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News Magazine and Resources For Gays and Lesbians of Wisconsin Among Friends Senate Approves News Magazine for Congress Ignores Gay Organization Gays and Lesbians of Wisconsin Homophobia, Now Ninth Largest $1 Billion Plan to May 1988 Restores Rights Independent PAC Combat AIDS Volume 3, number 4 ,(innaeli WASHINGTON, DC - The Human WASHINGTON, DC - On April 29th, WASHINGTON, DC-The Human Rights Campaign Fund is now the ninth the US Senate, by a vote of 87-4 published by largest independent PAC (political action Rights Campaign Fund, a political approved an education, treatment, and Among Friends committee) in the US, and the 24th action committee in support of civil research program of $1 billion to combat PO Box 426 117 W Main St largest overall. Them are currently 957 rights for gay men and lesbians, AIDS. Madison WI 53701 independent PACs and 4,165 total. Madison WI congratulated Congress for overriding the The bill, submitted by Sen Kennedy, (608) 255-3349 "These impressive rankings prove that presidential veto of the Civl Rights allocates $590 million for AIDS 255-5029 lesbian and gay political influence Restoration Act. education, treatment, and care. An continues to surge," said a spokesperson "Congress is to be commended for additional $400 million is to be spent for No part of this work may be reproduced for the Campaign Fund. keeping faith with the essential values of accelerated research, especially on vaccine in any form or by any means, electronic Mon-Sat: Double Bubble Happy Hour, With mom than 20,000 active donors our country that would guarantee basic related work. The measure now goes or mechanical, including photocopying 4-7pm and mom than SI million in funds raised civil rights to all citizens," said Victor before the House and is expected to pass and recording, or by any information in 1987, the Campaing Fund ranks with Basile, Human Rights Campaign Fund with Tulle opposites. President Reagan storage and retrieval system, without as Monday: Rail Doubles - $2.00 executive director. such powerful rival independent PACs has indicated his willingness to sign it written permission from the publisher. the National Congressional Club Tuesday: $Buck Night$ - $1.00 Rail, Can, Wine "We know the tough truth - that we into law. (pro-Helms), the National Conservative Wednesday: Womens Night- $1.00 Rail, 50e Tap cannot legislate away all discrimination A leading opponent to the appro- 0 1988, Joseph G Hathcway against women, against the disabled, PAC, and the Fund for America's Future Friday: BEER BASH - 9pm to lam, priations bill was Sen Jesse Helms, a NO COVER against people of color, against the (pro-Bush), all in the top ten. Saturday: "Credit Card" Night - 5 Rail or Wine conservative Republican from North $5 aging. But the Civil Rights Restitution Carolina, who objected on the grounds Publisher 5 Tap or Soda $3 Act does place legal limits on that Federal monies should not be used in Jay Hatheway Sunday: BEER BUST - 8pm to 12am discrimination within our public Helms AIDS Euchre Tournies - 7pm. $5/couple such as way as to seem to promote, Editors institutions," said Basile. Amendment "directly or indirectly" homosexual Jay Hatheway and Jim Ottney 100% back in prizes Defeat of President Reagan's veto sexual activity. brought with it defeat of homophobic Defeated Graphics and Typesetting From Midnight Friday, All Day Saturday, WO Midnight Sunday arguments used to fight the override. A Jim Ottney FREE PARKING mailing from the Rev Jerry Falwell's WASHINGTON, DC - Senator Jesse in the Dann Cry Parking Ramp, 12 block away Production Moral Majority claimed the Act would Helms was shunned by his colleagues in Jim Ottney and Jay Hatheway jeopardize "religious freedom and the Senate when an AIDS-related Civil Rights March traditional moral values" by forcing amendment he offered to a labor bill was Should Include Gays churches "to hire a practicing active voted down. The occasion was considera- Contributors to this Issue homosexual drug addict with AIDS to be tion of S.79, the High-Risk Notification WASHINGTON, DC - In a joint letter a teacher or youth pastor, etc." Act, requiring employees to be notified if to Coretta Scott King and Rev Joseph E Auntie Max The irony is that sexual orientation is they are at high risk for occupational David Clarenbach Lowery, the National Gay and Lesbian CARAVALI COFFEES not a protected category in the Civil disease Francine D'Azzio Task Force and the National Coalition of Rights Restoration Act. Leaders in the Last year, the House of Represen- Jeff (Cinch Colombia Supremo Black Lesbians and Gays called for the civil rights movement for gay men and tatives passed this legislation, including Roger Margason The top grade exported from inclusion of lesbian and gay civil rights lesbians are lobbying hard to extend language that predesiugnatcd all health The United in an upcoming national march being Colombia, Supremos are famous anti-discrimination protections to mem- care workers as at risk for HIV infection. as well-developed coffees with planned by the civil rights community. bers of their community, thusfar without The Senate voted 45-33 to table The Martin Luther King Jr Center for medium body and distinctive ACM. similar language whgen it was offered by Nonviolent Social Change has issued a Printing heady aroma A South American "Fa/well and his 'Majority' clearly used Senator Helms. This is the first time the call for a National Mobilization Rally on Madison Opportunity Center, Inc classic. Come by and sample a the Civil Rights Restoration Act as Senate has tabled a Helms amendment on Washington on August 27, 1988 to cup on the house. another opportunity for gay-bashing and AIDS since rejection of marriage license commemorate the 25th anniversary of the for advancing their private agenda testing in May, 1987. historic march led by Dr King in 1963. Publication of the name, photograph, or without comprehending the real nature of "We applaud Congress for keeping The NCBLG and NGLTF letter likeness of any person, organization, or the legislation," said Basile. faith with sound public health policy on expressed the organizations' support for business in this publication is not to be For those few... who demand Televangelist Jerry Falwell's attack on AIDS," said Carlton L., Congressional the demonstration and urged "that the construed as an indication of the sexual the very best teas and coffees the Civil Rights Restoration Act was not Liaison for the Human Rights Campaign March be inclusive of all minorities - orientation or preference of that indi- only false. Worse than his distortion of Fund. "We are making progress in including the ten percent of the nation's vidual, organization, or business. truth was Falwell's appeal to hate, fear raising the consciousness level of population that is lesbian and gay. The 219 King St, Madison WI 53703 THE and ignorance. Congress on AIDS issues. Members call for the March must recognize the (608) 251-0100 "Jerry Falwell got caught with his should draw on the same wisdom when need for broadening civil rights Cover: Needless Camouflage Tea Shop' pants down. He lied and the whole world they consider 5.1220, the 'AIDS protections to ban discrimination based Jim Ottney, pen and ink knows it," said Basile. Research, Education and Care Act.' on sexual orientation." Group Pledges Results of NGLTF House Members Raise NCBLG is this country's only national Contact the Fairness Fund in writing, Opposition to Inclusion Black gay and lesbian organization and PO Box 1723, Washington DC 20013, $8 Million Against Political Survey of Sexual Orientation has been in existence for ten years. or telephone (202) 347-0826. Through local chapters established AIDS WASHINGTON, DC - The National The combined efforts of the Fairness in Hate Crimes Bill nationwide, NCBLG provides an active Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) Fund and the Human Rights Campaign support system for Black lesbians and In what even philan- has conducted the first large-scale survey Fund guarantee strong gay and lesbian NEW YORK - WASHINGTON, DC - On April 20, gays, and works with other organizations thropy officials acknowledge is a delayed of the Presidential preference of gay and representation in national legislative 1988, Rep George Gekas (R-PA) and to combat homophobia, racism sexism, matters. response to the AIDS epidemic, the Ford lesbian voters. Of 9,700 surveys which four Republican members of Congress and other forms of oppression. In Foundation announced a major effort to were mailed out, 2,347 (24%) were completed and returned. filed a minority report to the House addition, NCBLG is dedicated to the finance care for people with AIDS and to Those who responded were in favor of Judiciary Committee's report on the Hate implementation of programs designed to No March - No Money assist their families. Jesse Jackson by a substantial margin - Crimes Statistics Act (HR. 3193) urging address issues of special interest to Black Other philanthropies and corporate 36%, as compared to Dukakis with 22%, that sexual orientation be removed from lesbians and gays, and to the education of donars are joining the foundations in Gay men and lesbians are encouraged to Simon, 12%, and all other candidates the bill. the Black community at large about gay setting up the National Community (Democratic and Republican) only 5% or let the publishers of the country's major COUPLES The Hate Crimes Statistics Act would and lesbian concerns and realities. news magazines know that their lack of AIDS Partnership, which will channel less. mandate the collection of statistics on INCORPORATED NCBLG's new office will be located at coverage of the March on Washington funds to hundreds of local organizations "Jackson's strong support among our crimes that are motivated by prejudice members reflects his outspoken and 19641 West Steven Mile, Detroit MI was disgraceful. around the country, many of which are based on race, religion, sexual orientation visible identification with the gay/lesbian 48219. Protests can be registered by gathering struggling with fragile financing to and ethnicity. The House Judiciary provide housing, day care, counseling and community's agenda," observed NGLTF the pre-paid subscription postcards found Executive Director, Jeff Levi. "Dukakis' Committee voted 21-13 to support the other services. in every issue of Newsweek, Time, and relatively strong showing probably bill and report it to the House for action. The partnership will also finance Couples, Inc US News and World Report. Each of the results from a good AIDS policy and The National Gay and Lesbian Task Grassroots Efforts cards may be sent anonymously, but preventive education to curb the diseaes's Adopts New Logo Force expects the bill to reach the House general support for anti-discrimination across the face of the card, individuals spread. policies - despite a controversial Massa- floor in late May. NGLTF and a Strengthened by should write the phrase, "No March - No Initially, the Ford Foundation will chusetts foster care policy which coalition of 53 religious, feminist, Merger Money" to register their protest. The contribute $2 million to the partnership. disfavors gay/lesbian parents." professional and civil liberties groups WASHINGTON, DC - The Fairness financial cost to the companies of these Much smaller sums at the outset are The survey also asked respondents to LOS ANGELES, CA - Couples Inc, the have secured 109 co-sponsors in the Fund, a two-year old gay/lesbian cards is about 390 each. coming from philanthropies in the rate selected gay/lesbian issues. The ten National Organization for Family House, A companion bill in the Senate issues which ranked as of most concern grassroots mobilization group, has Lesbian Connection national partnership: the Kaiser Family Diversity, has adopted a logo to represent (S. 2000) has 6 co-sponsors to date. were: merged into the Human Rights Foundation, $200,000; the Rockefeller them as a couples' rights group. The new Rep Gekas has led two previous Foundation and Gannett Foundations, Campaign Fund, a political action Gay/Lesbian Issues, 1988 logo was designed by Deborah Hanan, a attempts to remove sexual orientation $100,000 each; and the Xerox graphic artist and calligrapher in West from the legislation while it was in committee working to secure full human rights for gays and lesbians and DISCOVER QUARTZ Foundation and the Aetna Life and 1) Federal gay/lesbian rights laws 25% Hollywood, California, and the individual committee. Both attempts failed. The Casualty Foundations, $50,000 each 2) Funding for AIDS research 20% responsible for the development of the filing of the minority report assures that responsible federal policies to fight AIDS. annually for two years. 3) Extension of family benefits for poster used in The Wedding at the another attempt to delete the provisions gay/lesbian family units 12% "By joining forces with the However, the partnership seems October March on Washington. will be made during floor consideration assured of at least $8 million as it 4) Federal medical insurance for extraordinarily successful Campaign 9% The new logo for Couples Inc includes of the bill. The other signers of the uninsured people with AIDS Fund, we give added visibility, clout and begins, as community foundations in 5) Funding for AIDS education 7.3% two intertwined hands both wearing minority report are: Rep Bill McCollum nine regions have agreed to raise 6) More government appointments wedding bands representing a committed (R-FL), William Dannemeyer (R-CA), resources to our important grassroots $100,000 to $500,000 and match the of openly gay/lesbian people 7% relationship. The hands are super- Howard Coble (R-NC), and Lamar Smith initiative," said the Rev Troy Perry, sum coming from the national partners. 7) Federal action against imposed on a lavender heart symbolizing (R-TX). Co-Chair of the Fairness Fund's National anti- g ay/lesbian violence 6% More community foundations will join love and in keeping with the group's The Gekas minority asserts that "It is Mailgram Campaign and founder of the 8) Anti-AIDS discrimination laws 5.9% Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan later this year, extending work to 9) Executive order banning slogan, "Love makes a family. Nothing not a federal obligation to protect citizens additional regions. discrimination 4.5% else, nothing less." The heart is in their sexual orientation." Despite a Community Churches (MCC). Fairness Fund constituent mobiliza- 10) Revision of immigration completely surrounded by a pink triangle, recent Department of Justice study which exclusion of gay men/lesbians 3% tion, in the form of thousands of letters, New York Times and the Nazi symbol for homosexuals in the found gay people to be the most frequent mailgrams and calls, will in turn Wisconsin State Journal concentration camps during World War victims of hate violence today, the Gekas dramatically enhance the Campaign .•:”.1.4.4”::•+•:••:••:•••:••::••:•++.:••••4••■:,•+•:•+++4■4::. II. The triangle is used to show that report disputes the prevalence of anti-gay I. • • . 4 today gay and lesbian families are violence. Fund's lobbying on Capitol Hill and .:. .:. .:. • .:. surrounded by the repression and improve chances of making legislative • Michael Sack • gains on AIDS and fairness issues. Certified Public Accountant : homophobia of society. • • Couples Inc is a single issue political Although the Campaign Fund has For 20 years, BODOH has been the 4. NCBLG Headquarters : advocacy organization believing that "smart, articulate lobbyists and generous definitive source for quartz crystals and •+ • Offering the full range of Moved to Detroit donors," according to Executive Director jewelry. This fascinating booklet dis- audit, accounting, and tax services : STARK. same-sex couples and other gay and Vicotr Basile, it is the grassroots support plays the highest quality crystal balls, •:. •: lesbian families should be entitled to the •:. •:. WASHINGTON, DC - The Board of that ultimately sways legislators. The pyramids, and jewelry, complete with •:. . 4, same rights and priviliges as married ...:. 1900 University Ave • ®, CRS Candidate Directors of the National Coalition of extensive gem and collector price lists; 4..,• Susan Harris/Realtor heterosexual couples. To reach Couples Fairness Fund has a "proxy system" Madison WI 53705 4.• a must for anyone interested in quartz. 4.• Office: 608/221-4000 Home: 608/251-4212 Black Lesbians and Gays has announced through which its subscribers can dial an 4, 4, Inc, write PO Box 13323, Los Angeles, 233-8333 • Catalog: $1.00 4, 4509 Cottage Grove Road Madison, WI 53716 the relocation of its national headquarters 800 telephone number to have an + • •:. CA 90013, or call (213) 550-7549. from Washington DC to Detroit MI; 4::- -:--::- •:–:-.:-.:- 4.-:-.:–:-.::–:- +4.4. -:–:- 4- •:- •:--:•-:-4,--R authorized mailgram sent to a legislator PO Box 248, Edgerton WI 53534 effective May 16, 1988. when contituent pressure is needed.

2 / Among Friends "Couples, Inc" The Other Credit Card And the Winner Is... CCF Directory of Currently, in Wisconsin, if a person The afternoon session consisted of "MNDC Plus" Gay/Lesbian has AIDS and can no longer live on his numerous reports dealing with school Honors Gay and Organizations or her own or needs a place to stay for a based and community education Lesbian Families An agency known as Working Assets is short time, the only option is a hospital programs. Curriculum development, the offering a Visa credit card service to those MILWAUKEE, WI - The Cream City or hospice facility; both of which are State Media AIDS Campaign, business who wish to join the protest against STEVEN'S POINT, WI - The Monday LOS ANGELES, CA - In recognition of Foundation of Milwaukee is in the extremely expensive and very and industry training, public employee standard Visa cards. In response to Night Dance Club of Steven's Point has the love and commitment represented by process of developing a complete impersonal. training, high-risk education, minority actions of the US Olympic Committee changed its name to "MNDC Plus." lesbian and gay families, Couples, Inc - At the Club's 4th Anniversary party on organizational directory for Wisconsin, "The two-story home, designed to education, and special outreach efforts to "the national organization for family against the organizers of the Gay Games according to their Public Relations Chair accomodate those who, with a little the homosexual/bisexual population of (formerly the Gay Olympics), the April 4, an overwhelming majority of diversity" - has designated May 8, 1988 Bob Melig. support, can be fairly independent, offers Wisconsin were the focus of presenta- Working Assets money fund has donated members voted for the new name which as Parents Day. That Sunday, which is The directory would be used at the all the niceties of a peaceful, dignified, tions to the council. Discussion was to three gay and lesbian rights not only maintains the recognition the traditionally Mothers Day, will be Club already has, but also reflects the Foundation Community Center to beautiful home at a minimal price," generally limited due to time constraints, marked by celebrations in several cities. organizations. answer phone calls and assist those who according to Dr Karen Lamb, co-chair- and council action was limited to a The three groups, National Gay Rights fact that MNDC is not "just for "We plan to honor gay fathers and stop in. In addition, it will be circulated person of the board of community general endorsement of the on-going Advocates, National Gay and Lesbian Mondays" anymore. lesbian mothers for the love and care they only to gay/lesbian organizations for advisors of the AIDS Resource Center of activities of each of the represented Task Force, and the Lambda Legal The party was well attended, with free give their children," said Walter Wheeler, their confidential use. Wisconsin. professions. Defense and Education Fund, each food, door prizes and entertainment by president of Couples. "Same-sex couples The CCF asks for your help by doing Purchase of the house was made The only sign of potential discord received $1,000 from the Working Assets performers Miss Andrea Scott and Miss make up a large and mostly quiet seg- the following: possible by funding from Milwaukee came when Craig Parshall delivered a talk corporate fund. Tammi Capri. ment of the lesbian and gay community. 1) Send current brochures for their corporations and labor organizations. on behalf of the Concerned Women of Working Assets, which calls its card While many of these couples are raising MNDC PLUS Plans referral file. Although the house is scheduled to America. Introducing himself as the "the credit card with a conscience," children, there are also large numbers of Memorial Day Picnic 2) If there are no brochures, compile a receive its first clients in May, the AIDS husband of a "Concerned Woman of regularly donates 5¢ of each transaction lesbian and gay parents without brief description of your organization, Resource Center of Wisconsin is still in America," Mr. Parshall outlined high to non-profit organizations, including partners." STEVENS POINT, WI - On Monday, meeting times, dues and whatever need of many things before the school curriculum goals which stressed Equal Rights Advocates, the National May 30th, the Monday NIght Dance particulars are available about the independent living center can open its the family, abstinence, and monogamy as AIDS Network, and the National Gay and Club Plus of Stevens Point will hold its organization. doors. Besides monetary, their needs messages relevant to AIDS prevention Lesbian Task Force. annual Memorial Day Picnic from noon 3) Include the CCF on your include furniture, large and small and education. Family values were Working Assets may be contacted at until 7:00 pm. The party will then organization's mailing list. appliances, carpeting and food. stressed as a potential vehicle to curbing 13,000 to 21,000 230 California St, San Francisco CA move to The Flame. Free tunes, games, The Cream City Foundation can be The AIDS Resource Center of the spread of AIDS; homosexuality was 94111. IV-Drug Users food, beer, and pop. Locale to be reached at CCF, PO Box 204, Wisconsin operates the Milwaukee AIDS not discussed, nor were specific education Equal Times Statewide! announced by contacting the MNDCP at Milwaukee, WI 53201-0204, or by Project and will soon open a project in measures directed to gay and lesbian PO Box 1016, Stevens Point, WI phone at (414) 276-2204. the Racine-Kenosha area. youth. New Area Resources 54481. For more information about the The Council adjourned after a brief MADISON, WI - There may be between Lesbian/Feminist Book Club (LFBC), Beginning June 19th the management Resource Center, contact the Milwaukee discussion of the day's reports, some 13,000 and 21,000 IV-drug users PWAs Get A Home PO Box 821, Marshfield WI 54449. of the Platwood Club, Stevens Point, AIDS Project at 414-273-AIDS. recommendations to the health care statewide according to a representative of begins opening on Sundays at 3:00 pm In Milwaukee professionals regarding HIV prevention, the state task force on drug abuse. InStep, ARCW and the Milwaukee Journal Greater North AIDS Project (GNAP), for the summer. Sunday afternoons will and a reminder that the next meeting was Although the exact number of IV-drug 2 East 5th Street, Duluth MN 55805; MILWAUKEE, WI - The growing offer you a choice of volleyball, dancing, scheduled for July, 1988. abusers is not precisely known, the lower (715) 727-AIDS. number of AIDS cases in Wisconsin has drinking, and socializing. There is no number is a Federal estimate, while the brought with it a growing need for cover charge. upper limit is an estimate of the State housing alternatives to accomodate those Governor Thompsons 1.011.0.11=41=4/C=4 Council on Alcohol and Other Drug living with AIDS. In attempts to meet HIV Council Meets Abuse. this need, the AIDS Resource Center of MARK F BORNS Wisconsin purchased a home on the At a recent HIV Infection Advisory MADISON, WI - On April 29, the Serving All Your Legal Needs Council, this gave Council member Jay Gay & Lesbian Books north side of Milwaukee to be used as an Governor's HIV Infection Advisory Hatheway cause for concern as he pointed independent living center. Council met for the second time at the GENERAL AND TRIAL PRACTICE out that we may be sitting on a time Although planners will not make the Concourse Hotel in Madison. Civil Rights and Constitutional Law bomb if HIV is introduced into this address public, they are already contacting After preliminary remarks by the Family Law - Divorce and Custody population. neighbors about the home. Chairperson, Dr Jerome Gunderson, and Criminal and Traffic Defense HIV Council members who already "We are working with neighbors to get approval of the minutes of the last work with IV-drug users expressed the **** their cooperation," said Susan Dietz, Council meeting, committee proceedings 222 South Bedford, Madison WI 53703 same concersn, and were quick to point director of the Milwaukee AIDS Project. began with a morning full of reports (608) 255-7600 out the need for increased counseling in Fiction and Video "We have had positive responses" from from the health professions. Represen- K=1=41{=>1}.===7t/C the areas of HIV transmission among neighbors, said Dietz. Asked if there had tatives of the medical, dental, nursing this population. It was pointed out that 315 N. Henry Street 255-1994 been any negative response, she said, home, AODA counselor, and emergency while drug counselors are not presently "There is no negative response that I can responders fields presented the council YOUR VOTE COUNTS prepared to take on the additional Open 7 Days A Week 10 A.M. - 10 P.M. describe to you." Dietz said the AIDS with information regarding on-going responsibility of HIV counseling, they Resource Center would act only as a AIDS and HIV education, The focus of would welcome closer cooperation landlord for the duplex, providing no the reports was education and prevention Vote 88 V between all agencies coping with AIDS, Downtown Madison 's medical or support services in the home. within the respective professions. HIV and IV-drug abuse. Neighborhood Video and Bookstore

4 I AMONG FRIENDS 5 1988 Chicago Chicago was the driving force for getting Gay/Lesbian Pride Rightfully Lionheart on the road to success. The MADISON GAY THEATRE PROJECT Week group has performed in bookstores, parks, schools, theatres, and bars around MGTP's schedule also leaps into 1989; on February 26, it the country and the world. As of late, will sponsor the annual Mr/Miss Gay Madison Pageant, as it The 1988 Chicago Gay and Lesbian Pride Lionheart had been performing on and off Week will begin on Friday, June 17 and has done since 1983. around the Chicago area. MGTP was founded in 1982 by Michael Bruno and Wagner, end on Sunday, June 26 with the 19th While in Madison and Milwaukee the Annual Parade and Rally. The theme for who earned a BA in theatre from UW-Whitewater, with an group will perform a series of three emphasis on costume design and directing as well as a minor in the parade, as well as for Pride Week as a one-act plays. The group's repetoire will whole is "Rightfully Proud." This MILWAUKEE 88 vocal performance. MGTP soon moved away from stand-up begin with a play entitled A Layman's comedy (Bruno's forte) into "regular (gay) theatre," according to theme was selected at the International LESBIAN • GAY Guide to Safe Sex. The play was written Wagner. Early presentations included Robert Patrick's The Holy Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride CELEBRATION by Jeff Hagedorn (who also wrote One, Hooker and The Nice Girl at the Isthmus Playhouse, and Three Coordinators Conference held last Fall. the first AIDS play in the nation) who is A new logo design, which reflects the Plays for a Gay Theatre, by playwright and novelist Richard a playwright from Chicago. Layman's Hall, presented at the Marquette Neighborhood Center. Wagner theme, will be used on all buttons and Guide is a witty and detailed "handbook" posters. Buttons will go on sale in May describes these performances as "far from the best we've done," Logo for Milwaukee on how to make love, not death. Within but adds that "they gave us a decent foundation." at community businesses in Chicago. Layman's Guide you will find the do's Wagner says that the company hopes to do more "mainstream For the third year in a row, the Gay Pride Gay/Lesbian Pride and don'ts of loving in both straight and plays" with gay characters or plays which can be given a Flag will be displayed in parades from gay combinations. A second play, different perspective on the original script. An example of the coast to coast, including Chicago. For MILWAUKEE, WI - The logo design Dykes Who Date, portrays a woman in Who's Afraid of Virginia the fourth year in a row, the paarade will for Milwaukee's first Lesbian/Gay Pride latter was MGTP's performance of celebration has been completed and the midst of a life crisis while being Woolf?, in which MGTP interpreted the text and relationships be listed as an official city event in interviewed at a video dating service. the "Neighborhood Festivals" brochure submitted to the Pride Celebration differently. steering committee for application on The play is serious and insightful. A recent audience survey also indicates that potential which is published and widely distributed T-shirts, banners, and assorted Written by Susan Lersch, it manages to theatre-goers want to see more specifically gay themes, by the City of Chicago Department of address fundamental questions of life and Special Events. paraphernalia associated with the controversy and works about being gay in the Midwest. production of the Pride celebration. its uncertainties. The final play that For more information, contact the Gay Wagner notes that the latter are particularly difficult to find, one The artwork was conceived and Lionheart will perform is entitled Nobel and Lesbian Pride Week Planning reason for which he and Doran wrote their own play. produced by SHAFER DESIGN, a Intentions. Written by Lawrence Committee, PO Box 14131, Chicago, IL Wagner says that the company actively solicits scripts and Milwaukee-based graphics and Bommer and Rick Paul, the play Jim Roy and Victoria Thomas 60614, 312-348-8243. has received many from New York and Chicago. "We try to illustration studio which has been manages to address the area of research in MGTPs production of P.S. Your Cat Is Dead combine what's being written with what we can do." But proudly serving our Lesbian Gay and AIDS. Are researchers motivated by problems, such as cast size and prohibitively large royalties, human "good-will" intentions or are they community since its inception in 1985. often crop up. And these aren't the only difficulties for Wagner. just out to see who can get the Nobel The United Some clients include Meridian Music by Jeff Kirsch for Speak Its Name, A scheduled 1987 production of Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Celebrates 10 Years Distributors, Icebergg Records, Lambda prize first? Lionheart's stop in Madison article funded by a grant from New Harvest Foundation Rights Network, Hurricane Productions, and Milwaukee will bring the premier Grapevine, and Cream City Foundation. performance of this recently written play. MADISON, WI - After a slim schedule in 1987, the Madison MADISON, WI - The United, an agency Mary Shafer, proprietor and principal In Milwaukee, Lionheart will perform Gay Theatre Project has this year expanded its productions, is serving gays and lesbians, is celebrating designer of Shafer Design, stated that she on Friday, May 20th at lOpm at The Ball back on its feet, and is ready to go. its 10-year anniversary. was pleased to be able to serve the Game, located at 192 S Second St. According to Artistic Director Darrell Wagner, three The group was founded in 1978 to community once again by donating the Donation is $4.00. The proceeds will productions are slated for the remainder of 1988, First up will protect Madison's city ordinance banning time, labor, and materials to the Pride benefit the Brady Street Cline. For more be two one-act plays to be presented May 13, 14, 20, and 21 at discrimination based on sexual orienta- information, contact Bob at 273-2950. committee on this job. the Neighborhood House on South Mills Street in Madison. thS Milwaukee tion. The United evolved into a broader Lionheart will perform in Madison on The two plays are Edward Albee's Zoo Story and an original AIDS Project group "to work toward the establishment Saturday, May 21st at 8pm at the work, Married, Filing Separate, written by Wagner and Ben tie of a safe, positive environment for all Lionheart to Perform in Madison Senior Center located at 330 W Doran, Director of Audience Development for MGTP. Their dots p ,potA P1/41 AIDSLine lesbians and gay men," said Doug Madison Milwaukee Mifflin St. Donation is $5.00. All play, centering on a university student and a "working guy" Bauder, the organization's new coordin- proceeds will benefit The United - who is also a drag queen, deals with the former's acceptance of AIDS INFORMATION DELIVERY SERVICE LINE ator. Madison's only lesbian and gay social his sexuality and deciding whether to take his lover to a family MADISON, WI - Lionheart, a Chicago There are 20 volunteers, both male and service agency. Tickets can be picked up based gay acting group, will perform in wedding. For accurate-information and female, who work in the group's office at at the United office, A Room of One's referral services concerning Madison and Milwaukee during May. Following the one-acts, next up on MGTP's schedule is Noel 1127 University Ave. More than 1,250 Own, Four Star Fiction and Video, Auditions are scheduled for July AIDS, ARC and Safer Sex, call: Lionheart's purpose is twofold: to Coward's Design for Living. clients used the group's counseling and 21 and 23. Performances - one of which will form part of the provide an opportunity for Chicago area Orange Tree Imports, and Begonia's other services last year. Books and Bakery. For more informa- Festival of the Lakes - will be September 2, 9, 10, 16, and 17. Toll free in Wisconsin gay playwrights to produce their plays 1-800-334-AIDS The United also provides speakers for tion, contact the United at 255-8582. The final production of the year is tentatively scheduled to be and to raise money for gay service Within the Metro Milwaukee area, schools and other groups, and has a Jane Chambers' A Late Snow. Auditions are to be September organizations. The Lionheart idea was Sing for Fun! call library of more than 600 books dealing 29 and October 1, performances November 11, 12, 18, and 19. 273-AIDS conceived en-route to the 1979 Gay The United Fruit Co and The Tossed with gay and lesbian issues. Rights Parade in Washington. Rick The cast will be comprised of eight women and Wagner is still Monday - Friday 9am - 9pm Wisconsin State Journal Salad Singers rehearse Thursdays 7-9pm, Saturday Sunday 11 am - 5pm Paul, a professional scene designer from seeking a woman to direct the play. Those interested in 1001 University Ave, Madison. directing, as well as in volunteering for MGTP in any capacity, may call Wagner at (608) 271-1352. 61 AMONG FRIENDS Gertrude Stein had to be canceled when a hold was put on For has not that paragon of wholesome family virtues, the Television commercials, of course, are merely the most releasing scripts; the first scheduled production of A Late Snow THOUGHTS Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, told us himself that if God had blatant example of wedding ring paranoia. Just walk into any had to be nixed when difficulties ensued with the executix of On That Simple Band of Paranoia meant for there to be homosexuals, he would have created Adam bank. Notice how many of the male executives and junior Jane Chambers' estate. and Steve? (Oh, that Jimmy, he is a card, he is!) Jimmy wears executives sport wedding bands - often wide enough to nearly Even when plays have made it to the stage, things can go Roger Margason a wedding ring, you can bet your sweet life, and we all know reach from knuckle to knuckle so as to be seen and identified awry - "typical theatre stories," Wagner says laughingly. After All right, class, here's your homework assignment for tonight: what a real man that makes him, don't we? But I digress... from a great distance. Or try an insurance company, paying unloading the set for Virginia Woolf in a -44° windchill factor, I want you to watch television from the time you get home The traditional wedding ceremony considers a wedding ring to particular attention to those men dealing with the public: MGTP had to cancel two of its three performances when the until the time you go to bed. Forget the programs - just represent the unbroken circle of eternal love, or some such claims adjusters and salesmen. Or almost any salesman, for audience numbered but one person. When the play was finally concentrate on the commercials. I want you to mark down the thing, and a great many gays and lesbians involved in relation- that matter. presented, an actress' knee "gave out," forcing her to remain number of men you see wearing wedding rings on these ships wear wedding rings for this reason. A good many more, My question is simple: What is with these people??? Why seated on a sofa for the duration of the performance. On another commercials. however, wear them for protective coloration - a variation of the do they, with great moral indignation and outrage, see gay and lesbian demands for basic human rights and dignity as occasion, a lighting technician fell asleep during a performance I'll caution you in advance: you'll need a big sheet of paper. punch line from the old fox-in-the-henhouse joke: "Ain't and the lights failed to go down at the play's end. And a lot of pencils. Why? Because I am willing to wager you nobody in here but us chickens!" "flaunting" our lifestyle while the fist they shake in our faces MGTP now has a core of "four or five" regularly a considerable sum of money that, unless the commercial I don't know that good old Siggy Freud ever laid it out in so prominently displays a wedding ring? participating volunteers. While the number is small, Wagner is specifically involves a dating situation ( a man dating a woman, many words, but the sexual symbolism of rings is just a tad What is there about homosexuality that intrigues and nonetheless pleased, not surprisingly for those who know that of course, you silly), chances are 7:10 or 8:10 that the man will obvious: the finger represents the... well, you know; the ring threatens heterosexuals so? Do they think we're out to take Wagner himself essentially was the Madison Gay Theatre be wearing a wedding ring, even if the blessed state of represents the... well, you know! I figured that one out for over the world? God knows, they've got us outnumbered and Project for most of its first four years. Like almost all gay matrimony has nothing whatever to do with what's happening myself by the time I was ten, which probably explains why, to are busy breeding billions and billions more of themselves (and, organizations, however, MGTP still seeks new talent and on-screen. If the man is portraying a business executive or this day, rings make me slightly nauseous. of course, us). Why do they become absolutely rabid over the energy. anyone in a position of authority, the odds move up slightly, to Madison Avenue, in its eternal search for ways to cram the fact that gays and lesbians do not "procreate" while at the same Like some other Madison theatre companies, MGTP falls nearly 9:10. But, if there is an adult male featured in inter- strongest possible symbolism into the simplest possible time they decry the very real threat of overpopulation they outside the mainstream. Rehearsals, Wagner explains, have action with a child, the chances are 9.5:10 to 9.9:10 that his image, was quick to recognize everything the wedding ring themselves have created? taken place at such off-beat sites as on railroad tracks, in malls wedding ring will be conspicuously in view. really represents in a society as sexually paranoid as our own. Some day, we may have the answers. But for now, let's just and grocery stores in Milwaukee, and in Madison's Vilas Park The point being made with all the subliminal subtlety of a (And what odds would you give me that every single male actor all put on our wedding rings and get out there and mingle! Zoo, one of the group's "favorite places." Of "zoo rehearsals," sledgehammer blow to the forehead is not so much that the man over the age of 21 who acts or hopes to act in a TV Wagner comments, "We get lots of looks, fun things happen just happens to be married (in real life, probably fewer than commercial, be he married or single, straight or gay, has a David Clarenbach - ISSUES & COMMENT and we get a good reception. Madison is an okay place to do 50% of married men wear wedding rings) - it's to be damn sure wedding ring as an essential part of his wardrobe?) Wisconsin Law: such things." you know that ltik is a man worthy of your trust; a family You may have noted that we've said nothing of the women in Partially at the suggestion of others in the Madison theatre man; and most importantly, a heterosexual and therefore a television commercials. The reason is simple enough. Madison HIV ANTIBODY TESTS community who thought the company "limited itself' by its REAL MAN, not some f...ing faggot! Avenue mirrors the Great General Knowledge of our society: name, MGTP has adopted a second acronym, A01, which stands there are only two kinds of women - 1) single women who date CONFIDENTIALITY for "Acting Under the Influence." The name has sparked a (yes, date men! Pay attention!) and 2) women who are already Consent. No test can be run on anyone's blood without the mixed reaction. While MGTP thought of the name married (to men), who all, of course, wear wedding rings. If knowledge and consent of the subject. In order for the antibody "philosophically, to represent the social structure and relation- you ever see a woman over 30 on a TV commercial who is test to be administered, a consent form must first be signed by Pick up your neither portrayed as dating nor shown wearing a wedding ring, ships we're in, everyone thought it meant we were on drugs," the subject, who must be informed in advance of the exceptions Wagner says. The company now uses AUI in large letters, give me a call. to the rule of confidentiality. summer reading Lesbianism, for some strange reason, does not present the followed by MGTP in smaller type, trusting that "one name Disclosure of Positive Test Results. In addition to the same Horrible Threat to the Very Underpinnings of Our clarifies the other." subject tested and the health care provider who ordered the now. Civilization as does male homosexuality. This is probably Doran, a recent addition to AUI/MGTP, received a BA in antibody test, the following exceptions to the rule of because western culture has never really taken women seriously Journalism at UW-Whitewater, where he met Wagner. Doran confidentiality will permit others possible access to positive enough to have considered them much of a threat to anything. first starred in MGTP's performance of James Kirkwood's P.S. test results when the identity of the subject is known: And if there are a few women out there who think of Your Cat Is Dead. "To try out was my first challenge and I 1) To the State Edidemiologist, or his or her designee, for the themselves as lesbians, it's only because they've never been enjoyed working with a small number of hard-working people," purpose of providing epidemiologic surveillance or says Doran. Today, his main challenge is "to find our audience with a REAL MAN. investigation or control of communicable disease. and find out what they want to see." 2) To an employee of the test subject's health care provider AUI/MGTP has largely "financed itself," though it has who provides patient care or handles specimens of body received what Doran calls "semi-major" revenue from the Coat fluids or tissues. Check at Rod's and the New Bar. It recently received a $100 3) To a blood bank or plasma center. grant from the New Harvest Foundation to print a brochure for Serving the community since 1975— 4) To assure medical acceptability of human body parts donated 1988. for transplanting. The company's most recent "major achievement," according 5) To a funeral director who prepares the body of a decedent for to Wagner, was its performance of One at the 1987 Wisconsin burial or disposition. Theatre Association Convention in Superior. "It gave us 6) To health care facility staff committees or accreditation credibility," says Wagner. The group first performed the play, Feminist review organizations for the purposes of conducting program which deals with AIDS, as a benefit for the Madison AIDS Bookstore monitoring and evaluation. Support Network. A Full Line Grocery! 7) To a court under lawful order. 317 W. Johnson Street "Credibility is necessary, but reaching our audience is the Open 9-9 Every Day 8) To a person who conducts research, for the purpose of Madison, WI 53703 bottom line," adds Doran. This goal is what AUI/MGTP nost 1202 Williamson St 251-6776 research, if the final product will not reveal information that Phone: 257-7888 hopes to achieve in 1988. may identify the test subject.

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10 /AMONG FRIENDS 11 This novella contains quite a few Dreams and Swords Gay/Lesbian Trivia Marty escapes finally, going off to Mama's Boy is an excellent book for Katherine V Forrest tasteful and erotic love scenes - my Mama's Boy Jeff Kirsch college and spending a year of his studies parents to read, written in a less favorite being the lovemaking done in Bev Arthur and Martin Arthur. Naiad Press, $8.95 (paperback) in Mexico. There, he discovers a friend "dogmatic" vein than many of the the gravity-free space of the Antares "Films of the '80s" Strawberry Hill Press, San Francisco CA 216pp, $9.95 (paperback) of his is gay and, only back in the "how-to" books for parents on accepting Reviewed by Francine D'Azzio asteroid belt. This creates an opportunity 1. The film Improper Conduct examines States, comes to terms with his own homosexuality. Not only this, it's a for all sorts of original and innovative the treatment of gays in: Reviewed by Jeff Kirsch homosexuality. He brings home his compelling narrative in itself, of interest I like to read short stories. .I like to sexual positions which proved to be quite a) Argentina b) Cuba lover, Steve, without identifying him as to many. Published by a small press and observe the depth and latitude an author entertaining. c) Nicaragua d) East Germany In point, counter-point fashion, Bev such. Marty is afraid to come out to his the recipient of little media attention, possesses and how she or he maintains a Perhaps I ahould have prefaced this 2. Desert Hearts is about a lesbian rela- Arthur and Martin Arthur, a mother and mother, fearing she'll be caught in the Mama's Boy is one of those "small" gay common theme or thread to her or his review by stating my vague indifference tionship which takes place in 1959 in: her gay son, recreate their lives in this middle between him and his step-father, books, a "sleeper," if you will, which work. Short stories also come in handy toward Katherine Forrest. Aside from her a) Salt Lake City b) Las Vegas insightful and often dramatic narrative now in ill health. Bev, on her own guaranteed to be rewarding, deserves a if the reader gets hung up on a yawner - Kate Delafield novels, I have found her to c) Santa Fe d) Reno that points up how truth, at times, can initiative, fears that Steve is leading her much wider audience. skip right on through to a new story and be a tad dull. I approached her latest 3. The Mexican gay film of Dona be stranger than fiction. Set largely in son astray and writes Marty to that effect. Strawberry Hill Press may be contacted hope that the author can recapture one's work with renewed hope and tried to Herlinda and Her Son: small-town Iowa, Mama's Boy explores The letter's implication is clear. He at 2594 15th Avenue, San Francisco, CA attention. forget my previous negative experiences. a) has never been released commercially the intra-family relationships, especially writes back and comes out to his mother. 94127. Dreams and Swords is a diverse Unfortunately, the end result was the in Mexico of mother and son, in what started out as Within several years, Lon Arthur is collection of short stories written by same. She still doesn't do it for me. b) has a straight actor playing the leading a "typical" family around 1950. dead and Marty's relationship with Steve Lawrence University Katherine V. Forrest. Ranging from Sure, there were a few stories that gay role Things go awry soon enough. is over. Mother and son can finally detective to science fiction by definition, entertained me, but none that left me Begins AIDS c) takes place in Guadalajara Husband number one is an alcoholic and, communicate more frankly. At moments Forrest weaves gay/lesbian related themes breathless with anticipation (aside from d) all of the above in a drinken stupor, falls asleep with a dispassionate and always level-headed, in Education Campaign throughout each. all that aforementioned tumbling in 4. The Death of Mikel, in which a cigarette and dies in the ensuing fire - Mama's Boy Bev weaves her way APPLETON, WI - A comprehensive "Jessie" is a Kate Delafield story. space). In short, the suspenseful didn't mother murders her gay son, is in which fortunately, just after Bev has moved through her stormy life, admits she was AIDS education campaign has begun at Delafield is a Los Angeles Police Depart- suspend and the erotic didn't inspire. of the following languages? herself and her two children out of the unable to reach out to her son and see the Lawrence University. Every student, ment dective who stars in two earlier As I said at the beginning of this a) Basque b) Serbo-Croatian house. pain he suffered. Marty explores his staff member, and faculty member Forrest novels, Amateur City and Murder review, it must be difficult to be c) Rumanian d) Greek After a stint living with her parents, dislike for his step-father, his resentment received an AIDS brochure from the at the Nightwood Bar. In "Jessie," Kate consistent when writing short stories. I 5. My Beautiful Laundrette depicts a gay Bev remarries - a teetotaler this time - toward his mother, his own feelings of American College Health Association sets out to assist her friend, Sheriff Jessie must sadly admit that for this reader, relationship between a South London and the family moves across the state, being gay. Finally mother and son and the Statement on AIDS and Graham, solve the disappearance of Forrest had my mind wandering and my punk and: Associated Conditions from the Lawrence before he takes them to Idaho. After a reconcile, accepting each other for who Kate's old buddy and work partner, Walt eyes scanning ahead now and then to see a) a Russian b) a Pakistani short while there, he admits to a com- they are. AIDS Task Force. President Richard Kannon. Along with good detective how many pages were left to Dreams and c) an Egyptian d) a Filipino pulsive gambling problem, ships them Although at times analytical, their Warch sent a letter with the brochures to nosework (and just as interesting), the Swords. 6. Director Jill Godmilow, in her back to Iowa, and goes to Las Vegas story is told largely in novelistic fashion introduce the campaign and urge all story parallels the ironic tragedy of treatment of Gertrude Stein and Alice B himself. He returns, they resume a and becomes almost a dual-perspective members of the university too attend a Velma Kannon's life and what the reader Toklas, Waiting for the Moon, said she: routine family existence again, then one novel as well as approximates a pseudo- convocation featuring Dennis Maki, MD, must assume many "long time wives- a) intended to portray all men as sexists MATURE MALES day he disappears off the face of the earth. sociological study of the family, not of the University of Wiscosnin Hospitals lives to be. b) wanted to avoid the topic "lesbianism" Presumed by the local authorities to be withstanding the necessary biases of the and Clinics in Madison. Anyone who's ever felt the frustration 60 to 90 c) made a "pre-feminist" film dead, kidnapped or murdered, he is located narrators. At the same time, it's a work In his letter, President Warch stated of a helpless, powerless amd miserable d) all of the above MAKE THIS YEAR THE MOST on the West Coast some time later, of healing - not so much the process that "[t]he university believes education sitution nd the carefully groomed system 7. Which of the following "gay" films - UNFORGETTABLE YEAR OF YOUR LIFE. having run off with a local "barmaid." thereof, but an example of survival, of is the most effective way to prevent the of injustice in our world (and who hasn't) WHY BE ALONE? all homophobic to some extent - was not The children, now numbering three, are how others can heal, too. further spread of the disease." He will enjoy the sweet, ironic twist to produced in the United States? This service is to bring companionship shuttled from house to house, shunted Mama's Boy has as one of its intents concluded his letter with a request of all "Force Majeur." Joan Bronson Randall a) The Decline of the American Empire to mature people regardless of race, colour, from school to school, as Bev aims for an exploration of family circumstances Lawrentians: "For your protection and for is a lesbian hopelessly trapped in a b) Personal Best c) Partners creed, or sexual preference. financial solvency, living with her that might have caused Marty to be the protection of others, I urge you to fraudulent marriage who finds things This service is NOT for those seeking d) The Dresser parents between husbands. Enter "different," might have contributed to his become knowledgeable about AIDS and getting increasingly more miserable and sexual trysts. It IS for mature males who 8. Prick Up Your Ears is the film to act responsibly on the basis of that seek companionship. husband number three, Lon Arthur - homosexuality. This statement, perhaps frightening as her father lies dying in a treatment of the life of gay British knowldege." Why be lonely when 200 men 60-90 neither a drunk, nor a gambler, nor a naive on the son's part, in no way hospital. Instead of finding escape and author: await you? Bi-monthly newsletter lists pals womanizer - who comes with his own diminishes the profound effect of this Members of Lawrence University Gay relief, the death of her beloved father a) Noel Coward b) Joe Orton to share digs and life. Single, divorced, ready-made family of two children. The book. Bev's concluding statement, more and Lesbian Alumni (Lawrence GALA) leads her more deeply into despair and c) E M Forster d) W H Auden widowed, present or former attorneys. new Mrs Arthur, Bev, bears him two realistic, bears repeating: had been critical of the university's lack desperation. Enter Mr Irony. brokers, clergy, doctors, engineers, 9. Kiss of the Spider Woman, for which more (the total count is up to seven, for If I had recognized my son's dilemma of response to the AIDS crisis. The The longest and most compelling work construction, teachers, truckers, writers, William Hurt won an Oscar for his those who are trying to keep track!). earlier, could I have made things easier Task Force, appointed by President in Dreams and Swords is the mysterious etc. etc. portrayal of the gay protagonist, is based The happy family seems ready to live a for him, at least at home? Had I known Warch at the beginning of 1987, took and erotic, "0 Captain, My Captain." In For information and application, on the novel by Latin American author: "normal" existence. Normalcy, to Lon more about homosexuality, would I have almost a year to issue any statement or this science fiction adventure, Lieutenant send $2.00 to: a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez Arthur's thinking, means that boys feared it less? Accepted it more easily? begin any type of education program. Harper accompanies space transport SUPER SIXTY INTERNATIONAL b) Manuel Puig should be "he-men." You can guess the In my ignorance, my silence and Lawrence GALA will seek further Captain Drake on a routine two-woman P.O. Box 755, Station E. c) Carlos Fuentes steps, including the installation of Victoria, B.C. Canada \JEW 2P9 result: Marty is abused verbally, when unwillingness to talk about it only voyage to the Antares asteroid belt. The d) Jorge Luis Borges not physically, for being "different," if perpetuated my fears. Maybe another condom machines in every bathroom of ensuing four-month journey becomes an 10. Which of the following films does not insubordinate. As a plot to attract mother, sister or brother, father, friend every dormitory and in common areas odyssey into passion and danger as not have a lesbian theme or character? attention from the now numerous family, will read this book and know that we're used by students, and the scheduling of Harper unfolds the true identity of the a) Lianna b) Deathtrap regular meetings and presentations of q-OI tq-6 ta-8 to-(,(, tcl-9 tq- g tr-p ti)- he takes to shoplifting. only afraid of the unknown. beautiful and sensual Captain Drake. tp-Z tcr ur;qqsaw(vp 01 SdatHSUV c) Windows d) Silkwood AIDS-related topics.

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