Zgkt23, 1991 VoI. 22, NO. 34 754: Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas

THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL

.. . I I Soviet Gays sprang to action to help resist coup Printed and distributed Yeltsin's call for resistance by Lou Chibbaro Jr. The San Francisco group delivered Soviet Gay activists, realizing they two Macintosh word-processors and a had one of the few working laser printers laser printer to the organization's Mos- in on Monday, rushed to the as- cow office only two weeks ago during a sistance of loyalists to Russian Republic Gay rights conference held there and in President in opposing the Leningrad. The equipment and office is 's ill-fated coup. being shared with the Moscow Union of Leaders of Moscow's fledgling Gay Lesbians and Gay Men, headed by rights group used their word-processing pioneering Soviet Gay activist Roman and copying equipment to print Kalinin. thousands of copies of a proclamation is- According to accounts by IGLHRC sued by Yeltsin calling for resistance to officials in San Francisco, Kalinin the coup. learned Monday that the IGLHRC office Officials with the San Francisco-based had one of the few, and possibly the only, International Gay and Lesbian Human working word-processors and lase: Rights Commission (IGLHRC), which printers accessible in the city. %as an office in Moscow, said the The eight-member coup committee decision by Moscow Gays to lend their e- which temporarily took control of the quipment to Yeltsin's forces represented a Soviet central government had closed dramatic and public stand against the down all printing plants and independent . coup at a time when many exwted it to newspapers ,.and. broadcast - stations. SUC~C~. s. - ~&temnews agencies reported that state security officials loyal to the cou~sent a suige - of . power ' through ~bscow's D0 D mu st prove ban: ' ratio rial.'‘ electric "Utility Pries hat severely .- damaged . communications equipment by Nick Bartolomeo reversed Gray's dismissal of the case and Such as .computers, word-pr~ces~or~,and A federal appeals.court panel in San - ordered him to require the Army to prove fax tiuchinesq:, . . . . .

F~~~~@~, has , fiOj2-~+x~2~~~~~;~is:~~Y:;:. 3 ~;il.up0a~3~~j&kj&@n~~~; '. ,, me, .'.A*' -.:, 4 ...:. ., & IFop$y Rot ton1 Mctrol 618 4 8th Stteet NW,Sutte 24Q ( (1/2~~WMetro.2MoFahprtFbRhMetro) (202) 822-0078 I I I ! Continuedfrom page 1 pro-democracy movement. The two havc Mini" and Tom Boellstorff, a U.S. been unified. To help one is to help thc cawFW SEX THERAPY citizen from San Francisco who runs the other." using IGLHRC's Moscow office, rushed to the Monday's announcement on Soviet HYPNoSLS & television that the country's vice presi- Individuals Couples , site of the Russian Republic's parliament ! buildiilg, where Yeltsin set up head- dent, Gennady Yanayev, had taken con- ~e#yPD~~ZI ~merabeq Thomas C. Clary, Ph.D. quarters for the resistance. trol of the country from 'President M.S.W., M. Db., D. Mln. 3410 Garfield St, NW, D.C. 20007 "They saw people handing out copies was especially chill-

Callfor our Free Brochure on ' of Yelt~in'Sproclamation that were barely ing to Soviet Gays. Kalinin and his as- THE GROVE sociates knew Soviet hard-liners had 703 53-GROVE 5319 Lee Hlghway " Why Hypnosis? " legible," said Russ Gage, an official with l 7033 534-7683 Arlington, VA 22207 202-33$6354 , IGLHRC's San Francisco office. Gage, strongly opposed rights for Gay mcn and who spoke to Boellstorff and Kalinin by Lesbians. phone, said Yeltsin backers told him they In his televised speech on Monday, Eileen D. Suffian, C.P.A. ROBYN S. ZElGER Ph.D., C.P.C. could not find functioning copying equip- Yanayev declared that "immoral elementi MASTER OF SCIENCE IN TAXATION lesbian feminist counselor ment. threaten stability." Soviet Gays im-

individuals, couples & groups ' , So Boellstorff and Kalinin returned to mediately perceived the statement as a Specializ~ng~n Tax the IGLHRC office, located five subway reference to sexual minorities and as a & Business Plannl'ng CenlAed ProlessmnalCounselor kelationship issues stops from the Russian parliament build- warning of an impending crackdown. (slate 01 MD moo136) .Sexual issues Further shockwaves rippled through Computer & Bookkeep~ngServ~ces Cemlied Sex Counselor .AC()AICodependency , ,ing, with copies of the Yeltsin proclama- (Arneran Board of Sexology) Also Available Corning our : tion in hand. Kalinin retyped the text Moscow's Gay community that day; ac- using the word processor and laser cording to IGLHRC, when state health Silver Spring area .Most insurance accepted. (301) 445-7333 . printer. Kalinin and volunteers from his officials loyal to the coup visited a Mos- II ,,,,,,, ' ?<<:c.:;:.w*.; ...... ~~.?3f&%*I<~I:~wmfm$~d1...* .' .'. group then used the office copying cow AIDS clinic and demanded a list of machine to make 4,000 crisp cop& of patients. J JANES the proclamation, said Gage. "We expected," said Julie Dorf, Veterinary Kalinin and his crew rushed back to, IGLHRC's executive director the arrests MARY CAMPBELL, M.D. Clinic Obstetrics and Gynecology the parliament building and began dis- ' ofprominent activists were imminent. Dr. Didd Vanduzcyde tributing the copies, which bore the logo Meanwhile, Dorf was scheduled to Dr. Jde Gfw of Tema, the newsletter published by 7501 Little R~verTurnpike Seven abys a week, give a speech yesterday afternoon in San Annandalc. Va. 22003 by appointment only. Kalinin's Moscow group. Gage said Francisco at a rally to celebrate the defeat Kalinin also distributed copies of a spe- of the coup. IGLHRC, the Bay Area E Office: (703) 642-6610 Ans: (703) 893-4222 ,, cia1 edition of Tema, which he printed in Council for Soviet Jewry, and the Inter- . defiance of an edict by coup leaders that national hreign Policy Association had declared all independent publications il- originally.scheduled the event as a rally legal. to protest Gorbechev's ouster and the "People like Roman ~ali'ninreally takeover by hardliners. Dorf said she Directory ads feature: .started out.in the prodemocracy move- planned to urge the head of the Soviet I ment," said Boellstorff, in a statement consular office in San Francisco, who I ECONOMY EXPOSURE from'Moscow. "So they feel that Gays was expected to attend the rally, to push and Lesbians have to join forces with the for Gay rights.V DCTRA DISCOUNTS call Advertising Sales I (202) 347-2038 .