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'The liberation of homosexuals can only be the work of homosexuals themselves." - Kurt Hiller. 1921 -

The Collective

John Allec. Christine Bearchell. Rick Bibout. Sue GoMing. Paul Hackney. Gerald Hannon. Ed Jackson. Tim McCasketl. Ken Popen. Phil Shaw. David Vereschagin

Design/Art Direction Kirk Kelly/Rick Uboul David Vereschagin 29: Power, The News Chris Bearchell, Edna Barker Edna Barker. Ed Jackson. Kevin Orr Ken Popert, Gillian Rodgerson. Richard Summerbell. Ken Tomilson. passion and Glenn Wheeler (Toronto News Staff) Richard Banner Fred Gilbertson. Jackie Goodwin. Kevin Griffin. Rob Joyce. Don Larvenlz. Jim Oakes. photography Stan Persky. Michael Wellwood (Vancouver News Staff) The FBI entertains with a travelling Maurice Beaulieu (Quebec). Wayne Bell (Kitchener). Gale Comin (Calgary). Nils Clausson (Edmonton). roadshow of pornographic horror films. Bernard Courte (Montreal). Jeffrey McLaughlin (Victoria). Robin Metcalfe (Halifax). Jim Monk (Windsor). Fay Orr Project P displays a specially assembled (Calgary). Joe Szalai (Kitchener)

International collection of films, books and magazines. Tim McCaskell, Gillian Rodgirson the censor board's Edna Barker. Kevin Orr And Mary Brown has

Reviews and Features put together the bits she won't let you see John Allec Rick Biboul. Danny Cockerline, Stephen MacDonald. into a nice little feature film. Phil Shaw. Colin Smilh, David Vereschagin In each case, the goal is censorship, and Out in the City John Allec the method, indiscriminate shock. Ron Ben Israel. Jon Kaplan. Ian Thom, Glendon McKlnney In this issue, of censorship Columns an opponent Joy Parks. Jane Rule. Ian Young '^ m.. shows how it should be done. Letters/Network Rick Biboul/Chris Bearchell Tom Waugh takes a calm, reasoned analytical look at some photographs from earlier Layout and Production times, now part of the collection of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, differentiating Rick Bibout Paul Aboud. Edna Barker Robert Barron. David Blair. the roots of good and bad in the gay images we see today. Mark Brickell. Terry Farley. John Flack. Steven Fontaine. Paul Hackney Chris Lea. Lee Lyons, Robert Mealy. Michael Petty Kevin Orr Colin Smith. Jean-Luc Svoboda. David Vereschagin, and members and friends of the collective. 7: Moral Panic

Advertising When the the roving circus known as the Fraser Commission on Pornography and Prostitution rolled into Barald Hannon. Ed Jackson, Ken Popert town, Chris Bearchell went to have her say — and a look around. she saw there, and at a later Robert Barron, Mike Kelley. Devon Nambiar. Robert Wilson good What

Promotion conference on violence, has made her wonder about the alliances the anti-pom movement is forging. Chris Gerald Hannon. Ken Popert Robert Wilson also examines the censor board's cutting of the feminist film Born in Flames; Kevin Orr looks at the pages in Subscriptions and Distribution Torso that Canada Customs made sure>'OM couldn't see; Ken Tomilson explores the potential effects of anti- Gerald Hannon. Ken Popert. Robert Trow Ward Beattie. Bill Brown. Milo Connelley Bob Wallace hate literature laws; £ind World news covers the battle over proposed anti-pom legislation in Minneapolis.

Office John Allec, Chris Bearchell, Rick Bibout, Gerald Hannon. Ed Jackson. Ken Poperi 17: Getting away with murder Robert Barron. Brad Candy Gail Crouch. Paul Hackney Dale Landry. ^Stephen MacDonald. Tim McCaskell. Sonia Mills. Konnie Reich. Ricky Rogers. Phillip Solanki. Rudy Steinbach. In 1978, Dan White walked into San Francisco City Hall and assassinated Mayor George Moscone Lee Waldorf. Ken West and gay Supervisor Harvey Milk. In 1984, he is a free man. Michael Rowe recounts the strange case of The Body Politic is published ten times a year by Pink Triangle Press, a non-profit corporation, as a contribution to the building of an AU-American Boy facing AU-American Justice. the gay movement and the growth of gay consciousness Respon- sibility for the content of The Body Politic rests with the Body Poli- tic Collective, an autonomous body operating within Pink Triangle Press The collective is a group of people who regularly g/i'e their 35: Dying and iiving time and labour to the production of this magazine The opinions of Ihe collective are represented only In editorials and cleariy marked When people around Los Angeles writer /activist Michael Lassell began to die, he decided he had to find a editorial essays. Offices of The Body Politic are located at 54 Wotseley Street (second floor) in Toronto way to deal with it, to talk about it. Here, he does, "trying to do it without dying a little myself, and this time The publication of an advertisement in The Body Politic dots not mean that the colleclive endorses Ihe advertiser you get to listen."

Mailing address The Body Politic, Box 7289. Sin A Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5W 1X9 Hurry back Phone (416) 364-6320 Regular departments Available on microfilm from: In his column this issue, Ian Young announces that MacLaren Micropublishing. Box 972, Sin F Toronto, Ontario. Canada M4Y 2N9 4: Letters to The Body Politic he'll be taking a leave of absence until the late fall,

Copyright ''. 1984 Pink Triangle Press meaning that his fans won't find his 22: Out in the City, our regular Toronto be able to 2nd Class Mail Registration No 3245 ISSN 0315-3606 regular small-press ponderings in "The Ivory calendar and lisitings section Tunnel" for the next few months. Ian, planning work 34: Jane Rule's "So's Your Grandmother" DISPLAY ADVERTISING DEADLINE on a few other projects, will still be doing writing FOR THE APRIL 1984 ISSUE: 40: Joy Parks's "Shared Ground" about books; keep an eye on Pink Ink and THURSDAY, MARCH 1 41: "The Ivory Tunnel" by Ian Young Philadelphia Gay News for some of his work. The Body Politic is a member ot the Coalition lot Gay Rights in Ian has, indeed, been writing for The Body Politic Ontario Ihe Toronto Gay Community Council. Ihe Canadian 42: Classifieds ads Periodical Publishers' Association, and Ihe International Gay since the Pleistocene era, as he says. We don't often Association 50: Network, TBP's lisiting of gay, lesbian get to thank our writers for that kind of dependable, The Body Politic is indexed regularly in and related organizations across Canada the Alternative Press Index. and skillful, contribution, so we'd like to take this Box 7229. Baltimore. MO 21218 51: Not "The Back Page," unfortunately. opportunity to do so now. Thanks, Ian. We're look- PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN CANADA It will return next month ing forward to your return.

THE BODY POLITIC O MARCH 1984 H 3 LETTERS

A crummy way to make a buck

Danny Cockerline's analysis of the The Body Politic will no longer be

motivations behind the efforts of vari- sold at the GO Centre. Am I to assume ous community groups to control street that the Board does not impugn the in- prostitution could do with some close tegrity of the Collective? Does the Board scrutiny itself. simply disagree with the reply? If the lat- Yes, prostitution should be completely ter, we at Gays of Ottawa would seem to Ibr mf)nmiriai call 9270970 in Torvnto decriminalized; yes, the cops and repres- have learned well the lessons of our op- sive community organizations should pressors! Have we fallen into the trap as

collectively fuck off. However, I take a result of our unholy alliance with the

extreme exception to Mr Cockerline's anti-pornographic right? I think not. problematic thinking regarding the insti- The petulance of the politically correct tution of prostitution. Perhaps (and within our movement has always been we're ttilking a big "maybe" here) in a no less a tyranny than the righteousness world far different from this one, the ex- of the "moral" majority without. Vivc^V^ change of sexual services for cash could In the past, I have chosen to make my potentially function in a non-exploita- contributions to our movement almost tive way. But the reality of prostitution exclusively through my local organiza- go^o'? 0(^ is a tragedy. Face it, pal, it's a pretty tion. For the first time, however, I feel crummy way to make a buck. And yet that the trust implicit in such a choice ^^«X0 ^1. K^ here is Mr Cockerline attempting to ped- has been betrayed. Therefore, for the dle some romanticized bullshit about duration of this outrageous boycott, and prostitutes as sexual outlaws rebelling while maintaining full membership and

against the establishment. activity in Gays of Ottawa, I will be Prostitutes do not fuck with the redirecting my financial support to the system on any level; the system fucks Body Politic Collective.

with them on every level. Many women I urge the Board of Directors of Gays turn to prostitution not because they re- of Ottawa to reconsider its decision on ject "compromising themselves in mar- the sale of The Body Politic at the Cen- R\7RnT GRRDEH riage" (Cockerline's theory), but be- tre. Further, I urge all members and sup- cause for a variety of reasons they find porters of GO to inform the Board that ^lorot themselves trapped: lack of money, edu- its decision is an unworthy response to cation, marketable job skills, maybe a The Body Politic and an unacceptable toronto • worldwide delivery • major credit cords • 236 1041 drug problem or a background of sexual reflection on the membership of Gays of (often incestuous) victimization. In Ottawa. counterpoint to this, we find Cockerline Dennis A Simonin glibly stating that prostitution "provides Ottawa another option for women and young • people who need to escape the nuclear Bravo to Chris Bearchell and Craig Why not escape family." Some option! Patterson for trying to knock some sense from the winter blahs? Cockerline describes those who pa- into the collective head of the Gays of tronize prostitutes as "the cheaters" and Ottawa Board of Directors on the sub- "the unattractive," conjuring up images jects of sexism, racism, misogyny and Come to lunch^ dinner of henpecked hubbies and pimply fatsos censorship (Editorial, TBP, Jan/Feb). looking for a little lovin'. Men of all The GO Board retaliates by petulantly or Sunday brunch at types seek out prostitutes because they practising its own form of censorship: are sick scumbags who need the pathetic "If you don't agree with us we won't sell power rush they achieve from "buying" your newspaper." They still want to read

another human being. Cockerline chides it however. So they continue to buy one those who aren't "appreciative of the copy "for the Ubrary." Restaurant to city's diver- This incident is unfortunately typical Jennie^s prostitute's contribution a

sity." I get the feeling that for all his of several which indicate that GO is no much-vaunted "sympathy," Cockerline longer living up to its promising begin-

doesn't really see prostitutes as people, nings. I will cite only the worst example but as "colourful" additions to the am- of several. In 1982 GO changed its bience of his night-time cruising. General By-Law to allow for equal rep- Rhonda Naeseth resentation by sex on its Board of Direc- Toronto tors. While that aim may have been laudable, the procedure followed to Lamentable response bring it about was illegal. On raising the matter by offering to help GO stay with-

A n open letter to the Board ofDirectors in the law, I received two responses, of Gays of Ottawa: both untenable. The first was simple

I sincerely regret the Board's decision to denial of the illegality, which indicated stop selling The Body Politic at the GO ignorance of the law on the part of Centre. people who should know better. The

Not only is the decision itself out- second, far more damning, was that

rageous, but it unwittingly betrays even since this change was desired by a ma- those who have supported GO's official jority of members anyway, there was no position on the Red Hot Video issue. necessity to observe due process of law. GO'S letter to The Body Politic stated We all know only too well where un- eloquently the position that the debate thinking acceptance of majoritarian tyr- should be about violence toward and ex- anny leads us. On a previous occasion it ploitation of women. This letter was was to Sachsenhausen. We have Peter Chabanowicz on the piano published by the Body Politic Collective. Thus GO is not prepared to observe Friday night, Saturday night & Sunday brunch In its response to GO, the Collective ad- toward minorities within itself those dressed these issues but spoke strongly basic human rights which it insists that of the dangers of censorship (in any society and the state observe towards all Jennie's Restaurant guise). In its subsequent decision to boy- minorities, notably our own. For an 360 Queen St E Toronto 861-1461 cott The Body Politic, GO would seem organization which advocates human

tunrh «.V)n-Fn 12 Jf) pm Dmnc position is hypocritical and 2 Mon-Thu, 6-9 JO pm: f n & Sdl, 6-1 1 pm Sunday Brunch: 12-4 pm determined to make the Collective's rights, such a point for them. ethically reprehensible. It negates those

4 D THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 ' 'We don't need Carole Pope THE CLASSIC LOOK. dismissing our sexual labels as evidence

of paranoia. . . . Please, please let us homosexuals define ourselves. ..."

few initiatives in this field which GO has other, and about our very existence and taken since. The attitude displayed by sense of self. the GO Board toward the major issues In 1984, as we continue to liberate of sexism, racism, misogyny and censor- ourselves from any lingering guilt feel- ship is lamentably in this same vein. ings we have about who and what we C IV K Heard are, as we liberate ourselves from the 600 SHERBOURNE STREET 967-0210 Ottawa hysteria surrounding the AIDS issue, I 236 BLOOR STREET WEST 922-2116 hope that we do not liberate ourselves TORONTO from our ability to love each other, Dan Burke, Senior Manager False messiah? unconditionally.

It appears that there is some confusion Brian Samuel in the minds of some TBP writers as to Toronto what magazine they are writing for. NO Jf covers stars like Carole Pope and Experience the colours and sounds of Europe Bewildering antagonism info on CFNY. TBP— "The liberation of homosexuals can only be the work of In response to Peter Bu's letter of objec- homosexuals themselves" Kurt Hiller, tion to your article on the Hong Kong 1921 — covers anything as long as the law reform report (TBP, Jan /Feb), we

focus is on the homosexual and the gay from the Gay Asians of Toronto would

community. I'm sure there is a TBP story like to say that the article was written in Pope — "Gays and the false after careful consultation with our messiah"? — but we don't need Pope group, and as such had our full support dismissing our sexual labels as evidence in its statements. of paranoia, without commentfrom We find Mr Bu's apparent antagonism TBP writers. Please, please let us homo- to both the article and the report most sexuals define ourselves, our gay culture, bewildering, and many of his statements and where we're going. unjust and inaccurate. First and fore-

I realize TBP is exhausted from battle most, both we and the author were Modern three-storey townhouses in a charming Victorian setting, (it got new blood), is financially drained aware that the report's recommenda- starting at (needs new sources of income), but re- tions are far from ideal, and certain of $148,200. member Kurt Hiller! its provisions objectionable. However, Tom Robinson, give me a song. the report recommends the decriminali- Beacons Row, Toronto (416) 629-1034 zation of homosexual acts between con- Proud to be gay, Open House Sundays 2-5 pm Alex Liros senting adults in private; compared to Toronto the existing legislation, under which buggery is a criminal offence punishable

by life imprisonment, this is a significant You are invited Unconditional love step in the right direction. It may be just- to a very special evening. Two weeks before the beginning of this ly argued that the report does not hold

ominous 1984, I broke up with my lover. homosexuality in high esteem, and that Come in costumes Two weeks shy of our one year anniver- it argues from a pro-human rights rather to dine, wine and party with us sary together, I resolved to end a one- than a pro-gay point of view, but until sided relationship in which my partner such time as the gays of Hong Kong are on had grown increasingly cold and indif- ready to stand up and fight for their ferent to me. As my previous three rela- rights, it is hard to expect the situation Mardi Gras Night tionships had ended in the same unre- to be otherwise.

quited love, I went about lamenting on Mr Bu also trivializes and distorts an all too common gay malaise — the some facts about the report. His state- seeming inability of gay men to willing- ment that "the report — like Queen Vic- ly, feelingly and reciprocally sustain a toria — ignores lesbians. Sounds great, long-term love relationship. eh?" was simply groundless: the report

Then one frigid evening in one of our states very clearly that lesbianism is not Friday, March 2nd local drinking establishments, as I was illegal under the present legislation, and 1 extemporizing to a friend about the half- does not recommend it to be otherwise hearted, "I care about you in my own 135, section 11.56). (p Dinner at Eight... way" philosophy of my most immediate What alarms us most, however, is Mr 'til former lover, my friend stopped me in Bu's implication that the reform move- ...Party late mid-sentence. He said, "Although your ment would only mean freedom for a lover disdainfully rejected your love, few because the majority of Hong Kong Door prizes for the best costumes although you were endearing to him gays are prostitutes. This is obviously only on his terms, you still had some- absurd. Contrary to Mr Bu's stereotypic thing. So many people never make phys- belief that most Asian gays in Hong Special set menu @ $20 per person ical love and feel an inner, giving love at Kong live on their white clients, most in includes a glass of Spanish Champagne the same lime. Be thankful. For some- fact practice homosexuality of their own a 4-course dinner how, strangely enough, his lack of gen- free will and and are not necessarily and

erosity made you a more generous per- forced into it by poverty. A lot of the (taxes and gratuities extra) son because you gave of yourself to him. prostitutes are actually victims of exploi- Frequently, we just remain locked in our tative organizations rather than of the separateness and isolation from each law.

other. Be thankful that no matter how it Our view is that the decriminalization ended, you had that larger-than-life feel- of homosexual acts in Hong Kong would ing in your commitment to him." enable the majority of its gay people to And so, unlike most of my other gay enjoy the basic human right to privacy

friends who rallied about me like a that the present law denies them. It is a Greek chorus to chant that they never key step in furthering the gay liberation

really liked my ex-lover anyway, this one movement in Hong Kong. The report it-

reminded me that even unrequited love self, despite its obvious pitfalls, is still a

was an energizing experience in and of valuable document not only because it itself. He reminded me that love isn't argues for the decriminalization of

simply loving one person, but thai it's homosexuality, but also because it con- the positive attitude we have about each tains the most complete and in-dcpth 64 Gerrard Street East, Toronto 977-1919

THE BODY POLITIC U MARCH 1984 l_ 5 '

KEY WEST ' * I have been a loyal customer of the Bay for many years, but I have never visited your washrooms for any reason. Now I will never visit your store either.'

AFFORDABLE RATES collections of both historical con- A private guesthouse with pool and I have been a regular and loyal cus- temporary views and facts about homo- tomer of The Bay for many &. complete gym in historic Old years, but I sexuality in the Hong Kong Chinese have never visited your washrooms Town, within walking distance for population. it As such should not be un- any reason. Now, I will never visit your of bars, discos and beaches. justly discredited. store either. Unless Mr Bu's self-oppression has S R A tkinson 512 Simonton St. led him to believe that most of Hong Toronto Key West, FL 33040 Kong's native gays are prostitutes to the white colonists and would therefore not (305)294-9227 Thefollowing letter was sent to all be able to benefit from a basic change in gay legislation to acknowledge their rights community groups in Ontario this January: and dignity, we urge him to join us in supporting a first step in our long and I am writing to you in my role as "gay difficult journey to total liberation. representative" to Ontario's Provincial Advisory Alan Li, on behalf Committee on the Acquired You'll Find It All At of ^'^ Gay Asians of Toronto Immune Deficiency Syndrome. As you may know, in June of 1983 the provincial government set up a committee man- A force to contend with dated to investigate the medical conse- Something I just read in The Body quences and social impact of AIDS in

Politic brought tears to my eyes. I refer Ontario. It was to help the government "Bum to Jane Rule's article on pornography prepare against the predicted rise in (Jan /Feb '84). With her bittersweet cases by fostering medical research, do- Toronto's First Gay Video Bar ^^H^t^FTTW^^ prose, she is helping to sharpen our ing professional and community educa- Beer $1.25 awareness of the magnitude of "us." tion and working to reduce the negative All week — Every night We are a force to contend with in this social impact the epidemic was creating. world — witness the many battles Not surprisingly, the committee was rn^f^m 9 -12 pm on so many fronts — and we have formidable initially made up of health professionals 592 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, Canada strength. It's a long process though, as and experts with no attempt to seek the S2LX we all need time, our own time, to draw input of the communities most affected (416)921-1035 the battle lines, to define the dimensions by AIDS. After being criticized for this ^^^tM of our unique struggles in the world. In obvious deficiency, in September the ^^^ these wars, which we as caring gay men Provincial Advisory Committee asked and women must fight — against AIDS, for representatives from the hemophi- racism, anti-semitism, sexism, homo- liac, Haitian and gay communities to

phobia, and the ultimate nuclear horror join them. As a Toronto gay physician I — we desperately need the thoughtful was approached and now sit as an inter- work of writers like Jane Rule. mittent and non-voting member of this Elizabeth Bolton committee, struggling to have the con- Montreal cerns of gays heard and considered. In writing to your group I wish to get CARBON COPIES the word out that we have a voice, however muffled, on this issue. Input from Complaints Department, gay men and lesbians in places other The Hudson's Bay Company than Toronto is needed. I am interested Box 1242, Stn T in hearing from groups and individuals Toronto, ON M6B 4G5 about their AIDS-related concerns. If Dear Sirs: there are cases of prejudice or discrimin-

I am enclosing full payment of my Bay ation by health care workers, or others, account, as well as the remains of my to gay people, this should also be raised.

Bay account card, which I have des- If there is sufficient interest in your

troyed. I wish my account to be closed. community, I would be willing to attend I do this to demonstrate to you that a meeting on this issue. Speakers, in- some of your customers take serious ex- cluding myself, would enjoy coming to ception to your policy regarding the sex- talk on the health and social aspects of ual activities of some men in your wash- AIDS. This could be followed by a

rooms. I understand that there have forum where your members would have been a significant number of arrests of the chance to express their concerns for men over at least the past year, and that me to take back to the Provincial Advi- these arrests are largely the result of your sory Committee. policy to allow the police to respond to At this time, let me remind you of the this problem by whatever means they AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)

choose. I also understand that you have which was set up to offer educational maintained this policy in the face of resources, patient support, and political knowledge that other stores and ins- lobbying around AIDS. ACT's major titutions have devised means of prevent- base of support is the Toronto gay coming this behaviour rather than simply munity and in the last nine months has punishing it, and that the punishment of done much to lessen the effects of this these activities takes a personal toll in epidemic.

the lives of these men far beyond the I can be reached by phone or mail at damage done to the public or your store. the ACT offices in Toronto, and am You are, of course, aware that the looking forward to hearing from you. usual police method of responding to Evan Collins such activities is to pose as men who are A IDS Committee of Toronto interested in participating in such illegal Box 55. StnF, Toronto, ON, M4Y2L4 acts, and, therefore, in the end help to (416) 926-1626 perpetuate the problem. Their methods, 9 Isabella St.,Toronto, and your open support of them, are Canada The Body Polilic welcomes your tellers. Send I hem nothing short of malicious and are much lo us al: Letters, TBP, Box 7289, Sin A, Toronto, immoral than (416)921-3012 more any of the behaviour ON M5W 1X9. Letters selectedfor publicaiion they are trying to stem. may be editedfor length.

6 D THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 .

THE NEWS

Fraser Committee on Por- tioning of society, sparked largely by US Thenography and Prostitution has atrocities in Vietnam, was widespread at all the makings of a good, old- this time. The Vietnam War era also fashioned travelling road show. meant a continuation of the post-war Excited whispers announce its boom for economies like Canada's, imminent arrival. Righteous tongues and which was keyed into the war effort, and fingers have plenty to wag about. that meant further extension of relatively Everyone, from the most respectable to affluent lifestyles. As the anti-war move- the least reputable, wants to gawk and ment forced the US withdrawal, the have a say. But, predictably, it's the re- economy and radicalism waned. The chill spectable who are given the most respect of the current right-wing political The rest — gay people and a small backlash began to set in. Feminists and but growing number of sex-trade •^ PROSTITUTION gay liberationists worried that the back- workers, some of them feminists — raise lash would mean a further marginalizing their voices in protest amidst the babble. of their concerns, increasing conservatism The babble? Pro-family moralists who in their movements and an erosion of the favour further restrictions of prostitution gains made during the '60s. Develop- and pornography. Politicians who favour ments in the current debate about por- whatever they think their constituents nography and prostitution may represent most want to hear — usually more law the realization of some of our worst fears. and order. Feminists who support prosti- Another alarming thing about the tutes but oppose porn. And a few femin- Fraser Committee is that it's being given a ists and gay liberationists who oppose progressive cover by feminist support for sexist pornography and censorship and the anti-porn movement. The day before criminalization of prostitution. (Admit- the Toronto hearings began, some mem- ted consimiers of either branch of the sex bers of the Fraser Committee attended a industry have been conspicuous by their symposium called "Media Violence and silence — this pom fan, for instance, Pornography." didn't have time to explain her prefer- The event was sponsored by the Cana- ences, and the anti-prostitution crusader dian Coalition Against Violent Entertain- rumoured to have had liaisons with ment (CCAVE) and chaired by David 14-year-old hustlers didn't, understand- Scott, a therapist who has a reputation in ably, ovra up to his.) PANIC the Toronto press as a spokesman against It's easier to make light of it now, but violence against women. The 20 US "ex- as I sat in the Toronto hearing surround- perts" (less than a third of them women), ed by gay journalists and activists, hook- CHRIS BEARCHELL OBSERVES who dominated the agenda and gave the ers, hustlers and strippers — a collection event its international pretentions, cost a very much the object of hostility for other THE LATESTATTEMPTS TO JUSTIFY lot of money to import. And that money observers participants — and as most out of the pockets those attend- and CENSORSHIP, AND PONDERS LIFE UNDER THE came of other deputants to the committee made ing: it cost $40 to get in. Only $10, their pleas for more laws, greater control NEWSEXUAL McCARTHYISM though, for members of the media — cer- and more power, one palpable feeling tain media, anyway. When four of us grew hour by hour: that our very exis- from The Body Politic tried to pre- tence was threatened by this charade, and those who were soliciting were turned out ed in a stylized fashion by mass media; register, we were told that all but one of by the larger process it is a part of. onto the streets. And no sooner had the the moral barricades are manned by edi- us would have to pay the full rate. No • court case ended than the Hutt decision tors, bishops and politicians and other such restrictions were placed on the Periodic moral panics and the political came down: as a result of a Vancouver right-thinking people... Sometimes the number of reporters allowed from the scapegoating of sexual minorities have prostitute's challenge to the soliciting sec- panic is passed over and forgotten, but at Globe and Mail, the CBC, the Willowdale been a part of life in this land for the dec- tion of the Criminal Code, the British other times it has more serious and long- Mirror or Now. ade and a half I've been involved in poli- Columbia Supreme Court ruled that, to term repercussions and it might produce CCAVE £dso restricted participation to tics. What's so alarming about it this be an offence, soliciting had to be "press- changes in legal and social policy or those 18 years of age and older, allowed time? Well, for one thing, it's on a grand ing and persistent." even in the way societies conceive of no questions from the fioor and began scale. Present mayor Mike Harcourt inherit- themselves." with a religious service. The $40 fee in- Until now, such campaigns have been ed the problem. A moralist in modern "Sexuality has a peculiar centrality in cluded one plastic lunch, but no day-care. fairly routine, local diversionary political drag, he doesn't care if prostitution goes such panics," Jeffrey Weeks observes in There were no deals offered to students manoeuvres, or part of the usual way po- on, he says, just as long as Parliament Sex, Politics and Society, "and sexual or the unemployed. lice accumulate the statistics they need to passes laws to get it off the streets and out 'devismts' have been omnipresent scape- The agenda included in the conference justify increased budgets. of sight. goats." And the Fraser Committee, or ra- press kit noted that, in order to "avoid The extensive street solicitation that In some cases, morality campaigns are ther Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan's controversy," hot topics like abortion currently alarms Vancouver's West End the result of internal police politics — agenda, of which the Committee is only a and homosexuality were not to be ad- residents was brought about by the dili- that's one of the favoured explanations part, threatens to catch sexual minorities dressed. All the speakers had apparently gent efforts of several city administra- for the 1981 Edmonton bath raids — or of in legal changes that may make them the agreed to this, but one, Dr Pauline Bart tions. In 1977, when the notorious hippie- special local conditions — the pre-Olym- long-term scapegoats of a new sexual of Chicago, used some of her time at the basher Tom Campbell was still mayor, pic crack-down on Montreal's gay bars in McCarthyism. podium to defend her pro-choice posi- the city commissioned a report on prosti- 1976, for instance. Sometimes such cam- A decade and a half ago, important tion on abortion. For this, she was tution from anthropologist Monique paigns have regional implications. Toron- changes in both sex and law were settling pounced on in the hallway by CCAVE Layton. The report made all the usual lib- to's "clean-up" of Yonge Street massage into place in western capitalist nations. president Joan DeNew, who threatened eral recommendations about discontin- parlours in the late '70s not only swelled From the increasingly obvious use of sex punishment for her violation of the uing arrests in favour of providing econ- the ranks of street prostitutes by forcing as an inducement to consumption in ad- rules: the conference might decide not to omic alternatives to people in the busi- indoor sex-industry workers out onto the vertising to the increasing explicitness of cover her hotel bill.

ness, and detailed the workings of night- pavement, it also heralded the beginning sex in pornography, social life was be- There was other evidence of ruthless-

clubs that provided heterosexual prostitu- of Ontario Attorney General Roy coming eroticized. At the same time, a ness among the organizers. 1 discovered tion for upper- and middle-class men. A McMurtry's political gay-bashing. liberalization of law was taking place in that a friend, a stripper who /n/r/ man- secret and expensive police investigation "Societies appear to be subject every North America and Europe thai placed aged to get in at the SIO press rate only also examining the clubs led to a two-year now and then to periods of moral panic," an individual's consent — rather than after being told rudely and condescend- court action against them, during which says Stan Cohen in his book Folk Devils public morality — at the centre of the ingly to behave herself, was likewise time old-fashioned moralist Jack and Moral Panics. "A condition, epi- law's concern about private behaviour. suspect. She had been working with the Vollrich was elected to the mayor's sode, person or group of persons emerges Weeks calls these changes "a major legis- YWCA to organize a strippers' sup- chair. to become defined as a threat to societal lative rcsirucluring, a shift in the mode of

The pressure on the clubs ensured that values and interests; its nature is present- regulation of civil society." Radical ques- conlinued on page 9

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Right: what you see Is what and Mrs Canada slept easy you don'tget. Spreads from Torso's version and during those long nights in Feb- February Issue — the US the Canada Customized one Mrruary, safe in the knowledge that this country's customs erance of the average Canadian, and only agents were protecting citizens a judge has the power to determine what from anything that might chase the mid- the average Canadian thinks. winter blues away. According to Tariff Program Manager A case in point is Torso magazine, a Andre Lachance, American publishers gay male glossy with claimed Canadian "seek advice" before they put their mag- sales of 20,000 copies per issue, which azines to bed so publications won't be de- sported eight and a half white pages with tained at a point of entry. Lachance says the word "censored" splashed across that he and the two officers who work them in the February issue. The responsi- with him never tell a publisher to censor ble parties were officials m the Prohibited anything; they only offer an opinion be- Importations section of the Tariff Pro- fore the fact. Among the types of mat- gram of the Department of National Rev- erial coming under the purview of La- enue's Customs and Excise Branch. They chance and his staff are books, magaz- took exception to several things, but es- ines, video or audio tapes, and video pecially to a short fiction piece called discs. "Men Alone." When asked what kind of guidelines There's nothing very atypical about are used, Lachance was vague. "Maybe a "Men Alone." The story, set in west person's mouth touches a penis," he said. Texas, uses a "peeper" who observes "That would be an act of fellatio and not three men masturbating. The first one acceptable." Lachance said he wasn't jerks off in front of a mirror and ejacu- familiar with the February issue of Torso, lates into a cup of tea. The second man and when told of the removal of "Men stuffs the heat-shrink plastic from a Alone" would only say, "That's very record album into a rolled-up athletic interesting."

sock and squirts pink gel into the ap- If a publisher is uasatisfied with an of- paratus. He places this over his penis, and ficial's opinion, there can be an appeal to his penis between the mattress and box a customs appraiser, the deputy minister springs of his bed. The third man, Bret, of the Department of National Revenue keeps a chalk mark on the garage fioor or, as a last resort, a County Court judge.

and tries to ejaculate past it. "Competi- That's exactly what Glad Day Book- tion has always meant a lot to Bret." shop owner Jearld Moldenhauer did The other censored parts of the magaz- when a Toronto inspector for Customs ine include one of seven photos by Atlan- and Excise decided that Pan magazine ta photographer Roger Rutherford, ("Paedo Alert News") and the books showing a man's two hands clasped Panthology One and Panthology Two around his penis, and three and one half were all deemed immoral or indecent. pages of magazine, 8mm film, underwear" Pan magazine, for gay male pedo- and penis-enlarger-device advertising. philes, includes news items, book and According to Torso publisher Donald film reviews, general articles, fiction and Embinder, customs inspectors normally some photos of boys, although there is no demand that black dots be printed onto nudity. Panthology One and Panthology us edition A If Canadian edition parts of certain photographs before a Two contain short fiction but no photo- magazine can enter Canada. When the graphs or drawings. February issue was submitted to Customs In Glad Day's appeal submission, law- and Excise offices in Ottawa, officials yer Diarme Martin said the inspector disapproved of an entire editorial story, erred because the books and magazines the first time that has happened to Torso. "are not designed to appeal to prurient "Clearly there's no way you can dot a interests nor to titillate or exploit sexual whole story," Embinder said in a tele- subjects, but rather address a controver- phone interview from New York. "So sial subject in a responsible and thought- that's why we put 'censored' across those ful manner."

pages... so people would know that it "Both the magazines and the books are wasn't our idea. Obviously, we'd like to concerned with male homosexual pedo- put in what we want, but that's not the philia," she wrote, "an admittedly con-

way the world works." troversial subject. However, it is not with- One of the problems that Embinder, in your inspector's mandate to ban mat-

like all foreign publishers, has is the lack erial solely because it is controversial."

of guidelines stating what is and is not Customs agents originally informed considered obscene by customs. The Glad Day of the ruling last April. In

reason is Tariff Order 99201-1 , which January, Glad Day found out that, des- prohibits the importation of immoral or pite the appeal, the seized books and indecent material. The court test is magazines had been burned. whether material exceeds the level of tol- Kevin Orr with Glenn WheelerD

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port group. The day before the symposium she was told by someone at the Y that David Scott had called to ask them to warn her not to disrupt the event by per- forming a strip. ("Without being paid for it?" was her incredulous reaction.) The police had been notified, Scott said, and

were prepared to jail her if any disruption occurred. No, Mr Scott wouldn't say where he'd heard that such a dramatic bit of subversion was being planned. For- tunately for my friend, the women at the Y were appalled at Scott's allegations, and the woman's relations with the Y were not jeopardized. But now we know how dedicated censors operate. The day's programme, after the service, got underway with an extensive, if repetitious, review of research documen- ting an apparent correlation between seeing violence on television and engaging in violent behaviour. There followed a lengthy, repetitious panel about violent pornography emd violent behaviour. The conclusions drawn about TV were apparently meant to transfer to pom. I'd wondered about those conclusions earlier — did the correlations documented prove that watching TV violence caused violent behaviour, or were other factors at work? Maybe things infiuencing violence in life could also influence a person's attraction to violence on television. And no one now seemed to question how comparable Target practice for feminist terrorists, Adelaide Norris, one of the Army's black another way now that it is projected for from Lizzie Borden's "restrteted" film the studies — lesbian militants, falls into the hands of general community release represents a on two different media television and — might be. the FBI. The Women's Army faces its mockery of community standards, says pornography :{• biggest challenge — how to respond. Emanual. The effects of TV violence have mostly In real-life Tory Ontario, Toronto's The appeal procedure should be com- been judged by measuring real-life experience Development Education Centre (DEC), pleted by the time the film is scheduled to — so many hours of viewing per Women really day, every day — and mostly in the long which distributes the film, had slated it Ijegin its run at the Music Hall. If DEC fighting back: no for a week-long run at the end of Feb- loses the appeal, "We don't know exactly term, assessing the experience of children ruary, beginning with a benefit for the what we'll do," says Emanual, "but who've grown up into violence-prone wonder the censor two magazines Fuse and Broadside at the we're determined to fight this as far as we adults. Most research on pornography Music Hall (see Out in the City for de- can." and violence has been laboratory-cons- board squirms... tructed, has dealt with ef- tails). DEC is outraged at the proposed There was a brief period of respite for and short-term fects on adults. most studies cut, and has appealed it and the movie's DEC and other film lovers when the On- And TV "restricted" (limited to viewers older tario Court of Appeal ruled the censor have involved violence alone, not than 18) rating, which was slapped on the board could classify films but could not violence in combination with sex. The assumed connections were as dubious as Imagine fast-moving women's hands — a film (even though it falls well within the order cuts. It was a short-lived victory for collage of them — at their daily chores. A "Parental Guidance" guidelines) because freedom of expression, lasting about 24 they were suspicious. The lunch-hour address, by Sur- mother tending children. A worker wrap- it contains "an implied rape" — one of hours, until the court awarded a stay US ping meat in a packing plant. A techni- the incidents in which the Women's Army against the decision, pending the outcome geon General Everett Koop, sounded for cian readying instruments for a doctor's intervenes to thwart an assault. of an appeal to bt heard April 2. Until all the world like a recording of Ronnie use. A prostitute rolling a condom onto Barbara Emanual, co-director of DEC then, Brown and company can snip hap- Reagan. (I didn't get close enough to see an erect cock — CUT! Films, reports that the appeal of the pily away. whether he had a wind-up key in his back.) It That's what a majority of the Ontario rating is being considered, according to a The proposed cutting of Born in was more imported American Censor Board decreed as the 30-second letter from censor board chairwoman Flames certainly suggests that the censor fantasy, and we were not given the chance scenario from Lizzie Borden's futuristic Mary Brown, only because the board had board cannot be trusted to demonstrate a to question its applicability to Canadian feminist film. Bom in Flames, flashed not reached a unanimous decision to rate feminist sensibility, even when dealing reality. That very day, the Toronto Star across their screen. the film "R." with feminist films. In the words of one carried a front-page feature entitled "Violent Is On the screen, it's New York City ten Born in Flames has played — uncut — disgruntled lesbian film buff, "First Not Crime Not Rampant." In On- tario, the Star reported, the violent years after the American democratic soci- in Toronto once already, during last a Love Story and now this." crime- rate has remained almost constant for the alist revolution, and women are still get- year's Festival of Festivals, where it was Regardless of the outcome of DEC's ting screwed — and raped. Feminist vigi- well-received. The fact that the censors appeal, get down to the Music Hall to see past ten years, but public anxiety about lantes of the Women's Army, on bicycles treated the film one way for screening this wonderfully subversive film — while violence is escalating. no less, rescue damsels in distress. Then before a film-festival audience and quite youstillcan. CBD Then the real emotional manipulation began. More researchers with scads of slides, excerpts from rock videos and ad- THEFRASER COMMITTEE: vertising images, all warm-up acts for the thing that got all the press: an FBI slide- Scouting for a consensus — or a show on "child molesters." Pedophilia, contrary to enlightened scientific under- .standing, was defined by the FBI as an Appointed by Justice Minister IVIark iVIac- customers as culpable as prostitutes. And by lished in their issues Paper, which discusses essentially violent pathology, and one Guigan last June 23 and chaired by Vancou- defining cars as public places, the law will options for treatment of the two concerns in characterized by a neurotic penchant for ver lawyer Paul Fraser, the Special Committee enable police to lay charges for soliciting or the Criminal Code. The paper has been con- collecting things — pedophiles save letters on Pornography and Prostitution has been other acts that occur in them. demned as homophobic and anti-sex by the from each other, photos of their lovers or touring the country since December, trying to The obscenity section of the Code will be Toronto gay organization the Right To Privacy other images they find sexually attractive. determine what, it any, national consensus revised so that any thing, including video- Committee in its brief to the committee "The Thus the ordinary habils of people whose exists on the two issues, tapes, can be obscene, so that there need not issue paper makes no distinction between sex erotic lives arc denied public validation, • be a connection between sex and violence for and sexism," the brief says "It is the confla- and who would naturally seek communi- In the midst of the Toronto hearings in early an offence to occur — violence alone could be tion of these issues which is homophobic cation with each other, were construed as February, MacGuigan announced an entire enough to convict - and so that the definition because it assumes that the organization of symptomatic of serious illness. Many of package of proposed revisions to the Criminal of the term "obscenity" is expanded to forbid sexual life in Canada is uniform and that in the slides of these collections (no doubt •Code, among them greater controls on por- representing people in a "degrading" man- every instance it has a heterosexual, patri- ' gathered by the FBI in their continuing nography and prostitution. The laws gov- ner. The Fraser Committee says it does not archal character witch-hunt against the North American erning prostitution will be tightened up by expect the proposed revisions to affect its • Man-Boy Love Association) included pic- making anyone who offers — ma public place mandate in any way. The Fraser Committee's tour winds up in April -- ture of children — living people whose to buy or sell sex liable to prosecution. So far, discussion at the committee's hear- and its final report is expected before the faces the FBI felt to display widely ' free Theoretically, this will make prostitutes' ings has centred around the agenda estab- endof1984 CB' and in public, with no regard for potcn-

THE BODY POLITIC LJ MARCH 1984 D 9 tial consequences. All, of course, in the interest of "protecting" the very same children. *^..the protest seemed a How, you might wonder, could feminists stand for all this? They didn't — sort token gesture. But they of. A group of protesters took to the couldn't have done any- stage, hastily made banner in hand, and thing else, read a statement, in English and French, except -^ condemning the fact that the symposium acknowledge that they I cost too much, that it censored discussion had lost control over of abortion and lesbianism, and that it was not feminist -controlled. The pro- what was supposed to be testers also said that the critique of por- their issue, that their nography was not discussed in its proper allies right social and analytic context: the broader on the could condition of women in society. not be trusted, that they Most of the statement's original had made an error in signators were symposium speakers — including political judgment in if key-note speaker Andrea Dworkin, who delivered an oration that lending credibility to rivalled Billy Graham for sheer vehe- such people. they mence. Her signature, and those of other But speakers on the protest statement, seemed weren't willing to admit a token gesture. But they couldn't have any of this. It was in done anything else, except acknowledge that they had lost control over what was many ways a pathetic supposed to be their issue, that their allies scene: a determined on the right not trusted, that could be group of trying to they had made an error in political judg- women ment in lending credibility to people such keep up a brave front in as those who had organized the symposi- the face of real um. But they weren't willing to admit any ' of this. It was, in many ways, a pathetic powerlessness.' scene: a determined group of women, complete with Maude Barlow, the prime minister's feminist advisor, up on stage trying to keep up a brave front in the face

of real powerlessness. It is a scene I fear will be repeated too often before we've heard the last of the moral panic over pornography. • dose of paternalism — like that shown at And then there is prostitution. The only the symposium, where prostitutes were

reference to it in the symposium was in compared to victims of rape. Prostitutes the statement of protest, which took an were no longer potential allies — they Peter Evans insulting slap at prostitutes by equating were pitiable victims. "I don't want to their jobs with the victimization of hear that 'jobs, not jeiil sentences' bit one April 20, 1955 - January 7, 1984 women who are raped. more time," the stripper beside me mut- In its initial radical fury, women's lib- tered darkly, at one point during the

eration attacked marriage because it insti- hearings. "Don't they know we have jobs tutionalized women's economic depen- — or had them, until they went on their dence on men, perpetuated sex roles and little moral crusade. All we want is some an unfair division of labour that left respect for our work." women responsible for largely unpaid Seeing prostitutes as helpless victims is domestic work, denied sexual choice and consistent with the way such feminists freedom, and symbolized the ownership also see pornography — as rendering all of women by men. women helpless victims. The power of a Prostitution isn't that different from critique of fundamental social structures

marriage. Rather than sign a lifetime con- is lost as individual men are seen as the

tract of sexual and other services for se- source of women's problems. But it is the curity, the prostitute negotiates system that perpetuates male domination. The AIDS Committee of Toronto is grieved by the death of Peter many such contracts, all more or less on her These women have ignored this, though. Evans in Ottawa on January 7, 1984. To his parents, his brother own terms. The stigma of the whore If the system is to be blamed, there would and sister, and his lover we send both our condolences and our keeps most heterosexual women faithful, hardly be any point in demanding that the gratitude for their constancy with him since his diagnosis a year to preserve bargaining power within their government legislate against sexist images earlier. marriages, while the existence of the in pornography. Not only would such ac- whore ensures the double standard that tion not change anything, it would give

Beyond grief, though, we are proud to have known Peter. He allows men more sexual options. It is not greater power to the system that causes the problem in the first place. demonstrated to all Canadians that a person with AIDS has possible to deal with problems presented by prostitution without dealing with the • much to teach his friends, the general public, and those who totality of women's oppression; prostitu- Any woman who comes to feminism have or live in fear this of syndrome. tion is just another part of "women's through the anti-porn movement comes work" that perpetuates systemic inequal- to a much more respectable, less radical, Peter was present at our founding press conference last summer, ities, and it requires systemic solutions. more conservative movement than the and encouraged our activities. His request that memorial Many feminists who addressed the Fra- one which once clearly aimed at the im- donations be sent to ACT was his enduring testimony of faith in ser Committee took the easy route and portant, rather than the easy, targets. our undertaking. His own public appearances, interviews, and denounced porn, while not discussing But there are still feminists who have prostitution. Those who did tended to the important targets in sight. They know personal presence remain with us as a courageous, recommend decriminalization without that when disease is rampant, you can't indispensable gesture. hesitation. So why did members of the simply concern yourself with the symp- Canadian Organization for the Rights of toms, no matter how horrible those The AIDS Committee of Toronto, 66 Wellesley Street East, Prostitutes see themselves as "sold out" symptoms may be. They also know that by many of those same feminists? Partly an obsession with victimhood can derail a Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1G2. (416)926-1626. because the women who work as models movement that must concern itself with

in pornography are sisters in the struggle power — who has it, how they got it, and

for the right to make their living as they how to take it for ourselves.

choose — pornography is a form of pros- It must be up to those feminists to titution, and many who work in the sex point out the ever-more-apparent dangers industry will not be so easily divided. And of allegiances with those who, despite partly because the advocacy of decrimin- their superficial commitment to common alization usually came without a thor- concerns, are enemies of freedom and ough-going feminist analysis, but with a justice. D

10 n THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 BY-ELECTION of accountability," he says. "It's just a rationale for bizarre behaviour." Any aware gay voter could cite evidence in support of Sewell's point. NDP politicians NDP forces other leftists out of Ward Six race are notorious for disregarding the party's democratically adopted policies on gay- related (and many other) issues, both in TORONTO —The surprise resignation countabiUty; they say a party-nominated opposition and in government. The ques- of senior alderman John Sewell has alderperson is responsible to party mem- tion of accountability between elections thrown Toronto's Ward Six, home to a bers for his or her behaviour and they recurs whether we elect an individual or a substantial and politically active gay pop- point to the sometimes erratic support party. ulation, into its fourth aldermanic cam- Sewell has offered the gay community. The real issue here is the NDP's deter- paign in five years. Sewell's departure has Jack Layton's executive assistant, Lee mination to control progressive electoral also catapulted Jack Layton, the ward's Zaslofsky, says, "the party is a method of politics. The elimination of progressive gay-supportive junior alderman, into the ensuring accountability which has independent candidacies, like Martin's or senior position with its seat on Metro Hislop's, ultimately reduces the power of Council. specific community groups, such as gay Since his election to City Council in people or tenants, to exact support from 1982, Layton has been a consistent sup- the NDP. With the threat of such indepen- porter of the gay community. He now dent candidacies removed, the party is wants to bring gay issues to Metro Coun- more free to set the terms on which it cil. "I can pursue some gay issues much chooses to integrate these groups into its more actively on Metro Council: employ- constituency. Given the party's overall ment rights, social and community ser- Layton: (above) elevated: Martin drafted. zig-zagging on gay issues, that's not good vices — particularly in connection with news for gay men and lesbians. gay youth — and policing," notes The Ward Six by-election is set for Layton. "And Metro has more influence However, it now appears that the NDP April 9. KenPopertD than the City on the provincial is seeking a monopoly on the selection of government." left-wing candidates. At a meeting held POLICE George Hislop, a gay activist and busi- January 3, Martin was told that, as an in- nessperson who came close to capturing dependent progressive, he would receive no backing, no the Ward Six junior seat in 1980, is being money and no campaign urged to run again by some members of workers from the NDP. Metro Labour Chaise thrown out; the gay community. If he runs, he says, Council head Wally Majesky jokingly drove the point home. "Not only will I he wants to mount a solid campaign, Sparrow vindicated fearing that a bad showing "would affect not give you a nickel," he told Martin at worked out pretty well in my experience. the beginning, not only my credibility but also the credi- that meeting, "but I will badmouth you The members have ways of dealing with TORONTO — From biUty of the gay vote." Hislop does not all over town." And the W6NDP set about politicians who deviate from party many people suspected it was a set-up. intend to make a decision until a clear organizing its nomination meeting, threat- policy." Allan Sparrow — an alderman from 1974 field of candidates has emerged. ening to nominate Ng to run against Mar- Sewell, who contends that parties drive to 1980 and one of the most effective One independent who has declared tin unless he himself sought and won the people away from politics, laughs at the fighters for reform of the Metro Toronto charged with sexually assaulting himself is professional homophobe Stew nomination. suggestion that party candidates are more Police — Newton. Newton's most recent foray into Some NDP members maintain that the accountable than independents. "Nomin- a 12-year-old girl by touching her breast. the public arena was the mass distribution issue in all of this manoeuvring is ac- ation by the NDP produces not one iota What we didn't know last September 16, last fall of leaflets that called for the clo- sure of gay businesses because of AIDS man-boy relationships. and that accused the city's media of cov- It is an oft-repeated cliche of Toronto's ering up the real number of cases of AIDS Sewell: bowing out — maybe media that SeweU's support for the gay in Toronto. community cost him the 1980 mayoralty Joe Baptista, a businessperson, has John Sewell, Ward Seven alderman from 1970s of the city's concentrated and visible contest. But even a quick glance at the also declared his candidacy. 1970 to 1978, mayor from 1978 to 1980 and gay "ghetto." returns for the 1978 and 1980 elections No strong right-wing candidate has Ward Six alderman from 1981 to 1984, is Later, especially as mayor, Sewell voiced refutes this simplification. The truth is that appeared as of February 10. perhaps best known for his defence of the concerns of the city's minorities — ac- Sewell increased his vote total from 1978 to The New Democratic Party, the only Toronto's gay community during his term tu£illy a majority of the population — in- 1980. But he lost because the right-wing party that operates openly in city politics, as mayor. cluding the behaviour of Toronto's thug- vote, split between two candidates in 1978, nominated a candidate January 30. Dale He launched his career as an elected gishly unprofessional police force. Toron- united around a single man in 1980. Even Martin, head of the Federation of Metro official on a wave of anti-development agi- to's overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon police so, Sewell lost by only about one percent Tenants Associations, squeezed past tation, concerned to preserve Toronto's were not happy. In particular, they were of the votes. social worker Winnie Ng in a 109 to 103 core as a liveable mixture of residential not happy with Mayor Sewell's speech in But when Sewell returned to City Coun- vote. and commercial buUdings. The success of defence of the gay community to a 1979 cil in 1981, he seemed less outsf)oken on Martin, an NDP member who entered that movement was probably an essential rally on behalf of The Body Politic, then behalf of his gay constituents, playing an the aldermanic race at Sewell's urging, precondition for the emergence during the on trial for publishing an article about unflattering part in the denial of Grange had intended to run as an independent Park to the Lesbian and Gay Pride Day progressive with wide backing from com- Conceding defeat: Sewell lost tils re-election bid in spite of increasing his share of the vote. Committee last year. Yet his final newslet- munity groups, including tenants and ter, summing up his years at city hall, hsted gays. He describes himself as "commit- his speech to the gay community among ted generally to the emancipation of gays his accomplishments. and to the specific implications that has Sewell attributed his departure from city for city policy in all areas: in policing, politics at least in part to a growing rigidity providing money for a full range of on Council. A right-wing coalition, com- targeted services and recognizing the gay posed of a Liberal mayor and Liberal and community as a legitimate component of Conservative alderpersons, has begun to the city's population." He wanted to be impo.se party-like discipline on its nominated by the Ward Six Community members, denying the left-wing minority Organization (W6C0) and endorsed by the swing votes that once allowed the im- the Ward Six NDP (W6NDP). Endorse- plementation of its policies. ment would have meant running with the Mean-spirited to the end, Sewell's city- help of the party, but not as its designated hall opponents, hacks like aldermen Tony candidate. Martin believed that running O'Donohue and Fred Beavis, have wel- as an NDP nominee would reduce his ap- comed his resignation. No doubt they sec peal among non-NDP voters. in it the end of a lot of trouble for Traditionally, W6NDP and W6CO have themselves and the corporate interests, like worked together as a progressive coali- Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, tion, each selecting one candidate to run which they represent. But ihcir rejoicing in ward. It the two-seat was under this ar- seems premature. When 1 asked Sewell rangement that Hislop ran in the 1980 whether a daily municipal-affairs column election: he was nominated by W6C"0 didn't offer a better plattorm than a scat and ran with NDP nominee Dan Heap. on loronto's neutertxl Council from With the resignation of Sewell, who was which to return to municipal office — that elected as an independent progressive, the is, to the mayor's chair -~ Sewell wa.s non- nomination of the progressive candidate committal. "I haven't made that decis- to replace him should have been the pre- ion." ticrcplicd KP rogative of W6CO.

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w hen the charge was laid, was how in- The mother asked CIRPA to take up speaks about the problems in the police competent the cops would be in trying to other complaints but she was refused. In department. Friends and associates have smear their most able opponent. throwing out the sexual assault charge supported him from the beginning. There Provincial Court Judge John Kerr against Sparrow, Judge Kerr said: "It is is the matter of a $15,000 legal bill from threw out the charge on February 6 after patently obvious to the court that she had the sexual assault charge, but fundraising a preliminary hearing that lasted two and serious emotional problems, serious drug has come up with enough money to pay a half days. Only a small number of problems, resulting in her bringing out- about two-thirds of that. criminal charges get thrown out at the rageous complaints against various Sparrow has not yet ruled out a suit preliminary. policemen, claims which this court has no against the police for malicious prosecu- Though the incident was alleged to hesitation in saying had no basis in fact tion. There are little things that could be have taken place in January 1983, the whatsoever." Ironically, it was Sgt Leo brought forward as evidence in such a charge was not laid until September. van der Groef, the officer at 51 Division case. For example, when Sparrow was Sparrow met the girl when her mother in charge of the Sparrow investigation, brought back to 51 Division from police laid a complaint with the Citizen's In- who handled some of these earlier headquarters, where he had been finger- dependent Review of Police Activities, of complaints. printed, the police parked the paddy-

which he is a member. The mother al- Perhaps van der Groef forgot those wagon so that Sparrow, in handcuffs, leged the police had been brutal when earlier allegations, just as PC Bill White, had to exit on the street side and walk they charged her with attempted theft. another officer involved in the Sparrow around. They had left 51 Division from a CIRPA presented the case to the police case, seems to have forgotten to take Sparrow: Assault charges unbelievable. rear entrance. "They seemed to be disap- commission in October 1981; the resulting notes when he interviewed the mother pointed that the reporters hadn't shown investigation cleared the police. Sparrow and daughter last September. Nor did charge was on that Friday afternoon last up yet," Sparrow recalls with a smile. helped the woman find a lawyer to fight White separate mother and daughter dur- September when two plainclothes officers But the reporters were on their way — the criminal charges. In the subsequent ing the interview — something Judge came to his office on King Street East and the cops had called them. So when Spar- trial, the judge rejected the testimony of Kerr said ' 'tainted the statement " of the told him they had some bad news. In the row left 51 Division after spending two both mother and daughter, noting that girl. White and van der Groef consulted a end, Judge Kerr said the charge was "in- and a half hours in the holding cell, he

. while testifying the girl looked to her mo- Crown attorney before arresting Spar- capable of belief ran into a phalanx of reporters, who ar- ther for direction. The judge convicted row, but only "about the wording, not Sparrow has been vindicated. In fact, rived just in time to get the story for the the woman. Sparrow lent her money so the content" of the charge. No one inter- the outcome of the case perhaps gives evening news. "It's reasonable to assume she could pay her fine. viewed Sparrow. The first he heard of the Sparrow even more credibility when he the leak did come from someone inside the police force," Chief Jack Ackroyd has said. But he says those kinds of leaks are pretty common and he won't be tak- ^"'omeivw elp put ing any action against his officers. Glenn WheelerD olitic. Now boys, thafs no way to say goodbye...

TORONTO — It seemed like a suitable farewell to the old place. Another hour and the fifth floor of 24 Duncan Street would have seen just about the last of the

tenants it had put up through seven years and two raids. On January 28, after having moved just out of 52 Division (the landlord at Duncan was selling the warehouse and would not renew the lease), The Body Politic and the Canadian Gay Archives were holding a last-night dance party to raise funds to offset the more than $8,000 in moving expenses. More than 350 partygoers had scaled the notorious five flights of stairs one last, exhausting time for a BYOB party that was going/flZjulously — until about 3:15 am. At that point, when most of the guests had had their fun and left, two policemen appeared on the dance floor, pushed a man out of the way and rudely forced DJ Gordie Michaels to turn off the music.

They had apparently heard it from the street and presumed they had uncovered a "booze can." The policemen's obnox- ious manners soon led to heckling and loud exchanges with some of those present, and reinforcements were called in. Ed Jackson, the organizer of the event, Kevin Orr were charged with "un- Can't join a band because you're tone-deaf? Too special skills. So fill in the card and post it or drop in and lawfully keeping liqour for sale" under young for the Senate"? Too dangerous for the YWCA? and see us. Section 4(1) of the provincial Liquor Well, you have talents we want. Licence Act. Meanwhile TBPer Danny for striking Don't think of what you can't do. Even if you have We're waiting you. Cockerline, boasting a frock of bold blue, was handcuffed and led away only a couple of hours a week we have free coffee, (singing "I Love a Man in a Uniform") friendly company and a job just crying out for your after an altercation with one of the officers resulted in a charge of public intoxi- cation. Cockerline was held until morning at 52 Division, where he accommo- Here I am! dated a request to strip with a routine the Check the boxes that apply to you: officers won't soon forget. Name. Jackson and Orr will appear in court Dl can type Dl can sort of type DWell, I have neat printing Address. February 27 to set a trial date, although always wanted to be Lois Lane Dl'd rather be a Dl lawyers are confident the evidence that City .Postal Code. photographer liquor was not being sold is so clear that Phone number m available (give times): the case will be dismissed. Before leaving the party they'd invited Best time to phone . themselves to, one of the officers told Jackson, "We don't lose." But, as Nor- Any other special skills, ambitions, fantasies etc: ma Lewis puts it, "Maybe This Time." Mail this form lo The Volunteers Body Politic Box 7289. Station A. Toronto ON M5W 1X9 JohnAllecD

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Mail washroom blitz nets 33 arrests

WELLAND — With tape recorders and ty to the public to see that they are cameras clicking, reporters from On- curtailed." tario's Niagjira region questioned police Peter Kormos disagrees. He says the officials during a December 19 news con- accused are getting "a fair degree of sup- ference — a rarity in itself — following port in the community, a pretty liberal the arrests of 31 men. (Two more arrests type of support." He adds that the police were made within two weeks.) In all, 49 action "might generate fear, driving charges of gross indecency and four of people deeper into their closets." buggery were laid. This blue-collar city of 40,000 has a "I wouldn't describe this as a homo- large ethnic population, and about 30 sexual ring," said Deputy Chief Martin percent of residents are francophone. The Walsh of the Niagara Regional Police, steel industry is the largest single

"but it is definitely homosexual activities employer, and there is a John Deere im- between consenting adults, obviously, plements factory. But these are not good and it is in a public place and that makes times for John Deere or for the steel in- it a crime. I would not consider this the dustry and Welland has one of the highest same as a call-girl or call-boy system — unemployment rates in the country. this is just a public washroom. It's not a The city of Welland is divided by the Meeting the minister: Ontario Health Minister Keitt) Norton (above centre) met January 5 ring as such." Welland Canal. One side is gritty and dir- Witt) AIDS Committee of Toronto ctiairperson l\/lictiael Lynct) (rigtit) and City of Toronto depart- The accused ranged in age from 19 to ty, but Niagara College and homes of the ment of tiealtli official Bill Mindell. ACT urged Norton to give financial assistance to communi- 59 years. About a half dozen of the men upper-middle class are on the other side. ty support groups and public education projects. Last year ttie province allocated a tialf entered guilty pleas to get the cases over And on that side of the canal as well is the million dollars for medical researcti into ttie disease. By early February, Ontario tiad 20 with quickly, but most have pleaded not Seaway Mall, now nicknamed by amateur reported cases of AIDS, 14 of ttiem in the Toronto area. guilty and the charges are still before the comedians "See Gay Mall. "(Also in the courts. comedians' repertoire: If you drop your Unlike the police in the Orillia wash- wallet in the mall, what should you do? questioned the police department's sur- diverse or suspicious will be dealt with by

room arrests in September {TBP, Oct Answer: Kick it all the way out to the veillance tactics — with one notable ex- surveillance." '83), Niagara Regional Police had almost parking lot.) ception. William J Thomas, editor of the It's not clear how many complaints completed laying charges before calling Police are being tight-lipped about the local monthly magazine What's Up, re- were filed before police began their un- their news conference. Reporters were type of surveillance carried out, the cost fers to the "three-hour descriptive docu- dercover operation. The police depart- presented with a three-page news release, of the operation and the number of of- mentary of homosexual activity in a pub- ment's news release said complaints were half of which was a list of the accused, ficers involved. Kormos says: "I under- lic washroom." Thomas writes: "Filming "numerous." The St Catharines Stan- their ages and addresses. Also unlike stand surveillance methods included over- and taping of citizens is wrong, even if dard quoted Seaway Mall manager Joe Orillia, there were no court battles neces- head videotaping and physical observa- they are homosexual, heterosexual, Alba- DeMont as saying there had been just one

sary to allow the media to release names. tion. The police used toys they've had sit- nian, or Doukhobors. For if you buy it complaint from a citizen prior to the start

Two of the three daily newspapers in i ting around for so long." He believes today with 'only homosexuals,' they (the of the investigation, which began in late

the regional municipality published front- some police officers took a trip to Orillia police) will be happy to sell it to you November. DeMont said mall security page stories, names included. The Wel- to pick up a few pointers. Kormos adds, tomorrow with seal-hunt protesters, staff tried to discourage sexual activity in land Tribune's, account of the news con- "This may have been Chief (Donald) peace demonstrators, writers, artists and the washroom. A glory hole in the wash- ference appeared above the paper's mast- Harris's last hurrah." Harris retired on your kid's bantam hockey team after they room is now stuffed with paper towels,

head in a five-column box. In addition to December 3 1 lose a provincial title or soft goals late in hardly a permanent "solution."

listing names and addresses, the Tribune The local media to this point have not the third period. If we allow it, anything Ken Chaplin D printed the occupations of the accused men. The editor attempted to justify the THE PRESS newspaper's reporting in an editorial entitled "To inform the public — the media's duty." Another front-page story appeared in Tough stand hastens the demise of Solidarity Times the Niagara Falls Review. The St Cathar- ines Standards, account of the arrests was VANCOUVER — Sometime in mid- visible within the coalition. Robbie Robinson, in which Robinson not on the front page and did not include December, Solidarity Times froze to Persky's proposal got the go-ahead on told BCFL executive member Joy Langan names. (However, the Standard has since death. The feisty periodical, born in the October 4, and the Times, fuelled with about plans for drastic changes in the published the names of those men who heat of last fall's conflict between BC money from the BC Federation of La- paper's format. pleaded guilty and were fined $2(X).) premier Bill Bennett and the province's bour (BCFL), hired staff immediately. In "While I do not have recent informa- "1 If the media overreacted, so did the labour unions, women's groups, pension- a frenetic eleven-day period, staff and tion," Robinson wrote, believe that police, according to lawyer Peter Kor- ers, the poor and gay /lesbian groups, was volunteers put together a press-run of the goal (of self-sufficiency for the Times) at mos, who is defending ten of the accused. the victim of a "cooling-off period pro- 65, OCX) copies in time to distribute them is not realistically attainable." Comments "There are very few people who are unre- claimed by Bennett in mid-November. a huge anti-government rally October 15. the source: "1 can't think of any kind of lated or who at least don't know some- The provincial legislature was suspend- During the first four weeks of the business where someone would make a thing of the men accused," he says. ed through the approximately two-month paper's existence, opposition to the decision when they admit they don't have

Starting 1 it was mainly "This makes it difficult to generate an- period, which began after government Socred budget built up steam. on current information. think tipathy so in certain respects they (the and union negotiators narrowly averted November 8, an escalating series of pro- a political decision made possible by the police) blew it." Kormos attributes the the prospect of a general strike November test strikes began which, at its climax, saw settlement. The problem was that the large-scale police operation to "small- 14. Left to "cool" until late January 85,000 civil servants and teachers on paper wasn't as tightly under the BC town homophobia." was the ruling Social Credit Party's aus- strike. On November 14, however, repre- Fed's control as they would have liked." Why arrest these men? After all, the al- tere programme of "restraint" measures, sentatives of the BCFL and the BC Gov- Times editor Persky concurs that the leged acts were victimless. "I don't know including several controversial bills first ernment Employees' Union (BCGEU) for- paper's pohtics may have gotten it in what you expect my reaction to be," Dep- introduced with the government's July 7 ged a deal with Bennett promising an end trouble. He cited one example in which a uty Chief Walsh said at the news confer- budget. to the strikes in return for pledges that all reporter covered a prison riot and ac- the guards — who are all ence. "I mean, 1 do not particularly care Solidarity Times got its start on Sep- government layoffs of employees would cused some of to have this type of activity carried on in tember 13, 1983, when aspiring editor respect worker seniority, and that the BCGEU members — of brutality. "Stuff public washrooms within the Regional Stan Persky suggested to the anti-budget government would "consult" with the like that made people notice that we were rid of," Municipality of Niagara. 1 mean, the Solidarity Coalition that the province public on the remainder of its major bills. something that should be got Criminal Code permits homosexual acts needed a weekly newspaper that would be According to an anonymous source at Persky says. The Times was officially laid between consenting adults in private, and a "vehicle for the ideas defended by the the Times, the paper's demise was "in the to rest after eight issues, when a request we respect their right to privacy. But coalition." At the time, the coalition was discussion phase within a couple of days for additional funding from the BCFL when these acts are conducted in a public opposing bills that called for massive, un- after the settlement." The Times's origin- was turned down. place, then the police have a responsibili- restrained layoffs of government employ- al BCFL funding was to cover only a BCFl Communications Officer Gerry ees, the right of landlords to evict tenants twelve-week period, during which the Scott denies that the paper's short life without cause and the abolition of rent paper was expected to become largely was due to its pohtics. "The decision (to terminate) was made on the basis of the Got a hot news tip? controls, drastic cuts in education and self-sustaining. After November 14, some social services, and elimination of most of BC labour leaders rapidly became pessi- figures," he maintains. "The paper was hundred thousand If you know somethlns you the powers of the province's human mistic about the fivc-wcck-old paper's going to cost us several there arc think evetybody •!•« shouM too, rights commission. Many of the bills left ability to become independent. TBP's dollars over the year... and call The Body Politic and tell us lesbians and gay men particularly vulner- source supplied a letter written November more effective ways to spend that much about It. ConfMmitlallty able, and both groups were active and 18 by BCGi:U Communications Officer money." However, according to Times suaranteed. (416)364-6320 THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 u 13 business manager Don Larventz, the GAYS paper was already paying up to 60 percent of its "day-to-day bills" from subscriptions and ads, and would have been inde- IN pendent by the summer. The collapse of the Times, the only HEALTH broadly distributed journal in BC that took gay and lesbian issues seriously, is CARE symbolic of the disarray that opposition forces in the province are now in. Opera- People working tion Solidarity, the union common front, is dormant, while the community-based in IHealth Care for the Solidarity Coalition remains strong only Cay/Lesbian Community. in the Lower Mainland and a few other JOIN US! centres. The provincial NDP is effectively leaderless, with nominal leader Dave Bar- PO Box 7086, Stn A rett temporarily barred from the legislature and due to retire in Ontario May. TORONTO, Meanwhile, the legislature is back in M5W1X7 session and, according to Persky, will soon see the introduction of "the real res- 920-1882 traint budget, in the name of 'recovery,' which will permit the rest of the civil ser- Unisex Hair Design vice and education cutbacks." Members of the gay community must again face curtailed human rights and the possibility of summary evictions — this time without recourse to a strong opposition press. A "cooling-off period indeed. HAIR Richard SummerbellD G4MXV Man cast as monster for sex with teens

BURNABY, BC — A man described in the press as ' 'a 300-pound Chilliwack 466-7881 " social worker with the 'urge to molest' has been convicted in Burnaby provincieil court on six criminal charges related to sexual acts with teenage youths. William John Morrow, 52, who plead- 1246 Gerrard St East Toronto ed guilty to all charges, provided the BC Complete Hair Care Ministry of Human Resources and the RCMP with the njunes of a number of youths he had had sex with, some of whom had been under his professional care at the time. Morrow was described by Crown pro- secutor Jack Grant as "grooming" and 77^4 rs Robert G. Coates "desensitizing" boys by giving them gifts B. Sc, LL. B. and special favours before making sexual VARIETY! propositions to them. In one incident. Morrow took a 16-year-old under his care live at Basin Street Barrister Solicitor & to his home and, according to a police

report, suggested to the youth that it was "appropriate" for two males to have sex together. After he found that this and other incidents had come to police attention. Morrow attempted suicide. The case was given prominent coverage in Vancouver's daily press, where Mor- row's physical appearance provoked con- starring siderable comment. Vancouver Province MARLA LUKOFSKY 70 Dundas Street East police reporter Salim Jiwa, who described Toronto, Ontario MSB 1C7 Morrow in a December 30 story as a "pot-bellied, balding former teacher," lealurinjiTONV MASON 598-4922 reassured TBP that no attempt was being made to portray Morrow as a monster. "We're a tabloid newspaper, and we try to describe the details of what we see," he said. The Province story also Monday - Thursday 9 p.m. stated that Morrow gave officials the - Friday Saturday 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. names of "34 boys" (all former sex partners) "in the hope they (might) get coun- Dinner Show Pacltages available selling and help." Not mentioned in the Maria Lukofsky will be appearing at Buddy's on March 1 story, according to Morrow's lawyer G W Abrams, is the fact that the names are and at Crispins on March 2. culled from Morrow's entire sexual history. "Some of those 'boys' are 45 years

old by now — it would be impossible to Bring along someone to enjoy an eveining at trace them," Abrams said. "(Morrow) the Basin Street Cabaret and this ad will get just gave all those names because he wan- you a second ticket at half the regular price. ted to make a complete confession. The current ones were just a fraction of that tot£il, and they were all known to the police already." BASIN STREET CABARET Morrow, who was sentenced January 180 QUEEN ST WEST TORONTO 598-3013 4, is now serving a four-year term in a Fraser Valley psychiatric centre. Richard SummerbellD

14 D THE BODY POLITIC MARCH 1984 ate. It seems some people never cles is ever found to "affront the dignity

get enough of it. of gays," the same restrictions could ap- In 1980, Positive Parents of On- ply to gay literature that questions tradi- E tario launched an anti-gay hate- tional heterosexual roles and values. The literature campaign against gay- Body Politic' $, 1977 article, "Men Loving positive candidates in Toronto's Boys Loving Men," was accused of being municipal elections. The same year, they hate literature against children during the prevented the formation of a gay li£iison court proceedings on immorality and in- committee with Toronto's Board of ROMISE of decency charges. Had the article been Education by circulating flyers that charged under this section, and if B'nai defamed individual school trustees who B'rith's suggested "public abhorrence" supported the idea of the committee. In clause had been in effect, rsp could have 1981 the same group campaigned to block CTION been given a stiff penalty even though in- police /gay dialogue. decency charges were unsuccessful in two The Canadian Protestant League sells consecutive trials and appeals. anti-Catholic comics that claim trained We cannot be sure how the courts will Jesuits run the Irish Republican Army interpret a tougher law. In 1976, amend- and were responsible for the Jonestown ments to the British Race Relations Act

massacre in Guyana. made it illegal to publish material that is James Keegstra, a high-school teacher threatening, abusive or insulting if it is and mayor of Eckville, Alberta, taught likely to stir up hatred against a racial his students for 14 years that the Holo- group. In its first test case, two men were caust of the Nazi era never happened and charged after making speeches containing that an international Jewish conspiracy is racist remarks, the mildest of which was plotting to take over the world. He was "black bastards." The court decided that using materials supplied by Ron Gostick, THREAT the two had stirred up more sympathy for a Nazi supporter who distributes books blacks than hatred against them, and they from his home in Flesherton, Ontario. were released. Conversely, according to Gostick also distributes anti-black Borovoy, one of the first convictions was literature. to FREEDOM? obtained against a Black-Power advocate There is nothing new about prejudices who slurred white supremacists. or hatred. Very few of us will ever over- The question of pornography further come those we possess. Yet there is some- confuses the issue. Hate propaganda laws thing deeply disturbing about organized would have to be very broad to strike at distribution of hate literature, which is words and images thought to be porno- designed to incite anger and fear in sup- graphic. Alan Shefman, author of the porters and victims alike. B'nai B'rith report recommending re- Most hate literature in North America KEN TOMILSONASKS: moval of safeguards in the current legisla- is produced by Protestant white-suprema AREANTI-HATE LITERATURE LAWS tion, is very concerned about the push to cist organizations or like-minded individ- have pornography included. "If we make uals. According to the Jewish social or- REALLYNECESSAR Y? the definition of hate literature too gen- ganization, B'nai B'rith of Canada, 70 eral, the fear of civil libertEuians will

percent of the literature is anti-Semitic. become reality," he says.

But a sizeable percentage is anti-gay. Its There is plenty of evidence to show main preoccupation seems to be the equa- Hi that the police abuse broadly defined laws tion of homosexuality with pedophilia. It many of their claims on religious doc- first case the provincial human rights by choosing to apply them frequently also focuses on "repulsive" aspects of trines. James Keegstra was not prosecu- commission is trying to prove that an against gay organizations and establish- gay/lesbian lifestyles, transvestism, liber- ted under this law because some of his engineering newspaper at the University ments. Bawdyhouse charges ageiinst bath- al politics and, more recently, the spread anti-Semitic allegations were based on his of Saskatchewan is an affront to the houses and the harassment of gay bars of diseases like herpes and AIDS. religious beliefs. He also used several dignity of women. Ontario Attorney- through the capricious application of the "Crimes" by individuals are often cited books that claimed the Holocaust was a General Roy McMurtry is currently con- provincial liquor laws are two examples. as reflecting general intentions of all hoax, and he claimed that he believed his sidering amendments to his province's If anti-hate literature laws are strengthen- homosexuals. As with Jews, Catholics "teachings" were true. Libel and Slander Act to strengthen con- ed, police would be able to use the law to and blacks, gays are often accused of B'nai B'rith's League for Human trols over published literature. interrupt speeches and halt the publica- conspiring with communists and liberal Rights wants these "safeguards" in the But as more government action seems tion of controversial articles. For exam- minorities to gain control of society and law removed. They also want another imminent, civil libertarians are starting to ple, in 1975 at the Shriners convention in overthrow traditional family-oriented provision removed. At present the law re- ask: Are anti-hate propaganda laws really Toronto, three demonstrators were ar- values. quires the consent of an attorney-general necessary? Newspapers have been among rested under the existing legislation for In 1970 a "hate propaganda" section for prosecution to proceed. If consent the first to question tighter controls. Like handing out fiyers saying "Yankees Go was added to the federal Criminal Code were not necessary, victims of hate pro- Alem Borovoy, general counsel of the Home!" The three were released later to prevent the spread of hate literature. paganda could sue their slanderers direct- Canadian Civil Liberties Association, that day and the charges were eventujilly

Since its adoption, however, there has ly. The league also wants a clause added they are nervous about laws that limit dropped, but they were successfully sil- been only one conviction — and that w£is that would impose stiffer sentences "that freedom of speech. Borovoy is strongly enced nonetheless.

reversed on appeal. Given its ineffective- express public abhorrence' ' where opposed to such controls because of their o

ness, it is unlikely governments will at- appropriate. potential side-effects. "Inevitably, such These incidents of abuse happen when

tempt amy further prosecutions under this They are not alone. Since the Keegstra laws nail many of the wrong people," loosely defined legal power is placed in

section until it is amended. affair there has been a public outcry for Borovoy says. "It is simply not possible the hands of the state. When does a pro- During its conception, several "safe- more effective legislation. The current to draft a law which is precise enough to test against immigration policies, abor- guards" were built into the law to protect law applies to discrimination based on make the requisite distinctions." tion laws or the actions of a foreign gov- rights of freedom of speech. These safe- "colour, race, religion or ethnic origin." Some people agree with Borovoy that ernment become promotion of hatred? guards allow offenders to escape, and Some critics also want to include "sex" tighter controls will not eliminate hate lit- Organizations like B'nai B'rith that seek thus render the law useless. If the law is and "sexual orientation." And several erature. Terms like "sicko" and "per- the refuge of stronger legislation to pro- amended they will likely be removed. feminists want violent pornography to be vert" and false allegations about homo- tect the rights of minorities and improve

As it stands, the law bans "wilful" classified as hate literature. sexuality £md pedophilia might be stop- our quality of life overlook one point: promotion of hatred. It is almost impos- Strengthening hate literature laws has ped if "sexual orientation" were incor- barring the expression of hateful ideas sible to prove conclusively that a defen- become a "motherhood" issue, political- porated into an amended law. But much will not make them go away. Instead, dant wilfully intended to promote hatred. ly safe to support. Politicians in all parties hate literature describes news events like they should be challenged and corrected. Those who have been charged have at all levels of government have been court decisions and gay celebrations. Stronger legislation will fail like past at- claimed they were voicing an opinion and clamouring to lead public support in Though publicity about such events tempts to suppress drinking, homosex-

that their readers were free to react in amending the law in one way or another. might be welcomed by gay people, it can uality and unpopular religious practices. whatever way they chose. They are afraid a stand against stronger send shudders up the spines of conser- Ideas should be allowed to be aired if on-

Under the law, no one can be convicted legislation will look like a vote in favour vative heterosexuals who may still be ly to help consolidate public opinion "if the statements were relevant to any of racism. wrestling with concepts like divorce and against them. subject of public interest" and if the of- Federal Justice Minister Mark Mac- pre-marital sex. Obviously false allega- We might do better to strengthen our fender "believed them to be true." Hate- Guigan has promised to introduce strong tions and childish labels help identify hate lives against real actions — discrimination mongers generally refer to matters of amendments this year, but some provin- literature as the product of an extremist in employment, housing and public ser- "public interest" to catch readers' atten- cial attorneys-general are not waiting. fringe. Ironically, by removing the labels, vices, for example — rather than focusing tion and they usually believe what they The province of Saskatchewan has passed anti-gay hate literature may be seen to unduly on suppressing words, ugly, hurt-

print to be true. a broadly worded amendment to its have greater credibility. ful and malicious though they may be. Opinions on rehgious subjects are ex- human rights code stating that no one Human rights legislation as broad a.s Words are but the s>Tnpioms of the larger empt from the law. Most propagandists, shall do anything that "affronts the Saskatchewan's is double-edged. If hate social di.sca.sc. and if wc merely muffic the

especially Protestant supremacists, ba.se dignity of any . . . class of persons." In its literature consisting of edited news arti- sound, don't we only let the fury fester?;

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Michael Rowe recounts the All-American justice that has set an assassin free The strange case of Dan White

Dan White became a hero, for some, by kill- preferred to see his people end prejudice ing a hero of many gay San Franciscans. peacefully and with dignity. the Street camera store Harvey Milk, Castro Which is, in fact, the issue. Harvey owner, ran times as an openly four for office Milk was murdered because he threat- gay candidate, finally getting elected to San ened Dan White's sense of security. Francisco 's Board of Supervisors in 1977. White's values were the same as those of The tenure ofMilk and liberal Mayor George the jury Moscone was an invigorating limefor gay that convicted him. He be- to it people in the city, but it was brief. longed a majority system, and Following Dan White's light sentence on wasn't so much Dan White as his homo- May 21, 1979, the outrage expressed in the phobia and hatred towards Milk and his streets came to be known as the White Night reforms that were on trial, that were vin- Riots. Thousands protested, sixty-one police dicated by the jury. If Milk and his people officers and about one hundred gay constituency of "incorrigibles and social were hospitalized, and a dozen police cars deviates" hadn't been flaunting their were burned. White was released somewhere new freedoms at Dan White and his fac- in Los A ngeles County this past January. tion, there wouldn't have been any Here, a look back at the Dan White trial and trouble. the political assassinations ofMilk and Moscone. It is chilling to imagine a system where a man may murder another whom he believes to be "immoral," and then be

They might have called it "The State of patted on the back by the law. It would California vs the State of Dan White's appear that fundamental human rights Homophobia." Few would have are conditional on the victim being as objected. socially acceptable, and "moral," as his The Nazi party might have had some- murderer. thing to say about it, though. "Gentle It is tantamount to legislated queer- Dan," as they called him, had only been bashing. There is a certain suitability "doing what he had to do." A young about young Nazis praying for White, woman present at White's trial, wearing dinances against the gay community in uted to his "depressed" state). After a since the most successful queerbasher of a swastika medalHon, informed report- San Francisco. Police hcu-assment les- dramatic plea for "justice" from this century was Adolf Hitler himself. ers that her friends in the local chapter sened, and the Castro area increasingly White's lawyer, the jury obliged with the He might have enjoyed a good chuckle had held a prayer meeting for him. A became a mecca for gay people. All this unprecedented verdict of "voluntary at the outcome of White's trial. Hebrew inscription on her medallion an- sat very badly with the right wing faction manslaughter." A seventy-five year old In a system where two people could nounced that "Hitler Was Right." headed up by Dan White. On November woman on the jury later explained that conceivably spend their lives behind bars White's friends and supporters man- 10, 1978, he quit his post on the Board of "it all just came together, as if God were for loving one another, while a killer can aged to raise $100,000 for his defence. Supervisors, citing business pressures. watching over us. We didn't want to give be released after five years for murder- He must have been a likeable fellow. All- He later claimed that this had been an the city a worse name." ing one of them, there is evil. We have to American boy, star athlete, soldier, impulsive act, and begged to be re- For activist Cleve Jones, the verdict ask ourselves who is really making these fireman, policeman... the kind of man appointed. The mayor refused. On Nov- had a more terrifying implication. "This laws. boys are taught to dream of becoming, ember 27, White, carrying a gun, snuck means that in America it's all right to kill What have they started? And where and girls, to dream of marrying. into city hall through a basement win- faggots," he said. City Supervisor Harry does it end? D He was, we are quite sure, a Good dow, shot the mayor, reloaded, and shot Britt, along with Mayor Dianne Fein- Family Man, a Good Provider and a Harvey Milk. He then turned himself in. stein, angrily denounced the verdict. jail, that Hard Worker: these earnest testaments In the police treated him with the Although Harvey suspected he Michael Rowe is a Toronto-basedfreelance of good faith were trotted out in his de- deference due to one of their own. might be assassinated, according to writer. He gratefully acknowledges the sup- fence at every opportunity, until they ec- White had always shared their feelings Britt, "he never dreamed that the city port and cooperation of Randy Shilts, author Upsed the fact that Dan White had taken and fitted their mold: ramrod-straight, would approve. It's beyond immoral. of The Mayor of Castro Street (St Martin 's two lives: that of San Francisco Mayor conservative, and rabidly anti-gay. It's obscene." Press, 1982). George Moscone, and Supervisor Har- Almost immediately, the police's ran- Upon entering Soledad Prison, White vey Milk, the first openly gay official in dom beatings and searches in the gay was examined and found to have "no AIDS the history of American politics. community resumed. apparent signs" of mental disturbance.

All in all, let it be once and forever re- At White's trial, gays had been care- The "model inmate" was befriended by solved: Dart White was a very nice man. fully screened off the jury, along with Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert Europeans confer; So was Harvey Milk. And George Asians, blacks, and any other visible Kennedy. On a conjugal visit, his wife Moscone. All they got were Dan White's minority. The jurors would be white. conceived their second child. increase slows in US bullets, six feet of earth, and a legend. Catholic and middle-class — White's Time may have moved slowly for Dan

Dan White got a manslaughter verdict lawyers were taking no chances. White on the inside, but outside, it went AMSTERDAM — One hundred and and a sentence of seven years and eight Throughout the trial. White maintained quickly. Petitions were circulated to thirty delegates to the European Confer- months. After serving five years, he was that he had had "no plan" when he slip- keep White in jail, but to no avail. On ence on AIDS, held January 20 to 22, re- released on January 6, 1984. Where is ped past the metal detector at the front the day of his release, demonstrators solved to step up demands on the Coun- he? No one seems to know, and for door of the mayor's office with a loaded brought the city to a halt for several cil of Europe and the European Parlia- White's safety, it's probably just as well. Smith & Wesson. The fact that he had to hours, and White was burned in effigy ment to encourage a more active role in A hundred days before his release in reload the gun before his attack on Milk on Castro Street. The mayor has asked funding research, support groups and January, an anonymous painter lettered carried no weight with the jury, who that White be forever banned from the AIDS information campaigns. a sign in Harvey Milk Plaza, noting the decide that the killings had not, in fact, city, and the cities of San Diego and The meeting, which included the par- number of days until Dan White would been premeditated (Dr Martin Blinder Richmond have followed suit. He was ticipation of doctors, AIDS support be free. Over the next few weeks, other announced that White's habit of gorging released in secret by authorities who committee volunteers and gay activists hands updated the countdown, occa- himself on junk food probably contrib- feared for his life. from 13 European countries, the USA sionally replacing the word "free" with People are revolted by this turn of and Canada, was jointly organized by "dead." The anger in San Francisco has events, and the American gay commun- the COC (Holland) and the International smouldered for five years. ity is clearly wailing for White to sur- Gay Association. Delegates agreed that Dan White's sentencing was unusual, face. In an article for the New York the gay movement must be at the fore- to say the least. It has been called the Native, journalist Randy Shilts notes front of decision-making and applica- most obscene travesty of American jus- that a study on the impact of AIDS in the tion of such programmes to ensure that tice in the twentieth century. In 1977, San Francisco community revealed that, the rights and interests of gay people are after an openly gay campaign, Harvey for many, the double killings had been adequately protected. Milk had become North America's first the most traumatic event in their adult AIDS has not had the same impact in elected gay official, and immediately lives. But Milk's former lover recently Europe as in North America, and so far had gone to work with other liberals al told Time that Harvey would not have only about 300 ca.scs have been reported city hall to eliminate discriminatory or- wanted revenge. He was a pacifist who across the continent (as compared to

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3,000 in the US alone). For example, delegates reported little change in sexual THE ACCOUNTING CLINIC ^^^-^' behaviour in France, which presently has 107 cases, 37 among Africans or

Haitians. Public panic is probably greatest in Finland, due to sensational 368 DUNDAS STREET EAST press coverage, although there are only TORONTO, ONTARIO M5A2A3 • * two known cases in that country. (416)927-1702 In the United States the rate of new AIDS cases has decreased for a second consecutive three-month period. Ac- Ask for Don McCurdy cording to the Centers for Disease Con- trol (CDC) in Atlanta, 204 new AIDS

cases were reported between October 1 and December 19, 1983. During the previous three-month period there had been 546 new cases. Dr Harold Jaffe of the

CDC cautioned that it was still too early to know if the syndrome has peaked. Have you thought about your tax return? "There is a lag time between the time a case is diagnosed and the time the CDC receives the case report. You can't look at the last few months and say what's going on." AIDS continues to be a political football in Washington. A House of Repres- entatives committee report on the federal response to AIDS, released Decem- post*er, n. advertising sheet uniting pictorial image and printed letter- An ber 6, found that the Public Health Ser- Shunned: Bruno-Pascal Chevalier, a 20-

ing, designect to engage, inform, persuade and be posted on a wall vice has had insufficient funds to fight year-old hairdresser, had lived in Paris or other supface. Syn.: broadside, proclamation, playbill, streamer, AIDS and this has undermined surveil- only a few months when, last June, he got lance, epidemiology and laboratory re- of placard, handbill, showcard. sick. He had a severe outbreak herpes, search activities. Grants to researchers a 40°C fever, fatigue and weight loss. In have been unnecessarily delayed and the October he was diagnosed as having AIDS pos»ter»i»ty, n. 1. All who have proceeded from a common ancestor; Department of Health and Human Ser- and admitted to Laribosi^re hospital. His descendants collectively. Syn.: offspring, progeny, issue. 2. A vices has not adequately planned and co- experience shows that AIDS panic among gallery dealing solely in the art of the poster. Daniel Stroud, ordinated the federal response. medical personnel is not restricted to cer- Stung by such criticism. Health and tain institutions in the US. Leonard Dutton and associates of POSTERITY GRAPHICS Human Service Secretary Margaret Masks, gowns, gloves and a large dis- offer Canada's collection vin- LTD. major of contemporary and Heckler told the US Conference of infecting device were placed outside his tage art posters at 265 Queen Street East, in Toronto's Lower East Mayors January 26 that the Reagan ad- room and a large red dot was affixed to the Side. Skilled custom mounting available Mon. to Sat., 10:00 a.m. to ministration has responded to the AIDS door. Nurses and orderlies refused to 6:00 p.m. 861-1851. crisis "in excellent fashion." She stated enter his room, and all meals were left in that public panic "has been quelled" the hall. He was instructed to leave all

through education and that progress is food leftovers in a large garbage can being made in research. which hospital staff refused to empty. He An organization called the American went on a hunger strike for a week, refus-

Family Association has reportedly dis- ing all food, drink and medication. When tributed more than 350,000 petitions radio station Frequence Gaie aired Bruno's across the country calling on the govern- request that listeners visit him, hospital ment to shut down and "quarantine all staff noted the large number of people who homosexual establishments," including weren't afraid to enter the room. Attitudes restaurants and shops, as a matter "cru- relaxed slightly, and the staff stepped cial to the health and security of Ameri- through the doorway from time to time,

can FamiHes."D although medication was left in large quantities to cut down on the number of

visits, and his meals were still left in the Indecency charges hallway. Ironically, in December Chevalier dis- chill climate in Greece covered that he had been misdiagnosed, and never had AIDS. ATHENS — The Greek gay magazine Kraximo was found guilty of "indecen- In spite of repeated police detentions

cy" on December 1, further poisoning in the period leading up to the trial, relations between the country's gay Paola was acquitted of all charges con- movement and the Socialist Party gov- cerning the publication oi Kraximo. ernment that swept to power in 1981 on Police from the notorious Athens promises of widespread social reform. sixth precinct, however, charged the Kraximo, a radical tabloid published next issue oi Kraximo, once again with by a self-proclaimed "prostituting trans- indecency, in March 1983. Police officer vestite" called Paola (Pavlos Komninos Karras claimed that a front- Raveniotis), first emerged in the tumult page sketch of two naked men "offends preceeding the elections of 1981. Its mot- public decency, provokes and corrupts,

to was "All work aimed at profit is pros- especially the young."

titution," and its first front-page editori- At her December 1 trial, Paola real declared, "This society stinks from fused to summon defence witnesses. the daily shitting of the people who "Kraximo wishes to talk of the problems guide us. They deprive us of our right to of the people that society has margina- enjoy our lives like human beings and lized — prostitutes, prisoners, transves- leave us only with a miserable survival tites, homosexuals, psychiatric patients, which they cloak with the veil of 'hones- junkies, petty thieves, motorcycle ty and decency.'" freaks, call boys, desperate people....

The recent case is the second prosecu- Authority cannot tolerate the voices of tion of Kraximo in the past two years. these people because they expose all its Although the Socialist government harshness and nakedness. This is the real promised there would be no censorship reason behind the legal persecution of

and that "discrimination against minori- Kraximo.... I refuse to bring defence

ties would be abolished," police harass- witnesses because 1 do not consider my ment, especially of street transvestites, paper indecent. It only expresses the pol- was stepped up in late 1982 and indecen- iticized views of homosexuals." cy charges were laid against the maga- The judge condemned Paola to four zine in September of that year. months in prison and fined her 30,000

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drachmas ($400). As well, Paola faces a "2) Does GASA accept the principle in NOW, and recruiting lesbians to suspended sentence for "resisting that gay people being a persecuted NOW. As well, it was announced that ac- arrest" in 1982. The case is presently be- minority have a moral obligation to option would be taken on a resolution ing appealed and the Greek gay move- pose discrimination against other perse- passed at NOW's last national confer- ment, AKOE, is appealing for funds and cuted groups in society as well as to look ence to target one state and throw the or- letters of support for Kraximo c/o after the interests of fellow gays? ganization's resources and influence be- St, international year of "3) In view of the fact that many gov- hind the passage of a gay-rights bill , Magazine AMPHI, 6A Zaloggou Athens 142, Greece. Amnesty Interna- ernments and many organizations there. The state chosen was New tional is following developments and throughout the world have responded to Jersey. may intervene if Paola is arrested. the request of black South African or- The honeymoon between the gay com- ganizations to institute a complete boy- munity and the Socialist government cott on cultural contacts with white Cops slow to chaise seems finally over. According to corres- South Africa, does GASA argue that it pondent Yanni Vassilas, "in this climate can make a special claim to be excluded Buggers for Liberty of unkept promises and continuing disil- from such a ban? lusionment, the prosecution of Kraximo "4) If GASA says it is a non-racist SYDNEY — Detective Inspector Ernie and its publisher, Paola, is merely one organisation how can it justify holding Shepard of the Vice Squad has finally more blow, sinking the gay community some of its meetings and social events in reacted to the attempt by several gay deeper into the cold water of reality." D restaurants, hotels and bars which ex- men to be charged with the criminal of- clude black people? fence of having sex as part of their Human Rights Commission, a demon- "5) Why does GASA wish to remain "Buggery for Liberty" campaign. Common-law lesbians stration at the UN September 30, and 'non-political' in view of the fact that The campaign was started in the wake lobbying in the European Parliament for any attempt to change the laws which of police raids on Sydney gay bars last seeking family status legislation to force member governments operate against gays in their sexual life, fall. Shepard has resisted laying charges to repeal anti-gay laws. As well, there at work or in the Forces require political against the more than 60 men who "con- PARIS — Two French lesbians, Nadia will be gay camps, lesbian saunas, a gay action?" D fessed" to having gay sex. Police claim and Annie, living in the village of Saint- exhibition that will tour Scotland by the names and addresses of other people Lumine de Clisson, southeast of Nantes, bus, "kiss-ins" at border crossings, film involved, the dates, times and places of are shaking up the French bureaucracy festivals, and Lesbian and Gay Pride NOW eyes New Jersey sex acts, and other details are necessary by demanding that the Social Security Day celebrations focusing on interna- in order to lay charges. authorities recognize them and Nadia's tional themes. The IGA Action Secretar- for gay rights bill bid The men who signed the declarations three children as a family unit. Annie is iat has produced posters to advertise were told by legal counsel that the police also applying to have Nadia and the events throughout the year. MILWAUKEE —Three hundred fifty did not need the additional information, children recognized as dependants for Delegates to the anuual IGA confer- lesbians met January 20 to 22 at a con- and therefore decided not to supply it. income tax purposes. ence in Helsinki in July will be facing ference entitled "Power and Politics Lex Watson and Robert French, the first The problem for the bureaucracy one of the thornier questions to confront '84" held under the sponsorship of the two men to sign the declarations, met began when the magistrates writing the organization in its six-year National Organization of Women with Shepard on November 14 and re- Nadia's divorce judgment declared that history, the membership of the Gay (NOW). minded him that the men who were she "had left to live common law with a Association of South Africa (GASA). NOW's national president, Judy charged in the raids on the bars had been friend with whom she has homosexual The question of GASA's membership Goldsmith, said in a welcoming letter to accused of "homosexual acts with per- relations." Using this document as a was deferred at the 1983 conference in delegates that the conference served as a sons unknown." Shepard replied that he basis, the women obtained a "certificate Vienna after stormy debate about the "symbolic gesture" of the "renewal of could not take any further action. of common law relationship" signed by group's attitude to South Africa's racist NOW's committment to working on les- Watson said in an article in the Star, the district mayor. French Social Secur- apartheid system. bian and gay rights." NOW's attitude to- an Australian gay paper, that the police ity legislation states that "common law" The Scottish Homosexual Rights wards lesbians has changed, says Gwen are "bending over backwards" to avoid couples must be treated as "man and Group (SHRG) has issued an open letter Craig, co-chair of the National Associa- prosecuting the men who voluntarily wife" for purposes of benefits. to GASA asking for clarification on five tion of Gay and Lesbian Democratic signed the declaration. They have scru- The Social Security Administration is points that "are causing concern to our- Clubs. In 1971, she said, lesbians were pulously advised the men of their right cltiiming that two women cannot be con- selves and probably to other IGA mem- "an embarrassment and a menace" to not to say anything, and they appear sidered "man and wife," but the ber organizations. NOW. Virginia Apuzzo, chair of the Na- "hesitant" to press questions during women's lawyer insists that "man and " I) Is GASA prepared to support the tional Gay Task Force, said, "We are meetings. wife refers to a living situation and social policy adopted by the 1982 IGA Confer- not any organization's nasty little secret On November 10, 1983, three of the function, not to a biological difference." ence committing IGA not only to fight anymore." men arrested in the raid on the Club 80 The case may be strengthened by a re- racism but to ally itself with other non- Conference participants heard panels bar were acquitted and some of the cent Education Authority decision to gay organizations that have similar discuss lesbian and gay political candi- charges laid have been dismissed out- recognize Annie and Nadia's common- aims? dates and their campaigns, coming out right by a magistrate. D law relationship. The authority bases its subsidies to children on the incomes of both spouses in a "family relationship." It acknowledged that both women were Mayor's veto stops anti-poraography bill—for now spouses, and decreased the subsidy it was paying for Nadia's children. MINNEAPOLIS — Mayor Don Carlson originally suggested hiring there is a relationship between the use of In other French news, on December Fraser's veto of a proposed civil-rights MacKinnon and Dworkin to draft the pornography and the incidence of vio- 10 the gay movement in Paris overcame ordinance that would have banned por- proposal, but now, according to Camp- lence against women. But opponents of its often fractious divisions and opened nography as a "form of discrimination bell, Carlson is the "most strongly out- the proposal maintain that the dangers a new non-denominational gay centre, based on sex" has been upheld by city spoken opponent of the ordinance in its of censorship outweigh any alleged rela- L'Escargot. The centre, near Place de la council in an 8 to 5 vote. final form." tionship. Sharon Satterfield, a professor Bastille, has a bar, but plans are under- Council had voted 7 to 6 in favour of The proposed ordinance defines "por- with the University of Minnesota's way to include a library, theatre, dance the ordinance December 30, but on Jan- nography" as "the sexually explicit sub- human sexuality programme, discount- studios and a gallery. D uary 5 the mayor vetoed the bill. In ex- ordination of women, graphically de- ed claims of a connection between por- plaining his veto. Eraser cited the first picted in pictures or in words...." It nography and violence. MacKinnon amendment to the US Constitution, listed eight factors, any one of which countered that feminism and a pro-porn Demos and kisses which protects freedom of speech. He would have to be present for material to stance were mutually exclusive, and said also said that the definition of pornogra- be found pornographic. The factors in- that Satterfield's research was "irrele- to celebrate IGA's '84 phy in the proposal was so "vague as to cluded mutilation, the enjoyment of vant and out of date." make it impossible for people to adjust pain, humiliation or rape, women in Opponents of pornography appear to COLOGNE — Hundreds of pink bal- conduct in order to keep from running postures of "sexual submission," be split between those who would like to loons were launched in front of this afoul of its proscriptions." women as "whores by nature" and see the ordinance concentrate on mater- city's thirteenth-century cathedral Janu- The proposal was drafted by constitu- women as "filthy or inferior." Present- ial which has violence as its main theme ary 1 to commemorate the opening of tional lawyer Catharine MacKinnon and ing parts of women — vaginas, breasts and those who believe that any material

1984 — International Year of Lesbian anti-porn activist Andrea Dworkin. Ac- and posteriors in particular — would that is seen to "subjugate" women and Gay Action. cording to Tim Campbell, publisher of also be pornographic. should be banned. Tim Campbell, a The event also marked the closing of the GLC Voice'in Minneapolis, Dworkin Provision was made to punish "traf- vocal opponent of the proposed ordin- the European Regional Meeting of the and MacKinnon were paid $5,000 each fickers" — those who produce, sell or ance, said in an interview with TBP ihdl International Gay Association (IGA), for their work on the draft, and have distribute material deemed pornograph- he would be willing to see a "compro- which is organizing events in Europe and submitted bills lo Minneapolis city coun- ic. The formation of private clubs for mise" bill that deals only with violence. around the world for 1984. Plans for the cil for a further $14,000 each. Campbell the distribution of pornography was He sees his paper, GI.C I'oicc, as a piece year include the publication of a Pink says that Barbara Carlson, alderperson defined as discrimination against wom- of "lobbying literature." and he intends Book reporting on discrimination for the seventh ward, which has a large en. Only libraries and universities, who to keep his position in front of the task against lesbians and gay men, a discus- gay population, and an early supporter collect such materials for "research" force that has been set up by the Miiuic- sion of the position of sexual minorities of the bill, strongly objects to council purposes, would be exempt. apolis city council to further study the around the world by the United Nations paying the women any more money. Advocates of the ordinance claim thai need for the proposed ordinance. The

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Legal I D required for Club Bath Cham Membership change wilhoul nolice cent), and women (44 percent) just ous" because its route passed Saint slightly more accepting that men (43 Patrick's Cathedral. Affidavits filed by Ash us for .1 free color KEY WEST BUSINESS GUILD 1983 84 DIRECTORY percent). the New York City Police Department, The shift towards acceptance of gay however, stated that officials at Saint people across the country seems to have Patrick's had no objections to the been lost on Democratic presidential march. candidate Senator John Glenn. Glenn On June 15, 1983, Federal District told a New York gathering in November Court Judge Robert Ward ruled against that he opposes the extension of the 1964 the plaintiffs on the grounds that the Civil Rights Act to forbid anti-gay marches are protected by the American discrimination, and in December went Constitution's first amendment, which on to question the ability of lesbians and governs free speech. The Catholic War gay men to serve as schoolteachers, as Veterans appealed the decision but with- soldiers or in positions of national drew on January 12, 1984. They also security. His statements sparked the agreed to pay $22,000 in legal fees to the resignation of his New York state cam- Lambda Legal Defense and Education World News credits Fund, representatives for the defense. Gov /Vew (Philadelphia). /"(f/V (Miami), Gay Com- Judge Ward labelled the suit "frivolous"

muniiy News (Boilon), The Advf>caie {San Mateo), and called the logic behind it "twisted." The Bush Report (Washington. DC), Bay Area Re- January the Catholic War Veter- porter {Sin Francisco), GLC foire (Minneapolis), On 3, Gai Pied {Paris), Homophorties {Pans), IGA Butle- ans filed for a parade permit for Sunday, rm (Stockholm), New York Native {Nev York), June 24. 1984 — the fifteenth annivers- .Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (Fdinburgh), ary of the Stonewall riots and the date Yanni Vassilas (Athens). Philip Fotheringham (Am- planned for the 1984 Christopher Street slcrdam). lex Watson. Robert French (Sydney),

John Fergus, Ron Ben- Israel (Toronto). Liberation Dav march. 1

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Gallery of Ontario, through Mar 11. $5.50 KAPLAN adults, $3.50 students; Thursdays $2. 347 JON Dundas St W. 977-0414. D Hearts. A bon-bon for St Valentine. Jus- DErolica. Helen Porter's one-woman show tina M Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, U of that looks at sexuality in a fresh context, T Through March 1. 978-2452. drawing on material that ranges from the D David Milne. New York paintings by this biblical Song of Songs to short stories by great artist. Feb 25-Mar 14. Mira Godard Alice Munro. Mar 7-17. A New Drama Cen- Gallery, 22 Hazehon, 964-8197. tre presentation at the Palmerston Library D Punchinello. Group show of sculpture. Theatre, 560 Palmerston Ave. 463-4279. Feb 23-Mar 6. 204A Baldwin St. 593-5054. n Strip. Three Franco-Ontarian women D Edward Curtis. And other 19th century (Catherine Caron, Brigitte Haentjens and photographers. Through March 17. Jane Cor- Sylvie Trudel) have written a play about the kin Gallery, 620-144 Front St W. 979-1980. lives of three strippers, one of whom is a les- DJohn Scott. Recent drawings. Feb 25-Mar bian. The French version runs through Feb 15. Carma Lamanna Gallery, 840 Yonge St. 26, the English version runs Feb 28-Mar 24. 922-0410. Tues-Fri, 8 pm. Sat, 7 and 9:30 pm. A Theatre du p'tit bonheur production at Ade- Most galleries are open Tiies-Sat, noon to laide Court. 57 Adelaide St E. 363-6401 five or so. D Talking With. A set of monologues by Jane Martin about ten different women, ranging from a rodeo veteran to a baton RON BEN-ISRAEL twirler. An interesting set of characters, some of whom you'll encounter nowhere else n Modern Madness. A "modern art variety but here, all of whom are full of humanity. show," featuring performance artists Marcia Through Feb 26. Mercury Theatre, 296 Cannon, Peter McGehee (of the Quinlan Sis- Brunswick Ave. 927-9533. ters), Johanna Householder, Tanya Mars, n Lacey or Tropicsnows. Buddies in Bad and Brenda Nielson. Presented by Dance- Times presents Sky Gilbert's latest play, based works. Also featuring appearances by Queen

on the poetry of Canadian E A Lacey, exiled Elizabeth I and the Ontario Censor Board's

in Brazil. Its first act is set in a frigid Ontario Mary Brown. March 7, 8 and 9 at 8:30 pm. winter, its second in a steamy South American The Rivoli, 334 Queen St W. Tickets $5 at jungle. Previews Mar 21-22, runs Mar 23-Apr door. Info: 533-1487. 8. Wed-Sat, 8:30 pm; Sun, 2:30 pm. The DLes Ballets Jazz. Montreal's popular, sexy Theatre Centre, 666 King St W. 862-0659. high-kickers. Ryerson Theatre, Feb 21-25. CThe Fairies Are Thirsty (Les fees ont soif). D Toronto Independent Dance Enterprises. The English-language version of Denise Company work based on improvisation and Boucher's drama about three women who evocative use of props. Brigantine Room, are prisoners in their roles as housewife, Harbourfront. Feb 29-Mar 3. whore and virgin. The original 1978 Quebec njennifer Muller and The Works. Beautiful production caused a state-and-censorship bodies in streams of motion. A world-wide furor; let's hope times have changed. Pre- touring company. Ryerson Theatre, March views Feb 28-29 runs Mar 1-17. Tues-Sat, 12 to 17. 8:30 pm; Sun, 2:30 pm. A Nemo Theatre presentation at the Theatre Centre, 666 King TV/RADIO St W. 862-0659. DTotal Eclipse. Christopher Hampton's JOHNALLEC play about the relationship between the DPIaygiri Visits Canada. Toronto's own 17-year-old Arthur Rimbaud and the Backstage at the burlesque: Margaret Moreau as Gini, one of ttie three women in the play Strip. Stephen Scott talks about his decision to pose 27-year-old Paul Verlaine, poets in the Paris for PlaygirPs special Canada issue, and editor of 1872. Mar 7-11, 8:30 pm. Harbourfront DThe Grand Theatre. Among the plays at both male and female. The first North Diane Grosskopft discusses how the men are Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. Reser- Robin Philips's new company is Eve Mer- American feature by a trio of Soviet film- chosen. City Life, CITYTV, Feb 27, 2:30 pm. vations recommended. 869-8412. riam's The Club, set in a men's club in 1903 makers, this film is apparently an elaborate D "Transsexuals." Interviews with a male-to- [ZNIghtbloom. An adaptation of the Night- and peopled by women playing men's roles metaphor for culture shock. Bloor Cinema female transsexual and Dr Betty Steiner of town section from James Joyce's Ulysses, — a powerful piece of theatre. Also in rep is (at Bathurst), every evening through March the Gender Identity Clinic. City Life, CITY- presented by Comus Music Theatre, directed Joseph Kesselring's classic Arsenic and Old 15, 9:30 pm. $5 ($4 non-members). 532-6677. TV, Feb 22, 2:30 pm. by Billie Bridgman. The score is by the Lace, with the Brewster sisters played by D Ernesto. The tenderness of sex between Canadian Electronic Ensemble; musical William Hutt and John Neville. Another re- men, the dangers of unrequited love, in director is Charles Homewood. Through Feb cent production is Hamlet, starring Brent Salvatore Samperi's 1978 comedy. NIGHTLIFE 25. Premiere Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Carver. 471 Richmond St, London, Ontario. DSilkwood. Cher gives a direct, unaffected W. 869-8444 BASS outlets. Quay Or 1-800-265-1241 (toll-free). performance as the lesbian roommate of C Chairs and Tables. Rachel Wyatt's new of Business Council D Cloud 9. See review p 25. Karen Silk wood. Members Lambda play about the friendship of two women and DBroadway Danny Rose. Woody Allen caught in the between them. the man middle hides an off-centre romance inside a comedy

Previews 1-31 . Tarra- CINEMA from Feb 26, runs Mar about an overly compassionate agent mixed Theatre, 30 Bridgman Ave. 531-1827. D Bemelman's. Fashionably cruisy pop singles gon GLENDON McKINNEY up with a gangster's moll, played with char- bar, pricey restaurant. 83 Bloor St W, 960-0306. Cj Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For ming vulgarity by Mia Farrow. return of the Christopher DEnlre Nous. Director Diane Kurys gives us D CaI6 New Orleans. Best people-peeking perch in You. A Durang DBorn in Flames. See Feb 24 and March 25. play starring Jennifer Phipps, about a nun something rare in the movies these days: a town (it'll take your mind off ttie food). Patio always 922-2439. whose explanations of Church doctrine re- film about the love between friends. Isabelle packed. 618 Yonge St. veal far more than she thinks. Among the Huppert and Miou-Miou portray two women ART • Les Cavaliers. Continental menu, daily specials. 418 Church St. 977-4702. topics discussed in this very funny and sav- who survive the Second World War, accumu- IAN THOM age play is homosexuality. Through Mar 4. late husbands and babies, only to find their D Chap's Caf6. Noon-9 pm, including $1 .99 Festival. Three separate ex- special. $5-$6 range. 9 A CFNY-FM production at the Bathurst St lives wanting. In the socially restrictive 1950s, n Feminist Eros soup/sandwich lunch benefit (see Isabella 921-3012. Theatre, 736 Bathurst St. 533-1161. their husbands expect them to behave proper- hibitions. Following the opening St, Show," locale in the GCal on a Hoi Tin Roof. Tennessee Wil- ly as wives and mothers, and cannot accept Feb 27), Gallery 76 puts on "Desire D Church Street Caf6. Popular brunch 10-5 Sun: 10am-5pm. 485 liams's play about a wealthy Southern fam- their friendship. Kurys utilizes the wide- Feb 28-Mar 10; hours: Mon-Fri, pm. heart of ghetto. Daily to 12, (76 St; 977-531 1, ext Church St. 925-1155. ily; the central male character must confront screen format exceptionally, illustrating the Sat noon-5 pm McCaul East" Mar Cornelius. Very reasonable, very filling meals. the nature of his sexuality. Directed by Kurt generous simplicity of their lives, and moves 262). Gallery 940 presents "Eros n night from 8 pm, 'Rjes- 579 Yonge St. 967-4666. Reis. Previews from Mar 15, runs Mar 23- herself into the major league of filmmakers. 7-21; hours: opening 2-7 2-9 (940 Queen St E, Crispins/Buddy's. Innovative cuisine, great Apr 14. A CentreStage production. St Law- Don't miss it. Sun, pm. Wed • Space wines. Brunch: $6.95. 66 Gerrard St E. 977-1919. rence Centre, 27 Front St E. 366-7723. C Liquid Sky. A creature from an alien 466-8840). "Alter Eros" opens at A atmosphere, with ZThe Importance of Being Earnest. planet lands in Manhattan and observes the March 17, 2-5 pm, and runs through April • Crow Bar. Full menu, easy 10-5 noon-5 popular pix shown at 8 pm, Mon-Fri. 10 Breadal- Another staging of Wilde's witty play. Feb ultra-decadent New Wave subculture. It 14; hours: Tlies-Fri, pm. Sat pm 364-3227). bane (behind Parkside Tavern). 923-6136. 22-25 and Feb 29-Mar 3. 8 pm, Hart House, seems to draw sustenance from its host's fre- (204 Spadina Ave, Inexpensive home- U of T 978-8668. quent sexual encounters with heroin users. nThe Mystic North. SEE THIS SHOW! Art • 18 East Hotel & Tavern.

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cooked meals. Sunday brunch $3.95. 18 Eastern Parkside Tavern). 923-6136. Fully licensed; video. city." Fri & Sat, midnight-dawn; Sun, 11 pm-5am. DThe Selby Hotel. 592 Sherbourne St. Ave. 368-4040. Mon-Sat. 4 pm-3 am; Sun 4 pm-1 am. nOz. See Bars, above. 921-3142, Victorian-style hotel; bar. dining room. 72 housekeeping. 1-2 people with pri- D Fare Exchange. Small neighbourhood caf6. 4 D Katrina's. 5 St Joseph St. 961-4740. Stand-up D Pan AM Dances. lues nights at the Rivoli, 334 rooms. No vate bath: without: $27. Irwin Ave. 923-5924. bar with dance floor. Open Fri and Sat to 4 am. Queen St W from 8 pm. New wave. $35; Cover charge on weekends. Dining lounge. to D Fenlon's. The one place to go it you've only one DStages. 530 Yonge St. 928-0492. Fri-Sat 12 5

1 961-0790. Large bar and place to go (and can afford it). Less expensive room DOz. Isabella St. am. Sun 10:30 pm-4 am. $6. COMMUNITY downstairs. 2 Gloucester St. 961-8485. disco, lotsa lesbians. Also after hours ($3). D Twilight Zone. 185 Richmond St W. 977-3347. Jennie's. Chic restaurant. Live music Fri-Sun D Parkside Tavern. 530 Yonge St. 922-3844. New wave. Weekends. $8. • GToronto Gay CommunitY Council. 105 Carlton St. 4th tloor. St (at Parlia- t\/len's beverage room, side entrance. nites; Sunday brunch. 360 Queen E DVbodoo Club. 9 St Joseph St (above Katrina's). M5B 1 M2 Umbrella organization of lesbian and gay groups dining Forum lor sharing information and discussing political strategies ment). 861-1461. DThe Quest. 665 Yonge St. 964-8641 . Bar, 960-9335. New wave. Weekends. $5. • Lipstick. Daytime meals, late night snacks, and room and upstairs disco. SOCIAL loud music. 4;30 pm-3 am (4 am weekends). 580 n St Charles Tavern. 488 Yonge St, 925-551 7. & Parliament St. 922-6655. Large beverage rooms. POLITICAL ACTION Widmer St. 593-0499. • Pimblett's. Gaudy, friendly British pub. Import n Together. 457 Church St. 923-3469. Lesbian • The Barracks. 56 denim. am; 24 hours on Q3AIDS Committee of Toronto. See Health, below draught, desserts. 249 Gerrard St E. 929-9525. bar. dining room. Leather/ 6 pm-10 DBeaches Area Gays Meets Thurs nights, after 9 pm. at Conti- Mother Caf6. wave, artsy crowd, patio, meals. weekends. n Queen New n The Tool Box. Leather club bar with nental Flair Lounge (in the Beach Mall). t97t Queen SI E (at with imaginative eats. 206 Queen St W. 598-471 9. Club night Thurs. "Hot Stuff" leather shop down- • The Club. 231 IVIutual St. 977-4629. 24 hours. Waverley). • Raclette. French cuisine and great by-the-glass stairs, great deals. 18 Eastern Ave. 869-9294. • The Roman's Health and Recreation Spa. 742 nBridges. 5-592 Church SI. M4Y 2E5 Michael Riordon (922-0735) Group connecting lesbian, gay and third world libera- wine list. 361 Queen St W. 593-0934. Bay St. 598-2110. 24 hours. tion struggles t: Rivoli. Exotic snacks with colourful crowd. 334 GChutzpah. 730 Bathursi St. M5S 2R4. 489-4662 Group lor Queen St W 596-1908. ACCOMMODATION Jewish men and lesbians and friends D Chaps. See Bars, above. gay D Le Select Bistro. Bistro lunches and late night nCoalitlon lor Gay Rights in Ontario (CGRO). Box 822 Sin A. DCharly's. 488 Yonge St. upstairs. 925-5517. DCatnaps Guesthouse. 246 Sherbourne St. dining 328 Queen St W. 596-6405 M5W 1G3 533-6824 Toronto oltice 730 Bathursi St. M5S 2R4 Bar/disco. Now mixed. Fri. 10-3; Sat: 10-?. 968-2323. Fifteen rooms. TV lounge, pool table : : CommittM to Delend John Damlen. 1 508-91 4 Ybnge St. 1 Together. Continental menu, specials. Sunday: DClub Manatee. 11A St Joseph St. 922-1898. and game room, laundry and kitchen facilities, M4W 3C8 925-6729 allyoucaneat/ $6. 457 Church St. 923-3469. IVIale only. Not licensed. Fri & Sat: 10 pm-6 am; parking, sundeck. One or two people: $25. I Foolscap (Oral History Proiact). Conducting interviews with gay 961 Sun: 10:30 pm-3:30 am. Live shows Sat at 2 am. ni8 East Hotel. 18 Eastern Ave. 368-4040. Bar people John Grube, -8947 : Foundation lor the Advancamant ol Canadian Trtnsseiuals Sun at midnight. and dining room, 22 rooms. TV lounge, sauna, (FACT) — Toronto, 519 Church SI Community Centre. M4y 2C9 DClub Mystique. 16 Phipps Ave (behind Sutton gym. laundry facilities, sundeck. free parking. 1 i iGay AHianca at Ybrk. c/o CVSF, 105 Central Sq, Vtork University. The Albany Tavern. 158 King E. 861-1155. ' • St rates. Place Hotel) 924-0244. ' Largest dance floor in the or 2 people: $24. weekend 4700KeeleSt Oownsview. 0NM3J 1P3 667-2515 Dancing, patio. After hours till 4 am on Fri and Sat : Gay Asians Toronto. Box 752. Sin F. M4Y 2N6 Into AUn at • The Barn. 83 Granby St. 977-4702. Casual Friendship over family: Isabelle Huppert (left) and Miou-Miou in Kurys 's exceptional Entre Nous. Glad Day Bookshop 961-4161 stand-up bar and disco. 1 Gay Association ol Marltinwrs In Tkranto. 730 Bathursi SI.

r Boots (at the Selby). 592 Sherbourne St. M5S 2R4 Support group for Maritimers moving to Toronto

921-3142 Dance floor, lounge, casual dining room, I Gay Community Appeal ol Toronto Box 2212. Sin P. M5S 2T2 869 3036 Fund raising lor gay and lesbian community protects • Buddy's Backroom Bar. 370 Church St. : Gay Communily Dance Committee (GCDC) 730 Bathursi SI. 977-9955. Chatty, casual stand-up bar. M5S ?R4 Oiganiies community funOi.iising dances

D Bud's (at Hotel Selby). 592 Sherbourne St. Gay Counvrttcli. Room\337. Old City Hall (Oueen and Bay) 921-1035 Video, dance floor. 961 8046

Gay Fathers ol Toronto Box 187. Sin F. M4Y 364 4164 n Cameo Club. 95 Trinity St, 368-2824 Licensed 215 weekniqhis private dance club for women Fri and Sat only. Gay Liberation Against Iha RI(M tinr/wtm* (GLARE) Box 793 • Les Cavaliers. 418 Church St 977-4702. Piano SliiQ M4f ?N7 singalong bar, very chatty Gay SIG, Oiawei C6:2. c/o the Body Politic, Box 7289. Stn A. n Chaps. 9 Isabella St (at Yonge) 921-3012. MtiVV 1X9 Group Ol gay members Of ME NSA in Canada Large upstairs disco with risqu6 video, downstairs Gay Sell-Detence Group Box 793 Sin M4T 2N7 423 4803 Oig,ini;os couists m sell in and ol Toronto bar defence outside Gay Ytouth ol Toronto 730 Bathursi St. M5S 7R4 533 2867 ' Cornelius. 579 Yonge St. 967-4666 Dance floor, Phone counselling Mon Wed. Fri. 7 pm-10 pm dining area Open 4 pm; $1 a beer till 8 pm week- Oayi end Letblani at U ol T c/o SAC Ollice. 1 2 Han House Cir nights, great Friday after work cle Universityol Toronto. M5S lAI 966 3971 • Crow Bar. 10 Breadalbane St (laneway behind

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24 D THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 band Clive in colonial Africa. In fact, all of the actors have exchanged roles as Churchill continues to turn ideas of age, sex and sexual orientation upside-down. In one scene, Victoria and her brother Edward sit alone on a park bench and agree that they both "heite men." Edward confesses that he'd rather be a woman, that he thinks breasts are beautiful. He innocently asks if he can touch Victoria's breasts. She laughs and com-

plies. There is embarrassed silence in the audience. We are witnessing (gasp) incest. Then Edward sighs hugely: "I

think I'm a lesbian." It is a dehcious, and touching, moment. Eventually, Victoria, her lesbian lover Lin, and brother Edward end up sharing room and bed in a threesome as confusing to Edward's ex-lover, who has sex

with strangers on public transit, as it is to his mother, who hasn't had sex for years. Churchill clearly has a gift for point- ing up the artificiality of roles and the barriers that role-playing can create. And yet she's not so simplistic as to sug-

gest that a simple discarding of roles is the answer — Victoria, Lin and Edward do not reach Cloud 9 with their commu- nal love. What Churchill does seem to espouse, however, is the value of break- ing the rules, of stretching the boundar- ies of propriety to include love, sex and touching for their own sakes, regardless of whether or not they conform to any existing modus vivendi. The Toronto production has been well-cast by director Bill Glassco. The play demands talented and versatile act-

ors, so its a pleasure to say there is not a bad performance to be seen, despite the challenge of at least two roles per actor. Apart from a tendency for some cast members to play the lines rather than the characters — a temptation in this farce- like play — there were many character- izations which managed to be both believable and absurdly funny. Glassco seems to have a good grasp of the play's

themes, although the emphasis is a little As for the Dancemakers company, are rampant as the family, their servants heavily on the play's more frantic they were a treat. Their energetic render- and friends strain against the bonds of KITCHEN DRAMA qualities. This may have been due to ing of the work was remarkable. Victorian society. Young Edward plays first-night jitters (the show I saw was the Dancemakers. Choreography by Karen Rim- Ron Ben-Israel D guiltily with dolls and does naughty first preview) and might even out as the things late at night with Uncle Harry. mer. Premiere Dance Theatre, Jan 31 -Feb 4. run continues. JimBartlevCj COMIC Edward's mother Betty torments herself At last! Here is a choreographer who COUPLINGS with guilt over her secret love for Harry. challenges us with the exploration of Harry and Joshua fuck regularly in the Cloud 9: A Comedy of Multiple Organisms by woman's role in our culture. By carefully barns. Ellen, the governess, is a passion- Caryl Churchill. Directed by Bill Glassco. ON THE TOWN restricting her dancers to severely edited ate lesbian with no name for her desire, Bayview Playhouse, 1605 BayviewAve, movements, Vancouverite Karen Rimmer who throws herself on the oblivious 481-6191 or BASS. Oh, what's one to do without The elicits specific emotional reactions from Betty every time they are alone. Hus- Outpost, that lewd saloon of her audience. She maintains a direct link Cloud 9 is a play about sex roles, power, band and patriarch, Clive, indulges a leatherness and lust? And who'll take to her mesage, avoiding hysterical self- and oppression; about patriarchy, the fetish for osculum in vaginum with a in its orphans (and their ebullient exposure and disregarding the use of nuclear family and the private and pub- dyke-ish widow, who loathes Clive and endorphins!) now that that bed of "pure movement" for its own sake. lic gyrations that individuals perform to his great-white-father posturing but con- B&D has bit the dust? Graham Jackson's words serve as a find their own measure of happiness sents to his oral passions because "I do Who'll forget the bets on who put loose background to her "Despair within those structures — or without like the sensation." out most? And that lonesome cow- Comics." Eloquent dancer Patricia them. It is also (a little too ambitiously) But the play is more than "a carnal boy who had seemed to prove the Fraser is forced into two-dimensional, about colonialism and racism. If all that circus," as the advetising claims. In the possessor of perfect poise, the best of cartoon-like manifestations of a lonely sounds a bit heavy one shouldn't despair midst of these heated couplings author all the boys, till he betrayed he was figure, probably stuck in her suburban — the play is enormously funny, at Caryl Churchill shows us the truly infer- too buzzed to move. kitchen: times very moving, and above all prov- nal: we learn that agents of the Queen, Oh, wisdom wound its way "Sold the Venetian blinds ocative, offering food for thought for including Clive, have put down a rebel- throughout The Outpost. Amid the Bui dammit, if the everyone from corporate Rosedale wives lion by setting fire to a native village. chaps and chains, among the brute Creeper didn't cover the windowpane to the lesbian who has occasionally Joshua's parents die in the confiagara- and brawny, one could overhear with While I was feeding the kid." thought of doing it with some of her gay tion, and in the final seconds of the act ease whether Joan had hit her Cs in This mundane drama is intensified in male friends. we see him get his revenge. that afternoon's performance of Don "Walking the Line," where each charac- Act One presents a British family liv- Act Two continues the familial and Giovanni. ter can only repeat one pattern. The ing in colonial Africa in 1880. In minutes sexual themes but virtually abandons the As for me, I will recall it all no roles are defined: She who tempts. He we see that age, sex and race are all to be colonial and racial. We are presented doubt most for the lessons learned, who follows fascinated; She who chal- tenuous concepts: Betty, the wife, is with members of the same family, all the knowledge love inspires — such lenges him. He who fights. And finally, played by a man; adolescent son twenty-five years older, in London. But as never to suggest, "How about you She who mourns alone. For a change, Edward, by a woman; Joshua, the fam- the year is 1980 — the present. Young be my guest, and do with me what- these situations are not perceived as ily's black servant, by a white. These Edward has grown into a gay man. His ever your heart desires?" heroic; rather than exploring herself as a transformations, at first farcical, man- younger sister, Victoria (played by a Oh, what's one to do without The high-priestess of sexual frustration (dear age to take on complex meanings while stuffed doll in Act One) is now a lesbian Outpost, that randiful retreat of old Martha G), Rimmer chooses to con- remaining delightfully comedic. Before mother shakily married to a straight raunch rovalel The memories will vey the futility of such scenarios. Where the act is over we've witnessed a con- man. Her lesbian friend, Lin, has a pre- mound up, now that it's past its last others rip clothes and soul on stage, she centrated display of oppressions and school age daughter named Cathy — a round-up. Oh yes, it was an okay skillfully uses leftover dance cliches to self-oppressions as ama/ing for its chubby monster obsessed with cap pis- corral. convince us that dance can be an intelli- humanity as for its scope. tols. Cathy is played, amazingly and hil- John Alloc gent art. Illicit couplings and gender-bending ariously, by the actor who played hus-

THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 U 25 TUES/FEB 21 by the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics. Info: 789-4541. Z Lesbian Incest Survivors Support Group. First meeting. Open to all lesbians who have SUN/MARCH 4 S survived any type of incestuous relationship, Lesbian Mothers Potluck Brunch. Food and would like to share experiences and in- and friendship. 1-4 pm. Info: 465-6822. n sights. Info: 964-7477 (Rape Crisis Centre). Workshop on Sexuality and Spirituality. z WED/FEB 22 Led by Rev Grossman of Metropolitan Com- munity Church, London. Info: 536-2848. E D "Nuclear Deterrents? A Canadian and Christian Perspective." Featured speakers TUES/MARCH 6 < will include two representatives of the fed- Integrity (Gay Anglicans) Mardi Gras eral Defence Department, Capt Nicholas C Celebration. With inter-group participation. Stethem, Managing Director of the Strategic See Tuesdays. s Analysis Group, and Arthur Mathewson, IL Chief of Policy Planning for National 7 Defence. Also speaking will be Rev Milton WED/MARCH h Little of the United Church of Canada, and Ward 6 Community Organization Annual Dr Richard Fischer of Physicians for Social Meeting. Formed in 1973, W6CO is a pro- s Responsibility. Metropolitan Community gressive community-based municipal organi- Church, 730 Bathurst St (a block south of zation which has often been very effective in E Bloor), 7:30-9:30 pm. Free. representing the interests of the underdog, < n Sexuality '84 Conference: Female including the area's large lesbian and gay Sexuality/The Female Life Cycle. With population. Membership is only $10 ($2.50 E keynote speaker Kate Millett. Downtown for seniors, students and the unemployed). m location. Info: 675-3111, ext 4459. 7:30 pm, 519 Church St Community Centre. u D "TVanssexuals." See TV/Radio. CelebrAsian II! Gay Asians of Toronto have For info, call Bill Cousintine at 922-9677, or L released their second newsletter, a special write Box 54, Stn F, M4Y 2L4. (Ward 6 is FRI/FEB 24 Valentine issue with several features (inclu- bounded by Bloor, Palmerston, Sherbourne and the Islands.) (fl n"Mai Tais and Pink Ties." The Gay Com- ding the first of a series on lovers), news, Lesbian Phone Line Meeting. Prospective munity Appeal's annual bash to celebrate the classifieds, and even a gossip column. The volunteers welcome. 348 College St, 3rd D end of their fund-raising campaign. St Law- group now has over 80 members. For info h floor. 7:30 pm. 960-3249 (TXies evenings). rence Centre Town Hall. Tickets $7.50 at on GAT, write Box 752, Stn F, I\/I4Y2N6, or Lutherans Concerned. Meeting at a Info: 869-3036. Glad Day Bookshop. call Glad Day Bookshop. 961-4161. member's home at 8 pm. Info: David or Born in Flames. Lizzie Borden's notorious James, 463-7354. film about lesbian armies and feminist revo- E briefs parade, no cover. 370 Church St (lane- "Modern Madness." A "modern art lutionaries taking over the government, the IL way behind Crispins). 977-9955. variety show." See Dance. centrepiece of a current censorship battle "Relationships." Discussion meeting of Feminist Eros Festival. See Art. (see p 9) is shown tonight at 8 pm, as a benefit Gay Fathers of Toronto. 519 Church St Erotica. See Stage. h for Broadside and FUSE. Director Borden is Community Centre, 8 pm. Info: 364-4164. Total Eclipse. See Stage. Z to be present. Repeated Sat at 7 and 9 pm. Chairs and Tables. See Stage. Sun at 2 pm, and mon through Wed at 7 and 9 The Fairies Are Thirsty. See Stage. THURS/MARCH 8 E pm. The Music Hall Theatre, 147 Danforth Ave. Info: DEC, 964-6909. Women's Studies Wine and Cheese Party. FRI/MARCH 2 h Co-hosted by the Women's Studies Student SAT/FEB 25 GCCT Women's Open House. The Gay Union and the Women's Studies Pro- Z Counselling Centre of Toronto welcomes all gramme, with entertainment. Theme: Hearts. See Art. women to drop by for coffee and refresh- "Women of Colour." 4-6 pm, U of T. Fur- John Scott. See Art. h ments, 7:30-10:30 pm. 105 Carlton St, 4th ther details: Sue Buck, 484-4085. 26 noor. Info: 977-2153. Z SUN/FEB FRI/MARCH 9 u Womyn Out Doors Mid-Winter Skating SAT/MARCH 3 "Reflections of Women." Womynly Way > Party and Potluck. From noon, at Grenadier IWDC Dance. A mixed (men and women) presents folksinger Sandy Greenberg at The Ui Pond, High Park. dance to raise funds for next week's Interna- Trojan Horse, 179 Danforth Avenue, at 9 pm. Chutzpah Monthly Brunch. 1 pm at the L tional Women's Day celebrations, organized Admission $4. Golden Griddle, 45 Carlton St. 782-3942. Out & Out Downhill Skiing. On the Blue Emotion pictures: Meryl Streep, Cher in Silkwood; Michele Placido and Martin Helm in Ernesto. E Mountain Peaks. Moderate rating. 927-0970. < Q MON/FEB 27 Z The Second Annual Homophobe of the Id Year Awards Banquet. Entertainment, danc- J ing and dinner, a fund-raising event at < Katrina's, 5 St Joseph St, for the Interna- tional Gay Association. Cocktails at 7 pm, dinner at 7:30. Tickets $12 advance only ($8 = (A students/unemployed), available at Glad Day or by calling 466-2838. h Feminist Eros Festival Opening Benefit. With the all-women band Word of Mouth, Helen Porter and others. Co-ordinated by III Womenfilm/Womenart. The Rivoli, 334 z Queen St W. 8 pm. Tickets available from h Toronto Women's Bookstore, DEC, and at z the Rivoli. $6 at door, $5 advance.

Defensercize! 7:30-9:30 pm , every Mon-

h day at 5 1 9 Church St . See box opposite page. 3 "Policing in Public Housing."Special focus at the third annual meeting of Citi- zens' Independent Review of Police Activ- ities. City Hall Council Chambers, 7:30 pm. z Info: Fiona Chapman, c/o Alderman Jack h Layton, 947-7903. Z Playgirl Visits Canada. See TV/Radio. TUES/FEB 28 Women's Studies Student Union Open

(ft House. Every Tuesday afternoon at U of T. z See Tuesdays. h Feminist Eros Festival. See Art. Strip. See Stage. (fl h THURS/MARCH 1 E -GLAUT Talent Show. A benefit for the ? Sex-Ed Centre, hosted by Gays and Lesbians at U of T. Debates Room, Hart House. 8 (A pm. $3. To take part, contact Sylvia or Ilona at the Sex-Ed Centre, 978-3977. Z Brief Encounters of the Tight Kind! A E special night at Buddy's, with a surprise show at 1 1 pm, a guest appearance at mid- Q. night by Maria Lukofsky, and a fashion (ft 26 D THE BODY POLITIC BORN IN FLAMES: BENEFIT SCREENING FOR BROADSIDE A FUSE FEB 24 m MONDAYS z The Women's Group. Collectively run support and consciousness-raising group > for lesbians. 519 Church St, 8 pm. Contact r Raechel (926-0527). r TUESDAYS Z Gay Youth of Toronto. 7:30 pm. Info: 533-2867 (Mon, Wed, Fri from 7-10 pm). H Integrity (Gay Anglicans). Church of the Holy Trinity (Eaton Centre). 7:30 pm. 593-6217. Women's Studies Student Union Open c House. Noon to 2 pm (bring your own H lunch). Room 5 IB, New College (NE corner in the basement), U of T. z H WEDNESDAYS z m Metropolitan Community Church. Mid- week services. 730 Bathurst St. Wheelchair accessible. 7:30 pm. H Toronto Addicted Women's Self-Help < Network. Self-help group for women ad- Vi dicted to alcohol and other drugs. Central H Neighbourhood House. 349 Ontario St, 7 D pm. Info: 961-7319. THURSDAYS D Canadian Gay Archives. Open for X research and tours, 7-10 pm. 54 Wolseley St, second floor. Info: 364-2759. M Married Lesbians. Support discussion

K group sponsored by Spouses of Gays. 1 :30 pm, 206 St Clair Ave W. 967-0597. (D TAG Coming Out Group. Meets in private home. Supportive atmosphere for U) Lizzie Borden 's feminist opus — which the censors cut and rated "R"— can be seen Feb 24-29 at the Music Hall, and March 25 at Yorl< U H people coming to terms with their sexuality. z 8 pm. Info: 964-6600. DGLAUT Film Night. Tonight: John College, York University, discusses the ele- pm to 2 am, at The Buttery (Larkin Bldg), Gay Alliance at York. Meeting at 7 pm. Sayles's Lianna. See Fridays. ment of homosexuality in cinema since the Devonshire Place, just south of Varsity Sta- > For room location, check Excalibur. publication of Vito Russo's The Celluloid dium. $4. H SAT/MARCH 10 Closet. Hosted by the Lesbian and Gay Aca- SUN/MARCH 25 DFlea Market. A fund-raising event hosted demic Society. 8 pm. Rhodes Room, Trinity a screening by Gay Asians Toronto. 10 am-5 pm at 519 College, Hoskin Ave, U of T. DBorn in Flames. (See Feb 24). A FRIDAYS n"Gay Asians and Immigration Policy". A sponsored by Gay Alliance at York. Free! Church St Community Centre. Info: Alan at z D Gays and Lesbians at U of T. 8 pm, inter- special meeting of Gay Asians of Toronto. Bethune College Junior Common Room. Glad Day, 961-4161. H national Student Centre, 33 St George St. Info: 667-3957. D International Women's Day Celebrations. 519 Church St Community Centre, 8 pm. Check 923-GAYS for weekly topic. All DChutzpah Monthly Brunch. 1 pm at The day begins at 1 1 am with a rally at Con- welcome. Charley's, Ave All welcome! vocation Hall, U of T, followed by a demon- WED/MARCH 21 44 Eglinton W. stration fair. In the evening, all- n Lutherans Concerned. Meeting at a SUNDAYS and an mem- 27 a women dance organized by Branching Out: ber's home, 8 pm. Info: David or James, TUES/MARCH t Dignity/Toronto. Gay Catholics and Lesbian Resource Centre. For info, 463-7354. nWomyn Out Doors Meeting. Interested in A more friends. Mass or worship followed by dis- 789-4541. Softball, bicycling or camping? How about call S cussion. Lynch Hall, Our Lady of Lourdes D All-Women Dance. See above. FRl/MARCH 23 squash? Bring your ideas and yourself to the (D Church (Sherbourne St, south of Bloor), 4 519 Church St Community Centre. 7:30 pm. D "Science Fiction and Utopia: Images and pm. Wheelchair-accessible. 960-3997. M0N/MARCH12 Strategies for Social Change." Lecture by Metropolitan Community Church. Wor- Peter Fitting. 8 Sir THURS/MARCH 29 nWomen's Coffee House. "An evening of pm. Room 1013, Sand- ship at 1 1 am and 7:30 pm; singspiration 15 solidarity," with live entertainment. Free ad- ford Fleming Bldg, 10 King's College Rd, U D Popular Culture Association Annual m minutes before each service. Sunday school mission and childcare. 519 Church St Com- ofT Meeting. A four-day North American con- > provided for 1 1 am service. Wheelchair ac- munity Centre Oust north of Weliesley), 8 D Hunter Davis. Womynly Way presents the ference, held in conjunction with a meeting cessible; services on first Sun of each month pm. Info: Nicole Casseres, 923-2778. blues singer at The Trojan Horse, 179 Dan- of the American Cultural Association. The r signed for the deaf. 730 Bathurst. DJennifer Muller. See Dance. forth Ave, 8 pm. $4. programme will include sections devoted to Christos Metropolitan Community DLacey or Tropicsnows. Sky Gilbert's "Eros and Popular Culture," "Women in Z Church. Worship service at 7 pm, St Luke's TUES/MARCH13 latest. See Stage. Canada," "Alternative Toronto," and "Gay m United Church (Sherbourne & Carlton, in DCat on a Hot Tin Roof. See Stage. and Lesbian Studies." Location: Loews D Integrity (Gay Anglicans) Lenten Study I. Tl chapel off Carlton) with fellowship hour. A look at the book Embracing the Exile. See Westbury Hotel. For information, write Bar- 489-4293 (days) or 248-1733 (evenings). SAT/MARCH 24 rie Hayne, 20 Colin Ave, Toronto, M5P 2B7. Tuesdays. (Fart II next week). a Alcoholics Anonymous. Gay and lesbian DHomo Hop. Back by popular demand, H group, open to all. 3 pm. 730 Bathurst St THURS/MARCH15 another dance hosted by Gays and Lesbians FRl/MARCH 30 (MCC). at U of T. Hobnobbing and hilarity, from 9 DGLAUT Coffee Night. See Fridays. I nCay Fathers of Toronto. General discus- m PHONELINES sion meeting. 8 pm. Info: 364-4164. > DEFENSERCIZE! 0 FRl/MARCH 16 Alcoholics Anon>mous 964-3962 Dancercize with a twist — 30 minutes of aerobics, 45 minutes of self-defence training, and Lesbian and gay groups. iPurim Party. Hosted by Chutzpah, the a 45 minutes of socializing. Absolutely free! This low-key couple of hours is hosted every Gaycare Toronto 243-5494 gay Jewish group. 519 Church St Commun- Monday night the Toronto Patrol, to Seven days a week, 7-1 1 pm. ity Centre, 8 pm. Info: 489-4662. by Gay from 7:30 9:30 pm at the 519 Church St Com- [J Lesbian Phoneline 960-3249 DGLAUT Film Night. Tonight: The Conse- munity Centre. No previous experience needed, and you can attend as many or as few (0 Tues 7:30-10:30 pm. quence. See Fridays. classes as you like. Just show up in running shoes and loose, comfortable clothing (no (0 [ IGayCommunityCalendar. . . .923-CIA^'S jeans), and try not to eat within 45 minutes of the session. Bring a friend! c 961-8046 SAT/MARCH 17 m [JGayCourtwatch Gay Fathers of Toronto 364-4164 n College for Ciay Rights Organizing. The H Mon-Fri, 7-10 pm. how and why of lesbian and gay community I IGay Youth of Toronto 533-2867 organizing — a two-day get-together I at the Mon, Wed. Fri, 7-10 pm. University of Waterloo, sponsored by the C i iSpousesof (;ays 967-0597 Coalition for Gay Rights in with a Ontario M Wed and Thurs 6:30-8:30 pm. Gay Liberation of Waterloo. Local activist Toronto AreaGays(TAG) 964-6600 celebrities will speak, and diplomas will be D Mon-Sat 7-10:30 pm. distributed! Billeting available. 533-6824. Counselling, info.

! i Feminist Eros Festival. See Art. Bisexuals International. (215) 425-3894 (Philadelphia). MON/MARCH 19 > n Right to Privacy Committee Meeting. 519 a CIRPA 960-6318 Church Si Community Centre, 8 pm. Cili/cns' Independent Review of Police (0 Activities 24-hour confidential luillinc. TUES/MARCH 20 i Trouble with the police? Call us fir>l! 1 I ".Since The Celluloid Closet." Robin a Wood, Professor of Fine Art at Atkinson

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GGayi^are Toronto, c/c Christos MCC, Box 1 193. Stn F, 2T8. M4Y n Metropolitan Community Church. 730 Bathurst St. 2R4 M5S women addicted to alcohol and other drugs. Weekly meetings 243-5494. 7-11 pm seven days a vreek Free face-to-tace drop-in ^GEM G«y Community Outreach. Box 62. Brampton. ON L6V 2K7. 536-2848 Christian church with special ministry to gay Toronto Area Caucus ol Woman and the counselling service in the area. Law. Box 231 Stn B Peel Region (Brampton-Mississauga) group tor gays and lesbians. downtown Group sessions community M5T 2T2,

Gayline West 453-4426 Gay Counselling Centra of Toronto. 1 . floor. C 05 Carlton St 4th The Sacred Triangle. 72 Ivy Ave, M4L 2H7 463-9688 Lesbian Toronto Rape Crisis Centre. Box Sin A. MSB 1M2 977-2153, Tues, Wed, Thurs, 6597. M5W 1X4 Crisis GGLAD (Gay/Lesbiin Action tor Disarmament). Box 5794. Stn A, 6:30-9:30 pm Professional and gay occultists and spiritualists, line: 964-8080 Business line: 964-7477, Into, self-defence M5W 1P2 921-1938 counselling for lesbians and gay men Call for appi or drop in. Seventh-Day Adventists Kinship Inlernational. For past and courses. Gay Fathers ol Toronto. Phonelme 364-4164. CGIad Day Defence Fund. 648A Yonge St. M4Y 2A6. 961-4161. C 7-lOpm, Mon-Fri. present gay and lesbian Adventists. c/o Jeremy Young, Box 408, U ol T Women's Newsmagazine. For feminists on and off cam- C International Gay Association (Toronto), c/o Gay Community uGay Mens Discussion Groups. Sponsored by U ol T Sex Ed Cen- Stn C. M6J 3P5. pus. 44 St George St. 2nd fir. MSS 2E4. Info: Brenda 534-4021 tre 978-3977 Council Spirit. 730 Bathurst St, M5S 2R4. 248-1733 or 482-1817. Sup- Women Against Violence Against Women. Box 174. StnD, GHasslo-Froe Clinic — Men. 556 Church St. 2nd floor, M4Y 2E3. port group for gay and lesbian Salvationists Z Lesbian and Gay Academic Society, c/o SAC. 1 2 Hart House and friends M6P 3J8, Committed to action from a leminist perspective against 922-0603 into, Circle. UolT, M5S 1A1 921-531 7 (Conrad) or 924-6474 VD testing and treatment. Hours: Mon, Wed, 4-9 Toronto Organization ol United Church Homosexuals. Box 626. various aspects of violence against women (Alexandra) pm: Tues. Thurs. 10 am-3 pm. Fri.4-7pm: Sat. 10am-2pm, Bath StnO, M4T 1L0 Women In Trades, c/o Times Change, 22 Davisville St clinics every Wed evening al The Club and Roman's. [-Lesbian and Gay History Group ol Toronto. Box 639. Stn A. M4S 1E8, 534-1161 M5A 1G2 961-7338 DLosblan Phoneline. Bex 70. Sin F, M4Y 2L4 960-3249 Tues Women's Counselling, Referral and Education Centre. 348 Col- 7:30-10 30 pm Recorded message other times Speakers available. G Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee. Box 793. Stn Q. lege SI, MST 1S4. 924-0766, Therapy, counselling, info, M4T 2N7 Organizes end of June celebration CSex Ed Cent™, c/o U of T Office of Admissions. 315 Bloor SI W. Gays In Health Care. Box 7086, Stn A, M5W 1X7. 920-1882. Women's Independent Thoughtz (WITZ). Group for exchange of Room 107. M5S 1A3 Devonshire and Bloor Sts. behind Admissions CLesbian incest Survivors Support Group. Into 964-7477 (Rape Gay men and lesbians working and training in health-care delivery ideas and creative endeavours, 768-9496 or 536-3162. BIdg. 978-3977 Sex counselling for of Crisis Centre) U Tcampus. Gay counsellors and research, Women's Media Alliance, every Tues. 10am-9pm c/o 940 Queen St E. M4M 1 J7 Phyllis CLesbian Motliers' Defence Fund. Box 38. Sin E. M6H 4E1 Toronto Lambda Business Council. Box 513. Adelaide Waugh. 466-8840, DToronto Area Box St Stn, 465-6822 Gays. 6706, Stn A. M5W 1 X5, 964-6600. Free M5C 2J6, Non-profit guild with over 70 members; publishes direc- Women'sResourceCenlre.OISE. peer counselling and info lor lesbians and gay men Mon-Sat: 7 252 Bloor St W. MSS 1V6 GLesbian Speakers Bureau. Box 6597 Stn A. M5W 1X4 Info tory twice a year, 923-6641 Ext pm-10 30 pm , 244 Books, periodicals, audio & video tapes Michelle al 789-4541 or Debbie at 964-7477 Speakers for myth- Womensports. Women's sports CTri-Aid Charitable Foundation. Irwin Ave. store. 561 Mt Pleasant Rd (s ol shattering seminars ana workshops 8 M4Y 1K9. Gay youth, about lesbians Eglinlon), 481-2531 streelwork. parkwatch. public education, agency consultations C Lesbians Against the Right. Box 6579. Stn A. M5W 1X4. NUN OF THE ABOVE Womynly Way Productions. 427 Bloor St W, MSS 1X7 Lesbian-temmist political action group 92S-6568, Company bringing concerts, dance and theatrical per- The Sisters ol Perpetual Indulgence. Drawer OPI, c/oBox "Metamorphosis. Box 5963. Stn A, M5W 1P4 Transsexual coun- 7289, lormanceslolhecily. selling and services Stn A, M5W 1X9 Cabbagetown ~Naw Democratic Party Gay and Lesbian Caucus. Box 792. Stn F. Group Sottball League . Box 42, Stn L. M6E 4Y4 M4Y 2N7 964-1049 863-0438 PUBLICATIONS Dunensions. Front WOMEN'S Z New Social group for women, meets approximately Runners Toronto. Box 8, Adelaide St Stn. M5C 2H8 Gay every third week Info Gayle. 683-8691 men and women's running club. & INFORMATION GThe New Voice, c/o 519 Church St. M4Y 2C9 Lesbian/gay Judy Garland Memorial Bowling League. Info: bulletin boards in choir various bars Sept-May season, also summer league, Action! Irregular publication ol Right to Privacy Committee, 730 The following is a select list of women's services in Toronto ol par- Gay/Lesbian and Bathurst SI, MSS 2R4, 924-4523, ~Osgoode York Out Out Club. Box . Caucus. University. 4700 Keele SI. 331 Sin F. M4Y 2L7 927-0970. Outdoor ticular interest to lesbians. Downsview, M3J 2R5 532-2443 (Peler) or 463-4721 (Shelley). activities lor gay people Include phone number. The Body Politic. Box 7289, Stn A, MSW 1X9. 364-6320. Broadside. Box 494. Stn P. IVI5S 2T1. 598-3513. Monthly fem- Z Parents and Friends ol Lesbians and Toronto. Riverdale Volleyball League. Sept-April National lesbian and gay monthly. Gays 52 Roxalme season Info at Crow inist newspaper. Substantial contributions by lesbians. St. Weston ON M9T 2Y9 Info Pauline Martin at 244-2105 Bar. Buddy's and Albany Tavern Canadian Gay Archhres. Box 639, Sin A, MSW 1G2 364-2759, Constance Hamilton Housing Co-op. For women only. 523 Melita ZParenls ol Gays Mississauga. c/oAnne Rutledge. 3323 Kings [^[Salukis. All-lesbian Softball team. Box 6597. Stn A, M5W1X4. Cres. M6G 3X9, 532-8860, Gay Community Calendar. Call 923-GAYS Box 8, Adelaide SI MaslingsCres 964-7477 Mississauga L5L 1G5 820-5130. Stn, M5C 2H8, 24 hour recorded message ol weekly events. To get Fireweed. Box 279, Stn B. M5T 2W2, 977-8681. Feminist quar- [Right to Privacy Committee Toronto Historical info listed call 656-0372 between 7-10 (RTPC). 730 Balhurst St, M5S 2R4 Bowling Society. Write 100-2 Bloor St W. terly of politics and the arts. pm Mondays. Defence committee for gays arrested under bawdyhouse laws M4W 3E2. or check bulletin boards in various bars. Bowling on Gayline West. 453-GGCO. Community info for Mississauga and Hassle-Free Clinic — Women. 556 Church St, second Moor, Cheques or charges pyable to: Harriel Sachs in trust for RTPC Tues. Wed. Sat or Sun nights Also summer league. parts west of Metro, M4Y 2E3 922-0566 Free medical clinic. Birth control and gyne- Info 961-8046 or 368-4392 Womyn Out Doors (WOODS). Wbmen-identified Glad Day Bookshop. women sharing cological into, VD and pregnancy testing, abortion counselling and 648A Yonge St. 2nd floor. M5Y 2A6. '[Spouses ol Gays, c/o Caryn Miller. Carlton outdoor skills and experiences. Outings, 961-4161. Mon 10-8, 10-6. 260 St, MSA 2L3 workshops and trips. Box referrals. Hours: Mon. Wed. Fri, 10 am-3 pm; Tues, Thur. 4 pm- Tue-V\fed Thurs-Fri 10-9; Sat 10-6. Phonelme 967-0597 Wed. Thurs 30-8 462. Stn P. M5S 2S9. 6 30 pm 9 pm, Call ahead, Grapevine. Box 38. Stn E. M6H 4E1 Lesbian Mothers' Defence :; Toronto Gay Patrol. Self-governing group of lesbians and Fund newsletter. 2-3 issues/year, gay International Women's Day Committee. Box 70, StnF, M4Y 2L4 men palrolling downtown core of city c/o 29 Grenville St. Apt 2. 789-4541 Independent socialist feminist organization, Lesbian Archives. Box 928. StnO, M4T 2P1. M4Y 1A1 Info Gary Akenhead, 921-7839 RELIGIOUS Jessie's Centre lor Teenage Women. 154 Bathurst St. M5V 2R3 Lesbian/Lesbienne. National newsletter, 367-0589 (Kerry), :: Toronto Rainbow Alliance ol the Deal. Box 671. Stn F. M4Y 2N6 365-1888 Multi-service agency Lesbian-positive Metamorphosis. Box 5963, Stn A, M5W 1P4. Newsletter lor GWHY? (tMe Help You). Non-profit para-professional support Christos Metropolitan Community Church. Box 1193, SInF, Macphail transsexuals, House. 389 Church SI. MSB 2A1 , 977-1037 Long- group lor transsexuals 26-325 Jarvis St. MSB 2C2 967-3405 M4Y 2T8 968-7423, Christian church with special outreach to gay term YWCA residence for women 16-25. Shared co-op apartments. Pink Ink. Box 287. Sin H. M4C SJ2, 423-4803. National lesbian community, working in association with Gaycare Toronto Nellie's Hostel lor Women. 275A Broadview Ave, M4M 2G8. and gay monthly, Chutzpah. See Social/ political action listings. 461-1084 HEALTH & Temporary hostel for women 16 and over, including Sound Women, c/o Ryerson Women's Centre. SURPI. 380 Vic- Dignity/Toronto. Box 249, Stn E. M6H 4E2. 960-3997 Group tor mothers with children. toria SI. MSB 1W7, Ryerson women's radio show collective, Les- gay and lesbian Catholics and Iriends, SOCIAL SERVICES Stop 86. 86 Madison Ave. bian and feminist music, interviews and announcements M5R 2S4 922-3271 Crisis housing Sundays P Integrity/Toronto. Box 873. Sin F. M4Y 2N9, Pastoral ministry at noon, and social service centre lor women under 25, CKLN-FM 88,1 , To place announcements, call 598-9838. AIDS Committee ol Toronto. Box SS. Sin F. M4Y 2L4 926-1626 lor gay and lesbian Anglicans and friends. 593-621 7, Chaplains Times Change Women's Employment Centre. 22 Davisville Ave, Toronto Women's Bookstore. Temporary location: 201-296 ( Mon-Fn 9 am-5 pm) Educates public about the syndrome, available lor pastoral counselling through this number, M4S 1E8. 487-2807 9-5 Mon-Thurs, 9-2 Fri, Employment coun- Brunswick Ave (at Bloor). n/ISS 2M7 922-8744, especially AlOS-affected communities, and provides support services Lutherans Concerned, c/o Edward Schlauch. 980 Broadview selling, |0b search and career planning workshops The Web. 821-1416. Freemonthly newsletter ol women's to people with AIDS Ave. Apt 2309, M4K 3Y1 463-7354 (David or James). Support Toronto Addicted Women's Sell-Help Network. Suite 202. Box events. Available al SCM Bookstore, 51 9 Church St Community Anonymous. Lesbian/gay fellowships 964-3962 and fellowship lor gay and lesbian Lutherans and their Iriends 2213. StnP. M5S2T2 Phonelme 961-7319. Self-help group for Centre, Cameo, Together. Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, or MCC

28 D THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 BodyMilic

HE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE MID- NINETEENTH CENTURY TOOK PLACE ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS THE EMERGENCE OF THE ''MODERN'' HOMOSEXUAL, AND THE REST IS HISTORY....''

iHlTOGRAPHY PASSION d: POWER ay men began taking sexy pictures of each other almost as soon as Above: photograph by "McG.," TOM WA UGH Yorfc City, c 1940-1945; straight men began photographing women. In the first instal- New one example of the "huge pro- ment of my survey of gay holdings of the Kinsey Institute ("A ON THE GAYSTILL-PHOTO liferation of milltary-themed > heritage of pornography," TBP, January /February 1983), I erotic photos" available during COLLECTION OF THE looked at a few dozen pre-Stonewall gay movies out of the sever- the war years. KINSEYINSTITUTE al hundred that are probably in existence. Compared to this tric- kle, however, pornographic gay photos number in the thousands

and thousands from the same period, and it's not hard to see why. To make a film you need technical expertise, access to a lab and a fair bit of money; to make photos you need only the family camera, much less money and, if your photos are illegal, a bathtub darkroom. Our lusts

and loves have been recorded in still images as continuously as those of the straight majority, though less openly and less voluminously (and

more inventively, I would argue). But somehow the.se images have meant

more to us, for all their furtiveness, than girlie-pictures to straights. Fuck

photos have always had to serve not only as our stroke materials but al.so, to a large extent, as our family snapshots and wedding albums, as our cultural history and political validation.

Male sexuality in our culture is inextricably involved in the pleasure of

looking. It doesn't matter whether the man behind the camera and his

THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 U 29 customers are straight or gay, whether the models are women or men; he preferred the simbumt Sicilian

men in our society are conditioned to get off on / by looking. The institu- variation to the pallid urban one). tions of heterosexual sexual looking, from advertising to the cinema to There the resemblance ends, since T IS OUR street behaviour, have always dominated the pubhc space of our society von Gloeden's work is based heav- RIGHTAND — to the exclusion of women's sexuality and to the exclusion of gay peo- ily on nineteenth-century pictor- ple's sexuality. Gay-male looking was always ghettoized when not sup- ialist aesthetics and pseudo classical idealism, OUR DUTY TO pressed entirely; only in the last generation or two have our rites of look- and his customers as a rule seem to have come from CONTINUE ing made a claim on part of that public space to which we are entitled as more privileged strata. It was de- males in patriarchal society. These Kinsey photos reflect, when seen

signer porn , if you like. The clients THE PIONEERING chronologically, among other things, our gradual movement towards of the "brothel school" were less this reclamation of public space, from the brothel to the studio to the WORKOFKINSEY likely to pass themselves off as pa- post office to the magazine store and beyond. However, we must not trons of the arts and got exactly BY REMOVING forget that women's sexuality is still by and large excluded from patri- what they paid for. THESE TREASURES archal public space and that somehow our claim to societal space is com- plicit in that exclusion: the Mandate rack is always right beside the Pent-

FROM THE DARK- house rack . We must not forget this complicity if we are to be able to talk NESS OF THE with women about our erotic culture, our pleasure in looking at pictures, and ifvwe are to be able to understand it ourselves. ARCHIVES AND For me these photos are passionately beautiful and arousing, all of FROM THE TEMPLE CONFRONTING them, with all of their contradictions. However, beyond the aesthetic TO THE WEIGHTROOM France, c 1885-1900 and sexual pleasure they give us, beyond the political empowerment they IN occasion, they are also historical evidence. We must analyse them as vis- THEM BROAD These photographers belong to a ual representations and try to piece together the context in which they DAYLIGHT, different sensibility altogether, IN were produced, circulated, bought, looked at, masturbated to — not to preferring the chaste model of the mention confiscated, destroyed or filed away in the archives from which ORDER TO KNOW classical male nude to the earthy we are now rescuing them. Unfortunately, this survey is in some ways AND UNDERSTAND prose of the "brothel school." quite random and not the comprehensive history of gay erotic photogra- Von Gloeden (one of whose pho- phy that we need and that is only beginning elsewhere, nor even a system- OUR HISTORY tos is shown at the right) was not atic emalysis of the Kinsey holdings. Rather, I offer here some groupings unique in his classical interests but AND OUR of images that caught my eye, and a brainstorming of a few questions for was part of a current that contin- CULTURE/' us as we uncover more images from our past , and as we continue to parti- ued well into this century. A Cali- cipate in the debate about pornography that is currently engaging the fornian named Riggs, for exam- gay, lesbian and feminist communities. ple, took the photo at right, below This collection of photographs from the Kinsey Institute for Sex Re- in Greece in 1939, demonstrating

search and the accompanying essay are a version of a lecture-slideshow I both professional photographic have given several times since my visit to Kinsey in 1982: at the University skill and "artistic" aspirations that rival von in their of California at Los Angeles, Concordia University in Montreal and at Gloeden's effect, despite their being out-of- the Ryerson Polytechnicjil Institute, Toronto. I am grateful to the com- sync with the period. With those munity organizations and academic bodies who provided me with these who followed in this current, the forums, as well as valuable feedback for my ongoing research, to Con- temptations of commerce and of Von Gloeden, Sicily cordia University for funding the original research project, and to the the controlled environment of the staff of the Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana for their gener- basement studio soon won over — ous cooperation. I offer these reflections on these photographs to the the classical ideal and the fine-art readers of The Body Politic in the hope that this will be only one stage in alibi became diluted through the our exploration of cultural history, in gay and the conviction that such inroads of physical culture and scholarship must be undertaken as part of a dialogue in the forum of the mail-order mass distribution, popular gay press rather than within the traditional scholarly ghetto. It is both of which tended to push the our right and our duty to continue the pioneering work of Kinsey (and imagery closer and closer to the other early collectors and photographers who saved this evidence from realms of kitsch. Al Urban and destruction) by removing these treasures from the darkness of the ar- Bob Mizer were associated with

chives and confronting them in broad daylight , in order to know and un- the beefcake studios of the west derstand our history and our culture. coast, which in the postwar era un- dertook the systematic commer- cicdization of the male nude, expanding from a hobby-level base. But the beefcake trade was not able to break out of the artisanal B until to late-Sixties mode the mid- Most of the Kinsey photos from tion. Some representatives of the because of the whims of state cen-

before World War I were Europe- "brothel school" found their way sorship. The bottom photo at the an, primarily French and Italian, to Kinsey after having been sold to right was an exhibit in 1954 in one and were shot in brothels. This, GIs in Europe as late as World War of many legal actions against Mi- apparently, was the same source as II. zer's Athletic Model Guild of Los Riggs, Greece, 1939 most oftheearly heterosexual stag The "brothel" models were Angeles; sent by mail to those re-

movies and still photos, in infin- usually adolescent, with slim and sponding to ads in Physique Pic- itely greater numbers (further re- agile bodies showing no trace of torial magazine, this photo was search would inevitably come later bodybuilding obsessions taken to demonstrate "intent to across the same ornate draperies nor, for that matter, of decent exhibit partial erections" through and palms on both sides). The gay diets. Photographed usually in the mails. Full frontal nudes only photos were commercial, market- couples, the models engaged in the became systematically available ed in sets, apparently a rather large usual gamut of fucking, sucking over the counter around 1966, af- operation despite the necessarily and mutual masturbation in set- ter a set of crucial court decisions. furtive merchandising. They were ups that were both egalitarian (no Prior to that you took your chan- probably circulated alongside the special emphasis on individual ces: some sets were distributed straight images from the same net- partners, top or bottom, etc) and with inked-in posing straps which work, just as the early straight unfragmented (no cock closeups), the customer was supposed to stags usually included a tacked-on the action remaining anchored in have enough ingenuity to sponge anthology of "perversions" for the decor in long, symmetrical off. One meticulously de-inked minority interest or majority en- views. Some specialty photos fea- set was among my discoveries at tertainment or whatever. The tured clerical, transvestite or ped- Kinsey. photos were easier to distribute ophile motifs. From von Gloeden to Mizer,

and, most important of all, more It is interesting to compare from the Old Worid to the New, amenable to privatized consump- these lusty but prosaic images with from private circles of elite clients those of Baron von Gloeden (1856- to the incipient mass market of the

1931 , see photo on page 33, and the modern-day gay ghetto, from one second from the top above), "art" to "kitsch," what is contin- who worked at the same time and uous is not only the current of the Mizer, Athletic Model Guild, Los Angeles, 19S4 with the same body type (though pleasure of looking, but also the codes of sublimation and shame with which we had to mask that pleasure. 30 D THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 , '

ple of the same genre (see page 29)

the military iconography is again A. MILITARYMIL striking. It is no longer a civilian doing the sucking, and a shght

aura of irony is perhaps also pres- Erotic images fluctuate between ent for this reason. Forty years la-

a vocabulary of fanteisy and one ter, I cannot take my eyes off the of the everyday. From fantasy exquisite shimmer of light in the Greek pillars, real or phony, Am- hair of the two figures. But back

erican photographers turned in then, I imagine, the photo offered the war years to the iconography an ironic matter-of-factness that of the everyday, which for many expressed a defiance of the hypo- young men emerging into the crisy of the institutionalized heter- world in those years included a osexuality of the services, a tone military uniform. The Kinsey similar to that of Berube's anec- photos, with a huge proliferation dote:

of military-themed erotic photos I walked into this office and here was from that period, confirm the this man who was a screaming belle — view recently advanced by gay his- lots of gold braid but he was a queen if torians such as Allan Berube that I ever saw one. And he asked me the standard questions ending up with, the military experience was cru- "Did you ever have any homosexual cially formative for a whole gener- experiences?" Well, I looked him ation of gay men. Some of the right in the eye and said, "No." And photos are candid and amateur he looked right back said, and "A.T.," Los Angeles, c 1950 and some are semi-commercial, "That's good." Both of us lying some show real soldiers in uni- through our teeth.* form and some show models — they all testify to a shift in patterns of gay socialization. Sailors and J^EADING khaki had always been part of gay iconography — think of Walt ^V BETWEEN Whitman's Civil War experiences THE LINES or of Paul Cadmus's ribald paintings of sailors from the Thirties — Many of the photos in the collec- but during the War, a previously tion, of course, have lost much of marginal cultural tendency cen- their prurient appeal, in the strict tred in seaports and bohemian un- physiological sense. In showing dergrounds took the shape of a these and other Kinsey pictures mass cultural phenomenon. The in sHdeshows to various groups,

omnipresence of military icono- I have several times run in- Above: US, c 1940-1945 graphy expressed the joy of dis- to puzzled twenty-year-olds Left and below: a series by Bruce of Los Angeles (later an covery, the realization for the brought up /out on Honcho who Important beefcake producer), small-town closeted inductee that ask whether I really find the pho- c 1941-1945 "We are everywhere!" tos hot. In one sense this is beside The annotations of many of the the point. As the erotic power of

photos from this period provide a some of the images is diluted, oth- fascinating glimpse of how things er layers of meaning never intend- were. One 1948 group of four ed by the photographer rise to the Source unknown, c 1940s

closeups of a cock protruding surface. I am speaking not only of from an opened uniform in vari- their value as historical document- ous states of erection had the fol- ary evidence (one obvious but per- lowing note attached, apparently haps superficial and tentative con- by Kinsey or his staff on the bcisis clusion, for example, is that "size- of interviewing the photographer: ism" is a relatively recent and

"Marine H.H. [the photographer] North American phenomenon). I picked up on road to Cleveland. am speaking also of a harder-to-

S[ubject]'s first (!) pickup. IVlarine define meaning or aura coming readily agreed to talk of sex history through the Hnes of the photo.

and to pose for photo and allowed Sometimes it is a question of hu- G[enital] to be measured in roadside mour: why does someone's auda- toilet." city in spending a Saturday after- Source unknown; donated to As for the serial unit repro- noon at the height of the McCar- the Kinsey Institute by the duced at left, note how the iconog- thyite repression photographing Chicago Police Department raphy of tattoos, well-buffed cock bouquets (right) now ac- shoes, ID bracelet, "at-ease" pos- quire a mythic resilience? More

ture and blank stare (this is no often it is a question of portrai- model!) belongs not so much to a ture: an anonymous stranger sud- military wet-dream fantasy as to denly becomes intimate, the sub- the gritty documentation of every- ject looking through the lens into day reality. For us in retrospect, our eyes, revealing and vulnerable the photographer's (or his assis- yet challenging at the same time, tant's) taste in pin-stripe dowdi- providing an open space for our ness, not to mention his carefully imaginative entry into the photo. guarded civilian anonymity, es- Many of the photos that for me tablish a dominant documentary have this special "opening" or level to the photo. But to the gay "density" have an amateurish 'B.M.," New York City, 1952 male consumer of the Forties, quality, candid spontaneity or they were undoubtedly invisible, rough edges that emerge outside facts of life overshadowed by the of, or in spite of, the control of the • Allan B^rub^: •'Marching to a Dif- fastidiously staged and lit unfold- studio. No doubt part of the ap- ferent Drummer: Lesbian and Cay ing of the sexual exchange. The peal of such photos is in our reac- Gls in World »ar II," in Powers of late-arriving fellator carefully re- tion against our saturation by the Desire, edited hy Ann Snitow, Chris- strains his enthusiasm so as not to mass-commodiiized slickness of line Stansell and Sharon Thompson. mess his hair, and to permit visual today's glossy magazines, the Monthly Review Press (Mew Feminist access to the details of that ex- Bluehoy industry. The current Library series). Sew York. 1983. This change — and to the full dimen- vogue for retro porn (Tom of Fin- material also appeared in the Febru- sions of the sailor's statuesque land. Phil Andros), or for "folk" ary/March 1983 issue of Mother Jones, under aloofness. porn (readers' narratives in the title "Coming Out ' Under Fire. Looking at an East Coast sam- Straight to Helf) are also part of

this reaction: the ghetto is drowning in easy vi.sual stimulation, the centrefolds don't have any grain, the models no soul.

THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 D 31 , ,

cerned. In gay porn, power roles What about age differentials are not pre-assigned and thus tend around rather than in front ofthe OWER to be in fiux — interchangeable, camera? In the photo at right (re- EMUST B ambiguous, spontaneous, multi- ferred tointhesectionon gender) valent and egalitarian. there is an implied egalitarianism NOT BALK "Homosexual pornography acts In straight porn, gender-deter- in front ofthe lens (no articulated out the same dominant and subor- mined positions within a power age differential between these ap- AT THE dinate roles of heterosexual porn- hierarchy exactly echo identical parent adolescents). But at ography," declares Kathleen the PROSPECT positions in real society outside of same time, an age /power differ- Barry, author of Female Sexual the frame, and thus tend to vali- ential must be inferred around the OF SELF-CRITICISM, Slavery, a leader of the anti-porn date and reinforce that societal camera, in which producer and crusade. Our immediate reaction OF SCR UTINIZING hierarchy. In gay porn no such ex- buyer, by virtue of greater age, as a community to whom erotic act echoing is present. In fact, gay have hiring power and purchasing THE ROLE OF images have meant so much his- porn — even the most sexist — au- power over the models. torically might be to rush to de- tomatically threatens the social DOMINANCE, OF fend our culture from this obvi- hierarchy by violating patriarchal ously ill-informed, ill-considered RACE & CULTURE POWER, IN OUR taboos, by creating a space for al- assault. Our stakes — and our bi- ternative sexual practice outside It is not surprising that the erotic IMAGERY. WHATDO ases — are clear. Gay-straight of the patriarchal order, by valor- culture of Western society should comparisons are often fatuous, VINTAGE izing non-productive sexuality. be permeated with the racism by THESE like this one, but, though they are In some of the Kinsey photos, which we have always justified our GA Y PORN PHOTOS extremely difficult, they can also however, codes are at work that domination of the Third World. be enlightening. We must not balk France, c 18S5-1900 operate in a similar to Gay culture, situated within racist FROM KINSE Y TELL at the prospect of self-criticism, of way gender in straight porn. Drag is one of society, has not escaped this influ- US ABOUT scrutinizing the role of domin- these. I did retain ence: the porn shops of Amster- ance, of power, in our imagery. not any examples dam and New York each have POWER?'' Much of the current debate cen- of photos where gender cos- their own specialty sections of tres around these terms. What do tume codes prescribe power dif- beefcake shot on the beaches of these vintage gay pom photos ferentials within the image {eg, a drag queen servicing Bali and on the streets of San from Kinsey tell us about power? a "regular" Juan, respectively. Kinsey pro- About power differentials within man), but these certainly exist, the image: between the subjects just as with some of the films I vides ample evidence that this has been trend the beginning. depicted? in terms of the sexual mentioned in my article in 1983 . In a from practices depicted? About power the photo at the top of the page, It is beside the point whether the differentials outside the images: from the "brothel school," both models in the French photo from between subject(s) and spectator? subjects are similarly accoutred in the Twenties at the bottom of this between subject(s) and producer? elements of drag. Yet the demo- page are really North African or Deciphering such power differ- cracy of drag in this photo, both not. What is clear, whether the entials in and around these images partners being equally decked costumes are from the brothel may help us understand how por- out, somehow implies for me an wardrobe or from the Casbah, is nographic images work erotically out-of-frame power differential. that such images produced by and how they work politically, how we Are straight-dressed producers for white Europeans participate can talk about porn with our fem- and straight-dressed consumers fully in the ideology of imperial- inist friends and allies. recreating an artificial gender dif- ism, the Third-World man as sexu- Many of us are skeptical about ferential, prescribing a kinky sex- al object as well as political and minute ideological analysis of im- ual scenario that the models do economic object. As for von ages ("they're just entertain- not share but that they enact for Gloeden (one of whose photos is ment"); we claim infinite subject- the profit and pleasure of these in- at the top of the next page), his ivity and variability in the way we visible power-brokers? idealization of the dusky skins of digest them, and quite rightly Mediterranean peasants partici- point to the high degree of specu- AGE pates in the kind of intra-Euro- lation involved in determining pean racism then prevalent among meanings not only within a photo- The absence of gender as a deter- the gay elites of the northern coun- graph or film, but also outside minant of power in gay porn does tries and detectable in the writing them, in the web of political and not mean that the gay photos of E M Forster, Andre Gide and economic relations extending found at the Kinsey Institute are even Christopher Isherwood. from photographer to customer. free of other kinds of power dy- What relation does the Baron's But these exterior relations are namics normally associated with fascination with a Sicilian's super-

crucial. This is something some- heterosexual porn. Age, for ex- endowment and acrobatic skill times overlooked by anti-porn ample, enters very visibly into the have with all the contemporary

crusaders: it is images in interac- picture, and not only in the many gay myths, from the "Italian stal- tion with the world, not images in photos of pre-pubescent boys lion" to the Spartacus network of

isolation, that we must focus on which I do not represent here. Third-World availability? In these when we talk about porn, when we Take the two images at the right, two photos, do the Mediterranean talk about how we use images and from a much longer commercijil racieil codes connote earthy sensu- how they use us. We have nothing narrative unit of the mid-Forties. ality or primitive irmocence or

' ,' to lose in dissecting our eroticism ' Donny ' the seated figure, is six- both? — if we do not understand how teen, the Kinsey compiler noted, "Donny" and "Bob," "R.B.," our culture works, how can we de- while "Bob," the standing figure CLASS Los Angeles, c 1946 fend it? how can we liberate it? — in moccasins, is twenty-five. The and everything to learn. compiler clearly thought that this Not all of the Kinsey photos imply not terribly dramatic difference in an automatic class differential GENDER age was significant, the photogra- between model and producer/ pher perhaps even more so: the consumer. Many of the physique

Gender is the ultimate determin- age differential is coded explicitly photos, for example, suggest that ing factor of power relations with- into the pose of the photograph. the models belong to the same sub- in and around heterosexual por- Bob's active, encircling stance and cultural milieu as the artisanal nography, rigidly prescribing his hovering attitude, his coyly producer or the mcdl-order con- roles for men as producer, con- placed hands, clearly articulate sumer, that they enjoy showing sumer and inserter, and for wom- the predatory stereotype of the off their hardwon pecs for the en as model, commodity and in- older man who likes teenagers. pleasure of an audience alone, sertee. The absence of gender as a Donny completes the pattern with rather than for the pittance (or determining factor distinguishes his real or feigned indifference (in- nothing) they were paid. In many gay pornography from straight nocence? passivity?), the proba- of the candid photos — spontan- pornography, and this is crucial, ble implication that he is eous posing among buddies, for politically and morally as well as "straight" from the evidence that instance — there are no grounds to aesthetically. This may seem obvi- he needs to be turned on (distract- infer the dynamic of class power.

ous, but its implications haven't ed?) by the magazine, his relaxed Nonetheless, in many of the com- France, c 1923-1925 yet sunk in as far as anti-porn posture and his wide-open, front- mercial photos, the aura of under- demagogues and cops are con- al availability to the camera. Re- paid sexual workers posing for a gardless of how true or false the

stereotype is, this differential of

age and power is the basis for the erotic charge of the image. 32 D THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 scanty living is unmistakeable. of pornography" in 1983 and in

(This is separate from, though re- many current porn films (such as lated to, the "proletarian-butch" Kansas City Trucking Company),

fantasy iconography that I will ex- straight characters are defined by plore under "body type" below.) heterosexual twists in the plot, ONCLUSION In such photos, the pleasure and such as a girlfriend. Straightness is e ease of the participants are absent, thereby valorized, made desira- or overshadowed by signs of alien- ble, and the pattern of self-op- These reflections on a few gay ated sexual labour. The economic pression is all too clear. I saw porn photos from the Kinsey Ins- relation between model and pro- many annotations on Kinsey pho- titute are merely a starting point. ducer/consumer as implied by tos that confirm this dynamic: one In dusting off these artifacts from such photos is scarcely different from New York in the late Forties our past, weareengaged in two en- from the bleak, no-option subsist- shows a man standing, cock parti- terprises at once, both with vital ence of the models in the countless ally erect, a tattoo spelling political implications. We are re- second-rate girlie magazines and "Mom," and a note, "Erect when claiming a cultural heritage that peep-show loops of the het porn looking at women's pictures."; has been confiscated and denied industry. The participants seem another, by beefcake king Bruce — too much of the new gay histor- uncomfortable, their tense bodies of Los Angeles, shows three foot- iography is concerned with the or- contorted so as to be open to the ball players flashing in the shower, ganizational tip of our past, tothe lens, arms twisted, cocks indiffer- noted "All married." neglect of the cultural iceberg. At ent, tongues stretching out to be It's a relief to know uhimately, the same time, we are attempting photographed rather than to ca- though, that the uniqueness of to expand the terms of the current

ress (see French photo at left). each of our bodies defied and still struggle over pornography, at-

Such gyrations say much , symbol- defies both the self-oppressive tempting to add a theoretical di- ically at least (and who ever photo- codes of body type and sexud ori- mension to the gut reactions that graphed economic relations ex- entation — and the oppressive cat- are paralyzing the debate, at- cept symbolically?), about the la- egorizations of social scientists as tempting to provide an alternative bour market of the sexual under- well. Kinsey or his staff dutifully perspective to the mainstream world. The contrast with the ease annotated the 1944 photo by feminist viewpoint that has dom- and serenity communicated by "G.B." shown at the left:" Con inated the public forum. Both of

some other images here is very rt = 'fern', CT on left = 'masc'." these enterprises are central to our sharp. Try and figure that one out. survival and to our growth as a As for the swaggering young community, as communities. models who posed for the Ameri- BODY POSITION I hope readers of The Body can hobbyists and beefcake entre- Polilic will bring alterations to preneurs of the Forties and Fifties, Sexual positions in themselves do these tentative remarks, make ad- the photographers' or research- not connote power relations or ditions, and bring new evidence to ers' notes added to many of the political values, either in life or in light. D

Kinsey photos provide less specu- art; rather it is the context and im- lative data about their class situa- aging of positions that do so. This Thomas Waugh has headed the cine- tion. Alist of model'soccupations is apparent if we compare two pho- ma programme of the Faculty ofFine gleaned from such captions in- here. In the American com- tos A rts ofConcordia University in Mon- cludes shop clerk, railway labour- mercial one immediately at the treal, where he is currently Associate er, sailor, construction worker, a left, the inserter's body language Professor of Film Studies. He has re- "sneak thief" /hustler dishonor- connotes complacency, detach- cently edited a forthcoming book on ably discharged from the navy and ment, unwillingness to caress or radical documentary film, curated a retrospective lesbian and gay a fair number of other hustlers and even to touch the fellator in re- offifty films for the Cinematheque quibec- pushers. The same questions are turn. He looks away. What is oise and delivered a paper entitled posed as with heterosexual porno- more, he is the privileged partner "Lesbian and Gay Documentary: Mi- graphy, though admittedly in less within the frame, allowed by the nority Self-Imaging, Oppositional poignant terms. Somehow the the photographer to dominate Film Practice, and the Question ofIm- class lines are less clearly drawn frame as well as his partner, and, age Ethics" at the 1984 Visual Com- "G.B.," New York City, 1944 with male models than with fe- more importantly, allowed Jilso to munications Conference at the Uni- male models; here, class power is guard with his mask his anonym- versity ofPennsylvania. He is currently preparing culture and France, c 1885-1900 not locked into the same complex ity and thus his power. Is it a coin- a book on gay eroticism in cinema andphotography, dynamic as gender privilege. cidence that he carries a slight ex- of which the present photo-essay will tra ring of fiab compared to his be a part. TYPE SEXUAL taut devotee? Or is it another sign BODY & that the pleasure is his rather than Unless otherwise credited, all photos (according to the ORIENTATION the fellator's are courtesy of the Kinsey Institute, "looksist" codes of all the old het and may not be reproduced without The power play of body type is re- stags in which pot-bellied masked permission. lated to that of body position and men in shoes and socks are ser- class identification. Does the ero- viced by slim, feverish but ungrati- tic ideal of "butch" constrict or fied women)? The fellator, crouch- fulfill our sexuality? What does it ed in the corner of the frame, half- mean for the butch bodybuilder/ hidden, literally beneath the recip- construction worker to have sup- ient of hisattentions, seems hardly planted the nimble "ephebe" as less mechanical than the other, the dominant fantasy type in gay positioned in profile and separa- iconography as we inched our way ted physically from him to ensure towards Stonewall? In idealizing the best camera access. The fella- the macho cool of this image from tor's own pleasure, or at least his

the Fifties (top right, above), I own cock, is literally cut off, but would argue we idealize "straight- his face, his vulnerability, is ness," — that which we are not. exposed. The iconography of cigarette, In contrast, the photo at the jean-jacket and "drop dead" bottom of the page, though al.so pose is still with us thirty years involving a partner physically later, clonified into three million dominating the other, frames walking mirror images. In still both partners with equal graphic photos, it is difficult to denote weight, their bodies intertwined "straight" precisely (in some and relaxed. And the vital element beefcake though, models were de- of eye contact adds immeasurably picted lookingat straight porn), so to the photo's aura of mutuality the macho body type is used as and tenderness, not to mention shorthand. However, in some of the most unforgettable smiles in the films referred to in "A heritage thehistoryofart, with the possible exception of the Mona Lisa. Pow-

er is shared, despite the literal choreography of lopand bottom, and

the looker is thereby empowered himself. THE BODY POLITIC H MARCH 1984 n 33 JANE RULE KeOrient SO'S YOUR GRANDMOTHER

The socially handicapped

The reason the physically and mentally handicapped, in need of special legisla- disabled, racial minorities, homosex- tion to guarantee their rights against the uals, people with criminal records and prejudices they suffer from, we are in a women are lumped together is that they position to question sharply the values Shadow puppets, are all perceived to be socially handi- of the culture itself and our own need to primitive pots and furniture, capped. The difficulty they experience in be acceptable in its terms. handpicked in China and Japan working together is that most of these Who is acceptable in this society? The groups don't like being linked with any white, bright, rich, whole, heterosexual 269 Queen St. E. Mon-Sat of the others, and feel morally dimin- male. And the white, rich, whole, heter- Toronto 365-1892 10:30-6:00 ished and unfairly stigmatized when they osexual female if attached to such a

are. male. I know enough of these to be sure The disabled don't want to be associ- in my own mind that their values are not ated with criminals and homosexuals, mine, that their judgments of me are,

who are responsible for their own pre- therefore, irrelevant to me. I have no dicaments. Racial minorities don't want investment at all in being acceptable to

to be considered among people about them. I can be accepting of them only as whom something is wrong, rejecting the they individually reject their privilege implication that there is anything wrong and work for the civil rights of all with not being white. Homosexuals are people. leary of any suggestion that they might The approval we crave as social ani- be either sick or criminal. Those with mals has finally to be outgrown so that criminal records want those records we can take charge of our lives, come to cancelled when their prison terms have our own terms, for anyone who doesn't

been served rather than their being made is truly handicapped, deluded into into a special category of people. Wom- believing that the rewards are worth the en, who are the majority, find their pres- brutalizing conformity. Some of the sad-

ence on the list of socially handicapped dest people I know were the silverware untenable. ads of my generation; their "success" Each objection is understandable. has made them no less vulnerable to Our own baggage of unacceptability is despair, and more bitterly surprised for cumbersome enough without being all they were promised. weighed down with problems which are Those of us who, for whatever rea- not only not ours but seem to us to cloud sons, have had to make what we could issues central to us. Each group also out of what the world calls a bad hand seems to itself, in one way or another, a may not, in fact, have had such bad little more socially acceptable than the cards to play after all if they've made us

others. It is particularly confusing for revalue and redesign the game. If we

those of us who fit into more than one of have any sense, we learn to make and the categories, with each of them com- keep our own promises to ourselves and peting for our allegiance even to the become accepting rather than accepted point of denying the others. The values people. None of us should have trouble of each group often conflict with the identifying with the physically and men- values of the others. tally disabled, coloured, gay, criminal, Denying our common predicament is female population. We are victims of a defence which will keep us locked in- nothing but a social brutality we can side our minority view of ourselves. We change, for together we are the people are together the vast majority of people, the government can be called upon to who can improve our circumstances by serve, not in token gestures here and Phipps Street, 16 fighting together for better protection there, a minor land claim settlement, Toronto. Canada M4Y 1J5 under the law. Even more important one government building with wheel- than practical politics is what this stand chair access, one sheltered workshop, (416)924-0244 does to change our perception of our- one city's fair housing and employment selves in relationship to our culture. bylaw, sops to each of our fragments. When we really see that the vast major- Together we can demand justice and ity of people are perceived to be socially get it. D

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/t's a beautiful, cool, Friday in Los Angeles — the weather as much like San Francisco as an adult might reasonably expect. I've been passing the day t with no cash in my pocket, praying the h sort of prayers I've been trained to forego: "Dear God: Send Money. Love, Michael." By late afternoon, an ador- able pink cheque has found its way into

my hands, and, dressed in my best Gay "My eyes filled with tears, but I was

summer shorts I head to the Gay bank to trembling with joy. For the boy wasn't cash /deposit my newfound Gay wealth. dead, Chopin and Wilde weren't dead; An acqaintance happens to drive up, they were alive ... within the wave of and we do Gay chit-chat for a minute:

' love. Within the wave, every action had ' How-are-you-what-are-you-doing-so- and-so-says-hi-are-you-still-with-your- Its own sanction and beauty ... As long

lover, etc." Then he lets me have it: as I myself was within the wave, I "Do you know anyone who died from ^us should always know this. And it no, I say to myself, but, AIDS?" Oh, seemed to me, then, that I should be trying to be responsible I reply: "Yes," able to re-enter it whenever I pleased, hoping a terse answer will divert him throughout the rest of my life." from further inquiry. Fat chance! "How many?" WWHEREDO YOU GO —Christopher Isherwood I say: "Four. Is this a contest?" (That WHENPEOPLEAROUND should shame his mouth shut, I think.)

But he is undaunted: "Do you know YOUAREDYING? anybody who has it now?" BYSMALL STEPS, DEEP "Yes," I say, squirming, but the sub- INTO THE PART OF somebody — the same person I called ject is once again on the floor. Mortality Ralph, the man who accepted my sexual- is once again too much with me, and YOURSELF THATKNOWS ity while my parents were busy rejecting once again on an all-too-rare idyllic LA A WAY TO LIVE. it. Before he died we had a conversation day, I am talking about Gay death and one summer night in the outfield of the positive, endorsing friends. I was in-

Gay dying and The Meaning Of It All. local little-league park. First there was cluded. I was in good health. 1 was rela-

Only this time I'm trying to do it without terms with my homosexuahty. It's the the mindless belief in the religion of your tively unscathed by my self-destruction,

dying a little myself, and this time you end of their second decade trying, bless parents, Ralph surmised; then there was my obsession with death. I met Ben in get to listen. their resistant Republican hearts. a period of doubt, agnosticism, atheism; 1978 and have been increasingly in love

When my political friend Ken died, it Now, I've never been dead and have then there was the discovery of a per- with him on a daily basis ever since. The was still GRID, "gay-related immune no after-death experiences to relate. I'm sonal relationship with a God, a divinity, first two years he did the relationship part

deficiency." He died from a series of just an urban Gay male trying to get a spiritual power. But Ralph slammed of the relationship alone. All 1 could do

"opportunistic infections": hepatitis, through the day the best I can. But his jet fighter into the Southeast Asian was show up. He waited until I knew

pneumonia, amoebic dysentery, shingles. there's been a lot of death in my life, and jungle and, as far as I was concerned, what love was. I felt good about being

He wasted away to nothing in the days 1 guess it's time to look at it. God died with him. Gay for the first time in my life. 1 felt

before we knew it was often fatal. Ken • good about being alive. I was a produc-

maintained a cheerful optimism; then he I drank some more, got into drugs. By tive member of Society, a contributing first wave was was dead. Our political club planted a he of deaths this time I hated everything about my- member of the Gay Community. tree in his memory. It was a nice gesture; family. It was the '60s and I self, most particularly my sexuality, And then they started dying again, was a teenager those 1 did not attend the ceremony. and having for some reason believed all the from AIDS, from alcoholism, whatever. deaths the end of inno- Then a former boss of mine died. By marked lies everyone had ever told me. I was ob- Ken and I got hepatitis at the same time. cence for me. Family members this time it was already AIDS. One, two, J sessed with suicide, I wanted to be dead. 1 got mine instead of going to law died. family died. family three, zip: felt like shit, was diagnosed The My was After two rounds of deaths, that's how 1 school. He never recovered. I wanted to not rich, not artistic: just loving, vital, and died. Three weeks. was dealing with it: "Fuck Life!" think like the spiritual positivists, that 1 human, full of life. sang danced Yeah, 1 know all too many people, We and And there were other deaths: suicides, could choose to live, I could want to live told men, friends, acquaintances. 1 know and drank and jokes around a motorcycle and automobile accidents, so badly that nothing need affect me three people who were diagnosed as hav- Christmas groaning board, showing off bone-splitting cancers, a drowning. adversely. Then my best friend's T-cell our shirts ties sweaters toys. ing AIDS by misiakel It seems they had and and and Deaths near and far. 1 participated in ratio inverted and we gave serious (and CMV. Oops, sorry, guys, our mistake. And then they started dying. The worst them all; and each man's death dimin- silly) consideration that he might die. was Aunt Helen, The straight doctors were... well, "in- my my godmother, ished my life, but no man's life enriched That 1 might die. protector, friend: sensitive" to be charitable, "incompe- she never witheld her it. I went to a memorial service at Grace We joked about it. Gay humour being

tent butchers" when I'm in a bad mood. love to manipulate my behaviour, she Cathedral in San Francisco for a stran- our forte. We cried about it. Gay drama

But if someone tells me 1 have AIDS, he faced my every caprice with uncondi- ger who had been fag-bashed to death. running a close .second. We talked about tional the better be right if he wants to see sunrise. acceptance. Like death of the Like Brecht, I felt that if all humanity dead friends whose deaths were sad or in- in Yet men like me are dying. And I'm in father Bergman's Fanny and Alexan- were jammed into the hold of a ship, spirational. We hoped if it came to it, we a high-risk group, as they say: Gay while der, that death shattered reality for me. each man and woman would freeze to could die with grace, even though we'd little male, thirty-six, resident of LA and a Only pieces of reality made sense death from loneliness. often lived as bumbling fools. I prayed

after that. I I fan of frequent if not unlimited sex Family was over. ate. By 1976 I was as tired as I could get. 1 that, no matter what. I would die sober.

(sorry, honey: remember it's you I love). drank. I was not merry. stopped drinking, stopped taking drugs, It was a by-product of my own new love

I've cut my sex life down, but 1 may be The '70s came along and 1 was "out." lost weight, started feeling good. Encour- of life, caring about people. I cared about

carrying a disease I caught two years ago By this time the second wave of deaths aged by others who were trying sobriety people. I was surprised. A man I call a

from a stranger or a friend, even from hit: the Vietnam deaths. My friend as a way of life, I started talking about "spiritual adviser" (really just a friendly

my lover, who may be infectious without Ralph, the first person 1 ever told I was God, icnialivcly at first, thinking Ralph's lormcr drunk with a direct line to a power

knowing it. A year from now I could be gay, was missing in action and presumed third-stage "personal relationship" was that keeps him happy all ihc lime) tried lo

among the Gay dead, and my parents dead. The church we grew up in creeled beginning to happen in my life. I had get me to redefine mv altitudes toward are still actively avoiding coming to a flagpole in honour of "Lieutenant" friends — good, loving, supportive. death: Death as graduation, passing over.

THE BODY POLITIC G MARCH 1984 U 35 there is no death, there is only moving to another plane of spirituality, a new level, and so on. 'L^tL II this thinking In "Fanny and Alexander," which 1 about death made me . . . gay got a saw with same spiritual friend in San think what a powerful Francisco, the people who die do not go away. "I lived my whole life with you. people we are, we drinking problem? Where else should 1 go in death?" one faggots and dykes. character asks. I want to believe that. It They call us sinful and would make it so easy to accept loss, death. Another friend in San Francisco we make monuments to is rotting piece by piece. He has half a the beauty of God. hip left, he's missing several spinal verte- They called us sick and (416) 964-3962 brae, has a blood disease and is consi- healed ourselves dered terminal, but clean for now. His we and

reaction is: "I've done everything and go merrily along feeling everything pretty much I wanted to do. I well. They make us had great friends and had great times OR WRITE BOX "A" 730 BATHURST STREET illegal and we change with them. If I die tomorrow, it's okay TORONTO. ONTARIO M5S 2R4 with me." the laws. ...We keep You know what my reaction is? "Holy surviving as a people. shit, I haven't done a Goddamned Because for everyone thing." I haven't won a Nobel Peace I who died, there are gay We Are Expanding! Prize or an Olympic Gold Medal. I haven't written a best-selling book like people somewhere my friend Clark or sold a screenplay, determined to live." Thank You For Your Support! stolen a piece of the Acropolis, prayed in a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, walked the Taj Mahal by moonlight, or even returned my library books! and lesbian community is facing its latest Thank you: Dan John Tom David Chris Rick Derrick Tony Jinn George Most interesting to me about that list greatest crisis. And that principle is easy N ick Roy Paul Pat Don Charles Dennis Jannes Doug Jack Nornn Bill Dick is that there's no sex in it. Here I am, a and simple. I'm going to be myself: Bob Ken Ron Jerry Charlie Henry Alex Mike Peter Les Terry Gord Steve homosexual, and the things I would die happy, joyous, free and gay. I'm going regretting have nothing whatever to do to make myself available to help the liv- Keith Walter Lee Rod Martin Philip Hugh Keith Fred Harry Adann Bryan with sex. I mean, I have done sex. Sex ing and the dying anyway I can. Kevin Jeff and Ron Mark Ted Karl Scott Dale Max Norm Joe Frank Gerry with dignity and sex-as-humiliation. I've • Barry Ian Ray Gordon Al Wayne Ralph Edward Martin Geoff Robin done sex in a field at dawn and in the There is a scene in the movie Gandhi Matthew Allan Roger Gary Blake Collin Harold Bruce Neil Todd Tim backrooms of Forty-Second Street. The when Gandhi starts out on the saU Greg Lou Stu Craig Murray Henry Brian Larry Rob Maurice Leo Glen things I want to do before I die that I march declaring, ' 'A journey of a thou- Howard Mario Garnet Eric Shaun Victor Samuel Conrad have not yet done involve the experience sand miles begins with the first step." of the beauty of life, the joy of life, and He is marching to the sea in a symbolic Call Mike or Tom (416) 591-6763 the communication of that beauty and gesture of reclaiming the right of free joy to friends and strangers, to "those access to salt, to reclaim control of India who come after." for the Indian people. A young boy climbs a dead tree for a better view; and Dart Travel 314 Jan/is St, Toronto, Ontario MSB 2C5 ^ 11 this death, all this impending what he sees makes him smile. This ^M middle-age, is changing me. scrawny little cherub has just had an ex- X B It's moving, shifting me away perience that would change his life, ^^""H from the centre of a hedonistic etched on his consciousness in the guise ^ .^^ universe and toward some spir- of a small smile: the first revelation that itual pantheism in which we all take he is Indian, proud to be Indian, and part. It's matriarchal, healing, Yin, happy to participate in the making and flowing, intuitive, female, water, all that shaping of his country. stuff. It's round and circular and cyclical And that's my principle. One step at and complete in and of itself, and we are a time on a journey of a thousand all a part of it, and we all get to feel it if miles, as one among many, so that no we want. All we need to do is choose it. gay or lesbian child, no teenager, youth, All this thinking about death made me adolescent, young adult, middle-aged think what a powerful people we are, we parent or senior citizen need ever again

faggots and dykes. They called us sinful feel what I felt when I was ashamed and

and we make monuments to the beauty alone and embarrassed, when I hated of God. They called us sick and we life and was trying my damnedest to healed ourselves and go merrily along obliterate myself. I'm going to be sober

feeling well. They make us illegal and we for the millions who are still drinking.

change the laws. They beat us; encamp I'm going to be as fully alive today as I us; murder us, one at a time and in can because many are dying. I'm going groups; they lie about us with impunity to be happy today so the unhappy can and without conscience; but we keep see it's possible, that it's a matter of

surviving as a people. Because for every- choice. I don't need any credit for it. I

one who died, there are gay people probably won't do it at large public

somewhere determined to live. gatherings, but I'm going to do it. And

People loving each other, or three or whenever I can I'm going to make every four, however haltingly, however hesi- other person's experience with me a

tantly — that is Community in the mak- moment of joy, whenever our paths

ing. It is survival. It is perseverence. It is cross, whether for an instant or for

the beginning of. .. well, immortality of a many years.

kind, a step on a spiritual path we may When all is said and done, if I find out

not even know exists. I have "/r" (or any of the other "its"

You see, I don't quite yet believe that out there), I guess I could forgo the piece-

after I leave here, I'm going to go some- of the Acropolis, the temple at Kyoto, where else, some other level or spiritual the Taj Mahal in the moonlight to go as

plane. I don't believe that I have a soul gentle into the night as I can, because I

that is going to outlive my body. I'd like will know that the love I have engen-

to believe it, but I don't. So I'm just go- dered will survive me. I am just now

ing to have to make it from one day to thinking the least original possible the next with some sort of principles that thought, that love is God, God is love.

make sense to me, even though I am not And that's just fine with me. D rich and famous, my mother is not marching with Parents and Friends of Upstairs now available for private parties. Michael Lassell is a Los A ngelesfreelance Gays, my lover and I can never agree on writer "wiifi too many college degrees, " who Ask about our catering service. a restaurant, and my friends still die has been involved in the gay movement since from time to time. Even though the gay the mid- '60s.

36 D THE BODY POLITIC D MARCH 1984 D J

hen friends ask Mary Meigs BIOGRAPHY sibly preclude the chance to "make why she doesn't write fiction, amends" in a third try. On many occa-

she insists it is because she sions since 1978, when Andrew Holler- "was bom without the gift for an's myth-making Dancerfrom the making creative use of (her) Dance first appeared, I have wondered if memories of the past." A reading of her there would be a second work to assess, second book, The Medusa Head, calls for it is often said that most first-time this statement into question, for while writers have only one book in them. she does not fictionalize or refashion her Happily, after nearly five years, the sec- memories, she does present them in a ond work has arrived and it is no failure. most creative and engaging manner. The Andrew Holleran's work is desperate- book, which tells the story of her tri- ly autobiographical and equally despe- angular affair with her friend Marie- rate in its construction/destruction of Claire Blais and a third woman, identi- myths. The author has said that many fied only as Andree, is a leaping cind people mistook Dancerfrom the Dance only loosely chronological narrative. As as a glamorous treatment of a particular an autobiographer, Meigs chooses her aspect of gay society. (Did they read the tools carefully, using her journjils and whole book?) Holleran is clearly fascin- letters to corroborate memory. Her ated with the figures, subculture and city story becomes a vehicle for an explora- he exposes, but the lack of fulfillment he tion of the nature of love and jealousy. derives from them is equally certain.

It is also studded throughout with short It's almost pointless to talk of what dissertations on subjects of conse- Nights in Aruba is about, for Holleran's quence: role-playing, class conscious- work is carried for page after page by ness, lesbian visibility. elegiac feelings and stirrings of our im- The triangle itself was, of course, aginings rather than its story ideas. He compHcated and contained many shifts writes prose soignee. Discovering the in intensity. When Blais first becomes place where the miraculous begins by involved with Andree, Meigs struggles poking around in the ordinary and day- with jealousy, then finds to her surprise to-day, his perfect prose takes root in his

that she also is in love with Andree. She digging about in the imperfect ways we

describes this change, saying "It is partly manage our lives. One does not ask what

because every nerve is quivering and with Holleran's work, but how — how

aching and because one's heart seems to does it affect you, how does he do it? be as drained and barren as an empty riangular nlchemies You read the words, the sentences, the swimming pool that love can come flow of black marks on white and snap flooding into it with special violence." MARYMEICS • THEMEDUSAHEAD to consciousness tens of pages down the So begins the relationship that will line, like a kid at a magic show, going cause her to sell her home in Massachu- back over the lines again and again,

setts and move across the ocean to looking for a trick, how he does it. This

Andree's country, France. In time this is full scale lyricism, taking us places we relationship will also make strangers and of our rational selves." She explores the Instead of having the feeling of listening have never been before — to new dimen- almost enemies of herself and Blais, in interplay of love and illusion, the con- to Mary Meigs talk, you feel that some- sions of wistfulness, regret and Eucane

spite of the strength of their own com- cept that self-image is "...fixed in rigid how you slipped into her mind and are love.

mitment to each other. There is a brief relation to that of the beloved, so that a Ustening to her thoughts. Meigs has There is, however, a grating element

period of happiness during which the tri- threat to one is a threat to the other." adapted the autobiographical form very to both Nights in Aruba and Dancer angle is more or less "equilateral," but The alchemy of the triangle is the well; she uses it to contemplate her ex- from the Dance. Ultimately, Holleran's

this quickly disintegrates as it becomes periences and examine the questions that kind of romance must be viewed as reac-

clear that what Andree wants is the sole arise. Those who desire absolute conclu- tionary in our culture. It is restricted to

possession of Meigs and the obliteration sions and the resolution of all whys and men and women; is based, generally, of Mjune-Claire Blais. wherefores will be disappointed. Meigs upon unexamined notions of mono-

Andree's personality is a fascinating rejects the temptation to invent "plausi- gamy; finds expression in ritualized one; more fascinating is Meigs's descrip- ble reasons," saying, "An autobiogra- courtship, vahdation in marriage and tion of the hold Andree gained on her- pher can only resolve whys like this by mythic proportions through "the fami-

self and Blais, and the methods she used further stern scrutiny of her own soul ly." I wonder if Holleran recognizes the to control them. At times Andree could and the plaintive wish that people would difficulty of constructing gay myths and be the embodiment of charm, captivat- not insist on reasonable explanations." romances on scaffolding which is in no ing both women with displays of her She debates the reliability of her own way capable of supporting them. You

prodigious intelligence, or with gifts and version of the truth (which she says is can sense the pain between the lines, the sexual pleasures. Just as easily and, in subject "to failures of memory, to struggle of the individual trying to forge fact, more often, the demonic side of her scramblings of time, to ego-distor- his way toward love, immortalizing both character would emerge, complete with tions") but the reader is always aware of the love and the struggle toward it in his screams, insults, and threats of violence a sincerity at work, an effort to be fair, art. But Holleran's digs at gay existence or suicide. Both Meigs and Blais would and a willingness to speculate on what are made at the expense of gay existence. find themselves going to great lengths to the "truth" might be for the other His lyric chronicle of a way of life just appease the demonic Andree for the re- women. before extinction has the distilled, med- lief attendant with the appearance of the The Medusa Head is a beautifully sus- itative expressiveness that he alone of all charming Andree. Meigs, in exploring tained reflection on a most difficult peri- writers concerned with gay culture seems

the dynamic of this, writes that Andree od in the author's life. It has much of able to achieve, but often it seems mis- ' knew that ' . . .people could be manipula- Meigs: probing the obsessiveness of love value to say, not only to lesbians and directed. Much of what is aimed to give ted by her alterations of rage and sweet women, but to anyone who has ever pleasure in gay culture, but does not, is tractability. People are gradually broken focal point of the book, and Meigs tried to understand human love and deservedly targeted. Yet the author's un-

in this way . . . . The turning point in my seems convinced that her own connec- behaviour. profitable comparisons, the longing for case was the beginning of fear, its sick- tion with Andree would never have Catherine Bennett a return to straight society, set the pro-

ness only diminishing with the reappear- formed had it not been for her strong ject off track. Why hold so desperately ance of the childish persona, Andree...." bond with Blais, and Blais's initial in- FICTION to these heterosexual values which surely Meigs also describes the techniques used volvement with Andree. She describes gloss over the tensions and contradic- by Andree to turn her and Blais against how Andree's magnetism "...had to tions within the sacrosanct harmony of each other, Andree's ability to pass through Marie-Claire and her image Elegiac feelings; the family? " . . .change the images people had of of Andrde to exert its full power over Nights in Aruba is nevertheless a each other, to replace them with the me." She also illustrates how closeness romantic reaction beautiful work by an enormously talent- selves she fabricated." with one member in the triangle would ed writer, even if you become irritated Just as the reader begins to ask why cause jealousy in the other. The book is Nights in Aruba by Andrew Holleran. William with Holleran's escape from the diffic- Meigs continued in the relationship, not a positive portrayal of the triangular Morrow (Gage), $17.95. ulties of forging a new way in the present Meigs begins to probe the "obsessive- form as a relationship structure, yet the to an easier, romantic image of the past.

nessof love," the idea that "...at times form is not entirely condemned. Instead, Lillian Hellman has written that there is There is much pleasure in watching it is more like a sickness that comes from one gets a sense of the enormous effort no greater potential danger to an artist Andrew Holleran work these issues out.

outside, takes possession, makes havoc and will it takes to make any triangle than a failed second work following a 1 hope thai future projects will bring him

work for any length of time, not to men- very successful first attempt. It creates the answers and resolutions he seeks. The Medusa Head by Mary Meigs Talon- tion the fact that all partners must be second thoughts in the minds of the crit- For those who are attracted to what they books (201-1019 E Cordova, Vancouver, BC equally willing. ics and public about the achievements of fault, the battle within thcm.scUcs never V6A1M8),$8.95. The book is exceptionally personal. the first attempt (a fluke?) and may pos- stops. Don M Short 1

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38 D THE BODY POLITIC MARCH 1984 MORE BOOKS ning as many years of work, represent- live, luring the reader to intricate philo- ing the full scope and variety of Russ's sophic insights. These are tales with imagination and talent. many possible meanings. "My Dear * Famous Joanna Russ is above all a stylist. Her Emily" is as much about a woman's per- boys style is anchored in the classic, rather sonal and sexual Uberation as it is about than the pulp, tradition; it's more ele- vampires. and what they do gant than most speculative fiction and Russ knows how to use fantasy and often more powerful. Russ commands metaphor. Take "Gleepsite," a tale

Gay Sunshine Interviews, Volume 2, Edited by every tool of the writer's trade to achieve about a toy that allows people to exter- Winston Leyland. Gay Sunshine Press (Box 'mm her special effects, and she does it with nalize their fantasies. Russ demonstrates tremendous wit, tossing off resonant lit- the on us as well char- 40397, San Francisco, CA 94140), $10 US ^^^^^HnSHKr ~'^*' mechanism as her pb. erary allusions like sparks. acters, expanding narrative into the Thus, in "The Extraordinary Voyages realm of pure description, yet never los-

Poetry is notoriously personal; inter- of Amelie Bertrand" (itself a literary ing the plot's thread. "Gleepsite" is as views and biographies are simply dishon- pastiche), she makes a casual Melville much about the act of writing as it is est if all the personal stuff is left out; the Mayer, Williams: poetry & housekeeping joke; gives us a saucy Sapphic wink wor- about the act of shape-shifting; after all, aim of many novels is to put a way of liv- thy of Renee Vivien (revealing through writing is shape-shifting, illusion, spelling into a form that readers and writers vague idea of a "Renaissance" may not metaphor the nature of the heroine's casting. Here form equals content. This share. It's a rather odd thought at first, be the best way to think about several activities on the planet Venus); and coyly is not the literature of ideas, but the idea but perhaps there is a very strong cultur- generations of writers and artists, and lets us know she knows the story's based of literature. MicheleBellingD al argument to be made for coming out changes in cultural forms. There is by on a Vedic fairy tale. as a gay person. The argument is an in- now a generation of lesbians and gay Her prose is silky, vivid and concise. MUSIC teresting one, because cultural forms men intellectually formed by the institu- She can take the reader out of this world change, sometimes quite quickly. We're tions of the modern gay movement. In and into the next with hallucinatory no longer in the age of Oscar Wilde, Jane Rule's story, "The Day I Don't speed and lucidity. The tone of this book Slithering deca-dance Andre Gide or Cocteau. It's possible to- Remember," cultural works like the les- captures, better than any sci-fi I've read, day to read Gide's The Immoralist and bian novel Rubyfruit Jungle, Adrienne the awe-struck wonder that comes from Vlteapons. Rough Trade. True North Records. hear from the next room the distant Rich's essays and The Body Politic are gazing at a star-filled sky. sound of the Rough Trade song, "Crimes almost part of the furniture, wholly Yet Russ is not particularly interested Sex. Sex. Sex. Rough Trade is probab- of Passion." taken for granted until mother comes in planetary travel; she's concerned with ly the only group around that consistent- The Gay Sunshine interviews, like for her yearly visit. Intellectuals who are inner space, the geography of the soul. ly deals with sexuality and sexual poli- those of Paris Review, present them- formed by being members of a particular For many years now, in essays and criti- tics. Not in the annoying posturing man- selves as a new Hterary form: a matter of social group are often called "organic" cism, Russ has been calling for responsi- ner of heavy meted or mainstream rock collaboration, a social setting, the tech- intellectuals to distinguish them from bility in speculative fiction, stressing the (fuck her, fuck her, fuck her, slap her nology of tape-recording and skilled others — priests, lawyers, even writers ethical importance of thinking through around). And not in the remote, intellec- editing. It's a written form that depends — who are not associated with any spe- one's fantasies before laying them on the tual manner of a conservative "feminist" on social understandings. The interview- cific social group. The recent appear- public. That shows in these stories. In tract (do this, don't do that). But as it is ers scarcely need to ask questions. The ance of gay and lesbian "organic" intel- fact, many of them are about personal lived: in bedrooms, in bars, on the people interviewed seem to know what is lectuals is not so much a "Renaissance" ethics, their loss or gain, decision and streets, in everyday life. expected of them, and so, in a way, does as a "Naissance" — an entirely new change. Although there's an offstage Weapons, the latest from Carole Pope the reader. We understand the first ques- thing. rape in "The Soul of a Servant," we and Kevan Staples, proves the subject is tion John Browning asks poets Jonathan The Gay Sunshine interviews are know that the character — a repressed far from exhausted. Pope's lyrics con- WilliEuns and Thomas Mayer: "Pardon largely with traditional intellectuals and and unhappy man — is starved for af- stantly speak of sexual aggression, own- the Queen's rhetoric, but what do you artists who were established and then fection; when it's offered and then with- ership and repression. She's not pretend- boys Hke doing?" Before you take the came out and wrote about what was still drawn, he makes a frustrated grab for it. ing or wishing that these things aren't bus to your friendly local gay bookstore largely unprintable before the 1970s. It That doesn't excuse the man, but it does there. When it comes to aggression and to discover the equally charming replies will be a necessary challenge to the new explain him. There's nothing cavalier or power, she's all for it. She sings as if from Williams and Mayer, consider the generation of gay writers and artists to sentimental in Russ's fiction. She's al- she's lived through it herself, and she social understandings and conventions develop less exclusive ways of making ways aware of her character's motiva- probably has. Scratch the surface of which are absolutely integral to how we their lives knowable than the now resid- tions. That may be the primary differ- songs like "Beyond Love and Desire" read this written exchange: we know ual model of chosen "famous men." But ence between pulp fiction and literature: and "The Deca-Dance" and you'll find what the question means. if this does happen, it is because of new pulp entertains; literature explains. some very surrealist notions — love as All those interviewed are intellectuals, possibilities of speaking and writing, cul- Russ explains, but she doesn't preach the great human Uberator, and sexual a category every bit as difficult as "gay." tural institutions and conventions which at us. Even when she's expUcitly femin- desire as the means of achieving that lib- Several other categories are necessary. are now barely twenty years old. The se- ist, she balances politics with technique eration. "Love" here is not some The sixteen interviews in the book are all cond collection of Gay Sunshine inter- and humour. Generally, she's subtle and mushy, soft thing that'll go squish and with men from major industrial coun- views is an integral part of two genera- suggestive. She knows how to say more make a mess in your hands (and head); tries and all of them are members of the tions' experience. Buy it, loan it, read it by saying less. She can write a good the love that Pope sings about is a hard dominant ethnic group (Caucasian; in on the bus. Alan O'ConnorD scary vampire story with a lesbian twist love, a harsh desire that's far from cloy- one case Japanese). Those interviewed ("My Dear Emily") in which all the sig- ing. "If You Want It" talks about the are not very young: Thomas Mayer (b nificant gestures are left out and up to conscious use of sexual tension, danger the reader's imagination — which is 1947) is the baby of the lot. I'm not real- Subtlety and sparks and fear to heighten sexual pleasure, but ly sure why, but the form of the inter- probably what makes it so frightening. only "if you know what to do with it." views has something oddly masculine "Life Line" is the only vaguely ordinary The Zanzibar Cat by Joanna Russ. Arkham Sometimes her intentions are a trifle about it. It's a "famous men" version of love song I have ever heard from Rough House (Box 546. Sauk City, Wl 53583), obscure, as in "Nobody's Home," a being gay and being out, full of gossip Trade, but it deals with love in a $13.95 US. frantic Utopia that should be likeable but about other famous men. mystical, mythical and almost totally somehow isn't: everyone seems to have unsentimental way. Categories are as necessary as any of Here's a collection of short stories from everything but compassion and serenity. Not only their lyrics, but their music the words of these recorded conversa- the canon of Joanna,Russ, author of I had to read that one twice. Her subtle- separates Rough Trade from the rest of tions because they don't limit our under- The Female Man: sixteen stories span- ty can be challenging, but it's also seduc- the riff-raff. Its base in rhythm and standing, but make it possible: gay, Joanna Russ: thinking through her blues and in soul gives it a sensuality that poet, actor, playwright, filmmaker, his- fantasies before laying them on the public carries a high sexual charge. Over the torian, librettist (look that one up) and years a lot of the sharp edges have been tattoo artist. Also pohtician, radical. To knocked off Kevan Staples's music, but say "gay" and "intellectual" opens up a with its slow rhythms and simple, hyp- whole new idiom: a new frankness about notic arrangements, it has retained a affection and sex, as much as a struggle kind of tension and a feeling of ritual for new idea and images. This idiom, in and power. And it's certainly sexier than the interviews, is about how each man ever before. has loved, worked and understood dis- Their music still has a sense of crimination. How the possibilities of humour. The ironic distance and lone of love entered work (Williams and Mayer "Soft Core" provide an extra level of work at keeping a home and publishing comment on its lyrics, and "Paisley poetry), and how after the late 1960s it Generation," the only non-sexual track, was possible to publish openly in an is a critical and yet nostalgic summing- idiom which drew on what was said in up of the Sixties. the street, as much as in rooms far from What can 1 say? This is definitely the street. subversive music. My suggestion is that The editor of Gay Sunshine Inter- you let it slither into your subconscious views, Winston Leyland, argues that and dance the deca-dance. there is a gay sensibility in the arts, even David VereschaKini ' a Gay Cultural Renaissance. The rather

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either black or feminist, an issue I can on- away from her strength. Movement in ly learn about second-hand from these Black is politically revolutionary, its women. In this sense, the women writers style nothing short of an explosion of discussed here are not only creators, but language and craft. educators and historians of lives most Home Girls: A Black Feminist Antho- white women, myself included, have a logy is a collection of essays, narratives, responsibility to learn about. stories, poems and just plain "writings" Black Lesbian in White America by which explore experiences far too many Anita Cornwell is a collection of essays, non-black feminists are totally unaware narrative prose, letters and interviews of. Carefully and lovingly edited by Bar- from a former contributor to The bara Smith, the central theme in this col-

Ladder which addresses differences both lection is the black woman's confusion between white women and black, and as to which camp she belongs in: with between straight women and lesbians, in white feminists or with black men. This a method so direct and so intense that issue is very real in the lives of many of few writers could match her genuine the women who speak out in this an- courage and honesty. Cornwell writes of thology and there is the sense that much the need for black women to work with work must still be done. Home Girls is white women to overcome racial ten- the beginning of such work and more. sions, stressing that black women will be There's a solidity to this collection, sym- further oppressed by merely working for bolized by the book's thick, beautiful, the good of black men. This writer's physical format, and the implications strength lies in her experience as a jour- that tradition is here and now being

nalist in compressing a phrase until it recreated, that stories are surfacing after hits dead on the mark. Her interview many years in hiding. Wh«th*r you'v* com* for with Audre Lorde is a rare look at a very Editor Barbara Smith has for a long dinnor in our cozy rostaurant, a gam* of personal part of one of the most influen- time been a strong and necessary black pool in tho upstairs bar, tial black women poets writing today. In women's voice in a predominantly white or to danco ths night her letters to a straight friend who sees community. This collection and other away on on* of our two Cornwell as a traitor to the Black Power projects by Kitchen Table Women of danca floors, you'll find movement, Cornwell, with much self- Color Press are vital if we are to rid our- what you'ra love and self-knowledge, retorts that les- selves of both the racism and racial in- looking for . . bians should not be expected to pick up difference that threatens to pull the com- and fix up the broken women who have munity apart. Home Girls points out been hurt furthering the power of the that, no, we are not all the same and

male oppressor. While that thought is many of us have experienced life in a dis- probably in the minds of hundreds of tinctly different way, through colour lesbians, how many could find the guts and class; but that what we want — the to publicly say it? Anita Cornwell has end of sexism, racism and classism — is apparently been speaking "the unspeak- very much the same. So to achieve what

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With me perched in the wooden saddle credible length of it. ij^ith both hands his sanded flanks became suede, around the shaft he jacked the monster shone with the salt sheen of carnish. powerfully, gazed in pure adoration at I wore boots and dreamed reins the immense wonder of what he had falling. What was alive in him Dr. Wfflem H. Otto found, tongued the deep-indented aper- had entered me: Fear that taught speed; ture. The gleaming deep-split head pain that must be pounded out; REGISTEIIED PSYCHOLOGIST the need to run, to take seemed to swell; he could hardly get it in stride. But now, as you stroke me, into his mouth again and with both

his hooves become heartbeats. I stand hands wrapped around it, there was in skin, the my own weight air more of the bole of it than he could take. with words: I want you. He drew back to assure himself it really is Rampike a twice-yearly literary and was as enormous as it seemed to be." art magazine which describes itself as a And so on. "forum for post-modern expression." But whether you share Mr. Coriolan's Its most recent issue ($2, 95 Rivercrest interest in penile dimensions or not, give

Rd, Toronto M6S 4H7) was devoted to these stories a try. There is an exuber- the subject of erotica and contributors ance, observation and narrative interest included Al Purdy, bp Nichol, Robert that carry the tales far from just por- Mapplethorpe, Victor Coleman and, nographic fantasy. Illustrations by Tom with a prose piece entitled "New York of Finland add to the effect.

Diary Fragments," Toronto writer and Guy Davenport's Eclogues is elegant, artist John Grube. mannered, difficult, sprinkled with Private practice in individual, couple One might think that in supposedly French, serious even in its humour, and avant-garde publications in the 1980s, enamoured of words like "gurry" and and family therapy at 44 Jaclces Avenue works with overtly gay content would no "lashpent." Very clever, but, for me, (Yonge and St. Clair area), longer be censored. One would be tiresome. It's illustrated with austere col- wrong. Rampike has taken it upon itself lages by Roy R Behrens, and I prefer Toronto, Ontario M4T 1E5. to mangle John Grube's gay work. Tom of Finland. Where the original, for example, men- My contributions to The Body Politic Free consultation. tions "overheard gay conversational began with issue 4, back in the Pleisto- fragments," the published version omits cene era, and I've been writing "The Fees on sliding scale according to income. the word "gay." The positioning of Ivory Tunnel" since 1975. It is bliss, of other passages has been altered to make course, but I need a bit of a break for a Confidentiality guaranteed. sexual references appear to refer to while to pursue other projects. I'll be women rather than men. And the whole around though (in Toronto and Edmon- work has apparently been rc-arranged to ton), slill happy to receive books and Telephone 962-5328. suit the editor! comment on them when and where 1 In letter a to this editor, one Karl can. I hope to resume tunneling late this Jirgins, Grubc writcs:"The gay referen- year. ces in the original are frequent and im- So long for now! D

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Name I , Ctieque/money order enclosed RFD I. Box 839, Stockton Springs ME 04981 USA. ing to surrender his all. Limits respected. Drawer DYYY. Address Cfiarge my Visa. Mastercharge INTELLIGENT.TOUNG ASiANT20). undergrad'- uatc. seeks sponsorship from a wise, affectionate and CAR FOR SALE City Card number well-established professional (45-70) who would like Province Code Expiry date to develop a lasting companionship and plan a life 1980 RABBIT, good condition, blue, just driven oc- together with him. Photo appreciated. Free to relo- casionally to the bars, a.sking $5,000or best offer. Call Clip this form and mail It with payment to: TBP CLASSIFIEDS. Box 7289, Station A. cate. Drawer El 58. James. 944-3214. Toronto, ON M5W 1X9 DBi3

THE BODY POLITIC [ I MARCH 1984 D 43 SLAVE WANTED BY sincere, good-looking, slim, ATTRACTIVE, SINCERE, FUN, successful gay HOUSEBOY/SLAVE/SERVANT wanted, live-in. NATIONAL 5'8" Toronto male. You should be slim and defined or a male, young 36, good body, 152 lbs, non- Seek person who needs quiet, secure, stable home en- regularly travels I AM A GWM, 35, 6'3"200lbs, who muscular athlete or a bodybuilder, clean, docile, sub- smoking, non-promiscuous, seeks same to enjoy vironment. You must be docile, submissive, discreet, Prince the Yellow Head highway from Burns Lake to missive, obedient and nonpromiscuous. Married, good things in life together. No drugs or heavy drink- responsible, trustworthy, athletic or muscular. Prefer George on business. I would like to meet other gay single and novices OK. Regular discreet meetings. ing. Photo and brief description appreciated. Write non-smoker. No drugs, bars or clubs. 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Toronto. 5'8" All HORNY GUY, 30, 140 lbs, blond, blue eyes, answered. Drawer 25 AND JUST COMING OUT. Into voyeurism and 5'8", E089. neat beard, reasonably attractive, seeks to expand cir- ATTRACTIVE MALE, 135 lbs, 33, looking exhibitionism, would like nude photo exchange with cle of friends. Available afternoons and some even- for large, well-hung, homy black stud to service hot STUDENT SEEKING SLIM, clean-cut, straight- wrestlers others. Drawer young college jocks, and ass regular basis. Drawer looking GWM for lasting friendship. I'm an oriental, ings. Prefer male 25-35. Photo and phone please. I white on E097. ElOI. 5'7" 120 lbs and would like to meet someone 25-35 to have photos available. Beaches area. Drawer E050. HANDSOME Bl J/O STUD seeks action with other share interests: GOOD-LOOKING, COCKY, masculine married 6' music, outdoors, movies, fine food. ATTRACTIVE MALE, 20s, professional, 6'2" 170 hot men. Am 29, 165lbs, moustache. Photo a must man, 34. 215 lbs, 6'4", into boxing, fist-fighting, No one-nighters. Phone number and photo ap- lbs, brown hair /blue eyes, medium build, physically before meeting! Travel frequently — can accomodate seeks masculine, leather /levi top man to knock chip preciated. Serious only. Drawer E088. fit, wishes to meet attractive older male, hopefully buddies. If you want the best, then go for it! Drawer off shoulder to total humiliation. Discretion a must. professional, over 6', physically fit (muscular?) in- E049. GAY MALE: HOPING TO MEET very special man Drawer El 10. for committed relationship, preference terested in developing relationship. I like being sincere, movies, cud- ATTRACTIVE GWM, 26, 5'9" 155 lbs, seeks same middle-aged professional, endow- dling, versatile. attractive, non-smoker with interests in music and the ARTIST GWM, and am sexually Drawer E055. for friendship. Detailed letters answered. Box 3187, ed, interested in music, poses, occasional drink arts. Monogamous and only interested in monog- HAVE YOU READ "Thomas Lyster", listened to Picton ON KOK 2T0. privately at home, can accomodate. Age, religion, amous relationship. Excited by clear-thinking "Remain in Light", or ever wandered through race unimportant but good to know. Picture and SLIM, MASCULINE STUDENT of any nationality gentleman with athletic body. Appreciate photo and Turkey? Are you confident, full of laughter and ideas will Anywhere, most par- descriptive letter. Write Box 743, Stn F, Toronto ON phone number have mine. 5'9", to age 25, still in the closet, sought by Latin type, 38, of the future? If so, you're a bit like me (25, fit M4Y 2N6. ticularly prairie provinces, welcome. Write Drawer who enjoys quiet times at home, video and travel. 1 non-smoker). Let's go! Drawer E054. E046. hate bars and discos and not into the gay scene. Can GAY MALE, MID 30s, into S/M, B/D. WS and 5' 11 " 160 lbs, looking for completely sub- be generous to the right person. Let's share our secret AVERAGE GUY. 38, travels across Canada fre- GWM, 25, boot-licking, etc. Very obedient and willing to serve a missive sex-slave. Anal abuse, spanking, humiliation, and bring pleasure to each other. Drawer E083. quently. Seeks men everywhere. Friendship great. strict master. TUrned on to kinky scenes. Drawer phone-sex, etc. You will be under 30, well-built, E063. Good sex a possibility. Panners — who knows? SATURDAY AFTERNOON DELIGHTS. Good clean-shaven all over and very obedient. Send explicit 5'8" Relocation and a long-term relationship — nothing is music, smoke, JO, 69. I'm 33, 135 lbs. You 27-40. ARE YOU ALARMED by the increase in violent letter, nude photo and phone. No heavy S / M but lots impossible with the right guy. Norm, 2296 Westerly Simcoe/ York /Toronto area. Drawer D915. crime? Afraid to go out at night? Learn to defend of heavy sex. Drawer E057. St, Clearbrook BC V2T 2M4. I hope to hear from yourself. Private lessons in your own home by NONPROMISCUOUS, ATHLETIC, 36, 5'H" 155 you. qualified instructor. Simple yet effective defence COUPLE: TRIM, HAIRY. One — 26, artistic, lbs, masculine, well-built, enjoys outdoors, travel- techniques are individually tailored. For a private GAY RAIL FAN — Calgary, would like to meet blond. Other — 25, professional, dark. Seek trim, ling, music, movies, theatre etc... seeks reliable com- consuhation call Mark, 242-4828. others interested in trains, photography, travelling, hung, masculine, greek active/ passive under 30. No patible friend under 36 fond of affection, kissing, etc. Photo sent if desired. No drugs, etc. Drawer moustaches. Photos — PO Box 1182, Station F, love-making with feelings. Photo appreciated (re- TWO GUYS one 31, other 28, want to meet other E175. Toronto M4Y 2T8. turned) Box 7303, Stn A, Toronto, ON M5W 1X9. guys under 40 for get-togethers. 536-1030. VANCOUVER GWM. YOUNG-LOOKING 39, beard, 6' 160 lbs. A little shy. Lots of love in me for right younger guy. Early 20s, but sex is not of prime importance. Crazy /MIE/ISURE UP about disco, but also love classical music. Enjoy

jl '2' 3l ' 2l0 theatre, walking etc. not reply I ' ' movies, Why — ' T 1"8 1"9 won't bite... unless you want me to! Drawer E156. CALGARY GWM, 25, 6' 160 lbs, looking forguysto 30 for friend-

ship/lover. I am an active guy with a wide range of interests and a sense of humour, seeking friends and maybe a partner to share good times and bad. Pen pals welcome. Drawer D894.

GWM, 35, SEEKS CORRESPONDENCE and possible relationship with right person. Varied interests. All letters answered. Relocation possible for right FITNESS FOR THE 80's person. Photo if possible. Looking forward to your letters. Drawer D973. BODY FIRMING AND TONING MALE, 30s, looking for a sincere type, not into the bar scene too much. Enjoy quiet times, movies, arts, dining, outdoors. Males over 30 please reply. Photo appreciated. Thanks. Drawer E065. YOUNG GWM, 5' n " needs really hard bare-bottom WITHOUT EXERCISE whippings with strap, paddle or tawse to really burn my tail. Would love ongoing, reciprocating relation- sweat! After hundreds of sweaty ship. David, PO Box 4675, Stn C, Calgary AB T2T No 5PI. hours in the gym, many people still WHAT IS A VERY intelligent, sensitive, witty haven't achieved the firmness and tone businessman, 43 years old. with varied interests, doing in the personal ads? Trying a new way to start a they had expected. Exercise today possible relationship — that's what. If you are in- doesn't have to be a boring, exhausting, telligent and serious about making a new start, why not get the ball rolling? These cold nights alone must muscle-wrenching chore. At Measure Drawer 41. come to an end. El Up we will flatten your tummy, firm your EDMONTON thighs, tighten your tush and eliminate ATTRACTIVE MAN, 33. 5'10" bearded, seeks same your love handles faster and easier than or younger for casual encounters. Nothing bizarre. you ever thought possible. All you do is Picture and letters guarantee reply. Drawer D968. relax, as our custom designed Measure WINNIPEG Up machines stimulate muscle groups SELKIRK PORTAGE WINNIPEG. Good-looking, that hove long been neglected. tall, hairy male individual. Arriving Manitoba in April, one week (moving there August). Appreciate EG: A typical Vi hour on the abdominal males not feeling need to be classified, labelled any areo will provide the equivalent of 1 800 Call for complimentary treatment particular lifestyle (let's be human first). Regular guys, preferably over 30, husky, hairy, homebodies, sit-ups. and consultation. realizing life is an ongoing process, wanting to experience same in virile, versatile man-to-man way. Quick replies with photo appreciated. And answered A PROGRAM FOR MEN AND WOMEN immediately. Drawer EI59. Our specially trained personnel, under the supervi- NORTHERN ONTARIO sion of licensed technicians w\\ design your in- GWM, 34, SEEKS YOUNGER, large endowed, car- dividualized firming plan— based on your body ing, responsible, solid, can behumorous, yet ago-get- ter, independent, supportive, to similar male — object type and problem areas. — lifetime relationship (anything less not acceptable). The sensation of effortless exercise creates a relax- Drawer E014. THUNDER BAY/NORTHWEST ONTARIO. ing feeling as it goes to work— strengthening and Lonesome traveller. GWM. 5' 10" 180 lbs, has un- reeducating your sagging, atrophying muscles. limited supply of 43-vintage hot tight ass and improv- ing deep throat for hot, hung, horny studs who enjoy exacting workouts. Photo a must with your explicit Come in. Relax. letter telling me what we're going to be doing one cold night soon. Drawer EI3I. Let us do the work. TORONTO ISN'T IT TIME FOR YOU TO MEASURE UP?

ARTISTIC, INTELLIGENT 30, PROFESSIONAL, 12ShuterSt.,Suite100 Tues-FtI 11am-7piii tall, well-endowed, slim, athletic build. Am compas- Sal 10am-3pm sionate, sensitive and nonpromiscuous. Seeks male Toronto with comparable qualities and values. Photo appreci- 416-362-0636 ated. Drawer D867. i

ATTRACTIVE, FRIENDLY GWM, 40, wishes to ' ' 4i6 ' 4I5 ' 4I4 ' 4I3 ' 412 411 ' 410 319 ' 318 ' a> meet other male for hot times. Am into fantasy scenes, spakings etc. Experience not necessary. Dis- cretion assured. Reply drawer D916.

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GENEROUS, PROFESSIONAL GWM, 36 years, TWO SUPER HORNY guys, 32-36, hot, hung, want

seeks youthful assistant and travelling companion. big studs. If you got it big, we want it bad. Blacks Reply to all, but immediate to photo, phone. Toronto welcome. Photo, phone. Box 1031, Stn F, M4Y 2T7, or east. Gentle intelligence preferred. Drawer D971. SINCERE, PERSONABLE, 40s male seeks a classy Poppers from only $2.79! SHY, QUIET, LOYAL GUY, 31, seeks friend about black or oriental male companion. Only those who the same for friendship, kindness, loyalty and love. can respond to passionate kisses, gentle stroking and Not into bars. Like reading, music, movies, theatre warm embraces are invited to reply with photo and Our new catalogue is just $2.00 and quiet evenings. Would like an on-going relation- phone number. Drawer El 76. (Deductible from your first order) ship. Also quite religious. If you believe in old-fash- GAY MALE PROFESSIONAL, 29, 5'8", 150 lbs, ioned true friends, I'm your guy. University people in honest, sincere and discreet, seeks a friend who likes From Canada's only all-gay mail-order service arts especially welcome. Please send phone and quiet evenings at home as well as going dancing on photo. Thanks. Drawer D977. weekends. Drawer E124. AFFECTIONATE AND CONSIDERATE Oriental GOOD-LOOKING YOUNG male, 5'I0", 155 lbs, male, 22, 5'8" 149 lbs, passive, like music, dancing well-hung, looking for hot young buns to plunge into. RONS and anything romantic, seek active male under 40 for Reply with details, photo and phone. Drawer E125. friendship or probably lasting relationship. Send photo. Drawer D985. SLAVE WANTED. I am into S/M, B/D, W/S, straps, whips. I am 30, 6 feet, brown hair, blue eyes. I HANDSOME EUROPEAN MALE, early twenties, am looking for a real slave. Please send picture with HOT Box 336 mature and sophisticated, likes finer things, wishes to letter. Drawer E138. meet very stout, masculine European, preferably Austrian or Hungarian in forties, to establish perma- SPIRIT WILLING, flesh weak, then reply not need- Burlington Ont nent relationship. Photo appreciated. 60 Mansfield, ed. Attractive GWM, 33, 6', 160 lbs, moustache, Toronto, ON M6J 2B2. seeks chance at one to one relationship. Serious- STUFFsJi L7N 3Y3 minded, affectionate, sense of humour with varied in- SLEAZY SEX, PROTECTIVE daddy, top man, terests. Attractiveness unimportant, attraction is. beard, chubby, hairy, horny, french, safes, 5'H" spir- Dealerships now available! Photo appreciated. Drawer EI26. itual, your fetish OK, 49, talking dirty, self-actualiz- ed, AIDS-conscious, dominate flexible men, cour- HUNKY PLAYMATE wanted for weekend scenes attractive 6'1", In Toronto, visit our shiop downstairs at 18 Eastern Ave. age, selfish, compassionate, lengthy foreplay, poli- by 37-year-old Prevert 155 lbs, can't

think of anything I wouldn't do. Send description, tics, philosophy, tits. 1 am frank, honest, reality-oriented. Horticulture, crafts, groins, smells. Drop me a playbill. Drawer E047. line. I'm sure to nibble. Drawer D991. APRES UN COURS de fran?ais a Montreal, GWM, 6'4" 190 lbs, well-hung, masculine and attrac- j'aimerais rencontrer un quebecois qui peut m'aider tive, looking for clean man with 8" or over. If you like avec mon fran?ais — et peut-etre devenir un copain. suis dans la trentEiine, 149 lbs, 5'9", non-poilu, to fuck face with your full length, please write giving Je THE TOOLBOX phone number. I guarantee satisfaction. Drawer cheveux et moustache brun. Drawer E051. D632. PSST, OVER HERE gorgeous! Suave Asian — hand- AT 18 EASTERN AVE., TORONTO PEER ENCOUNTER GROUP for well-adjusted some, masculine, athletic (5'H", 155 lbs) sensual & sensitive, educated & travelled, health-obsessed non- men meeting once a week for several months. Drawer 869-9294 E082. smoker, has fantasy of meeting someone through personals who's caring & affectionate, alert TBP & Mon-Frl: 5 1 Sat: 1 Sun: - 1 1 BLOND SWIMMER, 6' 148 lbs. Swims competitive- pm am Noon am Noon pm expressive, cultivated & unpretentious, hedonistic & ly 6 days a week at U of T, dances at Voodoo and is mesomorphic, but will settle for lesser paragons. Par- always horny. Looking for New Wavers, athletes, tial to silken-smooth skin & dark types (Asian , Black students and punks as fuck-buddies. Drawer E080. Latin), but not ,a serious fixation. Photo/phone Thursday is Club Night... YOUNG SLAVE WANTED to service visiting US please. Box 381, Station P, Toronto M5S 2S9. leather guy. Tall, slim, 45, intelligent, handsome. Suc- YOUNG, ATTRACTIVE brown-skinned profes- Saturdays: Free pool until 4 pm... cessful applicant will be very slim, smooth, experienc- sional male, 24, 5'7", 129 lbs, seeks masculine guy 18 ed, hung, healthy and totally devoted to his man's -26 for fun, friendship — loves sucking and being Happy Hour daily: Beer $1.25... bedroom pleasures. Letter, photo, phone. Drawer sucked. Drawer E127. E079. Dinner every night, 5 - 10 pm, from $2.50 I HAVE come to a time in my life when I know I want GWM, 25, 135 lbs. Brown hair, moustache and a relationship with a younger man who is going to be - physically fit. Enjoy J. O., jockey shorts, work boots, $3.95 Sunday Brunch, noon 3 pm my son /lover /slave. This is a beautiful opportunity construction-worker type hot men. Prefer hung hairy for an obedient young man into submission, legal to where real men do eat quiche! men. Considered good-looking. Photo and phone 30, muscular, attractive, intelligent, self- number appreciated but not necessary. Bi or straight accepting/ respecting, with integrity. I am attractive, guys welcome. Drawer E078. GW Master, 48, 160, 6'1", brown/blue, financially BLACK MALE who enjoys sex would like to hear secure, intelligent, tells and expects the truth, level- Where the men come to play from other males. Age not important. Not into headed. You must be willing to be my total possession violence. 651-9803. which I may express by shaving and piercing. I'll guide you and assist you in developing your talents, expanding your life and sexuality in all directions. If BOB DAMRON GUIDE • RUSH what you read is what you want, then write and tell. Slave will live in Toronto with and will work for BULLET • NO-NAME' AROMA Master's business enterprises. Now, read this ad LIQUID AROMA • THRUST again, very carefully. Drawer EI28. LOCKER ROOM • HARDWARE ATHLETIC, ATTRACTIVE outgoing student, NOVELTIES • DOUBLE EAGLE 5'8", 130 lbs, mature, driven. Enjoys reading, danc- LUBRICANTS • RUBBER GOODS ing, conversation, humour. Seeks relationship with DOC JOHNSON PRODUCTS someone with sense of humour. Drawer EI29. GWM, 27, 5'10", 170 lbs, attractive, interested in WHOLESALE INQUIRIES ONLY wrestling, dancing, movies, dining out and quiet times. Seeks same for friendship. Have a nice ...!. Contact: Drawer 130.

JAL Enterprises MALE into hiking, organic gardening, photography, 66 Gerrard St East art, 35, 5'8", 135 lbs, French, seeks male with similar interests, any race. Also correspondents. Drawer Toronto ON M5B 1G3 E137. (416) 977-4718 HOT, HORNY, TIGHT ASS needs a real man with 8" -I- over 5'10'; I'm 135 lbs, 33, 5'8" and waiting. Drawer E003. ARTICULATE, PROFESSIONNAL, 30, fun lov- LEATHER STRAPS TURN you on. GWM, 33, ing, 6' tall, having a slim, well-defined swimmer's 5'8", 165 lbs, into giving or receiving it. B/Donly, no build. Lots to share with non-promiscuous, in- S/M. Drawer E099. teresting male. Notes of introduction to P.O. Box 815, Postal Station Q, Toronto M4T 2N7. YOUNG MALE, 5'7", handsomely husky, black hair, hazel-green eyes. Responsive individual in- GWM, 5'8", 147 lbs, 28. Like: swimming, biking, terested in romance, music and movies. Always lifting weights (body-building), outdoors, and hot refiective, sometimes impulsive. Not into shallowness horny men, etc. Don't like: bars, booze, poppers, or the bar scene. Seeks mature, considerate male drugs. I am stable and very active. Greek, french thinker under 40. Drawer E109 A / P. Looking for buddy to train and exchange views and notes with. Welcome correspondence from Ot- GWM, 40, SLIM, 6', 140 lbs, seeks passive young tawa and Toronto. PO Box 1505, Station B, Mon- orientals. Phone number appreciated. Drawer E068. t real, Quebec H2B 3L2. SETHIAN MAN-ANIMALS desire same and friends HI-TOP SNEAKERS turn me on. Attractive, athletic for exploration of consciousness and WHATEVER! age 36, 150 lbs, new to Toronto, into sneaker trip with Create a new reality: call 947-0730. Affection and attraaive guys. All replies answered. Drawer D993. heat await...

VERSATILE, MASCULINE MALE, 27, 6'3" 180 GAY WHITE MALE, thirty, average looks, quiet, lbs, well-hung, seeks casual but healthful sex with post-grad literature, philosophy. Interests: cinema, other men. Prefer moustaches, hairy muscular bo- theatre, music, conversation, left politics. You some- dies, thick uncut cocks, ages 25-40. No props please. what of above or just attracted. Drawer EIS2. Discretion assured and expected. Photo, descriptive MAN WITH LEATHER straightjacket and other letter and phone gets same. Drawer D997. equipment requires playroom training by leather mas- GWM COUPLE, 30s. DARK, bearded, turned on to ter. Limits to be set. Drawer El 50. various scenes, look to meet guys who don't always 7WENTY-EIGHT^YEAR-OLD slim and passive find what ihey are looking for in the bars or baths. young man, successful, respectable and responsible, Regular gct-logelhcrs arc what wc have in mind, if with passion for good books, current events, music, mutually agreeable. Explicit reply with photo and films (not movies) theatre, nature and animals wishes phone gets invitation for drinks and.... Drawer D999. lo meet compatible, dominant, hirsute guy, 30 lo 45 WHY JUST READ 'EM7 You could have your very years of age for companion.ship and pos.siblc relation- own ad in this space, and meci people the way you ship. Drawer El 51. Beer $1.25 want to. Use the form on page 43. SEEKING POSITIVE companion for warm sexual All week — Every night 5'7", WHITE MALE74776'. lean, smooth, athletic build, friendship. I'm 33, nice-looking. Blue eyes, 9 12 pm straighi-looklng/acting, would like to give head to a brown hair, moustache, hairy, mature, direct, in- very well-hung guy; no reciprocation; long sessions lelligenl, humorous, horny, versatile, affcclionalc. 592 Sherboume St. Toronto, Canada OK. Blacks welcome. Box 334. Sin K, Toronto, ON, with many interests. Photo and descriptive letter ap- M4P 2G7. preciated. Drawer EI08 (416)921-3142

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1 BISEXUAL, MASCULINE, professional, tall, tit, ORIENTAL UNIVERSITY student, 21 plus sought GWM, 40, 6*, 175 lbs, fit, young in looks and out- LATE TWENl lES, attractive, quiet, conservative, 5'9". heavily endowed male, 44, needs clean bi male for by Caucasian gentleman for evenings or afternoons look, progressive, stable and discreet, wants younger Like reading, movies, dining out. Would like to uninhibited sex. TV's, rubber, leather and clothing together. I'm young 42, considered handsome, (under 30) clean-cut male for friendship, mutual JO, meet same, 30-40, clear-thinking with a balanced seri- fetishists, particularly endowed, uncut or submissive visiting Toronto usually monthly. Photo and phone music, quiet times, nights on the town; permanent ousness, not only interested in sex but also in getting males should write descriptive letter with number and best time to call appreciated. I'll phone buddy /dad relationship and support possible. Pic- to know another person. Photo appreciated. Drawer photo /phone for very discreet contact for meeting. you for sure and return photo. Drawer E061. ture and address appreciated. No PO box replies, E161. Drawer E104. please. Thanks! Bernard. Drawer E149. GWM, 30, 5'6", 129 lbs, 36" chest, 29" waist, seeks 1954 DOMESTIC COMPACT in good mechanical 5'6", 130 lbs, considered good-looking, GWM, 40, man of any stock, to age 33, similarly constructed, B/W COUPLE, masculine and versatile, into many condition wishes to share double garage before rust passive, enjoys quiet and good times, outdoors, etc. sexually and intellectually versatile (cinema, theatre, different scenes. We're looking for a few good men sets in. Tastefully equipped with FM-band, cruise is disadvantage. Looking for friends bet- Herpes my dancing, music, plants, food, art, exercise, politics, who enjoy good hot times. Don't be shy, write us to- control, sporty engine, attractive, original blond fin- ween 33-45 with without this problem. It could be day so start or cats...), honest, trustworthy, reliable, witty, warm, we can exploring the depths of our possi- ish and bright interior. Country and city-driven with a great help to talk about it. Drawer E107. affectionate, passionate, for encounters, friendship bilities. Drawer E148. preference for urban parking facilities. No ashtray. No spare tire. Wheel alignment a little left of centre. GWM, FILM STUDENT, 26, 5'8", 170 lbs, brown — whatever the chemistry demands. Metro Toronto, ATTRACTIVE, MASCULINE student, 23, 5MI", Adjacent parking spot reserved for companion hair, good body, muscular, clean cut, masculine, con- New York, Rochester. Photo if at all possible — if 175 lbs, sincere, discreet, many interests. Wants to model of 1940s to 1950s vintage. Photo can set wheels sidered good-looking, humanist, open /responsive, not, include measurements. Drawer E132. meet young male for fun, friendship and possible re- in motion. Drawer E041. sometimes shy/crazy. Enjoy quiet times, nature, lationship. Photo gets mine. Drawer E069. TIRED OF THE BARS? Maybe you should try cinema, affection, healthy reciprocal sex and compa- GWM, BROWN EYES, 129 lbs, 5'8", attractive, 58, meeting friends through the personals. Give it a try — GUY LOVES JO, wants to meet gay / bi / straight guys nionship. I seek man 26-35, must be easy-going, real, young firm body and outlook, loving, discreet we've heard lots of success stories. with big balls and cock for long sessions. Have big and muscular, masculine and have direction, also be sen- helpful, seeking male friend and lover, any race, age cock. Am 37, 175 lbs. Also love to do massage. sitive and affectionate for lasting relationship. Photo ATTRACTIVE, SEXY, Italian eighteen-year-old Drawer E056. under 30. Not into drugs. Please write with photo, little dark hair, dark eyes, and phone appreciated. Hope to hear from you soon. male, not a boy anymore, phone and time to call. Drawer E071. Drawer E058 intelligent, 5'9", 145 lbs, good build, moustache, NICE GUY, 26, interested in sailing, cycling, good varied interests, relationship or just friends? Depends friends. Open to meeting nice guys. 5'9", 142 lbs, SLIM, HUNG TOP wants hot arses, eager balls, for 40, needs good spanking on bottom. Love to MALE, on our chemistry. You are a well-built, attractive, in- beard. Have worthwhile things to share. Drawer E142. intense workout. Recent facial photo a must. Yours

lay back and be felt . If you're good, my buns are telligent man. Masculine. Photo, phone and a letter gets mine. Drawer E163. 30s, 5'8", lbs, Drawer El 12. BI, 145 good body, average endow- yours. please. Preference to butch, hot men with ment. Very clean and selective. Enjoy being serviced GWM, 27, trim beard, medium build. I like my job, LEATHER GUY seeks leather buddy with full gear moustaches. Drawer E066. often. Not into gay scene. Very responsive and a bit of my friends, myself. 1 dislike waking up alone on week- for long, sensuous, reciprocal scenes. We're cU'ound GWM, 50s, quiet masculine professional, non- a sexaholic. Have excellent video collection. Don't ends. Do you enjoy city and rural delights? PBS (Mas- 40, slim, masculine, experienced, intelligent, discreet promiscuous, would like to give head on a regular mind you acting out your fantasies, will spank if re- terpiece Theatre)? Good books (Southern authors. and frustrated in Toronto. Your move. Drawer El 15. basis to a very well-hung guy; no reciprocation. quired. Tbrn me on. Get me off. I do not reciprocate. Stallion /Torso)? Theatre? Films? Music? In short — GWM, 24, 5'9", slim, brown hair, blue eyes. Seeks Drawer E040. Guaranteed reply. No games please. Drawer E070. are you well-rounded? (non- figuratively speaking, of hairy-chested male under 30 for fun and friendship. course). Humour wins high points in my books. How WOULD YOU ENJOY the company of an older af- GWM, STARVING PLAYWRIGHT on welfare, 32, Photo and phone please. Drawer E120. about a coffee... date? Drawer EI55. fectionate, considerate and masculine gentleman? boyish, skinny, has own apartment, seeks someone 5'7", MASCULINE MALE, 30, 145 lbs, brown hair, I'm 44, 5'10", dark hair, blue eyes, not interested in with income for lazy times. Drawer E045. GAY MALE COUPLE, 29-30, versatile, straight-acting, seeks interesting, versatile, active, blue eyes, seeks masculine hot hunky horny trim bars or baths. I prefer quiet restaurants, theatre, horny men. blond, 18-30 for friendship and hot times. Send in- travel, photography, romantic evenings at home and Thick, well-hung cock is nice but not a prerequisite. terests, ideas, description. Box 134, Stn W, Toronto, the company of friends. If you believe you would en- Toronto's Gay Community Calendar Ages21-40. Discreet. Photo&phonegetsquick reply. ON, M6M 4Z2. joy a relationship, let's meet to discuss our mutual Drawer El 72.

MASCULINE PROFESSIONAL, 30, 6', 185 lbs, fair feelings and needs. Write soon, all letters answered. BLACK MALE WANTED by GWM, 52, young, for hair, blue eyes, seeks younger straight-looking man Drawer E139. sincere friendship and good times. Age and fantasies for friendship and possible permanent relationship. I DO 12AX7, EMD567, BWV853, or CMP.B°9 923-GAYS not obstacles. Must be honest. Drawer EI65. am easy-going, sexually versatile, and have good mean anything to you? If so, we may share interests, 24-hour recorded message SUBMISSIVE GWM, 38, wishes to share your fanta- sense of humour. Interests include swimming, especially if you have a moustache. Drawer E039 sies during fun meetings. My fantasies are dominant weights, reading and travel. Include telephone ARTISTIC, ORIENTAL male, professional, eariy men and lingerie. Write and tell me yours. Discretion number in reply. Photo appreciated and returned on 30s, 5'8", slim, straight-looking, attractive, gentle, PROFESSIONAL GWM, 38, 190 lbs, 6'4" seeks assured. Drawer E166. request. Drawer E121. warm, stable, responsible, compassionate young man over 21 for hot times. I into 6' and am most NEW TO AREA: GWM, 37, I ", 220 lbs. Attractive ATHLETIC 50, looking for squash, swim- things GWM, understanding. Likes music, movies, cooking, quiet and love spanking. Discretion assured and ex- football-player-type with stocky build, hairy chest ming and/or skiing buddy. Am masculine, quiet, yet pected. Drawer E162. times, travelling, exercise etc. Seeks male to 40 with and moustache seeks little brothers, cuddly "Teddy energetic. Seek same. .Mississaugaarea. Drawer E122. similar qualities and value for loving monogamous ATTRIBUTES: TALL, ATTRACTIVE, twenties. Bear" types and other soulmates my age or younger. relationship. Drawer E160. ATTRACTIVE CANADIAN East Indian origin, 29, Stable, intelligent of polite class. Sensible, sincere, Object: friendship, fun and possible relationship. I'm affectionate, creative, honest, intelligent 5'6", 130 lbs, moustache straight appearance. Stable GWM, 35, attractive, clean-cut, 5'9", 155 lbs, scrupulous. Pleasures: arts, travel, music and career. and stable aLso masculine in- and secure. Looking for that special man to enjoy in- masculine, Greek active, brown eyes and hair Passion, intrigue and sensuous creativity. Individual- — and sexually versatile. Interests clude conversation, telligent conversations, candlelight dinners, music (balding), presently in an "open" relationship, many ism. To live not exist. My desire: to meet a man of sim- good the outdoors, sports, travel and writing. If you are clear-thinking, positive and and tender loving. I am not in love/but am open to interests, enjoys good wine, conversation, and sex ilar fabric and quality, interested in sharing bound- sincere with an emphasis on quality over quantity, I persuasion /East or West /Where's the best for seeks an attractive, younger male (under 30), Greek less, discreet companionship. I welcome a reply from would like to hear from you. Out of area not a prob- romancing/ With a friend I can smile/ but with a passive, affectionate, romantic, masculine, in- anyone, anywhere, and shall answer all serious re- lem. Include your phone number with response — lover / 1 could hold my head high / 1 could really laugh. telligent and sincere with own apartment for affair. plies. A photo would be nice but not a necessity. Drawer E135. Drawer El 54. Drawer El 53. photo appreciated but not necessary. Drawer E168.

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EXPERT SUCKER, 50s, seeks man who is passion- 20<¥o discount witli litis ad ately involved in nipples. Show me your tits and I'll eat you all night. Drawer E169. Box 161, Agincourt SIM + AFFECTION. Attractive, clean-cut profes- (Toronto), Ontario, Canada 6'0", sional, 34, 155 lbs, non-smoker. Serious, quiet, montgomePLi M1S3B6 shy, submissive. Dislike bars, baths. Love S/M, but Canada's oldest penpal club shy about it. Seeking similar attractive, sincere, rela- Leathers tionship-minded guy, 25-35, to share fun times, affec- Visa, Chargex or for gay men. tion, and maybe more. Photo appreciated. Drawer E167. Mastercharge accepted ESTABLISHED BUSINESSMAN, 38, attractive, 5'9", 138 lbs, seeks quiet, sincere, affectionate young Catalogue 3 now available! male for lasting monpgamous relationship. Drawer Illustrated 32 page E164. GflV catalogue TRIM GWM, 50 and looking younger, well-equipped $5.00 -I- 90« postage / imaginative for full A P pleasures, seeks similar, men and handling and younger to explore relationships short-term or ASK FOR IT! long. Interests: the arts, film, the gay community and fllATCI life itself. Drawer E072.

JUMP INTO SPRING and summer with an efferves- Adults only — must be legal age. cent, successful, straight-looking attractive, slim male (GQ type). Paul, 922-8484. Members across Canada NEED PHOTOS OF YOURSELF? Head shots, nudes, negatives returned. Ring studio 532-4380. In- and the U.S. quiries welcome, inexpensive. No. 783 THERE ARE A LOT of people in this city, and trying to reach out and make friends can be frightening. Grommet Jock P.O. Box Crowds can intimidate and bars seem impersonal. 3043b, Saskatoon Through this ad, I'd like to reach out and be a friend. Sask S7K 3S9 I'm in my 20s, and will respond to all who answer this ad. Drawer El 16. SOUTH ERN ONTARIO ~

WINDSOR. ORIENTAL GM, 21, 5'8" 132 lbs, at- gai tractive, new wave, straight-acting, seeks guys under le sex-shop Devlin Electrolysis 35 for friendship. Will reply all with photo. Drawer E028. 1661 est. Ste-Catherine. Montreal. Qu6. H2L2J5 (5 14) 521-8451 ESTABLISHED MALE, 38 years; conservative yet fun-loving; seeks sincere, honest and reliable male. Reply: Box 1401, Sudbury, Ont. P3E 5K4.

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OK, SO I'M NOT A BRONC magazine model, not even close, but I am a man who knows what he wants Facial — Body in a sex scene! 1 dig 'em buih, tough, butch, tight denims, black leather biker jacket, boots and gloves, if possible. Not into kinky, or butt-fucking either way — but most anything else goes. No S/M but light B/D. Raunchy, long sessions with plenty of feeling, Private & Confidential touching, smelling, licking, sucking, and passionate kissing. I'm 35, 5'8 1/2", 165 lbs, conservative- looking. DISCRETION a must! Married or single guys from 21-40 OK. Detailed letter. P.O. Box 3463, Mike I aking (res.) 925-0087 Cambridge, Ont. N3H 5C6 Toronto STRAIGHT-LOOKING GENTLEMAN over thirty .seeks young lover. If you're sincere, honest, loyal and want a lasting monogamous relationship filled with love and affection, look no further. I'm awaiting your reply in confidence. Serious replies only. No drugs. Drawer E085.

MALE, 40, WHITE. 5M0", 165 lbs, clean and discreet. No drugs. Seeks partner or group into S/M,

B/D, and all gay activities and training. 1 am submissive and like good domination and sexual abuse and sex. Kitchener, Guelph, Cambridge, Hamilton. books for: Drawer E076. lesbians HOT MAN seeks hot man! Me: 30, blond, moustache, 5'7", bodybuilder, 135 lbs of solid mus- gays cle, hung (8" + — thick). Into: denim, boots, jocks, J/O, sweat, poppers. B/D, some toys, humiliation women (W/S), discipline, long, hot sessions. You: children bodybuilder (or athlete), well-muscled body, solid ass (university jocks and construction workers welcome), free some days. Into: hot times with another beautiful body. Beginners welcome, limits respected. No heavy pain. Photo gets prompt reply. Drawer E064. ARE YOU QUEBECOIS. French, franco-Ontarian? If so, read on! GWM, university student, 23, blond, librairie 5'8" blue. 148 lbs, (considered attractive) seeks bil- ingual guy, 22-27, for friendship and possible long- term relationship. Interests include an, lltteraturc, I androgyne music, film, politics. I am hopelessly romantic (love to kiss and cuddle), sincere, frcnch-active. greek- 3642 boul stlaurent passive, unilingual English but eager to learn French. 2nd floor You arc patient, humorous, share similar interests montreal h2x 2v4 and not afraid of commitment . Looks not important honesty a must! Reply to Drawer F.I 13. tel: (514) 842-4765

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48 C THE BODY POLITIC H MARCH 1984 BLACK MALE seeks honest, sincere guy who is a GWM, 36, SUBMISSIVE, into B/D, W/S, domina- XXX non-smoker and not into the drug or bar scene. tion. Seeks exceptionally good-looking master under ^^^^' Friendship important but relationship possible with 40. Pledge devotion, service to right person. Drawer the right person. Race or distance not imponant, but E044. would prefer someone under 25 years old who likes WARM, MASCULINE, well-employed guy, 37, no dancing, music, movies and travel. Will try to answer M^^^^^^^'giNTS^We great looks but honest, sincere. Seeking masculine, all. Drawer E048. pW non-bar types for companionship. Drawer E043. ME: 22, 5' 10" 140 lbs, brown hair, friendly graduate student, wish to meet honourable, sincere man of MONTREAL dark complexion, Jamaican perhaps, for lasting rela- 30 YEARS OLD, 5'10" 158 lbs, handsome and in tionsip. Drawer El 18. good physical condition, wishes to meet or corres- TWO MATURE B/D TOPS seek bottom. Most pond with younger males, 18 or 20. Am honest, STALLION'S TOP 50 SPECIAL scenes. Prefer hairy, limits respected, barber chair. easygoing and will answer all. Drawer El 17. (519) 472-6205. 400-780 Wonderland S, London ON GWM, 29, 5'8" 150 lbs, masculine, friendly, honest N6K IM4. and understanding, seeking male 18-30of same type GWM, 20, 5'10" 150 lbs, seeking relationship with for friendship or relationship. Not into bar scenes or warm, caring individual. I'm full of love for that man drugs. Drawer E145. of my dreams. You don't need to be perfect, just TITS. YOURS OR MINE, sucked, pinched, bitten, good-looking and understanding. I would like you to Order: 1 title at $29.95, including shipping clamped. Heavy workout, C&B work also given, by be under 30 and tall. I can't wait to meet you. Please 40-year-old, bearded, masculine guy. Drawer E147. 2 titles at $27.95 each, including shipping send a photo and long letter to me. I promise to write back to you. Take care, I need you, whoever you are. 3 or more at only $25.95 each, incl. shipping Drawer E075. NOVA SCOTIA GWM, 43. SEEK MATURE, sincere males, all ages GWM SEEKS LASTING friendship with other for correspondence, possible meeting. Like books, GWM. Interests include reading, home computers, outdoors, ctll kinds gay sex. No kink. Answer all. watching TV, video, swimming, dancing, music, the Drawer D972. outdoors and meeting new people. I am 25, 5'0" 130 D 1. A Matter of Size lbs, brown hair, eyes. Write Kevin, 9A-5459 Ontario PRINCE Ave, Niagara Falls, L2E 3S4. EDWARD ISLAND~ n 2. Huge no. 2 (new listing) ON GWM, 27, moving to Charlottetown May/84. Would DOMINANT 30s MALE seeks slaves for discreet, oc- 3. Pegasus (new listing) like to meet others. Interests: swimming, cycling, D casional sessions only. Only those who need whipp- bodybuilding, travel. Please write Drawer El 46. D 4. Leo & Lance (new listing) ing, TT, WS, S/M, B/D, or who seek master to expand their limits need apply. This is not for fantasy- GWM, 24, 5'9" 145 lbs, would like to meet guy for n 5. Malibu Days, Big Bear Nights seekers but will be firm, yet sane, on your needs. friendship, etc in Maritime provinces. Under 30 years of age. Please send phone D 6. Best Little Warehouse in LA. Write today with photo. Discretion assured, no number and /or photo to phonies please. Niagara. Drawer E173. PO Box 2392, Charlottetown PEL ~ D 7. For Members Only GWM, 32, HUSKY, HAIRY, bearded professional, NEWFOUNDLAND D 8. Games seeks friendship and /or sex. I drink, smoke, swear, sweat. Love moustaches, beards, hairy crotches, GWM, 30, 5'H" 155 lbs, blue eyes, brown curly hair, n 9. Al Parker's Turned On animals, humour, Hollywood bars, television, hones- looking for that special person. Likes cuddling, kiss- n 10. Falcon Videopac no. 24 ("Style") ty, dancing, raunch, W/S. Will experiment with ing, making love. Also hkes hairy guys. Not into reservations. Reply with picture. All answered. Dan. drugs, all replies answered promptly. Also needs D 11. The Other Side of Aspen Drawer ElOO. guidance, mild discipline, photo appreciated. Drawer EIS7. n 12. Good Times Gumming (Lance) GWM, 40, WELL-ESTABLISHED professional, seeks companion /lover, 25-40, race no barrier, D 13. Greenhorn (Western) honesty, sincerity a must. Sexually versatile but I am MODELS/ESCORTS basically greek-active, french both. Will consider D 14. Seven in a Barn (J. Brian) EDMONTON. Hunky male escort, 31, 6' 180 lbs, sharing home. K-W. Drawer E052. hairy, prefer out-of-town hotel registered guest. D 15. Huge no. 1 Write Drawer E060. D 16. El Paso Wrecking Corp. (Joe Gage) EASTERN ONTARIO CORNWALL, ON. GWM, 5'9" 26, optimistic, ca- TORONTO n 17. Nights in Black Leather (Peter Berlin) reer-minded Aries, straight-looking, healthy/dark BRIGHT, ATTRACTIVE STUDENT (21) seeks D 18. Gumming of Age brown eyes, hair, moustache. Interests: good conver- position as personal escort. Steve 961-4680. sation, billiards, dancing, swimming. Looking for For the business D 19. Tuesday Morning Workout (J. Brian) same under 30. Drawer D733. GENTLEMEN'S CHOICE. and professional man. Escort service provided by a good- 20. Printer's Devils (William in Brockville, D Higgins) HORSE FARMER Smith Falls, Perth looking, clean-cut, 30 male. Reasonable rates. Call D 21. The Idol area seeks friends. Prefer interest in riding horses but 593-7080. not necessary. Sincere replies only. Address and FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING "enjoy a relaxing, D 22. Wet Shorts (award) phone number please. Drawer E087. stimulating foot massage and shoe-shine." Male D 23. Pacific Coast Highway TORONTO PROFESSIONAL, 30, handsome, model and friend. Tim 922-8484. healthy, with well-defined physique, educated, "GENTLEMEN" n 24. The Boys of Venice travels regularly in Peterborough, Belleville, CLEAN-CUT ATTRACTIVE black man, versatile, hung, hot ass, available for per- Kingston areas and vicinities north thereof. Seeks D 25. The Boys of San Francisco sonal escort/model service. $50 minimum. 595-0052 straight-looking man in twenties or thirties for friend- after 6 pm. D 26. These Bases Are Loaded ship and fun, possible relationship. Drawer EI36. n 27. The Diary (Toby Ross) GWM, 24, 5'9" 165 lbs, likes to fuck, get sucked, have ass eaten, give orders, into leather, S/M. Seeks TRAVEL D 28. Brothers Should Do It slaves with blondish hair, moustache, 25-35, to ser- "COME TO LONDON FOR A GAY HOLIDAY" vice me. Photo please. Drawer El 19. D 29. All Tied Up (Arch Brown) — The Philbeach Hotel, 30/31 Philbeach Gardens, London SW5, UK, Europe's largest gay hotel. Bar. 30. Cell no. D Block 9 OTTAWA disco, restaurant. Tel: 01-373-1244/4544. D 31. Jeff Noll's Buddies GWM, 36, PROFESSIONAL, likes movies, literature, travelling, friends between D 32. Centurians of Rome music, seeks 18 and Fort Lauderdale, Florida T>x; OTHER SOC 40, will reply to all who write. Drawer D8%. 33. Kept After School (Nova) 5'8", ATTRACTIVE GUY, 21 , 122 lbs, seeks stable, Spend a pleasant vacation at the lasting relationship with sincere guy (preferably my D 34. Against the Rules LA UDERDAI.E MANOR 300 ft. from our own age). Not into bar scene, prefers quiet dates with beautiful beach. Party at the world-famous D 35. Teenage Handymen a friend. Interests: everything connected to films. No Marlin Beach Hotel next door and come n 36. ANightatHalsted's need to be film connoisseur like me, just have to enjoy going to the movies. Also, I would appreciate some- bock to a quiet and friendly atmosphere. D 37. Flashbacks (Leo Ford) one who has different interests to share with me. Modestly priced hotel rooms, efficiencies Please, you must send a clear photo to receive reply. a and apartments with color TV. New pool in D 38. New York City Pro (Leo Ford) Thanks. Drawer E092. our tropical garden and BBQ. Call or write D 39. Rear Deliveries THOUGHTFUL SENSITIVE GWM, 39, AND Lauderdale Manor Motel. 2926 Valencia St. would like to meet a straightforward man, preferably 40. The Class of '84, Part 2 fort Lauderdale, Fla 33316 a non-smoker, 30-45, who shares some of my in- Tel: 463-3385 D 41. Revenge of the Nighthawk terests: classical music, theatre, cooking, reading, (305) travel, good times and good conversation. I par- '84, D 42. The Class of Part 1 ticipate in local choral and theatre groups and am THE OLYMPICS ARE COMING! Are you? Let us open to developing new interests. I am looking for D 43. Nighthawk in Leather help you plan the gay vacation of a lifetime — 1984 someone who takes care of himself physically and in- Olympics, Los Angeles, July 28-August 12. Hotels are D 44. California Boys tellectually and is looking for a warm friendship with booked solid, but Olympic Gay Housing can arrange a potential for growth. Drawer E09I. D 45. Eyes of a Stranger quality private accommodations for you. Call for bro- ATTRACTIVE GWM, 21. black hair, brown eyes, chure and info. (213) 938-1984. Or write: OCH. 1314 S n 46. LA. Tool & Die (Joe Gage) seeks man for sincere relationship or friends to 35. Tremaine, Los Angeles. CA 90019. Discretion assured and all answered. Please write and D 47. Up 'n' Gumming BOSTON'S ALL-GAY place to stay. TWo renovated if possible send photo. 7066, Vanier Ter- Ken, Box back bay town houses, continental breakfast, cock- n 48. New York Men (Arch Brown) minal, Vanier KIL 8E2. tail setups, minute's walk to historic sites and night D 49. Roommates (Kip Noll) OTTAWA AREA GWM, 34. slim, handsome, hor- life, private/shared ^alh. $25-S45. Oasis. 22 Edgerly ny, smart, wide mental and physical interests. Seeks Rd. Boston. MA 02115. 617-267-2262. D 50. Adventures of Marc Noll affectionate, ma.sculine male. Send photo, phone and SHARE TRAVELLING EXPENSES to warm spots. detailed letter. Drawer ElOS. Since this is not an ad for sex, there are no re- ORIENTAL, AGE 25, new to the city, would like lo quirements, but a congenial nature would be helpful. develop meaningful relationship with other males. Male or female. Vacation time lo be spent separately or together. Drawer E074. 30-45. Discretion assured. Drawer El 1 1.

DISCREET MALE, 20s. creative, sensitive, humorous, non-promiscuous, not into bars. In- terests: sports, health food, art, busincs,s. Seeks similar male for friendship and possible relationship. gumv iKXiM ^^1 ^o^' «) **!' Drawer EI 33. • secluded • tropical decor • BWM. 49. sport /touring biker, seeks companion • individual kitchens • relaxed rates • TO ORDER: Send this list with the order form and M/F for day/weekend trips in Ottawa Valley area. Personal involvement • Intimate • receive a optional. Please, no drugs, 75-page illustrated catalogue. drunks, passengers or Hell's Angels types. Drawer 3016 alhambra • fori laudardal* • llorida 33304 EI23.

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Box Alcoholics Anonymous (Gay), meets Sat at 8 at 15 Queen (Fredecicton) or Northern Lambda Nofd (Western NB) UBC. Box 9 Student Union BIdg. UBC. V6T 1W5 1852. T5J 2P2 Office pm St 10173-104 SI, (403) 424-8361 Info and counselling, Mon-Sat, S (side entrance), CBIseiuals International. Box 107 2039 Walnut St. Philadelphia. ."Lesbian Drop-In, 322 W Hastings, every Wed. 7 30 pm 7-10 pm. Sun 2-5 pm Also colleehouses, socials, newsletter, Foundation lor the Advancement of Canadian Transsexuals PN 19103. USA (215) 634-6244. Sun-Fri. 11 pm-3 am (604) 684-0523 resource library (FACT Niagara). Box 291 . Stn A. L8N 3C8 (416) 529-7884 Z Canadian Gay Arcliives. Box 639. Stn A. Toronto. ON M5W 1G2 GLesbian Inlormation Line. (604) 734-1016 Thurs. Sun. Gay Fathers t Lesbian Mothers For Info call 424-8361 Gay Archives/History (416)977-6320 7-10 pm (403) Project lor Hamilton-Wentworth (416) Inter/Ed, Box 12G, 9820-104 St, T5K OZl (403) 421-7629 278-4713. Looking for photos, clippings, personal accounts ol gay : Dignity/Canada/Digniti. Box 1912. Winnipeg. MB R3C 3R2. Lesbian Mothers' Defense Fund. Box 65804. Stn F, V5N 5L3 (Jim), life and liberation in Hamilton, especially pre-1979 (204)772-4322 (604) 255-6910 Polluck brunches last Sun of month Metropolitan Community Church ol Edmonton, Box 1312. Gay Fathers ol Hamilton Support, advice. Meets twice a month ZFoundalion lor the Advancement ol Canadian Transseiuals. Box DThe Lesbian Show. Co-op Radio, 337 Carrall Si, V6B 2J4 T5J 2M8 (403)432-1225 Sunday worship al 7:30 pm, 126 Call Gayline lor info 291. Stn A, Hamilton. ON LBN 308 (416) 529-7884 SW Ontario 102.7 MHz FM, Thurs, 8 30 pm Street - 110 Avenue Gayline Hamilton, info on all groups and activities, peer counsel- Ms R M Schwartzentruber. 21 Cherry St. Kitchener. ON N2G 2C5 GMatropolitan Community Church, Box 5178. V6B 4B2 (604) Privacy Delence Committee, c/o Box 1852. T5J 2P2. ling. (416) 523-7055 Wed-Sun, 7-11 pm, (519)576-5248 681-8525 Services Sun. 730 pm. at 1811 W 16th Ave (at Royalist Social Gay Women's Collective, c/o Gayline Meets 2nd Mon of month, ~lnternalional Gay Association. International Secretariat, c/o Burrard) Society of Northern Alberta (Imperial Court of the Wild Rose). 10820-38 Av NW. T6E 2E6 Hamilton United Gay Societies (HUGS), a meeting of men RFSL, Box 350 S101 24 Sweden ph 46-8-848050/845576 Ac- DNative Cultural Society (gay native social group), c/o H and The Vocal Minority, "to the women, young and old, with discussions and speakers Meets on tion Secretarial and Women s Secretarial, c/o NVIH. COC. Rczen- McGlllivary. 1244 Robscn St, V6E 101,(604)688-2645 educate general population about alternate Weds. Gay Community Centre, Suite 41 King slraal 1, 1016 NX Amsterdam. The Netherlands ph: the multiplicity and richness ol our lives through public musical 207 William G Pacific Wave. TV show by gay people about gay life, culture and 31-20-234596 performances" (403) 426-1516 or 426-1246. St. 7:30 pm. CallGaylinetor lurther into, an Regular monthly and special programmes. 837 Bidwell St, ZInlernatidnal Lesbian Information Service (ILIS). Box 45. 00251 Mailing address for all Hamilton groups listed V6G 2J7 (604)689-5661 Womonspace, a social and recreational group for lesbians, c/o above: Box 44. Helsinki Finland ph 358-0-535571 25 Everywomon's Place. 9926-1 12 St Phone Jeanne, (403) Stn B. L8L 7T5, OParents and Friends of Gays (604) 988-7786 CLigo de Samselisamaj Geesperantisto). gay Esperanto organiza- 433-3559 or Liz, 986-0263 ZHights of Lesbians. (Subcommittee of Federation of Women). tion, too Crerar Ave, Ottawa, ON KlZ 7P2 Kingston Box 24687. Stn C. V5T 4E6 [ ]New Democratic Party Gay Caucus, Box 792. Sin F. Toronto. ON Red Deer Queen's Homophile Association. 51 Oueen"s Crescent, Oueens r Rob Joyce Legal Defense Fund, c/o Gay Rights Union. M4Y 2N7 University. K7L 2S7 (613) 547-2836, Mon-Fri, 7-9 pm. Drop-in Gay Association of Red Deer. Box 356, T4N 5E9 Info nSEARCH. c/o VGCC. and counselling: (604) 689-1039, nights, .Z Section on Gay and Lesbian Issues in Psychology, c/o Canadian Thurs monthly dances 7-10 pm Psychological Association. 558 King Edward Ave. Ottawa, ON KIN 7N6 Sherwood Forest, non-profit gay introduction service. SASKATCHEWAN Kitchener/Waterloo (604) 251-2789 ZSeventh-dayAdventist Kinship International. Inc. c/o Jeremy Gay Liberation ol Waterloo, c/o Federation of Students, U of Vancouver Activists in S/M (VASM). call George Provincial Young. Box 408. Stn C. Toronto. ON M6J 3P5 Waterloo, Waterloo N2L 3G1 (519) 884-GLOW. Coffeehouse every (604) 594-3632 or Fred (604) 685-7067 An educational ZWomens Archives, Box 928. Stn Q. Toronto, ON M4T 2P1 Affirm/Saskatchewan, lesbians and gays in the United Church, Wed at 8:30 pm. Campus Ctr, rm 110, organization with a monthly newsletter 422 Smallwood Ores. Saskatoon. S7L 4S4, Gay News and Views, radio programme. Tues. 6-8 pm, CKMS- Vancouver VD Cflnic. Rm 100. 828 W 10th Ave (near Gen Hosp). Dignity/Saskatchewan (gay Catholics and friends). Box 3181 FM. 94.5 MHz, 105,7 MHz on Grand River Cable, 200 University (604)874-2331. Ext 220 BRITISH COLUMBIA Regina S4P 3G7 AveW, (519)886-CKMS, Vancouver Gay Athletic Association, c/o 1018 Burnaby St Gay Rights Subcommittee, Saskatchewan Association lor Gays of Wilfrid Laurier University, c/o WLUSU, Wilfred Laurier (604)681-2424 Provincial Human Rights. 305-116 3rd Ave S. Saskatoon, S7K 1L5. University, 75 University AveW, Waterloo. Vancouver Gay Community Centre. 1244 Seymour SI. Box 2259, (306) 244-1933, International Z AFFIRM: Gays and Lesbians of the United Church in BC. Box Women's Day Committee. Box 1491 . Stn C. Kit- MPO, V6B3W2 (604)684-6869 Services, programmes, maga- 46586. Stn G. Vancouver V6R 4G8 (604) 324-3902 Support West Central Gays. Box 7508. Saskatoon. SK 27K 4L4 chener. N2G 4P2. zine group and educational resources Kitchener-Watertoo Gay Media Collective. Box 2741 . Stn B. Kit- Vancouver Men's Chorus, 1270 Chestnut St, V6J 4R9. Rehear- „ Gay Fathers. Box 4603. MPO, Vancouver V6B 4A1 Prince Albert chener. N2H 6N3 (519) 579-3325, sals every Wed, 7,30 pm. at the Vancouver Academy of Music, For 1604) 2551076 Prince Albert Gay Community Centre (The Zodiac Club). Box Leaping Lesbians, radio programme, Thurs, 6 lo8 pm, CKMS- information phone Kevin at (604) 731-1779 or Larry at 734-8802, G Rural Lesbian AssKiation. RR1. RuskinVON IRQ 1893. S6V 6J9 1-24 10th St. E (306) 922-4650 Phone line Wed- FM, 94 5 MHz. 105,7 MHz cable. Write c/0 LOOK West End Softball Association. Box 161. 1018 Homer SI, Thurs. 8-10 pm. social evenings FrI-Sat. 10 pm-2 am. Lesbian Organization ot Kitchener, Box 2422. Stn B, Kitchener V6B 4W9 Call Frank Hamper (604) 255-4410 N2H 6M3. (519) 744-4863, Womyns coffeehouse first Thurs Of Kamloops West End Volleyball, 222-1500 Pendrell St, (604) 669-6696. Regina month at 85 Highland Rd W, Kitchener CTThompson Area Gay Group. Box 3343, V2C 689. welcomes Women in Focus, 204-456 W Broadway, V5Y 1R3 872-2250 Rumours (gay community centre). 2069 Broad St (back en- women and men to regular meetings, discussions, social events. (604) London trance), (306)522-7343, Into, newsletter, peer support, friendship Young Gay People, c/o SEARCH Regina Women's Community and Rape Crisis Centre 219-1810 Gay Youth London, c/o HALO, Meets Thurs at 7 pm. 2nd floor. Younger Lesbian Drop-In every Tues. 7-9 pm, at Women's Book- Smith SI. S4P 2N3, (306) 522-2777 352-7688 649 Colborne St, (519) 433-3762, Kelowna store. 322 W Hastings

Gayline, (519) 433-3551 , Recorded message 24 hrs/day Peer LJOkanagan Gay Organization Box 1165. Stn A. Kelowna Zodiac Fraternal Society. Box 33872. Sin D. V6J 4L6 Saskatoon counselling Mon and Thurs. 7-10 pm, V1Y 7P8 Mutual support The group can be contacted directly by Homophile Association of London, Ontario 7-1 (HALO), 649 Colborne phone Ihrough the Kelowna Crisis Centre Vernon Gay & Lesbian Support Services . 21 1 6 3rd Ave S Operates St, N6A 3Z2. 433-3762, Coffee House: Sun and Mon. Gayline Mailing address: Box 8581 (519) Vernon Ahernative Llleslylo. RR 6. Site 17. Comp 19. VIT 6Y5 7-10 pm, Disco/Bar FriandSal. 9pm-1:30 am Gay/Lesbian Community Centre. Box 1662. S7K 3R8. Phone Port Albernl Metropolitan Community Church, Box 4724, Stn D, N5W 5L7 Gayline lor into on dance and special event locations and dales, Victoria Services Sun, 7 30 pmal Unitarian Church. 29 Victoria St W. north DTo contact the local group, write c/o Mr Trevor Kelly. 201-4204 Gayline, (306) 665-9129 Mon-Thurs, 7:30-10:30 pm. Counsel- Alcoholics 383-9862 entrance to Gibbons Park Into: Worship Coordinator. China Cre«k Rd. Port Alberni. BC V9Y 1R1 Counselling, compa- Anonymous (Gay). (604) ling, support groups available, (519) 433-9939 Rides: (519)432-9690, nionship Dignity Victoria, 405-1060 Pakington c/o St. V8V 3A1 Lutherans Concerned, Box 8187. S7K 6C5 Feminist Lesbian Action Group. Box 1604. Stn E. V8W 2X7 Port Hardy Mississauga/Brampton Gay and Lesbian Organization ol the University of Victoria (GLO). GEM: Gay Community Outreach. Box 62. Brampton L6V 2K7 . North Island SUB, Univ ol Victoria. Box 1700. V8W 2Y2 ; Gay and Lesbian Support and Inlormation Group. MANITOBA Gayline West. Peer counselling, Box 1404 Port Hardy BC VON 2P0 Gay Mens Group. 2612 Victor St. V8R 1N3 (604) 595-6782, (416) 453-GGCO Portage-la-Prairie Parents Mississauga. Rutledge, r The Island Gay Community Centre Society. 819 Ellery St. of Gays c/o Anne 3323 Kings Prince Maslings Cres. L5L 1G5, 820-5130 Rupert V9A4R6 (604) 383-6513 (Sam) or 598-5883 (Michael) Gaycal6 Bi-Women's Support Group. Box 820. RIN 3C3 (416)

Penple ol at 1923 Fernwood every Thurs. 8-midnight (204) 857-5295 For bisexual women Gay Prince Rupert Box 881 . V8J 3Y1 Niagara Region (604) 624-4982 level Need (Victoria Crisis Line). (604) 383-6323. 24 hrs Some gay into available Thompson Gayline, (416) 354-3173 Revelstoke nWttmyn's Cottee House. 1923 Fernwood Every Wed evening Unity Niagara. Gay Friends of Thompson, Box 157 R8N 1N2 (204) 677-5833 Gay Box 692. Niagara Falls L2E 6V5 Lothlorien (8-10 pm, Tues and Thurs) Gay Trails, lor lesbians and gay men who enioy hiking. Day and Box 8557. Sub 1 . VOE 360 Info. Iriendship. region hospitality West Kootenay overnight trips planned Visitors welcome Box 1053, MPO. St West Koolenay Gays and Lesbians. Box 642. Nelson V1L 4K5 Winnipeg Catharines. L2R 7A3. or call (416) 685-6431 belore 9 am. Terrace OKering friendship, a newsletter, inio and social events Polluck Affirm: Gays and Lesbians of the United ChurcH, 453-3984 North Bay third Sunday ol month, 3-7 pm: contact Nelson Community Ser- or Northern Lesbians RR 2. Box 50. Usk Store. V8G 3Z9 (Eric) 452-2853 (Dave) vices Centre (604) 352-3504 (24 hrs) Council on Homosexuality and Religion Box 1912, R3C 3R2. Gay Fellowship ol North Bay, Box 665. Callendar. ON POH 1 HO, Meetings every Sunday tor and lesbians to Vancouver (204) 4521813. 786-3976 Worship, counselling, library, gay men share and discuss our problems and joys as gay persons. Dignity/Winnipeg. Box 1912. R3C 3R2 AIDS Vancouver c/o 19th fl. 355 Burrard St, V6C 2J3 Ph ALBERTA (604i 687 AIDS Gay AA New Freedom Group, Box 2481 . or contact through Man- Ottawa Provincial itoba Central Ollice. (204) 233-3508, Alcoholics Anonymous (Gay) (604) 733-4590 (men), (604) Dignity/Ottawa/DignitS. Box 2102. Stn D. KIP 5W3. 929-2585 (women) Gay AlAnon Group. Inlo. Gays lor Equality [ Alberta Lesbian and Gay Rights Association (ALGRA). Box 1852. Gay People at Carleton, c/o CUSA, Carleton University, For more DArchivei Collectnre Box 3130 MPO. V6B 3X6 Edmonton T5J 2P2 Gay Community Centre, 277 Sherbrooke St, (204) 786-1236 In- inlo, call 238-1717 corporating Giovanni's Room, aca(6 lor lesbians and gay men (613) '^Biteiual Women s Group Monthly meetings Call Joyce at Gays ol Ottawa/Gais de I'Outaouais, Box 2919 Stn D, KIP 5Wg 251-6090 Calgary Open every day except Sunday at 5:30 pm Fully licensed. Gay Fathers Winnipeg. Box 2221. R3C 3R5, 786-3976 (Thurs GO Centre, 175 Lisgar SI open 7:30-10:30 pm Mon-Thurs Thurs Coining Out (Gay Radio) c/o Vancouver Cooperative Radio. 337 . CamplSI Association Box 965. Stn T T2H 2H4 Dances, eves, 7:30 lesbian drop-in, 8 pm, Fri: social, 7:30 pm-1 am: Sat women's Carraii pm-10 pm) St V6B 2J4 Thurs at 7 30 pm 102 7 MHz FM campouts. sports and other activities lor lesbians and gays night, 7 30 pm-1 am: Sun, AA Live & Let Live group, 8 pm Gay- Gay Parents, c/o Gays (or Equality Congregation Sba'ar Hayam Jewish gay synagogue Box Calgary Lambda Centre Society. Box 357. Stn M. T2P 2H9 line: (613) 238-1717 Mon-Fri 7 30-10:30 pm, recording other 69406 V5K 4W6 (604)255-1076 Gays for Equality. Box 27 UMSU. U of Manitoba. R3T 2N2 Calgary Gay Fathers. Contact GIRC for info times Office (613)233-0152, (204) 786-3976, Ollice, Suite 2, Gay Community Centre, 277 Daughters umimilad Joyce (604) 251-6090 (Planstoopena Dignity/Calgary, Box 1492. Stn T T2H 2H7 Gay Youth Ottawa/Hull/Jeunesse Gai(e) d'Ottawa/Hull For inlo Sherbrook St, Counselling, inlo, rap sessions, public education women s club i call or write Gays ol Ottawa Meeting/drop-in, Wed 8 pm, Z\ Frontrunners Group (gay AA) Box 181 , Stn M . T2P 2M7 and law reform, Lesbian counsellors on Tues evenings . Oignity/Vancsuvcr Box 3016. V6B 3X5 (604) 684-7810 175 Lisgar St Information and Calgary. Old BIdg. Gay Resources Y Stes r Lesbian Drop-In, Thurs, 7-10 pm at Gay Community Centre, En- nOagwoodMonarchistSocMty 303-1150 Burnaby St V6E 1P2 Integrity/Ottawa, (gay Anglicans and their friends) c/o St 317-323. 223 12 Ave SW,T2P0G9 (403)234-8973 Write Box tertainment and coffee CFrontrunnert i running/joggingj Cad Erik (604) 687-3238 or 2715 Stn M, T2P 301 Georges Anglican Church, 152 MetcalleSt, K2P 1N9 r I Lesbian Line, (204) 786-3976. Tues evenings. Rick (604) 590-4665 (613) 235-2516,9-5, Mon-Fri, Meets 2nd and 4th Weds at Gay Leisure Link Non-challenging, non-sexual social organiza- Mutual Friendship Society, Inc, Box 427, R3C 2H6 7:30 pm, at St Georges : Gay and LttMan Cauciu el the BC NOP. (604) 669-5434 tion 60x1812, Stn M.T2P2L8 (204) 774-3576 Social and educational programmes Operates Lesbiennes el gais du campus/Lesbians and Gays on Campus ~The Gay Library 1244 Seymour St Box 2259 MPO. Vancouver. Political Gay Action Committee, c/o Box 2943, Stn M , T2P 3C3 Happenings Social Club, 272 Sherbrook SI, BCV6B3W2 (604) 327-9883 or 688-1006 c/o SFUO, 85 rue Hastey Street, KIN 6N5 Education and lobbying ' lOscar Wilde Memorial Society, Box 2221 , R3C 3R5 Variety of 1 Gay Festival SNicty Box 34397. Stn D. Vej 4P3 (604) [ I Live and Let Live Group for gay alcoholics. Contact GO L ilmparial Court of the Chinook Arch. (403) 282-6393. Entertain social, cultural and educational activities 687-7129 ments and social events [ IMelropolllan Community Church, Box 2979, Stn D, KIP 5W9

[jProject Lambda, Inc, gay community services. Box 3911 , Stn B. Gay Leisure Unk (GLL) Box 4662 4A1 (613)232-0241 veB Lambda Centre, community centre project Box 357, Stn M. R2W 5H9 (204)772-1421 Gay/Lesbian Law Assocution c/o Law Students Assoc. Faculty T2P 2H9 Parents ol Gays, Box 9094, KIG 3T8, ( ^Winnipeg Gay Media Collective. Box 27 UMSU. U ol Manitoba. of Law U o! BC V6T 1W5 (604) 228-4638 nieabian Information Line, (403) 265-9458, Tues-Fri, 8-10 pm. R3T 2N2 (204)786-3976 Produces "Coming Out." weekly half- Peterborough Gay RIghU Union Box 3130. MPO V6B 3X6 (604)731-9605 with 24 hr answering service Operated by Womyn's Collective hour cable broadcast and Lesbians ol Lesbians Trent Peterborough, Rubidge St, Says UBC. Box 9 Student Union BIdg U of Lesbian Mothers , Lynn al (403) 264-6328 or 275-8362 or call Winnipeg Gay Youth c/oGFE Gays and at and 262 British CoiumDia V6T 1W5 (604) 228-463« Meets Thursat LIL Polluck (irst Sun of each month K9J 3P2 Office hours 7 30-10 pm, Tues-Thurs lUniversity of Winnipeg Gay Students Association Info: 1 2 30 pm I se« The Ubyssay for room) Lesbian Outreach and Support Team Box 6093, Stn A (204) 786-3976 Gazebo Connection (business & professional women's group). T2H 2L4 (403)281-2895 Sudbury iYoursell. Box 2790. R3C 3R5 For bisexual men and women. 382-810 W Broadway V5Z 4C9 '604)984-8744 Lesbians and at of Gays University Calgary Students Club. I !Sudbury All Gay Alliance, Box 1092, Stn 6, Sudbury ON Greater Vancouver Business Association c/o Owayne Sullivan. MacEwan Hall, U ol Calgary I2N 1N4 P3E 4S6 941 OavieSt V6Z 1B9 Metropolitan Community Church, 204-16 Ave. NW. T2M 0H4 ONTARIO Intognty: Gay Anglicans and their friends Box 34161, Stn 0. 1403) 277-4004 Services Sun 11 30 am and 7 pm al above Thunder Bay V6J4M (604) 873-2925 address Provincial r iGays ol Thunder Bay, Box 2155, P7B 5E8 (807) 345-8011, Wed ol KnighU Malta Dogwood Chapter Society. Box 336-810 West Womyn's Collective (403) 265-9458 Dances, library, lesbian Coalition for Gay Rights in Ontario. Box 822. Stn A. Toronto andFri7 30-9 30 pm Recording other times Meets 1 St and 3rd Broadway V5Z 'J8 dropms every Tues Sponsors LIL M5W 1G3 (416)533-6824 Tues, Dances held monthly

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Le Gotland (AA). 4652 rue Jeanne-Mance. (514) 728-3228 For lesbian and gay alcoholics. Groupe de discussion pour lesbiennes, 5 Weredale Park. H3Z 1Y5 (514) 932-9581 (Joanne Stitt) Groupe pour lesbiennes alcoollques (AA) 6517 rue St-Oenis Like to bowl? Integrity: Gay Anglicans and their friends. Box 562, Verdun H4G3E4, (514) 766-9623 Jeunesso Lambda Youth, c/o The Yellow Door, 3625 rue Aylmer, 2ndlloor, H2X 2C3, Live in the The Back Lesbian and Gay Friends ol Concordia, c/o CUSA. Concordia University, 1455 boul de Maisonneuve ouest. H3G 1M8, will (514) 879-8406 Otfice: room 307 2070 MacKay, open 1-4 pm in Kingston Page Meetings Thurs at 4 pm room H-333-6. weekdays area?

Lesbiennes a I'ecoute. (514) 843-5661 CP 36. Succ C. return next H2L 4J7 Wed-Sat, 7-11 pm, Librairie I'Androgyne. 3642 boul Si Laurent, 2nd tloor, H2X 2V4, (514) 842-4765, A gay ten-pin bowling league is forming month. LigueLambdalnc, CP 701, succ N.H2X 2N2 (514) 526-1967 in the Kingston, Ontario area. Now's (Claude) or 523-8026 (Donald) Sports group your ctiance to get in at the beginning. Live and Let Live. Alcoholics Anonymous group for gay men and women, Tuesdays, 7 pm, Rm210. 5 Weredale Park 30 Women and men interested in joining Naches (gay and lesbian Jews), CP2g8, succH, H3G 2K8. should drop a line to: (514) 844-0863 or 488-0849 Meets at the Yellow Door, 3625 Aylmer Si. TuesatB pm Toronto Historical Bowling Society Paralliles Lesbiennes et Gais. radio programme. Mon 19h30, U Northern Women's Centre, 316 Bay St, P7B ISI 2 Bloor St West -Suite 100 CIBL-mf, 104,5. 1691 Pie IX, local 402, HIV 2C3. (514) 526-1489. (807) 345-7802, 526-5387. fl^wiVvT^Sacie^ Toronto, Ontario Toronto Parents and Families ol Gays, c/o Gay Into M4W3E2

Productions 88 , C P 1 88 , succ C , H2 L 4 K1 For information on groups in Toronto, check Out in The City, p 22. Reunion des associations gales et lesbiennes i Montreal Windsor (RAGLAM), Box 936, Sin H, H3G SM9 Services communautaires pour lesbiennes et gals du Centre des Acceptance Group — Gay/Lesbian Fellowship. Box DAA 7002. services sociaux Ville-Marie, 5 Weredale Park, Westmount, Sandwich Postal Stn. N9C 3Y6, (519)973-4951, H3Z 1Y5, (514)937-9581 (Joanne Slitt), DGay/Lesbian Information Line. Box 7002. Sandwich Postal Stn. Service Jeunesse, tor those 25 and under, meets every Satur- NSC 3YC, (519)973-4951. day, 8-1 pm at 263 est, rue Ste- Catherine, OLesbian and Gay Students on Campus, c/o Students' Activities Travesties i Montreal, support lor transvestites, c/o Gay Into,

Council. U ol Windsor, (519) 973-4951 , Rap sessions weekly United Church Gays and Lesbians in Quibec/Les Gais et Les- Lesbian/Gay Youth Group, c/o Box 7002. Sandwich Postal Stn. biennes de I'Eglise Unie au Quebec, c/o United Theological Col- N9C 3Y6 (519)973-4951 lege, 3521 University St. H3A 2A9 (514) 392-6711

Vivre Gai(e) (AA). SI Jean Anglican Church. 110. est Ste Cather- QUEBEC ine, H2X 1Z6, (514) 733-0757 Quebec Brome Centre homophile d'aide et de liberation. 175 Prince-Edouard, DThe Capables. Support group lor bisexual men. Contact through G1R4M8 (418)523-4997 Gay Into in Montreal, Groupe gai de I'Unlversiti Laval/Groupe des temmes gaies de I'Universite Laval, CP Pavilion Lemieux. CitS universitaire, Charlevoix 2500, Ste-Foy, G1K 7P4, DAssociation pour les droits des gais de Charlevoix. OP 724. Cler- Groupe Unigaiinc CP152. succ Haute-VilleGlR 4P3. Social mont, GOT ICO, (418) 439-2080, and cultural activities tor men and women. (418) 522-2555, L'Heure Gale, Pavilion Oe Koninck, CM Universitaire. Sainte- Hull Foy, Radio program CKRL-FM. 89,1 MHz. Thurs 7 pm,

Association gale de I'ouest quibicois, CP 1215. succ B, LiguB Mardi-Gal. (418) 529-6973 (Jean Claude Roy),

J8X 3X7 (819)778-1737 T6l«gai, (418) 522-2555. Gay into. Mon-Fri. 7-11 pm Recorded message other times Lennoxviile

students Against Homophobia, Box 1594, Lennoxviile Campus, Sherbrooke Lennoxviile, 2A1. JIM L' Association pour I'tpanouissement de la communautt gale de

I'Estrie, CP294.J1H 5J1 Montreal

AHirmer. CP471. succ La CWi. H2N 2N9. Gays in the United Church, NEW BRUNSWICK Aide auxtranssexuelsdu Quebec, CP363. succC. H2J 4K3 Fredericton (514)521-9302,

Aime-toi (AA). 6518, rue St-Vallier, H2S 2P7. (514) 524-5821. Fredericton Lesbians and Gays. Box 1556. Stn A, E3B 5G2, For gay and lesbian alcoholics. (506) 457-2156, Meets 2nd Wed ol month.

Alpha Kira Fraternity, CP 153, succ Victoria. H3Z 1V5, Moncton Alternatives, 3440 chemin de la C6lc-des-Neiges, H2J 1L2, For gay male drug abusers, Gals et Lesbiennes de Moncton. CP 7102. Riverview. Nouveau Las Archives gaies du Quebec, c/o Sortie. Box 232. Stn C, Brunswick Mandate Type Modeling H2L4K1.

Association communautaire homosexuelle de I'Universiti de Saint John pavilion Montr*al, Lionel-Groulx. 3200 Jean-Brillant. local 1267 Lesbian and Gay Organization - Saint John (LAGO-SJ), Box H3T 1N8. (514) 342-9236 (Jean-Pierre), 6494,StnA, SlJohn, E2L4R9 Association pour les droits des gais et lesbiennes du Quebec (AOGLQ), CP 36, succ C, H2L 4J7 Otlice: 263 est rue Ste- Western NB Cathenne, (514)843-8671 Mon-Fri, 7-10 pm, Northern Lambda Nord, Box 990. Canbou, Maine 04736 USA Association des bonnes gens sourdes, 764, B, CP succ Serving Western NB and Northern Maine (Madawaska/Victoria/ H2J 3M4, Carlton. NB; TSmiscouata, Quebec; and Aroostook, Maine) Gay Atelier de Ihiaire gai. Cigep Rosemont. 6400 16e Ave, local phoneline (207)896-5888. A-418 (Michel Breton),

The Capables. c/o Gay Info, support group lor bisexual men. Meets second Weds ot month. 3237 rue Sl-Anloine, NOVA SCOTIA Collectif d' intervention communautaire aupris des gais (CICAG), CP29, succ Victoria, H3Z 2V4, (514)484-2602, Halifax

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