-1905. (32)

NORTH CAMBRIDGE

LF seeks F for beautiful, very sunny 2 BR. Friendly, quiet, no smoke, min. drugs/alc. Hrdwd floors, porches, deck, large yard. $375+, poss. negotiable. 661-8957 (28)

BROOKUNE VILLAGE

2 L seek L 27+ for 7 room apt ample space. light, airy, w/d wort fir, 5 min to T or stores. $333 includes heat/hw/gas, pitg. 12 steppers, recyclers welcome. No smoke or fur, call 734-3536 (28)

2ND AND 3RD FLOOR IN E. ARUNGTON

2LFs seek 3rd for spacious, sunny 3BR. Yard, porches, laundry, off-street parting, own line. No smk/pets. $400 + util. Call 6484 648-1724.

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Housing Needed

with kitchen and laundry privileges close to Wang February 17-March 2. Leave message for Josh. (201)868-3243 (29)

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GM, 26 seeking correspondence from someone who is romantic, affectionate, understanding, honest, confident, warm, sharing. Anthony Williams, #120588, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Camp-D, Gator 4-R-6, Angola, LA 70712

Dominant 23 y.o. gay American Indian “male.” Really would like to make new friends and exchange letters — sex letters too! Interests are reading, writing, computer science, kick boxing and working out. Jerry Walker, #470151, Rt4, Box 1200, Rosharon, TX 77583-8820

GWM wishes to correspond with gay man. No games and no BS. Mark A. Robinson, DOC #910512, Westville Corr. Center, PO Box 473, Westville, IN 46391-0473

Witty Cape Verdean (Portuguese & African) 25 y.o. Gemini from East Coast who unfortunately is in “tired” Calif, desires to meet an equivalent counterpart for correspondence, etc. Can write other prisoners that aren’t in CA. Gianni Gomes, 1600 California Drive, Dept: D-97767, LI- 247, Vacaville CA 95696

I am a 25 y.o. who’s been incarcerated for five years and I am soon to be free. I would like to correspond with a gay male between the age of 19-40. 1 carry myself with respect and hope others will do the same. Darnell Leoward, 90A6872, Box 149, Attica Corr. Facility, Attica, NY 14011

I’m 34, I’ll write anybody that will write me, I love reading and writing, plus I like to cook. Glenn Hudson, BC-5808, Graterford, PA 19426-0244

Black male, likes reading, cooking, biking, swimming, fem-men, queens, T.S., T.V., etc. Garrick Daniels, 90-A-9428/Drawer B/Roule 216, Stromville, NY 12582-0010, B-3-313

GBM inmate, thought of changing my name to loneliness! Please need to hear from other gays color unimportant I will write all. Angello Williams, 80-B-1329, Box 500, Elmira, NY 14902

Attention!! 19 y.o. GWM, looking for a man to love and cherish. Interests include: poetry, music, art, cars and a romantic night at home with my lover. So if you’re my lucky man, write to: Claude C. Johnson, SID #8358972, Oregon State Penitentiary, 2605 Stale St. Salem OR 97310. No prisoners.

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GBM, age 32, incarcerated and looking for gay friends with interests in sports, poetry, sexcapades, spiritualism. No inmates. Frank Elijah Smith, #04692, Florida State Prison, PO Box 747, Starke, FL 32091

6 months until I’m free. Lonely 24 y.o. redhead looking for that one man to take care of me. I’m caring & willing to learn anything. Write Pat Garrett, PO Box 8288, Boise, Idaho 83707

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I don’t have any family. I’m looking for someone that wants to meet a young guy for friendship and maybe more. I’m looking for someone open minded and honest and that can help me out from time to time. Jimmy Cole, #96613, POBox 97, McAlester, OK 74502

Lonely gay angel needs your letters. Will answer all. Angel Flores, #189284, POBox 45699, Lucasville, OH 45699-0001

I will be released from this hellhole very soon, I have been incarcerated for several years, and have lost all my family and friends over the years. I have no place to go upon my release. I am very clean and neat, willing to pay my way if someone will find it in their heart the desire to help a gay brother get on his feet. I can and will work doing most anything to make my own way. I know chances are not in my favor, but I hope and pray someone will read this and want to give me a chance. Gerald Phelps, #117296, Camp C, Jaquar 4-Left-3, LA State Prison, Angola, LA 70712

Black bisexual male, I am a lonely prisoner looking for mature and understand gay male for correspondence and possibly a relationship and race or age is not a factor. Lesley Dawson, 213-276, PO Box 45699, Lucasville, OH 45699-0001

I’m 35 very easygoing and will a good sense of humor. I am not particular who should write. Gerald Rubalcaba, Box 7500, B #85887, SHU C9. B105, Crescent City, CA 95532-7500

Interested in corresponding with someone from the Northern Calif, area. I’m 39 and a weightlifter. Mark Christiansen, 19762-008, PO Box 1000, Oxford, WI 53952

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14 • FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 7, 1992 • GAY COMMUNITY NEWS

5 March Boston ♦ Pure PolyESTHER: a biblical burlesque. The Theater Offensive. Boston Center for the Arts, 541 Tremont St. March 5-22. Showtimes: 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturdays. $1 1 .25 in advance, $14.25 door. March 5 show benefits Multicultu ral AIDS Coalition and Boston Women’s AIDS Information Project. Info: (617) 547-7728.

22 Saturday

Jamaica Plain ♦ Nurudaflna Pill Abena, African American drummer and teacher. In concert. Crones’ Harvest, 761 Centre Street. 8pm. For more Info 983- 9530 tty Add.

Cambridge ♦ Wild Women go contra dancing. Sponsored by DOB. Location TBA. For more Info 262-3724.

Rhode Island ♦ Hiking, running, skating, skiing In Lincoln Woods, followed by potluck dinner In Providence. Sponsored by Chlltem Mountain Club. For more Info (401) 461-0026, (401) 941-4263 . Boston ♦ First Annual Volunteers’ Party at Boston Center for Lesbians and Gay Men, 338 Newbury Street. 8pm; hors d'oeuvres at 7pm. Semi-form al; by Invitation only. For more Info 247-2927.

Boston ♦ Rims by Donna Read: Goddess Remem¬ bered and The Burning Times. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., noon. $4.50 members, students, seniors; $5.00 others. For series tickets call 267-9300 x306; for group rates call 267-9300 x454 (Jim).

23 Sunday

Cambridge ♦ DOB parents' and co-parents' rap holds open discussion. Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass. Ave., 1-3pm. For more Info 661-3633.

Boston ♦ Samuel W. Allen gives 10th Annual W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Address. Music by Ruth HamHton. 11am at The Community Church of Bos¬ ton, 565 Boylston Street. For more Info 266-6710.

24 Monday

Boston ♦ Employment training for Home Health Aides. Certlficate/job referrals provided upon com¬ pletion of 75-hour program. Feb. 24-March 3, 9am-3:30pm at Red Cross headquarters, 99 Brookline Ave. For tuition and other info call 262- 1234 x221 .

Boston ♦ Brainstorming session to develop support services tor LnsbtarVGay parents of adolescent chil¬ dren and their children. Open to parents, family members, counselors. 7:15pm, Fenway Community Health Center, 7 Haviland Street. For more Info 267- 0900 x282 (Jenifer). .

Boston ♦ Forum on women and AIDS. 7pm. Boston NOW, 971 Commonwealth Ave. For more Info 782- 1056.

Boston ♦ Healing service for those affected by AIDS. 7:30pm at The PauHst Center. 5 Park Street. ASL interpreted. Co-sponsored by the Ecumenical Task Force on AIDS, Inc. For more Info 742-4660.

Boston ♦ Workshop for gay/bisexual men consid¬ ering taking the HIV antibody test. 7-9pm at Fenway Community Health Center, 7 Haviland Street. Co-sponsored by AIDS ACTION Committee. Accessible. Admission free. No registration re¬ quired. For more Info 267-0900 x287.

Boston ♦ Buddy Program orientation for new volun¬ teers. 7:30pm at AIDS ACTION Committee, 131 Clarendon St. Minimum age tor applicants Is 24. For more Info 437-6200 x450.

Boston ♦ Panel discussion: ‘Fight Discrimination: Know How to Use the Law — Effectively." 7pm at Boston Center for Lesbians and Gay Men, 338 Newbury St., 2nd floor, room 204. Sponsored by Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. Acces¬ sible. Admission free. For more Info 426-1350.

26 Wednesday

Springfield ♦ Seminar, ‘AIDS Coalition: What We Need to Know and Do.‘ Topic: Political Agendas. Springfield College, Locklln Hall, Rm 233. 7-9pm. For more Info (413) 788-3221 .

Boston ♦ Supper Forum: "Iraqis Ask: Why Did You Do This To Us?" with John Schuchardt of Veterans' Peace Delegation. Middle East supper at 6:30pm ($3.00); program at 7:45 (free). The Community Church of Boston. 565 Boylston Street. For more InfcV reservations cal 266-6710 before Feb. 25.

Los Angeles, CA ♦ Panel discussion: Coming Out at Work. 7pm at offices of Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Meldelsohn, 2121 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 2700. Sponsored by Lawyers for Human Rights. $10.00 members: $12.00 non-members. For more Informatlon/reservations cal (805) 495-3851 .

Springfield ♦ Seminar to examine state, local and campus agendas for the lesbian/ gay community. 7-epm, Room 233, Locklln Hall, Springfield College. Admission free. Accessible. For more Info 788- 3221.

Boston ♦ Myanna, funk/pop/)azz sax, w/band. 8— 11pm at Scullers, Guest Quarters Suites Hotel, Storrow Drive, Mass Pke exit. For more Info 783- 0811.

Bridgewater ♦ Dave Pallone on homophobia In sports. Sponsored by Bridgewater State College's Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance. 7pm, balroom, top floor of Adrian Rondileau Campus Center. Ad¬ mission tree. For more Info (508) 697-1200 x2032 weekdays 10-4.

27 Thursday

Boston ♦ Comedian Betsy Saklnd's New Work-In Progress. The ICA, 955 Boylston St., $10, $8. For more info 266-5152.

Jamaica Plain ♦ Open mike w/Sharon Sue Klein- man. Comedy, music, poetry. Crones' Harvest, 761 Centre Street, 7:30pm. Call to sign up: 983-9530 tty/ldd.

Cambridge ♦ ‘Constitutional and Political Impli¬ cations of Recent Scientific Studies of Homosex¬ uality" with Prof. Richard Plllard and panel. 6-9pm, Austin Han North. Harvard Law School. Admission free. For more Info 492-5110.

Cambridge ♦ 'Communism and the Fight for Black Liberation.' Sponsored by Spartaclst League. 8pm, Emerson Hall Room 305, Harvard. Admission free. For more Info 492-3928.

Boston ♦ ‘HIV-posltlve Women and the Manage¬ ment of PID.‘ Cambridge Hospital, Macht Building, Floor 2, 5:30-7pm. Co-sponsored by the Boston AIDS Consortium. Admission free. For more info 432-0885.

Cambridge ♦ Prof. Rev. Peter J. Gomes speaks on Christianity & Sexuality. 7pm, Room 6-120, 77 Mass. Ave. Sponsored by GAMIT (Gays at MIT). For more Info 225-7127 (Johanna).

Cambridge ♦ ‘What's the Queer Angle on the Dem¬ ocratic Candidates?* following the General Meeting of the Cambridge Lavender Alliance, 7 -9 pm (come for all or part). Media Cafeteria, Cambridge Rlndge & Latin School, 459 Broadway. For more Info 876- 3874 or 868-1693.

28 Friday

Philadelphia, PA ♦ Workshop on ‘Dismantling Racism.* Trainers: George Lakey and Barbara Smith. For more Info (215) 729-7458.

Cambridge ♦ DOB 35+/- rap holds open discus¬ sion. Old Cambridge Baptist Chursh, 1151 Mass. Ave., 8pm. For more Info 661-3633.

Waltham ♦ Spaghetti dinner to benefit the Support Comlttee for Battered Women. First Parish (Uni¬ tarian), 50 Church St, 5:30-7:30pm. $5/adults, $4/senlors, $3/children, $15 per family w/3 or more children. For more Info 891-0724.

29 Saturday

Boston ♦ Films by Donna Read: Goddess Remem¬ bered and The Burning Times. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., noon. $4.50 members, students, seniors; $5.00 others. For series tickets call 267-9300 x306; for group rates call 267-9300 x454 (Jim).

Jamaica Plain ♦ Goddess Gospel In concert. Multi¬ cultural a capella group. Crones' Harvest, 761 Centre Street, 8pm. For more Info 983-9530 tty/tdd.

Boston ♦ Third Annual Community Awards of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay CMI Rights. 7-9:30 at Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave. $15/advance, $10/students, $20/door. For more Info 327-7771. White River Junction, VT ♦ Mardl Gras '92! 7:30pm-1am, formal dining room and Vermont Room at the Hotel Coolidge, Main Street. $1 0/door. For more info write S.A.M., PO Box 479, Norwich, Vermont 05055.

Boston ♦ ‘Black Rlmmakers:' open call screening at The Boston Film and Video Foundation, 1126 Boylston St. Sponsored by Blackburst Multimedia. $5, Includes reception. For more info/showtimes, call Glgi Plcclllo or Suzanne Taylor, 859-1822.

March 1 Sunday

Boston ♦ Songs of Conscience by Leonard Lehr- man, piano, and Helene Williams, soprano. 11am at The Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street. For more info 266-6710.

2 Monday

Cambridge ♦ DOB business meeting has moved to the first Monday of each month. Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 mass. Ave., 8pm. For more Info 661-3633.

6 Friday

Boston ♦ ‘Beyond AIDS: A Healing Seminar.' 7:30-9:30pm, The Boston Living Center, 140 Clar¬ endon St. (7th R., YWCA Bldg.). Sponsored by the Mobile AIDS Resource Team, Fenway Community Health Center, The Boston Living Center and AIDS ACTION Committee. Small donation requested. Workshop follows on Sat. (see listing). For more Info 262-5114.

8 Sunday

Cambridge ♦ Benefit for GCN In honor of International Women's Day with the all women's percussion group, Batacuda Belles; the Red Hot Vulvas; the all women rock band from Maine, the Brood; readings by Less Lessard and Tina Portillo and films by Julie Zammarchi. The Middle East Cafe, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA. Tickets $6. Doors open 9 p.m. For more info: 354-8238.

Saturdays

Boston ♦ 40+ Lesbians. Social group sponsoring potlucks, billiards, plays, brunches, new members welcome. For more Info 891-3711, 599-4472.

Cambridge ♦ Swingtime. Monthly lesbian, gay, bl swing dance with authentic big band sound. Rrst Sat. of month. Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mss. Ave. 8:15-9pm. $6 Includes refreshments. For more Info 629-2219.

Boston ♦ BLOW (Boston's Leathermen On Wheels). New social club for gay motorcyclists now forming. For more info and location 783-9296. Boston ♦ Frontrunners. Meet at Metropolitan Health Club for 2 to 5-ml. run along Charles. Lockers and showers $1.00. 10am. Also: Tues. 11:45pm. at MHC; Wed. 6:45 pm. at Hatch Shell; Sun. 3:00pm. at Jamaica Pond Boathouse. Info: Sara 524-4025.

Boston ♦ Two-Steppin' for AIDS* Texas Two-step¬ ping and line dancing for the HIV positive communi¬ ty and their friends. At the Boston Living Center, YWCA, 140 Clarendon St., 7th fl. Third Saturdays, 7:00-12:00pm. Donations go to direct services for people with AIDS. Info: 236-1012.

Cambridge ♦ Single Mothers' Support Group. Free drop-in group with child care, alternate Saturdays. Women's Center. 46 Pleasant St. 11am-12:30 pm. 354-8807.

Boston ♦ Pink Flamingos. TV/TS of New England. 4 to 6 pm. 338 Newbury St., 2nd fir. 247-2927.

Boston TV ♦ PrldeTIme — Boston G/L TV, with Cynthia Pape. 7:30 p.m. Boston Neighborhood Network, channels A3 and A8. Also on Cambridge Cable Channel 19, 7 pm. Tuesdays, and on other systems; check listings.

Jamaica Plain ♦ Women's Coffeehouse. Musical entertainment, usually. 8 pm. Crone's Harvest, 761 Centre St. $5 suggested donation. 983-9530. Cambridge ♦ A multicultural story hour for children aged 3-8. Sponsored by FCHC and Lesbian Mothers Group. Third Sat. of every month. Info: 267-0900 ext 292.

Sundays

Woburn ♦ Chlltem Tennis Assoc. Meets each Sun. for singles and doubles. For more Info (508) 670- 0988.

Boston ♦ Boston Alliance of G/L Youth (BAGLY) Drop-In Center. St. John the Evangelist Church, 35 Bowdoin. (800) 42BAGLY.

Boston ♦ Work Issues Support Group. 2 to 4 pm G/L Comm. Ctr., 338 Newbury St.

Boston ♦ Boston Strikers Soccer Club. Weekly novice and club scrimmages. All levels. 3 pm. Info: Erik 423-0929 or Jeff 876-7612.

Cambridge ♦ Lesbian Sports. Magazine Field, Memorial Dr. Spons. by DOB. Softball 4 to 6 pm; volleyball 6 pm 1H dark. $1 . Info: Steph 625-9551 .

Boston ♦ Dignity Mass. Liturgy followed by a social hour. St. John the Evangelist Church, 35 Bowdoin St. 5:30 p.m. 536-6518.

Boston ♦ Western Orthodox Church Mass. Arlington St. Church, 351 Boylston St. 227-5794.

Provlncetown ♦ Christian Healing Service. 5:30 pm. 96 Bradford St. (P'Town AIDS Support Grp.) Pot luck dinner to follow. (508) 487-3866.

Boston ♦ Metropolitan Community Church Worship/Fellowship. 131 Cambridge St. (near Govt Ctr.). 7 pm. Info: Rev. Tanls 437-0420.

Boston ♦ Narcotics Anonymous. L/GM. The Center, 338 Newbury St. 8 pm. 247-2927.

Boston ♦ The Gay Dating Show, WUNR 1600AM. 10:30pm-2:30 am.

Boston ♦ Different Strokes Swim Team. Coached work-outs for swimmers of all abilities. 10:15. Info: 767-0449 or 282-3110.

Mondays

Manchester, NH ♦ ACT UP/NH. Meets Mondays. Manchester Public Library, 405 Pine ST. 7pm. For more info (603) 647-4224.

Boston ♦ New Support Group for Recovering Women with HIV/AIDS. Sponsored by Women, Inc. Call Magda or Christine for a screening interview 442-6166.

Boston 4 Queer Nation meets 1st and 3rd Mondays al new location: Local 26, 58 Berkeley, 3rd Floor. 7:00 pm.

Worcester ♦ AIDS Project Worcester. A support group for family, friends, concerned others dealing with HIV. 305 Shrewsbury St. 7-8:30 pm. (508)755- 3773.

Cambridge ♦ Lesbian Rap Group. The Women's Center. 46 Pleasant St. 8-10 pm. 354-8807.

Tuesdays

Boston ♦ "The Women Poet." Local women poets read their work in a social setting every Tuesday. 7:30pm. Donation requested. The Center, 338 Newbury St. For more info 247-2927, 247-0579.

Boston ♦ TefHlat Refuat Hanefesh. ‘Service of the Healing of the Soul,* for Jewish Patients, their fami¬ lies and healthcare providers. Rrst Tues. of month. 6pm. For more Info 566-3960.

Boston ♦ Gay Fathers of Greater Boston. Meetings held 1st and 3rd Tues. of month. Undemann Center, 25 Stanfford St. $2 donation. 8-10pm. For Info 742- 7897.

Boston ♦ Boston Coaltlon for Black Lesbians and Gays. 2nd Tues. of month. Harriet Tubman House, 566 Columbus Ave. For more info 424-6989.

Jamaica Plain ♦ Batacuda Betas rehearsal. Open to women of color. Muklculural Arts Center, Centre

St. 7-9pm. For more Info 864-5067.

Providence, Rl ♦ ACT UP/Rhode Island. Call for meeting place (401) 461-4191.

Gloucester ♦ Healing Circle / Positively Clean and Sober. Healing circle 6:30 to 8 p.m., open to anyone facing chronic or Hfe-threatening Illness. Pos. CAS 8 to 9 p.m., for people tvlng with HIV and dealing with subst. abuse Issues. N. Shore AIDS Project, 19 Pleasant St. (508) 283-0101.

Boston ♦ ACT UP/Boston. The Living Center, YWCA, 140 Clarendon St. 7 p.m. 49-ACTUP.

Cambridge ♦ Bisexual Women’s Rap. The Women's Center. 46 Pleasant St. 7-8:30. 354-8807.

Cambridge e Eating Awareness and Body Image Group. The Women’s Center. 46 Pleasant St. 7- 9pm. 354-8807.

Medford Radio ♦ Dyke on the Mke with the Noisy Nelly Show — queer radio. WMFO 91.5FM.10am- 12pm. Tufts U. radio. For Info 381 -3800.

Medford* "We the People*— with feminist Sheila Parks. WMFO 91.5FM. 7-9a.m. Tufts U. radio.

Worcester ♦ Support Group for HIV+ G/B Men and Their Significant Others. Closed meeting. AIDS Project Worcester. 305 Shrewsbury St. 7-8:30 p.m. (508) 755-3773.

Boston ♦ L/G Freedom Tral Band Rehearsals. No audition necessary. Mass Colege of Art, Longwood and Brookline Ave. 7:15 p.m. 266-0628.

Boston ♦ The Buddy Program orientation. Sponsored by AAC. 4th Tues. of month. AAC offices, 131 Clarendon St. 7:30pm. For more into 437-6200 X450.

Amherst ♦ P-FLAG, Pioneer Valley Monthly meet¬ ings held 2nd Tues. of month. Grace Episcopal Church, Parish Hall. 6:30 pm. For Info (413) 532- 4883.

Wednesdays

Boston ♦ Women In the Building Trades will be offering tree introductory workshops. 6:00-8.00pm from 10/30-12/4. At 555 Amory St. Call 524-3010 to pre-register or for Info.

Cambridge ♦ Job search support group. Cambridge Women's Center. 6:30-8:30 pm. Info: 354-8807.

Boston ♦ Sales Networks Program for G/L Business Owners and Supporters of the Community. 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. The Center. 338 Newbury St.. 2nd fir. Registration required: Marc Spencer 262-2400.

Hyde Park ♦ Women's Pick-Up Hockey. MDC Hyde Park Rink (near Dedham). 8 to 9 a.m. Info: Janice 326-1600 X350.

Boston ♦ Boston Alliance of G/L Youth (BAGLY). Open to youth age 22 and under. 35 Bowdoin St. New persons' meeting 6 pm.; women and men meet separately 6:45 to 7:30; general meeting 7:30 pm. (800) 42-BAGLY.

Cambridge ♦ Lesbian Al-Anon. Wheelchair accessi¬ ble. Women’s Center, 46 Pleasant St. 6:30 to 8 p.m. 354-8807.

Worcester ♦ Supporters of Worcester Area G/L Youth (SWAGLY). Social support grp. for youths 22 and under. 7 to 9 p.m. United Congregational Church. 6 Institute Road. 7 to 9 p.m. (508) 755- 0005.

Boston ♦ "Say it Sister* — feminist, gay-positive radio. WMBR 88.1 FM. 7pm.

Bridgewater ♦ S. Shore G/L Alliance. 7:30 to 9 p.m. Bridgewater Ctr. Primarily a social group of age 25+. but all welcome. Info: Glen 293-5183 or Dave 294- 0367.

Worcester ♦ Support Group for HIV+ who are In Substance Abuse Recovery. Closed meeting. AIDS Project Worcester. 305 Shrewsbury St. 7:30 to 9 p.m. (508) 755-3773.

Amherst ♦ Queer Nation meets 6:00-7:00pm at Bangs Community Center, 70 Boltwood Wak. Info: P.O. Box 202, Hadley, MA 01035 or (413) 584- 4213.

Thursdays

Worcester ♦ "Face the Music." A radio show by and for lesbians. WCUW 91 .3 FM. 8-9pm. Request line, (508) 753-2284

Boston ♦ The Boston Monthly HIV Medical Update. 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:30pm. John Hancock Conference Center, 40 Trinity Place (near Copley Green and Back Bay/South End Orange T stations). Info: 262-3456.

Somerville ♦ The Thursday Night Dinner Program offers meals to PWA’s HIV+ and friends at the Methodist Church. One block from Davis Square Red Line Station. Info: 666-4130.

Portsmouth, NH ♦ Out and About. A lesbian social and support group. Info: Keryn (603) 749-5852.

Provlncetown ♦ Positive PWA Coalition Weekly Rap Session. 7:30. 155 Bradford St. Peer led. (508) 487-3998.

Boston ♦ Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights general meeting. Third Thurs. of every month. 6:30- 8 pm. The Center, Room 206, 338 Newbury St. For Info 266-2956.

Boston ♦ Lesbian and Gay Caucus of the National Writer's Unlon.The Center. 6-8pm. 338 Newbury St. For Info 442-4693, 344-8096.

Fridays

Watertown ♦ GLOW: G/L of Watertown. 395-4664. Boston ♦ GCN Friday Night Stuffing Party. Come stuff the paper, eat pizza, and make new friends. GCN. 62 Berkeley St. 5 p.m. 426-4469.

Provlncetown ♦ Safe Sex Brigade and Antl-L/G/B

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PROGRESS ON LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES, LOOK INTO A UNION HALL

Rank and file queer union members are making their voices heard. With the power of their union behind them, they are able to make immediate, substantive changes in the rules that govern the workplace.

The progressive reforms they implement benefit our whole community. Labor is in the forefront of:

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▼ Promoting diversity in the workplace

r Providing health benefits for domestic partners t Enforcing non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation t Enforcing non-discrimination on the basis of HIV status

▼ Lobbyinng on key issues like needle exchange programs

▼ Fighting for humanistic healthcare reform r Fighting for PWA housing

While the progressive community seeks many of the sme goals that Unions are actively working for, it is unfortunate that sometimes we forget how important it is to support Union labor. As non-profits, Unions, AIDS organizations, gay /lesbian/queer organizations, foundations, progressive organizations, or gay and lesbian community health centers like the Fenway, the key to our existence

is Solidarity — supporting each other in our fundamental beliefs.

Local 26 - The Boston Hotel Worker’s Union

ASKS YOU TO JOIN US IN SUPPORTING TEAMSTERS LOCAL 1 22 IN THEIR CURRENT CAMPAIGN TO

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BOYCOTT MILLER

Teamsters Local 122 has successfully negotiated for their members a non¬ discrimination clause based on sexual orientation, as well as domestic partner bereavement benefits. However, these agreements mean nothing without a signed contract, which Burke, a local distributor of Miller, will not agree to. In fact, they have hired the notorious union-busting consulting firm West Coast Industrial Relations in order to stonewall Teamsters Local 122, which represents Burke workers. West Coast Industrial is a consulting firm that exists only to bust Unions. They can only be stopped by a strongly organized campaign with public cooperation. We ask you to take part in our effort to tell Burke to put their money where their mouth is! Please join Local 26 in the pledge to Boycott Miller and

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