NOW! LOOK FOR WISCONSIN LIGHT EVERY OTHER WEEK! VOLUME ONE, NO. 11—September 8, 1988—September 21, 1988 FREE Give the People Light and they willfind their own way. Iry The Wisconsin Light Light Inside... PRIDE • REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CELEBRATION UNDERWAY CONVENTION Two Weeks of Activities Applaud Lesbian/Gay Pride First Hand Report From The ML/GPC 1988 — New Orleans "Pride Commit- Committee. Concert and Dance being sponsored by tee" has put together a full array of On Friday evening, September 16 at 8:00 Meridian Music, New Moon Productions • HATE VIOLENCE activities for the two-week celebration. PM, the Crystal Palace (1925 W. National and Shafer Design. The sponsors have told Highlighted in the schedule will be the Avenue) will be the site of the Cabaret the Pride Committee that Milwaukee is in Often unreported but up opening day events on Saturday, Septem- for "one- hellava treat." Romanovsky & dramatically Page 2 ber 10 at Noon in the form of a picnic at Phillips, of national acclaim, will begin the Mitchell Park, Area 3. (This is just east of evening's cabaret show with their comedic the parking • WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE lot behind the domes in the 500 Rightfully routines aimed at our community. The block HEALTH CENTER of South 27th Street). The pavilion evening will conclude with dance music will be used for indoor activities and Inexpensive and one of provided by Amthyst on their return provide a place for members of the engagement to Milwaukee. This event Milwaukee's best kept community to be introduced to the various promises to provide a full evening of secrets Page 5 Lesbian and Gay community organizations. delightful entertainment and an opportun- These organizations represent the full ity for members of the community to get • A BOY OF SUMMER spectrum of the life styles and personal together for a fun-packed evening (most Reflections of the teenage interests of Milwaukee's Gay and Lesbian persons we have spoken with who have Community including Social, Sports, Music MILWAUKEE '88 seen or heard either group, indicated that sleepover Page 9 and Art, Cultural, Political, Business, this is a "must do" event). Religious, Civic, and general Community LESBIAN v GAY • On Saturday evening, September 17 PRIDE CELEBRATION Awareness. The picnic is being co- CELEBRATION members of the community will have an SCHEDULE Page 11 sponsored and hosted by the Saturday opportunity to participate in a Service of Softball League and the ML/GPC 1988 Honor and Respect for Gay Vets, Living and Deceased at the War Memorial on Earl, Garvey Support Federal AIDS AIDS Activists Zap Lincoln Memorial Drive at East Mason Street. An honor guard will present arms Funding, Non-Discrimination Law GOP Convention and taps will be played. Milwaukee County By Cliff O'Neill Supervisor Elizabeth Coggs-Jones will be Tony Earl, former Wisconsin governor Ed Garvey is providing a special citation to commem- running for the Democratic New Orleans- The GOP elephant was (1982-1986) is running on the Democratic orate this activity. nomination to the U.S. Senate from poised to sit on the large burr of AIDS ticket for the U.S. Senate seat being On Wisconsin. activism as it prepared to plant itself on Sunday, September 18 the three vacated by William Proxmire. major religious organizations in the Gay Garvey, a widely known figure in New Orleans for the Republican National Recently Tony Earl responded in writing Wisconsin and Lesbian community will co-host an politics, has a reputation as a Convention in August. There, thousands of to questions submitted to him by Wiscon- interdenominational religious service to be progressive and a fighter for causes that Republican delegates, politicians and me- sin Light on subjects of interest to the are held at 2:00 p.m.at the Village Church (130 not necessarily politically popular in dia types readied to face off with fifty of the Wisconsin Gay/Lesbian community. His this E. Juneau). The sponsoring groups include era that some would call "conserva- loudest AIDS activists in the country. The responses are exclusive to Light. tive." For this, he New Hope Metropolitan Community has received support plan: to make the elephant sit up and take Church, Dignity and Lutheran's Concern- notice. ed. The service will feature choral music to Whether it worked or not is question- be provided by members of Milwaukee's able. Politicians shrugged, delegates slug- two Gay and Lesbian singing groups — ged, activists chanted and the media got Fest City Singers and Cream City Chorus. them all mixed up. A special highlight of these two-weeks of But all of it started on a much quieter celebration and recognition of community note. achievement will be the Cocktail/Dinner Sunday, August 14, 1:50 p.m.: Mark Party featuring Mayor John Norquist as Kostopoulous walks through the hot, the Guest Speaker. At the evening pro- humid halls of the St. Marks Community gram, Norquist will be presented with the Center in his new white "Action=Life" Gay and Lesbian Community Goals — a tank top. It seems that the AIDS Coalition community activity which was undertaken To Unleash Power's now ubiquitous "Si- by "members of various Milwaukee Gay lence = Death" slogan was in need of a and Lesbian organizations." The cocktail TURN TO REPUBLICANS, PAGE 7 TURN TO PRIDE WEEK, PAGE 12 Mayor Norquist Appoints Moore to Safety Commission Tony Earl Ed Garvey Milwaukee Mayor John 0. Norquist Q: What is your position on federal AIDS from other political leaders. announced in a press release the appoint- funding? According to The Milwaukee Journal, ment of Bob Moore to the Safety Commis- A: AIDS is the gravest epidemic and July 31, 1988, former Wisconsin governor sion. challenge to our health care system in my Tony Earl said of Garvey that for him Moore is a well known member of the lifetime since polio. (Garvey) "winning isn't the important Milwaukee Gay/Lesbian community. I admire the courageous efforts of the thing. Being on the side of truth and justice Moore, 57, was appointed to a three-year Gay and Lesbian community to care for is the most important thing." term on the Safety Commission, which those who are suffering and educate others Garvey has been described by Charlie advises the city on methods of providing about AIDS prevention. By contrast, the Dee, himself a former candidate for for the safety of the public, the city federal government has been a profile of Congress, as running "the most Progres- employees, in traffic and other matters. cowardice. sive, issue-oriented campaign of all the Moore is director of the Executive MBA It is shameful that the Republican candidates (for the Senate). Program at the University of Wisconsin- administration in Washington and many Garvey is against aid to the Nicaraguan Milwaukee School of Business Administra- Republicans in Congress have treated Contras as well as opposed to further tion. He previously taught finance as an AIDS as a political football instead of a monies being expended for Reagan's assistant professor at UW-M. question of urgent medical priority. so-called "Star Wars" defense system. Moore is a member of the board of the Bob Moore As Senator, I will support whatever Garvey has stood for farmers, working Wisconsin Bicycling Association. He is vice Moore told Light "I've always been funding is necessary to find a cure and an people and other minorities, including president of The Village Church, a former involved in the political process, but this is effective preventive vaccine for AIDS. I will Gays and Lesbians. board member of the American Civil the first time I've ever held a political also support the sensible safeguards In a phone interview, Garvey told Light Liberties Union-Milwaukee Chapter and appointment. I'm looking forward to against discrimination recommended by that he would, as a senator, not only fully past president of the Harvard Businss serving the Norquist administration and the President's AIDS Commission but support the national Gay/Lesbian civil School of Wisconsin. He also served as a the people of Milwaukee. ignored by President Reagan. rights bill but that he would add his name member of the Carthage College Board of "I exepct to bring an emphasis on Q: Will you employ Gays and Lesbians to it as a co-sponsor. Trustees. bicycling safety," Moore told Light. on your Senate staff? When asked, all things being equal, A: As governor, I never asked any would he hire a person who was openly prospective employee about his or her Lesbian or Gay, he replied that "it was a We at Wisconsin Light are very pleased and proud to sexual orientation, nor did I ever make shame that we have to ask such a effective immediately we are now publishing sexual orientation a qualification for a state question." He then went on to say that a announce that job or appointment, even on issues dealing person's sexual orientation would have no every other week! felt such with Gay and Lesbian concerns. I impact on his judgement of their profes- Watch for our next issue, Thursday, September 22. TURN TO EARL, PAGE lb TURN TO GARVEY, PAGE 13 —WISCONSIN LIGHT-2 September 8, 1988—September 21, 1988 C Hate Crimes On Increase But Many Left Unreported By Sue Burke verbally abused, and 70% were afraid for or Lesbian. "Homosexuals are probably the most their safety as a Gay man of harassment, frequent victims" of hate violence, accord- There were 49 reports by police ing to the results of a study on hate crime threats or violence committed were from conducted last year by the U.S.