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Vol.5, No. 10 August 1987 © 0Wisconsins Lesbian/Gav Newspaper Member: Madison Sustaining Fund United funding cut Society, that he had increased his MADISON—The United, Madi- support for the lesbian and gay sons only gay and lesbian advocacy agency, has had its 1988 funding cut community every year he had been in by the city of Madison by $3,000. office and, that if he were re-elected, he would continue that commitment. Ina July 20 City Human Resources In a July 15 letter explaining the Hearing, Pam Davis, Treasurer of the Board of the Directors; Kate Nolan, funding cuts, Lynn Haanen, Chair of co-President of the Board; and Cindy the Community Services Commis- sion, said that the "Commissions Desch, United coordinator, spoke recommendations are directed toward services responding to areas of major concern identified during the past year and with the potential for the greatest impact in meeting critical needs with the limited funds available." Davis countered at the hearing that The Madison AIDS Support Network new Board of Director: and officers for "gays and lesbians fit your categories 1987-1988: front, Marjorie Hurie, vice-president; Bob Enghagen. president; Bob of major concerns by their sheer Doornek, treasurer; back, Tim Tillotson; Doug Fletsch; Kelley Banjo: Terence numbers and—since we have relative- Gilles; and Tim Holthaus, treasurer. ; ly few laws banning discrimination against us-1 submit that our need other funding. For 1988, it will have year totaled $824,860. S. for advocacy services is a critical one. Haanen applauded the discussions $19,200 in other funding, combined "The United takes cases that the occurring between The United and with the Citys allocation, for a total di7,T(4w Pam Danis Equal Opportunities Commission the Gay/Lesbian Resource Center budget of $32,200. against the funding cuts. wont touch. Our clients are often regarding a merger (a move which Davis said that The United has not For 1988, The United requested closeted for fear of discrimination. subsequently failed, though discus- gotten an offer to change the $17,500 from the City and received These are people who slip through the sions are still underway regarding a proposed allocation, though the $13,000, $5,000 to be used for ad- cracks. The system is inaccessible to merger of counseling services). Haan- Commission could change its recom- vocacy and $8,000 to be used for them without an advocate .. 1 en wrote that the Commission be- mendation at a later date. Davis, counseling. For 1987, The United had would ask the members of the panel lieves that the agency (The United] however, added, "I am not optimistic received $16,000 from the City, to be to consider whether 20.000 oppressed has greater potential for supporting that such a change will be made." equally divided between advocacy people constitute a major concern?" its services through private She said that members of the board and counseling. of the United will be talking with Haanen cited in her letter to The fundraising." At the hearing, Davis cited Mayor United that Human Resources fund- Since 1986, The Uniteds funding Mayor Sensenbrenner or his aides in Sensenbrenners statement. made at ing proposals for 1988 constituted a has diminished from 56% by the city the near future. to 40% in 1988. In 1986 it received en April I mayoral candidates de- 5291 increase over 1987 funding. Gene Thomas is co-President of bate sponsored by the Ten Percent Available funds for allocation (his $17,100 from the City and $13,570 in The Uniteds Board of Directors. • Will UW end ROTC discrimination?

MADISON—An ad hoc committee policy as well as the intent of state the majority with heterosexual prefer- . . land] it is surely rational to appointed by the University of Wis- law; and, if political and legal ences. It is hardly irrational to con- decide not to send people into a consin-Madison Faculty Senate is changes fail, to discontinue the clude that one more set of problems jurisdiction where their conduct is moving closer to approving a docu- universitys affiliation with the can be avoided by the exclusion /of likely to violate a law that is meet which would call for termina- ROTC Programs. gays]." constitutional." lion of the universitys ROTC con- As a land grant university, UW- Baldwin also cites last years Su- As to AIDS-related concerns, the tracts if it continues to discriminate Madison is required to offer ROTC preme Court decision of the Bowers majority report cites that, since against gays and lesbians. or a substitute program. vs. Hardwick case, in which the court screening for the HIV infection is The committee, formally known as Villasenor said he expects the already done, this is a more effective the "Ad Hoc Committee on Relation- committees final vote on the above way of controlling health problems, ship between the University of Wis- recommendations to pass, probably for "it also excludes infected in- consin-Madison and ROTC Pro- by a 6-2 vote. dividuals who are not gay." grams in regard to University Non- Professor Gordon Baldwin, Villasenor has sought the help of discrimination Policies," was ap- ROTCs official representative on the Wisconsin Senator William Prox- pointed last year and is expected to committee, has already written drafts mire. Proxmire wrote that, in regard reach its final conclusions in August. of a minority opinion. to changing policies at a national According to committee member Baldwin is a professor of law as level, "there is no likelihood that the Rick Villasenor, the committee will well as director of ROTC Officer current ROTC policy on sexual orien- make three recommendations, all of Education on the Madison campus. tation will be changed . . . not with which have been approved on straw In a recent interview with Isthmus, this Administration." Proxmire urged ballots in recent meetings. Baldwin described his politics as that the issue be decided "locally by The recommendations, according probably more conservative than the University and student body." to a draft of the final report, call for U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee The committees recommendations the Faculty Senate and UW-Madison Robert Bork. will go to the Faculty Senate this fall. administration to challenge the legal In his minority report, Baldwin Villasenor said that he hoped the basis for exclusion based on sexual cites traditional arguments for the Faculty Senate would take "a fair and orientation; to pursue vigorously, by exclusions of gays: Members of the enlightened view" of the report, but political means, a change in prohibi- military often live in close and con- Risk Villasenor acknowledged that "well have to tive statutes based on sexual orienta- fined quarters—on ships, subma- upheld Georgias right to its sodomy fight against the homophobic and lion and/or conduct, since they vio- sines, in crowded barracks. etc. We laws. Baldwin writes, "Some of our blindly pro-military forces in our late University of Wisconsin-Madison have enough difficulty coping with military bases are in Georgia midst." • Milwaukee mayoral profiles: Dennis Conta 1980 when he ran against the current School, from which he received a Editors note: This is the first in a SPEAK ITS NAME Mayor, Henry Maier. That time Masters Degree in Public Adminis- series of profiles/interviews with Mil- Conta lost. Now, in 1987, he is tration. He holds also a Masters in waukee mayoral candidates on gay/ MILWAUKEE—Dennis 1. Con- running again, believing, as he says, Social Work from UW-Milwaukee. lesbian rights in Milwaukee and Wis- las office in Milwaukees Germania that Milwaukee is ready for a change He served eight years as a Democrat consin. This project has been funded Building has large windows that offer after 28 years of Maier. in the Wisconsin Assembly. by a grant to SPEAK ITS NAME a good view of City Hall. Conta looks Conta was born and raised in the (The mayoral election to be held in from the Wisconsin Community and hopes that one day soon he will Bayview section of Southside Mil- April, 1988, is non-partisan.) Fund. reside there as Mayor of the Cream waukee. He attended Ripon College. In his campaign, Conta is actively City. He has had that dream since He went on to Harvards Kennedy continued on page 3 Pop 2 OUT: August 1987

"Homo" Least Offensive—In the No Roast Beef for Georgia—A wake of a crackdown by the FCC on roast beef dressed in high heels was broadcast obscenity, Variety reported the disqualified from the Miss Georgia pa- results of a survey of 92 radio stations. In a Nutshell geant, according to Gay Community According to Philadelphia Gay News, News. The roast beef, sponsored by a 48% put bitch in the "cant use" or college newspaper, met, however, all of "probAbly cant use category; 43% nixed the pageant requirements: never married, "bastard," but only 31% found "home ers because passengers would think Elder Beastly BellStie Boys Pay Up—Aft- never cohabited with a man, never had an to be offensive to prevailing community er Beastie Boys member Adam Horowitz gay and associate him with AIDS. Elders abortion and had no plans to marry standards. The words boobs" and said in a magazine interview that he attorneys and the Canadian Union of before the end of its reign. "crotch" received almost 100% accept- "hates faggots," believes gays are psycho- Public Employees countered that Wardair MCC. logically ill and are child molesters, a New was unreasonably restricting Elders per- "Straight" Shirts in East Lans- sonal freedom. York gay radio program exposed the ing—The Michigan State University Di!dos for Illinois—A bill which bigotry and called up CBS Records to Lesbian/Gay Council has filed a griev- would have outlawed over-the-counter complain. According to News of the Michael Jackson Too Effeminate ance against the local College Republican sales of "artificial human sexual organs," Columbus Gay and Lesbian Community, for Pepsi?—After Michael Jacksons group, according to off our backs. After when the CBS executive asked what was such as dildos and latex vaginas, has been latest cosmetic surgery, it seems that the the gay group announced that students defeated in a state senate committee in wanted in reparation, they got the answer: Coca Cola Company found more to who supported gay pride week should Springfield, Illinois. The bill had earlier a donation to the Gay and Lesbian rejoice about than did Pepsi, far whom wear bluejeans on a specific day, the Anti-Violence Project. The Gay and passed the Illinois House by a 98-10 vote Jackson does commercials. Jacksons new College Republicans initiated a counter- Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and was believed to have a good chance of look—new nose, new chin and new campaign calling for students to wear succeeding in the Senate, had it gotten IGLAAD) reported that within a few image—reportedly received boos from shirts as a symbolic move to "fight back through the committee, according to the days. a donation of 12,000 was received Pepsi executives who previewed it, ac- against homosexuals. from CBS Records. Windy City rimes. cording to Philadelphia Goy News. Said Airborne Earring Allowed—A one Coke executive who also saw the preview, "He (Jackson] is so totally Toronto court has ruled that a male flight Air conditioned!! effeminate, they (the Pepsi folkslcouldnt attendant may wear a gold stud earring at handle it. work, according to Chicago Outlines. Attendant Robert Elders employer, War- dal, had claimed it would loose custom- ARK REPERTORY UINTESSENCE THEATRE • 220 N. Bassett • HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES • CELL SALTS • BULK HERBS Info: 256-NOAH • DR. CHRISTOPHER HERBAL FORMULAS • VITAMINS JUST LISTEN! SUPPLEMENTS • BACH FLOWER REMEDIES • BOOKS Its Nukespeak HOURS Mon 10. 7 rues 10-6 Wed 105 Fri 10.6. Sat 10.S New In Madison! CLOSED Thursday P. Sunday Fridays in August 334 W. Lakeside St. Madison, WI 63715 (608)251-6915 7th, 14th 21st . Gay Matching 8:00 pm "No matter who you are, A look at a political issue thats there is someone for whom CAFE 102 KING ST MADISON, WI 53703 sure to disarm apathy with you are the perfect match." (608) 255-0770 music wit EUROPA Find that person through 3 by Shepard: the science of ... Icaruss Mother Cowboys 62 Computer Matching Red Cross coffees bakery café ror . res brochure August 27 . October 17 ond SATURDAYS •• IMPROU Bombs 0- Barbques 11:00 pm M-Th7a.m.5p.M., F 7a.m.-10p.m.. Sat 7:30a.m.-10p.m.Sun6 -10p.m. animal Crackers I0:00 pm

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August 1987 OUT! Page 3 Fired substitute teacher continues suit MILWAUKEE—Bruce R. Davies, gay and that he had "touched" or "my touching anyone would have conclusion was reached. Noting that a gay male resident of Milwaukee, is "hugged" one or more of his stu- been important much less" had they Greenfield had in the past removed continuing his discrimination suit dents. (Brown Deer School District officials) others from the substitute teaching against the Milwaukee County school In a statement filed with [he ERD, not known that he was gay. list for poor job performance, she districts of Brown Deer and Green- Davies explained that "a student Davies said in the statement that concluded that Davies had been field, where he served as a substitute asked whether or not I was married the student in question had a "behav- removed for the same reasons. The teacher in 1986. and so not to create an assumption ior problem" and that he was trying document cited reports of complaints In a complaint filed on September about my sexual /af fectional to keep order. "I feel that if I had not received by Principal Gene Sheldon 8, 1986 with the Equal Rights Divi- preference ... I stated to her that I used a physical form of reprimand, a from the regular teacher and other sion (ERD) of the Wisconsin Depart- am gay." touch on the back, perhaps, I teachers having near-by classes of ment of Industry, Labor and Human In the same statement, Davies told couldnt have been as effective in my Davies "inability to control" his Relations, Davies charged that he had Brown Deer Middle School Principal teaching." class. Also cited was Davies failure been discharged by Brown Deer "be- Charles Radke and School District In his complaint filed against to follow the lesson plan he was given cause he was gay and had touched a Superintendent, Kenneth Moe that "I Greenfield Middle School, Davies "and hugging some of the students." student." had never used those words (I am alleged that he had been given a class In his statement to the ERD, In a similar complaint filed on gay) ... in class or to anyone in the of "emotionally disturbed students" Davies said, "I think any teacher December 19, 1986 with the ERD, class ever." with whose problems he was not should have the prerogative of touch- Davies charged that he had been Davies admitted also to Moe and familiar. He said in his statement to ing or hugging or holding a child if refused reemployment by the Green- Radke that he "had touched a male the ERD that there was fighting and they find that it helps to create the field district "because of sexual student" but had not "consciously" that the students would not respond kind of learning environment they orientation in regard to conditions of thought of who he was touching until to "verbal warnings." He said his feel is necessary." employment." he was later questioned about the touching and hugging was an effort On January 6. 1987, Davies filed a In both cases, Davies admitted that incident by Radke and Moe. Davies to preserve order, as was his allowing notice of appeal on the Brown Deer he had told his students that he was maintained that it was his belief that them to play the radio. case with the ERD. A similar notifi- "My dancing for a few brief se- cation of appeal was filed with the conds could not have disturbed them, ERD on May 28, 1987 on the Green- as I do not even think all of them field case. Both appeals are pending. Milwaukee plans for probably even know what was proper In March, 1987, Davies wrote to school behavior." the American Civil Liberties Union of In the initial determination of Wisconsin requesting legal aid with Labor Day MAP-Fest Davies case against Brown Deer filed his appeal against the Brown Deer December 10, 1986, Ambrosio decision. The ACLU, in a letter dated MILWAUKEE—Milwaukee AIDS As last year, [here will be a raffle. Rosario. Equal Rights Officer for the March 17, 1987, turned him down. Project (MAP) spokesperson, Tom While the prize has yet to be officially ERD found no "probable cause" to Davies was informed that h was the Boll, has announced the upcoming announced, a spokesperson for MAP believe that the school district had policy of the ACLU in such cases not MAP-Fest, to be held September 7, told OUT! that it will be a color TV. discriminated against Davies "be- to consider aid until "you have Labor Day, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. This years MAP-Fest will see a cause of sexual orientation." exhausted your administrative in the block between South 2nd and stage show with eight hours of non- In a similar document filed April remedies." National Avenues. stop entertainment. This will include 24, 1987 on Davies complaint against Davies told OUT! that in the As in the past, all proceeds will go bands suchas "Dame" and Greenfield by ERD Equal Rights appeals cases he will act as his own to MAP for the benefit of AIDS "Touch," singers such as Terry Lee Officer, Katherine Kehoe, the same attorney. • research. Waters and female impersonators Boll said that a variety of organiza- such as the popular Bonnie Bitch. tions will have one or more booths La Cages "Battle of the Ws" will offering games and food. These also be held with Ws from all over Wisconsin AIDS Digest include The Cream City Business Wisconsin participating. Association, the YP Softball Team, Boll told OUT! that this year InStep, The Cream City Chorus, the MAP-Fest "will be bigger and better AIDS statistics AIDS criminalization Fest City Singers. The Holiday Invi- than ever. Last year 1200 people tational Tournament Bowling League participated. This year we fully ex- for Wisconsin? and others. pect 2000." • MADISON—Wisconsin has had 135 MADISON— Governor Tommy resident cases of AIDS as of July I, 1987, Thompson has said that he supports the according to the state Division of Health. criminaliration of AIDS for thosewho In addition, there have been 57 PWAs knowingly transmit the disease. Thomp- CCF gives $3,000 son cited the case of an HIV-positive residing in Wisconsin. whose diagnosis was made elsewhere. Green Bay Correctional Institution in- Resident cases are determined by the mate who was charged with scratching to Tri-Cable Network county and state of diagnosis. and biting a guard in May. (See Wiscon- Of the resident an non-resident total of sin AIDS Digest. OUT!, July issue.) M I LWAUKEE—Tri-Cable Net- find the right time slot to gain 188, 117 have died. One year ago, Wis- Thompson said he believed the legislature work, which will present a monthly maximum viewership, said Tri- consin had had 88 cases of AIDS and 56 would promptly follow his recommenda- Cable co-producer Bryce Clark. deaths. tion and enact "severe penalties for TV series on Milwaukees gay and lesbian community, has received an CCF already has plans underway to Milwaukee, Racine and Waukesha knowingly transmitting the disease. initial grant of $3,000 from the continue its funding to Tri-Cable. counties accounted for 87 of the 131 Meanwhile, Thompson has again flip- Cream City Foundation. We feel that the idea of regular resident cases. Dane County has reported flopped on mandatory HIV testing for 17 resident cases. and Brown and Win- inmates in the states correctional institu- The grant is expected to fund the programming is so important that nebago counties, a total 0115. tions. After saying in June that he sup- beyond the (initial) grant, the Board first six shows, which will begin in Gay and bisexual men make up 103 of ported the measure, he changed his mind. August or September. The shows will has voted to find ways and means to the resident cases: intravenous drug users, saying he would support testing only for focus on a variety of community keep the programs going. said Don 5 cases: those contracting AIDS through .assaultive inmates. In July Thompson activities, especially non-bar activities Schwamb, CCF President. blood transfusions, 6, and heterosexual said that he was reconsidering his opposi- of an athletic, social and educational Co-producer of Tri-Cable Network contact. I. The origin of the remaining tion to mandatory testing for all inrnales.• nature, of which many gays and is Mark Behar. cases is unknown. lesbians may not be aware. There are CCF, founded in 1982, raises mo- Of the states 131 cases, 107 PWAs are over 30 active gay/lesbian organize- nies in the gay and lesbian community white. 22 black and 2 Hispanic. 123 are Lions in Milwaukee. and disburses the funds to non-profit men and 8 are women. It will take some experimentation gay organizations to build comrnuni- to settle on the proper format and to ty through new outreach programs. • Conta would support gays, lesbians it." He said that "those who would form." continued from page / be concerned about it (gay/lesbian Concerning mandatory AIDS test- seeking the support of Milwaukees support) would be concerned about ing, Conta said that while he was gay/lesbian community. He told other of my values later." "not closed-minded about mandato- OUT! that the reason for this is that On several occasions throughout ry testing, we should be very cau- he wants the backing of any group the interview, Coma made it clear tious. He added that "the jury is still "who has been denied its civil that support from and for such out," but "my personal preference at rights." groups as the gay/lesbian community the moment is to place heavy empha- Asked if he would appoint an was "a vital principle" that he sis on education and voluntary openly gay or lesbian person to a "could not in any way compromise." testing." position in his administration, Conta He said that it is his "strong Mier Unlike the usually omnipresent said that he would not do so that it is "the fundamental character Mayor Maier who turned down sever- "formally." He added that "gays of Wisconsin to support equal oppor- al invitations to address the Cream and lesbians would find numerous tunity and equal access for all regard. City Business Association, opportunities" on his staff. Conta less of, among other things, sexual Milwaukees lesbian/ gay business said that he would not establish a orientation." Several times he group, Conta, when asked if he gay/lesbian council of any kind as stressed that "this is one of my most would accept such an invitation as had former Governor Earl. He said about a possible backlash arising firmly held principles." Mayor, replied, "Heavens, yes." that, in his opinion, that had "carried from his active solicitation of gay/ Asked for his views on the Rawhide The Mayor, he said, has the clear with it a backlash" that had con- lesbian support. He told OUT! that Amendment, Coma stated that "sex- obligation to represent all the people tributed to Earls defeat in 1986. "I wouldnt be surprised if it (a ual orientation ought not to be con- of Milwaukee. "That includes gays Conte, however, is not concerned backlash). surfaced but . 1 dont fear sidered for employment in any and lesbians." • :age 4 OUT! August 1987 Letters to the Baking Out Editor

741,1, P L11,11111113, ion ra °Inton- Support alternative ed. This would give alternative families the same benefits currently enjoyed only families by traditional families in the arcas of Editor: health insurance and other benefits in the public and some private sectors. It would An important issue which will soon also address the problems of discrimina- come before the City Council is the lion in the areas of finance, parenting and recognition of alternative families, a family memberships. movement which has been led by the It is time to end the notion that only Madison Institute for Social Legislation married heterosexual couples deserve (MISL). It is important for the lesbian social approbation and legal recognition. and gay community to be familiar with Gay and lesbian couples, as well as other the proposed Alternative Families Ordi- types of alternative families, deserve nance in order to participate in the debate equal benefits and opportunities. The and the decision-making. lesbian and gay community should be The proposed ordinance will be intro- actively supporting the proposed ordi- duced in the City Council by Alderper- nance. One can be sure that some homo. sons Jim McFarland and Joe Szwaja, and phobes will be active in their opposition to other council members who wish to be the "sanctioning of immorality." We must to behaLf of the IS Oink Ccomittee, I walld just like to my 1-0.4 co-sponsors. II defines an alternative work with community organizations, family as a voluntary relationship built on labor groups and others to advocate the pad we ewe to lend arc sore to your illustrious colvetition..." mutual support. caring and commitment. ordinance. However, the ordinance will This months cartoon conies from OUT! wishes to thank our volun- This family must register with the City not pass unless we call or write our Larry Bastian, of La Crosse. Clerk and may consist of an extended or alderpersons and show them that there are teer photographer, Eva Schlesinger, inter-generational family in which the voters in their district who support alter- for all her work for the August issue. adults may or may not be blood relatives, native families. With her departure from Madison, OUT! welcomes letters to Me edi- a disabled person and attendant; or a For further information or to obtain a however, OUT! could use a replace- heterosexual, lesbian or gay male couple copy of the proposed ordinance, contact tor on all topics. If possible, letters ,mt. Volunteers? Call (608)256-7664. and any children or dependents. MISL at (608) 256-6475. If you are a should be typed double-spaced and The proposed ordinance seeks to elimi- Madison resident. you can contact the limited to 500 words. All letters ore nate some of the inequities faced by City Clerks office to find out your subject to editing. For identification alternative families. It would expand the alderperson on the City Council. purposes, they must be signed end Madison equal opportunities ordinance to Rick VIllasenor include an address or phone number. include "alternative families status as a Madison If you so request, your name will he SUMMER COOLERS: Re. withheld from publication. freshing bath and shower soaps...shower gels, foam r baths. . .Loofahs for brisk SUPREME, Piano Service rubdowns. . Loners and to Tuning. Repairs, cleansers to rejuenate. Complete Restoration ool, crisp colognes and PIZZA Try Madisons soothing custom scented Bill Bremmer lotions. Only Alternative Pizza Parlour Registered Piano Technician • Over 20 Pima Toppings Available • White or Whole Wheat Crusts For Appointment. Call • dent Lasagna In Town (608) 238-8400 255.2500 912 E. Johnson St. 50e Off Any Delivery 3209 Stevens St. Madsen WI 53705 L Oiler expires 8/31/87 THE TEN PERCENT SOCIETY CALENDAR Aug. 5 Madison March on Washington Organizational meeting for the October 11 National Happy Hour LesbianGay Rights March. 7:00 P.M. Memorial 95 OFF SELF-SERVICE COPIES Union. Check Today In the Union" for the room. AFTER 6 PM MON -FRi ALL DAY SAT. AND SUN Aug. 28 The Registration Week Dance BOO PM -1 BO AM, Great Hall - Memorial Union DJ, Cash Bar, $2.00 at the door. Sept. 2 Fall Membership Meeting Reservations wegesred. 1608)156-01ss. First regular meeting of the fall semester. Check Today in the Union" for the room. kinkoas CAPE PALMS THE TEN PERCENT SOCIETY holds CARPUS LOCATINO meetings every Wednesday at 620 UNIVERSITY AVE • 255-2679 8:00pm. in the Memorial Union. OPEN n SUN EMU TEA. Check Today in the Union for the room. 1201 REGENT ST • 255-6367 OPEN 74 HOURS, • FREE P•RKING ,E TEN PERCENT SOCIETY is UW-Madsons LesbiadGey Student Group OUT! Vol. 5 No. 10, Augusl, 1987 P.O. Box 148, Madison, WI 53701 (608)256-7664 FLMIKE,

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The Madison Midwest Invitational Gay Volley ball tournament. held July 25-26. was non by Minneapolis Gamma A. Finishing fourth out of 12 team, Madisons Shamrock Cardinals, pictured above, include: Terence Gilles, in front; back, left to right, Jeff Pinto,: Frank Wegner; John Fernsler; Steve Richter: Ed Hall; and Jeff Stout Other Wisconsin teams participating were Milwaukees M M Club. winner of the consolation bracket, and Madison Three, which placed sixth in the consolation bracket.

a S Washington Hotel float International Mr. Leather, held in June in Chicago. is won by Thomas Karasch, of Hamburg, West Germany.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK WHITE MEN TOGETHER

The National Association of Black and While Men Together held this years annual convention in Milwaukee at the end of June. Among featured speakers was Joseph Beam ( left t editor of the recent In The life: A Block (thy Anthology, who stirred up the crowd by advocating •• Black-on-Black" relation- ships. As part of its business, NABWMT rejected a notional name change to Men of All Colors Together.

The annual M.A.G.1.C. picnic, held Jul) 25 in Madison Page 6 OUT! August 1987

Laura Hobson penned the following line, which, paraphrased, sums up my advice: "if she began to imagine that she] would be grateful for any ;Iwo/tea/49 1 understanding she gave /her), she would launch herself on the long stony road of disappointment ." Good luck, and be hopeful. g t ol/ta- WRITE ANDRA-GENE! SEND TO: ACCORDING TO ANDRA-GENE, C/O Dear Andra-Gene: OUT!, P.O. BOX NS, MADISON, WI 53701. ALL LETTERS RECEIVED Bradley and I have been together for over ten years, and were still fighting WILL BE SUBJECT TO PUBLICATION. IF ALSO DESIRED, SEND A SASE about the same thing: the "in-laws." When we visit his folks, everythings cool. FOR A CONFIDENTIAL REPLY. • When we visit mine, things are less so, but tolerable! The problem is when mine come to visit us! As a professional man with—I like to think—good taste, propriety and a sense of the finer things in life (like Bradley, for example!), Im Community notes annoyed at the way Mother gripes about Bradley: His clothes, the bedroom the Esergreen Chronielm, a quar- terly journal of gay and lesbian writ- 32302. Do nil mail manuscripts with. furniture the decorated it), his cooking, his family (theyre nice, wholesome oui preliminary contact. people whom I love dearly), in short, his everything. I dont want to make Ma ers. is seeking literary and visual art. Submit four copies of written work Alyson Publientions will be bringing mad, but Im beginning to feel like I have to protect him from her, to the point of with name on each page. Include out an anthology of gay male fiction straining our relationship. Do you have any advice? SASE if you want work returned. For next year and is seeking potential henpecked prose, submit up to three typed, contributors. 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By Jeff Kirsch school, a career for George as shon brilliant one-liners, seems on more Some of the best comedy stems as then partnership. from the "Wimminwood" sections, a The Object of My Affection. By sure footing than in volumes three Nina, stifled by the desperate, light parody of political correctness. Stephen McCauley. Simon and and four, when plot at times became cloying affection of her childs fa- strained and scattered. He keeps on Its counterpart, a near-by all-male Schuster. 319 pp., 517.95. ther, Howard, slowly eases him out dropping coincidental bombshells, encampment called the Bohemian Significant Others. By Armistead of her life, to his despair, and decides Grove, is less successful as humor or Maupin. Harper Rowe. 275 pp., to have and raise her baby without the stuff of a novel. Its bunch of 59.95. him. She then asks George if hed like senile Reaganites inspire little else but to stay with her and raise it. No boredom. (And, yes, some characters These two novels have much more commitment, just an option. And a accidentally do stray from one camp in common than meets the eye. tempting one for George, who lives in to the other.) Neither are gay novels by strict a world of the emotionally befuddled. Sympathy, even for the Bohemian definition; in both of them, gay is After some months, Joley pops Grove clan, is Maupins forte. interwoven into the fabric of society back into Georges life and invites Another great strength of Significant and seen as nothing to be amazed at. him for a weekend at a gay guest- Others is his treatments of AIDS and Ones orientation raises no more house in Vermont. Knowing that it seropositives. While never taking the will lead to nowhere, logically for epidemic lightly, nor does he treat it him, he goes. But the trip takes an heavy-handedly. A minor character, unexpected turn when he meets Paul a PWA named Charlie, injects a dose there, an ex-hippie raising an adopted of reality that compensates for any Salvadorean child. A escapism Maupin has ever been ac- Excellent portrayals of minor Armistead Maupin cused of. With his wide following, characters include Molly, the mid- but with fewer stretches in plausibili- Maupin can reach and educate many dle-aged activist (and Pauls mother), ty. readers, gay and straight, on the terminally addicted to protests and Signif •ant Others focuses largely topic, something few other writers demonstrations and Melissa, on Michael (Mouse) Tolliver, can do. Georges crew-cut, post-feminist co- throughout all five volumes the major While Maupin has been widely kindergarten teacher. gay character, whose lover has died praised and commercially successful, Although some scenes appear as of AIDS and who is himself seroposi- hes also been attacked—for shallow- aimless as George, McCauleys live. The major plot thrust involves ness, contrivance and general lack of characterizations ensnare the reader, Michael, who meets Thack, a poten- seriousness. The criticism continues as does his finely honed prose. Some tial new love visiting from South with the present volume: that Maupin scenes are truly hilarious, as when Carolina. raises serious questions and provides George and Melissa surrender a child While Mary Ann, Mona and Mrs. no answers. to the wrong one of two divorced Madrigal take a backseat in this That the novel could pose the parents, who promptly kidnaps him. volume, Maupin also zeroes in on question and answer it is an outdated The funniest come up when George Brian Hawkins, Mary Anns hus- concept and Maupins detractors arc takes Nina to his brothers wedding. band, who has had an affair with a often critics and writers who are less The family is content (if not elated) to woman who now has AIDS; Wren commercially successful themselves. have him pose as a heterosexual with Douglas, the most beautiful fat Maupin does a tremendous job of her, but never knew one problemati- woman in the world," who does talk entertaining while educating, as does cal detail: her pregnancy. If nothing show appearances and attracts a McCauley, both taking their charac- else, the chaos of the pre-wedding horde of male lovers; and DeDe and ters out of the gay ghetto and inte- nuclear family is enough to make any Dorothea, the series enduring lesbi- grating them into the kinkier currents other combination, however unortho- an couple who try to endure the rigors of mainstream. dox, seem a paragon of sanity. of "Wimminwood," a fictitious This year its a fun place to do your Narrated in the first person, womens music festival based on real end-of-summer literary swimming. • McCauleys novel draws an excellent character study in George, likable, vulnerable and at times hopelessly undecided—a phase, if you will, to which most can relate. Decided and usually more guided, Nina is the The issue is not weaker characterization of the two major figures, but endearing. Stephen McCauley The characters are as likable as this eyebrows than stripes versus plaids. book, which, although its received affording Although both novels focus largely somewhat less attention, is on a par on a gay man, both are peopled with with David Leavitts The Lost Lan- an array of off-beat heterosexuals, guage of Cranes. Because of its who, like their gay counterparts, face wit—sometimes lacking in Leavitt— Choices of love versus independence. its maybe an even more enjoyable the best. For accurate titles, they are the best read. is Armistead of the summer. And, whats more, Significant Others Maupins fifth volume in his Tales of theyll be for many the best two the City saga, originally serialized in gay-oriented novels of the season. San Francisco Chronicle and now Stephen McCauleys dazzling first the appearing in the San Francisco novel, The Object of My Affection, features George Mullen, a kindergart- Examiner. en teacher in his late twenties who TRIVIA ANSWERS moves in with Nina, single, heterosex- I. D; 2. C: 3. A; 4. C; 5. A; 6.0 (the ual and pregnant. George has just rejeered BTaires filmscrint) TX; 87A-; escaped from a relationship with 9. D; 10. D.

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