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Fifth Freedom, 1982-01-01 State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College Digital Commons at Buffalo State The aM deline Davis Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, The iF fth rF eedom Transgender Archives of Western New York 1-1-1982 Fifth rF eedom, 1982-01-01 The aM ttachine Society of the Niagara Frontier Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/fifthfreedom Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons Recommended Citation The aM ttachine Society of the Niagara Frontier, "Fifth rF eedom, 1982-01-01" (1982). The Fifth Freedom. 76. http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/fifthfreedom/76 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The aM deline Davis Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Archives of Western New York at Digital Commons at Buffalo tS ate. It has been accepted for inclusion in The iF fth rF eedom by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons at Buffalo tS ate. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THEFIFTHFREEDOM A PUBLICATION FOR THE BUFFALO CAY COMMUNITY JANUARY 1982 FREE "The Freedom to love whomever and however we want" Year End Review: 1981's Best And Worst Fifth Freedom Advisor BY ROD HENSEL THE LAWSUIT January,it has developed, is a time for The decision was a battle won, butthe review. A time to reflect on the year war was not over. While the courts had Stereotypes in Looks past, and the year that lies ahead. affirmed the rights of homosexuals to "It was the best of times, it was the indulge in sex in private,thereremained And Actions worst of times," wrote Charles Dickens, the legal question of getting there. For Questioned in a statement that could probably be that, the State of New York used the the definitive year end review for every anti-loitering law weapon of any make up to highlight their fea- as a against Dear FFA, year since the lines were first penned. Gays, a law which in the interpretation have only been out for a very short tures (in moderation, of course). I the But how bad, or how good, was 1981 for of the police and courts, still made it time and there is one thing that really It would seem that as we fight stereotypical male and female roles that the Buffalo gay community as a whole? illegal for you to ask someone to join disturbs mc. I hope you can help. THE DEBATE with you the act that was now clearly society has come to accept as the norm, in Why is it that so many gay men and Perhaps most significant in the year legal. women fit the gay stereotype, in fact we have forced ourselves to be exactly dykes, was the continuing debate over if there In September, the Mattachine Society seem to try and go out of their wayto fit what they say faggots, queers, fairies and homos are all about. really is a Buffalo gay community. It was of the Niagara Frontier filed suit in Fed- it? I realize there are many other gays lezzies, not debate be ourselves andfind out a a with a formal speaker for eral Court seeking to void enforcement that do not fit the things that "they" say How can we and a formal speaker against, yet it the who the real us really is? was of loitering law charging that it was about "us," but all to often when I go the undercurrent found in many discus- to Unhappy Homosexual used discriminate unfairly against out to the bars it seems that the scene sions by gaymen and men in Buffalo. homosexuals. Led by attorney William could be out of a movie about Dear Un, The year was a lot like the line by Gardner, the suit contends that since homosexuals. It is true that many homosexuals act Dickens. There was a unified effortfor a consensual sodomy is no longer illegal, Many gay men are very feminine in out a stereotype image. Men acting neither should it be illegal toremain in a behavior and up with the and women acting masculine spectacular Gay Pride Fest celebration- their camp it feminine uncovered old wounds, public place to solicit another to engage limp wrists, lisps, "hi,sweetie,"routines, are a common sight in bars and some- ...but it some divisions and problems that still to in that activity. and other cliche that "faggots" at the various organizations. seem every times have solutions. became While the Federal suit was pending, It really sickens mc to see a guy that Consider young man just coming no Gay groups do. a and vigorous...but others the law was also being attacked in the cute make-up, plucking and to the gaybars for the first more active could be using out going slowed down faced the pro- criminal court system. Because one per- his eyebrows and really acting nelly. time. If the bar he goes to has mostly as they blemof maintaining momentum. The son arrested under the law was willing to Lesbians seem to do the same thing. I effeminate men, he quickly tends to gay bar scene expanded...and then face the personal publicity of an appeals realize they have had enough ofwhat "a imitate their actions. and because Buffalo the shrunk...and the expanded as Buffalo's suit, of a CityCourt real woman should look like,"just as gay No one wants to be the oddball in judge's decision that the loitering law what "real that group to be gays left business people in a quandry males are questioning a group. We know in any establishment applies to gays but not prostitutes, the man" means; but sometimes they seem accepted by that groupyou must fit in. If over just what type of they were looking for. stage has been set for a new legal battle to go overboard with their male attire, the people in a bar all act feminine then But the debate, the question of is that could yet see the loitering law top- traditional male haircuts, and avoidance to fit in you too must act feminine. ple in the Continued on page 7 there a really a cohesive gay community, same manner as the sodomy was behind it all. The organizations law. were there, the plans were there, but in THE CELEBRATION the results, something always seemed to But all was not so serious during the come out missing. year. The city's gay organizations, both THE DECISION men's and women's groups, finally got The year began with Gays across New things enough together in 1981 to stage York State, and indeed the nation, tak- a Gay Pride Fest celebration that lasted ing in the news that the state's anti- an entire month. sodomy laws had been overturned by There were gay boat cruises on the the State Court of Appeals. Niagara River, gay seminars, picnics, It meant, for the first time, it was no roller skating parties, discussions on longer against the law to be Gay. It being gay, a health fair and a climactic meant that men and men, and women Fourth of July dance on the U.S.S. Little and women, at last were accorded the Rock. right to be themselves in the privacy of The activities were social: a chance to their homes. meet new people, to build new friend- "The makers of our constitution ships to start a summer romance, and for undertook to secure conditions favora- some, the start of a more lasting and ble to the pursuit of happiness," wrote personal relationship. the court in its decision. "They recog- But it was also hours of effort, disputes nized the signifigance of man's spiritual and bickering, and resentments held in nature, of his feelings, and of his intel- for the sake of the unity and seeing the lect. They knew that only a part of the project through. pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life THE COALITION are to be found in material things. They Out of the pleasure and pain of Gay sought to protect Americans in their Pride Fest was born the idea that per- beliefs, their thoughts, their motions haps gays in Buffalo could learn to work and their sensations. They conferred, as together, that perhaps it was time to try EMMA Bookstore will be housed in this against the government, the right to be again build a community center that building, 168 Elmwood near North, in February, let alone—the most comprehensive of would really work as place for everyone. rights and the right most valued by civ- The Gay Pride Fest events had overall, EMMA Bookstore: A New ilized man." worked: they had even made money. "Protection for the right of privacy for And so began the long and agonizingly Home In Allentown individuals indulging in acts of sexual slow process began of trying to start and intimacy (by unmarried persons) and as find a way to maintain a community. EMMA, the Buffalo Women's Book- sales. Store hours are 11 to 7, Tuesday to satisfaction of sexual desires be resort The obstacles remained great: per- store moves to Allentown, Tuesday, through Saturday. sonal dislikes, misunderstandings, February second. has information and ot material condemned as obscene by EMMA a new EMMA is an resource community standards when done in a financial proglems and political dis- location Elmwood, between center for and offers lending — 168 women a cloistered no rational basis putes. Some embraces the concept, but Allen and North. There will be grand library. sells books on women's setting, a EMMA for excluding the same from held long and bitter memories of efforts celebration Saturday, Feb- lives, health, fiction, poetry, well appears opening on as as decisions...so as the past.
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