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Cover: "Floral Fantasy" Pen and ink by Jim Ottney Jesse Jackson '88 University The Mariposa collection's only rival in Organizes size and breadth is at the Kinsey Institute Defending Lesbian and Gay Rights at Indiana University. But the Cornell Gay Archives collection differs in stressing sexuality in Of all the presidential candidates from its political, historical, and social either party, Jesse Jackson is the only ITHACA, NY - Cornell University is context, rather than focusing on clinical one who has come out in defense of cataloging books, personal papers, aspects. rights for lesbians and gays. Specific- videotapes and periodicals with names Associated Press ally, he has had the following things to like "Mom, Guess What!" and "Fag say: Rag," hoping its new gay archives will "Throughout the US, lesbians and gay help bring the study of human sexuality men live with the daily fear of out of the academic closet. discrimination because of their sexual The materials, comprising one of the orientation. Due to bigotry and fear nation's most extensive collections on Forward in Unity: exacerbated by AIDS-associated hysteria, homosexuality, are nearly all gifts from Lesbian/Gay Conference gay people have been kicked out of their the Mariposa Education and Research homes, fired from their jobs, denied Foundation, founded in 1979 by University Lesbians and the University health and life insurance, and assaulted on physiologist Bruce Voeller, who felt that Gay Community of the University of Minnesota are sponsoring a grassroots the street. We must end this discrimin- universities were neglecting human gay and lesbian leadership conference at ation and violence. We must recognize sexuality. the Univ of Minn in Minneapolis. the diversity of the human family and The basic endowment for maintenance The conference, which will begin on affirm the humanity and the legal and of the archives, $824,000, came from the the evening of Friday, May 13 and civil rights of everyone. estate of David Goodstein, a Cornell continue until noon on Sunday, May 15 "In order to defend the rights of les- alumnus who became wealthy on Wall has three goals: bians and gay men, I propose to support Street and later published the national 1. to provide skills, resources, and the current Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights gay magazine, The Advocate, until his opportunities for networking Bill in the US Congress. I support ... a death in 1985. 2. to experience the empowerment of Presidential Order banning anti-gay In the collection is material from Anita the wealth of cultural resources available discrimination in the federal government Bryant's battle with gay activists over a in the lesbian and gay community 3. to build on the momentum generated and the military. I oppose immigration gay-rights amendment in Florida. "The by the March on Washington. policies which discriminate " against militant homosexuals are at it again!" her Registration for the conference is $100 lesbians and gay men. mailed circular reads. and participants are responsible for their "The right to privacy must be The fifty or so periodicals in the own housing, though assistance may be guaranteed. No government - be it a collection include both well-established available. For information, contact local, state or federal, has the right to ones such as The Advocate and lesser Forward in Unity, PO Box 300171, regulate the private sexual behavior of known and foreign materials from Minneapolis MN 55403. The deadline is consenting adults. The government has France, Germany, and Norway. May 1, 1988. no place in the bedrooms of its citizens - be they homosexual or heterosexual. "The humanity of lesbians and gay men must be recognized and their rights fully respected. In Minnesota, a young Feminist Books woman lies in a hospital bed forbidden Woman-made music by the courts to see her longterm [lesbian] partner. That is not right. I Non-sexist support the rights of lesbians and gay children's books men to child custody. Mothers and Feminist Bookstore fathers must not be stripped of their Posters 317 W. Johnson St. custody rights on the basis of sexual 257-7888 Greeting cards orientation. The love and quality of care Hours: provided to the child should be the basis Monday-Saturday 9:30am thru 5:30pm for such a decision, not a person's sexual Monday Thursday nights til 8pm orientation. I support lesbian and gay partners beign afforded other benefits granted to heterosexual couples, such as health care." Vote for Jesse Jackson in 1988. Alternative Family Bill In Danger of Defeat Lesbians, Gay Men Monday Night Dance Club Authors to Visit March in Dubuque Looking for New Name A Room of Ones Own MADISON - Proposed alternative family indicated he would support some kind of Leitner, of the Madison Institute for DUBUQUE - Lesbians, gay men, and STEVENS POINT - After long delib- MADISON - The month of April will be rights legislation is in jeopardy unless proposal." Social Legislation, claims that paying for eration, the Monday Night Dance Club of a busy one for "A Room of One's Own" stronger Madison community support is As originally proposed, the legislation supporters will return to the streets of health insurance for the city's alternative Dubuque, Iowa on Saturday, April 30 for Stevens Point has decided to opt for a bookstore, as four different women shown, say sponsors and lobbyists for the would provide the same family health families "would cost each resident in the the second annual lesbian/gay pride new name. Motivation for the decision authors come to visit and sign books. bill. insurance coverage to city employees who city of Madison about 30 cents a year." march, following last year's event at lies in the fact that the club now serves On April 7, Dr Linda Gordon will be Alderperson Jim McFarland (Dist 8) is are members of alternative (lesbian, gay, She feels instead that the real reason the the gay and lesbian community on Friday which marchers were harassed and pelted autographing her new book, Heroes of the chief sponsor for the ordinance which or heterosexual) families as are currently proposal is meeting with opposition is and Saturday as well as Monday. would grant alternative families some of provided for employees who live in that, "It is a morality issue. They [the with obscenities, epithets, and eggs. Their Own Lives. Friends, students and Dubuque police officers took no action to As Among Friends goes to press, the same rights and benefits afforded to traditional families. All public and City Council] would rather not take on suggestions are being solicited and the the interested public are invited to attend traditional families. He expressed his private employees in Madison would something so controversial." intervene while anti-gay counterdemon- the reception from 4:30 to 6:00pm. strators nearly turned the peaceful pride new name will be voted upon on April 5, concern over the poor reception the bill receive the same sickness and bereave- Both McFarland and Leitner think the bill Barbara Wieser and Hazel Rice will be march into a riot. the club's 5th Anniversary. has received from both the City Council ment leave benefits. may still stand a chance if sufficient Rivers Running "This year will be significantly reading excerpts from and Mayor Joseph Sensenbrenner, who The ordinance would also prohibit support is shown. They urge Madison Free: Stories of adventurous women, a has criticized the legislation, saying it discrimination against members of non- residents to contact their alderpersons and different," said Ginny Lynns, a Dubuque organizer of the march. "We're inviting MAP Moves collection of writings which Ms Wieser will be too costly. traditional families in housing, public the mayor's office. The mayor's office co-edited and to which Ms Rice contrib- "I was surprised that he took the lead in accomodation, and employment. may be reached at 266-4611; for those people from the Upper Midwest region to uted. The event is free and open to the opposition and came off so strongly," Although the proposal is being attacked who may not know who their alderperson stand with us." Lesbians and gay men MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee AIDS said McFarland," mainly because he had on the basis of financial cost, Barbara is, call the City Council, at 266-4071. from the surrounding states of Illinois, Project (MAP) relocated its office on public on April 14, from 6:30 to Missouri, Wisconsin, and Minnesota are March 7, 1988. 8: 00pm. urged to attend to rebuke local bigotry The new location is 315 West Court Cartoonist Alison Bechdel will be and prejudice and march for justice and Street, directly across from the Schlitz signing copies of her latest book, More freedom in Dubuque. Brewery complex and directly south of the Dykes to Watch Out For. Anyone AIDS Conference in Bowlers Wanted! Government Work The march is scheduled to begin from Golda Maier School. interested in meeting the quick-witted Washington Park at 1:00pm. For more Madison Rules For AIDS MAP's new mailing address is now: artist is invited to attend, April 30, from MIL-MA-IDS (Milwaukee and Madison information, contact Ginny Lynns at Milwaukee AIDS Project, 315 W Court Termed Fair (319) 583-9018, or write to NOW- 12:00 noon to 2:00pm. A two-day conference investigating the against AIDS) is a nine pin, no tap St, Milwaukee WI 53212. FLAG, PO Box 495, Dubuque IA medical, neuro-psychiatric, legal and bowling tournament used to raise funds WASHINGTON - The government has 52001. ethical issues of AIDS and AIDS-related for the AIDS organization in the city that hosts the tournament. issued guidelines for dealing with federal DISCOVER QUARTZ illnesses is scheduled fro April 21-22 at This year, the tournament is being employees infected with HIV. According the Concourse Hotel in Madison. hosted by Madison's Bette Davis Bowlers. to Dr Robert Windom of the Depart- Born to Bowl Sponsored by UW Hospital Dept of The date of the tournament is Saturday, ment Health -and Human Services, the Fundraiser in Minnesota Somebodys Job Psychiatry, The Center for Affective April 23, and the entry fee is $20.00. new regulations are in keeping with the This is a story about four people, Disorders and the AIDS Education Bowling will be held in Sun Prairie with public health services concerns regarding Project of the American Psychiatric a buffet to be held at the "New Bar" in Goodtime Bowling and Paul Bunyan Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and anti-discrimination. Nobody. There was an important job to be Association, the conference will be Madison. Invitational have combined efforts to In a memo which accompanied the done and Everybody was asked to do it. presented by nationally prominent physi- The cost of entry entitles participants sponsor "Born to Bowl," a fundraiser for Everybody thought Somebody would do to bowl in the tournament, be eligible for guidelines, Constance Horner, director of the Minnesota AIDS Project. The event cians, scientists and attorneys working the Office of Personnel Management it. Anybody could have done it, but with various aspects of AIDS. Although door prizes, and attend the buffet. Also is scheduled for May 1, 1988 at Midway Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about included in the entry fee is a direct said, "The federal government as an intended for an audience of medical Pro Bowl in St Paul. that, because it was Somebodys job. donation to the Madison AIDS Support enlightened and compassionate employer Everybody thought Anybody could do it, professionals, non-medical personnel are Bowling begins at noon and continues Network (MASN). concerned with the health and welfare of until all bowlers are finished. There will but Nobody realized that Everybody invited and encouraged to attend. The fee wouldnt do it. It ended up that Everybody If you have put off entering the its employees, has an obligation to show be an awards ceremony and light buffet at for non-professionals is $125. For more tournament, or did not know about MIL- the way in addressing the realitities of the blamed Somebody when actually Nobody the Town House Bar following the asked Anybody. information, telephone Terese Ross at MA -ID S , openings are still available. AIDS epidemic. (608) 263-6129. Send your name and address, and your tournament. Anonymous "The kind of non-sexual, person-to- This is the event's third year, and bowling average to Robert N Doornek, person contact that generally occurs 5546 Century Ave #2, Middleton WI bowling is strictly for fun and a little 53562, or call Bob at (608) 831-4038. among workers and clients or consumers friendly fundraising. A wild red pin in in the workplace does not pose a risk for the head position earns a bowler $2.00 "Our Bar" Opens in Racine For 20 years, BODOH has been the New to Green Bay! transmission of AIDS." for a strike (but if you don't make the definitive source for quartz crystals and The guidelines instruct supervisors and jewelry. This fascinating booklet dis- The area's only Lesbian/Feminist strike, consider donating a dollar to the RACINE - A new bar opened in Racine fellow workers to treat HIV-infected plays the highest quality crystal balls, Bookstore and Gift Shop Our Place, located at 1216 Wheres the Beef? fund). on April 1st. pyramids, and jewelry, complete with workers "in the same manner as Entry fee of $20.00 covers bowling It'sIt' at Douglas Ave, celebrated its debut with a extensive gem and collector price lists; employees who suffer from other serious and shoe rental, with the remainder party that featured a light show, and MIL-MA-IDS III illnesses." Fellow employees who dis- a must for anyone interested in quartz. SISTERS UNITED donated to Minnesota AIDS Project. dancing to DJ controlled sound. The bar rupt agency functions by refusing to Catalog: $1.00 Entry forms are available at Minneapolis plans on special events in the near future 620 Stuart St (just off Monroe St) work with an HIV-infected person could Moo- waukee against AIDS1 and St Paul gay and lesbian bars or by including a Madison Bar Crawl and PO Box 248, Edgerton WI 53534 Green Bay dison be subject to "appropriate corrective or writing to PO Box 8405, Minneapolis Bartender exchange. Weekdays 10-6, closed Wednesday April 23 disciplinary action" under the guidelines. Saturday 12-9, Sunday 10-6 MN 55408. For information, call Bob: (608) 831-403

2 I Among Friends Beacon Light Farm Cares for AIDS Speaking Out for the Rights of Urnings Patients ULRICHS: The Life and Works of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs by Hubert Kennedy, Alyson Publications. NELSON, WI - Beacon Light Farm is a $9.00 (paper), $18.00 (cloth) secluded and peaceful place high on top Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was the first man persons to which many of the greatest come. At this point, Ulrichs laid his of a Wisconsin bluff, offering a magni- in modem times to publicly acknowledge and noblest intellects of our and other pages on the chairman's table and left ficent view of the Mississippi River and his love for other men. He went further nations have belonged,..." the speaker's platform. Minnesota hills beyond. It is the home and pressed for legal reform that would The excitement did not die down so of Jim and Gloria Smit, who, with their decriminalize that love. His writings on quickly, however, and Ulrichs heard three children, run a small dairy operation behalf of "Urnings" (the word homo- some people asking others what it was and soon will be providing longterm care sexual was coined later, by one of his all about. He could hear that the to persons infected with HIV. contemporaries) began in the 1860's and answers mostly hit the mark - with Gloria is a graduate of Chicago City continued for twenty years. Ulrichs even some exceptions. Some thought he Colleges, a registered nurse with wide tried to establish a "Union" with goals wanted to give free rein to any kind of experience in hospital and nursing home which included bringing Urnings out of "crime of the flesh" whatever: incest, rape, adultery, etc. And two members care. Jim holds a degree in psychology isolation and uniting them in solidarity, even came up to him in the hall and from Northwestern University and has championing their human rights, and publishing writings for and by Urnings. accosted him with, "You were the worked as a counselor. Together, they Hubert Kennedy's book, Ulrichs, is the speaker just now. Just tell us please, have a deep commitment to helping first full-scale biography of this what kind of race that is, which is people who have been forced to cope courageous pioneer. exposed to such persecution?" ... with the realities of the AIDS epidemic. The following excerpt from the Ulrichs no doubt would have pre- The home presently has a four-bed biography describes Ulrichs' attempt to ferred to get away from it all at this capacity, and expansion is already being read to the 1869 Congress of German point, but he was determined not to do planned. It is anticipated that care will Jurists a proposal that would have anything that could be interpreted as be sought by individuals who vacillate decriminalized homosexual behavior: weakness or shame. Consequently, he between getting around and caring for attended the closing banquet that afternoon, and went on an outing the themselves, and being bedridden and The chairman then read Ulrichs' request to speak and called for a vote on ...a class of persons... to which following day. On both occasions requiring nursing care. The facility will "whether Herr Ulrichs should be recog- many of the greatest and noblest Ulrichs noticed that there were some be licensed for both forms of care in order nized for this purpose." Already there who avoided him. But he commented, to satisfy private and government were isolated votes of "No, no!" Still a intellects of our and other nations "In contrast, however, was my satis- insurance requirements. strong majority cried, "Yes!" Thus, the have belonged... faction in having others freely and Emotional and spiritual needs will be assembly of more than five hundred loyally join me in conversation." addressed in daily group sessions, and on German jurists, including elected At this point, there were expressions The next day he immediately began a regular one-to-one basis. Indoor and representatives and a Bavarian prince, of astonishment and scorn, and isolated writing up a brief account of the event... outdoor activities will be planned Scenes from Monday Night Dance Clubs February benefit for the Center Project. gave their full attention as Ulrichs cries of "Stop!" according to the seasons and indivdival Clockwise from upper left: Andrea; Katrina; Betsy; Cassie, Bob and DJ. mounted the steps of the speaker's "... which class of persons is exposed Hubert Kennedy's biography of needs of residents. Visitors will always platform "with breast pounding" and to an undeserved legal persecution for no Ulrichs' makes for engaging historical reading as he introduces contemporary be welcome and overnight living arrange- began to read... other reason..." "This proposal is directed toward a figures of the time and excerpts from ments will be available on a day-to-day Here there was a storm of "Stop! revision of the current penal law, in letters and other writings that offer rate. Stop!" from one side of the hall. The particular toward the final repeal of a chairman wanted to put to a vote this insights into the determined, brilliant If you or a family member, lover, or Gay & Lesbian Books special, unjust penal regulation that has man who dared to speak for the rightness loud call to stop. Ulrichs then said, close friend are in need of longterm care come down to us from earlier centuries, "Under these circumstances, I give up of his love. or anticipate such a need, you or your toward the abolishing of the persecution the floor and lay my protest on the social worker can get more information of an innocent class of persons that is table." From the other side of the hall soar t==i1C41•=4 and arrange a visit by writing or phoning inclined in this penal regulation. there were now equally loud shouts of Beacon Light Farm, RR1 Box 232, "It is at the same time a question of "No, no! Continue, continue!" 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4 /AMONG FRIENDS Hubert Kennedy. continued A Visit With Hubert Kennedy Ulrichs' father was also in the civil service of Hanover as an Was he ever convicted of homosexual acts? architect, but he died when Ulrichs was a child. Ulrichs' Ma Ralubat inheritance from him probably financed his studies. After No, but he was twice sent to prison for publicly protesting the leaving state's service in 1854, Ulrichs lived very modestly, Hubert Kennedy is an internationally recognized scholar in the history of mathematics, and has had a lngstanding interest in German invasion and annexation of Hanover by Prussia in 1866. It was supporting himself in part as a free-lance journalist for a gay history. His most recent book, Ulrichs, is about the life and writings of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, an early gay liberationist. after he was released for the second time in 1867 that he spoke national German newspaper. For a while, he was also the out for gay rights in Munich. private secretary of a diplomat to the German Confederation in Frankfurt. Hubert and I are in his sunny apartment in the Castro area of pleasure to discover that he not only talked about his kind of But didn't he publish under a pseudonym? San Francisco, seated at a small table surrounded by the circular love, but practiced it, too. So I have tried to show all sides of You mentioned that he spent the last fifteen years of his life in bay windows that are so typical of this city. I'm here to learn his personality. He used the name Numa Numantius for the series of five Italy. Did he also try to promote gay rights there? about his new biography of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs... booklets that he published between 1864 and 1865, but for the How did you learn this? Have other other seven booklets published after the Jurists' meeting in No. When he left Germany in 1880, it was because he was Hubert, when I last talked with you two Munich, he used his own name. discouraged at his lack of success in trying to get the anti- years ago in Providence, Rhode Island, biographies of Ulrichs already appeared in Germany? homosexual law of Germany changed. Italy had no such law. you had just translated the German novel, I've heard that someone else coined the word 'homosexual.' Is In Italy, he devoted himself to a new cause: the Latin language. The Hustler, by John Henry Mackay. He published a little journal written entirely by himself in No, this is the first full-scale biography that true? Has Ulrichs become a new interest of Latin. yours since moving to San Francisco? of him. But when Ulrichs began to Yes. The writer Karl Maria Kertbeny, a German-Hungarian, develop and write about his theory in the first published the word in an anonymous pamphlet in 1869, Hubert, why did Ulrichs' booklets have so little effect in No Asa. In fact, I have been interested in 1880's, he knew few other homosexuals, but he had used it at least a year earlier in his correspondence Germany? Karl Heinrich Ulrichs for some ten years. so he often used himself as an example. with Ulrichs. Ulrichs, however, had already coined another The writings of Ulrichs on the subject of word, 'Urning,' and that's the word he always used. Why is there homophobia today, Asa? But in fact, Magnus homosexuality were reprinted in 1975 in What sort of a theory did he develop? Hirschfeld did take over Ulrichs' theory and develop it into his one large volume of the Arno Press Did other gay people also correspond with Ulrichs? own theory of sexual intermediates. Hirschfeld also admired, as Series on Homosexuality, and Jonathan I do, the courage of Ulrichs, who so bravely, and nearly single- Ulrichs is the inventor of the so-called Katz, editor of that series, urged me to Other gay people? There is no evidence that Kertbeny was handedly, fought against the prejudice of his time. My friend, read it and write an article about him. "third sex" theory of homosexuality: that homosexual; at any rate, he denied it in that pamphlet. But David Thorstad, has called Ulrichs the "grandfather of gay That article appeared in two parts in The the male homosexual has a woman's soul yes, many gay men wrote to Ulrichs after reading his booklets. liberation," and indeed he was. Body Politic (Toronto) in the spring of confined in a man's body, and that the 1978. Katz knew of my interest in opposite is true for a lesbian. I know that the first gay rights organization was founded in German gay history. Berlin in 1897 by Magnus Hirschfeld. Why didn't Ulrichs do Hubert Kennedy, Author of ULRICHS Do you accept this theory? this? So Ulrichs was German. When did he live? No, I don't. But it is very important historically and influences He tried. At least he drafted "By-laws for the Liming Union" in He was born in 1825 in the northwestern part of Germany, but our thinking about gay people to this day. In the context of the 1865; but there is no evidence that such an organization was he spent the last fifteen years of his life in Italy, where he died time - and remember, this was well over a century ago - the ever founded. Nor was he able to continue the gay journal he in 1895. theory was certainly progressive. It allowed Ulrichs to started in 1870: it had only one issue. By the way, a copy of overcome the idea that his love was a sickness and a crime, and the "By-laws" in Ulrichs' handwriting was found in the You also speak Italian. Did this help you in your research? to come out to his family. On August 29, 1867, he even Hungarian National Library by my friend Manfred Herzer while spoke out for the rights of gay people at a Congress of German he was researching the writings of Kertbeny. Herzer also Of course. And in 1983 I also visited his grave in L'Aquila. Jurists in Munich. That event may be considered the real furnished me copies of many other useful documents. And I The tombstone is broken into three pieces and the inscription is beginning of the modern gay rights movement. want to mention also the help of my dear friend Menso A Full Line Grocery! almost illegible now. But some Italian gay historians want to Folkerts, who took me to Aurich in 1977 and deciphered the Open 9-9 Every Day restore it. Was Ulrichs a lawyer, then? difficult handwriting in the Church Registry. Folkerts is now 1202 Williamson St 251-6776 translating the biography into German. Did you also visit the place where he was born? Yes, or rather, he had been an attorney in the civil service of the Kingdom of Hanover; in his last position, he was an assistant Ulrichs' publications must have been expensive. Did he make a That was in Aurich in East Friesland, or rather on the outskirts judge in an appelate court. But, although he retained his title profit on them? of that town. I was there in 1977. The house where he was and membership in the Congress of German Jurists, he resigned born is no longer there and his father's small estate has been his civil service position in 1854 after hardly more than six By no means. In the first place, he gave away many copies. UINTESSENCE rebuilt as a residential area. But the Church Registry was very years of service. For example, he sent a copy of the one with the speech he tried Homeopathic and Herbal Specialties helpful and I was able to inspect the record of his family's to make at the meeting in Munich - he was shouted down then baptisms and deaths. • What was the reason for that? and not allowed to finish - to all 500 members of the Congress HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES • CELL SALTS • BULK HERBS of German Jurists. Besides, the booklets did not sell well. • DR. CHRISTOPHER HERBAL FORMULAS • VITAMINS But in the biography, you concentrate on his theory of That is a mysterious point that I hope can eventually be cleared Only the one that analyzed the sadistic murder of a boy in SUPPLEMENTS • BACH FLOWER REMEDIES • BOOKS homosexuality, don't you? up. There are indications of an attempt to blackmail him Berlin in 1869 sold out and had a second edition. HOURS: Mon. 10-7, Tues. 10.6, Wed. 10-5, Fri. 10-6, Sat. 10-5 because of homosexual activity. He must have resisted this, CLOSED: Thursday Sunday and he may have left the civil service while he could do so with I have tried to give a full explanation of it, showing how he But if Ulrichs gave up his position in Hanover in 1854, how 334 W. Lakeside Street, Madison, WI 53715 6081251-6915 a clear record. I give all my evidence for this in the biography. developed it and what the influences were. Ulrichs was a strong did he support himself? Did his family have money? and colorful personality, however, and it has been a real Continued

6 /AMONG FRIENDS 7 Ron Bodoh and Larry Henke's Relationship Was Founded on Stone Ron was working elsewhere only part- want to continue expanding their line of time,, but it wasn't quite stable enough to products, but hope to be able to keep be a fulltime proposition. It was at a business growth from escalating quite as difficult point of being more than one rapidly as it has been. BODOH QUARTZ person could handle, but Ron hadn't yet "We want to be able to control and found anyone to take on as a partner. It manage its growth. Too many small business fail or are sold out because they Twenty years later, Ron can reflect on was Larry's infusion of skills that helped field did not allow enough room for his become more than the owners can the high and low points of his teenage to create a new, upscale "look" for the creative talents, and switched to theater handle," says Ron. hobby, now a profitable mail-order, design and set construction. business from the ground up - expansion into jewelry items as well as improved Museum shops are probably the next wholesale, and commission retail Larry's skills and talents gained rapid outlet BODOH will try to pursue for business. He began selling some of his recognition. In 1980, he entered an marketing brochures and advertising. The business grew, their relationship marketing quartz crystals and gem pieces through stores in his home town apprenticeship with the Opera Company products. Ron and Larry are also excited grew, and the business grew even more. of Menomonie in 1969. It was also then of Boston. He went on to become a about a potential deal with a department that he began contacting collectors and technical director- for the Indianapolis Since 1983, BODOH Quartz sales have doubled or tripled yearly! The business store chain. gem specialists, taking orders over the Opera Company and the Houston Grand The powers attributed to quartz and phone. The business went into a lull Opera. When the Reagan administration now employs six other people, fulltime Carved crystal balls, raw quartz crystals BODOH's new headquarters, and parttime to handle production, and jewelry are among BODOH's items related crystals and gems may be the stuff 488 Albion Rd in Albion, Wisconsin during the 1970's, as Ron pursued' cut the National Endowment for the Arts of legend, myth, and magic, but for Ron degrees in accounting and art. His in 1981, major theater companies were packaging, shipping, and sales. In 1984, Ron and Larry began looking' and never questioned their relationship. Bodoh and Larry Henke, their simple Tucked away in the tiny rural town of watercolor paintings and a variety of odd forced to cut salaries back so far that beauty and allure have brought success, for a home. They found an abandoned This has been helped in part by their Albion, Wisconsin, a Civil War period jobs helped finance him through this many positions paid too little to cover happiness, and maybe even a little magic old 19th century farmhouse in the small individual natural ease, realistic outlook schoolhouse has been brought back to period. Meanwhile, he acquired a huge living expenses. Larry chose to come at that! life as the office, workshop, and outlet quartz crystal which he planned on back to the University in Madison. town of Albion and bought it for the and common sense approach. "We don't for rare, beautiful, and fascinating pieces cutting and carving. price of a car. The place was structurally view ourselves as a 'gay business', just a of art and jewelry. The grand opening of In 1976, he transformed that crystal sound but uninhabitable, except by a business - with owners who happen to be BODOH Quartz on February 27, 1988 into the world's third largest natural family of raccoons who had taken over _gay," says Larry. "The community has was the realization of a dream after -a flawless quartz crystal ball. It weighs the ceiling area. Larry's knowledge and been very responsive in helping us; they twenty-year struggle for artist Ron about 15 pounds and is the equivalent of skill as a carpenter shine throughout the were glad to see us bring a new business Bodoh, who is now recognized and a 2016 carat gem! In 1983, he sold the home today, as the two men continue to into town." respected nationally for both his quartz ball for $40,000 to a private collector. rennovate, add on, and landscape the By 1987, BODOH Quartz had begun to expertise and his exquisitely unique, Had he used his crystals to predict the property. Scattered throughout the overrun their home - a daily arrival of carved, quartz crystal balls. future, Ron would have seen that 1983 rooms are Ron's paintings, raw crystals employees in every room, production Bodoh was joined in 1983 by his was to be a very good year personally and and carvings. Trying to repair the home lines in the kitchen, and telephones partner, Larry Henke, whose talents in professionally. With the sale of the huge and run a business placed a strain on their ringing off the wall. It was time to Ron Bodoh and Larry Henke the design and crafting of fine jewelry stone, he was able to begin really relationship, but a shared dream kept move the work space out of their private space, and once again Ron and Larry have made possible the company's investing in his business. When he met them working and living together. The Wisconsin's lesbian started to hunt for a building. Hag Rag, expansion through the addition of gem Larry Henke, things got even better. As far as they know, Ron and Larry's newspaper is a bi-monthly publication and crystal jewelry items. They have Born in Chicago, but raised in Green personal life has remained a non-issue A wonderful old schoolhouse located a few blocks from their home provided the which focuses on news, non-fiction, also begun to carry a wider range of Bay, Larry entered UW-Madison in 1976 among straight people living in Albion. political analysis and commentary of ideal location, but it was not listed for imported carved figurines and thir own with the intention of becoming an People have been friendly and helpful, interest to lesbians and feminists. We sale. On a chance, they made inquiries line of quartz crystal desk ornaments. electrical engineer. He found that the welcome submissions dealing with anyway and found that the man who Both Ron and Larry emphasize the fact racism, lesbophobia, separatism, class owned the building actually was con- that real crystal is actually a naturally Larry Henke and Patti Roth of "Mimosa" and economics, feminist analysis, the sidering selling. They made an offer that occuring mineral. "Most 'crystal' today at the Grand Opening reception worldwide lesbian conspiracy, liguistics. was accepted, and the rennovation work is made from leaded glass in imitation of Subscriptions: $9/year individual ($15 items once produced from carved quartz His sometimes elegant, sometimes began again! sustaining), $20 institutional, $1.15 Now that they've opened their new when demand became greater than the playful and sometimes dramatic sets and headquarters, what do the partners behind sample copy. Free to incarcerated dykes. supply of raw materials and the ability of lighting became familiar throughout the BODOH Quartz have in mind, for the Write PO Box 93243, Milwaukee WI craftsman to produce," they explain. city and surrounding areas. American future? They already ship to about 1,000 53203, USA. "We can appreciate the glass for its own Players Theater, UW Opera, the Hotel wholesale accounts across the country beauty - certainly some of it is wonderful Washington, and other groups with - but it is not authentic crystal." special events took advantage of his and have showrooms in Minneapolis and Ron first began trying to revive the talent. He became the Technical Director New York, in addition to their regular lost art of carving crystal balls from for the UW Opera, but once again, the private mail-order and off-the-street retail natural quartz in 1968. Through trial and bottom fell out when a grant from the buyers. STARK. error, he and his brother developed tools Oscar Mayer Foundation provided for the The "New Age" trend and interest in and techniques for shaping the rough rennovation of Old Music Hall and things "natural" have helped boost their CRS Candidate stone crystals found in nature into the Larry's position was suspended for a year. business. Products such as raw crystal Susan Harris/Realtor ©, sparkling treasures that have become A mutual acquaintance introduced Ron clusters, crystal jewelry, and "meditation" Office: 608/221-4000 Home: 608/251-4212 53716 deeply rooted in magical and mystical and Larry in 1983. Serendipity. The Larry and Ron take a break from interior or "health" stones are increasing in 4509 Cottage Grove Road Madison, WI lore. Ron Bodoh quartz business had grown enough that rennovation - "Next the outside..." popularity. Right now, Ron and Larry 81 AMONG FRIENDS Wisconsin Legislative Review • Open Housing Loophole: Though still in committee, AB 486 •Domestic Violence Bill: A bill, AB 224, requiring arrest in result in a $1,000 fine, and an abuser who commits another 1988 Gay/Lesbian Issues would allow housing providers to discriminate in the rental of cases of domestic abuse has been given final approval by the domestic abuse offense during the 24-hour period would be four or fewer units in an owner-occupied single family Assembly and is expected to be signed into law by the subject to a penalty increase of up to two additional years in jail residence. It if convicted. • Gay Bashing: The Assembly has unanimously approved is direct conflict with the state policy objective of Governor. Evidence from various studies and communities has shown increased penalties for gay bashing and other crimes motivated providing maximum housing choice to qualified individuals. The new law includes this provision: Mandatory arrest of an that arrest is the law enforcement response most likely to reduce by bigotry. This sends the message that, in Wisconsin, we In effect, this bill says it is okay to discriminate against alleged domestic abuser if police have probable cause to believe repeat offenses by domestic abusers. consider "hate crimes" to be especially offensive. people on the basis of their protected class status in certain a crime has been committed and if (a) the officer believes there ehe The state has an interest and a duty to protect minorities from circumstances. Passage would open the door for other is a possibility that violence against victim could continue; • Anti-Porn Law: The State Assembly has approved a harassment. Despite the gains in civil rights during the past exceptions, since the bill actually allows discrimination. or (b) there is evidence of any physical injury to the victim. compromise measure that would outlaw certain forms of few decades, violence still rears its ugly head in the form of race "Domestic abuse" means any of the following engaged in by "obscene material" from Wisconsin. The new law would hatred, religious intolerance and gay bashing. •Alternative Families: Community Organizers in the City of an adult person against his or her spouse, former spouse or prohibit material that depicts sexual conduct involving sado- Assembly Bill AB 599, with more than twenty legislative Madison have proposed a local ordinance to extend protected adult relative or against an adult with whom the person masochistic abuse, bestiality, necrophilia or human excretion. co-authors, establishes penalty enhancements for violence that class status to couples in an alternative family. The ordinance resides or formerly resided: 1) Intentional infliction of It would be be a Class D felony, punishable by a fine of up is motivated by prejudice against any group or individuals due would extend public employee benefits to alternative family physical pain, physical injury or illness, 2) intentional to $10,000 or five years in prison, to sell obscene material, to their minority group status. Fines would be increased up to members and redefine residential zoning districts. Religious, impairment of physical condition, 3) a physical act, or a threat possess the material with intent to sell, produce the material, or $10,000 and prison sentences may be increased up to five years. women's, labor, elderly, and low-income groups have joined in conjunction witha physical act, which may cause the other participate in a performance. with lesbian and gay supporters to back the ordinance package. person reasonably to fear imminent engagement in the conduct To be prosecuted, a county; attorney would have to +Right to Privacy: The legislature is considering a one-word State legislation is also being considered to help define the legal described above. refer the matter to the state attorney general. amendment to the constitution to give citizens a right to and economic commitment entered into by non-"married" The arrested person must be taken to jail, and as a condition (Anti-porn Bill:Wisconsin State Journal, Doug Mell) couples. privacy. The word "privacy" cannot be found in Wisconsin's of release must sign an order barring contact with the alleged For more information on these bills or other pending Constitution. victim for 24 hours following the arrest. The victim may legislation, consult the Legislative Hotline, listed in the As society and technology advance, the opportunity for and •Rawhide is Tabled: The "Rawhide Bill" has been permanently waive this order. Violation of the no-contact provision could Resources Section, under Madison. interest in a variety of personal intrusions increase. There set aside by the legislature in favor of a "creative alternative" exists today, therefore, an overriding public interest in defending that protects the integrity of the state's civil rights law. the right to be left alone. Rawhide's proposals (SB 301 and AB 527) would have created While lawmakers have established the principle of a right to exceptions to Wisconsin's Fair Employment Act by allowing privacy through various statutory and tort protections, those discrimination against three protected classes: sexual orienta- references fail to provide the necessary framework for the courts, tion, marital status and religion. the legislature or the public. Instead, the legislature approved a clarification of existing law Agiong AJR 95 would add privacy to the list of inherent rights - life, which allows legitimate religious associations to grant liberty and the pursuit of happiness - guaranteed in the opening preferential hiring treatment to members of their own creed. words of the Wisconsin Constitution. Similar protections in The change allows the hiring preference where a bona fide occupational qualification exists, and if the job description Friends other states have proven useful in defending sexual privacy and abortion rights. demonstrates that the position is clearly related to the religious Warm and teachings of the association. Magazine Gay & Lesbian News, Resources inviting, •ROTC: The UW-Madison has resolved, in part, their struggle AB 916 was drafted with advice from leaders in the lesbian with the issue of ROTC programs and their conflict with state and gay community and is based on provisions outlined in a whether alone... recent US Supreme Court decision. law and University non-discrimination policies. The Faculty PO Box 426 Senate is pursuing a change in military regulations that allow or among friends! exclusions based on sexual orientaation, and a recent federal Madison WI 53701 appeals court ruling should help accomplish that goal. „Ails Milwaukee However, the Faculty Senate stopped short of the ultimate AIDS Project s1 enforcement mechanism - removing ROTC programs from acts, of w0 SUNpRiNT campus - and instead will collect statistics and monitor the go F AIDSLine program's non-compliance with state law. 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10 I AMONG FRIENDS cooking) we may even venture forth with You shall possess the good of the earth Caitlin is also a wonderful compro- A. Rita Mae Brown The Always Gay Spirit: the idea that all imagery is an illusion." and sun - there are millions of suns left, mise between junk food addiction and an B. Mary Renault Anonymous Beast absolute reliance on her eerie psychic Myth and Meaning In his wonderful essay on "The Angels You shall no longer take things at second or C. Carson McCullers third hand... nor look through the eyes of the Lauren Wright Douglas, Naiad Press. abilities. Her family had a history of Mark Thompson, St Martin's Press. of Light," the San Francisco drag queens D. Willa Cather dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, 210pp, $8.95 (paperback). "female madness" which she eventually 1987. $18.95 who put together glittering irreverent realized was the gift of premonition. E. Gertrude Stein theatre, Thompson relates the story of You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, Reviewed by Francine D'Azzio The Always Anonymous Beast is by F. Radclyffe Hall Reviewed by Greg Zak the troupe's founder, Hibiscus, whose no means a deep intellectual effort, but G. Jane Rule intensely lived performer's life makes one You shall listen to all sides, and filter them The Always Anonymous Beast is the who cares? It provides quick, fun H. May Sarton The premise behind the fascinating want to reassess the ephemerality of such from yourself. first published work of Lauren Wright reading, and is just the book for a long I. Margueritr Yourcenar articles collected in Mark Thompson's art and put it into truer perspective as Gay Spirit: Myth and Douglas. Potentially, this book marks flight or a day at the river. J. Vita Sackville-West anthology, outrageous magic that healed, a shaman's "Where can I get the courage to act the beginning of a new series of lesbian- Meaning, is that "Gay difference arises magic that went beyond the boundaries of from my own inner core?" Judy Grahn feminist detective novels, with the debut Gay/Lesbian Trivia not from sexuality, but from a deeper, sex roles to bridge worlds. To Hibiscus, asks for all of us. How do we begin to more spiritual place," that gay is good in who died from AIDS in 1982, gayness share our gay dreams with each other, and of a thoroughly likable, quirky heroine - Lesbian Writers Playmates Caitlin Reece: freelance detective and and of itself, and need not try to fit itself was a gift. "I think that people who are the world? Editor Thompson recounts a by Jeff Kirsch in or blend with the prevailing social gay verge on being angels, or wayward gathering of radical fairies he attended in sometime "thug." My heart is a toybox, The story is set in Victoria, British Match the descriptions with the correct structures. angels," he said. the Arizona desert where he renewed his too eagerly shared. For those of us who have asked Columbia, which is located on the names. Wayward angels or isophyls? The late own spiritually rooted connection to It holds a random collection ourselves, "Why am I different?" some of Gerald Heard coined the latter nomen to others also seeking the inner meaning of southern tip of Vancouver Island, just of toy-soldier-brave hopes northwest of Seattle. Douglas introduces 1. British author of Passions Spent who the answers found by the authors through describe us: "Evolution's most successful "gay." Warm with gentle ritual and and once fire-engine-bright daydreams their own long and often painful searches type for prolonging the unspecialized loving affirmation, I read it with a heart- us to the beauty of this seaside city spent some of her own on Virginia with the paint chipped off, may be unsettling in their implications. condition of adolescent openness and tug of emotion and wistful longing, for throughout the book, sending us through Woolf. and the fragile shells of its diverse neighborhoods and giving us a In effect, we are asked to look within and creativity." He noted an inherent talent it seemed that such a coming together 2. Georgia novelist born Lula C Smith, unfulfilled wishes then redefine ourselves on our own terms we have to remain flexible and not locked was really a "coming home again." It good sense of coastal living in the who took her middle name as her first which, when held to the ear, Northwest. and not those of a homophobic society. into the ways of the past. In his essay would be sad if you finished Gay Spirit and her (gay) husband's as her last. echo the sea-sounds of my soul. Val Frazier is Caitlin Reece's latest Despite the major political inroads gay on Heard, Jim Kepner writes that "such still feeling that pain and misery are 3. Belgian-born French writer in whose I've offered my toys to many; activism has achieved since Stonewall, adaptability is best preserved by main- more real than visions of Brigadoon. client. As the star anchorwoman for a "They're ugly!" I've been told. -- local television station, Val calls on novels are many gay male characters, the consensus here is that the initial taining the habits of play, by feelings of "This is our spiritual occasion," writes she took her nom de plume from her though to me, because they're mine, vision of the gay movement, one of communal kinship - tribalism - unlike Aaron Shurin, "that we are a people who Caitlin when she finds herself being they are precious. surname Crayencour, fashioning it creative affirmation, has dimmed in the the exclusive, selfish love that closes off define our identities by the fact of love. blackmailed by someone has discovered I could never understand her relationship with Tonia Konig. into an imperfect anagram. subsequent struggle to be accepted into the nuclear family from the community." In calling ourselves gay, we say that love why others did not find them so. the mainstream of society. Don Kilhef- Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Tonia is a lesbian-feminist professor, 4. Belgian-born English-language author is central, and after the shame and guilt, And frightened and alone, ner writes that we are still operating Society, defines this sense of communal and yes, after the anger, love remains a highly acclaimed for her work on non- of over 35 books, she came out in he I'd go on to the next. violence. Naturally, she is appalled and within the hetero-male culture's myth of kinship as subject-subject consciousness word we can speak unabashed while 1964 novel, Mrs Stevens Hears the And then you stumbled into my life, the homosexual, a myth that "painfully rather than the subject-object conscious- others cringe at its too-telling power. disturbed by Caitlin's line of work and Mermaids Singing. little-boy kind, the methods resulting in her success shaped and controlled our enfoldment as a ness of the hetero-male culture around us. We are the subjects of the power of 5. Popular personality and "southern" with your own little box of toys (especially the use of her trusty .327 people during the past century as we We have a unique potential within us, love." writer of bestsellers, often lately nearly as battered as my own. Magnum). She becomes additionally internalized its negative implications of says Kilhefner, "to experience nature and Shy, we spread our toys on th ground, upset with her own helplessness and devoid of lesbians. sin and sickness." We reinforce that other beings not as 'objects' to be manip- 6. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, in and each saw in the other's joys myth by defending ourselves as "no ulated and mastered, but as 'subjects' like YOUR VOTE COUNTS desperate need for Caitlin, whom she wondrous bits and pieces considers a vicious "thug." her youth she spent years dressed as a different from anybody else except for ourselves, to be respected and cherished." man, and before her death burned all and sparkly things what we do in bed," rather than accepting And yet we are strangers to that power- The plot thickens as Caitlin stalks the that we could use to build a wall blackmailer through the streets of her love letters and forbade in her will the fact that gay consciousness is richly ful Eros that underwrites our existence Vote 88 V against the world. different from the dominant culture in when we try so hard "to minimize our Victoria and begins to unravel the many that her fiction ever be brought to the But because we are sometimes frightened, which we find ourselves groping for differences from heteros as an act of layers of danger surrounding Tonia. It screen. and because we do not always see assimilation. Even our attempts at survival" instead of "maximizing our intensifies as Caitlin finds herself lusting 7. A self-diagnosed "genius" who strove the same things in the same way, "Nothing to Hide" developing a positive gay identity, differences from straights as an act of over Tonia, thereby compromising her to maker others respect her diagnosis, we each may be tempted Kilhefner writes, "are really aimed at Schedule professionalism for a woman who love - to ourselves and them." Not We she thought male homosexuality to pick up our toys and move on -- learning more positive ways of coping Cable 4 Television, WYOU despises everything she stands for. versus They, says Kilhefner, not elitism, unnatural, but had no problem with even knowing that a love like ours with the homosexual myth structure in Wednesdays at 9:30pm As a relative newcomer to lesbian- but, "We must begin a radical new lesbianism, though she never talked will probably never happen again which we still find ourselves enmeshed." feminist detective novels, I found Caitlin process of self-discovery that starts with April 6 1987 Black and White Men in all the rest of our lives. Gay Spirit then, charts new ways to Reece a delightful character. We learn of openly of her own most famous what is inside of us; we must begin to Together National Conference So let us sit together, perceive and honor our "engagement with her serious case of burnout following a relationship of the century. discover who we really are, and we must April 13 Politics: Representative and play. the consciousness of difference," in seven-year stint as an investigator for the 8. New Jersey-born writer turned begin inventing a language capable of Robert Kastenmeier, Not just for awhile, Thompson's beautiful phrase. But what Crown Prosecutor (a Canadian equivalent Canadian citizen and author of Desert revealing these essential differences to Town meeting, 2/15/88 but until it is time does it mean? Judy Grahn reminds us of District Attorney). Her experiences of the Heart, which became the 1986 our dominant culture." for us to go. that we provide alternative thought April 20 Training the Artist for the help to combine an air of toughness and Suggested in this collection of essays film, "Desert Hearts." structures for others, mirrors for society 21st Century humor in her character which enable her is a different kind of "coming out," one 9. Recently deceased South African-born F Roger Margason to know itself. "We continually reveal April 27 Women's Show: Maxine to defuse perilous situations. I especially that I don't pretend to completely author whose historical fiction dealt to society the content and changeability Hong Kingston, "Mothers and love her John Wayne styled "bite-the- understand, but it has roots, certainly, in with gay relationships in the classical of its imagery, the variety of possi- Daughters bullet-where's-the-whisky" responses to era. Walt Whitman's visionary gaze: pain and danger while remaining acutely bilities, and finally (when we are really aware of her limitations. 10. Author of the first "modern" lesbian novel in 1928; Great Britain tried to 'd-OI ` H-6 '9-8 `3-L `v-5 'H-17 `1-£ `D-Z `1-I :s.tamsuv BIAIII ban the book on grounds of obscenity.

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