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Publication of the of the Niagara Frontier MAY 1978 GaysProtest Library Dade County Replays Entrapment Arrests in Three Cities

The repeal of the Dade County uled for May 23. Opponents of the rights law last June appears to have ordinance are led by housewife Mau- inspired reen similar attempts throughout Gieber, a woman who spearheaded the United States. Wichita (KS), St. the drive which collected 10,000 Paul (MN) and Eugene (OR) are cities signatures. Gay people there feel where efforts are that currently being chances of winning the referen- made by Bryant-like fundamentalists dum are good. to repeal recently enacted Gay rights In , a'general legislation. There is also some concern strategy meeting among representatives in New York's Gay of community about a groups concerned with the ongoing referendum Gay rights if legislation crusades against Gay rights was held. is passed Some there. of the conclusions relating to In Wichita, 31,000 signatures strategy were : the best routes for have been collected and filed with defeating referenda appear to be close city officials since' scrutiny of the Gay ordin- local and state laws for ance passed in September. Since only general or technical violations in 10,000 were needed, a referendum will the referenda process; the need to be held on May 9th. A poll taken in build political coalitions and to September showed public sentiment to work with other groups and prominent be 3 to 1 for repeal. citizens in support of human rights In St. Paul, the vote, taken was declared the best overall strat- April 25th was 2 to 1 for repeal agem. just — as in the Dade County vote. At On March 13, 1978, Del Martin the same of time, a Gay vet lost a and Leonard Matlo- BOSTON GAY DEMONSTRATORS legislative office race. vich of Washington, D.C. announced In Seattle, the BOSTON—More than 200 persons demon- eral to hold hearings and summon - police officer Dav- formation of the Tri-City Nation- id Estes filed an initiative al strated in front of the Boston Public witnesses for the purpose of making in mid- Defense Fund, for the purpose of January to have the Library and at Boston police head- the investigation. local Gay rights raising funds on a national level for ordinance quarters Saturday, April 1, to pro- Extra police officers—four repealed through public the three cities. Tri-City will vote. Though initially test police harassment and entrapment patrol-officers, one sergeant, and rejected, the afford and Gay men across initiative was at the library. The protest was the and officer from the Mounted Patrol- refiled in revised the country the opportunity to help form approved. product of a community meeting held had been assigned to cover the demon- and Estes has until the people in these three cities. July 24 to collect 17,600 All three days earlier to discuss possible stration at the request of nervous signatures. donations will be gratefully ac- The Seattle law cepted : responses to the library situation, library officials who had feared dates from 1973. Tri-City National Defense In Eugene, Fund, which has resulted in the arrest of that the group would attempt to a referendum on the P.O. Box 3949, Hollywood, CA rights more than 100 men during a two-week storm the building.- An even larger Gay ordinance has been sched- 90028. GPU News period. unit was deployed to police head- At 1:45, several of the marchers quarters on Berkeley Street for the burned their library cards in a de- same purpose. There were no inci- monstration which recalled the draft- dents, however. card burning ceremonies of a decade Officials at Boston Police Dis- ago. trict Four have consistently main- Gay Legislator is Representative Mcl King announced tained that the library arrests were that he had filed legislation direc- solely the result of many complaints ting state Attorney General Francis from library management concerning X. Bellotti to Senatorial investigate "allegedly the nuisance "cruis- Candidate alleged posed by unlawful conduct" by police officers ing" on the first and third floors Mass State Representative, in Boston Police District Four. of the building. Police have denied as saying that her being "different" Elaine Noble, D-Bo&ton, one of the Nous£ Bill 4882, which is presently that entrapment tactics were used should not stop her from seeking and first admitted homosexuals an in the Legislature's Judiciary com- to make the arrests, many to win winning a seat in the Senate anymore although election to a state legislature mittee, authorizes the attorney gen- of the 103 men arrested insist that in than it should prevent the elderly, the United announced her can- the plainclothes officer was either States, blacks or other minorities from seek- didacy this past month for the Demo- masturbating himself the men's ing office. in cratic nomination for the room or initiated conversations in U.S. Senate Rep. Noble has gained the support seat now held by Edward Dismissal of the library. Brooke, R- of Massachusetts 'heavyweights' such Gay Mass. as House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, Jr. It seems somewhat ironic that The Citizens for Participation Drug Abuse Chief she, a minority as a lesbian, should in Political Action (CPPAX) has failed D.C. be running against this contry's only however, to endorse any candidate Rescinded by PROPOSED Black senator. She is quoted by UPI for this important election. The lib- eral group was expected to give its State Board CRIME support to Elaine Noble. The decision CODE of the group not to endorse her is Sacramento, CA California Gov. Jerry- LEGALIZES seen by political observers as a set- Brown has been delivered a Stinging back in her campaign. Buffalo Even- rebuke by the state Personnel Board ing News and Gay Community News in its rehiring of openly-Gay Dr. SODOMY Josette Mondanaro as chief of the State's drug abuse office. Dr. Mon- Washington, DC A new crime code which danato was fired last October by includes legalizing homosexual acts be- AAAS Brown after a sexually explicit let- tween consenting adults has been approv- Shifts ter written on state stationary sup- ed by the District of Columbia Law Re- posedly written by Mondanaro was made view Commission. The changes in the Conference to public. code have been forwarded to Congress Mondanaro had contended that her for action. Passage of the bill, with- Support sexual orientation was a factor in the out modifications, could come by Sep- firing, a charge Brown denies. tember. Congressional staffers report- , 111 The American Associa- A spokesperson for the Govenor edly have warned that the code could tion for the Advancement of Science stated that " We disagree with the run into some legislative troublf says it will not hold next year's an- decision but we will respect it." The proposed code goes before the nual conference in Chicago as origin- ally The personnel board, meeting in Senate and House District Committees planned. San Francisco, concurred with the where hearings are expected to begin The Board of Directors of the 125,000-member recommendations of the hearing, offic- this month. The code can be revised by association says it er, who stated that Mondanaro s per- Congress at any point along the legi- voted to boycott Chicago because the' sonal letter, dated Jtjne 24 of last slative process. State of Illinois has failed to ratify year, to a friend decrying the use The code would repeal the existing the passage of the Equal Rights A- mendment. of children in pornography, was an sodomy law and set the age of consent error in judgement but not serious at 16, except where one partner is be- The board said that the con- vention, enough to warrent firing of "an out- tween 11 and 15 years of age and the instead, will be held Jan- standing employee." Philadelphia other partner is no more than five uary 3-8, 1979, in , which " Gay News years older. Gay Community News STATE REP. ELAINE NOBLE was the site of the National Women's Conference. Philadelphia Gay News EDITORIAL th This strong sense of self is vital to our survival: sth5 Freedom Rebirth we are still a hated minority in many segments of the The new life and energy of spring are reinvi- community; and the city administration not only Publication of Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier gorating Buffalo's gay community through the Matta- opposes our interests but, as the feature story in chine Society and the resources it is now offering. this issue indicates, has at hand all the tools The newly-established Mattachine Business Office necessary to lock us back in the closets from which at 45 Allen Street enables the Fifth Freedom to we have only just begun to emerge. MAY 1978 resume regular monthly publication in its former Working with Mattachine is not abstract labor newspaper format. In addition, counseling services for distant goals; it is a living, real, immediate are now available once more at 881-5335 each day experience. Whether with the newspaper, speakers between 2 and 10 pm; if desired, in person counsel- bureau, counseling services, or one of our commit- Vol. ing may also be arranged through that number. Last- tees (which concern themselves with every aspect 8, No.l of life from legal aid to care to spiri- ly, Mattachine's regular potlucks and membership gay health meetings on the third Sunday of every month at the tual support) your work with Mattachine is work sth FRI-r;DOM is a monthly pub 1 icatiori Unitarian Church are better attended than they have with people and with yourself. For many gays, of the Mattachine Society of the been in many months. this represents an entirely new way of relating to Niagara Frontier. It is distributed These resources provide vehicles for political other gays: working together in common efforts to free of charge in any establishment action, self-expression, mutual support, and ex- meet common needs. New people are met, new skills and with any organization permitting change of ideas—in other words, the foundations are developed. Your energy, ideas, and input are welcome at Mattachine us. such distribution. Our monthly for a positive sense of gay identity in Buffalo. —join circulation is 4,00 0.

The presence of the name or picture or other representation of a business, FROM OUR MAILBAG organization or person!s) in articles are aliens, invaders, they threaten or advertising In this newspaper is I'm a male and I like having sex with other My feelings males. That makes mc similar to of who my identity. not an indication of the sexual orien- many you are reading. Some of know mc from the bars or Sometimes when I'm with women I don't feel tation of such person, organization you we've so tight about feelings; I feel some support or business. Mattachine meetings; stood or sat together, my danced together, made efforts at conversation or for being a person even though I'm male. But with other men... well, we're just so terrified of We welcome any contribution of news communication. We're males and We've told and lived ourselves and each other, terrified of feeling items, written articles, letters gay. same order to survive. We've hated what we know is there, that sometimes I despair of art work or photography by members of the lies in the same and are working to ac- ever getting close to another man. the gay community. We cannot guar- ourselves in ways, cept we are. We are lonely and depressed at I want to be able to cry with another man, antee the return of any materials who need of each other. hug simple affection, tell him I need to submitted for publication, whether times, in him in like there are bonds between like be protected but will protect him too when that's used by sth FRF.I-DOM or not, unless Sounds us, I to gentle with and receive specifically requested and accom- we could be pretty close, like we shouldn't be his need. need be But I am afraid of gentleness from another man. I need to tell him panied by a stamped, self-addressed afraid of each other , you, too. want to talk about that he terrifies mc, that I terrify myself, and envelope. All materials submitted and I feel you fear mc, I my fears are what make mc know that he won't be scared away by that. arc subject to my fears now, because editorialization. lonely. Maybe you'll talk to mc about your fears There's a hole in the middle of mc, a big, censored, no-trespassing zone Deadlines for feature articles, art, too. black, crossed-out, I'm afraid of my feelings, scared shitless of right in the heart of mc called my feelings. It letters and ad copy is the 10th of them illogi- has nothing to do with manhood, and everything each month, for publication in the them. I'm afraid of because they're and make mc feel soft and to do with personhood. I'm through with being a following month's issue. News items cal and uncontrollable, afraid of them because man. I want to be a person, I want to be human. arc accepted up to publication. weak and needy inside. I'm they're everything I was told it was bad for mc And I can't work that out by myself. And so I'm these words. Subscription fee for mailing and to be. I'm a man, remember: that's logic and writing you handling is $3.50 yearly. Mattachine control, strength and independence, aggressiveness self-sufficiency. feelings Tim Denesha members receive the paper free of and My are not mc, I growing charge. Each issue is mailed in a not theme I was told to be as was up. plain, scaled envelope. Ma i 1 -sub so- ipt i on request-s , 1 eller s COMMENT to the editor, address changes, copy and contributions to: sth FRFHDOM Candid View Box 127 0 I am relatively new to Buffalo, and for mc it tunities for self-expression as well as support from Ellicott Station has been, at times, an exciting experience. In other people. Where there are areas where I feel Buffalo, New York 14216 these past few months, I have met and made friends a void, I seek to fill it. with some dynamite people, people who are aware, It is depressing to see Allen Street, the warm and intelligent. They are individuals who ful- center of the "Gay Ghetto," deteriorating, without full certain needs for companionship and support. much hope of improvement. Of course, the decay Suddenly, however, in the next two months, fully reflects the general disintegration of the city. eleven of them will be leaving Buffalo for other Statistically, the 18-35 year old population of locales; I feel cheated, perhaps abandoned. Buffalo is being depleted rapidly. As many people I ask why they are dissatisfied. I am scared, claim, "Buffalo is a good city to be from." But staff scared that I too will soon tire of this city, and must it stay that way? Maybe the frustrations will will feel the frustrations that these others have develop into a "grass roots" effort. Gay - felt. What are they seeking? tion here has never really been actively political— BILL COPLON One is leaving for California, for education- political in the sense of raising the straight con- JIM C, al opportunities, another for Washington, in a job sciousness. Acceptance of Gay people here is BILL COLEMAN transfer —these I can accept. Others, however, minimal, even among homophilic businessmen. TIM DENESHA leaving for Arizona, New York City, or California, Have you ever considered, for example, people CLAUDE are seeking outlets which they do not find available whom you encounter in the bars, but who will refuse JOHN GOOD here. One major complaint is that the social, art- to acknowledge your existence in the office, in the TOM istic and political environment in Buffalo is stif- grocery store, in the street? For mc, I feel TOM HAMMOND ling, hostile and repressive; as one Rochesterian alienated, rejected and angry. Why must we be so SAM commented recently in visiting this city, "Even the self-oppressive? HYE MART Gay people here are homophobic—uneasy with their I try to do my best, to do what feels comfort- PETER own identity, more closeted than Gay people else- able for mc. Far be it for mc to project my open- ANDREW ZACH where. " ness onto other people's life styles. For my own One means of dealing with this situation is well-being, however, I need to feel at ease, and to leave for more open communities. It is a tanta- feel support from others. In that way, I can re- lizing choice. New York City, for example, offers late to these individuals' desires to leave, to every vehicle for growth,creativity and openness seek a more accepting social environment. My conten- one could desire. California is developing into tion is, "Why can't we make it work here?" of country, not the.world. l sth FRI-l-nOM staff arc volunteers. the Gay Center the if A* So stay here? Anyone interested in working on the why Personally, believe effort paper should call our business I in making every my my to seek out oppor- office at [716] write to make residence, home, 881-5335, to IlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the address above or drop in at our office at 45 Allen Street.

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[ 1 YES, I'd like to make a contribution towards Gay rights in Buffalo. I pledge to pay the NAME following monthly sum for one year. I under- stand that I will be reminded monthly. ADDRESS [ ] YES, I'd like to make a one time, anonymous . sth5th Freedom donation of the following sum. CITY STATE ZIP [ ] $ 1 [ ] $ 2 []$5 []$10 If this donation is a single one, the above [ ]$ 20 []$ 50 [] $ 100 [] $ information is not required. Thank you. ■ Mail to MSNF, Fundraising Comm., at the address on the back cover of the Fifth Freedom. SHORT SHOTS Can I keep him, Ma? That Ain't No Cheap Trick Every Boy Should have a dogma Even though it-often turns out / to be Las Vegas, NY A hard rock band called "Cheap Trick" must believe a sonofabitch./ Because it gives him a sense of security / to have it's being discriminated against. The group appeared at a hotel something smaller than himself / to play with. / And even when he grows here along with a band named Kansas, but received no billing. up and/ leaves it behind hs'll be / sorry to hear it died. / And sooner Hotel officials explained later that, at least in Las Vegas, or later / he'll be finding / one of his own / and dragging, it in / "cheap trick" has another meaning ; they were -afraid people saying, / "Can I keep him, ma ?" Albatross, quoting Gail White : PAN- might get the 'wrong idea. Gay News, Philadelphia DORA'S BOX ' Attention Male Lovers! Gay Teachers get Boost Albany, NY Declaring that opposition to Gay rights has crystallized Silverstein, The New York, NY Dr. Charles author of Joy of Gay Sex and around the issue of Gay teachers, the NEW YORK STATE COALITION OF GAY ORGAN- A Family Matter: A Parent's Guide to Homosexuality, has announced that IZATIONS has initiated the first stage of a survey to determine the atti- he has begun interviewing Gay men for a new book for Gay male lovers. tudes of school administrators across the state to homosexual teachers. Silverstein explained the "will cover the history of Gay rela- that book Gaysweek tionships, the nature of Gay love, and both the satisfactions and trials of male lovers." Confidential interviews are planned for a number of geographical areas. For further information contact Dr. Charles Silver- Is He? stein, 233 W. 83rd St., New York, NY 10024. Gay Community News Roekland, NY Protesting the openning of a motel for Gays, Ellyn Olson of NYC carried a "God Save Rockland" picket through the city, he then For Women Only proceeded to reinforce her point with a scriptural citation: " God destroyed Sodom because he was a homosexual." Free all New York, NY A book of love letters of lesbians is being planned by two for New York City women. Joan Gorman and Diane Edington are asking women all over the country to share their experiences and send letters to be a part .. .She Was! of the collection. "This collection," the two have said, "will show all Seattle, WA Dr. Richard Gordon, in his forthcoming book, THE facets of ... relationships the ecstacies through the agonies, the PRIVATE LIFE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, contends that " the ques- beginnings, middle, ends, struggles,— experiments, new beginnings/ con- tion of her being a lesbian is simply historic fact." The author tinuing friendships, and each woman's own growth through births, deaths, bases his conclusion on careful readings of Nightingale's rebirths." Deadline for collection of letters is July 1, 1978. Please letters. The Royal College of Nursing in has responded send them to their attention, c/o the Women's Coffeehouse, 54 7th Aye, So., with a statement questioning why anyone would "rake up this New York, NY 10014. Gay Community News sort of material" about a British heroine. Seattle Gay News Flushed The Orthodox View A Ruling NYC, NY Seven right-wing Jewish organizations have declared their oppo- Sacramento, CA Superior Judge John Sapunor has halted sale and distribution sition to Gay rights . The coalition of g oups, which represnets over of the product RUSH, and issued a temporary injunction to the Pacific 1400 Orthodox rabbis and teachers, has urged Congress to defeat all Gay Western Distributing Corporation which prevents their wholesale transactions rights bills that may come before it. Gay Community News as well. It was shown that RUSH was being marketed as a sexual stimulant, which placed it in violation of state'health codes by producing a 'new It's Not Greek to Them! drug.' GPU News Athens, Greece The Creek Ministry of Public Order and Social By Services is preparing a bill to propor.c the deportation of the # God! country's Gay population. The bill reportedly provides for one San Francisco, CA CAY ATHEISTS, a new organization founded to counter year's imprisonment for first offenders and deportation for a Politic recent attempts to infringe church/state separation, held its first second offence. Body formal meeting in February, and elected a board of directors. "GA" is a nonprofit and non-political organization of Gay women and men brought together to expose the attempts of organized religion to victimize Veneer, Anyone? Gay people. GPU News Philadelphia, PA Many people believe you are what you eat; now a psychologist is suggesting you are how you decorate. Doctor M.H. Harmen — in her book PSYCHO-DECORATING — has studied the Pity! decorating patterns of 100 different women. She says, for example Florence, OR The City Council of this small Oregon city in one fell that women, who are sexually oriented avoid glass top tables, swoop of over-enthusiastic legislation has banned all sex. The ordinace love heavy textured sofas as velvet, and prefer different pronounced illegal the "engaging in sex while in or in view of a private wallpaper on every wall; she also states-that such women dislike or public place." The unwitting council members apparently thought fireplaces. Gay News, Philadelphia they were forbidding public sex only and realized that the ordinance forbade all sex several days after it was passed and published. San Francisco Sentinel - From a Bigot's Primer "CLOSET": state subsidized, well-guarded (See: suffocate) home Hard Pill to Swallow for timid (See: Decent) homosexuals. As in Criminal Code Paris, France The contraceptive pill might make lesbians out of young Clausetts. girls taking it, claims a French geneticist; the evidence: laboratory "LOVE": 1. a manifestation of hate (See: rebirth), a chronic rats, having received large doses of the hormones, turned against the obsession with saving others from themselves. As in "I love opposite sex. Lesbian Connection them too much to let them continue in sin"— 2. a cheap frozen concentrate containing no harmful natural ingredients. 3. (See: Another Pol in our Camp someone of your own gender as soon as possible). Body Politic , CA U.S. Senator, George McGovern, former presidential candi- Rabbit Test date, spoke to a crowd of a thousand persons attending a fundraising event Ottawa, Ont. On January 18, Ottowa County Court Judge Elmer Smith awarded for the new Gay organization, NEW AGE, "There should be no controversy in a Gay man custody of his 8 year-old daughter and 13 year-old son. The Court the United States over personal rights," claimed McGovern. "It is men decision marked the f rst time in Canada that a known Gay father has won a and women like you who have brought the consciousness of human rights to child custody battle. The 13-page written decision by Judge Smith the ques- this country." GPU News tion of the -man's sexuality and concluded that "on all counts the homosexual factor should not deter the court in its view that the father ought to be preferred as custodian." Body Politic Playboys for Gays San Francisco, CA The Playboy Foundation has recently announced that a grant will be going to Gay Rights Advocates, a San Francisco-based public interest law firm that serves the lesbian and Gay communities. A major effort will be the creation of a national resource center for briefs, pleadings, and other legal documents relevant to homosexuality and the law. Gay Com- munity News

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3 NYSCGO preference), Civil Rights and Anti- Sodomy Laws. The conference also dis- MATTACHINE NEWS cussed women's and men's issues, NEWS media and finance (always an important Mattachine has returned to promi- Speakers Bureau has been busy issue). nence in -Buffalo with the opening of keeping Mattachine visible on area The New York State Coalition of NYSCGO, a coalition of some 50 the MSNF Business Office. The office, college campuses. One recent Gay Organizations (NYSCGO) held a maj- Gay organizations around the State, is located at 45 Allen Street, Suites 3 & ment included twenty representatives or conference in New York (at NYU) the the major legislative advocate for 4, has been open for six weeks. Phone of the Gay Community speaking before last weekend of April. Jim Haynes, Gay rights in New York. NYSCGO oper- counseling and production work for the the Human Sexuality class at ÜB. The regional coordinator for the Niagara ates primarily through the volunteer Fifth Freedom are housed at that loca- course, which is required for all Frontier, and Don Licht, secretary to efforts of its affiliated organizations tion. Coverage in counseling is in medical students, is taken by approx- the organization, attended. The and members, although it has committed the process of being expanded; present- imately two hundred students. agenda called for major discussion on itself to supporting its full-time ly office hours are 2 through 10 pm Other committee chairpersons have the present legislator packages now lobbyist. weekdays. been in contact with representatives before the Assembly in Albany. As with most groups of its kind, Mattachine meetings are now being of such organizations as: Buffalo John Nehrich, paid lobbyist for it is in dire need of financial sup- held twice monthly, on the first and Area Metro Ministries, American Civil NYSCGO in the State capitol, has been port (with a budget for 19 7 3 of $5600). third Sundays. They open with a Pot- Liberties Union, and the Erie County in constant contact with Buffalo con- If you wish to contribute, or just Luck Supper at 6:00, followed at 7:30 Health Department. cerning the need fur grass-roots sup- learn more about what NYSCGO is all by the scheduled program. Some recent Mattachine needs support and port for such issues as: Child Support about, write to NYSCGO, Box 131, programs have been: Political Aware- money to carry on these programs. (barring discrimination due to sexual Albany, N. Y. 12201. ness, Sex Therapist, and a YD Clinic; The money goes towards the cost of Future plans include a scheduled film printing, typewriter rental, Classes in Counselors Training program and an auction. telephone and other necessities. If HEALTH COMMITTEE will commence as soon as six more peo- Another sign of progress has been you would like to become a member of ple express interest and sign up. Clas the Fifth Freedom's return to tabloid Mattachine, please use the form on NOTES Gene Presidento ses will meet for three hours weekly, format. The print appears somewhat the back cover, or if you care to On Monday, April 10, 1978, the at a time that is most convenient for smaller to accomodate more material help out financially, please feel Mattachine Society opened its new office all involved. Training will run for at the same cost. There has been a free to pledge money on an easy month- at 45 Allen St. Since staffing the ten weeks. Since counseling is one of tremendous output by a few hardcore ly basis—Use the form at the bottom office is the responsibility of the the most important jobs that Mattachine staff members to produce this issue, of page 2. Health Committee we would ask that all performs for the gay community we ask however many new people have also Personally, I hope to see you present and former staffers who would that you please give some thought to become involved. If you wish to get all at the meeting, May 7th. be interested in staffing again please taking Counselors Training. Training involved, and have some fun as well, call us at 881-5335. Since we are try- classes are often beneficial to the contact Mattachine anytime during John Good, See 'y MSNF ing to maintain business hours (shifts trainee and most people find them en- office hours, at 881-5335. of 2pm to 6pm and 6pm to 10pm) we need joyable. For more information on this as many people to volunteer as we can or any other health related issue feel get. free to call us at 881-5335. REGIONAL NEWS LAW BRIEFS ROCHESTER: eted in front of the Monro (Adult) In 1966, a federal court ployment, marriage, the military, Theatre. The organization came to in the Second Circuit ¥_led that child custody and adoption. It will Many items come from the Flower City: prominence three months ago when they an alien's sworn statement acknow- also seek to explain the difficul- marched and confronted the police in ledging homosexual activities prior ties (of postulating) gay rights on —Three individuals were arrested in front of the Cine-Downtown, protesting to entry into the United States was such (traditional liberal) concepts front of Jim's bar for prostitution. movies which depict blatant and accep- sufficient evidence of a "sexual as the first amendment right to free Five months ago "Duchey" Schultz, one ted violence against women. psychopathic personality" to justify speech and assembly, the eighth of the owners of the bar, complained deportation. Boutilier vs. Immigra- amendment prohibition against and to the police of people loitering in —Six people, including Bob Sweeney, tion & Naturalization Service 363 unusual punishment and the right to front, harrassing customers and van- President of the Rochester Gay Brother- F2d 488 (2nd Cir., 1966). Boutilier privacy, due process and equal pro- dalizing automobiles. No action was hood, lobbied April 12th in Albany for should hardly come as a surprise. tection. taken. Suddenly, a few weeks ago, the Child Custody Legislation which Few of us are unaware that gays have As a reader, please feel free three were arrested including an 18 would ban discrimination because of limited constitutional rights. In to make use of this column both to year old. Jim Ide, Co-President of parental sexual orientation, now in future issues, this column will seek suggest issues to be examined and the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley, Senate Committee. to explore some of the pertinent request actual legal advice. The Inc. met with Lawrence Kurlander, DA, areas of the law where discriminatio purpose of this column is to inform and Col. Hastings of the Police Depart- —Michael Robertson, Past President of gays is most serious, such as em- gays of their legal rights. ment, and succeeded in getting the of the Rochester Gay Brotherhood, charges reduced to loitering and tres- Past Co-President of the Gay Alliance passing. ; (suceeding present Mattachine Presi- dent, Bill Coplon) and winner of the —Gay Alliance' is involved in a reor- 1977 Vinnie Cup Award for outstanding ganization under the CETA program. service to the Rochester Gay Community, They are approaching the City for mon- is leaving for lowa with lover,' Randy. ies for employment of five more indi- viduals. The Alliance is willing to SYRACUSE: bargain, in this added funding, for affirmative action pro-gram for —There are reports that a new non-de- gay people in employment within the nominational Gay Religion organization City of Rochester. catering to pastoral care, counseling, I and religious needs for Syracusians. I —The Gay Alliance, in cooperation Gay Activism is not very action at the with several gay businesses, announces moment. The only strong organization the 3rd Annual Gay Community Picnic: is the Gay Liberation Front at SU. Tri-City National Defense Fund July 16th, Sunday, at the Genesee Valley Park, Shelter //I; $1 donations ALBANY: are requested. —Most efforts from the Capital city —The Rochester Women Against Violence have been focused towards efforts for Against Women (RWAVAW) held a rally NYSCGO (see article). Some other ef- DON'T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN!! and demonstration in Washington Square I Park. Two weeks previously, they pick- cont. pages HAND CRAFTED PIPES YANA BOOKS TOBACCO CIGARS ON OCCULT CIGARETTES PIPES REPAIRED THE TIDE BEGUN IN MIAMI MUST BE STOPPED I BEFORE IT TAKES ALL OF OUR RIGHTS AWAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WICHITA ST. PAUL EUGENE KANSAS MINNESOTA OREGON

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4 through discriminatory housing sumption that the quantity of a practices, social disapproval, legal relationship (that is, how long it restrictions and tax structures. The lasts) is necessarily more important psychological make-up of male/male than the quality of a relationship. I relationships differs significantly have seen more depth and caring in "SomePromiscuity"Thoughts on from that of male/female relations, some couplings that last a night than and further complicates the possi- I have seen in some that last two COLUMN bility of monogomous coupling. years. The word "promiscuity" carries I must be careful here not to ad- with it ugly connotations, and reli- vocate promiscuity as a "statement" The new Kinsey study will be out Far be it from mc to ignore the gious and social homophobes delight in a la John Rechy (especially in The in August, and Newsweek reports importance of monogomy in western pointing to its prevalence in Gay Sexual Outlaw), as I don't feel it's encouraging statistics showing diver- society. The stability of one=to-one life. To be sure, there are disad- any more desirable than monogamy. Yet sity and stability in Gay life. The long term relationship produces vantages in relating to several part- I feel the need to question the Kinsey study, titled "Homosexualities" also secure children, a depth of emotional ners sexually. Promiscuity can be an report's assumption that it is defin- includes a 'typology' of homosexuals. satisfaction, and joint income tax excuse to distance people, allowing itely less desirable. According to Newsweek, "On the more returns. But to suggest that what is others not to get too close. It can Perhaps it comes down to the feel- positive end of the scale were the a social protected and economic dissuade a continuity of emotional ing that the grass is greener on the contented, self-accepting 'closed necessity for the survival of civil- depth and satisfaction. And it often other side of the fence. Those who couples' -- those living in marriage- ization is also a psychological leads to a variety of physical are in a monogamous situation see the style monogomy -- followed by the necessity is, I humbly submit, going ailments. advantage of promiscuity as more de- more sexually footloose 'open couples' too far. The promiscuous person need not, sirable, and those who are promiscu- and the hyperactive 'functionals' who Monogomy is encouraged in the however, be less healthy or stable ous yearn for the one man who will more nearly resemble the swinging heterosexual world. The nuclear than the monogomous man. There can be make it all better. singles of the straight world." This family is the focal point of social a richness in relating to several I just wish we could coin a word scale seems to suggest that monogomy order, and without some secure family people that broadens and enriches more appropriate to our feelings than and healthy acceptance are somehow base the responsibility to raise its one's person. There is a magic and "promiscuous"--we have borrowed the connected, whereas promiscuity citizens would fall on "the state." fascination in discovering a person word, and the value judgement that produces less healthy people. It is Further, taboos against sexuality in for the first time on a sexual basis goes along with it from a set of unclear from the report how well general encourage adults to.limit that, which developed through a sec- mores that don't apply. documented this assumption is, but it their sexual expression to one member ond and third meeting, can carry a seems more than coincidence to mc of the opposite sex. sharing and commitment equally valid Tom Hammond that the epitome of Gay mental health But the term just doesn't apply on that shown in a monogamous rela- once again is a major as functionally to Gay peop-e. Monogomy tionship. heterosexual social norm. is discouraged among Gay people I am often irritated by the aa-

That door swings both ways. out, we're out. Perhaps because we A similar experience may take know it only opens one way is what place after one bas made the decision makes it so difficult. It can take to try out the gay bath. Usually, quite a bit of time and thinking be- one's initial visit there is at night fore we say, "I am gay, and I am a SELections Perhaps darkness provides a cover? good person." And after self-accept- Doors into such facilities as well as ance, it is not long before we con- Most Doors Swing Both Ways by SAM into the cubicles swing both ways. sider telling those who know and love And for one reason or another, the us. This column continues a personal actors and actresses. Methods in- first-time visitor may resolve never I felt that it was something im- odyssey of my coming to terms with clude the style of clothing one wears, to frequent such a place again. portant about myself that needed being gay. -If it offers any solace the language one uses, and the places Another type of business through telling. I wanted to tell people that to others that they are not alone, where one is or is not seen. whose portals many of us have passed I was "beginning to know what it meant it will have been worth the time and For many youths, being served le- is the adult bookstore. Some of the to be alive," to feel sunlight and effort of writing. gally in a bar is part of their same feelings accompany walking into the cooling breezes away from a closet During the course of a day we all coming of age in America. As eagerly such a place as they do for the above existence. If ever I was to be com- pass through any number of doorways, as one has looked forward to that And probably the uncertainties con- plete, it meant sharing significant: usually with no effort involved in night on the town, there is still an tinue when one commits himself to knowledge of myself with others. Tke such action. This month I want to uncertainty involved. Upon opening watching one of the gay peep shows awful secret was no longer a secret spend a little time looking at some the door, part of one's through yet another doorway. (I can to be carried to the grave with mc. of the doors gays know as more trau- youthful "innocence" has been for- only write "probably" in that last To be sure, there were already matic than those which serve as feited. For many, a whole new world sentence because I do not know that plenty of un-named strangers who passages from one room to another. is opened that night. Similar is from personal experience. All other knew my sexual preference, but this These doors.are part of a process one's entry into the gay bar scene. examples are part of my history, and is different. Relationships with which has to do with our sexual iden- Few of us would deny that there was I have leared that in such matters I close friends and family are not the apprehension the first time. Remem- am hardly unique.) same. tities. ,; A contemporary sociologist, ber driving by the place several times There is one more door to write Once having said, I am gay," Erving Goffman, has focused some of even before daring to park in the about which is different from the there is no retracting the statement. only his attention on techniques by which neighborhood? Then the studied non- rest because it opens outward. There is no way to get back in that persons try to manipulate impressions chalance of walking by a couple of I refer to the door that we open from closet with its one-way door even if. others have of them. In an early times to get up the nerve to actual- the closeted experience. Once we're I wanted to. And I don't want to! writing the vehicle he uses is a the- ly looks all around go in? Quick known to the office of the Mattachine atrical model of social life. As before an even quicker movement that in A View of Society. dramatic productions, the meaning of got you inside. For some gays, a Lesbian's For women over the age of 28— what is going on is defined by the single visit to a gay bar is enough. by Pattie Yarger Buffalo Cray Rights of Older Women is still Now would seem to be a good time active. to be moving on. Now that Sisters of For all homosexuals, there are Sappho 'has closed its doors (Rumor still these clubs that would welcome has it that it closed due to lack of new members: THE >v __ interest). And with Ricardo's being /f GOLD the only women's bar of Buffalo; who Mattachine Society of the Niagara V" HANDCRAFTED JEWELRY, GEMS wouldn't want to move on. (There has Frontier AND C INE ARTS, been an increase of women socializing Gay Liberation Front \ CANVAS Is* -N. CRYSTAL AND GLASS in Mean Alice's lately.) •Student Alliance for Gay Equality [ However, before being hasty, per- Dignity (the gay Catholic Group) \. GALLERY WITH haps I should look again as to what A Buffalo has to offer. For there may For information on any of the \655 ELMWOOD AT FERRY be other Lesbians who might not be as above mentioned groups, phont.. fortunate as I in being able to just 881-5335. I OF 885-8896 pack up and leave for greener pasture, As to the bar scene, rumor has J ~ and that maybe just leaving isn't a it that Ricardo's is planning on \ GLASS / solution. changing their selection of music. For all women—a new social club I look forward to this change. is in the process of being formed. As yet, I believe that it is still not named. I hope that when there is more REGIONAL NEWS cont. information available, it wili be made

forst which the Albany people are pur- suing include lobbying religious or- I DICK'S ganizations. For example: for everyone I Five people representing NYSCGO demonstrated against the anti-gay complete line of New York State Catholic Conference when the conference held a public shoes for men, liturgy at St. Pius X Church here in j women and i Albany on April 10th. The peaceful children demonstration was purposely kept small ao as not to disrupt the service, but Iwe also carry j only to raise the issue with the RUJ>H bishops. shoe stores The media statement distributed DICKS at that time stated that the only re- ligious body actively working against GRANT ST. 886-8435 Gay Rights Legislation is the New J7l j York State Catholic Conference. It finished by stating "We question the REPOTTING CONSULTATIONS 721 ELMWOOD j Christianity of the New York State AYE. Catholic Conference, for Christ taught BUSINESS) I 883-5449 RBfl, i love and compassion not just for heter- osexuals, but for all people."

5 BUFFALO GAY PEOPLE -- WHAT DO THEY WANT?: An Interview with Guy Vullo by TIM DENESHA can't survive on that—you don't make that much it to the Courier, she took it to the News, and Late last year, one of Buffalo's most long- money on food anymore. Four people have dinner they wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. One established gay bars, the Hibachi Room, closed. without ordering drinks; their bill come to may editor at the News said, "It's a nice article; in Early this year, the city's newest gay bar, $50, and I'm lucky if I make three bucks on it. ten years, we'll print it." Gabriel's Gate, closed two weeks after opening as So Leonard Silvieri, the owner, and I decided a disco. Initially a gay supper club, it had been to do a disco thing, since that's what people FF: So, as a gay bar owner, you face problems converted to a disco after several months of poor seemed to want. We closed on New Year's tore Eve, just from within the gay community itself. What business. it up, and made it into a disco. When we reopened, difficulties do you have from outside the gay we offered fifty-cent drinks that first Friday and Given the close proximity of these events and community, say the police, the city government, Saturday, and the was jammed; but Sunday, the gay community's suspicions about the attitude place or the State Liquor Authority? with regular bar prices, was back at of the Griffin administration toward gays, many everyone Mean Alice's. The following weekend was dead rumors have been circulating about the closings. again, and the third weekend Leonard told mc to On March 25th the Fifth Freedom interviewed Guy close it. It hurt mc that he closed all that Vullo who was closely connected with both establish it; work, and open only two weeks. But I knew ments. He was night manager of the Hibachi Room Gabriel's wasn't gonna make 'cause when you for two years and manager of Gabriel's Gate. He it, open a gay it happens right away or not at all was eager to discuss the circumstances of both bar, closings as well as his experiences in managing FF: Closing in two weeks doesn't sound like you gay bars in Buffalo. were giving the place much of a chance. FF: Would you comment on the sign which is posted GV: The reason Leonard closed the place was be- on the door of the Hibachi Room: "CLOSED-THANK cause of a legal problem he was BUFFALO."? having with the YOU, bank. He didn't close because of lack of business, though business could have been lots and GV: David Chipman, the owner, put it up; it's better; it wasn't a problem with the State Liquor meant to" be sarcastic. How can he help being bit- Authority or anything like'that. He also had to close his ter? You're king of the mountain for three and a other restaurant in Hamburg because of these per- half years and,in one day, it's gone. Nean Alice's sonal legal hassles he's got. opened its doors and' that was it. Friday night the Buffalo gay people, what do they want? It's people were there, Saturday night they were gone. gotta be big, it's gotta be it's gotta The two dollar door charge was probably what downtown, have parking... yet look at the Downtown Manor, did it; you didn't have to pay at Mean Alice's. Buddy Burkes place: it had all but nobody being a block from West Chippewa Street added that, Also, cared, nobody to it; we'd always had a lot of trouble with black cared. The Hibachi was slow one weekend, when Buddy opened, everybody pimps and hookers standing around outside the door. first then came back. What causes success? can do is After Mean Alice's opened, Dave cancelled the door All I go to places and study them, and try to figure out charge in order to stay open, and we had all kinds what causes success. an average Saturday night, of crap coming in—l almost lost my life one night On maybe 1500 people are out at the and most of because someone had a knife. That killed it; he bars, them are at Mean Alice's. Whey do they all focus closed the place eight months after Mean Alice's on one place? Maybe they just want to be out where opened. He'd spent $80,000 on renovation, and they can cruise everything there is to be cruised. had financed himself right to the bone to pay for Actually running a gay club isn't that it, based on his track record as a businessman. No hard; gays can be kind of picky—you know, one night way could he pay that back once business dropped the music's too loud, the next it's too soft, or off. And that's why the Hibachi Room closed. I the drinks are too strong or too weak—it's just believe Dave is planning to move out of Buffalo that this town you don't know what to do to now. in make a living. Running a straight bar is a stead- ier thing; you don't always have it hanging over "Are they leave tomorrow?" your head, gonna Maybe GV: As far as the police go, they can be nice or the smart thing in this town is to spend the mini- they can be bastards; you just have to kiss their mum, and make what you can; then, when the gays ass. 3ack in the fifties, at least one gay bar move on to the next place, wee, your day's over, was turning. over its entire $3 door charge to and you've got your money. the police every week, but it's not that extreme Frankly, I'm disenchanted, but I want to stay now; Christmas time, you send a case of liquor in Buffalo; I don't know where I'm gonna do it, over to the station of whatever precinct you're but I've got a couple of people interested now. in; if you serve food and a cop comes in for One person in particular is prepared to invest lunch, you serve them for free. That kind of heavily in a gay entertainment center, and we've thing,, and they don't give you too much trouble— looked at a number of locations, like Leonardo's won't ticket the cars in front of your bar— on Pearl near Chippewa. But there's always the stuff like that. problem of what will work, what will succeed? The State Liquor Authority has different When Dave Chipman finished remodeling the Hibachi, offices in each part of the state and each one his customers told him, "You made it too nice." applies the laws differently; but they're all Now what kind of person is going to tell you, pretty strict, except for New York City, where "You've made it too nice for mc to come to?" Is things are real loose, probably because someone's that why Gabriel"s didn't make it? Was Gabriel's getting paid off. The SLA is untouchable; no- too nice? Were we supposed to throw paint against body dictates to it but the Supreme Court, and the walls? What type of person are you if a place that's so expensive that hardly anyone can carry is "too nice" for you? a case that far. They've got a million la.7s on their side and can close' you down pretty FF: Perhaps gay people are saying something about much whenever they want. Years ago there was themselves when they say a place is "too nice" for a bar here called Denny's place; the owner, them. Dennis, lost his liquor licence because one of the bartenders had jokingly made a grab for his GV: That's possible. Another problem is this crotch. A small thing like that, and they attitude gay people here have toward straights: closed him down; he couldn't afford to fight they don't want to have anything to do with them. the case. A lot of people resented the fact that Gabriel's A similar thing happened with Dave Chipman was owned by a straight man—why? Leonard would about eight months after he opened the Hibachi come into Gabriel's, his own place, with some of Room. The vice squad and the SLA came up with his straight friends, and gays would say to mc, ten charges, including possession of dope by "What's he doing here? He and his friends are one customer, and men dancing with men. making us feel uncomfortable." So I had to go Guy Vullo, right, with owner Leonard Silverio to Leonard and tell him, look, don't come in here FF: in better days. Was men dancing with men against the Law? with your straight friends, go to your place in Hamburg. You can't come into your own club, your FF: What were your experiences at Gabriel's Gate? GV: No, but it was a violation of a':social clientele feels uncomfortable with you." I was norm,* as they call it, and they could use that insulted, and so was Leonard. Yet these bisexual GV: went there because I figured it was time kind of thing to close you down. Fortunately, I things work everywhere else, in cities half the for Buffalo to have a gay supper club and piano Dave had been setting aside the entire door size of Buffalo, I can't figure it out. In Buf- bar. We had two discos, Mean Alice's and the charge right from the beginning into a special falo, why is it taking so long? Maybe 'cause it's legal Hibachi, which was still open then; we had the account for fees. It cost him $35,000 an industrial city, too much blue collar; yet Villa, for the leather crowd; and there was Ricar- to fight that case, and he won; he got a sym- is a blue collar town, and it swings. do's for women. So I figured that a town which pathetic judge, who threw'the whole case out Back the late sixties we had Big Daddy's and they claim has 40,000 gay people, would support a* in it worked. That atmosphere hasn't been created in of court. But it took money, a lot of money. gay supper club. Buffalo since. You'd think when people are out Last Christmas some of us tried to organize We opened October 14th; it was great in the partying, they'd want to exchange thoughts with an alliance between the bars here; part of the beginning, the first few days. We did a good din- a completely set of reason was to establish a joint legal fund, so ner business, and people loved the live entertain- people who have different ideals and views. But what does it take to create we'd have the money to fight if we needed it. We ment. But then it just suddenly died out, and that kind of atmosphere? were also hoping the alliance would help business, Mean Alice's was packed again. A couple of times Sometimes I think this city is going back- like having each bar have its two-for-one night I really went out of my way and spent more than I wards. Just about the time Gabriel's opened, on a different night, or two bars not scheduling should have on entertainment, but the young kids, Samantha Dean, a freelance writer, wrote an special events on the same night...but it didn't the Mean Alice's type of crowd would come in, have article on it as Buffalo's bisexual bar. She took work out, there wasn't that kind of cooperation. one drink, listen to a set, then leave. You just

6 move was based on his FF: What about the attitude of the Buffalo city Postscript: Two weeks after this interview was feeling that Buffalo is a dying city, and government? given, the interviewer attempted to contact Guy any effort of his to "make some- thing happen" here Vullo regarding certain details of the interview would be doomed ultimately to He has GV: At regular times, if you have a mayor like material. It was learned that Guy had just failure. already found employment in Florida, and has no Makowski or Sedita, you get let alone pretty moved to Florida. Reportedly, his decision to plans for returning to Buffalo. much; oh, the laws are there, they've got all the tools to close you down anytime, it's just a mat- ter of whether they choose to. As for Griffin though, it's different; Griffin doesn't give a ALONG THE LEVEE (AMERICAN RIVER, SACRAMENTO) shit, he's gonna try and close down every gay bar in this city before he's out of office. poetry It's gonna happen, and it's already started. When the Hibachi Room closed, Bill Schroeder Well, that's the last thing started doing a great lunch business at Ricardo's. I expected in this Then, all of a sudden, the health department colorless, slick scene shows up with a list of $15,000 worth of improve- WOMAN'S HANDS the sun. Ah, but. it's — ments he's got to make on his kitchen if he only making an appearance, wants to continue serving lunches. He can't af- (For Susan Saxe) anxious to be gone, ford it, so that's the end of lunch his business. Your woman's hands hold focused on just a Then the company shows up, and not very dog insurance wants a pen to sketch out anger well bred to recarpet the entire place because there's tearing the woods, him in words with sharp unbroken lines, from rug someone might trip on. shaking damp, holes in the that poems that hit hard spilling a himself come on; something's down here, a dog Now, coming and tenderness colored by pure I'd hoard a while back no one wants to realize it. woman-spirit hoping he came with the 1 flowing in the bloodlines of a sort of man wouldn't mind FF: What in particular would like to say to you once-free woman's soul. coming with myself Buffalo's community? that gay Their chains have not left their mark there or if not their coldness shimmers as we then at least a man, GV: Gay people should look at what has happened wait silently to light the fuse; with something here in the past few months, and look at the po- our hands so eager to grasp yours again interesting to say, hoping practically sition they're in now. This is a to feel the freedom you've to come with mc. one-bar town now,;and it's a hell of a lot easier kept alive in your heart all these,months No luck maybe this just for the city or the SLA to close down one bar the— rising up in struggle every time. isn't season or weather than five or six. Two bars have closed in the Woman's hands, Susan for cruising, last several months, largely because of lack of yours and ours or learning something new. support from the gay community. Whenever the woman's hands move in the Chilean sunlight, I guess I'll go home next bar opens, whether it's mine or somebody scarred from repeated torture sessions I mean, my best — else's, I hope it'll be supported. If people clutch babies in tenements and friend's house, where I'm staying here, could just learn to go from bar to bar, give them try to fend off rats at least it's dry there, all a share of their business. Griffin's sign welfare checks yet refuse to crawl. though I fear against us, and by focusin?, ourselves on just They scrawl out poems in darkened cells making love one or two places, we're making it that much eas- knowing that someday their hands will is out ier for him to shut down the gay social scene shatter the bars and this visit, in Buffalo. move on to remake the world. with his free-floating Recently I was talking t& a friend who used Catholic guilt, to work in the bars here, but now lives in Cali- —by Desi Seagull and his wife so very pregnant fornia. I told him some of my different plans, no matter what she says — and he said, "You mean to tell mc you're gonna ALBATROSS about "not feeling threatened" do Something in Buffalo again? How many times by our "beautiful, time- does that town have to kick you in the ass before honored relationship" you smarten up?" But I'm gonna do it again, I in the next room. — have to; either you're a bar person or you're not, and I'm a bar person: I'll never be happy BURTON WEISS doing anything else. But this'll be the last time in Buffalo; if it doesn't work this time, that'll be it for mc and Buffalo. .

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HAL FISCHER: AN OVERVIEW Hal Fischer's Photography: summoned to mind: the natural man, definition of what exactly gay art the self-respect wtvich emanates Signifiers of the Significantly Gay the classical model, the urban busi- might be, a task which involves from his work, a vestige of Fischer's nessman, the cowboy and the leather serious inquiries into sociological, surveillant vision. This photography During the month of March, there fetisher. political and aesthetic theories as is marked by a dignity. If Fischer's appeared in the Buffalo State College Fischer's photography has been well as an inquiry into the gay sub- photography cannot be designated as Upton Gallery a show of photography acclaimed around the country since culture itself. "gay art" in the strictest sense, by seven California artists, coordi- he first installed this body of work I must conclude, however, that it is certainly one of the gay sub- nated by Kevin Noble and myself. The at the Lawson de Celle Gallery in the work does possess a distinct cultures most aesthetically viable exhibition, under the auspices of San Francisco. Regardless of this "gayness", even with its facade of products. the Center for Explorating Percep- acclaim, I have been quite annoyed objectivity. The subject matter is G. Roger Denson tional Arts, The Visual Arts Board, by certain statements issued by two only a part of it. Perhaps it is and in cooperation with the Hallwalls of Fischer's most favorable critics. gallery, included the work of Hal Joan Murry of Artweek magazine, a Fischer. Fischer in as internation- Bay area weekly, advances the posi- ONCE AGAIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ally recognized photographer and re- tion (Artweek, Aug., 13, 1977) that viewer for ARTWEEK magazine who is the photographic sequences contain Compared to this attitude, how- gay and lives in San Francisco. Once again the Catholic Archdi- ever, is that of Archbishop John Fischer's work is intentionally ocese of New York is mounting a vicious Roach, of St.Paul, MN, who all but modeled upon anthropological and campaign to defeat civil rights sociological investigations of par- rights for lesbians and Gay men. Now, supported the of homosexuals ticular subcultures. The subculture as in the past, they are appropriating in the unfortunate referendum of sums MILLION, 25 (see elsewhere). a posi- of his particular choice has been huge of money TWO DOL— April In statement issued in to that of the white gay San Francisco LARS, to destroy the city council tion response (to the Catholic bish- populace. Fischer presents the view- bill end descrimination) and drive public questions, declared that while the Catholic er with various groupings of photo- Gay people back into the closet. op recognizes that the civil graphs (of which the Buffalo State A spokesperson for the NY Arch- community of must be "it exhibit contained three), each group diocese Office of Communication, says rights Gays protected, employing different devices of photo- that "the issue ia c moral one," and cannot sanction the Gay lifestyle as graph documentation and analysis. that while "catholics take pride in a morally acceptable alternative to In the first sequence of photo- their support of civil rights for all heterosexual marriage." graphs, entitled "Signifiers for A minorities, civil rights for homosex- The bishop denied, that Male Response" (see photo), Fischer uals cannot be compared with other he was speaking to the question of the employs male models in a neutral minorities" because " race, arced, initiative, saying that his statement environment (a tightly closed space) sex and age are inseparable parts of "is not addressed to any current is- accomodated with the paraphernalia personhood." sue, nor does it include recommend- which might signify, to the initiated The Catholic Church has published ations for specific action. Questions viewer, the model's gayness. Keys, a position paper called, "Moral Assump- concerning homosexuality and the handkerchiefs, cockring, and earring tions Regarding Homosexuals and Legi- rights of individual homosexuals are addressed a are placed maticullously on either lation, which they have circulated currently being in in ividuals, or- the left or right side of the model. to all parishes. In this paper they variety of ways, by This placement is consciously em- state: ganizations and lawmakers." Gay Ac- News ployed to act as a sign of the model's 1) that homosexuals deserve every tivist and Gay Coruniwnity preference for aggression (left) or pastoral and sacramental service that passivity (right) when engaging in can be offered to them; sexual activities. Although Fischer 2) that Catholic leaders should SCOUTS BAR GAYS presents his images with a style make a special effort to understand Mankato, Minn. Tue Boy Scouts that correlates with that of a banal homosexuals, and their problems to of America (BSA) bar discrimi- and austere scientific diagram, the offer them counselling; nation on the basis of race, work evokes a subtle humor. Fischer 3) that homosexual activity is creed, but not sex- achieyes color, and this.by depicting cliched "immoral"; Two Photographer Ha!Fischer documents gaydress codes - ual preference. scouts sexual signifiers which even the 4) that the Catholic position were recently asked to leave broadest of bourgeois-heterosexual strongly reinforces parents' and their the Law Enforcement Police Ex- audiences are able to recognize devices which are applicable to any surrogates' determination to keep all plorer Post because they are (thanks to TIME, NEVJSVJEEK and the subculture. True enough, but she children in their formative years free gay. Post advisor Leonard Creel, ADVOCATE). Fischer underlines this goes on "to add that the exhibition of any persons or influences that is "homosexual a Mankato police sergeant, de- delicate humor by including within not a show", without might draw them toward homosexual sym— the text an equally descreet, though ever defining what a "homosexual pathies, and that parents' rights are nied renewed membership to Scott dead serious explanation of the show" is. Jeff Perrone, reviewer unchallengeable in this regard. Ford, 17, and Scott Vance, 16. functional uses for which these items for the international circular ART- The church, while saying that His decision was upheld by the (ARTFORUM, were originally designed in mainstream FORUM echoes this view homosexuality is bad, contradicts it BSA public relations director: 1977) announcing that culture. This he does to remind the Aug. 13, by self by saying that positive role mod- "The public should be in- Fischer's depicted viewer that all objects may not be if work had "a els will be so alluring that children formed that there is discrimi- interpreted as easily as others. more general, less exotic subject", will find homosexuality hard to re- nation against Mankato gays," no less Because of this, it is necessary that the approach would have been sist. said Ford. "Most people aren't we distinguish what is a sign and appropriate. willing to talk about it. What Fischer's methods may what isn't. In the photograph inves- Indeed, can happen here can happen easily applied to any segment of tigating the significance of keys, be any place." Advoaate Fischer has printed a brief explana- culture, but hardly with as much rel- t ion: evance to the photographer's person- Keys aye an understood si.gni.fier \ality or setting. Although both for' homosexual activity. A key chain are highly perceptive critics, neither on the. fight side of the body presents a logically complete or laates thai the weaver wishes to sound analysis of Fischer's photogra- :ssive role during sexual phy. While they remain sensitive to •inters. Keys placed on the left Fischer's intellectual and aesthetic .■' ;• of the body signify that the implications, they overlook the so- xpeots to assume a dominant cial, political and historic influ- position. Keys ■■■■ als> torn by ences of Fischer's work, especially ors, laborers, and other workers in terms of its raison d'etre. with no sexual significance. In talking with Fischer about ' The second sequence, entitled the exhibit I discovered that although "Street Fashions", presents a survey he was sympathetic with its intent of the styles of clothes peculiar to on presenting gay themes, he was par- various gay prototypes. "Leather", ticularly critical of its inadequate "Forties Trash", "The Jock", "Uni- organization and form. Fischer's form", "Hippie", and "Basic Gay" are work must be interpreted as more than the styles that Fischer chooses to just a reaction to the photographic depict. Both "Street Fashions" and trends of his contemporaries. If, the third series, "Archetypes", pre- or although this is the case, Fischer sent white male prototypes which the is also making a strong statement white gay male has borrowed from against the sophomoric quality pre- mainstream culture to suit his own vailing in so much of today's "gay definitive identity. "Street Fash- art." Be aware, however, that his ions", Fischer's stylistic synthesis reaction is not against "gay art" of commercial fashion photography in general. What Fischer opposes and street photography, investigates is the plethora or amateurism, camp the exterior presentation of the and ostentatiousness, that have white gay male. On would almost con- plagued contemporary "gay art." clude from these photographs that I have come to realize that the gay male populace is quite plur- Fischer's work stands in the broad alistic in its tastes (a statement region where the sociological, the which I might choose to argue against, aesthetic and the personal coordinate but will decline for now, only be- axes intersect. Because the perti- cause such a discussion is outside nance of each of those areas to the scope of this review). In "Arche- Fischer's work cannot be ignored, types", Fischer chooses to investi- the issue of whether or not it can gate the internal role which the gay be called "gay art," in the political male has chosen or been assigned. sense of the term, is an issue which The archetypes which Fischer has se- will not be easily solved. I think lected are ones which may be easily it necessary first to establish a Tough luck, Noah. The unicorns are gay!

8 BOOK REVIEW THREE SEX MANUALS FOR GAY MEN reviewed by Bill Coleman LOVING MAN, by Mark Freedman, Ph.D. ly and is lightly.smeared over a numb- tutefor Human Identity. The upbeat ly obtainable, nor so shallow. The and Harvey Mayes. Hardcover, 132 pp. er of pages. Pages are printed crook- emotionally reassuring quality of the result of this is that the counsel Hark Publishing Co. 13.95 edly or glued together. As a final in text is strongly supported by the ex- given in Joy, while generally excel- suit, two people, obviously too enrap- cellent Illustrations and by the lent as far as it goes, is misleading- tured to care, are shown sucking each general physical beauty of the book ly superficial. Silverstein and MEN LOVING MEN, by Mitch Walker. other off while suspended in mid air (soon to be available in paperback). White's advice for any problem usually Paper, 160 pp. Gay Sunshine Press, in a photograph that was printed up What then about the choice be- reduces to some form of, "Apply suf- 6.95 side down. tween the three? One obvious point of ficient quantities of money, above Mitch Walker goes to the opposite difference is the behaviorism of all don't worry about it, and it will THE JOT OF GAY SEX, by Dr. Charles extreme in Men Loving Men. Here con- Loving versus the consciousness rais- go away." Thus although the book Silverstein and Edmund White. Hard- sciousness is everything. The position ing approach of Men. I imagine that might be useful to someone in the cover, 239 pp. Crown Publishers.l2.9s Freedman and Mayes might argue s,ome first stages of coming out, I person- what as follows. "We have deliberate ally found no useful help whatsoever -ly avoided moralisms and psycholog- for any of my own physical or emotion- ical judgement in order to be the al problems. greatest possible help to the largest What was valuable to mc in Joy After all these years of silence possible segment of the gay community. was the pictures. My enthusiasm for about gay sex it seems at first super sort them is no doubt partly due to my -fluous suddenly to have three books Everyone isn't into having the of sex that lib (con- particular sexual makeup. But I found available, all happily and graphical- various gay leaders flictingly) maintain is "liberated". the models, while ranging from aver- ly explaining how it's done. Nonethe- an ordi- We're trying to help each person do age to gorgeous looking, of less these three (Loving, Men and Joy none of what he wants. Further, whatever prob- nary and appealing type with as I shall call them) are, in intent, lems he is having doing it can be the aggressive macho or aggressive very different books. Thus after in gotten over in a concrete, pragmatic stylishness or aggressive boyishness presenting each one individually, I we help the reader get what he and so on usually found in the maga- will discuss them pairwise which will way. If wants, even only a mechanical zines. The drawings and the first help to bring out the complementary if in taken is that actions are merely ex- way, this will defuse his worries and set of color paintings portray them virtues of each. pressions, flowing out as who one is also will reinforce his sense of the with tenderness and realism. In the Freedman and Mayes in Loving Man as a person. Thus the physical acts validity of his emotional needs. "In drawings, Julian Graddon has a way take a strictly behavioral point of are given less attention and Walker fact, Freedman and Mayes say no such of shading that precisely suggests view, making a minimum of value judge concentrates instead on developing thing; their book is so unconscious the texture and physical reality of ments. Loving's format is a chronolg- the reader's conscious sense of him- that even this sort of argument has no parts of the body. Further, he is ical survey of the sex act. It is self as a person and of how this can place. What Walker says in response is able to suggest the emotional reali- designed to help you find a partner, be connected with his sex drive. Sim- "There's a big difference between per- ties underneath. I found it liber- get into bed, and enjoy yourself him ilarly the drawings by Bill Warrick, forming in intercourse, and sharing. ating for example to see the contrast and both before and during sex. him although enjoyable, are sketches and I'm not writing about performance at between the good, but not Playgirl, It is, in this sense, painstakingly looking fully are there to reinforce the general all- if you want to put on a show, en- model on page 105, comprehensive and has much explicit effect rather than to make specific tertain your partner and prove information. About one third of the your points. The photographs by David read something else because book talks about what happens before skills, go Greene, placed in a section by them I'm not interested in it. If want actually getting down to sex. There you selves, make an attempt to be high to be together, mixing with him, giving is some discussion of psychology, art. This attempt is largely lost by and taking as two growing people- then but only in the sense of how to get the dimness of the reproduction. you'll want to be honest, clear, human, through a specific situation whose The philosophy developed by yourself." to find Walker's motivation is assumed given and which I happen Walker is a syncretistic blend of approach appealing (his of refer- is relatively isolated from other way any ideas from a number of sources includ ring to one's sex partner as one's acts and motivations. Any larger -ing the occult and several oriental "friend" is especially touching) but I question of "consciousness" as in Men religions. Although he has by no means worry about its implementation a is studiously avoided. in made all the connections required to practical way. Can I assume that the In keeping with this, a sort of bring these ideas together in a usable next trick I pick up be interested cinema verite style is adopted. The will way his intellectual contribution is having a warm, high-con- photographs are bland, factual and in beautiful, considerable. The gay movement as a sciousness sex, exploring various sorts all specifically illustrate some whole needs both theoretical and prac- of mystical communion? He might not be point although still in the text, I tical input, although both types may ready for it. I might not be ready for found mildly their them erotic in not appeal to any given individual. it. In fact, I know I'm usually far presentation of some very en- neutral I personally got off on Men Loving too uptight about any number of things. acts. The text is similarly joyable Men although everyone might not be It seems like it might be a more real- direct language. up front with very comfortable with its explicit the- istic goal to try for sex that was the physical Unfortunately poor pre- ologising. physically good. This is what Mayes exaggerates this sentation of the book Joy of Gay Sex is a mass market and Freedman try to help with. In the to the point of cari- unpoetic style item. Here again are large quantities end I think I'd try to do it Walker's resulting a very bleak cature, in of information, this time organized way, but its not as easy as it sounds. dressed and talking happily with his appearance. In physical terms Loving as a series of independent articles The type of consciousness that lover, and the same model again on is incredibly shoddy in spite of being and listed alphabetically. The mater- Joy of Gay Sex is based on is indicated pages 100-101 with his face utterly the most expensive of the three books ial covered is somewhat different in the following excerpt. "But the most fbeautiful in the act of love. reviewed. The cheap ink prints uneven- from that in Loving. There is less important factor in the gay revolution tendency towards endless catalogs must be the emergence of a huge middle of sexual positions and in its place, class...For this new middle class, the A Note on Sources of Supply Everyman's **t Bookstore various other useful and amusing goal was no longer to survive, to obey 310Z MAIMSt, BUFFALO *** items. One item, for example, con- and to provide but rather to prevail All three books can be bought by 837-8554 firmed my suspicion that one is sup- and to search after self-fulfillment. mail (at a discount) from the Oscar BOOKS -frow ewa.ll a*A Urge presses; posed to tip the attendants at the Gays today represent this tendency to- Wilde Memorial Bookroom, 15 Christo- poetru, Ywuslc, politics, pWilosopkij, baths. In contrast to Loving's busi- ward hedonism in one of its most ex- pher St., NYC. 10014. Locally, Joy vneA's studies, wowtii's studies, ness like approach, Joy definitely treme forms." Even aside from its po- can be bought from Laco books opposite recently film. -fiction, tend v*.ort wants to give the reader advice. It litical implication this is historical- ÜB. Laco, however, until aspires to be "guide, philosopher had its copies in the backroom avail- TERiOfcICAUS CoevolatioM. QuArbtrtu, a, ly inaccurate in at least two obvious : gays." keep- only on request. This in spite Me\*) A3«, RFD, I»vT>ese. Tiwies, G«y Left, and friend to This is in ways. First, all the evidence indicates able ing with the fact that one of the that gays have been evenly distributed of the fact that Joy of Sex and More Da.vic.ewietga*i*ve ; Oj>a««. RcklcL, Stven. is director of across class line. Thus of them Joy of Sex are both sitting on the Motker 3b*»esy eatd otVtevs authors, Silverstein, many a gay counseling center, the Insti- have no access to the means of this he- turnstile as on goes in. When I donism, and those who do have it do so asked the manager about this, he largely by denying their gayness. Sec- said he was worried about children ondly, it was the rise of the middle coming into the store. I pointed class during the 19th century that out to him how outrageous this was, brought about the Victorian repression and that this was oppressive in of all forms of hedonism(and self ful- that it conditions gays (and Greenfield street restaurant fillment) including gay and straight straights) coming into the store sexuality. This repression has been the that heterosexuality is normal and worst in history and the only reason it OK, whereas homosexuality had to be hasn't continued completely unabated hidden away. He agreed this was Vegetarian has been due to the opposition to the unjust, and promised to move them. salads & Spreads middle class by various left wing move- If anyone goes there to get the ea s Daily HotSpecials ments—blacks, third world, women, and book and he has reneged on his pro- mise, they should yell bloody mur- Fres/7 Squeezed Juices gays. ' i There is a more serious conse- der, and not buy the book there. Natural \j\i HomeBaked Bread quence of Silverstein and White's view- If he has put them out front, then point than just historical inaccuracy. one still has a choice about whether They are right in stressing the vali- to buy there or from a gay movement dity of simple pleasure (even without store like OW. This depends on one's its being justified by some tyrannical own sense of political necessities. sense of larger social purpose) and Another possibility is Pink Triangle in seeing the opposition to gayness Press, Box 639, Station A, 25 greenfield street as being, in part, an inability to MSW IG2. They only have Joy, and 836-9035 deal with the apparent hedonism of gay it is more expensive there ($16.45). One Block North ofJewitt offMain life. On the other hand the authors However they were recently busted make the typically middle class assump- by the police, essentially because Open for lunch 11:30-5:00/for dinner 5:00-9:00 tion that hedonism is identical with they were gay liberationists, and breakfast from 9:30 self-fulfillment. I think tha:t for so have an expensive legal battle Weekend most people the means of self-fulfill- ahead. One could regard it as a ment are neither so obvious, so easi- contribution.

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