VOLUME NINE, NO. 18—August 29, 1996—September 11, 1996—Issue 212 FREE

Give the People Light and they will find their own way. The Wisconsin Light AIDS Walk Wisconsin Set To Break Last Year's Records By Bill Meunier on their computer modems. Milwaukee--On Sunday, September 22, thou- The Walk which begins and ends at Milwau- sands of people from throughout Wisconsin will kee's Summerfest grounds has struck a respon- pack the Miller area of Milwaukee's Henry W. sive chord among straights and members of the Maier Festival park (The Summerfest grounds) Les/Bi/Gay community alike. as they join together in AIDS Walk Wisconsin. Beneficiaries This year's Walk is expected to exceed the Over a dozen organizations throughout Wis- records set in 1995, when over 10,000 Walk-ers consin, ranging from the Milwaukee AIDS raised over $750,000 in pledges. Project, the Madison AIDS Support Network, The sign up rate for the 1996 AIDS Walk to the Northern AIDS Network will share in the Wisconsin is running ahead of last year's. It is funds raised. hoped that the 1996 Walk will generate over 1996: A Critical Year $1,000,000 in pledges. Many observers say that this year's Walk is AIDS Walkers will join with mega super star, especially critical to AIDS prevention and life the "Divine Miss M," Bette Midler, to reach care services. With the budget cutting going on out and touch those affected by HIV and AIDS. in Washington, AIDS organizations and pro- At work places, Gay and Lesbian clubs, and grams fighting AIDS and HIV can not continue even in corporate board rooms throughout the to count on sufficient federal help. Badger State, Wisconsin is fighting AIDS Furthermore, the Walk is a very visible dem- through AIDS Walk Wisconsin. onstration of support for continued AIDS Some are signing up at Mama Roux, Kathy's funding and a strong statement of compassion Nut Hut, This Is It, Just Us, In Between and and support for those affected by HIV and other bars in Milwaukee in the fiercely con- AIDS. tested AIDS Walk Bar competition. Over its six year history, AIDS Walk Wiscon- Some are workers at United Airlines, North- sin has distributed over $2,000,000 to organi- west Mutual, Miller Brewing and dozens of zations around the state. For most of these other companies joining their corporate teams. groups, AIDS Walk Wisconsin is their single Some are registering through the AIDS Walk most important means of raising funds. number 1-800-348-WALK, while others are Walk Supports Many Programs using the Walk's Internet Home Page: The Walk makes certain that an isolated HIV Http://wwW.netgains.com/aidswalLwisc infected man living in rural Northern Wiscon- People from Green Bay, Madison, Superior, sin gets his medication. The Walk helps pro- Rhinelander, Appleton and Monroe in fact eve- vide training for church groups seeking to work rywhere in Wisconsin, are reaching for the with those affected by AIDS. phone, picking up a form or dialing the Internet Please Turn to AIDS Walk Page 27

AIDS Walk Wisconsin Chairperson, Bette Midler Has Dole Chosen a Closet Case as his Running Mate in the Presidential Race? Milwaukee—The Internet is buzzing with In an article in the Independent, reporter the "news." A leading American sports star Warren Ilinckle writes that "back when (not a football or basketball player), is Gay. Kemp was a Congressman and Republican And so is an extremely prominent political think-tanker economist-type, he has been figure. The identity of the sports star does not talked about as the highest closeted Republi- seem to have gotten beyond the Net and can." doesn't much matter in any case. But the po- Hinckle says that when Kemp played pro- litical figure is another matter. That man's fessional football, "people called him 'the name has hit the public prints. Gay quarterback.'" Articles in both the San Francisco Inde- That Kemp was Gay "was such a wide- Some of the residents of Madison's Rodney Scheel House posed for a group picture during the Scheel House's pendent (a non-Gay paper) and LGNY spread assumption that it was taken as a First Anniversary Celebration on August 16. The Rodney Scheel House provides safe, clean individual apartments (Lesbian and Gay New York), have pointed matter of fact," Hinckle writes, adding, "That, for 23 residents and their care givers. See article on page 3 the finger at GOP Vice Presidential nominee, of course, doesn't make it true; some people Jack Kemp. Please Turn to Kemp Page 27 Long-Time Clinton Friend, David Mixner to Attend Book Signing Reception in Milwaukee Milwaukee—David Mixner, one of the a beach one day in New England, they shared most visible and well-connected Gay activists their ideals and dreams of a more just Amer- in politics today, will be the honorary guest at ica. One was Gay, the other not, but they a VIP benefit reception and book signing Sat- thought alike. All things were possible then— urday, September 21, 1996, from 5:00 to 7:00 at least, they seemed to be. p.m. at the Broadway Theatre Center in Mil- Years later, in 1992, those dreams were waukee's Historic Third Ward. still intact. There was hope, great hope that The event will take place in the center's both men shared. Skylight Bar and European Salon. For $40 a But something happened. person, attendees will be treated to an array That something was called the Oval Office. of hors d'oeuvres, Miller beer, wine, and so- Mixner maintains his dreams, Clinton, ar- das. guably, does not—or can not. But the story of Guests will be able to wander over to a these two friends and their impact on Les- martini bar which will be set up in the salon bian, Bisexual and Gay America has now with music coming from the grand piano. been told. Guests will also receive a gift bag as they Stranger Among Friends is a book every leave. Mixner will be available to sign his Bisexual, Gay man and Lesbian who is inter- book which will be given free to all attendees. ested in the politics of the last three plus Proceeds will benefit the Milwaukee AIDS years should read. Project. Stranger Among Friends is a book that Mixner's candid memoir, Stranger Among everyone should read who is interested in the Friends, tells movingly of one man's journey dynamics of our civil rights movement. from small town, rural America, through the David Mixner is a man who everyone civil rights movement of the '60s, to the halls should meet. Scheel House Manager Sandy Holland, (left) Scheel House supporter, Dick Wagner, Sheny and, "Doc" Scheel of power in Washington, D.C. Flying out from Los Angeles to attend the along with Board Chairman, Bill during the Rodney Scheel House's First Anniversary celebration. Wisconsin Along the way, he meets a young man from event with Mixner will be his companion Pat- Light's Bill Meunier calls the Scheel House "A sweet dream in the middle of a massive nightmare." Arkansas named Bill Clinton. Walking along Please Turn to Mixner Page 27 August 29, 1996—September 11, 1996—WISCONSIN LIGHT-2 The Republican Big Tent Leaves Gays, National Gay Leaders Held Chicago Bisexuals and Lesbians Out in the Cold Convention, But Did it Matter? Commentary By Harry McCann language" provisions. Chicago—It was a different kind of con- be determined by social issues," said Alan San Diego — The 1996 platform for the The party platform calls for getting tough on vention. The Gay and Lesbian activists who Gitelson, a political science professor at Loy- Republican Party is a marriage between crime by ending "frivolous and costly death came to OutVote '96 this past weekend (Aug. ola University in Chicago. "I don't think it's supply-side ("trickle down") economic theory, row appeals;" requiring adult trials for 16-18) wasn't trying to avoid a floor fight or going to matter." Washington downsizing and hard-line social juveniles accused of "adult" crimes; ending making any roll calls. But like their counter- "People will vote on economic issues, not conservatism which includes staunchly pro- the "exclusionary search" rule; and imposing parts in the other political conventions, they justice ones," said Rick Garcia, director of the life and vehemently anti-Gay language. curfews on juveniles. were learning what it takes to motivate a Illinois Federation for Human Rights, a state As some pundits were saying last Tuesday, The Republican Party in its platform, campaign. Gay and Lesbian advocacy group. "They'll after the platform was passed, "This is the opposes "Bill Clinton's assault on the culture The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), host ask, 'Are my taxes going to increase?' and party of Ralph Reed and Pat Buchanan." and traditions of the armed forces, especially of the national convention, said it was a vital 'Am I more comfortable than I was at the last At the heart of the problem with the his attempt to lift the ban on Homosexuals in event, a way to get people focused on how to election?" platform for Gays and Lesbians is its the military. We affirm that Homosexuality is discuss Gay and Lesbian issues in an election Convention organizers are counting on that dichotomous approach to discrimination. incompatible with military service." year and how to elect supportive officials at not being the case. The section on individual rights calls for a The initial section deals with the Dole all levels of government. "It is critically important that Gay Ameri- rejection of hatred and bigotry, and calls for economic plan. This involves cutting taxes, But some political analysts and others in cans, along with our friends and families, an end to attempts, "by the EEOC (Equal reducing the size of the federal government, the Gay community say that while the groups' play active roles this election season because Employment Opportunity Commission) or any balancing the budget, improving compet- intentions are worthwhile, it may not be able we will be literally voting for our lives," said other arm of government to regulate or ban itiveness in the global economy and increasing to achieve its goals simply because Gay and Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the religious symbols from the work place." The the number of people who own their own Lesbian issues won't be in the spotlight this Human Rights Campaign in a prepared document defends the tax-exempt status of home. In this general area are some of Dole's year. statement. religious groups. most popular intentions, namely to cut taxes "This presidential election is not going to "OutVote '96 gave our community the Opposition to any form of discrimination is and substantially reduce the size and scope of skills necessary to help elect fair-minded offi- stated in this section, but the party will "reject the Internal Revenue Service. Counseling Center cials at every level of government." the distortion of those laws to cover sexual The next section calls for "Changing Kim Mills, deputy communications direc- preference." The Republican platform Washington From the Ground Up." This is tor, said the goal was to send participants endorses the Defense of Marriage Act the section dealing with "re-establishing the Offers Lesbian away ready to work in campaigns. (DOMA), specifically as a means of Tenth Amendment to the Constitution," "We wanted them to know the nuts and preventing "judicial recognition of same-sex calling for greater state sovereignty and ability Groups & Programs bolts, and be ready to make a difference," unions." of self-rule. More powers will be reserved for Milwaukee—The Counseling Center of Mills said. The platform states objection to Affirmative the states to solve their own problems. Milwaukee is offering a wide variety of The three-day convention opened Friday Action, and supports a constitutional In making the federal government smaller, counseling and support groups as well s night with a speech from Sen. Carol Moseley- amendment and any legislation which would the Republican platform calls for returning special programs for Lesbians. Braun, followed by an awards banquet. Sat- "make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's power to the states. There is a provision for Our Space urday and Sunday featured speeches from protections apply to unborn children." requiring that if "official Washington Our Space a group for Women that Meets at campaign members, political strategists, poli- Republicans officially defend the right to promises benefits, official Washington must Milwaukee's Counseling Center, 2038 N. ticians like Gay Republican Rep. Steve Gun- bear arms responsibly and support "right-to- pay for them." Bartlett, will offer a special progarm on derson from Wisconsin and Clinton admini- work" laws. Several Cabinet departments would also be Sunday September 8th from 6 to 8 PM. stration officials like HUD Secretary Henry The party is committed to tighten border scrapped, including Commerce, Housing and Mary Karegeannes, of Employee Couples and Cisneros as well as workshop sessions. enforcement and speed up deportation. There Urban Development, Education, and Energy. Family Counseling Services will be welcomed Despite the recent furor over same-sex mar- is support for a law or Constitutional In addition, the National Endowment for the back to Our Space. riages, convention planners said they wanted amendment to declare that children born in Arts would be "de-funded," or turned over to Mary will present a "back to basics" to concentrate on topics such as job discrimi- this country of illegal immigrant parents do the private sector. approach to enhancing day to day living. nation, since it's legal in most states to fire not automatically become citizens. The same fate awaits the National On Sunday October 13, Our Space will someone based on sexual orientation. There would be harsh penalties against Endowment for the Humanities, Corporation once again presewnt Beth Stomberg's moving "We would definitely have not picked Gay smugglers of people and for those who make for Public Broadcasting and the Legal Service slide presentation on the many faces of marriage as an issue for 1996, because the illegal documentation. There is no call for Corporation. women. American public is still too divided on it," penalties on those who hire them. There are On the other hand, several provisions seem Symbolic pictures combined with music, said David Zingale, HRC's political director. "protect the flag" and "English as the official to be aimed at improvement. poety and Stomberg's own prose pormote But not everyone is as hopeful as the con- Congress would have to apply to itself all introspection into the many faces ourselves vention planners that Gay and Lesbian issues Log Cabin laws that it passes, it is currently exempt from and women in our lives. will be used as anything other than a dividing that requirement. The platform also com- Lesbian Abuse Group tool on the campaign trail. Encouraged by GOP mends the already achieved internal A group for women who are experiencing "We will be used as a wedge issue by re- improvements in the House of Represent- or have experienced abuse in their ligious and political extremists," said Jona- atives, including a limit to the term of a relationships will be offered for 10 weeks than Wilson, executive director of the Gay Platform committee chairperson. begining this fall. Abuse includes but is not and Lesbian Victory Fund. limited to, physical battering, San Diego— Gay Republicans say they don't The platform calls for a term limits emotional Others said that this election year doesn't abuse, psychological abuse and understand why they cause such hand- Constitutional amendment and denies groups threats of have a prominent issue, such as gays in the violence. wringing among social conservatives. the right to make grants and be involved in military, for the public to be concerned about. There is a $10.00 per session Teenage pregnancies? lobbying at the same time. fee. "Things just aren't as controversial right There is a Lesbian Couples Group now," "Hardly a problem in the Gay and Lesbian provision for a constitutional said Garcia. "Sure, most people sup- amendment to A second new group featuring port job community," said Rich Tafel of the Log Cabin balance the budget. There is Imago equality. They just assume that we also provision to Relationship Therapy will meet on already Republicans, which speaks for Gay supporters eliminate automatic renewal Mondays have it, that our basic civil rights are of most program funding. at 6:45 to 8:15 PM. protected of the GOP and backs candidates with a po- even though they're not." Co-therapists, Patricia litical action committee. Regulatory reform is also proposed, and the Smith, ACSW & Convention planners said thinking Gay and method Virginia Thomsa, RN, M. will Abortion? "A heterosexual problem," he proposed to accomplish this is a lead the Lesbian issues won't matter in this election is group. A $200 said. system of risk analysis that will factor the cost fee for the group is required. ridiculous. of regulations This therapy group is designed to School choice? Sure, Tafel said. Whatever. into the decision on what enrich a "Just look at the Republican platform," good relationship, Just don't leave the inner-city kids behind, regulation is needed. enhance a beginning Mills said. "Gay issues are front and center. he added. The Courts would be overhauled by relationship, resolve a long standing difficult What do we have to do to prove homophobia relationship and assist in the is The Log Cabin group is a small presence in appointing, as best as can be done, decision rampant in this country?" conservative Older Lesbian San Diego, sort of a pop-and-pop shop. judges and prosecutors. These Group Silver Space a "We have to mitigate," Tafel said. "We'll same individuals would be litmused on group run by and for older Lesbians also never have the numbers." whether they favored judicial review of meets at the Council Center. The next But the group's leaders won a hearing with legislation. A favorite quote heard about this Silver Space Gathering is on Sunday is September 15 Dole campaign aides as they considered en- "Abortion wasn't the concern of the U.S. from 6 to 8 PM. (Be on time Think rfliere's Nothing To dorsing him. Constitution until 1963. What made the because the doors are locked at 6:15. Silver Space Do This Evening? Indeed, Tafel spoke encouragingly of Dole Constitution so different that year?" offers small group discussions The platform on topics despite the GOP's adoption of a strictly con- calls for reform in the area of chosen by the participants. servative platform that declares homosexual- lawsuits, including limiting the Rico Other Silver Space dates are October 20, Call (414)299-0857 ity incompatible with military service and (Racketeering) Act to criminal cases. It is November 17 and December 15. Meetings currently used The Wisconsin Light supports legislation against same-sex mar- in some civil cases, including are followed by a trip to a nearby smoke free riage. several decisions against Operation Rescue, restaurant. SpotLine the "The platform ... is ignored by everybody," radical anti-abortion group. There is a Silver Space receives financial assistance Tafel said. provision in the platform to physically from the Cream City Foundation, an Achoice And Think Again! rehabilitate Washington, D.C., while rejecting Agency. any notion of statehood for the district. It also Teachers Network calls for tax reduction, both in the federal and D.C. taxes. V Holds Fall Meeting NOT ALL BATTLES ARE FOUGHT Madison—The Gay , Lesbian, and Straight Teachers network invites interested part s WITH A SWORD. from the Madison area to participate in a dis= Frontiers Schedule of cussion -presentation on how everyone can help end homophobia in education. Events for September The meeting will take place at 7:30 on Wednesday September 4 at First Unitarian Sept. 607:30 p.m.—Dining out at "The Society Church, 900 University Bay Drive. It Saz", 558 State Street. will be lead by Kevin Jennings, National Ex- Sept. 12-7:30 p.m.—Activity Planning ecutive Director of GLSTN. Meeting In 1990, Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian Sept. 14-7:30 p.m.—"Farm Boys-Lives and Straight Teachers Network which brings of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest," together concerned educators, parents, stu- collected, edited and narrated by Will dents and co-mmunity members to fight ho- Fellows. OCTOBER 11-13, 1996 Sept. 18-7:30 p.m. mophobia in their schools. —Film Circle WASHINGTON, DC NATIONAL MALL GLSTN is the largest organization of its "Apartment Zero." Sept. 21-7:00 kind in the United States with chapters in p.m.—Bridge for every We will unfold the AIDS Memorial Quilt to show the over 40 cities. one. In addition to his work with the Network, Sept. 24-7:30 p.m.—Man to Man Rap. nation that we care, we remember and that, until there is Sept. 28-4:30 p.m.—Sunday at The Jennings is the Co-Chair of the Education an end to AIDS, we are not going away. Please join us. Committee of the Governor's Commission on Zoo followed by dinner at the new Gay and Lesbian Youth in Massachusetts. Mexican restaurant, La Hacienda, 515 1INAM NAMES Project: 415-882-5500 His book One Teach in Ten: Gay and S. Park Street at 6:30 p.m. rROJEC ETS AIDS Travel Info: 800,926-2631 UNITED For locations of other functions and Mmor,o1 Guilt IV AIRLINES Lesbian Educators Tell Their Stories was a mem- Official airline finalist for the 1995 Lambda Literary Award bership information, please call David at for best anthology. (608) 274-5959. August 29, 1996—September 11, 1996—WISCONSIN LIGHT-3 ACLU to Investigate Stopping of " Wisconsin Light" Editor And Scheel House Residents

Milwaukee—Wisconsin Light SpotLight Enoli charged into the van and threatened to Editor and Political colomnist, Bill Meunier arrest Kotenberg. and two Madison Gay men, Tim Corcoran and Then as the three prepared to leave, an Tom Kotenberg, have asked the Wisconsin unidentified plain clothes female officer asked Chapter of the ACLU to examine possible Meunier "Are you really a journalist?" When courses of legal action against the Dane he replied "Yes", the officer stated "Then why County Drug Interdiction Task Force. are you hanging around people like these?" The men made the request after they were "It was everything I could do to keep from stopped and questioned by Task Force members responding to her" said Meunier. "1 just at Madison's Badger Bus Depot on Friday wanted to get out of there and not say anything August 16 at 11:15 AM. Meunier was told they could use as an excuse for an arrest." that he and the others were stopped because he Meunier called the reason for the stop "a had no luggage when he arrived via a pretty flimsy pretext. I suppose if I had a Greyhound bus. suitcase of heroin I would have been able to Meunier was in Madison as an invited guest just leave without a problem. The deputy had a to share in and report on the First Anniversary drug dog with him. I went right by him as I celebration of the Rodney Scheel House. looked for Tim and Tom, he certainly should The scene of the crime? The parking lot of Madison's Badger Bus Depot were Wisconsin Light SpotLight Corcoran and Kotenberg are Scheel House have known that I didn't have any drugs on Editor, Bill Meunier along with Rodney Scheel House residents Tim Corcoran and Tom Kortaiberg were detained residents who volunteered to pick him up at the me," said Meunier. "Furthermore I can not as drug suspects by the ever vigilant members of the Dane County Drug Interdiction Task Force on Friday August Depot. believe that taking a bus to Madison without 16. Meunier had committed the "heinous crime" of taking a bus to Madison and not having any luggage, which Madison to cover the Rodney Scheel House's The three were stopped by a Dane County luggage is sufficient reason to stop and harass according to a Deputy Sheriff was "suspicious." Meunier was in Sheriff Deputy as they tried to drive out of the Aimiversary. The men were released without an apology. The ACLU and Openly Gay Madison Alderman Mike someone." Verveer have promised to look into the incident Depot's parking lot in Corcoran's VW Bus. While Meunier stops short of accusing the The Deputy who was wearing a name tag with officers of homophobia, he does question their The Rodney Scheel House is the Sweet Dream the word "Enoli" on it ordered the men out of actions. "Tim told me that before I arrived he the bus. had asked the same Deputy if they could park along side of the building explaining that they of Love in an Often Nightmarish World Meunier the three Enoli told had a handicap permit and that they were By Bill Meunier picking up a journalist from Wisconsin Light. You could See the it in the neighbor who were stopped because Meunier Madison—On Friday August 16, 1996, the admitted that she was very much opposed to There are Rainbow Flag bumper stickers on Rodney Scheel House, a Madison housing had no luggage with him when he their bus. And what was that crack about putting the Scheel House in her neighborhood. project for those infected with HIV, held a "Now," she said, "I am so happy they are left the bus. The Deputy called hanging around with people like these' all party in celebration of its First Anniversary. about?" here." this "suspicious behavior." There were the usual balloons, nice speeches, Spend a few minutes at the Scheel House Meunier called the experience frightening. "I dignitaries and of course plenty of food and was really shaken up by it. I didn't know what and you will realize that the set of expectations When Meunier was unable to work the latch drink. Residents and neighbors joined by vol- you came with doesn't meet the reality of what was happening or why. Plus I had never met staff common and open his door, Deputy Enoli threatened to unteers and dug in and shared a you will see and feel. This isn't some building Tim and Tom before and didn't know what a meal. break the window. with rooms for people waiting to die. It's a search of their bus might turn up." But that's not the real story. As the three left the bus, they were quickly complex of two buildings containing spacious, Although Meunier's lack of luggage was the The facility is governed by a Board of Di- surrounded by around 8 to 10 other uniformed individual apartments rented by 23 residents stated reason for the stop he was not searched. rectors that includes professionals, members of and plain clothes officers. Corcoran said he was searched after being told on a sliding income scale. Many of the resi- Enoli told Meunier the three were stopped the Scheel family and a resident representa- dents live with their partners (and in Mike's by the female officer that if he didn't allow a tive. There is also a resident's council that because he had no luggage with him when he search on the spot he would be taken into case his parents) so they aren't separated from left the bus. The Deputy called this "sus- meets once a month to help the 23 tenants with those they love. custody. their problems. picious behavior." A statement Corcoran provided to the ACLU For many if not most of the tenants it's the Meunier told the Deputy that he was on But that's not the real story. best living situation they have ever had. Far and to the Wisconsin Light points out that the Greg and Sherry Scheel spoke about their assignment for the Light and was only going to Deputy Enoli was only a few feet away when from being bitter and isolated, they are vibrant be in Madison for a few hours. He also showed brother, Rodney and how much building the and full of life. Meunier introduced himself to them as "Bill Rodney Scheel House meant to them. Sandy, the Deputy his picture ID press pass issued to from The Wisconsin Light." As I rode the bus back to Milwaukee and him by The Wisconsin Light. and the camera the Project manager talked about how special since returning I have spent a great deal of Corcoran also accused the officers of trying to the day was. Brett Brasher from the Mental he had taken along with him. entrap him. "The female officer asked me time thinking about what I saw at the Scheel Enoli was not satisfied and called in a check Health Center of Dane County spoke about the House that day. I thought about how the resi- about my pepper spray which I carry on a chain challenges that both the residents and those in on Meunier for outstanding warrants, parole outside of my pocket. After examining it she dents, the staff and the volunteers have ac- holds or anything else that might allow him to charge of the Scheel House have had to over- complished so much in such a short period of told me to put it in my front pocket and go to come. make an arrest. Finding none he simply walked the other side of the bus. I refused because time. away and concentrated his attention on But that's not the real story either. They correctly recognized that a house is not then they could have busted me for carrying a Actually it is a story nearly impossible to Kotenberg who was protesting being stopped. concealed weapon. When I mentioned this to a home. They knew that putting up a building Other officers ran the same checks on Co- tell, let alone write about the real story. with walls on the outside is one thing, but her, the officer had no comment." The real story has to be felt and perhaps rcoran and Kotenberg while the Bus was Corcoran who was a Hotel Washington em- knocking down the walls that we all build searched for drugs. even lived. around ourselves is another. They have ployee said he believes the three may have been There on a sunny Friday afternoon were the The incident didn't end when the three were stopped because they are Gay. "My bus was in worked hard and succeeded at doing both. told they could leave. As he entered the bus, smiles of people who much of society would If it can be said that there is a good side to the Madison Pride Parade just a few weeks say have no right to smile. There was a feel- Kotenberg told the officers that if they really ago, it used to be parked in the Hotel AIDS, then this would be it. How tragic it is wanted to stop drugs they should "stop some of ing, even a palpable presence of love, pride that it takes a disease to bring people this close Washington Parking lot all of the time. The and accomplishment. the Cadillacs riding around town. At that point back is covered with bumper stickers, it's a together. Even if there was no AIDS there There was Tim and Tom, partners for 19 should still be a Rodney Scheel House and vehicle that's easy to recognize. I think they years, Mike, a 15 year old from Rockford and La Crosse Youth knew who they were stop-ping ." tens of thousands like it. his mother, there was Bob, Pete, "Queen Stephanie one of the residents who enter- No apologies were offered to any of the men. Mary" with her bright red sash, Stephanie, and After arriving at the Scheel House, Meunier tained after lunch sang "Sweet Dreams." I Group Meetings all the rest. have thought about how appropriate that song contacted The Wisconsin Light. Editor Dr. You could feel the love that exists between La Cross —The Rainbow Revolution Book Terry Boughner called the Dane County was. That's what I think the Scheel House is, a all of these people and those who are provid- sweet dream in the middle of a massive Store, 122 5 Ave South in La Crosse is the Sheriffs office and registered a complaint. ing support for them. You could sense it in the place to be for Les/Bi/Gay youth in the La Boughner also sent a strongly worded letter of nightmare. way they talked to each other. You could see Most of all I have thought about what Brett Crosse Area. protest. it in the way they helped each other and looked The store hosts weekly gatherings for these In addition to their complaint to the ACLU, Brasher had said "Many people thought when at each other. they came here, they were coming to die, then young people and their freinds. Kotenberg, Corcoran and Meunier are con- There was love in the tears streaming down The purpose of these meetings is to help templating filing a law suit against Dane they realized that they were here to live." the face of Manager Sandy Holland as she Brett was right, because the real story is that develop comprehensive, integrated and on- County and the officers. A Madison area clutched the bouquet of flowers the cheering going HIV/AIDS prevention efforts and the attorney has offered to pursue the case if the the Rodney Scheel House is not a place where residents had given her. There was the love in people die from AIDS, its a place where they empowerment of queer youth. men want her to. former County Board Chairman, Dick Wagner, For more information on this group and Chris Ahmuty, Director of the Wisconsin live with it and with each other. as he walked around hugging the residents. House is one of the other activities contact Marilyn (608) 783- Civil Liberties Union, promised Meunier that The Rodney Scheel You could see the love in Sherry and Greg beneficaries of AIDS Walk Wisconsin. 1242. his office and its attorneys would look into the Scheel when they spoke of the struggles they incident. Please support the Scheel House and AIDS went through in building this living memorial Walk Wisconsin. Ahmuty told Meunier that he couldn't be sure to their brother Rodney. Memorial Reception if what the officers were justified without looking at everything that happened. He did for Karen Axness to point out that he, himself, has often traveled by bus to Madison without any luggage. Ahmuty be Held at "A Room added that he often observed State Legislators doing the same. PRODUCTS FOR THE of One's Own" Local observers say that the Drug Task Force regularly stakes out the Badger Bus Depot in CONSCIOUS Madison — A memorial service and re- the hope of snagging a dealer. EARTH ception for Karen Axness, bookseller and Meunier says that people shouldn't hold the s" CLOTHING actions of these officers against Madison. "I feminist, will be held at A Room of One's • 1.1EOmRp7c have been to the Mad City plenty of times. ANIIP:' Own Bookstore on Sunday, September 15 I4.#4,,Ci.EA This isn't the Madison that I know. While I am • from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ORGANICu CH09724 COMFORTERS sure they have their share of overzealous and • Karen died of cancer on August 11. All • NsED ORyDy IN are homophobic officers. I am also sure they are those who knew and cared about Karen • PERSO jisv:;;;-.1.1, OILS encouraged to come and share their the exception and not the rule." her. Openly Gay Madison Alderman, Mike Ver- thoughts and reminiscences of • ENERGY Karen was known throughout the com- veer iepiesents the district that includes the bus . depot. Verveer will be meeting with Meunier • roci ° munity for her deep love, expertise and ap- E LI preciation of literature — particularly the during the Democratic Convention in Chicago She was assistant man- to hear his complaint and advise him on a works of women. • *Be' ager and buyer at A Room of One's Own course of action. In a brief conversation usl"..nsie° where she worked since 1980. She served Verveer indicated that others have complained as treasurer in the Madison Independent in the past. HOME ENVIRONMENT The Wisconsin Light had Booksellers Association and was also active As of press time, 216 N. HENRY STREET, MADISON in the Wisconsin Science Fiction Conven- received no response to its letter of protest. tion — the only feminist science fiction However, several of the dignitaries at the 251-4905 HOME convention in the world — which cele- Scheel Party took it upon themselves to MON, TOES, WED, FRI, SAT 10-6 • THURS 10-8 • SUN NOON-5 nrn•••rn TO MIMOSA BOOKSTORE brated its 20th anniversary in Madison this apologize for what one called "The shame JUST OFT STATE STREET, NOR last May. V brought on Madison today." August 29, 1996—September 11, 1996—WISCONSIN LIGHT-4 On Outing own personal experience and that of friends and acquaintances and their negative experiences in Editorial TO THE EDITOR: relationships; going to local Lesbian bars both here in Milwaukee (bars which I no longer patronize) and in The recent stories about Congressman Kolbe's (R- other cities and finding myself waiting for exdwlingly Until There's A Cure AZ) "outing" only mention his vote against same-sex long periods of time without being served when the bar marriages. In fact, Kolbe's own Dec. 12, 1995 rider isn't even half crowded; of attending local Lesbian On Sunday, September 22nd, AIDS Walk Wisconsin will be held for the seventh time to destroyed funding for an Indian AIDS prevention groups and determining that if you don't drive the raise money for AIDS services and to heighten awareness of the human tragedy that AIDS has program and inserted a clause to withhold cultural, "right" kind of car and have the "right" kind of job, wrought on our community. religious and environmental protection laws that that you are on the outside of that group. Add to that The question this year is will more people come to AIDS Walk Wisconsin than ever before, protect a sacred Apache mountain, Mt Graham. the great racial dividing line between the Caucasian energized by hope and the promise shown by new research on drug combinations and vaccines? Kolbe promoted these exemptions so University of Lesbians here in Milwaukee and those of color Or could this be the terribly deceptive moment when we let down our guard, wipe our brow, Arizona telescopes could desecrate this sacred (particularly black Lesbians) and you have a very pretend the AIDS epidemic is over and thus abandon our mission to never stop until there's a mountain. I am an openly Gay candidate who ran in divided community. I find, even as you stated in your cure. the Democratic primary in the district of Rep. Regula commentary, that a simple attempt to initiate Those bracelets saying "until there's a cure" are still around a lot of people's wrists. More (R-OH), Interior Appropriations chaiiman. Regula conversations is at times, impossible or frustrating. I importantly, the sentiment is burned into the memory of every person who has lost a loved one and Kolbe conspired to sneak the rider in at the last have observed that with some women to AIDS. The news from the recent AIDS conference held in Vancouver was the first glimmer minute. this attempt is misconstrued as an attempt to either break up a of good news we have had in a decade of struggling with the epidemic. We are happy to hear The Congressional Record read: "Amendment No. relationship or to "make a pass" at someone. I am left about more effective treatments, lowering viral loads, and immune based therapies strength- 178: Deletes Senate language requiring the Indian often wondering why some women are dating each ening devastated immune systems. Health Service to prepare a report on HIV-AIDS But nothing from the Vancouver conference has ended the dying of thousands of our friends. prevention needs, and inserts in lieu thereof a provision Please Turn to Letters Page 27 And no matter what the bright promise of research might be, it is not preventing the spread of which allows the construction of a third telescope on AIDS tonight. Mount Graham, in Arizona..." We must not lower our dedication to those who have fallen and who live with AIDS now. We Kolbe sold out the AIDS-afflicted Indian urge you to register, raise pledges and walk at this year's AIDS Walk Wisconsin. Let us be in- community and replaced it with a rider allowing Deadlines spired by the promise of research and support the lives of our friends who need us now so they Kolbe's UofA pals to desecrate a sacred Apache September 12th Issue can live long enough to benefit from the advances of research. mountain. Kolbe erroneously claimed the homophobic It will be great fun to see Bette Midler leading our very own AIDS Walk. You can come for and racist aspects of his rider were coincidence, and Articles - Sept. 6th the fun, or because you're a Divine Miss M fan, or to see and be seen. But most of all you the HIV study costly. In fact, he intentionally waited Ads - Sept. 10th should come to bring the power of caring people and an outpouring of donations to work to- many months to inject his "coincidence" at the final ward a world without AIDS. Let's remember that AIDS Walk Wisconsin demonstrates to the 1995 joint Senate/House conference. It was no September 26th Issue rest of the community just how serious we are about caring for people affected by AIDS. Let's coincidence. The irony of this non-coincidence is that make 1996 the largest, most successful AIDS Walk ever. the study AIDS cost was minuscule compared to the Articles—Sept. 20th billions in grazing subsidies, below-cost timber sales, th and coyote killing for private ranchers in the Ads—Sept. 24 Letters Kolbe/Regula bill. Every U.S. university has rejected or abandoned this Give the People Light and they UofA outrage against human rights, the environment AIDS Ride something your letter to the editor attempts to do, but and due process. Only foreign partners remain will find their own way. falls short of. Make the difference. Be involved. Outing is likely for legislators who pursue TO THE EDITOR: Assume that people are inherently good, not evil. The homophobic, racist agendas. In response to the editorial entitled, "Corporate AIDS crisis needs you. It needs all of us. Together we Eric Resnick _ The Giving" in the July 18-31, 1996 issue of Wisconsin can conquer AIDS. Together we can make a Canton, OH Light, allow me to address some of the issues raised difference. Wisconsin regarding Tanqueray's sponsorship of the AIDS Rides. Jim V. Rosi, Executive Director Gunderson and DOMA First, clearly all corporate donations are made with AIDSCare public relations in Chicago mind. The writer states, "It would TO THE EDITOR: Light be nice if it weren't so, if corporations really did Editor's Note: The above letter had no signature. It care Re: Gunderson and DOMA about this cause or that, but the fact of the matter is was sent FedFx, not from Chicago, but from the It may be true that Patrick Buchanan or Pat that giving is good PR." Certainly it is. For-profit offices of Pallotta & Associates in Los Angeles and Robertson could have used a vote in favor of the corporations like Tanqueray have a choice. They can was sent by Sara Smith. In our view, therefore, the Defense of Marriage Act by a Gay Republican as spend millions of dollars promoting their products. Or letter is not so much a reflection of the signatory's propaganda (Gunderson and DOMA, August 1-14, they can spend millions of dollars promoting their views as it is of the corporate view. p.4). But that didn't happen. products and at the same time help to raise many more What did happen is that Republican House members millions of sorely needed dollars for AIDS service or used President Clinton's promise to sign DOMA other diaritable organizations. Tanqueray's choice Outdoor Women against Democratic House members during debate on was the one that required vision, commitment and a the bill, as aired on the C-SPAN cable channel. real concern for the cause. TO THE EDITOR: Furthermore, how many Democratic members of The writer then suggested that Tanqueray has found Early this summer, I approached the core of Wisconsin's Congressional delegation voted for a way to du costs and get more bang for its buck by W.O.W. requesting membership. At that time I was DOMA? They are supposedly from the "original" Executive & Editorial Offices paying a 'middleman", a promoter. The fact is, told that W.O.W. had never had a request for Gay Rights state! 1843 Palmer Tanqueray paid no money to a promoter, or any other membership from an openly transsexual woman. As N. Finally, what if DOMA had passed with an type of middleman. Not one cent such my request would have to go before the full core Milwaukee, WI 53212 amendment to finance a study of differences in benefits The author then goes on to propose that Tanqueray for discussion and vote. for married couples and same-sex couples? The U.S. (414) 372-2773 hive its money — say, a $100.000 donation -- About one week ago, I received in the mail a Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics directly to the agency. In fad., Tanqueray does. Had package containing information about upcoming LIGHT tracks comprehensive statistics on employee FAX: (414) 372-1840 the author checked prior to the printing of this letter, events and a survey of interests. I was at first elated, compensation and benefits, including "emerging he or she would have found that this is exactly what thinking that I had finally after a two month wait, been Office Hours: benefits plans." However, they in no way attempt to Tanqueray did. One hundred thousand dollars, cash, accepted for full membership. After many unanswered monitor anything regarding benefits provided to Monday-Friday-10:00 a.m, -5:30 p.m. directly to the Minneapolis beneficiaries. And another phone calls I finally talked to Jacquelyn Weber of the domestic partners of employees. So, if Gunderson's 24-Hour Recording one hundred thousand dollars, cash, directly to the core and was told that no I was not to be granted full amendment had been approved and passed, we'd at Chicago beneficiaries. And, in fact, a total of membership. I was hurt that these lesbians could be so Publisher least have a government-based study of such benefits! $950,000 — cash — directly to the 28 callous and gutless as to send out information Jerry Johnson HIV/AIDS about Dan Ross service organizations benefiting flout the fi upcoming events all the while knowing that they had ve Madison Executive Editor Tanqueray's American AIDS Ride to help decided that I was unwelcome and to not offset the have the guts Terry Boughner, Ph.D. costs of producing the Rides. to inform me of their decision. In addition to the cash donations, Tanqueray What the core decided was that I would be able to Discrimination Arts & Entertainment Editor provides several million dollars more in promotional attend any day events but I was not allowed to attend Geno TO THE EDITOR support that helps to raise the Ride's visibility, and overnight outings. I would not be granted membership SpotLight Editor I'm writing to call upon the LesBiGay Community therefore recruit more Riders and generate more but that I also would not be asked to pay dues (how to boycott the Ewald Automotive Group. Bill Meunier donations. Add that to the collective power of the sweet of them). I was also told that this decision on I was an out employee whose "position was thousands of committed individuals that participate in inclusiveness for transsexuals would not lead to full Advertising Manager eliminated" after nearly 2 years of highly reviewed the AIDS Rides, and one hundred thousand dollars membership. When asked the basis for the decision I Jerry Johnson service. After expressing my disgust to management becomes several million. was told that members of the organization would be 372-2773 regarding the filthy sexist, racist and homophobic talk I challenge the author to attempt to solicit these uncomfortable in the prolonged presence (i.e. that went on daily, I believe I was let go to make room Columnists and kinds of funds. It's not easy. Only three years ago, the overnight) of a transsexual, but they could tolerate my Reporters on the payroll for a former homophobic employee who Glenn Bishop, Eugene AIDS Rides started as an idea to produce an event that presence at day events. "Geno" Brzenk, wanted to return to the Ewald fold. 'Ph.D., Sue Burke, Jason Jellison, seemed impossible, but that appeared to have the I am saddened that some members of the Gay and Karen I I understand downsizing is an unfortunate part of Lamb, Ph.D., Bill Meunier, John powertUl potential to icspuud to the AIDS epidemic as Lesbian community continue to harbor such outdated Quinlan, business these days, but if I were such a valuable asset Carl Szatmary never before. And it clearly could not be done without discriminatory ideas as a persons gender is determined (which I was told many times), how come I was not a significant corporate sponsor. Hundreds of corporate by her genitals shape at birth and that the dominant offered a position elsewhere within the 4 dealerships? sponsorship proposals were sent out. Hundreds. One majority cultures discomfort with minority Associated Press Since being hired by Ewald Automotive Group, company responded. One. Tanqueray. It was disadvantaged group is a sound basis for denial I p of had continued to express my interest in career Tanqueray's original vision and realization that rights to equal access and opportunity. The later is Copyright © 1996 advancement. I was told both overtly and covertly that something big could make the difference. How much hard to fathom as this discomfort of prejudice is the By Novo Graphics, a womyn would be "eaten alive" in the position I was Ltd. of a difference? In the past three years, Tanqueray's underlying basis for discrimination against Gays and THE WISCONSIN American AIDS Rides have Lesbians seeking. LIGHT is published biweekly by NOVO raised in excess of $33 by the straight majority. Now this same GRAPHICS. LTD., with offices at 1843 N. Palmer, Our community must mesln,ud with our money and million for AIDS service organizations across argument is being used against transsexuals. 541'hvaukee. WI 53212. Advertising and copy deadline is the , America. The AIDS If our power when we are discriminated against We Thursday- prior to publication. Opinions expressed by Rides are the most successful you agree that Wisconsin Outdoor Women writers in WISCONSIN need to send a message to businesses that this behavior LIGHT are not necessarily those of AIDS fund-raisers in the history of the epidemic. membership policy is discriminatory and wrong, I the publisher, editor, or our advertisers. Any reference Yes, there are costs involved in producing would ask that you write will not be tolerated. made to any individual or organization should not be an AIDS and let them know how you :onstrued as an indication of the Ride. Lori A. Kolosowsky same's sexual or affection Administrative, recruitment and support feel. If you are presently a member withhold your orientation or preference. All copy, text, design, photos, and Milwaukee illustrations in material costs. Tents, food, medical support, camp dues and boycott all W.O.W. functions. advertisements are published with the Finally the understanding that the advertiser sites, maintenance is fully authorized and has and everything else involved in members of the core should be called to account for secured proper written consent for the use of names. supporting several thousand people on a three to seven decisions and callous behavior toward transsexuals. Unfriendly Lesbians pictures, or testimonials of any living person, and day Ride. WISCONSIN LIGHT may lawfully publish and cause such Subtract these costs from the gross money Letters can be sent to: P.O. Box 92434, Milwaukee, publication to be made; and the TO THE advertiser agrees by raised, and the Rides still enable their beneficiaries to WI 53202. EDITOR: submitting ads to indemnify and save blameless the publication of any error net more money than they would I am writing in response to David Nahmod's that may be contained in said ad. through other means. In the wake of this incident, I'm left wondering WISCONSIN LIGHT does not accept any responsibility for commentary in your last issue of the Wisconsin The author of the article underestimates the enormous about the membership policies of other organizations. Light any claims made by advertisers. The entire contents of impact the Rides I found myself-in complete agreement with his article WISCONSIN LIGHT are © Copyrighted and protected have — and the unprecedented As a transsexual Lesbian divo adoptive mother of under the Federal Copyright Act and International having had close long-term friendships with several Conventions. amount of money the Rides raise for crucial AIDS two Korean boys (age 4 and 7), a survivor of Reproduction of any portion of any issue will not be permitted services. paternal Gay male friends. However, I would like to stress that without express written permis ion of Without the Rides, the money would go physical, verbal, and sexual abuse, survivor of NOVO GRAPHICS, LTD. Legal venue is Milwaukee Bounty. a lack of respect for each other and elsewhere — or nowhere at all. fraternal incest, rape by a male teacher, recovering a lack of self Wisconsin. Printed in the U.S.A. respect is not limited to the Gay male community. It is And speaking directly to the author: we invite you to alcohol abuser, who enjoys camping, hiking, do alive and well in the Lesbian community as well. the Ride. Raise your $2,300 to do the Ride. Raise backpacking, wild flower photography, singing in a Subscribe to an Though I do not have AIDS, I find myself somewhat additional $2,300 and give it directly to the choir, writing poetry, and political action would I be alienated as a Lesbian within our Lesbian community Wisconsin agencies. Your life will never be the same. You'll see welcome as a member and full participating in your Light that for some of the same reasons you cited in your article. there are no ulterior motives involved with the organization. Responses to this inquiry can be sent to: 1 Year (25 issues) Ride. I find that the way we treat each other as women is You'll experience your potential your power Jacquelyn Richter First Class $24.95 to equally shameful. make a difference in the world around you, Fond du Lac Your article brought back several memories of my Third Class $11.95 August 29, 1996—September 11, 1996—WISCONSIN LIGHT-5 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Air Force Major Debra Meeks Acquitted on Youth Rally at RNC Charges of Consensual Sodomy San Diego, CA — The first-ever gathering seven other young organizers and an open Washington, D.C. — Air Force Major accuser provided no information against of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender mike session. The following remarks are Debra Meeks at Lackland AFB in San Major Meeks or the other women. youth at a national convention drew a crowd taken from those speeches. Antonio, Texas, has been acquitted on all It was not until after her original complaint of more than 150 youth and supporters at the Brian Davis, African-American charges that she had engaged in consensual was found wanting, and only after further 1996 GOP Convention. Gay youth from Gay Youth activist sodomy with another woman. Had Major prompting by OSI agents, that the accuser across North America denounced the from Omaha, Nebraska Meeks been convicted of the charges she finally alleged' in January 1995 that Major conservative anti-Gay and anti-youth policies "The GOP is attacking us from all fronts. could have faced up to eight years in prison. Meeks was a Lesbian and had been involved of the GOP, and expressed their They're attacking my queerness. They're C. Dixon Osburn, Co-Executive Director of in a relationship with her. It was shown at the determination to resist conservative policies attacking my ethnicity. What they want me to Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, court-martial that the accuser made the on education, health care, immigration, do is fragment myself. I will not let the forces stated, "The decision was the right one. allegations against Major Meeks because, in affirmative action, and other issues. of the right divide me. They will not break There was no evidence to support the charges her own words, she wanted to "hurt" her. The Queer Youth SpeakOut was a result of my identity into neat little pieces. I am against Major Meeks." Major Meeks, who is assigned to the 319 a year of planning by Alex Garner and Russell African-American. I am Queer. I am too Osburn added, "We should not lose sight of Training Squadron, was due to retire from the Roybal, Youth Co-Chairs for LGBT VOICES proud to go away." the fact, however, that had the Air Force military on March 1, 1996 after twenty years `96. "The lives of L/G/B/T youth are directly Meehan Rasch, 17 year old Bisexual followed its own regulations, Major Meeks of honorable service. Major General Hobgood threatened by GOP policies," said Garner. from Portola Valley, California would have never had to fight for her life at a canceled her retirement orders specifically to Organizers seized the opportunity of the "I've been told all my life that I was full of court-martial. Americans should be very court-martial and try to imprison Major national convention as an arena for raising the potential. I am not about potential — I am concerned that some military commanders are Meeks. Major Meeks now looks forward to visibility of L/G/B/T youth and addressing the about NOW! I am not waiting to happen, I am willfully violating regulations and that the her retirement after her two year nightmare diverse issues that affect them, including HIV, happening. And so are all of you...We are not civilian authorities in control of the military has ended. V education, violence and discrimination. the future, we are the present. We are the are doing nothing to hold those commanders Garner and Roybal opened the rally with movement we have been waiting for. I am accountable. That must change." Defense of Marriage rousing speeches for the crowd, followed by getting more and more aware and more and The charges against Major Meeks resulted more angry. I want to be recognized. I want from a witch hunt by the Air Force Office of Act to be heard." Special Investigations (OSI) at Lackland AFB Slated for Senate Dick Wagner, Gay Troix Bettencourt, Los Angeles from December 1994 to September 1995. The HIV-positive youth activist Air Force's written report shows that agents Floor September 5 "I'm here because I'm mad. Mad as hell at interrogated the accuser about Major Meeks Madison Leader, Washington, P.C. — The Senate will, for having to be up here as a voice for Gay and and eleven other women, at the agents' own the first time in U.S. history, debate a Gay Lesbian youth — young people who have been initiative and without cause, after the accuser Runs for Dane civil rights bill on September 5 when it takes silenced, who remain invisible, their spirits had made an unrelated complaint against up the anti-Gay Defense of Marriage Act. broken. Is this part of the legacy the Major Meeks, her landlord. At the time, the According to an agreement reached before County Executive Republican Party wants to leave to the United Congress recessed for the month of August, of America?" Madison—Richard Wagner, the former States Fire At Manoeuvres the Defense of Marriage Act will come to the Angel Fabian, East Palo Also chair of the Dane County Board of Supervi- Senate floor at 10:00 a.m. EDT on September Mexicano/Chicano youth activist sors has announced that he is running for Madison 5. Debate is scheduled to last two hours. "As a direct product of migrant education, Bar In Dane County Executive. Wagner, who is During that time, Senators Edward M. education, and affirmative action, I openly Gay, served fourteen years on the bilingual Kennedy (D-MA), Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), attention to the prosecution of Ruled Arson Board of Supervisors. call your and James Jeffords (R-VT), will introduce the youth and their families in the U.S. He was appointed by Governor Anthony migrant Madison— A fire set on the third floor of Employment Non-Discrimination Act as an wonder what this has to do with Earl in 1983 to serve as Co-Chair of the Gov- You may the Hotel Wilson, 151 S. Blair St., Madison, amendment. ENDA would outlaw job rights, and I am here to let you ernor's Council on Lesbian and Gay Issues. Queer youth has been ruled as arson according to Manoeu- discrimination based on sexual orientation. cannot fight for the rights of one Wagner works for the State Department of know you vres owner, Ed Grunefeld. "This strategy has benefited the community other. That if they Administration as a Budget and Management without fighting for the The fire was set sometime before closing in by forcing a debate on employment Queer migrant community they Analyst. Governor Martin Schreiber ap- come after my the early morning hours of Tuesday August discrimination against Gay people," said of our lives." pointed him to the Wisconsin humanities are coming after all 20th. A person or persons who are as of yet Daniel Zingale, HRC political director. Council and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Twelve of the participants were graduates of unknown managed to get into the third floor "Nonetheless, the Human Rights Campaign While on the Board of Supervisors Wagner The National Gay and Lesbian Talk Force area. continues to vigorously oppose the so-called served as Chair of the Public Protection and Youth Leadership Training Institute, and A fire was then set in a closet. It is be- Defense of Marriage Act." Judiciary Committee successfully conducting spent the week of the convention working lieved that the perpetrator tried to exit by us- Supporters of DOMA will also have an shuttle diplomacy between the city and the with other activists on the organizing of the ing the fire escape outside of the building. A opportunity to offer amendments to the bill. county for a consolidated 911 dispatch center. various events. fire extinguisher was found next to a smashed "We expect any amendments from our As Chair of the Finance Committee in 1986, The participants in the rally made a window. It apparently was used to break the opponents to be as noxious as the overall Wagner managed the multi-million dollar commitment to go back to their communities window. bill," Zingale said. All amendments must be mid-year adjustment to die county budget and work for the visibility and empowerment There were no customers in the bar when submitted to the Senate leadership by close of when federal and state revenues were signifi- of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered the fire was discovered. Grunefeld told The business September 3. cantly reduced. He is the father of the Dane youth. V Wisconsin Light that the blaze was confined The anti-marriage bill passed the House on County Conservation Fund and sponsored the to the third floor. "It had been going for a July 12 by a vote of 342-67. No amendments county ordinance for the Marlin Luther King while because it had gotten in between the were attached to the bill in the House. Jr. holiday. walls." He estimated the damage at "a few The Human Rights Campaign is Most recently he served as Co-Chair of the Wisconsin AIDS hundred dollars." encouraging readers to urge their U.S. Dane County Committee on Commuter Rail. Madison Police are checking the extin- senators to support the Employment Non- During his first term or' the County Board Walk Web Site Up guisher for fmger prints. Grunefeld says "I Discrimination Act (S.932) as an amendment in 1980 he sponsored Dane County's non- have no idea who would have done this or to the Defense of Marriage Act (S.1740), and discrimination ordinance on the basis of sex- Running why?" to oppose DOMA itself. Senators can be ual orientation. and Anyone with information on who might called through the Capitol Switchboard at Wagner founded and served as Co-Chair of Milwaukee— AIDS Walk Wisconsin has have set the fire should contact the Madison (202) 224-3121; written by sending a letter to the New harvest Foundation. Lie serves on gone Hi-Tech with its own Home Page on the Police. The Honorable [senator's name], U.S. Senate, the Board of the Madison AIDS Support Internet. You can use the Home page to sign Washington, D.C. 20510; or sent an electronic Network and the Rodney Scheel House. His up for AIDS Walk Wisconsin at: message through HRC's Action Center on the commitment to urban civic life and historic Http://www.netgains.com/aidswalkwisc 0:9 World Wide Web at http://www.hrcusa.org. V preservation has been recognized by two or- "AIDS Walk Wisconsin is the largest AIDS WINTER chid awards from Capital Community Citi- fundraiser in the state and going on line IS ON ITS WAY zens. In 1994 he received a Stonewall 25 means being able to reach a wider audience to Now You Can Read Award at the Wisconsin Pridefest celebration, provide immediate registration access for CRUISE • APPLE • FUNJET Wagner announced an initial support com- those who want to join the fight against the The Wisconsin Light mittee that brought together a wide group of AIDS epidemic," said Laura Glawe, Director Winter Prices are In Dane County Citizens. The Committee in- of Communications for the AIDS Resource Online cluded former Dane County Republican Center of Wisconsin. "Traffic to the site has CALL (414) 255-6461 Sheriff Jerome Lacke arid Democratic State been incredible for the first few weeks we've Representative Doris Hanson. Also on the been on the Internet." 1-800-255-4359 I tit Our Internet Address Is: Committee is former Dane County Supervisor Now with the new web site making it easier from the Town of Madison Kevin Bonds. 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Ca NOW Founding Member Member NAPWA Augtist•29,1Weitember'i1, 1996=WISCOISISIN LIGHT-6 Politically Speaking DIRECTORY OF The Politics of AIDS Funding Make 1996 PROFESSIONALS Election Critical By Bill Meunier until White died and his cause was taken up It was three years after the AIDS crisis by the media and Hollywood stars, Dole was began before the Reagan Administration let it virtually AWOL in the war on HIV. be know that it wouldn't veto a measure What they also won't tell you is that nearly providing funding for research, provided that everyone in the Senate was a co-sponsor of the the amount was small and that the allocation bill. They won't talk much about the GOP bill didn't mention AIDS. Platforni that Bob Dole is running on either. "I'm on your side." The announcement and the allocation were That platform DOES advocate money for timed for the 1984 Elections. Any doubts finding a cure for AIDS. It DOES NOT about that were wiped away when 18 months advocate money for research, education, after the allocation bill passed, not one dime prevention, life services for PWA's or life Thomas E. Martin attorney at law 765-9413 had been spent and the applications for grants prolonging drugs. Sensitive to the legal issues unique to our community. had not even been printed. That's why many observers fear a Dole That first step towards federal funding to victory in November. When combined with fight AIDS was precursor of things to come. continued GOP control of Congress (as During the Reagan and Bush years, statistics appears likely) Dole and closet case Kemp in Denis I. Jackson PHD , of those affected by AIDS were held down, the White House would be disastrous for 'TECH SUPPORT and most of the money allocated to fight AIDS proponents of AIDS funding. Psychotherapist 111 WINDOWS 95 was in reality used for other purposes. Forget about any increase. It won't happen. INTERNET zP UPGRADES For example, if the Federal Government Forget too about any concept of fair treatment. Licensed Psychologist Quick, affordable computer allocated 100 million to fight cancer, they Between Trent Lott in the US Senate and "After all technical support. would apply to the AIDS allocation. Newt Gringrich in the House, the Christian Relational and Individual Therapy " they said "People with AIDS can get cancer." Coalition will have Congress just where it 230 W. Wells Suite 309 NEAL BRENARD Big shows would be made of passing wants it to be. Conservative Milwaukee, WI 53203 massive AIDS allocations. In addition to the pressure on Dole from the 272-2151 columnists would waste reams of paper henchmen there is (414)276-8669 radical right's in Congress, www.execpc.com/—nbrenard complaining about AIDS money was a waste, Dole's promise of a 15% across the board tax L "special treatment" and used to promote cut. immorality. The fact is that you can't cut taxes without G/L Community Center Things changed when President Bill Clinton cutting spending. If you really believe that took office. The Clinton admin-istration AIDS funding won't be high on the list of E Trust Fund stopped the practice of counting money spent Republican targets for spending cuts then I other diseases as being spent on AIDS. Kathleen A. Neville MS, MSW on suggest immediate therapy, or at the very least Under Bill Clinton if Congress allocated 1.2 a thorough reality check. Psychotherapist Proudly Serving the Community billion for AIDS then 1.2 billion WILL in fact How many of us will do that reality check? Lakeshore Clinic be spent directly on fighting AIDS. How many of us have become almost 3970 N. Oakland, Suite 502 Moreover, Clinton has actually increased immunized against outrage over AIDS? As spending in Shorewood, Wisconsin 53211 P.O. Box 1686 AIDS spending even while cutting the disease has gone on and on taking its toll, other areas. perhaps we have become anestisized. 414 . 332 . 3331 Milwaukee, WI 53201 The results achieved by the Clinton policy Yes there are many issues in the 1996 are evident. New drugs and treatment methods campaign. AIDS is one that should be 3 8 1 7 N. OAKL (414)643-1652 have been developed. There is real hope that important to all of us. The stakes are high and we may be close to fmding a way to beat AIDS the risks are great. down to a chronic instead of a fatal disease. When all is said and done the real decision Unfortunately that is still just a hope, but is whether or not we can afford to gamble our -HOME-HEALTH its more than we had in 1992 when Clinton future and untold hundreds of thousands of AUTO took office. lives on the words of a man supported by our COMMITMENT RINGS Despite Clinton's best efforts some things most virulent enemies? 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Updated Daily Also: September 28th at UW-Madison Memorial Union "Back-To-School Campaign" with This is a free service •rovided b The Wisconsin Li• ht guest speakers Jamie Nabozny and Tammy Baldwin. August 29, 1996—September 11, 1996—WISCONSIN LIGHT--8 pledge money from south central Wisconsin. MASN Prepares For This valuable collaboration has provided AIDS WALK WISCONSIN critical hinds to sustain and expand MASN's AIDS Walk work. This year we hope to shatter all records of September 22 attendance and funds raised. "Each year we Wisconsin recruit at least 100 more people to partici- SCHEDULE Madison—The Madison AIDS Support pate," said Connie McElrone, MASN's Di- such 9:00 AM the AIDS Walk Breakfast Network (MASN) was founded in 1985 by a rector of Development, "and because it's being a who wouldn't want to have a great breakfast with Bette Midler? The AIDS Walk '96 group of co-unity members who realized the a moving experience, in addition to Now excellent Breakfast will be held at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., beginning at 9:00 urgent need for a local support and resources very well-run, fun event; we have an Meekins from WTMJ TV will be the master of ceremonies for a program that will network to help people affected by ADS. To- rate of walkers returning year after year." In AM. Carole re- an address from the Divine Miss M herself! Tickets are going fast and space is limited. day, MASN is recognized as the leader in the addition to these repeat walkers, we have include cruited a large number of first-timers. So far For tickets call 1-800-348-WALK south central Wisconsin providing outreach, Reception education, and direct care services for people this year we have registered over 1,340 walk- 11:00 The Divine picture taken with the one and only Divine Miss M, Bette Midler. The with HIV and AIDS,' their partners, their ers, received many generous corporate dona- You can have your Breakfast and program. This special reception is $500 per person. Space families, and their friends. MASN is part of a tions and anticipate selling several tickets to reception includes the first paid basis. For reservations call 1-800-348-WALK. larger statewide network of AIDS service or- the Walk breakfast. is limited and available on a ganizations (ASO) who provide critical serv- Corporate sponsorship has been stronger 10:30 Sign In Begins Summerfest grounds. Bring your pledge money and sponsor form(s) ices throughout Wisconsin than ever for '96. Companies participating so Sign in at the Milwaukee you'll be free to grab a prime spot for Miss Midler's MASN provides services to thirteen coun- far include America Family Insurance, Cellu- to the sign in area. Once you've signed in, activities for adults and kids. ties: Adams, Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Grant, lar One, the Ho Chunk Nation, Kerry Ingredi- address to the walkers and to enjoy the many Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Juneau, Lafayette, ents, Monroe Clinic, Physicians Plus, Pick 'n Noon Opening Ceremonies ceremonies including an address by Bette Midler Richland, Rock, and Sauk. Save Supermarkets, SSI Technologies, South After a brief aerobics warm up the opening Central Corporation, TDS Telecom and JAW will commence. Local 95. 12:30 The Walk Begins To make this huge undertaking work, Join in with thousands of other walkers as Wisconsin takes to the streets to fight AIDS! Wisconsin MASN relies on the loyal volunteers who Remember that this walk is the largest public demonstration of support for funding, services provide constant help in promoting the Walk. and education your presence is important. Fights Posters and point-of-purchase stands in busi- 3:45 Grand Celebration nesses along with information tables and "clip Enjoy some great live entertainment, wonderful food and drink and more. Here the results of AIDS boarding" at special events have been effec- the various contests and the 1996 AIDS Walk Wisconsin Total! tive means of registering walkers. The Magic Picnic and GALVANize Parade in Madison Miller Brewing Has Been and Continues to Education and Outreach the weekend of July 19, 1996, provided an MASN's Education and Outreach Depart- excellent setting to promote and register be Foremost in the Fight Against AIDS ment is committed to providing a variety of walkers for AIDS Walk Wisconsin. Thou- programs and services that help slow the sands of people attended the festivities to Milwaukee—Miller Brewing Company is ganization's first corporate sponsor) spread of HIV in the communities we serve. celebrate the Gay and Lesbian community, historically viewed as a supporter in the fight In addition, AIDS organizations indicate Services include: and almost 200 signed up for the Walk. against AIDS. What may not be known is that Miller Brewing Company's support has in- HIV/AIDS education to community groups In addition, every Saturday until September Miller was the first and is the largest corpo- creased the effectiveness of fund-raising Targeted outreach to people most at risk 14, MASN sponsors an information table for rate contributor in the fight against HIV/AIDS events, lowered the cost of the events (in-kind Counsel to organizations on HIV/AIDS AIDS Walk Wisconsin at the Farmers Market in the state of Wisconsin. products), and given credibility to AIDS or- policy development on the Capitol 'Square. To date we have reg- Miller Brewing Company's support state- ganizations, especially in the beginning when Life Care Services istered almost 400 people at the Market. The wide has included being the major corporate HIV/AIDS was more controversial. Our Life Care Service Department is dedi- AIDS Walk information table will be at the sponsor for all of the Wisconsin AIDS Walks This has enabled organizations to be more cated to assisting people affected by HIV State Street corner of the Square, so come by which provide support to AIDS organizations effective in responding to the growing num- and AIDS and helping them cope with physi- to register. across the state. bers of men, women and children infected cal, emotional and financial issues. Another great source of registrants has been Tom Reed, director of public affairs for with HIV/AIDS. The involvement of Miller Our services strive to give people the skills Madison's diverse neighborhood events. Over Miller and the person primarily responsible corporate executives and staff as volun- to become more involved in decisions about 300 people have registered at these commu- for securing Magic Johnson and Bette Midler teers/advisors with AIDS organizations has physical and emotional health and to support nity gatherings, including Atwood Fest, Orton as honorary chairs for the walks says, "We've also been very positive. their involvement in the community. Park Fest, Penn Park Fest, and Triangle Fest, extended our support and commitment to Miller Brewing Company, through its ex- We provide direct care services to HIV- Currently, MASN has registered over 200 fighting this epidemic in Wisconsin through tensive commitment to supporting community positive people throughout south central Wis- teams. The teams vary from corporate co- multiple fundraising events, education and events, Including AIDS organizations' special consin. Our services include: workers, to church teams, to groups of family awareness programs, research and prevention events, has provided clear direction in the Case Management; Advocacy; Information and friends. Dean Medical Center, Newell and food pantries." successful building of a corporate/non-profit and Referral; Counseling; Emotional Support; Office Products, Cullular One ,WPS, Great "Internally," Reed continues, "Miller has sponsorship. Practical Support; Support Groups Lakes Higher Education, First Lutheran helped employees afflicted with HIV/AIDS Miller has also produced an AIDS aware- Volunteer Services Church, Macho Moms, and Bluephies Res- including support of family and friends. We ness advertising campaign which appears in Volunteers are MASN's most valuable asset taurant are just a few of the businesses and also have a large contingent of volunteers national, regional and local publications. The Each year they give of their time, skills, and organizations who have registered teams. from the company who assist however they campaign has met with tremendously positive compassion to help bring and end to the AIDS Transportation can. We're proud of what we've been able to response from the AIDS community as well epidemic We need and encourage your par- In addition, Van Galder Bus Corporation contribute and plan on continuing our com- as the general public. ticipation in many parts of our organization - has once again generously donated free bus mitment at various levels in the future." between Miller Brewing office help, work with people living with HIV The partnership transportation for walkers to and from the Miller Brewing Company has given gener- AIDS organizations has gener- disease and AIDS, community education and Company and Summerfest grounds. ously to AIDS organizations around the coun- awareness prevention and in- special events. We offer extensive training to ated community The buses will be leavingfrom: Madison - try with emphasis on a grass-roots local level. messages, and increased services get our volunteers ready for volunteering and formation University of Wisconsin Lot 60 - at 7 a.m. Sponsorship from Miller Brewing Com- living with HIV. This partnership continuing education on up-to-date informa- for people and 9 a.m.; Janesville - First Lutheran pany has made a significant difference to the essential in ending the tion about HIV/AIDS and related issues and commitment is Church - 412 N Randall - 8 a.m.; Beloit - outcome and success of many AIDS organiza- and Miller is proud to be a AIDS Walk Wisconsin AIDS epidemic Beloit College -corner of Emerson and tions' special events. (Often, Miller is the or- leader in this area. AIDS Walk Wisconsin is a critical fund- College Streets - 8:00 a.m. Call MASN to raiser for Madison AIDS Support Network. make a reservation and to get more infor- Bette The Walk is an excellent means of raising mation, 608/252-6540. Midler to be Centerpiece of "Divine awareness of both the AIDS crisis and the If you are interested in registering and/or services MASN provides. Proceeds from the receiving information about being an individ- Reception" and AIDS Walk Breakfast Walk are put to work in south central Wis- ual walker or starting your own team call 1- Milwaukee—Have you always dreamed of She consin to support MASN's mission of AIDS 800-348-WALK. will address the Breakfast attendees care and prevention in its thirteen county gazing into Bette Midler's eyes up close and with her personal message about AIDS pre- area. personal? vention and care. Last year the Walk was a tremendous suc- Read How about a picture of the two of you to- As an entertainer with early performing cess for MASN. We registered over 1,700 The Wisconsin Light Online gether, autographed by the Divine Miss M? roots in Gay bathhouses, Ms. Midler has long walkers and received $69,000. Over the past It can happen. It'll cost you $500, but you'll been witness to the devastation of the AIDS years MASN has; taken in over $210,000 Our Internet Address is: feel good knowing the money is going to pro- epidemic and acknowledges she has lost from AIDS Walk participation, each year vide AIDS carel services and prevention many friends to the disease. bringing in more walkers and collecting more http://www.gayunlverse.cominews3.html work here in Wisconsin. "Ms Midler is being so gracious to spend The AIDS Walk is offering a $500 per per- the day with AIDS Walk Wisconsin. The son "Divine Reception" from 11:00 a.m. to Breakfast will be a wonderful start to the day. The Top Ten Ways to Raise Pledges For 11:30 p.m. on September 22, at the Italian I expect her fans and supporters from the Community Center for a very limited number community will make the Breakfast a sellout AIDS Walk Wisconsin of people to meet Bette Midler privately and crowd," said Nelson have their picture taken with her. The AIDS Walk Breakfast will begin at Here are just a few of the many ways that you use to fill up your AIDS Walk Sponsor Card. The ticket includes the AIDS Walk Break- 9:00 a.m. with coffee and juice in the Italian Remember that even if someone doesn't give you a pledge, your efforts can help fast Community Center atrium. The Ballroom will inform and educate those close to you. "Ms. Midler wants to do everything she can open at 9:30 a.m. for a full breakfast, of 1. Ask your co-workers Many prominent corporations like American of Madison, WPS, to raise more money for AIDS services," said french toast, sausage, hash browns, danish United Airlines and the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, and Madison's WISC TV are sponsors Doug Nelson, Executive Director of the AIDS and fruit, accompanied by spirited entertain- of AIDS Walk Wisconsin. So don't be shy about approaching those folks who have hit you up Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW). "We ment. for girl scout cookies, and raffle tickets all year long. only have a very brief time and want this to Carole Meekins of Today's TMJ4 will be 2. Ask your family Let your relatives know how important the AIDS Walk is to you and to the be a special photograph for each person who the emcee for the morning's program. Ms. community. chooses to make that important extra $500 Midler will make her grand entrance during 3. Send a post card or note in the mail to friends and family Be sure to include everyone donation." the breakfast.' who lives outside of the area. and who you otherwise might not see. Because of Ms. Midler's popularity the Tickets for the AIDS Walk Breakfast are 4. Ask your employer about matching gifts. Many employers will match whatever you can tickets to the "Divine Reception are being $50 a person and reservations are required. raise at work. sold on a first-paid basis, To reserve tickets According to AIDS Walk officials there is a 5. Ask your sponsors about matching gifts You'd be surprised at how many companies will call Jim Moore at (414) 225-1549. high level of community interest in the event match the charitable contributions made by their employees. This is a great way to double a Bette Midler to Speak at including Ms. Midler's appearance and tickets sponsor's contribution. AIDS Walk Breakfast are selling quickly. People interested in pur- 6. Involve your friends Don't be shy about asking your friends for help. Many of the top fund Order your tickets for this years AIDS Walk chasing tickets over the phone using a credit raisers for the AIDS Walk get their friends help in soliciting contributions. Breakfast now, because Bette Midler fans and card may call (414) 225-1549. 7. Display the AIDS Walk Poster Get an AIDS Walk Poster and put it up with your name Walk supporters are buying early to be sure of Tickets can also be purchased in person at and number at work, or church. This lets people know who they can call to donate money. having a seat to "Breakfast with Bette." ARCW at 820 N. Plankinton Avenue, Mon- 8. Use a Collection Jar How about asking your local corner grocery store to put up a poster It will be no ordinary Sunday morning on day through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or and put a collection jar by their cash register. Many merchants will be happy to accommodate September 22nd when the Divine Miss M by calling 1-800-348-WALK to request an in- you especially if you are regular customer. Its good pr for the merchant and it raises more comes swooshing into the ballroom at the vitation and reply by mail. money for you. Italian Community Center. With her glowing 9. Ask those you do business with. Your insurance agent, lawyer, product suppliers and other smile, flashing eyes and sincere commitment people you do business with are great possibilities. to the fight against AIDS, Bette will no doubt 10. Ask your church Some churches will do second collections on Sunday, others will make captivate the 500 people who are expected to an announcement and others will put a notice in their bulletin or newsletter. tend the AIDS Walk Breakfast. August 29, 1996—September 11, 1996—WISCONSIN LIGHT-9 AIDS Walk Wisconsin Benefits Groups AIDS Walk Wisconsin Needs Volunteers to Throughout Wisconsin Help Make It A Success Milwaukee—AIDS Camp Heartland is dedicated to helping Walk Wisconsin is pro- Milwaukee—AIDS Walk Wisconsin needs Truck Loading-(Friday September 20th, duced by the AIDS children infected with or affected by Resource Center of Wis- volunteers to help make this year's Walk a 7:00 - 8:30 PM) Strong individuals needed to HIV/AIDS by recreational opportu- consin, (ARCW). It is one of a number of providing complete success. All told, the Walk load and unload supplies AIDS Walks held nities, support and AIDS education. annually around the coun- organizers are looking for 520 volunteers. A Food Preparation (Saturday September Heartland began in August, 1993 trY- Camp total of 390 have signed up so far. 21 10 AM To Noon) Help cut up and prepare camp In its six year history, AIDS Walk Wiscon- with 75 children from 20 states. The Below is a listing of the areas where food stuffs. any child who has HIV, has a loved sin has disbursed more than $2,000,000 to welcomes Volunteers are desperately needed The times Water Delivery-(8:00 AM-Noon) Deliver to AIDS service organizations around the state. one with HIV or has lost a family member these volunteers are needed are noted next to water to the rest stops In 1995, ARCW disbursed grants totaling AIDS. the job title. Unless otherwise stated, all of Food Service ( Noon -3:30 PM) Set up, $537,364 from the 1995 AIDS Walk. In the summer of 1996, Camp Heartland these fun jobs are for Sunday, September 22. staff and break down the concession stand at in- The following groups will be beneficiaries will welcome 300 children nationwide, Many of these jobs are sit down jobs, with a Rest Stop #4 from AIDS Walk Wisconsin in 1996: cluding dozens of children from Wisconsin. couple of exceptions, none of them require Decorations and Signs to pro- Southeast Wisconsin AIDS Project The mission of Camp Heartland is much physical labor, all of them are Team Sign Assistant- (9:00 AM-12:30 SEWAP- Established in 1988, SEWAP pro- vide these children with "the best week of guaranteed to be fun! PM) Help decorate team signs. vides AIDS prevention services for the gen- their lives." Route and Logistics Balloons of Honor- (9:00 AM - 12:30 PM) eral public and support services for persons Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation Morning Set Up (7-11 AM) Help set up the Help fill balloons with helium for those who with AIDS or HIV living in Racine, Kenosha The foundation offers medical care, psycho- grounds are walking in honor of someone. or Walworth counties. logical support, education and research for Parking Attendants (8 AM to 12:30 Walker Sign In Committee HIV infected individuals as well as HIV pre- PM)Help maintain a smooth flow of traffic Walker Checker-(8:30AM-12:30 PM) ventoin programming. into the designated Summerfest parking lots. Help walkers complete their pledge forms, Wisconsin ACT UP Milwaukee Merchandise/Information-(9 AM to 12:30 ensure that everyone is registered and ACT UP is a diverse group of individuals PM or (12:30-3:30PM) Assist walkers with distribute t-shirts and sweatshirts. united in compassion and committed to direct questions and help sell red ribbons and Walk Team Captain- (8:00 AM-Noon) Leaders Fights action to end the AIDS crisis. merchandise for Sign In Teams (Must have experience) Midwest Hispanic AIDS Coalition Traffic & Crossing Guards-(11AM-4 Line Facilitator- (9:30 AM-Noon) Help keep AIDS The Coalition provides culturally-specific PM) Directs walkers to obey traffic signals the sign in lines moving, answer questions AIDS/HIV prevention and education services Walk Finish Greeters (2 PM -4 PM)- Accounting Committee and workshops for the Hispanic community. Congratulate and applaud walkers as they Accounting _ Team (10:30-4:OOPM) Network Northwest Wisconsin AIDS Project Central Wisconsin AIDS finish the route. Responsible for checking, endorsing and NOWAP- Headquartered in Eau Claire, This Wausau based organization provides Clean Up Team (3:30-5:00 PM) Help totalling Walker's pledge envelopes to provide NOWAP serves 13 counties in northwest education and support services for persons clean the grounds, folding chairs and breaking a total amount raised for the closing Wisconsin with HIV prevention programs and with HIV, their families, friends and signifi- down tables. ceremonies. AIDS life care services. NOWAP was estab- cant others. Walk Monitor-(Noon-4PM) Assist and Volunteer Committee Board lished in 1992 and is an AIDS service organi- Milwaukee Indian Health directing walkers along with Walk. Volunteer Check In-(7:30 -Noon or Noon- sen- zation of ARCW. MIHB offers a comprehensive culturally Rest Stops 4:00 PM) Check in volunteers, hand out serving Milwaukee AIDS Project sitive set of HIV/AIDS programs Rest Stop Assistants (Various times) volunteer t-shirts and name tags, direct MAP serves Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozau- multi-ethnic populations. Work with Rest Stop captains to set up tables volunteers to their work site, help co-ordinate kee and Washington Counties with compre- Northern AIDS Network and chairs to distribute water and snacks to volunteer transportation. henisve HIV/AIDS services for men, women With office in Rheinlander and Superior, the walkers. Sign Up information and children affected by or inflicted with NAN, provides community education, life Food Committee These important tasks will help ensure that HIV/AIDS. care and support services as well as HIV Food Pick Up-(Friday September 20th, this year's AIDS Walk Wisconsin is the most Services include case management, hous- testing and counseling in a 10 county region 8:00 AM-6:00 PM) Help pick up food and successful and smoothest running yet. ing, legal assistance, food transportation, of Northern Wisconsin. water from vendors. To volunteer call 1-800-348 WALK. health care services, counseling, testing and a This area of Wisconsin is very rural and clean needle exchange. sparsely populated. NAN reaches out to Wisconsin AIDS Research Consortium minimize feelings of isolationand to improve Center Project Holds the Line Against AIDS WARC delivers experimental clinical drug access to services for persons with HIV in therapies that seek to improve the quality and Northern Wisconsin. and Readies for the AIDS Walk prolong the lives of people with HIV. NAN provides case management for per- Wisconsin sons living with HIV . A telephone "buddy WARC's local research enables —Northeastern Wisconsin will The Gay and Lesbian Program and "Target Education for high risk Green Bay community has been residents with HIV to get the most advanced, to groups highlight examples of ongoing service be holding the "line" against AIDS thanks extremely supportive this year as in the past. experimental therapies. WARC is the re- of it's own honorary chair- They will be joining and prevention efforts. the participation the anticipated record search program of ARCW. person, Aaron Taylor of the Green Bay Pack- number of walkers from Northeastern Wis- Network Madison AIDS Support ers. A public service announcement (P SA) consin. area for MASN has served the Madison was filmed at Packer Stadium with Taylor by As of this week over 65 teams have been more than 10 years. The staff and 200 plus Wisconsin Tim Blotz of WFRV-TV. This will be aired formed. This is almost a 40% increase over volunteers of MASN have made outstanding repeatedly along with the Bette Midler PSA last year. Bette Midler's appearance plus the contributions to the thirteen counties they Fights until the day of the walk. WFRV-TV and strong suppon of the Center Project Inc.'s vol- serve in South Central Wisconsin. WQLH-FX FM are the official sponsors for unteers in the Green Bay, Appleton, Door MASN is recognized as a leader in these the Northeastern Wisconsin - Center Project, County Marinette and Manitowoc areas have communities providing targeted outreach, AIDS Inc. area. contributed to the high numbers of walkers community education, case management, There are other media events that are registered. counseling and volunteer support groups, The Task force performs the important scheduled to publicize the Walk in this area. Transportation with HIV, AIDS , their support. for people work of assisting faith communities through- Dianne Wagner, the Walk Coordinator for- Buses and drivers to transport the walkers and friends. partners, families out Wisconsin in developing ministries to Northeastern Wisconsin will share the micro- from the Northeastern Wisconsin areas were Project Inc. Center persons with HIV, their families, partners and phone with Kathy Larkin on her WQLH-MIX donated by Lamers Bus Lines. Center Project's dedicated vol- Since 1986, care givers. FM morning show. Buses will be leaving from the Center Proj- hard to meet unteers and staff have worked East Central Wellness Project On Friday, September 6, Dianne and Center ect in Green Bay and the Fox River Mall in requests the challenges of increased service ECWP supports programs, and services for Project Executive Director, Stan Kocos, will Appleton. numbers of clients in its and steadily climbing persons living with HIV and AIDS in an eight appear on WFRV-TV's "Eye Witness News The Manitowoc area is hoping to have 1-2 area of Northeastern Wis- 10 county service county area in East Central Wisconsin. It is This Morning." bus loads of their own this year and have tar- consin. headquartered in Winnebago. "The Breakfast Club" on WCUB-FM will geted the high schools in the area for the Bay, Appleton and With offices in Green ECWP tailors its programs to meet the spe- be the next scheduled media event. walk. Active participation is also expected Project offers anonymous Mantowoc, Center cific needs of the rural population living The Oneida Nation is the top contributor in from the colleges and universities in the area. and professional HIV testing, community within its service area. Among its programs Northeastern Wisconsin. They have given They have been extremely cooperative in dis- materials and comprehen- education, resource is the "Caring Companions Program" to help $10,000.00 to the Walk for the second year in tributing walk information. sive life care services. those infected with HIV to receive profes- a row. The large number of walkers along with the sional assistance at home. Other contributions from Corporations are visibility of our political leaders from the Wisconsin Aids The Drug Reimbursement Program is pro- expected in the near future. Center Project area will definitely boost a vided with cooperation with local Wal-Mart Top political officials from the Center Proj- new awareness that AJUS does exist in our Walkers Can Win Drug Stores providing drugs at or below cost. ect county area have tentatively committed to Northeastern Wisconsin communities and Chuck Wagon Volunteers collect and dis- attending the Walk. Full details will be an- there are people who are willing to do Some- tribute non-perishable food items to clients nounced once their itinerary has been final- thing concrete about it Trips and Other and their families. ized. ECWP also provides funds to the East Prizes Central HIV/AIDS organization (ECHO) to enhance its available client services. —As if helping the various Milwaukee Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin groups isn't enough incentive, the benefiting Planned Parenthood provides family plan- AIDS Walk Wisconsin have come up folks at ning, reproductive health care, community more incentives. with some education and advocacy programs in addition AIDS Walk Wisconsin participants can win to specific programs and services related to prizes based on how much money valuable HIV/AIDS. to raise. they are able These programs include employing two listing of premiums AIDS Walk Below is a Specialists to distributed condoms offering to its participants: Outreach Wisconsin is information about HIV and other sexually Walk T-Shirt -$100 and Free AIDS transmitted diseases to women in low income AIDS Walk Sweatshirt - $250 mm Camera - $500 neighborhoods. Ricoh Super 35 Outreach Specialists from PPW also pro- Koss CD discman - $,1000 vide education and life skills programming at Samsung 13" Color TV - $2,000 prisons, pre-release programs and chemical cameras, CD players and televisions The dependency programs. donated by American of Madison. are being PPW also offers HIV testing at all of its 34 addition, the top money makers will win In clinics located throughout Wisconsin. trip. a great The Counseling Center of Milwaukee Grand Prize- Two roundtrip tickets to The Counseling Center of Milwaukee con- Hawaii on United Airlines and five nights ducts extensive seminars and facilitates sup- deluxe hotel accommodations courtesy of port groups addressing issues related to HIV United Vacations and AIDS. Prise - Two round trip tickets to San First The Visiting Nurses Association on United Airlines and three nights Francisco The Visiting Nurses Association provides hotel accommodations courtesy of first class health care for those infected by Associates. home Travel HIV/AIDS. Through these programs persons Prize- Two round trip tickets on Second with AIDS are able to live in their own homes Airlines to any destination in the con- United instead of a care maintenance facility. tiguous 48 United States served by United. . , • August 29, 1996 to September 11, 1996 WISCONSIN LIGHT-10 THE SPOTLIGHT

Share the Excitement On Sunday, September 22 AIDS Walk Wisconsin: A F1111 Event By Bill Meunier its credit. AIDS Walk Wisconsin is an important Lu Shanti and Man Hang will share Rest fundraiser for dozens of AIDS programs Stop 6. If you make it this far its well around the state, but it is more than that, worth your time to hear them. Lu is a very its also a social occasion. fine cabaret singer and Mari Hang is a The AIDS Walk itself is like a floating wonderful folk singer. party going through the streets of Mil- waukee. In addition to the fun you make There will be plenty of great yourself, the organizers have done a good acts at the various rest stops. job in making sure that everyone will be entertained. Sweet Cheeks Headlines Breakfast With Bette Last but not least is Sweet Cheeks. The First of all there is the AIDS Walk popular band was a big hit at PrideFest Breakfast at the Italian Community Center. two years ago. The 11 piece 50's, 60's Now $50.00 a plate may seem like some show band is a pure joy to watch and pretty expensive eggs, but remember that listen too. this omelet includes Bette Midler, the This band is so good that even Glen Divine Miss M herself. Bishop (noted Light movie critic) would The Breakfast typically sells out early. If not be able to find anything to be neg-ative you are planning to be there, but don't about. have your tickets yet, don't delay. Call 1- Sweet Cheeks is sure to keep things 800-348 WALK and make your reservation lively until and after the totals now. for this The Yell Leaders will be hand to rev up the crowd before this year's AIDS Walk Wisconsin. The year's AIDS Walk Wisconsin are on On Site Entertainment band will join with many other fine entertainers including the fabulous 50's, 60's Show band Sweet announced. The AIDS Walk grounds in the Miller Cheeks, Mia Montenegro, Mook and the Cream City Cloggers. Parties At area of Milwaukee's Summerfest grounds Milwaukee Bars, Too! In addition to the will be filled with entertainers too. There entertainment provided For the Pet Shop Boys, Coming Out Has by the Walk, there will will be strolling performers, stilt walkers, be Victory parties are many of Milwaukee's Given a New musicians, clowns and more. bars. As of Thrust to their Music press time, The The Yell Leaders will be on the Main Wisconsin Light has learned of By Jeffrey L. Newman bum's outside sleeve). He says there have Stage getting the crowd warmed up for parties at In Between, 625 S. their Gayness in almost Second St. For more than a decade, pop icons Neil been hints of Bette. , Mama Roux, 1875 N. every one of their recordings. Humboldt Tennant and Chris Lowe have epitomized Then come the Opening Ceremonies. and Just Us, 807 S. Fifth St. Gay disco. As the craftsman behind the The Boys' 1991 release "Behaviour," for So don't just come to the AIDS Walk "Nervously," a Of course the Divine Miss M herself will be Pet Shop Boys, Tennant and Lowe have instance, featured the tune thinking it's just a Walk. Its far more than song about addressing the assembled masses. It will been shaping the direction of Euro-pop desire between two men who that. It's a party, a show and a great are meeting be a great chance for her fans to see her dance music and mixing it with a Gay for the first time, which Ten- time. sensibility. nant originally wrote in 1981 before he up close and personal. With four number one singles and more met Lowe. "To Speak Is A Sin," and Among the acts are Mia Montenegro, a than a dozen Top 100 songs in the U.S., "Liberation" from 1993's "Very" dealt di- wonderful singer. Mia does original and The AIDS Walk itself is like a including "Always on My Mind," "It's A rectly with being Gay. In fact, most of covers. She will be on stage at Rest Stop floating party going through Sin," "Opportunities," "What Have I Done "Very," was written from the view point of 1 Tennant as a Gay To Deserve This" and the chart topping man in love. The Cream City Cloggers will be the streets of Milwaukee "West End Girls," the Boys have become And of course their brilliant cover of the performing at Rest Stop 2. If you've never one of the most influential pop bands of Village People's "Go West," took the '70s Entertainers Throughout the Route classic about the Gay seen cloggers then don't miss this group. the '80s and '90s. dream of living the The walk itself should also be But despite rumors of being Gay Gay life in San Francisco and gave it a Clogging is kind of a cross between tap and entertaining. There will be plenty of great garnering a huge Gay fan base all of over '90s twist, with an undercurrent of how dancing and square dancing. acts at the various rest stops. Make the world, the duo have avoided coming that Gay dream has been savaged by Exhibit A will be at Rest Stop 3 and the sure out publicly, until now. AIDS. Grinders will be at Rest Stop 4. you get to all of them or you might miss Having passed the 40-year old mark But Tennant remains slightly weary of The ever fabulous Mook will be at Rest something really good. and fallen in love, Tennant felt the time wearing the Gay label on his shirt sleeve, Stop 5. This very popular band does fearing people was right to talk about being Gay. (Of would try to pigeon-hole original music and has several albums to course, many people assumed their col- the Boys into a category based on their laboration with Liza Minnelli in 1990 and sexuality. last year's campy single, "Absolutely "The Gay label doesn't really bother me, Fabulous," based on the hit British TV as long as it's just not something that is show, was their coming out.) restrictive. I just don't think one should &dnate wide ;It "In the past, I had resisted (saying I was live one's life as a Gay man. I don't think Gay), partly because when we first started that sexuality necessarily implies a life in the mid-80s we were very much a pop style package that comes with it," he The Rainbow Over Wisconsin group, and I didn't want to be categorized says. as an outrageous Gay pop star," admits "As I write the words in the Pet Shop Pride Weekend Tennant, in his first openly Gay interview Boys songs, I deal with (being Gay) in in the U.S. "We have always preferred to them. I always have done that. I probably be enigmatic. Part of the Pet Shop Boys deal with them slightly more openly now, image has always been to be enigmatic which I quite enjoy doing. Although and not define things. I think in pop music 'Metamorphosis,' a rap (on the new al- SATURDAY AUGUST 31 that works very strongly, because people bum), about growing up Gay and realizing imagine things about you ... you are a what you are and how you are going to creature of their imagination. And I like deal with it and all that stuff, I suppose I 9 Pin Tap Bowling Tournament that." wouldn't have done that a few years ago." Riviera Lanes, 2450 University Ave, Green Tennant and Lowe return to the music So, what does the press-shy Lowe think Bay scene September 10 with their first re- of the Boys' new found openness? "Chris Registration 1 PM, Bowling 2 PM lease of new material in nearly three is completely against people categorizing years. Entitled "Bilingual," the Latin- themselves as Gay or straight for that infused opus is the Pet Shop Boys' eighth matter. He just thinks people are sexual," SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1 release, and their first for Atlantic Rec- Tennant says. ords. (Their last release was 1995's stun- "The thing is, if you were just sexual, if ning two-disc compilation of bonus tracks you look at it as sexual preference, it ROW Pride Picnic, Appleton's Memorial Park and B-side singles.) The album's first sin- doesn't carry so many assumptions with (Exit Highway 41 at Ballard Road and Head South) gle, the infectious "Before," recently it, so many cultural assumptions with it. Entertainment, topped Billboard's dance music charts. And I know a lot of people enjoy all of the Food, Dance Pavilion, Merchandise Sales The 42-year old Tennant doesn't view culture that goes with it." Hours Noon to 6 PM "Bilingual" as the Boys' coming out album, And no, Tennant and Lowe are not, and (although, the U.K. vinyl 12" of "Before" have never been, lovers. sports a photo of a giant penis on the al- Please turn to Pet Shop Boys Page 19 Ad Space Donated by "The Wisconsin Light" THE SPOTLIGHT August 29, 1996 to September 11, 1996-WISCONSIN LIGHT-11 out on Film • *011111,1•411.11.11111114,0000 `The Island of Dr. Moreau' is Exciting and Scary Enough to Entertain

Reviewed by Glenn Bishop is sealed. So too is Montgomery's, long The author of some of the most vision- the creatures' evil keeper, who has taken ary of all science fiction novels, H.G. this opportunity to descend fully into Wells created worlds far beyond the madness, although Glenn was unable to comprehension of his contemporaries. ascertain exactly why. Vividly mixing science fact with imagina- The Island of Dr. Moreau proves to be tion, Wells' fantasy futures, seen today highly entertaining, a few gaps in logic with all the clarity that hindsight can notwithstanding, as director Franken- bring, seems if not actually inevitable, heimer keeps the pace zipping along then at the least reasonable. nicely. Particular mention must be made Such is the case with H.G.Wells' Island of the makeup wizardry which is simply A shirtless Val Kilmer relaxes in this of Dr. Moreau, admittedly not amongst phenomenal. scene from the Sci-Fi thriller The Island of Dr. Moreau. The remake of the sci-fi classic also stars Marlon Brando as Dr. Moreau. Kilmer stars as his assistant. Glenn's favorite sci-fi novels. 1996 is the Marlon Brando inevitably steals the centennial anniversary of this novel which show here and his surprising piano duet director John Frankenheimer has set in with Majai (Nelson de la Rosa) is a par- `A Very Brady Sequel' Will Appeal to the the near future to incorporate some of the ticular delight. fantastic, fascinating developments in David Thewlis is fine as usual as the oh Family Values Set, But to Few Others genetic engineering. These develop- so normal Edward Douglas. Only Val ments now make the previously incom- Kilmer seems a bit lost in the underwrit- Reviewed by Glenn Bishop seem unbelievably comy. Perhaps they prehensible concept of creating creatures ten role as Moreau's assistant Montgom- The Brady Bunch, a television sit-com did even back in the '70's. more perfect than either man or animal ery. which Glenn grew up with (and is cur- Shelley Long and Gary Cole are back by integrating the DNA of both, seem all Rating: $$$$ (scale $ to $$$$$$) rently in therapy over) continues to be a on board as Carol and Mike Brady as are too frighteningly possible. The Island of Dr. Moreau is now pop-culture phenomenon that is simply the rest of the Brady clan from last year's The film begins with the discovery of playing at theatres everywhere. beyond Glenn's comprehension. Pleas- surprisingly successful The Brady Bunch Edward Douglas (David Thewlis), the ant enough as background noise on the Movie. Right down to Olivia Hack as survivor of a plane crash and alone, adrift occasional acid trip, today, episodes Please Turn to Brady Bunch Page 12 on a raft on the ocean. Miraculously he is saved by Montgomery (Val Kilmer) and taken to a tiny mysterious island. There, Montgomery tells him, he will be able to radio for help. Initially the island appears to Douglas to be some kind of tropical paradise yet LINKS LINKS Benefit he does sense something amiss when Montgomery snaps the neck of a fuzzy little rabbit, His new home quickly proves to be anything but an idyllic paradise as Doug- las soon finds himself a prisoner in the uoa. Block Party! home of Dr. Moreau. Managing to escape, Douglas begins to explore and almost immediately he finds himself in the laboratory and what he UNITE) Sunday, Sept. 1, 1996 sees there is both thrilling and terrible, uncovering the secrets of the mysterious Dr. Moreau and his experiments. To bring to life the legendary, shall we Noon to Wm+ say larger-than-life Dr. Moreau, a brilliant if demented scientist, who could imagine Corner of East Washington & South Barclay (near Fannies) a better choice than that legendary de- mented but brilliant, larger-than-life Mar- lon Brando? Dr. Moreau has spent his life seeking to Special Gue5ts: create a perfect being, one lacking the violence and baseness encountered in humans. Yet what Douglas encounters is Milton Bullock, "The Golden Platter" a household, an entire island in fact, of creatures that in appearance and in tem- perament exist somewhere between that The Carolyn Carolyn Show of animal and of human. The one exception is Moreau's strange, beautiful daughter, Aissa (Fairuza Balk ) PLUS many more! with whom Douglas begins to develop romantic urges. Still, appearances can and indeed, of- ten are deceiving. OVER 22 HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT . . • Douglas soon learns that Aissa's seeming perfection is but an illusion, her human form is only maintained with the aid of a special serum, one which the evil ON 2 EXCITING STAGES Montgomery has been holding back. (As Aissa begins to revert back to her Pageant Productions Rick Beech animal state she increasing looks like a wigged out Michael Jackson.) Stardust Lu Shanti Dispensing justice at one moment, a plate of biscuits the next, Brando's Mo- Shoreline Dancers Rod Benedict reau is at turns sympathetic and ridicu- lous. As big as a house and be-decked in Josie Santiago Robert Nugent Jones an astonishing variety of kaftans, Brando Dianna Jones Latino has elevated Moreau from the typical 50's Pride B-flick crazy scientist schtick to almost The Resentments Jillian Clarke heroic proportions. His is an exciting, if perhaps a not terribly original interpreta- Lee Mayfield Girls Behind Bars tion but indeed one which he carries off with his usual flair. Red Sky Miss Gay-WI America Ever the moralist, Wells has the crea- tures rebel against their fate, that piteous, Yell Leaders Tre'D tenuous state neither animal nor fully Openings for Entertainers, human. It is impossible to not feel for Jeng Volunteers, Vendors: The Martins these amazing beings, who, while seek- Call Bob at 414/389-1200 or Sharon ing a soul cannot fully escape their true, at 414/643-9633 or 414/649-9003 animalistic instinct. Existentialism is all well and good but MAJOR this is still Hollywood Summer Block- SUPPORTERS: Designing Men, Fannies & SUPPORTER buster time so, gosh darn it, there better Brandon be some action or the masses, too, will Marsh Entertainment revolt. One of the creatures discovers the small implant chip which enables Dr. Mo- reau to control all of "his children" and Proceeds to benefit . . . rips it right out of his arm (his? hers? its?). BESTD Clinic Discovering the means of his control, WIS( ONS I N kat War Coalitioo MAP St. Camillus CREAM CITY in the creatures' eyes Dr. Moreau is no 1,0111.WAUKII AIDS l'AOI1CT STD Specialities longer "father", no longer a God. His fate ff FOUNDATION ••• August 29, 1996 to September 11, 1996;WISCONSIN LIGHT-12 THE'SPOTLIGHT

_Inarhim Kral and Til Schweiner star in the German hit Maybe Maybe Not. The film which is the highest grossing German film ever, is about Gay and Straight relationships. It's scheduled to open at Milvtaukee's Oriental in Mid-September. Scarlett Johansson plays Manny and Aleksa Palladino is Lo in Manny and Lo, a story about two motherless sisters who are reunited after running away from separate foster homes. The film opens at Milwaukee's Downer Theater on Friday August 30. `The Fan', a Film About Big League Ball, decades. BRADY BUNCH Trevor Thomas (alias Roy Martin ) was Gets No Farther Than the Cellar Continued from Page 11 actually Roy's assistant on the dig and Reviewed by Glenn Bishop rather dubious but certainly curious lisping little Cindy, these talented folks had sabotaged the expedition and now Glenn had not the opportunity to read clothes fetish scene).Gil is clearly a base have their Brady-isms down to a tee. has decided to impersonate Roy in order Peter Abraham's best-seller upon which or two short of a baseball diamond but That film's conceit was that the Brady's to reclaim the prize antique. this Tony Scott film is based, but from the things seem to be going okay until Bobby were somehow still time-warped in the As one might expect, things do not go previews, The Fan looked awfully famil- admits that the end of his slump came 1970's while the rest of the world (us in smoothly for Trevor/Roy, these are the iar, another film featuring Robert DeNiro because he simply stopped caring. the audience as well) has managed to hit Bradys, after all. The stone horse always playing some pyscho stalker -- not a par- Wrong, wrong, wrong. Very wrong. upon the '90's. Their clothes are "far out" seems just beyond his finger tips. When ticularly appealing nor an especially novel S00000000000 wrong! and their family values "neato". Nothing Trevor/Roy does finally manage to get his premise. Bobby tries to send Gil on his merry has changed in this sequel : things still be hands on it, the family discovers his real One imagines that prospective films way but before he goes, Gil takes groovy! identity. about pyscho stalkers just don't get made Bobby's son and jeep, leaving behind a In this second installment, the Brady's In making his escape, Trevor/Roy kid- unless DeNiro's available. Thankfully the little souvenir, something of a testament happy little household is disrupted with naps poor Carol and drags her off to Ha- most he's able to do is one psy- of his love. (That's right, Gil's been car- the appearance of Carol's first husband, waii. cho/stalker flick a year. rying around a hunk of this human flesh Roy (Tim Matheson). No one recognizes Faced with a less than inspired screen- Armed with his usual biggie Popcorn in his pocket!?!) him as such. Carol doesn't think Roy play, director Arlene Sanford finds laughs and Pepsi, Glenn found himself expecting With young Richie Rayburn in tow, Gil looks like himself (An elephant stomped in some of the silliest bits of Brady busi- the worst. seeks out his old Little League catcher, on his face, Roy replies.) ness and happily keeps the action breez- Here DeNiro plays Gil Renard, a knife Coop (C1-,lrles Hallahan) who seems a bit Carol thinks he looks taller (He was ing along at a nice clip. salesman from the "old school", when surprised to see Gil. Seems Bobby isn't stretched on a rack, says Roy). But Gays and Lesbians in the audience will quality counted for something and profit the only one Gil's been stalking. those Bradys. Why sure, they'll accept be disappointed that Marcia's delightful wasn't the name of the game. Gil's dad Gil gets into all sorts of violent mischief the phoney Roy into their home and Lesbian friend from the original is no- started the business during an apparently before The Fan culminates in an abso- hearth. where to be found in A Very Brady Se- kinder and gentler era. Now Gil's sales lutely absurd climax in a rain-drenched And why, you may ask Glenn, why quel. have slacked off and he finds himself the Candlestick Park. would someone want to impersonate Still, the Brady's jaunt to Hawaii pro- odd man (pun fully intended) out. Boss Despite attempts at putting him in a sy- Carol Brady's first husband? Well, it vides the opportunity for a series of in- Garrity (Dan Bulter) warns Gil it's his way pathetic light, DeNiro's Gil is just too turns out that Carol's first husband was creasingly tiresome jokes focused on the or the highway. gosh darn weird and creepy to make on an archeology dig and found a fabu- Gay marriage issue in the Aloha state. These early scenes are surprisingly ef- Glenn care about him. Wesley Snipes is lously valuable ancient carved horse. Sure to please "Wonder Bread" Amer- fective. DeNiro and director Scott have fine as Bobby (and looking mighty fine in Yes, that very same horse that has ica but what must they think overseas? envisioned Gil as the prototypical "angry his baseball uniform) but Ellen Barkin adorned the Brady living for the past few Rating $$$ (scale & to $$$$$$) white man", a 90's Willy Loman hawking and John Leguizamo have little to do in knives that are a cheap imitation of those supporting roles. his beloved father crafted so many years Unable to decide on either an explora- DISCOVER WISCONSIN'S GAY ago. tion of the failure of the American Dream ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX! Gil is dreamer of the American dream or an action thriller and with a slim at 4 Different Places to Party, whose wasted life has begun to demon- best grasp of baseball, Tony Scott fails to Dance or Relax strate the obvious hollowness of such a reach the pennant with The Fan. 7 Bars • 2 Dance Floors fantasy. What's left in his life is a Rating $$ (scale $$$$$$) 4 Sound Systems burning passion for the game of baseball. Playing throughout the Metro Milwau- Video Food It was on a distant little-league field that kee area. Games • Dancing Gil had his one bright and shining mo- ment as a hero. He could've, he aear Broadway's Smash should've, but he didn't become the baseball star he'd always dreamt of be- Hit coming. So now, so very many years 'Rent," To Be later, he lives vicariously through the San Made into a Film WHERE IT HAPPENS! Francisco Giants and in particular their new star centerfielder, Bobby Rayburn New York--Broadway's Rent, a story (Wesley Snipes). of survival on New York's grungy Lower When Gil loses his job, baseball be- Wednesdays & Thursdays East Side, is going Hollywood. comes his life, appearing at virtually Movie rights to the Tony and Pulitzer- every game (thankfully he paid for his Prize winning musical were acquired by season ticket before he got canned) Miramax Films, Tribeca Productions and cheering Bobby's season-long slump has Cappa Productions, the companies an- everyone else at Candlestick Park booing nounced Friday. the bum. Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and When we first see Bobby, he shows all Jane Rosenthal will produce the film. the arrogance one would expect from a - Rent" was written by Jonathan Lar- major league baseball star with .314 life- son, who died of AIDS in January, 1996 time batting average and a $40 million at the age of 35. It received four Tony dollar contract burning a hole in his %per 5\n' Awards pocket. including best musical and the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama. But there's a fly in the oinment, another Inspired by the opera "La Boheme," player, Juan Primo (Benicio Milwaukee's BEST VALUE in Milwaukee's Del Toro) on Rent transports Puccini's characters to BEST CLUB! the Giants already has Bobby's number the end of the 20th century--and trans- 11 on his uniform and Mr. Primo isn't in- forms them. Rodolfo becomes Roger, an clined to give it up. HIV-positive rock musician, in love with a (One might have thought that someone drug-addicted Mimi, also suffering from holding out until Opening Day for a $40 AIDS. million contract would have thought to Marcello, the painter, is rechristened have added a demand for his uniform Mark, a video maker, who must choose number among his other demands.) between commercial success and artistic The first game features a spectacular integrity. And the high-spirited Musetta is collision in the outfield between the two now Maureen, a Lesbian disputing performance players and also Bobby's game artist. winning grand-slam but from there it's all Among their acquaintances: a trans- downhill for Mr. Rayburn who becomes vestite named Angel, in love with a col- obsessed with the notion that his slump is lege professor with the improbable name due to his being forced to wear some of Tom Collins, and Berny, the nominal other number. villain of the piece, a one-time buddy About the point that Gil decides to take turned yuppie and even worse, Open Spm Nightly • Happy Hour 8-10pm 'Shake-A-Drink" matters into slum his own hands is just about landlord. the point that The Fan tailspins into an Miramax and the other production unpleasant, entirely implausible mindless companies are remaining mum about action-pic. details of the deal and how the musical While stalking Bobby at his ocean-front will be handled on film. home, Gil has the good fortune to save Rent publicist Don Summa said - many Milwaukee's Newest Gay Nite Club Just Happens to be Bobby's young son Richie from drowning. of the major players" were negotiating for Milwaukee's Oldest Gay Nite Club! Bobby is suitably grateful and welcomes the show's movie rights for Gil into several 801 - 807 South 2nd Street - Milwaukee - 383-8330 his home (and his closet in a months. THE SPOTLIGHT August 29,1996 to September 1996-WISCONSINU1itt-13- YOU'RE. INVITED

SATURDAY AUGUST 31 AIDS Project, and the Cream City Foundation will be held in Milwaukee on East Washingrton and Barclay, (in front of SPOTLIGHT PARTY AT JUST US Fannies). The Wisconsin Light SpotLight Party, the The party includes great entertainment Shore Line Round UP, is a great way to on two stages, food and drink, get your labor day weekend off to a good merchandise sales and more. Its a free start. event, but donations are gratefully Hosted by Just Us, 807 S. 5 St., accepted. Milwaukee, the party includes dance lessons, an all you can eat Taco Buffet, dance contests and performances by four Friday September 6 great dance troupes, The Purple Creek Cloggers, the Borderline Dancers, the GUTZMANN RETURNS WITH Rainbow Dancers and of course MACBETH IN VOGEL HALL The cast and crew of True to Desire celebrated their nomination for a National Hometown Video award Wisconsin's own Shore Line Dance Critically acclaimed director/producer with a party at the Triangle, 135 E. National, Milwaukee. A big crowd was on hand to share some great troupe. Dale Gutzmann has returned from his food and to watch a video showing the nomination. Shown above (I -r) are: Top row Joe, and Jeremy. The Party Schedule is as follows: triumphant tour of Russia and Ukraine. Middle Row: Chris, Gary, Rod, and Producer Tim Marshall. Bottom row: Jeff, John, Ron and Jimmy. 3:00 Two Step Dance Lessons His troupe will be doing encore Congratulations and good luck at the Hometown finals. 3:30 Line Dance Lessons performances of "MacBeth," the show he it. RECEPTION FOR JORGE CABAL 4 to 7 All you can eat Taco Buffet (Free produced in Russia. 10% DANCE IN MADISON PHOTO EXHIBIT AT BESTD Miller Lite for those chowing down) The production received rave reviews UW-Madison's 10% Society is hold- "Faces 1995-96" a new exhibit by the 7:30 2 Step Dance Contest from the hard to please Russian and very talented Jorge Cabal will open at the ing another of their dances. The all 8:00 Line Dance Contest Ukranian critics. BESTD Clinic. An opening night ages party starts at 8:00 in Great 10:00 Gala Show featuring Perfor- It can be seen in Vogel Hall in Hall reception from 6 to 9 PM will salute the of the mances from Shore Line the Purple Milwaukee's Performing Arts Center on Memorial Union. artisit and his work. Creek Cloggers, Borderline and the September 6 , 7, 13 and 14. Show time is Alcohol will be served in a separate Cabal has had many of his photos 8:00. Tickets are $17..00 and well worth room. Rainbow Cloggers Please Turn to You're Invited Page 19

RAINBOW OVER WISCONSIN PRIDE CELEBRATION BEGINS Even if you can't bowl, you'll have a great A Gay Tourist Dream time at the Rainbow Over Wisconsin Nine Pin Tap Tournament. The tourney held at the Riviera Lanes, Vacation 2450 University Ave, Green Bay is $25.00 per person. That includes a great buffet, Hosted by Dale Gutzman your games, shoes and a donation to Rainbow Over Wisconsin. Registration is at 1:00 and the games November 11-25, 1996 begin at 2 PM. FOLLIE GIRLS AT CLUB 94 The most exotic country on earth, a special beach, Kenosha's Club 94, HWY C and 1-94 will cultural and nightlife tour with you in mind with Pattaya, present a special Labor Day Show from the resort center of Thailand. Travel with international the Follie Girls. The fun begins at 11:00 as your favorite entertainer Dale Gutzman, who has visited Thailand ten performers take to the stage to strut their times before. Visit the land of a thousand smiles as no tourist will ever see it. you will fall in love with this M & M R REUNION REVIEW The M & M Club continues its year long country and its people! 20th Anniversary Celebration with "A Reunion Review." Only $2,600 per person All of your favorite performers will be on TOUR INCLUDES: Roundtrip airfare; ground transportation; 13 nights, private room w/bath in one of the Gay Boystown area hotels; an LIMITED TO 10, SO MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! hand as the Club and its staff pull out all authentic Thai dinner with dance show; nightly tours to the wildest bars and nightclubs in the world; dinner & Dale's nightclub show at the Cafe Call Dale at 414/466-4049 FMI or to reserve your space. the stops presenting some of your Royal; a Thai boxing Match Tour of Temples, a stone carving village and favorites from recent times and times in The Monkey Cliffs; modem shopping malls, discos & dance clubs, plus the past. much more! This not to be missed show begins the finale of the M & M Club's celebration. The popular restaurant and bar is located Dale Gutzman presents . at 124 N. Water Street. "An extraordinary SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1 James Strange performance.), Odessa News PRIDE PICNIC IN APPLETON direct from a triumphant Great food, entertainment and more engagement in Russia await celebrants at Rainbow Over Wisocnsin's first ever Pride Picinic. The free picnic will be held at Appleton's in Memorial Park beginning at Noon. It is open to everyone OVER THE AGE OF 21. The picnic includes various vendors selling Pride merchandise, a dance pavillion with DJ's spinning your favorites MACBETH CALL: (assuming they can get them on the turn table), a beer and soda tent, a food tent 414/273-7206 and a great show headlined by By William Shakespeare Singsational and Duwanna Moore's Titleholder Revue. RASCAL'S PRIDE PATIO PARTY Vogel Hall Rascal's will be closed during the Pride Picnic, but will open afterwards for a Pride Friday & Saturday Patio Party. The Party features the wonderful voices September 6 & 7, 13 & 14 of Singsational. It begins at 6:00 and its a great way to finish off a proud time in at 8pm Appleton. MATINEE: Sept 13 at 11am "This show PORTFOLIO MEN moves like a Is your portfolio in order? If not you may Tickets are want to check out the Portfolio Men at high speed train Club 94, Hwy C and 1-94, Kenosha for $17 some tips. and has all the This dance troupe definitely has its $12 (students) punch of today's stocks and bonds in very good order. The show begins at 11:00. Matinee Prices: news LINKS BLOCK PARTY $5 & $10 headlines." The Links Block Party, a benefit for several charities including the Milwaukee August 29, 1996 to September 11, 1996-WISCONSIN LIGHT-14 THE SPOTLIGHT Amethyst Productions to Present Joe Orton's Classic 'Loot' Milwaukee—On September 5, 1996, ocnimmels as Truscott. Amethyst Productions, the newest jewel in At the time of its initial London stage Milwaukee's theatrical crown, will premier production in September, 1966, Orton's Joe Orton's deliciously debauched farce infernally black comedy, Loot, was loudly Loot in the first performance of the sea- denounced in the press for its outra- son in the Broadway Theatre Center's geously incendiary treatment of themes Studio Theatre. This 30th Anniversary pro- ranging from grave robbing and murder to duction of the Orton camp classic features police brutality and shifting sexual identi- a cast of the area's finest performers, and ties. enough plot and gender twists to satisfy That the flamboyant Orton and his lover, even the most demanding theater goer. Kenneth Halliwell, openly flouted societal Under the guidance of Amethyst pro- conventions and had already had several ducer Pamela Brown, celebrated local di- unhappy encounters with the law, was rector Jonathan West will orchestrate the undoubtedly irksome to those acquainted on-stage mayhem wrought by a cast in- with his personal circumstances. cluding Bill Clifford as McLeavy, Amy However, more damning in the eyes of Hastert as Fay, Jonathan Wainwright as the general theatre-going public than Or- Hal, Stephen Roselin as Dennis, and Tom ton's own lifestyle, was the fact that he had the temerity to expose the hypocritical societal underpinnings of the British Some of the revelers at Mama Roux's 70's party held on Sunday August 18 at the popular East Side African-American status quo with such a wickedly literate bar, located at 1875 N. Humboldt, Milwaukee. A packed bar relived the golden age of Gay disco gusto. throughtou the evening. We had a hard time getting some of those in this group to come out in the Play to Open Thus, though the somewhat flawed ini- daylight dressed in their 70's best where anyone could see them. (Did we really used to dress like this? ) tial production drew fire from many quar- Theatre X Season ters, it was nevertheless possessed of all the elements (truth, clarity of perspective, Milwaukee—Singing in a Strange and a calculating offhanded outrageous- Land, a new play by Sheri Williams Pan- ness) necessary to ensure its immediate nell, will open the 1996-'97 Theatre X and continued success. season. Singing in a Strange Land On the basis of the success of Loot, opens on September 19 and runs through Orton came to the attention of the Beatles C_R_Mtue October 6. who commissioned him to script a film The play will be directed by Adolphus (the unproduced "Up Against It."). Ward and features Pannell as Valena With the production of his next plays, Gutzman Opens Season With Updated McCall, Rabin Lewis Abston, Evelyn "Bahtyah" E. Jones, Willie Abney and Version of Shakespeare's "MacBeth" Rochelle Streeter-Jackson. Singing in a Strange Land is the story Milwaukee--The first show of Dale Gutz- Shakespeare intended, the show is political, of an African-American singer's progres- man's 1996/97 Season at Vogel Hall will be intimate and resonates with today's sion from vaudeville through gospel to his radical new production of William headlines. The primary focus of this opera. The play is set in 1928 and follows Shakespeare's MacBeth. production is in the language." said Gutz- the career of a talented and ambitious The production will play on September 6, man. singer, Valena McCall, and her husband- 7, 13 and 14. Showtime is 8:00. The production in Odessa was covered by manager. With Jim Crow in full force, this Gutzman just returned from directing the half a dozen television stations and over a play is about the desire to succeed, over- production in Odessa in the Ukraine. He dozen radio stations from throughout Russia coming obstacles, and the price of suc- followed the Moscow Art Theatre into the and Ukraine. The show received critical cess. Russian Odessa Drama Theater where he acclaim. One reviewer wrote "The most Singing in a Strange Land is being worked with ten Russian actors and three exciting theater in Odessa in over twenty underwritten by Miller Brewing Company Americans to create a bi-lingual inter- years." Another commented "James and the City of Milwaukee Arts Board. national production of MacBeth. Strange gives an extraordinary perfor- For tickets, times and other information, James Strange who played the leading mance." please call (414) 291-7800. role in Odessa will now star in an All One Russian paper lauded the show American production for Gutzman at the stating "This MacBeth moves like a run Naiad's Athena Marcus Center for the Performing Art's away train and the audience has no chance Vogel Hall. In January, Gutzman will bring to relax, it's a thrilling production." The Film and Video the Russian cast over for a special limited show in Odessa was sold out and may be engagement in New York City. revived next summer. This new production of a show Gutzman The show's popularity in Odessa is in and Awards Winners has done five times is modern, intimate and of itself, high praise. Odessa, located on exciting. "In spite of what some audiences the Black Sea was a major cultural center of Announced Joe Orton may think, its very close to what the old Soviet Union. Its film studio was home to Russian greats like Einsentein, M ilwau kee--The Athena Awards, Funeral Games and What the Butler Boulevard Theatre Trakovsky and Pushkin. Odessa currently sponsored by Northern Arts/Naiad Press Saw, Orton firmly established himself as were announced on generation and has seven theater companies, an operetta August 15, 1996. the master farceur of his Given to heights of the To Hold Auditions company, an opera company and several independent producers working was poised to rise to the children's theaters in Lesbian film and video making, the contemporary theatrical scene. His as- Athena Awards For the American version of the show, will be given annually and cension was abruptly halted, however, for `Giannischicchi' will cover Gutzman has assembled a first rate cast. every category of film and video when, during the early morning hours of production. The committee was pleased August 10, 1967, Orton's lover bludg- Milwaukee Playing opposite Strange will be Leslie —The Boulevard Ensemble to have an enormous number of entries in eoned him to death with a hammer prior is seeking singers and actors with musi- Fitzwater as Lady MacBeth. Leslie is known this, the first year of the competition. to killing himself with an overdose of cal training for the first production of its for her starring roles at the Skylight Theater The following awards were given: 1996-'97 season, Puccini's comic one-act and for her one woman show that has sleeping pills. Oustanding Achievement in Experimental opera, Giannischicchi. toured the country. The details of Orton's life were later Film, But Would You Take Her Back All roles are open. Auditoners are asked Roy Hobbs who was part of the Odessa documented in the 1987 Stephen Frears (Judith Redding/Victoria Brownworth); to prepare one aria. An accompanist will cast will also appear in the American film Prick Up Your Ears, featuring Gary Oustanding Achievement in Experimental be available. Auditions for the production production. Hobbs was kept busy signing Oldham as a wickedly mischievous Orton. Animation, Anastasia and The Queen are by appointment only and will be held autographs after each performance and of Thirty years after its initial production, Hearts (Shawn Atkins); Best Short from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on September 7-8 became something of a heart throb. Film, Loot retains its vibrantly anarchic tone Uncommon Grounds (Pamela at the Boulevard Theatre, 2252 S. Kin- Herb Frank will play King Duncan and Whyte); and reminds us that while many attitudes Outstanding Achievement in Long nickinnic Avenue on Milwaukee's South David Flores plays the clever, politically Form and taboos within society may appear ee- Music Video, The Cowgirl Side. ambivalent Ross. Braden Morgan plays the Sweethearts rily unchanged, there also continues to be (Beverly Buhr/Melissa Dopp); The Ensemble's production of heir to the throne, Malcom. Best a delightful pleasure in affronting these Giannis- Documentary, Their Own chicchi, The production moves rapidly lasting only Vietnam bastions of convention. directed by Timothy X. Troy, will (Nancy D. Kates); be two hours. It includes a very and Best Feature- The production will run Thursday presented from October 18 to Novem- violent Length Film, concluding battle scene The Midwife's Tale (Megan through Sunday evenings, from Septem- ber 10. . performed with Siler). Call (414) flashlights in the fog. ber 5-15. 672-6019 for an appoint- For further ment. For ticket information call (414) 273-7206. information, please contact For tickets, times and other information, Barbara Grier at (904) 539-5965. V please call (414) 291-7800. Casady Patty by Photos

The Cows Come Home—Miss Mona (center, left photo), won the title of Miss Gay Gala Guernsey by raising the most money for Green Bay's Center Project client emergency fund. All con- testants raised a total of $5,700. The crowing was held August 17, at the Napalese Lounge. The other contestants surround Miss Mona in the two photos. THE SPOTLIGHT August 29, 1996 to September 11,1996-WISCONSIN LIGHT-15

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The mission of the Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) is to conceptualize, develop, conduct, and scientifically evaluate the effectiveness of new intervention strategies to prevent HIV infection in populations vulnerable to the disease. CAIR's research also seeks to identify improved strategies to promote health and alleviate adverse mental health consequences of HIV among persons with AIL the disease and among their loved ones. CAIR's Research Team

CAIR is a multidisciplinary HIV prevention research center. Supported by an AIDS research center grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and based in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine of the Medical College of Wisconsin, CAIR's HIV prevention research is carried forward by a team of 11 faculty investigators who devote their full effort to AIDS prevention, another seven investigators affiliated with CAIR,, and a fulltime research and administrative support team of approximately 30 persons.

CAIR investigators reflect the disciplines of community, clinical, health, social, quantitative, and educational psychology; public health and epidemiology; psychiatry, infectious diseases, and community medicine; anthropology; biostatistics; and other fields. Investigators from a range of scientific backgrounds work together at CAIR to advance the science of AIDS prevention.

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There's nothing like Victory! Our camera FRIDAY - Pull Tabs, 5-7pm caught part of the excited crowd watching the SATURDAY - 1action at In Between during its August 17 Packer Shorties, 2 for $1.25 Party. Shown at the top are the cheers that BESTD Clinic Live! accompanied the Packers winning field goal which "A Half-Hour to Stretch the Mind" SUNDAY - Super Bloody Mary came with just three seconds left in the game. On Milwaukee Cable Channel 47 at Below is a member of the In Between Porn Porn 7:00 p.m., enjoy live broadcasts from squad. The bar has parties for every Packer game the BESTD Clinic. The following dates offer three hot food items and free shots for every indicate live broadcast, all shows are Packer score. In Between, which has been replayed the following Saturday at compared to the bar in the series "Cheers" is 12:00 noon and Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. located at 625 S. Second St., Milwaukee. Thursday, September 5 Mari Hang and Jim Nowlen: Commitment 96, a weekend of KATHY'S celebration and support Thursday, September 12 Sharon Pfeiffer, Covenant Home Care: Home Health Care Thursday, September 19 Hot Line Staff, Gay Youth Wisconsin NUT Hotline Thursday, September 26 Bill Reiser, RN, MSN: Reflections from the 6th Wisconsin HIV/AIDS Conference HUT Thursday, October 3 Ron MacDonald: Building a -71 cooperative library from scratch Thursday, October 10 HOURS: Mon-Thur, 2pm-Close; Special Coming Out Week Show — Fri-Sun, Noon-Close Linda Plagman, PhD: Take another step toward freedom! For more information, please call Ery Uecker at (414) 353-4798. V "THIS MUCH FUN SHOULD BE ILLEGAL"

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fir BUFFET Every IN BETWEEN SHOTS for Every Packer Game Milwaukee's Ultimate Social Bar Packer Score THE SPOTLIGHT August 29, 1996 to September 11, 1996-WISCONSIN LIGHT-17 Angry Young Women More and More 1875 North Humboldt • Milwaukee Coming to Dominate Filmdom 347°0344 Your Los Angeles--Like long-lost spiritual and trespassing. EstOiCie daughters of Thelma and Louise, a late- Is this a new day in Hollywood where Alternative summer crop of films celebrate no- women producers and directors are nonsense women who learn that power making films about girls taking charge can be had by those who take it. These and not being disposable door- women rely on their wits and each other mats/girlfriends/secretaries/plot props? IBAU to help them out of some of life's hardest Aleksa Palladino: Hopefully, in the next ArleRICA lN... spots. few years, gender will become secon- They also rely on violence in their quest dary--that it doesn't matter whether a for power. Whether it's roughing up a bad woman directed a film, it doesn't matter if yRILL guy, robbing a bank or staging a kidnap- a man directed a film; it's just that it was ping, these women don't hesitate to use a directed and it's either good or it's bad. ... little brute force to level the playing field. It's not important. We're all people. Is this really the way women act when Empowered Estrogen they get together? Foxfire, adapted from Joyce Carol We're all People Oates' account of four young women Manny and Lo, an odd and refreshing whose lives are transformed and empow- Dinner Theatre Night look at two adolescent runaway sisters, ered by a female drifter. The press notes played by Scarlett Johansson and Aleksa sum it up: It took them 17 years to learn Palladino, who kidnap a store clerk to be all the rules and one week to break Wednesday, September 11 a surrogate mother when one of them be- them." The film explores the friendship comes pregnant. It was written and di- between characters played by Hedy Bur- rected by newcomer Lisa Krueger from a ress and Angelina Jolie that is rich and Showtime: 9pm screenplay she hatched at the Sundance has some good Lesbian undercurrents. Festival's writers' lab. Crime and violence factor: Kidnapping, Crime and violence factor: Kidnapping carjacking and assault and battery. Her- oin use also is portrayed with gritty real- "The Big Easy" ism. How do you convince Hollywood that women's films are viable? presented by the Fest City Singers Hedy Burress: We have to set a higher standard for us to live up to. That way, Special New Orleans style dinner from 4-10pm they can't deny us our rightful place be- cause it's clear that the work we're doing is better than the work that's out there. Angelina Jolie: It's important for women to feel empowered as women, but I think JOIN US - Doug & Dave we make a mistake ... by saying, "Not only are we equal, but we're better be- for our cause we've been through this (oppression)." I think we need to say what we say and be who we are and not make an angry statement. PACKER PARTIES Growing to Go Girls Town, three tough teen-age girls Food, Fun, Free Shots with every avenging the death of their best friend. In a script largely improvised by its stars, PACKER TD Lili Taylor, Bruklin Harris and Anna Grace, the women turn to themselves for strength _and support. That and some well-placed punches and crafty grand lar- 124 North Water Street ceny. WE SUPPORT Crime and violence factor: Breaking THE WISCONSIN AIDS WALK Milwaukee, WI 53202 and entering, theft, assault and battery, 414/347-1692 and a satisfying rampage against a car. Sign up and Join our Team Why have women been marginalized in so many films? Lili Taylor: They only want to see a The Championship AIDS Walk Team of 95 couple kind of women _ who are safe, non-threatening--and they are not going to shake anything up. Other kinds of women shake things up too much and they are too uncomfortable. ... I don't want to make it seem like we're not mak- WEEKLY ing any progress at all. We're making progress here and there. Things are hap- at Mama Roux pening, but by no means at all are we at a place that's acceptable yet. There's still a lot of growing to go. Happy Hour Go Girl Set It Off, Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Monday thru Friday Vivica Fox and Kimberly Elise as four women who get revenge on "the system" 3-8pm that reduced them to a hardscrabble childhood in the L.A. projects. Crime and violence factor: Bank- Domestic Pints 2-for-1 robbing. Why is there so much violence in many Monday of these films about young women em- 9pm-Midnight powering themselves? Vivica Fox: Because the only way we're We Hate to going to get men as well as women to Double Bubble but we come into the theaters, you gotta have a BRAG little violence. It's trying to cater to all Every Wednesday have a 12E/ILLY facets of the audience. ... Some girls like to see movies (with violence). Maybe one 9pm-Midnight BIG DECK reason why I don't like seeing it in the past is that I haven't seen women doing Come See It ... that, it's always guys. With women, Live Entertainment Hang Out!!! you've got someone to cheer for too, like "Go girl!" Every Thursday "Phantom" Breaks All Time Records Fish Fry In Milwaukee Every Friday Milwaukee—Andrew Lloyd Weber's Cod or Catfish "Phantom of the Opera" has broken all records during its run at Milwaukee's Regular or Cajun Marcus Center. All U Can Eat According to Variety "Phantom's" gross ticket sales were $918,167 for the Grill Hours FINE MEXICAN fourth week of the six week run. The potential gross for the 2,239 seat Uhilien Monday thru Thursday: 4-10 pm CUISINE Theater during that week was $917,000. Friday and Saturday: 4-11 pm 7 DAYS A WEEK "Phantom" concluded its run on August Friday Fish Fry - Cod or Catfish 24. Phantom was the first Broadway Full menu with 734 South 5th Street touring show to play six weeks in grill open to 8pm Milwaukee. The previous record was Carry-out Orders Available by "Hello Dolly!" starring Carol 645-9888 held MasterCard/Visa Accepted • Personal Checks upon Approval Corner of 5th & National, across Channing which played for three weeks in J Thea- from the Milwaukee Ballet October, 1966 at the former Palace ter. 4 August 29, 1996 to September 11, 1996-WISCONSIN LIGHT-18 THE SPOTLIGHT MANOEUVRES One-Fifty South Blair Street, Madison, Wisconsin

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Saturday September 7

1100 Club hosts Leather Night Milwaukee's 1100 Club, 1100 S. 1st Street will be the site for a joint meeting between Milwaukee's Castaways & Chi- cago Rodeo Riders . The meeting be- gins at 10. JOSIE LYNN BENEFIT AT CLUB 94 Club 94, HWY C and 1-94 will be the site of a special benefit show for Josie Lynn to help her on her way to the Miss Wisconsin Gay U S of A pageant. Showtime is at 11:00.

Sunday September 8

M&M ANNIERSARY FINALE! How do you celebrate 20 years of fine food, great service, entertainment and fun times? If you are the M & M Club you do it with a huge party. The M & M located 124 N. Water, will be putting the icing on the cake of its year Lowe The Pet Shop Boys: Neil Tennant and Chris long 20th Anniversary Celebration with a party that is simply called "The Finale." Pet Shop Boys: They're Out Of The Closet The festivities include live enter- tainment, a buffet with some of that great food the Club is famous for and lots of And Speaking Out About Being Gay suprises. topped the charts in nine countries, in- apparently are responsible for everything. Continued from Page 10 cluding the U.S. I think it's pathetic. AIDS is a disease. We Wednesday September 11 "The only person who has asked that is "Our music was very influenced by what need to learn about the disease. It's not my mother. No we never were lovers," he people would regard as Gay music," he going to make life easier if you know Tom MAMA ROUX HOSTS FEST CITY says. "Of course, in Britain, by the late- says. "But when you look back on the kind Cruise has got AIDS. The disease is still a will turn 80s pop music was Gay music. ... And, by The Fest City Singers Mama of photographs we used to do, people ob- disease. And I think people try to hang Roux, 1875 N. Humboldt, Milwaukee, into viously would think that. It sort of looks end of the 1980s, partly because of us, these things on celebrities. I think people a Dinner Theater the evening of like that -- sort of the older guy and the and a few others, like Dead or Alive, it be- expect nowadays celebrities to somehow street kid." came terrible mainstream pop." solve their problems because they can't Wednesday Sep-tember 11. Born and raised in Newcastle, in the But while the group's popularity soared, be bothered to solve them themselves," The popular chorus will be serving up a north part of England, Tennant was raised they remained steadfast about not dis- he says. full flavored menu of musical treats. FCS very Catholic, and went to a Catholic cussing their sexuality. People could read "I admire Magic (Johnson) for what he is well known for its musical comedy with school, where he was seen as "soft." By into their music whatever they wanted to, has done. But is he really an effective a queer twist. Their free performance is the time he was 12, he knew he was dif- but neither Tennant or Lowe were pre- spokesperson about AIDS? It would be "Don't Miss It" for the groups legions of ferent.. pared to confirm or deny anything. much more effective to tell young people fans. "In the 1980s, all my friends knew I was "I remember being 12 years old and about AIDS, and have a real person with A speCial Cajun style dinner will be Gay. There was no two ways about that. reading an article in a magazine about AIDS, who lives around the corner come served featuring delectable food from he was a homosex- And our music was very influenced by into their school or their home to talk to Oscar Wilde. It said Mama's extensive Cajun menu. In fact ual. And I what people would regard as Gay music," them about it. That would be 100 times thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a Mama Roux's authentic Cajun food has homosexual.' I remember feeling so up- he says. "(But) we were very much a pop more effective than Magic Johnson. praise from straights and gays alike. set, 'Oh my God, I'm a homosexual,' he group with the young audience. And al- Cause I think when a celebrity does it, it won recalls. "And there was a boy I used to get though I was technically a homosexual, I makes it seem like a celebrity disease. It Dinner will be served from 4 to 11:00 PM. the bus home with at school and I realized wasn't a practicing homosexual. I didn't trivializes it. It downplays it. AIDS is a dis- Showtime is 9:00 PM. For more info call that I was in love with him and I burst into have a lover. I mean I had sex occasion- ease that anyone can get. People should Mama Roux at 347-0344 or the Festline at tears." ally, but I didn't really have a very swing- realize that it's a normal disease. It's a 263-7464. In the early-1970s, Tennant moved to ing sex life. I felt I was technically Gay, human disease." London. Though many of his friends were rather than practicing ... And I preferred With their new found outness and fab Gay, including his best friend, he re- that the whole thing was enigmatic." new recording, Tennant and Lowe move Friday September 13 mained uneasy with his sexuality. Still, the Boys have never shied away into the last half of 1996 with a renewed "It was the '70s, and I found the Gay from dealing with the Gay issue, albeit sense of direction. Still, Tennant hopes CC RAE SHOW AT THE PIVOT scene fantastically off putting. If you look subtlety, in their songs. They also became the public doesn't reduce them into a one- Do you need a good laugh? If so head one of the first mainstream pop groups to back to the clone era ... I used to think I dimensional Gay bubble. to the Pivot for the" Best of CC Rae deal with the subject of AIDS in their mu- don't want to be that. I don't want to have "Our songs speak to Gay people be- Show." sic, doing so since 1986, when Tennant's cause the lyrics are written by me, and I'm a mustache and wear 501 jeans. In those The hysterical comic will be performing uniform -- best friend learned he had the disease. a Gay man. But I would hate for us to be days, to be Gay was to wear a all of your favorite routines. The show men with mustaches, wearing white 501 "In 1986, AIDS was still comparatively categorized, to be disloyal in some way, but be warned that jeans, white T-shirts and Dr. Martin rare in Britain. And it was an incredible, as a Gay group. We make music for who- begins at 10:30, shoes," he says, noting that in the mid- fundamental shock, cause I didn't even ever wants to like it. We make pop singles attendance at this show may result in sore 1980s he started to become more com- know anyone who knew anyone with that we hope would attract a wide audi- sides from laughing too much. fortable with the whole scene. AIDS," says Tennant, whose friend died in ence as well. To be honest, I'm kind of "Then it loosened up (in the '80s) with 1989. "And, it has been in my life ever against the categorization of splitting up of BEAR HUNT IN SUPERIOR since, in terms of knowing people groups like Culture Club coming around, our society into communities of race or Bears will definitely be in season in For the better part the last 10 years, and the clone thing started to die. Gay sexuality or any other classification. I Superior through Sunday September Tennant has incorporated his feeling into would like society to be one community clubs were really at the forefront of club 15th. his work, most notably in "It Couldn't really. I know that isn't possible, but I culture, of dance music culture and that A weekend full of events and parties are really fascinated me. Gay clubs were hip Happen Here," "Hit Music," and the B-side think it's something we should all aim for." this fun time with the without the bullshit. In straight clubs there single, "Your Uncle Funny," a song about And judging by the new set's rich lyrical in store for was a lot of bullshit about different kinds two families that meet for the first time substance and rhapsodious harmonies, it BackWoods Bears of Superior and the of music. It was always about being ultra when they come to pay their respect over is highly unlikely that the mass public will North Country Bears of Min-neapolis. cool, where as Gay clubs were about the death of one of the lovers. simply view the Boys as two Gay musi- The fun starts with a Meet and Greet at having fun and they had great music." "I write about subjects that affect me," cians. In fact, as the millennium ap- Superior's Main Club, 1813 N 3rd St. For In 1980, Tennant met musician Chris he says. "Knowing several close friends proaches, it's more apt that Tennant and more information call the North County Lowe, and a year later the two formed the who have died at a young age because of Lowe will be seen as innovative pioneers Bears info line: (612) 588-2506 or e-mail: the same disease has a profound affect Pet Shop Boys, named after three of of cutting edge music, and musical trend- rstbear @ primenet.com Lowe's friends, who worked in a pet shop on your life. I mean at the same time we setters. and were nick-named the pet shop boys. were having success in the late-80s with "We used to say that it sounds like the the Pet Shop Boys, my best friend was in name of a rap group. When we made our a hospital bed with drips sticking out of didn't have a name, so we his arm. I always had this permanent 1 first record, we 1506 North 3rd Street • Superior, WI thought we'd be the Pet Shop Boys," says contrast between (my) life and (my) best Tennant, who recalls that in his first ever friend's life which kind of makes you feel interview as the Pet Shop Boys, a woman terrible." reporter told Tennant that she heard their And Tennant scoffs off rumors that ei- name came from "this thing in New York ther one of them has the disease. "I think where Gay guys get hamsters and put if people know you are Gay or think you BOOT CAMP SALOON them in plastic bags and shove them up are Gay, people rather horrifyingly as- MILWAUKEE'S ve their asses ... A lot of people think that is sume you've got AIDS," he says. "People 1715) 394-2580 just think Gay equals AIDS in a lot of the LEATHER I LEVI BAR really how we got our name. But it's not Thursday • Karaoke true." straight media." In 1984, Tennant and Lowe released But while he doesn't get bogged down 209 E. National Friday & Saturday • DJ their first single "West End Girls," on an with rumors, he does take issue with the Milwaukee, WI Sunday • Country Night public's need to have celebrities come out 414-643-6900 independent label. Two years later, the SUPPORT AIDS WALK WI song was picked up by a major recording as HIV-positive. "We always come back in company and within weeks of its release, our contemporary culture that celebrities August 29, 1996 to September 11, 1996-WISCONSIN LIGHT-20 THE SPOTLIGHT Entertainment Guide APPLETON LAKE MILLS 1100 Club This Is It 1100 S. 1st St. 418 E. Wells Rascals Bar & Grill Cross Roads Bar Milwaukee WI 53204 Milwaukee WI 532172 102 E. Wisconsin W6642 Hwy B 647-9950 278-9192 Appleton, WI 54991 Lake Mills, WI 53551 954-9262 648-8457 Gargoyles Triangle 354 E. National 136 E. National The Pivot Club MADISON Milwaukee WI 53204 Milwaukee WI 53204 4815 W. Prospect 225-9676 383-9412 Appleton, WI 54915 A Room of One's 730-0440 Fannies Walkers Point Cafe Own 200 E. Washington 1106 S. First St. 317 W. Johnson Milwaukee WI 53204 Milwaukee WI 53204 DOOR COUNTY Madison, WI 53703 643-9633 384-7999 257-7888 Black Smith Inn In Between PO Box 220 Geraldine's Zippers 625 S. 2nd St Baileys Harbor, WI 3052 E. Washington 819 S 2nd St. Milwaukee WI 53204 839-9222 Madison, WI 53704 Milwaukee Wi 53204 273-2693 241-9335 645-8330 Chanticleer Guest Just Us House Green Bush RACINE 807 S. 5th St. 4072 Cherry Rd 914 W. Regent St Milwaukee WI 53204 Sturgeon Bay 54234 Madison, WI 53715 JoDees 383-2233 746-0334 257-BUSH 2139 Racine St. Racine, WI 53403 Kathy's Nut Hut EAU CLAIRE Manoeuvres 634-9804 1500 W. Scott 150 S. Blair Milwaukee WI 53204 Trading Madison, WI 54703 ROCKFORD, IL Company 647-2673 304 Eau Claire St. 258-9918 Eau Claire, WI 54701 The Office La Cage 838-9494 Praire Garden 513 E. State St 801 S 2nd St. Bed & Breakfast Rockford, 11 61104 Milwaukee WI 52304 The Wolfe's W13172 Hwy 188 815-965-0344 Den 383-8300 302 E Madison Lodi, Wi 53555 Eau Claire, WI 54703 1-800-380-8427 La Perla Mexican SHEBOYGAN 715-832-9237 Restaurant R Place 734 S. Fifth St. Blue Lite 121 W. Main Street Milwaukee WI 53204 1029 N. 8th St. GREEN BAY Madison, WI 53703 645-9888 Sheboygan, 53081 257-5455 457-1636 Brandy's II Mama Roux The Shamrock 1126 Main St 1875 N. Humboldt STEVENS PT. 117 W Main St. Green Bay, WI 54301 Milwaukee WI 53212 Madison, WI 53703 437-3917 347-0344 The Platwood Club 255-5029 701 Highway 10W Laona Hostel M & M Club Stevens Point, 54481 Sunprint Cafe 5397 Beech St. 124 N. Water 341-8862 Street (HWY8) 638 State Milwaukee WI 53202 Madison, WI 53703 Laona, WI , 54541 347-1962 255-1,LL SUPERIOR (715)674-2615 Nomad JT's Bar Napalese Lounge MILWAUKEE 1401 E. Brady St. 1506 N 3rd St. 515 S. Broadway Milwaukee WI 53202 Superior WI 54880 Green Bay, WI 54303 Afterwords Books 273-3866 394-2580 432-9646 2710 N. Murray Milwaukee WI 53211 Rene's Cozy Corner The Main Club Sass 963-9089 3500 W Park Hill 1813 N 3rd 840 S Broadway Milwaukee WI 53208 Superior, WI 54880 Green Bay, WI 54304 B's 933-RE NE 392-1756 437-7277 1579 S 2nd St Milwaukee WI 53204 Station 2 Trio Za's/Java's 672-5580 1534 W. Grant 820 Tower 1106 Main St. Milwaukee WI 53204 Superior, WI 54880 Green Bay, WI 54301 Ball Game 383-5755 392-5373 435-5476 196 S. 2nd Milwaukee WI 53204 10%Club 273-7474 4223 W. Fon Du Lac WAUSAU KENOSHA Milwaukee WI 53216 Boot Camp Saloon 447-0910 The Mad Hatter Club 94 209 E. National 320 Washington 9001 120th Ave Milwaukee WI 53204 Popular News Wausau, WI 54401 N. Water Kenosha, WI 53140 643-6900 225 842-3225 857-9968 Milwaukee WI 53202 Cafe Melange 278-0636 What About Me? 720 N. 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There was a run on seventies clothing at Milwaukee's resale shops thanks to Mama Roux Bar and riP Americain Grill. Mama's threw a wild 70's party on Sunday August 18. Seventies music and drink prices kept things hopping for a packed house including several dozen patrons dressed in 70's attire. Shown above (from the top) are two fun loving guys in their Leisure suits, Cher, a group of party goers doing a line dance, disco style and Doug, Pat and Brendt dressed in their finest 70's disco attire. Mama Roux's is one of the bars in Milwaukee known for its creative parties and this one was no exception. Our camera caught Bob (second from the left) with some of his crew from Kenosha's Club 94 as they Mama wants you to know that her Sunday Brunch Crew is back from its summer hiatus and will be partied at Just Us on a recent Saturday night. Located at Hwy C and 1-94, the Club features a large serving brunch from 11 to 3PM every Sunday. She also invites everyone to her Packer Parties. The dance floor and great shows. It's a popular stop for people from Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee and parties feature free shots for every Packer touchdown and Mama's favorite sports commentators, Doug Chicago. and Dave. Mama makes her home at 1875 N. Humboldt. THE SPoltrdHi"... August 29, 1996 to September 11, 1996-WISCONSIN LIGHT-21 book reviews

Sweeper and Torsos. Cecilia Mak and hus- Brown HC $21.95) is the latest Lauren Lau- band Mike find themselves in the small Idaho rano mystery from the ever-popular Sandra town of Haven. A decided misnomer, Haven Scoppettone. Lauren's friend Elissa is in is anything but and each day brings this young trouble, her elderly aunt has just been brutally couple painful, increasingly malevolent murdered and she turns to Lauren for help. shocks. Both stalking and being stalked, tempted by Simple Justice (Doubleday HC $21.00) by new love and tormented by the possibility of John Morgan Wilson introduces a new Gay losing long-time lover Kip, Lauren is forced mystery series featuring Benjamin Justice, a to use resources she never knew she had - just burned-out journalist whose life has fallen to stay alive. into an alcoholic haze following the death of From the•new Alyson Press comes a debut his lover. He is called back to the living by novel from Jacquelyn Park, A Stone Gone the unexpected and unwelcome visit of his Mad (Pb $9.95). When sixteen-year-old former boss who wants Benjamin to do some Emily is discovered in the arms of a female background work on the investigation of a schoolmate, she is as appalled as her family. seemingly motiveless killing outside a local This searing story of lies and concealment Gay bar. wonderfully captures the hurt, the doubt and Grant Michaels' many fans will welcome the confusion of a double life as Emily finds the latest entry in his popular series featuring the strength to finally face the truth. Stan Kraychik, a hairdresser by day, amateur Fast Ride with the Top Down (Alyson HC sleuth by night, Time to Check Out (St. $19.95) by Harper Grey introduces a true Martin's Press HC $21.95). Since Mask for heroine for the conflicted, overheated '90's: a Diva, Stan has lost his lover Rafik in a Lacy Blackwood. Lacy and younger brother freak auto accident but finds himself a Franco as kids tried to figure out life by wealthy widow. Grief-stricken in Key West, watching TV sitcoms. After many aimless Stan once again stumbles upon murder: that years, Lacy's world becomes even wilder with of the unpopular owner of the guest house the arrival of a seductive heartbreaker - a he's staying at. femme who is more fatale than Lacy is quite From the Lambda Literary Award-winning ready for! R. D. Zimmerman comes his second Todd Long lost Lesbian novels have begun to turn chael Cunningham's Flesh & Blood (Scribner up with some frequency. First Naiad's Bar- $13.00) and Christopher Bram's Father of bara Grier announced Forbidden Fires (HC Frankenstein (Plume $10.95). $21.95), Margaret Anderson's never-before- Of Lesbian Interest published novel of Lesbian love. Here for the New mysteries again dominate the new and first time is Anderson's unsurpassed portrayal noteworthy Lesbian fiction list featuring titles of romantic love, which fictionalizes an epi- from Katherine Forrest, Sandra Scoppettone, sode contemporary with - and totally absent Claire McNab and Lauren Wright Douglas. from- her well-known autobiographies. Any new work by Katherine Forrest is al- First published in the Netherlands in 1955, ways welcome but especially a new entry ion The Tree and the Vine (The Feminist Press her perennially popular Kate Delafield series. Pb $9.95) by Dola de Jong was a courageous Although not from her usual publishing and groundbreaking work, remarkable then as house (now there's a mystery) Naiad, Forrest well as now for its frank and sensitive depic- has released Liberty Square (Berkeley HC tion of the love between two women torn $21.95). Lesbian LAPD homicide detective between desires and taboos in the years and ex-Marine Kate Delafield reluctantly at- leading up to the Nazi occupation of Amster- tends a 25th reunion of those she served with dam. in Vietnam. But after her hotel room door is Sapphire is a remarkable new voice in Les- sprayed with bullets and one of the reunion bian literature and in her electrifying new guests is murdered, Kate must solve the hei- novel Push, Sapphire has created an aston- nous crime and save her and lover Aimee's ishing heroine: Precious Jones. In a voice As Summer Ends, It's Time To Curl Up by life. that shakes the reader by its language, its Claire McNab's popular Australian Detec- story and its unflinching honesty, Precious re- Autumn's Fires and Enjoy a Good Book tive Inspector Carol Ashton makes her sev- cords her journey from Harlem's lowest enth appearance in Double Bluff (Naiad Pb depths. Gay Fiction $10.95). Someone is stalking television star Okay, there are still a few Lesbian ro- Will summer never come? has just published a semi-autobiographical Madeline Shipley but is she the prey of a psy- mances out there including Judith McDaniel's Many Milwaukeeans bemoaned the lateness novel, Brutal (Miliveres Pb $12.95). Set chotic fan or is it just a smokescreen to divert Yes I Said Yes I Will (Naiad Pb $10.95). of warm weather's arrival to the city of festi- mainly in London's underground club scene, attention from the real target - Carol Ashton? Unitarian minister Rachel Smythe has spent vals. Those brave and hearty souls who were Brutal explores the life of a young man who As Carol becomes increasingly embroiled in her life caring for others. Susan Meyers, a determined to make this year's Pridefest the makes a living as a prostitute but is trying to her most challenging case ever, the danger high-level government official knows too well best ever, despite near arctic conditions. challenge what he has become - a person out widens to include her own family... the demands and compromises that life in the Once here, summer never seems to hang of control on drugs, alcohol and abusive sex. Another long-time Naiad mystery writer, closet brings. When their lives intertwine, around very long and before anyone knows, Honorary "Gay man" Poppy Z. Brite ex- Lauren Wright Douglas starts a new series each woman must confront her own fears be- it's almost Labor Day. plores the world of the serial killer in Exqui- with Death at Lavender Bay (Naiad Pb fore she can surrender to the ecstasy of all- And here we are with the Annual Gay & site Corpse (Simon & Schuster HC $21.00). $10.95). When Allison O'Neil is called for consuming love. Lesbian Book Roundup in the Wisconsin Definitely not for the squeamish, Exquisite the reading of a relative's will, she learns that A few hot titles due in early September in- Light's Fall Book Section. Corpse features a Dahmer-like protagonist she has been left a B&B in the little town of clude Ellen Hart's seventh Jane Lawless The past few months found several new and Mills mystery, Tribe (Dell Pb $5.50). Warily Lavender Bay, Oregon. mystery, Robber's Wine (Seal Press HC exciting titles from such writers as Andrew beginning a new romance, Todd fmds himself Yet when she arrives, she can't help feeling $21.95), Achy Obejas' debut novel, Memory Holleran, Brad Gooch and Clive Barker. helping an old girlfriend when the son she something's amiss. Allison's worst fears are Mambo (Cleis Press Pb $12.95), Karen From Clive Barker comes Sacrament gave up for adoption returns and leaves his realized when she learns that kindly Aunt Kallmaker's Wild Things (Naiad Pb $10.95) (HarperCollins HC $25.00), a novel totally baby. She and the baby become the target of Grace died under questionable circumstances. and also from Naiad, Jaye Maiman's Baby, unlike anything this "Horror Master" has ever stalkers, members of a cult of zealots who Let's Face the Music and Die (Little, It's Cold (HC $19.95). written. will stop at nothing to reclaim the child. Famed wildlife photographer Will Rabjohns In Paperback has made his reputation chronicling the fates New releases in paperback include several of endangered species. Including his own. mysteries. From the author of Mucho Mojo, For even as Will rises to the pinnacle of his Joe R. Landsdale comes The Two-Bear Will Fellows discusses career, he is witnessing his own world - San Mambo (Mysterious Press Pb $5.99), the Francisco's close-knit Gay community - rav- second entry featuring Leonard and Hap. his book Farm Boys: aged by AIDS. Mark Richard Zubro's popular Another Dead The Beauty of Men (Morrow HC $24.00) Teenager (St. Martin's Press Pb $9.95) once Lives of Gay Men from probably isn't the Andrew Holleran novel fans again features Gay Detective and father Paul of his classic Dancer From the Dance were Turner. expecting. Instead, after nearly a decade of Less a mystery than dark, erotic thriller, the Rural Midwest silence Holleran has crafted a brilliant, lyrical The Chimney Sweeper (Mysterious press Pb story of a Gay man ashamed to be mourning $5.99) by John Peyton Cooke is set in the Tuesday, September 10 the loss of his own youth as so many around Madison-look alike Isthmus City. him have died young, victims of the AIDS vi- After being unavailable for several years, at 7:30 p.m. rus. Perhaps unexpectedly bleak, this is a Patricia Nell Warren has recently re-issued work of astonishing clarity and poignancy. her own The Beauty Queen (Wildcat Press at Borders Book Shop No recent title is as blatant as Brad Gooch's Pb $12.95). The Golden Age of Promiscuity (Knopf HC Other recent paperback releases include $24.00). Evoking the raw, often shocking Daniel Vilmure's Toby's Lie 3416 University Ave. New York Gay club scene of the 1970's, (HarperPerennial $12.00), Eugene Stein's Gooch's compelling, fascinating novel brings Straightjacket & Tie (Alyson $9.95), Mi- Madison to life a subterranean world of drugs, dim who escapes a London prison and finds his lights, strange back rooms where medievel- way to New Orleans, where with the help of This new book tells the stories of more seeming acts are performed and intimacy is like-minded Jay Byrne, sets his sights on an than three dozen gay men, ranging in age anonymous. exquisite young Vietnamese-American run- from 24 to Gay Porn stars aren't supposed to be writ- away, Tran. BORDERS' 84, who grew up in farm ers, right? Well, maybe not. Alden Shaw, the Haven: A Novel of Anxiety (Mysterious BOOK SHOP & CAFE families in the midwestern United States. 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The Advocate, SKYY Vodka, Bookstore and Wisconsin Light. was running for president at the time. porter told Hinkle that the staff of his paper Considering the vast volume of Greek text Mixner will also be in attendance at the The Post also reports that inside conserva- was holding meetings to figure out how to which does survive, perhaps it would be more Leadership Breakfast for AIDS Walk Wiscon- tive think tank sources report that Kemp had deal with the story. appropriate to be happy we have as much as trouble raising sufficient funds in his bid for County GOP Central Committee member, we do. V the party's presidential nomination because of Don Casper, told Hinckle that the stories of the infra-party rumors about his private life. Kemp's private closet life were so well LETTERS Kemp's Record Makes known in political circles that "it is impossi- Continued from Page 10 Him a Leading Homophobe ble that the Dole people didn't vet this. They • Kemp's record on Gay and Lesbian issues had to know what they were getting into," other if they have such a lack of trust in themselves is bleak. Humm reports that as a member of Casper said. and between their partners. I could probably present a Congress, Kemp consistently sided with the Casper doubted that it would be possible laundry list of negative behavior exhibited in the notoriously homophobic Congressman Wil- that Kemp would not be asked about his sex- Lesbian community alone as I'm sure you have within liam Dannemeyer (R-CA) on anti-Gay and ual orientation sometime during the cam- the Gay male community. However, this is not the anti-AIDS amendments. paign. point of my response. As Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel- "How he answers that question will be a I think that two important points to note is that while opment under President Bush, he refused to defining moment for the Republican Party in issues like "Gays in the Military" and "Same-Sex sign an agreement with unionized workers to terms of policy on private sexual activity," Marriages" are perhaps important, we also need to ban discrimination based on sexual orienta- said Casper. address how we can create a shared vision, a focused What should Kemp's answer be? view of where we'd like our community to go via open "The best answer is, 'It's none of your dialog as opposed to sticking our heads in the sand CLASSIFIEDS business,— said Casper. accepting "business as usual" and pretending that our community does not have major issues to cope with ANCIENT GREECE internally. This, I feel is a very big task. As I see it, Continued from page 22 our views about political stance, race and gender Accomodations issues seem to keep us continually divided. I feel that :rete through Sparta, Athens and the islands. unless we create unity amongst ourselves, we as a Chanticleer Guest House—located on 30 private He also discusses how the Greeks provided community will not advance very far. I feel that WI. Suites in- their male gods and heroes with boy lovers, David's commentary has certainly helped to open the acres in picturesque Door County, DAVID MIXNER clude: double whirlpool, fireplace,, private bath, en- such as Zeus with Ganymede and Herakles door and expose the areas needing improvement within tertainment center, breakfast to room. For reserva- (Hercules) with Hylas. our community. sin with Bette Midler the following day, tion or color brochure, call Bryon and Darrin at The study provides interesting slices of life Secondly, and most importantly. we must learn to September 22, 1996. (414) 746-0334 from ancient Greece. However, this is an respect ourselves and love ourselves as humans, as For further information or for tickets, call study, so it is not for everybody. people. It is then that we will be better able to give (414) Innat Pine Ridge, a B & B esp. for womyn. Hot academic 276-6355. tub, sauna, veg. bninch. Hike, bike. Near Eau Claire. respect to others as well as receive it. Alison F. Guthrie Reach the Wisconsin Byres. (715)984-2272. Real Estate Milwaukee LesBiGay Community Body Improvement Bar For Sale AIDS WALK Milwaukee bar for sale. Tavern. Est. business. Continued from page 1 Parking lot. Confidential inquires to: Wisconsin Advertise In Penis and Nipple Enlargement Light, Box 70, 1843 N. Palmer, Milwaukee, WI The Walk provides funds for counseling, Custom vacuum pumps or surgical. Gain 1-3 3212. Replies will be _forwarded. support groups and home health care. It sup- The Wisconsin Light inches. Permanent, safe. Enhance erection. For FREE ports educational efforts directed at street peo- brochures: Dr. Joel Kaplan, (312) 409-1950. Latest ple, teens and members of other high risk enlargement info. 1-900-976-PUMP ($2.95/m) Organizations groups. We offer.... AIDS Walk Wisconsin provides funds in support of safe, clean housing for those who FOR SALE GALANO CLUB. A social club serving the • The Largest Circulation of Any recovering Gay and Lesbian community: can no longer afford to rent or buy it for them- "MN Regularly scheduled AA, NA, Al-Anon, ACOA ' selves. The Walk even provides food for those Wisconsin LesBiGay Publication Bed: Queen Orthopedic Set Headboard/Frame. Never and other 12-step meetings. Open nightly. 2408 who can no longer afford to buy it for them- Used Boxed Cost $900 Sell $300 (414) 427-2578. N. Farwell Avenue, (414) 276- 6936. selves and for their families. • FREE Ad layout and Design AIDS Walk Wisconsin also ensures that all Personals Wisconsinites affected by HIV have access to Services Offered the latest most advanced treatments. • Flexible Deadlines to Meet Your There are few if any needs not supported by Needs GWM-36, 5'10", 195 lbs. Has your life been touched by HIV/AIDS? Con- Looking for friendship or funds raised by AIDS Walk Wisconsin. fidential pastoral relationship to settle down with. Willing to relocate. Scheduled Events counseling & monthly support • Low Rates meetings available. St. Frances Cabrini Parish, West I'm handicapped with speech impairment, but mobile. Events scheduled for Walk Day include a Bend, (414) 338-2366. Call Mark at (414) 253-0921. breakfast with Bette Midler at the Italian Community Center, a special reception for • A Solid Reputation Built Over Bette and a post walk celebration. Nearly Nine Years of Serving the Housing/Rent Public Notices The Walk will be preceded by Opening Ceremonies during which Midler and other LesBiGay Community dignitaries will address the Walkers. Apartment: 2 Bdnn apt. in 4 unit bldg. 2' Wisconsin Light seeking writers to cover local news Madison Rest Stops with snacks, wistairway to private fenced back yard. Parking in Madison, the Fox Valley and Northern Wisconsin. water and enter- floor tainment will be scattered along To Find Out More Call Us included. New carpeting, vinyl, paint Pets, sig- Call Jerry or Teny (414) 372-2772. the 6.2 mile route. A gala celebration will be held on the nificant others welcome! $530 a month wheat avail (414)372-2773 •• 9/1. Mark/Todd (608) 835-9115 Wisconsin Light seeking volunteer to do filing one afternoon or evening a week. Call Jerry (414) 372- New 2 Bedroom Upper with laundry hookup.. NO 2773. (AFTER CALLING) dogs. Merrill Park area. 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JOY It can stop a war. It can secure equal rights. It can give people a voice.

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Walk with Honorary Chair BETTE MIDLER

On Sunday, September 22, join more than 15,000 people taking personal action in the fight against AIDS. Proceeds benefit services for people in Wisconsin with HIV and AIDS. AIDSWALK Call now to register — 1-800-348-WALK, or find us on-line at http://www.netgains.com/aidswalkwisc. WISCONSIN