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Volume 8, Number 1 Memphis, Tennessee December, 1986 ... Making theC Pope John Paul Says "Gays Are Disordered, Companies . ..� ·�,...... ,,,, . .. ·::�:=,:::, ,:;::,:.::-::{': Cause of AIDS" in Letter to Churches
In perhaps the most strongly trine of Faith (known in earlier meetings. "No aulhenlic pasUllal referred to pro-Gay statements as wonted document from the times as the Inquisition) and was program willinclude organiza "deceitful propaganda.II Roman Calholic Olurcb on the reportedlyed approv by Pope John tions in which homosexual Dignity-USA, with 4.500 subject of holhosexuality. the Paulpersonally. n persons associate. with each other members, protested the Vatican Vatican has condemned all forms According to an article by Ray without clearly stating that stalements as "un-Christian, of homosexuality as "dismlen:d," O'Loughlin in San Francisco's homosexual activity is immoral." unc:onsciooable, and an abomi and blames AIDS on Gays and Bay Area Reporter, the leaa the leaaswed. nation: The organization has "c:areless" Gay people.'lbe leiter condemned not only homasexual 'lbe Vatican blamed anti-Gay asked the U.S. Conference of urges churches to withdraw any acts. but also Gay .sexual orien violence on the demand for Calholic Bishops to repudiate the support from pio-Gay organiza tatiao as "illlrinsic• moraleviL It protection of civil liberties. The document on the punds that it tions and opposes civil liberties labeled homosexuality as an letter says. "when civil legisla is contradictory to "medical and b' Gay men and women. "objective disorder" which is tion is introduced ID prolt:Ct psychological fmdinp as well as The leaer, written in Englisb, "essentially self-indulgem." behaviorto which no me has any its refutatiOn of scriptural ancl wasaimed at the North American The letter urged that churcb conceivable right," it's not sur theological teaching of Jo�snd Churth and Gay Catholic activist offiCials refuse to support pro- prising that "other disordered the goodness of God's �·
AIDS Ed. Coordinator Playgirl Los-es . NGRA Denounces New Frontal Nudes Immigation Law Hired for Tennessee Los Angeles � Theeditors of Nashville -- The Commun meet the needs of persons with Playgirl magazine have concluded San Francisco - National visions of the Act It's a gross icable Disease Control Section AIDS, ARC, or Human Immuno that sex . doesn't .seU :ana,.. will Gay Rights Advocates has de miscarriage of justice to allow the has announced that Matt Nelson, defiCiency Virus (HIV) infection, Immigration and Naturalization aisoontinue tl!eir frontal:.male nounced the newly-passed federal M.S.W .• has been hired as the and conduct some educational pre nudes with the February issue. immigration law as "draconian." Service the authority to deport AIDS Education Coordinator for sentations for the general public. Playgirl was �ntly purchased The bill gives amnesty to aliens these people simply because they Tennessee. Nel-son will be Prior to coming to by Carl Rudermari who currently living in the United States since are Gay." working in the CDC office in Nashville, Nelson was the Social owns High Society and Cheri.The 1982 and provides new penalties Under current law all Gay Nashville as the coordinator of a Work Coordinator for Georgia's Weekly News (Miami) reports for employers who hire aliens men and women can be excluded wide variety of AIDS-related edu first out-patient AIDS clinic at Ruderman as saying that the without proper visas. However, from the United States on the cational and llaining workshops Grady Memorial Hospital in change is an attempt to make the the section of the previous basis of being afflicted with a throughout the state. During the Atlanta. He has counseled many mag "more sensual" and "less immigration law barring Gays "psychopathic personality." This next few months he will individuals with AIDS and was blatant" We wonder how many fromentering the countryremains exclusion applies to all people concentrate on providing work instrumental in the· establishment of those "f.II'St initial� Subscrip fully in effect who visit the U.S., do business shops to train health educators of a strong network of religious tions are going to be going by Jean O'Leary, NGRA Execu here. or who intend to immigrate. and other health professionals in and socialservice organizationsto the wayside. tive Director, said, "This old Beginning with the Carl Hill the techniques of perfonning address the needs of individuals McCarthy-era law is an affront to case in 1982, NGRA has had AIDS educational pro-grams in with AIDS in the Atlanta area. AThird Story Is the dignity of every American several successes in blocking the their respective communities. Nelson also has participated in citizen. The government has no enforcement of the law in the Nelson also will help community numerous professional training Number Two, business inquiring into the sex Western states. Nevertheless, the AIDS organizations develop risk seminars and conferences on the lives of tourists and immigrants. INS continues to assert its duty medical, psychological, and social A Third Story, by reduction programs directed at Congress should have repealed to bar Gay people from the aspects of AIDS and IllY Memphian Carole Taylor has high-risk. individuals. assist in this repressive legislation long country. infection. come in at number 2 in a "networking" with local com ago; its failure to do it now is The new legislation is com survey of Denver. CO· Gay munity service organizations to monly referred to as the "Immi bookstores. lri the category o.f unpardonable." women's books. A Third Story Leonard Graff, NGRA Legal gration Reform and Control Act Inside: was beat out by Travels with Director, said "Gay people who of 1986" and the "Simpson DianaHunter by Regine Sands; came over in the Cuban boat lift Rodino Immigration Bill." It was Notes from West Hollywood Taylor's book was published of 1980 as well as all other Gay signed into law by President · ·.· • Vive La Revolution by Lace JnPress June. · immigrants deliberately Reagan on November 6, 1986. ··. are excluded from the amnesty pro- Skin Inhabitants We Share With Pets ------�------�------�!---�------��--�------�------�------·------�--��------�
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Perpetuating Gay Stereotypes hear, we even say, that being Gay really in the groin? is an excuse for being late and Sure, we've cleaned up our A by John Stilwell unwilling to complain when And speaking of using being undependable. In fact, being act to some degree. Most forms of c someone else perpetuates a certain words, how are we ever late is a result of poor planning of STD didn't scare us because 381 Do you remember when the stereotype. Yet we, the Gay going to stop the use of certain or a disregard for other people. you could go to the Health Aid Dire Sttaits' record, "Money for community, are the ones most at words like faggot, queer, and dyke Only occasionally is it the result Department and get a shot or : tee � Nothing," started getting played? fault for doing just that if we keep those words in of circumstances beyond our some pills and get back into J l840 One verse contained . the word We've become a part of a circulation by using them. Yeah, control. Being undependable or action. Now there's an STD that's � ·I faggot several times. Naturally, vicious circle and a self-fulfilling I know, I've heard the argument unreliable is the result of a lot more scarey and causing
we called the radio stations and prophecy. Some of it is that we can use them without the immaturity and an inability to some people to stOP. ana. think · objected and, lo and behold, the conscious and some of it. I'm meanness and hatred that our accept responsibility, as well as a about our behavior. But thert: are radio stations started playing an sure, is subconscious. detractors use. But think about it. disregard for others. So we get still a bunch of folks who'll go edited version with a musical For example, straight people When is the last time you used trapped in a circle. We are told out with a dozen condoms and bridge where the offensive verse look at us and try to figure out any of those terms to say that Gays are late and unreliable, screw their heads off with litlle or used to be. It seems as though which is the man and which is something nice to or about we start joking about being late no regard for tomorrow or the they were expecting trouble, the woman in the relationship. someone? and unreliable because we're Gay, realities of life. And what (hence the edited version all ready Rationally, we explain that there . I've also heard the argument. ·and we continue being late and happens when you are no longer to go) but thought they'd see if is no male/female · · or that they are a rich part of our unreliable thinking being- Gay is young. they could get by with it any dominant/submissive role playing history, and we keep reminding .an excuse for that. And the I know it's difficult. but way. Well, they didn't in our relationships. ourselves of our repression and ·stereotype is reinforced. we've got to get away from the As Gay people we tend to Subconsciously, though, those the discrimination against us by Perhaps the cruelest joke subconscious belief that all the watch any movie, play, or TV are the only relationship patterns keeping those words in use. BS! we've ever played on ourselves is negative things people say about program that purports to "look we know, so we mimic them. We If they are truly of historical perpetuating the stereotype of us might be true. Before we are at" a Gay issue; "explore" a Gay start interchanging pronouns and value, let's write them down in Gay promiscuousness. Before we anything else, we are individuals subject; or "present" a Gay masculine and feminine terms, books along with a discussion of get out into the Gay world, we with a free will, capacity to theme, with a supicious eye. We and perpetuate that stereotype how much we hate them and how hear about how promiscuous Gay reason, and the ability to make don't seem to be afraid or through our actions. much they hurt. People can refer people are. When we hit the "Gay choices. We can break the circle. to those books if they want to World" (the bars for many of us), Instead of acting and talking like know about our history. Let's get that idea is reinforced by people people expect Gays to act and those words out of circulation. who are just looking for a trick talk, we can act and talk like And speakingof how we talk- for tonight. lovers (either mature, respqnsible, thinking ' - How many times have you said separately or together) looking for people who atso happen to be he/she is late because he/she is on someone different for a change, or Gay. Just talking down the "Gaylight Savings Timi?" Have those folks who won't even talk stereotypes isn't enough. We need Box· 3038, Memphis, Tennessee 38173-0038. you ever heard "he/she can't be to you unless you're prepared to to get our mouths andour actions Phone (901 ) 454-1411 (evenings). depended on. What do you expect make a lifetime commitment together and headed towards a to from a dizzy queen?" What ever happened meeting more positive image for all of us. Gaze is non-profit and produced by volunteers. We Here are two prime examples people and making friends? Is the assume no liability for claims made by advertisers. of how we "do ourselves in". We beginning and end of all things Appearance in this publication is not an indication of
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NGRA Acts Against High Court to Rule on Gay "Olympics"
Insurors in 11 States The U.S. Supreme Court on its position that only popular August, 1982, when the " taken the HIV antibody test, October 20th agreed to decide olympics that it likes or approves Committee got an injunction Nationwide explained Benjamin Schatz, whether the United States can use the cherished word. I am prohibiting use of the word Challenge to Stop Director of NORA's AIDS Civil Olympic Committee can prohibit pleased that the Court has "Olympic" in coMection with an Arts Questioning About Rights Project "Once insurance San Francisco and Athletics, recognized the importance of not event in which amateur athletes, permitting the censorship and HIV Antibody Test companies realize how many Inc. from using the word most of them homosexual, were states forbid the question, we "Olympic" in connection with an discrimination that the U.S.O.C. scheduled to compete. Results this expect thatmany will be forced to event originally known as the has used law to accomplish." In May, 1986, the U.S. abandon it everywhere," he added. Gay Olympic Games. She pointed out that the record in Court of Appeals upheld the case San Francisco -- In an "This is not just a civil Represented by the American the establishes widespread Olympic Committee's claim to unprecedented move, National rights issue, it is a public health Civil Liberties Union and private use of the word "olympic" by copyright control of the word, Gay Rights Advocates has issue," said NGRA Executive counsel, the organizers of Gay groups including the police, ruling that it was "essentially bars simultaneously filed complaints Director Jean O'Leary. "If Games (as it was renamed), had Armenians, and the NAACP, and property� and that Congress had with Insurance Departments in insurance companies are allowed asked the Supreme Court to that there are olympics for given the Committee control over and crab-catchers. eleven states against two to ask applicants whether they reverse a lower court decision canines, rats, iL insurance companies. The two have taken the HIV antibody test, which ordered the Gay group not Susan McGrievy, a lawyer In a forcerul dissent from the companies, Kentucky Central people who wish to take the test to use the word "Olympic." with the ACLU of Southern appeals court decision in favor of case, Life Insurance Co. and Protective voluntarily will inevitably be The Gay Games were California, declared: "This the U.S. Olympics Committee, Life Insurance Co., require deterred from doing so. The test "designed to combat homophobia without a doubt, involves the Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, applicants to say whether they must not be misused as a tool for and to work for the health and single most egregious abuse of joined by two other judges, said seen." have tested positive for discrimination by insurers, tolerance of Gay and Lesbian civil liberties law that rve that the majority had failed to HIV/H1LV-m antibodies. The employers, m-others." persons," according to the "I'm extremely pleased that acknowledge "the difficult fust eleven jurisdictions in which Four jurisdictions - organizers. the Supreme Court granted our amendment issues presented." He case," ·complaints are being filed -- California, Maine, Washington In her response to the petition for review in this cqntinued: "Troublesome as Arizona, California, D.C., and Wisconsin --presently Supreme Court's grant of review, said Nan Hunter, Direct · against two insurance companies- presently C A county judge in Lesbian and Gay Rights ProjecL that in Bowers, the Supreme Atlanta Reaffirms Lexington, Kentucky, has ruled "We appreciate the courage that Court scrutinized a Georgia sodo that Kentucky's criminal sodomy was required for a Kentucky state my law in the light of the U.S. Gay Rights statute is unconstitutional. judge to apply the law of privacy Constitutional protections of a Fayette District Judge Lewis in such a principled way." right to privacy. As the Kentucky Atlanta - The city council of issue. The 19-member council, Paisley held that the statute, The charges against Wasson judge correctly pointed out, "Judi makes an Atlanta has reaffumed its· belief voted 13-3 (two abstentions) to which it illegal for indi were the result of undercover cial construction of the Federal that Gays have the right to be free 5Upp(X"t Gay rights. viduals of the same sex to engage investigation in dowatown Lex Constitution in no way limits the of discrimination. Passed without Of course, this doesn't mean in either oral or anal sex, violated ington, conducted by police detec rights and protections of the State 'much fanfare in March, two that Georgia is becoming libenll. Kentuckians' right to privacy tives who were wired for sound. Constitution." The judge went on under the state's constitution. The · ordinances amended the city There areunconfumed reports that undercover detectives posi to state that, "The authority cited charter and the city code to two men were arrested and Emesto Scorsone, ACLU tioned themselves in a parking lot by the Defendant indicates that and . prohibit job discrimination'on the convicted in Hall County for cooperating attomey and lead engaged in conversation with the right to privacy under the .. basis of sexual orientation in the having sex in a public rest area, counsel fm- defendant. Jeffrey people in the area After extended Kentucky Constitution is broader city. and a woman was arrested for Wasson, stated that the successful conversations, some officers were than that provided by the Federal , , ·' , / No one was surprised when performing.Under normal circum constitutional challenge to the invited home by unsuspecting Constitution.�. · As the outcry of "special favors" for stances, these charges would be sodomy statute was a victory for Gay men. In Jeffrey Wasson's a result oflhis-nilifl9,l tbe "thosekind of people" went ouL reduced to misdemeanors or all Kentucky citizens. "Judge case, as in the other cases, there charge against Jef�OWasson However, the city council disturbing the peace violations. Paisley's ruling recognized Ken was never an attempt or sugges was dismissed, along•ilwillrrtbe to has stuck to its guns and Both cases are being pursued by tucky's rich tradition ofprotecting tion commit a sex act in charges against four other 'indivi individuals' right to privacy. Ken public. All individuals involved duals charged under the same law. reaffumed its position on the the state as felonies. tucky's court system has stead were adults and there were no It is unlikely that the ·matter fastly defended an individual's offers or rC 8-Gaze-December, 1986 �tueaitH/AIDS ...... = · · · �����"'"�����-� Fleas, Ticks, Bacteria, Mites, and Fungus Skin Inhabitants Shared by Man, Dog, and Cat by Harvey Thompson, and that is what leads to the like eczema could acquire these variety of scabies in dogs that Was The human trcauncnt for MD itching and scratching. bacteria from pets and develop c burrow into . the human J has ref � 1 s..:abies usually is lindane Fleas spend most of their impetigo. Or, if a household skm .. It pr�sents with the s�me I (Kwell). Pets :1re more sensi Man has long had a close time off the animal in the rug, member has repeated strep �an1fes�at1�ns a� scabies: I.JVeto the possible nerotoxicity association with dogs and cats. the furniture, or sleeping area. throats, the family pet could be �ntense I�chi_ng. It IS unknown 0� lindane, so a spray like R & This attachment is reflected in Unfortunately, their life span the carrier. If the m1�e IS then capable of c . hould beused instead. the estimated $5 billion spent can be as long as two years! Fungus reproduction, however. on dog and cat food each year The treatment, of course, The most well-known of by Americans: $169 per dog must be aimed at the pet and these is ringworm. It is not a and $136 per-cat. his environment. You could worm and does not have to be Twenty-three percent of the choose from powders, sprays, a ring. The resemblance is Dr. Thompson Til adult population is single. mists, dips, and foggers. there many times because the The article above will the the final column by Dr. Thompson. Dogs and cats sometimes Ticks lesion's border is the ad-vane- His office in Sacramento, CA has informed us that Dr. Thompson. become the "significant other." They come in two forms: ing edge of nourishment for the is ill with some neurological problems. We would like Dr. Pets are even used in the hard and soft. Only the hard fungus. That rim is where the Thompson to know how much we, as a community, have therapy of some mental and ticks cause disease in humans. inflammation and the postules appreciated his efforts in educating us over the past several years. If emotional disorders of the These illnesses include Rocky will be. you would like to express your appreciation personally, you may young and elderly. In the Gay Mountain Spotted Fever Fungal skin infections are write him at 912 A 21st Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 room community, the household pet (RMSF), tick-borne encepha- more common among farm based is often referred to as "our litis, and "Lyme disease." animals than pets. Direct legisla child. " Ticks hang out in vegetation contact with man implants the the total number of AIDS cases the mo But this companionship can and jump onto their hosts that fungus on his face, neck, AIDS Doubling today. might lead to the sharing of infec walk through. There they scalp, or arms. The study was conducted by tions. These can range in engorge themselves on host The infecting animal may Among Hets the RTD Corp. of Lexington, Ga, severity from flea bites at the blood and in the process can have had no signs of the New - The rate of York and one of nearly a dozen least to rabies· at the worst transmit the serious microbial infection but still be the source. increase of AIDS among is cases studies that suggest that AIDS ZOonosis is a term used to de infections mentioned above. This is especially true of cats; heterosexuals in the U.S. is is easily transmitted heterosexually. scribe the transmissible infec The head of the tick should they still have to be treated to nearly twice that of their homo tions and infestations among be removed. Your friends will avoid reinfection of the owner. sexual counterparts, according to tell you any of a number of Mites And Lice man and animal. The entire new evidence from a study topic is too large to cover. and favorite techniques. Recently, Both man and animal suffer reported in here we will confine ourselves an expert tested these folk from lice (three pairs of legs). The Weekly News (Miami). to those skin conditions that remedies using the match But they are strictly host Although the number of might be problems. heads,· alcohol, Vaseline, etc.; specific � stay with their Fleas none of them worked. Many chosen species. In man, they heterosexually transmitted AIDS still small, number Generally fleas prefer a furry times the tick pan has to be are even anatomic specific; cases is the coat. But when an animal is not excised. hence head, body, and pubic has doubled within the last six around, they will go for human Bacteria . lice (crabs). months, mirroring the escalation skin andblood. Most physicians do not Mites (four pairs oflegs) can of AIDS cases in Gays. Barring Part of their sucking involves realize that pets can be a source be a shared infection. If unforseen vaccines or cures, it is salival injections to keep the of recurring staphylococcal and household scabies persistsafter estimated that the number of blood from clotting. This streptococcal infection. A lindane treatment, pets should heterosexually transmitted cases foreign juice is very antigenic, persou with a skin condition be checked. There is one of AIDS in five years will exceed • YES, AIDS IS DEPRESSING . SUPPORT GROUP FOR HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOU HAD IT? FRIENDS I FAMILY A small, but dedicated group of individuals is working very hard to OF PERSONS WITH educate the community and care for the needs of our AIDS patients -black, white, male, female, straight and Gay. If you think you AIDS would like to help or just want to know more about our Discuss experiences, share organization, please attend our next meeting. information,learn how to cope, and Aid to End AIDS Committee enjoy reassuring social interaction Sunday, December 12 2:00PM Red Cross Buildin� 1400 Central Refreshments Served When: First and Third Sunday of each 1 J month at 3 pm. Memphis Gay �tchbo� Where: Red Cross Building 1400Central Avenue 726-GAYY FULLYCONFIDENTIAL Staffed Nightly For further information call: 762-8401 7:30- 11:30 PM Sponsored by: . izes The Aid to End AIDS Committee priv� testin and the American Red Cross Information * Counseling * Referrals FDA: "Poppers Department of Social and Health AIDS 1 Day j recently after winning a settle- Cronan. Services has called the test non- I ment from the phone company Cronan received many anon- Not A Drug" actuarial and not predictive of Wa lk ou t I for breach or privacy when it ymous death threats and had there- disease," Holm continued. "So · Needham, MA - Twenty- 1 leaked to the workforce the reason fore included in the settlement a why Washington, D.C. -- The FDA authorize its use? We see nine telephone linemen who 1 for his leave of absence. The New I firm promise that the company has refused to back up a claim by injudicious haste to accommodate staged a one day walkout after England Telephone Co. linemen would educate his co-workers the insurance indust , and we a group of U.S. Representatives ry _ �ee finding out a co-worker had AIDS returned to work after being about AIDS and how it is that poppers should be classified probable homophobm behmd are back to work. assured they will not contract transmitted to make sure that he these actions." as drugs. The group attempted to Paul Cronan returned to work AIDS through working with is not harrassed on the job. pass a drug abuse bill which would make poppers a controlled Plan Has Secret substance. Claiming that poppers could Policy to Reject lead to more widespread drug San Franciscans abuse and might possibly lead to AIDS, several legislators San Francisco -- National attempted to pass the bill through Gay Rights Advocates filed a Congress. The Food and Drug $500,000 consumer fraud Administration, however, stated complaint with the California that the substance, labeled as a Department of Corporations room deoderizer, is not a drug against HealthAmerica, a local based on its labeled use. The health maintenance organization. legislators have since given up HealthAmerica is charged with the movement We wonder if they secretly redlining the city of San might try to outlaw glue next Francisco in an attempt to avoid AIDS-related medical expenses. According to former Health HIV Screening America employee Joanna Baugh, company supervisors told her to By Insurance take all San Francisco applica Companies tions and hide them in a desk drawer. These applicants were Opposed then sent rejection letters indi cating that they had been turned Washington State Insurance down for medical reasons. Commissioner Marquardt has "HealthAmerica's crude poli issued new rulings which would cy of redlining is not only illegal allow for blood screening for and unethical -- it is medically ab person.s_ suspected of mv virus surd," declared Benjamin Schatz, infection lijldpermit the insurance Director of the AIDS Civil industry to shield itself from Rights Project of National Gay health care costs in the AIDS Rights Advocates. "AIDS is epidemic. Dorian Group President neither a 'Gay disease' nor a 'San Jim Holm condemns the pro Francisco disease' - it is a na pOsal. "�arquardt is setting a tional problem which affects precedent in approving the use of men, women, and children of all this 'marker test'. This IllY test races andsexual orientations." is not a diagnostic tool. It does "It is time for the health care not tell you if.you have AIDS. It industry to realize that it can't says you might someday in the avoid the costs of AIDS by resort future develop some symptoms or ing to scapegoating and stereo come down with AIDS. If we let typing," said NGRA Executive this one go by, we will set a Director Jean O'Leary. precedent that will cause many In its complaint against healthy adults to beuninsurable. n HealthAmerica, NGRA seeks the The medical profession is maximum penalty allowed by law developing a wide range of non - $2,500 for each violation. Since diagnostic marker tests. These the number of peopledefrauded by tests purport to have varying the company is at least two degrees of predictive capability. hundred, NGRA is calling for a "This discriminatory action fine of more than $500,000. In could cost taxpayers millions of addition, NGRA urges the dollars in public assistance, Department of Corporations to Medicaid, and Medicare as those require HealthAmerica to admit uninsurables are left to the public all San Francisco applicants who dole. The balance of public and were unfairly rejected and to pay the private sector financing of the them for any increased costs AIDS health crisis has been which they incurred. If shifted to the state and federal HealthAmerica fails to comply government with the adoption of with these measures, NGRA will these rules," continued Holm. demand that the company's "The Commissioner author license be revoked. izes another invasion of our privacy through this blood testing. The Washington State belief in the inherent superiority many readers tend to think only possible strategy to combat Vive La Revolution! of the dominant-male/passive of women in terms of sexual discriminatory legislation such as female role pattern." liberation, this is not the authors' the CaliforniaBriggs Initiative. One example given by the intent at all. They discuss the In California, Briggs (No Turning Back by Gerre The authors state, "We admit to a the authors of an on-going fonn of ways in which both men and Initiative was proposed, which Goodman, George Lakey, Judy certain uppityness. we propose, oppression is that of queer women need to be sexually would have made it possible for Lashof, and Erika Thome. New as one might expect of Gays, an liberated. To the extent that teachers signing a statement Society Publishers.) outrageous revolution. We think bashing, specifically, the incident Hall in women are sexually oppressed, so defending the rights of Lesbians our optimism is more than at Philadelphia City 1975. Lesbians protesting in are men. (This has been and Gay men to legally be faed. Review by E. C. pretension; the social changes we favor of Gay rights legislation feminism's .guiding premise all The authors' facsimile solution And I thought I'd heard the are proposing are for a movement · · � · were beaten, kicked, and thrown along.) The authors opine that goes as follows: last gasps of the revolution. In in which the political is personal, down flights of stairs by a civil some changes we can expect to One school district quietly 1978, I think it was. It wasn't the personal, political." 2 squad called in to see in a sexually liberated society collects large numbers of that we quit struggling after the The authors' premise for the disobedience are: signatures to such a statement. In late 70's. It's just that we fought need of such a book is that the evict them. 1. Sexuality will be the middle of the school term, it with a grim detennination, march- current far right movement, Chapter two is an analysis of of oppression. A independent of the biological publicly releases the documents ing in our marches and bringing which they state is very well- the nature function of reproduction. and challenges school district our court cases with dressed-for- organized, wishes to erase the multitude of premises are laid out the Sex will be regarded as to fire the signers. School success resolution. No one poked rights Gay men and Lesbians and discussed. For example, the 2. clean and wholesome. Districts are not likely to do so - flowers in gun barrels anymore. have thus far gained and force us authors state that "capitalism the labor force that 3. Androgyny will replace - to fire a large number of No one sat in coffee houses with back into the closet. They believe needs a part of be hired and at will." the polarized concepts of teachers and hire replacements in guitars, singing songs about that invisibility is an essential can fired show how this need masculine and feminine. the middle of a school year would peace and love anymore. No part of the oppression of Gay- They supports heterosexism with this Chapter four sets out five greatly disrupt the "educational Turning Back: Lesbian and Gay ness. They state that even as stages of Gay liberation. One past process" and the bureaucratic Liberation for the 80's, put out invisibility has never satisfied observation. "Women are ideal for ling this economic niche. Since successful strategy in process. Large numbers of firings by New Society Publishers, those who truly desired to fll the a woman's work in the home is liberation struggle is that of mass might outrage parents and other brings back the fae and adamance persecute Gay people in the past, is noncooperation. The authors give citizens who might be mobilized that was evident in the early to it will not satisfy them in the unpaid and she supposedly the example of the Gay boycott to give mass support to the mid-seventies as the Gay rights future. attached to and supported by a against Florida orange juice in teachers. and women's movements explod- In chapter one, the authors man, she can be hired cheaply and reaction to Anita Bryant's anti This strategy could be ed into being -- the inevitable discuss some of the many ways laid off easily." and, of course, by the need for every Gay campaign. Ms. Bryant, who effective for city, state, or federal next step in the civil rights Gay men and Lesbians continue emphasizing male to support a female, men, made her living advertising government employees in some agenda. to be persecuted and coin the Gay men in particular, are Florida citrus products, lost situations. One of the prol>lems No Turning Back dares to be term, "heterosexism," which her job with the Citrus Commission, in the past has been fmding a way grand, ambitious, visionary - means the "suppression and denial oppressed by being forced into a which may or may not suit most likely due to boycott to protest without jeopardizing - things incompatible with what I of homosexuality with the role the and the Gay uproar against her. jobs. This, and othe methods call the "cost-effectiveness assumption that everyone is or them. pter d1tee is eii6ded The idea that most �cited disc'usSecl by 1be aUthors. seem attituae" of 80's conservatism. 1 should be hetero and, second, a Clia "Breaking Free: A Vision of me in this chapter was the plan reasonable and workable. ,------:::;j•------• r ___ Sexual Liberation." It envisions for a protest which may very Chapter five is entided the sort of society necessary to likely be necessary for many Gay "Lesbian Culture and Strate�.• liberate Gay people. 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I think they were blowing in Los Angeles this out surfers. sun-worshippers. and strenuous brunch at an outdoor get home the streets were blocked playing "American Patrol." week. That means warm tem guppies of all descriptions. cafe. But now is the perfect time by trafrte cones and bottom-heavy That was the end of the pemtures and clear skies. The It is 9 am on Veteran's Day - � to wake up over a cup of coffee policewoman (oops, police parade. The n'dal$ pushed their persons). Mter about 10 minutes carts to the m ddle of, the stteet to of fighting traffic on little side confer, then chased the poor streets. I got within 2 blocks of impotent pan¥Je down towards my apartment I was required to San Vicente B<)ulevard. where the show my driver's license to get band would be playing a concert any further. and slowly threaded I turned and started back up the my way past the gaily attired hill to the apartment Late Great American Yankee Freedom arrivals. a girl and three boys Band (think acronyms). My dressed in loose black slacks. neighborhoodhad apparently been leather. and hardware drifted down selected for the honor of being lhe toward the parade route. I didn't staging area for the parade. tell them they had missed it Goodie. Someone told me that the By the time I got into the Christopher Street West parade. apartment. I heard the band start our annual Gay Pride Week up, and dashed out the door with exttavaganza. was once a poor my camera. I am only about 500 little affair like this one. 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