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In This Issue: Work Closets At 28, I was more worldly. I rCEiliy A Library Lesbian wanted my co-workers at my new job Undy PratclI to like me. I was aware of how It took a long time to find a job that blinding stereotypes can be, and so I suited me perfectly. Seven years later, didn't use the word lesbian when I I'm still thankful that I found that job; answered their questions. I saw Ann and that I look forward to arriving at watching me carefully at coffee time work each morning. I work at the - waiting to see what I would Southgate branch of the Edmonton say-as the other women Public Library. asked me about myself. Ann, the manager who hired My initial information was me, had known me from my guarded. I told them briefly college days. My girlfriend and about my partner, Elaine, I were quite visible on campus, ~ calling her simply "the woman and it was Ann's first direct I live with." I mentioned Elaine experience with lesbians. At that time, often, and some of my colleagues I was twenty years old. I had yet to caught on quickly, bless them. I experience name-calling and sneers. I gradually shared more and more of had yet to meet women who were myself, until I was out to everyone beaten up on the street simply because who cared to know. they were identified as dykes. My My approach has changed, now naiVete enabled me to be open and that I am comfortable at Southgate. trusting. Submissions of interest to local lesbians are always welcome! You may either write to Womonspace (#30-9930-106 St. Edmonton AB T5K 1C7), or attend our next newsletter meeting (see the calendar of events in this issue). Contributors this issue: Lindy Pratch, Alison, Roz Ostendorf, Sherry McKibben, Karen, Laurie

WOIllOJlspace News is a publication of Worn on space Socwl and Recreational Society of Edmonton. We an: a nonprofit organization. 'n1e newsletter is produced by, lor, and about lesbians m Edmonton and the surrounding areas. Our purpose is to intorm and entertain our members and any other interested lesbians. The opinions expressed in any issuc of lVol/lompace News do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Directors or the Newsletter Committee. The evcnts, orgunI/n tl ons and establislunents publicizL-d are not necessarily supported by Womonspace. H'ofllompace News is produced on a volunteer basis h) the NewslettLlr Conunittee. We welcome submissions. Material submittLld becomes the plOperty ofWomonspacc. We reserve the right to edit for length and content, and to refuse publication. Articles or letters to the editor rna} be sent to : Womonspaec, #30-9930-10(, Street, Edmonton, AB T5K IC7. Womonspace members may submit classilied advertising- up to 3 lincs lrcc--at any time /VolllollSpace News seeks advertising that is lesbian-positive to hdp defer puhlications wsts. Womonspace docs not necessarily endorse products or selvices otlered. We rL'l;crve the nght to refuse ads For rate inli)mlation, and to place an ad, please leave a message on thl! Lesbian Life Line: 425-0511 . The edItor is Lindy Pratch.

2 WOMONSPACE NEWS Sometimes I tell new staff that I'm a As regular Womonspace News lesbian right at the start, if they ask me readers will know, I have undertaken if I'm married. Other times I'll say that the pilot project of identifying I'm with someone, and leave it at that Southgate's gay and lesbian fiction for starters. Later, that person will get with rainbow stickers (which I hope to know me better. will be adopted throughout the library Every month for the last two years, I system) and also of compiling lists of have taken copies of this newsletter into gay and lesbian titles in our collection. the library to set on our table of give­ These will be available online through away literature. They disappear Edmonton free net. quickly. One day, I watched a patron Although there has been some perusing this table, her hand lightly opposition from patrons, I've had resting on Womonspace News as her nothing but encouragement from other eyes scanned the other material library staff. This project has also given available there.When she got to our me ties with gay staff at the other newsletter, it was obviously a shock. public library locations. She snatched her hand back as if it had My co-workers have told me that been burned, and hurried away. I they appreciate my openness, and have related the incident to my co-workers, said it makes a positive difference in and we all laughed. how they feel about gay issues. It is this I was surprised to find a staff kind of response that reinforces both member reading the newsletter at our my sense of self-worth andmy love for information desk, one morning. She my job. told me she looked forward to the The public library is a place of horoscopes each month. (Since Renee intellectual freedom, and the staff tend has taken a writer's sabbatical, her to hold a liberal outlook. This has made astrological column has been missed by it an easier workplace to be out in. many women.) Even so, it has taken quite a while for Support from my co-workers is me to be comfOliable having the shown in different ways. They ask how knowledge of my lesbian self available Elaine is doing, and congratulate me on throughout the library system. The our anniversary. When Elaine was reward is that my life feels whole. pictu red on the front page of The I'm trying to live my life as though &/mol1lol1 journal, people brought in social change has already happened extra copies for me, unasked. I sing in a -as though being a lesbian makes choir, and the presence of my co­ absolutely no difference to anyone, and workers at our Edmonton Vocal who I am as a person is what is Minority concerts is especially dear to impoliant. I feel very fortunate that I me. am able to do this.

WOMONSPACE NEWS 3 I may be successful at beitlg in the Work work closet, but it is starting to hurt. Can be a Lonely Place All week long, I am in a social v~c~um. It is lonely and isolating. It is splitting Alison me in two to keep separate my personal I am definitely in the work closet. and work lives. It is taking a lot of Afraid of the consequences, I have energy to protect my private life, and I chosen to not disclose my lifestyle at am getting exhausted. work. Instead, I am vague, distant and In his book Gay /.):-WCS ill thc aloof. I am an avoider. I steer clear of WorkplLlce~ Brian McNaught discusses situations in which I might reveal the six stages of coming out in the everyday information people ty~ically workplace. I put myself at about stage share with co-workers. I show httle two or three. Gay women in stage one interest in my co-workers lives, have a worse time at work than I do. fearing they may respond with a These women deny or do not accept similar inquisitiveness. When I do their sexual identity. At work, they may pal'ticipate in informal discussions, I be the ones telling or laughing at anti­ try to direct attention away from gay jokes, 01' are most v~al in their myself. opposition to the inclu~lo~ o~ se~ual I am so good at being in the work ol'ientation in a nOn-dISCriminatIon closet that most of my co-workers do policy. Such women are often unhappy not know the most basic facts about and disruptive at work and may not me. They don't know where I live, or make good team players. The anxiety of that I share my home with someone. denial may cause them to abuse alcohol They don't know that I own a car. and other drugs. They don't know where I grew up, Those in stage two accept that they who my family is, or if my parents are may be gay, but need to consider the dead or alive. They don't know what I ramifications. If they are gay, they do on weekends, holidays, or for wonder if they can pursue the career of vacations. They also have to draw odd their choice. At work, they may resent conclusions about me. This summer other more openly gay employees. They most of them thought I spent all three may oppose domestic partner benefits, weeks of my vacation, when my denying that gay relationships be sweetie and I gallivanted across four valued equally to heterosexual provinces, completely by myself. Some marriage. They may fear the hostilitx of co-workers have also concluded that I the significant heterosexual people In must spend my birthday and their lives and choose to live and work Christmas alone. far away from them.

4 WOMONSPACE NEWS In stage three, a woman has issues. They will attend an office event accepted that she is gay and begins a with a gay significant other. They may search for community to fulfill her feel angry and frustrated at the years social and emotional needs. At work, they spent in the closet, and can appear she is nervous about attending to have lost their sense of humour or "Homophobia in the Workplace" proportion. workshops, but is not hostile about In stage six, a gay woman feels her them. She may be interested in joining homosexuality is integrated into all the say and lesbian support group at aspects of her life, including the work, but only if the meetings are held workplace. Along with her pride, she off-site. will still feel anger and distrust. But she Women in stage four accept rather recognizes that there is diversity among that tolerate being gay. They are both gay and straight people and does looking to build a life that reinforces a not make quick judgments based on positive identity. They will watch and sexual orientation. This makes her a be influenced by both closeted and out good team player. She becomes a gay co-workers, and by the attitudes of unique member of the workforce, other employees. These women would encountering others with pride, a sense make note of co-workers who of self, tolerance of difference, and an communicate their support of gay open mind. issues by posting "Safe Place" magnets, My partner is probably in early depicting a pink triangle surrounded by stage five. Her co-workers know lots of a green circle, in their offices. everyday facts about her, and together At stage five, women see being fully they sha re a strong workplace gay as legitimate and immerse camaraderie. She mentions my name themselves in the gay subculture. Their freely whenever she discusses the pride in being gay, combined with their comings and goings of home life. Her anger at homophobia and co-workers know that I bake the great heterosexism, may cause them to be muffins she takes to work each day. more politically active in the They know we visited my folks on our workplace. They will join the gay and summer holidays. Best of all, they get to lesbian support group at work and enjoy her sunny disposition because it want the meetings held on-site. They is not hidden deep within that work will tell more people, from co-workers closet. Her example helps me to see the to managers, they are gay. They will next steps I can take to move up a stage organize "Gay Awareness" weeks at or two. work. They will volunteer to speak as Gay Issues in the Workpltlce (1993) by Urian an openly gay woman during Ml'Nau)l.ht, author of On iJeing Gay, is available in the library at Grant MacEwan department meetings on diversity Community College.

WOMONSPACE NEWS 5 CALENDAR OF EVENTS September Events:

Groups and Weekly Events: Sunday, October 1 AIDS Walk for Life GLCCE (Gay and Lesbian Community Centre The walk will be held at Kinsmen Park. Check­ of Edmonton) has a new addressl Now located in &. entertainment begins at lOam; the walk in the basement below Iloystown Cafe, 1011 2- starts at noon. Individuals, students &. teams 124 Street. It is open Monday to friday from 7- iln! enwuraged to participate in the 3 km or 7 10 pm and Mondays and Wednesday from 1-4 km walk through the river valley trails. pm. Peer support counselling, lesbian coming Womonspacc Ncws Meeting out group, drop-in, and library. 488-3234. Boystown, 10 1 16-124 St., at noon. New volunteers are always welcome. OUTreach social & political student group on the Uniwrsity of Alberta campus: 988- Wednesday & Thursday, October 4 & 5 4166. . Bruised An evening of theatre & discussion on violence Adamant Eve feminist radio program in lesbian relationships. Wednesday's event is broadcast on CjSR, I'M 88.5, at the University for service providers, volunteers &. all of Alberta. Thursdays from 5-6 pm. interested persons; the cost is $5. Thursday's event is for women only; donations upon cntry. The times are the same each evening; 7-10 pm, Gaywire A lesbian and gay radio show on I'M at the Catalyst Theatre, 1O~)43-84 Ave. lor 88.5. Thursdays from 6-7 pm. more info, call 488-3234.

Edmonton Frontrunners Meet at the SE Friday, October 6 steps of the Butterdome, changed and ready to Cabaret for Michael Phair go, ewry Sunday at 9 am sharp, and run Listen to a live latin band, Risasa, at La Ilabana, through the river valley. jeff: 439-9803. 10238- 104 st. on Friday evening. $[) at the door. All are welcome to this fundraiser for Lambda Christian Community Michac1 Phair. Welcomes members of the lesbigay community; worship 7 pm Sundays, 10876-97 Saturday, October 7 Street. Phone 988-3913. A Dance for Ladies Only Shakespear's Darts &. Rumpus Room, 2nd Metropolitan Community Church 1100r-1 0306-112 Street. 429-n:H for details. Weekly worship, 10086 MacDonald Drive, Sundays at 7: 15 pm. Monday, October 9 Sacred Circle Dancing SOLO Social club for lesbians and bisexual Open to all women who want to come dance; women (over 18) gets together every week for no experience or expertise required. $4 a wide variety of public events and social admission. 7-9 pm, Riverdale Ilall, ~)2~{ 1- 100 functions. join the funl Linda at 447 -4 776. Ave. Call Mair, 433-1661 for dclails.

8 WOMONSPACE NEWS Westin Hallroom, 10135- 100 SI. Tickets $15 Wednesday, October 11 with all proceeds going to Alberta Breast Coming Out Day Cancer Research and Wings. Call 497-3221 . Come out, come out! Grand Opening of New Gay & Lesbian Saturday, October 28 Community Centre of Edmonton Edmonton Vocal Minority Cabaret Ribbon <:ulling ceremony at 7 pm. Che(:k out Season-opening cabaret at the Catalyst Theatre, our new location in the basement at 101 12- 10~)4g-84 Ave. Cocktails at 7 pm and 124 SI. and then join us upstairs for a cabaret performance starts at 8 pm. Tickets $15 in at Uoystown (10 I \6-124 SI.) . advance or $18 at the door. Call 486-9661 (ext 14) for tickets. Bring your cheque books Sunday, October 1 5 for the open bid auctionl Womonspace Annual General Meeting H::~O pm at jazzberrys, !)965 Whyte Ave. Tuesday, October 31 Uections for Board positions. Upcoming events Wayward Daughters and our future direction. You decide! All Interfaith group of MCC welcomes women members are urged to attend this important, wishing to share their faith experience & once-a-year event. Supper will be provided. spirituality with a supportive group. October's This meeting is for Womonspace members only. celebration is centered on the theme of the crone. Contact Karen at 431-2128 for location Monday, October 16 and further info. Edmonton Civic Election Make your vote count! Support the re-election Wednesday, November 1 campaigns for Michael Phair & Sherry Womonspace General Meeting McKibben. Contact Election Services at the City 7:30 pm at #30, 9930- 106 SI. If you are Clak's offi<.'c, 496-8008, if you require info on interested in becoming involved with our voting stations in your area. organization, come on downl

Saturday, October 21 Saturday, November 4 Womonspace Dance A Dance for Ladies Only Catering by jazzberrys, low-cost drinks, no cost Shakespear's Oarts & Rumpus Room, 2nd floor- beverages for non-drinkers and designated 10306 I 12 Streel. Call 429-7234 for details. drivers and LOTS or [)ANCIN~I Uonnie noon Community lIall, n240-93 St, 8 pm-I am. Sunday, November 5 Womonspace members $4, non-members $8. Womonspace News Meeting Uoystown, 101 16-124 Street, at noon. Monday, October 23 Submissions deadline for December issue on Sacred Circle Dancing the topic "Community." New volunteers are See October ~) entry for details. always welcome.

Wednesday, October 25 Investment Strategies for Women ~ Gay & Lesbian Infoline: An evening seminar hosted by jal.'kie ~ 988-4018 Charlesworth, Kathy lIendason & Corrine fuhr of $l.'otia McLeod. Feature presentaion by Gail Lesbian Life Line: 425-0511 Kennedy, author of Yvu~'C Worlh It. 7::{0 at the

WOMONSPACE NEWS 9 Work Closets and I share a home, two cats, a Laurie stubborn vegetable garden; that we go out dancing together, and 'do coffee' at To be or not to be ... out ... at work. places known to be frequented by Straight people have it so easy. They (gasp) gay and lesbian clientele' that I don't have to agonize over whether to write for the local lesbian newsiettel" tell their co-workers about the latest and that I have several bookshelves full adventure with their wife/husband/ of lesbian literature ('cliterature' as I girlfriend/boyfriend. Talk of spouses or like to call it) and gay magazines' that I significant others is so harmless ... they don't bother to hide when company don't ever have to think about comes over; and that the six-foot censoring their conversation, because rainbow flag hanging in our bathroom everyone concerned is presumed to be ~ymbolizes freedom for all persons, not happily heterosexual unless otherwise Just our homosexual sisters and specified. (And why would anybody brothers. want to admit to being anything other One of these days, I keep telling than happily heterosexual?) myself, I'll stop pretending and shock People benignly immersed in them all-although how much of a straight relationships can spout off ad shock it would be, I'm not sure. In nauseum about the latest piece of eleven years on the job, I've never furniture THEY bought together, or worn a dress or carried a purse, how well THEIR perennials are doing spoken of a boyfriend or feigned the or the great time THEY had in the ' slightest interest in men. Think I'm mountains on that romantic weekend fooling anybody? getaway. Yep~ one of these days I'm going to I, on the other hand-with both feet stomp Into that payroll office and get firmly rooted in the work closet-fed I my lesbian partner signed up on my have no choice but to be very selective about what I tell my co-workers about spo~sal ~nefits package. The company I tOIl for IS one of the few corporations my personal life. They know virtually that offers complete benefits to same­ nothing about how I spend the 16 sex paliners. hours a day that I'm not at the office. . But reaping those benefits would Most of them probably assume I have mean no more hiding. There's no such no life. No social life, anyway. I think thing as coming halfway out of that they figure I just go home and sleep-­ corporate closet. And once you're out alone, of course-until it's time to return for my next shift. there's nO,turning back. You can't sa~ They'd no doubt be amazed to lear:1 you were Just confused, or temporarily Insane (unless you're in the military that I not only have a lover, but that she where recanting statements about o~e's

10 WOMONSPACE NEWS sexual orientation seems to be ... Spent four I-o-n-g uncomfortable encouraged). And no matter how days hosting the mother-in-law ... who enlightened the corporate powers came down with the 'lesbian flu' the may be, that's little comfort if the moment she arrived from Ontario and grunts you're slaving away with in spent the entire four days of her stay the trenches start treating you like asking if every woman we knew was, scum just because of who you happeri you know, like US? (She couldn't bring to sleep with. herself to use the L-word, so we The solution? Win the lottery ... gleefully did, every chance we could. and you won't have to worry about We also couldn't help oui'selves from what those nasty little co-workers fu rther tormenting her by playing every think ever again. k.d. land and Melissa CD in the house, But seriously, folks ... I have often over and over and over and over.) proclaimed that if every lesbian Suffice to say the woman is having a woman and gay man stayed home hard time dealing with her daughter's from work on the same day, forcing unconventional lifestyle. Hmmm ... with our employers to realize what a large homophobic family members like that and valuable chunk of the workforce roaming this het-privileged planet, is it we constitute, maybe same-sex any wonder we're reluctant to come out benefits would become universal. at the workplace?1 In the meantime, do what you can ... and hang in there. Laurie's Dyke Jokes of the Month: Things I did on my summer What do you call an army of musical vacation: lesbians? Caught parts of the FOLK FEST­ ... Militia Etheridge. And wasn't it a scream watching all the dykes scrambling back and forth What do two femmes do in bed? trying to catch both Tracy Riley and ... Each other's makeu p. ani difrancol ... Watched the sexy, whimsical What's the best thing to wipe your face WIllN NIGIIT IS FALLING ... twice. with after oral sex? Loved it even more the second time­ ... Jodie Foster. although the true test will be when we've seen it on video as many times as LJ1SEK'J'1l£AKTS(around 43, at last count) ...

\\'OMONSPACE NEWS 11 A Quick Guided Tour of the Your Lesbian Self World Wide Web (WWW) for How Visible is She? Women (6372) Come and discuss on Saturday, Wed., Oct. 25, 7:30-9 pm November 4, 11 am - 1 pm OR Room 3-52 University Extension Centre Monday, November 6, 7 - 9 pm. (8303-112 Street) Discussions will be held at the $5 at the door; pre-registration is Unitarian Church of Edmonton. This is required to ensure a place. 492-3093. not a coming out group. Details next Discover why women across Canada issue of W0I110IlSp{ICe News, or phone are tapping into the Web, a computer Liz at 489-7998 or Sheryl at 454- network that helps you communicate, 8031. share ideas and find information. This visual presentation introduces the Internet and WWW and shows you how to connect with all the information available from around the world at the touch of the mouse. A log of interesting WWW sites relating to women's issues and interests will be provided. Women's Program Menopause and Osteoporosis: University of Alberta The Bare Bone Facts (6373) Wed., Nov. 8, 7-9:30 pm Career Crossroads II: Exploring Resource fair opens at 6 pm the First Steps Toward Starting Bernard Snell Hall, U of A Hospital your own Business (6346) No fee, but pre-registration is required Wed., Oct. 4, 5:30-7:30 pm. to ensure a place. 492-3092. Bernard Snell Hall, U of A Hospital The Way of the Goddess (6353) (112 St. and 85 Ave.) Gita Das, presenter $5 at the door; pre-registration is Wed., Nov. 22, 7;30 pm necessary. 492-3092. Rm 3-52, University Extension Centre Seize the opportunity to overcome your No fee, but pre-registration is required fear and to learn from and interact to ensure a place. 492-3092. with highly successful business Promoting interfaith education, this talk women. What is entrepreneurship? features a slide-show of icons of Where do you start? Bring your goddesses in museums and temples and questions and discover whether or not an examination of the role of the entrepreneurship is for you. feminine principle in the great world religions.

t 2 WOMONSPACE NEWS dead. It isn't long before Emma is over Between the Covers her head in crime solving. At Edmonton Public Library The style is an amusing parody of Lindy Pnilch the film noir gumshoe fiction of the I hope you like mysteries, because all forties. The eighties setting and the but two of this month's books fall into feminist social concerns brought that category. author Barbara Wilson to mind­ Lil Ritchie is a lesbian private Murder in the Collective (1984). investigator in a new series by Phyllis Smokescreen (1993) by Lynette Knight, first introduced in Switching Prucha, is another parody of the genre, the Odds (1992). In Shattered rather wittier and more hip than the Khythms (1994) Ritchie is hired to find other novels I've mentioned so far. a missing legendary jazz guitarist. Her Mercedes Martini responds to a plea quest takes her from her home in for help from her actress friend Mona Maine to the Montreal Jazz Festival. Lisa. Jewelry theft? Kidnap? Murder? The author's love and knowledge of Mercedes has no idea what she's up music is evident. Sometimes the many against as she searches night time Los details in the story threaten to Angeles for answers. overwhelm the plot, but it's pretty good Anne Cameron wrote The Journey anyway. back in 1982. Sarah was a whore who The only black writer of lesbian had been tarred and feathered and run mysteries (that I know of) is Nikki out of town. She was rescued by Anne, Baker. The Lavender I/ouse Murder a fourteen-year-old girl who had run (1993) takes place in Provincetown, in away from her incestuous uncle. the summer. Ginny Kelly is really Together they crossed the old west, had enjoying the beaches, the bars, the plenty of adventures, and then made a sexual attractions between women ... new home on the Canadian northwest until her idyllic holiday is disrupted by coast. You don't find many lesbian murder. westerns. It's fun to read, and a bit She Came Too Late (1987) by Mary unusual. Wings, is the first of two detective I've saved the best for last. Five novels featuring sleuth Emma Victor. Minutes in /leaven (1995) is not only (The second is She Came in a nash one woman's story of her love for other (1988).) Emma works at the Women's women; it's the universal story of our Hotline in Boston. She gets an upset search for love and the meaning of life. caller who knows her name, says she It also contains an interesting needs her help, and asks her to meet exploration of cultural differences. her later. Emma arrives to find the Author Lisa Alther has amazing talent. woman-whom she had met once- This book is heavenly.

WOMONSPACE NEWS 13 Splinters Bruised from Violence in lesbian relationships may be the last bastion of secrecy. No one wants to the Womonspace Board open this closet, for inside is a very real and A volunteer appreciation demanding skeleton. social event will be held at Recent studies state that up to 25% of Shakespear's on Sunday, lesbians are in abusive relationships. While November 12, starting at 6 pm. the dynamics of abuse can be similar in fun details will be provided to our homo & heterosexual relationships, there volunteers beforehand. are many crucial differences. Some of them We win donate $450 to are too dangerous to ignore. Bruised, to anow them to get A wom{ln with broken fingers presents to posters made and advertising out. an emergency WEird She is accompEinicd by This is the discussion and theatre another woman. The injured wonUln gives {I presentation on the subject of statement and is examined with her friend violence in lesbian relationships, present. Apparently her fingers were broken organized by two women who are while she was playing baseball. The woman currently here on exchange, and is then taken, alone, to the x-nzy working at GLCCE. department. She becomes quite {lnxiOlJS and The film festival will be states that she has been sexually {lssaufted postponed until spring, so that the and requests to see a doctor privately. The organizers can devote the proper subsequent exam shows evidence ofa recent amount of time to put on a really sexual assault. 111C woman in the waiting great showl If you can help them room is: out, please leave a message on the a friend Lesbian Life Line; 425-0511. her lover A Women of Albion concert is the attacker tentatively scheduled for february all of the above. 15, 1996. The Gay & Lesbian Community Centre of We win be ordering Edmonton & The International Women's Womonspace t-shirts in the near Exchange invite you to attend an informa­ future; these should be available at tion evening on violence in lesbian relation­ our craft fair. ships, consisting of a panel presentation, Cookies By George will help discussion, resource materials/ persons and sponsor our craft fair by providing a theatrical presentation. Wed., Oct. 4 and cookies and muffins. Thurs., Oct. 5. The times are the same each Jazzberrys will be catering our evening: 7 - 10 pm, at the Catalyst Theatre, dances for the next year. 10943-84 Ave. Call 488-3234 for info.

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