• Cover Story: Holly & The Supremes IN, 4 • • hing To The Perverted Page 8 Vol. 13 • No. 17 The Weekly Voice of Wisconsin's LGBT Community March 22 - 28, 2000 as " fu 2 : ght March 22 - 28, 2000 www.wilight.com MILLER GENUINE DRAFT THE MILWAUKEE RIVERSIDE MGD t h e a t r e MUSIC PRODUCTIONS ON SALE NOW! SANDRA BERNHARD APRIL 27 RIVERSIDE THEATRE TiCKCTG AVAILABLE AT THE RIVERSIDE il4DX-OFFICE, ALL TICKETMASTER OUTLETS, OR PRODUCED BY CELLAR DOOR CHARGE BY PHONE AT 414-276-4545 OR ONLINE WWW.TICKETMASTER.COM www.cellardoor.com TAINIMENT MD aP www.wilight.com News &Politics March 22 - 28, 2000 WI Light 3 believe this is a sin of omission that they will correct before the show airs." Butch Burt ! mkt In response to the Mautner Project's "Heed Hollywood, CA - According to the i.1.11111 Rationed The Call" action alert network, thousands of Australian Newspaper Burt Lancaster, who people who care about Lesbian health are starred in macho roles on the screen may have Stand Up and be Counted! contacting HBO to make the necessary been bisexual. The paper says that according March 22 - 28, 2000 changes in its Cancer to newly released FBI surveillance records, Washington, DC - LGBT activists across program and web site. HBO can be reached Lancaster attended at least one orgy while in the country are urging the live in partners of through their web site at www.bbo.com or by calling the company of Rock Hudson and 250 Gays and Lesbians to check the "unmarried their Corporate Affairs Department at (212) 512-1608. marines. Contents partner" box on the 2000 census forms. The The FBI kept a close watch "The enormous grassroots on the actor form, which asks questions about race, age, response to this situation is sending a dear because it considered him to be "a dangerous nationality and sex, does not ask about sexual message that cancer doesn't liberal." Its files note Lancaster's appearance in National News 4 orientation. discriminate, and neither should HBO," says DeBold. a Scottish play as recently as 1983. That omission is drawing fire from Gay civil Community 5 Now celebrating its 10th rights activists. The National Lesbian and Gay anniversary, the Masked Group Disrupts Mautner Project is the only Rita Bowl 6 Task Force, NGLTF, is asking other groups to national organiza- tion for lesbians with cancer. In Meeting unite for a push to include a question about addition to providing direct services to Los Angeles, CA - A group of protestors St. Pat's Pics 7 sexual orientation in the 2000 census."We ask lesbians with can- cer, their families and caregivers, dressed as Ninja warriors broke up an Orange about so many other things, but we don't ask the Mautner Holly and the Supremes 8 Project provides information and County School Board meeting during a debate about this," said Sean Cahill, a research director counseling to the Lesbian community about on recognizing a Gay Straight Alliance at a local with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. cancer, edu- Election Endorsements 9 cates the healthcare community about the spe- high school. Two of the thirty masked protes- "We have a lot of anecdotes about gays and les- cial concerns of Lesbian families; is leading tors charged to the front of the room and Politically Speaking 10 bians. We don't have a lot of good social sci- advocate for lesbian health issues; and seized a microphone from an outspoken ence. This is about making our whole com- coordi- nates the National opponent of the club. School Administrators Theatre Reviews 11-12 munity count" -Coalition of Feminist and Lesbian Cancer Projects. intervened and a scuffle ensued. Census Bureau officials say that they don't New Gay Theatre Company . 13 It can be reached by calling (202) 332-5536 "They were there in the name of the club want to overburden the public and only ask or through its web site at (and) this group was spoiling for a fight: said Gotcha 14 questions needed to set public policy or www.mautner- project.org/. Judy Frutig, spokeswoman for the Orange enforce laws. The 1990 census showed that Gay Agenda 15-17 Unified School District. "Now, we have to more than 145,000 households reported Utah Law Challenged think,`Is it safe to allow ... this group to organ- Horoscopes & Comics 18 themselves as same-sex unmarried partners - Salt Lake City, UT - Anew law that pre- ize as a club?'" 81,000 male and 64,000 female. There were vents co-habitating couples from adopting last December the School Board voted to Marketplace 19 about 3 million opposite-sex unmarried part- children is the target of a lawsuit filed by the deny school access to the club. A Federal ners. LGBT activists say that many Gay couples ACLU and a Gay couple. The law was passed Judge ordered the Board to allow the club to may have marked the "spouse" box to describe to codify a Department of Social Services rule meet on school property. their relationship. that banned adoptions by unmarried couples. The group's members deny knowing the PUBLISHER: HBO Omits Lesbians from Unlike that rule, however, the new law protestors, all of whom escaped. Some parents Greg Quindel clearly targets LGBT couples. It requires case- at the meeting said that the school administra- ([email protected] Cancer Special workers to ask whether the prospective par- tors acted inappropriately in responding to the EDITOR: Washington, DC - The Home Box Office ents have had sex outside of marriage. protestors. "The kids were totally wrong, but Nadine A. Walther network won praise for its March airings of If Child welfare groups have joined the ACLU there was no physical action by the kids; said ([email protected]) These Walls Could Talk, which featured three is denouncing the legislation calling it harmful one parent to the Los Angeles Times. Another Lesbian vignettes. Now, however, it's winning to children. parent said the administrators were choking Staff scorn because it omitted Lesbians from an and hitting the protestors. Associate Editor: Ron Geiman ([email protected]) upcoming special on Cancer. Stonewall Made National Local Police say they arrested one female Production Manager/Art Director The program entitled CANCER: Evolution Landmark student who they said bit a school principal Tom (TJ) Herrmann ([email protected]) to Revolution will premier on March 30. Washington, DC - The Stonewall Inn is during the incident. Director of Sales/Marketing Resources to fight cancer will be listed Diane M. Gregory ([email protected]) now a national historic landmark. The New throughout the documentary, but the Mary- LGBT Majority on City. Arts & Entertainment Editor: Jerry Johnson York bar is the first Gay site to be given that sta- Helen Mautner Project, the only national group Sports Editor: Bob Melig tus by the US Department of the Interior. A Council helping Lesbians with cancer, won't be among Internet Project Manger: Bill Meunier National Historic Landmark designation is Wilton Manors, FL - With the election of them. Photographer: Cynthia Lorenz given only to those places that are meaningful John Fiore as Mayor,Wilton Manors voters cre- Mautner project Executive Director NE Wisconsin Bureau Chief: to the history and culture of the United States. ated an openly Gay majority on the City DeBold expressed concerns about Mike Fitzpatrick Kathleen Built in 1846, as a. horse stable, the Council of this small Florida municipality of absence of information geared towards Columnists & Reporters: Bill Meunier, Dr. Terry the Stonewall was a Gay bar in June 1969. Because 13,000 near Fort Lauderdale. Fiore's victory Boughner, Margaret Flood, Virginia Harrison, John Jahn, Lesbians in the program. serving liquor to Gays was illegal at the time, marked the first time an openly Gay majority Jim McFarland, Dusty Sass, Ruthie, Charles Grosz, Gina "Discrimination is rampant in the health- the bar was unlicensed and subjected to raids has been elected to lead a local government King, Nicki Schlaishunt, LilllyWhite care arena and women-who-partner-with- by the Police. In June 1969 a Police raid of the anywhere in the country outside of West Contibuting Writers: Tim Nasson, Gip Plaster. women need to know there is a safe, confi- bar provoked a riot that launched the modern Kirk Read, Billy Masters, Ann Thoreau, Elsbeth Knett Hollywood, Calif. Meanwhile, in a closely- dential place to go to for cancer information, LGBT civil rights movement. fought contest in Orlando, Victory Fund- Opinions expressed by writers in Wisconsin Light are not necessarily those referrals and support: said DeBold. "By adding At the time there were fewer than 200 Gay of the publishers, editor or our advertisers. Any reference to any individual endorsed candidate Patty Sheehan was the or organization should not be construed as an indication of the same's The Mautner Project to their list of national organizations around the country. A year later second-highest vote-getter in her non-partisan sexual or affection orientation or preference. All copy, text design, photos and illustrations in advertisements are published with the understanding that cancer organizations, HBO can help save there were over 1000 organizations known District 4 City Council race and will move on the advertiser is fully authorized and has secured proper written consent for ves" the use of names, pictures. or testimonials of any living person, and Lesbian li nationwide. to an April 11 run-off against a first-term Wisconsin Light may itwfully publish and cause such publication to be Although HBO has yet to reply to their made; and the advertiser agrees by submitting ads to indemnify and save last March, the Interior Department placed incumbent.