NEW YORK'S OLDEST GAY NEWSPAPER DECEMBER 1981 ISMI* 122 GAGV Now Non-profit^ Tax Exempt

After many years of frustration over determination before the end ofthe year, GAGV is a service organization, now off gay lib fliers. The other side of tfaat is forms and figures, federal non-profit leaving time for tax-deductible gifrs to more than ever. That means the com­ tfaat otfaers need to take tfae responsibil­ (501 (c) 3) application forms were filed be made in the 1981 tax year/* munity .Qeeds to recognize the kind of ity for the policital activism that should by the Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley, In time, the organization will also support that a service agency needs—we be done. GAGV is not doing it, and can*t Inc., this past August. The Board have the ability to purchase items are not a small clique of people running do it/' received two requests for further in- -without paying state sales tax and will formatiotr which were answered. Then, receive the same bulk postal rates as with speed that greatly surprised the churches and other non-profit organiza­ Board members, GAGV received its tions. tax-exempt status on Novetnber 25. The The determination involves a proba­ determination is retroactive to August, tionary period during which the organi­ and also includes the years 1973 through zation must show that it is publically 1976 (during which the total budget was supported. "All memberships and dona­ imder $5,000). A request must be made tions, large or small, help us to maintain to receive a determination on the our status as a publically funded services intervening years. organization, *' noted Vice President GAGV Members and donors may M.L. Wells. now deduct their contributions on their **This accentuates an issue that has income taxes. GAGV President Michael been brought up lately,** said Board Wennin said, ''We are lucky to get the member Elaine Smith. **That is, that Dignity-Integrity Folk Walk for C.R.O.P.

The fi^s^ annual CROP Walk for town churches that participated. Hunger took place on Sunday afternoon, Rev. Bruce Hanson, pastor of St. October 18th with almost 100 walkers Luke's, was elated at the amount AtHhaOmy rtaamtwmdiy Fon 21 2b participating. Twelve of the walkers raised by his church. Said one long time s^gMtlMS te GAGV pnei a-r) E3afaie Smith, Mkfaael WeuidB, Maay were members of Dignity-Integrity/ parishioner of St. Luke's who sponsored K, Md VbM^DIScfaino Rochester, some of whom carried a sign a '*D-r* member, *'I was glad when Rev. stating "Dignity-Integrity and St. Luke's Bruce brought up the idea that you, Church Care.** The 3 hour, 10 mile trek youngsters do the walking for us. It sure was sponsored by several downtown helped both ways and he was so proud of Rochester churches and was part of an how well we all did!" Custody Case Has effort during *'Share the Harvest Week" This year's walk was an inspirational to millions of people, both at home and mix of people coming together for a abroad, who suffer from malnutrition, common purpose, that of fighting Broad Significance imdemourishment and outright starva­ hunger. Not only were there a dozen gay tion. people (at least a dozen that we know Lesbian mother Kathy Allgood is their penal codes or repeal state laws Over $3,225.00 was raised in the of!), some of whom found ac­ facing one of the most serious crises of that restrict private sexual behavior downtown walk with over $854.00 of that ceptance walking arm-in-arm or hand- her life. Now, several years after her between consenting adults. (Now a amoimt due to an alliance of Dignity- - in-hand, but there were joggers and divorce, her ex-husband has counter- reality achieved through the courts in Integrity folk (as walkers) and the hikers, a woman in a wheelchair who petitioned for full custody of her two New York State). morning congregation of St. Luke*s pushed herself the entire 10 mile route, children, Mark and David. During the State legislatures should enact legis­ Episcopal (as sponsors), many of whom and a woman whose son would not six years since the initial settlement, the lation that would prohibit the con­ are seniors unable to do the walking > The sponsor her but sponsored the family children's father has not made full use of sideration of sexual or affectional monies raised by the D-I/St. Lidce's beagle. Both dog and owner completed his visitation rights. Though he promised orientation as a factor in any judicial aUiance is believed to be the highest the 10 mile trip! two years ago never to use Kathy's determination of child custody or amount raised among all of the down­ lesbianism is court, that promise has msitation rights. . . now been broken and lesbianism has If you've missed all of these efforts become the major issue in the petition. on behalf of the gay commtmity, maybe Kathy, Wendy, Mark and David are a you caught the young man countering ^family well-known to the Rochester negative feelings some hold toward conummity. Perhaps you've seen them lesbians and gay n^en on the Jack on television talking about their atypical- Kinnicutt Opinion Program. That was ly structtsred but strong and happy Mark, calling in on his own to state his family. Perhaps you were with them on views. the March on Washington in 1979. Mark and David are adamantly Maybe you followed Kathy's journey to opposed to living with their father; they Houston in 1977 when she was an openly have lived happily with their mother for lesbian representative to the Intemation* six years. Kathy and Wendy have al Women's Year Conference. Ifyou did, provided two positive adult role models then you are aware tfaat Kadiy's efforts and have given great respect to their faelped win approval of tfae foUowing sons' endeavors to become assertive, resolutions: compassionate, capable men. The Congress, state and U>cal legis­ famdyj right now, is composed of four latures should, enact legislation to students, all receiving good grades at eliminate discrimirtatitm am the bdais tfaeir respective schools. It's a family of sexual and affectional prefermrtae where Mark's and David's interest in in areas including but not limited to sports, band and chorus are applauded employmttnt, housing, public ac- by Kathy and Wendy while David and conttfunlations, credit, pitblic faciU- Mark encourage their parents in their ties, government furtding and the efforts to broaden their career choices. A Dmsky^ Majm^ lMb» ami military. weekly duty roster hangs on the kitchen LfaM. Sttue lagislatures should reform continumd on page two

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The Dorr Collection THE Place for Women What do we leave Artistic Fiow*r ArrangemMitt in Rocliester Fine Plants/Gut Flowers Disco Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. by Arnold W. Pegish ourchikiren? By Rosemary Cahill aomeone who is "too fat?" Of course it is good that we love our Godly and loving fauman^ beings. The • Have I closed my mind and heart to Phone 473-6310 kids and want to help leave them a better only thing we don't have is a family to Hie old cliche Admotushes us against someone wfao is "too old?" 741 MonrcMi Avsniie (cor. Rutgers St.] world than we had, with less persecution^ fight for. judging a book by its cover* Like most • Have 1 closed my mind and heart to VISA and MastorCharge acoaptod better jobs, education and (^>porttmities. Yes, brothers and sisters, that is our cliches, it is trutf. Whetfaer or not tfaey someone who is "too young?" 278 Allen St., Rocfaastar 325-9342 So we fight for the rigfat tfaat should have great sin: We don't care enoi^h about adtnit it, everyone wants to be loved by • Have I closed my mind and heart to been oturs and will be otu* children's. each other to make it a good fight. Anita one special person. A lot of otherwise someone who is physically challenged? A great challenge for all minorities Bryant is gone or confessed her evil nice people are walking around without • Have I closed my mind and heart to except the minority called gay, none of. ways, the Moral Majority isn't doing too lovers because they faave failed to see aomeone wfao has emotional problems? us have children that we partictdarly well. We are safe for a ^i^e. Safe and beyond tfae snqxirficialities. • Have I closed my mind and heart to Metropolitan Community Church wish to be a member of the gay minority. second-class at best. I ask you, is Please dqii't mistmderstand me; I'm someone wfao is "all skin and bones?" That does not mean we aee uidiappy — second-class good enough for you? If you iu>t referring to incompatible personality • Have I closed my mind and heart to SERVING THE ROCHESTER AREA GAY COMMUNITY but it is not a heritage we would welcome shotdd have a child who is gay, is that traits. Certainly we can all love many someone wfao faas too mudi or too litde REV. WILLIE WHITE, MINISTER people witfaout being **in love." No one faair? and wish upon them as if we were Jews good enough for your child? SERVICES can explain tfae cfaemscal miracle of of Hispanics. • As long as tfaere are laws against na • Have I closed my mind and faeart to 7:30 p.m. Simda3rs I wotdd compare it more to the deaf we sfaotdd be at war, against those muttial physical attraction. And tia one aomeone yAa is "too tall" or **too GA Y COMMUNTTY COFFEEHOUSE Monroe Avenue at Rosedale minority—it is die will of God and we tm-Christlike social ideals. Tfae ideal can explain why it ceases, either, as it Aort?" 8-11 p.m. Thursdays 865-3531 must accept wfaat God has given us. But, society is one of absolute love and caring often does. Sometimes growing together • Have I closed my mind and faeart to that does not mean we must accept a and I now call upon all of us wfao profit or growing apart is simply a matter of someone wfao faas acne? lesser position in life: it does not mean from Gay business to support GAGV so timing. I'm concerned about tfae fact tfaat « Have I closed my mind and faeart to that we can accept persecution. that they can continue to work for all of ao many people just look at someone and someone 1 consider to be outside my We have clout—clout, yes. We have us—to bring us together as a family. proclaim, •'She/he is not my type." That social strata? r intelligence, ability, position and money Let's show the world that we do grates at my very nerve ends. What the • court) I HAVE CHEATED MYSELF to fight for our rights. We know we are care—that we do care unselfishly. hell is a type, may 1 ask? Unfortunately, IRREPARABLY BECAUSE 1 HAVE tfae term is usually applied in a physical DONE ANY OF ALL OF THE ABOVE? sense. Just listen to yourself the next One of those people might have been time you say some person is not your exactly the kind of person you're looking ••type." Sounds rather ugly, doesn't it? for. Believe it or not, someone else probably "I will try not to be so shallow" has said it about you. Yes, YOUl Deep would be an excellent New Year's Tom and Al of Today's Youth down inside, we ail know that because resolution. If learning to love yourself is we're all basically insecure and it makes indeed ''the greatest gifr of all," being Where are they headed? us feel better to suggest that others are loved for yourself must be the second tmattractive. There is something to greatest. In other words, the "right" by David Wayne CoUier quite a hardship, compounded by the admire about everybody if you just look many other pressures I faced. Along person may be in the "wrong" package. beneath the surface. Look beyond the wrapping. You may be The youth of today are up against with my peers referring to me as a Ask yourself the following questions: ••faggot," my teachers were doing the pleasantly surprised at what you find. FINS N' FEATHERS many pressures. Pressures stenuning * Have I closed my mind and heart to Merry Christmas. from friends, family, teachers, and same. I finally realized that the oidy way society in general. In such a transient to survive in this society was to be strong. 1 got stronger by lesh-ning from society, people are ignoring the talents r--?:^* of today's youth and underestimating the situations 1 was invt^ved in, such as their abilities. Because of this ''aliena­ being open about my gayness to my Pet Shop tion," more youth than ever are turning family and friends. Election 1981; A Ci^siile Analysis toward self-destructive means. Drugs, The GAGV is now sponsoring a group crime, and the ultimate escape—suicide, which deals with the pressures that gay head the list. Growing up today is" youth face. The Gay Youth Group (GYG) By Rosemary Cahill won. They were deemed ''Acceptable 463 Monroe Avenue becoming more and more of a long, hard takes place on the^ first and third for the Gay Political Caucus With Reservations." fight. Youth are desperately fighting fbr Strndays of each month. As the GYG Unfortunately, four out of five of our a sense of identity and self-confidence in Program Director, I intend to create a As ustial, we won and we lost. "Unacceptable" candidates were re­ a rjq^idly cfaanging world. program which will help gay yotttb cope All of our "Recommended" candid-^ elected. We are still stuck with William with the pressures in our constantly It can be especially bard being a gay ates won. City Cotmcilmembers Paid Steinfeldt, Edwin Foster, John Stanwix, Wish AU a cfaanging society. For more information, youth facing these pressures. While Haney (D), Ruth Scott (D), Joan Hensler and Josephine Genovese. ^ pfaone the GAGV and leave a message growing up myself, I fotmd being gay (D) and John G. Curran (D) were all The impact of the mucfa-discussed for Dave. (244-8640). re-elected. They have our congratula­ Rigfat To Life endorsement is faard to JOYOUS HOLIDAY SEASON tions. Former Coimty Legislator John determine in the County Legislature Erb (D-L), one of our "Acceptable" races, but it should be pointed out that it candidates, won election to the Coimcil certainly must have played a part Thanking you Ciistocly CaseDeservesSupport with a surprising vote total. It sfaould be (negative) in the races for Coimty Clerk, noted faere tliat Erb was not originally District Attorney, and Family Omrt. All for your patronage in 1981 and looking forward to tfae party cfaoice. He won nomination in three losers in those races had Right To cotttirtued from page one tfae primary and went on to lead all tfae since tfae repeal of New York State's Life endorsement. waU. The rotating schedule ensures tfaat otfaer candidates. Our questionnaires continuing to help you with your pet's needs in 1982 •'Consensual Sodomy" statute. Kathy A few da3rs afrer the election, a eacJi person sfaares in tfae maintanance were sent om before the primary and oar and Wendy are no longer legally defined Times-Union editorial questioned the of tfae faousefaold. Eacfa individual knows- only contact with Erb was by telephone as ••criminals." Will tfae court recognize wisdom of accepting that particular OPEN Monday-Friday 12:3&«00 that he or she is an integral member of afrer our deadline for candidate recom­ tfais difference? Lesbian custody cases endorsement. The editorial said, in part: Saturday 10-5 CiOMd Sumlay the family unit, who is not oidy loved btu mendations faad passed. faave long been sorrowful affairs. We "Abortion is not simply a matter for 442-5350 needed. What Kathy, Wendy, Mark and Our ••Recommended" candidates for $^ need to see this one_ fought to the debate among constitutimial lawyers and David faave created is a family based on die Cotmty Legislature, William Benet * end—with a happy ending. ethics professors; if it were. Right To non-sexist, humanist values allowing (D-l, 23), Kevin Murray (D,24), and Nan Kathy, Wendy, Mark, and David Life groups would not be so eager to -«i». '^^i»^if^^HiJiVjt)i^ti^.Hkj!)t.j»i^^.«(^J J, them the strength to take the risks they Jofanson (D, 21) all easily won re-elec­ need your help. And perhaps as impor­ endorse local candidates. Such groups have for the entire gay conununity. tion. Patricia B. Adduci (D-C) was tantly, you need to help yourself. Tfais is know, even if candidates do not, that Tfais is a case witfaotst "complica­ elected County Clerk and Catfaerine Rochester's first chance to challenge the abortion could conceivably figure in any tions" or snags—a case tfaat wiU tell tfae Spoto (D) was elected Scfaool Commis- New York courts after the sodomy law number of situations in a courtroom, community wfaetfaer tfae courts will allow sioneT. repeal. Money must not be an obstacle. district attorney' s office, or coimty a lesbian to continue to raise faer cfaildren Ms Adduci is the first woman ever Help supply the necessary fimds fot legislature." when a heterosexual father says he Peered County Clerk in Monroe County, legal fees and expert testimony. Contri­ "Shoidd custody of a pregnant doesn't like it—as simple as that. It snd tfae first Democrat to hold that office butiofis may be sent to: 14-year-oId be given to the parent who involves many of the same issues in 42 years. Accordingly, her friends and Help Save Our Family Ftmd opposes abortion or to the parent mdio currently affecting the entire community: supporters were treated to a reception at c/o The Empty Closet Press favors it? Is a woman who has had the definition of fanuly, •'morahty" tfae Rocfaester Club on Stmday, Nov. 22. 713 Monroe Avenue several abortions any less deserving of issues, the legal rights of gay people. Our faeartfelt congratulations to you, Rochester, New York 14607 custody of her child? Is a rape victim who This will be a precedent setting case Pat\ (We realize, of course, that your chooses abortion any less deserving of reception line is the only one we'll ever sympathy—or effort—by the prosecutor -s?rkt^* ^ have to stand in hereafter.) handling her case? Should a family Conicratulations also to our other planning ageticy thar gives out abortion GREATER ROCHESTERS ONLY "Acceptable" candidates: Peter J. Mc- advice receive coimty fimds? GAY MATCHMAKING SERVICE Donou^ (D-I, II); Sam Colombo (DC, "/n such Cases, a Right to Life group 20); David Gantt (D,22): Nancy PadiUa might choose to call in the loan of its (D), City School Board; Leonard Maas endorsement. . . " (D), and District Attorney Donald Ches- We sincerely hope all candidates for SEND FOR : Ci^jBiCCI^t!!:^ worth (D>. William Bastuk (D-RTL, 26) public office will consider those possibili­ FREE and Joanne VanZandt (R-C, 10), also ties in the fiiture. BROCHURE P.O. BOX 40442 ROCHESTER. N.Y 14604 library Joiunal 1 LETTERS TO THE E D ITOR HUrrg (Sbtstntas Gay Guide Book V Places of Interest is First Gay Quide Book Recommended For Public Libraries WHY IS EVERYBODY TALKING ABOOT US? For the first time in history, a gay COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELR Upstairs at 667 Monroe Ave. 442-1140 PARTY different cities eacfa year, we make an guide hook faas been recommended fot^ The Rainbow Shines Again for die Deaf-Gay effort to ccmtact local gay groups fer any use in public libraries. TIME assistance or infermation we migfat IHaces of Interest (g^ map guide need. For dus purpose, we contacted tfae USA/Canada) and its ccMpankm, Places londay thru Frida: Dear Friends, Deaf, THB RAINBOW NBWS, 228 Bast Gay Alliance of Genesee VaUey, and of Interest to Women, were described as Cocktail du Jour .75 7^ Rainbow Netvs attd tfae Naticmal 25tfa St., Suite 4. New York, New York were met witfa a warm, generous "amazingly tfaorough" and "recom* Gay-Deaf Awareness Campaign are 10010, (212) 686-5710 voice only. respcmse. Tfae members of tfais group mended fer aH but the smallest Any Jenny .60 gave us time, infermation, and lent us a libraries'' by Library Jourttcd in its projects of Communication for tfae Deaf•_ Stncerely» In February of 1981 a fire in tfae building coffee pot to use in tfae suite at our faotel. review in the October 15, 1981 issue. free hors d'oeuvres 4-7 John O. A. Nunier We wisfa to publidy tfaank tfae Library Joumtd, whose reviews tfaat served as faeadquarters fer Com- Bditor, The rmmications for tfae Deaf, destroyed members of tfae Gay Alliance fer tfaeir heavily influence the choices made by ^ r Rtdnbow Netvs fiiendsfaip and support. It is a wcmderful ^^^.'yi'^^ai 1065 £. Main office equqmnent, fitrtuture, and most public library acquisiticm departments, feeling to know tfaat we can count on important, tfae teletype machine wfaidi Bd. note: The Rtdnbow Sks indude the pubhc also Canada, Israel, Australia and I faave been reading tfae E.C. Sincerely B libraries of Dayton (CHiio), Providence FRIAR'S INN Germany. Tfaougfa there are now chap­ newspaper for a long «diile. 1 would just Andrew C. Irish, R.N. (Rhode Island), Bridgeport (Cotmecticut) ters of tfae National Rainbow Society of like to say I befaeve tfae quality of this for tbe Gay Nurses' 248 IMonroe Avenue the Deaf in 18 major cides in the U.S. publication is improving. I'm enjoying Alliance of New York and Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and the college and Canada, many chapters do not print the new astrology items. Keep up the 44 St. Mark's Place libraries at Radcliffe College and Indiana il I li ii • li ill il! a local newsletter. The Rainbow News is good work. New York. NY 10003 University. m w lauai • JSUSUBUBUS' m I SUSiJSLSI SI an independent project supported en­ A Happy Subscriber tirely by subscriptions, advertisements The Empty Closvt Is produced eleven Umes a year WEDNESDAY .*2.^ STAFF •^ and donadons for its publication. The (July-August combined) by the Empty Closet Press for the \. Ji / Gay AIManc^e of Genesee Valley. Inc., at 713 Monroe Ave., \ goal of The Rainbow News is to reach the Editor— *»» To the Editor: Rochester NY 14607, sole owner and publisher. Approx. y'i <¥ gay-deaf crommimity in small rural Elaine Smith 3.000 copies of each Issue are distributed during the first JIM'S ORIGINAL ^ ? \ towns, cides and states where there are Members of our group were in Assistant Editors— week of the month by mail and carrier. no local chapters of the National,Rain­ Rochester for the ccmvention of the New Rosemary Cahill The publication of the name or photograph of any person York State Nurses' Association in late CK organization in articles or advertising in this newspaper 2-for-1 bow Society, and let then know that they M.L. 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by Unda ^j decisions will have to be made concerning Romantic attachments are shown. Keep poraonal Health problems. Friends and "MERRY CHRISTMAS" SELF. At months end new work opportuni­ your mouth "shut** In other's personal social contacts give you wekxsme enjoy­ DECEMBER, 1981 ties look promising. A new romantic matters. LUCKY DAYS: 10, 14, lis, 18. ment. Improve your appearanoel Romance interest is Indicated. Think clearly! The 20. 29. (new) is Indicated for many Capricorns. ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 20: Unexpec­ Holidays will Cheer you up. LUCKY SCORPIO OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 22: LUCKY DAYS: 2. 5. 12, 20. 21, 26, 30. ted travel is indicated! Get aii cards and DAYS: 4, 10. 18, 21, 26. The money sector for Scorpions during AOUARIUS JAN. 21-FEBRUARY 19: letters out eariy, t>ecause many Arlens wili LEO JULY 24-AUGUST 23; Your social December is enhanced. Especially in Many aquarians may be engaged in a new be traveling to see famiiy and friends. calendar will be filled with Holiday areas of investments, due to "previous" project which they feel is just for fun. but During the Holiday Season be more Festivities. New romantic interests are investments. Just plain "LUCK" is also on just may turn into a productive money cautious mid-month while in motion. Indicated. Social gatherings, sports In­ hand to increase many Scorpions bank making opportunity. Holiday get-togethers (Automobiles). At months end look for terests, tove life and creative projects will e accounts. The Planets are showering down will t>e enlightening ahd superb. Friends career opportunities along with a pay t>e on your agenda. Have Fun! Dealings "Dollars** as well as creative new financial and new acquaintances wilt add joy to your increase. Don't argue with co-workers or with children are also shown. Health ideas for Scorpio. Romance and social Holiday Cheer, Romance Is stimulating friends. Religious functions are indicated matters need a check-out! Keep a close gatherings look especially favorable. One and new social fun is shown. Meeting new for Aries Natives. Joint partnerships are watch on money, over spending for word of warning don't mix business and people this month will Keep you busy, but accented. LUCKY DAYS: 2, 10. 11, 12, 18, Christmas isn't advised! LUCKY DAYS: 8, pleasure. Educational pursuits are in­ don't neglect your old friends. Many 24. 29. 10, 12, 19, 26. dicated. LUCKY DAYS: 4, 9, 10, 20, 26, 28. Aquarians will be involved in Political projects and charity work for the needy. TAURUS APRIL 21-MAY 21: December VIRGO AUGUST 24-SEPTEMBER 23: SAGITTARIUS NOV. 23-DEC. 21: This Maya, Mlaa Rochester 1982, graced tfae Mr. mueboy Contest, showing off the tfaiee will be a busy month financially for many month will be "Hectic** for many Sagittar- LUCKY DAYS: 1, 6, 16, 20, 28. Many Virgo Natives will have t>eautjful and crowns she has won this year. Taurians. Money matters such as taxes, happy Memories of this Holiday, Family ians. Wrap and tag your gifts as soon as PISCES FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 20: bank accounts, joint financial dealings, and Friends will make this one of your best you buy them. Career goals along with new Problems at work or home need special The Eleventh Annual Halloween Ball a complimentary service donated by property and pension matters must not be interests are indicated. New changes in attention. These areas will improve after Christmas'. Surprises of all kinds! Home was held at Jim's Bar on October 25, Chuck land Mike. over looked. Look to 'new' areas to invest life and entertaining in the home wi!l play your life are beginning now. Get proper inner feelings have been aired on t>oth money. Seek advice! Health matters may an important role to many VIrgos. Financial rest, or your health may suffer! take advice sides. Financial matters are not at their 1981. As usual, the climax of the event The new Queen selected was Maya. need special attention towards months opportunities are indicated. Decisions will seriously from a friend concerning a love best during December. "Keep out** of other was the crowning of a new Miss Maya also holds two other titles in the end. Many Taurus Natives will be absorbed have to t^e made concerning a job matter. Interest and money. Think wisely! Curb people's problems, remain Neutral! Steer Rochester. city. The first runner-up was Tifany clear of disagreements with family mem­ in their work. New job opportunities are This decision wili be final and could change your tendency to be "outspoken" during Reigning Queen Nicole and coordin­ Love. shown. Avoid gossip and feelings of your life in many ways. LUCKY DAYS: 6, family activities on Christmas Day. LUCKY bers particularly Parents. Results from a jealousy. Think practical in love matters. 7 9 10 21 27. DAYS: 2, 6, 10. 11, 16. 26, 29. jointly creative project will be achieved! ator Randy Munger (Miss Rochester We at the Empty Closet wish Maya a Joseph Cannlzzo was named Mr. Blueboy Nicole's final perfonnance There wili be unexpected surprised for as Miaa Rochester 1981. LUCKY DAYS: 7, 10, 12, 16, 18, 26, 31. LIBRA SEPTEMBER 24-OCTOBER 23: CAPRICORN DEC. 22-JANUARY 20: 1977) were in charge of this year's successful and happy reign. Rodbester 1982 at Jim's on November 15- GEMINI MAY 22-JUNE 21: Mind your Many Libras will be taking short trips to Work advancements are shown for many many PIsceians. LUCKY DAYS: 3, 9. 12. festivities. Making the event as own business and stay out of matters visit family and old friends, but will be Capricorns. Avoid disputes with co-workers 14, 15, 16. 18, 25- successful as it is takes several months' concerning others love life. During Decem­ at ail costs! "Keep Quiet," no matter how extremely happy to return home. Don't be Linda constructs AstrologicaS Charts for preparation. ber concentrate on your own personal reckless in love matters. New money- much it may kill ycu to voice your opinions! interests. Love, Romance^ and Sex are Just exercise patience. Visits to Hospitals privato clients. The Natal Chart fee Is $25. The panel of six judges had their making opportunities are indicated. Avoid Call 621-7038 for details. indicated for many Geminis. Stronger arguments with brothers and sisters. New or shut-ins are shown. Take special care of work set out for them. It is up to this unions for those attached, for the unat­ impartial group to first judge all contest­ tached Geminis this may be the right time for you to meet that special person. "Good ants on hair, make-up, poise, total look Luck'* Advancements In the job depart­ and transformation. From this score they ments are indicated. Money matters look were to select ten contestants. bright and wfll continue to excel. LUCKY Christnsas Shopping I These ten contestants then competed DAYS: 3, 6, 10, 15, 18, 21, 23, 27. CANCER JUNE 22-JULY 23: Changes in in the areas of stage presence, mime. your lives concerning love, sex and home poise, and total look. The five highest life are shown. Confusion. Mixed Emo­ Through the Xodiac scores from part one and two combined tions/ Try to get your lives in proper became the semi-finaiists. perspectives and don't take on more By Linda The final selection for the new Queen responsibilities at this time. New goals and and the runners-up were then.made from •>%: GIFT IDEAS FOR EACH SIGN: the same process used in-part two. Two ARIES Hats! Strong perfume fragran­ Pianos. Albums and tapes of favorite thirty others. The suede hoots leaked different song types (one slow and one ces. "Diamonds!** Colors; Flaming Musicians. Fine and delicate glass. when 1 walked through the, snow. One disco) must be used by each of the orange, red and yellows. A set of knives, SCORPIO Books on Health and Psych- gold ear-ring went down the bathroom semi-finalists. many Ariens are excellent cooks. Wood ism. Colors; Tan, beige, rust and sink, when it slipped out ofmy fingers. A new dimension was put in this carvings. Hardy plants, (Cactus). Tools, browns. Red Wine. Silver or Topaz The blue vase, I packed aWay, my year's event. For the first time the event (Ariens are builders). Books on War and jewelry. Kitchen ware. Strong (over­ Mother asked to borrow it for a party she was broadcast live, via cable, to Tara Political Figures. powering) perftmies. Candles and in­ was giving, a friend had too much to Lounge. It was also video taped and will Soy Lawrence and friends. The OK Corral had Ite doaing celebratioB this Novemiier, bat Boy has many plans for his new, mocfa TAURUS Jewelry (expensive). Leather cense . Iron, steel and ivory Art. drink, stumbled into the coffee table be shown periodically at Jim's. This was lazger bar to open aoon. articles. Colors; pastels, especially (Unusual gifts). Sexy clothing. —well, so much for the blue vase. The creamy yellow. Home made baked SAGITTARIUS Physical Btness and ex­ $60.00 perfume "stunk awful,*' so I gave SAUNA BATH • T.V. THEATER • REFRESHMENTS goodies! Albums or tapes of their erdse equipment! Lottery Tickets. it to a friend for her Birthday in the late favorite recording artist. MONEY! Cook­ Cookies! Spicy Perfumes and Soaps. summer. ing utensils. Eye-pleasing sculpture. Books on Herbs, medicine, natural That same Christmas after dinner GEMINI Two of Anything! Paper, healing, gambling and animals. Colors; and activities, a close friend of mine pencils, pens or a new typewriter and Blue, blue and more blue. An after c^jne through the door carrying a stamps! (Gemini's have a lot to write Christmas Vacation to a far away place. beautifully wrapped and ribboned gift about). Pictures of butterflies. Colors; A Pet (Large). for me. I carefully tmwrapped this large cream pastels and purple. Nuts! CAPRICORN Colors; Dark brown, black box and was surprised to fmd—a bottle of Especially cashews! Sweet smelling and all earthtones. Pictures or paintings wine, a new tooth brush with paste, nail perfume. A good meal anywhere! A of farm houses, barns, mountains and polish remover, my favorite brand of HOTEL short weekend trip. A new radio. •old* Churches. Jewelry, black or white mascara, deodorant, musk spray per­ Subscription to their favorite magazine. Onyx. Clothes conservative. Perfume a fume, movie passes, a lottery ticket, and CANCER Plants, any kind! Garden very clean fragrance, nothing over­ shampoo and conditioner and a pair of tools. Silver or silverware. Wine. Colors; powering. A wrist watch. Antiques (very warm socks. Needless to say, I used up TAVERN most colors in deep tones. Sexy night­ old). Pottery. Roses and rosebushes. each gift before summer. gowns, underware and perfumer*Emer­ Intricate Art Sculpture. A light very dry We took an old run-down alds, Pearls and Black Onyx. Glass, white wine. Books on "How to be hotel in the ktwer east skJe. glassware and kitchen articles. Fish Successful.** We pathted and decorated it. equipment. Gifts for the Boat, Home or AQUARIUS Tickets or passes to lectures. We retained some of the Apartment: Telephone, TV set, radio, stereo, teles- LEO Theater, concert or movie tickets. scope and photography supplies. Books original charm and added t!r ASSORTED CONPIDBNTIAL some personal touches of Games! Books on the "lives and loves" or magazines on science, birds and POPPERS of movie stars. Art and craft projects. our own. The result: astrology. Colors; all shades. Jewelry, tr T^SHMTS •it MANY TOYS VD CUNIC rd wtSmara fiuwa'WMB Piety Passes to the Race Track! Colors; Red. KstemA mar tm^mam^Pma. Tororrto*8 first aH gay hotel Sttpphires. Motion picture passes. 1^ aUHME BOOKS -tf UNAOVERTISED EXTENDED HOURS gold and yellows. Golf equipment. Gold »» alBaale'a Pattjp« and tavern. A complete over­ PISCES Colors; White or deeptones. ^ LUBmCANTS SPECIALS DECEMBER 18 night vacatkDn complex in the jewelry. Subscription to sports and greens and blue. Movie Star magazines. 8-MIDNIGHT swingin'est city in Canada. tinancial magazines. Towds and Sheets! Coral Jewelry. Wool sweaters, shoes, Tara. Holds Over-Forties Party VIRGO Think Practical! Deep dark colors slippers and socks. Fish and (ish (blue). Books on health and animals. aquariums. 3ooks on fantasy, romance The commumty events and parties was presented by Rob and there was a Herbs! Sewing machine or sewing poetry and religion. Paintings of the IHI held in October and November were vocal arrangement by John. The Original paraphernalia. Decorations for the Ocean, rivers and seas. Swimsuit. merrier than ever. Bud» owner of Tara Lady Carmen also performed. The free Home. Pottery or antiques. Buy them a Tin-Art. " A900aatea Lounge held his annual '*Over 40s Party buffet included selections of cold-cuts, Pet! (small). Flower Pieces. Remember on October 24th. A tent was set up in the salads and condintents prepared by Roy. "When All Else Fails Think Practical" with Virgo's they would rather have one REALTORS rear lot behind Tara to help accommo­ On the bar were signs for Geritol 3^, your hosts I remember one Christmas seve'ral expensive gift dian several inexpensive ovr%an oauna date over 200 people. To give the event a and Prtine Juice 50c. No one in that years ago, tmder my tree 1 received CITY UVING Dave and George ones. CJTY UFE EXPERTS touch of class each of the employees festive crowd will need either for many wonder^ gifts. Three expensive bbu- "^ IN C wore a gold vest and dark pants. years to come. It was nice to see so many 18 Eastern Avenue LIBRA Fjowering Plants! Opal or ses. a pair of suede 'boocs, gold Those in attendance all had a grand friendly people gather at an event such Diamond jewelry. Wooden lorniture. ear-rings, a blue vase and $60.00 Toronto. Ontario MSA 1 HS 235-1540 109 NORTH ST. 454-1074 time. There was a slide and movie as this one. Bud, a special thanks for Colors; "ALL". Gay. Books or maga­ perfume. (416)368-4040 zines on interior or exterior design and presentatimarriage was with the tmderstanding that The Empty differently. It doesn't matter to me. I'm Also...see us for low cost decorator trip that gets laid on other people by the easier than leaving the church. For a Closet is still, unfortunately, not simply a good person, I do good deeds every organized church and I'm thankful for year and a half 1 was praying to God. *lf the name of a newspaper, but still a goal items. Two floors of fabric values! day. I wash behind my ears and change it." Vm not sttpposed to be gay, change to be reached. We look forward to the my imderwear daily. I ant overwhelmed "Some people can't cut through all mc—if I am. let me be at peace with it.' day when pseudonyms will no longer be when I walk into a large church. A large the garbage. The main message is love. One morning I woke up and suddenly necessary. feeling of awe comes over mc. I don't I've always fek loved and that is the FABRICS & FINDINGS realized that I was at peace with myself. Suggested reading material: really know why. I can remember going message 1 have to pass along." God made me the way I am. He gave A Disturbed Peace by Brian McNaught, S0 ANDERSON AVE. «.". • n to church and watching my father's face. Tim Sally has long been active in me the ability to loye. How could what I ««<• PUntMSACBOU STMCT Dignity Press; Christianity, Social Toler- There's only one way to say it: he was Dignity/Integrity and is abo currently feel be wrong?" 4I1-2I1S bored. Most people ndio arc just artce, and Homosexuality by John Bos- Open Mon - S«i. « lo 5:>0 PM Tues A Thurs to 9 involved in Families^and Friends of "I believe that God created every one well. University of Chicago Press. Page 10 THE BMPTY CLOSET December 1981 Oties of file Red Night Lesbian Poetry from Perseplione December 1981 THE EMPTY CLOSET Page 11 Man to Man Cities of The Red Night, by WiOiam S. Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology edited by birth—the oldest was bom in 1898; the Burroughs. Hoh, Rinehart and Winston, Elly Bulkin and Jean Larkin, Persephone youngest in 1956. 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10175. Press. P.O. Box 7222, Watertown, Mass. Man to Man^ Gay Couples in America, BOOK • BEVIEWQ* Included among the contributors are: Hardcover: $14.95. 02172,^ 1981, 295 pgs (paperback), May Sarton, Adrienne Rich, Audre hy Charles Silverstein. William Morrow Reviewed by Joe DiSabato $10.95. Lorde, Joan Larkin, Clare Coss, Paula & Company, 105 Madison Ave.. N.Y., GAY Reviewed by Rosemary Cahill Gunn Allen, Judy Grahn, Pat Parker N.Y. 10016. $12.95. COUPIJE^; TN Hie Politics of Diagnosis Twenty-two years ago William Bur­ Susan Griffin, Fran Winant, Judith Reviewed by Joe DiSabato roughs turned the literary world on its - AMERICA. This collection is a valuable contribu­ McDaniel, Rita Mae Brown, Karen Man To Man: Gay Couples In Homosexuality and American Psychiatry movement and the APA and the political ear with his novel Naked Lunch. Now. Brodine, Alice Bloch, Dorothy Allison America is the first published study by a The Politics of Diagnosis struggle between the opposing factions more than two decades later. Burroughs tion to the growing list of lesbian Jail Clausen, Marilyn Hacker, Sharon professional psychologist conceming gives us Cities of The Red Night, which literature. It runs the gamut of cultures, by Ronald Bayer within the APA which resulted in the Barba, Eleanor Lerman, Rebecca <9or- love relationships among gay men. most critics have hailed as a masterpiece viewpoints and ethnic backgrounds. {Basic Books, 10 East 53rd Street, New change. don, Melanie Kaye, - Barbara Smith, Charles Silverstein, who is the author of worthy of being placed beside the earlier Appropriately, is is more polftically York, N.Y. 10022. Hardcover: $12.95. Homosexuality and American Psychi^ aware than flowery and romantic. The Irena Klepfisz^ and Honor Moore, A Family Matter: A Parent's Guide to atry is a remarkably clear, well-written, work. Not that Burroughs has been idle Reviewed by Joseph DiSabato during the intervening years. This is his poems are organized chronologically ac­ This is "must" reading for lovers of Homosexuality and co-author (with understandable, and unbiased account cording to the contributors* dates of pjoetry. Edmund White) of The Joy Of Gay Sex, of how that question was resolved by the 14th book {naked Lunch was his second) Over the last decade gay rights has based his research not only on his APA in 1973, resulting in 22 million and — if you have never read one of his leaders and organizations have been ten-year professional concentration upon "sick" gay men and women ir this novels — this is the one to give you the responsible for opening the eyes of many homosexuality but also on interviews SUyERSTEIN bountry being ••cured" overnight when full flavor of the infamous Burroughs 'O people in government, business, and o- with 190 gay men throughout the United homosexuality was officially removed style. A^ Ken Kesy said, **Cities of The society-at-large to the injustices need­ States. His interview techniques is from the APA's list of mental illnesses. Red Night is not only Burroughs* best lessly suffered by gay men and women A Gay Gray Pantlier self-labeled as "subjective" rather than Bayer sets the stage for the story of the word, but a logical and ripening on a daily basis. While this work has "objective," meaning that it is based riot politics involved in reaching this decision extension of all of Burroughs* great been frustrating and difficult, and while mulHlayered imagery and instantaneous Prism by Valerie Taylor, Naiad Press, for the young, something that we would on a ^questionnaire but on personal, by first giving an account of how medical work.*' there is an incredible amount of work time travel is both confusing and Inc.. P.O. Box 10543, Tallahassee. Fla., all do well to realize. open-ended interviews allowing the in* opinions conceming homosexuality still to be done in this regard, the Seymour Krim, in his review of Cities spellbinding, and no attempted plot 32302, 1981. 158 pgs., $6.95. Ms. Taylor's description of life in a terviewer to change interviewing tech­ ships, the effects of religion on the evolved. of The Red Night in the iVashington Post summary or critical analysis can even small town is right on target, as are her development of gay love, the signifi­ progress the gay community has made in Reviewed by Rosemary Cahill niques and goals during research be* one decade has been remarkable. The The full story of the struggles and placed the new work in perspective for approximate an explanation of Bur­ observations regarding ageism among cant differences between the develop­ cause of what he has already learned. single most important factor in facilitat­ politics involved in this process are those who might need a guide to the roughs' style or theme. As Krim put it in lesbians. The reader can't help wonder­ ment of gay couple relationships in rural Valerie Taylor is an extraordinary Silverstein gives the following reasons ing the advances which gay rights fascinatingly detailed by Bayer, including Burroughs style before tackling such an The Washington Post: ing how much of the book is auto­ America as opposed to larger cities and woman. At the age of 67, she is involved for usirig the subjective rather than leaders have achieved over the last the story behind the only referendum on original and unorthodox writer: biographical—the dedication, for'exam­ the impact (both positive and negative) "The result is that the reader spends in anti-war, anti-nuke, pro-feminist and objective approach: decade was the decision made in 1973 by a matter of scientific concern ever * * Before tackling this latest and ple, gives one pause: "This book is that this geography has on such relation­ half his time in shock from the sheer, pro-lesbian action and is also active in "It seemed to me that tightly the American Psychiatric Association to conducted by the APA — held in 1974 ambitious installment in the on­ dedicated to P.M.H. I wish she had Hved ships in each case, and the effects that perverse power and inventiveness of the the Gray Panthers. She has also authored controlled, objective research was remove homosexuality per se from its list when the issue was forced to be put to a going Burroughs chronicle, let's lay writing and the other half tearing his to see it finished." If this is, in fact, the the death of a lover has on his surviving ten books and many short stories and is too limiting at this stage of investi* of mental illnesses as ermumerated in vote of the entire APA membership by out the ground rules chat have hair out trying to get located.. . . story of a chapter in Valerie Taylor's life, mate. the mother of three grown sons. Aside gation, given that one of my most the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical the opponents of reclassification. Bayer established themselves in his recent Burroughs gives the very definite im­ the dedication lends a bitter-sweet from that, she's absolutely idle. important goals has been to look for Man To Man is the first serious study Manual. While this change in American also traces some of the developments of novels and predict the tone of Cities pression that he is including us in a taste. My only major criticism is Prism is the story of two older women new ways to view gay relationships. by a practicing psychologist into the psychiatry's official pos ition toward the late 1970s in the field of gay rights in of Tite Red Night, Increasingly, private ceremonial obsession over which the novel's short length; the subject who find each other. Ann is a closet I wanted to be directed by my largely unexplored terrain of gay male homosexuality was widely publicized the aftermath of the APA's change, Burroughs has been pitting a small he has little control. As in Theodore matter could have been covered from so couples and the factors bearing upon the lesbian of 65 who retires from Chicago subjects into the areas of greatest and has served as the basis upon which including the repeal of sodomy laws, group of homosexual free spirits, Dreisler at his most powerful, we feel many different angles. development of such relationships. As (and a newly broken love affair with a importance in their lives and to gay leaders have built their arguments in passage of gay civil rights laws, and the 'the Wild Boys* against the * Norms* that Burroughs is composing in a trance Silverstein himself states, this work is woman in her forties) to a small farming The cover picture is a lovely drawing clarify the styles of relationships favor of further civil rights progress in role of the emerging gay caucus of the a collection of self-satisfied clods that removes his work from what we just the beginning. Hopefully other town in New York State. There she of rhe author by the seemingly ever- that exist in the country. This is the intervening years, the full story of APA. and meanies who represent the ordinarily think of as 'fiction* or even researchers (and Silverstein himself) will meets a 60-year-old widow named present Tee A. Corrine, It is a warm how that change actually came about The best way in which to be prepared *art.' It's as if we had gotten hold of a best done subjectively. more^ fully explore each of the areas Western World establishment. Eidora and they become lovers. And the addition to this charming and much- and of the significance of that decision for the possibility of having to moimt black ticket to his unconscious, and While it is impossible to detail here covered in this book, which itself is an Burroughs' imagery is always both moral of the story is that love is not just needed book. has never been told. another fight in order to safeguard the anyone who makes the trip will see the wealth of mformation presented by impressive study and gives the reader a science-fictional and colorful (literally): advances achieved thus far is to fully sights and feel feelings that are unique Silverstein in the areas he investigated, great deal to think about conceming his blue fire, chromatic orgasms, multi­ Homosexuality and American Psychi­ understand the process by which these and mind-bending heyond anyone else's several other points stand out. In Part II own emotional and psychological make­ colored haJlucinogenic trips, phosphor­ atry: The Politics of Diagnosis by Ronald advances came about and the forces description." ry ofthe book — subtitled *• Major Issues" up and his ability or inability to form or escent sores. The result of all of this ^o 'O" Bayer finally tells that story. A political arrayed against these advances. The o* I — he discusses several thorny problems sustain a meaningful emotional and scientist by training. Bayer deals with best, indeed the only, way in which to which seem to influence the develop­ sexual relationship with another gay the politics behind the reclassification gain this understanding is to read After You Say HeUo ment or breakup of many gay male man. Silverstein is to be commended for A Journey Through Loss dectsion, fully detailing both the political Ronald Bayer' s Homosexuality and relationships. opening doors which have been closed confrontations between the gay rights Anna's Country. Elizabeth Lang, The find on a map. Anna's awakening to a Other sections of the book deal with American Psychiatry, Lifetime Guarantee by Alice Bloch, ation of her own feelings. It is a chronicle for far too long, and I for one eagerly Naiad Press, Inc., P.O. Box 10543, new sensuality was expertly described the topic of intergenerational relation- Persephone Press, P.O. Box 7222, of two people getting close to their own await his next contribmion in this area. Tallahassee, Florida, 32302. 1981 [S6.95) by Lang. Relationships are other territor­ Watertown, Mass. 02172, 1981, 132 feelings under tragic circumstances. No ies that Lang writes, abouc in an adroit Beyond the Fragments pgs.. $6.95. one can come away from this book by MX. WeUs fashion. The author gives some piercing Reviewed by Rosemary Cahill believing in the kind of patchwork. -O" 'O" 'O insights into today's lesbian fashion of- Beyond The Fragments: Feminism and and new approaches to political theory bandaid^herapy so loved by those who Allow me to first tell about a few of Alice Bloch's name is unfamiHar to maintaining long term partnerships. The the Making of Socialism, by Sheila and practice. Its emphasis on group would deny the impact of family back­ the negative sides of this book, so that I many of us now. That should not remain ground and family politics on all our story covers from what you do after you C3iapters from an Autobiograpliy Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary process, decentralized authority, and may get on with the praise it deserves. true for long. lives. say hello, to building an addition onto Wainwright. introduction to the U.S. affirmation of personal experience, are The lesbian characters in Anna's the house you share. seen as a prerequisite for a revitalized This book is subtitled "A Journey Toward the end of the book, Bloch* Chapters from an Autobiography by develops between Steward and the edition by Rosalyh Baxandall. Country were given stilted dialogues by Carl, Anna's soon to be exhusband. lefrist movement. Feminist politics can Through Loss and Survival.** It is as states: **Everyone*s troubles are every­ Samuel M Steward (Grey Fox Press: San literatti of this century. Alyson Publications, PC Box 2783, the author. Except for the love scenes, unrealistically dissolves from involving be integrated into working-class com­ much a catharsis for the reader as it one else's business. Not for gossip or Francisco, 1981. 142 pp.) Through letters of his own and by Boston. Mass. 02208; $7.50 postpaid the conversations did not seem to fit how her in a nightmarish situation into a sort munity organizing, say these women, must have been for the writer. It would curiosity or pity. Not to look on and Reviewed by Wayne DeCcsar introduction by others, Steward man­ women actually talk to one another. This of pipe dream for her. ^No lesbian aged to meed Lord Alfred Douglas, The last decade has seen the and they give valuable guidance on how be unfair to label it a chronicle of cluck. But to hear each other*s difficul­ Facing a serious operation from along with the many typing errors gave mothers I know have as easy a time as Andre Gide, Gertrude Stein, and Thorn­ women's movement gain strength dra­ to do it. Barbara Bloch's Ulness and death of ties, to leam compassion, to know the which he might not recover, Samuel me several annoying moments while Anna does in getting rid of their ton Wilder among others. His relation­ matically among all classes of society. At Beyond the Fragments was first leukemia at the age of twenty; it is much relief of speaking our own troubles, to Steward decided to set down his life reading this book. exhusbands. These men usually linger ships with Gertrude and Alice Toklas, the same time, the lefr has floundered published in England, where its impact more than that. Alice Bloch shares her know the satisfaction of hearing how all experiences. He wished to have his life Anna's Country cleverly refers to on as if the bad dream will never end. and Wilder, over the years gives lovely and dwindled, as fragmented groups of has been tremendous; in 1980, over 1500 sister with us. What we have here is a of us endure losses.*' That, I feel, recorded correctly and not left to Anna's emotional state and not speci­ The. book may be a relief from our insights into these greats. While all too party liberals and lefrists struggle help­ people met in Leeds, England, to discuss Jewish lesbian version of ''A Death in expresses her reason for writing this biographers' conjecture. Fortunately. fically to a place or country one might realities in this respect. brief, his mini-chapters on these people lessly against a growing 'right-wing the themes and implications of the book. the Family. •• Barbara's poetry and book. It is not a depressing book; it is Steward survived the operation and has form the strongest and most readable trend. It has been translated into German, correspondence during her illness are inspiring and uplifting. Barbara Bloch written a wonderful. although all too part of Steward's autobiography. I There is a reason for aU this, say the Greek, ItaHan and Dutch. interspersed throughout Alice's examin­ does indeed live on in her sister Alice. brief, autobiography. highly recommend them for students, or authorsof Beyond r/ieFrd^mefifs. Sheila Steward recounts his childhood and anyone, interested in these lights of Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary university years, and for the first time I twentieth century literature. Steward's Wainwright suggest that many progres­ Mary Renault Complete Her Alexandrian Trilogy was not bored by a writer's youth. So eventual disillusionment with University sive groups fail to reach new individuals many famous people spend forever Life and his forsaking it in favor of the because their very structure is based on telling us of their parents, teachers, and tattoo parlor and pornographer populaire the oppressive principles they are swo'.-n Funeral Games, Mary Renault. 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Bestselling novelist Mary Renault last, he sinks into a coma without having life, the adtdt life, of the author to get Alexander IV, ready to take any Hfe that stood for, but his towering personality In short, an immensely enjoyable brings her readers more excitement and named his successor. tmderway. Steward spares us the boring threatens his accession... Kleopatra, dominates his survivors to the last, and book and one which is well written. We intrigue in the final book of her trilogy on details of his youth, but he writes When Homer's heroes fell, their the dead king's unlucky, frustrated shapes a legacy which will long outlast find out much about the man. his Alexander the Great. The many readers interestingly and briefly about its high Jvrifie fellow warriors honored them by holding sister... his mother, the ruthless; them. friends, the famous and the unknown, who were captivated by the first two fimeral games offering rich prizes to the points. A very neat accomplishment and are you seeking to understand domineering Olympias. .. and a fifteen With her customary attention to both and, I believe, ourselves as well. Not a sophisticakd fjsSiaii installments. Fire From Heaven and The victors. Now Alexander's generals, no I am deeply grateful for it. Stewards' year old girl, his kinswoman Eurydike, the^ grand iweep of history and to small great autobiography, no, but I think a G€iy loved one ? Persian Boy, will find here an equally longer tmited by his magnetic presence, coming out and subsequent travels in the an itmocent Amazon determined to win human details. Mary Renault does anyone reading it will agree with We can help. thrilling and authoritative accoum of one begin to struggle for the glittering prize gardens, often weed infested, of SUBSCRIBE TO B.A.D, NEWS the crown she considers her birthright. saperh justice to her enthralling and Christopher Isherwoods quote "I only ! of history's most turbulent and fascinat­ of his vast dominions. Perdikkas, his academe are finely written and keep the Name. The power struggle between these terrible subject. The tumultous politics, wish there had been twice as many Addrcu ing eras. first officer, pbwer-htmgry and inflexible reader interested and wanting more. Individual: $S prr yr. (puu paid) driven and formidable characters shakes powerfiil personalities and exotic land* chapters." families & frierids i As Futteral Games opens, Alexander ... Antipatros, the aged Regent of Most interesting is the relationship that Ifiuituiion S2S per yr. the civilized world. Their campaigns and scapes of hej: story unfold in all their Frvr IO Prnonm & Mnttal Paiirni% of Macedon, master of half the known Macedon, loyal but grown oppressive... of gays intrigues crisscross Asia. Greece and legandary glory, and yet seem as real world, lies (ijring in the sweltering his son Kassandros, consumed by envy Egypt, leaving behind a trail of horror as and compelling and precisely detailed as midstumner heat of the palace at of Alexander's glory. 7. steady, gener­ of rochester well as of heroism. Massacres, tramp- if they were part of our own time and BAD. \rw& Babylon. His onty heirs are his two ous Ptolemy, the deat man's bastard IS2 Spring Street 'IS lings, poisonings, hangings and all place. Funeral Games is a crowning unborn children and his simpleton half-brother... Antigonus One-Eye and meets the last Sunday of each month New York. N.V. ISttl2 manner of betrayals come to seem achievement from a woman who has long half-brother. H^ beloved friend Hepha- his flamboyant son. . . all reach out to at 3p.m. almost a matter of course, and personal been acknowledged a master of historical istion, to whom he could have be­ grasp what they can of Alexander's emotions are often reduced to mere ippyNew ^ar St. Luke's Church, 17 S. Fitzhugh Sr. fiction. 232-6521 or 442-7173 Lesbian Femintst Monthly New York, N Y Page 12 THE EMPTY CLOSET December 1981 December 1981 . THE EMPTY CLOSET Page 13 Briggs to Quit GRNL: Defeat of Family National Coalition Forms TV Ads FUILERTON, CA—Citing "Job burn­ Protection Act a Mi^i Family Protection Act td Run for ERA out," anti-gay California state Sen. John V. Briggs (R-Fullerton) announced oh WASHINGTON. D.C—The Gay be a 'gay vs. the family' struggle. Such a WASHINGTON. D.C—Representa­ Liberties Union. B'Nai B'rith Women, Nov. 2 that he will soon resign. Rights National Lobby has set the defeat scenario would make it look like aU gays tives from 40 prominent national civU the NAACP, the League of Women Briggs lent his name to and cam­ of the so-called Family Protection Act as were anti-family and everyone who rights organizations and legal and Voters, the ChUdren's Defense Ftmd, WASHINGTON, D.C—Hie HatioMl paigned for a 1978 California ballot one of its "major priorities," according opposed the FPA was gay—and we educational foundations met at the the Lambda Legal Defense and Educa­ Organization for Women, borrowing the LAMDA Receives Funds initiative that would have enabled state to GRNL executive director Steve En­ cannot allow that to hj^>pen!" For more Center for Women and Family Law to tion Fund, and the National Gay Task TV commercial tactics of the New Right, sdiool districts to fire teachers who were dean. In announcing GRNL's intention to information on how to fight the FPA. form a, new. broad-based coaUtion to Force. Said Lamda's executive director is running two 30-second TV spots in to Figiit Anti-Gay Legislation gay or who voiced support for gay rights. work strongly against the legislation, write GRNL. P.O. Box 1892, Washington fight -the FamUy Protection Act. The Roz Richter: "Since the- lights of so behalf of the proposed Equal Rights The Briggs Initiadve, Proposition Six, Bndean characterized it as "an otnnibus D.C. 20013. proposed met is an omnibus piece of New many diverse groups are under attack, it Amendment for the first time. Both Lambda Legal Defense and Educa­ tect or defend" homosexuality in the was rejected by a two-to-one margin. 'shopping list* for Moral Majority and -^GayLife Ri|^t legislation aimed at curtailing civil is imperative that aU civil rights organi­ versions ask viewers to pledge money to tion Fund has just received the news of a courts. Proposition Six anraaed cridcism the rest ofthe New Right. It includes not rights. One provisicm would bar any zations, gay and non-gay, form a united support ERA passage. Hie commercials grant fi'om New York University's Public To date. Lambda has raised oidy half from a wide range of California politi­ only a number of anti-gay provisions, but LocaUy. contact Greater Rochester government funding for gay organiza­ frXMlt." were produced by a Miami conq>any run Interest Law Foundation. The grant-will the projected budget fbr the project. The cians, including Gov. Edmund ^own, also sections which are anti-women; NOW, P.O. Box 18047. Rochester NY tions. Among the groups represented at —GayUfe by two women. Says NOW president help fund a major new project - of McDonald Amendment and the Family then-Presfdent Gerald Ford and private anti-black, anti-labor, and anti-teacher." 14618. the meetings were the Anierican Civil Eleanor Smeal: **We aren't going to research and litigation against anti-gay Protection Act are very real threats. citizen Ronald Reagan, who warned that The legislation—really two biUs: H.R. mince words. If it takes a multimillion legislation, such as the McDonald Their passage is a definite possibiUty. if the proposition became law it would 3955 in the House and S.l378 in the dollar media campaign to pass the ERA, Amendment. This amendment would Lambda wants you to help us be there in Reagan EKres invite abusive invasions of privacy. Senate—is a reintroduciton of legislation then that's what we'll do." bar the use of Federal fimds by the Legal the courts. iHiich failed to pass the last Congress. The Briggs Initiative was the first in a Poison Pen' Memo Attacked —HERSAY, GayLife Services Corporation to "promote, pro- Your holiday contribution will help While this is the second session in ^^ch Gay O vie liOader series of losing political battles the Lambda continue its tradition of impor­ it has been offered, the sharp move Don Genhart. president of the West conservative Orange County Republican Gays and Environmentalists tant civil liberties work for the lesbian Congress has made to the Right leads HoUywood Chamber of Commerce and has waged since 1978. and gay community—and will help them some GRNL strategists to speculate that one of the founders of the Abe Lincoln WASHINGTON, D.C—A memo la- tated, defiled, ravaged, gouged, scarred, The Los Angeles Times quoted l^sconsln House Passes initiate the vital challenge to anti-gay action on the biU itself wiU take place in RepubUcan Club, has accepted a position beUng gay people and environmentaUsts and destroyed should not be used. These Briggs as telling reporters, "I just feel legislation. Contact: Lambda Legal this Congress or—a more likely simation working for Maureen Reagan in her as "ideological eunuchs," made pubUc are the words used by the Sierra Club, Gay Rights Legislation that all the battles I've been fighting are Defense 8c Education Fund, Inc., 132 —parts of the biU may be tacked onto as-yet unannounced bid for the U.S. by the Friends of the Earth environment­ Friends of the Earth, environmentaUsts, concluded.. . I carried no bills last year. Fron an article by Scott Brookie Milwaukee» bishops of the United West 43rd St.. New York. NY 10036, other legislation as "riders" on the Senate from California. Genhart, active alist group was sent by Andrew V. homosexuals, ecologists and other ideo­ No resolutions. I couldn't find at|y Methodist, Lutheran and Episcopal (212) 9449488. floor. Endean, however, stressed that in Los Angeles gay civic and poUtical BaUey, Interior Secretary James Watt's logical eunuchs opposed to developing motmtains to climb." MADISON, WI—A biU which pro­ churches, the president of the United lesbians and gay men must move activities, says he was asked by Reagan's choice as acting director of the U.S. mineral resources." BaOey claimed that —Gay Community News hibits discrimination on the basis of Church of Chrisf and the American carefuUy against the legislation. "The husband, Dennis Revell, to assist in the Geological Survey's conservation divi­ the memo was written by an employee sexual orientation has been passed by Baptist Church. Other reports also New Right would like nothing better campaign but states that his exact duties sion, when Bailey was head of mining who sometimes had a ••poisoned pen." one chamber of the Wisconsin state indicated support from the United than if we were to allow ourselves to be have yet to be worked out. operations for the Interior Department's Said BaUey: ••I must have signed it legislature and supporters of the biU are Presbyterian Church. New Kinsey Study: Baclc to Biology? trapped in an effort which appeared to —The Advocate Geological Survey. The Bailey memo, without reading it. I would know better, optimistic that it will pass the other ••We approached it from the perspec­ sent to the survey's environmental even if I thought it, to put something like that in writing." The employee, whom chamber early next year. tive that to oppose these anti-discrimina­ NEW YORK, NY—Contrary to popu­ path analysis, which can explore the section, discussed language used in The bill, sponsored by Rep. David tion proposals would be to condone lar wisdom and traditional theories, existing theses programmed into it but preparing an environmental impact Bailey declined to identify, stiU works at Clarenbach (D-Madison) passed the bigotry." commented Clarenbach. differences in sexual orientation are not cannot arrive at new explanations. Thus, Gay TV Spot Nixed by Brown Aide statement for a proposed coal stip mine the Geological Society. Wisconsin State Assembly on Oct. 23 by The bill, AB 70. prohibits discrimina­ caused by family Ufe, according to a new if the theories attributing homosexuality in Wyoming and said that ••inflam­ ^GayLife a vote of 50 to 46. tion in emplo3mient^ housing and pubUc Kinsey Institute for Sex Research study. to parental influence are shown to be A series of television sp>ots designed Health's Gay and Lesbian Work Group, matory words such as disturbed, devas­ '' We confronted the alleged accommodations in both the public and Scheduled for release in late November, false, but sexual orientation is still found to promote mental wellness among which originally proposed the media strengths of the Moral Majority on th^ private sectors. It also bans discrimina­ the report claims that *'Homosexuality to be deeply ingrained and estabhshed at lesbians and gay men has been canceUed campaign. ••The money was appropri­ own terms." Clarenbach said. "We tion by any contractor doing business tnay arise from a biological precursor an early age, biological predispositions by California Gov. Jerry Brown's chief of ated from last year's budget. It's already Schlafly Attacks Feminist ^Censorship' defined the issues not as a religious or a with the state of Wisconsin. If .passed, that parents cannot contt^L " are offered as the explanation by the sta^. spent." Long said that despite CoUins' moral one but really as a question of the bill would be the first law in any state The Kinsey researchers, led by Dr. process of elimination. The state-funded public service an­ contention to the contrary, the project INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—Right-wing Alston, ni., has been instrumental in proposal specifically mentions elimina- rallying opposition to gay rights legisla­ human rights. prohibiting anti-gay discrimination. Alan BeU of Indiana University, inter­ BeU told the New York Times that "I nouncements, half of which are already activist PhyUis Schlafly criticized the ing homophobia, which is why TV spots tion and ERA ratification in Illinois. At a Clarenbach attributed the passage of The issues will be taken up by the viewed nearly 1,500 gay and straight expect the study to be condemned from filmed, feature celebrities and the makers of school texbooks for succumb­ featuring well-known personalities were press conference held whUe she was in the bill in large part to strong support state senate when it reconvenes early people in the San Francisco area in 1969 both sides—by the radical gays for even upbeat theme ••We are Family." They ing to feminist ••Gestapo tactics" and chosen as the medium for the campaign. Indiana to speak to the Pieservation of th from voiTious religious organizations. next yeaur. The senate is traditionally the and 1970, asking 200 questions about looking into the subject and by the I were scheduled for airing in the Los enuraging Httle girls to become coal '*Thc state approved this project a year Family and Wabash CoUege Organiza­ Among those endorsing the measure ntore progressive of the two bodies^ their childhood and teenage years. The analysts who may say we're trying to Angeles area beginning in October. miners instead of housewives and ago," Long said. "It's too late for them tion, she said, "The feminist censorship were Catholic Archbishop Weakland of —Gay Community News report based on this research. Sexual print a glowing picture of homosexuah­ But after viewing four of the spots. mothers, reported United Press Interna­ Preference; Its Development in Men and Chief of Staff B. T. Collins said they to back out." tional. Schlafly, who lives in downstate of textbooks has been ruthless. They ty." Bell did not explain where this have prohibited the use of phrases and Women, concludes that theories of the ••glowing picture" could be found in the ••smacked of advocacy" and would be Observers speculated that Brown's parents' role are "grossly exaggerated" withdrawn. CoUins did indicate, how­ office was eager to distance the governor Cuban Attitudes words like 'mankind' and •founding report. fathers'. . . It's not a trend government and finds no evidence that a weak father ever, that the announcements could be from gay issues before his U.S. Senate In another study presented to the should encourage. The majority of Government Appeals Ruling and dominant mother are linked to gay used within the gay community. CoUins campaign next year. •'Collins denies it." May Change annual meeting of the American Psycho­ people are opposed to the notion of a male sexuality. Rather, the report main­ also said the spots were being eliminated noted Long, •'but the decision has a HAVANA. CUBA—A progressive logical Association (APA) held last non-gender society." Against INS Regulation tains, homosexuality seems to be con­ August in Los Angeles, a group of 31 because of the state's tight budget. great deal to do with the governor's sex education program is reportedly nected "gender non-conformity" — scholars argued that homosexuality is no "That's ridiculous." said Tom Long poUtical ambitions." being implemented by the Cuban go­ —GayLife By Scott Brookie lawyers' representing gay interests, IS young boys who prefer "girls' activities" more related to mental illness or psycho­ of the state Department of Mental —The Adt^ocate vernment to educate the pubUc. especial­ that gay and lesbian persons will be and vice versa. logical problems than is heterosexuality. ly youth, about such questions as sexual SAN FRANCISCO. CA.—The injunc­ allowed into the country as long as there There is considerable journalistic Differing from the Kinsey results, the intimacy, birth control. homosexuaUty. Anti-Gay Petition tion obtained by the San Francisco is no clear evidence of their sexual speculation that the report will be APA research found that aU sexual and abortion. In preparing to conduct a Falls In Austin Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Committee preference. TTiere have, however, been heavily criticized by the gay commimity orientations were •'biologically natural." Frendi Socialists Take Strong Pro-Gay Steps mass sex education campaign, the in June which prohibits discriminatory numerous violations ofthe official policy. A group working to legalize anti-gay and professional sex researchers. Two "There is no evidence that homosexttali- control of homosexuals, stating that Ministry of Public Health investigated treatment of gay visitors to the United The injunction prohibits enforcement of ty harms the family," the study con­ PARIS, FRANCE—The election of no discrimination in housing has failed to problems with its method have already distinction, no discrimination, no suspi­ the experiences of other sociaUst coun­ States has been appealed by the Immi­ even that pohcy, but only in the cludes. Francois Mitterrand as president of get the measure on the Austin, Texas arisen. First, the report bases its findings cion should be based on sexual orienta­ tries and decided to adopt several books gration and Naturalization Service (INS). jurisdiction of Judge Aguilar's court, France and of a new socialist majority in balloc. The group. Citizens for Decency, upon the subject's memories of their The Society for the Psychological tion." At the same time, the dismantling on sex produced in the last three years The appeal is the latest step in which includes only Northern California. the National Assembly has been seen as had tried to drum up support for the childhoods without considering the reli­ Stiidy of Social Issues endorsed the of police files on gay people was ordered, in the German Democratic RepubUc government attempts to prevent gay and If the government loses its appeal, the a mUestone for the French gay move­ fic^wing proposal: "It shall NOT be ability of such recollections. Secondly, it study at the APA meeting. and the Minister of Health declared that (East Germany). Tlie Germans reported­ lesbian aliens from entering the country. ruling will have the effect of extending ment. WhUe the former conservative unlawful to deny housing on the basis of employs a statistical method known as —Body Politic the country's public health s<;rvice was ly regard homosexuals not as deviant or The L/GFDC filed a class-action suit on the anti-discrimination nde to five government had constantly refused to sexual orientation.*' If the group can to disregard the World Health Organiza­ sick but rather as a sexual tninority. and June 22 against the INS and Attorney western states. A hearing will not be discuss social reform concerning gay gather another 2.000 signatures, how­ tion's classificacion of homosexuality as this viewpoint is informing sex education General William French Smith seeking held until sometime next year. NAMBLA Conference rights, under Mitterrand there has been ever* they may be able to fbrce a voce on a mental disease. in Cuba, where homosexuals are subject to prevent them from "enforcing their Tfae INS policy on lesbian and gay not only talk but action. A note was to discrimination and sooal ostracism. the issue in January. —GayLife policies of exclusion, detention, ques­ visitors has been the object of much Features Kameny and Boozer published by the Interior Ministry —GayLife —Tlie Advocate tioning and otherwise specially pro­ intemationai attention. During the week­ From an article by Philip Knighton ordering the potice to stop discriminatory cessing known and suspected gay and end of Sept. 27. demonstrations were gay people and although some aspire to. lesbian non-citizen visitors to the United held in at least eight cities in the U.S. BALTIMORE, MD—The fifth nation­ he maintained, they aU faU short of States." and ten foreign cities protesting the al conference of the North American embracing the whole community. % He The suit took the novel legal ap­ treatment of gay aliens by the US. Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), argued that the fate of the gay movement proach of arguing that such exclusion of government. held on Oct. 10 and 11 in this city, was depends on protecting the civil liberties gay visitors abridges the First Amend­ —Gay Comnturnty News organized around four key issues: of aU groups and that ''the authorities ment rights of gay U.S. Citizens ''who hustling, pornography, youth, sex and fbund violating an individual's or group's want and need to know the experiences power, and social repression. civil rights must be held responsible and of gay and lesbian persons of other David Thorstad, co*spokesperson for made to pay or wc are liable to lose all nations.'' Other suits have instead Zoning to be Used NAMBLA, urged continued organizing, our gains." Lord Calvert argued the right of gay aliens to enter saying that regardless of differences in Kameny, describing himself as a the country. Three days afier the suit Against Gays? perspectives on boy-love and political pragmatic politician, said he had spent was filed. Judge Robert Agtiilar of the The Michigan Court of Appeals has philosophies, the lesbian and gay com­ his life fighting bigotry and prejudice Loid ofthe Canadians U.S. District Coun for Northern Califor­ ruled that a city, township or village may mtmity has common enemies '•in the and encouraging a broadening of free­ nia agreed that "significant constittition- prevent unrelated persons fiom living state and bible thumpers." dom and choices in life. "Society exists al questions" were raised by the suit and together by using its zoning power. The Melvin Boozer spoke of the highly for me." he said, "not me for it.'* granted a preliminary injtmction. municipality can create zones "condu­ organized Moral Majority in the District Kameny advised the group to work In its present appeal, which waa cive to family life'' by forbidding of Coltnnbia had used lies and distortions out tactics finnly and clearly fpr a heard the first week of October, the unmaffied or imrelated people to live in its campaign to overturn the D.C. vigorous attack. Clear infringements on govenunent claims that no such signifi­ together in thoae areas. The cotut sex-law reform. He said they are imited ctvil liberties should be tnet with legal 'Prestige and Vahie in one Bottle' cant questions are raised, chat tbe law is tndicafed. however, that its ruling did in hatred and are adept ac dividing and enhs, usmg novel legid caccics, he clear and tlkat the tnjuactkm should be noc dei^ houadiolds of imrelated per- isolating people, die same tactics tised in argued. Young people shoidd pby a far overturned. Present INS policy, reached ^pRS thek rights co equa^ procection and attacking boy-lovers as a way co deacroy more prominent role in argusng pubUcfy in M ineeting between INS officials and due process. the gay movement. No gay organisation for Aeh righu, he sfsid. --Tha AdvociUe in the coimcty can claim to speak (or all —Gay Ctfmmutdty Nam^s \ Page 14 THE EMPTY CLOSET December 1981 mmmfmmM'imm: •mtm Join the fun of competitive bidding at QAGV's Annual Mothers'and Children's V\^inter Picnic 1 Put this date on your calendar, &ing meat for grilling, a dish to womyn—Sunday. December 20th! This pass, ice-skates. cross*country skis and EVENTS CALENDAR is the date for the joint Lesbian Resource other winter sports equipment. Also, SmL Dee. 5 •'AU You Can Eat Lasagna Feast and Christmas CaroUhig, S3.50 Holiday Auction Center/Lesbian Mothers' Support Group pray for snow! AU else, including adult. $2.50 chUdren, 6-8 p.m., Monroe Ave. at Rosedale. Winter Picnic. We only ask that, to Womyn's Music, will be provided. Sat. Dee. 5 GAGV Coffeehoose, Tree Decwating Party, 8 p.m.-12. protect our mothers and chUdren, you For detaUs on the time and the Sen. Dee. 6 No Youth Group meeting this week. refer to this picnic to non-gays as the location, caU the Gay AUiance, 244-9030, "mothers' and chUdren's support group 7:30-9:30 pm. Sun. Dee. 6 Dignity/KategHty mass, 5 p.m.. St. Luke's Churdi, 17 S. Fitzhugh. picnic." Sun. Dec. 4 Metropolitan Community Church, Wotshqi Service 7:30 p.m., Singspiration 7:15 p.m.. Mcmroe Ave. at Rosedale. hard'tO'find Christmas gifts Tuee. Dee. 8 GAGV Board meeting. 8 p.m. y Wed. Dec. 9 Gay RTT/NTID Students, see ad in Un-dassifieds, 7 p.m.. RIT. practical items at bargain prices Community Dinner Scheduled Dec. 5 Tower A Penthouse. unusual items found at no other auction HMWS. Dec 10 Gay Community Coffeehouse. 8-11 p.m.. Monroe Ave. at An all-you-can-eat lasagna feast, Admission is $3.50 for adults and Rosedale. gift certificates from your favorite local merchants foUowed by carol singing, wUl be held at $2.50 for children under 12. AU lesbians, FH. Dee. 11 Gay Men's Gathering, regular meeting, 8 p.m. 6 pm on Saturday, December 5, at the gay men, and their friends are invited.. Sat. Dec. 12 GAGV Coffeehouse, 8 p.m.-12. New Life Community Church, corner of The local Metropolitan Community Monroe Avenue and Rosedale Street. Church wiU schedule more community Sat. Dec. 12 Gay A.A. Seventh Aimiversaty. all welomie, bring dish; speakers, The event is sponsored by the Metro­ dinners in the new year. disco-dandng, 7:30 p.m., St. Luke's Church, 17 S. I^tzhugh. politan Community Church of Rochester. Sun. Dec. 13 Dignity/Integrity mass, 5 p.m., St. Luke's Church. Sun. Dee. 13 MetropoUtan Community Church, Worship Service 7:30 p.m.. Come Hosted by Singspiration 7:15 p.m.. Monroe Ave. at Rosedale. Sun. Dee. 13 GAGV Atmual Holiday Auction, 8 p.m.. Bachelor Forum, 1065 East meet auctioneer BACHELOR FORUM GAGV Center l-lolds a Tree Trimming Main. Cousin "Minnie Pearl" 1065 East Main Wed. Dee. U Lesbian Resource Center meeting. Christmas Happening, 8 p.m. Come to the December Sth Coffee- requested. It wiU be open from 8:00 p.m. house and get into the spirit of to 12:00 (as it is every Saturday Urate. Dee. 17 Gay Community Coffeehouse, 8-11 p.m., Monroe Ave. at Christmas early. Come up and join in evening). See your fnends and make Rosedale. the fun. Help trim the Community Tree. some new ones. Enjoy Rich's fantastic FH. Dec 18 Gay Men's Gathering, Winter Hcrfiday, 8 p.m. 8P.M. Sunday, December 13, 1981 Bring an ornament to add a personal snacks and goodies and get into the Sat, Dec 19 ERA Florida Tourist Boycott, Picket Mo. Co. Airport, few info call touch or just bring yourself. The GAGV spirit. Deck the halls and don your gay N.O.W. 235-7223. Coffeehouse, of 713 Moiuoe Avenue, apparel. If you miss the Sth, the gay Sat. Dec 19 GAGV Coffeehouse, 8 p.m.-12. Bring donations to ttie Gay Aliiance, 713 Monroe Avenue, between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Monday thru upstairs behind the Restaurant, is open spirit is sure to continue every Saturday Sun. Dec 20 Gay Youth Support Group, 2 p.m.. Co-op, 713 Monroe Ave., enter Friday or to the Baettelor Forum the day of the auction. Nothing turned down! Aii proceed* benefit ttie Qay to everyone and a dollar donation is throughout the holiday season. Alliance of the Qenaaee Valley, Inc. —Kyle front door, upstairs. Sun. Dec 20 LRC/Lesbian Mothers joint Wmter IHcnic at ChurdtvUleTark. See article this page. Son. Dec 20 Dignity/Integrity mass 5 p.m., St. Luke's Church. Herizon to Close \ 'm§m m^'^sm Sun. Dec 20 Metropolitan Community Church. Worship Service 7:30, Herizon, the anti-profit cooperative scale of $20. $25. $30 as of March 1982. Singspiration 7:15 p.m., Moaroe Ave. at Rosedale. women's club in Binghamton, New York, The graduated scale will allow for FU. Dec 25 Merry Christinas, no Gay Men's Gathering. J , 1 announced in their December newsletter differences in the amount of money Return to: The Empty Closot Pron, 713 Monroo Avonuo« that the long famiUar 77 State Street Dec 26 GAGV Coffeehouse, 8 p.m.-12. women can afford to pay. And, as Roehestor, Now York 14607. location wiU close its doors this January. always, work exchange wiU continue to Dec 27 Families & Friends of Gays meeting, 3 p.m., St. Luke's Church. 17 the EX. Directory S. Fitzhugh. The closing is due to the denial of a be avaUable for women who need it. Your Namo Dsfcod QotKJS Jewelry Uquor licence due to violations of the fire For the transitional period, Herizon Sun. Dec 27 Dignity/Integrity mass 5 p.m., St. Luke's Churdi. MICHAEL PiCOW JEWELRY, 488 Tlw followlfig should bo oxaetfy os your listing Is lo "JUST CHERRIES'* 300 PosrI St.. code in the State Street building. will hold ineetings of a "Committee of Srai. Dec 27 Metropolitan Community Church, Worship Service 7:30 p.m., 442*7449 Meigs St., 271-7774 An emergency membership meeting the Whole" rather than Board meetings. Singspiration 7:15 p.m., MoMt>e Ave at Rosedale. Pmmtrlms for $pmolml occmmltws. f^mmaonmblm rmtms on 14 kt gold was caUed, and the members of Herizon rmpalrs: eftmlns, rmmounts, mtc. The next wiU be on Sunday, December Thurs. Dec 31 New Year's Eve Party, sponsored by the co-gender support Namo of Your Buslnoss or Sorvlco Btrthdaym-^HolMmy Cmkmm^plmn decided to seek a new location imme­ 13. at 4 p.m. chmmmcmkma— Wmddlrtg Cmkmm 12 Flnm smlmetlon of custom dmslgns group. mnd gold ehmlns. 12 diately. Much of the discussion centered Donations or memberships to aid on whether there was enough money and Herizon at this critical time can be sent WH. Jan. 1 Gay Men's Gathering, Part I of five-part series on Relaticteships. Pliono. Ctoonlng Sorvleos continues every Friday throughout January. energy to open a new space. However, to: Herizon. 77 State Street, Bingham­ VOLK CARPET CLEANING, 196 CHARLES E. STEINBERG, 777 the sentiment at the meeting was ton, New York 13901. Herizon's Decem­ Wed. Jau 6 Lesbian Resource Center meeting, 8 p.m. Addross (optional) Laburnam Croecent, 442-3824 Executive Office Bldg.. 36 Weet MeIn Cmrpmt clmmnlng. Alao tdmmnlng of SL, 546-4401 strongly in favor of having a women's ber calendar shows the kind of energy Tbe Gay AOiance of Genesee VaUey (GAGV) is located in the Genesee CoHop. Doscriptlon of Your space in Binghamton. A comprehensive that characterizes Herizon. For you Sorvlco or Product Lino upholstry, walls, fltrorB mnd Attommy mt Lmw. 3 713 Monroe Avenue, left side door, behind the Restaurant. caU 244-8640. windows. 5 treasurer's report showed a steady Rochesterians who have never been, Music instruction decline in income since the club was special events at Herizon are very Counsoling/tliorapy PIANO INSTRUCTION, 442-9239. forced to discontinue its offering of special and worth the trip. DONNA RUBIN, M.S.. 533-1068 In thm finmst dmsskml trmdltlon. ••liquor for donations." There has also Sat. Dec. 5 Alix Dobkin Concert witb .Counsmlingfthmrmpy for wommn, Ph.D. Emstmmn Sclwol of Music. been a dramatic increase in fixed costs, mmn, eoaplms, Confldmntlmllty "You'rmnstvmrtoooldioplmy." 4 the Herizon Chorus r Wtiat hooding would you Msurmd. Sliding fmm acele. 5 meaning that the club has been operat­ Sat. Dec. 19 Kate CUnton. Lesbian Paihtfng ing at a deficit for the last year. UN-CLASSIFIEDS rocommond your listing bo under?. 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