September, 1983 Volume 4, Number 9 Memphis, Tennessee

theirs is the safest blood. Histori­ cally, Lesbi.ans have the lowest inci­ dence of sexually transmitted disease Falwell Visits Memphis and they are the one group of indivi­ duals least likely to contract AIDS." In early August Jerry Falwell, uals depraved and an abomination and leader of the Moral Majority, visited claims that AIDS is the wages for Stilwell called Falwell's remarks is an the Bluff City as a part of his na­ their sins. "ludicrous". He said, "AIDS Gay community has tionwide campaign against AIDS. He Asked to comment on Falwell's ap­ epidemic and the prevent its has called for increased funding for pearance in Memphis, Memphis Gay Coa­ already taken steps to as the AIDS research but it is his call for lition member John Stilwell said, "We spread. Almost as devastating of "radical action" to "discriminate a­ can use all the money Falwell can disease itself is the epidemic discrimination that gainst· the persons who are known to raise for research but we don't need hysteria and promoting." be the high risk groups," which has Reagan or Falwell and his 'program of people like Falwell are identified Gays and Lesbians disturbed. discrimination' to help us stop the The only positively in­ Falwell has accused Reagan and spread of AIDS. The Gay community is means of transmission is through a victim other government officials of negli­ taking care of its own through educa­ timate sexual contact with gence because they have taken no pre­ tion and an intelligent and sensitive or carrier. education provided to the ventive measures to stop the spread approach to the problem. Bars and "Through of AIDS. Falwell blames this inaction bath houses across the country have Gay community by the Gay community, on their fear of Gay and Lesbian vot­ recognized their responsibility and changes in attitudes and lifestyles ing blocs and the result of alienat­ have started offering alternate acti­ have already resulted in a decrease ing that large group of voters. Fal­ vities which reduce the possibility in the rate the disease is spread­ it became well said that if sterner measures of the spread of disease." ing," Stilwell said. "When might were not taken, within a year, "We're Stilwell said the fact that Les­ known that blood transfusions of transmission, going to have an epidemic that's out bians have not had any. incidence of be a possible means of control, involving thousands, not AIDS shoots the theory of "God's re­ Gay men were urged to refrain from hundred's." venge" but unfortunately, they are donating blood and the marked de­ Falwell's "radical action" calls unfairly lumped together with Gay men crease in blood donations indicates for the mandatory closing of all bath in the new wave of discrimination they have responded." houses and calls for blood donors that is sweeping the country because The Red Cross has determined that "to fill out extensive questionaires of the ignorance and fear that is be­ the possibility of contracting AIDS has latched on to AIDS and the irra­ is one in a on penalty of perjury, detailing ing reinforced by the inflammatory through blood transfusion tional fea·r and hysteria it has their health and sexual proclivi­ remarks of people like Falwell. million. caused to garner support for his on­ Stilwell said, ties." Re is also calling for firm In con�lusion, going program tci- discriminate-ag�iu"s-t been carrying on a guidelines for health care workers "In fact," Stilwell said, "blood "Jerry Falwell has and isolate Gays and Lesbians from and Lesbians who deal with victims. donation centers should be reaching campaign against Gays the mainstream of society. Frankly, is an opportunist and Falwell continues to call homosex- out to the Lesbian community since for years. He we don't need his kind of help."

Protesters Liaison Between MGC Disrupt AGLRF and AID Atlanta -- -- Film for GPW Established

list so we �ill receive the most up­ FAYETTEVILLE(A ansas Gag Writes)-­ I'm concerned, they've got·no rights" to-date information as soon as it is � A taped replay at the Paris Adult and thumped his Bible to show the ba­ available. Gay Pride Week in Fayetteville was Theatre on Summer of the Memphis,Gay sis for his statement. The Coalition has placed an initial disrupted 1ast month when a group Coalition's AIDS benefit, Old Hash, calling itself Anti-Gays of Arkansas In response to the protesters, an order for 15 stands at $25 .00 each originally staged · at circuit Play­ which will be enough to cover all the picketed a documentary film shown at officer of AGLRF wrote a press state­ house for a SRO audience, raised an bars, Club South.· and 4 Adult thea­ the Fayetteville Public Library. The ment which stated, "We (AGLRF) are additional $113 for the Coalition's word Is Out', tres. An ini�ial printing of 5000 film, w-as sponsored by tax-paying citizens who are entitled AIDS fund bringing the current total to our basic human rights which are brochures will cost $495.35. The bro­ AGLRF. About 60 people, Gay and to $2434 .22. chures distributed to the bars will straight, came to see the film de­ guaranteed in the First Amendment of New York and Atlanta were both con­ the Constitution, We have the right be replenished as necessary. Anyone spite the protesters, press and live tacted to get the most current infor­ to assemble in a public facility and w�shing to receive the brochure may TV cameras. mation and pamphlets to distribute in p�ck them up free at the locations The protesters, all 6 of them, car­ the freedom of speech. We are showingr the Memphis area and to get a speaker Word Is Out, mentioned or may send a stamped-self­ ried posters which read, "God did not the film, in honor of for a proposed symposium for local addressed envelope to The Memphis Gay create Adam and Steve, nor Gays and Gay Pride Week. The film is a docu­ physicians. The problem with printed AIDS." mentary which was originally shown on Coalition, P.O. Box 3038 , Memphis, TN materials is that they are usually 38173-0038 . Their leader, Don Robison, 21, of PBS-TV. We invite the protesters and outdated by the time they are ready . In reques;ing a speaker for a sym­ Lincoln, who is single and unemploy­ press to view this educational film for distribution and must constantly posium for local physic1Cans,-both-New ed, stated is his press release that with us in a peaceful manner." be updated. (Between the first meet­ Robison York and Atlanta referred us back to his group is "made up of Christian, is currently circulating ing to discuss a brochure for distri­ Dr. Linda Pifer, a researcher at U.T. concerned parents whose primary goal petitions that call for unspecified bution and a second meeting two weeks is to help re-establish the moral anti-Gay legislation.He said "that the later, the original ·brochure had been who spoke to a group of about 40 fiber in our state and nation." The petitions have been distributed in replaced with a more up-to-date and people at the program meeting on Aug­ release said the group's purpose is the Fayetteville, Prairie Grove and more comprehensive brochure.) ust 15. She gave a slide presentation Lincoln to "get legislation on the ballot to areas plus "we've got some The Memphis Gay Coalition has esta- and spoke about some of her own abolish Gay activities in the State below Little Rock and we're going to ·blished a liason with AID Atlanta. We theories on AIDS. of Arkansas." J!lail some to the Jonesboro area." are currently their west-most distri­ The Coalition is also trying. to ob­ According to a story by Kay Al­ "When we've got enough signatures, bution point and we have been charged tain a one-hour tape from Atlanta on bright in the •Northwest Arkansas we're· going to take them to the legi­ with distributing information to AIDS. When it is available, the tape Times, '�hen questioned further about slature and get something done," he Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. will probably_ be scheduled for airing - possible legislation, Robison indi­ said. Robison did not have an esti­ AID Atlanta has specially designed on Views From iO% · and at a Coalition cated that he wanted to restrict mate as to how many signatures he bad display stands for AIDS information program meeting. homosexuals from meeting in public at the moment, commenting, "We've brochures. The Coalition has received The most current statistics we have places" · and from "flaunting their really only started this five days a­ unrestricted permission to reprint on the AIDS epidemic indicate there lifestyle to the world." Robison's go when I saw that ad," (advertising any information received from Atlanta are 1922 reported cases (847 of those father, Ralph, asserted "as far as the fHm). and we have been put on their mailing in New York) and 743 deaths. Editorials appearing in Gaze represent only the opinions of the Gazi authors unless otherwise indicated.

But let's face it. I mean I'm a ers,1let us never forget that the little slow, but it's finally sinking government responded only after it Learning From AIDS in. Look guys--for all our glitter became aware that non-Gays could get AIDS. So NOW they panic--Headlines-­ food, then they would put out a call and "buying power," when push comes TV Reports--Sympathy (for non-Gay for Lesbian blood donations and flock to shove we're at the bottom, rock victims) and, of course, MONEY. to Lesbian restaurants. For, since bottom. Let's make it real clear -­ So forgive me if I'm a little about /• AIDS is ·very likely sexually trans- · we're below Blacks, Chicanos, Jews, the motives behind these recent ap­ ·""' . mitted through penile penetration, Chinese. Only women and possibly In­ "··. propriations. the group of people least likely on dians can share our status. We are And I keep getting angrier. And out earth to get AIDS is Lesbians. expendable. of that anger a vision is forming. But they don't ask for Lesbian Every time I think about it I get · Recently I read how the Gay Center blood donors, and they don't flock to angrier, furious. I'm furious at our (The following is an editorial which in Philadelphia formed their own GAY CONHUNITY NEWS Lesbian restaurants. helplessness. appeared in the school for some Gay kids who lived in And amidst all the cacophony about I attended the AIDS demonstrations from Boston, Massachusettes, written a house run by the Center. Seems they nature's revenge or God's curse, are with thousands of my brothers • and by Jim Wilson) couldn't go to 'the neighborhood high we to understand that Lesbians are sisters and the solidarity was beau­ school without getting beat up. So especially blessed because they are tiful. And I cheered with the rest I had almost forgotten. the Center formed its own school for free of the plague? when it was announced that the gov- It's easy to forget. Gay and Lesbian kids. (I had almost my I'm a little slow, but I AM learn­ -ernment had released some money for Almost all friends are Gay or forgotten the constant terror I felt ing that bigotry has its own twisted A IDS research. Lesbian. My social life is centered· when I was in school. ) logic, its own way of systematically Why did we cheer? It took them around Gay institutions. My reading­ And that's a part of my vision. not seeing. I'm a little slow, but I YEARS to respond, Too little, too is mostly Gay oriented, Gay maga­ It's a vision of Gays and Lesbians think I can _recogni�e a set-up •. late for so many. We should have zines, Gay books, Gay ·poetry. ra1s1ng our own children in our own If a mysterious disease suddenly screamed in rag�. So I had almost forgotten. school11; taking care of ourselves in Then along came AIDS and I remem­ appeared among the tightly knit Chi­ But the reason we cheered is demor­ o�r own healing facilities, dealing bered. ne-se community in New York or San· alizingly obvious. We are beggars po­ w1th o�r own probles in our own way, Francisco, and if the government was, litely requesting the government(this I remembered, I was reminded, how nurtur1ng ourselves with·our own hol­ shall we say, sluggish in finding same government which has mercilessly much we are hated, how deeply de­ idays, rituals and ceremonies. It's funds to combat it, the holy New York persecuted us) to please, oh please, spised, how tenuously tolerated. vision of Gays and Lesbians becoming Times and other bastions . of liberal­ help us. So we cheered when FINALLY AIDS has demonstrated' to me finally .so strong, so INDEPENDENT, that we ism would have no problem identifying they responded. and definitely that homophobia is a will never again have to grovel and the reason for the government's lack I'm learning. I'm a little slow, PASSION, an avocation. bet while our brothers are dying. Ten straight White Males die of a of interest. but I'm learning. I mean, dear broth- mysterious disease and the nation has apoplexy--Headlines--TV Reports--Sym­ pathy. MONEY comes -·pouring in and there was no discussion where to find News of Discrimination it. Disappointing I'm getting angrier. Each time I think about it, I get angrier. I had almost forgotten. But I'm re­ membering. I'm remembering the depths Box3038_ of sexism and its attendant blind­ ness. In �11 the propaganda about the I may have spoken too highly of the of the torment and bitterness that "homosexual" (sic) plague, about the city's Gay community and its busi­ racism can cause. Even today, some 30 infected blood supply, about removing ness establis hments . years later, we are constantly re­ us from the food industry, etc. AD The practicing of racist po licies minded of tho se evil days that dis­ NAUSEUM, the Patriarchs remain Les­ and any form of discrimination can crimination preva iled openly in th is bian blind. If they were really con­ not be of any value in the Gay commun­ c �ty and state . Bas ically, we are re­ t t to the atro mlnded because cerned about their blood or their Littlt'ltOthe�r·ahouldbe81hortU i y and i is up p ns of it still exists in a these e tablishments to recognize variety of forms that society poealbte � multbe ligned . �mea will be . � seems wlthheldbyrequeltbutanonymousletteriWtll that lt 1s more damag ing to look the to deem to lerable and even �he Gay other way when you a e aware that community is no exception notbe printed. "Box 3038" II• letterw to the : . such procedures are be1ng tolerated . If one wou ld th ink rationally about :editorcolum n anc:llla. pu bilefor um tor�-- . ,_... , As the founder of GREAT (Gay, Ra- racism, they would come to a cross­ ex,...· . to their oplnlonl. Gaze takel no cially Equal and Together) Men of road of questions such as , what sig­ �bllltyf0topl.,l9nlexpreeaed.Lengthy Little Rock, a Black and White Men nificance does rac ist exclusion play lettersbe may e(llted forapiiCe requirements Together affiliate , I felt that in the popularity or pros perity of an butO.lnal meanlngaWilt" not altered be . Mall should echo the sentiments �f my extablishment? Are these persons a­ ·�tftteri-to G� E�ltor.BOX 3038 . ..emphii;TN counterparts and co !leagues there in ware of the "traps" they are setting Memphis,- Tennessee 38173-0038. (901) Box 3038, Phone 311� Memphis by po inting out that the for themselves in being racist, . 454-14. 11 (Irregular hours) problem of racism cannot· simply be whether open ly or not? Do they . real­ In past letters to Gaze, I praised ignored . It is an attitude that does ize that they are narrowing the ir produced by voluntMrB. We Memphis a being a "progressive city " Gaze Is nonprofit and assume no more to destroy a community than it prospects for meeting new and inter­ in this and llabltlty for claims made by advertisers. Appearance an ideal model for other cities , does to unite one. esting people of color? It would seem Indication of sexual orientation identity. publication Is no or the especially my home base of Little Being from a city that has made that most bigots can't help them- We welcome- materials submitted by readers but reserve materials. Subecriptionsare $8per Rock . However, after reading the history , due to its extreme problems right to edit or rejectsuch continued on page 5 Gaze Is published on the last Frl· Gaze, year to cover mailing costs. latest edition of to. my dismay of racist attitudes , [am well aware month by the Memphis Gay Coalition. day of every �: John Stilwell-Allen Cook OFF CUE.

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·- -G o He r------:----'���;_;����;;,;��---� •Y.- R,ocle . ld. .f.• ,.. �le Ptms!S<' · LAGUNA BEACH, CA (GCNj- Bob Gentry has become the second- openly Gay may­ ,, RENO ,NV(Washington Blade--A reli- . .. o: 1n the country according to Equal National gious group calling itself the Pro­ . 1. T�me•• Ge try was elected to the city Family Christian Coalition � last week counc1l �n 1982 and was recently sel- lost its attempt to halt the annual . ected mayor by his fellow councilmem-. Gay Rodeo. ' bers. The mayor is selected from the Calling the estimated 50,000 Gay c�uncil membership. spectators for the annual event a Gentry joins. Mayor Gene Ulrich- of health crisis, the Coalition asked Bunceton, MO, as the only other Gay the Washoe County Commission to stop mayor in the country. the 4-day event. But after :.hearing from the Reno District Attorney that the rodeo would have to be found to (Gay News) L present a clear and Dan White Must be Released from . Gays/Blacks Join In Civil - ittle chance is seen present danger for passage, this term, of Congres­ the County Commission voted to tak� Prison · ,, Rights Demo .1.. · sional bills that would remove. re­ no a�tion on the Coalition's request. Wh1le the Coalition strictions against the immigration of claimed to have (Gay News)-- The California attorney CHICAGO, IL-A coalition of national garnered 6 000 signatures Gays. B�t momentum is building; the , on a peti­ general says Harvey Milk's killer Gay/Lesbian organizations has announ-·· House b411, introduced again by Rep. t on publ shed as a full page � � adver­ must'be paroled. In a non-binding le­ ced its support of the.,.20 . AJ}ni�er­ t1sem nt 1n - Julian Dixon (D-CA), has 42 co-spon­ � several Reno newspapers, gal opinion, the state's sary Mobilization for fl�a top lawyer . nd sors--compared with 29 last term. The organ1zers of the rodeo received sup­ J���·-.p� says t�at the governor must parole Freedom and plans to 'boordinate·dhe port from Senate bill was introduced by Sen. the county health dept Dan Wh1te next January, Gay/Lesbian community's participation White, the Alan Cranston (D-CA) without co-spon­ the University of Nevada Heaith _ _ the event. ·· ' •, opinion read, was put. i� Soledad pri­ in , ' � _sorship. Congress plans . to recomme'nd . D pt , the Reno Casino Dealers Asso­ � � : son under the state's determinate On Apri1 1 7 , 1983, the Na ional --Co­ a major overhaul of the immigration : C1at1on and at least 1 daily newspa­ ' sentencing law which requires the alition of Black Gays became the system (a. move that may not be com­ per. first organization to officially en­ state to release a convict at the end pleted this term) before considering The annual Gay Rodeo, Reno's 4th · of his term. White was convicted .of dorse the commemoration of the 1963 tile sexual preference issue. Mean-· largest event of the year includes the 1978 murder of San Francisco su­ March on Washington led by the late �ile, judicial relief appears more such tFaditional rodeo eve�ts as bull Martin_ Luther Ki'Qg·, ,Jr. The Na­ pervisor Harvey Milk. Present Mayor Rev. .jmmediate. The Federal Circuit Court riding, square dancing and a �orse tional Gay- Task Force subsequently· Diane Feinstein and many Gay leaders of Appeals is expected to · rule soon show. have aiked that White not be freed endorsed the event. National organi­ on the so-called "Carl Hill" case. In zations joining in this coordina�ion next year. the case, a lower court determined in include Gay Rights National Lobby, My Best Friends ...... '80 that the government must certify Wall St. Journal Refuses Human R1ghts. Campaign Fund, Interna­ an alien has a "psycopathic personal­ (The Washington Blade)­ tional Association of Black and White COBB CO, GA Gay Ad ity, sexual deviancy or mental de­ Georgia congresBman Larry McDonald Men Together and the Universal Fel­ · SAN FRANCISCO (The Washington Blade) fect" �n �rder to prevent entry to apparently thinksthat the majority of lowship of Metropolitan Co�unity --The Wall Street Jourr1al has joined the US. S1nce the Public Health Ser­ his colleagues are homosexuals, Hai­ Churches. the list of those newspapers made so vice has refused to do so, the go�­ tians, hemophiliacs, or intravenous In a �o�nt statement. th!! group is­ uncomfortable by the word "Gay" that ernment has been unable to enforce drug users. ' su�d.a call to the Gay/Lesbian commu­ they refuse to allow Gay businesses the sexual preference prohibitions That's the conclusion that could be nity to .participate in large numbers to use it in ads appearing in the. for the past 3 years. drawn from McDonald's remarks to the as "an open declaration of support p�per. North Georgia Chapter- of the John • for the goals of the march and as At least that's the lesson being Birch Society in early June. McDonald demonstration that the goal of civil Health Official Fired for drawn by officials at the Atlas Sav­ national chairman of the soci­ rights for all Americans includes· who is ings and Loan that a classified ad Negative Attitude meeting that the feder­ civil rights for Gay/Lesbian Ameri­ ety, told the for a chief executive officer was un­ cans. Local organizations and indivi­ al government should institute a acceptable. on AIDS victims to finance duals are urged to mobilize their "user tax" The text of the ad read:"Atlas Sav­ MADISON (The Washington Blade'- Dane But, McDonald commu�ities for this march." research into AIDS. ings & Loan, the world's first finan­ c t current makeup of Negotiations are now underway, to County E�e u �ve Jonathan Barry re­ added "with the cial institution organized by Lesbian mem­ pass that. assure inclusion of a representative cently f1led·an order removing a Congress, we couldn't /Gay p rson to serve the Lesbian/Gay to raise � � of the Gay/Lesbian community among ber of .the county Health Board from Congreasmen would not want commun1ty, 1s conduct1ng. a nationwide ves. " the speakers at the rally. his position after the board member taxes for themsel search for a qualified person to fill opposed a resolution calling on the An aide said McDonald's remarks the position of Chief Executive Offi­ to spend ·were made facetiously. federal government $12 mil­ cer. Interested persons should sena lion on AIDS research and said Gay their resume to •.•" people must "pay the piper" for their "I was shocked by their lack of Lftblan Sgt. Sues Military behavior. enlightenment in this day and age," Dr. James Pawlich, the board mem­ said John Schmidt, chairman of the ber , also suggested that the money Atlas Board of Directors. SOUTH PORTLAND, ME(_The ffuhin¢on would be better spent attempting tos Blade)-A woman who served 4 years in change the behavior of homosexuals. Pawlich, said the Army before joining the reserves Barry, in firing "freedom of speech (was) 'lQt the is­ Cons.ervative Joins is suing the military because she was sue at hand," but that Pavlich's re­ disch�rg!d from a University of Maine marks were "inconsistant w1th the ROTC program in '81 after acknowledi= g al and commitment of . the board to ing •he ia a Lesbian. o Civil Rights · address health needs and concerns of Sgt. Diane Matthews, 25 who still all Dane County<'citizens equally serves in the reserves� said she re­ ." bbying· Effort revealed her homosexuality to other Lo ROTC cadets when she asked to be ex­ discrimination against Gays and stat­ WASHINGTON, DC- Steve Endean, Execu­ cused from a drill session to attend ted: "Your average �ttorney with a Letbian "Unfit to Pa,.nt" tive Director of C�NL announced that a student meeting where there was a degree in economics and international former US Rep. Bob Bauman will serve vote on - funding for the campus Gay Charges Ex-hulband relations and a doctorate in Law 3 as a lobbyist for G�NL. Bauman will 1 group. years in the Senate of one of the assist Endean on Capitol Hill by lob• "About two seconds before (I spoke several states and nearly a· years in Blade) T ; bying for Lesbian and Gay civil up), I realized (what I was about to PIERSON, FL (�shington -- he the Congress would ordinarily have rights legislation; working against say)," she said, but decided "Ita ao­ former executive director of the FTo­ Gay discrimination in immigration; few problems in finding employment ing to say it anyway." rida Task Force, a state-wide Cay public office --- espe­ fighting the anti•Gay McDonald Amend­ upon leaving Matthew's suit is strongly support­ rights group, is being sued by her cially when the man he supported in ment (offered every session by Rep. 3 ed by her father, a sargeant ..jor ex-husband who is seeking to reduce Larry HcDonold (D-GA) in an attempt to presidential elections finally wins with 3� years of military service. He her visitation rights to their 2 - the White House. A parliamentary wiz­ prohibit Legal Services funding from said his daughter would .. ke a go6d· children based on her "association" ard who could silence Bella Abzug and being used for any pro-Cay issue); officer. with Cay rights causes. hog tie Tip O'Neill must have some and lobbying for greater government "She's being honest with herself Ronni Sanlo, well known among Flor­ utility in a Federal agency, an am­ funding for research of AIDS. Bauman and everybody around here," he said. ida Gays as a Gay rights lobbyist bassadorial post or a Washington law will serve on a pro bono basis (That "I'm proud of her." with the Florida legislature, said firm, wouldn't you think? is, without financial cost to GRNL) . The elder Matthews also said he has her former husband filed a petition Bauman was chosen "One of Ten Most "The answer is No if you are Gay. " worked with Gays in the milit�ry a�d before a Seminole County, FL court Endean called Bauman's new involve­ Admired Conservatives in the US" by that many officers know who is Cay, claiming a "change of circumstance" "A tremendous oppor­ readers of Conservative Digest maga­ ment with GRNL, but "nobody runs and tells. They has resulted in her being "unfit to zine in 1980 and is the founder of tunity to show that the Gay civil write a lot of crap in the Pentagon, parent" and that she should be denied both the American Conaervative Union rights movement is not just for lib­ but out in the field, it doesn't ap­ visitation except "under the erals. Gay civil rights legislation and the Young Americana for Freedom. ply." strictest of circumstances. " with conservative He served in Congress from 1973-81 . is consistant One of the reasons the Department Sanlo said she is seeking contribu­ thought of le�s government interven­ In a speech before the American Bar of Defense has advanced for ita poli­ tions for attorney's fees in her le ­ tion in private lives and indiv.idual Association Meeting in Atlanta, Bau­ cy of excludia, hoaoaexuals froa the gal fight to maintain visitation rights. Bauman's involvement sends a man stated his unqualified support military is that morale would suffer rights. She said tax-deductible con­ loud, clear signal to policy makers for Lesbian and Cay civil rights leg­ if openly Gay people were allowed to tributions can be sent to the Sanlo that the issue cuts 'across political islation and added, "Yes, I � still a serve in the field. Defense Fund, c/o EAGLS (Education and ideological boundries not only in political conservative. And yes, I am Oral arguments were heard in feder­ Association for Cay and Lesbian Stud­ Washington, DC but around the na­ Gay." Bauman cited many examples of al •iatrict court last �. ies), P.O. Box 434 Pieuon, FL 32080 . · tion. " ...... ,,. "'"·,.., Bladt··Gaucus· Support�. . �a*iviLRig�ts -BilL::-,--�--;;.- #: ;!, .. WASHINGTON , DC- Civ11 rights , lgng ·<' f' . Gay and Lesbian people. It is the Another co-spRSs«�� ef the bill is Caucus v�ted for increased federal an issue associated with Blacks, now _ brain-child of the Gay Rights Nation­ Rep. Gus Hawkihi.(.a.;iCAf .··His support l�nding for �IDS �esearc�, as well. is a rallying point within the Gay al Lobby, an organization established is vital because he chairs the Em­ GRNL is working ·wittY the Nat ional movement , and the aliance betweed ' 7 years ago to fight for Gay issues ployment Opportunit-ies subcommittee, Coalition of Black�9':ays as well as movement , and the alliance between in Congress. one of the subcomm1ttees which will Black and White Men' �ogether to se­ the two groups is growing . • . "There has always been Gay support hold hearings on the'bill cure the co-sponsorship of the three The Chair of the Congressional for those fighting for civil rights "Support by the Black Cauecus, demon­ remaining members of the·· Black Cau�·: Black Caucus, Rep. Julian Dixon(D-CA) and quality, including Blackll'·l. strates that Gay civil rights is b� cus �',Reps. Ha�old Ford (D-TN), Katie as well as 16 others in the 20 member and equality , including Blacks , wo­ coming a mainstream issue of civil Hall�(D-IN), and Gus Savage (D-IL) . caucus , are co-sponsors of the Gay men, and religious groups," said rights," said Steve Endean, Executive Increasing the numbe� of co-;pon­ and Lesbian Civil Rights Bill. One­ Dixon. "Gays are strong civil liber- Director fo GRNL . "Anyone who has sors of the bill is a continuing pri­ fourth of the bill's co-sponsors are tarians ." been discriminated against knows�the ority of GRNL , which is based in Black , the highest percentage of any Washin "Discrimination based on sexual suffe�ing it causes . The alliance be­ �ton, DC . Currently, the bill caucus in Gongress. , preference is still discrimination, tween Blacks and Gays is very under- has 71 co- signers, the highest number The bill, H.R . 2624 , extends fair and we oppose discrimination of any standable ." since the 'bill was first intriduced employment and fair housing laws to sort ," Dixon stated. The entire membership of the Black in 1975.

.�.!·�'ill ' Gerry Studds Op·enly Gay Congressman . . o� h • • •t .-, .3 -, · !;· . -�' 8�• ' 'WASHINGTON, DC- Rep. Gerry Studds Studds' relationship occurred in floor of the House that he is Gay. ; (D-MA) became the first Member ·of '73 and involved a. 17-year-old male Rep Studds raised sharp questions <.'c6ritinued Congress to openly declare he is Gay page in the House of Reps . (17 is in his statement about the procedures over the age of consent , so th ere is used in the investigation, saying he selves or don't want to be reminded on the floor of the US H�use of �eys . _ _ no question of sex with a minor). In was extremely temp·ted to contest the how unproductive that type of atti­ In a statement in response to charges :tude can be . his statement Studds stressed that allegations and force an open hear- · by an ethics committee that he had the relationship was "mutual· and vol­ ing . He concluded, however; that •he ·•'I urge a 11' Memph:i:aris to take a sex with a House page , Rep Studds untary; without coercion ; without any wl·shed to protect , as much •as-was tloser lo6k at racisin in your city stated, "All members of Congress must preferential treatment, expressed or possible, ght to personal ana throughout your commu�ity and cope with the ch allenge of initiating still the ri implied; without harassment of any privacy of other individuals affected examine its effects . I believe that and maintaining a career in public kind;" private and that it occur;-ed by the allegations . you will find that there are no pos i- office without dest;_:r;oying entirely· 10 years ago. He also stated that the Steve Endean, Executive Director of tive attributes .••only negative ones . the ability to lead a meaningful and relationship "without question re­ the Gay Rights National· Lobby , 'In closing, I applaud the ·work, as emot ionally ful filling private life. flected a very serious error in praised Studds for his courag� .an d well as the entire. effort that BWMT/ It is not a simple task for any of us judgement. •." honesty in making his statement on Memph is has done to help end this un­ to meet adequately the obligations of Wh ile a number of male members of fortunate element of the Gay comm'uni- either public or private life, let a­ the floor of the House , ·COIIIDenting Congress have admitted having sex -· ty around the country. It is efforts lone both . But the se challenges are with other males under a variety of that "Rep Studds has my deep admira- such as the letters that appeared in made substantially more complex when circumstances , their admissions have tion and respect and I ·have communi- Gaze , thlit will let others know that one is, as am I, both an elected pub­ been accompanied by explanations of cated to him my full support ." Endean there is· an organization that' is lic official and Gay." alcoholism or other drug use and none went on to say, "For the first time working on behalf of the 'opl?ressed . Also charged in the ethics commit­ has gone farther than to 'admit ' to in-history , a current Member of Con- We all must realize that confronting tee's report was Rep Dan Crane (R-IL ) 'homosexual tendencies' . What makes gress of the US has decl�red on the racism is the only way to 'eliminate who was alleged to have had sex with Rep Studds' declaration fundamentally floor of the House he's 'Gay.: .And he i't and that "!e must in order for our a female page . Predictably, the non­ important is that he not only did not did say 'Gay' , not 'homosexual'. We survival as a Gay community and the Gay media swamped Rep Studds' office try to expl ain his behavior as in­ have taken a monumental step foJ:Ward'.' rest of society as a whole. In the after his statement but virtually ig­ fluenced by drugs , he made an open words of our national co- chairperson, nored Rep Crane's office. and unambiguous statement on the Jerry Mallon, BWMT Philadelphia;""Re­ member, none of us are free unt il all of us are �free ."

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•,.;.,·��� �1. :..o I '' This month's program General Meetings··'· t: .I · Voter Regl�tration ._Y.rt:. {,, Action Committee '._,;,·-or:; •· '-! l features excerpts from Gay Pride Activities !: Pot luck Social Evenings Surveys of the Gay Community the "Old Hash" AIDS Conciousness-Raising/ Community Dances Support Groups !I; Benefit held in June. 1 -·� ·· i· ' ·a. SEPTEMBER CA/..·ENDA/t'l··'•

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SEi tember, 1983-GAZE-5 ·• "' � •. t $i�!l;)_l!j:l�Jo.3t...... ,...... � €hina Bike Tour� " .. " • :t i

1, On October 1983 , the world 's completel y different cu lture and first all Gay bicycle tour wi ll de- · standard of living . There is so much part for Mainland China. Among the oy � in these curious people and that list of enthusiastic cyclists are Gay 1s what one remembers most." people of all ages , professions and After 16 days the group leaves levels of cycling ability. their bicyc les in Canton and fly to "Anyone in reasonably good shape Peking for a 4-day non-cycling exten­ with a spirit of adventure can make sion to the tour . Sightseeing to the the journey," says Peter Greene , own­ Forbidden City, News, Information, Coming Events••• the Summer Palace er of China Bike Tours . the Ming Tombs and Chinese Opera ar; admit that the title was contrived to Greene recently moved to San Fran­ all included. On the 20th day the One Step Forward, Three Steps fit the acronym. Among those organi­ cisco from Boulder , Colorado where he � group flies back to Canton where they Back zations forming the group were Digni­ has been operating bicycle tours to pick up their bike and take the train Mainland China for three years . Th is out of China to Hong Kong . (Gay News) -- Some American at�itudes ty (Catholic) , Integrity (Episcopal), . is the first time he has advertised "H ng K on 1s such a fantastic city towards Gays and Lesbians have chan­ the Metropolitan Community Church and . � � for an exclusively Gay trip. The re­ 1n 1ts·elf, says Greene . "It has ged accord ing to a Gallup Poll re­ Gay Unitarians . a sponse to the October tour has been vibrancy . comparable only cently released. The po ll takers a�k­ to New tremendous . York." ed Americans about their fee�in!$ NAGBPEE Recruiting Members "Gay people from all over the coun­ Included in the tour are concerning hom9sexuality and homosex­ optional try and as far away as England have stops in Taiwan , Japan and Honolulu uals in the light of the AIDS c�isis . . been signing up for this historic The trip spans 22 days with all 21% of those responding said they are The National Association of Gay tour ," says Greene . "Most of them are meals, guides, visas , accomodations less comfortab le about having �ay Business, Professional and Entrepre­ not hard core cy clists. They just · and sightseeing included . The cost of friends because of AIDS than they neurial Enterprises is accepting mem­ think this is a fantas tic way to see the tour is $32 75.00 which is also were before the disease. Also , fewer bership. The organization is a new China , a country that had been closed inclusive of airfare from the We st people than before believe that homo­ one and plans to recruit its members to tourism for many years." Coast. sexuality is an acceptable lifestyle. nationwide, The primary purpose of The tour itself is not rigorous . "Many of us are going to take thP But more people than previous ly sup­ the organization is to serve as a The average day of cycling is about who le month off and take advantage 9f ported increased employment rights clearinghouse for information on Gay 30 mi les. The tour begins in Hong some of the other stopovers ," says for Gay -men and Lesbians . business, professional and entrepre­ Kong . The group then ferries across Greene. A few people are go neurial endeavors in an effort to ing to to the Portugese territory of Macau . Aus tralia and New Zealand promote Gay support for Gay owned, and one From Macau , the cyclists enter China couple is traveling around the wor Feminist Seeks Women Interested · operated or supportive businesses. ld through the Macau/China archway for six months . Members in the organization have the In Woodworking gates. The next 14 days are a lei­ And how does China feel about an " opportunity to share ideas and · dis­ ' surely cycling trip along the Pearl· all Gay bicyc le tour to China? NEW- YORK- In the southeast corner of ·cuss business pros and cons via a River to Canton , China 's city of "The Chinese are interested in pro­ New tork state, about a 8� hour drive mont�ly newsletter publi�hed by the flowers. Stops include the birthplace moting tourism and warmly open their from &ew York City · and about a 1\ organization for dissemination to of Dr. Sun Yet Sen, overnight an ex­ doors to anyone who wan ts to visit ," hour :a�ive from Buffalo, is Jame s town · members only . ' Profiles on individuals _ . clusive hot springs resort , visits to says Greene . "Besides many Gay people where: Jaine stown C-ommunity College is and their respective bus inesses bring Daoists temples as well as the Chin­ have been to China before. And most located. The Artisa� Center is femi­ members cl .er together in the re­ OJ nese communes that line the roadside travellers have a sense of diplomacy . nist run and according to Elizabeth spect that open examination of suc­ route to Canton. A "sag wagon" trails In any case , the Chinese seem to re­ , ·the coordinator , "I'm espe­ cesses and failures will enable the Bradliury behind carrying lugga ge , medical sup­ spect a persons right to privacy . We with ' interesting Gay bui,�neseperson to assess certain cially concerned plies, spare bike parts and any weary shall see . It 's going to be a very more women in a career in woodwork - busine�· RT ac tices· which may enhance : bikers .••Me als range from roadside interesting trip in many ways ..." and one-of-a-kind furniture buainess·. · , Another maJor . purpose of ing picnics to 7 course . banquets with There are still some spaces left on king. I feel that the best way that the . organ�_ & .a� p. # to, c�p�le a di­ ma � �4!)king duck . the October departure . Future trips can get into this field is rectorcy o. f.:Gay· 'l!iu&Ine •.s'es ' nationwide . women , "China gives us � the best they have - are also being planned . For informa­ college programs where preju­ in an effort to -permit the member/ throqgh to offer in any given pl'ace," says tion and reservations, wr ite China less prevalent than � in in­ consumer to shop where his dollar is dice5· are Green . "In some of the more remote Bike Tours , Box 14373 , San Franc isco , ps." most appreciated. The directory will dustry or apprenticeshi places , it's a real adventure into a CA , 94114. The Jamestown Ar tisan Center offers contain pertinent information about the �ype of environment wher� a per­ busines! services in a categorical son can learn this craft, ·� if they" forma�. Al,l - busirte ne-s listed will be ;:, ' ( are serious , regardless of previous me�ber ·busiriesses � All organizations experience . will be member organ iza'tions and so otherwise indicated . help Gay men understand and appreci­ The program is relatively inexpen­ on . The directory will not be avail­ Business and prefessional profiles­ ate themselves . sive compared to ot her univers1t1es able to anyone outside of the organi­ are requested from individuals apply­ Paths Untrodden specializes in hard -to and craftschools. There is still time zation because some of the members ing for membership. -find books , small press , out of print for Fall '83 admi ssion . will be opposed to arbitrary distri­ and imported titles. Its cata­ log is upda For further informat ion contact : bution since - information contained in ted seve�al times a year through free supplements Elizabeth Bradbury , Jamestown Artisan it will be quite detailed . Paths Untrodden Bookshop . Short arti­ cles are devoted to AI Center, Jamestown , NY 14701. The organization expects to regis­ DS and the growing ter 3000 members within the next 83- freedom from censorship of" NEW YORK---Paths Untrodden, Gay literature . GRACE: New Dallas Organization 84 fiscal year . Anyone interested in a Gay­ more information should write The Na­ owned mail order service , offering The catalog , a �8-page bibliograph� is availa tional Association of Gay Business, "books of merit on the Gay ma le ex­ ble for $2.00 from Paths Un- · Reli­ (Gay News) --Ten Dallas Gay Professional and Entrepreneurial perience" has released its 1983 cata­ trodden, P.O. Box 459 , Village Sta­ an ecumeni­ NY, NY gious groups have formed Enterprises, 1415 Rhode Island Ave. , log , listing more than 1100 titles in tion, 10014-0459 . CE , which cal organization called GRA · Suite 922 , Washington, DC , 20005 52 subject areas . This 1983 update of stands for Gay Religious Activities All information received will be ·a yearly catalog focuses on those Coalition and Exchange . Organizers · works , primarily by Gay authors which . kept in strictest confidence unless

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&-GAZE-September, 1983 , Ask tlie Duchess "unChristian" bigotry . I don't think you are entitled to. Such a contract centage each pay period and both of you should think of him either . Let will solve a lot of headaches , time , you should sign the checks . your own heart be your guide . and legal fees IF you two ever sepa­ What concerns me most about your rate. letter is that you state you are "not As for the joint bank account , I sure" about making these kinds of really see no need for one . I would commitments. If you are not sure , Dear Duchess: suggest one ONLY for mutual expenses : give it a little more time . Have you The guy I am going with is in a rent/house note, utilities , tele­ and your lover made a comm itment to Lev i-Leather group. I like the look , phone , etc. Both of you should depos­ each other? If not , absolutely do NOT. but I am wondering if all these guys it a mutually agreed amount or per- ma�e these commi tments. are into S&M , as I am de finitely not . He has never shown any S&M tenden­ cies.

Steve Dear Readers : will serve � I hope this column Dear Steve : real purpose to our comm unity. I hope Sweetheart , the · Levi-Leather look and it will be both fun and serious is just another form of ide nt ity-like Gaa . issues you address the problems and dresses are to female impersonators want to hear. and designer clothes to preppies , If you do LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS Don't be afraid to write. Levi 's and Leather are to the macho. , please not want your name published It's all a form of DRAG . Not all DRAG Only indicate so 1n your letter. QUEENS are femme in· bed ; not all BULL . If re­ first names will be published DYKES are butch in bed ; not all PREP­ someone else, please don't ferring to PIES believe in only the missionary use his/her real name ; they may not pos ition; and not all LEVI-LEATHER want their name used. FREAKS are into S&M. in this column can be Only letters I think you answered your own ques­ letter will be returned. answered . No tion though . If he has not shown any become the property All letters will signs that he is into S&M , then evi­ - files of Gaze. of the confidential dently not everyone in these groups column will be he lpful I hope this are into it . to everyone concerned . Please don't take my advice as "the" answer but! instead , use if for "Food-for­ , Dear Duchess : ings out . thought" to help you sort th 1 What goes on in those quarter movie booths�

Cutious Dear Duchess : I really tired of the bar scene am Dear Curious : with its emphasis on alcohol . Also I Anything you want: :::: am tired of the cru1s1ng game . The problem is I don't know anyw here else where I can be Gay without creating a hassle. Can you give me some alterna­ tives to the bars for meeting nice Dear Duchess: Gay people? My lover and I have been toaether for two years and it looks like it's Lonely in Germantown going to work out in the long run . I am 22 and have a fu ll-time job; he is Dear Lonely: 28 and has a very good job. What do you think about us buying a BSCRIBE NOW! With the growing awareness in the SU straight community that there are Gay house together and having a joint people and the COMING OUT of many bank account? I trust him explicitly $8.00 a ye ar but not sure about making these other Gay people, there is an ever­ am kinds of committments. increasing numb er of places to meet· Mail to GAZE, Box 3038, Memphis, TN 381 73-0038 Gay people besides the bars . Memph is Should I or Shouldn't I? has several organizations where you Please make checks payable to GAZE. can me et other Gay people. There is the Metropolitan Community Church , ______Memphis Gay Coal ition , Black and Dear Should I or Shouldn 't I? Name --1 White Men Together , and several soc­ I think it's great , if that 's what - both of you··.want . But there can be ______�------ial clubs which are by invitation Address 1" comp lie at ions . only. Are you a college student ? If · There is no . guarantee that two so , Memphis State University now has City, State, Zip people , whether they are straight or 1\1 Gay Student Union. For more informa­ ------=---- Gay , will stay together for life •• tion on these and other groups , call Please do not forget your zip code! the Gay Switchboard . Since there is no guarantee, I sug• gest you seek legal advice (the Gay Switchboard has a legal referral Dear Duchess : list.) Needless to say, the laws were What do you think of Jerry Falwell? not written with the needs of Gay people in mind and property settle­ A Confused Christian ment is complicated enough when straight people separate. Have your Dear Confused : lawyer draw up a contract so IF that ME:MPH-IS I try NOT to think of him and his separation come , you will know what CE:NTE:R fOR RE:PRODUCTI\JE: H-E:ALTH- 1983 Studstore Summer Catalog

The Studstore, the country's faet­ Pleasure Chest, are featured through­ .Nt���"fWWOIIFB_,...... CIWe est growing mail order company f6• out this edition of the catalog . Gay men, has just released its '83 The Studstore catalog also contain • Off.,.,..A.,...... V. oto,...• ...- cw..· Summer catalog , a hefty 36 magazine­ a special section of popular booka sized pages featuring everything from and magazines at discount , as well as leather wear to the latest Gay video a number of exclusive items not to be cassettes. foun� anywhere else. 1482 Poplar at McNeil The studst ore catalog, which will Copies of the Studstore catalog are Memphia, TenneeMe 38104 be completely revised twice a year, available from: The Studstore ,lT"Har­ contains · hundreds of new itema as riet, San Francisco , CA 94103 . The (901) 274-365() well as some of. the classic Gay prod­ catalog is $3 {and each paid orde� acts still on the market. Highlights for the catalog includes a credit from the bes t-known manufacturers of voucher for $3 which can be ap plied Gay toys , like Mr S Products and The to the first purchase.) Sepler!:'ber, 1983-GAZE-7 i';! t";.{r· - •. r An- Op en Letter to · the Gay and Lesbian Community

talking withe members of Congress tw pand. But , frankly, support hasn 't by Steve Endean persuade them to vote in favor of expanded at nearly the rate necessary basic fairness for Gay people. In­ to keep up wi th our community's Con­ deed , back in '78 this was a major gress ional agenda, not sufficiently to nurture the esse We are at a critical point in the focus for me , but it was clear we had ntial structures sort to that will help decide progress toward ensuring civil to build the of structures the outcome of reinforce our Capitol Hill efforts. these issues in Congress. rights, human dignity and equal j us- I could go tice for Lesbians and Gay men in the Recent ly , we 've created GRNL 's Lobby­ over t-he operations of the Lobby and the United States. We mu st analyze wh ere ing Team, which is made up of experi­ Campaign Fund point enced, Washington-based people, to by point and show how we 've been , and what tools we need to the workload­ broader on expected by the commun utilize to reach out future goals. provide direct lobbying ity are far Capitol Hill. greater than what staff size of This open letter ��ts forth wh at· ··1 In addition , GRNL ' s Field Program either organization can handle. Any­ believe are some of the .c.urrent chal- provides a way to generate pro-Gay one who chooses to do so could eas lenges and what it will t'ake to meet ily • grassroots constituent pressure on present the situation as helpless them. and Congress . GRNL' s Field operat ions are hopeless. It is not . Critical to t �ha fyiis is an un- �;s · handled by one Field Director in What can be· done to work d erstan d.1ng o f he �r.rease in issues toward a Washi{lgton and one Western balance between expectations which the Gay c-ommunity.; rightly de- Regional and out­ Director. Even with the opening of put? mands that the Gay Rights �tional ' . the Mid-West Regional Office and ap­ Utilize vo lunteers? T"hat ' s being Lobby handle and an un�etstanding of• pointment of a Mid-West Regional Di­ i the structures wh ich exist in order done , both in GRNL s national network rector , this program remains too to win on Gay issues in Congress .< of Field Associates and in its Capi­ large for only two or three people. When I took respons ibility for the tol Hill Lobbying , Team. The Campaign The olunte r Field A sociates are Fund has made non-functioning._ Gay ,Right_s National . � � � incredible use of vol­ very effect ve and ded1cated, yet can Lobby in late 1978 there were - t 1 unteers through its network of dedi­ Steve Endean • 1"9 no .. .P ov 'de t h e same serv1ce. as maj or issues on ' the' Lobby ' s · ag--'endli h , t : 1 cated City Committees . fu ll-t m , pa1.d. sta f. _ cg-sponsorship of the federal Gay : � � . Limit our focus? Clearly that wou ld Rea 1z1ng that d1rect lobby1ng and cess , we can now make this critical · · civil Rights Bills to prohibit dis- � be a logical suggestion in the con­ cons t1tuent pressures are not enough , move,Although it 's hard to leave the crimination in employment hous ' text of movement organizations that I founded the Human R1· h s Campa gn Chief Executive position in a group etc. , and the defeat of he anti . � � � have diverse, undefined agendas . Such � ��!; a nat 1 1 l. I've founded, I'm convinced both Fund, l.ona po tl.cal actl.�n does not apply here, however. "McDonald Amendment" to exclude Gays The groups must grow and the community committee , to raise money for contr1- Campaign Fund 's purpose is from the federal Legal Services pro- clear : to best served by this action. _pution to Congressional campaigns . raise funds to help federal gram. Today , the Lobby is working candi­ As much as our organizations need There is no doubt that actions y dates hard on bo h f these issues PLUS : . And , despite the expanded Con­ � � HRCF have the effect of increasi g dramatically increased funding and re f orm fo 1mm1gration laws , Congress- gressional agenda, GRNL attempts to the support in Congress for Lesbia�n ·, staff, we need something else from ional veto of D.C. sexual assa lt manage our efforts by clearly defined u and Cay issues. you as well. Calls for "accountabil­ reform, and the defeat of ant i-Cay goals and objectives , approved by the The number of issues the community ity" from organizations serving the ap�ointments to the Reagan Administra- GRNL Board of Director each year. has demanded' GRNL deal with has l.n- community are appropriate and I en­ tion. GRNL is- now turning ' substantial When I look at the staff of people creaaed dramatically. Wh ile some of courage them. What we need from you attention to securing adequate feder- of both groups I see dedicated indi­ the structures to assist these issues is for you to distinguish between al funding for research into the viduals who work extraordinarily have been put in place , they are com- "accoutability" and "perfection." . cause and cure of Acquired Immune De- hard, facing both immediate ch al­ plex and require considersab le atten- Even with increased staff (which is ficiency Syndrome (AIDS) lenges and building the cr itical tion. The support of the Gay and Lee­ unl ikely to appear overnight) , mis­ Most people think the task of GRNL groundowkr for future victories. bian community has been heartening takes will be made Irom time to time . is what 1 call ' direct lobbying' : These people, as well as myself, live and has allowed both staffs to ex- Our community is growing and develop­ with both a deep sense of responsibi­ ing too quickly and related events lity for the progress of our movement happening ·too fast to proce�d flaw­ and constant frustration in seeing lessly. opportunities which fo unfulfilled Problems will develop . Ironically, because of lack of staff time . this often happens as a result of our nity -- deal How do we -- as a commu successes . We must address these as with these problems? rapidly as possible, realizing that First , we must increase the size of solutions take thought and time to these staffs. Additional funds MUST institute. be raised . It's been correctly sug­ It is easy to find things to criti­ gested that the Boards of these cize, and I realize criticism will groups ( as we ll as others) must raise come. -It is welcome wh en legitimate , funds for the organizat ions . Th is is appropriate and constructive . Unfor­ particularly true if we're to hire-­ tunately, often i"t is petty , destruc- . ..,. . . and keep--the best people to do the 1' The· 'Mem his Gay Coalition has worked tive and counter-productive Second­ · p job the community needs done . Whi le . . fo r Gay/Lesbian rights in 'J'e nnessee fo r the · the Boards have , to some degree , done gues sing is easy. Such can bleed us p�t fundraising in the past, their re­ of energy and time, and divert our · five years. In doilJi .so it has operated focus from the real work. the Memphis Gay. Suiitch�oard, produced sponsibility in that area must in­ the Gay crease. However , if we are to ensure As I look at what has been accom­ Alternatwe Radw prp_gram, yub­ in�t from �rassroots Gay and Lesbian plished , and what mu st be done to lished _ GA ZE and televised Vle ws Jrpm uding people of color take advantage of new opportunities 9'4 Ame rica-- incl 1 0 Recently, the Coalition has under­ and other minorities within our com­ for advancement, it is clear to me _taken an .AIDS informatiqn project. munity--we must not make up our each of .us must work for growth . · I, Boards solely of fundraisers . We need and those I work wi th , can' t rest �n . ALL of these seroice� req!fire your sup­ balance. past accomp lishment s. We must learn new and better techniques to accom­ It isn't the task of Boards alone port... both moral and financw.L plish our tasks , and be wil ling to to raise the necessary funds . Each of bring in others to supplement and us mus t do our part. To place burden 1 �20 donation will he!p keep MGC compliment our skills . For the commu­ of blame for fundraising and contri­ acttve zn th� cause ofpreser vzng your rights. nity, the willingne ss to expand fi­ buting on the Boards alone is to a­ It also entltles you to membership in the nancial support to match the increas­ void our share of responsibility . ing tasks we face is essential. And ; MGC as well as a year's subscription to Only tiny numb er of Lesbians and a on an individual. ba sis , there must be GAZE. Gay men contribute to GRNL , the Cam­ a willingness to incre ase personal paign Fund of NGTF , our community's Send your chechs or money orders to involvement in this effort . 1 . MGC, P. O. Box Memphis, TN three maj or national political 3038, 381 73- · groups. Speaking for the Lobby , if We must all demand the best. We 0038. ., we're to effectively handle the e«r­ mu st stop demanding immediate perfec­ panded Congressional agenda demanded tion and start supporting steady ad­ .. ., .iiB··'J)� ·. . • we must have increased support, fund­ vancements . In our demands we must ing and staff. Th is will go far to show patience and an understanding deal with missed opportunities and that the national battle for our .. . , overextension. rights wi ll be long , comp lex and ever \.�\k�. As regards the Human Rights Cam­ chang ing. It is ours to win , but to paign, I've recently recommended we do so we must �ork together to over­ hire an Executive Director to lead come problems as they arise. In that the group. Based on the Fund 's sue- way alone we will achieve succe ss .

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It was the early evening of Monday and an exciting dance floor. Patrons inbow July 4, 1983 --- our country 's 207th flashdanced their way through ra On Elect ion Day---Thursday , August mertime, Embraceable You , I Got 1983 birthday---and many Nashvillians were patterns streaming from the colored , 4 . --- NashvillE> Mayor Richard Rhythm , The �an I love , and other im­ Ful outside picnicking , partying and moving ligh ts overhead (custom-made ton eas ily was re-elected to his mortal me lodies , before climaxing her playing . However, at 1713 Church St . for Mother 's in Spain) , while a city­ third and final tPrm . commanding 65% show with scintillat ing renditions of downtown , the dejected employees of scape is projected onto a nearby me­ of the vot es . Eight mon ths earlier . You Should Hear How She Talks About 28's the recently-remodeled World 's End tallic wall. Music is provided by DJ bn the night of Th� Warehouse You and Come In From The Rain . The Restaurant were out sitting helpless­ Steve Starkey , who has moved to Nash­ glorious , by- invitat ion-only Emp loy­ spectacular songstress received two ly on the curb in front of their ville and Mother's direct from the ee 's Ch ristmas Party (Tuesday , Decem­ wild stand ing ovations from her ap­ Saint in Dallas , Texas . Memph ians re­ 14. 1982) . smoldering eatery . At about 5 pm , a ber the guest DJ had been preciat ive Music City audience. serious fire had broken out next door member Steve Starkey for his brief DJ Sharon \fu ite of \v ashington OC---and Over the summer months , Nashville's at Arnie' s Pub , a small (straight) bar stint at Ten North Cleveland in .the Nayor Fulton had sent over a cPrt ifi­ 62-member Metropolitan Community at 1715 Church St . Being part of the Bl uff City. Mark Ryan of Mo ther 's cate maki ng Ms Wh ite an honorary Church ( at 131 Fifteenth Ave , North ; same long building which also houses Construction Company promises the citizen of Nashvi lle. near the Wo rld's End) cont inued to be­ Nashville the popular World's End Restaurant community some ·good times Also on election Day last month , an active and positive force in the . and Lounge , the blaze at Arnie's sent this fall, including a Halloween candidate Carole Powe ll did not win community. In June , the church 's new thick, destructive smoke billowing Party in October. in her bid to become an At-LargE> pastor, Rev . Paul Tucker , was inter­ through its neighboring establish­ Councilwoman . The pPrsonab le Ns . viewed and photographed for the sec­ ment , as well as sending fire along Powe ll part icipated in the Gay Pride · ond part of a two-part article on Gay the common ceiling beans . By the time riverboat cruise on the Cumberland Pride Week published in Music City's the incident was over, The World's River on Saturday June 18 (reported even ing Newspaper , The Nashville Ban­ End had sustained severe smoke and on in the July/August Gaze .) ner . Rev . Tucker happi ly cited the water damage---and the ceiling had Tuesday . August �. was a red- letter Banner 's favorable two- parter for. the been charred , day for local fans of Melissa Man­ influx of several new church members Ironically , just last winter, the chester , because the Crammy Award­ this summer. Last month , Rev . Tucker World's End had taken over two ad­ winning performe r appeared live in joined Bob Ke ller of Lifestyle Health joining sections of the long Church ·concert that even ing at the Tennessee Services for a discussion of AIDS on St. building and had tripled in size, Performing Arts Center downtown . Clad WNGE-TV/Channel 2's taped public af­ adding more dinner tables, a second in black tuxedo pants , a black se­ fairs program • Face to Face. The show bar, and a game room. The expans ion quined blouse, and a red blazer , the aired on Sunday morn ing , August 14. had given the restaurant a 'brighter elegant singer-songwriter proved to In late August, two popu lar beauty a�r�er, more comfortable look and be a dynamo on stage , exuding the pageants were held here in Nashville. really added a strong visual comple­ stunning stage presence of a Judy On Tuesday evening , August 23 , Michael . ment to the restaurant 's . superb food Garland or a Barbr� Streisand . Wilson and Steve Smith opened the and live jazz and clas·s ical music. Melissa Nanchester's seventy-minute doors of the specially-decorated Now, in that one July 4 evening , a show exhibited all of the qualities Warehouse 28, Incorporated, for the hideous burst of uncontrollable Sylvester of a superb stage performance---a re­ �nnual Miss Warehouse Pageant . The "fireworks" had ob literated all of markab ly well-rehearsed , cohesive Virtually next door to Mother 's on evening 's hosts were OJ Michael Stark that progress. band (keyboards , guitar , drums , bass , Franklin Road, The Warehouse 28, In­ and the Cabaret 's Diana Hutton. Then , World's End owner Jeff Bartee, a­ . saxophone �nd even strings and a c orpora�ed--- with its music , light s, on Wednesday night , August 24 , The long with manager Alison Smith (a harp) ; a mixture of song styles ; · dancing, theme parties , special per­ Cabaret hos ted the thirteenth annual prominent coalition worker here in varied tempos ; key changes ; onstage . formances ,_·theatre tie-ins , buffets , Miss Gay Tennessee Pageant . Club Nashville) and many others, began the movement ; relaxed , candid remarks was pleased that activities , and hospitality --- has manager Pat Blaylock formidable task of repairing and re­ from Melissa; humor ; excellent light­ that been offering Nashvillians nights to this was the second time the decorating the popular restaurant. ing effects ; a fine sound mix; and , statewide beauty/talent compet�t�on remember s ince 1978 •••bu t what was The smoke-and-fire damage was exten- · above all, showmanship. Ten entrants perhaps the club's coup de_ �race oc­ was held at the Cabaret. sive --- The World's End remained The graceful songstress treated her · State curred on the evening of Friday , July from around the Volunteer vied closed (its front door hidden behind receptive aud ience to powerful rendi­ of Tennessee 8, vhen the Warehouse threw a lavish for the title Miss Gay a grim wooden board) for the rejt of tions �f Nice Gi rls, Don't Cry Out of honor "Silver Party" with spec_ial guest 1984---and a guest at the July and all of August. As you are Loud, Mi dnight Blue, Whenever I Call hn on City 's 1 star Sylvester appearing live . The festivities was Jo s own reading this, however, the downtown Yo u Friend (a duet sung with Michael Francesca Wakeland , Miss Gay America �egatone recording artist (famous for cafe should have reopened , looking · Hamm) , Wo rking Girl , Hey Ricky , and his danceable Do Yo u Want To Funk , 1983. (and tasting) even more marvelous other hits . The New York-born Man­ Don't Stop and Al l I Need) sang live Riverboat rides , parties , shows , than ever. chester delivered Just Too Many along with pre-recorded instrumental politics, religion, meetings , music Three weeks later , there was an Peopl e, her catchy , danceable , 1975 and even set backs that were overcome tracks , to the delight of the . bar's occurence here in Music City which hit---and she premiered a new song ..•The summer of 1983 certainly was patrons . smacked of uncanny deja vu. The three included on her soon- to-be-released unique ...But the autumn of the year To coincide with his well-publici­ month-old Mother's Cons truction Co . album , Emergency . Energetic and pu l­ promises to be just as eventful and zed July 8 Nashville appearance, -Syl­ bar at 2535 Franklin Road (described sating, I Can Love You Better (as it exciting for Lesb ians and Gay men vester chose that very day for the in the June Gaze , 'having met with nationw ide re lease of his ·brand-new , probab ly will be titled) is certain here in Nashville. initial success, had acquired the ad­ twe lve- inch s·ingle, Band Of Gold . to become a smash dance hit . joining store in its long , multi­ 1 Composed by R. nunbar and E. Wayne , A highlight of Melissa Manchester 's busine�s build ing. The special Band features synthesizer and saxo­ Nashville appearance was a marvelous­ "breakthrough party" and unveiling of phone and is a driving , rhythmic , ly arranged George Gershwin medley , the new half of Mother's was set for seven-and-a-half-minute indictment of much of which she sang perched atop Friday night, July 29. her grand piano . A great admirer of At noon on Thursday , July 28 ( less the singer 's spouse, who (in the SU.PPOR,., Gershwin and his genius , Ms Manchest­ than 36 hours b'efore the celebration) song ) has abandoned him inexplicab ly , leaving him with ' only his "memories" , er performed Fascina ting Rhythm, Sum- chemicals in a janitorial , service -: his "dreams of ole" , and a now-mean­ within that same building exploded ingless "Band of Gold ." GAY The ensuing fire sent incredibly A dramatic redecoration of thick, smothering smoke clouds · The Warehouse 28 in preparation for the throughout Nashville's newest Gay bar --- and on the eve of its expansion twelve-hour- long "Silver Party" was SERVICES party. the comple�e repaint ing of the wal ls. Fortunately, the smoke damage at Formerly black , the wa lls are now a Mother's �as not as serious as the dazzling silver, making the club look World 's End 's July 4 injury. Mother 's larger--- and qu ite futuristic, as pwne r Mark Ryan and friends worked severa l jagged . "h igh- tech" lines inside the closed bar virtually ang le their way along the w�lls . Plus 'round- the-clock , cleaning and re­ autographed pictures of celebrities pairing--- unt il the Franklin Road (including Lena Horne and Lily Tom­ MemPhis Gay Coalition nightspot reopened its doors for the lin) have been framed and hung near P.0 . Box 3038 belated "breakthrough party" on Fri­ the front bar. Am idst the changes, Memphis, Tennessee 38103-003 day , August 5. accomp lishPd DJ 's �l ichael Stark .and Now double its former size, No­ Eddie Denson cont inue their . innov a­ ther's has added an office , a pool tive pnd crowd-pleas ing mus ic mixes table, a larger video game arcade: __ Melissa Manchester- six night s a week .- ·� .. \...; - · 1G-GAZE-September, 1983 / WHERE MEN MEAT MEN

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Endean's Effectiveness Que.stioned, Defended

Philadelphia's Gay News has re­ supporters are cultivating a "Great Daniel notes that Bush , a journal­ that David Goodstein wants to be THE sponded to recent harsh criticism of White Father image" wh ich judges ist widely published in the -Gay com­ power in American Gay politics . he Gay Rights National Lobby Executive people of the Gay/Lesbian community munity , has embarked on .a protracted wants to build a network of rich Director Steve Endean in an editor ial on the basis of "social status , campaign of derogatory · comments a­ white men to take over the boards of strongly supportive of him and sharp­ wealth and power" resulting "in the bout Endean in his column for the directors of our national Gay organi­ ly critical of Advoca te owner David "exclusion of minorities , women and Advocate and elsewhere. Daniel char­ zations on the theory that the se or­ Goodstein and journalist L�rry Bush . middle-clas's/blue-collar Gays from ges that "Bush and Goodstein each ganizations cannot function adequate­ the decision-making process" and parrot the criticism of the other on ly or properly without the money they In its issue of July 29-August 4, "unilateral return to patriarchal. the subject of HRCF and GRNL." would provide, He wants to oust Steve 1983, the Gay News responded to Good­ values that replace justice and mo­ The analysis concludes that Good­ Endean from his pos itions at GRNL and stein 's editorial call for "a change rality with assimilation and suc­ stein has editorialized in favor of HRCF and replace him with Jim Foster in leadership" at GRNL and at the cess." the exclusion of �omen from our (a long-time Goodstein crony and po­ Human Rights Campaign Fund , a politi­ Charging Goodstein with initiating movement on an economic bas is, of litical fundraiser) , and he wants to cal action committee of wh ich Endean "an epidemic of political pandering the exclusion of working-class Gays then merge GRNL with the National Gay is treasurer . and ethical prostitution," the Gay on the basis that they are "scruffy" Task Force , creating one vast Gay ••." News "OUr endorsement of Endean the also noted that "reporter Larry radicals and of the solicitation of rights organizat ion with himself as Gay News editorialized , "is based Bush , who has predictably fanned the rich wh ite _men to take a stronger the power behind the throne ." first and foremost on his record of flames of opposition to Endean , is leadership role in our movement and effective service••• We certainly a­ on Goodst�in 's payroll as a column­ whose financial support should be gree with the concept of accounta­ ist for the Advocate." eagerly accepted "even if there are bility ; anyone who is demonstrably strings attached ." However , Daniel says, "We are incompetent should be removed from In a copyrighted front-page news left to wonder where all the 'little his or her position . But this is analysis in the same issue , Dan Dan­ Daniels conclusion is that Good­ people ' fit into these grand machia­ clearly not the case with Steve En­ iel examines the controversy sur­ stein and Bush are using Endean as vellian maneuvers. NGTF and GRNL now dean." rounding GRNL , HRCF and Endean , con­ the key to the door of national Gay represent grassroots constituenc The editorial statement sharply cluding that the dual criticism of ies: po litical power. He says that "when what happens to those cons tituenc ies critici�ed Goodstein and Bush , sta­ Goodstein and Bush "Conceals a hid­ all of the pieces of the puzzle are when the network of rich white men ting that the Advocate owner and his den agenda ." put together, we are left to conclude takes over those organizations? '

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by Scott Correll only to the Jewish community. In the isolation , the segregation of 1920's Robert E. Park and Louis Wirth community. And January 's will began to use the term to des cribe an with the residential concentration , (In 1980 , Scott Correll wrote a urban neighborhood inhabited by a the concentration of the Gay communi­ column called GAZING BACK which dealt people socially segregated from the ty living in Midtown . with Gay history . Scott returns to larger society and bearers of a dis­ Contemporary usage of "ghetto" has the pages of -GAZE with a series on tinctive culture . They noted that the in some instances restricted the con­ the history of Gay Memph is which was circums tances of immigrant groups of­ cept. Edgar W. But ler in The Urban begun in the December 1980 issue of ten fit these requisites and applied Crisis: Problems And Prospects In GAZE .) the term to neighborhoods of Jews and America · uses the term ,to define a Poles , specifying four key elements community inhab ited by racial and of a ghetto: institutional concentra­ ethnic groups , particularly those tion, culture area, social isolation , that are poverty stricken and social­ I believe that Mid town is indeed snd residential concentration. Park ly disorgan1zed. Claude S. Fischer in Memphis' Gay hub . The history of any -and Wirth remove "ghetto" from its The Urban Experience and George A. city's Gay community is found within historical connotat ;; ·- ion and translate Theodorson and Achilles G. Theodorson Greensong th� ghettoization,, of an area within it into a construct useful to the in a Modern Dictionary Of Sociology that city. study of urban ecology. Wirth notes use the word "ghetto" as any area in­ Foliage This GAZ ING BACK article will not that ghetto epitomized ecological se­ habited by a minority group. deal directly with Memphis ' Gay his­ gregation in the sense that it is i­ In the forward of The Ghetto by 722 South Highland tory but, instead, with the "ghettoi­ solated from the surrounding society . Louis Wirth, Robert Patrick defines zation" in a city; the next four is­ October 's GAZING BACK will be about ghetto as an area of a city that sues will deal with Memphis Gay his­ institutional concentration , the cen­ houses a segregated cultural communi­ PLANTS-PLANTS-PLANTS tory. tralization of the Gay community's ty. Wirth develops this concept fur­ Gays have claimed that there exist gathering places and commercial esta­ ther by Blacks , Italians , etc. They within major cities "Gay Ghettos ." blishments in Midtown. November's also suggested its suitability as a . " Vut Of The Closets : your own ...supp l'tes Laud Humphreys in will deal with the culture area , Mem­ depiction of areas dominated by such "grow The SOciology Of Ho mosexual Libera­ phis ' Gay community's cultural moral deviants as bohemians , hobos , tion defines a "Gay Ghetto" as a ·traits. December's will be the social and prostitu�es._ neighborhood characterized by marked Foliage plants tolerance of homosexuality and a clustering of Gay residences and Hanging baskets bars . Martin S. Weinberg and Colin J. NGTF CRISISLINE Pots and soil Williams in Nale Bomosexuals: Their Problems And Adaptations define "Lav­ Call toll-free 800-221 ender ghetto" as a district with -7044 In N.Y. Professional advice large numbers of homosexuals and State (212) 807-6016 their institutions . Most sociologists consider a ghetto all stock is to be an area of the city housing a * To reportanti-gay violence GREENHOUSE GROWN segregated cultural community. Ghetto was first used in accordance with its *To obtain A.I.D.S. referrals Mon.-Sat. 10-5 historical copnotation, applicab le

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Seotem�r. 1983-GAZE-13 �Kt ,·•o,;,d ••-; �·; r:- - ·c. AIDS and the Immune System

(from the July/August AID At lanta with AIDS. A few types of infections physicians who treat people with AIDS their risk level would be even stron­ News letter) and cancers are most common , and and by the patients themselves. These ger within a small group of known Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome autoimmune treatments range from nutritional contributors . disorders may also occur (AIDS) is a disease of the immune when the malfunctioning system pro­ therapies to hypnosis, relaxation Whatever risk may be involved in system wh ose intricate workings are techniques , and visual imagery. Guid­ receiving blood , there is absolutely duces antibodies against its own tis­ not yet fully understood . Here is sue . A poorly understood pheno.enon ed imagery techniques baaed on the· none for contributors. All bags , some background on what is currently of generalized lymph -node swelling is work of Dr . 0 Carl Simonton , a Dallas tubes and nee dles used during dona­ known . seen in many immune cases , which may -area oncologist , and his wife , Ste­ tions are new, sterile, used once and Immunology is all about recogni­ be associated with the Helper-Sup­ phanie Matthews-Simonton, are vart of discarded immed iately . Sine� no blood tion . Two types of wh ite blood cells pressor imbalance , since wh ite blood a growing field of medicine cailea comes into contact with other blood patrol the body for foreign materials cella pass through the lymph nodes in psychoneuro-immunology . The impact of products, contamination is not a pos­ such as antigens , disease causing a­ a cleansing process which regenerates stress and mental attitudes on health sibility. Blood supplies have been gents . "B" cells make antibodies antibodies. More research is neces­ are seen as increasingly related . Ac­ reduced by worr ies �nd fear due to which can ident ify, latch onto, and sary to find out if this swelling !s ceptance of the value of alternative misinformation , so it is now very im­ thereby destroy certain antigens . an early stage of AIDS or a milder therapies was put forth as a recom­ portant for persons not at risk to If unchecked ant igens become a form of it. mendation from the National AIDS For· donate blood . threat to cell tissue or funct ions , Diseases which present the IIIQ&t urn in Denver by the steering commit­ the more specialized "T" cells go in­ tee of People With AIDS, a recently serious threat to persona with AIDS New Orleans AIDS Cases to action. Some may become cytotoxic, formed organization wh ich produced a are : Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia Exaggerated capable of attacking viruses already (PCP) , a severe lung infection; Ka­ Bill of Rights for persons who have infect ing other cells. Other "T" AIDS. Their recommendations are based posi' s Sarcoma (KS), a rare form of (Gay News) helpers , -- The numb er of AIDS cases cells become stimulating the skin cancer ; Cytomegalovirus (CMV) , on the consideration that self-deter­ "B" cells to produce more of certain in New Orleans is exaggerated, ac­ an infection similar to mononucleo­ mination , positive thinking , and the antibodies . Still others become sup­ cording to health officials. City sis ; and other fungal , bacterial; and will to survive will often play as pressors , telling antib iotic reac­ Health Director Dr Brobson said that viral infections such' · as- Thrush, effective a part in the healing pro­ tions to shut down when the threat reports of 25 cases of the deadly Herpes Simplex, and Zoeter , which cess as traditional treatments. subsides . disease were false. So far, he said, while controllable and non- fatal in AIDS invo lves the disfunction of Transmission of AIDS only 6 cases have been officially re­ normal system& , can eaeily become these two types "T" cells. ported, but more than 25 persona are latter very dange�ous for person& with AIDS. Normally the helper-to-suppressor Uncertainty over possible ways that "suspected" of having AIDS. Mean­ ratio is about · 2 helpers to 1 sup­ AIDS may be transmitted has led to a wh ile , New Hampshire has reported ita pressor , but when there are equal Current Treatment great deal of fear and anxiety among first death from AIDS-- a 35-year-old numbers of each , or when more sup­ - the general public. Many members of man.

pressors are present than helpers , an While no treatment is currently a­ the Gay community are preparing for immune deficiency develops . This vailable for the im.une deficiency an anticipated backlash of violence , mearis that not enough antibodies are which is the underlying problem in hostility and economic reprisal to­ No Win Situation produced to stop otherwise control­ AIDS , the medical community is learn­ wards Lesbians and Gay men. In New lab1e diseases from seriously affect­ ing more and more about treating the . York City, where the greatest number (G ay News)--An Air Force man has ing the body. But it must be empha­ accompanying diseases. PCP treated of AIDS cases have been reported , lost an attempt to win service disa­ sized that an immune deficiency alone with powerful antibiotic• can often public officials have reacted to bility payment& becauee he has AIDS. does not signify the AID - syndrome ; it be controlled and cured. Por 1a.e quell these rumors, and to provide Airman Firet Claea Ray Orsini , 27, is quite normal for the H-S ratio to time , KS was treated with standard open access to wh at is current ly has appealed the decision of a Norton fluctuate . Stress , poor nutrition , ch..otherapy and radiation, but these known about transmission of AIDS. Ac­ Air Force Base disability board reco­ tobacco, and/or recreational drugs i.­ cording to Mayor Edward Koch : "There methods tend to further depress mmendation that he not receive a med­ including alcohol and marijuana can ­ mune systems which cannot recuperafe, are any numb er of rumors about the ical discharge with full benefits. all - temporarily lower disease resis­ More success has been reported u1ing spread of AIDS . These include allega­ However , the board did recommend that tance , as can a drain on antibodies interferon, · disease fiahting sub­ tions that the disease is spread Orsini be discharged . He had first because of an infection . Eventually, stances produced by blood cells aod through food, through the air, or' said that he was not Gay and did not • the system returns to normal , and re­ nov made in the labontory a1 well. merely by touching someone who has use intravenous drugs , but later , he sponses are restored . ·with AIDS , how, These treatment• mimic certain white AIDS . Theae rumors are not true • admitted that he had a few "bisexual ever , something causes a permanent · cell reactions. to specific diseases, Scientists may make imprecise state­ encounters ." But , he claimed, he con­ imb alance in the H-S ratio . Moat - re­ without further immune aupporession. menta� headline writers may draw on tracted the disease fTom living in searchers now believe an unidentified Most promising , though least teat­ these imprecisions . Rumors about AIDS close quarters with other Air Force virus is responsible for this immune ted is Interleukin-2 , a form of in­ have prompted , in many people, an un­ men . AIDS is not thought to be spread suppression . Certain diseases then terferon made from the same "T" cells reasoning and unreasonab le fear of through casual contact , but primarily take advantage of the lowered resist­ which are defective in ,eraons with contracting th is disease . This fear th rough Gay sexual ·contact or IV drug ance , and become serious and poten­ AIDS . In early laboratory teeta , in­ is unfounded." us e. Both activities are illegal in · tially fatal. terleukin-2 not only encouraged im­ According to Dr , James Curran , head the military , and benefits cannot be AIDS AND OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS proved antibody response& , but also of the CDC (Center for Disease Con­ awarded for the results of prohibited The AID Syndrome was ident ified stimu lated other cella to participate trol . Task Force , "Transmission re­ conduct , a military spoke sman said . when several Gay men were discovered in the defense reactions , as do heal­ quires intimate contact-sex-with an to have particular ly virulent cases thy "T" cells. At the time of this infected person , or contact with in­ of a rare cancer , Kapos i's Sarcoma writing , tests were just beginning fected blood ." Although 4 people have (KS). Since then, it has been learned with human subjects using interleu­ recently contracted AIDS wh o were not that KS is just one of several oppor­ kin-2. identified with one of the 4 high tunistic diseases wh ich attack the Various forms of alternative risk groups , the CDC is being cau­ vulnerable immune systems of persons treatments are also being pursued by tious about speculating on the mode of transmission in these part icular SUPPORT cases . However, it is unlikely that the agent was spread through simple social contact. our Fears also persist that AIDS may be MEN OF LEJITHER contracted through blood transfusions 1474 Madison from infected donors . To avoid this threat , high risk groups have been (locatedin the rear ofJackie's) asked to voluntarily refrain from giving blood . Wh ile blood collection agencies in some areas ask questions intend�d to screen out high risk per­ sons , a truly reliable safeguard must deal with the donated blood itself. The Food and Drug Administration is currently working on a heat treatment L wh ich will kill ALL viruses in blood :. used for transfusion and for treat­ Custom·m•d• belts•C�aps ment of hemophiliacs, but the proce­ Jacllets•Y ests•Harnesses• dure has not yet been approved .' TtB Meanwhile , the Red Cross estima tes Wrlstbands•SIIngs•Caps• that the chances of contracting AIDS LutMr jock Stnlpa•(i..Sblnp• from blood transfusions are 1 in T·Shlrts•Westem Shlrts•loot· 1,000 ,000 and believes the present collection methods to be the safest SUPPORT Stnlp&•� s..p.MIIIs•Etc. po ssible at this time . The use of ap.nfri..SM. '·� A.M. private blood banks , besides present­ ing impossible tagging , storage , and retrieval probl�ms , would only pro­ us vide a false sense of security , says the Red Cross. The social pressures ************ which might lead persons to conceal 1'.., I 14-GAZE-September, 1983 · A�gu ired Immune Deficiency Syn drome ' Health/AIDS '(;' - (AIDS Cases Repo rted to CDC as of 6/2 7/83) SOURCE: College of American Pathologists Falwell Blames Reagan for AIDS Spread AGE CASES %of total under 20 9 0.5 (Gay Ne�s) - Jerry Falwell has found i,J. ' C" someone to blame for spreading AIDS1. 20-29 368 22.0 or as he calls it, the "Gay plague" . 30-39 791 47.2 Speaking in Cincinnat i, Falwell, the 40-49 351 20.9 Moral Majarity leader , said politi­ cians--including President Reagan-are 50 126 7.5 One-In-a-Million Chance Infant afraid of alienating Gay voters and Unknown 31 1.9 Deaths Result of Transfusion therefore refuse to take the neces­ TOTAL 1.676 100.0 sary steps to halt the spread of dis­ There is a dispute whe ther 3 in­ ease. According to Falwell , Gay bath­ RACE/ETHNICITY houses should be closed and blood do­ fants died of AIDS , and if they did, White, not Hispanic 955 57.0 wh ether they got the disease from nors mus-t be forced to reveal their sexuality under oath. Unless 1 these Black, not Hispanic 465 27.8 blood transfusions . The doctor of 2 I t 1 of the Los Angeles County babies says steps are taken , Falwell warned , Hispanic 14.2 238 r ,. , 1 blood tests have convinced him they "Pres ident Ragan will personally be American Indian/ blamed for allowing this awful dis­ died from complications resulting Alaska Native 2 0. 1 from AIDS. He says blood transfusions ease to break out among the innocent Ame rican public." The Wh ite House Asian 4 0.2 given the infants were the probable called Falwell's remarks "preposter ­ Unkown 12 0. 7 cause since the parents did not fit ous ." he conservative preacher re­ into any of the high risk groups . But TOTAL 1.676 100.0 peated his charges at a Washington a Red Cross blood specialist said the press conference a few days later , blood given the children did not come and added that the "lethal epideQlic RESIDENCE from an AIDS sufferer , He conceded, sweeping out of control throughout - New York State 801 47.8' however , that the donor "could have the homosexual enclaves of America California been a carrier who doesn 't get sic 345 20.6 k." has been turned into a propaganda Meanwhile , the US Public Health Ser­ New Jersey 116 6.9 ploy by homosexual sympathizers ," Re­ vice all but Florida ruled out �ny possibili­ action to Falwell's charges came 1123 6. 7 ty of blood transfus ions being the sw iftly from the Gay community. Jeff Texas 34 2.0 culprit, sa ying that there was less Levi , of the National Gay Task Force , Pennsylvania 33 2.0 than a l- in-a-million chance that the said Falwell was distorting the pub­ Massachusetts 30 1.8 disease could be spread that way . So lic health issue to suit his own .. far 21 cases Illinois 29 1.7 of AIDS have been re-· ends , "He is trying to mask his homo­ ported among infants. Almost all were phobic views with a concern about Georgia 26 1.6 the c�ildren of.h�gh risk parents. medical issues." Levi said. "This is Connecticut 17 1:0 > a medical issue . This 'is not a moral '�"< Colorado .., .. 15 0. 9 issue ." AIDS Developments to be Released Ohio 13 0.8 Sooner Washington, DC 13 0.8 Other .states (27) and (&ay News) -- News of AIDS develop­ New AIDS Cases Increasing · Puerto Rico ments may be coming faster now . The at Slower Rate 91 5.4 New Engl and Journal of Medicine . will TOTAL · '"' ' ··-' 1.676 100.0 break a long- standing practice and l fl ., allow researchers whose articles are CN ) --New York City Health Commis­ . . '' . (G NOTE: 75.5% of total cases of AIDS occur in homosexual or selec'ted for pub lication release David Sencer announced on July sioner bisexual men. their findings before they are pub li­ 27th that the number of AIDS cases shed in the respected journal . Pres­ ha• continued to increase in the city ently , it takes 6 months or more be­ but at a rate slower than had been tween the time a paper is selected predicted . for publication and it appears in James Curran , head of the AIDS task print because of peer review and edi­ force at the Centers for Disease Con­ ting the ar ticles , Dr . Arnold Relman trol in Atlanta announced at the same said he would authorize release of time that while the total number of AIDS research 'prior to publication AIDS cases continues to rise nation­ because of the unusual need for time­ ally, the rate of increase appears to ly information about the mysterious , be decreasing on that level , too . deadly disease. Some pub lications are "My feeling is that the number of following suit. The American Associa­ cases will continue to increase grad- tion for the Advancement of Science , u� lly, but more slowly and . accompa­ which pub lishes the magazine Science , n1ed by a leveling off ," Curran told said that they wou ld also change the New York Times . their policy. But an American Medical Roger Green Association spokeswoman said no & Bill Johnson change was planned in JAMA--The Jour­

nal of the AMA . AIDS Hotline Goes 24 Hours

Help from the Family The AIDS Hotline is being expanded because of the heavy volume of calls. invite you to attend a celebra­ Weekl y News)-A Health and Human Services Secretary SAN DIEGO• (The Les­ tion in honor of bian group last week announced a Margaret Heckler announced that five their commit­ blood drive to help Gay males who more telephone lines will be added ment to each other� Saturday. need transfus ions , in the light of and they will be answered 24-hours-a­ September 10. blood banks ' refusal to accept many day . Between 8000 and 10,000 calls 1983. 4 P. M. donors as a result of the AIDS scare . have been received daily since the 981 Meda Street (backyard). The 40-member Women 's Caucus of the serv ice ppened last month. The numb er San Diego Democratic Club , said they is (800 ) 342-AIDS . hope to "replace" the blood ordinari­ Memphis ly given by male homosexuals . "Gay women have p�acti�ally no incidence Casual or costume drag of sexu aJ'ly .,, transmi tted diseases ," Reported Cases of STD's Down said Dr Brad �iuax, head of the SDDC . Free cake & homemade ice cream "We hope to stress that blood among (GCN) - - Reported cases of syphilis many Gays (Lesbians ') is the safest of and gonorrhea have dropped nationw ide all and to show concern for Gay men." so far this year , and some he alth of­ Bring your own champagne ficials have attributed the decline Prisoner Dies of AIDS to changes in sexual activity sparked by the fears of herpes and AIDS . (Gay Joe Blount , a sbatistician for the News) ---A New Jersey prison in­ mate has died of AIDS--the lOth con­ Federal Centers for Disease Control firmed death from the disease in the in At lanta , said syphilis cases drop­ state system since '79. Donald Vander ped about 3% in the first 24 weeks of 1No gifts please) Laan , 28 of Passaic ,. d{ed in a Newark this year , as compared to a 7.5% in­ hospital a Correctioos Department crease in '82. Gonorrhea dropped 6.6% spokesman said. He had been in prison in the same period , compared �i th a prior to the hospital ization . 3% decrease in '82. September, 1983-GAZE-15 -;, ,_ - �� ' oi'J i He works for the nation's only Gay

-..n.ew-ag.engt..as....,h. hat . shot�rep. o.r.t.e.r;__ ------o.-;;:�oji;., he cxuises the bars , the baths , �. · ::;;;;;;:..;.;;-:;.;:;;;;. the · books teres ·looking for the security:: .... of an orgasm, lives �ith a pair of t �.. stereotypical roommates , and generally Books r .. • :· ,, considers himself "in touch" with things'. His boss, an older, conserva­ tive , practical Gay man eeking out a living from his news agency through The Dan White Parallax: hard work , discipline , sacrifice--all the attributes of the Protestant work ethic wrapped around the shoulders of · From-�Violent ··Men a Gay man who can not compete with the muscular clones on the streets • Th is .revjew originally appeared in ly in the future . A member of the of the Gay mecca. Th eir relationship Manifest �agazine and is reprinted Boa�d of Supervisors has , in a shat­ is strained, typical of employer- em­ here with the permission of the re­ tering moment of madness , assassinat­ ployee oppoisition . But deep down in­ viewer , John W. Rowberry . ed the mayor of the city as we ll as side they CARE about each other; an openly Gay Supervisor. The mayor that 's the kind of people they are . A very long time ago , :,:-�6v�t' a dec- is obvious ly George Moscone , the su­ If Desmond Rhodes hadn't been Gay , e Curzon wr.otec· a novel a- pervisor obviously Harvey Milk , and he wo uld ade , Dani l <· have still been a politi­ __ ' the assassin none other than Dan bout police brut· · ·-' - 1!-nd revenge. is cian , still been as corrupt , as cal­ -- Wh ite under a pseudonym--Brad Short . The book , Samet � Do ,zn._ The culating , as dishonest--with himse lf _ With the exception of four other ob­ Dark, was a mit� • }�'" i.rf� � ( was as well as with the world--often the Ji,�' then a skimpy contemporary Gay� r:iter- vious characters -- Brad Short 's wife center of co ntroversy, always on the ature . Although Dark had a tragic (Debra Ellen) , his parents, and the offensive. It is he who hatches the ering time and place have necessi­ ending , it was ultimately an uplift- current mayor of San Francisco--none plot ot have Brad Short snuffed , he tated. Of all the characters in From ing book, providing a central charac- of the other characters seem rooted and two vaguely-identified co-con­ Violent Hen , Debra Ellen is the great ter that personified a ma jority of in historical reality. Indeed Curzon, spirators. He has used the Gay commu­ surprise , and eas ily becomes the ful- Gay .men at the _, time , and peppere·d in an introduction , says that ALL nity to get on top (although it must . crum on which everything else hinges . with situations. tbat bterally :were 'these. ·cnaracters are works of his be said in his defense that it has She is perhaps Curzon 's finest liter­ n·· _!:o j;: - •..:hg� ma Gay,, -ll)en , 'imag n�t�o-r:' nd , insofar as a novel­ ary achievement with a uniqueness all carbo· p _ py .,. ._ � _ � almost equally, used him) and he sees i: el • . t-:;:_ c :•�li: �haracters , they are . her own . founjfi'- ti�' v� �; ".;; • . t.. .-�"- , .�i :':Ji.f!;: t.ii,� [ �..,_""' n9; }mmorality· in �ither his plot nor , . � • s . � '�-ql{e��.c:o.::.\!1 ,real:�ty 9f t!te Structurally this is a breathless 'CU-rmn has- w. tt :t en...hi. . .s .econd..;nollel? \�\V.t - his' grand design. an of revenge and, oh , how the times matter is that this novel is about - excursion 1 of a my stery that moves It is small wonder that Matt, his have changed! attempt to murder Dan Wh ite before he from one set of characters to another lpver, abandoned him. True , Matt is' a From Violent Hen (IGNA Books , 511 is released from prison . It is a at an exciting pace. But it is, as . man without the great fix on things Capp St ., San Francisco, CA 94 110 ; theme that will strike a responsive we ll, a panorama of modern San Fran­ Desmond possesses ; his raison d'etre 1983 ; 250 pgs , $9.95) is not a pretty chord in a majority of the Gay popu­ cisco , offered up in calculated tid­ often without reason to the point of book . No precious disco �arlings lit- lation. bits constructed as footnotes to each From Violent being slightly suicidal . But once ter its pages. No greering-card de- Hen centers around chapter. For the reader famil iar with upon a time he loved Desmond , and script ions of lonely young men look- combinations of couples . Rick Jessup , the city, they are glances at the once Desmond loved him. Although they "ing for love . Instead , chap�er after a Gay reporter , and his boss, Robert ; everyday world around them ; for the have parted company , and regardless ' chapter follows desparate people as Desmond Rhodes , A Gay supervisoY , and outsider they are a film that cove rs , of how clearly Desmond thinks he sees the� claw'' their way to the story' s his lov er, Matt; Rick Jessup and 1 and reiterates , the nov el 's narrative through Matt's motives in- reestab­ final pages. They are no t easy people ·Debra Ellen ·short . Wh ile these char­ lines . lishing contact -between them there to love , but they are identifiable , acters overlap and other characters From Violent Men is indeed ab out is still some deep-seated regard, recognizable , cut from the very cloth play the support ing parts , this is revenge : bitter , unfulfilling, mean­ perhaps a respect , that can not be of who we are and what we are in the ultimately a book of specific inter­ ingless . The twists o� the plot un­ easily brushed aw ay . here and now. And a stri�ing aside actiQn--one on one. From these three derscore the author 's ' feelings--vio­ t that comes from having read each of combinations a ch illing and riviting Debra Ellen Shor , the wi fe of the lence in itself serves no good pur­ Curzon's works as it has appeared , is tale unfolds . impr isoned assassin , is the real vic­ po se . how devastatingly accurate he is at .- , Rick �essup , a semi-professional tim of the piece. A woman denied any­ These are not pretty people, and it , capturing the changing social mores everyman , lives a growingly disen- thing except the statvs of servant to is easy to imagine that Curzon might of Gay men and women. chanted existence at the center of her husband--she is the character who be criticized for writing a politi­ The place is San Francisco, slight- contemporary San Franciscan Gay life. most comes to life on the page , to cally- incorrect book filled with the po int �f dominating the sections mindless clones , viscious Gay para­ in wh ich she appears . Always we are sites , despicab le characters--unfor­ watching a character evolving , some - tunate , but like the characters and times in reaction to her environment, events that fill this novel , indica­ to circums tances , to a private flow- tive of the soci e ty in wh ich we live .

Trade Paperback Line Announced Heavy , He 's My Lover-- a funny , satir-­ Gay SAN FRANCISCO , CA-- Alterante Pub­ ic look at contemporary life from lishing , the Gay-owned and operated the pen of one of America' s bright­ est , warm publishing house that issues Drummer , . est , wittiest cartoonists . Alternate Publishing feels Carlo's Manifest, and Mach magaz 1nes , has an­ r n book nounced a new line of trade paper­ ca too is, without a doubt, a that backs beginning with the release of definite stocking stuffer will John Preston's Mr . Benson : The Com­ be treasured for years to come . plete Novel on September 1, 1983. Next on the list (set for fall re­ Alternate Publishing's initial lease) is an original novel by Mason title for this line of nove ls and Powell , contributing editor of the Castro Times , m ly The Bri g. non- fiction works was originally called si p created ' for and serialized in the But the title is the only simple p'a'ges of Drummer 's fict ion offerings thing about this devastat ing account over the past 8 years. Praise from of what happens to a. young man when such Gay literary figures as Michael he tries to have himself dismissed Denneny (Lovers : The Story of Two from the military because of his op­ Men) and George Wh itmore (The Con­ position to the war in Viet Nam . fessions of Danny Slocum) came imme­ For further information, contact : 15 diately : fan clubs sprang up in cit­ Alternate Pub lishing , Harriet , San 94 103 ies around the count ry ; even Mr Ben­ Franc isco , CA , son teeshirts appeared in New York and San Francisco . Womyn's Braille Press Mr Benson : The Complete Novel was re-edited by John Preston for its The Womyn 's Braille Press offers trade paperback debut and inc ludes feminist and Lesbian literature on a previously unpub lished chapter that , tape or in Braille, to women who are , considerably expands the original j blind or physically,d{�l!bied. WBP has story. v o er 75 t itles in its tape library , At the same time that Alternate and records and circulates several Publishing is releasing Mr . Benson , a­ feminist periodicals. WBP also pro­ � no ther Gay press , Alyson Publ icat ions duces quarterly a newsletter in has John Preston 's second nove l pick­ Braille , print and on tape. Anyone Gay Alternative Franny , ing up praise and at tention . interested in further information � ,Quee� ·of Provincetown , a dramatic �rP should contact: Womyn 's Braille Press i--•. �WEVL-.FM 90.�� -·- departure from the hard-edged SM set­ 8475 , _# ), � Inc. , PO Box Mpls ., MN 55408 A> Ill ting of Hr 'enson , is the story of a pre- liberat ion Gay man who goes from Sundoys-3 P. M. s�er,otypical quee� to Gay . sage over Presented by the Memphis Goy Coalition the· decades. Alternate Publishing 's second trade paperback (set for October re­ lease) is Carlo Car; } cci; §- Jtr, :� : ljot � 1 , ,. 1.•

H�oray for Holly! bre.ak from Ho lly's last two , Speed Of by Donna Leslie Blan Light and Fire In The Rain . It is the first album since she has joined the Once again Ho lly Near has thrown Lesbian community , to use a male. She the Lesbian community a Li fel ine , in has included Jeff Langly, friend and her new release with Ronnie Gilbert accompanist from her earlier record­ of the Weavers . It is a joy to hear ing days . We hope that Holly will not voices of two strong women so per­ be criticized for including a male in fectly matched , musically , personally this album for even on this album, and po litically. she is more "out" ·and supportive of Both women have paid a price for he� Lesbian sisters than the latest their po litical beliefs. Host of us releases of Heg and Chris . . are aware of Holly's political stand In Ho lly's rendering of Gracias A Vida and have at least heard Ron nie's Good La she changed all the gender Night , Irene . I was aware of the endings to the female form thus mak� Weavers and wondered what had happen­ ing who her love was patently clea�. ed to them. They were so popular in She also changed Amado the masculine the 50 's. form to Amada the feminine form for women missing in Chile. line , Somehow it comes as no surprise in translated as •imy loved one ." She goes Ronnie and Ho lly will be on this era of Reagan and Falwell to on to give vibrant new meaning to · Finally, Ho lly has included Singing tour this fall stopping in 10 cities. discover that Ronnie was a victim of several old standard love songs espe­ For Our Lives , one she has been doing The closest one to Memph1s is Kansas a political witch hunt of the early cially People Wi ll Say We Are In for a number of· years in her con­ City , September 24th. If you are in­ SO 's. The House Un-American Activi­ Love , as attested to by the audience certs. This song is near and dear to terested in obtaining tickets, call ties Committee labeled the Weavers as response when she sings "don' t please the hearts of those 30 or so of us 816- 753-661] . Unfortunately, we do "subversives" in the entertainment my folks too much." Then there is Hol­ who have been crazy , foolish or brave not have a Gay record store locally industry . Even their singing of Good ly's new song Perfect Night that enough to participate in Memphis' Gay but I strongly urge everyone to order Night , Irene was suspect since it had beautifully describes the many facets Pride March , for 1t has been our the record directly from Redwood Rec­ of the Lesbian life style. ords , 476 West MacArthur been written by a black ex-convict, theme song . Blvd.· , Oak- and it was clear the Weavers support­ The other songs in this album in­ To celebrate the release of Life- land , Ca 94609 . ed progressive causes . Blacklisted , clude many groups of people that have the Weavers cont inued to sell mil­ been left out in the history books lions of records , but it was increas­ such as Ha rriet Tubman (from which ingly difficult for them to get book­ the title Lifeline is taken) , The Ac­ ings . tivity Room which is about senior Musically speaking , this album is a citizens and Hay Una Mujer the lament Vernon Shaw 'fhotogrophy

New Publication From Lesbian Your Rights in the Military-Survi­ Port�aits, WeJJi"ffs, InJustrial - Rights Project va l Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men is· a one-page leaflet reciting the 205 Kirk most important facts every Lesbian Memphis, fJennessee 38109 The Lesbian Rights Project now has and Gay serviceperson should know . available the newlv-revised , second e­ The Dra ft : Gay Questions , Serious 774 -0885 dition of Lesbian Mothers And Their Answers ' presents important information Children : An Annotated Bibliography in a simple , easy to fol low question Of Legal And Psychological Materials and answer format . The first p� int ing by Donna J. �itchens and Ann C. of this handy 12-page brochure was Thomas . The bibliography includes an we ll-received and has been 'out of notations from court opinions in Les­ stock for a long time . Now it's bian mother custody cases , law review available again , with improved and articles and psychological research clarified text . on Lesbian relationships , mothering Both pub lications are availab le among Lesbians and the mental health from Midwest Commi ttee for Mi litary of children raised by Lesbians . Th is Counseling , 59 East Van Buren, #809 , comprehensive 67-page booklet is an Chicago , Illinois 60605. The sing le essential information resource for copy prices of 50¢ for the draft bro­ anyone who is interested in or invol­ chure and 30¢ for the military leaf­ ved with Lesbian mother or Gay father let include postage and handling ; custody issues. bulk rates .are available on request . The Lesbian Rights Project is the The sponsoring organizat iong are only pub lic interest law firm in the preparing a longer pub lication in­ country exclusively devoted to help-· tended for lawyers and counselors and ing Lesbians with their legal prob­ dealing with draft , Military and vet­ lems . The LRP provides day-to-day erans issues facing Lesbians and Gay counsel ing and legal representation men. The publication is expected to ' to Lesbians and helps to educate the be available soon • legal and ment al health communities Call about the special concerns of Lesbian clients. To order , please send $3.60 to Les­ Stars Tum Out for AIDS Bet}eflt bian Rights Project , 1370 Mission St , 4th Floor, San Francisco , CA 94 103. MEMPHIS GAY SWITCHBOARD (Gay News}-- Debbie Reynolds :!"as the headliner last month at a National 728-GAYY Gay/leebllln MINt.y AIDS AIDS Foundation fundraiser in San Francisco . The event attracted 2000 Aqu.tJie . and raised close to $50,000 , - accord­ Staffed Nightly 7:30-11:30 pm Midwest Committee for Military ing to Bob Ross who co-chaired the Counseling, the Military Law Task benefit. Also appearing with R� yno lds Force of the National Lawye rs Guild , were Shirley HacLaine , Sylvester and • Counseling- Referral the Gay Rights Task Force of. the Na­ George Kirby. Honorary sponsors in­ Information tional Lawyers Guild, and the Nation­ cluded former astronaut Buzz Aldrich al Educational Foundation for Indi­ and Bob Hope . Both sent telegrams vidual Rights announced the availa­ supporting the fundraising effort. bi lity of two important resources for Included among the evening total was Lesbian and Gay service personnel and $500 pledged by San Francisco Mayor for draft-age men . Dianne Feinstein. ltpldltlblr,111S-0Am·1 7 :::::: =-=:-=

ChaRging SexUal Lifestyles

(From the July August AID atlanta some irresponsible attitudes toward cialization . Thus , sexual behavior • community closer together, Lesbians News letter) Gay heal th. "We had taught people revolves more around partnering and and Gay men , for example , have tradi­ The rapid spre&d of AIDS has pro-. that being sexually active was an ac­ monogamous re lationships . Heterosex­ tionally had difficulty working to­ epted health gether and seeing the relevance of voked many changes in our commun i­ � risk ," says Dr. William ual men , too , by virtue of their in­ ties ; certainly a re-thinking of how We were wrong . AIDS changed the volvement with women , may have more one another's needs as separate we interac t sexually is foremos t a­ rules. I'm very regretful that this romance in their first encounters groups of individuals. Many women �r e mong them. The fear of the sexual recognit ion .h as been .slow i'fl coming ." than Gay men . working on AIDS related issues and transmission of AIDS has led to a de­ Wh ile some indiv iduals are calling �ethinking int imacy is the subj ect are among the health care provfaers crease in bath house patronage and those with views similar to Dr Will- of discussion among Gay men these helping people with AIDS. An under­ lowered visibility in the bars of 'iam' s, "the new moralists ," he a.;;-­ days who are concerned about the standing of the dynamics of women 's some areas . Many men in relat ionships serts that , "I don 't cons ider it mo­ costs of anonymous or impersonal sex. relationships, their increased inti­ are considering monogamy , and men who rality. I cons ider it survival." Fear accompanies change . As David macy and capacity for relating , can were content with impersonal and Michael Denneney , a senior editor Goodstein comments , on his own fears , help Gay �en respond to the need for casual sex are beginning to cons ider at St . Martin's Press , has observed "I realized that part of changing my change with some models for learning relat ionships . There appears to be a that Gay men ar.e not the only ones own habits has been my new willing­ new ways of interacting . The social­ resurgence of dat ing and growing con­ who choose frequent anonymous sex .. ness to have all of the experience of izing of women and me; has led to an cerns over capaciti es ,for int imacy. "How else do you explain the exist­ my own fears , my own grief, my own overdevelopment of different kinds of This transition j,�. ·not, any easy one ence of prostit�tes?" he asks . "We 're unreqited longing for intimacy , my skills in each gender group . Women However , as a minority whose ritua ls just different because we have alter­ own doub ts about my physical self." tend to bond more> reaiily in monoga­ have evolved from �u.rv iv<�l �n

BWMT, MGC- Address Reagan Signs Public Health Discrimination Problem

Fund Bill owner was the first to respond to our letter and he expressed a willingness As a result of complaint s received to me et with BW}1T members , although WASHINGTON , DC - President Reagan have been very plea.sed to work with about discrimination against Blacks he was unaware of any prob lems ." signed into law a bill calling for the Gay Rights National Lobby in ob­ at 2 local Gay bars , Black and White The BWMT representative explained, the creation of a $30 million I nter­ taining this vital legislative vic­ Men Together sent out letter and a "Somet imes an individual will take it agency Public Health Emergency Fund . tory. questionaire to all bar owners asking upon him/herself because of their Thi s fund could potentially release "It is important to recognize , how­ about any problems that might exist . millions of dollars for AIDS re­ ever, that passage of this legisla­ In a show of support , the Memphis p�sona l prejudices , to hassle cer­ search . tion is the beginning , not the end , Gay Coalition sent letters to all bar tain people without the bar owner 's The act authorizes the creation of of our efforts. We need to ensure owners urg ing them to meet with BWMT knowledge or consent ." a fund from which any agency of the that the funds that this bill author­ representatives to clarify any misun­ The impression received by BWMT in­ Department of Health and Human Ser­ izes are actually appropriated." derstandings and to �ead-off any po- . dicates that the bar owners are show­ vices can withdraw money to do re­ Now that the Public Health Emergen­ tential problems . ing a willingness to discuss problems search or educational activities to cy Fund Act has become law, GRNL and "The initial reaction has been very and seek solutions . It is ant icipated combat"a public health emergency. "The other groups and individuals inter­ favorable," a BWMT representative that the problem can be resolved to Secretary of HHS would declare a pub­ ested in actually establishing the told Gaze. "A prominent local bar everyone 's satisfaction. lic health emergency , and then deter­ fund must go back to Congress to get mine how the Emergency Fund monies a $30 million· appropriation for the would be spent . fund . (Congress first authorizes a The sponsors of the Emergency Fund program, and then must actually ap­ Bill in Congress made it clear that propriate money for it - - these are the $30 million was only to be spent separate legislative processes.) as a last resort if Congress could "I hope the administration will re­ MGC SEPTEMBER PROGRAM not address a pub lic health emerge�cy cognize; as the House and Senate in its regular appropriat ions pro­ have , that we need s ignificant , re­ MEETING cess. search money on AIDS as soon as pos­ The Gay Rights National Lobby's sible," said Rep Henry Waxman (D-CA) , AIDS Project organized cons tituents who wrote the original bill and was all over the country to wr ite and instrumental in winning unanimous ap­ call their members of Congress in proval for the Public Health Emer­ support of the Emergency Fund . AIDS gency Fund Bill from the House. "The Project staffers also worked closely administration has tried to deal with with key House and Senate leaders and the epidemic cheaply and r outine ly." "MEE T THE CANDIDA TES" ataffers to ensure passage of the Key Hill staffers predict it will bill. be difficult , but not impossible, to Reagan surprised the Gay Rights Na­ get a $30 million appropriation for tional Lobby and supporters of the the Fund in Fiscal '84. bill in the House and Senate when he "We 've got a lot to do to get the approved creation of the Emergency appropriation ," said Steve Endean, the candidates fo r Mayor of the City of Memphis have been Fund. Reagan had opposed the bill in Executive Director of GRNL . "GRNL , All Congress , and had been expected to working with other Gay organizations , invited. Come and see WHO shows up and what their positions on veto the bill or merely al low it to is going to try to mobilize the Gay the issues to Gays are. become law · without his signature . community to wr it� to Congress on this and other AIDS-related issues�" "I am very pleased that the Presi­ SEPTEMBER 1!1. l!J8:1, 7:Jo P. M. dent has signed th� Public Health Those key in gaining passage of the Emergency Fund Act into law,"said Bill include Rep Henry Waxman: and Public Library (Peabody & McLean) Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA ) , one of Senators Edward Kennedy , Alan Crans­ the key legislators responsible for ton (D-CA), and Daniel Patrick Moyni­ Meeting Room B getting the Emergency Fund pas sed by han (D-NY). Presented By The Memphis Gay Coalition unanimous consent in the Senate. "I

18-GAZE-September, 1983 Information ·and Services - Justice for Parents Defense Fund: legal Rock Hotlines Little Memphis child cu�tody; 43 Music Square West, Organizations Gay Switchboard: information, crisis, re­ Nashville 37203. American Civil Liberties Union Organizations fe rrals, counseling; 726-GAYY. · Health Senices: confidential clinic American Civil Liberties Union Ufestyle (ACLU): general movement; Box 2832, Rape Crisis: 528-2161. . specializing in STDs, 1727 Church Street, Little Rock, AR. 72203. (ACLU): general movement; 81 Madison Suicide and Crisis Intervention: 274- Na_shville 37203 (615) 329-1478. Arkansas Gay Rights, Inc. (AGR): Bldg., Suite 1501, Memphis 38103, 521- 7477. movement, P.O. Box 31 15, Little Rock 9875. Metropolitan Community Church: re­ Media 72203. Black White Men Together: ligious, general Christian; 131 15th Ave. & support/ Arkansas Women's Network: move­ N., Nashville, (615) 320-0288. movement; 276-4160or 726-4299 · "Gay Alternative": radio, weekly, Sun­ ment, feminist; Box 1787, Little Rock, days 3 p.m. WEVL-FM 90.3, P.O. Box Nashville Committee: social/movement, Gay Advooacy Project: movement, 72203. 41773, Memphis 38104. P.O. Box 23321, Nashville, TN 37202. Gay Alcoholics Anonymous: (Gay-AA): ACLU & MGC; 521-9875 or 726-4299. GAZE: newspaper, monthly; Box30 38, meets every Tues. & Sun., 8 p.m., 7509 Tennessee Gay Coalition · fo r Human Gay Catholics: Recommended Sunday Mass Memphis 38173..0038 (901) 454-1411 Cantrel, Suite 102, Tanglewood Shopping . Rights (TGCHR): movement, Box 24181 11:00 AM-8t. Peters Village. Lambda Televideo: television, monthly Center. Nashville 37202. program cable chan­ GOPS: social, private membership; no I Views {rom 10%, Gay Counseling Service: 409 Walnut, nel 7 . ; P.O. Box 3038, Memphis, TN 38103. address listing. Womankind Books: 2006 20th Ave. S. Little Rock 7220Q, (501) 663-M55. Nashville, 27212 Open Saturdays Grassroots Women's House: 1524 S. Lesbian Mothers Support Group: NOW, Restaurants & Bars 458-1661. Noon-6 p.m. (6 15) 297-3450 Summit, Little Rock, (501) 378-7851. The�: bar, large disco, patio. Late Memphis Center fo r Reproductive Metropc)litan Communi�y Church: re­ hours; 616 Marshall Ave ., 527-6348 Womankind Health Service: confidential Health: non-sexist, no11=heterosexist; ligious, general Christian; Box 1964, clinic, feminist , 1727 Church Street, Nash­ Little Rock 72203. (501) 664-3749. 1462 Poplar Ave., Memphis 38104, 274- Family Affair Club: bar, Gay crowd ville, 37203 (615) 329-1478. 3550. only; 873 Vance Ave., 527- Sunday nights Women's Resources Center: general Media 0672. Memphis Gay Activists: movement, services for women; 16.08 Woodmont­ Arkansas Gay Writes: AGR, Inc., news­ private membership; 274-0431. The French Connection: restaurant, YWCA, Nashville, (615) 385-3952. letter; P.O. Box 3115, Little Rock 72203. Memphis Gay Coalition: movement, piano bar, dining menu; 598 Marshall Ours: newspaper, 5 times/yr., fe minist; public; Box 3038, Memphis 38103. Ave., 526-1038. Restaurants & Bars P.O. Box 2352, Little Rock 72203. Memphis Gay Speakers Bureau: move­ · National Organization for Women · George's: bar, shows, large disco; 600 Aaron's: 154 6th Ave., N. Nashville ment, general education; Box 3038, · (NOW): movement, fe minist; P.O. Box Marshall Ave., 526-1038. (615) 254-99 11. Memphis 38103. 662, Little Rock, 72203. J-Wag's: bar, serves food, moderate menu. Cabaret: 1711 Hayes St. 320..7082. Memphis State University Gay Student Parents & Friends of Gays: movement/ patio, late hours; 1268 Madison Ave., 725- 2311 Franklin 383- Union: movement/student support; Crazy Cowboy: Rd. support; P.O. Box 1839, Batesville, AR 4670. Room 416, University Center, MSU, 9493. 72501. The Other Side: bar, 12 N. aeveland, late Memphis 38152. Mother's Construction Co.: 2535 hours, 726-9245 Metropolitan Community Church: re­ Franklin Rd. 297-4571. Hotllnes The Pendulum: bar, large disco, serves ligious, general Christian; 2224 Central Slippo's: 2106-A Eighth Ave., S. 269- Ave., 278-1091. food, limited menu; 92 N. Avalon St., 725· Crisis Center: 664-8834 (toll free, 1-800- 9150. Mystic Krewe of Aphrodite: social/ 1530. 482-8886.) Warehouse 28: 2529 Franklin 385- ' -- _ movement, women; P.O. Box 41822, P.W. Bumps Disco: bar, serves fo od, limit­ Rd. ______9689. Res tauran t s & B ars Memphis 38104. ed menu; 238 N. Cleveland St., 726-9953. u c Chaps: 1701 S. University, 663-8682. . Mystic Krewe of Apollo: social, private World's End: 1713 Ch r h St. 329- Psych-Out II: bar, shows on weekends; 571 Silver Dollar: 2710 Asher Ave., 663·9886. membership, men only; no address list­ 3480 · Marshall Ave., 523·1940. Discovery II: 1021 Jessie Rd. , 664-4784. ing. Jackie's: bar; 1474 Madison Ave., 278- Variations: 1131ft .E. Main, 371-9919; Disco Services National Organization for Women 9021 . The Information and nights, piano bar days, restaurant 24 (Now): movement, feminists; P.O. directory is a FREE service of this hours. Box 40982, Memphis, 38104, 452- newspaper. Call 454-1411 for 6983. information on how to become listed. Phoenix: Gay alcoholics anonymous; Nashville meets Weds., 8 pm in Clark Tower, 5050 Organizations Poplar, Room 3102; 365-7153. _ Union Queen's Men: social, private membership; AmericanOvil Uberties (ACLU): AIDS HOTLINE no address listing. general movement: Box 120160, Nash­ ville 37212 Tsarus: social, levi-leather/motorcycle, 1-800-342-AIDS Conductors: Levi-Leather Club; P.O. Box private membership, P.O. Box 11831, 40261, Nashville 37204. Memphis 381 11. Miscellaneous Classlfieds Oub South: baths, room, sauna, TV Club Memphis: bat hs, 12 N. Cleveland rooms. 628 spa lockers, Madison Ave. 722-8006. 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