B ain smacked down on the opponent's scarred face. There train as it slithered out of Boston was a dull monotonous sound of Station. Twenty year old Sandy thud, thud, thud, as Gabriellc's Gabrielle, or "Kid" as the other fists hammered home. McKenna Rangers called her, hated the sprawled backwards and rolled rain and smiled in satisfaction down the embankment. Gabrielle knowing that once again she was was quickly after her, and dealt travelling towards the non rain her blow after blow with power plains of her home in Texas. As ful, stunning force. McKenna's well, it was good to be going blooded face lolled to one side back to the Rangers. The short and she crumpled unconscious spell in the city had made her into the bushes. irritable and impatient to be back Gabrielle crouched low in the on the trail. She missed the sharp bushes where McKenna's body sting of the red dust on her bare lay and she examined the scene. skin, Uic tough smell of rawhide, As suspected, a few cowgirls as well as the drawn fragrance of were unloading the mail bags, sweet, sticky flapjacks that sifted while others searched through through the cracks in the the.m. The train driver lay in a shrunken wood walls of the trussed up bundle near the end of ranch kitchen. She also longed the engine. Gabrielle took a deep to see her partner. Midge breatii and sprinted to the end of McPharland, a slightly built, the nearest car. In one swift though skilful cowgirl, who had motion she hauled herself up its an uncanny ability in wooing the stairs and began climbing up the men. Gabriellc's face crinkled small,iron ladder to its roof. into a wide smile at the memo Suddenly as she reached the top, ries. She rolled a cigarette and a splintering jerk of agony drove inhaled deeply as the train sliced through her body. A large boot through the sleet. drove into her jaw. Gasping with No one else sat in the carriage pain, Gabrielle spiralled into the with her. Gabrielle was a half- dust, and the outlaw grinned breed. Her lank black hair fell viciously as she levelled her gun- loosely to her sinewy shoulders, sights on Gabrielle. Bloody and and was swept from her brown, caked with the red dust, friendly face by a faded red and Gabrielle instantly raised herself white Indian scarf. Her long, into a kneeling position and beat lean legs were clad in simple the killer to a thunderous draw. denim, but her coat was beauti For a moment, she squinted and fully worked leather - a deep watched the woman fall from the chocolate in a colour depicting top of the carriage, as other shots scenes of her Indian ancestry. now pounded ii) from the dis She carried herself proudly and tance. Gabrielle jumped down arrogantly because Gabrielle and dived under the train, was a warrior like her mother before her, and her halt. Gabrielle was annoyed. Buffalo again? painfully moving along the splintered tracks grandmother. Grey Wolf... Yes, her grand Impossible. Not here. She strapped her gunbelt on towards the other outlaws. Her perspiring fore mother.... Gabrielle remembered the alert, lined her thigh and opened the carriage door. head crawled with flies,a s her jaw throbbed with face of the woman who had raised her, and had Everything was quiet. An old woman was asleep the sound of every echoing gunshot. warned the young girl how easy it is for women to in the next compartment, and remainder of that The noise was deafening as a burgeoning gun bat cringe and be nobodies, while the warrior must carriage was empty. Gabrielle returned to her seat, always face the world with pride and courage. tle raged at the once peaceful mail car. Gabrielle Gabrielle sat upright in the train seat; love and sullen. She wanted to get home. peered out from under the train, but could see respect for the old Arapaho woman pumping Minutes dissolved and so did Sandy Gabrielle's S^'" « ^^^g^ the haze of dust and the purple through her veins. After a moment she closed her paUence. She strained to look down the length of S'','^"'!^^^ ^^^ f H """^'HS'^I^H ^^'J'''" eyes and slumped downwards. Grey Wolf was L train from her window, and she saw at'least ^^^^^^^^^^ SSldtnlaS f^^^^^^^ dead. The train screamed in pain as the biting rain whipped at the windows, but Gabrielle no longer ten horses standing idly in the gully below the bufshe mssSttie raw cSuraee of ai Indian noticed. track. She urgenUy pressed herself harder against K^ave and^could h^dleTsu^^^ aS aSv of the glass and tried to see further. A robbery? f.^f^f ^^} ^ould handle a gun as well as any of The rain stopped. The sun burned. The train Some cowgirls were unloading a boxcar - bags of SJi%^^^ n•'"''"? h ^o "H?'-P'H''H.' lurched forward, and the sudden jolt sent the young Ranger sprawling across the compartment, mail. A gunshot boomed ana Gabrielle stated, ^^^f^ before rolling out. he gun blazing deadly landing with a hard thud against the seat opposite. She stalked down the narrow carriage aisle and ^'^^ ,1""^^ tongues of purple poison slammet^ Gabrielle forgot her depression as the train slowed ^J^A tu^ ^nH Hr.nr A or,«tnoht r.f c„n hit h^r i^^o the fiercc turmoil. Women screamed and fell to a halt. Cattle or even buffalo on the tracks, she Sdv fn tSfeves ^ ^ ^^^"^ ^^ ^' '^'^ d'«' '' Gabrielle's intelligent thought. The train had to stop three times for this squareiy in me tycs, ^^^ .^.^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ j^ ^^^ impossible to disUn- reason when she travelled to Boston. Even when "Mebbe, yer best go back inside, papoose," a guish the panic-stricken from the wounded out- the solitary gunshot rang out, she sat down and deadly rain of lead. Fingering more shells into the continued reminiscing. Gabriellc's polished and drawlinadjustedg voicshe efoun warnedd hersel. f confronted with a lawColts, aGabriells they retreatede turned, somfrome alreadthe bloody thunderiny sceneg, shinning Colt lay on the seat beside her, and to hatcheGabriellt facee blinked womad desperateln wieldinyg aan double-barrelled as her visiodn crashin^^^y °g" intfrighteneo anothed rhorses cowgiri, tryin, bothg fallinto escapg inteo th aen pass the time away she decided to once again carbine. Gabrielle licked her lips. She knew her. It embarrassing heap from the impact. clean its white pearl handle piece. Tlie train soon was Jen McKenna, wanted by the Rangers for began moving. murder, rape, and now, it seemed, train robbery. "Howdy, Kid", said her friend Midge Gabrielle pulled herself to her full five foot eight. McPhariand, "Who dirtied your pretty face?" The landscape became more rugged now and lf.f!!"B^:^fl!'A^'X\!i'J^TJ:i S^ndy Gabrielle grimed a. her U^ough U,e dus. a. Gabrielle gazed out of the window mesmerized aged an ugly smile and let the gun drop. Suddenly she hauled herself off the ground. Other familiar by the aloof bitterness of the rocky, steep country Gabrielle twisted, grabbed the murderer by the faces now appeared on the scene. side. A huge shadow fell over the locomotive as it^ shirt, and hauled her bodily into the dirt. McKenna broke free, and rammed her fist into "Welcome back to the Rangers, Kid". passed through a gorge with steep, chalky* firesh air. A blow from Gabrielle glanced off her slopes,and once again, the train came to a sudden Kathleen Williamson, 1992 Artwork By Matt Dubrowski m4 I don't really ha>^e any ideas about ^ac/hat subject I this edjtor-ial on. There's nothing-much that has ha| past month that fires me up enough to -^x^ax lyric; most pressing concerns are purely personal, aoi
4 FUNDAMENTALIST • ••••^^J-»-r— w. ^ u, ,cy MUli >. r-eciaiiy quanry cnemseives as appropria CULTS - The luhockos ore matter. What this boils dovx^n to Is that, at the "mome out of UUoco ond ore knocking 'something dirfectly affects me and mine, I just don't J it. There are many, vx/orthy causes I could be usinJ i/our tJoor. space'to support. There are Injustices that I coulJ to light and Nx/ars I could be decrying. I should be g. ^^^^, StLEJTERS - R little knouuledge tional, e\/ocative. persuasive and polemical. "Bosni. Is Q dangerous thing - as our corre say. "Bougainville!" "Conrad Black!". I could be aetackii .racists and people who insist on labelling other peopjUs spondents monoge to prove. don't care. You can't make me. Isn't there anythin. television? .j ' fo GOVERNMENTS THAT HAVE Considering the editorial pos.ition I hold, apathy is 4 FAILED US - PART 1 - Clinton's First emotional state to,,be in. Editors, after all, are resi . determining what i"*: is that the public reads or seer IDO days .should alNx^ays be interested in the events and attitud li GOVERNMENTS THAT HAVE times. But the Nx/onders of twentieth'.century livinj aged to instill in me a world->x/eariness that enable FAILED US ' PART 2 - The Goss gloss at the photographs,on this page, the letters' page ai. ,^;J loses Hs gleam cover and adopt a "seen it all'before" attitude. The upoo I/,: THE SEARCH FOR GOD I - tion "Dystopia." depict, scenes of violent death, an their attitude from the comic-book surreal^ to tl ^Qfisperatelt^ Seeking Vohoieh graphic. What ^hey don't do, at least not for Ion Clinical camera eyes have probed this territory in n< u KING MISSILE INTERVIEW - The men ujith television and film for so long th^t dispassion i removable ri chords 'more. What is~ about this to me is not so. much my own lack of rjeapoi. ^ HITTING A SNAG - serious Noise against Guys these, pictures, or my apathy towards arguably^^maj .QUEER INSERT - Getting out and about issues, but the idea that I may notib^ the*'only one affeel, V this. What if. the editors of all newspapers, the pro. y. THE SEARCH FOR GOD II - They seek him here, ordinatbrs of all tel.evision news services, feel ,like t only force of habit that keeps them covering s they seek him there... revealing information? One must also Nx'onder! if the_ already set in. in such a way that important stories •ignored, just because wHen they are compared to ( —-~~'- - The people who contributed ejse that is occuring, they seem to blend into the r to this issue have names. It's ^oc/orld's noise. not a pretty or "fashionable thing to say. I know, but it's Why-should we'care, however? At thp mpmenj wa^ true. In no particular order, ^enough to eat. and there is a^Noe/ay^ something on television the writers, photographers there? We have bread, we have cir<3uses. All we need is=« and illustrators of this issue more Christians to throw to lions and. we can decline xrit are: best of thenri. I wonder what's being repeated on Channel 9 tonight* Kathleen WilUameon, Matthew Dobroweki, Rebecca Farley, Murray Henman, Andrew Horton, Nick Dent. Katy wild. Darryl Rosin. Cameron eelee. Michael Garden. Gal Lemon, CONTRlff Sally Haydon, Nigel Pearn. Daniel Don't end Phllps, Kiley Gaffney, Karen Murphy. looklngji Mark Mclnnes. Tim Mansfield, Scoff Cooper. Kyla Reld. Mark Ludlow, 6 L OOCCICLL Thcu-jUs for L lircK person. C Cameron. Bill Rodgere, Megan the next ci 1->cLp TO Ka.cl-»lcco "pho; Crulkshank, Melanle filckersfaff . torsrr»eett. Nicole. Shane. Jo. Ian. Tim Benzie. cjtieen ^\/iLLIcu•^^son, om offer to wWi Coral-lea Benzie, Sam Searle, David Gunsberg, Eleanor Marney. David tvrtrlszr, \\'V)c»sc e^^lhizloi lone LasV •limine MacMlllan. Paul Jerred. Jean-Marc beslofali Ruse, VIckl Kovacs, Nick Ward, Yvelte pLuo) Dvsropicv is open Jl#)lI#lwV i** Llan. Rodney Ward. Lisa Kulrl. Won Omniscient C)cxLLci-v - ^15 SrcvnUy NIn-Ten, Sean Grofh and Andrea lljfortqlnly '• Baldwin. Lefe give fhem all a hearfy Sz, ^^'^ootUoonqcxtVcu piilpne -\9h elap on the back and chuck on the liillpesn'tani-' chin. If anyone's name has been left off this list, It Is all Kafy's fault. But .||B^r/n
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WHEN I TELL PEOPLE THAT RELIGIOUS CULTS ARE CONCENTRATING MORE AND MORE ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES FOR THEIR NEW RECRUITS THEY- USUALLY DON'T BELIEVE ME. THEN I TELL THEM THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL SUCH GROUPS ALREADY ON OUR CAMPUS AND SEVERAL MORE ON THE WAY THEY USUALLY DON'T BELIEVETHAT EITHER. THEN I TELL THEM THAT THE STANDARD PROFILE FOR A CULT MEMBER USUALLY INCLUDES A HIGH IQ AND A GOOD PERCENTAGE OF TERTIARY EDUCATION. IMPOSSIBLE THEY CRY THROUGH A STEADILY WEAKENING RESOLVE, HOW COULD ANYONE WITH ANY INTELLIGENCE BE CAUGHT UP IN SOMETHING SO PATENTLY LUDICROUS AS AN EXTREMIST RELIGIOUS CULT.... have,you. . . Tliis account is not as far fetched as it sounds, the ever increasing numbers of University stu-. dents joining these culls is a testament lo lliat. The methods psed by extremist religious culls to,, attract neWmembers are meticulously planned, psychologically, sound, and very effective. They have been good chough' to get tliousands" of • otiier people to join, so don't go thinking you are ih? exception. The founder of tlie Church of • Clirist in Boston, Kip McKean, writes that of any twenty peopk slopped in the street by a solicit ing cult member you can exp^ect two to respond, to an invite to "come along. i3 a meeting, just to , see for yourse.ir. My own research shows that Imagine iluii- you've ju.sl tailed an exam, or once you get beyond this first contact, with a not above l^ing aboui the group to new mem-'; you've just bro!
Authors note: I staited {his article three months ago, for a joke. I thought it would be realty funny to take the piss oirt of religious cults in Queenslarid. I also thought that there would be or)ly one or two to take the piss out of, but OH NO. There are HUNDREDS, open the yellow pages, they are in there, come to Uni, wafk the Mall, go to your local Church. They are everywhere, albeit most of them are pretty smalt tight now. too small to be mentioned here, but they ARE there, and growing. In the Arrierica of the 50'$ when Cults began to sproiA up everywhere people said "ignore them and they'll go awaf, they didn't. Now America has more extreme religious cults than any other country in the world, most of which own real estate and have lots of guns. Australia is now at the same stage the states was in 40 years ago, we cannot afford to make the same nvstake and ignore these people, it is not a phase, it is not a joke. In the course of writing this article I have received death threats, 'eternal damnation' threats and been cursed repeatedly for my 'satanIc' doings. It makes me uncomfortable that these people can do these things, it should make you feel uncomfortable too. I hope. 6 'If religion is the opium of the people then cults are the Strychnine laced cocaine.'' -anon.
THE HOUSE CHURCH SCIENTOLOGY In Queensland: Yes In Queensland. Yes. In Brisbane: Yes In Brisbane; Yes, there is a branch office opposite the Melio Theatre. On Campus: No On Cimpus: No, but a number of Students are heavily involwd in the Church's Brisl>ane City office, usually solicit Formed by William Irvine in Ireland in the late 1800's ing for 'Raw .Meat' on the street. The House Church (A.K.A. Two-by-Two's, The Church The Church of Scientology was formed by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1950 with the publication of the with no name), is a non denominational cult with not book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of .Mental Health" Mis initial "Dianetics" found.ilion however went banknjpt set belief structure. within two years due to lack of interest, so he closed down for a little before opening up again in Arizona having They denounce all other churche-s as false and believe invented a new religion, "Scientology" which he claimed provided immortality He travelled lo England to recmii ilwl their preachers should follow the edicts of Christ followers aiiraciing them with a .story thai he w.-is a nuclear physicist who had Ixicn severely wounded while scr\'- •and travel without money in poor rioihcs and rely on» •ing with the U.S. Navy in WWII. He claihied that he was so badly injured that he was declared 'blinded and crip-" charity. Any divergence from this is br.mdcd "Satanic". pled for life', but d\.!ring his time in the Nav)- hospital Hubbard claiim he "worked himself back to fitness and per They work mainly in country areas wtierc there is less ception in less than two years" and in tlie process learnl the secrets to a new .science of religion, Scientology. From opposition but have recently t>egun a Brisbane congre there it ha.s grown to an international business grossing millions of dollars a yenr with connections to the worlds gation in n school hall on Brisbanes Southside. mo.-it powerful governments and banks, Converts, baptised by immersion, must renounce all (/UthoLigh Ron did take a college course in Physics he failed it. He was in the Na\'y but never saw cornbal and was ties to their pre-culi lives, family, education, religious never wounded. He was di.scliarged on a 'iO% disability peiision for an ulcer and rnild anhritis. At the same time a.s connections and friends. his discharge; Hubbard approached the Veterans .Adriiini.siration for some psychiatric care for what lie de.scribed a.s They believe tliat the Bible cannot be understood by an "long pericxls of moro.sene.ss and suicidal inclinations.") individual, only through the teachings of a qualified Scic'ntologi.si.s believe that every human being is in fact a THET.'\iN' or God who has forgotten (heir Godlike nature church 'preacher'. As far as their oihcr beliefs go 1 just Peoples minds are flooded with [•NGR.\MS, negative thoughts from this or 'pa.sC lives thai cau.sc irniiional or impul don't know, they have no printed m.nterial and they sive behaviour. Scientology's precepts allow the believer lo rid iheniselves of all their cngrams and become only talk to other cult members, so the only way to find Operating llietans (OT); Eanhly Gods free of neuroses and diseases, in control of their physical universes. out about them is tlirough someone who has left the The catch is that to rid yourself of these Engrams you have to do courses, undertake personality Auditing and pro cull (and the few who have don't want lo talk). cessing. These courses co.si money, lots and lots of money, S]5,00<) and up. It costs $300 just to join up and gel your membership card. The basic "Hubbard Eiementar}- Data Series Hvaluaior's Course" co.sis ,S6.750, S5,iOO for members, the more advanced courses, of indefinite length cost upwards of $300/ HOUR, If you cannot afford lo ''THE FLAG OT EXECUTIVE pay for ilie courses straight away you can sign a contract indenturing yourself to the cult for !alx)ur, at mininnini RUNDOWN MAKES A STABLE wage, to the value of your debt or take out a loan from them. Several of the young people you see out the front of the .Metro handing out pamplijets are working off iheir debt to the cult for the courses they have done as legal, THETAN EXTERIOR WHOSE slaves. ABILITY IS GREATLY Everything the Scientologists do is legal, they have tlie lawyers to prove it, This more than anything else is what makes them dangerous, they are no more than a big business tlial specialises in sucking money out of p>eople in INCREASED AND WHO IS NOT such a way that they don't have a leg to stand on legally, A few people have tried lo take the Scientologists to court, mo.st have lost, but a handful have succeeded and been awarded huge payouts, so now the Scientologists are LIKELY TO BECOME PTS TO even more careful about what they do, they are meticulous and ruthless. There are cases of people in Brisbane ANYTHING." l. Ron Hubbard 1971. signing over cars, houses, wills, inlierilances, Austudy, shares, everything.
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If this committee is not satisfied to dilute hvo opinions concerning Aleister that the proposed project follows the Crowley expressed in Kofhleen guidelines set out in the Australian Code of Williamson's review of Kenneth Anger's Practice for the Care and Use of Animals "Magic bntern Cycle". for Scientific Purposes, the project cannot proceed |This code of practice is available She states Majorie Cameron is Aleister in Commonwealth Bookshops if anyone Crowley's daughter-in-law, but this is wants to read it). This is ensured becouse infact not the case. Cameron was married all granting bodies in Australia will not to deceased rocket scientists, occultist and provide funds for an unapproved project. sometime Master of Agape Lodge O.T.O If a researcher does decide to breach the in Pasadena, Jack Parsons, in 1946. guidelines following initial approval of a Parsons was in no way genetically or project, spot checks of the animals by legally related to Crowley. Cameron is members of the AEEC will mean that the alleged by Parsons lo be the incarnation of researcher will be discovered and will then the Goddess Babalon (see his "Liber 49" lose iheir licence. and Revelation Chapter 17). She is alleged to hove orrived into his life in response to Without approval it is also impossible to his now well-known "Babalon Workings", acquire the animals or house them any a series of invocatory rituals incorporating where in the University and also impossi a sexual component, perfumed with the ble lo get data from such experiments pub assistance of Scientology's notorious lished in scientific journals. Because, scien founder, L. Ron Hubbard. tists rely on publications in such journals to get renewed funding further experiments Kathleen describes Crowle/s paintings in (and also for their next year's pay) this the villa at Cefalu, Sicily, as "demonic" • introduces onother level of control over the an ideologically laden opinion at best. unethical use of animals in experimenta Similarly, she describes his "pornography" tion. So basically, all animal experimenla* as "very full on", but few persons known to lion carried out in Australia is not per me have Pound such of.his work as particu formed in an ad hoc basis but is strictly larly dislurbing. governed. If a researcher fails to follow the Kathleen says Anger did not talk about his appropriate guidelines they might as well involvement in the occult, but in fact he did flush their career down the drain. try, at the second of the two evenings, to The other thing that really pissed me off lead such a discussion, relating his work to about the article was the author's preju dramatic ritual and Crowley, and dis diced misconceptions about animal cussing Anton LeVe/s Church of Satan, researchers in general. If they think that No one, least of all Kathleen, followed it the only reason we use animals is to get up with appropriate questions. After the some cheap thrills, or that we're all sadists show, I talked briefly with Anger: he dis who incessantly rub perfume and soap info cussed with me his interest in Crowley; his animals' eyes then they're hopelessly mis adventures at Thelema Abbey, which was, taken. I found the portrayal of such a per he claimed, infested with elemental spirits; son highly offensive. If the outhor took the and his relationship to O.T.O. Anger time to inform themselves properly it remains as a foremost example of living wouldn't take long for them lo realise that Thelemic culture. this is just blatantly untrue. If another Love is the law love under will fraternally, avenue is available to the researcher (for example tissue culture), that will always be taken in preference to the one that involves No-Cosh I, Master, Reiigious Science animals. Camp O.T.O Finally, most scientific research does have a purpose. Without animal experimenta tion nearly all the nnedical innovations of a;?^'*^^'*'=^*^ 'X-;«-^( • fjs^.^i.v.^'. •••••VA--: '^.'::^y^'c-'f'^ • \ the last century wo,uld not have occurred. Think about it - Have you ever taken an antibiotic? Hove you had a vaccination? To the Ed Do you think a cure for AIDS or cancer would be a good thing? If you've This letter is in response lo the article enti answered yes lo any of these questions tled "It's Mr Science!" in the May '93 you've endorsed animal experimentation Semper edition, i think that never in my six for medical purposes. Animal experimen years as a student at Queensland Uni have tation will always be subject to questions I read a more uninfonned and irresponsi by certain people, but it is an important ble article in Semper. and integral port of medical science. If What worries me most is that Semper saw anyone objects lo this type of research it is Rt to actually publish this so-called piece of one thing to express their opinions via a journolism. Perhaps the article was meant logical and convincing argument bosed on to be funny, Ijiul t can say thot as a post the facts. I feel however, that it is totally graduate student who uses aninrals in sci unacceptable that such wild, generalised entific research that this is not a topic to be and unsubstantiated claims (such as those taken lightly. I'm not writing this letterMo which appeared in the May '93 edition of argue whether the use of animals in sci Semper) can be published. If the general ence is either morally right or wrong but public are subjected to media articles such rather to inform Semper readers of the as the one in question, they will never be processes that occur to ensure that the ani able to form an educated opinion of their mals used (or these purposes are kepi as own. humanely and slress-free as possible. OW! Concerned Ooh, it hurts when those old ideological either don't use the recycling bins or any production - you know, acting and stuff), a us into going outside to check that every assumpfions ore sfrefcfjec^, doesn't if? The bins? Are people getting plain lazy or whole stack of useful workshops, as well as thing is O.K. But as we do, only fo find if is mainstream media wouldn't DARE publish what? the odd piss up but you don't have to be a false alorni, habituation dictates that we a single word on the topic of animal male fo go to any of fhese and you cer- begin not to notice these cries, they A concerned student for a clean campus. experimentation unless it could wrap if up tainly are under no obligation to drink, fhe become as common as the cars driving by. in a neat little box. So thank you, Damn good point. Get your act together reason why you have no social life is Upon realising this we discovered a poten Concerned, for your participation in the UniGreen. Are you serious or just a PR because you're apathetic. Go on, admit it. tial problem. If we have only lived here lively process of debate. exercise? But Concerned Student: you You're a potato. But at least you're moti since the start of semester and are already really should have given us your name. vated enought to write to Semper. P.S. I think Mr Science is attacking the cos showing symptoms of the "deaf ears" syn Don't be shy. metic industry, don't you? I thought it was drome, then how many of the people i^^ fucking hilarious. this street actually give a shit what is going • -, •Cr-...'.'^,^, on outside their own homes? How many
•'.':-•<• .-.'5 ."iw'-^l' • <'':-''-/. people in the suburb actually listen fo the Dear Editors yelling, laughing and drunkenness to make Dear Semper Eds sure people are safe outside? And, to Dear Editors, The other day I was approached to help return to our original I've been pondering o chicken & egg-type "Stop the Liberals" or some such idea. It ques HELP! I NEED SPIES IN THE WOMEN'S problem lotely, and was wondering if any was a petition. Being the interested, polili- TOILETS. I am writing to ask your readers one could shed any light on the matter. colly active person that I am, I read more to help me with a book I am writing and The problem is in reference to university closely. To my amazement, the "Stop the illustrating about body Image. long-haired "alternative types" - a gener Libs" petition was actually a petition sup tion. alisation for descriptive purposes, not Among other things, the book will look at porting a referendum fo offiliote to N.U.S, Why intended as being derogatory! eating disorders, the influence of the fash do ion industry, and how to fight the self- The question is this; Now, I'm neither for nor against N,U,S,, some loathing many women are encouraged to basically because I know little about it. Do they develop the trademark "groovy develop. It will look at the crazy notion of What is Its structure? Can a national stu bounce" in their walking style before or women body parts as fashion (Can you believe dent body, democratically and proportion after adopting that particular lifestyle? cry 'Vogue' magazines soys "small breasts are ally elected, stop a large interest group wolf? back"? Where have they BEEN?). Could it be that old Converse boots or san with just as much right to be involved In dals provide added spring that not even N.U.S. as any other group? What are the It cer Anyway, the book is tentatively titled expensive Nike Airs or Reeboks can emu costs and benefits of affiliation? to inly 'Gorgeous' and scheduled for release next late? may be year, illustrated with cartoons. I'm lold that I'd appreciate It if you, as my Informative that no one Uni toilet walls are full of graffiti about eat- M. Maggot, Arts realises that student paper, could give me some facts it^g disorders and body image. We would their inno First years can enrol in a workshop to about this Important issue. really love it if somebody could lake the cent squeals learn the 'Groovy Bounce" but they are lime to copy down some of the writing on are ever under no obligation to do the "How To Thanking you In advance for my future the wall and let us know what's being Interrupted as Dress Uke a iong-Haired Alternative-Type" edification. said . serious {in workshop as we/I, it's jusf thot the hvo which case If you include your name we can credit complement each other. Perhaps, M. M Searle (Arts) TAKE NOTE), you in the research acknowledgements for Maggot, we need to develop a new wori:- and of course it the book, but anonymous reports and ludi shop: "How To Invent a Plausible We'll be running a story on the relative Is true that it's crous pseudonyms are equally welcome. Pseudonymn for Semper letters". benefits of affiliation and non-affiliation not fair that we We need it soon. with NUS in the next edition of Semper. should all have to Stay tuned. Okay? Can I go home now? Thanks heaps. tiptoe around in case some jerk
U'if'r ' JiR; decides that a sexuol urge is more impor- Kaz Cooke, c/- Allen and Unwin fant than human rights, but let's face real Publishers, Dear Eds ity. Nol-so-Inaccurate rumour has it that Dear Eds there Is one average one rape every two 292 Rothdowne Street, Carlton North, Pardon us for Interrupting the usual flow of months in the viclnlly of Sir Fred's drive Vlclorla, 3054 intellectually abusive comments about Is II just my imagination, or are the activi way, and if that 'one' turns out to be you, worldly or political matters, but we have ties of the union really organised with only chances are you'll really want someone to one simple question: Why is it that some male beer swillies in mind? I don't know. take you seriously when you call for help. women feel the urge lo "cry wolf" when iltllTHE REAL GONi Maybe it]s just me .... So why the fuck can't all this Immature, rape and sexual abuse are a very real A confused student with no social life, bogus shouting stop? Come on, grow up! pRNEb STUDENT v| problem for many female, and I dare say Next time you feel the urge to listen to your male students at this campus? TiiiuplLEASEf* Murray Edison {Arts II) voice echo down the empty streets at night, We live about half way between Toowong spare a thought for the poor victim who To the Semper Editors Dear Murray - you certainly are confused. and the Uni, and at least once a night will inevitably be ignored because we've You're probably thinking of college activi there are shouts and screams by femole all heard the screams and "Helps" before, Where are all the recycling bins that af6 ties because the activities organised by voices which often sound like genuine cries and DON'T! supposed to be around campus? I've seen your union this year have included Attila for help, but then turn into laughter. These very few around and even less around the Tiffany Brisby & Simon Gratton the Stoclihroker (a poet/comedian), Robert screams coupled with the (mostly) male, refecs - where most of the mbblsh is. Forster la musician). Bob Geldof (appar noisy carloads returning from their daily M inoqv AiiOM I.UOP M Xiu/u« And whot's wrong with all the students that ency a musician), The Uni Revue (a theatre pilgrimage to the R.E. sometimes intrigue
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'Leave me ahnef he screamed. 'You don't krmw what It's like! You can't know what It's like +0 be irappeeS In this body, to be more beast than man! You don't know my painf And then there was "Roger, hanging there. Hanging ... ince |his inaugu ration on January 2^, America's new president Bill Clinton has thrown away pop ularity at a rate which is nothing short of let astonishing. The man won, right? He got me play millions and millions of people to pick with the money, him from a row of hopefuls to be their then I wanna play with post-Republican prom queen, right? the guns." He determined, as V\/rong, according to Living Marxism he had promised, to decimate mili (Dec. 1992). Nancy Morton, a writer, fig tary spending. This, he thought would be cles like, "Fears Held for ures that of 85 million eligible voters, a really clever way of fixing the economy, Clinton's safety". "The onionly :>o.z38.25o million voieuvoted. n..Anud uof. theseu.«c,. .Uro-.^h thp back'door solo speak ' Dilemma Facing all the President's only 16,447,500 actually voted ^o*" J^Xhpi^ RiH^^^^^^^^ M^n." Appears the Secret Service ain't Clinton. Mr 24 percent, as MortonS^ell hell, ^^.^y^'^y'.^""'l^^^^ at all sure if they can look after Mr .....dubbed. .him. , ..isn'.t ....exactl.y .th.e ..ma.n wh-^PSSjo m ^said th-jl.ta;y 1^^ ainton satisfactprii;. Apparently he likes won^A^^r^t^s, he just happened to be '^the leasleast-™«aj t iHHS3T ^o g uuy. n..u^^ ^ scrSeVr^^ ^^^ , ^ ^.^^^^ ^^r ^,, ^ 'If acceding to nea.y every .port ^^^^^ ^^^^^^"^ r;rHS '''' ^ '° ^"' ""• tS^rl^:dc^h otS^rnaafsfter^^^^^^ an awful,ot li.e **dhands on, homeboy Clinton has ^ .nMiPrs with vn.i^Speople trying real hard to cover turned out to be the biggest non-event And let gays play soldiers with you^^ff^^jH^^^^^^.^ ^^^^^^^ you know, in since Milli Vanilli. And like the infamous Quysu. • • ^ u-.f .«*«. ^«w cu-.f^^A case. Conspiracy theorists may well - video mime-artists, Bill-baby appears to he loint chief grunted and sh^ted ^^^^ightly -suspect a plot. One guy let do nothing: he doesn't write, he doesn't their mortally - f^a.d asses_ They ,^^^^ 9^ l ^^^P^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ produce, he doesn't even sing. . He'- s jus> t J. ,^'e\r^ed. l^^'!.''''^'^'l'THhpn?ll Clinton wasn't, in fact. President, having there. (Of course, Clinton does play the shaking their heads so you could hear the been sworn in a vltar4•-'0- seconds.' befor . . e^ sax But then Milli Vanilli are probably homophobia rattling around inside, the time prescribed by the Constitution. better politicians) "Ahem. Well, Bill, it's like this. If you let This, the boffin reports, makes AI Gore -Bl mean, let's look at this from a practi- them queers in to play with our guns, president, and that is bad indeed, see =cal point of view. Clinton rode into we re gonna need the interceptor sta- ing as how he's head priest of the eco- town on a white horse called econ- tions, the space command aM the tens terrorist Mithraist cult, seeking world oSy reform. He had a radical plan called o^ "Millions of dollars after all. Dig? dominance through regulation. said Clinton, squirming. He dug. thpe New Covenant which was aoingoingq toHH^r,to^ " said Clinton, squirming. H ime for a reality check, I suggest. He promised to give the military six spend $US 30 billion (around $A 63 bil Give that gu/s reality valve a thor ^months to think about it. The mill- lion) to create 500,000 jobs this year and ough scrubbing. The plot ain't a furtheirtherr 7.57.5 milliomillionn jobjobss bbyy 19961996. . tary aid they dj^the think abou the j^^^ ^^^ ,^^; j^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ongress shot his horse out from Senator friend Sam Nunn, who could if ^^^^l^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ journalists underneath him - and It wasn't just necessary, ^\ep the ban in place by push- ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^. .^ that Clinton isn't the Republican desperadoes. Clinton mg mrougthrougnh reu..Federa^ l..yo.uuu legislationu . .^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^.^ ^.^^ .^^ even had Democrats - his home team - ewspaper headlines read, CLNTON^^Jl,^ . .,„,-,,. ..c ti STAGES RETREAT ON GAYS". "CLIN t is Hillary who has the IQ "that gunning for him. Apparently the only IS could boil water". It is Hillary who ITON FAILS TO FULFIL PROMISES IN person going for the plan was wife Hillary figured out how to get herself -and She can't vote. More on her later. CAY RECRUITS". "DEFENCE CHIEFS around nepotism laws and into power - lever mind the economy - Sheriff Bill STRIKE WHERE IT HURTS MOST". "CLIN and out of congress's realm. It is Hillary polished up his badge and whipped TON IS A LOSER". who moved the First Lady's offices from lanother campaign promise out of his kay, maybe I made that last one up. e other end of the building to the floor pocket. "Why shucks, /all, if y'all won't But around the same time (end of above Bill's. January) we got a whole rash of arti-
10 She has weathered every attack the ready For whatever reason, Clinton, per Republicans (and of course the haps sensing another Vietnam, is balking. Democrats) can muster - she's a witch," ranee, Canada and Britain have been she's a lesbian, she doesn't cook, she urging Bill to bomb the heck out of doesn't sleep with Bill, she's not a "real" the battlezone there, failing to care American "wife". that this is not America's war. (Yes, thank ^ Inly problem is, for all their ranting you, 1 am well aware that none of the Jeah, H and raving - and some of these fea- past five or six wars have not been ^yeah, we've ^^-^tures set new records for R'n'R - American Issues). Could it be that Bill's ''heard all this Hillary has done exactly twice as much as reluctance to do anything is, in this case '^before. But how Bill, and we must remember here, that at least, the most intelligent thing he's ^io we know she's ^twice nothing is still nothing. done so far? Because as much as the ''jn charge? Because "hat Hillary has done (scary scary) is Europeans are inclined to disparage Bill's ^on February 13, as Bill grab headlines. She does really excit- willpower, it is important to observe that _ introduced the Hillary- ing, dangerous, commie things, they do, in fact, have armies of their own approved female attorney- according to these papers. It all started they could deploy, if they so desired, general, Hillary, according to with a little innocent furniture-moving inj^gtill, it must sting a little. Foreign the Courier-Mail, "predicted" the White House and suddenly Hillaryl^^ambassadors bitching to the interna- he would announce a children's was a screaming communist lesbiani^Stional press about his lack of back- vaccination program the next day. sepratist. She wouldn't let Bill embarrass bone, the gay issue on the backburner And 10, pg. 28 of the Sunday, himself appointing an attorney-general until June, the economy an unmention- February 14, Mail. Clinton committed who forgot, occasionally, the country's able even now. $A450 million to clinics for American chil laws. So she wore black stockings and^So what have we got from Clinton in dren. high heels instead of pumps with natural-^Shis first 100 days in office? A great illary's headlines are much more beige legs. And she got her hair cut.SSwife, who may or may not do won- p-yJinteresting than Bill's. "HIJACK! HOW Woopeedoo. All she's done - God's truth ders for women in America. After that, ^H1LU\RY CLINTON IS TAKING OVER - is fail to slip into the background, exactly squat, THE PRSIDENCY OF THE US". "THE peacefully, quietly, like the other 40-odd ^^omeboy Clinton, it seems, isn't the HAND THAT ROCKS THE WHITE HOUSE". Betty Crocker, apple-cheeked matrons of bad new big boy on the block after "jUST HOW MUCH POWER DOES SHE the White House. The infamous health WANT?" Ml all. He's just a good-looking social she's trying to steer through Congress butterfly, the Milli Vanilli pretty face who Iccording to the mainstream has yet to be passed - partly, reports sug- jogs through downtown and plays his (American) press, she wants it all. gest, due to her husband's apparent sax, wondering when, if ever, he gets his JThe whole shebang. And, by golly. incompetence. turn. Be honest. As American presidents she's gonna get it. To this end she picked h, so we're back to that theme again, go, Clinton fits right in a cute, harmless homeboy husband, What else hasn't Bill done? Well, the ^^_ played the make-up and hair-do media European community is of course tapdance, and now has everyone on overexcitedly trying to get him to leap Capitol Hill overdosing on Pepto Bismal. into Bosnia with armed forces at the IF YOU'VE GOT IT,
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11 The Failings of the Goss Government or Queensland before and during Labor, Hov/ many of you can remember the night of December 2,1989? That v/onderful night v/hen Joh and the National party regime v/ere finally thrown out after decades of rule. Many of lis hod been born while Joh was Premier and had never known Queensland without him. But tne times were a changin'. We partied on into the small hours, our thirst for freedom was going to be quenched; our dreams realised.
But has Queensland really changed in the last three and a half years? Some of us feel satisfied now. Others are still thirsty. And for others. Labor have left a bitter taste in their mouths. "Come on," I hear you say, "Queensland has changed heaps since Labor won." Yeah, thafs true; but here have been a number of disturbing incidents that really deserve further thought.
THE FITZGERALD REPORT areas of organisation and management, reforms to examine, like codes of conduct, audits, Lefs firstly look at the Fitzgerald Report, which is discipline and the transition phase. advertising job vacancies, and public demonstra possibly the main reason for Labor's success in tions. 1989. Among the multitude of recommendations, If you want to check these out, the Fitzgerald the major ones included: Report is in most libraries . One result of this review was that political parties now ftquire at least 500 members (I think) in order » the creoh'on of a permanent Criminal EARC ' to gain recognition os parties. Also public funding Justice Commission (GC) has reviewed and enacted changes to electoral of election campaigns does not exist in Queensland • establishing the Electoral and boundaries; electorotes ore now more equal and elections, unlike Federal elections. This lessens the Administrative Review Commission fairer. Unsurprisingly, it has lessened the chances chances of success for the smaller parties in (EARC) of the Coalition winning government - but thafs Queensland. • and a whole series of Police reforms in the democracy. It also had a lot of administrative
12 One of Labor's election promises in 1988 was to TREASURY CASINO/HERITAGE CJC help people who had been wrongly convicted by Goss has always claimed that the CJC (Criminal corrupt people. Some of the better Known casualties COUNCIL FIASCO Justice Commission) has the government's full sup include Kelvin Condren, Peter Perera, John what do you do when your advisory body gives you port. But their actions have not confirmed that com Anderson, Barry Mannix, Peter Faulkner and Lorelle advice that you don't like? Simple, ignore it. That mitment. The undercurrent of many of Goss's com Saunders. This nos not happened with miscarriages summarises what has happened to the Heritage ments is that these bureaucracies are costing too of justice. The government nos put the issue into its Council when asked to make recommendations much and doing little; "The taxpayers are already too-hard basket, the CJC, which has neither the about turning the Old Treasury building into o spending a small fortune on commissions and resources nor the desire to undertoke the role. casino. (An ideological/aesthetic discussion about watchdogs." The OC's role and existence has been this was published in this year's first Semperl. What debated in Parlioment, and its relationship with the In 1982, policewoman Lorelle Sounders was is the point of having a Heritage Council if tne gov government has not oKvays been rosy. charged with stealing and subsequently found guilty ernment are going to disregard advice it doesn't and jailed. She was later found to have been framed like? You could also ask what is the point of having One thing you may have noticed over the lost vear by corrupt police and evidence given at the trail was a Heritage Council that has no power to make valu is ttie introduction of new names into Queensland fabricated. While in opposition Labor promised to able and sensible recommendations about places justice system. Terry Mackenroth has long since compensate her, but doesn't seem so keen now. like the Treasury building? gone as Police Minister - a position now held by They are also unwilling to pay for her legal fees at o Paul Braddy (former Education Minister). Jim current inquiry into the matter. O'Sullivan has replaced Noel Newnhom as Police This is only a summary of just a few of the many election promises tfiaf the Goss Labor commissioner, surrounded by all sorts of publicity. PROSTITUTION But the most conspicuous missing faces are Sir Max have broken. To cover them all would take Legalisation (or at least decriminolisation) or prosti Bingham (heod of the CJC) and Peter Beottie (Chair tution was central to the Fitzqerald reforms, and far too long, and you'd probably get bored of tne Parliamentary Committee that oversees the seemed inevitable until Goss suddenly and unexpect and depressed by reading about tnem. But ac). edly recalled his Catholic upbringing (or was it elec maybe you don't think prostitution should toral cold feet). If vou didn't read about low refonn Newnham, Beottie and Bingham gave the Labor be legal, people should speak in the mall, in the lost issue or Semper, I'd advise you go there qovernment regular headaches; Bingham b)^ regu or you have a problem with the GC. Thafs and ask for a copy, because it really covered the larly criticising me government for its Tack of commit really not the issue. Fitzgerald's recommen issue extensively. Basically, prostitution has not been ment to the djC, Beattie for declining to enthusiasti legolised, and new rules have mode it less safe to dations were designed to manifest in cally endorse Goss's preferred decisions, and work in the sex industry. Queensland. If the recommendations are Newnham for being politically neutral. The indepen not followed and action taken, corruption is dence of these three (embodying the principle of CRIMINAL CODE separation) brought about their unemployment. Of more likely to infest itself again. And the The Fitzqerald report also called for a review of the their replacement's only Rob O'Regan (head of the question tnat should be asked is who is Criminal Code, but when the Committee was formed CJC) has so far shown any resistance to the labor by the government, it was told not to review abor most likely to benefit? power brokers. As a matter of interest, the CJC tion, prostitution and gaming. These ore arguably Chris Griffith, secretary of the Queensland Parliamentary Committee recently investigated Sir the crimes most susceptible to corruption. However, Watchdog Committee and writer for The Max Bingham over allegations that were rejected by you might like to know that it is no longer on offence both the CJC and the Parliamenta^ Committee in to incite mutiny, defame foreign princes, challenge Sun-Herald has written that 1989. to fight a duel, aid pirates, commit bigamy, or pre The Queensland Council for Civil tend to exercise witchcraft or tell fortunes, The GC consists of one full-time chair and four part- Liberties believes the $24m Fitzgerald time community members. Earlier this year, the gov FREEDOM OF SPEECH Inquiry may have been avoided had ernment chose not to reappoint Janet Irwin (one of We now have the right to march and to have rallies the 1977 Lucas Inauiry recommenda the part-time members to the CJC), a decision that in King George Square, but for some reason, we're tions been adopteo. was greeted with a certain amount of surprise as she not allowed to speak our minds in the Queen St was well regarded. In her place, they appointed what we have to do as responsible citizens Mall. It apparently offends the shoppers (shopkeep Barbara Mason, who was soon found out to having is make sure we don't have to spend ers more likely) so we have to go to King Georqe been fired from her previous employer for unethical Square or the Roma St Forum - where the people another $24m on another commission. behaviour. don't go. What better place to tell them about the MURRAY HENMAN injustices and oppression they live under.
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' Most people I know harbour an active dislike of King "Well, the vocalist soundsjust like me, and the music sounds that that's my audience." Missile. Or more correctly, an active dislike of "Detatchable like a rock and roll band mostly. 1 mean, it's like a loud rock "What I'm trying to say is 1 operate from certain assump Penis". Even their vocalist, John S. Hall describes it as "a thing, mostly. That's il, no props, no pyrotechnics. Straight tions, but I don't actually slate those ass«n\plions...bccausc sophomorically retarded novelty song", but there's more to it ahead rock and roll." they're assumed." I then that, A good deal more. Hall's speaking voice has a pcc- "It might sound self-serving, but when I'm interested in a "I think that with 'Detachable' I sort of inadvertantly have ular, eerie quality about it, and tlie music chops away under band, I either buy the record, or try and get someone else to pandered to a real childish, male, juvenile, disk jockey types neath it, fleshing out what is a strongly constructed song that tape it, and that's what I would suggest people do, is some that are, you know, really insulting lo women in particular, appealed to me straight off the bat, in a way that few songs how get a bold of our record and listen to it, and then decide and human beings in general, and just people's intelligence do (despite being sophomoric and retarded). The rest of the whether or not its something that they like. Of course if they in general. I didn't mean to write a sophomorically retarded album, Happy Hour is the same, every song a delight, and buy the record they get the lyric sheet, if they tape it off their novelty song, I was just writing what I wrote, and I liked it so laden with verbal and aural virtue. With material ranging friends they just get the music.so I think it's worth getting I put it on a record, and some DJs who are sophmoric and fit)m sbaightforwardy droning rock songs (All is sinking in the record." retarded... most of them are fine, but I have had the experi the holey/Ail is holy in the sink.) to bizzare spoken pieces "This is a band I've worked with for a while, and I'm really ence of meeting people that I would never, EVER want to about be likes Martin Scorsese so fuckm' much, he'd twist happy about the results. I think I'm very self critical, and at bang out with, who love my record and it's kind of a wicrd his fuckin' nose off if he ever met him, they display a versa this point I feel as though the four of us are definitely on the situation. I've inadvertantly pandered to them, but I never tility virtually unsurpassed by any other modem rock and roll right track towards making really great records and I think deliberately do that, 1 want people to feel the same way I do. rhythmn combo. Happy Hour is the fint step towards making a truly amazing "1 have sometiiing else to say about this, it's a Kurt Cobain Needless to say, I leapt at the chance to chit-chat with these record." quotc.hold on a second" champions of contemporary compositional culture, or more "I cannot remember that song for the life of me. I can't "'Racists, and sexists, and homophobes should fuck off and specifically, John S. "I don't write the whole song, just the remember any of those words for the life of me. We don't not buy our record*, and I wouldn't go that far because 1 try word part" Hall. So, in his own words... achially do that one live, I do it in spoken word readings." to be tolerant of everybody, no matter how despicable I "I would say, if someone asked me 'what does it sound "I write every day, just as a habit, and maybe once a month might think they're being, but I understand where he's com like?', I would say the vocalist sounds just like me, and the something good comes out of it." ing from. He's now in a position where he's performing in music sounds like a rock and roll band most of the time, "I haven't really tried to go that route. I really like to meet front of a lot of people that he would never get along with. That's the best I can do. That's actually the best description I poetry as the voices and the words, and the way the thing I'm not really in that position yet, we don't have that broader can come up with... I should write it down." sounds, as well as what is being said. When you're just in based audience," "That's a strange favourite to have, but..uh..J'll take it. He print you lose that very important part of it, ihe feeling of the "My opinion of most people is that they're okay, you know? didn't even write that one...and Nixon in China, be didn't speaker, so I've been kind of hesitant to publish, and just Most people really aren't that way. There's a lot of misery write that one either." focussed on recording. But I expect that we will do a massive that goes on, but I don't think it's because the majority of "In my opinion, we weren't really a band until after that. I book of all the lyrics from all the albums. We've got, like, people arc assholes, I think it's because assholes can do an mean basically, King Missile was a group of people who 100 pieces, and that's enough for a book." awful lot of damage and there are a handful of them in every worked with me and made records. It really wasn't until after "I just write and then block off a section that looks like it community, who can make life unbearable for people." the recording of The Way lo Sdvation, when Roger Murdoch might be a song, and usually just keep it like that, there's not "I've never read a Jane Austen novel. 1 don't even think I've joined the band and when wc went on tour that we really much editing that happens." seen any movies based on her novels." became a band...and we're not half bad y'know. It's actually "Usually what happens is I have a whole bunch of lyrics, and "I read a lot of non-fiction mostly." amazing. I actually like it I don't know if it makes a differ they put down a whole bunch of things on tape, and then 1 go "I don't like fiction because it's too real," ence. I guess it just means that I feel a little bit more sure of through my lyrics and try to work out which lyrics will go "Wow. Rhys Chatham. Oh man. .wait...I just know that myself when I get up on stage, like that maybe I sorla know with which music." name, now I'm trying to place it. 1 know how to spell it:R-H- what I'm doing now. Not completely, but kind of." "Implied?" Y-S-C-H-A-T-II-A-M. I know how to spell his name. I must "Being on Shimmy was like not being on a label, and being "Overtr' have a few of his records." on Atlantic is kind of like being on a label." "They want you to go to the army and kill people, and you "I usually like that kind of stuff, I'm a big fan of the Kronos "Now it's like, on this album. Kramer worked for us, and on refuse so they throw you in jail and say that you're very Quartet, and I like Phillip Glass and Steve Reich and all the other albums we bad to do what Kramer said." bad." those people." "I am desperate to go to Australia, I would love to do it I "I don't know. I'm not really good with messages. If some "What did she write? Do you know any Jane Austen novels? would really love to do it We contacted a promoter who felt one asks me my political opinion, I can say it, but 1 don't I might have seen some movies." that we didn't really have a solid enough base. Go figure." generally put overt political opinion in the songs. I sort of act Pride andPredjudicel "Didn't see it." "Well this promoter, who shall remain nameless, only if everybody agrees with me. I feel like the people that I'm Etninat "Didn't see EmHia." because I don't know bis name, he felt that the song had nov ulking to agree with me and the people that don't, I don't Sense and Sensibility! "Nope. Didn't see that cither." elty appeal, and that people who were requesting It on the care about. Ahl That's so obnoxioui^ I don't really mean that. Mansfield Park! "Nope." radio wouldn't necessarially go and see King Missile," I mean that, I'm for reproductive freedom, and I opposed the Sanderson! "What? Nope, didn't see that either. I don't think "Well, that's what the promoter said, sometimes these people Gulf war and I really didn't like people that supported the they made a movie of that one." are right, and sometimes they just don't know at aU what's Gulf war, and I really don't get along very well with people "Howard's End I saw, that was a great film." going on. I have no idea what's going on in Australia, that bomb abortion clinics, I think that's very, very 'bad. So "Bigger than the Beatles. Totally. Why not. 1 mean what the because y'know, all I know is what people tell me, This pro that's where I'm at, and I just take it for granted that usually hell, right. If you're going to go for it, go for it, right?" moter says we're not really popular there, and other people the people that I am with are like that too, and it usually is The Band; King Missile say we are, so, who's to say. 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Xi J Vi "i^. • W \J You've either got it, or you don't, if you've got it, flaunt it; if you haven't got it, try and get it; and if you don't even know what it is, then don'rry f eve"jli n Mother asking - because it's a sure sign that you'll never get it.lt's the difference between being popular anJteing a nobody Its the difference belween the Bee-Gees and Pop Will Eat IfselUtTthe difference beNveen a night at home with your mother, and a night on the \Qwn v/ith Charles Manson. It's the clothes you wear, the music you listen to, and what you know. It's Street-Cred and if you wanna know if you're got what it takes to spend 10 minutes with the Cool crowd, then take this quiz. Now" 1. You're at a party, and the current topic of conversation is music. Do you talk 7. You have decided to give yourself a night fo remember. Do you - °°°^^' A. Stay ot home and treot yourself to an extra packet of Tim-Tarns while you ils- A. How groundbreaking Billy Ray Cyrus Is. pr'^^-^m mm. m ^fen to your ISeilDiomond collecHon. B.HowlitHe you really know about ihe music scene. 11"^"" i B^ H ll^B:i^k^yotjr^loVedjone to dinner. C. An almost unbord of band from Germany that youhave been oyiclly fotow4?C-.Sif with a'-select [group of^ossociates in the darkest comer of the most popular ing for the past three years that you [ust know will.be'the'''Ni(t Big ming? in "nightclub, doing wur best^> look mysterious, and sneering at anybody that music i i %l % oPECP^chesyou. K» nm. Idas '*<»CtSiii»sy' sa 2. Strangely enough, an almost unheard of bond from Germany that you have 8. Your favourite film is: - been avidly following for the past three years suddenly make It big, and become A. Milo and Otis. everybodys favourite band. Do you - p^sm;^ w^^^^ i5«wa?«*^ jB. Anything^but^y^ilo and.Qti^..^ A. Continually remind eve^body that you wei^^^ibl^^St SoSi ^(>|,^An lAis^re'h&K-h ^cirit^garde movie that has only hod one screening in Australia to ever hear them, and how you olwavllkD^W/tfiat thev#mali itjloig- I^J^raljd, tkit onl)l|oi|qnd,im-ee others saw, after which the print was tragi- . Buy their latest album. i^% ^ W |callvUburnt,mnd had||iomfi^fo1do with Milo and Oh's. C. Refuse to ever listen to fhem again - the/viobviol|y,^dLout andjgone commerclol" m.'mm^mtm i&steiSsiia y. While riding a sta'aent"'iiewspaper, you come across a feeble attempt at humour in the form of a quiz claiming to test your Street-Cred. Do you - 3. Your favourite band are playing a gig in Brisbone. As you get dressed to go A. Eagerly snatch up a pen to see how you score. and see them, you wonder what shirt to pull on .^.Ejp you^eofi^ss^ m I^N/^der at just howJjod undergracluate humour can get while you turn the A. A t-shirt of^ said bond, with a huge picture^them oiit, iust tc^jrov e everybody there how much you adore them, f ssssiKs^ .V. .Mv-J^t bec^se you!just know how Kjcking cool you are. B. Your rather nice green dress shirt. 4 ^m ^ m C. A rare t-shirt of another band, Imported firoQ •^^U *l;&Siik^ ^^& totaUy^Sell^^t«orii|(,:i.A^^.3,C.6,2.A.l,B.2,C.6,3. A.l,B.2,C.4,4.,A.O twice before. i!tC5',5.A.-10,B.O;C.-l'^;CAO,B.4,C.7,7.A.O,B.2,C.5,8.A4,B.lC.5,9.A- 100, B.O,C. 1000. 4. You're at a partY, and the ciurrent topic of conversotion is the sudden break up of your favourite band. Strangely enough; this.is the first time i and are quite shocked. Do you> bvSifou Slcored: A. Stand open mouthed for 10 minutes, and then constantly say :}0(pd% Y^ have no Street-Cred whatsoever, and the fact that you actually ihat" for the next two weeks. fook||ils f^t|Confimis this. You stifl think John Famham Is pushing tne envelope B. Calmly ask the nearest person what happened. „ „,^„ coJtempc^7 music, and you think you look pretty gooa in flares. C. Smoothly state that the N.M.E. tipped off the break up at least fhTee moinths" ago, and then Innocently marvel at how little your companions really know. 4 to 17: You aren't particularly cool, but then again, you probably don't care. You can think for yourself, and aren't concerned with image, anci I'm actually 5. You're at a party (again), and the current topic of conversation is about the quite surprised that you took this quiz. (Unless you hoped there would be at sudden break up of the Beatles. Extraordinarily enough, this is the first you've least one decent joke by the time you reached the end. Sorry to let you down heard of it, and are quite shocked. Do you - chum.) A. Stand open mouthed for 10 minutes, and then constantly say '^1 didn't know 18 fo 36: My, my, my, aren't we concerned with the way we look? The way that that" for the next two weeks. others perceive you is obviously^ very important to you, and you probably took B. Calmly ask the nearest person what happened. this quiz to get some reassurance that you are cool, in which case, I'm sorry that C Smoothly state that the N.M.E. tipped off the break up at least three months you didn't get any, but that serves you righilor taking this test seriously. ago, and then Innocently marvel at how little your companions really know. 1038: Are voy serious! The only way to get this score Is If you deliberately took 6. "Red Devils" are: - all the "cooFanswers fo the questions! On, alright, alright, I'll fell you what you A. Dudes in red suits that come from helf. want fo hear jGosh, some people,,.). Okay: you are really, really, really very B. Either a pretentious name for a dug, or a pretentious name for the latest cool, and anybody on the foce of the planet would be honourea to share the Slurpee from 7-11. same breathing space as you. 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Being temale means that occasion ally you have to interact wilfi men. 0 This can be quite unnerving at No-one times, I know it Is easy to believe all Appreciates the media that surrounds these mysterious creatures but we women Alley's should try to see past these myths Evident and look for truth. There are many C^ock types of men but one breed we are ageing mote of lately is the J^atred Sensitive And N 'ew Reminders that ^ge Men 'uy. Enforce Now I have encountered a hell of a lot of these although they may not R,epressiv e call themselves as such. Variations •tereotypes. area ^exually Now don't get me wrong, I think it is very twentieth century for men to •^eedy grant women certain freedoms but why, Oh Why, do women feel that And they owe men something for liberat ing us? It is to make us feel secure ' rying to isn't it? (watch your backs girls)., Well, I have come across secret^ C orner a information and all will;be revealed:"' H ""^P THE SENSMVE NEW-AGED a ..MENTPSEUDO-FEMINIST) erious ..,v:,"i;This is an advertising strategy '•• invented by Siiimonnn Reynoldss. Men After the incredible success of his E Grim Reaper campaign, fvlisssterr xercising Reynoldss needed to appeal once G again to the masses - enter SNAGs. Unfortunately, as is the way with all WHAT/ttf SAY V^HATTHEm M-indicontrollinq 9°°^ advertising, people started to If EVENTUALD^J^AY - i^' believe that they actually existed. :// •'m. I think ;QuyQHl^n e more beautiful with I never noticed how^pjatchy your /:[ f.(^ utocracy Suddenly the community was inun dated with SNAGs. To a rather cyni out maki-ife/than with it skin was. '^'^^i'h a cal person such as myself, I started 1 don't&te,abou Imi t your body size. Of Well, why don't you go dfxia|.diel or Ki--' to wonder if Mr Reynoldss was course'.^ou'r, ^ e not fat. go lto thmee gymgym?? %'ckvw,; X incerely c'^;% working with Kerry Packer and this was The New World Order, Invasion You afis^o strong it is amazing. You aresuch a domineerind.bftch TV.' <-• of the Body Snatchers, conspiracy Womi^Moverwhelm me with how I •iy'-:>';Jv»?'--.Jheory, baci mum. I ^ ^1 came out to my father In a somewhat There Is always some reply - was it toaowith girls and of insisted afte, that it seemed like I was having unusual way- through electronic mall. When thing worrying about a course I had hit the nail on the head. Timtroubl e de it and needed counselling for I became an executive In OLoC, I decided person's relationship with is gay. that, and n the psychiatrist to obtain some I'd better tell him, before someone else did. their mother. It is this - if sort of cun ne of this was made particularly I was absolutely terrified. When I'd made So, I wrote him a small message, telling you gat along Isfi well with clear to m time, so I feared the worst In up my mind to tell them I rang a close Mm I was GLoC's new secretary. He replied, your mother there is terms of th] es. I did not however, fear the friend for support. "Maybe it's the wrong asking what GLoC was, and I said It stood something wrong with psychiatri that homosexuality was no time." I cried. Tim", he said, 'There will for "Gays and Lesbians on Campus". I think you, you are neurotic, still ionger list mental disease, and I knew never be a perfect time to tell them." He the general gist of the message was "Oh, tied to the apron strings, enough ab rn psychologicaUh|6ry.to,know was right, and offered me a bed at his by the way dad, I'm gay." He took It well • whatever. Similarly if you that with ari he 'shrink' vwjuld be^on rriy^lde. place if I got thrown out ot home, of his attitude was "Oh, you're gay, that's hate your mother, or don't I would go, I, and it wOulcl be"^for their beh-. which I was also frightened. nice", which, for me, was really Important - / get along with her quite efit. And it was / don't intend to say we were not upset didn't want him fussing end carrying on (be well enough, clearly the The doctor was excellent, although my first impres-'did this later on, but I'd gotten over my is an underlying prob^ en we found out. I remember crying a and wondering why and of course sion of him was that hejms gsy^and how could he 'fears of coming out to Mm by this stage). a psychosis as yet understand us. It turnefvuiKeJiadJhree sons,.one plored. People are ing myself. Had I done something I told my mother In a crowded restaurant - ng? As Tim grew up he had tried of whom he thought W^is gay^sorhs.<£d.unde^and stantly engaged in He gave us some goid advice:^bdtA lettirigT^ lead somehow the topic of gay people came up, taining a balance bet et and going to the football but it and I said "Mum, haven't you figured It out really obvious this was not his thing.his life and far us to ^ott^^sarr^^fie sa'tdTimikheW: these two. There where he was at andhadttod'^s abouthlmsiBifl'-^ yet??!". She said "Figured what out?" and I exists a 'cute' die s never a problem with us however, said "I'm gay!". Her reaction totally floored Mum said she keepsH^^^ about all ^h^^c'l).v gay men who get as never forced in any way to be me: "Yvette, I knew that since you were gay men, and w\yB(\^tny son golng'to Isl^pl^i tremendously wellplli ething he couldn't be. When he two!". And that's pretty much all that was one, I lold her rfli one of thdse-cfeative geniti8.x their mothers (at 'ea|t^s me interested in amateur theatri- said about It. We've talked a lot about It gays, so she ma/Jiave to waitj^hea^[d "Oh yes." opposed lo how theyJSiet _,_, his Dad did back-stage work and I since, but once again, she didn't really fuss, Tim's Dad doesn't talk about*nfm beirig gay much along with iheir 'alh'eriO^^^,sawed costumes. and I'm really grateful for that. So, at the risk ol souniJIiii ;p|d Mum and Dad at the same time, although he is a'/ways there for him and I don't think I'd expected all this fuss and to-do and car neurotic, or in the very::^^!^^ I ^elt was very important. We cried he had any problems .with cpjiyersations about rying-on, and maybe even a few tears, but least cliched. let me teIlC|o'' hours. They asked questions that Tim's 'gay ^' aiiij:fm^$^M^^>^ainly takes my parents really surprised me. Coming out you that I love my mother, revealed such a naivety about gay peo phone calls[Md joins:iniS^^'h,l^once wf^hey didn't talkj^putiti^^HishplyJ^'^^^ to them was one of the best things I've ever il was this love that gave ple that I was visibly shaken. "But you son and §^all%^i$s^^^^^^6veh!n},'- f| done. I'm really glad they know, because me direction and strength get along so well with women?" "How do don't thiri^l^^a&^ipji0o^ now I can be OUT and PROUD, and they can early in life, and this love you know you are?", "What about gay. I thjr^l-^prOb^^iiafiktft^ be part of my out lifestyle, m m that compelled me to tell Stacey?", ("She's a lesbian. Mum,"). And other hendihweJoiiiMv:iriends because ^VsJhS^ her I was gay. then the weird stuff. Denial followed by Yvette Lian. admittance followed by more denial. way I arttii^^r'i::'^'^ / remember well the night "Somehow I've always known." and inex It is now two yisafs-iaterxahd, __ Tim 'came out' to us. r r / came out through necessity. When I was 18, plicably - "You were such a shining regrets. I ^^^^^^Vmi^M^M^^^^^V,'''^ There was just his Dad baby." In any case I wa.«;n't kicked out, shortly sfter my boyfriend of a year died In a and I at home and he said my boyfriend b6iif|^^^^^Ste©hold. but it was painfully clear that any degree My dream of havM^^artn^|;i^^g^^^ par car crash, my parents came straight out and he needed to talk to us. asked me If I was gay. From that point on, I of acceptance was going to take time. ents became a W^m^^^M. He was very upset, in fact saw no need to stay In the closet as It had and I even wa^fj^^^^mC] I don't recall him ever had never consciously thought he was ttecome too difficult to live a He. I'll make no together. My suj being so distressed. He gay but at times, hanging out the wash pretense about It, It wasn't easy, and over told us he was a fraud anding for example, the thought would pass the next 12 months I learnt a lot about myself not what he appeared to through my mind. He had been out with and about trusting In the value of friendship. I be. This was coming fromcountless women but they all remained am happy to say that I have not hst a single someone who was a great /"^^ 90od friends. I used to wonder why friend since coming out and now four years achiever in everything he '^^ relationships never worked out as he later, I am completely out to every person I did, the most wonderful is such a loving and caring person, and I know, Including those that I work wHh. It has son you could wish to must add good-looking young man. been the most rewarding experience and have. He couldn't tell us The morning after the great unveiling, despite some of the difficulties Involved with and asked couldn't we Mum kindly informed me that she my parents, I would not ever go back to lock guess what the problem wanted me lo see a psychiatrist. Their ing myself In the closet again. > • was. I remembered my reasons were actually sound, Mum Rodney Ward. 22 years. '' ^ fUvIng In a very non h^^ •;•(• coming out, When River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves kissed by the opentlfe in the film My Own Private Idaho I knew I was gay, though I made no open sign of it and certainly told no one. How could I tell anyone I thought Keanu Reeves was gorgeous? That he was the object of all my desires? I mean, maybe it could have been explained as merely idolis ing him, but I knew it was more than that. He had the hottest body, and I felt bad for wanting to have it. 1 became withdrawn for a long time, afraid if-I did anything to com promise my heterosexual image that would be the end of me. Of course I now know that was a foolish thing to believe, but back then, it was still something no one talked about openly. So that was probably the first I knew for sure that I had homosexual feel ings, but I did nothing about it. I regret it now, realising how much I (gst, in time effort experience, potential happiness. COIHIII^ tO 'tfirillfi I was gay long before I did anything about it, or even admitted it, I knew I S attracted to guys and yet I played straight for so long. It was just an act. It was fake. Then I thought I was bi-sexual. That was a very confusing time, but I could hide easily, so long as people only ever saw me with women. Then I realised I was gay Shock.' Horror. Depression. Loneliness. My erotic fantasies were kept as secret as the A-Bomb devel opment of World War Two. I also had the tremendous fear that my non-gay and non-bisexual friends would desert me upon discovering my sexuality. Some would say that if they was the case then they weren't true friends to start with. But some friendships are bound to be affected by such revelations and many people respond with fear and misunderstanding. I never admit I'm gay. but choose to drop subtle hints if a discussion is openly talking about the subject. It's quite amazing how it's taken for granted that everyone is hetero sexual until they are "found out", or "exposed", No longer is it a secret for me. Most of my friends know, and if anyone asks me directly I tell them. But it was not always like that. At high school I was called "faggot" and "gay". Intimidation and fear, which never amounted to anything more than threats, was always a source of concern. Because of my refined voice, and my limited involvement in "real" male activities like football and fighting, I was labelled. I was interested in film and litera ture - more intellectually stimulating than running across a field with a ball of pig skin. But that didn't make it any easier, especially considering I was not aware of my sexual ity then, and had a real complex about homosexuality, courtesy of my peers. Sexuality is not a rigid, unmoving statement of a person. You speak to gays every day and have absolutely no idea. I can vouch for that from personal experience. You can know people for years and never know until they tell you. It's such a sheltered world we develop around ourselves and are taught to believe is strictly heterosexual. And this leads to another problem. You are not raised to be homosexual, therefore when the truth finally hits, it can be pretty frightening. You've been conditioned for heterosexuality, and the two are very dif ferent. You naturally think your life is over, because you must be the only one, and at first you can't tell anyone. Everyone you meet at a party or wherever seems to be heterosexual except you But the fact is you are not alone. The "why me?" question is often asked, I must have asked myself that question a thousand times, especially early on. What did I do to deserve this? As you accept it, however, the question changes to "What do I do now?". It's a long process. I haven't met anyone who didn't spend a period of time in 4^^^ despair, in self-analysis, in coming to terms with the implications '^'^ of their sexuality. The pressures to demonstrate to parents their son/daughter is heterosexual are also significant. Parents watch very closely and as soon as they get suspicious they ask ques lions. I haven't told my parents yet, but I know I must. I've been told telling one's parents is possibly the most diffi cult task a person will ever undertake. I don't under estimate that statement. When I am comfortable with it myself, and I feel it is time, then I will tell them. It's scary thought. I know one thing not to do and that is drop the revelation like a bomb. It will be much eas ier for family and friends to accept if there have been signs and clues over time. It's up to the indi vidual to decide when and whom to tell. Only you know how the news will be taken, and only you know if you're ready to tell. The thing I now realise is that I'm no different to anyone else in the worid. I want to be happy, and I want to share my life with someone love. I want to feel and give love. If that is seen as a weakness, then I guess I'll have to live with it. There's this image of the gay community as being promiscuous and for ever changing partners. I'm yet to see any thing like that, and from my own point of view, I want a long-term relationship, A one-night stand does not interest me at all. It's not what I want. Maybe I'll have to wait for someone special to come along. So be it. But I'm comfortable With my sexuality now, and that, for me. is the most important thing. Shane I'd had so far with outing myself to women I came to a climax. I was leaving tomorrow for My first lesbian love interest was my high three months and I had yet io reveal my feel school Science teacher. This infatuation cared about. Anyway, eventually I decided I'd had enough of this tension and doubt and ings, I was incredibly nervous and embar lasted on and off for 4-5 years. The whole rassed and unsure but I took the first hesitant time I persisted in denying il to myself - so I gave her seme very out poetry about love for another woman. She came to see me step off the cliff, and I kissed her. That was a though I don't know how. I may have been in year and a half ago and we're still together. love with her but il didn't make me a lesbian! to sort things out but we couldn't talk about Anyhow, being a survivor of the Catholic il. It was not good. She and I then rarely My parents found out I was a lesbian when schooling system, I can remember my reli spoke to each other (just like Donna). they caught me and Laura being a little more friendly than you'd expect 'best friends' to bel gion teacher assuring us that homosexuality During this lonely and depressing time, I Anyhow, they decided to hate her - after all is just a phase of 'hero-worship' a few people was desperate to grab hold of anything I she'd lead their innocent daughter astray. go through before maturing into adult hetero could about lesbians or gays. To know there Well, if only they knew! filings were difficult sexuality. All the same, I'm sure some of my were others out there like me was my life with my parents for a long time. I spent Easter single adult teachers, particularly females, line. I still fell guilt and shame and even con with Laura and moved out of college and into had yet to realize ihal higher sexual state. sidered giving in, getting married, etcetera to a flat with her. Then Uni, and I moved out of home down to make my mother happy. But I realized that Brisbane. I lived with my sister for six just couldn't work. I found "Queer radio" on When Laura and I were still at college and months before my mother thought it best lo 4ZZZ ("Gaywaves" as it was known then) going out together, a few of the girls in send me off lo one of the women's colleges and listened to il every week. I had the vol Laura's corridor cottoned on lo the fact I spent on Campus. I recall once when my sister ume turned right down and my ear was most of my time in her room. And I was spoke to me of a women she knew who was pressed against the speaker. I felt like I was busted a couple of times snealdng out at two in a lesbian and who had a crush on a friend of involved in some secret underground move the morning (or sometimes even 8.00am!). We bers. I reacted as any good Catholic girl ment in a war or something. met a fabulous woman at college who outcd would, I thought it was sick and wrong and herself to us (as she'd figured us out!) She'd I also found a wealth of lesbian literature in been living with another woman for 13 years lesbians needed mental therapy. I was well the Central Library. I read Rita [viae Brown's into the active denial stage. and was a wealth of support and info. We had "Rubyfhiit Jungle" and some Gertrude Stein some great times, especially sneaking into the All the same, I had become very keen on my and numerous short stories and collections of TV room late at nighl lo watch the lesbian pro- flsriilreliscdttjthtacthatlcouia be a lesbian, an'^ ^ J^'"^^ ^^°^ ^''°''"5' ^^^^^ '"'' if Lprclciided to'ha^ viioijs cnisiibs oil boy^ out of college. Laura went to GLoC by r io'please my female friends butmyhearljuji come odto^U in the end. Iwas iw longer a^ first then later dragged me along. I was wasn't it it. My words wetB'aboutboys>ut revolted by llicwottl''lesbian": I began call- terrified and didn't know whal lo expect. But my thoughts were about women - mostly- mg:iny«lf*1iomosexuar and later ?'dyb";. sit was just a bunch of girls and guys sitting older women. I didn't start seriously falling for me. neife:was as packed with DcgaUvo around a room talking. They all looked so for women my own age unlUi moved into 4 imagiss as the'wbid''lesbiannrM ibey were very friendly without collcge;:There I met a girl (let's call her even heaiti'yyke''before Treadit in a news.'^^;^ overwhelming. It took a while for us to Brcnda) .who reminded me a lot of a film star ; pape^'artIc5cin>9t;:?^ a^^^^^^^^^ I was keen on at the lime. "Ihis giri was just ;.;•".•—:-'''-:--'"~"-r--:-''::;rr:f:T^ oursclvcs at first. But everyone was easy as cbrif'usBd as i ^about tier sextialiiy and it ''-•Istarte d towan t tobe nd^^bjPother k^^^^^ and not so constantly political that it didn't lake long for a sttring 'sexual tension* bians whoever;lhey we«,|:kn^^^ us off. In fact Thursday meetings are ffiiS^K^S^ k^ to develodevelopbetweenus:However.asIgbttop between us. However, as I got to : ^^ social purposes and we have some truly iw know her better I realizefinalized we kallywenm'treally weren't. : "^Jj^J discussions and guest speakers we ]l very ^ together andl lost inlerlt^^^^^^^^^^^ ^T^^.S:^''' ^" '''' '"^ '''' IM Nolhing;had actually been said and ^^^i-P^ii\^lS:,£y^ "^"^""S''- m that couldn't be denied had ^happened, ; .^ne of them'?and they would nrsh over (oVP has been wonderful for me. I feci so r However^ this !relatiotJ6hip' had made me;^;^^,^ j^^^ v^j^;.^-^^^^ pnde in who I am and I'm comfortable realize, finally, my^fediags toward womeu >=y^^ g^^^^^:^^ secure in my sexuality. This has improved and 1 'came out? to myself: TTiisimade; life:a^.g^ aspects of my life. I'm happy with who I lilUe easier in that; I was no. longer qmte as :^^jj^ rushed overwlth^a persoii^ invitaiioriS am now. I no longer feel ashamed or guilty for confused.tBut it alsqmade ihir)igs h*^"^?'!^:; ,o tjoin|he^aiidl ' '^ V :•-;. ^--Zvlwing myself. But I slill get very angry at all being gay>?as-*mOTaUy.WTbng\'sure!yi^soO ; -^^ J-•::'?-'C•• " ^ - : : -If-the homophobia and that's needed to inspire howcouldJIive:witbBiys«f?!m?: ;l^ I'd known of it as^:^^^ ,g ^^ something about it. We need to be Anyway, Brcndahad inuroduced i^ to ,..^^ ^gj^;.^ badVand''m*al'deviftnts'; ;.'^ ^ another woman (we ILcall her Kelly)^and:^^i^^^jjg-j^^ ^^j ^^3^,f^^ been to the Queer clubs around we'd quickly becomiBOOd friends. I reniemH^^^^3|^jj--j^j j^j^ I was always: loo ihy^too|iBrisbane and they're great. I think the Queer ITI beDcrr thinkinuiinMng ho.H;Ww jmuca.^«h, w,ve. uuhaud liun w.mn»commoun ^^^^^cd,- '- • too• afrai- .d. and".'• i6• .itwak%)tt# '>"''•'•'*«'?:communit| y is much more tolerant of diversity 111 and how it was a shame I couldn t be keen , i^;, &i,„j*c„,„„ I,;„A r,riii£i^iw--i^'i^ii,i^^^ III , ,,, ,, t; ; . L iv ;. ,. • i^be."I be.'I! founibund'somd somee kinkindd ooff strenRln.sbiiigih;;:a::ieeljng|^'»na ieelmgv^?; d we welcome everyone at GLoC whether |•|on/l^rWell,lh8twastochang^|rasllcally. :^^ ^^j p^jj^ wheheyer:i:spotfed3^yo"'re lesbian, gay. bisexual, transsexual, l managed fo fall head-ovcr-hecis with f Ibose^uoro stickers around;dampus^'niough^|^"«'', or just not sure, another woman frbni college (let's call her nt tbbk: mc a while to figure:oiJt^at^amp^ (Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays) and Donna). I was sbemolipnallj^ovCT-wroughll Vas a row of tents" meant! ~ ; <;J:^%-";^:;!''• straight friends of queers are welcome too./ n couldn'i:,study,';*nie;incindry of this sUU: ^^^ ,.j,|,ege_ gfter I started this^f^tdsyrela- ^'^e had some very rewarding coming out standsjri my second year Bioihem,,!^^^^ tibnship with the cute first year (ATidttiaJ,, I experiences. Laura and I came out to some of ZShe was the first wmanTsgo^ to of my to^^^ b^^camc part of a new group of fripnci^; With her friends just before 0-week. They accepted for other wxncn. She dWn't late, it yoy .well: '^^, .jQup^ ^ ^g^ woman came intomy life, "!<= as her girlfriend. It's so fantastic when our She was polite bol^reryujKomfort^^^^ Xf-jint I thought Laura was weird'but al the,, relationship is actually recognized. These sudden and quickly feftiSh^Jsaid it was b.k. ^-^^ ^^^ extremely interesting. We became' •"ends said they aheady knew, they were just but Lhave a feeling siii5yo| I wonder if there ever was a time when people weren't afraid of words. Who was it that said... 'the pen is mightier than the sword..'? An incisive comment, particularly with regard to attitudes expressed in recent times. We of the Queer communrty have seen decriminalisation paid homage to, with quaint terms such as 'lawful sexual activity't\o\N'mg from the pens of the bureaucrats. We have experienced the audacity of Anti-Discrimination legislation that does, findeed, discriminate. Try being Queer and a teacher... teachers (each us to write, we are armed with pens. Queers and pens are dangerous indeed. A Queer teacher might teach about Queer things to youth who may be potentially Queer themselves, and then where would the country be? Tsk. tsk. What would Rona say? But teachers can't be Queer so we must forget that line of thought. Thought. What did Lawrie Kavanagh think when he was writing yet another of his misogynist, racist. anti-Queer diatribes? Did he ever think that he was slowly killing people - murdering them as surely as if he held the gun to their head. fed them pills, turned the ignition so they could gas themselves? Lawrie has the power of the pen. He promotes hatred, and the pens that write the laws for Anti-Discrimination don't write about vilification. At least, not yet. Not yet. ^^^ ^^^ .p, ^^|^ Similarly, what about the 'F' word. Feminism. I know ol so many women who benefit from feminist actions, and who, on a day to day basis may even put into process certain tenets ascribed as feminist; but when asked if they are one -1 mean, if they are feminist - will quiver with fear and say, "Who, me? No way!" The 'F word is a big one in terms of women and awareness. One of my favourite quotes is by the author Kaz Cooke, who says that: Women who don't call themseh/es feminist, but who refuse to be treated like a small deposit of seagull pooh on the windscreen of life, have Just got their terminology wrong. Terminology is the key word here. Approximating this is the V word. There are women who love women but who find lesbian and incredibly confronting term... and we haven't even touched tho 'D' word yet.... Dyke. Sort of explodes from your mouth when you say it. Unfortunately, it is another term that has [baggage in the form of a quaint English custom of ascribing more than one signifier to a particular word. Those of us who identify as Dyke have to share the terminology between that of a radical lesbian, the term used to signify an embankment used to restrain floodwaters, and that wonderful little Australian collo quial term that denotes a small construction at the bottom of the garden where one goes to defecate. Terminology. It's all in the terminology. Terminology, according to the New Webster's Dictionary, is a set of terms used in a particular field of knowledge. O.K. I got that. But I'm wondering just who defines the parameters of a partfcular field, and what their agenda is. Where are they coming from? I began to wonder this when I sat down to watch the movie 'Malcolm X' and saw that part of Malcolm X's education about his Afro-American identity had a lot to do with termi nology. The Anglo-amerteans had named him 'nigger' and 'negro' and he knew he was black. He was constantly reminded of the fact. When asked to look up the words black and white in the dictionary, it became patently clear to Malcolm X, soon to be known as one of American's niost radical black activists, that dictionaries were written by white-folks. And what I'd like to draw to your attention people, is that they are aisc written by heterosexuals. I decided I might do a walk through my dictionaries and thesaurus, just to see how the parallels drawn in 'Mateolm X' might coincide with the terminology cur rently making an impression on the Gay and Lesbian communities. Please note: I specifically mentioned ONLY the Gay and Lesbian communities. The 'Q' word, Queer, means bizarre, eccentric, extravagant, outre, bombastic. Strange or odd; of questionable character; suspicious; faint or queasy; men- Itally unbalanced or deranged. Informal meaning: homosexual, bad. worthless, or counterfeit. ^^^^^ -L- ^^^ Then for comparative analysis. I considered the word straight. Normal, undeviating. unbent. Erect, rampant. Informal, no. The condition of being straight. I Heterosexuals came up with the meaning of, or pertaining to, sexual orientation toward the opposite sex. Opposite means situated on opposed sides of something, contrary or diametrically different. Opposed meant to act against or contend in opposition to, to strive against, resist, combat, I was beginning to think that heterosexual authors of this dictionary may have painted themselves into a corner,,, it didn't really seem like heterosexuality was all it was cracked up to be!!! But, back to queer. I found that queer also meant non-conformist, unconventional, informal, individual, character and androgyn. Those of you who know of feminist theory from the 70's will know that part of the feminist Utopia dealt with people achieving the status of androgyn, or having an androgynous I identity, whereby sex role stereotypes were redundant. I found too, that mermaids and unicorns were also labelled queer..,. In the end though, it is aJlterminology. Words are tools fomiuiated and defined by the hegemonic powers that be to allow access by the privileged to the insti tutions from w|ilci?!;fe4vg^agep|||:^ Call yourself Feminist and see the doors close In your face; call yourself queer and get the same response. The doors to wjhgfti;^i^k?'The;p(^^ To the dominant culture. To be one on the continuum defined by Kinsey and his associates that permits those ojiisivimare not of the one^ixtlyivho are exclusively heterosexual, to be included as pathologically acceptable, but which also renders us without a voicej^yite^e beconie 'of Ihem'. Why^Mthat th^^rerpaining five-sbrths, who, in nny estimation, must therefore deviate from the norm as applied to the other one-8i!dh|stiruggle for.yalicIation? ArehWe:not tftejrajority? This is one of the reasons why I use the term Queer to identify myself. More specifically, I say I'm of aiiqueer riation, UesBian Jlrtoe; I'ni'hotvdenyingjimy love and devotion to the vyomen who comprise my community. I am affirming that I feel as though I belppgio^a-troader spherea? well, The|M.eiB'rcomrmiifi^ And that brings rrie to another point with regards to the word queer. It defrauds and challenges the narrtwnesjQpf'pther ie^^ and the-o" wom Hompsexual has (^ like the term gay, usually infers male. Women haven't been acknowledged Lesbian defines a group wlthirithetuilturei^doesn^^^^ the diversity within the women's community either. Where are the bi-sexuals and transsexuals? It could beargued.that queer sefyesdhlyas a melting pot for all the other words, a conglomeration of semantics and a blurring of edges. But the one real strength behind queer is tha^^ origtoially claimed as a word without racist or sexist overtones. Gay has a distinctly angio edge to it, and in America, where Queer Nation'h^i^fdundatiohs^^^^ needed to address the issue of racism, and particularly, the sexist angle that has had so many women.flghtir>g forjiecpghHiw the cufture,Qiieer confronts sensibilities. It causes ripples of fear in the communities within which I work. You might not call it fear,.but^whatWypu;^^^^ term, feel unconrrfortable about when it Is used in your presence? You don't like it? Is it because of what it means?;prwhM-you^^R^^ to mean? Who has generated the meanings of queer? And we go right back to the little foray I had at the beginning... a. waltz throiigh theBictioni^^^ for heterosexuals. As Radical Lesbian feminist Mary Daly noted, we silence ourselves by attempting to conform ^ov^Kata^hetero;! have us believe. We need to express ourselves by overcoming the silence instilled through,words designed for and bandied aboiiitfoi'that p^ is a classic example of this. H was used as an epithet thrown at women to silence them when they were carrtpalgriingfa^Ks^ tl still has the power to make women y/hlsper when they use it in public? Why do we endure this silencirig?;ln,;alldv^ingi0^r we are, in effect, admitting that we are somehow at fault. But didn't ^mention Kinsey and his studies that granted us th5e-stafu8:Sf;fc^^^^^ of human sexual expression? And therein lies the crux of the matter. As Day noted, we have been silericed^QuiBer|i||lloh^^^ separatist group of mixed membership, all of whom identify as non-heterosexual, Queer Nation was establish&d:in:ihiiiaii^80'awith:tfie^ queer politics and flying defiantly in the face of non-queer communities. They are an angry, assiBJliv^:grpup!vy^^ has managed to terrify not oniy the straight communities, but has created a backlash in queer cdmniuhitiesa^;weliliC6n^(^ find any Queer Nation groups functioning in Australia. But more and more, people are identifying with some of thetqueer nati^ the term queer to identify themselves. Why? Because queer more aptly describes how many of us feel when we resid the paper an^^^ of us has been brutalised or murdered just because we've not 'normal'. I Because;iij^i^i:dp^ lives, raise our children, teach our histories or celebrate our existence frae of constraints. Because gay to me- implies1hatji'm;h^PWx?l^^ ^°'^' simply because I am constrained in little ways by a society that thinks to be gay or lesbian Is 0.K just don't; flaunt.it,and;whydoy6u|i • •- Like so many ether soHcalied^^ have been taught to sit and smile and not to question the dominant ideology and if you confirm I'll give you- a prize like:decrihiinalisation,Without full human rights and like access to programs but why would you want to have children anyway and like yes you can do some jobs but we really can't let you do that too near the children because, well, you know, you are in a position of Inlluence and what would people think?, Perhaps the' person that said ''I don't know why they call them gay, they all seem so unhappy." had a point, Bui 1 choose to differentiate between unhappy; and angry: It is ahgair thatmotivates me to educate my community. It is anger that drives me to see justice done. And It Is with absolute pleasure that I call myself queer so that Tcan educate those who aren't, knowing that it doesn't detract from my humanity but that it unites me wHh queer people the world over,, affirming me in my connmunity. Gai Lemon STARTSWITHCI cri =7 a may we "'^m i Sti mm now? father lo leave his family and cease contact. The reaction I get when people strange as it seems, lesbian learn my son has no 'daddy' is some thing I didn't really anticipate. I did get pregnant from a heterosexual encounter motiiers do exist. What are they like? but when people learn that I am out and Surprisingly, women are diverse crea have a child without 'daddy' they auto nfortunately while we fight discrimi tures. Lesbians {I include bisexual matically assume that I used a donor. nation against gays and lesbians we U women here because at some stage Well.... i suppose I sort of did in retro are ostracising a large number of they will probably be in a lesbian rela spect. Anyway, how someone acquires our peers. By using terms tionship) who choose to have children a child is irrelevant as is the presence ol such as 'breeder' you do so because they want to and that is a 'daddy'. My only real concern is that are implying their right. Whether their children are my son will have no male interaction bu! from a previous heterosexual relation I am lucky because I live with a gay ship or from a donor, they are still les man who adores my son as my son bians AND mothers. Yet, while we are does him. Besidesjiving in a non- supposedly establishing a coalition nuclear family means that your child community, terms such as "breeder" are probably encounters more people and still used and this misogyny must situations than that narrow-minded insti STOP. Many mothers who are coming tution would allow. out after long term heterosexual rela tionships rieed all the support they can don't get mad get a get. And that is our aim: a support networK. support network A new lesbian support group is forming in West End for lesbians with children it's a man's world. and lesbians thinking about having chil If you are a dyke you have probably dren. If you think this is a great idea as I noticed that this phrase defines the gay do. you should call Nina on 844 9599. If community as well. Mainstream queer you are a dyke or bisexual mother on media (Outrage, Campaign) focuses on campus let's also meet at Uni or even male issues, queer nightclubs focus on better make ourselves known to the rest male desires (the cigarette machine at of the campus queer community. My Options- need I say more) and all large queer friends whether male or female, gay festivals or celebrations are male- enjoy spending time with my son and for oriented with a token lesbian element. many it is their only contact with chil My gay male friends may argue "there dren. I realise it is daunting to go. along are more odt queer males than queer- to GLOC meetings when there are so women" - of course there is, when the many younger dykes or a strong male whole community is centred on men. element but introduce yourself, most are How can you escape into the gay com very friendly and would probably like to munity when you are marginalised meet a lesbian parent. Just make your within that? Lesbian mother(baah) - presence known. marginalised again. Shut your mouth and it could be you.. open your eyes. When women use the term 'breeder' it The reality is if you are using the term is even more distressing. Don't get breeder negatively - STOP IT. 1 get infu sucked in sisters - you're preaching riated with gay men iqnorantly throwing patriarchy. Even if you choose not to it around (try being queer AND a parent have children you should respect that buddy) but irom ayKes it makes me feel many women do and possibly one could betrayed. You don't give up your sexu be a future lover. Eight years ago I ality as soon as you give birth - your scorned 'breeders' too, but then two sexuality is yours for life. So before you years ago I became pregnant, I love go ranting about the discrimination that being a mother and it has nothing to do you receive look at how you discrimi with my sexual orientation. Just remem nate in your own community. very, ber - you too could be a breeder one very angry day. when I hear this term used con descendingly. What NO father? kiley gaffney Women are capable of Many people seem to baulk at the idea doing many things at one of intentionally having a child without a time, ie rearing children, father. This is quite amusing consider being a lesbian and having polit ing that it is socially acceptable for a ical sensibilities. Don't fall into the trap of mocking what you don't understand - leave that to the domi nant society. I At 12.50am on the 29th November 1990 Queensland loined the civilised world by decriminalising male homosexual acts between consenting adults. The form of jthe amending legislation is not flawless and holds implications, particularly for gay men. The old olfence of Carnal knowledge against the order of nature (sodomy) has gone. The new I Section 208 makes it an offence for any person to have anal sex with a person who is NOT AN ADULT or to permit such a person to have anal sex with you. Adult is defined as eighteen (18) years. ., ..^. Jl Therefore the new Section 208 is GENDER AND SEXUALITY NEUTRAL and outlaws anal sex for fi .//i both homosexuals and heterosexuals under 18. The specific laws outlawing other male to male sex- THEREFORE THE AGE OF CONSENT FOR EVERYONE TO ENGAGE IN SEX IS NOW 16 EXCEPT FOR ANAL SEX WHERE THE AGE OF CONSENT IS 18. [What about beats and obvious displays of public affection? Gays can still be prose cuted under the Criminal Code and other Acts in this State. The Vagrancy lav.'s can be used against people caught at beats. Charges such as solicitation in a public place for immoral purposes and wilful exposure of one's person can be made. Section 227 of the Criminal Code also outlav,/s all wilful indecent acts in public. Two men tongue kiss ing in the Queen St Mali therefore is still subject to the Criminal Law. Last July, Queensland's Anti-Discrimination Legislation came into force. This Legislation essentially outlaws discrimination on the basis of sexuality and gender in areas of employment, accommodation, and provision of sen/ices (both government and private enterprise). However religious institutions are exempt as are also schools and other institutions dealing with children. Transgenderist people are not covered by the Act. It is an offence under the Act to discriminate against a person infected with HIV. The Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission was established to deal with complaints under the Act and if you believe you have been discriminated against you can contact them on 844 6099. because it is easy. It ailov y them to name good and evil r Oscar the a property of the outside wor Grouch & Grover rather than admit it is some thing intrinsic to humanity. Being gay in college is a special experience. I know The point is: give gays always found the open and accepting break, God knows they nee atmosphere refreshing. That was sarcasm. one. Nearly all college sti dents come from the sticki There are many gay people in college and even and may never have met more who were once in a college but soon found some homosexual they can relate where better to live. before. They may well be mi,* r«>alise however that there are people who can't leave college for erable. if you get your kick' one reason or another. Do not fear! You are not alone. If you can gather out o( persecuting the mise the courage to come to GLoC you will not only get loads ol sympathy but proba able, the confused and tht bly find someone from your college. disadvantaged you are pretty low specimen, H^H There are only two all-male colleges at UQ. I won't reveal which one I came from as 1 don't want to spark any ethnic cleansing. They won't like it said, but the macho, aggressive and reactionary environ It seems blindingiy obvious ' ment of these colleges does not make them immune to homosexuality. Many gays tike macho and aggressive me now, but there was a tin- and they've got to live somewhere when I did not know that beinc gay does not mean you havt I was in my second year at college when the first year (we will call him Fresher X) across the corridor told me he was gay. to conform to a type. Far mort The next nighl I was feeling courageous and remarked that it was a coincidence because so was I. I really was a gutless gays are into muscles ani wonder at that time and could have remained in the closet for years masculine than are into drac Fresher X found a boyfriend at a gay youth club. (I already had a secret crush on the boy at the end of the corridor, but it and even more again are intc wasn't until the end of semester that i worked up the courage lo tell him. His answer was a very definite not but he was plain and ordinary. Lesbians good enough to keep it secret. I was so miserable I left college.) Fresher X told his trusted friends he was gay and started do not have lo wear overall,-- taking them to the more interesting of the Brisbane nightclubs. He wore blue jeans on Blue Jeans Day and little red rosettes Gays do not have to like on Worid Aids Day (both real "empowerment" things) and got away with it in a way which is hilarious in retrospect. It would Madonna and hairdressinc have been tragic if he had been found out. Colleges tend to be more Christian than tolerant. None of my friends knew I we gay before I told them. I hs It isn't impossible to be gay in college, but you must be careful who you tell and what you let people see you do. It is diffi been afraid that as soon as cult. Always be aware that someone may be listening to what you say Remind same-sex visitors not to hug you in public or started admitting the fact ' wear their GLoC tee-shirts. Don't leave OUTRAGE lying open on the floor. Make sure you're both out of bed early so Ihe myself I would develop unco cleaners don't walk in and surprise you (and themselves). Because if things dc go wrong and people start victimising you. trollable mannerisms thr there is nowhere to go but out. Who can you turn to when all but two of the colleges are run by nuns or min.Mers? would give me away to thi whole world. But nothing hap Fresher X was the only other person I could be certain was gay, but there were others I suspected. They included crick pened. I have not developed eters and larrikins, the friendly and the studious; in other words they were men. It was sad to see some guys too scared to lisp. I cannot mince. 1 despisi accept that although they were having sex with women they really were in love with men. Madonna. 1 still have to te The most important people in a college in my view are those who are not gay but brave enough to stand up for those who people I am gay. Sometimes are. It takes guts; almost as much as it does to be gay. have to say so twice or thei won't believe me. The dangerous people in colleges are the ones who hate gays. There is a theory that people who hate gays are reacting in hatred of their own gay sexuality. I believe that is too simple although it is true in some cases. Many people hate simply isacii ^^Qithesalvatlon I am the bm^ *•* 9t% .v>' ^i 'sr ^^ Holy Food I V*« «»n(A « rf» :!*// \ho sign .^^ y , ai!lJ & ^ k *»'«?P55S k of the idro ds, Thi le sure .^, .fromf^l m^ ^'m XcS> ®'«Iit, Ji ';? /»oovA* 4P I In 1984, Galas began work on Masque of the Red Death, an ongoing work dedicated "to people who are HIV-positive. Were You A Witness? j PWArcs, PWAs, who fight to stay alive in a hostile environ- i ment that tells them on a daily basis, that they shall most cer- Were you there when they crucified my lord? .tainly die: an environment that offers disgusting pity and We who have died do not rest in peace, | ] pacifying lies to persuade the diseased man to desist from there is no rest until the fighting's done. [fighting, an participate instead in his own burial; that offers [the constant threat to mandatory testing, reporting and quar- Her multi-octave voice sings of angles jantine; and that offers slow torture and continuing design of (devils] who warn of the perils of resis death, or genocide, through a failure to act responsibly in a tance, while attempting to persuade PWAs medical emergency". (persons with AIDS) to proceed politely, into death. 'These are Plague Years: there is a war within the very [cell-walls of our family, and each citizen is either a mem One of her voices (that of a judge without ^ ber of the resistance or a collaborator. Like the cross at mercy) courses out a mocking "Unclean' Golgotha, Diamanda Galas is a conduit between heaven over the Cathedral as red light and: • Y^^ and hell, a place of a middle ground. smoke fill the apse. The plague is the sound of that place. The apse awash It is a meanspirited, malevolent God of i "•tefe '[With crimson light, like a chalice filling with blood. Galas the uniust and petty against whom shej , offering the sacrament of self and song. rails. She identHies with the "Enemy" (as j the devil is sonrietimes called) of this God, She mounts the pulpit, jthe harangue of a truth beyond [metaphor and the revelation of the truly Satanic: the During Consecration, while bathed in, same pious fucks who strung Jesus up the tree two red light, Diamanda chants. "Hoc est j [thousand years ago are using his name to justify the signum corpus meum' (This is my I I death of - and deny mercy to - cur brothers and sis body). "Hoc est signum sangre meum"j ters who now lie crippled, insane and withering from (This is my blood). She covers herself j within, seared by an uninvited virus, so insidious, it with ceremonial blood as bells ring.] steals the body's biological right to defend itself The consecration portrays the PWAs against disease. "Give me sodomy or give me as the Christ, the sacrificial lamb] death!" Diamanda Galas spits in the face of the priest through which the evil clerrcs seek sal at confession. vation. Death, like life, has Ks own music and in At the end of her journey through the torments of the the convulsiv(> Plague Mass of^ damned, Diamanda Galas asks God and man, like Diamanda Galas, all that is holy and' ^the old Testament prophets and the slaves in the field, unholy, pure and defiled, beatific anc \o "Let My People Go." Authentically liturgical and profane, is woven together on the loom^ ^truly blasphemous, the Plague Mass is a convo of demonic celestial hymnody and^ cation of souls and an invocation of energy. incandescent hate. Galas' unearthly AIDS is the whimpering apocalypse; the real instrument - her own spectral multi- I horror is when we turn away. We are all octave voice - is fueled by febrile j j shrouded in the Plague and this is war. The seething hatred and brutal compas- j I only thing worth dying for is each other. sion. Hatred for the genocidai disease - AIDS - and the homophobic power-elite who would deny the dying the simple dignity and humanity accorded the arteriosclerotic and the cancerous. In her Plague Mass.Galas gives voice to any army of tortured souls, the ones who can no longer sing ior themselves; the infirm, the insane, the dead who will not rest in peace. Galas makes no apologies, offers no simple explanations. The Plague Mass is a rite that sanctifies the out cast, scounges the bigoted and brain-dread, and vilifies the sanctimonious, The Plague Nftass is an act ol war. and girded for battle. Galas performs it swathed in blood. OUR Lesbians, Gay Men aod the Media There have been a few gay I would argus that lesbian and lesbiancharactersin the movis! gay oppression stems from four in the last couple of years, factors; isolation, dlsempowe^ there was a gay psychopr--. ment, Ignorance and fear. serial killer in Silence of "- Isolation and disempowerment of Lambs and an extended group lesbians and gay men, particularly lesbian/bisexual man-killers " Bodily fluids should never be used without an expla before they come out into an Basic Instinct. 'Swoon' - nation of which bodily fluids actually established lesbian/gay commu about two gay lovers who mur contain the HIV virus in concentrations nity. Ignorance and fear in the dered a kid for kicks. sufficient to transmit the disease,... broader community, resulting in On the trippy side there : Sweat, saliva, and tears are all bodily lack of respect, harassment, dis fluids, but do not carry the threat of HIV William Burroughs' N^': crimination and violence ... and in Lunch, with gayboys bi ';; infection. Reports on AIDS should the shame of many lesbians and make it clear that semen, vaginal fluids, devoured during sex with ' .^ gay men yet to come out. In other insects and typewriters tu ' and blood are the concern here. words, resulting in homophobia. into beetles which talked thror^' sphincters in the middle of " " General populatiolUjation artificially divides the people into those Four facts. The first, isolation, is reinforced by the lack of images of backs. There was also My C |>-'^who remember, not that long ago. Before you think that this is a little story telling one of my about those darling little footcushions friends that Stacey you rest your weary little feet upon after was a lesbian. a hard day of spot the straight man with iThere was a long a personality and playing hide and Isilence on the end cringe wilh your chauvinistic boss, think I of the phone, and again! Ithen Christine •burst out with a am a self confessed 'fag-hag' (Oh god, Iwail and 'Oh my that sounds like I'm at my first Alcoholics [god, you're not Anonymous meeting) and share a most serious! I heard humble but totally gorgeous residence irom Stacey that with 2 of the most lascivious men in one of her friends, Brisbane; unfortunately for me they Lisa, had mut jumped the fence and stayed on the tered 'Yuck, yuck, yuck. yuck...' over the phone for a full five minutes or so. other side. Then again, if they were not before not so subtly hanging up. I've got to admit I was stunned. This is the such close friends of Dorothy they would 1990's and I had thought that homophobia was a thing of the past, something probably drive Toranas and say intelli that Australia, this ideal paradise, had left behind along with racial persecution gent things like 'want to go halves in a and sexism. But I now realised how naive I had been. Homophobia is still out baby?' there, and It's as scary as It's ever been, STORIES FOR STRAIGHTS We all get on really well, and contrary to When Stacey first came out to me. it never occurred to me to change my atti popular belief do not go through a whole tudes towards her in any way. There wasn't any reason. It may sound like a can of hairspray every week; in fact it cliche but she's the same person she always was. Sure, I've had to adjust my takes a whole fortnight. Being the divine thinking a little. I don't think that guy we know with the mop of red hair would creatures that they are. they actually be a suitable match for her any more, but in most cases things have stayed enjoy the task of, dare I say it. SHOP the same. PING! Lets face it, how many of your I never realised how narrow minded people can be. Too many people have real(?) men out there don't nag and turned away from Stacey when she's needed them. By this I mainly mean her whinge and whinge when your girlfriend parents. They can't accept her as she is. They feel they have to try and is taking you to the 23rd shoe store in changp her 'back to the norm'. What they can't seem to grasp is that any ^Brisbane, The other advantage is that attempt to do this is doomed before it starts. There's no magical way to sud eing what they are they can intrinsically denly turn Stacey heterosexual, in fact any suggestion that it's possible is ell you whether that new man you've adamantly refuted by her. I can't see how her parents can blindly refuse to been perving at is worth your effort or acknowledge what simply is. just another one to add to your ever increasing list of male friends. When I first told my mother that Stacey was a dyke, she said 'That's nice, dear', but then she asked me later 'Is she trying to convert you too?'. (As Another bonus of living with a bunch of though it's some sort of religion or something.) I then informed her that I fags is that if you ever need to go some wasn't Stacey's type (she prefers brunettes) and 1 watched her visibly relax, i where and are required to turn up with had to laugh at her. Dykes and fags don't have anything wrong with them - no an escort, you can rest assured that one matter what homophobics think. of them will eagerly volunteer and will The issues that we raise at GLOC apply to everyone, although the guest manage to behave like the perfect gen- speakers do tend to orientate the discussions towards the majority in the 'tleman. At such events the only time it group (fags and dykes). But let's face it, everyone, whether they be gay or becomes tricky is when people ask you straight is alfected by violence, diseases, safe sex procedures and drug use. who your new boyfriend is and what he's In fact a girl that 1 met at uni (who is straight) said that she really wanted to go like in bed. Usually I just give them a to GLOC meetings, but was unaware that HUGS (Heterosexuals Unafraid of secretive little smile because my partner Gays) existed. She thought that only gays, lesbians and bi-sexuals could go is already eyeing off their "boyfriend". to GLOC. This isn't true, anyone can go. In fact I've met most of my friends though GLOC. 1 don't regret going as it is the oniy place at uni where I feel ere is a question for you straight boys comfortable and accepted, regardless of my heterosexuality. out there: why don't you ever get up and dance in any of the nightclubs, but insist At GLOC we have great spontaneous parties and Megan has been nite club on standing around the dance floor get bing with them, too. We've been asked why we bother. Megan has even been ting blind rotten drunk, and then expect- told that 'You're not exactly going to pick up the guy of your dreams at ing some girl to go home with you Options (a queer nite club)'. Obviously they don't understand that the reason because you bought her a drink? I'm Megan goes out is to have a great time, not to pick up guys. And we both sure the song 'Dancing Queen' has a lot have a great time being HUGS (even if we don't have our own t-shirts yet - - 0 answer for as there sure as hell are Hint Hint!). ery fe'w 'Dancing Men'. Stacey is by no means a poor lonely dyke in a sea of heterosexuals. There Once you open your eyes you start to have been too many incidents that prove this, like her recent meeting with the realise how many men actually live on guy she went to the formal with. Stacey. being the brave girl she is. eventually that other side of the fence or go across mentioned that she was queer, and braced herself for the reaction. All that to the other side for the occasional tea was forthcoming was a laugh and a 'You loo?'. One of the slogans on the party. Looking at it from pure logistics, Rona room walls is 'They're here, they're queer, get used lo it.' And it's so the commercial fishing zones for us true. straight girls are definitely decreasing, Through Stacey. we've become regular participants at GLOC meetings, and and the quality of what is left leaves a lot we're really glad about it. Although we do get some comments about being to be desired. But then if you have flat the minority in the meetings we know (at least we hope we know) that our mates like mine you've always gol a sym presence there is appreciated for the simple fact that it shows that not all peo pathetic shoulder to cry on when it comes ple are as narrow minded as Christine and Lisa. to discussing the bastard factor in men. Stacey and the two of us are happy, well-adjusted and balanced. Any homophobe who tells us othenvise had better take a good 1 could no longer imagine life without my look at themselves before judging. If you think that you've never met a queer person, think again. Chances are you probably have two Poofs. After all. who else can you and just don't know it yet. If you're unsure what your attitudes are, you'll find that gays, lesbians and bi-sexuals are not some have oral lo'ly exchanges with and not strange and bizarre sect or even alien life form (as we've heard someone suggest), but are instead on average probably nicer, follow it up with anything eIse?They friendlier and less bigoted than most heterosexuals. wash the dishes without me having to So forget your homophobia, it's out of vogue now anyway, if it was ever in. HUGdom is a bribe them by flashing my tits first (I much better attitude and healthieMoryj)ur mind, body and your soul, threaten them with the exposure instead) and have complete understanding when Megan & Meianie I go out and spend my entire pay cheque on a pair of shoes. I just wish that the BicRerstaff rest of the world would learn to love HETEROSEXUALS UNAFRAID OF QAYS Ihem and respect them as much as I do. Nicole Does it exist? If so, who does rt? Why? themselves heterosexual probably aren't go to Mardi Gras if you've gol the cash,) How? For those of you who think that committing any radical political acts in A lot of straight people participate in the trtle of this article is a contradiction in the bedroom: though this type of person, queer curture at all levels, from being a terms, read on. which from now on I will call a hetero lel's-dance-to-Kylie-at-Options faghag In the queer edition of Semper, I really sexual by default, wouldn't call him/her (has anyone got a word for straight boys wanted to write an artble about somu- self "heterosexual". That is the point: who hang out with dykes? WE NEED Ihing of a con heterosexuals by default don't realise ONE!) to turning on SBS on Wednesday tradiction that I that theirs is just one of many sexuali- nights for Out, from film festivals to ACT- see in my own ties, sd they don't feel the need to label UP, from safer sex education to writing life and those of themselves. They think they're 'normal' assignments about queer novels. The 0) the people clos and everyone is like them (or secretly list goes on. Of course there are always est to me. Put wants to be). The sexuality that you the obligatory straights (usually men, I 3: quite simply, have when you don't have a sexuality. might add) in queer clubs who sit there CD some of my (OK, that's a bit unfair, if any of you are gawking as if to prove how heterosexual friends are very out there, it's not that you don'f have a they are by daring to go on safari with -^ queer indeed. sexuality, it's that you don't think about it the freaks. To these people, all I can say Q: And straight. as such.) is FUCK OFF BACK TO CITY ROWERS AND GET A LIFE!!! But most of the Let me explain. But these - default straights - are not the straight people I know got out dancing at people that I am concerned with. The Q: One of the queer clubs because they like the music, people that intrigue me are queer het biggest argu they like dra^j shows, the women don't o erosexuals. Ll. ments for using want to be slobbered all over by strange the word queer If nothing else, Ihis queer Semper will men (unfortunately this doesn't v/ork CO is that it seem have shown that sexuality is not just a because of the abovementioned prats LU somehow more matter of which bodies you fancy, but is who think that women in queer bars just inclusive. You a mishmash of, among other things. need a good fuck or would really like to 5 o CO GIGITOqueer politics - NO T the ones wrth queer desires and straight polrtics - will be the ones fighting with me. know the old erotic preference, culture, and politics. perform in pairs as a private sex show). 1 sleep vvith women (am.ongst other activi Kinsey statis So, to me, queer heterosexuals are Oh, and also: a lot of straight people par ties and other people). My two best friends, Cherise and Wendy, are straight. tics about sexu those people whose erotic practices can ticipate in queer culture because their (My other best friend is the first woman I ality being a be loosely defined as straight, but whose friends are queer., funny that. scale form one culture, politics, and often personal style, slept wrth but hey, another story.) They to six and most go directly against the grain of hetero Polrtically, queer straights can olten see don't vomrt when I tell them about my sex people falling sexuality as an institution in our society. the ways in which the heterosexual insti life and I don't vomit when they tell me tution works to oppress people. In fact, between two These people should definitely not be about theirs. (Though I nearly do when often they see more clearly how rt works and five? Well, included with default straights under the Cherise and her lover Dush - as in 'push' because they operate within it on an queer is a heading "heterosexuality," but earn their not 'douche' - stick their tongues down everyday basis. But just because you means of nego queer Brownie points (nov/ there's a fan each others' throats and ignore me when agree with an idea politically doesn't tiating that trou tasy!) for their aversion to any and all I'm the only other person in the kitchen!! mean that you should be a martyr and blesome forms of homophobia, their respect lor But this has nothing to do with sexuality, give up all your pleasures. One thing gay/straight and interest in non-heterosexualities, just with manners! HI GUYS, FORGIVE that often gets lost is the fact that a lot ot opposition that and their participation in queer culture ME?) We move through straight culture straight people get a lot of pleasure out often doesn't and politics. and queer culture, we all have feminist ot heterosex. Indeed, as 1 see it, the seem to really and queer polrtics. Their heterosexuality This is not to downplay the fact that whole point of queer polrtics is to argue work. I would has nothing to do wrth fear and loathing, many heterosexuals have queer sex, that ever^'one has the right to whatever identify myself v/ith homophobia, and everything to do which should never be defined as queer gives them sexual pleasure. A vagina as bisexual with proudly taking their own pleasures according to the gender of tfie partici wrapped around a penis is not essen (and that's and lighting for the right of everyone else pants, but in the measurable amount of tially a sexual act in which one person is another story to do the same. Which is surely what disgust that rt provokes from fuckwrts like oppressed. Nor is penetration by a penis so we won't go 'queer' sexuality is all about? Fred Nile. So for all you fundamentalists, or anything else an essentially hetero into it here) so here goes: straight people can have sex sexual act: to quote my idol, Susie that categories SAM SEARLE that involves more than two people, Sexpert who says, "Penetration is only of gay and more than two objects (well, any number as heterosexual as kissing." It doesn't, straight don't really), locations other than the marital however, have many nasty cultural con mean much to beds, telephones, cameras, costumes, notations attached to it which feminist me personally. food, bodily functions of all types, pain theorists have pointed out. But, by the Similarly, a lot and pleasure, contraception, condoms, same token, queer sex practices are not of people sim fantasy, tattoos and piercing, bums (oh revolutionary acts in and of themselves. ply can't fit their Lesbians are everywhere, the saying no, straight people DO have anal sex!), erotic practices goes, and much as I hate to say it, dildos (double oh no. it's not just men under one of everywhere probably includes places penetrating women!), pornography, talk these labels, so like the National Party headquarters. ing dirty, non-penetrative sex, queer is a What I'm trying to say is that if Stonewall voyeurism, fetishism, exhibitionism, damn fine word is ever revisrted (and let's hope that it's masturbation, pregnancy (that one's for to describe not), the people with straight desires and you, Gaffney), leather, watersports, do I whal we do in bed. But what about those really have to go on? (Oh, and BOOTS, people whose bedding arrangements but I think that may just be me.,..) are heterosexual? Are they all to be made out as sexually unexperimental, So, without mentioning all those DIS politically unsound, emotionally confused GUSTING sexual acts (if anyone has and simply supporting a system of patri any more, please send them in a brown archal and heterosexual privilege? Well, paper envelope to Semper^.), let me talk no. To be sure, the social system we live about straights in queer culture and poli in is very competent at suppressing any tics. iniormation that might suggest that peo Queer cultures is pretty exciting: apart ple try all the erotic coats in the close; from the oDvious one - nightclubs - there before they buy (into) one. (Personally, '• are films, gallery exhibitions, perfor believe one cannot have too many mances, and a bilhof> other things to do coats, if you know what I mean. !'li havt.- tnat oeat American sil-coms any nignt of to ask Boo and Dee about that one....: tne week. (And if you don't believe me, And to be sure, a lot of oeople who cai: ciiecK out tne upcomino °ride lesiival. or A GAY STORY Fantasize making love with a friend of ttie same sex. from "no turning Here are some specific ways allies we because we have been ripped off by non-gays back: Lesbian & know have gone about this: in the past. Realize that gays often put more Gay Liberation energy into friendships with people of the same 1. Assume that, wherever you go, there for the '80s", sex than non-gays do, so be prepared for that are closeted gay people who are won 1983 and allow the relationships to mean a lot to you, dering how safe the environment is for too, Gay people need them. Provide safety by making rt clear solid allies. We do that you accept gayness. 9. Get in touch wrth the gayness that may be not want guilty wrthin you. Realize that heterosexuality was not 2. Realize that the cultural oppression of hangers-on; guilt is a free choice for you but was imposed on you gays is perpetuated in social srtuations not a reliable moti by this society. Honor your whole being by feel vation for giving where the only hugging and physical affec ing your own gayness. It is unwise to have sex support, nor is rt a tion is heterosexual. You can refrain from with someone for purely political reasons, motive which heterosexual touching and/or be affection because you think you ought Xo be gay or bisex comes from the ate wrth someone of the same sex. ual. When polrtics is the only reasons for sex, centre of the self. 3. Challenge heterosexism whether or you can easily exploit the other person and not gays are present; do not always abuse yourself. If you believe, as the writers do, An ally is one who that rt is patriarchal homophobic conditioning keeps informed of leave it to gays to do rt. Sometimes rt is the assumptions as well as anti-gay that is suppressing your gayness, it makes political positions sense to remove that block so that you will want put forward by the statements which need challenging - such as: divided sleeping arrangements gay love and not think you should force yourself lesbian and gay to experience rt. Here are ways in which some communities, and between females and males rules out the possibility of sexual interaction. This people have successfully worked on removing who seeks dia the blocks to gay loving: logue with the goal assumption supports the invisibility of gays. of incorporating • Spend time in predominantly gay groups. into her or his own 4. When speaking of your (heterosexual) social change work - Become emotionally close to people of the lover, point out that s/hs is of the oppo same sex. those positions site sex, implying that s/he need not be. which nrrake sense. Or, in those srtuations where rt is unclear - Sleep and be sensual with friends of the An ally includes whether you are loving a woman or a same sex; share massages. lesbian and gay man, leave rt that way. men's organiza - Remember times when you have been tions in confer 5. Do not assume that you know rt all. scared by the idea of homosexuality; recall ences, coalitions, Listen to gays. Read gay analysis and and release those feelings, thereby diminish and roundtables learn about the reality of gay oppression. ing their hold on you. and is a visible - Remember'all the times you have heard presence at gath 6. Challenging your own homophobia: negative things about homosexuality, and erings and demon be physically affectionate wrth others of assert cut loud what is really true. strations called by the same sex enjoy gay culture: music, gays. An ally plays, films, poetry, fiction, and publica - Remember times when you were hurt by reaches out to tions try wearing gay liberation buttons people of the same sex that led you to dis people to whom and the button which reads, "How dare trust them, and release your feelings of lesbian and gay im you assume I'm heterosexual?" anger. organizations have Wm - Fantasize making love with a friend of the little access, in 7. If people jump to the conclusion that same sex. order to raise their you are gay because of your friendship consciousness and wrth gay people, because you are read - Talk with your friends about gayness; con make specific pro ing a gay magazine or because you are fide about your fears, even the embarrassing posals for being affectionate wrth a friend of the details. changes. same sex, resist the impulse to point out that you are not gay. Be willing to experi - Once you are in touch wrth your gay feelings, An ally who is ence the oppression that gays suffer consider setting a goal of making tove with committed, on his rather than take advantage of heterosex someone of the same sex within a certain or her own behalf ual privilege. period of time. It can be a frightening thing to do as well as ours, for the first time, so if you do not push, rt proba brings conscious 8. Gel close to a gay person if appropri bly will not happen. Do not be rigid about the ness of liberation ate. Some gays will be wary of putting a time limit, but use it to push yourself to make into everyday life. lot of energy into a relationship wrth you opportunrties. R MON-GAY WOMEN AND IVIEN When Paul asked me to write an article government has been very active in an on gays and lesbians in Singapore, from attempt to stamp out gay activrties in the an Asian gay man's perspective, I had county. Qurte a number of isolated gay some worries about what would become men have been arrested in cruising of me after this article is published, and areas, and on beaches. The local papers my fellow Singaporeans as well as have been published the names and Australian friends find out I am gay. photographs of gay men caught. All this Would I be socially isolated suddenly, publicity appears to have created con and crrticised unnecessarily on campus? siderable threat to gay activities because ^A/ould my career be jeopardised upon being caught, and having a gay identity my graduation and return lo Singapore? publicised are very shameful and Would the new friendships I have buih unbearable matters for many up wrth my straight flatmates be over? ... Singaporean gays. As they have been After careful consideration, 1 have brought up believing that homosexuality decided to take the calculated risk and is not something to be proud of. Once wrrte this article, because rt is something caught, there can be discrimination and L I believe worthwhile to do for my gay rejection at the working place and at brothers and sisters, who, like me, are home. leading most challenging lives beyond In Singapore, there is no such thing as d\^ the understanding of outsiders. Sydney's Mardi-Gras or Gay Pride K^ K^ 1 joined GLOC (Gays and Lesbians On Festivals to boost gay morale. Most gay Campus) as early as Ihe first social men and women who have never met meeting this semester, and found this another gay person or been overseas understanding support group, wrthout before just do not know what to do about which I could not very well wrthstand their sexual orientation, and often feel alone the social pressure I experienced depressed, helpless, lonely, and iso in this world, dominated in number by lated. As in many countries around the straight people. It is unfortunate that they world, many gays in Singapore do not seem lo be ignorant about things gay, know v;here to meet other gays or where and often react wrth unnecessary hostil to seek help. They are unfortunately ity towards innocent gay men and forced by the society to disguise, camou women. Straight people are generally flage themselves and act straight in unaware of the fact that throughout his order to survive or to avoid putting their tory a great number of gays have con straight friendships and family love at tributed tremendously to humanity, espe risk. Had I not left the country and stud cially in the art scene, where they can ied in Australia, 1 vjould have been one express their deep emotional feelings of them. extensively, by way of retreat perhaps. Sex is generally a taboo in Singapore Amongst them are Australians Sir culture. No one seems to talk about it. Robert Helpman and orchestra conduc Most people learn about sex from books, tor Stuart Challenge, and international and feel rather embarrassed when they ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, English have to buy and pay for such books at writer Oscar Wilde, American actor Rock the counter and are stared at. Playboy Hudson, Russian composer and Penthouse, being illegal, are not Tchaikovsky... sold in Singapore. Campaign and Based on my personal experience, Outrage, are almost unknown. Without which is also shared by many gay which gays cannot reach out to meet Iriends of mine, I know there are many other gays, unless they cruise around, more gays and lesbians on campus, which is a rather risky thing to do when including some of Asian origin, who police and security may be anywhere, unfortunately dare not join GLOC due to not to mention the embarrassment of the social pressure. I think many worried bumping into someone one knows in this that their mere appearance in the neigh small island nation. bourhood of GLOC would label them I am afraid I am unable to comment wrth names such as poofter or queer, much on lesbianism in Singapore which can be very damaging to their because 1 have virtually never heard self-esteem, until they come out. anything about rt. Occasionally, I heard Before I studied at this University, rt took people label some women as lesbians me more than three months to build up due to their unmarried status at mature my courage to join the UNIGAYS in my age. How accurate this ts, as an indica previous University in Australia. Until I tor is doubtful, because many came out as a gay in Australia a few Singaporeans, especially females, can years ago, I had been living in the closet be too shy to meet the opposrte sex, and in Singapore, and was never happy therefore unable to get married. about lite, or about my sexual orienta When I was growing up in Singapore, tion. society presented me v/Ah a set of val I was born in Singapore, where gays and ues which, in retrospect, are formulas to lesbians are still very much deprived of shyness. From childhood I was influ their rights and can only meet other gays enced to think that sex was sort of dirty, and lesbians underground. In the whole and any boy with good morals should country of over 2.8 million people, there avoid any physical contact with giris. At is only one tiny gay bar, about the size of school, boys and girts in the same class a classroom, to which generally only gay lined up at assembly in separate rows. men go. The bar is located at an unob Some public swimming pools even had trusive location. It is known only to a few certain days of the week for male and people who find out about it through others for female patrons only. Of word of mouth. Even so, the bar is busy course, things are different now, and my every night, more so on Fridays and personal experience should not be gen Saturdays, and all drinks are nearly eralised to the whole population. three times as expensive as those in However, I do not think that my upbring Australia. ing shaped my sexual preference, Only one part-time gay discotheque because I knew that I was gay at the exists in Singapore, which opens on very young age and have never had any Sunday nights only, in a world class sexual desire towards females. 1 believe hotel in the city. Ironically, the same the idea that just like some people are venue is used by straights from Monday born left handed, some of us are born to Saturday, Again, the gay disco oper gay. According to statistics there is one ates underground, and admission is gay person in every 10 people or so. I three times as expensive as those here. just happen to be one of them, therefore I You can make a fortune by running a should learn to deal wrth rt, and hope for gay business in Singapore, provided you understanding and acceptance from oth do not attract too much attention- ers rather than their crrticism or unneces- In the past few years, the Singapore saiy isolation due to their ignorance. WM \mt in a Memexist Ylotld Recently I watched tlie Attenboroueb pro glimpjcs of why I identify as queer. I came j I the rightsiof people, singularly and as ciding, arc drug dependent, thrown out of gram You proba many transsexuals on campu»i.;^(n^^f ^J^Q list;two years I've lectured to These people start out by being O^^I^^^JQO&^C^ teachers, psychology '" 'act then, when it comes to "pecking cizedby theirfanniliesian(l,fr1eil»ds#||j|^jf,jje^^^^ therapists, order", transgenderists/transsexuals are lie else than being 6^m*^;i^;i^inp^ pdice. public ser- the most marginalized ot the marginal- recognised 'psycho$ew^i|^o^ei^il|^^||<^^^^^ jt. |Ve had con- i^ed ol the marginalized, community was rarely the •^iretty" ones who would ^es6/an5/wd^/^| I h o u a X I I V 1^ e t h n n k ^ ^ N a o tl B ^'0 0 n n I t o h o u kZ UJ Q r n I u tl 03 « CO I I V SZ^ GO B = 6 "i:|«r |Kr^vir^P^I<^^ IM^Tr-.5SWTr;l!fCVi«i:i£22E 1. ^ THE OSTENTATIOUS SOCIETY OF CINEMA, ARTS AND REPERTORY ANNOUNCES THE DVAMY /A Tickets Presale $20/$25 at door Available at Bodyiine Sauna (Brisbane and Gold Coast), Edward's, Gladstone Rd Medical Centre, Options. 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(PO Box 296,-"'\Gay'&,LesWany/el!ar8A««Jciaitoi\fGLV pmm m^ u Q{jlWWti3*W6i1val« Stree^Sboih Bilsbam?ftrTee- hrlda^aJuly\ >Art ExHlBih'So- 0p«iingi(vtd) evening I Male Survivors ol Rape & Sexual Abuse meels d'l exchange and sale sex resources. Phaie (07) 844 7440. Saturday 3 July Workshops * Gladstone Medical Centre on Monday evenings. Contact Wendell on 844 9599. Toehold Gay Youth Support Group meeis every Friday DANCE PARTY (vta) Ha,ngers Motor Club, PO Box 449, Spring Hill 4001. night Irom 7.30pm at the Gladstone Road Medical Telephone Jim (07) 848 1996 or John (07) 349 0897. Centre. Phone (07) 844 2967 or write to PO Box 226, Sunday 4 July Films State Library afternoon Spring Hill 4004. Films Metro pm Mixed Volunteer Community Street Watch (VCSW). Volunleer ACOA (Adult Children ol Alcoholic/Dyslunctional group to help reduce violence in Valley/New AFFAA Families Group) oiler support, and counselling. FamVSpring Hill. Telephone 372 9850. 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Wed, Care and Share Meetings and lesbian Sexuality slid/«nlm/discussion night (vtafelH 2521. Phone (044) 641 472, Fax (044) 642 265. Thursday B July Sod'a Group. All welcome. Telephone (07) 366 5412. Alcohol^a^nd Drug Supporl Group for Gays and Friday 9 July NOWSA Women's Dance pm (vta) y nights at the Ecumenical Healing Service, 3rd Wednesday each ^: on 391 4819 or month from 7.30pm al SL Albans Anglican Church, Cnr Saturday 10 July Queer Campus Collaboration (vta) Milton Rd & Wtenholt St. Auchenllovrer. Phone (07) 870 2566 lor Info. Films at Resistance 7.30pm onssentflission Queensland (QADC). ) PO Box 5363 West End 4101. telephone (07) 844 Integrity, Brisbane. Part ot internatkinal alliliation ol Sunday 11 July Old Films aftemoon State Library 6099 Of (008) 177 822. Gay Anglicans meet lor masses and Inlcrmal social i gatherings at 101 Watson St, Camp Hill of write to PO Australian Bisexual Network, a national body tort^sex- Box 357, Stones Comer 4020. Phone (07) 398 2106. ual men, women and partners, promoling pride and (vta) - Venue to be announced communlly acceptances, produces a national newslet Metropolitan Community Church Brisbane (MCC) wor- ter • Biways PO Box 490, Lutwyche 4030. stilps eveiy Sunday Irom 7pm at SL Albans Anglican Detailed Pride Programmes due out 21 June Australian Transsexual Support Assoclatkjn (ATSA). Church, Cnr Milton Rd & Wienholl St, Auchenttawer. Pride Collective Meetings held every Tuesday, 7pm QLD Advocacy Cen PO Box 212, New Fami 4005, Phone Kerri on (07) Ph: Ivor Holmans (07) 345 1172 or write lo PO Box Tank St City (from 1st June) Wheelchair accessible. 8463787. 317. Fortituda Valley 4006. Cpjntry Nftwork Australia wld^social groi^ fo;. Medical Se^c% d|l|%ioad Me(|(il penttl.l^lf M IM^^ /^ftelliri^.ssrvfces. kb Highgate Hill. Phone (07) 844 6806. CWC (Citizens Welfare Group). PO Box 284, QuAC (Queensland AIDS Council) 522 Stanley Street, Momlngslde 4171. Runs S2 cabarettund raising lunc- stealer Hill or write to PO Box 3142 South Brisbane ions. Cl^Jf^l^i^t Si^.ea{^rl|)nth i^k:Jicr Business Centre, 4101. Telephone (07) 844 1990 (24 trip**:. ke)| THEL ss*ss(MalflnB*M\ modrnWaftil* * SdWiSI (Sell-health lor Queensland Workers in the iglon 4054 lor cBlails. Greg Araki's film THE LIVING END makes no preachi Sex Industry). Health linances, legal matters, emollonal about how we deserve Ihe same rights as heterosexuals, it Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service. Professional support and r^eedle exchange. 65 Vulture Street, West senrlces provided free lo all entitlement card hokJers End 4101.24 hour crisis line, phone: (07) 844 4565. granled. It doesn't show us pleasant, middle-class gay o or at a cost ol S5 per sesston lor all employed per houses, because that isn't the people Greg hangs around'| sons. Contact Gladstone Rd Medical Centre 844 6806. about sanitised Hollywood "love" because that simply doesnt exist THE LIVING END concerns four people: A hustler, an art film reviewer;'*-' his friend and her boyfriend. After several encounters, the hustler and thft"^ ravie^,r decide ItMe-enact the Great American Road Novel and the hus*..^,^. . t^-f I tfircauic eycral Ipccies of trouble along the way, leaving the reviewer's ^ endio djialiwj(li the reviewer's absence. Sunc Tlie film was made on a tiny budget with one camera and a few friends t6'*: help with production. It doesn't show. 1 found it a completely entertaining^^ and slightly Ihoughl-provoking look at living wilh HIV and refusing id^ qency accept (he mainstream depiction of HIV positive people as helpless vic-r'* tims. It shows two far more interesting gay men than you will find in the for gay and bi women and men "nice" gay films and shows Ihem naturally without either preaching or constructing an idealised accepting world for them to live in. t\l BRISBANE • GeH COLD COAST-Bob SUNSHINE COAST-Keith The fdn^s in ifl^iratioQ for boMtj0fe'to!ncfettt and queer film-makers and (07) 891 2774 (075)94 9227 (074) 85 2272 rtrcry emln^ning^Myhel cSfcof •^**f •V* i«o'?.'- :,A it-/ As he walked next to the farmer's house, the Little jYellow Chick met a Bright Blue Car. "Excuse me," said the Little Yellow Chicle, for his mother had taught him to lOne dag, ihe Little Yelloff Chick ffoke up and realised that The Little Yellow Chick walked out of [always be polite, "are gou God?" fthere was something missing from his life, After eating a Ithe chicken coop, across the yard, over "Beep beep," said the Bright Blue Car, "no, I'm not God, breakfast of corn and water, he decided to 90 out and find 'the meadow and down the hill to look I'maBriahtBIueCar." God, to ask God what it was that he was missing from his for God. "I wonder what God looks "Oh weir said the Little ^llow Chick, "thank you life. like," wondered the Little Yellow Chick. anyway, "and he kept walking. ^ f.jhh he walkedunderthe bridge, the Little Yellow Chick As he walked by the stream, the Little Yellow Chick '•j''' met a Frederick NIetzche. "Excuse me", said the Little a Nice Brown Cow. "Excuse me," said the Little Yellow '3 Yellow Chick, for his mother had taught him to always Chick, for his mother had taught him to alwag be polite, "are you GodT polite, "arc you God?" "Nein nein," said the Frederick Nietzche, "no, I'm not Moo moo," said the Nice Brown Cow, "no, I'm God, I'm a Frederick Nietzche. God is dead^ don't you I'm a Nice Brown Cow." know?" "Oh well," said the Little Yellow Chick, "thank you "Oh," said the Little Yellow Chick, "I guess I'll never anyway, "and he kept walking. meet him now. Thank you anyway," The Little Yellow Chick floated up "NO!" said the Dazzling White Light,' Into the nethervoids, where he saw not God. I'm a metaphysical fantasy a Dazzling White Light at the end created by the hopes and dreams of an of a tunnel. "Excuse me," said the urbanised society hungry for its lost Little Yellow Chick, for his mother spiritual values." had taught him to always be polite, 45 "are gou God?" •^P I ARE YOU A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY? Does your disability make you teel alone and isolated? The equity officer/disabilities officer of the University of Canberra Student's Association is putting a book together ot poems, stories, and/or any other written materials that people with disabilities wish to submit. Contributions maybe made anonymously or with acknowledgements. Please send all contributions to: Catherine Stokes Equity Olllcer/ Disabilities Oftlcer University of Canberra Student's Association PO Box 1 Belconnen Act 2616 DUE DATE : FR118 JUNE 1993 Rosemary Gillespie to Speak about the War The Campus Kindergarten Club is on Bouganvllle participating in the Coles Apple Computers QV^En COMPUTER FOLK Promotion. By collecting orange dockets If you are gay, lesbian, bisexual or just Rosemary Gillespie has witnessed first-hand Campus Kindergarten may be eligible for plain queer and studying Computer the effects of the blockade ot the island of an Apple computer and other resources. Science and you're interested in helping Bouganvllle to the North of Australia, evidence of atrocities committed by Paua New Guinean form a Queer Information Technology Armed Forces, and the nsing tension between Anyone wanting to contribute their dockets group please call Tim on 365 2956 (W) or PNG and the Solomon Islands. She will speak can bring them down to the Kindergarten. 844 4417 (H) or email timbomb at Queensland University on Wednesday 5nd @cs,ug.oz.au June, 1pm at the Chaplaincy Centre. Thanks KIDNAP A GERMAN GENERAL A\ FROM HIS HEADQUARTERS' )A*^ DEFEND FREE SPEECH IN THE MALL SCHIZOPHRENIA WEEK 13-20 JUNE New council by-laws make it a crime to conduct Teams are being sought to compete in the political activity in the Queen St Mall. This attack inaugural Art in the Park competition to be heW at A Memorial Servicers being held on democrats rights has provoked widespread South Bank on June 13th. for the 4th Anniversary of the outrage from activist groups, trade unions, civil Bejing Tianamen Square massacre. liberties groups and thousands of ordinary people Competing teams must consist of 2-7 people with plenty of imagination, a good sense of humour. Venue : Roma St Forum Date : 5 June 93 JOIN THE FIGHT Time : 3pm - 5pm RALLY Every Friday, 5.30 PM outside Broadway For further details contact the Schizophrenia Fellowship of South Queensland, 95 Arthur St, Information : 379 4332 ask for Anthony Lee on the Mall Fortitude Valley. Qld. 4006 PH: 229 8832 for further into. 7^ Ph: 358 4424 Wji'/i Tlie laughter and sorrows, the highs and the lows: Uke sand^hipiiglj^the hourglass of our adolescenc" ' -'. V't. "..'f, r'ff w#fo Boo and Dee Kelly: I'm not a bimbo! Brenda: Whatever you say Kelly, but I m^msmm^^msi^ was always taught that if It looks like a duck ana it walks like a duck... ^ C Kelly: Go to hell! ^ V Suspended ghostlike between the memories of '??^ I their idyllic childhood dreams and a nether .^ii. 4 ivorld of adult responsibilities and setious ms.^ career aecisions, their ivorld begins to fracture. Friend turns on friend and things are said that can never be unsaid I?i a nexus of veiled half references and innuendos that never really fe penetrate into the things they seek to represent, the image of a duck burns itself onto our psy che. Love and hate mixed in tivopart harmony in the cocktail of life. And like the spectators of the crusades of the eleventh and tivelfth centuries, ive are left won dering at the speed and fury of their unrelenting ;,-»•- <>M. - •>. ^•^''-^ descent into the abyss. M// /Y mMs' to wear a hat is a head. To Golly! So much seems to be happening to the GANG at the moment that I wear it well, however, takes style." scarcely know where lo being. The cowhands down at Spelling Corp must be complete wrecks with the number of narrative stampedes currently taking place. I know I am. DEE: Lef s talk accessories, Boo. Anyway, first things first. I carry a torch for Andrea Zuckermann and I BOO: Let's Dee. Did you know that 'accessor/, as well as a fashion term, don't think she is being given a FAIR GO at the moment. I suppose it was is a legal term? inevitable that the only female character strong enough to exist wilhin a DEE: How appropriate, Boo, because what some people wear after eight is framework not defined by her relationship with The Boys, would have to positively criminal. Take the gold shoe. Boo. have her legs broken al some time. Women on TV simply cannot be BOO: Or rather not, Dee. The fact is, accessorising is too often treoled as a independent and career minded and not expect to be punished for it. afterthought, rather than as on enhancement of the total habillage. But to have Andrea mowed down by a hit-and-run driver during a show DEE: And that means that selection and planning are required. Looks to that centred mainly around whether Donna and David were going to do IT ovoid this coming season include hats with features, real fur, and anything or not before they left high school seems to me to be a gross miscarriage mustard. I hope we've seen the last of chunky plastic jewellery, especially of justice. Andrea's horrific accident and subsequent recovery was shaped like animals. unbelievably relegated to the status of SUB-PLOT and given only about BOO: Wearing more rings than one has fingers is a mistake. So too is any five minutes of actual air time. The point is that I cannot help feeling that jewellery given awoy as a 'free offer' by women's magazines. had it been any other character (and let's face it, who wouldn't v^ant to DEE: Of course accessories include things other than jewellery. When see Brenda or Brandon (or David for that matter (WOW! Parentheses selecting bags, remember that the only place for vinyl is olcl records. wilhin parentheses within parentheses {HELP! I'm stuck in some sort of BOO: Anyone carrying a gold lame clutch really deserves to be shot on recursive bracket structure!)))) suffer a few fractured femurs), we would sight. Anci as for the ubiquitous gold belt.... have had a lot more weeping and worry and probably even a cliff hanger DEE: Torture's too good for ihem. Wide ties hove to go, and leather ties, episode of the 'To Be Continued..." variety. and ties with little people having sex. BOO: Anything wilh naked women on it, or pictures of Elvis.... Most recently 1 was struck with the mise-en-scene of some shots in the DEE: Spangled shoes, moccasins, glitter SOCKS... episode where Brandon brought Jack Kanner, the Gulf War Veteran, BOO: Friendship bonds, charm bracelets, frosted nail varnish.... home for Thanksgiving. There they were - Brenda, Kelly and Donna - DEE: Ug boots, sheepskin vests, medallions (except parodicaliy). sitting down on the Walsh's lounge room sofa chatting away aimlessly. BOO: Big shoulder pads ore out, and I know people won't like it but... And behind them, STANDING with TWO crutches shoved AWKWARDLY DEE:... we have to oe honest... into her ARMPITS, was Andrea. Even with a learning disability the size of BOO: ... the time has come to say 'Enough!' to the fiannelette shirt. It may Donna's, I would recognise that something was amiss in this arrange be warm, but so is a freshly-slougntered lamb. ment. As for Kelly and Brenda, boy troubles are no excuse. DEE: And you don't see people wearing that as a fashion accessory. One thing that excites me very much at the moment, is the slightly new BOO:Anylriing else people should be avoiding. Dee? look Steve Sanders. Steve has suddenly got himself a social conscience - DEE: Religion is a poor accessory. so all he needs to do now is lose the Billy Ray Cyrus hair-cut and he will BOO: So are relationships. And children. Dead cult idols are out: Elvis, be half-way human. Although the changes are small, I think we are James Dean, and of course, Jason Priestly. witnessing a real character transformation here, much of the credit for DEE: Jason Priestly Isn't dead. Boo. which must undoubtedly go to the enigmatic figure of Mrs Teazley, the BOO: He isn't? high-minded Head-Miss of West Beverly High. Although she operates on DEE: We'll talk, Boo. the peripheries of the show, this woman intrigues me! We need to know about her life. Does she live in South Central LA or is she from Beveriy Hills? How did the riots affect her? Who is she married to? Does she have children? At some stage in the future we SIMPLY MUST find out what makes Mrs Teazley tick. with Dee And finally, Brisbane's very own Jennie Garth - Raelee Hill - will be hitting the beach in a hot "Summer of '93" all of her very own on Channel 9, May Big hair is out, so put away your spray. The natural look is the look 31st at S.GOJDm. Paradise Beach: we salute you!! for this coming season; chic styles that don't depend on spray-on plastic to keep them aloft. As for hair accessories, lose the padded Nigel Pearn olice-band and any hair-tie that has plastic animals in it. And finally, keep in mind that gold scrunchies have no place in a civilised society. ^•L Reviews fAerefore Music ^frUBUMS Mathis' Feet, Mark sound. Add artfully banal lyrics Kraftwerk numbers. But instead! Eitzel's lyrics and a lead vocalist with with this latest CD there's fourl IWE ARE THE couldn't be refreshingly carefree attitude to American composers: Davidl MAJORITY described as "up". pitch and you have yet another Byrne, Robert Moran, Johnl u. Polijiiain album to play when you're too They could, how Lurie (Jim Jarmusch collabora-| Track 11: /n the Trench skranked to care. tor) and Michael Torke. Byrne's ever, be described 'I know whiere you '^.^ Mark Mclnnes Iky l-iigh Life for Nine\ as beautifully hon want me/In the THE WELCOME MAT ^Instruments (yes, they over-I trench/Make you fee est and melan dubbed on that one) is a funf -ii^r'^ . GHAIVI fiepular/festiiffll funky/In the choly The fact that five minute synchopated trench/Make you feel breath Eitzel's songs are published by Another Australian piece definitely stamped] less/In the trench/You wan it "I Failed In Life Music" comes ndie" guitar band with Byrne's personality. Gft^vi bad/In the trench/Just a little as no surprise with lyrics that There are three songwrit Lurie meanwhile con-l hhhhhhha/ln the trench/And tributes a fifteen minutel read "Lazarus wasn't grateful for ers in this band, each! then another/In the his second wind / Another .,,.,, ,.rr , , m arrangement of music from trench/Know you wanna have with slightly different (read veryl^^^^^^^^ ^/^^^ Paradise . The chance to watch his chances it/In the trench. different) influences. Theylsalanescu Quartet may have fade like the dawn / And me I I wanna give you sound at times like Sugar, REM,lreceived a standing ovation everythingAVhy you gotta feel can barely tell you just how The Smiths/johnny Marr, J. Rex,|from 10 ,000 Pet Shop Boys so bashful bout it?/lt's so nat pale I get without you." any one of the soft metal|fans at Wembley Stadium but ural to want to check it out: go Eitzel's impassioned voice American bands, but all of this this is definitely a quiet rainy| ahead, check me out way reminds me of an amalgam of variety makes up for the short Sunday morning kind of CD. down in the trench/V^hy you Tom Waits' and Nick Cave, falls of the album. Nick Dent gotta feel so embarrassed? if dancing on the edge of tiine- There are several good tracks on WWTE you like it just got caress lessness. The rest of the band the album. He// Hopin' and it/Ooooh maybe you'd like it a Play Me, both singles, and All or THE • comprises of some excellent MAJOR lot back there/In the trench. Nothin', probably the next sin musicians, playing ; ITY Maybe I give you everything/I gle, all stand out as highlights country/blues/punk/folk/l-can't- u. Polijiiiain [won't stop you if you wanna Also worth a mention are the really-put-them-in-a-little-box OK. I'll try^ touch it/Just relax and if it gets three part harmony back up ':^m^§ again too much then - oooh - you style that demands your atten vocals - pretty special. (Are j.'s real cut [can always take a little pause tion. It is music that is by parts these guys the next Beatles? I melancholy and dangerously up inside about the state of hts] I way down/In the trench'. think not!) It is also good to see German homeland since The frightening: music for manic- Dear me, that's a good'un isn't that they don't take themselves Wall came a tumblin's down, asl it? depressives. This is really Mark too seriously, which is made it were.- Horrified at the rise ofl Michael Nolan Eitzel's show, obvious by som^e of their lyrics. neo-fascist nationalism and! '^f.,EmCANMUSICClUB though. I cannot MERCURY What these guys really need, pretty cheesed at the way EastI commend this though, is-'a new blurb writer. Germans were seduced by the! IAMERIC AN rs/ius icf record to you Reading that the band have "a mirage of Western capitalist ICLUB Kifjiin highly enough, I've blend of melodic, guitar-driven prosperity, J blew that for a game oi soldiers and moved to| llhe American Music listened to it rock" is enough to turn anyone dozens of times, yet Paris. ICIub have been around away. There, he channelled his politi-l still keep finding for over ten years now, Scott Cooper cal anger into music, where hel «W--^M- something new. It land have released five BALANESCU QUARTET combined hip hop and middle-) has grabbed me like few albums [albums previous to this, their BYRNE/ PN/IORAN/' „^l*Hl!.CU -TT'^--*%I:^ i-'fv <^ f?ev/eivs theretfotB Music [PORNO FOR Marshall amps. The two LIVING IN A BOOM TIME comparison is obvious. I wouldn't PYROS 'groups hug briefly, then TDM ROBINSON FfiStlVal be surprised if he had a hand in iPoBNo FOR skip oif hand-in-hand to -«^<»ft/^ I had never heard of Tom writing t/n^er actually, but it IPYRQB Hflfner the magical land of col Robinson before I heard this doesn't list the band members' |"Who IS that lege radio charts. album, or at least I don't think I names. Iband?" people This do-se-do has seen had, but it's not the most memo Linger starts with a beautiful gui Ikeep asking me old hands like Ministry rable name, is it? Anyway, the tar solo that sounds like it has las I play this CD. and The Young Gods press release stating that Tom's lead a crop of electronic been stolen from a Lloyd Cole "They sound new album was "his most excit groups into an appreciation of song. It is then joined by the EXACTLY like jane's ing release since the 1984 hit the trusty six-string - witness swelling sound of strings, some lAddictionl" There's a perfectly recording Hope and Glory fea recent efforts from Front 242 moody rhythm guitar and an Irish [sound reason for this compari- turing the classic single War and Depeche Mode. Trent woman singing suspiciously like Json - Porno For Pyros is the lat- Babf was not exactly illuminat Reznor (Nine Inch Nails really KirstyMacColl. Very slick. lest project of ex-Jane's front ing, except that it let me know only becomes a 'band' for live The other two songs, Reason and jman. Perry Farrell. His distinc- that Tom hasn't had a hit since purposes) has now joined the How, are much heavier, and the Itive voice, which sounds like a 1984. llong, slow scream, marks the fray. band sound more at ease with thisi It appears that Tom has become ICD in such a way that it'll have style of playing. With loud (and Reznor's involvement with one of those politically aware jthe indie-kids of clubs like heavily distorted on How) bass Pigface (a project led by acoustic artists that if one is to IVolcanic Bass and Mass sweat- lines they sound a hit like Danielle Ministry's Martin Atkins and be fashionable, one ought to jing in their shorts. Dax. Much better. I think Linger involving members of groups rave about at least two years JEven without Farrell's presence, may have been a tad over pro such as Skinny Puppy, Thrill Kill before they become famous. duced. Ithe album would still flash the Kult and Big Black) evidently Remember when ail your fash Iwords "LA band" in bright red had a profound effect of him. ionable friends raved about U2 Scott Cooper Inine foot tall neon letters above Whereas on his debut album. and you had never heard of [the stereo system every time it Pretty Hate Machine, he care them? Ever feel left out when TRAGIC COMIC Iwas played. Leaving aside the fully added a more commercial people start on about Christy EXTREME FOil]!|faill [references to the LA riots in appeal to industrial dance music Moore? Well, here's you're Hands up if you remember [songs such as Black Girlfriend and was rewarded with enor chance to show how in touch Extreme? Remember, they of thel land Porno For Pyros, to Venice mous sales, on Broken, released you are politically and musi slide guitar and the close har Beach in Bad Shit and to LA late last year, he employs the cally monies? Well, they've released a [gun culture in Packin' .25, the raw, low-tech grunge sound typ Tom certainly has all the creden new single, and they still have that guitar, and those harmonies. jfunk/rock/metal fusion sound ical of Pigface's debut, Gub. The tials. In the title track he man They're sort of trapped in limboj leasily brings to mind bands most obvious example of this is ages to combine references to between blues, rock and Simon & such as Red Hot Chilli Peppers the track Happiness in Slavery, a'rippin g oif pensioners', shoul Garfunkel, but without the inspira [and, of course, Jane's roaring blend of distorted gui der pads, privatisation and HIV, JAddiction. tars, pounding drums and requi tion to make anything of it. I not to mention his outstandingly wouldn't exactly call it tragic, cer [white-trash indie-kids of the site yelling that could easily astute analysis of the complexi tainly not comic; maybe just a lit [world need mourn the passing have been included on the ties of capitalism, summed up in tle sad. I [of Jane's Addiction no longer, Pigface album. the line, 'big corporation gonna las Porno For Pyros is so similar The six-track album is accompa take it away'. This is fairly SHEKISSEDME ' Ithat if anyone else but Perry nied by a CD mini-disc contain indicative of the way the album 1 Farrell had been responsible for ing two unlisted tracks. These works, with serious songs about TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY Sony \ lit, this album would have been turn out to be a noisier rework war, satirical tunes about British TTD's first album was funky to an [panned for being shamelessly ing of Suck (the track he co- tourists and nostalgic songs extreme with a raw soul sound] [imitative. It's no great leap for- wrote for Guh) and a cover of, about Ireland; as Robinson was and some very tight songs. ThenI [ward, mind, but it's certainly an ahem, an Adam & the Ants song born in Cambridge I'm not quite came Neither Fish Nor Flesh, [encouraging jump out of the (after consulting an Adam sure of the connection. which was neither music nor any-! ISeattle swill we've been bulk- expert, from a good distance, I Not that it's a bad album. thing else in particular, apart from [fed the past year learnt that it's a little Actually, it has some strong relentless pretension, and he van- lAndrew florton know B-side called moments, and Yuppie Scum, ;shed into smokey obscurity for a Physical (You're so) Robinson's liberal translation of while. With this new single he isj BROKEN and it's about as inter Jacques Brel's Les Bourgeois, is amakin g some progress towards an- JNiNE INCH N/VIUSJ esting as you'd rollicking ballsy delight. It's just original sound, experimenting expect). p/miantlc that Billy Bragg done it better. with rhythms, incorporating two-l |(ln which Tren All in all. Broken Mark Mclnnes chord grunge and motowm [Reznor boards a (now completely melodies in the same track. The' [bandwagon with remixed and released UIGLES new tracks are farl la leg-up fromlS^;^!| s Fixed) is more more produced, JMartin Atkins) interesting for Reznor's partici ILINCER employing sampiesi ["You were right!" cry some of pation in the electronic-artists- th» tmtibtffltft and some interesting [the funkier 'alternative' guitar go-guitar trend than for its actual THE CRANBERBIESI lOverdubs, but retain-' [bands, as they embrace music content. Now if only Kraftwerk ling the raw feel of hiS' [technology and find that sam- would sample Deicide, the cir arlier, better work. The Cranberries have] [ples and the like add different cle would be complete. Make it TD's lyrical conceits been getting a right [textures to their material. "No - so. and conceit is the bashing on JJJ lately, [you were right!" reply the erst- Michael Nolan |word) are still a little awkward, but and it is a damn good thing. This! [while electronic-based indus- it's a step in the right direction. single has been produced by| [trial dance crowd, slinging on Mark Mclnnes [guitars and turning on 28 Stephen Street (ex Morrissey co- Reviews fAorefore Books Doris Wallis, "a big, I by the rest of him. backgrounds, complete with convention Russell Hobon bold, brassy, "^ bourgeois dreams and ambition \ \ JBut ihe pbf is only port of the effect: the over v/itty features Collectively they have experienced a wk Kleinzeit picador lall picture is one of the author creating a joumalisl". .^ '_^—-^ ,''7 ~C range ol the opportunities available to whi V.Jgrown-u p version of "The Price of Tides Doris is the _^\ -' "' \ \ -^ middle class Americans but in realisation remember going lo the public librafy Icfossed with 'The Prose Edda," and "Mrs most poisonous —'. ' j^tHititl U < those opportunities, all hove found if ' when I was eight, after seeing the Disney- % iDalbway" while performing verbal conjuring queen bitch in American dream essentially lacking, like animafed feature film version of Russell llricks. Actually, it's better if you mofvet al the the tabloid busi mixed efforts lo escape their convention Hoban's The Mouse and His Child, to technique and toke Ihe plot as it comes. It's ness, abusing roles they find disillusionment in a number track down the book that the film was nineties "self-discovery" formula stuff thai I'm the famous with alternative lifestyles within which ihey fail based on. As expected, ihe lilm had only not inebriated enough at the moment lo ines like; "Poor throw off their individuolisi and exploili a cursory resemblance to the novel, which Imake fun of, but all the same il can get [ally Fergie looked mentoiities. Over-educated and uner I was probably lucky for me and the rest of Ifairly familiar. Still, it doesn't detract Irom like an explosion in ployed, they discover each other amid if the primary school audience the film v/as Ifhe total effect. 3 pizza factory. wostebnd of Palm Springs ond develop [designed to cater because there was Either the Duchess lAII up, this book is a pretty nifty read: a nice close relationship of community and su something, well, disturbing about Hoban's of Pork has gone (if overdone) worts-and-all story, well' pri. They iind jobs in the service indust book. The whole business wilh crows in lin psychadelic or young Beatrice hod just era fled longuage ond vent their confusion ond anger by she cons quoting Beckett's Endgame and wind- &AS been sick". £oy>> il^c and ng stories; stories that ore intensely person up mice searching for the Last Possible Dog X- expressions of the hopes and fears that d' I was a little hard lo fake. s clear thai if Ben Elton wasn't in the 0 deftly tinguish their generation. trade of ridiculing the gutter press, Regardless, Russell Hoban is now one of crated thars where he'd be making his iK" my favourite writers. The apocolyptic wofd- atmos If is these stories that moke up the bulk i ing. With Silfy Cow he ingeniously j scapes in his by turns infuriating and inspif- phere. If Generaff'on X, tetoW through a narration t stages the downfall of Doris, who w»».*-^ ' ing Riddley Walker and the experimental m you're Andy, completo wilh his thoughts and opi facing a libel suit from one of ll^^' animation projects • 'Deadsy" and "The looking ions about Ihe others and the decoder the actors she has slagged off. Door" are nralched by few authors. There for all market driven world around fhem. While tf novel is a light heorfed occount, Generalic is a bleakness to his work that now makes Elton treads an extremely thin line .'^47i thai, read X i: -not fo be read lightly. It is on intense his sampling of Beckell only too appropri- when he makes fun of sexism, "The Seol row and Injfhful look at a crazy time in |ate. racism, homophobia and actor- , 'Woman." crazy world, choracterised by comici bashing. He phrases it with a ' Obviously [ Kleinzeit, who claims his name translates to absurdities. The layout of this novel is < wit the perpetrators could never 'not every- "hero", though in realily it means "small interesling as its text, the narrative punci aspire to but anyone who ' body's going time", is o man in pain. The pain ains from afed by graphics and quirky experimenlali agrees wilh them is going to bugh withoutl [to take io il, A )o B, his hypolenuse is acling up ond, of definitions. Generation X is a must for an detecting any irony. This has lo be the only| but it's quite course, where you hove asymptotic inler- one who recognises thai laughter is the on resewalion one could have for Siiiy Cow. It'sjpbsorbing , and a packed experience. section you can be sure that quanta won't way to deal with the impc no! breaking any ground in terms of the dra-[ be far off. With a delicate medicol condi I Marcus Sqlisbury sible complexities of th motic art other than with the deliciously| tion such OS this, Kleinzeit can't help Ixit world and remain sane. pseudo-posf-modem, self-referential ending, [ spend most of his lime being checked into but this is 0 ploy all Bbckadder fans wilj ward A4 where is conlinuosly trying to Kyla Reid want on their boobhelf, Doug OS OBAN either leave or court the ward Sister. The Kleinzeit rest of his lime is spent trying to work out Nick Dent [Coup and why il is that pieces of Ryman 64 mill hord- Genferation Xl I sized thick din A4 duplicator paper have Terry Brook* conspired lo make him lose his job. Beverley Farmer Abacus The Elf Russell Hoban uses the English bnguage in MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN Oueen of such a playful fashion thai you can'l help The Seal WomanUQP a period of menfol colbpse occur Shannara but be drawn info the book as you try deci ring in one's twenties, often Legand pher not only the plol, but also Hoban's The Seal Woman is one of those books thai caused by an inability to function I strange turns of phrase. If this book were to will worm the cockles of the reader's heart, Mogic - ooh! Elves outside of school or structured envi be turned into an animated film, I've a feel while doing nothing at all for the author's ohhl A Quest • GoshI It's oil so orit ronment coupled with a realisation of one's ing it wouki probably more closely resem wallet. Which is to say that it's o relatively nal. Where does he come up wilh the; essential aloneness in the world. Often morb ble a "For Side" or "Zippy the Pin-Head" demanding, but quite rewarding, read that'll ideas? And his writing style - almost as got an induction info the ritual of pharmaceutical cartoon ihan AAickey Mouse. Whether il is prabobly pick up its fair share of kudos and OS the originality of the story. This is bo< usage. a parable for the posl-modern generation sell obfout ten copies. Because the reader three of The Heritage of Shannara serie I or an intellectual wank I am undecided, hos to concentrate. This is a damn hard NOW DENIAL: To fell oneself that the only and I'm hanging out for book four - oh b( but it certainly bears up lo re-reading. book lo get ihe gisi of, at least il is in one lime worth living is in the post and that the it's already out, less than a month after th reading. Buy a copy of it fo read out loud to only time that may ever be interesting again one. Gee he must really put a lot of tirr Andrew Horton the people in shopping-moll bookstores. is in Ihe future. into writing these boob. They'll hate il, they'll hide somewhere. Generation X is aixHjf us; the generation that This book seems to have been written follo\ Former uses experimental prose techniques: experienced the 1970s, '80s and '90s and ing Ihe sfepbyslep "How fo write a fanta: Ben Elfon shifting tense, flashbacks and she also incor the generolion thai failed to find sotisfaction, book" method. There is nothing new here Silly Cow Warner Books porates a bil of Norse mythology into ihe substance and cultural identity from any of even the names of choraclers seem to ha\ sloty (hence the "Seal Woman"}. ihem. It is a book for onyone who has been been stolen (they are not actually, buf are J through 'phases' and lived to retrospectively unoriginal that they couU be|. iBen Ellon, one of the few comedians who The actual plol of the book concerns a forly- question ihem. However, this book is far lespouses political correctness and slill man- sonrething Danish woman, Dogmor, whose A young female Elf is given the task of fin from being a sombre rehash of live and learn lages lo be extremely funny, is olso the fisherman husband has laken up residence ing the lost elves, and bringing them back generation rehab stories. It is a quirky and laulhor of two novels [StoriS: and Gridlock ) in Davy Jones's locker. Dogmor and her Ihe four bnds of man. She is accomponie somstimes hibriously funny look at the gener land two ploys. Correclion: he octoolly tuna-food marriage partner had honey by a male rover and collects a couple ( ation who hove clutched at strawy of identity Iwrote dozens of ploys while at university mooned in Australia twenty years before he in ihe cultural wasteland that has marked the cute furry creatures along the way. There Iwifh chums Rik Mayall and Adrian bought the continental shelf. So she decides bsf three decades. no sense of onlicipalion, No vital Informi JEdmondson, and innumerable |er, alright, that a bit of a day trip lo visit ob friends in tion is withheld, so there ore no surprise [eight) tetevision series, but 5//^ Cow is only Australia (Swanhave, exacllyj will help her Generation X documents the lives of three Whenever they are in a fight wilh sonr Ihis second script fo be published. get her head back logelher. She finds love phase junkies who hove fled the system in demon/creature a bit of magic always ge and herself and all that, with a fellow Ill was produced in the West End in 1990 order to read the letter inside themselves in them oul. They find the "bst elves" easih named Martin whose pubic hair makes an Iwifh Dawn French in the leading role of the Colifornian desert. Andy, Dag and and then bring ihem back to the land ( appearance on the first page, folbwed bter Cbire have all come from upper-middle cbss man. The girl elf • Wren • becomes queen i -#/^ m--- Reviews Books ]and nulburgers. There ore olso o variety o eJveIves.s Ahfiiifili. linfartunafefy Paglia's slyfe is full of holes. [its full potential. Her statements are more lyrical than factual, ]lrendy international yummies like doimade.^ m if you like fantasy books, this one jDespife the seemingly Colifo'nian sum.mary, using metaphors !o persuade instead of as Jsushi, iocaccia, Eg/plian vegetaole soup |lh's is no mere New Age sol-help book. G.j I bora you shitless. Give it a 0 constructive frame work, Jand chicken fat fschmaltzj. p/stem fo.Tfis 0 'asclraling dsscriplicn of thej miss. sii'il I tell the reol iauSt within! TERRY |wor^d usipig bws of rhyfr-i.Ti and vibration and[ JAnd most of these fabjlous mjaciiies are her philosophies is her inobil- itt Cooper lof tFie ini3ma conflicts ani needs of tlvs nun'on] less than $1 a serve! ily to understand human] [nf-'nd and Ixxfy. fraiih,', most obvious in hor| [Tlie mo'e omoiiious can glean niormotior articles on dale-rape. JThis IS .TO; a furi book. '' s i.ni'ghtfj:, faxinar- |c.n now "0 miii'. o zo/ i^ean, ma<.9 fres' omille Poglio ]ing and ico'focbslic, bj! i( '.s rol fjn. Sorrel jpasia arid Jane o ctoiti .curse n organic mt) There is much fo disogreel j ports are very dull. But the good po.ls are] [gardening if even 3tft?-5 !no somewha ex, Art and mra wilh in Paglia's ideas yet 'I Igrlpping. This is recommended read>rvg tor [more specialised skills of making a manure Ifojnd ;t imoossible lo reject! merican anyone with o passirig .nierest in pr/criok)g/, [teooags, onl-p-ooting you' solar I'Dod dryc I eve.'^/lhing she had to say. Herl UltUre Viking loC'Ojit cos.Tcbgy or who s siinpfy in'erested in [ond storing your food in enougti ways ". reoeafed references lo the six-, imille Poglio, author of |experiencing a view o' the worid apart rromj [make a rampant survivalisi happy. [ties generation is tiresome and] Kual Personae, is America's ^TT^^ I the hegemonic scienMstic model ' her inabili^/ to remove herself] [Buy this book, it wil make your kitche aderrtic answer to ' from her observations iocb sub-! I Tim Mansfield [bnd iherebre yojr llifej yummier, healthie idonno: she car> be disturbing, exciting tlel^'. But her enthusiasm and scathingly] jand more politically correC. Chow down! i often offensive. Sex, Art and American [upfront nature mokes Sex, Art and\ •Iture, a collection of articles, reviews Frith Kennedy [American Cullure on interesting d the cancelled preface of Sexuall read. rsonoe, is pretty much a one-woman ide on human sexuolif/. She discusses I Karen Murphy le-rope, drag queens, Elizabeth Taylor Karen Lamb d the American Academic system, she ! out at mousy middiecbss feminists and Peter Corey The Genesis •league oss-lickers. She pays homage to IP.D, Ouspensky I of fame lud and the Rolling Stones. She is brash, In Search of the lAngus& Robertson jumentative and, 'o put it succinctly, a' IHiraCUlOUS Fragments ]l bitch (Shonnen Dohert/ has nothing on [Peter Corey Ions onxiousy owaiimg o seri- lof an Unknown Teactitng r). Paglia is not a philontropist, she is on jcus criticol onalysis ol nis books will be IPenguinArkana ademic and artistic elitist, examining the Keith [seriously disappointed by this slender vo' pleasant side of human nature, espe- JTowards the end of 1914, Peir' |ume by UO student Karen Lamb. Lamb hos )lly within the realm of sexuality'. JDemivonovich Ouspensic/ returns to his & Irene Smith ]v/rit1en ipresurriobiy as her Englsr^ Dspt ihe- J home in St Petersburg. He has purne/ed] [sis) a stuay of the public and critical rece,: efuse to commit myself to an opinion onj Jthrough India, Ceylon ond Eg^'pt searchingj \tion ol Corey's v/ork, cttempfing lo fi glia, she has a nosfy habit of getting youj JHard Times Kitchen Jfor whot he terms the "miraculous": a means] [Carey into the endless debafe obout who agree with something onf/ fo extend this ]tQ escape the illusions we take for everyday] IBOOk, A Practical Guide To [constitutes .Austrolianness, etc. 0 point of view you find, well, offensive. I J reality', and perceive the world "as it reoll/] Isavlng Money. Time and Energy In the ;r comments on do'e-rope are foirl'/ owfuI| lis". His trip is unsuccessful and he relurnsj [Karen's done v/hot she set out to do bu JKItchen it some of her less authoritarian observa-f jmore confused than when he set out. [what the hell was ever so wrong with criti- iPenguin ]cism that helped readers appreciote litera- ms on feminism today reveal in her onl [Upon his return he embarks on o short lec- JThe Smiths begat Earth Garden magazine] ]ture? Is it buying loo much into the ogelher more disceriiing eye for humonj jtute tour to Moscow to folk about his travelsl 120 years ogo, a publication legendar/ for] lEuropeon and American traditions to octu- iture. land discoveries. In the course of ihis tour! lifs practical approach lo kormic greeness. Jally talk about books toihe: ihon obou 'The M.I.T. Lecture: Crisis in tfie] Ihe meets Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjisff, the] JTheir Hard Times Kitchen Bool^ carries on| ]vvtiat people soy about them? Obvioush nerican Universities" Paglia makes al jman who is to change his life. OusDen5ky[ |in the some trodilion, giving the bosics on| Iso. This just goes to prove my bng-standinc ilid attack on feminism within the acade-l jis intrigued and fascinated by Gurdiieff[ [argument with t.ne Englsh department one c system. She targets women's lileraturel land soon orranges a group in Pete.'sburg] cutting food costs, nutrition, efficient cook-] [I'm pretl^,' glad I'm tinolly out ot it. Ar^ id establishments that support it out ofl Ito listen to him teach. Jing, energy' saving, green kitchen cleaning, [ [English students out there want to argue lilanthropic motives instead of because oil shopping lips... the mind boggles! \ln Search of the Miraculous is ihe story' of! [witn me? quality. Paglia points out the amount ofl Jlheir three years together as master and! lit also has lots of nifty basic recipes for the] ediocre female literature spewing out ofl [pupil and their subsequent association! Iculinary illiterate, like omelettes, bread,! [Dennis Chaplot jblicofion companies con only be dam- Jleading up lo Gurdiietf's departure tor] [anzoc biscuits, meat and vegetable stev/[ ging for the feminist movement giving! lAmericon in 1923. Ouspensky attempts tol omen a reputation for mediocre talenl| Ibithfulf/ record all of Gurdjieff's early iec id achieving status because of equal [lures and conversations to form a com- jportunity instead of v/ell deserved recogni-l [ pendium of his early teachings. )n for being leaders in their field. Shel ^^:feON THE SURF BEACH AT sesn't only attack women, in "Junk Bondsl [Curdjieff outlines his system of psychology] nd Corporate Raiders: Academe in thel [and cosmology and shows how ihey inter-l our of the Wolf" she is vitriolic about anl loct. Like many who come before and offer] cademic system thai encourages hurriedl Ihim, G. (as he is called throughout thel ubiication and specialisation in any one! Ibook) claimed to teach "ancient knowl-[ N©©SA ledge". Unlike many of the others, G.'sj Student Discount f.fJ per person pernfght ] leaching mokes o lof of sense. aglio makes no apologies for offending! These are 2 & 3 brm units 12 storey! wilh EVERYTHING, including: • large nyone. Her crusodes ore AAadonno, popi Like Freud, he teaches that all people are! spacious dining/tounge rooms • TVs • fully equipped kitchens • free laundry jjture, football and doy-lime scops; hei lar-f I basically automolo, driven by a riol of con-l One minute walk to the beach. Itrodiclory impulses and desires, who hovel els ore procticolly everything else. It isl We have a large pool, BBQ, beach volley ball, boogieboards, table tennis, |no control over their actions. G. differs] 'hen she is on the offence that Paglia is all cricket, frizbees etc and DISCOUNTS to NOOSA nightlife and organised Bt most magnificent. She pulls no punches! [from Freud because he teaches knowledge] nights al Melaluka such as BBQs. land methods by which people may escape! nd with Dorothy Parker • like neatness shel Come wilh as lew as one or as many as you li.ke' lods you to lough at the sheer brutality oil Ifrom the trap that is mundane life and form] er quips. Her portrayal of Foucoult can| la single will. Only by building this will, hej For enquiries & bookings call; nly he described as deliciously evi'. Isoys, and bringing the various centres ofl Peter on 074/47 3663-7am-10pm |the beino into harmony con a human attain] • - ^ r/y