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Several hundred women will celebration (leatui g Ashkenazic and attend a Jewish Feminist Conference in San Sephardic music, ritual, poetry.storytelling, by David Lamble Francisco scheduled tor May 29-31 at Eve­ and bellydancing), and a reading at Old rett Middle School, 450 Church at 16th St Wives Tales presented by a Jewish lesbian On or about January 6.1984 Dan White is scheduled The three-day gathering, organized by a writers' group, have provided an opportun­ to walk out of a California state prison, having served Bay Area group of mostly Jewish lesbian ity (or Jewish women and their non-Jewish his manslaughter sentence for the city hall assassina­ feminists, will include a variety of cultural triends to come together and share a diver- tions of Harvey Milk and George Moscone November events, as well as provide a context for sit« ot cultures 27. 1978 coalition-building, networking, and "A form of antisemitism that I find most This month the Fruit Punch Gay men's radio collec­ shm oozing' among Jewish and non-Jewish pernicious is invisibility." observed confer­ tive presents a two part remembrance of the assassina­ participants, who are welcome to attend ence organizer Andrea Land Land told tions. the trial o f Dan White and the subsequent White conference activities on Sunday Coming Up! that until she began working Night Riot. The first program (May 19) rebroadcasts While in the past there have been many w ith women on the conference. Jews in the the documentary which won the Outstanding conferences held for Jews, and many for Bay Area women's com m unity were fairly Achievement in Broadcast Journalism. 1982 Cable Car women, there have only been a few for Jew­ invisible. "Jewish culture was also invisible, Award The program traces the career of Harvey Milk in ish Feminists The conference brochure even to Jewish women." she stated. "What his own words (in an exclusive interview recorded five states: "We hold this conference in the con­ we wanted to do. and have done, is to raise months before his death) and in the words of his close tinuing traditions ol lemmist and Jewish res- consciousness around the face that Jews friends and political allies istance. The Jewish community had are not one culture or one race. There are The following broadcast (May 26) is devoted to dis­ oppressed us as women and as lesbians, Ashkenazic Jews. Sephardic Jews, and covering why the May 21 White Night Riot lives as a and the feminist movement is often hostile Ethiopian Jews who are African people." second ‘'Stonewall" in the hearts and minds of Lesbian to us as Jews. . . We meet m this conference Early on in the planning of the conference and Gay radicals and left activists and why it's been toeducafe. to ignite our rage and to mobilize the organizers made the decision to pay as politically downgraded by the Gay political establish­ ourselves to fight against our own oppres­ much attention to their process as to the end ment and lingers in an ambivalent limbo in the minds of sion and the oppression ot others " result ot their work An internal education more conservatively orientated Lesbians and Gay men The focus of the upcoming conference is committee was (continued on page 8) The program also traces the legal fates of the May 21 prim arily secular: however, ritual 'spitirual/ Defendants and explores the forthcom ing civil trials in ethical concerns will be addressed which victims of the "police rio t" at the Elephant Walk throughout the weekend A variely of work­ bar seek to recover damages and gain a measure of shops will fake place on topics such as anti­ justice from the city of San Francisco and the dozen or semitism, internalized oppression. Jews in so police officers thought to have invaded the Castro other countries, particularly in the Middle Street bar that night. Those civil trials are expected to East, and awareness around class^race-'dis- begin in about six to seven months and represent the ability. and cultural differences within last legal chapter in the history surrounding May 21. the women's-commumty-at-large Both programs will be broadcast from 10 to 11 pm on According to conference organizers, KPFA, 94FM in Berkeley women are s till needed to facilitate What follows presents highlights of the May 19 workshops on revelant topics and broadcast, recalls the voice of Harvey, our collective can contact Yohimbe (at 824- night of rage, and looks to what it all means to our lives 7723), or Leah (at 540-0671 ext: as Lesbians and Gay men. (continued on page 2) 349) with workshop proposals. Since last July a core group of women have been preparing for the conference. 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Much more than an outdoors club.______Page 2 COMING UP! May, 1982 boy. the morning after' Ray Hill: (Houston activist and interviewer along Voices of May 21st with Lamble) Harvey, this enemy approach to the (continued from front page) whole thing, that sounds strangely familiar to other political movements, that there is an enemy Harvey Milk: tSan Francisco's hrst openly Gay out there, let us identify it and go after it Are you elected supervisor, man interview recorded June sure that's the sort ol thing that you're entirely 10. 1978 m Dallas. Texas) My fifsl press release, comfortable with? the first sentence, this was way back, the first time Harvey Milk: I'm not saying we re going after it. I ran in '73.1 got staying power, said Harvey Milk, just be aware of it. and let's go positively lo where white, male, Jewish, homosexual, age forty-three, we have to go. but be damn sure where we're announces his candidacy for the board of going and whose opening the door for us and supervisors coming into their room Be aware of your enemy' Harvey Milk: (Swearing-in ceremony on the steps One of the columnists in the San Francisco news­ ol City Hall. January 1978. a rainy dayi Anita paper said basically he was tired about all this talk Bryant said that Gay people brought the drought about Gay rights, and Gay rights, and Gay rights, to San Francisco, and look what's happening he was getting a little tired of it. why don't you be quiet about it lor a little, 'cause we have ours in Dianne Felnsleln: (November 27. 1978. on the San Francisco, so to speak And I said to'him steps ot the rotunda. San Francisco City Hall) As "The day you stop talking about freedom of press President of the Board of Supervisors, it's my duty is the day you don't have it. and for us not to to make this announcement both Mayor Mos- acknowledge the fact that there are people who cone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot want to pul us in jail is crazy The day we stop and killed (crowd reaction) The suspect is worrying about those people is the day we're Supervisor Dan White going to start going to jail. I don't devote my time Wayne Friday -.(Friend and advisor to Harvey Milk, defensively. I'm a very positive person. I'm a very in a recorded phone conversation at Milk's forceful, aggressive-type person who looks for apartment, within an hour ol the city hall shoot­ where we can go and tries to get there Some­ ings) There were no personal problems . there times I succeed, sometimes I fail I never let my were certain people on the Board that Harvey defense down, because I learned whai happened disagreed with politically and Dan certainly was wilh Hitler, with Germany He started with the one of them; he was. in my opinion, and this isn't burning of the books, the next thing was disallow­ Harvey’s, but in my opinion Dan was a stoned-out ing Jews to teach school, right, and that sounds homophobe awful familiar, just take the word Germany out Dr. George Soloman: (Psychiatrist who testified and put America in. take the Jew out and put Gay on behall ol the defense at the Dan White trial) Mr in. and you don't have to any other word. So. White was completely different, when I examined you've got to be aware of it, just can't walk away him. from what I thought he was going to be. ■I lo City Hall about eight o'clock I made the were telling you lo gel out of the street, and then from that issue. There’s issue that people don't although I never would have said it publicly, on decision to go inside and phone a quick report they came in the bar and said get out of the bar want to talk about, saying whal you're talking the basis of reading the newspaper articles I back to my station in San Jose By the time I You were right in the middle of the whole mess about, and that is the potential ol violence Vio­ expected a paronoid. hostile, super-macho, pos­ returned trom the second story press room, all Peter Plate: (One ol the last two ol the May 21 lence lakes place. And I |ust heard this week that sibly latent homosexual, homophobic, suspicious hell had broken loose defendants to have his case disposed ol. Plate there was a Gay person killed in Houston, because individual I had certain preconceptions I was Amber Holllbough: (Lesbian activist, speaking on was lound guilty of a misdemeanor lor breaking he was Gay, and to say that doesn't take place, totally and completely wrong the steps ot City Hall/uSt before the not broke out the window ot a police car in the Civic Center He well violence works the other too. and we've got to Dr. Thomas Szasz: (Libertarian-oriented to the chants ot "The people, united, will never be spoke at the May 21 Demonstration in 1981 ) Now talk about it. to try and stem it So. I believe talking psychiatrist and critic ol the Dan White verdict, defeated'") But Dan While ate a Hostess Twinkie many of you have spoken of Harvey Milk I would about the enemy, talking aboul violence, talking recorded at the Mission High School auditorium Now I say. it's time to pass out the candy It's time like to speak of Billy Budd Now when I came out about the negative things, tha' people know that June 19. 1979) The most prominent, self-declared we stood up tor each other. Thai's what Harvey of jail, after the May 21 riot, with my multiple they exist, but I believe in doing the positive homosexual politican in America is killed by four meant to us. He wasn't some big leader He was felony charges hanging over my neck, I looked at things shots, two of them fired into his head as he lies one ot us. I don't think it's wrong tor us to leel like the San Francisco Chronicle and there I saw the Holly Near: (Singing) Did homophobia shoot our fatally wounded, the killer is the Mayor 's assassin we do I think we should leel like it more often names ot Billy Budd and Peter Plate, wahted tor friend, is that why Harvey died?/l! could have who reloaded his gun after the first killing That is tCheers) It's about time that Gay children who are incitement to not Billy Budd was a co-defendant been me. but instead it was you./so I II keep doing not a political crime either, says the prosecutor coming up. it's about time that we prepared a of mine...He committeo suicide in San Bruno the work you were doing, as if I were two /I'll be a Thomas Norman Are you surprised’ What else place for them We need to be together' We need tail I’ll never forget Billy Budd even though I student of life/a singer of songs./a farmer of food. do you expect? In an America poisoned by psy­ lo be strong' (Answer trom crowd We are hardly knew him, because that's one of the people and a righter of wrongs./lt could have been me. chiatry. nothing counts as a political crime together! We're strong1) Don't you listen to any­ I see my name in the newspaper with, who is no but instead it was you... body who tells you that you don't need to light back' iChants ot: Fight back' Fight back') Amber Holllbough: I At May 21 demonstation. May 21. 1981) One ol the things that really struck me was how much in the last two years, the (act that Harvey and Moscone were shot by Dan While was a crime against Gay people, has been lost in the media—it always appears as a tragedy against city oflicals. rather than a murder ol homosexuals and a man who fought around homosexual rights So it's very interesting to see how it gets, shall we say. "whitewashed'' in the paper It occurs to me that part ol what is occurmg now in this country, is an attempt, not only to white wash this, but to make homosexuals not "queer " We can be Gay. but we can't be too queer And even here that’s happening People like Falwell are clear in saying that they don't hate homosexuals at all, they only hate homosexuality So if we re prepared to do what it is that we do. that we know is a perversion, in the privacy of our own bedrooms, then it’s per­ fectly all right that we exist in San Francisco, or Milwaukee, or St Louis or almost any other place But it's when we define ourselves outside of a heterosexual society, when we proclaim our­ selves. actually the possessors ol our own erotic needs lor people ol the same gender, it's exactly at that point that we lose so-called credibility. Well, that's a credibility that I'd just as soon lose, Carl Carlson: (Friend and aide o l Harvey Milk, in since my oppression comes from other people's Milk's ollice at the time ol the shooting) When he misunderstanding of that erotic and passionate came out of the office after the shooting, had I had 'need for women, rather than anything incorrect any idea that he had killed Harvey. I would have or unnatural in that behavior In fact, the hetero­ probably grabbed him right then and there, and sexual society it seems to me. that assumes that then there would have been real bloodshed I'm that’s a natural thing for everyone that partici­ sure, probably In a rage, I would have killed him pates m it. oppresses the heterosexuals in it as (Dan While) myself It isn't a very nice thing to well as oppressing us. since it's the model that say; but it isn't a very nice thing to lose the most makes women lack control of their own bodies, dynamic, the most incredible individual you've men be men—an unfortunate thing none of us know m your life, and be about six feet away from would want to claim in the same way that it's him. when he's blown away from you. executed usually meant in this culture, even if we claim the not just murdered, but executed right to be male lovers It seems lo me that one of David Lamble: ( Writer and producer and narrator the reasons that we re here is to try and remember lor the documentary) The time is Monday. May what was important about that revolt, which as far 21. just after five-thirty in the afternoon, but this as I'm concerned was one of the proudest things will not be an ordinary rush hour in San Fran­ I've ever been a part of We don't want that vision cisco, as the news of the Dan White verdict hits of a culture We are. in fact, the refugees from that the street about the same time as the commuters vision, the people that have managed to salvage The news of the voluntary manslaughter verdict some part of our passionate possession of our­ travels last, especially through the Gay Castro selves. so that we could claim that there was Village (Head with sounds ol marchers and cries another way to be,'both in our bodies and our o l "We want lustice'" in the background) Castro culture has been the launching pad for practically every David Lamble: The San Francisco Civic Center major Gay and Lesbian march in San Francisco wasn't the only scene of riotious activity on the for at least the past two years Hazvey Milk night of fury Sometime between midnight and believed that the marches helped to vent anger one a m Castro Street was visited by dozens of and frustration over civil rights defeats and other police officers, some reportedly from nearby Bay forms of injustice inflicted on Gay people This Area cities The accounts are not entirely clear as night would not witness that type of safety valve to what kicked off what Gay people refer to as the march, however This evening's march on City police invasion of the Elephant Walk gay bar at Hall would quickly develop into what the San 18th and Castro. Police sources claim that bottles Francisco Examiner headlined the next day as A were.thrown from inside the bar Some gay peo­ NIGHT OF FURY Riots, in some respects, are like ple m the street and in the bar say. on the con­ the human equivalent of earthquakes and they're trary. the police incursion into the Elephant Walk about as easy to report in any kind of coherent, was unprovoked One person added that ironi­ linear way. The not had its spillover effects into cally. the persons in the bar may have been there nearby neighborhoods Some of the trashing precisely because they wanted to have nothing to appeared selective, that directed against some do with any riotious scene, either at Civic Center banks and other institutions of authority and or in the Castro neighborhood. power Other incidents appeared to be mere punk Bartender: What set it off was there were a couple trashing (Against chants o l 'He got away with of bottles or glasses thrown from somewhere on murder ’) One's view of the City Hall riot was the street, just a small handful There was nothing often a matter of luck I had been marching along thrown out of the bar. because I was standing in with the crowd, holding up my cassette recorder, the doorway. I would have gotten hit by it if it had hoping to capture the sounds of the kind of Gay been thrown out. And they just attacked every­ march I had heard so much about While the body They were telling you to move and get out mood of the crowd marching down Market Street of the bar. but they weren't giving you a chance lo BUTTON-FLY LEVIS AT UNBEATABLE SAVINGS was obviously a mood of anger and frustration. move, they were just hitting and clubbing and blue

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by Carmen Vazquez This May. The Women's Building, her to San Francisco and find women talking find ways of creating new visions staff and supporters celebrate three years of about the women's community. Where is it? The Women's Building opened her doors struggling with and working towards the In the Duboce Triangle, in the Haight some, in April of 1979. Her staff and that of San vision of becoming reality, of collective in the Mission, in Berkeley How's a com­ Francisco Women's Centers (sponsors and work, of many people Coming together in munity get to be in so many different pla­ primary organizers of The Women's Build­ one place to give their art and politics the ces? Oh. it's about a vision really, not a ing) were woolen of diverse racial and eth­ unique expression of a culture they can and place. A vision Mystical? No. p o litic a l- nic identities, class backgrounds and p oliti­ do call feminist, global, revolutionary: the feminist. Forget it. I'm not interested in cal ideologies who struggled with each move towards and into a new cycle being "Feminine" I leave SF and hit the road other and with the conflicts and contradic­ The Women's Building is also a reflection again in search of "women's com m unities" tions inherent in organizing a predominantly of American reality in 1982: a poor but none­ and everywhere it s the same story: lots of white and middle class Feminist Center in theless "private sector" enterprise that vision, more feminist politics, no place in the midst of The Mission, a predominantly must deal with deficit budgets, cutbacks particular to organize from On my second third world and working class community and a precarious survival. She is a bold arrival in S.F. I did find a place: 63 Brady Bridging the chasm between the two would attempt by the largest group of "have nots" Street, home of San Francisco Women's not have been possible without the active in America to have their own place She is Centers. Chintzy place. Two teeny offices involvement of women of color who have one more version o f poor folk, this time and one cluttered dropun room where I constituted 50% or more of The Building s women, chasing after the American Dream couldn't smoke, find an apartment or a job. staff since it's inception. Many of my sisters a place of our own where we get to call the White women buzzing around. The phones have come and gone from the Building. We shots and be ourselves, a place bought on don't stop. Nobody talks to me. Forget them have, in varying degrees, felt frustrated and credit and sustained by the sacrifice of I scrap community and politics and visions. I angry by the seemingly impossible chal­ Carmen Vazquez those willing to roll up their sleeves, tuck in find a Black Lesbian therapist (the only one lenge of giving leadership to an organiza­ their belts, dig in and w ork.. .create their tion whose base of support has historically Reproductive Rights. She does on-going own reality. And finally. The Women's Build­ been of another race and class. We have coalition work with the All People's Con­ ing is a central meeting place for thousands ! ns it Fla ta •'* r challenged and critized, we have helped gress. the Action Committee for Abortion Anniversary of people who militarily refuse to accept or build this woman's community place, we Rights (ACAR). Casa El Salvador. Women's be defined by the comsumerist, dog-eat- ; M :s . S. Si SB have given The Women's Building a diver­ International League for Peace and Freedom dog. get-to-the-top-any-old-which-way- sity of cultural and political expression that (WILPF). and with N O W for International Celebrations you-can values of the patriarchal, capitalist it would have never had without us. We con­ Women's Day's "Women's Day in the Park". The San Francisco Women's Building hosts a political system that governs America. She tinue to do so Not all of her coalition work is easy to pin­ variety of events throughout the month, listed in is a vision cloaked in a fabric of many colors, The conflicts, dialogues and struggle of point. but it goes on constantly on many our centerfold and weekly calendars This month woven with contradictions. I know. I have that first year led to a merger of SFWC and levels, on many fronts they've planned some very special events to cele­ been a worker there for the last two and a Women s Building staff and to the articula­ She has sponsored several new Women's brate their third year of operation: half years tion of this purpose For The Women's Projects, among them: The Women's Foun­ I am a Puertorican. a Lesbian and a Building. dation, The Women's Philharmonic. AMES May 8 • The Human Race — |Oining SFWC/WB & Feminist. My identity is rooted in the ao's in the City) and white lovers who need The Women's Building exists to facil- (Association of Salvadorean Women), and over 100 SF non-profit organizations and walk and pa's of Caribbean Spanish, in congas "space", where I don't know, and don't want most recently. VIDA Gallery, a women's art and/or run in ihe spring fundraiser spons by the iate and participate in the collective SF Volunteer Bureau Support the Women's Bldg and cuchifritos, in the projects and spang- me as their "prim ary" relationship. Forget strength of women working together for collective by hiking/running along ihe Marina, across lish and driving salsa beat of El Barrio in the them too. I leave S.F. one more time and change towards a non-oppressive The Women's Building has been and Golden Gale Bridge and back. 70% of pledge City of New York. Like so many jibaras from return to The East where the women's society. She exists to provide a political continues to be a place where those who money raised goes lo Ihe Women's Bldg lo help the hills of Puerto Rico whose parents came community is in the bars o r in college. At and cultural center where women and have been disenfranchised from the Ameri­ keep it alive To get involved. Call Janice Toohey to America in search of prosperity and eager thirty. I'm bored with both. By now. it's been other oppressed peoples can freely can Dream have been able to express our at 431-1180 to embrace the American Dream, I spent four years since I buried the "American express themselves and work towards rage and humiliation, ourstruggle and ourvisions May 9 • Open House! Come celebrate the Build­ years geting schooled in the virtues of Dream" I have twice traversed America. I the common goal of a non-oppressive We haven't always liked each other and ing's opening 3 years ago on Mother’s Day. any­ America where everything is possible if not am a poor Puertorican Dyke with one degree society. there are conflicts we have yet to resolve. time between l-6pm Bring everyone you know' free so long as you just work hard and have in literature and another in education, with Despite a second year fraught with vio­ But for me and all the others who can't or Entertainment includes The Womens' Experimen­ faith. I grew up to learn that the benefactors experience as an educator, administrator lence (a fire by arson in February of 1980. won't aspire to the American Dream, she tal Theater ot OPTIONS for Women Over Forty. of the American Dream were overwhelm­ and counselor who won't be white, straight, two bomb threats and an actual bombing in needs to exist. Les Nickelelles. The Lesbian Chorus. Rose Mit­ ingly white, male and rich, that they always a dumb spic or any damn man's assistant I October. 1980) and a continual state of eco­ My work at The Women's Building has chell (poetry). Deena Clevenson (songs and dan­ were, and that their "prosperity” is built on am close to despair. I consider suicide but nomic "crisis". The Women's Building has. given me an opportunity to work through ces). a slideshow on Mothers. Daughters and Lul­ the broken backs of my own people and because old catholics can't consider suicide the vestiges of my own American Dream labies. and more Admission is free, childcare in fact, been fulfilling her purpose. available, and donations will be happily accepted' anybody else they consider less than them­ without also considering hell. I try San She has. these last three years, sponsored delusions, she has been a place where I selves Too bad for me and the other Jiba­ Francisco one more time And finally, on my or co-sponsored The Arms Race vs The have found support to help create and May 26 • Women's Building Leadership Lun­ ras. for all the poor people of America: The third arrival in the city of hills I find a Human Race Conference. "Song of the express both new ways of working and my cheon with guersl speaker Nlozake Shange. American Dream is a lie. women's community place: The Women's Canary "—a forum on occupational health. own visions of a revolutionary society where author ot For Colored Girls Who Have Consi­ So I kill the dream, say bye-bye Big Apple, Building. The Sexual Minority Youth Conference. The everyone does count, where people do live dered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enul hit the road, search fo ra new dream I come I write of my own disillusion with The International Children's Festival. The Black and work cooperatively with respect for Women's leadership awards will be presented to Palsy Fulcher. Mildred Hamilton. Joyce Maupin. American Dream because I believe that the Lesbian Conference. The New Jewish each other and all life. m ajority of women who work for. as well as Whether or not The Women's Building Pal Norman and Rosa Perez tor their special con­ Agenda's Purim Celebration—a benefit for tributions to the women's community in the areas the people who use and support. The Argentine Political Prisoners. The Women continues to be such a place depends on ol urban affairs, journalism, labor, health and Women s Building have a similar story to Arrested Conference. The R2N2 National how willing the Feminist and Progressive gay/lesbian rights, and education. The luncheon tell. We are people who have been excluded Network on Reproductive Rights Confer­ Political Communities of the Bay Area are to lakes place at the Mark Hopkins Hotel Call 346- from and exploited by a political and ence. The All People's Congress Western put their time and money where their hearts 1215 for complete details. economic system that predicates wealth for Regional Conference, a Benefit for Harriet and politics supposedly are The economic a few at the expense of many and rams the Davis and a variety of other events. reality of The Women's Building is the eco­ But she needs thousands more If you American Dream so deeply into our minds She has worked in political coalition with: nomic reality of all poor America: she believe in her existence and purpose and and hearts that it takes years to unravel what Local #3 during the Blue Shield Strike and spends more than she makes and time is you're not a member or sponsor, come to it has taught us to value and years more to done major organizing for the Coalition on running out on credit. 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P E N N Y L A N E Letters A B A R B E R SHOP Where Has All frequently dangerous Turning on lo uniforms The Liberation Gone has no necessary relation lo supporting any sort values, bul you cannot be sure Ihe lesbian com­ 3493 19th ST. AT VALENCIA ol violence You show no understanding ol Ihe munity will trust or support you Formerly lesbian I am a gay man. while, age 28. and have been reality ol SM bisexuals usually cherish their lesbian friends 6 4 8 -9 8 4 7 going lo gay bars in San Francisco (or nearly 6 The clone lifestyle may not be the same as Gay and Iheir involvement In the lesbian community, years I have never been denied entrance lo any Liberation but neither is the queen lifestyle In all and can realistically (ear coming out ol Ihe bisex­ place in all that lime. this suite lei us not forget that we all queer and we ual close!. II can cost you your lesbian friends— WASH & WEAR STYLES On Sunday evening. April 18th. I attended lea are all human We don't have lo dress the same or and lhat hurts “X 6 * * „>>' **■ e* °*s behave the same bul we should try lo have mutual TOR WOMEN AND MEN dance al Ihe I-Beam I was treated with usual Meanwhile, bisexuality doesn't exempt us Irom courtesy given any customer and even treated lo respect: we should make some effort to under­ stand our differences and co-operate in our mut­ heterosexual oppression In terms ol homopho­ a beer on the house, by a bartender When I left bia on the job. in our families and among our ual interests. Ihe I-Beam I met a friend on Haight Street We triends, there is olten little difference between decided to try the new baron Haight called TRAX bisexuality and exclusive lesbianism That we I had occasionally gone there in the past when it Sincerely. Keith Ryder have heterosexual relationships doesn’t mean GROUP PROBLEM SOLVING was called 'The Question Mark" we re thrilled with Ihe straight community—into My Inend entered TRAX just ahead ot me with­ which we-lit only marginally. Sometimes we do Elizabeth LEGAL CLINIC out the slightest difficulty. To my disbelief I was Fag-Basher Mentality choose to remain silent about loving women asked for proper 10 at file door I produced a Coming out isn’t always a sale thing lo do. Bul we W. Callaway MONDAYS 7 - 9 : 3 0 P .M . valid California drivers license with my photo on Dear "friends". often lake advantage ol being in straight envir­ h.f moseley roa.Jd if The door man examined if. then insisted on Someone isn't playing lair, and I'd like to know onments to speak up lor lesbians. more I D before I could enter |usl who it is. I wasn't so much upset by the Red Perhaps Ihe obstacle lo mutual understanding Attorney at Law Now really. I haven't looked under 21 in years Queen's monthly attack on Ihe Caslro Street lifes­ is lhat ihe complexities ol human relationships and since when is a California drivers license not tyle (I mean, what else is new?), as I was to see it don't always lit neatly into political models. ■ r £ : - acceptable prool ol l.D. Ihe lealured story on page one ol Ihe April issue. Whatever our background, we're all part ol Ihe Property ow ners’ agreements I was not drunk, improperly dressed or acting in Being something ol a clone myself. I can only women's community, which means a great deal lo Marvin agreements an improper way I’ve often heard ol bars demand­ wish that Red would learn lo lake a little better aim us We're concerned when we leel excluded. To 2120 MARKET ST., SUITE 101 ing several I.D.'s from women and blacks, but I'm when she's (Doesn't enyone.on yourstaff find that W ills - Partnerships those, especially in the lesbian community, (415) 864-5010 a gay white male trying to enter a gay white male politically offensive? It was my understanding who've trashed your sisters lor being bisexual Corporations, Close & Nonprofit that the whole concept ol "queen" was insulting HOW DARE YOU! Have you forgotten whal it's Then I realized what made me unacceptable in to women: what gives?) out tiring pol shots like lo be ostracized and excluded lor your sexual the eyes ol the doorman. I have shoulder-length note LaCosles and jeans are practical and durable: it's preferences? Planning ahead hair and I do not lit into Ihe popular clone look that simple. A short haircut is easy to maintain, II you'd like information on our rap group, or may save you time This bar. prior lo becoming TRAX. had a rather several women will no doubt vouch lor that. As lor would like these issues discussed in a public and-money later! dubious reputation as a hangout lor hippie bur­ the Drummer article... I'm beginning to suspect (orum. call (he Bisexual Center al 929-9299. £aughing nouts. They closed, remodeled, reopened, and that only a handful actually read il: the rest got Thanks lor listening We'd love lo hear Irom are now trying lo attract a clone clientele their information on hearsay as to what was in it g o d d e s s I could go on and on bul Ihe fact remains that » Mediation « obvious I don't fit the image I’m sure it I had short oppression is when someone gets trampled on grotto hair and dressed as though I had just spent $500 Doesn't matter who's getting trarppled; it's still Some ol ihe Women ol the 41 IS TELEGRAPH AVE. at All American Boy I would have never been oppression. Unless (here's something intrinsically Bisexual Center Women's Rap Group OAKLAND. CA 94609 asked for I D reprehensible about Ihe clone lifestyle. I'd just 506 Fifteenth Street (415)653-4169 A few days later I found several other long­ love to know where Red & Co. get oil telling me— haired gay men have been refused entrance to or anyone else, lor that matter—what constitutes Oakland, CA 94612 TRAX My case is not an isolated incident a "meaningful" lifestyle. I'm content with mine, Merle Woo Denied Tenure We as a community have asked society to and I certainly don't go around running down (415)834-2591 MANIC CRAFT STORE. INFORMATION CENTER GALLERY accept our right to be different, and in many ways anyone else's way ol life Perhaps Coming Upl Merle Woo. a socialist lemimsl. member ol Radi­ that acceptance has been granted viewed Red's article as screamingly tunny, in cal Women, and a lull-lime humanities lecturer in But now the community we’ve created is so which case you've done a grave disservice lo your Ethnic Sludies/Asian American Studies. U.C. up-tight about looks that we've denied each other readership (not to mention some ol your adver­ Berkeley, is now lighting lor her job. She was the right lo be individual. Not all gay men want lo tisers at lhat) by implicitly saying. "Hey. it's okay promised Security ol Employment and yet she be clones Some gay men just want lo be tree to ridicule people different Irom you." Add a lead received notice that she will be terminated alter i \ B \ V Where has all Ihe liberation gone? pipe to that, and you've got yourself a fag-basher June. She is being tired because she is a radical Helix mentality. leminist. a lesbian, and a community activist al a i V E W Don Fenton It's just not tunny, gang. You owe all ol us. clone lime when the conservative trend is lo terminate or not. a big apology tor running such garbage— or demote lecturers al all U.C. campuses. She is \ e X fr ^ H e lix and you owe yourselves Ihe promise lo be a little being tired despite ihe lad that she has excellent Feminist Rhetoric in Disguise more politically aware when choosing your Iron! student ratings, has published widely in Third watersolable page material. World, women's and scholarly publications, and I find myself consistently horrified by opinions ______Stephan Martin has encouraged students lo be actively involved H e lix such as those expressed by Ann Mendith in her in Ihe community. grease/ssi/} LTBRICA.VT Iasi month's letter on the Labyris labor dispute o d o rle s s She assumes, as do many others in our commun­ Black Plague to Red Queen Since 1978. I've been teaching classes on Asian If your favorite ity. that it is a privilege to be an employee in a women. Third World women, Asian American d e a r so-called feminist business, and. therefore, Fascinating me more than the subjective Culture & Arts, literature, and creative writing I resource Is "unsisterly" to protest unfair working conditions "humor" ol Iasi month's article on the way to was also coordinator/instructor in the Asian The right to organize, the right to demand become a clone is Ihe author's own story. He that American Studies (AAS) Six Series, a 3-quarter temporarily equitable pay scales, health benefits and grie­ would pen a biling satire as such so alarmingly sequence which satisfies English requirements vance procedures have been and remain hard- void ol empathy. Within this series an innovative, collective form ol outofHeli.v fought struggles. These rights are not signed On any given night one may find him propping peer tutoring is used. Undergraduate students, away when you go to work in a women's business1 himsell up like a box ol laundry detergent in one who have background in Asian American Studies SEXD $6*50 Yet. Ms. Mendith calls these demands "selfish.” ol many bars on the cruise circuit. Not quite hav­ and leaching basic English skills, tutor students and can’t understand why Labyris workers aren't ing the hang of it. he practices his "monosyllabic one-to-one This core ol tutors started organizing down on their hands and knees thanking their grunts" on all comers. Just a little more depth, when AAS began to escalate its pattern toward for a 13ounce bottle bosses for exploiting them. queenie. and you've got II. Deciding, or as I am conservatism and academic "respectability." UurAtpoMRgepd. I don't use the word "exploitation" loosely. II more inclined to speculate, jolted out ol his per­ When I was hired by U.C . Ethnic Studies/Asian describes Ihe capital relation between an owner vading near-catatonic st^te. ruminations about American Studies (ES/AAS) had the following; and an employee I am not equating the owner ol how good things around here used to be bore the objectives 1) to oiler a political, alternative pers­ a small business with Ihe ruling class, but I am likes of cloned-out hunks who bid a monosyllabic pective on the history ol Third World people in Ihe PO Bn MS’ SS. Cd also not equating the owner ol a small business farewell. And (or good cause. U S : 2) lo meet Ihe needs ol students, both wil the workers she employs. Calling onesell a This is the man bemoaning a lack of humanity American-born and loreign-born: 3) to encour­ lemimsl does not mean lhat you can prelend that and wai’mth in the gay community? Hysterical. age community involvement: 4) to conduct rele­ Ihe relationship of exploitation does not exist, nor Boys will be boys and boys will be men. Tragic vant research Also. I was told explicitly that AAS that bosses and workers are relating to each other though it may seem, the boy has to make an effort was working towards a Third World College. to become a man Homosexuality does not begin I agree totally with these objectives: that was The real clues as to what's going on in the and end in the Castro. Mr Red. regardless ol Ihe why I came to U.C. to teach alter 9 years at S.F O THE BISEXUAL CENTER Labyris labor dispute are the owner's personaliz­ (act that that's where you've elected to live it. State However, the growing conservatism In the JJ p O. Bo* 26227 Sin Francisco. California 94126 ing ol all issues, their refusal to enter into negotia­ You're starving on a diet ol soybeans. You've University has obviously alfected AAS; student tions. their employment ol scab workers, their been inside too long. Did it ever occur to you to participation in the decision-making process was (415) 929-9299 hiring of a union-busting law lirm. and their elitist open the door and "come out." There is. it may dropped as were thecommunity languages' Can­ assumption lhat the women's community has come as a surprise, lile beyond Market and 20th tonese and Tagalog All discussion ol a Third Drop-in groups such a low class consciousness that it won't see Street. I promise. World College was replaced with the objective ol 1st 4 3rd Monday — Women only this as a pure and simple labor dispute! Anonymous letters to gay newspapers may be moving Ethnic Studies into the Division ol Letters Support the Labyris Employee's Association— the only successful outlet Ihe man has found lor and Science—where there would be no auto­ Tuesday — Mixed Wednesday — Mixed do not be tooled by Ihe use ol feminist rhetoric his frustration Idoubl the efficacy. Anallernative nomy. Three part-time lemale lecturers were fired disguising the very basic right to workers to so comically simple as moving his ass along out Iasi year after 7 years' teaching I supported tutors All groups at 7:30 p.m. organize and negotiate lo r lair working ol his spectrum ol misery has thus lar eluded him and concerned students protesting these moves Workshops; Newsletter; Counseling Humans do it all the lime Along with them. I brought my views to Faculty In solidarity. The Black Plague lo Ihe Red Queen and Student meetings, and last year when it was obvious that AAS Ladder Rank Faculty profes­ ______Michael Ball sors! were not going to listen , students and tutors organized a teach-m boycott ol AAS that lasted What's Wrong with Butch? Coming Out Bisexual lor two days My support ol student's rights and our open I appreciate and applaud the spirit ol humor We re a group Irom Ihe S.F. Bisexual Center criticism have evoked retaliation by AAS Ladder presented in the April Coming Up' My favorite is Women's Rap Our rap group has become a Rank Faculty ihey have nearly eliminated the-, the GOING DOWN page heading. Minnie Festo's wonderful, supportive environment—lor most ol tutor program, they have removed me Irom thel- article on amoebas had its good points I wonder us. one ol Ihe lew places where we can explore coordmatorship ol Ihe Six Series: Ihey are now; about Ihe satiric intent ol it Perhaps it is written and discuss who we are and want to be. whal we trying lo lire me This is a direct violation ol aca-. lust m lun but I see a trend ol ridiculing important lace as women whose sexuality isn't simply demic freedom, tree speech and the freedom of progressive political ideas "straight" or "gay " political expression While Minnie Festo treads a very line wire ol II you're unaware that bisexual women exist in It has always been an accepted part ol Ihe cur­ humor. The Red Oueen has used humor to dress the "women's community " we re here, we re ricula lhal students in ES study the status ol Ihe up »basically humorless and bigoted attack on involved, we care—as do Ihe many kinds ol Department In my classes, we analyze and criti­ clones and on SM His only valid point, which he women not always included under the euphem­ cise the patterns in AAS We teach not only basic has exaggerated to absurdity (in its negative ism "women's community " English skills but also the culture, arts and litera-. sense) is that some ol the gay male culture is We are straight women now exploring our feel­ ture ol Asian Americans, Third World people, impersonal and stereotyped Is the stereotypical ings lor women, women already bisexual lor women workers, radicals, lesbians and gays We queen then the only positive gay male image1 some lime, and lesbians now exploring our hete­ oiler a political analysis ol American capitalism What's wrong with being butch? The Red Queen's rosexual leelmgs We'd like lo see Ihe diversity ol As a socialist leminist and lesbian. I always attitude about butch appearance is insulting to women accepted and celebrated in the women's include a lemimsl perspective lhal racism, sex-, butch Lesbians Traditional femininity, however community as well—regarding sexuality or wha- natural it may be lor the Red Oueen. is not inher­ lever else separates us We write not to trash but interconnected For these views I am being dis-. ently natural lor women, bul a prescribed and 10 educate our sisters about the stereotypes and criminated against. narrow assigned role Artificiality is much more Campus-wide, lecturers within the American characteristic ot make-up and other "leminine" Among the "myth-understandings" we encoun­ Federation ol Teachers. Ihe Non-Academic tricks than it is ol bodybuilding Growing up ter are that bisexual women Senate Faculty Organizing Committee, are female I experienced traditional femininity as a • are promiscous. can't have serious relation­ organizing to stop our exploitation Lecturers degrading and power drained trap This is not ships, don't respect those ol others" teach more classes than Ladder Rank Faculty true lor everyone There is room (or all ol us— • "can't make up their minds, should get oil the They receive less pay and have no security Most butch women, lemme women, (emme men. Dutch are on an annual contract and can be terminated men. and any combination or variant ol any ol • "are |ust lesbians afraid lo come out" at the end ot any year Recently over 200 lecturers these images • don't take relationships with women were demoted to "visiting" status which is even Butch men are butch not to spite you, Red seriously—they'll take women's energy then more tenuous Within this lecturers’ group you Oueen. but probably because it (eels good to sell you out (or a man' will Imd the majority ol women and people ol them. Are you aware that many leminist women • "don't have to lace gay oppression " color We re holding hearings in May lo challenge see gay male queens as a parody ol and an insult Some women may act in ways lhat promote these the University's right to terminate lecturers at the to women? Let's not tear each other apart There stereotypes—but these stereotypes don't at all end ot lour years Non-teaching stall on campus are more than enough straight homophobes try­ relied Ihe bisexual women we know have also been organizing in the American Fed­ ing to destroy us And while you're learning to live A spectrum ol relationship styles exist regard­ eration ot Stale County and Municipal and let live. Red Oueen. please learn that there is less ol sexual orientation Many ol us will be in Employees all the difference in Ihe world between dressing ditferent situations at different times in our .lives Please give us your support up like a police officer to have sex and dressing up 11 we can love either, why must we commit our­ The Merle Woo Defense Committee is asking as a police officer to spy. raid, beat, and kill Fan­ selves to loving only men or only women? lor letters ot support lor my retention and Ihe tasy police are harmless and lun Real police are We know it can hurt when a woman leaves you retention ol the tutor program in Asian American tor a man—it happens to us. too But we also Studies Letters can be sent to. Ling-chi Wang. know our relationships with women are important Coordinator Asian American Studies. 3407 Dwi­ to us We don't like it when anyone—lesbian or ndle Hall. Berkeley. C A 94720. Send copies to the Letter Info straight—trivializes them editors ol this paper and to the Merle Woo It you'd like to write to us. please try to We believe in relationships in which freely giv­ Defense Committee. C/o N Kato. 5121 Miles. send a typed, double-spaced letter if possi­ ing our energy generates more energy in return Oakland. CA 94618 We also have speakers who ble Keep it as short and concise as you can. We want to give our energy to people who support can make presentations to your group and dis­ and care about us—regardless ol their gender since we publish letters space permitting cuss these issues Call 824-1497 tor more infor­ We do not—indeed, cannot—ignore our oppres­ mation We want everyone to get Involved to pro­ and reserve the right to edit tor length All sion under patriarchy We refuse to be blamed lor test the swing to the right; our futures are altected letters must be signed, but we will w ithhold "collaboration" lor loving individual men Despite We want people to know about the situation ol your name if you wish what many women would like to believe, not all stall, lecturers and students on campus and to . Mail your letters to: Coming Up1. 867 women are wonderful and not ali men are terrible light for tree speech and the retention ol faculity Valencia Street. San Francisco. CA 94110. Coming out bi when you've been a lesbian is no who oiler alternative persperspectives Let us Attention Letters Our deadline is the 20th easy cop-out. You can leel guilt and contusion know if similar occurrences are happening to of the month preceding publication over emerging heterosexual feelings You can be you we can build a defense together1 bisexual without compromising your lesbian May, 1982 COMING UP! Page 5

The Terror In LESBIAN/GAY 0<+l o^j lFE North Oakland PACIFIC FREEDOM DAY C cnC cR by Eileen Gaines TTTT For the past several months, the residents of North Oakland and South Berkeley have V V ▼ LESBIAN/GAY been terrorized by a man known as the W W FRFREEDOM DAY Rockridge Rapist. To date, this man is responsible for some 50 rapes ▼ ▼ JUNE JU 27.1982 During the week of April 8th, Harold Jack- P arad e SANs a FRANCISCO son, a local resident of North Oakland, was ▼ 45!45 99 18TH STREET arrested in connection with the rape of a An Insider's Commentary32 861-5404 young woman on 65th Street. Jackson was by Barbara Cameron picked up after an investigation by Oakland P D. turned up evidence that Jackson had General Membership Meeting, been bragging of his activities of rape and M ay 2. 5:30-7:30. le s tv o n /G o v C ounselin g terror to local youths. Neither police or local PREMIERE: ANNUAL PARADE PREDICTION May 16. 5:00-7:00 Rep Groups residents believe that Jackson is the Women's Building. 3 5 4 3 18th Street S p e a ke r's Bureau Rockridge Rapist but believe he is Well, here we are again. June. 1982. is soon committee and what the committee is doing. responsible for this latest attack. find Much Morel upon us and yet another lesbian/GAY Returning to La Predicta's crystal ball and Contribute to your community. Due to the fact that this maniac is still on parade is in the final countdown stages. It is future parade scenarios. The Parade Com­ CRU. 841-6224 the prowl, the residents of these neighbor­ Be a parade monitor. yet to be seen whether the starry-eyed liber­ mittee will replace the current parity system hoods have taken certain steps to secure Monitor training to be held in June. 2712 TELEGRAPH their own protection such as: hiring private als are in control. Co-chairs Rick Turner and of 50/50 GAYS and lesbians. 30% people of Glenne McElhinney have been bouncing color(!). 20% disabled and 10% youth with a security teams: activating curfews: offering Call for details on our slide show. rewards and more. about in Adidas and Marin County country new parity system of 50/50 stationary stores What is really happening is that more and wear at many events'from the "struggling- and bath houses. 30% gyms. 20% teddy bear more communities' like these are being to-be-oppresed” Concerned Republicans stores and 10% GAY Nazis For A Cleaner forced, thanks to "Ronnie" and police pas­ meeting to the soon-to-be-held Haight St. Environment. All of the invited sivity. to pay for private protection. If com­ Fair where they will be demonstrating speakers fo r the main stage will be men from The end of the munities must pay for "private anything" pooper scoopers at the "struggling-to-be- the exclusive Bohemian Club (outreach to they should slop paying taxes gxpensive Ad Agency... ■ If you would like more information regard­ free" El Salvadorean booth (outreach to the the Russian River resort area) who will offer ing the modus operandi of the Rockridge Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club). These selling defective merchandise to under Rapist contact: Detective Sgt. Moscetti. outrageous efforts may be loosely inter­ developed countries as a means of raising Sexual Assaults Department of the Oakland preted as an effort to get Black and White funds fo r the parade and will speak on the P.D Men Together to solely fund this year's les­ latest developments in missiles and germ Iraphic Design As a matter o f elaboration, this man does bian and GAY Freedom Day Celebration, warfare. The new committee will graciously not mind making noise when entering a Allow me to garb myself in my red turban set up 19 other stages with bullhorns fo r all Television-Radio home—be aware of any strange noises or with a dyed turkey feather (from Tandy's the various "special interest" groups in the men in your neighborhood. Check your S2.50) to become "La Predicts, The M agnif­ com munity to speak from. Photography homes carefully before getting comfortable For more Information on what you can do icent" and I will inform you of all that will Oh. but exc-u-u-se my reductio-ness ad to help call Eileen. 547-1866 happen in 1982 at the lesbian/GAY parade absurdum. Let me close with a line of Marketing La Predicta's first prediction is that the seriousness. The May meetings of the gen­ general membership of the lesbian/GAY eral membership of the Lesbian/Gay Free­ Interior Design Freedom Day Committee will not pick any dom Day Committee are May 2nd and May TIGER TRUCKERS Alternative far right speakers, thereby creating intense 16th at the Women's Building. 5-7pm. The criticism of the committee as having a left- Steering Committee meets every Thursday Moving & Hauling wing tint with obscure ethnic minorities in ^telephone: at the Parade office. 4599 Eighteenth Street, Call for Free Estimates Airwaves power. Further rumors will circulate that beginning at 7pm. The parade telephone Harry B ritt secretely funds the Parade number is 861-5404. Woman-owned ¡415-621-0745 The Gay Life with Randy Alfred Committee in order to secure a speaker's And thanks to Perry George ( The Voice, since 1977 KSAN 95FM. Sundays. 11pm slot on stage. After the speakers are April 9. 1982) who provided inspiration tor oTtM PenfulnConuDunicaUona Group May 2 Dennis Altman, author ot Homosexual selected, the usual procession of insuffera­ this particular column. 861-5381 Oppression Liberation compares the gay bly dull critics of the speaker choices will movement and gay life in the U S . Australia assault our ears with their usual "oh. no one will come to the parade if we don't have a big May 9 Golden Gate Business Association panel: The Pros & Cons of Coming Out on the name on stage" and their usual anything- Job goes political drivel. FINAL DEADLINE MONDAY, MAY 17 May 16 American Association for the My second prediction is that everyone will Advancement of Science panel: Problems find something offensive about each of the Arising from Homophobia In the Scientific speakers. It will be the "Year of the Offended" Workplace at the 1982 lesbian/GAY freedom day. 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Wednesdays. lOpm offended by Arnoldo Ramos (internation­ May 5 T8A ally recognized representative for El Salva­ May 12 Celebrate composer Lou Harrison's dor) because they believe the United States From the inception in 1979 we've ALWAYS had Birthday—music from his new DRI album and should go into El Salvador and burn the excerpts from an independent production commie, leftist peasants to a crisp—after all. documentary about Lou and his lover. Bill Americans are for freedom and we should Colvig May 19 White Night Riot Documentary- kill those who won't buckle under to our FREE winner of 1982 Cable Car Award for Outstand­ kind of freedom. There will be those who will ing Achievement in Broadcast Journalism be twice offended because Gwendolyn See page one for details Rogers will speak. "Oh god. not another • Individual Listings May 26 White Night Riot Documentary^ Part black lesbian on stage. If they had to have one more black, why didn't they invite Syl­ • Business Listings vester. 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The Body Electric—a talk on the formation ol this Self-Defense lor Women/Tae Kwm Do—a 3month "Sell-Discovery"—a workshop lor displaced / men’s anti-nuclear affinity group. 9 30am. course in sell defense 4 intro to Tae Kwon Do (a homemakers 4 other interested persons, noon it Univ Gay & Lesbian Caucus. Korean martial art). 5:30-7pm. Mon 4 Fri SF 2pm. Rm L109. Library Bldg. College ol Alameda Congregation Sha’ar Zahav invites all lesbians 4 Women's Do|0. 2555 Market. SF Inlo: 763-5411 Inlo 522-7221 ext 340 gay men to the Israeli Independence Day Fair at Solidarity—Gay/Lesbian Liberation mtg 7 30pm. Night ol solidarity with all peoples —Nigerian folk Stern Grove lor a day ol food, info & entertain- Valencia Rose Cale. 766 Valenica. SF tale performed by the Katos Rota Gallery Theater nt 11am-4pm. 19th & Sloat Blvd, SF Stonewall Gay Demo Club gen'l mtg. 7:30pm. SF followed by music 4 dance 8pm. Southern Expo­ Moving Through History—original antique prints Women's Bldg Debate: The SF Handgun Control sure. 401 Alabama St. SF Part ol Internationalist «omen. 17th-20th centuries. Noon to 4pm at Ordinance, with Sherill Mike Hennessy. pro. vs Brent Hall. Trinity Episcopal Church. SF. Free Supe Carol Ruth Silver, con Moderated Dianne Saal: iazz and a little bit more.. at Fill­ Today. 2/9 4 16 by David Scott. more's. SF 9pm, no cover Reverend Bob Cromey special guest at G40plus Orlsha In Diaspora: Images Irom Yoruba Jitterbug Class at Ollie'sol Oakland Call Kathyat -a social group lor gay men over 40 Rev Cromey. Mythology, exhibtion on soft scultpure dolls by least 24 hrs prior to class lor inlo 4 res al Trinity Episcopal Church, is a specialist in lead­ Mary Hope Whitehead Lee, thru 6-'18 Laughing 861-5425 ing groups on singles' anger 4 sexuality 2pm. Goddess Grotto. Oakland Support group for women 4 alcohol related con­ 1668 Bush. SF cerns open to women ol all ages at the OPTIONS Nicholas. Glover 4 Wray at File's, on the Russian Ctr. SF Women's Bldg 5-6 30pm. free River, 2-5pm. SS. 10 A Collage ol 99e specials. Hoverings Alter the Latin 4 Brazilian Jazz by Chevore at El Rio. 3158A Wild 4 more — poetry reading with Terry Pauls- Mission St. SF. 4-8pm. $2 WA ¿May 10. 1876 — Jeanne Bonnet, wearing grove 4 Jean Pape 7pm. women only, tree RCC Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Committee gen'l mtg, •men's clothes, goes lor a "romantic moon- by5/2 ICI-A Woman's Place Oakland 5 30-7:30pm, SF Women's Bldg Sign on request Info: 861-5404. slight walk" with a woman along Sansome "Ambassadors ol Harmony“ —The new San Fran­ J Street where—according to newspaperaccounts 11 Healing Childhood's Wounds cisco Jubilee Singers—continue at the Boarding »—police arrest her for disturbing the peace mgs 4 feelings about childhood mg House. 901 Columbus. SF 8 30pm An evening ol ¿after she lights o il her companion's jealous ourselves now, with Kay Lieberknecht, author ol/ ragtime, spirituals, ballads 4 other turn-ol-the- •male lover Remembered Mysell The Journal ol a Survival c century American songstyles. Today 4 Sun. 5/9 Childhood Sexual Abuse 7pm. donation Fanny's to Bend Over Laughing—with foodsex- accepted, women only. RCC by 5'9 A Woman ual Carol Roberts 4 comedian Jane Dornacker Gay/Lesblan Awareness Week Rally with the Place, Oakland 9:30pm, S4. 4320-18th St. SF A Choral Majority, noon at White Plaza. Stanford Poelry-Fiction series with Tede Matthews an Maedchen Univ. 7 30pm. a slide-show 4 talk: Marching to a Roberto Bedoya at SF Socialist School 29-29t Dillerent Drummer. Gays 4 Lesbians in WWI. by St. 7:30pm. S2 don Relationship Workshop lor single Gay men S40. Alan Berube ol Gay 4 Lesbian History Project Lesbian. Bisexual 4 Heterosexual Women Call Dave Cooperberg lor inlo 431-3220. Complete inlo: 497-1488 panel discussion with slide presentation Wome in Uniform 65th Birthday Concertât Mills College in Oakland Alice Is Tent—The Alice B Toklas Memorial Loving Women noon-2pm. Stanford Women Demo Club is ten years old Alice V P Sal Rosselli lor gay composer Lou Harrison, pioneer with the Center Plus women's social meeting, 7 30pm th examines the club's history and predicts its future Balinese gamelan Call Music Dept at Mills lor Old Firehouse 9:30pm. Unit Univ Gay 4 Lesbian Caucus details: 430-2171 benefit for CONNEXIONS "Sell-Esteem/Sell Motivation"—a workshop lor For Love of Women—a Lesbian Art Exhibit —Sa Mother's Day Celebration ol Ljle. Children's Walk 5/15 is the deadline lor submitting entries lor th Thursday, May 6 lor Disarmament Meet at SF Academy ol Scien­ displaced homemakers 4 other interested peo­ ple. 12:30-2 30pm. Rm L109. Library Bldg. Col­ June exhibit Call 864-VIDA for details ces. Golden Gate Park, noon: Rally at 1pm in All Women's Latin 4 Brazilian ,azz ensembli Marx Meadows, features Holly Near. Gary Lapow lege ol Alamoda into- 522-7221 ext 340 Open Poetry Reading at Modern Times Book­ Chevere performs. 9 30pm at Ameli 647r 5 ASL li Valencia. SF S2 Foodsexuals. Come Out ol Your Refrigerators at store 968 Valencia. SF 7:30pm Amelia's1 Carol Roberts supplies the M4M's and Bay Area Gay 4 Lesbian State Employees jazz duo Jane Hastay 4 Liz Burch make the music. (BAGLSE) meeting at member's home. Call Joe 16 9pm at Amelia's. 647 Valencia. SF (829-1872) (or time 4 place ; May 18,1960 — Seven cops suspended lor J Women's Building Open House—celebrate the 3rd Anniversary ol the opening on Mother's Day i taking payoffs Irom "taverns frequented by • 1-6pm Inlo: 431-1180. see story on page 3 | homosexuals" in San Francisco's "Gayola J Panel discussion on HOMOPHOBIA with Rev Is your listing missing? ' Scandals". • Robert Cromey. James Krajesky. M D . 4 speaker Much of. our mail never Irom City Hall. Spons: Gay Academic Union Gay Literature a course with Aaron Shunn at 4pm. 1668 Bush St. SF reached us this month New College—reg today 4 tmw lor this persona SAN FRANCISCO Mother Returns! Sharon McKmght at the Galleria because of our move. Make exploration into homosexuality reflected in litera­ Design Center. 101 Kansas Street, shows at 7 4 ture Call 626-1694 lor all the details College 10pm Tix S8 adv/$i0 dr At Headlines. Grama- sure you use our new address: credit available phones. 4 Trinity Place Welcome Sharon back! Coming Up! Female Genital Mutilation a presentation n, Rosario 4 Aurora: A Mother/Daughler Reading - Fran P Hosken. editor ol Women ’s International GAY MEN'S CHORUS SINGS Both are published in This Bridge Called My 867 Valencia Street Network News 7pm. donation, for women only Back: Writings by Radical Women o l Color 7pm, San Francisco, CA 94110 RCC by 5'16 ICI-A Woman's Place. Oakland Modern Times. 968 Valencia. SF Odds 'n Ends. Faeries 'n Fags -non-aligned tied- Big Mama Thornton Review lor a very special onistic lelties plan their Gay Day contingent FROM OPS TO POPS Mother's Day at Ollie's. Oakland. 8pm. $6 Inlo 7pm. Valencia Rose, 766 Valencia SF Inlo 653-6014 Word Is Out: Stories ol Some ol Our Lives SF Gay Men’s Chorus sings ' From Ops to Pops" powerful cinematic statement on growing up ga, a musical gamut Irom Mozart to Disney 8pm. 17 in America One ol'the filmmakers will answer Davies Hall. SF Tix 431-5400. BASS. GGPA at SPIRIT collective presents: Health—the Medn questions 7pm. $3 50. Ollie's. Oakland AT DAVIES HALL 864-0326 Approach, the Feminist approach and the Feminist Writer's Guild Opening Reading featur­ Passion —Latin jazz to steam up your beer mug at approach ol the Holistic Health Movement " ing contributors to the FWG Anthology St Fillmore's in SF. 8pm. $2 cov< 8pm. $2 SF Socalist School, 29—29th St members. S2 non-members at Small Press Trai­ Workshop on Female Circumcision Excision/ln- lle. 3841-B 24th St, SF 7:30pm fibulation The Facts 4 Proposals lor Action Fran Swingshlll's musical magic, 9pm at SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1982 8 PM 16 P Hosken facilitates (author Hosken Report Valencia. SF $2 WA Nuclear Culture —Paul Loes. author ol Nuclear Genital 4 Sexual Mutilation ol Females) 7:30- Culture Living 4 Working in the World's Largest 10pm . S2 CC SF Women's Bldg spons by SFWC'WB 25 Atomic Complex 7:30pm, Modern Times Book­ Curtis Ohlson 4 Friends make musciat connec­ "Paranoia?" 2. Perlormances by Tede Matthew- store. 968 Valencia. SF tions at Fillmore's, the Haight. Fillmore's renais­ m "Radio Active" Descent" with Ann Dans Bill Ingersol leads ' Respondl Mi " a series ol sance iazz club. 9pm no cov Beth Abrams Dance Studio in "Green Sheep operatic confrontations which demand a reply' and other TBA 8pm, Southern Exposure. 40t and Tristano demonstrates holistic body-work Alabama SF ALSO DINKELSPIEL / STANFORD practices—at G40plus. 2pm, 1668 Bush. SF 24 Tede Matthews. Barbara Cameron 4 Chrystos Hilton Obenzlnger and Al Lannon read poet'v i S1.69 Beauty Pageant —Grand Duchess Vmnie 4 fiction at SF Socialist School. 29 - 29th Street FRIDAY. MAY 7. 1982 8 PM tbe Foxy Bunny Households present this first read poetry at Modern’ Times. 968 Valencia SF 7 30p 7.30pm. S2 don annual Bevy ol International Beauties' 6pm, S2 Issues facing Women Organizing a present.) tne Red Eye Saloon 335 Jones St. SF Proceeds Feminists and Disarmament: the radical connec­ tion between sexual oppression and militarism — tion 4 talk with Debbie Farson of Union W AGE benefit Gay Mental Health'Operation Concern covers issues such as automation 4 plant en­ Details 285-9610 (Vmnie Russell) With Donna Warnocke War Resisters League 8pm. $2don SF Socalist School. 29—29th Street sures 7pm. free lor women only RCC by 5 23 Love Songs—a Renaissance: Basin Street to ICI-A Woman's Race Oakland Broadway benefit performance lor the SF Les­ bian 4 Gay Men s Community Chorus featuring the Vocal Minority and The Chamber Chorus Two shows at 3 4 7pm S5 (charge by phone 864-0326) Sign Albion Hall. 141 Albion. SF The Nylons • Wednesda] 20 Silvia Kohan sings cabaret style at the Valencia Rose 766 Valencia. SF to benefit the making of a one hour documentary on the 1982 Gay Freedom Day Parade 8pm, S5 WA The Musical Theatre ot Dan Curzon 4 Dan Turner—the SF based lyricist-composer team discuss 4 play selections Irom their two shows 9 30am Unit Univ Gay 4 Lesbian Caucus Antibiotics. Panacea or Problem?—Marc Lappe author ol Germs that Won't Die: Medical Conse- ouences ol the Misuse ol Antibiotics. 7 30pm. Modern Times. 968 Valencia. SF Dillerent Strokes hosts hot Latm'Brazilian |azz group Chevore. 8pm to midnite S3 1550 Califor- 9. SF Women's Workshop on Aging—are you ready lor STANFORD TICKETS AVAILABLE AT midlife emotionally? Facilitated by Midgett $10- S25 SL Pre-rog by 5/16 CC Inlo 864-0876 / TRESIDDER TICKET OFFICE AND BASS OUTLETS. Reclaiming our Power Uniting the Spiritual 4 the (415) 497-4517 Political—with Starhawk on magic as the art ol evoking power Irom within. 8pm. S2-S5 SL SF Women's Bldg RCC 4 in to ...... DAVIES HALL TICKETS AVAILABLE AT 0 0 o f f ic e b a s s a n d a ll l e a d in g a g e n c ie s Speak Now or ? Memorial Day Open For SVnpnONV BOX , , . Unit Umv Gay 4 Lesbian Caucus. 9 30am A holi­ (415) 451-5400 day treat in sell expression lor Caucus members 4 inends Chevere performs! See 4/2 for details 4 A y CCMING UP! Saturday

David Kelsey ft Pure Trash at Fife's. Russian River 2-5pm. $5 cover Garage Sale benefits Temescal Gay Men's Chorus —10 30am-3 30pm. 5667 Miles Ave. Oakland, across from Rockndge BART Station. Red Party by the Sisters of P I with Falcon Ballet ft Barbary Coast Cloggers to benefit Gay Olym­ pics ft GGPA. 8pm-2am at Russian Center 2450 Sutler (at Div.sadero), $10 at Headlines ft The Ambush Lily’s Back! We Shell Go Forth —Margie Adam in concert to record her new album' 8pm. Marine's Memorial Theatre. Sutter ft Mason. SF All seats reseved. tix at BASS, $8 25/S4 25 for over 60. under 16 ft dis­ May 22 abled CC, WA (main floor), special seating tor Internationalist Arts Festival opening reception at Southern Exposure Gallery. 401 Alabama St. SF 8pm Art and poetry from around the world W ednesday thursday friday Exhibit open Tues-Sun. noon-8pm. today-5/29 Haute Modo II—From One Extreme to Another—’ an all-SF post-new wave fashion show ft perfor­ mance featuring eleven designers ft the music of The Dick Heads Cocktails at 8, fashions 9. music Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with animated films 1982 S.F. Ethnic Dance Festival opens 8pm at The Black Revolution a the Struggle for Freedom 11 pm Project Artaud Theatre. 450 Florida. SF S5 from Mexico 7:30pm. S3/S1.50 kids La Pena. Herbs! Theater. War Memorial Bldg (Van Ness 6 in Latin America—a forum to build solidarity for Jobs. Equality. Human Needs. NOT WAR. U S Berkeley. McAllister). Tonight Khadra Int'l Folk Ballet. these growing movements Speakers plus iazz Out of El Salvador—a march ft rally part of Is Nuclear Disarmament Possible? A discussion Michiya Manayagi Japanese Dance Studio. Rosa piano by Loneita Pitkin & The Solidarity Singers nation-wide effort, spons by All People's Con­ of the dilemmas and paradoxes that complicate Montoya's Bailes Flamencos and Fua Oia Congo 8pm. CC. SF Women's Bldg gress Oetails: 821-6545 Ihe ideal of nuclear disarmament A search for a Tickets $4 advance. $5 door at Davies Symphony VIDA Gallery celebrates its first year with an dynamic sense of change that leads to a future Hall Box office. BASS outlets or call City Celebra­ exhibit of the artworks of the Gallery Collective 8 Address Directory increasingly freed from the threat of a sudden tion at 474-3914. (See story page 11) Reception 7-9pm. CC. SF Women's Bldg Gallery "Eye Level“ —Jenna May. Gretchen Breese. K hrs Wed-Fn 2-7pm. Sat noon-5pm Thru 5/29 Artemis Cafe. 23rd & Valencia. San Fran­ destruction 8pm, The Network Coffeehouse. Maedchen In Uniform—the classic allegory on Taylor, ft Nani Maunu exhibit painting, sculpture cisco. 821-0232. WA 1329—7th Ave. SF facism banned by Hitler, plus Egyptian film short Juanita & Nayo Ulloa play Peruvian Music at Noe ft photography at Mission Cultural Ctr. 2868 Mis­ Valley Ministry. 1021 Sanchez St. SF 8 15pm Berkeley Women's Center. 2908 Ellsworth. Fire Island Fever and The Idol—a double-bill at Mud Horse Two showings at 7 & 9 30pm, 155 sion. SF Reception 3-6pm Show runs thru 5/29 Berkeley. 548-4343 The Electric Rated X Details 673-7373 Today & Dwmelle Hall. UC Berkeley $2 50 In conjunction Elaine Rowe, country rock singer from Montana. Bingo Extravaganza lo benefit Gay Olympics ft 9pm, S3. Ollie's in Oakland Eighteenth Street Services. 4131 —18th with CONNEXIONS No 4 on Women & Creativity Other Way. the Social Alternative for Gay Men St. San Francisco 863-8111. "Handling Job Interviews"—a workshop for dis­ Jewish Response to Israeli involvement in Central Castro Street Fair. Inc. invites you toa public mtg 7 30pm at Most Holy Redeemer Church Hall. 100 from 7-9 30pm at Eureka Valley Rec Ctr. 19th & Fillmore's. 500 Haight Street. San Fran­ placed homemakers, lOam-noon. Rm L237, & So America and Anti-Semitism in Argentina Diamond St. SF. Tix at Headlines. Gay Olympics cisco. 431-0990 WA Library Bldg. College of Alameda Info 522-7221 Selected speakers to benefit the Jewish Feminist Collmgwood. SF for input into the planning & hdqtrs. 597 Castro or at the door Cash prizes! production ol the 9th Annual Fair I.C.I. A Woman's Place Bookstore. 4015 ext 340 Conference Open to all women 7 30pm. S2-S5 Inltlatlng/Dlscovering ft Sustaining Intimacy-a Broadway, Oakland. 547-9920. WA Cinco De Mayo In Vallejo at Mary's. 437 Virginia SL, RCC. Old Wives Tales. SF Great guitarsl Susan P Shanbaum & Nancy Vogl strum & pluck at Artemis. SF 9pm. S4 workshop for gay men with Virgil Hall ft Berlin La Pena Cultural Center. 3105 Shattuck Street—big Mexican dinner and Tequila specials Fundraiser for gay activist Greg Day. whose Bosworth at 18th St Services, SF Pre-reg 863- Gay & Lesbian Awareness Week at Stanford beg­ Berkeley. 849-2568 WA all day long' Call (707) 642-1906 for reservation cameras were stolen last month Special perfor­ S ill 1-5pm. S5-S10 SL Laughing Goddess Grotto (Susan B mances by Robin Tyler. The Sisters ol Perpetual ins with "Ops to Pops", a concert by the SF Gay Men'sChorusat DinkelspielAuditorium.8pm Tix Feminist Food ft Film Festival—spaghetti d Anthony Coven r Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Call Valencia Rose at 9pm. S3 concert, introducing Alnkan Dreamland, a blu- "Another Opening ."of the Lesbian & Gay Pho- reggae trio trom Nashville 8 ft 11pm. Great Amer­ iography Festival at 544 Natoma Performance 553-1245 tor regular viewing hours See5'22and The First Annual Connie Francls-Frankie Avalon 5/26 Look-Alike Contest ft SOs 50s Dance prizes for ican Music Hall 859 O Farrell SF WA Sign Gallery. 544 Naloma, SF 6-9pm 621-2683 has A Tribute to Lily Tomlin at Davies Hall features exhibit viewing hrs South of Market's Hot House Baths 374-Sth St. the best1 A very special prize to the one who does SF . hosts City Clinic volunteers and stall free VD both Frankie ft Connie Come as you were onstage interview ft specially produced film ret- "Strangers In the Night: Romantic Post- rospective of her movies ft TV specials A benefit Modernism" a talk by Bruce Boone at Small Press tests for all. 8-tOpm Details 495-OGOD' nd 10pm, SI in SOs costume. affic. 3841-B 24th St. SF 8pm. $2 The first Annual Crooks Concert—Oueen Ida & S2 w for Bread ft Roses Tix S10-S16 50 BASS her band. Cesar's Latin All-Stars & stand-up com­ re The Earth Information on Alcoholism -Suzanne Balcer ics entertain in a benefit for the SF Jail Arts Pro­ Keric ic by Charels Moseli presents a workshop for lesbians at 18th St Servi gram $5 adv (BASS)/S6door 8pm-2am, Cesar s Stev< ces SF 1-Spm. S5-S10SL Pre-reg 863-8111 Palace 3140 Mission St SF Colombano slides-Chris Paine ft lighting-Joe Expose Gallery hosts opening ot First SF Int Terry Paulsgrove & Jean Pape read from their Dowling 8 30pm. Studio Eremos Project Artaud Lesbian ft Gay Photography Festival. 3-6pm, • M ay 19 poetry 7 30pm RCC, free Old Wives Tales. SF 17th ft Alabama SF S6 4406A - 18th St. SF Call 863-6006for vie« M J Lallo Quartet plays jazz at Heaven's Gate' See First Day ol Lesbian/Gay History Month! Lesbian Mothers Present. Future, co-p 5/15 for details (5-21-6 27) SF City Hall. Polk Street entrance friends workshop Do you have .time for you’ Ah Evening with Lucy Uppard & Jerry Kearns 5 30-7 30pm Speakers Carmen Vazquez. Justin Facilitated by Midget! S19-S25 SL Pre-reg by presenting My Place Your Place Our Place a Raimondo. Nancy Waler. Gerry Parker Mike 5 19 RCC Into 864-0876 slide narrative on activist art. a visual anaylsis of Wong Entenammentby Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Brown Bag Readers Theater i Fort Apache. The Bront & a personal political the Choral Majority scholarship programs tor conference on alcoho­ look at where the artists live 8pm. S4 CC SF Influence without Power: Media Concentration ft lism 8pm S4-S10 SL SF Women s Bldq Sign i the Left-M ofb cr Jones co-founder Adam Mary's 2nd Anniversary Party 5pm on in Vallejo Hochschild explores the paradoxes of the current at 437 Virginia St Special Bullet a 27 media ft how the left can deal with them 8pm. S2 SF Socialist School 29 - 29th Str 29 May 1969 Committee for Homosexuals Pete Seeger is |omed by Grupo Ran m a benefit Freedom pickets Tower Records at Fisher-J 28 concert to celebrate La Pena s 7th A Berkeley Community Theater. 8pm $7 adv (BASS. man's Wharf fo r firing a store clerk on suspi- * Lesbian Sexuality Week-end Workshop/Retreat Beachfront house, alcohol/drug free car pools La Pena) S9'door $5 srs disabled, under 12 cion that he was a homosexual because he« Sign RCC 849-2568 nad 'winked' at a male customer CC arranged S5S-S120 SL includes food Call Karen Wandreli (839-1097) for details Jewish Feminist Conference -Jewish lesbian Potluck supper ft workshop at Metropolitan feminists have created this women-only confer­ Community Church of the East Bay. 6-9pm ence as a cultural ft political meeting ground 'A Warrior s Woman" performed by Cecillia-Marie T-day thru Mon For complete details, see story . Bowman and Ron Petersen Part of the Interna­ June Millington ft iriends play their music at La on page 1 or call 540-0671 ext 349 TTY» only: tionalist Art Festival 8pm. Southern Exposure. Pena. Berkeley 9pm S5 Tix info 849-2568 861-7035 401 Alabama St SF Parade Night at the Trocadero 4th ft Bryant SF Gay Prom '82! A Night On The Tow n'- Prosperity Consciousness - now do we use it SS'S3 members All welcome1 WA More info honest to goodness High School Prom. 8pm now’ Lecture/discussion at Old Wives Tales. SF 861-5404 Ollie's ot Oakland $5 singles under 21 S7 cou­ 7 30pm $2 don (half goes to Women s Party for Dos Lesbos Sharpened Spoons production of a ples under 21. $17 couples over 21 "No Unac­ Survival). RCC play by. for and about perverts" tonne and tmw companied Adults" Archie ft Veronica come out' Proposition I: Your Vote Counts —an evening of mte at SF s Artem.s Cafe. 8 30pm. S5 don 2nd Annual US Openly Gay Nat l Tennis Tourna­ informative discussion on the importance of An Evening of Jewish Women's Theater—with the ment spons by The Gay Tennis Federation of SF defeating Prop I a $495 million bond issue tor Kishka Sisters -all women ft children welcome Today thru Sun. starts 9am daily Golden Gate additional prison construction 8pm. -don The Limited seating Sign S3-S5 SL RCC by 5/26 Park tennis courts 64 entries competing Network Coffeehouse. 1329— 7th Ave. SF 648-4894 SF Womens Bldg Complete info 621-3282 Page 8 COMING UP! May, 1982 Discrimination And Your Rights by the Gay Advisory Committee ot the ] Astrological Forecast Human Rights Commission of San Francisco Have you ever suspected that you have and 12C of the City's Administrative Code The Gay Advisory Committee is a man­ For the Month of May, 1982 been discriminated against in San Fran­ Chapter 12B provides for non-discrimination dated committee of the Human Rights cisco because you are a Lesbian or a Gay in all contracting agencies of the City and Commission. One of its primary goals is to |] by Jack Fertig man? On the job? In housing? By busi­ County of San Francisco and names the work against Lesbian/Gay discrimination. nesses or other public accommodations? Human Rights Commission (HRC) as the GAC acts as a conduit to provide informa­ A Semi-Sextile to Uranus Have you recently been fired from a job, agency empowered to investigate, mediate, tion to Lesbians and Gay men so that we Knowing or suspecting that it was because and enforce non-discrimination. know our rights and how to use the system About once a year expansive, explorative, philosophical Jupiter comes into aspect with you are Gay? Are you consistently passed Then, in 1978. the San Francisco Board of to enforce them. Thus far, the Gay Advisory quirky, innovative, self-assertive Uranus. Over an 84-year cycle this aspect varies from year to over for a promotion that should logically go Supervisors, understanding that Lesbians Committee has established communication year in Its nature and length. Sometimes it speeds by in a mere two weeks, but this year it lasts to you? Are you "out" on the job and being and Gay men had no protection prohibiting with the District Attorney and the City over three months, having begun on A pril 22 and lasting until August 5. We may be glad that , treated differently from other employees discrimination except with C ity contracting Attorney's office to ensure enforcement of the aspect is so prolonged, because it signals political innovations and philosophical insights because of it? Can your employer legally tell agencies, enacted Article 33 of the Police Article 33. The Committee is also exploring with a lean to the left, as well as technological breakthroughs. you that you cannot be "out" on the job and Code (commonly referred to as the Gay ways to assure Lesbians and Gay men of The particular sign placement. Jupiter in Scorpio and Uranus in Sagittarius, suggests threaten to fire you if you do come out? Can Rights Ordinance), which became effective their rights through state and federal agen­ medical discoveries, especially in genetics. There will also be startling innovations in all levels a prospective landlord refuse to rent to you m May of that year. Article 33 prohibits dis­ cies and laws. of communications techniques from the labs of Ma Bell to the private (and not so private) because s/he assumes you are Lesbian or crim ination in employment, housing, and As part of the Gay Advisory Committee's realms of sexual expression. This is an excellent time to start learning a foreign language or Gay? Have you been told in a public place— public accommodations based on sexual effort to disseminate information to Lesbi­ new skills in writing or oratory. a bar. a restaurant, a disco—to cool your orientation throughout the C ity and County ans and Gay men, this article is the first in a There w ill also be a more assertive and free-wheeling sexuality with an increase in public Lesbian/Gay behavior, or simply been told of San Francisco, and authorizes the HRC to bi-monthly series appearing in Coming Up! sex and a rise in sexually transmitted diseases, especially hepatitis. to get out? Have you and your lover been investigate and mediate complaints filed Future articles will discuss the HRC com­ Many people will be so preoccupied with self-expression that they will be less likely to listen denied a room in a hotel although you sus­ with it by individuals. The Lesbian/Gay plaint filing process and the various laws to others. It's a good tim e to articulate your deepest feelings and your loftiest ideals, but pected that a vacancy did indeed exist? In Comm unity Liaison at the HRC handles affecting discrimination. This column will remember that you will understand and express yourself much better when you take the effort you've been discriminated against, have these complaints In addition, the Article also discuss what other agencies can do to to listen to others. They w ill have much to contribute to your own self-understanding. you ever wondered what you could do about provides the District Attorney and City enforce non-discrimination, as well as People born in the first 5 days of their sun sign w ill be especially assertive with Jupiter and it? Attorney with the power to obtain an injunc­ alternative avenues to pursue to fight the Uranus aspecting their Sun. They will feel a stronger sense of identity with their politics, In San Francisco, discrimination based tion against the discriminatory party under injustices faced by Lesbians and Gay men. spiritual identity, and sexuality. They will express their stands (and lays) with particular vigor on sexual orientation in employment, hous­ specific circumstances. A person suffering If you need further information, o r if you and perhaps an unnecessary stance of defensiveness ing, and public accomodations is ILLEGAL. from discrimination also may seek enforce­ believe you have been discriminated against In 1972, sexual orientation was added as ment of the provisions of this Article by because of your sexual orientation, please Arlei: Sex rears its lovely head in some suprising political issues take on a surprising personal one of the protected classes under the non­ means of litigation through the services of a call Jackie Winnow. Lesbian/Gay Commun­ ways. Things you might not have imagined possi­ importance as you identify with a particular cause. discrimination clauses in Sections 12A. 12B. private attorney. ity Liasion, at 558-4901. ble. let alone palatable, present themselves intri- If you're already involved in politics, here's your guingly. Your lover is more eager than you think chance to build personal recognition that will to try something new. so feel free to express your lead to advancement in the summer. most secret desires. Scorpio: The self-criticism and Introversion you've Taurus: A new partner in a work situation chal­ experienced in the last year turn now to tangible Honoring the Freedom Fighters lenges your style. Be careful not to let it develop advantages as you begin to see some self- into a fight. You have a chance to experiment with improvement. Some pleasant surprises in your International women at war new techniques that will allow you more freedom self-image can alleviate the harshness you've and efficiency. Consider any criticism, friendly or been inflicting on yourself. otherwise, very carefully. "M y wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the shark. I want to drive the enemy Sagittarius: You can gain the recognition you away, to save our people. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women." Gemini: Flitting around from one body to another desire through charitable and/or political work. If —Trieu Thi Trinh, Vietnamese Warrior can get you into big trouble, so be careful! Look you are commited to a particular doctrine you can for new ways to integrate work and play. You have make a convincing case for its merits by demon­ by Judy Blssel an opportunity to turn a hobby into a paying job. strating it as a basis for good works in your (but not if you're laid up with hepatitis!) community. This is the second in a series o t articles trials, until in yet another trial, an all-white ally. there w ill be a women's Community begun on International Women's Day that jury convicted her and sentenced her to life Meeting in Support o l Grand Jury Resist­ Cancer: A natural homebody and host/ess. you Capricorn: Try to be creative with rules without chronicles feminist, lesbian and gay. and imprisonment. Assata stated: ance to discuss the issues raised by the can use these three months to stage some stun- breaking them. This approach will be especially other liberation movements around the I am a Black revolutionary woman, Brinks expopriation. the Puerto Rican Inde­ ingly unusual parties. You may have intimate sal­ useful in politics but could also get you a promo­ world. Upcoming months will-feature spe­ and because of th is I have been pendence Movement, and the current Grand ons for the most avant garde: or invite a hundred tion. Friends will be helpful but in surprising cial articles from Mexico. Nicaragua and charged with and accused of every Juries investigating these movements. Maria friends tocome in extra-terrestrial drag. Let Perle ways. Your grand strategies to get ahead are now Cuba. If you have information from other alleged crime in which a woman was Cueto. jailed in 1977 for refusal to collabo­ Mesta and Gerty Stein spin in their crypts with only good as general guidelines Move quickly, parts o l the world you would like to share believed to have participated. The rate with a similar Grand Jury and recently envy. lightly, and with good humor. with Coming Up! readers, call our office alleged crimes in which only men re-subpoenaed in New York, will participate (641-7902) and ask tor Kim. were supposedly involved, I have Leo: If you've been waiting for the right time to tell Aquarius: Political ambitions are strong now. but and provide a perspective for the discus­ your family about something, this is it. There will been accused of planning... They so are pretensions ol political correctitude. It sion. The meeting takes place Sunday. May be surprises on the home front, and some rude doesn't matter how right you are if you don't let As a former political prisoner recently call us murderers, but we do not con­ 16. 7pm. at Valencia Rose Cate. 766 Valen­ rocks on the road to revelation. Don't get ruffled, others express Iheir concerns and decide for released from jail, Imprisoned freedom trol or enforce a system of racism and cia. San Francisco, and is sponsored by try to be diplomatic, and all should come out well themselves. Don't push—let them find out for fighters symbolize what I believe we should oppression that systematically mur­ Women Against Imperialism. with renewed openness in your domestic relations themselves that you're right. If they don't, you be supporting on International Women's ders Black and Third World people. might not be. Be willing to reconsider your posi­ Day and every day of the year. Although Black people supposedly Virgo: You're finding new ways to express issues tion. Open-mindednessiscrucial toyouradvancement. The eleven Puerto Rican POW's, the comprise about 15% of the total of great importance, but others don’t share your Black Liberation Army 25, the October 20th Amerikkkan population, at least 60% sense of urgency. Remember that this aspect Pisces: Why don't we do it in the road? Because lasts over three months and your newfound Freedom Fighters arrested In Nyack, New of all murder victims are Black. For May Day in the Park even if you do it in back rooms, you may see your fluency will be more effective if you exercise every pig that is killed in the so-called picture in Time I know better than to counsel York, the Irish prisoners In H-Block and Ar- restraint: you'll just bring out the handcuffs. maugh, political prisoners In South Africa's line o f duty, there are at least 50 The Vanguard Public Foundation cele­ brates its 10th Anniversary as a community Explore and innovate, but don't scare the horses! Robbin Island and Chile's Tres Alamos— Black people murdered by the police. Libra: As you feel better about yourself and more This can be an excellent time for metaphysical these are people who have com m itted their Sim ilarly, when the Revolutionary Armed grants-making foundation with a May Day generous in relationships, you feel a correspond­ studies, especially if you accept a challenge as an lives to the to tal liberation o f their people. Task Force, Sekou Odinaga, Solomon Festival in the Park in Saturday. May 1st. ing generosity in your personal values. Socio- opportunity to clarify your own beliefs. Among them are many women, and al­ Brown, Judy Clark, David Gilbert, and The celebration takes place at Dolores Park though these women live under extremely Kathy Boudin (under the leadership of the in San Francisco (18th St & Dolores) from Thus. the May Day in the Park will feature backgrounds to encourage greater unity harsh and repressive conditions, no one Black Liberation Army) were arrested in noon to 5pm. a wide array of musical and cultural enter­ among them. who has met them Inside or outside of Nyack, New York, October 20, the state Vanguard is a non-endowed community tainment. S.ome of the featured groups at Many of the organizations which have prison can see them as objects of pity. made a nation-wide effort to depict these foundation located in San Francisco's Noe this free event include Pete and Shelia been funded by Vanguard (including Com­ They are passionate examples of and stan­ comrades as criminals and terrorists. The Valley, For the past 10 years it has given Escovedo. the S;F. Mime Troup, Orquesta ing Uph which received a grant that helped dards for what women can do to end the state fears that people will come to under­ small grants to political and community Sabrosita. Avotcja and Sonido Afro-Latina, in our expansion) will have literature and military, economic and social control of stand that what they did was a principaled organizations struggling for social and insti­ The Manilatown Senior Citizens 8and. A I M. inform ation booths in Dolores Park to pub­ their people and land; to defeat a system revolutionary act and that they must be tutional change in the Bay Area and N orth­ Drummers. Robert Kikuckl-Yngojo. Azeen. licize their programs and activities. Interna­ based on the colonization of two-thirds of supported. The significance of the govern­ ern California. Vanguard believes that des­ a reggae group. Speakers representing tional food dishes prepared by groups the world's people by a small minority. ment’s strategy is reflected In the debates pite the hard times people are now facing labor, community and city-wide organizing representative of the Bay Area's ethnic Puerto Rico has been a United States going on at this very moment In the left and under the Reagan Administration, it is efforts w ill also be included in the program diversity will be sold during the day colony since it was Invaded and seized by in the women's movement about whether important fo r progressive community and Under a theme of "unity and resistance in If you'd like more information about Van­ the U.S. Marines in 1898. During 84 years of or not to support Nyack: whether or not to labor groups to celebrate and continue the 1980's," Vanguard hopes the day's activ­ guard Foundation, or May Day in the Park, struggling. U.S. rule, people have been driven from the support a legitimate expression of the war ities will bring together people from many call 285-2005. land that supported their lives to make way for national liberation of the Black nation for U.S. Sugar Companies, followed their within the United States. Jewish jobs into U.S.-owned factories, and as a On International Women's Day we result, nearly half the population has been Should honor women like Torres and Feminist Conf. forced to emigrate to find work In the Shakur because they represent people who (continued from front page) States. In reaction to th is domination, a are not fighting for a bigger piece of the movement has sprung up among the Puer­ pie, or for their own selves, families, sex or established to deal with issues women felt were important to address within the community such race alone, but to transform the whole in­ to Rican people to separate their country as class and disability awareness, fat liberation, from U.S. rule. The United States govern­ ternational system by which so few live so and racism. At the general facilitation meetings ment fears the strength and power of the well at the expense o f the lives o f most of held on Sunday atternoons. an hour is usually set Puerto Rican Independence Movement to the world's peoples, that is the system of aside tor a presentation on one ot these subjects such an extent that Secretary o f State Haig imperialism. Information and issues raised at these meetings has labeled this movement the "Achilles We admire and honor these women be­ are then taken back to the smaller planning Heel” of the United States system. cause they take responsibility for creating groups. According to Land, an extensive confer­ In April 1980, eleven Puerto Rican and participating fully in the people's war, ence registration packet will include information Freedom fighters, 6 men and 5 women, the total political, military and ideological that has been gathered about many ot these mobilization of their people. were arrested In Chicago for their participa­ On Friday night of the conference a group of tion in the armed struggle for in­ By making this choice for their lives, Ashknazic women will present a theater perfor­ dependence and socialism in Puerto Rico. women freedom fighters are breaking mance comprmised ot original pieces covering One of the eleven P.O.W.'s, Haydee Tor­ through centuries-old definitions of the Holocaust, different generations of Jewish res, was separated from her companeros women's role. These women are extraor­ women, ritual, and storytelling One member ot immediately after the arrest, and brought dinary—precisely because they are not so this group remarked that m preparing for the per­ to New York C ity on separate charges in an different from other women. They are sim­ formance she had to confront many of her own attempt to isolate her and disunite the ply people who have decided to live their feelings about what it means to be a Jew eleven. Torres was brought Into Court by a words and politics and to fight for in­ small army of FBI and police agents. But ig­ dependence, freedom and socialism. San Francisco's fin« progressive bookstore. noring them, she turned her back on the in­ Torres, Shakur and all women like them credulous judge, and spoke to her friends challenge how we as women see ourselves, MODERN TIMES and supporters in the courtroom and and how we see our own liberation. They BOOKSTORE beyond: challenge us to see that our enemy is not %8 VALENCIA STREET I, Maria Haydee Torres, am a Puerto men, or simply the system of male suprem­ ^ SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110 Rican Prisoner of War. I am a product acy, but the entire imperialist system, and (41S) 282-9246 o f the continuous struggle waged by that our own freedom depends on the my people. I am the conscience o f my destruction of that system. j t Ê k X S g HOURS K m ' ,5 2 ^ 11-6:30 Mon to Sat people in arms, and like any POW. I believe that white women, along with ail neither the Court, nor this Country w hite people, have a special responsibility 11-6 Sund*v has any right to treat me like a to confront and build a movement to de­ criminal and subject me td those stroy all forms of white supremacy. It may m.c.c. welcomes you things for which they have brought not be easy or comfortable to fight for liber­ me here. They wanted a sample of my ation, but we can choose to fight, and it Is hair, a sample of my handwriting, and possible to win. The examples of the free­ I SO Eureka Street San Francisco 94114 to subject myself to a line-up. Neither dom fighters show us that there are always Phone 861-4434 - my hair nor my soul shall they have. I choices in whatever circumstances we find Sunday worship at 10 10a m and 7p m am free, and neither these bars nor ourselves, and that those choices have Three blocks west of Castro near 18th this court nor this miserable and political impact far beyond our own indivi­ shameful country can keep me im­ dual lives. prisoned. The' image of this one Puerto Rican There will be an evening in Solidarity with all woman defying the might of the U.S. state t 160 East Virginia Street, second floor Freedom Fighters and Grand Jury Resisters E A S T BA Y by taking a Prisoner o f War stance exposed and Against Repression o l National Libera­ the Illegitim acy o f the U.S. colonial control tion Struggles on Friday. May 7at 7:30pm at 4986 Fairfax Avenue r . of Puerto Rico, and affirm ed the right of the St John's Church. 2136—22nd Street. San Puerto Rican people to engage in a war of Francisco. Speakers from the National liberation. Committee to Defend New Alrikan Freedom GOLDEN GATE The United States government has al­ Fighters and the Movimiento de Liberacion Rev lames E Sandmire. Pastor ways tried to portray such freedom fighters Nacional will speak on the continuing attacks 62S Polk Street /404. San Francisco94102 as criminals, murderers and terrorists. on the Black community following the Phone 474 0107 Assata Shakur, Identified by the FBI as attempted BLA-led Brinks expropriation, Sunday worship at 10:10a m the “soul of the Black Liberation Army" and on May 28-30 National Conference California Hall. Polk Street at Turk was captured In 1976. Before she was liber­ Against Repression in Denver The meeting Wkerkkair mini ated by the BLA In 1979, Assata was tried is sponsored by the Coalition to Defend the Sfird lor I hr hnnufimpaiinl and acquitted In three separate murder October 20th Freedom Fighters Addition­ M HISt UP! W eekl

MW/C la s s e s Maitri —Buddhist gay men. lesbians A friends Psychic Development for the spiritual A scientific meet 7:30pm. 47 Hartford. SF minded woman or man Co-sexual classes with Esalen massage class for women and men 4 ses­ Sunday London Wildwind Complete info 928-4474 sions starts 5/11 7 30-10 30pm Details 863-2842 Raps & Support1A rf ■ Sign Language for Beginners—a tuition-free (Milo Jarvis). Gay Men'» Open Rap at Pacific Ctr, Berkeley. 7:30pm. course thru SF Community College at Metropoli­ Tae Kwon Do—an ongoing class for women in tan Community Church. SF 7-9:30pm 7-wk Tae Kwon Do with emphasis on women's self- Samol»: A Lesbian-Feminist S/M Support Group course starts 5/3. Info 239-3070 defense Tues 7.15. Thurs 5 30 at SF Women's For info about next orientation meeting, write PO Improvisation for Women—a 6-wk workshop in Box 11798. San Francisco, CA 94101 D0|O. 2555 Market, info 626-4518 theater games & acting exercise with Terry Baum Tuesday Evening Runs with FrontRunners—a Relationship Workshop tor Gay Male Couples. creator of Dos Lesbos A founder ol Lilith 7-10pm running club for gay men A lesbians Meet 7pm at $SS/couple. Call Dave Cooperberg for details 5/17-6/21, S60 Valencia Rose. 766 Valencia. SF McLaren Lodge. Golden Gate Park More info 431-3220. 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Saint Martha of Bethany Open to the public Cen­ Body Songs: release, restore A express thru vocal Rink. 2317 Central. Alameda 7:30-l1pm. S4 ($3 House. 1659 Haight, SF 5/7 California Water/The A rhythmic movement 4 classes start 5/3. Studio b y o skates) lnlo_521-8411 free All Saints Episcopal Church. 1350 Waller. tre for Non-Traditional Religion, 2221 Prince S t. SF WA Penphal Canal—films, slides A speaker on W. the new women's art A film gallery Info: topic: 5/14 South Africa—Last Grave at Dimbata Berkeley Noon. Social • Political Golden Gate Metropolitan Community Church 641-9299 (a film on the human price ot apartheid) witt worships 10:30am. Room 404. California Hall 625 Self Defense lor Women'Tae Kwon Do—a course Career A Academic Counseling Services availa­ speaker. 5/21 —A Parly'—celebrate Spring A L< Polk. 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Engineers A Scientists friends 8pm Info 641-0791 welcome Women without experience in sports or Circle led by Margo Adair Pool our psychic A a speaker with anti-draft info will be present physical activities encouraged to give it a try resources to combat isolation, energize realities, meet 2nd A 4th Thurs monthly. 7 30pm Location Bay Area Progressive Film Festival features a ser­ Dignity—Catholic Gay men. lesbians & friends info: 285-1589 meet at 6pm for positive worship in the Liturgy of Awareness Through Movement—Feldenkrais and gain insights that help us attain our goals ies ot popular political films. Fn at Umtas House. the Eucharist at St John of God, Fifth Ave & Irving posture classes. Mon A Tues. 6 45-7 45 at Habitat Wednesdays. 3-5:30 and 6 30-9pm, and Thurs­ S p ir itu a l 2700 Bancroft, Berkeley Sat at SF Women's Bldg St. SF Sign. 3895—18th St. SF Info 626-8039 days 5-7:30pm. For women only SL Further info Choir practice at SF’s Metropolitan Community S3/S10 tor 4 Details 561-9040 4 30-5' 1 Stale of Metropolitan Community Church of the East Bay Entertainment A special needs: 861-6838 Church. 7pm Details 863-4434 Siege (Costa-Gavras docu-drama). 8pm 5/7-8 worships Sundays. 6pm. Oakland New Wave at The Stud, 1535 Folsom. SF Info Slightly Older Lesbians (SOL) open rap for Classes In Psychic Development for the spiritual Dread Beat and Blood (the music A poetry of A scientific minded male with London Wildwind reggae musician Linton Kwesi Johnson). 7 30 A Body • Dance • Health 863-6623 women 30 A over, 7 30-9:30pm, SF Women's Irish Music A Dance at the Starry Plough Irish Bldg Info A RCC w/24 hour notice 647-0629 Complete info 928-4474 9 30pm 5/14-15 Malcolm X (Warner Bros f Women's Protection Program offers classes & Exciting social events coming up' Body • Dance • Health hire film based on his autobiography). 8pm workshops in self-defense All aspects covered, Pub. 3101 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley Movies at the Revol! Comedy. Camp A Great Var­ Therapy Support Group for Gay Men Fees scaled Afro Brazilian Dance with Adela Chu. includes body language, safety, physical skills & aware­ Dave Cooperberg: 431-3220 basic warm-ups. 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Pacific Center start 5/13 7 30-10 30pm. details 863-2842 (Milo GayCon rap group for gay/lesbian ex-cons who tion skills Complete info 548-2570. tuesday Berkeley Jarvis) want to learn how to survive in SF A talk with c Body Work Demonstration Samplers at Holistic Raps & Support Rap Group for Women and Men 7 30pm. S3 don ex-cons. 2-3pm, United States Mission. 1769 Oak Lite Institute. 1627 Tenth Ave. SF. Info 664-4900 C la s s e s St. SF Info 431-2676 Lesbian Drop-in Rap, 7:30pm at Pacific Center. The Bisexual Center For info 929-9299 Computer Concepts Made Simple—technology 5/2 Shiatsu with Barbara Schultz. 6:30pm: 5/9 Gay/Lea£Jan Writers Network gen'l mtgs 1:30pm. Berkeley Social • Political laid out for laypeople Catch all the jargon at this Feldenkrais Method with Paul & Julie Casson- Women's Drug A Alcohol Group—advance notice Valencia Rose. 776 Valencia. SF Complete info Rubin. 6:30pm. 5' 16: Touch for Health with Paula Women Over Forty Experimental Theatre at the Media Alliance class 6 30pm. $28 Ft Mason Bldg on group 864-3971 (Eric Allyn) required 841-6224 Pacific Center. Berkeley OPTIONS Center. SF Women's Bldg 7pm D Info 441-2558 Starts 5/27 Mickey. 3pm: 5/23 Polarity Therapy with Jim Feil Rap Group for Women and Men 7:30pm. S3 dona­ Body • Dance • Health 3pm Auditions A Rehearsal for SF Lesbian A Gay Grappling with Graphics: Get graphic' Learn how tion The Bisexual Center, call 929-9299 to turn out effective brochures A flyers at this Run with the FrontRunners—gay A lesbian Entertainment Men's Community Chorus Expanding from 120 Incest Support and Therapy Group for women to 140 members Openings for sopranos A altos Media Alliance class 6 30pm. $56 Ft Mason Bldg competitive running group Meet 10am at Stow Counlry/Western foot-stompin' boogie at Rain­ Stans 5/25 sliding fee scale Further info Ralle. 7pm. 1350 Waller SF Info Robin Kay 864-0326 D Into 441-2558 Starts 5/27 Lake Boathouse. Golden Gate Park bow Cattle Co. 199 Valencia. SF Starts 6pm 5/2 (826-3222) or Rachel (826-4326) The Playwrights Unit of the Gay/Lesbian Writers Entertainment WENDO: “Way of Women- —exciting new school Cookie Baker The Stetsons: 5/9 The Lawyers. Social • Political Network is looking for Lesbian playwrights to par­ of self-defense for women 2 day (10am-5pm) CAW with The Rounders—5 30pm at Trinity Place. workshops Sat A Sun Also daytime A eve classes 5/16: Kathi McDonald (recording artist w/Capitol Women's Float Committee regular membership ticipate in their Wed mte workshop in SF They're 25 Trinity. SF, in the downstairs bar No cover' records) & Will Porter Band. 5/23 The Rounders. meetings. 7 30pm. upstairs at Amelia's. 647 interested in Lesbians of all ages A. all colors available Details A res 848-6752 5/30 Wiskey Hill Nicholes. GLover A Wray chase away the work­ Esalen massage class for women A men Four Valencia, SF Beginning playwrights welcome' More info 861- day blues at Trinity Place Cabaret. 25 Trinity Plal her story her songs the new cabaret Slides, discussions, poetry, prose A more—weekly 7087 (Terri) or 431-6254 (George) sessions start 4/17, noon-3pm For details musical drama based on the life of the legendary Lane. SF 5 30pm $1 events for women at ICIA Woman's Place in Oak­ Community Economic Development: Programs Cabaret magic at Our Kitchen Kabaret 131 Milo Jarvis at 863-2842 Edith Piaf 8 30pm at the "1177". Gramercy Tow­ land Check centerfold calendar for details on the Strategies A Organizing—a series designed to Yoga for Gay Men with Sequoia. 10am-noon. 18th ers. 1177 California St. SF Sun thru Tues Gough. SF 9 30pm S3, tree to dinner guests 5/6 evening bring together urban activists with analysts work­ Selene. 5/13 Peter Cambra. 5'20 Dana Balm. A Sanchez. SF See Thursday tor details Soft Sundays with fiery moments of music & song The Anything Goes Chorus A group singing ing on alternative economic programs 8pm 5/27 Martha Lorm C la s s e s at Ollie s Oakland 3-6pm. no cover 5/2 Larry class—lots of fun A support, popular music sung $2/event. SF Socialist School. 29-29th St 5/5 Lynda Bergren sings cabaret at The OT. 1312 Telling Your Story—a workshop in theatrics Smith—the singer of romance! 5/9: Fundi — in 2. 3. A 4 part harmony for all voices 6 30- Overview—Mark Weiss. 5/12 Labor Policy —- Polk Street SF 9 30pm-1 30am improvisation for women spons by Lilith, a worn original |azz music of change A strength 5/16 8 30pm. SF Info 654-8415 Closet singers, come Charlie Jeszcck. 5/19 Plan! Closings - Ken an's theatre, taught by Carolyn Myers with visit Gayle Marie—smooth piano & voice 5/23. Debbie out' Stokes.-5/26 Pension Funds—Susan Mulloy A mg playwrights A actresses from other Bay Are: Saunders does your favorite blues. R AB and pop Temescal Gay Men's Chorus rehearses. 7-9 30pm. Lydia San Filitto theater groups 5/5 thru 6/5. S75 Intersectioi Lynda Bergren at the OT—see Thursday Univ Christian Church. LeConte A Scenic. Ber­ S p ir itu a l friday Theater. 756 Union. SF Further info A reg keley Info 654-0604 tenor, baritone, bass voi­ Mid-week Bible discussion with Golden Gate 861-4221 ces. plus two female solo parts, needed for spring Raps & Support Introduction to TV Editing: Take on TV Media MCC, 7 30pm Rm 404. California Hall. 625 Polk Women s Alcoholics Anonymous meeting 7-8pm SF Alliance offers a class on the ins A outs of scripts, Brother to Brother—an informal evening of ques­ SF Women's Bldg contracts, pilots A more 10am. $65 Ft Mason m onday Prayer A Communion Service with MCC. SF Under 21 Lesbian Rap 4-6pm Pacific Center Raps & Support tions. answers, discussion A sharing of experien­ 7 30pm Bldg D Info 441-2558 Starts 5/22 ces tor Black gay men of all ages who are con­ Berkeley Loneliness Workshop for women—do you know a Oakland Midweek Worship Service 7pm MCC Entertainment cerned about the quality of their lives within Women's Counseling - personality reorganization lot of people & still feel lonely’ Are you tired ol Church of the East Bay Info 533-4848 and balancing relationships With Holly Comstock Juanita Oribello plays classical guitar—du SF-Bay Area gay community Weekly groups Hayward Midweek Worship Service 7pm. 27621 music at B J s See Wednesday for details doing things all "by yourselfW e are learning to start 5/11. 8pm Complete info 621-5379 Call 641-9299 for complete info deal with our loneliness Come |om us—call Ann East 12th St Spons by Metropolitan Commun­ Sensational Saturday nights at Our Kitchen (between 6-9pm Tues-Fri) ity Church of the East Bay Info 533-4848 Social • Political Kabaret. 131 Gough. SF 5/1 Kevin Ross A h for more info 652-7848 7-8pm. drop in. S3-SS SL Girth A Mirth Club of San Francisco meets at Therapy referral tor women Drop-in service helps Lesbians Initiating a Relationship Workshop/- Body • Dance • Health band 5/8 A 22 Wesha Whitfield. 5/15 A 29 Lynda party—looking for a friend or companion? Learn Roxie Road House. Larkin at.Eddy 1st A 3rd Fn Bergren 9 30pm. S3, free to dinner guests select an appropriate therapist 11am-noon Ber­ Women-ldentitied Belly Dance—this ancient every month. 7 30pm Includes reasonable keley Women's Center Free communication skills thru practical techniques, dance form taught with emphasis on its origin as a refreshments A music 7- 10pm, SF Womens Bldg dinners More info 680-7612 Rap Group tor Gay Men at Pacific Center. Berke­ dance by. for A about women No experience CAC Men's Club-a social club for chubbies A ley 7 45pm Pre-reg by 5/5 864-0876 necessary $5/class. $16/4 classes 7-8 30pm SF S p ir itu a l chasers meets 1st A 3rd Fri each month at First Women’s Rap Group -first 6 third Mondays each Women's Bldg Starts 5/26 Enioy your body Congregational Church. Post A Mason SF 8pm month 7 30pm $3 don The Bisexual Center Women's Psychic Class—share healing energy awaken the Goddess within you' Info 929-9299 and develop psychic skills 7:30-10pm. call Tasha Visualization Healing—techniques for positive S p ir itu a l Shabbat Services with Sha'ar Zahav Jewish CU!T Continuing Adventures In Lesbian Sex—8-10 wk Silver for details. 6 30-9pm. 861-6838 Change At Habitat. 3895—18th St. SF Complete Body • Dance • Health info 753-0374 lesbian gay congregation. Jewish Community Typesetting group for lesbians to explore how to keep sex Center 3200 California. SF 8 15pm alive in & out of relationships $15 session/health Golden Gate Wrestling Club—a gay wrestling C la s s e s Reasonable rates insurance OK 7-9pm. SF location Call 839-1097 group formed in preparation for the coming Gay Acrylic Painting Class with Rosalie Cassell Body • Dance • Health Dependable service tor details Olympics, 7-9pm. Mission High School. 18th A instructor Begin developing various skills Stu­ Salsa Dance Class—work on coordination, AM Ventyper equipment Social • Political Church. SF They especially need a good 12'x12' dio W. the new women's art A film gallery Starts rhythm, personal dance style while learning wrestling mat Attend the meetings, help out* Info mamho. cha-cna. and merengue S3. 6-7pm SF Job Counseling for Women Over Forty—10am- 5/26 Into 641-9299 Entertainment Womens Bldg CC Info 548-9198 Advertising copy 2pm by appointment only in OPTIONS Center. SF Jazz Dance for Beginners intro to basic iazz Lesbian Clinic—gynecological A general medical Juanita Ortbello plays classical guitar—soothing Publications Women's Bldg Info 431-6405 clinic run by A for lesbians at Berkeley Women s movements plus warm-ups. center A floor work Job Listings for Women Over Forty updated regu­ dinner music at B J's Restaurant 7-10pm 4130 Pamphlets Health Collective Every Tues eve Call 843-6194 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Wed A Sat 5-6pm $4 SF Women s Bldg Info 864-0585 larly. available at the-OPTIONS Center. SF for appointment Bodymind Lecture Series 7 30pm, Holistic Lite Brochures Women's Bldg I0am-5pm Monday-Friday Country A Rock at the White Horse 8 30pm 66th Forms Rock/Exerclse in Noe Valleyl an athletic aerobic A Telegraph. Berkeley Institute. 1627 Tenth Ave. SF (Info 664-4900) Oakland Lesbian A Gay Rights Organization workout designed to help you get—and stay—in 5 7 Past Lives Therapy with Christopher A Bonks (OLGRO) meets 2nd & 4th Monday e.ach month, shape Tues A Thurs. 5 45-6 45 and 7-8pm Alva­ Robin Tyler ad-libs outrageous new comedy Brown 5 14 Bioenergetic Analysis with Vmcen- material tor her new album Fanny s. 4230 - 18th 7 30pm at Ollie s in Oakland Info 547-5474 rado School auditorium. Douglass at 22nd. SF 5 21 Jungian-Senoi Dream Trans- Pool tournament at Ollie's Oakland $2 entry tee Street SF 9 30pm Coming Up! Type- $3 50 class/$12 - 4 classes, more off for more lorrr jr Stre 867 Valencia Street alternate Mondays 7pm classes' More info 474-1090 Samantha Samuels weaves her musical magic at Trimly Place 25 Trinity Lane. SF 5 30pm $t Entertainment Lesbian Social Hour’Rap Group—for womyn Improvisation Trapeze/Dance Class taught by Gayle Marie - original piano A vocals at The Lynda Bergren entertains us at Fanny s Cabaret. looking for a friend or companion Topic discus­ Brook Klehm—incorporates aspects of Motivity 4238-18th St. SF 930pm-1230am sion as a means to informal introductions 7:30- a contact improv A modern dance Mariposa Stu­ Lobby. 5612 College Ave Oakland 9pm-lam 9 30pm. SF Women s Bldg Weekly except 5/24 A dio 499 Alabama »120. SF 7-9pm. $20/4 classes $6/ class Prereg 863-1412 Elect COUNSELING ft PSYCHOTHERAPY Inflation-fighter Perm- S pecializing w it h G ay M en $30 complete Marc In d iv id u a l . R elationship , a n d G roup CLEVE JONES Cut and bio— Democratic Country Men and Women D A V E C O O P E R B E R G . M.A. Men's short cut—$10 Central Committee/16 AD 760 Market at Grant Rm. 401-6. Phelan Bldg. VOTE TUESDAY, JUNE 8 th 362-5198 Tues-Sat______Page 10 COMING UP! May, 1982 On Stage... May Cabaret checkerboard Is this fiction? A corporate executive in Marin gathers together the presidents of the world's one performing In town; they only need a live largest corporations They decide to con­ chance, and that they have enough friends trol Ihe world economy. But this is only the and following to "fill the place" (another premise lor an examination ot modern man assertion that's generally been Demonstrated without values seraching for meaning. The to be false when the club owners have suc­ Bay Theatre Collective brings us Peter Handke's They Are Dying Out Fri-Sun thru cumbed in a weak moment and given some May 23.8 pm, S6/S5 srs & stdnts. Bay Theatre. of these newcomers a chance). 2320 Bancrott Way. Berkeley. Reservations: Here are a few disq ua lifie s in perfor­ 843-1801 mance that mark the amateur. Singing with A Free Staged Reading followed by discussion eyesclosed. Singing nothing but ballads. Or among the audience, actors, playwrights, and nothing but obscure show tunes. Talking directors One Act Theatre Company otters too much, or not enough, or having nothing Who * Afraid of Beauty? by Daniel Curzon and of interest to say Dressing in jeans, or any Ron Marten's The Rewrite. Tuesday, May 18.8 kind of street clothes (you're an entertainer, pm. One Act Theatre. 430 Mason, SF. Tickets: look like you came to perform, not to do the First come, first served basis. Into: 421-6162. dishes!) The cabarets of San Francisco are A world ol fractured memories, forgotten lust, not open mike clubs for amateurs, and it and endangered dreams provides the land­ takes more than a pleasant voice to carry a scape for the improvisatlonal performers in show fo r a fu ll evening. Fledgling vocalists Action Theatre's ROAR, conceived and directed who want to develop their talent may be by Ruth Zaparah Presented at the Gumption welcome at Joe Sixes or at the Fickle Fox. . Theatre. 1563 Page Street. SF: Fri-Sat. May but not at Our Kitchen or Trinity Place, and 7-8.14-15; 8:30 pm. $5. Information: 658-7886 an audition is just a waste of tim e fo r all When America really wanted a hero, Charles concerned. Lindbergh was there. Or "over there," or up in I knew a singer in town something over a the air Aided by a large lish tank, music and year ago whose only experience had been slides, and Hying objects, the Eureka Theatre Company takes an offbeat, irreverent look at Lilith roles in stock musical theater: no solo per­ Ihe American hero in Dick D. Zigun's Lucky forming. He came to San Francisco, found Undy Thur-Sun. May 13-June 20, 8 pm Pre­ The simple act ol opening a pizza box brings himself an aggressive manager and a pro­ view May 6. 7. 8. S6/Thur & Sun; S7 50/Fri & back Grace Innocentl's childhood in a Pater­ fessional photographer, and printed up an Sat; S5/Previews. People’s Theatre. Ft. Mason. son. NJ pizzeria With humor, warmth and impressive resume that included some good , Bldg B. SF. Into: 441-6842. tears. Pizza explores and celebrates the rela­ New York clubs, the insides of which he's tionship between mother and daughter. Long Day's Journey into Night. The title itself Brought to us in its expanded version by Lilith Two Sides to a Story never even seen. Local clubs first received sets the tone The Haight Street Players under­ Theater. Michele Lmlante's play opens at the his resume and demo tape, then were called take Eugene O'Neill's harsh and haunting by Gary Menger Intersection. 756 Union St. San Francisco. on by his manager, which of course led to exposure of a few particular human condi­ Performances are Fri & Sat. April 30-May 1. his audition. It worked, because the young tions. Four performances benefit All Saints and Wed-Sat. May 5-29 at 8 30pm. plus three man had the talent to carry it off. and he did Church: Fri-Sat. May 14-15 and 21-22. 7:30 I've recently heard the observation from Sun matinees at 2 30pm on May 9. 23 & 30 The Other Side of the Story: a good show. It didn't work long, however, pm. 55 donation. The Performance Space. All Tickets $4 Sun/$5 Wed 4 Thurs/$6 Fri 6 Sat some comedy club devotees that the musi­ Saints Church. 1350 Waller. SF. Reservations: because he had no local friends.. . although Discounts lor seniors 6 children under 12 cal cabaret circuit in San Francisco is all It s taken the best of our local entertainers 621-1862. he'd packaged and presented himself well Childcare and sign interpretation gay To a point. I guess that's true. The a very long time, starting with showcases from the standpoint of getting performance info 861-4221 Boarding House and the Great American and benefits and piano bars, to build the engagements, he didn't understand that he Music Hall are generally uninterested in following they now enjoy. And every one of Summer. 1918. South Carolina. Sixty-three had to go out and do a lot of glad-handing, years ago. how did Julie Augustine, a black local performers, as is the Plush R oo m .,. them Invest a lot of time and money in main­ of personal selling, to build himself an seamstress, and her companion ol ten years. Savoy Tivoli burned out. and the Hyatt taining their audience by telephoning press, audience.(No one goes to most of ourcabarets Herman, a white baker, cope with their world? ■Reflections' room closed up We are left, doing extensive mailings, and buying their just because it's a habit or fun thing to do; What did they do? What was done to them? then, with Fanny's. Our Kitchen, the Q.T.. own ads. Naturally, any club owner is going they go to see the particular entertainer Alice Childress examines Julie and Herman's ''1177" and Trinity Place. to hire an entertainer with a good name, a experience in her Wedding Band performed who's performing there). I often hear the lament from newer sin­ proven track record, and a businesslike, by the Black Repertory Group. Inc. Thurs-Sat. gers. or locals who don't frequently get the professional approach to performing. So my best advice to most youngsters through May 8th. 8:30 pm. 1719 Alcatraz Ave. chance to perform, that these clubs are all None o f the existing "big dozen" has to wanting to break into local cabaret is. forget Berkeley. Into: 652-4017 it. But if you're going to persist: have a good sewn up by fewer than a dozen performers move away or die to create space for promis­ An Evening ol Consciousness Lowering with and no one is willing to try anything new. ing newcomers—there's always room for resume and demo tape, be well represented Ladies Against Women and The Plutonium Glancing through Sold Out (the San Fran­ good new talent, and always a demand for it, by someone who understands the business, Players Participants include Mrs Edith Banks 1 cisco Cabaret Guide), it certainly would A year ago. a young unknown by the name get the best (and best-known) accompanist ol Ihe National Association lor the Advance- f appear that way. You're bound to see pic­ of Terry Hutchison knew how to do it and do available, do every showcase and benefit ment ot Rich People: Virginia Cholesterol. , tures of Pamela Brooks. Lynda Bergren. it right: last month he won the Cabaret Gold you can. and DRESS PROPERLY. Lady spokesman lor the rights ot unconceived . Gail Wilson more than once, and see their Award as Outstanding Male Vocalist. Napata citizens: Phyllis Shatt-Lee on her proposal (or ' names several times in the schedules for the Openings: A Fine Romance is back at the H.U.L, A., the House committee on UnLadyliki Mero has certainly made a splash in the Activities, and special male guests Alexander | various clubs. And It's true that I can count cabaret community, and it looks like Peter Valencia Rose. It's a delightful show: if you Hot Ice missed it the first time, treat yourself. P ia t... Hog. Dr. Mel Practice. Rev. Jerry Fallout 8 . on the fingers of my hands the number of Cambra. who only first appeared three months Frozen bodies discovered South ot Market? more. Plus Carol Roberts, notorious toodsex- ’ local entertainers who regularly perform, or ago. is doing pretty well for himself. Grant­ Her Songs.. .Her Story Is an exquisitely Fantastic? Science Fiction? No! Hot Ice by ual Remember, "an open mind is the De1 who would be welcome back to perform, in ing talent and presence, the other two abso- performed retrospective of the lady's life Charles Ludlam brings to life the most unlikely workshop." May 27-29.8:30 pm. Julia Morgan j the aforementioned clubs. 'lute requirements are good management and music, co-starring Raquel Bitton and cops 5 robbers brawl ever. It's an orgy of poor Theatre. 2640 College Ave. Berkeley V Wouldn't you think nightclubbers would and the willingness to spend time and money Lynn Brown, and featuring Scott Singer. taste, a celebration ot porn & corn At Studio Reservations: 548-7234. Wear uncomfortable ’ get weary of seeing the same few people o n e career This is one you'll want to see more than Rhinoceros Thealer. 2926— 16th St, SF. 8:30 clothes. once—it's playing Sundays thru Tuesdays pm. opens May 7. Thurs 5 Sun $6. Fri & Sat S7. everywhere in town? Why not give some I sometimes grow weary of listening to Muriel, the legal secretary who craves a lax ' fresher talents a break? at the "1177" in Gramercy Towers on Nob Reservations: 861-5079. See it by all means, would-be performers in showcases—those but wear rubber boots and leave your inhlbi- shelter 4 believes the Amazons are taking ( who then harry and badger club owners tor H ill...th e most comfortable showroom in over: St. Librata. crucified in medieval Portu- j regular gigs, insisting (when the opposite is In the night mind, time and place have no gal (or growing a beard: T.B . the obnoxious , evident), that they're "just as good" as any- existence—the theme ol August Strindberg's Jewish lesbian: and Charlene Atlas, the society ' She's back! Don't miss Ruth Hastings this A Dream Play In 1970 Ingmar Bergman matron whose motto is "extreme moderation." month at the Plush Room/Hotel York, per­ adapted Strindberg's dream with a change ol are some of the characters you'll meet in Ego ^ forming Thursday thru Monday at 8pm with structure, bul he preserved the esseneg with Trip, or I'm Getting My Shit Together and ‘A Great Restaurant and A Great Cabaret" a program of Brel and Piaf songs. his own dark and shadowy vision. San Fran­ Dumping It All On You. a one-woman show by cisco presents Bergman's adaptation ol A Terry Baum (formerly ot Lilith 4 Dos Lesbos) Dream Play Previews: May 1-2. 8 pm. $3.50: 8 30pm. $5. May 7-June 12. Fri 4 Sat Bethany j Opens May 5. continues Thur-Sun thru May Church. 1268 Sanchez (at Clipper). San Fran­ 30.8 pm Sunday matinee. 2pm. $4-57 tickets. cisco. No reservations 19th & Collingwood. SF. Call 864-3305 for “Come Out O f Your Refrigerator” —compiled by Michael Helqulit i with into. You Can Eat Anywhere! FOODSEXUAL COMEDIAN Now Dine At The Best i CAROL ROBERTS! & Getting Better Sun. May 2: (9:30pm) Fanny's Cabaret Dinners Nightly from 6pm W/Jane Dornacker! ÜGË Critic’s Choice Sun. May 9: (9pm) for Food, Service, Ambience & Price Amelia's $12,000 Sweepstakes! W/jazz by For prize list, details, entry: Also featuring Hastay & Burch! i The Best in Cabaret Entertainment HOTEL CASA LOMA 4230 18th Street, Reservations 621-5570 $1 o// Foodsexual Kitchen Aide w/this ad! 0 Fllmof«,San Franciaca,CA&4117« • Every entrant wins a prize Prizes each monthi Pacific Center Presents Thursdays: MAY CABARET 6th: Selene Gay Prom 1982 13th: Peter Cambra 20th: Dana Bolin Mondays: Lynda Bergren 27th: Martha Lorin Tuesdays: "ihe wage of Fridays: Gall Wilson 7th & 21st: Pamela Brooks La (it 3 generatim i 14th & 28th: Gail Wilson Wednesdays Samantha Samuels Saturdays: 8th & 22nd: Weslia Whitfield Thursdays: o n tfic 15th & 29th: Lynda Bergren Nicholas. 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by Penni Kimmel is a showcase fo r 15 dancers who are so audience have always answered enthusias- attuned to acting, to more than bare physi­ tically whether men's dance In the Arts Presevation compartment of cal imagery, that Love-Lies-Bleeding derived from ancient rituals or Bejart's the spaceship bound for the star colonies of becomes a brief dramatic experience To be ballets, "the swirl of the matador's cape, the the future. Dance in its living form may not had. when it comes round again. eyes of the Hindu temple dancer, the pink be given a place. Not to worry Somewhere So, there are those who would have you pomtes of the Trockadero, the Dionysian along the frozen corridors'an inanimate believe Dance Does Not Exist in San Fran­ rites...the private choreography of two passenger will give a cryogenic twitch now bodies moving in erotic harmony" Rites o l and again It may be a dancer But it could Spring features as well the Barbary Coast be just a dance-lover from San Francisco, Cloggers (the first—what, another’ —such someone who absorbed one or more per­ all-male group in the country), flamenco, formances in the brief spring of 1982 and Polynesian, belly, African and. out of that stored away the experience in the personal­ Pavlova convent, no doubt, that group o f ized motor/memory bank to be divided, staid and soberarhythmic habit-addicts, the cloned (there is another use of the word) Sisters of Perpetual you-know-what and re-engendered on a planet near Betel- (Details in Calendar). geuse And there, inevitably, will come a cisco. . .and then there are those who per­ The final proof that Dance Does Not Exist critic from Old Earth, schooled in Pavlova's mit only the Season to impinge on their in San Francisco is the fact that it is recog­ definition o f the Imperial Ballet ("a convent artistic schedules. So much for the more nized and appreciated even after it has whence frivolity is banned.. .where merci­ than 40 professional companies and as metamorphosed into something else, in this less discipline reigns") to declare that so many more talented troupes that seem to case a film from Spain that premiered here maleable and independent a form is Not appear as often as Halley's Comet, but a at last year's International Film Festival but ■ Dance. Not even Human, perhaps, having thousand times more welcome. Thanks to is just now being released drawn on the local and immediate expres­ City Celebrations. Inc and the San Fran­ Blood Wedding is the transposition of sions of Betelgeusan time and place and cisco Hotel Tax Fund. The 1982 Ethnic Frederico Garcia Lorca's tale of fatal pas­ essence that is culture Big deal, thinks the Dance Festival is on again after a year's sion into the combined mediums of dance New San Franciscan, dancer and audience absence (see Calendar for details) to satisfy and film. It is not one or the other Carlos alike—we always knew that was an indes- the needs o f the m ulticultural heritage that Saura directs (veteran of numerous presti­ tructable yellow brick road running under is alive in the city's individuals as well as its gious festival awards: this is another) and the Golden Gate; our roots spring from that neighborhoods, more as a stim ulation for Antonio Gades choreographs and stars: San Francisco Ballet city of anomaly and paradox in a function­ regenerative ethnic growth than a static and the cinecamera meshes the two art ally creative state of anarchy preservation of the past. The music and forms brilliantly. The San Francisco Ballet is the oldest dance of Africa. Asia, Europe and the South We enter the bare backstage with the is clearly mimed, the expressions and emo­ continuing company (coming up on its Seas w ill be presented by 16 companies in dance company to resounding echoes, the tions as stylized as Kabuki. as cathartic as 50th!) and third largest in the country. Every four performaces. some as familiar as a rich matte colors of grainy Old Masters, Aeschylus with the extraordinary exception major company has its compendium of heartbeat, others strikingly strange and tan­ casual witnesses to the dressing-room rou­ of onstage violence. The scene is a climatic "firsts" which can be selected and re-ranked talizing May 6-9 at the Herbst Theater tine and into the rehearsal hall for a warm­ knife duel between the Lover (Gades). who by current standards of quality and taste; Then, the ubiquitous Golden Gate Per­ up that is a full dance in itself—charming has run off with the Bride from the wedding, the SFB's reputation has long been based Falcon Dance forming Arts has filled out its calendar of flubs and all, building the jondo rhythms and the Groom (Juan Antonio Jimenez) on that of opportunities offered to a wonder­ chorus upon chorus with Rites o t Spring: A that will carry into the dress rehearsal At done m time-lapse movement, breathtaking design and music, the company remains fully diverse and mutable group of vibrantly Celebration ot Men Dancing. May 14 & 15 at this point the camera ceases to be specta­ slow m otion in real time while the camera original dancers and choreographers. With fresh and exciting. The last program o f the Nourse Auditorium. Gay spirit and more tor. spy. mirror and reporter and takes an dollies round and round, maintaining equal attention paid to those in production. season, May 4-9. presents Lew Christensen s cultural heritage from Randall Krivonic's active role in the full staged performance of optim un human-eye focus, the way a head new production premiere of Tchaikovsky's Falcon Dance Theatre, a group that has jealousy, passion, honor and revenge The story must be turned in a pirouette to preseve Beauty and the Beast, a fitting classical end physical and artistic balance. Through the to a season dedicated to another composer. rigidity o l the classical codes and the mag­ Igor Stravinsky. nificent fluid control of the dancers, a truism A new resident dancer/choreographer. escapes The object of the men's battle. The Val Caniparoli. has just added his creation, Bride (Cristina Hoyas) and The Mother Love-Lies-Bleeding to the SFB repertoire, a (Pilar Cardenas) must suffer and live, unre­ notable example of the blurring of lines quited. the man-and-woman scenes are between dance forms without compromis­ replete with sentiment and romance. It is the ing the essential ballet style The dance duel between the two men that is ultimately evokes the temperament of plants—Venus sensuous; even homoerotic as the film cli­ Fly Trap. Vines. Belladonna. Rose. Tum­ maxes. according to the medieval code, in bleweed, Crabgrass and Sunflower—which death in turn evoke subtle human mood Color is The dancing ol Blood Wedding is state- less a direct visual effect than one of peri­ of-the-art classic Spanish, its concept and pheral movement; advancing and retreating technology beyond the new It's a beauty of tropisms create sun and shadow with a film, to be seen in May at the Cannery scarcely any lighting effects; and the dancers Cinema. 421-3353 feet have an affinity with the ground—a Blood Wedding barefoot effect en pointe—that appear to Next month, watch for more stories of make the stage floor superfluous Caniparo- been very out and about since the mid- banana bread and all the Dance that Doesn't li's Stravinsky selections meld so smoothly seventies, exploring gay sentiments in Exist in San Francisco. with the changing scenes and into one techniques that fall into the categories of another that, without the program notes or a modern, ballet and ja zz.. .and immediately music background as strong as the chereo- leap out again as original expressions of grapher'.s it would be impossible to distin­ ethnic, erotic and artistic natures in dance guish them as nine different excerpts. This Ethnic Dance Festival Krivonic has asked the questions that the

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In December 1981. the Shanti Project, which offers free counseling and emotional support to persons and families faced with life-threatening illness and bereavement, began a support group for gay men with Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis pneumonia. Our group meets one night a week to share and to support each other. No one can know our experience as well as someone who Is going through it. During the last four months our group has touched the lives of over twenty members. For those too sick to attend, we have brought the group to their homes or hospital settings. In addition to the group, the Shanti Project offers one-to-one counseling at no cost. Since our begining we have grieved the deaths of five of our brothers. We have learned much from each other. We have learned that we love each other. We recognize our common predicament and respect our individual differences. We have learned not to judge. Some of us are “out" to everyone. Some of us are "out" to few. Some of us have lovers. Some of us have none. Some of us have gone to the baths. Some of us have not. Some of us have used recreational drugs extensively. Some of us have used little All of us have suffered life's stresses, and treasured life's joys. We don't know what caused our diseases, and this is frustrating and frightening We don't know what we should do. or not do. to protect ourselves and others. We have watched and stood-bv each other at various stages of treatment and disease. We have felt joy in the support of our family and Jriends. and pain in their withdrawal. We have made new friends and let go of old. We have learned to say “EXTRAORDINARY! hello. We have learned to say goodbye. We have learned that we need you to be close to us. now. more than ever. We implore you to be even more loving with us. Saura brings Lorca’s classic to the screen with Don't be afraid to be near us. However, do be honest with us. We know it is scary but please try to go past your fear, and remember that a loving touch or hug can be a most valued gesture. We ask you to offer your supporl to your brothers with breath-taking beauty and heart-stopping drama” these illnesses. We ask you not to hold back. Life is short, and this moment Is all we have. The Shanti Project hae supported ns. and now. the Project needs your assistance to continue its —Judith Crist, Saturday Review. efforts. At this time, the Project is experiencing critical financial difficulty. Yet. despite staff reductions.seventy volunteers continue to offer a wide range of backgrounds and expertise to meet the needs of hundreds of clients throughout the Bay Area. Shanti represents and serves the lesbian and gay communities as well as the community-at-large. We thank the Project for giving us the opportunity to address you, and we're proud to ask you to support this wonhy GARCIA LORCAS organization. We ask you to give generously to this Project which has deeply touched our lives. With your support it will continue to touch the lives, and deaths, of more of us We wish health and love to fill your lives always.

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