VOLUME TEN, NO. 9—April 24, 1997—May 7, 1997—Issue 229 FREE

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Rally Against Discrimination Efforts to Derail Wisconsin Anti- Milwaukee—State Rep. Barb Note- stein (D-Milwaukee) will speak at a rally against AB104. The "Wisconsin Won't Discriminate" Gay Marriage Bill Intensify rally is being held Monday, May 5t at Madison—As the vote on 12 noon in front of the State Office ° NB 104, Wisconsin's Anti- Building on 7th and Wells in downtown Gay Marriage bill nears, ef- Milwaukee. forts to defeat it are intensi- For more information on the rally, fying. The bill is expected to please call Andy Bagnall at (414) 225- pass the State Assembly but 1502. faces an uncertain future in the State Senate. AB 104 sponsored by State Compromise Representative Lorraine Ser- ratti, (R- Spread Eagle) would Reached on Changing forbid Same Sex marriages from being performed in Wis- Wisconsin HIV consin. Openly Lesbian State Rep- Confidentiality Law resentative Tammy Baldwin told the Wisconsin Light that Milwaukee—A group representing the defeat of AB 104 is im- AIDS victims reports a compromise with portant. legislators for changing a Wisconsin con- Baldwin says that the radical fidentiality law under which people with religious right is using AB the disease need not inform their sex part- 104 as an organizing tool. "If ners. they are successful with AB Existing law forbids physicians whose 104, we can be assured that patients have the AIDS-causing HIV virus other bills will soon follow." from notifying the patients' sex and intra- Indeed, in addition to Anti- venous drug partners about the risk, unless A Very Special Night - Milwaukee's First Annual Gay Youth Prom held at the Park East Hotel on Saturday April 19 was a Gay marriage bills, other the patient has died. big success attracting over 100 celebrants. Seen above ( L-R Back row) are: Kelly Chech, Franklin; Heather Thompson; states are also considering or Legislation introduced earlier this month Chris, Waterford: Chris, Milwaukee; Knutson VerBunker (Prom King),;Sbalimor Vega. Milwaukee (Prom Queen): Alisha have passed legislation that - would allow physicians to alert partners of Hunt, Milwaukee; Melanie J. Keller, Kenosha; Amanda Henes, Franklin; seated are chryl Angelroth. and Nikki Hass. would ban guidance coun- patients who test positive for HIV. Milwaukee; Best Female Couple. Additional pictures can be seen on page 12. selors from referring suicidal The move was occasioned by the report Gay teens to Gay operated of a Milwaukee man who is HIV+. He re- Hawaii Legislature Agrees to Constitutional groups, bans on Gay organizations on portedly told doctors at Froedtert Memo- college campuses and in High Schools rial Lutheran Hospital that he was still and even bills that would allow them to having sex with his wife, who doesn't Amendment Banning Gay Marriage confine anyone who is HIV+. know he has the virus. According to the Honolulu—The Honolulu Advertiser fits that would be granted Gay couples Dan Ross, At Large Board Member for report, doctors urged him to tell his wife, reports the Hawaii House and Senate and other non-traditional families in the Action Wisconsin, agrees with Baldwin. but he has refused. have reached agreement on a proposed event the Gay marriage ban was adopted. "ff we don't act now, we will be facing The above case is only one of several constitutional amendment they believe The House was offering a limited pack- even worse legislation in the future." reported. Physicians can do nothing be- would ban same sex marriage. Agreement age of five enumerated benefits and the In Wisconsin religious extremists have cause of the state's confidentiality laws. has also reportedly been reached on the Senate was pressing for a package con- made it clear that they want to repeal AB . The law forbids physicians to tell patients' package of benefits and rights for couples taining more than two hundred. 70, Wisconsin's landmark Gay Civil sex or IV needle sharing partners that who, under the amended state constitu- The compromise reached late in the Rights law, and reinstate Wisconsin's they're at risk unless the patient has died. tion, would be denied the fight to many. night of April 16th, provides some sixty Sodomy laws among other measures. To correct situations like the one above, In an effort to steer the decision away rights and benefits guaranteed by the state AB 104 has raised many questions. Some a bill was sponsored by State Rep. from the purview of Hawaii's courts, to couples forbidden by law to many. clergy from churches that perform Gay mar- Sheldon Wasserman (D-Milwaukee) and House and Senate leaders have been Senate negotiators say a substantial riages have called it an infringement on their State Sen. Peggy Rosenzweig (R- struggling for months over the wording of benefits package which included joint religious freedom. Legal scholars have said Wauwatosa) that would allow doctors to a constitutional amendment. The Adver- health care coverage was absolutely es- that since Wisconsin already defines mar- intervene in cases where there is a sub- tiser reports lawmakers on April 16', sential if lawmakers were to prove to the riage as a union between a husband and stantial risk of HIV transmission. agreed to: "The Legislature shall have the courts that banning Gay mamage did not wife, AB 104 is not needed. Furthermore The issue is of such sensitivity, both in power to reserve marriage to opposite sex necessarily entail discriminatory practices there are an estimated two dozen Wisconsin Wisconsin and nationwide, that legisla- couples." against Gay couples. married couples where one of the partners tors, the Milwaukee AIDS Project, the If the proposed amendment clears the Dan Foley, the lawyer representing the has undergone a sex change operation. If Medical College of Wisconsin, the State full legislature, as expected, voters will be three Gay and Lesbian couples who passed in its present form, AB 104 would in Medical Society and others have been asked to ratify the amendment in the 1988 originally sued the state for marriage li- effect annul these unions. meeting behind the scenes for weeks to General Election. Polls taken over the censes, says the case is far from over. If Nevertheless on May 13, the State Assem- develop a position on which all may past several years show a sixty to seventy the proposed amendment is adopted by bly is expected to pass the bill. AB 104 has agree. percent majority of Hawaii residents have voters in 1998, the 1999 legislature would 30 sponsors in the lower chamber of the Under a compromise version, physicians stated their opposition to same-sex mar- still have to draft a law banning Gay mar- Legislature. That expectation hasn't stopped would notify the state Division of Health, riage. riage. Foley says the Hawaii Supreme or even slowed down efforts to convince which then would notify the partners House and Senate negotiations repeat- Court will not wait that long. to make a Please Turn To Marriage Page 7 Please Turn To HIV Law Page 13 edly broke down over the scope of bene- decision on the Gay marriage issue. Gay Youth Milwaukee to Attend First National Youth Summit in Washington Milwaukee—Gay Youth Milwaukee (GYM) members Talia Schank, Antwan Tillis, James Pekrul, Nikki Bass, Gracie Limbach, James Winters and Koren Hoard will join two hundred youth and adult experts from across the county meeting m Washington, DC on Sunday, April 27-Tuesday, April 29 to discuss the critical issues facing Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and FT- Transgender youth and to educated members of Congress about their lives. Participants in the National Youth Advocacy Coalition's (NYAC) first annual summit will come together as part of the only national summit to focus entirely on the mental and physical health needs and advocacy trends • 4 .0. for GLBT youth. GYM is a participating member of NYAC and has one of its members, Talia Schank, serving as one of NYAC's national steering committee youth members. GYM assisted in hosting NYAC's first midwest regional meeting in Milwaukee last November at which some 40 youth and adults attended from 6 states. GYM members who will be attending the national summit matched travel scholarships with their own fundraising in order to attend this groundbreaking event. NYAC is the only national organization solely focused on advocacy, education and information affecting the lives of GLBT youth. NYAC works to end discrimination against these young people through a collaboration of Toasting the Happy Couple- Jamie Gays, (Center) toasts Nick Gagliano and.-Jim Riske at their Twenty-Fifth Anniversay a broad spectrum of over 100 national and community-based organization party held at Milwaukee's 1100 Club on Saturday April 12. The couple renewed their vows and shared the special occasion members nationwide. with dozens of their friends. (More pictures of this event can be found on Page 13 Please Turn To Summit Page 8 April 24, 1997—May 7, 1997—WISCONSIN LIGHT-2 Lesbian Activist Says Military Still Discriminates Fort Collins, CO-AP- A career Army officer drummed out of the military for being a Lesbian said homosexuals in the military are still the subject of witch hunts, in spite News From of the so-called "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Margarethe Cammenneyer received several rounds of applause and a standing ova- tion Thursday, April 17, from more than 600 people who saw her speak as part of Bi- sexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Days at Colorado State University. The Nation Company Offers Life Insurance to HIV+ Chicago-AP-AIDS advocates are cheering the decision of an insurance company to offer life insurance to people with HIV, a move seen by many as a recognition of the significant advances made in treating the illness. "Ellen" Misses the Boat I'm certainly amazed that the insurance industry is starting to recognize that there is Washington, DC--The splash around "Ellen's" coming out has turned to waves for some real hope out there for people living with this disease," said Javier Salazar, a lob- one Lesbian-owned business because of a decision by the ABC network not to air their byist for Washington-based AIDS Action. advertisement dining the upcoming episode when the lead character announces that Guarantee Trust Life Insurance has become the first in the United States to offer life she is a Lesbian. insurance, albeit expensively, to people infected with HIV. The Glenview-based com- The network rejected Olivia Cruise Lines request to buy air time with the explanation pany specializes in insuring high-nsk individuals and is test-marketing the coverage in that their ad was unfit for younger viewers. Though shooting of the ad has not yet be- Illinois. gun, plans called for the commercial to show two women kissing aboard a cruise ship. "From a life insurance risk perspective, we believe many otherwise healthy HIV- The company considered the ad to be a compliment to the theme of the April 30 epi- positive individuals are more appropriately viewed as having a treatable chronic illness sode. rather than a terminal disease," President Richard Holson said. Some have called ABC's decision to dock the ad "a double standard" considering that The treatment that has helped prolong the lives of people infected with the AIDS vi- the network is willing to broadcast a show about a Lesbian discovering herself. "As rus involves an expensive combmation of drugs that includes a new kind called a pro- more Gay and Lesbian-themedprograrnming begins to air, network executives will tease inhibitor. have to take another look at their advertising policies," said Kerry Lobel, Task Force executive director. "They don't seem to have a problem running an ad for other cruise Same-Sex Marriage Ban Apparently Dead lines with happy straight couples kissing and being romantic," she stated. "Aren't there Olympia, WA-AP- In a prime example of how - up" can sometimes be "down" at children watching those programs too?," she asked. the Capitol, Washington senators have managed to strongly approve a ban on same-sex marriages, while simultaneously giving it the kiss of death. Gay Pride Comes to Reluctant Greenville And adding to the slightly surreal quality of the vote, neither side is quite ready to Washington, DC--The 1997 Pride season begins this year in Greenville, South declare that dead means dead. Carolina where anti-Gay sentiment currently runs high. April 18 marks the kickoff of The short explanation: The ban passed handily, but not before lawmakers removed a the weekend-long celebration in Greenville, but celebrants don't expect the city to requirement for a public vote in September, a killing move, given Democratic Gov. greet the more than 5,000 expected marchers with old-fashioned southern hospitality. Gary Locke's strong opposition to the measure. The South Carolina Gay Pride March is normally held in the state capitol of Colum- Tlie bill, one of the top priorities of social conservatives this session, is on its second bia. This year organi/ers moved the festivities to Greenville. The move was in re- trip through the Legislature. Previously, the measure cleared both houses, but was ve- sponse to the County Council's adoption of a resolution declaring in part, "that homo- toed by Locke, who called it unnecessary, mean-spirited and divisive. sexuality is incompatible with the standards of this community." The House struck back a month ago with a bill, HB1130, that would place the issue Called Created Equal , a reference to the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution, on the ballot, bypassing the governor's desk The vote was 50-48, the bare minimum the Pride weekend will have performances, an AIDS vigil and a march and pride rally. needed for passage, with ei t Republicans joining minority Democrats in opposition. Rally speakers include Kerry Lobel, Executive Director of the National Gay and Les- After days of futile searc for the necessary 25 Senate votes for the referendum, bian Task Force, (NGLTF), Mandy Carter, Field Director for the National Black Les- backers on Wednesday agr to allow three moderate Republicans to sponsor an bian and Gay Leadership Forum and David Mixner, friend and advisor to President amendment removing the reference to a public vote. The amendment was approved on Clinton. an unrecorded voice vote, and the bill then passed 30-18. GOP Solons Sign Non-Discrimination Policy Committee Tentatively Approves Marijuana Bill Washington, DC-- Several GOP Members of Congress have confirmed to Log Augusta, ME-AP- A plan to legalize marijuana for medical use has won preliminary Cabin Republicans (LCR) that, as a matter of policy, they do not permit discrimination approval from Maine legislators. on the basis of sexual orientation in the hiring, firing or promoting of personnel in their The Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services voted 9-3 in favor of a Hill offices. measure that would essentially protect people with cancer, AIDS or ,glaucoma from As one of its top priorities in the 105th Congress, LCR requested written clarification being prosecuted for possessing up to an ounce-and-a-quarter of marijuana. The bill of the non-discrimination policies in each Republican Member's office, specifically will go on to the full House and Senate after the committee's formal vote next month. addressing sexual orientation. Responses to LCR's March 3 request have begun arriv- According to the proposal, people who use marijuana to treat glaucoma, AIDS, or ing at LCR's Washington office, including from some Republicans who had not pub- cancer would be provided an "affirmative defense" for possessing the drug. licly clarified their policies in previous years. Under an affirmative defense, people still can be charged with possession of mari- Rep. Mark Neumann (R-WI) was one of several new confirmations received by Lo juana, which is a civil, rather than criminal, offense in this state. But judges would be Cabin Republicans, including Rep. Charlie Bass (R-NH), Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R- obliged to dismiss the charges, and prosecutors likely would not pursue them. Use of MI), Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH), and newly-elected Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) marijuana m public would remain prohibited. and Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-NV). All were declaring for the first time that the sexual ori- entation of an individual is not a consideration m the hiring, firing or promoting of employees in their offices. A total of 24 GOP Senators and 69 GOP House Members have certified in writing that they do not discriminate against Gays and Lesbians in their offices. Panel Finds Probable Cause in Lesbian Case Pittsburgh-AP- The University of Pittsburgh discriminated by refusing to extend health coverage to the Lesbian partner of a former writing instructor, a civil rights panel has decided. Deborah Henson, a lawyer who taught legal analysis and writing, filed a complaint against the university in January 1996, saying the policy violated a city ordinance ban- ning discrimination based on sexual orientation. The city Human Relations Commission concluded that the policy "has resulted in disparate treatment (for homosexual employees) in comparison to heterosexual em- ployees." WEBBlazers, The case now proceeds to a private settlement conference. If both sides fail to agree on a resolution, the commission will schedule a public hearing on the complaint. Largest Ever Gay Religious Conference to be Held WebBlazers, LLC is the Los Angeles—The largest international Gay and Lesbian religious gathering ever leading full service held in the Pacific Rim will take place in Sydney, Australia, July 20-25. 1997, ac- cording to the Rev. Troy Perry, founder and moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Web Presence Provider Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC). on the region's only direct feed "This is the first of UFMCC's biennial General Conferences to be held outside of North America, and reflects our growing commitment as a truly international commu- fiber optic network. nity of faith," Perry said. 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Gay Games VI in 2002 San Francisco—In an unprecedented show of global support and interest in the Gay Games, five cities from three countries have presented bids to host Gay Games VI in Call Today 2002. The cities are Dallas, Long Beach, Montreal, Sydney, and Toronto. Actual se- lection of the host city for 2002 will take place in November, '97, in Denver, at the an- For More nual Board meeting of The Federation of Gay Games. The Federation's site selection committee will be visiting all five cities this spring and assisting the prospective hosts prepare for their presentations in Denver. Information Nabozny Gets High School Diploma San Francisco—Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and its plaintiff; Jamie Nabozny, came to San Francisco t pick up an honorary diploma. The diploma was presented to Nabozny on April 10th from the San Francisco Unified School District. 414.443.1428 San Francisco Schools Superintendent Waldemar Rojas and Board of Education mem- ber Juanita Owens awarded the diploma at Lambda's Seventh Annual San Francisco Spring Reception and Dinner. Website: http://www.webblazers.com "This honor means more to me and my family than anyone will ever know," E-Mail: [email protected] Nabozny said. "I would like to thank the San Francisco School District for offering this diploma, something that, along with a safe education, I was denied in my home town [of Ashlaind, Wisconsin]," On April 2", Lambda and Nabozny were also honored when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors issued Certificates of Honor for their anti-discrimination work. April 24, 1997—May 7, 1997—WISCONSIN LIGHT-3 North Dakota Votes to Legalize Confinement Sodomy 1st Five sodomy repeal measures were intro- PrideFest '97 Hosts for Those With HIV Beginning July duced in four states (AZ, MA, RI, VA). Washington, DC—On April 16th, The states (AR, CO, MD, MT, NM, VA, The Rhode Island and Virginia bills are `Bjorn Again' and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force WV). dead. In California, efforts are underway to (NGLTF) released its bi-weekly update of In Washington, the group Hands Off remove those prosecuted under a now the Miller Volleyball Gay and HIV-related legislation in US Washington continues its signature g;3th- extinct sodomy law from a bill requiring state capitals. In the update, NGLTF ering to put a pro-Gay employment non- sex offenders to register. Tournament tracks measures ranging from making discrimination measure on the ballot in Transgender schools safe for Lesbian Gay, Bisexual November. Missouri is considering a measure hos- Milwaukee—Wisconsin PrideFest '97 and Transgender (LGBT) youth to ban- Domestic Partnership tile to Transgendered people. It would has announced that the singing group, ning Gay and Lesbian couples from be- At least 15 make Transgender status of a parent an "Bjorn Again," will be appearing at measures have been intro- issue in coming adoptive or foster parents. duced in seven states and five remain determining child custody. PndeFest on Saturday, June 7'. Of great concern is a North Dakota bill alive (CA, HI, IL, MA, and MN). HIV/AIDS Performing over 1200 live shows in These At least 26 recently signed into law making it the measures range from providing a mecha- bills favorably addressing over 30 countries including Gay Pride HIV/AIDS issues have been introduced in first state to legalize the confinement of nism for Lesbian and Gay couples to reg- London, 1996, Bjorn Again is one of the people suspected of having HIV. Ac- at least nine states (AR, CO, FL, GA, IN, most popular revival bands of the decade. ister as domestic partners, providing at MN, NM, RI, VA). At least 20 measures cording to the law, emergency personnel, hospital and prison visitation rights, to The Abba-esque pop group from Swe- including police officers, firefighters, pa- deemed unfavorable have been intro- den is made up of Agnetha Falstart, Frida extending benefits such as health insur- duced in fourteen states (DE, FL, GA, ID, tients, health care workers and others may ance to same-gender partners. Longstokin, Benny Anderwear and Bjorn secure a confining individuals MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, ND, OK, Volvo-us. They are joined by Rutger court order Domestic partner measures were killed VA, WA). to whose blood they have been "signifi- in Colorado and Virginia. An anti- Snonfagunn and Ola Drunkit to form one cantly" exposed. Persons may be confined In New York State there is a bill in the powerhouse music act sure to entertain domestic partnership bill is moving in General Assembly that would eliminate for up to five days and no criminal Colorado. The bill, which would prevent while spreading their good fashion sense. charges need be filed to be imprisoned. what's left of confidentiality protections style, love and kindness (qualities Bjorn state colleges and universities from of- for persons with HIV. "This is one of the most chilling and fering domestic partner benefits to its Again feels were lacking in the '90s. dangerous laws enacted this year," said employees, passed a Senate committee. Abba reformed, they wouldn't be as Kerry Lobel, NGLTF executive director. In Illinois a bill was introduced man- much fun as Bjorn Again," said London's "It flies in the face of accepted medical dating municipalities to extend domestic Make A Promise Q Magazine. and public health policy regarding HIV. partner benefits to same-gender couples Volleyball Tournament This law will do more halm than good for and to extend them to immarried hetero- Record at PrideFest the people of North Dakota." sexual couples as well. While the intent Dinner Raises The fourth annual Miller-PrideFest Critics of the new law say the fact that of this law is to undermine the provision Volleyball Tournament will be held at HIV tests of others does not determine of domestic partner benefits to same- Amount for MAP Urban Park along Milwaukee's lakefront one's own WV status seems to have been on Saturday, June 7th. Men's, women's, gender couples recently approved by the Milwaukee— A record amount of lost on North Dakota law makers and the Chicago City Council, NGLTF classifies mixed, pick-up and organized teams are into effect July 1. money, nearly $145,000, was raised at the welcome to participate in this popular governor. The law goes this measure as favorable. Wisconsin's Hate Crimes AIDS Resource Center of outdoor (grass) event that is again pre- Historically, domestic partner measures (ARCW) 1 1 th annual Make a Promise Hate crimes legislation continues to included same and opposite sex partners, sented by Milwaukee GAMMA. There move forward in a few states, buoying Dinner & Auction on March 22. will be both a competitive and social divi- reflecting a progressive approach to the Donations from corporate sponsors like hopes that the number of states with hate reality of families in the United States. sion with the morning devoted to inter- Gays and Lesbi- Seagull Enterprises, United Airlines and division round-robin play and the after- creme laws inclusive of NGLTF continues to support broad defi- event ticket ans will increase by year's end. Miller Brewing Company; noon to elimination play. The tournament nitions of domestic partners in these sales; and bids on over 350 auction items, "Hate crime laws are of great impor- measures. begins at 8:30 a.m. and ends about 6:00 tance in deterring violence against Gay, comprised the money raised at the event. p.m. Hate Crimes "There was a nine percent increase in Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender peo- including Trophies, medals, and prizes will be Twenty nine hate crime bills net income from the 1996 event, which awarded ple," stated Lobel. Four of the states with crimes based on sexual orientation were in each division. All players will would not have been possible without the receive a T-shirt and free admission to such bills currently have hate crime laws introduced in at least 19 states (AZ, CO, support excluding crimes 'used on sexual orien- generous donations and strong PrideFest on Saturday. Gay and Lesbian DE, GA, IN, LA, MA, MN, MT, NE, from the community," said Marge Beil, tation. NM, NY, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, WV, teams throughout the upper Midwest and importance of special events director at ARCW. "We Canada are expected to attend. Lobel underscored the WY). helped make having sexual orientation included in also had 75 volunteers who Team managers may register by mailing The Indiana, Montana, New Mexico, the 1997 Make a Promise Dinner & Auc- these laws, "hate crime laws excluding Virginia, West Virginia; and Wyothing a roster (include shirt sizes), team name dangerous mes- tion the success it was." (address and phone), a check for $60 sexual orientation send a bills are dead. Bills in Colorado and Ne- the Make a Promise sage that while hate crimes are wrong, All proceeds from (payable to PrideFest), and division pref- braska moved out of committee last week Dinner & Auction will benefit AIDS care, anti-Gay bashing is acceptable." of com- erence to: Miller-PrideFest, P.O. Box and the Texas bill made it out prevention and research through ARCW. 93852, As of April 16, 1997, the National Gay mittee April 15th and now goes to the full Milwaukee, WI 53203. For more and Lesbian Task Force tracked 227 Gay Senate. A measure in Georgia missed the information, call Pat at (414) 873-7043. or HIV/AIDS-related state legislative deadline to be heard this year but can still measures. Over half 116 are considered be considered next year. Georgia has a V unfavorable or hostile. The remaining 111 two year legislative session. are considered favorable to the Lesbian, Of the bills still being considered, four Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) states (CO, NY, PA, RI) would add sex- community. ual onentation to existing hate crime Marriage lawS, while six of the states (AZ, DE, Approximately 61 bills banning same GA, LA, NE, SC) have no enhanced pen- gender marriage have been introduced in alty hate crime laws on the books. In CLASS & CULTURE 32 states. In Rhode Island and West Vir- Texas, while there is a hate climes law on RETAILERS/WHOLESALERS ginia, the defeat of anti-marriage bills last the books that includes sexual orientation, PURE SILK prosecutions week was celebrated. This brings to six the law is crafted such that SEQUINNED/BEADED the number of states (MD, NH, NM, RI, under it are nearly impossible. WV, WY) where marriage bans were de- In Arizona, a major showdown over the PAGEANT/DESIGNER GOWNS hate crimes bill unfolded last week. Gov- FULL LENGTH DRESSES feated this year. SHORT DRESSES Anti-marriage bills remain pending in ernor Fife Symington, who vetoed similar legislation last session, attempted to at- JACKETS • VESTS • BUSTIERS 20 states (AL, CA, CO, CT, FL, HI, IN, MATCHING SHOES/PURSES IA, LA, MN, MT, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OR, tach an amendment eliminating specific TX, VT, WA, WI). In five states (IL, categories of hate crimes. Such an GROUP DISCOUNT / LAYAWAY MD, NE, RI, WA), pro-marriage bills amendment would have made the, bill a were introduced. Only those in Illinois meaningless. House members rejected th The Grand Avenue measure in its and Washington remain alive. language and passed the Downtown Milwaukee more original form. Symington says he will This year, marriage bans have been -4rankinton Building • First Floor; condoms signed into law in five states (AR, ME veto the measure. The bill is now in the 414-276-9255 MS, ND, VA). Marriage bans have be- Senate. than you can come law in 21 states since 1995. (AK, In Kentucky, bill sponsors are waiving AZ, AR, DE, GA, ID, IL, KS, ME, MS, the ever popular and ever false banner of shake a MI, MO, NC, ND, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, special rights. A bill was pre-filed that UT, VA) would prevent judges from issuing pro- A stick at! In Nebraska, anti-marriage foes were tective orders to victims of same-gender unsuccessful in bringing the anti-Gay domestic violence. marriage bill to a vote. During debate, an According to press reports, one Senator amendment was introduced to prohibit stated, "If violence among homosexuals is We are well known for our people three times convicted of assault on so profound that they need special pro- All a spouse from obtaining a marriage li- tection, the Gay community. needs to prominent & ample selection cense. The amendment failed, 17 to 15. It come forth and explain what its problem Men's of condoms. Choose from a is possible the bill will not be rescheduled is." for another vote. Schools/Campus variety of sizes, colors & In Indiana the LGBT community is bat- Last week, California's Dignity for All Shoes textures. Polyurethane condoms, tling its fourth anti-Gay marriage bill of Students Bill passed in the Assembly of the year. Three House bills were killed Education Committee. Speaking for the "super-cheap" generic condoms, earlier in the session. The newest bill is a bill were numerous Gay and Lesbian AccessAccese even individual condoms. House amendment to a welfare-to-work youth and a mother who's son took his bill. The full House will be voting on the own life because of severe harassment Fashicinaifie Plus, scads of tubes. bill in the near future. and abuse from his classmates at school In Washington state, a bill remains alive for being Gay The bill would prohibit Sork that, if passed, provides for a ballot meas- bias based on sexual orientation in school ure on the issue by as early as June of this employment, curriculum and the treat- year. ment of students on campus. A measure a Civil Rights that would prohibit discrimination based COMMUNITY Approximately 24 bills favoring basic on sexual orientation in schools is pend- civil rights for Lesbians and Gay men, in- ing in Connecticut, and in Rhode Island 10/ 0tAfr!,3111e. e' there is a measure .5111 t • 1.111111 cluding making discrimination in areas that would repeal a law t I . PHARMACY I •••fflietIon Ilfrneerr such as the workplace, housing and public passed last year that lets parents take their i • 411,511., accommodation illegal, have been intro- children out of AIDS education and sex 341 State Street duced in at least 18 states. These meas- education classes. 39 ures remain alive in 11 states (AZ, CA, In four states (MO, FL, NH, WA) anti- (at Gorham) MADISON Gay bills IL, LA, ME, NE, NH, NY, OR, TX, concerning curriculum were in- MAKE IT YOUR SHOE STORE call for a catalog (608) 251-3242, WA). troduced, and in three states (CA, CT, West Virginia's died in committee last NC) anti-Gay bills concerning military Grand Avenue Mall tty (608) 251-5339, week. Including West Virginia, civil recruitment on campuses are being con- prescriptions (608) 251-4454 rights measures re now dead in seven sidered. MILWAUKEE, WI 271-5175 April 24,1997May 7, 1997—WISCONSIN LIGHT-4 ing "the dignity, fidelity and courage" plish this task, The Triangle, according to Ms. with which her brother and his late spouse Jankowski's comments, is far from being a Editorial coped with AIDS. Now, she understands, smoke filled, dumpy Gay bar. she said, why Gays need protection. Rob Bruckner, The Triangle Well, okay, I don't say that Ralph and Milwaukee Play Ball: Twenty Years of SSBL Magic his like will ever go that far, but I do ask Please Turn To Letters Page 10 Twenty. years ago, a group of friends sat down together and began a new Gay and Lesbian community, the this: why not confront the issue head on.. organization, a Softball League for Milwaukee's Ralph, I know you read this paper. Saturday Soft Ball League. Twenty.years and tens of thousands of runs, outs, hits, and Deadlines yes errors later their dream is still going strong. May 8th Issue The SSBL is one of Wisconsin's oldest Gay and Lesbian organizations. The League has changed over the years, but the idea of friendly competition and providing an Articles Friday, May 2nd opportunity for Gays and Lesbians to learn how to play and to compete against each other has not changed. Ads For over two decades, the SSBL has been building a rich tradition. That tradition Non-Camera Ready—May 2" includes the first ever Gay Softball tournament, the Wreck Room Classic, now called Camera Ready—May 5th the Milwaukee Classic, hosting two Gay World series and the first Lesbian World 5:00 p.m. Series. It also includes great fun, thrilling games, and friendships. The SSBL has contributed more to our community than softball. Dozens perhaps even hundreds of people have used it as a vehicle to come out of the closet. More than May 22nd Issue a few players have found lifetime partners on the ball diamonds. Inter city friendships have formed at tournaments held here and elsewhere. The League was also Articles—May 16th contributing up to a third of its instrumental in helping PrideFest in some years Ads volunteers. All of those who worked on the League Board, who sponsored teams, who played, Non-Camera Ready—May 16th who umped and who cheered should be ,proud of what they have done together. They Camera Ready—May 19th deserve the thanks of the entire community. 5:00 p.m. Like so many others we are excited about the upcoming anniversary season. If you haven't been to the games, there is no better time to stop by San field than this year. With two new teams, dozens of new players, and for the second year in a row, a team Caution from Madison, 1997 promises to be one of the best seasons yet. So if the up and down Wisconsin weather gets you blue, use a little SSBL magic. If The fact that someone's name appears in you try you can smell the freshly cut outfield grass and feel the spring air. And in the this paper in no way implies sexual orien- distance you can hear the crack of the bat, the cheers of crowd and the umpire's cry, tation. "Play Ball." We can hardly wait. Ralph Overdahl Why, instead of just holding forth, don't 4 you engage in debate with someone who Give the People Light and they Ellen DeGeneres and Tiger Woods does know what they're talking about? I willfind their own way. Maybe you've watched "Ellen" and maybe not. Maybe as some commentators say, don't say that your vituperation will be the show was a dud, going nowhere; that Ellen's coming out is a last-ditch stand for ameliorated in the slightest degree, but at viewers in the sweeps period. Maybe. One thing, however, is certain. Ellen DeGeneres least engaging in open debate would The and her character "Ellen," have gotten Americans talking about LGBT issues—or, show courage of conviction. more particularly, our community itself. As it stands now, you and all those like Wisconsin Whether by design or default, DeGeneres and her character have become one of this you, go on and on, with no one to dis- cultural icons—and whether by design or default, DeGeneres is a pioneer. She agree with you, no one ever to confront month's you, no is the first leading TV actress to come out as Gay, and the first to portray a lead Gay one to point out the holes in your Light character. argument. (Yes, there are holes, egregious Right, Left, Center, they're all talking. She has broken down doors, they say. She has holes.) pushed over barriers. She has become a beacon, a role model, a spokeswoman. Things Ralph, why don't you invite a member will never be the same again. of the LGBT community on to your The same things are being said of another of April's cultural icons: Tiger Woods, the show? Why don't you engage them in young golf champion of color who has taken the sports world by storm. He, too, is a open debate, very civilized, no casting beacon, a role model, a spokesman, for countless people (young and old) of color— aspersions or opprobrium on each other, and he's got everyone talking. The stodgy, racist golf clubs must now throw open their sort of like William F. Buckley's "Firing doors, they say. Things will never be the same again. Line." Perhaps. One can only hope. There are many LGBT people who There is no denying that role models like Ellen DeGeneres and Tiger Woods can and would be willing to do it—me, for exam- do make a difference. There have been many of them over the years. Arthur Ashe, ple. I am Gay (but then you know that), I Margarethe Cammerineyer and Marvin Liebman and Martina Navratilova come im- have some small facility with words, I've Executive & Editorial Offices models, but had a bit of experience in debate, and I've mediately to mind. Like Woods and DeGeneres, these people are role 1843 N. Palmer then, in a small way, so are we all who are out. In our own spheres, large and small, it got a modicum of education—a little is up to all of us to "make a difference." In that way only one day will we all be free. history, a little Greek and Hebrew. I read Milwaukee, WI 53212 a book once, you know how it is? On Light Rail And the subject (these things have to be (414) 372-2773 narrow or they go all over the map), LIGHT FAX: (414) 372-1840 It was the late 1960's. We happened to be living in Washington, DC when that city same-sex marriage. That seems to be the began construction on its new Metro system. It had been a long fight. Neither Mont- topic of the day. Office Hours: gomery County, Maryland nor Georgetown within the District wanted a line. George- One on one. There's got to be equal numbers in the arena of verbal conflict. Monday-Friday-10:00 a.m. -5:30 p.m. town residents claimed that the noise and mess of construction would detract from 24-Hour Recording their fabled federal homes and brick streets. It would also be expensive. They added Now before you think I've got it "in" that. for Fundamentalists in general, I'll tell Publisher Montgomery County was more frank. A Metro line, their officials said, would bring you this. I've debated Craig and Jan Par- Jerry Johnson "those people" in to loot, pillage and commit all kinds of mayhem. shal, formerly of Wisconsin. I don't agree with a thing they say, but I respect Executive Editor Heaven forfend that this type of thinking should be in the minds of those in Terry Boughner, Ph.D. Waukesha. Daniel Finley, Waukesha County Executive has been quoted as saying, them—and like them. "I'm tired of wasting money on studies." We agree. So how about it, Ralph? Let's cut with Arts & Entertainment Editor For the sake of our air, for the sake of our environment as a whole, we cannot con- the hell fire and brimstone. That's irra- Geno tinue to expend millions upon millions of dollars on expanding a highway system. tional and becomes no one. Let's get SpotLight Editor down to the nitty-gritty. Get a member of We cannot continue to rely on fossil fuel to run untold numbers of cars. Nor can we Bill Meunier say (with our fingers crossed), "Well, sooner or later, something to replace the internal the LGBT community on your show.. Ei- combustion engine will come along." ther that, or admit that you really haven't Advertising Manager While light rail may not technically be a LBGT issue, it does involve the quality of got the faintest idea what you're talking Jerry Johnson life. LGBT's live here. We have an interest in that. Light rail would greatly enhance about and cut bait. 372-2773 that quality. We need it. Let's get on with it! Columnists and Reporters Glenn Bishop, Ruthie, Brian Treglown, Barbara Lightner, Bill Meunier, Dasty Sass Letters Dr. Karen Lamb, Carl. Szatsmary, Dr. Suzie Editor's Note Shovelit, Sasha Alyson, John Jahn Community Pride Attention Ralph Ovadal! Associated Press By Terry.Boughner decided that if Emerson-was right; if un- TO THE EDITOR: Ap It happens as regularly as clockwork. examined consistency is the hobgoblin of I am writing in response to the letter from Copyright © 1997 The moment the TV evening news is over little minds, Ralph doesn't have a thing to Jenny Jankowski, in reply to Joe St. Clair's (and I've found out what's causing cancer worry about in the hobgoblin department. letter. By Novo Graphics, Ltd. now), I switch over to PBS. It may not be Ralph has been quoted to me as saying I take great offense to Ms. Jankowski's TILE WISCONSIN LIGHT is published biweekly by NOV5 perfect, statement, GRAPHICS. LTD.. with offices at 1843 N. Palmer. but it's better than anything the that he lacks and advanced formal educa- and I quote: "The smoke-filled, Milwaukee, WI 53212. Advertising and copy deadline is the networks dish out. (The network sitcom tion. Apparently, he cites Abraham Lin- dumpy Gay bars that claim to `support' our Aursday. prior to publication. Opinions expressed by writers are enough to make a first grader proof that formal learning isn't community, including PrideFest." writers in WISCONSIN UGHT are not necessarily those of coln as the publisher, editor, or our advertisers. Any reference blanch.) necessary. Well, I'll say this (paraphras- If it wasn't for the generosity of the bars, made to any individual or organization should not be The other evening, I varied my routine. ing a former Texas Senator m a debate), many organizations would not exist. The Tri- construed as an indication of the same's sexual or affection orientation or preference. All copy, text, design. photos. and A reader had written, saying I oughta I've studied Lincoln, I know a little about angle has donated more than $7,500 in the illustrations in advertisements are published with the watch WVCY (the local Fundamentalist Lincoln, and Ralph, you're no Abraham past 3 years to organizations and events such understanding that the advertiser is fully authorized and has secured proper written consent for the use of names. station). Lincoln. as MAP, BestD Clinic, PrideFest, MAPFest, pictures, or testimonials of any living person. and Now let me say right from the start, I My point in all this is that Ralph.Ovadal etc. WISCONSIN LIGHT may lawfully publish and cause such never, publication to be made; and the advertiser agrees by ever watch VCY. My blood, pres- and those like him who inveigh against us I agree 100% with the Editor's Note that submitting ads to. indemnify and save blameless the sure just won't take it. Besides, I've got never seem to know what they're talking followed Ms. Jankowski's letter, and with Joe publication of any error that may be contained in said ad. better things to do, lots better —pre- St. Clair, whose point I WISCONSIN LIGHT does not accept any responsibility for things. But about (not being themselves Gay believe was that the any claims made by advertisers. The entire contents of I should make an exception, so I was told. sumably). Neither do they give any indi- bars should not be over looked, because we do WISCONSIN LIGHT are © Copyrighted and protected Ralph Ovadal, head of Wisconsin Chris- anyone who is give so much back to the community, some- under the Federal Copyright Act and International cation at all of knowing Conventions. Reproduction of any portion of any issue will tians United (WCU), was going to be Gay. One or the other or both might make thing many people seem to forget. not be permitted without express written permilsion of doing one of his regular segments. So, I a difference. I would like to add that there are at least 15 NOVO GRAPHICS, LTD. Legal venue is Milwaukee Vounty. watched. Take the case of Laura Ingraham. In- Gay owned and Gay friendly businesses that Wisconsin. Printed in the U.S.A. Fascinating (he said dryly). graham was notorious for vilifying need, deserve, and appreciate our support. Subscribe to Last issue, I castigated. Wisconsin State "sodomites" when she was writing for the Showing support for these businesses as well Senator Fitzgerald for hauling himself up Dartmouth Review. So vitriolic was she as the bars, is what Community Pride is all Wisconsin Light' on the radio to speak about what he knew that her views on Gays have been termed about, or doesn't Sue Cook, Director of Pride- nothing about (LGBT's). Lord love a "rabid." Things have changed. Fest or Ms. Jankowski understand this? One Year-26 Issues duck, Senator, Ralph's got you beat by a In a recent article in the Washington In closing, I would like to say that after 4 First Class—$32.95 country mile. Post, Ingraham apologized. She wrote months of renovation, the time, effort and the Third Class—S16.95 After listening to Ralph , for awhile, I that she had changed her views after see- thousands of dollars that were spent to accom- April 24, 1997—May 7, 1997—WISCONSIN LIGHT-5 HIV TESTING AT: #1 Wed, April 23 A Couple With A 10pm-lam Boot Camp Saloon #2 Tue, May 6 Lot in Common 10am-1pm Reformation Lutheran Health Fair #3 Wed, May 7 10pm-1am LaCage #4 Sat, May 10 9pm-Midnight 1100 Club #5 Thur, May 15 9pm-Midnight In Between 1 #6 Sun, May 18 6-9pm C'est La Vie 4 #7 Wed, May 21 9pm-Midnight Triangle

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A limited The Pasta Tree Waldo Peppers number of La Cage's preferred customer cards are now available. At the right is La Cage bartender Scotty Sandwich Emporium Zorba's playing with some of the condoms given out at the party. Hey Scott, you're supposed to wear those things a Serafino's little lower. TOSA/MILWAUKEE WEST MILWAUKEE NORTH Chancery Pub and Restaurant Being Openly Gay or Lesbian on TV Sure King & I II Derry's Pub & Grill Hector's Mexican Isn't What it Used to Be MILWAUKEE SOUTH Pleasant Valley Inn Chancery Pub and Restaurant By John O'Connor troversial suggestion that Gay men "re- Fritz's on Second * Call for special lunch hours We've heard enough about the race card ward self-restraint and end the pervasive so deftly played by smooth Johnnie Coch- belief that those who are living at the ran in that Los Angeles trial most of us most extreme fringes of Gay sexual life would rather forget. Less obvious, though are somehow the most liberated and the just as entrenched and sometimes at least most Gay." as insidious, is what might by called the In fact, as with any other group, Gay • Gay card. and Lesbian images cannot be reduced to Gay and Lesbian history is rooted in one stereotype. This is one of the mes- decades when the mere whisper that one sages being hammered home by "In the was not staunchly heterosexual could Life," the magazine program examining wreck careers and lives. Gay and Lesbian issues and culture every Keepers of public morals kept so-called other month on national public television. transgressors firmly in their place, pref- The latest installment takes an "as erably in ominous shadows. Then in 1969 American as apple pie" approach to Gay came the Stonewall uprising, in which and Lesbian lives. Viewers, even many Gay customers at a Greenwich Village Gay viewers, may be surprised. bar fought back against the police, who With Katherine Linton as host, the pro- were often raiding such places. The sea first goes to Detroit, where Gay and change began. It would accelerate with EaSblian workers press the big auto mak- the advent of AIDS and years of har- ers for gains. "They're going to live with rowing headlines. me just as I have to live with them," says Today the Gay card is no longer an one man, who ends up a delegate to the automatic trump for bigots. When still United Auto Workers convention. FOR LIFE another celebrity is found to be Gay, the Chrysler reluctantly agrees to include a prevailing reaction borders on ho-hum. In "sexual orientation" clause m its contract. sti fact, ABC has been using the once-feared One significant development is the mu- card to drum up publicity for the episode tual support of Gay and straight co- of "Ellen," on April 30, in which the title workers. As someone observes, manage- MILWAUKEE character played by Ellen DeGeneres, ment has "an attitude of contempt toward who herself recently came out officially hourly workers, people who work with in Time magazine, will announce that she their hands." v is a Lesbian. "Ellen" is produced by Dis- Meanwhile, television prime time has ney. The times, they really are a-changin'. been playing the Gay card with startling On television, back in 1985, the movie frequency. On "Friends," speculation "An Early Frost" was justifiably praised continues that Joey and Chandler are Gay, as an all-too-rare attempt to deal with the with bemused interest, not indignation. subject of AIDS. It would remain rare for If Niles on "Frasier," constantly fussing years. But pay cable, not subject to ad- in the absence of the invisible Maris, isn't vertiser pressures, was instrumental in Gay, he should be. altering the content landscape. Once again, Americans seem more so- CAMP , HEARTLANI) Home Box Office, for mstance, won phisticated and tolerant than hatemon- (414) 744-1 1 18 numerous awards with the documentary gering fringe groups would dare admit. productions "And the Band Played On" http://www.fetch.com/DININGOUT4LIFE and "Celluloid Closet." Now HBO has produced "In the Gloaming," the story of MEMBER a young man reconciling with Climb the Gran'! his family COMBINED HEALTH APPEAL as he dies of AIDS, and nobody, apart from the usual naysayers, bats an eye as OF WISCONSIN the rave reviews pour m. Join other gay men Something new is happening, not just in SPONSORED BY American society but m Gay and Lesbian and lesbians for circles. 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Behar, PA-C coloration of the skin or whites of the tion Wisconsin and eyes (a sure sign of liver disease), along other groups, are and Terry Boughner Marriage working hard to make it clear to the Wis- Her full name was Corrine Butters with dark, tea-colored urine and clay- consin Continued From Page 1 Legislature just how divisive this Duke, but everyone called her simply colored stools. All or any of these may proposal is. As one appear during the infection. activist put it, "It's "Miss. Duke." No one was strong enough State Representatives to stand up against it. important that all Legislators from all to dare further familiarity. Miss. Duke The thing to remember is that no matter Strategists say that it the more commotion parts of the State hear from their constitu- taught 5 grade in Third Street School how you look or feel, you're contagious. they can make in fighting the bill in the As- ents. We need to act now, or we will be where she ruled with gimlet eye, no more You can spread it around. sembly the less likely the State Senate will sorry later." fierce than at test time. The Test be to pass it. Sources in the State Capitol Well, Miss. Duke's gone now, but we Okay, so how do you know if you're at say that if the State Senate views the issue all still have to take tests, important ones risk. Here's a few simple questions. as too contentious it is likely to keep the bill Bi Definition when lives are at stake—especially yours. 1. Have you ever had sex with one or in Committee rather than bring it to the floor However, before our "little" test, there's more persons? That includes vagi- for a debate and vote. Milwaukee—Bi Definition, Milwau- some information you ought to know. nal, anal or oral sex with or without Rallies kee's Bisexual community organization, for Hepatitis B condoms. With the stakes high, resources from is currently accepting new members There's a disease running around, a 2. Have you ever shared a razor blade throughout Gay and Lesbian Wisconsin socials, support and activism. nasty thing, that infects some 200,000 with a friend? are bemg thrown into the fight. Rallies Non-alcoholic, non-smoking socials people in this country every year, 75% of 3. Have you ever shared a needle to have been scheduled for Milwaukee on and discussions are held the first Satur- them between the ages of 15 and 29. It's inject drugs? Monday May 5 at noon in front of the day of every month at 7:00 p.m. at the called hepatitis B. 4. Have you ever given first aid to any- State office building at 7th and Wells and BestD Clinic, 1240 E. Brady Street, in- The disease is a viral infection that gets one who was bleeding or needed in Madison on Monday May 12 from cluding the next event on Saturday, spread primarily through contact with mouth to mouth resuscitation? 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the State Capitol. May 3'. blood and semen that comes in contact 5. Do you have any medical condition Lobby Days A one-year membership and newslet- with those warm, wet places on your that requires you to receive blood Action Wisconsin, Baldwin and others ter subscription is just $10. Otherwise, a body (mucous membranes of the anus, transfusions or dialysis? have also set May 5 to May 9, as lobby $3 donation covers the cost of an indi- vagina, tip of the penis or the mouth) via 6. Are you originally from or have you days. Everyone is being encouraged to vidual social. a scratch or scrape. ever traveled to: Asia, the Pacific contact their State Representatives and For more information, call either What results, at the very least, are Islands, Africa, the Middle East or State Senators during that time period. Steve Butler at: (414) 483-5046 or chronic infections that increase the risk of the Amazon Basin? Activists are also hoping to pack the As- Carol Ringo at (414) 562-4058--or cirrhosis (scaring) of the liver, liver can- If you answered "Yes" to any one of sembly gallery during the six hour debate write Bi Definition, P.O. Box 07541, cer and other problems. these questions, you are at risk for hepa- on AB 104 which will begin at 10 AM on Milwaukee, WI 53207. At its worst, hepatitis B can result in titis B. Tuesday May 13. It is hoped that by re- death. About 5,000 people die of hepatitis There's a Vaccine peating their success at the bill's hearing B every year. and It's Free m Wausau where Gays, Lesbians and You may not have heard much about it. Unlike some diseases, there is a vaccine their supporters outnumbered those fo- In this age of AIDS, its been shoved into for hepatitis B. You can get it at a doc- varing the bill, Gays and Lesbians will the background. However, to put it tor's office (big bucks if you aren't in- send a strong message to the State Senate. A„i,,A, Gun t VOVIE mildly, like Miss. Duke, hepatitis B is sured). You can also get the vaccine at In addition to these events, The Wis- nothing to fool around with. BestD Clinic for free. consin Light is hosting two parties to Opening April, 1997 Symptoms? Not only is the vaccine free, but at help Action Wisconsin raise funds to fight How do you know if you've got it? BestD you'll have an accepting volunteer AB 104. Both will be held on Wednesday Come visit our 1920s farmhouse, That's one of the problems with it. You staff who won't make you feel uncom- April 30 during the broadcast of "Ellen's just 1 mile off of I90, 20 minutes may not know if you have it at all. Most fortable about you sexual orientation or Coming Out Episode." One will be at infected people experience no symptoms. your sexual practices. Scandals, 121 W. Main Street, Madison, south of Madison. Enjoy breakfast If there are symptoms, they may not ap- When you go in to BestD, you'll be and the other will be held at La Cage, 2" served to you in one of our cozy pear for 6 weeks to 6 months after the screened by Clinic staff to find out if and National in Milwaukee. theme rooms. Call or write now first exposure. you've ever been infected before. If State Representative Barb Nottestein, Even if you do have symptoms, you you're vulnerable to the disease, the en- will speak at the rally in Milwaukee. for reservations. 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Project's NAP) Health also teaches nature and Native American A Services Department has mti-Communist and a devout Reaganite. district in Wisconsin reelected a Gay expanded its Co- Spirituality at two local colleges. The Republican Congressman during operative Therapies Program to include classes involve breath work, sound, stones, le died March 31" of heart disease—or a the 1994 two new health enhancing self-inflicted broken heart—at George Republican blowout that captured the US services -- mu- imaging, meditation and journey work Senate, House and the majority of sic therapy and Shamanic energy work. "I try to help individuals get to a place Washington University Hospital. Gover- As a closeted Gay man in the 1950s and norships with nearly 500 new GOP state The two newest Cooperative Therapies, of centeredness or serenity," said Price. legislators; like the others '60s, Liebman, a Jew turned Christian, meanwhile, Speaker Newt offered through MAP, are "This energy work is to help people re- Gmgrich told the Washington services which promote quality of life and lease stress and strengthen their own en- was one of the most prolific organizers Blade that and innovators of fundraising in the con- Bob Doman did not represent the future focus on pain and stress management for ergy fields." of the Party. individuals with HIV and In 1996, servative movement. A top lieutenant to AIDS helping to there were over 1,000 coop- Marvin knew all this but chose reduce the strain on their immune system. erative therapy appointments made publisher William F. Buckley (who knew instead Marvin was Gay), Liebman created such to let his personal angst over his homo- Music Therapy through MAP's Health Services Depart- sexuality rule A certified groups as the Young Americans For his better judgement, and music therapist provides ment. "Once considered 'alternatives' to he became just another unoriginal services to consumers at the Western medicine, cooperative therapies Freedom and the American Conservative neu- Wisconsin Union. He helped launch the Goldwater rotic voice of fear, an identity-crisis House, a housing facility funded and rim are now complementing Western medi- driven refugee by MAP for and Reagan candidacies. No doubt, his marching in the ranks of individuals with HIV or cine," said Maggi Cage, Ph.D., director of work the dominant and fascist Gay Left. AIDS. The music therapist also Health Services at MAP. "There are hos- also helped internationalize pro- works in democracy groups and uprisings in Marvin was also far off base in decrying conjunction with the massage therapist and pitals across the nation using cooperative anti-Semitism in the conservative move- acupuncturist at MAP. therapies with HIV Europe, Asia and Latin America. and AIDS patients to But in 1990, he announced that he was ment. Had he not noticed that the aca- "I use music as a tool in music ther- help reduce pain and stress. And all of our demic base of the conservative movement apy," said Kelly Bartyczak, cooperative therapists are licensed and not just conservative, but also Gay. In RMT-BC doing so, he felt compelled to denounce is increasingly populated by Jewish writ- (Registered Music Therapist-Board Certi- regulated by the state of Wisconsin." ers whose leadership provides invaluable fied). Cooperative Therapies offered both his adopted Christianity and years of "Since I first began visiting the Wis- Other heroic work with the Amencan Right. He depth and intellectual force to its journals, consin House and working with MAP, the through MAP's Health Services Depart- think tanks, and talk shows? reception from ment are acupuncture, chiropractic care, said in his 1992 autobiography, Coming individuals has been great." Out Conservative, that he felt "like a In renouncing his Christianity as intol- Music Therapy involves both listening massage therapy, guided imagery, Soma- erant, had he not noticed the new His- for Jew in Germany in 1934 who had chosen relaxation and participation in creating Synthesis therapy, nutritional counseling, to remain silent, hoping to be able to stay panic and Asian complexion of American music. Bartyczak has several rhythmic in- Qi Gong, Tai Ji Quan, meditation, support invisible as he watched the beginnings of Christianity; or that America was big struments from different cultures to de- groups and more. For more information on the Holocaust." enough to make room for non-Western velop the interaction in groups or on an in- any of these services or to make an ap- He joined ACT UP styled groups and religions brought over by the Asian boat dividual level. pointment, please call 414-225-1571. people and immigrants he helped create? Shamanic used their leftish, emotionally violent Energy Work rhetoric to summon the fears of over 50 Marvin had done so much to create years ago when fascism and Communism hundreds of activist groups that would ARCW to Kicks Off Gay Targeted HIV conspired to bring down the United propel Ronald Reagan into the Presi- States. Only this time, the fascists were dency, and in so doing, had provided the Prevention Campaign homophobic Republicans and the anti- world an eloquent spokesman and inter- national force that would liberate every Milwaukee— On April 17, the Semite conservatives of AmeriKKKa AIDS Re- ties. As the campaign continues, a diver- Coming out as a Gay and a conserva- continent. source Center of Wisconsin (ARCW) un- sity of images will be portrayed. And when Polish ship yard workers and veiled Wisconsin's first tive, Marvin had an obligation to tell the public service The second message is timed for re- other side of the story to Gay people—not Chinese students at Tiananamen Square campaign targeted specifically at Gay lease in conjunction with the celebration of boldly shouted the writings of men. just join the other side. Instead, he prom- Madison, PrideFest and includes a donation of ulgated inflated images of rampant Na- Jefferson, Hamilton, Patrick Henry and The "man2man" campaign theme is 300,000 cocktail napkins from Fort How- Reagan at their anned oppressors, Marvin "Take Pride. End zism and skinheads dominating the AIDS." and uses positive ard Paper Company. in Green Bay. American mainstream and Gay life. should have been a happy and triumphant messages to reinforce safer sex practice. "This is an exciting and unique cam- man as he saw his life's work evolve, not The campaign will How sad for Marvin; he was so out of consist of a series of paign because it will result in reduced risk- sync with what was really happening in the morose, angry, screeching alien he five messages which will be displayed on behavior among Gay men in the state as had become for the journals of ACT UP posters and the late 1980s and early 1990s before he cocktail napkins in more than well as position Wisconsin among leading died. Despite clumsy and awkward mo- and rallies in Lafayette Square. 40 Gay bars across the state of Wisconsin. national AIDS service organizations Poor Marvin Liebman. A diverse world There will also ments, the Republicans and Gay people be advertising done state- (ASO) that are moving toward promoting within the Party had learned to peacefully owes this great and Gay man eternal wide in the Gay press. life in their prevention advertising rather gratitude for developing the forces of "The coexist. When Marvin died last month, campaign's message strategy than using a fear-instilling strategy," said more Gay people worked for and contrib- marks a significant paradigm shift in HIV Bagnall. Our man2man campaign would freedom that would defeat Communism prevention uted generously to his anti-big govern- and totalitarianism. It is a tragic paradox advertising," said Andy Bag- not be possible without the help and con- ment, libertarian, free market Party than nall, ARCW Gay Outreach that Marvin would spend his final years manager. tributions made by many Gay men from ever before. propping up the totalitarianism of the Gay "'Take Pride. End AIDS.' promotes self- across the state." esteem and Marvin was well aware of this but he Left who believe that all Gays must come encourages Gay men to prac- The campaign isis part of a grant from ever effectively said much in his public out of the closet to defend and promote tice safer sex through a reinforcing mes- the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and knew that sage of being statements to the Gay press. He diversity, and the only way to do this is proud about being Gay and was produced by ARCW in cooperation former Presidential candidate Barry for all Gays to become angry, anti-social that life is very worth living." with six state ASO's which participated in Goldwater had staunchly defended Gay's The first of the five Leftists. -part series of mes- focus group research to develop effective rights to be in the Party and the military. When Marvin Liebman came out as a sages will depict men in their early twen- promotional content. Materials were cre- He knew that New York's Republican US Gay conservative, he no longer sang his ated by Wells Ink, a Gay Milwaukee ad- own song of freedom (fortunately, others vertising agency. Senator Alphonse D'Mato, an Italian- MAP's HIV Health American, had done the same in his auto- picked up his music); instead he sang Be sure to look for the posters and along with groups that many in the Gay cocktail napkins at your favonte bars the biography Politics, Pasta and Power. Clinic Expands Marvin knew Gay Republicans had or- community believe do more harm than third weekend of April as well as future good. He did not offer Gay people a images consisting of Gay and Bisexual ganized to elect inclusive GOP mayors of the two largest US cities: New York and choice, merely an echo of despair and Evening Hours men of color and young Gay men. There demagoguery. He was no longer a trium- will also be a limited supply of posters for Los Angeles, and two GOP Governors in Milwaukee— The Milwaukee AIDS Massachusetts and New Jersey. phant conservative; just another angry interested individuals. For more informa- and miserable Gay clone. Project's (MAP) Health Services Depart- tion, call 414-225-1502. And there is more that Marvin knew. ment has expanded its hours. In 1993, Senate Minority Leader Robert Editor's Note: The author is a member "Our expansion of the service hours for Dole had a majority of his 44 Republican of the Log Cabin, Washington, DC Board MAP's HIV Health Clinic is in response to colleagues sign a pledge not to discrimi- of Directors and was National Field Di- the needs of our consumers," said Neil Al- nate against Gay staff members, and the rector ofPresident Reagan's Citizens for brecht, deputy director of programs for the SC Johnson Wax National Republican Congressional Com- America. AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, MAP's parent organization. "We regularly Gives SEWAP $5,000 survey our consumers to make sure our programs are meeting their needs. We Grant for Teen Peer heard several requests for more flexible ceountry Dance hours of service and are now meeting Monitoring Program those requests." The need to expand its hours was evi- Milwaukee -- The Southeast Wisconsin dent because many people with HIV or AIDS Project (SEWAP) was recently AIDS are still working thanks to new drug granted funding by the SC Johnson Wax Fiala SATURDAY therapies that are improving the quality Fund, Inc., which selectively accepts pro- and longevity of life. Therefore, as a posals for funding. health and social service provider, MAP's SEWAP is a service organization of the MAY 3, 1997 HIV Health Clinic wanted to better ac- AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, Inc. commodate consumer's needs without con- (ARCW). ARCW is the Midwest's largest 7:00 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. flicting with their employment. private, non-profit AIDS service agency "There are many barriers out there, dedicated to the fight against the worsen- Milwaukee Art Museum ing AIDS epidemic through prevention, such as a lack of transportation, child care 750 N. Lincoln Memorial Dr. problems or conflicting hours of service care, research and advocacy. that can prevent a person from accessing SC Johnson Wax generously agreed to critically needed health care," said Al- support the Health Information Providers brecht. "Our goal is to overcome those program, a program sponsored by SE- barriers to ensure our services are accessi- WAP, with a grant of $5,000. Performances by ble. We provide transportation and other "We are grateful for the partnership SC supportive services as well as flexible Johnson Wax has started with SEWAP in Shoreline, Rainbow Cloggers, Cream dune hours to achieve this goal." the education of adolescents about HIV and special guests. The expanded hours are now Monday and AIDS," said Michael Obinger, director City Squares, through Thursday 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. of SEWAP. "The responsibilAes they Previously, they had been 9:00 a.m. to have accepted as a corporate citizen in the TICKETS: $10 Advance, $12 At the Door 5:00 p.m. As usual, Fridays are available fight against AIDS are admirable." for emergency appointments only. The funding will be used to help de- Available at Just Us, Designing Men, Afterwords, Earlier this year, MAP also expanded crease the costs of the Health Information Outpost, and People's Books. its Social and Support Services hours until Providers in the Racine/Kenosha area. 9:00 p.m. Now consumers can access more This program provides valuable teen peer programs and services all in one visit. monitoring, a costly endeavor that makes The Country Dance Gala is a part of For more information or to schedule an funding and outside financial support es- Shoreline's Spring Round-Up, May 2-4, 1997. appointment at MAP's HIV Health Clinic, sential. For more information, call 414- For further information, grab a brochure! call 414-225-1571. 657-6644. April 24 , 1997—May 7, 1997—WISCONSIN LIGHT-10 have every expectation, knowing his profes- Possum Queen sional skill, that he will also be certified. No! On AB104 BestD OUTreach All nurses in the Milwaukee area will be honored in early May as part of the annual TO THE EDITOR: Contest To Get Nurse Recognition Week. As we get to that I know several people who have contacted For May time, it is important to remember that we in all 99 State Representatives, urging them to Under Way May 6; 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.— southeastern Wisconsin are blessed with many vote against Assembly Bill 104, which pre- Reformation Lutheran Health Fair. health care, professionals who are dedicated, emptively prohibits equal marriage rights for Milwaukee—A Possum Queen Steering May 7; 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.—La compassionate and skilled HIV/AIDS Clini- same-sex couples in Wisconsin. Team has been selected to oversee the Cage. cians. Of course, representatives are most inter- 1997 Possum Queen Contest. May 10; 9:00 p.m. to 12 midnight- On behalf of all the BestD Volunteers and ested in the opinions of their own constituents: The Team includes: Max Barnett (Victo- 1100 Club. Clients, we say congratulations and thank you please, everyone, in every part of the state ria Maxwell); Jon Bauer (Lizzie Bordeaux); May 15; 9:00 p.m. to 12 midnight— to ALL OF THEM! contact your state representative and state Bob Kaufmann (BooBoo LaRue); Mark In Between. Ross Walker, BestD Clinic senator and let them know how you feel about Meyerhoffer (Roxy Latour); Renne Polu- May 18; 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.— Milwaukee his bill! binsky, and Chuck Poulson (Charlotte Lor- C'est La Vie. Contact information for legislators can be rain). These individuals are already re- May 21; 9:00 p.m. to 12 midnight— Rep. Shays and ENDA obtained by calling 1-800-362-9472 (or cruiting potential candidates and market- The Triangle. (608) 266-9960), which is ithe State Legisla- ing the concept of a big and better cam- TO THE EDITOR: tive Hotline. They can help you determine paign. Candidate and sponsor packets As a constituent of Christopher Shays and who your legislator is. have been prepared, and the team is ap- an activist in Connecticut's Fourth Congres- The people who wrote "everyone" did re- plying for 501C-3 status. sional District, I would like to comment on his ceive letters from Rep. Neal Kedzie (R- The official dates of the 1997 Possum Letters motivation for becoming the chief sponsor of Elkhorn), who thanked them for writing, but Queen Campaign are from Friday, April ENDA. A fondly remembered Gay teacher, added that every constituent who had con- 25 to Friday, June 6, with the Finale, this while a touching story, is hardly a plausible tacted him regarding AB104 supported the year, being held at PrideFest, where the Letters reason. bill. Possum Queen will be chosen. Continued From Page 4 For starters, Shays has been a co-sponsor of Rep. Kedzie's Assembly District is the 43rd, For more information, call Max at (414) every national Gay rights bill from his start in which covers much of Walworth County and 221-0093, or talk to other members of the Congress, when he took over mid-term from part of Rock County, includeing the munici- Steering Team. Congratulations! his very popular predecessor (Stewart McKin- palities of Elkhorn, Delavan, Darien, Clinton, ney), a Gay man who died of AIDS. Back in Walworth, Fontana, Sharon, Williams Bay, EDITOR: TO THE mid-1987, Shays was anxious to continue his and wards 1-6 and 8 of Lake Geneva. Doug John- We were pleased to read about predecessor's progressive agenda, which was Rep. Kedzie is a co-sponsor of AB104. AIDS son and Bob Pomerening passing the in line with his own policies as State Senator Those of you from Rep. Kedzie's District, CLASSIFIEDS Nurse Exam and con- Certified Registered and in line with the socially progressive, eco- please contact him (and ask family and friends the gratulate them. We also want to recognize nomically conservative District. from his District to do the same), and politely nation many other nurses (320 from across the The real reason for Shays' interest in show- voice your opposition to AB104. Its office inaugural And Breakfast took the exam) who passed this ing leadership on this issue has more to do can be reached directly by calling (608) 266- Bed recognized exam last November and are now with his vote on DOMA last summer. He sin- 9650. 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I get your paper and volunteer their vote. Ile actually was invited by someone who For reservation or color brochure, please call Bryon of ANAC when I'm in town and can go off by myself. Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter lives in the 3'd District, but he certainly got an and Darrin at (414) 746-O334. Nurses in AIDS Care) are There's a lot that is reported about the Don't (Association of earful from some hurt and angry constituents 4072 Cherry Rd. (Hwy HH) Sturgeon Bay. Busalacchi, Barbara Cuene, Karen Ask, Don't Tell policy. I can tell you it Mary while he was there. Ivantic-Douchette, Marilyn Pilmaier and doesn't work. Inn at Pine Ridge- B & B esp for womyn, hot tub. As for Shays' influence with the current Topham. Jim Rice also took the exam I am deeply closeted. That's not because I sauna, good brunch, hike, bike, rest Near Eau Claire Deb holding my breath. 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Rand Knox Al Geiersbach April 24, May 8,_ May 22, June 5, June 19_, July 3 , July 17 San Rafael, California Milwaukee April 24 ,1997—May 7, 1997—WISCONSIN LIGHT-11 There is no Latent Stage With HIV; Damage 50 have been dramatically helped with And there are people who are simply not powerful antiviral combinations. ready to take medicmes every day on time Control Should Begin at Once But if people start very early when little for the rest of their life. The best argument damage is done, it may be possible to for waiting is that it is not, yet known if By The AIDS Writers Group avoid the damage altogether. There is taking these powerful drugs for long peri- antivirals may not bring back those par- even a chance that if used early enough, ods will have Damage Control ticular cells. serious implications. the virus may be cleared by the body, But even taking this into account, many There is much confusion about what Reducing viral load usually increases the thou h tests to determine this will not be researchers ha s inside the bodies of people now believe that the earlier with number of CD4 cells, but it does not bring completed for a few more years. one starts, the better for the health of the HIV before they develop AIDS. In the back specific memory cells that have al- Pros and Cons body in the long run. early 1980's when AIDS was first en- ready been depleted. And if the naive After this, it would be logical to ask why The message is simple: There is no la- countered, it was seen as a collection of cells are lost, then the body may never be people don't just take an antiviral combi- tent stage. From the beginning HIV is diseases that were occurring in people able to cope with an infection it never saw nation right away, as soon as they know running rampant whose immune and, if it remains un- system was seriously dam- before, or relearn to fight illnesses it "for- that they are infected with HIV. treated, will cause damage which can't aged. It was several years before it was got". One of the reasons to wait is the side ef- be felt or seen. There are now ways to discovered that a virus, now known as Meanwhile, the CD8 cells that like sol- fects of the drugs, some of which can be control that damage. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), diers do much of the killing of enemy in- severe. There are those who are early in Editor's Note: The AIDS Writers Group caused this damage. fected cells, do not work as well as HIV the disease and want to wait for better consists of physicians and AIDS care giv- Had researchers understood in the be- infection progresses. It may be the lack of drugs, afraid that using the ones we have ers in Boston, • g what they know now, there would the CD4 cells, the officers to give them the now MA who seek to spread might preclude them from using bet- knowledge about the disease. bbee no 'syndrome known as AIDS; instead orders to kill. In addition there is evidence ter ones later. it would be referred to as the late stages of that HIV directly infects and kills CD8 HIV disease. As tests showed that people cells. Another possibility is that the CD8 with HIV appeared healthy for years be- cells are reproducing so often that they It is the Duty of Congress to End Workplace fore the diseases now known as `oppor- prematurely age and begin to resemble the tunistic infections' began, it was believed cells of an elderly person. Whatever the Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation that HIV stayed in the body for years do- cause of the problem, it is clear that with- ing little, in what was called the latent out effective CD8 cells, or effective antivi- Commentary by Rep. Tom Barrett men and women are denied job opportu- stage. There seemed to be no reason to rats to keep the virus at bay, continued In Georgia, a woman was dismissed nities, simply because they are Gay, Les- treat a virus that clinicians believed was deterioration of the immune system is as- from her job at The Cracker Barrel Old bian or Bisexual. With absolutely no re- dormant. sured. Country Store in 1991, because she course under current federal law or the In recent years researchers have discov- The great battlers between these immune "failed to demonstrate normal heterosex- Constitution, Gays and Lesbians have no ered that there is no latent stage, and that cells and the virus take place in the lymph ual values." means to seek justice against those who the virus begins damaging the immune system where most T-cells are housed. As In Michigan, a Gay employee of the US discriminate against them purely on the system earlier than was first thought. HIV gains the upper hand, the architecture Postal Service, complained to his supervi- basis of sexual orientation. When HIV first enters the body it repro- of the system is slowly destroyed. sors about the daily harassment he re- That is wrong. duces at an astounding rate. We know that cancer patients who re- ceived from his coworkers in the bath- Just as our government worked so hard The immune system recognizes the ceive radiation therapy have similar dam- room. When he tried to file suit under the to deliver justice and full equality in the threat, and fights back. That first fight age, and it makes them more likely to get Civil Rights Act, the court ruled that fed- courts for all Americans regardless of sometimes causes flu-like symptoms, and other infections. Other casualties to the vi- eral law required them to dismiss the race, religion, gender, national origin, the immune system's response is ama7- rus are the spleen, which in part helps fil- case. age, or disability, we must fulfill our mis- inglY successful at reducing the amount of ter out infections, and the thymus. sion of achieving full civil rights by end- virus in the body. Actually, this immune Finally, with so much gomg on, many ing injustice on the basis of sexual orien- system response against the virus is more researchers feel that HIV begins to disrupt tation. powerful than any of the strong antiviral the communication between the immune It's not a matter of "special rights" as combinations now available, but for rea- cells. The immune system communicates some have argued in Wisconsin, it's sim- sons not completely understood, the im- through chemical messengers, which can ple justice. mune system doesn't finish the job by be disrupted by HIV. The result is that I have joined once again with my col- eliminating all of the virus. cells respond ineffectively. league Barney Frank in originally co- What follows is nothing like the image At the same time that the immune sys- sponsoring legislation about this change. of HIV quietly lying dormant, to emerge tem weakens, the virus itself multiplies The "Employee Non-Discrimination Act" years later as AIDS. Instead what goes on faster and infects new types of cells (ENDA), which prohibits employers from inside the body is like a war of major Eventually the virus is able to enter cells making decisions about hiring, firing, proportions. The immune system itself with ease, by using entrances (receptors) promoting, or compensating an employee becomes the main battlefield m this fight not available to it earlier. In addition, be- based on sexual onentation. for survival. On the one side of this war, cause the virus is not always exact when it The bill makes clear that preferential HIV hijacks T-cells and turns them into vi- makes copies of itself; there are a lot of treatment and quotas are strictly prohib- rus producing factories which produce bil- different variations that continue to de- ited and that no claims will be based on lions of new viruses every day. On the velop. The cells which are set to look for statistics about Gays and Lesbians in the other side the immune system eliminates and kill HIV, may not recognize all of work force. huge numbers of viruses, killing its own these variations as the virus it is supposed The legislation enjoys bipartisan sup- infected cells in the process. to hunt down. Therefore the immune sys- port in both the House and Senate and It is a war that the immune system tem is open to attack even as more of the came within one vote of passage in the cannot win on its own. `naive' cells are needed to learn to recog- Senate last year. It reflects non- So far there is only one known way for a nine the new variations. These newly discrimination policies already in place at person with HIV to keep this infection trained cells won't be looking for the major corporations such as AT&T and manageable - through help from powerful original variations, making the immune Xerox. Nine states and 166 cities and antiviral therapies. system's response very inefficient. counties already have legislation prohib- There is, however, debate over when is Stopping the Damage iting employment discrimination. A re- the best time to start that antiviral One way to slow the damage, or at least cent national poll found that 85% of treatment. prevent it from speeding up too much, is to Congressman Tom Barrett Americans believe employers should not The reason many researchers now be- stay healthy. By staying healthy one can In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a man was discriminate based on sexual orientation. lieve it is best to start early is their under- prevent infections from invading the body, fired from his job as an accountant, de- While we need to make similar ad- standing of the hidden damage being done or at least stop them from gaining a foot- spite an impeccable record. When he in- vances to end discrimination in housing, before the immune system is so weak it hold. Adding more infections may lead to quired why, his boss replied, "You know education, medical treatment, and m the can't stop 1,11 rtunistic infections. further taxing an already overworked im- why." Then, in an attempt to keep him armed forces, this bill will lay critical e Damage Done mune system. from acquiring new clients, his boss dis- groundwork, and will serve to highlight Some of the damage has consequences In addition, when the immune system hateful mailing that stated, the clear-cut issues at hand. seminated a red that are now understood, and some, con- fights infections, it also increases the "It's well know that homosexuals are sig- Until all Americans cannot be fi sequences no one has been able to clearly amount of virus being produced. Staying risk for AIDS. While I have simply because of who they are, we will nificantly at m the define. healthy involves any number of things no knowledge of his medical condition, never truly achieve full civil nghts Probably the best known damage caused from watching what you eat, exercising, consider getting the results of a blood test United States. by HIV is reflected in the slow but con- and getting plenty of rest to making sure for him..." Editor's Note: The writer is US Con- sistent reduction in the number of a kind of that contact is lunited with friends who The case eventually ended up in court, gressman.from Wisconsin's 5'n District. white blood cell called the T-helper cells have colds or other infections. and regretfully, the employee lost, be- (CD4 cells) that for many years was the It also includes practicing safe-sex, cause he had once signed a contract years best way to know one's status. Everyone since many infections other than WV, before that said he could be fired "for knew that when CD4 cells fell below 200, from Herpes to KS (Kaposi's Sarcoma), homosexuality." TELL YOUR FRIENDS: people began getting opportunistic infec- are sexually transmitted, and tax the im- These terrible incidents are neither ran- tions, but until recently it was not clear mune system. dom nor isolated. They are incidents I read all about it in what was going on before that time. If, however, you want to stop the which clearly reflect the institutionalized HIV reduces the number of CD4 cells, damage, and not just slow it down, you bias against Gay men and Lesbians that is The Wisconsin Light the officers of the immune system's dis- will need to use antiviral medications. so deeply imbedded in our society. ease fighting army. Antivirals may stop the continuing dam- Each year, thousands of hardworking When they have determined that a germ age if they are used together in combina- has infected a cell, CD4 cells get other irons that reduce the amount of virus in a cells to fight the germs with antibodies, person to very low levels using the most and another kind of cell called a CD8 cell sensitive viral load tests (meaning they to kill the infected cells. Therefore, losing measure as low as 400 or 500 copies). It is *ore ,France by Dike! CD4 cells impairs the body's ability to hoped, that once drugs get the amount of fight illnesses. One reason HIV may be so virus to undetectable levels, it is unlikely difficult to fight is that it infects these CD4 to go back up. However, this means tak- cells, and the immune system then needs mug medicine all the time, on time, and in to wipe out many of its own officers. the right amounts. Join us for the trip of a lifetime, There are two basic kinds of CD4 cells - Already there is some evidence from 13* ouglka picttitesque those that are programmed to recognize antivirals very early in people who started corn rantrr. Call for specific invaders (called `memory cells'), when they had an immune the illness, • ° y and those that are ready to fight a new ill- system fairly intact, that the body can re- 4rid ness a person hasn't seen before (called pairpair the damage caused by HIV. There are lesb 17 `naive cells'). Losing too many memory a series of tests that determine how well inclu cells leaves the body defenseless to com- the immune system works. Early results mon diseases it has recognized and fought from these tests show that people who start before. antiviral therapy early can recover the 1- 0-8 Losing too many naive cells leaves the small amounts of immune function they system without a way to fight new dis- may have lost. AUMMOOMMUMM eases. Interestingly, it is the naive cells But people whose system is more badly that fight things like the common cold, damaged before they begin therapy usually since each cold virus is different. do not recover all the way. This does not Unfortunately, it seems that if all the mean that people with very low levels of particular CD4 cells that recognize a CD4 cells should give up, because the • specific invader have been killed, taking majority of people with counts of under April 24, 1997—May 7, 1997—WISCONSIN LIGHT-12 Johnson Jerry by Photos -

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Their Night to Shine- Over 100 beaming Gay and Lesbian youth attended the First Annual Milwaukee Gay Youth Prom at the Park East Hotel on Saturday April 19. See above left are Ryan Wagner, and Ross Schendel, Jamesville; Center, Stephanie Swistorski, Milwaukee; and Trisket, and Prom King and Queen, Knutson Ver Bunker and Shalimar Vega. They were joined by many other couples enjoying a very special evening. Among the participating groups were PFLAG, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and Gay Youth Milwaukee. Chorus Selects New Officers at OUR See Us, Read Us Annual Meeting REALLY Milwaukee—The Wisconsin Cream City the Chorus held its Annual Meeting on Wednesday, April 9th. Among the issues discussed were direction and goals of the Chorus, and the bi-annual election of Vice DECK President and Treasurer. Following a de- On cision by Bahtyah Jones not to seek re- IS NOW election to her office of Vice President, majority vote installed Debbie Lang to the position. Debbie has already proven her c lEINT dedication to the Chorus through her ef- The forts in the area of fundraising marketing. COCKTAILS Wisconsin Light Debbie was welcomed to the Board by Treasurer Kris Mixdorf, who retained his proudly announces its position after running unopposed. President Matthew Pamperin and Sec- DAILY retary Chuck Ellingson do not come up for re-election until next year. LUNCH new Web Site Emory Churness, Chorus Publicist for the last three years, announced his inten- SPECIALS tion to step down from the position at the end of the Spring Season to pursue differ- www.wilight.com ent interests within the organization. The Chorus is currently seeking inquires DINNER from those interested in either the office of 01‘ - Get daily updates on important news from around the Musical Director or Publicist. 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Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel April 24, 1997—May 7, 1997—WISCONSIN LIGHT-13 There Can be no Gay Community as Long as We Keep Feeding on Ourselves Commentary by Michael Bender knew I was Queer. I could talk to people When I hear the phrase, "Gay Commu- about being Gay, at last. Maybe I could nity," I often wonder exactly what is dispel some of the stereotypes I had meant by it. Outside of the "big city," grown up with. I was so high on life. Of there seems to be little community, and if course, I was naive. you mention the word "Gay," what com- My friends in my former church sud- munity there is suddenly vanishes before denly disappeared. After their departure, your eyes. Recently, I found this out the my excommunication from the Wisconsin hard way. Evangelical Lutheran Synod was an- Since I had always wanted to teach, I nounced to me in a letter from my pastor. decided to enroll in UW-Platteville, and I People stopped talking to me when they got a job at. the student newspaper. While found out who I was, and I was targeted I was perusing the State Journal, I found by Wisconsin Christians United for a mail a story about two Lesbians who had been box full of hate. I must say I was not denied an apartment in Madison. I was in equipped to handle this, but I had been need of a soap box and I seized the op- warned that it would happen. portunity. After denouncing the discrimi- The one thing I was not warned about nation, I even quoted the Declaration of was the sudden abandonment by the Gay Independence, you know, the part about community. The already dysfunctional all people being entitled to "life, liberty, LGB Alliance, which only met to tell and the pursuit of happiness?" I also came jokes once a week, suddenly decided it out. was too much for them to deal with. I was It was great! I felt like I could take on shunned when I wrote my next column the whole world. Life out of the closet about Gay rights. And I was even more isolated when I urged people to join me in HIV Law Madison for National Coming Out Day. Continued From Page 1 The final straw for me was when a member of the LGB Alliance and a friend has already happened in other states," he who had accompanied me on my rounds cautioned. of three of Madison's Gay bars, decided without disclosing the names of the pa- he didn't like my article criticizing the tients. Alliance for its total lack of visibility on Doug Nelson, executive director of the campus. In a spectacle worthy of ACT Milwaukee AIDS Project (MAP), said his UP, he suddenly started shouting. He group wants to assure the patients' pri- made quite a scene. vacy. I later found out that he was so scared "It is a bill that our agency worked on that I would "out" him that he was willing very carefully and came to some common to resort to violence in order to prevent ground," Nelson said. "We were able to this imagined action. protect HIV confidentiality. and also were What about friendship? What about the able to address the ethical issues the phy- bond we shared because of the fact that sicians had." we were both Queer? All of a sudden, The bill would allow physicians to re- none of that mattered. port the names of sex and drug partners of Can you see why I wonder where the HIV+ patients to the Wisconsin Division pay community is? Rather than welcom- of Health's partner notification program. ing someone who finally stood up for Workers from the program then would himself, refusing to be forced into a pub- contact the people and tell them they're at lic closet, my Gay and Lesbian brothers risk, without revealing the name of the and sisters decided to run for cover as fast patient. as they could. Nelson expressed confidence that the As if they weren't enough of a betrayal, AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, one of my former WELS church mates MAP's parent agency, would support the tried to blackmail me into stopping my move as long as the final wording of the writing. Overnight, at least for him, law is what had been discussed earlier. blackmail became a Christian value. I was Nelson added that while ARCW sup- almost suicidaL I had been betrayed on all ports "carefully crafted" expansion of the sides. Where could I go for understand- HIV disclosure laws, "no legislation will ing? ever take the place of every individual As it turned out, I had to move to Madi- taking personal responsibility to protect son. themselves from contracting HIV." Is it any wonder why rural LGBT folk Ross Walker of Milwaukee's BestD are so invisible? Not only do they have to Clinic said that he concurred with Nelson bear the burden of their ignorant class- that the compromise proposed "is both mates, but they also have to bear the ethically prudent and appears to keep in- fickleness of their "family." tact Wisconsin's excellent record of cli- Why must we feed on ourselves? ent/patient confidentiality. From the closeted politician who em- Walker did, however, express several braces "family values" and then votes concerns. One was that since many health against ENDA to the closeted "Chris- care clinicians either do not recognize of tians" who are more concerned about are "blind" to same-sex relationships, what their own "community" might think "this will primarily address heterosexual if they acknowledge they go to church. relationships." Steve Gunderson, the last rural Gay "I am not sure that legislation is the an- man to go public, forced or not, was ve- swer to this na. ..a. i g concern of many of hemently criticized by his own "commu- us working as rt /AIDS service provid- nity." W.e. Queer people have too many ers," Walker said. "Those of us involved communities and not enough activists to with anonymous HIV counseling and go around. testing are periodically faced with this As long as this internalized homophobia same public health dilemma. We often continues, we will continue to feed on know, but we can't tell," he emphasized. ourselves. As long as we sit back and ac- Walker said that the existing Wisconsin cept this kind of treatment by anybody, v HIV/AIDS reporting statute and automatic even our own "community," there can be referral to the Division of Health Partner no hope for us. Referral Programs "accomplishes about as As far as this Gay man is concerned, the much as what is proposed." people of rural UW-Platteville don't de- "I am not sure that persons with serve a community. Why fight for people HIV/AIDS who now refuse to access who will stab you in the back at the first Partner Referral will change their postures available opportunity? It's enough to under what is proposed." make me sick Under existing statutes, state guidelines and protocols, any person known to be in- "Sweeny Todd" At the fected with HIV, must be reported to the Wisconsin Division of Health. The per- Sky Light in Milwaukee son's name is then automatically passed The Sky Light Opera Theatre will be on to the appropriate County Partner Re- presenting the musical thriller "Sweeny ferral Program for follow up. The HIV Todd" from April 23 through May 11 in the client has the option to cooperate with Cabot Theatre of the Broadway Theatre Partner Referral or not. Center, 158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee. "The problem is real and there is no easy Sweeny Todd is a barber who is unjustly solution," Walker said. "As a matter of sent to prison by a corrupt judge who fact, I am almost reluctant to address the desires his wife. Todd returns from prison issue lest it plant new seeds in the minds and stalks the judge only to be cheated of those who would publicly stigmatize out his revenge. Todd then proceeds to and scorn those with HIV/AIDS." kill every man who comes into his shop for "My biggest concern," Walker added, a shave. "is that the current debate, pending legis- The production stars R.F. Dail, Judith lation and publicity will be a stepping Baird, Gary Briggle, Culber Casson, Tony rsi stone to reduce or eliminate anonymous Clements and Ryan Dance. Friday and HIV counseling and testing in Wiscon- Saturday evening performances will be sin." followed by a free performance of the Walker warned that "It would be very Carolin Carolyn Show at the Sky Light easy for those opposing anonymous test- Cabaret. Her show is sponsored by Miller Brewing. A Quarter Century of Love- ing to tack on amendments to what is be- Celebrating their Silver Anniversary were Nick Gagliano and Jim Riske who For held a gala affair at the ing proposed in the legislative process. It ticket information call the Sky Light 1100 Club on Saturday April 12. Dozens of well wishers turned out to watch the Box office, 291-7811. happy couple renew their vows. was better after all. I no longer cared who THE SPOTLIGHT SECTION April 24, 1997 to May 7, 1997- THE WISCONSIN LIGHT-14

**-1'44 MEI• i"`41, k Aink -tr RIF to al& Stela a **NO Ashley Maclsaac: An Unconventional, Controversy genitals to millions of Americans, By Jeffrey L. Newman Maclsaac is quite unapologetic for his Nova Scotian fiddler Ashley Maclsaac unconventional points of view. "I don t has been causing quite a commotion know if I think being gay is normal. How lately. The 22-year old openly gay musi- can I say that it's normal? As much as I cian is becoming as well known for his know that there are some animals and music as he is for his controversial view- there are groups of sheep in Tasmania or points and antics. From his frank opinions over in Australia that particularly just have about his sexual orientation to his appear- gay sex, that's not for me to go into the ance on the Conan O' Brien show where idea that they don't have a conscience and They're Baaaack! You can catch the boys and girls of Summer and all the action of the SSBL's 206' he kicked up his legs, while wearing a kilt learned process as well, and that they've Anniversary Season at Sijan field. 2128 S. Kinninicknic Ave. beginning on Saturday May 3. with nothing underneath, and exposed his learned to do that because they don't have any girls around them or whatever "he The SSBL Offers Twenty Years of Rich says. "But I don't see that it's not normal either because a lot of people are doing History and Leadership in LBG Sports it,"Maclsaac adds. "It's normal for a lot of By Bill Meunier there were so many teams that it had two people It's normal for me. It's not particu- When a group of friends got together to divisions, a competitive and a recreational larly normal for let's say my father, who form a Gay and Lesbian softball league in division. married my mother and had me. He would Milwaukee, they had little idea how much Women's Division think that it was very strange. He assumes The SSBL also had a of an impact their new organization would for a few years. That division died when that we're here for only one reason and have. Now, twenty years later, the SSBL more women's tournaments began being that's reproduction. I grew up in a very is celebrating a rich tradition of good play, heterosexual family where typically con- offered. Most of the women also played friendship and leadership, not only in on other teams and preferred going to out versation about homosexuals would be on Milwaukee's Gay community, but nation- of town women's tourneys on weekends. that would be a joking matter, or along the ally as well. lines of If you ever were or if I ever knew, Think of the SSBL and you think of That tradition includes the first ever Gay Mitchell Park, the league's original home. you'd be cut off,' the whole American way." softball tourney, the first Women's World With one diamond up on a hill and another The outspoken Maclsaac is currently Series and twenty seasons of continuous touring to promote his stellar debut below it. Summer Saturdays at the park fun. sometimes seemed like a stream of opus,"Hi! How Are You Today?,"on A&M The league has changed considerably records. (He previously opened for Melissa over its two decade history. Some years Please Turn To SSBL Page 26 Etheridge and the Crash Test Dummies.) Fusing Celtic folk sounds into contempo- rary pop confections, with swirls of house Florentine Opera Presents Umberto and industrial dance rhythms mixed in, the flamboyant musician creates folk grunge Giordano's `Andrea Chenier' with a pop sensibility on the electric fiddle. Milwaukee—For the first time ever in '2:30 The album recently earned platinum 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, May 4u at Milwaukee, the Florentine Opera will $18 to status in Canada and it's first U.S. single p.m. Tickets, ranging in price from mount Umberto Giordano's richly scored Marcus Center release, "Sleepy Maggie, "a quirky, hi- $78, are available from the verisimo opera, Andrea Chenier. Swept Box Office at (414) 273-7206. energy ditty, featuring the Gaelic vocal up by the inexorable hysteria and cruelty power of Mary Jane Leonard, is currently of the French Revolution, Andrea Chenier, climbing the Billboard dance charts. a French poet, satirist and critic of the "Hopefully, people will focus in on my mu- French Revolution, goes to the guillotine, MAY 2, 3 & 4, 1997 sic and not my philosophies and see that accompanied by his beautiful and aristo- I'm putting forth a really strong energy and cratic Madeleine, who refuses to live with- MILWAUKEE PREMIERE from that give this record a chance, which out him. Please Turn To MacIssac Page 26 Andrea Chenier is a tragic romance set Ashley Mclssac to some of opera's most rapturous music, wrapped in a crucible of great dramatic Shoreline to Present a Country Dance power. As a contemporary of Puccini, 11111111[11CilE111E11, Giordano scored a major operatic triumph BY UMBERTO Weekend in May when his opera premiered just 100 years ago at Milan's La Scala. It continues to GIORD Milwaukee—During the weekend of Later in the afternoon, Shoreline's own thrill audiences to this day. May 2 nd through 4 1h, Shoreline will present Mark Duris will teach the hottest new line Gio?dano's opera has experienced a re- its first annual Spring Round-Up, three dances. Mark's high energy enthusiasm surgence in the past few years. days of country-western parties, dances, always makes learning fun. Madeleine's famous aria "La Mama Morta" and workshops. Sunday Brunch from Act II inspired one of the most emo- Country Dance Gala On Sunday, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 tional and moving scenes ever filmed in The highlight of the weekend will be p.m., Just Us will offer a sumptuous the movie Philadelphia. Shoreline's fifth annual Country Dance brunch, followed by a dance swap de- Splitting the demanding role of Chenier, Gala on Saturday night, May 3 , at the signed to give participants an opportunity tenors Tonio Di Paolo (May 2 & 4) and Milwaukee Art Museum. The Gala will in- to share and learn new and different Paul Lyon (May 3) will sing this signature clude performances by Shoreline, the dances. role made famous by so many of the great Cream City Squares, Rainbow Cloggers Brochures containing registration forms tenors of our day. Florentine Opera favor- from Minneapolis, other guests and lots of for the Spring Round-Up, as well as tick- ite Soprano Mildred Tyree will sing the country music and dancing in this smoke- ets for the Saturday night Country Gala, impassioned and moving role of may be obtained at Just Us, AfterWords, free facility. Madeleine de Coigny. "1)E The Gala is expected to draw more than Designing Men, People's Books, and Making their debuts with the Florentine 350 women and men from Milwaukee and OutPost in Milwaukee. To receive a bro- will be Catherine Cook as the Countess Di MI' XN1 throughout the Midwest. Organizers say chure by mail, send a SSAE tof Spring Coigny and Madelon, Kimm Julian as that it will be THE LBGT event of 1997. Round-Up, do Shoreline, P.O. Box Pietro Fleville, Kristopher Irmiter as S. Fifth Street in Milwau- 92273, Milwaukee, WI 53202-0273. ENOS AR\N Just Us, 807 Mathieu, and Douglas Perry as Incredible. AR kee, will host all other Spring Round-Up Tickets may be purchased separately Other singers returning to the Florentine kkE. MAMA MORN events. Get ready for a Friday night fish for each event or for all Saturday and include John Koch, Dean Marshall, Scott "LA PHILADELPHIA! fry, and open country dancing and two Sunday events at a "weekend package" Sowlles, and David Boyd. can ANE. dance workshops on Saturday afternoon. cost of $20—a price most cowpokes Noted Conductor Louis Salemno returns USED Dance Workshops afford. Tickets for the Saturday night Gala to the Florentine to lead this stellar cast The Saturday dance workshops will in- may be purchased for $10 in advance or and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra UIHLEIN HALL clude instruction in both Texas two-step, a $12 at the door. in an opera that contains music with a ballroom partner dance, and line dancing. Shoreline, no approaching its fifth suc- passion and burning intensity even death / MARCUS CENTER Neither workshop requires a partner. cessful year, has a membership of over cannot quell. SUNG IN ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUPERTITLES Carol Anderson, an award-winning two- 30 cowpokes of both the male and female Performances of Andrea Chenier will step dancer and popular instructor from gender. To learn more about the group or take place in Uihlein Hall of the Marcus 414.273-7206 or Minneapolis, will present her two-step the Spring Round-Up, visit Just Us on any Center (929 N. Water Street), on Fridcry, 1 -800-472-4458 workshop beginning at 1:00 p.m. Saturday night. May 2 nd at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, May 3' at THE SPOTLIGHT SECTION April 24, 1997 to May 7, 1997- THE WISCONSIN LIGHT-15

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Together at last! The cast of "Lend Me A Tenor posed for this photo. The farce is playing at Melanec's Now Listen Up! Ellard (Royden Mills, left) taches English to Charlie (Michael Herold) in a scene from "The Wheel House in Milwaukee Fridays -Sundays through June Foreigner," a hilarious production from the Madison Rep. It plays at the Isthmus Theater through May 4. The Wheel House's "Lend Me a Tenor : Madison Rep's `The Foreigner' is A Charming Comedy Worth Seeing Hilarious, Enjoy It While You Can By Dusty Sass It is well worth seeing. "Lend Me A Tenor" is Melanec Wheel "Lend Me A Tenor" will be at the By Brian Harder that, and boy does he make the most of it. House's second foray into comedy. It Wheelhouse on Fridays, Saturdays and More than once I've thought of what it Charlie is a timid bloke visiting rural follows the very successful run of Sundays at the Wheel House, 2176 N. would be like if I could start my life over in Georgia with his military friend, Froggy. "Nunsense" which had five month run at Riverboat Rd (between North Ave and a new place where no one knew me or my Charlie has left his dying, and the Milwaukee East Side Dinner Theater. Brady Street and east of Humboldt) past, (not that I have anything to hide) and promiscuous, wife back in England to get While not quite as I could start my life all over again. In The entertaining as hrough June 22nd. For reservations call Please Turn To "Nunsense", "Lend Me A Tenor" is (414) 264-6000. Foreigner, Charlie Baker gets to do just Foreigner Page 26 certainly worth a look. The production successfully captures the look and feel of the 1930's era during which the story takes place. It has the look and feel of a well done 1930's film farce. Tito Merelli, a world famous CRIS tenor know WILLIAMSON to his fans as "II Stupendo" is booked for a one night only performance by the Cleveland Grand Opera company. Merilli arrives with his justifiably jealous wife, Maria. and TRET r RE When Maria discovers a fan, Maggie, hiding in a closet hoping to get an autograph she leaves in a huff. Tito threatens to kill himself, but is talked out of it by Max, who is an assistant to Opera Director, Mr. Saunders ( who is also Maggie's father). When Tito takes one too many sleeping pills, Max thinks he has in fact killed himself and calls on Saunders to figure a way out of the situation. Saunders convinces Max to sing Merrili's part in Otello which Max does to great acclaim. The problem is that Merilli isn't dead. He awakes, rushes to the Opera House and is nearly arrested when he tries to gain entrance through the stage door. He escapes only after hitting a policeman. The second act is a riot of confusion as V.$ both the imposter and the real Merrilli narrowly miss each other going through doors of the Hotel suite while entertaining two admiring female fans, Maggie and Diana, who sang Soprano in the production, as well as Julia, the Chairwoman of the Opera Guild. Throw in a Gay bellhop, and an exasperated Saunders trying desperately to keep everyone from discovering his scheme and you have the makings of a first rate farce. In the end everything is resolved to nearly everyone's satisfaction, when Merilli is reunited with his wife and Max gets his girl, Maggie. For the most part the cast was fairly effective in their roles. This was especially true of Robert Fuchs who played Merilli, Karla Sherman who portrayed his wife Maria and Dick Thomas who played listen to what they're saying about Cris and Tret's New CD "Between the Covers": Saunders. Fuch's facial gestures, accent and body language were perfect for the part. Sherman was totally believable as the "...a beautiful celebrationof Crisand Tret'slove for eachother." —Bonniehitt irate wife of the tenor. Thomas was very good as the scheming Saunders. "Transparentlyelegant..." —Janis Ian Also quite good were John Cullinan as Max and Nancy Hucke who was delicious as the blonde bombshell soprano trying to get into Merrilli's pants and career. Saturday, May 10th, 1994 8:00pm TicketPrices: $16in advance,$18 at the door On the negative side of the ledger, was Karen Zimmerman playing Julia. (tax included) Zimmerman who shined in Nunsense is less than adequate here. The problem wasn't with her acting which was fine, it TicketOutlets: Afterwords was with her volume which was not. She CENTENNIAL HALE was so loud that I was uncomfortable listening to her deliver her lines. 133 North 8th Street order tickets by mail by Bookstoreti {spressoBar Given her part, some increase in volume 1110 N. Murray Ave. may have been justified, but far too often sending a SASEand check to: one got the impression that Zimmerman Milwaukee, Wisconsin was shouting instead of giving her lines. lull Moon Productions One other problem was that the first act 1,(235 (ountry llwy W OutpostNatural Foods seemed to lag a bit, and the timing for (ampbellsport, WI 53010 some of the gags seemed somewhat off. 100 {ast (apitol Drive But on the whole this was a charming email: [email protected] production with many comedic moments. April 24, 1997 to May 7, 1997- THE WISCONSIN LIGHT-16 THE SPOTLIGHT SECTION "Ellen" Will Air in Alabama 013A1 New York, NY—Since the ABC affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama refused to air the HERE I AM. April 30 episode of "Ellen," the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and Birmingham Pride Alabama (BPA) will be holding the city's "Official Welcome Out `Ellen' Party, with the history-making episode being satellite-fed di- OUT OF THE CLOSET! rectly to a giant screen at the Boutwell Auditorium. Thousands of attendees from all WE'RE WAITING over the state are expected to attend. FOR LILY TOMLIN. Dave Thomas Won't Serve "Ellen" at Wendy's New York, NY—Wendy's has announced that while it was never scheduled to ad- vertise on the April 30th episode of "Ellen," it has pulled all sponsorship from the show. According to Wendy's spokesperson Denny Lynch, the move was prompted by 0 the media attention to title character Ellen Morgan's coming out as a Lesbian.

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World Premiere of "Three Beau Solieu Brings Women" at Madison Cajun Flair to Grand YUSsy Civic Center May 23 Opera House in Oshkosh Ride With the Just Us Beau Solieu with acclaimed fiddler "Three Surrealist Women on the Edge of Dykes Oblivion" will have its world at Madison's Micheal Doucet brings their cajun dance Ellen On Bikes at Civic Center on Friday May 23 8:00 and music to the Grand Opera House, 100 PrideFest Sunday May 25 3 PM in the Starlight High Ave, Oshkosh on Saturday May 10. Coming Out Party Room of the Madison Civic Center, 211 BeauSoiieu made a pre game April 30 WE'LL LEAD THE PARADE State Street). appearance at last January's Super Bowl. Free The composition is based on a painting They have also been featured in Food 7 to 9 PM by Salvado Dali. It includes text by Amy appearances at Carnegie Hall and have Looze for three sopranos, euphonium, received six Grammy nominations. cello and piano and a live visual artist. For ticket information call 424-2355. • FABULOUS BEER BATTER FRIDAY FISH FRY & FULL MENU The artist will paint a new painting each performance. These works will be sold in Joe Lovano Quartet at a silent auction after the performance is May 10 ♦ No SMOKING ROOM DURING FISH FRY over. the Pabst The acclaimed Joe Lovano will be Tickets are $5.00 each and can be bringing his Jazz Quartet to Milwaukee's purchsed at Mother • IN HOUSE DART LEAGUE (2 MACHINES IN MAIN BAR) Fools Coffee House, Pabst Theater on Saturday May 10. on Williamson Street, B-Side Music on Among the honors heaped on Lovano State Street or Borders Book Store on are "Jazz Artist of the Year," - in both 1995 • GOLF University Ave. OUTINGS and 1996- Downbeat Critics and readers Cris Williamson, Tret polls, and International Artist of the Year- Canada's Jazz Report Magazine. • TOMBSTONE PIZZAS Fure at Centennial Hall, For ticket info call 286-8777. Saturday May 10 • NIGHTLY DRINK SPECIALS Cris Williamson and Tret Fure will be 1506 North 3rd Street - Superior, WI performing at Milwaukee's Centennial Hall, 733 N. 8th St., on Saturday May 10. • POOL TABLE Williamson is considered one of America's premier Lesbian performers. • COUNTRY DANCE 7-11 SATURDAYS Her collaboration with the talented Fure has generated the critically acclaimed album, "Between the Covers." (715) 394-2580 Tickets are $16.00 in advance, $18.00 at • DANCE TO THE HOT HITS FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS the door. Advance tickets may be Thursday • Karaoke - 8Pm purchased at AfterWords Books„ 2710 N. Murray, Outpost Natural Foods, 100 E. Friday & Saturday • DJ - 9:30Pm • SAFE AND FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE Capitol Dr. and by mail -Full Moon • NIGHTLY SPECIALS • Productions, N235 County Hwy W, Campbellsport, WI 53010. THE BALL SEASON IS HERE The Original Sports Bar THE BALLGAME THE THE GREATEST COCKTAIL HOUR EVER B 2-9pm Monday - Friday Mondays 9pm to Close Domestic Beer $1.25 • $1.75 Rail L Tuesdays 9pm to Close L $2.50 Top Shelf • $1.75 Rail Saturday & Sunday G Wednesdays 9pm to Jam Specials: Food, Beer Bust $4 or 80C Glasses of Beer Shots & Fun Pizza Served Thursdays 9pm to Close M $1.75 Rail Anytime! Party Room Available! E Saturdays Tap Beer 80c (`til 6pm) Bloodys, Screws, Greyhounds - $2 (until 6pm) Sundays 196 South Second Bloodys, Screws, Greyhounds - $2 (until 6pm) Street Tap Beer 80c Call 6pm) Milwaukee $1.75 Rail (9pm close) - 273-7474 - Proud SSBL Team Sponsor CATCH IT , THE SPOTLIGHT SECTION April 24, 1997 to May 7, 1997- THE WISCONSIN UGHT-17 There Is Always Something Different at

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EVENT The S.S.B.L. and In Between are hosting the Annual M IR- S.S.B- L. a fundraiser to benefit the S.S.B.L. SATURDAY, MAY 10 • 5pm Hosted by: Sofonda Cox With Special Appearance by: Our Very Own Lana St. James (Miss B's, Entertainer of the year (Q•Voice) '96) VOTE FOR: Bev A. Robe fl Anita Moore Bevy FOR POSSUMS - 1997 IN BETWEEN - 625 South 2nd Street - Milwaukee 278-9611 April 24, 1897 to May T, I WISCONSIN LIGHT- THE SPOUKOIT MUM one selling the most tickets wins the coveted MO. COUNTRY DANCE GALA AT title of Mr. SSBL. MILWAUKEE'S WAR The party will include lots of surprises and • MEMORIAL CENTER great fun. An expected 500 people will be stinting their stuff at Milwaukee's War Memorial Center the CRIS WILLIAMSON, TRET site of the fifth annual Country Dance Gala. PERFORM IN You're Invited The Gala which will feature dancers from Chi- FURE t mo- -p gA gormosiviimilli gilligrille cago and addition to Milwau- MILWAUKEE kee runs fromwhich 7:30 PM to 12:30 AM. Cris Williamson and Tret Fure will be per- Everyone is welcome to attend and pick up This event is the centerpiece of the weekend forming in a concert sure to be remembered at ',RUM %MIL 25 something for their home. long "Round Up" sponsored by Shoreline. Milwaukee's Centennial Hall, 733 N 8th Street, Other events held on Saturday May 3 include Milwaukee. BOY CONTEST AT THE 1100 are considered to be CHILI COOK OFF AT. THE Line Dance and Two Step lessons at Just Us, Williamson ana Fure CLUB IN MILWAUKEE 807 S. Fifth Street. two of the finest Lesbian singers in the coun- The Argonauts of Wisconsin bring you one NAPALESE LOUNGE Tickets are $10.00 in advance or $12.00 at try. Among other selections they will be per- of the highlights of the year for Milwaukee's If you are a fan or a cook of great Chili, then the door. Ticket outlets include Just Us, De- forming music from their new critcially ac- Leather Scene, the annual Boy contest. the Napalese Lounge, 515 S. Broadway, Green signing Men and Afterwords Books. claimed album. A kick off cocktail party will be held at Bay is the place you want to be. Tickets are $16.00 in advance, $18.00 at the South Water Street Docks, 354 E. National. Everyone is welcome to bring in their best door. Advance tickets can be purchased from judg- MADAN NI kl 4 Then the action moves over to the 1100 Club version of the classic American dish for Afterwords Books, 2710 N. Murray or Outpost for the best tasting for the 10:00 contest. ing. There are cash prizes Natural Foods, 100 East Capitol. The 1100 Club is located at 1100 S. First chili's. ROUND UP CONCLUDES Street. The Argonauts Daddy Contest will also AT JUST US be held at the bar on Saturday April 26. MISS LEATHER CONTEST AT The Shoreline Round Up concludes at Just HIT Seeks Bowlers SCANDALS B'S IN MILWAUKEE Us, 807 S. Fifth Street. Events include a LIGHTS OUT AT In- Having a bad hair day??? Make up doesn't Finally a pageant for impersonators who brunch from 11 to 2 and a Line Dance Swap Milwaukee—The H.I.T. (Holiday look quite as good as you would like??? Don't want to wear leather instead of an evening from 12 to 4. vitational Tournament) League is now gown. The first annual Miss Leather Contest Everyone is welcome to participate. seeking both bowlers, (all skill levels) fret girl, head on down to the Lights Out Party bowling at Scandals. at B's, 1579 S. Second Street, Milwaukee will to join them for ten weeks of This is one party where you don't have to feature many of your favorites in leather. MISS WALKER'S POINT CAFÉ this summer. worry about how you look since all the lights The pageant begins at 10 PM. There is a Dates: May 20 - July 22 Teams con- $3.00 cover with proceeds benefiting the CONTEST AT B'S sist of 5 bowlers per team. will be out. B'S will be the site of the Miss Wallcer's Scandals is located at 121 Main Street. BESTD Clinic. Form your own team or let us place Point Café contest. The fun gets underway at you with others. For further informa- N\ EDNESD.kl k PRIV. 30 10 PM. Applications are available from the tion, join us at our Organizational ti.i."1 IZU ‘1312I I. 26 bar or the café. Meeting on Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00 p.m. at Landmark Lanes, 2220 N. SOFTBALL FUND RAISER AT "ELLEN" SPOTLIGHT PARTY I.IZIDAN \I kl 9 Farewll Ave., Milwaukee MILWAUKEE'S MAMA ROUX Yes, it's that time of the year again, when the AT SCANDALS IN MADISON & green, the air smells sweet and the LA CAGE IN MILWAUKEE NORTHERN BABES GOING TO grass turns DALLAS SHOW AT B'S softballs start flying. Mama Roux's located It Scandals, 121 W. Main Street, Madison, and Josie Lynn Eileen Dover, Tilio Hara are leav- 1875 N. Humboldt, Milwaukee celebrates the Cage, Second and National, Milwaukee La ing Wisconsin (only for the big pageant in beginning of the Saturday Softball League's will be the sites of the Wisconsin Light Spot- Dallas, but they need your help to get there so 20 anniversary season with a gala fund raiser light Parties celebrating Ellen's coming out of please attend their benefit at B's, 1579 S. Sec- benefiting its first year team. the closet. ond Street, Milwaukee. A Beer bash, raffles, drink specials and more The Scandals party will feature Tammy await those attend. Help welcome Mama's into Baldwin, free Lite Taps and some special sur- There is a $3.00 cover/ $5.00 Table charge the SSBL and have a great time in the process. prises in addition to a big screen TV. The BOOT CAMP SALOON The fun starts at 9:00. S k.1.1 RDA) NIAN party at La Cage includes the bar's regular two MILWAUKEE'S for one Wednesday special. LEATHER / LEVI BAR SOCK HOP AT THE NAPALESE Both parties will give those in attendance a MR. SSBL CONTEST AT Relive those days of the 50's and 60's at the chance to contribute to Action Wisconsin's IN BETWEEN 209 E. National Napalese for their first annual Sock Hop. Elsie Same Sex Marriage project and will include a WI The annual Mr. SSBL Contest will be held Milwaukee, and all her friends will be on hand to keep special taped message from Elizabeth Birch 414-643-6900 things going. and a viewing of the HRC commercial that beginning at 5:00 at Milwaukee's In Between There will be a dress contest, great music ABC refused to run during the Ellen Episode. Bar, 625 S. Second Street. Contestants nomi- and more fun than should be legal. The Na- nated by their teams, sell raffle tickets. The palese is located at 515 S. Broadway, Green ELLEN PARTY AT Bay. MANOEUVRES IN MADISON SSBL CLINIC AT SIJAN FIELD Manoeuvres will the site of a special party The SSBL will be holding a clinic at Noon to honoring Ellen's Coming Out TV episode. The help teach some of the basic skills of softball show can be viewed on any of the bars many to new players. This will be a great tune up for tv screens and the party will feature give oIS the beginning of league play on Saturday May aways of Ellen Degeneres' book, posters and yd. more. NIB y* For more information call the SSBL Hotline There will also be drink specials and raffles. at 454-9204. Manoeuvres is located at 150 S. Blair Street, SATURDAY Madison. MR. GAY MILWAUKEE US OF A NIGHT ELLEN PARTY PAGEANT AT B'S AT ZA'S Ellen is coming out of the closet and Za's, • B's located at 1579 S. Second Street, Mil- 11:30pm 1106 Main, Green Bay will be celebrating with waukee will be the site of the first ever, Mr. a special party. There will be a beer bust for Gay Milwaukee US of A Pageant. The winner just $6.00, and free champagne too. and runner will be eligible to compete in the The show is at 8:00 and the bar opens at State finals held in Green Bay in June. 7:00. Contestants will be judged on swimwear, evening wear, talent and interview. The pag- eant begins at 10 PM. Anyone who is inter- FRID kl. \I k N 2 ested in entering should contact Bobby at B's e xis Nieyi. 672-5580. SHORELINE ROUND UP There is a $3.00 cover with a $5.00 table charge. Proceeds benefit the BESTD Clinic. WEEKEND BEGINS AT JUST US Shoreline begins its weekend long Round Up FRIDAY NIGH JOSIE LYNN BENEFIT AT THE celebration at Just Us, 807 S. Fifth Street, MAD HATTER IN WAUSAU Milwaukee. Registration is from 6 to 10 PM. 11:30pm Vicki and Anne of the Mad Hatter being the There will be a "Welcome to Milwaukee generous souls that they are, are throwing a Party" featuring a Just Us Fish Fry, from 7 to party to get Josie Lynn, Miss Gay Wisconsin 10 PM followed by country dancing. US of A out town and into the National finals held in Dallas, Texas. SA1 ‘) \ 3 Seems poor Josie doesn't even own a ten gallon hat and needs your help so she can best ...represent the Badger State. SSBL BEGINS PLAY AT SIJAN There will a show starting 10:30. The per- FIELD IN MILWAUKEE formers will donate all of their tips to Ms. It's been 20 years in the making, but the Lynn's travel fund. The bar is located at 320 SSBL's 20th Anniversary Season gets under- 1,O11 B1/4> Washington. way at Sijan Field, 2128 S. KK in Milwaukee. The first games are scheduled for 11 AM and DADDY CONTEST AT THE 1100 the last games start at 3 PM. Admission of SUNDAY thru CLUB IN MILWAUKEE course is free. So come on down and root for — The 1100 Club will be site of the annual your favorites. THURSDAY Daddy contest sponsored by the Argonauts of Wisconsin. MISS GAY KENOSHA PAGEANT The contest begins at 10:00. For more in- 8pm-Close formation on this event, write to Northwoods AT CLUB 94 Productions Inc, Box 1104, Milwaukee, WI A bevy of beauties will be on hand for the 53201. Miss Gay Kenosha America Pageant at Club • 94 in Kenosha. Miss Vicki C, Miss Gay Wis- consin, America, will be on hand to help keep `I \D V\ kPRII. things festive. She will be joined by the fabu- lous Cass Marie Domino and Kierra Nicole VEST BENEFIT ART SHOW FOR ROW plus other special guests. If VIE AT THE MAD HATTER The pageant begins at 10 PM. Milwaukee The Mad Hatter will be the scene of a benefit 231 S. 2nd Street • art show for Rainbow Over Wisconsin. The OPEN: Sat/Sun, 11am • Mon-Thur, 3pm • Fri, 2pm show begins at 3:00 and will run until 9:00. THE SPOTLIGHT SECTION April 24, 1897 to May 7, 1997- THE WISCONSIN LIGHT-19 DISCOVER WISCONSIN'S GAY ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX! 4 Different Places to Party, Dance or Relax 7 Bars • 2 Dance Floors 4 Sound Systems Video Food • Games • Dancing

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By Dusty Sass kee's finest bars was a big plus. Well folks, here we are again. Enjoying Recaps Coming Up the warmer weather? I just love it here. I going to oh man, with the weather getting The next couple of weeks are can't wait for the summer to kick in. The Man with warming the action is getting hotter too. be even busier than the last couple, sun, the shirtless men, the breeze off of Coming have been going like 60 for the last two the new SSBL season, the "Ellen" the lakefront, men in shorts, summer Round Up weeks and now I feel like 80!!!. Out Episode and the Shoreline showers, rubbing sun tan oil on the mus- The big news is that Jimmy and Bill whc there won't be a moment to spare. cular back of a motorcyclist. Boy are among the best tag teams of bartend- Friday April 25, I will be at the He's a rebel. Your mother hates him, ers in Milwaukee have left The Triangle Contest at the 1100 Club. This part of the but Jimmy's got that special quality about known due to differences with the owner. Con- big Daddy Boy weekend otherwise him. Excitement is in his eyes and gin is animal trary to rumor Billy says they will NOT be as the time that we all put on dead on his breath. He holds you tight in your back. I hope we'll see them behind a bar skin and act really, really butch. (okay grandmother's parlor - Frank Sinatra is again soon! Best of luck guys some of us don't have to act and those are singing on the radio - he wants you to join April 17 was Nick Gagliano's and Jim the ones I want to meet.) There will be an the circus with him and make love under Riske's 2e Anniversary celebrated at the opening cocktail party at South Water the big top, and then you ... oh my stars! 1100 Club. It was a wonderful affair, with Street Docks and then the big show at the I'm sorry, now where was I? Oh well, the two men reaffirming their vows in a 1100. I've gotten a few letters that I'd like to bower of roses and candlelight backed by Of course in the middle of all this, I will share with you. Hope you enjoy them! the Rainbow Flag. There was Dennis have to jet over to Scandals for their first * * there, and Rona and Bob Schmidt from ever "Lights Out" party. Thank goodness it Dear Ruthie, the M&M Club. And Squeeky, who was will be dark in the place so no one will see My life seems to be a series of Good- celebrating his 49th birthday party and had how frazzled I am sure I will look. Bad - Worse events. known Nick and Jim for 30 years. Saturday April 26 you can find me at For example - Good: I fall in love. I want to make special mention of Bob Mama Roux for their big soft ball team Bad: He is transferred to China for 6 Ruthie Husslein. He did the flower gorgeous ar- fund raiser. There will be a beer bust, raf- months. or other business units. He will stomp rangements at the anniversary. Never fles- and all kinds of good stuff going on. Worse: He decides to live there around, throw things, and literally blow have I seen so many long stemmed red The team appropriately called Mama's permanently. up while using this language. This per- roses so beautifully arranged. Family is a new entrant to the league so Here s another one. son also uses racist language and I Throughout the affair, David Carroll let's help them get a good start. At some Good: I find a great apartment. have heard him refer to minority em- played the piano. That man has such tre- point in the evening, I will have to get Bad: My neighbor is a homo- ployees in an inappropriate fashion. mendous talent. With his music, he could down to the 1100 Club for the Daddy phobe. Worse: He s the building s Since the person has already been render any event sublime. Contest at 10 PM. manager. See what I mean? How can written up for this behavior and noth- Among the other wonderful things I have If I was in Wausau (and don't you wish I break this cycle of bad luck? ing has changed, do you think it would been at are Tommy's last 20ish Birthday you were right about now) I'd be at the Signed: help to direct a letter outlining this per- party held at In Between. As usual it was Mad Hatter for the big Josie Lynn Benefit Living Under a Ladder son s behavior to the HR Dept? a great time. There was some real good show. If you get up there say hi to Vicki, Signed: pizza and a great birthday cake. Of Anne, Heath and all the gang for me. Dear Ladder, Tired of Being Offended course there was also Tommy, (what a In addition to the Daddy Boy weekend Lighten up! Is life really that bad? Are hunk) with that great smile of his. stuff and the Mama Roux Fund Raiser, these the worst things that have hap- Dear Offended, Then there was the SSBL's Season there is also the Mr. Gay Milwaukee US of pened to you? Just think of the things that I say write-up that racist pig! Everyone Opening Party at the Ball Game. What a A Contest at B's. I will stop in a take a COULD be happening to you, such as: should feel safe and comfortable at their great idea this was. The place was packed peek. Hopefully I will arrive during the Good: Your partner likes cats. workplace. with softball players, fans and sponsors swimwear competition. Bad: For dinner. A few years ago, I was talking to my everyone having a great time. Sunday April 26 you can find me at B's Good: On your first date he offers to friend Louise during one of our weekly 40. The Gay Youth Prom at the Park East for the Miss Leather Contest. This is a pay. Bingo/Tequila/ Baywatch nights. In- was a real blast. Unfortunately those jerks new event devoted to those drag queens Bad: For sex. between bitching about Pamela Anderson from Ralph Ovadal's group, Wisconsin who are into leather. Should be interest- Worse: He only has $5.00. Lee, she said, "Mean people suck." Then Christians United, picketed the place and ing. Bad: Your boyfriend always wears she threw her shot glass at the TV. made everyone's life miserable until they Wednesday April 30, is the big Ellen dickies. Now, years later, I see that phrase pop- got inside. Sorry Ralph, but no one turned Night. I hope you will join those watching Worse: In the summer. ping up all over the place. And you know, away and we really should thank you for at one of our Wisconsin Light Ellen Par- Worst: Without a shirt. it's true. Mean people do suck. helping steel our younger friends to the ties. They will be at La Cage in Milwau- Good: Your partner likes to make love 7 Sit yourself down, and write a well- kind of hate they will see later on in life. kee and at Scandals in Madison. Both days a week. thought out letter. Tell your human re- The Bacardi Party at La Cage was a will feature a special message from Eliza- Bad: To the next-door neighbor. source manager how you feel when this big success. George Prentice told me that beth Birch of the Human Rights Campaign Worse: Who is 113 years old. person does this, and how you think it ef- the company said it was one of their best and a viewing of the commercial that ABC Good: You sneak-up behind your girl- fects your work environment. yet. Of course holding it at one of Milwau- rejected for the broadcast. The La Cage friend and pinch her bottom. However, think things through first. If party will have the bar's normal two for Bad: It s not your girlfriend. you're going to make these charges you Lesbian and Gay one, Wednesday night special and the - Worse: It s your boss. must sign the letter with your name and Scandals party will have Tammy Baldwin Good: Your husband likes to talk dirty. be willing to explain everything you write. Characters Play and free Miller Lite Taps. Bad: To your mother. Last I heard good, old Louise cashed in Both parties will have raffles and give Worse: She likes it. on that phrase. Now she has implants Many Roles on TV aways to benefit Action Wisconsin. Good: Your partner likes to have kinky and a blonde wig. Her ad in the personals Since I will be at the Madison party, I will sex. reads: DWF, 65+, seeks skinny, tattooed On April 30, 1997 the ABC sitcom Ellen simply have to check out Manoeuvres Bad: At kinky sex parties. drummer for ocean front wedding, child, will make television history when Ellen Ellen Party as well. Ed and his staff are Worse: You re not invited. and quicky divorce. Wavy, dark haired life Morgan, its lead character, will step out of giving away lots of Ellen paraphernalia. Good: You get the chance to have sex guards with talking cars may also apply. the closet. While Ellen Morgan may be the Friday May 2 I'll be at Just Us for the in public. first openly Lesbian or Gay title character, start of the big Country Round Up Week- Bad: You get caught and arrested. Gay and Lesbian character have not been end. There's just something about a man Worse: By your husband. strangers to television. The Gay and Les- in cowboy boots. They have a "Welcome Bad: Someone tells you that you look bian Alliance Against Defamation to Milwaukee Party" a great fish fry and of like Ruthie. (GLAAD) is keeping a scoreboard of Gay, course some great dancing. Worse: They mean Ruth Buzzy. TELL YOUR FRIENDS: Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender char- Saturday May 3 join me in catching all acters. the action at the Season Opengs for the Dear Ruthie, I read all about it in There are now 30 characters on televi- SSBL. This is the league's 20 anniver- I have a situation in my office that is sion! sary season. I won't tell you what team I very uncomfortable. There is an indi- The Wisconsin Light Network Breakdown am playing for, (all those autograph seek- vidual who on very many occasions ABC - 13 characters ers get to be a real pain) but I will tell you will use the f word in regard to co- NBC - 7 characters that a usual there will be plenty of hot men workers, be it in the same department CBS - 3 characters and women walking around in tight pants FOX - 3 characters and bending over a lot. The WB - 1 character After the action on the diamonds, I will HBO - 1 character rush home and get ready for the big Showtime - 2 characters Country Dance Gala at the War Memo- Television Show Characters rial Center. Dancers from Chicago and The following is a list of a few of the the Twin Cities will be joining the locals. shows with Lesbian or Gay characters. It If I have a chance I will check out the is far from inclusive. action at the Miss Gay Kenosha, America Profiler VCTF Computer Specialist pageant at Club 94. They have some George Fraley (Peter Frechette) great performers coming in including Cass E.R. Emergency Room Intern Dr. Marie Domino (one of my personal favor- Maggie Doyle (Jorja Fox) ites). Melrose Place Melrose Place's resident Sunday May 4 I'll take in the brunch and Gay man Matt Fielding (Doug Savant) line dancing swap at Just Us, the conclu- Friends Ross' (David Schwimmer) ex- sion of the Round Up Weekend. wife Carol Wylick (Jane Sibbett) and her Mark Saturday May 10 in your calen- — girlfriend Susan Bunch (Jessica Hecht) dars. That's when the Mr. SSBL contest Mad About You Paul's (Paul Reiser) will be held at In Between. (No I am not sister Debbie Buchman (Robin Bartlett) going to enter. It just wouldn't be fair to all Congratulations to the and her girlfriend Joan (Suzie Plakson), the other contestants. SSBL who is also Jaimie's (Helen Hunt) gyne- Last but not least I can't wait to see Cris cologist. 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41•1 MI OM THE SPOTUGHT SECTION April 24, 1997 to May 7, 1997- THE WISCONSIN LIGHT-22 Unfortunately, `Volcano' Lives Up to Its cn Film Billing as a Disaster Movie CI Ai0000:00000:00000000000:: By John Jahn all the cliches we've come to expect ever As if Los Angeles weren't in the news since the genre was born in the early '70s: enough today over its pollution, traffic the scientists no one believes until it's too `Chasing Amy' is a Refreshingly Honest, snarles, crime, racism, moral depravity, late; the rebellious teenager put in harm's you-name-it; how about we put an active way who learns a few lessons about the Funny, Sensitive Film volcano right smack dab in downtown meaning of life; the somewhat nerdy, sin- L.A.? In "real life," L.A. is threatened by all gle scientist who finds true love amidst the Reviewed by Glenn Bishop those human disasters mentioned, plus rubble and ash; and, finally, Man's inability Glenn is puzzled by many things, too several natural ones: earthquakes, mud- to confront and win out over the forces of many really to mention here but of late, slides, firestorms. What the hell, let's Nature. Glenn has been particularly puzzled by throw in a lava-spewing volcano for good In Volcano's case, rampaging vulcan- the notion of transgender. A term in- measure. And, while we're at it, let's make ism from fire trucks, and a few helicopters creasingly included in the names of alter- a no brainer film about it all! evidently capable of carrying more water native organizations, what exactly does it Something's going very wrong at the than they weigh themselves. Secondly, mean to be a transgendered person? Is city's famed La Brea Tar Pits. Tempera- simply, expertly, dynamite a skyscraper in Glenn, as a Gay man transgendered, for tures are rising, warning bells are going less than half an hour so that it collapses example? off. Enter Mike Roark (Tommy Lee Jones) right smack in front of the flowing lava. No, Chasing Amy isn't a "transgen- as the city's emergency chief and Dr. Amy End of story? No, not quite. Like any dered film", nor does director Kevin Smith Barnes (Anne Heche), the pretty, young disaster film, it's always good to leave the include any "transgender characters". geologist he's bound to fall for. Of course, story somewhat open-ended (sequel, Yet faithful readers of the Wisconsin Light no one heed their warnings, especially not anyone?). Volcano ends with a shot of a are likely to be surprised and captivated the city's political and economic leaders. rising volcanic cone where the tar pits at this small, curiously disarming film's Before you know it, a minor earthquake used to be. frank discussion of relationships and the opens up a gaping wound just below Volcano does offer some neat special fluidity of sexual attraction. L.A.'s concrete surface. A few more unex- effects as one might expect in today's Warm and winning, Smith's Chasing plained rumblings and you soon have digital domain—the exception being the Amy cannot help but defy easy catego- geysers of molten lava, thousands of de- pocket lint that passes for volcanic ash. rizing. Say romantic comedy and the re- grees in temperature, and burning boul- Like last winter's Dante's Peak, Volcano sulting image is some silly bit of fluff most ders soaring through the air. Hell seems comprises silly and incredible events likely starring a cast member from the hit to be literally engulfing central L.A. wonderfully presented through eye- Chasing Amy is TV series Friends. Yet Joey Lauren Adams in "Chasing Amy," Volcano fails as a movie for many rea- popping special effects technology. both romantic and a comedy. now playing at sons. As a stock "disaster film," it trots out 3 out of 10. Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) and his Milwaukee's Oriental Volcano rates a boyhood pal Banky (Jason Lee) are the Theater. successful creators of the "Bluntman and ning a Lesbian, the tables turned on him. Heads in a Duffel Bag' is Mindless, Chronic" comic book characters. At a So wonderfully developed are Holden, `8 comic convention Holden becomes daz- Alyssa and Banky as believable and en- zled by fellow comic artist Alyssa Jones gaging characters that we cannot help but Clueless, Not Funny, Dumb Adams). She is friendly yet be caught up in their lives and hearts. (Joey Lauren Reviewed by Glenn Bishop looking for Charlie, a journey that leads seems somewhat distant, perhaps a little Both Alyssa and Hooper (Dwight Ewell) Glenn is always so very envious of those him to Charlie's college dorm room and less impressed. emerge as two of the strongest and most critics who can, in a brief and ever-so pithy where he proceeds to question Charlie's Still, their coupling seems assured and interesting gay characters to have seen in phrase, sum up a motion picture. For ex- roommates Ernie (David Spade) and imminent. But wait, there's only one minor a big screen cinematic motion picture in ample: The funniest thing about the new Steve (Todd Louiso) at length. Thinking problem: Alyssa is a notorious lesbian recent memory. A particularly memorable Joe Pesci comedy, 8 Heads in a Duffel that they aren't cooperating, Tommy pro- (Glenn wonders if there is any other kind). occurs when Hooper, whose outward Bag is the title. Well, golly. Guess it was- ceeds to torture them. A scene that has Banky questions the logic of Holden's militancy masks his Gay soul offers a n't all that difficult after all. snapping the underwear-clad fixation on Alyssa thinking, as Glenn did, marvelous comic convention speech Tommy Upon receiving this assignment, Glenn Steve with a wet towel proves to how unlikely this delightful couple's pros- about the racism at the very core of that Ernie and felt relatively confident. 8 Heads in a Duf- if unexpected pleasure. pects seemed to be. most sacred of sacred films, Star Wars. be a happy fel Bag is certainly a very funny title, no on holiday in Mexico with But a couple they nevertheless become Equally fascinating is Jason Lee's But Charlie is doubt about it. Throw in the always funny his fiancee, Laurie(Kristy Swanson) and and as Banky becomes increasingly jeal- Banky, a complex, deeply conflicted Joe Pesci and the supremely annoying parents Dick and Annette (the per- . ous and resentful of Alyssa's intrusion character whose latent homoerotic feel- her David Spade into the mix and an enjoyable petually tanned George Hamilton and into their idyllic, dare one say, comic ings towards his best friend are wonder- comedy should be the result. Well, "Can we say cosmetic surgery" book-like existence, there develops an fully explored without ever resorting to Dyan shouldn't it? out that Laurie is afraid romantic triangle unusual in big screen simplistic psycho-babble or any pat solu- Cannon). It turns The first problem with this film is that out that Charlie has ventures and which forms the tions. that if her parents find cinematic writer/director Tom Schulman just doesn't essence of Smith's film. Romantic comedies invariably rely upon a whole bunch of heads in his luggage, seem to have a grasp of story-telling. In Silly, sophomoric films such a Three- a series of humorous obstacles overcome they won't want her to marry him. Silly girl. Mr. Schulman's inept hands, even this some and Three of Hearts sought to in- by the appropriately cute couple just in There's more to this pointless film but film's routine, sit-comish plot is mangled corporated a gay angle into their pedes- time for the perfunctory happily ever after you just won't care by this point. Sadly, no trian scripts to tease and tantalize their ending. Nothing doing in Chasing Amy. and confusing. one is bumped off in the course of this la- mainly heterosexual audience. Kevin Smith knows that in real life true Seems that Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) bored plot. the role of courier. His job is to Not so with Chasing Amy. Just when love doesn't always conquer all. is playing The film's few amusing moments are Smith seems destined to resort to tired Chasing Amy is a terrific film, refresh- transport heads of eight recently bumped feeble compensation for this numbingly old stereotypes, such as exposing ingly honest and deeply touching. off East Coast hoods to a West Coast mob unfunny macabre farce. See 8 Heads in a Holden's smugness at wooing and win- Rating $$$$$ (scale $ to $$$$$$) boss, as proof of their demise. Duffel Bag if you dare but remember, After a spectacularly unfunny bit, where Glenn warned you! the self-important Tommy tries to kick a Rating $ (scale $ to $$$$$$) `Anaconda' is a Good Film if You package containing donor organs in trans- port, the duffel bag of the title is taken from Milwaukee Haven't Got the Time to Go to the Zoo him and placed in cargo. Tommy is as- Chamber Immediately Sarone bangs heads with sured that it will be the first bag off the Theater Presents "Voice Reviewed by Glenn Bishop plane. Approaching the luggage carousel, Some people have a natural phobia Cale but after a freak incident with a poi- sonous Amazon wasp, Cale is left uncon- Tommy hastily and quite inadvertently Of The Turtle" about snakes. Not Glenn. Now, cock- grabs the wrong bag, one belonging to The Milwaukee Chamber Theater will roaches scious and the uneasy crew are forced to are a different matter. Remem- Charlie (Andy Comeau). Charlie similarly present a production of John van Druten's ber that scene place their faith in Sarone. Big mistake. in Looking For Mr. Good- grabs the wrong bag, likewise never no- 'Voice of the Turtle" from May 17 to June 1 bar, when Sarone is obsessed with finding and Diane Keaton is handed a dirty ticing that it isn't his bag. at the Broadway Theater Center's dishrag capturing alive the fabled, lethal 40-foot Cabot covered with cockroaches? Glenn must wonder if only sit-corn char- Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. Glenn still Anaconda snake and quickly their peace- suffers nightmares. acters are clueless enough to grab some- "Turtle" was one of the longest running But what can all ful little search for some mythical natives of this possibly have to one else's baggage at the airport? And plays in Broadway theater history, running do with Anaconda, you might well ask? turns into a nightmare confrontation with the ultimate evil. why does neither bag actually look like a for four years. In 1948 it was made into a Moviegoers who experience a healthy duffel bag? movie starring Ronald Reagan and fear At a mere 90 minutes, Anaconda's Elenor of snakes are much more likely to find Desperate for the heads, Tommy sets off Parker. chills and thrills in Anaconda than Glenn frighteningly predictable plot sails along expects that most others are likely to. faster than one might expect. In proper Director Luis Llosa wastes very little action-flick formula, cast and crew man- time or effort with setting up much of a ager to be eliminated neatly in reverse or- story. Glenn hazards a guess that it all der of billing, which still doesn't explain has something to do with anthropologist how Ice Cube manages to nab top-billing Senator Jesse Says, Steven Cale (Eric Stoltz) leading a docu- even in this second-rate snake-fest. mentary film crew on an expedition down Still, Anaconda isn't exactly a total "Buy these movies and the Amazon to find the legendary and wasted admission. Surrounded by an at- previous undocumented Shirishmam Indi- tractive. if decidedly lightweight cast, Jon you'll burn in hell!" ans. Voigt steals the show with a deliciously The misfit crew includes Cale's very over-the-top, scene-stealing outing as the pretty gal pal, Terri Flores (Jennifer Lo- sinister villain Sarone. We Say... pez), the director of the documentary. Plus, Anaconda boasts some pretty Then there is Danny (Ice Cube), her cam- nifty special snake effects. Production eraman, the sound mixer Gary (Owen notes reveal that 30 real Anacondas were CONE LIKE II VOW Wilson), a blond surfer-dude and the used in filming, but Glenn imagines that rather irritating, hopelessly helpless pro- the spectacular giant Anacondas that Call for your free copy of the TLA VIDEO GAY duction manager, Denise Kalberg (Kari lunch on several characters during the Sen. Jesse Helms Wuhrer). 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We forming a vocal chorus from amongst the follow a diverse group of women and prisoners in an attempt to keep their spir- small children as they climb aboard a its up and, in a way, show their captors small gunboat and are evacuated. The they have not been totally broken and de- women come from all stations in life- humanized. They practice in small groups, from maids and common laborers to high always wary of the guards. Finally, they society types—and from every race in the gather together and sing, expecting the / region, especially Europeans, who domi- worst from the Japanese. What happens nated this part of the globe prior to World next is truly moving. War II. Paradise Road is a successful film for However, they don't get far; the gunboat several reasons. The central characters is attacked by Japanese warplanes and are convincingly portrayed and interesting. sunk within swimming distance of the is- Frances McDormand, best actress Oscar land of Sumatra. Upon reaching shore, winner for Fargo, appears as a German- the women and children find themselves Jewish refugee who's the camp doctor; A handshake not a salute- Jergen Prochnow (Captain of U-96) prisoners of the Japanese Army, which yeat another fine performance by this tal- mets a German agent on board a freighter resupplying his submarine in the stunning war thriller "Das Boot." The Director's cut of the they will remain for the duration of the ented actress. movie is now in release. war. It's well written and shot on location in Paradise Road, written and directed by Southeast Asia, thus giving the film credi- Digital Sound, Character Development Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss. Daisy, bility and presence (living survivors of the Tender Mercies, Breaker Morant), is the actual camp participated in the making of story of these unfortunate women. They the film). Bring Reality of War to Life in `Das Boot' are starved, beaten, humiliated, tortured, Finally, there's music—beautifully sung By John Jahn released version contains many new and even executed for the tiniest trans- and moving, especially given the circum- There's always been something oddly crew life and dialog which serve gression. Their attrition rate is staggering. scenes of stances under which it came about. compelling about war movies involving central characters more inter- Yet, in this to make the horrifying environment, the Paradise Road is far more than just submarines. Every since the end of World esting—we come to care about them women bond with one another in ways The Bridge on the River Kwai with War II, there have been excellent films in more this way, you feel like you know they never would have outside the con- women in place of men. It's the true story this genre, including The Enemy Below, them, like you're a crew member yourself. fines of their jungle camp. They do so de- of courageous women, the triumph of hu- Run Silent, Run Deep, The Hunt for almost. Of course, the excellent move- spite everything largely because of two manity over hatred, bigotry and adversity, Red October and Crimson Tide. Those ment of the camera through the dank and women in particular, who, through music, and the power of music. last two involved modern nuclear subma- dark submarine aids in this regard, too. forge a sense of humanity in this utterly I rate this film an 8 out of 10. rines the size of WW II battleships, how- For myself, the most startling and nota- inhumane place and time—a sense of Paradise Road is now playing at Milwau- ever, and the claustrophobic effects of ble difference between the original version humanity that even manifests itself in kee's Downer Theater being aboard a submarine below hun- and restored director's cut isn't visual, but dreds of feet of water with an unseen en- audible. Indeed, some of the most exten- emy lurking somewhere above gets sive new work on Das Boot occurred, not somewhat lost on you. on the fading film, but on the soundtrack, Settertaiamate 9aide Not so with the gritty anti-war movie Das which, in a movie about war aboard a Boot (German for The Boat, as in U-Boat, submarine, is essential to the viewer's "Unterseeboot," the German word for overall experience with it. submarine). The men in the U-boat live, survive, or MADISON MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE APPLE TON The year is 1941. The Nazis are still die by sound—trapped in a confined Continued Continued Rascals Bar & Grill A Room of One's marching triumphantly all over Europe, but space, it's all they have. It's vital, there- 702 E. Wisconsin Own Book store Winston Churchill's England remains un- fore, that when they are terrified by the Appleton, WI 54991 317W. Johnson Club 219 This is It bowed. 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Seasons of the Heart is Cal- rumors), maintained by 46-year old Eric Book III: Stepping Into the Perkins. houn's eighth novel. Her other titles in- Afterwords Events It may be sacrilege to admit but Glenn clude Love of Money, Triple Exposure Mystery, Friday, May 9, 7:00 also delighted in The Lair of the Anti-Mar- and Friends and Lovers. Saturday, April 26 1:00p.m. In Seasons of the Heart, Sarah finds Author Appearance—Jackie Calhoun pm 9:00 pm at The Grand herself at a crossroads. For the past five author of Love Or Money & Seasons of Milwaukee Hotel, 4747 S. Walking to Mercury years her heart has been so full of love, the Heart but now something else was creeping in - Sunday, May 11 1:00p.m. Howell Avenue. is a Good Read if a strange emptiness that has left her Poetry Reading--Jereniah Brod feeling quite alone and desperate. 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Howell Ave. wild fantasy or science fiction novel- which In addition to her many novels, Calhoun Milwaukee, WI did take some time - I found I was begin- also has stories in four of Naiad Press's Julia Watts ing to enjoy it. popular anthology series including The FOR INFORMATION Walking to Mercury is a wild ride Romantic Naiad and The First Time through the turbulent '60s, Maya's forma- Ever. to Appear at 414-695-8815 tive years. I found it somewhat depress- Jackie Calhoun lives with her partner ing, especially since Maya's '60s memo- along the banks of the Fox River in the Afterwords ries were framed by what felt like a tortu- heart of Central Wisconsin. Afterwords is pleased to welcome Julia ous hike up a mountain in Nepal. For further information concerning Ms. Watts, author of the popular novel, Wild- The first three quarters of the book fol- Calhoun's appearance, please phone wood Flowers (Naiad Pb $10.95) for a lows Maya as she suffers her way up the (414) 963-9089 or visit the Afterwords reading and signing on Thursday, May mountain, struggling with memories and website at www.afterwords.com. 22nd at 7:30pm. the physical challenge. I was struggling with her. It wasn't really until Maya began Grosse Point to find some peace with herself that I From Page 23 really started to appreciate the story. Continued Hey Milwaukee, the Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't enjoy Alan Arkin as Martin's irritable, belea- Reet4, suffering through a book like I used to. guered therapist Anyone still interested in the '60s and As in the brilliant Fargo, Grosse Pointe Come meet the antiwar movement, would probably Blank seeks to cleverly combine just the Sailor Billy* enjoy this book. On the whole, most of the right mix of preposterous situations, mo- characters in the novel are interesting. It ments of graphic violence and some old- at Afterwards! was really only Maya, Starhawk's main fashioned romance. While director George ("and his friends Master character and narrator, who got on my Billy, San Francisco Billy Amitage and Co. aren't entirely success- and Western Billy too!) 1 nerves. ful, Grosse Pointe Blank nevertheless Walking to Mercury is a book about proves to be a thoroughly entertaining people, the way they are, and the ways romp. Afterwords Books • 2710 N Murray • 963-9089 that they can change, and, some people Rating $$$$ (scale $ to $$$$$$) like that in a story. THE SPOTLIGHT SECTION April 24, 1997 to May 7, 1997- THE WISCONSIN LIGHT-25

"Come again?" I had no idea what she up in arms about disappearances." She FICTION was talking about. flipped open the manila folder and looked "Never mind. Look, is there anything, down. "Okay, here it is." anything at all Garreth said you haven't "What?" Statues of the Sacred Band told me. Even Watergate had it's Deep "Garreth's address, over in Northeast, Throat. He might be it. Think." apartment on Perry Street." She closed the My brow furrowed as I tried to remember. folder and stood. "Go there, take a look. Finally, I nodded. "Yeah, there's some- Then we go find Johnny Chang. C'mon." thing, a name. Johnny Chang. Garreth Without waiting for me, she got up a said I should get in con..." whipped out of the room, leaving me to try She frowned in thought. "Chang, Chang, and catch up to her. Chang?" She brightened. "Good. Chang. TO BE CONTINUED A SERIALIZED NOVEL Heard of him. T in to •et Ga community

lighter done in plaid. Chapter 4 "G000d," she said, elongating the word Summary: Tony Martinelli has been as- slightly, and giving it a sarcastic clip at the signed by his editor to go to Washington. same time. "Smoke. Want cancer." She lit DC and discover what happened to Sena- my cigarette, then hers and took a short sip tor Calder's Gay son, Bobby. When Tony of coffee. "G000d. Here from East Bucolia. arrives in DC, he meets Bobby's lover, Working on the Calder story. Tell Mar all." Garreth in a Gay bar. They go to the Stoa, "I didn't think there'd be much to tell, not a restaurant, to talk. While. they are there, until last night, anyway." I went on to tell an explosion rips through the place and her about my meeting with Garreth and Garreth is killed. Tony is horrified. what had happened at the Stoa. She lis- tened intently throughout. By Terry Boughner "Garreth? Garreth who?" she asked I didn't get much sleep when I'd finished. I told her I didn't know that night. Every time I his last name. "G000d. Reporter. Didn't get closed my eyes, all I information." could see was Garreth's Up she got and away she went, her head lying among those purse swinging at her side. Presently she mangled roses. Toward returned, entering the conference room in dawn, I switched on one a gust, carrying a manila folder in one of the TV morning news hand. From it she extracted a photo and Take Us Out to the Ball Game! The Ball Game, 196 S. Second Street, Milwaukee, was the site of the shows. President Heyl put it in front of me. SSBL's Season Opening Party. As you can see a good time was had by all and why not? Along with the M was recovering nicely from his heart attack. "That Garreth?" she asked. & M Club, the Ball Game is the only remaining charter member of the SSBL now entering its 20" Season. Some movie star was having a kid. Holly- "Yes. So who was he?" As usual Rick and the staff of Milwaukee's original sports bar did a great job rolling out the welcome mat. wood was all agog. Big question of the "Last name was Heyl." She took the day: Does lettuce cause cancer? "You'll be photo back and returned it to the folder. surprised at the answer." "Same as the President." Yeah. /V bet. "G000d. Thinking. Getting the picture. Plans were underway for the coronation President's grand nephew. Knew that, but I ANNOUNCEMENTS of the new Czar of All the Russias. The Mar didn't know he and Bobby Calder were Right loved it, the Left was aghast. Big lovers." She took another cigarette and lit deal. it. There was a thoughtful expression on Inside: Mi Alma, Mi Cuerpo y Mi Espiritu." And, yes, there'd been an explosion at her face. La Crosse Her work has appeared in "Voices Seen", the Stoa, a restaurant in DC "frequented by I took a drag from my cigarette. "So, okay homosexuals". The investigation was on- then, Garreth being who he was, won't the A.R.T.E.'s "Contar Historias", and Zink going. Police weren't commenting. The White House be all over this 'r the FBI or PFLAG Chapter Meets May 20 Magazine, and she is currently the Public head of some Gay organization or the somebody?" La Crosse has a new PFLAG chapter Affairs Specialist for 9to5, National Asso- other opined that it was a Gay-bashing. "G000d. Thinks the President's on top of that will be meeting the third Tuesday of ciation of Working Women. Three people had been killed. Names everything. No. President has disease. Has every month from 7 to 9 PM at United The program will begin at 7:00 PM in weren't being released pending notification had it for two years now. Nothing to do with Campus Ministries, 17th & State. Room E280 of the UWM Student Union of next of kin-if any. Christ, if I hadn't had his heart. That's a White House cover-up. located at 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. All to go to the bathroom, one of those people Heyl has his good days. Times, too, when GLBT Speakers Series programs are free might have been me. he doesn't know what day it is. Been like of charge and open to the public. Spon- The weather was going to be hot. that lately. So, grand nephew dead? MADISON sored by the UWM Office of Student Life, By the time I was done with my shower, Grand nephew, who?" and UWM Women's Resource Center, and one of the anchors was gushing over a "Oh." I yielded and took a sip of coffee. the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Community at rose show going on at the National Botani- "Jesus," I said, half to myself. "Why doesn't 10% Society Dance, Friday UWM. For more information on these cal Gardens. Blah, blah. I slipped into he just claim ill health and resign?" events, contact the GLBC at 229-6555, denims and a white cotton, short sleeved "G000d. Resign. Let Vice President Lu- April 25 at Memorial Union email [email protected], or snail mail to shirt. A special exhibit of Renaissance ther in, better known as Letch. Whores UW Madison's 10% Society is sponsor- Union Box 251, PO Box 413, Milwaukee. sculpture was opening at the Smithsonian. around, gambles big time. Loses big time ing an "Out and About Dance" on Friday WI 53201-0413. Vice President Ronald Luther would be at exclusive clubs, though lately his debts April 25th at the Great Hall of the Memorial there. Who cared? have all been paid. No matter. Heyl quits Union. The event which is open to the Movie Collectable Show I bought some coffee and a bagel at the and country goes from Mr. Who Knows to general public runs from 8 PM to 12:45 Dale E. Kuntz has announced the Spring hotel shop, got a paper and went out on Mr. Who Gives a Shit. Joy." PM. Edition of his Semi-Annual Movie Collect- the Circle to sit and read. There wasn't "Yeah, I suppose." I smoked my cigarette able Show. Over 30 tables will offer col- much more than had been on the TV. Heyl and tapped it on the edge of the ashtray. Lesbian Avengers Spring lectors movie posters, magazines, stills, was doing great, the White House said. "You think Garreth was right; Bobby's 16mm film, autographs and much, much He'd be well enough to attend the corona- mother had him killed?" Training Dance Sat. April 26 more. tion of Czar Nicholas III in Moscow next "No doubt. Her people, anyway. Garreth The Madison Lesbian Avengers will be The Show is from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 week. too. They knew too much." holding their Spring Training Dance p.m. on Sunday, May 4th, at Burnham As to the Stoa, the story about the explo- "Garreth didn't know anything, not really." (We Recruit, remember) on Saturday April Bowl Hall, 6016 W. Bumham Street, West sion there was on the front page, but be- I drank some coffee. 26, 1997 from 9pm-1am at Neighborhood Allis. Admission is $2 per person. neath the fold. There wasn't anything new "G000d. Wants reality. Forget reality. House, 29 S. Mills St., near the UW- in it, nothing I hadn't heard on the TV, ex- This is Washington. They thought he knew. Madison campus. cept for one thing. Terrorism wasn't being That's all it took—and you, too." Tickets are $3 in advance at Room of Pro-Choice Rally ruled out. So? I sat up straight. "Me? Whatdayu mean, One's Own Feminist Bookstore or $4-6 at NOW hosts a Pro-Choice rally on Sun- Of one thing I was sure. I needed to talk me? Whada I know? Garreth didn't..." door. Womyn only, please. day, May 4th, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Ur- to Mary Ann Allen, the reporter at the Post. She cut me off. "You were with him. ban Park, downtown Milwaukee on Lincoln From a nearby pay phone, I put in a call Think. The only reason you didn't get Now Sponsors Same Sex Memorial Drive and Michigan Avenue. and got right through. I told her who I was blown away was the bathroom, right?" Keynote speeches include NOW Vice and briefly what I was doing. She said I "Yeah?" Marriage Conference Satur- President Rosemary Dempsey. should come to the newsroom. She could "Chance, maybe," she conceded. She day April 26 Over 1,000 activists are expected to at- see me right away. paused and added ominously, "but maybe tend. A $5 donation toward the fight to The Madison chapter of the National Or- Keep Abortion Legal is requested. She was short, only about 52", in her not." ganization of Women is sponsoring two early 30's and certainly attractive. She had I took a final drag from my cigarette, conferences on family values and one on black hair, worn long to shoulder length, a stubbed it out forcefully, and stood tip. The same sex marriage. Florentine Opera Auditions clear, very white skin and brown eyes that sun streamed through the bank of win- For more information call (608) 255- The Florentine Opera Company has had sort of look to them as if maybe she'd dows. I went to look out on the traffic clog- 3911. scheduled General Chorus auditions from been around the block a couple of times— ging K Street. "What's going on around 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. on Monday, May 12th before the block was paved. She was here?" When she didn't answer, I turned to and Friday, May 16th. Singers should pre- wearing a white, frilly blouse and a skirt of her. "Well?" pare on aria. The Florentine will provide an royal Stewart plaid. From one arm hung an She lit another cigarette. "G000d. Thinks Madison Gay Video Club accompanist. Please contact Tamara Ja- enormous purse. Mar knows everything." Movie Night May 10 sinski at (414) 291-5700 for an appoint- "Tony Martinelli," she said, extending a "Not everything, but more 'n me. Look, I The Madison Gay Video Club will pres- ment. hand. I nodded. She introduced herself and came here thinking there was no story. ent "World and Time Enough, Cat Men without another word, turned on her heel Okay, there is a story. I believe he was Do" and a special Feature Catalog X on and went striding off, leaving me to follow murdered. So, tell me why. Tell me why Video- Part 1. WAUKESHA as best I could. someone who can probably get herself The showings get under way at 8:00 PM. Not too far, along one side, was a elected President, Gay son or no Gay son, For more information call (608) 244-8675. glassed in room. She opened the door and needs to have him wiped out—and his Lesbian Network Presents ushered me in. There was a long, highly lover—and maybe me, too. Tell me..." Workshop on Lesbian Sexu- polished wooden conference table running "Tell you what I think. Mar thinks there's nearly the full length of the room. There scandal in this town. Mar thinks it runs Milwaukee ality May 4 were chairs around it and soft gray carpet- deep, very deep, so deep it'll make Water- The Waukesha, Lesbian Network will ing on the floor. A wide bank of windows gate look like a schoolboy prank." She present a workshop on Lesbian Sexuality along one side let in the light. paused to smoke her cigarette. "Ever do GLBT Speaker's Series on Sunday May 4 fro m4 to 6 PM at the "Coffee?" she asked. I accepted gladly. jigsaw puzzles?" Presents Generation Mex in Maple Ave. Mennonite Church in She poured a couple of mugs full from' a "Yeah." Waukesha. coffee maker on a side table, coming at "G000d. Will understand. Mar's got some the U.S Today Jane Otto a pyschotherapist with Safe last, to plop into a chair across the table pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, but none of them Carmen Murguia, local Latina activist and Harbor Counseling will present material from me and shoving a mug in my general match. Suddenly, you walk in and Joy!, in performer, will be sharing some of her life including the social aspects of sexuality, direction. From her commodious purse, plops a connecting piece—maybe and experiences and original poetry including a losing the spark and monogamy/non- she took out a pack of cigarettes and a maybe more than one." reading from her collection, "The Voices monogamy. April 24, 1997—May 7, 1997—WISCONSIN LIGHT-26 Foreigner the draw it once was and with the addition of two dozen cities playing in the Gay Continued From Page 15 World Series, Milwaukee has not finished away for a while, but decides he made a in the top three in quite some time. mistake coming to America. Out of panic But none of that detracts from what the and fear of having to make conversation league has accomplished over the years with total strangers, Charlie begs Froggy and the visionary spirit that not only to let him go home but Froggy won't hear created the SSBL, but that helped pave of it and fixes it so that the lodge owner, the way for Gay and Lesbian sports on the Betty Meeks, thinks Charlie is a foreigner national scene. who can't speak or understand English. Regardless of how Milwaukee may finish >4. Betty is fascinated by foreigners, having in the World Series, the SSBL is highly led a sheltered and backwoods life and regarded by other leagues around the looks forward to servicing Froggy's friend. country. In fact Ron Burbee, former SSBL Froggy leaves the lodge for military Commissioner was elected to several maneuvers and Charlie decides he can't terms as commissioner of NAAGAA, the go through with the lie, but before Charlie North American Amateur Gay Athletic can tell the truth the Reverend David Alliance. Marshall Lee, his fiancée Catherine Other SSBL officers have also been Simms, her brother Ellard and the local elected to positions on the NAAGAA villain, Owen Musser, all think Charlie Board. can't understand them. Before long, A cursory review of the league's history Charlie is privy to all sorts of secrets that shows just how much it has contributed. give him the trump card in all kinds of In it's inaugural season in 1978, the hilarious situations. SSBL's original teams were the Ball The Foreigner is touted as a side- Game, the Beer Garden, Claire's Belles, splitting comedy, I'd have to agree. I the Factory, the Finale, M & M, the Wreck laughed so hard I found myself drenched Room and Your Place. in tears. The narrative set-up was a little That same year, the League co-hosted long but necessary for the remainder of the Wreck Room Classic, America's first the play. National Gay Softball Tournament. While some of the subject matter may Also in 1978, that same year, Milwaukee Queen for a Day? Tommy, Bartender extrordinaire at In Between celebrated his birthday with a gala affair be 10 years dated and slightly off color by sent a team to the Second Annual Gay at the bar on Thursday April 17. Shown above (L-R) are Tommy, fellow Bartender. Patrick and In Between today's standards, one has to remember World Series in New York. The Milwaukee Owner Kurt Peck. You can see them in person at the bar located at 625 S. Second Street. In Between will also be the site that most scripts date themselves so Suds finished third out of five teams of the Mr. SSBL contest, Saturday May 10 at 5:00. Madisonians should chill and not frown on competing that year. 2:00 Triangle vs. Manouevres, Club 219 forms and bellbottoms and hanging out, some of the show's political incorrectness. In 1979, Milwaukee, along with New vs The Ball Game. seeing the big dick shows. It was quite a The delivery was a bit pushed (we were, York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and 3:00- Manoeuvres vs The Ball Game, In stretch and opened by head to imagina- after all, watching the show in the intimate Toronto, established the North American Between vs Club 219. tion." Isthmus Playhouse, not a field house) and Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAA). Look for coverage of the 17th Annual MacIsaac back to Cape Breton after that watching Charlie play dumb at the That same year, the SSBL hosted the Milwaukee Classic in our next issue. and realized that he could do transfer his beginning got a little tedious, but once third annual Gay World Series. The five fiddle playing into a pop setting."It sud- Charlie decided to reinvent himself as a original NAGAA members were joined by Maclssac denly occurred to me that I could play fid- real foreigner, things really got fun. Boston, Chicago and the Twin Cities. The Continued From Page 14 dle tunes over this tape of dance music, Charlie's mirror image pantomime of the series title was taken by Los Angele's "he says. "Essentially all my music is not so smart Ellard at breakfast touched a is what my whole gig is about -- to get a Rusty Nail. Milwaukee again finished about is keeping a beat and keeping a funny bone I didn't know I had. And Betty radio song and get people to play "Sleepy third. rhythm and that's what the basic element thinks she's got an "extra circular" Maggie.' Hopefully people will get the In 1980 the Wreck Room Chaps of dance music is about too. I suppose my connection with Charlie when he uses whole dance vibe off it. I could become like finished 2nd in the World Series held in Los time in New York had a lot of relevance on hand signals from football, disco and the Gypsy Kings and people would say Angeles. music. Otherwise I wouldn't have gone airplane ground traffic controllers to try to he's a great live act and it s wonderful mu- my The year 1983 was a banner year for the home and said I want to play the fiddle in a communicate. And with a climax sic and it's traditionally based and they'll SSBL and it really started to come into its setting and that I want to go out and reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz, I found get into it. But I want to be a pop star and if pop own. The League grew to 12 teams with able to go back to New York and have this to be one of my new favorite plays. I can get a hit record that would be be nearly 200 players. the opportunity to continue." Directed by J.R. Sullivan, The great,"he says. In 1985, the SSBL hosted the 9th Annual Ultimately, what matters most to Macl- Foreigner was written by a former World Series. The team title was won by "My music keeps the integrity and tradi- people to listen to his mu- Milwaukee Rep performer, Larry Shue. It saac is getting Houston's Briar Patch, the Milwaukee tion of the original fiddle sound, but adding Taking a 200-year old song, like" debuted in Milwaukee in 1983 and then sic. Chaps finish second. this new sort of hook to it,"he adds. "It's and contemporizing it, went on to become an Off-Broadway McDougal's Pride" In addition to hosting the Gay World that dance, dance, dance, sex, sex, sex, it comes smash. Tragically, Shue died in 1985 in a or at least putting in a setting that Series, Milwaukee also hosted the first now that I got your attention, I've got a car contemporary. commuter plane crash. Shue fills the off as being ever Lesbian World Series. San Diego's for sale idea. It's like, here s a drummer "The whole musical idea of the record narrative with many comic moments that Spoilers won the title. and here's an electric guitar player and was to try and put it in forms that people not only entertain but also make some In 1986, Wreck Room owner Wayne now that I've gotten your attention, here's could somewhat relate to. A song like lovely observations on the importance of Bernhagen (due to ill health) asked the that 300-year old fiddle tune from Cape 'McDougal's Pride', is as PBS as any song friendship and trust. SSBL to take over his Wreck Room Breton that s in the middle of it. I think will ever get. And the song before it, Michael Herold brings the role of Charlie Classic tournament. The First Milwaukee MacIsaac's stage show is equally as 'Devil in the Kitchen,' has that sense of to life with his facial juxtapositions and Classic is held. electrifying as his recorded music and grunge or more hard playing. But if you made-up language. Margaret Ingraham In 1994, the SSBL began three years of earning critical raves. Whether kicking up take away the arrangements of it, it's basi- as Betty gives a fair performance as an helping Milwaukee's PrideFest. Dozens of his heels while wearing a kilt, strumming it cally the same structure that I've always old widow with a desperate plea for some league players did grounds maintenance, out a la Green Day or churning out a cover been playing," he says. new life in her old one. security duties and tended bar. of the Bee Gee's "Staying Alive,"(a concert "I once called myself a fiddle slut. The Mark Lazar as the filthy, rotten Owen is In 1994, the SSBL moved from Mitchell favorite), MacIsaac turns in an over-the- whole thing I meant by that was just that I mean spirited and funny as the "butt" of Park where it had played from its inception top performance. will play in whatever sort of situation or numerous jokes, literally. Real charm to Sijan Field in Bay View. The move was "The whole gig is about image in one wherever I can be put to play in front of comes from Royden Mills as Ellard who made necessary when the County sense, and there has been a whole pile of new people. And if it is a matter of getting has been taught to believe he's a real converted one of Mitchell's two softball different images coming out about me, but to play with RuPaul in a transvestite bar, dummy but finds new life and talent as diamonds into a soccer field. I only have three labels that I put on my- well then I'd go out and put on my kilt and Charlie's English teacher. In 1996, the SSBL became an inter city self, and that's that I play the fiddle, that kick it up." Add Jeff Knupp as Froggy, Jeff Christian league as Madison's Manoeuvres joined. I'm from Cape Breton and that I'm Cana- Still, MacIsaac can't escape matters of as the preacher who's not so holy and This proud tradition of 20 years of fun, dian,"he says. "I have about 300 years of personal life or his unconventional Valeri Lantz-Gefroh as Catherine, the his sports and friendship renews itself on enjoyment behind the music. I stand by my from creeping into people's debutante turned preachers wife turned points of view Saturday May 3, at Milwaukee's Sijan music; it's something that works and that perception of him. He admits that some of debutante wanna-be and you've got a Field, 2128 S. Kinnickinnic as the 20th it's good. So whether you're RuPaul doing including that being gay is great show. (If you want Gay sub text, I his view points, Anniversary season of the Saturday Soft disco in New York or you're a kid up in often a choice than not, are "pretty could throw in the Klu Klux Klan angle of more Ball League gets underway. Harlem, I don't think you couldn't get into it intense, pretty insane in one view," he the show and say its about the underdog This year's schedule includes nine if you actually listen to it in the right frame fighting bigotry and hatred, but here the says. teams one more than last year. This year's of mind.,"he says. say is completely ir- good guys win while in real life, while "But, if everything I we line up is The Ball Game, Balistreri's "Modernizing this music is a way of peo- are still waging the battle). relevant to lots of other homosexual Pizza, Club 219, In Between, M & M Club, making it relevant to people today. If it then they can just look back on As Froggy states to Charlie when he ple's head, Mama Roux, Manoeuvres, River West and takes showing my cock on Conan to make it and say, 'Oh well, he's 22-years old and I finds out how far Charlie has taken the The Triangle. The players on these teams it relevant for someone to want to talk to went through that awkward stage too as a charade, "Enjoy it while you can". will battle it out for top honors not only in me or listen to my album, well hey that's we'll support him The Foreigner is playing Wednesday young gay adult and the league but in two tournaments being what I'll do. I'm still going to go out and agree with me, I'd thru Sunday at the Isthmus Playhouse of anyway.' If they didn't hosted in Milwaukee. play the fiddle tune." say that 'lots of people the Madison Civic Center thru May 4. just assume they'd In 1997, the League is planning a gala Born and raised in Creignish, on Cape have had difficult times in figuring out their Tickets are $17 and $20 and are available anniversary year. It will again host the Breton Island of Nova Scotia, Canada, by calling 608-266-9055. life and he's probably just one of them as Milwaukee Classic on Memorial Day population 280, MacIsaac grew up listen- well.' SSBL weekend, but it will add another ing to traditional fiddle music. But he is tired of people trying to find a tournament to its schedule, the Midwest His father bought him his first fiddle at correlation between his sexuality and his Continued From Page 14 Invitational Softball Tournament (MIST). age 8 and taught the young lad how to music. "All that I assume anybody wants to The MIST tourney will be played on Labor play; from there he began a love affair with know when they've asked whether or not people going up and down the hill. Day weekend. the centuries old instrument. For the next I'm gay -- or want to know by knowing Think of the SSBL and you think of the It is also sporting a new look with a new nine years, MacIsaac honed his craft by whether or not any man is gay -- is Milwaukee Wreck Room Classic, now the logo, a new slogan "Catch It," and many playing anywhere he could, from square whether I suck another man's cock. Peo- Classic. Who can forget some of the new players. dances to local festivals in his homeland. ple have all kinds of stereotypes and thrilling games between the Milwaukee The May 3r° schedule is as follows: But life changed for him when he turned whatever, but that's what it comes down Wreck Room Chaps and Side Tracks of 11:00- The Ball Game vs. River West. 17 and took off for New York City to fiddle to. And if people want to know that, then Chicago as they vied for the title. Noon River West vs Triangle, The Ball in an off- Broadway production of the ex- yeah, come and say hi to me personally And who can forget Wayne Bemhagen Game vs M & M. istentialist play "Woyzeck." Suddenly this after a concert and we'll have that conver- suffering from AIDS trudging up the hill 1:00- Club 219 vs Triangle, M & M vs In smalltown boy found himself amongst the sation,"he says. after cheering his team onto to victory. Between. big city slickers and discovered the under- "All these things are not things that Think of the SSBL and you think of great 2:00- Manoeuvres vs Balistreri's, Mama's belly of the nightlife. clearly have much to do with me playing ,--competition between teams like the Finale, Family vs Club 219. From drag bars and sex clubs to the the fiddle,"he adds. "That's why people the Factory, Your Place, Paradise Books 3:00- In Between vs Balistreri's, Mama's dance floors of gay discos, MacIsaac was would assume that maybe I'm racy. When and the Wreck Room Spurs. Teams that Family vs. Manoeuvres. like a kid in a candy store. I was 17, I went on stage and played and seemed so evenly matched that nearly The May 10th Schedule is: "I went to New York and lived there for nobody bothered to really play attention to every Saturday schedule had three or four 11:00- Balistreri's vs M & M. about six months. I hung out at the Lime- anything else except the vibe of the music. important games on its slate. Noon- M & M's vs Mama's Family, light every night in the 'lick-it' lounge, and Then I went to New York and did this play The SSBL is said to have fallen in Balistreri's vs River West. then I'd go to the Roxy or the Pyramid and and came back with the idea that I could national stature. With the advent of other 1:00- River West vs. In Between, Triangle listen to dance music for the first time,"he tournaments, the Milwaukee Classic is not vs Mama's Family. recalls. "I was going out and buying plat- Please Turn To Ashley Page 27 April 24, 1997—May 7, 1997—WISCONSIN LIGHT-27 Ashley sense, at least in beats, "he says. "I have other sort of more integrity ideas that I Continued From Page 26 want to put on it as well, besides just writ- sell my fiddle music by putting on an im- ing nice simple songs to put a fiddle tune age or doing whatever it took to sell it. And to. I' like to do some speaking on it as well, now I have articles that are written in all about my point in life." Gaelic papers at home that say the mes- I" had the idea six months ago of calling senger is bigger than the music and that's the record, 'Ashley MacIsaac Goes Disco not the way it used to be. And I guess 1997' -- Just Me And A Bunch of Fruits.' I they're right, and that is the case." thought I'd get this picture of me with all Still, given the choice of defending his off these plastic bananas. It would be sort of color point of view or talking about his de- coy to call it that, and I think it probably but opus, MacIsaac prefers to focus on the has a bit of a connection to my clubbing album and his tour -- the core of what he is days." about. Whatever he does, there's little doubt "At this stage of my life, I'm still trying to that it will be anything short of unconven- go out and promote this "Hi, How Are You tional and wildly innovative. 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1(1( / Throughout Saturday and Sunday, The Lit- Star-Filled Literary erary Coffeehouse will feature a schedule featuring a variety of Author Appearances, Please Contribute Something So That the Writing Workshops, Poetry Readings and host Coffeehouse of other literary events. Holocaust May Never be Forgotten Among the many authors due to appear at at PrideFest '97 the Afterwords/Wisconsin Light Literary Cof- An exciting new feature at Milwaukee's fee House include Frank DeCaro (A Boy By Roberta Bennett In the Holocaust, there were people who PrideFest '97, "Sharing a World of Difference" Named Phyllis), Jorjet Harper (Tales From They wore Pink Triangles on their were victimized because of what they the Dyke Side) and Robert Rodi (Kept Boy, is The Literary Coffeehouse sponsored by Fag Hag, Closet pockets...and in the cruel hierarchy of the would or would not do. Jews and Gays Afterwords Bookstore & Espresso Bar and Case, etc.) concentration camps, they were the low- were different. They were persecuted for A complete list of authors and programs was The Wisconsin Light. not est of the low. who they were. It didn't matter if they The Afterwords/ Wisconsin Light Literary available as The Wisconsin Light went to They were singled out for brutality not were productive and loyal German citi- Coffeehouse expands upon last year's ex- press. only by the guards, but by other inmates zens. It didn't matter if they swore alle- tremely successful Afterwords Literature Tent For all the latest news on who will be ap- as well. And when the long awaited lib- giance to Hitler or didn't. It didn't matter and which will feature a diverse program of pearing at the Afterwords/Wisconsin Light eration finally came, these victims of Nazi what their political or religious beliefs Literary Coffeehouse, please phone (414) 963- author readings and discussions throughout 9089 or oppression were not released...but were were. The Nazis wanted them gone. Saturday and Sunday, June 7 & 8. visit the Afterwords website at forced instead to serve out the rest of It was senseless' irrational hatred. The An important component missing last year www.afterwords.com. their terms in prison. same kind of hatred that still haunts Gays, was plenty of hot coffee and new for 1997, Buy Your Next Vehicle from Their crime? Jews, African-Americans and anyone The Literary Coffeehouse will be offering a They were homosexuals. whom society deems to be "different." menu of coffee, coffee drinks and Us & We Will Donate $250 to * * That's why the Gay experience in the other re- freshing beverages plus a choice biscotti, muf- the Milwaukee AIDS As I'm sure you know, the United Holocaust is more relevant today than fins and other freshly baked treats. Project States Holocaust Memorial Museum is ever before. Whether this year's festival is blessed with • Rent-to one of the largest and most important mu- That is why the Holocaust Museum has warm and sunny weather or, heaven forbid, -Purchase Program seums in the world dedicated to telling embarked on this special campaign to re- like last year's winter-like conditions, all those • Trade-ins Welcome the story of the Holocaust. member the untold thousands of Gays attending PrideFest '97 Though who suffered will find The Literary • Financing Welcome primarily a story of the Nazis' in the camps. Coffeehouse to be the perfect place to hang efforts to exterminate the Jews, it is also We are asking those of you who read out, have coffee, check out all • Service Warranties Available about their plans for the annihilation of this article, those of you who understand of the latest Gay & Lesbian fiction and non-fiction titles (414) 282-9223 "confessing clergy" German resisters, the meaning of "Never Again," to make a and experience unique and exciting programs Polish intellectuals, Soviet prisoners of contribution so that the work of scholarly U-SAVE 4739 S. 27th St. offered by both local and nationally known AUTO RENTAL* Greenfield, WI 53221 war, and Gays. research into the Gay experience in the authors. Since the museum opened in 1993, Holocaust can continue. more than 7.8 million people have come Money is urgently needed to locate the to see first-hand what happened to those rapidly decreasing Gay survivors, to WHAT CAN YOU GET in Germany and Nazi occupied Europe chromcle their oral histories, to uncover who did not fit into the Nazi conformist missing artifacts, to produce new exhibits mold. in the Museum so that all may understand FROM VOLUNTEERING AT ARCW? And in doing so, they have learned— the poisonous results of bigotry. \\ X among other things—that the Holocaust Please send a contribution to: United was not just "something that happened to States Holocaust Memorial Museum, P.O. the Jews." Box 96818, Washington, DC 20077- It was something that happened to hu- 7674. manity. Ms. Bennett is the Chair of the Mu- Despite the controversy (and over the seum's Gay and Lesbian Campaign. objections of some), this Museum has Editor's Note: Wisconsin Light has never shied away from examining the ex- never published a letter of solicitation rt.sta24$76 perience of Gays in the Holocaust. before. This time, we make an exception Yet, despite our efforts, the story of and urge strongly that you make a contri- Gays in the Holocaust is still largely un- bution. told. I have visited Dachau and Auschwitz. I '.AA'ACI!*44. This is what we know. have spoken with Gay survivors of the The Nazis came to power in 1933, camps. Jerry and I toured the Museum. It pledged to "purify" German society of is an experience we recommend to all, A place to meet people zN anyone they considered "abnormal," "ab- and one that we will never forget. errant," or "weak." Much, so much, of our history has been and make new friends... They began by abolishing all Gay or- lost. That cannot happen to this. It must ganizations. Storm Troopers raided Gay not happen to this. We must know this bars, cafes and meeting places. The Gay history. We must understand it. We must a safe and affirming community that had flourished in Berlin feel it, because all too easily it can hap- and other cities in the 1920s, was driven pen again. social and work underground. In 1934, the Nazis created an anti-Gay • environment... task force of the Gestapo. And, in the following year, a provision of the German Bro. criminal code—Paragraph 175—was in- Braddock **, experiences to terpreted to allow for the arrest of anyone enrich your life or suspected of being Gay. Receives J.C. Penney build career skills— (Lesbians were largely spared from this Community persecution. Not out of any sense of un- 01 derstanding or compassion, but simply Service Award a chance to help people because the Nazis believed that "Lesbian IT wombs could breed the master race.") Milwaukee—Brother Stephen E. Brad- in your community. According to eyewitnesses, prisoners dock was recognized on April 15" "for o marked with Pink Triangles or patches outstanding community service" by the bearing the number "175" were among J.C. Penney Gold Rule Award Commit- the most harshly treated in the camps. tee. u have a lot to gain.. a lot to give. They were often the victims of cruel In recognition of this honor, President medical experiments—including castra- Clinton sent a letter to Brother Braddock tion. saying, "•-• you can be proud of your se- For more information call But the worst blow came at the very lection at a 1997 nommee. I commend end. When the camps were liberated in you for your deep concern about our fu- 414-225-1556. 1945, and survivors were released to re- ture and for your exemplary commitment build their shattered lives, those convicted to improving our world." of being Gay were forced to serve out the Brother Braddock is the founder of the rest of their sentences meted out by Nazi St. Camillus HIV/AIDS Ministry, a ARCW judges. largely volunteer-driven organization No consideration was given for the time which provides care and support to peo- AIDS RESOURCE CENTER OF WISCONSIN, INC. they'd already spent in the hellish camps. ple with AIDS and WV disease. And no financial reparations were made Brother Braddock will also be honoree Volunteers are especially needed by the Getman government. Paragraph by Cardinal Stritch College on May 7 175 remained a part of West German law when he receives the 1997 "Alumni for Gay Outreach in Mi lwaukee. until 11969. Award for Professional Distinction."