Nursing Homes Continue to Refuse Persons with Aids
VOLUME TWO, NO. 1—January 12, 1989—January 25, 1989
Give the People Light and they will find their own way. V The Wisconsin Light
Light Inside... NURSING HOMES CONTINUE TO
A TIME TO DIE VIII REFUSE PERSONS WITH AIDS Night of Broken Glass [Madison]. Four prominent Wisconsin Page 2 lawmakers have expessed sharp A BOY OF . Page 4 criticism and "deep concern" over the SUMMER policy of Milwaukee area nursing homes THE LIVELY ARTS . . . Page 6 barring persons with AIDS from admission. WEEKEND WISCONSIN In a letter to Wisconsin's nursing home associations, State Reps. Tom Barrett Waushara County. . . . Page 8 (D-Milwaukee), Peter Bock (D-Milwaukee), Tim Carpenter MEDICALLY SPEAKING (D-Milwaukee) and David Clarenbach T.B and AIDS Page 9 (D-Madison) cited the policy of 62 nursing homes in the Milwaukee area of denying ALYN HESS admission to persons with AIDS as INTERVIEWED Page 10 "disturbing" evidence that "we have not met the challenge of the existing AIDS POLITICALLY SPEAKING cases, let alone be prepared for the Page 11 future." According to the National Centers for Disease Control, the number of AIDS cases will increase in the coming years. MAP Seeks The nursing homes reported their AIDS policies in response to a Milwaukee AIDS Multilevel Care Project (MAP) inquiry regarding such policies. While some homes said they Facility By 1990 were in the process of developing policies regarding AIDS admissions, none, to with AIDS. It took a lot of caring. It took a lot of date, have admitted a person Douglas Nelson, work. But, long-time Milwaukee Gay According to Fierstein) and Alan (Matthew Broderick) share a quiet breakfast in the film of MAP, the nursing activist Alyn Hess who is living with AIDS Arnold (Harvey Executive Director "Torch Song Trilogy" which opens January 20 at Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre. a reason for refusing has been accepted for long-term care by homes that provided their employees were Greentree Hospice. admission stated trained" to care for The fact that this has happened is due not "properly Exhilarating, Poignant "Torch with AIDS. to the Milwaukee AIDS Project (MAP). It persons All nursing homes contacted, however, is due to those who work there and give to the Screen persons with hepatitis-B virus, their time and talents and those who, over Song Trilogy" Comes accept TURN TO NURSING HOMES, PAGE 10 the years, have raised money in countless By Geno Gay fifteen-year-old is Arnold's adopted fundraisers that allow MAP to help The award winning Broadway play is son and that Ed has left his wife, Laurie, people like Alyn. Ben-Shalom Wins now a movie! Harvey Fierstein's "Torch and is living with Arnold, she explodes. Perhaps some are not aware of the all Song Trilogy" won two Tony awards — This unconventional menage outrages situation. You should be, for if you've she and Arnold best play and best actor — and as her ideas of family, and Army Battle given money to MAP, you made it other, battling toe to toe Fierstein's labor of love (he wrote the confront each [Milwaukee]. Federal Judge Myron L. happen. a understanding and play, appeared in it and wrote the until they reach new Gordon declared unconstitutional January Alyn was at Milwaukee's St. Joe's for each other. screenplay) it comes triumphantly to the respect 10 a US Army Reserve regulation that Hospital. According to his doctor there, the end of the film, Arnold is happily screen. The film will begin an exclusive At bars Lesbians and Gays from re-enlisting he was "medically stable." But he by the symbols of the most showing in Milwaukee at the Oriental surrounded in the Reserve. needed a place to live where he could forces in his life — a portrait of Theatre on Friday, January 20th, and important The ruling came in the case of receive help in daily living. Greentree Alan, oranges that Ma brought up from openings elsewhere in the state will be Milwaukee's Miriam Ben-Shalom who Hospice wanted to help. According to Florida, Ed's eyeglasses, David's base- announced shortly in local newspapers. has waged a 12 year battle against the Doug Nelson, Executive Director of MAP, ball cap, and his rabbit ear bedroom From its first birds-eye view of military for her right as an open Lesbian Greentree was 'very, very good, very slippers. Brooklyn in the 60's, the movie throbs to serve in the armed forces. caring." has assembiea a oynamic cast with life and energy as the camera zooms Fierstein The problem was a couple of HMO's to bring his play to life, and most cast in on Mama finding little Arnie Beckhoff bickering over which one would pay the have taken less than their usual putting on her make-up and trying on her members hospice. In Nelson's words "it was the to take part in this labor of love. dresses. This first part of the trilogy salaries insurance industry not responding the "names" in the cast private immediately takes the viewer into the life Paradoxically, to care needs. The business focus was satisfying. The almost legendary of Arnold the drag queen (Harvey are least in the way of the care focus." acts her heart out, but you are getting Fierstein) belting out torch songs as Bancroft The situation was resolved when MAP, always aware that she is acting and no Virginia Hamm (a.k.a. Anita Boy and represented by Nelson, brought its matter how much she "kvetches" she is Bang Bang La Dash). Rowdy scenes of to bare on the decision makers in not a convincing Jewish mother. weight Arnold and "the girls" performing are simply the two insurance companies. An Still, her confrontation with Arnold in the rapidly inter-cut with Arnie talking agreement was reached that the two cemetery as she mourns her husband and intimately to the camera about his frank, HMO's would split the cost and argue Arnold says Kaddish at Alan's grave is funny, and sometimes angry demands for later. In the meantime, Alyn would devastating, gut-wrenching. respect and love. He meets Ed, a bisexual receive the help he needed. Matthew Broderick as the male model school teacher in a Gay bar, and life takes The weight that MAP has and uses for Alan is sweet and attentive and probably on a rosy, romantic hue for a while until the benefit of its clients is largely due to that is all the role demands. Arnie suspects that Ed is dating someone support the organization receives But the really appealing portrayal is Sgt. Mariam Ben Shalom the else, only to discover that the "other from the Lesbian/Gay community, Nelson Brian Kerwin's as Ed — he and Fierstein man" is a young woman, Laurie (Karen The decision stated that a person could have the most expressive faces so that said. Young). End of romance and Part I. not be prevented from serving in the Light that "No issue is even their inner thoughts can be read in Nelson told The second wing of the triptych focuses military based on his/her sexual Map] than getting them. They are real, they are themselves, more important [to on Alan (Matthew Broderick), the young orientation. quality care for clients." Alyn is an they don't seem to be acting. And this is lover whose death Arnold will mourn for Ben-Shalom told Light that this ruling is of this, but only one example. largely true of the rest of the cast. example the rest of his life. We also meet Arnold's "one in a series of victories that she has huge problem that MAP confronts Eddie Castrodad is delightful as the A family — father, mother and lawyer achieved. However, it would appear to and in the future, Nelson said, is that adopted son (the role which Matthew now brother — who try to understand and this reporter that Ben-Shalom is being too care such as Alyn needed for Broderick played in the original state of long-term accept his lifestyle. The theme of family modest. untold numbers who are now or who version); the "girls" seem completely at the dominates this section and the poignant This legal victory over the Army which will find themselves in his situation. home onstage and off; and even the two scene of Alan accompanying Arnold to his is unique has been won by a woman and a The question is, why couldn't Alyn and chorus boys (Robert Neary father's funeral will hit home for many. eye-catching woman from Wisconsin. While men often other PWA's in similar need be admitted Nick Montgomery) are right at home Alan and Arnold decide to adopt a son to and pride themselves in being the to a nursing home? The answer is, and enjoying themselves. create their own family, then another "flag-bearers" in the cause of civil according to Nelson, that at present, there dialogue is hip, clever, fast- family situation is explored when Alan The rights, it should be pointed out and is a "chunk of the health care system that moving and many lines are virtual and Arnold are invited to spend a pointed out strongly, that a woman, is not responding [to the needs of AIDS ("A thing of beauty is a joy weekend in the country with Ed and throwaways fighting alone and at great sacrifice, won patients], the nursing homes," said till but, again, its naturalness Laurie. Another comic disaster. morning"), this land-mark victory. No man did this. Nelson. adds to the reality of the film. Additional Part three is dominated by Mama Our Gay male pride is high, but women's In December, with Alyn and people like scenes and dialogue have been added to (Anne Bancroft). Now widowed, she pride should be greater yet. him in mind, MAP and the Milwaukee this screen version, and the set decor comes up from Florida to visit Arnold only In the next issue of Light Sue Burke will Urban League sponsored a lunch for 100 (Arnold's apartments are a treat in to learn that Arnold and Alan had been be writing an in-depth article on this Black leaders. The purpose was to talk themselves), the background music, and lovers and that Alan is dead. When she decision. TURN TO 10 MAP, PAGE discovers that David (Eddie Castrodad), a TURN TO TORCH SONG, PAGE 10 January 12, 1989—January 25, 1989—WISCONSIN LIGHT-2 OUR HISTORY Putting Bees in Bonnets Keeps Rondy on His Toes By Thomas J. Rondy there is something like progress going on It's been one hell of a hectic finals week, in the old home town, I would really like to so I'd just like to say a few things really hear about it. At least I know that the quickly; also, hopeful Morgan Summer North Woods is producing our state won't mind if I "borrow" a format from community's radicals. A TIME TO DIE VIII him for one column. I second what Jim said in the last issue 6 6 I have just finished reading the late about joining the Human Rights Kristalnacht" — The Night of December issue of Light. After reading Campaign Fund. I have done this myself. about things like the fascists vivisecting To you socialists out there, I admit that it Broken Glass- November 9, 1938 us, I am reminded once again of the great may seem a little weird to fund a group By Terry Boughner, Ph.d. need to perpetuate the memory of our that sometimes funds people with whom They call it "Kristalnacht" meaning shortly came to the notice of the Gestapo. Holocaust history as the Jewish people we disagree on many issues, but you'll Crystal Night. The word is a pleasant, By late 1937, reports were being have done with theirs. find that the opponents of these even pretty sounding name with a certain dispatched regularly to Berlin where they I would also like to welcome aboard candidates tend to be downright poetic ring to it. In reality, there was were read by Himmler, Goebbles and D.K. Beck, a new Light columnist. I would reprehensible; so please at least give it a nothing pleasant or poetic about it. probably Hitler himself. However, no like to say to D.K. that when I read your try. November, 1988, marked the 50th action was taken and the documents were column, I was thinking, "Oh, goody, And so long as I'm on a fund-raising anniversary of Kristalnacht as was amply put aside for future reference. another commie!" Hopefully Jim spree here, I urge regular readers to documented in the newspapers and on The time could not have been more McFarland doesn't feel too out-numbered subscribe to Light, as I am going to do; TV. The reports faithfully and truly unfortunate for the two lovers. For some now (Sorry about that Jim, I couldn't not only do you help keep our paper alive, marked it as the beginning of the time Himmler, Goebbles and the rest of resist!). you help keep the Cause alive. Holocaust of the Jews. But, as I the gang had been pushing for a change of It is, however, nice to know that I have been made aware that I am discovered, not one word was ever said policy as regarded the Jews. That change someone out there agrees with you. And attracting some attention with this about the persecution of Lesbians and was that the "solution" to the "Jewish now that the Bork nomination has been column. Well, thanks, people. I know that Gays (men wearing pink triangles were Question" should be the same as that defeated and the process of smashing the I've put a bee in some bonnets, but I shown in "Winds of War", but it was being applied to homosexuals, total Contras is in its final stages, we have an extend my thanks to my opposition too. never mentioned what the symbol meant) extermination. array of signs which indicate that all areas Being ignored really hurts. and nothing at all about the fact that the Of this, Hitler had to be convinced. In of the struggle are making important As far as my life is concerned, I have occasion for this Night of Broken Glass as the Fuhrer's twisted thinking, killing progress. been trying to be less "anti-social" this Kristalnacht is sometimes called, was the homosexuals bothered no one at all, but And as much as I try to avoid the semester. I have made some progress; use to which the Nazis put two Gay lovers. the wholesale murder of the Jews might concept known as "competition," it some. Like I said, my finals week hasn't Ernst vom Rath was born in 1908 to one have foreign repercussions. looks like this new columnist will been fun. Oh, well . . siempre! of the finest families of imperial To show their leader the "error" in his effectively keep me from growing thinking, Himmler and Goebbles in 1938 complacent and resting on laurels as far mounted a two-pronged program. as writing goes. This is a good thing as I Pressure was increased greatly on the tend to get lazy if I don't monitor myself. GUEST EDITORIAL POLICY Jews to leave the Reich. At the same The proof of this is in my academic time, Poland was informed that Germany performance of this semester! The Wisconsin Light welcomes guest planned to expel all Jews of Polish It is also interesting that this new editorials. Such are expressions of background and formally requested comrade is from the northern part of the personal opinion on community, local Warsaw to receive them. Both parts of the state. I myself am originally from Stevens ornational issues of interest to Lesbians program were designed to show Hitler Point (Though the town leaders might and/or Gays. They should be typed, that no one wanted the Jews or would care want to deny it at this point — no pun double-spaced and be no longer than what happened to them. intended). I might even do a column on 400-600 words. Of course, Grynszpan did not know the the situation in Stevens Point. It looks like reasons behind all of this, but he did know it's going to be a depressing place, so if Germany. He had it all, everything that that his family was being pressured to aristocratic status could provide. The only return to Poland. The youth tried to bring glitch was something called World War I, them to France, but they were refused but the vom Raths weathered that well exit visas. They had to go to Poland or Milwaukee AIDS Project enough and Ernst entered the career nowhere at all. Fighting AIDS through effective service: foreign service of the post-war Weimar Poland reacted to the German request much as Himmler Republic. and Goebbles expected Education and Prevention Herschel Grynszpan lived a much that it would. In October, 1938, Warsaw Life Care Services different life. informed Berlin that it would not accept He was born in 1921. His • AID S line—the latest information 'Home care support family was Jewish, of eastern European the Jews and backed this with a law that on AIDS • Support background. His father, as had thousands declared that all Polish Jews resident in groups of other Jews, had fled the Russian-held Germany for more than five years had • Library/Resource Center — • Counseling area of Poland in 1911 seeking the freer forfeited their citizenship. This law was to Wisconsin's comprehensive • Case management take effect October 31, 1938. atmosphere of Germany. About the only source for articles, pamphlets, • Medical, psychological and thing free about it as far as The Germans responded by announcing the Jews were books and videos on AIDS spiritual referrals concerned, was the absence of the that all such Jews were stateless and • AIDS prevention education for periodic pogroms or persecutions ordered them rounded up and removed to • financial assistance characteristic of Tsarish Russia. camps on the Polish-German boarder people engaging in risk behavior • housing assistance Otherwise, life could be and often was, from which they were to be forced into nasty and sometimes brutal. So it was for Poland regardless of the consequences. the Grynszpans although, with time, In the meantime, Grynszpan was If you have questions, concerns, or need assistance, call Herschel's father did manage to rise to a frantic. His family would die unless he Statewide: 1-800-334-AIDS certain level of prosperity. could bring them to France. In Though worlds apart in class and desperation, the beautiful young man Milwaukee: 273-AIDS MILWAUKEE economic standing, vom Rath and appealed to his lover to use his influence to save them. Grynszpan had two things in common. The Milwaukee One was that both were outstandingly Vom Rath's problems were several and AIDS Project good looking. Vom Rath was a blond of not small. He knew enough of what was We support learning. AIDS going on in Germany to believe that there the type often associated with the We promote living. P f ( J E ( T northern Germans. was nothing anyone could do to save the Grynszpan was dark with large, liquid Polish Jews. He also seems to have eyes. In his picture, he has the look of feared that if he should make the attempt beautiful fragility, yet behind his pouting to save his lover's family, it would come lips, there seems to be a smoldering out that he was Gay which would mean sensuality. ruin and death. He did not know that his The second thing that vom Rath and homosexuality was well known in Berlin. Grynszpan shared was that both were How vom Rath explained all this to his Gay. lover, we do not know, but by November Gays, as I have written, had been 7, 1938, Grynszpan knew that all his hunted down from the very beginning of pleadings with vom Rath were to no avail. the Nazi regime in 1933. For Jews, like On that date, Grynszpan went to the alta Grynszpan's family, life was almost German Embassy. He had no trouble equally terrible. Though the death camps gaining entry and went to his lover's such as Auschwitz, were still in the office. There he took out a gun and killed future, beatings and murder were vom Rath on the spot. common with the aim of driving the Jews The news reached Berlin almost at once from Germany. Those who went had where it was treated by Himmler et al as a everything confiscated before they were godsend. Now the Jews could be tarred expelled. Many Jews elected to stay, in with the brush of homosexuality, a 'ET! the hope that it would all blow over, and to charge, it was believed, that would seal preserve whatever property they could. At their fate in the eyes of all the world. Thus Do you have the winter blaus? the same time, many sent their children it was announced that "a queer Jew" abroad. Grynszpan's father chose this had killed vom Rath whose own way for his handsome and intelligent son, homosexuality was kept a closely guarded Then come to the warmest, sending him to Paris in 1935 to stay with secret. an uncle. Ironically, that was the same On the night of November 9, 1938, friendliest bar in time that vom Rath was sent to the same using revenge and homosexuality as city to serve as Counselor at the German excuses, Jewish homes, shops and Embassy. synagogues all over Germany were Milwaukee! I was never able to find out when or how ransacked and burned. Thousands were the two met, but meet they did, beaten or killed. Thousands more were sent to somewhere in Paris, and became lovers. concentration camps to die there, 418 East Wells Street the first of They should have been discreet. They millions. They called it weren't and what they were to each other TURN TO BREAKING GLASS, PAGE 8 Milwaukee 278-9192 January 12, 1989—January 25, 1989—WISCONSIN LIGHT-3 Give the People Light and they EDITORIAL will find their own way. TO THE EDITOR: Community Must Go On and I've had enough. We've all heard enough and seen enough of Gay The Accept Bath Closing as Permanent bashings. This senseless horror is caused by homophobics and other mentally Wisconsin The closing on December 22 by the Milwaukee Health Department of Club Milwaukee, deranged people who think we are easy better known as "the bath", was a good and wise move. Dr. Thomas Schlenker should prey for their sickness. They take out be commended as a responsible public official who made a courageous and moral their personal hostilities on innocent Light decision. He deserves not criticism, but the thanks of all for safeguarding the health of victims who are reluctant to fight back the entire community. because of their need to keep silent about As we have learned from many sources, Dr. Schlenker's sole and overriding concern their sexual identity. These crazies think was with the possible outbreak of tuberculosis. Though many may think of the disease as we won't do anything about it. They count something from the 19th Century, TB continues to exist and is a highly contagious on our silence. They think they can get 157 disease that flourishes in enclosed conditions of warmth and high humidity. These are away with it. And they will unless we call exactly the conditions that existed in the bath. Once the presence of the disease had been a halt, stand up and fight, let them know verified, Schlenker, as we see it, had no other choice than to do what he did. Had he not that enough is enough. done so, he would, we think, have been derelict in his duty. What can we do about it? Plenty! We The mainstream media has latched on to the story for one reason. That is the reputation are not helpless victims. We can fight of all such bathhouses as places for free and untrammeled sex. That always makes a good back using a little common sense and a lot story, but it is a story at our expense. All that is being done is to reinforce in the mind of of caution. the general public the idea that we Gays and Lesbians are all about sex and nothing more. Never walk alone or leave a bar alone. This is demeaning as it is wrong. Have two friends accompany you. You can Executive & Editorial Offices The Gay community should therefore be cautioned against overreacting to the closure. drive them safely back to the bar. This paper stands second to none in its advocacy of Gay/Lesbian rights. But in this case, Recently a Lesbian was raped leaving a 1843 N. Palmer we are firmly convinced by the most reliable sources that closing the bath was not an half-Gay, half straight bar alone. Milwaukee, WI 53212 attack on the Gay community. It is not the "beginning" of anything. Therefore, the Countless other men and women have (414) 372-2773 closing should be accepted for what it was, a necessary measure done for the best of all been beaten and robbed — and killed. possible reasons. Now it is time to urge in the strongest terms that all who patronized the Check your car before entering, bath be tested and then put the closing behind us and think of other and more vitally especially the back seat. Keep your car PROFESSIONAL STAFF important things. doors locked at all times, even while One thing the Gay/Lesbian community needs to consider is the speedy creation of a driving. Anyone can jump in the Publisher long-term care facility for PWA's who are not ill enough for either nursing home or passenger side while you are at a stop Jerry Johnson hospice, but who cannot live on their own or with friends or family. According to a recent sign. edition of the New York Times dozens of such people are homeless and in the streets in Never pick up strangers on the street or Executive Editor Manhattan. We cannot let this happen in Wisconsin. in a bar. The cute trick in the bar will meet Terry Boughner, Ph.d. Such a facility should be staffed by Lesbians and Gays or those who are sensitive to our you at some future date if he/she is Arts & Entertainment Editor lifestyle. Lifestyle is one thing no PWA should have to worry about. The need for such a legitimate. Also, ask about the person. Geno place is great now and, by 1990, will become acute. Someone usually knows them. Let your The size and complexity of such a project is, admittedly, vast. But the need is greater. brain lead you, not your genitals. Typography & Process Graphics Undertaken, it can show to all the caring concern and maturity of the entire Wisconsin Use a box number when placing ads in C.S.P., Incorporated Gay/Lesbian community. It can serve to draw us all together under the umbrella of the newspaper. Last year a Gay man was compassion. Compared to it and the crisis we face, the closing of the bath is, if not brutally beaten and robbed in his own insignificant, then unimportant. It is something from our past. We need to look to the home after placing an ad in one of the Gay future. papers for a roommate. COLUMNISTS Report any violent incidents to the police. Remember that not all police Fr. James Arimond, State Rep. David LETTERS officers are anti-Gay, and not all of them E. Clarenbach, Roger Gremminger MD, are straight. Demand that something be Marc Haupert, Jamakaya, Karen Lamb done. We must assert ourselves as Ph.d., Bill Meunier, John Michael law-abiding citizens entitled to police Roberts, Jack Sturdy, Morgan Summer. protection. If we do nothing, the REPORTERS authorities do nothing and we end up paying the price. Eugene Brzenk, Ph.d., Sue Burke, Co-operate with the police. You need Shawn Duffy, Michael Lisowski, Daniel not mention the Gay factor. Give them as S. Thompson, Ron S tanley, Jerry Warzyn much information as you can. Follow up INTERNATIONAL with inquiries to the police department. If is being done or if the police have CORRESPONDENTS nothing delayed in responding to the original call J. Reich; England-Pout Mexico-Francis for help, call the chief of police and call Puerto Rico-Jose Toro- E. Burke; your alderman. If you don't know who India-Sandeep; Japan-Hiroaki, Alfonso; your alderman is, call the City Clerk's Minami; Peru-Roberto Bar- Yeishiro office at City Hall. The aldermen are the cena. movers of the city and they need your ADVERTISING votes. You elected them. Ask that they do their job. Jerry Johnson If nothing else works, perhaps we need (414) 372-2773 to consider straight bashing. We could THE WISCONSIN LIGHT is published biweekly set up decoys, wait for them to pounce by NOVO GRAPHICS, LTD., with offices at 1843 and bash a few of them. I hope this never N. Palmer, Milwaukee, WI 53212. Advertising and copy deadline is the Thursday prior to becomes necessary. It is an extreme publication. Opinions expressed by writers in WISCONSIN LIGHT are not necessarily those of measure that should not be considered the publisher, editor, or our advertisers. Any unless all other avenues have failed. We reference made to any individual or organization should not be construed as an indication of the don't want warfare. I remember an old same's sexual or affection orientation or prefer- "The only thing necessary for ence. All copy, text, design, photos, and saying, illustrations in advertisements are published evil to prevail is that good people do with the understanding that the advertiser is THE EDITOR: committed an abomination: they shall be TO nothing."Let's protect ourselves. Let's fully authorized and has secured proper written Boo to you, too. surely put to death; their blood shall be consent for the use of names, pictures, or speak up and demand to be heard. Let's testimonials of any living person, and WISCON- See. This is what you get for not letting upon them." (Leviticus 20). SIN LIGHT may lawfully publish and cause such Gay bashing. you. Little doggie That, as the man said, is all we know, smash publication to be made; and the advertiser me go to Atlanta with —Reen agrees by submitting ads to indemnify and save takes little room. and all we need to know. blameless the publication of any error that may only Milwaukee be contained in said ad. WISCONSIN LIGHT And comes in handy for biting 'em —LeRoi Snowden does not accept any responsibility for any claims made by advertisers. The entire contents of —Tab Hunter Milwaukee WISCONSIN LIGHT are (t, Copyrighted and frequent Editor's Note: The above letter was protected under the Federal Copyright Act and Editor's Note: Tab, a International Conventions. Reproduction of any collaborator in Karen Lamb's column, at sent also to The Milwaukee Sentinel. Skylight Theatre portion of any issue will not be permitted without Mr. Snowden might be well advised to express written permission of NOVO GRAPHICS, year's end, has decided to contribute in LTD. Legal venue is Milwaukee County, read Mr. Navarro's letter in The Sentinel Printed in the U.S.A. his own right. Announces Wisconsin. before he comments on it. Had he done Graphics, Ltd. © 1989 by Novo TO THE EDITOR: so, he might have avoided the blatant Ralph Season Auditions I am writing in response to inaccuracies and gratuitous insults with Office Hours: Novarro, [sic] the homosexual whose which his (Mr. Snowden's) letter is [Milwaukee]- Auditions for the 1989-90 sarcastic remarks about the Catholic Monday-Friday-9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. replete. Milwaukee's Skylight Comic Church The Milwaukee Sentinel saw fit to season of 24-hour recording First of all, Mr. Navarro is a proud Gay have been scheduled for January print on December 30. Mr. Navarro Opera man, not "the homosexual." Secondly, 2, 1989 at the Skylight cannot understand why those who choose 29-February Mr. Navarro has presented his position 813 North Jefferson St. SUBSCRIPTIONS sodomy, effeminacy, and same-sex Theatre, with style and intelligence, showing a fine for all shows in the 1989- 90 First-class subscription rate is $30.00 coupling as a way of life cannot be allowed Casting understanding of his subject. will be determined by these for one year (25 issues). to set up booths, have their own Mass, season Unfortunately, the same might not be said Auditions will be heard by Third-class subscription rate is $15.00 etc. The reason is quite simple. It is auditions. for Mr. Snowden. He shows an -Artistic Directors Stephen for one year (25 issues). written plainly in the Holy Bible for all to Skylight Co unfortunately all too common lamentable Wadsworth and Francesca Zambello and Foreign subscription rates available see: "If a man lies with a man, as he lies of the misunderstanding Bible. Skylight General Manager Christine upon request. with a woman, both of them have Before he criticizes Mr. Navarro, Mr. Voigt. Snowden should discover that "all we Institutional Member LETTER POLICY Those interested in auditioning are to know" a lot than Wisconsin Light actively solicits Letters need is greater he requested to prepare one twentieth to the Editor on any subject. thinks. century American work from opera or However all such letters must be signed musical theatre and one piece of the TO THE EDITOR: and contain the writer's address although auditioner's choosing. The second I enjoy your publication very much. It the address is never printed and the name selection may be replaced by a exudes an energy and creativity you don't will be withheld upon request. All monologue. find in newspapers — and few LESBIAN unsigned letters, notes and stuff To schedule an audition, call the GAY AND magazines. Keep up the Great Work! scribbled on the sides of clipped columns at (414) 271-9580 between 10:00 PRESS ASSOCIATION —Greg Skylight will serve as cat box liner. and 4:00 pm weekdays. Milwaukee am January 12, 1989—January 25, 1989—WISCONSIN LIGHT-4 Data Sought From 1534 W. Grant, 383-5755 Keep Your Hands Out of Your 1 Block N. of Lincoln 1 Block E. of 16th Parents Sunday, January 15 Pockets and Sit Down Fast! Open 1 P.M. Light wishes to welcome Ms. Lynch to yanking them up every two minutes. Take Tallahassee, Fl.- Loralee MacPike, the Movies! Movies! Movies! our growing family of writers. Her column off the calculator watch and the ID current book editor of the periodical, The Come and See will be appearing once a month. A bracelet. Wear all the pinkie rings you Lesbian News, has been chosen as the Streisand-Fonda-Hepburn collection of the first three years of The want, the more the better: they think editor of There's Something I've Been January 22- Trail has been published by they're a sign of femininity. As far as Meaning to Tell You. to be published by Amazon Superbowl Sunday infernal contraptions called The NAIAD Press. Inc. P.O. Box 10543, Naiad Press. those Tailgate Party . • • "bras," the very epitome of oppression, Tallahassee, FL, 32302 in the next two years. 3-7 P.M.- $3 Cover By Lee Lynch the modern day acceptable binding of the female body, the molding of the breasts to Loralee MacPike can be reached at P.O. Free Brats-Hot Dogs-Tap become more feared or Has any phrase shapes meant to please straight male Box 6369. Altadena, CA. 91001. She is Beer-Soda plus other in modern America than more common eyes — well, you can always keep your interested in hearing from all Lesbian Drink Specials collar, we T laid off? White collar or blue jacket on and hope the personnel office is mothers and Gay fathers who are willing ply our Saturday, January 28- plight our troths to an employer, air conditioned. to contribute an article to this anthology on in the end, Softball Fundraisers trades wholeheartedly and, "You can hang your jacket right the subject of their explaining their sexual absolutely no control over these Singer Dina Wilke Live! have here." orientation to their child or children. lives which we barter 9 P.M.-Midnight- Raffles huge chunks of our "NO! THAT'S OKAY!", says the Contributors may include women and says one's A and Food for survival. If the company desperate perspiring brafree dyke, men who are birth or natural parents, job is being eliminated, then one's job is adoptive parents, co-parents, significant Every Sunday- hanging on to her cover for dear life. T being eliminated. Period. Out on the "I'M COMFORTABLE! REALLY, I'M others, whatever relationship that has Bloody Mary's $1 one's bowl of E street one goes, begging for NOT HOT AT ALL!" significant impact in the raising process rice elsewhere. and can include accounts of past telling or Clothing does not the woman make, N My last day is coming in less than two however. There's something called showing by example or attitude, present weeks. The company I work for decided telling or showing or plans for future "stance." Sometimes Girlfriend just C that an approximately 85 staff handling of the situation. kind of wiggles in anticipation, then O reduction was the answer to their jumps at me, explaining, "I can't help Women who feel they have a particularly problems. This happens every day, of interesting life situation but myself. It's your stance!" This means unusual or N course. I am of the mobile generation, that I don't walk funny, I look queer even that do not feel comfortable with the destined to spend several years each at interviewed for the standing still. Most employers don't writing process may be C several jobs rather than, like my father wiggle at the sight of a full-grown woman anthology. We are especially anxious to one T and his father, a lifetime with standing like the Marlboro man. Though I hear from unusual/minority households employer. Whether I want to or not. have had bosses of the female persuasion and almost any configuration that is not Okay. I should accept this. Especially that did. It made these jobs much more exclusively white, middle class and up- N since I learned at the same time that I am exciting. wardly mobile. in royalties to finally making enough So the next rule at an interview, if you myself for a few months. support look like me, is SIT DOWN FAST. elusive. Should or not, acceptance is Gestures can unhinge employers too. bound up in having a My self-worth is so You're probably not going to flutter your that I am like a bereaved spouse at an stop in, you won't job hands at the wrists like flowers in the If you don't interminable funeral. One moment I am wind, and that's okay, as long as you know what you're missing... fates, the next, against railing against the don't, instead, emphasize a verbal point for abandoning me, the the deceased with your fists, or do a lot of leaning with no one to next, uselessly bargaining forward, legs apart, hands splayed on SUNDAY 5-? $3 minimum this save my job and then weeping over your thighs. only have I traumatic separation. Not At all costs, KEEP YOUR HANDS OUT drink purchase gets you a gone through every stage of loss, but I OF YOUR POCKETS! This is a through each of them at seem to be going particularly difficult one for me. I Free 9" Tombstone Pizza over employment least twice. And this probably end up looking like a severely making me crazy! that was disturbed individual during my constant 0 reactions are quite normal, I know. MON-FRI 5-8 PM 2-4-1- Cocktails My battle. The hands creep into my pants change, 1 think, are a little My fears of pockets. I yank them out. They find their MON 9-Close Pull Tabs heightened by who I am. way into my jacket pockets. I pretend like I've spent several relatively peaceful TUES 5-Close 2-4-1 Cocktails I wa just looking for something and shove years working at this job out of my home. the guilty digits under my thighs. Two WED 9-Close "Beat The Clock" I do not have to go into the office on a daily minutes later, they're creeping to basis and try and fit in. I spend only an THUR 11PM "Moon Over Milwaukee" freedom and pouncing into my pants hour or two at a time with clients and very pockets again! $75 Cash 1st Prize occasional time with other staff. This Speaking of pockets, I normally carry gives no one much chance to register my FRI 10-Close $1.00 shots of Schnapps my pen and mechanical pencil in a breast walk, my gestures, or to learn anything shirt pocket or rear jean pocket. Not to $1.25 Apple & Dr. McGillicuddy about my personal life. Most of my mention my penknife, wallet, chapstick, a contacts, with other professionals and lucky stone, change, a memo pad, businesses, I do on the phone. sobriety medal and bandanna. For an I do not have to pass on the phone. yourz pLcu_ 813 S. 1st St., Milwaukee, WI 53204 • (414) 647-0130 interview, I leave everything I can in the It's excruciating now, to have to go on car. I tell myself it'll only be for a few job interviews. I find myself in the hours; this is not a wilderness survival position of having to go out and buy some trip, though it may feel like one. And clothes which a) make me look like a girl contents are another reason it's while b) making me feel dykey enough so important to keep my hands out of my that I retain my self- confidence. I have to pockets. If I've left a tampax, for a) tell employers that I'm a writer to get example, in there and I'm flustered by Wills Custody jobs I want while b) not telling them what questions about my hobbies, who know Probate Visitation & I write or where I'm published so they'll what I'll pull out when it's time to Probate Avoidance Divorce hire me. I have to answer the illegal complete my application. On the other question are you married: a) no, despite Partners Separation hand, that might be the most feminine Personal Injury the fact that I am or b) Agreements yes, in a way that thing to do . . . they won't ask his name. Bankruptcy One last point. When you get to the And I thought the job was driving me Worker's interests part of the interview, you know, Real Estate nuts? Compensation where they're building rapport with you Traffic Defense The first rule at a job interview these and being real informal to try to legally Drunk Driving days, if you look like me, is FIND THE Title XIX pry personal stuff out of you? If you know MOST TAILORED PAIR OF WOMEN'S Ask Usil you've blown it: you marched in there like PANTS YOU CAN. I know they bag out in Ramboa, slumped in your seat with your "If it concerns you, the back and taper sissy-like at the ankle. hands jingling the change in the pockets Just be grateful they aren't a skirt. Then of your best khakis; if you for got to cross WEAR A BLOUSE, NOT A SHIRT. it concerns us!" your legs at the ankles and slung one over Button-down is fine, as long a it was cut the other before ticking off your good too small, is so short it doesn't stay points on fingers whose nails are cut so ATTORNEYS tucked in and is made of cloth so inferior short they look bitten — If you've done all to that which is used for men's shirts that Carol L. Law and Warren J. Klaus this and they haven't dismissed you, then it's almost transparent. I suggest a boy's even if you're a die-hard couch potato, tell shirt as a compromise. Their size 18 fits them your hobbies are mountain like a woman's 34 should. climbing, wrestling and that you coach the As far as accessories go, NO SOCKS. Tiny Tots Field Hockey League. Jocks LAW& KLAUS Bare-ankled if nylons make your stomach don't have to pass. ache, not to mention your back from In Memorial of Jill Klaus Free Living Wills P.O.Box 310 Madison, WI 53701 FREE FIRST MEETING with attorney regarding any legal matter. 1127 University Ave. Call for an appointment. Available weekdays, Room 8103 (608) 255-8582 weekends and evenings. \VJNWED CPA Serf Ices Al ailable • Support Groups • Advocacy 5665 S. 108th Street • Gay/Lesbian Phone Line Hales Corners [608] 255-4297 5 29 2800 Ample Street-Level Parking January 12, 1989—January 25, 1989—WISCONSIN LIGHT-5 A BOY OF SUMMER 1988 Democratic National Epilogues- Part I Convention Remembered... By Morgan Summer December was pretty mild. The weather was that of late Spring in Wisconsin, and some guys at my college were going around in sweatpants or even jogging shorts. I didn't mind that one bit. December was also calm in that nothing happened, really — nothing negative. A very positive thing was that the Gay Student Union here on campus acquired an office and a telephone. All of this in addition to a regular weekly meeting place. So, the Union is going very well; we hope to acquire more members soon, mostly after Christmas vacation. Also, December was an epilogue of Morgan Summer sorts for me. I had a hell of a year — I loved, hated, been beaten up, verbally but didn't know. assaulted, founded a Gay Student Union, Now. If you have read my last column started college and many other things. and others, you will know that I have sort Then, in December, things seemed to be of a . . . casual obsession with brothers. calming down, settling into place, and These two were having sex (to be blatant) accepting changes. with each other. I was sure of it. The I have been writing this column, sitting straightest guy in the world if he had across the table from you and telling you either one of them for a brother, would about my life, for more than a year. It fool around. That's what I thought then; started at the time I transferred from my that's what I still think. Maybe I'm suburban school to an inner-city wrong, maybe not. I don't know why I still Milwaukee school. That was a fortunate think about them? When I went home for time for this to come about, I realize now; Thanksgiving vacation, a friend of mine chaging schools really changed my and I drove into Milwaukee where the Hundreds of persons who died of AIDS were remembered outside the Democratic National brothers lived. We talked for a good half Convention during July in Atlanta. Pictured, are two men who could not contain their grief as outlook on life and my life itself. they remembered loved ones who had died. I had to leave my suburban school hour about them. He is Gay and went to because I was openly Gay for a few weeks the same Milwaukee high school as I so and my classmates did not like that. After he too, knew them as well as I did. Which Milwaukee Tri-Cable Announces a threat of castration, I left. My first wasn't much, but enough to speculate. column appeared in late Fall of 1987. We did and remembered them well. Program Highlights Then, 1988 came. It was my last year in But, as we move on, we tend to Program highlights planned for [Milwaukee]- January's high school, my last year of living at remember the good things and forget the Tri-Cable February include: ushered in the New Year with a new set home, my last year of being a true bad. The bad, or at least not good, for me Interview with Thom Ertl of the and new music, and a new regular teen-ager — that is, under eighteen. in high school was the queasy, Milwaukee AIDS Project (MAP) about his segment, "My Little World!" The last semester of my high school nervous-sick feeling I had in my stomach work as MAP's librarian and resource Program highlights in January include: experiences we fairly quickly and the boys before gym class, the locked bathrooms, person. Nancy Neutz joins us with "My Little and girls I met there — Rob, Tracy, Matt, the brutal fights in the halls and so on. Review of the acclaimed "Torch Song World" which will cover Lesbian history, Scott, Greg and, of course, Todd, were in But high school is over for me. I'll pay a Trilogy." playing at the Oriental Theatre. community events, and activities. This and out of my life, but always, well, visit there sometime during my Black History Month is celebrated with month she talks about the Lesbian poet, always there — I could come to high Christmas break — to remember and Nancy Neutz's "My Little World" Sappho. school and know that they would be there, also, to forget. segments. John Luedtke will tell us about his role to talk to or argue with or even fight. Todd When I graduated, I moved into the Interview with Ron Geiman, celebrating as Vince in "When a Hand is Laid in would be there too, and I loved him, but long hot Summer of '88 and eventually, his long-time commitment to our college. But, I'll tell you about that later. Yours." This is a 45 minute traveling Gay/Lesbian community and the 5th only from a distance. He never knew and 1-act play produced in conjunction with never will. I'll never be brave enough in This is my next to last column for 1988. anniversary of Instep magazine. Family Services of Milwaukee. tell him. I will be taking a vacation until the end of And Tri- Cable's uniquely Gay/Lesbian that regard, to Surprise preview video clip from Milwaukee high January and I'll be back then. This approach to news and events of interest to Also at high school, my "Torch Song Trilogy." brpthers, one a senior, semester is over. I'm glad. us all. school, were two News items about TB at Club whom I knew in crass and the other, a But there were times . . . As of press time Tri-Cable continues to Milwaukee; Dignity and the Milwaukee freshman, who I knew was his brother, search for a new male co-host. For more Catholic Archdiocese; anti-Lesbian information contact Bryce Clark (414) violence; a recently held Womyn's Art 271-7812 or Mark Behar (414) 277-7671 or We Must Spread Warmth Fair; a music memorial to the late "disco write TCT, P.O. Box 204, Milwaukee, WI and Friendship the Year Round queen" Sylvester and more. 53201. By Jerry Koeller bringing her new boy friend, but you can't So I'm late, but Merry Christmas; deck bring yours. FINE INGS the halls, songs of the season, sell, sell, The things you don't do like put in an sell, but don't forget to buy, buy, buy — earing. You hide yourself, you feel less "Top Shettlin—er*m44e,prittotitShelf Price" give, give, give and take, take, take; the than the "normal" members of the whole thing gets to you after awhile. relation. Maybe you don't fit and if you Fine F*shiptrwdte.h0 kfewelry aren't fitting in, maybe you'd be better I guess I like holidays as much as the Leather kEelskin .ct essories next person, maybe a bit more, but off dead? Christmas and New Years can be hell for It's time we let each other know that we CagT,ial Apparel Gays. Perhaps it's the "Family get are somebody. We are good and we do together," or the "another year older" exist for a reason. I don't know why we 2343 N.'M#tray Ave. feeling? I'm not sure, but this is the time sometimes hurt each other. We worry of year I cringe. You see, the last two how people dress or how they look. They 2234322 Christmases have brought death. don't fit in with our friends. We have to I don't know why, but two wonderful, remember that we're not perfect either. bright, joyous people chose to end their We are special, each in their own way. lives. One sweet, funny young lady who During the holiday season we should give had a flair for the crazy and for mischief; each other a special gift. Give each person when she laughed you had to join in. I saw you meet a smile and really mean it. her as she left the bar for the last time When you ask how've they been, really saying good-by. A short time later, she listen when they tell you. was no longer a part of this world. The Gay and Lesbian community has The other was a young man, bright, got to spread the spirit that has made this glitz, cute and, I thought, happy. He was on the holiday last; not the gifts and the dean's list. God, I had to fight to be but the spirit of Peace and Love for All. average. I was going to call on Christmas There are two less people in my world Day, but I was ill and so it was the next of friends this year, but they are still in morning that I called. His father my heart. answered and not knowing how else to tell Be good to each other. As Ever, Jerry. me, just told me. A father had lost a son Editor's Note: While this may seem and I had lost a friend. Somehow, in that like a Christmas column, we believe that moment two people who had never met its relevance is year-long. Real Estate Services were brought together in sorrow in loss. What did I miss? Could I have stopped Brokerage • Management • Rentals either of them? What if I had called on Hungary Allows Christmas? What if . . .? You'll never know how many times I asked those Foreign Videos questions. Maybe what I really was Hungary, which recently decided to asking was what if I had been in their publish a licensed edition of a Munich shoes? Would I have done the same gentlemen's magazine (with the proviso thing? Would there have been something that no Hungarian beauties are to bare it Leonard J. Sobczak, President that someone could have said or did to all), will now allow Western pornographic help me? I don't know. I don't think I ever 3287 N. Oakland Ave. video cassettes to be brought into the will know. country. There is a restriction, though: Holidays can really send us for a loop. 961-1822 one cassette only will be allowed per At family get-to-gathers, the questions — family. Why aren't you married yet? Your sister January 12, 1989—January 25, 1989—WISCONSIN LIGHT-6 l\R Fest City Singers Team Up With Repertory Theatre Milwaukee's Original Fest City Singers benefits stays in Milwaukee and is (FCS) will act as co-sponsors with the designated for life care services. Milwaukee Repertory Theatre (MRT) for According to Bim Florek, music and the next production in the Milwaukee artistic director of the FCS, this latest AIDS Project (MAP) Benefit Series. This activity "is part of our purpose to offering will be "Ain't Nobody's Blues contribute to the rich cultural life of the But Mine: The Life and Music of Bessie community." Smith" featuring singer Barbara Roberts Two previous performances in the and Jazz pianist Manty Ellis. They will benefit series were scheduled at 10:30 appear at the Stackner Cabaret presenting p.m., but the time for "Ain't Nobody's the songs and personal stories of the Blues But Mine" has been set for the Empress of the Blues on Sunday, earlier hour of 8:30 p.m. as a convenience February 5 at 8:30 p.m. for those who must report bright and early The Fest City Singers will help to for work on Monday mornings, according promote this performance and are to Cindy Poulson, production stage donating their time to serve as waiters manager of the Rep. and waitresses with all tips being donated Tickets are available at the MRT box to MAP. In addition, the Cabaret office located at 108 E. Wells St. in management is donating 25 cents to MAP Milwaukee, phone (414) 224-9490. They for every drink sold. Food and drinks are can also be purchased from members of served during the performance in true the Fest City Singers, phone (414) "Ma" Beckoff (Anne Bancroft) refuses to believe that her son Arnold's grief (Harvey cabaret style. It is also important to note 263-Sing and at the MAP office, phone Fierstein) is equal to her own in "Torch Song Trilogy." that all money raised during these (414) 273- 2437.
Filming "Torch Song Trilogy" Is Friendship Group Robert "Bim" Florek, music and artistic director of Milwaukee's Original Seeks Volunteers Fest City Singers will participate in a "Directors Only Weekend" sponsored Metro Milwaukee Friendship Group by the Gay and Lesbian Association of (MMFG) is seeking volunteers within its Choruses (GALA) in Kansas City, MO, ranks to serve on the activities and January 20-22. He will present a session planning committee during 1989. The on alternate concert styles using tapes of new committee will be formed at the next the Fest City Singers illustrating a monthly meeting on Saturday, January 14 cabaret format in their production of at 7:00 p.m. "Abra-Ca-Dazzle" and a casual family January's monthly dinner is set for the Christmas in their recent Fest City 19th at 7:00 p.m. Due to popular demand, Christmas. we are revisiting one of Milwaukee's The Weekend is designed for an finest authentic 50's diners. Interested exchange of ideas between music members are asked to sign up early so directors in seminars and lab courses, reservations can be made. taking up such topics as conducting Milwaukee is famous for beer and fish techniques, programming, fries. MMFG is sponsoring a genuine commissioning original music, and THE Milwaukee Friday fish fry this month. (tongue in cheek) "how to get the music BASED ON Come for all-you-can-eat dinner and be director a significant other." There will JACK H sure to bring your appetite. be demonstrations of computers, TRIM- OF EE Tuesday night is still movie night at keyboards, and synthesizers, and the THREE MMFG and two exciting flicks are River City Mixed Chorus of Kansas City planned for January. Members meet the will be directed by visiting conductors to -February 5 second and fourth week of the month to illustrate warm-ups, sound production January 20 r This coupon Redeemable for 1 17,18,19:$6 see the latest Hollywood offerings or and other concertizing techniques. Previews: Jan. maybe a classic or two. GALA Choruses is an alliance of 67 New Theatre: Prospect Mall activity or If you would like to attend an men's, women's and mixed choruses in 2239 N. Prospect Avenue oft the regular ticket price! want more information about the group, Not good with any other discounts or for I the United States and Canada; 28 music Wednesday-Sunday $9- $14 I performance. j to MMFG, P.O. Box 93203, any Saturday 5 p.m. write directors will participate in this annual Call 272-3043 for Ticket Info L Milwaukee, WI 53203. Weekend. January 12, 1989—January 25, 1989—WISCONSIN LIGHT-8 BREAKING GLASS Continued from Page 2 "Kristalnacht," The Night Of Broken Glass, because of the glass littering the Weekenct streets. It was the beginning of "The Final Solution," the Holocaust of the Jews who now joined Gays and Lesbians by on the road to extermination. In Mary Shafer As for Grynszpan, he escaped the Travelogue Wiscons Embassy, but was captured by the French police. At first, the Germans demanded intending to have a By Mary Shafer too cold. Small, raised lines along the stubbornly, remnants of a more his extradition, spectacular show trial. However, the idea Sunday's ago. Susan and I snow betrayed tunneling field mice who hospitable time. I stare beyond at the A few was dropped at Hitler's personal the time was ripe for another were now active all day long, no longer evergreen forest, the colors grayed into decided that intervention, fearing that it might be central Wisconsin — Waushara needing the safety of night's cover with the somber tones of survival, no room foray into brought out that vom Rath was Gay. County, to be exact. It's a trip we make the protective layer of snow concealing now for the bright, fashionable Autumn After the German occupation of France often . . . at least once every other month. their busy comings and goings. Tiny little coat it so recently shed. in June, 1940, the Gestapo hunted Normally, if we're anxious to get there, claw marks told us where they had broken As we visited the bass pond, long Grynszpan down. The delicate youth with we head north on Hwy. 41, exiting on through and traveled overland until frozen over, we witnessed the evidence of the dark and melting eyes was beaten and Hwy. 23 at Fond du Lac. We then head heading into another tunnel. a session of joyous abandon. Long, wide, raped repeatedly. Then he was sent to west on 23, passing through half a dozen Indentations in the snow covering the snakelike trails from the bank to the Dachau to be given "special treatment" small towns like Rosendale, Ripon and ice at water's edge marked the spot center of the pond tell the tale of two even beyond what was meted out to other Princeton. This weekend, however, we where a raccoon had likely dined recently, otters who came to slide down and Pink Triangles. wanted to take the mid-December scenery and squirrels also showed their presence bellyflop on the ice, while the frogs lie After numerous tortures, he had a meat at a more leisurely pace, so we took the by their digging marks and tracks in the dormant and undisturbed below, hook driven into his back. They hung him roundabout route of Hwy. 94 west to Hwy. snow. snuggled deep into the mud of the pond 111•11., by that hook, naked, suspended by wires, 16, north to 73, then west (which is attached to one of the metal posts located actually grid north) to 23, and west from in the front of the camp. There all could there. see him and hear his cries of agony until After we went through Princeton, we death finally came. again broke off onto west 73 into After I had heard this story and verified Neshkoro. At a tavern called the Corner as much as I could, I went again to Keg, we swung left onto a stretch of road Dachau. I scooped up a little dust from the that follows along the White River for a ground near the ovens where the beautiful mile or so. From there, we jogged left on young man's mutilated body had been Hwy. N, turned immediately right onto burned and his ashes swept into the mud. Deerborn, and continued to State 22. Turn That little bit of dust and the Pink left on 22 for about a quarter mile to Dixie, Triangle that I wear are my personal right on Dixie, and in about 30 seconds memorial. They tell me that for life and you cross a bridge. On your left after the love we must never go back. That is bridge is the entrance to Mecan River certainly true, but I know full well that if Youth Conservation Camp (YCC). we don't remember our Holocaust, that is Begun as a state-run all-boys camp in exactly the road we may be forced to take. the early '70's, Mecan River was designated all-girls in 1977. Last year, it Copyright 1989 by Novo Graphics, Ltd. went co-ed, and remains as such All rights are reserved. Reproduction in presently. For the Summer months, it any form is prohibited without prior continues to function as a camp for the written permission. YCC, administered by Wisconsin's Dept. of Natural Resources. Their goal is to train youngsters of high school age or less in ecology, forestry, conservation and Write for Light! resource management. But in the remaining months of the year, it becomes Call 372-2773 a haven for wildlife and a refuge for world-weary city dwellers. Located on this several-hundred acre spread are the Mecan River and its offshoot, the Chaffee Creek, both • incredibly clean, cold-running trout Jet's Place streams, their deep, slow waters an 1753 S. Kinnickinnic angler's dream. Kept up by the camp • staff with carefully planned and placed 4 Milwaukee 53207- 672-5580 embankments designed to protect the natural flow of the river and therefore M—F—Open 3 P.M. enhancing the water's inherent trout Sat.-Sun. shelters, these narrow waterways offer -Holidays 12:00 Noon choice fishing, canoeing and inner-tubing during warmer weather. Even during the S Fall, one has but to stand silently in the Cocktail Hour M—F shadow of one of the many red and white We trudged down to the river and along bottom. 3-7 P.M. pines lining the Chaffee and look into the the creek, where I stopped by my favorite A slight uphill trek brings us to the depths of the creek to catch a glimpse of spruce, savoring the rich scent of its open field we'll cross to get back to the the ghostly form of a trout basking in its dropped needles and feeling their spongy truck. The low, southern sun casts long i Hall & Catering waters. softness beneath my feet. I gazed under shadows from the tall grass poking 4 Dancing Because the land is state-owned and the tree and fancied what a nice, cushy bravely through the snow. A stalk of managed, it is illegal to hunt on the bed it might make for a doe and her fawn goldenrod, a dry skeleton of its former i grounds themselves, but this does not this Spring. splendid self, lurches at a crazy angle Sheepshead Every deter both rifle hunters and their Across the creek, the winds had from a sparkling white mound, its long, • Thurs. 7-9 P.M. bow-armed counterparts from using the brought down a large hardwood which green leaves turned the color of straw and • easy camp access route to the choice now lay in defeat across the stream. curled around its stem, a sorry, •3•11511511.11•11•11.11.11.11•11•11•11.1,4111•11,1• • public hunting grounds just across the Although the water was still flowing make-shift blanket against the snow. river. It was for this reason that we opted, freely, I was reminded of how easily it In the shadows of the treeline, the sky on this trip, to remain in the relative could freeze over by the ring of ice reflects periwinkle blue off the snowy safety of the grounds, foregoing our usual clinging impossibly to a tendril-thin mantle. As we breathe deep the fragrance LessStress...Less Pain... walk in the beautiful and aromatic branch that dipped into the water. of frozen vegetation, the scent of the Better Posture... evergreen forests of the land beyond the Everything seems to move in slow dying day, another unmistakable odor river. motion in Winter, the river being no makes itself known. The smell of fox Pleasure ! ! On this clear, sunny but brisk day in exception. It now ran calm, deep, musk fills the air, and we watch the dog, More December, the ground was covered with undisturbed by the follies of Summer. No his nose to the double row of tracks, discover about 3 to 4 inches of snow, relatively children now jumped into the cool water follows the scent which must surely sting fresh in my estimation, probably about 2 for a swim, no leaves dropped on the his sensitive nostrils. After a few Rolfing® days old. There was evidence of some surface, rippling Autumn's reflection. moments of running in circles, he merrily people there before us, even a truck The only disturbance now was a deer picks up another, more interesting scent, Rolfing® is bodywork that parked outside the gate, letting us know somewhere far off, dipping its dry tongue and off he goes on a tangent to track it frees stress and tension from there were bowhunters of which to in for a taste of the icy, quenching liquid down. the muscles, and balances and aligns your body. beware. The dog would not be given his before moving on in pursuit of rare, Further on, we examine the swoosh of The result is a body that usual reign of this, his puppyhood still-green plants. wing marks in the snow, marking the site looks and feels kingdom. The leash would be off, but at By the looks of things, the ice along the of some poor rodent's last moments of GREAT - the ready, should he be beckoned into the bank was encroaching on the open water life before being swooped up in the talons day after day. danger zone by the irresistible scent of and soon the deer would have to break of an owl or hawk. Before After fresh fox or deer tracks. through with their cloven hooves to slake Skipper is tired now from his run in the We shuffled through the new, fluffy their thirst. Further downstream, a break cold air, as are we from our extended Joe Laur and Associates snow, marveling at the quiet — the clear, in the trees allowed the sunlight to show walk, and we head back to the warmth of Basic and Advanced Rolling® crisp air, the pungent aroma of pine filling through. I watched it glittering off the the truck for the ride home. As the last 200 West Silver Spring Suite 300 our senses. Tracks in the snow, many and river, tripping, rippling, challenging the rays of the pre-Solstice sun wash the sky varied, let us know that the hunters twinkle of even the brightest Christmas into a water-color of orange, we bid Joe Laur - Advanced Certified Rolfer weren't the only ones who had been here lights. It comforts me to know that this farewell to our little hideaway that so Brian Moore - Advanced Certified Rolfer Pfluger - Certified Rolfer ahead of us. spectacle will continue long after the generously shares her secrets with these Beth The peculiar tracks of rabbits, complete plastic bulbs of our artificial celebration urban refugees. We smile and head for For More Information and to arrange for a with little deposits of their small, pellet- are packed away in boxes bound for the home, knowing we shall return to this Free Consultation ($25 value) call like droppings, told the story of their attic. place, full of loving memories, as we 961-7111 scurrying about to fill their larders before I look at the majestic maples, their would to an old friend. the snow got too deep, and the weather wrinkled brown leaves clinging January 12, 1989—January 25, MEDICALLY SPEAKING 1989—WISCONSIN LIGHT-9 a Dr. Gremminger had written this article 0 in December 1988 and despite the Milwaukee Club Baths to unfortunate events during the first weekend in January, he still basically Stay Closed Indefinitely stands by what he has written. He is deeply apologetic to anyone who may have "The bath (Club Milwaukee) will be AIDS has risen in numbers, so has been hurt by what was in the mainstream closed indefinitely until I can be TB." press that weekend. It was not our completely convinced that it is not a public Schlenker admitted that the association intention that anyone be hurt. The health hazard," Dr. Thomas L. Schlenker between AIDS and TB is new and "a lot Milwaukee Health dept. does not have told Light. of work needs to be done." However, in possession of the Club Bath membership Schlenker is a special deputy San Francisco, he said, 140 people were roster and has no intention of acquiring it. commissioner of health for the City of tested and of those who were HIV • • • Milwaukee. He was referring to the positive, 40% also had TB. By Roger Gremminger, MD closure of the bath on December 22, 1988. Schlenker told Light that among those According to reports in The Milwaukee who were HIV negative and who became Gremminger, MD I wish to apologize that I did not have a Roger Journal Schlenker's decision to close the infected with TB, signs of the disease column in the last few issues, but things reflections on those readings. Wisconsin bath was based on fears of a potential might not show for upwards of 40 years. have been very busy for me. I do have Light has had many articles about the outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) among "TB is not that virulent an organism, not several things to let you know about. So, I atrocities which happened to Gay and those who patronized the Milwaukee Gay that damaging to the human system and it will do my best to cover everything that Lesbian individuals during the Hitler club. These fears were prompted by the can be easily cured." needs to be covered. regime. This inspired me finally to read discovery in mid-December that a However, for those who are HIV As you are well aware, the Health The Men With The Pink Trianglesby frequent club patron was suspected of positive, the disease can manifest in two Department was forced to close the Club Heinz Heger. My first reaction was one of having TB. years. Baths just before Christmas. I feel that horror, being deeply shaken by the Some Gays have criticized Schlenker. Schlenker strongly urged all who had Dr. Schlenker's decision was based on violence and hatred perpetrated against both for closing the bath as well as patronized the bath within the past year to very good public health policy and was a Gay men and Lesbians who were allegedly overreacting to reports of two seek testing as soon as possible. very moral decision. He sought out a mercilessly tortured and finally killed. men infected with AIDS virus having "People are trickling in, 2-3 a day,- he great deal of advice and help from several Heger related the tortures he sustained, unsafe sex in the bath. Schlenker, told Light. Flyers have been distributed of us and went out of his way to keep as but survived and also described the however asserted that he trusted and for posting in Gay bars and other places many of us informed as possible. But, tortures and death of many he personally respected his sources of information where Gays gather giving locations of ultimately he had to make the decision witnessed. Yet, what was inspiring was about the two men. testing sights. and he did. We need to support him in his the concluding paragraphs of his book in Schlenker told Light that the For TB skin testing, consult your own conscientious efforts to do what is best for which he wrote after all his suffering: tuberculosis bacillus is sturdy especially physician or Milwaukee Health this community. "The death penalty for murder has when it is in conditions of warmth and Department TB Control at (414) 226-8630. There are a few of us who would have been abolished on the grounds of humidity as obtained in the bath. The For anonymous counseling and testing liked to do more for and with the clients of humanity, and this is certainly a good bacillus enters the body and eventually for HIV antibody call Brady East STD the club prior to its closing and we shall thing. But why are we homosexuals still concentrates in the lungs. There a nodule Clinic, (414) 272- 2144 or Milwaukee continue to try to reach its clients to treated so inhumanely, why are we still will be formed having a liquid center. Health Department (414) 278- 3624. screen for TB and HIV. We simply cannot persecuted and imprisoned by the courts, When an infected person coughs, some of Keep in mind that there is a very give up on our efforts to help people. just as in Hitler's time? True, our this liquid from the nodule carrying the effective treatment for TB that is both One very disturbing observation I made modern, open society accepts bacillus is expelled into the surrounding inexpensive and easy to take. while in the club was seeing many, very homosexuality in its own way, making air. This is how transmission takes place. drunk, individuals enter just after bar plays and films about it, but at the same One has only to be in the same room as a OBITUARY POLICY closing. Although I do not have data on time, homosexuals themselves are carrier to become infected. TB is many publishes obit- what these individuals did during their despised and persecuted. It is up to times more contagious than AIDS. Wisconsin Light uaries of members of the Lesbian/ Gay visit, I have some significant fears that science and humanitarian organizations to While many think of TB as a disease community as both news and a high risk behaviors were indulged in. enlighten people about homosexuality and which occurred in the 19th Century, community service free of charge. In We need to do some very creative put an end to this contradiction." Schlenker said that it has never been many cases, we depend on relatives thinking about how to help this drug Somehow or other, he was able to eradicated and since 1980 has been on the and/or friends of the deceased to addicted and sexually addicted portion of achieve a level of maturity through which rise. our community. I hope to address this in the face of all this hatred and violence, Regarding TB and AIDS, Schlenker provide us with the necessary information. issue in subsequent articles. But, we he was still able to love. said that there seems to be a correlation thinly slur. n11 noF•r1 to nynrlr nn this W \ between AIDS and TR "In cities where MUST proceed with kindness and with a strong determination to help end this need to see clearly the hatred and evil in AWkALALA&A\ALALA&A&Aa,... .A\ AL.A. destructive behavioral problem within our society without allowing it to be IV\r"V"\INV\r‘r community. incorporated into our own psyches in the If anyone has some creative and good form of self hatred; be this shame, guilt, ideas, please share them with MAP or embarrassment, or a sense of inferiority. 3500_ _ Years of Gay/Lesbian History Brady East STD Clinic. We, perhaps, Rather, we must strive just I) see the have to seek to initiate a love and sex hatred and see others beyond ourselves Including: addict anonymous group to help these and continue to love. individuals overcome their compulsive This leads me to the second book, You Queen Anne Joseph McCarthy behaviors in a supportive environment. Can Do Something About AIDS. This is a Herman Melville Alexander the Great Next, I have some good news. STD free book and is available in book stores Specialties will be back in operation in and through the Milwaukee AIDS Project The Arab World Susan B. Anthony early February for HIV screenings and (MAP). The book encourages everyone to Lawrence of Arabia American Indians STD patients. The new address is 750 get involved in some way in responding to North 18th St. in Milwaukee. The new the AIDS crisis. There are indeed telephone number is (414) 344-3414. suggestions for everyone. And I don't think that we should be involved because I am very pleased that this service is it is the latest fad or the latest "in" thing again available. The clinic is now to do. Rather, we should get involved to incorporated independently, but has very OUT grow in maturity, to break down more of good and adequate financial sponsorship. our self-centered little world, and to learn I There is only reason to believe and hope to love in a fuller and deeper sense. This OF that STD Specialties will now be able to is the only way we can arrive at a sense of continue to develop without any further self-dignity, mutual respect and human set-backs. For those of you who prefer ALL compassion in spite of the hatred and this type of clinic setting to get your violence that society chooses to continue. health care and screening, welcome to Perhaps this could be our New Year's TIME this new facility. The staff, however, will remain the same. resolution. Take care and love. a gay and lesbian Lastly, I would like to share with you history Roger. some of my recent readings and Madison's New Harvest Foundation Terry Awards $6,920 in Grants Boughner [Madison]. New Harvest Foundation education to teacher and other youth co-chairs Barbara Constans and Henry workers. PICADA's Gay and Lesbian with illustrations b, Dudek have announced that the Youth Project provides professionals with Foundation has awarded $6,920 to four information on the needs of Gay/Lesbian Michael nonprofit organizations in the Madison youth, particularly as they relate to area that provide services benefiting the alcohol and other drug abuse problems. Willhoite Gay and Lesbian community. Dudek said that PICADA's Gay/Lesbian The Gay and Lesbian Visibility Alliance Youth Project which was started with a will receive $2,400 in support of a Pride Foundation grant, is now receiving AVailable by Mail March to be held this Spring in Madison. statewide attention as a model for training Part of the funding is designated to bring of school professionals. "OUT OF ALL TIME" a portion of the AIDS Quilt to Madison The Madison School Employees during the Pride March. Support Group will receive a grant of $320 In 50 Chapters- by The United will receive a grant of $2,100 to purchase materials for use by teachers. Wisconsin Light Editor to support its advocacy enhancement This group of grants brings the project which includes providing Foundation's total awards to date to Terry Boughner, Ph.d. information and other assistance to Gays $57,000. and Lesbians who have suffered Dudek pointed out that "Foundation $6.95 each plus $2 shipping, handling, and sales tax. discrimination. The United's peer projects are undertaken locally for the counseling service had served over 2,700 benefit of our Dane County Gay/Lesbian Order from: Jerry Johnson, 1843 N. Palmer Street persons by the end of October. community." He expressed pride that Milwaukee, WI 53212 (414-372-2773) PICADA will receive a grant to continue some of these projects are having Adik A \ its project of providing in- service statewide and even national impact. `11/1/"Ir January 12, 1959—January 25, 1959—vv15uunotild Librit—tu Alyn Hess: How State Gay Rights Law Was Passed DIRECTORY OF By Sue Burke This three part series of articles is PROFESSIONALS based on an interview with Alyn Hess by Sue Burke on December 18, 1988 at Milwaukee's St. Joseph Hospital, where Alyn was being treated for AIDS. . . . INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOSEXUAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND SEX THERAPY It seems to me that one of the things 6815 W. Capitol, Suite 310 TED FRIEDMAN, Ph.D. that really has to be recorded is how we Milwaukee, WI 53216 [414] 466-6040 Dr. Friedman, registered in Clinical Psychology & got the Gay Rights bill in Wisconsin. I Sex Therapy, is pleased to announce the opening of Providing a safe, humane environment for gay men and 2266 N. Prospect Ave. Offices was going to give a speech on that in Milwaukee offices at lesbians to deal with problems in living, relationships, are also located at 230 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Minneapolis, but the day before, I was and sexuality issues; affectional and gender identity admitted to the hospital with Dr. Friedman celebrates 3 decades of continuous, concerns; compulsive sexual behavior; problems of progressive, professional service in all phases of pneumocystitis. sexual functioning. Individual and group therapy. Insur- mental health consultation and treatment. Service law long after our first features gratis initial interview, house calls for the We passed the ance and private pay. first try was really homebound and a sliding payment scale for those try, but I think the qualified. Call 272-2427. We will be pleased to important. It really started back in 1970 or CHARLES A. KILEY, MSW discuss your concerns with you. '71 when we decided that we had to have the law changed so that it would be legal Alyn Hess to be homosexual so the police wouldn't Thomas E. Martin be wrecking people's lives entrapping even aware that the general bill was going them. to go up for a vote. We had given up on ATTORNEY AT LAW One of the first Black legislators, Lloyd that because Risser couldn't get it. We Daniel Thompson General Practice of Law ran up to the gallery and lo and behold Barbee, had introduced it in what we Twelve Years Experience called the garbage bill. It was everything that was what was going on. Architect Barbee wanted to do in just one bill: It passed because we had been 242-9745 legalized prostitution, lowered age of lobbying for it. The two-bill strategy is consent, legalized homosexuality and oftentimes great. You have a single-issue legalized marijuana. bill that draws the attention and then Some of us said there's no way to get maybe you can get it quietly into a general that kind of bill passed and Barbee said, bill. You don't know which one is going to pass so you work on them both. "I know it won't get passed. I just WATERTOWER introduce it every session so that the The problem was it passed in the State Senate only. After the newspaper CATERERS people in the legislature realize there's a —et CD need here." headlines, the State Assembly wouldn't 4)U'I •-• "ALL THE BEST We had a meeting with him in his pass it. But we found out we had more downtown office in 1970 and created a bill friends in the Senate side than we did in AND MORE" with just Gay rights in it so we could put the Assembly. It turned out to be a trial tri t CO v a together a coalition to support it. There's bill. [414] 332-6845 A trial bill is what you should do if you Tr a different coalition for getting marijuana 4867 N. Santa Monica legalized and there's a different coalition don't know in advance who your friends Whitefish Bay 53217 for getting age of consent reduced and we and enemies are and which house you had to put together our own coalition. should start with. We had to become professional lobbyists and campaigners. Gay sex couldn't be just lumped in with MAP all that stuff, at least not all that radical We couldn't afford to hire anybody, but stuff, but Illinois had the first law in the we had to find out who our friends were in Continued from Page 1 TORCH SONG the legislature and if they weren't there, country that passed to legalize about AIDS, long- term care and prejudice Continued from Page 1 we had to elect them. homosexual sex, but it passed as part of a with which Blacks are unfortunately too do it right away at the the camera's movement create a more major bill that was a comprehensive We didn't aware. The response was excellent. and we didn't elect all those overwhelming impression than the stage recodification of the whole Illinois law. beginning At the same time, MAP threatened the people- Some of it was the fear of the lord play could achieve. ♦re dISU put mat in a gen rat um in two nursing home associations with filing we had to put into them. Harvey Fierstein describes "Torch Wisconsin and we thought it would pass, a complaint of discrimination against We chose one candidate in a city we Song Trilogy" as "a story of a man but we had a doggone hard time to keep it AIDS sufferers with the Office of Civil could deal with, which was Milwaukee, trying to find his place in the world, a in there. Fred Risser, the minority leader Rights in Chicago. This would mean that and another person in Madison, where world that isn't necessarily built for him, in the State Senate, wanted it, but some of within three days of receiving MAP's there is a Gay community. They got and... he builds a world within the world the other legislators were against it. letter, an investigation would be people elected. for himself to exist." Experiencing this We used the single-issue bill to educate launched. If discrimination was found, You know, when those legislators sit with him in the film is exhilarating. It's people and held a public hearing on the Nelson said, Federal money to the around after having lunch or dinner in funny and poignant, uplifting and very bill. nursing homes would be cut off. Madison, they sometimes talk about how real. At the very last reading of that general Terry Pitts, Milwaukee County they got elected. Someone who ran a comprehensive bill, one of the senators Supervisor and Chair of the County campaign in which we had worked would stood up and added what had been in the Health Committee agreed that if no say, "You'd better deal with the Gay single-issue bill into the comprehensive progress was made with the nursing community in your district because if you NURSING HOMES bill and lo and behold we had a majority. homes, he would hold public hearings don't deal with them, they're going to be Two of us were there and had been and, if need be, bring suit. Continued from Page 1 a problem." lobbying for the single-issue bill when "The nursing home associations began Well, that's democracy in action. which is transmitted in the same manner one of the senators said it was being "to understand their legal Next: Gays enter Milwaukee politics. as the AIDS virus and requires the same voted on the floor right then. We weren't responsibilities," Nelson said. They precautions to avoid transmission. agreed to work one on one with certain In addition, Nelson points out that both nursing homes to get them to accept Clavis Opens: "In The Belly of the MAP and the staff of the Milwaukee PWA's. County Medical Complex have offered "They are now meeting," Nelson The Beast" Jan. 20th free in-service training in the care of said. "They want to make this work." persons with AIDS to Milwaukee area "In the Belly of the Beast," a play Mall, 2239 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee. Nelson told Light that even if and when nursing homes — an offer none of the based on the bestselling autobiography of the nursing homes agree to take people convicted killer, homes has accepted. Jack Henry Abbott, will like Alyn, the problem is far from solved. be performed by Book Signing Set In their letter to the Wisconsin Milwaukee's Clavis "By 1990," he said, "we have to have Theatre Ensemble January 20 Association of Nursing Homes and the -February Terry Boughner, Wisconsin Light a multilevel dedicated care facility for 5. The play was Wisconsin Association of Homes and adapted by Adrian Hall editor, will sign his new book, Out of All AIDS people who need help with daily and Robert Fells from Abbott's Services for the Aging, the four state book of Time in Madison on Friday, February 3, living; a facility to bridge the gap between prison letters to author, Norman Mailer. legislators stated their concern that "the 1988. The book signing will take place at the hospital and the home. MAP's top Mailer hailed Abbott as "a new public's needs be met." writer of Peoples Book Store, 458 West Gilman priority is to achieve this," Nelson said. the largest stature." Shortly " . . we think the nursing afterward, Street, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. To illustrate the urgency of the home •Abbott was paroled. Six weeks later, industry has a moral obligation to meet he Out of All Time surveys the past 3500 situation, Nelson said that MAP currently stabbed and killed a waiter in a New York the existing needs of people who are years of Gay and Lesbian history and is has 124 clients, up from 100 in restaurant. suffering from AIDS," they said. the first such history ever written. mid-December and 80 a little over a Clavis director, Ted Also, according to the Altschuler, Beginning with the Egyptian Pharaohs, month before. legislators, the explains that "the play is a drama of persons with AIDS who are currently including King Tutankhamen, the book "Social workers must be added.", he Abbott's violent and intense emotions. It being cared for in Milwaukee County traces our history to contemporary times. said. Currently MAP has two full-time is not a defense of Abbott. It neither Hospital's acute care section could be More recent persons include Wisconsin social workers which is a ratio of 1 to 62. glorifies nor condemns what he has adequately cared for at a lower cost Senator Joseph McCarthy, actor James The best ratio is 1 to 35. in a done." nursing home, if such care were available Dean and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Nelson emphasized that no money for For reservations call (414) 273-3043. to them. Striking original art for each chapter care-giving comes from the Federal or Clavis Theatre is located in Prospect The four Assemblymen urged the was drawn by Michael Whitthoite. State governments. It all must come from nursing home representatives to resolve private donations. Thus, he said, every the AIDS admission problem by working penny raised at fundraisers in bars and with the AIDS Coalition of Milwaukee. kyle' elsewhere goes to helping those in need Although state law prohibits here in Milwaukee. This, DecK .11 he stated 'F IF IOUS discrimination against persons with AIDS emphatically, must be understood. Those 120 E. Atol St. under most circumstances, the P.O. Box 2326 who are in need among us rely on us and South Padre Island, Texas 78597 lawmakers suggest that further on us alone both as volunteers and 512/761-LYLE legislative action may be required financial contributors. to (write or call for brochure) guarantee the non-discrimination Part of MAP's function, he continued, safeguards of state law. ENJOY .. . is advocacy. That ability to be a strong Three of the four representatives serve Miles of sand dunes and ocean beaches advocate increases as community support on the Assembly Health Committee — Private swimming pool and jacuzzi is maintained and increased. Shopping in Mexico Barrett is the chair, Bock is the vice-chair, MAP deserves the heartiest thanks of Captivating subtropical weather and Carpenter is a ranking member. the community for its care and Convenient air connections Clarenbach is Speaker Pro Tem of the compassion and work on behalf of those Assembly. like Alyn. January 12, 1989—January 25, 1989—WISCONSIN LIGHT-11 POLITICALLY SPEAKING oe e eddededcedee who have accomplished much more, much Are We Ready for faster than these, the communities in 1=1 411111I MIAMI these so-called Gay meccas have. If Wisconsin and Hawaii can have 1,1111111Th. The Gay Nineties? an alternative all-encompassing Gay/Lesbian rights laws, how is it that By Bill Meunier others, with their big We're a social group sponsoring a and powerful Gay/Lesbian communities 4 Here we are in 1989. variety of monthly activities including: Portrait Photography The Gay Nineties do not? are almost upon us and are we ready? Business — Personal Unfortunately, our national • Dinners In a word, no. While our political 9' organizations and those in charge of them • influence has been growing, to a large Theater seem to feel that if you're not a) from the Passports degree our supportive apparatus has not • Movies East Coast or at least New England, b) kept pace. • Biking from Los Angeles or San Francisco c) an 9' Old Photographs At times our leadership has acted like • And more elected official, or d) fabulously wealthy, Copied and Restored banshees raging at the darkness without that you have nothing to offer them in O the benefit of a flashlight. At other times, "You're invited to join us!" terms of leadership or ideas. Theatrical — Pets when we should have seen strong action, O Then there is the question of there has been none. Drop us a note and we'll send you a O economics. Far too many of us (as society Part of the fault for this lies with the calendar of upcoming events. in general does) equate wealth with greitem Studio AIDS crisis. So much of our time and knowledge or competence. The Wisconsin Metro Milwaukee Friendship Group money has been taken up fighting AIDS 7405 West Harwood Ave. Gay/Lesbian rights law was passed P.O. Box 93203 O and helping its victims that we simply Wauwatosa, WI. largely through the efforts of someone Milwaukee, have not had much left over. WI 53203 476-3777 who had lived a hand to mouth existence But AIDS is not a good excuse. The O all of his adult life. We look at what kind AIDS epidemic is certain, unadulterated of car someone has, what kind of furniture proof that we are not as politically III MI • MI al MI • II In • • MENEM ME •11••111• IIM 1111111•NO■la • • Il• 11•MIE ••111MIENE they use and whether or not they own ■ ■ powerful as our numbers would warrant. their home before deciding whether or not ■ ■ Furthermore, AIDS has to some extent they are worth listening to and following. 4 11r4 —ai EMU\ • helped us politically. The Reagan ■ • The fact is that those among us who • administration's neglect and callous "let ■ have many possessions are also the • the queers die" attitude has shown people with the least amount of time to • ARGERZ il • non-Gay/Lesbians that our government • • spend on behalf of our cause. By using • really doesn't give a damn about us; • 1111111111111111111111111111 ■ income as a standard we are depriving ■ • which is something that we knew all ourselves of some of our best and most • along. • energetic leaders. In fact, many of our • • The answer to developing the kind of Song Stylist ■ most successful leaders are not • political power we need is not easy. There economically successful because of the • Sally Richards • are many complex problems that need to • amount of time they have spent in our ■ ■ be resolved. These include leadership, behalf. ■ RETURNS ■ regionalism, and economics. ■ It's time that we all woke up to our own ■ We have no real charismatic leaders in ■ responsibility. If we give money to an Sunday, Jan. 22 & 29 ■ our community; no Martin Luther King, ■ organization we have a right to demand ■ no Jesse Jackson, no Caesar Chavez. ■ accountability. If we don't think that an 9-1 AM Those people who we do have who could ■ organization is accomplishing anything, • develop into a national leader are not • we should stop supporting it. We should • "She's not to be missed!" ■ given enough support for them to do so. • stop putting ourselves and our leadership ■ We need a candidate for President to run • down simply because they are not primaries. must learn Lunch- Mon. thru Sat. 11:30-2:30 • in the We as Blacks economically successful. • ■ have, that we can win more gains by • Dinner- Mon. thru Sun. 5-11 ■ The election is behind us. Now is the supporting one of our own even if he/she • time to assess what happened and to • Sunday Brunch- 11-4 • loses than we can by supporting someone • begin building for the next round. That's • who patronizes us. • ■ the only way we will be able to succeed 124 N. Water Street, Milwaukee, WI 347-1962 ■ We need leadership training. I am not and that'c the only way we'll he able to • ■ •••••••••••••Emmmommsam••••mmums• talking about occasional conferences make the 1990's Gay. which cost an arm and leg to attend, but real, on -going leadership training. CLASSIFIEDS Perhaps a national group sponsoring Soccer Anyone? resource centers, not to tell people what Hello Milwaukee and Happy New Year to do, but to give them the skills they need — especially if you follow or play Gay Cleaning Services Employment to do it. Sports. The Boston Strikers and New York Our organizations are dominated by the Ramblers are hoping there's enough THE COMPULSIVE CLEANER Gay communities in New York, interest in Milwaukee to form a team . . . After party clean-up, or regular Washington, Los Angeles and San weekly or for not only competition between us, but monthly cleaning in your home. Reliable. Help Wanted- 2 positions available Francisco. While those cities probably also to join us this October in Boston for References. 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