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Stonewall News Northwest turns 15! dollars for GLBT center Now published every other week! First of a series of “Gayme” Nights Next Issue: to be held as Wednesday, April 4th fundraisers for the Ad and Content Deadline: Wednesday, March 28th future GLBT center SPOKANE, Wash. - Bunko Night, the first of a series of “Gayme” Nights to be held as fundraisers for the future LGBT center, raised more than $900 in community dollars for the general operating fund on March 10. After expenses, the event netted more than $700. With the current match campaign, the money raised from the event will total more than $1800. More than 40 people attended Bunko Night which included a debut performance by Spokane’s new drag king troupe, “Chix & Dales.” In only three hours, Bunko sponsors and participants at Studio One on March 9 Please see BUNKO page 13 doubled the GLBT center’s previous seven months of fundraising efforts.

got so congested that police assigned groups particular spots in front of and along the sides of the White House The Gittings Legacy compound. “Those demonstrations put the issue By Tracy Baim, Windy City Times in the first public demonstrations for of gay rights on the table in ways that “homosexual” rights, outside the White it hadn’t been done before,” added Ken One of the most important pioneers House in D.C. and Independence Hall Sherrill, professor of political science at of the modern gay and lesbian rights in Philadelphia. She was featured in the Hunter College. “They said that this was movement died Feb 18. Barbara Gittings, documentary Before Stonewall. “There a fit subject for discussion.” 75, passed away in Wilmington, after a were scarcely 200 of us in the whole In the late 1950s Gittings helped long battle with breast cancer. Her death United States. It was like a club; we all organize the New York City chapter of was announced by her partner of 46 knew each other,” Gittings said of those the Daughters of Bilitis ( DOB ) , at the years, Kay Tobin Lahusen, and her friend early years. urging of the group’s national founders, and fellow activist, Philadelphia Gay “Things were heating up but had Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin. It was there News Publisher Mark Segal. not yet reached their peak” in 1965 in Gittings met Lahusen. She was chapter Gittings was involved in several terms of social protest over civil rights president for three years and edited the Issues available free throughout the critical moments of the GLBT movement. and Vietnam, said activist Frank Kameny national publication of DOB, The Ladder Pacific Northwest and at Her first protest effort was in 1965 when after Gittings’ passing. “At that point, ( taking over for Lyons and Martin ) , from she and a few other activists made history picketing at the White House was the 1963-1966. She worked with her partner www.stonewallnews.net expression of dissent par excellence.” It on The Gay Crusaders book in 1973. In her writing and her activism, Gittings challenged earlier gay-rights strategies THIS ISSUE that were against direct political action, a position which caused her to leave DOB. Perhaps the most long-lasting impact of Gittings’ decades-long work was in helping to change the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ) categorization of homosexuality as a mental illness, in 1973, and her work campagning for GLBT books in public libraries, as a leader of the Task Force on Gay Liberation of the American Cody - Part 2 Please see GITTINGS page 11 by Tim Anderson Page 5

Speaking at a Pride Week brunch sponsored by the Spokane’s Rainbow Regional Com- munity Center on Saturday, June 4, 2005, Barbara Gittings, center, is joined by Center Remembering Barbara Gittings board members, from left, Sharon O’Brien, Lorin Miller, John Brindle and Jeff Buckner. by Joan Opyr Page 4 Barbara Gittings appeared in Spokane by invitation of the Spokane GLBT Film Festi- val, sponsor of the Pride Week opening event, a Friday, June 3, 2005 showing of the 52 Things we can do documentary “Gay Pioneers.” Gittings was featured in the film. For Transgender Equality...... 4 Arts & Entertainment...... 8 “You have to keep your sense of humor and work with your allies,” Gittings advised. She went on the say that the GLBT community as a whole is made up of individual Business Directory ...... 11 thinkers who have strong opinions; humor and compromise are necessary to con- Calendar...... 14 tinue to make progress. While in Spokane, Barbara Gittings marveled that 55 years of Classifieds...... 13 activism had just flown by. Her continuing gift to the GLBT community is a look into Barbara Gittings’ first protest effort was the past to invigorate the present and plan for the future. Whatever you do, Gittings in 1965 when she and a few other ac- National & International...... 6 laughed, “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” tivists made history in the first public Resource Directory...... 12 demonstrations for “homosexual” rights, Reviews & Previews ...... 9 For the full article on Barbara Gittings’ visit to Spokane for Pride 2005, please see the July 2005 outside the White House in D.C. and Inde- issue of Stonewall News Northwest. Back issues are available for free download at www. pendence Hall in Philadelphia. Gittings, Spokane & Regional...... 3 stonewallnews.net . pictured above, demonstrated outside Voices...... 2 Independence Hall on July 4, 1965. Page  Stonewall News Northwest Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Lillian Conn Voices Antiques and Letters to the Editor Publisher’s Note: Mark Garrett and David Dinah Carlson Williams were the Special Honorees at this Genetic Cleansing? year’s SAN annual Oscar Gala on Feb 25th. One of the nation’s leading Gallery Southern Baptists has called for a “Beautifying Spokane Thank You policy that would support medical I would like to thank the Spokane treatment, if it were to become One House At A Time” AIDS Network [SAN], Board of available, to change the sexual Antique Furniture Directors, Director Susan Fabrikant, orientation of a fetus inside its & Accessories The Oscar Committee, corporate mother’s womb from homosexual Interior Design sponsors, and Cherie Moss for her to heterosexual. kind words. I was truly honored “If a biological basis by the recognition on this special is found, and if a prenatal 509.329.1005 night, more so with my nephew and test is then developed, and Monroe & Augusta his wife, Ronald and Leslie Williams if a successful treatment there to support me. www.lillianconn.com to reverse the sexual Our community is very fortunate orientation to heterosexual to have SAN and a wide variety of is ever developed, we would advocates and volunteers at home. support its use as we should Thanks also to the wonderful unapologetically support the people who attended and supported use of any appropriate means the auction and coming together to to avoid sexual temptation ClientClient CenteredCentered TherapyTherapy help SAN’s fight to end the threat of and the inevitable effects of Areas of Treatment include: HIV/AIDS. sin.” Sincerely, -- Rev. R. Albert Mohler, David Williams president of the Southern Identity/Relationship Issues Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY Depression I just don’t know where to begin Anxiety with this one! First the evangelicals Who Are We? say that Homosexuality is a choice Most Insurances Accepted Ann Coulter has once again now they are moving towards the proven she is the “Queen of belief that it is genetic. So they suggest that it is OK to treat a fetus ¤ Heather Pederson, LMHC Shock”. But where liberals, gays, for homosexuality if it will make it even Republicans, are calling her ¤ a heterosexual. On the other hand Brenda Roberts, LICSW latest attempt at “humor” and if a fetus is determined to have a attack disturbing, I feel differently. ¤ Michelle McAlpin, MS genetic abnormality of, say, Downs I despise Ann Coulter on so many Syndrome treatment is forbidden levels, but her using the f-bomb did because this defect is “God’s will”. 12615 E Mission, Suite 101 (509) 926-9911 not make me dislike her even more. Is there no end to the Instead it made me angry at the gay hypocrisies? Conveniently located across from the Valley Hospital community. Jim Jones What gives us gays and lesbians the right to “patent” words we use Spokane, WA to refer to ourselves yet become offended when heterosexuals use other? This sends a mixed message. Friends of SAN’s the terms? The situation is akin to If we want respect and equal Whites using the n-word to refer to rights from the majority we must Annual Blacks, who often use the term to define ourselves as equal, worthy, refer to themselves. It is not allowed, and deserving. We must be conscious hateful, and incites accusations of of our language, and our behavior. bigotry, they claim. Right, wrong, or indifferent, they Palm Sunday Our language and our behavior hold the power to help us be free are for all to see and interpret. If and equal. we refer to ourselves as “dykes”, Ann Coulter was merely spewing “faggots”, “queens” and “queer” that a term, albeit with hurtful intent, that is exactly how heterosexuals will we use to refer to ourselves. We can Brunch view us. not blame the Isaiah Washington’s Our community is breaking new and the Ann Coulter’s for using ground on a daily basis in the area terms we ourselves utter. The mirror st of marriage equality and hate-crime they put in front of us gives us the legislation. How do we demand opportunity for self-reflection and April 1 2007 equality and respect on the one hand definition. 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5 1st 10- Antique March 3 day Sat ur day & Sun t 0-4 1s 1 Show April Crafts Market& Paradise Grange 20 vendors offering 16120 South antiques Keeney Rd. along with 10 miles South antique other vintage, of Spokane, junk Chix & Dales (L to R) Busta Rug, James Bondage, Payton Fagina, Justin Cider, Ryder Knightly show shabby chic, off Hwy 195 re-purposed bunko way resulting in huge returns in terms of watch for & priceless finds continued from FRONT PAGE community building and visibility for the center,” she adds. funky junk signs! Dana Mathews and DeVerne The event included the Chix & Dales’ not to mention a Augustus, co-owners of Studio One Hair performance of “Walk like a Man”, with Admission $2 funky suitcase or two! and Body Salon, hosted the event at their a special performance of “Where is location at 1311 W. Sprague, with food the Love?” by Chix & Dales king Busta donated by Wild Sage American Bistro. Rug. A 50/50 drawing raised $176, and Questions? Contact the funky junk girls, Hollie or Jennifer at: [email protected] Many other gifts of food, beverages the winner of the drawing, Shawn H., and door prizes contributed by the donated his winnings back to the LGBT community-at-large surpassed $500 in center. Steven Sanford had the highest in-kind donations. overall score to win the $50 gift certificate “This is a great way to spotlight to Wild Sage, and James won the second the future LGBT center and allow the place prize of a massage from Main community to support us and learn Touch Massage & Wellness Center. about our mission while having a lot of “Our many thanks go out to the fun doing it,” says Cat Carrel, chair of generosity of the community, especially the board responsible for the center’s to Dana and DeVerne, for helping us pull be proud, get tested reorganization. “Our goal is to do many off a fantastic debut event for the LGBT events like this throughout the year so center,” Carrel says, “We’re looking everybody can participate in their own forward to many more!”

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Ms. Gittings was a founding member of Music Reviews & Previews the New York Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, and she began leading protests in Washington, D. C. in 1965. She and a C. Lawrence small number of other gay men and lesbians—dressed in “gender-conforming” suits and dresses—marched in front of Distribution Manager Steven Sanford the White House with signs demanding equal rights for homosexuals. Distribution - Seattle It was the year before I was born, and the gay community, the silly arguments Jane Bengston three years before the Stonewall riots in and the endless in-fighting. On the Masthead Design New York. Gays and lesbians were still whole, she said, she thought this was Christopher Lawrence being arrested, prosecuted and jailed a good thing. She compared the gay C o n t r i b u t o r s simply for being gay or lesbian. Our community to a waterbed: when Tim Anderson Stuart Elliott bars were being raided, we ourselves pressure was applied to one corner, Anushka Asthana C. Lawrence were being harassed, and publications the water shifted and popped up Tracy Baim NCTE like The Ladder, which Barbara Gittings somewhere else. Our greatest strength, Wyatt Buchanan Joan Opyr edited, were confiscated and destroyed. she said, was that there really was no Cat Carrel John Wright “Gay Agenda.” The Gay Movement David Crary The Ladder, a mimeographed precursor to GLBT news magazines like The comprised millions of individuals CONTACT INFORMATION Advocate, featured poetry, true stories all seeking the individual rights Stonewall News Northwest and essays. By today’s standards, The guaranteed by the Constitution. It was PO Box 2704 • Spokane, WA 99220 Ladder was quite tame, but because it hard, she felt, to argue against that. www.stonewallnews.net dealt honestly and openly with lesbian Barbara Gittings was courageous phone 509.570.3750 fax 509.267.6309 [email protected] lives, it was considered pornographic, and modest. She gave us hope. and sending it through the U. S. Barbara is perhaps best known for Stonewall News Northwest is copyrighted Mail was a federal crime. Imagine if spearheading the campaign that led under federal law. Any reproduction of reading Stonewall News Northwest, this the American Psychiatric Association to its contents is prohibited unless written publication, might land you in jail, and permission is obtained. declassify homosexuality as a mental you’ll get the picture. It’s hard to believe illness. Thanks to her work, being gay One copy of Stonewall News Northwest is but important to remember. or lesbian is not crazy, but being Jerry available free of charge for each reader at I met Barbara Gittings in October Falwell is. Whenever I see his loathsome current distribution locations. Copies of 1999 when she was a guest speaker at Barbara Gittings (right) and her partner face on television, blaming you and me Stonewall News Northwest which have not Washington State University. I loved of 46 years, Kay Tobin Lahusen. Gittings, for natural disasters, terrorist attacks been picked up for the purpose of read- 75, passed away in Wilmington, Del., Feb. ing them are the property of Stonewall her. She was energetic, charming, 18 after a long battle with breast cancer. and foul weather in the State of Virginia, Publishing, Inc. Any unauthorized person enthusiastic and modest. She spoke of Her death was announced by her partner I think of Barbara Gittings, and I take who takes or moves multiple copies of having first suspected that she was a and her friend and fellow activist, Phila- heart. I remember how far we’ve come, Stonewall News Northwest to prevent lesbian at summer camp. She realized delphia Gay News Publisher Mark Segal. and I know that in the end, we will win. other people from seeing or reading them shall be considered guilty of theft. that she “just loved being around girls.” Barbara never seemed to doubt it. Violators will be prosecuted. Sound familiar? It did to me. I told the face. Did I care? No. Steph admired Joan Opyr, AKA Auntie Barbara that I’d realized something was my stoic toughness as the blood poured Establishment, is a Multiple copies can be sent to any distri- different about me one day while I was copiously from both nostrils, and she Moscow area fiction bution location free of charge. Please call standing on third base. 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CBy Timody Anderson This year marks the 20th anniversary Part 2 of 3 cowboy thing, because I know that of essays I’ve written for the gay everybody is not like that. I might be community. During all that time, especially more of a loner than most people. It’s via my former trucking career, I’ve been fortunate to meet many fascinating like sacred ground out here. I rarely people. In 1992, I crossed paths with have anyone out.” one such remarkable individual, a stir Cody talks of horse training crazy, handsome, closeted cowboy who fiascos and winces, remembering not only left a deep impression on me come-to-Jesus moments, post but who also became a life long friend. I eventually wrote about this man in a bucking chute, easy on the bravado. 1998 essay entitled “Cody.” His recollections are understated, Cody’s story was not an easy read if not broken and stark. He can just back then. His history still isn’t neatly as easily switch toward misplaced bundled in happily-ever-after. Rather, truck driving nirvana or speculate his experience is a study in rough about a near miss heart thing gone around the edges. Unlike many of the unclaimed. A smile exchanged with seemingly instant coming out stories I’ve the tall hatted fella standing on the read in various places, Cody’s narrative extends over a decade and is full of other side of the fuel island in town, or raw contradiction, tentative first steps, the men from years back who held his countered with frantic, if not bold, almost Cody gaze a little too long at that Cheyenne explosive leaps of faith. An isolated, rural two stepping bar. He recoils at the man, his is a hit-and-miss life. He dreams Internet-born love struck stalkers, of a partnership that might not exist, read and reread it. But once the movie almost as if Cody was going to take his then talks of maybe setting out to while worrying at the same time that a got things stirred up, I got kinda’ tired time before settling into any one skin. “perfect for him” relationship might just make some new introductions, but of hearing about it.” That awakening also included a quiet then again remembers shutting doors come his way. Cody’s story is the story of Yet the movie has also inspired settling of his sexual orientation. “I’d many rural gays in the Intermountain when the face didn’t look like the West. Theirs is a history that is just many of Cody’s more recent western say I used to be bisexual, but I said that picture. beginning to be told. This one comes to art pieces. Several of these works are because I’d been with more men than There are mentions of the cussed you in three parts. identifiable scenes from the movie. women. I’d say now that yeah, I’m gay. truck repairs gone south in the same The story continued to resonate with But I don’t even like that word. I am paragraph as the people who’ve him long after his first read of Jack not embarrassed by sexuality, or my Revisiting Cody’s story, nearly a recently caught his eye. The married and Ennis and long before the picture sexuality. I know who I am, and I am men he knows who are hitched decade after I wrote the first story, hit the local theater. honest with myself. I know my name. seemed especially fitting last month but still available. Sometimes those I can still see him, 15 years ago, But I am not going to be waving any as February 2007 marked the first accounts trail off into an examination staring at the edge of change. Looking flags. I’m a more private person. anniversary of the hyped Oscar of something deeper. Relating on over a landscape perched on the edge “I finally went to the gay rodeo in run of Brokeback Mountain. The love longed for and lost can sidestep of a front range, interstate highway: Denver. It was better than I thought controversial movie, based upon an into the retelling of a bad horse terrain that was best described as it would be, but when someone acclaimed fictional short story by wreck or his attempt to rescue some part high plains, part foothills, but all approached me, I told them they Annie Proulx, won film award after concentration camp bound BLM hard luck country. I’ve often thought didn’t want none of this. There’s a lot film award. Brokeback Mountain horse. Or what starts out as a literary either Jack or Ennis could have been of times when I think that being in turned the Oscars upside down, exercise in horse training 101 might him, especially with Cody’s intimate the closet is easier than dealing with leaving audiences unsettled and end up reading like a conversation understanding of the point where all the scene, the terms. “Eye candy.” smelling of homophobic controversy. with Gandhi or the Dalai Lama about mountainous Wyoming and Colorado “Wolf.” When I start to hear that stuff A year later, the film remains just as the human condition. If the moon is turn to no man’s land and that the it turns me off, and I feel out of place. earthshaking, as evidenced by its right, the comets are near, or the wind same definition could encompass just The over compensation, the way countless interpretations on Youtube. is spitting flurries down from the about any Wyoming bar stool on a everything is overdone. I don’t think From Eastern Europe, to Australia, to high county, an old soul stands ready Saturday night. it’s necessary, and here I‘ve done all Asia, “that independent arty cowboy on deck, complete with his ride ticket the walk the walk and talk the talk. movie” still taps something universal In reading Proulx’s story nearly a written in the philosophy of horse and deep inside moviegoers. decade after meeting Cody, it seemed “I’m still not that sexually active, training and humanity’s expectations the author had crossed paths with my and sex is not how I center myself. I Cody saw Brokeback Mountain of the four legged set and of each friend. Had she encountered Cody think that any body with a creative in Colorado Springs with another other. during some full moon whoop it up imagination needs alone time or cowboy. They entered the theater off base in Cheyenne? Or had she restoration time. You have to take in. apart, found one another again seen him standing at the brink of last You can’t always be giving or be over Please see Part 3 in the next April 4th is- once inside the theater. After the call in some cowboy bar, perched on stimulated. I’m just out of practice sue of Stonewall News Northwest. credits rolled, the two men also left the edge of no return, in Rawlins? when it comes to dealing with people the theater apart, meeting back up In interviews, Proulx said the story and I spend a lot of time alone. I A writer, horseman, truck in the parking lot. “It just worked driver, and graduate of originated watching an old cowhand don’t get lonely, but in the back of my Seattle Pacific University out that way. For some reason, we hungrily watching young renegades mind, there is always a longing for and Lutheran Bible just naturally split up after looking Institute of Seattle, playing pool. Nevertheless, there was being with someone that could get Tim is the president around the parking lot. We came out a time when “Cody” could have been that about me and not fight it. Yet, of the Gay Truckers of the theater in different directions Association. For more Jack or Ennis-depending on the day, I‘m used to being by myself. I still too. Not that anyone was going to do in-depth information the hour, or the adult beverage. like my own company, and I think about him, visit www. anything to us, but we just separated. you just hit that dimension where it’s highmountainranch. My favorite part of the movie was the Yet through all the years, com, which won Web site hard to get back out it. Maybe it’s a of the Year from www. shirt part. It’s a good story, and I’ve throughout his wanderings, I’ve witnessed a slow but steady transition, roadstaronline.com. What’s on Stonewall’s Website? 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www.stonewallnews.net www.stonewallnews.net THURSDAYS AT 6PM Page  Stonewall News Northwest Wednesday, March 21, 2007 National & International Controversy brews over Gay Athletes Slowly Enter gay stories for schools the Endorsement Arena The prince married a man, and lived By Stuart Elliott, NY Times happily ever after For years, the number of athletes who were openly gay and had endorsement deals could have been counted on the Religious groups attack circulation of books hand of the old-time baseball player Mordecai Brown, known after a farm raising gay issues among primary school accident by the nickname Three Finger. Recently, however, that has started pupils falling in love and marrying a man, are to change, as Americans have reassessed By Anushka Asthana, The Observer, UK necessary to make homosexuality seem their ideas about homosexuality and as normal to children. Fourteen schools athletes have become more willing to and one local authority, backed by U.K. - A pilot scheme introducing discuss their sexuality. In another sign teaching unions and a government- of the times, a company that sells men’s books dealing with gay issues to children funded organisation, are running the from the ages of four to 11 has just been grooming products, HeadBlade, is to controversial scheme, which has been announce today that it is adding to its launched in England’s schools. attacked by Christian groups. roster of endorsers John Amaechi, the It is being argued that the books, one Twenty years ago the publication of former professional basketball player of which is a fairytale featuring a prince who said last month that he is gay. who turns down three princesses before Please see SCHOOLS page 15 Mr. Amaechi was a journeyman center for such teams as the Orlando Magic and Utah Jazz. He is the first John Amaechi, a former professional National Basketball Association player basketball player who is openly gay, will to disclose his homosexuality. He also soon start endorsing HeadBlade male became the sixth retired male pro athlete grooming products. Anti-gay bias rages in Please see ATHLETES page 15 Dallas schools 16-year-old anti-discrimination policy not enforced; committee forms to demand its Clinton, Gay Rights implementation Obama skirt Activists district enforce its 16-year-old policy queries on prohibiting discrimination based on Protest sexual orientation by conducting staff training and hiring a director of LGBT gays in the Pace’s Re- initiatives. Committee members plan to meet with district officials Tuesday, March 20. military marks “This [anti-discrimination] policy By Glenn Thrush, Newsday.com that the Dallas Independent School District has means nothing without WASHINGTON -- If gays and implementation,” said Vowels, who lesbians were looking for a champion recently completed a doctoral dissertation to dispute Gen. Peter Pace’s claim that related to the subject. homosexuality is immoral, they might The committee is also suggesting have expected Hillary Rodham Clinton that the district adopt a curriculum that’s or Barack Obama to leap forward. more LGBT-inclusive; extend benefits Not quite. While both Clinton and to the same-sex partners of employees; Obama are courting gays and lesbians, and create an environment that’s more and would allow them to serve openly sensitive to transgender students when in the military, the Democratic front- it comes to names, pronouns, bathrooms runners have been curiously reticent and locker rooms. about challenging the statements of the chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff. Ivette Cruz Weis, a spokeswoman for the district, said officials will listen to the The highest-profile pol to say homosexuality is not immoral? It’s MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Gay Kristine Vowels, a DISD administration committee’s concerns and address them former Navy secretary, ex-spouse of Liz employee, is pushing the district to as necessary. Taylor and current Republican senator rights activists demonstrated outside enforce its existing anti-discrimination “The district does not promote the Times Square Army recruiting policy. She wants the district to hire a di- from Virginia John Warner, who told discrimination against anyone regardless reporters Tuesday, “I respectfully but center Thursday, March 15th, to rector of LGBT initiatives and to conduct of what type of discrimination it is,” Weis denounce recent comments made staff training. strongly disagree with the chairman’s said. view that homosexuality is immoral.” by a senior U.S. military official. District offices were closed for spring Members of ACT UP New York, By John Wright, Dallas Voice break Thursday, March 15, and Weis Please see CLINTON, OBAMA page 15 an AIDS coalition, and other groups said no other officials were available for protested remarks made by the DALLAS, Texas - Kristine Vowels, comment. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a DISD administration employee, is Another member of the committee, Peter Pace. pushing the district to enforce its existing Youth First Texas co-founder Bob Speaking to the Chicago Tribune anti-discrimination policy. She wants Miskinnis, said the issue is critical the district to hire a director of LGBT because dropout and suicide rates for recently, Pace called homosexual initiatives and to conduct staff training. LGBT youth are three times as high as acts, “immoral” and said the United A teacher uses class time to talk for their straight peers. He also said States was “not served by a policy about how specific LGBT students are nowadays, many LGBT youth are coming that says it is OK to be immoral.” going to hell. out in their early teens. Protestors, including former A security guard calls an LGBT “I think our [the LGBT] community New Jersey Governor James student a “faggot” within earshot of hasn’t made it the issue it needs to be McGreevey say Pace’s comments school administrators, who do nothing made, and if we don’t, the youth aren’t were out of line and called the about it. The student subsequently drops strong enough to do it,” Miskinnis said. “I Military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” out. think we have to stand up for them.” policy unfair and discriminatory. An LGBT teacher is reprimanded Miskinnis said he is “pretty “He’s chairman of the joint for using his school’s video system to optimistic” that the district will take chiefs of staff and ironically, his disseminate information about the Gay- action. statement was a blessing in so far as Straight Alliance. “I don’t think that in the long run, it ripped apart the façade of ‘Don’t These are just a few examples of a big they can do nothing,” he said. Ask Don’t Tell’, ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ problem within the Dallas Independent Lambda Legal Regional Director at it’s core says gays are second class School District, according to LGBT Dennis Coleman, a member of the citizens. If you’re truthful as to who district employees and members of a committee, said DISD is not legally you are, you’ll be discharged,” said citizens committee. required to implement the policy. McGreevey. Kristine Vowels is a DISD However, if it does not, it runs the Earlier this week, Gen. Peter Pace, Demonstrators also say the administration employee who head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called risk of lawsuits from those who are policy is counter-productive for the started the committee to address the discriminated against, he said. “The homosexuality “immoral.” He later said problem last summer. Vowels said school district has been very lucky,” he shouldn’t have stated his personal military. the committee is demanding that the Coleman said. view. Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Stonewall News Northwest Page  Furor Over Baptist’s Reaction to Coulter’s ‘Gay Baby’ Article slur hints at shift in view of gays By Wyatt Buchanan, which distributes her column, demanding San Francisco Chronicle that it release her. Three corporations, including Verizon, stopped advertising on Coulter’s Web site after she made the When conservative commentator comment. Ann Coulter called former Vice President Al Gore a “total fag” on national television This follows recent controversies nearly a year ago, it barely caused a stir. over the use of the new “f-word” -- as some call it -- by actor Isaiah Washington Coulter’s recent labeling of and an antigay rant by NBA player Tim presidential candidate John Edwards as Hardaway. Washington apologized and a “faggot,” however, has triggered a huge announced he would go to “rehab,” and response, including a campaign initiated Hardaway lost endorsements and was today by a gay rights group and media penalized by the league. watchdog to persuade mainstream media outlets to dump her for good. Coulter wondered on the “Hannity & Colmes” show on the Fox News Channel At least four newspapers have on Monday about the difference between dropped Coulter’s syndicated column, the reactions this year and last. and 40,000 people signed an online petition to Universal Press Syndicate, Please see COULTER page 10

The right blasted the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr. for saying homosexuality may be rooted in biology. He also called it sinful and a treatable condition, angering the left.

By David Crary, AP biological causation” for homosexuality. Proof of a biological basis would NEW YORK, N.Y. - The president challenge the belief of many conservative of the leading Southern Baptist seminary Christians that homosexuality - which has incurred sharp attacks from both they view as sinful - is a matter of choice the left and right by suggesting that a that can be overcome through prayer and biological basis for homosexuality may counseling. be proven, and that prenatal treatment However, Mohler, president of the to reverse gay orientation would be Southern Baptist Theological Seminary biblically justified. in Louisville, Ky., was assailed even The Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., one more harshly by gay-rights supporters. of the country’s pre-eminent evangelical They were upset by his assertion that leaders, acknowledged that he irked homosexuality would remain a sin even many fellow conservatives with an article if it were biologically based, and by his earlier this month saying scientific support for possible medical treatment research “points to some level of Please see MOHLER page 15 Ann Coulter’s use of an anti-gay slur has caused a furor. MICHEAL CHAPPELL HAS MOVED TO

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NIC Schuler Auditorium, 1000 West Garden Avenue, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814 Page 10 Stonewall News Northwest Wednesday, March 21, 2007 coulter Defamation, the rights group starting a them to mean,” he said. “The very reason “The word I used has nothing to continued from PAGE 7 campaign to get Coulter’s voice out of that there is a furor is a pretty good do with sexual preference ... and unless mainstream media, said public opinion indication of how insulting that term you’re going to announce here on Dan Savage, editor of the Stranger, about anti-gay slurs is changing because was.” national TV that John Edwards, married a Seattle alternative news weekly, and gay and lesbian people are more visible Leaders in the gay community said father of many children, is gay, it clearly author of several books on his life as than ever. the Coulter fallout could become the had nothing to do with that,” Coulter said a gay man, said the reaction to Coulter “As this happens, those in the overall prototype for how the public will respond in an interview this week on “Hannity & could indicate a change in how people culture who don’t like that are going to the use of the term “faggot.” Colmes.” view gays. to raise their voices and become even “People are actually realizing this The explanation has not satisfied “I always thought we would be louder, and that’s why I think a lot of this word hurts and defames an entire her critics, including three Republican reaching a tipping point with anti-gay is going on,” Giuliano said. group of people, and having people presidential candidates, Rudolph Giuliani hate where it will no longer be acceptable, Ronald Butters, a Duke University other than ourselves standing with us is of New York, John McCain of Arizona and and maybe we are reaching that tipping professor who studies the changing very significant,” said Giuliano, whose Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. Edwards point now,” said Savage. meaning of taboo words in American organization is known as GLAAD. and Democratic National Committee Neil Giuliano, the president of English, said he doesn’t think “faggot” GLAAD is issuing a “call to action” Chairman Howard Dean also criticized the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against has become more or less offensive. today to its 40,000 constituents, asking Coulter. “Words mean what the public takes them to contact the heads of cable news And the Shreveport (La.) Times organizations and NBC and “call on on Thursday became at least the fourth them publicly to state that they will no newspaper to drop her column out of 35 longer feature Ann Coulter as an on-air publications that carried it. commentator.” “Today, we move past the rhetoric The Human Rights Campaign, and unproductive dialogue offered by another gay and lesbian civil rights Ann Coulter,” the newspaper’s executive organization, started a campaign earlier editor, Alan English, wrote in an this week to pressure the Universal Press announcement on the newspaper’s Web Syndicate and newspapers that publish site. Coulter’s words to drop her. So far, people Butters, the Duke professor, called have sent about 40,000 e-mails through Coulter’s explanation of her use of the the organization’s Web site. word “simply ridiculous and untrue.” “It just seems to me the conventional “It is always intended, I think, as wisdom around Ann Coulter till now has a derogatory term of one of the most been that the most important thing for pernicious sorts,” he said. anyone to do is ignore her, but I think we Thom Lynch, who leads San have a more serious problem here that Francisco’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual we are addressing,” said Joe Solmonese, Transgender Community Center, said he president of the Human Rights Campaign. does not hear the word used often among “This word ought to be seen as offensive gay men. and dangerous as any hate-based word.” “It’s not a word people have reclaimed Conservative gay scholar Andrew in any sense. If straight people use it in Sullivan, who heard Coulter’s comments the same way Ann Coulter did, people live, said she uttered it with “malice will get really angry about it,” he said. aforethought.” But equating it to other Still, some gay people are skeptical of slurs is a difficult comparison, Sullivan the condemnation of Coulter. said. “I don’t have a problem with people “Nothing has the power of the n- using the word ‘faggot.’ I use the word word,” he said. ‘faggot’ all the time,” said Seattle’s Savage. Coulter made the offending He started a public humiliation campaign utterance last Friday at a major gathering against former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick of conservatives, where she shared the Santorum, a Republican, after Santorum stage with several Republican candidates made derogatory statements about gay for president. men. But he does not think there should During her speech, a series of jokes be a campaign to silence Coulter. about Democrats, Coulter said, “I was “When we start acting like the going to have a few comments on the thought police, it plays into the right- other Democratic presidential candidate, wing paranoia that we are going to force John Edwards, but it turns out that you them all to say only nice things about us have to go into rehab if you use the word in public,” Savage said. “I think we would ‘faggot.’ So ... I can’t really talk about gain ground faster in the gay and lesbian Edwards.” civil rights movement if we drop the Sally Coulter has defended her use of the Field act of, ‘You like me! You really like term as a “schoolyard taunt.” me!’ “

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He first At a 1972 APA conference, Gittings the larger picture, and a sense that they themselves were making LGBT history in Austria, where her father was serving as met Gittings through the founding of recruited “Dr. H. Anonymous,” a gay a U.S. diplomat, according to Wikipedia. the short-lived Gay Academic Union in psychiatrist who appeared, masked, the grand sweeping tradition of Barbara Gittings. She attended Northwestern University, 1973. “She was a deeply principled highly on a panel to tell his colleagues why he courageous person, but also warm and “Barbara Gittings was, to my great where she first discovered her sexuality— couldn’t be open in his own profession. and first realized how few resources there focused. If she had any enemies, I never Gittings had joined the APA project at fortune, the first lesbian I ever saw,” met them.” Armstrong continued. “This was in were on the subject. the urging of Kameny, also a pioneer of Donations can be made in Gittings’ direct activism. 1971, when I was still in high school Gittings would serve on the founding boards of directors of many organizations, memory to Lambda Legal Defense and In her later years, Gittings continued and had never yet heard a good word about gay people. I happened to tune including the National Gay [ and Lesbian Education Fund. to help push for GLBT rights, and she ] Task Force ( 1973 ) and the Gay Rights — Also contributing: Bob Roehr was honored by GLAAD, Equality into the David Susskind show, during a Forum and other groups. In 2003 The segment on ‘Women Who Love Women.’ American Library Association presented Barbara made her famous statement: Gittings with its highest honor, a lifetime ‘Homosexuals today are taking it for membership, and in 2006 she received granted that their homosexuality is not an award from the American Psychiatric at all something dreadful—it’s good, it’s Association. right, it’s natural, it’s moral, and this is the way they are going to be!’ I completely “When GLSEN Chicago premiered believed her, and she has been my role the documentary Out of the Past—a model and guiding light since I was film profiling people who made great 17 years old. In later years we became contributions to LGBT history, and friends, but she continued to be high on following the rise of the present-day Gay- 123 E. Sprague Ave. • 2425 E. Springfield • Spokane a pedestal for me, as an activist. As the (509) 536-7001 • (509) 624-7522 • 1-888-624-7522 Straight Alliance movement—Barbara editor of HOT WIRE lesbian magazine, came as our honored guest speaker,” said I was further inspired by her work with Toni Armstrong Jr., a longtime Chicago the pioneering lesbian publication The activist now living in Florida. “She was Ladder. All that I wanted to do, she had Adult Videos • Magazines fond of saying she and her partner Kay done decades earlier—when it was so Adult Toys • Adult Games were ‘movement junkies,’ and as long as much scarier. 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Call: (509) 838-6859 No matter who you are or where you women. Washington State University OutSpokane are on life’s journey, you ARE welcome Call: (406) 758-6707 Call: (509) 217-1271 GLBA Student Group Web site: www.flatheadvalleyalliance.org/index.html Committee organizes annual Pride march and here! An Open and Affirming Congre- Eastern Washington University SAFE gation of faith in downtown Spokane. Fun, fellowship and socializing. celebration and other community events. Lesbian Avengers Students’ Alliance for Equality Web site: www.OutSpokane.com Informal worship at 8:30am, traditional Call: (509) 335-6428 Weekly meetings for students, faculty and worship at 10:30am. Located at 411 Web site: http://cubwsu.edu/GLBAP A direct action group focused on issues vital staff. Papillon S Washington St. (corner of 4th and to lesbian survival and visibility. Out There Call: Kat Olson: (509) 359-4253 Social support group for the transgender Washington) Call: (406) 523-6608 Web site: http://iceberg.ewu.edu/safe/safe.htm community. Call: 535-3155 Safer-sex information and supportive pro- Call: (509) 292-8852 grams for young men who have sex with Our Montana Family EMCC – men. Supporting Montana’s GLBT parents and PFLAG - Spokane – Women and Friends Emmanuel Metropolitan Call Melinda: (509) 335-6428 their children. Parents, Families & Friends Women-only activities and events in the Community Church of Lesbians and Gays E-mail: [email protected] Christian church with outreach to the GLBT Spokane area. University of Idaho Support group for parents, family, friends and Gay-Straight Alliance community. members of the GLBT community. Call: (509) 458-4709 PFLAG Billings Call: (509) 838-0085 Promoting a fabulous, positive and inclusive Meets monthly Sept. - May. Call: (509): 624-6671 Web site: www.emmanuelmcc.com Write: P.O. Box 4795, Spokane, WA 99202 environment for all people on campus and Call: (406) 255-7609 Web site: www.pflagspokane.org IDAHO encouraging individual growth and under- Friends of SAN standing by developing outreach programs, PRIDE! PJALS – Idaho for Basic Rights Fundraising organization for people living Peace and Justice Action improving visibility and recognition of queer Statewide lesbigaytrans civil rights advo- with HIV/AIDS to improve the quality of League of Spokane Citizen action group to work for civil and legal issues and history. cacy group. their lives. equality on basis of sexual orientation. Independent, membership organization Call: (208) 885-2691 Call: (406) 442-9322 Write: 1212 E. Front Ave. Spokane, WA 99202 building foundations for a just and nonviolent Call: (208) 343-7402 or, in Montana: (800) 610-9322 Gay/Lesbian Info Line world. NIAC – Call: (509) 489-2266 Call: (509) 838-7870 North Idaho AIDS Coalition TRI-CITIES PRIDE Celebration Immediate Crisis: (509) 838-4428 HIV/AIDS prevention, education and as- Group in charge of annual Montana June Planned Parenthood of Benton-Franklin PRIDE celebrations. GLBT Book Group The Inland Northwest sistance for people infected with, affected District Health Department by HIV. Call: (406) 442-9322 Discusses selected works at Auntie’s Bookstore HIV antibody testing and counseling. Confidential and anonymous HIV testing, at 7 p.m. the first Wednesday each month. Call: (208) 665-1448 case management, educational and referral Call: Clinic for Appt.: (800) 788-9128 Web site: www.nicon.org/niac Western Montana Gay & Lesbian Call: Julie Smith: (509) 838-0206 Administration: (509) 326-6292 services. Gonzaga University North Idaho College Call: (Pasco) (509) 547-9737, ext. 234 Community Center Pride Foundation/Inland Northwest Gay-Straight Alliance Confidential voice mail also. 127 North Higgins, Suite 202 GLBT Resource Center The Pride Foundation connects, inspires E-mail: [email protected] Missoula, MT 59802 For information and to contact resource and strengthens the Pacific Northwest River of Life organizations on the GU campus, Septem- GLBTQ community in pursuit of equality NIGMA - Metropolitan Community Church (406) 543-2224 E-mail: [email protected] ber-May. by awarding grants and scholarships North Idaho Gay Men’s Association Christian church celebrating diversity and HERO (Helping Educate Regarding Orienta- and cultivating leaders. Creating community by providing real affirming GLBTQ people. Sunday services at Web: www.gaymontana.org/wmglcc tion) gay-straight alliance. Call: Spokane office (509) 327-8377 or time social activities for gay men in the 11:30 a.m. (888) 575-7717 Moscow/Pullman area, visitors, and allies. SODA (Sexual Orientation Diversity Alliance) Call: (509) 542-8860 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] law school support group. WASHINGTON Website: www.pridefoundation.org Panhandle Health District Tri-Cities Chaplaincy/ Tri-Cities CARES Direct line: Bryce: 323-5847 STD/HIV testing, condoms, and other methods Columbia AIDS relief, education and support. Bi MEN Group Hospice of Spokane of birth control, physical exams, shots, cancer Ryan White CARE Consortium Survivor support group and HIV/PWA sup- Bi and bi-curious men and gay men who Physical, emotional and spiritual care for the screening, resource nurse voucher program, port group. enjoy and support bisexual men. terminally ill and loved ones; bereavement HIV care education and planning group. referrals to area resources and education. All Call: (509) 783-7416 Web site: www.egroups.com/group/bi-men-west support and HIV/AIDS counseling services. Call: Tarena Coleman: (509) 444-8200 services are confidential. Call: (509) 456-0438 E-mail: [email protected] • Kootenai County Call: (208) 667-3481 Equal Rights Washington ISCS – Rainbow Regional Community Center • Boundary County Call: (208) 267-5558 WALLA WALLA Fighting for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. Imperial Sovereign Court of Spokane Support services for GLBTQ community and • Shoshone County Call: (208) 786-7474 Blue Mountain Heart to Heart Call: (509) 251-1242. individuals exploring their sexual orientation • Bonner County Call: (208) 263-5159 AIDS prevention education, support and Call: (206) 324-2570 Web site: www.iscspokane.com Web site: www.equalrightswashington.org and/or gender identity. • Benewah County Call: (208) 245-4556 services. INBA – Call: (509) 529-4744 Call: (509) 489-1914 Web site: www2.stateid.us/phd1 GLSEN Washington State Inland Northwest Business Alliance Web site: www.spokanerainbowcenter.org Toll Free: (888) 875-2233 (pin #4744) PFLAG - Sandpoint The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education A Professional GLBTQ/Allied Business Alliance. Spanish: (509) 529-2174 Monthly luncheon meetings and annual com- SAN – Support, education and advocacy group for Network munity resource directory. Spokane AIDS Network Sandpoint gay people, parents, family and PFLAG – Walla Walla E-mail: [email protected] Call: (509) 455-8993 or friends. Support, education and advocacy group for Web site: www.glsenwa.org Write: PO Box 20163, Spokane, WA 99204 1-888-353-2130 parents, family, friends and members of the Web site: www.spokaneAIDSnetwork.org Call: (208) 263-6699 Voice mail: 509-455-3699 GLBTQ community. Promoting the health and Legal Marriage Alliance E-mail: [email protected] Planned Parenthood of well-being of GLBTQ individuals, their families Spokane County Domestic The Inland Northwest Working to achieve the right of same-sex Web site: www.inbaspokane.org Violence Consortium and friends. couples to marry legally in Washington. HIV antibody testing and counseling. Call: (509) 529-5320 Inland Northwest Equality A private, nonprofit organization with mem- Web site: www.lmaw.org bers from a variety of professions who have Call: Clinic for Appt.: (800) 788-9128 Write: 527 E. Oak A coalition of local individuals and organiza- Administration: (509) 326-6292 tions committed to progressing GLBT equality come together to end intimate partner Walla Walla, WA 99362-1248 Lesbian Resource Center and justice. violence. E-mail: [email protected] Resources and referrals, groups and events. Web site: www.wwpflag.0catch.com/ Monthly newspaper. Call: Krista Benson: 838-7870 Call: (509) 487-6783 LEWISTON/CLARKSTON Web site: www.icehouse.net/pjals/issues/inwe.html Spokane Falls Community College PFLAG - Lewis-Clark Seventh-day Adventist Kinship Call: (206) 322-3953 - The Alliance Support, education and advocacy group Integrity for Lewis-Clark gay people, parents, family Call: (509) 525-0202 Lifelong AIDS Alliance GLBT and allies group to provide a safe space; Gay and lesbian Episcopalians meet monthly and friends. Meets in Lewiston. Providing support, prevention and advo- to educate our community. for communion and simple meal. Call: (509) 758-6437 WENATCHEE cacy for people with HIV/AIDS. Call: Chuck: (509) 326-7707 or Ann: (509) Call: (509) 533-4507 SHINE Call: (206) 329-6923 624-6671 Spokane Human Rights Commission MOSES LAKE An organization that strives to eliminate all PositiveVoice Washington Lutheran Communtiy Services- Call: Equity Office: (509) 625-6263 forms of prejudice and discrimination by SafeT Response Center Spokane Regional Health District AACW – promoting awareness, education, and self- Advocates for programs and services Alternative Alliance of empowerment through the use of the arts. needed by people with HIV. Offers self-ad- Call: (509) 747-8224 Providing health services and referrals for the vocacy training. Crisis line (509) 624-7273 public. HIV testing. Central Washington Call: (509) 860-7354 Call: (888) 704-0099 Lilac City Men’s Project Call: (509) 324-1542 or 1-800-456-3236 A social and support group to help bring E-mail: [email protected] together people in the GLBT community. For gay and bisexual men; a frank and open Web site: www.spokanecounty.org/health Pacific NW Gay Rodeo Association forum about sex, self, safety and socializing. Stonewall News Northwest Write: P.O. Box 1282, For people who enjoy the country & western For more information about upcoming meet- YAKIMA Flagship publication for the gay and lesbian Moses Lake, WA 98837 lifestyle. ings and events: community and the Inland Northwest. PFLAG - Yakima/Yakima Valley E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.lilaccitymensproject.org Promotes the health and well-being of Web site: www.pacificnwgra.org Call: (509) 570-3750 PULLMAN/MOSCOW Northwest Fair Housing Alliance GLBT individuals, their families and friends. Fax: (509) 267-6309 Washington State GSA Network Private, nonprofit organization provides edu- Web site: www.stonewallnews.net Call: (509) 576-9625 Planned Parenthood of The Washington State Gay-Straight Alliance cation, outreach and enforcement assistance The Inland Northwest for those who have experienced discrimina- Rainbow Cathedral Metropolitan Network is a youth-led organization created HIV antibody testing and counseling. tion and the general public. Unitarian Universalist Church Community Church to help connect public and private GSA- Call: Clinic for Appt.: (800) 788-9128 An MCC Seattle parish extension. based clubs and other community groups Call: (509) 325-2665 or (800)-200-3247 Gay, lesbian resource committee. Administration: (509) 326-6292 throughout Washington State. Odyssey Youth Center Call: (509) 325-6383 Call: (509) 457-6454 Web site: www.uuchurchofspokane.org Washington State University Call: (206) 330-2099 Discussion/support group and social drop-in Gender Identity/Expression and Web site: www.wagsa.org center for GLBT and questioning youth. Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery Sexual Orientation Resource Center

To have your group listed in this directory, e-mail your organization’s information to Stonewall News Northwest at [email protected].

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If you are the first those in our community who have the disease of alcoholism Tuesday, April 3rd Meetings are informal potlucks at Northern Exposures Studio to arrive, ask the cashier where we can pull tables together and or addiction. on the first Wednesday and third Monday of each month. We for approx. 20 women. Then ask the cashier to direct arriving Phone: 624-1442 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm OutSpokane Meeting (at RiverPark work on projects to help the visibility of Spokane’s GLBTQA OWLS to that area. (Schedule for Jun, Jul, & Aug to be Square) Meetings are the Kress Gallery on the 3rd floor of community. Currently working on a local billboard project. announced) Contact: Ginny Thursday, March 22nd RiverPark Square each Thursday from 7:15 to 9 pm. Located Contact: Bonnie Aspen next to and behind the food gallery near the theater ticket Email: [email protected] outlets. Phone: 509.838.3866 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Queer Sounds Radio Show Contact: Christopher Lawrence Queer Sounds is an eclectic mix of GLBTQ music and Tuesday, April 17th Email: [email protected] Sunday, April 22nd commentary at 92.3 or 89.9 FM, KYRS “Thin Air Radio,” your Phone: 509 624-9639 local community radio station. Hosted by Irey and Bob. Call- 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm OutSpokane Meeting (at RiverPark in number is 747-3807. More Info: http://www.outspokane.com Square) Meetings are the Kress Gallery on the 3rd floor of 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EMCC Worship Service (at Bethany Contact: Irey RiverPark Square each Thursday from 7:15 to 9 pm. Located Presbyterian Church) Email: [email protected] Wednesday, April 4th Stonewall Goes To Press next to and behind the food gallery near the theater ticket Contact: Wayne Shull Phone: 747-3807 outlets. 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm OutSpokane Meeting (at RiverPark Contact: Christopher Lawrence Wednesday, April 25th Sunday, March 25TH Square) Meetings are the Kress Gallery on the 3rd floor of Email: [email protected] RiverPark Square each Thursday from 7:15 to 9 pm. Located Phone: 509 624-9639 next to and behind the food gallery near the theater ticket 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Pride in Sobriety Gay AA Meeting (at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EMCC Worship Service (at Bethany outlets. More Info: http://www.outspokane.com Bethany Presbyterian Church) Open AA meeting to support Presbyterian Church) those in our community who have the disease of alcoholism Contact: Christopher Lawrence and or addiction. 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CenterStage hosts this Contact: Irey LGBT activity night to showcase films that directly portray, Sunday, March 25th Sunday, April 8th Email: [email protected] support, nurture and challenge the LGBT community and allied supporters. Join us as we view feature films, shorts & Phone: 747-3807 10:30 am – 11:30 am [Kennewick, WA] River of Life MCC 10:30 am – 11:30 am [Kennewick, WA] River of Life MCC videos by the hottest national & international filmmakers of (at 2625 Brneau Place Ste A) our time. *FREE (excludes food & beverage) Join us for Live (at 2625 Brneau Place Ste A) Saturday, March 31st Music & a Spaghetti Dinner at ella’s before each showing! Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Cocktail Service Available More Info: http://www.riveroflifemcc.org More Info: http://www.riveroflifemcc.org 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Funky Junk Antique Show (at Contact: Deb Noah Paradise Grange) Funky Junk Antique Show Saturday, 6:30 pm [Yakima, WA] Rainbow Cathedral MCC (at 225 N 6:30 pm [Yakima, WA] Rainbow Cathedral MCC (at 225 N Email: [email protected] 2nd St) March 31 from 10-5 and Sunday, April 1 from 10-4 will be Phone: (509) 747-8243 ext. 114 2nd St) held at the Paradise Grange (16120 S. Keeney), north of Phone: 509/457-6454 Phone: 509/457-6454 Spangle and 10 miles south of Spokane, WA off Hwy. 195. More Info: www.SpokaneCenterStage.com (Watch for signs!) Featuring: Summerland, Julie Buttons, Location Details Monday, March 26th Forget Me Not, Yesterday’s Connection, A Charming Place, CenterStage Monday, April 9th Joy Harvest, Little Red Hen Pies, CHAPS coffee, music by 1017 West First Avenue 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm [Kennewick, WA] Rainbow Sobriety AA Heidi Jantz and friends and many suitcase fulls of vintage, Spokane WA 99201 7:00 pm [Walla Walla, WA] PFLAG Monthly Meeting (at repurposed and priceless treasures! Admission is $2. Any Meetings (at ROLMCC) First Congregational Church Fellowship Hall) questions? Email us at [email protected]. Contact: Edna Mae W. Contact: Carol Sunday, April 8th Contact: Hollie Eastman Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 509-546-2626 Phone: 509-529-5320 Location Details 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EMCC Easter Cantata (at Bethany Presbyterian Church) More Info: http://wwpflag.0catch.com/ Paradise Grange Saturday, March 31st Contact: Wayne Shull 16120 S. Keeney 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm [Kennewick, WA] Rainbow Sobriety AA Spangle WA 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm [Moscow, ID] The Prom You Never Went Meetings (at ROLMCC) Wednesday, April 11th To (at The Beach)This is an event sponsored by the U of Contact: Edna Mae W. 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm ISCS White Knight & Debutante Idaho GSA and the WSU GLBTA. It is a kick ass dance that Email: [email protected] Pageant 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Pride in Sobriety Gay AA Meeting (at everyone should come to even if they do not attend these Bethany Presbyterian Church) Open AA meeting to support two schools. It is starring the Bois of Boise, Miss Claudia, Phone: 509-546-2626 (at Dempseys Brass Rail) White Knight & Debutantes are those in our community who have the disease of alcoholism Aquasha, and featuring Krikit. This event is intended to be titles in the ISCS. These titles are open for anyone to run and or addiction. an event that allows and embraces diverse populations. It Sunday, April 15th for, however, you must join the ISCS before march 31st. The Phone: 624-1442 originated from the thought that many GLBTQ youth were Open Forum for the titles is March 21st. You must submit not welcome or comfortable enough to attend their own high your Letter of Intent to run for this title by March 21st. This 10:30 am – 11:30 am [Kennewick, WA] River of Life MCC schools’ prom. With an inclusive prom event like our Prom (at 2625 Brneau Place Ste A) is a great way to help our community raise money and have Thursday, April 12th You Never Went To, all people are welcome to attend in their fun! formals or other attire, in drag or tow, whichever is desired. Email: [email protected] Contact: Emperor Leonard 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Queer Sounds Radio Show Tickets are $7 for singles and $12 for couples during pre- More Info: http://www.riveroflifemcc.org Email: [email protected] Queer Sounds is an eclectic mix of GLBTQ music and sale. $10 singles and $18 couples at the door. Phone: 509-953-7803 commentary at 92.3 or 89.9 FM, KYRS “Thin Air Radio,” your Contact: Kristin Roberts 6:30 pm [Yakima, WA] Rainbow Cathedral MCC (at 225 N Location Details local community radio station. Hosted by Irey and Bob. Call- Email: [email protected] 2nd St) in number is 747-3807. Dempsey’s Brass Rail Phone: 509-432-6613 Phone: 509/457-6454 Contact: Irey 909 W First Ave Location Details Email: [email protected] Spokane WA 99201 The Beach 7:00 pm [Yakima, WA] PFLAG Monthly Meeting (at First Phone: 747-3807 Street Conference Center, 223 N 1st St, Yakima WA) 302 s main st moscow id 83843 A P R I L Friday, April 13th Sunday, April 22nd Stonewall News Northwest turns 15! 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CHAS HIV Educational Support Group 10:30 am – 11:30 am [Kennewick, WA] River of Life MCC (at Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS)) A P R I L (at 2625 Brneau Place Ste A) Sunday, April 1st Monthly educational/support group developed to help meet Email: [email protected] the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and their families Sunday, April 1st More Info: http://www.riveroflifemcc.org and friends in Idaho & Washington. The meetings will cover 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Funky Junk Antique Show (at the topic of the night & provide time for discussion and Paradise Grange) Funky Junk Antique Show Saturday, support between those attending. 10:30 am – 11:30 am [Kennewick, WA] River of Life MCC 6:30 pm [Yakima, WA] Rainbow Cathedral MCC (at 225 N (at 2625 Brneau Place Ste A) March 31 from 10-5 and Sunday, April 1 from 10-4 Contact: Tarena Coleman 2nd St) (Continued from March 31st listing) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 509/457-6454 More Info: http://www.riveroflifemcc.org Phone: 509 434-0313 11:00 am – 2:00 pm FSAN’s Palm Sunday Brunch (at Thursday, April 26th Dempseys Brass Rail) Annual fundraiser brunch sponsored 6:30 pm [Yakima, WA] Rainbow Cathedral MCC (at 225 N Saturday, April 14th by Friends of SAN. 2nd St) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm [Tri-Cities, WA] PFLAG Monthly Meeting Phone: 509/457-6454 Check website for meeting location 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Gay/Bi Men’s Bowling Group (at 9:30 am – 10:30 am PFLAG Moms Group (at Conley’s Restaurant) The MOM’S Group, an informal support Email: [email protected] Northbowl) Come hang out with the guys and bowl. Ten Monday, April 2nd bucks gets you three games of bowling and shoes. Space group welcomes and supports mothers (and occasionally More Info: http://www.TCPFLAG.org is limited, so reserve your spot early by calling Mark @ grandmothers!) of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered 879-8747. children. It meets monthly, on the second Saturdays at 9:30 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm [Kennewick, WA] Rainbow Sobriety AA Sunday, April 29th Contact: Mark a.m. for breakfast at Conely’s Restaurant on east Sprague. Meetings (at ROLMCC) Call the PFLAG help line 509.624.6671 for more information. Email: [email protected] Contact: Edna Mae W. Phone: 509-624-6671 10:30 am – 11:30 am [Kennewick, WA] River of Life MCC Phone: 879-8747 Email: [email protected] (at 2625 Brneau Place Ste A) More Info: www.lilaccitymensproject.org Phone: 509-546-2626 Email: [email protected] Sunday, April 15th Location Details More Info: http://www.riveroflifemcc.org North Bowl Friday, April 7th 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EMCC Worship Service (at Bethany 125 W. Sinto 6:30 pm [Yakima, WA] Rainbow Cathedral MCC (at 225 N Presbyterian Church) 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm [Yakima, WA] First Fridays (at 1st Street 2nd St) Spokane WA Contact: Wayne Shull Conference Center) Location Contact: Phylis Phone: 509/457-6454 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Stonewall News Northwest Page 15 schools “It’s quite nice when you can say Mohler said he was aware of the athletes you use the product you endorse,” Mr. invective being directed at him on gay- continued from PAGE 6 continued from PAGE 6 Amaechi said. “I have to shave my head rights blogs, where some participants every two days. I would love to tell you have likened him to Josef Mengele, the to acknowledge it, joining Billy Bean, it’s a style thing, but I have a bald spot.” Nazi doctor notorious for death-camp a baseball player, and Esera Tuaolo, a More seriously, Mr. Amaechi said experimentation. ‘The most that it was “good for young G.L.B.T. important thing these football player. “I wonder if people actually read Mr. Amaechi “is the perfect storm,” people,” using the abbreviation for gay, what I wrote,” Mohler said in a telephone books do is reflect said Todd Greene, chief executive at the lesbian, bisexual and transgendered, “to interview. “But I wrote the article HeadBlade Company in Culver City, see us not just in ads for drinks and H.I.V. reality for young medications but also in mainstream ads intending to start a conversation, and I Calif., which specializes in products think I’ve been successful at that.” children” for bald men, because “he’s African- as well, because we are mainstream American, a basketball player and gay, consumers.” The article, published March 2 on Elizabeth Atkinson, director of and those are all huge demographics for There may have been “a small amount Mohler’s personal Web site, carried a the No Outsiders project us.” of karmic justice” in Mr. Hardaway’s losing long but intriguing title: “Is Your Baby “And he uses the product,” Mr. Greene his endorsement deal, Mr. Amaechi said, Gay? What If You Could Know? What If said, adding that he learned Mr. Amaechi “but I don’t feel any joy.” You Could Do Something About It?” Jenny Lives With Eric And Martin for use was a “HeadBlader,” as Mr. Greene calls Mr. Amaechi said he “would like to Mohler began by summarizing some in schools led to an angry public debate. his customers, while deciding whether believe I would be eligible” to endorse recent research into sexual orientation, In response the government passed Mr. Amaechi would make an effective bigger brands like Gatorade, McDonald’s and advising his Christian readership Section 28, an amendment to the Local spokesman. and Nike, known for hiring athletes that they should brace for the possibility Government Act 1988, that prevented “You want to do due diligence on for ads, but “I’m not going to hold my that a biological basis for homosexuality local authorities and, by extension, who endorses your stuff,” is how Mr. breath.” may be proven. schools from ‘promoting homosexuality’ Greene described the research process. Mr. Wilke of Commercial Closet said Mohler wrote that such proof would or its acceptability as a ‘pretended that “the smaller and/or edgier brands Other HeadBlade endorsers include the not alter the Bible’s condemnation of family relationship’. The amendment singer Chris Daughtry, who appeared tend to be the ones that step up and do homosexuality, but said the discovery was repealed in 2003 and this is the first on “American Idol”; Toney Freeman, a something unusual” like signing openly large-scale attempt to put similar books professional bodybuilder; and Howie gay athletes as endorsers. “A large brand would be “of great pastoral significance, back into the curriculum. Other books Mandel, of NBC’s “Deal or No Deal.” may perceive itself as having something allowing for a greater understanding of on the list of recommended texts for the Mr. Greene declined to discuss how to lose if controversy should happen,” he why certain persons struggle with these schools, which have not been named, much the two-year deal would be worth added. particular sexual temptations.” include a story about a spacegirl with to Mr. Amaechi, although he said it would That aptly described what happened He also referred to a recent article in two mothers and a baby penguin with include shares in HeadBlade, a private to Snickers, sold by the Masterfoods USA the pop-culture magazine Radar, which two fathers. If successful, the scheme will company with revenue that he estimated division of Mars, after it ran an ad during explored the possibility that sexual be extended nationwide. at under $10 million. the Super Bowl. Gay activists complained orientation could be detected in unborn about the spot, which showed two men ‘The most important thing these In a twist, another company that babies and raised the question of whether makes men’s grooming products, Bald who had accidentally kissed reacting parents - even liberals who support gay books do is reflect reality for young by harming themselves. Masterfoods children,’ said Elizabeth Atkinson, Guyz, recently fired its first athletic rights - might be open to trying future endorser, the former pro basketball withdrew the commercial, created by the prenatal techniques that would reverse director of the No Outsiders project that TBWA/Chiat/Day unit of Omnicom. player Tim Hardaway, after Mr. Hardaway homosexuality. is being run by Sunderland and Exeter attacked Mr. Amaechi and homosexuals “The problem is that it was universities and the Institute of Education in sports, declaring on a Florida radio conditioning, modeling behavior,” Mr. Mohler said he would strongly (IoE) in London. ‘My background is in show, “I hate gay people.” Amaechi said, by showing that “real oppose any move to encourage abortion children’s literature and I know how Howard Brauner, chief executive, men” were supposed to feel conflicted or genetic manipulation of fetuses powerful it is in shaping social values and said in a statement, “Bald Guyz, like and horrified when two men kiss. on grounds of sexual orientation, but emotional development. What books do baldness, does not discriminate based on Asked if he would accept an offer to he would endorse prenatal hormonal not say is as important as what they do.’ lifestyle choice, color, education, financial endorse Snickers, Mr. Amaechi replied: treatment - if such a technology were Atkinson argued that leaving images of resources, religion, physical capabilities “I could show you how to react to two developed - to reverse homosexuality. gay relationships out of children’s books or any other way.” men kissing. Smile broadly.” He said this would no different, in moral was ‘silencing a social message’, and could In other words, the gay guy landed terms, to using technology that would end up with children being bullied later an endorsement contract after the restore vision to a blind fetus. in their school lives if they were gay or straight guy lost his. What next, a clinton, obama “I realize this sounds very offensive were perceived as gay. Atkinson and co- Snickers commercial in which two men continued from PAGE 6 to homosexuals, but it’s the only way a director Renee DePalma have received accidentally kiss and are completely cool Christian can look at it,” Mohler said. nearly £600,000 in funding from the about it? On Wednesday, Newsday repeatedly asked Obama if same-sex relationships “We should have no more problem with Economic and Social Research Council Mr. Amaechi’s endorsement deal that than treating any medical problem.” and backing from the National Union of were immoral. “seems to indicate a bit of a turning Mohler’s argument was endorsed by Teachers and General Teaching Council. point,” said Michael Wilke, executive “I think traditionally the Joint Chiefs a prominent Roman Catholic thinker, the Waterstone’s last week alerted its director at the Commercial Closet of Staff chairman has restricted his Rev. Joseph Fessio, provost of Ave Maria chain of shops to the titles that include Association in New York, which tracks public comments to military matters,” the representation of gay men and said Obama, leaving Capitol Hill. “That’s University in Naples, Fla., and editor of King & King, Asha’s Mums and Spacegirl probably a good tradition to follow.” Pukes and says it will start stocking them lesbians in marketing and maintains an Ignatius Press, Pope Benedict XVI ‘s U.S. if the pilot is successful. online archive of advertising imagery He turned the conversation to publisher. (commercialcloset.org). opposition to the military’s “don’t ask, “Same-sex activity is considered ‘Lots of fairy tales are about princes don’t tell” policy: “I think the question and princesses - why not two princes?’ “Society, and sports fans, are disordered,” Fessio said. “If there are becoming more used to gays,” Mr. Wilke here is whether somebody is willing to ways of detecting diseases or disorders said Mark Jennett, who is training staff sacrifice for their country.” involved in the pilot from 14 schools said, “and advertising is growing more of children in the womb, and a way of comfortable with gays.” Among the Later, an Obama spokesman said the treating them that respected the dignity and one local authority. ‘King & King is initial examples, Mr. Wilke cited a deal senator, in fact, disagrees with Pace. nothing to do with sex, it is about falling of the child and mother, it would be a in 2000 in which Martina Navratilova That sequence was remarkably wonderful advancement of science.” in love. Cinderella is not about sex - began appearing in a general campaign similar to Clinton’s responses Tuesday. the problem comes not from kids but for Subaru of America along with three When an ABC reporter asked her about Such logic dismayed Jennifer Chrisler the nervousness of adults.’ Jennett who other female athletes. the issue, she replied, “Well, I am going of Family Pride, a group that supports wrote Stand Up For Us, a government The campaign, by the agency now to leave that to others to conclude.” gay and lesbian families. document on homophobia, said the work known as TM Advertising, part of the Later, a Clinton spokesman said the “What bothers me is the hypocrisy,” was ‘cutting edge’ and teachers were now Interpublic Group of Companies, was senator, in fact, also disagrees with Pace. she said. “In one breath, they say the more likely to challenge children if they her first appearance as a pitchwoman So why the dance? Clinton and sanctity of an unborn life is unconditional, used the word ‘gay’ in a negative way. in national television ads. For decades, Obama supporters, speaking on condition and in the next breath, it’s OK to perform Critics say that the launch of the Ms. Navratilova had asserted that her of anonymity, said both might have medical treatments on them because of scheme shows that there is still a need openness about being a lesbian had cost been trying to avoid offending socially their own moral convictions, not because for Section 28 type legislation. ‘The her endorsements. conservative Democrats, particularly there’s anything wrong with the child.” predictions of those who said the repeal And in 2003, the Chili’s restaurant churchgoing African-Americans, who Paul Myers, a biology professor at the of Section 28 would result in the active chain featured Mr. Tuaolo in a TV share Pace’s views. University of Minnesota-Morris, wrote promotion of homosexuality in schools commercial by GSD&M, part of the Steve Sanders, a gay Democrat who a detailed critique of Mohler’s column, are coming true,’ said Simon Calvert, Omnicom Group, which came out a sat on the party’s platform committee in contending that there could be many year after he did. The spot was aimed spokesman for the Christian Institute. 2000, said Clinton and Obama are engaged genes contributing to sexual orientation ‘Let’s arrange a series of meetings around at mainstream audiences and identified in a delicate balancing act. “Hillary and him as “Esera, retired athlete.” Barack have made very public overtures and that medical attempts to alter it the country where parents of primary could be risky. school children can look at these books. The first ads featuring Mr. Amaechi to religious Americans. They are trying “If there are such genes, they will The majority would be aghast.’ for HeadBlade, being created internally, to figure out how progressive Democrats do not identify him as gay but carry can also make appeals to Americans of also contribute to other aspects of social Tahir Alam, education spokesman faith. It’s a work in progress.” and sexual interactions,” Myers wrote. for the Muslim Council of Britain, a headline with an intriguing double meaning, “Against the grain.” “Disentangling the nuances of preference agreed: ‘This is not consistent with from the whole damn problem of loving Islamic teachings and from our point of The ads will run in two magazines people might well be impossible.” view many parents would be concerned.’ for basketball fans, Hoop and Slam, mohler and appear on the HeadBlade Web site continued from PAGE 7 Not all reaction to Mohler’s article Other parents felt that children aged (HeadBlade.com) and MySpace page has been negative. four and five were too young for the (myspace.com/headblade). The ads are books. ‘I don’t know of many younger that could switch an unborn gay baby’s Dr. Jack Drescher, a New York City also planned for other magazines in sexual orientation to heterosexual. primary school children who would really which HeadBlade regularly advertises. psychiatrist critical of those who consider “He’s willing to play God,” said Harry homosexuality a disorder, commended understand what homosexuality is,’ said Mr. Amaechi, who is British, said Andy Hibberd, co-founder of the support he might make personal appearances Knox, a spokesman on religious issues for Mohler’s openness to the prospect that it group, the Parent Organisation, who has for HeadBlade as the company expands the Human Rights Campaign, a national is biologically based. sons aged seven and nine. ‘I don’t have into Europe. He spoke in a telephone gay-rights group. “He’s more than willing “This represents a major shift,” a problem with what happens between interview from Washington, where to let homophobia take over and be Drescher said. “This is a man who actually consenting adults, but I don’t believe it he was on a book tour for “Man in the the determinant of how he responds to has an open mind, who is struggling to needs to be forced on young children.’ Middle,” which he wrote with Chris Bull this issue, in spite of everything else he reconcile his religious beliefs with facts for ESPN Books. believes about not tinkering with the that contradict it.” unborn.” Page 16 Stonewall News Northwest Wednesday, March 21, 2007