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JUSTICEAMERICAN-STYLE: DAN WHITE FREE N» 101 • MARCH 19S4 • S2 • UK 80P A MAGAZINE ^ FOR GAY LIBERATION BOMWAUGH ONMILITARYICONS, CLASSICAL IDEALS AND MESSA GES BETWEEN THE LINESIN THE GAY PHOTO COLLECTION OF THE KINSEYINSTITUTE GET READY FOR VANCOUVER DAVID MYHILL GAY TRAVEL CONSULTANT If you like value for SUMMER money, together with quick, courteous and Westcoast's finest GAMES personal service, then Main floor call me at cozy 2 pub atmosphere AUG. -6, 1984 (604) 689-0501 office Upstairs dance floor fun Et gaymes (604) 683-3861 home reserved for "Men Only". Enquires: R.DOPSON When in Vancouver 2632 Hemlock Street join us at Buddy's love &. white travel Vancouver, B.C. 1018 Burnaby Street, Vancouver, RC. 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V6E 1X4 (604)669-1753 THIS ISSUE NUMBER 101 D MARCH 1984 '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.
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