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Anti•Gay Billboard Campaign Launched in Dane County

by William Attewell "When [people] see a billboard that to the billboards she has not specifically of the In Step Staff with Associated Press Reports has a bigoted point of view, I think a lot of suggested a boycott of Vivid. As a result of people react with outrage," said DeEtte her opposition to the billboards, her office Madison, WI — A billboard cam- Tomlinson, director of The United. "They has been inundated with calls from orga- paign condemning homosexuality could say wait, this isn't what my community nized supporters of WCU criticizing her backfire on those organizing it by anger- stands for — it ends up being beneficial and her staff with calls coming in from as ing people of all sexual preferences, the for the community being targeted." far away as Alabama. head of Madison's The United says. The Ralph Ovadal, who describes himself In a statement released to In Step, Bau- billboards, which feature a rainbow stripe as director of the Monroe-based Wiscon- man said, "While the message on the bill- and red and black block letters, state, sin Christians United, said the billboard boards is protected by the First Amend- campaign's goal was to "share (God's) mes- ment ... we find it unfortunate when a sage with millions of Wisconsin citizens group chooses to use its freedom to whom the homosexuals are busily express blatant hostility towards valued attempting to deceive with the `doctrines members of our community. ...Discrmi- of demons,' which say that God accepts nation on the basis of sexual orientation is homosexuality and therefore society Madison Mayor Sue Baumann just as harmful and wrong as discrimina- should, too." tion based on race, religion, color, age, munity for gays and lesbians." Tomlinson said the billboards will like- disability, gender or national origin." Ryan Mulcahy, Assistant to Madison ly be painful for some area residents to see. Representatives from Vivid Outdoor Mayor Sue Baumann told In Step that "When someone already is feeling iso- refused comment when contacted while the Mayor has spoken in opposition lated or vulnerable, to drive along the road by In Step. and see a sign that proclaims some portion of society is not supportive of them — that can be a scary thing," she said. Activists Encourage Protests to Vivid Outdoor "Some people feel a sense of helpless While Madison's largest outdoor advertising company, Adams, refused to run the billboards, Vivid Outdoor based in reponse to this hatefulness." says Madison Alderman Mike Verveer in Janesville accepted the ads. A spokesperson from Vivid declined to speak with In Step. Their contact informa- Verveer. "I have encouraged people to call tion: Vivid Outdoor Advertising PO Box 307 5101 S. Hwy 51 Janesville, WI 53545 (608) 754.6141 the billboard company (Vivid) in "Homosexuality is not a family value. Janesville who put up the signs." Action Wisconsin, a statewide gay and lesbian human rights organization is encouraging persons unhappy with Homosexuality is a sin." The billboards "I do not encourage or condone acts of the billboards to express their feelings to other businesses which advertise with Vivid. Here is a non-exhaustive are located at 851 E. Washington Ave., vandalism against the billboads, and I think list of other companies with Vivid billboards. (Rental billboards usually have a small sign on the top or bottom near the Beltline at Rimrock Road and on Ovadal and his folks are hoping the bill- Wisconsin 113 in Westport and one each with the billboard company name; however, please note that some advertisers may use multiple billboard com- boards will be vandalized. Personally don't in Monroe and Beloit. They panies. Also, advertising decisions may be mode by franchise or management headquarters, not by a local restau- are to be up think we should play into their agenda." for four weeks. rant or branch location.) Burger King (on back side of E. Washington Ave. board), Swiss Valley Farms (dairy prod- "Although he [Ovadal] works state- "The response has been ucts, based in Davenport, Iowa) ("paired up" with the Beltline/Rimrock board, on a single post) Arby's, Culver's one of out- wide against gays, lesbians and bisexuals... rage," Madison Alderman Mike Frozen Custard, Quality Inn, Hampton Inn, Days Inn, Norrell Staffing Services, Thrift Painting, Noah's Ark (water- Verveer he has tended to concentrate in the Madi- told In Step. "I've talked to dozens of folks park), son area. I think that is sad because Madi- The Baraboo Area (tourism), House on the Rock/Cove of the Mounds. — gay and non-gay — who are outraged son does have a well-deserved reputation To express support for Madison Mayor Bauman call: (608) 266.4611 (TDD: 266-4443). Madison residents may and saddened by the actions of Wisconsin for diversity and has a longstanding repu- Christians United. also want to call their Common Council members; the Council's main office number is (608) 266-4071. tation for being a wonderfully open com-

Senate counterpart, saying, "The Bible is very clear on this. Both myself and Senator Lott believe very strong- ly in the Bible." 'Backward Thinking' Even some Republican stalwarts expressed shock at this anti-gay tremor sent out by their party's congres- sional leadership for no apparent reason. Lott Remarks Stir Up a Firestorm "Whether it is ignorance on his part or blatant pan- dering to James Dobson and the radical right, it's wrong and it will cost the party," said Rich Tafel, executive direc- by Keith (lark urge Lott to schedule a Senate confirmation vote on tor of the predominately gay Log Cabin Republicans. Clinton's nominee to be of the In Step Staff U.S. ambassador to the tiny Some political observers believe Lott's anti-gay nation of Luxembourg, James Hormel, an openly gay Washington, D.C. — The Clinton administration remarks weren't so politically unintended and have sug- multimillionaire with close ties to several gay rights is criticizing remarks by gested that the "sin" remarks and refusal to schedule a Senate Majority Leader Trent organizations. Lott of Mississippi as "backward in vote on Hormel's nomination tosses a political bone to thinking" and The far-right wing of the Republican Party, con- another indication of "how difficult it is to do rational the GOP's right wing and could be used as a possible trolled largely by Christian social conservatives, has work" in the nation's capital. wedge issue in November's midterm elections. made stopping Hormel's confirmation a GOP rallying Lott told a conservative television talk show host Supporters of Hormel's nomination say they have cry. And sensing that it's a relatively painless way to earlier in June that he believes homosexuality is "a sin" between 60 and 62 votes for confirmation, but with make political points with the GOP's ultra-conservative and compared it to alcoholism and kleptomania. Lott firmly in control of the Senate agenda, the real dif- right wing, Lott has kept Hormel's nomination tied up The Senate GOP leader's comments prompted a ficulty is getting the nomination to the floor. for a year even though the Senate Foreign Relations swift reaction from the White House, and Clinton press Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) has said he will Committee approved the nomination in November. spokesman Mike McCurry charged that Lott was attempt a set of parliamentary maneuvers and a "storm Earlier in June, Lott for the first time said that he embracing extremist and hopelessly outdated views. of amendments" in the Senate to force a vote. Calling opposes Hormel's nomination, saying the San Francis- "The American people understand how difficult it the stalled nomination "shameful" and "blatant dis- co businessman and philanthropist is an "aggressive is to get business done in Washington sometimes when crimination" Wellstone has said he would introduce a advocate of the gay lifestyle." you are dealing with people who are so backward in continuing series of amendments calling for a vote on McCurry used the occasion to charge that Republi- their thinking," McCurry said. "For over 25 years it has Hormel's confirmation to every major bill that comes cans in the Senate are allowing their personal prejudices been quite clear that sexual orientation is not up for a vote in the Senate this session. an afflic- to rule their political decisions. tion, it is not a disease, it is something that is part of But despite Wellstone's pledge to turn the nomina- "Why would they oppose someone who is other- defining one's sexuality." tion into an "amendment battle" on the Senate floor, wise well-qualified to be a U.S. ambassador, other than McCurry's quick and sharp reaction to Lott's many say Lott's opposition and his latest remarks are a com- the prejudice that exists in their minds against people ments may not be all that surprising because of Presi- bad sign for Hormel's prospects. who are gay and lesbian?" McCurry said. "They're dent Clinton's support of gay rights issues, dating back Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has worked to refusing to move forward on that nomination because to his first presidential campaign bid in 1992 when he get Senate support for Hormel's nomination, said she was he's gay. That's quite plain and simply the case." publicly asked gay and lesbians for their help in the "shocked" and "discouraged" by Lott's remarks and added, Lott refused to comment on McCurry's remarks, election. While many rights advocates have since "The message they [Republicans] are sending out is that but his press secretary, Susan Irby, said in a statement, expressed disappointment with Clinton's record, few no one who is gay need participate in their government." "What he [McCurry] considers to be backward are the can deny that he has tried to do more publicly than any views and values of the great majority of president before him on gay rights issues. Americans, who understand and are concerned about the grave And Lott's comments apparently gave the White social and ethical questions our country faces." House exactly the opportunity it wanted to publicly Dick Armey, the House Majority Leader, backed his

(OVER DESIGN by Wells Ink, see story page 6

June 25 - July 9, 1998 In Step 5

i lems that have arisen at the beach. When the meeting started it soon became appar- ent to everyone who came there to support DNR Sex Panic at Nude Beach the beach and who didn't. The TV stations were there, and newspapers and radio sta- tions were all covering the "Nude Beach Has a "Born-Again" State Official Set His Sites on Mazo? News". Even the gay basher WIBA was there. The media ran up to people who were opposed to the beach staying open and News and Analysis by Ed Grover fires and busting people when he saw them stonewalling by the warden and the DNR. made sure they got their names and what of the In Step Staff smoking. There have also been tickets The DNR has said that the official was said [so] they covered [it] correctly. handed out for bringing glass onto the issues are vandalism, litter, and underage When the meeting started, there were peo- In May, In Step received information beach, which is strictly against the law. drinking. They are looking at these prob- regarding a proposed state crackdown by ple that stood up and either said the beach Broken glass is dangerous; use plastic or lems as they affect not only Mazo but the should be kept open with the options that the Department of Natural Resources aluminum (and remember to take any (DNR) at Mazo Beach, the nude beach on garbage off the beach that you bring in). the Wisconsin River near Mazomanie. In Some of the questions asked were: "Is Step published the information that was this legal? It is known that a person cannot "We won't stand for the Religious Right available at that time so those who use the stand outside of someone's house and look beach would know what was happening. in; they would be arrested for invasion of pointing fingers and turning this into a Inquiries were made about the current privacy. Doesn't this apply to Scott Thiede morality circus." status of the beach and In Step received looking into someone's tent? If Thiede is reports ranging from "Nothing has able to give tickets, doesn't he have to abide changed," to "Watch out, the DNR is by the same law enforcement rules as other Ferry Bluff area, the Hwy. 60 campsite, were proposed, or they were totally against patroling the bushes." Mark Wagner, a law enforcement agencies?" and the Wisconsin Heights campsite. They beach user from Madison, forwarded e- it. One of the options that was proposed The FOMB, in answer to the question, are very careful not to make this a naturist was no entry after 11:00 p.m. or before 6 mail correspondence between himself, "Why was Mazo Beach stated in the news- issue, since that has already been litigated other gay beach users and a member of the a.m. It seemed that everyone was in agree- paper as a gay problem?" said it "was an in the courts. FOMB doesn't know how ment with this. This is the option that Friends of Mazo Beach (FOMB). This cur- excellent question from a user standpoint, the issues became "sex and drugs," but that rent information should be of help to any- everyone hopes the DNR decides on. because there does not appear to be a gay it seems to be related to the personal mis- Scott Thiede stood up and gave a one planning to spend time at Mazo Beach vs. straight problem on the beach." sion of Mr. Thiede, the conservative polit- over the 4th of July holidays or the follow- speech that made no sense about issues Though the two groups (for lack of a bet- ical climate, and the media's desire to turn including underage drinking, vandalism, ing week for the Nude Olympics. ter word) tend to camp apart from each this into a hot story. FOMB believes that There have been reports from beach and gay sex. He could not comment on other, it's been their experience that the the media has latched onto the idea that what this meant. He said that everyone was people regarding DNR warden Scott groups co-exist quite peacefully, and people are cruising for sex during the week, Thiede. He is said to have been preaching an adult, and they could figure this out for FOMB admires the spirit of community and characterized those people as "men in themselves. It appeared that he had no the "Good Word" to many on the beach; on that end of the beach and everyone's suits." FOMB said,"It would be nice if we the context consisting of explaining that he documentation or proof about what these willingness to share resources and good could just say, `Hey, they're out there to get statements meant. is a "Born again Christian," nudity as a times at Mazo. their palms read,' but that's not what most whole was wrong (according to the Bible), Among those against keeping the FOMB said that they have never people believe and it's certainly not going beach open, a woman who lives across the and referencing "Sodom and Gomorra" attacked the gay community, as reported in to sell newspapers." In Step was told that with being homosexual. Thiede, has river stood up and, using the Bible as her some correspondence.They stated: "We Susan Lampert Smith, a long-time reporter defense, said that she had seen the most expressed a number of times that he is per- know, care and appreciate the [gay] com- of beach news, wrote a far more balanced sonally offended and opposed to the disgusting things at the beach; "gay sex in munity at Mazo and at large. The com- account of Mazo for the Wisconsin State broad daylight right there for everyone to beach. It is his mission to close it down. ments we've seen seem to come directly Journal, but her editor cut it and juiced it His verbatim statement was: "I'm going to see." She was asked by someone in the from the DNR or other law enforcement up. FOMB says that they can, with all cer- audience if she was using binoculars give you enough rope to hang yourselves." or government agents. " tainty, say that the media has miscommu- FOMB was asked some questions because the beach users couldn't see it. The Mr. Thiede has solicited complaints nicated content and context to sensational- meeting ended with the DNR saying it regarding people who were busted for pos- from users, which is not permitted as a ize this matter. session of marijuana in the non-gay nude would let people who are concerned know standard complaint process. He has FOMB feels that anyone who cares about their decision by mail. They stated area that is closer to the parking lot. It referred to "lots" of complaints, but about the area, be it users or the DNR, seems that Warden Thiede has been seen that they had no intention of closing the FOMB has only been able to obtain copies wants the same thing: a safe, clean, accessi- beach. They want to work with the beach standing outside of tents to see if anyone of six for the last four years — much less ble public area. The positions they con- was using drugs and then busting them people on keeping it open. than in most public areas. If there are other veyed at the meeting in Sauk City are: 1) Gay support and advocacy for the while they were inside the tents. He was complaints, they have not been able to that the beachers have always taken care of also seen standing in the shadows of camp- Mazo Beach area is needed. There is a feel- obtain copies or verify them, due to the place and want to continue doing so; ing that the DNR would not want the 2) that they don't want goofballs out there same kind of publicity the Madison Fire and would appreciate some help getting Department received when they hired Ron rid of them; and 3) that we all have the Greer (a suspended fireperson who passed right as citizens to use the land responsibly. out anti-gay literature on the steps of the FOMB said they didn't want to work City/County Building), as a person on 6th out `gay problems' at this meeting, because their team who had conflicts of interest. if they exist, they are a `family' problem, With that in mind, if any of the above not a media or government problem. They incidences have happened to you, your said, "We won't stand for the Religious friends or your family, or you see or hear ANNUAL Right pointing fingers and turning this Scott Thiede preaching the "Good Word," into a morality circus." They said they please call the DNR supervisors and voice wanted to present a united community of your opinions regarding these actions. The responsible Mazo Beach users who are will- supervisors are: Rick Wojciak, Lower Wis- ing to work with the DNR on their stated consin Lands Leader (608) 935-3368, issues. Tom Howard, Lower Wisconsin Central the united . At the meeting that was held at the Sub-Team Leader (608) 935-3368, Greg Sauk City Library on April 30, the DNR, Matthews, Regional Public Affairs Manag- nudist groups and any other interested par- er (608) 275-3317. ties discussed options to deal with prob- community TOGETHER WE'RE THE BEST! AWARDS Jerry Friday, July 17, 1998 6:00 p.m. The Sheraton Madison Hotel Plato Madison, Wisconsin A Broker Who Understands Your To honor individuals and organizations making a difference in our Particular Needs. community —Organization, Volunteer, Woman, Man and Ally of the Year Call Jerry today! 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6 In Step June 25 - July 9, 1998 Several sources confirm arresting officers stated, "We're working with the Cudahy Police Department Cudahy Police to stamp out the homosexual problem in the park." A number of the arrested men were married, NEWS WIRE according to witnesses and Cudahy Police Chief Initiate Undercover Mark Hayes told them specifically, "How are you going to explain this one to your wife?" Another officer was quoted as saying, "I need to Police Say Transsexual Killed Sting Operation at go home and get my negligee, I'll make a man out of these people." Counselor, Then Self While some of the men did not dispute they SAN DIEGO, CA — therapist and her transsexual were engaging in prohibited sexual activity, they did action at a San Warnimont Park object to the manner in which they were treated patient are dead after a shooting and SWAT Diego counseling center. by William Attewell by police. Others arrested indicated to In Step that they were entrapped by policed Police say 27-year-old Julia Kate Morgan, a man who of the In Step Staff "They made us feel like they were basically was undergoing counseling and whom officers initially Cudahy — At least 10 men have been arrested worthless," one of the arrested men told In Step. thought was a woman, shot and killed his counselor, Rita in recent days for various public sex offenses in Powers, 41, and then shot himself. Cudahy's Warnimont Park in what witnesses quote Authorities said the transsexual client may have been arresting officers as terming "an effort to stamp out Afterwords upset because he wasn't being approved for the surgical the homosexual problem" in the park. procedures requires to complete his sexual transition. While Cudahy Police Chief Mark Hayes told Police SWAT officers surrounded the building for In Step that he would not comment on "active inside police investigations" or on any other aspects of the Open After Fire almost three hours and helped a number of people arrests, sources tell In Step that a large number of climb out of the building before entering and starting their arrests took place on Tuesday, June 16, and that the search for the suspect. Damages Adjacent During their search, officers found two bodies in an upstairs office. Police said it appears that Morgan had a "We're working with the Business scheduled an appointment with Powers with the intention of killing his counselor and taking his own life. Cudahy Police Depart- Milwaukee — Afterwords Bookstore, located at ment to stamp out the 2710 N. Murray, suffered minor smoke and water Pentagon, AOL Settle damage in a fire which severely damaged second floor homosexual problem in apartments and the adjacent Quik Wash laundry with Sailor McVeigh located in the same building. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Timothy R. McVeigh, the high- the park." The fire started at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 17th and Afterwords was able to ly decorated submarine sailor who sued the U.S. Navy to operation involved at least four undercover police reopen on Friday the 19th after power was restored. stay in the service after it charged that he is gay, will retire officers. Those arrested were booked on misde- "The hardest thing was literally watching the from the military under a settlement that gives him full meanor charges and transported to the County smoke pouring from every corner," Afterwords retirement benefits and legal fees incurred in his battle. Sheriff for processing. owner Carl Szatsmary told In Step. McVeigh, an 18-year veteran with a flawless service Several men arrested in the park told In Step that "It puts your business in perspective. We thank record, said he will leave his Navy job before Labor Day and they were detained much longer than arresting offi- everyone who wished us well and we are lucky will move to Jacksonville, Fla., where he was born, to look cers initially told them they would be. In some cases and happy to be here and to be open," continued for a new career. in excess of 12 additional hours. Many also cited Szatmary. Under the terms of the settlement, the Navy will give incidents of verbal abuse by offices while in custody. McVeigh, 36, his full retirement benefits package and $90,000 in legal fees and court costs. It does not, however, include any admission of wrongdoing on the part of the Navy. San Francisco Proposes Nation's McVeigh has never acknowledged his sexual orientation publicly one way or the other, and he says that wasn't the issue involved here. First Shelter for Battered Gays "The issue was that the military did not follow its own regulations under the `don't ask, don't tell' policy, and I was by Keith Clark of the In Step Staff willing to stand up and fight." He added that he hoped his San Francisco — In yet another proposed "first," San Francisco Supervisor Mark Leno is asking the case would "send a message that the military needs to fol- city to budge $37,000 to help fund a temporary shelter for gay men who are the victims of domestic low its own rules and regulations." abuse by their partners. Last fall, McVeigh was relieved of his duty on the While municipal funding for abused women's shelters isn't uncommon in most U.S. cities, no sim- nuclear submarine USS Chicago after the wife of a fellow ilar shelter for gay men has ever received taxpayer support. In fact, there are no shelters for gay men who crewman turned over an email message McVeigh had sent are abused by their partners known in this country. her using his personal America OnLine account. The user The small amount of funding Leno is asking actually won't build any new shelter, but will go Com- profile at AOL indicated only that he was "Tim in Honolu- munity United Against Violence (CUAV) to expand its existing domestic abuse programs and to help lu" and that his hobbies included "collecting pictures of pay for four beds in an existing men's shelter that CUAV would supervise. other young studs." In proposing the $37,000 budget item, Leno said, "San Francisco will make history by committing itself to having the only domestic violence shelter for gay men" in the nation. He also said his proposal When a Navy investigator received the material, he has the support of the city's governing board of supervisors. telephoned America On Line, but didn't indicate he was with CUAV has reported that it gets about 250 calls a year from gay men seeking help with an abusive the Navy. Instead the investigator simply asked an AOL ser- domestic environment. About 50 of them, according to CUAV, require temporary emergency shelter to vice representative who's account it was. The online service, escape their abusive partners. contrary to its own policies and possibly in violation of fed- eral laws, told the investigator that the account was McVeigh's. McVeigh has also reached a settlement with America Don't Miss An Issue! Celebrating 25 Years OnLine in a separate out-of-court agreement. AOL said it of Originality, Quality & will pay McVeigh damages for violating his privacy, but no Customer Satisfaction amount for the settlement was disclosed. 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June 25 - July 9, 1998 In Step 7 IN STEP Because people with HIV E AIDS Scientists Find Shape of AIDS 'Key' by Malcolm Ritter difficulties that had hindered prior (AP) — In an exciting attempts, he said. advance that could speed the develop- Bolognesi said the work will be very ment of new drugs and a vaccine against important for developing vaccines and AIDS, scientists have figured out the 3- drugs that block virus infection. Such D shape of the "key" the virus uses to drugs, in combination with current med- deserve a shim ications, would help infected people by unlock and enter cells. Scientists already knew a lot about shutting down the spread of the virus the key, a complex protein called gp120 within their bodies. that sticks out from the AIDS virus like Another scientist not involved with the dozens of spikes. But the new work work, John P Moore of the Aaron Dia- exposes far more detail about its defens- mond AIDS Research Center in New legal advocate. York, called the work the most important es and its potential vulnerabilities. "Before we were blind. Now we're AIDS research published so far this year. sighted," said Dr. Joseph Sodroski of the The gp120 spikes on the AIDS virus Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the bind to two protein sites, one after the researchers. "We can see what the other, on the surface of a cell. That essen- defenses of this virus are, and that allows tially unlocks the cell for the virus to enter. us to focus on a logical approach to pen- The first site, called CD4, has a chem- ical finger that fits precisely into a hole on Attorney Christopher WNW etrate those defenses. ARCW "Is that approach going to work? Well, gp120. The new work reveals details of we don't know. There's no way of predict- that hole, which might allow scientists to plug it, and ing how soon any of this structural infor- design drugs that essentially mation will lead to better drugs and vac- thereby prevent infection. The researchers cines. But there's no question we're better also exposed other sites on gp120 that are Statewide off now than we were before." crucial for infection, and so might be tar- <,6 The work is reported in the latest gets for an interfering molecule. issue of the journal Nature and Science Vaccines are designed to train the by Sodroski, Wayne Hendrickson of the immune system to attack germs, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and new work reveals details of defenses gp120 Columbia University in New York, and uses to evade attack. Since gp120 is the other scientists. main part of HIV that the immune sys- "It's a tour de force," said AIDS tem notices, understanding its defenses researcher Dani Bolognesi of the Duke could be crucial for vaccine development. Services: University Medical Center, who wasn't The new work should help scientists involved in the work. "We've been waiting develop vaccines that focus the immune Ii to see the structure of this molecule for system's attention on other parts of many years." gp120 that are identical in all strains, • Discrimination • Landlord/tenant disputes The researchers overcame technical Sodroski said. • Civil rights • Bankruptcy Breakthrough CAIR Study Shows • Breach of confidentiality • DebtorIcreditor issues Interventions Reduce HIV Risk • Insurance advocacy • Consumer protection Milwaukee — Even among persons considered hardest to reach, HIV pre- vention programs can reduce high-risk sexual behaviors by half and can more • Disability benefits • Municipal violations than double the consistent use of condoms, according to findings of a national study published in the June 1998 issue of the journal Science. Part of the landmark study was conducted in Milwaukee by the Medical Col- • Public entitlements • Non-traditional family pro- lege of Wisconsin's Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR). CAIR Direc- tor Jeffrey A. Kelly, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the tection Medical College, was chair of the steering committee responsible for the study. • Estate planning The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Multisite HIV Prevention • Child E family issues Trial is the largest randomized, controlled study of a group HIV prevention pro- gram conducted in the United States. Researchers in five metropolitan areas, including Milwaukee, enrolled 3,706 African-American and Hispanic men and women in 37 inner-city community-based clinics. In Milwaukee, CAIR investigators recruited 495 people from primary Call ARCW for an appointment. health care and sexually-transmitted disease (STD) clinics. Study participants who attended HIV prevention sessions that focused on motivation and skills to reduce high-risk sexual behaviors showed significant reductions across a range of sexual risk indicators over a one-year period. The 7-session intervention reduced the incidence of gonorrhea in men by half. Significantly fewer men and women who participated in the intervention had symptoms of STDs in the year following the program. NIMH Director Steven E. Hyman, M.D., said, "Reducing high risk behav- 80 878 6267 iors is still the best way to prevent new HIV infections. NIMH has identified an effective strategy that could be adopted by public health and community organizations all across America. If these behavioral changes were maintained for even one year, there would be a profound, cost-effective, public health it 4 2 73 2 7 2 9 impact in the communities that adopted this program." Dr. Kelly said, "HIV and AIDS are now affecting disadvantaged people who are much harder to reach with prevention programs. We must strengthen our resolve to develop effective HIV interventions for these populations. This study shows that such prevention efforts can be successful." The study is unique among trials of group HIV prevention interventions in its examination of change in self-reported sexual risk practices, such as consis- ARCW tent use of condoms, as well as in objective indicators of STDs provided by reviewing participants' STD clinic charts. AIDS RESOURCE CENTER OF WISCONSIN In addition to the Medical College, other research sites were: Columbia University, , Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, APPLETON EAU CLAIRE GREEN BAY KENOSHA LA CROSSE Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, UC-Irvine, Irvine, California MILWAUKEE RHINELANDER SUPERIOR WAUSAU

8 In Step June 25 - July 9, 1998 Appeals Court Says Lesbian's Alaska High Court Lets Marriage Ruling Stand Ex•partner Has No Rights To Child ANCHORAGE, AL — The Alaska state supreme court has refused to review a lower court judge's decision against a 1996 law banning same-sex marriage. Syracuse, NY (AP) — A woman who planned through artificial insemination. The ex-partner The court let stand a February ruling by to adopt the child of her lesbian lover before they claimed she had a partial hysterectomy based on her Anchorage ended the relationship does not have any custody companion's promise to have a child for both of Superior Court Judge Peter Michalski that choosing a life rights to the child, a state appeals court has ruled. them. Together they planned for the birth and partner is "a fundamental right." Michalski ordered the The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in agreed to share the rights and responsibilities of state to prove a compelling interest if it intended to restrict Rochester unanimously ruled that the ex-partner child-rearing, Alderman said. The couple had a the marriage rights of same-sex couples. had no legal standing in New York, where same sex baby girl on Sept. 17, 1993. The baby was given the Worried that proving such a compelling interest would marriages are not recognized. ex-partner's last name as her middle name to signi- be a daunting task, the state had asked the state supreme As a result, the appeals court reversed the deci- fy, her parenthood, Alderman said. court to overturn Michalski's decision. In theory, the high sion of an Onondaga County Family Court judge To protect the identity of the 4-year-old child, court's refusal clears the way for a trial, although a Novem- who had given the ex-partner temporary visitation authorities have asked that the two women's names ber ballot measure to enact a constitutional amendment out- rights to the child and dismissed the case. not be made public. In February 1997, the two lawing same-sex marriage could make a trial meaningless. "The appellate court agreed with us that this women jointly filed an adoption petition under Assistant Attorney General John Gaguine said that he case should never have been in Family Court and which the biological mother allegedly agreed to give dismissed it for lack of standing. They said as a up her rights as a natural parent so the two women may ask that a trial be delayed until after the November could adopt the child together as equal parents. vote. "It's our view that this amendment, if it passes, moots However, they ended their relationship before the everything out," Gaguine said. " ...as a non-parent she adoption proceedings were final. As a result, the ex- partner has no standing in the custody matter, the San Francisco Going for basically has absolutely no appeals court ruled. Domestic Partner Discounts rights under New York law." In its three-page decision, the appeals court fur- ther said that under New York law a biological par- SAN FRANCISCO, CA - City Supervisor Mark Leno ent's custodial rights "cannot be denied unless the has introduced a measure that would expand protections for non-parent she basically has absolutely no rights nonparent can establish that the parent has relin- domestic partners to require all businesses in San Francis- under New York law," Marsha Hunt, the biological quished that right because of surrender, abandon- mother's lawyer, said. ment, persisting neglect, unfitness or other like co that offer discounts to married couples to offer the same "I was not surprised. It was the correct decision extraordinary circumstances." The ex-partner failed discounts to domestic partners. under the case law that exists right now in New to prove that the mother had relinquished her cus- The proposed ordinance would apply mainly to firms York," Hunt said. tody rights. The appeals court said it was "insuffi- such as rental car agencies, health clubs, residential hotels, The case had been watched closely because of cient to show that the child has bonded psycholog- and other companies that offer special discounts to couples. its potential to break new legal ground on the adop- ically with the nonparent." Leno said it was unclear how many firms might be tion rights of unmarried partners. Hunt said the ex-partner would not have any effected by the proposed measure because most city busi- Family Court Judge Bryan Hedges decided in access to the child. "At this point in time, it's not in nesses may already be in compliance. But he said it was February to give the ex-partner temporary visitation the best interests of the child to have contact with necessary to make the discount benefit a matter of law, not rights over the objections of the child's birth-moth- the ex-partner. Whether that changes in the future is just of the city's liberal tradition. er, who had been involved in a 17-year lesbian rela- something I can't comment on," she said. Alderman There are 4,775 registered domestic partners in San tionship with the other woman until their breakup could not be reached for comment about the ruling. last October. Francisco. According to Richard Alderman, the ex-part- ner's lawyer, the women decided to have a child Reggie White Says He's Paying for His Anti-Gay Remarks WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Bay Packers star Reg- gie White was back in the national spotlight appearing on CNN's "Crossfire" program where he defended his attack Gay Days' at Disney World on homosexuality before the Wisconsin legislature and sug- gesting his stand had cost him lucrative jobs. A Success Despite Protest and Predicted Disasters In a lengthy speech before the lawmakers in March, White denounced homosexuality as a sin, leaving legislators is not a message of hate," his "This boycott has traction," in a stunned silence. He repeated his position on the CNN statement that allowing the said Land, who heads the television program. by Keith Clark Rainbow Flags to be displayed denomination's ethics and reli- But White also said CBS is lying when it says the net- of the In Step Staff in Orlando "will bring about gious liberty commission. "This work didn't finalize a contract proposal offering him a job Orlando, FL — Just about terrorist bombs" raised hackles boycott has legs. It is bothering as a sports commentator. White said the network backed among rights advocates. Disney." everyone wanted to get in on the out of the deal because of concerns over his controversial David Smith of the Wash- But Land offered nothing act, it seems, but the annual remarks. ington, D.C.-based Human specific to back up his claims, "Gay Days" at Disney World "We have a standard contract that's in my agent's appeared to be a Rights Campaign, said, "Pat and Disney spokesman John complete suc- office right now," White said on CNN. "We agreed on num- cess according to organizers. Robertson practically invited a Dreyer said the entertainment bers, how many years I would work Despite weeks of publicity there, how many years before the weekend event, the that was guaranteed. All of that was agreed on." Texas-based Operation Rescue "Politicians who take their march- White also said that his contract as a spokesman with failed to turn out much of a the Campbell Soup Co. has now expired and not been protest at Disney World, and ing orders from Pat Robertson renewed. He said he didn't know if the publicity surround- only about 200 of its anti-abor- ought to consider finding a new ing his recent anti-gay comments had played a role in the tion demonstrators showed up. decision not to renew his contract. Their protest was largely meteorologist." dwarfed and ignored by the esti- Couple Who Won N.J. mated 120,000 people attending the Gay Days gathering. terrorist attack on the city of giant hadn't seen any effect of Adoption Case to Wed TV preacher and failed pres- Orlando. In the wake of last the boycott at all. "I don't think idential candidate Pat Robertson year's bombings at Olympic we've seen any impact from it," NEWARK, N.J. — Jon and Michael Galluccio, the gay predicted God's wrath would fall Park, the Atlanta lesbian night- Dreyer said. men who successfully sued the state of New Jersey to adopt- on the area in the form of club, and a number of attacks on Even with threats of divine ed a two-year-old boy and made that state the first in the "earthquakes, tornadoes and women's reproductive health hurricanes, protests by Opera- nation to formally allow same-sex couples to adopt chil- possibly a meteor" for Orlando care facilities, his remarks are an tion Rescue, and claims a year- dren, will be celebrating their holy union at the Episcopal and Disney's Magic Kingdom outrageous act of irresponsibility old boycott was hurting its bot- Church of Atonement in Fair Lawn, N.J. that have the potential to incite tom-line, because of the annual weekend Bill Warren, a "The word `marriage' won't be used, and the word 'wed- more violence." spokesman for the Disney World event and this year's decision by ding' won't be used, but the other language will be very sim- Barry Lynn, director of park, said, "In spite of all the Orlando officials to let activists ilar," said Jon Galluccio, who changed his name earlier this put up Americans United for Separa- publicity and hoopla, it had the Rainbow Flags, a symbol year from Jon Holden. of the gay rights movement, tion of Church and State, feeling of a very normal day." The couple has been along downtown utility poles as quipped, "Politicians who take together for 16 years and is now part of Gay Pride month. their marching orders from Pat planning to adopt an 18-month-old foster girl. Following a report on "The Robertson ought to consider 700 Club" about the "Gay finding a new meteorologist." You Are Reading Wisconsin's Days" at Disney, Robertson said, And in Utah, Richard Land "I would warn Orlando that told the annual convention of the #1 LesBiGay Newspaper! you're right in the way of some Southern Baptist Convention Compiled from newspaper and wire service reports that the denomination's serious hurricanes, and I don't boycott by Keith Clark of the In Step Staff think I'd be waving those flags in of Disney because the theme park God's face if I were you." refused to prohibit the Gay Days While Robertson said "this event was working.

June 25 — July 9, 1998 In Step 9 IN STEP

munity-based organization. The Center's mission is to rent interim officers were elected. At the next Town Hall improve the quality of life for LGBT people in the Mil- Meeting during PrideFest, Saturday August 29, the Challengers Party Raises waukee area. This mission is supported by the vision to board's permanent officers will be introduced. provide a home for organizations, businesses, culture and Steve Markowitz, Treasurer, reported the Center has diversity; advocate for and provide programs and services more than $30,000 in the bank. The Finance committee $24,000 for Milwaukee that meet the needs of our communities; and educate the is looking for at least two more financially minded indi- public and our communities about our lives. For more viduals — please call the Center hot-line and leave a mes- LGBT Groups information, visit the Center's web site at www.mkel- sage for Steve if you are willing to help. gbt.com or call the Center's Hotline at (414) 483-4710. John Wirth and Marianne Burisch, Facility Commit- Milwaukee — Flappers, tuxes with tails, clinking tee co-chairs brought the group up to date in their martini glasses, bathtub gin, delicious food and a home progress toward finding a space for the community center. made still. It may have looked like prohibition in the Community Center Holds "Sites are limited because we are a startup not-for- 1920's, however, these guests were celebrating three great profit with no credit history," Wirth explained. LGBT causes. ARCW, PrideFest and the Milwaukee Wirth identified various sites his committee consid- LGBT Community Center received funds at the tenth Town Hall Meeting ered, but became unavailable because they were either anniversary Challenging Party. sold, the landlord didn't like the Center's proposed use, or Over seventy guests raised approximately $24,000 at Milwaukee — The Milwaukee LGBT Community were unusable, such as after the fire at the Sanders Bowl the party on May 30, 1998. Guests designated the Mil- Center held a Town Hall Meeting at the M&M Club on building. Looking to the future, Wirth explained, "The waukee LGBT Community Center to receive $8,000 of North Water Street. Board members Sheila Zelenski, committee will continue to focus on finding a site by the total. Joshua Feyen, Adrian Wade, Julie Ellsworth, Stephanie looking at several site possibilities, rather than concen- "This marks our tenth year of raising funds for orga- Hume, Debbie Weill, Margot Manassa, Neil Albrecht, trating on one site and risk the possibility of losing time nizations which support LGBT causes," said John Wirth, John Wirth, Denise Cawley, Steve Markowitz and Bar- if the deal didn't go through." Challenging Party board member. The Challenging party bara Bremmer introduced themselves to the more than 40 Julie Ellsworth reported the fund development com- has raised nearly a quarter of a million dollars since its community members who were present. mittee received their first grant from American Express. inception. Party guests allocated their donations of at Co-Presidents Sheila Zelenski and Neil Albrecht The Center just received a gift in kind of a computer least $250 per person in any proportion to one, two or all opened the meeting by describing the process used to from Wisconsin Electric. The Center also applied to three of the beneficiaries. complete the Center's board of directors and how the cur- receive funds from AIDS Walk Wisconsin to support "Many guests were happy to support the community center, because it represents something positive for Mil- waukee's future. The Challenging Party originally started as an organization to raise money for the fight against AIDS," said Wirth. "The LGBT community is very fortunate to have a group of such dedicated individuals to organize this incredible event. The Challenging Party has provided cru- cial funds to many organizations serving the LGBT com- munity. As a recipient, especially during our search for a facility, we are grateful beyond words," said Zelenski. "We want to thank all of the Challengers and their guests. Recognizing the Center as a worthy cause this early in our development says a lot about their faith in • our mission and vision," said Sheila Zelenski, Center Co- President. "Funds raised at the Challenging Party will benefit the Center's programs and provide vital start up funds to open a "Home of Our Own," Zelenski added. The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center is a corn- LGBT Community Center Board at the recent Town Hall Meeting. Photo by Jamie

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10 In Step June 25 - July 9, 1998 HIV/AIDS prevention programs that all of Lake County's LGBT community will take place in the Center. The fund- and their families to have a little fun. A $5 ing is contingent upon the Center hav- donation will provide celebrants with "If it concerns you, it concerns us!" ing a site and being used for HIV and admission to the picnic in the afternoon, AIDS prevention programs for youth. and Emerald City in the evening. Included Probate/Trusts • Wills Revocable Living Trust Funding will depend on the size of the in the admission to the picnic are food, a Center's AIDS Walk team, and Center concert performances by gay and lesbian Title XIX/Estate Planning members are encouraged to register for musicians, bingo with prizes, volleyball, Durable Power of Attorney the walk with the Center's team. children's activities, and a water balloon Non-Probate Transfers Jim Schleif reported that the Mem- toss. Real Estate • Small Business Matters bership Committee's goal is to "have In addition to the fun and games, Civil & Criminal Litigation fun." To that end, they have planned a members of community groups will Bankruptcy • Personal Injury Water Park in speak about the goals and purposes of "Gay Day" at Noah's Ark Michael T Meyers & Warren J. Klaus the Wisconsin Dells on Sunday, August their groups, and time will be spent to 16, 1998. Community Center members honor the 1998 Community Develop- ATTORNEYS will pay just $25.00 for the air-condi- ment Award Recipient. The Lake Coun- tioned bus and admission to the park, ty Health Department will also be offer- nonmembers $35.00. However, non- ing free and anonymous HIV testing to Klaus & Meyers members can join and enjoy Noah's Ark all in attendance from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. General Practice of Law • Free Health Care Power of Attorney for just $55. To sign up for the trip call To end the afternoon on a positive and the Center at (414) 483-4710 or Laurie reflective note, a Worship Celebration 5665 S. 108th St. • Hales Corners • 414.529.2800 Marks at (414) 225-1597. will be lead by Joy of Life MCC pastor The Communications Committee Peter Trabaris. FREE FIRST MEETING reported they have an active committee Sponsors for the event are: Joy of Life ailahle weekdays, weekends and evenings. Call for an appointment. who work on the Web page, the Talk of MCC, 1st Congregational MCC, Spec- the Town, designing advertisements and trum (at College of Lake County), Lake writing press releases. County Lesbian Network, PFLAG- o p c_f o Volunteer Committee co-chair, Bar- Waukegan, Lake County Health Depart- -3 'D bara Bremmer is organizing people who ment, Java Joe's and Cyber Cafe. On Stop by for one of our famous specialty margaritas! are interested in short and long-term Sunday, June 28, the LGBT Organiza- 5 commitments to help the Center. She tions of Lake County will join the assured the audience, "There is plenty to Chicago Pride Parade and march under Our New Patio Is Now Open! do, even though we don't have a build- the banner of Lake County. ing yet." The Programming Committee 5 al is looking for people who are interested al ...i in working on Center-sponsored pro- H.I.T. Announces ...i grams, including a booth at PrideFest. Plans are already underway for the National Coming Out Day celebrations gm— Firstar Fireworks Aft...Rm. in October. Mailings are going out on a 4f ,.: t l ia • regular basis. Any envelopes you can e, lik t 1 \ it stuff would be appreciated. If you are al interested in a short or long-term volun- Cruise Tickets LI e agalWalk Ilk teer opportunity please call Barb on the Milwaukee — On July 3, 1998 si Mill, Center's hotline (414) 483-4710. 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June 25 - July 9, 1998 In Step 11 ogy, Body Art, Bondage/Fetish, Gay and residents and employees Rod Clark and Lesbian Studies, Cross-Dressing and Pagan- Scott Wallace in an award ceremony on ism and Witchcraft. The bookstore respect- Sunday, June 7th at County Stadium. fully requests that you not bring children, as Clark and Wallace were named "Out- there are no daycare facilities. For more standing Volunteers" as part of North- information , please call (414) 383-6464. western Mutual's Employee Community Service Award program. In honor of their Birthdays achievement, the Northwestern Mutual 1998 MAGIC Life Foundation will contribute $5,000 to both Camp Heartland and AIDS Resource Center on behalf of Clark and Volleyball Wallace, respectively. dinners Tournament Author Seeks Madison — The Madison Volleyball anniversaries Group is proud to sponsor the 1998 Stonewall MAGIC Invitational Volleyball Tourna- ment to be held at East High School locat- late night snacks ed at 2222 East Washington Avenue on Accounts Saturday, 7th through 18th from 8:00 to New York, NY — The author of a new 4:00 p.m. Pool play with double elimina- book aiming to be the first in-depth histo- tion to be held on Sunday, 7th through ry of the Stonewall riots, to be published by 19th form 8:00 to 6:00 p.m. Registration St. Martin's Press, is seeking all partici- will be held on Friday, 7th through 17th at pants, witnesses, police officers, Stonewall the Monoma Terrace Convention Center Inn employees, journalists, and other inter- form 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. outside of the ested and involved people who were pre- luncheons 10% Society Dance. sent at any of the riots at the end of June This tournament is sanctioned by and beginning of July 1969. NAG VA (North American Gay Volleyball Any photographs or film footage, engagements Association) and will accept up to 30 whether taken by a professional or ama- teams from across the nation competing teur, of any of the riots or of other con- in 3 divisions. A portion of the proceeds nected activities (such as leafleting or will be used to help send a Madison Men's street demonstrations) taken any day or VB team to compete in the Gay Games in night of the Stonewall uprising is also Amsterdam August 1st through 10th. needed. Any copies of earlier interviews Spectators are welcome and encouraged. in any medium of participants and wit- nesses, especially of persons no longer liv- ing would be helpful. Letters, diary Milwaukeeans entries, fliers, clippings, or other docu- desserts mentary material on or generated by the Stonewall riots are also of great interest. Receive Service Please write to David Carter, P.O. Box 417, New York, NY 10113 or send email happy hours Awards to [email protected]. Milwaukee — James D. Ericson, President and CEO of Northwestern Mutual Life, congratulates Milwaukee

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12 In Step June 25 - July 9, 1998 Windy City Rodeo '98 Rides OUTSTANDING Into Chicago August 27-30 Chicago, IL - IL.G.R.A. is proud to in Wisconsin. Preceding the dance, Miller present the 1998 Windy City Rodeo, a Lite and the Hyatt Deerfield host a Windy Jack H. Smith Miller Lite IGRA Sanctioned rodeo. This City Happy Hour at the Hyatt, and dur- Windy City Weekend Getaway will be ing the event IL.G.R.A. performers will Associate Vice President held August 27 through August 30, entertain in Private Eyes in Windy City 1998. Proceeds from the rodeo will bene- Road Show - Part I. 8.5 Million Dollars in Sales in 1997 fit 5 Chicago area charities. IL.G.R.A.'s Continuing after the rodeo on Sun- Charity Partners for 1998 are AIDSCare, day, August 30, Miller Lite and the The Children's Place, Midwest PFLAG, Hyatt Deerfield again host a Windy City Open Hand Chicago, and Test Positive Rodeo Happy Hour, followed by a Aware Network. Bunkhouse Buffet Supper. Beginning at This year, the Windy City Rodeo 8:30 p.m., awards and prize money will will be held at the Lake County Fair- be presented to the top Rodeo competi- grounds in Grayslake, Illinois, on Route tors, followed by a Windy 120 (Belvedere Road) just off I-94 at IL City Blowout Party and Route 45. Located r Windy City Road Show - nearly halfway Part II until 1 a.m. at the Hyatt. between Mil- Grand Entry ceremonies will begin waukee and around noon each Chicago day, and Sunday (approximate- /4)I will feature a ly 45 minutes popular "Mrs.

north of Wrigley Op Mealy Race" F i e l d ) , for local partici- IL.G.R.A. will be pants to help teaming with Mil- raise money for charity. waukee's annual PrideFest cele- Admission to the rodeo is $15 each bration that weekend. day. The Dance Gala and Road Show - The Hyatt Deerfield will be acting as Part I is $10 in advance or $12 at the door. the official Host Hotel of Windy City The Bunkhouse Buffet Supper is $12, and Buying or Selling...Your Real Estate Broker Rodeo `98. All social activities relating to the Windy City Happy Hours are $5 each. should be professional, understanding, and the Rodeo will be held at the hotel, con- there is no charge for the Fahootched Bar veniently located minutes away from the Crawl, Windy City Welcome Party, Road ACCESSIBLE. Fairgrounds at Lake Cook Road and I- Show '98 - Part II, Awards Presentation, or 94. Reservations must be made by Windy City Blowout Party. August 14 to receive a special Windy A weekend package for $45 is available Call Jack now! City rodeo `98 rate of $93/night sin- and will include admission to all events, for gle/double or $105/night triple/quad in a savings of $17. Tickets for Rodeo Events, Northshore Office A414 962-4413 this all suite hotel. Call (847) 945-3400 and the Weekend Package are available by ADirect: 961-8314 Ext. 199 Shomitym to reserve your room. phone through Box Office Tickets, Inc. at The Rodeo activities will kick-off on (800) 494-TICS by check or charge. You AHome/Voice mail: 224-1452 Thursday, August 27, 1998, with a may purchase your Rodeo or Weekend Awww.jackhsmith.com Fahootched Bar Crawl. Touring Package tickets by mail by calling the IL.G.R.A.'s favorite taverns in Chicago, Windy City Rodeo Hotline (773) 529- participants in this free event will collect 4962 for an order form, or in person begin- prizes and learn why "Getting ning June 1st at Emerald City (26029 W. Fahootched" is an IL.G.R.A. tradition. Route 173, Antioch), or Designing Men in The official Rodeo functions begin on Milwaukee. Friday, August 28, 1998 with Contestant Advance single tickets for the Dance Registration at the Hyatt Deerfield from 6 Gala are available through Shoreline Mil- to 9 p.m. First time contestants may regis- waukee (414) 291-3545. Tickets for ALL ter at this time — contact I.L.G.R.A. at events may be purchased in advance (773) 477-5793 to learn how to sign up. through IL.G.R.A. by mail at PO Box Also that evening, I.L.G.R.A. will be host- 14878, Chicago, IL 60614 or through the ing the Windy City Welcome Party in the Windy City Hotline at (773) 529-4962. Hyatt's Private Eyes bar, featuring perfor- Windy City Rodeo `98 is sponsored mances by IL.G.R.A. and IGRA entertain- in part by Miller Lite, Charlie's Chicago, Presenting the Harmony Kingdom Collection ers, with music provided by Charlie's Alcala's , and CopyZone of Chicago DJ's. Albuquerque. IGRA International Spon- The Rodeo itself (a two day event) sors include Miller Lite, AVIS, and Unit- will commence on Saturday, August 29 ed Airlines. at 10:00 am at the Lake County Fair- Special airfare and rental discounts are grounds, and will conclude around 5 available for Windy City Rodeo '98. Con- p.m. This schedule will be repeated on tact AVIS at (800) 331-1212 and ask for Sunday, August 30. The 13 rodeo events AWD# T238384. Southwest is offering a each day will abide by International Gay discount on most of its already low fares for Rodeo Association (IGRA) regulations, travel to and from Windy City Rodeo `98. and will include , Flag Rac- Call the Southwest Airlines Group ing, , , Bareback and Meeting Desk at (800) 433-5368 by , Steer Riding, Chute Dog- August 19, 1998 and refer to code ging, , Mounted Breakaway D7108 to take advantage of this offer. DISTINCTIVE GIFTS Roping, on Foot, and three United Airlines is offering special events exclusive to IGRA competition: meeting fares with up to 10% off the & DECORATIVE Wild Drag Race, Steer Decorating, and mid-week coach fare for travel to and Goat Dressing. Men will compete with from Windy City Rodeo `98. Call the ACCESSORIES men, and women with women, as they United Airlines Special Meeting Desk at ta4 earn both prize money and points (800) 521-4041 and refer to identifier towards Finals Competition in October code 524SR to take advantage of this 1998. Miller Lite is the International offer. Purchase your tickets at least 60 Sponsor of this rodeo, and will be award- days in advance to receive an additional ing special prize money to the top All 5% discount. Around and Cowgirl at Windy If you would like to attend, volun- City Rodeo `98. There will be a Vendor teer, sponsor, compete, or participate in Mall at the Fairgrounds on both days any way, please call the Windy City featuring wares and crafts of a Country Rodeo `98 Hotline at (773) 529-4962, Western nature. contact us by e-mail at [email protected], ARGOSY, LTD Also on Saturday, August 29, Shore- or visit our website at www.ilgra.com. line — Milwaukee will be hosting a Dance The Illinois Gay Rodeo Association Gala at the Hyatt Deerfield from 8 pm is a non-profit organization of men and until 1 am. Featuring performances by women dedicated to the raising of funds GAIIERIA WEST Shoreline and a number of dance groups for community related charities through from around the country, and music spun functions preceding and including an 18900 W. Bluemound Road • Brookfield, WI 53045 • 821-6900 by a popular Milwaukee DJ, this Country annual amateur rodeo. Dance event will benefit Camp Heartland Open: M-F: 1 Oarn-6pm, Thurs: 10am-8pm, Sat: 10am-5pm

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In Step Pride Is In The Eye of the Beholder The Northern Lights Building 1661 North Water Street, Suite 411 Commentary by Michelangelo Signorile and affirm themselves. People come from miles and miles around, from dozens of small towns and rural areas. Many of Milwaukee, WI 53202 them have enormously positive, uplifting experiences. They (414) 278-7840 voice sort of like Memorial Day or Labor Day: not a day n which I reflect on the intended significance, and often go back home and organize in their communities. (414) 278-5868 fax more so an opportunity to stretch the weekend out, unwind, Even in the big cities of the liberal Northeast, like Boston [email protected] and see friends. I haven't even been to the actual Pride parade and New York, there are always people coming out of the clos- in New York, where I live, for several years. et — from teenagers newly awakening to their sexuality to ISSN# 1045-2435 And that's not a bad thing. It signifies that I've come far older people who've been in heterosexual marriages for twenty enough in my own life that I don't need a special day to think years and who are now taking those first steps out. For many of about being out, or to celebrate my gayness. Particularly in the them, Pride has a purpose. There are also a great many other Ronald F. Geiman people who've been out for many years but who still reserve founder work that I do, covering the gay community regularly as a jour- nalist, I sometimes feel like it's Pride every day. Why do I need Gay Pride Day to commemorate and celebrate their own per- a special day to think about it? sonal journey, for whatever reasons. Jorge L. Cabal Because of the progress that has occurred, there are today Conflicts among us about the purpose of Pride today often president many people like me. They're not necessarily working in the result from the fact that we each base our views about it on our personal experiences with Pride — and on our personal experi- William Attewell queer world but they are certainly out enough in their daily editor-in-chief lives that Pride Day doesn't hold so much meaning for them. Those of us in this category sometimes look at Pride nowadays Jorge L.Cabal and see only the negative things, of which there are many. We "[I] sometimes look at Pride arts editor see the commercialism, the cheesy rainbow everything, the hokey "We Shall Overcome" rallies, and the often silly — and nowadays and see only the Ed Grover sometimes just plain dull — parades. book editor And we also see the non-stop partying. We watch the hordes negative things, of which there Keith Clark, Scott Evertz, Ron Geiman, of people for whom Pride is only an excuse to take a take a lot are many ... the commercialism, of drugs and dance the weekend away. More often than not, Kevin John, Cheryl Myers, Tim Nasson, these individuals couldn't tell you much if anything about the the cheesy rainbow everything, Jeffrey Newman, Dale Reynolds, Stonewall Riots. But they can certainly tell you the names of the Dave Runyon, Jamie Taylor, DJs spinning at all of the hot club events on Pride weekend. the hokey `We Shall Overcome' Rex Wockner There's nothing wrong with celebration; partying can in contributing writers fact be enormously positive. It's quite healthy for any group rallies, and the often silly — and that is stepped on in the ways gay people have been, and it James Taylor helps us to let off steam. But too many people use the idea of sometimes just plain dull photographer celebrating "pride" as another reason — one that supposedly parades." Robert Arnold, Paul Berge offers more justification — to blow the weekend out complete- cartoonists ly and to become a total mess. For a lot of people who have experienced the emotional ences with being out — and we often don't appreciate what Wells Ink damage of homophobia, this can often be a way to connect with Pride might mean for others. art direction and ad design others superficially and momentarily, often because they're To those people who did Pride in the past but who now only unwilling or unable to do the hard work — when they're not see the downsides: Have a little patience, and try to understand partying — of achieving real intimacy. And, as has been report- that for many other people Pride has a significance that outweighs ed over and over again, the results of this kind of hyper-partying those downsides. And be glad that Pride no longer has a special Publication of the name, photo- meaning for you, as that perhaps means you've come pretty far. graph or other likeness of any per- include everything from unsafe sex to a sense of isolation and low self-esteem when the party's over. Needless to say, this is not To those for whom pride is nothing but one big party: Take son or organization in In Step is not something of which any of us should be particularly "proud." a moment to examine your own motives, be honest with yourself to be construed as any indication of Yet, it would be unfair to look only at the negatives of Pride about whether or not those motives are healthy, and think about the sexual, religious or political ori- and decide it's time to pack it in. There is yet another, quite what you need to do if those motives indeed are not so healthy. entation, practice or beliefs of such large group of people for whom Pride is something vitally And to those for whom Pride is meaningful, positive, vital person or members of such organi- important and very healthy, and there is often a disconnect and uplifting, whether it is a new experience or something zations. Opinions expressed by con- between these people and those of us who've been doing the you've done for many years: Happy Gay Pride. tributors do not necessarily repre- coming out thing for a longer period of time. Last year, I spoke Michelangelo Signorile is the author at Atlanta Pride and Birmingham (Alabama) Pride, and I was a of Life Outside: sent those of the publishers. The Signorile Report on Gay Men: Sex, Drugs, Muscles, and the Passages of Life, grand marshall at Nashville Pride. For many gay, lesbian, bisex- We reserve the right to edit any just published in trade paperback by HarperPerrenial. submissions, advertising or editorial ual, and transgendered people in the often-intolerant Deep at our sole discretion. We assume no South, Pride is the one day when they're able to come together responsibility for typographical or others errors unless camera-ready copy is provided. We assume no responsibility for advertisers' DIDJA SEE. THOSE HOMOS PULLED OVER BY claims. 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14 In Step June 25 - July 9, 1998 • • • Republicans Out Front ii I Ill ! ;:( • • Commentary by Scott Evertz • ave you ever had the urge to just walk up to someone and say something so dramatic that they totally flip out? If so, don't apologize for this some- Hwhat sadistic urge, just walk up to someone — one of those gay and les- J bian activist types — and say the following: "Republicans are the true leaders of the gay and lesbian cause in Wisconsin." You will witness one of the most dramatic • reactions you've ever seen. Assuming this person isn't him or herself a gay Republi- catch our FREE "...just walk up to someone one of those summerfest shuttle gay and lesbian activist types and say the daily 12:30 am following: "Republicans are the true leaders 4 pm- of the gay and lesbian cause in Wisconsin." can, they will start yelling at you and scream that what you have just said is not true. They may even call you names. Indeed, you will succeed in causing this per- son to flip out. But why? Why when it is almost an indisputable fact that the political gains gays and les- bians have made in Wisconsin are a result of Republican leadership would some- one react so dramatically to this statement? Is it that they just don't know what Republicans have done and all you need to do is inform them, if they'll stop grab a screaming long enough to listen? Perhaps. You could try to point out that it was a Republican Governor who signed the COSMO country's first gay rights bill in law in Wisconsin in 1982. You might let them know that the hospital visitation bill, drafted by a Republican and designed to enable gay before the and lesbian couples to visit their partners in the hospital, was just signed by our next gig! Republican Govenor. You could remind them that the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin (ARCW) recently gave that same Govenor its highest honor in recogni- tion of the fact that his administration has consistently supported those living with HIV and AIDS in Wisconsin through his budget. And while you're on that subject, you might want to let them know that it was the Republican dominated Joint Finance Committee which approved an increase in the Life Care Services grant for people living with HIV and AIDS this past year. Jimmy and Bill's And if after all that, it appeared that your needed to persaude them further, you GPAND OPENING could let them know that it was Republicans in the state legislature who ensured that an "anti-domestic partnership" bill never made it out of committee. And while

on that subject, you could let them know that it was a result of a Republican mem- • • ber of the Madison City Council, Jim McFarland, that the only thing even closely domestic partnership ordinance exists in Madison. And if all of that resembling a 819 south 2nd street is not enough, you could throw in the fact that our Democrat senior U.S. Senator b l owo u t only agree to support the Employment Non-Discrmination Act (ENDA) after his coming soon mi lwouk e e , wi Republican opponent inhis last race indicated his intention to be a co-sponsor. And 4 1 4 . 6 4 5 . 8 3 3 0 for good measure, you may want to let them know that it was the efforts of the Republican Congressman from the Second District in Wisconsin that resulted in HIV positive service people being protected from being drummed out of the armed forced simply because of their HIV status. Now that should be enough, don't you think? Well you try it and let me know what because because I have and, in response to the above listed examples of Vinner P911 Republican leadership, I have heard things like: "that's not true, that candidate eSeMrty /and/ 9nd yf would never support ENDA;" "that bill is a `do-nothing' bill:" and "he did not do that." If you hear the same things and you've decided you've had enough and just want to stop this umbelievably childlike denial of the facts, change the subject and Guy foletq 6tozy tfuneli encourage this person to articulate to you what the Democrats have done to advance our cause. Things will get really quiet really quickly. and At(tv9tAkeej fined 06ekt94 ft6ter!

LUNCH Monday - Saturday EAMENSIONEVIMP' %0MINNINARA. LettersMEM AMm, 11 am to 2:30pm arly attention span doesn't seem to extend DINNER A Lott of Nonsense from Chapter 6 to Chapter 7, for in the • latter chapter, St. Paul specifically forbids Mon, Tues & Wed Dear Editor: divorced Christians to get married again, F When Senator Trent Lott was criti- except to their House Speaker Newt Gin- 5pm to 10pm cized for expressing his personal belief grich, who has divorced and remarried, in that homosexuality is a sin, his fellow the awkward position of living in open sin. Thr, Fri, Sat, Sun Republicans such as House Majority Hasn't Mr. Armey, Congressional Leader Richard Armey were quick to rally Bible scholar, noticed Mr. Gingrich's sin- 5pm to 11pm to his defense. ful condition? Of course, Mr. Armey Rep., Armey was especially fast off himself is on his second marriage. Could SUNDAY BRUNCH the mark with quotations from Chapter 6 that possibly have anything to do with his (especially verses 9-11) of the First Epistle biblical myopia? 10:30 am to 4pm to the Corinthians of St. Paul, from the Al Geiersbach, New Testament of the Bible. Since the Milwaukee context of 1 Corinthians 6 is prostitu- tion, as made quite clear by verses 15 and 16, and since nobody's really sure whether the words of verse 9 apply to In Step welcomes your letters. homosexuals or to male prostitutes and Send them to: their customers (which would better fit the context), Mr. Armey is perhaps the Snail Mail: victim of dubious, traditional, homopho- 1661 N. Water Street, Suite 411 bic translations of the text. Milwaukee, WI 53202 M§cM CLUB Mr. Armey doesn't have to know FAX: ancient Greek, however, to read correctly (414) 278-5868 Chapter 7 of St. Paul's epistle, for all Eng- 124 NORTH WATERSTREET • 414.347.1962 lish translations are quite clear in that E-Mail: place. Unfortunately Rep. Armey's schol- instepnews@aol tom Cabaret Entertainment • Major Credit Cards Accepted • Gift Certificates Available

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of April to which two different artists will have responded, altering it to reflect their Kohler Art Cen- distinctive points of view. For more infor- ter's 28th Annual mation, please call (920) 458-6144. Art Fair On The Outdoor Festival Square Celebrates Set for July 40th Year 10* Sheboygan, WI — Piggly Wiggly has announced that it will once again be the Madison — In 1959, Madison's first major sponsor of a weekend of art, enter- Sidewalk Art Fair featured 42 artists and tainment, and family fun at the John drew 700 spectators. Forty summers later, Michael Kohler Art Centers Twenty- the event now known as Art Fair in the Eighth Annual Outdoor Arts Festival, Square features 484 artists from across the held Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and nation, bringing an estimated 200,000 19. Due to continuing construction on people to downtown Madison's Capitol the Arts Center's expansion, this year's Concourse during its two-day run on Festival will be held at Fountain Park at Saturday, July 11 (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and "Dirty Little Showtunes!" Returns the corner of Erie and Eighth Streets. Sunday, July 12 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.). More than 135 artists from around the A wide selection of original art and country will highlight the event as they hand-crafted work will be available, rang- To Chicago For Limited Run display and sell an outstanding array of ing from ceramics, graphics, sculpture works including ceramics, paintings, and photography, to painting, jewelry, Chicago, IL — Just in time for `98 Pride, Tom Orr's laugh-packed, toe-tapping prints, hand-blown glass, photographs, wood, leather, fiber, glasswork and mixed musical parody review, *Dirty Little Showtunes!" returned to The Theater Building wearable art, jewelry, furniture, leather media. In addition the Art Fair offers a on June 18 for a limited six week run (though August 9) with performances nightly work, toys, sculpture and more. Artist's great lineup of food, music and entertain- Friday through Sunday and two shows on Saturday. Two additional shows were demonstrations, live music, food and ment. Visitors can enjoy a tasty variety of scheduled for June 25 and July 2. workshops will also be part of the Festival. summertime fare while listening to live This delightful romp of parodies of your favorite music from the Broadway stage, The hours will be 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on music on three different stages. The Kid's features the works of Rogers and Hammerstein, Jerry Herman, Lerner and Lowe, Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sun- Area offers activities and performances Cole Porter, Steven Sondheim and many more. But, no Lloyd Weber. From the day. especially for children, including print- opening downbeat to the final note . . . you'll be laughing yourself silly as this great John Michael Kohler Arts Center is making, sand art, storytelling and magic. group of talented men go all out to entertain you. located on the corner of Sixth Street and Rated among the top fine art fairs in Reprising their original roles will be Michael Reyes, Bob Hatzenbeller, Ryan New York Avenue in downtown Sheboy- the country, Art Fair in the Square is also Kohnson. Michael Annetta, and Eric Walbruch. Musical direction is by Jay gan. The Arts Center will remain open Madison Art Center's most important Schwandt and the production is directed by Michael Bruno. Tickets are available at during the Festival for viewing of the fund-raiser of the year, with all proceeds the Theater Building Box Office or by calling (773) 327-5252. ongoing exhibit, Labyrinth, a 40-foot cir- supporting the museum's exhibitions and cular installation constructed at the end education programs. Generous under- writing for the event has been provided by Evjue Foundation/The Capital Times, christina martin Pizza Pit, Ameritech, World Perks Visa, ricci donovan klidrow lovett Madison Radio Group, General Casualty Insurance Company, Pepsi, Zimbrick Inc., and McDonald's of South & West "A WICKEDLY DELIGHTFUL COMEDY! Madison and Oregon. 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Single tickets range from $11 to $48 You'll cry. and may be purchased on person Mon- day through Saturday from 12 noon to 6 You'll be offended. p.m. at the box office, 158 N. Broadway, or charged by phone by calling (414) 291-7800. Tickets are also available through their website at www.skylight- opera.com. Single tickets are non- CY exchangeable and non-refundable. For • more information about the 1998/'99 LANDMARK S EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT season, ordering subscription or single tickets, or to request a brochure, please Oriental STARTS FRIDAY, JUNE 26 call (414) 291-7800. Farwell & North • (414) 276-8711 htto,/www.agre.aciity.cuitt/claaaira • Visit the Stu", Pictures Classics site at

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Carolina," the book makes no effort to hide disturbing issues. Yet Allison Dorothy Allison doesn't jump into difficult areas - she slides in, cloaking the predicaments of Interview by Danica Kirka her somewhat less-than-upstanding ovelist Dorothy Allison characters with sympathy. Her relaxed once burned every word style reminds literature professor Chris she wrote. She had her Mott of Southern writers Flannery reasons. Allison, the O'Connor and Harper Lee. daughter of a 15-year- "It's like your next-door neighbor Nold poor, unwed mother in Greenville, Dorothy sits you down and hands you S.C., was sexually abused as a child. a cup of coffee or a beer — you know, a She needed to write about it, but she nice cold one — and ... then says, all of thought that if the truth came out, a sudden, `Last night I was in a razor neighbors would no longer consider fight,"' said Mott, who teaches at the her family respectable "good poor," University of California at Los Angeles. but trashy poor. "You have a mixed response. You So one day, she torched the pages want to be sympathetic, but at the she had written, tossed the flaming same time, `You're scaring me'." words into holes she had dug in the An outspoken lesbian, Allison's ground and covered them up. early short stories were released by "It was the sheer reality of it," she small gay and feminist publishers she gotten trusted to understand her work. A col- said. "It would have definitely TRIANGLE me into trouble." lection of short stories called "Trash" But Allison also felt guilty, that she was published in 1988 by Firebrand had done something to prompt the Books, a feminist press in Ithaca, N.Y. abuse. "I believed I was ... a monster. It She did readings at colleges and wasn't my fault that I couldn't fight. ... independent bookstores, watching The women's movement told me I what worked, staying close to her audi- wasn't a monster." ence. She still visits every independent Allison drew on her past to write bookstore she can find. "Bastard Out of Carolina." The 1992 Allison lectures and teaches writ- Friday, July X1.1998 novel earned her comparisons to the ing. She wants .to pass on the benefits greats of Southern writing and a of anxiety. "I tell my students that if Loose. National Book Award nomination. It they're afraid, they're doing something All Hell Breaks was made into a movie directed by right. Fortunately, I have a bottomless Anjelica Huston and televised on well of anxiety to draw on. Fear is Showtime, after TNT, which had com- always the replenishable resource." missioned a TV movie, pulled it off the Telling the truth may not have gotten air because of child molestation scenes. her into the trouble, but it did cause a stir. Set in Greenville, the book is nar- "Bastard Out of Carolina" sold rated by young Ruth Anne "Bone" 400,000 copies in paperback and Boatwright, daughter of Anney transformed the life Allison had carved Boatwright and a man Bone never in San Francisco, where she lives with knew. Her life is marked by the money her partner, Alix Layman, a trombone her family doesn't have and the blank player in a swing band, and their five- For tickets or more year-old son, Wolf Michael. information, space on her birth certificate where her please call: father's name is supposed to appear. She needed six years to finish Bone is raised by a violent, moody "Cavedweller," distracted by the suc- stepfather. cess of her first mainstream book and ffti With her second major novel, the attention that followed. BUILDIN "Cavedweller," Allison takes on anoth- First came manuscripts, piles of paper in fat brown envelopes sent by 1225 W. Belmont er broken-family saga, this one charac- (773) 327-5252 terized more by atonement than anger. struggling writers trying to cash in on The story revolves around Delia her new celebrity. There were so many Byrd, who flees an abusive husband by that she gave up reading them and even- hitching a ride with an up-and-coming tually began using the pages to stoke her rock musician. She leaves two babies wood stove. Then there was the publici- behind in Cayro, Ga., a wide spot in ty — the interviews, the photographers "COMING" the road where there "was a sign that who wanted to shoot her in trailer parks read WELCOME on one side and surrounded by poor people. COME BACK SOON on the other." But always there were the letters THURSDAY! Scrambling back to Georgia when from incest survivors who understood. the singer's death jars her into facing her Allison reads every one, though she • past, Delia suffers the recrimination of a gets so many she can't answer them all. small town that hasn't forgotten her sin, She misses the South, where peo- and tries to repent and make amends to ple can cook and know the fine art of children she left behind. flirting, but Allison doesn't plan to Allison doesn't hide that Delia is an return for now, fearing that her son alter ego, a free-spirited singer still would face repercussions because of wandering the wild side of the 1970s her lesbian relationship. and getting mistaken for Janis Joplin. Not that she's complaining. The With self-deprecating humor, Allison distance gives her the space to advocate identifies herself closely with her work- the things that matter to her. 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Minneapolis/St. Paul by Andrew Collins Due west of the park begins Lowry o bastardize an old Wilde say- Hill, a mixed-income and fairly gay and ing, Minneapolis and St. Paul are artsy residential neighborhood that's Ttwo cities divided by a common home to the country's largest regional the- river. Unfairly lumped together by most ater, the Guthrie, and one of the top-ten folks as the seemingly identical Twin most-visited art museums in the nation, Cities, these two vibrant and gay-friendly the contemporary Walker Art Center. The getaways have their own distinctive city's GenX alternative scene centers on charms. Observers sometimes note that nearby Uptown, a once-dowdy neighbor- St. Paul shares a close kinship with the hood whose rows of brownstones are rent- nearest major city to the east, Chicago, ed out mostly to twentysomethings with a while Minneapolis captures the spirit and progressive bent and moderate to low aesthetic of the nearest major city to the incomes. west (albeit at 1,800 miles away), Seattle. Midway between Uptown and down- Despite having been developed as a town is the tremendous Minneapolis Insti- rough but productive mill town, Min- tute of Arts, which is housed in a 1915 neapolis is today the flashier and more Beaux Arts building designed by the firm cosmopolitan of the two. Its residents of McKim, Mead, and White. The tend to dress up before heading out to a 80,000-piece collection has works by such show (only New York City has more the- diverse masters as Picasso, Georgia O'Ke- ater seats per capita), party in large num- effe, Grant Wood, Rembrandt, and Titian. bers at the countless Warehouse District St. Paul is east of Minneapolis, 10 nightclubs, and dine in trendy see-and-be- miles as the crow flies and about 30 min- seen restaurants. Here you'll find the Twin utes by car. The city's workaday down- Cities' pro sports teams, the two best art town is anchored by the intersection of museums, and the region's fanciest win- North Robert and 7th streets. From here dow shopping. 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Despite this reputation, the whose exhaustive collection of memora- city today possesses a comfortable, middle bilia and artifacts captures the region's class, almost gritty character. Note the past, from a replica of an early sod house abundance of close-knit low-keyed resi- to an actual costume worn by Prince in dential neighborhoods dominated by Purple Rain. A short walk from here is the neatly preserved redbrick row houses and Minnesota Museum of American Art, subdivided Victorian mansions. Nesting housed inside the neo-Romanesque Land- lesbians and lesser numbers of nesting gay mark Center, which looms over gracious men have long been attracted to the city's Rice Park. community spirit and manageable pace, Southeastern St. Paul, down near the but visitors may find less to see and do river and known as the Lowertown His- here than in Minneapolis. toric District, is ideal for strolling. This Downtown Minneapolis has a tower- 17-block tract of former warehouses and ing modern skyline, the highlights of industrial concerns bears a certain resem- which are gay uber-architect Philip John- blance to Minneapolis's Warehouse Dis- son's masterful 57-story IDS Building and trict. A key landmark is Depot Place, a the elegant 1929 Foshay Tower, whose 1920s rail depot that now houses restau- 32nd-floor observation deck is open to rants and boutiques. Nearby is the engag- the public. Linking this structure to build- ing St. Paul Farmers' Market, which is ings on the 50-plus surrounding down- held on weekend mornings. town blocks is a vast network of second- While traveling between the Twin story interior skyways. If you wonder why, Cities, consider a detour to Bloomington, on blustery winter days, you see so few home to what some hail as one of Ameri- pedestrians dashing along downtown's icy ca's greatest man-made wonders, the Mall streets, it's because most folks remain of America. This hulking retail shrine to within these climate-controlled glass middle-brow consumerism contains every tubes. imaginable chain store known to man. It The one street that does typically buzz is by far the most-visited attraction in the with colorful street life, especially in warm northern Midwest. weather, is Nicollet Mall, a 12-block Andrew Collins recently authored the greatly pedestrian-and-bus mall lined with park expanded second edition of Fodor's Gay Guide to benches, trees, sculptures, and ritzy shop- the USA, as well as six gay guides covering the ping centers. Also great for wandering is ear swimw West Coast, New York City, South Florida, and Ams the nearby Warehouse Historic District, terdam. He can be reached care of this publication most of whose 150 buildings contain or at [email protected]. For more Out of Town, shops, restaurants, nightclubs, and about visit www.gay.net. a third of the city's 100 art galleries. Hennepin Avenue leads southwest from downtown to modest but inviting Loring Park, a seeming slice of small-town America whose beloved pond offers back an almost jarring reflection of gleaming skyscrapers. Here a mix of queers, vagrants, yuppies, and families wander around the grassy, minimally landscaped shores, feeding ducks and enjoying the r . scenery. It's where Mary Richards seems to thank the stars for life in Minneapolis Ask about our in-house custom screen printing a during the opening credits of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and where the gay Di 4-1 [Ir pride parade commences each year. PIING MEN • 1200 South Fi

18 In Step June 25 — July 9, 1998 Help On Wheels AIDS Ride Offers Opportunities for Wisconsin Biker

Milwaukee — Among the 2,000 bike has taught her daughter how important riders who will pedal 500 miles over six volunteer fundraising efforts are. days in July to raise $6 million for "This is a chance for each of us to HIV/AIDS prevention and care is tall, put our money where our mouth is," slim and enthusiastic Rebecca Slater, 26. Rebecca says. Slater is nearing the end of her prepa- Slater does not consider herself a ration for the Twin Cities-Wisconsin- super athlete, but is generally fit, and is Chicago AIDS Ride. She's been training getting accustomed to her mountain bike. and fundraising since March, getting She will ride the same bike she has had for ready for the July 6 - 11 ride. She is proud years, now souped up with new handle- of herself, of Wisconsin's 500 riders, and bars and tires, an air pump, water bottles s. of her mother, Sue, who inspired her to and tire patch kit. She recently learned

ie! accept what she considers "the greatest how to change and fix a flat tire. challenge of my life." In training with her workout partner L`• "I've never done anything like this since March, she is in better shape now before," she says. As of this writing, she than she's ever has been. She has gained a has raised $2,000 and is confident that lot of strength in her legs and in her she will raise $300 more to meet her goal. upper body. She is also delighted that for the first "I have calves now," she says with a time, the AIDS Resource Center of Wis- grin. Slater lifts weights every day, takes consin is one of seven beneficiaries of this training rides three or four times a week, third AIDS Ride through Wisconsin. and rides 25 miles before reporting for

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"The fundraising is the most chal- work at 10 a.m. She has taken training lenging part so far, yet it is easier than I rides of 25 and 50 miles, and is undaunt- thought it would be," she says. "Basically, ed by the prospect of pedaling up to 100 I got out all my address and phone books, miles a day, for six days. called up everyone I have ever met, and "I've never done anything like this asked for their support." before in my life, and that's the way it is The results have thrilled her. "People for many of the riders," she says. Many are just unbelievably generous, beyond riders train and socialize together, form- my dreams," she says. That generosity, ing bonds of friendship. She is among the multiplied by the zeal and efforts of 2,000 youngest riders, and reports that she has other riders, will raise vitally needed funds met many women in their 40's and 50's for HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treat- who are riding. ment. Lisa Wolter, ARCW deputy direc- "We motivate each other," she says. !at' fromDesigning Mei tor of community relations, said it was But her foremost motivating influence is thrilling to have the AIDSRide go her mother. through Wisconsin, and to have so many "My mom has inspired me to volun- people raising money for privately funded teer, and has helped so much with this ye wear nothing at all! services. ride, asking her friends and coworkers for "ARCW provides services that are not their support," she said. Slater's mother government funded. Services such as our confirmed that Rebecca has her enthusi- needle exchange program, outreach to high astic support, and is confident that her risk groups and volunteer programs require commitment and training will help her private funds to operate," Wolter said. enjoy the challenge. "I am so thankful that these Wiscon- "I've done some long rides, too, one ft sin riders and so many others have made to Door County and another to Devil's this huge commitment of time and ener- Lake, so I know you don't have to be an gy. It is very heartwarming," she added. Olympian to do something like this," said Slater credits her mother for showing Sue Slater. embroidery service for t-shirts, caps and more! the way to what so far has been the most And the $6 million AIDS Ride goal of exciting experience of her young life. Her daughter, mother and more than 2,000 mother is the development officer for other riders is clearly in sight. St. • Milwaukee, WI 53204 • 414-389-1200 • -."1413• grants and foundations at ARCW, and

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Night. 2-4-1 all tops, Miller bottles and Noplese Lounge (Green Bay): Shake o Drink! Aces free and sixes half Just Us (Milwaukee): Men's p.m. to 10 p.m. Festivals: price • 3 to 7 p.m. rail. Restaurant open from 6 Activities, 3 p.m. Station 2 (Milwaukee): Bloody Marys S2. Open at Stammers! $1 - 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): All coffee drinks - $2. Kathy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Friday, June 26 The Ballgame (Milwaukee): Bloodys, Screws, Greyhounds • $2.25, top Free Karaoke Kirby's Klub Madison): Every Thursday Night is 20's Night! Party to the activi- 51,75 rail drinks - 9 p.m. to close. Ray's Bar & Grill (Madison):Happy Hour from 4 to 7 p.m. Chicago Pride Weekend (Chicago, IL): There will be all kinds of beer 801 (until 6 p.m.) hottest rock all night. $1 rail, Si shots, 501 tops. Listen to our new fabulous Pride from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. ties at the bars 8. on the streets. Then thereks that The Office (Rockford, IL): Game Show Mania every Sunday at 8:30 [Us Todd 8 Shawn. Parade. See Sunday, 6/28. Scooter's (Eau Claire): Progressive Night! Starts 9 p.m. to close. $1 rail p.m. $1 Bloody Marys! DJ 8 dancing 7 nights a week. mixers, 501 mugs of beer. Price goes up 251 every half hour to clos- LaCoge (Milwaukee): Super Bust. Summerfest - Music Festival (Milwaukee): The Big Gig started 6/25 Show Biz Sundays. S6 Long Island Pitchers! Triangle (Milwaukee): ing. (Milwaukee): Double Bubble with complimentary Hors and goes on through 7/5 with music every day, all day. Look for Fire- M&M Club (Milwaukee): Steve's mini-dart playoffs 4 to 9 p.m. 5 to 7 p.m. works! Tickets: single day $1; 3-day pass $18; 6-day pass $30. Avail- Woody's South Water St. Docks (Milwaukee) 2-4.1 cocktails 3 to 7 p.m. D'oeuvres Ticket (enter. Night! (16 8, up in Zo's). Alcohol served to 1 p.m. Special appetiz- able just about everywhere and through the TicketMaster La's (Green Bay): Dry Dance Station 2 (Milwaukee): Closed! Mama Roux (Milwaukee): 2/4/1 drinks 5 FMI call (414) 273-FEST. to over 21 in lava's. ers by Stan. The Ballgame (Milwaukee): $2.50 top-shelf, $1.75 rail drinks. Saturday, June 27 Mondays: Mod Bar (Madison): Ex 8 Ex Lite $2. Shots of Cuervo 52. The Office (Rockford, IL): Bud Products $1.50. Run-Walk (Milwaukee): loin members of LAMM 8 FromRun- Boot Camp Saloon (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 8 p.m.Club 94 Manoeuvres (Madison): Happy Hour 4 to 8 p.m. with the Manoeuvers LAMM The Trading Company (Eau Claire): 2 for $2. Domestic bottles and rail ners every Saturday, rain or shine. Meet at the North Avenue Water- (Kenosha): Closed. Wheel. >From 8 p.m. to close Jim Beam drinks are 52, Ex and Ex Lite Joanne at (414) 359-3608. mixes all night. $2, shorties of Cite SI. Shots of Cuervo and Doctors ore $2. DJ 8. Danc- tower 9 a.m. for a run-walk. FMI call Club 219 (Milwaukee: Absolut Night! $1.25. Rail pitchers $6. Preliminary (Wausau, WI) This is Triangle (Milwaukee): ing at 10 p.m.. Miss Central Gay Wisconsin Pageant - Dish (Milwaukee): The new night spot for women! Happy Hour 2-4-1, Wisconsin - U S of A Pageant. It (Milwaukee): Snack Night! $1 off drinks from 4 to 9 p.m. Country (Chicago): Half-Price Night. Rooms 510, lockers $7. an official preliminary to the Miss Gay 5 to 7 p.m. Woody's Man's takes place at OZ (formerly the Mod Hatter) at 10:30 p.m. FMI call drinks as low as 251 3 to 7 p.m. Margarita Mondays! $2 - 8 p.m. to midnight. Wednesdays: Naplese Lounge (Green Bay): Pull tubs! (715) 842.3225. Emeralds (Milwaukee): No Cover! Free Pool! Watch Ally Boot Camp Saloon: (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 8 p.m. It's OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): 51 bottle beer. 501 drafts. Strawberry Festival (Cedarburg, WI): Historic Cedarburg's 13th annual Emerald City (Antioch, IL): Free pool! 8 to 9 p.m. Leather Night! Prizes throughout the night. Happy Hour from 4 to 7 p.m. 52 Export festival where berries are king. Strawberry food and drink, a craft fair, McBeol from Ray's Bar 8. Grill (Madison): 5K run and much more. Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m. Fluid (Milwaukee): Happy Hour - 5 to 8 p.m. Cell Block (Chicago): Open Shawn's Treasure Chest for Great Prizes! 8 Corona beer 9 p.m. to close. 5p.m. EMI 800•B27-8020. Sunday, June 28 Check your planner for more. $2 Lite/MGD longnecks. Darts. 2.4-1 top beer 9 p.m. to to Just Us (Milwaukee): Closed. Scooter's (Eau Claire): Free Pool 8 Chicago Pride Parade (Chicago, IL): The Pride Parade steps off at 2 Chicago Eagle (Chicago): Free pool. close. Hut to 6 p.m. Pull tabs! Halsted St., heads north to Broadway, Kathy's Nut (Milwaukee): 4 p.m. from Belmont Ave. and Club 94 (Kenosha): Karaoke Night 9 p.m. to close. 2•4•1 roil drinks, South Water St. Docks (Milwaukee): 2-4.1 cocktails 3 to 8 p.m. 751 and east to Sheridan Rd. la(age (Milwaukee): Shake a Drink! south to Diversey Pkway, 50( Tappers 7 to 11 p.m. $2.50 pitchers all night. tapsirom 9 p.m. to close. Club - Hiking (Madison): Hiking trip to Black M&M Club (Milwaukee): Double Bubble with complimentary Hors Frontiers Gay/Bi Men's Club 219 (Milwaukee): Strippers! Always the HOTTEST Men for your Station 2 (Milwaukee): 2-4-1 6 to 8 p.m. After 8 p.m. 7 Crown S2, FMI call Jim at (608) 588-3073. Out- D'oeuvres 5 to 7 p.m. Hawk Lake. Leave at 1:30 p.m. enjoyment. Captains $2. interest. ing may be canceled if there is nor sufficient Mod Bar (Madison): All roils and domestic bottles of beer $2. Dish (Milwaukee): The new night spot for women! Happy Hour 2-4-1 The Ballgame (Milwaukee): $1.15 rail drinks 9 p.m. to close. Friday, July 3 Grill hours 4 to Mama Roux (Milwaukee): 2/4/1 drinks 5 to 7 p.m. 5 to 7 p.m. Watch Ellen 8. Lena with us. The Office (Rockford, IL): Beer SI Well drinks $1.50. Firstor Fireworks - Milwaukee's Lakefront (Milwaukee): This annual 10 p.m. Diversions (Neenah): Open at 7 p.m. $6 Beer Bust! The Trading Company (Eau Claire): Super Bust! 9 p.m. to close. S8 event takes place on the lakefront at Veteran's Park, and starts at 9 p.m. Manoeuvres (Madison): Happy Hour 4 to 8 p.m. 2-0.1's and the Emeralds (Milwaukee): Lady's Night! Call drinks $2. rail, $10 call mixers, $12 top-shelf mixers. Get there early for a good seat. There is good viewing from Veterans Manoeuvres Wheel. From 8 p.m. to close: rails, taps of Lite 8 domes- are back! Always a great park 8, Juneau Park if you get there early, or you con stand on Lincoln tic bottles of beer are $1.15. Shorties of Lite are SI. Shots of hot Sex Emerald City (Antioch, IL): The Rave Party with DJ Burge! $1 Miller Triangle (Milwaukee): ShowBiz Thursdays bust! Memorial Bridge with the rest of us. Call Firstar for more information. are $1.50. DJ 8 dancing at 10 p.m. Lite bottles. mix of comedy, show tunes 8. more. $6 rail p.m. (50( off tap- Thursday, July 9 Man's Country (Chicago): Half-Price Night. Rooms $10, lockers S7. Fluid (Milwaukee): Happy Hour - 5 to 8 p.m. Woody's (Milwaukee): Happy-Happy Hour 4 to 5 pets 8, Si off rail drinks). $1 off drinks from 5 to 9 p.m. Cathedral Square Park - Bastille Days (Milwaukee): Let The Good Times Naplese Lounge (Green Bay): Pull tabs from 3 to 7 p.m. (Drinks as low Just Us (Milwaukee): Import Night. Half-price on import bottles of beer. La's (Green Bay): $6 Super Bust. DJ Mark spins. Roll! Discover Milwaukee's French Connection of this French festival as 251) S6 Beer Bust from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Kathy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Hump Day! Everything's a buck. Open music, wines and more. Cele- that runs through 7/12. French food, OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): Melrose Mondays. Free pizza 8, shot specials. to close. Fridays: brate France's Independence with the Storm the Bastille 2K Run/Walk. LaCage (Milwaukee): Super Bust! Cocktail Hour - 4 to 8 p.m. It starts at 9 p.m. from the park. Ray's Bar 8 Grill (Madison): Happy Hour from 4 to 7 p.m. 2-4-1. Boot Camp Saloon (Milwaukee): Scooter's (Eau Claire): S3 pitchers - 9 p.m. to close. M&M Club (Milwaukee): Double Bubble with complimentary Hors Cell Block (Chicago): Fetish Night! Check your Monthly Planner. $100 Bar Specials: D'oeuvres 5 to 7 p.m. drawings. Holding Cell opens at 10 p.m. South Water St. Docks (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour! 3 to 7 p.m. Pull Sundays: tabs 9 p.m. to close. Station 2 (Milwaukee): Closed! Mod Bar (Madison): All rail drinks $2. Shots of Jack Daniel's $2. Chicago Eagle (Chicago):Club Night. Chicago's Leather and S&M Clubs drinks from 3 p.m. until closing. Grill welcome. Pit open. Boot Camp Saloon (Milwaukee): Sunday afternoon bottle beer special The Ballgame (Milwaukee): Domestic beer $1.25, rail drinks $1.15. Mama Roux (Milwaukee):2/4/1 from 3 to 7 p.m. 9 p.m. to close. hours are 4 to 10 p.m, Club 94 (Kenosha): DJ Jeff's party. 10 p.m. to close. 4 to 8 p.m. 2-4-1 with the Hour 2-4-1 C'est La Vie (Milwaukee): Bloody Marys 52, Beer Bust $1, Tap beer The Office (Rockford, IL): Miller products - $1.50. Manoeuvres (Madison): Happy Hour Dish (Milwaukee): The new night spot for women! Happy Manoeuvers Wheel. From 8 p.m. to close 12 oz taps of Lite are 151, 5 to 7 p.m. Join DJ Amber for dancin' 8 romancin'. 50(. Triangle (Milwaukee): Melrose Place Monday. $1.50 Doctors, 751 Tap- shorties of Lite are Sl, shots of Jack Daniels are $2. DJ 8 dancing at Diversions (Neenah): Open at 7 p.m. Dance Party! DJ requests. Cell Block (Chicago): Beer Busts hosted each week by various groups. pers. 10 p.m. Check your monthly planner. $4.25 pitchers all night. Holding Cell Woody's (Milwaukee): 51 off drinks - 4 to 9 p.m. Emeralds (Milwaukee): After Work Cool Down! Mondays through Fri- Man's Country (Chicago): 7-5-1. Special: Rooms and Lockers 51 for 5 opens at 6 p.m. Dominic DJ. days 5 to 7 p.m. $1.25 rail drinks. La's (Green Boy): Free Pool 8. Darts. $6 Super Bust at Java's. hours. Chicago Eagle (Chicago): Pizza Night! Emerald City (Antioch, IL): Friday Night Dance party with DJ Bange. Noplese Lounge (Green Bay):Roil drinks $1.50, Soda /8, juice 501 Tuesdays: Free & anonymous HIV testing by Lake (o. Health Dept. from 8 to 10 Club 94 (Kenosha): 3-7 P.M. $1.25 Bloody Marys, 50( Tappers. $5.50 from 3 to 7 p.m. $6 Beer Bust from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Beer Bust. 9 p.m. to close. Free Hot Dogs 8 Nachos served all day! Boot Camp Saloon (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 8 p.m. p.m. Goldens. Free OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): Karaoke! $1.50 MGD and Michelob Club 219 (Milwaukee): 219 Girls! Don't miss Wisconsin's Premier Cell Block (Chicago): SMUT Tuesdays! XXX Videos. Cheap Drinks. Fluid (Milwaukee): Happy Hour - 5 to 8 p.m. Hour from 4 to 7 p.m. 2.4.1 9 p.m. Drag Show. Games. Ray's Bar 8. Grill (Madison):Happy beer to close. Dish (Milwaukee): The new night spot for women! (osmo Sundays! Chicago Eagle (Chicago): Leather/levy Night. Well-drinks 8 draft bottles and rail mixers. 9 Cosmopolitans, Martinis 8. lounge Drinks! SI. Dress Code Enforced. Pit open. Scooter's (Eau Claire): 2 for $2 domestic p.m. to"closing. Diversions (Neenah): Open ant 11 a.m. Bloody Marys $1.50 Old Fash- Club 94 (Kenosha): $1.25 rail drinks 7 to close. $5.50 Beer Bust! South Water St. Docks (Milwaukee): 2-4-1 cocktails open to close. a Drag ioned 8. Screw Drivers. Dish (Milwaukee): The new night spot for women! Happy Hour 2.4.1, Life's Mini Pitchers after 8 p.m. Emerald's (Milwaukee): Men's Night! Coll drinks $2. 5 to 7 p.m. Tattoo Tuesdays! A free drink w/every tattoo. Station 2 (Milwaukee): 2-4-1 6 to 8 p.m. Arnold p.m. to 1 a.m. Beer Bust S4, or 801 ©by Bob Emerald City (Antioch, IL): Join Duane from KC's Mobile Musk, 9 p.m. Diversions (Neenah): Open at 7 p.m. Rail & domestics $1.15. The Ballgame (Milwaukee): 9 glasses of beer. to 1:30 a.m. for koraoke. Qualify for a cruise for 2 on the Big Red Emeralds (Milwaukee): $5 Beer Bust - 8 to midnight! Boat. two qualifiers per evening. Grand Prize drawing on 7/121. The Office (Rockford, IL): $2.50 pitchers/50C drafts. Emerald City (Antioch, IL): S2 Tuesdays! rive DJ ot 9 p.m. $2 beers lust Us (Milwaukee): 5 P.M. - close. Women's Night 2-4-1 Taps, Miller and $2 drinks. Triangle (Milwaukee): Super Bust! All you can drink (tap, wine and bottle, and Rail. soda). Fluid (Milwaukee): Happy Hour • 5 to 8 p.m. Kathy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Noon to 4 p.m. Bloody Marys 8. Screw Woody's Happy-Happy Hour 4 to 5 p.m. (501 off top- Just Us (Milwaukee): Pulbtobs on all drinks. Full-price/half-price/25 (Milwaukee): Drivers - $2 a mug. pers & $1 off rail drinks). $1 off drinks from 5 to 9 p.m. Dart Tourna- cents. LaCage (Milwaukee): Customer Appreciation Night. LaCage Showcase, ment! Kathy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Mexican Night! 4 p.m. to ? Tacos $1 7 Super Bust, DJ 8. Dance. No cover. (Green Boy): $6 Super Bust. Sean spins requests. to 10 p.m. 2-4-1 Tequila 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Corona $1.75. La's M&M Club (Milwaukee): Join them on Packer Sundays for brunch. Kirby's Klub (Madison): Every Tuesday is Fetish Night! Shaved, Leather, Thursdays: • Brunch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wet N' Wild, Flesh, Latex, Master 8 Servant. $50 for best Fetish Out- Boat Comp Saloon (Milwaukee): Cocktail Hour - 4 to 8 p.m. ."*".-/N 40, Mod Bar (Madison): Any domestic bottled beer $2. Any shot $3 or less fit. If you wear a fetish outfit prices are $2 rails, $1.50 taps. 40, (Chicago): Big Buck Thursdays! $1 well, wine, domestic beer. is $2. Cell Block LaCage (Milwaukee): Draw for a Dream Trip! B winners nightly. Grand Chicago Eagle (Chicago): Pain 8. Pleasure in the Pit. $1.50 longnecks. Mama Roux (Milwaukee): $5 Beer Bust from 3 to 8 p.m. Bloody Prize drawing every 90 days. Next drawing: Trip for 2 to San Francisco. Pit Marys are 52 all night. open. M&M Club (Milwaukee): Double Bubble with complimentary Hors Club 219 (Milwaukee) Wisconsin's #1 Show Bar! Talent Night. Variety Manoeuvres (Madison): $5 Sunday Beer Bash 3 to 8 p.m. All you con D'oeuvres 5 to 7 p.m. Night. drink of LITE. All other drinks $1 off 3 to 8 p.m. From 8 p.m. to close Mad Bar (Madison): Bottles of Miller Lite $2. Any shot that's $3 or less all tops are 501 off. DJ 8 dancing at 10 p.m. Dish (Milwaukee): The new night spot for women! Happy Hour 2-4-1 is $2. to 5 7 p.m. Amy entertains! Noplese Lounge (Green Boy): $6 Beer Bust from 3 to 6 p.m. Roux (Milwaukee):Taco Tuesday! 2/4/1 drinks 5 to 7 p.m. Mama Diversions (Neenah): Open at 7 p.m. S8 Roil Bust! OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): $1.50 Bloody Marys hosted by the Gay Voice. Grill open from 4 to 10 p.m. Emeralds (Milwaukee): Tea Thursday! Ice Tea $2.50. Ray's Bar & Grill (Madison): $5 Beer Bash! 6 to 10 p.m. Manoeuvres (Madison): Happy Hour 4 to 8 p.m. Customers con spin (Antioch, IL): In-house Pool Tournament. $100 in cash Scooter's (Eau Claire): Beer Bust (tap beer $6) 3 to 8 p.m. $8 rail mix- the Manoeuvers Wheel to win free drinks, shots, pizza, beer bash etc. Emerald City doesn't prizes. Singles. Double elimination. $1.75 MGDL bottles. Live DJ/band "My analyst ers, $10 call mixers, $2 dbl. Bloody Marys 8, Screw Drivers all night. during Happy Hour. From 8 p.m. to close all tops are 151 off, shorties of Lite are $1. Shots of Pucker or Hot sex ate 51.50. D18 Dancing at of 9 p.m. South Water St. Docks (Milwaukee): Shirtless Sundays. Had price tap understand me!" 10 p.m. Happy Hour - 5 to 8 p.m. 8 rail if your shirt is off. 9 p.m. to close. Fluid (Milwaukee):

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Reviews by Kevin John GoodFood gi Cood Times at High Art n Lisa Cholodenko's feature-film debut, High Art. Syd (Radha Mitchell) goes upstairs to Lucy's (Ally Sheedy) apartment to see if she can fix a leak from her ceil- Iing and soon she becomes caught in Lucy's web of nihilistic heroin-snorting friends including Greta, Lucy's drugged-out ex-Fassbinder film star (played brilliant- ly by Patricia Clarkson). Eventually Syd learns that Lucy used to be a hot shot pho- tographer and dropped out of the art scene ten years ago. This is a perfect situation

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"Syd" (Radha Mitchell) from High Art. Photo Joie Whilden to have fallen into since Syd has recently landed a job at a high profile photography magazine. The two enter into an intense symbiotic relationship where Lucy can advance Syd's career and Syd can pull Lucy out her trust-funded dead-end world. All these interactions are balanced so perfectly throughout most of the film that the end comes as a hideously arbitrary shock. Syd unwittingly becomes the subject of Lucy's contribution to the magazine. Right there is a fascinating story about the CANNA objectification of a woman by another woman and what happens to that representa- Two Terrific locations: tion when it enters in a media economy, i.e. the magazine. But right before the issue 300 West Juneau & 1110 Old World Third Street • 414/276-3399 is printed, however, Lucy overdoses and dies. Cholodenko explains this turn as resulting from "the machine that was responsi- Valet Parking Available • Conveniently Located Between the PAC and Bradley Center ble for crushing Lucy." But the majority of the film concentrates on Syd's awakening and not Lucy's experience with the vagaries of the art world (if any, at this point in Look for the Special New Riverwalk connecting the Marcus her life). Thus her death by the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction feels Center for the Performing Arts (PAC) and Gus'! tacked on rather than an integral part of her character development. And what could have been an innovative foray into the drama of vision in cine- ma turns into a somewhat hackneyed attack on commodification. Cholodenko puts no trust in her characters; they are fragile agents with little of the media savvy of, say, a Madonna to engineer and guide their own representations. So they get eaten alive by it. Indeed, that happens to some artists. But in this narrative context, the keepers of the media (i.e. the magazine editors) are monolithically evil and the last look in a MILWAUKEE film all about vision belongs to the cynical and ambitious switch board operator who figures Syd is moving on up because she slept with Lucy. This cheats the unique main characters that Cholodenko took such pains to develop in the first place. ff lor Aid The X-Files es, obsessives of the TV show will find their hunger for (some) answers satisfied. And, yes, the rest of the world that doesn't want to miss one of the biggest flicks yof the season will lose themselves in two hours of prime entertainment without ever having invested much time/passion into the show beforehand (or afterwards, for that matter). Indeed, Res- cue From Gilligan's Island is 1111. a film for everyone. Oh wait — that's the film I very ironically found mnah • on videotape only hours after seeing The X-Files movie. Well, it isn't difficult for a non-obsessive like myself to get the two con- fused. Okay, I'm stretching the EAGILI point a bit here but, really, both phenomena work in the exact same way. At film's end, with questions left Open eternally unanswered, Mul- Daily @ 8pm to Close (Gillian Scully Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny) from The X-Files. der seems to address this fact to Scully directly. They get so close to the Truth (can't forget those caps!) but it always TUESDAY Milwaukee manages to elude them. Just like Gilligan & Co. always got so close to getting off the $4 Pitchers of Beer Eagle island. WEDNESDAY So forget the patriarchal idea that the pursuit of truth (I don't need to capitalize it) is anything but elusive. Never mind that said pursuit merely plots out Mulder's Malibu $1.50 per glass Oedipal drama (what blockbuster film isn't a male Oedipal drama?) and that Scully plays the Rear Window Grace Kelly to Mulder's James Stewart (I would have loved a THURSDAY 300 W. Juneau Ave. last shot of Scully, who gave up a career as a doctor to follow Mulder on his quest, $10 pitchers Long Island—Maitais rolling her eyes behind Mulder's back and slipping out a medical journal from under- Milwaukee neath the re-opened X-Files). The X-Files movie is prime regenerative television logic HOUSE MUSIC expertly tailored to fit current Hollywood blockbuster film narrative expectations. If you get off on such logic, you'll tune into the Fall TV season to feed your addiction. EVERY THURS. & SUN. 414.273.6900 If you can live without it, you'll enjoy an exciting two hours and never think about the Truth again. DJ's Kevin & Gus

June 25 - July 9, 1998 In Step 21. Just Us - Just Us Bust (Milwaukee): Beer $1, rail drinks $10, call drinks pets & $1 off rail drinks). Si off drinks from 5 to 9 p.m. be there from 10 p.m. 6 until 1 a.m. FMI (all (414) 272-2144. Si 5. DJ Doug plays your requests all night! Fish Fry. 5 -10 p.m. Saturdays: Magnolia's Grill at the Douglas Dunes (Douglas, MI): Located at 333 CALENDAR LISTINGS ARE FREE! Kathy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Pull tabs! 5 to 7 p.m. Blue Star Highway in Douglas, MI. The 4th of July celebration starts Cell Block (Chicago): Open at 2 p.m. Saturday Night Riot 'til 3 a.m. Mail, Fax or E-mail your event to: and runs through 7/5. Look for fireworks! T-Dances every Sunday from LoCage (Milwaukee): LoCage Showcase. Show starts at 11 p.m. Holding Cell opens at 10 p.m. Freddie Bane DJ. 5 p.m. until ????? Anyone in underwear gets half-price dunks. Burg- 1661 N. Water St., Suite 411 M&M Club (Milwaukee): All you can eat Fish Fry and other great spe- Chicago [ogle (Chicago): Drawings for Eagle Leather all night. Pit open. ers, Drinks & Hot Music. Male Strippers every Friday. The Pool Bar is cials. Club 94 (Kenosha): DJ Jim's party 9 p.m. to close. open seven days a week. FMI call (616) 857-1401. Milwaukee, WI 53202 Mad Bar (Madison): Rail whiskey drinks S2. Shots of Jack Daniel's $2. Dish (Milwaukee): The new night spot for women! Join DJ Amber for Thursday, July 9 414.278.7840 voice Mama Roux (Milwaukee): Fish Fry 4 to 10 p.m. Open menu specials. dancin' & romancin'. Dish - HIV Testing (Milwaukee): The BESTD Traveling HIV Clinic will be 414.278.5868 fax Manoeuvres (Madison): Happy Hour 4 to 8 p.m. 2-4-1 with the Diversions (Neenah): Open at 7 p.m. Dance Party! there from 9 p.m. until midnight. FMI toll (414) 272-2144. Monoeuvers Wheel. From 8 p.m. to close rail whiskey drinks are $2, [email protected] shots of Pucker ore S2. DJ & Dancing at 10 p.m.. Emerald City (Antioch, IL): Super Saturday Night Dance Party with DJ Book Clubs, Classes, Bange. Man's Country (Chicago): Male Stoppers and Porn Stars. Show at Mid- Northland Gay Men's (enter - Weekly HIV/AIDS Social Group (Duluth, night. Just Us (Milwaukee): Country Dance! Free dance lessons 7 p.m. to Readings: MN): The group meets from 5 to 8 p.m. at the (enter, 8 N. 2nd Ave midnight with the Shoreline Dancers. Restaurant open from 6 to 10 OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): $1.50 shot specials & import beer specials. Saturday, June 27 East, Temple opera Block, Suite 309. This is an opportunity for all men p.m. DJ 'till close. with HIV/AIDS to socialize and find support. FMI call (218) 722- DJ/Dancing. Back Pages Bookstore - Grand Opening Party (Milwaukee): The newest Kothy's Nut Hut (Milwaukee): Short beers 2 for $1.50. 8585. Ray's Bar & Grill (Madison): Fish Fry $6.95 for all you can eat! Happy addition to Milwaukee's counter-culture, alternative lifestyle bookstores Hour from 4 to 7 p.m. Butch kite at the Bock Bar only! 50( off all Mad Bur (Madison): Bottles of Rolling Rock $2. Shots of lagermeister will have its grand opening starting at noon at 1425 W. Oklahoma Ave. SAGE/Milwaukee - Men's Discussion Group (Milwaukee): A topic dis- drinks for those in leather. $2. Levi/leother uniform night! 50( discount for those dressed in Join in the fun, food and music. Buy a book! FMI call (414) 383-6464. cussion group for mature men meets weekly from 6 to 8 p.m. in the levee leather or uniforms. SAGE Room of Lake Park Lutheran Church. Space is available. Socialize Scooter's (Eau Claire): $1 domestic bottles 9 p.m. to close. A Room of One's Own Bookstore & Coffee House (Modison):Original after the meeting. FMI call (414) 271-0378. Mama Roux (Milwaukee): Bor opens at 3 p.m. Early Bird Specials 3 to South Water Street Docks (Milwaukee): 2-4-1 cocktails 3 to 7 p.m. poetry by Madison's Dyke Group will be performed in the Coffee House 6 p.m. Grill hours from 4 to 10 p.m. at 8 p.m. FMI -call (608) 257-7888. Saturday, June 27 Station 2 (Milwaukee): SI glass of tap beer. Dr.'s $1.50 all night. Manoeuvres (Madison): Happy Hour 4 to 8 p.m. 2.4-1 with the Monday, June 29 Cathedral Square Park - Form Market (Milwaukee) Home-grown fruits The Office (Rockford, IL): Best Dance Party! DJ (As. Manoeuvers Wheel. From 8 p.m. to close bottles of Rolling Rock are and veggies, plants, baked goods and music every Saturday through Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops - Author Appearance (Downer Ave): Viet- Company (Eau Claire): All chilled shots $1.50 - 9 to 11 p.m. $2. DJ & dancing at 10 p.m. 10/7. It all starts at 7:30 a.m. and runs through 12:30 p.m. The Trading namese-born author Lan Coo will read from, Monkey Bridge, at 7 p.m. Woody's (Milwaukee): Happy-Happy Hour 4 to 5 p.m. (50( off top- Man's Country (Chicago): Male Strippers and Porn Stars. Show at Mid- FMI call (414) 332-1181. Galano Club - HIV Testing (Milwaukee): The BESTD Traveling HIV Clinic night. Free Continental Breakfast Sunday Morning. will be there from 6 until 8 p.m. FMI call (414) 272-2144. Thursday, July 2 OH ZONE (Rockford, IL): $1.50 shot specials. DJ/Dancing. lake County Pride Day (Waukegan, IL): Help the Lake County Leader- A Room of One's Own Bookstore & Coffee House (Madison): Author Ray's Bar & Grill (Madison): DJ Tyrone. Buy your first drink & get your ship Alliance and the Waukegan MCC with their Pride Celebration at an Anne Johnson will read from her new book, Return to the Sea: Reflec- second one FREE at the Back Bar only! event at 1520 McAree Rd. starting at 1 p.m. There will be a BBO, tions on Anne Morrow Lindberg's Gift from the Sea, ot 6:30 p.m. FMI awards, music, games and a raffle. At 5:30 there is an MCC worship Scooter's (Eau Claire): All chilled shots only 51.50 - 9 to 11 p.m. DJ coil (608) 257-7888. celebration and at 8 p.m. they will join in the fun at Emerald City's Pride & dancing starting at 11 p.m. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops - Author Appearance (Downer Ave.): Cul- Night in Antioch, IL. FMI call (847) 263-5197. Station 2 (Milwaukee): Hot Sex $1 a shot. thral Critic and humorist Joe Oueenan will read from, Red Lobster, Northland Gay Men's Center - Social Night (Duluth, MN): Meets every The Ball Game (Milwaukee): 80( tap beers, $2 Bloody Marys, Screws, White Trash & the Blue Lagoon at 7 p.m. FMI call (414) 332-1181. Saturday. Activities include games, videos and other social events from Greyhounds. All until 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 7 6 to 9 p.m. at the Center, 8 N. 2nd Ave East, Temple opera Block, Suite 309. FMI call (218) 722-8585. The Office (Rockford, IL): Rockford's Best Dance Party! DJ's Jerry & Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops - Author Appearance (Downer Ave.): Jess One! Ellen Akins will read from, Hometown Brew, her novel about a small Sunday, June 28 Bar Events: Wisconsin brewery at 7 p.m. FMI call (414) 332-11891 Gay Men's Discussion Group (Milwaukee): Tonight's topic is: Gay Com- Thursday, July 9 munity: What is it? Join the group at the BESTD Clinic from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 26 A $3 donation is requested. FM! call Bill Hanel at (414) 276-7626. A Room of One's Own Bookstore & Coffee House (Madison): Author Rehearsal (Madison): Grace Cell Block - Fetish Night (Chicago, IL): Slaves to Pride III. Members of Ellen Alths reads from her latest novel, Hometown Brew, at 6:30 p.m. Perfect Harmony Chorus • Meet and sing, the the Cell Block staff & local celebrities will be on the block for a benefit FMI call (608) 247-7888. Episcopal Church on Capitol Square from 7 to 9 p.m. Enter from to raise funds for the Leather Archives and Museum. Starts at 10 p.m. West Washington side of the court yard. FMI (608) 232.0528. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops - Author Appearance (Shorewood): Mark Saturday, June 27 Bryan explains how to bong The Artist's Way into the workplace at 7 Monday, June 29 (414) 963-3111. Memo Roux - Party (Milwaukee): This is Mama's Third Annual 70's p.m. FMI call Gay AA/Goy Al-anon - 12-Step Meetings (Racine): These recovery party with 70's Prices, 70's Music and 70 cent Miller lite Taps. Come Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops - Author Appearance (Brookfield): Poet groups meet every Monday at 625 College Ave. at 8 p.m. FMI call Art Shake Your Booty from 8 to 12 p.m. & playwright Mark Lee reads from his first novel, The Lost Tribe, at 7 at (414) 694-0115. Sunday, June 28 p.m. FMI call (414) 797-6140. Tuesday, June 30 Mixin' it up. Photo by Jamie @ Block Party Cell Block - Pride Parade (Chicago, IL): A Beer Bust starts at noon with Community Boyz Nite - ARCW - (Milwaukee): The group meets every Tuesday from pitchers of Lite & MGD for $4.25. The only place for leather folk to be 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Assemble Safer Sex kits and other prevention mate- to celebrate the Chicago Pride Parade. The bleachers will be back if they Meetings & Events: rials. It's a place to hang out with other gay men and just dish. Movie can find a place to put them. night is on the first Tuesday of each month. All ages welcome. FMI call Friday, June 26 Chris (414) 225-1556 or Andy (414) 225-1502. Thursday, July 2 G/L/B/T Youth Group - Meeting (Kenosha): This group meets the first Northland Gay Men's Center - Open Discussion Group (Duluth, MN): The La Cage •, HIV Testing (Milwaukee): The BESTD Traveling HIV Clinic will & third Fridays of the month from 7 to 10 p.m. at the ARCW Offices, group meets weekly from 7 to 9 p.m. at the (enter, 8 N. 2nd Ave East, 1212 57th St. FMI call 800-924-6601. Temple opera Block, Suite 309. Topics include coming out issues, sup- High Tea & Talk - Senior Men's Group (Madison): High Tea & Talk is an port & resources. No age limits. FMI call (218) 722-8585. organization-free (no long associated with SAGE/Dane) opportunity for Wednesday, July 1 senior men and their friends who enjoy the company of other men to gath- er on Friday afternoons. The group meets at Monty's Blue Plate Diner, Bay View GAYS • Meeting (Boy View, WI): The Bay View Garden and 2089 Atwood Ave, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and is wheel chair accessible. Yard Society meets every 4th Wednesday at the Beulah Brinton Com- munity Center, 2555 S. Boy St. at 7:30 p.m. FMI call Dan at (414)

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22 In Step June 25 — July 9, 1998 482-3796. Film, TV, Video news and information for South-central Wisconsin plays every Wednes- Women's Self-Defense - Free Ongoing Workshop (Dane County): New day from 7 to 7:30 p.m. To volunteer call Margo Robb at (608) 256- students ore welcome to start the workshop from 7 to 8:30 p.m. any & Radio: 2001. Followed by OThis Way Outti a nationally produced show for A Few Thoughts Tuesday throughout the year. Located at N6883 Hwy. N (1 mile north GLBT folks at 1:30 p.m. of Sun Prairie) at the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints gym. Sunday, June 28 Museums & Galleries Church not affiliated with the class. FMI call (608) 837-9514. Channel 2 - KTCA-2 or KTCA-17 (Minneapolis, MN): There's a visit to About Bears Thursday, July 2 the drag show at the Minneapolis Gay 90s nightclub as Tape's Rolling- Friday, June 26 -The Girls at La Femme, airs at 10 p.m. It's followed by P.O.V.'s by Chip Austin Goy AA/Gay Al-anon - 12-Step Meetings (Kenosha): These recovery Licensed to Kill, at 10:30 p.m. and The Times of Harvey Milk, at Charles Allis Art Museum - Pastel Paintings (Milwaukee): The Land- groups meet every Thursday at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 5810 11:30 p.m. scapes of Carol Rowan will be on exhibit through July 26 at the Muse- subcul—earsonceamysterious 8th Ave, at 7:30 p.m. FMI call Bill or Art ot (414) 694-0115 um, located at 1630 East Royall Place. 52 admission. FMI call (414) ture — are coming out of the TBS - (able 17 (Milwaukee): Tattoos: Women of the Ink, premieres at 278-8295. woods, in numbers. Thursday, July 9 9 p.m. in Milwaukee.iis is a Chicago station. The show discusses the B increasing nse in populanty of tattoos among women in recent years. John Michael Kohler Arts (enter - Photographs (Kohler, WI): Black 8 Bears are everywhere now; most nights, Gemini Gender Group - Meeting (Brookfield): The group meets at 7 White photographs by Bill Lemke at Artspace, 725G Woodlake Rd. This they can be found at just about any gay p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church-West. FMI call (414) 297- Monday, June 29 free exhibit will run through 9/6. FMI call (920) 452-8602. 9328w bar. (Hundreds more will converge on Dyke TV - WYOU-Cable 4 (Madison): A 30-minute show for lesbians Milwaukee Historical Society - Current Show (Milwaukee): The tribute Milwaukee this Labor Day weekend, at that is produced in New York City. Shows at 10:30 p.m. to Early Women Hadey-Davidson Riders will be up through the end of an event hosted by the Brew City Bears.) Frontiers Gay/Bi Men's Group - Film Circle (Madison): A screening of July. The exhibit is free to the public. FMI call (414) 213.8288. What is a bear you say? Well, they're Prick Up Your Ears, the life 8. death of British playwright Joe Orton, will Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum - Art Pottery 8 Wrought Iron (NI- frequently bearded, usually hairy and be shown at 7:30 p.m. FMI call Colin at (608) 257-2338. woukee): And exhibit of American Art Pottery and the wrought iron often heftier than your average male. Wednesday, July 1 artistry of Cyril Colnik will be on display through August 16. S2 admis- sion. FMI call (414) 211.3656. Exact definitions can be hard to agree QUEERY - WORT 89.9 FM (Madison): Your Queer FM radio station for upon — but you know when you see one. Saturday, June 27 There are competing mythologies Charles Allis 8, Villa Terrace Chicago Trip (Milwaukee): Fnends of about the origin of the bear movement. v (trades Allis Art Museum 8. friends of Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Some argue the bear identity emerged Museum are sponsoring an Art trip to the Chicago Art Institute to see in resistance to a dominant gay aesthet- the James McNeill Whistler lithographs. Space is limited. FMI call Lee ic that valourized body-shaving and Tischler after 4 p.m. at (414) 964-2339. abnormally low body fat. Tuesday, June 30 For others, beardom represents a Milwaukee Art Museum - Gallery Talk (Milwaukee): Dean Sobel, MAW reaction against aspects of gay culture chief curator and curator of contemporary art will discuss Recent Acqui- like show tunes and drag queens (and sitions on an informal tour of the Journal/Lubar Galleries at 1:30 p.m. polo shirts!), an attempt to embrace "tra- Regular museum admission, free to MAM members. FMI call (414) 224.3200. Theater Arts: Engrossed. Photo by Jamie © Community Center Town Hall Friday, June 26 ANIIVAAM The Theater Building - Musical Comedy (Chicago, IL): The musical True Love? Photo by Jamie review, Dirty Little Showtunes, is currently playing for a limited six- week run. Showtime is 8:30 p.m. FMI and tickets call (773) 465- 9517. University Theater - Opening Night (Madison): Under the Gaslight, a melodrama with music will open at the Helmsley Theater's cabaret at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $14 for the general public, $10 for UW stu- dents. Drinks will be available for purchase. For other dates and times call (608) 262-1500. Saturday, June 27 Grand Opera House - Accordion Music (Oshkosh): Myron Floren, of the frozen smile and Laurence Welk fame, will show off his fast fingers at noon and 4 p.m. FMI 8 tickets call (920) 424-2350. ditional" masculinity. To them Bears are Sunday, June 28 "real" men, with the natural signifiers of Tim Clausen - Jazz (Milwaukee): Local artist, Tim Clausen will unshaven chests and faces (and of course present an evening of solo jazz at Plymouth Church, 2711 E. Hamp- flannel shirts!) as proof of their butchness. shire Ave. Tickets are $5 at the door. All proceeds go to PUG-Mil- The bear community has sub- waukee. species too, Otters are guys who're very UWM Fine Arts Concert (Milwaukee): Summer Evenings of Music con- hairy, but also skinny. A cub is a young tinues with Mozart 8, Shostakovich at 7:30 p.m. with guest artist bear and or submissive or smaller in Robert Levine. FMI call (414) 229-4308. Party girl! Photo by Jamie @ Block Party build. Depending on who you ask a Thursday, July 2 "Behr" is a big guy who can't grow a Cathedral Square Park - Live Jazz (Milwaukee): This series of free con- beard, but can grow a moustache, and Love the HAT! Photo by Jamie @ Community Center Town Hot certs is located at the Park every Thursday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. and often has no body hair. runs through September 6 (Labor Day Weekend). Tonight the luli And since bears are often classified Wood Quintet plays jazz. Pack a picnic 8. bring a blanket or eat at one by secondary sex characteristics, rather of the many local restaurants. There is a $2 per ticket raffle being held than the penis, growing numbers of for great prizes. Winners will be announced at the September 3 con- cert. Pick up a free brochure for the rest of the season. butch women are calling themselfs bears — with a surprising level of acceptance. Saturday, July 4 Online bears even have their own Irish Cultural 8 Heritage Center - Organ Concert (Milwaukee): A 4th of "bear codes" - such as : B4, F+, k-, e++, July Musical Fireworks Organ Benefit Concert with Dennis Jonzer organ- this reveals such details as beard length, ist will be presented at 7 p.m. at the (enter, 2133 W. Wisconsin Ave. furriness, and sexual kinks. (E++ means Tickets $7 adult, S2 children. FMI call (414) 345-8800. a bear who is hung like a horse by the Sunday, July 5. way.) There is a Bear Mailing List at UWM Fine Arts • Music (Milwaukee): The Fine Arts Quartet presents http://www.queernet.orgibm1/. another concert in the Summer Evenings of Music series at the UWM The insider aspect of beardom is on Fine Arts Theater at 7:30 p.m. The program includes Mozart and the decline. This once little know com- Shostakovich with guest artist Evelino Chao. FMI call (414) 229- munity is now having a discernable 4308. impact on gay culture at large. Annual bear gatherings now attract thousands of gay men. Such events as Bear Pride in HEY! When is it my turn? Photo by Jamie You Are Reading Wisconsin's Chicago, IBR (International Bear Ren- #1 LesBiGay Newspaper! dezvous) in San Fransisco are among a few gatherings around the country at any given time of the year. Interesting things happen when a Boy Toy of the week. Photo by Jamie sexual subculture becomes assimilated. Acceptance of chubbier, hairier guys has sy increased and traditional pretty boys can POPULAR NEWS admit an interest in big bears and face less ridicule from their friends. Unfor- Discount Videos & Magazines tuneatly every one that doesn't look like Hundreds of Adult Male Videos a mainstream pornstar — or get turned as low as $9.95 on by them wants to identify with the Open 7 days a week • 8am to midnight bear movement. When slender or hair 215 North Water St.•Milwaukee•278-0636 challenged guys wants to identify as a "bear" it can be a bit confusing. p As any subculture engages the 513 E. State St. mainstream, both change and increased Rockford, IL 61104 mutual understandings are inevitable. (815) 965-0344 And as Martha Stewart would say, OFFICE "This is a good thing." By the way lots Rockford's Hot Spot! of bears are big Martha Stewart fans. Grand girls 1 doing a grand job. 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One night Ward sees a nastics by accident, and has a hot two- handsome Italian in leather watching him. His name is Valentino and he calls af" year affair with his instructor, Warren Ried. When he graduates he's dropped his motorcycle Paolo. There are serious like yesterday's news by his lover. Mr. sparks and a hot affair follows. I could Reid gets his comeuppance at the end of just imagine the descriptions coming up. Milwaukee's Counter-Culture, Well, they were rather pale compared to ROBBISOINERS this very funny and outright sexy novel. Alternative Lifestyle Bookstore Mitchell's current lover Raheim, the previous book and left a lot to your a/k/a "Pookie," is in his early twenties imagination. Behind and "... he's big, he's bald, he's black, he's After Valentino announces that he has in vogue." He's also an up and coming to serve two years of military duty, Ward Closed model. Mitchell is very happy with this works too hard and suffers from burn- Back 'Pages out. 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24 In Step June 25 - July 9, 1998 KEEPIN' IN STEP by Jamie Oh, Sh • t! or me, these past couple of weeks woke up a couple of hours later, grabbed a tow the car over to Tony's. Chris and I get M&M continues to be our favorite have been very interesting. Let's see, bowl of double chocolate fudge ice cream the car over to Tony's, lock it up, toss the spot for Saturday and/or Sunday after- Fwhat should I talk about... and looked in the driveway to notice that keys in the key drop and head back home noons. During the Harley Davidson's Hmmmm... Well I thought I had found my car wasn't there. I'm thinkin' shit, I (by the way I couldn't get a hold of Tony so 95th Anniversary, we sat there for a love but that isn't working out so well... know I parked it there, where the hell is it. he had no clue I had dropped the car off). couple of hours, watching miles and miles my car was stolen, got a new one... I called the police and they showed up I woke up the next day, called my of Harleys driving by. Most of the patrons hmmmm... let's talk about the car, start- about 45 minutes later. They take a report insurance company, bank, work, you that day were straight and probably had ing with a Thursday night at La Cage. As and tell me that they'll be in touch when know all those calls you have to make. no clue that they were in a gay bar. As we you know, I haven't exactly been happy they find it. The last call I made was to Tony. The were looking out the window, I noticed with my Grand Prix so what happened By this point I'm freakin' out, I real- phone rang 3 times and then I heard, "I our UPS driver walking along with his recently didn't "end my world." ized that I had left my camera, checkbook, can't wait to hear this story" (obviously he wife. I ran out and dragged them in for a A couple of Thursdays ago, I was at La leather coat and other things of value in has Caller ID) so I told him what hap- beverage. (Our driver is kinda cool, we Cage getting some photographs. I went to the car. At 11:00 p.m. I get a call from the pened. I asked him if he thought the car have been fuckin' with each other for a my car to get a fresh roll of film and every- Milwaukee Police Department telling me was totaled, and he said it probably was. long time. If he left his keys in the truck, thing at that point was fine. I shot a few that they had found my car and that it was Now, as much as I was disappointed with I would run out and take it for a ride. One photo's and decided to call it a night. at an impound lot. I call the impound lot that car, I thought shit, it just needed tires time I was on the roof at work and he took Went back out to the car to discover that and get a recording stating their hours. No and brakes, I had replaced everything else! the ladder, what would we do without a someone had run into the side of my car. problem, I'll take off of work Monday, After the insurance company looked at it smart ass for a UPS driver) I'm thinkin' great. I have to stick more and pick up the car. Sunday morning I get they confirmed the fact that in was I asked his wife how she put up with AO. money into a car that has already drained a call from some guy asking my name and indeed, totaled. him for so many years and she just smiled my pocketbook so dry that at times I if I owned a black Grand Prix. I told him Ok, time to look for a new car... shit, (hmmm I wonder what that was all would open it only to have desert sand yes, but that the police have it. He said no I'm not prepared for this, I hadn't looked about). pour out. I head over to 2nd district to they didn't, it was in front if his house. at cars for 3 years, I had no clue what I We also like to hit Ball Game every report it. The police take the report and Not really believing him, but curious, I was lookin' for. I did, however, know what now and then to make sure Rick is behav- I'm on my way. The next day I take the borrowed Josh's car and went to the I wasn't looking for — another Pontiac. ing himself. Last time I checked in, he was care over to my friend, Tony Balistreri address the guy had given me. There it This time it's gonna be a foreign car, I've being his usual open armed, open hearted (Downtown Auto Body) for an estimate. was, almost unrecognizable — beat to given enough of my hard earned cash to self, love ya Rick! That dent was going to cost $1,900 to fix. shit. The only place there wasn't any dam- General Motors, they aint gettin' another It wouldn't be a complete Sunday out (Yes, I do have insurance but I have a age was the driver's door. I looked inside dime outta me! In the end, I decided on a on the town if we didn't give the staff at In $500 deductible to come up with.) After the car and it was even worse. The entire Honda. It took me 4 days and about 8 Between a hard time. Last time I was in making an appointment for him to fix the dash was ripped out, camera, leather coat, dealerships to find the one I wanted and there I ran into my boyfriends Tony and car, I head home. checkbook, 12 disc CD player, stock radio one that I could afford. The Pontiac is Darin, (last issue's cuties of the week). The next day around noon, my friend (yes, STOCK radio and speakers), gone. almost out of my life, I'm still working The big Biker Block Party was a Jeff and I head downtown to pick it up (I I waited over an hour for the police to with my homeowner's policy to take care blast. La Cage and Fluid both had out- had left it at Triangle the night before). show up only to find that the car was not of the contents of the car, (my biggest door bars that pulled in lots of money The traffic from Harley Davidson's 95th on any stolen list. Apparently, it had been concern is my camera) and I'm doin' just from the bikers. My guess is that 90% of anniversary was horrendous so we went to removed from that list when they "recov- fine. The boyfriend thing? Nope, don't them had no clue. And cute boys, there M&M to watch for cute Harley riders. ered" the vehicle. They called for a tow feel like going there right now, so let me We stayed until the traffic had died down truck but after waiting yet another hour I get you caught up on the happenings of Continues on page 28 at which point I went home for a nap. I called Chris and asked him to help me Wisconsin Gay life.

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Milwaukee St., 53202 224.8877 Stephanie King, Carroll College 524.6966 St. James Episcopal Church Milwaukee Eagle (MW, DJ, D) Bellissimo Restaurant LOC/Women of Color 833 W. Wisconsin Ave 271-1340 300 W. Juneau, 53203 273-6900 3510 N. Oakland Ave., 53211 332-2231 PO Box 93594, 53203454-9300 First Unitarian Society (Unitarian Universalist Church) 10 WA Club (MW, F) Brew Bar (Coffee House) log Cabin Republicans (Gay Republicans) 1342 N Astor 273-5251 124 N. Water 53202 3471 962 1457 N. Farwell Ave, 53202 271-6036 PO Box 199, 53201 299-9443 Village Church (Reconciled in Christ) 24 Renez CoZ Corner II (DJ, G/S) Cafe Knickerbocker MGALA (MU Graduates) 130 E. Juneau Ave. 273.7617 3500 W Park Hill Ave (I 948 35th) 933-RENE 1030 East Juneau, 53202 272-0011 PO Box 92722, 53202 29 South Water Street Docks (hip and Pys Marquette lesBiGay Student Group MEDICAL 354 E. National, 53204 225-9676 1340 W. 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