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For Rapists Passed Medical Facility at Vacaville, Which Employment and Housing on Their Governor Brown Has Signed a Bill, Also Divided Feminist Orgain^Tions

For Rapists Passed Medical Facility at Vacaville, Which Employment and Housing on Their Governor Brown Has Signed a Bill, Also Divided Feminist Orgain^Tions

Voiniiie 2 , Number 1 1 & 1 2 December 1 9 7 9 /la n u a rj 1980 Gays Can’t Organize Fewer ConvÍGtíon8 Feared At State Facility Inmates of the California State its goals include helping Gays to find For Rapists Passed Medical Facility at Vacaville, which employment and housing on their Governor Brown has signed a bill, also divided feminist orgain^tions. houses a large portion of the state’s release form prison, and promoting SB13, sponsored by Sen. H.L. The National Organization for male prisoners, have been denied better understanding between Gays RkhardstMi, that will double the sen­ Women joined prosecutors in sup­ the right to form a discussion- and straights in prison and outside. tences for rapists. porting the measure. Five other wo­ and-educatk>n organization for Gays Joe Silva, president pro tern, says The bULthreatened rrpqlitical cri­ men’s groups urged Brown to veto it and . CMF houses sev­ public support is needed before sis early in September in the~ As­ on the grounds that the severity of eral advancement associations and officialization can occur; interested sembly, where the members forced . the penalities would deter juries rap groups including the Jaycees, people should write to J.J. Enomoto, the Criminal Justice Committee to from convicting rapists. EMPLEO for Unidad for Chicanos, Director of Cmiections, State Build­ send it to the floor for a vote. It and a Black Culturé Association. ing No. 8, 714 P Street, Sacra­ The penalties will mean that some The proposed new' group. Third mento, CA 9S814. —Advocate persons convicted of rápe will Generatkm Oiganizatkii, states , that serve longer prison terms than some Rights Group convicted of first-degree murder. Sacram ento The bUl changm the method by Seeks Director which terms are Calculated for vio­ lent and repeat offenses. — Gay Rights Advocates, a San Rights March Mom, Guess what Francisco-based, non-profit public interest law firm is seeking a new January J-2 Executive Director. . ' QftA ReeeiitcU]i& Though only 2 years old, GRA A march on Sactraento, Califor­ has developed a national reputation nia for Gay rights is plaimed for the Under QnestíoiP— by winning precedent-setting cases weekend starting Jan. 12. Laiuiched * in their fight for the legal rights of by the California Human Rights The ERA, which would-outlaw Gay peqple. Advocates to fill a n e^ for a state- based on sex, must be Gay History The organization seeks someone level event like the march on ratified by 38 states by June 30, with an administrative background Washington, D.C., the Sacramento 1982, to become part of the U.S. Lecture who can supervise a full-time staff gathering will coincide with a CHRA Constitution. TTk original dead­ . of attoiheys and non-attmmeys; and lobbying week. Local ad hoc com­ line was March 22, 1979, but was Decem ber 7 who has a strcmg commitment to mittees are needed to design a pro­ extended by act of Congress. attaining equal rights for gram of actifities; committees al­ The ERA has been approved by 35 Lesbimm M asquerade, a slide/lec- and in our society. ready exist in Los Angeles, San states, but five have since rescinded ture show about women who passed The starting salary is $12,000/ Diego, anti Chico. approval. The validity of that move as men in the Bay Area, and old year plus benefits. Resumes should In December, Nrepresentative mem­ stiU is in question, and the Justice San Francisco, will be presented in be mailed to Seardi Cbmmittee, Gay bers will meet in Sacramento to dis­ Department has said it is up to , Sonoma County on Friday, Decem­ R i^ ts Advocates, 540 Castro Street, cuss overall strategies. Contact Congress to decide. S.F. Examiner ber 7, 1979, at 8 p.m. in the Sah Francisco, CA 94114. Resume Alan Robertson or Jan Rudolf at Faculty Lounge of the Santa Rosa deadline is February 1, 1980. California Human R i^ ts Advocates, Iraniang Must Junior College. GRA is an Equal Opportunity 1107 Ninth St., Suite 1019, Sacra­ Denounce Khomeini .The show has grown out of the Employer. mento, CA 95814; 916/448-6666. research of Allan Berube, a mem­ liLt Brothel ber of the San * Francisco ‘ Poofter Terrorism* : RENO, NEVT— Iranian students and Gay History Project, into the ate no longer welcome at'brothel- social te to iy of Lesbians and Gay Pink Bricks Atttack ^ owner Joe Coofahe’s Mustang Ranch.' men in the Bay Area from the days Conforte put up a sign Wednes­ of the Gold Rush to tlw present.- - . - Anti-Gay Brit^hPubs day excluding Iranian studente from The presentation dazzled audiences his legal house of pleasure because' in San Francisco this past sununer,' MANCBESTER, ENGLAND — of ^"ipi& -bm k attkcks,. and the _ of the AmMkan hostage situation and haS vTecently returned from a Polkp arrfaivest^^g an outbreak threate^g calls made to pub own­ in Tehran. tour of several eastern states. of “poofter tem risin” aimed at pubs ers. Conforte sayes he is fed up with The show will be presented i>y that discriminate against Gays. An anonymouns caller told Bri­ the hypocrisy of Iranian students tain’s Gay N ew t that he was fol­ who jtK>port the Ayatollah Khomei­ members of the San Francisco His^ Rnk-painted h^ks wrapped in lowing the ekan^le cti the suffra-«' ni’s policies'yet patronize the bro­ tory Project as a Jwnefit for the protest leaffiets and carrying "Q uy gettes who also smashed shop win­ thel. Sonoma County Lesbian and Gay anger” messages have been fauried dows. ' “Ifickets aren’t enough,” From now on, he says, any Irani- NEWS. The event wUUbe hosted through the windows of two pubs. by the Gay Student Union of the said the callef. “The time has come ' an student wrho wants service afer tiie Santa Rosa Junior Ccdlege. Although die Gty Activist Alliance for Gay people to nuke stronger hostages are released at Mustang All are welcome. picketed the pubs when they insti­ moves. ' This is poofter terrorism. will not only have to denounce Kho­ There will be free child care and tuted a Sunday lunchtime ban on It is not pure vandalism. It is a meini, but also the Iranian govern­ the ev|^nt is wheelchair accessible. Gays, the GAA disassociated itself political act.” ment’s policy of shooting prostitutes. — fh e Body PoBdc- A $2 donation is asked. both from the “ineqxmsible| action” -UP! D m . ’794aa 'ttS/L A G N E W S/f^S D orothy A rmnmr dtntU Woman Violence Dropped - Court Refuses Pioneer Hollywood Director Dies From Warner^Record Company Sodomy Appeal ------N E W YO R K — Dorothy Arzner, Califbmia, had not started out with 82, Hollywood’s only women direc­ a Hollywood career in mind. In LOS ANGELES Warner Com­ in the recording industry,” she said. WASHINGTON, D.C — The U.S. tor in the 1930s and ’40s, died fact she had hoped to be a doc­ munications Inc. has agreed not to “The thought of my young son Supreme Court has refused to hear October 1 in La Quinta (River­ tor, and attended the University produce any record album covers going into the r^ rd store and the appeal of three men convicted side County), where she lived in of Southern California. But Worid depicting violence against women, learning how women are to be treat­ of sodomy on the basis of police retirement. War I intervened, and she signed an agreement h a il^ by women ed from these album covers is a evidence gathered through peep­ After nine years in Hollywood up with an ambulance corps, though activists as a “ major victory” in terrifying thought,” said Cathy Bar­ holes. The men were arrested at as a script girl, film editor and she never left the country. School­ the war against lurid LP artwork. ber of the Southern California Rape stops along Interstate 66 in Prince scriptwriter, Arzner made her de­ ing seemed tame afterward and, Warner President David Horow­ Alliance. William County, Virginia. but as a director in 1927, with the after a visit to a Hollywood studio, itz said Thursday the “record group WAVAW started in 1976 as an ad ' This issue marks the end of another year and the end of another decade. —Advocate ■silent Fashions for Women, star­ she decided that directing was her hoc coalition p r o te s ^ g ^ Sunset It has been a decade that has seen an increased awareness of the ongoing Letter ring Esther Ralston, and went on true calling. Strip billboard the Rolling Stones struggle for the civil rights of aU people. Church Allows to show that she was as skillful in She -got an interview with C ^ used to promote their album “Black It has been a decade when we as Lesbians.and Gay men have begun to We are disturb^ by the efforts talkies as she had been in silent B. De Mille, and offered to start __ and Blue ” It showed a women bat­ make connections with the ways w ^are treated in our society andjhe_ways- to undermine progress-aclueved tor Gay Ministèrê------at the bottom, which she did, typ­ tered and bruised — and smiling. tJtlf" Mtc» «ire cuuiievled nitlr~lfie stauggles of people everywhere to be ratification of SALT II. At its recent St Louis General She gave Rosalind Russell one of ing scripts. Paramount gave her “This policy expresses the WCI free from opression and tyranny. Holland Roberts Center Assembly, the Christian Church (Dis­ her outstanding roles, in the 1936 her first directorial chance in 1927. record group’s opposition to the ex­ ^ It has been a decade when the United States has often been in American-Russian Institute ciples of Christ) voted to allow ré­ iQption-picture version of George She retired after her 1943 film. ploitation of violence, sexual or oth- the role of the oppressor rather than the champion of the oppressed. San Francisco gional bodies of the lutioiud congre­ Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play First Comes Courage. It was said erwise, in any form,” he said. It is a time when fascist and white supremacist groups are march^g and gation the right to ordain openly Craig's Wife. Earlier, she directed ^ ifa a t she quit because she was weary Warner Communications distfib-^ organizing and getting followers in suburbs across die country and the worid. homosexual ministers. Carol Blakely, Clara Bow, an outstanding person­ of the studio system. After years utes recordings under the W.amer, This publication has been in existence for almost two years because you one of the church’s general board of ality of Ihe silent era in G et your of obscurity, her name surfaced in Atlantic and Electra-Asylum labels. wanted it there, and in that time has reflected the progress and change in directors, said such an ordination M an, in 1927, and did what site ■ 1972, when the First International „The policy change was hi^ed as. Sonoma County, Northern California and the world. We have struggled to Report Claims might take place in one of the 35 could to shepherd the actress duough Festival of Women’s Films opened opposes the depiction of violence, “a major victory” by the Women educate ourselves and others (Proposition ~6~cdhieslo mind) about the real regions soon. her debut in the talkies with in New York. She was honored against women or men, on album Against Violence Against Women and genuine threats to all peoples’ liberties and freedoms. Chief Gain Faiied ‘ _ —Advocate The W ild Party in 1929. by showings of The Wild Party. covers and in related promotional (WAVAW), which has waged a 2Vi- The director, who was bom in New York-Times material.” year campaign against violence on The SCLGA N E W S WAS STARTED IN February 1978 by three men A report prepared by SRI Interna­ Oklahoma Educators The campaign focused specifical­ record album covers. At one time ^ and two women to provide a sense of community for Lesbians and Gay tional on the San Francisco riots ly on Warner Communications be­ the group called Warner Communi­ > men in rural and far-flung Northern California and to keep us all which followed the Dan White man­ Sué Over cause “it has been a niajor offender cations a “major offender.” fjp j aware of the daily events which would forever change the way we viewed slaughter verdict says that Police Prop. 6-llke Law ourselves and our world. Now, we have outgrown our name. For Pizza Coupon Chief Gain mishandled the evening’s Seven educators have filed a- feder­ . quite some time we have been distributed in San Francisco, Oakland, events. The report claimed that al dass-action.suit in O klahom a City Napa, Vallego, Chico and Areata. We were even taken to the March On there was a lack of police depart­ which challenges the constitution­ Country Grounds Cate Washington. ,1 ment planning to prevent violence, New Ihnugh DacMdbarlS ality of an Oklahoma law allowing $1.(X) off any large Pizza... Guerneville that there was insufficient man­ public school administratcHS to fire $.75 oft any medium Pizza... For months, too, we have been published by the N o^em California power, and that available forces were teachers because of their homo- __ ___ ^ $,50 ofLaftymnall Pizza... Project Inc., the corporate name of oUr collective efforts. -ineffectively used. Ttowevef, the re­ séïmalityT “ Known as thé Helm These efforts have been financed by advertising sales, benefits and sub­ port vindicated Gain and his deputy Bill, the law .effectively endangers Come in aruf try the Beet Pizza on the River. scriptions. AU these now am inadequate to meed the demands on the paper Cjlve cLrecxfdUd cjift fVom chief Kevin Mullen in their con­ the jobs of any teachers whose Featuring Baiami, Pepperoni, and Sausage. Every to expand in size and circulation. Therefore we are asking our readers to troversial decision to withdraw police activities might allow students to night except Thursday. ^nate what they can to see the paper continue. When our next from the Castro area. The move learn of their gayness. Plaintiffs TTVmoric^Kat Uncjer; svreadina issue comes out in Februaiy we wiU marking the start of our third year was unpopular among the ■ police —who have filed the action under of publication. rank-and-fìle, but SRI says it may pseudonyms for obvious reasons— WarmtK from heacl t-o toe w itn have prevented an all-night riot. claim the bill viciâtes four 'amend­ From our start in an apartment in Rohnert Park in 1977 as the Sonoma —Advocate m en ts^ . . . V.. 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Box 4801 ! Santa Rosa, CA 95402 —Gqy Commumity News z h j m / o ' Dec. ’79-Jan. r Pi«e 6/X A G NEWS/Duc. ’79-Jan.’80 Book Review Gay And A Man | Ask AyatoUah Kittatiny : Stories, Naval Officer proves Purify SOCiBty^ Our Stories For Kids Manhood Through Espionage C u t It O ff by Marsha Taylor- Ward stopped listing the names of birds - WASHINGTON, b.C. — Lee U.S. District Judge Albert V. “If your finger suffers from gan­ pther men’s (fesires. But the society This when the television and Kit and B.B. had encountered be­ Eugene Madsen, 24, a U.S. Navy Bryan Jr. rejected a request by grene, what do you do? Do you that we want to build does not per­ radio imd department stores try to cause, as the footnote said, she petty officer, has been sentenced Madsen’s (Attorney that his client let the wlu^ hand, and ffien the bo­ mit such things. In Islam, we want convince us one more time that couldn't find her bird book. It’s to eight years in prison for es­ be placed^ in a prison designed for dy, become filled with gangrene, or to implement policy to purify society, Santa Claus lives in the North Pole, the most unusual form I’ve ever pionage. Madsen was ariested youths in which he could receive do you cut the finger off? What and in order to achieve this aim and we know he's really some rich- seen a children’s book in, but de­ after allegedly smuggling classified psychological counseling. The judge - brings corruption to an entire coun­ we must punish those who bring man spending the winter in his lightful. documents out of the Pentagon and explained that he thought a sailor try and its people must be pulled evil to oiir youth. Don’t you do Puerto Rican villa with servants and Russ writes of Kit as a real per­ them to an undercover a- should not be sentenced to such up like the weeds that infest a the same?” a yacht, what to we tell our chil- son who needs to eat and drink and gent of the Federal Bureau of a facility and ordered Madsen to field of wheat. I know there are ___—The Ayatolla RuhoUah Kho- dren?—How do we let them know - “go to the bathroom," which Kit- InvestigatioB,—Madsen said he made begin setvtog his sentence at a societies where women are permitted meini of Iran, responding to our view of life is different than never remembers readiog about in off with the documents “ to prove. federal penhentiaiy at Lewi^nitg, KY. to give themselves to satisfy the de­ a question from Italian jour­ what they learn at school? Not any fairy tale and which B.B. gets I could be a man and still be —Gqy Community News sire of men who are not their hus­ nalist Oriana Fallaci. Fallaci's hysterical over, crying “go tb the Gay.” It was Madsen’s intention, everyone wants to grow up, get mar­ interview with the Ayatollah was according to his attorney, to sell the bands, and^ were men ate permit- ried, go to work for money and watch bathroom, go to the bathroom." published in the New York jdocumentato the undercover agent i ^ ^ t o give themselves ter satisfy TV aU night, let alone get a new Kit explores a natural world where Oral SexrO.K. Times'magazine ah Oct 7, 1979. one for Christmas. How can we save even sex is treated simply and in the hopes of entrapping the purr r them from the years of looking for honestly. In describing the Nymphs chaser and become famous. In D ark Cinderella or Prince Charming and and Satyrs mating in comparison to Significant Ü ecision In trying to get someone else's glass othct animals Russ notes, “(maybe Says Court jslipper to fit? you’ve seen cats and dogs mating).’’ SariJose HONOLULU, HI — Oral sex is One way to do it is to offer them Along with this we have old and new not a crime if it is conunitted G ay T eachers Case'^ new stories form the collection of myths spun for us. There is Wo- Needs Our Help in the dark, the Hawaii Supreme OKLAHOMA UTY, OK — A The Oklahoma Attorn^ General sought the disclosure of the names SAN JOSE, CA — In the face Court has ruled. The- court federal district court judge has re-, of the plaintiffs, or to have the case of referenda scheduled for next imanimously reversed a 1976 convic­ fused motions by the Oklahoma How Can We Save Them returned to state court, or, alterna­ June which seek to repeal newly- tion against John Broad for a petty Attorney General’s office to dismiss From Cinderella And Prince Charming? misdemeanor count of having sex tively, to dismiss the action. The enacted human rights ordinances a suit challenging the Helm Act, federid judg’s decision included de^ which protect Lesbians and Gay men with another man in a car, stating an anti-Gay teacher law almost iden­ feminist books for children that man Warrior, a contemporary myth- nial of d three proposals. from discrimination, a group ori­ that sex in a public place cannot tical. to California’s Briggs Initia­ offer alternative ideas with a variety cal character from Maxine Hong constitute “open lewdm^” if no one GRA attorn^ Jerel McCrary said, ginally formed to combat the Briggs tive. It threatens Lesbian and Gay of roles and relationships between Kingstone’s novel of the same name is likely to see the act. “The decision is significant because Initiative has been reactivated. The teachers and those persons who ad­ people and anim als and the earth. and there v> good ol’ Sleeping Beauty, it indicates the Court takes this, Santa Clara Valley Coalition for The court noted that the arresting vocate Lesbian and Gay civil rights Kittatiny: A Tide o f Magic is one but this' time re-created as a lone­ matter very seriously. The judge Human Rights has re-formed with a officers admitted they could not see _ with-the It^s of their jobs. SOME LESBIANS IN EARLT SAN of the most recent put out by ly nine-year-old vampire. the' men from outeide the car and could have avoided taking on a con­ nine-menbeL executive committee, The suit was filed in August by Daü^féñs Publishing. WritteiTbjr ’ Through the somewhat choppy and ~ troversial issue by remanding the TRÁNCISCOWHO lASSED AS BIÈN and it has issued a nation-wide had to shine a li^t inside to find Gay Rights-Advocates (GRA), a Joanna Russ, a fem in ist science fic­ sca);tered thoughts of the narrator we case to a state court. His decision appeal for funds to be used in out what was *going on. The San Francisco-based public interest tion writer, author of The Femóte travel back to Kh’s home where she als» indicates a growing sensitivity fighting the repeal of jthe new laws. _ hour of the incident — 3:30 a.m. law firm, and Oklahoma City co­ M an, and others, and illustrated meets up with a girl from her past on the part of the judiciary; Judge D Contributions may be sent to the on Sunday — was called “hardly counsel Michael Gassaway. It was with fine line drawings- by Loretta who has grown up into a beautiful an hour when people would be tra­ Eubanks did not force the plain- Coalition at P.O. Box 2066, San filed on behalf of seven present Li. It’s a wild and. fantastic tale of woman and falls in love with her, versing the streets.” . and prospective teachers who charge tiffs to choose between their pri­ . Jose, CA 95109. By members of the San Francisco a young girl’s run-away adventures. wondering if she feels the same vacy, as anonymous plaintiffs, and —Gity Community News —Gity Community News that the Helm Act inhibits their Leslnan & Gay History Project Russ brings to this, her first story for because she knew “you werenk sup­ Constitutional rights of speech and possible lo^~bf their jobs.” young petite, a flashing imagination posed to feel that way about another association. All used fictitious The plaintiffs will ndw seek a pre­ that challenges both young and old. woman.” The story ends with a fi-., names out of fear of job loss and liminary injunction to prohibit any In the long parade of legendary nal visit from B.B. where he exposes from) danger of physical harassment. enforcement of the statute. characters the story introduces us to, us all when he said to Kit, “Is ~~—Gity Community News Kittatiny—Kit, for short—meets a it my fault you’ve got stupid ideas faun. She calls him B.B. for baby and a limited imagination? Is it 8PM Friday brother and constantly bickers with my fault you think only boys lose Dec. 7, 1979 him just like real siblings. He their tempers and have adventures... plays the part of her guide taking and girls can only grow up to wear Mysterious her through the climate extremes of floating w i^ of stuff and be nymphs?” the continents, and being her com­ And is it our faults we’ve bought FACULTY LOUNGE panion as she suffers and wallows in and s(dd Cinderella and Santa Claus Holiday the joys of meeting a mermaid, rock all these years? No, but now we Santa Rosa Junior College monsters and a good she-dragon, have a chance and a choice to tell Gifts. that takes them under her wing. our children new stories, our stories. Literally. B.B. servs a ^ Kit’s alternate ego, > acting out when she wouldn’t. He doesn’t have manners is how the Village Book Store is a depart­ *2 narrator puts it. And Ru k , as ment store of ideas. There is virtual­ the narrator, puts her two cents ly no limit to the subjects covered, worth in everywhere with parentheses, questions answered and stories told. - ! a LL a r e W E U X 3M E I and explainátions and references. Truly a - store with a gift for For éxample, at one point she everyone. Novels, Science Fiction, Health & Fitness, Ecology, Music, Cooking, A BENEFIT FOR THE Art, Biographie^ Hunting, Fishing or Spelunking, no matter whaTfheir Sonoma County Lesbian & Gay interest, we’ve got it covered. Alliance NEWS We ship anywhere. Phone orders pretented by the accepted.

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After The initial shock, 1 look gives a ruggedness, and at the orate hairstyle^ grotesque makeup— realized that 1 had the money and well, why not? A lot of that went to same time keeps a sexualization and is one of self-hatred, fear of that part a softness. a mu)titude (sic) of Christmas cards which I am wont to send out on Decem­ of us which society condemns: b ^ g ber 2nd. They’re called “The Coolside of the Yuletide” and, and...oh, “womanish,” a Sissie. It is a way of And About am 1 rambling? Other retail realities: Diane at My Daughter the Framer Almost everyone on Castro Street hiding from ourselves the secret seems to be in their 20s or 30s. It knowledge that we can always “take also has the problem of too much success and warns to get your frameables tends to very ageist. it off’ and go back to “looking like a (now-now!) in early as it gets real crazy down there on towards my favorite man.” It is that aspect of drag that former pagan ritual...The paper is taking a month off (we didn’t publish That’s true. Many men in their Women find so offensive. And rightly last January eHher; so don’t get excited: but we will return in all our new 40s, SOs and 60s do go to Castro, but so. mast-headed glory in February) with our second Anniversary Issue...Mean­ the cultural definition of it is that Sissie drag is an attempt to rid while, the great hords will be spilling out onto the breezeway December 7 Center for WeU Being’s Crafts Fair, December S' & 9 at the Sebas­ it’s not serving older Gays. Many ourselves of visual male privilege. at the SHJC F aulty Loun^ to hear and see Lesbian Masquerade, a lec- men in those age groups stay away^ When we walk down the street we try topol Vets, looks like it will be the big one of the season. They are .hire and j slide-i:j - . shov 1 which has just returned from a tour-of thé'East: In"" fruiii Castro, andiom e of- offering low cost brunches and dinners both days. Love those fact, we got them' right off the plane to find out if they could do this date go there feel badly about themselves. sterling silver bangle bracelets! W ear“ mine everyday...Please, please fill as a benefit for the NEWS. They’ve wanted to come from S.F. fot By the jyery nature of the clone I AM NOT A RAPIST every seat at the Sonoma Film Institute (Darwin 108, Sonoma State U quite a while. We also regret the small space the show will be look—the tightness of the clothing, campus, Cotati) in the next couple of months. This morith they’re presented in, get there early!, but at this time of year it is difficult to find and the emphasis on the body­ showing everything from Orson Welles’ “The Lady From Shanghai” ^good space. Evetyone is welcome and the show will be back in the spring... builder physique—Castro is going to to visually project two messages: I (“...mirror, mirror, on the wall...”) with the redoubtable “Citizen Kane,” Part of the wonder of this long strange trip is that we are always, all of appeal to inen whose bodies are still am not a heterosexual and I A M Keaton with ten color Max (Betty Boop) Fleisher buildable. If you’re a very well-built us, able to connect with the past in real and important ways, as The Gay NOT A RAPIST. As males in our cartoons of the ’30s (these ’toons give evidence to how Popeye—Fleisher man of 40 you can still do it. If struggle against sexism, wehave Hbtpiy Book so well atests; and so many other book as well. We you’re an average man of 40 you committed ourselves to an examina­ and his brother did the early Popeye cartoons—got the idea he could lift ve Ekd a copy of a review of tjhc book Lavender Cnltnre, Gay Coqimunity (I can’t. tion of the oppression of our sisters buildings) to two classic 3-strip Technicolor Wondors from 1940s England, News-ette John Kyper sent us, but we have lacked the space these lasCfew and our responsibility in it. one of which is “The Thief of Bagdad,” a truly marvelous movie that months! (It’s always money!) Which reminds me. Rising Woman Books is I don’t think that’s particularly Males have privilege inherent in made me cry with joy and wonder (but I’m a soft touch anyway!) when I expanding their Gay men’s section and invite suggestions of books by and Gay. Most fashions—certainly most being male. Women, traditionally saw it last yea^ at the Lumiere in the City. The Film Institute for Gay men. I’ll sign off now (aren’t you glad?). Ah, the year’s end. t f m ß fashions oriented toward sexuality— deftned as “property” by men, do not is trying out a new policy of showing first-run foreign films along with their Only four more years ’til 1984!. And your thought it would never get here! are geared toward people in their have access to the privileges of male­ very h i ^ quality retrospective series. (They even seem to respond to requests, 20s. We don’t yet have a sense of ness. Many Women today are openly but have as yet to take me seriously when I ,say 1 want to see Alice what looks sexy at 40, or at 60. living their lives independent of male Faye And Carmen Miranda in “Week-End in Havana” and “That Night in ' What is the "Castro clone” look all look. It’s, a way of being masculine, Dr. Alan Sable, Sociologist and support. These Women, as all Rio.” Now, that’s 3-strip Technicolor! Back to the subject, they’re going to about? while still retaining the Gayness. The therapist from an interview in the Women, live, in constant terror of I think it's sort of a camp-butch statement is that we're men and be showing Fellini’s new one, “Orchestra Rehearsal,” December 19 through Gay Skate Changes In January September 6 issue of the Advocate. rape, of a male forcibly “ taking possession.” January 10 and the French metutge a troa comedy “Why Not?” January 11-31. December 10th will be the last In January, Gay Skate will move Gay men 'need to develop an Kind of a bi-sexual “Jules and Jim” with a happy ending as I understand it. date for Gay Skate at the Cal Skate, to Star Skate, 2075 Occidental Rd. analysis of the commonality of our And why not?...On the retail front, our long time advertisers. Sweet Potato, Rohnert Park, location. (near Hwy. 116), Santa RoSa. Gay oppression and the oppression of warned me the other day (after I was going to hit them up for a part- - Hours are 9 to 11 p.m. and admis­ Skate nights are January 7th and Women. Issues of rape^and power- time jobD.titaf/ihi^ might close early (like December 18) because business sion and skate rental is SI.50. 21st. over relationships; issues of trans­ Sissy : Intimidation and Behavior vestism, transsexualism, and drag; Ú. The word “sissy” is the one word one given most attention. And it is Drag con;t|K in many different used early on in a young male child’s the least important in some ways. "forms. As Tede says in Word Is Out: life to intimidate him toward beha­ Consciousness of oneself as a Sissie “We are bom naked. Everyone is in « n vior patterns which society—parents, has very little to do with physical drag.” There is little difference be­ Everyone Is In Drag school, 'peers, etc.—say are “ appro­ appearance. All the color and flow tween dripping in rhinestones and ______priate” for a man and away from would mean nothing if it isn’t done chiffon or metal-studded leather. those patterns “appropriate” for a with a political awareness of sexism This is meant as no insult to queens and the issue of Gay male oppression woman. Any time a boy shows emo­ in our culture. In identifying with but or those into the leather scene. But of Women must be directly explored. tions of tenderness or delicacy, he is not imitating women, we experience just that the majority of Gay men MHiat is our common oppressioi^ vulnerable to the accusation of firsthand the fear and intimidation of could learn to be themselves—men- All of us. Women and Gay men, are “Sissy.” straight men’s rapist energy. tally, emotionally—and not dress in victims of imposed control over our We are all bom with the ability to Another reason Sissieness is relevant fads. own bodies and decisions of repro­ develop a healthy range of emotions, to Women and the feminist revolu­ Certain males adopt, the sexual duction, of imposed sex-role identi­ nurturance, and coqieration. Re­ tion is because we need to visibly models of women early in life be­ ties, of imposed sexual harassment, claiming one’s Sissieness, as 'twere. present alternative role models to cause we know that although we are violence, and death. This is not biological males, we are also emo­ because of a conscious desire on our tionally “ same” motivated. Since fe- part fm* abuse, but because we are m al« are the only role model avail- neither heterosexual, in the case of We need to present alternate i able of loving human" beings, we Gay men and Lesbians, nor are we rdcpgnize in ourselves the “other.” men (in defined and accepted terms), role models to children. In jralizing our otherness, we retreat in the case of Gay men and all into opposite-dressing as an outlet for Women. We are seen as “other”/ is to rebel against the social condi­ r children. Boy children especially need repressed sexuality. It is one of the pr<^rty, to satisfy any heterosexual tioning that says men should be com­ to be offered choices to the current earliest stages in the coming-out of man. petitive, individualistic, and emo­ nearly every Sissie—identification By dressing and living as ourselves role models: sqldier, football player, A FILM BY COLINE SERREAU tionally immature. business executive, etc. with the traditional trappings of we weaken the power the Man holds Women. over os all. We re c lu ^ the power of SlarfinK.Sami Frey, Chrisline Murillo, Mario Con/alez and Nicole lamel Reclaiming Sissieness has nothing to G ^y people, by our very existence, From New Line Cirtema do with sexual preference or orienta­ are sexual terrorists. We challenge all Drag queens have always borne the our own identities. We' threaten the O R d C S T R A tion. The scare tactics in the word “norms” of behavior. Men are sup­ bmnt of Gay men’s oppression. And foundations of both the economic ’ Sissy are used long before any devel­ posed to compete with each other for yet it was drag queens. Dykes, and system and the social order. We NORTH BAY PREMIERE Third World Sissies who fought back represent sexual anarchy—the power REHEARSAL opment of conscious sexuality. AU power. Women are supposed to Thè deeSne of the West in major. males have been (inis)shaped by this compete with each other to achieve at Stonewall and today are those of over decisions of reproduction and Jah 11 thru Jan 31 us who are the most cop-hassled, pleasure. » . r u i u , . . . ,

^ - "pj^r^-lan. *90/L A G NEWS/Pen» 11 Correspondence Reveals ^oiarMoxjsmg Anglicans May Lift Incest Awareness^^&ject^ Information Center Gay Ciergy Ban In'response to astronomically ris- A Different Roosevelt by Dmm Noonmm topics as roofing, foundation con­ cized images of incest in the cur­ LONDON — A Church of Eng­ nation. Candidates for ordination, ing_xeports of incest, Los Angeles A highly beneficial community ser­ struction, plumbing and architectural land Commission has called for the would be able to declare a homo- rent media, relatkmships are usually drawing and drafting. Speakers in­ mayor Thomas Bradley named No-< N E W YO R K Eleanor Roosevelt vice program has been growing in .lifting of a ban on homosexual selxual orientation without being au­ ^^JH|ighly disturbing to the children, conductefl.a 30-year corresirandence clude engineers, contractors, and ar­ vember “Children’s Defemle Month.” Sonoma County. clergymen. tomatically ruled unfit for the priest­ ' and only rarely take place between with a woiaan author and reporter chitects, some of whom work with The announcement tied in with in­ The Community Network For Ap­ hood. older females and younger nudes. who at one time covered her acti­ propriate Technologies is open to the Farallones Institute in Bodega The r^xHt, published Ecotber 19, formation seminars sponsored by the is a result of five years of study' The British paper Gay News re­ Those interested in the Incest vities, and the letters reportedly assist individuals and organizations Bay. year-long Incest Awareness Project Awareness Project shoidd contact The Network News Service keeps by British theologians. It takes ported that the Right Reverend Ro­ reveal a deep love between the two in the community desiring to move now underway. Leslie Labowitz of Ariadne at the women. towards a society' based on renew­ people informed on issues related to issue with the traditional Christian bert Runcie, who will take over as An estimated 25,000,000 women Women's Building, 1727 N. Spring The New York Times said October able, locally available resources. The appropriate technology and network vew that considers Gay sex a sint the Archbishop of Canterbury next in America are or have been sex­ 21 that the correspondence of Roose­ development. Radio station KVRE St., Los Angeles, CA 90012; Cmnmunity Network serves as an and refutes-so-called Biblical argu­ year, has knowingly ordained prac­ ually abused by males in their fami- velt and Lorena Hickok started in ' information broker, linking people to hosts the Conununity Network Sun­ 399-2494 or 221-6161. ments condemning homosexuality. ticing homosexuals. Rukcie repor- lies. Contrary to the romanti- October 1932, just before F D R ’s information and tools necessary to day morning program at 10 AM. If the report is accepted , clergy- tedly advised, the men to keep their Airline Cht&t election, and continued until Mrs. enable them to become skilted-Trt^ The Gazette-Advertiser~5puiisoi-5"a men who are practicing homosexuals sexuality a secret. Roosevelt's death in 1%2. The wo­ page weekly for local and national meeting basic energy, housing and would be required to offer thier Runde is expected to make a pub­ -D o e e n ’^ men wrote each other almost daily health needs. issues for appn^riate tochnologies. Bipown-ÎÔIL lic statement^ on his position dur­ and in some cases twice a day. The Network offers many pro­ There is also a skills exchange resignations to the bishop, but the “Hich, my dearest,” began one grams and services. Energy work­ program which serves as a mechan­ report recommends that the bishop ing the debate on the report. Sign If O ected Q"®®^® letter from Mrs. Roosevelt dated shops are covering topics such ism for teaching, learning and shar­ should be able to refuse the resig- — The Body P o litic When Edward J. Daley, maverick March 5, 1933, a few days after as solar greenhouses, hot water sys­ ing with others, various aspects of LOS ANGELES, CA — Califor­ j president of the brazenly cutrate » moving into the White House. “ I tem and heating construction tech­ construction and technology. This is nia Gov. Jerry Brown has pledged to Wntid Airways of Oakland, Califor­ cannot to to bed tonight without a Roosevelt was 48 and Hickok, 40. niques. Similar to the bam raisings of the Natioiul Gay Task force that, if nia, fired off a letter of dismissal ) word to you...You have gipwn so The two women came to know There is a library open to the yesteryear. Scientists Meeting To Address he is riected President, he will to some of his union-hyped workers, m u ch '^ be a part of my life that each other in 1928 through Hickok’s public specializing in alternative The Community Network is hold­ - sign an executive order reinforcing he wrote that his company “doesn’t it is empty without you even though political reporting, which dovetailed ing a benefit dance with the Silverado energy, conservation, housing con­ equal rights for Lesbians and Gay need hoodlums, racketeers, I’m busy every minute.” r with Roosevelt’s campaigning for her struction, food production, preven­ Band and “Good Question,” an eco­ In Workplace men. The disclosure came after And the next day: “Hich, darling. husbapd. or persons such as [Teamsters presi­ tive health care, small scale com­ logical theatre troupe, on October SAN FRANCISCO, CA — k Brown delivered what the Los Ange­ Ah how good it was to hear your For the Associated Press, Hickok 12 at 8 PM. It will take place at the entists to explore this topic.” dent Frank]Fitzsimmons.” Fitzsim­ munity development and issues of the meeting has been scheduled at the les Harold Examiner termed “his voice. It was so inadequate to try to reported on Mrs. Roosevelt from right to livelihood. Sebastopol Grange on HWY 12, East Speakers include Stephen Morin, mons has supliorted Gay rights re- Annual Meetings of the American tell you what it meant.” October 1932 until the inauguration Sponsored by the Network is a free of Sebastopol. Beer and wine will be a psychologist, who will address the strongest pro-Gay rights ^reech ever” ,cently in the press. Having glossed And the following day: “Hick, in March 1933, and resigned in June ongoing Thursday night lecture and available. Association for the Advancement meaning, expression, and possible to some 850 persons assembled for .over a few minor differences, Daly darting...Oh, I want to put my of that year. slide presentation as well as a series For further information and the of Science which is to address the effects on scientists of homophobia; a benefit event for Los Angeles’ makes clear the distinction between arms around yu. I ache to hold you She gave the letters to the Franklin of workshops offering technical ad­ fall schedule of lecture series and issue of “problems arising from ho­ Sharon Raphael, a sociologist, Gay Community Services Center at labor and management. Calling Le­ close. Your ring is ^a great com­ Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, vice and demonstrations on various workshops call 528-6543. mophobia in the scientific work­ who will relate her experiences as the Beverly WhOshire Hotel last wedc. viticus lily-livered for prescribing a fort. I look at it and think she does N.Y., in 1958 with the prqviso they aq>ects of house repair and construc­ The office is located in the Lincoln place.” The meeting has been called an “out” Lesbian professor and dis­ David Mixner, a political adviser mere'eye for an eye, he says that love me, 'or I wouldn’t be wearing be closed until 10 years aftr her tion. The workshops cover Arts Center building, 709 Davis for Jan. 8, 1980, from 9 a.m.- cuss Gay issues in curricula; and in Brown’s campaign, said that $30- if there’s any more union intimi­ it.” death. She died in 1968. Last year Street, Santa Rosa. 12 noon; the Balboa Room of the Laud Humphreys, a Pitzer college 40,000 has been contributed to the dation, “It will not be one for On another occasion, Hickok the letters became accesible but at­ SanJ^rancisco Hilton. sociologist who will speak on the ef­ campaign by Gay persons in the past one—it will be two for one, in favor wrote the first lady, “Most clearly tracted little attention.^ According to the Organizer of the I remember your eyes, with a kind of Now they are to be published by Actors March For fects of-homophobia on homosexu­ few weeks. In' his remarks to the of Worid Airways and Daty.” A d v o c a te meeting, who wishes to remain a- reassuring smile in them, and the William Morrow & Company in a al researchers and research on ho­ assembly at the benefit event. Brown feeling of that soft spot just nmth- book called “The Live of Lorena More Minority Roles non3^ous, “This is the first time, mosexuals. The other speakers are said, “I’m convinced that (my atti­ east of the corn^ of your mouth Hickok” by Doris Faber. to my knowledge, that a meeting is Bruce Kieman, Lany White, and tude toward Gay persons] is more Tchaikowsky against iny lips. 1 wonder what we’ll Franklin Rooselvelt Jr., literary LOS ANGELES — Ed 'Asner, mative action.” being held by a professional organi­ Alan Malyon. widespread than conventional wisdom do when we meet - what we’ll executor of his mother’s estate, said Dennis Weaver and other actors The protesters marched in front“ zation of physical and natural sci­ —Gay Community News would have you believe.” Murdered To say. Well, I’m rather proud of us, his mother wrote incessantly add denounced the film industry's por­ of the academy’s offices, carrying —Gay Community News aren’t you? I think we've done rather with great ardor to both men and trayal of women and minorities signs bearing such slogans as weU.” women, and called her style “very Oct. 10 in a demonstration stag^ “Women and minorities hot seen Hide Gayne^s At the time of this exchange, in effusive, very loving^.” by the Screen Actius Guild. oh'the American scene” and “We In Ohio Tchaikowsky may not have died 1933, when the Hmes said the corre- United Press Spokeswoman Kim Fellner said want our share of the fantasy.” spmidence was the most intense. of cholera; but of arsenic taken the SAG filed unfair labor Police estimated aboi^t 500 people Court Says Qay Sex is Okay- Just Don’t Ask after a-group of former colleagues charges Oct 10 against tiie Academy participated in the demonstration, concluded that it was the only way to of Motion Picture and Televi­ similar demonstration was held4n CINCINNATI, OH — k% m se­ for a decision onTwhether the soli­ to engige in sexual activity, one prevenLa homosexual scapdal which sion Producers witii the National New York. —A ssodnted Press Activist Lesbian veral otiier states, sodomy here is citation inflicted injury or was likely is not speaking with hostile intent, would have sent the composer to Labor Relations Board here. - legal, but asking so m j^ e to engage to provoke a breach of peace. but one is trying to get the other Siberia and disgraced tiiem all. The “Those charges basically wxuse Heid in Arson Case e v e L O r /o , in it with yon can get you arrested. J(rim W. Quigley, professor of law person to be friendly with you, not strange account, purportedly relayed the alliance tA not fifing up to at Ohb State Universtty and a “friend provoke violence. through seciecy-swom witnesses and S T . LO U IS — Ajfvell-known Gay dows. “ I became frightened and The Buckeye State decriminalized their contract obligations and pre­ of the court” as a member of the “We argued that these'were lov­ presented now by Russian musi­ rights activist, held by police as an just didn’t want to stay in the same-sex acts between consenting venting SAG from fulfilling their National Lawyers Guild (NLG) in ing words, just the opposite of fight­ cologist Alexandra Orlova, has it arson supect after a bar she managnrt 4 apartment,” she said. adults over the age of 15 in 1974, obligations to affir- the case, told a regioal NLG meet­ ing words,” Quigley noted. “This that a Duke Fermor wrote to the wgs fire-bombed, says the a u c ­ Bonnie St^hens, a part owner of but its “importuning” law stayed on ing here on Nov. 4 that the im­ ^-.^o raises issue of how tax Tsar in 1893 in outrage over tions are a frame-up. the bar, described the police attempt the books. It prohibits one from portuning statute is one of the moiiey is being spent in law enforce­ Tchaikowsky’s relationship with his St. Louis piq)ers had reported to pin the blame on McCann. soliciting a person of the same sex FtmhÊriHj mtmét “most overt form of discrimination ment. Entrapment in enforcement young nephew. The letter was for­ that Lesbian activist Mac McCann Stephens said she was taken to police mmä fmtmt predbtet for sexual activity when the offen­ Tutoring of this statute means policemen warded t ^ u g h the School of Juris­ was to be booked for arson, and headquarters and asked to press «refleNr. Eñfeji pern or Aowr // der' knows such solicitation is offen­ in Ohio. Similar statutes exist in pYRpated tú go. most states.” [sic] are getting traiiung in how to prudence in St. Petersburg where that she had “ mysteriously” moved charges against her. “When I re­ EXPERIENCED TUTORING IN sive, or is “reckless in that regard.” YO U R HOME. Elementary, numy look and act gay! Tchaikowsky had studied, where it out of her apartment above the bar fused, they said I would be consi­ Í44é M4emé0rime Am. Open H-7 The First District Court of Ap­ Quigl^ said NLG and the Na­ high school,: aome-college studies. StmmMmm Mm. tkn Frt. “This repression of Gays,” said created intense panic and precipi- . only a day before tjte buUding dered a suspect^Hinless I cooperated.” (Aen^ymiSMßC peals hcfc in Hamilton County ruled tional Committee on Sexual Civil Special areas: > reading, English, the former NLG vice president, tated the deatii conference. 'The wife burned. A defense fund has been started S42-97é$ ^ e unconstitutional in early Liberties (NCSCL) would appeal the French, researdi tecfamques. Edltoiial of one of the group stayed outside In an our-long report to a sup­ by the local National Organization 1978 as an_“-flveihip*d4 ?Ktriction of latest ruling again in the Ohio is symptomatic of larger kinds ofr consultation on technical papers, the door sewing, and later reported port meeting attended by more than of Women, and efforts ate.imderway speech.” (Only days later,;CinlSn- Supreme Court, but that NCSCL oppression you find in so many creative writing, theses. Dale' that after five hours’ discussum, 200 people, McCanp c la ri^ d that to initiate an investigation of po­ Baldridge, 527-0972, evenings. nati p(dice started a cract^jvwn in is looking for a “worse” case in areas of law and society.” Tchaikowsky rushed from tire study she had in fact moved out of the lice handling of the case. DIGITALIA two city parks 'which resulted in another state, and perhaps a better The NLG is dedicated to the time, to appeal to the U.S. Supreme need for basic change in the struc­ in agitation, and that her husband apartment three weeks before the ______— The Body Poiitic Software & Scnrioet nearly 70 arrests for public in­ incident because of bomb threats Want Ads decency in eight days.) The City Court. The high court has declined ture of_ America’s political and eco­ afterwards confided to her that RATES AUEt and repeated harassment by gangs 3S P .O . Box 7066 of Cincinnati appealed the ruling, to consider aity case involving homo­ nomic system. Its Gay Rights Tchaikowsky had agreed to poison of men shouting obscenities. The Santa Rouh CA 95401 and in June 1079, the state Supreme sexuality. Task Force began in 1971 to fight himself in order to prevent the back windows of the bar had been Court overturned it, saying same- “■niis case,” said Quigley, “is anti-Gay ide(riogy within and out­ the letter’s being sm t on to the Tsar. reflective of the kind of oppres­ side the NLG. Its San Francisco A few days later the St. Peters-' broken, a brick had been thrown Gay A.A. Men’s discussion group sex sofidtations are “fighting words” Mailing'List sion gay people face. We aigued An'ti-sexism Committee organized burg press armounced tire artist’s the front door, and someone had meets everjr^Sunday at 8 p.m., unprotected by the U.S. Supreme that it is illogical to consider [such the defense of people charged witii_ death by cholera in the epidemic fired buUets through the front win- Unitarian Fellowship Hall, Todd Court. It ordered the case back to Management solicitation] ‘fighting words’ since, rioting in the waike of the. Dan that was sweeping the city at tiie _Road^t_Stonjj_Pdntji^ant^ROTa;__ die HamHtan C a^by Municipal Court inasmuch as one is asking the other White verdict. Gay Com ^ d n lty News time. _ —Adpoesue • .V ^^1- • - mJ

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