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PERSPECTIVES - SHARON MCDONALD, EDITOR Publishers 4 Chicago's Dinner Party Jeann~ Cordova and Sharon McDonald 6 Robin Morgan with the 11 O'Clock Views Editorial Board 8 Nukes-Where Was Anita During the Meltdown?, Penny Grenoble, Sharon McDonald 9 Disco Did Me In Karen Elaine. Jeanne Cordova Contributing Editor Cheri Lesh NATIONAL NEWS - JEANNE CORDOVA, EDITOR 10 Kate Millett in Iran Correspondents 12 Christian Voice Preaches Hate Lynne Shapiro. New York 13 NOW Calls for Abortion Truce Jan Adams, San Francisco 14 Diana Suspends Publishing, Apologizes

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On the other hand, excluding those with Barney, only Willa Cather and V. A Feminist Feast Sack ville-West seem to be named lesbians in By Jan Adams How often do any of us lesbian feminists come across anything which really helps, which rekindles the vision of the wonder and power of women we've glimpsed from time to time? Amidst homophobia, backlash and the daily struggle for survival, not very often. Most of the time I find that, despite the negative messages I get from the culture and the culture-in-me, I simply have to trust that, yes, women are worth it, women are worthy, women are wonder-full and the world should be womanly. Feminist artist Judy Chicago's new work, The Dinner Party, has the power to recall me to that vision. The piece opened at the' San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on March 16. It will remain in San Francisco until June, open again at the Seattle Center from August through October, "and be shown at Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New' York, from December through January, 1980. Dinner Party seats 39 historical women figures, among them Eleanor of Aquitaine and 'Emily Dickenson. 999 other contributors to women's history are named on the floor surrounding the Chicago's goal in The Dinner Party is "to table settings. ensure that women's achievements become a permanent part of our culture." To achieve Each place setting at the table is completed' the biographies of modern women. Certainly this, she focuses the piece on a monumental with oversized porcelain flatware, a chalice, there are more: off hand I notice Jane triangular dinner table set for 39 women and a linen napkin. Harrison, the early 20th century English (from the Primordial Goddess to Virginia The table rests on a "Heritage Floor;' student of Greek mythology, and Jane Ad- Woolf and Georgia O'Keefe) whose lives made, of over 2300 triangular porcelain tiles dams, pacifist recipient of the Nobel Peace ought to have left a mark on Western civili- on which are written the names of 999 more Prize. Yet though a charge that lesbians are zation. Besides evoking echoes of the Chris- women. These were chosen from over 3000 .treated as tokens seems justified, I feel a tian Last Supper through her structure, candidates on the basis of their contributions lesbian sensibility in the imagery of the art. Chicago chose to work in multiples of 13 to to history and their suitability as models for Perhaps I am responding to the influence of recall the number of women in a coven of the future. The names are grouped around the the lesbians who must have been among the witches. 39 figures by common experiences, places or workers, though none are named as such in Each woman is offered up/celebrated historical periods. , the documentation. /portrayed on a 14" china painted plate. As a ~esbian, I.feel conflicted about our Chicago wants it known that the impact of Most of the images on the plates are what p:ese.nce in The Dmne; Party. Weare there, her images comes from ,the power' and pain in Chicago calls a butterfly motif - or what highlighted by Sappho s green and lavender her subjects' lives. She documents these male critics complain are "just vaginas." histories in her accompanying book" The Whatever one names them; the sensuously Dinner Party, A Symbol of Our Heritage curved images are insistantly womanly. (Anchor /Doubleda y $12.95). In it she traces Many of the porcelain plates are sculpted as women's history through the lives of the 999, well .as painted, the images risirig to convey with longer commentaries on the woman at that the woman's courage permitted her to the table. She also prints journal entries push above her imposed status of "mere which record her struggle to identify with woman." . those women in order to make their imagery. Having put the traditional women's craft She writes of Susan B. Anthony: "A giant, of china painting to workin the plates for who stood firm in her values for more than feminist purposes, Chicago does the same fifty years. I don't know how she did it. I'm with needlework in the style of the woman's capsizing after a decade. The pressure is time. For example, the runner for Anne ~ bearing down on me, I can't breathe. I Hutchinson, who sought to teach despite the ~ wonder if she felt like that. .. Each of them is horror of the New England Puritan Fathers ~ me and I am all ofthem. My body reels from demonstrates the early American form called :; the task of making their portraits." the mourning picture, in which women , t J d Chl t flvevi d $80 000.... Obviously Chicago did riot make this Art IS u y icago spen rve years an 'h . . draped in robes weep' around a Grecian urn. creating her feminist masterpiece. ' uge wor.k~Ione. Over Its five year gestation, she was joined by nearly 200 women and a 4. May/June' graphs shown at the exhibit. As a feminist, I could wish that Chicago had trusted women enough to find women to lead the demanding technical work of cer- amics fabrication and design/installation. She chose to believe that this was not pos- sible and asserts that men should be included in women-dominated space: I wonder whether she merely shifted her difficulty from searching for the right women to extracting woman-identified work from male workers? oII:S Would The Dinner Party have been different ~ if the energy had gone toward women? ~ In the end, to complete the plates for the most modem figures, women led by Judye ~ ~ ~ ~~z= ~ ~~ Keyes and Daphne Ahlenius did take over the ceramics. After an intensive session with Sappho, ancient mother of lesbians, is honored this team, Chicago's journal 'recorded: "It China painted porcelain plate of Theodora. at feminist Dinner Party. Her green and laven- was hard for us to talk about last night, der floral plate sits on a runner bearing her name. although we did a little at dinner - the to continue the task. Its first aim is to raise yet feelings we all had about creating these more money so that the exhibit can be few men. Among the most important were incredibly powerful images that were strug- permanently housed. With the help of two Diane Gelon, Chicago's administrative as- gling to free themselves from the plates ... We (male) designers, Chicago has envisioned a sistant, Susan Hill, who headed needlework, all agreed that Leonard's. (Skuro) leaving the pyramidal structure of porcelain and indus- Leonard Skuro and Judye Keyes, who Project worked out for the best. These plates trial materials which would continue the successively led the ceramics, Ken Gilliam had to be made by women alone." themes of the work. No site has yet been in charge of installation, and Ann Isolde, who The Dinner Party not only took a vast secured. Chicago believes that only in such a organized the historical research. Chicago amount of work; it also cost a lot of money. building can The Dinner Party "enter the describes the group's process as cooperative Though $30,000 came from grants and cultural pool and never be erased from (meaning that while many had input she $10,000 from individual donations, Chicago history as women's work has been erased retained aesthetic control) rather than col- herself poured $80,000 into the Project from before." . laborative (implying equality among the par- sales of her art. Now that the piece is com- Certainly the work advances every wom- ticipants.) This process is outlined in her pleted, the Project does not end. Chicago has an's struggle against erasure in a woman- book as well as by a videotape and photo- fonried the Through The Flower Corporation hating world .•

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By Jeanne Cordova I interviewed Robin Morgan for 42 minutes in a Hollywood gay cofJeeshop as she was en route/rom San Francisco home to New York. The session. during which I posed questions covering half the world surely deserved an interview of 42 hours. but here are some brief thoughts from the editor 0/ Sisterhood Is Powerful. . MOMENT TO- MOMENT "It was a desperate attempt to hetero- sexualize Lily's image. And it was a stagger- ing failure, I held out until the very last minute, saying the male reviewers had missed something, it must be too deep, too feminist for them." Then I saw it and it was unbelievably dull. The dialogue was deadly. It seemed like all the shots were like those tacky cameos where you see the person and . imagine an invisible screen with a caption across it saying, "What am I doing in this movie?" Lily was not acting and she's a brilliant actress. At least she is in her characters. It's ISLAM & IRAN astonishing to me that either one of them feel that was an aberration on his part. Nor I find 'it terrifying that Islam is the fastest (Jane Wagner or Tomlin) did this! I keep' was his own subsequent death, suicide, over- growing religion in the West. It makes Chris- looking for some evil genius male presence dose or whatever. This was part and parcel of tian tradition on the position of women look everything he stood for. who produced or manipulated these two good by comparison! It's beginning to get out wonderful women. ISRAEL AND OIL of hand, which is one of the reasons that GRETA RIDEOUT I think Israel knows they are a pawn in a women students are reacting now against-this The point I was trying to make in my balance game. But they are playing that the form of tyranny. This is going to be worse interview with Patricia Hearst (Ms.) is that best it's ever been played! There is a very than under the Shah because it's religious, it's our martyrs are not perfect, they are not the powerful and mobilized Jewish lobby in fanatic. Islam is the cutting edge of male people we would like them to be. Suffering America, and indeed there should be. It's supremacy and it is fast moving into the other doesn't ennoble, it degrades and uglifies. perfectly fine. I only wish there was such a developing countries. The fact that they have This is how I feel about Greta Rideout. thing on women's issues! the oil doesn't hurt! Maybe that wasn't our ideal test case from a I was watching some documentary about I wouldn't be surprised if we had some purely statistical view point. But on the merit World War.Il, Begin and Sadat in the 40's. kind of war over this. Carter hinted that we of the case alone it's clearly a feminist-issue. How quickly the youths of world leaders are might militarily intervene to .protect our oil There should' be a law. on the books pre- forgotten! Of course Begin was a terrorist, he interest in the Middle East. And America has venting rape in marriage and it should be admits that. Andthen 40 years later he says withdrawn a lot from supporting the state punishable. As to whether Greta was a victim that terrorism is such a terrible thing. Then Israel. They haven't got any oil, and the or opportunist, she could be both! There is so we have Sadat, complete with Nobel Peace others do. little glamour in most women's lives, so when Prize and a very, pro-feminist wife who has WOMEN & ECONOMICS something happens to you, you get to write a been doing very interesting behind the scenes This was the knub of the issue behind the book on it. You get to be famous for a day! things, who was incarcerated by the British in firing of Bella Abzug and the resignations of And then you're forgotten and tossed on the .World War II because he was a strong Nazi her committee. I think an economic organiza- trash heap again, So maybe she thought that sympathizer. And I think to myself, isn't it tion for women .is what is evolving. this was her big chance. Perhaps it was an fascinating how these men are able to have Je: Are you talking about a national orga- embarrassment to the movement, but this these whole careers, and then' move right niza}ion? . " . doesn't in any way negate what she says was along and become" statesmen." Whereas if a I don't know . We haven't done the basics done to her. . woman ever once looked in the wrong direc- yet, that is, connect feminism and economic PUNK ROCK tion politically it's going to be dredged up for issues. Where do they meet? Is an expression of fascist culture in true the rest of her life! When you're a man it's JC: Will Bella head such an organization? Nazoid fashion, and it alarms me. It is truly "ruthless" when you buyout and consume She is waiting to see if people want her-to, decadent in the original meaning of the term smaller corporations. When you're a woman I and others are pressuring her because we - decay. Not in the way the Communist "ruthless" is when you.put someone on hold! think she should do it. It's time she worked Party deplored homosexuality and art as outside the system. They don't deserve her. decadent - politically irrelevant. Punk Rock She has incredible skills. is death oriented. It's focused stylistic brutal- , What Carter is left with now is just a ity, and it's focused on women. Notice it's the sham. In a way it's better that this happened women who die! It's sadoporn culture. because now he can't pretend he's listening to When Sid Vicious killed that woman, women, nor can he totally dismiss this dis- who by the way was a Phi Beta Kappa and tinguished panel of "outs" whom he ap- had almost completed her doctorate, I didn't pointed to begin with! 6.May/June Perspectives THE ECONOMIC STATE OF MS. people are lining up to buy this record that " It's fairly simple, the right-wing has tar-, was considered reactionary. But the bad geted Ms. as one of its victims by using, news is that Western, beauty parlors are also, pressure on its advertisers and distributors, coming back in and Pepsi Cola is now selling We get enormous volumes of mail that they there. The Chinese see these things as at- just churn out of their little computers. T~ey tractive simply because they were denied consider Ms. this crazy, wild-eyed, lesbian, before. nut, insane, commie-pinko, pervert rag. That I also notice that despite all the loosening, may make you and I chuckle! But they do up, there are still of course no lesbians in consider it that. It is the one mass, available, China! Which is amazing that among five feminist magazine. SoThey want it dead. This million people there is not one! _ is not helped, as you know, by 'the rising postage and paper costs and all of that. ~ Another problem Ms. has is that when ~ they try to do radical feminist things or take .. more risks, the reparations are immediate! ~ The "Sexual Harassment on the Job" issue II:•• § for example made three Illinois distributors ~ refuse to carry it. On the "Pornography" Morgan gives current events a pithy, reception. issue response was absolutely staggering. It ROOTS ' seemed the whole right wing wrote in saying, "You only dealt with this because you are It filled me with longing to have a roots of salacious." And then the left wing wrote, our own. Where is women's "roots"? I've "You're all book burners, all you need is a 'had this' fantasy and met together with a good rape." , group of women friends and some sympa- Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there is the thetic people atPBS and tried to sort out what ' Women's Movement. I think the Women's would be our version of "Roots." The Movement regards it, to some extent under- problem is, starting from when and going to standably, but not justifiably, as an old shoe, when! It's establishment, it will 'always be there, If one restricted it to this country you That's not necessarily so. would start with your colonial women and the indentured servants, and the "brideships" CHINA & AMERICA that were brought over with women to be sold I think both sets of boys are selling out into marriage. Then your pioneer women. each other namely to do in a third set which is You could do it through the generations of the called the Soviet Union! I'm ambivalent Peabody family alone. 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8.May/June Perspectives out ever really learning how-todance. Several circumstances conspired to make this charade easy. First, I was for many years living a heterosexual lifestyle. A's my friend Bridget says, some of us had to learn the hard way. Straight men are notorious for having By Sharon McDonald invented the BrickWall School of Dancing, It was an awesome sight: under flashing closely akin to their Brick Wall School of lights, 60 color coordinated couples were Emoting. No man I ever danced with thought moving in perfectly synchronized dips and my erratic swoops and lunges on the dance turns. "This," my friend said, "is Disco!" floor were the least bit odd, because they Critics say they hate Disco because the were plunging about with equal abandon and music is mindless, the values are decadent equal ineptitude. l@t:§;i Corning but at last, I entered a politically .•.•._.•..•~_A.. and the interaction so impersonal. All th~ ~ articles I've read criticizing the Disco Phe- active circle of lesbian feminists, whose last ~ nomenon have been singularly articulate, brush with fashion was in 1965. De- ~ emphasizing personal appearance was a III well thought out, and indisputably logic.al. 1: feminist statement. We hung' around one Each writer has a credible reason for hating ---1" Disco. I just hate Disco because I can't do it. homey women's bar, lurching our way ,~ ~ through our favorite songs, oblivious to the Disco brought out the wallflower in me and wi~ the big kids. But time, money and pride made it blossom. growing Disco wolf at our door. keep me out of dance classes. No mere As a teenager, I was blessed with only Lesbian Life B.F, (Before Feminism) national phenomenon is going to get me into a moderate acne and a personality bland was never like this, I am told. You had to gym full of third graders going, '''One, two, enough to save me from the social ostracism know how to dance', drink, and win at pool to three, ,turn." I ignored TM, est, and that so often marks the adolescence of truly also win the woman of your dreams. 'Anyone macrame, I can ignore Disco. creative people. But despite my passable doubting this should have seen the two 60 Besides, whenever 'anyone says, "Want social competence, I never felt really com- year old lesbians I saw clear the floor one to dance?" I just tell them how I hate Disco fortable making my way through the teenage night waltzing wonderfully to an old, old, because the music is mindless, the values are social scene. I enjoyed my status with an tune, showing the youngun's how it's done. decadent, and the interaction is so im- uneasy relief, watching the casualties of our I should-have known my masquerade was personal. • rigid popularity system, and knowing that all too good to last. The night I saw those there but for a set of braces or 4 inches of couples kicking and twirling on cue, I knew I pimples went I. was in, trouble. If dancing meant I had to 1iJeJtJide 'ltJcmehJ Clihic By some quirk, I was a swan, waiting to actually do a series of pre-determined steps, turn into my true ugly duckling self. Never in sequence, then I was done for. COMPLETE GYNE.COLOGICAL SERVICES really understanding how I managed to Never B.S.N.F. (Before Saturday Night escape the fate of those who looked as Fever) had we all scrutinized each other on awkward as I felt, I was an imposter at the the dance floor so closely. My friends (213) 450·2191 Malt Shop. I always knew that the day would stopped asking me to go to dance bars with come when I would be exposed. Disco blew them. My lover, Louise, started pretending she was dancing with the woman to my left. 1711 OCEAN PARK BOULEVARD my cover. SANTA MONICA. CA. 90405 The truth was that I had bluffed my way A wiser woman than I might take some through a lifetime of social obligations with- steps (sorry about that) to learn how to Disco Shopping in San Francisco? ...

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Lesbian Tide • 9 She sits in a small cell writing. Machine guns are trained at her back through the cell door window; She writes her good-byes to the women. She has been allowed no phone calls, no word of her fate, her expulsion, her "crimes", her death? . Suddenly there are whispers, and the door is flung open and in strolls an ABC camera crew, She gives "the interview of her life on . the subject of civil rights," she chats in Japanese with the Japanese cameraman. The camera stops and the press begin to leave her. The guards enter, rip the film out ofthe~amera, the tapes out ofthe recorders, and ABC is escorted from the room. She returns to her writing with the machine guns. ' Kate Millett In Iran By Lynne Shapiro and Jeanne Cordova Such was the terror, the comedy, the cally described the "routine" torture cham- confusion of Kate Millett's visit to Iran. bers which she herself had seen pictures of. When she was invited by Iranian femi- "There is one particular instrument of tortUre nists to speak at a March 8 International called the 'toaster.' Quite literally that is Women's Day Rally at Tehran University, what it does. They lay you on it the first time she anticipated a small gathering, "a little 10 and every nerve in your spinal 'column is . minute speech." For seven years she'd been killed. You never walk again, you must crawl active with the American based Committee around on all fours." An Associated Press for Artistic & Intellectual Freedom in Iran, a photographer also showed her unreleased civil rights group opposed to the Shah. After pictures of:' the torture chamber acid baths his downfall Iranian exchange students in into which bodies were thrown, the electrical Kate's organization, many of whom were prods attached to prisoners genitals, the feminists, told her that their homeland sis'ters severed arms scattered about the small tor- would celebrate International Women's Day ture cells. for the first time in 50 years. Millett, Simone Many died of heart attacks from sheer de Beauvoir, and Bernadette Devlin were fright. Millett charged that SA YAK (secret invited to address this occasion, but Kate was police) agents, as.well as ..the secret police of the only one who could make it to Iran. most ofthe South American countries" came A Torturous Past to the U.S. to receive their training in torture One thing Kate did know upon arriving in from our own CIA. Iran was the political repression of that Millett, herself an artist, bewailed what country under the Shah. Speaking in Los the Shah had done to his culture and his Angeles weeks after her return she graphi- country. "Tehran looks like Cleveland now,

10.May/June National News as cold and and tasteless as Coca Cola in Millett, had "great ardor .." "They'd just did put the press under pressure to defend us China. Armstrong Linoleum Tile is on the come from demonstrations against tanks and with the eye of the camera." Millett was floors instead of Persian rugs." machine guns, I so stoners and hecklers were called out of her room at the Intercontinental -Khomelni "Stole" The Revolt little to them, though very impressive to me." Hotel and taken, still in bathrobe & slippers, But since her return, Millett also calls the The foreign press wasn't at the first into detention. She had moved out of homes new government of Ayatullah Khomeini a demonstration so Millett called a press con- into the Hotel in order to protect her friends "tragedy," especially for women. "The ference where, "I rebuked them and chas- from possible harassment and in order to revolution was a remarkable thing," Millett tized them for missing history." The next day "make myself very visible" to the govem- confirmed, "ordinary people battled and won 5,000 women held a 3 hour sit-in at the ment agents. With almost comedic relief against the 4th best equipped army in the Ministry of Justice, and the press was there. Millett joked about how afraid she was when world. But Khomeini stole the revolution So were the hecklers and stoners, and she heard the news of gays being executed from the people. He walked into a political machine guns held by government police, and and wondered whether the government vacuum and just picked up the chips. whoever else happened to have a machine would seize upon and make an issue of her Displaying the kind of knowledge which gun. Speaking as someone who "has never own lesbianism. "When Sophie Keir (a probably got her expelled from the country in marched in a demonstration where I felt my Canadian photo journalist traveling with her) 'the first place, Millett said that many of the life was threatened," Millett recounted, "As and I checked into the Intercontinental we same secret police, army, and public service I sat with my sisters I kept thinking we were asked for a double bed. That seemed to cause personnel in power under the Shah now like fish in a barrel underneath their guns. We a great scandal! After they came to get me remain in their same posts under Khomeini. could have been slaughtered." they took Sophie into a room by herself and When six men came to her hotel to arrest her The largest demonstration 'came three said, 'You know we listen to your every and Kate asked them who they were, one days later as 20,000 women 'and their sup- phone call.' Sophie said, 'I know, I wished opened his wallet and showed her a picture of porters marched demanding the right to: wear you'd quit breathing so hard and dropping the himself in uniform - he had been a colonel in what they chose, equal educational oppor- phone.'" the. Shah's army. tunities and civil rights, the guarantee of all In an atmosphere of great intimidation "Khomeini has moved the grass roots legal rights and liberties, personal and poli- she was held for 24 hours. During these hours people out of the Khometie (his Revolution- tical freedom, and the reinstatement of the no one would tell her when or even if, she aryCourts),andinstalledhisownpeople.He 1975 Family Protection Act (see related would be deported, or imprisoned. isdestroying the revolution, all information is story). Stoned, and in some cases attacked, Finally, relieved at being escorted to a censored. Out of24 hours of television time, the women marched on. Later Millett would waiting plane, Kate asked yet another guard, 22 hours are test patterns, 1 hour is cartoons, tell American feminists, "They had had so "Why am I being thrown out?" The guard and I hour is religious instruction. There was little under the Shah and had great hopes that replied, "Why is the sky tall?" That, Millett a revolution, it was taken over by counter- they would see revolutionary equality under said, summarizes life under totalitarian revolutionaries, and .now the real revolu- the revolution, the sadness of it all is regimes. tionaries are being called the insurrectionists enormous." The Edge of Passion Drawing parallels between medieval Touring the U.S. organizingchapters of The Christianity and contemporary Islam under Circle of Support for Iranian Women, Millett Khomeini she noted, "Khorneini issues 'papal spokeofhertripas"the mostmovingexperienceof my lifeas a feminist.Here in America we arestill bulls' executing, 30 homosexuals, isn't that wonderingwhy the hell we haven't got the ERA, rather the same thing as burning witches?" andfightingforabortionalthoughwewonit&years Noting that the 7th Century Moslim custom ago... being in Iran was returning to the edge of of chopping off the right hand of offenders, passion,'of certitude. The people there actually was once again being used in Iran, Millett thinkthat they can do it! There is no demoralized summarized, "The Bible or the Koran, six of sentimentality.If you don't win, you still have to one, half dozen of the other." fightanyway." Marching Under The Gun Leftists Charge Intervention Against this backdrop Kate Millett made Not surprisingly,her role & purpose in Iran her speech in front of a small group ofIranian was not clearly accepted nor understoodby some in this country. At a New York press conference feminists. But the next day thousands re- shortlyafter her return, she was greetedby leftists gathered at Tehran University to "dispute" , andsomepresswhochallengedheras aninterloper Khomeini's infamous mandate that women in the affairs of a foreigncountry. Kate answered must return to the wearing of the chador. that she saw her presence and the presenceof all (The chador is a long veil which covers the foreign feminists as a safety measure for the entire body except the woman's eyes. For Iranianfeminists;theyhelpeddrawthe attentionof centuries women held the veil over their faces the foreignpress to this "most dramatic confron- with one hand whenever men were present, tation of womenfor their rights." She also told of the news blackoutof women's thus losing the use of one arm. But some demonstrations and said that continuing inter- modern chadors are held in place with hooks national supportwasneededto protectthe Iranian or snaps, so the wearers can have both arms women. Later in Los Angeles, she confirmed,"I free.) Campus Maoists tried to persuade the will always be a 'foreign interferer' wherever women to join them, but the women, 5,000 womenare in danger." strong by then, marched off down the street to Some of the press and leftists still did not confront the Central Committee. connect concerns for human rightswith women's' It was then and there that Millett saw rights. They questioned who bought her ticket,if history, "the first women in open insurrection the Iranian feminists weren't really Shah' sup- Iranian feminists revolt and give birth to "the porters and if Millettherselfwasn't reallyworking against Islam", and realized "the full im- four day women's movement" for the Shah's sister who they called a "great plications of international feminism." The ------1 feminist."Millett retorted that the Shah's sister's women who demonstrated this first time, and "Why Is The Sky Tall?" pseudo-feminismwas "window dressing" for her for days afterwards, were mostly working But Kate was not able to enjoy the fruits brother. She denied she had organized or lead women (secretaries and nurses in govern- of her labor with her Iranian sisters. A few demonstrationsor revolts. "Everything was done ment and private business) who by Ir.anian days later the Vice Premier announced she by Iranian feminists,I don't speak Farsi. I can't standards were middle class women. There was to be deported. Although she was never even organize breakfast." What Kate did do in were also maids, and housewives, and given a reason, she later speculated, "I was Iran, the hundreds of hours of taped interviews, women "in chador." All of them, said expelled because of the press coverage. We previously censored photos, thoughts, and note-

Lesbian Tide • 11 books, will be told in a forth coming book. Her materials were quite literally smuggled out of the The Chador country by a woman pilot. Christian Lesbians In Iran By Jeanne Cordova While Kate talked of the executions of homo- The uprising of feminism in Iran marks , sexuals at the press conference, in a later interview Voice she spoke in more detail about the plight of the first women's rebellion in the Arab world. lesbians. Here are a few examples of what our sisters' "Gays are being executed under cover of being lives are like under Islam. Under Orthodox Preaches homosexual rapists and the victim receives lashes Islamic laws a man may have up to 4 wives, too, so the whole thing seems very spurious. It is a woman may not look a man in the eyes Hate even possible that people are being exterminated directly, women must wear the chador in An anti-gay lobby which claims 100,000 under the cover of being called homosexual. So public at all times, women must have their members and a war chest of $1 million has you see what it is like to be a lesbian in a country so husband's permission to travel, a woman been formed in Washington, D:C. The orga- repressive to women to start with, and lesbians are should be married in her teens, on her nization, Christian Voice, is an offshoot of the kind of women most persecuted and taboo! We were aware that some ofthefeminists there wedding night the bride's parents are ex- American Christian Cause, a right-wing were lesbian. It wasn't something that people talk pected to show proof of her virginity, adul- fundamentalist group. As a result of its tax- about. They are living at great riskjust as feminists. terers and homosexuals are publically] exempt status the parent group was legally Some of the women changed where they slept flogged, or stoned to death. I barred from lobbying and for this reason • every night. We were terrified of phone numbers In 1975 the Shah passed the Family Christian Voice was established. The new and we still won't say names. We stayed with a Protection Law which gave women a little group boasts four Capitol Hill lobbyists plus woman and my god, her harboring us endangered more freedom. Under the new law: hus- a congressional advisory committee and her entire existence! bands must get their wives' permission plans action on a number of issues in addition "One day we left a march and fifteen attackers before taking a new wife, marriage before 18 to gay rights, such as pornography, child surrounded us and said they were going to beat us is forbidden except under special economic abuse, abortion, the death penalty and up. We stopped a private car and begged the man in circumstances, to take a second wife a man busing'. it to give us a ride and, we escaped with our lives. When I came home to my farm which ,I love so may plead nine special circumstances in- Steve Endean, lobbyist for the Gay much I explored every room then I went through all eluding "consent of the first wife" and Rights National Lobby (GRNL), says the the trees and landscape and just cried that I was "wife's insubordination to husband," women group should definitely not be taken lightly. home to see them again." can divorce their husbands under certain "I would not be surprised to see them Millett went on to describe her attackers and circumstances, in cases of divorce custody introduce some anti-gay amendments in deplore the role of government troops. "The at- automatically reverts to the father when the Congress. The problem with amendments is tackers were lumpen proletariat men, the most boys reach the age of two, girls seven, women that you have no advance knowledge and it is unfortunate people, who were being organized and can vote; work, attend school, and the chador difficult to lobby in so short a time." manipulated by the very far rightists, many of whom are in Khometie. And the buses they came does not have to be worn in public. Gary Jarmin, legislative director of the in are obtained from government sources. The only The Chador: Part of Past and Future? American Conservative Union and a lobby- time we.ever saw the militia was at the Ministry of But now the chador has come to mean ist against the Panama Canal treaty and Justice where they were protecting the government different .things to religiously conser- SALT negotiations, and for pro-South Africa building. vative, liberal and leftist women in Iran. For and Rhodesia policies, heads the Christian "The attackers, cowards that they are of the first group; those who revere Khomeini, it Cause office. In a promotional package, course, wait until the march disperses then beat up is a way of life as always. For the liberals, it Christian Voice warned that "homosexuals the stragglers. So far three women have been potentially represents a return to old ways are rampant in our schools, our government stabbed and a high school woman was smashed in T the face with brass knuckles." which means they must abandon their ca- and even in many churches." The organiza- The women workers in Iran are being fired. reers and other long sought" freedoms. For tion linked homosexuality, abortion, the "You lose your job if you don't wear that thing (the' radical women it points clearly to the fact that' ERA and pornography together, asserting, chador). At least at the government owned tele- the .Islamic republic of Khomeini does not. "We believe that America's rapid decline as vision station you can't get in without it. Khomeini bring the revolution they had in mind. For all, a world Ipower is a direct result of these supposedly recanted his initial order that they had or at least most of them, the situation is even things."· to wear it, but at the other Ministries the women are more confused because the chador remains at The Christian Voice congressional ad- also being threatened by the order. Of course there least historically, a specific expression of the visory committee includes Sens. Orin Hatch are no women, no secretaries in the new Khometie . .d . f I' A (Revolutionary Courts). All of the women at the umque I entity 0 raman women. s Time (R-Utah), Sen. Roger Jepsen (R-Iowa) and government jobs are afraid that they might lose reporter Jane O'Reilly says, "it's a way of New Hampshire's newly-elected Republican their jobs even if they do wear the chador (orthodox saying 'Iranian is beautiful,' something like Senator Gordon Humphrey. Eight House Muslimism does not permit women to work.in the statement that wearing an Afro or dashiki members have also endorsed the group, public with men). And one of the few forms of makes." - including well-known anti-gay Rep. Larry employment open to women, besides teaching and McDonald of Georgia. Entertainers Pat nursing, are secretarial jobs in the Ministries. Boone, Lawrence Welk and Art Linkletter ..A woman architect going back on the plane are also listed as endorsers of Christian with me was leaving her country because she could Quality Voice. _ (Gay Community News) see her whole career diminishing. She was against the Shah and had been in exile and now she was Service a,.c, going back into a self-imposed exile. A lot of my friends are being either hounded or all possibilities Carry In of their lives are being shut down." & Save! Kate Millett is now traveling to 15 cities to ~(J,~~ generate support for her new organization, The ~&.(:J Circle of Support for Iranian Women. According LATEST MODELS - LARGEST SELECTION to the New York Circle of Support, the Iranian TV-STEREO a ~ tors galluco& feminists have organized The Committee for VIDEO RECORDER Women's Rights and rented an office in Tehran. 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12. May/June National News NOW Calls for Abortion Truce

o Rights Movement (AR.M.). I 'By Karen Elaine "Bezaing for Mercy" c '" Everyone was all smiles. The groups On February 8th Downer sent a letter to -.'" involved had just issued a statement: "The Smeal cancelling her membership in NOW, ------discussion was wide ranging and amicable saying Smeal had been "begging for mercy NOW president Ellie Smeal met with anti- feminists to "cool ocr' abortion relato!dviolence. throughout." It looked like a happy ending. from our common enemy in public, in the Until two women from the group P.E.AC.E. name of the women's movement." Downer ica, the NAACP, and the National Education held two 24 week old fetuses in front of the also said that she had spoken to the NOW Association. cameras. Reproductive Task Force Coordinators.who "Not Dangerous" It was February 15th, the date of the first had disapproved of the meeting idea. On NOW has stated that "NOW does not meeting ever between anti-abortion and pro- February 9thARM. issued a press advisory agree such a meeting is a dangerous pre- choice groups. The meeting was proposed by stating that there can "be no compromise' on cedent, but rather believes that it is far more NOW President Eleanor Smeal "to seek abortion." dangerous to proceed with assumptions and ways to lessen the need for abortion," and to Apparently ARM. is not the only group treat each side of the issue as a monolith in .diminish an escalating climate of violence on who believes there can be no compromise . terms of their views on other issues. NOW's the issue. (Several clinics have been bombed Nellie Gray of the March for Lifers turned position remains firmly on behalf of a and vandalized.) down Smeal's invitation saying, "We do not woman's right to choose and exercise control . On the day that Smeal had announced talk, we do not negotiate, we tell them they over her own body." plans for the meeting, California NOW State must stop killing babies." The Right to Life What came out of the meeting was an Coordinator Mary Margaret Smith made a organization also declined the invitation, agreement to meet again and the following press statement: "No one is pro-abortion, When the meeting took place, ARM. resolution: "We assembled here today and abortion is a choice of last resort, abortion is was not immediately allowed in to observe, agree on the need for reproductive education an act of desperation." But some people are although some uninvited anti-abortion as it relates to our physical and psychological pro-abortion. Carol Downer, Gail Gold- groups were. ARM. protested and was well being. This education should occur at stein, and Marilyn Skerbeck of the Feminist eventually permitted to enter. Some of the every stage in the human life cycle and should Women's Health Center are pro-abortion. groups invited include: American Home be the' responsibility of parents, schools So pro-abortion in fact, that in the weeks Economics, the International Union ofElec- religious groups, the media and community before the meeting they formed the Abortion trical Radio and Machine Workers of Amer- organizations." •

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Lesbian Tide. 13 National News Diana Suspends Publishing, Apologizes By Coletta Re;d & Kathy.Tomyrls of Diana Press Over the past year many women have expressed concern about and interest in the survival of Diana Press. This article is to give women who care about our work a better understanding about where we've been, where we are now, and where we're going. We're going to try to deal here with the many issues and questions that have come up Internal Troubles & Paralysis around us in the last year. After the vandalism there were disagreements Area. A major financial error was the purchase of a among the leadership (Casey Czarnick, Coletta large press that was difficult to operate and has not Editorial Note: This introduction is fol- Reid, and Laura Brown) as to the direction the run at all for the last ten months. The vandalism lowed by a lengthy recap of the first 4 years press should take. Basically these disagreements occurred at a crucial time when we were already of Diana Press's history. In 1972 they began prevented any positive direction from happening financially and physically overextended. And as a small print shop in Baltimore, and soon for an entire year. The press has been in a holding finally, the inability of the leadership (Coletta, after they began publishing feminist titles. pattern of sorts. Since the vandalism we have been Casey, and Laura) to agree immediately after the The publishing arm was primarily sup- consumed with maintaining our back list, making vandalism on what steps to take perpetuated the ported by the print shop. The two-pronged up for the vandalism, and trying desperately to put problems. These factors created an unstable situ- business grew slowly and in 1976, after out some new titles with a constantly dwindling ation that continued throughout the next year. The staff. attempts of the management team to reverse this, meeting new friends and activists in the The financial condition of the press since the trend came too late and were not drastic enough to Detroit based Feminist Economic Network, vandalism has been precarious. We have existed work. they decided to move to Oakland where real on a month-to-month hand-to-mouth basis. The Since December, 1978, Reid and Tomyris eastate was low, and woman energy was insurance payment, most of which came eight have put hundreds oj hours into updating book- high. Additionally, the Oakland based months later, and the donations that we received, keeping records, cutting costs and overhead, and Women's Press Collective, well known for kept us going tor the past year, but did not give us in general, trying to put the print shop back on its its publication of Judy Grahn's works, oj- the relief necessary to recover. The vandalism financial feet. They are trying to return to their old fered to combine staffs with Diana. The wasn't the only cause of our problems, though. Our successful formula oft'an established commercial future looked good. But the legacy of the overexpansion would have made the year ex- printing shop that made publishing possible." _ tremely difficult as it was; coupled with the van- controversial FEN followed them across Their statementgoes on to acknowledge that dalism it became nearly impossible to keep going. "probably most oj our readers will be shocked and country, and seemed to set the stage for a Disagreements among the leadership came to a surprised at our change in direction since we are long series of mistakes and bad luck. .head in the summer of 1978 culminating in Casey known primarily for our publishing. " They cite , Out On a Limb Czarnik and Laura Brown leaving (or being asked two reasons for the decision to temporarily sus- While en route to Oakland our move was \to leave, depending on your-perspective), When pend publishing new titles. The first is political: greeted by a paper by Martha Shelley called Casey left we lost one of our most valuable assets, "commercial printers are now more willing to "What is FEN?" The article helped create a not only an excellent printer and designer, but also bring out good feminist books." The second is climate of distrust of us in the Bay Area that one of the major forces behind the creation of the financial, "we cannot save both (printing and the became virtually impossible to break through. Our press. From that point on our financial position left publishing) at the same time. " They have a half first six months were devoted almost entirely to us little choice but to hire essentially inexperi- dozen books partially completed and urge that setting up the business, and finding skilled ~omen enced printers. The leadership was assumed by a women who can loan money to help bring these with whom to work. We immediately found our- management team formed from the women who titles out, please write or call them. The titles selves in a financially more difficult situation than had been at the press the longest and Kathy include volumes two and three oj Judy Grahn's we had ever been in, in Baltimore. We ourselves (Tomyris), who had just moved here to become anthology True To Life Adventure Stories, Ruth became prey to the distrust around us. Disagree- production manager. Geller's Seed of a Woman. and The Female ments grew among the women who worked at the , Over the next six months the burden of running Principle by Elizabeth Gould Davis. press and at the Oakland Feminist Women's a financially failing institution slowly eroded their Reid and Tomyris go on to speak oj recent Health Center, all of which took its emotional toll. numbers and morale. Most of the women at the legal problems and miscommunications with two Finally around the first of September, 1977, some press were here during the FEN controversy, the authors. six months after we had arrived, all our equipment vandalism, the leadership disagreement's, and Much of the heaviest criticism we've received was operating. Casey and Coletta's long and painful break-up, has come around our publishing program. There In the largest risk we had ever taken, we These women were being asked to work for little have been many reports that we have failed to pay combined the three titles we had agreed to publish money, not even subsistence' wages, while under royalites and that we have supported ourselves off in Baltimore with the titles waiting at Women's emotional strains that were tiring and demoral- of money that was due our authors. First of all, it is Pres~ Collective and a new title chosen together, a izing. By mid December it became clear that we important to know that all of our books had sharing total of eleven books. We ordered paper and were not making any progress and that a drastic of net profits contracts. That means that after costs supplies on credit and geared up for a big produc- change in direction was necessary if the press were of production, advertising and distribution are paid tion push. For the first time, production of the to be saved. A decision was made to close the shop any excess moneys are split between the au- books we were publishing became the priority for temporarily, consolidate equipment, personnel thor/illustrator and Diana Press. We devised such our operation. We went out on a limb - it broke and goals,' and reorganize towards financial a contract in 1972 in order to compensate for the off. ' stability. fact that we had no money to start a publishing Even if everything had gone smoothly, pro- Mistakes Examined program. All that we could offer was our own labor ducing that many books that fall with unfamiliar , Hindsight being what it is, we can now look and the use of our equipment. Once a book reached equipment and new personnel was unrealistic. As back at the chain of events that brought us to this the break-even point then receipts were shared, it was, the vandalism on October 25, 1977 de- point and see some of the mistakes we made. The Generally speaking, Diana Press's share has only stroyed much of our back list, equipment and first was our decision to expand without a sufficient been enough to pay for the paper for the next current work. Furthermore, it made it emotionally financial base. The next was ourinability to start printing of each book. Until last year only the impossible for many of the women at the press to functioning again until six months after the move to books of Rita Mae Brown had sold enough copies work with the same energy and enthusiasm they California. We then prematurely decided to make to have earned any money for the author. Rita has had before. Some had lost the will to go on, but publishing our own titles a priority without first been paid consistently, throughout the publishing establishing a solid printing business, in the Bay on Songs to a Handsome Woman, For each 14. May/June 2,,000 copies of that small poetry, book, she and the two years for the production costs to be recouped. illustrator have received $300.00.- Her first We published this book .after it had been out of accounting for A Plain Brown Rapper was due in print for twenty years (since 1956). January, 1978. After the vandalism she was sent a Self-Vandalism Denied form letter stating that the accounting would be We have heard that there has been some late. The accounting was made in May, 1978 and speculation that we did the vandalism ourselves in A Plain Brown Rapper was still showing a loss order to gain sympathy and to rip off our insurance after its first printing had sold out. Within this last company. For us personally; it seems impossible year, Sex Variant Women in Literature, A Plain that anyone could entertain the thought that we Brown Rapper, The Ladder anthologies, Sap- vandalized ourselves. Imagine how you would feel phic Songs have passed the break-even point. if someone broke into your home or shop and Within the next year we expect All Our Lives: A destroyed much that you had worked to build for Women's Songbook to begin earning money for the last six years. The feeling that we were that its editors. ' hated by someone, that locks and burglar alarms It seems to us that the voiced discontent of were of no use, and that we would' always be that many of our authors is due in large part to vulnerable was terrifying. It becomes very hard to unfulfilled expectations. When we moved to Cali- keep on working for so little money when you know fornia we envisioned a much larger anornore each, day you come in that your work might be successful publishing operation. We thought we'd destroyed.The only similar experience that any of be able to start a booking company to send authors us has hadis the constant fear and worry by rape on tour, have ·an advertising budget, sell subsidiary victims that it could happen again. It seems in- and foreign rights and generally have a much more credible for us to hear others speak casually of an prosperous publishing arm. When none of these event that was so' devastating to us. As to the prospects materialized and in fact our sales de- assertion that we financially gained from the van- creased, many authors felt that we had lied to them. dalism, it has no basis in fact. No feminist insti- Apology for Losing Focus tution has the kind of money necessary to buy In addition our communication with authors enough insurance to. allow them to rip off an I: became practically nonexistent. Coletta was the insurance company. For us to have sabotaged the .5 only one at the press who had the overview publishing of eleven new titles after we had ordered -; necessary to communicate with authors. She was the supplies and paper would be the height of' ~ overworked and overwhelmed with trying to selfdestructiveness and financial folly. ~ manage the press, complicated by the leadership Good Will Appreciated Diana Press moves to resolve problems, but still disagreements, some of which were around how to We appreciate the -donations and goodwill of faces suit by Rita Mae Brown. people who have supported us throughout the last )...::.:..:...:..::.....:c;::.::..:.....:..:t....;;.:=:;--'--'_--'--' _ deal with authors. Coletta was not an effective leader during the year after the vandalism. She had two years, having faith in our integrity even in the lost her clear sense of priorities and focus that had face of articles to the contrary. We also appreciate orders, keep books inprint, send out review copies guided the press through previous crises. The sales those who have read the articles knowing that there and advertise those titles they now have in print. journal and other records necessary to give authors must be another side to the story and undir- So for the next few years feminist and lesbian their accountings were. strewn around and some standing that making mistakes is not a sign of bad' authors will have to look elsewhere. destroyed in the vandalism. We have only finally will. We hope that women will continue to read Asked to clarify whether Jeannette Foster is feconstructed the 1976-'78 sales figures in the last Diana Press books, that the second two volumes of . suing them, Reid and Tomyris say that to their month. On top of that were the financial and True to Life Adventure Stories are able to come' knowledge "there is no suit. " This last January emotional problems that affected everyone's out and that we continue to exist a year from now, they informea the author that her book (Sex ability to do their work. We became overburdened and longer. Variant Women'in Literature), has "passed the with trying to survive and so let this correspon- . \ . * * * break-even point and had started earning money dence slide, along with other things. We know now It appears that there has been major house- for her." But they have not yet heard whether that we shouldn't have allowed our other problems cleaning in Diana Press's operation within the Foster is happy with the amount they calculated is to monopolize us and hurt this vital link to the last six months. The above clarifies many long .now due to her. women who wrote our books. We are sorry. unanswered questions, and Reid and Tomyris Foster, Rita Mae, and Other Royalties immediately replied to a list of further questions There have been various reports that Diana generated by their above statement. Press is being sued by a number of authors. We are Asked 'what were the, "leadership disagree- being sued by Rita 'Mae Brown, not for non- ments" which so' paralyzed activity there for- payment of net profits, but for not making timely almost a year, Reid replied that she doesn't feel accountings' and for not selling enough copies of it's ethical to publically give her own views her books (although no publisher can guarantee to without consulting those with whom she has the sell a particular amount of copies of any book). disagreements. "Since Casey (Czarnick) and

Rita Mae's lawyers carne t6 the press in Septem- Laura (Brown) were opposed to the writing of t: ber, 1978 _and investigated the invoices showing· such a statement (as the above) and since they sales of her books since 1973. They were unable to have no intention of producing their own, I feel find any discrepancies between our reports of the that to publically air my admittedly one-sided numbers of copies sold and what the invoices perceptions would be lacking in integrity." She showed. further explains, "Making public statements We have a lawyer and we are defending which undoubtedly feel accusatory to those on the ourselves. We have been advised that there is no other end often prohibits such, a process (of evidence to substantiate Rita Mae's claims resolution) from taking place." Although We wer~ requested by a lawyer for the execu- Czarnick and Brown have left Diana, Czarnick trix of'J eannette Foster to provide her with an 'still co-owns .it with Reid. Problems related to accounting in March, 1978. We provided an their shared equity andfuture ownership are now accounting at that time which showed that Sex being negotiated. Variant Women in Literature had not yet reached Reid was also hesitant to elaborate on how the break-even point. We have just provided a much the break up of her long standing relation- Regarding their disputes with author Rita second accounting which shows that the book ship with Czarnick ajJected Diana Press.. Under- Mae Brown, Diana sent us a large packet of started earning money in 1978. The reports assert- standably, this important factor is a matter of correspondence, cost figures, royalty payments, ing that we deliberately withheld money from privacy but Reid did confirm, "I found it ex- etc., spanning a five year period with Brown. We Jeannette Foster forcing her to remain in a nursing tremely upsetting and a major obstacle to my have been unable to thoroughly research these home have both upset and outraged us. Sex work for the last 1 1/2 years. " materials by press time, but it is clear that Brown Variant Women In Literature is a reference work Due to its financial troubles Diana Press did t believes she is owed some $2,000. It is aiso clear of interest primarily to libraries and literature lay ojJmost of its staffin December, and Reid says that Brown received several royalty payments in students. Its sales have been slow' but steady; they cannot put any money into publishingfor the 1973 and 1974, and that the dispute between them therefore, it's not surprising to us that it has taken next two years. Instead they will continue to fill began in the spring of 1977 .• Lesbian Tide. 15 National News

March on Washington/Washington, D.C., c/o Roadwork, 1724 20th St., NW, Washington, D.C. Washington - 20009, (202) 667-0649 or (202) 667-1597. March on Washington/San Francisco, 44 Lur- mont Terrace, San Francisco, CA 94133 (415) To March orNotto March 626-6471. Delegates from 20 states attending a national pro-ERA contingent, was-called for, and education gay and lesbian conference in Philadelphia last 011 the ERA will be done in conjunction with march February voted to hold a national march in Wash- organizing work. ington, D.C. for lesbian and gay rights on October , A temporary steering committee of 18 was 14 of this year. formed (50% women, 20% third world). Some T-he Third World Caucus proposed that the activists would like to further diversify the current conference's woman co-chair be third world and steering committee because 50% of its members that any national structure organized be at 'least are residents of New York. A second planning 20% third world. Both proposals passed. The conference is scheduled for Houston on June 2. Third World Caucus also voted to cooperate with Since the Philadelphia conference, numerous re- march plans by re-scheduling an upcoming third gional conferences have taken place in many cities world lesbian and gay conference planned for D.C. across the country. The steering committee has/set this fall. a tentative march route in D.C. and filed permit The Women's Caucus agreed to support the applications, and have been assured by authorities ~ Third World Caucus' choice for co-chair and that "quick approval is likely." _ § also proposed that any new structure be 500/0 , Contacts .~ ;:r women. This passed. The ERA was a major point March on Washington/New York, 156 5th Ave, ~ of discussion, arid the Women's Caucus voted not Room 505, NY, NY 10010, (212) 924-2970. .w ~~ to include it in the list of march demands, but rather March on Washington/Texas, Box 3624, Hous- to organize solely around issues relating directly to ton, TX 77001, (713) 523-6969. Debate is hot but consensus was tinally reached sexual orientation. Women from unratified states March on Washington/Michigan, c/o MOHR, at the Philadelphia Gay March Conference. The were very vocal in their opposition to having the 940 W. McNichols Rd., Detroit, MICH 48203, date for the march was set for October 14 in ERA as a central demand. In lieu of that, a large (313) 863-7255. Washington, D.C.

, election, many ofthese groups re-formulated WhyWe themselves into ongoing Lesbian and gay ask these friends to go to Washington and o~ganizations. This same effect will happen march with them, to carry signs saying, "I'm With the March. Out 'Ofthis work will come marching for my sister Susan," "I'm ma"rch- that national network. Should After this March, no Lesbian or gay man ing for my; co-worker Nancy." will ever be alone in this country. If a Lesbian By Rita A. Goldberger Some people are afraid that all this work in Wamego, Kansas, is fired, ten thousand There is little opposition on will drain local organizing efforts. But this March is intended to enhance local efforts Lesbians and gay mp.n- and their friends - the need for a March. But there is an element will descend on Wamego the next week to of hesitation from certain leaders of the not drain them. If a Lesbian is fired or a bar picket her job until she is rehired. We will no Lesbian and Gay movement who feel the .harassed, that issue will be publicized as longer be isolated targets to be picked off one time is not right for the march. . part of the March effort. We will use local by one. \ Some want us to wait until a bill is issues to show the need for a national march This March is exciting, it's bigger than I pending in Congress around which to focus. and we will use the publicity pull of the dare quote figures on, and it's going to change But there no guarantee that a bill due for National March to generate support for.1ocal IS the face of this country. Those who have their action at a certain date wouldn't be killed issues. We are also encouraging joint fund- hesitations will get involved as soon as they before we got to Washington. Thepressure of raisers, so that the enthusiasm for the March see how this has caught fire. I urge everyone the upcoming March might be the force will bring new money into local efforts. not only to go, but to get involved in their needed to get major action on legislation. Should we wait to hold the March until areas to make it happen .•. Some want us to spend more time' edu- there is no local activity? That is hardly the cating heterosexuals before we march. But time to organize a mass demonstration. And this March will be the greatest opportunity to let us remember that only a tiny handful of educate heterosexuals we have ever' had, in cities in the country have enough Lesbian and Why We, all areas ofour work. gay activity going on to even bring up the ENDORSEMENTS: We are already question. We have sisters in North Dakota starting to address political and religious Alabama, and Nevada, and this March is for, Shouldn't groups, third world organizations, labor them, too. By Ivy Bottini unions and other groups and individuals. Some feel that this lack of organization, Many of them will go on record in support for and the lack of a national structure is another I do not question the need to march and our rights. reason why we should wait. But the gay demonstrate. I question the premature (in my MEDIA: We will discuss the upcoming movement is 10 years old this year, and no opinion) date and the climate of the times March on every radio and television station closer to a national structure than we were in Those who support the October 14 dat~ we can get on, in every magazine and news- 1969. The only way it can be organized is point to the Gay/Lesbian rights victories in paper, addressing the myths about homo- around a unifying national issue or focus. The Seattle and California and the support that sexuality, and the oppression we face. This October 14 March is that focus, the first one came from non-gay voters. They also talk will be the first time many heterosexuals will we have ever had. about support from the student population. have seen a Lesbian or gay man, or beard our This March will build a national structure They hope to raise hundreds of thousands of side of the movement. the way the California No On 6 campaign dollars between now and October and har- COMING OUT: Studies show that built a loose state-wide network. Groups ness the energy of past victorious political people are far less likely to be anti-gay if they against Proposition 6, the initiative that campaigns. know someone who is gay. Therefore, our would have banned gay teachers from I was the Deputy Director in charge of the movement has always encouraged people to schools, sprouted like mushrooms-around the California No on 6 (Briggs Initiative) cam- come out. Lesbians and gay men are being state, often in areas where Lesbians and gay paign. It is from that reference point that I encouraged to come out to their friends and to men had never before organized. After the would like to share my thoughts with you. 16 • May/June National News First, the non-gay community in Cali- Our large community has traditionally fornia ?id not vote for Lesbian/Gay rights. been one of reaction. Until we are threatened They voted to protect their own rights of we do not coalesce, move, contribute, 0; privacy because the Briggs Initiative' was march with any serious intent. Let's face it. written so broadly that non-gays could have For all intents and purposes, we are not under THE easily been caught in the trap. fire in the broad sense. Sure, there 'are the GAY ACADEMIC UNION Secondly, campuses throughout the local brush fires, .but nothing like the Anita country are quiet. Students, in any great Bryant syndrome dogging our community Invites You To numbers, just don't "give a damn" at the and capturing the media's attention. It just moment. They are into ain't there at this time, folks. getting an education, and scrambling for a Lastly, the March planning meeting in Phila- place in the ranks of the employed. During delphia last October was significant to me in our campaign in California, it was not the a negative way. I found it as interesting to An Mternoon With students who swelled our numbers and paid note those people who did not attend as those our bills. who did. Whether we like it or not, there are 'RITA MAE BROWN Thirdly, 'let's take a look at finances. I movers and shakers in our community in (author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Six 0/ One ... J believe we should face the cold hard fact that every state. Most of them stayed home. our community, nationally, is bankrupt from These are the men and women who are contributing to' stem the tide of prejudice looked to for signs of support, or non-support, since Dade County. Our local organizations of all idea. They come from the right and To Benefit The and projects have had severe financial set- ,middle as well as from the left. GAD backs - some, have closed their doors. It is I hope the march organizers will stop to' folly to pour thousands of dollars into an idea ' take a cold hard look at the cost of a mistake SCHOLARSHIP whose time has not come in the minds of the' in judgment. ' ' , FUND broad spectrum of the Lesbians and Gay men . In other words, we need all of us to pull off needed to make this kind of event take shape, a march on Washington, not just those of us Second Annual Drive move forward and be successful. to the left of center. Not just those of us who It is not enough to put a few thousand settle for less financial security in order to people.on the streets of Washington. In order -have more time to do our political work. to not' lose ground and be seen as a joke we I worry that the effort to produce this would have to turn out 100,000 marchers. march will become the goal. Sunday, June 17, 1979 Those who support the October 14 date point I worry that money will be contributed to to the energy of the winning campaigns. They an effort, while our local needs go wanting for 2 - 5p.m. talk of capturing that energy. It is too late - it lack of financing. is gone. Gone back to making a living, gone We will not lose stature by secur- On the terrace of back to the bars, gone back to the private ing our rights 'in our state and city govern- Sheldon Andelson 's home lives, gone back to rebuild local and state ments. Wewill only lose stature if we make ?rganizing across the spectrum of political fools of ourselves with a poor showing in front 900 Stradella Road Ideology. of the White House. _ ' BelAir Police Scuffle FREE REFRESHMENTS at Lesbian Bar ,.NOHOST WINE BAR By Jan Adams However new Mayor Dianne FeinsteU; re- vealed her reservations about gays in the MUSICAL Doorkeeper Shirley Levine told the men March issue of Ladies Home Journal, ENTERTAINMENT they could not enter because they were stating, "The right of an individual to live as drunk. It was then that one of them, Daniel he or she chooses can become offensive." Mar then said, "We're the cops and we can Other incidents which have disturbed the do as we damn please." The off duty officers gay community include an alleged beating then entered Peg's Place, a San Francisco of two women leaving another lesbian bar by Donation: lesbian bar, scuffied with Levine who was hit police and I.D. checks and detention of men in the head and chest. Bar owner Linda outlate at night in the largely gay Castro GAU Members $15 Symaco was wrestled to the floor in a head area. Gays also feel that attacks by teenage Non-members $20 lock and Officer Michael Kelly received cuts gangs against them are on the rise, with little All Donations Are Tax Deductible! about the head from a pool cue.' , hope of police protection. _ (Work exchange option available) Attorney Tom Steel, representing I Levine, said "We feel unless we ask the DA Late News: Two ofthe policemen involved to file charges, the whole matter will be swept in the incident at the lesbian bar were under the rug." Lt. D.J. Philpott of the vice Indicted on assault charges April 19. We squad who interviewed those involved coun- have also learned that the maurading • tered, "it was rather difficult to determine group, of peace officers were returning who were the aggressors. But it was no big from the stag party of Bernie Shaw, hus- deal. Nobody got badly hurt." band of Patricia Hearst. Shaw was with the For advance reservations write: This March 30 incident follows several group when they entered Peg's but he was GAU not named in the indictments. Peg's Place others in the last few months which have led P.O. Box 927, is a "movement bar" frequented by lesbian to charges that police feel free to harass Los Angeles, CA 90028 lesbians and gay mensince the slayings of feminists. Sources also reported a witness Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor heard the drunken men walk up to the door Further information (213) 656-0258 Harvey Milk. Police Chief Charles Gain has and say to one another, "Let's go get the denied that there has been any policy change. dykes in Peg's Place." Lesbian Tide. 17 RightsofPassag~e~~~~ Gay Rights Comeback in '79? Editorial note: With this issue we are changing the name of this 1976 conviction of Walter Ciuffini. section from "Rights and Referendums" to "Rights of Passage. " MASSACHUSETTS: Activists have been busy this spring We believe the 1977-78 wave of anti-gay referendi is over, at least lobbying for two civil rights measures and a consensual adults for a while, and we are tired of having a section in our paper freedom bill. The adult consensual acts bill is given little hope of entitled "referendums. " We hope we never hear the word again! passage, as in previous years it has done poorly, while the civil Wefeel "Rights of Passage" is a more positive approach and we rights measures, up for- the seventh time, are given only a "fair" also choose this new title to commemorate the 10th Anni versary of chance of passage. the Gay Liberation-Movement. This revolt was begun in a New PENNSYLVANIA: The high court of this state ruled that York gay bar, Stonewall, on June 25, 1969. lesbian Gladys Hosler should be reinstated as ajunior high school teacher and should receive back pay dating since 1971. In coming INTERNATIONAL to their unprecedented decision, the court refused to near testimony About the only good news overseas is the 4th Annual regarding Hosler's sexual preference, calling it "irrevelant," and Ihternational Conference of Gay & Lesbian Jews, to be held in Tel reviewed only her professional record. ' Aviv July 19-22. For more information write The Society for the Protection of Personal Rights, P.O. Box 46039, Tel Aviv, Israel. TEXAS: A bill to protect public employees' rights to freedom West Coast residents may contact Beth Chayim Chadashim, 6000 of speech, religious conviction, and assembly (wasn't this already W. Pico BI., Los Angeles, CA 90035 or call (213) 553-7179. in the Constitution") has been introduced into the House. HB 1284 In Canada, England, and Brazil the gay press is still in trouble. would prevent abusive dismissals such as one last year in which a The Canadian government has decided to appeal the recent County Treasurer's employee was ousted for advocating gay acquittal of The Body Politic, a gay paper charged with obscenity rights. Write letters of support to Rep. Ron Waters of Houston. last year. In London, Gay News has lodged a formal complaint CALIFORNIA: The always interesting, but seldom reliable with the European Commission of Human Rights against their own Governor Jerry Brown took everyone by surprise in March by' British government. In '1977 the paper was found guilty of issuing an Executive Order barring discrimination against gays in blasphemy for publishing a poem which described a Roman state hiring and firing. Brown joins an elite few (White of centurian's love for the crucified Christ. It is possible that gays Massachusetts and Koch of New York City) who have issued such might have their day-in-the-Hague (European human rights court) bans. ' NEVADA: The Senate here has passed a bill making "the if the renowned international body takes their case. Proceedings infamous crime against natere" (that's us!) punishable by 1 to 6 will take three years and may force England to drop its 1698 A.D. years in prison. Called "one of the most oppressive pieces of blasphemy law under which Gay News was convicted. legislation against gay people in modern times," the bill does not The right wing military government of General Ernesto Geiser apply to sexually creative straights, but only gays who do the same has threatened seizure of Brazil's main gay paper, Lampiao, and thing, and if convicted one can be fined $5,000 in addition to going has subpoenaed five of its 11 editors. The editors may be charged tojail and having her/his life ruined with such a record. The bill now with "using the paper to make propaganda of homosexuality" and goes to the House Judiciary Committee chaired by anti-gay could receive fines <1rterms of 1 year in prison .. Editor Joao Assemblywoman Karen Hayes. She may be contacted by writing: Mascarenhas called the seizure "a most terrible blow to the Chair Karen Hayes, Assembly Judiciary Committee, Capitol Brazilian Gay Liberation Movement." Saying that his.government is "very sensitive to criticism from abroad," he urges gays in Complex, Carson City, NV 89710. CALIFORNIA: Assemblyperson Art Agnos and Sen. David America and Europe to write letters' of support to Ministro Roberti are bewailing the fact that gays seem to have gone back to Armando Falcao, Ministerio Justica, 70064, Brazilia, DF, Brazil. sleep or back into the closet since the notable defeat of Proposition NATIONAL . 6. Legislators are receiving 25 to 50 letters per week from National gay lobbyist Steve Endean warns that it could be 10 or Christians opposing both of the gay rights employment bills (AB 1 15 years before gays get our "ERA." HR 2074, the federal gay bill and SB 18) now under consideration in Sacramento. Roberti sponsored by Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Theodore Weiss (D- cannot get his bill past the Senate Industrial Relations Sub- NY) has "a long haul ahead of it," says Endean of the Gay Rights committee without the vote of Chicano Sen. Joseph Montoya (D- National Lobby (GRNL). Endean does not want the bill to have Monterey Park) who thinks gay legislation would "shove the hearings in the immediate future because "we're simply not Latinos even further back in the bus." Meanwhile Agnos is holding prepared .. ,(and) right wing groups can generate so much mail that his bill until he can find more votes in the Assembly's Judiciary we just couldn't compete with." The lobbyist stressed "we must Committee. Bemoaning the fact that letters from the Committee for develop our grassroots network" during the next decade. Moral Concerns (backed by you guessed it - John Briggs) are STATES outnumbering pro-gay letters by 30 to 1, activist Morris Kight says CONNECTICUT: SB 705, now before the Senate, would the situation will not improve until the grass roots comes out for this one "like they did for Prop. 6." Chicana activists of East L.A., prohibit discrimination against gays in housing, licensing, employ- Monterey Park, etc., are urged to write Montoya and lesbians all ment and state services. Bill supporters are optimistic that it will over the state are urged to write their Assemblyperson and Senators pass the Senate because the term "sexual orientation" has been changed to "sexual status" and now includes co-habiting hetero- on behalf of these two bills - quickly! VIRGINIA: Catching a bad wind from Nevada, the House of sexuals. However, activists are doubtful about the bill's chances in the House. Delegates here rejected a proposed amendment to state rape laws VERMONT: In alittle noticed decision in April, 1'977, this that would have legalized consensual sex acts between adults of the state repealed.its sodomy laws. The repeal took effect in July, same sex. Like Nevadahowever, heterosexuals can legally do what 1977. gays cannot. NEW JERSEY: The state appeals court here has ruled that OREGON: For the 4th year in a row, a gay rights bill has been criminal penalties for homosexual acts between consenting adults introduced into the legislature here. Although it has failed in the are a violation of the right to privacy. The decision overturns a past, observers have hopes that the much publicized Report of the 18._ May/June Rights of Passage

Human Resource's Task Force on Sexual Preference will help the ~vwt -, S It•• \ W()lill ~ 4001 measure's chances. The report calls for the end of all discrimination based on sexual orientation. It found that lesbians and gays number LIVING between 5 and 10% of the state's adult population, and said anti- WITH gay laws and grey areas in the laws forced these citizens to live under a climate of fear. LESBIANS CITIES DETROIT, MICH: In passing 'a comprehensive Human , Rights Ordinance which includes sexual orientation, Detroit becomes the largest city in the U. S. to protect gays. The ordinance, which includes strong enforcement powers, was not protested and no referendum is expected. Speculating on why the measure passed now, one activist said he thought the Council "felt an urgency to register a strong check to efforts across the country to dismantle the civil rights gains of the 60's." OLYMPIA, WA: Lesbians and gays of the northwest have introduced a state gay rights bill (HB 876) that would add "sexual orientation" to the list of other groups protected under law. IRIS FILMS/lris Feminist Collective MADiSON,WISC.: For the second time in two months the has the following films by and about womsn City Council here unanimously rejected two proposals to reduce availablefor rental or sale: the rights.of gays. They reaffirmed their non-discrimination policy "IN THE:'8ESTINTERESTSOF THE CHILDREN"by Iris Films as regards lesbians and gays applying for teaching and public "MAXINE" by Sarah Snider, . service jobs. "SUPERNUMERARIES"by Sandy Smith DADE COUNTY, FLA.: Will have another go at it in 1980. "A COMEDYIN SIX UNNATURALACTS" and, According to activist Bob Kunst, gays'here will atterript for the third "I'M NOT ONE OF 'EM" and ,time to win back the local ordinance they lost when Bryant came to "HOME MOVIE"by Jan Oxenberg town in the summer of 1977 .• "WE'RE ALlVE".by Joint Productions' "WISHFULFILMING"by Santa Cruz Women's MediaCollective "MENSES" by Barbara Hammer "AND THEN THERE WERE" by Linda Klosky "OUR tiTTLE MUNCHKIN HERE" by LoisTupper. 7170 North L.k. Blvd. Box 114 IRIS FILMS, Box 5353, Berkeley, CA 94705 T.hoe v••••.CA 95732 (415) 549-3192 (918) 548·2444

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Lesbian Tide. 19 • Short·Currents NUNS PROCLAIM CREED SEXIST In an open letter to the Bishop's Commission on the Liturgy, the harassment by the University. The University placed monitors in all executive board of the National Coalition of American Nuns of her classes and when she asked one of them to refrain from "protested the continued 'use of the exclusive 'all men' in the attending she was threatened with suspension without pay. Daly Eucharistic formula when what is meant is surely 'my blood ... shed was ordered to write a statement supporting the University policy of for you and for all' we protest likewise the expression 'for us men' in "no discrimination on the basis of sex or ideology," and to write the Creed as a sexist translation of the Latin 'pro nobis' ... We have letters of apology to Father Paris and Prof, Marsha Fowler, two deep resentment that congregations, largely made up of women, are monitors who alleged that Daly had verbally abused them. 'As a addressed as 'brothers', exhorted to be 'sons of God' and are made result of press coverage there are no longer monitors in Daly's to feel, through the continued use of sexist language which could classes, but there are still threats that they will reappear. easily be remedied, either as non-existent or mis-begotten." DAN WHITE NO HERO (National NOW Times) San Francisco Chronicle columnist Charles McCabe recently BELLA MOBILIZES ON MONEY wrote that his city was being "invaded" and "taken over" by At last! An organization to deal with women's economic issues, .homosexuals, and referred to Dan White's murder of gay supervisor from your wallet to the nation's war budget. Organizing and Harvey Milk in the context of White's "defense" of San Francisco activating the women of America will be the central purpose of against "this severe municipal problem." Harry Britt, Milk's WOMEN USA;.a new economic organization headed by Bella 'successor, called the column "the most inflammatory piece of Abzug, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke and Patsy Mink. These three journalism that I have seen since leaving the deep South ... The former Congresswomen, joined by Gloria Steinem, Brownie Led- suggestion, however indirect, that murderers can be heroes can only better, and other feminists, will house their new organization at the inflame that small part of our community that thinks violence Women's Lobby in Washington, D.C. The purposes of WOMEN against gay people is justifiable. Charles McCabe owes the gay USA will be to lobby on economic social and political issues, community an apology ... " foment a mass letter writing campaign, and develop an independent BAD-BOY BRIGGS women's political force. To begin these efforts they are sponsoring a On Feb. 23 Briggs pulled into a Fullerton Police station and mass lobby on Capitol Hill on May 1, "to put women, human needs, claimed he was being followed by Left-wing terrorist "rhugs." The and peace" back into Carter's proposed budget. They will support "thugs" turned out to be Internal Revenue Service agents. The IRS current legislation to transfer 3.5 million from military funds to is initiating an investigation into Briggs' finances. The three areas domestic programs, specifically CET A jobs, child care, maternal that will be probed are: land transactions, his own insurance and child health, family planning, and abortion funding. WOMEN business and his campaign fund. USA, c/o The Women's Lobby, 201 Massachusetts Ave., Wash- N.L.F.O. UPDATE ington, D.C. 20002. (202) 547-0044. National Lesbian Feminist Organization (NLFO) which formed JESUITS VS. MARY DALY in March oflast year now has ten local chapters across the country. Mary Daly, well known feminist philosopher who holds seven The chapters are now doing outreach in their communities and one degrees, three of them doctorates, author of three books, most chapter is planning to lobby for a lesbian governor. Anyone wishing recently Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, and to join NLFO or start their own local chapter is urged to contact: a tenured professor at Jesuit Boston College, is the target of serious Kate McQueen, P.O. Box 2499, S. Portland, ME 04106 .•

'79) on why the magazine folded. You define your magazine as lesbian feminist. I think it isl One of the best. But on this issue 'Letters (language) I think your feminist ought to lean on your lesbian a little. In Sisterhood, Ginny Ray , Editorial Note: This letter was written in reaction to an editorial "NIGGERS," "CHICKS" ... AND "DYKES"? in the March/April 1979 Lesbian Tide which used the term "dyke" interchangeably with "lesbian" in referring to our readers. Dear Lesbian Tide Collective: For our response, see Editorial Page. We invite more response to I am not a dyke. If you want money from me please do not insult this letter or our editorial. me with superficial labels. I am a woman, a feminist, a lesbian, .a SLOPPY AND PERVERSE? woman identified woman. I am not alwavs strong, I am not always Dear Editors: " weak, I am not wonder woman (despite what Ms. would have us bel- In the Marchi April issue of Lesbian Tide an advertisement -ievej I am a woman! To me, the term "dyke" because of its com- appeared for "the world premiere of Lebisia, a lesbian film by Jere mon or street meaning, (which is that adyke is a woman who- Van Syoc." Unhappily, what was shown on the evening of is trying to act tough like a man) is on the consciousness level 01' March 31 could in no logical or emotional way be construed to "chick" or "nigger." People in the hippy & black subcultures told represent "a lesbian film," as was advertised. Instead, the film was a us that it was "correct" to use these terms, that we all knew that highly personalized account of one woman's life and career, and in they were our words now. I never got it. I still don't. When Richard no manner did the movie speak to the lesbian experience. In fact, the Pryor says nigger I don't laugh. When the hippy up the street calls subject of lesbianism was barely broached at all, except in the her friend a chick I don't stay cool. introduction (in which the film seemed to have changed names to I fought since 1969 to be called a woman and you are,not going . "Lebisia" which was suggested to stand for libido, labia, liberation, to stick some other dumb label on me in the name of politics. I am a and lesbian, among other generalities). This in itself was frustrating lesbian as a sexual preference, I am biologically a woman, I am a and disappointing enough, but it was absolutely disheartening to radical feminist politically and emotionally I am a woman iden- witness what may only be described as an amateurish production tified woman. Can't you call your readers by a word which includes with a grossly sloppy sound tract arising from a trained artist who all of us? Our caste term is women (radical feminism) - spell it should know the difference. Jere Van Syoc's uncaring and flippant anyway you want. attitude was obvious, and she summed up her film best in her own You gotta know I care about the Tide, think its reporting is of the words when she described it as "a perverse film made for highest quality in print today & excellent analysis. You in fact perversity." printed everything I think about DYKE in the story (March/April It comes as no shock that there are shysters in the lesbian com- 20 • May/June Letters munity, as there are in every community. It does, however, come as For example: all my friends and myself visit a hairdresser a shock that the Woman's Building would support such a slipshod weekly and have our nails polished. We do not have "wash & and misrepresented production, and that Lesbian Tide would allow wear" hair and do not scorn well kept fingernails, nor do we put it to be advertised as a "lesbian film." down our sisters _wh~ feel this kind of grooming is personally Sincerely, Carol A. Quinn, Barbara Snell unnecessary. Viva La Difference ... Editor's note: It is impossiblefor us topre-determine the intentions We also do dress in high heels, (not low heeled boots) and quality of each advertiser and her product. We do not accept sometimes high heeled boots & jeans, and watch the fashion advertising which is sexist, homophobic, racist, classist, agist, or articles in Glamour, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar to obtain ideas otherwise not in the best interests oflesbianfeminists - insofar as for our apparel that will fit our personal image of how we can look we can determine these things from 'the ad submitted. attractive for ourselves and women of our ilk. VIVA LA TOLERANCE . We go to good and fine restaurants and fervently wish a clean, very attractive restaurant and/or disco were available and existent • Dear Lesbian Tide: , in the L.A. area for Lesbians to patronize. Otherwise we go to gay I have been a long term subscriber to your magazine and have places like the Garden District, The Carriage Trade, The Office, found it valuable for news, services, and lesbian feminist announce- etc. And mostly private home parties. ments. The quality of your writing and editing has also been We supported N~ on 6 personally and financially and some of excellent. us are slowly joining the Gay Academic Union. We support However, now that you are soliciting ideas for better services to MECLA (a gay campaign fundraising organization), etc. your readers and expansion for advertising services, may I lay My point is that by expanding an understandinz of lesbians as down a basic idea, with which I hope yo-u agree? That is this: . having a broader variety of lifestyles and interests, you would be Lesbians not only come in all colors, age groups, professional and serving a larger segment of lesbian women without having aban- blue collar groups, but they also are highly diversified in their doned the basic lesbian rights thrust, increasing your readership, personal life styles, not necessarily to the exclusion of an under- and increasing your influence and education for these lesbians who standing or receptivity to women's or gay rights concerns. need consciousness raising. Sometimes we feel estranged from the Yet, repeatedly I have been offended by a consistently de": movement! meaning attitude reflected in articles in the Tide which put down Could you entertain a more compassionately open and free anything different or diversified in a personal life style perceived by tolerance if not understanding, that all lesbians do not have to look Tide writers. as outside a narrow conception of lesbian living and act and dress as if we all come out of the same cookie cutter? expression. For example, the attitude expressed at a Robinson's, Suffice that we agree only on -lesbian rights ... fashion show (January/February issue) was hardly open and Most Sincerely," Your loving Sister (Anonymous) appreciative of some lesbians' dress fashion. Editor's Note: We hear you. By so doing it seems to me the Tide unwittingly has insulted and excluded financially, emotionally and spiritually a huge percentage sooner or later be called dykes. In the same way that "bad nigger" of women who could be readers, subscribers, and support an was intended as an insult but was embraced by blacks as a proud extended advertisin list. title, "dyke" too is a term used for someone who refuses to be beaten down, and is for women a badge of honor. (Other derogatory terms like "broad", "chick", or "nigger" are different in that they have no positive connotations, no hint of insurrection about them.) , Editorial We are proud-to use the word "dyke", in loyalty and love for all the women who, in so DYKE: A HISTORY OF RESISTANCE many different and difficult ways, held strong. We recognize that not all lesbians feel the word "dyke" In an editorial in the last issue, we used the word "dyke" represents them, and because of this we usually opt for "lesbian" or interchangeably with "lesbian" in referring to our readers. One "woman". But we will not categorically refrain from using "dyke" woman wrote us (see Letters), "I am nota dyke, .. .I am a woman, a and abandon or bury a word that has such a proud heritage for all feminist, a lesbian, a woman identified woman." She defined women-lovin women-a "dyke" as "a woman who is trying to act tough like a man". The first women to be called dykes were women who were "mannish", that is , who dressed and acted with styles, self- assurance and authority that men take as their exclusive prerogative in the world, These "butch" women were the most visible, and therefore the most vulnerable, to bigoted and frightened hetero- sexuals (Radclyffe Hall, Gertrude Stein, and hundreds of anon- ymous women). They have been and continue to be courageous women who uncompromisingly face daily abuse that some other women escape because their dress style is more acceptable to society. But women who dressed and looked like Miss America were also called dykes whenever they: worked hard at careers, valued their women friends, contradicted men, were dissatisfied with the housewife role or left their husbands. In a recent women's assertiveness class, half of the heterosexual women reported being called dykes after they'd begun to practice their new skills. The very power and destructiveness of the word "dyke" as men use it comes from its connotations of aggressiveness and indepen- dence - qualities men have always found ugly and threatening in women, though highly valued in themselves. What men have meant when they called us dikes is true: we ARE uncompromising (where Jessie McDonald O'Connell was a major force in the months-long effort loving women is concerned), we ARE ugly (when beauty is to build The Lesbian Tide a home. Working under her direction was WiI- measured in rigid stereotypes or in passivity), we ARE frightening Cor Construction Co. (Bill Cordova, Mike McGuinness, and Bob (to those who fear independent women), we ARE unpleasant (when MidkiO) who made invaluable donations of materials and labor. Special silence and smiles are pleasing). thanks to friends who desl gned, advised, donated time, money, labor All women who stand up for themselves and their sisters will and supplies, lent tools and moral support. Lesbian Tide. 21 depressed by this cinematic rendering which retains all of'the book's morbidity and none of its humor. Reviews This film left me feeling ambivalent. A reached the point of composing music tor her film that focuses so intensely upon women first album, Moon Circles, she devoted it to and the relationships between women is so . , exploring the styles and sounds of women- rare that I hate to pan it. I also hate to subject originated music. The result is very peaceful, other women to the desolation of this film. lyrical, ancient-sounding music. In Kay's Unlike the book, the film places far more own words, "Moon Circles.is meditative and emphasis on the lesbian attraction between healing. It's simple, like Erik Satie's music. It Esther and her best friend Joan GiIIing which doesn't provoke thought." makes it doubly rare. One's heart goes out to Three years later comes Emerging, and Joan whose subtle flirtations go unnoticed by Kay has taken a whole other approach, albeit the more sexually conventional Esther. The one clearly built on the first LP. The first cut women display two variations on the theme is reminiscent of Moon Circles, but richer, of sexual disenchantment, though their more in the baroque style. It expands that answer to the unanswerable' pain of being style to include electronic effects (which are female in the fifties lies on the same path of used throughout the album). The other cuts madness. If this film could put a stake in the range from a lushly romantic piano rhapsody heart of the vampire of fifties nostalgia, to haunting, .atonal modem pieces. In effect, perhaps the pain would be worthwhile. the album works through all the styles she But the relationship between the two c: was trained in, "partly as a discipline," she women (which delighted me at first) has a ~ explained, "and' partly to exorcise them." suspicious overtone of exploitation. This ~ From her perspective, the differences be- impression was reinforced by an apparently e tween the two albums stem from her evolving gratuitous scene in which Esther nearly ends ~ roots as an artist. "There's a lot of naivete in ,up in bed with a strange man and another ~ Moon Circles, " she explained. "I think I've grown up a lot in the last three years, just as Kay Gardner and her flute are emerging into the women's movement has. Any artist who uncharted musical territory. works in a political movement changes with (Books 'n' Such.. '. KAY GARDNER- it." OUR HEALING HERITAGE Kay is firmly involved in women's cul- By Tina Daniell ture. "Female creativity and sensitivity are the products of it. What women are doing is Emerging, by Kay Gardner. Produced & redefining beauty. We're getting into our distributed by Wise Women Enterprises psychic abilities - intuition, which here- (Urana Records). . tofore has been ridiculed - and we're getting Kay Gardner doesn't pay attention to the in touch with our ancient powers of healing. "rules." She thinks it's a good idea for the The world ifeeds it - men's cultures haven't. audience to sit on stage with the performers given it." In this vein, Kay believes in using during a concert. If someone really likes a music for healing. She gives regular work- piece, why not play it again? She started shops linking music and color therapy: playing piano at age four, and wrote her first experiencing auras when certain tones are musical composition that" same year. She played, or how various tones and colors .took up the flute at eight and has played it affect one's mental health. - ever since. After ten years of marriage, she Reprinted from The Real Paper. decided she wanted a career in music and went back to school, entering a masters THE CELLULOID NOOSE degree program in flute performance without By Cheri Lesh having, earned a B.A. It's taken hard work The Bell Jar, Directed by Larry' Peerce, and hard times, but Kay Gardner is what she. Screenplay by Marjorie Kellogg. always wanted to be. At thirtyseven, she is an "Eternity is borning. I never wanted it." active composer, conductor, flutist, record- :-Sylvia Plath ing artist and one of the four founders of the nascent New England Women's Symphony. Sylvia Plath may not have wanted eter- nity, but posthumous prominence is precisely Kay's two albums, Moon Circles and the t!, new Emerging (both on Urana), provide what she got. The latest contribution to the good examples of the leaps and turns her Plath post-mortem is a movie version of her creative energy takes. Trained in classical novel The Bell Jar, which is a semi-autobio- ,I , music, she also spent a lot of time researching graphical piece about a young woman's ~ experience with madness in the all-too-sane i and playing folk music. Her earliest per- I ; forming was as a' folksinger in California setting of the "normal" 1950's when "men coffeehouses during the Sixties. Kay con- were arrows and women were the place the centrated on women's folk songs, especially arrow shoots off from," as Esther Green- mountain music, and realized that many of wood's boyfriend is fond of reminding her. The primary interest in this tale, of the songs were in the s~me mode or scale of THE MAGIC SPElLER BOOKSTORE course, is the fact that Esther Greenwood is , tones. The dulcimer is tuned in this mode - CANNERY VILLAGE the mixolydian mode - which was created Sylvia P(ath's fictional alter ego. For the 506 31ST STREET by Sappho, the ancient Greek poetess and Plath buff, this film may hold a dark fascin- NEWPORT BEACH lover of women. All of this brewed in her ation. Anyone who has not read The Bell Jar CALI FOR' fA Y26li3 thinking, and When, a decade or so later, she is likely to be almost as confused as they are 673 ' 8400 22 • May/June woman friend. It is possible that this scene realistic to end with Esther Greenwood's was intended to show Esther's conflicts declaration of independence from her self- about sexuality. However, the scene seemed centered boyfriend where she declares that out of character for the straight-laced Esther she, Esther, will be an arrow rather than a and makes her' final rejection of Joan even launching pad for male ambition, she will be a more brutal and unacceptable. 'poet. She walks away, posture erect, and it is A staffer from the Woman's Building clear that she is on the road to health. This informs me that originally.the last two scenes impression evaporates completely with the in the movie were reversed. First, the tragedy final scene of rejection and anguish. But male of Joan's suicide, then Esther's renunciation acolytes of the Plath cult always seem to 'of the cosy cage which Buddy (the persistent worship her martyrdom at the expense of her boyfriend) offers her. Presented in that order, genius. _ the film would have ended on a slender beam Editor's note: Three new mass available of hope. Presented the other way; the impact works of interest to lesbians were published hits the viewer like a heavy dose of bar- just before we went to press. 'We hope to be bituates. The scene in which Esther finds her reviewing them in our next issue; In the friend dead is right out of The Children's meantime, watch for: The Gay Report, by Hour (what is this fatal attraction that cellu- Karla Jay and Allen Young, Summit Books. loid lesbians have for nooses"), To end with (Remember the sexuality survey you filled this scene is. devastating, for it leaves the out in our May/June 1977 issue? This book is _ viewer with more contempt than compassion the result of that study.) Lavender Culture, for the (presumably) heterosexual heroine. edited by Karla Jay and Allen Young, Jove We (the lesbians in the audience at least) are Books. This third gay anthology by Jay and -Ieft feeling anger at the woman who so coldly Marilyn Hassett (right) stars as Esther Green- Young is in paperback, and includes 20 wood, a brilliant college student and poet. Donna spurns her friend's suggestion that "we could lesbian writers. And finally, don't miss the Mitchell is Joan, a former classmate and fellow be lovers," leaving her to the knotted scarf Time Magazine cover story, "How Gay is inmate in Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar. and the empty field. Gay?" April 23, 1979. It would have been far more humane and

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Lesbian Tide. 23 L. A ..Calendar Editor's note: With this issue we are changing the name and Feminist Women's Health Center, 1112 Crenshaw Blvd. Call format of Community Focus (our section on our hometown area, 936~6293.· . Los Angeles) to L.A. Calendar. We think this listing of local POT LUCK DINNER: At Womonspace, 237 Hill St., Santa events will serve the needs of the women's community here better, Monica, every third Friday of the month 7:00 p.m. $1.00 donation. . and we invite L.A. readers to call in any events or news However, no woman turned away for lack of funds . to 839-7254. PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF GAYS: Hotline numbers: Long Beach 427-4347, Valley 343-4275, Orange County (714) Regular Events '. 964-4392, Hollywood 851-6949, Los Angeles 472-8952. IMRU GAY RADIO: KPFK 90.7 FM every Sunday 8:30 p.m. ATASCADERO GAY ENCOUNTER: needs your help. They LESBIANS OF COLOR: meet at the Alcoholism Center for are a non-profit organization working within the walls of Atasca- Women, 1147 So. Alvarado, L.A. every Sunday 5:00 p.m. Call dero State Hospitaf, assisting gay patients to become more 869-4730. accepting of their sexual orientation. They also refer patients to WO MAN WRITERS: The Woman's Building is having'an open- ' .outside gay organizations. They. need donations, books, films, mike reading for women to read their works, first Sunday of every .literature, etc. Atascadero Gay Encounter, Drawer A, Atascadero, month, 7:00 p.m. Call 221-6161. CA 93422. • . ALTERNATIVE TO A.A.: Not for those who need detoxification Special Events or therapy. A creative dialogue, feminist support on the part ACLU MEETING:. San Francisco Gay Supervisor Harry Britt alcohol plays in our lives, open to all women, facilitated by Betty will speak on May 2nd at 5670 Wilshire Blvd. 7:30 p.m.' . Shoemaker. At Womonspace, 237 Hill St., Santa Monica, every "LA CHICANA: TOO PROGRESSIVE TO -IGNORE": Monday at 7:00 p.m. Call 484-9988. Diane Munoz will speak on May 3rd, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at Cal LESBIAN ,RAP: at the Women's Resource Center, Cal. State . State L.A. Women's Resouce Center, Bungalo C. LESBIAN ARTIST AND HER ART: GAU is having an IL.A. every Monday from 11:30. to. 1:00.. . BATTERED WOMAN'S LEGAL CLINIC: at Womonspace, illustrated talk on this subject. Speakers will be Lili Lakich, 237 Hill St., Santa Monica, every Monday at 3:00 and every -Marguerite .Elliott and Nancy Fned on May 8th at 8:00 p.m. at Tuesday at 6:00. Call 392-838~. 3770 Cazador St., Highland Park Area. ABORTION RIGHTS MOVEMENT: meets every Tuesday at' SELF DEFENSE LECTURE: Yolanda Retter will speak on 7:00 p.m., Feminist Women's Health Center, 1027 Crenshaw May 9th at Cal State L.A. Women's Resource Center 12:00.to Blvd. Call 936-7219. ·1:30 p.m. BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL COUNSELING: clinic GAY TEACHERS OF L.A.: Their monthly Rap Session is announces the opening of its free legal informational counseling, Thursday, May 10th at 8:00 p.m., 2219 Lyric Ave., Silver Lake. Open Mondays 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. and Tuesdays 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. ' area. $1.00. Call 663-7610. . . Call 392-8383. . . GALA MOTHER'S DAY CELEBRATION: In honor of the SELF HELP CLINIC: every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the International Year of the Child. May 13th at the Woman's Building Call 221-6191. .' , NON-VIOLENT FEMINISTS: meet at Womonspace, 237 Hill Lavender untcem presents • St., Santa Monica, levery Friday. 4:30 p.m. Continued on page 26 In conjunction with tt-e ~.fllli " ,II, Alternativ~ Life Styles Conference ·Our pro9ram is a 9rChling experienc'e for steff and participantS' together, implemented. in an .atmosphere of sisterhood, sepportiveness, sharing. This program is the unique· energy at wome0 working with women. for women." ALCOHOLISM CENTER for WOMEN

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