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I am upset I know a lot of time was spent in get because the drawing by Brooke Matteson two new books edited and written by Santa Cruz lesbians: Between (he Lines, An ting it all together. Thank you... is not an accurate representation of my Here’s money for a year's subscription Anthology by PacifidAsian Lesbians o f Santa Cruz, California, edited by Cristy story. The woman in skin tight jeans and and a few extra... Chung, Alison Kim and A. Kaweah Lemeshewsky; and Her Wits About Her; Self high heeled cowboy boots, skinny body In unity and love. Defense Success Stories by Women, edited by Denise Caignon and Gail Groves. posed in a semi-crotch shot is not the Pal Clarke Don't miss the reviews or the books. woman in the story. The woman with her head down, fece hidden in her locks, hands Lavender Reader Staff Lorraine Lipani brings us the final piece in our alternative healing and AIDS ser drooping helplessly is not the courageous, Reader Sponsors cPublisher ies, taking a look at the immune system in all its complexities. Laura Giges talks determined, thinking woman of the story. Dear Editors, After Dark Michael Perlman pointedly about what it's like working as a woman in the Santa Cruz AIDS Project And lace it, how tong would a hat like that I was sitting in Jerry’s Restaurant in Alsha Hair Design Editors John Laird gives us a brief glimpse into the gay and lesbian records of the current last on the freeway anyway? Hollister the other day wondering if all the Blue Lagoon Jo Kenny Democratic Party presidential hopefuls and Scott Brookie talks about the upcoming When 1 open to the page my story’s on men knew I was a dyke. But I realized that Blue Moon Cafe Scott Brookle March on Washington and why, for love and for life, we’re not going back. it looks sleazy and not like my story at all. they were just the regular collection of Book Loft Columnists 1 feel angry and sad that I trusted you with farmers and cowboys that one finds in Bookshop Santa Cruz my work! As a lesbian publisher myself, Hollister and everywhere else. And some Allison Claire This issue also introduces our letters column, and as you'll read, the Reader got Brommer Street Video working on HerBooks, I know just how of them are even pretty nice. John Laird Cafezinho mixed reviews. Please continue sending us your words, they truly help keep us go hard publishing is, how production I just bought gas at a gas station where Foil Contributors ing. pressure often competes with ethics. I ap there are “ a lot of Mexicans” — some of Capitola Book Cafe John Follesdol preciate that you called me about a title for whom know I’m a dyke but don’t care Lynda Chaikin Laura Giges And finally, this issue is somewhat of an accomplishment for the two of us. my piece. May I suggest that you let authors because we’re friends. If the story “42C Chimney Sweep Books Lorraine LipanI What's the big deal? Well, our noble czarina, Michael Perlman, went on a cross look at and OK illustrations of their work Between You” was about stereotypes and Chi Pants Sarah-Hope Parmeter country quest in search of his soul and smile, leaving us relative neophytes to en in the future? prejudices, which I think it was. I’d like Community Printers Dinah Phillips sure that all the pages were in order and that nothing was upside down. Thanks to a Best, to protest the stereotypes and prejudices Jhomas Conn. DC A. Smith great production crew, we did it. Irene Reti that Ms. Reti portrayed. Jim ’Squeaky" Cooley Art I work in Hollister and I like it. It has Lauren Crux Steve Sinclair Happy reading. charm, warmth and most people accept me Muin Daly Erich Spitzenberg for who I am. Maybe they don’t have the Ann Elias same culture as people from Santa Cruz, Robin White Jo Kenny Gigo at Casablanca but that doesn’t make them weird, hostile C alendar Scott Brookie or bigoted. Heartwood Spa Will Russell Sincerely, India Joze Production Feeling m oved? Elizabeth Schick In Touch Gayelynn Baby Loud, annoyed, pushy, proud? P.S. Keep up the good work at the Reader. Arnold Left. MD Gwen Berliner Break the barriers of silence, Val Leoffier Bob Bielen (you know?) Lorraine Lipani Cindy DePremio Write words. Communicate. Lotus and Company Lesley Dyson Pacific Harbor Travel Thomas Riordan Letters: Pizza Company Will Russell Lavender Reader Pontiac Grill T yp ography P.O. Box 7293 Santa Cruz AIDS Project Typagraphlx Santa Cruz. C A 95061 Santa Cruz Community Proofreaders Credit Union Steve Sinclair Santa Cruz Women’s Bob Bielen Winter 1988 Health Center Advertising Saturn Cafe John LaRivlere Publication Date ▼ January 15, 1988 Patricia Shea, DC Distribution Jerry Solomon G Shultz Editorial Deadline ▼ December 11 Cassandra Vowter, Camera Work Video City Dancing Man Imagery Way of Life Printing Advertising Deadline T December 28 Community Printers C ^v er Calendar Deadline T December 30 David Garcia Bye-bye Banana! Bridge Building Bork's Bite: Rabid Right When I came out to my devoutly Or Jewish friends, your sister who is like my he nomination of Robert Bork to the firmative action, abortion, and other civil recently told the San Francisco Chronicle thodox sister, her first response was to ask sister, or with a political group interested U.S. Supreme Court by President rights and civil liberties issues. that the nominaton of Bork poses “ the big me to consider the impact of my deviant in coalition building. Reagan has stirred considerable In criminal law cases, on the other hand, gest threat to legal abortion since Roe v. Tcontroversy and lengthy confirmation hearPowell voted with the conservative Wide was handed down in 1973.” Groups sexuality on the future population of Jews. The piece starts by identifying com She saw my choice to become a lesbian as monalities between Jews and Gays/Les- ings are expected this fall. justices, thereby helping to steer the Court like the National Abortion Rights League a forsaking and abandonment of Judaism, bians, stating, “ Each confronts the ques Immediately following the July 1 an in a more conservative direction. and the American Civil Liberties Union as well as the Jewish family. How wrong tion of how — and even whether—to affirm nouncement, Senator Edward Kennedy (D- On the abortion issue, Powell consistent have been galvanized by the Bork nomina she was! an identity about which the dominant Mass.) released a scathing statement from ly voted to affirm the 1973 Roe v. IMide tion and have mapped out strategies of how My Jewish identity has flourished the culture is largely ignorant and rife with pre his office denouncing the nomination. decision. Bork, on the other hand, has on to defeat it. past three years, supported by Jewish les judice. . . . In a political climate increas According to Kennedy, “ Robert Bork’s several occasions criticized the decision, Bork’s view on race discrimination has bians in Santa Cruz and Kolaynu, the local ingly dominated by the rhetoric of in America is a land in which women would but has never had the occasion to rule on also generated heated discussions. In 1963 chapter of New Jewish Agenda. New tolerance, both communities need each be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks the issue. Bork wrote an article for the New Republic Jewish Agenda is a national organization other as allies and friends.” Other issues would sit at segregated lunch counters, During his 1981 confirmation hearings in which he passionately denounced a civil that works to foster Jewish values of peace explored include homophobia, the Jewish rouge police could break down citizens’ to become a federal judge, Bork told the rights bill, later passed, that barred racial and social justice and to promote Jewish family, AIDS, changing attitudes in the doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren Senate that: “ I am convinced, as I think discrimination by owners of restaurants, But do they have bananas in Brooklyn? participation in progressive coalitions. Jewish community, additional resources, could not be taught about evolution, writers almost all constitutional scholars are, that hotels, and other public accommodations. Peter Bergi, pictured above right with his Recently New Jewish Agenda has and suggestions for action. For those of us and artists could be censored at the whim Roe V . iitde is an unconstitutional decision, Bork called the bill a “dangerous depar honey David, most notorious for teaching published a pamphlet which addresses both interested in coalition building across dif of the Government, and the doors of the a serious and unjustifiable judicial usur ture from freedom of individuals to decide safe sex" condom use with the help of a my sister’s accusations and other topics of ferences, “ Coming Out, Coming Home” Federal courts would be shut on the fingers pation of state legislative authority. I also with whom he will deal.” According to the banana, has taken his show on the road to concern to the gay and lesbian commun is an outstanding model. of millions of citizens.” think that Roe v. l^iide is by no means the article, civil rights protesters were a the Big Apple. Up until this summer, ity. “ Coming Out, Coming Home: Lesbian This pamphlet, as well as information If successful, the nomination of Bork only example of such unconstitutional “ mob” that was “disturbing and coercing Peter was a Physician's Assistant at the and Gay Jews and the Jewish Community” about an extensive bibliography entitled could decisively tip the balance of the behavior by the Supreme Court.” private individuals in the exercise of their Cowell Health Center, UCSC, providing is the type of essay that you could share “ Lesbian and Gay Liberation: A Bibliog Supreme Court to the right. Justice Powell, Kate Michelman, executive director of freedom.” AIDS education to students, as well as with your Gentile lover, your straight raphy for the Jewish Community” can be whom Bork would replace, has been a the National Abortion Rights League, Bork also argued in the article that the volunteering with the Education Commit ordered locally from Adrienne Rich, 2420 swing voter who helped to create a liberal majority, who opposed discrimination, tee of the Santa Cruz AIDS Project. By A. Smith Paul Minnie Rd., Santa Cruz, CA, 95062. majority in many 5-to-4 decisions involv By John Follesdal should not impose its anti-racism values on Good luck, Peter, we'll miss you!_____ Send SASE and 50 cents. H ing the separation of church and state, af the minority. The idea that it had a right continued on next page
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If this he had been appointed Solicitor General by judge showed a pervasive bias in favor of Support Groups court judge, and because he thought that isn’t a convenient time for you, please former President Richard Nixon. businesses and against individual rights. black political participation was “ a source feel free to call or drop in to see Terry on • AIDS/ARC Diagnosis Group. Please caU He has not, however, repudiated his The study found that in the cases where of evil and danger.” any Friday from 1 to 5pm. Of course, 458-4999 for time and location. views on homosexuality. In a 1978 faculty the Judges had disagreed, Bork had con More recently, in 1%8, 19 Republican the you can call any other time, but Terry • HIV Positive Group. TUesday 7:30 to debate at Yale, Bork, who was teaching sistently voted against consumers and Senators, including Howard Baker, Jr. and promises to be in the office on Friday af 9pm, SCAP Office, 234 Santa Cruz there at the time, was a vocal opponent of workers and in support of government Strom Thurmond declared that they would Santa Cruz ternoons. Ave., Aptos. a proposal (eventually adopted) to bar from agencies and businesses. But when the vote against President Lyndon Johnson’s * 5ft ★ * • Families, Friends, and Loved Ones the school’s recruiting facilities employers cases pitted businesses against government nomination of Abe Fbrtas for Chief Justice, AIDS SCAP is currently focusing on providing Group. Wednesday 5:30 to 7pm, SCAP who discriminate against gays and lesbians. regulators, Bork sided with the businesses because of his liberal views on law enforce Project education in the Latino communities. Office, 234 Santa Cruz Ave., Aptos. In the debate, Bork argued that the faculty every time. ment, obscenity, free speech, capital Anyone interested in assisting us in should not “ ratify homosexuality,” which, The study also found that Bork invariably punishment, and other issues. Johnson did organizing or conducting bilingual educa according to Bork, was “ obviously not an ruled against demonstrators claiming not send another nomination to the Senate, The Santa Cruz AIDS Project continues tion forums, please call Terry. unchangeable condition like race or freedom of speech rights. leaving that job for his successor. President in our efforts to provide support services * 4c 4c 4c gender.” To be approved, Bork first faces hear Nixon, who nominated Warren Burger to for people with AIDS/ARC and educa 4c 4c 4c 4c Bork again vented his views on homosex ings in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Have you ever wished that you could get fill the position. tional services for the greater Santa Cruz uality in Zech v. Dronenburg, a 1984 gay The committee has eight Democrats and up to date, accurate information on safe New Office Hours If the Democrats, who control the County communities. rights case. Joined by Antonin Scalia, Bork seven Republicans. A tie vote, which Senate, are successful in blocking the Bork sex in a small, informal setting? Well, you Always: Monday thru Friday ruled that the military had an absolute right could occur if a member abstains, would nomination. President Reagan will submit 4c Jk * ♦ can — it’s called a KCXJL AIDS presenta 10am to 4pm to fire gays and lesbians no matter how send the nomination to the Senate floor another nominaton. Given his track record, As part of these efforts we’ve hired Terry tion. All you have to do is let SCAP know Sometimes; Monday thru Friday good their military record. The language for a vote; an 8-7 vote against him would it is likely that he will nominate another Cavanagh as a full time Volunteer Coor that you’ll invite a few friends over one 8 to 10am, 4 to 6pm and the tone of that opinion reveals much kill the nomination. On the Senate floor, conservative, thus ensuring that the Court dinator. Terry has set up an ongoing evening and that you’d like a KOOL AIDS After Hours: 24 Hour Hotline about Bork’s attitude towards gays and les 51 votes against Bork would defeat his will shift to the right. ■ volunteer orientation meeting, every presenter to be there too. Try it — you’ll be 458-4999 bians; according to Bork, Dronenburg’s nomination, and 41 votes against would The Lesbian/Gay Action Alliance is a Tuesday from 4 to 6pm at the SCAP of glad you did. discrimination claims were “ frivolous” insure the success of a filibuster (it takes member of the Santa Cruz Block Bork fice. Anyone interested in working with and “ untenable.” 60 votes to end a filibuster), thereby also Coalition along with several other groups. In addition to focusing on Bork's views defeating the nomination. Contact the coalition in care o f Planned on abortion, race issues, and gay rights, the The Senate has rejected Supreme Court Parenthood, 212 Laurel Street, Santa Cruz, nomination hearings are likely to focus on nominees 26 times since the founding of 425-1551.
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Jesse Helms attempt to overturn the D.C. He opposes mandatory HIV testing, and HIV insurance law. He is a co-sponsor of favors an all-out education campaign on the Kennedy-Waxman legislation, which is AIDS. important because of his membership on Jesse Jackson. Jackson has consistently the Health and Human Services spoken out in favor of gay/lesbian issues, Committee. and was almost the only speaker to men He favors safe sex education in high tion the words “ gay” and “ lesbian” from schools and opposes a quarantine. He "It will be the 1984 Democratic convention platform. favors mandatory testing for prisoners and He relies on local grassroots Rainbow new immigrants, but opposes it for un Coalition organizations in his campaign documented residents and marriage license and the 1985 platform of the Santa Cruz applicants. interesting to see '88 Presidential Hopefuls: Rainbow did not make reference to any gay and lesbian issues. Patricia Schroeder. First elected in 1972 He opposes mandatory testing for HIV. to represent Denver in Congress, Mixed Reviews for a Mixed Bag He favors sex education, and says that Schroeder has not yet announced her for if they have teaching abstinence as a preventive method mal entry into the Democratic race. She has a 95% ADA rating. Just over four months from now, the first ment of foster kids, had a child removed should have a high priority in the schools. delegates to the 1988 Democratic and from their custody in a highly publicized He opposes a quarantine. Rep. Schroeder has co-spionsored the Republican conventions will be selected. event almost two years ago. A commission Paul Simon. A former Lieutenant Gover gay/lesbian civil rights bill in Congress, changed their This election will be the first in almost appointed by Dukakis recently recom nor and Congressperson from Illinois, and is a co-sponsor of the National March on Washington. three decades where there is no incumbent mended that he restore the prior policy of Simon is in his first term in the U.S. Senate. running for re-election. As a result, there allowing gay foster parents; Dukakis has He has an 80% ADA rating. She is a co-sponsor of the Kennedy- are now fourteen announced candidates for thus far ignored this recommendation. During his service in the House, Simon Waxman AIDS bill, and has called for a positions by next the two major party nominations. Gay/lesbian groups in New England have cast many unfevorable votes on gay/lesbian “ Manhattan Project” effort against AIDS. The Republican candidates must all been picketing Dukakis during campaign issues — supporting the homophobic She opposes mandatory testing, and pander to the right wing of their party to appearances ever since. McDonald amendments, and voting to strongly advocates safe sex education. She win the nomination—and there is no GOP However, in early July, Dukakis vetoed overturn the D.C. sodomy decriminaliza opposes quarantine. summer. candidate that has taken good stands on gay homophobic state budget language that tion bill. He has not been a co-sponsor of This is where the eight Democratic can or lesbian concerns. would have prohibited gay foster parents. civil rights legislation. didates begin the race on gay and lesbian I want to focus on the eight Democratic But he angered gay groups the very next In the Senate, Simon’s record has im issues. It will be interesting to see if they Party candidates. There’s a whole range of day by reversing the state policy prohibiting proved. He has pledged to vote for civil have changed their positions by the opinion and experience among the Biden is an unknown quantity on insurance companies from testing for HIV. rights legislation, and voted against the nominating conventions next summer. ■ candidates—let’s look at them one by one: gay/lesbian issues. He has not co His Insurance Commissioner resigned in Bruce Babbit. Babbit, who served as sponsored the civil rights legislation in the protest. Governor of Arizona until last December, Senate, and has made no public statements Earlier this year, the Massachusetts has surprised many observers with his pro on gay/lesbian issues to date in the lower house approved a gay and lesbian gay rights positions in recent months. He presidential campaign. non-discrimination bill—primarily due to has reportedly been atacked by the reac On AIDS issues, Biden favors testing of personal lobbying by Dukakis. The bill has tionary Mancheter (N.H.) Union Leader immigrants, but is undecided on the testing not yet been considered by the State Senate, Monday, October 5th for a reasonable position on gay foster of prisoners and marriage license ap but Dukakis has indicated he will sign the parents. bill if it reaches his desk. to Harbor Station plicants. He favors safe sex teaching in up (the new, pink building at the corner of Seabright & Murray) Babbitt has indicated that he would issue per grades in schools, and opposes a Richard Gephardt. A fifteen-year an executive order as President prohibiting quarantine. member of Congress, and a former aider- 519 Seabright Avenue, Suite 201 discrimination in federal employment on Biden is generally perceived as a man from St. Louis, Gephardt had an ADA Santa Cruz, CA 95062 the basis of sexual orientation. He has also “ liberal,” scoring 80% in the rating of the rating of 70% in the last Congress. said that he would sign the federal civil Americans for Democratic Action He has been vague on gay and lesbian Be good New Phone #; 408/425-5020 rights bill should it be passed by Congress. (ADA) —a national liberal lobbying issues, but opposes mandatory HIV testing to your Note: Only the prefix to our phone number is changing! On AIDS issues. Babbitt opposes man because it forces members of high risk organization. body ' ---- -—z: datory testing, advocates teaching of safe Michael Dukakis. Dukakis was first groups to go underground. He favors sex and use of condoms, and is opposed elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1974, education on safe sex, and the use of con Keep it comfy and looking good in ChiPants. We Complete listings of adventure travel worldwide: to quarantine. was defeated in 1978, regained his office in doms. 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Great fun Arizona despite the fact that the legislature Dukakis aroused the ire of the gay com Senator from Tennessee. He has a 70% people who try ChiPants buy ChiPants. and free! . . ^—s~ defeated such a proposal. munity over the last two years for his in rating from the ADA. Joseph Biden. First elected from ept handling of the gay foster parents Gore has not taken a position on major CRl-5|^pA.TSlTS Pacific Delaware to the U.S. Senate in 1972, Biden issues. Two gay men, approved for place- gay or lesbian issues, but he has not been Santa Cruz: 121 Walnut Ave., Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 12-5 Listings of Gay became the chair of the Senate Judiciary a co-sponsor of civil rights legislation. He San Francisco: 3899 24th St., Mon-Sat 11-7; Sun 12-5 accommodations and Committee after the last election. He has appeared at the press conference for the Berkeley: 2112A Vine St.., (Opien mid-October) group vacations, tool Harbor gained much publicity in recent months for launching of the Kennedy-Waxman legis Phene 'til Oct.2 . . . his oi^sition to the confirmation of Judge By John Laird lation on AIDS non-discrimination and Travel Robert Bork to the Supreme Courf. confidentiality in HIV testing. He is also VÌ7 tl? zìivl7 zìi\Ì7 fi?^ fi/zìi fi?zìi fi?zìi fi?Zìi zìi\ì? fi?zìi zìivi? zìivi? fi?zìi tumes other than street clothes. A staged woman”, a complex character named reading is a rehearsed performance with Terry, come out of the background and script in hand.” into the action of the play. “She’s a fas This low-budget, high-energy enter cinating character!” exclaims McDer tainment will raise the funds to present a mott. “Sarah did not want to bring full-scale production of another Sarah Terry into the play, but 1 told her, 1 want Dreher play in the spring of '88. Alum to meet this woman! 1 want to see nae News: The Doris Day Years was the who she is, how she operates. And so 1987 winner of the Jane Chambers she wrote Terry. Sarah hates to write "A staged reading International Lesbian/Gay Playwright- villains, and Terry is a villain. But she’s ing Contest. It is vintage Dreher: realis also the catalyst for everything that Novel Idea: tic, psychologically complex, delving happens in the play.” lends itself to beneath the surface of relationships Like all Dreher’s plays (except This between women. Brooding Sky), Alumnae News is writ Gothic Lesbian Theater The play is a fictionalized account of ten in a very realistic style, known as a type of theater I feel What shadows haunt the ill-fated an experience Dreher had while a col naturalism. “When a minority group manor o f Seven Chimneys? 'What mys lege student in the 50’s. A close friend starts to find its voice in a new form— in teries will Mary Beth, the poor hut ship was destroyed when a jealous third theater, specificallv—that voice is first a strong commitment honorable governess, fin d there? Did woman reported the not-yet-lesbian to expressed in naturalism," explains Stephen the moody, riding crop carry the dean for sexually harrassing her McDermott. “It’s a natural first step, to, what's called; ing mistress of the household, murder beloved friend. In the play Dreher creates but not the final step. 1 believe that her long-term lover? And who is the the reunion, confrontation that might eventually lesbian theater, like Black tormented soul locked in a hidden closet? have happened (but, in her own life, did and other ethnic theaters, will evolve not) with all three brought together 10 into another form—find its own form. Theater of the Poor." This Brooding Sky: A Lesbian Satire years later at an alumnae gathering, to Right now, Sarah Dreher’s a wonderful of Gothic Novels by award winning face the pain, love, and betrayal that exponent of lesbian naturalism.” playwright Sarah Dreher. will enjoy its had marked their lives so deeply. Director and playwright first met California premiere in Santa Cruz this Originally Dreher wrote Alumnae when Kate McDermott began soliciting October. Local director Kate McDer News as a two woman show, involving manuscripts for an anthology of lesbian mott will produce a staged reading of only the estranged friends. It was plays. As a director, McDermott needed this hilarious parody to raise seed money McDermott’s suggestion that the “other such an anthology and none existed — for a full-scale production of another lesbian play in spring ’88. This flurry of continued on page 14 activity may mark the beginning of an ongoing Lesbian Theater Project for breaks. The delightful silliness of these playwright. The topics that she chooses Santa Cruz County. early scenes were a huge success, and the are so critically important to lesbians — company encouraged Dreher to make a yet this is just a frolic. She’s always been This Brooding Sky was born when play of them. amusing, even in the most serious plays, Ms. Dreher, psychotherapist and play The resulting one-act satire parodies but she really let the stops out with this wright. was working with a new lesbian every conceivable cliche of gothic ro one!” theater project in her hometown of mance and murder mysteries. Yet you McDermott will direct This Brooding Amherst, Mass. The group was going needn't have read the novels Dreher Sky as a staged reading—a form in q through the difficult process of defining sends up to appreciate the joke—we’ve between reader’s theater and full pro their political and artistic identity with duction. Asan art form, staged readings all seen the bats-in-belfries movies they ■n seemingly endless, tense meetings. For spawned. are accessible to groups like the lesbian sheer escape, Dreher began reading clas “Sarah wrote the play to have fun,” community that lack financial resour 1 B M /IK 0.01 sic gothic romances like Jane Eyre, director McDermott remarks, “It’s kind ces. Explains McDermott, “A staged 244 PATIO 8AR Wuthering Heights, and Rebecca. For of surprising—she’s such a serious reading lends itself to a type of theater 1 LIGHTHOUSE AVE. amusement, she would scribble down tri. 4 tot. 2:M |xnni.-1 ojn, feel a strong internal comittment to: MONTEREY bits of decidedly dykey spoofs on the what’s called Theater of the Poor. That's sundoy 2;M ptm. genre. And for comic relief within the theater with minimal or no set—we’ll (408) 373-7828 mon., tuoi, wod. *44 piin. group, she shared these during coffee By Allison Claire just have some furniture—and no cos- thun. p^m. 320-H Cedar St. Santa Cruz, R A p H I X CA 95060 /om ur/y fAatrix Typrsrt/irig 408-458-9425 Full-Sennce Typesetting and Graphic Design Phyllis Wright Claire Moore AFIER Oumer/Manaaer Art Direclor/Owner DANCING NIGHTLY FROM 10:00 429-TYPE (8973) 418-B Cedar Street Santa Cruz, California 95060 Santa Cruz Action4^etwork creative artists, we don't originate the County and small Midwestern cities. This Brooding Sky is currently in reher- UCSC Women’s Center, Cardiff House continued from page 13 work. We interpret it, the way a musi Today there is a flowering of com sal. Performances are as follows: Saturday: October 24, at 2:30pm (after so she took on the project herself. A cian does, or a conductor, or an actor. munity-based lesbian theater compan noon) friend here in Santa Cruz told herabout We have an obligation to try to decipher ies across the country. As lesbians we SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES In San Jose a play called Ruby Christmas, of un and be loyal to what was intended. It’sa are always looking for affirmations for In Santa Cruz ONLY ONE PERFORMANCE! known authorship, and Kate began the puzzle that you cull out of the script as our lives in the arts—we have created Moraga Hall, at Seabright & Broadway Billy De Frank Center, 1040 Park Ave. search. By coincidence the manuscript you work with it." In keeping with this our own music and poetry to meet that Sundays: October II, 18, 25 at 8pm Saturday: October 17, at 8pm arrived in the mail— from Sarah Dreher. obligation, McDermott is in regular need, and there is a profound hunger to Both Ruby Christmas&x\d 8x10 Glossy cross-country contact with Dreher as she see ourselves on the stage. Cabrillo College, Rm. 456(small forum) To get involved in the Santa Cruz Le.s- (winner of the 1985 National Lesbian prepares to direct the plays. "I hope this project can present enough Saturday: October 10, at 8pm bian Theater Project, call 684-1280. ’The size of the project Playwriting Contest) appeared in This Brooding Sky and Alumnae skills so that the work feeds the hunger McDermott's book Places Please: The News will be the first directing project of the lesbian audience but also enlivens will be determined by First Anthology o f Lesbian Plays (Aunt for McDermott since she began work that audience and makes it feel a sense Lute, 1985). “ I was so impressed. on the book. It’s the lesbian community of reward from the quality of the work. ▼progressive networking Me Dermott recalls, “I asked her to send that has inspired her, not necessarily the That takes a lot of work from the me everything she’d ever written—which Santa Cruz theater world. “Ever since theater company. But just because les the audience... she proceeded to do, in stages.” I’ve been here, people have tried to con bians are hungry doesn’t mean it’s OK McDermott decided to direct the new vince me that this is a wildly committed to put anything in front of them because Tpolitical caucus work est play. Alumnae News, herself after theater town. Given the demise of so they'll eat it... I want to find the joining Dreher in Los Angeles for the many theater companies here, 1 have to “Without comparing ourselves to out premier. Though the play received ex question that.” side standards, we need to seek our best lesbian audience here cellent reviews, both Dreher and Mc “Santa Cruz is a music town. Dance and make it available to other lesbians. Dermott felt that the director had taken does pretty well. But theater is a precar Even in a low-budget, local, grass-roots ▼community forums such liberties that the original vision ious enterprise in Santa Cruz. 1 think a lesbian project we can seek excellence and and play to it." was fundamentally altered. The respon lot of people here want to do theater, offer something of quality to our commu sibility of directors to playwrights and but there aren’t so many people who nity. We are capable of excellence and the integrity of their scripts is a topic want to go. Theater depends upon its have a right to expect it of ourselves." ▼lavender reader McDermott had written about in Pla audience for survival. 1 hope to find an When Kate McDermott talks about ces, Please. She felt she wants to do it audience and build a rapport and loyalty an ongoing Lesbian Theater Project in right. going both ways. Maybe something can our area, her vision is not grandiose. “ With a living playwright, I don’t grow from that.” “The size of the project will be deter believe its my right as director to change Certainly an audience for lesbian mined by the audience,” she explains. anything without specific permission. theater exists—and not just in places like And the community she wants to serve Interpret, sure, but not change. Direc Santa Cruz. Lesbian theater groups is Santa Cruz County lesbians. “If other tors are interpretive artists. We're not have sprung up in such places as Orange folks want to attend from other points on the compass, or other points on the sexual compass, that’s great—but inci MUANC® dental. I want to find the lesbian audience Lesbian & Gay Action Alliance here, and play to it..." “If it becomes apparent that in order SANIA for this project to exist in Santa Cruz I □ Ves, / would like to become a member! have to go looking over the hill or in CRUZ Monterey for an audience, then 1 don’t COMMUNITY want to do it. If there’s a small audience, (408) 425-7708 that's fine -it will be a small project." Name (408) 688-9790 CREDITUNI^N McDermott hopes there will be enough A d d re ss A SAVINGS AND LENDING COOPERATIVE S at t jRN C a t l community enthusiasm to support one 512 Front Street. Santa Cruz. CA V5060 play annually, for starters. P. O Box 562. Sonta Cruz. CA 95061-0552 (m ailino address) She already has lots of support from local community groups. The two up Phone coming plays are being sponsored by Cabrillo Lesbians Together, UCSC FIVE Women's Center, Matrix, KZSC Wom BRANCHES en's Department, Monterey Bay Women's □ $10.00 Low Income Alliance, Bookshop Santa Cruz and the INSTITUTE Lesbian and Gay Action Alliance. If, per □ $25.00 General College and Clinic oI ish the thought, the project should fold Traditional Chinese Medicine after Alumnae News, any remaining funds * will be donated to local organizations No one will be denied membership due to lack of funds serving lesbians. Ideally, however, both Student Intern the performers and the theater-goers Mail To: Lesbian & Gay Action Alliance, PO Box 7293 200 7th Avenue among us will make these upcoming Santa Cruz, CA 95062 408/476-8211 events the beginning of a new Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95061 tradition. ■ The March on Washington and after -- Rage, Rebellion and Renaissance
had a dream a little while ago. I was At nine o'clock on the morning of Sun dear friend of mine was on a trip to another and treatment, knowledge about preven expert on AIDS.” There’s a few others, in candidate for president, refers to a “ gay riding with my lover in a car driven by day October //, hundreds of thousands of city. He found some company for the night, tion, compassion for those who are sick. cluding one gay doctor (wouldn’t you want conspiracy” when he talks about AIDS. a man we didn’t really know. After a lesbians and gay men will begin assembling and they used a condom and some hand lo b. people who have no experience in to be in his shoes?). Good bunch, eh? One of the appointees to Reagan’s AIDS Ibit, I noticed people along the side of the on the Ellipse behind the White House for tion. The hand lotion was oil-based, the research, treatment or prevention, and who here was a man who used to visit Commission, Penny Pullen, says that road who had been horribly disfigured and the National March on IMtshington for Les condom broke. Now this beautiful man despise the people who are getting sick. my friend around the comer. He “ standard public health approaches” (read then half-buried—still alive—alongside the bian and Gay Rights. The March, which tests HIV positive. To check my paranoia, One doesn’t have to say much about the was striking, with long black hair. testing and quarantine) aren’t being used begins at noon, will probably be the largest members of Reagan’s AIDS Commission; THis boyfriend was under 18, though, because so of ‘ 'the political clout of organized street, for all to see. Friends of these I made a quiz for myself. people, horrified, were just coming to the gathering of gay people in history. By the Question #1: You are the leader of a their records do the talking. Cardinal John now he’s in jail for that reason. A bc^firiend homosexuals.” Ooh, clout! It must’ve ar rescue, unearthing them and tending to time people begin to gather, workers from large and wealthy country which has sud O’Connor, Archbishop of New York, op of mine across the country is facing a rived when I wasn’t looking. Girlfriend, their wounds. the Names Project will have finished un denly been struck by a mysterious, fatal posed the city’s gay rights bill and ordered prison sentence for a political action. What what are we going to do with all this “ Shouldn’t we stop?’’ I said to the driver. folding the Quilt they started putting disease. So far, the only prevention is tell meetings of Dignity—the gay Catholics— will happen to their sexuality—to their power?? He continued. We stopped at a stop sign, together last spring. It will cover 4,000 ing people how to avoid becoming infected. thrown out of churches in his jurisdiction. health— in prison? Well, let’s see what we homosexuals and I leaned out the window, getting the square feet and will be made up of individ You propose spending lots of money Theresa Crenshaw of San Diego is a physi Queston #3: A small, inexpensive rub (organized) have done with our omnip attention of two passing women. “ Has ual panels, three feet by six feet. Each a. telling people how to avoid becoming cian; she supported Prop 64 last year and ber product prevents the disease. You are otence so far. We’re so powerful that we anybody called the police?” I asked. Silent panel will contain the name of a person infected. has suggested that AIDS is spread through responsible for the health of lots o f people haven’t taken care of the minor matter of ly, they pointed to the driver of the car. He who has died o f AIDS. b. testing to see who's infected, then put toilet seats and insects. Penny Pullen, who in prisons and mental institutions, and you being arrested, tried and jailed for making was responsible, they indicated. “ You have to be a special person to work ting them on lists. led the anti-ERA movement in Illinois, sup order that in those places the rubber love. Our lofty position means that we I woke up shaking, terrified. “Another on the Names Project,” reflected Cleve In Australia, if you turn on the TV, you ports mandatory testing and tracing of part products haven’t bothered to make sure we can AIDS dream,” I thought, trying to calm Jones, the Project’s director, speaking at a are likely to see government-paid AIDS ners of people with AIDS and has been a. be immediately distributed, without interference keep our children in myself in the blackness of the night. The recent forum in Santa Cruz, “ ^ople come prevention ads featuring the Grim Reaper. quoted as saying that gay people engage in b. be banned. our care, visit our lovers in the hospital, people in control, who were supposed to into our office every day carrying a quilt In the subways of Britain, your senses will “blood terrorism” ly deliberately donating The Feds say that they have a “ policy” or share our partner’s medical benefits. be taking care of us, were killing us, and piece with the name of a sister or brother be assaulted billboards reading, “ Don’t HIV-infected blood. Cory SerVaas, against sex in prisons. losing out condoms Our influence is so far-reaching that only our friends were intervening. or lover or friend or father or mother— die of ignorance.’ ’ Most of Western Europe publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, would acknowledge that—stop the members of our communities are getting Is it me? Am I being paranoid? someone they loved. There’s a lot of emo has followed suit. In the US? In large dispenses advice from her 34-foot “AIDS presses!-people are getting it on in there. fatally sick in droves, our might so vast that tion. We have a crying room on the mez metropolitan areas, you might see a TV ad Mobile,” which has been criticized for in Seems like that’s about the second thing thousands o f our loved one are already zanine in the office. We cry every day.” for condoms, paid for by pieople who sell adequate counseling safeguards. She sup you learn about prisons, right after you dead, while those in government—these ^ "I woke up shaking, Jones asks the audience to clear an area condoms. In most of the country, such ads ports Pat Robertson for president. Richard learn that the doors are always locked. But continued on next page in the center of the room. He and his co are prohibited by TV executives. The DeVos, president of Amway, and the largest the Reaganites would rather have people die workers unfold a section of the quilt, government here certainly won't pay for contributor to Reagan’s reelection, recently than admit that the administration can’t "You have to be a terrified. 'Another AIDS perhaps twelve feet square. A deep, emo them. They're arguing about how to suggested that gay people don’t “act control people’s sex lives. special person to work tional silence falls over the room. Some push abstinence and the virtues of marri • responsibly” about AIDS. John Creedon, Question #4: This disease is caused by read, many ^ e s fill with tears. “ Every day, age. Can you relate? president of Metropolitan Life Insurance a small virus. Most of the people who get on the Names Project. in every way, I will always love you,” reads Question #2; There’s a lot you don’t Co., wants insurance companies to be able it, in this large and wealthy nation, belong People come Into our dream,' I thought, trying one piece, in small letters below the larger know about the disease. So you appoint a to test applicants for HIV. The chair of the to groups that people don’t like. The two letters of the name. Another says simply group to help you make decisions about it. Commission, Dr. Eugene Mayberry, head main political parties avoid these groups, office every day carry “ Harry” as a little shower of pink triangles For this group, you choose of the Mayo Clinic, declared on the day the they have no representation in the govern to calm myself In the turns into pink hearts. a. people who have expertise in research Commission was announced. “ I’m not an ment, and for most of what they do, you ing a quilt piece with the The people in control, who were sup can arrest them. Therefore, you blame the name of someone they posed to be taking care of us, were killing spread o f the disease on blackness of the night." us, and only our friends were intervening. a. the virus. loved. There's a lot of I have a friend who’s a doctor. He told b. the tremendous political clout o f the emotion. We cry me about one patient of his who was hav groups that get sick. ing pull-it-out-before-he-cums sex. Now By Scott Brookie George Bush, the leading Republican every day." this person tests positive for HIV. A very I a. vigorously support ways to guard The third said “ No fags!” with a slash had never been with more than 10 gay The Events against prejudice in hiring. You affirm that through “ Fags.” These are commercially continued jrom previous page people at a time,” she remembers. “ It was Friday October 9 those who have suffered have the right to printed. They must sell well enough to one of those moments where you feel like our lackeys, understand—joke about us, National Lobl^ E>ay • March Against Death and Violence, through Sunday recourse. You act aggressively against make money. you are part of something really historic, won’t mention the name of the disease, poverty. • A recent poll in the San Francisco Ex really important.” Saturday October 10 and—most incredibly—leave millions of b. appoint Civil Rights Commissioners aminer asked Catholics questions about Both ^trick and Allison remember dollars in AIDS research money unspent. who declare it’s “a mistake” to make birth control, school prayer, the role of clearly the impact of experiencing ordinary The Wedding, non-sectarian union ceremony • Lesbian and Gay Bands of America Let’s (ace it, marches to press demands quotas for hiring people who don't usually church leaders. The fourth question was, things in extraordinary company. “ I’d been Sunday October 11 are not really the province of the power get hired. You oppose civil rights legisla “ Do you favor or oppose mandatory AIDS before,” recalls Patrick. “ I remembered ful. 1 am straining to recall the last N^terans Memorial Service • Display of Names Project memorial tion and holidays honoring Black leaders. testing of homosexuals, drug users, pros Washington being full of small nuclear Securities Analysts’ March and Rally, or You declare that when served to school titutes, immigrants, prisoners and high risk families bustling around buying tourist March and Rally the most recent Fortune 500 Day of Pro kids, ketchup is a vegetable. groups?” More favored than opposed it. things. But going to monuments, the test and Celebration, but nothing is com Monday October 12 You guessed it, the answer is (b) again. What does HIV testing have to do with Smithsonian, the galleries—experiencing ing. Marches are the province of those who National Lesbian/Gty Rights Congress Planning Meeting Seems like there’s a certain consistency, a Catholicism? Why are they asking this these ‘monuments to freedom’ surround are supremely frustrated, pushed up—again kind of homocidal disregard for the disen question? ed by gay people—it was like seeing the and again—against a wall of indifference Tuesday October 13 franchised here. But. These people, these • In Florida, three boys who test HIV place for the first time. I felt connected, and hostility, and have little other recourse. Civil Disobedience at the Supreme Court for Lesbian/Gay Rights creatures who declare that sauces are positive win a court battle, and go to public not like an isolated person.” Not that we should underestimate nourishment, these great leaders too em school. A few days later, their house is Allison remembers the ride home. ourselves. Last fall, we decimated La- barrassed to talk about a rubber—if we just burned down. “ Driving back to Connecticut along the The Demands Rouche’s AIDS panic initiative. Prop get rid of them, will everything be all right? Look close, or maybe step back. All this osition 64, educating millions of people turnpike—every tollbooth, every rest room, I’m not so sure. Remember: although it stuff, it’s the writing on the wall and it’s every gas station, every Howard Johnsons. National about AIDS in the process. In 1978, we wasn’t a majority of all the people in the getting pretty ugly. if you can imagine—all full of excited les came from behind—two to one—to con US, somebody elected these dodos. bians and gay men!” • Legal recognition of lesbian and gay relationships. vince California voters that the Briggs In • Rq>roductive freedom—the right to control our own bodies, and an end to sexist • A poll taken by the San Francisco remember standing at the base of Boston’s Gay Community News, in itiative against gay teachers was wrong. oppression. Chronicle reveals that 46% of Bay Area the Washington Monument,” reporting on the March, commented that, Wisconsin has had statewide lesbian/gay adults think that gayness is “ morally .recalls Patrick Meyer of Santa • An end to racism in this country and apartheid in South Africa. rights legislation for years now; lots of “ l: “ Three themes dominated the rally: the • The repeal of all laws that make sodomy between consenting adults a crime. wrong.” Cruz, "and looking into a sea - literally a 1980’s as a new era for gay rights, gay cities have it as well. And every year, over • An end to discrimination against people with AIDS, ARC, HIV positive status or those • In Massachusetts, a boy goes to live with sea - of gay and lesbian heads. All these a million of us take to the streets in cities people being everywhere, and Harvey perceived to have AIDS. Massive increase in funding for AIDS education, research and two gay men—the adoption agency places people gathered in one place, saying they Milk’s assassination.” Little could we have all over the world. There are a lot of other him there. The Boston Globe decides this were gay! It was so powerful." known the way AIDS would change our patient care. Money for AIDS, not for war. victories. We are canny and formidible. We is a “ story.” The boy is taken away, Patrick is recalling the one other occa lives, our communities, our politics. But • Passage of the congressional lesbian and gay rights bill. can kick ass (is that too violent?). But, we • A presidential order harming anti-gay discrimination by the federal government. bounced from home to home. The state sion that the nation’s gay men and lesbians still, we are strong. are facing a crisis of nearly genocidal pro then declares that gay men and lesbians gathered in Washington D.C. to remind the “ The [AIDS] crisis brings out the The Names Project portions. And the people in government are shouldn’t be foster parents. The governor, world, dramatically, of our existence. The not helping, they are making it worse. sombemess in our gatherings,” reflects Michael Dukakis—currently the great hope time was October of 1979, and over 100,(XX) Patrick. “ But it also makes us stronger. The Names Project, piecing together a quilt with the names of people who have died Should this surprise us? Let’s check. of liberal Democrats—refuses to revoke the people marched in The National March on And the public needs to see it, to see us, of AIDS, is an ongoing project. Although the deadline to have a quilt piece included in Question #5; When you become the policy. Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. over and over, in large numbers.” October 11 display was September 15, the quilt created by the Project will go on a national leader o f this country, millions of people • Today I passed a pickup truck with three The sheer numbers of people also made And they will see us. We will be very tour, with the funds raised going to local AIDS service providers in communities throughout don’t have a place to live. You of those little stickers on it, the stickers a strong impression on Allison Claire, now visible, filling the streets (they’re really the US. Write to: The NAMiBl Project, PO Box 14573, San Francisco, CA 94114. (415) a. create shelters all over the country with the red circle and slash. The first one from Santa Cruz, who lived in Connecticut wide) in this seat of power. We will be visi 62&5T25. and spend lots of money on housing. had a slash through a picture of Bozo the at the time. “ It was incredible, this enor b. don't create shelters, and take more ble covering a large space with the names Clown: no bozos. The second one I missed. mous space full of queers! Before that, I of our loved ones. We will be visible money away from housing programs than continued on page 27 IVavel Arrangements from any other. Well, the answer is (b), and now there Pacific Harbor Triivel, 476-5020. (Although any travel agent can make arrangements for are more people sleeping on the streets than AcU3>UHCTüî^e you, the p)eople at Pacific Harbor are donating part of their fee to the March.) at any time since the Great Depression. Therapeutic & Question #6: More Black people and and /^crbal Medicine Latino people are unemployed than any Local Contacts other group o f people in the country. 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In another poem, “ Silence,” she WITS because we are afraid that the stories will building, and sitting down, and not mov and reflective, its members Chinese, explains, “ Knowing only too well/the be too overwhelming and that we will end ing until we are taken away. Japanese, Korean, Puerto Rican, Filipina, harsh, immobilizing pain of silence/ . . . up more frightened than ever. Rest assured The people who, George Bush and Penny Indian, Hawaiian, American Indian. i find myself/blurting out unclear yiBOUT that this isn’t the case with Her Wits About Pullen notwithstanding, really do have Essayists, poets, photographers describe words/recklessly struggling with the Her. The stories are upbeat and positive, power in this country will be watching this the search for community, the role of sex silence/that threatens my existence/ . . . and the message of the book is one of event, like they were watching us fight uality within South Asian culture, lovemak my spoken words/declare inner healing.” HER power and celebration. Briggs and LaRouche. We say we are show ing, assimilation, self defense and rape sur The writers in this book voice again and Her Wits About Her is divided into ing our strength. We’d better show it, then. vival, and childhood experiences (including again the need for a community that is both Self-Defense several sections. One contains stories of For some of us, a less-than-dramatic a wonderful page of photos of real Baby Asian and Lesbian. As Akemi puts it in Success Stones women who were attacked as children. showing—and this is very hard to say— Dykes). “ Claiming an Asian Lesbian Identity,” Other sections tell how women have foiled could be fatal. One particular strength of this anthology “ There were lesbians and there were b y W om en attacks using only their voices or objects But still, long after the hoarse throats is its representation of hapas —mixed- Asians, but there weren’t any Asian Les at hand, such as combs, flowerpots or paint have recovered from chanting, and the last heritage women. In “ Living Between the bians. I needed someone to understand both I could hear him trying to get into my brushes. Others describe women escaping condom package has been swept from Lines: A Mixed-Heritage Woman’s Search parts in me.” The editors of this anthology house, but 1 ran outside and shouted at him from life threatening situations. Stories are Pennsylvania Avenue, there’ll be things to for Community,” A. Kaweah Lemeshew- have done much to create such a com and he ran away. I called to the people in written by straight women and lesbians, do. A few high-energy catharses—like this sky relates her efforts to create a sense of munity. Locally, they’ve created PALS, my neighborhood, and they helped me able-bodied and physically challenged March—strung together with more hum An Anthology by Pacific/Asian Lesbians identity that draws on her Japanese, Pacific/Asian Lesbians of Santa Cruz. On catch him. ! held him in a chokehold for women, black, brown, white, and Asian, drum activity, week in, week out: that’s of Santa Cruz, California American Indian, and Russian ancestry. a larger scale, they’re creating a commun a long time before the police came, and I thin and fat, old and young. There are how things change. A lot of politics is a sort This search takes her from Indian and ity through their dedication to seeing this felt really strong and powerful. stories here for all of us. of pleasant drudgery; it reminds me of do Chicano-controlled DQ University, where collection into print. This isn’t a story from Her Wits About If the heart of the book is in the stories, ing the dishes. Between the Lines, An Anthology by she trained for (but because of her mixed And this book is only the start. Accord Her. This is a dream I had the night I stayed the mind of the book is in the sections writ This ordinary work—this listening and Pacific/Asian Lesbians of Santa Cruz, heritage was not allowed to participate in) ing to the preface, “ We see this anthology up late reading the book. Another woman ten by the editors. Drawing on their years talking and meeting and writing and California ends with Alison Kim’s valuable the Sundance, to Japan, where she took as a seed, a beginning. There are many who read the book before bed also had of self-defense experience, the editors have reading—it’s more crucial now than ever. “ Pacific/Asian Lesbian Bibliography,” but part in the Heiwa Daikoshin, an annual more issues we want to see addressed. We powerful dreams of defending herself. It’s included succinct, informative, and enjoy Writing in the Village Vbice, Richard Gold you won’t find a book like this one listed (Jleace walk from Tokyo to Hiroshima and look forward to national and international obvious that this book can change our able introductions to each chapter. The in stein offers a grim reminder. “ We may be there. Between the Lines, edited by Cristy Nagasaki, and back to the U. S. where she collections of writing by Asian/Pacific les dreams. And if it can change our dreams, troductions give some basic information loved by our families, honored in our work Chung, Alison Kim, and A. Kaweah Lem- organized a cross-continental anti-nuclear bians and with that hope in mind we plant . . . well, who knows what else might about self-defense techniques and and happy in our heads, but fundamentally eshewsky, is a silence-breaking book, the walk, which she ultimately withdrew from this seed.” ■ happen? strategies, but they mainly encourage we, too, are expendable. Our civil rights first of its kind. Pacific/Asian Lesbian because of her isolation as the only woman Her Wits About Her: Self Defense Suc women to trust the skills we inherently are revokable. Our carefully crafted rituals writers have been represented, as the of color among the walkers. ^Reviewed by Sarah-Hope Parmeter cess Stories by W?men is a book with a pur have—our skills of intuition, yelling, deter of normalcy can be shattered with a knock Bibliography notes, in other anthologies or Lemeshewsky’s activism and her ability to pose. Its purpose is to prove false the mination, and will. We can learn a lot on the door. . . . This is the greatest civil have published booLs as individual authors, draw connections within her broad-ranging images we have been fed of women getting about defending ourselves from reading liberties emergency of our generation,” he but Between the Lines is the fifct anthology experience can inspire us. She tells us, “As Between the Lines is published by Danc beaten to a pulp while they futilely try to Her Wits About Her, but the best thing to concludes. “ This is the long-distance call.” dedicated to exploring the broad spectrum a woman of mixed heritage . . . I do not ing Bird Press, P. O. Box 8187, Santa Cruz, resist the overpowering strength of male at leam is that we can. It’s true; there is a determined urgency of the concerns and experiences of fit anybody’s mold. . . . I want to share CA 95061 and is distributed by HerBooks, tackers. The success of the book is a testa Her Wits About Her: Self Defense Suc to this March. For the long run, in Wash Pacific/Asian Lesbians. my story of this search in the hope that P O. Box 7467, Santa Cruz, CA 95061. For ment to the strength and audacity of the cess Stories by Women is an inspiring, ex ington and after Washington, we work for As Kim explains in the introduction, others like me will find something mean more information on PALS, call Kaweah at women who tell these tales as well as to citing book. It tells the truth about a time when lesbians and gay men are “ [We] write and gather writings by other ingful in it, and know they are not alone.” 476-8249, Cristy at 425-8487, or Aly at the skills and vision of the two editors, women —that we are a bold and audacious respected and honored, and in those lovely Pacific/Asian Lesbians to create an an In “ Weeds,” Cristy Terese Mei-Ling 426-4342. The editors would also like to Denise Caignon and Gail Groves. bunch and that anyone attacking us will get quiet moments, left the hell alone. But in thology, a community. Though each in Chung gives vent to the frustrations that tell you o f a forthcoming book. Born at the The women in this book have lived a hell of a lot more than he bargained for! the meantime, circumstances mean that we dividual work does not represent the rise from her own mixed heritage, “ that Crossroads: Voices of Mixed Heritage through many of our worst fears. They have Her Wits About Her: Self Defense Suc must demand—with whatever it takes—the whole, the existence of the collection—the hateful identity/seeps through/the cracks in Women, which is being edited by Aurora been attacked on dark streets, in their cars, cess Stories by Women, edited by Denise demise of this government of violent ac visibility —begins to define our com my skin/calling attention/to my halfbreed Levins Morales. The submission deadline on the beach, in elevators, in deserted Caignon and Gail Groves (Harper and Row, tions, and murderous inactions. We must munity. . . . We are breaking the stereotype body.’ ’ But this process of naming herself is October 1, and work can be sent to 5251 buildings, and in their own beds. They have New York, 1987). ■ demand the right not to wake up, terrified, of the silent, the scen-but-not-heard or in allows her not only to acknowledge her Broadway, Box 543, Oakland, CA 94618 been attacked by strangers, by gangs, by — Reviewed by Dinah Phillips in the middle of the night. ■ THERAPEUTIC MA 55/1GE Santa Cruz Women's Health Center Polarity Reflexology Lynda Chaikin mm Certifiea Massage & Polarity Practitioner 250 Locust Street P.O. 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