~~HERLAND ~ June, ICE 1997 10TH ANNUAL GAV AND COMMUNITY PRIDE LESBIAN PRIDE PARADE Come join your Herland friends in the tenth annual Gay and PICNIC AT HSR Lesbian Pride Parade on Sunday, June 22. The parade is scheduled to step off from Memorial Park, 36th and N. Classen, at 4 :00 p. m. Her land will host a community-wide picnic to celebrate Pride The parade destination will be the 39th Street Arts Festival, f~' Week on June 21 in the Herland back runningfromnoonto6p.m., withartsandcraftsfromlocalartisans. m yard. Food will be served starting at The theme for this year's parade is "Equality through Visibility." 6:30 p.m. with entertainment starting Last year there were more than 1,000 marchers in the parade and around7:30p.m. at least 2,500 spectators, according to parade organizers. Entertainment will include a Her land will have a contingent in the parade -- you can walk performance by The Banned, with us, ride a bike, a motorcycle or ride on our float (ok -- it's really Oklal1oma' s gay and lesbian march­ a pickup truck). Ifyou can't join us in the parade, come and support ing band and other entertainers from us from the sidelines. The parade route begins at NW 36th and both the women's and men's com­ Classen and goes north on Classen to NW 42 makes a U-turn and munity. Hamburgers, hot dogs, all goes west on NW 39th to NW 39th and Barnes. the fixin' swill be pro­ vided for a suggested donation of Pre-parade activities begin in Memorial Park at noon. Final $4.00. float registration for the parade will begin at noon with the line-up Everyone (men, women and children) is invited--so come on for the parade on a first-come, first-serve basis. An ecumenical out and enjoy and celebrate Pride Week with Herland. D religious service will begin the program. A holy union ceremony will be performed by Rev. Kathy McCallie at 1:45 p.m. (Any couple MORE GAY AND LESBIAN PRIDE ACTIVITIES wishing to participate, call Rev. Mccallie at 405-239-2799.) A Oklahoma City political rally with Mary Catherine Smothennan and Paul Barby, Pride Week begins on Sunday, June 15 with a Block Party held candidates for the U.S. House ofRepresentativesfrom Oklahoma, in the parking lot behind the Community Center on NW 39th Street. will culminate the pre-parade activities. Look for the fund to begin around 4:00 p.m., ending sometime The Parade and 39th Street Arts Festival are coordinated by the around dark. pridecommitteeofTheCenter. Formoreinformationortoregisterto participate in the parade, call the Center at ( 405)5 24-6000. D Tulsa Tulsa's gay and lesbian pride celebrations begin on June I. PleasecontactthePrideActivitiesCommitteeat(918)743-4297for THANKS more infonnation. Thanks to everyone who donated items and participated in the For the first time, Tulsa will hold a Pride March on Saturday, silent auction and raffle at the HerlandRetreat. Together they raised June 14. Everyone is encouraged to march with their supporting over $450 to support Herland activities. Please show your appre­ organization or simply as individuals. The march will endat Owen ciation with your support for these businesses and artists. Park just prior to the picnic. Call for time and location. Ben Hayden Massage Borders Books The annual Pride picnic will be at Owen Park, located at 560 N. The Center Things Medieval Piercing Maybell Road (off Edison Road), from noon to 5:00 p.m., on Ravenfeathers The Dog Tub Saturday, June 14. Bring your own food. Sodas and beer will be Explore! RedwingBoardingKennels provided by sponsors. Information and vendor booth space avail­ Tony Smith Grateful Bean Cafe able. For those giving away free information, booth space is Tina&HelenStiefmiller Habana Inn available at $1 O; for those who are selling merchandise, the booth Jill Burroughs and Donna DeSalvo Flower Girls Florist space is $30. Payment should be mailed to the Pride Center, 1307 E. Dona Williamson Diversity Coffeehouse 38th, SecondFloor, Tulsa, OK 74105. Dorothy ''jingles" Rimbold Lovelight Rrestaurant Pride Worship Services: Gene Wiseman Clarissa Sharp Massage Sunday, June 1, l l :00 a.m. : Community Unitarian Universalist Rebecca McGuffin The Deli Congregation, in the CommunityofHope United Methodist Church, Peggy Johnson, Attorney at Law Margy Dillon 1703E.2nd. Lee Anne Wilson, Attorney at Law Jeanell Jordan Massage Sunday,June8: ChurchoftheRestorationUnitarianChurch, 1314 Oklahoma Body Arts Piercing TheEarth N. Greenwood. Callfortime.D Mystic Forest Treasures Volume 15 Number 6 Berland Sister Resources 2312 N.W. 39, OKC, OK 73112 REVIEW NEW DATA ABOUT BATTERED IN WOMEN ON WELFARE RELEASED by Ji/I Gamer The NOW Foundation and NOW/LDEF have releaseda new Lucy Kaplansky report further detailing the extent of violence among women on Keep your calendars open June 15th to see Lucy Kaplansky welfare was released. Trapped by Poverty, Trapped byAbuse; New at the City Arts Center! Evidence Documenting the Relationship Between Domestic Vio­ I first heard Kaplansky on NPR last year and she has quickly lence and Welfare, by Jody Raphael, executive director of the evolved into one of my favorite singers. Kaplansky is more than Taylor Institute and Richard M. Tolman, Ph.D., associate professor just a woman with a guitar. Her music covers a range of rock, folk, at the School of Social Work, University ofMicltlgan, compileds and traditional, with some bluegrass and country influences as findings from four major examinations ofwelfare recipients and low well. Fitting somewhere in that vague category of evocative folk income women. The levels ofcurrent physical abuse ranged from along with Shawn Colvin and many others, Kaplansky adds her 14. 6% reported in a Passaic County (NJ) survey, conducted by tlie own wonderful signature to every song she sings. Passaic County Board of Social Services of 846 women, to 32% Kaplansky has2 releases, The Tide (1994) and Flesh andBone reported in the Better Homes Fund five-year, in-deptl1 study of436 (1996). Ilove both and think she has a great mix ofsongs and a great women in Worcester, MA, most of whom were on welfare. sound with acoustic and electric guitars, fiddle, mandolin, drums, A Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern Univer­ and pedal steel guitar, to name just some of the instruments. sity, Chicago low-income neighborhood survey of 834 women Kaplansky has a gorgeous voice too and can get down on songs found that the rate of domestic violence among ADFC recipients like Richard Thompson's "Don't Renege on Our Love," or totally was tlueetimes as ltlgh (31.1 % ) as the rate found in other low income captivate you with a beautiful song like Robin Batteau' s households ( 11. 8%) and that the amount of recent severe physicial "Guinevere." About half of the songs on both CDs she co-wrote agression was two and one halftimes as ltlgh. All studies found with Richard Litvin . The other half were written by a lot of good large and consistently high percentages ofdomestic violence from songwritersincludingThompson, NickLowe, GramParsons, Sting intimate partners and an extensive incidence ofpartner interference and Batteau. Shawn Colvin produced TheTide and provides with education, training and work ( 15% to 4 9%). Thirty percent of background vocals on many of the songs. She is joined on abused women reported arguments with intimate partners over background vocals on her latest album by John Gorka and ex-Story child suppport and 23% reported disputes over child custody; member Jennifer Kimball. more than a third (36%) reported that police had been contacted. We're very fortunate to get a chance to hear Lucy Kaplansky One of the key findings of the Taylor Institute - University of here in Oklahoma City. Check the Gazette for more infonnation, or Michigan evaluation is that many "women on welfare who were call 843-5789. Tickets are usually available at the Bricktown Gallery ever abused currently suffer from depression, other mental healtl1 (where you can easily get lost browsing), Kamps (where Yippie-Yi­ problems, posttraumatic stress disorder, drug and alcohol abuse, Y o Coffee is conveniently located with wonderful coffee and and physical health problems at higher rates than their non-abused pastries) and tlie City Arts Center (another great diversion). So counterparts as well as in the general female population." The have fun while you get your tickets because this will be a show researchers stress that recent changes in the welfare law, witl1 rigid worth the trip! requirements for employment and time lintltsforwelfare receipt, will place some battered women at great risk for continued and in­ Love Travels Kathy Mattea- creased violence and long-term poverty. While I've been a Katl1y Mattea fan for quite some time, I've Copies of the report can be obtained from NOW Founda­ never been particularly happy with any of her CDs I've purchased. tion, Office of Public Policy. Contact Jan Erickson at (202)3 31 - Oh sure, there were songs here and there I loved, but as a whole, 0066, ext. 768, or email to [email protected]. Information about the Mattea's music has been a little disappointing. I'm happy to say joint research effort can be found at http://www.umich.edu/­ tltls latest release is different. socwkltrappedl . [J Mattea'svoicehasalwaysbeenwhathasdrawnmetoher. It's wonderfully rich, slightly deep, and so smooth. Nearly perfect to my ears. But it's not enough without some good songs to sing. Mattea picked songs by several wonderful songwriters for tltls The Voice is published by: Herland Sister Resources, Inc. release and I think the CD as a whole is her best yet. 2312 N.W. 39th, Oklahoma City, OK 73112 Mattea has never written her own songs, or at least not many, but she picked some great songs on this CD by some very talented The Voice is offered as an open forum for community dis­ writers (i.e.