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LA V E N D E R a t í e r N g w s & R&viewforSonto Cruz County's Gay and Lesbian Communiiy Published Quarterly Winter 1989 INSIDE: WINTER CALENDAR CONTENTS J J n i E WZZA Page K) Page I’age IS Kings Village 4 OPENING WORD : 226 Mt. Hermon Road at the Scotts Valley An Open Letter from the Lesbian & Gay Action Alliance 438-4848 ■ C 0 N ¥ Ill4t/r, by Allison Claire Kings Plaza 5 VERBATIM 41st Avenue & Capitola Road 6 THE SANTA CRUZ AIDS PROJECT REPORT Capitola by Terry Cavanagh 475-4450 8 THE LESBIAN & GAY COMMUNITY CENTER Downtown An outrageous 50’s diner serving by Mindy Storch Santa Cruz breakfast, lunch & dinner 9 COMMUNITY AT LARGE 429 Front Street 16 THE POLITICAL CLIMATE; 429-5595 429 Front Street Harvey Milk & the Growing Number of Gay and Lesbian Elected Officials Santa Cruz by John Laird Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-Midnight, GA7-2290 18 FEATURE: SELF DEFENSE Friday & Saturday 11 a.m.-l a.m. O pen Sunday-Thursday 7 a.m. - 11 p.m. An Interview with Tara Kronenberg Friday & Saturday 8 a.m. - Midnisht by Robin White 20 PERS PECTIVE : Randy by Ray Martinez 22 LEGAL AFFAIRS: AIDS Law: Another Side of the AIDS Story Experience The Book Cafà by Brenda Warren 24 POETRY by Glen Martin 25 THE AIDS FILE: Zen in the Art of Helping By David Brandon 26 BOOKSHELF: Lesbian Health Care Issues Kings Plaza • 41st & Capitola Road by Gail Groves 462-4415 30 CALENDAR Compiled by Will Russell Open Sunday-Thursday 10 a.m .-ll p.m., Friday & Saturday 10 a.m.-Midnight 34 COMMUNITY RESOURSES LAVENDER READER PO BOX 7293 SANTA CRUZ CALIFORNIA 95061 (408)458-9292 CONTENTS H Z Z 4 C ffiM IA N Y Page 10 Page 16 Page 18 Kings Village 4 OPENING WORD: 226 Nt. Hermon Road at the An Open Letter from the Lesbian & Gay Action Alliance Scotts Valley 438-4846 .c>0^"iirM 4k<r. by Allison Claire 5 VERBATIM Kings Plaza 41st Avenue & Capltola Road 6 THE SANTA CRUZ AIDS PROJECT REPORT Capitola by Terry Cavanagh . 475-4450 8 THE LESBIAN & GAY COMMUNITY CENTER Downtown An outrageous 50’s diner serving by Mindy Storch Santa Cruz breakfast, lunch & dinner 9 COMMUNITY AT LARGE 429 FVont Street 16 THE POLITICAL CLIMATE: 429-5595 429 Front Street Harvey Milk & the Growing Number of Gay and Lesbian Elected Officials h ‘ r Santa Cruz by John Laird Open Sunday-Thlirsday 11 a.m.-PIHdnight, ■ GA7-2290 18 FEATURE: SELF DEFENSE Friday & Saturday lla jn > l a.m. Open Sunday-Thursday 7 a.m. -11 p.m. An Interview with Tara Kronenberg ; i i" > Friday & Saturday 8 a.m. - Midnight by Robin White 20 PERS PECTIVE: Randy by Ray Martinez 22 LEGAL AFFAIRS: AIDS Law: Another Side of the AIDS Story by Brenda Warren Experience The Book Café 24 POETRY by Glen Martin 25 THE AIDS FILE : Zen in the Art of Helping By David Brandon 26 BOOKSHELF: Lesbian Health Care Issues Kings Plaza • 41st & Capitola Road by Gail Groves 462-4415 30 CALENDAR Compiled by Will Russell Open Sunday-Thursday 10 a.m.-11 p.m., Friday & Saturday 10 a.m.-Midnight 34 COMMUNITY RESOURSES LAVENDER READER PO BOX 7293 SANTA CRUZ CALIFORNIA 95061 (408)458-9292 VERBATIM LAVENDER READER IS PUBLISHED QUARTERLY AS A COMMUNITY PROJECT OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY'S LESBIAN & GAY ACTION ALLIANCE READER SPONSORS AFTER DARK AISHA HAIR DESIGN BOB BETTINGER BEHER FIT LAVENDER READER STAFF BLUE LAGOON BOOKCAFE BOOKLOFT PUBLISHER BOOKSHOP SANTA CRUZ MICHAEL PERLMAN BROMMER STREET VIDEO CO-EDITORS Good Riddance MICHAEL BURTON. PH, D JO KENNY CABRILLO PHOTOGRAPHY sco n BROOKIE I don't care for queers cruising the streets. I've got a teen-age boy... I CAFEZINHO MICHAEL PERLMAN 1989 Alliance Plans: CHI PANTS COPY EDITORS put prostitutes and gays at about the same level. If these boys had picked An Open Letter to Members & Friends LYNDA CHAIKIN TEK YOUNG LIN up two prostitutes and taken them to the woods and killed them. I’d consid THOMAS CONN D.C. »CHELA ZABIN of the Lesbian and Gay Action Aliiance er that a similar case. I'd be hard put to give somebody life for killing a COMMUNITY PRINTERS BOOK EDIOTR LAUREN CRUX M.A GAIL GROVES Dear Friends, prostitute.’ ’ DONATELLOS COLUMNISTS As we enter a new year, the LGAA is undergoing another wave of change. A new steer GIGO AT CASABLANCA ALLISON CLAIRE - Dallas, Texas District Court judge Jack Hampton, explaining to DR. CHARLES GOODWIN JOHN LAIRD ing committee was approved at our winter solstice party and will be organized differently the Dallas Times Hwald on Dec. 15 why he sentenced to 30 years instead of HEARTWOOD SPA CALENDAR than in the past, reflecting decisions made after much lively discussion at the Alliance's INDIA JOZE WILL RUSSELL life imprisonment a man convicted of brutally murdering two gay men. VERN ISAKSON SPRING CONTRIBUTORS annual summit. (We kept billing it as a “retreat", hoping to entice you to join us, but as Hampton comes up for re-election in 1990. KEEP'N' CLEAN TERRY CAVAN AGH Scotty indignantly points out, it's really a marathon meeting!) SANDY KAPLAN GLEN MARTIN Everyone at the gathering agreed that restructuring was necessary in response to the ARNOLD LEFF MD RAY MARTINEZ I can't think right off of arw part of the code that might [have been VAL LEOFFLER JULIE SHERMAN ever-increasing number of lesbian and gay groups and projects in the community and the violated]. It's his discretion.’ ’ MO CO CRAIG SMITH ever-decreasing energies of over-committed activists. We think that a streamlined ‘89 Al METROPOLITAN ERICH SPITZENBERG liance can continue our strong tradition of political activism while allowing ourselves to COMMUNITY CHURCH MINDY STORCH - The director of the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct, REV. DAVID MACMILLAN ROBIN WHITE be more realistic about what we can take on. MARTINE MONFORT BRENDA WARREN commenting on a complcuru filed against Judge Hampton Our priorities for 1989 will be the continued publication of the Lavendar Reader, facili PACIFIC HARBOR TRAVEL PRODUCTION on Dec. 16 by the Texas Human Rights Commission. tation of lesbian and gay political involvement in response to your needs and initiative, PIZZA COMPANY CINDY DE PREMIO KATER POLLOCK CAMERA and the presentation of community forums on a trimmed-back quarterly basis. PONTIAC GRILL TRAYCE LEA LAWSEN' ^ ^ We’ll make it a point not to forget by 1990. If he is still in office at the These forums will be coordinated with themes featured in the Reader, ideally with exist RAINFOREST EXOTICS PROOFREADERS ing or potential local activist projects, and organized by ad hoc working groups open to time, we are going after him. ’ ’ KELSEY RAMAGE SARAH ROSEN RON SAMPSON ROB VISALLI your input and participation. - Jean O'Leary, director o f National Gay Rights Advocates, referring to Hampton. RATIONAL MOVING TYPOGRAPHY Look for a forum on anti-gay violence in February, exploration of bisexuality in our SANTA CRUZ AIDS PROJECT THE SUN community in June, and in the fall a forum focusing on the lesbian community. (Ideas? SC COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION DEWEY SC WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER SARAH-HOPE Call me.) SATURN CAFE GREG WASSON With the exception of our continuing treasurer, Jo Covone, the LGAA will have no of Then why don't we call ourselves ‘Uranian-Americans’? ” PATRICIA SHEA ADVERTISING ficers in ‘89. The steering committee, which is open, will operate collectively and share JERRY SOLOMON PH D GAYELYNN GALUSHA SPOKESMAN BICYCLES DISTRIBUTION responsibilities as much as possible. Michael Perlman continues as publisher of the - Ubiquitous local political commentator Gary Reynolds, SUSAN SULLIVAN G SCHULZ Reader and Will Russell as membership coordinator (otherswise known as the Database THE SUN SEAN WHARTON responding to Jesse Jackson's campaign to refer to people of African descent Queen) but there division of labor ends. TOP NOTCH SERVICES PRINTING in the US as "A^can-Americcuis.” The term “Uranian" was used in the 19th and TROGENZ COMMUNITY PRINTERS Our old multi-committee structure, which has existed in name only for some time, is early 20th centuries by homosexuals to refer to themselves and their organizations. TYPAGRAPHX COVER officially suspended. As members old and new get more involved and initiate various pro The term refers to the Greek Muse Urania and the planet Uranus. It is not a pun. UNCLE BILLS ERICH SPITZENBERG jects, this new flexible structure can grow and evolve. Meanwhile, the ‘89 steering com VIDEO CITY ROBIN WHITE VISSCHER & ASSOCIATES THANKS mittee (me, Michael Perlman, Scott Brookie, Jo Kenny, Robin White, John LaRiviere, BRENDA WARREN THE SUN Will Russell, Jo Covone, Christopher Spillers and Lee Riordan) will meet quarterly to GREG WASSON coordinate efforts. Everyone is welcome, so please join us. (We meet next on March 20 WATSONVILLE ELECTRIC VOLUME 3. NUMBER 2 WINTER 1989 - put it on your calendar! And here's a number for your little lavender book: for info on any LGAA or Reader matter, call 458-9292.) ADVERTISING RATES: LAVENDER READER Our community is blessed with an abundance of lesbian and gay social, cultural and po- BUSINESS CARD: S25/35 PO BOX 7293 QUARTER PAGE: S50/65 SANTA CRUZ. C A 95061 continued on page 2H HALF PAGE: S 100/125 (408)458-9292 B Y ALLISON CLAIRE FULL PAGE: S200/250 SCAP REPORT have a more profound appreciation for be Office Hours ing alive this very day. They seem to have fewer drug and alcohol issues, and Always: Monday-Friday although many gays and lesbians at 9am-5pm SCAP deal with loss, tragedy and grief, most seem to know a great deal about happiness also.