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THE GAY UgERATION MOVEMENT -‘Although all excetK two of Berkeley iN-NEWJfORK crry GLF’s female members dropped out be- by Morgan Pinnëy • cause of “ Male'diauvinism”, an^ official news release of Berkeley GLF On a recent trip to New Yorkyi ob with certain other people." When the untr uly asserts that the Alpine project is , served some things about GLF there struggle intensifies, people in Con “ sexist” . Gay women do not agt-ee. The which I think have some finponant les sciousness Raising groups will' be able rest ofthe Gay Liberation movement does sons for us in other cnfes. 'F ifk of all, to move with a d e« sense of confidence. not agree. Around half of thepecvleen I was to learn that the Gay Liberation, GLF In New York-ts truly becoming a listing to go to Alpine are women. H i^ in New York or anywhere, is not a mat ••front,” that is, a coalition of various paying jobs in law enforcement and con ter of military strategy, battle plans, groups which were, inturn, serving spe struction will be opened to women for the cific needs.. It seems as if the number first time. Project sponsors are backing D-days. Just as in San Francisco, the rA;, visible actions of themov«nent —‘the of groups-^?un-off from c a j are infi a female candidate for theofficeof Sher Stonewall riots. Gay Pride Day — were nite." iff, to make Alpine the first codnty in more the physical signs of a deeper per GAA. Perhaps the most vocal of a^ history to breakthe tradition of this being sonal awareness than the prganized, es is the Gay Activist Alliance., It is a ^ a “ man’s , job” . In truth, Alpine will calating tactics of a functioning revolu group whose m«nbers are committed to be the first non-sexist society in Amer S E m R A T IS T S tionary group. What Gay Liberation is . the conc^ of militant, very visible ica. Women will be full equals.- all about is brothers and sisters dealing^ actiom but who need a hi^ily structured Berkeley GLF. which has 3 non-white with each other, their r acism,their sex organuation to relate to. Politically, members, says the project Is “racist” . ism, and building a shared awareness. GAA is, frankly, reformist — fair enr- . Why? Because sponsors of the project ^ 1 found people havingexactly thesame ployment, quizzing'political candidates, suggested tltat Gays honor tbelndiantra- kind of difficulty relating to the Sunday homosexual civil r i^ ts — not at all ditibn of gift ^ving as a gesture of gwd ni^it GLF theetings as I had in San Fran revolutionary. wiU. Berkeley GLF holds a white racist cisco. But in New York there were THIRD WORLD GAY REVOLUTION attitude in presuming its white cultural significant differences: ARIES are black and Puerto Ricans with mores to be superior to Indian values by . 1., The strongly felt presence of large a very Marxist political position. arbitrarily saying that the I ndian good numbers of women created a conscious GAY has a rriember twelve* will gift tradition is ” exploitative” or ness about sexism among everyone. •years old, but most are 16-19. Any of •'buying people” . In truth, the Cay Al ALLIANCE 2. Consciousness, Raising Groups are us can think what a peer group like this pine administration will treat the Washoe having great effect upon the people and would have meant in our adolescence. as human beiqgs, a treatment they have the movement. GY may bethe most revolutionary devel never before been given. We will devote 3. Special interest groups provide a opment yet.'— great effort to helping the Washoe. Not point at vrtiich brothers can more per STAR. Street Transvestites Action by forcingthe white value of integration sonally identify VHth the movement. Revolutionaries, •‘our first martyrs in (which they don’t want) on them, but by" There’s not much that Gay Liberation " the struggle,”"'^ave always been" front giving them the rigiit to selfTdetermina- by Craig Schoonmaker groups elsewhere can do to change their line troops and face a unique set of laws tion, the rigjittoperpetuatetheir own an male-orientpd condition e x c ^ deal with and harrassments. T h ^ ’re also trying cient culture; We will give the Indians • ‘Homosexual separatists” intheWest ~ their own sexism, but only with women to set up a home for their people. ' what they say they want^-and reject th e. and East are moving toward an alliance. present as in New York will we be able BUTTERFLY. This Marxist-Leninist white colonial attitude of giving them They hope t'o create homosexual-major to really confront our sexism. However, “ cell” articulates what is probably ev what white people thinkthey should want. ity communities: intheW e^bytaking recruiting lesbians into GLF organiza eryone’s-political position (if they have ■ The official press release says the pro over near ly-empty-Alpine Cfounty, Cali tions would only be regarded as sexist. one), but they are rather secretive about ject is “ impractical’', individual Berke fornia, and pèrhaps other lightly popu-' Women will participate only when they their members, virtually closed to new* ley GLFers say it is a •’hoax” . The hun lated~areas; in the East, by concentrating want tm but when they do GLFs will be members, and their desire to remiiin dreds of people working on the project in Nqw York City and selected districts better for it. politically ’’pure” in their positions disagree. . ' of other major oities. Consciousness Raising groups V^y sometimes leads to conflicts with others. - The project is co-sponsored and sup Don -Jackson in California says, well be the most profound developr^jt FEMS AGAINST SEXISM. A group of ported by Gay Liber^iOngroupsthrou^- •■There are four Gay Nationalist-groups in our movement. Originally a topi males who have ^ felt oppressed as out the-nation. Berkeley GLF stands a- ■ out here - The Gay Nationalist Society Women’s Liberation, it has been us ••ferns” by dominating, ••butch” , males lone in its hostile opposition. (Los Angeles). Bay Area Gays for Uni among New York GLF geople for about in GLF have organized to fi^ t it Just as We shall overcome,, fication and Nationalism (San Francis . a year. Much nibre tlwn just rap ses women have done. - 7 . ‘ bon Jackson . co). The Stonewall Nation (San Diega), sions. CR groups have a fixed member RADICALESBIAN5 are ajiroup-of wp-... and The Stonewall Nation Society (Port-^ ship (6 to 10 people) who follow apian of ^ men who have severed ties completely, land). A‘group is being organized in development and work toward goals set with GLF feeling they could no longer Hartford, Conn.” Los. Angeles, San by them. They begin by relating their relate h) the men. However, many women Francisco, and Venice GLFs are all own experiences which show them acom- ■ have stayed i n ^ F , includingthecurrent backing the project too. . ' mon pattern of homosexual oppression. chairwoman.' Craig Schoonmaker, Presidentof Ho They deal with resistertceto acknowledgledg- Thus, New Yorkers, while somewhat mosexuals Intransigent!/New York, has ing that' oppression and then talk about alienated from the large unstructured found “ a lot of amorphous support for the overcoming it. It’s this latter phase GLF meetings, can find smaller groups ^ I b o a OFFENSIVE idea of Gay-Power Districts in major which may lead the group into outside to which they can relate. That may be a cities; our job is to turn this vague ap actions wljich help shape themovement. group organized around another oppres proval into concrete action.*’ . The point is that brothers and sisters sion they feel, or it may be a conscious The Alpine County project is running have the confidence and security which ness raising group, or both. The action rain—but no (Gay) Sunshine allowed ’’ LUDICROUS into trouble. According to Don Jackson, comes from sharing a consciousness is in the small groups!!! at Balboa H i^ (low) The Rev, Carl McIntyre is planning to t ' prevent the takeover by moving in a group of heterosexuals at the same time asthe by charles Pi thorp, (bold soul sister) Rumor had then spread to me that we homosexuals move in. Jackson e x p ^ s were going to be run oukof the school, but the heterosexuals will stay only a few i was approached by SIR (Society for the news was still vague, i lau^iingly Reprinted from SJ".Chronicleof 11-9-70 vreeks (“ How many revival meetings can Individual R i^ s ) to go speak to Balboa remarked upon hearing we were ^ingto you put up with, anyway?” ) while the gay H i^ School and'being how i’d rathertalk be thrown out, “what are they going to people will settle in for.goo
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by Diane Ames The chimpanzees, the closest living Experimental chimpanzee colonies in 'some lot), the weaker niookey may bend relatives of man, never cease to startle places like the Caqary Islands have , over and present his or her rump, there Americans haveferociouslaws against turned out to be simian Sodoms and Go- CÓME observers with their sexual versatility. by giving the monkey signal for “ make Q something called “the abominable crime A famous study of the sexual development morrahs, seething with "homosocual, love, not war," The s tr o n g monkey, against nature,” and a visiting Martian of four- immature chimps r^m rts that heterosexual, exhibitionistic, and ^mas- cheerfully indifferent ’ to whedter Ms could probhbly never figure Out what that they indulgedinagooddealofhomosexual turbatory activity," especially ûnong former enemy is .a girl or a boy, forgeas means. Poisoning rivers, puhaps? activity, along with just about every kind children. The playful chimps are said all his nSstier impulses and doles jiist R I G H T N O W Strip mining? Polluting the air? Sur of sexual activity you can think of. One never to-settle down into a rigid sexual that. prise, Mr. Martian; it means, of all of the female subjects, Wendy, when not orientation. So diffuse and all permea In this -and many other ways, homosex things, a variety of sexu^ and especi otherwise engaged in'carrying on with ting is their sexuality that it is often ual love-making seems to softenthe vio- ally homosexual acts. Homosexual ac two male lovers, saw alotof agirl friend impossible to say whether two chimps lent competitive struggle that-often (A ’ R y > tivity, according to American myths, is named Dwina: *^On oneoccasion(Dwina) are making love or Just saying hello. plagues primate life^ It is possible that unnatural. It is someOiing petóle ob- took Wendy’s external genitalia in her The variety of sexual activities tiiêse, man could learn something from nature vipusly- ' 'in contrast to tlie behav- •^creatures engage in and the variety of- here. ------;-----■",—7 therefore it is evil. Nowadays, of course, ior of the others, she herself wab indif s^ u a l adjustments they may make often^ sc^histicated people shrink from putting ferent when her. genitalia were touched. remind observers of their coasin, man." it that way; they saj( instead that it isn’t As if she were a male, she frequently - Dr. 6. Zuckerman, a famous British normal, that pesple who do such things covered Wendy, and occasionally she also Homosexual activity is popular with expert oii monkeys and apes, doesnot "need help,” one of the worst things an made ventro-veraral (stomach to stq,- those well known sex fiend^ the baboons. believe that sub-human primates show American can say aboid anybody. In the , mach) genital contact with her...Bin^am Successful baboon lords, when noM>ccu- any real preference for one sex or Ihe j'S UBERAI middle of vihat for some reason is called ‘ also-describes a partioilar homosexual pied with their -harems, mount aty other other. Tbie4s-a controversial peiwt,but- _a sdcual revolution people are still un- lALLIANCE FOR THE SEVEIjnES ■ ii' ,. response in which the femtdes made mu male they happen to like (other males one thing seems quite clear. The sub "easy about such “ftu’ out" sexual prac tual genital contact by standing on all they attack). Fdlow' wives in baboon human primates are a very bisocual I by Varda Qno' tices; they -suspect that people would fours with their faces in opposite direc- harems like to n ^ n t one another in out bunch. ' never engage in them if they hadn’t had tfons (ingenious little creatures, the bursts of affection. I We are human primates. disturbed childhoods. After all. everyone chimpanzees!)’’ There is homosexuality even in the knows that all of God’s wholesome wild bird world. Wild greylag geese some-' Creatures make love onlyhaerosexually Many monkeys have an interesting times fqrm enduring homosexual psirs. Women's Liberation añd'^áy Liberation have a grei and in only one'position yet. - ■Passages describing Wendy’s imagin self-defense technique. Whenastronger ideal in common more than with other liberation V The two lovers mate, figjit together, But do diey?' Perhapjs we should take ative masturbation activities have been . monkey attacks a weaker monkey (as generally behave like respectable mar [tnents. I think tnesecommon interests should be a careful look at the wonderful world of omitted in the interests of decorum. - often h^>pens; monkeys are a quarrels Fnized and utilized as a basis for strategy more ried geese, and may remain exclusively I than they have been. nature. devoted to one another unto death. If . FIrst We must recognize that-we are not talking of KNV' they are both male, they possess more mutually exclusive groups. We are in the habit of namii combined, fighting strength than ahetero-" ¿revolutionary groups-^blacks, chícanos, Indians, wo sexual couple; thus they invariably win rtueu, gays-'lnihis linear fashion without expiaimngthr every battle and rise to the top of goosB~ Iwomen are 50*55) or more of the first three groups nam( society. It would be hard to regard them land that gays are also fObeiound in those movemeht as maladjusted. |The impression given is that the revolution is strail ”0» Unfortunately such couples experience nd male and that women and gays are another oppres; a lot of difficulty in having sex owih|ítí», roup added to a mas_s of discontents. We have always] 'a certain lack of imagination ( a f te t^ ,- found in the other groups—the difference is tha¡ they’re only geese). -But they keep try-f Iwe are now organizing on the basis of o\ir own oppress inyassionatelv- Ision, not .because we belong to a racial or cuburall (It sometimes happensnhat such male [minority. couples acquire a female goose and set Just as each is to be found in the-other, women and tle down to a menage a trois. They all Igays are completely distributed throughout society— practice group sex. out in the lake. But lin every nation, class, race,culture, and sect. This w; that’s surely getting into another sub [not true of the liberation movements of the 60*. Yi ‘It seems ive’ll never he comfjntihle, Roger. Now t h a t ^ ject.) ' s vould not find a black general in SAC—but there mi^ > feel emancipated, you feel-emasculatedr. . More on our feathered-friends: homo- ^ a gay SAC general. And if the general is straiÿit sexual copulation has been observgÉtiÈr pigeons. And doves, And thé grUÇ^ ((rtl, he Is married to a Woman, another potential revo' • Nor' are ' ike radicgl movements like the-Panthers Well Dahlings, ■ llutionary. We have not been confined to ^ettos in ih How did everything go this month by you? crested grebe. who have opted fo r'S ia lism . We realize that even Gays' and women also Wave déveloped skills along^i And would you believe (hat even little [same way Indians were put on reservations and blacksj changing the economic system is not enou^i. Both Wait until you hear everything I have managed ■in niggertowns and chícanos in barrios. Cays could not way. Gays are experts at camp, women are more in to dig out so that everyone wUl know what’s happening fish do it? 'Desmond Morris author of • groups can clearly see how women and gays are treated tuitive than men. (This is not biological anymore than THE NAKED APE, gives the scandalous [be so restricted because they do not always have iden- in Socialist countries to know change must be deeper. all over San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose, and, , Ifying marks; women cannot be segregated becaus bonding “ instinct", just a survival t ^ i c you develop). of course, Hayward. details- in histreatise “Homosexuality liey are essential to strai^t men. For us the so-called radical movements arenotradicaLEThe skills the oppressed group develops are always As many of you know, it’s that time of the. year in the Ten Spined Sticldeback.” He enough. Radical comes from the word "radix" mean-[those the master class doesn't want--the leftovers. found that when male ten spined stickle Until men figure out how to'incubate the race,the; ing r ^ t -- It has nothing to do with left politics, new [Women are denied education in logic and mathematics [are forced to keep women beside them. 'We are not I mean the Empress of San Francisco is about to be crowned, backs are deprived by p o ta tio n pres or old. We intend to get to the root of the matter— to [ —they develop their feelings and relationships. Blacks sure of the oppohunity to build a nest eonfined residentially as some Arab women are and destroy the politics of sex, to end the tyranny of the [are given the lousy vegetables and cheap cuts of meats and from vrtiat Fve seen of who’s running, why, I could probably watched openly with guards but live beside men, isolated . j,.'- take the crown in just blue Jeans. and mate in the usual way they tate to di^^psexual male, be he communist or capitalist, [--they learn to cook greens and chitlins. Homosexuals impersonating females ana competing Ifrom one another. We are discouraged from forming us to the third point, the possibility for [a re allowed the non-virileprofessions--acting decora- On tfSiStfier band, [alliances except in our.roles as wife (the F acuity ^ives last Friday n i ^ when the Cockettes-were supposed aggressively with real girl sticklebacks u styles. Althoufii we differ so vastly from [ting, cooking and become expert in these. THIS DOESN’T for the attentions of other males. These IClub, mother (the PTA), or substitute wife or mother the other movements in distribution and goals, we faillMEAN WE SHOULD BE CONTENT WITH LEFTOVERS to give a performance at the Berkeley Community l(the Secretaries Association, the Elementary Teachers Theatre, It wasn’t, the Cockettes who copped out. fish don’t even screw like mqi^e advanced to reco^ize this but insist on aping them. Instead of | at ALL. It means we should, recognize we have deveb animals; what the depraved sticklebacks [Association). We aretaughttotreat each other as eom- using what areoUi peculiar treasures, both oiir move-1 iped talents with them and figure out how we can us< 11 was Captain Beeiheart, [petitors and completely lack the feelings of brotherhood and the reason given was because he was afraid desire is to- go through the' egg layin ments are playing the manliood game. We WILL showl bese talents. ritual with a dominant male, assuming [men feel for each other. Men will overlook personal our rage, we WILL march with clenched fists, we WILl [ In Europe therfe is the concept of Ludik or symbolic there would be so many more people out the female role. [characteristics they dislike about other men inorder to be taken seriously. As one gay male put it recently [ to see the Cockettes than there would [unite to keep women down. This is termed brotherhoot ictions. These are actions humorous in style but which And there isn’t any stickleback vice "We’ll show tljem we’re a first class liberation move-[ arry a political meaning behind them. Burning money to see hirm -squad. Very neglectful of God; [and it is not biological but political. In the same way ment. H^ge is useful but only if properly channeled.fon^ the stock exchange, putting pink ribbons on male and after what he pulled Friday n i ^ , I can see vrtiy... [the slogan “ Sisterhood is Powerful” is not just a slogan Morris has found evidence that the It must go beyond the p in t of aw gening others to their [urinals, whistling at men--all these are ludik actions, Well, Gary at the gay House has finally rid himself of fish-often behave this way in nature [but has political content. If wom^Atould learn to view own rage and letting others know the extent of your rage.Vvi..- ii« iwaA . ' tonsilitis [each others’ contríbutibns objectively and learn to unite r press cannot understand th em and shakes U^head_ vdienever the stickleback population be It is the beginning stage for action but useless if taken this frivolityjnrtin Europe journalisB are much more and we are planningYhe Kggest Thanksgiving Dinner comes dense, ,A s this “ homosexual” ignoring personal differences they would have aweapon as the final stage...a sound and fury signifying nothing. that has ever been given; The Cockettes were here, to fl^it this “ brotherhood". But the habits of thousands lip and they make a serious attempt to see the politics behavior tends to interfere with repro- It is up to us to takeourselves seriously first and not and even though there was a little friction with a few ductlra for various reasons, he specu of years are difficult to break. _ seek acceptance elsewhere. It is to ourselves we must neaning b^ind the action. They realize the action it- we managed to have a beautiful dinner. [^ If won’t destroy the evil it is protesting against but h la te that it itiay serve the important To the extent we_are-dlstributed-we should use this look for clues icractlotrand-rKSt use others as models ecological function of keeping an already' fcower. Women have access to all the secrets in the Every, oppressed peoplgi develops skills because of their [has a use as a consciousness-raiser. We must educat* Oh., and one moré thing, ■country. We type all the letters, we woman all the jour press to take the same attitude toward our Ludil dense population from breeding too faSt. condition. Some' are common to all—acting playing upl Goldie Glmers One is reminded that human bdngs, too, [switchboards. If enou^ women copied enougfrincri to the master—but some are peculiarly their own. The! ■ actions. Not only can such symbolic actions be usefu hastold her mother that she is gay and is minating data and had it published showing how every- [in raising awareness but fran% they wiU give us widei can certainly now afford to engage in tone of the black movement changed from civil ri^ ts l now waiting for..the reply. . non-reproductive sex. ^ ■ [ling is rigged to keep the rich able to continue stead- to black power- when black people began ta realize they [coverage since marching and shouting are old hat ' [ing^ there woul^ be a law passed barring us from [10 years of TV confrontation politics. Determined people will surely regard had developed some valuable qualities al^gtheway and We are going to have the biggest Christmas - all the animal bdiavior Fve h txn talking [offices. And then who would do all that boring-filing would lose them if they .tried to play ^ ite y . It’^ one _ that bnybody has ever seen, land typing? about as “ abnormal” , or at least a bit thing to get blacks on TV but it’s andlher if they turn and you’r e all invited ' unhealthy (Desmond Mor rls keeps giving U j^ u l^ to spend Christmas eve with us . the impression that the ten spined stiCk- at gay House for our egg nog p art^ l^acks o u ^ to see > shrii^.)., But as W s will be a battle for individuality, for one’s] the address is 1611 Rose: St., Mrkely ro the extent we are segregated we should usethis as own lifestyles.. The battlegrounds will be as much in ' far .IS seems to be known,.all tte homo Ian organizing base. The gay ghettoes in urban areas beauty parlors and beds as in courts. The hippies and | and please do have happy holidays. sexual activity I have described happens |(nake such unity demonstrations as Christopher Rreets yippies have laid the groundwork for a breakaway from] among wild animals under normal condi [East and West possible. Women are not segregaed old patterns, the 9-5 job, the nuclear family, m arriagsl And remember. tions and is not particularly unusual. I residentially but they are in employment. Masses of and all such straight roles, vyomen’s liberation and gay I if there is anything you want to ask me In some cases it seems to be of real Iwomen (with male supervisors) in secretarial pools, ■ liberation will carry the battle farther than it has ever or have me print in my next column, send all cards and benefit to the species. How it could be h€s¡garment factories, laundries, theseh€s¡garment same women who go- I _^ne before. But we will go nowhere if we simply think | letters to: GOLDIE OLTITEk S . considered abnormal I don’t know. And I home one by one to be isolated at night. . They need to in terms of the same techniques being used by a new > GAY SUNSHINE "abnormal," in any case, is nothing but I be organized and made aware of their common oppres- group of prople. - PjO. Box 4089 a human word. [sion not just as women workers, but as women. i We must use c5hr weaknesses(our camp,our intuition) V. .94704 _____ One of many human vrords. Man, wbo The second similarity is in goals. The movements as strengths. We must learn to work together. Women] is so miidTsmarter than other animal^ jofTReSO’s were essentially concerned w lthcrvilri^s. must help gay men rid themselves of their male chauvin- And I will try to help in the Best way I can. is sometimes too ^ a r t for his own gob£ |The ideal was the straifiit white male and the black ism, show them how they are playing the old game of love ya, He is smart enou^i to invent taboos and ] an
To gay males-- I want to call you brothers—but you aren’t ready for that. You aren’t ready for that because “ brotherhood’’ seems to be the extent of ypuc humiuiity. You made “ gay” a.synonym for malehomo-_ sexual. In your art, “ gay lovers” are male lovers. In your writing, ” gay liber L- ation” is “his liberkion.” You identify your oppressor as ’’stra i^ t’’ society, 7 .\ '3 yet gay women are struggling with their Konstantin Berlandt ‘s tra it” sisters against the sexism W ith E which oppresses them as women and as gay persons. And at Hayward State, where a raft of T Dig. Don’t talk about "gay” liberation The Cal Aggie printed a front page Even if Jock LiberationFront is where while you continue to, keep your gay sis article in which' we plugged Gay Sun G ^ Liberation speakers, mass leaflet you were two years ago. All the S tr a i t ters in silence and invisible. Don’t talk shine and suggested they turn the sports ting and Gay Sun^ine sales inspired only white men’at die Revolutionary People’s • We sold a ll^ e Gay Sunshines we took two men to come to a Hayward State Gay T about ” gay” liberation until you’re ready page over to Gays. t. Constitutional Convention Regional Con- to ,de^ with that which oppresses and with us to the University of California Many^Gay Sun^netsoyers there, more Liberation meeting the Black Student . ference in B erkel^ (Mid-November) ad- ’ Davis Campus, tiie Military-industrial Union opposedthewniteRadicalStudent kills your gay sisters. And dort’t talk women than men. said they’d be into mined there were hung up for not being about ” gay’’ liberation while you glorify hfakiverslty FtftP-in th»4niddle-ef-a —Union’s , determination to send a Gay Tiay, tried ^o-prove their brotherhood E rice paddy, exporting rice to Vietnam, next^words you hear from Davis will be student Michael Hall as the sexth Hay with hugs and kisses, like'Krudichev as “camp” that which dei^ades and in- where American bombs deliver hinter ward delegate to tbKTlevQlutionary Peo ' suft^-gay women. When you deal with their own. and Castro (remember those slanderous R the ^existnof your gay “ brotherhood” education. Every student, at Davis, Ö- ple’s Constitutional Convention. One ' stra i^ t media pictures with pink square -appears, has a bicycle, andthe boys pedal BSU member, speaking to a Berkeley ~ and- recognize that ,^our: liberation i ^ ’t hi^ lining their Vodka glasses?) And- worth shit at the expense of gay women’s boy's bicycles while the girls hold down After all the excitement we caused Gay Liberation delegation RSU and local some of them even turn out to be Gay their dresses. One'of the Farm’s most just by coming .the Willard Junior H i^ continuing subjugation-then I will call - Gays Hall and Michael Silverstein who after all at the end of atwoday RPCCRC you brother. ^ way out—liberals. Zoology. Professor School. Coordinator "Jim Trainor re teaches sociology at the repressively men's workshop, but a lot of dieliberals Hildebrand gives an Applied Behavioral stricted his invitation to Gay Lit^atioii Straight and closet campus on the hiU still humph and laugh at the prospect of Zahar ah Science course on Sexual Development ■ speakers at Berkeley H i^ School to a overlooking the evil cities below, told us, buying a Gay Liberation paper even after where in his Homosexuality lecture to s tra i^ t looking couple, one man and one “You can’t reproduce yourselves. You cheering On the platform for aGay world. 1600 students he describes us as pro woman, no dras^ three classes, one per are not wanted by America and you’re JLF. however, was too into disrupt miscuous, lackingintimate relationships day. Last year two women andtmeemen trying to leach off the revolution. No ing the big game to take time out for and preoccupied with sex. Like San Jose spoke to ten classes in a row, so we body wants you. You're scum-, of the their Gay liberation. They asked for our Gay Liberation Front he too has been didn’t accept this set back. The (mostly earth.” Right on, and fuck off, you de suppprt,-vUsed a token faggot at a press -- attacked by M ax Rafferty R J.P.. so he men’s) Gay Liberation Front Education fensive closet queen or macho straight conference, but forgot to invite us to the has to be carefuL He retus«] to buy a Committee (composed of those people, pig in black skin.. We h ^ only just People’s Athletic Committee which drew Gay liberation paper. all men w1k> came to the committee finished four hours of trying to r-aise up the demtuids and plans for disrupting by Mike Merry The only Homosexual that anyone and meeting) met with the Community High his Gay consciousness. We walked' out the Big (F ascist Football) Game between everyone knows about on the DaVis School newspaper.to spread together the on his speech. RSU knuckled under to Cal and Stanford. One member of the '^umbing my way to Houstoi^ I puff campus is John Ungaretti who came on position of their administration toward. BSU sexism. We were pretty angr^ but S trai^t or somewhat closet committee’ ed into Austin late one gray &turday fighting last year after working with San _ Gay Liberation and work out amethodof that’s not the last round. Bong. Come was afraid to come into our house when afternoon. Like Berkeley Austin is a T'r^ia^sce’s former Committee for 1 ^ reaching Gay students thereto offer any oUt Tiding, not gladiators for the rich he b ro u ^ by Randy delivering leaftos university town with a h i^ freak pop A mo sexual Freedom. But today he is impetus w e.m i^ give towards support to entert ain the hungry, but lover s, pul for us to post. . But he gave Goldie and ulation. Hildegrand’s, ing any yet-td-spavm High School Gay ling the plugs, cutting the ropes, dis Jeff a lift to their hitching point and Unlike Berkeley however, Austin is thetl C a Aggie’s, the Counseling Ser Liberation Front. We were surprised, rupting the game, organizing the audi boasted to the five of us who crashedthe th e only oasis of relative bliss for miles U g e ’s, the Switchboard’s, the Radical however, by another classroom setting ence: the umpire is Gayl the players .People's meeting, “ I gave two of them a around, surrounded by thè desert of‘mld- indent Union’s. Everybody knows his wherea supposedly ^ r a i ^ class asked are revolting! everybexiy is a star. ride in my car and it didn’t bather me.’’ dle Amerika. Many freaks and some gay name. He attempted to start a Gay questions of the guest faggots from the UJ Tie later ordered me to “ FIGHT NOW! - people have fled Dallas and Houston to S Liberation Front on the campus, called outside world. From there we were ni FIGHT NOW! for your liberation and if come to Austin. Houstin is one of the Sudents'for Homosexual Freedom. He paraded throu^ movable chalkboard Now, FREE had worked very hard on | I see that you’re not doing your part I’m rnost repressive cities In the country. A wrote several personal articles in the walls .to 4B psychology claSs, but this that agenda, and it really represented going to kick your ass.” 1 stared at him hip restaurant and an underground FM T ir newspaper, founded the audents for time we gave it to them: *'We came just what they were all about. But before in amazement^ He was an artist trying radio station were bombed there this Homosexual Freedom which nowclosetly here last year. What’s the pointof coming I we take a superior revolutionary attitude to prove to the other jocks that hd could year. ■!- c ^ s i t ^ f only ”C-7” the number of back? Berkeley High School is still the and compare them to older, ineffective, be top. Sam Goldberg, “tiie number one. The University of Texas has a large I the meeting room* Gay life is centei;^ straight repressive institution, it was I gay 'organizations, let me say thtf I - Jewish jock in the country” walked us to campus with nearly ,40,000 students. in nearby Sacramento bars and a n b o ^ then, so r^ressive that even in this haven't seen Manachine or SJ.R., even the corner, a fine geottonan, telling us I hai heard fr5OT.,,MQr;-^X(^ t ai4«'a(half drive to the big city of San liberal Community H i^ .School atmos-| |in supposedly open and fi%e SafF tanf 'he oifly-- wiriwdhto have “ intellectual there was a -Cay Liber atien-elaeqpr lo H Francisco. David drove b^ray Sol phere no one but youefaggot guestscati| Icisco, working as hard or as proudly on intercourse.” Widi us. And what is the cated across the street fronnrcairipus. and 1 up to Davis after his weekly' en talk about Gay in a^thing but third per things like integrating camims dances ad difference between intellectual and sex-- I found that it met in the second floor counter group in Oakland. His Jekous son generalities. We could write an FREE had done, or wearing identifyini ual intercourse when you’re on acid of the YMCA building. However -.no one and understanding fiancee knows he’s“ ‘ encyclopedia about ourselves, our high buttons so openly and proudht« Sam?’’ the, air filled with sex and i was there. As I was planning to contin Gay. He’s marrying her for his mo school experiences, our lives today, but tb o u ^ he was going to kiss me. ue on to Houston later that evening 1 ther. ^Tm a social animal,” he ex still never become flesh at 'Berkeley thought rd missed the chance to meet any plains. . . Higii School. TIw last chapter the Amer And we’ve got to under standthat FREE Gay Liberation people there. G ican F ascist Slaufditer Faggots or our is GLF in Minneapolis! If the GLF trip.« Not a&t WE’RE EVERYWHERE! underground self-defense, we won't be | in tbe midwest don’t match ours in revo movement and its masculinity trip, that After ramdng hfff an hour with a cat by Morgan Pinney guests to tell about while felsh and blood lutionary (althou{$i sometimes action a less) zeal maybe we oueht to try to' they looked towhitehomosexualbrothers in the student union snack bar about stu around you and within youwOlbequiver- for allianoes; they couldn’t find among dent activism, another cat came in car- • In mid-October, a (Gdy-'LlberaHon I ing in fear, perhaps quivering now or stand what it’s like to organize a blacks. 'Only a IdaKdi could say if he felt rying The Rag the local underground Conference was held in\ Minneapolis! 11 coldly dismissing our lives in sterile ray UberAion Front in Lavnrence,Kan- ra c i^ bad been adequate^ dealt witii paper. “This stinks,’.’ he said. 1 couldn’t y went, as the rqpresrintative of any| psychologic academic objectivity.“ We | ;,~pr Iowa Ci^, Iowa. There aren't at the CPdferienoe; hu|. as awhitf,Tknow completely d Í Sagr ee, as the Gay Liber a- • group, but because I feh a strong need left the number ,of die Gay Switchboard n gay bars in those,place3. It’s a to ti^ to find out just what the Gay Lib lig battle just to get someone tq “ come I was forced to deu wiffr'it"to a new jtion meetings were not advertised in that for Gay students to call away from the level of consciousness, particular issue, but I pointed to "A Let eration Movemem was all about. 1 was classroom’s Strai^t rqiression. lut” in even the mildest sense ^ that familiar with all the things we had been ord. GLF is a nation-wide concept but Sexism was likewise dranatically ter From Mary," and Rob, the guy Pd , doing nation-wid^ die street actions, but different things in different, for i too been.talking to, said “ Oh ye<4i that came u sintUgfued with the womeo meeting in i am a female; a straight shóofer from Gay Sunshine,”- “ Gay Sundiine!” I wasn’t certain about just where we stood plac«, depending upon the circumstan another location (some,, never came to . have a politically. We had talked a lot about it perfectly: *Tm trying to become the pistol and no /statemqp^ I yelled “ Where did you get that?” ces. And that’s entirely as it should be. meet with the men) and joining the men ’’Oh at NACHO.. I was mere last Aug n revolution. We had used a lot of revo kind of person I’ve never seen before — We must each organize around our own only long enou^ to make demands that you will lev n your death on your own • lutionary rhetoric and clenched fists. the kind of person who oppresses no the dic(k)tionary defines ’ i have no ’ ust.” “Wow, I have the.latest copy!” peculiar local situations. they be given more than twice as -much After I returned to the table, set my suit We were part of The Movement, there one.” r^resentation a. any planning sessions — female: clues to give I fore, and I could vaguely see guns raised, But don’t think th a a radical con except maybe the revenge look case down, and sold one of my two Oct for the final RPCC session. The demand 4, in botany® having a pistil and no ober Cities, we rapped for hours as other street fittin g governments te llin g . The convention got off to.a good start sciousness isn't present among these was accepted. We knew the women were upon my face V Certainly wefettthathec^itialistic, sisters and brothers from the small stamens i am a female Gay Liberation guys and a couple Gay when the elaborate agenda was scrapped. very disturbed at the treatment they women joined us. t '- oppressive US government must be As originally planned by F J?JE!E.(Fi^t towns. The GLF at Northern Illinois had received at the Plenary ses^pbtof and am to be considered dangerous broudit down — and armed struggle ^ University, for example, has joined other i know that this is really digging for specifics It seems last spring someone mys e Repression of Erotic Expression) at the the RPCC. When some of the women did butt under teriously put up posters arouiid campus ‘ would be inevitable. • Indeed, acts of University of Minnesota, the sponsoring campus groups to hold their own local join the, men on the final day, we only terrorism were already on the increase' RPCC to bring the message of the Plen ffuT- charles p. thorp calling for a Gay Liberation meeting in r w oraanizationorganization, there were to be several began to understandthedepthsof sexism. \ definit ion i am a female the student union. Two hundred showed across the country. I kind of went to “ outside” speakers- ■ straights, in other ary session back from Philadelphia. And ju5t- as with racism, some of the (bold soul sister) M inneapolis to find out what day it was And the small towns fou^t back' when up, but since then the administration has words. The Human Rights Commission blatantly sexist comments in the room not permitted them to form as a campus s that we were going to mount the strug there was sqme indication that large- ■ ¡Director, a< lawyer who had'BSh instru made it obvious just, how severely we group, so they meet oft campus on Mon gle in the stre ss, and I wanted a battle mental in getting the sodomy laws're- city delegates questioned their revolu •must deal with these problems within plan to bring back with me. day n i^ s ; Eighty or so usually attend, pealed in Illinois (and you all -remember tionary commitment: “ You’re oppres ourselves. but the group is not yet very active. I what big effect that had in pig-ridden sing me’,'—an Illinois delegate shouted to a New York brother. “ Tm going to There arc plenty of gay people around, I didn't get one. I found the brothers Chicago), and a cleric. Well, the parti But all of this did not make me feel but onedistractingfactor isthat the bars, and sisters in the Gay Liberation Move cipants said NO, N ostrai^ts. And none have to go home from here alone and that our movement was hopelessly divi t deal with conditions as I find them,” thou^ hard to ^ into (1 had" to “say I ment to be committed to a-concept of of that reformist, work-within-the-sys ded -- or even divided at all. On the knew ft was a gay bar before they let revolution so complete and so funda tem bullshit. ______contrary, movemeM homosexuals were me in) , are relatively free inside with mental that I hadn’t even conceived of it Racism came to the floor as a topic confronting a very basic concept of revo touching, slow dancing, and kissing. y before.' They’re interested.' in dealing with a jolt,*"33 the black brothers walked lution and that-W ^d undoubtedly have Gay Sunshine is put together by a collective of people the core of whom live What they wanted to talk about was: out to caucus then returned with the de in a commune in Berkeley. “We put it together to serve the community. 'No They say affection has been shown In with their, own sexism and racism. We an e f f ^ upon the entire revolutionary- the-streets. Rob and several others are didn’t talk battle tactics (the FBI plants the things each other were doing, r acism, mand that wedtecussracismimmediate- rribvement in the United States. Wehave one who works on Gay Sunshine gets paid, no one makes dny money from it. ’ sexism, md plans for the Panther-spon It is to be a people’s-iii^per;-Keep us pure. Rise up and demand that you be listed in The Daily Texan as Gay coun- must have been disappointed) but we did ly. We did. And any hostility indicated said “ No revolution without us,’’ We • , s^ors; But I asked about a dance, and talk about ourselves and what kind of peo-; sored Revolutionary Peoples Const itu- by their dramatic walk-out melted. One m i^t also -add: “ No revolution for any heard! If you are Gay, you have‘something heavy and beautiful to say. Sub pie we were. What was the revolution tional Convention final session in Wash black brother said black homosexuals one until we become truly revolutionary mit an article, a poem, a letter a drawing, a photograph...you create them, they said they thought Austin “wasn’t all about? Well, oneChicago brother put ington on Thanksgiving weekend. were severely alienated from the black people.” .. , _ your energy to“ the ’ communitycommumty byuy lettinglettingtne the community iadd in on your crea ready” for that yet. tivity. If you believe in Gay community, make it reaL Deadline foe. the next Hitching out of town,, I mèt another issue (except heavy, hot last minute news) is December 16, the issue comes thumber who had been to L.A. over the out December 24., Send contributions to Box 4089, Berkeley, Ca., 94704 or summer, "Did you go to Gino’s?” Minneapolis GLF Conference call 415-8-43-69ffi or leave them at the Up Haste Bookstore, just up Haste I asked. "Sure.” Without freaking out St. from Telegrjyjh Ave. in Berkeley. Also help get-Gay iunshinfrto^he the driver, I thus Tblllnd out the other people: demand that your local store stock it, tell us about stores which hitcher was Gay. Word is getting should stock It subscribe. subKribe, or vend it (Vendors'pay 10^ a c CAY n/uhkmIS r * 'V. Sex in America is a power trip; or Piachi^hm gasm is bllssj ectasy, and freedom for the man on top. Inistlve and'actlon is Gay Lib is reassuring because it tells me not to te - . Ahhough I have been in Women'* Liberation for over the right to conouct his or her sexual life the way he or -reSBrye^l for the man on top. Hey,diick, up-tight about feelings of love I have for my sisters. It's a I a year now, my first reaction to Gay Liberation was not she vyants tp .-' you gotta nice ass. Hey, boy, oom*here.‘ relief to admit, withopt shame or fear, that I am They call the rest of us “passive” and very liberated at all. I'm embarrassed to .admit that my • Having decided wRSt I thought of 'my friend's gay ness, I could have generalized this>ttitude to cover all physically attracted to women I know and love in other “masochistic.” Fuck you, baby. I’innot f first response to learning tha^a good friind of jhine had ways. Even if I never actually enter a sexual relationship passive unless you i^n me down. I’m not ,., come out was a very "proper", culturally conditioned r^other gay people and neatly dismissed Gay Lib from my masochistic uidess you hurt me'. Or thoughts. Gay Lib could have become something with another woman. Gay Lib has help^ clear my mind one. "Oh w ell,'I know she's slept with men, so she's gasm, man, you wouldn’t redbgnize one touching' other people, but never involving me. But the. of old worries apd doubts. Those feelings of Jove are a really only bisexual.. . maybe this is just a passing if it camç on like an earthquake, you’re more I read and thought about it; the mwe I realized natural and teautiful outcome of working, planning, so fucking busy fucking you'haven’t got phase....’’ that Gay Lib speaks to all women viho'work closely sharirsg, and struggling together for our liberation. time for orgasm. Ejaculate, what bliss! My first panicky thoughts were cut off abruptly once • toother, have affection for each other and enjoy each Women's Lib already has a radical analysis o i our selves! We must be unafraid to reveal our gay beauty encouraged and hèlped. Another, group also vrams to what heaven! the cosmic one in action! :| and for all by the second response. This vyas the firm all piledriver and a hole already, dug. u It other's company. Which means, of course, that Gay Lib political situation. Lef us-be equally fearless and radical to a fucked-up. wofld. I am suggesting Manifestation panicipate in solving many of the problems faced by m conviction, strengthened by many years of liberalism isn’t me you’re fucking,' it’s the holeZ when examining our own personal'feelings and lives. (not revolution), ram suggesting an example erf being: hombsexuals in our soci«y. Emmaus House is just such and most recently by radicalism, that every person has speaks directly to Women's Lib. 10 a demonstration, an exhibition, and a revelation! a be^nning: It Is an attempt to form a Gay F am ily'l your own goddamn head. You talk about your seed, the Liftm The question is: How can we solve oilr problems? based on love. Emmaus House is an attenfpt'to give Source. We talk about douching,shitting, The answer is, perhaps, too simple: We must get out ^iritu al significance to the homosexual. In a sense, it spittii^ it all out. W e^t all the dirty POLICE RJP OFF GAY LIBERATION side the system-of-mechanizetf-ins^ty and we must is a se^ch for God in man. It i.s an attempt to ; Cluist within each human being. It Is an attempt at work, those rocks you talk about get BANNER - manifest our own world! Another question; Where do heavy, sometimes nine pounds and a life -i - we go to get “outside” ? Another simple ahswer: We building a faith in which all may contribute and parti time. It’s our fartsthat wreckthepeace- jjy Mike Stubblefield don’t go anywhere — we stay right where we ^ e l I cipate. I Emmaus.House is a non-sectarian, non-profitorgan- ful ni£^t. WE carry'the VD, they sa;^ maintain that to g « '“outside” we must go “ inside"; WE take ihe fucking pills, or else, WE Excerpt from - I walked into Sproul Plaza at noon We must get inside one another (physically, mentally, ization. .. It is just beginning. At present it is small: slow down your master -seduction with “Kíisterpiéce today (Nov. 21, Big Game Day), for the and spiritually) in order to free each other. Once'we It is an encounter group held in a churcn-hall every are frte we can build a world within a world, a society Wednesday nijiit (gay people beginning» explore each need for vaseline, KY,orhandlotion. We His hands wave wildly across the virgin-white BODHISATTVÁ EXPRESS scheduled rally of the People’s Athletic get shit and wads of- toilet paper Committee. I was wearing two buttons within "a socI«y. First, we must know odrsetyes; then, other and discovering that they want more than .what canvass, raping it with color. , we can’manifest ourselves. We will be able to t ^ e the “ Amerika" has to offer them). Emmaus House has 'around our bungholes. We bleed once a This will be his masterpiece and the finality ot "by Jerry Weiss on my shirt; one says “ Gay Liberation month. Just generally we stink. You sell Now’’ and the other.says ‘’GayisGood” . ’ accumulating waste of tnodern Amerika and build, a great hopes,. It wants to offer couns^’ng services to a career as an artist. “ nation-witWn” , In theiiast, a nation was determined anyone vÂo desires them. It>»antstobe a Gay home and us vannai deodorant. What have you got . . .1 am good. I ani God. I ambeaur I was carrying a furled banner. for diil? It’s a wonder, you deign.stick I was just standing, doing absolutely primarily by the property which a people held ih com family. It wants to supply jobs topeople who need work. He’S finished now. and lies exhau^ed, p ra w l^ tiful. Holiness walks with me in the mon. Land was valuable because it supported life. It wants to provide ah outlet for gay artists and writers. your antiseptic and lovely and so' effi in a pool of scarlet paint with slashed wrists tearooms of the IRT, in the steamrooms nothing, not even saying anything. I was cient cock up our various holes. Suck holding the fanner, which was still fur Tc^ay, abstract systems and technology support life. Emmaus House wants to set up gay classes and work and the finality of a masterpiece. , and persecuted alleys of the world with .Property is no longer as valuable. I maintain that a shops in all fields of interest. It wants to sponsor Gay me boychick, and it ain’t me smells *so the drag queens selling It on Mason St. led. Two campus policemen walked up to baa it’s your stinking breath'.-Don’t kiss, me and asked me what the banner said; nation must be determined by the beliefs and practices dances and other social events. It wants to provide with the young man gangfucked in prison held in common by a people (i.e.: A nation must be help for anyone in need. . ‘ ' no, not after that, youdIrtyi^ore,queer,, —William K. Maximin, J r. cell and crying as he reàs his bloody I told them, “ It says ‘Berkeley Gay Li faggot. - ^ beration*." • determined by the Common Mind). Therefore, it is R i ^ now, Emmaus House heeds help, h needs mem ass, with Vietnam child torn to bits by feasible for two (or more) separate nations to exist bers, volunteers, and people with ideas. Emmaus It’s hard to hold onto what you do to us. Pacific Heights socialite desirous of new Officer Casey identified himself and I’ve even got a cock loo, just like you. told me that they were confiscating the within the same space and time. In effect, both (or House is nothing more than the people who participle Sandals diamond. Mom, please let me love my ~ g>LV»;rai) nations Would exist merely on different wave-_ in its construction. It Js n^belief that you can become Just so I’m still just the hole In your self. m e love all my jail ceUs, banner and banning me from campus for —head;—I oon’t exist exceprtn your headj, - 14 days. We were standing only 15 yards lengths* ’ ' a stronger, happier person when you participate in The rich brown leather criss-crosses everything I am an<} have been. F ree me .. Gay people can help one another. We can build a buildiqg a communiw of your own choice. Come and^ you, the all-absorbing cosiriic qne. I’m over his perfect feet and climbs up into Now. Look what they did to my song from tfie edge of the campus, so I asked*^ s^arate, self-supporting society (a world within a help build. C om ely that we may help and love one" just a queer. ,I’m just-like a woman. 1 the calves of his strong tan legs as ma! Tttfhed it inm j>ssified_tsuris_a Casey if I could just wadkoff campus with don’t bleed. I don’t breed. That makes the banner and'not br ing it back. He satff world). We can learn to love and manifest our beauti ancrfher-.=----- :------^—~—---- - I fantasize being raped by a gladiator the Metropolitan'Opera and never told ful selves. First, wemust admit that we have problems, (The Encounter Group meets from 7 to 10 every Wed it .easier doesn’t It. You find me out with the face of Christ. it would all come down on -me.- . . . no. I told him that we need the banner . late at night, when “ they” don’t dare tomorrow, and asked what if I refused ‘ Then, we must proceed to solve tl»m. We must en- nesday evening at 2041 Larkin -- The Fellowship counter one iuioihcr as full human beings. We have been Church of All Peoples — in San Francisco. For come out for fear of YOU, You find me —Wllliân K. Maximin, J r. —Jerry Weiss to give the banner to thenu He said he in all thé militaries, and in all therÿüs'- would. §rrest me for disturbingthepe^e separ^ed far too long by a r^ressive society. We must informJKon call: •. have a “ coming together". Gay Liberation is beginning Emmaus Swttcldioard: 771-8570 and in all the dormitories, gy^dsifins, and resisting arrest. ■ Even thoughlhad '' foTTlirk with problems and solutions --vthey must W6 where “they” aren’t permitted. -Just never even unfurled the banner! Tom Sticklemyerj Co-ordinator: 775-0073) like a woman. Just a hole in your head. Two- men were kissing,- a few yards You can’t find me and I’m everywhere. The Silent Majority from us. A policeman pointed at them It’s your bed I lie in and you can’t find and -said “ Look at those two kissjng!^ me. You advertise 10 inches in the toi- ' look Cut!! ' • ' That’s obscene, in my Judgment.” But" let. You stick all sorts of instruments He is a man to be reckoned with J ' the police didn’t bother them, except up me, thermometers, fingers, fingers j He’s wearing a suit and tie for making this veiled threat. with rubber- protective coverings, ster Watch your language sonnyL..He might change your life . Two policemen took me to the campus ilized metal probes, some with ligdits police station and wrote ^ a receipt for to seethe cavities,"atiwr..f«piitres. You Be careful of lliat bulge the banner, and gave me' a paper saying poke and cram-. You shoot y^ jdll. And under his coat that I am banned from the campus for 14 Angel Metamorphosis still you can’t find nw^rt^^BBot radar, - It's either his wallet- days. The paper gave the reason: you’ve got lasers, in hopes I’m nowhere or liis g j. “Threatened the orderly processes of the ...I’m just the Iwle in your head. I’m Univesrsity". The police told me that I I .. the other the other person you’re not, Poems by James T. Harris could come and get the banner back on Hundred .water flesh knowing Christ the outsiae world. You call me,woman. Monday. I told them that we n e^ it to Angel busted leave your pain re-adhered You call me queer. You call me slave. morrow, because some 6f us are leaving Angel pronounce alleys - with drops ■ You’re too busy to know me. You define tomorrow for the Revolutionary People’s most mornirig. name the eyes - • me. You steal my life to fill the hole in Constitutional Convention, and want to Seashore Angel scare that began more with your head. You tell me who I am. You take the banner along. Tney said tough sure shocked friends floating easily never let me be. Poke pu^"and cram. luck, if I wanted it beforeMondt^ would Student, worker, woman, qneer. And I walked clutter lire the eyelids ■* have to get a court order. , because you are open skin It’s hard to hold onto what you do to us. 1 asked them who I could discuss the Straight for not re-adhered It's hard fo find you. You’re like no matter with. They said that I could dis some that named for sleep the spared thing but the hole in my head. I’m a man cuss it withOfficer Casey, if 1 could catch who name simple wounds to Angdl by sm edly too, damnit, I can’t get any queerer than him off campus. However, I cannot talk and into sea far away that.' - —- to him ON campus, which is where he of blood sand happens to be! Finally, in a fit of com Some nine I look dowri çain eyes passion, tb ^ told rne that ! could phone themrhi»m ¿inHtAlKrrt and talk to .Casey avAi'l-» Winston Leyland able.” (Ha!) I observed that a number of People’s Poem: **The eager note on my door. Athletic Committee demonstrators car rying banners were allowed by police to leave the campus with their banners._ These were banner s that did not speak of [f “ Gay Liberation” . Furtherniore, thou The eager note on my door spd “ Call me, sands of banner-carrying people were call when you get in!” ,so I quickly threw admitted-to the campus for the Big Game. a few tangerines into my overnight bag, Even the sale of banners was allowed on This Morning will last Forever ( coSmic ) . straitened my eyelids and shoulders, and University property near the Stadium. Police censorship against Gay Liberation This is beautiful - — ------headetj straight for the door.. It was autumn banners cannot be tolerated. by the time 1 got around the corner, oh all ■ you and me and all this around us unwilling to be either pertinent or bemused, but -Mike Stubblefield the leaves were brighter than grass on the sidewalk! cold, but cozy neath quilts, Fungy,,! > thought, that the lights are on this late and the hall door open;>still up at this hour, a we laugh and argue about who’s ihe^arm est champion jai-alai player like himself? Oh fie! Sunday in Mad River for shame! What a host, so zealous! And he was summer left long" ago Boys are like the but the sun was so b r l ^ it remained there in the hall, flat on a sheet of blood that in your eyes ran dovm the stairs. I did appreciate it. There are few beautiful intricate rocks hosts who so thoroughly prepare, to meet a guest along a stream in the .■iierraa / they turned the heat off yesterday only casually invited, and that several pionths ago. each one is more colorful and attractive than the next' I’m in love with them all ^ ■ ’ • we laughed at it for hours I’ve got to haye each one Frank O’Hara But I can’t possibly carry them all' home' this morning you will last forever (from Meditations in an Emergency) but i know ' T. HiirriB — even awesome pink and blue sunsets ■ die with the wiml and i also know that dark is the saddest of all..... Parry Brt.«» kciái’tralgíwad “vTT -Y- \ 1 U V- - - . . uAA , An opan lettw to cny sitters^ in-the iy^S^that w awill UbareHem on the Left ' ' not hoM to w ait S.OOO rtiore years for liberation - The unwilflngswsa of left-wring goups, perticularfy Subimn/on from tfm Right ' womant groups, to engags in criticism and anriysis of poikio^ _____ Itrm tthat the appointment of two women generals al groupa, and events sleths from a kirri of Hsarri ism which by the dilation's Number One Football Fan will convinca seys.thai wiythiiB left-wkrg is good, and that pubHecriSciiiir fow woman that our demands arà baittg met. Unfortunately o f a left-writtg group can o nly do harm to ^ movement. aome siatart are listening to the mealy-mouthed statamantt No successful mrie revolutionary h « felt it incumbent of ntale politicians, as exemplified in N.O.W.'s recent upon him to refrain f r ^ criticitm of other left-wing groups "Meet-tba-Candidatai" night at Fordham Univarsity (a martha Shelley vritose principles or actions seemed contrary to tha bnarests Roman Catholic institution, dedkiMod to the maintenance o f opowasad paopi*. of fite bhurch, the abolition of abortion and the perpetua The feer to criticize other left-wing groups rssuits in tion of women's Mffgring for the greater giory of a male - wishy washy, vague politics, and an uncritleal accsptanca'of god). " ___ behavior which can be actually countar-revokitiotwrY. It I suggested to tome women prawnt ^ working to dastroysany attempt to organize a movement, around sourri - elect an all-male slate of cartdidatas might not be the best ideological principl^ permits oppression to flourish within ' S t r i l « « s road to women's liberation. "Yes;" otm replied, "but they're the movement, alienates potantional converts, atri saps the ail we've got r i^ now." spiritof woman who would othsrwiaabe wriliing workers for Brothers and Sisters of the Cockettes Troupe-'- Which brings us to the reason why this story is AH7 Don't sea have mWione of women, hands, feat, , our Hbaradon. addressed to you. The Cockeetps, of course, did not mind^ teeth, guiw, pane, printing preassst cameras, lanm, T h is faar^ at least mnong w hites, sprirtgs out o f guilt Last Thursday night I went with two friends, Oodie stage the attack. But don't you maxe any provision, or eyeaand earsfWe heveaMdf théaeorgane,—but weaeewi-' politict and a martyr-like attitude, an attitude which says and Ginny, to see your Halloween riiow. --We-are long -^feel any epneern, for the things that m i ^ happen to to lack haart. Em ry woman must fcnowintafiietHaNy that'' that if you haven't been hit by a b lly club or kllad a cop or time fans, and^arrived early as usual. We have always your people on your premises? . For your audience I pOiWcian w ill ghmjher fiberetion — but very few bombed a g ilding; you'ie not goothenough. felt good vibes at your riiowsfandoncpwere even pulled members ARE your people — very together, warm, people, mala or female, are wüNng to face the fact that If you're white, your ideas are usrisss, and tha best onstage to join tte cast). Your revival meeting radio enthusiastic patrons of your talented troupe. Before do it thamaahwsL. hIt iiaataiar t a la iar to deluda yoursaH thing you can do with your Hfa is to sacrifioe it in the brpadcast and high school dance n i^ t were special now we had a feeling of belonging — even safety — by aaltint up a Hare, a Lfearatoy;and pretandhig that tMs struggle to destroy honky culture arri allow the amargriice favorites of ours. ■ ■ in that farout. mixed group of heads, freaks, gays, I wish this could all be a fan letter, but that's impos straights, socialites, and god-knows-whatsfapparemly Big Daddy wW give you what you need. But Wserathpi la of a black nation. This idea wms praaantad to me arri passiort- an aduK thins and as such eannot be given to ue like a sible after what took place T hursdayni^. Here's what at (east one redneck). atriy defended by a titter who is now urwiorground. Another | happened: I didn't know where to turn for help, since none was Christinas prasant. We must take it ouraslvas, hwtaad of . white sistar informed me thsft at a white person, | am "lattkia Om s m do k ." Ginny took an aisle seat in about the 6th or 7th rovr. offered. The theatre management h ^ gone home, and nscassarlly a racist (I agree to that definition), and that I am 1 sat ntort to her, with Dodie on my 1 ^ . Before long there were no ushers, rent-a-cops, etc. T figured if ^ G e n e ra llv a ceUeoeediicatiad. white, well-healed...... anyone was “ in charge” , it must be the Cockettes woman, a woman who knows a grant deal about publicity whlta people to the extant that we wNI all commK any the vacant spot next to Dome. He was white and eWan- themselves. There were several of you mingling in and publishing but who never has the thite for conscioutnatt atrocity whatsoever in order to defeiri our white tkin shaven, with, sandy blondish diort hair, a six-footer of the audience and in the front lobby. I approached one raisins Bie is prone to make apologatic statamants to the priv>agas.1ikluding torture airi genocide. As a wrarking medium-husky build. He wore a brand new blue denim and asked if he could do anything to help. (1 was n ^ p rass, prone to waste her time arguing with Hugh' data lesbian one generation removed from Dachau. I find jacket and matching standard blue Levi’s. thinking in terms of first aid, or niaybe getting as- Hefner or Dick Cavan whan dM could be organizing woman. Before long he began to make “friendly” (i.e., sisted put to the car two blocks away.) such politics unspeakably funny. I could die laughirtg. "I have «wonderful raíationahip with my husband," says hostile) remarks to Dodie. Eventually he demanded a His approximate reply: “Whaddya want us to do? one, denying her lesbian relationships in Lito magazine - ¥fhatiea RamiuHottery? cigarette. She replied that she noticed he had a nearly- Run down thb street and beat him ,up? It's your pro wdian only a weak tefore, she b ro u ^ tears to the eyes of We seam to confuse people who are fighting simply to fiill pack of his oy;n, and that she would like to watch blem. And please quiet down. You’ve already inter gsr sspman with the storiti ntiwtJil-fated lesbian affeirs. and their own opprasrion - rsgardlait of what happens to the performance uninterrupted. - rupted the show once.” If thrtnith be known, than stars 6f the white male By the second half of the show, he was r e ^ y "getting Tjiimy was in the hospital emergency room until 4 Other people - wt|l>'uaiiuliie i into his harrassmetit teclinique: P u ^n g h erd b o w off a.m. We botlTlost a day's work FridayVand F tla ^ s' madia are motivated partly by thedasilr« for fame and for I believ« that the true revolutionary is a parson work the armrest, kicldng her feet leaning on her, etc. We pay. She will lose anotter on Monday. The physical tune, and partly by a desperate nagd for male approval. ing. in whatever capacity — as a aoldiar or a distributor of all tried our best to ignore him, figuring that any kind hurt and loss of bread were bad enou^, but the degra They so daapise thair dstars — and thamaalvas — that they leeflets ora worker in a day care canter — to and all forms of attention was just what he wanted. After a time dation and indifference was the worst part of it — a cm 't imogkw a woman's movaniant so strong it doesn't have of opprasrion. She (he) does not fSar criticism from com- someone in the row behind us leaned forward and tola nightmare that is still hard to shake off. to ask Daddy for money, for air tim e, or a pat on the head. -radas, because she recognizes the lim itatiant of her own him he could have a ride home if he was ready to go. What would we like from you? Here are a few lwms~ They haysn't got time for consdousnatt raising becausathey experience airi wishes to broaden her utrisrstandiisg of all HO got up as ifto make his way out to the aisle. Then, that we feel are very important: cant imagliie learning anything useful horn other women's ' romft of oppression in order to strugi^etnòretuccoisfullv suddenly, he planted himself on Dodie’s feet and smashed 1. &)ine sort of written acknowledgement.pf- this axperiancas. ’ ~ against them. lier in thefacewithliiselbow —knocking off her glasses letter. These media stars, carefully coiffed and lathered with A parson is isot automaticaHy defitwd askrevstlutionatY and splitting both lips. She recovered her senses ia 2. The assurance that this incident will inspire you hMndation makeup, claim to represent all women. In time to sock him on the backonceor twice, but she was to plan and ready yourselves to take charge of any simply because rite is poor, tamala, black, or a member of too stunned to defend herself with much effect. Ginny- possible future emergencies — fires, accidents, fights, actuality, they are ripping off all women. Example; one any other group by tha ckeumstancas of her birth. She is distr acted from the stage ^ow by the hassle, asked in or whatever. ..j woman claimed to be organizirtg prostit«jtes in the Times ^defined by her corriucs. by the maiwiar in which sheittatas alarm and disbelief: “ Hey! What's happening?!“ Mr. 3. Our nine dollars (ticket price) refunded. ^ Square arse. Her only Contact with them was to tape some to poopie. If she dannonstratas a wiHingnaaB to liberate her Macho offejred to "show” her, as he brought the full 4. Some help in locating tte attacker. For a while, bttervlasvt which she plans to use in her next book. "own youp while attempting to opprem other group«, or IT force of a fistful of signet rings smashing info the he was talking with your friend S teve,.\^ lent his set These women will betray us when the cock crows. she judges a parson's p o litic by the ckcuRHtancas of thak center of her forehead, opening a huge, ugly cut. of drums to your stage musicians for tte evening. If ‘ '' Mta gÉ e H detkl,-wrh6 w rote some earth -shaking books^ birth or oeciipatiori, shaJs simply engagad in a struggla for She slumped to her knees, semi-conscious. I jumped you rpaUy .wanted to. you ,cogld easily.oBt.in-tQiich with in the 1830's arid has served as an apologist for the astab- to catch her in my arms as Marlboro Man exited with: Steve ahd find out wte ms big, braro iriS ials. 'power for her own faction, not engaged in revolution. llahmam ever since, eras recently asked if shethought thè _ “ No bitchy bunch of dykes brushes ME offF' Since I # . At the praaant time, almoct all nsalaa are only too women's liberation movemartt will succeed. "If the media had just caugjn Ginny in my arms, the “ dyke” refer We hope that your seeming indifference at the time wMling to oppraas woman who« they iaaua a faw patronizing doesn't kill K," she replied. I agree with her. ence drew a jolly response from die Lau^i-In fans in was due to not being fully aware of the real situation; _ ; statamants about woman's IBiaration. They have no standani the surrounding rows. and we trust you to show in some way that you really ^ Visions of Madison Avenue atrocities float past my of Inananity — only a starxlard of aaonhaod, and that Are you wondering why three of us couldn’t deal with DO care about this thing happening.' ayasr "8 a H bañtod — wiser the light /saw Womanform bra. " standard is the cock and the yinl They show almost no just one of him? Answers: Put a stop to Machismo! All power to sex-role "Drivo a Pantherette — the sexiest, swingingsst car for the confusion. will ingnase to deal with thak own saxitm or thak own~ l_ ,T h e element of complète surprise, which he IRsarated woman -from Gersaral Motors." "Liberate your HbaraKam towards ao / S' m M MAXWELL A 7RAIUUDC»AL Men write the script, design the costumes, and direct - the play. A íomalé role is just as clearly aihale creation AdAxn oboiiuc as is a male role. Unmask Marilyn Monroe and you will find Arthur Miller in d ra g . It's as cliche as two sidw of a ÌÌ- coin. Charles Atlas was created out o f the aggressive feel- by James T, Harris ings and the bathing'beauty was created out of-the re- ■ in this catéggory is Dave Mason. I hsve ceptive feelings of the sariie male chauvinist. The Beatles, The Stones, Donovan, listened to 'Alone Together', hundreds M ^t nrten project their desires ta be receptive on The Airplane and other rock groigts have' of tim es. Not once in the album does he .. vVomen. Due to the oppressive nature of the female role played a big part in my life., 1 relate mention girl or she. Most important is strqngly to their love songs.' Infinite that he is singing ^ u t the perils and in this society, a straight man can freely pretend to be faisurs of my youth have been spent en pleasures qf ^ life style. Listen •; \ Charley Hardon when he feels assertive, but when he tranced In the appreclatlOqof their beau- - to it closely and yoii^wlll understand. feels receptive, he ihust project his ovyn desires to have 41 tiful music. I smoked my first Joint. Undoubtedly there are many other albums big boobs and a friendly cunt on his female companion. while enraptured vrith the Doors.' C^lan containing gay love lyrics^hat Ihavenot I believe that men live'out these'desires by using women was on ^ turntable when 1 first balled been œcposed to. wtth a wranan. The Stones were grinding I always felt The Stones came-closest as their "dolls." Aphrodite sprang out of Zeus” head. away when I lost my homosexual virgin of all the groups to projecting a bisexual Eve vras born froih Adam's Tib^, the frog magically he- ‘ ity . . ■ • Image. To most people tb^have always came ¿.beautiful princess — man's transexual fantasies Rock music has tremendous meaning looked "femmy". However, their lyrics are> endless. Only the transexual man takes the responsi in all our lives, but how does a homo- are sometimes a symposium on cruetey bility for his own fantasy and becomes a "woman." sexual relate toneterosexual love sohgs? and ' male chauvinism: 'Stupid Girl’, •She Loves You’, *And I Love Her’, *I •Yesterday’s Papers’, 'Hooky TonkVo- , • Under stress, some males' desire to be receptive be Saw Her Standing There’, All Beatle men’ and 'King Bee’ are blatantly chau comes toó great to be denied or project^, ^nd they flip. love songs, all with females made intov^ vin ist. Heads f win, tails you lose, the king becoims a queen. sex-objects and romanticized.-. Why not The Stones have been a big force in Ortly a man can be a woman! The queen 'comes from •He Loves You’, .‘I Saw Him aanding ' the liberation of the youth of America. ' man's affirmation of his "woman" role,"-and not,., as There’ or ’You’re Gonna Lose'ITtai Boy’? ’ Remember the days wheq parents hated popularly stated, from his scorn for a real woman. When Why boys singing about g ir ls, never b ^ s ‘ the Stones but liked the Beatles? Ou their singing about boys? new album 'Queenie*. is an outrdigeous Ì a man becomes a woman, he feels the total weight of Over the years of repeated listening camp song. ^ oppression that the male chauvinist dumps on us as to vague lyrics I discovered many songs More groups should express bisexual women. If you don't believe me, ask a queen out to directly, or indiredtly deleting gay love. ity in their love songs. If rock music lun ch. ‘ I Some of the most easily recogniz^le truly reflects the ideas and valuesofour . At this time roles are not clearly understood and we ones are Dylan’s "Just Like a Woman” , culture, mq^cians have no need to fear Donovan’s "'try for the Sun’’, Nell being explicR. The Kinks whh 'Lola* on need to fu lly explore the way"that we use roles, and the Young’s “I am a Child", The Stones. AM ràdio is ^ a direot^assault on the re ways that roles .use us, Much is said about oppressive **My O bsession”, and "StrayC aiB lues,"’ pressed hetero euhuréof America. What roles. But is a role freely chosen the same as a role which Many songs are n on -sex-sp eciflc. 'If is the real effect of their subversive song is imposed upon us from above? The ^me of role play "1 Fell’ —The Beatles ’La’s Spend the played endlessly into the impressionibie ing seems to be popular among children. Ask Peanuts. Night Together’ -- The Stones qr 'I minds of millions of adolescents? Liber Want You’ by Dylan. My current.favorite ation? Perversion? Time will tell. We express our inner -personality thru our outer appear ance. Look in the mirror. Ain't that so Mr .-^evolution ary? Does a hip Venceremos Brigadeer look like Che or does he not? The female role is a man's expression or affirmation of another side of his nature. Let the sun shine thru. __ §O^ Ub. gay lib. Men are more reluctant to discuss roles tharrwomen. Perhaps the fact that little girls were able to dress in Reflections the-costumes of the opposite sex and little boys were I have watched you comb your hair. not indicates the extent of the pressures which have I have seen before all the clothes you wear. - caused this male uptightedness. I bglieve all children ? I have giggled over yotlr comparisons of naked ,have a desire to try out every conceivable role around. any difference bodies with youp. own. .. - ■ iJiave seen you as a child; I have seen you Anyway I did. Since I vvished to.try out both sex roles, ) ■ i-1 I'm assurning that so did my brother. My sister some '"'fully grown. .. ’ And now I watch you die as you pull a trigger, times was a sailor, sometimes I was a cowboy, but never inierror. - did I see my brother in a dressl What's it all about A'lfie? . When Randy Smythe'came to bring the leaders and the sportswriters that he is staring wildly in full view of a full-length How many males could tejü yo u , but w o n 't or Jock Liberation word to ameetingofthe couldn’t keep waiting. mirror. . would tell you but can't — that one and only time they Berkeley Gay LiberationFront recently, - Wedl. I freaked. he was met with the wordfrom Konstantin A jilted, disillusioned lover at 15, I William K. Maximin, Jr. put on mother's high heels?-Ask-Alfie's father. The Berlandt one of the originals and most became intent on turning myself into a -straight father's scorn and ridicule'for women is clearly perceptive in the Gay Lib movement, who fighter. I was too small for football expressed when a boy tries to be a girl. Jerry Rubin and accused Jock Lib of being a "closet” but I was coordinated enou^ to be good Abbie Hoffman,.hippie and yippie. why did you dress in organization. at basketball and baseball. all those costumes, Indian drag, police drag,.Uncle Sam' "We shouldn’t have anything to do with I, too, would have cheer leaders cling- you,” Connie told handsome Randy, for ing to me, sportswriters smelling my drag, and never once cross the sex role boundary? You mer Cal track star. “ Until you come out, jock strap, fans'bearing me on’their came so close to the point, and then you petered out. of your closets and recognize your selves shoulders, father-image coaches petting ust couldn't keep it up, hippie brother. as the Gay Liberation Front of athletics me on the ass.- When a man in our society grows his hair lora, puts -- Gay Liberation Rim Two!” Limiting my sexual expression to my WHAT IS IT on a dress, and walks among us, she is'in effect gi^ g up Randy tried to be open to what was nocturnal dream shows and nothingm6re, coming down“ -- not only from Connie I became known as the most intense, his male privilege. She Is not oppressing women, she is but from other Gay Libbers, including determined, hard-working competitor on threatening men! The queen is t^ lavender menace to the Rev. Jim Rankin, who had asurpris- the court'and baseball diamond. the male chauvinist. When every man is able to cross the _ingly negative response. "They’re not I never became a super-star because sex role boundary,, then and only then.will women cease radical at all,” Jim charged, "They I wasn’t cute enough. Fean see that now. THAT I WANT to be sex objects. The Gay Liberation movement .should still epitomize the gay’s oppressor -- The cute athletes were the ones the coa the straight pigfc.the liberal in disguise.” ches spent the most time with to nurture , Morgan Pinney affirm and not deny the transexual in usTafl. Queens are At the tim ^ however, Randy finally their talents. Pimple-faced kids like me in the vanguard of the sexual revolution. Come out now there are-maybe deeper questions which dodged theconfrontation by focusing at- had to learn on their own, and only if we are more fundamental and serious. and avoid the rush! tentiortiin "the issue d hand,” which was were twice as good as the cute guys did As I stand here cruising that youngman across the street I wonder just what is it 5. Do-J want him as a lover so that orgatRzing a demonstration for the Cal- we get equal recognition. my constant searching for a sex partner aaqford football game scheduled for the But I didn’t know that then so I kept that I want? following weekend in Berkeley. working, believing that if I just couliL- 1. Do I want just to take him home and might end, so that I might know always The relationship between the jock men prove myself on the basis of ikill. I’d Yfel his body and fallatiate him?.. where my huge sexual appetite next will tality and gayness goes very deep and-is have ’em all whipped. 2. Do I want to just achieve orgasm be filled? to relieve, the excitement I’ve gotten in Oh, how that searching consumes my; The above letter arrived in the mail today. It cor- and obsc^e”, regardless of the particular nature of • very important to the -understanding of Well, I finally got good." It Wasn’t until time and my whole being. This need Js ' responds toother letters we have received or have know- the material or of the groups sending it. Totally iso what goes on in people's heads and winds my second year in college, but I was my crotch since I’ve seen him? If so, then I’m going to probably be very real. I don’t want to have to be on giet from the jail and prison systemis. The information lated, they must make war alóne on a system which up as oppressive forces in society. still hard -at it. It came inhaseball. I the streets constantly searching for my blackout by frighten^ and confused prison persopi^'and our society (in spite of all its protestations to the con ' I can bear witness to that per^nally hit the tc^). Top batting average, most as disappointed as I have been so many GftY times in the past. Certainly I’ll enjoy self-respect and my sexual release in the , administrators is almost totaL — trary) has set up to decade humans to subhuman level, as one gay who once opted for the jock home runs, trophies. Most Valuable form of a male bt^y. I’d like to know Prisons are queer institutions..Jike the military and punish its own sins throu^ scapegoats they call crimi scene and now is just trying to get his Player honors, all-conference super- him and enjoy seeing Tils nude body but I’ll probably find it all as unfulfilling it awaits me at home, even though I don’t similar structures. Tljey'are homosexual by their na- nal wreak‘vengeance in the souls and bodies of people, head back together. . star, pro contract offer, full college . want a monogamous relationship and do ..ture, and thoroughly perverted. They arAlueer. >Iot god for ^ve us. ; God help them. I had a lover when-4-was 13. We did scholarship. _* as so-^'many times previously and even Gay, queer...perverted...the straight man's creation.... The list of abuses against homosexuals in thè jails everything together; We slept togiether, My pimples started going away and I want to get it over with as quickly as not think monogamy would prove anything the straight man's fantasies dfdomination and power and and prisons of this country would stir a horror in the played football together, went to the got a little self-confidence (jock style) possible. about my love to a lover. PRISONERS 3., Is it just that I want to prove to Why is it that I can’t just see a nice humiliation and abasement come true. Every person- soul that would not disappear in many years. To re hills and beaches to c h e r, spent days and the cheer leaders began coming ^ who enters that ^yStem, whether as prisoner or guard peat them here if. possiblp, would not serve any pur and days with each other, whenwecom- around. myself that, someone does want me-- body and appreciate it as any beauti maybe even likes me. ' ' ful work of nature. Why indeed do we or administrator or teacher isdarqned. Leavingit, they. • pose. What we navetopointoutis that perverted homo- peted in sports, it was a celebration'of Immediately, I picked up on one of ever want to take home souvenirs, auto- may recover humanity, but that is not certain. sexuality is rampant in jails and prisons, and the oppre- love. It was one of the happiest times of them and clung to her to show the guys If so, why haven’t I learned a simplefact Dear Sirs; Gays do not exist fn prisons, or they are just begin jwion of gay people is also rampant, for they must bear my life. that 1 really dug chicks and made it with that after the countless "scores” in my graphs, pieces of everything we visit. I am an Inmate in " . in .California. life I’m stiir not convinced that I’m To use these,things to achieve our own ning to exist there—and their challenge to the basic the blame for the kind ofhomosexual conduct that occurs. But my lover went iwa^. When the them all the time. I even went so far as pleasures—possession, envy of our fri I am writing on behaii ot all the homosexual and tran nature of that system and to the perverted male sexual A misplaced blame, needless to add. Ga^ness is a heal coach discovered he was good at sports, to marry her to prove how totally ade-_ liked. How many will it take—a thou sexuals beyond the "white line” here in the Jail. ity that runs it will be shattering. In Terminal Island, sand? a rnilllon? the entire male pop ends, orgasm. Mayoe that’s what I ing thing, a person-building thing. . It must inevitably he stole him away,from me. He put him quate a jock I was. want-with this young man. But I can’t We have found that we are beingdenied certain of our in spite of all official harrassment,despitethe attempts come out of any getting together in a new spirt of Gay , in the spotlight. Popularity. Cheer Whew. Just writing this has made my ulation? individual rights as human beings. We have tried to of officials to impose the ancient silence, queers are 4. Do I want fhis young man to be my take home everyone I see--nature pro people. Being queer is something else and in all leaders. Press’ clippings. head spin. What a freaked, r^ressed , vides beauty in such abundance--because reason with the Captain about certain'privileges we are becoming Gay and teaching the Man that he is queer too. truth is now s e ^ not to be a gay person's trip. The * All I knew was that 1 hadhadmy lover ego-centered ni^tmare trip I wasonfor lover? If so, what are my reasons be- being denied, bqt our complaints have fallen on deaf ,hind such a desire with.a total stranger even I have a limit. Maybe I’m just As open homosexuals or Gays, they will be subject creation of a gay spirit is something that both-prison stolen from me.ivand 1 was left behind, almost 10 years of my life...and all be wanting to satisfy other needs* and he’s ears. We just can’t seem to reason with the Man. We to physical abuse and rape, denied work time needed for officials and society should welcorhe and embrace and a whimpy little pimple-faced kid selling cause 1 lost my first love. who may be quite incorhpatable. It ■' now feel that if any reforms are to be accomplished here parole, denied parole, separated from allhumancontact, the assistance of the gay community in this should be hot dogs and cokeS" in the aands while And I know that’s true,true. Jiecause4)ecause itknow seems as thou^i I want to possess him as just a device. in we will need oinside help.-This is why 1 api • - perhaps j-allowed some contact if they wilinplay the one might possess a toy cable car Maybe I had better , start looking at such sought in every way. But they are of necessity unable ‘ my lover was being-cheered for his wasn’t until T fell in love again when I stamped J ’souvenir of San Francisco— men in terms of love I might give and writing to you. 1 am hoping that someone in your or- strai^it man’s fears out--that is, become a visible to make the reasonable response, and, it is left to us heroics on the football field. was 24 years old that I began the process ganization will- be interested enough in our problems to bunch of perverts so that thefest may continue to evade to parade out to all my friends lo say love I m i^t receive in return. But to fight. The big hero could nq longer, spend of waking up, which is thetrip I am on “here’s a nice lodking man who likes doesn’t simple lust play -a part In our come to ' and discuss our complaints in person. certain aspects of human personality they fear, so that We ask you to.give us information if you have it help time with me. Oh, sure, we were still now. , , , 1 feel it homosexuals are to have equal rights in this ^:^1 others may project and hate their own "queerness” . me.” » ■ ^ ' lives?. To what extent should yte give us make contacts, give us the means-ro stru^ue and j;.asual buddies., Buttherewerethecheer Those aren’t very good reasons—and it free reign? world they should have them everywhere, even in jaiL They afe not allowed contacts with their natural com -' wïn. For this , contact the Gay Switchboard: (4Ïb) ^ J^ ic k Benton Thankyou for reading this and 1 hope to hear from munity on the outside. The chaplains will not sympa- ' 843-69ë2, . they should be dealt with soniehow.- S it Just whst is it that I want? you soon. P eacc. , thize or help. All literature they have requested and I------— ------’ . X .y th,Tt hesbeen ser.itotlteiri.i.scias.'ifird .'‘S ” rcvi->lutionary --'Jim K.’nkin I I vV * . r. T í C^Ytuv^if»^ 'agents of the CID. NIS or OSI. These Therefore, SHUT YOUR GODDAMNED the basic regultf ions and policies of ho T o r many years, those In eharge of homosexuality'. Quantity our Armed Forces, apparently having * investigative agents are the worsu most MOUTH—TIGHT r mosexuals and no by JamesT, Harris. nothing nsehil to do, have undertaken a contemptttile human vermin who will If they have gotten nothing from the of cases is as important as quality. So in this category is Dave Mason. I hw e • relentless, vicious vendetta against ho* stoop at nothing to "get their man.*' interrogations, they may send you to a ■WBvi NO rights—both for your own The' Beatles, The Stones, Donovan, lisceoed to ’Alone Togedier’ hundTdas mosexuals. They have been totally ,un- . B elize nothing they tell you. They are SO-CallM ’’psychiatric «valnarion.”evaluation.’ benefit and the benefit of others—and The Airplane and other, rock groups have' of times. Not once in the album does he successful?-10ib of our Army, "Navy, Air Interested intwothings: 1) information' ; These are juâ sophisticated interro- , fi¿» the thing through. It’s time we played a big part In my life. 1 relate mention girl or. She. Most important is Force, and Marine Corps, tt all ranks, out of your mouth with whidi to hang gâtions and the psychiatrists are just stopped running and crawling away. Hold . stron^y to their love- songs. Infinite.' that he is singing about the perils and are homosexual, always have been and al you; and 2) names of people—they are whores who have prostituted dwm ^ves up your head wtfli pr.ide in your homo- , hours of my y c ^ have bec» speiit en pleasures of ^ gay life style. Listen ways will be (and lots more enjoyhonio- obsessed with this. and their profession to the investigative sexuality and T i^ back! tranced in the ^predation of their beau to it closely .and you will understand. sexual acts from time to time). But the Don’t panic at their claims of having sea-vices. T ^ y do not observe profes In every case which has sofar cometo tiful music. I smoked my first joint ■ Undoubtedly tlwre are many óChér 'alHdnté ' War Madiine does manage, needlessly, “ evittence” against 'you even if they sional ethics or confidentiality; every the Gay Liberation Front early enou^ while enraptured with the Doors. C^lan (x>ntaining gay love lyrics that Iha^enot permanently, to ruin the lives of some show it to you. Regardless of what they« thing you say will eventually go back to (that is: in which the person has not WM on the turntable when I first balled J ^ n exposed to. 2000 servicemen every year âirough the ■ may tell you, ^ e information upoowhidi the investigators. You have a r i ^ to talkedl-andJiastbrófoUpwedpur Instrilc«- wfth a woman. The Stones were grinding I always felt The aónes came closest f , - General or Undesirable discharges is the General or Undesirable dischargers have Counsel present at such an evalu tibns faithfully,wehaveobtainedafuUy away when I lost my homosexual virgin-. 'o f all the groups to projecting a bisexual sued—leaving their victims permanently finally issued usually comes out of the' ation and may ternninate the interview honorable disraarge.** , ity. ' image. To most people tbqy have always > under-rproductive and underemployed. victim’s mouth. They count on the fact instantly simply upon your request. Do Many people feel that it is time for Rocl^ tiiusic has tremendous meaning look^ “ femmy’i. Hovtever, their lyrics :. that you are not legally trained and so SO gay Su-vicemen to start organizingmore in all our lives, but how does ahcxno- sometimes a'symposium on cruelty' Most of these cases start with an imer- that none ofthe evidence which they ob SAY NOTHING AND SICa'J NOTHING! effectively to press our demands for a - sexual relate to neterosexual love songs? - and male chauvinism: 'Stupid Girl’, , rogation (sometimes coyly called an in tain (except your own statements) will Do not use your ovm judgement asto whtf conv>lete revision and reform of mili •She Loves You’, ’And I Love Her’ ’1 •Yesterday’s Papers^j 'Honky Tonk Wo- _ ^ \ terview or a discussion) conducted by stand up at a court or board hearing. mig^ or might~not beharmful;youdonot tary policy, law, regulations, and prac Saw Her Standing There’. All Be^i* men’ and ’King Bee’ are blatantly chau \ tice in regard to homosexuals and homo --. \ know and they lay traps. Do not so much love songs, all with females made into vinist. '' ' V ■ as give them the “time of day.’’ Just sexuality. It is time to gain the decent, sex-objects Md romanticized. Why not The Stones have been á big force in ^ -'i SHUT UP! It is your absolute rid« to dignified, f air, r ational treatment whidi • •He Loves You',-’I Saw Him Standing the liberation of the. youtíi of America, do so. No harm or damage or disad is ours by right. The Gay Liberation There’ oi;’You’re Gonna Lose'ITiat Eloy’? Remémber'the ddys v^en parents hated vantage can come to you because of such Front wiU be pleased to assist in any Why boys singing about girls, never boys the Stones but likedtheBeatles? On their lÆ k 6 \ '^Sñits drt&e ciD^ fhsot osi. These ------_____ ic regiaitions md _ our Armed Forces, apparently having investigative agents are the Worst, most MOUTH—TIGHT! mosexuals arid homosexuality. Quantity nothing useful to do, have undertaken a contemptible df human vermin wro will If they have gotten nothing from the oT cases is as important as quality. So releittless, vicious vendetta againstJio* stoop at nothing to *‘get their man.*’ interrogations, they may send you to a waive NO rights—both for your own mosexuals. They have been totdljr un- Believe' nothing they tell you. They are so-called “psychiatric evaluation.” . benefit and. the benefit of others—and S5|iccessful¥-10^ bf our Army,"Navy, Air interested in two things: 1) information These are just sophisticated interro- fi^ the. thing throuidu It’s time We Force, aiyi Mariiy Cerj^ j- « ^ garinn.s and the ^ ^ ch iatrists are Just stopped running and crawling away. Mold are homosexual, always have been and al you; and 2) nanoes of people--they are whores who have prôstîtutechüiemselves up your head with pride in your homo ^ ------Sead^^ äl3.~niall to î' Box^4089 Berkeley, CÁ 947ÍK ways will be (and lots more enjoyhomo- obsessed with dils. and their profession to the investigative sexuality and nsht back! sexual acts from time to tlmeV Bn the -Don’t panic at their claims of having services. They do not observe profes In every case which has sofar cometo Gay Switöhboard ia located in room 214, 2490 Channlng, Berkeley War Machine does manage, needlessly, “ evidence” against you even if. they sional ethics or confidentiality; every the Gay Liberation Front early enougdi permanently, to ruin the lives of some show it to you. Regardless of what they thing ÿou say ■ wlll eventually go which the person has not A column for things, n.oi; involving 2000 servicemen every year dirougb the may tell you, die information upon which the investigators. You have a r i ^ to talked) and has then followed our instruc- money, free things,' and announce- General or Undesirable discharges is the General or Undesirable discharge have Counsel present at such an evalu fitions faithfully, wehdveobtained afully east coast sued—leaving their victims permanently finally issued usually comes out of the ation and may terminate the interview honorable discharge. menta. Just call Gay Switchboard Atlantic City G L F ______under-productive and underemployed. victim’s-mouth. They count on the fact, instantly simply upon your request. Do Many people feel that it is time for' to place items for this column*. Baltimore GLF—3028 Greenmount Ave., that you are not legally trained and so S O —* gay Servicemen to start organizingmore Baltin:x>re, Md 301-685-2770. . Most of these cases start with an inter-. that iKiueofthe evidence which they ob — SAY NOTHING AND SIGN NOTHINGI effectively to press our demands for a Boston GLF—Bradbury a . Collective, rogatlorfTsometimes coyly called an in tain (except your own statements) will Do not use your own judgement as to what complete revision and reform of mili 17 Bradbury^Allston, Mass. terview or a discussion) conducted by stand up at a coun or board hearing. m i^ or m i^ not beharmful;youdohot tary policy, law, regulations, and prac a R O U P S Boston Area ^L --A nn Tobin, Squire .iknow and they lay tr aps. Do not so much tice in regard to homosexuals and homo SAN FRANCISCO GAT LIBERATION m ests Village Apt. 50 Amhert Rd., Sunder as give them the “time of d ^ .“ Just sexuality. It is* time to gain the decent, Sundays, 8 PM, at The War Kesisters WOMEN land, Mass. 01375. SHUT UP! It is your absolute r i ^ to dignified, fair'rationalireatmeiii wliidi 0IŒNS l ib e r a t io n m ee ts in a r a i^ t, Ithaca, N;Y. 14850. do so. No harm or damage or disad is ours by ri^ . The Gay Liberation League 833 Haight (at Diviaadei^). New Brunswick, N J. SLF—Box 845, ^ G f l Y t vantage can come to you because of such Front will be pleased to assist in any “ Francisco Friday nights at New Brunswick, N J. 08901 silence; they cannot keep any promises such efforts. Let’s get mass coaching sue. Call 285-2314. New York —GLF open meetings Sundays," of special advantage or consideration sessions going on how to frustrate the BERKELEY GAY LlBERATiOn m eets And in -Berleley call 848-3502. 8 p.m. Church of the Holy Apostles, for “cooper atibti?’ CID. NIS. and OSI in their anti-homo- Mondays, 8 PM, Seventh Seal Coffee 212 234 2347 You ^ould have no discussions with sexual investigations and on how to New York—Come Cut ¡(newspaper) c/o W B M E N S i any of these people (or with First Ser subvert and sabotage themilitary’s anti house, on Bowditch, between S .F . WOMENS CENTER i s a l i v e and Rhode's-Brody, 338 E 6th a , NYC. geants, Company Commanders, etc.)ex- homosexual policies and regulations. ChEuming and Durant (one block welll Drop in during the day ^d New York-'Gay Students Liberation, 8:00 p.m. y . cept in the presence of your Counsel. Let’s get a Gay Military Union started up from Telegraph). ^ rap about what's happening and what NYU. Washington Sq. Campus^ NYC You have an ¿j'solnte right to have your soon. In unity there is strength! New York--Gay Activists Alliance RAP Counsel present. Counsel need NOT be you“ want to see/mal^e. happen. 317 New York—Radical Lesbians. attorney (and so need not cost you' For information, advice, assistance or GAY STUDENTS UNION m eets d u rin g Sanchez, San Francisco. 861-2114 New York—a r ^ Transvestites Action anything). CoosultConsult with\ the GAY LIB- counsel, contact: the'school year at University of Revolutionaries c/o Marsha Johnson, * I ^ 1 5 1 1 3 E n ig h ts ERATION FRONT in regard toCounsel. Alternate U, 530 axth Ave, NYC : ----- At The - f NEVER go into an interrogation, inter Gay Liberation Front C alifornia Berkeley,“ 653-9350 GAY WOMENS RAP GROUP a t Womens New York—SHL Columbia U., NYC I t i l f p BERKELEY IWKEH'S CENTER V view, evaluation or discussion alone. P.O. Box 29280 Center in, Berkeley, 1126 Addison, New York--Gay Flames (street news It is critically necessary that EVERY Los Angeles, California 90029 S.F* STATE GLF meets during the Wednesday, 8 PM . ______paper) Bqx 410 OldChelsea a a . ^ C l U l ^ 1126 ADDISON ST. ^ ONE fight these cases through'. Can you (213)665-1881 school year“* Contact Charles IflfC 10011 imagine how the military machinery Thorp 931-3939. Student needs ride to Chicago by Dec, New York—Red Butterfly, Box 3445 Gr. ..would be. clogged if they had to_conduct__ 13. Will share expenses. Please con .Central a a ., blYC 10017 2000 Board hearings each yeàr on this' tact; Ken-841-0749. Philadelphia GLF--611 S. 2nd a . Phila-. subject, followed by 2000 appeals to the Gay Switchboard GAY STUDENTS UNION fo rm in g a t O Wasliiii'Vton GUF--1G20 S, a ., Wa.slungton .©-C. courts--to the Supreme Court if neces P.O. Box 4089 Sondtoa 34^te . Contact Ed 795-9950 Comments and “ explanations” of the sary? We need test cases to challenge Berkeley California z Gay scene,- not always informed or (415) 843-6982 friendly, aremade by avariety of straight m idw est QRAven iiTiAQe J NONVIOLENT ACTION GROUP W ednesdays sources. These sources -- newspaper ^ % 8 PM 3433 22nd Sti SP 647-97^2- o and magazine articles, university clas- Ann Arbor GLF--c/o Jim Toy, 722 Arbor - PHOTOGRAPHY political candidates, publip lectur a. Ann Arbor, Mich. 48110 S.I.R. (Society for Individual ers, psychiatric groups, etc. — need to BloomlngtoiK Ind.—GLF. Ü of Indiana GALLERY DANCE be answered by the Gt^ im m unity. F or Champaign-Urbana, 111. GLF U of Hi. ' PORTRAITS^ THEATER ' • m 9 I* w * w * Rights)* has closed business meet this purpose, a Public Information Center Chicago—GLF, 746 Beiden Chicano 60614 , COMPOSITES E%C. ings as well as forums and meetings Is being formed. *If you have a talent in Cliicago-'Newsletter, 2650 N. Orchard, open.to the public at SIR Center writing or sp e^ n g ,' or would like to Detrolt'-Liberator (newspaper) Box 631A 43 Caledonia Street help in anyway call John Newmeyer at Detroit—Liberator (newspaper). Sausalito, Calif. 9496S 83 Sixth St. San Francisco 781-1570 922-3072. Minneapolis--rREE:Gay Liberation, B- 332-5248 - 67 Coffman Union, U of Minn, Minnea- SAM-JOSE GAY LIBERATIOm m eets Krishna_needs HelpJ I want to start a 'polis, Minn. 55455 new drag Show for* Gay Lib Benefits. Normal, 111--GLF aateU of 111, Normal Wednesday 7:30 PM San Jose Who knows? It could start something a . Louis—GLF c/o Mike Yore 4530 Mc Cafeteria. Call 251-5^6 big. -We also need places to rehearse. Pherson, a. Louis, Mo. 63108 Contact Krldmaatthe Switchboard 3^6. Yellow Springs, Ohio—Antioch GLF c/o G.6.0. is a social group for Gay Brenda Richardson 128-T/2 Dayton fonK e4 a nice people. They have rap groups, a.. Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387. dizmers, special interest dis cussions, etc.^ Dali 83o-3o91 or* GOD sou th write 840 Jones St. Box 298, San ^ISTR0?0LITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH i s Atlanta—c/o-Great Speckled^rd, Box Francisco 94102. Events in both Protestant interdenominational and 544^5, Atlanta, Ga. 30308. ^ Meridocino Ave.'roso East'Bay and San Francisco. meets Sunday 1 PM California- Hall Bld& 2326 Guadekipe Ave. Aut4in, Tex Louisvifie—GLF c/o Louisville Free IZnpor.- 2^00 GAT TEENAGERS group i s fo rm in g . . Turk,and Polk Streets in San Fran Press, 1438 South First a. Louisville Contact Gay Switchboard 843-6982 cisco, Pastor Howsord Wells 775-2379 Ky 40208 ' £)iANCIWG~ T G*. Tallahasee—Florida aate GLF, 607 East EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC CUI'HiUNION- Park, Apt. 1, Talla. 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Box 17715, C.A. 90004, ' ‘ 213-665-1881 *■ GAY RAPS - Betty Kaplowitz and PEOPLE'S WORSHIP fo r gays with in L.A.—GLF Survival Comm, 577-1/2 N, Vermont, L.A. 90004 Charles Thorp w ill rap with formal Euchaf’ist and rap, Frids^r 4th a. L.A. 90057 2l3'484 1094 ‘ ' $3<2? fòt ['X issues individuals for "psyche and soul 9 PM;-Call Gay Switchboard 843-6982 L.A.—UCLA Gay Liberation ^ growth" for men and women. Call meets at the Exit. COUNCIL ON,RELIGION AND THE HOMO- 213 S.E. 9th a. contact Karl Simon 931-3939 *¿440 E SÉ Main, Portland, Ore. 9t2 » ^porviofvpa Pick QAr S unshine sexual. Call 776-6300. Sacramento—Gay LiK 1317 24th a. Apt suVöcrCption GAY COFFEEHOUSE IN BERKELEY on 4 Sacramento, Ca. 95819 • a f Fridays and Saturdays (8-12 FM) GAY SEMINARIANS m ee tin g T uesday San Diego—GLF-. P.O, Box 2882, San and Sundays (2-6 PM; 2516 Regent. 7:30 PM Contact: Laurence Diego, Ca. 92112 DeVries 848-9640 San Francisco—Gay Lib Workshop in ¿ 4t ÜP MSTE (near t«le3ra(J, Nonviolence 3343 22nd a. SJ". 94110 PEOPLE'S ALTERNATIVE COFPBEHOUK. 843-6982 on tiasfe i»\ San Francisco--Gay Womens Libe;;;ation O a m e ..' is no longerI 415-285-2314 . Formerly located oh Telegraph Ave . San Francisco—SJ". a a e GLF, 2729B s t r e i t . • w m seaachofa ripe the brothers and sisters have run California, SJ". 94115 JOBS (San Francisco groupscanbecontacted into trouble with the power struc C i 'H ’f ” - s tö d e ...... ¿ i p • PERSIM«voN Gay Switchboard always has an up- throuÿ Gay Switchboard, ture. And now they're looking for to-date listing of available, ’ San Jose—Gay Jj^èration, 1771 Ocalà Ave a n "alternative? locationi Keep- Seatüe-rHeiix Ifoiise, 1242 lah Ave. E,, GiAVsuhskinö 6ox*f08^ • 7S2 Cotüfnbus S,F. loba wanted^-pads, xoomateB, e-to. Borop #32' Seanle 98104, 206- checking w ith Gay Swi t chboard;, and- Give them "a call for the-latestI keep rC adi^ Gay Sxinshtoe... MA3 567L ^ . * S • I E:: â »-r-t-. N 3 ^ meri: : The gMiiw ^ieople play go on ^ on and on. This is octaves below normal) ' or outwit him (except that OHMciaily true of that cTuaiist of human games known as you've heard it all before)' or out talk him (most of aruWng. In chiising, the hunt is on and ^ huntar.be- which you've heard even bafòre.he triad to outwit you). oomas ttie hunted. ^antually.jtM tensiph becomes to And" there are of. course also the alweys-vvith-us high that the whole* of meeting someone with the clothes <|ueena (nothing below Bonwits), size queens, prospoct of.an avening. a weak, or even a iifetkne of body queens, ;he'ight queens (nothing below six feat), . jM M etion. prjBvan pleasure, becomes lost in ^ is opn- rwa queens, blonde queens, chicken queens, eatndogy are inside: afrakt and akme. Trapped in the role that h a. frontation of wiTit. Cruising It one of the great m^e queens (his sign alwsys agrees with yourg), drug queens, haa learned how to play very auccessM Iy, but has out-' chauvinist games: 1 can te tougher than you can beT I. campus queans'(wor^s oldest frat mien), muscle queens, grown years ago. whether it be the gorgeous 'numbm^ can hold out longer than you can hold out. I don'tneed and even queen queens. , — - .1______r ^ or tha twittering little boy of thirty, . you. I can't open up to you until uou open up to me. There are the ’numbers' guys whq have to announce GW roles in dw: whole of society are desitmed by Most men try tb set up their own rolm in.the first to you that you're going to be their first of the evening fear. Just as we act ki. sbalcht society out d fear that moments of this contest of wills. Whethar the playing or the^week or whatever. They also have to constantly thay will discover u% we react with each other out of. ■ground be some street in the Village, one of the ' tall you what the cruising report is for every port be- fear that we w ill discover ourselves also. Avenues, or any bar or beech there are always the same tweeen here. San Juan, and Dubrovnik. In other words, .It is no smai) wonder that from out of thjs self roles, often enough being played by the tame men only ' this is to meke you feel like arwdwr flweil number in his straight-jackating. many gay men develop a real hatred wearing different faces. We could begirt t^th the extreme address book. If you're lucky. for man. Just as many straight men hate vvomen because r^aricature of masculinity who believes tttat it it below And the put-up artist who has to first off embarrass of the rolas they must act out. Because we are forced to his maaculirte dignity to aver approach anyorkrelae. He you with how you're the most beautiful ming he's ever live^ in aaociety that condemns us as half-men, many of yvid usually stand like the steadfast tin soldier for hours seen since the last most beautiful thirtg he has ever seen. us feel that we must become men arid a half. This means on jit d , yypftderir^ why this isn't his particular night.*" Or the putKk)^ artist who thinks he has'to shake to shut out all of the real tenderness and sensitivities Next to him is the aggressive attimal, the tiger stalking you up to get you out. associated with feminity. Gay life is a gay drag when it his way through the situation, looking at everyone but There are the fantasy creeps who stare at you all night forces a man to reject tnoft of himself áhd only leaves not looking at anyone. He is really looking for that per until you walk over to them and then they walk away. him a sheiror role he must show in order to live with the fect fulfilm ent of some adolescent sex fantasy (referred They'd rather not krtow you, too well. reality of our situation: tharw e are ail outcasts. „ to as his 'type') who was possibly his first love at the age - All of these men add up to a frightening lack of self- ''W® must reject what straight society has straight- of .twelve (his first 'type') and who'm he expects to walk understanding and self-confidence. They can not face up jacketed us with and form our own life as real people by momentarily. to a situation without the rotes pre-defined, the def- not merely the old maje chauvinist roles left ow r from a Thara is also the verbal bully who thinks the best way initiont roled out. We are all too afraid to find out that dodo society. It's very simple, men. It's just a matter of to captivate his latest is to out-man him (voice three that certain gorgeous 'number' over there! is just like we getting together or falling apart. from CONE OUT! A.