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"The Freedom to love whomever and however we want" GAY PRIDE FEST '83 BEGINS JUNE 1 Some History ofGayPride Celebrations National GayTask Force Director Visits Buffalo June 1 Buffalo's 1983 Cay Pride Fest activities will begin on June 1 with a visit by National Gay Task Force Executive Director, Virginia Apuno, and continue for another two and a half weeks. This marks the fourteenth year that Gay Pride celebrations have been held across the nation to commemorate the "Stonewall Riots" of June 28, 1969. Early that morning the New York City Police conducted what had come to be fairly routine another raid on the various gay bars. This raid turned out to be anything but routine, because the gay patrons fought back, leading to a full week of open resistance by gays in the streets of New York City. One year later the first annual "Christopher Street Liberation Day" parades were held on Sunday, June 28 from coast to coast. Cay men and lesbians marched with pride down Christopher Street in the East and along Hollywood Boulevard in the West. The celebrations had been called for by the "Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO)," which adopted a resolution in November, 1969, proposing "that a demonstration be held annually on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations and that this demonstration be called CHRISTOPHER STREET LIBERATION DAY. It further proposed that homophile organizations across the nation be urged to hold parallel demonstrations on the same day. (The tradition was ultimately changed to the last Sunday editor's note.) These events are often viewed as the beginning of the modern-day, militant and highly visable Gay Pride movement. Let us not forget, however, that even these beginnings were marked by earlier roots. The homosexual purges of the military and government, conducted during the Joseph McCarthy era of the early '50s, resulted from and led to gay visibility and resistance in the 1940s and '50s. Just as the World War II mobilization led to tremendous changes in women's roles, followed by equally heavy backlashes, the war mobilization also created a major change for gays. Many men and women gained their first awareness of homosexuality in the armed services of the early '40s and then experienced their first real oppression as they were sent to psychiatric hospitals and given less —than honorable discharges for the offense of homosexuality. Many fought back. '40s also, saw emergence of many virgina Apuizo, Executive Director of the The the tional Gay Task Force (NGTF) and a gay gay bars and night clubs, further leading to ■ leading spokesperson on the national level, will visit development of a sense of gay life as oppposed to of gay new of Buffalo on June 1 as part Gay Pride Fest '83. individual isolation. A consciousness is by larger public inevitably an The Apuixo visit being sponsored and gay life the led to coordinated by Mattachine Society the anti-gay crackdown on all levels, complete with the of Niagara Frontier as its contribution to this year's military purges, dismissals from all kinds of Gay Pride outright individuals celebrations. The highlight of her visit employment, violence against will be a urine party indentified as gay and much more. of this discussion and and cheese with Out Ms. Apuzzo at 7:30 pm, Wednesday, June 1 at the history came such groups as the Mattachine Society, Unitarian of and Church, corner Elmwood and West Ferry. first organized in 1951 in Los Angeles, Billed as "An Evening with Virginia Daughters of Biiitis, formed as a lesbian organization Apurto," the program will a by —'50s. Numerous gay rights groups feature talk Apuzzo, followed in the mid other by an informal reception. Admission be S3, with (often called homophile organizations) sprang up will a 50 cent discount for Mattachine members. during the 1950s and '60s. In faot, ERCHO, referred According to MSNF President, Rod Hensel, was a to above, sponsoring picketing demonstration Mattachine will also arrange television to and radio in front of Philadelphia's Independence Hall for Apuzzo during her visit to Buffalo. celebrate its fifth anniversary during the week "We are delighted that Ms. Apuszo accepted following the Stonewall incident. Merviewsr invitation to visit Buffalo," Hensel said. "She Scholars, students, researchers, writers, is an exciting and dynamic speaker, and we think it librarians and all kinds of people are actively vitally important digging history the gay people in Buffalo be in engaged in out this often-unknown touch with national gay organisations. and recording it for all of us. Fifteen years of gay "NGTF in particular is unique because it pride struggles and celebrations represent only the has taken on the role of coordinating information tip of the iceberg in looking at the history of Gay from gay groups across the country. Through this Pride. national information exchange, local organisations can better problems, as (Sources deal with common such for various information in this AIDS," Hensel added. article include: GAY AMERICAN HISTORY, by While Apusso is not charging a speaker's Jonathan Katz; Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1976; THE fee, Mattachine has offered to reimburse NGTF for GAY MILITANTS, by Dorm Teal, Stein and Day her expenses. Any further proceeds will benefit the Publishers, 1971; and "Coming Out Under Fire," by FIFTH FREEDOM and the Gay Hotline. Allan Berube, in MOTHER JONES, Feb/March, 1983.) "We hope other gay organisations in Buffalo will help us in making this event a success," Events and Workshops described, page 7 and 10 Hensel said. "We hope to encourage as many as T possible to attend." GPF B3 Calendar Listings, page 9 (continued on page 7) Editorial *th fEEEDC/H Volume 13 Number 5 Gay Pride Fest News 1, 7, 10 Talking Proud and Gay AIDS Information. T. ~. . .3 SELections b Book Reviews From EMMA , 5 In this issue of the FIFTH FREEDOM, we preview for you some of the special events planned Gay Legal Advisor as part of Gay Pride Fest '83. 5 For the third consecutive year, Buffalo's Out and About » 6 gay organizations have grouped together to plan and organise events for the month. This year's events Calendar. 8-9 have been scaled down a bit from some of the past "eitravaganias," a wise move in keeping with the Lives" present economic climate. "Wights of Our 11 Still, Buffalo has come a long way from the Gay Youth: Past and Present 11 days when Gay Pride was a picnic and a Softball game in one of the city's parks. There is still no Book Reviews 13 march down Allen Street. The mayor has yet to issue a Gay Pride proclamation. And the Buffalo Aural Column •I^ News is not likely to feature a page of photographs • on local Gay Pride events. Gay Directory • 15 We do take a significant step in that direction with the June 1 appearance of Virginia Apuzzo, director of the National Gay Task Force. bythe Mattachine Increasingly, she regarded THE FIFTH FREEDOM is published monthly Society of the has come to be as an York articulate and knowledgeable spokesperson for the Niagara Frontier Inc., P.O. Box 155, Ellicott Station, Buffalo, New 14205. gay rights movement on a national level. Her Published by and for the gay comrrvunity with a circulation of 2,500monthly, it one-on-one TV debates with homophobic leaders is distributed free of charge through any establishment or organization per- such as the Rev. Jerry Falwell have brought to the mitting such distribution. Subscriptions available at a yearly rate of$5annually general public a greater understanding and more to postage and All mailing in plain, envelope positive view of gay cover handling. sent a sealed concerns. The of the of business Her appearance in Buffalo is symbolic of presence name, picture or other representation a the fact that local gays are and must be a part of organization or person(s), in this newspaper is not an indication of the sexual the national gay community. While we struggle with preference of such person(s), organization or business. the local problems of raising funds, publishing a THE FIFTH FREEDOM welcomes the submission of news items, articles, newspaper, staffing a hotline and finding a suitable letters, drawings, photographs, poetry and short fiction from the gay com- community center, we are also part of a larger struggle which seeks to cope with the problems of munity. Announcementsand releases from gay organizations are placed free AIDS diseases, job and housing discrimination, and of charge. Materials submitted should be typewritten and doubled-spaced laws and legislation that rob us of our basic human We cannot return any materials submitted unless accompanied by a stamped, rights because of sexual orientation. self-addressed envelope, and all materials are subject to editorial revision. Although the Buffalo gay community tends to Deadline for the submission of all materials and advertising copy is the 20th be small, closeted and well organized, not terribly the right to reject materials we have made our mark in our contributrions to the of each month. THE FIFTH FREEDOM reserves any legal battles that overturned the state's loitering or copy judged to be in poor taste. and sodomy laws. Staff members of the FIFTH FREEDOM are unsalaried volunteers and addi- We hope 1983 will be a year in which we tional volunteers are welcome. Advertising rates are available upon request. make strides toward solving our local problems, and Address all correspondence to: FIFTH FREEDOM, P.O. Box 155, Ellicott also one in which we THE contribute our talents to the Telephone: (716) national concerns we all face as gay men and Station. Buffalo, New York 14205. 881-5335. lesbians in the United States. Permission is required fofthe reprinting of any rftateriah appearing in THE FIFTH FREEDOM. All articles Copyright 198*by FIFTH FREEDOM and Matta chine Society of the Niagara Frontier Inc. Valeric Eastman, Editor Dear Reavers: FOUNDING MEMBER The Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier, Inc. I needs your support and interest. Mattachine provides a number of services to the community that can only continue if each idividual cares enough to help. include: Services provided by M.S.N.F. Editor's Note TEE FIFTH FREEDOM: a monthly newspaper for the Buffalo gay community. PEER COUNSELING: available through the Gay Hotline, 881-5335 by trained volunteers The FIFTH FREEDOM staff has been slowly 81-MONTHLY MEETINGS: first and third Sundays each month, growing in the past three months and now includes preceeded by a pot-luck dinner at 6:30 pm several new members. There is still more work SPEAKER'S BUREAJt shares information and attitudes about than the present staff can easily handle, so new the gay community with the public members are always welcome- Staff meetings are MEMBERSHIP: includes discount to all M.S.N.F. events and held on Wednesday evenings, 7.00 at the GLCC, 97 free mailing of the FIFTH FREEDOM. Dues are only $10/year Rhode Island Street- Saturday meetings are held once or twice a month during lay-out time, and occasional week-day marathons happen just before going to press. If you're interested in joining You can support these activities by joining Mattachine, the staff, drop by a meeting or contact Val at Please do so by sending your check to: the GLCC, 886-1274 (messages can be left on the answering machine). Membership, c/o Mattachine, P.G. Box 155, Ellicott Hewitt, Station, Buffalo, N.Y., 14205 Special mention goes to Ross who typed most of this issue on a home computer, and to John Gillette and Benji, who spent many hours I would like to become a member on lay-out and graphics. Joe Schuder and Peter have been doing a lot of work to straighten out Please renew my membership the ledgers and business affairs. Claude and Joe have been a tremendous help in following up on regular advertisers. Recent staff additions in- Name clude Marti, Barbara, Marilyn, Donna and John J., and there are, of course, the regular contribut- Address _ , ors, whose by-lines appear throughout the issue. Artwork was contributed to this issue by Vince Buscaglia.
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THE FIFTH FREEDOM MAY, 1983 Statement on AIDS and A.A.P.H.R. If you know or suspect that you have any Gay Activity disease you could give to someone else, don't risk Healthful Male Sexual the health of others by having sex. Consult a personal physician who is up to date on gay issues, The American Association of Physicians for and have the courage to tell the physician you are Human Rights (A.A.P.H.R.) is a national organization gay and wish to discuss AIDS. of physicians and medical students dedicated to the Ye have taken the position that the elimination of discrimination on the basis of sexual following individuals should not donate blood at this or affectional orientation in the health professions, time: and to the delivery of supportive, unprejudiced, and 1. Any individual who has AIDS (or one of its well-informed medical care for gay and lesbian symptoms) patients. Its membership includes individuals and 2. Any individual. who has had sexual contact with groups from 36 states and Canada. someone with AIDS. The following statement, adopted by the 3. Any individual who has had sexual contact with organisation in February, 1983, reflect* their many different partners or with intravenous drug understanding of the ourrently available information users. about AIDS and addresses the issue of risk 4. Any individual who may be uncertain about his reduction applicable to person to person medical state with regard to AIDS should consult his transmission of AIDS via sexual activity. physician prior to donating blood. In order to make healthy choices about our WE MUST BE INFORMED sexual expression, ideally we should be able to draw on clear, factual information. However, with the Healthful sexual behavior is an expression incomplete information we currently have and with of one's natural sexual drive in a satisfying, the seriousness of this disease it is better to be disease—free way. We are supportive of gay sexual perhaps overly cautious in our recommendations than expression. As health educators, we believe that to find later that we have not been cautious knowledge of specific gay sexual practices and their enough. implications for health and disease are essential for As we offer these guidelines, we are a safe and satisfying sexual life. actively working to marshall the manpower and funds As gay physicians, we wish to support and necessary to solve this health crisis as soon as encourage the increasing demand for information possible. regarding various sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in order to minimise your risks. Space is limited and recommendations will change as new information becomes available. Lest we appear to some to be too judgemental, we, too, have Breakthrough on AIDS experienced these diseases and are trying to practice what we preach. We would rather be safe According to an exclusive report seen than sorry. recently on the "NBC Nightly News," a new lead has been discovered in the search for a cause/cure AIDS: A NEW SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE for AIDS. Research done at Harvard School of Public Health, under the direction of Dr. Max Essex, Your body's immune system is essential to and at the National Cancer Institute, by Dr. Robert fight off disease. People who have AIDS cannot Callo, has linked a virus called HTLV with the cause fight organisms that normally would not cause of AIDS. This virus grows in a type of white blood disease; they also cannot fight certain kinds of cell which is changed in AIDS patients. It was first cancers. As a result they develop Kaposi's discovered as a cause of a rare type of leukemia. Sarcoma, Pneumocystis Pneumonia or several other Further details will be described in an more rare diseases. upcoming issue of the JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. General symptoms of AIDS include the following: 1. Swollen glands (enlarged lymph nodes, with or without pain, usually in the neck, armpits, or groin) lasting for more than one month. 2. Pink or purple flat or raised blotches or bumps usually painless, occurring on or under the skin, inside the mouth, nose, eyelids, or rectum. Initially they may look like bruises that do not go away, and they usually are harder than the skin around them. 3. Persistent white spots or unusual blemishes in #THEj the mouth. 4. Weight loss that is unexpected and greater than approximately ten pounds in less than two months. B 5. Drenching night may occur on - u.j,,CE! sweats which and NEW] off and last at least several weeks. 6. Cough and shortness of breath (a persistent and I often dry cough that is not from smoking and has lasted too long to be from a usual respiratory infection) . (an MORGAN 7. Fever elevation in temperature above 99 degrees) which has persisted for more than ten days. 8. Diarrhea that is persistent and not explained by other £f causes. REDUCING RISKS SAUNA Two major steps you oan take to dramatically reduce your risk of AIDS are the v ¥ 655 Main St. ; following: li 1. Decrease the number of different men with whom ,\ Buffalo, New York sex, particularly with those men who ! you have and '-v (716)852-2153 also have many different sex partners. This does 1 1 not mean to reduce the frequency of sex with any one partner, but only the number of different partners. 2. Do not inject any drugs not prescribed for you; avoid sexual contact with intravenous drug users. Certain sexual practices are known to be associated with an increased risk of sexually transmitted disease. Reducing these factors may decrease your risk of AIDS: 1. One-time encounters with anonymous partners and/or group sex. 2. Oral-anal contact ("rimming"). 3. Fisting (both giving and receiving). 4. Active or passive rectal intercourse (use of condoms may be helpful). 5. Fecal contamination (Scat). SAUNA w A An additional probable risk factor may be SUNTAN ROOM A MORNING SPECIAL mucous membrane (mouth or rectum) contact with $2 OFF semen or urine. REFRESHMENTS VMk LOCKERS/ROOi.iS FANTASY ROOMS W 8 Aivl to IPM POSITIVE STEPS YOU SHOULD TAKE
Know your sex partner and ask about his health. r,a NS^ FULL LEATHER SHOP 1. PANTSTame T When in doubt, back out! LEATHER VESTS — COMING001-11NC SOONoOUN 2. Increase touching and general body contact; the SHORTS & NOVELTIES BY risk of kissing on the lips is unknown. OF NEVJ YORK MEMBERSHIP CLUB 3. Shower before sex and inspect your partner. RUBIO 4. Take good care of your body and general health ;IN STOCK IN & oljT priyileDGES (adequate rest, good nutrition, physical exercise, reduction of stress, reduotion of toxic substances alcohol, cigarrettes, marijuana, poppers, non-prescription drugs). THE FIFTH FREEDOM MAY, 1983
3 SELections by Samuel E. Loliger
My reading for recreation seems to go in streaks long stretches of almost no reading for pleasure and then a real binge. I tend to use the excuse of keeping up with professional reading and other activity as reasons for not reading just for fun. However, while standing in the check-out line at the supermarket a few weeks ago, I glanced at some of the magazines on display in the short aisle leading to the cash register. As the title of an article in one of the current magazines caught my eye, I realized there is considerable reading matter available that could satisfy some of my more prurient interests. Specifically, the words that attracted mc were on the cover of WOMAN'S DAY claiming to illustrate "The World's Best Buns." Quickly I thumbed through the magazine to see whether a single set were pictured or whether it was a whole gallery. I was prepared that I might disagree with the WD adjudicators but alas, someone had gotten to the magazine before I did and all that remained were piotures and reoipes of rather doughy looking pastries. Undaunted, over the Easter break I visited a local newstand with a sizeable collection of periodicals in search of something to read. On racks I discovered a good number of articles which showed promise by their titles alone. But I didn't have enough money to buy them, and the Caster break was too short anyway. So while I cannot recommend these articles after having perused them CITY LIGHT SPECIALS myself, I do think they offer something to the discerning reader. EQUUS (April) had an article entitled "The Touch That Teaches." Lots of "t's", but yes I have offered touches and received some that were wonderful lessons to learn! Along the same line, INFORMATION WORLD (The Newsweekly for TUE. WED. SUM. Microcomputer Users) suggested in its April 11 issue that readers "Reach Out and Tap Someone." That sounded like a good way to get someone's attention, certainly more direct the spending the better part of the night oruising someone across the room. VEGETARIAN TIMES offered "Why Every Body 2forl 2forl price Is Different." I guess I really never oared why they're all different; rather I have simply enjoyed their differences! And while on the subject of food, even the venerable SATURDAY EVENING POST THUR. BUCK NIGHT served its April readers "Food Contest Winners." For the ways some of us have used "spreadables," such an article sounds pretty kinky for a family oriented magazine, eh? Sat. I was surprised that PLAYBOY FASHION for Fri. & spring lifted up "Six Easy Exeroises to Help You Relax." There have been times when we all have been a trifle over anxious, which can lead to Early Bird Special complete non performance.— Were Hefner associates offering physical— diversions or mental ones such as trying to recall names of all Secretaries of State BOt BAR BRANDS & since 1900? Even NEEDLE CRAFTS '83 seemed—to have LOCAL something that would enhance my life. An article BEER on "51 Great All —New How To's" looked promising by offering something new for almost every week of the year! Suddenly one's repertory is expanded. The April issue of CHANGING TIMES V.I.P. Girds identified "Atlantic City (as) A Place To Play." And are Coming! why not? It would be a change of scenery (at least as far as unimportant parts are concerned) from the Watch for details on free regular haunts of New York City, San Franoisco, Fire Island, and Provzncetown. introductory wine& cheese party Editors of POPULAR BRIDGE (April) enticed mc with an article entitled "Bottoms and Tops." Was this to be aa collection of erotic pictures or a DON'T FORGET TO PICK UP YOUR FREE COPY OFI narrative describing the relative merits of being top or bottom man, or both depending upon circumstances? CITY LIGHTS 'BEAT OF THE NIGHT' MAGAZINE I ROAD AND TRACK encouraged its April readership to enjoy "Sports Coupe Fun-f or-All." If you haven't tried it FOR THE LATEST NEWS. I in either a parked or moving car, don't knock it! My imagination ran wild when I encountered the RODS AND CUSTOMS article headlined "Up Your CFM Rating." The title aside, just the name of the •§••Sili magazine itself was almost enough to get mc to buy the April issue. Two personal stories in MUSCLE MAGAZINE (remember sneaking looks in that type of publication before the "good stuff" came out?) proclaimed " Shows How You Can Get Bigger Quickly," and " ' Is Growing. His Methods Can Help You." Great! I've seen similar ads in magazines I look at from time to time, but I didn't know there were whole articles devoted, to the topic. April's edition of 211 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY headlined what I read as "Big Demand for Parking Lot Stripping." Needless to say, my double vision put two "p's" in the word "striping," but meanwhile I was amazed to realize how profitable a rather specific form of indecent(?) exposure can be. The newstand had something for everyone! An article in the spring issue of KARATE recounted "My Favorite Attack," a feature directed to both elements of the S & M crowd. Take your pick. Even the LADIES HOME JOURNAL got into the act with an article entitled "The Reagan Nobody Knows." (I simply don't want to believe it!) Add to the publications named above those which are called, GOAL, HOT RODDY, CANOE, ■ CRUISE, HANDYMAN, and MAKING IT. How can one afford not to keep up with current reading materials which are readily available? After all it was Mark Twain who said, "The (person) who does not read good books has no advantage over the (person) who oan't read them." THE FIFTH FREEDOM MAY, 1983
4 Book Reviews from EMMA The Gay Legal Adviser SOMETHING NOT YET ENDED. Dear Gay Legal Advisor: Written and illustrated by Jane Gapen. I an a lesbian who has decided to Join the Talahassee, Fl: Pagoda Publications Naiad Press, armed services to get some free training, travel, 1981. $6.50 - and meet some exciting new women. What are my legal rights if my commanding officer finds out that I'm gay? Signed, "WAC-fco for Waves." Reading this is like reading a olose friend's manuscript it's that raw sometimes (with an Dear VAC-ko: occasional "hurty-red" or "gee" escaping editing) Judging from recent precedents, you will be that generates the kind of interest normally only facing many risks if you are discovered to be a inspired by knowing and caring about the author. homosexual in the armed services. Since members Now, I don't know this writer, but I know her from of the armed services have fewer constitutional the early to mid '70s during her divorce from Otto, rights than ordinary citizens, gays are particularly her worry about custody of her children, her finding vulnerable. The FIFTH FREEDOM has received her love for a best friend and stating it with a correspondence from the State Conference Legal spurned kiss on the cheek, and finally, her Defense and Education Fund, PC Box 314, Syracusee, beginning again to believe in her love for herself New York, 13215. The Fund is involved in the and her craft. Toward the end of the book, she defense of Lt. Joann Newak. Lt. Newak, at the time comments on what she has written, "I never liked a 25 year old officer in the United States Air Force, all this well enough to fix it up til now. I thought stationed at Hancock Field, near Syracuse, New it had its beauties, but I was suspicious of them. I York, was courtmartialed for committing sodomy wasn't even sure that I meant it. I felt I had just (having sex with a woman in her off-base missed the real point of answering the question: apartment), using marijuana, and possessing Why can't I love the person I love?" oaffeine tablets, which she had believed to be a a woman transition: This is book about in amphetamine pills. She was convicted and from the institutionalized love and hate of marriage sentenced to six years hard labor. This woman, conviction to the risk of loving another from the was made despite a good record in the Air Force, patriarchial hangover of legal fear to a tentative and the fact that the charges occurred off-base discovery of the goddess within and next-door. while she was off-duty, and were not considered The form is lyric prose and down-to-earth poetry criminal oharges by civilian authorities. thrown in with feeling. Read aloud, it's a poetry Following an out-cry by the publio and the reading with more commentary than poetry. Read media against this harsh treatment for euoh a alone, one feels the surreptitious excitement of relatively minor offense. Major General Thomas B. reading a journal wherein you might recognise Brution signed a clemency order on March 23, 1983, yourself or someone you know. cutting Lt. Newak's sentence in half and making her There is only one other book I know of eligible for parole after one year in a military done in a prose/poetry alternation: Hilda Doolittle's prison. A parole hearing was held before the Air PALIMPSEST, written in the '20s. A palimpsest is a Force Disposition Board on April 20, 1983, which wax board, something like a chalk board, in that could result in her release as early as June, 1983. when erased (scraped or melted) incompletely, there A decision is expected by late May or Early June, are remnants of old writing behind the new. H. D.'s pending review by Air Force Officials in Washington, three women are less self conscious, but more D.C. obsessive in their'compulsion to find connections. Were it not for the efforts of Journalists Here, in SOMETHING NOT YET ENDED, is an such as Coleman McCarthy of the WASHINGTON informal, calmer because more casual, questioning POST, gay activists and civil liberat arians, Lt. voice of another woman trying to figure-it-all-out Newak would still be facing six years of hard labor. just once for the moment anyway, so she can go on. She is presently facing three years of She asks the questions of herself, finding a incarceration at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The number of answers. One: "We must try our own Defense and Education Fund is requesting that hand. We must feed the chickens and face the day. FIFTH FREEDOM readers express their disagreement Cut out all this other shit and try our own hand." with the harsh sentence meted out to Lt. Newak by She finishes the paragraph, saying in effeot that if writing to. Secretary Verne Orr, Department of the we were all fulfilled artists we wouldn't hurt each Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C, 20330. other. In some simple way* (and some too obsoure for mc), Jane Gapen makes sense, and I have the distinct feeling I've learned something here: that is how I would write if I were Jane Gapen. And I like it. And I understand it beyond the more than occasional fragment. By association, association makes sense, and so does associating with Jane Crossroads Gapen. If you haven't a friend in the world, or you wouldn't mind another, read SOMETHING NOT YET ENDED. EMMA The Buffalo Women's Bookstore (near North St.) SundayMadness 168 Elwood Avenue Buffalo, New York all drinks 1/2price 12to 7pm serving a compl imentor/
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THE FIFTH FREEDOM MAY, 1983 5 Out and About Robin Flower Band: A First Class Act by Hanford Searl Jr. by Madeline Davis
Rating code: 1-5 tickets with five Foot stamping and hand clapping an representing a top buy, the best, while only a fifth evening of musical delights with the Robin Flower of a stub indicates something less than total Band at the Tralfamadore Cafe, Sunday, April 17. rapture. Tear away) Four women of exceptional talent blended their energies in an upbeat tribute to the bluegrass tradition and the abilities and commitment of women Madeline Davis to social conscience. In numbers ranging from jigs Tralfamadore Cafe / March 21 and reels to Scott Joplin type ragtime and low down Tickets: $4 & $5 (Benefit for MCC) blues, this quartet enchanted the predominantly Rating: Three Tiokets female audience for over two hours with high energy tunes and light personal humor. , The performance took off with the Buffalo leading resident lesbian, activist, synchronized fiddling of Robin Flower and singer, and songwriter* Madeline Davis proved March Crystal Reeves in a medley of old time fiddle tunes, 21 she's known as a versatile, emotion-grabbing followed by close harmonies on the Appalachian artist with two separate sets of country western melody "Little Cabin Home." Of special appeal was songs, flavored ballads, and humorous material. the rousing mine workers union song written by Aunt Performing effortlessly and "at home" in Mollie Jackson, "Join the NMU," on which many in the Tralf's classy ambience, with her lover. Mouse, the audienoe joined in. Robin delightged those in on bass, Davis soored several standouts during her attendance with her sensous rouser "Sometimes first' half the more serious, mainstream endeavor Coffee Tastes Like Chocolate," and an especially including wordy ballad, "You're A Circus," about ear pleasing note was added by bassist Kitty King's ups— and downs in a relationship, and new song, singing of the plaintive "Tennessee Blues." The "Soft Shoulders," a take-off about the bar scene. first set ended with a complex rendition of "Sunshine Lady," also found on her recently "Oubuque" and two other tunes, featuring Reeves on released audiooassette along with "Circus," is an fiddle and Marcie Marxer's excellent guitar pioking. upbeat, storylike ditty, featuring Davis on sin string The second set was somewhat lower pitched guitar. — in terms of frenetic energy, but showed clearly the "Soft Shoulders" spotlighted the amiable ability for subtle coordination on the part of each Davis, who nioely mixed personal insight* and member of the group. The set began with "Pig oomedlo patter between songs, on eleotrlo guitar, Ankle Rag," featuring Marxer on mandolin with which she readily and openly admitted needing more plenty of fast 1920's style riffs. I was especially practioe on. impressed with King's light, intricate bass work on It's her folksong strength which pervades "Love Blooms," a Latin rhythm, up-tempo original. her soaring, steady, soprano—alto range, Also showing off the many talents of Flower and her demonstrating a trained, sensitive voice and message group were "Kitchen Girl" and "Cat at the Window" all too often caught in that easy, 4/4 country and the humorous "Xerox Line," an anti-automation, western style. pro-woman song about a computer programmer who If anything, Madeline could easily move into can't wait for the day she can tell her boss to a more popish/light jazz field rather than the safe, shove the job. The audience joined in the singing restricting country western confines. Her first—half of "Still Ain't Satisfied" with special verses written set of nine selections easily reflected that about the neutron bomb and the current troubles in possibility, capped by moving, anthem-like "Another Nicaragua and El Salvador, a mixture of polish and One Down." strong political sentiment. Dedicated to numerous, martyred gay rights After having seen very few women take names such as Harvey Milk, this ballad afforded instrumental leads in the field of bluegrass and audience participation on the chorus and country music, Robin Flower, an accomplished introspection about life's fragility, preciousness and fiddler, mandolin player and flat-picking guitarist, need for meaningful service to others. along with her entire group, were a refreshing and The second, more oomedic half of Ms. exciting change. Many in the audience stayed to Davis' portion was reviewed by Joe Schuder 11, who have their newly purchased reoords, MORE THAN rated it 6 on a scale of 10 with oountry western FRIENDS and GREEN SNEAKERS autographed, and get ballad, "The Bandit" his favorite selection amongst closer to those four who represent all that is fine nine efforts. and strong about women, cooperation and Lullaby "Woman Child" and "Addicts," both mu
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Abbreviations have been used in the calendars for the following locations: A. sn Ascension Church, 16 Linwood B.E.T; Buffalo Entertainment Theatre, Franklin St. tI.F.S: Child and Family Services, 330 Delaware Aye (entrance off Tracy St., ring bell) C.H; Columbus Hospital, 300 Niagara St, 2nd floor Board Room GLCC; Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 97 Rhode Island St., off Niagara St. U.Aj Unitarian Church of Amherst, 6320 Main St. U.U.C; Unitarian Church, Elmwood Aye at Ferry St. W.P.Qs Westminster Presbyterian Church, 72k Delaware Aye. W.S.C: Women's Studies College, 108 Winspear Aye. N.P.L: Niagara Porter Library downstairs meeting room # contact 874-4139 for location @ contact Tom Hammond for time and location at 842-2750 (days) or 885-0267 (evenings)
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THE FIFTH FREEDOM MAY, 1983 9 (GPF EVENTS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7) Women's Dance Rotation Swings into Action for Gay Pride Fest Issues in Gay Parenting Members of CARASA (Coalition for Abortion The Women's Dance/Event Coalition (formerly Rights and Against Sterilisation Abuse) will present the Women's Dance Rotation Coalition) is beginning, a workshop on Monday, June 13, 7:00 9:00 pm at once again, to offer all-women dances for the the Niagara Porter Library regarding- donor Buffalo community. The first dance of 1983 will be insemination -and issues in gay parenting. This held during Gay Pride Fest, on Friday, June 17, 9:00 workshop will examine the variety of issues involved pm to 1:00 am at the Unitarian Church of Buffalo. in a lesbian's choice to bear children within the Admission will be $2. Wine, beer and soft drinks framework of a lesbian lifestyle. Issues regarding will be available. donor insemination, including gay men's role in The tradition of holding regular monthly fathering, will be discussed. dances for women-only is several years old in Buffalo. Sisters of Sappho, a lesbian feminist Speaks organization of the early to mid '70s, was- an early Themes in Women's Music as it sponsor of these events, and was the original owner of the turn table and sound equipment still used for to Women the dtnoifl. After SOS disbanded, the tradition of Members of the EMMA Collective will all-women dances was continued through a coalition sponsor a workshop for women only during the Gay of various women's and lesbian groups in the area, Pride Fest on Tuesday, June 14, 7:00 pm at the each of which sponsored one or more monthly GLCC. This workshop will examine various common dances during the year and contributed to the themes found in much of women's music, including maintenance of the sound equipment. sexuality, motherhood, harrassment and others. During 1982 the all —women dances began Recorded music by notable and lesser known women losing a lot of momentum, and finally stopped musicians will be played, and discussion will be happening. Members of the previous coalition began encouraged about women's reactions to the music meeting this spring to decide the future of these and its themes. events. Many of the organizations that previously sponsored the monthly dances now lack the money or energy to pursue these events on their own, Relatives and Friends of Gays despite a oontinued interest in being part of them. Decisions were made by the coalition to resume the First Anniversary ill-women dances, but with some differences. Relatives and Friends of Gays, a support Instead of twelve monthly dances, the coalition will have gay and lesbian sponsor three or four events, each of which will be group for non-gays who sponsored by organizations ones, has existed in Buffalo no all the various still relatives and loved — Members group June, 1982. The group was oreated out of a involved of each will be asked to einoe table, workshop held during Gay Pride Fest '82. On help staff the door and the refreshment help 15, 7:00 8:30 pm at Child and plan the dances and contribute financially to initial Wednesday. June expenses. Any profits made through the dance will Family Services, 330 Delaware- Avenue (use the parking lot and ring also be shared. Within a year, this system will be entrance off the Tracy Street re —evaluated for its success. the bell to be admitted) the organisation will celebrate its first anniversary. All lesbian and gay persons, along with their relatives and friends are welcome to attend. For further information, contact Tom Hammond at 842-2750 (days) or 885-0267 MCC Offers 4 Week Course On (evenings). The Bible and Homosexuality
In response to numerous questions and Homosexuality and the Bible requests, MCC Buffalo is sponsoring a 4 —week oourse on homosexuality and the Bible. The course The Metropolitan Community Church of will focus primarily on the passages of Scripture Buffalo will sponsor a workshop on Homosexuality often used to condemn homosexuality, beginning with and the Bible on Thursday, June 16, 7:00 9:00 pn general considerations in interpretation, at the Niagara Porter Library. The format- will manuscripts, apparent err or/conflicts, various include a staged debate between a Jerry Falwell translations, etc. and will also include the figure and a Troy Perry figure, representing the "anti-gay" arguments and how to refute them. The viewpoints of gay-identified Christians regarding culmination of the course will be the Debate set for the Bible's position on homosexuality. Cay Pride Fest and scheduled for June Iβ, 7 pm, at This debate will culminate the 4-week the Porter—Niagara Library. course being offered at the GLCC by MCC's The oourse is free. All classes will be Reverend Kennedy about the Bible and taught at the GLCC, 97 Rhode Island, by Rev. Sherry Homosexuality. See details on this elsewhere in L. Kennedy, Worship Coordinator of MCC Buffalo. this issue. Extensive materials, resources and texts will be made available for purchase. However, the basic oourse outline and materials are free of charge. The schedule for classes is: Class I Thursday, May 12; II May 19; 111 May 26; IV - June 2. Classes will -last from 7 to 8:15- pm. - In order to prepare handout material, the Religious Education Committee needs to know how many folk* will be taking the oourse. You can register by phoning 680-0600, or by sending your name, address and phone number to: MCC Buffalo, P.O. Box 114, E. Amherst, NY 14051.
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10 THE FIFTH FREEDOM MAY, 1983 LIVESNIGHTSOFOUR - a lavender scented soap Episode Ot». c by Marti She Beth sat alone in the crowded room. "Of course," Olivia replied. stared at the clock above the cash register and already faint lights dimmed lower as to 11:47. The watched the digits change from 11:46 In Love" began playing. Within a few hour," she thought. "Woman "I've been here a whole minutes Candy was playing on Olivia just as "Maybe iff time to get another beer." So she up to oatoh the of them with a expertly. She looked .two drained her glass and signaled the woman the wall opposite and slowly smiled. the bar. in mirrored white rose in her lapel who was tending Her red muscle shirt had been the perfect choice "Another Lite, please." tonight. It looked like it was going to be a great The rest of. the patrons of "Our Bar" were weekend. ___ enjoying themselves as they did every Saturday night. Beth watched the whole scene in awe. All Some were seated at the few tables around the the danoers moved so sensually to the romantic many dance floor, some were dancing, and were music. She wondered how a woman learns to danoe standing around watching the pool players or with another woman so well. Did they go home and dancers. They were here to see and talk to women, praotice? meet new women, chat with old friends. One of the The song ended and the lights flashed as various gay group meetings had just ended, and beat pounded out through the speakers They the disco those women were out tonight also. didn't Candy and Olivia danced to a few more about half of again. really hang out at the bar. In fact, before going for a drink. At the bar they began to them didn't even drink, but they came for the know one another. in get to atmosphere and the company. Women not involved -I'm called Candy," she said with a smile, the workings of such groups came to be informed. can't tell you why. Can I get you a beer or as "but I There were always leaflets and signs around to something?" , what was happening or someone was telling "Hi, I'm Olivia. Yes, that would....be nioe. ~ someone else, who told someone else, and so on. "Two please," she ordered. "I haven't seen walk After her second beer, Beth decided to you here before." around. Giving up her seat at the bar, she moved "No," Olivia said and then paused before over to the other side of the large room to watch continuing, "I haven't come toabar in a long time." the dancers. "Why, they're all such beautiful -I see, big night out?" women!" she thought. Even though the voice on the "Well, I was living with someone and we gay hotline seemed friendly enough, she was still just split up. She didn't like the bar scene, so we afraid of what she would find here but she was stayed home a lot. I moved out last week and it's everyone here pleasantly surprised! "It seems that kind of lonely," she explained. "Of course, I still wonder just knows everyone else," she surmised. "I have Isis, my oat. She keeps mc going --.*» if j a new person gets to break in? I'll bet most feeding her!" Olivia laughed and how long could ever miss of them have known they liked women for a Candy moved closer. time, maybe always. That sure would have made "I have a dog," she interjected and things easier!" the moment "She's a great too, then seized Candy was against the wall wondering companion, too, a big mutt. You'll have to meet her but her thoughts were very unlike Beth's. She was sometime." _._ , surveying the scene and wondering who to dance "I'd love to," Olivia replied. "There's with next. She knew a good half to two-thirds of another slow song. Would you like to dance?" the regular Saturday crowd. Of these, she knew "Oh, yes," Candy whispered. as how good about half of them were in bed, and some By the end of the set they were moving managing to of them were pretty damn good. "Well, that's one Candy was extremely skilled in because I'm pretty damn good myself. I must bring look as though she were only dancing, and Olivia's out all the passionate best in those city lesbians!" head was spinning. "This is what I need right she grinned. Her eyes swept the floor, and she now," she told herself. Candy took her hand and remembered the good times she had with Kelly, led her into one of the darkest coiners to continue. Gerry, Pat, Mary, Roberta, Sheila and others who After a while, she stopped to weren't out tonight As always, however, her breath. Olivia was breathing heavily, too. "It's thoughts soon looused on Noelle a local girl getting late," she noted. who was now a well known figure skater with one of "Yes," Candy agreed. "Would you like to the travelling shows. "If she would have mc," come home witli mc for coffee and whatever?" dreamed Candy, "I'd never look at another pretty "Does your dog bite?" Olivia asked. face again! ...Well, I might look, but I wouldn't "Not special people," Candy purred, "even touch." However, Noelle was off who knows where if they own a oat. I'll try to control myself, too." with who knows who. All the nice mommies and "Oh, please don't," Olivia murmured. They daddies who took their kids to the ice show never kissed each other deeply and then left arm in arm. knew that the pretty soloist was eyeing the rest of At the other end of the room, Beth finished her chorus line! and she had olockwatched enough. as her beer decided Then Candy's ramblings stopped short Maybe she'll try again next week, maybe not. The she saw an elegant woman enter the dance area. newly formed couple breezed by her as they made eyes. She had long black hair and softly Eastern their way quickly out. Candy made her way over. "Would you like to NEXT EPISODE: Beth discovers how rough dance?" she asked softly. the bar can be, and we meet more of the regulars.
Tapping into the resources of the Gay Liberation GAY YOUTH: Past and Present part 2 Front of U.B. (now, GALA), the group conducted rap sessions and group social activities. After a few months, by Ross G. Hewitt the need to reach out to others, especially high school students, became evident. A personal ad in the Buffalo News that first listed "Mattachine Youth" and later "Gay Gay Youth Buffalo Youth" led to a plethora of calls about the group. Young people were, indeed, feeling isolated living in Buffalo and its suburbs. Transportation into Buffalo was also a major The first meeting of the group was held in problem for those who didn't drive (the majority of them). December, 1978, and consisted of young college students Combined factors of lack of turnover, lack of a stable under the age of 21. In April, 1979, anonymous comments setting, lack of adequate resources for publicity and lack from members of the group were published in that month's of young leadership led to the end of Gay Youth Buffalo. issue of the FIFTH FREEDOM: "I think G.Y. is really a good thing. I was just coming out and the guy I was seeing was not into showing mc around, so G Y. The Future has been a chnce for mc to meet gay people my own age rather than men in their some The conference, "Gay Life: Issues Affecting thirties. I have been able to make 1 friends." Children/ raised one most important fact: that although the need for sooial and peer support services for lesbian and "G.Y. presents to mc a place where I can gay youth is still strong in Buffalo, no such services come and talk to people around my own age ourrently exist. Cay Youth Buffalo needs to be resurrected. on a more personal level than I would in In other cities, Gay Youth meets on the premises of any social sector. The stigma of being gay that city's gay community center. This is one avenue that puts a lot of added pressure on you and can now be explored here in Buffalo. Another avenue is G.Y. is good in that talking out your the "sponsorship" of such activity by a straight community problems with others helps you to handle service agency or center that deals specifically with youth. them better." It will take resources to adequately publicize Gay Youth, and efforts to provide transportation to its activities must "G.Y. seems to be bringing us together, be made. In preserving the peer nature of the group, it making us feel like we are not alone, and will be proteoted from possible exploitation by gays over that there is some place we can go. It is 21. nice to know that there is a group of Discovering one's homosexuality is occurring at people that will listen to you. I feel G.Y. younger and younger ages, at developmental periods oritical doing lot for Buffalo, and it is nice to to one's development as a human being. The special needs is a of a young gay person period see the group growing every week. It is lesbian or at this are real, important that every person has something urgent, and, unfortunately, unmet. The exploration of the to turn to, and that it what G.Y. has been possibility of Gay Youth Buffalo's return needs to for mc." commence, and soon.
11 THE FIFTH FREEDOM MAY, 1983 San Francisco: Gay Mecca Where do you commonly find beautiful men and proudly proclaiming, "I got crabs at Fisherman's walking the street arm in arm and no one doing Wharf in San Francisco!" more about it than smiling? Although the gay future (Actually, if you're a gay man, you'll world may (hopefully) find this scene not uncommon probably get the more familiar kind elsewhere. Your anywhere* today one of the few places you'll find it best bet would be one of the baths. Try the CBC is on San Francisco's CASTRO STREET the Cay San Franoisco on a Saturday night—WlLD!) Mecca of the world. Chinatown in San Francisco is marvelous. Sparks flash in the night from the overhead I'm told that San Franoisoo holds the largest cables as the electric - powered bus makes the turn Oriental population outside of the Orient itself, and from Market St., San Franoisoo's biggest the prices here are often ridiculously oheap. thoroughfare, onto Castro St. where the street Needless to say, the selection of objects to be teems with men beautiful men all of which share purchased is unlimited from delicate jewelry to the same gay spirit— as you do. — "The Castro," as "Fetius of Barking Deer Vine" (and yes, the corpse this intensely gay quarter is called, is built on to was in the bottle). They simply have everything steep down hill slopes that meet at 18th St., giving imaginable and things you would have never the pleasant sensation that all those beautiful men imagined. are falling down the steep elopes of Castro St. to Be sure to go to Ocean Beaoh. It is open sandy The sound of embrace together in the valley below. You can see several miles of beaoh. they all share in the breakers rolling in is soothing to nerves made in their eyes the excitement taught by many hard eastern winters or the having found eaoh other. too exoitement and anticipation brought on The street is lined with bars, shops and overheated intensely cruisy. There from excessive cruising of "The Castro." Walk boutiques, all of which are along objects furniture and northward the beach to Seal Rocks. You'll are beautiful jewelry, dart, know when you are there you'll hear the clothes to buy, and no one makes apologies for because gay seals barking. Continue climbing northward anything's content. One such store, THE Park. ACE, sports window oontaining following the well worn paths in Lincoln GUILDED a T-shirts Before long you'll find yourself such titles as: be Normal?," "Made in on a cliff bearing "Why overlooking the Golden Gate with the waves crashing San Francisco... frequently," "I like to watoh," you with San "Substantial penalty for early withdrawal" and below. If haven't fallen in love Franoisoo yet, stop by Twin Peaks on your way back others. Some of the card shops have quaint names CARD CURIO to "The Castro." Twin Peaks is the highest point like DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW & on the peninsula and it affords a 360° find mugs that say, SHOP, where you'll invitingly It's "Kiss mc, I'm gay!" panorama of the city and the sea beyond. San Francisco is a beautiful as well as guaranteed to melt even winter-hardened hearts. exciting city. Aside from the throngs of ass-tight "The Castro" is directly below Twin Peaks. jeans walking the streets and the fact that the When you have gotten your breath back and entire city is at least 20% gay (bringing with it a recollected your serenity, go down there and mingle more easy tolerance than we find most other with your people. Select one to share life's most pleasure with. When you fall asleep in his places), the city itself has to be one of the most exquisite of beautiful cities in the world! Built on an extremely arms, you'll know you have touched on a piece hilly peninsula with the Pacific on one side and the heaven and happily left your heart there- -just like Bay on the other, beautiful Victorian houses march in the song! wall—to-wall up and down hills that are so steep you wonder how they could build anything on them. It Is these hills that give the oity its unique oharaoter and good looks. Because of the hills and the tall Viotorian buildings painted in three-tone pastels, you are pleasantly assailed by one beautiful vista after another, even when you're not looking at what's walking the streets or sitting near you on Letter to the bus. mie Smith & Company: Getting around the olty is not hard even though the men often are. Because of the hilly nature of the oity, everyone uses mass transit, and, The Gay and Lesbian Community Center naturally, buses are cruisy. There are many pices ends a. heart felt congratulations to Jimroie to visit in addition to the Intensely gay areas. fmSmith arid company on the smash success of Fisherman's Wharf sports & free maritime museum, a the first two extravaganza drag shows at the wharf full of antique boats, and the docks for the Tralfamadore Cafe. contemporary fishing fleet (most of which are quaint This group came together with a vessels and extremely photogenic). There are shops renewed sense of pride in both their and restaurants here. The most interesting are performing talents and their gay identities those specializing in seas foods fresh oaught and when th«y organized the first of their grossly displayed on crushed ioe. Crabs are Tralfamsdore shows as a benefit performance probably the most interesting. In fact, you oan get for the GLCC last November. Acting out of a patch for your jacket sporting a picture of one equal commitment to their art and to the Gay Pride movement, they raised nearly $2000 for the Center at considerable espense to themselves. No one in Jimmies troupe asked for any reimbursement toward the large sums of money spent on costumes and staging for this event. Their commitment to the gay community resulted in the single, largest contribution ever made to the Center's operations. As we extend these congratulations in the wake of the second, standing-room-only, smash success at the Tralfamadore, members of the GLCC also extend a public apology for failing to complete plans for a proposed cocktail party, which was intended to be a show of appreciation for the cast last December. A series of scheduling conflicts led to the postponement of that gesture until it became toe late to follow through. This does not, however, diminish the sense of appreciation felt by members of the GLCC. Every review of our financial status reminds us of the generous gift received from this group of dedicated performers. Their contribution carried the Center through the winter months, enabling the GLCC to remain open and continue striving to serve the vast gay and lesbian community of Buffalo and the surrounding areas.
In gratitude, The G.L.C.C.
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12 BOOK REVIEWS by Rod Hensel While Young seeks to expose the religious GOD'S BULLIES right, his book is not a denunciation of religion. Perry Dean Young Instead, he shows the Moral Majority and its New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1982. $13.50 affiliate organizations as direct contradictions of the teaohings of Christianity, and its leaders as greedy, scheming idealogues who wrap themselves in At long last. Perry Dean Young goes behind the American flag and hold up a cross to any who the sanctimonious facade of the New Right's "Moral might disagree or oppose them. Majority" to reveal the motivations of the men and If gays should ever wonder why they need women behind it. strong organizations and laws to protect them,, they Young, an openly gay journalist based in need only to look to COD'S BULLIES for the Washington, D.C., pays particular attention to the frightening answer. New Right's attacks on homosexuals, and shows how the Moral Majority stands ready to pounce on any aroup or issue that shows promise of putting more dollars in Jerry Falwell's pockets. By far the most startling revelation of the CRUISE TO WIN: A GUIDE FOR GAY MEN book is the "documentation" of Terry Dolan's secret Lenny Giteok life as a homosexual. Dolan is the head of the San Francisco: Pantera Press. 1982. $10.93. National Conservative Political Action Committee, whose big bucks have been used to attack and defeat liberal candidates and disseminate anti-gay What do you do in a gay bar? You cruise! literature. Young relates the story of a young man And how do you do it? Ah... we11... you see... I who met Dolan at D.C.'s Eagle bar, and who spent guess not very well. the night with him. In an interview, he confronts Host gay men, in fact, cruise all the time, Dolan with the hypocrisy of his public and private and in moments of great candor most will admit they life, and receives, as explanation, a convoluted don't do it very well. Many go home alone. Many course of logic which shows the cloudy thinking of go home with someone, but not who they wanted. the New Right. And a few go home with who they wanted, but never Young traces the birth of the New Right really establish the relationship they want movement to Anita Bryant's anti-gay crusade, in CRUISE TO WIN is a thoughtful, Miami. He recounts how leaders of the right used step-by-step breakdown and analysis of picking up and manipulated the singer to raise thousands of other guys. Based on interviews with "typioal" dollars for Anita Bryant Ministries. He paints a volunteers and professional counselors who are gay, sympathetic portrait of a public personality whose the book examines the fears and foibles experienced own sexual frustrations and unhappy marriage made by all who oruise. her vulnerable to people who would use her. It But don't expeot any startling revelations. ended only when she realized it was wrong but The key to cruising, according to Giteok, is by then the movement to use God and homophobia as realising the situation you are in and that everyone a means to a fatter bank account had grown beyond else is in the same situation. The image and her control. > personality you projeot, or lack of it, is directly The author visits Lynchburg, Va., the home related to your ability to triok with the man of your of Jerry Falwell, and examines a town caught in the choice. grip of fear. He visits Falwell's Liberty College, The book does offer some helpful tips. For which is not a campus of ivy —covered brick example, what do you say after you've said hello? buildings, but a huddle of metal shell buildings on a For the bold, there's "how do you like your eggs in barren field. Young contrasts an Easter Sunday the morning?." For those seeking a little less service by Falwell with that of a small congregation direot approaoh, there are some tips on things you down the road and finds God is not present at o*n say to get a conversation going. the Thomas Road Baptist Church of Jerry Falwell. Giteok, who is best known for his humor Young also examines the highly successful column in the pink pages of THE ADVOCATE, is direot mail fundraising of Richard Viguerie, and deadly serioius exposes manages himself about cruising. 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All too many listeners screw it onto the back signal strength meter reading and least hiss will out greatest of the tuner and cuss when WBLK bops in and at help eliminate these ghosts from haunting your Eubie Blake sixteen places on the dial. How many of us would treat our concerts. cooking utensils or cars in this fashion? Strecth that wire Another trick that will result in better reception is out and you will notice immediate performance improvement. to position the antenna as close to an outside wall (near a And you saved ten bucks. possible). It is startling how much interior walls K-Mart, or window if Nevermind. Get to a Brand Names, block radio waves. money and buy a pair of TV somesuchlike. Spend your If you have followed all hints so far and have a rabbit ears. That's right, TV rabbit ears! But get the type propensity to fine tune not only your tuner, but your that has a multi-position click-knob on the front. What antenna as well, you have probably realized 75% of a this knob does, when both elements are fully extended and rooftop antenna's benefits already The only further at a greater than 90 degree angle to each other, is appreciable benefits are in reduced hiss in stereo and a electronically rotate the antenna by changing the element's greater number of distant stations. You are reaching the interactive phase relationships Voila! Directionality in a point of diminishing returns. small space. Incidentally, all those starwarslike My final recommendation to fine tune your fine contraptions on the more expensive antennas of this type tuning involves increasing your outlay five times to fifty are 99.44% oosmetic. Forget them. All that trim gets in it's Look dollars. the way of an unobtrusive installation and ugly. This will buy you a BIC (Bee-Eye-Cee) Beambox instead for an indoor antenna that has a fairly heavy base This is a box as wide and deep as a small tuner and about wires (those that for stability and the longest lead-in four inches high. It is a tuned, muiti-element indoor connect to the tuner). antenna that takes up lots less space than rabbit ears, is Place your rabbit ears as high in the room as easier to place in your system set-up and yields audibly come to possible. The higher you put them, the closer you performance. long is better the theoretical ideal. This is where that lead-in Considering that a respectable rooftop set-up costs you in handy Of course it goes without saying that if live about $200 not to mention space availability and absence of a fourth floor apartment, your chances for more stations acrophobia, the Beambox is a worthwhile upgrading are better. As a matter of fact, I look for height when expenditure. Here are its advantages over tuned rabbit apartment hunting ears. You would be surprised at the difference one floor it is smaller, it nestles into your set-up less floor Since makes. My brother's audio systrem is on the third at obtrusively. It is easy to install and live with. The (both home while mine is on the second Thoughour tuners number of stations received is small; maybe he increase in SONYs at this point) have comparable specifications, four. And those that gets about ten more stations on his. are Where it really shines is in comprehensiveness of good on his! marginal on mine are very effect and noise reduction It will improve the sound of every station you receive with rabbit ears across the entire FM band bar none. Each signal is stronger and more solid in stereo— image. This is due to its four elements as opposed to the rabbit ears' two. It is more tuneable, more rotatable (electronically) and less susceptible to multipath. 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