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EGN Erie Gay News Calendar ....Jan 1 -Sweet Honey in the Rock: Songs for the Chil· Jan 4-LGLV·Erie Meets Info: Dave Mulholland 898 drenWQLN (PBS-Erie /Ch.54) 2 PM. 4210. Jan 3-Womynspace: "Relax and UNWIND from the hec· Jan 6-HIV/AIDS Pennsylvania Prevention Planning Com· tic holiday season" "Dance/food/social to make up for mittee meets 6-8 pm. Info & location: Tracey Thomas at having been snowed out in December! Please come and 459-4775 or Michael Mahler at 456-9833. bring friends!! Newcomers always welcome! For infor ....Jan 6 -law & Order: Pride A&E 1pm, 7pm. "A gay mation and location, call Helen at 451-0359 or Carolyn city councilman is shot outside a town hall meeting where at 456-1315." gayllesbian health coverage is being discussed." -Biog ....Jan 3 -Special Presentation: Midnight in Savannah raphy. A&E 5pm. Jan 8-PFLAG·Erie:january's meeting has been moved Jan 3-Gay Men's Swap Fest #3 ( Jamestown NY) "We to the second Thursday due to New }'ear's Day. 7:00 will collect $5 at the door for pizza and beverages. Bring pm Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Erie, 7180 magazines, books and videos and swap for new ones. For New Perry Highway. Info: Elaine Hill at 864-0184. info, directions or to drop offyour wares before the event, call John at 716/484-7285 7 pm till? Continued on page 3 In this issue••• '!'4iW~tt. EGN Calendar 1 Erie Gay News Community "Town Meeting" Update 6 Local news 7 (/0 EGC Coalition, 1115 W7th St, Erie, PA 16502-1105 ECPC awarded HIV/AIDS Prevention grant 8 Phone: (814) 456-9833 Fax: (814)452-1392 HIV/AIDS News 8 Pager: (814) 870-9128 Review 9 Email: [email protected] Entertainment notes 10 Web Site: http://www.ncinter.net/-egcn/ Local rock band 5 Empty Chambers releases debut CD 1I 1997 Important year in equal rights battle 12 The Erie Gay News is published monthly as a source of Important White House events.. 13 information, support and affirmation for lesbians, bisexuals, Michael dithers 14 gay men and their friends & families in the Erie area. Back then 15 Contributors: Ourdeadline is the 15thofthe month! Resource Directory 16 We welcome and encourage all readers ro submit timely news, comments and opinions of interest to the Erie and surrounding area's LesBiGay community for publication in these pages. We STRONGLY recommend sending SASE for writers' guidelines or at least inquiringofthe EGN staff On the Cover: before submitting articles! Please include contact informa By the Fire tion with any submissions (name, phone, email address, etc.) by Micheal A. Miller so we can contact you ifwe have questions. We will consider for publication any nonfiction article or illustration graphic which broadens our understanding of our lives and each other. We won't publish any material which If you want to reprint... promotes hatred or discrimination on the basis ofsexual ori If you would iike to reprint original articles or art entation, race, gender, religion, age, class, physical ability or work that appeared in EGN, please contact us for per any other reason. We do not support exploitation ofminors. mission, and please credit Erie Gay News. If an article or Views and opinions appearing in this newsletter do not illustration contains the author's/creator's name, please necessarily represent those ofEGN staff. credit them as well. © 1997 Erie Gay News Thanks! Check out the EGN Web Page! Latebreaking news, Pointers to area Thanks for the December lesbigay resources, and more. Help us develop this idea with your input issue collators! or just check us out! Thanks to Paul Grubbs, Jerry McCumber, Web site address is http://www.ncinter.neU-egcn/ Gary, Jeff M., Michael Marshall, Billy Heard and Micheal Miller for helping us to collate the December issue of fGN! Items to send us in January If you would like to volunteer, please give January 15- Deadline for February and early us a call at 456-9833. You needn't feel obli March events: gated to become aregular or even to stay from l~ Block History Month start to finish. Any help is always appreciated! ~....~ , , Valentine's Day Mardi Gras 2 Erie Gay News -January 1998 Calendar ..... Jan 9-lizzy Bordon's: CoCo Vega "With the many Jan 21-HIV/AIDS Service Network Meets 4-6 pm at the faces ofMorgan Montana." Showtime at 11 :30.3412 W Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Paul, 134 W 7th St, Erie. 12th St, 833-4059. Call 452-3779 for more info. Jan 9-ABC in Concert wi Elton John Also, Sister Hazel, ..... Jan21-law&Order:ManhoodA&E llpm, 3am. "A Aaron Neville On WJET at 3 am. (3:08 am)) hate campaign against homosexuals in the police force is ..... Jan 10 -Brallo Profiles "DallidHockney: Joiner Photo revealed after a gay cop is killed."-Biography. graphs"Bravo 2:20pm. ..... Jan 21-0esigning Woman: Suzanne Goes looking for Jan 1O-Menspace Meets "At Jeffs. Bring a snack to pass aFriendLifetime 4pm. Suzanne decides to look up one of if you wish. For information, call Michael at 456-9833 her old friends from her beauty pageant days, and she or email toegcnC1o.Yi1cinter.net. " turns out to be a lesbian. Sensitive and funny, and view ..-Jan 11 -Open Book: Patricia Cornwell: "Unnatural Ex ers shouldn't take Suzanne's ignorant remarks seriously, jJosllfeNA&E 10:30am. CornweH talks about her eighth since she's usually ignorant. nove! in the Dr. Kaye Scarpetra series. ..... Jan 23 -luI. lang on ABC in Concert Jan 12-Friends from the Heart Meets 6 pm Wel! Being ",,-Jan 24 --invl:!;figetive Reports: Meth's Deadly High Ctr, 710 Beaumont. Info Deb lvlonohon 838-·0123,. .i-\,c{E 3pm. Examines the growing use of xuethampnet Jan 13-HIViAlDS Support Group meets Call Cheryl We a.mine, which has been showing up among gay partyers. ber at 825-1085 ror more info. .Jan 27-H1V!AmS Support Group meets Call Cheryl We ~Jan 13-Biography "Calllin Kleifl: A Styiish Obsession" ber at 825-1085 for more info. A&E 8pm, midnight. ProfIle of one of the world's top .Jan 28 -Roe v. Roe: Baptism by Fire Cinema..x Spm. fashion designers. Looks at the woman named in the decision that made ..... Jan 14 -Golden Girls: Isn't It Romantic? Lifetime 5:30pm. A friend of Dorothy's comes to visit after her lover passes away, and she ends up falling in love with Rose. Jan 17-Community "Town Meeting" 2pm in Admiral Lake ErieCounseling-1 Room at Raymond Blasco Memorial Library at the foot I of Holland St. See update article on page 6. Associates Jan 17-10% Network (Jamestown NY) 7 pm at Unitar ~ 3_5_0_\;_""'_e_s_t_li_e_n_th_5tr__e_e_t,_E_n_·e ~ ian Church 1255 Prendergast Avenue. Info: John at 716 484-7285. (jay-Affirming Individual, ..... Jan 20 & 21-Stomp in concert Warner Theater 8 p.m. Family & Couples Therapy 452-4857. --_._----.------------ r Dale A. Allgeier, LSW, ACSW William D. Stanley, LSW, QCSW ~ Dr. Deanne Christiansen MD C? Nicole DeFranco-Jervis, LSW . Nifty Tunes r-n-ew-&-·-u-se-d-c-d-'s-an-d-m-o-r-el.... sliding fee scale evening & weekend appointments ~ 6825 Peach St. medical assistance & insurance accepted 864-1844 ~ between Taco BeU & Fridays 455-4009 '------1 ~~-----' Erie Gay News - January 1998 3 abortion legal, who has become very anti-abortion. (She I.-Feb 6 &7-Hallwalls Foreign film: Fire I Buffalo) Hall is also an out lesbian). walls 8 p.m. Appropriately named, the recent film Fire I.-Jan 28 -Ouantum leap: Running forHonor Sci-Fi Chan caused some extremely heated controversy (and some nel 6 p.m. "As a track star in a navy college, Sam must violence) in India because its story is critical of tradi prevent the death ofhis ex-roommate---expelled because tional roles of women in India, and because of its posi he was gay-and who is slated to die at the hands of a tive (and erotic) portrayal of two women in love. Info group of bigoted cadets."-Quantum Leap website. http:www.pce.net/hallwallor 716-835-7362. .... Jan 29-Biography: The duPonts A&E Spm, midnight. ....Feb 7-Womynspace: "Valentine's Celebration" "Fea "Portrait of the wealthy family who built a chemical em turing Aunt Killer's Dream Date Video and a live pre pire including the startling story ofJohn E. duPont, who sentation ofAunt Killer's School of Charm for Lesbians. shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winner Dave A must-see event for newcomers and veterans alike I For Schultz."-Biography information and location, call Helen at 451-0359 or Caro Jan 30-PFlAG·Ashtabula meets Info: Sharon at (216) lyn at 456-1315. or email Helen at 964-3350. [email protected]" .... Feb 1-League of Gay & Lesbian Voters- Erie Meets Info: ....Feb 9-Friends from the Heart Meets 6 pm Well Being Dave Mulholland 898-4210. Ctr, 710 Beaumont. Info Deb Monohon 838-0123. ...Feb 3-HIVIAI!JS Pennsylvania Prevention Planning .... Feb 10-HIV/AIDS Support Group meets Call Cheryl Committee meets 6-8 pm. Info & location: Tracey Tho Weber at 825-1085 for more info. mas at 459-4775 or Michael Mahler at 456-9833 .... feb 12-From Ebony Embers: Vignettes of the Harlem .... feb 5-PFlAG·Erie: TBA 7:00 pm Unitarian-Univer Renaissance For info see "Entertainment Notes" or call salist Congregation of Erie, 7180 New Perry Highway. Allegheny College (814) 332-5371. Info: Elaine Hill at 864-0184. Feb 14-Happy Valentine's Day ...Feb 5-South County Support Meets For HN infected ....Feb 14-Menspace Meets ''At da Mikes.