18 20 673 https://history.okeq.org/files/original/b5bea93235f85475cf02774443f5d9ae.pdf 51a87fc63b775cb9e412662cc17e7780 PDF Text Text BY DICK SUAGEE Thirty years on the Tulsa bar scene has been a long and winding road, to borrow a Beatles song tltle. } r \°' Arriving In October of 1959, I was welcomed by such places as the Eighth bay and Gala, The Glory Hole, the Doghouse and a brand new one - that was the year Gene brought In the Bamboo. The Beatles were soon to give the Eighth Day new significance with their "Eight Days a Week." Paul S's Glory Hole, with Its balcony and the whole works, was the first of 13 he would have in Tulsa. ihe straights ·had no Idea what a glory hole was, but newly arriving gays knew Instantly. Bob White had the Eighth Day and Gala at the time, but Fran and Jodie soon would take over. Fran, a former lady wrestler, had no trouble keeping the peace, although some of the pieces did get out of hand once in a while. Those were the days when the bars were mixed - girls and guys. I could be more specific by saying dikes and queens. The best fights were always by the dikes. Shirley P. always used part of her Indian money on her birthday to throw a big party at the Gala. And those were the days when you always knew when it was about time to leave. Fran or Jodie would yell out, "Hotel, motel time." C.J., Pe�gy's other half, put It a little differently. The Chicken C oop, still. open on Third Street, was an after-hours eating place for a lot of us. preceding Baker's by a few years.· And C.J. would regularly solicit business by yelling out, "Who's going to the Chicken Shit?" C.J., now deceased, was about as butch as they came, even sprouting a mustache once. Oh yes. she worked as a truck · driver. And Peggy was as pretty a femme as you ever would see. The Doghouse was on the corner of Seventh and Boulder, preceding the now-closed Holiday Inn by a few years. And If one of you was having a lovers' quarrel, it was a good place to wind up - In the Doghouse, get. It's main decoration was a huge reprint of the famous painting of dogs of all breeds having a poker game. Mt, ,The Taj Mahal, which later l�ould be across the street In the middle of the same block, was not even a dream yet. Norma would bring it along In a few years, first as the Adams Hotel bar, and then Its more famous site on Seventh Street. CH The Zebra Lounge, around the corner on Main Street, was a ·straight place. First "Bob" and then BIii Oliver would change that a few years later. Getting back to Norma, some of the best bar stories ever came out of the Taj when she first opened it. Totally serious, she told the story of how some of her lady friends saw her downtow n shopping and said they Just couldn't believe she was running a gay bar, to which she replied, ''Of course I am....All of my customers are happy." The next two I heard myself, A young man with a University of Hawaii T-shirt, and obviously the timid type, walked In one afternoon during happy hour and sat at a table next to me. Norma came over to wait on him, and he looked up before ordering and asked, "Ma'am, Is It safe for queens in here?" Norma replied, "My Lord, yes, honey chlle, they have those In England. We don't have them In this country." He got up and ran. Shortly after the Holiday Inn was opened across the street, a man who obviously had looked out the window and saw the bar, walked over. Janie, one of Norma's longtime friends, was working happy hour that afternoon•. Janie is about 4-foot-9, if she's that tall, and on the buxom side. The visitor from across the street observed what was going on for a few minutes, and· to an outsider, some of It could have been pretty shocking, and then stood up. Making sure he had the floor, he said, "Obviously this Is a gay bar, but who is that (pointing to Janie), Mickey Rooney In drag?" He finished his beer and left us with one of the best laughs ever. Janie took It In stride. Paul S. (The Glory Hole) later would have the Scubldu Downtown, the Scubldu East, on Sheridan, the old Thelma's Club at First and Elwood, the Queen of Hearts at Third and Frisco, and on and on. Some didn't stay open long enough for the name to register. Paul played the trombone and 1iked Contlnued ... Page -G- NOV. 1, 1990 11 PAGE 3 �.... BARS, continued > get up a small musical group to rovlde enterta.inment, partlcu trly at the Downtown Scubldu on ,outh Main. Gracie Y. would first enter ,e scene when Bill Oliver had the �ebra downtown. Bill also would ,ave the Doors and Caruso's. Gracie, · already . in her 'O's, played the piano · every ,aturday night. The oldies were ,er ·specialty, but she had a little 1ovelly number on the rlsque side vhcf would gladly play, putting ,vhoever's name was requested In :he lyrics. It started out with the 1ame submitted, say. "James," and Nent like this: "James couldn't get :t started •..11 The laughter started immediately and ''James" soon became embarrassed. But it was fun and we all loved it. Gracie later moved her act to the Bamboo and most of us followed. It gave Gene a partner. He was a solo dancer of some merit in those days - I watched him dance from one end of the bar to the other one night to the complete Carole King "Corazon." He was not the Latin from Manhattan but he gave a r=t�6 s Getting back to Paul S. (Glory Hole), he took it upon himself to lead the "Jane Ann Jayroe Parade" after she became the state's second "Miss America" - Norma Smallwood was the first. Paul had the Queen of Hearts at the time and regularly presented drag shows. And by far the best one who ever appeared was "Dawn Winters... On this particular evening, three of his best-dressed drag queens rode on the back of his convertible, legs crossed, and waved to the huge crowd along the parade route. A sign on both sides read,"Come to the Queen of Hearts - where boys will be girls. u The cops along the route seemed to get a bigger kick out of it than anyone. And speaking of cops, many years later at Tim;s Playroom, once t�e Gala and then the place to go, two of them came In on ohe of the coldest nights of the year with a foot of snow on the ground and stood under one of the he�ll vents for what seemed like forever. The dance floor was packed for Sunday night happy hour. I will never forget Walt Carlton (cancer), C arl Nagel (cirrhosis), and Bruce Hower.ton. Wayne Galutza, Newcombe Cleveland, to name a few. They were so brave in death. For . them, the long and winding road has ended. Our Job is to see that their trip wasn't In vain - that we, as gay Tulsans, ca11 rise up and prove to this city that we are some of its best .citizens. Tom P., Pearl to many of us, suggested to me -that we walk over and see what was going on. He knew both of them. "Looking for anything In particular," Tom asked, to which one of them replied, 0 Not a damn thing, Tom. It just happens that this Is one of. the warmest and safest spots in town right now." Tl_m Turner gave us three good bars during his ·Tulsa run, before moving to Florida. The Playroom may have been the best Tulsa ever had. Two Places You Must See Oral Roberta Prayer Tower & Genes Bamboo Lounge And we can't forget Jimmy and Roy, who have give the Tool Box a totally different meaning than the one in your car trunk. Tulsa's bars ·have been a never-ending song of love. Yes, there were some bad moments. I remember the time I watched Ronnie Dlttmore get in his old lover's oar In front of the Zebra. They had spent the evening inside trying to decide If there was enough left to start over again. The next morning I would read that Ronnie had been murdered. And two days later, another story told how the · ex-lover had killed himself on his father's grave in Kansas. mlb\lMOO@@ 7204 E. PINE NOO� - 2 AM IL@QJJOO@I!! 838-9323 DAILY DOLLAR PITCHERS SUNDAYS - OPEN TO CLOSE $2.00 WELLS $1.75 FROZEN DRINKS $1.00 RATTLESNAKES Tulsa's bars may never relive their old days. AIDS may have changed that forever. But the many fond memories will never die. -G- NOV. 1, 1990 PAGE 11 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [Collection] Oklahoma LGBT+ History Description An account of the resource Physical Media: Digital Media: Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Thirty years on the Tulsa bar scene has been a long and winding road, to borrow a Beatles song tltle. 1959, IArwriavsingwelIcnomOedctobbyersucohf places as the Eighth bay and Gala, The Glory Hole, the Doghouse and a brand new one - that was the year Gene brought In the Bamboo. The Beatles were soon to give the Eighth Day new significance with their "Eight Days a Week." Paul S's Glory Hole, with Its balcony and the whole works, was the first of 13 he would have in Tulsa. ihe straights ·had no Idea what a glory hole was, but newly arriving gays knew Instantly. Bob White had the Eighth Day and Gala at the time, but Fran and Jodie soon would take over. Fran, a former lady wrestler, had no trouble keeping the peace, although some of the pieces did get out of hand once in a while. Those were the days when the bars were mixed - girls and guys. I could be more specific by saying dikes and queens. The best fights were always by the dikes. Shirley P. always used part of her Indian money on her birthday to throw a big party at the Gala. And those were the days when you always knew when it was about time to leave. Fran or Jodie would yell out, "Hotel, motel time." C.J., Pe�gy's other half, put little differently. The Chicken C oop, still. open on Third Street, was an after-hours eating place BY DICK SUAGEE for a lot of us. preceding Baker's by a few years.· And C.J. would regularly solicit business by yelling out, "Who's going to the Chicken Shit?" C.J., now deceased, was about as butch as they came, even sprouting a mustache once. Oh yes. she worked as a truck · driver. And Peggy was as pretty a femme as you ever would see. The Doghouse was on the corner of Seventh and Boulder, preceding the now-closed Holiday Inn by a few years. And If one of you was having a lovers' quarrel, it was a good place to wind up - In the Doghouse, get. It's main decoration was a huge reprint of the famous painting of dogs of all breeds having a poker game. Mt,CH,The Taj Mahal, which later l�ould be across the street In the middle of the same block, was not even a dream yet. Norma would bring it along In a few years, first as the Adams Hotel bar, and then Its more famous site on Seventh Street. The Zebra Lounge, around the corner on Main Street, was a ·straight place. First "Bob" and then BIii Oliver would change that a few years later. Getting back to Norma, some of the best bar stories ever came out of the Taj when she first opened it. Totally serious, she told the story of how some of her lady friends saw her downtown shopping and said they Just couldn't believe she was running a gay bar, to which she replied, ''Of course I am....All of my customers are happy." The next t wo I heard myself, A young man with a University of Hawaii T-shirt, and obviously the timid type, walked In one afternoon during happy hour and sat at a table next to me. Norma came over to wait on him, and he looked up before ordering and asked, "Ma'am, Is It safe for queens in here?" Norma replied, "My Lord, yes, honey chlle, they have those In England. We don't have them In this country." He got up and ran. Shortly after the Holiday Inn was opened across the street, a man who obviously had looked out the window and saw the bar, walked over. Janie, one of Norma's longtime friends, was working happy hour that afternoon•. Janie is about 4-foot-9, if she's that tall, and on the buxom side. The visitor from across the street observed what was going on for a few minutes, and· to an outsider, some of It could have been pretty shocking, and then stood up. Making sure he had the floor, he said, "Obviously this Is a gay bar, but who is that (pointing to Janie), Mickey Rooney In drag?" He finished his beer and left us with one of the best laughs ever. Janie took It In stride. Paul S. (The Glory Hole) later would have the Scubldu Downtown, the Scubldu East, on Sheridan, the old Thelma's Club at First and Elwood, the Queen of Hearts at Third and Frisco, and on and on. Some didn't stay open long enough for the name to register. Paul played the trombone and 1iked Contlnued... Page 11 -G- NOV. 1, 1990 PAGE 3 > get up a small musical group to rovlde enterta.inment, partlcu trly at the Downtown Scubldu on ,outh Main. Gracie Y. would first enter ,e scene when Bill Oliver had the �ebra downtown. Bill also would ,ave the Doors and Caruso's. Gracie, · already . in her 'O's, played the piano · every ,aturday night. The oldies were ,er ·specialty, but she had a little 1ovelly number on the rlsque side vhcf would gladly play, putting ,vhoever's name was requested In :he lyrics. It started out with the 1ame submitted, say. "James," and Nent like this: "James couldn't get :t started•..11 The laughter started immediately and ''James" soon became embarrassed. But it was fun and we all loved it. Gracie later moved her act to the Bamboo and most of us followed. It gave Gene a partner. He was a solo dancer of some merit in those days - I watched him dance from one end of the bar to the other one night to the complete Carole King "Corazon." He was not the Latin from Manhattan but he gave a r=t�6 s Getting back to Paul S. (Glory Hole), he took it upon himself to lead the "Jane Ann Jayroe Parade" after she became the state's second "Miss America" - Norma Smallwood was the first. Paul had the Queen of Hearts at the time and regularly presented drag shows. And by far the best one who ever appeared was "Dawn Winters... On this particular evening, three of his best-dressed drag queens rode on the back of his convertible, legs crossed, and waved to the huge crowd along the parade route. A sign on both sides read,"Come to the Queen of Hearts - where boys will be girls.u The .... BARS, continued cops along the route seemed to get a bigger kick out of it than anyone. And speaking of cops, many years later at Tim;s Playroom, once t�e Gala and then the place to go, two of them came In on ohe of the coldest nights of the year with a foot of snow on the ground and stood under one of the he�ll vents for what seemed like forever. The dance floor was packed for Sunday night happy hour. Tom P., Pearl to many of us, suggested to me -that we walk over and see what was going on. He knew both of them. "Looking for anything In particular," Tom asked, to which one of them replied, 0 Not a damn thing, Tom. It just happens that this Is one of. the warmest and safest spots in town right now." Tl_m Turner gave us three good bars during his ·Tulsa run, before moving to Florida. The Playroom may have been the best Tulsa ever had. And we can't forget Jimmy and Roy, who have give the Tool Box a totally different meaning than the one in your car trunk. Tulsa's bars ·have been a never-ending song of love. Yes, there were some bad moments. I remember the time I watched Ronnie Dlttmore get in his old lover's oar In front of the Zebra. They had spent the evening inside trying to decide If there was enough left to start over again. The next morning I would read that Ronnie had been murdered. And two days later, another story told how the · ex-lover had killed himself on his father's grave in Kansas. Tulsa's bars may never relive their old days. AIDS may have changed that forever. But the many fond memories will never die. I will never forget Walt Carlton (cancer), Carl Nagel (cirrhosis), and Bruce Hower.ton. Wayne Galutza, Newcombe Cleveland, to name a few. They were so brave in death. For . them, the long and winding road has ended. Our Job is to see that their trip wasn't In vain - that we, as gay Tulsans, ca11 rise up and prove to this city that we are some its best .citizens. Two Places You Must See Oral Roberta Prayer Tower & Genes Bamboo Lounge mlb\lMOO@@ IL@QJJOO@I!! 7204 E. PINE 838-9323 NOO� - 2 AM DAILY DOLLAR PITCHERS SUNDAYS - OPEN TO CLOSE $2.00 WELLS $1.75 FROZEN DRINKS $1.00 RATTLESNAKES -G- NOV. 1, 1990 PAGE 11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1959-1990] Looking Back on the (Tulsa) Bars, A Brief History, by Dick Suagee Subject The topic of the resource Reflections of Tulsa Bars By Dick Suagee beginning with his arrival in Tulsa in October 1959 until November 1990. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Oklahoma Historical Society Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Oklahoma Historical Society Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Oklahoma Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/1959 to 11/1990 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dick Suagee Dick Suagee Oklahoma Historical Society Tulsa Gay Bars https://history.okeq.org/files/original/3c5534c471c21dd145842498ffa3bbb3.pdf b86fe35d10bfd959b7d694513b5ce89e PDF Text Text -GAY-ETY INT-TOWN. by loni broaddus The vertical file in the Tulsa Library public relations to be seen with a member of the oppostie sex. labeled "Homosexuality " contains few Another famous Tulsa hangout was er than thirty articles clipped from the Bishop's Restaurant and Bar, where Tulsa World and Tulsa Tribune. The earliest is dated August 1976; the head gays and straights socialized together. line reads "Homosexual Arrests In The stt:aight people naturally had no crease at Mohawk Park." Other arti idea there were homosexuals in their cles discuss a proposed civil rights midst-after all, this was during the ordinance requested by the gay com late 40s-early 50s. munity, claims of police harassment by "Bishop's Bar was quite gay-it was patrons of gay bars, clergymen views mixed," says M.C. "It was very typical on homosexuality, Metropolitan Com (during that time) to find good places munity Church ("MCC Grows Gay-ly that were mixed. In other words, you . . . "), and lesbian custody rulings. The didn't go into Bishop's Bar as a scream most recent article in this file is dated ing queen. You didn't go in there July 19, 1983 and concerns the drain dressed in cutoffs. Women didn't even ing of a city pool after its use by gays for wear slacks in those days. " Indeed, the an OHR swimming party. style for women was dresses and high The most thorough Journalism in heeled spikes, suits and ties for men. cluded is a series of three articles by The curb in front of Bishop's was a Keo Jackson on the entire front page gathering place for the 21-25 year-old of the City/State section of the Sunday crowd. There they'd hang around, World dated July 11, 1982. The first waiting for someone to come along article estimates a gay population in and maybe offer them a ride out to the Tulsa of 50,000 pe ople, further predict Blue Haven, or even the few blocks over to the St. Moritz, where the ing that the "subculture ... will double in number by 1990." The second article, jukebox played the big band sounds of "Gay Pride Replaces Stereotype," is Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. filled with positive comments by John Dancing, however, was not allowed: Willis (owner of Zipper's) and Rev. Alice Oklahoma law prohibited dancing Jones (of MCC in Tulsa), as well as where beer was served. mentions of gay bars, activities, and After only about three months, the organizations. The final article tells us Blue Haven closed-a victim of the that the '"Fruit Loop' Showcases Dark miles in a time when mobility was not .,,.... �e. eaS\\y attained. Jackson's account ot gay \ite in 'Tu\sa Some time \ater, Thurman Glynn opened the Little Mexico Bar at about highlights the library's meager co\\ec ity. 18th and Boston. "That was a wild, sexual Homo on s article of tion pissy-elegant place," rememoers M. C. A sketchy history at best. "People just crammed into the Little And yet, we do have a story. Mexico Bar-so much fun. The win When Men Were Men dows were Spanish style . . . they Spikes the Wore and the Dykes opened out. We crawled in and out of man," society "cafe cribed A self-des those windows because it was so M.C. Parker has lived and played in we couldn't get through the crowded Tulsa since 1949, when he opened his front door!" Drive-In. Haven first gay bar, the Blue Ah, the good old days. Those were Prohibition days, and beer Even in the early 40s, Tulsa had at was the only alcoholic beverage sold least one gay bar. Called the Tropical legally. Bootleg whiskey was available, Gardens, it was run by two sisters in of course; M.C. sold it out of a briefcase in half-pints. what had once been a filling station. M.C. Parker owns a book called The Blue Haven was located south Snoot If You Must which mentions The west of Tulsa, near what is now Town Tropical Gardens, though not by name. West Shopping Center. It was one of Copyrighted in 1943, the book was four gay bars in Tulsa at the time written by writer and publisher Lucius though it also had a weekday hetero Beebe, who visited Oklahoma many sexual clientele comprised of nearby times to see his lover, who had been residents. M.C. explains, "(Gays) drafted and stationed here. couldn't come out on weeknights. Back Beebe writes: "Tulsa was not without in those days, not everybody had its charms. There was, for instance, a wheels ... even the 24-25 year-old boys nightclub that had formerly been a didn't have cars." gasoline filling s·tation and beer flowed out hung community So the gay out of all of-the compressed air hoses." downtown, sometimes at the Blue Note Time P.assed, but liqu9r by the drink on Denver,more often at the St. Moritz. didn't, and·many oTthe old bars closed The St.Moritz was located in the center down, or just faded into the past. By of the block where Cathey's Furniture is the 60s, many gays were partying at today, and according to M.C., was "the the Tai Mahal or the Zebra. Then there number one place to go." Lesbians had their own bar, the Milwaukee Tavern, were Gene's Bamboo and Friend's which was somewhere in the vicinity of Lounge (which later became Tracy's 15th and Cincinnati. For the most part, and then New Edition). These four however, gay men and lesbians ran bars stand out as the longest-running Gene's Ba mboo by 1 _____ !'round together; certainly it was s od gay bars in Tulsa; ------------- ----- ----· -•--- ... --- q· . -- far holds the record. Recently remo deled,the Bamboo still operates on the same side of town where it has been for nearly a q�rter of a century. Cleaning Oat the Closet• (Or: Oat of the Closet Into the Fire) Ttm Tumer is well known around Tulsa as the owner of Tim's Playroom. Before the Playroom, he managed The New Plantation,which was at 61st and Yale. And before that-he owned Jim's Anything Goes on 58th and Peoria which came after The Queen of Heart's, of which he owned half. But his bar career started at Friend's Lounge. He had been married; he had been working in the construction busi ness. One day he went into Friend's not knowing it was a gay bar. He played pool all afternoon with a group of les bians, who invited that night. Friend's owner, Tracy Mclaughlin, eventually hired Jim to bartend thei:�-.. Thq�.were the days of police harass ment. Cops seemed to show up at the gay bars whenever they were bored, entertaining themselves by writing up the bar owners for minor offenses, or occasionally just harassing the queers. "I remember really admiring people like Tracy McLaughlin . . . him espe cially, because I went to court with him several times," Ttm recalls. "He was actually going to bat for the entire community. He wasn't thinking at all of his business. At that time he was think ing 'Hey, they can't tell us to do that, they can't push us around like this.' And he never would hire attorneys. He went down and represented himself all time and he usually won." ' theBut a battle does not necessarily <Arih the war. In 1976, arrests we:re made in Mohawk Park for "soliciting to perform an unnatural sex act, outraging public decency, and sodomy." In 1977, thirteen men were arrested for Jayw�lking near a gay bar, of course. A couple of gay organizations had been atteinped in Tulsa, but the one that put Gay TµIsa on the map was the Tulsa Gay Community Caucus. In the early 70s, a series of hostile editorials appe ared in the Tulsa World. "They were all very anti-gay, blatantly so, for no reason," remembers John, a co-founder of TGCC who soon became its primary leader and spokesman. "Gay Lib had never been whispered about in the city in any way." The last editorial finally angered John to the point that he felt com pe lled to reply. He wrote a letter to the editor, a rebuttal which stated facts but never mentioned his own homosexuality. "That's really kind of what started it, strange as it may seem," explains John about the beginnir-igs of TGCC. "There had always been problems ... as far as housing, and police harassment." John's letter was printed the day he left for a two-week vacation. When he. returned, the embryo.group for TGCC was formed. John discussed the group and the situation with his boss, assur ing him that John would never bring the company name into it. "It took them three weeks, but they figured out a way to get rid of me." John promptly went to the Taj Mahal and spent the afternoon getting drunk on free beer. Since he had already las his job, John became the primary speaker for TGCC's newly formed Speaker's Bureau, appearing before churches and civic groups. "John was very upfront," says Tay Clare, a member of TGCC's inceptive group. "He was absolutely the best advocate for gay rights.!' John received surprising support for his efforts-as well as some disappoint ing lack of support. "We got more sup port from the non-gay community than c------, BAY BARS IN TULSA I ,1rt/1/ //II/If TROPICAL GARDENS: Early 40s. Operated by two sisters in what had once been a tilling station. ST. MORITZ: 1940s-50s. located on South Main. Was the place to go. Closed down alter a move in anticipation ot liquor by the drink-which did not pass. I BLUE NOTE: 40s-50s. located on North Denver. BLUE HAVEN: Opened Nov. 1949 by M.C. Parker. Located in southwest Tulsa. Closed alter 3 months due to location. MILWAUKEE TAVERN: 40s-50s. Lesbian bar. Located at about 15th and Cincinnati. BISHOP'S BAR: 40s-50s. Located downtown. M\xed crowd but a popular gay hangout. 11 LITTLE MEXICO: Late 50s. Owned by Thur· man Glynn. THE D06HOUSE: Owned by Bob Johnson. TAJ MAHAL: Late 50s. Original location downtown. Manager and his lover were mur dered in the sleeping quarters there-case never solved. The Taj eventually moved to the 11th Street location vacated by the 8th Day. ,'I ' 1- . ' ZE••Ar Downtolliin, .-,,,., ,,_ __. ,,_, the Ta/. Pink pool tallle. • IIIMIOO LOU#IE: Opened early 60s. Owned by Gene Covington. Still operating-oldest gay bar in Tulsa. 8th DAY Located on 11th Street al Lewis nexI door to. what is now a flower shop. GALA: Lesbian owned. Women's bar with niixed clientele. Located in what is now Tim's Playroom. First private club. Only entrance in the back. SKOO-BEE-DO: Owned by Paul Scott. FRIEND'S LOUNGE: Owned by Tracy Mclau· glin. Later called Tracy's, the New Edition. TIFFANY CLUB: Opened early 70s. QUEEN OF HEARTS: Opened 1974. Owners: Tim Turner and Paul Magruder. CARUSO'S RICK'S TIM'S ANYTHIN6 60ES: Owned by Tim Turner. 58th and Peoria. NEW PLANTATION: Owned by Tom Olson. managed by Tim Turner. 51st and Yale. • THE CLUB: Opened by owners of Gala. 12th and Memorial. Lesbian bar-originally attended by gay men also. Now called The Rustic Club. • TIM'S PLAYROOM: Owned by Tim Turner. Opened in July 1977. Located at 11th and Lewis under the Meadow Gold sign. • ZIPPER'S: Owned by John Willis. 33rd and Yale. Opened in 1979, • SEEKER'S CHOfCE: Lesbian bar on Admiral at Memorial. TULSA MINING CO.: On 11th Street. First alter-hours bar. Now Schlitzy·s. • TOOL IOX: Near downtown. Western bar. • OVER THE RAINBOW: At 11th and Garnett. Owned by Arlene Benson. Tulsa's largest les· bian bar-though clientele is mixed. • DANTE'S: Owned by Mark trom L.A. Located on 31st at:Harvard'. · • - ,. ' .. 2 ' ,, I l . . I .i • I •I I .I • I II I .. \ I •i ·! . • f.I i .I �. off the ground, an· OHR ·w· as ge. ttin9 started that would as w other servi·ce • unti·1 1·ts munity om been expected. One gay person exc y ga e rt th October On plained t at by coinmenting that "Most �!�ution just this year. h Ano �her of of these questions are checked 'no' - . go Issue er 25 19 the Premi _Edited because I have not let the fact that I·am streets. the it e h W�rld magazin etta Princ gay be known." by ed lish pub er Park b MC . Mr. Tulsa's "Se�ual Preference Study" (a.k.� fiudd, a�d with Tim Warren was an incredibly well_-researched, 1ss�e first that ctor, limm) as Sales Dire pioneering study. Copies were requestuncluded a nude male photo, gossip ed from and sent all over the count�. information, a gay directory, and more. But it was not enough to get an ord1It wasn't the first publication for Tulsa, nance passed protecting Tulsa's gay but was the one that survived the test of community. Eection time was too do� time. After a while the magazin e was for that much comfort. take n over by Jack Field and Stuart Instead, the Human Rig�ts ComSantifier; it grew, and eventually covermission recommended a pohcy sta!e• ed several states. ment-which meant that comparues . . Still another yout�ful orga ruzatio� doing business with the city could not which operat�s �s a vital par� of Tulsa s discriminate against employees on the gay community is Metr�pohtan �ombasis of sexual preference. It passed. munity Church. Started m Tuls� m �he The first step. mid-70s, M(;C has grown fr_om its first Unfortunately, the only step. If the storefront h ome to a quiet church idea was to consider the Ordinancebu!lding in northeast Tulsa. MC� offers which offered gays the only legal proan outreach to the gay community that tection-at a later date, all hope died many other churches ha ve not been with the electio · n of Jim Imhofe as Mayor able or willing to provide. MCC sponof Tulsa. sors rap groups, a children's church, ln i978 Jim Imhofe is quoted in the Tulsa Tribune as saying, "l don't think guest speakers, and socials. It ministers to gay youth and sponsors da nces for it's the government's place to be giving them. MCC fills needs that cannot be attention to the issue of homosexuality,particularly when it is treating homomet in bars-which were, for so long, sexuals _ as a mi nority, which means the only places to go to meet others like you give preferential treatment to the we did from the gay community. T he concept." gay community was very hostile. We Jim wasn't exactly on our side. were perceived a s rocking their secure boa t-even though their boat -was Passing the Torch (Or: Flaming Fiercely F orward) anything but secure." After several years spearhea ding the By 1976,_TGCC ha d decided it was �� Gay Community Caucus, John time to sink or swim. Gay bars were �:;.;=-==aenrn�ely needed� break. ·He passed being bus ·tecn,early every night, and the rems on, but interest waned and letters to various city officials obtained TGCC soon became a page in Tulsa no results. So, in March, John appeared gay history. before Tulsa's Board of Commissioners Tulsa's n ext gay organization was · to "respectfully ask that the Tulsa City formed as a chapter of a n Oklahoma Commission a dopt a Municipal Ordi C�ty grou_p, _Oklahomans _for Human nance which will gua ra ntee the rights �ghts.In �ts m!anc�, OHR m Tulsa was of all homosexuals in this municipality viewed with d1sda m by many gays. It so that fea r and repression will no was called "cliquish" and members were longer enslave the minds of one of the. referred �o as "the Polo set." _But despi�e largest minorities in this community .. ." early a�1tudes,- OHR survive� an� 1s The Commissioners seemed unco mn ow an integral part of the community. fortable, with the exception of Poli ce A recent na!lle change to Tulsa Okla and Fire Commissioner Mike K e an. homans for Human Rights severed the .Mayor Lafortune didn't th· m k ;� ere umbilical to the OKC parent group, w as much of a problem ' a . . n d referred and TOHR .1s a strang organiz ation the ·m atte r to the Huma n R'1 9h ts that stands on its own merits. It aperCommission. ates the Help Line, provides a hospice . "The on ly trouble was• he h a d not service f or AIDS pati·ents, donates reckoned on Victor"a Myers " s booksto the library,prints a newsletter, _ John. "She ,;a·s-on the'Hum an Rig� :'5 and generally serves as an informational ts Commiss·,on. She was a 1aw . s tudent �nd ed_ucational forum for gay-related she picked it up and ran wit h the b�il · issues m Tulsa. and got the study going." ' . About the same tim e as the fledgling The study, officially titled "Se�ual c.:· ,,- .... 5 The II • LEATHER • NOVELTIES • CARDS • MAGS • A?SORTED GIFT ITEMS • GAY PRIDE T-SHIRTS GENERAL STORE Open 7 p.m. Nightly (located inside TIM'S PLAYROOM Special Sidewalk Sale - June 27th ..;.. .. . . . -. . ' -... speak. We are fifteen years, ot only ourselves. of care as a fir� n take to ruI ing w n , _ e dy ,, Stu ce Preferen ntrY· The u o c is 4p. t ing n We are grow for Tulsa, but a first i h a five m o nth ov Tulsa, perhaps, is growing up with us. study was con�uct. � i ther or not e Police harassment is almost nonexistent period "to determine in the areas t � eXIS em� robl substantial p compared to what it wa� ten years ago. ub. lic . a,,ccom· p ng, usi ho ent, employm of Mayor Young threw out the first soft " ctices. modations and police pra · ball at a gay gam e last year, and has w ere d. isOver 500 questionnaires made an appearance at MCC. The unity. to do a ��ntributed within the gay comm Tulsa press even manage agers, . Hotel and motel owners and m an on occasion. gays on y stor ntal rtment . d me real estate agencies and apa here, of exists still obia oph Jom ers JU complexes, as well as Tulsa_e�p�oy courSe . But it no long er debilitates us. ls were contact ed. Priv ate md1v1dua h We have supp ort netw orks; .we ave were called in a phone survey. Lett�rs places to go. were sent to cities across the U.S. with We have Gay Pride. laws pertaining to sexuality. begun to AII this research was done to deter mine. the extent-if any-to which homosexuals were being discriminated against, and to discover possible a p proaches to the issue. The respondents of the business commun ity for the most pa rt indicated that they would not or ha d not discrim inated against suspect or known homo sexua ls. However, those in business • were overwhelmingly against a city ordinance protecting homosexuals. Sixty-one percent of the general population felt that ga ys should not be fired due to their sexu al preferences, though the majority believed that gays should not be tea chers or ministers. The gay community itself reported less discrimination than might have us. In fact, it ha s only bee n during the past few yea rs that Tulsa has ha d so many different services to offer the gay community; a community that has al ways existed but has only, in the past MISS GAY TULSA ° A L/1/ of Thall Who HIVI warn /hi MIii Bly Tu/11 Crown .,..- compiled by M.C. Parker & Timm Warren NOTE: Some dates list more than one Queen. Thi_s is due 10 the fact thal more Jhan one pageant was h_eld m sotne years until the consolidation of pagean_ts m 1 � 82 br warPark Produclions. Miss Gay Tulsa �s a registered trademark of WarPar� Productions. Gala Holiday Inn East Blue Moon Blue Moon St. Augustine's Church Friend's Lounge 1974·75 Marcie Mayo 1975·76 Taja Queen of Hearts 1976·77 Leslie Fox Le Cabaret Trudy Tyler Le Cabaret 1977·78 Louise Kelly New Plantation 1978-791 Casey Starr PapillonLisa Goodman Foundain ° 197.9-80 Mr. Timm Friend's Lounge Rita Caruso's 1980-81 Leighann Quality Inn Ci anti Caruso's 1981 ·82 Tosha Turner Rick's Chi Chi Caruso's 1982·83 Helen Holiday Crash Landing 1983-84 Raven Madd Gaslight 1984-85 Stephanie Casady Old Lady on Brady Queen Sandy Feathers Jamie 1972·73 Cammie 1973·74 Dianne 1970·71 1971·71 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [Collection] Oklahoma LGBT+ History Description An account of the resource Physical Media: Digital Media: Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document -GAY-ETY INT-TOWN. far holds the record. Recently remo deled,the Bamboo still operates on the same side of town where it has been for Oat of the Closet Into the Fire) Since he had already las his job, John became the primary speaker for TGCC's newly formed Speaker's Bureau, appearing before churches and civic groups. by loni broaddus The vertical file in the Tulsa Library public relations to be seen with a Ttm Tumer is well known around Tulsa as the owner of Tim's Playroom. "John was very upfront," says Tay Clare, a member of TGCC's inceptive labeled "Homosexuality " contains few er than thirty articles clipped from the Tulsa World and Tulsa Tribune. The earliest is dated August 1976; the head line reads "Homosexual Arrests In crease at Mohawk Park." Other arti cles discuss a proposed civil rights ordinance requested by the gay com munity,claims of police harassment by patrons of gay bars, clergymen views an OHR swimming party. The most thorough Journalism in cluded is a series of three articles by Keo Jackson on the entire front page of the City/State section of the Sunday World dated July 11, 1982. The first article estimates a gay population in Tulsa of 50,000 people, further predict ing that the "subculture ... will double in number by 1990." The second article, "Gay Pride Replaces Stereotype," is filled with positive comments by John Willis (owner ofZipper's) and Rev.Alice Jones (of MCC in Tulsa), as well as mentions of gay bars, activities, and organizations. The final article tells us that the '"Fruit Loop'Showcases Dark �e. Jackson's account ot gay\itein 'Tu\sa legally. Bootleg whiskey was available, of course; M.C.sold it out of a briefcase in half-pints. The Blue Haven was located south west of Tulsa, near what is now Town West Shopping Center. It was one of four gay bars in Tulsa at the time though it also had a weekday hetero sexual clientele comprised of nearby residents. M.C. explains, "(Gays) couldn't come out on weeknights. Back in those days, not everybody had didn't have cars." So the gay community hung out downtown,sometimes at the Blue Note on Denver,more often at the St. Moritz. The St.Moritz was located in the center of the block where Cathey's Furniture is today, and according to M.C.,was "the number one place to go." Lesbians had their own bar, the Milwaukee Tavern, which was somewhere in the vicinity of 15th and Cincinnati.For the most part, member of the oppostie sex. "Bishop's Bar was quite gay-it was mixed," says M.C. "It was very typical (during that time) to find good places that were mixed. In other words, you didn't go into Bishop's Bar as a scream ing queen. You didn't go in there dressed in cutoffs. Women didn't even wear slacks in those days. " Indeed, the Blue Haven, or even the few blocks over to the St. Moritz, where the jukebox played the big band sounds of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. Dancing, however, was not allowed: Oklahoma law prohibited dancing where beer was served. After only about three months, the Blue Haven closed-a victim of the miles in a time when mobility was not eaS\\y attained. Some time \ater, Thurman Glynn opened the Little Mexico Bar at about 18th and Boston. "That was a wild, pissy-elegant place," rememoers M. C. dows were Spanish style . . . they opened out. We crawled in and out of those windows because it was so crowded we couldn't get through the front door!" Ah, the good old days. Even in the early 40s, Tulsa had at least one gay bar. Called the Tropical Gardens, it was run by two sisters in what had once been a filling station. M.C. Parker owns a book called Snoot If You Must which mentions The Tropical Gardens, though not by name. Copyrighted in 1943, the book was written by writer and publisher Lucius Beebe, who visited Oklahoma many times to see his lover, who had been drafted and stationed here. Beebe writes: "Tulsa was not without its charms. There was, for instance, a nightclub that had formerly been a gasoline filling st· ation and beer flowed out of all of-the compressed air hoses." Time P.assed, but liqu9r by the drink didn't, and·many oTthe old bars closed Before the Playroom, he managed The New Plantation,which was at 61st and Yale. And before that-he owned Jim's Anything Goes on 58th and Peoria whichcameafter The Queen of Heart's, But his bar career started at Friend's Lounge. He had been married; he had been working in the construction busi ness. One day he went into Friend's - not knowing it was a gay bar. He played pool all afternoon with a group of les bians, who invited that night. Friend's owner, Tracy Mclaughlin, eventually hired Jim to bartend thei:�-.. Thq�.were the days of police harass ment. Cops seemed to show up at the gay bars whenever they were bored, theycan't push us around like this.' And he never would hire attorneys. He went down and represented himself all ' the time and he usually won." the war. In 1976, arrests we:re made in Mohawk Park for "soliciting to perform an unnatural sex act, outraging public decency, and sodomy." In 1977,thirteen men were arrested for Jayw�lking near a gay bar, of course. A couple of gay organizations had been atteinped in Tulsa, but the one that put Gay TµIsa on the map was the Tulsa Gay Community Caucus. In the early 70s, a series of hostile editorials appeared in the Tulsa World. "They were all very anti-gay, blatantly so, for no reason," remembers John, a co-founder of TGCC who soon became its primary leader and spokesman. "Gay Lib had never been whispered about in the city in any way." The last editorial finally angered John to the point that he felt compelled to reply. He wrote a letter to the editor, a rebuttal which stated facts but never mentioned his own homosexuality. "That's really kind of what started it, strange as it may seem," explains John about the beginnir-igs of TGCC. "There had always been problems ... as far as housing, and police harassment." John's letter was printed the day he left for a two-week vacation. When he. returned,the embryo.group for TGCC was formed. John discussed the group and the situation with his boss, assur ing him that John would never bring the company name into it. "It took them three weeks, but they figured out a way to get rid of me." group. "He was absolutely the best advocate for gay rights.!' John received surprising support for his efforts-as well as some disappoint ing lack of support."We got more sup port from the non-gay community than c , BAY BARS IN TULSA I ,1rt/1/ //II/If TROPICAL GARDENS: Early 40s. Operated by two sisters in what had once been a tilling station. ST. MORITZ: 1940s-50s. located on South Main. Was the place to go. Closed down alter a move in anticipation ot liquor by the drink-which did not pass. I BLUE NOTE: 40s-50s. located on North Denver. BLUE HAVEN: Opened Nov. 1949 by M.C. Parker. Located in southwest Tulsa. Closed alter 3 months due to location. MILWAUKEE TAVERN: 40s-50s. Lesbian bar. Located at about 15th and Cincinnati. BISHOP'S BAR: 40s-50s. Located downtown. M\xed crowd but a popular gay hangout. LITTLE MEXICO: Late 50s. Owned by Thur· THE D06HOUSE: Owned by Bob Johnson. TAJ MAHAL: Late 50s. Original location downtown. Manager and his lover were mur the 11th Street location vacated by the 8th Day. ZE••Ar Downtolliin, .-,,,., ,,_ __. ,,_, the Ta/. Pink pool tallle. • IIIMIOO LOU#IE: Opened early 60s. Owned by Gene Covington. Still operating-oldest gay bar in Tulsa. 8th DAY Located on 11th Street al Lewis nexI door to. what is now a flower shop. GALA: Lesbian owned. Women's bar with niixed clientele. Located in what is now Tim's Playroom. First private club. Only entrance in the back. SKOO-BEE-DO: Owned by Paul Scott. FRIEND'S LOUNGE: Owned by Tracy Mclau· glin. Later called Tracy's, the New Edition. TIFFANY CLUB: Opened early 70s. QUEEN OF HEARTS: Opened 1974. Owners: Tim Turner and Paul Magruder. CARUSO'S RICK'S TIM'S ANYTHIN6 60ES: Owned by Tim Turner. 58th and Peoria. NEW PLANTATION: Owned by Tom Olson. managed by Tim Turner. 51st and Yale. • THE CLUB: Opened by owners of Gala. 12th and Memorial. Lesbian bar-originally attended by gay men also. Now called The Rustic Club. • TIM'S PLAYROOM: Owned by Tim Turner. Opened in July 1977. Located at 11th and Lewis under the Meadow Gold sign. • ZIPPER'S: Owned by John Willis. 33rd and Yale. Opened in 1979- , • SEEKER'S CHOfCE: Lesbian bar on Admiral at Memorial. TULSA MINING CO.: On 11th Street. First alter-hours bar. Now Schlitzy·s. • TOOL IOX: Near downtown. Western bar. • OVER THE RAINBOW: At 11th and Garnett. Owned by Arlene Benson. Tulsa's largest les· bian bar-though clientele is mixed. • DANTE'S: Owned by Mark trom L.A. Located ,'I ' 1- . ' ' .. 2 ' I ,, l .. I • I • I I •. II ..\I • ·!i .• fI i ------------- -- --- -- --· -•----- ... ---· on 31st at:Harvard'. · • - ,. . I c.:· ,,- .... 5 . been expected. One gay person ex- oplainedf thesehquestions are checked 'no' - . gabeycabueseknI ohwnave."not let the fact that I am 25 waTsulasna'sin"cSere�duiballyPrweefellr_-ernesceaSrctuhdeyd", epdionfreoemrinagnsdtusedny.tCalol poiveesrwtehreecroeuqunest�t.- nanBcuet itpwasases ndopt reontoeucgtihngtoTgueltsaan'sogrady1- fcoormthmautnmityu.cEheccotmionfotritm. e was too do� miIsnssiotenarde,ctohmemHeunmdeadnaRpigo�hctsy Cstoa!me•- 19go the Premier Issue of Ano�her fifteen years, begun to speak. We are Ieru-ning to take care of ourselves. Tulsa, perhaps, is growing up with us. · . ment-which meant that comparues . . baTsihseoffirssetxsutaelpp. reference. It passed. ideUanwfoarsttuoncaotenlys,idtehrethoenlOy rsdteinpa. nIcf et-he mgauyncitoymCmhuurncithy. SistaMrteetdr�pm oThutals� �mo�mhe- smtoidr-e7fr0os, M(;C has grown from its first proaches to the issue. community for the most part indicated which offered gays the only legal pro- abnu!olduintrgein northeast a. MC� offers that they would not or had not discrim wteitchtitohne-eleactt· aiolaotefrJidmatIme,haollfehaospMe adyieodr many otahcehr tcohtuhrecghaeys chommunity that • werealos.veHrwowhelvmerin,gtlhyosaegaiinsbt uasinceistys 1973·74 Dianne ln i978 Jim Imhofe is quoted in the guestrsappeagkreorusp,s,nad children's church, ordinance protecting homosexuals. Church iTt'sultshaeTgroibveurnnemaesnsta'ysipnlga,c"eltdoobne'tgtihvingk a a socials. It ministers poSpiuxltayt-ionefelpt ethrcaet ngt of the general though the m jority believed th t gays 119754·765 1977·78 Taja Trudy Tyler Mayo Le Cabarret gwe did from the gay community. The should not beate chers or ministers. a 1978-791 CLiassaeyGoSotdamrran PNaepwillPolna-ntation waeyrecpoemrcmeuivneitdy was very hostile. We less discaryimcionmmunity itself reported 19° 7.9-80 Mr. Timm Friend's Lounge bo t-eve as rocking their secure 1980-81 Leighann CQauraulsitoy'sInn a n though their boat -was paIsnt ffeacwt,yiet has only been during the Cianti Caruso's ars that Tulsa has had so 1981 ·82 TCohsi hCahTurner Caruso's 1983-84 RHaevleenn HMoaliddday GCarasslihghLtanding gTGCC soon became a page in Tulsa Stephanie Casady Old Lady on Brady n t . . · d " . ' Open 7 p.m. Nightly (located inside TIM'S PLAYROOM Special Sidewalk Sale - June Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1996-1998] Gay Men's Outreach Subject The topic of the resource HIV and AIDS Description An account of the resource Documents relating to Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights program Gay Men's Outreach. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant HIV and AIDS Testing Prevention https://history.okeq.org/files/original/9a69bdbef0fed3f621aa584fbee973bd.jpg 3a680877139b2db9be7bf142470c95ed https://history.okeq.org/files/original/03d7627eeac6673434aad70a9c8f796e.pdf d20b1247a06885a5aa4860c0364ea28c PDF Text Text : Servi.,n.g Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends : Tulsa s Largest Circulation Community_ Paper Available In More Than 75 City Locations ¯ MarriageLawsuit Heard Georgi.a "Sodomy" i Law Unconstitutional! Shepard Murder Update ATLANTA (AP) - Twelve years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Georgia’s controversial anti-sodomy law, the state Supreme Court threw out the statute late last month in a ruling that Gay civil rights activists hope "We cannot think d any will lead to the downfall of simiother aetlvlty that lar laws around the country. The state court voted 6-1 to reasonable persons overturn the conviction of An- would rank as more thony Powell, now of Shreveport, La. He had been found guilty private and more of sod.omizing his 17-year-old deserving of proteetlon niece m 1996. He had been- from governmental charged with rape, but his lawinterference than yers argued that the sex was consensual and the jury acquitted on eonsensual, private, that charge. adult sexual aetlv~ty," The court’s majority opinion, - Georgia Chld Justiee by Chief Justice Robert Benham, Robert Benham said the law violates the state LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP)-A suspect in the death ofaGay University of Wyoming student admitted to an investigator that he drove off with the victim and then told him: ’~3ues s what. We’ re not Gay. You’ re gonna getj acked." After hearing testimony at a preliminary hearing, a judge ordered Aaron McKiuney to stand trial in the death of Matthew Shepard, an attack that brought wideconstitution’ s provision that citizens are entitled to privacy. "We spread outrage, a condenmation from President Clinton cannot think of any other activity that reasonable persons would and calls for tougher hate-crime laws. rank as more private and more deserving of protection from The other suspect, Russell Arthur Henderson, had governmental interference than consensual, private, adult sexual waived his fight to a preliminary heating and is schedactivity," he wrote. uled to be arraigned Dec. 2. Both men are charged with In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 165-year-old Georgia law banning oral and anal sex, ruling that ~e U.S. first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery. The21-year-old Shepard, who had been found tied to Constitution provides no right to private homosexual conduct. a fence outside of town, died five days after the Oct. 7 see Georgia, p. 8 beating. The lead investigator, Sheriff s Detecfi~÷’e Sgt. Rob DeBree, testified that McKiuney, 21, admitted to the beating and implicated his friend Henderson, also 21. According to DeBree, McKinney said that robbery was ." the main motive but that Shepard was chosen,,as a targe~ because he was Gay. DeBreesaidMcKinney admitted ° Matthew did not hit on them or make advances" in the .,~FiresideBar,.batthat they luredhimoutintending:to rob : him and 6urgiari~e hi~ house. ....... :~ .2 ~ According to DeBree, McKimaey told investigators that the attack began after Shepard placedhis fight hand ". on McKinney’ s leg as the trio drove on Laramie’ s east side." ’Guess what. We’re not Gay,’ "DeBree quoted " McKinney as saying. ’"You’re gonna get jacked. It’s Gay Awareness Week.’" DeBree said McKiuney admitted he hit Shepard two ¯ to three times with his fist, then pistol-whipped and Local AIDS activist, Bruce. Begley before World AIDS Day robbed him. see Shepard, p. 10 memorial service and march. For more, see page 3. ::WORLD AIDS DAY Tulsa MCC’s Merge! Tulsa Is Site to Test HIV Vaccine TULSA - After years of strife,Tulsa’ s two Mb~~poli’tan Community Church congregations have voted to merge beginning at the end of November and at the beginning of the Advent season. The Metropolitan Church of Greater Tulsa (MCC-GT) is likely the oldest Lesbian and Gay organization in the state at more than 20 years old. It was one of the first MCC’ s in the US to purchase its own building in an innovative bond based fundraising program. Family of Faith’MCC was younger congregation that grew out of MCC-GT starting out in Jenks, then later moving to a storefront in southeast Tulsa. Both congregations are currently without permanent pastors and members of each congregation approved the merger with "overwhelming majorities." The move also enjoys denominational support. The new congregation will meet at the building near Pine and Sheridan which has been the home for MCC-GT but the vision that thenew congregation has is tomove to anew shared home and see MCC, p. 2 DIRECTORY/t.ETFERS US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS COMMUNITY CALENDAR BOOK REVIEW RESTAURANT REVIEW DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 2/3 P. 4 P. 6 P. 9 P. 10 P. 11 P. 12/13 P. 14 : TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Researchers in Tulsa are participating in : a nationwide trial of a vaccine that may help prevent infection : from the virus that causes AIDS. Tulsa is one of a handful of cities _. chosen to participate in final testing of the AIDSvax vaccine, ¯ developed by California-based VaxGen Inc. ¯ "I think it is an opportunity to make history as the first major ¯ trial to prevent HIV infection," said Dr. Ralph Richter of St. John .. Medical Center, who is leading the local branch of the trial. "It’ s ¯ aumque opportunity, and the challenge is to prove that this works : by doing a very highly scientific study." ¯ Researchers are recruiting HIV-negative Gay men who are ¯ considered at high risk Of contracting the disease. That includes : those who are not in monogamous relationships. They also seek : women who currently are in sexual relationships with HIV: positive men or who have had more than one male sexual partner ¯ and have been diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases : within the past year. : In preliminary trials of AIDSvax, nearly 99 percent of those : vaccinated produced strong levels of antibodies. Final testing of ¯ the vaccine is targeting 5,000 U.S: volunteers at high risk of ~ contracting the AIDS virus and 2,500 high-risk people in Thai" land. ¯ John Lysight, 31, recently got his first shot of the vaccine and : will get a second injection soon. ’ofhis is a beginning vaccine of ." the future. This is what is going to start what I refer to as the super : vaccines," Lysight said. "I think we are reaching a totally ¯ different realm of meditfine, and it needs to be taken advantage : of." Lysight learned of the vaccine from Richter almost a year ago ~ and plans to help the doctor recruit study subjects. He does not : know if he is receiving the vaccine or a placebo. ¯ see Vaccine, p. 11 : MONTPEIJI~.R, Vt. (AP)- Vermont’s Supreme ¯ Courtjustices dearly were ready for thepotenfially ¯ historic case before them. Before 10 minutes had ¯ gone by in their hour-long heating on the question ¯ of same-gender marriage, Justice Denise Johnson : cut off a lawyer and told her to get to the point. "We ¯ have to know what your theories are that entitle you ¯ to relief," Johnson told lawyer Beth Robinson, who ¯ was arguing the case for three couples seeking the ¯ right to marry. : Throughout the hearing, justices peppered law, yers from both sides withquestions about theories : of law, Gay politics and common sense. Each : jnstiee, from the chief to the most senior member of : the court to its most recent appointee, asked at least ¯ one question. They listened intently, caj oled, prod¯ ded, occasionally chuckled and scribbled notes. : "tit’ s good to know the court is thinking about these ¯ issues, and if you think hard about this, we win," ¯ Robinson said following the arguments. ¯ Oral arguments before the Supreme Court can be : curious affairs. Lawyers go prepared to fill their ¯ allotted time with an oral recitation expanding on ¯ the written arguments they have previously filed. ¯ They rarely get a chance to deliver their remarks : tminterrupted because at least one of the justices ¯ generally wants to probe a point more deeply or ¯ perhaps go off in another direction. But seldom ¯ does the court become so immersed in the case ¯ before it. Seldom does the court have as much time ¯ as it allotted Docket No. 98-32, Baker v. State of : Vermont. Lawyers had an hour to make their case. ¯ Normally they get half that, sometimes less. : In the hearings in November, they had to share it ¯ pretty much.eq.ually with the three men and two : women in black robes.-It was almost l~ke a law : school class where the fivejustices were theprofes¯ sots and the individual lawyers were the students : getting uncomfortably close seruuny. : - When Robinson rejected a notion that everyone’ s goals~ Justice James Morse responded: "So the label is everything?" Johnson was the most animated justice. AssistantAttorney General Eve Jac~bs -Camahan pointed out that no other state in the nation had legalized Gay marriage. Johnson observed: "Somebody had to be the first in an interracial state," referring to : states that once banned interracial marriages. Try: ing to recover, Jacobs-Camahan said that common law had always made a distinction between men and women in marriage statutes, but not between the races, which was what made interracial marriage bans unconstitutional. "What does that show other than how long-standing the discrimination was?" Justice John Dooley asked. Reflecting that new legal ground was potentially : being plowed with the case, Chief Justice Jeffrey Amestoy asked Robinson to explain why the state would want to discriminate against its citizens. : Figuring that one out is a frustration, Robinson replied. The State of Vermont’s representatives have contended that limiting mamage only to heterosexual couples is good for procreation and childrearing - a point characterized as discriminatory and unconstitutional by Robinson, the lawyer for three Gay couples who brought the case. Robinson : argued that Vermont’s 28-year-old ban doesn’t serve to protect children. 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Ministers who have merely blessed same-sex unious have found themselves in trouble with church leadership. One was quoted as saying "I can bless a battleship. I can bless a nuclear weapon. I can bless dogs or animals, but I can’ t bless two people who want to make a commitment to each other." The freedom to marry the person you love is a basic civil right, a basic human right, and an important, individual personal choice that bdongs to the couple in love, not to politicians or the government: Some day, probably not un61 the next century, that won’ t be an unpopular idea. - William C. Stosine. Iowa City With Credit to The Village Voice The 1998 Wacko Awards: Losers, Liars, and Other Political Lowlifes The Human Rights Campaign Well, the folks- at the. Human~ Rights Campaign sure do know how to pick ’em] After a protracted internal battle, the country’s largest gay fights group voted to endorse Al D’ Amato. Actually, it was the HRC’s board- in a 15-7 vote - that chose to support the Fonz. Most members backed Schumer, who romped in the Gay community. For mstanee, in Manhattan’ s 66th Assembly Dislrict, Schumer routed D’ Amato by about an 8-to-1 margin. This Greenwich Village district was the first to send an openly gay woman, Deborah Glick, to the state assembly and provided Schumer with his biggest vote total of any city A.D. In recognition of HRC"s misguided endorsement, we present the group’ s board with the Out of Touch Plaque and a global positioning system, so they are better informed when they next get the urge to veer right. Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ ve covered or on issues you thinkneed to be considered. Youmay request that your name be withheld but letters must be signed & have phone humbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publi=m cations will be printed as is appropriate. by joining forces to be able to secure a permanent full-time pastor as well. Tins also will allow them to increase their outreach to the community. Both congregations were predominenfly women and leaders stated the hope of encouraging men to feel welcome as well. �World AIDS Day 1998i WASHINGTON, DC - A new study just released resoundingly debunks widely held beliefs about the economic status of. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual (GLB) people. Contrary to what has become the conventional wisdom on the subject, Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual people do not earn more than by Tom Neal, editor and publisher ¯ It is even more bitter now that we’ ve learned that One of the consolations of growing older is that every : former Supreme Court Justice, the late Lewis Powell, once in a while, something "right" happens you thought ~ decided .that his vote, the"swing" votein Bowers (5-4), you might never see. Justice sometimes prevails. ¯ was a mistake. Powell never really seemed to underFor example, in thelate 80’ s,my youngest stand the impact of his act since he also brother spent some time in the then German ¯ . . it’s been both stated that his mistake never caused anyone "Democratic" Republic (the DDR in a proany harm. Indeed. ~unny and l~tter gram organized by the University of OklaAlso, it’ s been both funny and bitter to homa); and we wondered when, if ever, all to learn that learn that former Georgia Attorney General of Germany would be one again. Michael Bowers during the very time in former Georgia More recently, we’ ve seen Chilean murwhich he was defending the Georgia "sodderer and former dictator, Gen. Pinochet, at Attorney omy" statute was himself breaking a differleast called tojustice - even if his age and the ent Georgia law by having an adulterous General legal wrangling may prevent any real payMichael Bowers affair. Obviously, all animals are equal but ment for his part in the systematic disaFsome are more equal than others - if I may pearance and murder of his own, and forduring the very paraphrase that line poorly. eign, citizens. Here in Oklahoma, our Supreme Court had time in whleh So too, the decision of the Georgia Suless courage or less commitment to fundapreme Court to say that the apparatus of the he was defending mental constitutional rights. Oklahoma’s State, here Georgia, has no compelling, lethe Georgia "crimes against nature" or "sodomy" statute gitimate interest in regulating the private, "sodomy" statute was declared unconstitutional in 1986. And consensual sexual conduct of adults. Since like the Georgia decision it involved heteroGeorgia’s law was the impetus for the was himself sexual citizens rather than Gay ones. But our wretched, horribly reasoned US Supreme court chose to state explicitly that it was only breaking a Court case, Bowers v. Hardwick, to have the addressing the unconstitutionality of the law law undermined by its home state constitudifferent as it affected heterosexual behavior. As Steve tion is sweet. Georgia law by Scarborough, staff attorney, Lambda Legal But it is a bittersweet victory because Defense and Education Fund, Southern RehaGn~ an Bowers still stands rendering Lesbian and gional Office explained to TFN, it’s arbiGay Americans lesser citizens under our adulterous affair. trary, it’ s unfair but it’ s what we’ ve got until own federal constitution. Like the 19th centhe statute’ s overturned in another statelevel Obdously, tury Dred Scott Supreme Court decision that case or until Bowers v. Hardwick is overlegitimized slavery, Bowers will someday all animals are turned at the federal level. fall. But its decision, (based on primarily on equal but some The great thing is that’s going to the logic that this behavior, oral and anal happen. I don’ t know when, or exacdy how, are more e~ual sex, has always been despised and therefore, but to quote that song of solace for both based on popular revulsion, should be untitan otherS. Black and Gay folk (and Black, Gay folk), constitutional, tliough note that though de~ "deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall Spised, a lotof "them" are doing it too) continues to overcome some day" Because the fssue here is not butlress anti-Lesbian and Gay decisions, like child really what folks are doing in their bedrooms but whether custody battles where the Gay parent lives in a state America’s promise, that all are created equal, is truly, where "sodomy" is illegal. truly what we believe. Heterosexual people. In fact, they may even earn less. known that lncome Inflation: The Myth of the myth of Gay Affluence Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Americans was released wealth by the Policy Institute of the NaWhat I like about this column is its flexibility to write . tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force is ju,t that about any number of things without necessarily having and the Institute for Gay and Lesto pun them together into a completely coherent argu- a myth . . . bian Strategic Studies (I~LSS). The ment. So be forewarned that this may wander. lneome I~at~on report was authored by M.V. Lee Sent via the Internet: "Morality is what you do when Badgett, Ph.D., professor of econobody is looking." - Oklahoma’ s own Congressman, s~nes t~e nomics at the University of MassaThe Reverend J.C. Watts (R-OK) - who has fathered o~ truth on yet .chusetts at Amherst and executive two children out of wedlock. Indeed. director of IGLSS. another o[ Also from our e-mail regarding the so-called "liberal Income Inflation is a startling media": a 1996 Nexis search of sources used by major The Ri~ht~ study of the economic status of a newspapers and broadcasters, show that 7,776 medi~ ~stortlon frequently stereotyped population citations were used from conservative think tanks (with of Americans. Badgett explores the Heritage Foundation topping the list); 4,665 from cenof the ~a~s," pervasive andinaccurate notion that trist think tanks; and 1,837 from liberal think tanks. That - Urv~hl Va~d GLB people form an economic elite, means the news media used sources from conservatives insulated from discrimination by 54% of the time, centrists 33% .and liberals 13%. their wealth and disconnected frbm society at large by a KABC, an ABC affiliate in Los Angeles refused to air special, privileged status. After examining data from seven any anti-war protest stories during the Gulf war. This different surveys, she finds that none support this stereotype. from staffers inside the station. "The evidence from many different scientifically sound ¯ ABC’ s 20/20 program has never run a story critical of data sources points to the same dear conclusiom Gay, ¯ nuclear power. Come to find out, the show’ s producer Lesbian, and Bisexual people do not earn more than Hetero- ¯ Victor Neufeld’ s wife works for the nuclear industry. sexual people, either as individuals or as couples," reported Rupert Murdoeh, an ultra right wing activist, (he Badgett. "Some GLB people are poor, some are rich, and ¯ initially offered Newt Gingrich a mulfmi!lion dollar most are in the middle,jnst as heterosexual people are. Now : book deal thru his H,ar)pe_r Collins publishing firm), that we have credible data, we can stop relying on flawed owns the entire Fox media conglomerate, the Fox telestu~di.’e3, that were designed to find high income Gay people." visionnetwork andFox news channel. He also owns the right-wing organizations and individuals perpetuate and i New York Post,and TV Guide magazine. regularly exploit the myth of Gay wealth to bolster their ¯ ABC’s David Brinldey had to apologize for making attacks against the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender ¯* insulting remarks about President Clinton on the air ¯ eommtmity. The myth is so pervasive and accepted that even during the 1996 election. He now is a spokesman for a Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia injected it into the ; multimillion dollar corporation. John Stossel, known dissenting opinion in the Colorado Amendment Two ease. : for his ultra-rightwing pro-corporate views is a regular "We have long known that the myth of Gay wealth is just reporter for ABC news. that - a myth," said Urvashi Vaid, director of the Policy ¯ CBS canned a 60 minutes story on tobacco company Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. : lies because of pressure from upper management. NBC "’Income lnflation shines the light of truth on yet another of has squdched stories about boycotts of General ElecThe Right’ s distortion of the facts," added Vaid. tric, its parent company. CNN has no one as far to the "We lmve long Left as Pat Buchanan is to the right on its nightly political show Crossfire. NBC’s reporter Pete Williams is a former Bush administration official. CBS’ s and ABC’ s Diane Sawyer was a Nixon administration insider before landing a job covering the news. Britt Hume of Fox News is a known conservative ideologue who used to play tennis with George Bush. _ PBS has many shows dedicated to covering corporate America - Nightly Business Report, Adam Smith’s Money World, Tony Brown’s Journal, Wall Street Week: etc., b~ut~noo’ s,hows dedicated to covering consum.ers or laoor, r’t~ s tongest running show is Firing Line l~osted by ultra conservative William F. Buekley, the editor of the conservative National Review Magazine. Other shows hosted by conservatives regularly are: .One on One, The MeLaughlin Group and American Interests. Additionally, a show has been added to the PBS lineupthat is based on holier-than-thou conservative William Bennett’s book The Book of Virtues. ti Talk"ra’di° is.hosted almost exclusively by conservave talk snow hosts, headed by Rush Limbaugh, Ollie North, Larry Elder, Michael Reagan and G. Gordon Li’_d.dy. Former Republican presidential candidate and religious right leader, Pat Robertson, owns the Christian Broadcasting Network which airs nationwide. He also owns the Family Channel and a radio news service called Standard News. And those are just a few things to consider about our "liberal media" ~ except, of course, Tulsa Family News which is proudly pro-Gay, moderate to progressive in our politics. Hats off to Tulsa Oklahonmns for Human Rights, the organization that provides our Gay CommRnity Center, for mounting alarge and very visible sign on the south face of The Pride Center. The sign can be seen well down Brookside as you travel north. TOHR president Steve Horn credits board member and volunteer, Ric Martin, for getting the sign done. Kudos to Ric and to Steve and see About, p. 14 �Texas Sodomy Challenge Pedreira’s firing, said Pedreira acknowledged she was Gay when she interviewed for the job as art therapist and supervisor at the Spring Meadows home for emotionally disturbed boys m eastern Jefferson County. Cox said he told her that wouldn’t be a problem, as long as she didn’ t talk about her private life at work. In a letter to Pedreira after her termination, Cox said that no one can be hired or fired at KBHC without approval of its president, William Smithwick. Citing privacy concerns, Gray, the KBHC spokeswoman, declined to elaborate on what promises, if any, where made to Pedreira when she was hired or whether Smithwick knew about her sexual orientation then. Pedrcira said when she returned to work from a vacation in August, she learned that several employees at the children’ s home had seen a picture of her and Goodman at the state fair and were discussing it at work. Cox said that his superiors contacted him and told him that they wanted Pedreira to resign. She refused. Pedreira said that KBHC. after initially saying she’d be fired, offered what she considered a demotion. She said she turned that down and was fired. She said she’ s still out of work. After Pedreira was terminated, Cox said he resigned, as did another supervisor; an employee who worked for Pedreira; and two clinical social workers. Cox said Pedreira’ s termination is contrary to the code of ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. "For me to continue to work for an agency that embraces that is against my ethics and personal belief," Cox said. Spalding University and the University of Louisville’s Kent School of Social Work said their students were leaving because discrimination against Gays is inconsistent with the ethics and ideals of social work. The KBHC, a part of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, operates eight homes across the state for more than 3,000 emotionally disturbed children. Most of the children are placed th(re by the state. The KBHC received about $12 milhon of its $15.6 million budget last year from state agencies, Gray said. The state can withhold money from private child-care contractors that discriminate against women, African-Americans and others who are protected by state and federal law. But, said Cary Willis, a spokesman for the Cabinet for Families and Children, "We can’ t base any funding decisions on whether somebody discriminates based on sexual orientation." HOUSTON (AP) - Two men found having sex in a private home pleaded no contest Friday to sodomy charges, initiating a legal challenge to the 119-yearold Texas law that bars Gay intercolarse. John Geddes Lawrence, 55, and Tyrone Garner, 31, were arrested for engaging in homosexual conduct on Sept. 17 when deputies- responding to a false report of an _ armed intruder - found them having consensual sex in Lawrence’ s apartment. Justice of the Peace Mike Parrott fined them $125 each. The men, who want to keep the case alive to fight the law, appealed the fine and posted appeal bonds of $332.50 each, which moves the case to state district court. "I hope that the law changes," Garner said. "I feel like my civil rights were violated and ! wash’ t doing anything wrong." The sodomy law makes homosexual oral and anal sex a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $500. Although on the books for more than a century, the law is rarely enforced. Gay activists have worked unsuccessfully for years to overturn the statute. Of the 19 states that have a sodomy statute barfing consensual anal or oral sex, Texas is one of five that specifically targets same-sex partners. The other four are Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, according to Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc. of New York. United Church of Christ Leader Support Gays CLEVELAND (AP) - The head of the United Church of Christ has asked that a document he wrote supporting the acceptance of Gay ~md Bisexual people into the church and its clergy be read alou.d at services. The Rev. Paul H. Sherry, president of the 1.4-million member church, headquartered in Cleveland, mailed a pastoral document to his denomination’ s more than 6,000 churches. Sherry said he wrote the document in response to the Slaying of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming and other recent examples of anti-Gay sentiments that have been in the news. "The hatred exposed in the shocking murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyormng last month underscores the critical importance of this reflection and of the need for our voice to be heard," , " Sherry stated recently. The pastoral letter is titled "Now, No Condemnations," and supports the full participation of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual persons in the membership and clergy of the church. "Knowing how challenging this issue can be for some in our churches, I hope it can be helpful to you in the exercise of your leadership, providing a way to initiate needed reflection, study ¯ SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)-A proposal to declare and action," Sherry wrote in a letter accompanying ¯ that only marriages between a man and a woman the document. ~ would be recognized as legal in California won a ¯ place on the state’ s prima~u¢ election ballot in 2000. ", The initiative was written by state Sen. Pete Knight, ¯ R-Palmdale. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Baptist Knight’ s petition drive collected 677,000 signaHomes for Children fired a supervisor for being a ¯ tures, of Which more than 482,000 were projected to Lesbian after co-workers saw her pictured with her : be valid voter signatures based on a random sampartner in a photo contest at the Kentucky State Fair. " piing. At least 433,269 voter signatures were needed The fired worker, Alicia Pedreira, said she acknowl- ¯ to qualify the measure for the March 7, 2000 primary. edged she was Gay when she applied for the job last May. Pedreira¯was dismissed Oct. 23 on the grounds that her"admitted Homosexual lifestyleis contrary to the Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children core valties." ¯ CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - The Cedar Rapids In the wake of Pedreira’ s firing, five other employ¯ Civil Rights Commission has agreed to recommend ees resigned in protest, and two universities decided to withdraw their students from the Baptist Homes for ¯ that the words "sexual orientation" be added to the : city’ s civil rights ordinance. With the 6-1 vote TuesChildren’ s programs. The picture of Pedreira that appeared in a contest at . day, the ordinance would prohibit discrimination ¯ based on sexual orientation in matters such as erathe state fair was taken by an amateur photographer at alocal AIDS walk. The picture, which shows Pedreira ¯ ployment and housing. Commission Chairman Gerald Matchett abstained standing in front of partner Nance Goodman wearing ¯¯ from voting, while Commissioner Taha Tawil cast an "Isle of Lesbos" t-shirt, was entered without : the only dissenting vote. Tawil said he thinks homoPedreira’ s consent. In an interview, Brenda Gray, a KBHC spokes- . sexuality is a"deadly sin" and that an amendment to woman, said: "We strive to be fair in our dealings : th( civil fights ordinance would chip away at tradiwith all people, including, certainly, our employees. ~ tional family values. "It is an open door," Tawil said. At the same time, it is important that we stay true to ¯ ’q’his is a conservative city, and we need to keep it as a family city." our Christian values. 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Kate Brown, D-Portland, the newly elected Senate minority leader. She noted that the breakdown in the Senate is still 1713 in favor of the Republicans, so despite any influence she may have for civil rights issues, her caucus will still be outgunned. Brown said civil rights backers might have to settle for small steps, such as the last session’ s funding of a state coordinator to help prevent teen suicides, of which Gays make up a significant share. "We’re treading lightly," said Jean Harris of Basic Rights Oregon, thebiggest Gay civil rights organization in the state. She sees the group’s posture as a mainly defensive one. If the Legislature pushes an extreme right-wing bill on Gays "we’ll be there to prevent them from passing bad things... It’s a fight against the religious right-wing agenda." "We’ re sort of waiting to see how many anti-Gay things are going to come up and whether they’ 11 pass the employment bil! after 23 years," Harris said. "The employment bill is the only thing on the front burner." The measure to outlaw discrimination against homosexuals in employment, first introduced in 1975, has been a key part of the civil rights lobbying efforts for years. The measure passed in the House in the 1997 Legislature but fell short of getting a Senate vote in the waning days of the session. ’.’I certainly feel that’s an unsolved issue out there," Brown said. "Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people still are discriminated against in employment." But House Speaker-elect Lynn Snodgrass, R-Boring, who describes herself as a social conservative, said she doesn’t particularly want to spend time dealing with thorny social issues. "We need to focus on issues the people sent us here to do," she said. But added she’ll bow to the will of her caucus if the members want an issue advanced. Harriet Merck of Eugene, a Gay woman who works at the University of Oregon, said it’ s discouraging that "we still don’ t have an anti-employment discrimination bill." But she said she doesn’ t have too much hope of pro-Gay civil rights gains in the coming session. "You have to work what you have to work with in any given session," she said. " 1,000 in Chicago Counter Phelps Protest Family Owned & Operated Herman Handyman, Inc. 835-9598 Home Remodeling and Repairs Drywall - Painting - Decks- Fences Tile - Shelving - Arbors - Etc. References opponents of theamendment. "I was very concerned by what I saw as pretty organized prejudice in this town against homosexuals, and I don’t think anything convinced me more than the testimony that was given," she said. The recommendation must now be considered by the City Council. MasterCard & Visa Herman "Tony" Becker CHICAGO (AP) - More than 1,000 Gay-fights supporters surrounded a church where an anti-homosexual minister protested a marriage ceremony for two men conducted earlier this year. The Rev. Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., and about 10 of his supporters gathered recently to protest a September marriage presided over by the Rev. Gregory Dell, pastor of the Broadway United Methodist Church. Gay civil rights supporters surrounded the church, gathered on rooftops, and held signs that read "Stop the Hate," in anticipation of Phelps and his followers. Phelps and his followers have engaged in anti-homosexual picketing around the country, including a demonstration at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a Gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten to death in October. Chicago police surrounded the anti-Gay group with barricades as they gathered on a street comer facing the church. Phelps waved different anti-Gay signs throughout the demonstration. One sign read "God Hates Fags." "This is tack3,, minimal, cheap, tawdry stuff," Phelps said in referring to those protesting against him and his followers. Midway through the demonstration, some Gay sup- porters approached Phelps and his group and were forced back by police. The anti-Gay demonstration ended when Phelps andhis followers were escorted away by police. Phelps said he plans to return to Chicago in the next few weeks to continue the protests. "It’s unfortunate that individuals and groups carry the kind of hate and fear that these folks do," Dell said of the Kansas protesters. "But however offensive their message might be, the strength of community, justice and love is stronger." Dell performed the Gay marriage service despite a ban on such ceremonies that was inserted in his denomination’s "Book of I>iscipline" in August. The United Methodist Church will put Dell on trial next year for violating the ban. He could be defrocked. Is West Virginia Gov. Gay-Friendly? CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Gov. Cecil Underwood is exasmniDg several Gay civil rights initiatives and has not ruled out proposing legislation to enact them, his spokesman said recently. "Does it fit in his legislative agenda? That is being decided right now," Dan Page said. Underwood sent a letter to a Gay member of the state Republican Executive Committee saying he does not support a "quick fix" on discrimination issues. But he said "we shall examine very carefully the positions" Larry Tighe Of Wheeling had asked him to support. Tighe asked Underwood in September whether he stands by his 1996 campaign pledge to seek changes in state fair housing and human rights acts to make it illegal to discriminate against Lesbians and Gays. Underwood said then, "I am opposed to using sexual preference to discriminate. I feel they are entitled to the same-protection we offer everyone." Tighe asked Underwood specifically if he supports amending the state I-Iumun Rights Act to include aban against diseriminating against homosexuals in empl0yment,housing andpublic accommodation. The act now prohibits discrimination because of race, religion, color, nationality, sex and age. Opponents have said the additional language would give homosexuals special privileges. Supporters say it is necessary to protect homosexuals from growing violence. Tighe also asked whether Underwood would sign an executive order banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in state government employment and if he would support changing West Virginia hate crimes laws to protect homosexuals as a class. And he asked Underwood to include the proposals in his State of the State address in January. Underwood’s Nov. 20. reply, which Tighe received Monday, said, "My position on human rights issues is straightforward and unwavering: No West Virginia citizen should suffer discrimination for any reason. "We can realize the vision of America embodied within our cons titution by maintaining vigilance and fighting prejudice where we find it. We cannot and should not opt for a’ quick fix’ that touches only the surface of a problem," the governor’ s letter said. Page said Underwood’ s opposition to a "quick fix" does not necessarily mean he has rejected the legislation Tighe supports. "The governor believes the long-term solution is changing people’ s attitudes," he said, noting Underwood has established a commission to teach West Virginians about the Holocaust and has an initiative to promote better race relations. Underwood’s letter said, "We should work together to promote tolerance and understanding among all Americans, especially those citizens who would deny freedoms and opportunities to others... That is a long-term process that deserves our full attention." Underwood opposes same-sex marriage and has voted against ordaining Lesbians and Gays as ministers in the United Methodist Church. �Rural Americans: ter. ’The disease also progresses faster" in females~ she sai& She also said women and minorities are underrepresented in tri~,s, of new AIDS and HIV treatATLANTA (AP)- They had _unprotec~d.. i clinical ments, and There may be some biologisex with partners of the same and oppostte : cal and genetic differences in how some sex, somclinlcs in exchange f~ .d~gs people respond to the drugs." yet many never lmew they were ~il~ ! ~ Stone said everyonein her study had of gettiilg AIDS..I~,tervi.ews wire ~a~ -some health insur~ce, so she eliminated infected pati__egts snow .tpat .s~e ¯ cost as a reason some were ~eated with Americans still aren’ t gett~.gtttemessage protease inhibitors and others were not. about how AIDS is uansmitted, the CenShe said it appeared that patients were ters for Disease Control and Prevention more likely to get the treatment if they reported recently. _ . knew about the drugs and asked for them. Despite their risky behavior, about ~ ’"Some said they had never heard of the never thought they were at risk of contherapy. Whites were much more likely to tracting the AIDS virus, the CDC said. Of have heard of the new drugs," she said. those, roughly a third admitted they had Heterosexuals were less likely to get notdeahow thevtrus was spread. ~learly ~ the therapy because they often face the it’ s the people who are engaging in the higher risk behaviors who appear not to ~ ailment alone, she suggested. ",Many get help through networks¯ Gays be getting the basic information about i people have their networks and so do IV drug transmission," CDC epidemiologist Amy Lausky said Thursday-. "I guess we’d all ¯. users,"she said. Heterosexuals with AIDS : usually are women who got the disease like to think that, 10 to 15 years into the epidemic, people would know.how HIV ¯ from having sex with men, who were or : had been drug-users or Bisexual. The is spread." Researchers interviewed 608 adults with : women often did not know anyone else HIV living in rural areas of Georgia, ." with the diseas&, she said. ’~nis was sur¯ prising, but even IV drug users knew Florida, South Carol",ma. and Delaware. ¯ more about AIDS than these women/’ she Asked why they didn t consider themselves at risk, 33% of men and 29% of :¯ said. Of women with AIDS, 58% are women said they didn’t know how HIV ¯ black, she said. Nationally,43% of AIDS patients are black; 36% are white, and was spread. Other reasons given included . 20% are Hispanic, according to data prenot tl~nking their sex partners were infected and the belief that only homosexu- ¯ sented at the conference. Some HIV Ignorant i! John Serrot, MSW Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates i i als and intravenous drug users contracted HIV. LTnprotected sex and cracl~’use were common among those interviewed. The CDC said it doesn, t know of any studies in which it asked urban HIV patients the same questions. Researchers i¯ HIV Treatments blot Available to All ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Physicians sometimes steer HIV-infected New Yorkers noted that the vast majority of AIDS cases away from the best drug treatment regi: are concentrated in urban areas. AIDS mens because they do not believe the cases in rural areas made up fewer than patients are motivated or stable enough, a 10% of the 641~086 cases reported through state-sponsored panel of experts has found. 1997, the CDC said. Health providers often saw. those with HIV as members of suspect patient groups - immigrants, homeless people, inmates, ¯ the mentally and physically disabled : and prescribed treatment accordingly, in" stead of treating cases on an individual BOSTON (AP) -Women, minorities and heterosexuals with AIDS are less likely : basis, the group said. An HIV treatment plan "should not be than others to get a new and effective ¯¯ based on presumptive judgments about treatment, andignorance of the procedure ¯ people in any racial, ethnic, gender, age, may be one of the reasons, according to a ¯ new study, The situation maybe particu- ¯ risk or other category," the panel declared. "The state of New York should ensure larly bad for women, who, according to another report, may be more susceptible : that every person with HIV has access to ¯ than men to HIV, the virus that causes ¯ basic health services as well as to providers with HI¥ expertise," the group conAIDS. " The reports were given at the "AIDS at ¯ cluded. The 44-member panel included physithe Millennium" conference sponsored ¯ clans, medical ethicists, public health exby the Massachusetts Medical Society ¯ perts and advocates for groups at highrisk and Lemuel Shattuck Hospital. A study by Dr. Valerie Stone of the Brown Uni- ¯ of contracting the virus that causes AIDS, including Gay Men’s Health Crisis and versity School of Medicine found that ¯ Housing Works. It was formed in midnearly three-quarters of Massachusetts and Rhode Island men with AIDS got the "¯ 1997 after reports surfaced that some HIV patients werereceivingless-than-op~dmum three-drug, protease inhibitors treatment, ¯ care because of who they are or because but only half the afflicted women did. The ¯ some doctors and other health care workstudy also found that 75% of whites with AIDS got the multi-drug, or "cocktail" "¯ ers were not up to speed on thelatest drug treatment methods. treatment, but only 58% of blacks and ¯ Dr. Guthrie Birkhead, director of the 50% of Hlspanics did. Half of heterosexu: state Health Department’s AIDS Institute als with AIDS were being treated with the drugs, compared with 81% of Gays and : andco-chair of the panel, said the report : was thefirst of its kindin theUnited States 61% of those who contracted the disease ¯ through drug injections. The study was ¯ to examine the ethical issues involved with the complicated drug treatments made at five sites, including community : which have evolved for HIV and AIDS health centers and teaching hospitals. Protease inhibitors given in combina- ¯ patients. Those treatments have become ". especially prevalent in the last three or tions have improved and prolonged the ¯ four years. Problems with matching palives of many AIDS victims. New biological evidence suggests women may be : tients with optimum treatment regimens more susceptible to HIV than men, said ¯ "are still not solved at this point" in New : York, Birkhead said. 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With HIV and AIDS patients, doctors must recognize a whole series of related problems that can prevent medications frombeing taken, including having proper refrigeration for the drugs and language barriers involving non-English speaking - HIV victims, the panel found. And, recent studies have shown that taking HIV drugs in proper doses and sequences is crucial because if some drugs are stopped, the body could develop immunities to them that will hasten the onset of AIDS. The panel of experts saiditis the duty of doctors and other health care providers to stay current about the latest drug treatments for HIV, to make them as widely available to patients as possible and to help get patients into situations where they will stick to a medicinal schedule. Patients, the panel said, have an obligation- to religiously take the drugs, to eat properly, to take other steps to maximize the effect of the medications and to otherwise aid in their own treatmentS. In cases where a patient "demonstrates an inability to initiate or maintain a treatment regimen" it may be "appropriate" for a health care provider to discontinue drug treatment, the panel concluded. A member of the panel, Deunis DeLeon of the Latino Commission on AIDS, said he would like to see its recommendation that all New Yorkers have access to anonymous HIV testing become reality. ’There was not equal access to appropriate preand post-test counsding," DeLeon said. ’~3nce a person got tested, thefollow-up in terms of the medical referral was lacking, even in some major urban centers throughout the state." State health officials estimate that between 150,000 and 200,000 New Yorkers are HIV positive, believed to be the highest snch population in the nation. Quilt to Move to DC SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The AIDS Memorial Quilt, a 52-ton symbol born in San Francisco as the deadly epidemic ravaged the city’s Gay community, appears to be headed permanently to Washmgton D.C. The board of the Names Project voted to begin searching for new executive offices and a place to store and display the quilt, which has grown to more. than 100,000 pounds of cloth and imagery. The vote has not been formally announced, but Names Project Executive Director Andy lives told the San Francisco Examiner the move won’t happen for several years. ’XDbviously there is a strong emotional tie to San Francisco, birthplace of the quilt," he said. "But what began 10 years ago as an ad hoc response to this tragedy has become an icon and the No. 1 AIDS prevention .and education tool in the country. "My position is that logistically, we belong in the nation’s capital... None of us has any interest in having the quilt be this musty, dusty relic stored on shelves:. 2’ The Names Project intends to keepits original storefront space at Castro and Market streets, where the local chapter displays a segment of the quilt. There are 52 US chapters. ~The quilt was the concept of AIDS activist Cleve Jones during a candlelight march on Nov. 27, 1985 honoring slain Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. He asked fellow marchers to write on pieces of cardboard ~the names of lovers and friends claimed by AIDS. When the marchers covered the Federal Building with their placards, "it looked like a patchwork quilt of lives cruelly cut short," Jones said. ’~ understand what they’re trying to do," said Mike Salinas, news editor of the Bay Area Reporter, a Gay newspaper. "Relocating to Washington will let them reach a broader audience of visitors from around the globe, many of whom are in desperate need of better AIDS education." World AIDS Watch: Indian Youth MANESAR, India (AP) --Hard as it is to talk about sex with young people, involving them in AIDS education is crucial to preventing the spread of the sexually transmitteddisease, community workers, health experts and young people themselves said. ’Young people have an enormous curiosity about sex. So let’s build an information systemaroundthem," saidLN. Balaji, chief of planning of UNICEF, India, which is organizing a four-day workshop on the role of youth in fighting AIDS epidemic and HIV, the virus that causes the fatal disease: People in their teens and 20s who act as. health activists in their own communities in 17 countries are attending the workshop. They’ll return home with new ideas about education and counteracting discrimination against those who have the disease. About 1.7 million people in Africa. and 700,000 others in Asia and the Pacific are infected with HIV every year, according to United Nations statistics. India accounts for the most cases in the world, at 4 million. One half million of the victims in India are young people. Their number will rise if young people do not have access to information, skills and services to fight the problem, Balaji told a news conference in Manesar, a town near New Delhi. Many participants in the UNICEF conference said youth in their countries are unable to discuss sex with their elders because of societal taboos. They usually end up getting bad information from peers or reading pornographic literature or experimenting with unsafe sex. In India, school principals balked at the idea of health experts talking to studentsabout drugs, sex or even problems of youth. ’Talking about sex was considered outrageous," said Gunjan Shah, one of the 4,000 students and teachers trained by Sevadham Trust, a voluntary orgamzation in Pune that is helping spread the message of AIDS. Sevadham volunteers slowly persuaded authorities to talk to teachers. "Soon, they were saying’ This is exactly what we want.’ From then, there was no problem." Today, nearly all public and private schools in Ptme and many others in Bombay have asked Sevadham to conduct training for their staff. �That ruling came in a federal lawsuit filed by a homosexual who had been arrested under the Georgia law, Which carried a maximum sentence of 20 ysars. ’This is a symbolic victory," said David Smith, a spokesman for the Gay civil rights group, The Human Rights Alliance. "It sends a message - the demise of the Georgia sodomy law that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court will hopefully be a precursor to the U.S. Supreme Court invalidating all the nation’ s sodomy laws." Three other states - Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania - have recently overturned such laws. ’This would help the continuation of this trend," Emory constitutional law professor Robert Schapiro said. Even though the law applied to both heterosexual and homosexual activity, it was seen as an example of discrimination against homosexuals. The law "has made Gays and Lesbians a target for unjust police action in the past and unjust prosecution. We hope with this, that will come to an end," said Harry Knox, interim director of the Georgia Equality Project Foundation. Powell, formerly of Norcross, spent 14 months in jail before making bail last year pending his appeal. "I don’t really espouse’ the Gay lifestyle,’ but’I:understand their point of view," said Powell, whose defense was helped by Lambda Defense and Education Fund, a Gay andHIV rights advocacy group. Powell is now living in Shreveport, La. The ruling cannot be appealed, because the Georgia S upreme Court i s the ultimate authority on the state’ s constitution. Legislators would have to amend the constitution to pass a similar law. Former Attorney General Michael Bowers, who defended the law before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1986 case, said he was surprised by the ruling. "I can’ t imagine how. they can make such a ruling... I would be very surprised if you don’ t see a legislative move to alter that." The 1986 case involved a challenge by Michael Hardwick, a Gay Atlanta bartender who was arrested for committing sodomy in his home. Prosecutors later dropped the charge..Hardwick, who died of AIDS in 1991, sued state officials to have the law declared unconstitutional. The Georgia Supreme Court never ruled on Hardwick’s case because his suit was filed in federal court. In the lone dissent to the ruling, Justice George H, Carley wrote that the majority misconstrued the state constitution and "’usurped the legislative authority of the General Assembly to establish the public policy of this state." Carley said the Georgia Constitution contains "no express recognition of a right to privacy." The antisodomy law was upheld by the state Supreme Court in 1996, but that case turned on the solicitation of sodomy, not the act itself. Eighteen states still have laws against sodomy. Louisiana has such a law. It is under state court challenge and a judge’s ruling is pending. Those challenging these laws in various states now have ’Tuel and ammunition see Georgia, p. 14 to fight the battle," said Powell’ s attorney Steven H. Sadow. The following are excerpts from the majority and dissenting opinions: The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice Robert Benham: ’q~he right of privacy has a long and T u L S A ~*’0 P E RA TULSA PHILHARMONIC NationsBank Presents Tulsa Ballet’s The Nutcracker The Holiday Magic Retums in 14 Performances Carol L. Crawford General Director Handel’s Messiah MINI-SEASON PACKAGE Two Great OperasOne Low Price! TULSA ORATORIO CHORUS Conducted by EDWARD BYROM Branch Theatre, Holland Hall December 3 & 4,1998 at 8PM Sponsored by Omni Medical Group. 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Due to my the girl he impregnates) to save intense love of sci-fi, I was him from complete inanity. sei-fi, you recently asked to review this It is nldmately the characshould know book for the TulsaCity-County ter of Jack that makes this Library system in response to so important. Jack conthat this book book a customer’s request to have stanfly berates himself for bethe book withdrawn from our ing selfish, but he is horribly iS more shelves. Customer objections mistaken. Jack comes from speeulative to material are always taken wealth, and in the political deseriously, and so I found mys tabilization of 1999, his home fietlon... self reading this The Glimmeris one of the few havens availing looking for evidence of There are no able in the novel. Though most obscenity in its rather graphic of his family’s money is gone, aliens here... he maintains the upstate New sexual scenes. Before you run out and Y ork estate in order to give his This novel aging grandmother comfort snatch this one off the shelves, let me warn you - the sex should not and provide his friends with a scenes aren’t that graphic, and secure getaway in times of be enjoyed what’s worse, they’re written need. with little, attention to the Jack undertakes a sort of for its sei-fi beauty of the written word and spiritual journey that we all an inordinate amount of porn- azpeets anyway. sometimes feel a need for: the level vulgarity. Hand is inept process of remembering what The real at writing worthwhile erotica, is important in our lives. Jack but there are other reasons to beauty of The longs for health and sex and devote some time to this disstability, but what he really Gl;mmer~ng mrbing and elegant novel. needs is’the "knowledge thathe For those of you who dislike had a positive impact in shines through has sci-fi, you should know that the lives of the people he loves: this book is more speculative It’s not a complicated lesson, its characters. fiction (along the lines of but for some reason it escapes Marge Pierey) than science fiction. There most of us, most of the time. are no aliens here, only some premature I’m aware that I haven’t given you a advances in technology and some lessgreat amount 6f detail about this particuthan-scientific consequences. This novel ¯ lar story, and my descriptions of the charshould not be enjoyed for its sci-fi aspects acters are rather vague, but that really anyway. The real beauty of The Glimmercan’t be helped. Although Elizabeth Hand ing shines through its characters, thanhas a complete lack of skill with erotica, other note to the style, The Glimmering is her ability to create elegant, complex stoin split-focus, with every other chapter nes and characters and weave them toaltemating between two protagonists, Jack gether so intricately with her plot is suand Trip. It is only near the end that perb. To tell you much more about the everything comes together, but keep readcharacters would reveal too much of the ing-the coalescent result is smooth and progression of the plot. Read this one logical (albeit extremdy coincidental). before the millenium ends. It’s not going Jack is a forty-something gay man dyto be accurate, but you’ll have plenty of ing of AIDS; who finds an unlikely cure ideas to consider on December 31 st, 1999. called Fusax. Trip Marlowe is a teenage Adam West is an associate with Tulsa Christian Rock idol who loses his faith City-County Library System and an OSU ¯when he discovers sex and the female alumnus. He is not now and never has body. The two characters could hardly be been Batman. ferred to Shepard as "queer" and "faggot." McKinney sat expressionless for most reached a sagebrush-strewn area at the of the five-hour hearing, smiling once or foot of the Laramie Range where the twice when he spoke with l’us attorneys. dying Shepard was found 18 hours later. Shepard’s parents, Dennis and Judy DeBree said that McKinney was asked if Shepard, sat in the front row, his mother Shepard begged for his life and the defencrying when a deputy identified photodant replied: "Well, yeah- he was getting ., graphs of her son in the hospital. ¯ the (expletive) beat out of him." Public defender Dion Custis said the The autopsy showed that the 5-foot-2- ¯ state failed to meet its burden of proof that inch Shepard was struck in the head about " the murder was planned and said Shepard ¯ 18 times, prosecutor Cal Rerucha said. was not kidnapped, but went willingly. A Officers testified that Shepard’s face was ¯ watch, money and other property left at caked with blood - except where it had ¯ the crime scene showed that robbery was been partially washed dean by tears. They ¯ not a factoreither, he said. ¯ said his wrists were bound so tightly, it Ms. Price, 18, and Henderson’s girlwas difficult to cut the rope. : friend, Chasity Vera Pasley, 20, will be Explaining the violence, McKinney told ¯ arraigned Dec. 9 on accessory after the ¯ his girlfriend, Kristin Price, "’Well, you fact to first-degree murder. Henderson ¯ know how I feel about Gays,"’ Police and McKinney are being held without Detective Ben Fritzen testified. And ¯ bond. 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His steak waiter should happen to filled the plate, and the remember a previous aroma was wonderful. -visit and suggest a rePhill’s recipe includes peat sampling, invaria bit more than a hint of ably, we will decline garlic, and the steak and eat something difwas very satisfying. ferent. Except at Phill’ s. We have the waitresses well trained by : The green beans with bacon were heavily now, and they know that any time we ¯¯ seasoned with black pepper, and that is almostatrademarkcharacteristicofPhill’s come in after l0 a.m., they’d better put aside a slice of the coconut creme pie for : food. He likes things to have seasoning. us, because we always eat a piece when- ¯¯ Some may not like things so "spicy," but, with his tendency to use exotic ingrediever we’ re in for luncheon. This coconut pie is wonderful. Made from scratch - ." ents like salt, pepper, butter, onions, garnone of that coconut-flavored vanilla ¯ lic, and bacon, we find the spicing charmpudding stuff - with a classic creme : ing - kind of like visiting a friend’s patisserie-style recipe,it’ s lovingly poured : mother’s house for supper. Another great time to visit Phill’ s is for into a dreamy, flakey, flavorful, lard pastry shell, and topped with clouds of real ¯" a late breakfast on a Saturday or Sunday whipped cream. It’ s not a snooty coconut ’. morning. The chalkboard specials almost tart from a New York City bistro cooked : alwayshaveanmterestmg *orunch food, ¯ by a cook with a bad French accent. It’ s ¯ ~uch as Malibu French toast (French toast just a plain old piece of good old Okla- ¯ with orange marmalade), an avocado, bacon, and cheddar cheese omelette, and, homa pie. ¯ for those who like corned beef, a hefty Phill’s Diner, located just east of Harvard on 32rid Street, serves up a lot of , serving of eggs and hash. Prices vary, Phill’ slogan is, Better Than Ever, Pride Merchandise, Magazines & More 610’8510 8120 East 21st (21 st+Memorial, next to Boot City) We buy back good used adult magazines. "home of goocq food." Go to Phill’ . You’ll feel at home¯ And the food certainly is good. generally in the $4-5 range. Huge, fluffy plain ,old .good Oklahoma cooking. In ¯ hotcakes are also apopularmorningitem, fact, it s such a classic, that when we’re ¯ .entertaining out-of-town performing art- : with one ample cake going for $1.29, and ists in for a gig with the Phil or the Ballet ¯¯ two for $2.29. If you really think you can eat it all, they also have a triple stack for or the Opera, and they want some "Okla." $3.29 (but eating like that is not going to homa fOod," this is where weend up. ¯ help youfitin thosenew bicycling shorts). Only open for breakfast and lunch, ¯ phill’ s is a classic diner. Blue plate spe- ¯ And, in the best Southerntradition, one can also order a brealffast side order of cials. Biscuits andgravy. Basichamburg¯ sliced tomatoes for just 99 cents. After all, ers and fries. Chicken fried steak. Home¯ it isn’ t breakfast without tonaatoes. made cinnamon rolls that sell out almost When the autunm weather begins to get every morning. Sirloin steak and egg ¯¯ more of a nip in the air, we’ 11 be looking breakfasts. And, unlike other popular din¯ forward to several other Phill’s staples. ers in Tulsa, Phill’ s hash’ t succumbed to ¯ especially his homemade Irish stew and being trendy. It’ s still a neighborhood place,marketing mostly by word of mouth. ¯ his pinto beans with ham. A big bowl of one of these ($1.99 cup, $2.99 bowl) and But, you have to remember that this is ¯ a basketful of his cornbread is more than a low key kind of place. Vinyl banquettes ¯ enough to refuel on a chilly afternoon. have the occasional tape patch. Soda founPhill’ s slogan is, "home of good food." tain bar stools face a functioning service ." area. Glasses are plastic. Dinnerware is : Go to Phill’ s. You’ II feel at home. And the mismatched - and includes the sundry ¯ food certainly is good. remnants of an IHOP going out of bnsi~ : I Editor’s note: Mary Schepers. our DoheSS sale. 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Other cities in They receive three injections of the ge- ¯ the study include New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Philadelphia and sites in netically engineeredvaccine over several months. Those are followed up with a "- Florida, Texas and California. : ." ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ �Timothy W. Daniel ¯ had a very hard time with harassment. by Esther Rothblum ¯ I recently talked with a group of five Then when I came out my freshman year, ¯ hestartedmaking fun of m!! I said to him: young women in a Vermont high school about what it means to be Lesbian, Bi, or : ’Don’t yon remember how-bad it felt questionning. These women students - ¯ when everyone made fun of you?’ He said: ’But I wasn’t and you and a teacher- have been .... ~bool life is not are." In s,o,me ways, I was his meeting weekly in their school after hours. Hard as it wlthout harassment, revenge. may be for us older Lesbians Another woman was con¯ . . Another woman, to believe, but such groups cerned about how her hetwho is Bisexual, are a part of all high schools erosexual friend would be in the Burlington, Vermont viewed. She said: "I think has been called a my being fairly out in school area. "dyke"by another The women were proud affected her. We used to sit student. that their classmates had just together in class and spend a lot of time together. We’ve voted in (500 in favor, 100 Als0, students in against) a club to be called been friends since kinderthe "Gay and Straight Alli- their high school will garten. I think the fact that refer to something we were so close actually ance." As one woman said "what was so good about the negalively affected her, with they don’t llke as process was that it was so people assuming that she was "gay," as in "thatout there, and an explanaGay as well. I found myself tion went along with it, so pulling away from her so dress is so people knew it wasn’t just a that she wouldn’t be stereotyped. I wanted her to be able to find a Gay thing." In fact, one of the club’s boyfriend and be happy; I didn’t want her organizers received a school medal for her efforts. harasssed." In some ways, being Gay is viewed as BUt school life is not without harassment. One student said: "Yesterday, a kid trendy in their school, but only when it refers to female students, mostly those came up to me and said ’I would really, appreciate it if you didn’t make out with" who are Bisexual. But the women I interviewed felt that trends are viewed as a other girls in the hallways.’ I’ve never phase, and their classmates wonder When done anything like that in school." Anthis particular trend will finalh, be over. other woman, who is Bisexual, has been called a "dyke" by another student: Also, "My friends thought I was a "~oser’ because I told them that I was Bi," said one students in their high school will refer to something they don’t like as "gay," as in woman. Esther Rothblum teaches Psychology "that dress, is so gay.’" at the University of Vermont and Editor of The women I interviewed were aware of internalized homophobia as well. One the Journal ofLesbian Studies. Ske can be reached at Dewey Hall, Univ. of Vt., woman said: "In eighth grade there was Burlington or: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu this kid that everyone said he was Gay. He couples’ request to overturn the prohibition. In legal briefsand arguments to the court, they said mamage historically has been defined as a union between a man and a woman because same-sex couples can’t biologically bear children. ’‘To say (otherwise) would be to say there’ s absolutely no connection between marriage and procreation," said Assistant Attorney General Eve Jacobs-Camahan. "It’s a unique social institution based on the sexual communion of a man and a woman." Vermont is now the only state with a Supreme Court considering the question of Gay marriages. In last month’s elections, voters in Hawaii and Alaska essentially overturned court rulings that were moving toward legalizing such unions. Robinson said refusing to allow samegender couples to marry was as discriminatory as bans on interracial marriage, first overturned by the California Supreme Court in 1948. "The parallels between that case and this case are striking," she said. In 1948, proponents of California’ s interracial ban used many of the same arguments as Gay marriage opponents today, such .as the promotion of procreation, she said. But Assistant Attorney General Timothy Tomasi said both men and women are given the right to marry, and a court redefining it would cut into the rights of the Legislature. ’‘There’ s no benefit given to males that isn’ t given to females," he said. The lawsuit challenges a 1975 ruling by the state’ s attorney general advising town clerks that Vermont law defined civil marriage as a union between a "bride and a groom," in effect prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying. Ten groups, ~ncluding a coalition of other states, wrote briefs supporting Attorney General William Sorrell’s definition. Seven other groups have filed arguments that contend Vermont" s Constitution guarantees Gays the same rights to marriage as heterosexuals. Hordes of people showed to watch the arguments. Folding chairs were set up and the court, for the first time ever, required tickets to get in the building. They were snatched up the moment doors opened, hours b.efore the scheduled arguments. From the point of view of the couples, who found themselves at the center of a national debate and sat in a front row, the arguments couldn’t come soon enough. 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Something similar to Samoa’s Or I w as until the day I called Much of the context-governed names out to young Joshua, an acoccurs here with American tive 5-year:old who liked to attraetlon of drag cross-dressers and drag arthang around my hut. He comes from its ists. When you meet up with shyly informed me that his eonstruetlon of your friend, do you use his name was now Tio. "But what happened to Tio?" I hyper-femlnlnlty boy name or his gift name? This mostly depends on asked, confused. Tio, I - an image of where you are at the mothought, was the helpful son ment and also, of course, of my neighbors Vani and perfected what s/he’s wearing. PerKaisaia. Joshua, or rather womanhood that sonal nmnes in Iankahar give now Tio, drawing in the dirt men rights to family and with his big toe, told me that no real female land; here in America they Tio was now called Kamuti. could, in reality, give us rights to be, and to But this was equally confusing. Kamuti - or so I had act, male or female. obtain. American Gay cnlture memorized - was an older, includes Several drag namchildless man who lived in a. This is why ing traditions. Much of the rattletrap hut at the end of RuPaul and attraction of drag comes the village. I pestered people in my Barble are twins - from its construction of hyper-femininity - an imrudimentary Pidgin English they both are age of perfected womanhood until they" helped me underthat no real female could, in stand that old Kamuti, sensway beyond reality, obtain. This is why ing death, had just adopted female reality. RuPaul and Barbie are twins 20-someflfing Tio who took his name. This left open the - they both are way beyond female reality. One drag naming tradition name-"Tio" that the former Joshua assumed. Men’s names on this island are is the hyper-feminine. Here, the queens take on Barbie-ish names. I surfed through really titles. They emplace individuals within a structure of kinship groups. Each a number of drag queen websites on the Internet (yes, those gifts are online) and nmne. moreover, comes with rights to turned up hyper-ladylike names such as certain land plots. Joshua’s father had Zhanna, Monique, Vaunessa, Cookky, more sons than nmnes to give out, so the Felicity, Chynna, Windy, Misty De Mute, bob was making do with the European and so on. Sometimes these names pair "’Joshua" until a landed personal title (like with the drag equivalent of a surname. Tio) freed up. Persona! names in Iankab,ar There are named drag houses in many thus link individuals into land-holding cities, and a daughter takes the family kinship ~oups which are the basic building blocks of island society. name of her drag-mother (and sometimes also drag-father). This creates a structure AnthropoloNsts study personal naming systems in order to learn more about of ficdve kinship that anthropologists call matrilineal descent. people’ s understandings of selfhood, and There is a second, comic naming tradiof the ways in which they conceive of individuality and society. In many cultion in American drag. Her~ the queens tures, people may have several names at celebrate the carnival foundations of their once, or may take on additional names as art. There are ancient and widespread they go throughlife. ,americans are familassociations of masking and naughtiness in Western culture, as all of us learn very iar with first names, middle names, nickyoung ("Trick-or-Treat, smell my feet!"). names, family or surnames, pen names, stage names, and aliases; and the majority Those sly queens adore bad puns. My quick tour of the web discovered Miss of ~american women still change their family names at marriage (as Hillary went Pencil Vania, Charity Kaesse, Paige Turner, Evian Water, Sister Dana van from Rodham, to Clinton, to Rodham Clinton). Still, people in other societies Iquity, and of course Hedda Lettuce. And may have far more opportunities than we I’m sure you can bring many coarser do to collect various names or to swap one examples to mind. But,just like people in name for another Vanuatu, China, and Samoa, the more names you have, .the more you are. In some cultures, each time an indiLamont Lindstrom teaches anthropolvidual enters a new phase of life (childby Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D. Whenl moved into Iankahar, a small South Pacific village in Vanuatu, I worked hard to learn all the names of my M0nthly Payment Monthly electric bills. They go up: they go do~nl -depending on the bi~3s and lo~vs of e:mh monthLs weather. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document Shepard Murder Update LARAMIE,Wyo. (AP)-A suspect in the deathofaGay University of Wyoming student admitted to an investigator that he drove off with the victim and then told him: ’~3uess what. We’renot Gay. You’regonnagetjacked." After hearing testimony at a preliminary hearing, a judge ordered Aaron McKiuney to stand trial in the death of Matthew Shepard, an attack thatbrought widespread outrage, a condenmation from President Clinton and calls for tougher hate-crime laws. The other suspect, Russell Arthur Henderson, had waived his fight to a preliminary heating and is scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 2. Both men are charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery. The21-year-old Shepard, who had been found tied to a fence outside of town, died five days after the Oct. 7 beating. The lead investigator, Sheriff s Detecfi~÷’e Sgt. Rob DeBree, testified that McKiuney, 21, admitted to the beating and implicated his friend Henderson, also 21. According to DeBree, McKinney said that robbery was ." the main motive but that Shepard was chosen,,as a targe~ because he was Gay. DeBreesaidMcKinney admitted ° Matthew did not hit on them or make advances" in the .,~FiresideBar,.batthat they luredhimoutintending:to rob : him and 6urgiari~e hi~ house. ....... :~ . 2 ~ According to DeBree, McKimaey told investigators that the attack began after Shepard placedhis fight hand ". on McKinney’ s leg as the trio drove on Laramie’ s east side." ’Guess what. We’re not Gay,’ "DeBree quoted " McKinney as saying. ’"You’re gonna get jacked. It’s Gay Awareness Week.’" DeBree said McKiuney admitted he hit Shepard two ¯ to three times with his fist, then pistol-whipped and robbed him. see Shepard, p. 10 Tulsa MCC’s Merge! TULSA - After years of strife,Tulsa’ s two Mb~~poli’- tan Community Church congregations have voted to merge beginning at the end of November and at the beginning of the Advent season. The Metropolitan Church of Greater Tulsa (MCC-GT) is likely the oldest Lesbian and Gay organization in the state at more than 20 years old. It was one of the first MCC’ s in the US to purchase its own building in an innovative bond based fundraising program. Family ofFaith’MCCwas younger congregation that grew out of MCC-GT starting out in Jenks, then later moving to a storefront in southeast Tulsa. Both congregations are currently without permanent pastors and members of each congregation approved the merger with "overwhelming majorities." The move also enjoys denominational support. The new congregation will meet at the building near Pine and Sheridan which has been the home for MCC-GTbut the vision that thenew congregationhas is tomove to anew shared home and see MCC, p. 2 ATLANTA (AP) - Twelve years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Georgia’s controversial anti-sodomy law, the state Supreme Court threw out the statute late last month in a ruling that Gay civil rights activists hope will lead to the downfall of similar laws around the country. The state court voted 6-1 to overturn the conviction of Anthony Powell, now of Shreveport, La. Hehad been foundguilty of sod.omizing his 17-year-old niece m 1996. He had beencharged with rape, but his lawyers argued that the sex was consensual and thejury acquitted on that charge. The court’s majority opinion, by ChiefJustice RobertBenham, said the law violates the state "We cannot think dany other aetlvlty that reasonable persons would rank as more private and more deserving of proteetlon from governmental interference than eonsensual, private, adult sexual aetlv~ty," - Georgia Chld Justiee Robert Benham constitution’ s provision that citizens are entitled to privacy. "We cannot think of any other activity that reasonable persons would rank as more private and more deserving of protection from governmental interference than consensual, private, adult sexual activity," he wrote. In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 165-year-old Georgia law banning oral and anal sex, ruling that ~e U.S. Constitution provides no right to private homosexual conduct. see Georgia, p. 8 ::WORLD AIDS DAY DIRECTORY/t.ETFERS P. 2/3 US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 HEALTH NEWS P. 6 COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 BOOK REVIEW P. 10 RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 11 DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES P. 12/13 CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14 ¯ MarriageLawsuit Heard : MONTPEIJI~.R, Vt. (AP)- Vermont’s Supreme ¯ Courtjustices dearly wereready for thepotenfially ¯ historic case before them. Before 10 minutes had ¯ gone by in their hour-long heating on the question ¯ of same-gender marriage, Justice Denise Johnson : cut off a lawyerandtoldher to get to the point. "We ¯ have toknow what yourtheories are that entitle you ¯ to relief,"Johnson toldlawyer Beth Robinson, who ¯ was arguing the case for three couples seeking the ¯ right to marry. : Throughout the hearing, justices peppered law- , yers from both sides withquestions about theories : of law, Gay politics and common sense. Each : jnstiee, from the chief to themost seniormember of : the court to its most recent appointee, asked at least ¯ one question. They listened intently, cajoled, prod- ¯ ded, occasionally chuckled and scribbled notes. : "tit’ s good to know the court is thinking about these ¯ issues, and if you think hard about this, we win," ¯ Robinson said following the arguments. ¯ Oral arguments before the Supreme Court can be : curious affairs. Lawyers go prepared to fill their ¯ allotted time with an oral recitation expanding on ¯ the written arguments they have previously filed. ¯ They rarely get a chance to deliver their remarks : tminterrupted because at least one of the justices ¯ generally wants to probe a point more deeply or ¯ perhaps go off in another direction. But seldom ¯ does the court become so immersed in the case ¯ before it. Seldom does the court have as much time ¯ as it allotted Docket No. 98-32, Baker v. State of : Vermont. Lawyers had an hour to make their case. ¯ Normally they get half that, sometimes less. : In the hearings in November, they had to share it ¯ pretty much.eq.ually with the three men and two : women in black robes.-It was almost l~ke a law : school class where thefivejustices were theprofes- ¯ sots and the individual lawyers were the students : getting uncomfortably close seruuny. : - When Robinson rejected a notion that Local AIDS activist, Bruce. Begley before World AIDS Day memorial service and march. For more, see page 3. Tulsa Is Site to Test HIV Vaccine : TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Researchers in Tulsa are participating in : a nationwide trial of a vaccine that may help prevent infection : from the virus that causes AIDS. Tulsa is one ofahandful of cities _. chosen to participate in final testing of the AIDSvax vaccine, ¯ developed by California-based VaxGen Inc. ¯ "I think it is an opportunity to make history as the first major ¯ trial to prevent HIV infection," said Dr. Ralph Richter of St. John .. Medical Center, who is leading the local branch of the trial. "It’ s ¯ aumque opportunity, and the challenge is to prove that this works : by doing a very highly scientific study." ¯ Researchers are recruiting HIV-negative Gay men who are ¯ considered at high risk Of contracting the disease. That includes : those who are not in monogamous relationships. They also seek : women who currently are in sexual relationships with HIV- : positivemen or who have had more than one male sexual partner ¯ and have been diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases : within the past year. : In preliminary trials of AIDSvax, nearly 99 percent of those : vaccinated produced strong levels of antibodies. Final testing of ¯ the vaccine is targeting 5,000 U.S: volunteers at high risk of ~ contracting the AIDS virus and 2,500 high-risk people in Thai- " land. ¯ John Lysight, 31, recently got his first shot of the vaccine and : will get a second injection soon. ’ofhis is a beginning vaccine of ." the future. This is what is going to start what I refer to as the super : vaccines," Lysight said. "I think we are reaching a totally ¯ different realm of meditfine, and it needs to be taken advantage : of." Lysightlearned ofthe vaccinefrom Richter almost ayear ago ~ and plans to help the doctor recruit study subjects. He does not : know if he is receiving the vaccine or a placebo. ¯ see Vaccine, p. 11 : : : : : everyone’ s goals~ Justice James Morse responded: "So the label is everything?" Johnson was the most animated justice. AssistantAttorney GeneralEveJac~bs-Camahan pointed out that no other state in the nation had legalized Gay marriage. Johnson observed: "Somebody had to be the first in an interracial state," referring to states that once banned interracial marriages. Trying to recover, Jacobs-Camahan said that common law had always made a distinction between men and women in marriage statutes, but not between the races, which was what made interracial marriage bans unconstitutional. "What does that show other than how long-standing the discrimination was?" Justice John Dooley asked. Reflecting that new legal ground was potentially being plowed with the case, Chief Justice Jeffrey Amestoy asked Robinson to explain why the state would want to discriminate against its citizens. Figuring that one out is a frustration, Robinson replied. The State of Vermont’s representatives have contended that limiting mamage only to heterosexual couples is good for procreation and childrearing - a point characterized as discriminatory and unconstitutional by Robinson, the lawyer for three Gay couples who brought the case. Robinson argued that Vermont’s 28-year-old ban doesn’t serve to protect children. "If the state’ s concern is about protecting Children, then that would be protected by allowing these couples to marry," she said, noting that two of the three couples have adopted children. State lawyers urged the court to turn down the see Marriage, p. 11 see Editorial, p. 3 Tulsa Clubs &, Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. 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Ministers who have merely blessed same-sex unious have found themselves in trouble with church leadership. One was quoted as saying "I can bless a battleship. I can bless a nuclear weapon. I can bless dogs or animals, but I can’ t bless two people who want to make a commitment to each other." The freedom to marry the person you love is a basic civil right, a basic human right, and an important, individual personal choice that bdongs to the couple in love, not to politicians or the government: Some day, probably not un61 the next century, that won’ t be an unpopular idea. - William C. Stosine. Iowa City With Credit to The Village Voice The 1998 Wacko Awards: Losers, Liars, and Other Political Lowlifes The Human Rights Campaign Well, the folks- at the. Human~ Rights Campaign sure do know how to pick ’em] After a protracted internal battle, the country’s largest gay fights group voted to endorse Al D’ Amato. Actually, it was the HRC’s board- in a 15-7 vote - that chose to support the Fonz. Mostmembers backed Schumer, who romped in the Gay community. For mstanee, in Manhattan’ s 66th Assembly Dislrict, Schumerrouted D’ Amato by about an 8-to-1 margin. This Greenwich Village district was the first to send an openly gay woman, Deborah Glick, to the state assembly and provided Schumer with his biggest vote total ofany city A.D. In recognition of HRC"s misguided endorsement, we present the group’ s board with the Out ofTouch Plaque and a global positioning system, so they are better informed when they next get the urge to veer right. ¯ Letters Policy : Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on ¯ issues which we’ ve covered or on issues ¯ you thinkneed to be considered. Youmay ¯ request that your name be withheld but ¯ letters must be signed&have phone hum- ¯ bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let- " ters are preferred. Letters to other publi=m ¯ cations will be printed as is appropriate. by joining forces to be able to secure a permanent full-time pastor as well. Tins also will allow them to increase their outreach to the community. Both congregations were predominenfly women and leaders stated the hope of encouraging men to feel welcome as well. World AIDS Day 1998i WASHINGTON, DC - A new studyjust released resoundingly debunks widely held beliefs about the economic status of. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual (GLB) people. Contrary to what has become the conventional wisdom on the subject, Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual people do not earn more than "We lmve long known that the myth of Gay wealth is ju,t that - a myth . . . lneome I~at~on s~nes t~e o~ truth on yet another o[ The Ri~ht~ ~stortlon of the ~a~s," - Urv~hl Va~d Heterosexual people. In fact, they may even earn less. lncome Inflation: The Myth of AffluenceAmong Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Americans was released by the Policy Institute of the Na- . tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies (I~LSS). The report was authored by M.V. Lee Badgett, Ph.D., professor of economics at the University of Massa- .chusetts at Amherst and executive director of IGLSS. Income Inflation is a startling study of the economic status of a frequently stereotyped population ofAmericans. Badgett explores the pervasive andinaccuratenotion that GLBpeopleform aneconomic elite, insulated from discrimination by their wealth and disconnected frbm society at large by a special, privileged status. After examining data from seven different surveys, she finds that none support this stereotype. "The evidence from many different scientifically sound data sources points to the same dear conclusiom Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual people do not earn more than Heterosexual people, either as individuals or as couples," reported Badgett. "Some GLB people are poor, some are rich, and most are in the middle,jnst as heterosexual people are. Now that we have credible data, we can stop relying on flawed stu~di.’e3, that were designed to find high income Gay people." right-wing organizations and individuals perpetuate and regularly exploit the myth of Gay wealth to bolster their attacks against the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender eommtmity. The mythis so pervasive and accepted that even Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia injected it into the dissenting opinion in the Colorado Amendment Two ease. "We have long known that the myth of Gay wealth is just that - a myth," said Urvashi Vaid, director of the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "’Income lnflation shines the light of truth on yet another of The Right’ s distortion of the facts," added Vaid. by Tom Neal, editor andpublisher One of the consolations ofgrowing older is that every once in a while, something "right" happens you thought you might never see. Justice sometimes prevails. Forexample, in thelate 80’ s,my youngest brother spent some time in the then German "Democratic" Republic (the DDR in a program organized by the University of Oklahoma); and we wondered when, if ever, all of Germany would be one again. More recently, we’ ve seen Chilean murderer and former dictator, Gen. Pinochet, at least called tojustice-even ifhis age and the legal wrangling may prevent any real payment for his part in the systematic disaFpearance and murder of his own, and foreign, citizens. So too, the decision of the Georgia Supreme Court to say that the apparatus of the State, here Georgia, has no compelling, legitimate interest in regulating the private, consensual sexual conduct of adults. Since Georgia’s law was the impetus for the wretched, horribly reasoned US Supreme Court case, Bowers v. Hardwick, to have the law undermined by its home state constitution is sweet. But it is a bittersweet victory because Bowers still stands rendering Lesbian and Gay Americans lesser citizens under our own federal constitution. Like the 19th century Dred Scott Supreme Court decision that legitimized slavery, Bowers will someday fall. But its decision, (based on primarily on the logic that this behavior, oral and anal sex, has always been despisedandtherefore, based on popular revulsion, should be un- titan constitutional, tliough note that though de~ - - Spised, a lotof "them" are doing it too) continues to butlress anti-Lesbian and Gay decisions, like child custody battles where the Gay parent lives in a state where "sodomy" is illegal. What I like about this column is its flexibility to write ¯ . . it’s been both ~unny and l~tter to learn that former Georgia Attorney General Michael Bowers during the very time in whleh he was defending the Georgia "sodomy" statute was himself breaking a different Georgia law by haGn~ an adulterous affair. Obdously, all animals are equal but some are more e~ual otherS. ¯ ABC’ s 20/20programhas never run a story critical of ¯ nuclear power. Come to find out, the show’ s producer ¯ Victor Neufeld’ s wife works for the nuclear industry. ¯ Rupert Murdoeh, an ultra right wing activist, (he initially offered Newt Gingrich a mulfmi!lion dollar about any number of things without necessarily having to pun them together into a completely coherent argument. So be forewarned that this may wander. Sent via the Internet: "Morality is what you do when nobody is looking." - Oklahoma’ s own Congressman, The Reverend J.C. Watts (R-OK) - who has fathered two children out of wedlock. Indeed. Also from our e-mail regarding the so-called "liberal media": a 1996 Nexis search of sources used by major newspapers and broadcasters, show that 7,776 medi~ citations were used from conservative think tanks (with Heritage Foundation topping the list); 4,665 from centrist think tanks; and 1,837fromliberal think tanks. That means the news media used sources from conservatives 54% of the time, centrists 33% .and liberals 13%. KABC, anABCaffiliate in Los Angeles refused to air any anti-war protest stories during the Gulf war. This from staffers inside the station. : book deal thru his H,ar)pe_r Collins publishing firm), owns the entire Fox media conglomerate, the Fox telei visionnetwork andFox news channel. He also owns the New York Post,and TV Guide magazine. ¯ ABC’s David Brinldey had to apologize for making ¯¯* insulting remarks about President Clinton on the air during the 1996 election. He now is a spokesman for a ; multimillion dollar corporation. John Stossel, known : for his ultra-rightwing pro-corporate views is a regular reporter for ABC news. ¯ CBS canned a 60 minutes story on tobacco company : lies because ofpressure from upper management. NBC has squdched stories about boycotts of General Electric, its parent company. CNN has no one as far to the ¯ It is even more bitter now that we’ ve learned that : former Supreme Court Justice, the late Lewis Powell, ~ decided .that his vote, the"swing" votein Bowers (5-4), ¯ was a mistake. Powell never really seemed to understand the impact of his act since he also stated that his mistake never caused anyone any harm. Indeed. Also, it’ s been both funny and bitter to learn that former Georgia Attorney General Michael Bowers during the very time in which he was defending the Georgia "sodomy" statute was himself breaking a different Georgia law by having an adulterous affair. Obviously, all animals are equal but some are more equal than others - if I may paraphrase that line poorly. Here in Oklahoma, our Supreme Court had less courage or less commitment to fundamental constitutional rights. Oklahoma’s "crimes against nature" or "sodomy" statute was declared unconstitutional in 1986. And like the Georgia decision it involved heterosexual citizens rather than Gay ones. But our court chose to state explicitly that itwas only addressing the unconstitutionality of the law as it affectedheterosexual behavior. As Steve Scarborough, staff attorney, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Southern Regional Office explained to TFN, it’s arbitrary, it’ s unfair but it’ s what we’ ve got until the statute’ s overturned in another statelevel case or until Bowers v. Hardwick is overturned at the federal level. The great thing is that’s going to happen. I don’ t know when, or exacdy how, but to quote that song of solace for both Black and Gay folk (and Black, Gay folk), "deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome some day" Because the fssue here is not really whatfolks are doingin theirbedrooms but whether America’s promise, that all are created equal, is truly, truly what we believe. Left as Pat Buchanan is to the right on its nightly political show Crossfire. NBC’s reporter Pete Williams is a former Bush administration official. CBS’ s and ABC’ s Diane Sawyer was a Nixon administration insider before landing a job covering the news. Britt Hume of Fox News is a known conservative ideologue who used to play tennis with George Bush. _ PBS has many shows dedicated to covering corporate America - Nightly Business Report, Adam Smith’s Money World, Tony Brown’s Journal, Wall Street Week:etc., b~ut~noo’ s,hows dedicated to coveringconsum- .ers or laoor, r’t~ s tongest running show is Firing Line l~osted by ultra conservative William F. Buekley, the editor of the conservative National Review Magazine. Other shows hosted by conservatives regularly are:.One on One, The MeLaughlin Group and American Interests. Additionally, a show has been added to the PBS lineupthat is based on holier-than-thou conservative William Bennett’s book The Book of Virtues. ti Talk"ra’di° is.hosted almost exclusively by conservave talk snow hosts, headed by Rush Limbaugh, Ollie North, Larry Elder, Michael Reagan and G. Gordon Li’_d.dy. Former Republican presidential candidate and religious rightleader, PatRobertson, owns theChristian Broadcasting Network which airs nationwide. He also owns the Family Channel and a radio news service called Standard News. And those are just a few things to consider about our "liberal media" ~ except, of course, Tulsa FamilyNews which is proudly pro-Gay, moderate to progressive in our politics. Hats off to Tulsa Oklahonmns for Human Rights, the organization that provides our Gay CommRnity Center, formounting alarge and very visible sign onthe south face of The Pride Center. The sign can be seen well down Brookside as you travel north. TOHR president Steve Horn credits board member and volunteer, Ric Martin, for getting the sign done. Kudos to Ric and to Steve and see About, p. 14 Texas Sodomy Challenge HOUSTON (AP) - Two men found having sex in a private home pleaded no contest Friday to sodomy charges, initiating a legal challenge to the 119-yearold Texas law that bars Gay intercolarse. John Geddes Lawrence, 55, and Tyrone Garner, 31, were arrested for engaging in homosexual conduct on Sept. 17 when deputies- responding to a false report of an _ armed intruder - found them having consensual sex in Lawrence’ s apartment. Justice of the Peace Mike Parrott fined them $125 each. The men, who want to keep the case alive to fight the law, appealed the fine and posted appeal bonds of $332.50 each, which moves the case to state district court. "I hope that the law changes," Garner said. "I feel like my civil rights were violated and ! wash’ t doing anything wrong." The sodomy law makes homosexual oral and anal sex a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $500. Although on the books for more than a century, the law is rarely enforced. Gay activists have worked unsuccessfully for years to overturn the statute. Of the 19 states that have a sodomy statute barfing consensual anal or oral sex, Texas is one of five that specifically targets same-sex partners. The other four are Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, according to Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc. of New York. United Church of Christ Leader Support Gays CLEVELAND (AP) -The head of the United Church of Christ has asked that a document he wrote supporting the acceptance of Gay ~md Bisexual people into the church and its clergy be read alou.d at services. The Rev. Paul H. Sherry, president of the 1.4-million member church, headquartered in Cleveland, mailed a pastoral document to his denomination’ s more than 6,000 churches. Sherry said he wrote the document in response to the Slaying of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming and other recent examples of anti-Gay sentiments that have been in the news. "The hatred exposed in the shocking murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyormng last month underscores the critical importance of this reflection and of the need for our voice to be heard," , " Sherry stated recently. The pastoral letter is titled "Now, No Condemnations," and supports the full participation of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual persons in the membership and clergy of the church. "Knowing how challenging this issue can be for some in our churches, I hope it can be helpful to you in the exercise of your leadership, providing a way to initiate needed reflection, study and action," Sherry wrote in a letter accompanying the document. Kentucky Lesbian Fired LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children fired a supervisor for being a Lesbian after co-workers saw her pictured with her partner in a photo contest at the Kentucky State Fair. The fired worker, Alicia Pedreira, said she acknowledged she was Gay when she applied for the job last May. Pedreira¯was dismissed Oct. 23 on the grounds that her"admitted Homosexual lifestyleis contrary to the Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children core valties." In the wake of Pedreira’ s firing, five other employees resigned in protest, and two universities decided to withdraw their studentsfromthe BaptistHomes for Children’ s programs. The picture of Pedreira that appeared in a contest at the state fair was takenby an amateurphotographer at alocalAIDS walk. Thepicture, whichshows Pedreira standing in front of partner Nance Goodman wearing an "Isle of Lesbos" t-shirt, was entered without Pedreira’ s consent. In an interview, Brenda Gray, a KBHC spokeswoman, said: "We strive to be fair in our dealings with all people, including, certainly, our employees. At the same time, it is important that we stay true to our Christian values. Homosexuality is alifestyle that would prohibit employment." Jack Cox, the home’ s manager until he quit over Pedreira’s firing, said Pedreira acknowledged she was Gay when she interviewed for the job as art therapist and supervisor at the Spring Meadows home for emotionally disturbed boys m eastern Jefferson County. Cox said he told her that wouldn’t be a problem, as long as she didn’ t talk about her private life at work. In a letter to Pedreira after her termination, Cox said that no one can be hired or fired at KBHC without approval of its president, William Smithwick. Citing privacy concerns, Gray, theKBHC spokeswoman, declined to elaborate on what promises, if any, where made to Pedreira when she was hired or whether Smithwick knew about her sexual orientation then. Pedrcira said when she returned to work from a vacation in August, she learned that several employees at the children’ s home had seen a picture of her and Goodman at the state fair and were discussing it at work. Cox said that his superiors contacted him and told him that they wanted Pedreira to resign. She refused. Pedreira said that KBHC. after initially saying she’d be fired, offered what she considered a demotion. She said she turned that down and was fired. She said she’ s still out of work. After Pedreira was terminated, Cox said he resigned, as did another supervisor; an employee who worked for Pedreira; and two clinical social workers. Cox said Pedreira’ s termination is contrary to the code of ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. "For me to continue to work for an agency that embraces that is against my ethics and personal belief," Cox said. Spalding University and the University of Louisville’s Kent School of Social Work said their students were leaving because discrimination against Gays is inconsistent with the ethics and ideals of social work. TheKBHC,a part of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, operates eight homes across the state for more than 3,000 emotionally disturbed children. Most of the children are placed th(re by the state. The KBHC received about $12 milhon ofits $15.6 million budget last year from state agencies, Gray said. The state can withhold money from private child-care contractors that discriminate against women, African-Americans and others who are protected by state and federal law. But, said Cary Willis, a spokesman for the Cabinetfor Families and Children, "We can’ t base any funding decisions on whether somebody discriminates based on sexual orientation." : California Marriage Ban Advances ¯ SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)-A proposal to declare ¯ that only marriages between a man and a woman ~ would be recognized as legal in California won a ¯ place on the state’ s prima~u¢ election ballot in 2000. ", The initiative was written by state Sen. Pete Knight, ¯ R-Palmdale. ¯ Knight’ s petition drive collected 677,000 signatures, of Which more than 482,000 were projected to : be valid voter signatures based on a random sam- ¯" piing. At least 433,269 voter signatures were needed to qualify the measure for the March 7, 2000 primary. ¯ Iowa Town Looks at ¯ Anti-Bias Measure ¯ CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - The Cedar Rapids ¯ Civil Rights Commission has agreed to recommend ¯ that the words "sexual orientation" be added to the : city’ s civil rights ordinance. 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Kate Brown, D-Portland, the newly elected Senate minority leader. She noted that the breakdown in the Senate is still 17- 13 in favor of the Republicans, so despite any influence she may have for civil rights issues, her caucus will still be outgunned. Brown said civil rights backers might have to settle for small steps, such as the last session’ s funding of a state coordinator to help prevent teen suicides, of which Gays make up a significant share. "We’re treading lightly," said Jean Harris of Basic Rights Oregon, thebiggest Gay civil rights organization in the state. She sees the group’s posture as a mainly defensive one. If the Legislature pushes an extreme right-wing bill on Gays "we’ll be there to prevent them from passing bad things... It’s a fight against the religious right-wing agenda." "We’ re sort of waiting to see how many anti-Gay things are going to come up and whether they’ 11 pass theemploymentbil! after23 years," Harris said. "The employment bill is the only thing on the front burner." The measure to outlaw discrimination against homosexuals in employment, first introduced in 1975, has been a key part of the civil rights lobbying efforts for years. The measure passed in the House in the 1997 Legislature but fell short of getting a Senate vote in the waning days of the session. ’.’I certainly feel that’s an unsolved issue out there," Brown said. "Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people still are discriminated against in employment." But House Speaker-elect Lynn Snodgrass, R-Boring, who describes herself as a social conservative, said she doesn’t particularly want to spend time dealing with thorny social issues. "We need to focus on issues the people sent us here to do," she said. But added she’ll bow to the will of her caucus if the members want an issue advanced. Harriet Merck of Eugene, a Gay woman who works at the University of Oregon, said it’ s discouraging that "we still don’ t have an anti-employment discrimination bill." But she said she doesn’ t have too much hope of pro-Gay civil rights gains in the coming session. "You have to work what you have to work with in any given session," she said. " 1,000 in Chicago Counter Phelps Protest CHICAGO (AP) - More than 1,000 Gay-fights supporters surrounded a church where an anti-homosexual minister protested a marriage ceremony for two men conducted earlier this year. The Rev. Fred Phelps of the WestboroBaptistChurchofTopeka, Kan., and about 10 of his supporters gathered recently to protest a September marriage presided over by the Rev. Gregory Dell, pastor of the Broadway United Methodist Church. Gay civil rights supporters surrounded the church, gathered on rooftops, and held signs that read "Stop the Hate," in anticipation of Phelps and his followers. Phelps and his followers have engaged in anti-homosexual picketing around the country, including a demonstration at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a Gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten to death in October. Chicago police surrounded the anti-Gay group with barricades as they gathered on a street comer facing the church. Phelps waved different anti-Gay signs throughout the demonstration. One signread "God Hates Fags." "This is tack3,, minimal, cheap, tawdry stuff," Phelps said in referring to those protesting against him and his followers. Midway through the demonstration, some Gay supporters approached Phelps and his group and were forced back by police. The anti-Gay demonstration ended whenPhelps andhis followers were escorted away by police. Phelps said he plans to return to Chicago in the next few weeks to continue the protests. "It’s unfortunate that individuals and groups carry the kind of hate and fear that these folks do," Dell said of the Kansas protesters. "But however offensive their message might be, the strength of community, justice and love is stronger." Dell performed the Gay marriage service despite a ban on such ceremonies that was inserted in his denomination’s "Book of I>iscipline" in August. The United Methodist Church will put Dell on trial next year for violating the ban. He could be defrocked. Is West Virginia Gov. Gay-Friendly? CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Gov. Cecil Underwood is exasmniDg several Gay civil rights initiatives and has not ruled out proposing legislation to enact them, his spokesman said recently. "Does it fit in his legislative agenda? That is being decided right now," Dan Page said. Underwood sent a letter to a Gay member of the state Republican Executive Committee saying he does not support a "quick fix" on discrimination issues. But he said "we shall examine very carefully the positions" Larry Tighe Of Wheeling had asked him to support. Tighe asked Underwood in September whether he stands by his 1996 campaign pledge to seek changes in state fair housing and human rights acts to make it illegal to discriminate against Lesbians and Gays. Underwood said then, "I am opposed to using sexual preference to discriminate. I feel they are entitled to the same-protection we offer everyone." Tighe asked Underwood specifically if he supports amending the state I-Iumun Rights Act to include aban against diseriminating againsthomosexuals in empl0yment,housing andpublic accommodation. The act now prohibits discrimination because of race, religion, color, nationality, sex and age. Opponents have said the additional language would give homosexuals special privileges. Supporters say it is necessary to protect homosexuals from growing violence. Tighe also asked whether Underwood would sign an executive order banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in state government employment and if he would support changing West Virginia hate crimes laws to protect homosexuals as a class. And he asked Underwood to include the proposals in his State of the State address in January. Underwood’s Nov. 20. reply, which Tighe received Monday, said, "My position on human rights issues is straightforward and unwavering: No West Virginia citizen should suffer discrimination for any reason. "We can realize the vision of Americaembodied within ourconstitutionby maintaining vigilance and fighting prejudice where we find it. We cannot and should not opt for a’ quick fix’ that touches only the surface of a problem," the governor’ s letter said. Page said Underwood’ s opposition to a "quick fix" does not necessarily mean he has rejected the legislation Tighe supports. "The governor believes the long-term solution is changing people’ s attitudes," he said, noting Underwood has established a commission to teach West Virginians about the Holocaust and has an initiative to promote better race relations. Underwood’s letter said, "We should work together to promote tolerance and understanding among all Americans, especially those citizens who would deny freedoms and opportunities to others... That is a long-term process that deserves our full attention." Underwood opposes same-sex marriage and has voted against ordaining Lesbians and Gays as ministers in the United Methodist Church. Rural Americans: Some HIV Ignorant i! ATLANTA (AP)-They had_unprotec~d.. sex withpartners ofthesameandoppostte sex, somclinlcs in exchange f~ .d~gs - yetmany neverlmew they were~il~ of gettiilg AIDS..I~,tervi.ews wire ~a~ infected pati__egts snow .tpat .s~e ¯ Americans still aren’ tgett~.gtttemessage about how AIDS is uansmitted, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported recently. _ . Despite theirrisky behavior, about~ never thought they were at risk of contracting the AIDS virus, theCDCsaid. Of those, roughly a third admitted they had notdeahow thevtrus was spread. ~learly it’ s the people who are engaging in the higher risk behaviors who appear not to be getting the basic information about transmission,"CDCepidemiologistAmy Lausky said Thursday-. "I guess we’d all like to think that, 10 to 15 years into the epidemic, people would know.how HIV is spread." Researchers interviewed608adults with HIV living in rural areas of Georgia, Florida, South Carol",ma. and Delaware. Asked why they didn t consider themselves at risk, 33% of men and 29% of women said they didn’t know how HIV was spread. Other reasons given included not tl~nking their sex partners were infected and the belief that only homosexuals and intravenous drug users contracted HIV. LTnprotected sex and cracl~’use were common among those interviewed. The CDC said it doesn, t know of any studies in which it asked urban HIV patients the same questions. Researchers noted that the vast majority of AIDS cases are concentrated in urban areas. AIDS cases in rural areas made up fewer than 10% ofthe 641~086 cases reported through 1997, the CDC said. ter. ’The disease also progresses faster" in females~ she sai& She also saidwomen and minorities are underrepresented in clinical tri~,s, ofnew AIDS and HIV treati ments, and There may be some biologi- : cal and genetic differences in how some people respond to the drugs." ! ~ Stone said everyonein her study had i -some health insur~ce, so she eliminated cost as a reason some were ~eated with protease inhibitors and others were not. i She said it appeared that patients were more likely to get the treatment if they knew about the drugs and asked for them. ’"Some said they had never heard of the therapy. Whites weremuchmorelikely to have heard of the new drugs," she said. Heterosexuals were less likely to get ~ the therapy because they often face the ~ ailment alone, she suggested. ",Many people get help through networks¯ Gays i have their networks and so do IV drug ¯. users,"she said. Heterosexuals withAIDS : usually are women who got the disease ¯ from having sex with men, who were or : had been drug-users or Bisexual. The : women often did not know anyone else ." with the diseas&, she said. ’~nis was sur- ¯¯ prising, but even IV drug users knew more about AIDS than these women/’ she : said. Of women with AIDS, 58% are ¯ black, she said. Nationally,43% ofAIDS ¯ patients are black; 36% are white, and . 20% are Hispanic, according to data pre- ¯ sented at the conference. i¯ HIVTreatments blot Available to All ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Physicians sometimes steer HIV-infected New Yorkers away from the best drug treatment regi: mens because they do not believe the patients are motivated or stable enough, a state-sponsoredpanel ofexperts has found. Health providers often saw. those with HIV as members of suspectpatient groups - immigrants, homeless people, inmates, ¯ the mentally and physically disabled - : and prescribed treatment accordingly, in- " stead of treating cases on an individual : basis, the group said. ¯ An HIV treatment plan "should not be ¯ based on presumptive judgments about ¯ people in any racial, ethnic, gender, age, ¯ riskor other category," thepanel declared. ¯ "The state of New York should ensure : that every person with HIV has access to ¯ basic health services as well as to provid- ¯ ers with HI¥ expertise," the group con- " cluded. ¯ The 44-member panel included physi- ¯ clans, medical ethicists, public health ex- ¯ perts and advocates for groups at highrisk of contracting the virus that causes AIDS, ¯ including Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ¯ Housing Works. It was formed in mid- " 1997 after reports surfaced that someHIV ¯ patients werereceivingless-than-op~dmum ¯ care because of who they are or because ¯ some doctors and other health care work- " ers were not up to speed on thelatest drug ¯ treatment methods. ¯ Dr. Guthrie Birkhead, director of the : state Health Department’s AIDS Institute : andco-chair of the panel, said the report : was thefirst ofits kindin theUnited States ¯ to examine the ethical issues involved ¯ with the complicated drug treatments : which have evolved for HIV and AIDS ¯ patients. Those treatments have become ". especially prevalent in the last three or ¯ four years. Problems with matching pa- : tients with optimum treatment regimens ¯ "are still not solved at this point" in New : York, Birkhead said. "It’s very important : not to make assumptions about people’s For Some, Less Access to Care BOSTON (AP) -Women, minorities and heterosexuals with AIDS are less likely than others to get a new and effective treatment, andignorance of the procedure may be one of the reasons, according to a new study, The situation maybe particularly bad for women, who, according to another report, may be more susceptible than men to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The reports were given at the "AIDS at the Millennium" conference sponsored by the Massachusetts Medical Society and Lemuel Shattuck Hospital. A study by Dr. Valerie Stone of the Brown University School of Medicine found that nearly three-quarters ofMassachusetts and Rhode Island men with AIDS got the three-drug, protease inhibitors treatment, but only half the afflictedwomendid. The study also found that 75% of whites with AIDS got the multi-drug, or "cocktail" treatment, but only 58% of blacks and 50%ofHlspanics did. Half ofheterosexuals withAIDS were being treated with the drugs, compared with 81% of Gays and 61% of those who contracted the disease through drug injections. The study was made at five sites, including community health centers and teaching hospitals. Protease inhibitors given in combinations have improved and prolonged the lives of many AIDS victims. New biological evidence suggests women may be more susceptible to HIV than men, said Dr. Deborah Cotton, director of AIDS clinical research at Boston Medical Cem John Serrot, MSW Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates Sandra Hill, M.s. National Certified Counselor Certified Hypnotherapist Psychotherapy & Clinical Consultation Sensitive to the Challenges of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Individuals, Couples & Families. 2865 E. 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Often, the drugs can extend the lives of HIV-infected people for many years. Typically, HIV patients take three different drugs two to three times a day, Birkhead said. "For the average person, withoutany problems,keepingona(medication) scheduleis very difficult,"he said. With HIV and AIDS patients, doctors must recognize a whole series of related problems that can prevent medications frombeing taken, including havingproper refrigeration for the drugs and language barriers involving non-English speaking - HIV victims, the panel found. And,recent studies have shown that taking HIV drugs in proper doses and sequences is crucial because if some drugs are stopped, the body could develop immunities to them that will hasten the onset of AIDS. Thepanel ofexperts saiditis the duty of doctors and other health care providers to stay current about the latest drug treatments for HIV, to make them as widely available to patients as possible and to help get patients into situations where they will stick to a medicinal schedule. Patients, the panel said, have an obligation- to religiously take the drugs, to eat properly, to take other steps to maximize the effect of the medications and to otherwise aid in their own treatmentS. In cases where a patient "demonstrates an inability to initiate or maintain a treatment regimen" it may be "appropriate" for a health care provider to discontinue drug treatment, the panel concluded. Amemberofthepanel, Deunis DeLeon of the Latino Commission on AIDS, said he would like to see its recommendation that all NewYorkers have access to anonymous HIV testing become reality. ’There was not equal access to appropriate preand post-test counsding," DeLeon said. ’~3nce a person got tested, thefollow-up in terms of the medical referral was lacking, even in some major urban centers throughout the state." State health officials estimate that between 150,000 and 200,000 New Yorkers are HIV positive, believed to be the highest snch population in the nation. Quilt to Move to DC SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The AIDS Memorial Quilt, a 52-ton symbol born in San Francisco as the deadly epidemic ravaged the city’s Gay community, appears to be headed permanently to Washmgton D.C. The board of the Names Project voted to begin searching for new executive offices and a place to store and display the quilt, which has grown to more. than 100,000 pounds of cloth and imagery. The vote has not been formally announced, but Names Project Executive Director Andy lives told the San Francisco Examiner the move won’t happen for several years. ’XDbviously there is a strong emotional tie to San Francisco, birthplace of the quilt,"he said. "But what began 10 years ago as an ad hoc response to this tragedy has become an icon and the No. 1 AIDS prevention .and education tool in the country. "My position is that logistically, we belong in the nation’s capital... None of us has any interest in having the quilt be this musty, dusty relic stored on shelves:. 2’ The Names Project intends to keepits original storefront space at Castro and Market streets, where the local chapter displays a segment of the quilt. There are 52 US chapters. ~The quilt was the concept of AIDS activist Cleve Jones during a candlelight march on Nov. 27, 1985 honoring slain Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor GeorgeMoscone. Heaskedfellow marchers to write on pieces of cardboard ~the names of lovers and friends claimed by AIDS. When the marchers covered the Federal Building with their placards, "it looked like a patchwork quilt of lives cruelly cut short," Jones said. ’~ understand what they’re trying to do," said Mike Salinas, news editor of the Bay Area Reporter, a Gay newspaper. "Relocating to Washington will let them reach a broader audience of visitors from around the globe, many of whom are in desperate need of better AIDS education." World AIDS Watch: Indian Youth MANESAR, India (AP) --Hard as it is to talk about sex with young people, involving them in AIDS education is crucial to preventing the spread ofthe sexually transmitteddisease, communityworkers, health experts andyoungpeople themselves said. ’Young people have an enormous curiosity about sex. So let’s build an information systemaroundthem," saidLN. Balaji, chiefofplanning ofUNICEF, India, which is organizing a four-day workshop on the role of youth in fighting AIDS epidemic and HIV, the virus that causes the fatal disease: People in their teens and 20s who act as. health activists in their own communities in 17 countries are attending the workshop. They’ll return home with new ideas about education and counteracting discrimination against thosewho have the disease. About 1.7 million people in Africa. and 700,000 others in Asia and the Pacific are infected with HIV every year, according to United Nations statistics. Indiaaccounts for the most cases in the world, at 4 million. One half million of the victims in India are young people. Their number will rise if young people do not have access to information, skills and services to fight the problem, Balaji told a news conference in Manesar, a town near New Delhi. Many participants in the UNICEF conference said youth in their countries are unable to discuss sex with their elders because of societal taboos. They usually endup gettingbadinformationfrompeers or reading pornographic literature or experimenting with unsafe sex. In India, school principals balked at the idea of health experts talking to studentsabout drugs, sex or even problems of youth. ’Talking about sex was considered outrageous," said Gunjan Shah, one of the 4,000 students and teachers trained by Sevadham Trust, a voluntary orgamzation in Pune that is helping spread the message of AIDS. Sevadham volunteers slowly persuaded authorities to talk to teachers. "Soon, they were saying’ This is exactly what we want.’ From then, there was no problem." Today, nearly all public and private schools in Ptme and many others in Bombay have asked Sevadham to conduct training for their staff. That ruling came in a federal lawsuit filed by a homosexual who had been arrested under the Georgia law, Which carried a maximum sentence of 20 ysars. ’This is a symbolic victory," said David Smith, a spokesman for the Gay civil rights group, The Human Rights Alliance. "It sends a message - the demise of the Georgia sodomy law that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court will hopefully be a precursor to the U.S. Supreme Court invalidating all thenation’ s sodomy laws." Three other states - Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania - have recently overturned such laws. ’This would help the continuation of this trend," Emory constitutional law professor Robert Schapiro said. Even though the law applied to both heterosexual and homosexual activity, it was seen as an example of discrimination against homosexuals. The law "has made Gays and Lesbians a target for unjust police action in the past and unjust prosecution. Wehope with this, that will come to an end," said Harry Knox, interim director of the Georgia Equality Project Foundation. Powell, formerly of Norcross, spent 14 months injail beforemakingbail last year pending his appeal. "I don’t really espouse’ the Gay lifestyle,’ but’I:understand their point of view," said Powell, whose defense was helped by Lambda Defense and Education Fund, aGay andHIV rights advocacy group. Powell is now living in Shreveport, La. Theruling cannotbe appealed, because the GeorgiaSupreme Courtis theultimate authority on the state’ s constitution. Legislators wouldhave to amend the constitution to pass a similar law. FormerAttorney General Michael Bowers, who defended the law before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1986 case, said he was surprised by the ruling. "I can’ t imagine how. they can make such a ruling... I would be very surprised if you don’ t see a legislative move to alter that." The 1986 case involved a challenge by Michael Hardwick, a Gay Atlanta bartender who was arrested for committing sodomy in his home. Prosecutors later dropped the charge..Hardwick, who died of AIDS in 1991, sued state officials to have the law declared unconstitutional. The Georgia Supreme Court never ruled on Hardwick’s case because his suit was filed in federal court. In the lone dissent to the ruling, Justice George H, Carley wrote that the majority misconstrued the state constitution and "’usurped the legislative authority of the General Assembly to establish the public policy of this state." Carley said the Georgia Constitution contains "no express recognition of a right to privacy." The antisodomy law was upheld by the state Supreme Court in 1996, but that case turned on the solicitation of sodomy, not the act itself. Eighteen states still have laws against sodomy. Louisiana has such a law. It is under state court challenge and a judge’s ruling is pending. Thosechallenging these laws in various states now have ’Tuel and ammunition see Georgia, p. 14 to fight the battle," said Powell’ s attorney Steven H. Sadow. The following are excerpts from the majority and dissenting opinions: The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice Robert Benham: ’q~he right of privacy has a long and NationsBank Presents Tulsa Ballet’s The Nutcracker The Holiday Magic Retums in 14 Performances Tickets Now on Sale! T u L S A ~*’0 P E RA Carol L. Crawford General Director MINI-SEASON PACKAGE Two Great Operas- One Low Price! Subscribe Now! TULSA PHILHARMONIC Handel’s Messiah TULSA ORATORIO CHORUS Conducted by EDWARD BYROM Branch Theatre, Holland Hall December 3 & 4,1998 at 8PM Sponsored by Omni Medical Group. A Gospel Christmas Tulsa’s All Star Gospel Choir Proudly Sponsored by Parade of Lights. Come celebrate the spirit of tile holiday season at the PSO Christmas Parade of Lights. 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Meet at Zeigler Park, 3903 West 4th. Pride Rides from the Pride Center, 3749 S. Peoria. Write for winter schedule. lfyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. by Adam west " " " Tulsa City-County Library With the millenium close to an end, the rate of novels dealing with the subject are sure to skyrocket. Some wise individuals got onto the trend early, though, and one of these is British science fiction author Elizabeth Hand. Due to my intense love of sci-fi, I was recently asked to review this bookfor theTulsaCity-County Library system in response to a customer’s request to have the book withdrawn from our shelves. Customer objections to material are always taken seriously, and so I found myselfreading this The Glimmering looking for evidence of obscenity in its rather graphic sexual scenes. Before you run out and snatch this one off the shelves, let me warn you - the sex scenes aren’t that graphic, and what’s worse, they’re written with little, attention to the beauty of the written word and an inordinate amount of pornlevel vulgarity. Hand is inept at writing worthwhile erotica, but there are other reasons to devote some time to this dismrbing and elegant novel. For those ofyouwho dislike sci-fi, you should know that this book is more speculative fiction (along the lines of Marge Pierey) than science fiction. There are no aliens here, only some premature advances in technology and some lessthan- scientific consequences. This novel should not be enjoyed for its sci-fi aspects anyway. The real beauty of The Glimmering shines through its characters, thanother note to the style, The Glimmering is in split-focus, with every other chapter altemating between two protagonists, Jack and Trip. It is only near the end that everything comes together, but keep reading- the coalescent result is smooth and logical (albeit extremdy coincidental). Jack is a forty-something gay man dying of AIDS; who finds an unlikely cure called Fusax. Trip Marlowe is a teenage Christian Rock idol who loses his faith ¯when he discovers sex and the female body. The two characters could hardly be reached a sagebrush-strewn area at the foot of the Laramie Range where the dying Shepard was found 18 hours later. DeBree said that McKinney was asked if Shepard begged for his life and the defendant replied: "Well, yeah- he was getting the (expletive) beat out of him." The autopsy showed that the 5-foot-2- inch Shepard was struck in the head about 18 times, prosecutor Cal Rerucha said. Officers testified that Shepard’s face was caked with blood - except where it had been partially washeddeanby tears. They said his wrists were bound so tightly, it was difficult to cut the rope. Explaining the violence, McKinney told his girlfriend, Kristin Price, "’Well, you know how I feel about Gays,"’ Police Detective Ben Fritzen testified. And DeBree said McKinney repeatedly re- : in more polar opposition. While Jack is : noble, dignified and worldly, Trip brings : self-absorption, infantile behavior and ig- ¯ norance to new lows. The chapters focus- : ing on-Trip will probably be tedious for For those d you who dislike sei-fi, you should know that this book iS more speeulative fietlon... There are no aliens here... This novel should not be enjoyed for its sei-fi azpeets anyway. The real beauty of The Gl;mmer~ng shines through its characters. anyone with depth, although he does have his looks and a misguidedinnocentloyalty (to the girl he impregnates) to save him from complete inanity. It is nldmately the character of Jack that makes this book so important. Jack constanfly berates himself for being selfish, but he is horribly mistaken. Jack comes from wealth, and in the political destabilization of 1999,his home is one of the few havens availablein thenovel. Thoughmost of his family’s money is gone, he maintains the upstate New Yorkestatein order to give his aging grandmother comfort and provide his friends with a secure getaway in times of need. Jack undertakes a sort of spiritual journey that we all sometimes feel a need for: the process of remembering what is important in our lives. Jack longs for health and sex and stability, but what he really needs is’the "knowledge thathe has had a positive impact in the lives ofthe people he loves: It’s not a complicated lesson, but for some reason it escapes most of us, most of the time. I’m aware that I haven’t given you a great amount 6f detail about this particu- ¯ lar story, and my descriptions of the characters are rather vague, but that really can’t be helped. Although ElizabethHand has a complete lack of skill with erotica, her ability to create elegant, complex stones and characters and weave them together so intricately with her plot is superb. To tell you much more about the characters would reveal too much of the progression of the plot. Read this one before the millenium ends. It’s not going to be accurate, but you’ll have plenty of ideas to consider on December31 st, 1999. Adam West is an associate with Tulsa City-County Library System and an OSU alumnus. He is not now and never has been Batman. ferred to Shepard as "queer" and "faggot." McKinney sat expressionless for most of the five-hour hearing, smiling once or twice when he spoke with l’us attorneys. Shepard’s parents, Dennis and Judy Shepard, sat in the front row, his mother crying when a deputy identified photo- ., graphs of her son in the hospital. ¯ Public defender Dion Custis said the ¯ state failed to meet its burden ofproof that " the murder was planned and said Shepard ¯ was not kidnapped, but went willingly. A ¯ watch, money and other property left at ¯ the crime scene showed that robbery was ¯¯ not a factoreither, he said. Ms. Price, 18, and Henderson’s girl- : friend, Chasity Vera Pasley, 20, will be ¯ arraigned Dec. 9 on accessory after the ¯ fact to first-degree murder. Henderson ¯ and McKinney are being held without ¯ bond. Rerucha has not yet indicated if he ¯ will seek the death penalty. -Kelly Kirby CPA,. PC Certified Public Accountant, a professional corporation Lesbians and Gay men face many speciaJ tax situations whether single or as coupleS. Call us for help with your year round tax needs. 7’4 7 - 5 4 6 6 4021 S. 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We have the waitresses well trained by now, and they know that any time we come in after l0 a.m., they’d better put aside a slice of the coconut creme pie for us, because we always eat a piece whenever we’ re in for luncheon. This coconut pie is wonderful. Made from scratch - none of that coconut-flavored vanilla pudding stuff - with a classic creme patisserie-style recipe,it’ s lovingly poured into adreamy, flakey, flavorful, lardpastry shell, and topped with clouds of real whipped cream. It’ s not a snooty coconut tart from a New York City bistro cooked by a cook with a bad French accent. It’ s just a plain old piece of good old Oklahoma pie. Phill’s Diner, located just east of Harvard on 32rid Street, serves up a lot of plain ,old .good Oklahoma cooking. In fact, it s such a classic, that when we’re ¯ .entertaining out-of-town performing artists in for a gig with the Phil or the Ballet or the Opera, and they want some "Oklahoma fOod," this is where weend up. Only open for breakfast and lunch, phill’ s is a classic diner. Blue plate specials. Biscuits andgravy. Basichamburgers and fries. Chicken fried steak. Homemade cinnamon rolls that sell out almost every morning. Sirloin steak and egg breakfasts. And, unlike other popular diners in Tulsa, Phill’ s hash’ t succumbed to being trendy. It’ s still a neighborhood place,marketing mostlyby wordofmouth. But, you have to remember that this is a low key kind of place. Vinyl banquettes havethe occasional tapepatch. Sodafountain bar stools face a functioning service area. Glasses are plastic. Dinnerware is mismatched - and includes the sundry remnants of an IHOP going out of bnsi~ heSS sale. There is nothing pretentious about this place. On a recent visit, we decided to have the grilled liver and onions, which, with a simple Iceberg salad, two,~egetables (cho- Two-thirds of U.S. volunteers will re- ¯ sen from the chalkboard), and a basketful : of-freshly baked dinner rolls, only cost : $4.99. Theliver, an easy meat to over- . e~ok, was nicely done, and our only corn- : plaint was that we got a few onions from ¯ the outside stem-end of the bulb which were a bit papery. Our companion opted for the chicken fried steak, which cost just a little moreat $5.69. His steak filled the plate, and the aroma was wonderful. Phill’s recipe includes abitmore than a hint of garlic, and the steak was very satisfying. : The green beans with bacon were heavily ¯ seasoned with black pepper, and that is ¯ almostatrademarkcharacteristicofPhill’s : food. He likes things to have seasoning. ¯¯ Somemay not like things so "spicy," but, with his tendency to use exotic ingredi- ." ents like salt, pepper, butter, onions, gar- ¯ lic, and bacon, we find the spicing charm- : ing - kind of like visiting a friend’s : mother’s house for supper. Another great time to visit Phill’ s is for ¯" a late breakfast on a Saturday or Sunday ’. morning. The chalkboard specials almost : alwayshaveanmterestmg *orunch food, ¯ ~uch asMalibu French toast (French toast ¯ with orange marmalade), an avocado, ¯ bacon, and cheddar cheese omelette, and, ¯ for those who like corned beef, a hefty , serving of eggs and hash. Prices vary, generally in the $4-5 range. Huge, fluffy ¯ hotcakes are also apopularmorningitem, : with one ample cake going for $1.29, and ¯ two for $2.29. If you really think you can ¯ eat it all, they also have a triple stack for ." $3.29 (but eating like that is not going to ¯ help youfitinthosenew bicycling shorts). ¯ And, in the best Southerntradition, one ¯ can also order a brealffast side order of ¯ sliced tomatoes forjust99 cents. After all, ¯ it isn’ t breakfast without tonaatoes. ¯ Whenthe autunm weatherbegins to get ¯ more of a nip in the air, we’ 11 be looking ¯ forward to several other Phill’s staples. ¯ especially his homemade Irish stew and his pinto beans with ham. A big bowl of ¯ one of these ($1.99 cup, $2.99 bowl) and ¯ a basketful of his cornbread is more than ¯ enough to refuel on a chilly afternoon. ." Phill’ s slogan is, "home of good food." : Go to Phill’ s. You’ II feel at home. Andthe ¯ food certainly is good. : I Editor’s note: Mary Schepers. our Do- "I It-Yourself-Dyke is taking this month : off, and so we bring you this review by Jean-Pierre Legrandbouchewhichfirst ". ran tn our November 1997 issue. ceive the vaccine. Richter said the Tulsa trial has enrolled about 12 volunteers but can enroll as many as 150. No women have enrolled yet. Volunteers receive free shots and about $40 to help with transportation, Richter said. Lysight said Tulsa has a large Gay community, making it an ideal.site for the study. He said he has known at least 15 people who died of AIDS complications within the past seven years. Study volunteers commit to participatefor three years. They receive three injections of the genetically engineeredvaccine over several months. Those are followed up with a Phill’ slogan is, "home of goocq food." Go to Phill’ . You’ll feel at home¯ And the food certainly is good. series of booster shots. The vaccine uses : engineered copies of a protein found on ." the outer coating of the HIV virus. It is ¯ designed toprompt theimmune system to : make antibodies, which can attack invad- ¯ ing viruses before they infecthealthy cells. ¯ Lysight said he hopes to help pave the ¯ way for avaccinethat blocks HIV the way ~ today’s vaccines target small pox or ¯ chicken pox. "Until there is a vaccine or : anything to help it. nobody will want to : accept what the problem is," he said. : Local AIDSgroups and the Tulsa City- County Health Department are collabo- : rating on the project and will assist’in : recruiting trial volunteers. Other cities in ¯ the study include New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Philadelphia and sites in "- Florida, Texas and California. by Esther Rothblum I recently talked with a group of five young women in a Vermont high school about what it means to be Lesbian, Bi, or questionning. These women students - and a teacher- have been meeting weekly in their school after hours. Hard as it may be for us older Lesbians to believe, but such groups are a part of all high schools in the Burlington, Vermont area. The women were proud that their classmates hadjust voted in (500 in favor, 100 against) a club to be called the "Gay and Straight Alliance." As one woman said "what was so good about the process was that it was so out there, and an explanation went along with it, so .... ~bool life is not wlthout harassment, ¯ . . Another woman, who is Bisexual, has been called a "dyke"by another student. Als0, students in their high school will refer to something they don’t llke as "gay," as in "thatdress is so people knew it wasn’t just a Gay thing." In fact, one of the club’s organizers received a school medal for her efforts. BUt school life is not without harassment. One student said: "Yesterday, a kid came up to me and said ’I would really, appreciate it if you didn’t make out with" other girls in the hallways.’ I’ve never done anything like that in school." Another woman, who is Bisexual, has been called a "dyke" by another student: Also, students in their high school will refer to something they don’t like as "gay," as in "that dress, is so gay.’" The women I interviewed were aware of internalized homophobia as well. One woman said: "In eighth grade there was this kid that everyone said he was Gay. He couples’ request to overturn the prohibition. In legal briefsand arguments to the court, they said mamage historically has been defined as a union between a man and a woman because same-sex couples can’t biologically bear children. ’‘To say (otherwise) would be to say there’ s absolutely no connection between marriage and procreation," said Assistant Attorney General Eve Jacobs-Camahan. "It’s a unique social institution based on the sexual communion of a man and a woman." Vermont is now the only state with a Supreme Court considering the question of Gay marriages. In last month’s elections, voters in Hawaii and Alaska essentially overturned court rulings that were moving toward legalizing such unions. Robinson said refusing to allow samegender couples to marry was as discriminatory as bans on interracial marriage, firstoverturnedby the CaliforniaSupreme Court in 1948. "The parallels between that case and this case are striking," she said. In 1948, proponents of California’ s interracial ban used many of the same arguments as Gay marriage opponents today, such .as the promotion of procreation, she said. But Assistant Attorney General Timothy Tomasi said bothmen and women are given the right to marry, and a court redefining it would cut into the rights of the Legislature. ’‘There’ s no benefit given to ¯¯ had a very hard time with harassment. Then when I came out my freshman year, ¯ hestartedmaking fun ofm!! I said to him: : ’Don’t yon remember how-bad it felt ¯ when everyone made fun of you?’ He said: ’But I wasn’t and you are." In s,o,me ways, I was his revenge. Another woman was concerned about how her heterosexual friend would be viewed. She said: "I think mybeing fairly out in school affected her. We used to sit together in class and spend a lot of time together. We’ve been friends since kindergarten. I think the fact that we were so close actually negalively affectedher, with people assuming that she was Gay as well. I found myself pulling away from her so that she wouldn’t be stereotyped. I wanted her to be able to find a boyfriend and be happy; I didn’t want her harasssed." In some ways, being Gay is viewed as trendy in their school, but only when it refers to female students, mostly those who are Bisexual. But the women I interviewed felt that trends are viewed as a phase, and their classmates wonder When this particular trend will finalh, be over. "My friends thought I was a "~oser’ because I told them that I was Bi," said one woman. Esther Rothblum teaches Psychology at the University ofVermont andEditor of the Journal ofLesbian Studies. Ske can be reached at Dewey Hall, Univ. of Vt., Burlington or: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu males that isn’ t given to females," he said. The lawsuit challenges a 1975 rulingby the state’ s attorney general advising town clerks that Vermont law defined civil marriage as a union between a "bride and a groom," in effect prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying. Ten groups, ~ncluding a coalition of other states, wrote briefs supporting Attorney General William Sorrell’s definition. Seven other groups have filed arguments that contend Vermont" s Constitution guarantees Gays the same rights to marriage as heterosexuals. Hordes of people showed to watch the arguments. Folding chairs were setup and the court, for the first time ever, required tickets to get in the building. They were snatched up the moment doors opened, hours b.efore the scheduled arguments. From the point of view of the couples, who found themselves at the center of a national debate and sat in a front row, the arguments couldn’t come soon enough. 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He shyly informed me that his name was now Tio. "But what happened to Tio?" I asked, confused. Tio, I thought, was the helpful son of my neighbors Vani and Kaisaia. Joshua, or rather now Tio, drawing in the dirt with his big toe, told me that Tio was now called Kamuti. But this was equally confusing. Kamuti - or so I had memorized - was an older, childless man who lived in a. rattletrap hut at the end of the village. I pestered people in my rudimentary Pidgin English until they" helped me understand that old Kamuti, sensing death, had just adopted 20-someflfing Tio who took his name. This left open the Ameriean Gay culture includes several drag naming traditions. Much of the attraetlon of drag comes from its eonstruetlon of hyper-femlnlnlty - an image of perfected womanhood that no real female could, in reality, obtain. This is why RuPaul and Barble are twins - they both are way beyond female reality. name-"Tio" that the former Joshua assumed. Men’s names on this island are really titles. They emplace individuals within a structure of kinship groups. Each nmne. moreover, comes with rights to certain land plots. Joshua’s father had more sons than nmnes to give out, so the bob was making do with the European "’Joshua" until a landed personal title (like Tio) freed up. Persona! names in Iankab,ar thus link individuals into land-holding kinship ~oups which are the basic building blocks of island society. AnthropoloNsts study personal naming systems in order to learn more about people’ s understandings of selfhood, and of the ways in which they conceive of individuality and society. In many cultures, people may have several names at once, or may take on additional names as they go throughlife. ,americans are familiar with first names, middle names, nicknames, family or surnames, pen names, stage names, and aliases; and the majority of ~american women still change their familynames at marriage (as Hillary went from Rodham, to Clinton, to Rodham Clinton). Still, people in other societies may have far more opportunities than we do to collect various names or to swap one name for another In some cultures, each time an individual enters a new phase of life (childhood, adulthood, old.age), he takes a different name. In classic Chinese society, important men acquired "death names"; because, dead, you ate a changed person and you need a different name. The Japanese borrowed this custom which is why theformerEmperor!tirohito is now called Showa. Elsewhere, people takenew names after important events in their lives, such as surviving a major illness. In Samoaand other Polynesian cultures, people commonly have several names, one of which may be a tide. Names are context dependent- people call one another by whichever of their names best fits the occasion. Most American names are gendered; some are male, others female. It is not surprising, therefore, that transgendered individuals, and drag queens, almost always acquire new names as part of their transformed personality. Something similar to Samoa’s context-governed names occurs here with American cross-dressers and drag artists. When you meet up with your friend, do you use his boy name or his gift name? This mostly depends on where you are at the moment and also, of course, what s/he’s wearing. Personal nmnes in Iankahar give men rights to family and land; here in America they give us rights to be, and to act, male or female. American Gay cnlture includes Several drag naming traditions. Much of the attraction of drag comes from its construction of hyper-femininity - an image ofperfected womanhood that no real female could, in reality, obtain. This is why RuPaul and Barbie are twins - they both are way beyond female reality. One drag naming tradition is the hyper-feminine. Here, the queens take on Barbie-ish names. I surfed through a number of drag queen websites on the Internet (yes, those gifts are online) and turned up hyper-ladylike names such as Zhanna, Monique, Vaunessa, Cookky, Felicity, Chynna, Windy, Misty De Mute, and so on. Sometimes these names pair with the drag equivalent of a surname. There are named drag houses in many cities, and a daughter takes the family name of her drag-mother (and sometimes also drag-father). This creates a structure of ficdve kinship that anthropologists call matrilineal descent. There is a second, comic naming tradition in American drag. Her~ the queens celebrate the carnival foundations of their art. There are ancient and widespread associations of masking and naughtiness in Western culture, as all of us learn very young ("Trick-or-Treat, smell my feet!"). Those sly queens adore bad puns. My quick tour of the web discovered Miss Pencil Vania, Charity Kaesse, Paige Turner, Evian Water, Sister Dana van Iquity, and of course Hedda Lettuce. And I’m sure you can bring many coarser examples to mind. But,just like people in Vanuatu, China, and Samoa, the more names you have, .the more you are. Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthropology at the University of Tulsa. e-mail: lindstroml@centum.utulsa.edu PFLAG Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays Tulsa Area Chapter POB 52800, Tulsa 74152 749-4901 distingnished history in Georgia. In 1905, this court expressly recognized that Geor~ gia citizens have a ’liberty of privacy’ guaranteed by the Georgia constitutional provision which declares that no person shall be deprived of liberty except by due process of law... This court has determined that a citizen’ s right to privacy is strong enough to withstand a variety of attempts by the State to intrude in the citizen’s life." "v~re cannot think of any other activity ¯ .that reasonable persons would rank as more private and more deserving of proteetion from governmental interference ~consensual, private, adult sexual ac- :~tivity. :. We’conclude that such activityis at the heart of the Georgia Constitution’ s protection of the right of privacy." ’q’he State fulfills its role in preventing sexual assaults and shielding and protecting the public from sexual acts by the enactment of criminal statutes prohibiting such conduct... The only possible purpose for the statute is to regulate the private conduct of consenting adults, the public gains nobenefit, and the individual is unduly oppressedby the invasion of the right to privacy. Consequently, we must conclude that the legislation exceeds the permissible bounds of police power." "In undertaking, the judiciary’ s constitutional duty, it is not the prerogative of members of the judiciary to base decisions on their personal notions of morality. Indeed, if wewere called upon to pass upon the propriety of the conduct herein, we would not condone it... While many believe that acts of sodomy, even those involving consenting adults, are morally reprehensible, this repugnance alone does not create a compelling justification for state regulation of the activity." "We agree with our fellow jurists that legislative enactments setting ’social majority’ are not exempt from judicial review testing their constitutional mettle." The minori~ opinion was written by Justice George H. Carley: "Clearly, Powell has no right under the federal constitution to engage in the act. .. since there is no fundamental right ¯ . under theConstitution ofthe United States ~ to engage in consensual sodomy." 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1998] Tulsa Family News, December 1998; Volume 5, Issue 12 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. 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He died Oct. 12 in a Fort Collins, Colo., hospital. ¯ His deathsparkedanintemational . .," outpouring of sympathy for vic"[your vi$11 represents] ¯ ¯ tims of hate crimes and calls for ~: a-federal hate crime law from a eommhment to an end of vlolenee and Clinton. All across the US, communi[to] appropriate ties heldvigils andrallies tohonor proteetlon under the and mourn the slain student. In ¯ law... Matthew Tulsa, a group of about 150-200 ¯ persons gathered at the Civic Shepard’s death was Center Plaza. A number of clergy horrible and senseless; WASHINGTON (AP) - Wisconsin voters elected the ¯ spoke, including the Rev. Father it would be more so if first opeuly Lesbian woman member of Congress on : Rick Hollingsworth of the Parish it. was in vain." ¯ Church of Saint Jerome, the Rev. Tuesday. But an acknowledged Lesbian House chal- Drew Edmondson lenger lost in Washington state and another was behind ¯ Leslie Penrose of Community of OkLaltom Attorney General : Hope United Methodist, the Rev. in California. In Wisconsin’ s open 2nd District, Democratic state Rep. Tammy Baldwin defeated Republican ¯ Helen Calloway of the Unity Josephine Musser, the former state insurance commis- : Church and the Rev. Russell Bennett of Fellowship Congrega¯ tional Church. sioner, to replace retiring GOP Rep. Scott Klug. Oklahoma’ s Attorney General, Drew Edmondson, sent a stateBaldwin, 36, made healtheare a cornerstone of her : campaign, saying the United States should adopt a : ment which was read by Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights vice president, Greg Gatewood: "[your vigil represents] a com~national, publicly funded system like that in Canada. mitment to an end of violence and [to] appropriate protection ’°Tammy Baldwin is a solid representative who hapsee Hate, p. 11 pens to be a Lesbian," said Elizabeth Birch, executive ¯ under the law.. director of the Washington-based Human Rights Cam- : paign, a Gay civil rights group that helped bankroll the Baldwin campaign. "She has broken down a very large door," Birch added. see Baldwin, p. 10 Wisconsin Lesbian Elected To United States House - Fayetteville Civil Rights ¯ Measure Overturned Hawaii. + Alaska Voters Reject Gay. Marriage ’Th~As;oc;’ated Press ~S tri~ggiingt; s atis f~y~l~ot~.~ 0ei-al conservatives and the law of the land, Hawaii on Tuesday took another step toward banning same-gender marriage, giving its Legislature the go-ahead to write a new law. Elsewhere, Alaskans voted a Gay-marriage ban into their constitution, and voters in Fort Collins, Colo., defeated a measure to protect Gays and Lesbians from discrimination. News was more hopeful for Gay civil rights advocates in Maine, where individual communities are fielding anti-discrimination bills to circumvent this year’s statewide vote that overturned protections on the basis of sexual orientation. South Portland approved a Gay rights initiative; Ogunqult’s vote on a similar proposal was too close to call early Wednesday. The Hawaii initiative was lawmakers" latest try to sidestep the state Supreme Court’s 1993 ruling that the state had no constitutional right to ban same-gender marriages because that would deny some citizens the rights provided to others. Because the U.S. Constitution’ s Full Faith and Credit .Clause requires states to honor each other’ s statutes and legal bonds, the 1993 ruling set off some furious preemptive legislating around the country. At least 30 states have now banned Gay marnage, and Congress passtd the Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal recognition of Gay marriage and allowed states to ignore same-sex tmions licensed elsewhere. The two sides in Hawaii spent millions of dollars in a relendess media campaign. "It’s really sending aclear message, a strong message, that the people of this community will not allow homosexual marriages;" said Mike Gabbard, a leader of the Save Traditional Marriage group, seeVote, p. 10 UJ DIRECTORY/LETTERS US & WORLD NEWS ~ ~ ~ HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT NOTES COMMUNITY CALENDAR BOOK REVIEW DO-IT-YOURSELF DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P, 2/3 P. 4 P. 6 P. 8 P. 8 P. I 0 P. 11 P. 12/13 P. 14 FAYEFFEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -.Voters here rejected a resolution : that backers said would have protected Gay people against job ¯ discrimination in city government. Final but unofficial results ¯ from Tuesday’. s .balloting 8howed7~811" v_otes against the measure, 6r58 pe~-cent~ whil~ 5,731,or_42 percenL.we~_e cast in favor. Known as the human-dignity resolution, the measure was passed ¯ by the Fayetteville City Council earlier this year, vetoed by the ¯ mayor, then passed by the council again in overriding the veto. : It would have required that all applicants for city staffpositions ¯ have equal access to employment, regardless of race, sex, reli: gion, color, national origin, age, ancestry, familial statUS, disabil¯ ity or sexual orientation, A group opposed to including "sexual ¯ orientation" on the list successfully petitioned to get the resolu¯ tion.on the ballot. ¯ Claudette’s Leaving! Longtime AIDS Activist Moving to Aggieland ¯ TULSA - For half a decade, anyone seriously involved with ¯ HIV/AIDS, knew Claudette Peterson. For a nu~nber of years, a ¯ Tulsan being tested for HIV anti-bodies likely had their blood ¯ sample taken taken and results given by her when she ran Tulsa ¯ Oklahomans for Human Rights HIV Testing Clinic. More recently, Persons Living with AIDS (PLWA’s) have ¯ benefited from her tireless (and initially unpaid) efforts to estab¯ lish Food Chain, a food pantry and more. However, since her ¯ spouse, Tim Peterson has recently been taken a teaching job at ¯ Texas A&M where he received his ph.D, Tulsa is losing Peterson ¯ to College Station. Another prominent figure among Tulsa HIV/AIDS fundraisers ¯ and caregivers, Janice Nicklas, bemoaned Peterson’ s departure. ¯ "It’ s a major loss for our community.., she has tireless energy for ¯ developing resources for HIV prevention and care and we owe ¯ her a lot . . . anyone’s fortunate to have her living in their community." ¯ Peterson noted that her work has been a labor of love, and is ¯ proud of the fact that she and Foo~t Chain have never had to turn ; away a client and they are now. serving over 100 PLWA’s a ¯ month. She notes that donating food has brought very diverse : people together- drag queens working right next to conservative church people. Peterson also recognizbA Audra Sommers for her ¯ very generous support of Food Chain and other care programs as ¯ wall as support from the National AIDS fund, Tulsa Comm ¯ AIDS Partnership, the Rath Foundation, &Philip Morris Co. Inc. ¯ TULSA- Fornearlyfiveyears,Tulsa’sCity/County ¯ Library System (TCCLS) had refused to allow the ¯ distributionofGaynewspapers,TulsaFamilyNews ¯ in particular, in its lobbies. Early in October, TFN ¯ received a letter inviting the newspaper to provide ¯ copies to be distributed at the Central and each of ¯ the four regional libraries. Tulsa Family News is ¯ now found in those locations. ¯ The dispute over distribution privileges began ¯ when TFN publisher, Tom Neal, was representing _" a now defunct out-of-town Gay paper and re" quested equal distribution access as magazines like ¯ Tulsa Kids, Tulsa People and Urban Tulsa enjoyed ¯ a number of library lobbies. The response of the ." then TCCLS director, Pat Woodrum and the ¯ library’.s board of trustees was to change the rules ; to ban "out of town" publications. Shortly after that decision, Neal began Tulsa ¯ Family News and reapplied as a local publication. ¯ Once again, TCCLS changed the rules to continue to grant access to non-Gay publications and not to ." aGay one. These new rules required that 50% of the ¯ content of the publication be "local." ¯ TFN challenged TCCLS to clarify how it was ¯ defining and connting local content. Neal notes, ¯ "we had issues where it appeared that we met the ~ 50% standard as we understood it and yet we were ¯ told we didn’ t have enough local content. Further." more, we documented multiple violations of that : rule by other publications but the library administration refused to respond to our requests to clarify the policies and to explain their seeming tolerance ¯ for rule-breaking by other publications." see Library, p. 12 World AIDS ¯¯ IAM Director Decides to Step Down ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯" ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ TULSA~interfaithAIDS Ministries is sponsoring its annual World AIDS Day Candlelight March.& Memorial Service. As is customary, the event is on December 1 st, Tuesday and will begin at 6:30 at the parkinglot of Centenary United Methodist Church (631 North Denver) just north of downtown. The march begins to the Parish Church of Saint Jerome (205 West King) at about 7pro and the memorial service will start about 7:30. There is a reception following the service. Marchers are asked to bring banners & bells, but candles & matches will be provided. St. Jerome will be accessible to the disabled at the east entrance. Also, this will be the last World AIDS Day for which ]AM’ s executive director of many years will serve. Diane Zike, who helped found the organizafion when it was part of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma’s AIDS care, will be stepping down at the end of the year for personal reasons. Zike s tated, "my work in AIDS ministry has been a very importaut and meaningful part of my life fore the past 12 years. I regret the need to step down now from my role as director but I will continue to be active and supportive in any way I can." TFN publisher, Tom Neal, noted, "Diane is one of the unsung heroes of the Tulsa AIDS community - she has worked long and hard at great personal cost." Info: 438-2437 or 800-284-2437. : Blues Concert for AIDS ¯ TULSA-Walk for Life will presentits 2ndannual ." blues concert later this year (the date will be an¯ nounced). Last year’s event was held at at ¯" Streamroller Blues and featured a surprise visit from Hanson. The tickets to the event will be $5 at ~ the door and will benefit local AIDS care organizations. For info., call 918-579-9593. see Editorial, p. 3 �Coors Donation Condemned Imagine a Lesbian or Gay activist who 832-1269 918.583.1248, fax: 583.46 15, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159 592-2143 left the country a few years ago and just e-mai!: TNsaNews@ earthlinl~net recently returned back to our community. 744-0896 website: http:Husers.aol.com/TulsaNewst Talk about culture shock! She or he would 599-9512 Publisher + Editor: witness a brave new’queer world, one in 583 -6666 Tom Neal which GLAAD has accepted $110,000 749-4511 Writers + contributors: from Coors, the Human Rights Campaign 585-3134 James Chfistjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud (a Lesbian and Gay PAC) has endorsed 599 -7777 Balry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom D’Amato for Senator in New York, and a 749-1563 Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Adam West young Gay man was tortured and mur744-4280 Member of The Associated Press dered in Wyoming. Importantly for us, 745-9998 these three things are not unrdated 834-4234 Issued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this appeasement comes at a price - and that 585-3405 oublication are protected by US copyright 1998 by T~ J::.~¢L~ . 660-0856 price is not acceptable to us. ~ and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without We are writing (respectively) as a former 584-1308 written permission from the publisher. Publication of a r~ame or taffer and former board member of photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. CorresponTulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals GLAAD/SFBA. Therefore we will focus dence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,_oaust 747-1508 Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular rathe GLAAD-Coors connection. be signed & becomes the sole prope,rty of, T,~.~. /:.~Lg,’...ff.*~.*" 610-8510 *Affinity News~ 8120 E. 21 Each reader is entitled to 4 copies o~ each eoition at msmouuon GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alli746-4620 Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. ance Against Defamation) has accepted *Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000 $110,000 from the Coors Brewing com582-0438 Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 pany to support its new "sexual orientaFriends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 250-5034 583-6611 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 tion in the workplace" training effort. *HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 712-1122 834-4194 Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 GLAAD was founded by activists such as *HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral 712-9955 481-1111 Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 Vito Russo (author of The Celluloid *Holland Hall SchOol, 5666 E. 81st 494-2665 834-8378 *Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale Closet) with a single, very spedfic rmsHOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education 743-5272 Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria sion: to watchdog and critique the media’ s HIV Testing, Mon/Thurs. 7-9pm, daytime by appt. only 746-0313 *CD Warehouse, 3807c S.-Peoria *House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood coverage of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and 581-0902, 743-4117 Cherry Sf. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis Transgendered issues. Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 622-0700 Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 838-1715 It has strayed from that mission often to *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 352-9504, 800-742:9468 748-3111 Tim Daniel, Attorney deal with the substance of issues rather NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral Pi. 749-3620 365-5658 *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th than how they are covered. We believe NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 587-2611 *Devena’ s Gallery, 13 Brady . that conducting sexual orientation in the . OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157 744-5556 584-7960 ¯ workplace trainings is outside GLAAD’ s Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S~.’Peoria *Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 838-8503 749-4901 . niche. *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 584-0337, 712-9379 587-7674 *Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th No other organization in our commu*Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 744-9595 743-4297 " nity focuses on anti-defamation. There is *Iqoral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria *The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105. 628-3709 Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq: Med. Ctr. . plenty of defamation (some have lately prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 742-1460 74%4195 Gloria Jean s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st taken to calling it hate speech) runmng *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 459-9349 665-5174 ¯ around loose these days. GLAAD has Learme M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 744-7440 584-2325 Mark T. Hamby, Attorney. plenty enoughmedia analysis andresponse *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 *Sandra J. I-Iill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 O’RYAN, support group.for 18-24 LGBT young adults to do and litde enough money to do th.at 341-6866 *International Tours vital work, without implementing a new O’ RYAN Jr suppOrt group for .14-17 LGBT youth 712-2750 425~7882 Jacox ~rtimal Clinic; 2732 E. 15th : project with dirty money. ’ - - ’ pi~coP~1 ChurCh , "4045 N¯ Cineinnat4 582-3018 St Aidan’s ~ 492-7140 -~*Jared s Antiquesi i602 El 15th Much has already been said about the *SL Dunstan’ s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71St" 747-0236 582-3088 David Kanskey, Country Club Barbering politics of Coors and the politics of ac*St. Jerome’s Parish Church; 205 W. King 599-8070 583-7171 ~Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. i5 cepting money from Coors. We would *Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S Boulder 747-5466 582-7225 Kelly Kirby CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 like to emphasize our dismay that GLAAD TNAAPP (Native American men) Indian Health Care 585-1234 595-4105 *Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady would accept money from such a source. 584-3112 ¯ Tulsa Cbunty Health Department, 46 16 E. 15 *Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd When we were with GLAAD, RJR Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only 663-5934 Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 Reynolds (Big Tobacco, a key backer of Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297 664-2951 *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place powerful, homophobic North Carolina T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 747-6711 Novel Idea Bookstore, 51 st & Harvard Senator Jesse Helms) was also offering *Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule 747-7672 David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 the community money and some were *Tulsa Community College Campuses 583-1090 *Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 considering taking it! *Rogers University (formerly UCT) 743-4297 The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2rid floor So, we in GLAAD/SFBA back then 747-5932 BARTLESVILLE Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74 t01 "did the math" and realized that taking 834-Q617 *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Jolmstbne - 918-33%5353 Richard’ s Carpet Cleaning money from people trying to kill you just 834-7921. 747-4746 OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN Teri S chutt, Rex Realtors doesn’t add up to anything that makes 582-7748 *Borders Books &Music, 3209 NW Expressway 405-848-2667 Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 sense. Same for Coors once removed 749-6301 *Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907 *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square that is the Coors Foundations. 697-0017 *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria TAHLEQUAH - Tom di Maria, Exec. Director, 1993-95 742-2007 918-456-7900 *Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria - Jessea Greenman, Co-Chair, 1990-94 Stonewall League, call for information: * 481-0558 918-4.56-7900 *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis GLAAD/San Francisco Bay Area *Talilequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 743-1733 918-453-9360 Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling *Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 [Editor’s note: the Coors family wealth 592-0767 *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis has been closely associated with a numNSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30. call for dates Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & U niversities ber of the most ultra rtght wing and anti579-9593 Gaypolitical causes. Coors Brewing ComAIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS 743-2363 501-253-7734 pany was once the target of a boycott due *All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria *Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 587-7314 501-253-7457 to anti-Gay company policies. Coors Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 583-7815 501-253-6807 Brewing now boasts a non-discriminaBless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-9780 DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-5445 tion policy that includes sexual orienta*B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 585-1201 501-253-9337 tion and. supports Gay organizations. *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-2776 *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence ¯ Coors Brewing has supported the Tulsa Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-5332 Pride Picnic for a number of years.] *Church of the Restoration UU, 1314 N.Greenw°°d 587-1314 ¯ Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-624-6646 * Commlmi ty of Hope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747:6300 Positive Idea Marketing Plans Letters Policy 749-0595 501-253-6001 *Commumty Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 743-4297 ¯ Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on 501-253-4074 ¯ *V~qfite Light, 1 Center St. *Council Oak Men’ s Chorale 712-1511 issues which we’ ve covered or on issues *Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S Delaware 742-2457 ¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5 you think need to be considered. You may *Democratic Headqtmrters, 3930 E. 31 501-442-2845 request that your name be withheld but *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. ~ Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa - Lesbian & Gay Catholics & letters must be signed & have phone num355-3140 ¯ JOPLIN, MISSOURI Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475 622-144 1 bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let*Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696 *Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 747-7777 : ters are preferred. Letters to other publi*Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard *Free Svirit Women’ s Center, call for l°cati°n &inf°: 587-4669 -cations will be printed as is appropriate. * is where you can fin dTFN ¯ NotallareGaY" ownedbutallareGay" friendly " 747-6827 Tul;a C~ubs & Restaurants *Bmnboo Lom~ge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria *Full Moon Care, 1525 E. 15th *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston *Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th *Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main *TNT’s, 2114S. Memorial *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd �Ray of Light Campaign Invites Gay People To Tellof Experiences With Ex-Gay Ministries by Wayne Besen . Of course, you would never see a cover story about a discredited, unsubstantiated, cure for baldness, or anyHRC Associate Director of Communications ". thing rise for that matter.., except homosexuality. It is morning once again, and as you rub your tired At the present time. there are only 25 states that have laws against homoffexuals, most nbted are; Alabama 20 years, Georgia 20 years, l~hode eyes and peer into the unforgiving bathroom mirror, the " When it comes to a so-called cure for Gay people, (as if Is and ant ess than 7 years nor more than 20 years, Oklahoma 10 years. The one were wanted or needed) veracity does not seem to shiny reflection of your head is a painful reminder that homosexuals are working hard to get these laws changed to permit their be of much importance to the media. In the following perversion o four country, and it appears they are success fuq at it. " you look just as much like Kojac as the day before. passa~, all of the shenanigans attributed to A great many laws have been changed. Until 1990 the U.S. barred admission of sexual deviants into Although your friends say you should learn our country. In 1986the U.S. SupremeCourtuph, d the constitutionality of Georgia’s sodomy law the ex-bald movement actually occurred in (in a 5 to 4 vote), noting that "prohibitions again homosexuality have been a part of Ainerlcan to accept your baldness, you desperately Currently, ~alse the so-called ex-Gay ministries, from the jurisprudence since the colonization of the countr " Sodomy was a criminal offense forbidden by want to change and have spent years pursuthe laws of’he original thirteen states when they r~ fiodtheBillofRights. Until 1961, allb0states bogus statistics to the distortion of scientific outlawed sodomy. Noah Carolina’s original sodl ay statute nut: "Any person who shall commit notions about : ing the latest hair growth remedies to no the abonimable and detestable crime against natur not fit tb be named among Christians... Shall be research, to the founders of the ex-Gay minadjudged guilty of a felony and SHALL SOl: ER DEATH WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF : avail. But today is your lucky day. While Gay Amerleans CLERGY". istries marrying each other and repudiating : sipping the morning coffee, you pick-up a are beln~ these "cures." Yet, despite these gross irWithout proper punishment of these, perveRs, u( great comitxy has become like Sodom & ¯ copy of a respected news magazine and a Gomorrah. It’s gotten pretty sad when we allo’~ mmosexuals to teach our children that there is ¯ regularities, the media still unwittingly lenothing wrong with being *gay".- ttawthome I ementary public school, Madison, Wisconsin, perpetuated hy a bold, splashy headline proclaims: BALD where lesbian TummY" Boldwln is Distriet Cotmty ~upcwisor, bes just one of many pilot programs gitimizes "ex-Gay" ministries by not holdto teach against homophobia, At the direction of~[hoir teachers, Ist and 2nd graders made a book media whleh : FOR LIFE? Underneath the headline, two titled "Everybody is Equal, A Book About Gay &. Lesbian." The book teaches our very young ing them to the same standard of scientific chiltlrcn respect for homos, a.s well as the Ga~ Pride chant’Hay-Hay-Ho-Ho-Homophobia’s got to ¯ smiling, bushy haired people, who look enerroneously proof that they would demand from any go’and"Wewant rigbl,~tao*: 1ST&2..NDGRADERS!!! 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Vsctlmless crimes, sucKas the possession and distribution of illegal drugs : til you f’md the story about this new "miracle do not escape the law where they are committed at home; right to privacy in no way allows one to simply has a duty to research the accuracy of statebreak the law. Not State law and not God’s !aw...sodomy is a crime and must be prosecuted. By ." cure." But as you read on, your enthusiasm dolng nothing and allowing sodomites to run amuck, just look around and see where our morals are ments made or statistics reported. Currently, regurgitate today. Prison terms for sodomy are designed to punish persons who undertake by unatural and ¯ quickly begins to diminish. First, you find false notions about Gay Americans are beindecent methods to gratify a perverted and depraved sexual appetite which is an offence against that the smiling mop-tops on the cover-page sound bltes rom public dccancy and morality. To i mprison a conlinnod homosexual is like throwing Brer Rabbit i nto ing perpetuated by a media which erronethe briar patch To ~ve our nation we need the DEATII PENALTY to put an end to the sodomites : are full-time, paid employees for acompany ~erverslon o four country. both sides in the ously believes it is honorable journalism to : marketing this product. Next, even the most Can honmsexuals repent and be saved I I Corinthians 6:1 I)? A few are, but this still simply regurgitate sound bites from both does not mean society eannol INSTITUTE THE DEATI I PENALTY for this crime, just : fervent supporters claim that the success name of bahnee. as it has for the crime of murder. No one says a murderer cannot repent and come to sides in the name of balance. While balance ¯ rate of this so-called panacea is a paltry Christ, nor does society allow such a conv~’sion to stop the death penalty from being is important, it is not an excuse to eschew : 30%. What about the other 70% ? According carried out. Lev. 20:13: "Ira man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman both of accuracy and tough, fact checking. All statements are .them have committed an abominatiott. They shall surely be put to death". to the company, the hair tonic is not working for these not equally valid and it is the media’ s responsibility, to folks because they are "not praying hard enough." Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the I.ord, and hc tookaway the sodimites out distinguish fact from fiction. In most of the news stones of the hind (IKings 15:12). ]-lad Asa execu~.d these sexual deviants, Jehnsaphat As you skim down the page, you perk up because you wouldn’t have had to remove the remaining sodomites out of the land (I Kings22: 46). about the "ex-Gay" mimstries or the Right wing ad read there is still hope! A competing company claims The Death Penalty is our only answer to ensure these pe~’erts are out of our cont r~’ and campaign in which these mimstries are highlighted, that their hair tonic has a miraculous success rate of stay out for good. ] fiction has been the norm and the truth has been a 71.6%. But when asked by the magazine reporter for But God is love, oh yes, God is love ~nd if you love God, you will keep his commandment {Matt 22:37 and Jol~ 14:15). So for our people to keep the hard data to corroborate the claim, the company spokes¯ For example, ex-Gay leader Anthony Falzarano recommandment of l.ev. 20:13 is tO love Grd. Romans 1:2~-32: :,re have changed.the . " person glibly replies,. "I don’t have time to conduct troth of God into a lie. worshippingand se~ing the creature more than the Creatbr. God cently said dn television that nearly 80% of Gay people follow-up studies." How then, you wonder, does the has given us up to qle afflictions, even our woman go against nature, ~nd likewise also were :molested as children. This is factually incorrec~by the men burned in their lust one toward another, They \vhich commit such things arc ¯ company come up with a specific number like 71.6% worthyofdeath, SodomandGomorrahwcredestro.vedforsuchthings. Ourendcould any objective standards, with Gay people no more likely without ~’011ow-ti~ studies to document whether or not be #n uch worse i fwe don’t follow God’s law’.and uphold the Death Panahy for sodom): to be molested as children than heterosexuals. Unfortu: the patients sprouted hair? nately; because he is talking about Gay people, the Pastor Pete Peters points out in his book,"Death Panalty for Homosexuals" that the top ~ The article then points out that the two scientists who 6 leading scrialki||ers in the U.S- are: Donald | larvt:y - 37 killed. 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God ~ They say that many people would he harmed psychohas Ills law and the law is good tfa man use it lawfully( I Timothy 1 :g-I 0). excoriated him for his hysterical statement. . logically if they pinned all ,of, their ho.p~,s a~,d dream~,on~ At the Human rights Campaign, our biggest chalHelp spread ti~is message, support the ministr) of Reverend Jon’ny Lee Clear,.. To what they now Call a"fraud. The article atso states mat reorder copies scud a $12.50 donation fi~r 100 copies to P.O. BOX 702631; Tulsa, OK lenge is not countering political religious activist ~oups "- all respected medical and mental health organizations 74170. who exist m deny us equal rights. The toughest battle we agreed with the inventors that the hair tonic was no more face is getting the media to accurately follow-up on T s tact sponsored by the American Patriot !lotline {918) 494-0004. Call for a free i likely to help one grow hair than dipping ones head in recorded message. outrageous statements made by these groups. As it ~ a vat of Ben and Jerry’ s ice cream. ¯ stands, our opponents can say anything they want about If that isn’ t bad enough, the companies promoting the Gay people, no matter how despicable, and they never ¯ hair tonic have taken out full page ads in major newspa. have m answer for it~Through lazy reporting, the media : pers which have distorted a baldness study by one of the has become an accomphce m the Right s discnnnnalao ¯ premier hair loss specialists in the nation. The acby Tom Neal, publisher & editor campaign against Gay Americans by giving bald faced "_ claimed expert retorted acrimoniously to the lies by "To save our nation, we need the DEATH PENALTY t~ lies equal stature to documented facts. It is our hope that ¯ saying, "It was a complete misrepresentation of what put an end to the sodomites perversion of our country." No ~ the research actually said. It was taken completely out as the news media begins to evaluate some of their doubt, your reaction is much like mine was - this is ludiglaring ethical lapses in 1998, they will consider stop~ of context. I am horrified and angry and they are crous, almost laughable ! And that reactionis increased when ¯ ping the harmful practice of printing false information we note the source: the extremely disreputable, publicity- ¯ spreading an awful and destructive message." about Gay people perpetuated by the Right without first Your dreams of looking like Fabio are dashed for hungry ex-Klansman, the "Reverend" Jonny Lee.Cleary. ¯ verifying the outrageous claims. But just as the extremist rhetoric of anti-abortiomsts has ¯ good when you read that of the people lumped in the This perpetuation of myths by the media has forced 30% success rate category, the majority believed that if created a climate in which extremists murder in order to the Human Rights Campaign to start the Ray Of Light "save lives," this adds to a climate in which Lesbian and Gay ~ thehairtonicdidnot work, biologicalbaldness couidbe (ROL) project. The ROL seeks to shine the spotlight on ¯ overcome by wearing atoupee. The article ends with the lives .(and those of our non-Gay friends who shand by us) are ¯ these ministries so people can see beyond the rhetoric testimony of angry ex-ex bald people who claim that already devalued and at risk. and hear from the vast majority of people who have been ] they were misled and cheated by the hair tonic compaThough ultra conservative political groups, like the Famthrough these ministries and now call their techniques ¯ rues. One company’s spokesperson dismisses the inily Research Council, Focus on the Family and the Repub] convenient complaints of the ex-ex-bald people by ¯ psychological terrorism. This project will invite former lican Party now distance themsdves from recent violence ex-Gays from around the nation to share their stories against Lesbians and Gay men, their systematic attacks on us ~ saying: "Some p~.ople fall of the wagon." ¯ with the Human Rights Campaign and lift the veil of ~ You now sit m your living room, enraged by the and their exploitation of anti-Gay fear for political gain also ¯ secrecy surrounding these mimstries. The Ray of Light ¯ misleading story, wondering how a respected news have helped create a climate ripe for violence. ~ outlet would g~ve this "snake oil" that has been so ¯ will: ¯ Murdered University of Wyoming student Matthew *Seek and chronicle the stories of former ex-Gays; Shepard’ s death was horrible but it was not the only one of ~ thoroughly discredited, the slightest bit of legitimacy, ¯ *Share these smiles with the public and the media; ¯ ~ no less a cover story. Shouldn’t the ex-ex-bald people its type, nationally or even locally. According to Kelly *Compile information by leading mental health and Kirby, 1 ongtime Tulsa civil rights activist, there was one Gay ~ have been on the cover, or at least been the focus of the ¯ medical experts on the most recent studies; and ¯ story instead because their experiences are a more ¯ man murdered each .year from 1991 to 1996. And yet when *Examine the literature of the ex-Gay ministries to Tulsans held a public vigil for Shepard, not one elected ~ representative of the vast majority who took the tomc? ¯ look for flagrant abuses and fraudulent claims. ~ Do journalistic ethics and standards exist anymore, you official came or sent a representative. Mayor Savage was out If you have been through these ministries, please of town but surely some one member of her staff could have ¯ wonder? Whoops, you almost forgot, it is 1998, ’‘The ¯ submit your story so we can share it and help others. shown up? What about the district attorney? Only former : Year of the Journalist." ~ Stories can be submitted, to: www.hrc.org/ncop/rol DA Bill LaFortune came and that reflects not only on his decency and compassion see Penalty, p.14 �Churches Create Hate ¯¯ gether in 1991, chose a sperm donor together with a genetic profile that was compatible to theirs once they MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Mainstream Christian denominations are to blame for a climate of hate and ¯ decided to have a child. S.L.V. was inseminated because R.E.M. had had a hysterectomy, the opinion bigotry that fostered the fatal beating of a Gay Uni¯ satd. The women went by mommy and mamere, versity of Wyoming student, a United Methodist ¯ Church pastor says. "It’s not just the fight-wing ¯ and drew up respective, detailed family trees for the conservatives" who are teaching that homosexuality ¯ baby. The relationship ended in November 1996, although S.LV. remained in the home until Septemis a sin and that Christian churches should shun Gays ¯ ber 1997, the opinion said. R.E.M. sued for castody a and Lesbians, the Rev. Jimmy Creech said while in Minneapolis recently. "I hold the church accountable ¯ month later. for helping to create a culture that allows violence against Gays and Lesbians," he said. "Churches don’ t intend for the violence to happen, but they lay the groundwork for it." Creech gained national notoriety" for officiating at LONDON (AP)-The British Broadcasting Corp. has a same-sex covenant ceremony in his Omaha, Neb., apologized to a Cabinet minister who was described congregation. In August, he was narrowly acquitted as Gay during a news program. Aides to Trade Secof violating church law. He subsequently resigned retary Peter Mandelson said Monday he had received from his Nebraska congregation. ~ a letter of apology from BBC chairman Sir ChristoCreech argues that when the church denies clergy ¯ pher Bland. Mandelson, who prefers not to make an members the right to perform same-sex ceremonies, ¯ issue of his sexual orientation, planned no comment it is preventing them from "being a pastor to all : on the letter, the aides said. members of the congregation.r’ For him, "’This is the The controversy began when newspaper columnist denial of my freedom to be a pastor to everyone, and Matthew Pards said on alate-night BBC program that that’s very offensive." ¯ Mandelson was "certainly, Gay. The remark came Crecch was in Minneapolis to preach at two ser- ¯ during speculation about the sexuality of another vices at All God’s Children Metropolitan Church. ¯ Cabinet minister, Ron Davies, who resigned as Welsh The day before, he met with several Minnesota United ¯ Secretary last week because of what he called a"lapse Methodist clergy and laity. Recently, 22 United Meth- ¯ of judgment" with a stranger who robbed him after odist members from Minnesota joined 344 other the two met at London’ s Clapham Common, a popuMethodists around the country in asking the national : lar Gay hangout, and left together. Davies has given bishops to address the issues of treatment of Gays and : no clear explanation of what happened. But he has Lesbians in the church. ¯ denied he was seeking Gay sex or drugs, even after days of banner headlines and tabloid stories. : Meanwhile, the BBC added to the controversy by ¯ ordering staff members never to repeat the remark by ¯ Parris, who is openly Gay, on any of its programs. ¯ NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A woman who stayed home ¯ That move provoked charges of clumsy censorship and of giving special treatment to Mandelson, a close [o raise a 2-year-old boy while her Lesbian partner ¯ adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair and among the earned a living can share custody of the child, even though she isn’ t the biological mother, a judge has ¯"¯ country’ s most influential politicians. Protesters included the opposition Conservative ruled. The partner, identified only as R.E.M., stayed ~arty., severa! 9f whose.politicians were pursu.,e,d.by home to take care of the boy while her partngr, S.L..y., worked at a hospital. The Lakewood couple decided . the media over extramarital affairs when the party was ~n power. to have the child together, chose a sperm donor to Also opposed to the BBCrs move was Northern inseminate S.L.V. and sent out birth announcements " Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam, also a leading memwith both women’ s fingerprints on them. Experts who follow Lesbian custody battles say the ¯ ber of the Blair Cabinet. Ms. Mowlam said she and other panelists on a Friday night BBC radio talk show decision goes further than any other in granting bro,a,d ," were told not to mention Mandelson and the Gay custodial rights to a woman who is not the child s birth mother. "- remark. "I’m not about to be unfair or unjust to "The court is satisfied that R.E.M. has been able to ¯ colleagues, but we’ve all state~,,very clearly that to be given guidelines is insulfing~ she said during the show that she stands in the shoes of a parent to the child and should be accorded the status of parent in " show. The BBC altered.anews quiz program last week to parity with S.L.V.,’7 Superior Court Judge Vincent ¯ remove a running joke about Mandelson, but the TV Grasso wrote in his decision issued Monday in Ocean ¯ satare program .Ha. e I Got Ne~ws For You.’?" was County. ¯ allowed to broadcast a Clip of the Parris comment. 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They say lawsuits are a powerful have yet to be decided in Mercer and Union counties. ¯ weapon in the ending name:calling, harassment and "Right now, you have a situation that really cries out : violence agMnst young Gay people. S.chool districts for an appeal," said Paul Urbania, S:L.V:’s attorney. ¯ that have ignored the problem are being held liable. ’q’he law in New Jersey shouldn’t depend on where ¯ No federal anti-discrimination laws cover sexual geographically you’ re located." : orientation, and Massachusetts is the only state to One woman in Essex County, who said she helped ¯ mandate such protection. But officials-fro_re, the U~S. raise 4-year-old twins with her ex-partner, lost cus¯ Department of Education saidthat under T~tle IX of tody of the children and vowed to appeal. Attorney theCivil RightsAct,new legal groundis being carved Robin Wernik said the woman will use the Ocean ; out to help Gay youth. County opinion to bolster her case. For instance, a boy who is harassed by other boys ¯" Lawyers are still formalizing the details, butR.E.M. ¯ because he is.effeminate may have a valid claim that will likely be able to care for the boy for three or four ¯ he’ s being discriminated against because of his gen12-hour days each week while S.L.V. isat work, as ¯ der. Agency officials said they werelooking into such well as on alternate weekends, said her attorney, ¯ a case at a private school in the San Francisco Bay Bettina Munson. R.E.M., a former bartender, does ; area. ’Tm n0t saying we came to tell you we’ve got not work because of apermanent disability to her arm. ¯ all the magic bullets and fight answers," said Art Both women must share the cost of supporting the of ,,D~p~artment of.Education’s Office of boy, identified only as A.J.M.V., the judge said. 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Gay MayorforWinnipeg WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - A city councilman once featured in a documentary about Gay foster fathers has won the mayoral race in Winnipeg, becoming the first openly Gay mayor of a major Canadian city. "It was a history-making night," said Glen Murray after returns showed him winning easily over six other candidates. Winnipeg is Manitoba’s capital and, with 667,000 residents, is the largest Canadian city between Toronto and Calgary, Alberta. Murray, 41, became one of Canada’s betterknown Gay politicians six years ago when, with his troubled foster son Michael Curtis, he was featured in a film documentary called "A Kind of Family." Murray did not make his sexual orientation a focus of the campaign, concentrating instead on economic issues and moderating some of the left-ofcenter positions he espoused during three terms on ¯ the city council. His main opponent, grocery-store executive " " Philip Kaufman, did not raise the homosexuality ¯ issue explicidy, though he made references early in ¯ the campaign to family values. Late in the cam" paign, a local minister organized a prayer vigil and ¯ urged voters to oppose Murray. "This is not a matter of hating anyone," said Bruce Martin, pastor ¯ of Calvary Temple Pentecostal Church. "It’s a " matter of biblical interpretation." Murray’s victory was celebrated by Gays in ¯ Winnipeg. "It’ s apotent symbol that an openly Gay person should be elected to a high post like this," " said Chris Vogel, a Gay rights activist. "It contrib¯ utes to the growing sense that there’s nothing ¯ wrong with being homosexual." Murray, seeking to portray himself as main¯ " stream, said he would follow the practice of previous Winnipeg mayors and refuse .to officially proclaim a Gay Pride week in the city. In fact, he said " he _will try to avoid issuing such proclamations on " behalf of any group or cause. "We’re a city of such ¯ diversity, of so many cultures," he said. "We’re a ¯ city of great tolerance, of hope and I just think all of ¯ those values were reaffirmed tonight." There are " only a couple of dozen openly Gay politicians in " Canada, including two members of the federal Parliament. Gay Man in NY SenateI ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Thomas Duane, openly Gay and HIV-positive, describes himself as "distinctly progressive." The Democratic New YorkCity Councilman is running for a seat m the state Senate that has rarely, if ever, been described in those terms. If Duane is elected - and the heavy Democratic makeup of his Manhattan district makes that very likely - he will become the state Senate’s first openly Gay member and only the second openly Gay member of the state Legislature.-"I’m hoping to add something that has been missing from the debate in Albany," Duane said. He runs as the recent beating death of Gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepherd focuses national attention onhate crimes legislation, one of Duane’ s key issugs. Known for his outspoken support of issues relating to Gays, women and the disabled in.the rough and tumble city council, Duane has said that the absence of hate crime statutes permits and, ina sense, encourages violence against homosexuals. This-year, he called for can-cellation-of the annual GreenwiEii Village Halloween Parade, clting rising anti-Gay violence in the traditionally tolerant New York City enclave. Such abate crimes law has been blockedin New York by the very Republican-controlled state Senate Duane hopes to take a seat in. Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno opposes the law, saying it creates a special class of victim. ’‘The state Senate has been absolutely backward," Matt Foreman, executive director of Empire State Pride ¯ Agenda, New York’s largest Gay advocacy group. ¯ "Someone like Tom is desperately needed there." It is highly unlikely that Duane he will have any luck " COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A bishop who performed two same-sex ceremonies when he was a pushing legislation through the highly-regimented Senate from the Democratic side of the aisle. Still, support- ¯ Columbus pastor said it was an agonizing decision ers say his status is likely to hold sway in debates. "To ¯ for him to file a complaint against a minister for have someone who lives with HIV talking about HIV- : performing a Gay ceremony. Bishop Joseph related bills will be quite powerful and I think his " Sprague, head of the Chicago United Methodist opinion willcarry real weight," said state Sen. Catherine ¯ Church, said he performed services for two men and two women. Abate. Sprague charged Rev. Gregory Dell, pastor of Duane is running for Abate’ s seat after she vacated it " Broadway United Methodist Church in Chicago, to nm unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination ¯ for state attorney general. The district winds from the ¯ with "failure to uphold the order and discipline of the United Methodist Church." Sprague said he Upper West Side through Times Square downtown to Greenwich Village and the Financial District. Voter :’ chose to write the complaint to avoid inflammatory registration is 67 percent Democrat and only about 11 " language he expected others might use. Dell will be tried before a 13-person jury of his percent GOP. His opponent, Republican Karol Murov, ¯ peers. Dell said he didn’ t talk with Sprague before has failed to mount mu’ch of a challenge, observers said. conducting the recent service, but knew the bishop Bruno spokesman John McArdle refused to discuss Duane’ s candidacy. But in response.to criticisms about " would be required to file charges. Sprague said before he performed the Gay certhe chamber’s attention to Gay issues he said "the .. emonies he first discussed it with Bishop Judith Senate has responded to concerns of New Yorkers as a whole." ." Craig of the West Ohio Conference, which has Duane’s election would bring New York even with ¯ jurisdiction over Columbus. "I told him he could Arizona and California, which both have two Gay ¯ not use the marriage ceremony in that setting... I members in their state Legislature. Only Oregon and " told him that in terms of any ceremony he designed, Maine have more. ." I would leave it to his pastoral discretion to do what was necessary to providepastoral care," Craig said. AssemblywomanDe_borah Glick, the-New York’s Sprague has refused to remove Dell from his first openly Gay legislator, points to legislation r~quirduties pending the trial, and said he isn’ t sure what ing AIDs testing for newborns and this year’ s mandate : that people who test positive for HIV notify their " he will do if the jury votes to oust Dell. Bishop in Bind l~ Brooksid¢ 918-663-5934 fax: 663-5834 800-OA.A. -5934 Family Owned "& Operated 12 death of Matthew Shepard, a Gay University of : Wyoming student who was beaten and left tied to a " fence to die, officials said. "When you don’t deal with ¯ sexual harassment, it leads to society accepting it, and that leads to tragedies like that," said Gloria Estolano, " who works in the agency’s San Francisco office. Those attending the second annual conference hosted by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network " said lawsuits should be a last resort. "The last time " students needed lawyers ,to g~t them through high school was in the ’50s and 60s’ during the civil rights movement, said Kate Frankfurt, an organizer of the ¯ gathering. What’s needed instead, she said, is organiza- ¯ tions that can stimulate dialogue on the issue. Learning how to better run her own such group ¯ brought Veronica Lopez, 22, from Stockton to the ¯ conference. Lopez, a college student who works full time in a day care center, said homophobia starts early. She said a 4-year-old boy recently came to her in tears . because a 5-year-old had just called him an anti-Gay " epithet. "It shows the parents are talking about it, ." because kids don’t even know what (Gay) is," Lopez ¯ said. "I thinkit’ s important that people realize we’re not " sick people... I consider myself pretty normal." Herman "Ton~’ Becket �Jocelyn Elders: No Regrets COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Jocelyn Elders, who lost her job as U.S. surgeon general four years ago, says she does not regret taking such controversial stands as advocating se~x education for kindergartners and conitoms in teen-agers’ pockets. "You look back on things like that more than once, and I have tried to think how I would have said things differently or should I have said those things, and I have to say I have no regrets," she said at an annual state conference on sexually transfnitted diseases and HIV, the AIDS virus. Even the invitation for her to speak stirred controversy. The state Department of Health and Environmental Control last month withdrew its sponsorship and $40,000 in funding, saying Elders’ presence would distract from the issues. That left AIDS service organizations as the primary sponsors, with funding frompharmaceutical companies. Eiders, who drew bursts of applause and cheers from the audience of nearly 650, said she advocates explaining sex to youngsters so they can protect themselves from abuse. "We want tO teach our children early that there are places that people should not touch," she said in an interview. What about leaving sex education to parents? "We don’t let the parents teach physics," Eiders said. "Your health is far more important than physics." And if site had a teen-age daughter? "I would never want my teen-ager to go out on a date without a condom in her purse," Elders said, saying vows of abstinence"are easier to break than a latex condom.’" Elders, the first black woman to be surgeon general, held the job 15 months until she was forced to resign in December ;t-994: ~Her downfall came. when she said Gays and Lesbians must help save children from the un-Christian religious right. three years. It got $210,000 from the dis- trict last year for the effort and raised $50,000 from private donors. Last month, its van disU-ibuted 17,000 needles. Prevention Works should have. enough resources to keep the needle-exchange van rnnning for four or five more months, said Graham, who is running for City Council. Needle exchanges are operatingin about 100 U.S. cities. Supporters say such programs help prevent the spread of AIDS by allowing addicts to exchange contamimated needles for dean ones. Opponents contend the programs encourage drug abuse. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the distriCt’ s delegate to Congress, called the provision "callous... (and) ignorant, because the entire scientific establishment has reached the same conclusion: Needle exchange markedly reduces AIDS infection and deaths without spreading drug abuse." Its racial implications are inescapable, she said, because AIDS is hitting black and Hispanic populations the hardest. Last year, she said, the District’s AIDS rate was nine times the national average. Tiahrt and Sen. Jolm Ashcroft, R-Mo., the Senate sponsor of the ban, cite Canadian studies they say demonstrate that . clean needle programs have failed to reduce the spread of HIV. "’Wherever the needle exchange programs took place, they became hubs for drug activity," Tiahrt said. Addicts~ need "help ~o get off drugs, not help to get new needles." A possible White House contender, Ashcrofl likens needle exchange programs to the idea "that providing bulletproof vests to bark robbers would make it safer for them to rob banks." The authors of the Canadian studies have said congressional leaders misinterpreted their report. Because the programs served inner-tory neighborhoods, they served users.already at the.greatest risk of infection, they said, and the programs did not provide enough syringes to be effecfive. Investors Suing Needle Exchange Program Prevails ¯ PLWA’s Not Dying WASHINGTON (AP) -Even before a : wEsT PALM BEACH, Fla. 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Congress, as part of the $520 billion ¯ policy becomes the policy’s owner and spendingpackage signedinto law Wednes- ¯¯ beneficiary and collects the full benefit when the patient dies. day, banned use of local and federal fund¯ The deals were invented in the 1980s as ing for any needle-exchange program in the District of Columbia. That was on top ¯ thenumberofAIDS cases exploded. They of a permanent ban on federal funding of ¯¯ have been controversial since their inceplion because, in .crass terms, they are an needle exchanges anywhere in the coun: investment in someone else’ s death. But try. The Whitman-Walker Clinic, one of : the deals are touted as making the best of the nation’ s largest, has created a private, ¯¯ a bad situation. They often help AIDS patients pay for treatment and live out nonprofit group to run the program, transferring equipment, supplies and $50,000 ¯ their final days in relative comfort. 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So for the investor, the deals are no longer viable, said Mitchell L. Perlstein, a Boca Raton attorney who is representing the investors. The deals now amount to deception on the ,part of the two companies in the lawsuits, he said P6rlstein said there’ s no longer areasonable certainty as to the projeqti~n Of life expectancy. The lawsuits seek a~jury trial and unspecified damages. A Judge must certify them if they are to become class actaon. Officials at Accelerated Benefits in Orlando and Dedicated Resources Inc. of Delray Beach said they had not seen the lawsuits and could not comment on the Specific charges. "It’ll be interesting to see what they have to say," said Michael Zadoff, president of Dedicated Resources. HIV & Elder, Sex TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Sue Saunders is 65 and has AIDS. As far as she’ s concerned, the more people who know it the better. Saunders pioneered aproject in her hometown of Fort Lauderdale to educate Flori~ans over age 50 about the risk of de¯el oplng acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Her first challenge was getting the attention of an age group largely ignored when it comes to AIDS education. "Yes, there is sex after 50. After 60. After 70. People think after 50 we die from the neck down," Ms. Saunders said. "People look at you like you’re crazy. What? You mean, Grandma and Grandpa are still having sex?" Ten% of all AIDS cases in the country are people over age 50, according to the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. In Florida, the figure is higher - ranging between 12% and 14%. One in eight Floridians living with AIDS is 50 or older, state health officials said. Yet when groups are addressed that are considered.at risk of contracting the virus that causes AIDs, older Americans are often left out. Eighteen months ago, Ms. Saunders began inviting herself to small South Florida groups to discuss prevention, promote education and warn seniors to abstain from sex or use condoms. "You’ re telling people 50 to 90 years old: ’You are at risk for a fatal disease. You just went to bed with a guy and y,ou don’ t know where’ s he’ s been.’" Ms. Saunders was healthy and active. She was divorced, in love and in a longlime relationship. Her Bahamianboyfriend was the spark of her life. They spent lazy days on the water, fishing. Life was good. That was in 1990: Suddenly, her boyfriend was diagnosed HIV positive. Nine months later, he was dead. She feared the same thing would happen to her and began saying goodbye to her four grown children. A son took herto an HIV-infected doctor in Laguna Beach, Calif. That visit helped change her life. She dropped the self-pity and went to the Broward County Health Department but found little informarion. After six months doing research, she went to Bentley Lipscomb, elder affairs secretary, who found $170,000 to fund SHIP, the Senior. HIV Intervention Project. Ms. Saunders worked long and hard getting into the crowded retirement condominiums along Florida’ s Gold Coast to give her message. In these building complexes, women outnumber men seven-toone, she said. "The women are starved for affection. The men are having a ball. They" ¯ b.ling the cost. Hemophiliac,~ m~d tra:>/;ucan have all the women they want. "Ev~ sxon recipients were infected wifl~.~,~--,..... ,,~,.~ erybody says ’it can’t happen to me. I’m ¯ donated by people who carried th6 AIDS uot aprostitute. I don’ t fool around,’" she ¯ virus. said. "You’ie never too old. And all it The Institute of Medicine, a scientific takes xs one partner - if he or she is ¯ organizationthatadvises the government, ¯ infected.’" later concluded that government caution. Older people are rarely targeted for ¯ fear of criticism and inadequate leaderprevention. The health care system, inship delayed effective screening of docluding doctors, often is reluctant or unnors and proper blood testing. easy about discussing AIDS and sex with ¯ Hemophiliacs already have won them, said Dave Bruns, elder affairs : $100,000 each from the blood industry spokesman. "Not only is it an insult, it’ s ¯ through the settlement of a class action rampant ageism," Bruns said. "Just who lawsuit. Transfusion court victories have do they think is buying all this Viagra?" ¯ been more sporadic. There are 67,282 cases of AIDS cases ¯ Karpinski said Jeffords will try again statewide and 8,400 of those infected are ¯ next year toinclude transfusion victims, a ¯ age 50 or older, according to the Florida move DeWine backs. "We should work to ¯ Department of Health. see that justice is done for this group of When Ms. Saunders left the SHIP pro- ¯ victims as well," said DeWine. "We made gram recently, the demand for lectures the decision that it was better to deal with was enormous. "Everybody wanted us to ¯ part of the problem than none of the probcome talk to them," she said. They were " lem." "I think the precedent of this bill scheduling 20 to 30 presentations amonth. ¯ willmakeit easier to address the concerns ¯ The project was so successful, a second ofthosewhohaveAIDS because oftransprogram was launched in the Tampa Bay ¯ fusions." area under Edith Ellerson in June. She encountered similar apprehension as she started talking at senior centers, assistedliving residences, senior nutritional programs. WESTMINSTER, Colo. (AP)-Ten years Gradually, the audiences became more receptive and willing to listen. She brings ¯¯ ago, a little boy from Broomfield began condoms, urges listeners to be tested and ¯ first grade while 30 children stayed home in protest. Threatening statements and find out first about themselves, then ques¯ letters from parents demanded a separate tion their partners. "You’ re not only sleeping with your partner, but with whomever : bathroom and eating area for Ryan your partner slept with for the past five ¯ Sheridan, who was infected with HIV. He years, and whoever they slept with - like ¯ died of complications fromAIDS in 1993. Public perception of the disease has a pyramid or domino effect," she said. School NamedAfter Boy with AIDS ¯ changed since 1988, but misunderstand, ings still exist. Reminding students, teach¯ - ers and admimstrators ol~the hard lessons ¯ learned about Ryan is a school named ¯ after him: Ryan Elementary School in ¯ Westminster. His picture, a plaque and a WASHINGTON (AP) - Last-minute lob- ¯ red ribbon hangin thelobby of the school. bying led to deceptively easy approval of "It’s tough to remember. People were a plan to allow the government to com- ¯ backed in a corner and forced to deal with pensate hemophiliacs infected with HIV ¯ something they didn’ t want to deal with," during the early days of the AIDS epi- ¯ said Tim Sheridan, recalling the events demic. The bill, passed by the Senate on a ¯ leading up to his son’s first day in first ¯ voice vote, authorizes payments of grade. When the Shefidans, now divorced ¯ $100,000 apiece to compensate hemoand bothlivingin ~Ihornton, told adminisphiliacs or their survivors for the : trators Ryan was infected, the Jefferson government’s failure to aggressively ¯ County school boarddecided to inform all screen tainted blood products. parents by letter that a student with HIV The measure, which President Clinton ¯ would attendJuchem Elementary School. is expected to sign, does not put the checks ¯. Juchem closed in 1994 after being rein the mail, though, because it does not placed by a new school named Ryan Elallocate any money. However, with the ementary. authorization in hand, the bill’s backers ¯ The letter caused a firestorm of controcan lobby Congress to appropriate the versy that forced the school board to have estimated $750 million it would cost. ¯ a number of secret meetings with Ryan’ s The bill, named after Ricky Ray, a 15- ¯ teacher and publicmeetings to discuss the year-old hemophiliac from Florida who ¯ issue. Throughout, Ryan remained anonydied from AIDS in 1992, became contro- ¯ mous to everyone but his teacher, the versial late in the legislative process, when principal and the school board. others who contracted the .disease from ¯ Ryan contracted HIV when he was 2 tainted blood transfusions argued that they ¯ years old from a blood transfusion during deserved to be included. ¯ 9Pen-heart surgery. Teachers and adminSen. James Jeffords, R-Vt., took up the ¯ lstrators say Ryan taught everyone at the cause of the transfusion victims, and at ¯ school difficult lessons about tolerance one point blocked consideration of the ; and courage, but AIDS educators say the Ricky Ray bill in an effort to force action public still has a long way to go in underon a more encompassing authorization. standing the disease. "in my opinion, we Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, said he ¯ haven’t gone all that far in 10 years. Our spent the weekend on the phone pressing ¯ homophobia is what gets in the way of Senate leaders to move the bill to the floor hearing about HIV," said Katy Fleming, and dealing with the last-minute objec- ¯ education director at the Boulder County tions of other senators. ; AIDS Project. "Studies have shown that Jeffords’ spokesman Joe Karpinski said ¯¯ manytimes peoples’ attitudes towardchilhe never planned to hold up the legislation dren (with AIDS) have been negative altogether, and dropped his objections to ¯ because of issues of sexual orientation " the House bill after it became clear that he ¯ Although HIV and AIDS education is could not develop consensus to include ¯ better today, moral issues still need to be the.transfusion victims, potentially dou- ¯ separated from medical issues, Fleming \ ¯ said. Hemophiliacs to Get Compensation �by James Christjohn : they would get the in-jokes peppered ff there is a movie that I would heartily ¯ throughout the film. recommend to all folks this Halloween,,it ; And speaking of magic, The Divine is Practical Magic. It has something for ¯ Miss M’ s new release, "Bathhouse Betty" is a must-have for any gifting everyone: laughter, tears, suspense, horror, magic, and "I’m Beautiful, this season. It is Bette at her best, full of everything from Stevie Nicks (betcha were Dammlt" tearful ballads ("One True wondering how I’d work her [Bette Midler’s Friend") to bawdy blues (my in, huh?). A comedy about a favorite, and new family of hereditary witches new recording] personal theme song, "One Monkey that actually gets the gist of is a standout Don’t Stop No Show"), to Wicca correct for a change, comedic with a message (aneven if adding a few "eyes of track that other theme song, a hipnewt and a liberal dose of should he a hit hoppin’ ’Tm Beautiful, frogs" - and romance, the fain the dance Dammit!"). vorite line will be the one It marks a return to the where one of the townsfolk clubs, being an eclecticism that was one of says of one of the witches anthem to Bette’ s most delightful quali"Goodnews - she’ s come out!" being-different ties, where you might discover And, to my delight, Stevie~ s songs you’ d never find otherreworked "Crystal" is a major and eelebratln~ wiseifyouhadn’ t been liste~ntheme in the film in the score that dlfferenee ing to her albums. ’T m Beauas well as sung. The advice given in the film to those conin .spite of the tiful, Dammit" is a standout track that should be a hit in the sidering or afraid of relationflak it brin~s. dance clubs, being an anthem ships is well worth the price of to being different and celebratadmission. Stockard Channing ¯ ing that difference in spite of the flak it and Diane Weist are absolute magic as the Annties who pass on the family traditions ¯ brings. ¯ Know someone that Loves Bette with liberal doses of love and laughter. ¯ Midler? Perfect gift. Know someone that One of the lovely things about the film has never heard of Bette? Perfect introis .that it deals with being perceived as different, inhuman, "other" in the ’~main- ¯¯ duction. James Christjohn, actor, writer, poet stream" world, and being a magical film, ¯ and Mac-guru extraordinaire provides how the wOmen of this family transcend that difficulty. It very much has a Gay ¯ TFN with entertainment news, commensensibility to it and thus would be enjoyed ~ tary and can be counted on for regular by those in our community especially, for ¯ Stevie Nicks updates. Gal-A-Vanting, Tulsa’ s new social ac- " play a wide array of tunes for the dancing pleasure of Tulsa’s women. tivities network specializing With the smaller lounges in in Ms-adventures for women, the Pride center, opportunities kicked off its program with a Women In the Arts night at the long-awalted for a quiet conversation are available. Light refreshPride Center on October 23. dance will be also ments will be available and While attendance was somethe entry fee is $3 for singles what thin, with approximately held at the and $5 for couples. 20 women in the audience, Pride Center "We’ ve had a lot of interest Gal-A-Vanting founders Joan on Saturday in this dance, because so many and Mary were still quite women like to dance but for happy with the event. November 14 whatever reason don’ t care to "We didn’ t take into account be arbund smoking or drinkOktoberfest," Mary explains, from eight ing. It will also provide a nice "And we are still developing p.m. tll ??? and venue for women to meet new our mailing list and contacts. The artists were really outwill be D.J.’d friends and make new contacts." says Mary. standing, each with a style and by The December Gal-Amedia that was quite unique~ We’re hoping to do a week Sue Knause, Vanting event will be a movie night on December 16 at the long show in the spring so that who promises Pride Center, beginni ng at 6:30 the art exhibits can be stationp.m. A feature film and a ary and serve as an anchor for to play a wide couple of documentaries will performing arts such as readarray of tunes be shown. ings, music and so forth. And We’re getting ready to prethis will give people a better for the pare our schedule of events chance to see the works of danelng for the first of the year and these fine women artists, and we’ d really like some ideas pleasure of support them by purchasing from the women in the Tulsa their worl~ You don’ t have to Tulsa’s area of what they’d like to go to Eureka Springs or to Pdo," explains Mary. "Please town to find exceptional artfeel free to call me with your work for your home." The long-awaited dance will be held at : wish list of activities at 743-6740. And if the pride center on Saturday November . you’re not on our mailing/call list, please 14 from eight p.m. til ??? and will be : let us know, This information is strictly D.J.’ d by Sue Knause, who promises to ¯ confidential and will not be shared." Humperdinck’s nse rete The Parade of Lights. Come celebrate the spirit of the holiday season at the PSO Christmas Parade of Lights. Saturday, December 12. Downtown Tulsa at 6 p.m. View parade floats up close, Friday, December 11, at the HolidayFest.(Brady Arts DistriCt) from 6-9 p.m. Public Service Company of Oklahoma A Central and South West Company �~ SUNDAYS World AIDS Day 1998 Candlelight March & Memorial Service sponsored by Interfaith AIDS Ministries Tuesday, December 1st 6:30, Gather at Centenary United Methodist Church Parking Lot 631 North Denver 7:00", March Begins to Saint Jerome 7:30*, Memorial Service at the Parish Church of Saint Jerome. 205 West King Reception following seine.ice. *time approximate Bring banners & bells~ candles & matches provided st. Jerome will be accessible to the disabled at the east entrance. Into: 438-2437 or 800-284-2437 Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 1 lam, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1 lam, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church Service - 1 lam, Childrens Ministry also, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Service, 10:45am. 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088 University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals at 5pm, Info: 743-4297 ~" MONDAYS nIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians.& Gays 2nd Monicach too. 6:30pro, Fellovcship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pro, call Shawn 491-2036. Women/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551 ~ TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 11 i 10, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder THE NOON NEWS NEVER LOOKED SO TASTY. H!V+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium l:30pm 3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), lnf6: Wanda @ 834-4194 Multicultural AIDS Coalition, 11/3, 12:30pm, Urban League, 240 East Apache Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 743-4297 PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 !~ WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441 ¯ House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210e So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~ THURSDAYS The big news is Warren Duck Club’s new lunch menu. And the Horseradish Orange Crusted Halibut with Apricot Basil Sauce is just one of the tastiest stories. From familiar favorites, to late-breaking dishes hot from Chef Dan Broyles’ creative kitchen, this is news to truly savor. Call 495-1000 for the whole story and for reservations. HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support/social group for 18-24’ s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 I~" FRIDAYS Safe Haven, Young Adults Social Group, 1st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th ~" SATURDAYS Wari’enOu~kCh-d) In the Doubletree Hotel At 6110 S. Yale / Tulsa Warren Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pro, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2rid ft. ~ OTHER GROUPS Place OK / 918-495-1000 T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978 OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157, Short rides, 6:30pro, Long rides, 7am: Meet at Z~igler Park,.3903 West 4th. Pride Rides from the Pride Center, 3749 S. Peorial Write for dates. Ifyour organization is not listed~ please let us know. Call 583-1248 or fax 583-4615. �Kelly Kirby CPA, PC Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit. It Barry Hensley ¯ concerns a young brother and sister who ~sa City-CountyLibrary ¯ have just learned that their Gay uncle, ~lany Gay and Lesbian families have di "~ rallies finding materials for children ¯ whom they have never met, ts coming to visit. They ask older kids what h depict their family sireit means to be Gay and are Willholte has a 8t~’~ ... In the past few years, horrified as the stereotypes of third, the ., has been a slow change leather queens and Carmen in te publishing world and hilarious book, Miranda look-a-likes spew we re beginning to see a few Uncle What-ls-h forth. 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Any that don’t- why, kids what it doesn’t have a daddy and bewe’ll throw ’em in the dunmeans to be comes upset. She is gently geon." Fortunately, the Duke shown other children who, for Gay and are learns the error of his ways. a variety of reasons, don’thave horrified as the For slightly older children, fathers. Heather realizes that stereotypes of ages 6-12, try How Would You there are many different famFeel If Your Dad Was Gay? leather queens ily situations and that she is by A~n Heron and Meredith lucky to have two mothers., and Carmen Maran. Written by two LesA companion book "i§ Miranda look~abian mothers with help from Daddy’s Roomate, by Michael likes spew forth. their sons,it depicts three chilWi!lhoite, depicting a boy who’s divorced father is in a long term, : drenwithGayparents.Ithasmulticultural canng Gaymlationship. AnotherWillhoite ¯¯ characters andcompassionately shows the reality of different types of families. rifle, not owned by the public library, is Don’t forget to check your local library Daddy’s Wedding, which continues the ¯¯ saga of Daddy’s Roomate. Ask your li- ¯ for information regarding Gay and Lesbian families. Also you may call the Readbrarian to interlibrary loan Daddy’s Wedding for you from another library system. . ers Services department of the Central Willhoite .has a third, hilarious book, ¯ Library at 596-7966. "She has created an arch of hope that future Gay and Lesbian candidates will be-able to walk through." Baldwinis also the first woman ever elected to Congress from Wisconsin. Another openly Lesbian Democrat, former Army colonel Grethe Cammeremeyer, was defeated by incumbent Republican Rep. Jack Metcalf in Washington state. A third, Democrat Chrisline Kehoe, was trailing in her bid to upset California Republican Rep. Brian Bilbray. Gay Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe of Arizona, bidding for an eighth term, held a solid l(ad with more than three-quarters of the votes counted in his race against Democrat Tom Volgy. In an Oklahoma rematch, Republican Rep. Frank Lucas easily won. a fourth term against Democrat Patti Barby, an openly Gay Oklahoma City businessman. Another openly Gay member of Congress, Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, was unopposed for a 10th term. Frank is an outspoken member of the House Judiciary Committee, which will consider impeachment charges against President Bill Clinton. In most cases, the Gay candidates and their opponents kept sexual orientation out of the campaigns. But 6ational Gay civil rights organizations poured money into the races, notably $1 million spent t~y the Human Rights Camp~gn. "People are taking a stand for traditional mamage." Not surprisingly, Joseph Mdillo, who with his partner and two Lesbian couples sued the state when they were denied marriage licenses in 1990, felt differently. "It’ s putting into our state constitutaon a discriminatory clause that will distinguish us from other people," he said. Alaska’s constxtutional amendment defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The Legislature put the question on the ballot after a Superior Courtjudge ruled in favor of two Gay men who challenged the state ban on same-sex marriage. The judge said choosing a life partner was a fundamental right and the state had to prove a compelling reason to regulate it. In Fort Collins, a civil rights proposed had become especially emotional since the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a Gay student from the University of Wyoming who died in a Fort Collins hospital. Ordinance 22 would have prohibited discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation. 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S et up your first picket so that it is about 1/4 to 1/2" off the ground; put the square in the middie of one side and move it gently until the bubble is between the two middie lines. Attach picket with the first screw, in the middie. up your posts and asThis frees up your sembled all your tools. hands,for attaching the Your beverages have top and bottom screws. been cooling and Put two screws into the so let’s snap to it, get you’ve got a pile of picket at the top and pickets stacked in the bottom stringer, about yard, and the neighbors, 3/4" from each outer it over with. the Nosey Parkers, are edge. Do the same for still much too interested the remaining pickets, in your private life. So leveling each as best put on that toolbelt you can. to this you’ve been breaking As you approach the in, and let’s work it. end of your fence, you The fence stringers will, unless most fortuare the backbone of nate, discover that the your fence. If they are last picket will not fit on that toolbelt on the inside of the perfectly, being either fence, you’ll want to too wide or too narrow. channel" your anal reStart paying attention tentive side and take to this about a half particular pains to get everything level dozen pickets from the end. If you will not and true. If your neighbors are getting that be off by much, you can adjust the spacing side of the fence, one can be somewhat between the last few pickets so they come more cavalier, though not messy, about out fine, otherwise, you’ll have to find a stringer placement. way to np cnt an end picket, or to get For the perfect stringer array, you will sneaky. You know what the DIYD preneed enough string to stretch from one fers: sneaky ways are deliciously evil and end of the fence to the other, a spare body always appeal, especially if they equate for help, and a level. A chalk line won’t with less work. On the DIYD’s last fence hurt, either. There are small levels that project ( which is also the current fence attach to your string and they are not project...), a lx4" picket was used in the expensive; but if you’re tired of waiting, last space, and the other pickets were we’ll make do with a regular level. Measpaced ever so slightly wider apart withsure from the ground up about eight inches out being the least bit obvious. You’ll and make a mark on the fence post on have to play around with it, but if vou haven’ t got access to a table saw to rip’cut either end. This will be where the bottom edge of your bottom stringer will go. a picket, it is well worth it, and safer as Don’t worry, the tops (and the middies) well. Rip cuts have a nasty reputation. will get their chance momentarily. You Now you are asking yourself what there can no either stretch and attach a string was about this project that took so long, line from end to end, using a level to and the answer is the same as so many ensure eveness, and mark the other posts, others - prep work makes the difference or you can use a chalk line and snap the in any home project. It is well worth the mark across the posts. This saves time, if investment of your ume to measure, level you know how to use one. Attach your mad true up any part of your fence before bottom s tringers wi th No-Co - Rode s crew s. it becomes regrettably permanent. And it drilling a pilot hole slightly smaller than looks so much more beautiful - mad darthe diameter of the screw. lings, you are worth it! You will need help with this if you are There. Your DIYD is less cranky now going for the perfect look. ff not, then you that you’ve built your privacy fence so can attach a 1 x4 so that the top is even with well. Rest up. We’ll have more fun next your bottom line. Do this on both posts month when we freShen up those fired old and use them to support your board while kitchen cabinets with a bit of sanding, you drive the two screws into each end of some paint, and some more stylish pulls. Your DIYD is tired and cranky, this fence ~p and get After all, you’ve been waitin~ three months finish project and it is getting sooo tiresome... So put y.ou’ve been breaking m, and let’s work it! the stringers. You can remove and reuse the lx4’s as you go down the fence. The stringers will meet in the middie of each post, so if you’re over the length a bit, measure carefully (twice!) and remove whatever is necessary; if it isn’t long enough, have you got trouble! The only solution-is to b.uy a board two feet longer and saw off the extra, and darling, that is going to hurt. Once your swingers are all attached, you are ready to start putting up your pickets, ff you are using Cedar pickets, the wood is soft enough that drilling pilot holes are not necessary, but they will be for any other type of wood; otherwise, it will split your pickets, and the possibility of screw head cam-out is very much enhanced. News Flash: your pickets will not be even, square, or straight. Sorry, but this w ould actually be desirable in wood. Keep that level handy and use it when setting each picket unless you want your fence to Matthew Shepard’s death was horrible and senseless; it would be more so if it was in vain." Kelly Kirby, longtime civil rights activist and Gay community leader spoke of his family’s direct experiences with hate crimes, including an assault on his spouse, Ric, which resulted in over 100 stitches being required. Kirby also claimed that each year from 1991 to 1996, a Gay man was murdered in Tulsa. In New York City, participants of the recent Fifth Avenue rally to remember Shepard alleged that police beat them with batons and ran into them with mopeds and that police horses kicked them because they had no permit for the event. Police were dispatched to the march when about 4,000 people flocked to the event. see Hate, p. 14 �Timothy W. Daniel In the chapter "I am a Lakota womyn," ." by Esther Rothblum At a time when sexual orientation and ¯¯ Beverly Little Thunder writes: "Most tribes that I have had the honor of knowgender are being viewed as more continuous categories, there is renewed interest " ing have specificnames for men wholove in the fluidity of who is a "woman" and ¯ men and women who love women... I who is a "Lesbian." In many Native Ameri- ¯" can understand that theremay be a need can cultures, gender and sexuality have ¯ by some to find a pan-Native term that can be used as a marker for the not been as fixed as in westgeneral population of Naern cultures. tive Lesbians and Gays. We Recently, a number of traditions are all so different in so many books have appeared on acknowledge that ways, however. Culturally "two-spirit¯ people," a term the he-shes and physically, we are all coined by Native Americans different. Each tribe has its for individuals in their culown name, its own structttres who are Gay or Les. . . were amon~ ture. How canwe all even be bian, or who are transgenthe ~reatest called ’Natives’?... The dered, or who have multiple eontrlhutors to the words I would like to see gender identities. The term written about me and read "two-spirit" is an attempt by well-heln, and fifty years from now should Native American commttniadvancement of be words that reflect who I ties to re-define their past their eommunltles. am as an individual.’" from the way in which it has Came House, of Navajo! been depicted by white male Oneida des cent, writes: "Our anthropologists,and also to oral traditions acknowledge distinguish Native American that the he-shes and she-hes concepts of gender and sexu- the Sreatest probers ality from those of the.west- into the ways of the (those who hold in balance the male and female, female ern Gay and Lesbian comfuture, and they and male aspects of themmunities. qulekly assimilated selves and the universe) were I recendy spoke with Suethe lessons of among the greatest contribuEllen Jacobs, one of the cotors to the well-being and editors of the book, Twoehan~in~ times advancement of their comSpirit People: Native Ameri.... and people..." munities. They were (and we can GendertIdentity, Sexuare) the greatest probers into ality and Spirituality. She ¯ the ways of the future, and they quickly -said: ’¢Fhere are a number of instances where there are Native women, living on ¯ assimilated the lessons of changing times and people. Recent studies into the lives reservations, who don’t stand out, who. ¯ of she-hes and she-hes have recovered don’t come forward. The Gay white men who are out there studying Native Ameri- ¯ models or near models of this rich, invencan men don’t see the women because ¯ tive, reverential, and highly productive ¯ approach t.o k.eg,ping balance within a s~these.researchers don’ t recognize, these Women as Who they are with~n their cul~ ¯ ciet~ viewed as an extension of nature." Further reading, see: Sue-Ellen Jacobs, ture. Not many Native women use the ¯ Wesley Thomas & Sabine l_xtng (’97). words ’Lesbian’ or ’dyke’ to describe ¯ Two-SpiritPeople: NativeAmerican Genthemselves. The researchers didn’t realize that there was a movement going on : der Identity, Sexuality and Spirituality. within the Native American communi- ¯ Urbana, IL: Univ. of Blinois Press. Will : Roscoe (’98). Changing Ones: Third and ties, the two-spirit movement." Sue-Ellen Jacobs described instances ¯ FourthGendersinNativeNorthArnerica. of"male-bodied women" or "female-bod- ¯ - NY: St. Martin’s Press. Lester Brown ied men" who took on the roles and be- " (’98). Two-Spirit People. NY: Haworth came known as being of the "other" gen- : Press. Esther Rothblum teaches Psychology derin Native American cultures. As Jacobs : and the other editors state in the introduc- ¯ at the Univ. of Vermont and edits the tion to their book: "Using the word ’two- : Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be Spirit’ emphasizes the spiritual aspect of ¯ reached at John Dewey. Hall,Univ. of one’ s life and downplays the homosexual : Vermont," Burlington, VT, email:¯ esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. persona." Attorney at Law and she-hes An Attorney who will fight for justice & equality for Gays & Lesbians They were (and we are) "¯ ¯ : After experiencing several years of "dis- ¯ ¯ criminatory treatment," and many efforts to work out the differences with TCCLS, ¯ Neal contacted Tulsa County Commis- ¯ ¯ sioner John Selph to discuss what Neal called "these blatant violations of the First ¯¯ Amendment" and his intention to file a ¯ lawsuit to resolve the matter. While Neal never received any response : from his letter to S elph, shordy afterward, ¯¯ TCCLS banned all free publications from its lobbies- with the exception of a Latino ¯ publication, Imagen in the 3rd Street Library which serves an increasingly Span- ." ish-spealdng neighborhood. ¯ According to Neal; lmagen blatenfly violated the 50% local content nile but : said he was told that TCCLS director, Linda Saferite, approved that violation because having the publication helped to ¯ serve a special needs population. Neal said his arguments about the Lesbian and Gay communities’ special needs were ignored. Neal adds, "I have no illusion that TCCLS made this change to accomodate Tulsa Family News. It’ s likely that given" the’society’ make-upoftheTCCLSboard, that the rifles were changed to keep Tulsa People happy rather than to be fair however, I’m pleased with the result. I guess it means if you wait long enough andarepersistentenough, youwillacheive fairness." PFLAG - Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays Tulsa Area Chapter POB 52800, Tulsa 74152 749-4901 Domestic Partnership Planning, Personal Injury, Criminal Law & Bankruptcy 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma ~Neekend and evening appoinlmenls are available. Are.You Gay or Bisexual? 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Pleas for eomplalned about Gay/Lesbian unity ("why the orffanlzatlonal practice the samesex taboos demanded by many American’t we all just get along") shorteomln~s ot7 can football coaches: No sex are perhaps as common as "Gay boys before the big game! Every jokes that poke fun at this evening, men also go off by continental divide in our They’re hopeless!" . themselves to prepare and commumty, she ~ttumed. That drink kava (Piper Public constemation about relations between women same day, another methysticum) - the traditional South Pacific drug t~rlend gaped differentand men -_ good,evokedbad,memo_Or insubstance that is becoming ries of my years in Vanuatu. about pael~s o17 increasing popular in the U.S. as a natural relaxant. ThiSlocatedtropicalin the archipelagOsouthwestpa-iS Lesbians invadln~ Men assert that women can h~.s 17avor~.te bar, cific-aculturalregioncalled strip away the potency of kavamerely by touching the Mdanesia that also includes polsonln~ its the islands of New plant before it is prepared; atmosphere, and drinkers bitterly blame Caledonia, the Solomons, and New Guinea. RitualiZed hostility be- ¯ women, talking too loud back in the viltween men and women is a cultural curi- " lage, for spoiling their kava high. osity of much of Melanesia. Anthropolo- " Women endanger men not just because gists who first analyzed the phenomenon ¯ of their polluting vaginal fluids. Men are labeled it "sexual antagonism," though " also threatened by naturally female crenowadays we’d more likely call it"cross- " ative powers. Women are mothers. The gender opposition" or the like. ¯ children they bear sustain the cycle of Full-fledged sexual antagonism exists " human life and death. Women’s vaginas notably in the highland valleys of New " are powerfully dangerous openings back Guinea. My village neighbors on an is- " into the spiritual world inhabited both by land called Tanna, on the eastern edge of ¯ the ancestors and the unborn. Men per~ Mdanesia, practice only an attenuated " haps fear the vagina as muelx for its lifeversionofgenderopposition.Still,likeall ". giving as for its deadly powers. It’s a Melanesians, they have’great ~ear and ¯ psychological commonplace that men are suspicion of the body fluids of the oppo- ¯ jealous of natural female creativity. This site sex. Men believe that contact with drives us, so the story goes, to various menstrual blood and other vaginal fluids " sorts of "cultural creativity" - art, literacan make them seriously ill. An anthro- ¯ ture, politics, business - as a sort of cornpensation for our inability to bear chil" pologistlonceknew, who worked among dren. . - the Enga of Papua New Guinea, attracted ¯ Throughout much of Melanesia, along much attention with his magnificent and luxuriant red beard, much admired by all. ¯ theselines,meniusistthatalthoughwomen When people asked for hair-growing ad- ¯ give birth, only men can make boys into vice, he liked to disgust and appall them men. On Tanna, fathers arrange male iniby claiming that the secret was to rub ° tiation ceremonies for their sons. They menstrual blood on his face. : circumcise these boys who then spend six In many Melanesian cultures, women ¯ Weeks in the bush, isolated from all conretii’etomenstrualhutslocatedinthebush " tactwithwomen.ElsewhereinMelanesia~ (outside the Village) during their periods. ¯ people believe that precious semen itself One can imagine that many women look ¯ transforms boys into men. Male initiaforward eagerly to these monthly vaca- ¯ dons include practices of ritual fellatio dons from thedailydrudgeryofcooking, ." young .boys masculinize themselves by childcare, and farming. No menstrual huts : consnm|ug the semen of older, already exist on Tanna, though men and women ¯ initiated youths. (Gil Herdt describes one here rarely share the same sleeping mat. " such societyin his book The Sambia: And a menstruating woman stops prepar- ° Ritual and Gender in New Guinea.) ing her husband’s dinners. Men, particu- : So, next time those Lesbians (or, alterlarlythosewithrockymarriages,aresome- ¯ natively, those Gay boys) invade your times suspicious that angry wives may be " favoriteclub, whatis that sudden chill you ¯ poisoning them by dripping bloodinto the feel -- is this the "death threat of sexual cooking pots. : pollution," or a contentious jealousy over And if vaginal fluids don’t kill you, sex ¯ human creativity? Lament Lindstrom teaches anthropolitself may. Melanesians also shareabelief " - one that reaches back into Asia - that ¯ ogy at the University of Tulsa. men are born with a finite amount of ¯ semen. Worse, the faster one uses up his " NOW NOV, lifetime supply of semen, the faster he ages and dies. Have too many girlfdends : or too .much masturbatory fun, and you die young! Fathers warn their sons about " The Tulsa Chapter of the National Orthe deadly dangers of sex. Dry, flaky skin " ganization for Women will feature Lucy Tamayo of DVIS, Domestic Violence ~s an early sign of semen depletion, and . Intervention Services, speaking about those teenagers withunforttmate skinprob- ¯ methods of empowering women at its lems get teased mercilessly for messing ¯ Nov. meeting, 12:30 pm at The Pride around. ¯ Center, 1307 E. 38th St. 2rid floor. NOW Men (and women, too) believe that ¯¯ will .also hold elections for its executive . female substances may pollute, or other- : board at the meeting. Info: 365-5658. 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And at the University of Wyoming, a lence agai.’nst Gay people, though note ¯ that he hasn’t suggested removing it for ¯ visiting professor whois teaching acourse ¯ Oklahoma Jews or Blacks 7,,.or Catholics on hate crime received a first hand view. ¯ "I reacted with shock-and disbelief," said like him. None of our congressional delegation ¯¯ Graham Baxendale, a Ph.D. student at England’ s Reading University. "I certMnly has exemplified the compassion which if they were the Christians they claim to be, ¯ was not prepared for such an event here. they might show. For example, a few ¯ One can read many textbooks and the months ago, I asked Pam Pryor, JC Watts, :¯ academic literature, but until you are actually confronted by something like this Jr.’ s press secretary how many Gay people needed to die before JC would speak out ¯ within your own community, you recogagainst, anti-Gay violence? Obviously, ¯ nize that you really don~t understand this Shepardi~not enough. Maybe if one of us ¯ Baxendale said hate Crimes rarely end were crucified on the South Oval of the ¯ in murder and usuallyinvolve low-level OU campus, Watts (and that other disappointing Oklahoma politician, David ¯ violence or intimidation. The victims of ¯ such crimes typically are selected at ranBoren) might take the issue seriously. But at least withWatts, I still believehis " dom because they represent a particular spokesperson’s claims of some decency ¯ group. "Gay males are one of the largest in the man to bother to ask. With The Evil ¯ victim catego.rie, s. for thrill hate crimes, but ethnic rmnonty groups such as HisSteve and his good buddy and roommate, Tom Cobum, there’s no point in wasting " panics, Blacks, and Jews also are tar" geted," he said. The perpetrators of such my breath. However, given the desire of Matthew ¯¯ crimes againstGays,Baxendale said, typically are young male adults or youths who Shepard’s family and friends that some ¯ are experiencing the emotions that come bit of good come out of the horror of his torment and death, let us resolve to change ¯ with emerging sexuality. To demonstrate our state to reduce the chance that this will :¯ to theirpe~rs that they are wholly heterosexual, these people may express viehappen here. Passing an amendment to our hate ¯ lance and hatred toward Gays. Hate crime victims,’he said, usually are crimes (Oklahoma statutes, 21:850, Mali- .. cious intimidation...) has got to be the top ¯¯ chosen because they are available, not because of any individual characteristics priority for Lesbian and Gay Oklaho¯ or actions, and because of what they reproans, our families and friends. Find out who your representatives are and talk to ¯¯ resent to the perpetrators. Hatred towards the victim’s group is often manifested in them now. ¯ exceptignal violence. "The perpetrators Furthermore, we must demand that all those groups that claim to be working for : often despise and de-humanize their vicjustice and fairness, must end their conve- ¯¯ rims, so such crimes typically are more violent than corresponding crimes that nient silences. For example, if the Meth¯ are not hate-inspired," he said. "Displayr odist Bishop of Oklahoma can work so hard to ban same-gender marriage cer- ¯ ing the victim (Shepard) by tying him to a emonies, surely he can finally open his ¯ fence is a manifestation of such dehumanization." mouth to say something against anti-Gay Baxendale, who has studied violence violence. 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(Tulsa) ’~16544 1-900-786-4865 $1.991Mln. 18+ Dlscreet ¯ Confidential ¯ Easy �I Megaphone does not prescreen callers and assumes no liability for personal meetings. 18+ 998 PC �� Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document Wisconsin Lesbian Elected To United States House WASHINGTON (AP) - Wisconsin voters elected the first opeuly Lesbian woman member of Congress on Tuesday. But an acknowledged Lesbian House challenger lost in Washington state and another was behind in California. In Wisconsin’ s open 2nd District, Democratic state Rep. Tammy Baldwin defeated Republican Josephine Musser, the former state insurance commissioner, to replace retiring GOP Rep. Scott Klug. Baldwin, 36, made healtheare a cornerstone of her campaign, saying the United States should adopt a ~national, publicly funded system like that in Canada. ’°Tammy Baldwin is a solid representative who happens to be a Lesbian," said Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign, a Gay civil rights group that helped bankroll the Baldwin campaign. "She has broken down a very large door," Birch added. see Baldwin, p. 10 Hawaii.+Alaska Voters Reject Gay. Marriage ’Th~As;oc;’atedPress ~Stri~ggiingt; satisf~y~l~ot~.~0ei-al conservatives and the law of the land, Hawaii on Tuesday took another step toward banning same-gender marriage, giving its Legislature the go-ahead to write a new law. Elsewhere, Alaskans voted a Gay-marriage ban into their constitution, and voters in Fort Collins, Colo., defeated a measure to protect Gays and Lesbians from discrimination. News was more hopeful for Gay civil rights advocates in Maine, whereindividual communities are fielding anti-discrimination bills to circumvent this year’s statewide vote that overturned protections on the basis of sexual orientation. South Portland approved a Gay rights initiative; Ogunqult’s vote on a similar proposal was too close to call early Wednesday. The Hawaii initiative was lawmakers" latest try to sidestep the state Supreme Court’s 1993 ruling that the state had no constitutional right to ban same-gender marriages because that would deny some citizens the rights provided to others. Because the U.S. Constitution’ s Full Faith and Credit .Clause requires states to honor each other’ s statutes and legal bonds, the 1993 ruling set off some furious preemptive legislating around the country. At least 30 states have now banned Gay marnage, and Congress passtd the Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal recognition ofGay marriage and allowed states to ignore same-sex tmions licensed elsewhere. The two sides in Hawaii spent millions of dollars in a relendess media campaign. "It’s really sending aclear message, a strong message, that the people of this community will not allow homosexual marriages;" said Mike Gabbard, a leader of the Save Traditional Marriage group, seeVote, p. 10 UJ DIRECTORY/LETTERS P, 2/3 US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 ~ HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 8 ~ COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 8 BOOK REVIEW P. I 0 DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 11 DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES P. 12/13 ~ CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14 ¯ 200 Attend Tulsa Vigil For Hate Crime Victim Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation CommunityPaper Available In More Than 75 City Locations ¯ The Associated Press & TFN- Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old ¯ Gay University of Wyoming freshman, was found severely ¯ beaten Oct. 7. He died Oct. 12 in a Fort Collins, Colo., hospital. ¯ His deathsparkedanintemational "[your vi$11 represents] a eommhment to an end of vlolenee and [to] appropriate proteetlon under the law... Matthew Shepard’s death was horrible and senseless; it would be more so if it. was in vain." - Drew Edmondson OkLaltom Attorney General . .," outpouring of sympathy for vic- ¯ ¯ tims of hate crimes and calls for ~: a-federal hate crime law from Clinton. All across the US, communities heldvigils andrallies tohonor and mourn the slain student. In ¯ Tulsa, a group of about 150-200 ¯ persons gathered at the Civic Center Plaza. Anumberofclergy ¯ spoke, including the Rev. Father : Rick Hollingsworth of the Parish ¯ Church of SaintJerome, the Rev. ¯ Leslie Penrose of Community of : HopeUnited Methodist, the Rev. ¯ Helen Calloway of the Unity : Church and the Rev. Russell Bennett of Fellowship Congrega- ¯ tional Church. : Oklahoma’ s Attorney General, Drew Edmondson, sent a state- : ment which was read by Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights vice president, Greg Gatewood: "[your vigil represents] a commitment to an end of violence and [to] appropriate protection ¯ under the law.. see Hate, p. 11 : - Fayetteville Civil Rights ¯ Measure Overturned FAYEFFEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -.Voters here rejected a resolution : that backers said would have protected Gay people against job ¯ discrimination in city government. Final but unofficial results ¯ from Tuesday’. s .balloting 8howed7~811" v_otes against the measure, 6r58pe~-cent~ whil~ 5,731,or_42 percenL.we~_e cast in favor. Known as the human-dignity resolution, the measure was passed ¯ by the Fayetteville City Council earlier this year, vetoed by the ¯ mayor, then passed by the council again in overriding the veto. : It wouldhave required that all applicants for city staffpositions ¯ have equal access to employment, regardless of race, sex, reli- : gion, color, national origin, age, ancestry, familial statUS, disabil- ¯ ity or sexual orientation, A group opposed to including "sexual ¯ orientation" on the list successfully petitioned to get the resolu- ¯ tion.on the ballot. ¯ Claudette’s Leaving! Longtime AIDS Activist Moving to Aggieland ¯ TULSA - For half a decade, anyone seriously involved with ¯ HIV/AIDS, knew Claudette Peterson. For a nu~nber of years, a ¯ Tulsan being tested for HIV anti-bodies likely had their blood ¯ sample taken taken and results given by her when she ran Tulsa ¯ Oklahomans for Human Rights HIV Testing Clinic. ¯ More recently, Persons Living with AIDS (PLWA’s) have ¯ benefited fromher tireless (and initially unpaid) efforts to establish Food Chain, a food pantry and more. However, since her ¯ spouse, Tim Peterson has recently been taken a teaching job at ¯ TexasA&Mwherehe received his ph.D, Tulsa is losing Peterson ¯ to College Station. Another prominent figure amongTulsaHIV/AIDS fundraisers ¯ and caregivers, Janice Nicklas, bemoaned Peterson’ s departure. ¯ "It’ s a major loss for our community.., she has tireless energy for ¯ developing resources for HIV prevention and care and we owe ¯ her a lot . . . anyone’s fortunate to have her living in their community." ¯ Peterson noted that her work has been a labor of love, and is ¯ proud of the fact that she and Foo~t Chain have never had to turn ; away a client and they are now. serving over 100 PLWA’s a ¯ month. She notes that donating food has brought very diverse : people together- drag queens working right next to conservative church people. Peterson also recognizbA Audra Sommers for her ¯ very generous support ofFood Chain and other care programs as ¯ wall as support from the National AIDS fund, Tulsa Comm ¯ AIDS Partnership, the Rath Foundation, &Philip Morris Co. Inc. : Tulsa Library Rever,s,es Anti-Gay Paper Poltcy ¯ TULSA- Fornearlyfiveyears,Tulsa’sCity/County ¯ Library System (TCCLS) had refused to allow the ¯ distributionofGaynewspapers,TulsaFamilyNews ¯ in particular, in its lobbies. Early in October, TFN ¯ received a letter inviting the newspaper to provide ¯ copies to be distributed at the Central and each of ¯ the four regional libraries. Tulsa Family News is ¯ now found in those locations. ¯ The dispute over distribution privileges began ¯ when TFN publisher, Tom Neal, was representing _" a now defunct out-of-town Gay paper and re- " quested equal distribution access as magazines like ¯ TulsaKids, TulsaPeople and Urban Tulsa enjoyed ¯ a number of library lobbies. The response of the ." then TCCLS director, Pat Woodrum and the ¯ library’.s board of trustees was to change the rules ; to ban "out of town" publications. Shortly after that decision, Neal began Tulsa ¯ Family News and reapplied as a local publication. ¯ Once again, TCCLS changed the rules to continue to grant access to non-Gay publications and not to ." aGay one. Thesenew rules required that50% ofthe ¯ content of the publication be "local." ¯ TFN challenged TCCLS to clarify how it was ¯ defining and connting local content. Neal notes, ¯ "we had issues where it appeared that we met the ~ 50% standard as we understood it and yet we were ¯ told we didn’ t have enough local content. Further- ." more, we documented multiple violations of that : rule by other publications but the library administration refused to respond to our requests to clarify the policies and to explain their seeming tolerance ¯ for rule-breaking by other publications." see Library, p. 12 World AIDS ¯ IAM Director Decides to Step Down ¯ TULSA~interfaithAIDS Ministries is sponsoring ¯ its annual World AIDS Day Candlelight March.& ¯ Memorial Service. As is customary, the event is on ¯ December 1 st,Tuesday andwill beginat 6:30 at the parkinglot of Centenary United Methodist Church ¯ (631 North Denver) just north of downtown. The ¯" march begins to the Parish Church of Saint Jerome (205 West King) at about 7pro and the memorial service will start about 7:30. There is a reception ¯ following the service. Marchers are asked to bring : banners & bells, but candles & matches will be ¯ provided. St. Jerome will be accessible to the disabled at the east entrance. ¯ Also, this will be the last World AIDS Day for which ]AM’ s executive director ofmany years will ¯ serve. Diane Zike, who helped found the organiza- ¯ fion when it was part of the Episcopal Diocese of ¯ Oklahoma’s AIDS care, will be stepping down at ¯ the end of the yearforpersonal reasons. Zike stated, "my work in AIDS ministry has been a very impor- ¯ taut and meaningful part ofmy life fore the past 12 years. I regret the need to step down now from my role as director but I will continue to be active and supportive in any way I can." TFN publisher, Tom Neal, noted, "Diane is one of the unsungheroes of the TulsaAIDS community - she has worked long and hard at great personal cost." Info: 438-2437 or 800-284-2437. : Blues Concert for AIDS ¯ TULSA-Walkfor Life will presentits 2ndannual ." blues concert later this year (the date will be an- ¯ nounced). Last year’s event was held at at ¯" Streamroller Blues and featured a surprise visit from Hanson. The tickets to the event will be $5 at ~ the door and will benefit local AIDS care organizations. For info., call 918-579-9593. see Editorial, p. 3 Tul;a C~ubs & Restaurants *Bmnboo Lom~ge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria *Full Moon Care, 1525 E. 15th *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. 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School Ave. 501-442-2845 ¯ JOPLIN, MISSOURI : *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696 * is where you can findTFN¯ NotallareGaY"ownedbutallareGay"friendly" Coors Donation Condemned Imagine a Lesbian or Gay activist who left the country a few years ago and just recently returned back to our community. Talk about culture shock! She or he would witness a brave new’queer world, one in which GLAAD has accepted $110,000 from Coors, theHumanRights Campaign (a Lesbian and Gay PAC) has endorsed D’Amato for Senator in New York, and a young Gay man was tortured and murdered in Wyoming. Importantly for us, these three things are not unrdated - appeasement comes at a price - and that price is not acceptable to us. Weare writing (respectively) as aformer taffer and former board member of GLAAD/SFBA. Therefore we will focus rathe GLAAD-Coors connection. GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has accepted $110,000 from the Coors Brewing company to support its new "sexual orientation in the workplace" training effort. GLAAD was founded by activists such as Vito Russo (author of The Celluloid Closet) with a single, very spedfic rmssion: to watchdog and critique the media’ s coverage of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered issues. It has strayed from that mission often to deal with the substance of issues rather than how they are covered. We believe that conducting sexual orientation in the workplace trainings is outside GLAAD’ s niche. No other organization in our community focuses on anti-defamation. There is plenty of defamation (some have lately taken to calling it hate speech) runmng around loose these days. GLAAD has plenty enoughmediaanalysis andresponse to do and litde enough money to do th.at vital work, without implementing a new : project with dirty money. Much has already been said about the politics of Coors and the politics of accepting money from Coors. We would like to emphasize our dismay thatGLAAD would accept money from such a source. When we were with GLAAD, RJR Reynolds (Big Tobacco, a key backer of powerful, homophobic North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms) was also offering the community money and some were considering taking it! So, we in GLAAD/SFBA back then "did the math" and realized that taking money from people trying to kill youjust doesn’t add up to anything that makes sense. Same for Coors once removed - that is the Coors Foundations. - Tom di Maria, Exec. Director, 1993-95 - Jessea Greenman, Co-Chair, 1990-94 GLAAD/San Francisco Bay Area [Editor’s note: the Coors family wealth has been closely associated with a number of the most ultra rtght wing and anti- Gaypolitical causes. Coors Brewing Company was once the target ofa boycott due to anti-Gay company policies. Coors Brewing now boasts a non-discrimination policy that includes sexual orientation and. supports Gay organizations. Coors Brewing has supported the Tulsa Pride Picnic for a number ofyears.] Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. Youmay request that your name be withheld but letters mustbe signed &have phonenumbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publi- -- cations will be printed as is appropriate. At the present time. there are only 25 states that have laws against homoffexuals, most nbted are; Alabama 20 years, Georgia 20 years, l~hode Is and ant ess than 7 years nor more than 20 years, Oklahoma 10 years. The homosexuals are working hard to get these laws changed to permit their perversion ofour country, and it appears they are successfuq at it. " A great many laws have been changed. Until 1990 our country. In 1986the U.S. SupremeCourtuph, (in a 5 to 4 vote), noting that "prohibitions again jurisprudence since the colonization of the countr the laws of’he original thirteen states when they r~ outlawed sodomy. Noah Carolina’s original sodl the abonimable and detestable crime against natur adjudged guilty of a felony and SHALL SOl: CLERGY". the U.S. barred admission ofsexual deviants into d the constitutionality of Georgia’s sodomy law homosexuality have been a part of Ainerlcan " Sodomy was a criminal offense forbidden by fiodtheBillofRights. Until 1961, allb0states ay statute nut: "Any person who shall commit not fit tb be named among Christians... Shall be ER DEATH WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF Without proper punishment of these, perveRs, u( great comitxy has become like Sodom & Gomorrah. It’s gotten pretty sad when we allo’~ mmosexuals to teach our children that there is nothing wrong with being *gay".- ttawthome I ementary public school, Madison, Wisconsin, where lesbian TummY" Boldwln is Distriet Cotmty ~upcwisor, bes just one ofmany pilot programs to teach against homophobia, At the direction of~[hoir teachers, Ist and 2nd graders made a book titled "Everybody is Equal, A Book About Gay &. Lesbian." The book teaches our very young chiltlrcn respect for homos, a.s well as the Ga~ Pride chant’Hay-Hay-Ho-Ho-Homophobia’s got to go’and"Wewant rigbl,~tao*: 1ST&2..NDGRADERS!!! OneolderstudenL whenaskedwhatshe had learned, statedshe’loaksatitlnadifferentlight. Toknowwhatbeinggay isallabout, it’snot actually diffcrent from anybody else". Cambridge Mass. schools hold functions like a Gay Family Photo Exhibit on school grounds, and another celebrates Gay Pride Day as a holiday. Third graders n New York earn tolerance for borons, tlomosexuals argue that wbat consenting adults do in the privacy oftbeir home is protectod under lhe tight to privacy. Vsctlmless crimes, sucKas the possession and distribution ofillegal drugs do not escape the law where they are committed at home; right to privacy in no way allows one to break the law. Not State law and not God’s !aw...sodomy is a crime and must be prosecuted. By dolng nothing and allowing sodomites to run amuck, just look around and see where our morals are today. Prison terms for sodomy are designed to punish persons who undertake by unatural and indecent methods to gratify a perverted and depraved sexual appetite which is an offence against public dccancy and morality. To i mprison a conlinnod homosexual is like throwing Brer Rabbit i nto the briar patch To ~ve our nation we need the DEATII PENALTY to put an end to the sodomites ~erverslon ofour country. Can honmsexuals repent and be saved I I Corinthians 6:1 I)? A few are, but this still does not mean society eannol INSTITUTETHE DEATI I PENALTY for this crime, just as it has for the crime of murder. No one says a murderer cannot repent and come to Christ, nor does society allow such a conv~’sion to stop the death penalty from being carried out. Lev. 20:13: "Ira man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman both of .them have committed an abominatiott. They shall surely be put to death". Asa did that which was right in the eyes ofthe I.ord, and hc tookaway the sodimites out of the hind (IKings 15:12). ]-lad Asa execu~.d these sexual deviants, Jehnsaphat wouldn’t have had to remove the remaining sodomites out ofthe land (I Kings22: 46). The Death Penalty is our only answer to ensure these pe~’erts are out ofour contr~’ and stay out for good. ] But God is love, oh yes, God is love ~nd if you love God, you will keep his commandment {Matt 22:37 and Jol~ 14:15). So for our people to keep the commandment of l.ev. 20:13 is tO love Grd. Romans 1:2~-32: :,re have changed.the . troth ofGod into a lie. worshippingand se~ing the creature more than the Creatbr. God has given us up to qle afflictions, even our woman go against nature, ~nd likewise also the men burned in their lust one toward another, They \vhich commit such things arc worthyofdeath, SodomandGomorrahwcredestro.vedforsuchthings. Ourendcould be #n uch worse ifwe don’t follow God’s law’.and uphold the Death Panahy forsodom): Pastor Pete Peters points out in his book,"Death Panalty for Homosexuals" that the top 6 leading scrialki||ers in the U.S- are: Donald | larvt:y - 37 killed. John \Vay’ne Gaq." - 23 killed. Patrick Keamev - 32 killed, Bruce Davis - 28 killed. Core Henley Brooks - 27 killed. Juan Corona -’25 killed, al! of which were homosexuals; add to that Jeffrey Dahalcr. In closing. I would like to poinrout that God has the answer to all our problems. God has Ills law and the law is good tfa man use it lawfully( I Timothy 1 :g-I 0). Help spread ti~is message, support the ministr) of Reverend Jon’ny Lee Clear,.. To reorder copies scud a $12.50 donation fi~r 100 copies to P.O. BOX 702631; Tulsa, OK 74170. T s tact sponsored by the American Patriot !lotline {918) 494-0004. Call for a free recorded message. by Tom Neal, publisher & editor "To save our nation, we need the DEATH PENALTY t~ put an end to the sodomites perversion of our country." No doubt, your reaction is much like mine was - this is ludicrous, almostlaughable! Andthatreactionis increasedwhen we note the source: the extremely disreputable, publicityhungry ex-Klansman, the "Reverend" Jonny Lee.Cleary. But just as the extremist rhetoric of anti-abortiomsts has created a climate in which extremists murder in order to "save lives," this adds to a climate in which Lesbian and Gay lives .(and those of our non-Gay friends who shand by us) are already devalued and at risk. Though ultra conservative political groups, like the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family and the Republican Party now distance themsdves from recent violence against Lesbians and Gay men, their systematic attacks onus and their exploitation of anti-Gay fear for political gain also have helped create a climate ripe for violence. Murdered University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard’ s death was horrible but it was not the only one of its type, nationally or even locally. According to Kelly Kirby, 1ongtimeTulsacivilrights activist, therewas one Gay man murdered each .year from 1991 to 1996. And yet when Tulsans held a public vigil for Shepard, not one elected official came or sent a representative. Mayor Savage was out of town but surely some one member of her staff could have shown up? What about the district attorney? Only former DA Bill LaFortune came and that reflects not only on his decency and compassion see Penalty, p.14 Ray of Light Campaign Invites Gay People To Tellof Experiences With Ex-Gay Ministries by Wayne Besen . Of course, you would never see a cover story about a HRC Associate Director of Communications ". It is morning once again, and as you rub your tired eyes and peer into the unforgiving bathroom mirror, the " shiny reflection of your head is a painful reminder that you look just as much like Kojac as the day before. Although your friends say you should learn to accept your baldness, you desperately want to change and have spent years pursu- : ing the latest hair growth remedies to no : avail. But today is your lucky day. While : sipping the morning coffee, you pick-up a ¯¯ copy of a respected news magazine and a bold, splashy headline proclaims: BALD : FOR LIFE? Underneath the headline, two ¯ smiling, bushy haired people, who look en- ~ thralledby their new hair-dos, claim to have : been "cured" by a miracle hair tome, corn- : blued with bible study. Ecstatic, you excitedly turn the pages un- : til youf’md the story about this new "miracle ." cure." But as you read on, your enthusiasm ¯ quickly begins to diminish. First, you find that the smiling mop-tops on the cover-page : are full-time, paid employees for acompany : marketing this product. Next, even the most : fervent supporters claim that the success ¯ rate of this so-called panacea is a paltry : Currently, ~alse notions about Gay Amerleans are beln~ perpetuated hy a media whleh erroneously believes it is honorable journalism to simply regurgitate sound bltes rom both sides in the name of bahnee. 30%. What about the other70%? According to the company, the hair tonic is not working for these folks because they are "not praying hard enough." As you skim down the page, you perkup because you read there is still hope! A competing company claims that their hair tonic has a miraculous success rate of 71.6%. But when asked by the magazine reporter for hard data to corroborate the claim, the company spokes- person gli"bly repli¯es,. "I don’t have time to conduct follow-up studies." How then, you wonder, does the ¯ company come up with a specific number like 71.6% without ~’011ow-ti~ studies to document whether or not : the patients sprouted hair? ~ The article then points out that the two scientists who ¯ founded the hair tonic formula have feverishly traveled " to science conventions around the world to declare that ~ their invention.does not work as they once said it did. ~ They say that many people would he harmed psycho- . logically if they pinned all ,of,their ho.p~,s a~,d dream~,on~ what they now Call a"fraud. The article atso states mat "- all respected medical and mental health organizations agreed with the inventors that the hair tonic was no more i likely to help one grow hair than dipping ones head in ~ a vat of Ben and Jerry’ s ice cream. ¯ If that isn’ tbad enough, the companies promoting the ¯ hair tonic have taken out full page ads in major newspa- : pers which have distorted a baldness study by one of the ¯ premier hair loss specialists in the nation. The ac- "_ claimed expert retorted acrimoniously to the lies by ¯ saying, "It was a complete misrepresentation of what ~ the research actually said. It was taken completely out ~ of context. I am horrified and angry and they are ¯ spreading an awful and destructive message." ¯ Your dreams of looking like Fabio are dashed for ¯ good when you read that of the people lumped in the ¯ 30% success rate category, the majority believed that if ~ thehairtonicdidnot work, biologicalbaldness couidbe ¯ overcome bywearing atoupee. The article ends with the ¯ testimony of angry ex-ex bald people who claim that ] they were misled and cheated by the hair tonic compa- ¯ rues. One company’s spokesperson dismisses the in- ] convenient complaints of the ex-ex-bald people by ~ saying: "Some p~.ople fall of the wagon." ~ You now sit m your living room, enraged by the ¯ misleading story, wondering how a respected news ~ outlet would g~ve this "snake oil" that has been so ~ thoroughly discredited, the slightest bit of legitimacy, ~ no less a cover story. Shouldn’t the ex-ex-bald people ~ have been on the cover, or at least been the focus of the ¯ story instead because their experiences are a more ~ representative of the vast majority who took the tomc? ~ Dojournalistic ethics and standards exist anymore, you ¯ wonder? Whoops, you almost forgot, it is 1998, ’‘The : Year of the Journalist." discredited, unsubstantiated, cure for baldness, or anything rise for that matter.., except homosexuality. When it comes to a so-called cure for Gay people, (as if one were wanted or needed) veracity does not seem to be of much importance to the media. In the following passa~, all of the shenanigans attributed to the ex-bald movement actually occurred in the so-called ex-Gay ministries, from the bogus statistics to the distortion of scientific research, to the founders of the ex-Gay ministries marrying each other and repudiating these "cures." Yet, despite these gross irregularities, the media still unwittingly legitimizes "ex-Gay" ministries by not holding them to the same standard of scientific proof that they would demand from any other group. Advocates for Gay equality believe these ministries should have an opportunity to voice their opinions. However, the media has a duty to research the accuracy of statements made or statistics reported. Currently, false notions about Gay Americans are being perpetuated by a media which erroneously believes it is honorable journalism to simply regurgitate sound bites from both sides in the name of balance. While balance is important, it is not an excuse to eschew accuracy and tough, fact checking. All statements are not equally valid and it is the media’ s responsibility, to distinguish factfrom fiction. Inmost of the news stones about the "ex-Gay" mimstries or the Right wing ad campaign in which these mimstries are highlighted, fiction has been the norm and the truth has been a For example, ex-Gay leader Anthony Falzarano recently said dn television that nearly 80% of Gay people were:molested as children. This is factually incorrec~by any objective standards, withGaypeoplenomorelikely to be molested as children than heterosexuals. Unfortunately; because he is talking about Gay people, the lethargicmediafelt there was noneed to hold Falzarano ¯ iecountableforhis lie. IfFalzaranowouldhave mad.e .a9 outrageous claim about any other minority group, ~t ~s guaranteed the media would have followed-up and excoriated him for his hysterical statement. At the Human rights Campaign, our biggest challengeis not countering political religious activist ~oups whoexistmdeny us equal rights. The toughest battle we face is getting the media to accurately follow-up on outrageous statements made by these groups. As it stands, our opponents can say anything they want about Gay people, no matter how despicable, and they never . havemanswer for it~Through lazy reporting, the media has becomean accomphcemthe Right s discnnnnalao campaign against Gay Americans by giving bald faced lies equal stature to documentedfacts. It is our hope that as the news media begins to evaluate some of their glaring ethical lapses in 1998, they will consider stopping the harmful practice of printing false information about Gay people perpetuated by the Right without first verifying the outrageous claims. This perpetuation of myths by the media has forced the Human Rights Campaign to start the Ray Of Light (ROL) project. TheROLseeks to shine the spotlight on these ministries so people can see beyond the rhetoric andhearfromthe vast majority ofpeoplewhohave been through these ministries and now call their techniques psychological terrorism. This project will invite former ¯ ex-Gays from around the nation to share their stories ¯ with the Human Rights Campaign and lift the veil of ¯ secrecy surrounding these mimstries. The Ray of Light ¯ will: ¯ *Seek and chronicle the stories of former ex-Gays; ¯ *Share these smiles with the public and the media; ¯ *Compile information by leading mental health and ¯ medical experts on the most recent studies; and ¯ *Examine the literature of the ex-Gay ministries to ¯ look for flagrant abuses and fraudulent claims. If you have been through these ministries, please ¯ submit your story so we can share it and help others. ~ Stories can be submitted, to: www.hrc.org/ncop/rol Churches Create Hate MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Mainstream Christian denominations are to blame for a climate of hate and bigotry that fostered the fatal beating of a Gay University of Wyoming student, a United Methodist Church pastor says. "It’s not just the fight-wing conservatives" who are teaching that homosexuality is a sin and that Christian churches should shun Gays and Lesbians, the Rev. Jimmy Creech said while in Minneapolis recently. "I hold the church accountable for helping to create a culture that allows violence against Gays and Lesbians," he said. "Churches don’ t intend for the violence to happen, but they lay the groundwork for it." Creech gained national notoriety" for officiating at a same-sex covenant ceremony in his Omaha, Neb., congregation. In August, he was narrowly acquitted of violating church law. He subsequently resigned from his Nebraska congregation. Creech argues that when the church denies clergy members the right to perform same-sex ceremonies, it is preventing them from "being a pastor to all members of the congregation.r’ For him, "’This is the denial ofmy freedom to be a pastor to everyone, and that’s very offensive." Crecch was in Minneapolis to preach at two services at All God’s Children Metropolitan Church. Theday before, hemetwith several Minnesota United Methodistclergy andlaity. Recently,22United Methodist members from Minnesota joined 344 other Methodists around the country in asking the national bishops to address the issues of treatment ofGays and Lesbians in the church. Non-Biological L sbian Mom Shares Custody NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A woman who stayed home [o raise a 2-year-old boy while her Lesbian partner earned a living can share custody of the child, even though she isn’ t the biological mother, a judge has ruled. The partner, identified only as R.E.M., stayed home to take care of the boy while herpartngr, S.L..y., worked at a hospital. The Lakewood couple decided . to have the child together, chose a sperm donor to inseminate S.L.V. and sent out birth announcements " with both women’ s fingerprints on them. Experts who follow Lesbian custody battles say the ¯ decision goes further than any other in granting bro,a,d ," custodial rights to a woman who is not the child s birth mother. "- "The court is satisfied that R.E.M. has been able to ¯ show that she stands in the shoes of a parent to the child and should be accorded the status of parent in " parity with S.L.V.,’7 Superior Court Judge Vincent ¯ Grasso wrote inhis decision issued Monday in Ocean County. Kate Kendell, who heads the National Center for Gay and Lesbian Rights in San Francisco, called the decision "an enormous victory ." "Our children have as much right to a continuing relationship with both parents as any other child of two parents," she said Tuesday, Thejudge’ s declsxon, however, lsn t binding stat - wide and is inconsistent with an opinion issued in Essex County in September. Two other similar cases have yet to be decided in Mercer and Union counties. "Right now, you have a situation that really cries out for an appeal," said Paul Urbania, S:L.V:’s attorney. ’q’he law in New Jersey shouldn’t depend on where geographically you’ re located." One woman in Essex County, who said she helped raise 4-year-old twins with her ex-partner, lost custody of the children and vowed to appeal. Attorney Robin Wernik said the woman will use the Ocean County opinion to bolster her case. Lawyers are stillformalizing thedetails, butR.E.M. will likely be able to care for the boy for three or four 12-hour days each week while S.L.V. isat work, as well as on alternate weekends, said her attorney, Bettina Munson. R.E.M., a former bartender, does notworkbecause ofapermanentdisability toher arm. Both women must share the cost of supporting the boy, identified only as A.J.M.V., thejudge said. The boy, who was born on March 2, 1996, goes by the surname of both women. The couple, who met in 1989 and moved in to- ¯ gether in 1991, chose a sperm donor together with a ¯ geneticprofilethatwas compatible to theirs once they decided to have a child. S.L.V. was inseminated ¯ because R.E.M. had had a hysterectomy, the opinion ¯ satd. The women went by mommy and mamere, ¯¯ and drew up respective, detailed family trees for the baby. The relationship ended in November 1996, ¯ although S.LV. remained in the home until Septem- ¯ ber 1997, the opinion said. R.E.M. sued for castody a ¯ month later. "BBC Apologizes For ¯ Calling Politician Gay LONDON (AP)-TheBritish Broadcasting Corp. has apologized to a Cabinet minister who was described as Gay during a news program. Aides to Trade Secretary Peter Mandelson said Monday he had received ~ a letter of apology from BBC chairman Sir Christo- ¯ pher Bland. Mandelson, who prefers not to make an ¯ issue of his sexual orientation, planned no comment : on the letter, the aides said. The controversy beganwhen newspaper columnist Matthew Pards saidonalate-nightBBCprogram that ¯ Mandelson was "certainly, Gay. The remark came ¯ during speculation about the sexuality of another ¯ Cabinetminister, RonDavies, whoresigned as Welsh ¯ Secretary last weekbecause ofwhathe called a"lapse ¯ of judgment" with a stranger who robbed him after the two met at London’ s Clapham Common, a popu- : lar Gay hangout, and left together. Davies has given : no clear explanation of what happened. But he has ¯ denied he was seeking Gay sex or drugs, even after days of banner headlines and tabloid stories. : Meanwhile, the BBC added to the controversy by ¯ ordering staffmembers never to repeat the remark by ¯ Parris, who is openly Gay, on any of its programs. ¯ That move provoked charges of clumsy censorship ¯ and of giving special treatment to Mandelson, a close ¯ adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair and among the ¯" country’ s most influential politicians. ¯ Protesters included the opposition Conservative ~arty., severa! 9f whose.politicians were pursu.,e,d.by the media over extramarital affairs when the party was ~n power. Also opposed to the BBCrs move was Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam, also a leading member of the Blair Cabinet. Ms. Mowlam said she and other panelists on a Friday nightBBCradio talk show were told not to mention Mandelson and the Gay remark. "I’m not about to be unfair or unjust to colleagues, but we’ve all state~,,very clearly that to be given guidelines is insulfing~ she said during the show. The BBC altered.anews quiz program last week to remove a running joke about Mandelson, but the TV ¯ satare program .Ha. e I Got Ne~ws For You.’?" was ¯ allowed to broadcast a Clip of the Parris comment. i Schools LawSuits Help "Prevent Gay-Bashings ¯ OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - In the wake of the recent ~ death ofaGay collegestudeut, administrators, teach- ¯ ers and students methere this weekend to diSCUSS Gay ~ bashingin schools. They say lawsuits are a powerful ¯ weapon in the ending name:calling, harassment and : violence agMnst young Gay people. S.chool districts ¯ that have ignored the problem are being held liable. ¯ No federal anti-discrimination laws cover sexual : orientation, and Massachusetts is the only state to ¯ mandate such protection. 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Learning how to better run her own such group ¯ brought Veronica Lopez, 22, from Stockton to the ¯ conference. Lopez, a college student who works full time in a day care center, said homophobia starts early. She said a 4-year-old boy recently came to her in tears . because a 5-year-old had just called him an anti-Gay " epithet. "It shows the parents are talking about it, ." because kids don’t even know what (Gay) is," Lopez ¯ said. "I thinkit’ s important that people realize we’re not " sick people... I consider myself pretty normal." Gay Man in NY SenateI ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Thomas Duane, openly Gay ¯ and HIV-positive, describes himself as "distinctly " progressive." TheDemocraticNew YorkCity Council- " man is running for a seat m the state Senate that has ¯ rarely, if ever, been described in those terms. If Duane ¯ is elected - and the heavy Democratic makeup of his " Manhattan district makes that very likely - he will ¯ become the state Senate’s first openly Gay member and only the second openly Gay member of the state Legis- ¯ lature.-"I’m hoping to add something that has been " missing from the debate in Albany," Duane said. He runs as the recent beating death of Gay University ¯ of Wyoming student Matthew Shepherd focuses national attentiononhatecrimes legislation, one of Duane’ s " key issugs. Known for his outspoken support of issues ¯ relating to Gays, women and the disabled in.the rough ¯ and tumble city council, Duanehas said that the absence ¯ of hate crime statutes permits and, ina sense, encour- " ages violence against homosexuals. This-year, he called for can-cellation-of the annual GreenwiEii Village Halloween Parade, clting rising anti-Gay violence in the " traditionally tolerant New York City enclave. " Such abate crimes law has been blockedinNew York ¯ by the very Republican-controlled state Senate Duane ¯ hopes to take a seat in. Senate Majority Leader Joseph ¯ Bruno opposes the law, saying it creates a special class " of victim. " ’‘The state Senate has been absolutely backward," Matt Foreman, executive director ofEmpire State Pride ¯ Agenda, New York’s largest Gay advocacy group. ¯ "Someone like Tom is desperately needed there." It is highly unlikely that Duane he will have any luck " pushing legislation through the highly-regimented Senate from the Democratic side of the aisle. Still, support- ¯ ers say his status is likely to hold sway in debates. "To ¯ have someone who lives with HIV talking about HIV- : related bills will be quite powerful and I think his " opinion willcarry real weight," said state Sen. Catherine ¯ Abate. Duane is running for Abate’ s seat after she vacated it " to nm unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination ¯ for state attorney general. The district winds from the ¯ Upper West Side through Times Square downtown to Greenwich Village and the Financial District. Voter registration is 67 percent Democrat and only about 11 " percent GOP. His opponent, Republican Karol Murov, ¯ has failed to mount mu’ch of a challenge, observers said. Bruno spokesman John McArdle refused to discuss Duane’ s candidacy. But in response.to criticisms about " the chamber’s attention to Gay issues he said "the .. Senate has responded to concerns of New Yorkers as a whole." ." Duane’s election would bring New York even with ¯ Arizona and California, which both have two Gay ¯ members in their state Legislature. Only Oregon and " Maine have more. ." AssemblywomanDe_borah Glick, the-New York’s first openly Gay legislator, points to legislation r~quiring AIDs testing for newborns and this year’ s mandate : that people who test positive for HIV notify their " : partners as si.gns that New York’ s Legislature is ill- " informed on issues important to Gay groups. Yet she sounds a cautionary note for Duane, saying to expect at least some hostility. "I’m sure he will encounter homophobia. I did and still do," Glick said. Gay MayorforWinnipeg WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - A city councilman once featured in a documentary about Gay foster fathers has won the mayoral race in Winnipeg, becoming the first openly Gay mayor of a major Canadian city. "It was a history-making night," said Glen Murray after returns showed him winning easily over six other candidates. Winnipeg is Manitoba’s capital and, with 667,000 residents, is the largest Canadian city between Toronto and Calgary, Alberta. Murray, 41, became one of Canada’s betterknown Gay politicians six years ago when, with his troubled foster son Michael Curtis, he was featured in a film documentary called "A Kind of Family." Murray did not make his sexual orientation a focus of the campaign, concentrating instead on economic issues and moderating some of the left-ofcenter positions he espoused during three terms on the city council. His main opponent, grocery-store executive Philip Kaufman, did not raise the homosexuality issue explicidy, thoughhe made references early in the campaign to family values. Late in the campaign, a local minister organized a prayer vigil and urged voters to oppose Murray. "This is not a matter ofhating anyone," said Bruce Martin, pastor of Calvary Temple Pentecostal Church. "It’s a matter of biblical interpretation." Murray’s victory was celebrated by Gays in Winnipeg. "It’ s apotent symbol that an openly Gay person should be elected to a high post like this," said Chris Vogel, a Gay rights activist. "It contributes to the growing sense that there’s nothing wrong with being homosexual." Murray, seeking to portray himself as mainstream, said he would follow the practice of previous Winnipeg mayors and refuse .to officially proclaim a Gay Pride week in the city. In fact, he said he _will try to avoid issuing such proclamations on behalf of any group or cause. "We’re a city of such diversity, of so many cultures," he said. "We’re a city of great tolerance, ofhope and Ijust think all of those values were reaffirmed tonight." There are only a couple of dozen openly Gay politicians in Canada, including two members of the federal Parliament. Bishop in Bind COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A bishop who performed two same-sex ceremonies when he was a Columbus pastor said it was an agonizing decision for him to file a complaint against a minister for performing a Gay ceremony. Bishop Joseph Sprague, head of the Chicago United Methodist Church, said he performed services for two men and two women. Sprague charged Rev. Gregory Dell, pastor of Broadway United Methodist Church in Chicago, with "failure to uphold the order and discipline of the United Methodist Church." Sprague said he :’ chose to write the complaint to avoid inflammatory language he expected others might use. Dell will be tried before a 13-person jury of his peers. Dell said he didn’ t talk with Sprague before conducting the recent service, but knew the bishop would be required to file charges. Sprague said before he performed the Gay ceremonies he first discussed it with Bishop Judith Craig of the West Ohio Conference, which has jurisdiction over Columbus. "I told him he could not use the marriage ceremony in that setting... I toldhim that in terms of any ceremony he designed, I wouldleave it to his pastoral discretion to do what was necessary to providepastoral care," Craig said. Sprague has refused to remove Dell from his duties pending the trial, and said he isn’ t sure what he will do if the jury votes to oust Dell. Jocelyn Elders: No Regrets COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Jocelyn Elders, who lost her job as U.S. surgeon general four years ago, says she does not regret taking such controversial stands as advocating se~x education for kindergartners and conitoms in teen-agers’ pockets. "You look back on things like that more than once, and I have tried to think how I would have said things differently or should I have said those things, and I have to say I have no regrets," she said at an annual state conference on sexually transfnitted diseases and HIV, the AIDS virus. Even the invitation for her to speak stirred controversy. The state Department of Health and Environmental Control last month withdrew its sponsorship and $40,000 in funding, saying Elders’ presence would distract from the issues. That left AIDS service organizations as the primary sponsors, with funding frompharmaceutical companies. Eiders, who drew bursts of applause and cheers from the audience of nearly 650, said she advocates explaining sex to youngsters so they can protect themselves from abuse. "We want tO teach our children early that there are places that people should not touch," she said in an interview. What about leaving sex education to parents? "We don’t let the parents teach physics," Eiders said. "Your health is far more important than physics." And if site had a teen-age daughter? "I would never want my teen-ager to go out on a date without a condom in her purse," Elders said, saying vows ofabstinence"are easier to break than a latex condom.’" Elders, the first black woman to be surgeon general, held the job 15 months until she was forced to resign in December ;t-994: ~Her downfall came. when she said Gays and Lesbians must help save children from the un-Christian religious right. Needle Exchange Program Prevails WASHINGTON (AP) -Even before a congressonal bahon funds for needleexchange programs became law, anAIDS clinic in the nation’ s capital had set up a private group to supply drug addicts with clean needles. "This law is intrusive," said Jim Graham, executive director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic. "It not only tells D.C. how we can spend ourownlocal tax dollars, but it tells charities like Whitman-Walker how we can spend pri: rate funds." Congress, as part of the $520 billion spendingpackage signedintolaw Wednesday, banned use of local and federal funding for any needle-exchange program in the District of Columbia. That was on top of a permanent ban on federal funding of needle exchanges anywhere in the country. The Whitman-Walker Clinic, one of the nation’ s largest, has created a private, nonprofit group to run theprogram, transferring equipment, supplies and $50,000 in private funds to the new operation. The Washington-based Drug Policy Fotmdation gave the new group, Prevention Works, an additional $25,000. "Sounds like they’ ve. got some pretty sharp lawyers," said Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., who sponsored the ban. The clinic gets $7 million a year in federal and local government dollars and has operated a clean-needle exchange for three years. It got $210,000 from the dis- - trict last year for the effort and raised $50,000 from private donors. Last month, its van disU-ibuted 17,000 needles. Prevention Works should have. enough resources to keep the needle-exchange van rnnning for four or fivemoremonths, said Graham, who is running for City Council. Needle exchanges are operatingin about 100 U.S. cities. Supporters say such programs help prevent the spread ofAIDS by allowing addicts to exchange contamimated needles for dean ones. Opponents contend the programs encourage drug abuse. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the distriCt’ s delegate to Congress, called the provision "callous... (and) ignorant, because the entire scientific establishmenthas reached the same conclusion: Needle exchange markedly reduces AIDS infection and deaths without spreading drug abuse." Its racial implications are inescapable, she said, because AIDS is hitting black and Hispanic populations the hardest. Last year, she said, the District’s AIDS rate was nine times the national average. Tiahrt and Sen. Jolm Ashcroft, R-Mo., the Senate sponsor of the ban, cite Canadian studies they say demonstrate that . clean needle programs have failed to reduce the spread of HIV. "’Wherever the needle exchange programs took place, theybecame hubs for drug activity," Tiahrt said. Addicts~ need "help ~o get off drugs, not help to get new needles." A possible White House contender, Ashcrofl likens needle exchange programs to the idea "that providing bulletproof vests to bark robbers would make it safer for them to rob banks." The authors of the Canadian studies have said congressional leaders misinterpreted their report. Because the programs served inner-tory neighborhoods, they served users.already at the.greatest risk of infection, they said, and the programs did not provide enough syringes to be effecfive. Investors Suing ¯ PLWA’s Not Dying : wEsT PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A ¯ group of mvestors has sued two compa- ¯¯ nies that buy and sell life insurance policies ofterminallyill patients, saying medi- ¯ cal advances are keeping AIDS patients ¯ alive longer. ¯ ¯ The two companies targeted in the lawsuits broker what arb known as viatical ¯ settlements. A terminally ill person, usu- ¯ ally an AIDS patient, sells his life insur- ¯ ance policy for less than the death benefit to get the cash. The person who buys the ¯ policy becomes the policy’s owner and ¯ beneficiary and collects the full benefit ¯ when the patient dies. ¯ The deals were invented in the 1980s as ¯ thenumberofAIDS cases exploded. They ¯ have been controversial since their incep- ¯ lion because, in .crass terms, they are an : investment in someone else’ s death. But : the deals are touted as making the best of ¯ a bad situation. They often help AIDS ¯ patients pay for treatment and live out ¯ their final days in relative comfort. ¯ However, the lawsuits filed recently in ¯ Palm Beach County Circuit Court con- " tends the system is falling apart. Medical ¯ progress means AIDS patients whomight _- have expected to live only for another ¯ year are living for three, four or five years. ¯ Thelonger a patient lives, the lower the ¯ return. If an investor buys a $110,.000 : policy for $100,000, and the patient dies Providing Physical, Occupational & Speech Therapy in the Tulsa Community since 199/ . Orthopedic and Work Injuries are our specialty.. Most insurance-accepted. Appointments made 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. M-F. Call us today at 58zl--1233. Medical Excellence And Compass.ionate Care Since 1926. ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER Sandra Hill, a.s. 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The deals now amount to deception on the ,part of the two companies in the lawsuits, he said P6rlstein said there’ s no longer areasonable certainty as to the projeqti~n Of life expectancy. The lawsuits seek a~jury trial and unspecified damages. A Judge must certify them if they are to become class actaon. Officials at Accelerated Benefits in Orlando and Dedicated Resources Inc. of Delray Beach said they had not seen the lawsuits and could not comment on the Specific charges. "It’ll be interesting to see what they have to say," said Michael Zadoff, presidentofDedicated Resources. HIV & Elder, Sex TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Sue Saunders is 65 and has AIDS. As far as she’ s concerned, the more people who know it the better. Saunders pioneered aproject in herhometown of Fort Lauderdale to educate Flori~ ans over age 50 about therisk ofde¯eloplng acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Her first challenge was getting the attention of an age group largely ignored when it comes to AIDS education. "Yes, there is sex after 50. After 60. After 70. People think after 50 we die from the neck down," Ms. Saunders said. "People look at you like you’re crazy. What?You mean, Grandma and Grandpa are still having sex?" Ten% of all AIDS cases in the country are people over age 50, according to the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. In Florida, the figure is higher - ranging between 12% and 14%. One in eight Floridians living with AIDS is 50 or older, state health officials said. Yetwhengroups are addressed that are considered.at risk of contracting the virus that causes AIDs, older Americans are often left out. Eighteen months ago, Ms. Saunders began inviting herself to small South Florida groups to discuss prevention, promote education and warn seniors to abstain from sex or use condoms. "You’ re telling people 50 to 90 years old: ’You are at risk for a fatal disease. Youjust went to bed with aguy and y,oudon’ tknow where’ s he’ s been.’" Ms. Saunders was healthy and active. She was divorced, in love and in a longlime relationship. HerBahamianboyfriend was the spark of her life. They spent lazy days on the water, fishing. Life was good. That was in 1990: Suddenly, her boyfriend was diagnosed HIV positive. Nine months later, he was dead. She feared the same thing would happen to her and began saying goodbye to her four grown children. A son took herto an HIV-infected doctor in Laguna Beach, Calif. That visit helped change her life. She dropped the self-pity and went to the Broward County Health Department but found little informarion. After six months doing research, she went to Bentley Lipscomb, elder affairs secretary, who found $170,000 to fund SHIP, the Senior. HIV Intervention Project. Ms. Saunders worked long and hard getting into the crowded retirement condominiums along Florida’ s Gold Coast to give her message. In these building complexes, women outnumber men seven-toone, she said. "The women are starved for affection. The men are having a ball. They" can have all the women they want. "Ev~ erybody says ’it can’t happen to me. I’m uot aprostitute. I don’ t fool around,’" she said. "You’ie never too old. And all it takes xs one partner - if he or she is infected.’" Older people are rarely targeted for prevention. The health care system, including doctors, often is reluctant or uneasy about discussing AIDS and sex with them, said Dave Bruns, elder affairs spokesman. "Not only is it an insult, it’ s rampant ageism," Bruns said. "Just who do they think is buying all this Viagra?" There are 67,282 cases of AIDS cases statewide and 8,400 of those infected are age 50 or older, according to the Florida Department of Health. When Ms. Saunders left the SHIP program recently, the demand for lectures was enormous. "Everybody wanted us to come talk to them," she said. They were scheduling 20to30 presentations amonth. The project was so successful, a second program was launched in the Tampa Bay area under Edith Ellerson in June. She encountered similar apprehension as she started talking at senior centers, assistedliving residences, senior nutritional programs. Gradually, the audiences became more receptive and willing to listen. She brings condoms, urges listeners to be tested and find out firstabout themselves, then question their partners. "You’ re not only sleeping with your partner, but with whomever your partner slept with for the past five years, and whoever they slept with - like a pyramid or domino effect," she said. Hemophiliacs to Get Compensation WASHINGTON (AP) - Last-minute lobbying led to deceptively easy approval of a plan to allow the government to compensate hemophiliacs infected with HIV during the early days of the AIDS epidemic. The bill, passed by the Senate on a voice vote, authorizes payments of $100,000 apiece to compensate hemophiliacs or their survivors for the government’s failure to aggressively screen tainted blood products. The measure, which President Clinton is expected to sign, does not put the checks in the mail, though, because it does not allocate any money. However, with the authorization in hand, the bill’s backers can lobby Congress to appropriate the estimated $750 million it would cost. The bill, named after Ricky Ray, a 15- year-old hemophiliac from Florida who died from AIDS in 1992, became controversial late in the legislativeprocess, when others who contracted the .disease from tainted bloodtransfusions argued thatthey deserved to be included. Sen. James Jeffords, R-Vt., took up the cause of the transfusion victims, and at one point blocked consideration of the Ricky Ray bill in an effort to force action on a more encompassing authorization. Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, said he spent the weekend on the phone pressing Senate leaders to move the bill to the floor and dealing with the last-minute objections of other senators. Jeffords’ spokesmanJoe Karpinski said he never planned to hold up the legislation altogether, and dropped his objections to the House bill after it became clear thathe could not develop consensus to include the.transfusion victims, potentially dou- \ ¯ b.ling the cost. Hemophiliac,~ m~d tra:>/;usxon recipients were infected wifl~.~~,--,.,.,~.,..~. ¯ donated by people who carried th6 AIDS ¯ virus. The Institute of Medicine, a scientific ¯ organizationthatadvises the government, ¯ later concluded that government caution. ¯ fear of criticism and inadequate leadership delayed effective screening of donors and proper blood testing. ¯ Hemophiliacs already have won : $100,000 each from the blood industry ¯ through the settlement of a class action lawsuit. Transfusion court victories have ¯ been more sporadic. ¯ Karpinski said Jeffords will try again ¯ next year toinclude transfusion victims, a ¯ move DeWine backs. "We should work to ¯ see that justice is done for this group of ¯ victims as well," said DeWine. "Wemade ¯ the decision that it was better to deal with part of the problem than none of the prob- " lem." "I think the precedent of this bill ¯ willmakeit easier to address the concerns ¯ ofthosewhohaveAIDS because oftrans- ¯ fusions." School NamedAfter Boy with AIDS WESTMINSTER,Colo. (AP)-Ten years ¯¯ ago, a little boy from Broomfield began first grade while 30 children stayed home ¯ in protest. Threatening statements and ¯ letters from parents demanded a separate : bathroom and eating area for Ryan ¯ Sheridan, who was infected with HIV. He ¯ died ofcomplications fromAIDS in 1993. Public perception of the disease has ¯ changed since 1988, but misunderstand- , ings still exist. Reminding students, teach- ¯ - ers and admimstrators ol~the hard lessons ¯ learned about Ryan is a school named ¯ after him: Ryan Elementary School in ¯ Westminster. His picture, a plaque and a ¯ red ribbon hangin thelobby of the school. "It’s tough to remember. People were ¯ backed in a corner and forced to deal with ¯ something they didn’ t want to deal with," ¯ said Tim Sheridan, recalling the events ¯ leading up to his son’s first day in first ¯ grade. When the Shefidans, now divorced ¯ and bothlivingin ~Ihornton, told adminis- : trators Ryan was infected, the Jefferson ¯ County school boarddecided to inform all parents by letter that a student with HIV ¯ would attendJuchem Elementary School. ¯. Juchem closed in 1994 after being replaced by a new school named Ryan Elementary. ¯ The letter caused a firestorm of controversy that forced the school board to have ¯ a number of secret meetings with Ryan’ s ¯ teacher and publicmeetings to discuss the ¯ issue. Throughout, Ryanremained anony- ¯ mous to everyone but his teacher, the principal and the school board. ¯ Ryan contracted HIV when he was 2 ¯ years old from a blood transfusion during ¯ 9Pen-heart surgery. Teachers and admin- ¯ lstrators say Ryan taught everyone at the ¯ school difficult lessons about tolerance ; and courage, but AIDS educators say the public still has a long way to go in understanding the disease. "in my opinion, we ¯ haven’t gone all that far in 10 years. Our ¯ homophobia is what gets in the way of ¯ hearing about HIV," said Katy Fleming, education director at the Boulder County ; AIDS Project. "Studies have shown that ¯ manytimes peoples’ attitudes towardchildren (with AIDS) have been negative ¯ because of issues of sexual orientation " ¯ Although HIV and AIDS education is ¯ better today, moral issues still need to be ¯ separated from medical issues, Fleming ¯ said. by James Christjohn : they would get the in-jokes peppered ff there is a movie that I would heartily ¯ throughout the film. recommend to all folks this Halloween,,it ; And speaking of magic, The Divine is Practical Magic. It has something for ¯ Miss M’ s new release, "Bathhouse Betty" everyone: laughter, tears, sus- is a must-have for any gifting pense, horror, magic, and Stevie Nicks (betcha were wondering how I’d work her in, huh?). A comedy about a family of hereditary witches - that actually gets the gist of Wicca correct for a change, even if adding a few "eyes of newt and a liberal dose of frogs" - and romance, the favorite line will be the one where one of the townsfolk says of one of the witches "Goodnews - she’ s come out!" And, tomy delight, Stevie~ s reworked "Crystal" is a major theme in the film in the score as well as sung. The advice given in the film to those considering or afraid of relationships is well worth the price of admission. Stockard Channing and Diane Weist are absolute magic as the Annties who pass on the family traditions with liberal doses of love and laughter. One of the lovely things about the film is .that it deals with being perceived as different, inhuman, "other" in the ’~mainstream" world, and being a magical film, how the wOmen of this family transcend that difficulty. It very much has a Gay sensibility to it and thus would be enjoyed by those in our community especially, for "I’m Beautiful, Dammlt" [Bette Midler’s new recording] is a standout track that should he a hit in the dance clubs, being an anthem to being-different and eelebratln~ that dlfferenee in .spite of the flak it brin~s. this season. It is Bette at her best, full of everything from tearful ballads ("One True Friend") to bawdy blues (my personal favorite, and new theme song, "One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show"), to comedic with a message (another theme song, a hiphoppin’ ’Tm Beautiful, Dammit!"). It marks a return to the eclecticism that was one of Bette’ s most delightful qualities, whereyoumightdiscover songs you’ d never find otherwiseifyouhadn’ t been liste~ning to her albums. ’Tm Beautiful, Dammit" is a standout track that shouldbe a hit in the dance clubs, being an anthem to being differentand celebrat- ¯ ing that difference in spite of the flak it ¯ brings. ¯ Know someone that Loves Bette ¯ Midler? Perfect gift. Know someone that has never heard of Bette? Perfect intro- ¯¯ duction. James Christjohn, actor, writer, poet ¯ and Mac-guru extraordinaire provides ¯ TFN with entertainment news, commen- ~ tary and can be counted on for regular ¯ Stevie Nicks updates. Gal-A-Vanting, Tulsa’ s new tivities network specializing in Ms-adventures for women, kicked off its program with a WomenIn the Arts nightat the Pride Center on October 23. While attendance was somewhat thin, with approximately 20 women in the audience, Gal-A-Vanting founders Joan and Mary were still quite happy with the event. "Wedidn’ t takeinto account Oktoberfest," Mary explains, "And we are still developing our mailing list and contacts. The artists were really outstanding, each with a style and media that was quite unique~ We’re hoping to do a week long show in the spring so that the art exhibits can be stationary and serve as an anchor for performing arts such as readings, music and so forth. And this will give people a better chance to see the works of these fine women artists, and support them by purchasing their worl~ You don’ t have to go to Eureka Springs or to Ptown to find exceptional artwork for your home." social ac- The long-awalted dance will be held at the Pride Center on Saturday November 14 from eight p.m. tll ??? and will be D.J.’d by Sue Knause, who promises to play a wide array of tunes for the danelng pleasure of Tulsa’s " play a wide array of tunes for the dancing pleasure of Tulsa’s women. With the smaller lounges in the Pride center, opportunities for a quiet conversation are also available. Light refreshments will be available and the entry fee is $3 for singles and $5 for couples. "We’ ve had a lot of interest in this dance, because somany women like to dance but for whatever reason don’ t care to be arbund smoking or drinking. It will also provide a nice venue for women to meet new friends and make new contacts." says Mary. The December Gal-AVanting event will be a movie night on December 16 at the Pride Center, beginning at6:30 p.m. A feature film and a couple of documentaries will be shown. We’re getting ready to prepare our schedule of events for the first of the year and we’ d really like some ideas from the women in the Tulsa area of what they’d like to do," explains Mary. "Please feel free to call me with your The long-awaited dance will be held at : wish list of activities at 743-6740. And if the pride center on Saturday November . you’re not on our mailing/call list, please 14 from eight p.m. til ??? and will be : let us know, This information is strictly D.J.’ d by Sue Knause, who promises to ¯ confidential and will not be shared." Humperdinck’s nse rete Parade of Lights. Come celebrate the spirit of the holiday season at the PSO Christmas Parade of Lights. Saturday, December 12. Downtown Tulsa at 6 p.m. View parade floats up close, Friday, December 11, at the HolidayFest.(Brady Arts DistriCt) from 6-9 p.m. Public Service Company of Oklahoma A Central and South West Company World AIDS Day 1998 Candlelight March & Memorial Service sponsored by Interfaith AIDS Ministries Tuesday, December 1st 6:30, Gather at Centenary United Methodist Church Parking Lot 631 North Denver 7:00", March Begins to Saint Jerome 7:30*, Memorial Service at the Parish Church of Saint Jerome. 205 West King Reception following seine.ice. *time approximate Bring banners & bells~ candles & matches provided st. Jerome will be accessible to the disabled at the east entrance. Into: 438-2437 or 800-284-2437 THE NOON NEWS NEVER LOOKED SO TASTY. The big news is Warren Duck Club’s new lunch menu. And the Horseradish Orange Crusted Halibut with Apricot Basil Sauce is just one of the tastiest stories. From familiar favorites, to late-breaking dishes hot from Chef Dan Broyles’ creative kitchen, this is news to truly savor. Call 495-1000 for the whole story and for reservations. Wari’enOu~kCh-d) In the Doubletree Hotel At Warren Place 6110 S. Yale / Tulsa OK / 918-495-1000 ~ SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 1 lam, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1 lam, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church Service - 1 lam, Childrens Ministry also, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Service, 10:45am. 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088 University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals at 5pm, Info: 743-4297 ~" MONDAYS nIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians.& Gays 2nd Monicach too. 6:30pro, Fellovcship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pro, call Shawn 491-2036. Women/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551 ~ TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 11 i 10, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder H!V+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium l:30pm 3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), lnf6: Wanda @ 834-4194 Multicultural AIDS Coalition, 11/3, 12:30pm, Urban League, 240 East Apache Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 743-4297 PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 !~ WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441 ¯House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210e So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~ THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support/social group for 18-24’ s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 I~" FRIDAYS SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, 1st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th ~" SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pro, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2rid ft. ~OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978 OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157, Short rides, 6:30pro, Long rides, 7am: Meet at Z~igler Park,.3903 West 4th. Pride Rides from the Pride Center, 3749 S. Peorial Write for dates. Ifyour organization is not listed~ please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. Barry Hensley ~sa City-CountyLibrary ~lany Gay and Lesbian families have rallies finding materials for children h depict their family sire- ... In the past few years, ., has been a slow change te publishing world and re beginning to see a few ~ for children, early school and .under, which depict and Lesbian families. ae trailblazer ~as Heather Two Mommies, by Leslea man, which stimulated di "~ 8t~’~ the in we tifl ag~ Ne dis~ usslons across the country and ’opened a new line of attad ~.on theGay community by the Religious Right. A simple, short book, it depicts a young girl and her family: two pets and two mommies. Heather suddenly realizes that she doesn’t have a daddy and becomes upset. She is gently shown other children who, for a variety ofreasons, don’thave fathers. Heather realizes that there are many different family situations and that she is lucky to have two mothers., A companion book "i§ Daddy’s Roomate,by Michael Wi!lhoite, depicting a boy Willholte has a third, hilarious book, Uncle What-ls-h Is Comln~ To V;s;t. It concerns a youn~ brother and sister who .have just learned that their Gay uncle, whom they have never met, is eomln~ to visit. They ask older kids what it means to be Gay and are horrified as the stereotypes of leather queens and Carmen Miranda look~alikes spew forth. Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit. It ¯ concerns a young brother and sister who ¯ have just learned that their Gay uncle, ¯ whom they have never met, ts coming to visit. They ask older kids what it means to be Gay and are horrified as the stereotypes of leather queens and Carmen Miranda look-a-likes spew forth. Their fears are shattered when Uncle Brett shows up and tunas out to be a normal, everyday kind of guy. Other appropriate books for young children include The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans, a satire on today’s polirical scene. In it, the Duke issues a proclamation: "I had exactly one mother and one father, and I turned out so well, I thinkall children shouldhave exactly one mother and one father. Any that don’t- why, we’ll throw ’em in the dungeon." Fortunately, the Duke learns the error of his ways. For slightly older children, ages 6-12, tryHow Would You Feel If Your Dad Was Gay? by A~n Heron and Meredith Maran. Written by two Lesbian mothers with help from their sons,it depicts three chilwho’s divorced father is in a long term, canng Gaymlationship. AnotherWillhoite rifle, not owned by the public library, is Daddy’s Wedding, which continues the saga of Daddy’s Roomate. Ask your librarian to interlibrary loan Daddy’s Wedding for you from another library system. Willhoite .has a third, hilarious book, "She has created an arch of hope that future Gay and Lesbian candidates will be-- able to walk through." Baldwinis also the firstwomanever elected to Congress from Wisconsin. Another openly Lesbian Democrat, former Army colonel Grethe Cammeremeyer, was defeated by incumbent Republican Rep. Jack Metcalf in Washington state. A third, Democrat Chrisline Kehoe, was trailing in her bid to upset California Republican Rep. Brian Bilbray. Gay Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe of Arizona, bidding for an eighth term, held a solid l(ad with more than three-quarters of the votes counted in his race against Democrat Tom Volgy. In an Oklahoma rematch, Republican Rep. Frank Lucas easily won. a fourth term against Democrat Patti Barby, an openly Gay OklahomaCity businessman. Another openly Gay member of Congress, Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, was unopposed for a 10th term. Frank is an outspoken member of the House Judiciary Committee, which will consider impeachment charges against President Bill Clinton. In most cases, the Gay candidates and their opponents kept sexual orientation out of the campaigns. But 6ational Gay civil rights organizations poured money into the races, notably $1 million spent t~y the Human Rights Camp~gn. : drenwithGayparents.Ithasmulticultural ¯ characters andcompassionately shows the ¯ reality of different types of families. ¯¯ Don’t forget to check your local library for information regarding Gay and Les- ¯ bianfamilies. Also youmay call the Read- . ers Services department of the Central ¯ Library at 596-7966. "People are taking a stand for traditional mamage." Not surprisingly, Joseph Mdillo, who with his partner and two Lesbian couples sued the state when they were denied marriage licenses in 1990, felt differently. "It’ s putting into our state constitutaon a discriminatory clause that will distinguish us from other people," he said. Alaska’s constxtutional amendment defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The Legislature put the question on the ballot after a Superior Courtjudge ruled infavor oftwo Gay men who challenged the state ban on same-sex marriage. The judge said choosing a life partner was a fundamental right and the state had to prove a compelling reason to regulate it. In Fort Collins, a civil rights proposed had become especially emotional since the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a Gay student from the University of Wyoming who died in a Fort Collins hospital. Ordinance 22 would have prohibited discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation. 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Your beverages have been cooling and you’ve got a pile of pickets stacked in the yard, and the neighbors, the Nosey Parkers, are still muchtoo interested in your private life. So put on that toolbelt you’ve been breaking in, and let’s work it. The fence stringers are the backbone of your fence. If they are on the inside of the fence, you’ll want to channel" your anal retentive side and take Your DIYD is tired and cranky, so let’s snap to it, get this fence ~p and get it over with. After all, you’ve been waitin~ three months to finish this project and it is getting sooo tiresome... So put on that toolbelt y.ou’ve been breaking m, and let’s work it! particular pains to get everything level and true. If your neighbors are getting that side of the fence, one can be somewhat more cavalier, though not messy, about stringer placement. For the perfect stringer array, you will need enough string to stretch from one end of the fence to the other, a spare body for help, and a level. A chalk line won’t hurt, either. There are small levels that attach to your string and they are not expensive; but if you’re tired of waiting, we’ll make do with a regular level. Measurefrom the groundup abouteightinches and make a mark on the fence post on either end. This will be where the bottom edge of your bottom stringer will go. Don’t worry, the tops (and the middies) will get their chance momentarily. You can no either stretch and attach a string line from end to end, using a level to ensure eveness, and mark the other posts, or you can use a chalk line and snap the mark across the posts. This saves time, if you know how to use one. Attach your bottom stringers withNo-Co-Rode screws. drilling a pilot hole slightly smaller than the diameter of the screw. You will need help with this if you are going for the perfect look. ff not, then you can attach a 1x4 so that the top is even with your bottom line. Do this on both posts and use them to support your board while you drive the two screws into each end of the stringers. You can remove and reuse the lx4’s as you go down the fence. The stringers will meet in the middie of each post, so if you’re over the length a bit, measure carefully (twice!) and remove whatever is necessary; if it isn’t long enough, have you got trouble! The only solution-is to b.uy a board two feet longer and saw off the extra, and darling, that is going to hurt. Once your swingers are all attached, you are ready to start putting up your pickets, ff you are using Cedar pickets, the wood is soft enough that drilling pilot holes are not necessary, but they will be for any other type of wood; otherwise, it will split your pickets, and the possibility of screw head cam-out is very much enhanced. News Flash: your pickets will not be even, square, or straight. Sorry, but this would actually be desirablein wood. Keep that level handy and use it when setting each picket unless you want your fence to develop a curious slant in a hurry. Set up your first picket so that it is about 1/4 to 1/2" off the ground; put the square in the middie of one side and move it gently until the bubble is between the two middie lines. Attach picket with the first screw, in the middie. This frees up your hands,for attaching the top and bottom screws. Put two screws into the picket at the top and bottom stringer, about 3/4" from each outer edge. Do the same for the remaining pickets, leveling each as best you can. As you approach the end of your fence, you will, unless most fortunate, discover that the last picket will not fit perfectly, being either too wide or too narrow. Start paying attention to this about a half dozen pickets from the end. If you will not be off by much, you can adjust the spacing between the last few pickets so they come out fine, otherwise, you’ll have to find a way to np cnt an end picket, or to get sneaky. You know what the DIYD prefers: sneaky ways are deliciously evil and always appeal, especially if they equate with less work. On the DIYD’s last fence project ( which is also the current fence project...), a lx4" picket was used in the last space, and the other pickets were spaced ever so slightly wider apart without being the least bit obvious. You’ll have to play around with it, but if vou haven’ t got access to a table saw to rip’cut a picket, it is well worth it, and safer as well. Rip cuts have a nasty reputation. Now youare asking yourself what there was about this project that took so long, and the answer is the same as so many others - prep work makes the difference in any home project. It is well worth the investment of your ume to measure, level mad true up any part of your fence before it becomes regrettably permanent. And it looks so much more beautiful - mad darlings, you are worth it! There. Your DIYD is less cranky now that you’ve built your privacy fence so well. Rest up. We’ll have more fun next month when we freShen up those fired old kitchen cabinets with a bit of sanding, some paint, and some more stylish pulls. Matthew Shepard’s death was horrible and senseless; it would be more so if it was in vain." Kelly Kirby, longtime civil rights activist and Gay community leader spoke of his family’s direct experiences with hate crimes, including an assaultonhis spouse, Ric, which resulted in over 100 stitches being required. Kirby also claimed that each year from 1991 to 1996, a Gay man was murdered in Tulsa. In New York City, participants of the recent Fifth Avenue rally to remember Shepard alleged that police beat them with batons and ran into them with mopeds and that police horses kicked them because they had no permit for the event. Police were dispatched to themarch when about 4,000 people flocked to the event. see Hate, p. 14 by Esther Rothblum At a time when sexual orientation and gender are being viewed as more continuous categories, there is renewed interest in the fluidity of who is a "woman" and whois a"Lesbian." InmanyNativeAmerican cultures, gender and sexuality have not been as fixed as in western cultures. Recently, a number of books have appeared on "two-spirit¯ people," a term coinedby Native Americans for individuals in their cultttres who are Gay or Lesbian, or who are transgendered, or who have multiple gender identities. The term "two-spirit" is an attempt by Native American commttnities to re-define their past from the way in which it has been depicted by white male anthropologists,and also to distinguishNativeAmerican concepts ofgenderandsexuality from those of the.western Gay and Lesbian communities. I recendy spoke with Sue- Ellen Jacobs, one of the coeditors of the book, Two- SpiritPeople: NativeAmerican GendertIdentity, Sexuality and Spirituality. She -said: ’¢Fhere are a number of instances where there are Native women, living on reservations, who don’t stand out, who. don’t come forward. The Gay white men who are out there studying Native American men don’t see the women because these.researchers don’ t recognize, these Women as Who they are with~n their cul~ ture. Not many Native women use the words ’Lesbian’ or ’dyke’ to describe themselves. The researchers didn’t realize that there was a movement going on within the Native American communities, the two-spirit movement." Sue-Ellen Jacobs described instances of"male-bodiedwomen"or "female-bodied men" who took on the roles and became known as being of the "other" genderin NativeAmericancultures. AsJacobs and the other editors state in the introduction to their book: "Using the word ’two- Spirit’ emphasizes the spiritual aspect of one’ s life and downplays the homosexual persona." After experiencing several years of "discriminatory treatment," and many efforts to work out the differences with TCCLS, Neal contacted Tulsa County Commissioner John Selph to discuss what Neal called"theseblatant violations ofthe First Amendment" and his intention to file a lawsuit to resolve the matter. While Neal neverreceived any response fromhis letter to Selph, shordy afterward, TCCLS banned all free publications from its lobbies- withthe exceptionofaLatino publication, Imagen in the 3rd Street Library which serves an increasingly Spanish- spealdng neighborhood. According to Neal; lmagen blatenfly violated the 50% local content nile but said he was told that TCCLS director, Linda Saferite, approved that violation because having the publication helped to traditions acknowledge that the he-shes and she-hes . . . were amon~ the ~reatest eontrlhutors to the well-heln, and advancement of their eommunltles. They were (and we are) the Sreatest probers into the ways of the future, and they qulekly assimilated the lessons of ehan~in~ times .... and people..." ." In the chapter "I am a Lakota womyn," ¯ Beverly Little Thunder writes: "Most ¯ tribes that I have had the honor of know- " ing have specificnames formenwholove ¯ men and women who love women... I ¯" can understand that theremay be a need ¯ by some to findapan-Native term that can be used as a marker for the general population of Native Lesbians and Gays. We are all so different in somany ways, however. Culturally and physically, we are all different. Each tribe has its own name, its own structure. How canwe all even be called ’Natives’?... The words I would like to see written about me and read fifty years from now should be words that reflect who I am as an individual.’" Came House, of Navajo! Oneida descent, writes: "Our oral traditions acknowledge that the he-shes and she-hes (those who hold in balance the male and female, female and male aspects of themselves and theuniverse) were among the greatest contributors to the well-being and advancement of their communities. They were (andwe are) the greatest probers into ¯ the ways of the future, and they quickly ¯ assimilated the lessons of changing times and people. Recent studies into the lives ¯ of she-hes and she-hes have recovered ¯ models or near models of this rich, inven- ¯ tive, reverential, and highly productive ¯ approach t.o k.eg,ping balance within a s~- ¯ ciet~ viewed as an extension of nature." Further reading, see: Sue-Ellen Jacobs, ¯ Wesley Thomas & Sabine l_xtng (’97). ¯ Two-SpiritPeople: NativeAmerican Gen- : der Identity, Sexuality and Spirituality. ¯ Urbana, IL: Univ. of Blinois Press. Will : Roscoe (’98). Changing Ones: Third and ¯ FourthGendersinNativeNorthArnerica. ¯- NY: St. Martin’s Press. Lester Brown " (’98). Two-Spirit People. NY: Haworth : Press. : Esther Rothblum teaches Psychology ¯ at the Univ. of Vermont and edits the : Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be ¯ reached at John Dewey. Hall,Univ. of : Vermont," Burlington, VT, email:- ¯ esther.rothblum@uvm.edu. ¯" serve a special needs population. Neal ¯ said his arguments about the Lesbian and : Gay communities’ special needs were ig- ¯ nored. ¯ Neal adds, "I have no illusion that ¯ TCCLS made this change to accomodate ¯ Tulsa Family News. 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That same day, an- any important event, such as other friend griped about A Lesblan a dance performance or socpacks of Lesbians invading 17rlend recently cergame, menleavewomen his favorite bar, poisoning its atmosphere. Pleas for eomplalned about behind in the village to sleep by themselves. TheTaunese Gay/Lesbian unity ("why the orffanlzatlonal practice the samesex taboos can’t we all just get along") shorteomln~s ot7 demanded by many Ameriare perhaps as common as can football coaches: No sex jokes that poke fun at this "Gay boys - before the big game! Every continental divide in our They’re . hopeless!" evening, men also go off by commumty, themselves to prepare and Public constemation about she ~ttumed. That drink kava (Piper relations between women same day, another methysticum) - the traditional South Pacific drug differemntaennd -_good,evokedbad,memoi_nO-r t~rlend gaped substance that is becoming ries ofmy years in Vanuatu. about pael~s o17 increasing popular in the ThiSlocatedtropictahline archipelagOsouthwespta-iS Lesbians invadln~ U.S. as a natural relaxant. Men assert that women can cific-aculturalregioncalled h~.s 17avor~.te bar, strip away the potency of Mdanesiathat also includes polsonln~ its kavamerely by touching the the islands of New atmosphere, plant before it is prepared; Caledonia, the Solomons, and drinkers bitterly blame and New Guinea. RitualiZed hostility be- ¯ women, talking too loud back in the viltween men and women is a cultural curi- " lage, for spoiling their kava high. osity of much of Melanesia. Anthropolo- " Women endanger men notjust because gists who first analyzed the phenomenon ¯ of their polluting vaginal fluids. Men are labeled it "sexual antagonism," though " also threatened by naturally female crenowadays we’d more likely call it"cross- " ative powers. Women are mothers. The gender opposition" or the like. ¯ children they bear sustain the cycle of Full-fledged sexual antagonism exists " human life and death. Women’s vaginas notably in the highland valleys of New " are powerfully dangerous openings back Guinea. My village neighbors on an is- " into the spiritual world inhabited both by land called Tanna, on the eastern edge of ¯ the ancestors and the unborn. Men per- ~ Mdanesia, practice only an attenuated " haps fear the vagina as muelx for its lifeversionofgenderopposition. Still,likeall ". giving as for its deadly powers. It’s a Melanesians, they have’great ~ear and ¯ psychological commonplace that men are suspicion of the body fluids of the oppo- ¯ jealous of natural female creativity. This site sex. Men believe that contact with drives us, so the story goes, to various menstrual blood and other vaginal fluids " sorts of "cultural creativity" - art, literacan make them seriously ill. An anthro- ¯ ture, politics, business - as a sort of corn- " pologistlonceknew, who worked among pensation for our inability to bear chil- - the Enga of Papua New Guinea, attracted dren. . much attention with his magnificent and ¯ Throughout much of Melanesia, along luxuriant red beard, much admired by all. ¯ theselines,meniusistthatalthoughwomen When people asked for hair-growing ad- ¯ give birth, only men can make boys into vice, he liked to disgust and appall them men. On Tanna, fathers arrange male iniby claiming that the secret was to rub ° tiation ceremonies for their sons. They menstrual blood on his face. : circumcise these boys who then spend six In many Melanesian cultures, women ¯ Weeks in the bush, isolated from all conretii’etomenstrualhutslocatedinthebush " tactwithwomen.ElsewhereinMelanesia~ (outside the Village) during their periods. ¯ people believe that precious semen itself One can imagine that many women look ¯ transforms boys into men. Male initiaforward eagerly to these monthly vaca- ¯ dons include practices of ritual fellatio - dons from thedailydrudgeryofcooking, ." young .boys masculinize themselves by childcare, and farming. Nomenstrual huts : consnm|ug the semen of older, already exist on Tanna, though men and women ¯ initiated youths. (Gil Herdt describes one here rarely share the same sleeping mat. " such societyin his book The Sambia: And a menstruating woman stops prepar- ° Ritual and Gender in New Guinea.) ing her husband’s dinners. Men, particu- : So, next time those Lesbians (or, alterlarlythosewithrockymarriages, aresome- ¯ natively, those Gay boys) invade your times suspicious that angry wives may be " favoriteclub, whatis that sudden chill you poisoning themby dripping bloodinto the ¯ feel -- is this the "death threat of sexual cooking pots. : pollution," or a contentiousjealousy over And if vaginal fluids don’t kill you, sex ¯ human creativity? itselfmay. Melanesians also shareabelief " Lament Lindstrom teaches anthropol- - one that reaches back into Asia - that ¯ ogy at the University of Tulsa. men are born with a finite amount of ¯ semen. Worse, the faster one uses up his " NOW NOV, Meeting lifetime supply of semen, the faster he ages and dies. Have too many girlfdends : at Pride Center or too .much masturbatory fun, and you die young! Fathers warn their sons about " The Tulsa Chapter of the National Orthe deadly dangers of sex. Dry, flaky skin " ganization for Women will feature Lucy Tamayo of DVIS, Domestic Violence ~s an early sign of semen depletion, and . Intervention Services, speaking about those teenagers withunforttmate skinprob- ¯ methods of empowering women at its lems get teased mercilessly for messing ¯ Nov. meeting, 12:30 pm at The Pride around. ¯ Center, 1307 E. 38th St. 2rid floor. NOW Men (and women, too) believe that ¯¯ will .also hold elections for its executive . female substances may pollute, or other- : board at the meeting. Info: 365-5658. MY KITTY but also his leadership on Tulsa’ s Say No to Hate Coalition. Nor have any other officials ofOklahoma’ s establishment spoken out. Our governor says our "hate crimes" law doesn’t need to address violence agai.’nst Gay people, though note that he hasn’t suggested removing it for Oklahoma Jews or Blacks 7,,.or Catholics like him. None of our congressional delegation has exemplified the compassion which if they were the Christians they claim to be, they might show. For example, a few months ago, I askedPam Pryor, JC Watts, Jr.’ s press secretaryhow many Gaypeople needed to die before JC would speak out against, anti-Gay violence? Obviously, Shepardi~not enough. Maybeifone ofus were crucified on the South Oval of the OU campus, Watts (and that other disappointing Oklahoma politician, David Boren) might take the issue seriously. Butat least withWatts, I still believehis spokesperson’s claims of some decency in the man to bother to ask. With The Evil Steve and his good buddy and roommate, Tom Cobum, there’s no point in wasting my breath. However, given the desire of Matthew Shepard’s family and friends that some bit of good come out of the horror of his tormentand death,let us resolveto change our state to reduce the chance that this will happen here. Passing an amendment to our hate crimes (Oklahoma statutes, 21:850, Malicious intimidation...) has got to be the top priority for Lesbian and Gay Oklahoroans, our families and friends. Find out who your representatives are and talk to them now. Furthermore, we must demand that all those groups that claim to be working for justice andfairness, must end their convenient silences. For example, if the Methodist Bishop of Oklahoma can work so hard to ban same-gender marriage ceremonies, surely he can finally open his mouth to say something against anti-Gay violence. But he must be joined by OklahomaPresbyterians, theOklahomaCouncil of Churches, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries, our Catholic bishops and all others who claim to value human life. Imagine, maybe even human rights groups like the National Conference for Community and Justice, and others, like the Jewish Fed: eration and African-American organizations will standup to say that Gay Oklahomans have a right to live too. Imagine. 8LAH BLAH : police arrived, organizers said scores of ¯ arrestsbegan.Mostoftheorganizers were taken away first, leaving the marchers : adrift, participants said. ¯ And at the University of Wyoming, a ¯¯ visiting professorwhois teaching acourse on hate crime received a first hand view. ¯ "I reacted with shock-and disbelief," said ¯ Graham Baxendale, a Ph.D. student at ¯ England’ s Reading University. "I certMnly ¯ was not prepared for such an event here. ¯ One can read many textbooks and the : academic literature, but until you are ac- ¯ tually confronted by something like this ¯ within your own community, you recog- ¯ nize that you really don~t understand this ¯ Baxendale said hate Crimes rarely end Only 500 people were expected. Once ¯ in murder and usuallyinvolve low-level ¯ violence or intimidation. The victims of ¯ such crimes typically are selected at ran- " dom because they represent a particular ¯ group. "Gay males are one of the largest ¯ victim catego.rie,s. for thrill hate crimes, but ethnic rmnonty groups such as His- " panics, Blacks, and Jews also are tar- " geted," he said. The perpetrators of such ¯ crimes againstGays,Baxendale said, typi- ¯ cally are young male adults or youths who ¯ are experiencing the emotions that come ¯ with emerging sexuality. To demonstrate : to theirpe~rs that they are wholly hetero- ¯ sexual, these people may express vie- ¯ lance and hatred toward Gays. .. Hate crime victims,’he said, usually are ¯ chosen because they are available, not ¯ because of any individual characteristics ¯ or actions, and because of what they rep- ¯ resent to the perpetrators. Hatred towards ¯ the victim’s group is often manifested in ¯ exceptignal violence. "The perpetrators : often despise and de-humanize their vic- ¯ rims, so such crimes typically are more ¯ violent than corresponding crimes that ¯ are not hate-inspired," he said. 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Title A name given to the resource [1998] Tulsa Family News, November 1998; Volume 5, Issue 11 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Family News Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Tom Neal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 1998 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource James Christjohn Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud Barry Hensley J.P. Legrandbouche Lamont Lindstrom Esther Rothblum MAry Schepers Adam West Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tom Neal/Tulsa Family News Relation A related resource Tulsa Family News, October 1998; Volume 5, Issue 10 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image PDF Online text Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource newspaper periodical Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tulsa(Oklahoma)---newspaper Tulsa---Oklahoma Oklahoma--Tulsa United States Oklahoma Tulsa United States of America (50 states) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context https://history.okeq.org/items/show/553 AIDS/HIV arts and entertainment attorneys Barry Hensley Bars businesses children churches civil rights Claudette Peterson Comic Strips condoms Congress conversion therapy custody Dave Fleischer divorce Do-It-Yourself Dyke Drew Edmonson Dyke Psyche employment discrimination Entertainment Notes Esther Rothblum Gal-A-Vanting gay politicians Gay Studies homophobia Interfaith AIDS Ministries James Christjohn Jocelyn Elders Jonny Lee Cleary Lamont Lindstorm marriage Mary Schepers Matthew Shepard National Gay and Lesbian Task Force National Organization of Women Native Americans needle exchange People Living With AIDS performing arts politics Read All About It restaurants Ryan Sheridan sex education sodomy laws Surgeon General Tom Neal Tulsa City County Library Tulsa Family News Tulsa Two-Spirited Indian Men's Support Group United Methodist Church United States House vigil World AIDS day https://history.okeq.org/files/original/cca0229028d0f59e1da715f9860679f6.jpg f6c6f75f4545e28d63d7c521972eb6d2 https://history.okeq.org/files/original/96cdd23ba48e5301e2aab8897c8ac64e.pdf 2fa3ee0e9d2ce76bb43b1a02324e7f2f PDF Text Text Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulesns, Our Families + Friends Tules’s Largest Circulation Community Paper Avallable In More Than 75 City Locations PublicAwareness Campaign Begins: Gay or Straight, Everyone Deserves a Job ¯ by Tom Neal, TFN reporter .’ TULSA - In eleven l~.atiom aro~md Tulsa, Tulsa Transx bus : stop benches are carrying the message: "Gay or Straight, Every: public awareness campaign by Oklahoma’ s Clmarron Alliance : Group. Cmmrro~fis Fayetteville Civil Rights Measure Gains Support ¯ cfiminafion based FAYEI II~VILLF~ Ark. (AP) - A "hmn~ dignity" ordinance that Ires d~vided city residents hexe has won sMp in Tulsa and which now has two Tulsa board members. Lesbians: At Higher Risk of Breast Cancer? SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A limited study of afients at a women’s health clime found Lesbians 1~ a higher risk of breast cancer than beterosextml patients, according to a report in the Journal oft/w Gay and Lesbian Medical .4ssociation. An analysis of 1,019 women seeking services at Lyon-Martha Women’s Health Services in San Francisco bet~veen 1995 arid 1997 showed thai Lesbians bad a higher body mass index and fewer pregnancies, both previously idenli fled as risk fac tars for breast cancer. Eageula Calle. director of epidemiology for the American Cancer Society. said the study was onl) a prelimiq,~ look at risk factors and was not wide enoughin scope to draw general conclusions aboul Lesbians. "The real question is, ’Is the population large enough and is it similar enough to the entire population of L~sbia~ women and the entire popuhifion of heterosexual women?’ " seeBreost, p. 3 Walk for Life 1998 ’,VEST COAST & TIJLSA (AP & TFN) Thousands of l~ophi turned out in the Puget Sound itrca to raise money to help fight AIDS. Ten3’ M. Stone. : 4959 So. Memorial. 4400 So. Mcmorinl. 4506 E, I l, 3607 N. - Peoria ~md 60"27 So Memorial Supportexs quoted league ¯¯ " ..... ¯ the pre~tdmt of the county , . T~x dedueJabl¢ ¢onmbut~ons to suppog. Cimatton s public t )’ear, he said. Als0, an estimated 1 A00 people participated in y~ffs old Colin Cadarette received the Crystul Apple award, the highest honor the AIDS Project Colorado Gov,’s Report: Gays Due Equal Rights M~ ~1~ Z~ m DIRECTORY/LE~FERS US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT NOTES COMMUNITY CALENDAR BOOK REVIEW DO-IT-YOURSELF DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES CLASDIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P, 2~ P. 4 P. 6 P. 8 P. 8 P. 10 P. 11 P, 12/13 P, 14 Circuit Court Reverses "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" Decision Eureka Springs Diversity Weekend NEW YORK (AP) - Six members of the nfilltarv are in line for EUREKA SPRINGS Organizers of Eureka Springs" secoed Dl~ersit) Celebration \Vcekcnd �¯ New President ¯ Takes PFLAG Helm Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants W~SHINGTON, D.C. - Parents, Fami832-1269 *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159 592-2143 lies and Friends of Lesbians and Gays this *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston e- m ail: T ul s anew s @ earthli nk. net 744-0896 month named as its new president Na*Concessions; 3340 S. Peoria website: http:t/users.aol.comITul ~aNews/ 599-9512 tional PFLAG Board Member Paul *,Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria Publisher + £ditor: Tom Neal, Writers + contributom: Adam West, Beeman. An ordained minister who lives 583 -6666 *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th James Christjohn. Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud, Barry in Olympia, WA, Beeman is the father of 749-4511 *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche. Lamont Lindstrom, Esther four, aGay son and Lesbian daughter, and 585-3134 *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston Rothblum MaD’ Schepers, Member oI The Associated Press two non-Gay children. In addition to serv599-7777 *Jason’s Ddi, 15th & Peoria 749-1563 [ssued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents ofthis ing as a United Methodist pastor for many *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th years, Beeman also has a strong back744-4280 *Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square u~blication are protected by US copyright 1998 by T~ ~ and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without ground in fundraising, marketing and jour*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st 745-9998 written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or nalism. He has served on PFLAG’ s board 834,4234 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspon585-3405 since 1994. *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main dence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,_rgust Beeman, who was elected Sept. 12 by 660-0856 *TNT’s, 2114S. Memorial .be signed & becomes the sole property of T~ PFLAG’s National Board of Directors, 584:1308 *Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd Each reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at distribution says he is eagerly looking forward to lead *Umbertos Pizzeria, 21st west of Harvard 599-9999 points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. the group as it presses ahead nationally Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals and locally in its fight for equal civil 747-1508 ¯ Advanced Wireless & PCS,.Digital Cellular rights. "What a dynamic time this is for Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa Lesbian & Gay Catholics & 610-8510 " *Affinity News, 8120 E. 21 355-3140 PFLAG," Beeman said. "With two years Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475~ 746-4620 ~ Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor 622-1441 ¯ to prepare, will the year 2000 be a turning *Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo *Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000 ¯ 747-7777 " point for welcoming Lesbians, Gays, BiKent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 " *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard ¯ sexuals and transgendered persons into 250-5034 " *Free Spirit Women’ s Center, callforlocafion&info: 587-4669 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 747-6827 ¯ full equality in our society ? I believe it can 712-1122 : Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 582-0438 . be!" Friends in Unity, Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 712-9955 *Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 583-661 ! " "PFLAG is all about being able to give *HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 494-2665 " *Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale 834-4194 ¯ kids back to their parents," Beeman em*HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral 743-5272 " Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 481-1111 ¯ phasized. "As with slavery and women’s 746-0313." *Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st *CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 834-8378 rights, barriers to equality will eventually HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117 " fall in our communities of faith and in our HIV Testing, Mort/Thurs. 7r9pm, daytime by appt. only 622-0700 " Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker : whole society. It will happen as we family 352-9504. 800-742-9468 " *House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood Tim Daniel, Attorney ¯ members tell the stories of our children 438-2437, 800-284-2437 Interfaith AIDS Ministries 749-3620 *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th " and families and explain their commit838-1715 587-2611 " *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood *Devena’ s Gallery, 13 Brady .... 748-3111 ." ment to stable family relationships," he NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral PI. 744-5556 " Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 365-5658 said. 838-8503 " NO\~, Nat 10rg. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan Beeman also hailed PFLAG’s tremenOK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157 584-0337, 712-9379 ¯ *Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-7960 dous growth in membership over the last *Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 744-9595 " *Horal Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 749-4901 few years. "Our influence in more than 628-3709 " PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 587-7674 420 communities across all 50 states is the *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 742-1460 *Gloria Jean’ s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21 st 743-4297 result of so many members in countless *The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 459-9349 ¯ Leanne M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning rural towns and big cities across the counPrime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 744-7440 Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 749-4195 try-working on the frontlines of change." *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 745-1111 *Sandra J. Hill, MS, PsyChotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 665-5174 Among .his. goals are to assure safe Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 341-6866 *International Tours 584-2325 space foi: all children in school and at *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 712-2750 Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th ¯ worship and to enhance the education of O’ RYAN, support group for 18-24 I[GBT young adults 582-3018 *Jared’ s .Antiques, 1602 E. 15th ¯ ¯ the majority of middle Americans who O’RYAN, Jr. support gronp for 14-17 LGBT youth 747-0236 David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 425-7882 ¯ don’ t yet understand how natural homo599-8070 ¯ St. Aidan’ s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati *Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 492-7140 " sexuality truly is. Beeman will be work*St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 747-5466 Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 ¯ 582-3088 " ing closely withPFLAG ExecutiveDirec*St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 749-5533 Langley Agency & Salon, 1316 E. 36th P1. ¯ *TulsaArea UnitedWay, 1430 S. Boulder 583-7171 ] tor Kirsten Kingdrn, who is based in the 585-1555 Laredo Crossing, 1519 E. 15th 582-7225 ¯ group’s national office in Washington, ¯ 585-1234 ¯ TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care *Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 595-4105 DC. Tulsa County Health Department, 46 16 E. 15 584-3112 *Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd ¯ Beeman strongly praised his predecesConfidential HIV Testing by appt. on Thursdays only 663-5934 Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 ¯ Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights. c/o The Pride Center 743-4297 ¯ sor, Tulsan Nancy McDonald, who dur664-2951 *Mohawk ~v~usic, 6157 E 51 Place 747-6711 ¯¯ T.U.LS.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 : ing her two-year term represented PFLAG *Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard in Washington, DC, in giving testimony *Trisa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule 747-7672 ¯ David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 before the U.S. Congress and meeting 583-1090 °. *Tulsa Community College Campuses *Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1 40 1 E.~ 15 ¯ with federal officials, as well as criss*Rogers University (formerly UCT) 743-4297 The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor ¯" crossing the country to speak out for Les838-7626 ¯ BARTLESVILLE Puppy Pause II, 1 lth & Mingo ¯ bian and Gay loved ones and their fami¯ 747-5932 *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353 Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 ¯ lies. 834-0617 ¯ OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN Richard’ s Carpet Cleaning ¯ Members of Parents, Families and Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921, 747-4746 *Borders Books &Music, 3209NWExpressway 405-848-2667 ] Friends of Lesbians and Gays voted over582-7748 Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 *Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907 . whelmingly earlier this month in favor of 749-6301 ¯ *Scribner’ s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square ¯ TAHLEQUAH a proposal to include Transg.endered 481-0201 *Sedona Health Foods, 8220 S. Harvard ¯ peopleintheorganization’ s mission state918-456-7900 *Stonewall League, call for information: 697-0017 ¯ *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 918-456-7900 . merit. 743-7687 ¯ *Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church *Trizza’s Pots, 1448 S. Delaware 918-453-9360 ¯ The near unanimous vote, which came *Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 742-2007 *Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria ¯ during PFLAG’ s Sept. 12 annual meeting ¯ . NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand 481-0558 *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis ¯ in San Francisco, followed a recommenHIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for dates 743-1733 ¯¯ Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling ~ dation by the group’s national Board of 592-0767 EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 501-253-7734 : Directors last May to amend the group’ s *Autunm Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 ¯ bylaws to include Transgendered people Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & Universities ¯ 501-253-7457 AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 579-9593 ¯ *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-6807 ¯ in its mission statement, which covered DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 743-2363 *All Sonls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 501-253-5445 ~ Lesbians, Gays and Bisexual people. ¯ *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 587~7314 Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 506253-9337 ¯ 583-7815 ¯ MCC of the Living Spring ¯ Letters Policy Bless The Lord at All Time~ Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 501-253-2776 Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 583 -9780 * B !L!G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. ¯ Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on ¯ Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-5332 ¯ 585-1201 *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston issues which we’ ve covered or on issues 501-624-6646 Positive Idea Marketing Plans *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PI. &Florence you thinkneed to be considered. Youmay ~ 501-253-6001 Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East ¯ request that your name be withheld but *Church of the Restoration UU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314 ¯ 501-253-4074 *White Light, 1 Center St. * Cornmunity of Hope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300 ¯ ¯ letters must be signed & have phonenumFAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5 *CommunityUnitm’ian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 " bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let501-442-2845 743 -4297 : *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. *Council Oak Men’s Chorale ." ters are preferred. Letters to other publi712-151 ¯ cations_will be printed as is appropriate. *Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware * is Where you can find TFN. Not all are Gay-owned but all are Gay-friendly. 742-2457 *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 ~ �At a 45-minute news conference, Colorado for Family Values, Concerned Women for America, the Christian Coalition of Colorado, Where Grace Abounds~ Family First and the American Jewish Assembly all roundly condemned the commission’ s report and suggested there were other motives involved. Chuck Gosnell of the Christian Coalition said "overwhdming evidence" proves "a loving, committed marriage between one man and one woman is the most beneficial toward raising children and encouraging a healthy society." "Romer," he said, ,’has used a taxpayerfunded commission in an attempt to force affirmation of his personally skewed vision of marriage and the family. The governor’s already tarnished legacy will only be damaged further if he continues to impose his anti-family values on mainstream Coloradans." A statement by Nancy Sutton of Family First said there is no basis for the claim "committed relationships" are beneficial to society. ’q~here is no basis for much of what the commission found." Colorado for Family Values spokesman Dr. Paul A. Jessen said "without evidence or support, the claim is made same-sex couples have been unfairly denied the same rights as normal married couples, and this denial calls for a redress of inequity, but will not diminish the rights and benefits enjoyed by married persons." "Parallel fights and responsibilities," he said, "is a disguise for homosexual marriage." B ut Sue Anderson, executive director of Equality Colorado, and a member of Romer’ s commi ssion, listened to the complaints of the groups and said she wasn’t surprised at their attack. "We’ re here," she s aid of herself and other Lesbians, "We’re living our li~,.e.s. We’re trying to protect our relationships. We’re trying to protect our families." "We’re looking for basic economic rights. SO what happens to me if my partner dies? Do I have access to her pension? No. Do I have access to her health insurance, like my colleagues and their wives have? No." "What we are looking for is something to protect ourselves when something bad happens," She said she was not surprised at their remarks.because she had heard their position againsthomosexuality often. "I didn’ t wake up in the morning, put on a lavender shirt and say: ’I’ m going to be a Lesbian today.’ That’ s just not how it works." While the groups said flatly they had not been asked to participate in the commission’s studies, Anderson said she understood a variety of people from Colorado Springs were invited, "and everybody said no." But the commission did go to Colorado Springs and met with conservative groups, and the commission did do public forums, which the Gay community attended, she said. "They were included as much as anybody else," she said. "I don’t agree with them and their basic premise. Am I angry? No." The report by Romer’s commission recommended granting same-sex couples the same legal rights and benefits as married heterosexual couples, but stops short of endorsing same-sex marriages. Romer made it clear in response to two bills banning same-sex marriage, he had established his own position: that marriage in Colorado should be reserved for the union of a man and a woman. "That is current law, and it should remain a law," he said. He wants communities to address the legal and ethical issues posed by same-sex relationships, he said. "But there should be no conclusion as to what the end result is." The 16-member comrmssion was charged with comparing the legal and economic rights, responsibilities and benefits of same-sex couples and married couples: The commission was at that time criticized by people on both sides of the issue. Some critics say there were no conservative members who are unalterably opposed to samesex marriages. Several were invited to serve on the panel, Romer said, but they declined to serve. by Tom Neal, editor & publisher ¯ duding claims that the highest level of management have openly expressed bias against Lesbians and Gay men. If A week or so ago, I received a call from a reader, telling me about how she’ d had a very negative experience with ¯ these allegations are true, then certainly I, as a health care ¯ consumer, would have questions about the safety and a Hillcrest associated physician. As a part of the discusquality of my health care at Hillcrest. sion about her treatment, she shared with the And a related issue is that of finding a physician and staff that she is Lesbian. InPerhaps, Lesbians Lesbian or Gay, or Gay-friendly physician. deed for a number of medical conditions, and Gay men will You can call the physician referral lines and not just the issue of HIV, sexual orientation have to create our find, if you want, a Black physician or a can be relevant (see The Associated Press story about Lesbians and breast cancer on own institutions to "Christian" physician but if you ask for a Gay or Gay-friendly physician, you’ re just page 1). The physician.and staff’ s response meet our needs. was to ask her if she wanted to be prayed for. out of luck. Now if you have lived here for a while and And as a person of faith, she said yes Thls is what we assuming that the prayers would be for start to network in the community a bit, did all over thls good health. Instead she found the doctor eventually you’ll find that there’ s a Lesbian country in and staff praying for her "release from hogynecologist, a Lesbian general practioner. mosexuality" where all she wanted was rea number of Gay physicians from Owasso response to the lease from a minor infection. to south Tulsa as well as the better known HIV/AIDS erlsls. doctors who’ve specialized in HIV/AIDS Last year, two acquaintances wound up at St. John Emergency Room after one took a care like Drs. Beal and Peake. But most of fairly serious fall with a blow to his head. Although this these physicians are closeted, fearing repercussions to couple has been together for a number of years, even their practices. raising children, St. John staff refused to recognize the Indeed I’ ve only, just found out about more two dentists, relationship, denying the very worded partner any inforone Lesbian, the other Gay and it’ s my job as newspaper marion about his spouse’s condition and also denying publisher to know who’ s who in the community even if I access that would have been routinely provided to a don’t write about them. Contrast this with Dallas, cerheterosexual couple. This went on until emergency room tainly a conservative place in many respects but whose staff had a shift change and a nurse, a Gay man, whom community newspaper is filled with choices for health they knew, came on duty and corrected the situation. care providers. Back during the Gulf War and the debate about Gays in Perhaps, Lesbians and Gay men will have to create our the military, my father, now a retired physician, heard a own institutions to meet our needs. This is what we did all few of his St. Francis colleagues say that they,i e we Gay over this country in response to the HIV/AIDS crisi s. The and Lesbian folk, should all .just be killed. This from Los Angeles Community Center has begun its own clinic professionals allegedly devoted to the health and well in recogmt~on of the community’s needs. being of humankind. Last spring Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights" Granted these are anecdotes, possibly only isolated (TOHR) HIV anti-body testing clinic (HOPE) split off ¯ incidents. But they suggest a fai_lure of Tulsa’ s health care under the direction of clinic director, Kristi Frisbie. ¯ delivery system to deal seriously with providing Lesbian However, a few members of that TOHR board suggested ¯ and Gay citizens with fair, adequate and sensitive medithat the clinic should broaden its health care services for ¯" cal care. Not one ofTulsa’s majormedical institutions haS Lesbians.and G0y-men, remaining true to its origins as a : adop/ed a non-discrimination policy which would indiGay & Lesbian organization, instead of trying to become ¯ cate both to patients and to providers that discrimination a broader based HIV prevention orgmfization..After all, ¯ based on sexual orientation will not be tolerated. while Tulsa has a number of other prevention groups Now in their defense, St. John officials responded with addressing non-Oay aspects ot ~]\’~IA]~)~, there is no ¯ speed and concern when they became aware of the one looking at non-HIV related Gay & Lesbian health ¯ discriminatory treatment which the two men mentioned care, other than perhaps Drs. Peake & Beal. : above experienced. Those officials have stated that they Even now that HOPE is independent, there is no reason ¯ will not tolerate this behavior and also, have reached ot[t that TOHRand The Pride Center could not be the site of ¯ to Tulsa’ s Lesbian, Gay and Bi communities by advertisa free clinic, perhaps monthly, where Tulsa’ s Lesbian and ¯ ing in this newspaper. Gay physicians could volunteer to do basic examinations ¯ In contrast, St. Francis, Hillcrest, and Tulsa Regional/ and consultations. Obviously anything requiring special: Doctors (the various ColumbiaJHCA ownedinstitutions) ized equipment or testing would have to be referred to the ¯ have done nothing to addregs possible bias in their instiphysicians regular office, and some kind of legal waivers ~ tutions or to manifest any commitment to serving the would be needed as well to protect the physicians and the ¯ needs of Gay and Lesbian Tulsans Center. Maybe one or another of our Gay law yers rtmning Hillcrest in particular continues to have allegations of around could help there? What do you tlfink? Do any of ¯ anti-Gay employment practices brought against it, inyou care? Let us know via e-mail, post, tdephone or tax. ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ~ ¯ ¯ ¯ ~ ¯ ¯ ¯ In his 4 years of participating, Colin has raised nearly $47000. The boy stole the show from luminaries like Madonna, actor Nathan Lane and a gaggle of politicians. During the ceremony, Madonna criticized spending millions of dollars to investigate President Clinton, saying the money could be better spent on research. when Colin took the podium, he just said~"Hi." "It was so cute. He was very shy," see Walk, p. 10 ¯" ¯ ." : ¯ ¯ ¯ : The Polo Grill by Tom Neal, publisher Local publicity guru, Tracey Norvell, of Arts Society, along with The Polo Grill owners, Ouida and Robert Merrifield, definitely have the right notion about getting the attention of members of the press wine them and dine them - quite literally. The already award winning restaurant has two new distinctions, awards from The Wine Spectator and the Unipro Cully Award. At a recent lunch, Tulsa media types sampled five courses of exquisitely fresh and well prepared food and three California white wines, and a lovely Merlot. The stars of the lunch were fresh North American rainforest salmon and a very low fat cut of Piedmontese beef filet grown near Tulsa (though the point of alow-fat cut when it’s served with a fat-rich bernaise sauce eludes me, or maybe that is the point, so that you can have the bemaise). Service was gracious and attentive, from several of Tulsa’s best-looking and delightfully everrso-gay staff. The Polo Grill is, of course, not cheap but unlike many wanna-be restaurants in this town, is worth it when the restaurant lives up to this high standard it’ s set. Check it out whenever your budget permits. Ms. Calle asked. "All women should be concerned about breast cancer and getting age-appropriate breast cancer screening," she added. Still, researchers said the study shows a need for more research that compares Lesbian women to heterosexuals of various ages, economic and geographic groups. The study was conducted by the clinic’s medical director, Stephanie Roberts, and Suzanne Dibble, an associate professor at the University of Califomia at San Francisco. "It’s still too early for us to develop specific mammography guidelines for Lesbians, but our study shows the importance of encouraging Lesbians to seek medical care on a regular basis," Roberts said. Roberts and Di’bble found no significant differrnces between the two groups on risk factors such as family history of breast cancer or alcohol use. Nearly all of.the women surveyed for the study were low-income and lacked health insurance. Of the 1,019 women studied, 57.6 percent identified themselves as heterosexual and 42.4 percent as homosexual. "For far too long Lesbians have had more questions about than answers about their health," said Kathy Oriel, president of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, whose group funded the study. �states to do so. California Politician to- onlyAdoption decisions in Indiana are based on what is Try to Ban Gay Marriages " best for the child, and the sexual orientation of pro- THE ANIMAL HOUSE NORWALK, Calif. (AP) - A group that wants to . spective parents isn’ t considered, said Andrew Stoner, keep Cnlifornia from recognizing Gay marriages " spokesman for the state Family and Social Services Reptiles ¯ Birds ¯ Small Mammals collected 675,000 signatures to place the measure on ¯ Administration, which regulates adoption and.f.oster care. The Madison County case is not necessarily the Fish ¯ Dog & Cat Supplies the state ballot - more than enough signatures to Groomino. ¯ Pond Supplies qualify the Defense of Marriage Act for a future " first in Indiana in which Gays or Lesbians have been election, Sen. Peter Knight announced. " considered as adoptive parents, Stoner said. "It’s likely it has occurred, although it’ s not something that The measure is designed "to protect our definition 4414 S. Peoria Ave ¯ Tulsa. OK 74105 of marriage from being undermined by liberal judges ¯ people always disclose and there’s no requirement (918) 747-0606 from other states," Knight said. "Given the push for " that they do so.’" The case has sparked sharp reactions from those on "same-sex’ marriage across the nation, Califorma both sides of the issue. The child’s foster parents, must prepare by making it clear we only recognize iraditi onal marriage." Courts in Hawaii, Vermont and " Butch and Sandy Kimmerling of Anderson, have said they will seek to adopt the child because they say it Alaska are considering rulings that "could legalize ,May your consrara looe be with us, Lord as we put our bope in you."- Ps. 33:21 would be destructive to have her raised in a homosame-sex marriage. Knight was on hand as volunteers hauled boxes ¯ sexual environment. U.S. Rep. David Mclntosh, Rcontaining 144,000 Signatures collectedinLos Ange- "¯ Ind., called the adoption proposal "egregious and les County into the office of the county registrar of ¯ morally unacceptable" and urged Gov. Frank O’B~on to support any propos .ed.legislation barvoters here. Signatures gathered elsewhere w,,ere subGod’s love promises hope for tomorrow and mitted to registrar offices in other counties all over ¯ fing homosexuals from adopting children. peace for today. Free yourself of your Opponents say Burton and Lutz’ proposed bill is an the state," said Matthew Cnnningham, a member of ¯ burdens. Come share in the bounty o[ God’s unconstitutional and unnecessary infringement on the Orange County-based Californians for the Delove with us each Sunday at 10:45 am. ¯ the privacy of the adoption process that will deprive fense of Marriage. Cbadren Are Always Welcome! The initiative states: "Only marriage between a :¯ children of needed homes. "It’ s a completely unnecman and a woman is valid or recognized in Califor- ¯ essarv law. More than 25 years of research has demCommunity Church nia." Twenty-six states have passed similar laws and ¯ onstr~ted that a person’s Sexual orientation makes absolutely n,o, difference in his or her ability to be a %23 N. Maplewood of Greater Tulsa five are considering such laws. Alaska voters will consider an initiative on the November ballot that ¯ good parent, said John Knfll, executive director of would amend the state constitution to define marriage ¯ the Indiana Civil Liberties Union. "A lot of children who need homes are going to be left in foster care." as being "between one man and one woman." OKLAHOMA COMMUNICATIONS Knight, R-Palmdale, introduced bills in 1996 and 1997 in the Legislature to bar recOgnition of Gay marriages. Both times the legislation was defeated. NEW YORK (AP) - Anti-Gay attacks citywide are Local- Long Distance He will face a fierce fight this time, critics vowed. "If up 81% this year, and a spate of 27 such attacks since that measure is qualified, we’ll beat it back as we have Cellular- Paging late August has a civil rights for Gay people group every time," Assemblywoman Carole Migden, Ddemanding increased police presence in areas where San Francisco, said last week. "It is gratuitous and the assaults have been prevalent. As of Sept. 13 - the polarizing and unnecessary," she said. "The commulatest figures provided by the pol.ice department nity will beat it back at the polls." there have been 76 anti-Gay attacks citywide, comThe measure cannot make the upcoming Novem- . ,ared with 42 attacks last year during the same time ber election. It will take several weeks for the secreperiod. However, overall bias attacks citywide are Free Car Adaptor & tary of state’ s office to determine whether supporters down 3.4%. There were 368bias attacks as of S ept 13, Leather Case with New Cell Phone gathered the necessary 433,269 valid signatures of compared with 38 t last year. Bias crimes are slurs or registered voters. The .measure could qualify" in time attacks that include an element of race, religion, for the March 2000 state primary or for any earlier stxual preference or gender. statewide special election next year, said AndS" Pugno, Christine Quinn; executive director of the New a Knight spokesman. Community York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, Assembly Speaker Pro Tern Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa said the Police Department’s bias unit was doing an Metropolitan Unitarian Monica, who helped lead legislative efforts to defeat dmirable job responding to the crimes, but more Community Church Knight’s anti-Gay mamage bills, said sh’e thinks the ¯ ~olice presence still was needed, especially in the Universalist Rev. Sherry Hilliard initiative can be defeated again in California. "They Greenwich Village area, where most of the attacks Congregation better be prepared for a fight," she said. But she Interim Pastor have occurred. Since Aug. 25, there have been 27 added: "I think that it is a very difficult thing for a at such attacks citywide, she added. "The attacks, haCommunity o] Hope Sunday community tO be forced to prove its own humanity rassment and threats against our community have United Methodist Worship, 11am over and over and over." continued in full force since Labor Day weekend," Wednesday Ms. Quirm Said. "Almost every day a New Yorker is Midweek Service,6:30pm 2$4~ South Yale the victim of violence because he or she is perceived Thursday Sundays at 11am to be Gay.’" Codependency Support Police Commissioner Howard Safir said the delnfo: 749-0$9~ Group, 7:30pm partment is aware of the increase in anti-Gay attacks INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The proposed adoption of and has dispatched additional officers to the Village. an 8-year-old gift by a Gay couple has sparked a A Voice for But he said he does not think the attacks are prevalent. campaign to bar Gays and Lesbians from becoming Freedom & Tolerance 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 "We don’t see an epidemic throughout the city," he adoptive or foster parents in Indiana. said. Word that the Madison County Office of Children The Gay and Lesbian anti-violence group is planand Family Services was considering letting an Indianing a community demonstration Oct. 3 to condemn napolis couple adopt the girl prompted two lawmakthe attacks and teach people how to better protect ersto announce Friday they wonld sponsor a bill themselves; making Indiana the third state toban such adoptions. Opponents called the proposed ban unconstitutional and unnecessary. "Their lifestyle is their business, but when they start using government to promote their lifestyle, It 1980 Utica SquareMedical Center .... tame to step In, Rep. Woody Burton, R-Greenwood, NEW" YORK (AP) - Theatergoers flocked to the Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 said Monday. Burton said he and Rep. Jack Lutz, R- ¯ debut performance of an off-Broadway play, ignorAnderson, proposed the ban to protect children from ¯ ing angry protesters who believe it depicts a Gay the abuse and discrimination many homosexuals suf: : Christlike figure who has sex with his apostles. As voice: 628-3709 "’What’ s ~oin~ to happen to those kids when they ~ patrons passed through a metal detector to see the fax: 712-9854 o ~o school a~nd tl~e othe]: kids at school find out about ¯ Terrence McNally play "Corpus Christi," about 100 Adults, Children, Couples, and Families ~t?" Burton asked. "It actually invites discrimination ¯ protesters held a prayer vigil across the street, led by against those kids.’" ". members of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. Burton and Lutz say they plan to introduce legisla- ¯. Police said one protester was arrested Tuesday night tion in next year’s General Assembly session. If it ¯ for disorderly conduct. passes, Indiana would become the third state to bar ¯ "We are inviting people to get. up a~d 1 ~eTa,ve.w, h~en homosexuals from adopting Children or being foster ¯ blasphemies are enunciated in the play, sam me parents. Florida and New Hampshire are currently the In God’s Love " ,nti-Gay Attacks Up 81% 747-1508 Family of Faith Indiana May Ban Adoption by Gays Cathy Fureoug, Ph.D. Controversial Play Draws Protesters ~er Licensed Psycholoqlst �MARK T. HAMBY Attorney Bankruptcy & Civil Matters Call for More Information 1500 Nations Bank, 15 West Sixth Tulsa, O klahoma 74119 744-7440 Fax 744-9358 JAC OX ANIMAI CLINIC Family’s Pet Physician DR, MALCOLM JACOX M-F7:30-7, Sat9-1 2732 East 15th Street Tulsa Oklahoma 74104 tel: 712-2750 fax: 712-2760 Now Featuring Dog Grooming, Mon. - Fri. Church of the Restoration Unitarian-Uni,versalist 11 am, Sunday 1314 N. Greenwood, 587-1314 HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 pm 3210e S. Norwood Info., call 224-4754, Chris & Sharon Mingo Valley Flowers 9413 E, 31st St. Tulsa 74145 (~ BrooksiJe 918-663-5934 fax: 663-5834 800-444-5934 Family Owned & Operated 3311 So. Peoria, 744-5556 group’ s leader, the Rev. Benedict J. Groeschel. "We are praying for the conversion of people attending the play." Theatergoer John Friedman, 34, of Greenwich, Comi., saidhe understood why the show is controversial. "It may not be for everybody, but I thought it really brought out the transcendental nature of Jesus," he said after the preview performance. "It emphasized that he was an outcast." While theater officials and patrons were tightlipped about the content of "Corpus Chri sti," publi shed reports have said the play depicts a Gay Christlike character who has sex with his apostles. A brochure released earlier this year described the play this way: "From modem day Corpus Christi, Texas, to ancient Jerusalem, we follow a young Gay man named Joshua on his spiritual journey, and get to know the 12 disciples who choose to follow him.’" In May, the Manhattan Theater Club canceled plans to produce the off-Broadway play after receiving anonymous death threats against its actors, audience and McNally, a multiple Tony Award-winner. Days later, theater executives reversed their decision, saying police promised to ensure safety if the play was staged. The official opening is scheduled for Oct. 13; Tuesday was the first night of previews, in which a play is generally fine-tuned before its official opening. No tickets were provided to reviewers, The New York Times reported. A statement from the theater Tuesday’ reaffirmed its support of "McNally’ s right to express his artistic vision freely" as well as the right of protesters to object "in a peaceful and law-abiding manner." Most theatergoers were not dissuaded by the commotion. "It’s all about free speech," said Candace Simon of Newark, N.J. "They have the right to protest. The theater has aright to stage it. I have the right to see it.’" Churches Re|ect Pro-Gay Pastors OMAttA, Neb. (AP) - Two rural United Methodist churches are telling denomination leaders that they will not accept appointments of pastors who snpported former Omaha Rev. Jimmy Creech in his decision to perform a Lesbian marriage. The Nehawka and \Veeping Water United Methodist churches told Omaha District Superintendent Ronald Croom that they will not accept the Rev. Doyle Burbank-Williatns as their new pastor. Burbank-Williams was an early supporter of Creech. who created a furor when he performed a same-sex marriage at his Omaha church last September. Burbank-Williams was pastor of Dietz .\Iemorial United Methodist Church and of homeless people in downtown Omaha. He also was one of about 200 pastors nationally who pledged to. defy the United Methodists" prohibition against same-sex mamages. Weeping Water church officer Farley Amick said the rural churches want a conservative pastor. Burbank-Williams said he would keep Iris name on the pledge list but would not perform a covenaut ceremony in churches that are on record as opposed to such ceremomes. Amick said that was not good enough. He said the churches do not want a pastor who believes that same-sex mamages are OK. He said it is a bad influence for young people. Meanwhile, a second pastor in Omaha has presided over a satne-sex mm-riage The Rev. Nancy Brink said it was the first she had performed at the North Side Christian Church in Chnaha. The church is affiliated with Disciples of Christ. which does not have prohibitions against covenant ceremomes. Brink noted the ceremony was given near unmnmous approval last spring bf the church’s board of elders. But the event has caused dissensmn within the 300-member congregation. Brink declined to say how man~ members had left the church over the issue~ Brink said covenant ceremonies are in line ~vith Christ’s admonition to love one’s neighbor as oneself. Utah Group is Anti-Gay But Suppo.rts Polygamy SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - \~qfile Gov. Mike Leavitt has changed his tune regarding polygamy, Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka still sings the original notes. The conservative Utah Eagle Forum has campaigned against civil rights for Gay people, which Ruzicka says is a question of morality, but she says men who live with several women in polygamy "may find support in the Bible. "For polygamous folks - it is a religious belief and at least through their religious ceremomes they think they are married before God," Ruzicka said. "Homosexuality is not part of somebody’s religion." Ruzicka said she would urge Utah polygamists to lobby to change the state’s constitutional provision outlawing polygamy. "Polygamy has been blown totally out of proportion," she said. "These people out there living polygamous lives are not bothering anybody." In July, Leavitt acknowledged his polygmnist ancestors and said he knew many polygamists and "for the most part, they were hardworking and good people." While the pracace is baamed by the state constitution, Leavitt first said there were religious freedom questions that could prevent prosecuuon of the tens of thousands of practicing polygmnists believed living in Utah. Within four weeks, his position had changed to: "I believe polygamy is against the law, and it should be." Polygamy has come under renewed scrutiny due to reports of child abuse, incest and welfare fraud within some polygamist groups. Some legislators may address the issue in the 1999 legislative session. "The next legislative session will bring a healthy discussion about polygamy that Utah needs," says Rep. Sheryl L. Allen, R-Bountiful. "This has been postponed for too long. It is past due." Gay Family Struggles for Acceptance WATERTOkVN, Minn. (.-\P) - In this insular \ll lage of 2,400. where bird feeders and American flags h~g on front ~rches and cl~ldreu ride their .bikes to,tl~e O~fl) grocery store ~ound, XV atcrto~ n is grappling with the most di~ isive question encountered in ve~s: How to) deM wi t!~ opeul p~ents? Aboui 100 residents attended a two-ho~ town meeting Sept. 10 at Waterto~ Nement~ School to discnss the issne. Or~mn zer~ stud they ~’anted to create awareness of violence and hate crones and to invite di~dogne about and ~sbi~s. ~ae meeting ~ne mnidst ~dlc~ations that for the p~t two ye~s Robert Protomastcr. 35; Ns p~tner, Brian C~Isou, 35: and their three teen-age sous have been the t~gets of verb~d and physicM h~assment because Protomaster and C~lson ~e Gay. ~e clmms ~e disturbing: Epithets hurled at the fanfil~, as they drove tl~ough to~vn. Statues m their front v~d smashed at mght. Homophobic notes stuck haside their front door. And, most troubling, stud the fanfilv, repeated h~sment of the boys wNle they attended Watertown Middle School in 1996 and 1~7. ~ev stud that they repeatedl3 were cMled "’queei" and "’faggot" and that other students refused to sit b~ them be~ansc they lc~ged that "’they .. would become Gay,’" said "lqmoth~. 13. "’So f~r a long time no one ~votdd come ne;g us.’" Michael. 14, stud he was held down b~ studcnts ~vNle one wrote "’faggot" ou lfis :ran. S~hool offitins did little to stop the harassment, the fiunil~ says. ~e school district issued a statement on the da~ of the town zneeting saying that the district "has a record of responding appropriately to comphunts of h~sment." The Watertown mayor’s office and C~ver County officiMs issned statements the day before the meeting saying that Watertown stands agmnst Violent, hate crones and harassment of ~v kind. The bow - Jo~, ~vho"s 16. Michael and "l’imo~ thv - spent most of their [iveg in and out of foster hdmes before Protom~ter mad C~Mson adopted them about 3 years ago. Although the boys no longer attend s~hool in Watertown School Distnct. their p~ents filed a discfinfinatiou complmnt last ye~ agmnst ~e dis~ct w~th the state lluman ~ghts Dep~tlnent. The case is no~v on appeM. �More HIV Drugs,More Errors ..\I.BAN’f. N.Y (AP) - Two ’,ears ago, o~fl\ a few drugs were availatJle to treat tti’{’. Now. 14 types of ~nedicatton ,°re used to treat the disease. And while the chmaces for survi,,al have increased, so have the chances for error in the prescribing of these drugs, hi fact, mistakes in prescriptions wntten for people with HIV arc much more counnon than for other hospital patients, according to a recent two ‘.ear study. Fortunately, most of the time the wrongly prescribed medicines aren’t actuMly given to the patients. They usu-all,. oaflv make it tothe pharmacist’s desk. said l)r. Bonnie Purdy, the stud\"s author ,’rod AI ban’~ *ledical Center cli~lical phmanacist. "Without may doubt, there ,are physicians who don’t’understm]d therapies ~orrectlv.’" said Paul Volberding, director of S~m i:rancisco Geueral’s AIDS program. And because HIV patients can become resxst,’mt if not treated correctly the first time. he added. "There’s not very much margin for error.’" Johi] Bartlett. ~:hief of itffectious disease and AIDS ser‘.tce at Jolms ttopkins .Medical Center. said the stud} findings show a needfor more HIV specialists. Other studies have suggested that 3% of Ml prescriptlous written b’, physicim]s coutai n an error, Purd’, said. f~ors m ItIV prescnptions rose from about 2c} iu 1~)6 to 14% this ",ear. Rapid chmtges in treatments are conhtsi,ng doctors..Some doctors have even written pot entiall y deadl y formulas for medi cal care at the .-\Ibm]} hospital over the last two vein’s, the report said ()he lily specMist, whose practice was not studied for the report, admits that the increase in treatmcuts has been tough to follo\~. "’it .~ccm> cvcrx three or four months a ne~ drag is rel~.ased. The drugs have unforeseen side effects." said Dr. l)avid l !ermm]. of the \Vhitne‘. .X i. Young !tcalth (’cater. The :\lb,’m,. c’linic ser,.-es 1 it} lilY patients. Additiouallv. "’patients mc living longer, mM as the‘. live longer the} require more ,’rod ntore complicated drug rcgmmns said I)r. Douglas Fish. acting director of the lilY medicine divistun at .-\tbmav Medic,’d College. Purdx said :730 of the prescription errors were "’serious" or "’se,.ere. meamng they could bc fatal or increase resistance IO dlllgs.-The most connTlon error was either prescribing doses that were either too high or too lmv. Most of the mistakes were made by people who weren’t HI\svccialists, the report said. Herman warned that the nuntber of errors may be higher in hospit~fls where interus and students can ~vnte prescriptions. The rates of error have decreased at :\lbany Medical since Purd,. revealed the results of the stud,, With the hospital staff., she said. "’We ~]ow pauents li,.e longer with these regimens," third,. stud. "’But if we don’t prescribe thcm’correctlv, we ha,an the patient." FDA Approves New Treatment W.\SHINGTON (AP) - AIDS patients got an easier-to-swallow drug as the Food and l)rug Administration approved a new once-a-day medicine that offers the first good alternative foF patients who cannot take today’s best AIDS treatment. l)uPout Pharmaceuticals" Sustiva appears to be about as effective as protease nfllibitors, the landmark medicines that have helped thousands of HIV patients rebound from their disease, tile FDA said. Ahd because it’s taken only. once daily, Susti,.’a conld significantl‘.’ cut the number of pills AIDS patients’now swallow. :’It really gives soane flexibilit,. ~md some new options for patients," said Dr. Heidi Jolson. FDA’s antiviral chief. But the FDA warned that patients shouldn’t race to switch to Snsti,.a if they’re doing well on other AIDS medic,ations. The HIV virus relentlessl,. mutates to overcoane drug treaunent, metaling patients must take a drug until it qmts working- not switching on the spur of the ~noment - so file’, don’t exhaust their options too quickl}:, stressed AIDS expert Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Iustitutes of ttealth. But for newly diagnosed patients, or those whose current cocktail of AIDS medicines is failing or causmg too many side effects. Susti,.’a offers a good option, he said. In a sixqnonth stud’, of 450 patients taking the standard drugs AZT mid 3TC plus either Susti,.a or the most popular protease inllibitor, Crixivan, both theraptes were equally effecti,.e. The FDA approved Susti,.-a. kalown chemically as efa,.irenz, for both adults and children]. It is to be taken with a protease inhibitor and or older AIDS medicines. The Sustiva portion of that cocktail will cost almost $4,000 a ‘.ear. DuPont says the price is.midrange f6r AIDS drugs, ai~d that Sustiva therapy could sa,.’e up to S500 avear over Crixivan cocktails. DuPont al~o promised a treatment assistm]ce program for poor patients, but would not reveal details. But some AIDS activists attacked the price; the group Act Up wrote DuPout this week threatening protests to "’reveal your greed." Sustiva "addresses some imporumtissues in the lives of people with HIV. including the complexity of taking a large number of drugs," said D,’ufiel Zingale of AIDS° Action. "But I .don’t think the company went far enough m fair pacing... The‘. could pfi.ce this lower mid still make a ~rofit.’" T,.pical HI\ pauents s~,. allow some 20 pih~ throughout the day to combat the virus, timed carefully to take some with meals and some without. The,, may also take additional medicines to pre,.ent HIVcansed refections. Missing e,.eu a few ,’mtiviral pills, however, allows the HIV to mutate and become more difficult to treat Sustiva is taken just once a day, in three capsules, whenever it’s convenient. DuPonl also is de,.eloping a formulation that will require only a single tablet a day. Easing patients" "pill burden" ma,. be Sustiva’s main" ad,.’ance. With it, some patients may get by on just five pills a day. "I have some patients who absolutely will only take medicine twice a day," said Dr. Do~aald P0retz of Virginia’ s Inova Fairfax Hospital. ’This is a race addition." Half of Susti,.’a pattents suffer dizziness, insomnia, impaired concentrauon, abnormal dreams and drowsiness. Therefore, patients should consider taking Sustiva at bedtime, the FDA said, and definitely avoid driving or operating machinery if they suffer the side effects. TheSe are milder side effects than many AIDS drugs cause, and unlike other drugs they usually disappear over time, the FDA said. But FDA’s Jolson cautioned that Sustiva can also cause some severe side effects, and that it has been studied for only six months. Longer use of AIDS drugs typically turns up more problems. Sustiva’s cautions include: - Some patients - usually those with a histoU of substance abuse or mental illness - suffer severe depression or delu- Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual CommuniHes. Mon. & Thurs., 6-8 pm, Daytime testing: Mon-Thurs. by appt. H 0 P E HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education 834-TEST (8378), 3501 E.Admiral Place Home Repair Service Family Owned Painting- Interior/Exterior Wallpapering Wall Repair Vinyl Flooring Installed Miscelleneous Home Repairs 836-1807 Medical Excellence And Compass.ionate Care Since 1926. ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER Medical Excellence ¯ Co.mpassionate Care �sions. They should stop taking the drug. - 40% of children and some adults suffer skin rashes, occasionally severe. Women must use effecnve contraception because animal studies suggest Susfiva causes severe birth defects. The FDA ordered DuPont to track accidental pregnancies to determine the true risk. In a separate development Friday, Merck & Co. stopped a study it had hoped would pave the way for easier Cfixivan use. But taking Cfixivan twice a day instead of the government-approved three daily doses proved far less effective. Sandra Hill, M.s. National Certified Counselor Certified Hypnotherapist Psychotherapy & Clinical Consultation Sensitive to the Challenges of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Individuals, Couples & Families. arm. Insurance for Working PLWA’s? 2865 E. Skelly Dr. # 215 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Unemployed people living with HIV want to work but fear they’ll lose .their health insurance if they become employed, according to a new study. "Discrimination is still very much an issue for those Seeking employment," said Dr. Ronald Brooks, a researcher from Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Brooks and Dr. ,David Martin of AIDS Project Los -Angeles conducted the study, which they said was the first one to analyze employ: ment issues for LOs Angeles residents living with HIV and AIDS. In July and August, the doctors surveyed 5,685 people with HIV or AIDS who were case-managed by LOs Angelesarea AIDS service organizations. An estimated 13,000 people in LOs Angeles County are infected with HIV, Brooks said. The survey released in September found about 37% of respondents were working. More than half of them had fulltime .jobs. Some of the 67% of those unemployed said they were disabled. The majority said they were thimkmg about retumilig to work ~o increase their tncoxne and feel useful to society. 745-1111 wi ii the person who is still paying too much for health insurance please call Kent Balch & Associates 918-747-9506 The Pride Store 1307 E. 38th, 2nd floor in the Pride Center, 743-4297 6-9 pm, Sunday - Friday 12-9 pro, S~turdav all sales benefit the Pride Center Girls ¯ Cards ¯ Pride Merchandise http: imembers.aol.coin TulsaPrideAndex.html will the person who is still paying too much for life insurance please call Kent Balch & Associates 918-747-9506 primate center. Despite the helter-skel ter appearance of his office, the center’s new headofAIDS researchknew exactly where to look for what he wanted. From a pile of plaques and framed photographs, Marx, 54, pulled out a picture that, perhaps more than anything else, sums up the nature of his work. The photograph, which he shot nearly a decade ago in Liberia, shows a brightly clad girl 9-year-old girl and her pet monkey, a sooty mangabey, clutching each other as tightly as possible. The monkey’s forepaws and prehensile toes are wrapped tightly around the girls’ left , Mayor Richard Riorcl~m vowed to encourage health insurers to cover all employees, including those with AIDS. Their medications alone can cost S12.000 to S16,000 a )’ear. The law states no HIVinfected person may be deified employment because of the disease. But m,’my sufferers are afraid they will lose their current health insurance~including MediCal, and will not obtain adequate insurance from a new employer, said Los Angeles City AIDS Coordinator Ferd Eggan. ",’AIDS remains a highly stigmatized disease," Eggan said. Jusfina Thompson, an HI\’-infected Venice resident, blames her honesty for her inability to find work. "’If you’re infected and ):ou tetl people you’r~ infected, they won’t ~ve you a job," said Thompson, who now works with Women Alive, a drop-in center in Los Angeles for women with HIV or AIDS. Craig Thompson, executive director of AIDS Project Los Angeles, said retunfing HIV-i~ffected people to the workplace actually would have a positive effect on society. If employed, they would pay into social security and pay taxes which are lost when th@ are uot working, he said. "It’s actually revenue-positive for the taxpayers in the long rim,’" Thompson said. Monkeys and the Origin of HIV COVINGTON, La. (AP) - Preston Marx is still gettiug settled, and it shows. Books are heaped in stacks, and boxes of all sizes - some unpacked, manynot - crowd the floors of his office at Tulane University’s Sunny at first blush, the picture has a sinister side: It symbolizes the easy passage between monkeys and humans of a .simple vires that has developed into the microorganism that causes AIDS, said Marx, a New Orleans native who was at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York before coming this summer to the primate center in rural St. Tammany Parish. ":My work has shown that the viruses carried by these monkeys are closely related to the viruses earned by people in the local villages," he said. Marx, who succeeded Michael MurphyCorb at Tulane, also has studied the way AIDS infection develops, and he has con’ducted vaccine research. He will continue in both fields at the primate center and at the Diamond center, which shares him with Tulane. In return for letting Marx move south, Diamond gained access to what is, with 4,500 monkeys, the country’s biggest primate center. The two institutions plan to co_ltaborate on .-kIDS research. "I’m not only OK with that; I think it’s a tremendous opportunity,’" said Peter Gerone, director of the Tulane Regional Primate Research Center. "’Talk about sometlfing being mutually beneficial." As part of the agreement, Marx received a professorship of tropical mediciue - and the enthusiastic welcome from Dr. Paul \Vhelton, dem~ ofTulane’s S cbooi of Public Health and Tropical Medicine "’He has provided fltndamental underpinmng of the sinuan innnunodeficiencv virus and the origin of AIDS.’" said \\~elton. For Marx, named the primate center’s senior scientist, flats is his first priority: to trace the history of the iucurabte illness by detennimng the origin of the virus that causes ~t "%’obodv else is doing that," Ronald Desrosier,~. imcrobiologist and molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Harvard’s New Fmgland Primate Center. "’I tlm~k he ki~ows mo~tkevs and monkey natural history very we~l. This is a niche where he can contribute and he tries to make the most of it "" The work, wlfich Marx conducts in the United States and Africa, may lead to a vaccine and better ways to fight.AIDS, said Dr. Andrew Lach~er, a pathologist at Harvard Medical Center and ~ts pinnate center, "-[’he tnore you le,’~t about these viruses. . will provide very significant clues to what’s different in sooty mangabeys, where the virus can be haudled, and humans, and humans, where it’s not," Lackner said. Which leads back to Marx’s photograph of the ~fl and her pet, and the potential for monkey viruses to leap the species barrier. In villages like the ~fl’s, monkeys bite people and people hm~t and eat monkeys. And angry farmers have clubbed to d~th sooty mangabeys that devoured their crops, said Dr. Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birminghana. Through such incidents, the simian nmnunodefiency virus, "known as SIV, regularly invades human bloodstreams, said Marx, who has worked in :\frica since 1987. Under normal circumsumccs, he has found a huntan can elinmmtc il wi~n 12 weeks. The mo~ev vm~s. Much has been in Africa more than 100,000 ye~s, c~ ~nutate in ml attenlpt to survi vc, but he s~d, the body’s defenses gencrall3 work f~ter. HIV, an offshoot of thc IN vires, is relatively nee in human~ M~x stud, dating b£ck to about 1950 "~at t~t me~s, in a sense, is thal there’s a mo~ey out ~ere that donated vires to people," Marx stud. ’The question becomes, "X~at’s the mechmfi sm ’ .. Some~ng ~p~ned in 1950 that caused tNs vires to st~t crossing over. I kmm what it is, but I ~n’t prove it.’" ttis hunch: widespread use of hypodenmc ucedlcs. wNch beg~ about the s~e ti~nc injectable ~gs ~c~e available to fight dise~es such as tonga. In countries that ~’t ~forda new needle for each pattern. ne~les ~e often reused, picNng up Inicr~rg~sms ~ong the way. A ~ad~te of 1 ~uisi~a ~tatc Iuivcrsitv in New ~leans (now the Univcrsit~ of ~’ew Ofl~s) and ~ 1" Mcdic~fl Center , M~x beg~ ~s quesl for the ofigiu of AIDS in 1987. ~e quest h~ U~en him ~ound ~e world, including a remote Affi~ b~ where he and a colleague stopl~,d for a beer ~ter a frustrating day of collecting blo~ smnples from redcap m~gabeys in a hunt for a r~e SIV strain. H~ picked up the stor~, w~ch has bccome p~t of the Marx lebend: "Thcv a redcap monkex tied to the b~, ~ating pe~uts. ~esto~ stud, "We could blccd that one as well." "" After a pause. !l~dm delivered the puuch line. ’Thin happcncd to be the monkey that was i~fl~ctcd with that vm~s.’" she stud "’Preston told mc later. "As you can see. I do my best work m b~."" HIV+ Prisoners To Be Separated GREENVII.I.1L S.(’. {.-\P) - With ntorc than 600 S. Carolina prison inmates about to be segregated because they tested postfive for &e AIDS-casuing virus, one A II)S expert says the state has far underesu mated the cost. The state esdmalcs it will cost St,Q00 wr ~mnate l~r ~eatment. Tha~ is more likely.to k S15,000. Dr. Rick Altice. ~ AIDS expert m Yale-New ttayen HospitN in New Haven. Conn.. u)ld The Greenville News. In a prison system of 21.0~) lmnmcs. ~ of them t~IV-positive, a system of providing condoms, sex eduction and drug rehabilitation wouldbe more effective. sav some of those who speciNize in tracing ~e dise~e. [nprotccted consensu~ sex ~d rapes remmn prev~ent mnong prisoners, m~v of whom don’t know HIV ~ be transmitted bv unsafe ratercourse, sMd Steve Nesselr~th of the AIDS m Prison Project. 17 states have m~datory testing, lto~vever, one-time testing ~ give pnson officiM s a fMse sense of secuntv, sMd Dr. Jo~ Miles, of the Centers f~r Disease Con~ol & ~evenfion. Without lbllowup testing, i~ates who ~ ~ey ~c sine ~ fur~er spread H1V, Miles sMd. It ~es ~ long ~ six months tbr ~e vires to be det~mble. ~ficiMs pl~ follow-up tests ~d say i~ates will ~ tested ~fore ¯ey l~ve prison st~ng next ye~. 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Even thOugh half of the book is told ~t’-s’not t~ love in a s-tory @’out a bo.y ¯¯ mostly from Scott’s perspective, the clear growing up with a bohemian’, eccenmc star of the novel is Uncle Michael. and rich aunt for a guardian? But if you Michael’s straight-forward ever wondered where all of and amusing take on life fuels The most Marne’s gay friends were (oh, the story and you adore him of course she had them!), you notleeable aspect more with each page¯ He’ s not will definitely adore Say Uncle of this brilliant a perfect man, but he"s close by Eric Shaw Quinn. Although enough, and his flaws just enfirst novel is the whole plot rests on a gruedear you to him more¯ His eertalnly its some tragedy, this comedy has blunt’and occasionally odd enough absurdity and sardonic brand of humor. rapport with his meddling humor to keep you smiling for Part Congreve, mother is so similar to so many weeks. The characters are so of us that you’ll surdy find part Dickens, engaging that they become a new realizations m your own part of your family -even part Fiersteln, maternal rdationship. Best of when you hate them; and all, .kfichael fights for respect uhn manages Quirm’s evocative style will the way we all would like to: rivet you with your own emo~ a~seamless blend with h~nor, ~ace and trementional reactions. of Restorat;on dous gumpuon. InSav Uncle, Michael Reily The circumstances of Say comedy, hitter finds l~s life turned inside out Uncle wouldn’t happen to irony and modwhen his sister and her husmare of us. \~2tile overall you band are killed tragically ,leav- ern dlsillusloned mav~ehappy about that, there ing Michael the guardian of ideallsm. The will also be a part of you that their baby, Scott. Urged on by longs for it. Michael Reily is a result is a elassle his mother and challenged by tree hero in so many ways style in today’s the baby’s patemal grandfaIris di~mfity, his selfish selfther, a conservative former lessness, his passion for life¯ Senator, Michael’s fights \Xqao ,’unong us doesn’t want anaidst a media blitz as his to star ~n a life of feature film quality. Say homosexnality and Suitability as a parent Uncle has its realism, and even its absuiare "called into question. ditv is plausible, but in the end what gets The most noticeable aspect of this brilus ior at least gets me) is the journey of the liant first novel is certainly its brand of characters from letters on a p0ge to human humor. Part Congreve, part Dickens, part beings we would like to kaaow..Say Uncle Fierstein, Quinn manages a seamless blend is the story we would have if we got the of Restoration comedy, bitter irony and option - and the strength - to enjoy it. modem disillusioned idealism. The resul_t You can request Say Uncle from your is a classic style in today’s language. nearest’l"ulsa City-County library br~ch Qmma clearly wanted to go for the literary or by calling th~ Reader’s Services dethroat with his debut. The scope and partment of the Central Library. scheme of Say Uncle is of Shakespearean Adam West is an associate with lulscl proportions. ~a,s an actor lfimself, the auCity-County Library S3wtem and an OSU thor was possibly hoping for a movie deal ah~mus. Hets m)t now and,ever has bee, with a cast on the level of Steel Magnolias Batman. (of wlficli this is also reminiscent). Say A UTHENTIC FRESH ITALIAN RAINBOW C USINE TRO UT Read All About It IGTA member Call 41. 6866 of Eureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! International TO H r ~ for more information. 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Longtime HIV/AIDS activist/volunteer, ¯ Claudette Peterson, noted that she was ¯ unable to attend the event because The ¯ Food Pantry of Tulsa CARES (formerly ¯ Resource Consortium) whichshe ¯ theHIV directs was scheduled to get alarge amount said Nicole Russo, spokeswoman for AIDS Project Los Angeles, which organizes the event every year. Colin’ s mother got him started when he was four to learn about helping others, Ms. Russo said. The event raised an estimated $3 million that will provide care for the nearly 7,400 people with AIDS in l_~,s .Angeles County. Participants asl~ people to sponsor them for every mile they walk. The course, about 6.2 miles long, started at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, looped onto Melrose Avenue and then back to the studio through Hancock Park. ¯ of donated food that morning. 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Hm Bet we’ve The DIYD has cermade a choice already. painful, and you will use tain other preferences Get a bit instruction ~n when it comes to how to rev the little an entire 80 lb. ba~ of screws, and the primary darlin" up and you’ll quiekrete to fill the hole. one is for square drives be sinking more holcs (as opposed to standard that an Oklahoman It is not laziness that will or - shame-on you for wildcatter in July. Besmirking - Phillip’s drive you at thls point to sides, power to~ls arc head). -Ihex do not fl~n, and you’ll get yonr the E-Z equipment "’cam out" easily, which job dgne quicldy. And means they don’t get you "ll use rental, but efficiency! less all cheered’up and ratty Quickrete, too. mad unusable, and yoffl,azow by now what In order to buy your materials, you have aesthetics does for the DI’YD~ Order the already measured your fence li~]e. ()nce catalogue from McFeelv’s (800 443again, you will space 3"our posts 8 feet on 7937) and you will be ifi square driv~ 6enter for treated pickets and 10 feet on heaven; of course, you can order the square center for cedar pickets. You will rarely drives from them as well. The quality is come out perfectly, so plan on splitting lfigh, the service good and the delia:err the difference ou either end of the fence prompt - mad most of us can’t say that unless the distance left over ~s over a few about our exes. can we? ~’eet. In other words, you may have ten You will be using a #8 scre~v. 2 1 2" posts 10" apart and have 3" at the end, so long, to attach stringers t.o posts. ,and \ou put nine posts 10" apart, and at the ends will need to order the"No-Co-Rode’" ty"pe. have the posts 61 2’ apart. More than that. The’* will We you good rust resistance put the short section of fence on the cud along with strength. For attaclfing 3our you won’t see as often. If this confuses pickets to the stringers, you wi!l need #8 you. draw ~t out on paper first. It never scre~vs. 1 1 4." long; the wood ’*ouve hurts to have a visual. chosen for the pickets will deterrrdue the Drill your holes Zccording to your spactype of screw. For wKite wood or treated ing plan. Go ahead and give yourself an pickets, use the No-Co-Rode screws, but inch or so less between the posts for a bit for cedar, vou must_use stainless steel of a fudge factor (you can cut a board, but because thd acids and volatile oils in the stretching it is ~mpossible). Drill the holes cedar will seriously corrode an\ other 2".deep. Center 3our posts in the holes, fastener you use. Tt~e DIYD realizes that using the level to get the post as level as some of this informaUon is a rehash, but possible in the horizontal as well as the speaking for herself, the old memory isn’ t vertical plane. If you" ve never used a level quite what it used to be. Remember also before, ask someone who has for a few that you will need4 screw s for each stringer pointers. It’s reall,v quite easy. Do not skip and 5 screws for each picket. this step or the fence will be a disaster and Now that you’ve assembled all ’,our you’ve paid too much for that. After cenraw material s, it is time to gather up ’,’our tenng the post in the hole, add your mixed tools. The DIYD is delighted to inform concrete until the hole is filled level with you that this is the perfect project for that the ~ound. Use a stick to work the constunning leather tool belt, so if you haven’t crete mix down and the air bubble out. indulged yourself yet, do so now. You’re Always put the post in the hole and fill paying so much for the fence, at this point around it. The moisture needs to be able to you can justify the few extra dollars for an drain away from the bottom of the post. If accessory that will give years and years of you drill your holes with an auger, you good use and satisfaction. In adcfition to shonld only need about 3/4 of an 86 lh the .tool belt, you will need the following: bag of quickrete per hole. Let the concrete a good level (bigger really is better here; sit for at least 12 hours before proceeding. don’t settle for an.vthin~ under 12"); a Cheater’s method: Pour a bag of quikrete drill and drill bits (2 drills are better); a #2 into the hole, add water to fill. Let sit for square driver for the screws; a wheelbar24 hrs. Results not guaranteed. row or very large tub to mix concrete in Once again, your beloved DIYD has (there is an nnapproved method to cheat waxed eloquent to the point of being verthis, which will be passed along forthbose, so join us next month when we will with); a hoe and shovel for mixing and finish this project. Promise. Until theu, scooping concrete; and a device for digenjoy the tool belt. �Mary had noticed that even the personal by Esther Rothblum I recently met with three members of ¯ ads in thelocal newspapers had "seniors" the Crones, a group for old Lesbians in ¯ under a special section. They mentioned a Vermont. "We were at a dance one night," ; Lesbian friend who had stated her age in said.Alverta, "and I asked the woman l ; apersonaladandgotalmostnoresponses. was with, where are all the Lesbians our ¯ "’It’ s even hard for older Lesbians to meet someone to be a friend or just someone to age?" They put an ad in the local Lesbian hang out with,’" said,Mverta: newspaper, and had to drop "Where do older Lesbians the minimum age to 40 be"It’s even hard disappear to’?" the women cause there were so few Lesfor older wondered. Perhaps some bians older than that who were out in the community leave to take care of families Lesbians of origin, the)’ thought. at that time. They started as ~ to meet someone The Crones talked about political group, butit quickly interacting with younger became a social group beto be a friend Lesbians. When older and cause so many women or just someoue younger Lesbians become wanted just to meet somelovers, people may assume one their age. to han~ that one is the other:s mother. "’And even now," added out wlth." It’s hard to go to the health Mary Wallmyn, "here we all care center mad have a 20sit together in your living sald Alverta. year old woman do the inroom and wonder where are ’%Vhere do . take extort. the Lesbians in their 60s and Old women are "called 70s like us.’" The women older Lesbians wise, said Alverta. vet they agrecd that some of the~e disappear to?" are ignored iu meetings that older Lesbians are extremely include yOtmger women. Joy closeted or out to only one found that the younger women go off to other person. They lived through times that were very hostile to Lesbians and socialize together mid don’t iuclude old Lesbians. But the women did feel that aren’t willing io be too out, eve!.13o other the) have become more outspoken as they old l~esbians..klan3 don’t even hse the have become older. word "Lesbian"- they refer to themselves The women remiaisced about living as "that wax" or use other euphemisms. through extremely homophobic times. I asked ~’hat Alverta, Mary, and Joy They talked about bein_o in the ntilitary thought the major issues were facing Les’and Working as school teachers. But now. bians over 60. Getting a job mad facing as older women, they were living in times ageism, said Alverta. Leaving a husband, that were more affirming of Lesbians, but coming out as a Lesbian, and being thought hostile to old women. Y et ever.vone agreed too old for full-time work yet not old that ageism was worse in the Gay male enough for social security, said Mary. Beiug closeted on the job and needing 1o mid in the Heterosexual co~mnunitv. For more information about the C~’ones. move in order to live near a lover, said write to 143 RoIlin Irish Road, .\lilton. VT Joy. Working for a non-profit organiza05468. Esther Rothblum is Professor of tion that has no retirement benefits. GetPsychology at the Umversitv of Vermont ung sick in old age. In fact, the women agreed that discrimiaffd Editor ofthe Journal ofLesbian Studies. She can be reached at John Dewey nation due to age was more severe than Hall, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington. VT. discmninauon due to being a Lesbian. And many have found this hideaway in the Ozarks to be an ideal spot for a holy union or commitment ceremony. Early reservations for the weekend are advised. For more information on the schedule of activities or Diversity Cooperative listing, please check out the website at www.shimaka.com;eurek;t"diversity or call the event sponsors, The Emerald Rainbow, at 501-253--cOA-5. Schedule of Activities Friday, November 6, 8:30pm-12:30am Kick off the weekend with a dance in the Basin Park Hotel Ballroom to benefit ¯the Metropolitan Comnmnity Church of the Living Springs & the Eureka Springs R.A.I.N. Team. Music by Sisters II. $3 single; $5 couple. 12:30-2: 00am, after the dance, head over to Center Street So. for more "famil y’" fun ! Saturday, November 7, 8:00-10:30am Meet Charlotte for a trout fishing adventure on die beautiful, crystal clear White River. Arkansas fishing license is required. Meet at the Beaver Dam Store by 7:45am. Fxtuipment rentals & licenses available: Reservations: 501-253-6154. 1 l:00am-l:00pm, Take a leisurely float trip down the White River. Enjoy the fall colors mad peacefulness of the Ozarks. Bringa ~nack or pick up something at the Dam Store. $25 canoe rental fee. Singles wdcome. Call 501-253-6154 for details. Reservations apprecmted 1 l:30am- 1:00pm,Take an historic walking tour throu~.da downtown. Meet at Sweet Springs (next to Rogues Manor on upper Spring St.) Find out more about this special town. 2:00-4:00pm, Be a part of nature on this easy hike on the Dogwood Trail. Take in the beautifid fall scenery, the wildlife, and the splendid views of Beaver Lake. Meet at the Dam Store by 1:45 p.m.Info: 501~ 253-6154. Reservatibns appreciated. 2:00-5:00pm, Shop "ti1 you drop, with some of the stores listed in the Diversity Co-op booklet offering a 10% discount to these weanng a "Eureka Springs -Celebrating Diversity"button. (Some restrictions apply). Pick up your button at The Fmaerald Rainbow for 50 cents. 9:00pm-i:30am, Dance to the beat of DJ Jon Caswell at Center Stage. Cover: $5. From 1 tpm- 1:30am, the dance floor opens up downstairs for a "Singles Mingler". Sunday, November 8, 2:00-6:00pm Everyone’s encouraged to "Come iri Drag, Whatever that Means to You’, to the tea dance and drag show at Center Stage. 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I looked cheaply is thropologist, I’ ve sometimes forward to seeing him again made fun of contemporary your local in this different light, and in identity politics that begets his own place- a condo that hardware store. aperfusion of culture claims. he and his lover had purNowadays, everyone has to Waltdn~ those chased a few years before have his or her own culture: AIDS cut him down, leaving TrueValue Gay-culture, Lesbian-culCarl single once more. aisles, the SIM ture, deaf-culture, black-culWe sat digesting our dintin’e, Polish-American culeye sparhles at ner around the kitchen table skater-culture, it goes joined by Richard, a recent exeltln~ possibili- ture, on. However, because all of acquaintance from New ties brought to us continue to speak English York City. Contemplating and to eat the same Burger the dr~gs of my wine, I was mind by hoohs, Kings, the stodgy anthropostartled when Carl and Richclamps, struts, logical term for these variard began comparing the ous yet connected spheres is braehets, and relative merits of the sado"subculture." But whatever masochist clubs in NYC that power tools. you want to call it, listening tfiey both frequent. Not just to Carl and Richard chat merely Gay, I also hadn’t a clue that my boyhood buddy was into ¯ merrily together, it was clear to me that S/ whips and chains and fit-clamps. Carl ¯ M involves a close community with shared enthused that his peak sexual experience ." understandings of its sexual world. These shared S/M understandings inhad come when once he was "sewn up." ¯ Don’t ask - I didn’t. 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Guys dripping hemp rope enthusiastically demonstrate, like my Boy Scout : mity. And one can think up amusingly troop master of long ago, a plethora of [ horrible scenarios where someone sportcomplicated knots. Someone who has vis- . ing a mustard yellow hankie (seeking the ited the supermarket unpacks boxes of : well-endowed) ends up witha2am"golden plastic wrap and wraps his partner in ." shower" instead. (editor’s note: or as our yards and yards of plastic, poking holes ¯ First District US Congressman Steve here and there in the bulging saran cocoon ". Largent likes to refer to them. "yellow for purposes of breathing and so forth. ". showers.") Carl talked enthusiastically about his From all corners chains rattle and hand- : ¯ vocationasagingleather-boy.Itooknotes. "cuffs clank. Richard advised that the best place to ." Gay-culture might be rich and elaborated, acquire such paraphernalia cheaply is your : but the number of roles it allows us 40local hardware store. 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Cimatton s public Colorado Gov,’s Report: Gays Due Equal Rights M~ DIRECTORY/LE~FERS P, 2~ US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 ~1~ HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 8 Z~ COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 8 BOOK REVIEW P. 10 DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 11 DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES P, 12/13 m CLASDIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P, 14 Circuit Court Reverses "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" Decision NEW YORK (AP) - Six members of the nfilltarv are in line for Lesbians: At Higher Risk of Breast Cancer? SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A limited study of afients at a women’s health clime found Lesbians 1~ a higher risk of breast cancer than beterosextml patients, according to a report in the Journal oft/w Gay and Lesbian Medical .4ssociation. An analysis of 1,019 women seeking services at Lyon-Martha Women’s Health Services in San Francisco bet~veen 1995 arid 1997 showed thai Lesbians bad a higher body mass index and fewer pregnancies, both previously idenli fled as risk fac tars for breast cancer. Eageula Calle. director of epidemiology for the American Cancer Society. said the study was onl) a prelimiq,~ look at risk factors and was not wide enoughin scope to draw general conclusions aboul Lesbians. "The real question is, ’Is the population large enough and is it similar enough to the entire population of L~sbia~ women and the entire popuhifion of heterosexual women?’ " seeBreost, p. 3 Walk for Life 1998 ’,VEST COAST & TIJLSA (AP & TFN) Thousands of l~ophi turned out in the Puget Sound itrca to raise money to help fight AIDS. Ten3’ M. Stone. )’ear, he said. Als0, an estimated 1 A00 people participated in y~ffs old Colin Cadarette received the Crystul Apple award, the highest honor the AIDS Project Eureka Springs Diversity Weekend EUREKA SPRINGS Organizers of Eureka Springs" secoed Dl~ersit) Celebration \Vcekcnd Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston *Concessions; 3340 S. Peoria *,Empire Bar, 1516 S. 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Yale *CommunityUnitm’ian-Universalist Congregation *Council Oak Men’s Chorale *Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159 e-mail: Tulsanews@earthlink. net website: http:t/users.aol.comITul ~aNews/ Publisher + £ditor: Tom Neal, Writers + contributom: Adam West, James Christjohn. Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud, Barry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche. Lamont Lindstrom, Esther Rothblum MaD’ Schepers, Member oI The Associated Press [ssued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents ofthis ~u~blication are protected by US copyright 1998 byT~ ~ and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. 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W~SHINGTON, D.C. - Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays this month named as its new president National PFLAG Board Member Paul Beeman. An ordained minister who lives in Olympia, WA, Beeman is the father of four, aGay son and Lesbian daughter, and two non-Gay children. In addition to serving as a United Methodist pastor for many years, Beeman also has a strong backgroundinfundraising, marketing andjournalism. He has served on PFLAG’ s board since 1994. Beeman, who was elected Sept. 12 by PFLAG’s National Board of Directors, says he is eagerly looking forward to lead the group as it presses ahead nationally and locally in its fight for equal civil rights. "What a dynamic time this is for PFLAG," Beeman said. "With two years to prepare, will the year 2000 be a turning point for welcoming Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and transgendered persons into full equality in our society? I believeit can be!" "PFLAG is all about being able to give kids back to their parents," Beeman emphasized. "As with slavery and women’s rights, barriers to equality will eventually fall in our communities of faith and in our whole society. It will happen as we family members tell the stories of our children and families and explain their commitment to stable family relationships," he said. Beeman also hailed PFLAG’s tremendous growth in membership over the last few years. "Our influence in more than 420 communities across all 50 states is the result of so many members in countless rural towns and big cities across the country- working on the frontlines of change." Among .his. goals are to assure safe space foi: all children in school and at worship and to enhance the education of ¯ the majority of middle Americans who ¯ don’ t yet understand how natural homo- " sexuality truly is. Beeman will be work- " ing closely withPFLAG ExecutiveDirec- ] tor Kirsten Kingdrn, who is based in the ¯ group’s national office in Washington, DC. Beeman strongly praised his predeces- ¯ sor, Tulsan Nancy McDonald, who dur- : ing her two-year termrepresentedPFLAG ¯ in Washington, DC, in giving testimony before the U.S. Congress and meeting ¯ with federal officials, as well as criss- ¯" crossing the country to speak out for Les- ¯ bian and Gay loved ones and their fami- ¯ lies. ¯ Members of Parents, Families and ] Friends of Lesbians and Gays voted over- . whelmingly earlier this month in favor of ¯ a proposal to include Transg.endered ¯ peopleintheorganization’ s mission state- ¯. merit. The near unanimous vote, which came ¯ during PFLAG’ s Sept. 12 annual meeting ¯ in San Francisco, followed a recommen- ~ dation by the group’s national Board of : Directors last May to amend the group’ s ¯ bylaws to include Transgendered people ¯ in its mission statement, which covered ~ Lesbians, Gays and Bisexual people. ¯ Letters Policy ¯ Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on ¯ issues which we’ ve covered or on issues ~ you thinkneed to be considered. Youmay ¯ request that your name be withheld but ¯ letters must be signed &have phonenum- " bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let- ." ters are preferred. Letters to other publi- ¯ cations_will be printed as is appropriate. At a 45-minute news conference, Colorado for Family Values, Concerned Women for America, the Christian Coalition of Colorado, Where Grace Abounds~ Family First and the American Jewish Assembly all roundly condemned the commission’ s report and suggested there were other motives involved. Chuck Gosnell of the Christian Coalition said "overwhdming evidence" proves "a loving, committed marriage between one man and one woman is the most beneficial toward raising children and encouraging a healthy society." "Romer," he said, ,’has used a taxpayerfunded commission in an attempt to force affirmation of his personally skewed vision of marriage and the family. The governor’s already tarnished legacy will only be damagedfurther ifhe continues to imposehis anti-family values on mainstream Coloradans." A statement by Nancy Sutton of Family First said there is no basis for the claim "committed relationships" are beneficial to society. ’q~here is no basis for much of what the commission found." Colorado for Family Values spokesman Dr. Paul A. Jessen said "without evidence or support, the claim is made same-sex couples have been unfairly denied the samerights as normal married couples, and this denial calls for a redress of inequity, but will not diminish the rights and benefits enjoyed by married persons." "Parallel fights and responsibilities," he said, "is a disguise for homosexual marriage." ButSueAnderson, executivedirector ofEquality Colorado, and a member of Romer’ s commi ssion, listened to the complaints of the groups and said she wasn’t surprised at their attack. "We’re here," she said ofherself and other Lesbians, "We’re living our li~,.e.s. We’re trying to protect our relationships. We’re trying to protect our families." "We’re looking for basic economic rights. SO what happens to me if my partner dies? Do I have access to her pension? No. Do I have access to her health insurance, likemy colleagues and their wives have? No." "What we are looking for is something to protect ourselves when something bad happens," She said she was not surprised at their remarks.because she had heard their position againsthomosexuality often. "I didn’ t wake up in the morning, put on a lavender shirt and say: ’I’mgoing to be a Lesbian today.’ That’ s just not how it works." While the groups said flatly they had not been asked to participate in the commission’s studies, Anderson said she understood a variety ofpeoplefromColorado Springs were invited, "and everybody said no." But the commission did go to Colorado Springs and met with conservative groups, and the commission did do public forums, whichtheGay community attended, she said. "They were included as much as anybody else," she said. "I don’t agree with them and their basic premise. Am I angry? No." The report by Romer’s commission recommended granting same-sex couples the same legal rights and benefits as married heterosexual couples, but stops short of endorsing same-sex marriages. Romer made it clear in response to two bills banning same-sex marriage, he had established his own position: that marriage in Colorado should be reserved for the union of a man and a woman. "That is current law, and it should remain a law," he said. He wants communities to address the legal and ethical issues posed by same-sex relationships, he said. "But there should be no conclusion as to what the end result is." The 16-member comrmssion was charged with comparing the legal and economic rights, responsibilities and benefits of same-sex couples and married couples: The commission was at that time criticized by people on both sides of the issue. Some critics say there were no conservative members who are unalterably opposed to samesex marriages. Several were invited to serve on the panel, Romer said, but they declined to serve. In his 4 years of participating, Colin has raised nearly $47000. The boy stole the show from luminaries like Madonna, actor Nathan Lane and a gaggle of politicians. During the ceremony, Madonna criticized spending millions of dollars to investigate President Clinton, saying the money could be better spent on research. whenColin took the podium, hejust said~"Hi." "It was so cute. He was very shy," see Walk, p. 10 by Tom Neal, editor & publisher A week or so ago, I received a call from a reader, telling me about how she’ d had a very negative experience with a Hillcrest associated physician. As a part of the discussion about her treatment, she shared with the physician and staff that she is Lesbian. Indeed for a number of medical conditions, not just the issue of HIV, sexual orientation can be relevant (see The Associated Press story about Lesbians and breast cancer on page 1). The physician.and staff’ s response was to ask her if she wanted to be prayed for. And as a person of faith, she said yes - assuming that the prayers would be for good health. Instead she found the doctor and staff praying for her "release from homosexuality" where all she wanted was release from a minor infection. Last year, two acquaintances wound up at St. John Emergency Room after one took a duding claims that the highest level ofmanagement have Perhaps, Lesbians and Gay men will have to create our own institutions to meet our needs. Thls is what we did all over thls country in response to the HIV/AIDS erlsls. fairly serious fall with a blow to his head. Although this couple has been together for a number of years, even raising children, St. John staff refused to recognize the relationship, denying the very worded partner any informarion about his spouse’s condition and also denying access that would have been routinely provided to a heterosexual couple. This went on until emergency room staff had a shift change and a nurse, a Gay man, whom they knew, came on duty and corrected the situation. Back during the GulfWar and the debate about Gays in the military, my father, now a retired physician, heard a few of his St. Francis colleagues say that they,i e we Gay and Lesbian folk, should all .just be killed. This from professionals allegedly devoted to the health and well being of humankind. ¯ Granted these are anecdotes, possibly only isolated incidents. But they suggest a fai_lure ofTulsa’ s health care ¯ delivery system to deal seriously with providing Lesbian ¯ and Gay citizens with fair, adequate and sensitive medi- ¯" cal care. Not one ofTulsa’s majormedical institutions haS : adop/ed a non-discrimination policy which would indi- ¯ cate both to patients and to providers that discrimination ¯ based on sexual orientation will not be tolerated. Now in their defense, St. John officials responded with ¯ speed and concern when they became aware of the ¯ discriminatory treatment which the two men mentioned : above experienced. Those officials have stated that they ¯ will not tolerate this behavior and also, have reached ot[t ¯ to Tulsa’ s Lesbian, Gay and Bi communities by advertis- ¯ ing in this newspaper. ¯ In contrast, St. Francis, Hillcrest, and Tulsa Regional/ : Doctors (the various ColumbiaJHCA ownedinstitutions) ¯ have done nothing to addregs possible bias in their insti- ~ tutions or to manifest any commitment to serving the ¯ needs of Gay and Lesbian Tulsans ¯ Hillcrest in particular continues to have allegations of anti-Gay employment practices brought against it, in- The Polo Grill ¯ by Tom Neal, publisher ¯ Local publicity guru, Tracey Norvell, of Arts Society, ¯ along with The Polo Grill owners, Ouida and Robert ¯ Merrifield, definitely have the right notion about getting ¯ the attention of members of the press wine them and ¯ dine them - quite literally. The already award winning ~ restaurant has two new distinctions, awards from The ¯ Wine Spectator and the Unipro Cully Award. ¯ At a recent lunch, Tulsa media types sampled five ¯ courses of exquisitely fresh and well prepared food and ~ three California white wines, and a lovely Merlot. The ¯ stars of the lunch were fresh North American rainforest ¯ salmon and a very low fat cut of Piedmontese beef filet ¯ grown near Tulsa (though the point of alow-fat cut when ¯" it’s served with a fat-rich bernaise sauce eludes me, or ¯ maybe that is the point, so that you can have the bemaise). ." Service was gracious and attentive, from several of : Tulsa’s best-looking and delightfully everrso-gay staff. ¯ The Polo Grill is, of course, not cheap but unlike many ¯ wanna-be restaurants in this town, is worth it when the ¯ restaurant lives up to this high standard it’ s set. : Check it out whenever your budget permits. ¯ openly expressed bias against Lesbians and Gay men. If ¯ these allegations are true, then certainly I, as a health care ¯ consumer, would have questions about the safety and quality of my health care at Hillcrest. And a related issue is that of finding a Lesbian or Gay, or Gay-friendly physician. You can call the physician referral lines and find, if you want, a Black physician or a "Christian" physician but if you ask for a Gay or Gay-friendly physician, you’ re just out of luck. Now if you have lived here for a while and start to network in the community a bit, eventually you’ll find that there’ s a Lesbian gynecologist, a Lesbian general practioner. a number of Gay physicians from Owasso to south Tulsa as well as the better known doctors who’ve specialized in HIV/AIDS care like Drs. Beal and Peake. But most of these physicians are closeted, fearing repercussions to their practices. Indeed I’ ve only, just found out aboutmore two dentists, one Lesbian, the other Gay and it’ s my job as newspaper publisher to know who’ s who in the community even if I don’t write about them. Contrast this with Dallas, certainly a conservative place in many respects but whose community newspaper is filled with choices for health care providers. Perhaps, Lesbians and Gay men will have to create our own institutions to meet our needs. This is what we did all over this country in response to the HIV/AIDS crisi s. The Los Angeles Community Center has begun its own clinic in recogmt~on of the community’s needs. Last spring Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights" (TOHR) HIV anti-body testing clinic (HOPE) split off under the direction of clinic director, Kristi Frisbie. However, a few members of thatTOHRboard suggested that the clinic should broaden its health care services for Lesbians.and G0y-men, remaining true to its origins as a Gay & Lesbian organization, instead of trying to become a broader based HIV prevention orgmfization..After all, while Tulsa has a number of other prevention groups addressing non-Oay aspects ot ~]\’~IA]~)~, there is no one looking at non-HIV related Gay & Lesbian health care, other than perhaps Drs. Peake & Beal. Even now that HOPEis independent, there is no reason that TOHRand The Pride Center could not be the site of a free clinic, perhaps monthly, where Tulsa’ s Lesbian and Gay physicians could volunteer to do basic examinations and consultations. Obviously anything requiring specialized equipment or testing would have to be referred to the physicians regular office, and some kind of legal waivers would be needed as well to protect the physicians and the Center. Maybe one or another ofourGay lawyers rtmning around could help there? What do you tlfink? Do any of you care? Let us know via e-mail, post, tdephone or tax. Ms. Calle asked. "All women should be concerned about breast cancer and getting age-appropriate breast cancer screening," she added. Still, researchers said the study shows a need for more research that compares Lesbian women to heterosexuals of various ages, economic and geographic groups. The study was conducted by the clinic’s medical director, Stephanie Roberts, and Suzanne Dibble, an associate professor at the University of Califomia at San Francisco. "It’s still too early for us to develop specific mammography guidelines for Lesbians, but our study shows the importance of encouraging Lesbians to seek medical care on a regular basis," Roberts said. Roberts and Di’bble found no significant differrnces between the two groups on risk factors such as family history of breast cancer or alcohol use. Nearly all of.the women surveyed for the study were low-income and lacked health insurance. Of the 1,019 women studied, 57.6 percent identified themselves as heterosexual and 42.4 percent as homosexual. "For far too long Lesbians have had more questions about than answers about their health," said Kathy Oriel, president of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, whose group funded the study. California Politician to- Try to Ban Gay Marriages " NORWALK, Calif. (AP) - A group that wants to . keep Cnlifornia from recognizing Gay marriages " collected 675,000 signatures to place the measure on ¯ the state ballot - more than enough signatures to qualify the Defense of Marriage Act for a future " election, Sen. Peter Knight announced. " The measure is designed "to protect our definition of marriage from being undermined by liberal judges ¯ from other states," Knight said. "Given the push for " "same-sex’ marriage across the nation, Califorma must prepare by making it clear we only recognize iraditional marriage." Courts in Hawaii,Vermont and " Alaska are considering rulings that "could legalize same-sex marriage. Knight was on hand as volunteers hauled boxes ¯ containing 144,000 Signatures collectedinLos Ange- " les County into the office of the county registrar of voters here. Signatures gathered elsewhere w,,ere submitted to registrar offices in other counties all over the state," said Matthew Cnnningham, a member of the Orange County-based Californians for the Defense of Marriage. The initiative states: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." Twenty-six states have passed similar laws and five are considering such laws. Alaska voters will consider an initiative on the November ballot that wouldamend the state constitution to define marriage as being "between one man and one woman." Knight, R-Palmdale, introduced bills in 1996 and 1997 in the Legislature to bar recOgnition of Gay marriages. Both times the legislation was defeated. He will face a fierce fight this time, critics vowed. "If that measure is qualified, we’ll beat it back as we have every time," Assemblywoman Carole Migden, DSan Francisco, said last week. "It is gratuitous and polarizing and unnecessary," she said. "The community will beat it back at the polls." The measure cannot make the upcoming November election. It will take several weeks for the secretary of state’ s office to determine whether supporters gathered the necessary 433,269 valid signatures of registered voters. The .measure could qualify" in time for the March 2000 state primary or for any earlier statewide special election next year, said AndS" Pugno, a Knight spokesman. Assembly Speaker Pro Tern Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, who helped lead legislative efforts to defeat Knight’s anti-Gay mamage bills, said sh’e thinks the initiative can be defeated again in California. "They better be prepared for a fight," she said. But she added: "I think that it is a very difficult thing for a community tO be forced to prove its own humanity over and over and over." only states to do so. Adoption decisions in Indiana are based on what is best for the child, and the sexual orientation of prospective parents isn’ t considered, said Andrew Stoner, spokesman for the state Family and Social Services Administration, which regulates adoption and.f.oster care. The Madison County case is not necessarily the first in Indiana in which Gays or Lesbians have been considered as adoptive parents, Stoner said. "It’s likely it has occurred, although it’ s not something that people always disclose and there’s no requirement that they do so.’" The case has sparked sharp reactions from those on both sides of the issue. The child’s foster parents, Butch and Sandy Kimmerling of Anderson, have said they will seek to adopt the child because they say it would be destructive to have her raised in a homosexual environment. U.S. Rep. David Mclntosh, RInd., called the adoption proposal "egregious and ¯ morally unacceptable" and urged Gov. Frank ¯ O’B~on to support any propos.ed.legislation bar- ¯ fing homosexuals from adopting children. Opponents say Burton and Lutz’ proposed bill is an ¯ unconstitutional and unnecessary infringement on ¯ the privacy of the adoption process that will deprive : children of needed homes. "It’ s a completely unnec- ¯ essarv law. More than 25 years of research has dem- ¯ onstr~ted that a person’s Sexual orientation makes ¯ absolutely n,o, difference in his or her ability to be a good parent, said John Knfll, executive director of ¯ the Indiana Civil Liberties Union. "A lot of children ¯ who need homes are going to be left in foster care." " ,nti-Gay Attacks Up 81% NEW YORK (AP) - Anti-Gay attacks citywide are up 81% this year, and a spate of 27 such attacks since late August has a civil rights for Gay people group demanding increased police presence in areas where the assaults have been prevalent. As of Sept. 13 - the latest figures provided by the pol.ice department - there have been 76 anti-Gay attacks citywide, com- . ,ared with 42 attacks last year during the same time period. However, overall bias attacks citywide are down3.4%. There were368bias attacks as of Sept 13, compared with 38 t last year. Bias crimes are slurs or attacks that include an element of race, religion, stxual preference or gender. Christine Quinn; executive director of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, said the Police Department’s bias unit was doing an dmirable job responding to the crimes, but more ¯ ~olice presence still was needed, especially in the Greenwich Village area, where most of the attacks have occurred. Since Aug. 25, there have been 27 such attacks citywide, she added. "The attacks, harassment and threats against our community have continued in full force since Labor Day weekend," Ms. Quirm Said. "Almost every day a New Yorker is the victim of violence because he or she is perceived to be Gay.’" Police Commissioner Howard Safir said the department is aware of the increase in anti-Gay attacks and has dispatched additional officers to the Village. Buthe saidhe does not think the attacks are prevalent. "We don’t see an epidemic throughout the city," he said. The Gay and Lesbian anti-violence group is planning a community demonstration Oct. 3 to condemn the attacks and teach people how to better protect themselves; Indiana May Ban Adoption by Gays INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The proposed adoption of an 8-year-old gift by a Gay couple has sparked a campaign to bar Gays and Lesbians from becoming adoptive or foster parents in Indiana. Word that the Madison County Office ofChildren and Family Services was considering letting an Indianapolis couple adopt the girl prompted two lawmakersto announce Friday they wonld sponsor a bill making Indiana the third state toban such adoptions. Opponents called the proposed ban unconstitutional and unnecessary. "Their lifestyle is their business, but when they start using government to promote their lifestyle, It ta.me.to s.tep I.n, Rep. Woody Burton, R-Greenwood, said Monday. Burton said he and Rep. Jack Lutz, RAnderson, proposed the ban to protect children from the abuse and discriminationmany homosexuals suf: ~er "’What’ s ~oin~ to happen to those kids when they o ~o school a~nd tl~e othe]: kids at school find out about ~t?" Burton asked. "It actually invites discrimination against those kids.’" Burton and Lutz say they plan to introduce legislation in next year’s General Assembly session. If it passes, Indiana would become the third state to bar homosexuals from adopting Children or being foster parents. FloridaandNew Hampshireare currently the Controversial Play Draws Protesters NEW" YORK (AP) - Theatergoers flocked to the ¯ debut performance of an off-Broadway play, ignor- ¯ ing angry protesters who believe it depicts a Gay : Christlike figure who has sex with his apostles. 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"It may not be for everybody, but I thought it really brought out the transcendental nature of Jesus," he said after the preview performance. "It emphasized that he was an outcast." While theater officials and patrons were tightlipped about the content of"Corpus Christi," published reports have said the play depicts a Gay Christlike character who has sex with his apostles. A brochure released earlier this year described the play this way: "From modem day Corpus Christi, Texas, to ancient Jerusalem, we follow a young Gay man named Joshua on his spiritual journey, and get to know the 12 disciples who choose to follow him.’" In May, the Manhattan Theater Club canceled plans to produce the off-Broadway play after receiving anonymous death threats against its actors, audience and McNally, a multiple Tony Award-winner. Days later, theater executives reversed their decision, saying police promised to ensure safety if the play was staged. The official opening is scheduled for Oct. 13; Tuesday was the first night of previews, in which a play is generally fine-tuned before its official opening. No tickets were provided to reviewers, The New York Times reported. A statement from the theater Tuesday’ reaffirmed its support of"McNally’ s right to express his artistic vision freely" as well as the right of protesters to object "in a peaceful and law-abiding manner." Most theatergoers were not dissuaded by the commotion. "It’s all about free speech," said Candace Simon of Newark, N.J. "They have the right to protest. The theater has aright to stage it. I have the right to see it.’" Churches Re|ect Pro-Gay Pastors OMAttA, Neb. (AP) - Two rural United Methodist churches are telling denomination leaders that they will not accept appointments ofpastors who snpported former Omaha Rev. Jimmy Creech in his decision to perform a Lesbian marriage. The Nehawka and \Veeping Water United Methodist churches told Omaha District Superintendent Ronald Croom that they will not accept the Rev. Doyle Burbank-Williatns as their new pastor. Burbank-Williams was an early supporter of Creech. who created a furor when he performed a same-sex marriage at his Omaha church last September. Burbank-Williams was pastor of Dietz .\Iemorial United Methodist Church and of homeless people in downtown Omaha. He also was one of about 200 pastors nationally who pledged to. defy the United Methodists" prohibition against same-sex mamages. Weeping Water church officer Farley Amick said the rural churches want a conservative pastor. Burbank-Williams said he would keep Iris name on the pledge list but would not perform a covenaut ceremony in churches that are on record as opposed to such ceremomes. Amick said that was not good enough. He said the churches do not want a pastor who believes that same-sex mamages are OK. He said it is a bad influence for young people. Meanwhile, a second pastor in Omaha has presided over a satne-sex mm-riage The Rev. Nancy Brink said it was the first she had performed at the North Side Christian Church in Chnaha. The church is affiliated with Disciples of Christ. which does not have prohibitions against covenant ceremomes. Brink noted the ceremony was given near unmnmous approval last spring bf the church’s board of elders. But the event has caused dissensmn within the 300-member congregation. Brink declined to say how man~ members had left the church over the issue~ Brink said covenant ceremonies are in line ~vith Christ’s admonition to love one’s neighbor as oneself. Utah Group is Anti-Gay But Suppo.rts Polygamy SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - \~qfile Gov. Mike Leavitt has changed his tune regarding polygamy, Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka still sings the original notes. The conservative Utah Eagle Forum has campaigned against civil rights for Gay people, which Ruzicka says is a question of morality, but she says men who live with several women in polygamy "may find support in the Bible. "For polygamous folks - it is a religious belief and at least through their religious ceremomes they think they are married before God," Ruzicka said. "Homosexuality is not part of somebody’s religion." Ruzicka said she would urge Utah polygamists to lobby to change the state’s constitutional provision outlawing polygamy. "Polygamy has been blown totally out of proportion," she said. "These people out there living polygamous lives are not bothering anybody." In July, Leavitt acknowledged his polygmnist ancestors and said he knew many polygamists and "for themost part, they were hardworking and good people." While the pracace is baamed by the state constitution, Leavitt first said there were religious freedom questions that could prevent prosecuuon of the tens of thousands of practicing polygmnists believed living in Utah. Within four weeks, his position had changed to: "I believe polygamy is against the law, and it should be." Polygamy has come under renewed scrutiny due to reports of child abuse, incest and welfare fraud within some polygamist groups. Some legislators may address the issue in the 1999 legislative session. "The next legislative session will bring a healthy discussion about polygamy that Utah needs," says Rep. Sheryl L. Allen, R-Bountiful. "This has been postponed for too long. It is past due." Gay Family Struggles for Acceptance WATERTOkVN, Minn. (.-\P) - In this insular \ll lage of 2,400. where bird feeders and American flags h~g on front ~rches and cl~ldreu ride their .bikes to,tl~e O~fl) grocery store ~ound, XV atcrto~ n is grappling with the most di~ isive question encountered in ve~s: How to) deM wi t!~ opeul p~ents? Aboui 100 residents attended a two-ho~ town meeting Sept. 10 at Waterto~ Nement~ School to discnss the issne. Or~mn zer~ stud they ~’anted to create awareness of violence and hate crones and to invite di~dogne about and ~sbi~s. ~ae meeting ~ne mnidst ~dlc~ations that for the p~t two ye~s Robert Protomastcr. 35; Ns p~tner, Brian C~Isou, 35: and their three teen-age sous have been the t~gets of verb~d and physicM h~assment because Protomaster and C~lson ~e Gay. ~e clmms ~e disturbing: Epithets hurled at the fanfil~, as they drove tl~ough to~vn. Statues m their front v~d smashed at mght. Homophobic notes stuck haside their front door. And, most troubling, stud the fanfilv, repeated h~sment of the boys wNle they attended Watertown Middle School in 1996 and 1~7. ~ev stud that they repeatedl3 were cMled "’queei" and "’faggot" and that other students refused to sit b~ them be~ansc they lc~ged that "’they .. would become Gay,’" said "lqmoth~. 13. "’So f~r a long time no one ~votdd come ne;g us.’" Michael. 14, stud he was held down b~ studcnts ~vNle one wrote "’faggot" ou lfis :ran. S~hool offitins did little to stop the harassment, the fiunil~ says. ~e school district issued a statement on the da~ of the town zneeting saying that the district "has a record of responding appropriately to comphunts of h~sment." The Watertown mayor’s office and C~ver County officiMs issned statements the day before the meeting saying that Watertown stands agmnst Violent, hate crones and harassment of ~v kind. The bow - Jo~, ~vho"s 16. Michael and "l’imo~ thv - spent most of their [iveg in and out of foster hdmes before Protom~ter mad C~Mson adopted them about 3 years ago. Although the boys no longer attend s~hool in Watertown School Distnct. their p~ents filed a discfinfinatiou complmnt last ye~ agmnst ~e dis~ct w~th the state lluman ~ghts Dep~tlnent. The case is no~v on appeM. More HIV Drugs,- More Errors ..\I.BAN’f. N.Y (AP) - Two ’,ears ago, o~fl\ a few drugs were availatJle to treat tti’{’. Now. 14 types of ~nedicatton ,°re used to treat the disease. And while the chmaces for survi,,al have increased, so have the chances for error in the prescribing of these drugs, hi fact, mistakes in prescriptions wntten for people with HIV arc much more counnon than for other hospital patients, according to a recent two ‘.ear study. Fortunately, most of the time the wrongly prescribed medicines aren’t actuMly given to the patients. They usu-all,. oaflv make it tothe pharmacist’s desk. said l)r. Bonnie Purdy, the stud\"s author ,’rod AI ban’~ *ledical Center cli~lical phmanacist. "Without may doubt, there ,are physicians who don’t’understm]d therapies ~orrectlv.’" said Paul Volberding, director of S~m i:rancisco Geueral’s AIDS program. And because HIV patients can become resxst,’mt if not treated correctly the first time. he added. "There’s not very much margin for error.’" Johi] Bartlett. ~:hief of itffectious disease and AIDS ser‘.tce at Jolms ttopkins .Medical Center. said the stud} findings show a needfor more HIV specialists. Other studies have suggested that 3% of Ml prescriptlous written b’, physicim]s coutai n an error, Purd’, said. f~ors m ItIV prescnptions rose from about 2c} iu 1~)6 to 14% this ",ear. Rapid chmtges in treatments are conhtsi,ng doctors.. Some doctors have even written potentiall y deadl y formulas for medical care at the .-\Ibm]} hospital over the last two vein’s, the report said ()he lily specMist, whose practice was not studied for the report, admits that the increase in treatmcuts has been tough to follo\~. "’it .~ccm> cvcrx three or four months a ne~ drag is rel~.ased. The drugs have unforeseen side effects." said Dr. l)avid l !ermm]. of the \Vhitne‘. .X i. Young !tcalth (’cater. The :\lb,’m,. c’linic ser,.-es 1 it} lilY patients. Additiouallv. "’patients mc living longer, mM as the‘. live longer the} require more ,’rod ntore complicated drug rcgmmns said I)r. Douglas Fish. acting director of the lilY medicine divistun at .-\tbmav Medic,’d College. Purdx said :730 of the prescription errors were "’serious" or "’se,.ere. meamng they could bc fatal or increase resistance IO dlllgs.-The most connTlon error was either prescribing doses that were either too high or too lmv. Most of the mistakes were made by people who weren’t HI\- svccialists, the report said. Herman warned that the nuntber of errors may be higher in hospit~fls where interus and students can ~vnte prescriptions. The rates of error have decreased at :\lbany Medical since Purd,. revealed the results of the stud,, With the hospital staff., she said. "’We ~]ow pauents li,.e longer with these regimens," third,. stud. "’But if we don’t prescribe thcm’correctlv, we ha,an the patient." FDA Approves New Treatment W.\SHINGTON (AP) - AIDS patients got an easier-to-swallow drug as the Food and l)rug Administration approved a new once-a-day medicine that offers the first good alternative foF patients who cannot take today’s best AIDS treatment. l)uPout Pharmaceuticals" Sustiva appears to be about as effective as protease nfllibitors, the landmark medicines that have helped thousands of HIV patients rebound from their disease, tile FDA said. Ahd because it’s taken only. once daily, Susti,.’a conld significantl‘.’ cut the number of pills AIDS patients’now swallow. :’It really gives soane flexibilit,. ~md some new options for patients," said Dr. Heidi Jolson. FDA’s antiviral chief. But the FDA warned that patients shouldn’t race to switch to Snsti,.a if they’re doing well on other AIDS medic,ations. The HIV virus relentlessl,. mutates to overcoane drug treaunent, metaling patients must take a drug until it qmts working- not switching on the spur of the ~noment - so file’, don’t exhaust their options too quickl}:, stressed AIDS expert Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Iustitutes of ttealth. But for newly diagnosed patients, or those whose current cocktail of AIDS medicines is failing or causmg too many side effects. Susti,.’a offers a good option, he said. In a sixqnonth stud’, of 450 patients taking the standard drugs AZT mid 3TC plus either Susti,.a or the most popular protease inllibitor, Crixivan, both theraptes were equally effecti,.e. The FDA approved Susti,.-a. kalown chemically as efa,.irenz, for both adults and children]. It is to be taken with a protease inhibitor and or older AIDS medicines. The Sustiva portion of that cocktail will cost almost $4,000 a ‘.ear. DuPont says the price is.midrange f6r AIDS drugs, ai~d that Sustiva therapy could sa,.’e up to S500 avear over Crixivan cocktails. DuPont al~o promised a treatment assistm]ce program for poor patients, but would not reveal details. But some AIDS activists attacked the price; the group Act Up wrote DuPout this week threatening protests to "’reveal your greed." Sustiva "addresses some imporumtissues in the lives of people with HIV. including the complexity of taking a large number of drugs," said D,’ufiel Zingale of AIDS° Action. "But I .don’t think the company went far enough m fair pacing... The‘. could pfi.ce this lower mid still make a ~rofit.’" T,.pical HI\ pauents s~,. allow some 20 pih~ throughout the day to combat the virus, timed carefully to take some with meals and some without. The,, may also take additional medicines to pre,.ent HIVcansed refections. Missing e,.eu a few ,’mtiviral pills, however, allows the HIV to mutate and become more difficult to treat Sustiva is taken just once a day, in three capsules, whenever it’s convenient. DuPonl also is de,.eloping a formulation that will require only a single tablet a day. Easing patients" "pill burden" ma,. be Sustiva’s main" ad,.’ance. With it, some patients may get by onjust five pills a day. "I have some patients who absolutely will only take medicine twice a day," said Dr. Do~aald P0retz of Virginia’ s Inova Fairfax Hospital. ’This is a race addition." Half of Susti,.’a pattents suffer dizziness, insomnia, impaired concentrauon, abnormal dreams and drowsiness. Therefore, patients should consider taking Sustiva at bedtime, the FDA said, and definitely avoid driving or operating machinery if they suffer the side effects. TheSe are milder side effects than many AIDS drugs cause, and unlike other drugs they usually disappear over time, theFDA said. But FDA’s Jolson cautioned that Sustiva can also cause some severe side effects, and that it has been studied for only six months. Longer use of AIDS drugs typically turns up more problems. Sustiva’s cautions include: - Some patients - usually those with a histoU of substance abuse or mental illness - suffer severe depression or delu- Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual CommuniHes. Mon. & Thurs., 6-8 pm, Daytime testing: Mon-Thurs. by appt. 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But taking Cfixivan twice a day instead of the government-approved three daily doses proved far less effective. Insurance for Working PLWA’s? LOS ANGELES (AP) - Unemployed people living with HIV want to work but fear they’ll lose .their health insurance if they become employed, according to a new study. "Discrimination is still very much an issue for those Seeking employment," said Dr. Ronald Brooks, a researcherfrom Los Angeles County Harbor- UCLA Medical Center. Brooks and Dr. ,David Martin of AIDS Project Los -Angeles conducted the study, which they said was the first one to analyze employ: ment issues for LOs Angeles residents living with HIV and AIDS. In July and August, the doctors surveyed 5,685 people with HIV or AIDS who were case-managed by LOs Angelesarea AIDS service organizations. An estimated 13,000 people in LOs Angeles County are infected with HIV, Brooks said. The survey released in September found about 37% of respondents were working. More than half of them had fulltime .jobs. Some of the 67% of those unemployed said they were disabled. The majority said they were thimkmg about retumilig to work ~o increase their tncoxne and feel useful to society. , Mayor Richard Riorcl~m vowed to encourage health insurers to cover all employees, including those with AIDS. Their medications alone can cost S12.000 to S16,000 a )’ear. The law states no HIVinfected person may be deified employment because of the disease. But m,’my sufferers are afraid they will lose their current health insurance~including Medi- Cal, and will not obtain adequate insurance from a new employer, said Los Angeles City AIDS Coordinator Ferd Eggan. ",’AIDS remains a highly stigmatized disease," Eggan said. Jusfina Thompson, an HI\’-infected Venice resident, blames her honesty for her inability to find work. "’If you’re infected and ):ou tetl people you’r~ infected, they won’t ~ve you a job," said Thompson, who now works with Women Alive, a drop-in center in Los Angeles for women with HIV or AIDS. Craig Thompson, executive director of AIDS Project Los Angeles, said retunfing HIV-i~ffected people to the workplace actually would have a positive effect on society. If employed, they would pay into social security and pay taxes which are lost when th@ are uot working, he said. "It’s actually revenue-positive for the taxpayers in the long rim,’" Thompson said. Monkeys and the Origin of HIV COVINGTON, La. (AP) - Preston Marx is still gettiug settled, and it shows. Books are heaped in stacks, and boxes of all sizes - some unpacked, manynot - crowd the floors of his office at Tulane University’s primate center. Despite the helter-skel ter appearance of his office, the center’s new headofAIDS researchknew exactly where to look for what he wanted. From a pile of plaques and framed photographs, Marx, 54, pulled out a picture that, perhaps more than anything else, sums up the nature of his work. The photograph, which he shot nearly a decade ago in Liberia, shows a brightly clad girl 9-year-old girl and her pet monkey, a sooty mangabey, clutching each other as tightly as possible. The monkey’s forepaws and prehensile toes are wrapped tightly around the girls’ left arm. Sunny at first blush, the picture has a sinister side: It symbolizes the easy passage between monkeys and humans of a .simple vires that has developed into the microorganism that causes AIDS, said Marx, a New Orleans native who was at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York before coming this summer to the primate center in rural St. Tammany Parish. ":My work has shown that the viruses carried by these monkeys are closely related to the viruses earned by people in the local villages," he said. Marx, whosucceeded Michael Murphy- Corb at Tulane, also has studied the way AIDS infection develops, and he has con’- ducted vaccine research. He will continue in both fields at the primate center and at the Diamond center, which shares him with Tulane. In return for letting Marx move south, Diamond gained access to what is, with 4,500 monkeys, the country’s biggest primate center. The two institutions plan to co_ltaborate on .-kIDS research. "I’m not onlyOK with that; I think it’s a tremendous opportunity,’" said Peter Gerone, director of the Tulane Regional Primate Research Center. "’Talk about sometlfing being mutually beneficial." As part of the agreement, Marx received a professorship of tropical mediciue - and the enthusiastic welcome from Dr. Paul \Vhelton, dem~ ofTulane’s S cbooi of Public Health and Tropical Medicine "’He has provided fltndamental underpinmng of the sinuan innnunodeficiencv virus and the origin of AIDS.’" said \\~elton. For Marx, named the primate center’s senior scientist, flats is his first priority: to trace the history of the iucurabte illness by detennimng the origin of the virus that causes ~t "%’obodv else is doing that," Ronald Desrosier,~. imcrobiologist and molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Harvard’s New Fmgland Primate Center. "’I tlm~k he ki~ows mo~tkevs and monkey natural history very we~l. This is a niche where he can contribute and he tries to make the most of it "" The work, wlfich Marx conducts in the United States and Africa, may lead to a vaccine and better ways to fight.AIDS, said Dr. Andrew Lach~er, a pathologist at Harvard Medical Center and ~ts pinnate center, "-[’he tnore you le,’~t about these viruses. . will provide very significant clues to what’s different in sooty mangabeys, where the virus can be haudled, and humans, and humans, where it’s not," Lackner said. Which leads back to Marx’s photograph of the ~fl and her pet, and the potential for monkey viruses to leap the species barrier. In villages like the ~fl’s, monkeys bite people and people hm~t and eat monkeys. And angry farmers have clubbed to d~th sooty mangabeys that devoured their crops, said Dr. Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birminghana. Through such incidents, the simian nmnunodefiency virus, "known as SIV, regularly invades human bloodstreams, said Marx, who has worked in :\frica since 1987. Under normal circumsumccs, he has found a huntan can elinmmtc il wi~n 12 weeks. The mo~ev vm~s. Much has been in Africa more than 100,000 ye~s, c~~nutate in ml attenlpt to survi vc, but he s~d, the body’s defenses gencrall3 work f~ter. HIV, an offshoot of thc IN vires, is relatively nee in human~ M~x stud, dating b£ck to about 1950 "~at t~t me~s, in a sense, is thal there’s a mo~ey out ~ere that donated vires to people," Marx stud. ’The question becomes, "X~at’s the mechmfism ’ .. Some~ng ~p~ned in 1950 that caused tNs vires to st~t crossing over. I kmm what it is, but I ~n’t prove it.’" ttis hunch: widespread use of hypodenmc ucedlcs. wNch beg~ about the s~e ti~nc injectable ~gs ~c~e available to fight dise~ es such as tonga. In countries that ~’t ~forda new needle for each pattern. ne~les ~e often reused, picNng up Inicr~ rg~sms ~ong the way. A ~ad~te of 1 ~uisi~a ~tatc Iuivcrsitv in New ~leans (now the Univcrsit~ of ~’ew Ofl~s) and~1" Mcdic~fl Center , M~x beg~ ~s quesl for the ofigiu of AIDS in 1987. ~e quest h~ U~en him ~ound ~e world, including a remote Affi~ b~ where he and a colleague stopl~,d for a beer ~ter a frustrating day of collecting blo~ smnples from redcap m~gabeys in a hunt for a r~e SIV strain. H~ picked up the stor~, w~ch has bccome p~t of the Marx lebend: "Thcv a redcap monkex tied to the b~, ~ating pe~uts. ~esto~ stud, "We could blccd that one as well." "" After a pause. !l~dm delivered the puuch line. ’Thin happcncd to be the monkey that was i~fl~ctcd with that vm~s.’" she stud "’Preston told mc later. "As you can see. I do my best work m b~."" HIV+ Prisoners To Be Separated GREENVII.I.1L S.(’. {.-\P) - With ntorc than 600 S. Carolina prison inmates about to be segregated because they tested postfive for &e AIDS-casuing virus, one AII)S expert says the state has far underesu mated the cost. The state esdmalcs it will cost St,Q00 wr ~mnate l~r ~eatment. Tha~ is more likely.to k S15,000. Dr. Rick Altice. ~ AIDS expert m Yale-New ttayen HospitN in New Haven. Conn.. u)ld The Greenville News. In a prison system of 21.0~) lmnmcs. ~ of them t~IV-positive, a system of providing condoms, sex eduction and drug rehabilitation wouldbe more effective. sav some of those who speciNize in tracing ~edise~e. [nprotccted consensu~ sex~drapes remmn prev~ent mnong prisoners, m~v of whom don’t know HIV ~ be transmitted bv unsafe ratercourse, sMd Steve Nesselr~th of the AIDS m Prison Project. 17 states have m~datory testing, lto~vever, one-time testing ~ give pnson officiM s a fMse sense of secuntv, sMd Dr. Jo~ Miles, of the Centers f~r Disease Con~ol & ~evenfion. Without lbllowup testing, i~ates who~~ey ~c sine~fur~er spread H1V, Miles sMd. It ~es ~ long ~ six months tbr ~e vires to be det~mble. ~ficiMs pl~ follow-up tests ~d say i~ates will ~tested ~fore ¯ey l~ve prison st~ngnext ye~. "AVith the follow-up ~gsfing, we feel like we’ll ~tch~yone~o~’ttest ~sifive whea we test~ or when they c~e into the system," B~Mey sMd. 1998 Water Garden Tour to benefit IAM Interfaith AIDS Ministries Sat. 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Public Serfice CompedOklahoma A Central and South West Company ~ SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Rope (United Methodist), Service - 6pm, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 1 lain, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1 lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church Service - 1 lain, Childrens Ministry also, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. S~mday School- 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 Parish Church of St~ Jerome (Evangelical AnglicanChurch in America) Mass - 1 lain, 205W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088 University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals at 5pm, Info: 743-4297 ~ MONDAYS HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (cast of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd MonIcach too. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S: Harvard Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pm, call Shawn 491-2036. Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 10/26, noon, United Way, 1430 S Boulder ~ TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 10/13, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder aIV+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium l:30pm 3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), Info: Wanda @ 834-4194 Multiculturai AIDS Coalition, 10/6¢ 12:30pro; Urban League, 240 East Apache Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 743-4297 PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 ~" WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pro, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210e So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 ~" FRIDAYS Safe Haven, Young Adults Social Group, I st Fri/eachmo. 8pro, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th ~P SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Larnbda A-A, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2rid ft. ~OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978 OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157, Short rides, 6:30pm, Long rides, 7am. Meet at Zeigler Park, 3903 West 4th. Pride Rides from the Pride Center, 3749 S. Peoria. Write for dates. Ifyour organization is n~t listed, please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615. Marceilo Angelini Artistic Director CINDERELLA Sept. 18-20, 1998 ~, sweeping tale of prince gels gift. Where between "once upon a time" and "happily ever aftel;" we discover love and romance, greed and envy, beauty and ugliness. And the realization that timing is everything. DEATH AND THE MALDEN Light Fandango ¯ Mare Nostram Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1998 Matters of death and life. From two choreographers. An established American, Robert North, takes on mortality. The upstart Italian, Luciano Cannito, explores immortality. Contemporary ballet in classical terms. The real spice of life. Season Special THE NUTCRACKER Dec. 18-27, 1998 Relive the holiday magtc. Its the stuff memories are made from. For you. For your children or your children’s children. The Nutcracker is not a part of the season package, but subscribers get fi~t choice on dates and seats. Surely you have room for sugar plums this holiday season, somewhere between the egg nog and the fruit cake! THE GREEN TABLE Equinoxe ¯ Jardi Tancat Feb. 5-.7, 1999 From combat, bloodshed, struggles, disputes to movement re-defined, stretching the limits of the dances and taking motion to untouched depths of expression .to the most beautiful shapes the human body can make in dance. SWAN LAKE Apr. 9-11, 1999 Ali’s fair in love. The only emotion over which countries are won and lost. Hearts are broken and mended again. For the first time eve~; Tulsa Ballet presents the four-act Swan Lake in its entirety. With Artistic Director Marcello hngelini re-staging the story line in hcls I and II1 to be more acc~sible to.contemporary audiences. TULSA PERA Cartfi I. Crawford General Director Emotion and Melody. Donizetti’s LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Oct. 17, 22 & 24, 1998 Emotionally heartbreaking. Musically semual and noble. Vocally breathtaking. Olga Kondina and Eduardo Villa follow in the legacies of Sutherland and Pavarotti. Conviction and Drama. Poulenc’s DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES Mar. 6, 11 & 13, 1999 Faith, courage and grace in the settings of "Ave Maria," "Ave Vemm," and "Salve Regin~L" One of the most powerful theatrical opera productions ever conceived. Love and Magic. Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE May 1, 6 & 8, 1999 Become enchanted on an adventure into the depth and beauty of true love. A fairy tale sto~7 for all ages. Season Specials 0 CAROL & FRiENOS~-:~ Indulge yourself in a night of opera’s "sonic thrills" with this powerhouse encore. HJ~NSEL & GRETEL Nov. 27-29, 1998 Explore the power of imagination. h special treat awaits. Subscribers get first priority on seating availability! Three grand operas for one low price. Subscriptions start at $35. Subscribe now! FOR TULSA PHI L~AAI~MOnlIC Kenneth Jenn Music Director NATIONSBANK POPS SERIES Peter Nero Jules Styne’s Broadway Doc Severinson Great Loves of the Silver Screen Roberta Flack Ray Chades Sept. 25 & 26 1998 Nov. 6 & 7, 1998 Jan. 22 & 23, 1999 Feb. I2 & 13, 1999 Mar 19 & 20, 1999 Apr. 16 & 17,.1999 TULSA WORLD MASTERWORKS SERIES Kenneth Jean, Music Director Sept. 12, 1998 Music of Tchaikovsky, erokofiev, Berlioz and Bemstein Bernard Rubenstein with Colin Carr, cello Oct. 3, 1998 Alison Gaines, Principal Bass Nov. 14, I998 Jon Kimura Parker, piano Ida Kavafian, violin Feb. 20, 1999 Kenneth Jean with Tulsa Oratorio Chorus Mar. 26 & 27, 1999 Verdi, Messa da Requiem Peter Serkin, piano May 22, 1999 1-998- 1999 SEASON Pops and Masterworks concerts held at the Tulsa PAC. Subscribe today for as little as $50. BROCHURES CALL Sponsored by: KCFM~94.1 Tuba’s CVahic hn" Read All About It by Adam West, Helmerich Library We all love Auntie Marne. It’s pracfiv~ V a orere~uisite; it’s possibly genetic. ~t’-s’not t~ love in a s-tory @’out a bo.y growing up with a bohemian’, eccenmc and rich aunt for a guardian? But if you ever wondered where all of Marne’s gay friends were (oh, of course she had them!), you will definitely adore Say Uncle by Eric Shaw Quinn. Although the whole plot rests on a gruesome tragedy, this comedy has enough absurdity and sardonic humor to keep you smiling for weeks. The characters are so engaging that they become a part of your family -even when you hate them; and Quirm’s evocative style will rivet you with your own emo~ tional reactions. InSav Uncle, Michael Reily finds l~s life turned inside out when his sister and her husband are killed tragically ,leaving Michael the guardian of their baby, Scott. Urged on by his mother and challenged by the baby’s patemal grandfather, a conservative former Senator, Michael’s fights anaidst a media blitz as his homosexnality and Suitability as a parent are "called into question. The most noticeable aspect of this brilliant first novel is certainly its brand of humor. Part Congreve, part Dickens, part Fierstein, Quinnmanages a seamless blend of Restoration comedy, bitter irony and modem disillusioned idealism. The resul_t is a classic style in today’s language. Qmma clearly wanted to go for the literary throat with his debut. The scope and scheme of Say Uncle is of Shakespearean proportions. ~a,s an actor lfimself, the author was possibly hoping for a movie deal with a cast on the level of Steel Magnolias (of wlficli this is also reminiscent). Say said Nicole Russo, spokeswoman for AIDS Project Los Angeles, which organizes the event every year. Colin’ s mother got him started when he was four to learn about helping others, Ms. Russo said. The event raised an estimated $3 million that will provide care for the nearly 7,400 people with AIDS in l_~,s .Angeles County. Participants asl~ people to sponsor them for every mile they walk. The course, about 6.2 miles long, started at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, looped onto Melrose Avenue and then back to the studio through Hancock Park. Craig Thompson, executive director of AIDS Project Los Angeles, said he was encouraged to see so many.young people taking part in the fund-raiser this year. ’q’hat’s good because half of all .new infections of HIV occur among 18- to 25- year-olds," he said. Here in Tulsa, however, local HIV/ AIDS andcivil rightactivist,Jimmy Flowers, bemoaned what he called the shamefully low turnout at Tulsa’ s 6th nnn~al AIDS walk, Walk For Life held Sat. sept. 26th. Flowers claims therewere only about 80 persons participating in the 2 mile walk along the Riverparks and that some The most notleeable aspect of this brilliant first novel is eertalnly its brand of humor. Part Congreve, part Dickens, part Fiersteln, uhn manages a~seamless blend of Restorat;on comedy, hitter irony and modern dlsillusloned ideallsm. The result is a elassle style in today’s Uncle’s beauty shines through, covering ~ a span of over twenty years and doing so ¯ without neglecting continuity or cohe- ¯ siveness. ¯ Even thOugh half of the book is told ¯ mostly from Scott’s perspective, the clear star of the novel is Uncle Michael. Michael’s straight-forward and amusing take on life fuels the story and you adore him more with each page¯ He’ s not a perfect man, but he"s close enough, and his flaws just endear you to him more¯ His blunt’and occasionally odd rapport with his meddling mother is so similar to somany of us that you’ll surdy find new realizations m your own maternal rdationship. Best of all, .kfichael fights for respect the way we all would like to: withh~nor, ~ace and tremendous gumpuon. The circumstances of Say Uncle wouldn’t happen to mare of us. \~2tile overall you mav~ehappy about that, there will also be a part of you that longs for it. Michael Reily is a tree hero in so many ways - Iris di~mfity, his selfish selflessness, his passion for life¯ \Xqao ,’unong us doesn’t want to star ~n a life of feature film quality. Say Uncle has its realism, and even its absuiditv is plausible, but in the end what gets us ior at least gets me) is thejourney of the characters from letters on a p0ge to human beings we would like to kaaow..Say Uncle is the story we would have if we got the option - and the strength - to enjoy it. You can request Say Uncle from your nearest’l"ulsa City-County library br~ch or by calling th~ Reader’s Services department of the Central Library. Adam West is an associate with lulscl City-County Library S3wtem and an OSU ah~mus. Hets m)t now and,ever has bee, Batman. agencies whi,c,h serve People Living with AIDS~(PLWA s) werenot represented by their staff. However, Community Service Council AIDS f~mdraiser and organizer, Janice Nicklas claimed about 100 attended and that, for Tulsa, that’ s a good turnout. According to Nicklas, about $5,000 was raised which will be matched by an addi- ¯ ttonal $2500 from the Nat’1. AIDS Fund. LongtimeHIV/AIDS activist/volunteer, ¯ Claudette Peterson, noted that she was ¯ unable to attend the event because The ¯ Food Pantry of Tulsa CARES (formerly ¯ ¯ theHIV ResourceConsortium)whichshe directs was scheduled to getalargeamount ¯ of donated food that morning. ¯ Walker, Nancy Smith, and walk team, i Soles for Souls brought in the highest donations. Street School student Kat ¯ Morgan won a prize for her HIV/AIDS ¯. poem,, and the poster design used on tiffs ¯ year s t-shirts was createdby amember of ¯ Red Rock Mental Health Group’s Gay ¯ youth support group. Chairpersons were ¯ ~Vlichael Bmmgardt of Youth Services ~ andTerry Russell of Planned Parenthood ". of America, NE OK/NW AR. Business ¯ sponsors were US Cdlular, NYBagds, ¯ Kinko’son 1 lth, McDonaldsRestaurants, : KRMG, TFN, & Urban Tulsa Weekly. 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They hold better, won’t pull out, and make any future repairs oh so much eas~er - and we love easier, don’t we? The DIYD has certain other preferences when it comes to screws, and the primary one is for square drives (as opposed to standard or - shame-on you for smirking - Phillip’s head). -Ihex do not "’cam out" easily, which means they don’t get all cheered’up and ratty mad unusable, and yoffl,azow by now what aesthetics does for the DI’YD~ Order the catalogue from McFeelv’s (800 443- 7937) and you will be ifi square driv~ heaven; of course, youcan order the square drives from them as well. The quality is lfigh, the service good and the delia:err prompt - mad most of us can’t say that about our exes. can we? You will be using a #8 scre~v. 2 1 2" long, to attach stringers t.o posts. ,and \ou will need to order the"No-Co-Rode’" ty"pe. The’* will We you good rust resistance along with strength. For attaclfing 3our pickets to the stringers, you wi!l need #8 scre~vs. 1 1 4." long; the wood ’*ouve chosen for the pickets will deterrrdue the type of screw. For wKite wood or treated pickets, use the No-Co-Rode screws, but for cedar, vou must_use stainless steel because thd acids and volatile oils in the cedar will seriously corrode an\ other fastener you use. Tt~e DIYD realizes that some of this informaUon is a rehash, but speaking for herself, the old memory isn’ t quite what it used to be. Remember also that you will need4 screw s for each stringer and 5 screws for each picket. Now that you’ve assembled all ’,our raw material s, it is time to gather up ’,’our tools. The DIYD is delighted to inform you that this is the perfect project for that stunning leather tool belt, so if you haven’t indulged yourself yet, do so now. You’re paying so much for the fence, at this point you canjustify the few extra dollars for an accessory that will give years and years of good use and satisfaction. In adcfition to the .tool belt, you will need the following: a good level (bigger really is better here; don’t settle for an.vthin~ under 12"); a drill and drill bits (2 drills are better); a #2 square driver for the screws; a wheelbarrow or very large tub to mix concrete in (there is an nnapproved method to cheat this, which will be passed along forthwith); a hoe and shovel for mixing and scooping concrete; and a device for dig- Trust me darll-nCs, you do not want to d;~ a post hole wlth a shovel. too much work, and requires more mater~al to fill it. Oh., dear, there ~oes the ex factor a~aln... The standard method is to use a post hole di~¢er. but thls too is much too painful, and you will use an entire 80 lb. ba~ of quiekrete to fill the hole. It is not laziness that will drive you at thls point to the E-Z equipment rental, but efficiency! ging the holeS. Trust me darlings, you do not want to dig a post hole with a shovel. Ugly, too much work. and reqmres more material to fill it. Oh, dear, there goes the ex factor again.. : The standard method is to use a post hole digger, but this too is much too painful, and yon will use an entire 80 lb. bag of quic"krete to fill the hole. It is not laziness that will drive you at this point to the E-Z Equipment rent,d, but efficiencv! Go rent an auger and forget the Ph.D. altogether. You have two options: a hand operated auger, which is just fine in soils that arc not rocky, or a gas powered auger. Hm Bet we’ve made a choice already. Get a bit instruction ~n how to rev the little darlin" up and you’ll be sinking more holcs that an Oklahoman wildcatter in July. Besides, power to~ls arc fl~n, and you’ll get yonr job dgne quicldy. And you "ll use less Quickrete, too. In order to buy your materials, you have already measured your fence li~]e. ()nce again, you will space 3"our posts 8 feet on 6enter for treated pickets and 10 feet on center for cedar pickets. You will rarely come out perfectly, so plan on splitting the difference ou either end of the fence unless the distance left over ~s over a few ~’eet. In other words, you may have ten posts 10" apart and have 3" at the end, so put nine posts 10" apart, and at the ends have the posts 61 2’ apart. More than that. put the short section of fence on the cud you won’t see as often. If this confuses you. draw ~t out on paper first. It never hurts to have a visual. Drill your holes Zccording to your spacing plan. Go ahead and give yourself an inch or so less between the posts for a bit of a fudge factor (you can cut a board, but stretching it is ~mpossible). Drill the holes 2".deep. Center 3our posts in the holes, using the level to get the post as level as possible in the horizontal as well as the vertical plane. If you" ve never used a level before, ask someone who has for a few pointers. It’s reall,v quite easy. Do not skip this step or the fence will be a disaster and you’ve paid too much for that. After centenng the post in the hole, add your mixed concrete until the hole is filled level with the ~ound. Use a stick to work the concrete mix down and the air bubble out. Always put the post in the hole and fill around it. The moisture needs to be able to drain away from the bottom of the post. If you drill your holes with an auger, you shonld only need about 3/4 of an 86 lh bag of quickrete per hole. Let the concrete sit for at least 12 hours before proceeding. Cheater’s method: Pour a bag of quikrete into the hole, add water to fill. Let sit for 24 hrs. Results not guaranteed. Once again, your beloved DIYD has waxed eloquent to the point of being verbose, so join us next month when we will finish this project. Promise. Until theu, enjoy the tool belt. by Esther Rothblum I recently met with three members of the Crones, a group for old Lesbians in Vermont. "We were at a dance one night," said.Alverta, "and I asked the woman l was with, where are all the Lesbians our age?" They put an ad in the local Lesbian newspaper, and had to drop the minimum age to 40 because there were so few Lesbians older than that who were out in the community at that time. They started as ~ political group, butit quickly became a social group because so many women wanted just to meet someone their age. "’And even now," added Mary Wallmyn, "here we all sit together in your living room and wonder where are the Lesbians in their 60s and 70s like us.’" The women agrecd that some of the~e older Lesbians are extremely closeted or out to only one "It’s even hard for older Lesbians to meet someone to be a friend or just someoue to han~ out wlth." sald Alverta. ’%Vhere do older Lesbians disappear to?" other person. They lived through times that were very hostile to Lesbians and aren’t willing io be too out, eve!.13o other old l~esbians..klan3 don’t even hse the word "Lesbian"- they refer to themselves as "that wax" or use other euphemisms. I asked ~’hat Alverta, Mary, and Joy thought the major issues were facing Les’- bians over 60. Getting a job mad facing ageism, said Alverta. Leaving a husband, coming out as a Lesbian, andbeing thought too old for full-time work yet not old enough for social security, said Mary. Beiug closeted on the job and needing 1o move in order to live near a lover, said Joy. Working for a non-profit organization that has no retirement benefits. Getung sick in old age. In fact, thewomen agreed that discrimination due to age was more severe than discmninauon due to being a Lesbian. And many have found this hideaway in the Ozarks to be an ideal spot for a holy union or commitment ceremony. Early reservations for the weekend are advised. For more information on the schedule of activities or Diversity Cooperative listing, please check out the website at www.shimaka.com;eurek;t"diversity or call the event sponsors,The Emerald Rainbow, at 501-253--cOA-5. Schedule of Activities Friday, November 6, 8:30pm-12:30am Kick off the weekend with a dance in the Basin Park Hotel Ballroom to benefit ¯the Metropolitan Comnmnity Church of the Living Springs & the Eureka Springs R.A.I.N. Team. Music by Sisters II. $3 single; $5 couple. 12:30-2: 00am, after the dance, head over to Center Street So. for more "family’" fun ! Saturday, November 7, 8:00-10:30am Meet Charlotte for a trout fishing adventure on die beautiful, crystal clear White River. Arkansas fishing license is required. Meet at the Beaver Dam Store by 7:45am. Fxtuipment rentals & licenses available: Reservations: 501-253-6154. 1 l:00am-l:00pm, Take a leisurely float trip down the White River. Enjoy the fall colors mad peacefulness of the Ozarks. Mary had noticed that even the personal ¯ ads in thelocal newspapers had "seniors" ¯ under a special section. They mentioned a ; Lesbian friend who had stated her age in ; apersonaladandgotalmostnoresponses. ¯ "’It’ s even hard for older Lesbians to meet someone to be a friend or just someone to hang out with,’" said,Mverta: "Where do older Lesbians disappear to’?" the women wondered. Perhaps some leave to take care of families of origin, the)’ thought. The Crones talked about interacting with younger Lesbians. When older and younger Lesbians become lovers, people may assume that one is the other:s mother. It’s hard to go to the health care center mad have a 20- year old woman do the in- . take extort. Old women are "called wise, said Alverta. vet they are ignored iu meetings that include yOtmger women. Joy found that the younger women go off to socialize together mid don’t iuclude old Lesbians. But the women did feel that the) have become more outspoken as they have become older. The women remiaisced about living through extremely homophobic times. They talked about bein_o in the ntilitary and Working as school teachers. But now. as older women, they were living in times that were more affirming of Lesbians, but hostile to old women. Yet ever.vone agreed that ageism was worse in the Gay male mid in the Heterosexual co~mnunitv. For more information about the C~’ones. write to 143 RoIlin Irish Road, .\lilton. VT 05468. Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at the Umversitv of Vermont affd Editor ofthe Journal ofLesbian Studies. She can be reached at John Dewey Hall, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington. VT. Bringa ~nack or pick up something at the Dam Store. $25 canoe rental fee. Singles wdcome. Call 501-253-6154 for details. Reservations apprecmted 1 l:30am- 1:00pm,Take an historic walking tour throu~.da downtown. Meet at Sweet Springs (next to Rogues Manor on upper Spring St.) Find out more about this special town. 2:00-4:00pm, Be a part of nature on this easy hike on the Dogwood Trail. Take in the beautifid fall scenery, the wildlife, and the splendid views of Beaver Lake. Meet at the Dam Store by 1:45 p.m.Info: 501~ 253-6154. Reservatibns appreciated. 2:00-5:00pm, Shop "ti1 you drop, with some of the stores listed in the Diversity Co-op booklet offering a 10% discount to these weanng a "Eureka Springs -Celebrating Diversity"button. (Some restrictions apply). Pick up your button at The Fmaerald Rainbow for 50 cents. 9:00pm-i:30am, Dance to the beat of DJ Jon Caswell at Center Stage. Cover: $5. From 1 tpm- 1:30am, the dance floor opens up downstairs for a "Singles Mingler". Sunday, November 8, 2:00-6:00pm Everyone’s encouraged to "Come iri Drag, Whatever that Means to You’, to the tea dance and drag show at Center Stage. Jon will mix it up again with his music as we welcome the girls from Tulsa and a few Eureka surprises! Cover: $5. ~rine the Great’s Chalice, Czarina Alexandra’s Wedding Crown and more... 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Personal Injury, Criminal Law & Bankruptcy 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments areav~ by Lamont Lindstrom Last summer, I visited Carl, an old high school friend who lives near Princeton, New Jersey. Carl and I grew up together in the same small California town but I did not learn he was Gay until years after we had both moved away. The previous time I ran into Carl, back in California for the holidays, I thought he was straight. Eccentric, but straight. I looked forward to seeing him again in this different light, and in his own place- a condo that he and his lover had purchased a few years before AIDS cuthim down, leaving Carl single once more. We sat digesting our dinner around the kitchen table joined by Richard, a recent acquaintance from New York City. Contemplating the dr~gs of my wine, I was startled when Carl and Richard began comparing the relative merits of the sadomasochist clubs inNYC that tfiey both frequent. Not just merely Gay, I also hadn’t a clue that my boyhood buddy was into ¯ whips and chains and fit-clamps. Carl ¯ enthused that his peak sexual experience ." had come when once he was "sewn up." ¯ Don’t ask - I didn’t. I preferred to let a heated imagination race through the pos- ¯ sibilities of exactly WH_AT was sewn up . HOW, and WHERE. (If anyone cares to ¯ enlightenme, my email address is below.) ¯ Richard advised ttmt the best place to acquire such paraphernalia cheaply is your local hardware store. Waltdn~ those TrueValue aisles, the SIM eye sparhles at exeltln~ possibilities brought to mind by hoohs, clamps, struts, braehets, and power tools. ~ added leather and clamps to his interests ¯ in music and math. A previous artist boy- " friend had even recruited him to model for ¯¯ a drawing; and Carl stands there in full leather and chains illustrating the SADOMASOCHISM sectxon of Silverstein and Picano’ s New Joy of Gay Sex -a volume that Ihad often meticulously studied without recognizing my old high school friend! As an old-fashioned anthropologist, I’ ve sometimes made fun of contemporary identity politics that begets aperfusionofculture claims. Nowadays, everyone has to have his or her own culture: Gay-culture, Lesbian-culture, deaf-culture, black-cultin’e, Polish-American culture, skater-culture, it goes on. However, because all of us continue to speak English and to eat the same Burger Kings, the stodgy anthropological term for these various yet connected spheres is "subculture." But whatever you want to call it, listening to Carl and Richard chat merrily together, it was clear to me that S/ Minvolves a closecommunity with shared understandings of its sexual world. These shared S/M understandings in- " clude well-defined statuses (all those vanetaesof tops and bottoms ),andrule governed practices for combining sexual pleasureandpain. Americans like to regularize and institutionalize the world as Carl and Richard attend several well- ¯ much as ~auyone, and at s no s~nse tha ~eir doo~ abour9 p.m. ~~oWo ms~a¢ . corona: i~¢opnytCs ~ ~~ ~/~v~-~mthen wiles away~~ght ho~s by orga- ¯ ~ on ~ Intem¢t, or even by ~ng m~ng what I t~¢ to be a series of im- ¯ semin~s: P~n 101. promptu demonstrations and skits. Up on stage a leather daddy whips his boy. A rough dyke strings up the bottom she has just met. Guys dripping hemp rope enthusiastically demonstrate, likemyBoy Scout troop master of long ago, a plethora of complicated knots. Someone whohas visited the supermarket unpacks boxes of plastic wrap and wraps his partner in yards and yards of plastic, poking holes here and there in the bulging saran cocoon for purposes of breathing and so forth. From all corners chains rattle and hand- "cuffs clank. Richard advised that the best place to acquire suchparaphernalia cheaply is your local hardware store. Walking those TrueValue aisles, the S/M eye sparkles at exciting possibilities brought to mind by hooks, clamps, struts, brackets, andpower tools. This all was a revelation to me. My image of Carl, dating back to high school, was of a shy, quiet, reservedboy whom, of all of us, I would have bet on to die a virgin. He had outstanding talents in both music and mathematics-that odd, not uncommon mixture of aptitude that lends support toAmericanpop theories ofrightbrained versus left-brainedpeople. Iknew that Carl was wall into a second decade of work on a Princeton University PhD thesis in musicology-one that was tracing, in tortuous-detail, a chronicle of 17th century German organ music. Twenty years academic slavery in the music archives - this all made sense to me, knowing Carl. But years of sexual slavery inNew York S/M clubs-that came as a shock.Carl had : A message on an Internet list-serve, in : fact, recentlycomplainedbitterlythatpro- ¯ liferating confusion in the "hanky code" was undermining S/M cultural unlfor- : mity. And one can think up amusingly [ horrible scenarios where someone sport- . ing a mustard yellow hankie (seeking the : well-endowed) ends up witha2am"golden ." shower" instead. (editor’s note: or as our ¯ First District US Congressman Steve ". Largent likes to refer to them. "yellow ". showers.") : Carl talked enthusiastically about his ¯ vocationasagingleather-boy.Itooknotes. ." Gay-culture mightbe rich and elaborated, : but the number of roles it allows us 40- ." somethings is limited. What comes next ¯ after "sweet young twink"? Bear, queen, : leather-daddy - there really isn’t much ¯ ~hoice. I’m heading down to my neigh- "borhood TrueValue soon. Lamont Lindstrom is a professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa. 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Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community Paper Available In More Than 75 City Locations ¯ Pride Center VandalizedAgain Calling all Lesbians! TULSA, Okla. (AP/TFN)-Vandals targetedacenterhererunby aGay civil rights group again, smashing the facility’s glass door, authorities said. The door at the Pride Center, operated by Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, was broken in with a bat or a stick of some kind after 9:30 p.m. Thursday night, said Greg Gatewood, a volunteer at the center. The glass door was also smashed the night of Aug. 7, and was later replaced. The buiIding in which the center is located also houses several other businesses, none of which were vandalized. The center caters to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender groups, Gatewood said. State law does not classify crimes motived by hatred toward sexual orientation as "hate crimes," but vandalism statutes would apply to the incidents. The police were called both times and Pride Center organizers said they will implement additional security measures. Gatewood said that in addition to a bomb threat last fall, the center has seen its signs taken down and thrown away and several Pride The door ofthePride Center flags stolen, prior to the glass replacement. However, activities continue at the Center with a number of organizations meeting regularly. The Center also is now showing Lesbian and Gay-interest video every Thurs. evening at 7:30 pm. For more info., call 743-GAYS. TULSA - A new activities-related group, GALAVanting, wants you to come out and play. Recentl y formed by local poet and TFN Do-It- YourselfDyke, Mary Schepers and one of her friends, Joan, GaLAVanting will host a variety of activities for Tulsa area women throughout the year. "Not to disparage the bars, but there aren’ t many social activities for women outside the clubs," explained Schepers. "If you prefer a different environment or entertmnment, your options are limited. Gal-A-Vanting is going to change that. And we’re planning our activities before the regular bar hours to avoid competition with those longtime community institutions." Gal-A-Vanting emerged from a conversation in which Mary and Joan bemoaned an apparent lack of Lesbian community in the area. They decided to roll up their sleeves and provide those opportumties they themselves would be interested in. "It does sound like ’Hey kids, let’s put on a show,’ " Schepers acknowledged, "but if we sat around waiting for the situation to magically change, it would be a long wait. We are the community, we should do something about it." Two activities are in the works for the balance of this year: an Arts Night and a Dance. The Arts Night is scheduled for Friday, October 23, 7:00: 9:00 p.m. at the Pride Center 1307 E. 38th on Brookside. Featured will be works of art for display and sale, poetry readings, and music. There is room available to showcase more talent; call Mary at 743-6740 if you are interested. Schepers emphasizes that, while this event is by and for women, "our brothers are welcome, too." Most subsequent events will be for women only. Light refreslunents will be served and a two dollar donation, to benefit the Pride Center, is requested. The dance will be in November, before holiday madness sets in. The date, nine and place haven’t been~ s_et y,eL but the eny~ronment will be to~acc~_~ New AIDS Vaccine To Be Tested In Tulsa TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Tulsa’s participation in the national test of a vaccine that could help prevent infection from the virus that causes AIDS puts that city at the forefront of science, according to one doctor.. Homosexual men at high risk of contracting the HIV virus will be recruited for the study as will women in relationships with men who are HIV-positive. Candidates could begin enrolling as early as October. "It puts Tulsa on a top levelin terms of new "It puts Tulsa on a science," saidDr. Ralph Richter of St. John top level in terms Medical Center. "Here o~ new sclence~ is the development of a new science - a poten- Dr. Ralpla Richter tial breakthrough that St. Jolm Medical Center could protect millions of individuals from de- ’99 Parade Planning Begins TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Officers of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) are calling all interested community members to come to a Lesbian/Gay Pride Parade planning meeting on Thnrsday, Sept. 22 at 7pm at the Pride Center, 1307 E 38th, 2nd ft. While Oklahoma City has had a Gay Pride Parade for more veloping HIV infection or AIDS." Tulsa will be among than 10 years, Tulsa had its first Pride March in 1997 with 65 nearly 40 clinical sites nationwide to participatein the people marching from Gilcrease Museum Road to the Tulsa study. Other sites include New York, Chicago, St. ~ Pride Picnic at Owen Park. Lo,ui~s~ ~en~ ~7~ PhiladelPhia and s~e~ in H-°rid~,.Tcx~ : -.. ~ year t~e .M~ch ~i.~ a_bo..ut double.. ~ ~ip~ats~went - Between 125 and 150 people will be recmited for the ] march can be held on the sidewalk, neither event required street Tulsa trial, Richter said. Local AIDS groups and the ] closings nor a permit. However, if there is suffioent commumty Tulsa City-County Health Department are working on interest,TOHR will organize a parade with street closings and the the project and will help recruiting participants. opporttmity for community organizations to have floats. For The Food and Drug Administration approved testing more information, call 743-GAYS (4297) or attend on 9/22. of the vaccine by a California company, VaxGen Inc., in June. The AIDSvax vaccine alre?ady has been tested in preliminary trials that included 1,200 people. Those tests, which began in March 1992, showed that 99 percent of those-vaccinated produced strong levels of antibodies. Final testing of the vaccine will include 5,000 U.S. volunteers at high risk of contracting the AIDS virus and 2,500 high-risk people in Thailand. In the "blinded" trial, two-thirds of the U.S. volunteers will receive the vaccine, while the rest will receive a placebo: Volunteers will participate for three years and will receive HIV counseling about the dangers Of unsafe sex. "We don’ t want to encourage people to go and become more reckless," Richter said. Volunteers will receive three injections of the genetically engineered vaccine over several months. Those will be followed by a series of booster shots. The vaccine uses-engineered copies of the gpl20 protein, which is found on the Outer coating Of the HIV virus. Once injected, the vaccine is supposed to prompt the immune system to make antibodies, which can attack invading viruses before they infect healthy cells. Opponents doubt the vaccine will be successful, arguing that earlier tests showed the vaccine boosted only one 15art of theimmune system and therefore would not be effective in large numbers of participants. Some also question whether new strains of theAIDS virus might render the vaccine useless. MJ ° DIRECTORYILE’I-I’ERS US & WORLD NEWS ~ ~ ---, HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT NOTES COMMUNITY CALENDAR BOOK REVIEW DO-IT-YOURSELF DYKE PSYCHF_JGAY STUDIES CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 2/3 P. 4 P. 6 P. 8 P. 9 P, 10 P. 11 P. 12/13 P. 14 , Methodists: Apartheid - Yes! Events will be scheduled frequently throughout 1999, and Gal-A-Vanting wants to know what activities women would like to attend. "We’ re here to help people get together, have fun, meet new friends. Joan and I are doing this as a non-profit - service," Schepers said. "No agenda except a good ¯ time - come join us for a little Ms-adventure!’" Holy Spirit Rev,val to ¯ DALLAS (AP) -The United Methodist Church early last month ¯ elevated a guideline against same sex marriages into church ¯ canon [church law] and said ministers who perform the ceremo- ¯ TULSA -The Rev. Alice Jones, longtime Tulsa nies could be removed, The Judicial Council of the church, the ¯ ¯ Feature Rev, AliceJones nation’ s second largest Protestant denomination with 9.5 million members, ruled that ministers who violate the ban on Lesbian and Gay Holy Unions are "liable to be" brought to church trial. The decision of the nine-member council, which heard testimony "in Irving, Texas, affects one sentence in the Social Principles. It reads: "Ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions shall not be conducted by our ministers and shall not be Conducted in our churches." That statement was added by the 1996 General Conference, the denomin ati0n’ s top policy-making body. The council decided the conference delegates "’were enacting legislation that would be binding as the law of the church." "The specific prohibition is law," said Bishop George W. Bashore, president of the Council of Bishops of United Methodist Church. The gmdeline, which was part of the congregation’ s Social Principles, states: "Ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions shall not be conducted by our manisters and shall not be conducted in our churches." Social Principles serve as moral standards for the congregation. The ruling has .the effect of transforming the standard into church law, and pastors who violate the law may be.reprimanded or even defrocked. "It has all of the potential for a minister to lose his or her credentials in the Methodist Church," Bashore said. The issue arose with the case of the Rev. Jimmy Creech, former pastor of the 1,900-member First United Methodist Church of Omaha, Neb. He was accused of disobedience after performing a Lesbian wedding ceremony last September in defiance of his bishop. Creech was acquitted six months later by a church jury. The acquittal prompted the regional bishops to appeal to the Judicial Council for a formal ruling on whether the guideline was merely a moral standard or church law. see Apartheid, p. 3 commumty leader and former pastor of the Metro" politan Commmunity Church of Greater Tulsa ¯ (MCCGT) will lead a mini-revival for spiritual ¯ renewal on Sept. 23-25, Wed.-Fri. at 7pm at the ¯ House of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is located at ~ 3210e South Norwood, just south of Mall 31. Rev. ; Jones will also conduct services Sunday, 9/27 at ¯ 10:45am and the church will host a potluck lunch after the service. Holy Spirit will also hold a garage sale at the church on Fri. & Sat. Sept. 11 & 12. For more information, call 224-4754. Brookside Jewelry & TNT’s To Host Benefit TULSA- Two Tulsa businesses will host a benefit for Oklahoma Indian HIV/AIDS activist, Lisa Tiger, on Saturday, Sept. 19 at TNT’s on the NW corner of 21 st & Memorial, The evening event will feature music and other entertainment as wall as Tiger posters and copies of the book, Voices From the Next Feminist Generation, for $15. Ms. Tiger has adopted 50glala Sioux children from South Dakota’ s Pine Ridge Reservation and greatly needs help to care for them. Anyone unable to attend the benefit may help by sending any donation to Lisa Tiger, c/o Tiger Blair Gallery, 2110 East Shawnee, Muskogee, Oklahoma. For more info. call Mdody at 743-5272. �Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 832-1269 *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston 592-2143 *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 744-0896 *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria 599-9512 *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th 583-6666 *Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria 749-4511 *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 585-3134 *Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria 599-7777 *Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 749-1563 *St. ,Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st 745-9998 *Margaret’s German Restaurant, 10 E. Fifth 583-1658 *Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan 834-4234 ¯ *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main 585-3405 *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial 660-0856 *Tool Box, 1338 E: 3rd 584-1308 *Umbertos Pizzeria, 21st west of Harvard 599-9999 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 74%1508 *Affinity News, 8120 E. 21 610-8510 Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor 746-4620 *Assoc. in Med; & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard " 743-1000 Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506 *Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034 Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 712-1122 *Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955 *Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale 494-2665 743-5272 Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 746-0313 *CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria CherrySt. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902,743-4117 Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700 Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468 749-3620 *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th *Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611 DQghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Pei~i’ia 744-5556 *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503 584-0337, 712-9379 *Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 744-9595 *Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 628:3709 Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 742-1460 *Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st Leanne M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 459-9349 744-7440 Mark T. Hamby, Attorney *Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 34t’~6866 *international Tours 712-2750 Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E, 15th *Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018 David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236 599-8070 *Ken’s Flowers~ 1635 E. 15 747-5466 Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 749-5533 Langley Agency & Salon, 1316 E. 36th P1 585-1555 Laredo Crossing, 1519 E. 15th 585-1234 *Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 663-5934 Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 664-2951 *Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 747-6711 *Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-7672 David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 583-1090 *Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 743-4297 ~he Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 838-7626 Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo 747-5932 Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 834-0617 Richard’s Carpet Cleaning Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746 582-7748 Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 749-6301 *Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 481-0201 *Sedona Health Foods, 8220 S. Harvard 697-0017 *Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria *Trizza’s pots, 1448 S. Delaware 743-7687 742-2007 *Tulsa Bookl~change, 3749 S. Peoria 481-0558 *Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 743-1733 Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 592-0767 *Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & Universities .579-9593 AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 743-2363 *All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 587-7314 Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 Bless The Lord atAll Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815 583-9780 *B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 585-1201 *Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S, Boston *Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PI: & Florence *ChurchoftheRestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314 *Community of Hope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 585-1800 *Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 743-4297 *Council Oak Men’s Chorale 712-1511 *Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 742-2457 *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 Hawaii Marriage Update The BIG change - Hawaii’s Campaign ¯ Spending Commission has lifted the donation limit of $1000 per person for an "issue" campaign. The sky is now the ¯ limit, and North American religious extremists are pouring money into Hawaii’s ¯ vote on a proposed constitutional amend" merit. Dobson’s group [Focus ontheFamIssued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this ¯ ily] may be spendingthe most in Hawaii, p~blication are protected by US copyright 1998 by T~u~ ~:..’~W Nta,4 and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without but the Christian Coalition is raising money written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or ~ worldwide as well to use in Hawaii. photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspon; The key team standing up to this ondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,.oaust , slaught is: Protect Our Constitution, be signed & becomes the sole property of T¢ff.~ ~,o~.’. h/tag,. PO Box 235704, Honolulu, HI 96823. Each reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at distribution ¯ Donations to Protect Our Constitution are points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. ¯ not tax deductible. Donations are reported ¯ to the campaign spending commission. Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics & Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475 355-3140 ¯ Protect Our Constitution is affiliated with *Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441 ~¯ the national Human Rights Campaign. Other Players: *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777 *Free Spirit Women’s Center, call for location &info: 587-4669 ¯ Supreme Court- silent; no news on the Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827 ¯ final appeal of the Baehr case Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0438 ¯¯ Legislature -not in session; most of *HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 583-6611 them runniug for re-election 834-4194 ." Governor - running for a second term; *HIV Resource ConSortium, 3507 E. Admiral 481-1111 : uphill battle against a charismatic woman *Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st 834-8378 ¯ Republican who might even be Lesbian HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education ¯ HIV Testing, Mon/Thurs. 7-9pm, daytime by appt. only but vigorously denies it publicly ¯ *House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood Constitutional Amendment- ffthe vote Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437 ¯ were held today; the "no" would win. A 838-1715 *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood "no" vote protects the equal civil rights of ¯ NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral P1. 748-3111 Gays and Lesbians. However, the amend365-5658 " merit is confusing to many voters and NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 ¯ many more have yet to realize that itis on OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157 ¯ 584-7960 *Our House, 1114 S. Quaker the November ballot. ¯ PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 749-4901 Call for a Constitutional Convention 587-7674 ~ more and more people realize that such a *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 743-4297 ¯ convention, held under the shadow of *The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 ¯ hysteria over same-gender marriage, Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195 ¯ would be a disaster for environmental 665-5174 ¯ protection, native Hawaiian gathering Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 584-2325 ¯ - rights, the right to strike, the freedom to*Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults choose as well as the freedom to marry. O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth The only question is whether this broad o 425-7882 St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati coalition of interests can deliver the votes 492-7140 *St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st on November 3rd[ 582-3088 The exact constitutional question [is]: *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 583-7171 *Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder "Shall the constitution of the State of 582-7225 Hawaii be amended to specify that the TNA A PP (Native A merican men), Indian Health Care 595-4105 legislature shall have the power to reserve Tulsa County Health Department, 46 16 E. 15 Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only mamage to opposite-sex couples." Note that it doe-s not directly ban sameTulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297 T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222 gender marriage, but moves the topic away *Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule from protection of the bill of rights in the constitution. Note also that it is a power *Tulsa Community College Campuses *Rogers University (formerly UCT) grab by the legislature at the expense of theiudependentjudiciary. As most people BARTLESVILLE in Hawaii learn this, they decide to vote *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353 "no". Can they be educated fast enough, OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN in 72 days? In the meantime, the opposi*Borders Books & Music, 3209 NWExpressway 405-848-2667 tion is working hard to make this amend*Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907 ment a referendum of whether one supTAHLEQUAH ports same-sex marriage (vote "yes" if 918-456-7900 *Stonewall League, call for information: you oppose same-sex marriage is their *Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 918-456-7900 campaign focus). 918-453-9360 *Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 The Role of Marriage Project Hawaii NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand - MPH is operating under a tax-deductHIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call fo~ dates ible status that limits its lobbying and election activities. It continues to support EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS the Baehr case, to educate the public on 501-253-7734 *Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 issues related to same-gender marriage, 501-253-7457 *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main and to build a. network of supporters in 501-253-6807 DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. Hawaii. It’s address is PO Box 11690, 501-253-5445 *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. Honolulu, HI 96828. - Tom Ramsey 501-253~9337 MCC of the Living Spring 501-253~2776 Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 Letters Policy 501-253~5332 Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on 501-624-6646 Positive Idea Marketing Plans issues which we’ve covered or on issues 501-253-6001 Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East you think need to be considered. You may 501-253-4074 *White Light, 1 Center St. request that your name be withheld but FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5 letters must be signed & have phone num501-442-2845 *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publi* is where you can lind TFN. Not all are Gay-owned b ut all are Gay-friendly. cations will be printed as is appropriate. 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159 o-mail: TulsaNews@ earthlink.net wobsito: http://users.aol.com/TulsaNews/ Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal. Writers + contributors: Adam West, James Christjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud, Barry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom, Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Member of The Associated Press �Creech, who now lives on Ocracoke Island, N.C., and makes his living cleaning cottages, bitterly criticized the nding. "I am grieving for the United Methodist Church," he said. "I am encouraging pastors to go ahead and celebrate a covenant ceremony in defiance to this nding." Creech told The Lincoln Journal Star in a phone interview that he feels the ruling is "evil." "It’ s still an unjust and, I think, evil decision in the impact on people who are Lesbian or Gay." Nebraska Bishop Joel Martinez, who removed Creech from the Omaha church, praised the Judicial Council’s decision. "All ministers in the covenant of ordained ministry in the United Methodist Church now have Clear direction on this matter," Martinez Said. "I continue to urge all United Methodists in Nebraska to be respectful in dialogue and prayerful in attitude toward all others who may hold opposing views on this matter." Mel Semrad, a spokesman for church members who left the Omaha congregation in protest over the wedding, lauded the decision Tuesday. Semrad and about 450 others are working to start their own Methodist church in Omaha, saying they believe the Bible and church tradition do not allow Gay weddings. Mike McClellan, an Omaha attorney and member of First United .Methodist, said he does not agree with the Judicial Council’s decision. He called the decision a political one, made under pressure from Methodist bishops. "I think that they’ vejust r~ally made an unfortunate decision," he said. "More than anything itjust sends a bad message to Gays and Lesbians. "It’ s difficult to convince (Gays and Lesbians) to be apart of our churches.., when the institution itself sends out such awful messages to them, and hateful messages." The Rev. Charlotte Abram, new ~issociate pastor of First United Methodist in Omaha, said she was disappointed by the nding. "First United Methodist Church will continue to work toward the time when the United Methodist Church will be a place where there is equality for all God’ s children, including Gay men and. Lesbians," she said. The Rev. John Thomburg, senior pastor for Northhaven United Methodist Church of Dallas, which has a congregation that is one-third Gay, said he will obey they ruling but is disappointed. Impact on Northern California Churches The United Methodist Church’ s ban on Gay marriages could have a big impact in Northern California, where seyeral Methodist ministers have pledged support for same-sex unions. The decision puts Northern California Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert between a theological rock and an ecclesiastical hard place. Ten Methodist ministers are among 150 Christian, Jewish and Buddhist clergy in the region who have signed a declaration stating, "I have officiated or would be willing to officiate at the religious marriage of a same-gender couple." In May, Talbert said he would not discipline any minister who performed Gay rites ",until instructed otherwise by our Judicial Council." But Rev. Alan Jones said he doesn’t expect Talbert to start cracking down on clergy who perform Gay marriage. ’qThose clergy who support holy tmion will continue to do them," said Jones, executive director of San Francisco-based United Methodist Mission. "For me it’ s a pastoral issue. Either I respect the integrity of my sisters and brothers, or I don’ t. I don’ t bdieve in ’love the sinner, hate the sin.’ I either love someone, or I don’t." Still, last month’ s ruling by the church’ s equivalent of the Supreme Court gives Talbert’s opponents more ammunition: Local bishops like Talbert "don’t have the authority to overrule this decision," said Thomas McAnally, a spokesman at the United Methodist Church headquarters. "The decision is final." Other Christian Groups Joe Leonard of .the National Council of Churches, which represents 34 Protestant and Orthodox churches in the US, said the United Church of Christ is the only mainline Protestant church that approves of Lesbianand Gay ceremonies. Andon Aug. 5, an international Anglican meeting, the Lambeth Conference, declared homosexuality to be "incompatible with Scripture" and said Gays should not be ordained. However, declarations at Lambeth are not binding on national Episcopal Churches and these statements are in conflict with positions taken by the Episcopal Church, USA. Some US bishops do ordain openly Gay persons and do sanction Holy Unions. by Kerry Lobel ¯ Twenty-five years ago NGLTF was also involved in We hear their names again and again, like a litany from ~ effort to remove homosexuality from the American Psya relentless bad dream: GOP Senate Majority Leader ¯ chiatric AssociaOon’ s list of mental disorders. This change Trent Lott, GOP House Majority Leader Dick Armey, ~ removed an important obstacle to our freedom, one that Family Research Council President Gary the right-wing hopes to roll back. Year after Bauer, Focus on the Family President Dr. year, a growing number of Americans have James Dobson, California Republican Con- "We’re standing for supported equality for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered people. The exgressman Frank RIFFS, and Colorado Rethe truth that publican Congressman Joel Hefley. Totreme right-wing recognizes this and has gether, these men and others are controlling homosexuals desperately attempted to solidify their dothe agenda of the Republican Party. Tonor and voter base by trying by selling can change." gether, they’ve launched an unprecedented America the lie that Gay people need reThe ads offer a attack on the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and demption. transgender community. Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people do beguiling elixir of With the 1998 Congressional elections not need hope, healing or prayers to change "hope and healing." only months away, the Presidential primaour sexual orientation. We need our adverries will be here in a heartbeat. As expected, We’re not fooled by saries to hope for our equality and to pray the extreme right-wing is literally and figufor our civil rights. We need them to underthis kinder, ratively using homosexuals as their favorite stand that the only thing that needs to be gentler bigotry. poster children in an effort to consolidate changed is the bigotry that continues to their voting base and raise funds from them. divide our country across lines of race, These ads are not Several extreme right-wing groups inclass, gender, religion and sexual orientaabout religion and cluding Christian Coalition, Family Research tion. We don’t need to dignify the statehealing, they’re Council, and Concerned W omen for America ments of our adversaries by claiming that ran ads last month in the New York Times, sexual orientation is genetic or that we can’ t about politics and Washington Post, and USA Today proclaimchange. This implies that most of us would intolerance. ing "We’ re standing for the truth that homochange if we could. Whether genetic or sexuals can change." The ads offer a beguilchosen, sexual orientation is a deep-seated Homosexuality is ing elixir of "hope and healing." We’ re not part of our identity. One day, and I hope it not the problem. fooled by this kinder, gentler bigotry. These comes soon, we’ll live in a world where Homophobia and ads are not about religion and healing, they’ re people are free to explore their sexuality, about politics and intolerance. Homosexu- the hatred and the and free to live without discrimination and ality is not the problem. Homophobia and violence. Until then, I’ 11 keep my eye on the dlserimlnation the hatred and the discrimination it fosters is real prize, freedom, justice, and equality, the problem. Last month the National Gay it fosters is the and not always focus on defending myself and Lesbian Task Force and Equal Partners from our adversaries. problem. in Faith gathered over 30 national religious Founded in 1973, the National Gay and leaders from many faith traditions. These Lesbian Task Force works to eliminate leaders expressed their support for Gay, Lesbian, Bi- " sexual and Transgendered (GLBT) peoplein the wake of ¯ the recent ad campaign. They also vowed .to speak out ¯ together froma f~ith~persp~fiV~’ito challengethe reli=~-:: gious right’ s manipulation of religion to promote a politi- ¯ cal agenda, and to affirm the spirituality and equality of ¯ GLBT persons and supporters all across the nation. by Tom Neal, editor & publisher Kudos to PFLAG prejudice, violence and injustice against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered people at the local, state and nationallevel. Aspart .9~a i~roader socialjustice,,~ ,.~, ~ ..... ~mO~ifo~fr~dr~;j~’~d~’~i~u&ii~),~lqdL~’7~~ creating a world that respects and celebrates the diversity of human expression and identity where all people mayfullyparticipate in society. make that organization more sensitive to Lesbian and Gay issues. I may be mistaken but the comment about not ~ pushing people into a comer seemed to have a little barb ¯ to it and it was delivered while she was looking right at ¯ me, Regular readers may recall that TFN has written sevLast month, I attended the PFLAG (Parents, Families ¯ ¯ and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) meeting to hear and eral times over a multiple year period about the failure of meet the remarkable Allen Family who’d spoken rethe Tulsa chapter of the NCCJ, a human rights organization, to include Lesbian and Gay issues, or Lesbians or cently on The Today Show about the harassment that their Gay men on its board of directors. son, Will Allen,_had experienced in a local high school. I am delighted to share that not only has Mrs. McDonald They were smart, brave and articulate. I highly commend been in dialogue with the Tulsa chapter of the NCCJ but thelia for their willingness to witness to our nation about the inherent dignity of Lesbian and Gay lives and what they have invited her to be on their board of directors. While it’s hardly a secret that Mrs. McDonald and I being a family is really, really about. And of course, PFLAG andits boardpresident, TulsanNaneyMeDonald, frequently disagree about methods of creating social deserves praise for helping to arrange this appearance. change, she & I likely completely agree about our goals for America’s, and Tulsa’s Lesbian/Gay/Bi and TransAnother Brave Family gendered communities. I have faith that she will represent Also, during this same time, longtime community our commumty’ s interests well. And I have no doubt that activists Ric & Kelly Harrison Kirby, also made their Mrs. McDonald will be as stem in correcting the NCCJ lives public (in major stories in USA Today, Hard Copy board when she thinks they need it as she is with me ;-) and I’m told onNationalPublic Radio) to help respond to About Town is a new editorial column which will the "ex-Gays" or "Gay conversion" messages that naappear occasionally. It, obviously, is an opinion piece. tional ultra-extremist religious/political groups were proReaders are welcome to call with information about moting. Kelly & Ric have served Tulsa for years, as Tulsa which they think this newspaper needs to know. Readers Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) officers and as are also welcome to respond by letter or by e-mail. HIV/AIDS activists. Kelly has also served on boards related to the Disciples of Christ denomination and is treasurer of the national board of PFLAG. Sometimes in our community, we don’t do a good job of recognizing the gifts which community members give us, so if you see Ric or Kelly, thank them. It’s no little thing to give up that much of their privacy and that of their four children. Good Cop - Bad Cop While at the PFLAG meeting, Mrs. McDonald, made a remark some work she’ s been doing with the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ, formerly the National Conference of Christians and Jews) to Kelly Curtis Ford, formerly of Tulsa and longtime companion of Roger Morris, died suddenly on August 15th at the age of 52. Ford grew up in Duncan, attended Cameron University and taught in Oklahoma schools in Waiters and in Oologah for 23 years where he was selected as Teacher of the Year in 1991. Ford is survived by Morris and also by three brothers in Duncan. A memorial service will held at 7pm on Wednesday, Sept. 3 at All Souls Unitarian Church, 29th & Peoria. �Hawaii: Wide Opposition " to Same-Sex Marriage Phi!ly Partners’ Benefits Challenged v~ues advo~tes have fil~ alawsuit ag~nst ~e city, shows more ~ a 2 l/2-tod m~n ,oppos~ to timing ~e institution of m~age will be i~ep~alegMi~ng s~e-sex m~age. ~e poll conduct~ for bly ~ed by a new or&n~ ~fing city workers ~e Honol~u S~ B~ledn ~d ~NL~TV fo~d 63 wi~ s~e-sex p~ers ~e s~e benefits ~ m~ % o~os~ to legMifing m~ageS between two men p~ple. ~ a battle ~ck~ ~o~d ~e co~y, ~e or twowomen, wi~ 24% in favor ~d 13% ~desmt states ~at City Co~l &~’t have ~e au~ofi~ cid~. to extend h~ ~d pension benefits to Gay ~d ~en ~e s~e question w~ ~ked in Feb~y ~sbi~p~ers~dto~o~bit&s~nafion~e 1997, 70% of ~e respondents voi~ op~sifion to wor~la~ b~ed on m~ s~ms. "~i~ Co~ s~e-gender ~ons, wi~ 20% in favor ~d 10% ~s~e. Pollsters have ask~ ~e question five times ¯ shoed be uplff~g m~age, not r~efi~ng m~sin~ J~e 1993. ~e ~ghest levd of op~sifion w~ " fiage," sMd ~e Rev. ~c ~, a p~tor at Be~el r~rd~ in M~ch 1996, when 74% of ~ose ask~ " Ddiver~Ch~chin~laddpMa.Thed~s-acfion was filed in Philadelphia County Court by the Urban opposed same-sex marriage, 21% for and 6% undeFamily Council and 10 individuals~ including Lamcided. The poll did not ask voters how they would vote on a November ballot question about whether to limit legal marriages to those between one man and one woman. Supporters of same-sex marriage say they are not surprised by the poll numbers, with David Smith of the Washington-l~ased Human Rights Campaign saying similar opposition would have been recorded in polls 30 or 40 years ago if people had been asked about interracial marriages. "But the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Constitution allows peopleto marry who they choose in terms of race," Smith said. Rev. Marc Alexander of Hawaii Catholic Conference called the poll results gratifying, and said efforts to win support for same-sex marriage .are failing. ’°Ittose figures are solid," he said. "Even with the push to get same-sex mamage, it hasn’t made a significant dent." The telephone poll of 417 vote/s was conducted from Aug. 4-7, and has a margin of error of plus of minus 5% points.It was conducted by Mason-Dixon Political/Media Research of Columbia, Md. Mayor Edward G. Rendell, a supl~orter of the measdres,immediately dismissed thele~al challenge. "It has no chance of being successful," Rendell said. "All we did is recognize what cities all acros s America are doing - that ~ommitted relationships come in different shapes and sizes." At issue is a package of three bills passed by the council in May that culminated a five-year battle by Gay and Lesbian activists. Under the legislation, any of the city’s 24,000 unionized workers with same-sex . partners would qua~.ify for benefits after meeting certain criteria proving that they are involved in a "life partnership," including shared bank accounts, dual property ownership and beneficiary designation. The ordinance also exempted same-sex partners from the real estate transfer tax. More than 100 mtmicipalities across the country give similar allowances to same-sex partners, according to the Philadelphia-based Center for Gay Law and Public Policy. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino last week signed an executive order to extend health benefits to domestic partners and dependents of Gay, Lesbian and unmarried city employees. Last month, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani signed a similar measure that activists called one of the most SPRINGDALE, Atk.’(AP) - Opponents of an anti~ comprehensive in the nation. discrimination item on the fall ballot in Fayetteville Opponents charged that the Philadelphia measure, say the measure would affect surrounding communi- ¯ especially the life partnership designation, created ties if it passes. The proposal would prohibit busi- ¯ a new legal definition of marriage that benefits samesex partners. State law does not allow individual nesses in One city from discriminating in hiring on the basis of sexual orientation or family status. It also ¯¯ communities to amend that definition. William Devlin, says the city won’t discriminate on the basis of race, director of the Urban Family Council, said thelawsuit sex, disability and other reasons. "When Fayetteville ¯¯ is not intended to be anti-Gay or anti-Lesbian. "We’re saying,’ City Council, you redefined famsneezes, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville all get wet," said Kirk Hartness of Rogers, coordinator for ily, you redefined marriage - that’s inherent in the the Citizens Aware Group. ¯ (law).’ If anything is’ anti-’, it’s City Council, being anti-family, anti-child and anti-marriage," Devlin Fayetteville’s city council approved the resol.ution ¯ in April, but Mayor Fred Hanna vetoed it. The city said. "We have come to stand for what we believe.is council overrocle the veto May 6, and a group called ¯ right today," said Mary Campbell, a Philadelphia . theCitizens Aware committee collected enough sig¯ resident who is a plaintiff in the suit. "We believe that we are representative of many, man?,, people in this natures to put the measure on the Nov. 3 ballot. Hartuess said that there is more to .the resolution , city, and hope that they will join us. than meets the eye. He said businesses would be Gay and ~Lesbian civil fights activists disagreed. "’forced to cave-in to hiring and benefit policies : "The extension of workplace benefits to G.ay_ and catering to homosexuals."-He also said there would : Lesbian couples denied the right of marriage is logabe access to the public schools with an agenda t ¯ cal," said Rita Adessa, executive director of the teach children 5, 6, and 7-year-olds their bizarre and ¯ Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Task Force." "We’re dealing with at/issue of fairness," she said. "When . destructive sexualpractices arejustanotherlifestyle." Hartness spoke after Christian Coalition chairman, : you deny the people the right to marry, and attach Brent Watson of Fayetteville, yielded the floor at a ¯ benefits to marriage, it sets up a system where heterocandidate’s forum attended by about 20 people: ¯¯ sexuality and marriage is privilege." Hartness said he w as asked by Rev. Gene Fulcher and Rendell said opponents to the measure should concentrate their efforts in another direction. "The Rev. Charlie Brown, the co-chairmen of the Citizens (critics) will lose," the mayor said. "They should Aware steering group to head the campaign. He said the group had struggled for a name of the probably spend their efforts promoting the values resolution, but "we have to be careful with these they care ai3out rather than trying to stop this. This is. things in the public though because we don’t want to not a big threat to our way of life." identify this specifically as a piece of homosexual legislation- however you should be aware for the purposes of discussion- that is what this is really all about." He said similar resolutions had been passed in communities on or near college campuses and that the SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Despite a Republican resolutions are not about equal access to jobs or offensive against Gays, San Francisco is poised today education. to solidify its stance on civil rights by asking private Citizens for Fair Government, a local political businesses to extend special deals to domestic partaction group, says it hopes to educate people about the ners. A year after the city inaugurated its domestic issue so they will vote for the resolution. partners ordinance, the Board of Supervisors is ex- ~ ~ G ~l~zr~ ~7~fyff~rts~7~n~ I ~. burdem. ~me sMre ~ ~e ~W 0f ~’s ~__ ~~ Cbi~renAreAlwa~sWelco~! ~mm~ h MARK T. 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The pioneering EqUalBenefits Ordinance requires businesses with city contracts to extend health benefits to its workers’ partners. Since its introduction a year ago, the city has battled corporations unwilling to recognize Gay partnerships - including major airlines, Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army. "We should not force or coerce (businesses) to adopt policies they find morally objectionable," Rep. Frank Riggs, who represents the rural North Coast in Congress, said in a heated debate. Not long before that, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., - who likened homosexuality to a treatable condition like alcoholism or kleptomania - said it was unlikely James Hormel would become the nation’ s first openly Gay ambassador. Hormel, a San Francisco philanthropist who has supported Gay causes, has been criticized for what opponents call his "Gay agenda." And Republicans -unsuccessfully - sought to overturn President Clinton’ s order barring discrimination against Gays and Lesbians at federal agencies. .-Still, supervisors are expected today to send the newest domestic partners proposal to the mayor in.an act that suggests a determination to set a standard for human rights. "Banning discrimination is. no new concept," supervisor Mark Leno, the proposal’s sponsor, told the San Francisco Examiner last month. "We’re talking about inalienable rights here." tian groups paid $35,000 to buy the ad, which will be published in a section of the Sunday paper prepared by the San Francisco Examiner. The Sunday paper also contains sections produced by the San Francisco Chronicle. The full-page ad suggests that Gay men and Lesbians can change their sexual orientation if they pray and get help from "ex-Gay ministries," groups of people who say they once were Gay but became heterosexual. It is one of four such ads that the groups have placed in the New York Times, Washington Post and other papers over the last month. Some members of San Francisco’ s Gay community considered running an opposing ad in the same section, which is what other groups have done in other cities. Some said the ads were distasteful, but said First Amendment rights come first. "It’s frightful, it’s horrific, it’s completely disturbing to see these ads," said Supervisor Mark Leno. "But I think we as a Gay and Lesbian and progressive community would belittle ourselves and lower ourselves to our opponents’ standards if we were to deny them this most American right of freedom of expression, as they are denying us the most American rights - our malienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness." The Christian groups, led by Janet Folger of the Florida-based Center for Reclaiming America, first approached the San Francisco Chronicle - which rejected the ad. "We reviewed it, and we had several concerns about the ad and made the decision that we were not going to run it," Chronicle Publisher John B. Sias said. The San Francisco Newspaper Agency, which sells advertising for both the Chronicle and Examiner under a joint operating agreement, suggested the ad could run in the Sunday news sections, which are produced by the Examiner. Examiner Publisher Lee J. Guittar accepted the ad. "We do not like to censor ads or suppress the free flow of information," Guittar said. "This is an issue up to debate. The Examiner’ s position is that Commerce and theSmall BusinessNetw0rk, has faced ¯ little opposition from business owners. "It makes good fion is espousing, we oeneve mey nave me nglat to express their opinion." The newspaper will also print an editorial that will challenge the ad. The Examiner’s decision means that although the Chronicle refused the ad, its readers will see it Sunday. The Chronicle, which splits revenues with The Examiner, also will get half the profit. Examiner Executive Editor Phil Bronstein said running the ad was a business decision and had nothing to do with the newspaper’ s commitment to coverage of Gay and Lesbian issues. "It is also our responsibility to cover the controversy over these ads, which we are doing," Bronstein said, "and to deal with the deeper issues the ads raise, about claims made in the ads, and about the obviously contradictory, views people hold." DR, MALCOLM JACOX M - F 7:30 - 7, Sat9 -1 2732 East 15th Street Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104 tel: 712-2750, fax: 712-2760 Now Featuring Dog Grooming, Mon. - Fri. THE ANIMAL HOUSE Reptiles ¯ Birds ¯ Small Mammals Fish ¯ Dog & Cat Supplies Grooming ¯ Pond Supplies 4414 S. Peoria Ave ¯ Tulsa, OK 74:105 (918) 747-0606 business sense," said Leno. "It g~ves business an additional marketing tool and could help them compete With other businesses." It’s expected to have more impact as a symbolic gesture than as a business measure. Most car rental agencies in the city do not offer special rates to married couples, and some gyms already include domestic partners in its "family" categories. At 24 Hottr Fitness near City Hall, domestic parmers already fall under the club’s "couple membership" category. But there’ s a hitch: live-in couples - straight or Gay - have to bring in proof that they’re more than just roommates looking for a good deal. "Joint bank accounts are nice, and (City Hall) certificates are nice," said Rick Hernandez, a sales manager. "(IDs) that show both names are nice, too." ¯ 24 Hour Fitness, which has clubs up and down the coast and in other states, is simply adjusting to San Francisco life by recognizing Gay couples, he said. "We HONOLULU (AP) - The Republican gubernatosponsor the Gay Pride Parade. We’re pretty big in the : rial candidate in Hawaii claims the incumbent’s community," Hemandez said. ’qt just makes sense. ¯ campaign is spreading false rumors that she is Otherwise we’d be shooting ourselves in the foot." homosexual. Linda Lingle’ s allegation was denied Laura Gilleran, 23, says she and her live-in girlfriend, by Democratic Gov. Ben Cayetano, who has been T.C. Myers, are more excited by the import of the ¯ hurt in the polls because of Hawaii’s slumping ordinance than by the discounts. "It’ s important, since ¯ economy. A crowd member asked Lingle during a (Gay) marriage is not legal. It’ s.important to do what it ¯ recent campaign stop whether she was Gay. "No, I takes until it becomes such," Gilleran said outside a bar ¯ am not,"repliedLingle, themayor of Maul County. in the Castro District, the heart of Gay San Francisco. ¯ Lingle then told The Honolulu Advertiser that a And it was Gay pride - and the chance to live in city Democrat had given her a copy of a report from a ¯ that recognizes Lesbian partnerships - that brought Cayetano campaign committee that raised quesMyers, 20, to San Francisco. She, her brother and their tions about her sexual orientation. Lingle cammother, who i~ also a Lesbian, were moving from " paign chair Bob Awana declined to release copies. Arizona to Oregon when they stopped in San Francisco. Cayetano said his campaign does not discuss the "My morn got into San Francisco and said, ’We’re ¯¯ private lives of any candidate:. He demanded that ¯ staying here. This is the Gay city of the world!’ " Candidate for Hawaii : Gov. Says She’s Not Gay Anti-Gay Ads in SFCA : : ¯ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Christian groups are bringing their national anti-Gay advertising campaign to San ."¯ Francisco’ s Stmday newspaper, causing concern in the ¯ city’ s large Gay and Lesbiancommunity. Fifteen Chris- Lingle produce evidence t0 substantiate her charge. "If they are going to make accusations,.they have a responsibility to back themup,’"he said. .Republicans believe they have a solid chance of w]nmng in Hawaii, where Democrats have held the governor’s office since 1962.und dominated the Legislature since 1954. �¯ Gallant, an AIDS expert at Johns .Hopkins : University. "We don’t know how long : that will last. But our assessment is that ¯ without complete viral suppression, it " won’ t last forever." The doctors wonder: : Will these people start to go downhill in ¯ two years? Five? Ten or even. l,o.nge.r? They worry that the dramatic aecnne m AIDS deaths of the past two years is a honeymoon, ... without a lull beforethe epidemic lain. reawakens. complete viral That was 21/2 years ago. "We are winning many Now Willis, at 37, exudes suppression . ¯ ¯ more battles than we won energy. He is-toned and before, but we still haven’ t trim and handsome enough won the war," says Dr. to model two or three times will these Michael Saag of the Unia week at the Maryland versity of Alabama at BirInstitute College of Art. As people start mingham. His program stunning as Willis’ turnaveraged 10 to 15 deaths a to go. around seems, it is hardly monthamongits 700 AIDS unique. He is one of the patients in 1995. Then thousands of Americans in two years? came the cocktail. In 1996 rescued from the edge of and 1997, there were just Five? Ten death by the AIDS cockone to three deaths amonth. tail, the combination of But this year, the figures pills that changed a uniare creeping up again, avformlylethal disease into a eraging five to eight deaths a month. For treatable one. now, though, many like Willis continue to However,Willis’ storyis commoii~lace thrive despite stable or even rising viral. for another reason as well. Despite his levels. look of health, he clearly has not escaped "You still see wonderful, wonderful HIV. In the brutally precise language of things happening with this therapy," says medicine, Willis is a treatment failure. Dr. Lori Fantry of the University of MaryEstimates vary, but perhaps 30 percent land. "People come into the clinic and to 60 percent of all people taking the they think you’ re God. Their symptoms AIDS cocktails are considered treatment melt away before y,our eyes. The people failures, because HIV can still be found aren’.t failing yet. It s the numbers." on standard tests that are sensitive enough The Numbers to spot as few as 20 copies of the virus in Scientists estimate that for every unit of a milliliter of blood. Either their viral virus in a milliliter of blood, somewhere levels never g. o.t that low or they rebounded in thebody between 100,000 and 150,000 after a prormslng start. infected cells are making HIV. A viral When Willis first learned of his disload of 1,000, like Willis’, suggests beease, 600,000 bits of virus circulated in tween 100 million and 150 million virusevery milliliter of his blood. At the time, making cells. he had been sick for a year, often so Over time, these viruses may elude exhausted he could not get out of bed. He AIDS drugs.by doing a sloppy job of felt oddly relieved to learn the cause, even reproducing themselves. No unit of HIV though it turned out to be HIV. While he is exactly like its parent. With each copy steadily got better on a combination of the it makes, HIV introduces an average of protease inhibitor Crixivan and two other one error into its~genetic code. Chances drugs, the lowest his virus level ever fell are, everyone with HIV carries a virus is around 1,000 - far from the zero that with a random mutation that makes it defines success. capable of resisting whatever drug comes Most of his friends.with HIV have seen along. - their wrus vanish. The failure of treatWhen patients start treatment, doctors ment to do the same for him is obviously give them three drugs - typically a prodi,s,a,ppointing. "Sometimes I cry about tease inhibitor and two older medicines it, he admits. But mostly he focuses on that they have never taken before. The his good fortune. He enjoys the pleasure idea is to hit the virus hard, knocking its of playing and singing with his rock band, production so low that lurking resistant the Radiant Pig, enjoys feeling wall, enversions never have a chance to be made joys being alive. "I just try to ignore it," says Willis. "I wish somebody would tel! ¯ in quantity. When treatment pushes the virus below me what is going to happen, but I don’t ¯ ~ detectable levels and keeps it there, docwant to ask, either." But even if he asks, there are no clear ~ tors feel fairly certain that patients will stay healthy for several years. If treatment answers. No one knows for sure what will happen, to those whose virus stays stub- " fails, it’s because swarms of drug-resisbornly visible despite all~out .treatmen~ : tant viruses have been produced. Doctors list threemainreasons for treatFrom the S tart of the epidemic, me amount ¯ of virus has been the surest barometer of " meat failure: Patients neglect to take their ~ medicines on schedule; they already have the diseaser s course. Thehigher the level, the faster it kills. Experts believe that if : lots of resistant virus because of earlier there’ s enough HIVto measure, it’ s prob- : exposure to medicines, or their doctors ably continuin~ to damage the immune , treated them inadequately. Failure to take medicines consistently system, even ~f more slowly than befor . " "Right now, we are seeing people like ." is probably No. 1. Missing just a few ¯ dosesallows resistant viruses to grow Michael who are having less than satisexplosively. Once that happens, there is factory virological responses. Yet clinically he is doing wonderfully and is as : no guarantee that switching drugs will do seeHIVDrugs, p. 14 healthy as he has been in years," says : any good, BALTIMORE (AP) - The first time Dr. Joel Gallant laid eyes on Michael Willis, he was struck by how truly awful his new pafientlooked. Askinnylittleemaclated creature" is what the doctor remembers. Willis was in the full grip of AIDS, coyered with eczema, partially paralyzed by aherpes infection of the spine, 140 pounds and falling~ Death within a year seemed almost cer- [we] wonder... do lall Medical Excellence And Compass. onate ¯ Care Since 1926. or even longer? ST: JOHN MEDICAL CENTER Medical Excellence ¯ Comptssionate Care Free & Anonymous Finger Stick Method By &for, but not exclusive to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities. Mon. & Thurs., 6-8 pm, Daytime testing Mon-Thurs. by appt. H O P E HIV Outreach, Prevention & Education 834-TEST(8378), 3501 E. 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"If we continue to focus only on : turned the decision, after the clinic apAIDS and not HIV, more broadly, we risk against AIDS and other sexually trans- mitted diseases. The research, conducted : failing to do everything possible for pre- ¯¯ pealed, saying it had the right to refuse treatment because the woman was not vention and care," added Daniel Zingale, on prostitutes in Cameroon, found no sign that combining the common spermicide i executive director of AIDS Action, a ha- ¯ infertile: The Court of Appeal upheld the Sunonoxynol 9 with condoms worked any : tional AIDS advocacy groupin Washing- ¯" : preme Court f’mding on Tuesday, saying better than condoms alone. The findings " ton, D.C. Ms. Forbes said studies show "people ¯ the woman hadnot been direcdy discrimiwere first reported in Washington last ¯¯ year. They are now being published in a ¯ will avoid getting tested altogether if they : nated against on the basis of her Lesbianbelieve their nameis going to be reported." " ism. recent issue of the New England Journal ¯ Justices Bill Pincus, Geoffrey Davies of Medicine. : and James Thomas found the Lrib,nal The study was conducted on 1,292 HIV: president, Roslyn Atldnson, erredin findnegative prostitutes and directed by Dr. " ing that Lesbianism was thereason for the Rohald E. Roddy of Family Health Inter¯ refusal of treatment. ¯ national of Durham, North Carolina. : AUSTIN (AP)- A Gay and Lesbian civil However, the court sent back to the The women were given condoms and were randomly assigned to get either a ~ rights group is raising concerns about a :¯ tribunal issues of indirect discrimination spermicide film or an inactive placebo ¯ proposal that would require health-care " and a possible exemption under~ the AntiDiscrimination ACt. " film. They were told to insert the film into ¯ providers to report the names of pep.pie : who test positive for the AIDS vmm. : The issue of indirect discrimi _nation re, their vaginas before, intercourse and to Diane Hardy-Gareia, executive director require their sex partners to use the con- :’ of the Lesbian and Gay Rights Lobby of : lates to whether the clinic: acted reasonably in its imposition of a condition that doms. all women t~eated must :have a consent The._study~. was conducted between ¯ Texas, saidher organizatio~has not taken. : a formal position against the propos~ : form signed by a male partner. March i994 and December 1996. Just ¯ pending before the Texas Department ot under 7 percent of women in both groups : Health. became infectedwith the AIDS virus dur- ¯ But she said many people on the group’ S ing thecourseofthestudy. The spermicide ¯ 17-member board of directors are conalso didnot reduce the risk of gonorrhea " cerned about possible discrimination or chlamydia infection. ¯ agaiusf those who test positive for the ." NEW BRITAIN, Conn.. (AP) - Heroin is The research contradicts earlier work : the drug of choice in this depressed,W ork: Human lmmunodeficiency Virus. suggesting that nonoxynoi 9 is moder¯ Health department officials said the ¯ ing-class city, where addicts sharing dirty at~y effective against gohorrhea and some : names of people with AIDS and other : needles have pushed the HIV infection ~other sexually transmi~edinfections. Tests ¯ sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) al- _" rate to four orfive times the state average. in animals and test tubes have also shown : ready are reported. But those who test : The mayor acknowledges that drugs are signs that spermicides can inactivate the positive for HIV are reported to the de- - far and away the city’s the biggest law AIDS viruS, but studies in people have ¯ Texas Looking at : HIV Reporting Conn. City-Debates i Needle Exchange ................. .,.. _f proaucea comucung resutt~. A ~tuuy u the contracepUve sponge,, conducted on pmsttmt.esAn Kenya, :was s:tpp~ e._arl~ bi~museiisefS-actuallyhadahigberrateoI AIDS infection. Family Health International is a non~ profit research group that focuses on improving reproductive health, primarily through contraception and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. . partment via 12-digit numbers. The 12- : enforcement heada$he,. ; a:,,, .... ~.o h .... ~,,’,’- ,,sed for four ’ Yetsevenvearsatter~ew navenesta0.,~. D ....1.~,4,~.~..t,~,~..t~.irlth~vstem .... lish_e~dComke~ef!cuf slurs : .hfi~5if~;h-t~bfllv.26 tier~entof the~gtat~’ s " ..program, ~ew B~n tias : Hi---V-ca--se~’-~- " ." r-esisted following suit. The reason can be "Weneed a more accurate and reliable " summed up m a word: Politics. "’This is ¯ way to link populations affected by HIV,, ¯ still a very conservative, very blue-collar with preventive and medical services,’ ¯ kindof town," Mayor Lucian Pawlak says. ¯ "People are very divided on this issue." said Dr. Sharilyn Stanley, head HIV and ¯ STD-Prevention for the department. "If ¯ Pawlak says the prevailing sentiment is ¯ wehave namereporling of HIV, we would ¯¯ that drugs are mostly a Latino problem. ¯ Other issues, such as revitalizing the city be able to help a lot more people earlier." : Ms. Hardy-Garcia said her group feels : andlowering the tax rate, are seen as more : caught in a tough position. While they ¯ pressing. Hudson Birden, the city’ s health direc¯ want more accurate counts of people with ¯¯ ¯ tor, is more interested in stopping the HIVfor medical treatment and funding HARRISBURG, PA (AP) - The state ¯ ¯ spreadofAIDS than political demographpurposes, they don’ t want those people to Health Department already tracks AIDS cases and now is considering monitoring ¯ be exposed to discriminati6n, she said. "I : its. He’ s pushing for a needle exchange ¯ program and says his seven-member HIV cases in hopes of treating people ¯ think one thing that we have talked about board, appointed by the mayor, is behind is maybe there should be civil penalties earlier andmore effectively, officials said. ¯ him. At present New Britain’s AIDS ¯ for disclosure," she said. Monitoring HIV, the virus that causes ¯ Ms. Stanley said the names of people ¯ awareness program is funded strictly by AIDS, has been overlooked in the past, ¯¯ with AIDS and other STDs are confiden- ¯ state and federal money. Birden and Gail said Deputy Health Secretary Gary Gurian. Ide, who runs the program, note that fed: tial. Those with HIV wouldbe treated the Pennsylvania is one of 19 states that ¯ same way, she said. "More than 45,000 : eral funds may not be used for needle doesn’ t trackHIV cases. Thirty-two states ¯ already track the number of people with ¯ casesofAIDS havebeenreportedinTexas ¯ exchange programs. They hope to fund : with no breaches of confidentiality," Ms. their proposed program with a combinaHIV, two of which use codes instead of ¯ tion of state and private money. Birden ~ Stanley added. names to record HIV-infeeted people. ¯ sa.vs he may ask for as little as $25,000, or The Texas Board of Health will forThe new state .plans are being applauded ~¯ really consider the proposal in Novem- ¯ evenhalf that. It depends on the program. by AIDS advocates and officials with the ¯ ¯" "It’ s a local decision as to whether or beg. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. ¯ not a city has a needle exchange pro"Tracking HIV cases is important bei gram," said Kenneth Carley, an epidemicause it helps us to understand how the ¯¯ ologist in the state Health Department. epidemic is moving and where resources "The research indicates that the program need to be allocated," Anna Forbes, an ¯ is effective in reducingtherisk of HIV by AIDS activist and policy consultant in ¯ BRISBANE, (AP) -Queensland, ¯ 33 percent a year. It also gets people into Philadelphia said. In Pennsylvania, more ¯ Australia’s highest state court ruled rethan 8 ~200 people hav e AIDS, state heal th . cendy that a donor sperm clinic did not ¯ drug treatment." : Birden expects that he will face opposiofficials said. ¯ discriminate against a Lesbian when .it ¯ tion in the New Britain Common Council, Within the next few months, the CDC ~ buthe says itis very important toholdthe ; refused to inseminate her. will establish guidelines for Pennsylvania : Last January, the Qucensland Anti-Dis- ¯ line against HIV. Mayor Pawlak, meanand other states on HIV surveillance and ¯ crimination Tribunal found the 24-year- : while, says he’ s not sure that the program reporting, said Dr. Helene Gayle, director ¯ old woman hadbeen discriminated against : doesn’ t make it easier for drug addicts to for the CDC’s National Center for HIV : by the clinic on the basis of her sexuality. ¯ shootup."I needmore informationbefore STD and TB Prevention. ¯ The woman, who is now a mother of ¯ I decide... It could be that I 11 decide not But it is not known when the system ¯ two, has gone on record as saying she led ¯ to spend my political capital on such an will be in place, Gurian said. The Health the crusade for Lesbian access to the din- ¯ emotionally charged issue." Department said once it decides how to Penn. Looks at HIV Tracking : Aussie Lesbian : Loses Sperm Case �=1 PERA TULSA TULSA PHILHARMOIIIIC Carol I. CrawfoM General Director T Kenneth Jean Music Director Marcello Angelini Artistic Director NATIONSBANK POPS SERIES CINDERELLA Sept. 18-20, 1998 Peter Nero Jules Styne’s Broadway h sweeping tale of prince gets gift. Where between "once upon a time" and "happily ever afteh" we discover love and romance, greed and envy, beauty and ugliness. hnd the realization that timing is everything. Emotion and Melody. Donizetti’s DEATH AND THE MALDEN Emotionally heartbreaking. Musically sensual and noble. Vocally breathtaking, Olga Kondina and Eduardo Villa follow in the legacies of Suthefland and Pavarotti. Light Fandango ¯ Mare Nostram LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Oct. 17, 22 & 24, 1998 Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1998 Matters of death and life, From t~o cho~ogr@hers. ha established American, Robert North, takes on mortality. The upstart Italian, Luciano C~mnito, explores irranortality. Contempora~] ballet in classical terms. The real spice of life. Season Special Conviction and Drama. Poulene’s DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES Mar. 6, 11 & 13, 1999 Faith, courage and grace in the settings of "Ave M~a," "Ave ~mm," and "Salve Regina_" One of the most powerful theatrical opera productiom ever conceived. THE NUTCRACKER Doc Severinson Great Loves of the Silver Screen Roberta Fl"ack Ray Charles Sept. 25 & 26 1998 Nov. 6 & 7, I998 Jan. 22 & 23, 1999 Feb. 12 & 13, 1999 Mar. 19 & 20, 1999 Apr. I6& 17, 1999 TULSA WORLD MASTERWORKS SERIES Kenneth Jean, Music Director Music of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Berlioz and Bemstein Dec. 18-27, I998 ~ Love and Magic. Mozart’s Bernard RubensteJn with Relive the holiday magic. It’s the stuff memories am mute from. For you. For your ~ or your chil&,m’s children. The Nutcracker is not a p~ of the season package, but subscribers get fimt choice on d_~ and sere. Surely you have room for sugar plums this holiday season, THE MAGIC FLUTE May 1, 6 & 8, 1999 Colin Carr, cello and beauty d tree love. A fairy tale stor~ for all ages. Alison Gaines, Principal Bass Oct. 3, 1998 Nov. 14, 1998 som~ere bet~en the egg nog and ~ fruit cake! Season Specials Ion Kimura Parker, piano CAROL & FRIENDS THE GREEN TABLE Sept. 12 & 19, 1998 Equinoxe * lardi Tancat Indulge ~ot~elf in a night of oi~ra’s Jan. 16, 1999 Ida Kavafian, violin Feb. -5-7, 1999 Feb. 20, 1999 From combat, bloodshed, sWaggles, disputes to movement redefined, stretching the limits of the dances and taking motion to untouched depths of expression to the most beautiful shapes the human body can make in dance. HiNSEL & GRETEL Kenneth Jean with Tulsa Oratorio Chorus Nov. 27-29, 1998 Exploro the powr of imagination. h special treat awaits. Mar 26. & 27,1999. Verdi, Messa da Requiem SWAN LAKE Apr. 9-11, 1999 Ali’s fair in love. The only emotion over wtiich countries are won and losL Hearts are broken and mended again. For the fLrst time eve~; TuLsa Ballet presents the four-act Swan Lake in its entirety. With Artistic Director Marcello Angelini re-staging the sto~ line in 6.cts I and Ill to be more accessible to.contemporary audiences. FOR Sponsored by: Subscribers get first priority on seating availability! Three grand operas for one low price. Subscriptions start at $35. Subscribe now! 1998-1999 SEASON KCFlV~94.1 Tulsa’s CiVic/m .Peter Serkin, piano May 22; 1999 Pops and Masterworks concerts hem at the Tulsa PAC. Subscribe today for as little as $50. BROCHURES CALL �SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pm, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 11am, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 11am, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church Service - 5pm, Childrens Ministry - 5pro, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood. Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplew0od, Info: 838-1715 Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 11am, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), lnfo: 582-3088 University of Tulsa BisexuaFLesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pro, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals at 5pm, Info: 743-4297 ~ MONDAYS the Great’s Chalice, Czarina Alexandra’s Wedding Crown and more... THE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART 27th & Rockford ~ 7 4 9.7 9 41 HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pro, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Mon/each too. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. 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Call or fax 583-4615. �AUTHENTIC ITALIAN CUS1NE Read All About It : cate and Outmagazines, along with some ¯ other print publications, have websites as Reviewed by Barry Hensley : well. The Advocate site has some neat Tulsa City-County Library This book includes "hundreds of ways : n.ewsgroup selections, including Small to get hooked up, communicate effee- ¯ ~own Queers andGetting RidofthePeople in Congress. There is also .a tivdy, discover unusual web good chapter on health, not sites, understand privacy isThere are many "only for HIV, but for mental sues, learn about health conof you, health, subsiance abuse and cerns and resources, and f’md youn~ an(] old, other general topics. For newout everything you want to w]lo are not comers to the Net, there is a know about sex on the Net." If handy glossary in the back. you’ re unsure about what the eo.Jo~t~l,le Get On with/twill be ahelpful Internet can do for you, then with the this is the book for you! tool for anyone using the net. There. are many of you, Author Laermer, who is w ell young and old, who are not ~o,ld of known for his Gay travel in comfortable with the fastmovNew York books, starts out computers and ing world of computers and.simply explaining what the t~e Internet. theinternet. The library has an Internet is and how to get T~ answer for you! Almost all ¯ .online. Unfortunately, as with Tnlsa~ City-County Library any book on computers, -this an a~wer [or locations offer free interaea one (copyright 1997) has some you] A~t -classes for bbe"gimaers. Also, ff~- . parts-that are already out of y01i"re miabl~io have aece. date, however, there is enough ~ ..to the interact at home or at Valuable information to make work, Visit the library, where it worthwhile. Ll~ra~ ]~o~ you can sign up for one hour There are chapters on E- Mail, chat lines, Lesbian sites. oiler ~ lnternet per day on the free public access interact computers. 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After all, you are the poor schlepp out there ¯ need to have eight feet between them for doing the donkey work, so reap your ben- ~ pressure treated pickets and ten feet for the cedar and white wood pickets. Deefits where you may. ¯ How much privacy do you need? No, ¯ pending on the length of the fence, reducthis isn’t your mother questioning you -- ing the number of holes you have to dig through the bathroom door. If you have a ¯ may influence your picket choice! Measure the length tb be fenced, calculate how pool or are surrounded by two story houses, an eight foot fence may be more appropri- ¯ many posts you’ll need (don’t forget that lumber length isas nominal as the width ate than the standard six-footer, but keep ¯ mentioned above), and then calculate how in mind that you will be adding substanmany stringers you’ll need. Stringers will tially to your materials costs, ff you debe 2x4’ s, and there will be three per seccide to space artistically between your tion. Calculate how many pickets you’ll fence pickets, that too is a privacy issue. need. and add a few for a fudge factor. Decisions, decisions -wait, there are For fasteners, you will use either nails more! You have choices to make about (frown, frown) or screws, and you will the width of your pickets and the type of use about five per picket. If you choose wood. Standard widths are4 and 6inches, cedar, be warned that only stainless steel nominally. Sawmills are allowed to be scandalously generous with what is lost in : fasteners will work. Cedar has volatile oils and acids that corrode metal and will the milling, so a 6 inch board may only be bleed’black goo down your lovely fence 5-5/8 inches wide. The DIYD personally otherwise. We 11 discuss thi alittle more prefers the wider picket; it is aesthetically next month and a source will provided for more pleasing, it covers more area, and buying a superior fastener. you use fewer fasteners. Woods range If you have done the math on this project from untreated white wood to pressure already, the DIYD will fetch her smelling treated lumber to cedar. Posts and stringsalts post haste. Wood security fencing is ers (the boards running between the post.s) one of the more expensive fencing opcan and shouldbe pressure treated, but the tions, after masonry-and cast iron, but it externals are up to you. There is now a metal po.st option, but be ¯ will increase the value of your home. and the quality of your life if privacy is an warned that the posts will cost more than double, so think long and hard about :¯ issue, so do consider the investment until whether it is worthwhile. Also, part of the ¯ next month, when we get down and dirty work must be done on the other side of the ¯ with our PHDs. And learn that posthole diggers aren’t your only 0pti,o,n,, either. fence, so if you and the Fundies next door ¯ Stick with the DIYD, doll; she 11 see you detest each other, stick to the wood posts ¯ through the rough times. - and stick them with the ugly side Of the �Timothy W. Daniel by Esther Rothblum ~ and anger. There has been a lot of recent media ¯ Then the research teaminterviewed 450 focus on crimes that take place based on ¯ of the 2,500 respondents. They compared victims’ membership in oppressed groups. " those who had experienced a hate crime, To find out more about anti-Lesbian and ¯ those who had experienced a crime un~eGay hate crimes, I phoned Dr. Jeanine ¯ lated to their sexual orientation, and those Cogan, apsychologist who has conducted ¯ who had experien,c,ed no crime. "We got a research and influenced federal policy on ¯ lot of information about hate crimes," this issue. ¯ Jeaninesaid, "and those people who had ¯ ¯Hate crimes are defined legally by ¯ experienced a bate’crime often defined it specific !egislations," said Jeanine Cogan, ¯ as such based on tangible evidence. For "however the commonality across the dif- , example, the language that was used ferent pieces of legislation is that hate ¯ being called adyke while being assaulted. crimes are crimes that are based on real or ¯ Or, the vandalism indicated a hate-motiperceived group membership. Usuallythat ¯ vated crime, such as having the word ¯ includes race, ethnicity, national origin, ’Lesbian’ smearedontheirdoorwithpaint. and religion. Sometimes it also includes ¯ Or theirs was the only car with a rainbow sexual orientation, disability and gender. flag, and the only car damaged in a parkThat means you were specifically chosen, . ing lot." sometimes out ofa crowd, because you ." Jeanine found that listening to the rebelonged to or were-thought to belong to, " spondents’ stories was quite frightening ¯ to her. She counseled the other interviewone of the above groups." Along with Drs. Gregory Herek, Roy ¯ ers about this fear, a phenomenon that has ¯ Gillis and Eric Ginnt at theUniversity of been termed "indirect trauma" (for exCalifornia at Davis, Jeanine worked on a ¯ ample, Lesbians feeling victimized just long-term grant funded by the National ¯¯ by hearing of hate crimes happening to Institute of Mental Health (in fact, the first ¯ other Lesbians). She also found a difference in the way grant ever funded by that organization about Gay and Lesbian issues that did not ¯ Lesbians and Gay men were victimized. focus on AIDS). The purpose ogthe re= ¯¯ "Some Lesbians werephysically assaulted search study was to look at the psychoby a former male partner, suchas aformer logical consequences of having survived ; husband, when the Lesbians came out to an anti-Gay or anti-Lesbian hate crime. ~ these men," Jeanine recalled, "We ended The researchteam also predicted that ex- ¯ upcallingit’heterosexualrevenge.’ Some periencing a hate crime would have more ~ -Gay men, on the other hand, were lured to serious consequences than experiencing a ¯ have sex by other, presumed ’straight’ crime that was not based on the group ] men and then assaulted by these men. membership of the victim. "And this. was a pattern we found only They surveyed more than 2,500 people ; among ib’~ff.’, ..... in the greater Sacramento, California area, ¯ Jeanine is now working at the Ameriincluding people who lived up to 100 ; can Psychological Association in Washmiles away in rural areas. "When we were ington, D.C., where she is involved in recruiting participants we never said ~ changing hate crime policy at thenational ¯ please take part in a study of hate crimes,’ ¯ level. "I’ve been working with Sharon because we didn’t want to bias the kind of, ¯¯ Shaw Johnson, who is the director of person who would participate in the study," GLOVE-Gay Men and Lesbians Oppossaid Jeanine. Instead, they referred to the : ing Violence- and they collecthatecrimes study as one examining a range of experi- : dataand do interventions. Both of us have ences important to Lesbians, Gay men, ¯ noticed that it is the butch woman and the and Bisexuals with a focus on health and ; ’effeminate’ man who are at particular well-being All members of the research ¯ risk for hate crimes because they defy our team were familiar members of the Gay ; ideas of gender." and Lesbian communities that-they stud- ¯ Jeanine’ s policy Work focuses on broad; ening the definition of hate crimes. As ied. The research team found that one in ¯ part of a hate "crimes coalition, she is four Gay and Bisexual men and one in ¯ ; attempting toamend a current civil rights five Lesbians and Bisexual women had ¯ statute that canbe used against aperpetraexperienced a hate-motivated crime since -" tor who bashes a person based on that the age of 16. Jeanine said: "We found ¯ person’s group membership. Sheis trying that individuals who experienced a hate ; to include sexual orientation~ disability crime against their person - a physical or ¯ andgenderinthedefmition ofhatecrimes. ¯ sexual assault, an attempted assault, a ’q’he real hot pOtato is gender," she says. robbery - had more psychological dis- ~ ’qqae FBI is concerned that if every rape tress after such a hate crime-than people ¯ against a woman is a hate crime, they who experienced a crime of Similar sever- ¯ don’t have the personnel to cope with the ¯ ity that was not aimed at them because of huge numbers." With a broad-based hate their sexual orientation. We also found a ¯ crimes coalition, Jeanine had many contime factor. We know that people who .¯ versations with.the Department of Justice abotit the inclusion of gender as a hate experience a crime tend to be psychologi¯ crime. In the end, they supported adding cally distressed. And; over time, people recover. In our study, we found that those ¯ gender, and President Clinton has enwho had experienced a crime that was not ¯¯ dorsed the:Hate Crime Prevention Act abate crime tended to feel better after two and has put fundsinto the budget for more years. But people who experienced a hate : FBIagents t6 work on hate crimes. crime took much longer - five years on ¯ Jeanine is also thrilled to have been average- for their symptoms to dissipate. ¯ successful in combining research with So if you’re around someone who experi- : policy. 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TULSA LEATHER 1999 CONTEST RIC (mr) Spomored by: ~ SILVER STAR SALOON I .am inviting you to join and support me-at the competition for the title of"MR, TULSA LEATHER 1999" I want to be the ’*Leatherman" to represent.Tulsa in 1999. contest held THE TOOL BOX Saturday, September 12, 1998 10:30 pm Male and female, black and white, on or off, dot/ dash, 1/0, straight versus Gay. Even though the world presents us with continuums of difference, we often tidy up these endless chains of variation by squeezing everything into two opposed states or categories. ",in America, despite our Crayola mix of skin colors not to mention our promiscuo.usancestries, many of us are forced to identify ourselves in terms of a simple ; feminine opposition. These binaries range ¯ ~rom agent/patient to culture/nature and ¯ sacred/profane. ¯ -, Cultural theorists find important sym¯ bolic functions for intermediateindividuals as’well. Their existence shores up ruling understandFor many ings of masoflinity and femininity - to remind people of Americans, how tO be "normal" by presenting them with examples trapped wit]fin of the abnormal. The boy learns how to be a real man by fearing the sissy. But those who fall between cultural cracks have to struggle against cognitive structures that positively value the normal (the real man and true woman) by devaluing the categorically deviant (the sissy boy, the rough girl). Anthropologist Mary Douglas offers an apposite analysis of food taboos demanded by the Old Testament, the so-called"Abominations of .Leviticus." She asks, "Why should the camel, the hare and the rock badger be unclean (or unholy)? Why should some locusts, but not all, be unclean?" Her answer is that, in old Hebrew culture, "holiness was exemplified by com- a cultural order that permits only pink girls and blue-boys, Homosexuals are not kosher. Like ancient Israelites, they define Gays who mix up their categories to be unholy, polluted, unclean, or just downright icky abominations¯ .pleteness. Holiness requlred::!~i, : opposition black or wlaite,..., _: _ .. i(-;.~~-. ’-.~. ~m~larly, despite the ~a~ ~om~ s~me ° the class to which they belonged. And ¯ holiness required that different classes of geneticists propose the existence of.five ¯ things not be confused." or more "real" genders (as defined by. the The model of good eating, for ancient mix of an individual’ s sex chromosomes, : Israelites, was the cud-chewing ungulate: e.g., XY, XX, XXY, XYY, and so forth)~ - herd animals such as cattle, sheep, and all of us find ourselves slotted either male or female. Just one or the other. You can’ t ", goats. Other creatures, like the hare and ¯ rock badger, appeared to be ruminant but be neither, and you can’ t be both at once. Binary oppositions of this sort are ubiq- ¯ were anomalous in that they had paws instead of cloven hooves. And other amuitous in human culture. Dualistic structures, certainly, are easy and efficient " mals - notably the pig- walked on cloven feet but did not chew cud. Therefore, ways of breaking down the world’ s.combecause pigs and hares violated categoriplexity, even if nuance and variability get cal definitions of the"normal" cud-chewlost beneath gross simplification. The French anthropologist Claude IMvi- " ing cloven-hoofed animal, they were unStrauss made a career of investigating the ¯ clean. Jewish food taboos reflected a cosmobasic binary structures he saw as inhabit: ¯ logical system that defined as unholy and ing human culture-and as shaping indi¯ inedible any animal who appeared abetvidual thinking. Dualism almost always demands the existence of a third category; ¯ rant or "mixed" in terms of ruling catof something in the middle to "mediate" ¯¯ egorical structures. Insofar as we continue to slice the world relations between the two opposed sides. Gray stands between black and white- ¯, up into male versus female, we too may though with ethnicity, the pertinent color ¯¯ feel queasy when we come across bits of hereis "red," or "high- yellow," or "bright." ¯ reddity that escape our structures of understanding. For many Americans, trapped And many cultural orders admit a variety of "third sexes" or hermaphrodites, real : within a cultural order that permits only and symbolic, positioned between the two ¯ pinkgirls and blue boys, homosexuals are ¯" not kosher. Like ancient Israelites, they male/female gender poles. ¯ define Gays who mix up their categories The mediating position is rarely a comfortable one. Individuals who fall through ¯¯ to be unholy, polluted, unclean, or just the cracks of dual structures of under- ¯ downright icky abominations. This comes from living inside the prison standing inhabit a realm of anomaly and ¯ house of culture - of mindlessly accepting abnormality. On the one hand, they are neither fully male nor female; on the other, ¯ dualistic constraints on thought and emothey are both male and female. This has ~¯ tion. But cultural systems do change over time, and they may be challenged and positive and negative consequence. Positively~ people who are neither man nor ¯ restructured. Shake up those cultural catwomen can serve to bridge the two cat- : egones a little and pigs become good to ¯ eat. And so do delicious boys who can egories that they fall between. ¯ sound like girls. 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(Tulsa) ’~’13687 To respond, browse or check your messages, call 1-900-786-4865 $1.99/Min. 18+ Discreet ¯ Confidential ¯ Easy �Megaphone does not prescreen callers and assumes no liability for personal meetin.qs. 18+ (~) 1998 PC �� Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document New AIDS Vaccine To Be Tested In Tulsa TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Tulsa’s participation in the national test of a vaccine that could help prevent infection from the virus that causes AIDS puts that city at the forefront of science, according to one doctor.. Homosexual menat high risk of contracting the HIV virus will be recruited for the study as will womenin relationships with men who are HIV-positive. Candidates could begin enrolling as early as October. "It puts Tulsa on a top levelin terms ofnew science," saidDr. Ralph Richter of St. John Medical Center. "Here is the development of a new science - a potential breakthrough that could protect millions of individuals from de- "It puts Tulsa on a top level in terms o~ new sclence~ - Dr. Ralpla Richter St. Jolm Medical Center ¯ Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends ! Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations ¯ Pride Center VandalizedAgain Calling all Lesbians! TULSA - A new activities-related group, GALAVanting, wants you to come out and play. Recentl y formedby local poetandTFNDo-It- YourselfDyke, Mary Schepers and one ofher friends, Joan, GaLAVanting will host a variety of activities for Tulsa area women throughout the year. "Not to disparage the bars, but there aren’ t many social activities for women outside the clubs," explained Schepers. "If you prefer a different environment or entertmnment, your options are limited. Gal-A-Vanting is going to change that. And we’re planning our activities before the regular bar hours to avoid competition with those longtime community institutions." Gal-A-Vanting emerged from a conversation in which Mary and Joan bemoaned an apparent lack of Lesbian community in the area. They decided to roll up their sleeves and provide those opportumties they themselves would be interested in. "It does sound like ’Hey kids, let’s put on a show,’ " Schepers acknowledged, "but if we sat around waiting for the situation to magically change, it would be a long wait. We are the community, we should do something about it." Two activities are in the works for the balance of this year: an Arts Night and a Dance. The Arts Night is scheduled for Friday, October 23, 7:00: 9:00 p.m. at the Pride Center 1307 E. 38th on Brookside. Featured will be works of art for display and sale, poetry readings, and music. There is room available to showcase more talent; call Mary at 743-6740 if you are interested. Schepers emphasizes that, while this event is by and for women, "our brothers are welcome, too." Most subsequent events will be for women only. Light refreslunents will be served and a two dollar donation, to benefit the Pride Center, is requested. The dance will be in November, before holiday madness sets in. The date, nine and place haven’t been~ s_et y,eL but the eny~ronment will be to~acc~_~ Events will be scheduled frequently throughout 1999, and Gal-A-Vanting wants to know what activities women would like to attend. "We’ re here to help people get together, have fun, meet new friends. Joan and I are doing this as a non-profit - service," Schepers said. "No agenda except a good ¯ time - come join us for a little Ms-adventure!’" Holy Spirit Rev,val to ¯ Feature Rev, AliceJones ¯¯ TULSA -The Rev. Alice Jones, longtime Tulsa commumty leader and former pastor of the Metro- " politan Commmunity Church of Greater Tulsa ¯ (MCCGT) will lead a mini-revival for spiritual ¯ renewal on Sept. 23-25, Wed.-Fri. at 7pm at the ¯ House of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is located at ~ 3210e South Norwood, just south of Mall 31. Rev. ; Jones will also conduct services Sunday, 9/27 at ¯ 10:45am and the church will host a potluck lunch after the service. Holy Spirit will also hold a garage sale at the church on Fri. & Sat. Sept. 11 & 12. For more information, call 224-4754. TULSA, Okla. (AP/TFN)-Vandals targetedacenterhererunby aGay civil rights group again, smashing the facility’s glass door, authorities said. The door at the Pride Center, operated by Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, was broken in with a bat or a stick of some kind after 9:30 p.m. Thursday night, said Greg Gatewood, a volunteer at the center. The glass door was also smashed the night of Aug. 7, and was later replaced. The buiIding in which the center is located also houses several other businesses, none of which were vandalized. The center caters to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender groups, Gatewood said. State law does not classify crimes motivedby hatred toward sexual orientation as "hate crimes," but vandalism statutes wouldapply to the incidents. The police were called both times and Pride Center organizers said they will implement additional security measures. Gatewood said that in addition to a bomb threat last fall, the center has seen its signs taken down and thrown away and several Pride The door ofthePride Center flags stolen, prior to theglass replacement. However, activities continue at the Center with a number of organizations meeting regularly. The Center also is now showing Lesbian and Gay-interest video every Thurs. evening at 7:30 pm. For more info., call 743-GAYS. ’99 Parade Planning Begins TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Officers of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) are calling all interested community members to come to a Lesbian/Gay Pride Parade planning meeting onThnrsday, Sept. 22 at 7pm at the Pride Center, 1307 E 38th, 2nd ft. While Oklahoma City has had a Gay Pride Parade for more veloping HIV infection or AIDS." Tulsa will be among than 10 years, Tulsa had its first Pride March in 1997 with 65 nearly 40 clinical sites nationwide to participatein the people marching from Gilcrease Museum Road to the Tulsa study. Other sites include New York, Chicago, St. ~ Pride Picnic at Owen Park. Lo,ui~s~ ~en~~7~ PhiladelPhia and s~e~ in H-°rid~,.Tcx~ : -..~year t~e .M~ch ~i.~ a_bo..ut double..~~ip~ats~went - Between 125 and 150 people will be recmited for the ] Tulsa trial, Richter said. Local AIDS groups and the ] Tulsa City-County Health Department are working on the project and will help recruiting participants. march can be held on the sidewalk, neither event required street closings nor a permit. However, if there is suffioent commumty interest,TOHR will organize a parade with street closings and the opporttmity for community organizations to have floats. For more information, call 743-GAYS (4297) or attend on 9/22. Methodists: Apartheid - Yes! ¯ DALLAS (AP) -The United Methodist Church early last month ¯ elevated a guideline against same sex marriages into church ¯ canon [church law] and saidministers who perform the ceremonies could be removed, The Judicial Council of the church, the nation’ s second largest Protestant denomination with 9.5 million members, ruled that ministers who violate the ban on Lesbian and Gay Holy Unions are "liable to be" brought to church trial. The decision of the nine-member council, which heard testimony "in Irving, Texas, affects one sentence in the Social Principles. It reads: "Ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions shall not be conducted by our ministers and shall not be Conducted in our churches." That statement was added by the 1996 General Conference, the denominati0n’ s top policy-making body. The council decided the conference delegates "’were enacting legislation that would be binding as the law of the church." "The specific prohibition is law," said Bishop George W. Bashore, president of the Council of Bishops of United Methodist Church. The gmdeline, which was part of the congregation’ s Social Principles, states: "Ceremonies that celebratehomosexual unions shall not be conducted by our manisters and shall not be conducted in our churches." Social Principles serve as moral standards for the congregation. The ruling has .the effect of transforming the standard into church law, and pastors who violate the law may be.reprimanded or even defrocked. "It has all of the potential for a minister to lose his or her credentials in the Methodist Church," Bashore said. The issue arose with the case of the Rev. Jimmy Creech, former pastor of the 1,900-member First United Methodist Church of Omaha, Neb. He was accused of disobedience after performing a Lesbian wedding ceremony last September in defiance of his bishop. Creech was acquitted six months later by a church jury. The acquittal prompted the regional bishops to appeal to the Judicial Council for a formal ruling on whether the guideline was merely a moral standard or church law. see Apartheid, p. 3 The Food and Drug Administration approved testing of the vaccine by a California company, VaxGen Inc., , in June. The AIDSvax vaccine alre?ady has been tested in preliminary trials that included 1,200 people. Those tests, which began in March 1992, showed that 99 percent of those-vaccinated produced strong levels of antibodies. Final testing of the vaccine will include 5,000 U.S. volunteers at high risk of contracting the AIDS virus and 2,500 high-risk people in Thailand. In the "blinded" trial, two-thirds of the U.S. volunteers will receive the vaccine, while the rest will receive a placebo: Volunteers will participate for three years and will receive HIV counseling about the dangers Of unsafe sex. "We don’ t want to encourage people to go and become more reckless," Richter said. Volunteers will receive three injections of the genetically engineered vaccine over several months. Those will be followed by a series of booster shots. The vaccine uses-engineered copies of the gpl20 protein, which is found on the Outer coating Of the HIV virus. Once injected, the vaccine is supposed to prompt the immune system to make antibodies, which can attack invading viruses before they infect healthy cells. Opponents doubt the vaccine will be successful, arguing that earlier tests showed the vaccine boosted only one 15artoftheimmune system and therefore would not be effective in large numbers of participants. Some also question whether new strains of theAIDS virus might render the vaccine useless. MJ ° DIRECTORYILE’I-I’ERS P. 2/3 US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 ~ HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 8 ~ COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 BOOK REVIEW P, 10 DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 11 DYKE PSYCHF_JGAY STUDIES P. 12/13 ---, CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14 Brookside Jewelry & TNT’s To Host Benefit TULSA- Two Tulsa businesses will host a benefit for Oklahoma Indian HIV/AIDS activist, Lisa Tiger, on Saturday, Sept. 19 at TNT’s on the NW corner of 21 st & Memorial, The evening event will feature music and other entertainment as wall as Tiger posters and copies of the book, Voices From the Next Feminist Generation, for $15. Ms. Tiger has adopted 50glala Sioux children from South Dakota’ s Pine Ridge Reservation and greatly needs help to care for them. Anyone unable to attend the benefit may help by sending any donation to Lisa Tiger, c/o Tiger Blair Gallery, 2110 East Shawnee, Muskogee, Oklahoma. For more info. call Mdody at 743-5272. Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. 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Main DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. MCC of the Living Spring Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery Positive Idea Marketing Plans Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East *White Light, 1 Center St. FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5 *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-253-7734 501-253-7457 501-253-6807 501-253-5445 501-253~9337 501-253~2776 501-253~5332 501-624-6646 501-253-6001 501-253-4074 501-442-2845 * is whereyou can lind TFN. Notall are Gay-owned but all are Gay-friendly. ¯ Spending Commission has lifted the donation limit of $1000 per person for an "issue" campaign. The sky is now the ¯ limit, and North American religious ex- ¯ tremists arepouringmoney into Hawaii’s vote on a proposed constitutional amend- " merit. Dobson’s group [Focus ontheFam- ¯ ily] may be spendingthe most in Hawaii, but the ChristianCoalition is raisingmoney ~ worldwide as well to use in Hawaii. ; The key team standing up to this on- , slaught is: Protect Our Constitution, ¯ PO Box 235704, Honolulu, HI 96823. Donations to Protect Our Constitution are ¯ not tax deductible. Donations are reported ¯ to the campaign spending commission. ¯ Protect Our Constitution is affiliated with ~ the national Human Rights Campaign. ¯ Other Players: ¯ Supreme Court- silent; no news on the ¯ final appeal of the Baehr case ¯ Legislature -not in session; most of ¯ them runniug for re-election ." Governor - running for a second term; : uphill battle against a charismatic woman ¯ Republican who might even be Lesbian ¯ but vigorously denies it publicly ¯ Constitutional Amendment- ffthe vote ¯ were held today; the "no" would win. A ¯ "no" vote protects the equal civil rights of Gays and Lesbians. However, the amend- " merit is confusing to many voters and ¯ many more have yet to realize that itis on ¯ ¯ the November ballot. Call for a Constitutional Convention - ~ more and more people realize that such a ¯ convention, held under the shadow of ¯ hysteria over same-gender marriage, ¯ would be a disaster for environmental ¯ protection, native Hawaiian gathering ¯ - rights, the right to strike, the freedom tochoose as well as the freedom to marry. The only question is whether this broad o coalition of interests can deliver the votes on November 3rd[ The exact constitutional question [is]: "Shall the constitution of the State of Hawaii be amended to specify that the legislature shall have the power to reserve mamage to opposite-sex couples." Note that it doe-s not directly ban samegendermarriage, butmoves the topicaway from protection of the bill of rights in the constitution. Note also that it is a power grab by the legislature at the expense of theiudependentjudiciary. As mostpeople in Hawaii learn this, they decide to vote "no". Can they be educated fast enough, in 72 days? In the meantime, the opposition is working hard to make this amendment a referendum of whether one supports same-sex marriage (vote "yes" if you oppose same-sex marriage is their campaign focus). The Role ofMarriage Project Hawaii - MPH is operating under a tax-deductible status that limits its lobbying and election activities. It continues to support the Baehr case, to educate the public on issues related to same-gender marriage, and to build a. network of supporters in Hawaii. It’s address is PO Box 11690, Honolulu, HI 96828. - Tom Ramsey Hawaii Marriage Update TheBIG change- Hawaii’s Campaign Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues you think need to be considered. Youmay request that your name be withheld but letters mustbe signed&have phonenumbers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letters are preferred. Letters to other publications will be printed as is appropriate. Creech, who now lives on Ocracoke Island, N.C., and makes his living cleaning cottages, bitterly criticized the nding. "I am grieving for the United Methodist Church," he said. "I am encouraging pastors to go ahead and celebrate a covenant ceremony in defiance to this nding." Creech toldTheLincolnJournal Starin aphoneinterview that he feels the ruling is "evil." "It’ s still an unjust and, I think, evil decision in the impact on people who are Lesbian or Gay." Nebraska Bishop Joel Martinez, who removed Creech from the Omaha church, praised the Judicial Council’s decision. "All ministers in the covenant of ordained ministry in the United Methodist Church now have Clear direction on this matter," Martinez Said. "I continue to urge all United Methodists in Nebraska to berespectful in dialogue and prayerful in attitude toward all others who may hold opposing views on this matter." Mel Semrad, a spokesman for church members who left the Omaha congregation in protest over the wedding, lauded the decision Tuesday. Semrad and about 450 others are working to start theirown Methodist church in Omaha, saying they believe the Bible and church tradition do not allow Gay weddings. Mike McClellan, an Omaha attorney and member of First United .Methodist, said he does not agree with the Judicial Council’s decision. He called the decision a political one, made under pressure from Methodist bishops. "I think that they’ vejust r~ally made an unfortunate decision," he said. "More than anything itjust sends abad message to Gays and Lesbians. "It’ s difficult to convince (Gays and Lesbians) to be apart of our churches.., when the institution itself sends out such awful messages to them, and hateful messages." The Rev. Charlotte Abram, new ~issociate pastor of First United Methodist in Omaha, said she was disappointed by the nding. "First United Methodist Church will continue to work toward the time when the United Methodist Church will be a place where there is equality for all God’ s children, including Gaymenand. Lesbians," she said. The Rev. John Thomburg, senior pastor for Northhaven United Methodist Church of Dallas, which has a congregation that is one-third Gay, saidhe will obey they ruling but is disappointed. Impact on Northern California Churches The United Methodist Church’ s ban on Gay marriages could have a big impact in Northern California, where seyeral Methodist ministers have pledged support for same-sex unions. The decision puts Northern California Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert between a theological rock and an ecclesiastical hard place. Ten Methodist ministers are among 150 Christian, Jewish and Buddhist clergy in the regionwhohave signed a declaration stating, "I have officiated or would be willing to officiate at the religious marriage of a same-gender couple." In May, Talbert said he would not discipline any minister who performed Gay rites ",until instructed otherwise by our Judicial Council." But Rev. Alan Jones said he doesn’t expect Talbert to start cracking down on clergy who perform Gay marriage. ’qThose clergy who support holy tmion will continue to do them," said Jones, executive director of San Francisco-based United Methodist Mission. "For me it’ s a pastoral issue. Either I respect the integrity ofmy sisters and brothers, or I don’ t. I don’ tbdieve in ’love the sinner, hate the sin.’ I either love someone, or I don’t." Still, last month’ s ruling by the church’ s equivalent of the Supreme Court gives Talbert’s opponents more ammunition: Local bishops like Talbert "don’t have the authority to overrule this decision," said Thomas McAnally, a spokesman at the United Methodist Church headquarters. "The decision is final." Other Christian Groups Joe Leonard of .the National Council of Churches, which represents 34 Protestant and Orthodox churches in the US, said the United Church of Christ is the only mainline Protestant church that approves of Lesbianand Gay ceremonies. Andon Aug. 5, an international Anglican meeting, the Lambeth Conference, declared homosexuality to be "incompatible with Scripture" and said Gays should not be ordained. However, declarations at Lambeth are not binding on national Episcopal Churches and these statements are in conflict with positions taken by the Episcopal Church, USA. Some US bishops do ordain openly Gay persons and do sanction Holy Unions. by Kerry Lobel Wehear their names again and again, like a litany from a relentless bad dream: GOP Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, GOP House Majority Leader Dick Armey, Family Research Council President Gary Bauer, Focus on the Family President Dr. James Dobson, California Republican Congressman Frank RIFFS, and Colorado Republican Congressman Joel Hefley. Together, these men and others are controlling the agenda of the Republican Party. Together, they’ve launched an unprecedented attack on the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and transgender community. With the 1998 Congressional elections only months away, the Presidential primaries will be here in a heartbeat. As expected, the extreme right-wing is literally and figuratively using homosexuals as their favorite poster children in an effort to consolidate their voting base and raise funds from them. Several extreme right-wing groups includingChristianCoalition, Family Research Council, and ConcernedWomenforAmerica ran ads last month in the New York Times, Washington Post, andUSAToday proclaiming "We’re standing for the truth that homosexuals can change." The ads offer a beguiling elixir of "hope and healing." We’ re not fooled by this kinder, gentler bigotry. These ads arenot aboutreligionandhealing, they’ re about politics and intolerance. Homosexuality is not the problem. Homophobia and the hatred and the discrimination it fosters is the problem. Last month the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and Equal Partners in Faith gathered over 30 national religious leaders from many faith traditions. These "We’re standing for the truth that homosexuals can change." The ads offer a beguiling elixir of "hope and healing." We’re not fooled by this kinder, gentler bigotry. These ads are not about religion and healing, they’re about politics and intolerance. Homosexuality is not the problem. Homophobia and the hatred and the dlserimlnation it fosters is the problem. ¯ Twenty-five years ago NGLTF was also involved in ~ effort to remove homosexuality from the American Psy- ¯ chiatricAssociaOon’ s listofmental disorders. This change ~ removed an important obstacle to our freedom, one that the right-wing hopes to roll back. Year after year, a growing number of Americans have supported equality for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered people. The extreme right-wing recognizes this and has desperately attempted to solidify their donor and voter base by trying by selling America the lie that Gay people need redemption. Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people do not need hope, healing or prayers to change our sexual orientation. We need our adversaries to hope for our equality and to pray for our civil rights. Weneed them to understand that the only thing that needs to be changed is the bigotry that continues to divide our country across lines of race, class, gender, religion and sexual orientation. We don’t need to dignify the statements of our adversaries by claiming that sexual orientation is genetic or that we can’ t change. This implies that most of us would change if we could. Whether genetic or chosen, sexual orientation is a deep-seated part of our identity. One day, and I hope it comes soon, we’ll live in a world where people are free to explore their sexuality, and free to live without discrimination and violence. Until then, I’ 11 keep my eye on the real prize, freedom, justice, and equality, and not always focus on defending myself from our adversaries. Founded in 1973, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force works to eliminate leaders expressed their support for Gay, Lesbian, Bi- " prejudice, violence and injustice against Gay, Lesbian, sexual and Transgendered (GLBT) peoplein the wake of ¯ Bisexual and Transgendered people at the local, state the recent ad campaign. They also vowed .to speak out ¯ and nationallevel. Aspart .9~a i~roader socialjustice,,~ ,.~, ~ ..... together froma f~ith~persp~fiV~’ito challengethe reli=~-:: ~mO~ifo~fr~dr~;j~’~d~’~i~u&ii~),~lqdL~’7~~ gious right’ s manipulation ofreligion to promote a political agenda, and to affirm the spirituality and equality of GLBT persons and supporters all across the nation. by Tom Neal, editor &publisher Kudos to PFLAG Last month, I attended the PFLAG (Parents, Families ¯and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) meeting to hear and meet the remarkable Allen Family who’d spoken recently on The Today Show about the harassment that their son, Will Allen,_had experienced in a local high school. They were smart, brave and articulate. I highly commend thelia for their willingness to witness to our nation about the inherent dignity of Lesbian and Gay lives and what being a family is really, really about. And of course, PFLAGandits boardpresident,TulsanNaneyMeDonald, deserves praise for helping to arrange this appearance. Another Brave Family Also, during this same time, longtime community activists Ric & Kelly Harrison Kirby, also made their lives public (in major stories in USA Today, Hard Copy and I’m told onNationalPublic Radio) to help respond to the "ex-Gays" or "Gay conversion" messages that national ultra-extremist religious/political groups were promoting. Kelly&Ric have served Tulsa for years, as Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) officers and as HIV/AIDS activists. Kelly has also served on boards related to the Disciples of Christ denomination and is treasurer of the national board of PFLAG. Sometimes in our community, we don’t do a goodjob of recognizing the gifts which community members give us, so if you see Ric or Kelly, thank them. It’s no little thing to give up that much of their privacy and that oftheir four children. Good Cop - Bad Cop While at the PFLAG meeting, Mrs. McDonald, made a remark some work she’ s been doing with the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ, formerly the National Conference of Christians and Jews) to ¯ creating a world that respects and celebrates the diver- ¯ sity ofhuman expression and identity where all people mayfullyparticipate in society. make that organization more sensitive to Lesbian and Gay issues. I may be mistaken but the comment about not ~ pushing people into a comer seemed to have a little barb ¯ to it and it was delivered while she was looking right at ¯ me, ¯ Regular readers may recall that TFN has written several times over a multiple year period about the failure of the Tulsa chapter of the NCCJ, a human rights organization, to include Lesbian and Gay issues, or Lesbians or Gay men on its board of directors. Iamdelighted to share thatnotonly has Mrs. McDonald been in dialogue with the Tulsa chapter of the NCCJ but they have invited her to be on their board of directors. While it’s hardly a secret that Mrs. McDonald and I frequently disagree about methods of creating social change, she & I likely completely agree about our goals for America’s, and Tulsa’s Lesbian/Gay/Bi and Transgendered communities. I havefaith that she will represent our commumty’ s interests well. And I have no doubt that Mrs. McDonald will be as stem in correcting the NCCJ board when she thinks they need it as she is with me ;-) About Town is a new editorial column which will appear occasionally. It, obviously, is an opinion piece. Readers are welcome to call with information about which they think this newspaper needs to know. Readers are also welcome to respond by letter or by e-mail. Kelly Curtis Ford, formerly of Tulsa and longtime companion of Roger Morris, died suddenly on August 15th at the age of 52. Ford grew up in Duncan, attended Cameron University and taught in Oklahoma schools in Waiters and in Oologah for 23 years where he was selected as Teacher of the Year in 1991. Ford is survived by Morris and also by three brothers in Duncan. A memorial service will held at 7pm on Wednesday, Sept. 3 at All Souls Unitarian Church, 29th & Peoria. Hawaii: Wide Opposition " Phi!ly Partners’ to Same-Sex Marriage Benefits Challenged shows more~a 2 l/2-tod m~n ,oppos~ to v~ues advo~tes have fil~ alawsuit ag~nst ~e city, legMi~ng s~e-sexm~age. ~epoll conduct~for timing ~e institution of m~age will be i~ep~a- ~ ~ G~l~zr~~7~fyff~rts~7~n~ ~e Honol~u S~ B~ledn ~d ~NL~TV fo~d 63 bly~edby a new or&n~~fing city workers % o~os~ to legMifing m~ageS between two men wi~ s~e-sex p~ers ~e s~e benefits ~m~ I ~. burdem. ~me sMre ~ ~e~W0f ~’s or twowomen, wi~ 24% in favor ~d 13% ~de- p~ple. ~ a battle~ck~~o~d ~e co~y, ~e cid~. smt states ~at City Co~l&~’t have ~e au~ofi~ ~__ ~~ Cbi~renAreAlwa~sWelco~! ~en ~e s~e question w~ ~ked in Feb~y to extend h~ ~d pension benefits to Gay ~d 1997, 70% of ~e respondents voi~ op~sifion to ~sbi~p~ers~dto~o~bit&s~nafion~e h s~e-gender ~ons, wi~ 20% in favor ~d 10% wor~la~ b~ed on m~ s~ms. "~i~ Co~ ~mm~ ~s~e. Pollsters have ask~ ~e question five times ¯ shoed be uplff~g m~age, not r~efi~ng m~- sin~ J~e 1993. ~e~ghest levd of op~sifion w~ " fiage," sMd ~e Rev. ~c~,a p~tor at Be~el r~rd~ in M~ch 1996, when 74% of ~ose ask~ " Ddiver~Ch~chin~laddpMa.Thed~s-acfion opposed same-sex marriage, 21% for and 6% undecided. The poll did not ask voters how they would vote on a November ballot question about whether to limit legal marriages to those between one man and one woman. Supporters of same-sex marriage say they are not surprised by the poll numbers, with David Smith of the Washington-l~asedHumanRights Campaign saying similar opposition would have been recorded in polls 30 or 40 years ago if people had been asked about interracial marriages. "But the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Constitution allows peopleto marry who they choose in terms of race," Smith said. Rev. Marc Alexander of Hawaii Catholic Conference called the poll results gratifying, and said efforts to win support for same-sex marriage .are failing. ’°Ittose figures are solid," he said. "Even with the push to get same-sex mamage, it hasn’t made a significant dent." The telephone poll of 417 vote/s was conducted from Aug. 4-7, and has a margin of error of plus of minus 5% points.It was conducted by Mason-Dixon Political/Media Research of Columbia, Md. .Fayetteville Anti-Bias Law Debated was filed in Philadelphia County Court by the Urban Family Council and 10 individuals~ including Lam- Mayor Edward G. Rendell, a supl~orter of the measdres,immediately dismissed thele~al challenge. "It has no chance of being successful," Rendell said. "All wedidis recognizewhatcities all across America are doing - that ~ommitted relationships come in different shapes and sizes." At issue is a package of three bills passed by the council in May that culminated a five-year battle by Gay and Lesbian activists. Under the legislation, any of the city’s 24,000 unionized workers with same-sex . partners would qua~.ify for benefits after meeting certain criteria proving that they are involved in a "life partnership," including shared bank accounts, dual property ownership and beneficiary designation. The ordinance also exempted same-sex partners from the real estate transfer tax. More than 100 mtmicipalities across the country give similar allowances to same-sex partners, according to the Philadelphia-based Center forGay Law and Public Policy. Boston MayorThomas M. Menino last week signed an executive order to extend health benefits to domestic partners and dependents of Gay, Lesbian and unmarried city employees. Last month, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani signed a similar measure that activists called one of the most comprehensive in the nation. Opponents charged that the Philadelphia measure, ¯ especially the life partnership designation, created ¯ a new legal definition of marriage that benefits samesex partners. State law does not allow individual ¯¯ communities to amendthat definition.WilliamDevlin, director of the Urban Family Council, said thelawsuit ¯ is not intended to be anti-Gay or anti-Lesbian. ¯ "We’re saying,’ City Council, you redefined family, you redefined marriage - that’s inherent in the ¯ (law).’ If anything is’ anti-’, it’s City Council, being anti-family, anti-child and anti-marriage," Devlin ¯ said. "We have come to stand for what we believe.is ¯ right today," said Mary Campbell, a Philadelphia ¯ residentwho is a plaintiff in the suit. "We believe that we are representative of many, man?,, people in this , city, and hope that they will join us. Gay and ~Lesbian civil fights activists disagreed. : "The extension of workplace benefits to G.ay_ and : Lesbian couples denied the right of marriage is loga- ¯ cal," said Rita Adessa, executive director of the ¯ Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Task Force." "We’re dealing with at/issue of fairness," she said. "When : you deny the people the right to marry, and attach ¯ benefits to marriage, it sets up a system where hetero- ¯ sexuality and marriage is privilege." ¯ Rendell said opponents to the measure should concentrate their efforts in another direction. "The (critics) will lose," the mayor said. "They should probably spend their efforts promoting the values they care ai3out rather than trying to stop this. This is. not a big threat to our way of life." SPRINGDALE, Atk.’(AP) - Opponents of an anti~ discrimination item on the fall ballot in Fayetteville say the measure would affect surrounding communities if it passes. The proposal would prohibit businesses in One city from discriminating in hiring on the basis of sexual orientation or family status. It also says the city won’t discriminate on the basis of race, sex, disability and other reasons. "When Fayetteville sneezes, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville all get wet," said Kirk Hartness of Rogers, coordinator for the Citizens Aware Group. Fayetteville’s city council approved the resol.ution in April, but Mayor Fred Hanna vetoed it. The city council overrocle the veto May 6, and a group called . theCitizens Aware committee collected enough signatures to put the measure on the Nov. 3 ballot. Hartuess said that there is more to .the resolution than meets the eye. He said businesses would be "’forced to cave-in to hiring and benefit policies catering to homosexuals."-He also said there would be access to the public schools with an agenda t teach children 5, 6, and 7-year-olds their bizarre and . destructive sexualpractices arejustanotherlifestyle." Hartness spoke after Christian Coalition chairman, Brent Watson of Fayetteville, yielded the floor at a candidate’s forum attended by about 20 people: Hartness saidhewas asked by Rev. Gene Fulcher and Rev. Charlie Brown, the co-chairmen of the Citizens Aware steering group to head the campaign. He said the group had struggled for a name of the resolution, but "we have to be careful with these things in the public though because we don’t want to identify this specifically as a piece of homosexual legislation- however you should be aware for the purposes of discussion- that is what this is really all about." He said similar resolutions hadbeen passed in communities onor near college campuses and that the resolutions are not about equal access to jobs or education. Citizens for Fair Government, a local political action group, says ithopes to educatepeople about the issue so they will vote for the resolution. San Francisco Still Leads in Civil Rights SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Despite a Republican offensive against Gays, San Francisco is poised today to solidify its stance on civil rights by asking private businesses to extend special deals to domestic partners. A year after the city inaugurated its domestic partners ordinance, the Board of Supervisors is ex- MARK T. HAMBY Attorney Bankruptcy Civil Matters Call for More information 1500 Nations Bank, 15 West Sixth Tulsa, Oklahorna 74119 744-7440 Fax 744-9358 Community Unitai’ian Universalist .Congregation at Community ofHope United Methodist 2545 South Yale Sundays at 11am Info: 749-0595 A Voicefor Freedom & Tolerance Family ofFaith Metropolitan Community Church Rev. Sherry Hilliard Interim Pastor Sunday Choir practice, 4pm Worship, 5pro Wednesday Midweek Service,6:30pm Thursday Codependency Support Group, 7:30pro 5451-ES. 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Approved unanimously last week, the proposal gets a second vote tonight and Mayor Willie Brown is expected to sign it. It would make San Francisco the only city in the nation to require private businesses - such as gyms, car rental companies and insurance agencies - to extend discounts they offer to married couples to domestic parmers as well. The vote follows on the heels of a political backlash against Gays that may cost San Francisco millions in federal housing funding and a prominent Gay philanthropist an ambassadorship. Less than two weeks ago, the House voted 214-212 - most of them Republican votes - in favor of blocking San Francisco from federal housing money because of its civil-rights policy. The pioneering EqUalBenefits Ordinance requires businesses with city contracts to extend health benefits to its workers’ partners. Since its introduction a year ago, the city has battled corporations unwilling to recognize Gay partnerships - including major airlines, Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army. "We should not force or coerce (businesses) to adopt policies they find morally objectionable," Rep. Frank Riggs, who represents the rural North Coast in Congress, said in a heated debate. Not long before that, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., - who likened homosexuality to a treatable condition like alcoholism or kleptomania - said it was unlikely James Hormel wouldbecome the nation’ s first openly Gay ambassador. Hormel, a San Francisco philanthropist who has supported Gay causes, has been criticized for what opponents call his "Gay agenda." And Republicans -unsuccessfully - sought to overturn President Clinton’ s orderbarring discrimination against Gays and Lesbians at federal agencies. .-Still, supervisors are expected today to send the newest domestic partners proposal to the mayor in.an act that suggests a determination to set a standard for human rights. "Banning discrimination is. no new concept," supervisor Mark Leno, the proposal’s sponsor, told the San Francisco Examiner last month. "We’re talking about inalienable rights here." tian groups paid $35,000 to buy the ad, which will be published in a section of the Sunday paper prepared by the San Francisco Examiner. The Sunday paper also contains sections produced by the San Francisco Chronicle. The full-page ad suggests that Gay men and Lesbians can change their sexual orientation if they pray and get help from "ex-Gay ministries," groups of people who say they once were Gay but became heterosexual. It is one of four such ads that the groups have placed in the New York Times, Washington Post and other papers over the last month. Some members of San Francisco’ s Gay community considered running an opposing ad in the same section, which is what other groups have done in other cities. Some said the ads were distasteful, but said First Amendment rights come first. "It’s frightful, it’s horrific, it’s completely disturbing to see these ads," said Supervisor Mark Leno. "But I think we as a Gay and Lesbian and progressive community would belittle ourselves and lower ourselves to our opponents’ standards if we were to deny them this most American right of freedom of expression, as they are denying us the most American rights - our malienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness." The Christian groups, led by Janet Folger of the Florida-based Center for Reclaiming America, first approached the San Francisco Chronicle - which rejected the ad. "We reviewed it, and we had several concerns about the ad and made the decision that we were not going to run it," Chronicle Publisher John B. Sias said. The San Francisco Newspaper Agency, which sells advertising for both the Chronicle and Examiner under a joint operating agreement, suggested the ad could run in the Sunday news sections, which are produced by the Examiner. Examiner Publisher Lee J. Guittar accepted the ad. "We do not like to censor ads or suppress the free flow of information," Guittar said. "This is an issue up to debate. The Examiner’ s position is that Commerce and theSmall BusinessNetw0rk, has faced ¯ fion is espousing, we oeneve mey nave me nglat to little opposition from business owners. "It makes good express their opinion." The newspaper will also business sense," said Leno. "It g~ves business an additional marketing tool and could help them compete With other businesses." It’s expected to have more impact as a symbolic gesture than as a business measure. Most car rental agencies in the city do not offer special rates to married couples, and some gyms already include domestic partners in its "family" categories. At 24 Hottr Fitness near City Hall, domestic parmers already fall under the club’s "couple membership" category. But there’ s a hitch: live-in couples - straight or Gay - have to bring in proof that they’re more than just roommates looking for a good deal. "Joint bank accounts are nice, and (City Hall) certificates are nice," said Rick Hernandez, a sales manager. "(IDs) that show both names are nice, too." ¯ 24 Hour Fitness, which has clubs up and down the coast and in other states, is simply adjusting to San Francisco lifeby recognizing Gay couples, he said. "We sponsor the Gay Pride Parade. We’re pretty big in the community," Hemandez said. ’qt just makes sense. Otherwise we’d be shooting ourselves in the foot." Laura Gilleran, 23, says she and her live-in girlfriend, T.C. Myers, are more excited by the import of the ordinance than by the discounts. "It’ s important, since (Gay) marriage is not legal. It’ s.important to do what it takes until it becomes such," Gilleran said outside a bar in the Castro District, the heart of Gay San Francisco. And it was Gay pride - and the chance to live in city that recognizes Lesbian partnerships - that brought Myers, 20, to San Francisco. She, her brother and their mother, who i~ also a Lesbian, were moving from Arizona to Oregon when they stopped in San Francisco. "My morn got into San Francisco and said, ’We’re staying here. This is the Gay city of the world!’ " Anti-Gay Ads in SFCA SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Christian groups are bringing their national anti-Gay advertising campaign to San Francisco’ s Stmday newspaper, causing concern in the city’ s large Gay and Lesbiancommunity. Fifteen Chrisprint an editorial that will challenge the ad. The Examiner’s decision means that although the Chronicle refused the ad, its readers will see it Sunday. The Chronicle, which splits revenues with The Examiner, also will get half the profit. Examiner Executive Editor Phil Bronstein said running the ad was a business decision and had nothing to do with the newspaper’ s commitment to coverage of Gay and Lesbian issues. "It is also our responsibility to cover the controversy over these ads, which we are doing," Bronstein said, "and to deal with the deeper issues the ads raise, about claims made in the ads, and about the obviously contradictory, views people hold." Candidate for Hawaii : Gov. Says She’s Not Gay : HONOLULU (AP) - The Republican gubernatorial candidate in Hawaii claims the incumbent’s ¯ campaign is spreading false rumors that she is homosexual. Linda Lingle’ s allegation was denied ¯ by Democratic Gov. Ben Cayetano, who has been hurt in the polls because of Hawaii’s slumping ¯ economy. A crowd member asked Lingle during a ¯ recent campaign stop whether she was Gay. "No, I ¯ amnot,"repliedLingle, themayor ofMaul County. ¯ Lingle then told The Honolulu Advertiser that a ¯ Democrat had given her a copy of a report from a Cayetano campaign committee that raised questions about her sexual orientation. Lingle cam- " paign chair Bob Awana declined to release copies. ¯ Cayetano said his campaign does not discuss the ¯ private lives of any candidate:. He demanded that ¯ Lingleproduce evidence t0 substantiateher charge. : "If they are going to make accusations,.they have a : responsibility to back themup,’"he said. ¯ .Republicans believe they have a solid chance of ." w]nmng in Hawaii, where Democrats have held the ¯ governor’s office since 1962.und dominated the ¯ Legislature since 1954. BALTIMORE (AP) - The first time Dr. ¯ Joel Gallant laid eyes on Michael Willis, : he was struck by how truly awful his new : pafientlooked. Askinnylittleemaclated ¯ creature" is what the doctor remembers. " Willis was in the full grip of AIDS, coy- : ered with eczema, partially paralyzed by ¯ aherpes infectionofthe spine, 140 pounds and falling~ Death within a year seemed almost cerlain. Thatwas 21/2 years ago. Now Willis, at 37, exudes energy. He is-toned and trim andhandsomeenough tomodel two or three times a week at the Maryland Institute College ofArt. As stunning as Willis’ turnaround seems, it is hardly unique. He is one of the thousands of Americans rescued from the edge of death by the AIDS cocktail, the combination of pills that changed a uniformlylethal disease into a treatable one. However,Willis’ storyis commoii~lace for another reason as well. Despite his look of health, he clearly has not escaped HIV. In the brutally precise language of medicine, Willis is a treatment failure. Estimates vary, but perhaps 30 percent to 60 percent of all people taking the AIDS cocktails are considered treatment failures, because HIV can still be found on standard tests that are sensitive enough to spot as few as 20 copies of the virus in a milliliter of blood. Either their viral levels never g.o.t thatlow or they rebounded after a prormslng start. When Willis first learned of his disease, 600,000 bits of virus circulated in every milliliter of his blood. At the time, he had been sick for a year, often so exhausted he could not get out of bed. He felt oddly relieved to learn the cause, even though it turned out to be HIV. While he steadily got better on a combination of the protease inhibitor Crixivan and two other drugs, the lowest his virus level ever fell is around 1,000 - far from the zero that defines success. Most of his friends.with HIV have seen - their wrus vanish. The failure of treatment to do the same for him is obviously di,s,a,ppointing. "Sometimes I cry about it, he admits. But mostly he focuses on his good fortune. He enjoys the pleasure of playing and singing withhis rock band, the Radiant Pig, enjoys feeling wall, enjoys being alive. "I just try to ignore it," says Willis. "I wish somebody would tel! me what is going to happen, but I don’t want to ask, either." But even if he asks, there are no clear answers. No one knows for sure what will happen, to those whose virus stays stubbornly visible despite all~out .treatmen~ Fromthe Start ofthe epidemic, me amount of virus has been the surest barometer of the diseaser s course. Thehigher the level, the faster it kills. Experts believe that if there’ s enough HIVto measure, it’ s probably continuin~ to damage the immune system, even ~f more slowly than befor . "Right now, we are seeing people like Michael who are having less than satisfactory virological responses. Yet clinically he is doing wonderfully and is as healthy as he has been in years," says Gallant, anAIDSexpert at Johns .Hopkins University. "We don’t know how long that will last. But our assessment is that without complete viral suppression, it won’ t last forever." The doctors wonder: Will these people start to go downhill in two years? Five? Ten or even. l,o.nge.r? They worry that the dramatic aecnne m AIDS deaths of the past ... without complete viral suppression . ¯ ¯ [we] wonder... will these people start to go. do lall in two years? Five? Ten or even longer? two years is a honeymoon, a lull beforethe epidemic reawakens. "We are winning many more battles than we won before, but we still haven’ t won the war," says Dr. Michael Saag of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His program averaged 10 to 15 deaths a monthamongits 700AIDS patients in 1995. Then came the cocktail. In 1996 and 1997, there were just one to three deaths amonth. But this year, the figures are creeping up again, averaging five to eight deaths a month. For now, though, many like Willis continue to thrive despite stable or even rising viral. levels. "You still see wonderful, wonderful things happening with this therapy," says Dr. Lori Fantry of the University ofMaryland. "People come into the clinic and they think you’ re God. Their symptoms melt away before y,our eyes. The people aren’.t failing yet. It s the numbers." The Numbers Scientists estimate that for every unit of virus in a milliliter of blood, somewhere in thebody between 100,000 and 150,000 infected cells are making HIV. A viral load of 1,000, like Willis’, suggests between 100 million and 150 million virusmaking cells. Over time, these viruses may elude AIDS drugs.by doing a sloppy job of reproducing themselves. No unit of HIV is exactly like its parent. With each copy it makes, HIV introduces an average of one error into its~genetic code. Chances are, everyone with HIV carries a virus with a random mutation that makes it capable of resisting whatever drug comes along. When patients start treatment, doctors give them three drugs - typically a protease inhibitor and two older medicines - that they have never taken before. The idea is to hit the virus hard, knocking its production so low that lurking resistant versions never have a chance to be made ¯ in quantity. ¯ Whentreatment pushes the virus below ~ detectable levels and keeps it there, doc- ~ tors feel fairly certain that patients will stay healthy for several years. If treatment " fails, it’s because swarms of drug-resis- : tant viruses have been produced. ¯ Doctors listthreemainreasons for treat- " meatfailure: Patients neglect to take their ~ medicines on schedule; they already have : lots of resistant virus because of earlier : exposure to medicines, or their doctors , treated them inadequately. " Failure to take medicines consistently ." is probably No. 1. 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The research, conducted onprostitutes in Cameroon, found no sign that combining the common spermicide nonoxynol 9 with condoms worked any better than condoms alone. The findings were first reported in Washington last year. They are now being published in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Thestudywas conductedon 1,292 HIVnegative prostitutes and directed by Dr. Rohald E. Roddy of Family Health International of Durham, North Carolina. The women were given condoms and were randomly assigned to get either a spermicide film or an inactive placebo film. They were told to insert the film into their vaginas before, intercourse and to require their sex partners to use the condoms. The._study~. was conducted between March i994 and December 1996. Just under7 percent ofwomen in both groups became infectedwith theAIDS virus during thecourseofthestudy. Thespermicide also didnot reduce the risk of gonorrhea or chlamydia infection. The research contradicts earlier work suggesting that nonoxynoi 9 is moderat~ y effectiveagainstgohorrheaandsome ~other sexually transmi~edinfections. Tests in animals and test tubes have also shown signs that spermicides can inactivate the AIDS viruS, but studies in people have : track people, eitherby name or by code, it would seek permission to notify past and : present partners of those infected with ¯¯ HIV. Parmersatriskwouldbeurgedtobe tested. "If we continue to focus only on ¯ AIDS and not HIV, more broadly, werisk : failing to do everything possible for prevention and care," added Daniel Zingale, i executive director of AIDS Action, a ha- : tional AIDS advocacy groupin Washing- " ton, D.C. ¯ Ms. Forbes said studies show "people ¯ will avoid getting tested altogether if they ¯ believe theirnameis going tobereported." ¯ Texas Looking at : HIV Reporting : AUSTIN (AP)-A Gay and Lesbian civil ~ rights group is raising concerns about a ¯ proposal that would require health-care ¯ providers to report the names of pep.pie : who test positive for the AIDS vmm. :’ oDfiathnee LHeasrbdiyan-GaanrdeiGa,ayexReciguhtitvseLdoibrbeyctoorf ¯ Texas, saidher organizatio~has not taken. : a formal position against the propos~ ¯ pending before the Texas Department ot : Health. ¯ Butshe saidmanypeopleonthe group’ S ¯ 17-member board of directors are con- " cerned about possible discrimination ¯ agaiusf those who test positive for the : Human lmmunodeficiency Virus. ¯ Health department officials said the : names of people with AIDS and other ¯ sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) al- : ready are reported. But those who test ¯" ies because stringent testing meant the ¯ clinics did not carry the same risks as ¯ private donor insemination, notably the ¯ possibility of AIDS contamination. ¯ However,the state SupremeCourtover- : turned the decision, after the clinic ap- ¯ pealed, saying it had the right to refuse ¯ treatment because the woman was not ¯ infertile: ¯" The Court of Appeal upheld the Su- : preme Court f’mding on Tuesday, saying ¯ thewomanhadnotbeen direcdy discrimi- : nated against on the basis of her Lesbian- " ism. ¯ Justices Bill Pincus, Geoffrey Davies : and James Thomas found the Lrib,nal : president, Roslyn Atldnson, erredin find- " ing that Lesbianism was thereason for the ¯ refusal of treatment. ¯ However, the court sent back to the : tribunal issues of indirect discrimination ¯ and a possible exemption under the Anti- " Discrimination ACt. " ~ : The issue of indirect discrimi_nation re, : lates to whether the clinic: acted reasonably in its imposition of a condition that all women t~eated must :have a consent : form signed by a male partner. i Conn. City-Debates Needle Exchange ." NEW BRITAIN, Conn.. (AP) - Heroin is : the drug ofchoice in thisdepressed,Work- ¯ ing-class city, where addicts sharing dirty : needles have pushed the HIV infection _" rate to four orfive times the state average. : The mayor acknowledges that drugs are positive for HIV are reported to the de- - far and away the city’s the biggest law p.ro.au.c.ea.c.om.u.c.un.g.re.su.tt~...A.~.tuu.,y.. u_f .; paa:r,,tm, .e.n.t.via 12-digit numbers. The 12- : enforcement heada$he,. ~.o h.... ~,,’,’- ,,sed for four ’ Yetsevenvearsatter~ew navenesta0- the contracepUve sponge,, conducted on .,~. D....1.~,4,~.~..t,~,~..t~.irlth~vstem .... lish_e~dComke~ef!cuf slurs pmsttmt.esAn Kenya, :was s:tpp~ e._arl~ : .hfi~5if~;h-t~bfllv.26 tier~entof the~gtat~’ s " ..program, ~ew B~n tias bi~museiisefS-actuallyhadahigberrateoI : Hi---V-ca--se~’-~- " - ." r-esisted following suit. The reason can be AIDS infection. "Weneed a more accurate and reliable " summed up m a word: Politics. "’This is Family Health International is a non~ profit research group that focuses on improving reproductive health, primarily through contraception and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. Penn. Looks at HIV Tracking HARRISBURG, PA (AP) - The state Health Department already tracks AIDS cases and now is considering monitoring HIV cases in hopes of treating people earlierandmoreeffectively, officials said. Monitoring HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has been overlooked in the past, saidDeputyHealth Secretary Gary Gurian. Pennsylvania is one of 19 states that doesn’ t trackHIV cases. Thirty-two states already track the number of people with HIV, two of which use codes instead of names to record HIV-infeeted people. Thenew state.plans arebeing applauded by AIDS advocates and officials with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "Tracking HIV cases is important because it helps us to understand how the epidemic is moving and where resources need to be allocated," Anna Forbes, an AIDS activist and policy consultant in Philadelphia said. In Pennsylvania, more than 8~200 people haveAIDS, statehealth officials said. Within the next few months, the CDC will establish guidelines forPennsylvania and other states on HIV surveillance and reporting, said Dr. Helene Gayle, director for the CDC’s National Center for HIV STD and TB Prevention. But it is not known when the system will be in place, Gurian said. The Health Department said once it decides how to ¯ way to link populations affected by HIV,, ¯ with preventive and medical services,’ said Dr. Sharilyn Stanley, head HIV and ¯ STD-Prevention for the department. "If ¯ ¯ wehavenamereporling ofHIV,wewould be able to help a lot more people earlier." : Ms. Hardy-Garcia said her group feels : caught in a tough position. While they ¯ wantmore accurate counts ofpeople with ¯ HIVfor medical treatment and funding ¯ purposes, they don’ t want those people to ¯ be exposed to discriminati6n, she said. "I think one thing that we have talked about ¯ is maybe there should be civil penalties ¯ for disclosure," she said. ¯ Ms. Stanley said the names of people ¯ with AIDS and other STDs are confiden- : tial. Those with HIV wouldbe treated the ¯ same way, she said. "More than 45,000 ¯ casesofAIDS havebeenreportedinTexas : with no breaches of confidentiality," Ms. ~ Stanley added. ¯ The Texas Board of Health will for- ~ really consider the proposal in Novem- ¯ beg. : Aussie Lesbian : Loses Sperm Case ¯ BRISBANE, (AP) -Queensland, ¯ Australia’s highest state court ruled re- . cendy that a donor sperm clinic did not ¯ discriminate against a Lesbian when .it ; refused to inseminate her. : LastJanuary, the QucenslandAnti-Dis- ¯ crimination Tribunal found the 24-year- ¯ oldwomanhadbeendiscriminated against : by the clinic on the basis of her sexuality. ¯ The woman, who is now a mother of ¯ two, has gone on record as saying she led the crusade for Lesbian access to the din¯ still a very conservative, very blue-collar kindof town," MayorLucian Pawlak says. ¯ "People are very divided on this issue." ¯ Pawlak says the prevailing sentiment is ¯ that drugs are mostly a Latino problem. ¯ Other issues, such as revitalizing the city : andlowering the tax rate, are seen as more ¯ pressing. ¯ Hudson Birden, the city’ s health direc- ¯ tor, is more interested in stopping the ¯ spreadofAIDS than political demograph- : its. He’ s pushing for a needle exchange ¯ program and says his seven-member board, appointed by the mayor, is behind ¯ him. At present New Britain’s AIDS ¯ awareness program is funded strictly by ¯ state and federal money. Birden and Gail ¯ Ide, who runs the program, note that fed- : eral funds may not be used for needle ¯ exchange programs. They hope to fund ¯ ¯ their proposed program with a combination of state and private money. Birden ¯ sa.vs he may ask for as little as $25,000, or ¯ evenhalf that. It depends on the program. ¯" "It’ s a local decision as to whether or ¯ not a city has a needle exchange proi gram," said Kenneth Carley, an epidemi- ¯¯ ologist in the state Health Department. "The research indicates that the program ¯ is effective in reducingtherisk ofHIV by ¯ 33 percent a year. It also gets people into ¯ drug treatment." : Birden expects thathe will face opposi- ¯ tion in theNew BritainCommonCouncil, ~ buthe says itis very important toholdthe ¯ line against HIV. Mayor Pawlak, mean- : while, says he’ s not sure that the program : doesn’ t make it easier for drug addicts to ¯ shootup."I needmore informationbefore ¯ I decide... It could be that I 11 decide not ¯ to spend my political capital on such an ¯ emotionally charged issue." =1 T TULSA PERA Carol I. CrawfoM General Director TULSA PHILHARMOIIIIC Marcello Angelini Artistic Director Kenneth Jean Music Director CINDERELLA Sept. 18-20, 1998 h sweeping tale of prince gets gift. Where between "once upon a time" and "happily ever afteh" we discover love and romance, greed and envy, beauty and ugliness. hnd the realization that timing is everything. DEATH AND THE MALDEN Light Fandango ¯ Mare Nostram Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1998 Matters of death and life, From t~o cho~ogr@hers. ha established American, Robert North, takes on mortality. The upstart Italian, Luciano C~mnito, explores irranortality. Contempora~] ballet in classical terms. The real spice of life. Season Special THE NUTCRACKER Dec. 18-27, I998 ~ Relive the holiday magic. It’s the stuff memories am mute from. For you. For your~or your chil&,m’s children. The Nutcracker is not a p~of the season package, but subscribers get fimt choice on d_~ and sere. Surely you have room for sugar plums this holiday season, som~ere bet~en the egg nog and ~ fruit cake! THE GREEN TABLE Equinoxe * lardi Tancat Feb. -5-7, 1999 From combat, bloodshed, sWaggles, disputes to movement redefined, stretching the limits of the dances and taking motion to untouched depths of expression to the most beautiful shapes the human body can make in dance. SWAN LAKE Apr. 9-11, 1999 Ali’s fair in love. The only emotion over wtiich countries are won and losL Hearts are broken and mended again. For the fLrst time eve~; TuLsa Ballet presents the four-act Swan Lake in its entirety. With Artistic Director Marcello Angelini re-staging the sto~ line in 6.cts I and Ill to be more accessible to.contemporary audiences. FOR Emotion and Melody. Donizetti’s LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Oct. 17, 22 & 24, 1998 Emotionally heartbreaking. Musically sensual and noble. Vocally breathtaking, Olga Kondina and Eduardo Villa follow in the legacies of Suthefland and Pavarotti. Conviction and Drama. Poulene’s DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES Mar. 6, 11 & 13, 1999 Faith, courage and grace in the settings of "Ave M~a," "Ave ~mm," and "Salve Regina_" One of the most powerful theatrical opera productiom ever conceived. Love and Magic. Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE May 1, 6 & 8, 1999 and beauty dtree love. A fairy tale stor~ for all ages. Season Specials CAROL & FRIENDS Sept. 12 & 19, 1998 Indulge ~ot~elf in a night of oi~ra’s HiNSEL & GRETEL Nov. 27-29, 1998 Exploro the powr of imagination. h special treat awaits. Subscribers get first priority on seating availability! Three grand operas for one low price. Subscriptions start at $35. Subscribe now! 1998-1999 NATIONSBANK POPS SERIES Peter Nero Jules Styne’s Broadway Doc Severinson Great Loves of the Silver Screen Roberta Fl"ack Ray Charles Sept. 25 & 26 1998 Nov. 6 & 7, I998 Jan. 22 & 23, 1999 Feb. 12 & 13, 1999 Mar. 19 & 20, 1999 Apr. I6& 17, 1999 TULSA WORLD MASTERWORKS SERIES Kenneth Jean, Music Director Music of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Berlioz and Bemstein Bernard RubensteJn with Colin Carr, cello Oct. 3, 1998 Alison Gaines, Principal Bass Nov. 14, 1998 Ion Kimura Parker, piano Jan. 16, 1999 Ida Kavafian, violin Feb. 20, 1999 Kenneth Jean with Tulsa Oratorio Chorus Mar 26. & 27,1999. Verdi, Messa da Requiem .Peter Serkin, piano May 22; 1999 SEASON Pops and Masterworks concerts hem at the Tulsa PAC. Subscribe today for as little as $50. BROCHURES CALL Sponsored by: KCFlV~94.1 Tulsa’s CiVic/m the Great’s Chalice, Czarina Alexandra’s Wedding Crown and more... THE PHILBROOKMUSEUM OF ART 27th & Rockford ~ 7 4 9.7 9 41 W6athlAknnFuoalrALIDiSfeW’a9lk8 Saturday,Sept. 26 Veteran’s Park, 18th & Boulder 8:30 Registration, 9.’30 Kick-off All funds raised will be matched 50% by Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership (TCAP) & will benefit most Tulsa-area HIT/AIDS care providers. This advertisement donated to Walk for Life by ~ulsa Family.News. Licensed Realtor~ Just csll 918-742-1971. www.NewNest.com ¯ Toll Free 1-800-559-1558 Associated with Riverside Realty ¯ 918-224-2700 ¯ SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pm, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 11am, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 11am, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church Service - 5pm, Childrens Ministry - 5pro, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood. Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplew0od, Info: 838-1715 Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 11am, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), lnfo: 582-3088 University of Tulsa BisexuaFLesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pro, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals at 5pm, Info: 743-4297 ~ MONDAYS HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pro, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Mon/each too. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Mixed Volleyball, Hdmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pro, call Shawn 491-2036. Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 9/28, noon, United Way, 1430 S Boulder ~" TUESDAYS 3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), Info: Wanda @ 834-4194 Multicultural AIDS Coalition, 9/1, 12:30pro, Urban League, 240 East Apache Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 743-4297 PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 ~WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Fanfily OfFaith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pro, .5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441 House of the Holy spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pro, 3210e So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support/social group for 18-24’ s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 l~" FRIDAYS SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, I st Fri/cachmo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307E. 38th ~ SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of HopeA703 E 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~" OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978 OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157, Short tides, 6:30pro, Long rides, 7am. Meet at Zeigler Park, 3903 West 4th.-Pride Rides from the Pride Center, 3749 S. Peoria. Write for dates. Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call orfax 583-4615. Read All About It Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library This book includes "hundreds of ways to get hooked up, communicate effeetivdy, discover unusual web sites, understand privacy is- There are many sues, learn about health concerns and resources, and f’md out everything you want to know about sex on the Net." If you’re unsure about what the Internet can do for you, then this is the book for you! AuthorLaermer,whois well known for his Gay travel in New York books, starts out .simply explaining what the Internet is and how to get ¯ .online. Unfortunately, as with any book on computers, -this one (copyright 1997) has some parts-that are already out of date, however, there is enough Valuable information to make it worthwhile. There are chapters on E- - Mail, chat lines, Lesbian sites. andcommercial services, such as CompuServe. There is a scathing chapter on America of you, youn~ an(] old, w]lo are not eo.Jo~t~l,le with the f.t move. ~o,ld of computers and t~e Internet. T~ an a~wer [or you] A~t Ll~ra~ ]~o~ oiler~lnternet e~ [or .Online (AOL). and some of their past problems with the Gay commu~ nity. For youth, there is ~o~mation on some young adult sites, such as Youth Action Online and OutProud! The Advo- : cate and Outmagazines, along with some ¯ other print publications, have websites as : well. The Advocate site has some neat : n.ewsgroup selections, including Small ¯ ~own Queers andGetting RidofthePeople in Congress. There is also .a good chapter on health, not "only for HIV, but for mental health, subsiance abuse and other general topics. For newcomers to the Net, there is a handy glossary in the back. GetOnwith/twill be ahelpful tool for anyoneusing the net. There. are many of you, young and old, who are not comfortablewith thefastmoving world of computers andtheinternet. Thelibrary has an answer for you! Almost all Tnlsa~ City-County Library locations offer free interaea -classes for bbe"gimaers. Also, ff~- . y01i"re miabl~io have aece. - ~ ..to the interact at home or at work, Visit the library, where you can sign up for one hour per day on the free public access interact computers. The library does have afilterwhich will block the sex sites, but you can still access Gay and Lesbian sites for news, travel, politics .and several sites oncomingout. Checkfor Get On with It, and be sure to ask about the free intemet access at local libraries. ¯ thatHGChasbeen acceptedinto theTulsa- Oklahoma City singer Julia Robinson : area UnitedWay family of organizations. by James Christjohn and comedian Jeri James have teamed up to offer a unique style of Lesbian and Gay entertainment. The comedy and singing duowill be taking Julia and Jerl their Show on the road and will appear in Tulsa on September 4 at Renegades, 1649 S. Main, at 11 p.m. "Julia and Jeri are fantastic performers and crowd pleasers. Having thembothin the line-up is like the proverbial ’cherry on top.’ It just couldn’t get any better," says Sandy Eades, owner of Oklahoma City’s Sandman’s Coffee Grounds. Robinson has been singing professionally for more .than three, years. She has a voice oftencomparedto AnitaBaker with the ability to touch the very soul of her audience. James is an Oklahoma City are fantastic performers and e owd pb. ers. Havln~ them both h the lineup is like the proverbial ’cherry on top.’ It ~ust couldn’t ~et any better," says Sandy Eade~, San,l~an’s Coffee Grounds. favorite witha style ofcomedy that brings tears-of laughter while delighting both Lesbians and Gay men. Her rantings on "How to Tell if You,re a Lesbian,’" are whatlegends are madeof. Formoreinformation, contact Jeff James Productions, 405~755-4916. Ken Johnston supervis~xl the production ofa series of notecards to be sold to benefit Tulsa’s only nonprofit hospice organization, Hospice of Green Country (HGC). His artwork is featured on one of the cards. These cards are premiering this September, to coincide with HGC’ s 1 lth anniversary. Hospice is also announcing ¯ Philbrook has "A Taste for Splendor: " Treasures from Hillwood Museum", a display of the treasures of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the heiress to the Post Cereal fortunes, who liked to collect objets d’art, particularly those of Russian decorative art. She Sl~Cifically purchased Hillwood, a neo-Georgian man- "sion on 25acres adjoining Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Park as a showcase for her collection. The exhibit, never before seen outside of Hillwood museum in D.C., runs September 6 - November 1. Sunday September 13 at 2pro, the Archduke Geza von HabSburg will lectureonPeter Carl FabergeandtheHillwood Collection. OnSaturday, September 26 at 6:30pm, Janet and Jack Zinc will host the ¯ Philbrook Gala, and evening in the spirit ¯ ofMM Post. : On Sunday, October 4 at 2pm, a lecture ¯ entitled "Marjorie Merriweather post: ; Collector with a Passion for Beauty" will : be given by Frederick J. Fisher, director ¯ of Hillbrook Museum. Thursday, Octo- ~ bet 29 at 6pm, Anne Odom will present ~ "A Taste for Splendor: Luxury Art in ~ Imperial Russia". Info: 748-5330. ¯ Thefirst show ofthe Tulsa Ballet’ s new ; season is Cinderella intoning September : 18 - 20, for tix call 749-6006. The next ¯ production willbe"Death&TheMaiden", ¯ October 30 - Nov 1. IGTA member Call 341.6866 international Tours:ormoreinformation. AUTHENTIC FRESH ITALIAN RAINBOW CUS1NE TROUT ofEureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! 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" Pager: 918-889-5255 Voice Mail: 918-697-9282 Lic. #(34133 Country Club Barbering Custom Styling . _ fOr Men & Women David Kauskey 3310 E. 51st, 747-0236 Tues.-Fri., 8-5:30, Sat. 8-5pm Better Than Ever, Pride Merchandise, Magazines & More 610-8510 by Mary Scheppers, Do-It-YourselfDyke 8120 East 21 st (21 st+Memorial, next to Boot City) We buy back good used adult magazines. Does the overt heterosexuality of your neighbors get you down? Tired of the bucolic voyeurism that occurs whenever you host the Annual Miss Gay Croquet Tournament? Do you long for privacy in yoOx own yard? Does thatold chainlinkfence clash with your fabulous landscaping? Then, gentle reader, it is time to install that privacy fence. The DIYD whimsically envisions a barebreasted dtaimming circle.., but we digress. Privacy fencing is a majorinvestment, even when you do it yourself, although taking on the labor, as always, results in a substantial savings. If you can persuade yourneighbors to help defray the cost (after all, you are enhancing their privacy and property too), the projectwillbe evenless painful; however, a caveat is in order. If the guy nextdoorhelps pay, he will be tempted- Does the overt heterosexuality of your neighbors get you down? Tired of the bucolic voyeurism that occurs whenever you host the Annual Miss Gay Croquet Tournament? Do you lon~ for privacy in your own yard? ... Then, ~ent]e reader, it is time to install that privacy fenee. The DIYD whlmsleally envlslons a ]~arehreasted drummln~ elrele ... hut we alltess. fence. Now, for your picket choices, in order of expense: white wood pickets have no protection, can be easily stained any color you want, and will not last more thanfiveyears or so, dependingonweather conditions. If money is tight, go with that optionnow,use screws to attach them, then replace them out later when you can afford to, but this is wasteful of time, money and resources. There arenow pre-treated pickets, same as above except that you didn’ t have to stain them. They cost slighdy more. Next option is pressure treated pickets, which have been soaked in pickling compounds topreserve the wood long-term. TheDIYDdoesn’ tcare forthese chemicals and strongly urges you to use gloves when handling them, and a dust mask when sawing the wood. Thepickets were trees only a couple of weeks ago, so they will be heavy and damp no, obliged-tostickhisnoseinandoffer " when you first get them and may warp advice ad nauseum. Usually, this doesn’t ¯ when they dry. Cedar is the creme de la extend to his actually digging a post hole : creme of pickets - beautiful, fragrant, or hel in in an other hysical way. : enduring, lightweight, tough and expen- P g Y" ’ " P " the ¯ ivel It is the DIYD’s oicket of choice, Your next decision is where to put . s u ly side ot me......, ~.................... . . ¯ <~.g;. ~.~a~ ~ho ," ¢ This may seem been ongoing - the htfle lottery fairy h.as ~ike ~no-brainer, but consider your secu- : not blessed her yet, the neighbor.s aren t rity need~. With the stringers on the out- ¯ helping to pay, but what is up is most side, anin,truder has an easy leg up. If your " beautiful. neighbor s yard is secure enough, then by : Once you’ ve chosen your picket type, you can determine your spacing betwee..n" posts. Assuming a six foot fence, you wall need to have eight feet between them for pressure treated pickets and ten feet for the cedar and white wood pickets. Depending on the length of the fence, reducing the number of holes you have to dig may influence your picket choice! Measure the length tbbe fenced, calculatehow many posts you’ll need (don’t forget that lumber length isas nominal as the width mentioned above), andthen calculatehow many stringers you’ll need. Stringers will be 2x4’ s, and there will be three per section. Calculate how many pickets you’ll need. and add a few for a fudge factor. For fasteners, you will use either nails (frown, frown) or screws, and you will use about five per picket. If you choose cedar, be warned that only stainless steel fasteners will work. Cedar has volatile oils and acids that corrode metal and will bleed’black goo down your lovely fence otherwise. We 11 discuss thi alittle more next month and a source will provided for buying a superior fastener. Ifyouhave donethe mathonthis project already, theDIYD will fetch her smelling salts post haste. Wood security fencing is one of the more expensive fencing options, after masonry-and cast iron, but it will increase the value of your home. and ¯ the quality of your life if privacy is an : issue, so do consider the investment until ¯ next month, when we get down and dirty ¯ with our PHDs. And learn that posthole ¯ diggers aren’t your only 0pti,o,n,, either. ¯ Stick with the DIYD, doll; she 11 see you ¯ through the rough times. all means, let them have the homely side of the fence - even if they help pay. After all, you are the poor schlepp out there ¯ doing the donkey work, so reap your ben- ~ efits where you may. ¯ How much privacy do you need? No, ¯ this isn’t your mother questioning you -- through the bathroom door. If you have a ¯ pool orare surroundedby twostory houses, an eightfoot fencemay be more appropri- ¯ ate than the standard six-footer, but keep ¯ in mind that you will be adding substantially to your materials costs, ff you decide to space artistically between your fence pickets, that too is a privacy issue. Decisions, decisions -wait, there are more! You have choices to make about the width of your pickets and the type of wood. Standard widths are4 and 6inches, nominally. Sawmills are allowed to be scandalously generous withwhatis lostin the milling, so a 6 inch board may only be 5-5/8 inches wide. The DIYD personally prefers the wider picket; it is aesthetically more pleasing, it covers more area, and you use fewer fasteners. Woods range from untreated white wood to pressure treated lumber to cedar. Posts and stringers (theboards runningbetween thepost.s) can and shouldbe pressure treated, but the externals are up to you. There is now a metal po.st option, butbe warned that the posts will cost more than double, so think long and hard about whether it is worthwhile. Also, part of the workmustbe done on the other side of the fence, so if you and the Fundies next door detest each other, stick to the wood posts - and stick them with the ugly side Of the by Esther Rothblum There has been a lot of recent media focus on crimes that take place based on victims’ membershipin oppressedgroups. To find out more about anti-Lesbian and Gay hate crimes, I phoned Dr. Jeanine Cogan, apsychologist whohas conducted research and influenced federal policy on this issue. ¯¯Hate crimes are defined legally by specific !egislations," saidJeanine Cogan, "howeverthecommonality across the different pieces of legislation is that hate crimes are crimes that are based on real or perceivedgroupmembership. Usuallythat includes race, ethnicity, national origin, and religion. Sometimes it also includes sexual orientation, disability and gender. Thatmeans you were specifically chosen, sometimes out ofa crowd, because you belonged to or were-thought to belong to, one of the above groups." Along with Drs. Gregory Herek, Roy Gillis and Eric Ginnt at theUniversity of California at Davis, Jeanine worked on a long-term grant funded by the National Institute ofMental Health (in fact, the first grant ever funded by that organization about Gay and Lesbian issues that did not focus on AIDS). The purpose ogthe re= search study was to look at the psychological consequences of having survived an anti-Gay or anti-Lesbian hate crime. The researchteam also predicted that experiencing a hate crime would have more serious consequences than experiencing a crime that was not based on the group membership of the victim. They surveyed more than 2,500 people in the greater Sacramento, California area, including people who lived up to 100 miles away in rural areas. "When we were recruiting participants we never said ¯ please takepartin astudy ofhate crimes,’ because we didn’t want to bias the kind of, personwho wouldparticipatein the study," said Jeanine. Instead, they referred to the study as one examining a range of experiences important to Lesbians, Gay men, and Bisexuals with a focus on health and well-being All members of the research team were familiar members of the Gay and Lesbian communities that-they studied. The research team found that one in four Gay and Bisexual men and one in five Lesbians and Bisexual women had experienced a hate-motivated crime since the age of 16. Jeanine said: "We found that individuals who experienced a hate crime against their person - a physical or sexual assault, an attempted assault, a robbery - had more psychological distress after such a hate crime-than people who experienced a crime of Similar severity that was not aimed at them because of their sexual orientation. We also found a time factor. We know that people who experience a crime tend to be psychologically distressed. And; over time, people recover. In our study, we found that those who had experienced a crime that was not abate crime tended to feel better after two years. But people who experienced a hate crime took much longer - five years on average- for their symptoms to dissipate. So if you’re around someone who experienced a hate-crime years ago, you may still see some symptoms ofdistress."These symptoms of distress could include depression,- post-traumatic stress, anxiety ~ and anger. ¯ Thentheresearch teaminterviewed450 ¯ of the 2,500 respondents. They compared " those who had experienced a hate crime, ¯ those who had experienced a crime un~e- ¯ lated to their sexual orientation, and those ¯ who had experien,c,ed no crime. "We got a ¯ lot of information about hate crimes," ¯ Jeaninesaid, "and those people who had ¯ experienced a bate’crime often defined it ¯ as such based on tangible evidence. For , example, the language that was used - ¯ being called adyke while being assaulted. ¯ Or, the vandalism indicated a hate-moti- ¯¯ vated crime, such as having the word ’Lesbian’ smearedontheirdoorwithpaint. ¯ Or theirs was the only car with a rainbow flag, and the only car damaged in a park- . ing lot." ." Jeanine found that listening to the re- " spondents’ stories was quite frightening ¯ to her. She counseled the other interview- ¯ ers about this fear, a phenomenon that has ¯ been termed "indirect trauma" (for ex- ¯ ample, Lesbians feeling victimized just ¯ by hearing of hate crimes happening to ¯ ¯ other Lesbians). She also found a difference in the way ¯ Lesbians and Gay men were victimized. ¯ "SomeLesbianswerephysically assaulted ¯ by a formermale partner, suchas aformer ; husband, when the Lesbians came out to ~ these men," Jeanine recalled, "We ended ¯ upcallingit’heterosexualrevenge.’ Some ~ -Gay men, on the other hand, were lured to ¯ have sex by other, presumed ’straight’ ] men and then assaulted by these men. "And this. was a pattern we found only ; amongib’~ff.’,..... ¯ Jeanine is now working at the Ameri- ; can Psychological Association in Washington, D.C., where she is involved in ~ changing hate crime policy at thenational ¯ level. "I’ve been working with Sharon ¯ Shaw Johnson, who is the director of ¯ GLOVE-Gay Menand Lesbians Oppos- : ing Violence- and they collecthatecrimes : dataand do interventions. Both ofus have ¯ noticed that it is the butch woman and the ; ’effeminate’ man who are at particular ¯ risk for hate crimes because they defy our ; ideas of gender." ¯ Jeanine’ s policy Workfocuses onbroad- ; ening the definition of hate crimes. As ¯ part of a hate "crimes coalition, she is ¯ ; attempting toamend a current civil rights ¯ statute that canbe used against aperpetra- -" tor who bashes a person based on that ¯ person’s group membership. Sheis trying ; to include sexual orientation~ disability ¯ andgenderinthedefmition ofhatecrimes. ¯ ’q’he real hot pOtato is gender," she says. ~ ’qqae FBI is concerned that if every rape ¯ against a woman is a hate crime, they ¯ don’t have the personnel to cope with the ¯ huge numbers." With a broad-based hate ¯ crimes coalition, Jeanine had many con- ¯. versations with.the Department of Justice abotit the inclusion of gender as a hate ¯ crime. In the end, they supported adding ¯ gender, and President Clinton has en- ¯ dorsed the:Hate Crime Prevention Act ¯ and has put fundsinto the budget formore : FBIagents t6 work on hate crimes. ¯ Jeanine is also thrilled to have been ¯ successful in combining research with : policy. The Bureau of Justice Statistics : conducts an annual survey on criminal i victimization. TheySample 50,000 households in the Lr;S. about crime experiences ] in the past year. see Psyche, p. 14 Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law An Attorney who will fight for justice &equality for Gays & Lesbians Domestic Partnership Planning, Personal Injury, Criminal Law & Bankruptcy 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drumright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointments are available. 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These categories occupy our minds and have wormed their way deep enough into our bodies so that, like my friend, we often feel emotionally queasy when they are challenged: When, for example, we overhear a person who looks boy but talks girl. Male and female, black and white, on or off, dot/ dash, 1/0, straight versus Gay. Even though the world presents us with continuums of difference, we often tidy up these endless chains of variation by squeezing everything into two opposed states or categories. ",in America, despite our Crayola mix of skin colors not to mention our promiscuo. usancestries, many ofus are forced to identify ourselves in terms of a simple For many Americans, trapped wit]fin a cultural order that permits only pink girls and blue-boys, Homosexuals are not kosher. Like ancient Israelites, they define Gays who mix up their categories to be unholy, polluted, unclean, or just downright icky abominations¯ opposition black or wlaite,..., _: _ .. i(-;.~~-. ’-.~. ~m~larly, despite the ~a~ ~om~ s~me geneticists propose the existence of.five or more "real" genders (as defined by. the mix of an individual’ s sex chromosomes, e.g., XY, XX, XXY, XYY, and soforth)~ all of us find ourselves slotted eithermale or female. Just one or the other. You can’ t be neither, and you can’ t be both at once. Binary oppositions of this sort are ubiquitous in human culture. Dualistic structures, certainly, are easy and efficient ways of breaking down the world’ s.complexity, even if nuance and variability get lost beneath gross simplification. The French anthropologistClaude IMvi- Strauss made a career of investigating the basic binary structures he saw as inhabit: ing human culture-and as shaping individual thinking. Dualism almost always demands the existence of a third category; of something in the middle to "mediate" relations between the two opposed sides. Gray stands between black and whitethough with ethnicity, the pertinent color hereis "red," or "high-yellow," or"bright." And many cultural orders admit a variety of "third sexes" or hermaphrodites, real and symbolic, positionedbetween thetwo male/female gender poles. The mediating position is rarely a comfortable one. Individuals who fall through the cracks of dual structures of understanding inhabit a realm of anomaly and abnormality. On the one hand, they are neitherfully malenorfemale; ontheother, they are both male and female. This has positive and negative consequence. Positively~ people who are neither man nor women can serve to bridge the two categories that they fall between. Homosexuals, for example, mediate a series of oppositions in Western society that build on a fundamental masculine/ ; feminine opposition. Thesebinaries range ¯ ~rom agent/patient to culture/nature and ¯ sacred/profane. ¯ -, Cultural theorists find important sym- ¯ bolic functions for intermediateindividuals as’well. Their existence shores up ruling understandings ofmasoflinityandfemininity - to remind people of how tO be "normal" by presenting them with examples of the abnormal. The boy learns how to be a real man by fearing the sissy. But those who fall between cultural crackshave to struggle against cognitive structures that positively value the normal (the real man and true woman) by devaluing the categorically deviant (the sissy boy, the rough girl). Anthropologist Mary Douglas offers an apposite analysis of food taboos demanded by the Old Testament, the so-called"Abominations of .Leviticus." She asks, "Why should the camel, the hare and the rock badger be unclean (or unholy)? Why should some locusts, but not all, be unclean?" Her answer is that, in old Hebrew culture, "holiness was exemplified by com- .pleteness. Holiness requlred::!~i, : ° the class to which they belonged. And ¯ holiness required that different classes of ¯ things not be confused." : The model of good eating, for ancient Israelites, was the cud-chewing ungulate: - herd animals such as cattle, sheep, and ", goats. Other creatures, like the hare and ¯ rock badger, appeared to be ruminant but ¯ were anomalous in that they had paws instead of cloven hooves. And other am- " mals - notably the pig- walked on cloven feet but did not chew cud. Therefore, because pigs and hares violated categorical definitions of the"normal" cud-chew- " ing cloven-hoofed animal, they were un- ¯ clean. Jewish food taboos reflected a cosmo- ¯ logical system that defined as unholy and ¯ inedible any animal who appeared abet- ¯ rant or "mixed" in terms of ruling cat- ¯ egorical structures. ¯ Insofar as wecontinue to slice the world ¯, up into male versus female, we too may ¯ feel queasy when we come across bits of ¯ reddity that escape our structures ofunder- ¯ standing. For many Americans, trapped : within a cultural order that permits only ¯ pinkgirls and blue boys, homosexuals are ¯" not kosher. Like ancient Israelites, they ¯ define Gays who mix up their categories ¯ to be unholy, polluted, unclean, or just ¯ downright icky abominations. ¯ This comes fromliving inside theprison ¯ house ofculture-ofmindlessly accepting ¯ dualistic constraints on thought and emo- ~ tion. But cultural systems do change over ¯ time, and they may be challenged and ¯ restructured. Shake up those cultural cat- : egones a little and pigs become good to ¯ eat. And so do delicious boys who can ¯ sound like girls. ¯ Larnont Lindstrom is a professor of ¯ anthropology at the University of.Tulsa. since the virus.may be immune to them, too. However, staying on treatment isn’t easy. It often means taking 15 or 20 pills a day on a precise schedule. Some must go downonanempty stomach, some onafull one. They must be taken at just the right time around the dock. Many trigger nasty side effects, such as diarrhea, h~daches, insomnia, stomach pains, numbness in the fingers and toes and an odd-looking rearrangement of body fat that leaves people with potbellies and wasted arms. As the medicines do their job, HIV symptoms disappear. In time, people feel perfectly well except for the side effects of their pills. This makes sticking with them evenharder. "It was never so easy to be adherent as when I yeas on the brink of serious illness," says Scan Strub, 40, of New York City. "I couldn’t wait for my next dose. As I felt better longer, the treatment became more of an intrusion, and the side effects were more bothersome." Strub, who is publisher of Poz, a magazine for HIV-infected people, went on a trip andforgothis pills. So he decided to stop taking them for a couple of weeks, just to see what would happen. Within 10 days, he felt sick again. A blood test showed his virus level, which had been undetectable, spiked to over a million. Backon therapy,it’ s now downto 30,000. "I definitely made a mistake," he admits. Some people are resistant to individual components of the AIDS cocktail, often because they took them as single drugs before the cocktail was created. Many are 1ong-infected treatmentpioneers, eager to try each new drug that comes along. For instance, Nick Houpis, 43, of Boston, has taken 10 ofthe 11 approved AIDS medicines. The lowest his viral load ever dropped was 37,000. Now it’s 440,000, and this summer he had his first bout with an AIDS-related illness. ’q’hcre arc an awful lot of us who are just a little bit too late," he says. "I don’t think they will come up with something that will make miracle stories out of us." ¯ S.om.e appear to suffer because of phyr Slclan incompetence, too. For instance, doctors may err by adding a protease inhibitor to two other medicines their pa- ¯ tients are already taking, instead of starting themon three fresh drugs. This greatly increases the risk of rampant resistance. AIDS-care has become so complicated, many believe, that it now should be done ¯ only by specialists who know how to : avoid such potentially fatal mistakes. ¯ Once someone fails AIDS treatment, : the next step is what doctors call salvage therapy - the art of crafting a second ¯ attempt to knock down the virus. They ¯ may prescribe five or six drugs at once. : "You end up with a kitchen sink ap- ¯ proach," says Dr.. Kenneth Mayer of ¯ Brown University. "You try to pull to- " gether every possible combination to keep ¯ the virus in check." Willis is an extreme example, of this. Gallanthas himonsevenanti-AIDS drugs, plus an assortment of others to ward off AIDS-related infections. Once aweek, Willis hauls out an orange. crate of big white pill bottles and counts outhis week’s dosage. Hetakes afistful of pills with breakfast, another handful with dinner; anda couple.more at bedtime, 35 in all. "I’ve just made it part of my life," Willis says. "I don’t really have any options. If I’m dead, I know that my options are limited." Along withmany other advocates, Jeanine was successful¯in getting this survey to includequestions about hate crimes. This will allow for. national statistics about hate crimes over the next years. Documenting the prevalence of an issue is an essential step for receiving an appropriate government response. So this will be all important contribution. 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US House Votes t.o Limit City’s Update : WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite charges of bigotry and interfer~ ence in local government, the House in July voted to prohibit the : s.pe.nding .of fed.eral, money o.n programs implementing a civil AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - From skimpily clad revelers to Bible-toting evangelists, the Gay Games are drawing an eclecdc crowd for weeklong festivities ce,!ebrating Gay pride and culture. With the,,theme Friendship Through Culture and Sports, the quadrennial Olympics-style sports festival begins Saturday, offering competitors everything from ballroom dancing to wrestling and more cerebral pastimes such as bridge and chess. This is the first time the Gay Games are being held in Europe since they beganin San Francisco in 1982. New York City was the site ¯ of the last Games ¯ in 1994; Sydney, ¯ site of the Summer Olympics in 2000, ¯ will have the first ¯ Tulsan CliffBaileyis compet- southern hem|¯ ing in this year’s Gay Games .sphere Gay Games ¯ in Amsterdam, accompanied in 2002. The opening ¯ by his spouse Chris Ritthaler. night’s ceremony ¯ will feature the Israeli transsexual pop star Dana ¯ International, who gained fame- and notoriety-in ¯ May after winning the 25-nation Eurovision song ¯ contest and incensing Orthodox Jewish leaders at ¯ home. ¯ Some 30 competition sports will be available at ¯ these games, which run through Aug. 8. But with" out top-level athletes, they threatened to be eclipsed ¯ by the many parties outside the stadium. ¯ Amsterdam is renowned for its tolerance and its ¯ lively Gay community, so these games are almost ~:. inconspi~ug~s, ap.ar~ [rg~ so,me posters and a few ~ more same:~e~couples than USUal-:strolling arm-in¯ arm a!Orig the canals. With up to 14,000 participants and 200,000 visi¯ tors in town, the Dutch capital is about to be ¯ transformed into the ultimate Gay hangout with ¯ enough temptations to satisfy even the most vigor. ous partygoer. There are transvestite shows and ¯ drag queen contests. For the more athletic, there’s ¯ even oil wrestling. One top attraction officially has nothing to do ¯ with the Gay Games: Saturday’s yearly canal pa: rade of decorated boats. Games organizers prom- ised a flotilla of Gays and Lesbians on the city’s ¯ famous medieval waterways. But not everyone ¯ will be party-hopping. For the straight-laced and intellect’ual types-; there are plenty of alternatives, including art exhibits, symposiums on Gay and ¯ Lesbian issues, and cooking shows. ¯ Participants might get a dose of religion. Up to ¯ 100 representatives from the international evange¯ lism group Youth With a Mission plan to stage [ C.hristian-themed street dramas and pray with par¯ Uopants. "God wants to care for people whether ¯ they are homosexuals or heterosexuals," YWAM ¯ spokeswoman Nelleke Bosshardt said. Sigrid Johannisse of the Netherlands, who will ". be competing in the badminton competition, said ¯ she’s searching for fun and friendship. Even so, she ¯ hopes the Gay Games one day will disappear as Gays become more accepted. ¯ Although heterosexuals are welcome to com" pete, few do, triggering criticism within the Gay ¯ community that the games createneedless segrega¯ don. "! hate all the separation," said Johmmisse, a ¯ 33-year-old art historian. "in sports, there isn’t so ¯ much integration.., it was just easier to play with ¯ Gay people." ¯ Eddy Feenstra has a more carefree attitude as he ¯ prepares to compete in ballroom and Latin Ameri¯ can dancing with partner Tonny Aliens. Girding ¯ for victory, Feenstra says "I am doing it for the ¯ fun," he said. "I would also like to show off what I ¯ am good at." !Partner Benef,ts to Gays Sapulpa Teen Flees Bias SAPULPA, Okl~ (AP) - The 17-year-old son of a local school board member has faced threats and harassment because of his sexual orientation, but the boy’s father said his other children will remain in the suburban district. Will .Allen, a junior at Sapulpa High School, will attend Tulsa W~hington High School when the fall semester begins Aug. 12. The family requested the transfer in February, his father, Sam Allen, said. Allen said Will has been vexed and tormented by his ~.2assmates for the past two years because of his sexual Orientation. ;The Allen family appeared recently on NBC’s "The Today Show"; and Will encouraged other young Gay men and women to confide in people with whom they felt comfortable. ’T ve had many Gay friends who have been kicked out of their homes, treated very poorly - physical abuse," he said. "The first thing you should do .is find somebody, maybe,not your parents, who you know and feel positive that ~hey can give you the support that you need." Will was in Michigan at amusic academy and was not available for comment. Sapulpa school officials issued a news release that stated the district"does not condoneor tolerate harassment of students for anyreason)’"We have comprehensive board policies_’m,,P!ace on sexual harassment and a : rights o_r.dinznce m .S.an Francasco. The measure, offered by Rep. o Frank Ri.g.gs, .R.-Calif., was approved 214-212 as an amendment : to a sPe~.ding bill for hous..rag, veterans programs, environmental ¯ protecaon, space and funding for the arts. : Supporters said they hoped to get the provision removed ¯ during negotiations to reconcile the House bill with a yet-to-be " approved Senate version. The Riggs amendment prohibits any ¯ money in the $94 billion spending bill to be used to implement a San Francisco ordinance that requires employers doing bus|¯ ness withthecity toprovidehealthandotherbeuefits to same-sex ¯ partners. "We should not force or coerce (private business) to ¯ adopt policies they t-rod morally objectionable," Riggs argued in ¯ a heated debate. ¯ Rep. Patrick K.,e~n,edy, D-R.I., called it a "mean-spirited, bigoted amendment’ and other opponents said it was an assault ¯ onlocalautonomy."Italtacks homernleinevery city in America," ¯ declared Rep. Dennis KucinidL D-Ohio, a former mayor of : Cleveland. "It’s a move back to the days of witch hunting, back ¯ to the days of telling people what they should and should not do," ¯ complained Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill. He said the amendment ¯ threatens programs in San Francisco that help the homeless and ¯ the treatment of AIDS patients as well as scores of other programs : that rdy in part on federal support. ¯ Rep. Nancy Pelts|, D-Calif., said the city negotiated with ~" Catholic Charities, which had balked at the ordinance, and ¯ reached an accommodation, and compromises were expected to be worked out with other businesses. "I don’t know why Mr. ¯ Riggs wants to create a war," she said in strong opposition to the ¯ measure. Pelts|, who represents SanFrancisco, called the amend" ment an affront to home rule and Said "the city of San Francisco ’~ is not forcing anyone to act against their principles?’ ¯ More than adozen lawmakersspoke emotionally against the .: amendment, . see Attack, p. 3 ~. Surgeon .General Compares ,:=,. ~’. I~ I~l I~|n I~’~ ~ |1 #11 l~-" m-L a.__. I~-~-- -~ -- ....... ~i~y ~Dt~d, 16b.ai aiad national president~tf~~ ~by-~a~’M~kla¢ " - " ~ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, : WASHINGTON (AP) - Recalling his childhood in the segrearranged for the television appearance. Will’s situation ¯ gated South, Surgeon General David Satcher compared the fight is cotfimon for homosexual teen-agers, Ms. McDonald : against AIDS, which is hitting the Black community hard, to the said. "Some (schools) are doing a great job, and some -’: struggle for civil rights. Speaking to one of nation’s oldest civil are sticking their heads in the sand," she said. "We’re .: rights groups, he called on Black leaders to reject stereotypes just beginning to work with Tulsa-area schools." ¯ around AIDS, overcome shyness about sex and confront the Allen said he had no complaints about the Sapulpa [ issue. ’‘This is an area where we again need to mobilize," Satcher, district and said his two other children will continue to ." who is Black and grew up in Alabama, told the Southern Chrisattend Sapulpa schools. He also has no plans to step : tian Leadership Conference in a speech Tuesday. ’Tm talking to down from the school board. ’‘The community support ¯ you about you." has been wonderful," he said. While Blacks make up 13% of the U.S. population, they ¯ account for 57% of the new infectious, according to the federal Family of Faith to Present :¯ the CentersforDiseaseControlandPrevention.Amongsomegroups, statistics are even more striking: Blacks and Hispanics make Noted Christian Singer : up 82% of HIV-positive women ages 13 to 24. And life-prolong- TULSA -Marsha Stevens, composer of For Those " ing AIDS drugs are helping whites more than Blacks. In 1996, Tears I Died (Come to the Water), will perform a free ¯ deaths among whites with AIDS were down 28%; for Blacks, it concert at Family of Faith Metropolitan Commlmity ¯ was just 10%. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s new presiChurch on Saturday, Sept.. 5th at 7:30 at 5451e South ¯ Mingo as wall as at Family of Faith’s regular Sunday ¯ dent, Martin Luther King III, underscored the difficulty of AIDS ¯ education, saying he is not comfortable promoting use of conevemng service on Sept. 6th at 5pm. Stevens’ song, For Those Tears... has become a " doms. "The only way is abstinence," he said in an interview after standard of evangelical Christian hymnals since 1972 ¯ Satcher’s speech. "Sex should not be something that we just even though the songwriter experienced rejection and : casually engage in and take lightly." The solution, King said, is scorn from part of the church since she came out as a ¯ restoring fundamental values to society. He said AIDS is an Lesbian. Active in the Universal Fellowship of Metro- ¯ important issue, although it is not among his top priorities. Satcher did not recommend any particular prev end on strategy. politan Community Churches (UFMCC), Stevens performs over 150 concerts a year and has recorded six solo " But he and other public health experts agree that use of condoms" albums and a concert video on her independent BALM ¯ is essential to halt the spread of HIV among people who are not (Born Again Lesbian Music) labd. She now ministers : likely to abstain from sex. The surgeon general will hammer the ~ AIDS message in upcoming speeches to Black journalists and with the SW UFMCC district. Info: 622-1441. DIRECTORY/LETrERS US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT NOTES COMMUNITY CALENDAR BOOK REVIEW DO-IT-YOURSELF DYKE PSYCHE CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 2/3 P. 4 p. 6~ P.8 P. 9 P. 10 P. 11 P.:I2 P. 14 " ¯ doctors, and he plans to reach out to other groups such as Black ¯ fraternities, sororities and newspapers. ¯ But his speech to church leaders was particularly important. ¯ Churches play a central role in many Black communities, and ¯ ministers are, often among the most prominent community lead,: ers. But church leaders have been reluctant to talk about AIDS ¯ because it relates so closely to sex and homosexuality, Satcher ¯ says. The issue is also thorny because of its relationship to drug ¯ use, amajor probleminside the Black community withits own set ¯ of taboos, see Surgeon, p.ll �Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants 832-1269 *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 592-2143 *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston 744-0896 *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 599-9512 *Empire Bar, 1516 S. 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The Associated Press Issued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of.this K~v,ublication are protected by US copyright 1998 by T~ ~ 4and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspon-~. dence is assumed to be for publication unless_otherwise noted,_r~ust be signed & becomes th~ sole prbpeity ofTi~ Each reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at distribution points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248. Thanks for your paper. It is a welcome relief from the crosstown neo-fascist infotainment weekly, i particularly enjoyed last issue’s cover story about Senator Nickles,presumably the selfsame Senator once known for closeting himself with a reputedly Gay [Oklahoma] . fellow politico, but who now wishes to protect the Luxembourgians from the possibility of an "immoral" ambassador. From what I understand, the Luxembourgians are much less concerned with the comings and goings .in an ambassador’s, boudoir than is Sen. Nickles. As a politically leftist straight older male, I naturally fmd common cause with the Gay community: when the good Senator and the Right good Rev. Phelps get finished with the queers, they’ll be after me next. I applaud your efforts to establish dialogue with straightminority groups who have themselves been the targets of bigotry an discrimination. If we learn nothing more from History, at least we should know that solidarity is the only hope for the oppressed, and perhaps the best defense from the excessively repressed. This town needs a paper that gives voice to all those outside the power elite, performing the traditional role of the Fourth Estate: to hold our governments accountable for their actions, and to protect the liberties of the individual. 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Not allare Gay~owned but all are Gay-friendly. ¯ cations will be printed as is appropriate. 743 -4297 *Council Oak Men’s Chorale �Rev, Howard vs the Evil Steve by Tom Neal, editor & publisher ". Severalyears ago whenUS Congressman Steve Largent " by James Christjohn ¯ and they still want me. Another time, I was copying some firstranforoffice, this newspapermet withLargent, athis ¯ Greetings! Welcome to a new occasional colunm, one ¯ recipes out of a book in the office, when the same sister request, andafterwards I argued, despiteLargent’s record ¯ that I hope you will fred interesting. The focus is to ; noticed and said, "Oh, you like to cook? You’ll make of bigoted,.anti-Gay comments and his association with " comment on the world around us with the perspective of ¯ some wo - person a wonderful hus - mate." radical extremist religio~political groups, for an initial ¯ being a Gay man in a diverse world. Topics will have a ¯ Well, the cat was definitely coming out of the closet policy of tolerance for Herr Largent. I’d hoped that ¯ wide range, from frivolity to high drama to serious issues ¯ then. Shortly thereafter, I met my future mate, and all of Largent might just really believe in real Christian and " that affect us all. In this exploration, the question will ¯ a sudden, there was much curiosity about my life, which American values of loving and respecting not only your " always be: What exactly is a Gay lifestyle? I kept sidestepping, still fearing I could lose neighbor but also the US Constitution. He sure tried to I had an acquaintance once remark to me a job. It came to ahead one evening when I sweet-talk us that way. "I don’t approve of your lifestyle, but I like was drawing plans of Tom’ s apartment, and And to be fair, Steve did agree to a town hall meeting " you." My first thought was "Well, I don’t dragged, trying to figure out how to combine stuff, with Tnlsa’s Lesbian and Gay community - something " approve of your lifestyle, but I accept it as furniture, etc. Cyndee, the boss, came over kicking and none of his predecessors had ever done, certainly not the ¯ part of you without comment: Who the hell and was looking over my shoulder. She Idiot Congressman Inhofe (now US Senator and in comare you to judge me?" Before I did so, I sereamina, out noted I had not drawn another bed, and petition with Ernest " thought to myself, ’q’hat is not her rational remarked "So, where ya golma put your of the closet Istookfor mostembar- " mind speaking, it’s her brainwashing combed? or are ya gonna sleep with him?" It rassing Oklahoman in by two very ing through. She doesn’t know any better. was so surprisingly I my only response was Washington) but not ¯ She knows not what she speaks." I had to -- .... u hhh ~ ana men to oraw in a bed real fast. curious Baptist even the Democrat, " ponder that for a while. It was terribl y temptIt was utterly silly, and she was letting me Jim Jones, who’d held " ing to ask, "Does your brain know what your women from know that she knew and it was no big deal, the seat before. ¯ mouth is saying?" .she had known, and now I knew she knew. Q)dessa-latlon, But obviouslyI was " I began pondering: what the hell is a Gay After that, the questions were exhaustwrong. Nomatter how " lifestyle, anyway? There are perceptions, Texas ¯ ing. The next year was one big Gay 101 Largent may want to usually starting witha"mis", that the straight And despite all Question and Answer session, as I ,desee himself as just a world has of Gay folk, and our so called mythified Gayhood (Gaydom?) to them and nice guy, he’s chosen " lifestyles, such as apparently we spend 90% " my f~ars~ did no small amount of education. Cyndee to promote rdigious " of our time in Gay bars in the pursuit of sex. even shielded me from a stalker who’d extremism and to surI know.that there are some folk who like to become obsessed with me, and nearly had round himself with " go clubbing, straight and Gay, I know some happened. him arrested for calling the business repeatfolks so bigoted that " folk who do drugs, straight and Gay, I know edly. That was not fun, but it was notable in they make him look a " some folk who are promi.scuous (yes, even x the way she was ready to defend me. They leh, they were came littlebit~m,oderate. His ." years into the AIDS epidemic), again, both from Irish stock, and Cyndee mad was chief of staff, Terry straight and Gay, - and I know many folk a sight to avoid. very qulch to US Rep. Steve Largent making Allen, thepoliticalex- " who do none of those things. Yet, in the And I became the one to turn to when tell me I those endorsement dollars by tremist calling the " straight world, we are all lumped under a Annie, the other sister, was planning parshowing offhis son in his Hanes plays for our football ." stereotype of eternal drugging, drinking, ties. Which she did. A lot. I was the one replaced underware. Yep, Steve and some hall-of-famer, comes ¯ slutty behaviors. Why is this, and.do we drafted into helping her do artsy-crafty things another of those Republicans sure know to mind. Actually " need to hire publicity firms to turn the image for her parties, and when she was selecting Steve’s not moderate ¯ around? about those family values. new furniture, I was always asked for deGay man . . . but his staff is openly ¯ I tend to think that theimagecan be turned sign opinions. I guess it’s part of the Gay arotmd,though it will mked~ne, ~aad lots of patiehee: The ¯ gene, that interior d(sign comes with it. (I really had no hate~:.t.o~ir Lesbian aod Gay constituents while Steve ¯ woman I referred to before may have a different image of .... a~’[d.~t~tu§~ly is polite. " talent forit, but it was a misconception that wouldil’t die. Now Steve et al will argue that their radicalism is just : Gay people than what she’d been brainwashed into beNo matter how hard I tried to dispel the myth that not all repres.enting the views of the First District (which is more ¯ lieving because we knew each other. Maybe not a magic Gay men had impeccable taste, even to the extent of or less Tnlsa county). But as a nearly lifelong Tnlsan (my ." transformation, but a little logic, here and there,:can add describing my past relationships.) f,am~ly moved here from Oklahoma City in 1960), I just Thus was I drug, kicking and screaming, out of the ¯ don t ihink So. Yes, wedo have a sufficiency of Baptists, For example, I worked for three years in a physical closet by two VerY curious Baptist women from OdessaMethodism, and also those no-name, make-it-up-as-you- ¯ therapy office, for two small.town Baptist womenl It was lation, Texas. And despite all my fears, nothing bad go-along~they-claim-they-areChriStians, many of whom ¯ a nice job, and I liked them, so I didn’t talk about myself happened. In fact, when I left, they were very quick to tell ¯ seem to think that their faith demands that they hate their much for fear of losing thejob:! was rather silly. TI~ first me I was being replaced with another Gay man, who’d nexgt~bor as tlaey would be loved. Or.who engage in the actually made a pass at their very handsome but terribly ¯ day f worked there, "a client came in and demanded that profoundly insincere rhetoric of claiming "to love the ¯ one of the "purty wimmin" do his therapy because he straight brother. Apparently, the strategy worked. person and to hate the ’sin’:" Often one wonders if these didn t want no pansy-assed faggot to touch him. Well, I had a point in all this somewhere. Oh yes, it is by types on meeting Christ would not reject Him as a "long- ¯ we were both nonplused. I thought I was pretty low key, events like these - and not being afraid to be who we are hairedcommie, pinko-fag." ¯¯ having left the bright, hotpinkneon"Queer Here" sign at - that this whole mythification of what we are can be But I don’t believe that these types represent the home. ¯changed. It’s not always the loud voices that help create ¯ majority of Tulsans, and regardless, given the values of After h~ left, one of the sisters begged me not t6 quit, change, sometimes it’s the whisper on the wind. And in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, ¯ saying their clients were not all like that, and he was an that way, everyone can help make long-lasting changes minority civil fights are not supposed to be subject to the exception, not a rule. Wall, I thought, at least they know, for.the benefit of all. tyranny of the majority. And I believe that many Tulsa " Baptists, Methodists, Jews, Muslims, Pagans and non, " believers recognize that once the power of the govern- ¯ merit is used to promote a particular religious agenda, ¯ each tradition could be targeted just as Lesbian mad Gay " characterizingit as an attack on the rights of Gay citizens There were concerns expressed regarding the cost ($15/ citizens are the target du jour. ’ and a federal imposition on local rule. Only Riggs-vigorreport) and it was decided to handle it similar to the way So, it is with some relief to learn that a brave soul, the ’ ously supported it during the debate, we handle our $25 volunteer training fee. Scholarships Reverend Howard Plowman, retired Methodist pastor, "It’s a message amendment .... It will unquestionably are offered for training to anyone who request one and has announced his willingness to face the football bully.. encourage intolerance," said Rep. Henry Waxman, DRAIN will pay the report fee for any volunteer, so that no According to The Yellow Dog Democrat, the newsletter ¯ Calif. The San Francisco ordinance has been criticized by one is prevented from volunteering due to the cost. of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, Rev. Howard will ¯ some businesses as well as nonprofit orgamzadons inAll decisions for volunteer eligibility are made at the challenge the ,hard-core Christian Coalition which has ¯ cluding Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army. "The discretion of the RAIN coordinator and any grievances done a disservice to all political parties..." He adds, "1 " SalVation Army, which refused to buckle to city policy, against the policy or any decision made my the RAIN resent them taking a Christian name and pretending-to: ] forfeited $3.5 million of its $18 million budget," said coordinator may be taken up with me. I hope that current have no other agenda..." Plowman, 73 years old, with .. Riggs, because it didn’t want to comply with the city RAIN volunteers will understand RAIN’s mission of kids and grandkids, went to Tulsa Public Schools, TU and " ordinance on domesdc partner benefits. providing a compassionate response to HIV/AIDS through SMU’s Perkins School of Theology. The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national education and service has not changed. We appreciate the This newspaper certainly agrees that the so-called ¯ Lesbian and Gay political organization, called the amendlove and concern shown by our volunteers and we are Christian Coalition has done a disservice to all Ameri- ¯ ment "the latest salvo in fight-wing attacks .against Gay grateful that men, women and children living with HIV/ cans who believe in real religious freedom and have " people." "The amendment is a thinly veiled attempt to AIDS are willing to risk letting strangers into their lives respect for America’s rich diversity. And I applaud Rev. " attack San Francisco and micromanage the city," said by asking for a RAIN team. Howard and his spouse and family for being willing to ¯ Winnie Stachelberg, the political director for the Human - Pam S. Cross, MPH, Executive Director stand up against the Evil Steve. Tulsa deserves better. ¯ Rights Campaign. ¯ Editor’s note: More information is available about In another action of interest to the Gay community, the Plowman ’for Congress by writing to 3617 East 48th " House decided to reduce money it had allocated ¯ Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74.135. see Attack, p. 13 Thus I notlang In fact, when I �No Gays or Singles to Adopt in Arkansas LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A state board that sets standards affecting foster care has approved a requirement that prohibits private agencies from placing children with homosexual.or unmarried heterosexual adults. The new rule must undergo a public comment period before becoming effective. Rules have not been written for public foster care agencies, said Joel Landreneau, a lawyer for the licensing unit of the s tate Human Services Department. The state has some 2,700 to 2,800 children in foster care. In the past, the ruleshave been silent on homosexual or single heterosexual foster parents. Along with passing the new rule, the Child Welfare Agency Review Board discussed the possibility of an exemption for unmarried heterosexuals. Board member James Balcom of Paragould said agencies could use single people by applying for an exemption called alternative compliance. Bob West of Little Rock, also a board meml~er and the only dissenter, said he believes there will be many requests for exemptions. "I don’t think you can exclude anyone just because they’re single," he said. "I really think it should be up to the local agencies who is qualified to be a foster parent. I just think it has to be done on a case-by-case basis.’" Board member Robin Woodruff of Little Rock proposed the prohibition, saying "I would like for our children to have a mom role model and a dad role model." After the meeting, Ms. Woodruff said she had been told that the Centers for Youth and Families had placed at least one child with a Gay family and had other such families waiting. Kay Kimbrough, the centet"s service administrator for adolescent services, said her agency doesn’t inquire rote foster parents’ sexuality. "That is not an issue for us, asfar as gender of parents. We don’ t have a policy or practice that dictates whether we place kids in that type family," Ms. Kimbrough said. "We don’t make a practice to determine whether a family is heterosexual or homosexual." At the board meeting, Chris Pyle, family life issues Aiai.~.On f~o~ Q.o,v..~Mike Huckabee~ said the. govemgr supports-applying the principle of foster parents being heterosexual married couples. Pyle said Arkansas law prohibits marriages between members of the same sex. He said Huckabee believes "it is not in the best interest of children for them to be placed in an environment that.the Legislature has specifically and purposely removed from legal sanction and recognition." "I think there are a lot of foster children out there and not enough foster parents, and we may run into trouble if.we try to limit it to couples only," said West, a pediatric medical consultant who works for the state Health Department. AssistantAttorney General Karen Wallace, a lawyer for the board, had recommended the board stick with the standards as written. She said she.had concerns about equal protection and discrimination. New England Lesbian Wins Bias Lawsuit BOSTON (AP) - A judge has awarded $906,000 to a Lesbian who managed a state social services agency, ruling she was the victim of job discrimination. Middlesex Superior Com’tJudge Sandra Hamlin ruled that Lowell-based Community Teamwork Inc., the state’s second-largest .anti-poverty agency, had no good reason fire Patrica Weber. Hamlin added that Weber was "eminently more qualified" man the CTI’ s director, the man who was picked over her by the agency’s board of directors. Hamlin, who said a "sexist attitude" prevailed at CTI, also ruled that the reasons given for Weber’ s firing were "a pretext." "I feel vindicated," Weber, 49 told the Boston Herald. "What they did to me was wrong. I’m glad the !aw feels that way too. Employers can’ t fire people for nothing-because they don’tlike them, or they’re the wrong sex or whatever." Cheryl Cronin, CTI’s lawyer, said the agency is appealing. !~We are c~,,n~,~dent that CTI will ultimately prevail in this matter,’ she said. CTI provides a range of services,including housing, education and daycare to low-income residents of 38 communities from Lowdl to Framingham. Weber, who worked for CTI for 18 years, was fired in March, 1996 during a meeting with Executive Director Jim Canavan. A month later, when she applied for unemployment benefits, she learned the reason for her dismissal was listed as "inability to do her job." Hamlin said inca 38-page ruling that CTI retaliated against Weber for filing a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination by refusing to provide her areference. Weber was turned down for dozens of jobs, before accepting one that cut her pay nearly in half. "Weber’s past work history while at CTI reveals only a dedicated, bright, hardworking employee,".the judge wrote. "Nothing whatsoever in the evidence supports defendant’ s contention that Weber’ s inability to perform led to her termination.’" "May your constant love be urith us, Lord as we ~t our hope in you.n- Ps. 33:21 In God’s Love God’s love promises hope for tomorrow and peace for today. Free yourself of your burdens. Come sl~are in the bounty of God’s love with us each Sunday at 10:45 am. CbiMren Are Always Welcome! Community.Church ~623 N. iaplewood of Greater Tulsa 918/838-1715 Tennessee Lesbian Wins Child Custody NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-Gay activists hope the case of a Wilson County Lesbian who was granted custody of one of her children marks a trend in Tennessee. Pat Finn was awarded sole custody of her 9-year-old daughter this month by a judge in Wilson County. Her second child, a teen-age son, chose to live with his father, who was awarded sole custody of the boy. ’Tm glad this has been brought to light," said Bev Clendenen of Nashville, director of the Lesbianand Gay Community Center. "This reconfirms that Gay mothers are good mothers. Like everything, there are good apples and bad. You should be judged not on your sexuality, but rather what kind of mother you are.;" Pa~ck Sullivan, Finn’s ex~husband, plans to appeal. I thought it was the greatest injustice in the s/ate of Tennessee," he said. ’q-his case is about her being a neglectful mother and very little about the homosexuality." He said he opposes:his ex-wife’ s Lesbian relationship and does not wanthis daughter exposed to it "It is about discrimination of me as a father trying to get custody of his children," he said of the ruling. Finn, a registered nurse, was married to Sullivan for 17 years. She and her female partner have formalized their relationship with a commitment ceremony and exchange offings. Finn believes she won custody of her daughter because she was judged on the facts and not politics, public sentiment or the judge’s personal preferences about family life. "I realized the odds were against me, but I told my " daughter I wasn’t doing anything wrong and I needed to show her I would fight to keep her," Finn said. ’T m thesame mother. I’m the same woman who has been raising children for 16 years." Can A Lesbian Win A Seat in Congress? MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) - Grethe Cammermeyer, a daughter of the Nazi resistance in Norway and a decorated Vietnam veteran who battled her own government, has jumped headlong into a new challenge: The retired Armycolonel, who wryly calls herself "one of the most famous Lesbians in the country" after her successful fight to stay in the military, is rtmuing for Congress. Cammermeyer, 56, has never held public office. Her Gay civil-rights fight - recounted in "Serving in Silence," a book and made-for-TV movie = made her a celebrity. Glenn Close, who starred in the movie, its producer Barbra Streisand and other show-business notables have contributed to her campaign. She’s favored to win the Democratic nomination Sept. 15. That would pit her against two-term Republican Rep. Jack Metcalf on Nov. 3. Metcalf, who says this is his last campaign, was boosted to victory two years ago by absentee voters in the traditionally Democratic 2nd District. 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Main St. Suite 308 Tulsa, OK 74119 Office (918i 582-7748 Pager (918) 690-0644 Fax (918) 582-2444 year is a benchmark for proud, out Lesbians," says ¯ The religious emblems awarded by Unitarimas Kathleen DeBold, polifical director of the Victory Fund, ¯ a Washington, D.C., group that backs Lesbians and ¯ are also presented by several other religious groups, Gays for public office. "Grethe is so admired, both for ¯ including the Roman Catholic Church, ant many her record in the military and for her willingness to stand ¯ Protestant, Jewish and Muslim denominations. The up and fight homophobia," says state Rep. Ed Murray, ¯ emblems differ from the merit badges that are earned for mastering a specific task, but can still be . a Seat-de Democrat who’s Gay. ¯ worn on scouts’ ufiiforms as badges of honor. Cammermever earned national attention with her In recent years, the Boy Scouts has drawn fire fight to stay in ~e Washington National Guard. She was ¯ from human rights groups and a number of relif!red, in 1992.after disclosing her sexual orientation ¯ gious organizations for its view of homosex ,u~l, ity aunng a 1989 Interview for a security clearance as chief nurse of the National Guard. A federal judge ordered her ¯ and refusal to admit Gay scouts and leaders. We resp.ect other peopl e’ s rights to dis agree wi th us and reinstated in 1994; the government did not appeal. On the campaign trail, she doesn’t talk Gay civil ¯: we simply ask people to respect our rights as a rights. At an ice cream social held by Skagit County ¯ private voluntary orgamzation," Gregg Shields. national spokesman for the Scouts, said. Democrats earlier this month, Cammermeyer spoke ¯ But in its manual distributed to tecn-agers, the about education, health care, the environment and countering a Republican Congress she considers radical and : associadonmakes it clear thatit does not agree with heartless. "I am not a politician," she told The Associ- ¯ the Boy Scouts’ view. The manual describes the ated Press. "I’m an everyday person who has a health- ¯ Unitarians’ "ongoing concern regarding the homophobic and discriminatory attitudes of the care background and an education background. I am a mother, a grandmother and served in Vietnam. I have : nationalleadership of the Boy Scouts of America.’" Since then, letters have gone back and forth had thebest and the worst of social experience." ¯ between the two sides, leaving Buehrens wi th the Cammermeyer was born in Oslo, Norway, to a doctor ¯ and a nurse who sheltered underground resistance fight- ¯ hope that the dispute can be resolved by a mee.ting with Boy Scouts officials this fall. ers in World War II. A now familiar tale has her mother "I’m perfectly willing to sit down with the Boy shuttling weapons to the Nazi resis,_t~_,ce by hiding them ¯ beneath the mattress in Grethe s baby buggy. ¯ Scouts, but I also need to be very clear that they are in grave danger of having much of America’s Cammermeyer was 9 when she came to the United : mainstream religious community concerned abom States with her parents and three brothers. She became : the way in which they are acting," Buehrens said. a eitizen in 1960. Ntlrsing meshed well with her military ambitions, she has said, because it was a job she could take to the batflefront. She served in the military 31 years, including active duty in Vietnam. She earned the Bronze Star. for treating wounded soldiers in the. Tet Offensive in 1968. She has four grown sons from her ¯ HONOLULU (AP) - Opponents of a proposed marriage to a fellow officer she met while serving in : state constitutional amendment that would ban Germany. same-sex marriage are criticizing a pro-amendShe’s wall aware why she.has such ready name , ment television ad featuring professional football recognition. :But the personable, 6-foot-tall : player Reggie White. .Cammermeyer - whose first name, short forMaxgarethe, ¯ Jaekie Young, coordinator of the Protect Our is pronounced Greta- bdieves most voters are ready to ¯ Constitution campaign, said this isn’t about letting move past her sex,,,u~,, ori,entadon to the issues affecting ¯ the people decide but about "political extremists" their own lives. Whats.most difficult is suddenly coming to Hawaii to argue an issue about basic civil realizing there are some people who don’t want you to ¯ rights and dividing the community. approach them or shake their hand or even say hello," ¯ Noelani Foster, spokesman for a group called she said of experiences on the campaign trail. Save Traditional Marriage, said White, defensive -State Democratic Chairman Paul Berendt, neutral in ¯ hneman for the Green Bay Packers, "feels a conthe primary, says Cammermeyer needs to let voters ; nection to theislands" because he has played in the know the range of issues she cares about. "If people see : Pro Bowl in Honolnlu for the past 12 years. her as one-dimensional,it’s over," agrees Murray. "We ¯ White, an ordained minister, filmed the TV spot don’ t know how big of a negative it is" to be openly Gay ¯ re~enfly as part of a broader advertising campaign in a district with no major homosexual enclaves and a ¯ to educate Hawaii voters about the ballot question. sizable number of religious conservatives, Berendt says. : Hawaii voters will decide during the Nov. 3 GenCammermeyer’s lone primary opponent, businessman ¯ eral Election whether to ratify an amendment that and environmentalist Fran Einterz, 44, makes a point of ¯ would restrict marriage to opposite-sex couples. telling audiences he’s been in the district for 17 years. Einterz plans to raise only $100,000 for the primary election. Cammermeyer has raised $502,801 so far. Neither Einterz nor Metcalf has made an issue of Camm.ermeyer’ s sexual orientation, although the Metcalf ¯ campaign sent out a fund-raising letter that said the ¯ JUNEAU (AP) - Republican lawmakers are suing Cammermeyer campaign is being underwritten by the ¯ Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, claiming she distorted the meaning of a proposed constitutional amendment national Gay movement. ." banning same-sex marriage when she summarized it for the November ballot. As part of her duties, ¯ Ulmer, a Democrat, must compose impartial summanes of proposed amendments-and initiatives. The first sentence of her summary of Senate Joint BOSTON (AP) -A feud between the Boy Scouts of ¯ Resolution 42 read: "This measure would amend America and the Unitarian Universalist Assocaation ¯ the Declaration of Rights section of the Alaska over homosexuality has led to cries of outrage by the ¯ .Co.nstitution to limit marriage." "The word ’limit’ Boston-based branch of the church. 2~he Unitarian Uni- ¯ is incorrect because as of this date no nation in the versalist Association, a long-standing New England .. world and no state in this country recognizes or has liberal denomination that~supports civilrights for Gays, ¯ ever recognized homosexual same-sex marriage," has condenmed in a church manual the Boy Scouts’ ¯ attorney Kevin Clarkson wrote on behalf of the rejection of homosexuality. As a result the youth orga- ¯ Legislative Council, a committee of lawmakers mzation has ordered the association to stop honoring ¯ that acts for the Legislature between session, M0ng Unitari.~an scouts with religious awards. ¯ with Sen. Loren Leman, R-Anchorage and Rep. But the president of the Boston-based 250,000-mem- ¯ Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks. ber association called the order "’outrageous" and said ¯ In the lawsuit, the.lawmakers accuse Ulmer of the Unitarians do not intend to honor the Boy Scouts’ altering the language at the behest of opponents of ¯ the measure, bqmers position was spelled out in a emand., They simply can t tell us how to teach our children ’ John Buehrens, a former Boy Scout, told The ¯ July 20 letter to the Legislative Council. "’The Boston Globe. "Telling us we can’t give out awards to ¯ proposed constitutional amendment restricts the our boys is blatant discrimination against children. ¯ cour! .from "interpreting Alaska’s constitution as That’s not in the Boy Scouts’ tradition," Buehrens said. ¯ reqtunng a broader definition of marriage than that ¯ which is defined by statute," seeBriefs, p.]l ¯i Anti-Gay Hawaii TV Ads Criticized ¯ ¯ Alaska Lawmakers Sue Over Ballot Language Boy Scouts-Feud with Unitarians �HIV Creates ¯ they’ve had unsafe sex at least once in the 18 months, concluded a study preInfection Resevoir :¯ last sented at last month’s World AIDS ConWASHINGTON (AP) - New research " ference. shows th~it the AIDS virus takes as little as ." Also, Secret Service agents arrested 10 little as 10 days to establish a stronghold ; other AIDS activists who briefly chained in immune cells of the body that could last ¯ themselves to desks in the office of Presifor years, waiting to erupt into disease. " dent Clinton’s top AIDS adviser to protest Researchers at the National Institute of ¯ the administration’s refusal to federally Allergy and Infectious Disease say a study : fund needle exchange programs. Experts of 10 patients show that alatently infected ¯ say 33 people a day catch HIV from dirty ¯ pool of immune cells quickly established drug needles or sex with addicts. Seienfollowing infection by HIV, the virus that ¯ tific studies show letting addicts swap causes AIDS. Drug treatment apparently ¯ used needles for dean ones lowers the does not easily clear out the pool of in- ¯ risk of HIV’s spread. Some 110 U.S. ¯ fected cells, the experts said. A report on needle exchanges operate with local or the study was published in the Proceed- ¯. private funding,but communities say they ings of the National Academy of Sci- ¯¯ need federal tax dollars to reach more ences. addicts. Clinton refusedin April, sideEven if the active HIV disease is held in " stepping a political fight. ’’To have the check by a three-drug combination of ¯ United States government play politics. antiviral drugs, the researchers say, the ¯ with people’s lives - it’s just not OK virus continues to lurk in resting CD4 T- ¯ anymore," said Kenneth Vail, who rims a cells in the blood. These are immune ceils ¯ needle exchange program in Cleveland, that detect and lead the attack on infec- ¯ after his arrest. tions, but the CD4s are also the primary ¯ Separately, AIDS Action gatheredpub~ target of the HIV. lie health officials and AIDS workers who CD4 T-cells are usually resting. They ¯ called for a 25 percent increase inCDC’s are activated only when they detect some ¯ $634 million budget for AIDS education pathogen invader in the blood. When this and prevention. Congress has added mil, ¯ happens, the cells attack the invader and lions to government programs that pay for prompt other immune cells to do the same. ¯ drugs for AIDS patients, but increasing Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of NIAID AIDS prevention money significantly is and co-author of the study, said that stud- ¯ considered a tougher fight, particnlarly in ies of the blood from the 10 HIV patients ~ view of a new conservative campaign showed that their resting CD4 T-cells ¯ against homosexuality. became infected as earl,y~ as 10 days after ¯ But HIV ,infects across:the-board, Dr~ their initial HIV infection symptoms ap- : Helene Gayle, CDC’s AIDS chief, said peared. Earlier studies had shown that the ¯ Monday. Some 26 percent of HIV-infected young people caught the v~rus re.sting CD4 T-cells continued to contain v~rus even when the antiviral drugs sup- ¯ through heterosexual intercourse, she pressed the virus elsewhere in the body. : notea.. "If people in leadership positions " The new study, said Fauci, shows that : care about the future of this nation, you’ ve these reservoirs of virus are established ¯ got to care about H’IV prevention," she very early in the infection. Such reser- ¯¯ said. yoi~s.’.’Present afo~dable obstacle to the Activists also called for: Ultimate~ 0ntrbland possible eradication : - TV networks that air programs rated of HIV from an infected person’ s body," ¯ "S" for sexual content to also allow said Tae-Wook Chun, a N!AID researcher ¯ condom ads to air during those programs. and co-author of the study. - Doctors, clinics and hospitals to begin ." using a new 10-minute HIV test immedi: ately. An older test takes about a week to ¯ get results, and thousands of Americans ¯ who get tested each year never return to leamifthey’reinfected. Pcoplewhodon’t ¯¯ WASHINGTON (AP) - Lulled by lifeknow they are infected can unknowingly ¯ prolonging AIDS drugs, the nation has spread HIV to others. slacked off vital efforts to keep Ameri- AIDS education to reach more teencans - especially young people - from " agers by .creating an AIDS prevention catching the deadly virus in the first place, web site that links to popular teen Internet say AIDS activists who are demanding ¯ sites. major increases in HIV prevention work. ¯ - CDC to launch a campaign persuad.Activists called for millions morein spend- ¯ ing more people to get tested. An estiing on HIV education, televised condom ¯ mated 50,000 people in New York State ads and outreach to at-risk teen-agers via ¯ have HIV and don’t know it, says a cornthe Interuet, saying such AIDS preven- : puter model by Gay Men’s Health Crisis. tion programs are a "virtual vaccine.’" "If there were a medical vaccine for AIDS, imagine the forces mobilized to deploy it," said Daniel Zingale of AIDS : Action. "The irony is that today we have a virtual vaccine- prevention and educa- ¯¯ ATLANTA (AP) - An order prohibiting tion - and those forces are paralyzed." the DeKalb County School District from ¯ Saving lives isn’t the only issue. At transferring a teacher infected with HIV, least 40,000 Americans every year catch ¯ the .virus that causes AIDS, has been reHIV, adding add $6.2 billion in lifetime .¯ versed by the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court treatment costs to the nation’s health care of Appeals. Last year, a district court ¯ granted the teachcr, known as "John Doe" bill, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced recently. "AIDS : in court documents, a permanent injuncdrugs cost $40 a day" and do not cure the ¯¯ tion disallowing his transfer under the disease, added Zingale. "This condom Americans with Disabilities Act. costs .40 cents. Our plan today will not. ¯ Doe worked with children with severe ¯ behavioral disorders at the district’s only save lives, it would save dollars." The CDC hash’ t won.a budget increase ¯ Shadow Rock Psychoeducational Center. ¯ The school district says the students are. to fight new infections in three years, and some people most at risk of HIV have ¯ violent and teachers often suffer bruises become complacent, activists said. For : and scrapes. "Because district officials example, two-thirds of Gay men say ¯ feared that violence and subsequent blood- Activists Urge Better Prevention ! 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Skelly Dr. # 215 745-1111 to-blood contact between Doe and one of his psychoeducation students might lead to transmission of HIV, the District transfenced Doe to an ’interrelated’ classroom at a different school in April 1995," the appeals court wrote. After being transfenced, Doe worked with students with mild disorders that are often in mainstream classrooms for most of each day. The school district and Doe are disputing whether or not the Wansfer was voluntary. Although Doe’s salary, benefits and seniority all remained the same after the transfer, the move requires him to take an additional 10 hours of course work to obtain an interrelated certificate. Doe hadinformed Shadow Rock’ s principal of his illness in February 1995. He spent the months following his transfer trying to convince school officials to return him to his psychoeducation class or assign him to a group of children who are ’self-contained’ or too ’disordered’ to participate in the ’interrelated’ program, the court wrote. Doe eventually filed a lawsuitclaiming the district discriminated against him. The district court supported Doe’s assertions in August 1997. "The district court, however, failed to make explicit findings of fact regarding any dangers that Doe’ s illness might pose to violent psychoeducation students," the appeals court ruled. "In addition, the district court erred by applying a subjective standard for determining whether Doe’s transfer was adverse." The three-judge panel said the district court should take a . second look at the case and make a decision following the guidelines of its reversal. Caulton said the number of AIDS cases in the city had reached epidemic proportions and most had been caused by addicts sharing needles. However, city lawyers ruled that only the city council could seek state funding for the program. State law provides funding for 10 programs to hand out clean syringes to drug users, but, so far, they have been established only in Boston, Cambridge, Northampton and Provincetown. The state pitches in about $200,000 for the programs. The Clinton administmtionhas endorsed needle exchanges. Still, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said the federal government would not help pay for the programs. The House of Representatives voted in April to ban using federal money for such programs. ¯ The code also outlaws any form of job ¯ discrimination against a worker infected ¯ by the HIV virus, and requires that any ¯ employee too ill to perform normal duties ¯ be reassigned, the newspaper said. According to 7fiord Health Organiza¯ tion figures released in June, one-fifth of ¯ Namibia’s population of 1.8 million is ¯ infected with HIV. Some densely popu~ ¯ lated areas are estimated to have an infec_" tion rate of as high as 40%. i i Inmates Being "rested for HIV ¯ GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Now that ¯ South Carolina is testing all state prison inmates for the AIDS virus, some law" makers and others want to know how the ¯ .information will be used. The federal ¯ Bureau of Prisons and 17 other states : already have mandatory testing for HIV, ¯ the virus that causes AIDS, according to ¯ the American Civil Liberties Union’s WASHINGTON (AP)- Scientific advis- : National Prison Project. ers are recommending approval of a new ¯ State Sen. Kay Patterson, D-Columbia, genetic drug therapy to help save AIDS ¯ likes the idea of testing all prisoners, but patients’ eyesight. Isis, Pharmaceuticals’ : is concemed about how prison officials Vitravene is the first antisense" drug to -" will use the information. "What will the be reviewed by the Food and Drug Ad- ° department do once they find out they’re ministration. This novel class of drugs is infected? That’ s the missing piece to me,’" created from DNA coding, working at the ¯ said Patterson, a member of the Senate genetic level to block production of dis- ¯ Corrections and Penology Committee. ease-causing proteins. The bioteclmology : Jackie Walker, an AIDS expert for the industry is stressing development of ¯ National Prison Project, is skeptical. I’ve antisense drugs against myriad diseases. ¯ never seen them say, ’OK, we’ll test you Isis says Vitravene slows the progression ¯ and you’ll be provided with correct level of cytomegalovirus retinitis, an infection ¯ of care, medications and access to outside that destroys AIDS patients’ rednas. specialists when it’ s needed and appropri¯ Advisers to the FDA voted 5-2 Wednesate.’ It has just not happened across the ¯ day to recommend approval of Vitravene, board," she said. saying that although powerful new .anti- ¯ The $126,000 mandatory screening of HIV drugs have prevented many AIDS ¯ about 21,000 prisoners should be done by ¯ patients from getting the eyeinfection in Aug. 31, Corrections Department spokesSPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP)- After years recent years, some still fail standard ¯ woman Linda Davis said. Correctional ¯ officers can use minimal force to ensure of heated debate and flip-flopping, the therapy. ¯ city council has approved a needle exall inmates comply, including holding ¯ change program. After two hours of pubthem down while blood is drawn, Davis ¯ said. So far no one has objected, she said. lic comment and debate, the council voted 5-4 in fav or of the program. Council mem"It’s a public safety issue. Considering ber William Foley received applause from ¯ the nature of our population and the the crowd of 100 people when he cast the ¯ BEIJING (AP)-Chineseauthorities urged ~ lifestyle, there’s a potential for health¯ greater efforts to slow the spread of AIDS " related problems," she said. "It gives us a swing vote. Mayor Michael Albano, who has pushed ¯ as the official tallyofpeopleinfectedwith ¯ gauge to measure potential problems." ¯ for an exchange program for two years, : the virus that causes the disease topped However, Steve Bates, executive direc10,000, an official newspaper said Tues- ¯ tor of the state ACLU, worries that HIVsaid there was an AIDS epidemic in Springfield. "This is not a political issue, " day. The newspaper said the actual num- ¯ positive inmates will be segregated and this is a medical issue," he said. "We are. " ber of people infected with HIV may be denied educational and vocational train¯ as hi.gh as 300,000 - 100,000 more than getting people into treatment and stop. 1rig opportunities. ping people froin getting a deadly dis- ¯ previous estimates. Davis said the department does not yet : That figure could pass 1 million by ¯ haveapolicy onhousingforHIV-posltive ease." ¯ 2000 if more is not done to check the But Hampden District Attorney Will¯ ¯ spread of HIV, Xiao Yan, an official with ¯ inmates. State Sen. David Thomas, Riam Bennett accused the council of "givFountain Inn, who heads the corrections the Department of Disease Control, told ¯ committee, said the department could see ing out tools to commit a crime with." After the vote, council member Timo- ¯¯ state television. how many inmates are infected Loc~ health authorities have been or- :¯ roughly thy Rooke asked the board to consider an by doing a random sampling of 250 prisamendment that would require health of- ¯ dered to speed up education and preven- ¯ oners. "They may have some reason to ficials to test all needles to seeif they were ¯ tion campaigns, the newspaper said. The ." believe there is an accelerating number of used by more than one person or if they ¯ disparity between official numbers and ¯ cases and they need to segregate thepopu¯ contained any viruses. "It is not a stalling ¯ estimates is likely due tO undenceporting, lations. Given how AIDS usually spreads, ¯ the lack of government resources to pertactic," he said. "Now it’ s a matter of fine they may have somereason to believe that form tests and the stigma attached to actuning the #an." : they need to look very, very carefully at The needle exchange would operate out : knowledging HIV,infection. ¯ what is happening in that population," of a!-Iigh Street building of the Bay State ¯ Thomas said. Medical Center. Drug users can turn in used needles for clean needles in an even exchange. They would all’be referred to drug treatment programs and be asked WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) - Namibia, questions so city officials could track the : whichhas one of the word’s highest HIV Parents, Family & Friends program. : infection rates, has made it illegal for of Lesbians & Gays The city council first rejected the plan ¯ employers to require tests for the virus Tulsa Area Chapter 5-4 in 1996. It agreed to reconsider after : that causes AIDS. The country’s new the city’ s Public Health Council declared ¯ AIDS testing code binds both public and POB 52800, Tulsa 74152 a health emergency in May and tried to private employers. It says HIV-infected launch the program on its own. employees are under no obligation to inSpringfield Health Director Helen form their employer of their condition. 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If your organization is not listed, please let ua know. Call or fax S&32i615. �Kelly Kirby CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant, a professional corporation wonder how much of our culture is conreviewed by Adam West trolled by a marginalized minority of our Tulsa City-County Library System society. You start to wonder, "how much Lars Eiglmer’s novel Pawn to Queen does that drag queen control what club is Four is pretentious, disturbingly campy ’ in’ or’ out?’ "or"am I on the A-list for all and fantastically absurd. That’s exactly the best partiesT’ Though the true extent what makes it so much fun to read. This is of an underground society’s a gay novel that does not take control is questionable, itsdf any more seriously than Eighner wants you to quesit does the ’moral majority.’ refreshing talent tion the image we have and But Eighner keeps his tacky for ereat~g who gives it to us. brand of~humor from getting characters so tedious by plying his skill at Even more infectious than natural and Jim’s trepidation is his admi= intricate plot twists, quick-anddetailed that you ration of Phil. Phil’s angelic quirky characterizations and a beauty and innocent devotion forget they are unique insight into the fears give the story apeaceful wonand desires of both the Gay unbelievably der missing from most Gay commnnity and our detractors. stereotypical... novds. Oh, there are plenty of As the story opens, Agnes, Agnes is the beauties, plenty of innocents the six-foot seven, 350 lb. drag Uh~-nate Drag and plenty of devoted lovers queen is facing quite the diin Gay literature, but how lemma. As ruler of the Court Que n... Even many characters really have of the Jade Chimera, she must Brother Earl... all three traits? Phil reminds faithfully oversee the ’Gay seems to us that w e can retain our childagenda’ throughout her territory which covers most of exact re~|~ea of the like fascination with the world klnd~mpeople we no matter how adverse the cir= Texas and part of Oklahoma, cumstances and still be responincluding the tiny town of elect to Congress sible, capable, respectable Osage. Osage is home to Holy all the time. Th~s Word of God University and human beings. This is a qualkind of stereotyped ity of life that so much of the Technical Institute, the headhyper~neo-wirtualquarters of the charismatic gay community neglects in realism almost favor of that oh-so-chic snide Brother Earl, Agnes’ old encynicism. Though Jim is the emy. Agnes has been able to makes Pawn to protagonist, Phil is the one keep Brother Earl’s violently ¯ been Four an you will involve yourself wi~. anti-gay rhetoric in check for Everyman play for You will be proud when he years, but now Earl has the the modern Gay comes into his own destiny; upper hand. Agnes has lost a ~dl,ad~l. you will admire him as Jim certain set of photographs of Brbther Earl engaged in his does, because Phil is that beatlfavorite bad habit - namely, seducing his ¯ tiful person that would actually talkto you male students. Now Brother Earl has reju- ¯ in a bar. Alas, Agnes... with the resourcefulve~ted his homophobic campaign and it ¯ is Agnes’ duty as Empress of the Jade " hess and style of a true pageant-winner, Chimera to stop him. Her mission: re- ¯ the Queen of the Jade Chimera inspires ¯ belief in the impossible, faith in the unbetrieve the photographs or, failing that. ¯ lievable . . . and that she does just by make new ones. Enter Jim, our reluctant hero. Through ¯ carrying 350 pounds of drag queen in various types of bribery, appeals to his ¯ seven-inchheels! Regency and flare have duty as a Gay man and assurances of ¯ never been in better form. She can imper~ lifelong sexual satisfaction by the finest ¯ sonate a grtmgy old gardener or a Klan men in Houston, Agnes convinces Jim to ¯ member and never break a two-inch-long undertake this desperate, dangerous mis- : nail. Truthfully, any respect and dignity sion. Now the fun’begins as Jim, his new ¯ wehave neglected to allow drag queens to ¯ haveis brought forth with no apologies by boyfriend Phil and eventually Agnes herself infiltrate HWOGUTI, the Ku Klux ¯ the glorious Agnes. She is a true heroine in the vein of those queens who started Klan and the sleepy town of Osage. Eiglmer has a refreshing talent for cre- ¯ this most groundbreaking era of our ¯ ating characters so natural and detailed struggle for equal rights. I wouldn’t be that you forget they are unbelievably ste- ¯ surprised tolearn that Agnes or some realreotypical. Jim is a typical clone; Phil is a ¯ life equivalent was actually at Stonewall. twink; Agnes is the Ultimate Drag Queen, Her Highness is controlling, deceptive ¯ and stubborn but you can’t help but love but you never doubt that any of them could be real. Even Brother Earl, though ¯ her .... and you can’thelp but watch her. Ultimately, what makes Pawn to Queen hopelessly two-dimensional, seems to be ¯ an exact replica of the kind of people we Four a good read is what it teaches (alelect to Congress all the time. This kind of ¯ though I think Eighner might hate me for stereotyped hyper-neo-virmal-realism al- : saying that). For all its outlandish hijinx most makes Pawn to Queen Four an ¯¯ and biting wit, this book has a serious, though probably unintentional, message EverYman play for the modem Gay individual. The characters are so typical, yet ¯ - we in the Gay community have become so real, that you could plug yourself into " so obsessed with fighting our enemies whichever one fits best and pretend that ¯ that we forget to have fun, or the exact you are a part of this grand adventure. : opposite. Pawn to Queen Four is ultiThere’s even a Lesbian (yes, only one) : mately about balance. Agnes doesn’t want who shows up with the Hell’s Fairies, a Brother Earl out of the picture. She has ¯ plenty of chances to ruin him, but she Gay motorcycle gang. ¯ knows that he has every right to exist that There are more admirable things going onJaere however¯ The three main charac- ¯ she does. Surprisingly, Brother Earl feels ters have a point in-their stereotyping. : the same, although he gets a little threatJim’ s uncertainty about his role in such an ening when he leads the Klan in a true exotic world draws you in. 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The studly, shirtless fellow was busy painting the trim and causing the 610-8510 8120 East 21 st (21 st+Memorial, next to Boot City) We buy back good used adult magazines. �Has-Never Been AUDIO PERSONALS The Rainbow Connection couples. I felt a bit shell-shocked but I by Esther Rothblum decided that I would continue to interview Dr. Marny Hall is a San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapist with twenty years both ex-partners. It was then that I found the answers I was lookexperienee speeializing ing for. Now the exin Lesbian relation.partners started talking ships. In her book, The about their relationLesbian Love Companships in entirely differion: How to Survive ent ways. One woman, Everything from who had said that she Heartthrob to Heartwas really in lust now break, she tackles istold me that they had sues of Lesbian relanever had any passiontionships, sex, breakate chemistry! Another ups, rituals, and jeab woman used to say that ousy. her community of "I had had a painful friends kept them tobreak-up," she told me gether; now she said m a recent interview, that she never felt a "and-decided to find sense ofcommtmity ! A some longterm couples third said she wanted to who had managed to weather the difficulties Dr. Marny Hall be with her partner until her breath was no that had undermined my relationship. I was particularly inter- : longer in her body. After the break-up she ested in finding couples who had survived ¯ told me that even if her partner were available, she wouldn’.t go back. These outside affairs." She located a.handfu!:0f long term Lesbian couples and contacted ¯ 180 degree turns made me realize that so them periodically over a number of years. ¯¯ much of how we process relationships is through the tales that we tell. The tales do She asked, how they met, how their relationship progressed, and how they handled ¯ all sorts of things - they certify legit1difficult situations:such as jealousy, con- ¯¯ macy, they heal broken hearts, and they explain betrayals." flict, desire, homophobia, work, and illness. : After this revelation, Mamy decided to "I was searching for a formula," said ¯ go back and reread the transcripts from Mamy, "but I didn’t find anything. Then the interviews she had conducted with the five years into this experiment, two of the ¯ couples that were still together. Now she model couples I had been tracking broke ¯ could see shifts in their stories too, over up. I had come to think of them as perfect : time. Their stories had kept them going No 900#s No Charge Per Minute TULSA 455-1833 through hard times. For example, if one partner had had an affair, .the other discovered a motive that explained everything. Perhaps the straying partner had been depressed about her job or angry at her partner. The affair had been a coded way of announcing these dissatisfactions. In other words, the two partners collaborated on a story that turned an unpardonable betrayal into a forgivable misdemeanor. By reconstruing the potentially damaging revelation in more positive ways, they were able to stay together. "So I thought, why not think of more stories?" said Marny. Her book focuses on stories that provide alternatives to the "master stories" ab0ut forever-after, about terrible betrayals, about bad times. "If I could tell stories about small break-ups or trivial passions or benign other women then I could contribute to partners’ flexibility and give them more staying power," Maruy told me. Originally planned as a book about successful long-term couple relationships, The Lesbian Love Companion took on a life of its ownl "I love the story of ~happily ever after," Marny said, "but we. can tell other stories, too. Everyday stories about contentment instead of epics about do-ordie love affairs. Stories of downsized disenchantments instead of major dyke dramas. The first time you realize that your .lover snores and you love her anyway is not exactly a swash-buckling bodice-ripper. But it does qualify as a modest tale about a small turning point. Our lives are packed with all kinds of minimalist ro- : : ¯ ¯ : : ¯ ¯ mances. We just have to tune in to them. "The same thing is true about sex," Mamy continued. "We’re all so familiar with the story about the earth-moving sex. But we can tell a lot of different stories about sex- maintenance sex that depends on cultivating orgasmic habits, sex for comfort or fun, psychodrama sex that exorcises old demons. Even the fond sexual memories we share with ex-lovers is another form of sex. We might call it exsex. These stories aren’t the mainstream favorites so they aren’t heard, they’re inaudible, private." As Marny putsit, her book puts some "amplification" on the stories that many of us are already telling. ’q’he bookis for long-term couples. It is also for the sluts and passionate friends, the celibates and the communally minded," Mamy added. "All of us are affected by ¯ the traditional stories. Uncoupled Lesbi: ans often feel as though they have failed ¯ some crucial test. And long-term couples : may feel such pressure to live up to these ¯ stones that, as aresult, they feel they must ¯ conceal anything thatisn’t congruent with ¯ ’perfect coupledom.’ Such self censor" ship makes~thard for partners to be play" ful .or spontaneous. The perfect couple ¯ ideal exacts a toll on everyone- Ltgbians ¯ who are coupled,unpartnered or who have ¯ multiple partners." "It tends to turn us all into intimacy ¯ overachievers," said Mamy. "The pur¯ pose of my book is to counteract that ¯ sense of performance anxiety. Almost : everybody has doubts, and forbidden passions, see Psyche, p. 14 �It’s your chance to win a trip to a National College Football Championship Game Pick up your entry form today! Look for the displays at your local retailers¯ WITH OUR NEW NOKIA 6190 YOU GET A PHONEWITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES. ¯ Digital & Cellular Roaming ¯ Oklahoma & Kansas Toll-Free ¯ Caller ID . Call W~dng ¯ Built-In Paging ¯ Detailed Billing ¯ First IncOming Minute Free WVVVV.VOIC ESTREAH.COH VoiceStream Stores The Plaza 8112-F South Lewis Ave. 298-2747 The Promenade H~ll 4107 South Yale Ave. 663-5404 Woodland Hills Mall 7021 South Memorial Rd. 252-5850 Corporate Sales 523-8600 by Lamont Lindstrom ° men in bed, serve them dinner - who I met brown-eyed Burt one summer ¯ meekly serve all their needs whatever. when I was working in Hawai’i. Burt had ," But the international marriage marketl grown up near Manila in the philippines. ." place works to bring women out from the He taught English for some years at a Philippines, and other Southeast Asian Catholic high school. Then countries, into the US. he came to Honolulu to work Throughout Ainerican wealth allows at on a Ph.D. in philosophy at least some of us to shop overmuck of the the University of Hawai’i seas and purchase our sexual In his thesis, Burt planned to fantasies, even if we don’t Philippines reexamine traditional Asian always get what we think we especially the philosophy in light of the are buying. And Americans work of post-modernists .profit, too, from positive Muslim south such as Foucault and Derrida. images that encourage at When I met Burt, he was in - there areleast some Asians to hop a his mid 30.s and solidly built, plane and fly into the arms just runmng to chunk. But traditional roles of an unknown Occidental you could still look through spouse. Obviously, just as in which men those added pounds to see many Filipinas (and Filipitake on tTemlthat he had been a graceful nos) are 1.ooking for Ameriyoung man. cans as vice versa. nlne,eharaeterIn Honolulu, Burt found The market for gay Asian an American boyfriend- an istles and cloth- fianc6s is constrained by the older man retired from the inability of homosexuals to telephone company. Burt ing. In Tagalog, marry legally and thereby moved in and took over cookobtain green cards for our the main Filiing and cleaning for the two ~mported boyfriends. Still, pino language, I’ve had interesting email of them. His lover’s elderly mother came to stay and he correspondence with several these men are guys took care of her too. Burt in Indonesia, Malaykept purposely missing his cafled ba/da. sia, and the Philippines. They thesis deadlines to maintain wonder if I can set them up Traditionally, with his relationship. His student American lovers. One visa and US Immigration gayboy in Jakarta, a civil many bakla demanded that, after finishservant whose nom de email ¯ were dancers. ing a degree, he return to the is Koko, asked my advice Philippines and not come about accepti.’ng a one-way actors, and back to America for three air ticket from an American years, even as a tourist. His entertainers. Internet correspondent. I Ph.D. thesis wa~ already four counseled him to take care years overdue. lest he end up a sex slave, bound up in ~-Since that summer, I’ ve met a number somebody’s basement. The Hollywood of American/Filipino couples - the Fili~mage of the United States is very powerpino half typically keeping house. ful overseas. Even Tulsa can seem urbane Throughout much of the Philippines and sophisticated to somebody in especially the Muslim south = there are Zamboaga or Chiangmai or Penang. traditional roles in which men take on Most recently, I have been in touch with .feminine characteristics and clothing. In a sad, young Filipino in the port city of Tagalog, the main Filipino language, these Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Joe moved men are called bakla. Traditionally, many to Dubai from Saudi Arabia severa! months bakla were dancers, actors, and entertainago. He had broken up with his 50-someers. Mark Johnson’ snew book about transthing, bald American lover whom he was vestites in Sulu, Beauty and Gender (Berg with for three years. Joe, understandably, 1997), describes numbers Of feminine, is depressed. He emails me that he misses cross-dressing Filipino boys who are .on fixing dinners for the two of them. He the prowl for masculine (i.e., ’straight misses fussing about his ex-lover’s variacting’, even married) boyfriends. In reous medical conditions. Gay life in Dubai cent years, these guys have taken over and is no doubt grim. Joe nowadays appears to developed the hairdressing and beauty live mostly on the Internet. The American business sector throughout the Philippines. boyfriend, perhaps because he was at the Most reject, however, a traditional bakla end of an employment contract or perhaps identity and embrace instead the label because relations with Joe had languished, "gay." Our Western term here continues returned here to Tulsa by himself. Well, to extend its global’ spread. Burt, too, was almost by himself. He brought their eat horrified when I asked if he was a bakla. back to Tulsa but he left his Filipino This term today resonates too many sour boyfriend behind in the Arabian deserts. tones of backwardness, effeminacy, and male prostitution. There is a straight parallel to Butt and his boyfriend in Hawai’i. In any romance magazine sold at Quiktrip, one can find for housing programs earmarked for advertisements touting the merits of subpeople with AIDS. The $21 million was missive, yet sexy, Asian women. You, shifted to help f’mance state extended care too, can easil y send aw ay for a mail-order programs for veterans. Rep. Van Hilleary, Oriental bride! One of my second cousins R-Tenn., said the reduction was justified had a fairly successful marriage with an because of a 6 percent decline in the able woman from Vietnam until his warannual number of AIDS cases. Opporelated post traumatic stress syndrome nents of the amendment argued that the worsened one day and he attacked an old decline is attributed to the wider use of lady gassing her car up at a California ¯ new drugs and the success ofsuch drug service station. tr~tments often depends on patients havFeminists decry the Ameriean stereoing decent housing. type of sexy Suzy Wongs who serve white �OU~T THE MANFINDER" DAILY RITUAL when I get home, I like to lay back, have a good ddnk, and think about a hot Man and wish I had it in my hand. Then I start massaging myself, rd love to talk to you. 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By telling our untold tales and making them normal, I hope that our sense of failure will be reduced.’" As a psychotherapist, Marny has been witness to many stories by Lesbians. An example of the man3’ excerpts from The Lesbian Love Companion: "You might ~’ant to develop your other-woman fantasy. Install her as your permanent muse. Pay attention to her. She’ll tell you whether t~ sign up for scuba class or just buy some new lingerie. And after you do what she suggests, check in with her from time to time. Has she changed? Is she suggesting another direction? You are entitled to keep her toyourself: ,She is, after all, purely 3"our playmate, soul mate - combination projection, reflection, guide. And, :Aphrodite forbid, ifanything should ever happen to ),our partner, ’*our fantasy lover ";~q]l be there for you. SlOe will shoe 3"our ’memories and your tears. She will con~ble and commiserate. And, one chy, when the time is right, she will lead You back to ~E world.’" As Mamv writes i’n the book: "V~qlen it comes to ou~ lives and loves, we need a generous supply of alternative stoi~es: Instructive sci-fi fabIes and twilight zone mysteries, endless sequels and whitel~uckl~ exploits. \Ve ~e both hearth buggers and voyagersl We must make room in our lives for the dream of foreverafter and the determination to never look back." Early reactions to Marny’s book? Rumor has it that Lily Tomlin loves it ! Alison Bechdel, creator of the comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, calls it".., a veriiable Karma Sutra of emotional possibility." For further reading: Mamy Hall (1998), The Lesbian Love Companion: How to Survive Everything from Heartthrob ~o Heartbreak. HarperCollins, I0 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022. Prof. Esther Rothblum is teachek psy6hology at the University of Vermont 6nd is Editor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document Sapulpa Teen Flees Bias SAPULPA, Okl~ (AP) -The 17-year-old son ofa local school board member has faced threats and harassment because of his sexual orientation, but the boy’s father said his other children will remain in the suburban district. Will .Allen, a junior at Sapulpa High School, will attendTulsaW~hingtonHigh School whenthefall semester begins Aug. 12. The family requested the transfer in February, his father, Sam Allen, said. Allen said Will has been vexed and tormented by his ~.2assmates for the past two years because of his sexual Orientation. ;The Allen family appeared recently on NBC’s "The Today Show"; and Will encouraged other young Gay men and women to confide in people with whomtheyfeltcomfortable. ’Tvehadmany Gayfriends who have been kicked out of their homes, treated very poorly - physical abuse," he said. "The first thing you should do .is find somebody, maybe,not your parents, who you know and feel positive that ~hey can give you the support that you need." Will was inMichigan atamusic academy andwas not available for comment. Sapulpa school officials issued a news release that ! US House Votes t.o Limit City’s !Partner Benef,ts to Gays : WASHINGTON (AP) -Despite charges of bigotry and interfer- ~ ence in local government, the House in July voted to prohibit the : s.pe.nding .of fed.eral, money o.n programs implementing a civil : rights o_r.dinzncem.S.an Francasco. The measure, offered by Rep. o Frank Ri.g.gs, .R.-Calif., was approved 214-212 as an amendment : to a sPe~.ding bill forhous..rag, veterans programs, environmental ¯ protecaon, space and funding for the arts. : Supporters said they hoped to get the provision removed ¯ during negotiations to reconcile the House bill with a yet-to-be " approved Senate version. The Riggs amendment prohibits any ¯ money in the $94 billion spending bill to be used to implement a San Francisco ordinance that requires employers doing bus|- ¯ ness withthecity toprovidehealthandotherbeuefits to same-sex ¯ partners. "We should not force or coerce (private business) to ¯ adopt policies they t-rod morally objectionable," Riggs argued in ¯ a heated debate. ¯ Rep. Patrick K.,e~n,edy, D-R.I., called it a "mean-spirited, bigoted amendment’ and other opponents said it was an assault ¯ onlocalautonomy."Italtacks homernleinevery city in America," ¯ declared Rep. Dennis KucinidL D-Ohio, a former mayor of : Cleveland. "It’s a move back to the days of witch hunting, back ¯ to the days oftellingpeople what they should and should not do," ¯ complained Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill. He said the amendment ¯ threatens programs in San Francisco that help the homeless and ¯ thetreatment ofAIDS patients as well as scores ofotherprograms : that rdy in part on federal support. ¯ Rep. Nancy Pelts|, D-Calif., said the city negotiated with ~" Catholic Charities, which had balked at the ordinance, and ¯ reached an accommodation, and compromises were expected to be worked out with other businesses. "I don’t know why Mr. ¯ Riggs wants to create a war," she said in strong opposition to the ¯ measure. Pelts|,whorepresents SanFrancisco, called theamend- " ment an affront to home rule and Said "the city of San Francisco ’~ is not forcing anyone to act against their principles?’ ¯ More than adozen lawmakersspoke emotionally against the .: amendment, . see Attack, p. 3 ¯¯ Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations stated the district"does not condoneor tolerate harass- ~. ment of students foranyreason)’"We have comprehen- Surgeon .G,:e=,. neral Compares sive board policies_’m,,P!ace on sexual harassment and a ~’. I~I~l I~|nI~’~~|1 #11 l~-"m-L a.__. I~-~-- -~ -- ....... ~i~y ~Dt~d, 16b.ai aiad national president~tf~~ ~by-~a~’M~kla¢ " - " ~ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, arranged for the television appearance. Will’s situation is cotfimon for homosexual teen-agers, Ms. McDonald said. "Some (schools) are doing a great job, and some are sticking their heads in the sand," she said. "We’re just beginning to work with Tulsa-area schools." Allen said he had no complaints about the Sapulpa district and said his two other children will continue to attend Sapulpa schools. He also has no plans to step down from the school board. ’‘The community support has been wonderful," he said. : WASHINGTON (AP) - Recalling his childhood in the segre- ¯ gated South, Surgeon General David Satcher compared the fight : against AIDS, which is hitting the Black community hard, to the -’: struggle for civil rights. Speaking to one of nation’s oldest civil .: rights groups, he called on Black leaders to reject stereotypes ¯ around AIDS, overcome shyness about sex and confront the [ issue. ’‘This is anareawhere weagain need to mobilize," Satcher, ." who is Black and grew up in Alabama, told the Southern Chris- : tian Leadership Conference in a speech Tuesday. ’Tm talking to ¯ you about you." While Blacks make up 13% of the U.S. population, they ¯ account for 57% of the new infectious, according to the federal Family of Faith to Present : CentersforDiseaseControlandPrevention.Amongsomegroups, ¯ the statistics are even more striking: Blacks and Hispanics make Noted Christian Singer TULSA -Marsha Stevens, composer of For Those Tears I Died (Come to the Water), will perform a free concert at Family of Faith Metropolitan Commlmity Church on Saturday, Sept.. 5th at 7:30 at 5451e South Mingo as wall as at Family of Faith’s regular Sunday evemng service on Sept. 6th at 5pm. Stevens’ song, For Those Tears... has become a standard of evangelical Christian hymnals since 1972 even though the songwriter experienced rejection and scorn from part of the church since she came out as a Lesbian. Active in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), Stevens performs over 150 concerts a year and has recorded six solo albums and a concert video on her independent BALM (Born Again Lesbian Music) labd. She now ministers with the SW UFMCC district. Info: 622-1441. P. 2/3 P. 4 p. 6~ P.8 P. 9 P. 10 P. 11 P.:I2 P. 14 " : up 82% of HIV-positive women ages 13 to 24. Andlife-prolong- " ing AIDS drugs are helping whites more than Blacks. In 1996, ¯ deaths among whites with AIDS were down 28%; for Blacks, it ¯ was just 10%. ¯ The Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s new presi- ¯ dent, Martin Luther King III, underscored the difficulty ofAIDS ¯ education, saying he is not comfortable promoting use of con- " doms. "The only way is abstinence," he said in an interview after ¯ Satcher’s speech. "Sex should not be something that we just : casually engage in and take lightly." The solution, King said, is ¯ restoring fundamental values to society. He said AIDS is an ¯ important issue, although it is not among his top priorities. Satcherdid notrecommendany particularprevendon strategy. " But he and other public health experts agree that use of condoms" ¯ is essential to halt the spread of HIV among people who are not : likely to abstain from sex. The surgeon general will hammer the ~ AIDS message in upcoming speeches to Black journalists and ¯ doctors, and he plans to reach out to other groups such as Black ¯ fraternities, sororities and newspapers. ¯ But his speech to church leaders was particularly important. ¯ Churches play a central role in many Black communities, and ¯ ministers are,often among the most prominent community lead- ,: ers. But church leaders have been reluctant to talk about AIDS ¯ because it relates so closely to sex and homosexuality, Satcher ¯ says. The issue is also thorny because of its relationship to drug ¯ use, amajorprobleminside the Blackcommunity withits ownset ¯ of taboos, see Surgeon,p.ll DIRECTORY/LETrERS US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT NOTES COMMUNITY CALENDAR BOOK REVIEW DO-IT-YOURSELF DYKE PSYCHE CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF Update AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - From skimpily clad revelers to Bible-toting evangelists, the Gay Games are drawing an eclecdc crowd for weeklong festivities ce,!ebrating Gay pride and culture. With the,,theme Friendship Through Culture and Sports, the quadrennial Olympics-style sports festival begins Saturday, offering competitors everythingfrom ballroom dancing to wrestling and more cerebral pastimes such as bridge and chess. This is the first time the Gay Games are being held in Europe since they beganin San Francisco in 1982. New York City was the site ¯ of the last Games ¯ in 1994; Sydney, ¯ site of the Summer Olympics in 2000, ¯ will have the first ¯ Tulsan CliffBaileyis compet- southern hem|- ¯ ing in this year’s Gay Games .sphere Gay Games ¯ in Amsterdam, accompanied in 2002. ¯ by his spouse Chris Ritthaler. The opening night’s ceremony ¯ will feature the Israeli transsexual pop star Dana ¯ International, who gained fame- and notoriety-in ¯ May after winning the 25-nation Eurovision song ¯ contest and incensing Orthodox Jewish leaders at ¯ home. ¯ Some 30 competition sports will be available at ¯ these games, which run through Aug. 8. But with- " out top-level athletes, they threatened to be eclipsed ¯ by the many parties outside the stadium. ¯ Amsterdam is renowned for its tolerance and its ¯ lively Gay community, so these games are almost ~:. inconspi~ug~s, ap.ar~ [rg~ so,me posters and a few ~ more same:~e~couples than USUal-:strolling arm-in- ¯ arm a!Orig the canals. With up to 14,000 participants and 200,000 visi- ¯ tors in town, the Dutch capital is about to be ¯ transformed into the ultimate Gay hangout with ¯ enough temptations to satisfy even the most vigor- . ous partygoer. There are transvestite shows and ¯ drag queen contests. For the more athletic, there’s ¯ even oil wrestling. One top attraction officially has nothing to do ¯ with the Gay Games: Saturday’s yearly canal pa- : rade of decorated boats. Games organizers prom- - ised a flotilla of Gays and Lesbians on the city’s ¯ famous medieval waterways. But not everyone ¯ will be party-hopping. For the straight-laced and intellect’ual types-; there are plenty of alternatives, including art exhibits, symposiums on Gay and ¯ Lesbian issues, and cooking shows. ¯ Participants might get a dose of religion. Up to ¯ 100 representatives from the international evange- ¯ lism group Youth With a Mission plan to stage [ C.hristian-themed street dramas and pray with par- ¯ Uopants. "God wants to care for people whether ¯ they are homosexuals or heterosexuals," YWAM ¯ spokeswoman Nelleke Bosshardt said. Sigrid Johannisse of the Netherlands, who will ". be competing in the badminton competition, said ¯ she’s searching for fun and friendship. Even so, she ¯ hopes the Gay Games one day will disappear as Gays become more accepted. ¯ Although heterosexuals are welcome to com- " pete, few do, triggering criticism within the Gay ¯ community that the games createneedless segrega- ¯ don. "! hate all the separation," said Johmmisse, a ¯ 33-year-old art historian. "in sports, there isn’t so ¯ much integration.., it was just easier to play with ¯ Gay people." ¯ Eddy Feenstra has a more carefree attitude as he ¯ prepares to compete in ballroom and Latin Ameri- ¯ can dancing with partner Tonny Aliens. Girding ¯ for victory, Feenstra says "I am doing it for the ¯ fun," he said. "I would also like to show off what I ¯ am good at." 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Keep Up the Good Work Thanks for your paper. It is a welcome relief from the crosstown neo-fascist infotainment weekly, i particularly enjoyed last issue’s cover story about SenatorNickles, presumably the selfsame Senator once knownfor closeting himself with a reputedly Gay [Oklahoma] . fellow politico, but who now wishes to protect the Luxembourgians from the possibility of an "immoral" ambassador. From what I understand, the Luxembourgians aremuch less concerned with the comings and goings .in an ambassador’s, boudoir than is Sen. Nickles. As a politically leftist straight older male, I naturally fmd common cause with the Gay community: when the good Senator and the Right good Rev. Phelps get finished with the queers, they’ll be after me next. I applaud your efforts to establish dialogue with straightminority groups who have themselves been the targets of bigotry an discrimination. Ifwelearnnothing more from History, at least we should know that solidarity is the only hope for the oppressed, and perhaps the best defense from the excessively repressed. This town needs a paper that gives voice to all those outside the power elite, performing the traditional role of the Fourth Estate: to hold our governments accountable for their actions, and to protect the liberties of the individual. Keep up the good work. - Keith Bolton, Tulsa : A Letter from RAIN Oklahoma ," Thank you for providing me with providing me with a way to address some questions and concerns I’m aware of re- "¯ garding a policy for volunteers that RAIN’ s Board of Directors approved and ¯ that RAIN Staff are now charged with, ’ implementing. The policy in question is ". in regard to criminal history reports now ¯ being performed (with the volunteer’s ¯ permission) for all new volunteers effec¯ tive June 1, 1998 and gradually incorporating such reports on all volunteers by : March 1, 1999. ¯ I ask readers to consider the nature of ¯ ¯ RAINvolunteers’ service topeopleliving with HIV/AIDS [PLWA’s] and those in ; theirhouseholds. Volunteers provide non- ¯ medical,non-technical careto [PLWA’s], "- most often in the RAIN client’s home. ¯ The services vary, depending on the ex- ." pressed needs and the volunteerrs avail- - ability, but can include transportation, ¯ meal preparation, housecleaning, child ; care, pet care, and social outings. Emo- ; tional support is often a Valuable compo- ¯ nent of the relationship between RAIN ¯ Client and volunteer. ¯ RAIN’s Board of Directors and staff ¯ realized that we have a tremendous responsibility to do what we can to ensure ¯ thesafety ofchildrenandvulnembleadults ¯ that volunteers contact: The policy was : not-initiated naively or without regard to ¯ potential negative consequences. In a fo- ¯ cus group with volunteers many months ¯ ago, responses ranged from "against it ¯ -under any circumstance" to "yes, absoi lutely, I support this fully." see RAIN, p.3 : Letters Policy ¯ Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on ¯ issues which we’ve covered or on issues ¯ you think need to be considered. Youmay ¯. request that your name be with/add but ¯ letters mustbe signed&have phone num- " bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let- . ters are preferred. Letters to other publi- ¯ cations will be printed as is appropriate. Rev, Howard vsthe Evil Steve by Tom Neal, editor & publisher ". Severalyears ago whenUS Congressman Steve Largent " firstranforoffice, this newspapermet withLargent, athis ¯ request, andafterwards I argued, despiteLargent’s record ¯ of bigoted,.anti-Gay comments and his association with " radical extremist religio~political groups, for an initial ¯ policy of tolerance for Herr Largent. I’d hoped that ¯ Largent might just really believe in real Christian and " American values of loving and respecting not only your " neighbor but also the US Constitution. He sure tried to sweet-talk us that way. And to be fair, Steve did agree to a town hall meeting " with Tnlsa’s Lesbian and Gay community - something " none of his predecessors had ever done, certainly not the ¯ Idiot Congressman Inhofe (now US Senator and in competition with Ernest " Istookfor mostembar- " rassing Oklahoman in Washington) but not ¯ even the Democrat, " Jim Jones, who’d held " the seat before. ¯ But obviouslyI was " wrong. Nomatterhow " Largent may want to see himself as just a nice guy, he’s chosen " to promote rdigious " extremism and to surround himself with " folks so bigoted that " they make him look a " littlebit~m,oderate. His ." chief of staff, Terry US Rep. Steve Largent making Allen, thepoliticalex- " those endorsement dollars by tremist calling the " showing offhis son in his Hanes plays for our football ." underware. Yep, Steve andsome hall-of-famer, comes ¯ of those Republicans sure know to mind. Actually " about thosefamily values. Steve’s not moderate ¯ but his staff is openly hate~:.t.o~ir Lesbian aod Gay constituents while Steve .... a~’[d.~t~tu§~ly is polite. " Now Steve et al will argue that their radicalism is just repres.enting the views of the First District (which is more or less Tnlsa county). But as a nearly lifelong Tnlsan (my f,am~ly moved here from Oklahoma City in 1960), I just don t ihink So. Yes, wedo have a sufficiency of Baptists, Methodism, and also those no-name, make-it-up-as-yougo- along~they-claim-they-areChriStians, many ofwhom seem to think that their faith demands that they hate their nexgt~bor as tlaey would be loved. Or.who engage in the profoundly insincere rhetoric of claiming "to love the person and to hate the ’sin’:" Often one wonders if these types on meeting Christ would not reject Him as a "longhairedcommie, pinko-fag." But I don’t believe that these types represent the majority of Tulsans, and regardless, given the values of the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, ¯ minority civil fights are not supposed to be subject to the tyranny of the majority. And I believe that many Tulsa " Baptists, Methodists, Jews, Muslims, Pagans and non, " believers recognize that once the power of the govern- ¯ merit is used to promote a particular religious agenda, ¯ each tradition could be targeted just as Lesbian mad Gay " citizens are the target du jour. ’ So, it is with some relief to learn that a brave soul, the ’ Reverend Howard Plowman, retired Methodist pastor, has announced his willingness to face the football bully.. According to The Yellow Dog Democrat, the newsletter ¯ of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, Rev. Howard will ¯ challenge the ,hard-core Christian Coalition which has ¯ done a disservice to all political parties..." He adds, "1 " resent them taking a Christian name and pretending-to: ] have no other agenda..." Plowman, 73 years old, with .. kids and grandkids, went to Tulsa Public Schools,TU and " SMU’s Perkins School of Theology. This newspaper certainly agrees that the so-called ¯ Christian Coalition has done a disservice to all Ameri- ¯ cans who believe in real religious freedom and have " respect for America’s rich diversity. And I applaud Rev. " Howard and his spouse and family for being willing to ¯ stand up against the Evil Steve. Tulsa deserves better. ¯ Editor’s note: More information is available about ¯ Plowman ’for Congress by writing to 3617 East 48th " Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74.135. ¯ by James Christjohn Greetings! Welcome to a new occasional colunm, one that I hope you will fred interesting. The focus is to comment on the world around us with the perspective of being a Gay man in a diverse world. Topics will have a wide range, from frivolity to high drama to serious issues that affect us all. In this exploration, the question will always be: What exactly is a Gay lifestyle? I had an acquaintance once remark to me "I don’t approve of your lifestyle, but I like you." My first thought was "Well, I don’t approve of your lifestyle, but I accept it as part of you without comment: Who the hell are you to judge me?" Before I did so, I thought to myself, ’q’hat is not her rational mind speaking, it’s her brainwashing coming through. She doesn’t know any better. She knows not what she speaks." I had to ponder thatfor awhile. Itwas terribly tempting to ask, "Does your brainknow what your mouth is saying?" I began pondering: what the hell is a Gay lifestyle, anyway? There are perceptions, usually starting witha"mis", that the straight world has of Gay folk, and our so called lifestyles, such as apparently we spend 90% of our time in Gay bars in the pursuit of sex. I know.that there are some folk who like to go clubbing, straight and Gay, I know some folk who do drugs, straight and Gay, I know some folk who are promi.scuous (yes, even x years into the AIDS epidemic), again, both straight and Gay, - and I know many folk who do none of those things. Yet, in the straight world, we are all lumped under a stereotype of eternal drugging, drinking, slutty behaviors. Why is this, and.do we need to hire publicity firms to turn theimage around? Thus I dragged, kicking and sereamina, out of the closet by two very curious Baptist women from Q)dessa-latlon, Texas¯ And despite all " my f~ars~ notlang happened. In fact, when I leh, they were very qulch to tell me I replaced another Gay man . . . ¯ and they still want me. Another time, I was copying some ¯ recipes out of a book in the office, when the same sister ; noticed and said, "Oh, you like to cook? You’ll make ¯¯ some wo - person a wonderful hus - mate." Well, the cat was definitely coming out of the closet ¯ then. Shortly thereafter, I met my future mate, and all of ¯ a sudden, there was much curiosity about my life, which I kept sidestepping, still fearing I could lose ajob. It came to ahead one evening when I was drawing plans ofTom’ s apartment, and trying to figure out how to combine stuff, furniture, etc. Cyndee, the boss, came over and was looking over my shoulder. She noted I had not drawn another bed, and remarked "So, where ya golma put your bed? or are ya gonna sleep with him?" It was so surprisingly I my only response was -- ..u..hhh ~ ana men to oraw in a bed real fast. It was utterly silly, and she was letting me know that she knew and it was no big deal, .she had known, and now I knew she knew. After that, the questions were exhausting. The next year was one big Gay 101 Question and Answer session, as I ,demythified Gayhood (Gaydom?) to them and did no small amount of education. Cyndee even shielded me from a stalker who’d become obsessed with me, and nearly had him arrested for calling the business repeatedly. That was not fun, but it was notable in the way she was ready to defend me. They came from Irish stock, and Cyndee mad was a sight to avoid. And I became the one to turn to when Annie, the other sister, was planning parties. Which she did. A lot. I was the one draftedinto helping herdo artsy-crafty things for her parties, and when she was selecting new furniture, I was always asked for de- ¯ I tend to think that theimagecanbe turned arotmd,though it will mked~ne, ~aad lots ofpatiehee:The ¯ woman I referred to before may have a different image of : Gay people than what she’d been brainwashed into be- ¯ lieving because we knew each other. Maybe not a magic ." transformation, but a little logic, here and there,:can add ¯ For example, I worked for three years in a physical ¯ therapy office, for two small.town Baptistwomenl It was ¯ a nice job, and I liked them, so I didn’t talk about myself ¯ much for fear oflosing thejob:! was rather silly. TI~first ¯ day f worked there, "a client came in and demanded that ¯ one of the "purty wimmin" do his therapy because he didn t want no pansy-assed faggot to touch him. Well, ¯ we were both nonplused. I thought I was pretty low key, ¯¯ having left the bright, hotpinkneon"QueerHere" sign at ¯ home. After h~ left, one of the sisters begged me not t6 quit, saying their clients were not all like that, and he was an exception, not a rule. Wall, I thought, at least they know, ¯ sign opinions. I guess it’s part of the Gay gene, that interior d(sign comes with it. (I really had no talent forit, but it was a misconception that wouldil’t die. No matter how hard I tried to dispel the myth that not all Gay men had impeccable taste, even to the extent of describing my past relationships.) Thus was I drug, kicking and screaming, out of the closet by two VerY curious Baptist women from Odessalation, Texas. And despite all my fears, nothing bad happened. In fact, when I left, they were very quick to tell me I was being replaced with another Gay man, who’d actually made a pass at their very handsome but terribly straight brother. Apparently, the strategy worked. I had a point in all this somewhere. Oh yes, it is by events like these - and not being afraid to be who we are - that this whole mythification of what we are can be ¯changed. It’s not always the loud voices that help create change, sometimes it’s the whisper on the wind. And in that way, everyone can help make long-lasting changes for.the benefit of all. characterizingit as an attack on the rights of Gay citizens and a federal imposition on local rule. Only Riggs-vigorously supported it during the debate, "It’s a message amendment.... It will unquestionably encourage intolerance," said Rep. Henry Waxman, DCalif. The San Francisco ordinance has been criticized by some businesses as well as nonprofit orgamzadons including Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army. "The SalVation Army, which refused to buckle to city policy, forfeited $3.5 million of its $18 million budget," said Riggs, because it didn’t want to comply with the city ordinance on domesdc partner benefits. The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national Lesbian and Gay political organization, called theamendment "the latest salvo in fight-wing attacks .against Gay people." "The amendment is a thinly veiled attempt to attack San Francisco and micromanage the city," said Winnie Stachelberg, the political director for the Human Rights Campaign. In another action ofinterest to the Gay community, the House decided to reduce money it had allocated see Attack, p. 13 There were concerns expressed regarding the cost ($15/ report) and it was decided to handle it similar to the way we handle our $25 volunteer training fee. Scholarships are offered for training to anyone who request one and RAIN will pay the report fee for any volunteer, so that no one is prevented from volunteering due to the cost. All decisions for volunteer eligibility are made at the discretion of the RAIN coordinator and any grievances against the policy or any decision made my the RAIN coordinator may be taken up with me. I hope that current RAIN volunteers will understand RAIN’s mission of providing a compassionateresponse to HIV/AIDS through education and service has not changed. We appreciate the love and concern shown by our volunteers and we are grateful that men, women and children living with HIV/ AIDS are willing to risk letting strangers into their lives by asking for a RAIN team. - Pam S. Cross, MPH, Executive Director No Gays or Singles to Adopt in Arkansas LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A state board that sets standards affecting foster care has approved a requirement that prohibits private agencies from placing children with homosexual.or unmarried heterosexual adults. The new rule must undergo a public comment period before becoming effective. Rules have not been written for public foster care agencies, said Joel Landreneau, alawyerfor the licensing unit ofthe state Human Services Department. The state has some 2,700 to 2,800 children in foster care. In the past, the ruleshave been silent on homosexual or single heterosexual foster parents. Along with passing the new rule, the Child Welfare Agency Review Board discussed the possibility of an exemption for unmarried heterosexuals. Board member James Balcom of Paragould said agencies could use single people by applying for an exemption called alternative compliance. Bob West of Little Rock, also a board meml~er and the only dissenter, said he believes there will be many requests for exemptions. "I don’t think you can exclude anyone just because they’re single," he said. "I really think it should be up to the local agencies who is qualified to be a foster parent. I just think it has to be done on a case-by-case basis.’" Board member Robin Woodruff of Little Rock proposed the prohibition, saying "I would like for our children to have a mom role model and a dad role model." After the meeting, Ms. Woodruff said she had been told that the Centers for Youth and Families had placed at least one child with a Gay family and had other such families waiting. Kay Kimbrough, the centet"s service administrator for adolescent services, said her agency doesn’t inquire rote foster parents’ sexuality. "That is not an issue for us, asfar as gender of parents. We don’ t have a policy or practice that dictates whether we place kids in that type family," Ms. Kimbrough said. "We don’t make a practice to determine whether a family is heterosexual or homosexual." At the board meeting, Chris Pyle, family life issues Aiai.~.On f~o~ Q.o,v..~Mike Huckabee~ said the. govemgr supports-applying the principle of foster parents being heterosexual married couples. Pyle said Arkansas law prohibits marriages between members of the same sex. He said Huckabee believes "it is not in the best interest of children for them to be placed in an environment that.the Legislature has specifically and purposely removed from legal sanction and recognition." "I think there are a lot of foster children out there and not enough foster parents, and we may run into trouble if.we try to limit it to couples only," said West, apediatric medical consultant who works for the state Health Department. AssistantAttorney General Karen Wallace, a lawyer for the board, had recommended the board stick with the standards as written. She said she.had concerns about equal protectionand discrimination. New England Lesbian Wins Bias Lawsuit BOSTON (AP) -Ajudge has awarded $906,000 to a Lesbian who managed a state social services agency, ruling she was the victim of job discrimination. Middlesex Superior Com’tJudge Sandra Hamlinruled that Lowell-based Community Teamwork Inc., the state’s second-largest .anti-poverty agency, had no good reason fire Patrica Weber. Hamlin added that Weber was "eminentlymorequalified" man the CTI’ s director, the man who was picked over her by the agency’s board of directors. Hamlin, who said a "sexist attitude" prevailed at CTI, also ruled that the reasons given for Weber’ s firing were "a pretext." "I feel vindicated," Weber, 49 told the Boston Herald. "What they did tomewas wrong. I’m glad the !aw feels thatway too. Employers can’ t firepeoplefor nothing-because they don’tlike them, or they’re the wrong sex or whatever." Cheryl Cronin, CTI’s lawyer, said the agency is appealing. !~We are c~,,n~,~dent that CTI will ultimately prevail in this matter,’ she said. CTI provides a range of services,including housing, education and daycare to low-income residents of 38 communities from Lowdl to Framingham. Weber, who worked for CTI for 18 years, was fired in March, 1996 during a meeting with Executive Director Jim Canavan. A month later, when she applied for unemployment benefits, she learned the reason for her dismissal was listed as "inability to do her job." Hamlin said inca 38-page ruling that CTI retaliated against Weber for filing a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discriminationbyrefusing to provide her areference. Weberwas turned down for dozens of jobs, before accepting one that cut her pay nearly in half. "Weber’s past work history while at CTI reveals only a dedicated, bright, hardworking employee,".the judge wrote. "Nothing whatsoever in the evidence supports defendant’ s contention that Weber’ s inability to perform led to her termination.’" Tennessee Lesbian Wins Child Custody NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-Gay activists hope the case of a Wilson County Lesbian who was granted custody of one of her children marks a trend in Tennessee. Pat Finn was awarded sole custody of her 9-year-old daughter this month by ajudge in Wilson County. Her second child, a teen-age son, chose to live with his father, who was awarded sole custody of the boy. ’Tm glad this has been brought to light," said Bev Clendenen of Nashville, director of the Lesbianand Gay Community Center. "This reconfirms that Gay mothers are good mothers. Like everything, there are good apples and bad. You should be judged not on your sexuality, but rather what kind of mother you are.;" Pa~ck Sullivan, Finn’s ex~husband, plans to appeal. I thought it was the greatest injustice in the s/ate of Tennessee," he said. ’q-his case is about her being a neglectful mother and very little about the homosexuality." He said he opposes:his ex-wife’ s Lesbian relationship and does not wanthis daughter exposed to it "It is about discrimination of me as a father trying to get custody of his children," he said of the ruling. Finn, a registered nurse, was married to Sullivan for 17 years. She and her female partner have formalized their relationship with a commitment ceremony and exchange offings. Finn believes she won custody of her daughter because she was judged on the facts and not politics, public sentiment or the judge’s personal preferences about family life. "I realized the odds were against me, but I told my " daughter I wasn’t doing anything wrong and I needed to show her I would fight to keep her," Finn said. ’Tm thesame mother. I’m the same woman who has been raising children for 16 years." Can A Lesbian Win A Seat in Congress? MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) - Grethe Cammermeyer, a daughter of the Nazi resistance in Norway and a decorated Vietnam veteranwhobattled her owngovernment, hasjumpedheadlonginto anew challenge: The retired Armycolonel, who wryly calls herself "one of the most famous Lesbians in the country" after her successful fight to stay in the military, is rtmuing for Congress. Cammermeyer, 56, has never held public office. Her Gay civil-rights fight - recounted in "Serving in Silence," a book and made-for-TV movie = made her a celebrity. Glenn Close, who starred in the movie, its producer Barbra Streisand and other show-business notables have contributed to her campaign. 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She was f!red, in 1992.after disclosing her sexual orientation aunng a 1989 Interview for a security clearance as chief nurse of the National Guard.Afederaljudge orderedher reinstated in 1994; the government did not appeal. On the campaign trail, she doesn’t talk Gay civil rights. At an ice cream social held by Skagit County Democrats earlier this month, Cammermeyer spoke about education, health care, the environment and countering a Republican Congress she considers radical and heartless. "I am not a politician," she told The Associated Press. "I’m an everyday person who has a healthcare background and an education background. I am a mother, a grandmother and served in Vietnam. I have had thebest and the worst of social experience." Cammermeyer was born in Oslo, Norway, to a doctor and a nurse who sheltered undergroundresistance fighters in World War II. A now familiar tale has her mother shuttling weapons to the Nazi resis,_t~_,ce by hiding them beneath the mattress in Grethe s baby buggy. Cammermeyer was 9 when she came to the United States with her parents and three brothers. She became a eitizen in 1960. Ntlrsingmeshed well with her military ambitions, she has said, because it was a job she could take to the batflefront. She served in the military 31 years, including active duty in Vietnam. She earned the Bronze Star. for treating wounded soldiers in the. Tet Offensive in 1968. She has four grown sons from her marriage to a fellow officer she met while serving in Germany. She’s wall aware why she.has such ready name recognition. :But the personable, 6-foot-tall .Cammermeyer-whosefirstname, shortforMaxgarethe, is pronounced Greta- bdieves most voters are ready to move past her sex,,,u~,, ori,entadon to the issues affecting their own lives. Whats.most difficult is suddenly realizing there are some people who don’t want you to approach them or shake their hand or even say hello," she said of experiences on the campaign trail. -State Democratic Chairman Paul Berendt, neutral in the primary, says Cammermeyer needs to let voters know the range of issues she cares about. "If people see her as one-dimensional,it’s over," agrees Murray. "We don’ tknow how big ofanegative it is" to be openly Gay in a district with no major homosexual enclaves and a sizablenumber ofreligious conservatives, Berendt says. Cammermeyer’s lone primary opponent, businessman and environmentalist Fran Einterz, 44, makes apoint of telling audiences he’s been in the district for 17 years. Einterz plans to raise only $100,000 for the primary election. Cammermeyer has raised $502,801 so far. Neither Einterz nor Metcalf has made an issue of Camm.ermeyer’ s sexual orientation, althoughthe Metcalf campaign sent out a fund-raising letter that said the Cammermeyer campaign is being underwritten by the national Gay movement. Boy Scouts-Feud with Unitarians BOSTON (AP) -A feud between the Boy Scouts of America and the Unitarian Universalist Assocaation over homosexuality has led to cries of outrage by the Boston-based branch of the church. 2~he Unitarian Universalist Association, a long-standing New England liberal denomination that~supports civilrights for Gays, has condenmed in a church manual the Boy Scouts’ rejection of homosexuality. As a result the youth orgamzation has ordered the association to stop honoring Unitari.~an scouts with religious awards. But the president of the Boston-based 250,000-member association called the order "’outrageous" and said the Unitarians do not intend to honor the Boy Scouts’ emand., They simply can t tell us how to teach our children ’ John Buehrens, a former Boy Scout, told The Boston Globe. "Telling us we can’t give out awards to our boys is blatant discrimination against children. That’s not in the Boy Scouts’ tradition," Buehrens said. ¯ The religious emblems awarded by Unitarimas ¯ are also presented by several other religious groups, ¯¯ including the Roman Catholic Church, ant many ¯ Protestant, JewishandMuslim denominations. The emblems differ from the merit badges that are ¯ earned for mastering a specific task, but can still be ¯ worn on scouts’ ufiiforms as badges of honor. In recent years, the Boy Scouts has drawn fire ¯ from human rights groups and a number of reli- ¯ gious organizations for its view of homosex,u~l,ity ¯ and refusal to admit Gay scouts and leaders. We resp.ect other people’ s rights to disagree with us and : we simply ask people to respect our rights as a ¯ private voluntary orgamzation," Gregg Shields. ¯ national spokesman for the Scouts, said. ¯ But in its manual distributed to tecn-agers, the : associadonmakes it clear thatit does not agree with ¯ the Boy Scouts’ view. The manual describes the Unitarians’ "ongoing concern regarding the ¯ homophobic and discriminatory attitudes of the : nationalleadership of the Boy Scouts ofAmerica.’" ¯ Since then, letters have gone back and forth between the two sides, leaving Buehrens wi th the ¯ hope that the dispute can be resolved by a mee.ting ¯ with Boy Scouts officials this fall. ¯ "I’m perfectly willing to sit down with the Boy Scouts, but I also need to be very clear that they are ¯ in grave danger of having much of America’s : mainstream religious community concerned abom : the way in which they are acting," Buehrens said. ¯i Anti-Gay Hawaii TV Ads Criticized ¯ HONOLULU (AP) - Opponents of a proposed : state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage are criticizing a pro-amend- , ment television ad featuring professional football : player Reggie White. ¯ Jaekie Young, coordinator of the Protect Our ¯ Constitution campaign, said this isn’t about letting ¯ the people decide but about "political extremists" coming to Hawaii to argue anissue aboutbasic civil ¯ rights and dividing the community. ¯ Noelani Foster, spokesman for a group called ¯ Save Traditional Marriage, said White, defensive hneman for the Green Bay Packers, "feels a con- ; nection to theislands" because he has played in the : Pro Bowl in Honolnlu for the past 12 years. ¯ White, an ordained minister, filmed the TV spot ¯ re~enfly as part of a broader advertising campaign ¯ to educate Hawaii voters about the ballot question. : Hawaii voters will decide during the Nov. 3 Gen- ¯ eral Election whether to ratify an amendment that ¯ would restrict marriage to opposite-sex couples. ¯ ¯ Alaska Lawmakers Sue Over Ballot Language ¯ ¯ JUNEAU (AP) - Republican lawmakers are suing Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, claiming she distorted the ¯ meaning of a proposed constitutional amendment ." banning same-sex marriage when she summarized it for the November ballot. As part of her duties, ¯ Ulmer, a Democrat, must compose impartial summanes of proposed amendments-and initiatives. Thefirst sentence ofher summary ofSenate Joint ¯ Resolution 42 read: "This measure would amend ¯ the Declaration of Rights section of the Alaska ¯ .Co.nstitution to limit marriage." "The word ’limit’ ¯ is incorrect because as of this date no nation in the .. world and no state in this country recognizes or has ¯ ever recognized homosexual same-sex marriage," ¯ attorney Kevin Clarkson wrote on behalf of the ¯ Legislative Council, a committee of lawmakers ¯ that acts for the Legislature between session, M0ng ¯ with Sen. Loren Leman, R-Anchorage and Rep. ¯ Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks. ¯ In the lawsuit, the.lawmakers accuse Ulmer of ¯ altering the language at the behest of opponents of the measure, bqmers position was spelled out in a ¯ July 20 letter to the Legislative Council. "’The ¯ proposed constitutional amendment restricts the ¯ cour! .from "interpreting Alaska’s constitution as ¯ reqtunng a broader definition of marriage than that ¯ which is defined by statute," seeBriefs, p.]l HIV Creates Infection Resevoir WASHINGTON (AP) - New research shows th~it the AIDS virus takes as little as little as 10 days to establish a stronghold inimmunecells of thebody that could last for years, waiting to erupt into disease. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease say a study of 10 patients show that alatently infected pool of immune cells quickly established following infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Drug treatment apparently does not easily clear out the pool of infected cells, the experts said. A report on the study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Evenif the active HIV disease is held in check by a three-drug combination of antiviral drugs, the researchers say, the virus continues to lurk in resting CD4 Tcells in the blood. These are immune ceils that detect and lead the attack on infections, but the CD4s are also the primary target of the HIV. CD4 T-cells are usually resting. They are activated only when they detect some pathogen invader in the blood. When this happens, the cells attack the invader and prompt otherimmunecells to dothe same. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director ofNIAID and co-author of the study, said that studies of the blood from the 10 HIV patients showed that their resting CD4 T-cells became infected as earl,y~ as 10 days after their initial HIV infection symptoms appeared. Earlier studies had shown that the re.sting CD4 T-cells continued to contain v~rus even when the antiviral drugs suppressed the virus elsewhere in the body. " The new study, said Fauci, shows that these reservoirs of virus are established very early in the infection. Such reseryoi~ s.’.’Presentafo~dableobstacle to the Ultimate~ 0ntrbland possible eradication of HIV from an infected person’ s body," saidTae-Wook Chun, aN!AID researcher and co-author of the study. Activists Urge Better Prevention WASHINGTON (AP) - Lulled by lifeprolonging AIDS drugs, the nation has slacked off vital efforts to keep Americans - especially young people - from catching the deadly virus in the first place, say AIDS activists who are demanding major increases in HIV prevention work. .Activists called formillionsmorein spending on HIV education, televised condom ads and outreach to at-risk teen-agers via the Interuet, saying such AIDS prevention programs are a "virtual vaccine.’" "If there were a medical vaccine for AIDS, imagine the forces mobilized to deploy it," said Daniel Zingale of AIDS Action. "The irony is that today we have a virtual vaccine- prevention and education - and those forces are paralyzed." Saving lives isn’t the only issue. At least 40,000 Americans every year catch HIV, adding add $6.2 billion in lifetime treatment costs to the nation’s health care bill, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced recently. "AIDS drugs cost $40 a day" and do not cure the disease, added Zingale. "This condom costs .40 cents. Our plan today will not. only save lives, it would save dollars." The CDC hash’ t won.a budget increase to fight new infections in three years, and some people most at risk of HIV have become complacent, activists said. For example, two-thirds of Gay men say ¯ they’ve had unsafe sex at least once in the : last 18 months, concluded a study pre- ¯ sented at last month’s World AIDS Con- " ference. ." Also, Secret Service agents arrested 10 ; other AIDS activists who briefly chained ¯ themselves to desks in the office of Presi- " dent Clinton’s topAIDS adviser to protest ¯ the administration’s refusal to federally : fund needle exchange programs. Experts ¯¯ say 33 people a day catch HIV fromdirty drug needles or sex with addicts. Seien- ¯ tific studies show letting addicts swap ¯ used needles for dean ones lowers the ¯ risk of HIV’s spread. Some 110 U.S. ¯ needle exchanges operate with local or ¯. privatefunding,but communities say they ¯ need federal tax dollars to reach more ¯ addicts. Clinton refusedin April, side- " stepping a political fight. ’’To have the ¯ United States government play politics. ¯ with people’s lives - it’s just not OK ¯ anymore," said Kenneth Vail, who rims a ¯ needle exchange program in Cleveland, ¯ after his arrest. ¯ Separately, AIDS Action gatheredpub~ liehealthofficialsandAIDS workers who ¯ called for a 25 percent increase inCDC’s ¯ $634 million budget for AIDS education ¯ and prevention. Congress has addedmil, lions to government programs thatpay for ¯ drugs for AIDS patients, but increasing AIDS prevention money significantly is ¯ considered a tougher fight, particnlarly in ~ view of a new conservative campaign ¯ against homosexuality. ¯ But HIV ,infects across:the-board, Dr~ : Helene Gayle, CDC’s AIDS chief, said ¯ Monday. Some 26 percent of HIV-infected young people caught the v~rus ¯ through heterosexual intercourse, she : notea.. "If people in leadership positions : care about thefuture of this nation, you’ ve ¯ got to care about H’IV prevention," she ¯ said. ¯ Activists also called for: : - TV networks that air programs rated ¯ "S" for sexual content to also allow ¯ condom ads to air during those programs. - Doctors, clinics and hospitals to begin ." using a new 10-minute HIV test immedi- : ately. An older test takes about a week to ¯ get results, and thousands of Americans ¯ who get tested each year never return to ¯ leamifthey’reinfected. Pcoplewhodon’t ¯ know they are infected can unknowingly spread HIV to others. - AIDS education to reach more teen- " agers by .creating an AIDS prevention ¯ web site that links to popular teen Internet sites. ¯ - CDC to launch a campaign persuad- ¯ ing more people to get tested. An esti- ¯ mated 50,000 people in New York State ¯ have HIV and don’t know it, says a corn- : puter model by Gay Men’s Health Crisis. ! HIV+-Teacher Can : Be Transfered ¯ ATLANTA (AP) - An order prohibiting ¯ ¯ the DeKalb County School District from transferring a teacher infected with HIV, ¯ the .virus that causes AIDS, has been re- ¯. versed by the EleventhU.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Last year, a district court ¯ granted the teachcr, known as "John Doe" : in court documents, a permanent injunc- ¯ tion disallowing his transfer under the ¯ Americans with Disabilities Act. ¯ Doe worked with children with severe ¯ behavioral disorders at the district’s ¯ Shadow Rock Psychoeducational Center. ¯ The school district says the students are. ¯ violent and teachers often suffer bruises : and scrapes. "Because district officials ¯ feared thatviolence and subsequentblood- Medical Excellence And mpassionate Care Since 1926. ¯ ¯ ST. 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He spent the months following his transfer trying to convince school officials to return him to his psychoeducation class or assign him to a group of children who are ’self-contained’ or too ’disordered’ to participate in the ’interrelated’ program, the court wrote. Doe eventually filed a lawsuitclaiming the districtdiscriminated against him. The district court supported Doe’s assertions in August 1997. "The district court, however, failed to make explicit findings of fact regarding any dangers that Doe’ s illness might pose to violent psychoeducation students," the appeals court ruled. "In addition, the district court erred by applying a subjective standard for determining whether Doe’s transfer was adverse." The three-judge panel said the district court should take a . second look at the case and make a decision following the guidelines of its reversal. City Approves Needle Exchange SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP)-After years of heated debate and flip-flopping, the city council has approved a needle exchange program. After two hours of publiccommentand debate, the council voted 5-4infavor oftheprogram. Council memberWilliam Foley received applausefrom the crowd of 100 people when he cast the swing vote. MayorMichael Albano, whohas pushed for an exchange program for two years, said there was an AIDS epidemic in Springfield. "This is not a political issue, this is a medical issue," he said. "We are. getting people into treatment and stopping people froin getting a deadly disease." But Hampden District Attorney William Bennett accused the council of "giving out tools to commit a crime with." After the vote, council member Timothy Rooke asked the board to consider an amendment that would require health officials to test all needles to seeif they were used by more than one person or if they contained any viruses. "It is not a stalling tactic," he said. "Now it’ s a matter of fine tuning the #an." Theneedle exchangewouldoperate out of a!-Iigh Street building of the Bay State Medical Center. Drug users can turn in used needles for clean needles in an even exchange. They would all’be referred to drug treatment programs and be asked questions so city officials could track the program. The city council first rejected the plan 5-4 in 1996. It agreed to reconsider after the city’ s Public Health Council declared a health emergency in May and tried to launch the program on its own. Springfield Health Director Helen Caulton said thenumber ofAIDS cases in the city had reached epidemicproportions and most had been caused by addicts sharing needles. However, city lawyers ruled that only the city council could seek state funding for the program. State law provides funding for 10 programs to hand out clean syringes to drug users, but, so far, they have been established only in Boston, Cambridge, Northamptonand Provincetown. The state pitches in about $200,000 for the programs. TheClinton administmtionhas endorsed needle exchanges. Still, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said the federal government would not help pay for the programs. The House of Representatives voted in April to ban using federal money for such programs. New Eyesight Saving Drug WASHINGTON (AP)- Scientific advisers are recommending approval of a new ¯¯ The code also outlaws any form of job discrimination against a worker infected ¯ by the HIV virus, and requires that any ¯ employee too ill to performnormal duties ¯ be reassigned, the newspaper said. According to 7fiord Health Organiza- ¯ tion figures released in June, one-fifth of ¯ Namibia’s population of 1.8 million is ¯ infected with HIV. Some densely popu~ ¯ lated areas are estimated to have an infec- _" tion rate of as high as 40%. i Inmates Being i "rested for HIV ¯ GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Now that ¯ South Carolina is testing all state prison inmates for the AIDS virus, some law- " makers and others want to know how the ¯ .information will be used. The federal ¯ Bureau of Prisons and 17 other states : already have mandatory testing for HIV, ¯ the virus that causes AIDS, according to ¯ the American Civil Liberties Union’s : National Prison Project. ¯ State Sen. Kay Patterson, D-Columbia, genetic drug therapy to help save AIDS ¯ likes the idea of testing all prisoners, but patients’ eyesight. Isis, Pharmaceuticals’ : is concemed about how prison officials Vitravene is the first antisense" drug to -" will use the information. "What will the be reviewed by the Food and Drug Ad- ° department do once they find out they’re ministration. This novel class of drugs is created from DNA coding, working at the genetic level to block production of disease- causing proteins. Thebioteclmology industry is stressing development of antisense drugs against myriad diseases. Isis says Vitravene slows the progression of cytomegalovirus retinitis, an infection that destroys AIDS patients’ rednas. Advisers to theFDAvoted 5-2Wednesday to recommend approval of Vitravene, saying that although powerful new .anti- HIV drugs have prevented many AIDS patients from getting the eyeinfection in recent years, some still fail standard therapy. ¯ Chinese HIV ¯ Infections Increase ¯ BEIJING (AP)-Chineseauthorities urged ¯ greater efforts to slow the spread ofAIDS ¯ as the official tallyofpeopleinfectedwith : the virus that causes the disease topped 10,000, an official newspaper said Tues- " day. The newspaper said the actual num- " ber of people infected with HIV may be ¯ as hi.gh as 300,000 - 100,000 more than ¯ previous estimates. That figure could pass 1 million by ¯ 2000 if more is not done to check the ¯ spread of HIV, Xiao Yan, an official with the Department of Disease Control, told ¯ state television. ¯ Loc~ health authorities have been or- ¯ dered to speed up education and preven- ¯ tion campaigns, the newspaper said. The ¯ disparity between official numbers and ¯ estimates is likely due tO undenceporting, the lack of government resources to perform tests and the stigma attached to ac- : knowledging HIV,infection. : Namibia Bars HIV ¯resting for Jobs WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) - Namibia, : whichhas one of the word’s highest HIV : infection rates, has made it illegal for ¯ employers to require tests for the virus : that causes AIDS. The country’s new ¯ AIDS testing code binds both public and private employers. It says HIV-infected employees are under no obligation to inform their employer of their condition. infected? That’ s the missing piece to me,’" ¯ said Patterson, a member of the Senate ¯ Corrections and Penology Committee. : Jackie Walker, an AIDS expert for the ¯ National Prison Project, is skeptical. I’ve ¯ never seen them say, ’OK, we’ll test you ¯ and you’ll be provided with correct level ¯ of care, medications and access to outside ¯ specialists whenit’ s neededand appropriate.’ It has just not happened across the ¯ board," she said. ¯ The $126,000 mandatory screening of ¯ about 21,000 prisoners should be done by ¯ Aug. 31, Corrections Department spokes- ¯ woman Linda Davis said. Correctional ¯ officers can use minimal force to ensure ¯ all inmates comply, including holding ¯ them down while blood is drawn, Davis ¯ said. So far no one has objected, she said. "It’s a public safety issue. Considering ¯ the nature of our population and the ~ lifestyle, there’s a potential for health- " related problems," she said. "It gives us a ¯ gauge to measure potential problems." ¯ However, Steve Bates, executive direc- ¯ tor of the state ACLU, worries that HIV- ¯ positive inmates will be segregated and denied educational and vocational train- . 1rig opportunities. : Davis said the department does not yet ¯ haveapolicy onhousingforHIV-posltive ¯ inmates. State Sen. David Thomas, R- ¯ Fountain Inn, who heads the corrections ¯ committee, said the department could see : roughly how many inmates are infected ¯ by doing a random sampling of 250 pris- ¯ oners. "They may have some reason to ." believe there is an accelerating number of ¯ cases and they need to segregate thepopu- ¯ lations. Given how AIDS usually spreads, ¯ they may have somereason to believe that : they need to look very, very carefully at ¯ what is happening in that population," ¯ Thomas said. PFLAG Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays Tulsa Area Chapter POB 52800, Tulsa 74152 749-4901 the show to Nex+ York. 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Pride Rides from the Pride Center, 3749 S. Peoria. Write for dates. Ifyour organization is not listed, please let ua know. Call orfax S&32i615. reviewed by Adam West Tulsa City-County Library System Lars Eiglmer’s novel Pawn to Queen Four is pretentious, disturbingly campy and fantastically absurd. That’s exactly what makes it so much fun to read. This is a gay novel that does not take itsdf any more seriously than it does the ’moral majority.’ But Eighner keeps his tacky brand of~humor from getting tedious by plying his skill at intricate plot twists, quick-andquirky characterizations and a unique insight into the fears and desires of both the Gay commnnity and ourdetractors. As the story opens, Agnes, the six-foot seven,350lb. drag queen is facing quite the dilemma. As ruler of the Court of the Jade Chimera, she must faithfully oversee the ’Gay agenda’ throughout her territory which covers most of Texas and part of Oklahoma, including the tiny town of Osage. Osage is home to Holy Word of God University and Technical Institute, the headquarters of the charismatic Brother Earl, Agnes’ old enemy. Agnes has been able to keep Brother Earl’s violently anti-gay rhetoric in check for years, but now Earl has the upper hand. Agnes has lost a certain set of photographs of Brbther Earl engaged in his favorite bad habit - namely, seducing his male students. Now Brother Earl has rejuve~ ted his homophobic campaign and it is Agnes’ duty as Empress of the Jade Chimera to stop him. Her mission: retrieve the photographs or, failing that. make new ones. Enter Jim, our reluctant hero. Through various types of bribery, appeals to his duty as a Gay man and assurances of lifelong sexual satisfaction by the finest men in Houston, Agnes convinces Jim to undertake this desperate, dangerous mission. Now the fun’begins as Jim, his new boyfriend Phil and eventually Agnes herself infiltrate HWOGUTI, the Ku Klux Klan and the sleepy town of Osage. Eiglmer has a refreshing talent for creating characters so natural and detailed that you forget they are unbelievably stereotypical. Jim is a typical clone; Phil is a twink; Agnes is the UltimateDrag Queen, but you never doubt that any of them could be real. Even Brother Earl, though hopelessly two-dimensional, seems to be an exact replica of the kind of people we elect to Congress all the time. This kind of stereotyped hyper-neo-virmal-realism almost makes Pawn to Queen Four an EverYman play for the modem Gay individual. The characters are so typical, yet so real, that you could plug yourself into whichever one fits best and pretend that you are a part of this grand adventure. There’s even a Lesbian (yes, only one) who shows up with the Hell’s Fairies, a Gay motorcycle gang. There are more admirable things going onJaere however¯ The three main characters have a point in-their stereotyping. Jim’ s uncertainty about his role in such an exotic world draws you in. You begin to refreshing talent for ereat~g characters so natural and detailed that you forget they are unbelievably stereotypical... Agnes is the Uh~-nate Drag Que n... Even Brother Earl... seems to exact re~|~ea of the klnd~mpeople we elect to Congress all the time. Th~s kind of stereotyped hyper~neo-wirtualrealism almost makes Pawn to ¯ been Four an Everyman play for the modern Gay ~dl,ad~l. wonder how much of our culture is controlled by a marginalized minority of our society. You start to wonder, "how much does that drag queen control what club is ’ in’ or’ out?’ "or"am I on the A-list for all the best partiesT’ Though the true extent of an underground society’s control is questionable, Eighner wants you to question the image we have and who gives it to us. Even more infectious than Jim’s trepidation is his admi= ration of Phil. Phil’s angelic beauty and innocent devotion give the story apeaceful wonder missing from most Gay novds. Oh, there are plenty of beauties, plenty of innocents and plenty of devoted lovers in Gay literature, but how many characters really have all three traits? Phil reminds us thatwe canretain ourchildlike fascination with the world no matterhow adverse the cir= cumstances and still beresponsible, capable, respectable human beings. This is a quality of life that so much of the gay community neglects in favor of that oh-so-chic snide cynicism. Though Jim is the protagonist, Phil is the one youwill involve yourself wi~. You will be proud when he comes into his own destiny; you will admire him as Jim does, because Phil is that beatl- ¯ tiful person that would actually talkto you ¯ in a bar. ¯ Alas, Agnes... with the resourceful- " hess and style of a true pageant-winner, ¯ the Queen of the Jade Chimera inspires ¯ belief in the impossible, faith in the unbe- ¯ lievable . . . and that she does just by ¯ carrying 350 pounds of drag queen in ¯ seven-inchheels! Regency and flare have ¯ never been in better form. She can imper~ ¯ sonate a grtmgy old gardener or a Klan ¯ member and never break a two-inch-long : nail. Truthfully, any respect and dignity ¯¯ wehave neglected to allow drag queens to haveis broughtforth with no apologies by ¯ the glorious Agnes. She is a true heroine in the vein of those queens who started ¯ this most groundbreaking era of our ¯ struggle for equal rights. I wouldn’t be ¯ surprised tolearn thatAgnes or some real¯ life equivalent was actually at Stonewall. Her Highness is controlling, deceptive ¯ and stubborn but you can’t help but love ¯ her .... and you can’thelp but watch her. ¯ Ultimately,whatmakes Pawn toQueen Four a good read is what it teaches (al- ¯ though I think Eighner might hate me for : saying that). For all its outlandish hijinx ¯ and biting wit, this book has a serious, ¯ though probably unintentional, message ¯ - we in the Gay community have become " so obsessed with fighting our enemies ¯ that we forget to have fun, or the exact : opposite. Pawn to Queen Four is ulti- : mately aboutbalance. Agnes doesn’twant Brother Earl out of the picture. She has ¯ plenty of chances to ruin him, but she ¯ knows that he has every right to exist that ¯ she does. Surprisingly, Brother Earl feels : the same, although he gets a little threatening when he leads the Klan in a true " Oklahomabackroads see Queen4,p. 14 Kelly Kirby CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant, a professional corporation Lesbians and Gay men face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. Call us for help with your year round tax needs. 747-5466 4021 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 Call 341.6866 Internationa Tours:ormoreinformation. 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No, no, long, smooth strokes.. ¯ and dip your brush NOW! Oureditorcame to mind, and while he would have probably agreed about the Strok- Ing technique, the paint job wouldhavebeenhis least concern. But not you, loyal reader! Over the past few months, you too have come to admire the beauty of paint. As promised, last month, when the cart of exterior painting was put before the workhorse of window reglazing, the DIYD will now enhance your skills even more. Window reglazing is only done on the older wood framed single paned windows, andis amust ff you% doing all your windows, and usually you will, do yourself a favor and buy the Prazi Putty Cha.er... It attaches to any drift chuck.., and with one simple adjustment the carbide cutter is set so that it won’t harm the Turn on the drift and remove the old putty fa~ter than Dorothy can click her heels three times, and it won’t slit or chip the wood frame eitker. before starting that outside paint project. It will also make your winter heating bills more. palatable when you stop the coldair seeping in around.the pane. And aesthetics ! Don’t forget the aesthetics ! Curling, peeling and cracking glazing putty is just ¯ tired and frumpy2 Lose it. ¯ Traditionally, this job has been a lot of uresome work, but the DIYD will pull a few tricks out of her pocket that will have you simply melting with delight..First, the old, dried putty must be removed to the wood. If you’re doing all of your windows, and usually you will, do yourself a "We need your help," Satcher told the organizationformedby ministers in 1957. "We need the church to help us to deal with the prejudice and the bias that-we face as we’re trying to fight this epidemic." Ministers are uneasy talking about AIDS, said the group’s chairman, Dr. Claud Young, a family doctor in Detroit. ’qqaey speak about sex in any form as if it’s a form of cancer," he said, recalling preachers asking him not to use the word "condom" inside the church. "I said, ’Not only is the word condom being usedinthe church; I can assure you condoms are being used in the church.’" Young added thatin Michigan,Blackorganizations have received little of the grant money available for prevention. Today’s fight presents challenges that did not exist during the 1960s, Satcher said. During the civil rights movement, he said, people had hope that they could effect change. Today, too many young people are hopeless about their futures so they do not try as hard to avoid risky sex and other health threats, he said. But that can change, he said. "Leadership is critical," he said. "I don’t think we’ve found any~substitutes for good leadership." favor and buy the Prazi Putty Chaser. 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Not only will it be easier~ the latex material will last longer and it may be the last tame you have to do this. The tube comes with a specialized nozzle that applies the compound at the proper angle and it fits a standard catdk gun, Though it isn’t necessary, your job will look heater if you mask the glass about 1/3" above the wood, with the compound filling in. Leave the tape on for p.ainting, then strip it off 24 hrs. later for a crisp, unsmeared edge. The tube material costs a bit more than, the putty, but is worth every penny of it. Apply the material moving smoothly and slowly along the frame at about a 33 degree angle; the nozzle will do this for you. Smooth with a wet finger, if desired. Wait another day, then paint; with the premasked windows, this isn’t painful. Your house will be gor= geous and snug and, with the two above techniques, done days ahead of those who do not heed the DIYD’s advice. Next month: take up your PHD’s and pickets - it’s time’to build that privacy fence (PHD = Post Hole Digger). Any questions or cqmmentary? The DIYD accepts your praase, chastisement or suggestions care of this paper! Ulmer wrote. "In other words, the proposedamendmentlimits marriage to what it has been and currently is by statute in Alaska. Because that is themeaning of the amendment, I believe the ballot summary should say so." The lawsuit seeks to force Ulmer to use an earlier version that began: "This measure would add an amendment to the- Alaska Constitution on marriage." The Legislature passed the amendment in the final minutes of the session after Judge Peter Michalski ruled against a 1996 law banning same-sex marriage. The Rainbow Connection Has-Never Been AUDIO PERSONALS No 900#s No Charge Per Minute TULSA 455-1833 by Esther Rothblum Dr. Marny Hall is a San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapist with twenty years experienee speeializing in Lesbian relationships. In her book, The Lesbian Love Companion: How to Survive Everything from Heartthrob to Heartbreak, she tackles issues of Lesbian relationships, sex, breakups, rituals, and jeab ousy. "I had had a painful break-up," she told me m a recent interview, "and-decided to find somelongterm couples who had managed to weather the difficulties that had undermined my relationship. I was particularly interested in finding couples who had survived outside affairs." She located a.handfu!:0f long term Lesbian couples and contacted them periodically over anumber of years. She asked, how they met, how their relationshipprogressed, andhow they handled difficult situations:such as jealousy, conflict, desire, homophobia, work, and illness. "I was searching for a formula," said Mamy, "but I didn’t find anything. Then five years into this experiment, two of the model couples I had been tracking broke up. I had come to think of them as perfect couples. I felt a bit shell-shocked but I decided that I wouldcontinue to interview both ex-partners. It was then that I found the answers I was looking for. Now the ex- .partners started talking about their relationships in entirely different ways. One woman, who had said that she was really in lust now told me that they had never had any passionate chemistry! Another womanused to say that her community of friends kept them together; now she said that she never felt a sense ofcommtmity ! A third said she wanted to be with her partner until her breath was no : longer in her body. After the break-up she ¯ told me that even if her partner were available, she wouldn’.t go back. These ¯ 180 degree turns made me realize that so ¯ much of how we process relationships is ¯ through the tales that we tell. The tales do ¯ all sorts of things - they certify legit1- ¯ macy, they heal broken hearts, and they ¯ explain betrayals." : After this revelation, Mamy decided to ¯ go back and reread the transcripts from the interviews she had conducted with the ¯ couples that were still together. Now she ¯ could see shifts in their stories too, over : time. Their stories had kept them going Dr. Marny Hall through hard times. For example, if one partnerhadhadan affair, .theother discovered a motive that explained everything. Perhaps the straying partner had been depressed about her job or angry at her partner. The affair had been a coded way of announcing these dissatisfactions. In other words, the two partners collaborated on a story that turned an unpardonable betrayal into a forgivable misdemeanor. By reconstruing the potentially damaging revelation in more positive ways, they were able to stay together. "So I thought, why not think of more stories?" said Marny. Her book focuses on stories that provide alternatives to the "master stories" ab0utforever-after, about terrible betrayals, about bad times. "If I could tell stories about small break-ups or trivial passions or benign other women then I could contribute to partners’ flexibility and givethemmore staying power," Maruy told me. Originally planned as a book about successful long-term couple relationships, The Lesbian Love Companion took on a life ofits ownl "I love the story of ~happily ever after," Marny said, "but we. can tell other stories, too. Everyday stories about contentment instead of epics about do-ordie love affairs. Stories of downsized disenchantments instead of major dyke dramas. The first time you realize that your .lover snores and you love her anyway is not exactly a swash-buckling bodice-ripper. But it does qualify as a modest tale about a small turning point. Our lives are packed with all kinds of minimalist ro- : mances. We just have to tune in to them. : "The same thing is true about sex," ¯ Mamy continued. "We’re all so familiar ¯ with the story about the earth-moving sex. : But we can tell a lot of different stories : about sex- maintenance sex that depends ¯ on cultivating orgasmic habits, sex for ¯ comfort or fun, psychodrama sex that exorcises old demons. Even the fond sexual memories we share with ex-lovers is anotherform of sex. Wemight call it exsex. These stories aren’t the mainstream favorites so they aren’t heard, they’re inaudible, private." As Marny putsit, her book puts some "amplification" on the stories that many of us are already telling. ’q’he bookis for long-term couples. It is also for the sluts and passionate friends, the celibates andthecommunally minded," Mamy added. "All of us are affected by ¯ the traditional stories. Uncoupled Lesbi- : ans often feel as though they have failed ¯ some crucial test. And long-term couples : may feel such pressure to live up to these ¯ stones that, as aresult, they feel they must ¯ conceal anything thatisn’t congruentwith ¯ ’perfect coupledom.’ Such self censor- " ship makes~thard for partners to be play- " ful .or spontaneous. The perfect couple ¯ ideal exacts a toll on everyone- Ltgbians ¯ who are coupled,unpartnered or who have ¯ multiple partners." "It tends to turn us all into intimacy ¯ overachievers," said Mamy. "The pur- ¯ pose of my book is to counteract that ¯ sense of performance anxiety. Almost : everybody has doubts, and forbidden passions, see Psyche, p. 14 It’s your chance to win a trip to a National College Football Championship Game Pick up your entry form today! Look for the displays at your local retailers¯ WITH OUR NEW NOKIA 6190 YOU GET A PHONEWITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES. ¯ Digital & Cellular Roaming ¯ Oklahoma & Kansas Toll-Free ¯ Caller ID . 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Burt movedinand tookovercooking and cleaning for the two of them. His lover’s elderly mother came to stay and he took care of her too. Burt kept purposely missing his thesis deadlines to maintain his relationship. His student visa and US Immigration demanded that, after finishing a degree, he return to the Philippines and not come back to America for three years, even as a tourist. His Ph.D. thesis wa~ already four Throughout muck of the Philippines - especially the Muslim south - there aretraditional roles in which men take on tTemlnlne, eharaeteristles and clothing. In Tagalog, the main Filipino language, these men are cafled ba/da. Traditionally, many bakla ¯were dancers. actors, and entertainers. years overdue. ~-Since that summer, I’ ve met a number of American/Filipino couples - the Filipino half typically keeping house. Throughout much of the Philippines - especially the Muslim south = there are traditional roles in which men take on .feminine characteristics and clothing. In Tagalog, themainFilipino language, these men are called bakla. Traditionally, many bakla were dancers, actors, and entertainers. MarkJohnson’snew bookabout transvestites in Sulu, Beauty andGender (Berg 1997), describes numbers Of feminine, cross-dressing Filipino boys who are .on the prowl for masculine (i.e., ’straight acting’, even married) boyfriends. In recent years, these guys have taken overand developed the hairdressing and beauty business sectorthroughoutthe Philippines. Most reject, however, a traditional bakla identity and embrace instead the label "gay." Our Western term here continues to extend its global’ spread. Burt, too, was horrified when I asked if he was a bakla. This term today resonates too many sour tones of backwardness, effeminacy, and male prostitution. There is a straight parallel to Butt and his boyfriend in Hawai’i. In any romance magazine sold at Quiktrip, one can find advertisements touting the merits of submissive, yet sexy, Asian women. You, too, can easily send away for a mail-order Oriental bride! One ofmy second cousins had a fairly successful marriage with an able woman from Vietnam until his warrelated post traumatic stress syndrome worsened one day and he attacked an old lady gassing her car up at a California service station. Feminists decry the Ameriean stereotype ofsexy Suzy Wongs who serve white ° men in bed, serve them dinner - who ¯ meekly serve all their needs whatever. ," But the international marriage marketl ." place works to bring women out from the Philippines, and other Southeast Asian countries, into the US. Ainerican wealth allows at leastsome ofus to shop overseas and purchase our sexual fantasies, even if we don’t always get what we think we are buying. And Americans .profit, too, from positive images that encourage at least some Asians to hop a plane and fly into the arms of an unknown Occidental spouse. Obviously, just as many Filipinas (and Filipinos) are 1.ooking for Americans as vice versa. The market for gay Asian fianc6s is constrained by the inability of homosexuals to marry legally and thereby obtain green cards for our ~mported boyfriends. Still, I’ve had interesting email correspondence with several guys in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. They wonder if I can set them up with American lovers. One gayboy in Jakarta, a civil servant whose nom de email is Koko, asked my advice about accepti.’ng a one-way air ticket from an American Internet correspondent. I counseled him to take care lest he end up a sex slave, bound up in somebody’s basement. The Hollywood ~mage of the United States is very powerful overseas. Even Tulsa can seem urbane and sophisticated to somebody in Zamboaga or Chiangmai or Penang. Mostrecently, I havebeenin touch with a sad, young Filipino in the port city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Joe moved to Dubai from Saudi Arabia severa! months ago. He had broken up with his 50-something, bald American lover whom he was with for three years. Joe, understandably, is depressed. He emails me that he misses fixing dinners for the two of them. He misses fussing about his ex-lover’s various medical conditions. Gay life in Dubai is no doubt grim. Joe nowadays appears to live mostly on the Internet. The American boyfriend, perhaps because he was at the end of an employment contract or perhaps becauserelations with Joehadlanguished, returned here to Tulsa by himself. Well, almost by himself. He brought their eat back to Tulsa but he left his Filipino boyfriend behind in the Arabian deserts. for housing programs earmarked for people with AIDS. The $21 million was shifted to help f’mance state extended care programs for veterans. Rep. VanHilleary, R-Tenn., said the reduction was justified because of a 6 percent decline in the annual number of AIDS cases. Opponents of the amendment argued that the decline is attributed to the wider use of ¯ new drugs and the success ofsuch drug tr~tments often depends on patients having decent housing. Almost everybody wo~nders about the paths not taken. By telling our untold tales and making them normal, I hope that our sense of failure will be reduced.’" As a psychotherapist, Marny has been witness to many stories by Lesbians. An example of the man3’ excerpts from The Lesbian Love Companion: "You might ~’ant to develop your other-woman fantasy. Install her as your permanent muse. Pay attention to her. She’ll tell you whether t~ sign up for scuba class or just buy some new lingerie. And after you do what she suggests, check in with her from time to time. Has she changed? Is she suggesting another direction? You are entitled to keep her toyourself: ,She is, after all, purely 3"our playmate, soul mate - combination projection, reflection, guide. And, :Aphrodite forbid, ifanything should ever happen to ),our partner, ’*our fantasy lover ";~q]l be there for you. SlOe will shoe 3"our ’memories and your tears. She will con- ~ble and commiserate. And, one chy, when the time is right, she will lead You back to ~E world.’" As Mamv writes i’n the book: "V~qlen it comes to ou~ lives and loves, we need a generous supply of alternative stoi~ es: Instructive sci-fi fabIes and twilight zone mysteries, endless sequels and whitel~ uckl~ exploits. \Ve ~e both hearth buggers and voyagersl We must make room in our lives for the dream of foreverafter and the determination to never look back." Early reactions to Marny’s book? Rumorhas it that Lily Tomlin loves it ! Alison Bechdel, creator of the comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, calls it".., a veriiable Karma Sutra of emotional possibility." For further reading: Mamy Hall (1998), The Lesbian Love Companion: How to Survive Everything from Heartthrob ~o Heartbreak. 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The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Family News Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Tom Neal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 1998 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Adam West James Christjohn Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud Barry Hensley J.P. 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Don Nickles, Oklahoma’ s senior senator, the Senate’ s second-ranking Republican, of wrongly mixing government and religion in saying a Gay philanthropist nominated for an ambassadorship is tmqualitied because he promotes "immoral behavior." "This is.a perfect example of religious beliefs infringing upon publicpolicy," saidDavid Smith, a spokesman for the Human Sen. Don Nickles Rights Campaign, a political group. "In the history of this country, those that have used religion to justify bigotry have been~proven wrong. " Smith said. ¯ "The criticism came hfter Nickles denounced President Clinton’ s nomination of James Hormel of California as ambassador to Luxembourg. "He has promoted that lifestyle and promoted it in a big way, in a way that is very offensive," Nickles, the Senate majority whip, said on¯ ,Fox News Sunday." "One might ihave that lifestyle; butif one promotes-it a~ aceeptaSle behavior, ¯.. I don’t think-they should be a representative of this countr.y." "I think it" s immoral behavior and I think a lot of other behavibr is immoral anti shouldn’t be treated as acceptable behavior?’ Nickles said. While homosexuality i~ a sin, so is adultery and fornication, he added. A struggle over Hormel’s nomination has been going on formonths. Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., has refused to bring the matter to the Senate floor for a vote. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D:Calif., criticized the delays recently. Hormel is "entitled to his due process," she said on CNN’s "Late Edition." "Yes, he happens to be Gay. But all men are created equal as a matter of public policy - or should be," Feinstein said. The renewed debate over Hormel followed controversy about connnents by Lott that homosexuality is a Sin. "~lrOU should still love that person," Lott said on cable television’s "’The Armstrong Williams Show." "You should not try to mistreat them or treat them as outcasts. You should try to show them a way to deal with that problem, just like alcohol.., or sex addiction... or "kleptommfiacs.’" The co~uments thrust Lott into the debate of whether homosexuals have chosen their sexual orientation or whether it is biologically predetermined. Afterward, Sen. Alf0nse D’Amato, R-N.Y., criticized Lott for refusing to let Hormel’s nomination go forward. D’Amato said Lott’s only reason is that Hormel is Gay. But Sen. Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., said,"I talked with Jim Hormel myself and asked him to disavow some of the groups that ridicule and disdain organized religion.¯, and he refused to do that," Hutchinson said. "The question is one of suitability and whether he’s sensitive to organized religion. Luxembourg is a country that’s 97% Catholic.’" DIRECTORY/LETTERS US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT NOTES COMMUNITY CALENDAR BOOK REVIEW DYKE PSYCHE DO-IT-YOURSELF CLASSIFIE DS + WEERWOLF P. 2/3 P. 4 P. 6 P, 8 P. 9 P. 10 P. 12 P. 11 P, 14 WASHINGTON (AP) - In a decision praised by advocates for AIDS patients and the disabled, the Supreme Court has ruled that people infected with HIV are protected by a key anti-discrimination law even if they have no visible AIDS symptoms. The 5-4 ruling said a woman whose dentist refused to fill a cavity at his officebecause she was HIV-posidveis covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act, the 1990 law that protects the disabled against discrimination in jobs, housing and public accommodations. "HIV infection, even in the so-called asymptomatic phase, is an impairment which substantially limits the major life activity of reproduction" and therefore qualifies for coverage under the disability law, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court. It was the high court’s first ruling involving the human immunodficiency virus, which causes AIDS. President Clinton praised the decision, saying it "reinforces the protections offered by the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act for Americans living with HIV and AIDS." Jennifer Middleton, of the American Civil Liberties Union’s AIDS Project, predicted the decision will help people with other disabilities - such as cancer, epilepsy and diabetes - who sometimes have had trouble convincing lower courts they are covered by the disability law.-And Daniel Zingale of AIDS Action, a network of organizations that provide health care and services tO AIDS patients, called the decision HIV patients’ "greatest legal victory since the beginning of the epidemic." The decision set aside the ruling of a Boston federal appeals court, which said dentist Randon Bmgdon of Bangor, Maine, violated the anti-discrimination law when he refused to fill Sidney Abbott’s tooth at his office because she carries the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. While the justices ruled that Abbott was covered by the ADA, they ordered lower courts to reconsider whether Bragdon violated the law. Those courts previously had said Bragdon did not show the treatment would have been unsafe, see Court, page 3 : A handful ofanti-Gayprotesters (ratio: 15 to 150) ¯ picket white marchers circle Veterans Park at the ¯ Tulsa Pride Picnic. Typical signs read: "Fags die. ¯ God laughs", and "God hates fags ". : Tulsa Pride Unfazed by ¯ Anti-Gay Protesters ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ TULSA - Despite the picketing of Topeka’s antiGay extremist, the Rev. Fred Phelps and friends, the Tulsa Pride March & Picnic went off with no significant problems according to organizers. Pride Committee member, Greg Gatewood, noted that there were nearly 30 booths by various community organizations and businesses and estimated that attendence at the event was about 700-800, which organizers say is about usual. One attendee noted that some of his friends decided not to come citing the Phelps protest but others came who’d never been before, also inspired by the picketers. The Phelps contingent, carrying Sl~,ns like, Fags die, God laughs," and such, numbered about 15 at the most. A marcher observed that Gay and Gayfriendly marchers numbered about 150, more than double the number in last year’s inaugural march, outnumbering Phelps-ires about 10 to 1. see Picnic, page 3 FayettevilleSch0olsto Protect ¯ Gay Pride Worldwide! ,.., :., ::-. ReportS from The AssoCiated Press ....... ,ds Gay :-Ki ’ .F .rom.H . sment-. _L;all~Ornla .... FAYET~EViLL~, .M:k. (AP) - Tlie school district here lias agreed to train its staff mad set up procedures to deal with harassment of Gay students in a settlement of a complaint by the mother of a Gay teen-ager, according to a Gay civil rights group. The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund mmounced that officials of the Fayetteville School District had reached m~ agreement with the Office of Civil Rights of the federal FAucation Department. The agreement, called a"commitment to resolve," stems from a sex-discrimination complaint filed by the parents of V~qlliam Wagner, 17. His mother, Carolyn W~gner, said her son was beaten in an attack bx other students on Dec. 2, 1997, and said her son had endured daiiv harassment and destruction of his belongings because of his s~xual orientation. The Lambda Fund said the Fayetteville district agreed to "’recognize the various forms of sexual harassment (including) sexual harassment directed at Gay or Lesbian students." The district agreed to overhaul i.t,~s poli~ies and procedures and train faculty, staff and students tO diminate harassment and deal with it when it occurs, Lambda Said. see Ar’kansas, page 11 World AIDS Conference GENEVA (AP) -The largest AIDS conference ever began with a mix of optimism and frustration: Cheer over potent new viruskilling drugs was tempered by despair that AIDS sail spreads explosively in parts of the world that cannot afford these medical breakthroughs. Abou! 13,200 scientists, doctors, advocates and journalists gathered for the 12th World AIDS Conference to hear 5,400 presentations on new treatments, insights-into the basic workings of the virus and how the disease affects everyone from pregnant women to prisoners to "’commercial sex workers," the conference euphemism for prostitutes. During the weeklong meeting, scientists are expected to.discuss newly developed treatments that may offer alternatives to protease inhibitors, the class of drugs that have revolutionized AIDS care. Moreover, experts believe they are closing in on simpler regimens that will require people to take far fewer than the 20 pills a day which is now common. Doctors also will hear encouraging reports on preventing the spread of the virus see HIV, page 10 ; " SAN" FRAN’CISCO W. HOLLYV¢O©D - \Vi0z a ’ purple fedora perched on his head, San Francisco ¯ Mayor Willie Br0wnjoined hundreds of thousands ¯ of people who celebrated the annual Gay and Lesbian pride day at two California cities S~ndav. In West Hollywood, more than 350,000 people ¯ participated in a two-da.v 28th annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Festival and Parade. The parade was ¯ preceded by a 5- and 10-kilometer run led by ¯ Olympian Greg Leuganis. ¯ In San Francisco, fes tivities began Sunday moruing with loud whoops and cheers for hundreds of ¯ women on motorcycles who led the parade down ¯ Market Street, which was lined with rainbow flags. Brown marched along, sporting a purple fedora, ¯ bright orange jacket and rainbow-colored shirt. He ¯ said it marked his 28th appearance at the annual ¯ event. "’(The parade) represents almost a Super Bowl for/_he city, from a commercial standpoint," ¯ he said. "It (also) represents the spirit of this oty. .. the creativity that is this city and the diversity thal ¯ is this city." ¯ The cyclists were followed by an array of danc¯ ers, marching bands, drag queens, politicians; military veterans, unusual floats and a police-escorted ¯ riderless horse - representing deaths in the Gay ¯ community. Organizers estimated the crowd in the hundreds of thousands. In the Southern California parade, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan joined city officials from : ¯ .throughout the regionin a two-hour, 200-organiza¯ aon strong parade led by Grand Marshall Wilson Cruz of the Broadway musical "Rent" and canceled TV series "My So Called Life." Community groups and about 13 corporate spon¯ ¯ sots drove floats and marched in the parade to this year’s theme of "Freedom to Love, Freedom to Choose." The West Hollywood parade is touted as ¯ the third-largest in California, behind the Rose Parade and the Hollywood Christmas Parade, orgauizers said. see World Pride, p. 3 ��NY Mayor Praises Gays NEW YORK (AP) - Embracing diversity and rejecting intolerance have made the city stronger, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said as he gave Gay men and Lesbians credit for playing an important role in New York’s boom. "Our society has to be better off as we go through sometimes the pain of opening somety up, so that everyone gets a chance to make their maximum contribution," he said at a ceremony recognizing Gays working in city government. "When you think back to 100 years ago, when lots of people were excluded from govenanent, some based on race, some based on gender, some based on sexual orientation, we were working with half or less than half of the potential talent that was available." Giuliani said. "Maybe that’s one of the reasons why the city does so much better now than it did 20 and 30 and 40 years ago." In a proclamation, the Republican mayor declared "Out in Government Day," part of the commemoration of Lesbian and Gay pride and history month. He aiso cited his efforts to enact le~slation that would ensure that unmarried.couples are treated the same as roamed ones on everything from housing to parking permits - a bill touted as an important advance in Gay and Lesbian rights. Giuliani’s support for most Gay civil rights has made trim the target of criticism frown the GOP’ s right wing. When asked later about Republican criticism of President Clinton’s nominee for ambassador to Luxembourg, homosexual philanthropist James Hormel, the ma~’or stud he hadn’t looked into the dispute. But he added: "Someone’s sexual orientation is a private matter, and that should not be the basis on which someone ~s hired or fired by gov~t’unent... I’m going to have that view until I die." In contrast, Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., said Hormd was unqualified because he promotes "inmmral behavior.’" Lesbian Mom Loses Custody Case in a telephone interview from her San Francisco office. "Rather, it enforces upon those parents that the3’ live a lie - that they not live their lives with integrity or be honest with their children about being Gay." The decision cited testimony from several psychologists, who had differing op~mons on where the child should live, but all agreed the girl had a good home relationship with her mother and her parmer. The Christian Family Association, an Alabama group that has promoted fundamentalist Christian positions, said that was no substitute for a traditional family environment. "The Supreme Court has placed the g~rl with a real family," said spokesman Dean Young. "People aren’t fooled. People can say a family is whatever they want to, but God said a man and a’woman would c(~me together to start a family, not two women or two men." "May your ~onstant love be with us, t.ord as ~ ~t our hope tn you."- Ps. 33:21 In God’s Love God’s love promises hope for tomorrow and peace for today. Free yourself of your burdens. Come share m the bounty of God love with us each Sunday at 10:45 am. Cbadren Are Always Welcome! Metropolitan Community Church ~623 N. Maplewood of Greater Tulsa 9ts/s~7x5 Congress,.ma Wants to Stop Anti-Bias Order WASHINGTON, DC -I;.S. Rep. Joel Hefley, RColo., wants to "’neutralize" President Clinton’s executive order protecting homosexual federal workers from job discrimination. Hefley claims that the order. signed last month, gives homosexuals specia! status a~ a protected class throu,~hout the federal government. He said he has proposed an amendment to the 1999 Treasury-Postal Appropriations bill that would prevent any o’f the fmads appropriated in the bill from being nsed"’to implement, administer, or enforce" the order "’Bill Clinton has added a new category to the nation’s civil rights laws,’" the Colorado Springs congressman said. "With this action, the president effectively established institutional quotas for homosexual ern’ployees.’" The amendment would"neutralize this order," Heflev said. A White House sp~)keswoman said, "’this is about [fighting] discrimination," said Nanda Chitre, tim spokeswoman. "If this is what the Republicans want to focus on, we’re willing to engage .on this issue because we are anti-discrirmnation." Chitre added that the amendment ~eflects comments made by Sen. : TfentLott, R-Miss., who earlier :thi~~ mdfith said~ homosexuality should be treated "ju. st li,k,e alcohol.. or sex addiction or kleptomaniacs MONTGOMERY, Ala. ~AP) - The ,Alabama Supreme Court, overturning an appeals panel, has removed a child from the custody of her homosexual mother, ruling that the woman exposed her daughter to a "lifestyle" thatis illegal in Alabama. The 7-0 decision authored by Justice Champ Lyons found that the child’s best interests would be better served in a’ home with her father and his new wife. The Supreme Court’s ruling said Jefferson County Circuit Judge Ralph Ferguson applied the correct legal standard by removing the young girl from a mother who was living with another woman in an "’open Lesbian relationship." The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals had reversed Ferguson’s order, holding that the father didn’t prove the mother’s conduct was having a "’substantial detrimental effect" on the child. But the high court said there was no need to prove there was a substantial detrimental effect, only that the child’s interests were better served in the father’s home. %~qaile the evidence shows that the mother loves the child and has provided her with good care, it also shows that she has chosen to expose the child continurush’ to a lifestyle that is ’neither legal in this state, nor ~;aoral in the eyes of most of its citizens,’ "Lyons wrote, quoting a previous court decision. A 1975 Alabama statute proclaims all homosexual conduct to be criminal. Earlier this ye.ar, the state enacted a law that banned same-sex mamages. At the time of the 1993 divorce, the father gave up custody knowing the moth.er was revolved in a Lesbian ,relationship, but witt~ the undexstanding she would keep it discrete and not let the child know about ~t. The father later remarried. During visits to his house, the girl told her dad that her mother and companion were sleeping in the same bed together. That prompted the father to sue for custody. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which helped argue the case on the mother’s behalf, said the mother.essentially lost custody because she was honest about her relationship: "What’s unique about the case is that it doesn’t appear to hold that a Lesbian or Gay parent is always disqualified from custody," Ms. Kendell said Baptists Promote_Book on the R, er A Bed & Breakfast P.O. 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The city’s library advisory board reviewed the books after the Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church, sharply criticized the books. The board recommended Tuesday that "Heather Has Two Mommies" be moved to the juvenile section, the Wichita Falls Times Record News reported in today’s editions. But Ms. Hughes had the final say. She said she decided children who wanted the books could find them in the social sciences area for juveniles. The juvenile section is geared toward children in grades 3 to 7. Jeffress was out of town and not available for comment on Thursday. But earlier in the week, he promised to take the matter to the City Council if the books were placed where children would have access to them. But Nancy Horvath, pastor of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Community Church, praised Ms. Hughes’ decision. Ms. Horvath is raising one child I Metropolitan ~ Community Church Rev. 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The legislation, which is intended to ensure that the city treats unmarried couples the same as those who are married, has been touted as an important advance for .Gay couples.: It was crafted by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani m cooperation with Council members and Gay civil rights advocates. New York for years has been recognized for its accommodating policies toward Gay and Lesbian couples. A series of directives, some of which date to the 1980s, extended to domestic partners the rights once reserved for spouses and family members, such as visitationin city jails and hospitals, child-care leave and succession for city-supervised housing. Approved 39-7 with one abstention, the legislation would make those policies permanent by writing them into law. It would apply to heterosexual and homosextml domestic partnerships registered with the City Clerk. The mayor is expected to sign it promptly. Since the settlement of a lawsuit in 1993, the city has provided health and dental benefits to the domestic parmers of city workers. Under the bill, labor negotiations would be required to extend to employees" partners the same benefits provided for employees" spouses, potentially opening the way for those benefits to be . expanded. But the le~slation also, would venture into new areas, like allowing domestic partners of police and other uniformed employees to be eligible for death benefits if the employee is killed in the line of duty. A domestic partner would also have the right to be buried with a partner in the city-owned Canarsie cemetery, a right now reserved for spouses. Other changes invoh’e rights to parking permits and disclosure statements filed by city employees. Councilman ,Michael Abel, a Queens Republican who voted against the bill, called it another nail in the coffin of the institution of marriage. "What you are d.oing is setting yourself up to give an economic incentive not to get married," Abel said. "It’s anti-societal to the extent that it’s an anti-mamage bill, and I still believe most New Yorkers favor marriage.’" There are about 8,700 registered domestic partners in ¯ the city, and at least 55 percent are heterosexual couples, according to the mayor’s office.. Similar issues have been debated around the country, including in Philadelphia, where the City Council approved a measure to extend health and pension benefits to same-sex partners of city workers. The Council vote was preceded by an unusual demonstration on the City Hall steps, in which a group of Hasidic Jewish rabbis and rabbinical students invoked a biblical curse on legislators and officials supporting the bill l They prayed, held candles and blew into shofars, a ram’.s horn used in religious ceremonies. "Almighty God, the arrogant officials who run this city, New York,,, have declared war against you and your biblical law, said Rabbi Yehuda Levin, a vocal opponent of Gay civil rights. "Strike down the hands that are raised in support of this bill. Silence the voices that speak up in favor of this bill," he said. When asked about the protest, Duane said, "I don’t think any religious person would ever believe God would ever pinfish a person for standing for fairness and equality.‘° Arkansas Seeks to Ban Gay Foster Parents LITTLE ROCK (AP) - The ,amaerican Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas objected recently to a proposal that would prohibit Gay people from serving as foster par- ents. Rita Sklar, ACLU executive director in Arkansas, said in a news release that the proposal could be challenged as a violation of the right to equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. "The "qu~ties that make good parents, or good foster paren-t~, are universal." she said. "The ability to love and care for a child is not going to be determined by one’s sexual orientation. Gay men and Lesbi an~ are not anymore likely to engage in criminal, abusive or psychologi "cally damaging behavior than the rest of the population " At a meeting in Paragould. the state Child \\%llare Agency Review Board proposed prohibiting homosexuals from serving as foster parents. The board sets minimum standards for liceused childplacement agencies, foster homes and therapeutic foster homes. The board asked Assistant Attorney General Karen Wallace to research the issue and try to come np with a resolution. "I would like to require foster parents to be heterosexual, married couples" Robin Woodruff said during the meeting of the nine-member board. "Allowing single foster care.., takes away enforcement" because it opens the process to "homosexuals who say they’re single with a roommate or boarder." Ms. Wallace said state law says marriage must be between a man and a woman. "Where the difficult) comes is it’s hard to determine if someone’s a homosexual . . . and it’s real hard to regulate a person’s status," she said. "’In other words, you can regulate what someone does - not what someone is." She said the board should not "single people out, because it could be challenged constitutionally." ~ls. Woodrnff said people have "a right to behave how they want, but they don’t (necessarily) have the right to be foster parents." Ms. Wallace said one option would be to require foster pareuts to be related by blood or marriage. Such an option would allow ~ingles to remain in the picture as foster parents. Other board members agreed with the goal of preventing homosexuals from being foster parents. "I think we should never promote homosexuality in any fashion," said David V,rhatley. "I know there’s a problem getting foster parents, but in my opinion it would be devastating for a child to go into a homosexual home." But some members expressed concern about the proposal. "I don’t think we need to promote the homosexual lifestyle, but we do need to recognize the necessity for alternative settings," said Steve Dunaway. "As much as I support the board on that, I can see situations where it would be suitable" for a child to have homosexual foster parents. Canadian Province Gives Partner Benefits VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) - British Columbia will become the first province in Canada to voluntarily grant pension benefits to same-sex couples who are public employees, under legislation introduced recently. Other provinces have moved that way, but under duress. Court decisions have forced Ontario and Nova Scotia to address pension issues involving Gay and Lesbian couples. British Columbia paved the way last summer for extended pension benefits when the provincial government allowed same-sex partners to be defined as spouses. It also extended to homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexual couples on child custody and maintenance issues. The new legislation affects British Columbia’s 235,000 public employees, including government workers, municipal employees and public school teachers. "It’s very significant because Gays and Lesbians have been paying into the fund and never before have they been able to receive the benefits," said legislative member Tim Stevenson, who is Gay and who expects protests from some groups and political parties opposed to same-sex relationships. "Here you have a government, to its credit, that has decided not to fight this in the courts," echoed Lawrence Aronovitch, vice president of EGALE, see Canada, page 14. �Activists Welcome : released recently. report provided country-by-c6unCourt Decision : tryThe statistics to back up a study released in JACKSON, Miss (AP)- Mississippi AIDS activists hope a U.S. Supreme Court decision protecting HIV-infected persons against discrimination will curb intolerance of the disease’s victims. The ruling places persona living with AIDS and HIV positive individuals, even those who show no symptoms, under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The federal law bans discrimination against disabled people. Debbie Konkle-Parker, former chairwoman of the Mississippi HIV/AIDS Assembly, said. she welcomes the decision but doesn’t believe it will entirely end discrimination against AIDS/HIV- : ¯ ¯ : : ~ November, which estimated that 2.3 raillionpeoplediedofAIDSin 1997,up50% from 1996. About 16,000 people a day contract HIV. The latest study, by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS, comes ahead of Sunday’s opening of the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva, where 12,000 specialists and others will ~ discuss advances in HIV research. Limited education about the virus is a : major hurdle, particularly because an ef~ fective cure may be at least 10 years away, ~ UNAIDS DireCtor-General Peter Piot said ~ atanews conference. "Let’s be very aware AIDS is with usto stay for a very long infected persons."Generally, anydiscrimi- " time," Piot said. nalaon is not out front," she said. "They choose other reasons to discriminate. (against infected persons). "’There is opposition based onhomophobia or that folks with HIV did it to themselves. But I know there are folks throughout the state who can use this (ruling) to speak out.’" "My initial reaction is one of elation and hope," said Robert McGowan, cochair of the Mississippi HIV/AIDS Coalition, "The Supreme Court has finally recognized laws that find that people with HIV can be protected by the government. (But) I am cautiously optimistic. We must see how this is implemented.~,’, The rifling set aside a lower 6ourt decision that said dentist Randon Bragdon violated the anti-discriminationlaw when he refused to fill Sidney Abbott’s toothin his office because she carries the virus that causds acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Justices ruled that Abbott was covered under the ADA but ordered lower courts to reconsider whether Bragdon discriminated against her. According to the Mississippi Department of Health Services, there were 2,856 colffinned cases of AIDS and 3.461 HIV ilffections repdrted in the state in 19.97, the last year for which numbers are available. The ADA, signed by President Bush in 1990. protects the disabled against discfimination in jobs, housing and public acconunodations. Some of the law" s most visible results are aids such as wheelchair ramps at countless public places. The law says people are disabled if.they have a physical or mental impairment that "substantiallv limits one or more major life activities." Ms. Abbott’s lawyers said that if HIV-infected people did not have clear protection under the taw, many would hide their condition. McGowan says-he hopes the court’s decision will lead to more funding for HIViAIDS research and to help treat patients. "I look fonvard to seeing implementation of this at the federal and state level,’" he said. "We can, perhaps, see for the first time that we are our brothers keepers and hope that this prejudice can be eroded." Rise in AIDS Due to Lack of Awareness GENEVA (AP) Declining HIV infectxon rates in some countries are being edipsed by huge rises in others where AIDS awareness and access to new drug therapies are lacking, according to a new U.N. report. In parts of Africa, one adult in four is infectS, with the virus that causes AIDS while the figure is less than 1% in the United States and across Westem Europe, experts said in the report Access to new therapies for AIDS-related infections such as tuberculosis and diarrhea is the "overwhelming issue" for 90% of those living with the AIDS virus, the report said. Zimbabwe and Botswana, where UNAIDS estimates around one in four adults carry HIV, had the highest infection rates. The United States figure was 0.76% - 820,000 people in all. It was less than 1% across Western Europe. North Africa and the Middle East are "the great unknown," with cultural difficulties in talking about the epidemic hampering collection of statistics, UNAIDS said. Political courage to prevent the spread of AIDS is the ke3 to narrowing the"AIDS gap," Piot said, praising HIV prevention efforts inUganda, Thailand and Senegal. The November study said 5.8 million people were ixffected x~’ith HI\’ in 1997, up from 5.3 million people the year be-. fore. Globall.v. 30.6 million live with HI\" or AIDS, two-thirds of them in snb-Saharan Africa, it said. Prices Cut on AIDS Drugs for Poor NEW YORK (AP) - Several major pharmaceutical companies have agreed to cut their prices for AIDS drugs by up to 75% to make thmn more available to pe6ple in developing parts of the world. The medication will soon be sold at a discount in Africa, Asia and South America, under a progrmn overseen by the United Nations. "If you’re charging a New York price in Uganda and not selling anything, you’re not helping anyone." said Peter Young, a G1 a.xo Wellcome PLC official involved in the U.N. program. Mor~ than 90% of the world’s 30.6 million people ilffected with the AIDS virus live in the developing world. Uganda and the Ivory Coast wi!l receive the first shipments of discounted drugs this week, Dr. Joseph Saba, an infectious-disase specialist with the U.N. pro~am, said Tuesday. Glaxo Wellcome will sell its combination treatment of AZT and 3TC for $200 a month or less, a 60% discount. Hoffman LaRoche Inc. will offer several drugs at reduced cost, including its protease inhibitor Invirase and medicines to treat infections that often accompany AIDS. Other companies that have committed themsdves to the price cuts include Abbott Laboratories and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Merck & Co., which makes the protease inhibitor Crixivan, will not participate. In recent years, AIDS activists have been pressuring drug makers to offer less expensive treatments. Saba said about 3,000 people will be able to receive the most advanced medidnes, like AZT, in the coming year. 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AIDS Cure Lab NEW YORK (AP) - President Allen Sessoms of Queens College turned over a spade of earth Tuesday to symbolically start construction of a $30-million, worldclass AIDS research center headed by one of the discoverers of the HIV virus. "Because millions around the world are suffeting from AIDS, there is not a moment to lose," Sessoms said. "My colleagues and I are impatient to start work in these facilities," said Dr. Luc Montaguier, the French co-discoverer of the virus that causes the fatal immune deficiency disease. ".It will save many lives." Jay Bargmann, a semor executive of Rafael Vinoly Architects, said he w ould "guarantee that work on AIDS research will begin in this building 30 months from now" - the year 2001. Meanwhile, Montagnier and his staff will work in a temporary laboratory on the campus. "We are very optimistic about improving treatment by bolstering the immune system of patients and about our ultimate goal, a vaccine to prevent infection by the AIDS virus," Montagnier said. He added that it looked like a 107yearjob. In addition to combating AIDS, Montagnier has said he expected secondary benefits from the research in the form of treatments for cancer and, eventually, multiple sclerosis. Montagnier, whoseresearch has been at the Pasteur Institute in Paris,.is taking up a chair at the college endowed with $3 million by Bernard Salick, a graduate of Queens College who became a physician and then a medical entrepreneur. The new facility will be called the Salick Center for Molecular and Cellular Biology, with space for a staff of 70 and laboratories for Virology, immunology; molecular genetics and vaccine development. The building, looking out on a reflecting pool, will be crescent-shaped and mostly one story. Administration offices and exhibit and meeting space will be housed in a three-story wing at one end. New York City and state are contributing nearly $20 million to the project and the rest is being raised privately. Queens is a senior college in the City University with 18,000 students. Supplement May Stop Muscle Loss AMES, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa State University professor’s discovery of a supplement that AIDS patients can take to fight deadly muscle loss will be unveiled Thursday at the World AIDS Conference in Switzerland. Steven Nissen, a professor of animal science and chief executive officer of MTIBiotech Inc. in Ames, invented Juven, a dietary supplement that Nissen says helps AIDS patients gain muscle mass. Juven’s main ingredient is HMB (betahydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate), which is producedin small amounts in the body as it breaks down amino acids. The professor discovered the substance while doing research at Iowa State in 1988, and he turned it into a supplement used mainly by athletes. However, his hopes for its benefits to AIDS patients weren’t confirmed until April, when he received final results of a study done in New York. "Every time you go into this, you hope for the best, but this time it actually worked," Nissen said. Juven, a powder that when mixed with water tastes like Tang, is created in a laboratory using a chemical reaction. During the eight-week study, AIDS patients who had been wasting away from the disease gained an average of 6 1/2 pounds,including 51/2 pounds of muscle. The group of AIDS patients who took a placebo lost an average of 1 1/2 pounds of muscle during the study. One way AIDS devastates its victims is by accderadng muscle breakdown to the point where people do not have enough energy for day-to-day activities. Muscle loss can be deadly when it leaves so litde strength that victims can’t even cough, and they develop pneumonia. While HMB has been a popular musclebooster with bodybuilders and athletes for several years, Nissen said he is glad attention to it is being gained in the medical field. In the fall, he will begin researching how Juven can help victims suffering muscle loss because of cancer, muscular dystrophy, Lou Gehrig’s disease, trauma and aging. One cancer victim has already benefited from Juven. "My mother was the first gmnea pig," Nissen said. When his mother, Audrey Nissen, was diagnosed with a severe form of ovarian cancer in April 1997, she agreed to use Juven. Throughout two exploratory surgeries and chemotherapy, she did not lose any weight and is now in r~mission,he Said. Before Juven, AIDS patients could use anabolic steroids or human growth hormone as muscle-loss therapies, both of which have proven side effects. Because Juven is composed of amino acids found in the hmnan body, it does not cause side effects, Nissen said. To prove it, study coordinators conducted repeated blood tests and had padents fill out questionnaires and under go psychological tests. Mother-Child HIV Transfer Reduced CHICAGO (AP) - French researchers say using Caesarean sections during birth, coupled with the HIV-fighting drug AZT, could nearly eliminate transmission of the AIDS virus from mother .to child. As recently as 1994, a baby born to an HIVposit.ire mother had about a 25% chance of contracting the virus. AZT alone dropped that rate to less than 8%. Two new studies show the rate of mother-toinfant transmission plummeting to 2% and, in some cases, lower than 1% when the C-section is used with AZT therapy. "The goal was to have the rate of transmission below 1% by the end of the century, and I think we’re really getting there,’" said Dr. Laurent Mandelbrot, leader of a French study that will be published in the HIV/AIDS-themed edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, which included 2,834 mother-infant pairs in France, found that of the 1,917 mothers who did not receive AZT, 17.2% transmitted HIV to their infants. Of those who received AZT, the%age dropped to 6.6%. Of the mothers who took AZT before delivery and also elected to have a C-section, only 0.8% transmitted the AIDS virus. A study-by the Nadonal Institute of Child Health and Human Development m Washington combined the findings of that study with several others in Europe and North America and found that C-sections reduced transmission by half and, when combined with AZT treatment, cut transmission to just 2%. Dr. John Flaherty, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago, also has seen a drmnatic drop in motherto-infant transmissions among his patients - in large part because of treatment wilh "cocktails" of AIDS drugs, including AZT. But he wonders if it’s worth the risk of complications and even death for the mothers to add C-sections to the process. ’Tin kind of on the fence on it," Flahertv said. "You have to ask, "Is it worth it to d~ C-sections on 100 women to prevent one transmission?’ " Dr. Patricia Garcia, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University, is even more wary of routinely using an invasive procedure. "There isn’t a woman alive who wouldn’t do anything to reduce the risk of transmission to her child," Garcia said of pregnaut women who are HIV-positive. "’But until we sit down and so carefully go over thc implications of this, I’m very concerned about implementing it." Prevention Effort Targets Blacks BOSTON (AP) - In response to a growing AIDS problem among blacks statewide, the Department of Public Health launched an AIDS treatment and prevention.campaign targeting blacks. While new cases of HIV/AIDS are down about 50% from last 3’ear, Commissioner of Public Health Howard Koh said the state has fallen short in reaching the black conununity. Blacks make up 5% of the state’s population but comprise23% of HIV cases in the state. They also make up 32% of those cases reported in the last year, according to a recently released report. The state will begin an advertising cmnpaigu in four cides with the highest rates of AIDS cases among blacks: Boston, Springfield, Brockton and Cambridge. . Ads depicting black campaigu volunteers and emblazoned with the slogan - Free Testing. Free Treatment. Free Yourself. will appear on commuter buses and trains and conventional posters. The posters also : advertise a special, toll-free hotline, 1¯ 888-I-ACT-NOW. " Callers of the toll-free hofline will be " directed to free testing and treatment pro° grams. Workers will also distribute 10,000 ¯ wallet information cards across the state. " "The bottom line is that we want to pro° mote a message of hope, that this ~s a ." treatable epidemic and a preventable epi¯ demic," said Koh. : The launch of the campaign was timed " to correspond with National HIV Testing Day in which testing centers across the ¯ state will make a special push for people ° to find out if they are carrying the virus " that causes AIDS. The Supreme Court ¯ this week rnled people with HIV are pro¯ tected from discrimination under the " Americans with Disabilities Act. "There’ s ¯ never been a better time to be tested," said ¯ Larry Kessler of the AIDS Action Com¯ mittee of Massachusetts. "The sooner your " know you are infected, the better your ¯ chances for staying healthy.’" �to our conm~unity, to detail them would be to rnin the ending, but trust me, this is amust-see! The performances benefit the "Make A Wish" Foundation, which grants terminally ill children their dream wishes. For yours trnly, it marks a remm to the stage after a ten year absence. And as my friends have noted in various ~vavs (editor’s note: not al~v ays in nice ways ;-), "You can take the actor oul of the theatre, but you can’ t take .the theat]e out of the actor". We just had our first run-through, alIL and the show will be So, back to the subgood. It is a new musiject... I almost felt cal, and the producer & sorry for the poor fools. director, Hilary Genga They tried to broadcast -(a Tulsa native) & hatefulness through Teresa Bringle,respectheir bullhorn, but the tively, hope to take it to music drowned them New York eventually. out. What a pathetic The cast includes, in way to spend your life. no particular order: Council Oak Men’s Kristina Van Dyne, Chorale performed to Tulsa Family News Entertainment James Chase, James standing ovations at Writer. James Christjohn. ChriStjohn (told ya 1 both their premier conwas in it!), Cvndi Caldwell (last seen in cert at A!l Sonl’~ Unitari~an - standing TU’s excelle~t "Colnpany’" playing the room only, and also to a warm,response at Elaine Stritch role), Kevin Re3aaard, Kailee the National Organization for’Women’ s Mclntosh, Simon Plohocky (last seen in annual awards banquet. A fall concert is TU’s "Falsettoland’" as Marvin’s son), in the planning stages, in which choreogScott Gaffen (also a TU alumni and an raphy was promised (yay!). The Chorale excellent actor), Brad Gillespie, Martha performed as part of Follies Revue, June. Barth, David Hubbard, Je~my Buchanan, 25-28, at the PAC. The variet5~ show benmad Adeena Nayfa. For ticket informaefit~ various AIDS charities° as most of tion, call the Performing Arts Center Box "¢ot~ know. Office at 596-’7111. I am in a show to be performed in Stevie Nicks performs in Dallas July August, entitled "Tight Quarters". No, 17. This ~s a must see, since she will be not hind quarters, "’Tight Qnarters", to be performing material never before heard in performed August 27-30, 8pro, at the Perconcert. Many selections won’t be heard forming Arts Center. It is an old fashioned live .again, most likely. Not 3our typical screwball comedy - melodrama - musical "greatest hits" show, the reviews I’ve seen in which I get to play (fanfare, please) a have been all raves, and the performances villain. Yes, a good, old fashioned, scenhave been consistently praised. The "En- " ery chewing villain. And to those of you chanted" tour tix are available through mhttefing "’surprise, surprise’", I will get Ticketmaster. for up to date info, and to you, my pretties, and vour little... see that someone actually likes her as ~vhatevers, too. It should be a blast. Oh much if not more than I do, check out yes, and for the audience, too. There are www.mcksfix.com. ~everal moments in the show of relevance by James Christjohn TFN Entertainment Writer To those who skipped the picnic fearing a fierce confrontation with a mob of ravenous homophobes, well. fear caused you to miss out onlotsa fun. About 12 anti-gay protesters appeared (victims of inbreed- "o lng one and all), and were kept at bay way acros s the field by about as many mounted police. OK, now that’s fodder for obvious jokes, but I’ve promised to be good. And I Tulsa Morgan Horse Show -Extravaganza July 30 - August 2 Bedro.ck Arena 1901 West 171st Street South Oklahoma’s only all Morgan Breed Show Qualifier for the upcoming October Morgan Grand National and World Show $3 admission & portion of profits benefits Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. (formerly the HIV Resource Consortium of Tulsa) 17us adverti~emerd dtxaated by Tulsa Fatmly Ne~s. Tulsa Morgan Horse Show .Extravaganza TULSA -Organizers of Tulsa Morgan " National Anthem will be sung by lomn Gwinup of Evans Training Stables from HorseShow Extravaganza have dedicated Sapulpa, and Debbie Seybold of Espanola, tiffs year’s event to the memory of Gary New Mexico will serve as judge. Wayne Walters;a great horseman and one Two pro’ties will of the founders of the occur during the exevent. Waiters was travaganza. TRIAD 46 years old. Morgan Farm of ,~ portion of the Jenks will host the profits from the event first after the In-Hand as well as all the gate Championships on admission ($3) will Thursday evening. benefit Tulsa The second will take C/A.R.E.S., formerly place on Sat. evening "known as the HIV after the last class. Resource ConsorThe "progressive" tium. dinner will also feaThe Show, which ture a dance and light is Oklahoma’s only Ric Poston, Tulsa Morgan Horse Show ¯ show by "Thunder-N-Lightening". all Morgan Breed event and a qualifier for ~ The extravaganza will also have a silent October’s Morgan Grand National and ~ auction with items totalling $10,000 in World Show, will be held from July 30 to ¯ value. Items include stallion breedings, August 2 at the Bedrock Arena, 1901 West 171 st Street South in Glenpool. The : 0figinai paintings, dinners, an autographed arena is at the corner of 171st Street and 1- ." guitar from Diamond Reo, and muchmoreDistinguished Oklahoma artists, Dana 75 (the Beeline) and is visible from 1-75. ¯ Sessions will be held at 7pro on July 30, : & Lisa Tiger also will have booths at the 8:30am & 7pro on July 31 & August 1, ] show as will other artists andvendors. For and at 9am & lpm on August 2. The ] more information, call 299-6442. 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Call or fax 583-4615. �Reviewed by Barry Hensley her mother’ s memory into a positive thing, Tulsa City-County Library and feels that when she hears Judy’s reAlmost thirty years after her death, Judy cordings, she is being watched over by a Garland’ s popularity continues: For many guardian angel years, there has been much interest in the As with many children from dysfuncrelationship between Gay men and Judy tional families, Luft has had her share of Garland as a performer. This broken relationships, and beLl~ts comments book, written by Judy’ s middle came addicted to recreational child, Loma Luft, addresses regarding the drugs, in a vain effort to shed the mother and human being her sweet, innocent image. She Gay community as wall as the performer, and seems inexplicably proud of are troubling. also offers some insight into turning her sister on to coWhile insisting the life of Lorna’ s sister, Liza came. Now happily married that she has M_innelli - and juicy gossip it with children, Luft seems comis! many Gay fortable with her life, past mid B y the time Luft was born in present, and she lambastes friends and she 1952, Judy Garland had finLiza for continuing, in Lorna" s supports them ished her career as a movie eyes, down the path of deunconditionally, star after being fired by MGM. struction. she also blasts Her insulated world had vanLuffs comments regarding ished and her personal and prothose Gay guys the Gay community are troufessional life was beginning a who tried to help bling. "While insisting that she frantic roller coaster ride from her mother in her has man)’ Gay friends and she which she would not survive. supports them unconditionlater years. Luft Luft fondly remember~ her all3’, she also blasts those Gay early years as relatively stable believes, not that guys who tried to hdp her and it was only after Judy dithese guys were mother in her later years. Luft vorced Lorna’s father, Sid believes, not that these guys helping and Luft, that Judy’s inevitable eneouraglng Judy were helping and encouragdecline would impact Lorna, when nobody else ing Judy when nobody else Liza and brother Joe. would, but that their s~pport would, but that Luft is not bitter about her was harmful and their enthumother’s erratic behavior of their sup_port was siastic devotion was, and is, the time. She understands that unhealthy. Of course; as a harmful and when a person is severely adtheir enthusiastic child, she welcomed these dicted to mind~numbingmediguys because they were often cation, they do not always have devotion was. and the only ones who could get is, unhealthy. the ability to control their acJudy b~ck on track, and Lorna tions. At about age twelve, cotmted on some of Judy’s Lorna and Judy, in effect, changed roles. ¯ Gay fans for information When writing Lorna began taking care of her mother and ¯ this book. learned how to manipulate her mother’s ; Putting aside this hypocrisy mid the environment so that Judy could continue ." poor editing job, Me mid .My Shadows is to work. Finally, the stress and sleepless an entertaining and lively bio~aphy, full nights caught up with her, and Lorna had ; of fun name-dropping. Luft has survived. a nervous breakdown. She went to live ¯ a stressful early life, not unlike many with her father, never to see her mother other kids, except that her fanfily turmo;l alive again. was played Out in public. This is a fun and Judy’s death, in 1969, was; of course, a ." amusing book, mid provides a first person major turning point in Luft’s personal and account of the tribulations of one of our professional life. 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Now is the time to replace that. The DIYD will expl ore thi s proces s more fully next month, acknowledging that she has once more put the cart before the horse. You will Written reports of progress will be provided to the civil rights office through June 1999, Lambda said. School district officials declined comment. Mrs. Wagner said she welcomed the agreement. "My heart broke when my son was so terribly abused, just for being himself," she said. "This agreement... hopefully, will safeguard many parents’ dreams and protect their kids?’ �" part of the message too; it’s not filler," by Esther Rothblum When Dee Mosbacher completed the ¯ explained Sylvia"because even when we film STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART " play the film to people who are resistant to (for which she rethe message they ceived an Oscar can’t resist the muno|ninarion) she was sic." told that a film about The daree co-proLesbians and their ducers all have prior patents needed to be film-making experimore communityence (Frances Reid. specific. The Washin fact, was nomilngton Sisters, Afrinated for two Oscars can American Lesin one year) but that’ s bian musicians who where the similariappear in the film ties end. Deeis a psychiatrist. Sylvia has with their mother, told Dee that Lesbia Ph.D. in human ans faced different sexuality and is also issues around hoa Bible scholar!stumophobia in the Afdent. She says: rican American "Western society has church-going comProfessor Esther Rothblum kept sex and reli~on munity. Dee decided very separate and to collaborate with Sylvia Rhue and that shouldn’t be." Frances xs a profesFrances Reid to co-produce a film about sional film- maker. Black churches and the Gay/Lesbian exThe co-producers are now involved in perience. getting the film shown across the country. Sylvia Rhue came up "’The bottom line is that with the new film’s rifle, Lesbian, G~, and Bisexual Sylvia Rhue ALL GOD’ S CHILDREN, people should see the film cahae up with the a phrase that was used so and feel better about themoften by the people they selves, too see people, innew film’s title, interviewed. As Jesse Jackcluding leaders in the Black ALL GOD’S son says in the film, "In the community, support them larger civil rights moveas heterosexual allies, and CHILDREN, ment, we must see all also to see the pioneers of a phrase that was people as God’ s children." the current Black Gay The Reverend Dr. Cecil movement on fihn" said use,t so o~en by Murray of the First AMC S.ylvia "’This is the first the people they ChU-rch~-. the oldest Black: txme that Black Gay and church in Los Angeles de= heterosexual people have interviewed. dares: ’q’he church exists goue on record to this defor all God’ s children." As Jesse Jackson gree for an absolutely proGay stance. Since the ALL GOD’S CHILsays in the film, DREN is a 25-minute Bla’ck church is the strondocumentary that explores "In the larger elvil gest iusrituriou in the Black issues of the African to have the rights movement, community, ministers talk xs very unAmerican church and congregants in that church we must see all portant." The film includes about homosexuality and interviews with six Black people as God’s homophobia. As Sylvia ministers. told me: "It was important children." Dee explained "We reto get church leaders that ally try to use the film as an The Reverend Dr. orgamzing our parents respect, the setool. Our efforts Ceell Murray of have been trying to get the niorpastors. Marjorie Hill, Ph.D. from the National film to as many people as the First AMC Boad Unity Fellowship possible who would take it Church says in the film: Church, the oldest to their community-"Gay and Lesbian African whether the church comBlack church in Americans are intertwined munity, the educational Los Afigeles with our community, and commtmity, PFLAG (Parwe need the church." ents and Friends of Lesbideclares: "The ALL GOD’S CHILans and Gays), etc. We’ ve DREN also includes wellchurch exists for tried to act creatively and known people from the gotten a number of people all God’s Black community such as to subsidize copies of the Congresswoman Maxine children." videos and accompanying Waters, Linda Villarosa, materials so that the film Executive Editor of Essence Magazine, can get out to communities." They wrote and Cornel West, Professor of Harvard ajoint letter with Phil Wilson, the founder Divinity School. U.S. Senator Carol of the Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Mosely-Brown states: "... our diversity is Forum, to get the film out. Sylvia now after all a strength and not a weakness." travels all over the country to show the The film also includes Black families film. As she says: "The project itself, I discussing having a Gay or Lesbian famthink, was divinely led." The film ALL ily member. Finally, music plays an imGOD’ S CHILDREN can be obtained from portant role in the film as background and WomanVision Productions. foreground. Lavender Light: The Black Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psyand People of All Colors Lesbian and Gay chology at the University of Vermont and Gospel Choir performs gospel music with Editor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. which Black churchgoers are so familar. DYKE PSYCHE is a monthly column. 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(501) 253-6807, Closed Wednesday 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 �: -much of the world, including large parts Lamont Lindstrom bYI went to a party the other day at the of rural Utah, a man may have more than house of two new friends. Recently come " one wife. to Tulsa, these witty and cheerful women ¯ In other places, such as the Himalayan had already made a comfortable home " highlands, three or four men (often brothers) will together be married together, complete with soulto one woman. Nuer women I went to a party M-eyed beagle. Two women (of the southern Sudan) the other day at the and a dog - it looked like a Record b Listen to Ads FREE! AT PHILBROOK An adventure you won’t forget! 748.5374 mamage to me. Despite such personal arrangements made between lovers, "’real" mamage is a legal contract conferred by the state. The right to marry has emerged as a key demand of man3’ Gay and Lesbian political activists. Marriage is also the place where many straight peop!e draw the line. Real mamage, so they say, requires a man and a wbman. Dogs are optional. This growing dispute over marriage, many have noted, reflects the noisy rhetoric of "family values" that has dominated much of Ameflcan politics for the last two decades. One can draw easy connections between an mcreasing instability’ of .the American nuclear fmnily mid pamcky public evocatio.ns of family values. Nowadays, half of married people get themselves unmarri ed. sometimes are married to dead men. Their children (go two new friends. figure how!.) become the leRecently come to gal offspring of this ghost. The Nayar of Kerala, southTulsa. these western India, were fawitty and cheerful mously difficult for anthrowomen had already pologists trying to classify made a human marriage. Nayar women do go fiarough a ritual eomfortab]te home umon with a man. They to~ether, complete might never sleep with him, with though. Instead, they remmn soulful-eyed hea~le. in their mother’ s home merTwo women and a rily having sex and children with whomever they please. do~ - it looked llke The term "marriage". aca marrla~e to me. curately describes various [but] ¯ ¯ ¯ sorts of gay or lesbian relamarrla~e is also tionships in societies around the place where the globe. Some Nucr woman, by exchanging man)’ cattle, marry another straio_’ht ~ P eole P younger woman. Her childraw the llne. ~tren are socially recognized Real marrla~e, as the children of the female so they say, "husband" who provided the bovine bride wealth. requires The glossary of that 19"71 a man and a wonaan. anthropology text, politiDo~s are optional. call3 CO~Xect qvant la lettre, defined mamage m a way house of rhis recent collapse of American marriage ~s nobodv’s fault in particular. Rather’, it is an effect of the that omitted our AdmniEg’e presumptions. ekpanding labor mad other demands of our uman marriage is "tan. ix~tstimtiorta~ized . .po s t_i ndu strial _e~gg/]~,s~.z.te.m-tha~.~ucks form of relatmnship m which sexum re~ hp f&fi51’e’,XG~i~’~’r-~. Perplexed and wortionships and parentage legitimately take fled, those of ns who find it harder mad place." This definition would cover my harder anymore to stay roamed respond Tulsa friends, except for the fact that their emotionally to fearful" media-hyped stoumonis illegitimate as defined by State of ries of abt~sed and abandoned children, Oklahoma law. and to blustery Sunday sermons about 11acre are other sources of legitimacy Adam and Eve’, not Adam and Steve. beyond the state, though. My two new Clearly, it’s already too late to save friends, and anyone else who wants to be much of American mamage (as this exjoined, can establish a "domestic partneristed up to the 1970s) even if all the rifty ship" recognized by increasing nmnbers states outlaw tmions between homosexuof communities and compani,e,s, and tl}.ey als And one might ask those Gay activists may arrange for themselves a holy umon who are struggling to gain the right to ceremony," offered by various churches, marry (and the legal and economic bentemples, and other religious groups. efits and respectability marriage offers) to This begs the question why Gays and also prepare us for the divorces that are Lesbians aredemanding state-legitim!." zed sure to follow. At least my ex-boyfriend marriage just at the point in American hasn’t cost me any alimony - unlike my. history when straight marriage is in such mercenary ex-wife who spends my salary deep hot water (we might call it). Wall, in Honolulu. there’ s respect, of course. And there’s the As human societies go, divorce, rate.s in kids. You wouldn’t want that innocent United States are recently creeping into beagle to be illegitimate, would you? the upper range. Still, in some societies, almost everyone marries and divorces at least once and a 100% divorce rate in no way threatens the general social fabric. Anthropologists call the marital pattern now emerging in the US "serial po- ¯ have included government-sponsored safe-sex campaigns, an increased availlygamy." Most of us will have more than ; ability of condoms and better treatment one spouse during, our lifetimes, just not all at the same ume. Why even Frank " for other sexually transmitted disease: Many experts believe that developmg Sinatra, that all-around American guy, ¯ an AIDS vaccine i.s key to controlh.’ng the good buddy of Jane and Nancy and Ron, epidemic. The first large-scale testtng of a had made i’t to wife number four. possible vaccine began last week. The When I took my first anthropology " International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a course in 1971, my professor impressed ] nonprofit group, announced a plan to try on me the difficulty in coming up with a ¯ umversal definition of marriage. The " to focus spending of betweenS350 million and $500 millibn on vaccine developmultiple and complicated ways that hu- " ment over the next nine years. The group roans around the world unite themselves ] said Microsoft founder Bill Gates had are exceedingly difficult to encapsulate ¯ contributed $1.5 million to its effort. within a single label like "marriage." In " �MANFINDER° HEART OF GOLD I’m a Ionley 25, cowboy who loves the outdoom. I want a M with a heart of gold and not into head games, someone to give me 110 percent of their love. (Tulsa) ~20221 RUGGED AND RANDY This good looking, rugged, cowboy type, blue collar worker, 30, 6’4, 2001bs, with Blond hair, Blue eyes, and a hairy body, seeks other cowboy types for fun. I like going out, watching tv at home, taking long drives, and being very romantic. I’d like a permanent relationship but we should be friends first. (Henrietta) ~14467 LIKE A LADY I want to get together with Cross-Dressers or She-Males. I just want to meet you and treat you nice. "~15427 ONLY ONE HERE I’m a good looking, 19 year old, White male, 5’10, 2351bs, the vehement, negative reaction of my very straight but very cool next neighbor is probably typical. Whether or not he thinks being Gay is sinful, he rejects the notion of a God that hates like Phelps promotes. It also probably helped that Phelps also intended to picket a number of Tulsa’s most established churches. One does. wonderhow he came up with his list of churches though. Although Triztity mad St. John Episcopal are mostly Gay-friendly, All Souls Unitarian is very, and First Lutheran is mostly neutral but ironically, First Methodist is known as one of the ~nost homophobic mainline congregations m Tulsa. But then this was the man who x~-as going to picket Oral Roberts University because Richard Roberts has had a di’vorce. Actually, Roberts, like a certain former Oklahoma US senator, seems to be dogged by the most curious allegations about their lives when out of state. Maybe it’s just as wall that Phelps hadn’t heard those yet or he’d be in Palm Springs and Norman next. Regardless, I encourage all to thank Steve Horn, Rick Martin, Greg Gatewood and the other volunteers who put our Pride events together. It’s a lot of hard work and they deserve our recognition. (Equality for Gays and-Lesbians Everywhere). 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document Nickles Blocks Hormel Vote & Denounces-Homosexuals WASHINGTON (AP)-A national civil rights group is accusing Sen. Don Nickles, Oklahoma’ s senior senator, the Senate’ s second-ranking Republican, of wrongly mixing government and religion in saying a Gay philanthropist nominated for an ambassadorship is tmqualitiedbecausehepromotes "immoral behavior." "This is.a perfect example of religious beliefs infringingupon publicpolicy," saidDavid Smith, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a political group. "In the history of this country, those that have used religion tojustify bigotry have been~proven wrong. " Smith said. ¯ "The criticism came hfter Nickles denounced President Clinton’ s nomination of James Hormel of California as ambassador to Luxembourg. "He has promoted that lifestyle and promoted it in a big way, in a way that is very offensive," Nickles, the Senate majority whip, said on¯ ,Fox News Sunday." "One might ihave that lifestyle; butif one promotes-it a~ aceeptaSle behavior, ¯.. I don’t think-they should be a representative of this countr.y." "I think it" s immoral behavior and I think a lot of other behavibr is immoral anti shouldn’t be treated as acceptable behavior?’ Nickles said. While homosexuality i~ a sin, so is adultery and fornication, he added. A struggle over Hormel’s nomination has been going on formonths. Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., has refused to bring the matter to the Senate floor for a vote. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D:Calif., criticized the delays recently. Hormel is "entitled to his due process," she said on CNN’s "Late Edition." "Yes, he happens to be Gay. But all men are created equal as a matter of public policy - or should be," Feinstein said. The renewed debate over Hormel followed controversy about connnents by Lott that homosexuality is a Sin. "~lrOU should still love that person," Lott said on cable television’s "’The Armstrong Williams Show." "You should not try to mistreat them or treat them as outcasts. You should try to show them a way to deal with that problem, just like alcohol.., or sex addiction... or "kleptommfiacs.’" The co~uments thrust Lott into the debate of whether homosexuals have chosen their sexual orientation or whether it is biologically predetermined. Afterward, Sen. Alf0nse D’Amato, R-N.Y., criticized Lott for refusing to let Hormel’s nomination go forward. D’Amato said Lott’s only reason is that Hormel is Gay. But Sen. Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., said,"I talked with Jim Hormel myself and asked him to disavow some of the groups that ridicule and disdain organized religion.¯, and he refused to do that," Hutchinson said. "The question is one of suitability and whether he’s sensitive to organized religion. Luxembourg is a country that’s 97% Catholic.’" Sen. Don Nickles DIRECTORY/LETTERS P. 2/3 US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 HEALTH NEWS P. 6 ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P, 8 COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 BOOK REVIEW P. 10 DYKE PSYCHE P. 12 DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 11 CLASSIFIE DS + WEERWOLF P, 14 Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations Supreme Court Rules DisabilityAct Covers HIV WASHINGTON (AP) - In a decision praised by advocates for AIDS patients and the disabled, the Supreme Court has ruled that people infected with HIV are protected by a key anti-discrimination law even if they have no visible AIDS symptoms. The 5-4 ruling said a woman whose dentist refused to fill a cavity at his officebecause she was HIV-posidveis coveredby the Americans With Disabilities Act, the 1990 law that protects the disabled against discrimination in jobs, housing and public accommodations. "HIV infection, even in the so-called asymptomatic phase, is an impairment which substantially limits the major life activity of reproduction" and therefore qualifies for coverage under the disability law, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court. It was the high court’s first ruling involving the human immunodficiency virus, which causes AIDS. President Clinton praised the decision, saying it "reinforces the protections offeredby the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act for Americans living with HIV and AIDS." Jennifer Middleton, of the American Civil Liberties Union’s AIDS Project, predicted the decision will help people with other disabilities - such as cancer, epilepsy and diabetes - who sometimes have had trouble convincing lower courts they are covered by the disability law.-And Daniel Zingale of AIDS Action, a network of organizations that provide health care and services tO AIDS patients, called the decision HIV patients’ "greatest legal victory since the beginning of the epidemic." The decision set aside the ruling of a Boston federal appeals court, which said dentist Randon Bmgdon of Bangor, Maine, violated the anti-discrimination law when he refused to fill Sidney Abbott’s tooth at his office because she carries the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. While the justices ruled that Abbott was covered by the ADA, they ordered lower courts to reconsider whether Bragdon violated the law. Those courts previously had said Bragdon did not show the treatment would have been unsafe, see Court, page 3 : A handful ofanti-Gayprotesters (ratio: 15 to 150) ¯¯ picket white marchers circle Veterans Park at the Tulsa Pride Picnic. Typical signs read: "Fags die. ¯ God laughs", and "God hates fags ". : Tulsa Pride Unfazed by ¯ Anti-Gay Protesters ¯ TULSA - Despite the picketing of Topeka’s anti- ¯ Gay extremist, the Rev. Fred Phelps and friends, ¯ the Tulsa Pride March & Picnic went off with no significant problems according to organizers. Pride : Committee member, Greg Gatewood, noted that ¯ there were nearly 30 booths by various community ¯ organizations and businesses and estimated that attendence at the event was about 700-800, which ¯ organizers say is about usual. One attendee noted that some of his friends decided not to come citing ¯ the Phelps protest but others came who’d never been before, also inspired by the picketers. The Phelps contingent, carrying Sl~,ns like, Fags die, God laughs," and such, numbered about 15 at the most. A marcher observed that Gay and Gayfriendly marchers numbered about 150, more than double the number in last year’s inaugural march, outnumbering Phelps-ires about 10 to 1. see Picnic, page 3 FayettevilleSch0olsto Protect ¯ Gay Pride Worldwide! Gay :..-...K.. ,ids’ .F .rom.H .s,.m., :e.n,t-.::-. ReportS from The A_sso.C.ia.te.d Press L;all~Ornla FAYET~EViLL~, .M:k. (AP) - Tlie school district here lias ; agreed to train its staff mad set up procedures to deal with " SAN" FRAN’CISCO W. HOLLYV¢O©D - \Vi0z a harassment of Gay students in a settlement of a complaint by the mother of a Gay teen-ager, according to a Gay civil rights group. The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund mmounced that officials of the Fayetteville School District had reached m~ agreement with the Office of Civil Rights of the federal FAucation Department. The agreement, called a"commitment to resolve," stems from a sex-discrimination complaint filed by the parents of V~qlliam Wagner, 17. His mother, Carolyn W~gner, said her son was beaten in an attack bx other students on Dec. 2, 1997, and said her son had endured daiiv harassment and destruction of his belongings because of his s~xual orientation. The Lambda Fund said the Fayetteville district agreed to "’recognize the various forms of sexual harassment (including) sexual harassment directed at Gay or Lesbian students." The district agreed to overhaul i.t,~s poli~ies and procedures and train faculty, staff and students tO diminate harassment and deal with it when it occurs, Lambda Said. see Ar’kansas, page 11 World AIDS Conference GENEVA (AP) -The largest AIDS conference ever began with a mix of optimism and frustration: Cheer over potent new viruskilling drugs was tempered by despair that AIDS sail spreads explosively in parts of the world that cannot afford these medical breakthroughs. Abou! 13,200 scientists, doctors, advocates and journalists gathered for the 12th World AIDS Conference to hear 5,400 presentations on new treatments, insights-into the basic workings of the virus and how the disease affects everyone from pregnant women to prisoners to "’commercial sex workers," the conference euphemism for prostitutes. During the weeklong meeting, scientists are expected to.discuss newly developed treatments that may offer alternatives to protease inhibitors, the class of drugs that have revolutionized AIDS care. Moreover, experts believe they are closing in on simpler regimens that will require people to take far fewer than the 20 pills a day which is now common. Doctors also will hear encouraging reports on preventing the spread of the virus see HIV, page 10 ’ purple fedora perched on his head, San Francisco ¯ Mayor Willie Br0wnjoined hundreds of thousands ¯ of people who celebrated the annual Gay and Lesbian pride day at two California cities S~ndav. In West Hollywood, more than 350,000 people ¯ participated in a two-da.v 28th annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Festival and Parade. The parade was ¯ preceded by a 5- and 10-kilometer run led by ¯ Olympian Greg Leuganis. ¯ In San Francisco, fes tivities began Sunday moruing with loud whoops and cheers for hundreds of ¯ women on motorcycles who led the parade down ¯ Market Street, which was lined with rainbow flags. Brown marched along, sporting a purple fedora, ¯ bright orange jacket and rainbow-colored shirt. He ¯ said it marked his 28th appearance at the annual ¯ event. "’(The parade) represents almost a Super ¯ Bowl for/_he city, from a commercial standpoint," he said. "It (also) represents the spirit of this oty. .. the creativity that is this city and the diversity thal ¯ is this city." ¯ The cyclists were followed by an array of danc- ¯ ers, marching bands, drag queens, politicians; military veterans, unusual floats and a police-escorted ¯ riderless horse - representing deaths in the Gay ¯ community. Organizers estimated the crowd in the hundreds of thousands. In the Southern California parade, Los Angeles : Mayor Richard Riordan joined city officials from ¯ .throughout the regionin a two-hour, 200-organiza- ¯ aon strong parade led by Grand Marshall Wilson Cruz of the Broadway musical "Rent" and canceled TV series "My So Called Life." ¯ Community groups and about 13 corporate spon- ¯ sots drove floats and marched in the parade to this year’s theme of "Freedom to Love, Freedom to Choose." The West Hollywood parade is touted as ¯ the third-largest in California, behind the Rose Parade and the Hollywood Christmas Parade, orgauizers said. see World Pride, p. 3 NY Mayor Praises Gays NEW YORK (AP) - Embracing diversity and rejecting intolerance have made the city stronger, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said as he gave Gay men and Lesbians credit for playing an important role in New York’s boom. "Our society has to be better off as we go through sometimes the pain of opening somety up, so that everyone gets a chance to make their maximum contribution," he said at a ceremony recognizing Gays working in city government. "When you think back to 100 years ago, when lots of people were excluded from govenanent, some based on race, some based on gender, some based on sexual orientation, we were working with half or less than half of the potential talent that was available." Giuliani said. "Maybe that’s one of the reasons why the city does so much better now than it did 20 and 30 and 40 years ago." In a proclamation, the Republican mayor declared "Out in Government Day," part of the commemoration of Lesbian and Gay pride and history month. He aiso cited his efforts to enact le~slation that would ensure that unmarried.couples are treated the same as roamed ones on everything from housing to parking permits - a bill touted as an important advance in Gay and Lesbian rights. Giuliani’s support for most Gay civil rights has made trim the target of criticism frown the GOP’ s right wing. When asked later about Republican criticism of President Clinton’s nominee for ambassador to Luxembourg, homosexual philanthropist James Hormel, the ma~’or stud he hadn’t looked into the dispute. But he added: "Someone’s sexual orientation is a private matter, and that should not be the basis on which someone ~s hired or fired by gov~t’unent... I’m going to have that view until I die." In contrast, Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., said Hormd was unqualified because he promotes "inmmral behavior.’" Lesbian Mom Loses Custody Case MONTGOMERY, Ala. ~AP) - The ,Alabama Supreme Court, overturning an appeals panel, has removed a child from the custody of her homosexual mother, ruling that the woman exposed her daughter to a "lifestyle" thatis illegal in Alabama. The 7-0 decision authored by Justice Champ Lyons found that the child’s best interests would be better served in a’ home with her father and his new wife. The Supreme Court’s ruling said Jefferson County Circuit Judge Ralph Ferguson applied the correct legal standard by removing the young girl from a mother who was living with another woman in an "’open Lesbian relationship." The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals had reversed Ferguson’s order, holding that the father didn’t prove the mother’s conduct was having a "’substantial detrimental effect" on the child. But the high court said there was no need to prove there was a substantial detrimental effect, only that the child’s interests were better served in the father’s home. %~qaile the evidence shows that the mother loves the child and has provided her with good care, it also shows that she has chosen to expose the child continurush’ to a lifestyle that is ’neither legal in this state, nor ~;aoral in the eyes of most of its citizens,’ "Lyons wrote, quoting a previous court decision. A 1975 Alabama statute proclaims all homosexual conduct to be criminal. Earlier this ye.ar, the state enacted a law that banned same-sex mamages. At the time of the 1993 divorce, the father gave up custody knowing the moth.er was revolved in a Lesbian ,relationship, but witt~ the undexstanding she wouldkeep it discrete and not let the childknow about ~t. The father later remarried. During visits to his house, the girl told her dad that her mother and companion were sleeping in the same bed together. That prompted the father to sue for custody. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which helped argue the case on the mother’s behalf, said the mother.essentially lost custody because she was honest about her relationship: "What’s unique about the case is that it doesn’t appear to hold that a Lesbian or Gay parent is always disqualified from custody," Ms. Kendell said in a telephone interview from her San Francisco office. "Rather, it enforces upon those parents that the3’ live a lie - that they not live their lives with integrity or be honest with their children about being Gay." The decision cited testimony from several psychologists, who had differing op~mons on where the child should live, but all agreed the girl had a good home relationship with her mother and her parmer. The Christian Family Association, an Alabama group that has promoted fundamentalist Christian positions, said that was no substitute for a traditional family environment. "The Supreme Court has placed the g~rl with a real family," said spokesman Dean Young. "People aren’t fooled. People can say a family is whatever they want to, but God said a man and a’woman would c(~me together to start a family, not two women or two men." Congress,.ma Wants to Stop Anti-Bias Order WASHINGTON, DC -I;.S. Rep. Joel Hefley, RColo., wants to "’neutralize" President Clinton’s executive order protecting homosexual federal workers fromjob discrimination. Hefley claims that the order. signed last month, gives homosexuals specia! status a~ a protected class throu,~hout the federal government. He said he has proposed an amendment to the 1999 Treasury-Postal Appropriations bill that would prevent any o’f the fmads appropriated in the bill from being nsed"’to implement, administer, or enforce" the order "’Bill Clinton has added a new category to the nation’s civil rights laws,’" the Colorado Springs congressman said. "With this action, the president effectively established institutional quotas for homosexual ern’ployees.’" The amendment would"neutralize this order," Heflev said. A White House sp~)keswoman said, "’this is about [fighting] discrimination," said Nanda Chitre, tim spokeswoman. "If this is what the Republicans want to focus on, we’re willing to engage .on this issue because we are anti-discrirmnation." Chitre added that the amendment ~eflects comments made by Sen. : TfentLott, R-Miss., who earlier :thi~~ mdfith said~ homosexuality should be treated "ju.st li,k,e alcohol.. or sex addiction or kleptomaniacs Baptists Promote_Book Censorship in Texas WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - Two children s books depicting families with homosexual parents will be shelved in a juvenile nonfiction section of the Wichita Falls Public Library, instead of the picturebook- area meant for younger children. The First Baptist Church of Wichita Falls and several reliDous groups had sought the removal of "Heather Has Two Mommies" and "Daddy’s Roommate" or placement on adult bookshelves. However, Librarian Linda Hughes said it’s inappropriate to put the books in the adult section "because children are looking for these books now because of the furor." She added: t hey are ery curious. They want to know what is going on. Sending them to the adult area would mean browsing through very graphic texts that were written for adults." The city’s library advisory board reviewed the books after the Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church, sharply criticized the books. The board recommended Tuesday that "Heather Has Two Mommies" be moved to thejuvenile section, the WichitaFalls Times Record News reportedin today’s editions. But Ms. Hughes had the final say. She said she decided children who wanted the books could find them in the social sciences area for juveniles. The juvenile section is geared toward children in grades 3 to 7. Jeffress was out of town and not available for comment on Thursday. But earlier in the week, he promised to take the matter to the City Council if the books were placed where children wouldhave access to them. But Nancy Horvath, pastor of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Community Church, praised Ms. Hughes’ decision. Ms. Horvath is raising one child "Mayyour ~onstant love be with us, t.ord as~~t our hope tnyou."- Ps. 33:21 In God’s Love God’s love promises hope for tomorrow and peace for today. Free yourself of your burdens. Come share m the bounty of God love with us each Sunday at 10:45 am. Cbadren Are Always Welcome! Metropolitan Community Church ~623 N. Maplewood of Greater Tulsa 9ts/s~7x5 on the R, er A Bed & Breakfast P.O. 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"I think the impact will be very far reaching," said Councilman Thomas Duane, a M~ahattan Democrat who led supporters. "It is another step toward fnll equalization of benefits for non-traditional family members." The legislation, which is intended to ensure that the city treats unmarried couples the same as those who are married, has been touted as an important advance for .Gay couples.: It was crafted by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani m cooperation with Council members and Gay civil rights advocates. New York for years has been recognized for its accommodating policies toward Gay and Lesbian couples. A series of directives, some of which date to the 1980s, extended to domestic partners the rights once reserved for spouses and family members, such as visitationin city jails and hospitals, child-care leave and succession for city-supervised housing. Approved 39-7 with one abstention, the legislation would make those policies permanent by writing them into law. It would apply to heterosexual and homosextml domestic partnerships registered with the City Clerk. The mayor is expected to sign it promptly. Since the settlement of a lawsuit in 1993, the city has provided health and dental benefits to the domestic parmers of city workers. Under the bill, labor negotiations would be required to extend to employees" partners the samebenefits provided for employees" spouses, potentially opening the way for those benefits to be . expanded. But the le~slation also, would venture into new areas, like allowing domestic partners of police and other uniformed employees to be eligible for death benefits if the employee is killed in the line of duty. A domestic partner would also have the right to be buried with a partner in the city-owned Canarsie cemetery, a right now reserved for spouses. Other changes invoh’e rights to parking permits and disclosure statements filed by city employees. Councilman ,Michael Abel, a Queens Republican who voted against the bill, called it another nail in the coffin of the institution of marriage. "What you are d.oing is setting yourself up to give an economic incentive not to get married," Abel said. "It’s anti-societal to the extent that it’s an anti-mamage bill, and I still believe most New Yorkers favor marriage.’" There are about 8,700 registered domestic partners in ¯ the city, and at least 55percent are heterosexual couples, according to the mayor’s office.. Similar issues have been debated around the country, including in Philadelphia, where the City Council approved a measure to extend health and pension benefits to same-sex partners of city workers. The Council vote was preceded by an unusual demonstration on the City Hall steps, in which a group of Hasidic Jewish rabbis and rabbinical students invoked a biblical curse on legislators and officials supporting the bill l They prayed, held candles and blew into shofars, a ram’.s horn used in religious ceremonies. "Almighty God, the arrogant officials who run this city, New York,,, have declared war against you and your biblical law, said Rabbi Yehuda Levin, a vocal opponent ofGay civil rights. "Strike down the hands that are raised in support of this bill. Silence the voices that speak up in favor of this bill," he said. When asked about the protest, Duane said, "I don’t think any religious person would ever believe God would ever pinfish a person for standing for fairness and equality.‘° Arkansas Seeks to Ban Gay Foster Parents LITTLE ROCK (AP) - The ,amaerican Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas objected recently to a proposal that would prohibit Gay people from serving as foster parents. Rita Sklar, ACLU executive director in Arkansas, said in a news release that the proposal could be challenged as a violation of the right to equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. "The "qu~ties that make good parents, or good foster paren-t~,are universal." she said. "The ability to love and care for a child is not going to be determined by one’s sexual orientation. Gay men and Lesbi an~ are not anymore likely to engage in criminal, abusive or psychologi"cally damaging behavior than the rest of the population " At a meeting in Paragould. the state Child \\%llare Agency Review Board proposed prohibiting homosexuals from serving as foster parents. The board sets minimum standards for liceused childplacement agencies, foster homes and therapeutic foster homes. The board asked Assistant Attorney General Karen Wallace to research the issue and try to come np with a resolution. "I would like to require foster parents to be heterosexual, married couples" Robin Woodruff said during the meeting of the nine-member board. "Allowing single foster care.., takes away enforcement" because it opens the process to "homosexuals who say they’re single with a roommate or boarder." Ms. Wallace said state law says marriage must be between a man and a woman. "Where the difficult) comes is it’s hard to determine if someone’s a homosexual . . . and it’s real hard to regulate a person’s status," she said. "’In other words, you can regulate what someone does - not what someone is." She said the board should not "single people out, because it could be challenged constitutionally." ~ls. Woodrnff said people have "a right to behave how they want, but they don’t (necessarily) have the right to be foster parents." Ms. Wallace said one option would be to require foster pareuts to be related by blood or marriage. Such an option would allow ~ingles to remain in the picture as foster parents. Other board members agreed with the goal of preventing homosexuals from being foster parents. "I think we should never promote homosexuality in any fashion," said David V,rhatley. "I know there’s a problem getting foster parents, but in my opinion it would be devastating for a child to go into a homosexual home." But some members expressed concern about the proposal. "I don’t think we need to promote the homosexual lifestyle, but we do need to recognize the necessity for alternative settings," said Steve Dunaway. "As much as I support the board on that, I can see situations where it would be suitable" for a child to have homosexual foster parents. Canadian Province Gives Partner Benefits VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) - British Columbia will become the first province in Canada to voluntarily grant pension benefits to same-sex couples who are public employees, under legislation introduced recently. Other provinces have moved that way, but under duress. Court decisions have forced Ontario and Nova Scotia to address pension issues involving Gay and Lesbian couples. British Columbia paved the way last summer for extended pension benefits when the provincial government allowed same-sex partners to be defined as spouses. It also extended to homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexual couples on child custody and maintenance issues. The new legislation affects British Columbia’s 235,000 public employees, including government workers, municipal employees and public school teachers. "It’s very significant because Gays and Lesbians have been paying into the fund and never before have they been able to receive the benefits," said legislative member Tim Stevenson, who is Gay and who expects protests from some groups and political parties opposed to same-sex relationships. "Here you have a government, to its credit, that has decided not to fight this in the courts," echoed Lawrence Aronovitch, vice president of EGALE, see Canada, page 14. Activists Welcome Court Decision JACKSON, Miss (AP)-Mississippi AIDS activists hope a U.S. Supreme Court decision protecting HIV-infected persons against discrimination will curb intolerance of the disease’s victims. The ruling places persona living with AIDS and HIV positive individuals, even those who show no symptoms, under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The federal law bans discrimination against disabled people. Debbie Konkle-Parker, former chairwoman of the Mississippi HIV/AIDS Assembly, said. she welcomes the decision but doesn’t believe it will entirely end discrimination against AIDS/HIV- : released recently. The report provided country-by-c6un- : try statistics to back up a study released in November, which estimated that 2.3 rail- : lionpeoplediedofAIDSin 1997,up50% ¯ from 1996. About 16,000 people a day ¯ contract HIV. The latest study, by the : WorldHealth Organization andUNAIDS, : comes ahead of Sunday’s opening of the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva, ~ where 12,000 specialists and others will ~ discuss advances in HIV research. : Limited education about the virus is a major hurdle, particularly because an ef- ~ fective cure may be at least 10 years away, ~ UNAIDS DireCtor-General Peter Piot said ~ atanews conference. "Let’s be very aware AIDS is with usto stay for a very long infected persons."Generally, anydiscrimi- " time," Piot said. nalaon is not out front," she said. "They choose other reasons to discriminate. (against infected persons). "’There is opposition based onhomophobia or that folks with HIV did it to themselves. But I know there are folks throughout the state who can use this (ruling) to speak out.’" "My initial reaction is one of elation and hope," said Robert McGowan, cochair of the Mississippi HIV/AIDS Coalition, "The Supreme Court has finally recognized laws that find that people with HIV can be protected by the government. (But) I am cautiously optimistic. We must see how this is implemented.~,’, The rifling set aside a lower 6ourt decision that said dentist Randon Bragdon violated the anti-discriminationlaw when he refused to fill Sidney Abbott’s toothin his office because she carries the virus that causds acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Justices ruled that Abbott was coveredunder theADAbut ordered lower courts to reconsider whetherBragdon discriminated against her. According to the Mississippi Department of Health Services, there were 2,856 colffinned cases of AIDS and 3.461 HIV ilffections repdrted in the state in 19.97, the last year for which numbers are available. The ADA, signed by President Bush in 1990. protects the disabled against discfimination in jobs, housing and public acconunodations. Some of the law" s most visible results are aids such as wheelchair ramps at countless public places. The law says people are disabled if.they have a physical or mental impairment that "substantiallv limits one or more major life activities." Ms. Abbott’s lawyers said that if HIV-infected people did not have clear protection under the taw, many would hide their condition. McGowan says-he hopes the court’s decision will lead to more funding for HIViAIDS research and to help treat patients. "I look fonvard to seeing implementation of this at the federal and state level,’" he said. "We can, perhaps, see for the first time that we are our brothers keepers and hope that this prejudice can be eroded." Rise in AIDS Due to Lack of Awareness GENEVA (AP) Declining HIV infectxon rates in some countries are being edipsed by huge rises in others where AIDS awareness and access to new drug therapies are lacking, according to a new U.N. report. In parts of Africa, one adult in four is infectS, with the virus that causes AIDS while the figure is less than 1% in the United States and across Westem Europe, experts said in the report Access to new therapies for AIDS-related infections such as tuberculosis and diarrhea is the "overwhelming issue" for 90% of those living with the AIDS virus, the report said. Zimbabwe and Botswana, where UNAIDS estimates around one in four adults carry HIV, had the highest infection rates. The United States figure was 0.76% - 820,000 people in all. It was less than 1% across Western Europe. North Africa and the Middle East are "the great unknown," with cultural difficulties in talking about the epidemic hampering collection of statistics, UNAIDS said. Political courage to prevent the spread ofAIDS is the ke3 to narrowing the"AIDS gap," Piot said, praising HIV prevention efforts inUganda, Thailand and Senegal. The November study said 5.8 million people were ixffected x~’ith HI\’ in 1997, up from 5.3 million people the year be-. fore. Globall.v. 30.6 million live with HI\" or AIDS, two-thirds of them in snb-Saharan Africa, it said. Prices Cut on AIDS Drugs for Poor NEW YORK (AP) - Several major pharmaceutical companies have agreed to cut their prices for AIDS drugs by up to 75% to make thmn more available to pe6ple in developing parts of the world. The medication will soon be sold at a discount in Africa, Asia and South America, under a progrmn overseen by the United Nations. "If you’re charging a New York price in Uganda and not selling anything, you’re not helping anyone." said Peter Young, a G1a.xo WellcomePLC official involved in the U.N. program. Mor~ than 90% of the world’s 30.6 million people ilffected with the AIDS virus live in the developing world. Uganda and the Ivory Coast wi!l receive the first shipments of discounted drugs this week, Dr. Joseph Saba, an infectious- disase specialist with the U.N. pro~am, said Tuesday. Glaxo Wellcome will sell its combination treatment of AZT and 3TC for $200 a month or less, a 60% discount. Hoffman LaRoche Inc. will offer several drugs at reduced cost, including its protease inhibitor Invirase and medicines to treat infections that often accompany AIDS. Other companies that have committed themsdves to the price cuts include Abbott Laboratories and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Merck & Co., which makes the protease inhibitor Crixivan, will not participate. In recent years, AIDS activists have been pressuring drug makers to offer less expensive treatments. Saba said about 3,000 people will be able to receive the most advanced medidnes, like AZT, in the coming year. 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Jay Bargmann, a semor executive ofRafael Vinoly Architects, said hewould "guarantee that work on AIDS research will begin in this building 30 months from now" - the year 2001. Meanwhile, Montagnier and his staff will workin a temporary laboratory on the campus. "We are very optimistic about improving treatment by bolstering the immune system of patients and about our ultimate goal, a vaccine to prevent infection by the AIDS virus," Montagnier said. He added that it looked like a 107yearjob. In addition to combating AIDS, Montagnier has said he expected secondary benefits from the research in the form of treatments for cancer and, eventually, multiple sclerosis. Montagnier, whoseresearch has been at the Pasteur Institute in Paris,.is taking up a chair at the college endowed with $3 million by Bernard Salick, a graduate of Queens College who became a physician and then a medical entrepreneur. The new facility will be called the Salick Center for Molecular and Cellular Biology, with space for a staff of 70 and laboratories for Virology, immunology; molecular genetics and vaccine development. The building, looking out on a reflecting pool, will be crescent-shaped and mostly one story. Administration offices and exhibit and meeting space will be housed in a three-story wing at one end. New York City and state are contributing nearly $20 million to the project and the rest is being raised privately. Queens is a senior college in the City University with 18,000 students. Supplement May Stop Muscle Loss AMES, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa State University professor’s discovery of a supplement that AIDS patients can take to fight deadly muscle loss will be unveiledThursday at the World AIDS Conference in Switzerland. Steven Nissen, a professor of animal science and chief executive officer of MTIBiotech Inc. in Ames, invented Juven, a dietary supplement that Nissen says helps AIDS patients gain muscle mass. Juven’s main ingredient is HMB (betahydroxy- beta-methylbutyrate), which is producedin small amounts in the body as it breaks down amino acids. The professor discovered the substance while doing research at Iowa State in 1988, and he turned it into a supplement used mainly by athletes. However, his hopes for its benefits to AIDS patients weren’t confirmed until April, when he received final results of a study done in New York. "Every time you go into this, you hope for the best, but this time it actually worked," Nissen said. Juven, a powder that when mixed with water tastes like Tang, is created in a laboratory using a chemical reaction. During the eight-week study, AIDS patients who had been wasting away from the disease gained an average of 6 1/2 pounds,including 51/2 pounds ofmuscle. The group of AIDS patients who took a placebo lost an average of 1 1/2 pounds of muscle during the study. One way AIDS devastates its victims is by accderadng muscle breakdown to the point where people do not have enough energy for day-to-day activities. Muscle loss can be deadly when it leaves so litde strength that victims can’t even cough, and they develop pneumonia. While HMBhas been a popular musclebooster with bodybuilders and athletes for several years, Nissen said he is glad attention to it is being gained in the medical field. In the fall, he will begin researching how Juven can help victims suffering muscle loss because of cancer, muscular dystrophy, Lou Gehrig’s disease, trauma and aging. One cancer victim has already benefited from Juven. "My mother was the first gmnea pig," Nissen said. When his mother, Audrey Nissen, was diagnosed with a severe form of ovarian cancer in April 1997, she agreed to use Juven. Throughout two exploratory surgeries and chemotherapy, she did not lose any weight and is now in r~mission,he Said. Before Juven, AIDS patients could use anabolic steroids or human growth hormone as muscle-loss therapies, both of which have proven side effects. Because Juven is composed of amino acids found in the hmnan body, it does not cause side effects, Nissen said. To prove it, study coordinators conducted repeated blood tests and had padents fill out questionnaires and under go psychological tests. Mother-Child HIV Transfer Reduced CHICAGO (AP) - French researchers say using Caesarean sections during birth, coupled with the HIV-fighting drug AZT, : could nearly eliminate transmission ofthe ¯ AIDS virus from mother .to child. As " recently as 1994, a baby born to an HIV- " posit.ire mother had about a 25% chance ° of contracting the virus. AZT alone ¯ dropped that rate to less than 8%. Two " new studies show the rate of mother-to- ° infant transmission plummeting to 2% ." and, in some cases, lower than 1% when ¯ the C-section is used with AZT therapy. : "The goal was to have the rate of trans- " mission below 1% by the end of the century, and I think we’re really getting there,’" ¯ said Dr. Laurent Mandelbrot, leader of a ° French study that will be published in the " HIV/AIDS-themed edition of the Journal ¯ of the American Medical Association. ¯ The study, which included 2,834 " mother-infant pairs in France, found that ¯ of the 1,917 mothers who did not receive ¯ AZT, 17.2% transmitted HIV to their in- ¯ fants. Of those who received AZT, " the%age dropped to 6.6%. Of the mothers ¯ who took AZT before delivery and also elected to have a C-section, only 0.8% transmitted the AIDS virus. A study-by the Nadonal Institute of Child Health and Human Developmentm Washington combined the findings of that study with several others in Europe and North America and found that C-sections reduced transmission by half and, when combined with AZT treatment, cut transmission to just 2%. Dr. John Flaherty, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago, also has seen a drmnatic drop in motherto- infant transmissions among his patients - in large part because of treatment wilh "cocktails" ofAIDS drugs, includingAZT. But he wonders if it’s worth the risk of complications and even death for the mothers to add C-sections to the process. ’Tin kind of on the fence on it," Flahertv said. "You have to ask, "Is it worth it to d~ C-sections on 100 women to prevent one transmission?’ " Dr. Patricia Garcia, an assistant professor ofobstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University, is even more wary of routinely using an invasive procedure. "There isn’t a woman alive who wouldn’t do anything to reduce the risk of transmission to her child," Garcia said of pregnaut women who are HIV-positive. "’But until we sit down and so carefully go over thc implications of this, I’m very concerned about implementing it." Prevention Effort Targets Blacks BOSTON (AP) - In response to a growing AIDS problem among blacks statewide, the Department of Public Health launched an AIDS treatment and prevention. campaign targeting blacks. While new cases ofHIV/AIDS are down about 50% from last 3’ear, Commissioner of Public Health Howard Koh said the state has fallen short in reaching the black conununity. Blacks make up 5% of the state’s population but comprise23% of HIV cases in the state. They also make up 32% of those cases reported in the last year, according to a recently released report. The state will begin an advertising cmnpaigu in four cides with the highest rates of AIDS cases among blacks: Boston, Springfield, Brockton and Cambridge. . Ads depicting black campaigu volunteers and emblazoned with the slogan - Free Testing. Free Treatment. Free Yourself. - will appear on commuter buses and trains and conventional posters. Theposters also advertise a special, toll-free hotline, 1- 888-I-ACT-NOW. Callers of the toll-free hofline will be directed to free testing and treatment programs. Workers will also distribute 10,000 wallet information cards across the state. "The bottom line is that we want to promote a message of hope, that this ~s a treatable epidemic and a preventable epidemic," said Koh. The launch of the campaign was timed to correspond with National HIV Testing Day in which testing centers across the state will make a special push for people to find out if they are carrying the virus that causes AIDS. The Supreme Court this week rnled people with HIV are protected from discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. "There’ s never been a better time to be tested," said Larry Kessler of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. "The sooner your know you are infected, the better your chances for staying healthy.’" by James Christjohn TFN Entertainment Writer To those who skipped the picnic fearing a fierce confrontation with a mob of ravenous homophobes, well. fear caused you to miss out onlotsa fun. About 12 anti-gay protesters appeared (victims of inbreed- "o lng one and all), and were kept at bay way across the field by about as many mounted police. OK, now that’s fodder for obvious jokes, but I’ve promised to be good. And I alIL So, back to the subject... I almost felt sorry for the poorfools. They tried to broadcast hatefulness through their bullhorn, but the music drowned them out. What a pathetic way to spend your life. Council Oak Men’s Chorale performed to standing ovations at both their premier concert at A!l Sonl’~ Unitari~an - standing room only, and also to a warm,response at the National Organization for’Women’ s annual awards banquet. A fall concert is in the planning stages, in which choreography was promised (yay!). The Chorale performed as part of Follies Revue, June. 25-28, at the PAC. The variet5~ show benefit~ various AIDS charities° as most of "¢ot~ know. I am in a show to be performed in August, entitled "Tight Quarters". No, not hind quarters, "’Tight Qnarters", to be performed August 27-30, 8pro, at the Performing Arts Center. It is an old fashioned screwball comedy - melodrama - musical in which I get to play (fanfare, please) a villain. Yes, a good, old fashioned, scenery chewing villain. And to those of you mhttefing "’surprise, surprise’", I will get you, my pretties, and vour little... ~vhatevers, too. It should be a blast. Oh yes, and for the audience, too. There are ~everal moments in the show of relevance Tulsa Family News Entertainment Writer. James Christjohn. to our conm~unity, to detail them would be to rnin the ending, but trust me, this is amust-see! The performances benefit the "MakeAWish" Foundation, which grants terminally ill children their dream wishes. For yours trnly, it marks a remm to the stage after a ten year absence. And as my friends have noted in various ~vavs (editor’s note: notal~vays in nice ways ;-), "You can take the actor oul of the theatre, but you can’ t take .the theat]e out of the actor". We just had our first run-through, and the show will be good. It is a new musical, and the producer & director, Hilary Genga -(a Tulsa native) & Teresa Bringle,respectively, hope to take it to New York eventually. The cast includes, in no particular order: Kristina Van Dyne, James Chase, James ChriStjohn (told ya 1 was in it!), Cvndi Caldwell (last seen in TU’s excelle~t "Colnpany’" playing the Elaine Stritch role), Kevin Re3aaard, Kailee Mclntosh, Simon Plohocky (last seen in TU’s "Falsettoland’" as Marvin’s son), Scott Gaffen (also a TU alumni and an excellent actor), Brad Gillespie, Martha Barth, David Hubbard, Je~my Buchanan, mad Adeena Nayfa. For ticket information, call the Performing Arts Center Box Office at 596-’7111. Stevie Nicks performs in Dallas July 17. This ~s a must see, since she will be performing material never before heard in concert. Many selections won’t be heard live .again, most likely. Not 3our typical "greatest hits" show, the reviews I’ve seen have been all raves, and the performances have been consistently praised. The "En- " chanted" tour tix are available through Ticketmaster. for up to date info, and to see that someone actually likes her as much if not more than I do, check out www.mcksfix.com. Tulsa Morgan Horse Show .Extravaganza TULSA -Organizers of Tulsa Morgan " National Anthem will be sung by lomn HorseShow Extravaganzahave dedicated tiffs year’s event to the memory of Gary Wayne Walters;a greathorseman and one of the founders of the event. Waiters was 46 years old. ,~ portion of the profits from the event as well as all the gate admission ($3) will benefit Tulsa C/A.R.E.S., formerly "known as the HIV Resource Consortium. The Show, which is Oklahoma’s only all Morgan Breed event and a qualifier for October’s Morgan Grand National and World Show, will be held from July 30 to August 2 at the Bedrock Arena, 1901 West 171 st Street South in Glenpool. The arena is at the corner of 171st Street and 1- 75 (the Beeline) and is visible from 1-75. Sessions will be held at 7pro onJuly 30, 8:30am & 7pro on July 31 & August 1, and at 9am & lpm on August 2. The Ric Poston, Tulsa Morgan Horse Show Gwinup of Evans Training Stables from Sapulpa, and Debbie SeyboldofEspanola, New Mexico will serve as judge. Two pro’ties will occur during the extravaganza. TRIAD Morgan Farm of Jenks will host the first after the In-Hand Championships on Thursday evening. The second will take placeon Sat. evening after the last class. The "progressive" dinner will also feature a dance andlight ¯ show by "Thunder-N-Lightening". ~ The extravaganza will also have a silent ~ auction with items totalling $10,000 in ¯ value. Items include stallion breedings, : 0figinai paintings, dinners, anautographed ." guitarfromDiamondReo, andmuchmore- ¯ Distinguished Oklahoma artists, Dana : & Lisa Tiger also will have booths at the ] show as will other artists andvendors. For ] more information, call 299-6442. Tulsa Morgan Horse Show -Extravaganza July 30 - August 2 Bedro.ck Arena 1901 West 171st Street South Oklahoma’s only all Morgan Breed Show Qualifier for the upcoming October Morgan Grand National and World Show $3 admission & portion of profits benefits Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. (formerly the HIV Resource Consortium of Tulsa) 17us adverti~emerd dtxaated by Tulsa Fatmly Ne~s. PHILBROOK Visit Tuesday- Sunday Adults $5, Seniors & Students $3 749.794-1 Timothy W. Attorney at Daniel Law An Attorney who will fight for justice & equality for Gays & Lesbians Domestic Partnership Planning, Personal Injury, Criminal Law & Bankrul)lC~" 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Drtlmright, Oklaholna weekend and e\’ening appoinlmenls are available. 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King (east of No Denver), Info: 582-3088 University of Tulsa BisexuaL/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pro. Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 ~" MONDAYS Council Oak Men’s Chorale, 7 pm, leave message for more information: 743-4297 HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anon.vmous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless theLord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pro, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Mon each too. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Juue 8th. Pic~tic at Wlfiteside Park, 41st & Pittsbttrgh Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich P~k, -71 st & Riverside. 7pro, call Shawn 491-2036. Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 7 6, noon, United \Va) Bldg. 1430 S. Bonlder ~" TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 7 14. noom [~fited Way Btdg. 1430 S. Boulder HIV+ Suppor~ Group, HIV Rbsource Consortium l:30pm 3507 t’i..-\dmiral (east of Harvard), hffo: Wanda ~’ 834-4194 :~lulticnltural AIDS Coalition. 7 7, 12:30pro, Urban League. 240 East Apache Rainbow Business Guild. Business & prof. networking gronp, Info: 743-4297 Prin~eTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues each mo.. 7pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays. 6 pro, Pride Center. 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 ~ WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Family Of Faith MCC Praise Prayer - 6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210e So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. m,- THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anou3mous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Supportsocial group for 18-24"s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 From Our Hearts to Our House, 1 lpm, 3rd Thursieach mo. l.ola’s, 2630 E. 15th Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIViAIDS, Info: 834-4194 (~" FRIDAYS Safe Haven, Young Adults Social Group, I st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th m,’. SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope,IT03 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. I~’ OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978 OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Orgamzation. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157, Short rides, 6:30pm,.Long rides, 7am. Meet at Zeigler Park, 3903 West 4th. Pride Rides from the Pride Center, 3749 S. Peoria. Write for dates. lfyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call orfax 583-4615. Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library Almost thirty years afterher death, Judy Garland’ s popularity continues: Formany years, there has been much interest in the relationship between Gay men and Judy Garland as a performer. This book, writtenbyJudy’ s middle child, Loma Luft, addresses the mother and human being as wall as the performer, and also offers some insight into the life of Lorna’ s sister, Liza M_innelli - and juicy gossip it is! By the time Luft was born in 1952, Judy Garland had finished her career as a movie star after being firedbyMGM. Her insulated world had vanished andherpersonal andprofessional life was beginning a frantic roller coaster ride from which she would not survive. Luft fondly remember~ her early years as relatively stable and it was only after Judy divorced Lorna’s father, Sid Ll~ts comments regarding the Gay community are troubling. While insisting that she has many Gay friends and she supports them unconditionally, she also blasts those Gay guys who tried to help her mother in her later years. Luft believes, not that these guys were helping and hermother’ s memoryinto apositive thing, and feels that when she hears Judy’s recordings, she is being watched over by a guardian angel As with many children from dysfunctional families, Luft has had her share of broken relationships, and became addicted to recreational drugs, in a vain effort to shed her sweet, innocent image. She seems inexplicably proud of turning her sister on to cocame. Now happily married with children, Luft seems comfortable with her life, past mid present, and she lambastes Lizafor continuing, in Lorna" s eyes, down the path of destruction. Luffs comments regarding the Gay community are troubling. "While insisting that she has man)’ Gay friends and she supports them unconditionall3’, she also blasts those Gay guys who tried to hdp her mother in her later years. Luft believes, not that these guys Luft, that Judy’s inevitable eneouraglng Judy decline would impact Lorna, when nobody else Liza and brother Joe. Luft is not bitter about her mother’s erratic behavior of the time. She understands that when a person is severely addicted tomind~numbingmedication, they donotalways have the ability to control their actions. At about age twelve, would, but that their sup_port was harmful and their enthusiastic devotion was. and is, unhealthy. Lorna and Judy, in effect, changed roles. Lorna began taking care ofhermother and learned how to manipulate her mother’s environment so that Judy could continue to work. Finally, the stress and sleepless nights caught up with her, and Lorna had a nervous breakdown. She went to live with her father, never to see her mother alive again. Judy’s death, in 1969, was; of course, a major turning point in Luft’s personal and professional life. The second half of the book details her efforts to emerge from her mother and sister’s shadows, with mixed success. She has managed to turn from infected mothers to their babies during birth. Already,researchers have shown that brief treatment with the drug AZT cuts this hazard in half, while longer use coupled with a Caesarean delivery virtually eliminates the risk. Despite such progress, "there is news so devastating that few in this roomcouldhave predicted or imagined it a decade ago," Dr. Peter Plot, head of the United Nations AIDS program, told the opening session. His organization estimates that 12 million people around the world have already died of AIDS, and another 31 million are alive but infected. Each day, 16,000 more people catch the virus. Since the last international AIDS conference in Vancouver two years ago, 10 million people have contracted HIV, said Piot. "That represents a collective failure of the world." The opening ceremonies were briefly disruptedby chanting, horn-blowing demonstrators protesting the high cost ofAIDS were helping and encouraging Judy when nobody else would, but that their s~pport was harmful and their enthusiastic devotion was, and is, unhealthy. Of course; as a child, she welcomed these guys because they were often the only ones who could get Judy b~ck on track, and Lorna cotmted on some of Judy’s ¯ Gay fans for information When writing ¯ this book. ; Putting aside this hypocrisy mid the ." poor editing job, Me mid .My Shadows is an entertaining and lively bio~aphy, full ; of fun name-dropping. Luft has survived. ¯ a stressful early life, not unlike many other kids, except that her fanfily turmo;l was played Out in public. This is a fun and ." amusing book, mid provides a first person account of the tribulations of one of our : favorite show biz families. ~ Check for .Me and My Shadows at your local branch library, or ~call the Readers Services at 596-7966. ¯ I ¯ drugs. A year’s treatment with protease : inhibitors and other drugs can cost S 10,000 or more. More than 90% of HIV-infected ¯ people live in parts of the world where ¯° these medicines are too expensive to be widely used. "We forget that of the millions ofpeople living withAIDS,most are ¯ condemned to death because of the ab- ." sence of care," said Peter Lamptey of ¯ FamilyHealth International, an anti-AIDS group in Research Triangle Park, N.C. ." In the United States, Europe and other ." wealthy parts of the world, the epidemic ¯ has leveled off or is declining. After ex- ¯ plosive spread, it is also beginning to ¯ abate in some poorer areas, such as ¯ Uganda, Senegal, Brazil andparts ofTan- ¯ zama. However, Plot noted that"this epi- ¯ demic is truly out of control in many ¯ COuntn’es," i"ncludi"ng some parts ofAsi"a, ¯ Africa and Eastern Europe. One-quarter ¯ of the population is infected in Botswana ¯ and Zimbabwe. Four million people have ¯ HIV in India and 3 million in So. Africa. ¯ Strategies that helped tame AIDS in ¯ some places see HIV, page 13 WITH OUR NEW NOKIA 6190 YOU GET A PHONEWITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES. ¯ Digital & Cellular Roaming ¯ Oklahoma & Kansas Toll-Free ¯ Caller ID ¯ C~II Waiting ¯ Built-ln Pa~ng ¯ Detailed Billing ¯ Eirst Incoming Minute Free VoiceStream Stores The Plaza 8112-F South Lewis Ave. 298-2747 The Promenade Mall 4107 South Yale Ave. 663-5404 Woodland Hdls Mall 702 South Memorial Rd. 252-5850 Corporate Sales 523-8600 W~’W.VOICESTREAM.COM ~el ~.~ I~ lib. OurAver Plan. ) up; they go down - depending on the highs and 10ws of each month’s weather. And that can upset almost any household budget. 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Even though we know that ¯ you can spare it. Masking off the window it’swhat’sinsidethatcounts, makes the job easier and let’s face it: people are so First, hose crisper looking, and you judgmental about the supertidal. Your neighbors and potential dates may be no different, so the DIYD genfly suggests sprucing up your home’s image with a paint job. It’ s amazing what a little eyewash will do, and it has the added benefit of protecting your home from the ravages of time and weather. Yes, you can be as one w_ith your house - but the paint washes off eventually. As with all projects, there is quite a bit of tedious prep work. to do before you can be rewarded with the exciting new look 3,our house ~vill be wearing, but it is time well spent. Why be superficial with anything? First, hose down the house to get any loose paint, and dirt off. The DIYD has strong opinions about power washing and frowns upon it; yes, it is like a huge Water Pic and takes less time than scraping, but it ,also has a tendency to work moisture into the cracks and joints, which ?-ou will seal in with paint. It is a recipe for disaster, and you can leave those to She’lley Winters. There is a time and a place for wetness, but honey, it’s not in 3our woodwork! Put tarps or drop cloths over any shrubs or plants you want to protect and tie back. any that wil! get in ?’our way. Scrape any loose or bubbled paint. Alternatives to scraping are a hot air gtm, which is essentially a hair drier on Viagra; the DIYD urges you to be cautious, since the hot air will char mad bubble paint and also ?our wood, if you don’t keep moving witl~ it. This tool is ~eat for removing 01d caulk as well, and costs about $25. There is also an abrasive wheel that fits on a drill that is made of a thick ScotchBrite pad impregnated with aluminum oxide abrasive. 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"This agreement... hopefully, will safeguard many parents’ dreams and protect their kids?’ by Esther Rothblum " part of the message too; it’s not filler," When Dee Mosbacher completed the ¯ explained Sylvia"because even when we film STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART " play the film to people who are resistant to (for which she received an Oscar no|ninarion) she was told that a film about Lesbians and their patents needed to be more communityspecific. The Washlngton Sisters, African American Lesbian musicians who appear in the film with their mother, told Dee that Lesbians faced different issues around homophobia in the African American church-going community. Dee decided to collaborate with Sylvia Rhue and Frances Reid to co-produce a film about Black churches and the Gay/Lesbian ex- Professor Esther Rothblum perience. Sylvia Rhue came up with the new film’s rifle, ALLGOD’ S CHILDREN, a phrase that was used so often by the people they interviewed. As Jesse Jackson says in the film, "In the larger civil rights movement, we must see all people as God’ s children." The Reverend Dr. Cecil Murray of the First AMC ChU-rch~-. the oldest Black: church in Los Angeles de= dares: ’q’he church exists for all God’ s children." ALL GOD’S CHILDREN is a 25-minute documentary that explores issues of the African American church and congregants in that church about homosexuality and homophobia. As Sylvia told me: "It was important to get church leaders that our parents respect, the seniorpastors. Marjorie Hill, Ph.D. from the National Boad Unity Fellowship Church says in the film: "Gay and Lesbian African Americans are intertwined with our community, and we need the church." ALL GOD’S CHILDREN also includes wellknown people from the Black community such as Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Linda Villarosa, Sylvia Rhue cahae up with the new film’s title, ALL GOD’S CHILDREN, a phrase that was use,t so o~en by the people they interviewed. As Jesse Jackson says in the film, "In the larger elvil rights movement, we must see all people as God’s children." The Reverend Dr. Ceell Murray of the First AMC Church, the oldest Black church in Los Afigeles declares: "The church exists for all God’s children." Executive Editor of Essence Magazine, and Cornel West, Professor of Harvard Divinity School. U.S. Senator Carol Mosely-Brown states: "... our diversity is after all a strength and not a weakness." The film also includes Black families discussing having a Gay or Lesbian family member. Finally, music plays an important role in the film as background and foreground. Lavender Light: The Black and People ofAll Colors Lesbian and Gay Gospel Choir performs gospel music with which Black churchgoers are so familar. "You have to understand that music is the message they can’t resist the music." The daree co-producers all have prior film-making experience (Frances Reid. in fact, was nominated for two Oscars in one year) but that’ s where the similarities end. Deeis a psychiatrist. Sylvia has a Ph.D. in human sexuality and is also a Bible scholar!student. She says: "Western society has kept sex and reli~on very separate and that shouldn’t be." Frances xs a professional film- maker. The co-producers are now involved in getting the film shown across the country. "’The bottom line is that Lesbian, G~, and Bisexual people should see the film and feel better about themselves, too see people, including leaders in the Black community, support them as heterosexual allies, and also to see the pioneers of the current Black Gay movement on fihn" said S.ylvia "’This is the first txme that Black Gay and heterosexual people have goue on record to this degree for an absolutely pro- Gay stance. Since the Bla’ck church is the strongest iusrituriou in the Black community, to have the ministers talk xs very unportant." The film includes interviews with six Black ministers. Dee explained "We really try to use the film as an orgamzing tool. Ourefforts have been trying to get the film to as many people as possible who would take it to their community-- whether the church community, the educational commtmity, PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), etc. We’ ve tried to act creatively and gotten a number of people to subsidize copies of the videos and accompanying materials so that the film can get out to communities." They wrote ajoint letter with Phil Wilson, the founder of the Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum, to get the film out. Sylvia now travels all over the country to show the film. As she says: "The project itself, I think, was divinely led." The film ALL GOD’ S CHILDREN can be obtained from WomanVision Productions. 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(501) 253-6807, Closed Wednesday 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 Record b Listen to Ads FREE! AT PHILBROOK An adventure you won’t forget! 748.5374 Lamont Lindstrom : -much of the world, including large parts bYI went to a party the other day at the of rural Utah, a man may have more than house of two new friends. Recently come " one wife. to Tulsa, these witty and cheerful women ¯ In other places, such as the Himalayan had already made a comfortable home " highlands, three or four men (often brothtogether, complete with soulers) will together be married to one woman. Nuer women M-eyedbeagle. Twowomen and a dog - it looked like a mamage to me. Despite such personal arrangements made between lovers, "’real" mamage is a legal contract conferred by the state. The right to marry has emerged as a key demand of man3’ Gay and Lesbian political activists. Marriage is also the place where many straight peop!e draw the line. Real mamage, so they say, requires a man and a wbman. Dogs are optional. This growing dispute over marriage, many have noted, reflects the noisy rhetoric of I went to a party the other day at the house of two new friends. Recently come to Tulsa. these witty and cheerful women had already made a eomfortab]te home to~ether, complete with soulful-eyed hea~le. Two women and a do~ - it looked llke a marrla~e to me. "family values" that has dominated much of Ameflcan politics for the last two decades. One can draw easy connections between an mcreasing instability’ of .the American nuclear fmnily mid pamcky public evocatio.ns of family values. Nowadays, half of married people get themselves unmarri ed. [but] ¯ ¯ ¯ marrla~e is also the place where man)’ straio_~’ht PeoPle draw the llne. Real marrla~e, so they say, requires rhis recent collapse of a man and a wonaan. American marriage ~s Do~s are optional. nobodv’s fault in particular. Rather’, it is an effect of the ekpanding labor mad other demands of our .post_industrial_e~gg/]~,s~.z.te.m-tha~.~ucks hp f&fi51’e’,XG~i~’~’r-~. Perplexed and worfled, those of ns who find it harder mad harder anymore to stay roamed respond emotionally to fearful" media-hyped stories of abt~sed and abandoned children, and to blustery Sunday sermons about Adam and Eve’, not Adam and Steve. Clearly, it’s already too late to save much of American mamage (as this existed up to the 1970s) even if all the rifty states outlaw tmions between homosexuals And one might ask those Gay activists who are struggling to gain the right to marry (and the legal and economic benefits and respectability marriage offers) to also prepare us for the divorces that are sure to follow. At least my ex-boyfriend hasn’t cost me any alimony - unlike my. mercenary ex-wife who spends my salary in Honolulu. As human societies go, divorce, rate.s in United States are recently creeping into the upper range. Still, in some societies, almost everyone marries and divorces at least once and a 100% divorce rate in no way threatens the general social fabric. Anthropologists call the marital pattern now emerging in the US "serial po- ¯ lygamy." Most of us will have more than ; one spouse during, our lifetimes, just not all at the same ume. Why even Frank " Sinatra, that all-around American guy, ¯ good buddy of Jane and Nancy and Ron, had made i’t to wife number four. When I took my first anthropology " course in 1971, my professor impressed ] on me the difficulty in coming up with a ¯ umversal definition of marriage. The " multiple and complicated ways that hu- " roans around the world unite themselves ] are exceedingly difficult to encapsulate ¯ within a single label like "marriage." In " (of the southern Sudan) sometimes are married to dead men. Their children (go figure how!.) become the legal offspring of this ghost. The Nayar of Kerala, southwestern India, were famously difficult for anthropologists trying to classify human marriage. Nayar women do go fiarough a ritual umon with a man. They might never sleep with him, though. Instead, they remmn in their mother’ s home merrily having sex and children with whomever they please. The term "marriage". accurately describes various sorts of gay or lesbian relationships in societies around the globe. Some Nucr woman, by exchanging cattle, marry another younger woman. Her chil- ~tren are socially recognized as the children of the female "husband" who provided the bovine bride wealth. The glossary of that 19"71 anthropology text, politicall3 CO~Xect qvant la lettre, defined mamage m a way that omitted our AdmniEg’e presumptions. uman marriage is "tan. ix~tstimtiorta~ized . form of relatmnship m which sexum re~ - tionships and parentage legitimately take place." This definition would cover my Tulsa friends, except for the fact that their umonis illegitimate as defined by State of Oklahoma law. 11acre are other sources of legitimacy beyond the state, though. My two new friends, and anyone else who wants to be joined, can establish a "domestic partnership" recognized by increasing nmnbers of communities and compani,e,s, and tl}.ey may arrange for themselves a holy umon ceremony," offered by various churches, temples, and other religious groups. This begs the question why Gays and Lesbians aredemanding state-legitim!."zed marriage just at the point in American history when straight marriage is in such deep hot water (we might call it). Wall, there’ s respect, of course. And there’s the kids. You wouldn’t want that innocent beagle to be illegitimate, would you? have included government-sponsored safe-sex campaigns, an increased availability of condoms and better treatment for other sexually transmitted disease: Many experts believe that developmg an AIDS vaccine i.s key to controlh.’ng the epidemic. Thefirst large-scale testtng of a possible vaccine began last week. The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a nonprofit group, announced a plan to try to focus spending of betweenS350 million and $500 millibnonvaccine development over the next nine years. The group said Microsoft founder Bill Gates had contributed $1.5 million to its effort. the vehement, negative reaction of my very straight but very cool next neighbor is probably typical. Whether or not he thinks being Gay is sinful, he rejects the notion of a God that hates like Phelps promotes. It also probably helped that Phelps also intended to picket a number of Tulsa’s most established churches. One does. wonderhow he came up with his list ofchurches though. Although Triztity mad St. John Episcopal are mostly Gay-friendly, All Souls Unitarian is very, and First Lutheran is mostly neutral but ironically, First Methodist is known as one of the ~nost homophobic mainline congregations m Tulsa. But then this was the man who x~-as going to picket Oral Roberts University because Richard Roberts has had a di’- vorce. Actually, Roberts, like a certain former Oklahoma US senator, seems to be dogged by the most curious allegations about their lives when out of state. Maybe it’s just as wall that Phelps hadn’t heard those yet or he’d be in Palm Springs and Norman next. Regardless, I encourage all to thank Steve Horn, Rick Martin, Greg Gatewood and the other volunteers who put our Pride events together. It’s a lot of hard work and they deserve our recognition. (Equality for Gays and-Lesbians Everywhere). The British Columbia move and recent courtrulings are positive changes for samesex couples, he said, because private employers and Ottawa will no longer be able to use courts to deny pension benefits. "The B.C. government will be a strong example for other employers in the province," Aronovitch said. A spokesmanfor afamily support organization saidhe wasn’t as concerned about pensionbenefits as the government’s definition of a spouse and family. "We obviously have a government here that really desires to be seen to be out in front of .everybody in terms of redefining spouse, marriage and family," said John Sclater, spokesman for Focus on the Family Canada. "’.. LWe think there’s something rooted in the biology and dynamic of a heterosexual couple. We have to uphold the ideal that most people say works best." Classifieds - how to work them: First 30 words are $10. Each additional word is 25 cents. 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Johnny Lee Clary, best known as an cxKlansman and for testifying agaimt former debutant and one time neo Nazi Carol Howe, is orgaaizJrtg a protest of Ttdsa’s annual Gay Pride Picnic and March scheduled to be at Veterans’ park 18th & Boulder on June 20th from 1 l:30am to 5pm. Clary. apparently has invited the Rex’ Fred Phelps of Topeka to joha him. Clary has a telephone hofline,49~0004, on which he defends Demos Mahon, white suprermdst and ulso, the FBI suspect accused of bombing abortion providers and an Adan~a HIV Chief Promises to Fast.track Refunding TULSA - E-mall is flying and protest meetings are being planned of the complete shut-off of all fund ing for HIV/AIDS prevention th Northeastern Oklahoma. And the bad guy s are said to be the H 1 \’~ STI) Programs Lose Funding Heahh (OSDIt), But arc they? 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Not all are Gay-owned but allare Gay-friendly. *Council Oak Men’ s Chorale, rehearsals on Monday~, 743-4297 �A- FUTURE TO. CELEBRATE by Kerry Lobel Recently, my partner Mary and Ihad dinner with Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. Both Del and I share the sign of Taurus. Each year, I mark-my birthday by recalling how long Phyllis and Del have been palmers. They have been together the entire 45 years I’ve been alive. I’ve known them for more than 25 years. And at two key points in my life, they provided the tools I needed to create a life. As a young woman of 19, their book "LesbiaWWoman" changed my life. Tired of digging in scientific and religious journals that described homosexuals as sick or sinner, the publication of their book in 1972 was a breath of fresh air. By then they had been partners for almost twenty years, and had traveled many Lesbian roads. Their book gave me the hope that I could have a life, connected with other .Lesbians. And, they taughtme that along with my sisters, I should not expect only tolerance, but rather demand liberation. Their lives have been framed by many movements, chief among them, the’ feminist movement. They understood early on thatby making coalitions for socialjustice, we would not only bring our Lesbian selves forward; but the re.st of society as a whole. And they’ve been unafraid to tackle the tough issues. Their book "Battered .Wives" changed the ways in which our country addressed woman abuse. When I edited"Naming. the Violence: .Speaking Out About Les~ bianBattering" Del was quick to offer .her ~adv.ice and support. While some were afraid to talk about abuse in our .~ommunity, she knew that our commu~ nity could only be strengthened bythis honest discussion.i ¯ Just as Phyllis and Del have helped us navigate our 20s, 30s,40s, 50s, and 60s, they are also helping lead us through our issues as old Gay men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgendered people. They served as participants in the White House Conferenc,. on Aging and led workshops at a recent SAGE conference on aging issues. When NGLTF was challenged on issues related to ageism, Deland Phyllis, as well as Shevy Healey and Ruth Silver from Old Lesbians Organized for Change, trained our staff and demanded more visibility at NGLTF’s Creating Change confer- A TFN Update The Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma The Hon. Scott Adki~s" Siam Capitol BuiklLng 2300 N. Li~.ol~ Blvd. Oklahoma City 73105 ¯ : :. ¯ ¯ HOLJSe O~ Eauly Alcxaad¢: Shinny. The Eptseopal Diocese of ~4 ~. Rob~son O~ Ci~, OK 73102 ~ MI tihutle~,: Thank you for your let~e.r resa~dmtl Senate Hills 1261 m~d 1394 arac~&ncnL~ rchuin~ to horaos~tmls, ence. A recent stop of our families tour in Providence, Rhode Island, reminded us that no discussion of family issues is complete without the recognition that our Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and transgendered family is comprised of individuals from each generation. Issues related to schools, parenting, and children are only one part of our life cycle. Issues related to Medicaid, social security, healthcare and social services are another. As our colleagues at SAGE remind us, in the world’s eye, the GLBT eommunity appears to lack a family of all ages, and in the imagination ofmany of us, there is no furore beyond age 40. Seniors are nearly invisible in the GLBT community, shunned to the detriment of us all. In our work, as diligently as we work for the lives and well-being of young people we must addres s.the needs of seniors. We must challenge bias in the healthcare system, see Lobel, page 14 by Tom Neal, publisher & editor Usually I write a column about how ¯ this newspaper is doing and where we ¯ think we’re going at the end of the year ¯ to coincide with the anniversary of our ¯ first issue. However, we’ve recently ¯ had some changes about which we’d ¯ like to make you aware. ¯ We have had some.changes in writers. We’re delighted to have added my ¯ friend Mary Schepers, our Do-It- Your" self Dyke, and Esther Rothblum who ¯ writes Dyke Psyche from her New En¯ gland base.-TFN has always tried to be. a newspaper for all parts of our very, ¯ very diverse community, from our self" appointed A-list to truckers and queer ¯ biker-dudes, from drag queens to dykes, and from closeted to screamingly out ¯ an inherendy challenging task. We’re ¯ delighted that these two writers are providing a "dyke" sensibility, though I believe you don’t have to be a Lesbian ¯ to enjoy or be enlightened by their work ; We sad to have lost, we hope Just temporarily, our entertainment writer, ¯ Jim Christjohn. Many of you will know ¯ that Jim & I were spouses (partners-in: life, husbands?- language continues to fail us) for nearly six years. Jim is ¯ concentrating on making a living and ¯ finishing his education, and as he puts ¯ it, has neither the time norinclination to : write at this time. His work will be ¯ missed. TFN will try to contume to ; provide good entertainment coverage though likely not nearly with the same ¯ wit - or with the regular Stevie Nicks/ Fleetwood Mac updates. fltis l~e wdl ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~si~ of ~¢ btll where we Sta~ law pn)/~b=l~ I~r$on~ who have ~ onnoted ofc~ m~ ~m ~m 1394 i* to e~cnd ~at proh~bi~on to suppo~ personnel ~d to ~ ~pJ~ of p,~va~ ~mu~rs wot~ng ~ ~1 pto~ in ~t eITO~ to ~ tmponam p~eccs of legislation. Sending a ball to ourt*came i~ tl~ I~il. wW to floor. Tkt~ mncat~hnc~t wotdd swt b~ this ~bcm has caused for ¯ producbve ses;m~nl of our Saw.rely0 On a personal and business note, I’ve written before th,at publishing.a smal! community newspaper like TFN:i~:a labor of love - that you can make a living but only if you’re willing to live ¯ very, very modestly. This has been true with this newspa~l~,,, even thoug_h,,it has :- always operated in the bla~k . We ¯ understand .that several of our out-of¯ town competitors might not be able to ¯ claim even as much. But even living ¯ very, very modesdy is not always ¯ enough and as I’ve suggested in thepast ¯ that I might do, I’ve gone to work part" time for a downtown home improve" ment center (once in retail, always in ¯ retail?). Since my avocation is garden: ing~ I asked for and am working in the ~ garden section - so please stop by and ¯ see me there! ~ However, lest anyone be concerned, : we intend to continue publishing Tulsa i Family News and providing our com¯ munity with quality newscoverage. We’re proud that the serious news for" mat which we introduced to Oklahoma _" has been imitated by The Gayly Okla.¯ homan and by The Community News Voice as was our introduction of main" stream distribution locations. Before : we started, you could finda community ¯ newspaper only in about 7 dubs and 4 ~ "bookstores". Today, Tulsa Family ¯ Newsis foundinmore than751ocations ¯" in Tulsa alone- from City Hall to Holland Hall, as wall as in OKC and other ~ regional towns. I particularly want to thank Tulsa ~ ¯¯ Family News" advertisers because they ¯ are the ones who make it possible to ." publish this paper. A number of them : have been withus from the very begin: ning and those courageous ones we ¯ especially thank. Also TFN has been ; blessedwith kind, generous and tal; ented writers without whom we would : be alesser publication. To all these and ¯ to you, our readers, we give our thanks. �Anti-Abortion Radicals i sure on the November election ballot. The Rev. Gene of Calvary Baptist Church said the petition Now Targeting Gays; Fulcher drive was organized by ministers, business people ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The signs read "Life." The " and others. City officxalshave saldtheresoluttonwon tchang 100 or so protesters sang spirituals and shouted out Bible verses, flouting a court order to keep the noise - what was already unwritten practice. Alderman Randy down as they marched in front of an abortion clinic. ¯ Zurcher, who proposed the resolution, said Gays Orlando, . the fantasy playland of rides, stories and " won’t be preferred for jobs over heterosexuals. He animated characters, is host this week to a different " said he believes he speaks for the majority. ’‘There is kind of show: protests by Operation Rescue over ¯ a progressive majority in this town," he said Friday. abortion rights, gay rights and child pornography. , "I just hope they’re voting.’" About 100 abortion opponents defied a court order ’ banning them from singing, whistling and.ch.anting " within earshot of patients at the EPOC clime. The tnjunction also allows police to search backpacks or purses within 1,000 feet’of a clinic and requires . ATLANTA (AP) - A black preacher stirred UP conabortionrights supporters and foes to be 10 feet ~part. troversy in an east Atlanta neighborhood when he Thecity of Orlando obtainedtheinjunctionagainst : distributed a flier to save it from what he called the Dallas-based Operation Rescue last week. Police ¯ "white takeover" and to discuss how to end a Homomade no arrests for violating the injunction, which is sexual and Lesbian takeover. A meeting was’called in effect through the end of the week. by the Rev. Amos Moore, pastor of New Mount Sinai Five people were arrested for blocking the street Baptist Church. About 85 people confronted the next to the clinic by lying down on the ground. They preacher and a small group of black residents who were charged with obstructing a roadway and resistsaid they felt disenfranchised by the influx of white ing arrest. : residents in the past five years. The flier said: "Save As the group protested, a half-dozen supporters of our neighborhood. If you are concerned about the abortion rights and Gay civil rights stood in front of ’white takeover’ of Kirkwood, come meet .... to metal barricades with signs that read "Mobilize, Dediscuss how we can put an end to the Homosexual and fend Abortion Providers," and about 75 police officLesbian takeover of our community. Kirkwood coners watched. Later in the afternoon, the anti-abortion cerned black neighbors." protesters attended a city council meeting to object to "I don’t care who lives here," said David Jackson, a plan to fly rainbow-colored.flags aro_und the city to a black lifetime Kirkwood resident. "This neighborcommemorate Gay Pride month in June. Protesters hood is open." But Moore said, "The purpose of the carried signs that said "America Remember Sodom" flier was to pull our people together as one in the outside City Hall and inside told cotgmissioners they community, not as a hate group... I do believe in shouldn’t promote homosexuality. loving my neighbors. But I have to s ~t~n, d firm on God’s wordabout homosexuality and that s an abomiGay activist Bob Kunst sai,d,, the gay community won’t tolerate discrimination. Weare tired of being .nation under God." Several residents said it is more misrepresented by people who are so emotionally and important to confront the neighborhood’s drug dealsexually hung up that.they exploi,t God, the~ e~xploit ers. A white Gay couplewon a suit last year against gays and they exploit the country,’ Ktmst saia. t~ounblack neighbors for rurming an alleged crack house. cil members decided to let the flags fly. In almost its 10th year of targeting cities for abortion protests, Operation Rescue finds itself with dwindling numbers and-hampered by recent federal- legislation and court decisions. "Nobody knows what’s legal and not legal anymore, stud Fltp Benham, th MADISON, Wis. (AP) = The Madison School District extended health insurance benefits to the domesgroup’s leader. . tic partners of teachers Monday, despite alegal effort Some abortion opponents tried to get their message to block the move. About 30 teachers signed up for out Monday by surrounding a woman and her teenage daughter as they arrived at the EPOC clinic. "We the benefit, said Bob Nadler, the district’s benefits manager. The policy allows teachers to extend their have an appointment, let. us xn, th mother told insurance coverage to their unmarried partners, either police. One protester, Maria Jordan, shouted at the of the same sex or opposite sex. Those applying for woman in Spanish, "This is a sin of God!" the domestic partner benefit must have more than a Operation Rescue also plans demonstrations at casual relationship, and verify that they live together Barnes & Noble Booksellers to protest what the and share finances. Teachers had until May 15 to group considers chil d pornography, and at Walt Di sney retmn ~e enrollment forms for the program. World to protest its gay-friendly policies. Madison resident Mason Sproul filed a notice of cl aifia against the district 1 ast month in an effort to stop the plan, which teachers won during their last round of collective bargaining. Sproul’s claim against the district "is not going to stop our implementation," FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Some local ministers Nadler said. "We will do whatever we need to do to and other residents have begun a campaign to put to answer the complaint." Sproul’ s claim asksthat health a vote this fall a city r~solution banning discriminabenefit coverage be extended only to employees, tion against Gays incity hiring. The City Council .t~,~s " their spouses month overturned the mayor’s veto of the council s ¯ passage of the measure. The resolution forbids discriminationin city hiring ’ based on sexual orientation and familial status, which "_ addresses marital statns and members of families not- ¯ bound by alegal marriage. It also addresses discrimi- ¯ JACKSONVILLE, Ha (A.P) - Bishop John J. Snyder nation in areas covered by federal law, such as race, " celebrated Mass to launch a new ministry for Gay men and Lesbians at Assumption Catholic Church, sex, religion, ancestry and disability. Critics oppose the.part of the resolution:regarding " saying Pope John Paul II himself approved the project. homosexuals. "We think we represent the majority °f ~ The bishop said he brought up the idea of opening the peoplein Fayetteville," said the Rev. Charlie Brown, ¯ specialized ministry during a recent audience he h,ad ~iulster at Ridgeview Baptist Church. He said the ¯ with the pope. But Snyder.said he made ~t dear ne measure may signal the beginning of a moveme,n,t ¯ planned to keep with the church’s teachings, too. The toward Gays earning special status in Fayetteville. I pontiff, he said, sat quietly for a few moments, then believe very strongly, as an individual, as a citizen, ~ said: "We all need redeeming, don’t we? Still, Snyder said during a recent Mass that the that this resolution is dangerous because xt cracks the . door open for special rights," Brown said. . ¯ Roman Catholic church is not changing its position State law requires the petitions seeking a referen- " and does not condone homosextml activity. "We want dum on a council-approved measure be submitted no : brothers and sisters to be part of the church and to later than 31 days after the Council’s May 5 vote. The : have an active role," Snyder said. group also must get 1,925 signatures to get the mea- ¯ Black Preacher Warns of "Gay Takeover" ~y your a~tant love be ug~b us, £ord as we ~t our bope tn you."- Ps. 33:21 In God’s Love God’s love promises hope for tomorrow and peace for today. Free yourself of your , burdens. 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During his homily, Snyder said the church is making an effort at reconciliation. "We have taken steps. We are not yet where we need to be," he said. "I believe that ultimate judgment belongs to the Lord.’" While an estimated 300 Gays and Lesbians attended the Mass, a smaller group outside protested, praying and holding aloft signs critical of the initiative. The bishop acknowledged disagreement still exists among Catholics over whether homosexuality should have a role in church affairs. "I fully realize we are not going to keep everyone happy," he said, "especially those on either end of the spectrum." The Diocese ofS t. Augustine, coveting 17 cotmties in northeast and central Florida, already has begun reaching- out to’ Gays and Lesbians, according to church’ SlJo.kesv~oman Kathleen Bagg-Morgan. "We’re not focusxng so much on the sexuality of this as we’re focusing on the human being," she said. Outside the church, protesters carried signs reading: "The Truth Does Not Validate Sinful Acts," "I’he Catholic Church Does Not Condone Homosexual Activity" and "The Bible Condemns Homosexual Acts." About 40 people prayed but refused to discuss their positions with reporters. Instead~ they issued a written statement that said ministering to homosexuals contradicts"the clear teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and many other faiths." The protestors also said special Masses should not be held for people based solely on their sexual orientation. But those attending the Mass expressed support for the move by the church. "I think it’s great," said Terry Douglas of the Southside. "The Catholic Church sort of went backwards before, i think they’ ve lost more people than they thought." Archbishop Refuses Communion to Gays MELBOURNE, Ausmdia (AP) - The Catholic Archbishop.of Melbourne Sunday refused communion to about 50 homosexual protesters:~ho sought to receive the Eucharist at Mass. The group attended the service to challenge the church’s ban on practicing homosexuals receiving communion, spokesman Michael Kelly said. During Mass at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Pell told the congregation that homosexual acts were contrary to natural law.and that the group was ineligible for communion in the same way as was a heterosexual couple who engaged in adultery. Archbishop George Pell instead offered blessings to the protesters, who wore rainbow-colored sashes, and at the end of the Mass told the congregation that he would pray for them. Outside the church, Kelly, a former chaplain, accused Pell of ~aarginalizing homosexuals. "For the first time in my life, I saw my 74-year-old mother, who has been a Catholic all her life, refused Holy Communion because she went forward openly in support of her Gay son," he said. Earlier, members of the Rainbow Sash Movement joined other members of the congregation in walking up the aisle to receive communion. Pell told the congregation his refusal to .give them communion was "not a matter of rejecting homosexuals." ’‘The rule is the same for everyone. If someone is practicing something cdntrary to the church’s doctrine, they are not eligible to accept communion," Pell said. ’qqae same would apply to a couple living in adultery." His statements were met with loud applause by the congregation. Outside, Kelly said his group would not be "condemned to silence or invisibility." "We claim our dignity as people made in God’s image and our right to freedom, justice and love, the right to live fully human lives with the sexuality that God gave us," he said. He accused the church of being a bastion of homophobia, discrimination and abuse. Candidates’ Sexuality Not Relevant SAN DIEGO (AP) - Education. Crime. The environment. Congressional candidate Christine Kehoe insists voters in California’s 49th District care more about those issues than her homosexuality. "When people understand what I am about, my sexual orientation doesn’t matter," said Kehoe, a San Diego councilwoman and the only Democrat in the race. "My record shows I work for everyone." Still, Kehoe’s sexuality could make history: If elected, she would be one of the first openly Lesbian candidate to be elected to national office. Kehoe, 47, may downplay the importance, but as a flier for a recent fund-raiser proclaimed: "History is about to be made, and you can be part of it.’" Kehoe is one of four Lesbians running for Congress this year, as well as three Gay men. That number represents the largest group of openly Gay candidates to run for national office. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Rep. Jim Kolbe. R-Ariz., did not reveal their homosexuality until after they were in office, but the other Congressional candidates disclosed their sexual orientation prior to this year’s elections. They are Wisconsinlegislator Tammy Baldwin: former Massachusetts legislator Susan Tracy; refired Army Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, who was discharged from the military in 1992 after revealing her homosexuality; and rancher and oilman Paul Barby. It isn’t that the current political climate is more friendly to Gays and Lesbians - it isn’t friendly to anyone, said Brian Bond, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a group dedicated to getting homosexuals elected. "These candidates are not running as Gays or Lesbians," Bond said. "They are candidates who happen to be Gay or Lesbian. They have a track record in public service, representing people on a wide range of issues, and it’s only natural that they start moving up." With the help of the Victory Fund, Kehoe has raised about $370,000 since last year, compared to $320,000 by her Republican challenger, two-term incumbent Brian Bilbray. As the first openly Gay member of the San Diego Council, Kehoe was initially expected by some of her colleagues her to pursue a particular agenda, fellow councilwoman V.alerie Stallings :said. "They ~w~re all pleas..autl¥........ surprised to find she was well-rounded, wii~ ii~~ agenda or ax to grind," said Stallings. Arkansas Sodomy Law on Trial LITFLE ROCK (AP)- An attorney argnmg against an Arkansas law barring homosexual sex said today that the courts would never tolerate such a law if it applied to sex between people of different races instead of homosexuals. "ff there was a law that said that interracial couples could not engage in intimate sexual acts that everyone else in the state cmfld engage in freely, the court would clearly have the power to address that discrimination," lawyer Suzanne Goldberg said. Ms. Goldberg said that was one analogy she offered Pulaski County Chancellor Collins Kilgore in a heating this morning. The heating was on a motionfiledby the state attorney general’ s office to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the orgamzation Ms. Goldberg represents, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund of New York. That group filed suit to strike down Arkansas’ anti-sodomy law, which outlaws homosexual sex and carries maximum penalties of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Kilgore took the motion under advisement. ¯ " Thestate argues that the law doesn’t need to be struck from the books because it isn’t being enforced. Homosexuals shouldn’t worry about being prosecuted for what they do as consenting adults in private because no one has been taken to court in Arkansas for such conduct in 70 years. "In light of the history of nonenforcement ... plaintiff’s alleged ’fear’ of future prosecution is unfounded," said Timothy Gauger, an assistant attorney general ’qqlis law creates a second-class status for Lesbians and Gay men, criminalizing intimate, sexual behavior that is perfectly legal for non-Gay people,’~ Ms. Goldberg said. "The Arkansas statute causes terrible harm to Gay people, depriving parents of cnstody of their children and putting people at risk of losing their professional licenses, their jobs, and their homes, s~mply for intimacy with aloved one." �Teaching Condom Use Works Better CHICAGO (AP) - Safe-sex lessons for children work best if condom use is emphasized rather than abstinence, researchers found in a study of low-income blacks. A separate finding underscores a compelling need for the grown-up subject matter: although their average age was just 11, 25% of the youths were no longer virgins. "We shouldn’t underestimate that and we have to begin earlier to give children the ¯ kind of information they need to protect themselves," said Princeton University psychologist JolmB. Jemmott III, thelead author. "We can’t wait because we may be waiting until alter they’ve already had sex for the first time." The study of 659 inner-city Philadelphia youths sought ways to stem the high rate of sexually transmitted diseases among black adolescents. Among 13-to19 year olds with AIDS, blacks comprised 57% and whites just 23% in 1996, federal statistics show, while the gonorrhea rate among 15-to-19 year olds was about 24 times higher among blacks than whites. The authors evaluated which programs work best at curbing the riskiest behavior: unprotected sex. ’~If the goal is reduction of unprotected sexual intercourse, the safer-sex strategy may hold themost promise, particularly with those adolescents who are already sexually experienced," the authors wrote in the Journal oj the American Medical Association. Conservative groups like the Family Research Council have pushed the abstinence approach, and the federal government has mandated that states use $50 million in sex-education money for abstinence-only programs. Butin aJAMA editorial, Emory University psychologist Ralph J. ¯ DiClemente said the findings "indicate a need to reconsider the role of abstinence programs" in safe-sex education. The authors studied sixth- and seventhgraders at three Philadelphia middle schools. The students were divided into three gronps, each receiving eight hours of health education. One focused on abstinence as a means of avoiding sexually translnitted diseases and pregnancy; one focused on condom use; and a control group addressed avoiding other diseases unrelated to sexual behavior. Results were measured at three months, six months and a year afterwards. At three months, just 12~5% of the abstinencegronp students reported having recent sex, compared to 16.6% among the condom group and 21.5% in the Control group. At six months, slightly more of the abstinence-group students were having sex than the condom-group students. By 12 months, 20% of the abstinence group had recent sex, compared to 16.5% of the condom group and 23.1% of the control group. The abstinence group also reported having engaged in more unprotected sex than the condom group throughout the followup. Condom use among the condom group was significantly higher than the other groups at all measuring periods. Jemmott said he was surprised by the abstinence program’s early success, because"if you’re teaching them abstinence, you’ re battling against the norm." That its failure rate grew over.time indicates the students probably succumbed to peer pressure to have sex, he said. Jemmott also theorized that the condom class had better, long-term success because it taught students a positive message about something they could do, rather than anegative message about what not to do. However, Gracie Hsu, a Family Research Council policy analyst, said the abstinence program likely would have had more long-term success if the class had lasted longer. "We recognize tha{ society is very sex,saturated, and in order for these kids to resolve to abstain, they’ll need a constant message," Hsu said. Jemmott said more research is needed to see if similar programs would have similar results among other minority and white students. FDA Approves .Urine HIV Test WASHINGTON (AP)-Calypte Biomedical Corp. says the Food and Drug Administration has approved its urine HIV Westem blot test. Calypte already had created a test that screened for antibodies to the AIDS virus in unne. But people who tested positive still needed a more accurate blood test called the Western blot to confirm infection. The new approval announced Monday allows confirmatory testing in urine, too, which Calypte says is safer and easier than traditional HIV blood tests because it doesn’t require needles or specially trained health-care workers. But the FDA cautioned that arine testmg is not quite as accurate as blood testing. In a study of 748 people who tested HiV-positive with blood tests, the urine test missed two patients, the FDA said. Calypte says the misses occurred because tho~e patients had begun taking AIDS medications that lowered their HIV levels. S till, labs must give people about to be tested special brochures that warn that blood tests are somewhat better at catd~ing HIV i~ffections, said Paul A. Mied, FDA’s deputy director bf transfusion-related diseases. The brochures also say the unne test causes more false-positive results than the blood test in certain people at high risk for H1V or who have medical conditions like kidney or liver disease, he said. High Schoolers Go for HIV Testing KANSAS CITY, Kan..(AP) - More than 100 students at Turner High School were tested voluntarily £or HIV this spring as part of a program that some say indicates a growing awareness about AIDS among area teenagers. Students at the school in southern Kansas City, Kan., were tested in April and May by the Kansas City Free Health Clinic at the request of a student organization. No alarming trends at Turner prompted the test. Members of a student group called Be Active in Self-Education, or B.A.S.E, simply wanted .their peers to understand that pregnancy and herpes aren’t the only consequences of unprotected sex~ All the-students had to have parental permission to be tested. "Nobody made us do this," saidJason Schultz, a 17,y,,ear~old junior. "We wanted it to come. None of the 112 students tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, said Rueben Perez, the clinic’s director of HIV ,Prevention Services. It was the first time that the clinic, one of the largest HIV testing centers in the area, had conducted tests in a high school. The Kansas City, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., Shawnee Mission and Independence, Mo., school districts have not offered HIV tests in their schools, officials said. to benefit Saint Joseph Residence & Regional AIDS Interfaith Network Home Tour Saturday, June 6th, 10 - 5 pm Sunday, June 7th, 1 5 pm Jack & Patricia Armstrong John & Marsha Conine 2214 East 25th Place 4020 South Yorktown Peter Walter 2464 East 23rd Street David & Janet Hicks 3719 South Atlanta Place Dennis Neill & John S0uthard 3019 South Boston Court Ten dollar donation. Tickets available at the door. For tickets or for more information; call Charles Faudree, Inc., Antiques at 747-9706 Medical Excellence And Compassionate Care Since 1926. �"People, especially youngerpeople,just don’t want to see that it can affect them," 1 st Annual said Schultz. 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Last year, for example, only 169 people from 13 to 19 years old were tested at the clinic for HIV, despite widespread speculation that most teen-agers do not use condoms regularly. So why should teen-agers heed all the warning+ about not using condoms? "It’s reasonable to assume that if we’re having a lot of cases in their 20s and 30s, some of those folks may have been infected as teen-agers," said Betsy Topper, exectmve director of the AIDS Council of Greater Kansas City. The day of the first test, 16=year-old Jessica Meditz,,a junior, reflected on the importance of AIDS awareness. She said it would be nice if students would practice abstinence, but she doubts that would work. "I’ll hear girls talking about their first time (for sex) was 13," she said, raising her eyebrow s and shaking her head. "You can’t just preach abstinence," she said. "ff you’re going to experiment, you’ve got to be smart." The testing shows that AIDS awareness is growing in some schools, officials said. "Until a few years ago, AIDS education really depended on an individual teacher thinking it was important to do," said Steve Walker, community set¯rues program manager at Wyandot Mental Health Center Inc. "It could be a science teacher talking about it for one day to a whole unit." The Kansas State Board of Education now requires all .districts to offer a com~ prehensive program about human sexuality that includes AIDS education. Walker and othercommunity leaders are trying to improve on that requirement. Three years ago, the Heart of America United Way Community AIDS Partnership approached Walker about starting a program that would use teen-agers to promote AIDS awareness. Walker’ s programhas received annual grants of $20,000 to $30,000 from the partnership. The money is usedpfimafily to pay for several student "AIDS ambassador" positions and for AIDS awareness projects at schools. Tumer’s B.A.S.E. students received about $750 for this year’s AIDS Awareness Week, which included bringing the Free Health Clinic to the school. The testing at Turner achieved at least one goal - getting students to talk about and consider the consequences of unsafe sex. When asked about the two-week wait between testing and getting the results, some students said that they had spent more time than usual thinking about their mo~tlity. An 18-year-old said she had been having unprotected sex for three years. This wasn’t her first HIV test. She admitted that she should make her, partner~ use condoms, "But when you’re fight there in the situation... "When asked whether the test would encouragei~,er to change her behavior, she replied: I m not confident. It’s difficult. I’m going to try,." Experimental AIDS Vaccine to Be Tried PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Researchers in Trinidad and Tobago said they will begin injecting volunteers with an experimental AIDS vaccine that has caused controversy in Uganda, another test site for the formula. Doctors at the Medical Research Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago said last week they will begin testing ALVAC-HIV, a vaccine developed at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, on 20 virus-free people to see if it will prompt creation of antibodies to fight the disease. Trials will begin in 2000. Tests of the vaccine in Uganda last year were delayed after some politicians voiced unfounded worries that the formula might create another, stronger strain of the vires that causes AIDS. Opponents of the trials also accused researchers of using residents of lesser-developed comatnes as guinea pigs for the drug. To avoid such problems in Trinidad and Tobago, a twinisland country off the coast of Venezuela, researchers will launch a two-year education program before beginning the first trials, said Courmey Bartholomew, a doctor at the Medical Research Foundation Preliminary trials in Europe showed the vaccine is safe, Bartholomew said. Now researchers are trying to see if it is effective. "If we embark on the vaccine trials, it will be with a safe vaccine already proven to be safe in the first world countries," Bartholomew said. Testing will eventually take place in 11 countries, he said. If the vaccine works, the immune systems of people injected with it would have the virus antibodies, normally the first sign of infection, but would not contract the virus. "They ,would be anti-body positive and virus negative," Bartholomew said. Volunteers Aid Search for Vaccine SEATTLE (AP) - Hundreds of Puget Sound-arearesidents areusing an unusual weapon - their bodies - to help re,searchers in their quest to develop a vaccine against AIDS. The University of Washington is among six U.S. universities - the AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Group - that have been conducting vaemine research for several years, said David Berger, clinic coordinator andresearchnurse at the UW’s AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Unit. The volunteers are critical, and appreciated. "Without the~e people, we don’t go forward," Berger said. "They are willing to literally roll up their sleeve and take the risk to see HIV eradicated in their lifetime." One of them, Susan Cole, said she felt compelled to help fight the disease that killed a close friend, David Armstrong, in January. "I still don’t know why David (died), but I do know he’s the reason I’m as involved as I am," said Cole, 37. "If there was any way to go back in time, 1015 years ago, and know David would be OK, I’d do this every day." At this point, all the vaccines are experimental. Since 1988, the UW has nm 42 trials examining whether the vaccines are safe and whether they spark an immune response in the body, Berger said. The next step is to get enough information to. warrant testing whether a vaccine is effective, Berger said. "We still don’t understand how much of a defense we have to genenite in a body to get protection," he said. One key to attracting volunteers is educating the public that there is no risk of contracting HIV ,through the v~ccines, Berger said. That s because the vaccines don’t use the complete HIV virus. Instead, they contain snippets of the genetic code for the virus, or pieces of protein that make up the coating on the virus. In theory, those pieces should be enough to engage the body’s natural attack system, creating an immune response to the’ virus. �The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Tulsa in association with The [Iniversity of Tulsa presents- Light Opera Oklahoma ’98 TULSA - TheGilbert & Sullivan Sodrenowned cast of Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, ety of Tulsa is a non-profit organization ~ Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush, the three little founded in 1983, whose mission is to ¯ maids Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peepencourage excdlence in musical theater " bo, the Mikado and his daughter-in-lawthroughits own productions and by offer- ¯ elect, the formidable Katisha! Of all the G&S operettas, this one ing assistance to other is the world’s favorite performance groups. Its and has been so since it missionis also to stimuopened on the 14th of late interest and provide March, 1885. educational experiThe Company reences in the works of ceived a rave review in W.S. Gilbert & Sir the Tulsa World last Arthur Sullivan. The year; both the free con1998 season, June 11certs played to stand28 at the Chapman Theing room only crowds ater in Kendall Hall on and the films had an the University of Tulsa, audience to revisit the will feature three blockworld of filmed operbuster shows. etta. The Suppers and They begin with Cream Teas were very THE NEW MOON by popular and each night Sigmund Romberg. that the Cafe LOOK This very popular love was open, it was always ~story takes place in. full .New Orleans and on the Membership is open New Moon, a ship Cast membersfrom several ofLOOK ’98, Light Opera Oklahoma’s upbringing ladies from to .all .who support their mlssion to preserve Francefor wives for the c°mingprq,ducti°ns" ¯ operetta and especially the collaborative settlers. A man who has incurred the wrath of a French noble in.Paris fled the country ¯¯ works of Gilbert & Sullivan. You do not have to be a performer, a singer or stageand a detective is sent to the New World to find him. He is thought to be a member " hand to join, but LOOK urges all who are, of a group planning the overthrow of the : and those to whom the genre is of great Frenchmonarchy and must be captured so ¯¯ interest, to be sure to support the Society. Dues are $25 for single and $40 for famhe can be executed as an example to the public. He is of course in love with a : - ily. Ticket sales to productions account for beautiful and prominent lady, so we can only 36% of production costs so the rethrill to the songs that made this show one mainder must be found through fundof the biggest hits of all time: songs like raising and the assistance of corporate Lover come back to Me, Wanting You, sponsors and foundations. Past sponsors Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, and Stouthave included The Sun Company, The hearted Men. S tate.Arts Council of Oklahoma, The Zink NEW MOON is followed by the reFoundation, Doctors Hospital Foundation, gional premiere of PINEAPPLE POLL. American Airlines, The University of This ballet, set by Sir Charles Mackerras ~ Tulsa, Thrifty Car Rental, Henry Primeaux to music from G&S operettas, is one half and Crown Auto World,TCI Cablevision, of this production. About 40 minutes 1 ong, and Target. Texaco and Public Service the story is based on Gilbert’s The Company of Oklahoma have assisted with Bumboat Woman’ s Story ,later to be made printing and in-kind services. into HMS Pinafore. This rarely performed Auditions are held early each year for piece will be coupled with TRIAL BY the summer production. The company JURY, the collaborators’ only opera. numbers 60 artist~ with a 21-member orThere is no dialogue, and it is an hilarious chestra. Chorus members are volunteers, story of a very unusual Judge and his although solo artists, stage director, achanding of a breach of promise of marcompamsts and orchestra, as wall as stage riage. and technical crew receive some compenCompleting the ’98 season will beTHE sation. Info? Call 583-4267. MIKADO, or the Town of Titipu, with its ,/Eight national artists making their Oklahoma debuts! Brilliant sets and costumes! ,/20-piece LOOK orchestra! All Shows at Kendall Hall Theatre, University of Talsa Light Opera OKlahoma Th Mikado June 18,20,21,26,27 & 28 June 11,13,19,20,25 & 27 Pineapple Poll & Trial by Jury June 12,13 &14 oo0. FdrTicke~s Call 298-7559 OPERETTA AT TIIE HOGTIE The world of Operetta in objects, images & graphics Jmle 6th - June 28th ¯ ’ McNally Play to Go On With Gay Contdnt NEW YORK (AP) - An off-Broadway theater reversed itself and agreed to produce a controversial play about a Gay Christlike figure, despite several anonymous death threats. "In our 25-year history, we have never censored a play nor turned a play down because of content," Lynne Meadow, Manhattan Theater Club’s artistic director, said Thursday. "The only issue for us has been safety and security." The theater had canceled the production of Terrence McNally’s "Corpus Christi" in the face of anonymous threats made against the building, its audience and the playwright. Meadow said the theater club reversed its decision after New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir promised to ensure safety if the play was produced. Meadow would not elaborate on those measures. At anews conference, Meadow played a tape of one of the phone calls the theater received. The raspy, possibly computerdistorted voice was difficult to understand, but Meadow read a transcript of the message, which was addressed to McNally. "Because of you we wil! exterminate every member of the theater and burn the place to the ground. This is a message from National Security Movement of America," part of it said. The group’s background was not immediately dear. qTne theaterreceived many protests and five specific death threats, beginning on May 11, said Barry Grove, the theater’s egecutive producer. Neither Meadow nor Grove would discuss the play’s subject matter, which, according to accounts in the New York Post, deals with a Christlike young man see McNally, page 14 PH!LBROOK Visit Tuesday- Sunday Adults $5, Seniors & Students $3 749;7941 �The O klahoma Federal Club .presents The Human Rights Campaign’s Executive Director Elizabeth Birch Ellen’s Mo.m, Betty DeGeneres National Coming Out Day Spokesperson O klahoma City Saturday, June 27th This event is free to itew O klahoma Federal Club members who join before June 26th. O therwise, a $50 donation is suggested. For more information, call 582-4673. Tulsa Family News is proud to help sponsor this event. Stand Up to the Hate TOHR/the Pride Center presents 1998 Pride March & Picnic, Saturday, June 20 Veterans Park, 18th & Boulder March: 11:30, Picnic: Noon - 5pm This ad donated by Tulsa Family News Community Organization & Businesses BOoths, Games, Music & Free Refreshments. Information? Call TOHR/the Pride Center at 743-4297. 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And, as Ti Amo with any respectable Italian restaurant, pasta isn’t limited 8151 E. 21st to spaghetti, the tortellini alia Cuisine: panna is a delicious pocket of Editor’s note: obviously this review was written in the winter but Ti Amo is just as good in the spring and summer- and now is open in a 2nd location at the northwest corner of 61st &Sheridan. by Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche TFN Food Critic Days of snow and ice and brisk prairie winds can make Italian even the most devoted pasta stuffed with ricotta Oklahomaphile abit testy, and cheese and sauteed in a creamAmblanee: this January has been one of cognac sauce ($8.95). ParticuDressy those more challenging times. larly mouth-watering in the Luncheon: The people of Europe often rigatoni con gorgonzola, big tubes of macaroni sauteed with find the need toescape winter’s ~[on.-Fri. 11-2 grasp as well, and they most fresh broccoli and served in a Evenln~s: generally go on holiday to the creamy gorgonzola cheese Mon-Thurs. 5-9 sauce ($9.50). You can get a sunny Mediterranean. A Mediterranean cruxse Fri-Sat. Gl 10 fettucine Alfredo ($8.95) or a might not be in the budget for Sundays ll-9pm fettucine vongale ($8.95), an evening’s entertainment, so which is sauced with a red or a Reservations white clam sauce. Keep in we have to just pretend, and advised on mind that all of these sauces look for a Mediterranean re-~ are made the traditional way, gional restaurant to get that je weekends. with fresh cream and butter ne sais qua atmosphere for a relaxing, fun evening. When Smokln_$ Area? and freshly grated Italian Not dlstlnet cheeses - none of the thickenwe think of Mediterranean, we think of Greece, Italy, Spain. ers and extenders you see in and France. We’re really not lesser restaurants. non-smokln~. The lasagna al forno is a bit in the mood for a gyros sandFull and wich, so there goes the Greek controversial. It is dry. But, opuon, and Tulsa doesn’ t have wine list. it’s supposed to be dry, bea Spanish restaurant (Mexicause that is the Sicilian way. Payment: can isn’t the same, and, by the So, don’t expect one of those Cash, Ameri- huge, gooey mounds like they way, for those of who going to can Express, see Evita and then doing Mexiserve at the Spaghetti Warecan, Argentine isn’t the same, house. While recognizing their Diners’ Clnb, salute to lasagna tradition, either). French would be a Visa, wonderful comfort food in the personally, wedon’t care for ~/Iastereartl. the lasagna..Especially, since winter, but, alas, the talented culinary triumvirate of Curt there are so many other, trttly No Herrm~nn, Marjorie Alexwonderful dishes from which to choose. ~vteat based entrees ander, and Thomas Radcliffe also abound. The chicken della had their last weekend at Montrachet. and have left the restaurant casa ($10.95) is a flavorful chicken breast with green peppers, mushrooms, and asto develop their own gourmet take-out food concept. So, there isn’t a decent paragus in a white wine parnlesan cream French restaurant in town any more. sance. Vitello alla TiAmo ($12.95) is n fork-tender p~ece of veal sauteed xn a That leaves us with Italian. Shall we go to the faux-Italian, market study driven, cream sauce with artichokes and .walnuts. Worth every calorie. The shrimp coriana Olive Garden for cardboard pasta and (S12.95) features figs and peppercorns. wallpaper paste sauces (they do have good An orange roughy fillet ($12.95) is presalad and breadsticks)? Maybe a little pared meuniere and topped with pesto overcooked spaghetti at a pizza joint? We butter. One can also have the exquisite think not. But, voila!, there is a.rather filletto bordelaise ($14.50), a gendy presecret, unknown Italian restaurant in Tulsa pared beef tenderloin witkmushrooms, which offers delicious, made to order food with trained staff and elegant service. burgundy, sundried tomatoes, and herbs And, surprisingly, it is hidden away in a and spices. shopping center in east Tulsa. For dessert, several selections are always available, but the signature item is Ti Amo hides on the end of a strip mall, strawberries alla TiAmo. Much like a east of the Albertson’s grocery store at cherries jubilee, the strawberries are 21st and Memorial. It’s a bit hard to find, cooked in a variety of liqueurs and poured but it’s wall worth.the effort. over a big scoop of vauillaice cream, then With a menu having a wide variety of topped with whipped cream. Always save styles "representing the whole of Italy," room for the strawberries. Ti Arno’s forteis Sicilian style cuisine. As Service at Ti Amo is generally pretty you know, the island of Sicilly is in the good. They strive for an efficient and well Mediterranean, off the boot of Italy. Ithas trained work staff appropriate to a"white an ancient culture and cuisine, and due to tablecloth" restaurant. The ambiance is a it’s island isolation, has preserved more authentic old Roman style cookingtechlittle on the I_as Vegas side, with large, niques than the main country of Italy. round, red vinyl booths lining the. walls of And, sitting in a major ancient shipping the main dining room, but regular tables lane, Silicianos have oft had exotic spices, are available, as well. There is a full bar~: and a decent wine list, though one not such as saffron and curries, to incorporate into their recipes. Seafood has also played featuring as many Italian wines as one an important role in the Sicilian diet. might. All diners are greeted with a compleTi Amo is a restaurant well-deserving mentary dish of bruscetta,, which is a slice of it’s name, which in English, is transof toast topped with a garlicky tomato and lated, "I love you." Once you find and experience this place, you’ll love it. It’ s an olive oil salsa. Fresh soups are made.dailyItalian adventure well-worth the search. -the zuppa di giorno--and lovely fresh, enouOh from �by Esther Rothblum : own femininity. Whenever women put Until recently, there was little open . energy into that, they’re taking energy discussion about Lesbians in sports:. The ° away from being strong women and being mediafocuSedonBillieJeanKing’s"pali- ¯ the Uest athletes and coaches they can be. mony" suit, MartinaNavratilova’s break- " "I wish there were more Lesbians that up with her romantic partcould come out," Pat continued. "Some ofitis interner, andthe"Lesbianpres"I wls]~ tlaere were nalized homophobia. _ ence" in professional golf. Some of it is the nature of more Lesbians Of course, Lesbian sports athletics - athletes and fans could give you the that couldcome coaches are often not parnames ofLesbians atheltes, ticularlypolitical. Coaches coaches, and media sports out . . . Some of it don’t want.to do anything reporters - but these is internalized thatis controversial, espewomen were very, very cially at the Division I colcloseted. ]lomoo]lobia. lege level where it could Now Pat Griffin has Some otzt=’--zs tide hurt their recruiting efwritten the book Strong Women, Deep. Closets: nature of at]aletles forts." Pat finds that Division II or III coaches are LesbiansandHomophobia -- at]aletes and oftenmore open about their in Sports. ’Tve been a LesLesbianism. "They don’t eoaelaes are o~en bian athlete ,and coach myself so a big part of tliis have that public scrutiny not particularly and theYon recruiting."re less dependent book comes from my own pol~tlcal. Coaclaes experience" she toldmein Even Lesbian fans are a recent interview, "and don’t want to do invisible. A recent article over the last 15 years or so in The Advocate was enI’vetakenonthistopicasa anyda~ng tll.at, is tiffed "Phantom fans: Nosemi-crusade." controversial body wants to admit Patherselfplayedsports they’re there, but the Lesespeeially at tl~e inhigh school and college, and then went onto coach I Puppy Pause II Allanna Davenport Professional All Breed Grooming 1060-N South Mingo Tulsa 74128 Gay Owned, Operated & Rainbow Proud Gay Mecca of the Ozarks Beautiful Eureka Arkansas 838-7626 bian presence- at profes- Division college sionalwomen’sbasketball high school and college games is obvious." Of the "level vi]aere it students. She lived withher twoprofessionalwomen’s Lesbianloverbutdatedthe could hurt tlaelr basketball leagues, Pat high school wrestling Griffin has found the ABL reerultln~ coach for "cover." As she tobemoreope~ywelcomwrites in her book: "I reefforts."ing to Lesbian fans than. member a teacher evaluathe WNBA. She says this tionmeeting Ihadwiththe principal of thehigh school where I taught " reflects the fact that the WNBA is_ conand coached. He complimented me be- " trolled by the male NBA. Increasingly; th0ugh, Lesbiansin sports cause "I pre~ented such a good image for ¯ physical education, not like some of the ° are coming out. In its November 1997 other women P.E. teachers and coaches in " issue, OUT magazine reported on Divithe country.’ Though he never explicitly : sion I coach KarenWeaver; who was fired mentioned being a Lesbian, I knew ex- ¯ as field hockey coach from Ohio State actly what he meant and cowered further " University. Now she is suing for antiback in my closet." .¯ Lesbian discrimination. Lesbian filmLateron, Pat began to come out, firstby ¯ makerandOscarnomineeDeeMosbacher attendifig Lesbian events and then by " has produced the film OUT FOR A speaking openly about homophobia at " CHANGE (WomanVision Productions) women athletic conferences. After a life- : about Lesbians in sports. As Pat writes in time as ah athlete and coach, she is cur- ¯ theconclusionofherbook: "Inmy vision, rently professor at the University of Mas- : women will take pride in our athleticism sachusetts in Amherst in a program on " without apology. Women will not be con= social justice education. "I see myself as ¯ strained by socially constructed notions an educator/activist," she told me, "and a " of femininity 9r compulsory heterosexulot of that comes frommy sport andphysi- ° ality. There will be no need to apologize cal education background. I have coaches ¯ about muscularity, physical competence, inmy classes now, and some of what I say ¯ or passion for and commitment to sport. ..inmyvisionofsport, womenwillvalue blows their minds, particularly when I talk about heterosexism. In athletics, this " our relationships with other women. We topic is so silent." . will not be self-conscious about loving Strong Women, Deep Closets focuses ° teammates and competitors as friends or onthefactthathomophobiadoesn’tjust " lovers." Strong Women, Deep Closets can affect Lesbians, but all women athletes ° be obtained from Human Kinetics, 1607 and coaches. The "Lesbian label" is used ¯ North Market St., P.O. Box 5076, Champaign, IL 61825-5076.to intimidate women. ’q’he main message Books about Lesbians in Sports: that I’dlike women to get is how Lesbians . Ifit’sarainyday, or your favorite sport, are demonized in sports, and how that -: workstothedetrimentofwomen’sathlet- ° isoverfortheseason, herearesomebooks ics in general," said Pat. ’q’here is so : with a Lesbian sports theme to enjoy: General Fiction about Lesbians in muchdi~,isivenessamongwomeninsports " -heterosexual women are afraid of being " Sports: Sportsdykes: Stories From On and Off called Lesbians and they resent Lesbians ¯ and blame them for having caused -this " theField, editedby Susan Fox Rogers. St. ’image problem.’ I want women in sports " Martin’s Press, 1994. to realize that it’s to their advantage to : Sweat, edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe. Seal work together against that kind of intimi- ¯ Press, 1995. dation ,.that’s how women’s sports is ". A Whole Other Ballgame: Women’s Litgoing to grOW. It’s not going to grow by " erature and Women’s Sport, edited by women being embarrassed by the Lesbi- : Joli’Sandoz. Noon Day Press, 1997. 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It has always been the practice of this Administration to prohibit discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation in the civilian workforce, and most federal agencies and department have taken actions, such as the issuance of policy directives or memoranda from the agency heads, to memorialize that policy. The Executive Order I have signed today will ensure that there is a uniform policy throughout the Federal Government iby adding sexual .ti-ientation to the !istof categories for which discrimination xs prohibited in Executive Order 11478 (i.e. race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, or age). This Executive Order states,.Administration policy but does not antl cannot create any new enforcement rights (such as the ability to proceed before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). Those rights can be granted only by legislation passed by the Congress, such as the l~-.mplbyment Non-Discrimination Act. I again call upon Congress .to pass this important piece.of ci:vil.rights legislation which wo~ld extend these basic-~mploy~ mentdiscrjmination protections to all Gay and Lesbian Americans. Individuals should not be denied a job on the basis of something that has no relationship to their ability to i~erform their work. and wounds us; .. stand fast, my brother. ¯ ." Largent wrote,"I want to add my voice to those..: who’ve gathered in supixa’t of Reggie-White... America desperately needs more men of courage like Reggie White, who won’t allow the ’politically correct’ culture to keep him from speaking the truth..." During the lunch, White urged fellow Christians. to stand up for their beliefs, saying too many are intimidated by antireligious seem: ’Tmtired of the devil pushing us around," he said. "God is trying.to give people some guts to speak out on truth." In March, White told the Wisconsin state Assembly that abortion and homosexuality are sins, and America has turned away from God, partly by allowing homosexuality to "run rampant." He also said the activities of Gay rights advocates shouldn’t be compared to the black civil rights movement. White said he does not hate Gays and that the media distorted his remarks~ "I’ve been viewed as someone who hates, and the people who know me know I don’t," he said. DavidSmith of the Human Rights Campaign said,~te has every fight to speak hisnfind. We are Simply expressing our dismay at the tone and tenorofMr. White’ s remarks against Gay. people and are simply expressing our First Amendment fights in speaking out against those remarks." They also represent the library’s goal to maintain a high standard of quality for this collection." All showings are free and open to the public. For more information, call 5967933. who has sex withhis disciples. Grove said no details about the play’s plot would be released beyond a description in a brochure sent to potential subscribers’earlier this year. "From modem day Corpus Christi, Texas, to ancient Jerusalem, we follow a young Gay man named Joshua on his spiritual journey, and get. to know the 12 disciples who choose to follow him," the brochure reads. McNally, author of the Tony Awardwinning ,"Love! Valour! Compassion. and "Master Class," was traveling and unavailable tbr comment. "Wait for the production to be finished and on stage and, we assure you~ the play will speak for itself," Grove said. "You can come and judge for yourself when the play is on stage." Exact dates were not announced. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which disavows violence, began aletter-writing campaign after read: ing the initial Post article. 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Your endowment doesn’t matter to me, but you must be discreet and very clean. (Tulsal "~13211 TRUE LOVE This Gay White Male ~s 31-years of age. I’m looking for someone to have a safe discreet t~me with. If your interested in this message, give me a call please. (Tulsa) ~16325 HEAD OFFICE Professional businessman, 6’1, 2151bs, into dencing, meeting new people, and having fun, wants to hook up with some new friends. (Tablequah) ~’11398 FLY, FLY AWAY This good Iogking, 30 year old, Gay, White male;into the outdoors, hiking, biking~ and sunbathing, seeks a distinguishedgentleman, 38 to 45, with similar interests. I work for a major airline and wouldlove to take you away somewhere. (Tulsa) ~11349 ENOUGH DAYDREAMING I’ve always considered myself St’r~ight, but lately I haven’t been able to stop thinking about sex with another man. I need someone Straight acting, .discreet; healthy, and drug free. I’m a good looking, pretly well. built, Single, White male,-,29, 6ft, 1901bs, with Brown hair and~Greeo eyes. (Grand Lake) ~’12004 BELLS ON MYTOES I’m a White male .znto crossdressing and pa nting my toenails. I love getting my toenails’and everything else, sucked on. If you’re in the area and turned on, call me. ~’m 35. with Blond hair and Blue eyes. (Tahlequah) ’~11743 ONLY ONE HERE I’m a good looking, 19 year old, White male, 5’10, 2351bs, with Brown hair, seeking a friendly, rugged guy, 18 to 39, who enjoys camping, going out, and lots of laughter. Let’s have some fun. I’m able to drive toyou if you’re far away. (Cushing) "~’11928 AWAITING ORDERS Eager slave seeks aggressive master. Call for details or give your first order in my mailbox. I’m ready to serve. (Tulsa) ~11921 BUTT BUDDY Friendly, 36 year old, uncut, White male. 5’10, 1601bs, with Brown hair. Brown eyes, and a great butt. seeks friends to hang out with. (Tulsa) ~’11860 BURNING LOVE I’m a good looking, White male. 22, 6ft, 1401bs. with Brown naF and eyes. I’m primarily a top and I’d like to meet other guys to have fun with. I’m very hot. (Tulsa) ~11917 LIKE OLDER GUYS Healthy, attractive’, HIV positive, White ma=e, 37. 1701bs, with Brown hair. Hazel eyes, and a mustache seeks a sincere, honest well endowed guy, 25 to 55. who likes to be a top..Race s open and ooks are unimportant, as long as you’re clean cut. (Tulsa) ~’12249 OPEN WITH MASSAGE This passionate, versatile, 40 year old, White ma~e, with good looks, seeks very well endowed , .Bi or Gay males 18 to 40 . , , . , ¯ . interested in erot=c evenlngs~ id hke to .- " RUGGED AND RANDYThis good looking, rugged~ cowboy type, blue.#ollar worker, 30; 6’4, 2001bs, with Blond hair, Blue eyes, and a hairy body, seeks other cowboy types for fun. I like going out. watching tv at home. taking long drives, and being very romantic¯ I’d like a permanent relationship but we should be friends first. (Henrietta) "~14467 NICE AND EASY This friendly, 58 year old, White male seeks a nice guy to have oleasant conversations with. and to enoy during relaxmg evenings together. (Tulsa *~14641 ARE YOU OUT THERE? I’m a Single Male, 28, 5’8", 145 Ibs., 9odd-looking. I just want to meet some Guys oul there. ~15065 LIKE A LADY I want to .get toflemer withGross-Dressers or She-M:~=~s. I ust want to meet you and treat you rice. "~15427 ON THE "i~P AND UP Handsome, Gay, Seminole Indian, 27, 5’6. 1301bs. seeks an honest, trustworthy person. 27 to 35. WhO shares my interests in movies. music, and dancing, for friendship leading to a long term relationship. I don’t smoke and am a social drinker (Stillwell) ~’9241 DAILY RITUAL When I get home, I like to lay back have a good drink and think.ab0ut a hot Man and wish I Jit =n my hand¯ ¯ Then I start mass, glng myself. I’d love to talk to you. (Tulsa) ’~16161 A HEAD ABOVE THE REST This G~y White Male, 30, seeks a.distinguished older-Gentleman, 30-45, who enjoys hiking, biking and nude Sunbathing. I haven tight butt and give great head. (Tulsa) "~16544 SCRATCH THE ITCH I’m Iookihg for a" Bi-cudous" Male like¯ myself to have my fii’St expefieoce with. I’m fit, athletic, 29, 6’,-190 bs, tan, Wth brownhair~g’reen eyes." miJscular legs, anda smooth chest. "l~ra seeking the same~type. (Gra~f .Lake) ’~12004 . A LITTLE SANITY I’m a sane, intelligent honest Gay white Male, 53, 6’, 70 Ibs,a very oral bottom. I’m seeking Gay or Bi Males who’are.hohest’for friendship first and a possible long-term relationship. No games. ,Give ~e a chance. You won’t be disappo!pted. (Tulsa) ~17178 I.WANT A NICE FIRM ASS This Gay White, hairy chested, top Man is 6’2", ¯ 175 lbs, dark hair and blue eyes. I am seeking a bottom with a nice firm ass so that we can get together on a regular basis. (Tulsa) ~17350 CAN YOU HANDLE IT? Hey Guys, this 25 yea~: "old Gay White Male is looking for Gay Men who are ready to have a good time. I go out dressed like a Woman at times and I am very feminine. If your man enough to handle that, then please give me a call, (Tulsa) ’~ 17623 MAN OF ACTION This good looking; masculine, 34 year old, White male, 6ft, 1751bs. with a good build, seeks similar guys, 21 to 35, into sports, fun times, traveling, and relaxing at home. (McAIlister1 "1z’13473 MAKE IT FEEL GOOD I’m a Blond, hairy, tanned, good looking, White male, 33, 6’1, !801bs, With a g( ~tee. I want some good times on the phone br ~n ~erson. (Tulsa) "~’8674 THINK KINK I like all kinds of kinky sex and want to meet guys, 18 to 45, who have some creative ideas. I’m a good looking, 30 year old, white male, 5’9, 1501bs. I’m well built and orefer the same. (Fort Smith) ~8308 TI.a=w~M& ’ a 4 0,_ar od, _ ........ N IN ME Im White Transaender mad seeking a ta , d~minan~ale, for friendship. ~ge and r~ce are unimportant. I’m very submissive, very domestic, and e~remety feminine. I enjoy pleasing a ma~ in MY "=EVENING ~Q,UTINE ~ M0~t-- .every Way and /need someone who evanin~; l~ick back,’~p~ a ~ic~ b~r,-: "’ ~~ Pespond to the woman in me. ~wat~h so~ tv an~ ~st~rt m~i~g ....... ~ .................................... ~ myself. ] a love to talRto~1~13~you so w~can.k~ ~,~’" begill ~b~i massegiFg your bode/&nd go from’there. I’don~t think you’ll be disap pointed. (Tulsa) ~13001 TONED BUT TIMID Attractive, Gay, White male, 38, 5’9, 1721bs, with Brown hair, Hazel eyes, a mustache, goa[ee, and well defined body, is HIV positive but very healthy. I’m shy, smcere, and masculine, t’d like to meet a good looK=rig, Gay or Bi male. 20 to 45. who’s versatile or a top, who has an above average endowment, for casual fun Body hair and facial hair are plusses. (Ft. Smith) "~8893 There’s no charge to create an ad! Call 1-800-326-MEET CURIOSITY¯ GOTTHE CAT I’m a very curious, Married Woman. I am very open minded and looking for a female ,who ~.is. a so cur ous. (.Mcalester) "~" 18464 (~ALI TRANSPLANT recently move9 here from California and need some fdends.~o show me what Oklahoma is all about) I en 0y music, dancing, sports, go ng Out "for {un. and ~,o~od people to share t all with. (Tulsa! 96~1~ . " ~ The Necessary Hunger, by Nina Revoyr. Simon and Shuster, 1997. Lady Lobo, by Kfisten Garrett. New Victoria Publishers, 1993. Lesbians in Tennis: Courted, by Cdia Cohen. Naiad Press, 1997 Forty Love, by Diana Simmor~ds. Naiad Press, 1997. Lesbian Swimmers: The Sea ofLight, by Jennifer Levin. Penguin Books, 1993. © Esther Rothblum Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont and itor o[ the. Journal of Lesbian Studies, d,Ca~,~ntae~ed~ht the~Depariment ~# email to: e_rothbl@dewey.uvm.edu; In his interview with Roll Call, Inhofe said Hormel "has made statements that have convinced me and others that he’s much more concerned about his own Gay agenda than he is in representing the interests of the U.S." Of blocking the noa~inalaon, Inhofe sat& I would feel tlie same way if it were David Duke or anybody whose agenda is more important than the country." Hormel has promised to avoid Gay politics on the job. "I will not use, nor do I think it is appropriate to u~e, the office of the ambas.sador to advo~’any,,p~,,rsonal views I may hold on any.’i~e, Hormel wrote to Sen. Gordon Smith, R~Ore, who now supports him. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she believes Hormel’s nomination would easily be confirmed if it reached the floor and there are close to enough votes -60 to halt any Republican filibuster. As for Inhofe’s comments, she said,"This really mffor.~Rmatereference reveals the depth of, bigo.~.that is pursuing, this nominee.. Se~’P.-aul Wellstone, D-Mian~ .said he is ¯ : ." ¯ ¯ ." ¯ : ¯ " ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ NEW TO THE SNOW ~his 20 year old Gay, White female 515 1201bs just moved here from Ft. Lauderda e. haven’t met many Gay-and Bi womyn ~/et, but am anxious to make some friends. I prefer womyn between 18 and 30, of any. race.¯ Some of my interests ncude rollerb adir~, moves, and going to parks (Tulsa) ~’10181 planning a push after.theMemorial Day MIDWEST TiES fm a Lesbian writer and journalist who’s tied to the~midwest for a while. I’m interested in meeting }ther womyn with whom to discuss liter~ture and the world. Who knows what might develop? (Tulsa) ~10163 ¯ recess to get a vote on Hormd in the Senate. TEACH ME, PLEASE I’m nol very experienced in this and I’m hoping to meet someone who can talk to me, give me pointers, or tell me how it is. I’m 23 years old and have been attracted to women, but have never acted on it. (Tulsa) ~13687 "DNO FRIENDS IN ONE This 24 year old, White female, with a 24 year old girlfriend, seeks friends for us to hang out with. (Tulsa) ~13323 BUSY NEWCOMER rm an attractive. petite, Black female, 25, 4’11, ~1201bs, with one child. I’m new to this area and th=s scene so I hope you’ll be patient with me. I have three jobs and am very DUSy but have time to meet some womyn, 25 to 30, of all races, for friendship or more. (Tulsa) ~’14485 Professor Esther Rothblum EXPRESS YOURSELF Do you have thoughts you’d like to express? This Blac~ female in her 20’s wants tb hear them. I enjoy reading, writing mowes, music, and stimulatmg conversation. Let’s be friends first, but leave the door open for something deeper. (Tulsa) =14734 demand fair treatment in mainstream senior housing,: work towartl-bUildin~:~.ur own senior housing, challenge the invisibility in the greater LGBT community, and :uitimatel:y .bring seniors into our community’s family portrait, so that.zth~ world knowh Us ~hS: afamily of -~1] ~’ges with a~future to celebrate. Founded in 1973. the National Gay and ~bian - Task FO~’ce: (NGLTF) Works to ~liminate prejudice, Violence and injustice against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered people at the local, state and national level. As part of a broader social justice movementfor ~eedorn, justice and equality, NGLTF is creating a worM. that respects and celebrates the diversity of human expression. TO ~s~ond, browse~,~ chec~y6br message~,dall ~ ~,~-g00-786-4865 $1.99/Min. 18+ Confidential ¯ Easy : ] : ¯ against various groups of people, resulting in coundess abuses and atrocities, all in the name of God and all "justified" by scripture. The Bible does NOT justify the denial and restriction of civil rights. Quite to the contrary, our faith asks us to love each other and have compassion for one another. Regardless of what one believes about homosexuality, gay and lesbian people i make up 10 to 20% of.our society and ¯ ¯ ~ : ¯ have made, a~d C0ntin~ to m~e, imp~tant contributions to our schools, cities, state and nation. Homosexual.people are ou~.~ister~ a~d.b_rothers,f..aZ-h,er~ ers~s~n~,~ddaugh.te..rs.+:spouses;~fi,~o.d.~ and teaeher,s... All A~ei~c~s des~ : same proi~,~tionS,:. ~r~.e~i~~oms,,~ fight~ ,..~,~_~ ¯ responsibilities. Denying these fights : any American damages the fabric of our ~ entire society. - Co-clerks: Armin Saeger and Don Satterthwaite ". 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document Clinton Bans Job Bias WASHINGTON (AP) - An executive order signed by race, color, religion, sex (gender),national odgia,handL Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperA veilsble In More Than 75 City Locations Tulsa Pride Picnic Threatened With Radical Anti-Gay Protests TULSA The Rev. Johnny Lee Clary, best known as an cx- Klansman and for testifying agaimt former debutant and one time neo Nazi Carol Howe, is orgaaizJrtg a protest of Ttdsa’s annual Gay Pride Picnic and March scheduled to be at Veterans’ park 18th & Boulder on June 20th from 1 l:30am to 5pm. Clary. apparently has invited the Rex’ Fred Phelps of Topeka tojoha him. Clary has a telephone hofline,49~0004, on which he defends Demos Mahon, white suprermdst and ulso, the FBI suspect accused of bombing abortion providers and an Adan~a NE OK HIV Prevention Programs Lose Funding HIV Chief Promises to Fast.track Refunding TULSA - E-mall is flying and protest meetings are being planned of the complete shut-off of all fund ing for HIV/AIDS prevention th Northeastern Oklahoma. And the bad guys are said to be the H1 \’~ STI) Heahh (OSDIt), But arc they? 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Grand HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for date EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS *Autuum Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 501-253-7734 ~*.kim & .Brent’s .Bistro,. 1~73 ~. ~lain, 501-253-7457 , DeVito; s t~e~t~ura~t~ ~’center ~i. 501-253-6807 *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445 MCC of the Living Spring .... 501-253-9337 Geek to Go!, PC Specialist,,POB 429 ~ 501-253-2776 Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-5332 Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646 Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-6001 FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442-2845 * is where you can find TFN. Not all are Gay-owned but allare Gay-friendly. THE WHITE HOUSE Washington Gay & Lesbian Pride Celebration, 1998 Warm greetings to everyong taking part in the 1998 Gay and Lesbian Pride Cel~ ebration. As Americans, we can be proud of our diversity. Striving together, people of different etlmicities, backgrounds, races, beliefs, and sexual orientation have contributed to the success of our nation, reflecting the profound truth that this rich diversity is one of our greatest strengths. But wemust face the reality that some-- times our differences divide us; sometimes the voices of hatred and prejudice drown out the harmony in our natio~ml life. Events like the Pride Celebration help us to recognize anew that working in a spirit of community is not only a hope but a necessity, and that our individual dreams can only be realized by our shared efforts. Our ideals and our history hold that the rights guaranteed us as Americans are inalienable. They are embedded in our Constitution and amplified over time by our courts and legislature, and I am bound by my oath of office and the burden of history to reaffirm them. Ournation stands to lose if we let prejudice and discrimination stifle the hopes or deny the potential of a single American. And we stand to lose when any person is denied or forced out of ajob because of sexual orientation. I commend each of youfor your dedication to working for an America that celebrates our diversity, builds on our strengths, and fulfills our fundamental values of mutual respect and compassion. Working together, I am confident that we can enter the 21 stcentury as OneArnerica. Best wishes ,for a wonderful celebration..~ - Bill Clinton GREEN COUNTRY FRIENDS MEETING The Religious Society of Friends, (Quakers) Dear State Legislator, As a Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), we are deeply troubled by the spirit of two laws being considered by the State Legislature. These proposed laws would deny or restrict civil - rights to gay and lesbian people. These laws would deny homosexual men and women the right to maintain or seek employment in the public schools and the custody of children. We believe that legalized discrimination, prejudice and bigotry is unacceptable for our state and country today. We have struggled against these challenges before in the areas concerning slavery, ethnicity, cultural; race, gender, religion and immigration. Oppression shifts ~ts focus, t9 discriminate again_st particular groups but it is the same basic problem that we face again and again. Not to rec- "ogfii.~the prolrlem.hnd=to perpetuateit is :n0f~aceelStableti5 t~. ~-~~’ ~-’~:~ .......... - i:: ~ Biblical in.terpretation h~ been"~sed ~" .thi-oiighou~ ~-ag~s :t°O:dis÷minate "’ " ~. " ,.= o:,.,.: : ~etter,$:.,~oli..cy~.,, ,, ~" Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on ; issues which we’ve covered or on issues ¯ you think need to be considered. Youmay ¯ request that your name be withheld but letters mustbe signed&have phone num- " bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let- . ters are preferred. Letters to other pubIi- ~ cations will be printed as is appropriate. A- FUTURE TO. CELEBRATE by Kerry Lobel Recently, my partner Mary and Ihad dinner with Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. Both Del and I share the sign of Taurus. Each year, I mark-my birthday by recalling how long Phyllis and Del have been palmers. They have been together the entire 45 years I’ve been alive. I’ve known them for more than 25 years. And at two key points in my life, they provided the tools I needed to create a life. As a young woman of 19, their book "LesbiaWWoman" changed my life. Tired of digging in scientific and religious journals that described homosexuals as sick or sinner, the publication of their book in 1972 was a breath of fresh air. By then they had been partners for almost twenty years, and had traveled many Lesbian roads. Their book gave me the hope that I could have a life, connected with other .Lesbians. And, they taughtme thatalong with my sisters, I should not expect only tolerance, but rather demand liberation. Theirlives have beenframedbymany movements, chief among them, the’ feminist movement. They understood early on thatby making coalitions for socialjustice, we would not only bring our Lesbian selves forward; but the re.st of society as a whole. Andthey’ve been unafraid to tackle the toughissues. Their book "Battered .Wives" changed the ways in which our country addressed woman abuse. When I edited"Naming. the Violence: .Speaking OutAboutLes~ bianBattering" Del was quick to offer .her ~adv.ice and support. While some were afraid to talk about abuse in our .~ommunity, she knew that our commu~ nity could only be strengthened bythis honest discussion.i ¯ - Justas Phyllis and Del have helped us navigate our 20s, 30s,40s, 50s, and 60s, they are also helping lead us through our issues as old Gay men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgendered people. They served as participants intheWhite House Conferenc,. on Aging and led workshops at a recent SAGE conference on aging issues. When NGLTF was challenged onissues related to ageism, Deland Phyllis, as well as Shevy Healey and Ruth Silver from Old Lesbians Organized for Change, trained our staff and demanded more visibility at NGLTF’s Creating Change conference. A recent stop of our families tour in Providence, Rhode Island, reminded us that no discussion of family issues is complete without the recognition that our Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and transgendered family is comprised of individuals from each generation. Issues related to schools, parenting, and children are only one part of our life cycle. Issues related to Medicaid, social security, healthcare and social services are another. As our colleagues at SAGE remind us, in the world’s eye, the GLBT eommunity appears to lack a family of all ages, and in the imagination ofmany of us, there is no furore beyond age 40. Seniors arenearly invisiblein theGLBT community, shunned to the detriment ofus all. In our work, as diligently as we work for the lives and well-being of youngpeoplewemustaddress.the needs of seniors. We must challenge bias in the healthcare system, see Lobel, page 14 The Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma The Hon. Scott Adki~s" Siam Capitol BuiklLng 2300 N. Li~.ol~ Blvd. Oklahoma City 73105 HOLJSe O~ Eauly Alcxaad¢: Shinny. The Eptseopal Diocese of ~4 ~. Rob~son O~Ci~, OK 73102 ~MI tihutle~,: Thank you for your let~e.r resa~dmtl Senate Hills 1261 m~d 1394 arac~&ncnL~ rchuin~ to horaos~tmls, fltis l~e wdl~~ ~ ~~~si~ of ~¢ btll where we Sta~ law pn)/~b=l~ I~r$on~ who have~onnoted ofc~ m~ ~m ~m 1394 i* to e~cnd ~at proh~bi~on to suppo~ personnel ~d to ~ ~pJ~ of p,~va~ ~mu~rs wot~ng ~~1pto~ in ~t eITO~ to~ tmponam p~eccs of legislation. Sending a ball to ourt*came i~ tl~ I~il. wW to floor. Tkt~ mncat~hnc~t wotdd swt b~ this ~bcm has caused for ¯ producbve ses;m~nl of our Saw.rely0 A TFN Update by Tom Neal, publisher & editor Usually I write a column about how ¯¯ this newspaper is doing and where we think we’re going at the end of the year ¯ to coincide with the anniversary of our ¯ first issue. However, we’ve recently ¯ had some changes about which we’d ¯ like to make you aware. ¯ We have had some.changes in writ¯ ers. We’re delighted to have added my friend Mary Schepers, our Do-It- Your- " self Dyke, and Esther Rothblum who ¯ writes Dyke Psyche from her New En- ¯ gland base.-TFN has always tried to be. a newspaper for all parts of our very, ¯ very diverse community, from our self- " appointed A-list to truckers and queer ¯ biker-dudes, fromdrag queens to dykes, and from closeted to screamingly out - ¯ an inherendy challenging task. We’re ¯ delighted that these two writers are providing a "dyke" sensibility, though I believe you don’t have to be a Lesbian ¯ to enjoy or be enlightened by their work ; We sad to have lost, we hope Just ¯ temporarily, our entertainment writer, Jim Christjohn. Many of you will know ¯ that Jim & I were spouses (partners-in- : life, husbands?- language continues to ¯ fail us) for nearly six years. Jim is concentrating on making a living and ¯ finishing his education, and as he puts ¯ it, has neither the time norinclination to : write at this time. His work will be ¯ missed. TFN will try to contume to ; provide good entertainment coverage though likely not nearly with the same ¯ wit - or with the regular Stevie Nicks/ Fleetwood Mac updates. ¯ Onapersonal andbusiness note, I’ve : written before th,at publishing.a smal! :. community newspaper like TFN:i~:a ¯ labor of love - that you can make a ¯ living but only if you’re willing to live ¯ very, verymodestly. This has been true with this newspa~l~,,, even thoug_h,,it has :- always operated in the bla~k . We ¯ understand .that several of our out-of- ¯ town competitors might not be able to ¯ claim even as much. But even living ¯ very, very modesdy is not always ¯ enoughandas I’ve suggested in thepast ¯ that I might do, I’ve gone to work part- " time for a downtown home improve- " ment center (once in retail, always in ¯ retail?). Since my avocation is garden- : ing~ I asked for and am working in the ~ garden section - so please stop by and ¯ see me there! ~ However, lest anyone be concerned, : we intend to continue publishing Tulsa i Family News and providing our com¯ munity with quality newscoverage. We’re proud that the serious news for- " mat which we introduced to Oklahoma _" has been imitated by The Gayly Okla- ¯. homan and by The Community News Voice as was our introduction of main- " stream distribution locations. Before : we started, you could finda community ¯ newspaper only in about 7 dubs and 4 ~ "bookstores". Today, Tulsa Family ¯ Newsis foundinmore than751ocations ¯" in Tulsa alone- from City Hall to Holland Hall, as wall as in OKC and other ~ regional towns. ~ I particularly want to thank Tulsa ¯ Family News" advertisers because they ¯ are the ones who make it possible to ." publish this paper. A number of them : have been withus from the very begin- : ning and those courageous ones we ¯ especially thank. Also TFN has been ; blessedwith kind, generous and tal- ; ented writers without whom we would : be alesser publication. To all these and ¯ to you, our readers, we give our thanks. Anti-Abortion Radicals i Now Targeting Gays; ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The signs read "Life." The " 100 or so protesters sang spirituals and shouted out Bible verses, flouting a court order to keep the noise down as they marched in front of an abortion clinic. ¯ Orlando, . the fantasy playland of rides, stories and " animated characters, is host this week to a different " kind of show: protests by Operation Rescue over ¯ abortion rights, gay rights and child pornography. , About 100 abortion opponents defied a court order ’ banning them from singing, whistling and.ch.anting " within earshot of patients at the EPOC clime. The tnjunction also allows police to search backpacks or purses within 1,000 feet’of a clinic and requires . abortionrights supporters and foes to be 10 feet ~part. Thecity ofOrlando obtainedtheinjunctionagainst : Dallas-based Operation Rescue last week. Police ¯ made no arrests for violating the injunction, which is in effect through the end of the week. Five people were arrested for blocking the street next to the clinic by lying down on the ground. They were charged with obstructing a roadway and resisting arrest. : As the group protested, a half-dozen supporters of abortion rights and Gay civil rights stood in front of metal barricades with signs that read "Mobilize, Defend Abortion Providers," and about 75 police officers watched. Later in the afternoon, the anti-abortion protesters attended a city council meeting to object to a plan to fly rainbow-colored.flags aro_und the city to commemorate Gay Pride month in June. Protesters carried signs that said "America Remember Sodom" outside City Hall and inside told cotgmissioners they shouldn’t promote homosexuality. Gay activist Bob Kunst sai,d,, the gay community won’t tolerate discrimination. Weare tired of being misrepresentedbypeople who are so emotionally and sexually hung up that.they exploi,t God, the~ e~xploit gays and they exploit the country,’ Ktmst saia. t~ouncil members decided to let the flags fly. In almost its 10th year of targeting cities for abortion protests, Operation Rescuefinds itself with dwindling numbers and-hampered by recent federal- legislation and court decisions. "Nobody knows what’s legal and not legal anymore, stud Fltp Benham, th group’s leader. . Some abortion opponents tried to get their message out Monday by surrounding a woman and her teenage daughter as they arrived at the EPOC clinic. "We have an appointment, let. us xn, th mother told police. One protester, Maria Jordan, shouted at the woman in Spanish, "This is a sin of God!" Operation Rescue also plans demonstrations at Barnes & Noble Booksellers to protest what the group considers childpornography, andatWaltDisney World to protest its gay-friendly policies. Anti-Gay Groups Oppose ¯ City Anti-Bias Rule l FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Some local ministers and other residents have begun a campaign to put to a vote this fall a city r~solution banning discrimination against Gays incity hiring. The City Council .t~,~s " month overturned the mayor’s veto of the council s ¯ passage of the measure. The resolution forbids discriminationin city hiring ’ based on sexual orientation andfamilial status, which "_ addresses marital statns and members of families not- ¯ bound by alegal marriage. It also addresses discrimi- ¯ nation in areas covered by federal law, such as race, " sex, religion, ancestry and disability. Critics oppose the.part of the resolution:regarding " homosexuals. "We think werepresent the majority °f ~ peoplein Fayetteville," said the Rev. Charlie Brown, ¯ ~iulster at Ridgeview Baptist Church. He said the ¯ measure may signal the beginning of a moveme,n,t ¯ toward Gays earning special status in Fayetteville. I believe very strongly, as an individual, as a citizen, ~ that this resolution is dangerous because xt cracks the . door open for special rights," Brown said. . ¯ State law requires the petitions seeking a referen- " dum on a council-approved measure be submitted no : later than 31 days after the Council’s May 5 vote. The : group also must get 1,925 signatures to get the mea- ¯ sure on the November election ballot. The Rev. Gene Fulcher of Calvary Baptist Church said the petition drive was organized by ministers, business people and others. City officxalshave saldtheresoluttonwon tchang - whatwas already unwrittenpractice. AldermanRandy Zurcher, who proposed the resolution, said Gays won’t be preferred for jobs over heterosexuals. He said he believes he speaks for the majority. ’‘There is a progressive majority in this town," he said Friday. "I just hope they’re voting.’" Black Preacher Warns of "Gay Takeover" ATLANTA (AP) - A black preacher stirred UP controversy in an east Atlanta neighborhood when he distributed a flier to save it from what he called the "white takeover" and to discuss how to end a Homosexual and Lesbian takeover. A meeting was’called by the Rev. Amos Moore, pastor ofNew Mount Sinai Baptist Church. About 85 people confronted the preacher and a small group of black residents who said they felt disenfranchised by the influx of white residents in the past five years. The flier said: "Save our neighborhood. If you are concerned about the ’white takeover’ of Kirkwood, come meet .... to discuss how we can put an end to the Homosexual and Lesbian takeover of our community. Kirkwood concerned black neighbors." "I don’t care who lives here," said David Jackson, a black lifetime Kirkwood resident. "This neighborhood is open." But Moore said, "The purpose of the flier was to pull our people together as one in the community, not as a hate group... I do believe in loving my neighbors. But I have to s~t~n,d firm on God’s wordabouthomosexuality and that s an abomi- .nation under God." Several residents said it is more important to confront the neighborhood’s drug dealers. A white Gay couplewon a suit last year against black neighbors for rurming an alleged crack house. School Gives Domestic " Partners Benefits MADISON, Wis. (AP) = The Madison School District extended health insurance benefits to the domestic partners of teachers Monday, despite alegal effort to block the move. About 30 teachers signed up for the benefit, said Bob Nadler, the district’s benefits manager. The policy allows teachers to extend their insurance coverage to their unmarried partners, either of the same sex or opposite sex. Those applying for the domestic partner benefit must have more than a casual relationship, and verify that they live together and share finances. Teachers had until May 15 to retmn ~e enrollment forms for the program. Madison resident Mason Sproul filed a notice of claifia against the district 1astmonthin an effort to stop the plan, which teachers won during their last round of collective bargaining. Sproul’s claim against the district "is not going to stop our implementation," Nadler said. "We will do whatever we need to do to answer the complaint." Sproul’ s claim asksthathealth benefit coverage be extended only to employees, their spouses Florida Catholic Bishop Starts Gay Ministry . JACKSONVILLE, Ha (A.P) - Bishop John J. Snyder celebrated Mass to launch a new ministry for Gay men and Lesbians at Assumption Catholic Church, saying PopeJohn Paul II himself approved the project. The bishop said he brought up the idea of opening the specialized ministry during a recent audience he h,ad with the pope. But Snyder.said he made ~t dear ne planned to keep with the church’s teachings, too. The pontiff, he said, sat quietly for a few moments, then said: "We all need redeeming, don’t we? Still, Snyder said during a recent Mass that the Roman Catholic church is not changing its position and does notcondonehomosextml activity. "We want brothers and sisters to be part of the church and to have an active role," Snyder said. ~yyour a~tant love be ug~b us, £ord as we~t our bope tn you."- Ps. 33:21 In God’s Love God’s love promises hope for tomorrow and peace for today. Free yourself of your , burdens. Come share in the bounty of Gods love with us each Sunday at 10:45 am. Children Are Always Welcorn~.! Community Church x623 N. Maplewood of Greater Tulsa 918/838-1715 on the Rz er A Bed & Breakfast P.O. Box 696 Tulsa. 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MALCOLM JACOX M - F 7:30 - 7, Sat 9 -1 2732 East 15th Street Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104 tel: 712-2750, fax: 712-2760 Now Featuring Dog Grooming, Mon. - Fri. Christopher Spradling Attorney at Law General practice, including wills, estate planning & domestic partnerships 616 S. Main St. Office (918) 582-7748 Suite 308 Pager (918) 690-0644 Tulsa, OK 74119 Fax (91 8) 582-2444 The Diocese of St. Augustine became the 36th in the nation to start a Gay and Lesbian ministry. During his homily, Snyder said the church is making an effort at reconciliation. "We have taken steps. We are not yet where we need to be," he said. "I believe that ultimate judgment belongs to the Lord.’" While an estimated 300 Gays and Lesbians attended the Mass, a smaller group outside protested, praying and holding aloft signs critical of the initiative. The bishop acknowledged disagreement still exists among Catholics over whether homosexuality should have a role in church affairs. "I fully realize we are not going to keep everyone happy," he said, "especially those on either end of the spectrum." The Diocese ofS t. Augustine, coveting 17 cotmties in northeast and central Florida, already has begun reaching- out to’ Gays and Lesbians, according to church’ SlJo.kesv~oman Kathleen Bagg-Morgan. "We’re not focusxng so much on the sexuality of this as we’re focusing on the human being," she said. Outside the church, protesters carried signs reading: "The Truth Does Not Validate Sinful Acts," "I’he Catholic Church Does Not Condone Homosexual Activity" and "The Bible Condemns Homosexual Acts." About 40 people prayed but refused to discuss their positions with reporters. Instead~ they issued a written statement that said ministering to homosexuals contradicts" the clear teachings of theRomanCatholicChurch and many other faiths." The protestors also said special Masses should not be held for people based solely on their sexual orientation. But those attending the Mass expressed support for the move by the church. "I think it’s great," said Terry Douglas of the Southside. "The Catholic Church sort of wentbackwards before, i thinkthey’ velost morepeople than they thought." Archbishop Refuses Communion to Gays MELBOURNE, Ausmdia (AP) - The Catholic Archbishop. of Melbourne Sunday refused communion to about 50 homosexual protesters:~ho sought to receive the Eucharist at Mass. The group attended the service to challenge the church’s ban on practicing homosexuals receiving communion, spokesman Michael Kelly said. During Mass at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Pell told the congregation that homosexual acts were contrary to natural law.and that the group was ineligible for communion in the same way as was a heterosexual couple who engaged in adultery. Archbishop George Pell instead offered blessings to the protesters, who worerainbow-colored sashes, and at the end of the Mass told the congregation that he would pray for them. Outside the church, Kelly, aformer chaplain, accused Pell of ~aarginalizing homosexuals. "For the first time in my life, I saw my 74-year-old mother, who has been a Catholic all her life, refused Holy Communion because she went forward openly in support of her Gay son," he said. Earlier, members of the Rainbow Sash Movementjoined othermembers of the congregation in walking up the aisle to receive communion. Pell told the congregation his refusal to .give them communion was "not a matter of rejecting homosexuals." ’‘The rule is the same for everyone. If someone is practicing something cdntrary to the church’s doctrine, they are not eligible to accept communion," Pell said. ’qqae same would apply to a couple living in adultery." His statements were met with loud applause by the congregation. - Outside, Kelly said his group would not be "condemned to silence or invisibility." "We claim our dignity as people made in God’s image and our right to freedom, justice and love, the right to live fully human lives with the sexuality that God gave us," he said. He accused the church of being a bastion of homophobia, discrimination and abuse. Candidates’ Sexuality Not Relevant SAN DIEGO (AP) - Education. Crime. The environment. Congressional candidate Christine Kehoe insists voters in California’s 49th District care more about those issues than her homosexuality. "When people understand what I am about, my sexual orientation doesn’t matter," said Kehoe, a San Diego councilwoman and the only Democrat in the race. "My record shows I work for everyone." Still, Kehoe’s sexuality could make history: If elected, she would be one of the first openly Lesbian candidate to be elected to national office. Kehoe, 47, may downplay the importance, but as a flier for a recent fund-raiser proclaimed: "History is about to be made, and you can be part of it.’" Kehoe is one of four Lesbians running for Congress this year, as well as three Gay men. That number represents the largest group of openly Gay candidates to run for national office. Rep. BarneyFrank, D-Mass., and Rep. Jim Kolbe. R-Ariz., did not reveal their homosexuality until after they were in office, but the other Congressional candidates disclosed their sexual orientation prior to this year’s elections. They are Wisconsinlegislator Tammy Baldwin: former Massachusetts legislator Susan Tracy; refired Army Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, who was discharged from the military in 1992 after revealing her homosexuality; and rancher and oilman Paul Barby. It isn’t that the current political climate is more friendly to Gays and Lesbians - it isn’t friendly to anyone, said Brian Bond, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a group dedicated to getting homosexuals elected. "These candidates are not running as Gays or Lesbians," Bond said. "They are candidates who happen to be Gay or Lesbian. They have a track record inpublic service, representing people on a wide range of issues, and it’s only natural that they start moving up." With the help of the Victory Fund, Kehoe has raised about $370,000 since last year, compared to $320,000 by her Republican challenger, two-term incumbent Brian Bilbray. As the first openly Gay member of the San Diego Council, Kehoe was initially expected by some of her colleagues her to pursue a particular agenda, fellow councilwoman V.alerie Stallings :said. "They ~w~re all pleas..autl¥........ surprised to find she was well-rounded, wii~ ii~~ agenda or ax to grind," said Stallings. Arkansas Sodomy Law on Trial LITFLEROCK(AP)-Anattorney argnmg against an Arkansas law barring homosexual sex said today that the courts would never tolerate such a law ifit applied to sex betweenpeople of different races instead of homosexuals. "ff there was a law that said that interracial couples could not engage in intimate sexual acts that everyone else in the state cmfldengage infreely, the court would clearly have the power to address that discrimination," lawyer Suzanne Goldberg said. Ms. Goldberg said that was one analogy she offered Pulaski County Chancellor Collins Kilgore in a heating this morning. The heating was on a motionfiledby the state attorney general’ s office to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the orgamzation Ms. Goldberg represents, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund ofNew York. That group filed suit to strike down Arkansas’ anti-sodomy law, which outlaws homosexual sex and carries maximumpenalties of one year injail and a $1,000 fine. Kilgore took the motion under advisement. ¯ " Thestate argues that the law doesn’t need to be struck from the books because it isn’t being enforced. Homosexuals shouldn’t worry about being prosecuted for what they do as consenting adults in private because no one has been taken to court in Arkansas for such conduct in 70 years. "In light of the history of nonenforcement ... plaintiff’s alleged ’fear’ of future prosecution is unfounded," said Timothy Gauger, an assistant attorney general ’qqlis law creates a second-class status for Lesbians and Gay men, criminalizing intimate, sexual behavior that is perfectly legal fornon-Gay people,’~ Ms. Goldberg said. "The Arkansas statute causes terrible harm to Gay people, depriving parents of cnstody of their children and putting people at risk of losing their professional licenses, theirjobs, and their homes, s~mply for intimacy with aloved one." Teaching Condom Use Works Better CHICAGO (AP) - Safe-sex lessons for children work best if condom use is emphasized rather than abstinence, researchers foundin a study oflow-income blacks. A separate finding underscores a compelling need for the grown-up subject matter: although their average age was just 11, 25% of the youths were no longer virgins. "We shouldn’t underestimate that and we have to begin earlier to give children the ¯ kind of information they need to protect themselves," said Princeton University psychologistJolmB. Jemmott III, thelead author. "We can’t wait because we may be waiting until alter they’ve already had sex for the first time." The study of 659 inner-city Philadelphia youths sought ways to stem the high rate of sexually transmitted diseases among black adolescents. Among 13-to- 19 year olds with AIDS, blacks comprised 57% and whites just 23% in 1996, federal statistics show, while the gonorrhea rate among 15-to-19 year olds was about 24 times higher among blacks than whites. The authors evaluated which programs workbest at curbing the riskiest behavior: unprotected sex. ’~If the goal is reduction of unprotected sexual intercourse, the safer-sex strategymayhold themostpromise, particularly with those adolescents who are already sexually experienced," the authors wrote in the Journal oj the American Medical Association. Conservative groups like the Family Research Council have pushed the abstinence approach, and the federal government has mandated that states use $50 million in sex-educationmoney for abstinence-only programs. ButinaJAMA editorial, Emory University psychologist Ralph J. ¯ DiClemente said the findings "indicate a need to reconsider the role of abstinence programs" in safe-sex education. The authors studied sixth- and seventhgraders at three Philadelphia middle schools. The students were divided into three gronps, each receiving eight hours ofhealth education. One focused on abstinence as a means of avoiding sexually translnitted diseases and pregnancy; one focused on condom use; and a control group addressed avoiding other diseases unrelated to sexual behavior. Results were measured at three months, six months and a year afterwards. At three months, just 12~5% of the abstinencegronp students reportedhaving recent sex, compared to 16.6% among the condom group and 21.5% in the Control group. At six months, slightly more of the abstinence- group students were having sex than the condom-group students. By 12 months, 20% of the abstinence group had recent sex, compared to 16.5% of the condom group and 23.1% of the control group. Theabstinence group also reportedhaving engaged inmore unprotected sex than the condom group throughout the followup. Condomuseamong thecondom group was significantly higher than the other groups at all measuring periods. Jemmott said he was surprised by the abstinence program’s early success, because" ifyou’re teaching them abstinence, you’ re battling against the norm." That its failure rate grew over.time indicates the students probably succumbed to peer pressure to have sex, he said. Jemmottalso theorized that thecondom class had better, long-term success because it taught students a positive message about something they could do, rather than anegativemessage about what not to do. However, Gracie Hsu, a Family Research Council policy analyst, said the abstinence program likely would have had more long-term success if the class had lasted longer. "We recognize tha{ society is very sex,saturated, and in order for these kids to resolve to abstain, they’ll need a constant message," Hsu said. Jemmott said more research is needed to see if similar programs would have similar results among other minority and white students. FDA Approves .Urine HIV Test WASHINGTON (AP)-Calypte Biomedical Corp. says the Food and Drug Administrationhas approved its urineHIV Westem blot test. Calypte already had created a test that screened for antibodies to the AIDS virus in unne. But people who tested positive still needed a more accurate blood test called the Western blot to confirm infection. The new approval announced Monday allows confirmatory testing in urine, too, which Calypte says is safer and easier than traditional HIV blood tests because it doesn’t require needles or specially trained health-care workers. But the FDA cautioned that arine testmg is not quite as accurate as blood testing. In a study of 748 people who tested HiV-positive with blood tests, the urine test missed two patients, the FDA said. Calypte says the misses occurred because tho~e patients had begun taking AIDS medications that lowered their HIV levels. Still, labs must give people about to be tested special brochures that warn that blood tests are somewhat better at catd~- ing HIV i~ffections, said Paul A. Mied, FDA’s deputy director bf transfusion-related diseases. The brochures also say the unne test causes more false-positive results than the blood test in certain people at high risk for H1V or who have medical conditions like kidney or liver disease, he said. High Schoolers Go for HIV Testing KANSAS CITY, Kan..(AP) - More than 100 students at Turner High School were tested voluntarily £or HIV this spring as part of a program that some say indicates a growing awareness about AIDS among area teenagers. Students at the school in southern Kansas City, Kan., were tested in April andMay by the Kansas City Free Health Clinic at the request of a student organization. Noalarming trends atTurner prompted the test. Members of a student group called BeActive in Self-Education, or B.A.S.E, simply wanted .their peers to understand that pregnancy and herpes aren’t the only consequences of unprotected sex~ All the-students had to have parental permission to be tested. "Nobody made us do this," saidJason Schultz, a 17,y,,ear~old junior. "We wanted it to come. None of the 112 students tested positive forthe virus that causes AIDS, saidRueben Perez, the clinic’s director of HIV ,Prevention Services. It was the first time that the clinic, one of the largest HIV testing centers in the area, had conducted tests in a high school. The Kansas City, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., Shawnee Mission and Independence, Mo., school districts have not offered HIV tests in their schools, officials said. to benefit Saint Joseph Residence & Regional AIDS Interfaith Network Home Tour Saturday, June 6th, 10 - Sunday, June 7th, 1 5 5 pm pm Jack & Patricia Armstrong John & Marsha Conine 2214 East 25th Place 4020 South Yorktown Peter Walter 2464 East 23rd Street David & Janet Hicks 3719 South Atlanta Place Dennis Neill & John S0uthard 3019 South Boston Court Ten dollar donation. Tickets available at the door. For tickets or for more information; call Charles Faudree, Inc., Antiques at 747-9706 Medical Excellence And Compassionate Care Since 1926. 1 st Annual Red Ribbon Run 5k Run, Race Walk & Casual Walk to benefitHIV services ofInterfaithAIDS Ministries & Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership sponsored by Bank bf Oklahoma, Stax/Circle K Bama Companies, Interim Health Care, Joel, Tracey & Clay Norvell, & Tulsa Family News Saturday, June 13 Mens - 7am, Womens - 7:30 am LaFortune Park, 61.st & Yale Registration SW Shelter, 6 am Parking at south lot only, USATF sanctioned event & certified, coordinated by Glen~.s, Inc Preregistration: $12 with t-shirt, $8 without. Race Day Registration: $15 with t-shirt, $10 without. Awards to top three men and women in each USATF age group, as well as top overall male & female finishers & top three race walkers. You dont have to run,.to help! Join the Red Ribbon Booster Club by making a donation to the Red Ribbon Run. 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Perez, the clinic’s director, was surprised so many students agreed to be tested. Last year, for example, only 169 people from 13 to 19 years old were tested at the clinic for HIV, despite widespread speculation that most teen-agers do not use condoms regularly. So why should teen-agers heed all the warning+ about not using condoms? "It’s reasonable to assume that if we’re having a lot of cases in their 20s and 30s, some of those folks may have been infected as teen-agers," said Betsy Topper, exectmve director of the AIDS Council of Greater Kansas City. The day of the first test, 16=year-old Jessica Meditz,,a junior, reflected on the importance of AIDS awareness. She said it would be nice if students would practice abstinence, but she doubts that would work. "I’ll hear girls talking about their first time (for sex) was 13," she said, raising her eyebrows and shaking her head. "You can’t just preach abstinence," she said. "ff you’re going to experiment, you’ve got to be smart." Thetesting shows that AIDS awareness is growing in some schools, officials said. "Until a few years ago, AIDS education really depended on an individual teacher thinking it was important to do," said Steve Walker, community set¯rues program manager at Wyandot Mental Health Center Inc. "It could be a science teacher talking about it for one day to a whole unit." The Kansas State Board of Education now requires all .districts to offer a com~ prehensive program about human sexuality that includes AIDS education. Walker and othercommunity leaders are trying to improve on that requirement. Three years ago, the Heart of America United Way CommunityAIDS Partnership approached Walker about starting a program that would use teen-agers to promote AIDS awareness. Walker’ s programhas received annual grants of $20,000 to $30,000 from the partnership. Themoney is usedpfimafily to pay for several student "AIDS ambassador" positions and for AIDS awareness projects at schools. Tumer’s B.A.S.E. students received about $750 for this year’s AIDS Awareness Week, which included bringing the Free Health Clinic to the school. The testing at Turner achieved at least one goal - getting students to talk about and consider the consequences of unsafe sex. When asked about the two-week wait between testing and getting the results, some students said that they had spent more time than usual thinking about their mo~tlity. An 18-year-old said she had been having unprotected sex for three years. This wasn’t her first HIV test. She admitted that she should make her, partner~ use condoms, "But when you’re fight there in the situation... "When asked whether the test would encouragei~,er to change her behavior, she replied: I mnot confident. It’s difficult. I’m going to try,." Experimental AIDS Vaccine to Be Tried PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Researchers in Trinidad and Tobago said they will begin injecting volunteers with an experimental AIDS vaccine that has caused controversy in Uganda, another test site for the formula. Doctors at the Medical Research Foundation ofTrinidad and Tobago said last week they will begin testing ALVAC-HIV, a vaccine developed at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, on 20 virus-free people to see if it will prompt creation of antibodies to fight the disease. Trials will begin in 2000. Tests of the vaccine in Uganda last year weredelayed aftersomepoliticians voiced unfounded worries that the formula might create another, stronger strain of the vires that causes AIDS. Opponents of the trials also accused researchers of using residents of lesser-developed comatnes as guinea pigs for the drug. To avoid such problems in Trinidad and Tobago, a twinisland country off the coast of Venezuela, researchers will launch a two-year education program before beginning the first trials, said Courmey Bartholomew, a doctor at the Medical Research Foundation Preliminary trials in Europe showed the vaccine is safe, Bartholomew said. Now researchers are trying to see if it is effective. "If we embark on the vaccine trials, it will be with a safe vaccine already proven to be safe in the first world countries," Bartholomew said. Testing will eventually take place in 11 countries, he said. If the vaccine works, the immune systems of people injected with it would have the virus antibodies, normally the first sign of infection, but would not contract the virus. "They ,would be anti-body positive and virus negative," Bartholomew said. Volunteers Aid Search for Vaccine SEATTLE (AP) - Hundreds of Puget Sound-arearesidents areusing anunusual weapon - their bodies - to help re,searchers in their quest to develop a vaccine against AIDS. The University of Washington is among six U.S. universities - the AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Group - that have been conducting vaemine research for several years, saidDavidBerger, clinic coordinator andresearchnurse at the UW’s AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Unit. The volunteers are critical, and appreciated. "Without the~e people, we don’t go forward," Berger said. "They are willing to literally roll up their sleeve and take the risk to see HIV eradicated in their lifetime." One of them, Susan Cole, said she felt compelled to help fight the disease that killed a close friend, David Armstrong, in January. "I still don’t know why David (died), but I do know he’s the reason I’m as involved as I am," said Cole, 37. "If there was any way to go back in time, 10- 15 years ago, and know David would be OK, I’d do this every day." At this point, all the vaccines are experimental. Since 1988, the UW has nm 42 trials examining whether the vaccines are safe and whether they spark an immune response in the body, Berger said. The next step is to get enough information to. warrant testing whether a vaccine is effective, Berger said. "We still don’t understand how much of a defense we have to genenite in a body to get protection," he said. One key to attracting volunteers is educating the public that there is no risk of contracting HIV ,through the v~ccines, Berger said. That s because the vaccines don’t use the complete HIV virus. Instead, they contain snippets of the genetic code for the virus, or pieces ofprotein that makeup the coatingonthe virus. In theory, those pieces should be enough to engage the body’s natural attack system, creating an immune response to the’ virus. Light Opera Oklahoma ’98 TULSA - TheGilbert & Sullivan Sod- renowned cast of Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, ety of Tulsa is a non-profit organization ~ Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush, the three little founded in 1983, whose mission is to ¯ maids Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peepencourage excdlence in musical theater " bo, the Mikado and his daughter-in-lawthroughits own productions and by offer- ¯ elect, the formidable Katisha! Of all the ing assistance to other performance groups. Its missionis also to stimulate interestandprovide educational experiences in the works of W.S. Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan. The 1998 season, June 11- 28at theChapmanTheater in Kendall Hall on the University ofTulsa, will feature threeblockbuster shows. They begin with THE NEW MOON by Sigmund Romberg. This very popular love ~story takes place in. .New Orleans andonthe New Moon, a ship bringing ladies from Francefor wives for the c°mingprq,ducti°ns" settlers. Amanwhohas incurred the wrath of a French noble in.Paris fled the country and a detective is sent to the New World to find him. He is thought to be a member of a group planning the overthrow of the Frenchmonarchy andmustbe captured so he can be executed as an example to the public. He is of course in love with a beautiful and prominent lady, so we can thrill to the songs thatmade this show one of the biggest hits of all time: songs like Lover come back to Me, Wanting You, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, and Stouthearted Men. NEW MOON is followed by the regional premiere of PINEAPPLE POLL. This ballet, set by Sir Charles Mackerras to music from G&S operettas, is one half of this production. About40 minutes 1ong, the story is based on Gilbert’s The BumboatWoman’s Story,later to bemade intoHMS Pinafore. This rarely performed piece will be coupled with TRIAL BY JURY, the collaborators’ only opera. There is no dialogue, and it is an hilarious story of a very unusual Judge and his handing of a breach of promise of marriage. Completing the ’98 season will beTHE MIKADO, or theTown of Titipu, with its Cast membersfrom several ofLOOK ’98, Light Opera Oklahoma’s up- G&S operettas, this one is the world’s favorite and has been so since it opened on the 14th of March, 1885. The Company received a rave review in the Tulsa World last year; both thefree concerts played to standing room only crowds and the films had an audience to revisit the world of filmed operetta. The Suppers and Cream Teas were very popular and each night that the Cafe LOOK was open, itwas always full Membership is open to.all .who support their mlssion to preserve ¯ operetta and especially the collaborative ¯¯ works of Gilbert & Sullivan. You do not have to be a performer, a singer or stage- " hand tojoin, butLOOKurges all who are, : and those to whom the genre is of great ¯ interest, to be sure to support the Society. ¯ Dues are $25 for single and $40 for fam- : - ily. Ticket sales to productions account for only 36% of production costs so the remainder must be found through fundraising and the assistance of corporate sponsors and foundations. Past sponsors have included The Sun Company, The State.Arts Council ofOklahoma, TheZink Foundation, Doctors Hospital Foundation, American Airlines, The University of ~ Tulsa, Thrifty CarRental, Henry Primeaux and CrownAutoWorld,TCICablevision, and Target. Texaco and Public Service Company ofOklahomahave assisted with printing and in-kind services. Auditions are held early each year for the summer production. The company numbers 60 artist~ with a 21-member orchestra. Chorus members are volunteers, although solo artists, stage director, accompamsts and orchestra, as wall as stage and technical crew receive some compensation. Info? Call 583-4267. McNally Play to Go On With Gay Contdnt NEW YORK (AP) - An off-Broadway theater reversed itself and agreed to produce a controversial play about a Gay Christlike figure, despite several anonymous death threats. "In our 25-year history, we have never censored a play nor turned a play down because of content," Lynne Meadow, Manhattan Theater Club’s artistic director, said Thursday. "The only issue for us has been safety and security." The theater had canceled the production of Terrence McNally’s "Corpus Christi" in the face of anonymous threats made against the building, its audience and the playwright. Meadow said the theater club reversed its decision after New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir promised to ensure safety if the play was produced. Meadow would not elaborate on those measures. At anews conference, Meadow played a tape of one of the phone calls the theater received. The raspy, possibly computerdistorted voice was difficult to understand, but Meadow read a transcript of the message, which was addressed to McNally. "Because of you we wil! exterminate every member of the theater and burn the place to the ground. This is a message from National Security Movement of America," part of it said. The group’s background was not immediately dear. qTne theaterreceivedmany protests and five specific death threats, beginning on May 11, said Barry Grove, the theater’s egecutive producer. Neither Meadow nor Grove would discuss the play’s subject matter, which, according to accounts in the New York Post, deals with a Christlike young man see McNally, page 14 The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Tulsa in association with The [Iniversity ofTulsa presents- ,/Eight national artists making their Oklahoma debuts! Brilliant sets and costumes! ,/20-piece LOOK orchestra! Light Opera OKlahoma All Shows at Kendall Hall Theatre, University of Talsa Th Mikado June 18,20,21,26,27 & 28 June 11,13,19,20,25 & 27 Pineapple Poll & Trial by Jury June 12,13 &14 FdrTicke~s oo0. Call 298-7559 OPERETTA AT TIIE HOGTIE The world of Operetta in objects, images & graphics Jmle 6th - June 28th ¯ ’ PH!LBROOK Visit Tuesday- Sunday Adults $5, Seniors & Students $3 749;7941 The O klahoma Federal Club .presents The Human Rights Campaign’s Executive Director Elizabeth Birch Ellen’s Mo.m, Betty DeGeneres National Coming Out Day Spokesperson O klahoma City Saturday, June 27th This event is free to itew O klahoma Federal Club members who join before June 26th. O therwise, a $50 donation is suggested. For more information, call 582-4673. Tulsa Family News is proud to help sponsor this event. 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Call orfax 583-4615. 22 reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library With two plays and a new movie coming out, Oscar Wilde’s popularity just keeps on growing, almost 1.00 years after his death. The author of such The Wilde classics as "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance ofBeing Eamest"led an interesting double life and this biography, with wonderful illustrations and photos, was written by his grandson. Wilde was a well known playright and novelist in England in the late 1800’s. He was quite a celebrity and his fans managed to overlook his outwardly Gayappearance and behavior. As ostentatious as he was, he still sought to cover up his sexual orientation and even married, and had chil- AlBum is a " wonderful overview of the life d one o[ the most [amous persecuted Gay men in history... Hls story ls lnt~uln~ and one t~at shouldbe kno~ by all Gay people. dren with, ayoung lady named Constance Lloyd. She ended up taking care of their children while he was busy giving lectures, writing and seeing other men. It doesn’t take long to realize that Wilde’s ego was overwhelming. Upon arriving in the US for a lecture tour m 1882, Wilde informed the customs official, "I have nothing to declare but my genius." America wasn’t quite ready for this flamboyant gentleman with a gift for speaking in sound bites. In 1895, in England, Wilde was finally. prosecuted for being Gay. and was sentenced to two years hard labor. His plays closed, his books were censored and his friends deserted him. Adamant that being Gay was not wrong, Wilde saw himself as "crucified, Christlike, by society." When released from ¯prison, his wife having changed’her last name and refusing to allow him to see his children, Wilde wandered aimlessly around Europe, "poor but not pem~less, alone but not without friends." He died of meningitis in 1900, bankrupt and forgotten. The Wilde Album is a wonderful overview of the life of one of the mostfamous persecuted Gay men in history. It is short, easy to read and the cartoons, manuscripts andpictures are beautifulreproductions. His story is intriguing and one that should be known by all Gay people. Check for The Wilde Album and other materials on similar topics, at your local branch library, or call the Readers Services of the Central Library at 596-7966. The result seems to have been that DCS, notOSDH,is now worldng by the strictest letter of Oklahoma bidding statutes and most of the agencies don’t know and ¯ didn’t meet those reqnirements. Pierson ¯ - also noted that the statutes were designed. : more for bidding interstate highway con- " struction contracts by large firms- not by ¯ understaffed non-profit agencies. Pierson ¯ also says that DCS has promised to ’~fasttrack" the re,bid process and to meet with ¯ each agency to assist them in meeting the ¯ requirements. 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Public Servke C0mlmy 0f 01dah0ma A central and South West Compan), Editor’s note: obviously this review was written in the winter but Ti Amo isjust as good in the spring andsummer- andnow is open in a 2nd location at the northwest corner of61st &Sheridan. by Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche TFN Food Critic Days of snow and ice and brisk prairie winds can make even the most devoted Oklahomaphile abit testy, and this January has been one of those more challenging times. The people of Europe often find the need toescape winter’s grasp as well, and they most generally go on holiday to the sunny Mediterranean. A Mediterranean cruxse might not be in the budget for an evening’s entertainment, so we have to just pretend, and look for a Mediterranean re-~ gional restaurant to get that je ne sais qua atmosphere for a relaxing, fun evening. When we think ofMediterranean, we think of Greece, Italy, Spain. and France. We’re really not in the mood for a gyros sandwich, so there goes the Greek opuon, andTulsa doesn’ thave a Spanish restaurant (Mexican isn’t the same, and, by the way, for those of who going to see Evita and then doing Mexican, Argentine isn’t the same, either). French would be a wonderful comfort food in the winter, but, alas, the talented culinary triumvirate of Curt Herrm~nn, Marjorie Alexander, and Thomas Radcliffe had their last weekend at Montrachet. and have left the restaurant to develop their own gourmet take-out food concept. So, there isn’t a decent French restaurant in town any more. That leaves us with Italian. Shall we go to the faux-Italian, market study driven, Olive Garden for cardboard pasta and wallpaper paste sauces (they do have good salad and breadsticks)? Maybe a little overcooked spaghetti at a pizzajoint? We think not. But, voila!, there is a.rather secret, unknownItalian restaurantinTulsa which offers delicious, made to orderfood with trained staff and elegant service. And, surprisingly, it is hidden away in a shopping center in east Tulsa. Ti Amo hides on the end of a strip mall, east of the Albertson’s grocery store at 21st and Memorial. It’s a bit hard to find, but it’s wall worth.the effort. With a menu having a wide variety of styles "representing the whole of Italy," Ti Arno’s forteis Sicilian style cuisine. As you know, the island of Sicilly is in the Mediterranean, off the boot of Italy. Ithas an ancient culture and cuisine, and due to it’s island isolation, has preserved more authentic old Roman style cookingtechniques than the main country of Italy. And, sitting in a major ancient shipping lane, Silicianos have ofthadexotic spices, such as saffron and curries, to incorporate into their recipes. Seafood has also played an important role in the Sicilian diet. All diners are greeted with a complementary dish ofbruscetta,, whichis a slice of toast topped with a garlicky tomato and olive oil salsa. Fresh soups are made.daily- -the zuppa di giorno--and lovely fresh, Ti Amo 8151 E. 21st Cuisine: Italian Amblanee: Dressy Luncheon: ~[on.-Fri. 11-2 Evenln~s: Mon-Thurs. 5-9 Fri-Sat. Gl 10 Sundays ll-9pm Reservations advised on weekends. Smokln_$ Area? Not dlstlnet enouOh from non-smokln~. Full and wine list. Payment: Cash, American Express, Diners’ Clnb, Visa, ~/Iastereartl. No green salads are served family style. The biggest challengeis selecting one’s entree. Just want a simple plate of spaghetti? Well, which sauce? Pesto? Napolitana? Bolongese? Marinara? Carbonara? Aglio? These are the authentic recipes. And, as with any respectable Italian restaurant, pasta isn’t limited to spaghetti, the tortellini alia panna is a delicious pocket of pasta stuffed with ricotta cheeseand sauteed in a creamcognac sauce ($8.95). Particularly mouth-watering in the rigatoni con gorgonzola, big tubes ofmacaroni sauteed with fresh broccoli and served in a creamy gorgonzola cheese sauce ($9.50). You can get a fettucine Alfredo ($8.95) or a fettucine vongale ($8.95), which is sauced with a red or a white clam sauce. Keep in mind that all of these sauces are made the traditional way, with fresh cream and butter and freshly grated Italian cheeses - none of the thickeners and extenders you see in lesser restaurants. The lasagna al forno is a bit controversial. It is dry. But, it’s supposed to be dry, because that is the Sicilian way. So, don’t expect one of those huge, gooey mounds like they serve at the Spaghetti Warehouse. While recognizing their salute to lasagna tradition, personally, wedon’t care for the lasagna..Especially, since there are so many other, trttly wonderful dishes from which to choose. ~vteat based entrees also abound. The chickendella casa ($10.95) is a flavorful chicken breast with green peppers, mushrooms, and asparagus in a white wine parnlesan cream sance. Vitello alla TiAmo ($12.95) is n fork-tender p~ece of veal sauteed xn a cream sauce with artichokes and .walnuts. Worth every calorie. The shrimp coriana (S12.95) features figs and peppercorns. An orange roughy fillet ($12.95) is prepared meuniere and topped with pesto butter. One can also have the exquisite filletto bordelaise ($14.50), a gendy prepared beef tenderloin witkmushrooms, burgundy, sundried tomatoes, and herbs and spices. For dessert, several selections are always available, but the signature item is strawberries alla TiAmo. Much like a cherries jubilee, the strawberries are cookedin a variety ofliqueurs and poured overa big scoop of vauillaice cream, then topped with whippedcream. Always save room for the strawberries. Service at Ti Amo is generally pretty good. They strive for an efficientand well trained work staff appropriate to a"white tablecloth" restaurant. The ambiance is a little on the I_as Vegas side, with large, round, red vinyl booths lining the. walls of the main dining room, but regular tables are available, as well. There is a full bar~: and a decent wine list, though one not featuring as many Italian wines as one might. Ti Amo is a restaurant well-deserving of it’s name, which in English, is translated, "I love you." Once you find and experience this place, you’ll love it. It’ s an Italian adventure well-worth the search. by Esther Rothblum : own femininity. Whenever women put Until recently, there was little open . energy into that, they’re taking energy discussion about Lesbians in sports:. The ° away frombeing strong womenand being mediafocuSedonBillieJeanKing’s"pali- ¯ the Uest athletes and coaches they can be. mony" suit, MartinaNavratilova’s break- " "I wish there were more Lesbians that up with her romantic part- could come out," Pat conner, andthe"Lesbianpres- tinued. "Some ofitis inter- "I wls]~ tlaere were nalized homophobia. ence" in professional golf. _ Of course, Lesbian sports more Lesbians Some of it is the nature of fans could give you the that couldcome athletics - athletes and names ofLesbians atheltes, coaches are often not parcoaches, and media sports out . . . Some of it ticularlypolitical. Coaches reporters - but these is internalized don’t want.to do anything women were very, very thatis controversial, especloseted. ]lomoo]lobia. cially at the Division I col- Now Pat Griffin has Some otzt=’--zs tide lege level where it could written the book Strong hurt their recruiting ef- Women, Deep. Closets: nature of at]aletles forts." Pat finds that Divi- LesbiansandHomophobia -- at]aletes and sion II or III coaches are in Sports. ’TvebeenaLes- oftenmoreopenabout their bian athlete ,and coach eoaelaes are o~en Lesbianism. "They don’t myself so a big part of tliis not particularly have that public scrutiny book comes from my own experience" she toldmein pol~tlcal. Coaclaes athnedrYecorunitingl."erses dependent a recent interview, "and over the last 15 years or so don’t want to do Even Lesbian fans are invisible. A recent article I’vetakenonthistopicasa anyda~ng tll.at, is in The Advocate was ensemi- crusade." controversial tiffed "Phantom fans: No- Patherselfplayedsports body wants to admit inhigh school and college, espeeially at tl~e they’re there, but the Lesand then went onto coach Division I college bian presence- at profeshigh school and college sionalwomen’sbasketball students. Shelived withher "level vi]aere it games is obvious." Of the Lesbianloverbutdatedthe could hurt tlaelr twoprofessionalwomen’s high school wrestling basketball leagues, Pat coach for "cover." As she reerultln~ Griffin has found the ABL writes in her book: "I re- efforts."- tobemoreope~ywelcommember a teacher evalua- ing to Lesbian fans than. tionmeeting Ihadwiththe the WNBA. She says this principal ofthehigh school where I taught " reflects the fact that the WNBA is_ conand coached. He complimented me be- " trolled by the male NBA. cause "I pre~ented such a good image for ¯ Increasingly; th0ugh, Lesbiansin sports physical education, not like some of the ° are coming out. In its November 1997 other womenP.E. teachers and coaches in " issue, OUT magazine reported on Divithe country.’ Though he never explicitly : sion I coachKarenWeaver; who was fired mentioned being a Lesbian, I knew ex- ¯ as field hockey coach from Ohio State actly what he meant and cowered further " University. Now she is suing for antiback in my closet." .¯ Lesbian discrimination. Lesbian film- Lateron, Pat began to come out, firstby ¯ makerandOscarnomineeDeeMosbacher attendifig Lesbian events and then by " has produced the film OUT FOR A speaking openly about homophobia at " CHANGE (WomanVision Productions) women athletic conferences. After a life- : about Lesbians in sports. As Pat writes in time as ah athlete and coach, she is cur- ¯ theconclusionofherbook: "Inmy vision, rently professor at the University of Mas- : women will take pride in our athleticism sachusetts in Amherst in a program on " without apology. Women will not be con= social justice education. "I see myself as ¯ strained by socially constructed notions an educator/activist," she told me, "and a " of femininity 9r compulsory heterosexulot of that comes frommy sport andphysi- ° ality. There will be no need to apologize cal education background. I have coaches ¯ about muscularity, physical competence, inmy classes now, and some ofwhat I say ¯ or passion for and commitment to sport. blows their minds, particularly when I ..inmyvisionofsport, womenwillvalue talk about heterosexism. In athletics, this " our relationships with other women. We topic is so silent." . will not be self-conscious about loving Strong Women, Deep Closets focuses ° teammates and competitors as friends or onthefactthathomophobiadoesn’tjust " lovers." Strong Women, Deep Closets can affect Lesbians, but all women athletes ° be obtained from Human Kinetics, 1607 and coaches. The "Lesbian label" is used ¯ North Market St., P.O. Box 5076, to intimidate women. ’q’he main message Champaign, IL 61825-5076.- that I’dlike women to get is how Lesbians . Books about Lesbians in Sports: are demonized in sports, and how that -: Ifit’sarainyday, or your favorite sport, workstothedetrimentofwomen’sathlet- ° isoverfortheseason, herearesomebooks ics in general," said Pat. ’q’here is so : with a Lesbian sports theme to enjoy: muchdi~,isivenessamongwomeninsports " General Fiction about Lesbians in -heterosexual women are afraid of being " Sports: called Lesbians and they resent Lesbians ¯ Sportsdykes: Stories From On and Off and blame them for having caused -this " theField, editedby Susan Fox Rogers. St. ’image problem.’ I want women in sports " Martin’s Press, 1994. to realize that it’s to their advantage to : Sweat, edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe. Seal work together against that kind of intimi- ¯ Press, 1995. dation ,.that’s how women’s sports is ". A Whole Other Ballgame: Women’s Litgoing to grOW. It’s not going to grow by " erature and Women’s Sport, edited by women being embarrassed by the Lesbi- : Joli’Sandoz. 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However, they seem somewhat reluctant to take advantage of the DIYD’s good graces; not, I must emphasize, because of my. skills. I rather suspect that it may be related to to myinspired, youthful crayon murals instead. Parents, like elephants, never forget, and they make sure you don’t either. It’s part of their job. But you, patient reader, are here for painting advice, not atherapy session, so let’s proceed. This month we’ll get our work area prepped. The anal retentiveinthereading audience may now rejoice; all thepreparations for painting can be texlious and time-consuming but they insure a quality, professional look thatyour straightfriends will envy. The other, less tangible reward is that the actual paindng will seem like a piece of cake in comparison. No darlings, don’t run away when we have gotten this far together; things arenot as evil andugly as they sound. - ’ : . . - FirSt make a list Of ~wtiat you will heed: palm, brushes putty -knife, and spackling compound (if you have cracks or nail holes), masking tape, drop cloths, paint rollers and roller covers, a roller pan; a roller extension, a six pack of your favorite beverage - this isthirsty work! If you are only painting a small area, borrow what you can from others; if not, start assembling the items on your list well in advance ofcommencingyour.project since they can add up to a sizable purchase. This discussion will assume a prey straight forward paint job - if you want " any of the Specialty finishes now available, your local mega-hardware store can provide information and sometimes even seminars to guide you. For new walls, and dark color coverup, I recommend a coat of white, water-based primer. In the bathroom, you might consider using an oil based primer, such as Kilz (it dries in 60 minutes); this give you more protections from moisture and mildew. Irecommend amatte white ceiling paint (or you can have it tinted); these paints are ultra flat and actually help your room appear larger. The white reflects light nicely, too. Wall can be painted in flat, eggshdl, satin, semi-gloss or gloss finishes Generally, youwoulduse anY of the former three in you general living areat]’ depending on the level ofsheen youwan ; the semi-gloss and glosses are reserved for moisture areas such as bathrooms, kitchens and utility rooms because they repel moisture, discourage mildew and easier to keep clean. Derkins, my puppy terrier=ist, has made me grateful for scrubbable paints. Buy as good a p,ai."nt as you can afford; cheap paint don t last, usually requiremore coats, anddon’tdean ¯.. Buy as good a palnt as you e.an afford; el~eap palnt don’t last, usually r~ulre more coats, and don’t clmn well. You’re not going to want to prep, paint, and move ~urnlture every year or two unless you are a High Grand Masoctdst. And ff you’re one those why aren’t you palntllag someone else’s house? There’s an "S" every "M." well. You’re not going to want to prep, paint, and move furniture every year or twotmless you,are a High.Grand,Masoch,- ist. And if you re one of uaose why aren t you painting someone else’s house? There’s an for every I recommend washing the wallsbeforeyoubeginpainting. Iftherehas been aheavy smoker or grubby hands present, you’ll need to do so anyway, and the paint adheres better to cleaned walls. You can useTSP (trisodium phosphate) powder purchased from a paint or hardware store., but 1/4 cup of Spic’n’Span and 114 cup of bleach in 2 gallons of water works just as well. Break o~tthose operalength Platex gloves and work it girl! A quick wash and rinse is just fine; it doesn’t have to be an all day project. After all, you’re getting ready to cover it with paint. Move your furniture - the DIYD gently urges you to find a friend to help. Use masking tape to protect floors, trim, windows, etc. Theblue painters tape works best but cost more. There is also a new product that has masking tape attached to 6 inches of kraft paper on a roll. This is great for trim where paint can spatter or spill. Unless you are a terrific trim painter ,pleasego to the extra _trouble of maskingoff hght s.w.itche.s .a~..d 9u.ttet. plates. Painting around them tn sire is JUSt tacky, tacky, tacky. The DIYD expects higher standards from her proteges Use a light, weight spackling compound and a putty knife to repair small cracks .and holes; when dry sand lightly and dean on the dust. Larger cracks -not the kind Jerry Falwell find so offensive; those on a wall - require a slightly more sophistieated repair that the DIYD promises to teach in a future column. Lay down your dustcloths and cover your furniture and prepare to paint. Referring back to last month’s article, assemble yourbrushes andpaint the edges of your work area. Do ceilings first, then walls, then trim if you’re painting that. Clean your brush, then put a damp roller cover on your roller, put some paint in the roller pan, andload theroller withpaintby rolling it back an forth in the pan of paint. Work in as much paint without it dripping, but don’t squeeze it dry. Roll the paint on in the shape of a large "M", then roll to fill it in. Don’tbe too stingy with the paint, or that one coat paint will turn into ¯ a two coat paint; roll out any drips or lap marks. Workyour way across the ceiling : or wall until it is coated, rolling paint just ¯. into the outer part of your brush painted margin. ~ Let the paint dry about an houL With ~ lots of good light, look for thin or missed ~ spots and touch them up. Remove you ¯ masking tape. Don’t wait more than 12 ¯ hours to remove tape, or you’ll probably ¯ remove paint on the wall, too, which will ¯ make you cranky. Clean any wayward ¯ drops or spatters ofpaint withawet, soapy sponge. Paint brushes should be cleaned : as described last month. The DIYD buys ¯ a package of moderatdy priced roller covers and just discards them when fin- ~ ished; see DIYD, page 14 President’s Statement on Executive Order 11478, entitled "Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government" Today I have signed an Executive Order endfled Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government. The Order provides a uniform policy for the Federal Government to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientationin the federal civilian workforce and states that policy for the first time in an Executive Order of the President. It has always been the practice of this Administration to prohibit discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation in the civilian workforce, and most federal agencies and department have taken actions, such as the issuance of policy directives or memoranda from the agency heads, to memorialize that policy. The Executive Order I have signed today will ensure that there is a uniform policy throughout the Federal Government iby adding sexual .ti-ientation to the !istof categories for which discrimination xs prohibited in Executive Order 11478 (i.e. race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, or age). This Executive Order states,.Administration policy but does not antl cannot create any new enforcement rights (such as the ability to proceed before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). Those rights can be granted only by legislationpassed by the Congress, such as the l~-.mplbyment Non-Discrimination Act. I again call upon Congress .to pass this important piece.of ci:vil.rights legislation which wo~ldextend these basic-~mploy~ mentdiscrjmination protections to all Gay and Lesbian Americans. Individuals should not be denied ajob on the basis of something that has norelationship to their ability to i~erform their work. and wounds us; .. stand fast, my brother. ¯ ." Largent wrote,"I want toaddmy voice to those..: who’ve gathered in supixa’t of Reggie-White... America desperately needs more men of courage like Reggie White, who won’t allow the ’politically correct’ culture to keep him from speaking the truth..." 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I like going out. watching tv at home. taking long drives, and being very romantic¯ I’d like a permanent relationship but we should be friends first. (Henrietta) "~14467 NICE AND EASY This friendly, 58 year old, White male seeks a nice guy to have oleasant conversations with. and to enoy during relaxmg evenings together. (Tulsa *~14641 ARE YOU OUT THERE? I’m a Single Male, 28, 5’8", 145 Ibs., 9odd-looking. I just want to meet some Guys oul there. ~15065 LIKE A LADY I want to .get toflemer withGross-Dressers or She-M:~=~s. I ust want to meet you and treat you rice. "~15427 DAILY RITUAL When I get home, I like to lay back have a good drink and think.ab0ut a hot Man and wish I Jit =n my hand¯ ¯ Then I start mass, glng myself. I’d love to talk to you. (Tulsa) ’~16161 A HEAD ABOVE THE REST This G~y White Male, 30, seeks a.distinguished older-Gentleman, 30-45, who enjoys hiking, bikingand nude Sunbathing. I haven tight butt and give great head. (Tulsa) "~16544 SCRATCH THE ITCH I’m Iookihg for a" Bi-cudous" Male like¯ myself to have my fii’St expefieoce with. I’m fit, athletic, 29, 6’,-190 bs, tan, Wth brownhair~g’reen eyes." miJscular legs, anda smooth chest. "l~ra seeking the same~type. (Gra~f .Lake) ’~12004 . A LITTLE SANITY I’m a sane, intellige7n0tIbhso, anevsetryGoaryal wbohtittoemM. aI’lme, s5e3e,kin6g’, Gay or Bi Males who’are.hohest’for friendship first and a possible long-term relationship. No games. ,Give ~e a chance. You won’t be disappo!pted. (Tulsa) ~17178 I.WANT A NICE FIRM ASS This Gay White, hairy chested, top Man is 6’2", ¯ 175 lbs, dark hair and blue eyes. I am seeking a bottom with a nice firm ass so that we can get together on a regular basis. (Tulsa) ~17350 CAN YOU HANDLE IT? Hey Guys, this 25 yea~: "old Gay White Male is looking for Gay Men who are ready to have a good time. I go out dressed like a Woman at times and I am very feminine. If your man enough to handle that, then please give me a call, (Tulsa) ’~17623 MAN OF ACTION This good looking; masculine, 34 year old, White male, 6ft, 1751bs. with a good build, seeks similar guys, 21 to 35, into sports, fun times, traveling, and relaxing at home. (McAIlister1 "1z’13473 MAKE IT FEEL GOOD I’m a Blond, hairy, tanned, good looking, White male, 33, 6’1, !801bs, With a g( ~tee. I want some good times on the phone br ~n ~erson. (Tulsa) "~’8674 THINK KINK I like all kinds of kinky sex and want to meet guys, 18 to 45, who have some creative ideas. I’m a good looking, 30 year old, white male, 5’9, 1501bs. I’m well built and orefer the same. (Fort Smith) ~8308 TONED BUT TIMID Attractive, Gay, White male, 38, 5’9, 1721bs, with Brown hair, Hazel eyes, a mustache, goa[ee, and well defined body, is HIV positive but very healthy. I’m shy, smcere, and masculine, t’d like to meet a good looK- =rig, Gay or Bi male. 20 to 45. who’s versatile or a top, who has an above average endowment, for casual fun Body hair and facial hair are plusses. (Ft. Smith) "~8893 ON THE "i~P AND UP Handsome, Gay, Seminole Indian, 27, 5’6. 1301bs. seeks an honest, trustworthy person. 27 to 35. WhO shares my interests in movies. music, and dancing, for friendship leading to a long term relationship. I don’t smoke and am a social drinker (Stillwell) ~’9241 There’s no charge to create an ad! Call 1-800-326-MEET CURIOSITY¯ GOTTHE CAT I’m a very curious, Married Woman. I am very open minded and looking for a female ,who ~.is. a so cur ous. (.Mcalester) "~"18464 (~ALI TRANSPLANT recently move9 here from California and need some fdends.~o show me what Oklahoma is all about) I en 0y music, dancing, sports, go ng Out "for {un. and ~,o~od people to share t all with. (Tulsa! 96~1~ . " ~ NEW TO THE SNOW ~his 20 year old Gay, White female 515 1201bs just moved here from Ft. Lauderda e. haven’t met many Gay-and Bi womyn ~/et, but am anxious to make some friends. I prefer womyn between 18 and 30, of any. race.¯ Some of my interests ncude rollerb adir~, moves, and going to parks (Tulsa) ~’10181 MIDWEST TiES fm a Lesbian writer and journalist who’s tied to the~midwest for a while. I’m interested in meeting }ther womyn with whom to discuss liter- ~ture and the world. Who knows what might develop? (Tulsa) ~10163 TEACH ME, PLEASE I’m nol very experienced in this and I’m hoping to meet someone who can talk to me, give me pointers, or tell me how it is. I’m 23 years old and have been attracted to women, but have never acted on it. (Tulsa) ~13687 "DNO FRIENDS IN ONE This 24 year old, White female, with a 24 year old girlfriend, seeks friends for us to hang out with. (Tulsa) ~13323 BUSY NEWCOMER rm an attractive. petite, Black female, 25, 4’11, ~1201bs, with one child. 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In his interview with Roll Call, Inhofe said Hormel "has made statements that ¯ have convinced me and others that he’s : much more concerned about his own Gay ." agenda than heis inrepresenting the inter- ¯ ests of the U.S." Of blocking the noa~inalaon, Inhofe sat& I would feel tlie same ¯ way if it were David Duke or anybody ." whose agenda is more important than the ¯ country." Hormel has promised to avoidGay poli- : tics on the job. "I will not use, nor do I ¯ think it is appropriate to u~e, the office of the ambas.sador to advo~’any,,p~,,rsonal views I may hold on any.’i~e, Hormel " wrote to Sen. Gordon Smith, R~Ore, who ¯ now supports him. ¯ Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she believes Hormel’s nomination would ¯ easily be confirmed if it reached the floor ¯ and there are close to enough votes -60 - ¯ to halt any Republican filibuster. As for Inhofe’s comments, she said,"This really ¯ mffor.~Rmatereference reveals the depth of, bigo.~.that is pursuing, this nominee.. Se~’P.-aul Wellstone, D-Mian~ .said he is planning a push after.theMemorial Day ¯ recess to get a vote on Hormd in the Senate. against various groups of people, resulting in coundess abuses and atrocities, all in the name of God and all "justified" by scripture. The Bible does NOTjustify the denial and restriction of civil rights. Quite to the contrary, our faith asks us to love : each other and have compassion for one ] another. : Regardless of what one believes about ¯ homosexuality, gay and lesbian people i make up 10 to 20% of.our society and ¯ have made, a~d C0ntin~ to m~e, imp~- ¯ tant contributions to our schools, cities, ~ state and nation. Homosexual.people are : ou~.~ister~ a~d.b_rothers,f..aZ-h,er~ ¯ ers~s~n~,~ddaugh.te..rs.+:spouses;~fi,~o.d.~ and teaeher,s... All A~ei~c~s des~ : same proi~,~tionS,:. ~r~.e~i~~oms,,~fight~ ,..~,~_~ ¯ responsibilities. 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Title A name given to the resource [1998] Tulsa Family News, June 1998; Volume 5, Issue 6 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. 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(AP)- One of the resolutions adopted : O’RYAN Program in Limbo Dueto Funding Lapse in 1997 by the Democratic Party State Conventiofi TULSA - Red Rock Behavioral Health Center is in a financial ¯ says the party "opposes, deplores and disavows crisis with its Lesbian/Gay youth support program. The program ¯ discrimination, extremism and hatred of every which goes by the acronym, O’RYAN for Oklahoma Rainbow ¯ kind." Young Adults’ Network, provides."developmentally appropriBut state Democratic lawmakers raised no arguate" education, support and social activities for "Lesbian, Gay, : ment recently when a bill to bar convicts from ¯ Bisexual, Transgendered and questioning" adolescents and young ¯ working in schools was amended to also bar "ho: adults from 14 to 24. ¯ mosexuals or lesbians": Nor did they say anything ~ According to Betsy Murphy, program director, a large portion ¯ when legislation was amended to bar children :’ of the program had been funded through a federal grant for HIV ¯ being placed in the foster care of"someone who is ¯ prevention and education from the CDC, Centers for Disease ¯ a homosexual or a lesbian." ¯ Both amendments were offered by Republican ¯ Control. However, the grants are administered through the Okla.¯ homa State Dept. of Health (OSDH) which is running weeks ¯ lawmakers who are vocal about their opposition to behind schedule in seeking grant proposals. While Murphy was ¯ homosexuality. But it was Oklahoma Democratic ¯ extremely reluctant to criticize OSDH, she acknowledged that in Party Executive Director Pat Hall who was taken to ¯ the past OSDH has handled grants so that a new year’s grant if ¯ task for the inaction of Democratic lawmakers, a WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate faces a decision ¯ won, began close to the time the prior year’s grant ended. And ¯ story in Sunday’s Tulsa World said. soon on whether America will have its first openly Gay ¯ although Red Rock pays for a substantial part of the costs of the In aletter to Hall, Tom Neal, editor and publisher ambassador. Supporters of James Hormel are demand¯ ¯" O’RYAN program, the OSDH grants typically have paid most of of Tulsa Family News, said it may be the Republiing he at least get a vote while conservative opponents staff salaries. As of April 1 st, no more funds are coming from the ¯ cans who publicly bash Gays, but it is the Demoinsist that Republicans take a stand on a key "lifestyle" ¯ CDC/OSDH and Murphy is appealing to theTulsa community to crats who are passing the legislation. Issue. provide financial aid. " "I genuinely believe that these nearly unanimous Hormel, President Clinton’s choice ~to be envoy to ¯ In a press release, Red Rock states, ,,while in the past, we have ¯ votes help create a climate where physical assaults Luxembourg, was the only foreign ~elations nominee ¯ ¯ not acted upon at the end of last year’s session. Three :¯ been able to weather out these funding cycles, the situation now ¯ are considered perfectly acceptable," said Neal, is dire and without outside help, we cannot continue.. " citing Gay-bashing crimes, including an assault on Republican senators, expressing concern that he would Red Rock notes that the program has helped hundreds of youth ¯ two men in Tulsa. "Why is it, Pat, that Democrats use the post to promote a "Gay agenda", put "holds" on ¯ : in Tulsa County and surrounding areas. O’RYAN. provides ¯ only recognize my.community’s existence when the nomination, effectively freezing it. ¯ Democrats now-are demanding action. Before leav- : weekly support groups, individual and family counseling, HIV ¯ they’re voting to compare us to convicted felons ¯ peer education and HIV testing and counseling, a informational who should notbe allowed to teach, but when we’re ing for the Easter recess, 42 Democrats sent Senate library, and safe, alcohol-free and drug-free recreational and being assaulted.., we don’t exist," Neal asked. Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., a lett~r supporting ¯ social events. O’RYAN helps to providepositiverole models and ¯ Hall tried to defend House Democrats and their the nomination and urging a vote. Democrats also took to the Senate floor to express concern that confirmation : helps to foster a sense of self-esteem and worth. ¯ failure to debate the amendments.’ If) ou debate it, ¯ gives thos~ preaching hate a bully pulpit," he "isOa "~ " ..... Donauons can be made to O RYAN, c/oRedRockBeha ]oral ~ ’ it w asoemgnetaupomytw, ....... cause’" tiormel...... ¯" nea~m said. "If you just move it through with a voice vote, I ,,, V y :"rreju 7 ...... ,. ...... ¯ ~ervlces, 1 24 Past mgnt Street, tulsa, uh/~1~4-, for : = :... ¯ ..... ’ ....... mceoasenonsexumonenmuonsnomana enop!aceln see House, page 3 ~aa .-lrl~rmal ~Oa ~ ¯ more nuprmg~0n, can ~etsyor ~en thi~ debate" , ¯ then you have eliminated, ¯ : ¯ ¯ Inhofe Still Blocking Gay Ambassadorial Nominee Oklahoma Gay : ROdeo: ..........P[a-nning for Tulsa-Pride Group Holds 13the.Event : March. &. Picnic Under Way OKLAHOMACITY - OKC will host the annual Great Plains Regional Rodeo on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22 -24. While the rodeo will take place in the newly remodeled and air-conditioned Barn Six of the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in southwest Oklahoma City, registration, parties and the awards ceremony will be’at the Ramada Inn Airport Northwest. The Great Plains Regional Rodeo is One of a number of continent wide rodeos sponsored by 23 member associations of the International Gay Rodeo Association. While many of these organizations are in the southwest, there are also groups in California, Washington, DC and in Canada. The Oklahoma Gay Rodeo Association (OGRA) was formed in 1984 to promote rodeo-ing and to raise funds to fight HIV and AIDS. Since 1986, OGRA has contributed over $60,000 to Oklahoma AIDS organizations. OGRA invites all who are interested to join the organization -neither riding nor competing are required. Tickets f0r this year’s rodeo are $30 for the packet which includes both days rodeo events, the Friday evening party and the awards ceremony. Tickets to individual~events are available at the door. Room rates at the Ramada are $55 for up to four persons, and suites are $95/evening. Call 405-~47-2351 for reservations; OtherDivisi0n III rodeos are: Omaha, NE, June 1921; Wichita, KS, AUgust %9;. and Kansas City, MO, August 29-31, The Internatii~nal:iGay !~odeo..Association Finals Rodeo .will beheld ~inPho~i~x-, ~AZ0n October 22-25. ¯ ’ For more informati.on; cal~405z842-08~9! " DIRECTORY~E~ERS US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS "ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P..~ P..4 P. 6 P: 8 COMMUNITY CALENDAR BOOK REVIEW RESTAURANT REVIEW GAY STUDIES + DO-IT-YOURSELF CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 9 P~ 10 P. 11 P. 12 P. 14~5 - Equality Begins at Home :1999 March= on The " Red Ribbon Revue.& Concessions Carwash Slated ." TTULSA - Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, in conjunc¯ ¯ tion with several co~umuaity businesses is preparing for this " June’s Pride Events. On June 6th, Concessions will be again ; ¯ holding another Drag Queen Car Wash from 11-4 in the back ¯ parking lot of the dub, 3340 S. Peoria. Organi,zers promise the ¯ : event will happen come rain or shine, and last year’s car wash did : : : have a little rain. This year’s event will benefit TOHR and Tulsa’s Gay Pride ," ¯ ¯ Picnic. Organizers say yon will see all your favorite Broo"kside ¯ " Divas and some of Oklahoma’s top title holders wash cars for ¯ " charity in full drag and there may also be a man or two in a string bi"kini helping out. Donations will be collected for these charities ¯ ¯ ¯ through out that weekend- not just at the ear wash. Tickled Pink ¯ will have ffome Pride items available for sale also. Organizers " added that last year they raised $1000 and that this year they hope ¯ to double or triple that amount. : " Later on that Saturday, Renegades/Rainbow Room will be ¯ " holding their annual Red Ribbon Revue which will also benefit " this year’s Pride events. Helga will host this event and call : ¯ Renegades at 585-3405 for details and times. ¯ " This year’s Pride events have moved again due to concerns " from the City of Tulsa’s Park and Recreation Dept. about parking ¯ " problems at Owen Park~ This year’s site is Veteran Park between ¯ 18th & 21st Streets at Boulder. Rick Martin, Pride Events : ¯ " coordinator noted that this park is larger than Owen and though " it doesn’t have much parking itself, it is surrounded by business ¯ : ¯ parking lots which should be available on a Saturday. ¯ While a few community members, such as those in sensitive ¯ " professions, like public school teachers, have expres sed concerns ¯ about the more visible location, many others have welcomed the " new site - especially the owners of Renegades/Rainbow Room : which is 2 blocks north of the park. Details are not yet available ¯ : but organizers indicate that Renegades will host a post picnic ¯ ¯ event. TOHR co-organizer Greg Gatewood said that plans are ¯ underway for the 2rid annual Pride March to be held just before : ¯ ¯ and to the picnic but that details will be forthcoming. Organizers ¯ ¯ note that community organizations and businesses are Welcome ¯ to have booths at the Picnic for a modest fee. : Later in June, probably June 28th, Oklahoma City will ho~t the : ¯ ¯ statewide Pride parade. More details should be available in early ¯ June on those events. Info. on Pride events, call 743~4297. Oklahoma State Capitol April 29, 1997 - The Federation of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and April 29, 1997 - The Federatiola of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Organizations will sponsor a historic, coordinated week of actions focussed on state government and statewide organizang. After many national and statewide discussions and after conducting a state-by-state assessment from its members, the Federation of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Orgamzations has decidedit is time to focus energy on our home states. Under the theme Equality Begins at Home, each state is called upon toplan an activity - amarch, rally,lobby day, state conference, or any other visibility campaign m their state capitol to occur during the week of March 21-27, 1999. Equality Begins at Home will provide an opportunity to focus the national spotlight on the organi zing challenges and legislative battles faced by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender people in state houses across the nation. The goal is to build statewide orgamzing capability across the nation. The purpose of the Equality Begins at Home actions will be to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender equal rights in every state. "The Equality Begins at Home actions enable us to focus our energy on orgamzing and educating at the state level. Clearly, more and more battles are fought in the states. With anti-Gay initiatives and referendums from Colorado to Maine, and the right wing organizing against our families; we must build,,a stronger grassroots movement in every state, explained Paula Ettelbrick, Co-Chair of the FederationandLegislativeDirectorofNew York’s Empire State Pride Agenda. "The Equality Begins at Home actions give us a tremendous opportunity to strengthen our efforts in the states and create a more powerful network across our country," stated Dianne Hardy-Garcia, co-chair of the Federation see March, page 15 �Carbon Copy: Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants Gay people should be 832-1269 *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB4140, Tulsa, OK 74159 592-2143 included, in Scouts *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston e-mail: TulsaNews@ earthlinlc net 744-0896 ¯ Letter to the Editor website: http: / lusers.aol.comFFulsaNews/ *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 599-9512 . Petaluma (California) Argus-Couri’er *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria Publisher + Editor: Tom Neai, Entertaifiment Writer: James " 583 -6666 Christjohn, Writers + contributors: Jean-Claude de I am 12 years old and a Life Rank Boy *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th . Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. I like 749-4511 Flambeauchaud, Barry Hensley, Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche, *Gold Coast Coffe~ House, 3509 S. Peoria 585-3134 Lament Lindstrom, Judy McCormick. Esther Rothblum, Mary Scouting alot. I am writing to youbecause *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 599-7777 Schepers, Member o! The Associated Press I want people to know that the Boy Scouts *Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria ¯ 749-1563 of America is a great program but it ex*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th I ssued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this ¯ cludes Gay people. 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"¯" crediL of Oklahoma, and I hope, Bennett, are doing work behind First they came for the Gays and ! didn’t ." who referred to the systematic persecution of Jews, other Germans, including Gay men, and non-Germans, by the Nazis. Now that we are just a few weeks past Passover, the ancient celebration of the liberation of Jerks from Egyp¯ dan slavery,-and right after Holocaust remembrance ceremonies, perhaps it’s equally just to comment on the ongoing silence of Tulsa’s Jewish leaders about recent Oklahoma House of Representatives legislative attacks on Gay & Lesbian Oklahoma citizens (see related story; page one). Of course, to those who follow these issues, this silence is nothing new. Last year when the legislature attacked s,Tulsa s Jewlshleadership was silent too. And the year before that. And back to those nasty, hate-filled public hearings about the City’s Human Rights COmmission’s Task Force report, Tulsa’s Jewish leaders were silent. Yolanda Chamey, formerly community relations specialist with the Jewish Federation, claimed that the Jewish Federation did send aletter to Mayor Savage supporting fair and equal treatment fo!~ Gay & Lesbian citizens but no one ever saw this letter, or would even have known about it if not for this newspaper asking. And while such a position could have set a standard for the greater community had it been known, the secretive manner in which the letter was sent guaranteed that no one would know about it. Some will ask why pick on the Jew~ .~ Why not ask why other groups which should speak out for social justice remain silent? It is a fair question. Indeed, the silence of the Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Disciples of Christ, even the Roman Catholics - most of whom haye 0fficial denominational policies which call them to workfor civil rights protections for Lesbians and Gaymen (not just oppose attacks) - is troubling. And of course, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry which hardly has met a social justice issue it couldn’t embrace, seems to continue to find Gay people not worthy of justice or even minimal civil rights protections. Even the voice of the courageous Rev. Russell Bennett of the most Gay-friendly "main-line" Christian denomination in Tulsa, the United Church of ChrisL has not been heard publicly on this matter as of our press time¯ To their the scenes to protest these hate-based actions. However, it is the Jews with whom Gay people share ~ the experience of systematic Nazi persecution. Gay men, ¯ like Jews, were targeted by Nazi legislation which essen¯ tially made their existence illegal and which set the stage : for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. And while the persecution of Gay men may not havebeen part of a : .systematic genocidal theory, the.experience of the camps ¯ m which Gay men typically suffered some of the worst ." conditions and were most despised of all the prisoners, ¯ leftthemjustas dead. AndwhilethoseJews who survived ¯ can speak of "liberation" from the camps, and even -" received reparations with which to beginlife again, those ; Gay menwhodidsurvive wereimmediatelyreincarcerated ¯ as "criminals" - for the crime of loving - by the Allies. ¯ Soitis this sharedhistory as well as the observation that : in the US, Jews have traditionally heldleadership roles in ¯ social justice movements, that makes this silence so paiufU~. Jewish Americans were active in the civil rights movement of the 50’ s and 60’s which sought to end legal segregation. This was true in Tulsa as it was elsewhere. It’s not that Tulsa’s Jewish community has not been ¯ asked to help¯ The day after the first piece of hate -" legislation was passed (the amendment of Senate bill ; #1394 by Rep. Bill Graves, R-OKC), Rabbi Charles ¯ Sherman of Temple Israel who is also president of the ¯ National Couferenee of Community and Justice (for." merly of Christians and Jews), and David Bernsiein, ". executive director of the Jewish Federation were tele¯ phoned to ask for their help. To date, nearly four weeks -" and several follow-up calls later, neither has responded. What does this mean? Are they scared? Is it that ." ; speaking up for Gay people would somehow threaten the ¯ security of Tulsa Jews? This is hard to believe. Tulsa’s : Jewish community, though Small in numbers, has largely been rather successful and now is represented on nearly ¯ everymajorinfluential community organi7ationfrom the ¯ Chamber of Commerce to TU’s Board of Trnstees to the : National Conference. : Whether it is just plain old-fas_hioned bigotry, or merely : ¯ the catering to other’s pi’ejudice, it’s coming from those ¯ who ought to know better. Hebrew Scriptures, which Jew : and Christian each revere, exhort us "to seek justice" ; not "to seek justice - except for those socially inconve¯ nient Gay people over there". Hopefully, Tulsa’s Gay ¯ community will see Tulsa’s Jewish community take this : exhortation more seriously someday, and the next time ; thelaws of the land are used to attack Gay citizens, there ¯ will be as much outcry as there was when a cross of : Christmas lights was placed, wrongfully, on a public : building. - Tom Neal, editor & publisher no place in the Senate and no #ace in America," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Hormel, a (> -year-old San Francisco businessman, philanthropist, Democratic Party contributor and heir to the Hormel Meat Co. fortune, receivedunanimous Senate confirmation last May for another post, as an alternate to the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly¯ He sailed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, winning approval on a 16-2 vote last November, after Secretary of State Madele’me Albright assured Chair-. man Jesse Helms~R-N.C., that Hormel was highly qualified and would not promote his personal interests. Helms voted against Hormel but let the nomination advance to the Senate floor¯ In a letter to Sea. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., a committee member, in February, Hormel said: "I will not use, nor do I think it is appropriate to use, the office of the ambassador to advocate any personal views I may hold." He pledged to resign from mostofhis board seats, limit his charitable giving and prohibit use of his name in fund raising. But that has not satisfied Republican Sens. Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Bob Smith of New Hampshire, who put holds on the nomination. Conservative groups also continue to oppose Hormel as a "radical Gay activist". Gary Bauer’s Family Research Council cited Hormel’s financial support for a documentary aimed at educators that the group said promotes "Gay lifestyles"¯ It also pointed to a Gay and Lesbian materials wing in the San :. Francisco public library supported by and named for ¯ Hormel that contains controversialliterature. Further, the ¯ council said, Hormel presided over a 1996 Gay pride ¯ parade in San Francisco at which he was heard laughing ¯ at n/ale drag queens dressed as nuns. Bauer said Luxem¯ bourg is 97 percent Roman Catholic, and"appointmg an ; ambassador who shows no~hing but contempt for certain ¯ groups of believers should offend every American who ¯ believes in the Constitution." ¯ Hormd said he had no role in deciding the contents of ¯ either thelibrary collectio,n or the documentary. "I hardly view myself as a’radical. I am abusinessman and lawyer ¯ withmore than 30years of commitment to public service, ¯ social justice and human rights," he wrote Smith. In considering Hormel’s n0mination, Republicans must ¯ deal both with general gripes by socialconservatives that -" they haven’t done enough to advance pro-family pro_" grams, and conversely with concerns about being de. picted as hostile to Gays. ¯ "I don’t see how the Republican Party wants to be ¯ known as the party that discriminates on the basis of ¯ sexual orientation," said Winnie Stachelberg of the Hu¯ man Rights Campaign, a leading Gay political organiza¯ tion. Hormd is on the board of the Human Rights Cam" paign Foundation, the group’s educational arm. "’It’s not his sexual orientation," countered Herb ¯ Johnson, chief of staff to Inhofe, one of Hormel’s leading ¯ Senate opponents..’q’he biggest problem is he has been ¯ inclined to use this to push an agenda that doesn’t neces.. sarily represent the agenda of the American people." ¯ speak up because I was not Gay... finally they came for the Jews, and by that time there was no-one left to say anything at all - a paraphrase of German pastor Martin Niemoeller ¯ a hate pulpit." Hall said Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives don’t want "to let hate spill out on the ¯ floor of the House." Hall also said House Speaker Loyd Benson deserves credit for "literally making sure Oklahoma is not shown nationally as a state of hate mongers.’" ¯ Both of the bills in question were sent on to conference ¯ committees for more work. "I think the bottom line is you need to look at the final ¯ vote on those measures and look at the final versions of the bill. I think that will speak for itself," said Benson, DFrederick. ¯ Rep. Bill Graves, R-Oklahoma City, author of the ¯ measure to prohibit"knoWn homosexuals and Lesbians" ¯ from working as contract or support employees in public schools, acknowledged that similar amendments on other ¯ bills have failed to survive conference committees. ¯ Whether the amendments are quietly removed in con-¯ ference is beside the point for Ncal, who maintains that the failure to oppose such measures loudly creates bigger ¯ problems for the Gay community. Hall admitted that another reason the amendments ¯ were passed without protest is that this year is an election ¯ year. Those who openly oppose such measures could be ¯ branded by their political opponents as promoting homo" sexuality. In fact, in 1996 Sen. Penny Williams, D-Tulsa, was ¯ criticized by her Republican opponent for voting against ¯ an amendment bamng same-sex marriages in Oklahoma. Ms. Williams, who won re-election, was one of only two state senators who voted against that amendment. ¯ Republican lawmakers aren’t always behind such con" troversies. In 1995, Democratic state representatives wrote resolutions opposing teaching about homosexuality in public schools even though no public schools in the ¯ state taught such subjects. The president of the Oklahoma Education Association said the resolutions were b~ed on a "blatantly misconstrued" measure passed by the National Education Asso¯ ciadon that dealt With training programs for education ¯ employees."for~the purposerf identifying and eliminat¯ ing sexual orientation stereotyping in the education s~tting.’" Hall said the finai resolution by Rep. Jim Hamilton, D-Poteau, was rewritten so that it was not offensive to ¯ Gay people. ¯ Editor’s note: there was considerable disagreement in ¯ OMahoma’s Gay communities about whether the final ¯ resolution was in any way "acceptable" as Hall claims. International AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1998 4:00 P.M. LaFortune Park Southeast Shelter 61st & Yale PICNlC SLIPPER FOLLOWING THE SERVICE ~}R MORlg INI~3RMATION INTERFAITH AIDS MIN~TRIES 438-2457 �¯ first leading homosexual character, butGays will still ¯ be seen elsewhere on American television. One year ago this month, "Ellen" made television : ¯ history as the first series with a homosexual lead NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The names Harvard ¯ and Yale by themselves evoke decades of tradition ¯ character. It drew both praise and fire for its groundbreaking portrayal of a woman coming to and conformity. Now these Ivy League bastions are breaking new ground for universities, as homosexual : terms with being Lesbian. What it didn’t draw was couples provide new models of domestic life for ¯¯ ratings on a consistent basis. After months of specuundergraduates as dormitory leaders. And so far, the ¯ lation, ABC confirmed late Thursday that Ellen DeGeneres’ last show would be a one-hour finale ground-brealdng appointments have created little : May 13. commotion. Both ABC and DeGeneres declined to comment This July,.a Lesbian couple will assume duties as ¯¯ recently. The conservative Southern Baptists Conhousemasters at Harvard’s Lowdl House, asix-story brickbuilding with a grassy quadrangle anda bell " vention praised the decision, while Gay rights groups tower close to the fabled Harvard Yard. A Gay man ¯ . said theloss of amajor Gay character andperspective appointed dormitory dean is moving with his partner : on television is a serious blow. The sitcom, which has been airing Wednesday into Yale’s Trumbull College, a Gothic structure of ¯ seam-faced granite with limestone trim and arching ¯ : nights after thehigher-rated’qqae Drew Carey Show," ¯ made its debut in 1994 with DeGeneres playing a windows enclosing three courtyards. ¯ "I think it’s a great new erain being able to provide ¯ single heterosexual with a,,Friends~’_like close group of pals. After the comedian and her character, Ellen role models that have not been available at this level ¯ Morgan, both came out as Lesbians last season, before," said Peter Novak, 32, the Yale.appointee. "We’ve been welcomed, and it says a lot about the ¯¯ DeGeneres and the network fought over the show’s content, including story lines that concentrated on Yale community and how tolerant it is, especially : sexual orientation. within the administration." More than 36 million people watched the April30, .. At Haryard, professor Diana Eck, 52, realizes that ¯ she and her partner of 20 years may raise some : 1997, episode when Ellen came out. This year, the eyebrows. "We know what it’s like in the culture : series averaged fewer than 11 million viewers - a 22 generally: There are many people who are still very " percent drop over the previous year. uncomfortable with this issue, so I’m sure that will be the case here," said Ms. Eck, a professor of comparafive religion and Indian studies at Harvard. The dormitories are not forsaking their traditions, however. The housemaster’at Lowell House, for : TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)- A state law that makes homoexample, has been host of a weekly afternoon tea : sexual sex a crime has been upheld as constitutional. since 1930, a custom Ms. Eck plans*’to continue. : A three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals Novak~ who is-pursuing a master of fine arts in ¯ refnsed Friday to overturn the muuicipal court misdedramaturgy and dramatic criticism at the Y ale School ¯ mean0r conviction of Max D. Movsovitz, a Topeka ¯ of Drama, says he will h,e,!p students with aead.emics artist. Movsovitzwas arrestedinTopeka’s Gage Park and personal problems. This will allow me to be an : in April 1995 after soliciting sex from an undercover influence in people’s lives)’ Novak said. His partner ¯ police officer. of four years, Curtis Lee, a store manager, will not x~ .....it? rh.]]~noed the constitutionality of a Gay Couples Provide College Leadership : .- Law Upheld lntramura.l., sports ana being a part oI StiMd~HL/S "11. v¢~, :. arguing theY, v~olated" " .... his rights, to p’nvacy;, e~.ual - Novak sat& ¯ treatment under the law and freedom of expression. In a Yale dorm, the dean and.the master act as : He and the American Civil Liberties Union claimed surrogate parents in the lix,es of the 440 students who the law unfairly discriminates against homosexuals. live there. Master Janet Henrich, a medical professor, The Court of Appeals panel, in a unanimous un¯ has lived in the durra for ayear with her husband, : signed opinion, rejected all of the arguments. Victor, a physics professor. ¯ Movsovitz can appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court. At Harvard, Ms. Eek and Dorothy Austin will "As societal values evolve, the Legislature may folbecome housemasters overseeing daily life for 450 low some other state legislatures and decriminalize ¯ students. Ms. Austin will split her time between : private sexual behavior betweenall consenting adults," Harvard and Drew University in New Jersey, where ¯ the court satd. Ho ever, these are issues that should she is an associate professor of psychology and reli- ¯ be addressed by legislatures and not courts." gion. "We knew that it would be an issue for the first According to court records, two men approached time to have a same-sex couple as masters," Ms. Eck .. Movsovitz while he was parked in Gage Park, the said. "I don’t know if we would have been appointed ¯ city’s largest park and home of the Topeka Zoo. 10 years ago." ~ During a conversation, Movsovitz agreed to engage Administrators say sexual Orientation made no ." in oral sex. The two men were undercover police difference in the appointments, which:were decided ¯ officers. by student-faculty committees. Dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis said many people had suggested Ms. Eck for the position not knowing what her sexual orientation was. "Our first criterion in looking at people was the quality of the individual master and TORONTO (AP) - Ontario’s highest court has ruled what they would bring to the house," he said. At Yale, Novak will succeed dean William di ¯_ that the Canadian government’s definition of"spouse" Canzio, who lived alone in the dorm for eight years ¯¯ is unconstitutional because it excludes same-sex partand is leaving for California.. Ms. Eck and Ms. Austin ¯ ners.. A three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of will replace professor William H. Bossert and his Appeal ruledthat the definitionof"spouse" shouldbe ¯ amended in the federal Income Tax Act to recognize wife, Mary Lee, who are retiring after 23 years. Harvard students seemed to see the appointment as ¯¯ same-sex couples as well as opposite-sex couples. little cause for concern. "People are more interested The ruling came in a case involving pension benefits ¯ and technically applies only to the Income Tax Act. in who she is, and what her dedication to the house is, than her personal life, which isn’t our concern," said : But Gay activists said it could set a precedent that ¯ would affect similar sections of other federal acts. Lisa Mignone, a senior from Bronxville, N.Y. ¯ "It opens the door for same-sex pension benefits, The same goes for many at Yale. "It’s really not a ¯ certainly, but it’s also a very significant statement by big deal," said Tya Harris, a sophomore from Nashrifle, Tenn. "There are a lot ofpe0ple who are openly ¯ the courts that discriminating against same-sex couples is not only immoral, it’s unconstitutional," said John Gay on this campus." ¯ Fisher, executive director of Equality Ior Gays and ¯ Lesbians Everywhere. : The case was brought by Nancy Rosenberg and her ¯ employer, the Canadian Union of Public Employees,. : regarding pension benefits which R0senberg sought LOS ANGELES (AP) L The cancellation of ABC’s ¯ to arrange for her Lesbian partner. The union in 1992 "Ellen" will leave prime-time television without its amended its pension plan to’extending spousal ben- : i Gays Still on TV When only the best will do! Kansas "Sodomy" i Ellen Gone But 1635 E. 15th Street Tulsa, OK 74120 (918) 599 - 8070 Canada Recognizes Same-Sex Spouses ~’T-SHIRTS ¯ CARDS I v oo s ~CANDLES ¯ BU~ONS ¯ J EW ELRY ¯ BUMPER STICKERS ¯ PRIDE PARAPHERNALIA ....... : & A~work~-from Local Artists Located insideConcessionS on Brookside Community. 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Norwood Info., call 224-4754 Chris & Sharon 747-1508 SHORT ON CASH? efits to include Gay and Lesbian employees. But Canada’s revenue department argued the amendment violated the tax s opposite-sex definition of spouse. The court ruling gave the union the right to include same-sex partners in its private pension plan without losing any tax benefits. Revenue department officials said they hadn’t decided whether to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada. Special Classes for Gay Students Nixed BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) - Gay and Lesbian students who say they dropped out of public high school because of harassment almost got their own one-room schoolhouse, but organizers forget one detail: getting permissi’on from their bosses. Top officials of the sponsoring government agency, the Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Education Services, said they learned about the schoolhouse from a Newsday reporter. Board president Bruce Brodsky immediately halted plans to open the school, the newspaper reported last month. He was unaware that members of his own staff had enlisted a teacher, arranged for a classroom at the Long Island Gayand Lesbian Youth Inc. in BayShore, and had been advertising to attract students for several weeks. Three had signed up. The board Serves youngsters with special needs, including those who are pregnant, handicapped or seeking occupational training. "I don’t believe there should be a separate facility for Gay and Lesbian students. I don’t want to throw them back into the closet;’ Brodsky said. David Kilmnick, executive director of the Gay youth agency, said he would still push for the separate classes. "We want to make sure that this school happens, that these kids are not harassed or subject to violence because of their sexual orientation.- They need a s afer place to-learn," he said. 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His proposal, which was certified to circulate petitions, brings the number of proposed initiatives seeking a spot on the November statewide ballot to 47. Knight’s proposal, tided the "California Defense of Marriage ¯ Act," adds just one sentence to the state Family Code: "Only marriage between a man and a woman i s valid or recognized in California." Statelaw already says that any marriage pfrformed in California must be between a man and a woman. But that lgw also recognizes as valid any marriage performed elsewhere. After a Hawaiian court riding in 1993 made recognition of Gay and Eesbian marriages possible, Congress gave states the authority not to recognize same-gender marriages performed in another state. An earlier attempt to place a ban on Gay marriages on the June primary ballot failed to collect enough signatures. Students Sentenced for Anti-Gay Attack : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ : ; : : ¯ ¯ earlier spent 16 days in juvenile d~tenfion at the Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility. Huffaker, who served five days at Oak Creek and 69 days of home detention, will be on probation for one year. Nash, who served five days at Oak Creek and 33 days of home detention, will be on probation until his 18th birthday. All three must undergo diversity education, pay restitution to Miller for his dental bills and write a letter of apology, the judge said. While what was done to Miller can’t be undone, Gardner said the case can send a message to people in the community to think twice before taunting others. The judge said he got the impression that the boys have come to realize the seriousness :of what happened. If people are assaulted because of their particular status, the assault is not just on that person, but alsoon the group, he said. "That’s the reason I think this case had the publicity and had the attention I think it deserved," Gardner said. Support for Gays Provokes Death Threats "¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ : ’. ¯ ¯ ¯ "¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ : " ¯ ; " : : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ . ¯ : ¯ : ¯ CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Three teen-age boys have been sentenced to eight days each on a work crew and ¯ a year or more of probation in the intimidation and assault of a Gay high school student in February. Paul ¯ ¯ .Miller, a senior at Corvallis High School, said the boys taunted him and then punched him, knocking out his ¯ two front teeth. ¯ C yle Schroeder, 15, and Robert Huffaker and Michael ¯ Nash, both 16, appeared before Benton County Circuit Judge Robert Gardner. Miller did not attend the hearing. ¯ Schroeder, who threw the punch, will serve two ¯ years’ probation after his time on the work crew. He LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Gay-rights issues have divided the United Methodist Church, but death threats against a student who supported Gay rights at the church’s Nebraska Wesleyan Uni.versity have caused a deeper controversy. "Everyone is welcome at this university, regardless of how they live or how they love," the Rev. Bill Draper Finlaw told a crowd of about 300 people gathered on campus Thursday to show support for sophomore Jonathan Judge. The small, liberal arts Methodist school, which has about 1,500 students, was rocked last week when Judge received two messages on his answering machine threatening him with death for supporting a campus Gay rights group. Judge reported the messages to police. Judge, who is not Gay, is a member of the student senate and has introduced a bill on behalf of the Gay civil rights group, Plains Pride, to have it recognized as a legitimate campus organization. The rally came just two days before the church’s national Council of Bishops is to meet in Lincoln. The bishOps have been asked to call a special session of the General Conference, the church’s top legislative body, to discuss Gay civil rights. These rights became a hot-button issue among the church’s 9.5 million members when a Methodist minister in Omaha was acquitted last month on charges of disobeying church rules for performing a Lesbian marriage. The Rev. Jimmy Creech performed the ceremony in September in defiance of anorderby Nebraska Bishop Joel Martinez. Creech was suspended and put on trial before a jury of Methodist ministers. Following a two-day inquiry in Keamey, a panel of 13 ordained elders voted 8-to-5 to convict Creech of violating the church’ s Order and Discipline. The vote fell one short of the nine required for conviction. Creech presented the first challenge to the denomination’s 1996 decision in its Social Principles to prohibit"ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions." The United MethodistChurch is the second largest Protestant denomination in the United States, after the Southern Baptists. It has about 120 colleges nationwide, including Southern Methodist, Duke and Emory universities in addition to Nebraska Wesleyan. Dina Weisser, a 21-year-old junior at Nebraska Wesleyan, said she has several Gay and Lesbian friends whohavebeenharassedoncampus.Weisser, wh0is not Gay but belongs to Plains Pride, said two members of the group have been attacked on or near campus in recent weeks. ’q?here’s been so much violence going on - so much hatred," she said. ’q’hey are trying to silence us by threatening senators in our student senate ~.. trying to take away our First Amendment rights" Judge sat on a brick wall during the rally, stanng down at the sidewalk as he listened to the speakers. "It was very reassuring." he said. "It ¯renewed my faith in this campus." Judge appeared nervous when asked how he was coping after the death threats. "I’m here," he said. �Every 5 Minutes, Another Young Person’s Infected costing $25,000 to $37,000 per person a year, an estimated 16,000 men, women and children in developing countries are newly infected each day. Conference co-chair Margaret Chesney MOSCOW (AP) - Every minute worldof the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention wide, five people between the ages of 10 Studies, working with AIDS specialists and 24 become infected with HIV, acfrom 38 different nations, sought pmcticording to a report released here inMoscal and affordable solutions to the growcoW. ing epidemic. The UNAIDS report also warned that Among the prevention costs estimated Eastern Europe is set to become "one of by experts: the next epicenters" of the world AIDS - 50 cents to test blood for the AIDS virus. crisis, with HIV’ infection.rates having - Several dollars to cure a sexually transincreased at least sixfold .since 1994. It " mitted disease. said that 190,000 people in the region are -$50 to give an infected mother a short infected, a contagion rate driven by a course of AZT to prevent transmission of sharp rise in the use of injected drugs. the virus to her baby. In conjunction with the report, the joint Worldwide, about $1.5 billion has been U.N. Programon HIV/AIDS launched a spent each year on comic books, radio yearlong campaign called "Force for spots and condom rallies in devdoping Change: World AIDS Campaign with .nations. But such prevention efforts have Young People." The report was released proved to be mere speed bumps, not roadin,Moscow to draw attention to the threat blocks, in the path of HIV, the report facing Eastern Europe. "In.Russia, where found. injecting drug use and unsafe sex are fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, it is time for young people to engage in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts and make their voices heard," said G4anni MtuTi~ UNICEF’s ATLANTA (AP) - The rate at which Moscow representative. "They have the people are becoming infected with HIV in right and responsibility to change the the United States has held relatively steady course of the epidemic and the support of despite a historic drop in AIDS cases, adults is crucial to make it happen." suggesting that many people are not heedThe report said that the young are paring warnings about prevention. A study ticularly hard-hit by the world epidemic, released by the Centers for Disease Conwith at least one-third of the 30 million trol and Prevention estimated a2 percent HIV carriers being 24 or younger. Each decline from 1995 to 1996 in.the number day, 7,000 young people worldwide conof new HIV cases diagnosed among people tract HIV, adding up to 2.6 million new 13 or older. -infections annually, it said. The report "This is a case of the glass is half full," warned Of an explosion in sexually transsaid CorneliusBakerof the National AS: mitted diseases across Eastern E~ope. sociation of People with AIDS. "People New syphilis cases have gone from 10 per are living longer. That’s great. But with a 100,000 people each year in the late 1980s steady infection rate, it means the epito - in some regions-- hundreds per demic isn’t going away." 100,000. The study Used statistics from the 25 UNAIDS is a grouping of 5 U.N. agen- "~ states that report infection r~ites. AIDS cies and the World Bank. _" deaths dropped 21%in 1996, while the ¯ number of people with AIDS dropped ¯ 6%, according to figures previously re: leased by the CDC. AIDS deaths were ¯ down an additional 44%in the firsthalf of 1997. People diagnosed with HIV are not SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - More spend¯ ing could halve the number of new HIV considered AIDS cases until they actually infections worldwide, according to a : develop symptoms of the disease. So deUnited Nations study presented at a San " laying the onset of AIDS and prolonging Francisco AIDS conference. "We know ¯ the lives of AIDS patients can reduce the ¯ what works. We’ve shown it’ s effective. number of AIDS deaths even while there’s What we need now is the money to imple- ~ little changein the rate of new HIV cases. "We’re not seeing good news in the fact ment them," said Martha Bulter deLister, ¯¯ director of the Dominican Republic AIDS that we are not seeing a substantial deorganization Fundacion Genesis. "We " dine," in the H_IV infection rate, said Dr. ¯ Palricia Fleming, a CDC researcher. The can’t wait for a vaccine." ¯ The result could be achieved if affluent ¯ CDC estimated that HIV cases between governments, corporations and individu1994 and mid-1997 dropped slightly als dug deeper and spent 10 to 15 times among men but increased among women. more on global prevention programs, said The study also showed HIV infections the UN study presented at this week’s ¯ among young people overall had leveled University of California, San Francisco off, but minorities now make up a greater conference. HIV infection is rampaging ¯ portion of that group. Of the 7,200 cases through Africa, the Caribbean, Latin ¯ of HIV reported among 13- to 24-y.earAmerica and Southeast Asia, but many ¯ olds, 63% were black and 5% Hispamc. countries are unable to afford something Ms. Fleming warned that not all states as simple as a blood test to keep the blood ¯ were required to report infection rates. supply dean. ~ The new figures don’t include California Nor can they afford testing, and coun- ¯ and New York, so the true national infec¯ seling of HIV-infected people to warn tion rate could be higher or lower, she against transmitting the infection to oth- ¯ said. The CDC wants all states to create a ers. Sexually transmitted diseases, known ¯ name-based HIV reporting system. to boost the risk of HIV infection, go ~ "You need to know about the front end untreated. Furthermore, mothers pass on ¯ oftheepidemicifyou’retryingtofindout the virus to their infants because they lack ¯ what’s going on With the disease," said acces s to the AZT drug regimen that could ¯ Eve Mokotoff, chief of the HIV/AIDS ¯ interrupt deadly viral transmission. epidemiology unit at the Michigan DeWhile much of. the globe is riveted by " partment of Community Health in Dethree- and four-drug anti-viral regimens, " troit. Michigan is among the states that ¯ ~ ¯ ." ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ US HIV Infection Rate Steady Medical Excellence And Compas.sionate Care Since 1926. ¯ ST. 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House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said the action was needed to counter "a deadhead president that supports a program that gives free needles to drug addicts." The House action came just days after the White House announced that it would continue to ban federal money for needle exchange programs while recognizing that such programs hav e been effectiv e in fighting the spread of AIDS without encouraging illegal drug use. Linda Ricci, spokeswoman for the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the GOP bill.was "unnecessary and unwarranted." The Health and Human Services secretary "should have the authority to determane the merit of such programs and... the decision on which HIV prevention strategies to use should be in the hands of state and local offidials,’.’ Ricci said. The issue divided the administration. HHS Secretary Donna Shalala encour. ~aged local ~Orn)nlmiti~st0,expandthe 1 i 0 .~e&tle exchar~ge~programs now operating in 22 states while drug policy chief Barry McCaffrey argued that theprograms jeopardize the administration’s war on drugs. Clinton’s surgeon general, Dr. David Satcher, said he was "disappointed" funds would notbe availablefor effective needle exchange programs. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus last week called for McCaffrey’s resignation, saying lives would be lost if needle distribution is halted. But Republicans said the administratiou policy was consistent with its failure to get tough on drugs. They disputed scientific studies concluding that needle exchange programs are working. "The Clinton administration’s endorsement of needle exchange programs is part of an intolerable message to our nation’s children sent by the White House that drug use is a way of life;" Said Rep. Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., a sponsor of the legislation. Democrats accused Republicans of rushing a bill to the floor withom hearings to make a political point. "This legislation is a travesty and a blight upon true medical science and it plays into the hands of those who would" use the lives of our children aud those addicted for political purposes," said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. "You’d think we’re having a meeting of the flat earth society," said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "How can we turn our back on science?" The federal government since 1989 has barred the use of federal funds to provide hypodermic needles and syringes to intravenous drug users. The legislation, which still needs Senate consideration, would repeal, language in a 1998 spending bill that would allow funding if the HHS secretary determines exchange projects are effective in preventing the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and do not encourage illegal drug use. The House vote came as the Republican leadership prepared to unveil an dectionyear package of anti-drug proposals, including more money for border guards, tougher penalties and grants to small businesses that fight workplace drug use. House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri sought to get the jump on the Republicans Wednesday by issuing aninepage report critical of the GOP record in fighting drug.s. "By making the war on drugs a parusan war, Speaker (Newt) Gingrich is drawing the battle lines against imaginary enemies. The onfy thing he will accomplish is to reduce the prospects for bipartisan anti-drug legislation in this Congress," he said. deliberately inflicted. The mother of the ¯ youngster, whose father is accused of ¯ injecting him with the AIDS virus, says ¯ her goal now is to prevent him from bei;ag i victimized again. The mother, identified on!y as Jennifer, ¯ said she was grateful for the compassion ¯ she had received. But she was obviously ¯ shaken by the number of reporters and ¯ television cameras she faced at a news ¯ conference. She took no questions after ¯ ¯ making a brief statement. "I plead with you to respect the privacy and dignity of ¯ my son and my family. He’s been through ¯ so much already," she said. "My main ¯ concern is to protect my son from any : further victimization." Her voice broke several times as she ¯ explained how her son’s illness - he was ¯ diagnosed with full-blown AIDS in 1996 - has affected their lives. She said her son, who was once near death, ~s dome, better ¯ now" but that she realizes he will eventuNEW YORK (AP) - International finan- ¯ ally die of the disease. The boy must be cier George Soros has offered $1 million ¯ fed small amounts of food frequendy and in matching funds to support needle ex- ¯ must take about 10 medications several change programs around the country. The ¯ times a day. He is trying to live as normal move came in response to the Clinton : a life as possible, even going to school administration’s position that it does not ¯ when he is able. favor federal funding for the programs, Brian T. Stewart is charged with firstwhich are credited with helping slow the degree assault, accused of deliberately spread of the AIDS virus. ¯" injecting his infant son with AIDS-tainted The Sorts pledge "was in the works, ¯° blood six years ago. He haspleaded iunoand we d~cided to announce it when the cent and is being held on $500,000 bond. federal government decided not to fund ¯ County prosecutor Tim Brann said he programs," said Ty Trippet of the could not comment on any of the evidencc Lindesmith Center, a drug policy research police may have gathered against StewarL organizanon that is part of the Sortsexcept to say that there was enough to sponsored Open Society Institute. allow a judge to issue a ~varrant for Sorts said an estimated 35 percent of Stewart’s arrest on charges of first-degree all new HIV cases in the United States are assault: ¯ : ¯7 due to druginjectionwith unclean needles. Police said Stewart once told the bo\"s "It has been scientifically proven, and the mother not to worry about trying to colfederal government agrees, that making lect child support because the boy ,votdda’t sterile syringes readily available to adlive that long. His lawyer, Joe Murphy, dicts reduces the spread of HIV and does has said Stewart maintains that he is immnot encourage drug use," he said. cent. Murphy has accnsed prosecutors of Health and Human Services Secretary trying and convicting his client in the Douna Shalala has urged state and local media. $1rn Offered for Needle Exchange officials to use their own funds to implement such programs. Last 3ear, Sorts donated S1 million to various needleexchange programs. This year’s repeat donation will be used to match the amount that donors increase their donations over last year. For exan~ple, if a foundation don£ted $50,000 to a needle exchange program last 3,ear and is donating $75,000 this year- then Soros will donate $25,000. It is oifl.v the latest in a series of contributions to various causes by the Hungarian-born financier, who is ~ U.S. cidzen. In 1997, Soros made charitabledonadons of about $’540 million, according to Fortune magazine. Much of his largess has gone to benefit eastern Europe, including Russia. Also Baltimore Mayor. Kurt Schmoke said Clinton would agree to exchange programs if he saw how well they worked in Baltimore. Schmoke renewed his offer to talk to officials throughout the country in support of needle exchanges, including to the nation’s" chief executive. "I’m convinced if we can get the president over here, we can change his opinion," he said. Baltimore’s program, providing needles to about 7,000 addicts at a cost of about $300,000 a year, is the largest city-rim program in the country, Schmoke said. Mom Pleads for Infected Child ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - The 7-yearold boy already is slowly dying of a disease that authorities say his own father HIV Positive Kid in Day Care Dispute MADISON, Wis. (AP) - An agreement with two day-care centers sets a precedent by applying the Americans with Disabilities Act’s protections to a child who has the virus that causes AIDS, a govenmaent prosecutor says. The Beloit centers were accused of denying service to the bm because of his HIV virus. They have agree~t the v~rus is a disability under the act, according to U.S. Attorney Peggy Lantenschlager. "What this says is, because someone is HIV positive doesn’t mean that they can be discriminated," she said. The lawsuits claimed the centers illegal|y turned the boy, now 5, away in 1996 because of his disease. The centers’ lawyers had argued the boy was not protected by the federal law, which requires that people have an impairment that substantially limits a major life activity. The lawyers said the boy was well-adjusted and functions normally, despite his suppressed immune system. Last week, U.S District Court Judge John Shabaz allowed prosecutors to proceed with the lawsuit against the centers. Shabaz ruled that there was enough evidence to let a jury find that the boy could be considered disabled under the act. Chris Kinast, the lawyer for Kiddie Ranch, said his client settled because federal prosecutors have virtually unlimited resources and the center could not afford to defend itself. �Broken Arrow Community Playhouse Well, happy May day! For those who comes to the rescue of an otherwise dull don’t know,in Pagan terms, it~ s the ,d~,y. celebrate fertility and creativity in au it s " month with ’q’he Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde May 8 --17. M.y many forms. Maypoles, phallic symbols fav.orite classic comedy, Oscar turns sociand dancing are the Usual forms of celety upside down in this comedy.of manebration as Spring returns. ners. Call 258-0077 for reservauons. Speaking of creative endeavors, the The Thomas Moran exhibition winds Council Oak Men’s Chorale is pleased to down May 10 at announce our first forGilcrease Museum, so Philbrook is bringing mal concert! It will be catch it while you can. atAll Soul’s Unitarian Philbrook is bringing old masters to light in Church at 8 pm on May old masters to light in an exhibit entitled 29. Hmm. I’d better an exhibit entitled"Old start practicing. ,, Masters brought to Masters brought "Song and Dance~ , Light". Catchy, huh? to Light". Catchy, my favorite of the The exhibit features Lloyd-Webber musisome really beautiful huh? The exhibit cals, Opens here in works from the Nafeatures some really Tulsa for a 3 day pertional Museum of Art formance June 26 at of Romania, where, by beautiful works from Tulsafest at the Perthe way, the real the National Museum Dracula made many forming Arts Center for Education, TCC South of Art of Romania... peasant’s lives rather Campus, 10300 E. 81st difficult. The real Street. The musical is ¯ McCoy had a penchant for punishing anYunusual in that the first act is .to.ld from the ¯ who violated his sense of re,orals by perspective of an English g~d newly ar- ¯ one impaling them on stakes. No, it s true rivedin New York tobe withher lovcr and ¯ ro~ "In Search of Dracula" . He. was a .cad to pursue her hat making career..The r~est ¯ Christian, to boot. And his sense of ~ct one follows her relationships as her ". converted of morals changed on a whim - kind of perspective and lovers change:’,The.first ". like Pat Robertson, Robert Tilton, Jerry acti~ done entirely in song. The second ¯ Falwell, and Jimmy Swaggart. But I diact is told in dance; and follows a young ". gress, much I’m sure, to the eternal chaman who she falls inlove with, and works of my editor, who never d...o~.s ~at. from his perspective. I saw the National ".-’. grin At any rate, the paintings will t~e hung Tour witti Mefissa Manchester (Bernadette Peters originated the role here in the States), and fell inlov¢ with the char,a~c,t~s and the show. And even if you don t like ~ baroque eras from such diverse locales as dance, if their choreography is anything ¯ Italy, Spain, Germany, and the Nethereven close to what I saw, you will be " lands. Masters such as ElG~eco, .......enchanted and amazed: SEE IT!!!! [ Rembrandt, Veneziano, and Jordaens are It is part of an arts festival which inre1~resented. This is not to bemissed. dudes many other fine events, from or- ! " "On May 24, a lecture on ’~he Age of chestras to dance to pop(call for info) and i Bernardo Strozzi" will be given at 2 pro, "An EveningWith Patti Page", who is a i discussing Genoese painting in the early Claremore native, June 20th at the PACE. 17th century. Another exhibition cel: For Ticket info, caI1.595~7777. ~ ebrates a recent acquisition by Philbrook Opera buffs, rejoice! June holds lots_a ¯ of Strozzi’s "St. Francis in Ecstasy" , fun for fans of Gilbert and Sullivan, with i subtitled"An Acquisition in Focus" ¯ rnnLight Opera Oklahoma p,r,o~_u.d,ng thre~, ning May 17 - July 12. shows: ’ffheNew Moon’ by Si..g.m,,una, i ¯ Local news: vaudeville was all the rage ¯Romberg, an operetta with all kinds oi i when Doris Travis lied about her ageto romantic hijink~ of a French chevalier ~ join the Ziegfeld Follies. Now 94, she’s fleeing royal fury, falling in love and : pulled, out tier tap shoes for a return enbuckling I~is swish, swash. Sorry. That ¯ gagement "I dance the same as I did 79 opens June 11; and June 1.2 brings Pine- i years ago," Mrs. Travis said. "Maybe not ~vith th~ same spring in my foot, but my apple Poll.. The description for this is infi-iguing: Pineapple Poll and all her i style hasn’t changed. I haven’t tried any friends are madly in 10ve with the Captain of the ttMS Hot Cross Bun. Yes, folks, ". of these new jazz or rock moves!" She "Old that is ~hat press release says. ge~ better: q’heythe contrive all means toI.tIx~ara his ship". I bet they do. Seems to me the men’s chorus could have fun with that :~ headed to New girls Yorkfor toan join fivebenefit other former Ziegfeld AIDS at the New Amsterdam Theatre, the re¯ "¯ storedvaudeville-erashowplaceoffTimes Square where the original Follies were piece. Oh my, it’s getting warm here. ,, . st,~ged. Mrs. Travis was ju.st l~4,,w.hen~s_h_e. And.the 3rd offering is "The Mikado , i lied a,.bout her age to join me uomes, t nat which is a more well-knownwork. And with character names like Nauld Poo, "- wasn t the last time she refused to be Yum.Yum, andKo-Ko, it’ssur¢, toaw.ak¢,n : limited by her years: She gr.ad..ua2~ ~[~hm~ the appetite. The performan._ces wi.11 runat : theUniv~rsitv of Oklahoma m lv’yzatm. the University of Tulsa, in 3 week reper- ~ age of 88, as ~ history major and mem.b~.r tory format. Formore info and reserva- : 0fPlaiBetaKappa. Wayt.ogo!,Ilove.tl~,s. . story, becaus_eitgoesto.snowtlaeremtgmo ti6us, call 583-4267. "Ohieetof Mv AffectiOus:~ ; a comedy ~ just be hope fortelevision me yet! sitcom that was "Ellen;’ the about a stratght woman who falls m love ¯ withhergayroonimate,iscurrently show- ~: the first with a Gay leading character, has ing at Parklane, Eton, Easfland, and M°vbeen canceled after five seas’°~" The A.BaCnC ies 8. It comes higtdy recommended, and show will not remm for a mxthlseason, I would have had a review for you, but "- network spokeswoman said, declining life’s little hand grenades prevented me ~ further comment. The program. ~be~,, ~ e from seeing the filmin time for this issue, the subject of national debate when eaten, played by comedian Ellen DeGeneres, There’s always Mayfest, and the ¯ see Notes, page 11 " Renegade’ s answer to that, Gayfest. PHILBROOK Visit Tuesday- Sunday Adults $5, Seniors & Students $3 ¢ous¢iL oak meN’5 ¢i-IoKaLe will present a flee performance on Friday,_ May 29th at All Souls Unitarian Church at 8 For more information, please call 743-4297. TOHR/the Pride Center presents 1998 Tulsa Pride March &.Picnic Saturday, June 20 Veterans-Park, 18th & Boulder March: 11:30,.Picnic: Noon- 5pm _ .Community Organization& Businesses Booths, Games,-Music & Free Refreshments. Information? Call TOHR/the Pride Center at 743-GAY S (743-4297) This ad donated by Tulsa Family News. �I~P SUNDAYS Follies Revue,. Inc. presents its l Oth anniversary benefit The-Best of Follies ’98 John H. Williams Theatre Tulsa Performing Arts Center Patron’s Night Thursday, June 25, at seven o’clock Champagne reception to follow, $~0 Benefit Performances Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27 at eight o’clock, $2o Tickets available at t~e PAC Box O ffice: :596-7111, ¯ 800-364-7111 or Carson Attractions~ 584-2000. Beneficiaries are: Community of Hope, HIV-Resource Consortium,-Hope Testing Clinic, Hospice of Green Country, O ur House, St.Joseph Residence, Tulsa Community~ AIDS part.i~rshiP, and .the Visiting Nurse Association’. 1 st Annual Red Ribbon Run 5k Run, Race Walk &.,Casual Walk m benefit HIV services of InteffaithAIDS Ministries & Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership sponsored by Bank of Oklahoma, Stax/Circle K Bama Companies, Interim Health Care, Joel, Tracey & Clay Norvell, & Tulsa Family News Saturday, June 13 Mens- 7am, Womens - 7:30 am LaFortune Park, 61st & Yale Registration SW Shelter, 6 am Parking at south 10t only, USATF sanctioned event.& c.ertifie~ coordinated by-Glen’s; Ine Prereg.istratio.n: $1.2 wit~ }=sla!~, $~ withoutl Race Day Registration: $15 witla t-shirt, $1o wlmout. Awards to top three men and women-in each USATF age group, as well as top overall male & female finishers & top threerace walkers. Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - .11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 11am, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church Service - 5pm, Childrens Ministry - 5pro, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, .Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:~tSam, 3210e So. Norwood Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. 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Boulder HIV+ Support Group~ HIV Resource,Consortium l:30pm - 3507E Admiral(east of Harvard), I~fo: Wanda@ 834-4194 Mnlticultnrai AIDS Coalition, 5/5, 12:30pro, Urban League, 240 East Apache Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HIV!AIDS Support Group~ and Friends & Family HIV!AIDS Support Group - 7 pm, Locatiom, call: 627-2525 Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group. Info: 743-4297 PrimeTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues/each rot., 7pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 381h Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 ~ WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210c So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group For more information, calI 582-7225, John at ext. 218, or Tommy at ext. 208 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~" THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 ~- 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support/social group for 18-24"s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 From Our Hearts to Our House~ 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/cach mo. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 ~ FRIDAYS Safe Haven, Young Adults Social Group, tat Fri/each rot. 8pro, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th Community Coffee House, varying dates, 7 pro, Pride.Center, Info: 743-4297 ~ SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. I~’ OTHER GROUPS You dont have to run .to help! Join the Red Ribbon Booster Club by making a donation to the Red Rib,b.on. Run. Those donating $25 or more will receive a t-start. Info: IAM.438-2437 orPOB 691438, Tulsa, 74169 T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 Womeus Supper Club, Call for info: 584-.2978 OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157 If your organization is not listed, please let us know. Call or fax 583-4615. �VoiceMail Reviewed by Barry Hensley able to the shifting fortunes of success or -failure -just as your self-esteem was Tulsa Cir,-Count, Library Author Isensee has ,’m interesting apdependent on how your parents felt about proach to currentGay male culture. With themselves at any particular moment. You cma never do or accomplish analogies to posttraumatic stress syndro~ne, he explains enongh to gain the approval that you never had from your how events ,and society conanalogies to pare~’~ts. Instead you can ~:ieve spire to create a d,’mgerous for thig loss. This will enable enviromncut for Ga3 males. you to b,’dmace work that exWhile understanding that stress mm~v Gay men come l~om yonr mm interests wifl] syndrome, he presses dvsf{mcfi~md or abusi ve fromrest. recreatmn, mid intinlate relationships." lies ~md ~e trying to overThe sccoud half of this come the effects of our events and book ex,’uniues the stages of homophobic culture, it is imhealiug, including acknowlportant to realize that. in soeiety Iscuscc’s approach, tiffs is a edging abuse, recoguizing conspire to sclf-desmmtive behavior, nurbook about, m~d for, victims. turing yoHrself ,’rod asserting Divided lUtO two scctmns. create a \onr-o~\n needs. Being a soReclaiming Your ldJ~ begins [’ial \yorker mid psychotlacraby cxamimug homopho~m. abusive f~nilies, shmne environment pisl. Iscnsce has ma interest in iudi\iduld m~d group fllerapy. self-destructive behavior. Because of his background. Iscnscc sees a direct ton’elanmch of his knoMcdgc about tion between posttraumatic (];.ix lllell COllieS fronl his pastress (uustmsl. uightmarcs. tients. Solnctn’ncs the reader gob the inm]xict\ ) mid the problems that kc.cj~ some Gay u’mlcs from living full m~d "happy correct imprcs.,ion that ~dl Ga.v Ulell vicums of abuse lind iuc incapable of life lives. Guilt. shmnc, withdra~v~d, m~d isowithout tlierap3. lation arc cxmnincd, thrlv scxwfl abuse nla31 cause the adult Gay m[dc to engage m X luch of tiffs book is ps3 cholog3 101. scxuall3 compulsiv c behavior, often prac.but it will be of v~fluc to 3 oung adults grad older Gay men ~ 1~o just uqing uns~d’c sex. "’Associating sex with their lives togclher..kn upqo-datc list of sh;mm, a sexuM abuse snrvivormav seek out sexmd contact in wlfich he is li~ely m resources and refere~lces is provided. feel degraded." Check for tCeclaim:n~ })~ur 1.(/~’ at xour Overwork is mmfl~cr area of compulloctd brmich librz~x or c~dl the Readers Services dep~ncnt at Tulsa (’itx -( "otlnlx sive behavior. %Vhen xour sense of sellis dependent ou overacl~ming, it is vulnerCentr~ libr~v at 596-’9~. Caller ID Free First Incoming Minute With Message Alert/ Pager posttraumatie Oklahoma and Kansas Toll Free explains how Detailed Billing Call Hold/ Call Waiting dangerons for Gay males? !~y .ludy .\ lcCormick, s±~ecial contributor This week has been a week of l)rtilizmg Grass, trees, slm~bs,just about cver3thing except m3 a/a- leas. Some of then] haven’t finished blooming )el, so I mn waiting until 1 can fertilize them ~dl at tim smnc time. This The Plaza 8112 S Lewis 298-2747 Promonade Mall 4107 S Yale 663-5404 Woodland Hills Mall 7021 S Memorial 252-5850 Corporate Sales 523-8600¯ .: ........................ ~ Get more from .life warm enough I saved some bulbs over from last year It \viii be fun to see their return pcri’om]~mcc ma:,be I’ll Set one of those ¯ My t)m>acs look ~o good flint I haven’t pllmtcd the thai go in their spot vet. I )ust doll’t have ihc hc~t to get rid of [sugar erystallzin~ kits] so thcnl My pansies look so ~ood that I haven’t planted the ammals ¯ that $o in their spot . . . x cl. I Mt~ a cry ~t~d~izJng kit in a I can preserve all nay ~ansies caudog dm o~]cr for feeding because in sugar and decorate desserts maybe I’ll get one of cvcoflfing is acovch with them. Now all I have to th~;se so I cm~ pregrowing. Xlan~. do i~ find ~omeone serve Ml my pm~sies plmlls go into a scmiin sug~ mid decodonnm~t stage in the else to flx the de~ert~. hot summer and they rate desserts with them. Now all I have to do is find someone don’t imll as inuch~ml of the soil at that else to fix the desserts. lime. Now you get the best use Of your If you havcu’t tfimlned your crepe fertilizer myrtl~.vet, it isn’t too late. We had ~m oak Itcrc ~s a scene that was played oul with fungus last vc~ and I should have mmiv mncs when I had a lawn and g~den sprayed our tree When it first ledcd out touter; a customer would come in m~d but I didn’t. Oh well. maybe ins year sayS’My plm~ts just ~en’t growing like won’t be as ~vct m~d we won’t have the they should." "They are Mire, they just. aren’t doing ~at wall.’" Then I would say, problem. I wish this tree would let mc pay "’llow oftcu do you fertilize them." There a fine or solnething mid then do what I shouldhavc done t~vo weeks ago, maybe would be a lon~ silen~ mid the customer would get a gipsy look in their eve ~d I’ll tMk to Nm aboul it’ m~d see what we ~ work out. If you have been working in say, "’Fertilize the~." TNs is probably not your g~dcn this last few weeks ~d it SOlnetlfing you could relate to at ~1, but it didn’t m~e you fecl better, go back out is common. Feeding your plm~ts is m~ there - you ~:eren’t paying enough attenimportmlt p~t of spnug mid now is the tion. Go Ye Forth mid Fcrtilize~ time. Arc you tired of me nagging you about l)rdfi~ng yet? Judy McCormick formerly w~ the owne; of Cox Nursery m 7~dsa. Plm~t yo~ ~adimns m~y time now, it is is i~l oplllllUln lime THE MUSEUM SHOP AT PHILBROOK 748.5304 �Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law by Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud [ sentation but an ordinary sugary mayonIt eez I, le cousin de Jean-Pierre! He is ¯ naise dressing. on the sabatical- under the circumstances, They also offered a thick cheese-brochow do you say, mysterieux, et I am drafted ~ colt -I hesitate to call it soup, but there’s to fill in. Bien-sur, he will be back, ¯ not really another word that fits. It was probablement. Mats maintenant, je ne ¯ luke-warm, with crunch.), broccoli florets parlerai pas en francais - I will use the ." that could have used some more blanchEnglish. ing. Where’s Bette Davis when you need This Sunday, I had the pleasure of din- ¯" her? ing at Philbrook Museum’s brunch buf- : The main courses - I had the chicken fet The atmosphere was lovely, as we (dry and cold) and rice (cold),& a small arrived just as the rain fell in bit of veggie lasagna. I use the droves, and were seated near Sunday Brunch term lasagna loosely. It was the window by the striking basically scorched lasagna at maitre d’. And as I had noted noodles, tomato sauce and zucsome particularly handsome, chini and squash, cut to look Ph;lbrook er, scenery in the restaurant in like potato chips. In fact, I addition to the loveliness of hesitated to get some because the verdant grounds be~nd a of that - so did my companion. veil of rainfall, I odjusted my It looked like potato chip lasaseating position so I could en- 2727 So. Rockford gna. And it too, was cold to the joy the best of both worlds. taste. I think I tasted sun-dried The tableful of handsome tomatoes, but I couldn’t be Hou,s: gentlemen provided a lovely sure. The roast veggies ~ver v~ew m one direction,not to Tu~. - S~n.. llto 9 also tepid. mention the fact that the wait- Brunch on S~-Mays My dining colnpamon had ers were cute, too. pretty much the same thing, Prices: And the sen’ice was excelwith the addition of rather gluExpensive lent. My glass of iced tea was tinous cheese grits that had Payment: never empty very long, which solidified as soon as the)" hit ~s one of my barometers of ~V/ajor eredlt cards the plate. Mnm~! good sela’ice.’Leave me thirst). Smoking: On to the denserr table, which and go without a tip -well, ~vas ~vondrous to behold. CarNone other than this verbal one: "’you rot cake, the most succulent (I Alcohol: reall y should keep the patron" s love that word!) chocolate FMIy licensed glass full.’" The ambience was cheesecake I’ve ever tasted, lovely, and the player piano Rating: regular cheesecake, and tinkling gaily in the backchocolate cake with mousse ground added just the right filling and dark chocolate ic-’ touch. Dress ranged from suit and ties to ¯ ing and pecan sprinkles. The latter was leather jacket and jeans, so informal is ok. ¯ good, but the mousse had a slight bitterThe buffet, which looked gorgeous, - ness to it, which was unexpected and not ¯ included something for everyone.Various too pleasant -though my companion salads, grilled veg~es (squash, zucchini, ¯ thought other~vise. We were too stuffed and carrots), rosemary potatoes, veg~e ¯ by then to try the other selections, but they lasagna (they must of had one heck-of-a ¯ were very tempting. deal on the squash and zucchini), roast ¯ My advice: go straight (so to speak) for beef, grilled chicken over wild rice, cheese ." the dessert table. The rest was a disapgrits (which I found unusual - more later), ¯ pointment and a waste of appetite. Hopeham, and for those more inclined towards " fully, this will be corrected, or perhaps, brealffasty-things, an omelette bar and ¯ this was just aparticularly bad day, but till ¯ then: caveat emptor. And at $15 per perBet~an waffles to order. And the dessert table.., ah the dessert son, you can get a much better meal for a table. We started offatthe salads of course. ¯ great deal less at Piccadilly Cafeteria. I had mixed greens though a few pieces of Editor’s note: Jean-Claude de which were brown, and a vinegar and oil ¯¯ FlambeauchaudwillcontinueTulsaFamconcoction. T’was a bit tart, but good. A ily News and Jean-Pierre LegrandCaeS.ar and pasta salads were also fea- ¯ bouche’s tradition of restaurant reviews tured. They served poppy seed muffmettes ¯. which are distinguishedfor theD" candor. and also biscuits, which unfortunately ¯ Unlike most other Tulsapublications, we ¯ were your average, everyday ones. My do not use our reviews as an advertising dining companion was daring, and tried ¯ tool. In.fact, we’ve lost advertising bethe cole slaw, which he left untouched ". cause we did not cater to the egos ofsome after the first bite since it looked much ¯ restaurateurs. With us, you get the truth as more interesting than it was - lovely pre- ¯ we see it. 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DeGeneres and the network have since disagreed over the show’s content, including whether a kiss between women could be aired. ~ Joan Garry, executive director of the ¯ Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said the cancellation was a disap¯ pointment but not a surprise. "We’re all disappointed ABC made a ¯ decision based on ratings. We really wish ¯ that they had seriously considered the ¯ impact of Ellen’s work and looked at it ¯ from a broader perspective," she said. :. "The show may have been canceled, but I ¯ think she gave a gift to Gay and straight ¯ Americans and that’s a legacy that the ¯ cancellation cannot take from her," Garry ¯ said. ¯ The show’s one-hour finale is sched¯ uled for May 13 and will take viewers ¯ through a satirical retrospective of her ¯ ¯ career. Guest stars will include Jennifer Aniston, Glenn Close and Phil Donahue. �Eureka’s y ¯ Lesbian mothers ¯ Lesbians that we interviewed even a few ¯ and their children: ¯ years later had begun to use known doInterview with Nanette Gartrell ," nors. We actually stopped inviting new ¯ participants in 1992 because the ’old’ by Esther Rothblum In the early 1980s lots of Lesbians were ¯ Lesbians differed so much from the’new’ beginning to figure out ones in terms of donoridenways to have children by "We had no money," tity." Not surprisingly, the donor insemination. she said in a recent children were very. much Nanette Gartrell, a Lesbian desired. When" the Lesbipsychiatrist, was interested interview, "but of ans were first interviewed in studying these pioneer course none of the while pregnant, about half Lesbians. "We had no money," she said in a rework I’ve ever done the women werelncoupled relationships, and had been cent interview, "but of ha~ been funded. with their parmers from a course none of the work It’s usually too few months to a decade or I’ve ever done has been Others were single funded. It’s usually too eontroverslal to be more. controversial to be funded mothers. When Nanette’s team by any of the traditional funded by any ofthe re-interviewed the mothsources, such as the Natraditional sources ers when the children were tional Institutes of Health. ¯.. It’s.years ahead a year and a half, they were It’s years ahead of its time surprised to find comin terms of when such agenof its time in terms not pletely exhausted, harried cies would fund this kind of when such mothers who had v ery litile of research. We decided if time for their own lives we waited for funding agendes would fund other than childrearing and agencies to get over their paid employment. One of this kind of homophobia to fund this the areas of difficulty was study, we’d be waiting anresearch. ~¢e deelded the little contact with their other decade. So we went partners, and this was offf we walt~d for ahead and funded it ourten a source of tension. By selves." Nanette’s studyis- ,’~.funding ageneles to the time of the interviews now the longest-running when the children were get over their study of Lesbians who had five, a number of the children via donor insemihomophobla to fund couples had broken up. nation. this study, we’d be. Those couples where the "It’s already been wallmothers had spent time documented that kids of wa;t;ng another Lesbian morns are . away from the children,in healthy," Nanette told me, decade. So we w~nt~ order to have more time each other, were more "so we’re not trying toreahead and funded it with likely to still be together establish that. What we’re than the couples that had interested in is how they ourselves." been most child-focused. hav~ coped wi.thhomopho- , Now the team is interviewing the tenbia. At the time, Nanette s major col- ¯ laborator was living in Washington, D.C. " year old children. "It’ s very exciting to be and Nanette was living in Boston, sothey ¯¯ interviewing the kids for the first time," began the research with Lesbians in those said Nanette.-"Because we have these two cities. Then Nanette moved to San : very articulate kids who are highly eduFrancisco and included Lesbians from the : cated around issues of diversity, racism, ¯ and homophobia." Bay Area. ¯ Doing longitudinal research is not easy. The first step was finding Lesbian mothers to participate. Nanette’ s research team : When Nanettehad a floodinher basement advertised in bookstores and Gay and : a few years ago, some of the file cabinets Lesbian newspapers. They made up flyers ¯ got wet. "I was frantically using a hair ¯ dryer to dry the pages of the interviews so to distribute at Lesbian films and community events. They went to all the work- ¯ the data wouldn’t be lost," she recalls. shops on choosing children and told par: ¯ Nanette phones all the families each year ticipants about the study. The original : to see if they have moved, so she won’t ¯ lose touch with them. A couple of women study began with 154 mothers. The first interviews took place when ¯ who once identified as Lesbians are now the mothers were pregnant. Then the moth- ¯ involved with men; a few women have died. ButNanettehas stayedintouchwith ers and co-mothers w ere interview ed again when the chil&en were a year and a half ¯ just about all the women from the original old and when they were five. Nanette’s ¯ sample. As couples break up and then get team is currently interviewing the fami- ¯ involved with new parmers, Nanette inlies now that the children are 10, and this " corporates all these "step-m0ms" in the for the first time includes interviews with ¯ study. ’This means we may be the only the .children themselves. Then the fami- ¯ study that has more participants at the end lies will be interviewed next when the of the study than at the beginningU’ she children are 17 and when they are 25. ¯ said. "When we interviewed the mothers at ¯ More information about the study refirst, when they were pregnant, they an- -¯ sults can be read in: Nanette Gartrell et at. ticipated being out as Lesbians," said (1996), The National Lesbian Family ¯ Nanette. "For the most part they used Study: InterviewsWithProspectiveMothunknown donors, because there was a lot : ers.AmericanJoumalofOrthopsychiatry, more fear at that time that somehow the ¯ volume 66, number 2, pp. 272-281. 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J is so happy, in fact, brushes are the sine qua non that she promises to bfiy her journey together of paintjobs; yours will probgirlfriend a tool belt very ably read "Natural China in developing that .soon -since a pair of silk Bristles" and they are made boxers will be tucked in one most versatile and of hogs hair; if you have of the pockets, the DIYD ethical objections to this, most necessary can only assume the nature skip down a paragraph. of the first project... d all stalls After you have sucked up A continuation of the toiand bought your precious painting. Dear let theme was originally brushes, take them home and planned for this month, but ones, do not groan continue to treat them with after further consideration, I the loving respect they deand run away so have decided to defer unserve. Before using yournew masking the mystery of the qttlcl~y! Certainly, brushes, dip them in whatwax ring for a later date. . ever solvent is related to the unguided Tttming a toilet over is not type of paint you are using for the timid or faint-hearted! painting projects (paint thinner for oil-based Instead, we will begin a paint, water for water based have almost journey together in developpaint); this moistens aresering that most versatile and spelled out voir located up at the top of most necessary of all skills the bristles, and is essential D-I-V-O-R-C-E painting. Dear ones, do not to the longevity of the brush groan and run away so ¯.. but it doesn’t as well as the quality Of your quickly! Certainly, unguided paint job. Tap off the excess have to be so painting projects have almost moisture (please, no crass spelled out D:I-V-O-R-C-E traumatic. comments) so that the brush for too many of my brethern is just damp. Repeat this if and sistern, but it doesn’t have to be so ." your brush starts to dry out or you stop for traumatic. Indeed, follow the advice prof- : lunch or whenever you are going to use a fered in the next few colunms, and per- ¯ clean and dry brush to paint with. haps your delighted love will buy you a : As you paint, dip your brush halfway up tool belt with all the accessories, too. ¯ the bristles into the paint, the tap the side The DIYD begs your indulgence; a ," of the brush on the side of your paint can. whole colunm devoted to the selection : This is called loading your brush; if you and.care of paintbrushes is not as bizarre ¯ scrape most of the paint off on the side, of as youmayinitially think. Over ,theco~se ." the bucket, you are completelydefeating of your Do-It-Yourself life, you may paint every room in your house as well as some or all of the exterior at least once. ff you’ve ever paid a paint contractor, you can see the economy of widding a (good) paintbrush yourself. And the grim fact is, the type and quality and care of your paintbrushes is directly related to the finished quality of your paint job. Yes, ducklings, we return to the DIYD’s recurring theme o" tools : Always Buy the Very Best That You Can Afford. You may choke at the prospect of paying $13 - $24 for a brush, and certainly they can be had for cheaper (although I don’t recommend buying even a small brush for less than $5), but this is definitely a case of .getting what one pays for. And please don’t look at brushes as a limited use, throw-away commodity; my father, the original DIY Oracle, has brushes that are about my age, and they are as marvelous looking and functional as I am, too! Well, maybe more so. I will teach you that lesson in longevity, too, so that you can get the most out of your investment. In selecting brushes, you will want a 1 l/2 inch or 2 inch brush and a 4 inch brush as a minimum. When you buy a good paintbrush, you don’t need a smaller one for the anal retentive job of cutting in (painting around trim, molding, etc.); if you have a real steady hand and good eye, you won’t even need to use masking tape very often, and that’s a great time saver. You will seldom use a 4 inch brush indoors, but it’s very handy when you do need it, and absolutely necessary if you are painting outside. As you go up the quality and cost ladder, the brushes will be marked specifically for external or ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ; ; ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ : ¯ the purpose of loading the brush. That is, a dry brush is not a) going to apply much paint and b) is not going, to last very long. A loaded brush is going to apply the paint smoothly and with little friction; as soon as it sounds a little raspy, load up again (more on painting technique next month). Please do not squish the brush down or get thebrisdes all bent and broken and crooked as you paint; you’re not trying to kill the poor thing. Smooth and gentle and flowing is the technique you’re after. Painting is a Tao thing, if you please. You may have read the helpful hint of putting abrushin aplastic bag and storing it in the freezer if you will be continuing your paint job later; the DIYD strongly discourages you from doing so, with all duerespect to Heloise. Using the Oracle’s techniques, it doesn’t take long to clean a brush and it will prolong the life of your expensive tool. For water based paints, rinse the brush under a tap of.running lukewarm water, gently working the bristles from side to side to get the paint out of the reservoir. Workin a dab of dish soap on the bristles and rinse some more; tam the brush on its side and work the water in from that angle too; it’s ok to use your hands, and it’ll help you clean up a bit, too. When all traces of the paint are gone and the rinse water is clean, squeeze off the water, put the brush head on a paper towel and rollitup flat (don’t squish the bristles tightly together). It keeps the bristles safe and dust free An oil based paint is more finicky to clean up after, but is not a chore to be dreaded. You’ll need paint thinner (It’s .flammable, so don’t useit near a flame source and see Dyke, page 14 �by Lamont Lindstrom ¯ is a challenge for you: Reflect anthropoA few years ago, at a dinner party, my " logically on Oklahoma culture and why friend Andrew dropped his pants to show ¯ this shouldfear tattoos. Nonetheless, some me two piercings. Or rather, he showed " of you may have come across a tattoo me one (a t-bar) and some ripped skin " eslablishmentthatsetupshopintheBrady where the second had been. He somehow District late last year. Delighted, I took had lost this on a flight from the UK to " advantage of this local opportunity to have tattooed on me my New Zealand. (Ididn’tthen No one l~,nows Japaneseinkan-thesmall, want much to go into the round name stamp that all details, halfway through where and wlaen banks in Japan demand one my salad, of just how this laumans ~rst uses in order to deposit or loss could have occurred.) withdraw anymoney. Next Andrew since has sometransformed t~elr time I am in Japan, I plan how arranged a replacement. He likes to fiddle bodies into worlds Of just to pull up my sleeve instead. with hisjewdry, so he tells art. T]als eertalnly No doubt I will horrify me, duringlong and tedious occurred tlaousands thebankladies. Tattooing business meetings at the in Japan (like Oklahoma) London architectural firm - per]aaps tens of is scandalous. This despite where he works. These piercings, there inside his thousands - of years the fact that Japan has an internationally renowned pinstriped trousers, coma~o. En~llsh tradition of brilliant fullpensates for the boring speahers, in tl~e late body tattooing. Japanese businessman’s garb he has tattoos,however, arediffi18th century, borto wear. cult to find and admire. Andrew is less happy rowed the word Many of the public-baths I with some of his other frequented had signs propiercings. He complains, "tattoo" from the claiming "NO tattoos alin a recent email message: Polynesian ’tatu’.. ¯ lowed." This reflects as"I have JUST ABOUT deeider to remove my nipple Tattooln~ qulehly sociations of tattoos with rings... A mobile phonein became a fad amon~ mafiatheyakuzagangs thatJapaneSecontrol the top pocket also causes considerable damage when "-both urbanites and much of the underground running across the office. Noonehaseveraskedwhy the avant-~mrde r~eb economY.though,I hadOneclimbedday’ I suddenly collapse in a (muela as it is today, Sakurajima volcano and " heap swearing,., so I think itsWasbackside.makingmYi WaYran intod°Wna two centuries later), they will have to go." He party of Well-dressed sight. hopes, though, to get himself a tattoo by way of compensation for " seers sporting black patent leather shoes. the sacrifice of his nipple d~cor. ¯ They off&ed me a ride back to the city in their van. Squeezed into the back seat I am a fan of tattoos mysdf, so I hope Andrew does decide to undergo the inky " with two of my hosts, I noticed a tattooed needle. No one knows where and when ¯ wristjustshowingfromnnderashirtsleeve humansfirsttransformedtheirbodiesinto ¯ cuff. Soon, my new companions had hapworksofart.Thiscertainlyoccurredthou- " pily pulled off their clothing to’reveal sands - perhaps tens of thousands - of : magnificent kaleidoscopic tattoos coveryears ago. English speakers, in the late ¯ ing every inch of their bodies, except 18th century, borrowed the word"tattoo" : head, hands, and feet. Bygone yakuza from the Polynesian ’~atu’. James Cook, - ¯ sometimesarrangedforthemselves,when and his fellow explorers, came across: ¯ theydied, to be partly skinned, and the richly decorated male Polynesian bodies " skin tanned, in order to preserve their in Tahiti, the Marquesas, Hawai’i, and " luxuriant tattoos. Fewof us would be so willing to beNew Zealand. Eager sailors pulled up ¯ their shirts to offer their skin to the bone ¯ come altogether a body-art canvas. Still, needles of Polynesian artists. They thus ¯ tattooing allows us to remodel our bodies imported Pacific tattoo designs back to " and thereby our senseand presentation of Europe. Tattooing quickly became a fad ¯ self..IrecentlywanderedaroundHouston’s amongbothurbanitesandtheavant-garde " Gay ghetto, the Montrose district - it rich (much as it is today~ two centuries " could have been ancient Tahiti. Many of later). This actually was a reintroduction - : us, too, will make handsome, decorated of forgotten body art to Europe. Ancient , corpses. I am suggesting to Andrew that peoples from across Europe once also had this time he just have a ring tattooed onto decorated themselves by needling dyes " his nipple. That way those troublesome ¯ cell phones won’t get inthe way. under the skin. Lamont Lindstrom is a professo? of Oklahoma is one of only three of the ¯ United States that outlaw tattooing. Here : anthropology at the University of Tulsa. ¯ more. Your brush should be nice and ¯ dean now, so use a paper towel to absorb : the excess thinner, then store as above. get lots of ventilation going), an empty ¯ Storetheusedthinnerinyourcontainerin paint can or bucket, and a sealable con- ¯ a wall ventilated spot away from ignition tainer and a couple of paper towels. Pour " sources. The next time you use an oilsome thinner in your dean bucket, and " based paint, you can reuse the thinner work the bristles firmly but gently back ¯ from that container. The paint settles out and forth against the bottom and side of " and the thinner and oil can gently be the bucket. This will get the majority of ° decanted from the top. The Oracle swears the paint out of the bristles. Pour the used ¯ that this product is even better than virgin thinner into your sealable container and " thinner, and you’re recycling. replace the lid; be a good eco scout and " Now that you are savvy with brush mark"used paint thinner" on the lid. 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"In Oklahoma, the logical lead organization for this action is the Cimarron Alliance," noted community activist Tom Neal who had represented Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights in last year~s Federation meetings. "Hopefully a consortium of organizations, like TOHR, OGLPC, PFLAG and others, will come together for such an event," he added. The Equality Begins at Home actions will be organized by. each of the existing 36 political organizations active in the Federation. Each state will desig-n an ac~ tion that best fits with their state and their political goals. Each state will develop a plan for integrating local groups and our allies into the Action. The National Gay Lesbian Task Force will help to organize the states that do not have e:dsting statewide political groups. The Equality Begins at Home actions has been g~ven office space in the National Gay Lesbian Task Force office. Kerry Lobel, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said, "The political center of gravity is in the states. Equality Begins at Home will allow organizers to focus their energy on building the movement in all fifty states. At this critic~ time in our movement, NGLTF is fully committed to the Federaraon and the state actions. We urge our colleague or~ mizations to join us in suppo,-txng this critical political work. Several national and local groups have jointed in supporting the Equality Begins at Home Actions by helping with re5~udraising, publicity-, organiz,.~ ~’,~ ~w-~.ic.~ and expertise. There will also 0e a pc,~ .~i’~d effort to make sure that both the Equality Begins at Home actions and the Millenium March compliment each-other and share resources. "The Equality Begins at Home actions enjoys the full support and enthusiastic support of the organizers of the Millenium March," said Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign. "It is imperative that we focus our energies as a movement at both the state and federal level. These two events will corn- pliment each other as together we build the momentum to achieve equality in the next century." "Each state capitol must hear voices of every color that makes -up the LGBT commtmity. LLEGO will make sure that Latina/os are active in this event and looks forward to making a forceful manifestation of unity and inclusivenes s. Our movement will be raised to anew level with the success of Equality Begins at Home, said Martin Omelas-Quintero, Executive Director of LLEGO, The Nadonal Latinwo Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organization. For more .information about Equality Begins a~ Home, contact Tom Neal at 583-1248 or tulsanews@earthlink.net. 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Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper periodical Text Any textual data included in the document Inhofe Still Blocking Gay Ambassadorial Nominee WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate faces a decision soon on whether America will have its first openly Gay ambassador. Supporters of James Hormel are demanding he at least get a vote while conservative opponents insist that Republicans take a stand on a key "lifestyle" Issue. Hormel, President Clinton’s choice ~to be envoy to Luxembourg, was the only foreign ~elations nominee not acted upon at the end of last year’s session. Three Republican senators, expressing concern that he would use the post to promote a "Gay agenda", put "holds" on the nomination, effectively freezing it. Democrats now-are demanding action. Before leaving for the Easter recess, 42 Democrats sent Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., a lett~r supporting the nomination and urging a vote. Democrats also took : -Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, ,Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations i Tulsa’s Gay You!h Progra,ms Hurt by States Inact,on : O’RYAN Program in Limbo Dueto Funding Lapse ¯ TULSA - Red Rock Behavioral Health Center is in a financial : crisis with its Lesbian/Gay youth support program. The program ¯ which goes by the acronym, O’RYAN for Oklahoma Rainbow ¯ Young Adults’ Network, provides."developmentally appropri- ¯ ate" education, support and social activities for "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered andquestioning" adolescents and young : adults from 14 to 24. ~ According to Betsy Murphy, program director, a large portion :’ of the program had been funded through a federal grant for HIV ¯ prevention and education from the CDC, Centers for Disease ¯ Control. However, the grants are administered through the Okla- ¯. homa State Dept. of Health (OSDH) which is running weeks behind schedule in seeking grant proposals. While Murphy was ¯ extremely reluctant to criticize OSDH, she acknowledged that in ¯ the past OSDH has handled grants so that a new year’s grant if ¯ won, began close to the time the prior year’s grant ended. And ¯ although Red Rock pays for a substantial part of the costs of the ¯" O’RYAN program, theOSDHgrants typically have paid most of ¯ staff salaries. As ofApril 1 st, nomore funds are coming fromthe CDC/OSDH and Murphy is appealing to theTulsa community to ¯ provide financial aid. " ,, ¯ In a press release, Red Rock states, while in the past, we have : been able to weather out these funding cycles, the situation now ¯ is dire and without outside help, we cannot continue.. " ¯ Red Rock notes that the program has helped hundreds of youth : in Tulsa County and surrounding areas. O’RYAN. provides : weekly support groups, individual and family counseling, HIV ¯ peer education and HIV testing and counseling, a informational ¯ library, and safe, alcohol-free and drug-free recreational and social events. O’RYANhelps to providepositiverole models and to the Senate floor to express concern that confirmation : helps to foster a sense of self-esteem and worth. w,.aso..em..gn.e.ta.up.o.m.y.tw..,cau¯ se’t"iIorm,e,l"-,isVOay "r~rej"u.."... D.on.au.on.s c.an.be7m.a.de.t.o O..RYAN, c/oRedRockBeha ]oral :" : = ¯ nea~m ~ervlces, 1 24 Past mgnt Street, tulsa, uh/~1~4-, for mceoasenonsexumonenmuonsnomana enop!aceln :... ¯ ..... ’ .......- thi~ debate" , ~aa .-lrl~rmal ~Oa ~ ¯ more nuprmg~0n, can ~etsyor ~en Oklahoma Gay : ROdeo: ..........P[a-nning for Tulsa-Pride Group Holds 13the.Event : March. &. Picnic Under Way Red Ribbon Revue.& Concessions Carwash Slated TTULSA - Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, in conjunction with several co~umuaity businesses is preparing for this June’s Pride Events. On June 6th, Concessions will be again holding another Drag Queen Car Wash from 11-4 in the back parking lot of the dub, 3340 S. Peoria. Organi,zers promise the event will happen come rain or shine, and last year’s car wash did have a little rain. This year’s event will benefit TOHR and Tulsa’s Gay Pride Picnic. Organizers say yon will see all your favorite Broo"kside Divas and some of Oklahoma’s top title holders wash cars for charity in full drag and there may also be a man or two in a string bi"kini helping out. Donations will be collected for these charities through out that weekend- notjust at the ear wash. Tickled Pink will have ffome Pride items available for sale also. Organizers added that last year they raised $1000 and that this year they hope to double or triple that amount. Later on that Saturday, Renegades/Rainbow Room will be holding their annual Red Ribbon Revue which will also benefit this year’s Pride events. Helga will host this event and call Renegades at 585-3405 for details and times. This year’s Pride events have moved again due to concerns from the City ofTulsa’s Parkand Recreation Dept. about parking problems at Owen Park~ This year’s site is Veteran Park between 18th & 21st Streets at Boulder. Rick Martin, Pride Events coordinator noted that this park is larger than Owen and though it doesn’t have much parking itself, it is surrounded by business parking lots which should be available on a Saturday. While a few community members, such as those in sensitive professions, like public school teachers, have expressed concerns about the more visible location, many others have welcomed the new site - especially the owners of Renegades/Rainbow Room which is 2 blocks north of the park. Details are not yet available : but organizers indicate that Renegades will host a post picnic ¯ event. TOHR co-organizer Greg Gatewood said that plans are ¯ underway for the 2rid annual Pride March to be held just before ¯ and to the picnic but that details will be forthcoming. Organizers ¯ note that community organizations and businesses are Welcome ¯ to have booths at the Picnic for a modest fee. : Later in June, probably June 28th, Oklahoma City will ho~t the ¯ statewide Pride parade. More details should be available in early ¯ June on those events. Info. on Pride events, call 743~4297. OKLAHOMACITY - OKC will host the annual Great " Plains Regional Rodeo on Memorial Day Weekend, ." May 22 -24. While the rodeo will take place in the newly ¯ remodeled and air-conditioned Barn Six of the Okla- " homa State Fairgrounds in southwest Oklahoma City, ¯ registration, parties and the awards ceremony will be’at ¯ the Ramada Inn Airport Northwest. : The Great Plains Regional Rodeo is One of a number : of continent wide rodeos sponsored by 23 member associations of the International Gay Rodeo Associa- ¯ tion. While many of these organizations are in the " southwest, there are also groups in California, Wash- " ington, DC and in Canada. The Oklahoma Gay Rodeo Association (OGRA) was ¯ formed in 1984 to promote rodeo-ing and to raise funds to fight HIV and AIDS. Since 1986, OGRAhas contrib- " uted over $60,000 to Oklahoma AIDS organizations. OGRA invites all who are interested to join the " organization -neither riding nor competing are re- " quired. Tickets f0r this year’s rodeo are $30 for the " packet which includes both days rodeo events, the ¯ Friday evening party and the awards ceremony. Tickets " to individual~events are available at the door. Room " rates at the Ramada are $55 for up to four persons, and " suites are $95/evening. Call 405-~47-2351 for reservations; " OtherDivisi0n III rodeos are: Omaha, NE, June 19- " 21; Wichita, KS, AUgust %9;. and Kansas City, MO, ¯ August 29-31, The Internatii~nal:iGay !~odeo..Association Finals Rodeo .will beheld ~inPho~i~x-, ~AZ0n " October 22-25. ¯ ’ " For more informati.on; cal~405z842-08~9! " DIRECTORY~E~ERS P..~ US & WORLD NEWS P..4 HEALTH NEWS "- P. 6 ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P: 8 COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 - BOOK REVIEW P~ 10 RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 11 GAY STUDIES + DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 12 CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14~5 i Oklahoma House Attacks Gays Again ¯ TULSA, Okla. (AP)-Oneoftheresolutions adopted in 1997 by the Democratic Party State Conventiofi ¯ says the party "opposes, deplores and disavows ¯ discrimination, extremism and hatred of every ¯ kind." But state Democratic lawmakers raised no argu- : ment recently when a bill to bar convicts from ¯ working in schools was amended to also bar "ho- ¯ mosexuals or lesbians": Nor did they say anything ¯ when legislation was amended to bar children ¯ being placed in the foster care of"someone who is ¯ a homosexual or a lesbian." ¯ Both amendments were offered by Republican ¯ lawmakers who are vocal about their opposition to ¯ homosexuality. But it was Oklahoma Democratic ¯ Party ExecutiveDirector PatHall who was taken to task for the inaction of Democratic lawmakers, a ¯ story in Sunday’s Tulsa World said. ¯ In aletter toHall,TomNeal, editor and publisher of Tulsa Family News, said it may be the Republi- ¯ cans who publicly bash Gays, but it is the Democrats who are passing the legislation. ¯ "I genuinely believe that these nearly unanimous votes help create a climate where physical assaults ¯ are considered perfectly acceptable," said Neal, ¯ citing Gay-bashing crimes, including an assault on ¯ two men in Tulsa. "Why is it, Pat, that Democrats ¯ only recognize my.community’s existence when ¯ they’re voting to compare us to convicted felons ¯ who should notbe allowed to teach, but when we’re ¯ being assaulted.., we don’t exist," Neal asked. Hall tried to defend House Democrats and their ¯ failure to debate the amendments.’ If) ou debate it, ¯ it gives thos~ preaching hate a bully pulpit," he ~ ’ said. "If youjustmove it through with a voice vote, ¯ then you have eliminated, see House, page 3 Equality Begins at Home :1999 March= on The Oklahoma State Capitol ¯ April 29, 1997 - The Federation of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and April 29, 1997 - The ; Federatiola of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual ¯ and Transgender Political Organizations will spon- : sor a historic, coordinated weekofactions focussed : on state government and statewide organizang. ," After many national and statewide discussions and ¯ after conducting a state-by-state assessment from ¯ its members, the Federation of Statewide Lesbian, ¯ Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Orgam- ¯ zations has decidedit is time to focus energy on our ¯ home states. Under the theme Equality Begins at ¯ Home, each state is called upon toplan an activity ¯ - amarch, rally,lobby day, state conference, or any other visibility campaign m their state capitol to : occur during the week of March 21-27, 1999. ¯ Equality Begins at Home will provide an opportunity to focus the national spotlighton the organiz- : ing challenges and legislative battles faced by the ¯ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender people in ¯ state houses across the nation. The goal is to build ¯ statewide orgamzing capability across the nation. : The purpose of the Equality Begins at Home ac- ¯ tions will be to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual ¯ and transgender equal rights in every state. : "The Equality Begins at Home actions enable us ¯ to focus our energy on orgamzing and educating at ¯ the state level. Clearly, more and more battles are ¯ fought in the states. With anti-Gay initiatives and : referendums from Colorado to Maine, and the right ¯ wing organizing against our families; we must ¯ build,,a stronger grassroots movement in every state, explained Paula Ettelbrick, Co-Chair of the : FederationandLegislativeDirectorofNew York’s ¯ Empire State Pride Agenda. ¯ "The Equality Begins at Home actions give us a tremendous opportunity to strengthen our efforts in : the states and create a more powerful network ¯ across our country," stated Dianne Hardy-Garcia, co-chair of the Federation see March, page 15 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria *Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th *Gold Coast Coffe~ House, 3509 S. Peoria *Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. 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Grand HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for date ¯ EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS ¯ *Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 501-253-7734 501-253-7457 ¯ *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807 ¯ *Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445 ¯ 501-253-9337 MCC of the Living Spnng Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-2776 501-253-5332 ". Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646 ¯ 501-253-6001 ¯ Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East ¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442-2845 ¯Ron’s Place, 523 W. Poplar 501:442-3052 * is where you can find TFN. Notall are Gay.owned but all are Gay-friendly. Carbon Copy: Gay people should be included, in Scouts Letter to the Editor Petaluma (California) Argus-Couri’er I am 12 years old and a Life Rank Boy Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. I like Scouting alot. Iamwriting to youbecause I wantpeople toknow that the Boy Scouts of America is a great program but it excludes Gay people. The Boy Scouts won’t allow Gay.kids or grown-ups in Scouting, The Boy Scouts of America discriminates agaihst Gay people. Every time the Scout Law is read at our troop meetings, I don’t even say it because the Scout Law is not followed by the Boy Scouts of America when they discriminate against Gay people. ¯ The Scout Law says a Scout is true to his friends.., nation.., world commu.- nity. This is not true when not everyone ~s included in that community, when Gays are excluded. . The ScoutLaw says a Scout should be, hdpful. A Scout should be concemeo about other people. This is not true for the Boy Scouts ofAmerica whenit bans Gays or expels them when they are found out. . The Scout Law says a Scout should be friendly to all: He seeks to understand others. He respects those with different ideas and customs. This is not true w_hen the Boy Scouts ofAmericaban Gays from scouting. The Scout Law says.a Scout should be kind. He should treat others as he would want to be treated. I don’t know anyone who wants to be discriminated against the way the BoyScouts ofAmerica discriminateagainst, Gays- My dad and I-were ¯ told we can t e~en bring this issue up at ourmeeting with other Scouts in our troop. I hope to change this one bad things about the Boy Scouts of America. I hope all of you who read this letter to the editor will also want to help me in my efforts by calling Scouting For All at (707) 778- 0564. Gaykids shouldbe allowed to be Scouts. And I know kids who have Gay dads would want their dads to be able to be an assistant Scoutmaster like my Dad. - Steven Cozza, Life Rank Boy Scout Appreciates Coverage I wanted to say thank youfor the stones Tulsa Family News does about different commumty organizations. Many times I don’t agree with your editorials but I do like.that I get more Tulsa information from Tulsa Family News than from other Gay community newspapers. Also please continue to look hard at those who are revolved in HIV/AIDS services. Some are doing a great job. Others need more oversight to make sure they treateveryone as good as they should. Iknow youhaye received a 1ot of criticism for this but please conunue. Thank you but please don’t print my name - I don’t want the grief I’d get. - name withheld by request. Jenk~ Editor’s note: thank you for your kind words - we’ll do the best we can. ¯ Letters Policy Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on ¯ issues which we’ve covered or on issues ". you thinkneed to be considered. Youmay ¯ request that your name be withheld but ¯ letters mustbe signed &have ph°ne num- ~ bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let- " ters are preferred. Letters to other publi- : cations will be printed as is appropriate. ¯ Do Tulsa Jews Hate Gays? First they came for the Gays and ! didn’t speak up because I was not Gay... finally they came for the Jews, and by that time there was no-one left to say anything at all - aparaphrase ofGerman pastor Martin Niemoeller who referred to the systematic persecution ofJews, other Germans, including Gay men, and non-Germans, by the Nazis. Now that we are just a few weeks past Passover, the ancient celebration of the liberation of Jerks from Egyp- ¯ dan slavery,-and right after Holocaust remembrance ceremonies, perhaps it’s equally just to comment on the ongoing silence of Tulsa’s Jewish leaders about recent Oklahoma House of Representatives legislative attacks on Gay & Lesbian Oklahoma citizens (see related story; page one). Ofcourse, to those who follow these issues, this silence is nothing new. Last year when the legislature attacked s,Tulsa s Jewlshleadership was silent too. And the year before that. And back to those nasty, hate-filled public hearings about the City’s Human Rights COmmission’s Task Force report, Tulsa’s Jewish leaders were silent. Yolanda Chamey, formerly community relations specialist with the Jewish Federation, claimed that the Jewish Federation did send aletter to Mayor Savage supporting fair and equal treatment fo!~ Gay & Lesbian citizens but no one ever saw this letter, or wouldeven haveknown about it if not for this newspaper asking. And while such a position could have set a standard for the greater community had it been known, the secretive manner in which the letter was sent guaranteed that no one would know about it. Some will ask why pick on the Jew~.~Why not ask why other groups which should speak out for social justice remain silent? It is a fair question. Indeed, the silence of the Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Disciples ofChrist, even the Roman Catholics - most ofwhom haye 0fficial denominational policies which call them toworkfor civil rights protections for Lesbians and Gaymen (not just oppose attacks) - is troubling. And of course, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry which hardly has met a social justice issue it couldn’t embrace, seems to continue to find Gay people not worthy of justice or even minimal civil rights protections. Even the voice of the courageous Rev. Russell Bennett of the most Gay-friendly "main-line" Christian denomination inTulsa, the UnitedChurch ofChrisL has not been heard publicly on this matter as ofourpress time¯ To their no place in the Senate andno#ace in America," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Hormel, a (>-year-old San Francisco businessman, philanthropist, Democratic Party contributor and heir to theHormel Meat Co. fortune, receivedunanimous Senate confirmation last May for another post, as an alternate to the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly¯ He sailed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, winning approval on a 16-2 vote last November, after Secretary of State Madele’meAlbrightassured Chair-. man Jesse Helms~R-N.C., that Hormel was highly qualified and would not promote his personal interests. Helms voted against Hormel but let the nomination advance to the Senate floor¯ In a letter to Sea. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., a committee member, in February, Hormel said: "I will not use, nor do I think it is appropriate to use, the office of the ambassador to advocate any personal views I may hold." He pledged to resign from mostofhis board seats, limit his charitable giving and prohibit use of his name in fund raising. But that has not satisfied Republican Sens. Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Bob Smith of New Hampshire, who put holds on the nomination. Conservative groups also continue to oppose Hormel as a "radical Gay activist". Gary Bauer’s Family Research Council cited Hormel’s financial support for a documentary aimed at educators that the group said promotes "Gay lifestyles"¯ It also pointed to a Gay and Lesbian materials wing in the San " crediL some Tulsa Unitarians and the Episcopal Diocese ¯" ofOklahoma, and I hope, Bennett, are doing workbehind ." the scenes to protest these hate-based actions. ¯ However, it is the Jews with whom Gay people share ~ the experience of systematic Nazi persecution. Gay men, ¯ like Jews, were targeted by Nazi legislation which essen- ¯ tially made their existence illegal and which set the stage : for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. And while the persecution of Gay men may not havebeen part of a : .systematic genocidal theory, the.experience of the camps ¯ m which Gay men typically suffered some of the worst ." conditions and were most despised of all the prisoners, ¯ leftthemjustas dead. AndwhilethoseJews who survived ¯ can speak of "liberation" from the camps, and even -" received reparations with which to beginlife again, those ; Gay menwhodidsurvivewereimmediatelyreincarcerated ¯ as "criminals" - for the crime of loving - by the Allies. ¯ Soitis this sharedhistory as well as the observation that : in the US, Jews have traditionally heldleadership roles in ¯ social justice movements, that makes this silence so paiufU~. Jewish Americans were active in the civil rights movement of the 50’ s and 60’s which sought to end legal segregation. This was true in Tulsa as it was elsewhere. It’s not that Tulsa’s Jewish community has not been ¯ asked to help¯ The day after the first piece of hate -" legislation was passed (the amendment of Senate bill ; #1394 by Rep. Bill Graves, R-OKC), Rabbi Charles ¯ Sherman of Temple Israel who is also president of the ¯ National Couferenee of Community and Justice (for- ." merly of Christians and Jews), and David Bernsiein, ". executive director of the Jewish Federation were tele- ¯ phoned to ask for their help. To date, nearly four weeks -" and several follow-up calls later, neither has responded. ." What does this mean? Are they scared? Is it that ; speaking up for Gay people would somehow threaten the ¯ security of Tulsa Jews? This is hard to believe. Tulsa’s : Jewish community, though Small in numbers, has largely been rather successful and now is represented on nearly ¯ everymajorinfluential community organi7ationfrom the ¯ Chamber of Commerce to TU’s Board ofTrnstees to the : National Conference. : Whetherit isjustplain old-fas_hionedbigotry, ormerely : ¯ the catering to other’s pi’ejudice, it’s coming from those ¯ who ought to know better. Hebrew Scriptures, whichJew : and Christian each revere, exhort us "to seek justice" - ; not "to seek justice - except for those socially inconve- ¯ nient Gay people over there". Hopefully, Tulsa’s Gay ¯ community will see Tulsa’s Jewish community take this : exhortation more seriously someday, and the next time ; thelaws of the land are used to attack Gay citizens, there ¯ will be as much outcry as there was when a cross of : Christmas lights was placed, wrongfully, on a public : building. - Tom Neal, editor &publisher :. Francisco public library supported by and named for ¯¯ Hormel that contains controversialliterature. Further, the council said, Hormel presided over a 1996 Gay pride ¯ parade in San Francisco at which he was heard laughing ¯ at n/ale drag queens dressed as nuns. Bauer said Luxem- ¯ bourg is 97 percent Roman Catholic, and"appointmg an ; ambassador who shows no~hing but contempt for certain ¯ groups of believers should offend every American who ¯ believes in the Constitution." ¯ Hormd said he had no role in deciding the contents of ¯ either thelibrary collectio,n or the documentary. "I hardly view myselfas a’radical. I amabusinessman and lawyer ¯ withmore than30years ofcommitment to public service, ¯ social justice and human rights," he wrote Smith. ¯ InconsideringHormel’s n0mination,Republicansmust deal both with general gripes by socialconservatives that -" they haven’t done enough to advance pro-family pro- _" grams, and conversely with concerns about being de- ¯. picted as hostile to Gays. "I don’t see how the Republican Party wants to be ¯ known as the party that discriminates on the basis of ¯ sexual orientation," said Winnie Stachelberg of the Hu- ¯ man Rights Campaign, a leading Gay political organiza- ¯ tion. Hormd is on the board of the Human Rights Cam- " paign Foundation, the group’s educational arm. ¯ "’It’s not his sexual orientation," countered Herb Johnson, chief of staff to Inhofe, one of Hormel’s leading ¯ Senate opponents..’q’he biggest problem is he has been ¯ inclined to use this to push an agenda that doesn’t neces- .. sarily represent the agenda of the American people." ¯ a hate pulpit." Hall said Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives don’t want "to let hate spill out on the ¯ floor of the House." Hall also said House Speaker Loyd Benson deserves credit for "literally making sure Oklahomais not shown nationally as a state of hate mongers.’" ¯ Both of the bills in question were sent on to conference ¯ committees for more work. "I think the bottom line is you need to look at the final ¯ vote on those measures and look at the final versions of the bill. I think that will speak for itself," said Benson, DFrederick. ¯ Rep. Bill Graves, R-Oklahoma City, author of the ¯ measure to prohibit"knoWn homosexuals and Lesbians" ¯ from working as contract or support employees in public schools, acknowledged that similaramendments onother ¯ bills have failed to survive conference committees. ¯ Whether the amendments are quietly removed in con- -¯ ference is beside the point for Ncal, who maintains that the failure to oppose such measures loudly creates bigger ¯ problems for the Gay community. Hall admitted that another reason the amendments ¯ were passed without protest is that this year is an election ¯ year. Those who openly oppose such measures could be ¯ branded by their political opponents as promoting homo- " sexuality. In fact, in 1996 Sen. Penny Williams, D-Tulsa, was ¯ criticized by her Republican opponent for voting against ¯ an amendmentbamng same-sex marriages in Oklahoma. Ms. Williams, who won re-election, was one of only two state senators who voted against that amendment. ¯ Republican lawmakers aren’t always behind such con- " troversies. In 1995, Democratic state representatives wrote resolutions opposing teaching about homosexuality in public schools even though no public schools in the ¯ state taught such subjects. The president of the Oklahoma Education Association said the resolutions were b~ed on a "blatantly misconstrued" measure passed by the National Education Asso- ¯ ciadon that dealt With training programs for education ¯ employees."for~the purposerf identifying and eliminat- ¯ ing sexual orientation stereotyping in the education s~tting.’" Hall said the finai resolution byRep. Jim Hamilton, D-Poteau, was rewritten so that it was not offensive to ¯ Gay people. ¯ Editor’snote: there was considerable disagreement in ¯ OMahoma’s Gay communities about whether the final ¯ resolution was in any way "acceptable" as Hall claims. International AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1998 4:00 P.M. LaFortune Park Southeast Shelter 61st & Yale PICNlC SLIPPER FOLLOWING THE SERVICE ~}R MORlg INI~3RMATION INTERFAITH AIDS MIN~TRIES 438-2457 Gay Couples Provide College Leadership NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The names Harvard and Yale by themselves evoke decades of tradition and conformity. Now these Ivy League bastions are breaking new ground for universities, as homosexual couples provide new models of domestic life for undergraduates as dormitory leaders. And so far, the ground-brealdng appointments have created little commotion. This July,.a Lesbian couple will assume duties as housemasters at Harvard’s Lowdl House, asix-story brickbuilding with a grassy quadrangle anda bell tower close to the fabled Harvard Yard. A Gay man appointed dormitory dean is moving with his partner into Yale’s Trumbull College, a Gothic structure of seam-faced granite with limestone trim and arching windows enclosing three courtyards. "I think it’s a great new erain being able to provide role models that have not been available at this level before," said Peter Novak, 32, the Yale.appointee. "We’ve been welcomed, and it says a lot about the Yale community and how tolerant it is, especially within the administration." .. At Haryard, professor Diana Eck, 52, realizes that she and her partner of 20 years may raise some eyebrows. "We know what it’s like in the culture generally: There are many people who are still very uncomfortable with this issue, so I’m sure that will be the case here," said Ms. Eck, a professor of comparafive religion and Indian studies at Harvard. The dormitories are not forsaking their traditions, however. The housemaster’at Lowell House, for example, has been host of a weekly afternoon tea since 1930, a custom Ms. Eck plans*’to continue. Novak~ who is-pursuing a master of fine arts in dramaturgy anddramatic criticism at theYale School of Drama, says he will h,e,!p students with aead.emics and personal problems. This will allow me to be an influence in people’s lives)’ Novak said. His partner ¯ first leading homosexual character, butGays will still ¯ be seen elsewhere on American television. : One year ago this month, "Ellen" made television ¯¯ history as the first series with a homosexual lead character. It drew both praise and fire for its ¯ groundbreaking portrayal of a woman coming to : terms with being Lesbian. What it didn’t draw was ¯ ratings on a consistent basis. After months of specu- ¯ lation, ABC confirmed late Thursday that Ellen ¯ DeGeneres’ last show would be a one-hour finale : May 13. ¯ Both ABC and DeGeneres declined to comment ¯ recently. The conservative Southern Baptists Con- " vention praised the decision, while Gay rights groups ¯. said theloss of amajor Gay character andperspective : on television is a serious blow. ¯ The sitcom, which has been airing Wednesday ¯ : nights after thehigher-rated’qqae Drew Carey Show," ¯ made its debut in 1994 with DeGeneres playing a ¯ ¯ singleheterosexual with a,,Friends~’_like close group of pals. After the comedian and her character, Ellen ¯ Morgan, both came out as Lesbians last season, ¯ DeGeneres and the network fought over the show’s ¯ content, including story lines that concentrated on : sexual orientation. ¯ More than 36 million people watched the April30, : 1997, episode when Ellen came out. This year, the : series averaged fewer than 11 million viewers - a 22 " percent drop over the previous year. i Kansas "Sodomy" : .- Law Upheld : TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)-A state law that makes homo- : sexual sex a crime has been upheld as constitutional. : A three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals ¯ refnsed Friday to overturn the muuicipal court misde- ¯ mean0r conviction of Max D. Movsovitz, a Topeka ¯ artist. Movsovitzwas arrestedinTopeka’s Gage Park : in April 1995 after soliciting sex from an undercover ¯ police officer. of four years, Curtis Lee, a store manager, will not x~.....it? rh.]]~noed the constitutionality of a lntramura.l., sports ana being a part oI StiMd~HL/S "11.v¢~, :. arguing theY, v~ol"a.ted." h.is.rights, to p’nvacy;, e~.ual - Novak sat& - ¯ treatment under the law and freedom of expression. : He and the American Civil Liberties Union claimed the law unfairly discriminates against homosexuals. ¯ The Court of Appeals panel, in a unanimous un- In a Yale dorm, the dean and.the master act as surrogate parents in the lix,esof the 440 students who live there. Master Janet Henrich, amedical professor, has lived in the durra for ayear with her husband, Victor, a physics professor. At Harvard, Ms. Eek and Dorothy Austin will become housemasters overseeing daily life for 450 students. Ms. Austin will split her time between Harvard and Drew University in New Jersey, where she is an associate professor of psychology and religion. "We knew that it would be an issue for the first time to have a same-sex couple as masters," Ms. Eck said. "I don’t know if we would have been appointed 10 years ago." Administrators say sexual Orientation made no difference in the appointments, which:were decided by student-faculty committees. Dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis saidmany peoplehad suggested Ms. Eck for the position notknowing what her sexual orientation was. "Our first criterion in looking at people was the quality of the individual master and what they would bring to the house," he said. At Yale, Novak will succeed dean William di Canzio, who lived alone in the dorm for eight years and is leaving for California.. Ms. Eck and Ms. Austin will replace professor William H. Bossert and his wife, Mary Lee, who are retiring after 23 years. Harvard students seemed to see the appointment as little cause for concern. "People are more interested in who she is, and what her dedication to the house is, than her personal life, which isn’t our concern," said Lisa Mignone, a senior from Bronxville, N.Y. The same goes for many at Yale. "It’s really not a big deal," said Tya Harris, a sophomore from Nashrifle, Tenn. "There are a lot ofpe0ple who are openly Gay on this campus." Ellen Gone But Gays Still on TV LOS ANGELES (AP) L The cancellation of ABC’s "Ellen" will leave prime-time television without its : signed opinion, rejected all of the arguments. ¯ Movsovitz can appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court. "As societal values evolve, the Legislature may fol- ¯ low some other state legislatures and decriminalize : private sexual behaviorbetweenall consenting adults," ¯ the court satd. Ho ever, these are issues that should ¯ be addressed by legislatures and not courts." According to court records, two men approached .. Movsovitz while he was parked in Gage Park, the ¯ city’s largest park and home of the Topeka Zoo. ~ During a conversation, Movsovitz agreed to engage ." in oral sex. The two men were undercover police ¯ officers. : Canada Recognizes i Same-Sex Spouses TORONTO (AP) - Ontario’s highest court has ruled ¯ thatthe Canadian government’s definition of"spouse" ¯ is unconstitutional because it excludes same-sexpart- ¯ ¯ ners.. A three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal ruledthat the definitionof"spouse" shouldbe ¯ amended in the federal Income Tax Act to recognize ¯ same-sex couples as well as opposite-sex couples. ¯ ¯ The ruling came in a case involving pension benefits and technically applies only to the Income Tax Act. : But Gay activists said it could set a precedent that ¯ would affect similar sections of other federal acts. ¯ "It opens the door for same-sex pension benefits, ¯ certainly, but it’s also a very significant statement by ¯ the courts thatdiscriminating against same-sexcouples is not only immoral, it’s unconstitutional," said John ¯ Fisher, executive director of Equality Ior Gays and ¯ Lesbians Everywhere. : The case was broughtby Nancy Rosenberg andher ¯ employer, the Canadian Union of Public Employees,. : regarding pension benefits which R0senberg sought ¯ to arrange for her Lesbian partner. 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The court ruling gave the union the right to include same-sex partners in its private pension plan without losing any tax benefits. Revenue department officials said they hadn’t decided whether to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada. Special Classes for Gay Students Nixed BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) - Gay and Lesbian students who say they dropped out ofpublic high school because of harassment almost got their own one-room schoolhouse, but organizers forget one detail: getting permissi’on from their bosses. Top officials of the sponsoring government agency, the Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Education Services, said they learned about the schoolhouse from a Newsday reporter. Board president Bruce Brodsky immediately halted plans to open the school, the newspaper reported last month. He was unaware that members of his own staff had enlisted a teacher, arranged for a classroom at the Long Island Gayand Lesbian Youth Inc. in BayShore, and had been advertising to attract students for several weeks. Three had signed up. The board Serves youngsters with special needs, including those who are pregnant, handicapped or seeking occupational training. "I don’t believe there should be a separate facility for Gay and Lesbian students. I don’t want to throw them back into the closet;’ Brodsky said. David Kilmnick, executive director of the Gay youth agency, said he would still push for the separate classes. "We want to make sure that this school happens, that these kids are not harassed or subject to violence because oftheir sexual orientation.-Theyneed a safer place to-learn," he said. Californian Trying to Ban Gay Marriages SACRAMENTO (AP) -Alawmaker who failed in two attempts to get a law bauning Gay_m~ages through the Legislature has received~the go-ahead to start collecting signatures to submit his proposal direcdy to voters. State Sen. Pete Knight, R-Palmdale, has until June 25 to collect the 433,269 signatures needed to place his initiafive on the November ballot. If he misses that date, but collects enough signatures by Sept. 21, his proposal willbeplacedonthe presidential primary ballot in 2000. His proposal, which was certified to circulate petitions, brings the number ofproposed initiatives seeking a spot on the November statewide ballot to 47. Knight’s proposal, tided the "California Defense of Marriage ¯ Act," adds just one sentence to the state Family Code: "Only marriage between a man and a woman i s valid or recognized in California." Statelaw already says that any marriage pfrformed in California must be between a man and a woman. But that lgw also recognizes as valid any marriage performed elsewhere. After a Hawaiian court riding in 1993 made recognition of Gay and Eesbian marriages possible, Congress gave states the authority not to recognize same-gender marriages performed in another state. An earlier attempt to place aban on Gay marriages on the June primary ballot failed to collect enough signatures. Students Sentenced for Anti-Gay Attack CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Three teen-age boys have been sentenced to eight days each on a work crew and a year or more of probation in the intimidation and assault of a Gay high school student in February. Paul .Miller, a senior at Corvallis High School, said the boys taunted him and then punched him, knocking out his two front teeth. Cyle Schroeder, 15, and Robert Huffaker and Michael Nash, both 16, appeared before Benton County Circuit Judge Robert Gardner. Miller did not attend the hearing. Schroeder, who threw the punch, will serve two years’ probation after his time on the work crew. He :¯ earlier spent 16 days in juvenile d~tenfion at the Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility. Huffaker, ¯ who served five days at Oak Creek and 69 days of ¯ home detention, will be on probation for one year. ¯ Nash, who served five days at Oak Creek and 33 ¯ days of home detention, will be on probation until : his 18th birthday. ¯ All three must undergo diversity education, pay ¯ restitution to Miller for his dental bills and write a ¯ letter of apology, the judge said. While what was done to Miller can’t be undone, Gardner said the case can send a message to people in the commu- : nity to think twice before taunting others. The ; judge said he got the impression that the boys have : come to realize the seriousness :of what happened. If people are assaulted because of their particular status, the assault is notjust on that person, but also- : on the group, he said. "That’s the reason I think this ¯ case had the publicity and had the attention I think ¯ it deserved," Gardner said. Support for Gays Provokes Death Threats LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Gay-rights issues have divided the United Methodist Church, but death threats against a student who supported Gay rights ¯" at the church’s Nebraska Wesleyan Uni.versity ¯ have caused a deeper controversy. "Everyone is ¯ welcome at this university, regardless of how they ¯ live or how they love," the Rev. Bill Draper Finlaw ¯ told a crowd of about 300 people gathered on ¯ campus Thursday to show support for sophomore : Jonathan Judge. ¯ The small, liberal arts Methodist school, which ¯ has about 1,500 students, was rocked last week : when Judge received two messages on his answering machine threatening him with death for supporting a campus Gay rights group. Judge reported ’. the messages to police. Judge, who is not Gay, is a ¯ member of the student senate and has introduced a bill on behalf of the Gay civil rights group, Plains ¯ Pride, to have it recognized as a legitimate campus ¯ organization. ¯" The rally camejust two days before the church’s ¯ national Council of Bishops is to meet in Lincoln. The bishOps have been asked to call a special : session ofthe General Conference, the church’s top ¯ legislative body, to discuss Gay civil rights. ¯ These rights became a hot-button issue among : the church’s 9.5 million members when a Method- " ist minister in Omaha was acquitted last month on ¯ charges of disobeying church rules for performing ; a Lesbian marriage. The Rev. Jimmy Creech per- " formed the ceremony in September in defiance of : anorderby Nebraska BishopJoel Martinez. Creech : was suspended and put on trial before a jury of ¯ Methodist ministers. Following a two-day inquiry in Keamey, a panel ¯ of 13 ordained elders voted 8-to-5 to convictCreech of violating the church’ s Order and Discipline. The ¯ vote fell one short of the nine required for convic- ¯ tion. Creech presented the first challenge to the denomination’s 1996 decision in its Social Principles to prohibit"ceremonies that celebratehomo- . sexual unions." The United MethodistChurch is ¯ the second largest Protestant denomination in the United States, after the Southern Baptists. It has about 120 colleges nationwide, including Southern Methodist, Duke and Emory universities in addition to Nebraska Wesleyan. : Dina Weisser, a 21-year-old junior at Nebraska ¯ Wesleyan, said she has several Gay and Lesbian : friends whohavebeenharassedoncampus.Weisser, ¯ wh0is not Gay but belongs to Plains Pride, said two ¯ members of the group have been attacked on or near campus in recent weeks. ’q?here’s been so ¯ much violence going on - so much hatred," she ¯ said. ’q’hey are trying to silence us by threatening ¯ senators in our student senate ~.. trying to take away our First Amendment rights" ¯ Judge sat on a brick wall during the rally, stanng ¯ down at the sidewalk as he listened to the speakers. ¯ "It was very reassuring." he said. "It ¯renewed my faith in this campus." Judge appeared nervous ¯ when asked how he was coping after the death threats. "I’m here," he said. Every 5 Minutes, Another Young Person’s Infected MOSCOW (AP) - Every minute worldwide, five people between the ages of 10 and 24 become infected with HIV, according to a report released here inMoscoW. The UNAIDS report also warned that Eastern Europe is set to become "one of the next epicenters" of the world AIDS crisis, with HIV’ infection.rates having increased at least sixfold .since 1994. It said that 190,000 people in the region are infected, a contagion rate driven by a sharp rise in the use of injected drugs. In conjunction with the report, thejoint U.N. Programon HIV/AIDS launched a yearlong campaign called "Force for Change: World AIDS Campaign with Young People." The report was released in,Moscow to draw attention to the threat facing Eastern Europe. "In.Russia, where injecting drug use and unsafe sex are fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, it is time for young people to engage in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts and make their voices heard," said G4anni MtuTi~ UNICEF’s Moscow representative. "They have the right and responsibility to change the course of the epidemic and the support of adults is crucial to make it happen." The report said that the young are particularly hard-hit by the world epidemic, with at least one-third of the 30 million HIV carriers being 24 or younger. Each day, 7,000 young people worldwide contract HIV, adding up to 2.6 million new -infections annually, it said. The report warned Of an explosion in sexually transmitted diseases across Eastern E~ope. New syphilis cases have gonefrom 10 per 100,000people each yearin thelate 1980s to - in some regions-- hundreds per 100,000. UNAIDS is a grouping of 5 U.N. agencies and the World Bank. More $ Could 1/2 New Infections SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - More spending could halve the number of new HIV infections worldwide, according to a United Nations study presented at a San Francisco AIDS conference. "We know what works. We’ve shown it’ s effective. What we need now is the money to implement them," said Martha Bulter deLister, director oftheDominicanRepublicAIDS organization Fundacion Genesis. "We can’t wait for a vaccine." The result could be achieved if affluent governments, corporations and individuals dug deeper and spent 10 to 15 times more on global preventionprograms, said the UN study presented at this week’s University of California, San Francisco conference. HIV infection is rampaging through Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and Southeast Asia, but many countries are unable to afford something as simple as a blood test to keep the blood supply dean. Nor can they afford testing, and counseling of HIV-infected people to warn against transmitting the infection to others. Sexually transmitted diseases, known to boost the risk of HIV infection, go untreated. Furthermore, mothers pass on the virus to their infants because they lack access to theAZT drug regimen that could interrupt deadly viral transmission. While much of. the globe is riveted by three- and four-drug anti-viral regimens, costing $25,000 to $37,000 per person a ¯ year, an estimated 16,000 men, women ~ and children in developing countries are ¯ newly infected each day. ." Conference co-chair MargaretChesney ¯¯ of the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, working with AIDS specialists ¯ from 38 different nations, sought pmcti- ¯ cal and affordable solutions to the growing epidemic. Among the prevention costs estimated by experts: - 50 cents to test blood for theAIDS virus. - Several dollars to cure a sexually trans- " mitted disease. -$50 to give an infected mother a short course ofAZT to prevent transmission of the virus to her baby. Worldwide, about $1.5 billionhas been spent each year on comic books, radio spots and condom rallies in devdoping .nations. But such prevention efforts have proved to be mere speed bumps, not roadblocks, in the path of HIV, the report found. US HIV Infection Rate Steady ATLANTA (AP) - The rate at which people arebecoming infected withHIV in the United States has heldrelatively steady despite a historic drop in AIDS cases, suggesting thatmany people are not heeding warnings about prevention. A study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated a2 percent decline from 1995 to 1996 in.the number ofnew HIV cases diagnosedamongpeople 13 or older. "This is a case of the glass is half full," said CorneliusBakerof the National AS: sociation of People with AIDS. "People are living longer. That’s great. But with a steady infection rate, it means the epidemic isn’t going away." "- The study Used statistics from the 25 ~ states that report infection r~ites. AIDS _" deaths dropped 21%in 1996, while the ¯ number of people with AIDS dropped ¯ 6%, according to figures previously re- : leased by the CDC. AIDS deaths were ¯ down an additional 44%in the firsthalf of 1997. People diagnosed with HIV are not ¯ considered AIDS cases until they actually : develop symptoms of the disease. So de- " laying the onset of AIDS and prolonging ¯ the lives of AIDS patients can reduce the ¯ numberofAIDS deaths even while there’s ~ little changein the rate ofnew HIV cases. ¯ "We’renot seeinggoodnews in the fact ¯ that we are not seeing a substantial de- " dine," in the H_IV infection rate, said Dr. ¯ Palricia Fleming, a CDC researcher. The ¯ ¯ CDC estimated that HIV cases between 1994 and mid-1997 dropped slightly among menbut increased among women. The study also showed HIV infections ¯ among young people overall had leveled off, but minorities now make up a greater ¯ portion of that group. Of the 7,200 cases ¯ of HIV reported among 13- to 24-y.ear¯ olds, 63% were black and 5% Hispamc. Ms. Fleming warned that not all states ¯ were required to report infection rates. ~ The new figures don’t include California ¯ and New York, so the true national infec- ¯ tion rate could be higher or lower, she ¯ said. The CDCwants all states to create a ¯ name-based HIV reporting system. ~ "You need to know about the front end ¯ oftheepidemicifyou’retryingtofindout ¯ what’s going on With the disease," said ¯ Eve Mokotoff, chief of the HIV/AIDS ¯ epidemiology unit at the Michigan De- " partment of Community Health in De- " troit. Michigan is among the states that Medical Excellence And Compas.sionate Care Since 1926. ¯ ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER to benefit ,Saint Joseph Residence & Regional AIDS Interfaith Network Donors’ Event Thursday, June 4th, 6 - 9 pm Home Tour Saturday, June 6th, 10 Sunday, June 7th, 1 - -5pro 5 pm Patrons’ Event Tuesday, June 16th For tickets or for more information, call Charles Faudree, Inc., Anti~ques at 747-9706 will the person who is still paying too much for health insurance please call Kent Balch & Associates 918-7-47-9.506 Sandra Hill, M.s. National Certified Counselor Certified Hypnotherapist Psychotherapy & Clinical Consultation Sensitive to the ChaBenges of Gay, LesNan, Bisexual & Transgendered Individuals, Couples & Families. 2865 E. Skelly Dr. # 215 745~11.!1, ::~-:: ~ - The Pride Store 1307 E. 38th, 2nd floor in the Pride Center, 743-4297 6-9 pm, Sunday - Friday 12-9 pro, Saturday all sales benefit the Pride Center Gifts ¯ Cards ¯ Pride Merchandise http://members.aol .corn/ TulsaPride/index.html will the person who is still paying too much for life insurance please call Kent Balch & ASsociates 918-747-9506 require their clinics and hospitals to report the names of people infected with HIV. House Bars Needle Exchange Funds WASHINGTON (AP) - Not satisfied with what members called a halfhearted effort by the administration, the House voted Wednesday to bar federal money for needle-exchange programs. The 287-140 vote came during a week when the parties were vyi.ng for the high groundin anti-drug policies. Many Democrats said the GOP-backed bill was political posturing that would cripple programs proven to stop the spread of AIDS. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said the action was needed to counter "a deadhead president that supports a program that gives free needles to drug addicts." The House action came just days after the White House announced that it would continue to ban federal money for needle exchange programs while recognizing that suchprograms have been effectivein fighting the spread ofAIDS without encouraging illegal drug use. Linda Ricci, spokeswoman for the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the GOP bill.was "unnecessary and unwarranted." The Health and Human Services secretary "should have the authority to determane the merit of such programs and... the decision on which HIV prevention strategies to use should be in the hands of state and local offidials,’.’ Ricci said. The issue divided the administration. HHS Secretary Donna Shalala encour- . ~aged local ~Orn)nlmiti~st0,expandthe 1 i 0 .~e&tleexchar~ge~programs now operating in 22 states while drug policy chief Barry McCaffrey argued that theprogramsjeopardize the administration’s war on drugs. Clinton’s surgeon general, Dr. David Satcher, said he was "disappointed" funds wouldnotbe availablefor effective needle exchange programs. Members of theCongressional Black Caucus last week called for McCaffrey’s resignation, saying lives would be lost if needle distribution is halted. But Republicans said the administratiou policy was consistent with its failure to get tough on drugs. They disputed scientific studies concluding that needle exchange programs are working. "The Clinton administration’s endorsement of needle exchange programs is part of an intolerable message to our nation’s children sent by the White House that drug use is a way of life;" Said Rep. Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., a sponsor of the legislation. Democrats accused Republicans of rushing a bill to the floor withom hearings to make a political point. "This legislation is a travesty and a blight upon true medical science and it plays into the hands of those who would" use the lives of our children aud those addicted for political purposes," said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. "You’d think we’re having a meeting of the flat earth society," said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "How can we turn our back on science?" The federal government since 1989 has barred the use of federal funds to provide hypodermic needles and syringes to intravenous drug users. The legislation, which still needs Senate consideration, would repeal, language in a 1998 spending bill that would allow funding if the HHS secretary determines exchange projects are effective in preventing the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and do not encourage illegal drug use. TheHouse votecameas the Republican leadership prepared to unveil an dectionyear package of anti-drug proposals, including more money for border guards, tougher penalties andgrants to small businesses that fight workplace drug use. House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri sought to get thejump on the Republicans Wednesday by issuing aninepage report critical of the GOP record in fighting drug.s. "By making the war on drugs a parusan war, Speaker (Newt) Gingrich is drawing thebattle lines against imaginary enemies. The onfy thing he will accomplish is to reduce the prospects for bipartisan anti-drug legislation in this Congress," he said. $1rn Offered for Needle Exchange NEW YORK (AP) - International financier George Soros has offered $1 million in matching funds to support needle exchange programs around the country. The move came in response to the Clinton administration’s position that it does not favor federal funding for the programs, which are credited with helping slow the spread of the AIDS virus. The Sorts pledge "was in the works, and we d~cided to announce it when the federal government decided not to fund programs," said Ty Trippet of the Lindesmith Center, a drug policy research organizanon that is part of the Sortssponsored Open Society Institute. Sorts said an estimated 35 percent of all new HIV cases in the United States are due to druginjectionwith unclean needles. "It has been scientifically proven, and the federal government agrees, that making sterile syringes readily available to addicts reduces the spread of HIV and does not encourage drug use," he said. Health and Human Services Secretary Douna Shalala has urged state and local officials to use their own funds to implement such programs. Last 3ear, Sorts donated S1 million to various needleexchange programs. This year’s repeat donation will be used to match the amount that donors increase their donations over last year. For exan~ple, if a foundation don£ted $50,000 to a needle exchange program last 3,ear and is donating $75,000 this year- then Soros will donate $25,000. It is oifl.v the latest in a series of contributions to various causes by the Hungarian- born financier, who is ~ U.S. cidzen. In 1997, Soros made charitabledonadons of about $’540 million, according to Fortune magazine. Much of his largess has gone to benefit eastern Europe, including Russia. Also Baltimore Mayor. Kurt Schmoke said Clinton would agree to exchange programs if he saw how well they worked in Baltimore. Schmoke renewed his offer to talk to officials throughout the country in support of needle exchanges, including to the nation’s" chief executive. "I’m convinced if we can get the president over here, we can change his opinion," he said. Baltimore’s program, providing needles to about 7,000 addicts at a cost of about $300,000 a year, is the largest city-rim program in the country, Schmoke said. Mom Pleads for Infected Child ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - The 7-yearold boy already is slowly dying of a disease that authorities say his own father deliberately inflicted. The mother of the ¯ youngster, whose father is accused of ¯ injecting him with the AIDS virus, says ¯ her goal now is to prevent him from bei;ag i victimized again. The mother, identified on!y as Jennifer, ¯ said she was grateful for the compassion ¯¯ she had received. But she was obviously shaken by the number of reporters and ¯ television cameras she faced at a news ¯ conference. She took no questions after ¯ making a brief statement. "I plead with ¯ you to respect the privacy and dignity of ¯ my son andmy family. He’s been through ¯ so much already," she said. "My main ¯ concern is to protect my son from any : further victimization." Her voice broke several times as she ¯ explained how her son’s illness - he was ¯ diagnosed with full-blown AIDS in 1996 - has affected their lives. She said her son, who was once near death, ~s dome, better ¯ now" but that she realizes he will eventu- ¯ ally die of the disease. The boy must be ¯ fed small amounts of food frequendy and ¯ must take about 10 medications several ¯ times a day. He is trying to live as normal : a life as possible, even going to school ¯ when he is able. Brian T. Stewart is charged with firstdegree assault, accused of deliberately ¯" injecting his infant son with AIDS-tainted ¯° blood six years ago. He haspleaded iuno¯ cent and is being held on $500,000 bond. County prosecutor Tim Brann said he could not comment on any of the evidencc policemayhave gathered against StewarL except to say that there was enough to allow a judge to issue a ~varrant for Stewart’s arrest on charges of first-degree assault: - ¯ : ¯ 7 Police said Stewart once told the bo\"s mother not to worry about trying to collect child support because the boy ,votdda’t live that long. His lawyer, Joe Murphy, has said Stewart maintains that he is immcent. Murphy has accnsed prosecutors of trying and convicting his client in the media. HIV Positive Kid in Day Care Dispute MADISON, Wis. (AP) - An agreement with two day-care centers sets a precedent by applying the Americans with Disabilities Act’s protections to a child who has the virus that causes AIDS, a govenmaent prosecutor says. The Beloit centers were accused of denying service to the bm because ofhis HIV virus. They have agree~t the v~rus is a disability under the act, according to U.S. Attorney Peggy Lantenschlager. "What this says is, because someone is HIV positive doesn’t mean that they can be discriminated," she said. The lawsuits claimed the centers illegal|y turned the boy, now 5, away in 1996 because of his disease. The centers’ lawyers had argued the boy was not protected by the federal law, which requires that people have an impairment that substantially limits a major life activity. The lawyers said the boy was well-adjusted and functions normally, despite his suppressed immune system. Last week, U.S District Court Judge John Shabaz allowed prosecutors to proceed with the lawsuit against the centers. Shabaz ruled that there was enough evidence to let a jury find that the boy could beconsidereddisabled under the act. Chris Kinast, the lawyer for Kiddie Ranch, said his client settled because federal prosecutors have virtually unlimited resources and the center could not afford to defend itself. Well, happy May day! For those who don’tknow,inPagan terms, it~ s the ,d~,y. celebrate fertility and creativity in au it s " many forms. Maypoles, phallic symbols and dancing are the Usual forms of celebration as Spring returns. Speaking of creative endeavors, the Council Oak Men’s Chorale is pleased to announce our first formal concert! It will be atAll Soul’s Unitarian Church at8pmonMay 29. Hmm. I’d better start practicing. ,, "Song and Dance~ , my favorite of the Lloyd-Webber musicals, Opens here in Tulsa for a 3 day performance June 26 at Tulsafest at the Performing Arts Centerfor Education,TCC South Campus, 10300 E. 81st Street. The musical is unusual in that the first act is .to.ldfrom the perspective of an English g~d newly arrivedinNewYorktobe withherlovcr and to pursue her hat making career..The r~est of ~ct one follows her relationships as her perspective and lovers change:’,The.first acti~ done entirely in song. The second act is told in dance; and follows a young man who she falls inlove with, andworks from his perspective. I saw the National TourwittiMefissaManchester (Bernadette Peters originated the role here in the States), andfell inlov¢withthechar,a~c,t~s and the show. And even if you don t like dance, if their choreography is anything even close to what I saw, you will be .......enchanted and amazed: SEE IT!!!! It is part of an arts festival which indudes many other fine events, from orchestras to dance to pop(call for info) and "An EveningWith Patti Page", who is a Claremore native, June 20th at the PACE. For Ticket info, caI1.595~7777. Opera buffs, rejoice! June holds lots_a fun for fans of Gilbert and Sullivan, with Light Opera Oklahoma p,r,o~_u.d,ng thre~, shows: ’ffheNew Moon’ by Si..g.m,,una, ¯Romberg, an operetta with all kinds oi romantic hijink~ of a French chevalier fleeing royal fury, falling in love and buckling I~is swish, swash. Sorry. That opensJune 11; and June 1.2 brings Pineapple Poll.. The description for this is infi-iguing: Pineapple Poll and all her friends are madly in 10ve with the Captain Philbrook is bringing old masters to light in an exhibit entitled "Old Masters brought to Light". Catchy, huh? The exhibit features some really beautiful works from the National Museum of Art of Romania... Broken Arrow Community Playhouse comes to the rescue of an otherwise dull month with ’q’he Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde May 8 --17. M.y fav.orite classic comedy, Oscar turns society upside down in this comedy.of manners. Call 258-0077 for reservauons. The Thomas Moran exhibition winds down May 10 at Gilcrease Museum, so catch it while you can. Philbrook is bringing old masters to light in anexhibitentitled"Old Masters brought to Light". Catchy, huh? The exhibit features some really beautiful works from the National Museum of Art of Romania, where, by the way, the real Dracula made many peasant’s lives rather difficult. The real ¯ McCoyhad apenchant for punishing anY- ¯¯ one who violated his sense of re,orals by impaling them on stakes. No, it s true - ¯ ro~ "In Search of Dracula" . He was a ¯ .cad . convertedChristian, to boot. Andhis sense ". of morals changed on a whim - kind of ". like Pat Robertson, Robert Tilton, Jerry ¯ Falwell, and Jimmy Swaggart. But I di- ". gress, much I’m sure, to the eternal cha- ". grin of my editor, who never d...o~.s ~at. -’. At any rate, the paintings will t~e hung ~ baroque eras from such diverse locales as ¯ Italy, Spain, Germany, and the Nether- " lands. Masters such as ElG~eco, [ Rembrandt, Veneziano, and Jordaens are re1~resented. This is not to bemissed. ! " "On May 24, a lecture on ’~he Age of ii BdiesrcnuasrsdinogSGtroenzzoie"sewpilalibnetinggivienntahte2eparrloy, 17th century. Another exhibition cel: ~ ebrates a recent acquisition by Philbrook ¯ of Strozzi’s "St. Francis in Ecstasy" , i subtitled"An Acquisition in Focus" ¯ rnnning May 17 - July 12. i ¯ Local news: vaudeville was all the rage i when Doris Travis lied about her ageto ~ join the Ziegfeld Follies. Now 94, she’s : pulled, out tier tap shoes for a return en- ¯ gagement "I dance the same as I did 79 i years ago," Mrs. Travis said. "Maybe not ~vith th~ same spring in my foot, but my i style hasn’t changed. I haven’t tried any of the ttMS Hot Cross Bun. Yes, folks, ". of these new jazz or rock moves!" She tbheattteirs:~qh’haetythceopnrtersivsereallelamseeasnasyst.oI.Itxg~ear~a :~ hfoeramdeedr ZtoiegNfeewld gYirolrskfotroajnoAinIDfiSvebeontehfeirt his ship". I bet they do. Seems to me the ¯ at the New Amsterdam Theatre, the remen’s chorus could have fun with that "¯ storedvaudeville-erashowplaceoffTimes Square where the original Follies were piece. Oh my, it’s getting warm here. ,, . st,~ged. Mrs. Travis was ju.st l~4,,w.hen~s_h_e. And.the 3rd offering is "The Mikado , i lied a,.bout her age to join me uomes, t nat which is a more well-knownwork. And with character names like Nauld Poo, "- wasn t the last time she refused to be Yum.Yum,andKo-Ko,it’ssur¢,toaw.ak¢,n : limited by her years: She gr.ad..ua2~ ~[~hm~ the appetite. Theperforman._ces wi.11 runat : theUniv~rsitv ofOklahomamlv’yzatm. the University of Tulsa, in 3 week reper- ~ age of 88, as ~ history major and mem.b~.r tory format. Formore info and reserva- : 0fPlaiBetaKappa. Wayt.ogo!,Ilove.tl~,s. ti6us, call 583-4267. . story, becaus_eitgoesto.snowtlaeremtgmo "Ohieetof Mv AffectiOus:~ ; a comedy ~ jus"tEblelehno;p’ tehfeotremleeviyseiot!n sitcom that was about a stratght woman who falls mlove ¯ withhergayroonimate,iscurrently show- ~: the first with a Gay leading character, has ing at Parklane, Eton, Easfland, and M°v- beencanceledafterfive seas’°~"TheA.BaCnC ies 8. It comes higtdy recommended,and show will not remmfor a mxthlseason, I would have had a review for you, but "- network spokeswoman said, declining lfirfoem’s sleitetilneghtahnedfiglmreinnadtiemsepfroervtehnisteidssmuee, ~ fthuertshuebr jecoctmomfneantti.onTahledepbroagterawmh.e~n~beea~te,n,e, There’s always Mayfest, and the ¯ played by comedian Ellen DeGeneres, Renegade’ s answer to that, Gayfest. " see Notes, page 11 PHILBROOK Visit Tuesday- Sunday Adults $5, Seniors & Students $3 ¢ous¢iL oak meN’5 ¢i-IoKaLe will present a flee performance on Friday,_ May 29th at All Souls Unitarian Church at 8 For more information, please call 743-4297. TOHR/the Pride Center presents 1998 Tulsa Pride March &.Picnic Saturday, June 20 Veterans-Park, 18th & Boulder March: 11:30,.Picnic: Noon- 5pm _ .Community Organization& Businesses Booths, Games,-Music & Free Refreshments. Information? Call TOHR/the Pride Center at 743-GAYS (743-4297) This ad donated by Tulsa Family News. Follies Revue,. Inc. presents its l Oth anniversary benefit The-Best of Follies ’98 John H. Williams Theatre Tulsa Performing Arts Center Patron’s Night Thursday, June 25, at seven o’clock Champagne reception to follow, $~0 Benefit Performances Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27 at eight o’clock, $2o Tickets available at t~e PAC Box O ffice: :596-7111, ¯ 800-364-7111 or Carson Attractions~ 584-2000. Beneficiaries are: Community of Hope, HIV-Resource Consortium,-Hope Testing Clinic, Hospice of Green Country, O ur House, St.Joseph Residence, Tulsa Community~ AIDS part.i~rshiP, and .the Visiting Nurse Association’. 1 st Annual Red Ribbon Run 5k Run, Race Walk &.,Casual Walk mbenefitHIV services ofInteffaithAIDS Ministries & Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership sponsored by Bank of Oklahoma, Stax/Circle K Bama Companies, Interim Health Care, Joel, Tracey & Clay Norvell, & Tulsa Family News Saturday, June 13 Mens- 7am, Womens - 7:30 am LaFortune Park, 61st & Yale Registration SW Shelter, 6 am Parking at south 10t only, USATF sanctioned event.& c.ertifie~ coordinated by-Glen’s; Ine Prereg.istratio.n: $1.2 wit~ }=sla!~, $~ withoutl Race Day Registration: $15 witla t-shirt, $1o wlmout. Awards to top three men and women-in each USATF age group, as well as top overall male& femalefinishers&top threerace walkers. You dont have to run .to help! Join the Red Ribbon Booster Club by making a donation to the Red Rib,b.on. Run. Those donating $25 or more will receive a t-start. Info: IAM.438-2437orPOB691438, Tulsa, 74169 I~P SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - .11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 11am, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church Service - 5pm, Childrens Ministry - 5pro, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, .Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:~tSam, 3210e So. Norwood Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088 University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/GayfFransgendered Alliance 6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 ~ MONDAYS Council Oak Men’s Chorale, 7 pm, leave message for more information: 743-4297 HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required. Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pm, 2207 E: 61h;583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Mon/each mo. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pm, call Shawn 491-2036. Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 3/2, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder I~" TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 5/12, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder HIV+ Support Group~ HIV Resource,Consortium l:30pm - 3507E Admiral(east ofHarvard), I~fo: Wanda@ 834-4194 Mnlticultnrai AIDS Coalition, 5/5, 12:30pro, Urban League, 240 East Apache Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HIV!AIDS Support Group~ and Friends & Family HIV!AIDS Support Group - 7 pm, Locatiom, call: 627-2525 Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group. Info: 743-4297 PrimeTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues/each rot., 7pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 381h Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 ~ WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210c So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group For more information, calI 582-7225, John at ext. 218, or Tommy at ext. 208 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~" THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 ~- 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support/social group for 18-24"s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 From Our Hearts to Our House~ 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/cach mo. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 ~ FRIDAYS SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, tat Fri/each rot. 8pro, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th Community Coffee House, varying dates, 7 pro, Pride.Center, Info: 743-4297 ~ SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. I~’ OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 Womeus Supper Club, Call for info: 584-.2978 OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157 Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call orfax 583-4615. Reviewed by Barry Hensley Tulsa Cir,-Count, Library Author Isensee has ,’m interesting approach to currentGay male culture. With analogies to posttraumatic stress syndro~ne, he explains how events ,and society conspire to create a d,’mgerous enviromncut for Ga3 males. While understanding that mm~v Gay men come l~om dvsf{mcfi~md or abusi ve fromlies ~md ~e trying to overcome the effects of our homophobic culture, it is important to realize that. in Iscuscc’s approach, tiffs is a book about, m~d for, victims. Divided lUtO two scctmns. Reclaiming Your ldJ~ begins by cxamimug homopho~m. abusive f~nilies, shmne self-destructive behavior. Iscnscc sees a direct ton’elation between posttraumatic stress (uustmsl. uightmarcs. With analogies to posttraumatie stress syndrome, he explains how events and soeiety conspire to create a dangerons environment for Gay males? m]xict\ ) mid the problems that kc.cj~ some Gay u’mlcs from living full m~d "happy lives. Guilt. shmnc, withdra~v~d, m~d isolation arc cxmnincd, thrlv scxwfl abuse nla31 cause the adult Gay m[dc to engage m scxuall3 compulsiv c behavior, often pracuqing uns~d’c sex. "’Associating sex with sh;mm, a sexuM abuse snrvivormav seek out sexmd contact in wlfich he is li~ely m feel degraded." Overwork is mmfl~cr area of compulsive behavior. %Vhen xour sense of sellis dependent ou overacl~ming, it is vulnerable to the shifting fortunes of success or -failure -just as your self-esteem was dependent on how your parents felt about themselves at any particularmoment. You cma never do or accomplish enongh to gain the approval that you never had from your pare~’~ts. Instead you can ~:ieve for thig loss. This will enable you to b,’dmace work that expresses yonrmminterests wifl] rest. recreatmn, mid intinlate relationships." The sccoud half of this book ex,’uniues the stages of healiug, including acknowledging abuse, recoguizing sclf-desmmtive behavior, nurturing yoHrself ,’rod asserting \onr-o~\n needs. Being a so- [’ial \yorker mid psychotlacrapisl. Iscnsce has ma interest in iudi\iduld m~d group fllerapy. Because of his background. nmch of his knoMcdgc about (];.ix lllell COllieS fronl his patients. Solnctn’ncs the reader gob the incorrect imprcs.,ion that ~dl Ga.v Ulell vicums of abuse lind iuc incapable of life without tlierap3. X luch of tiffs book is ps3 cholog3 101. .but it will be of v~fluc to 3 oung adults grad older Gay men ~ 1~o just their lives togclher..kn upqo-datc list of resources and refere~lces is provided. Check for tCeclaim:n~ })~ur 1.(/~’ at xour loctd brmich librz~x or c~dl the Readers Services dep~ncnt at Tulsa (’itx -( "otlnlx Centr~ libr~v at 596-’9~. VoiceMail Caller ID Free First Incoming Minute Message Alert/ Pager Oklahoma and Kansas Toll Free Detailed Billing Call Hold/ Call Waiting The Plaza 8112 S Lewis 298-2747 Promonade Mall 4107 S Yale 663-5404 Woodland Hills Mall 7021 S Memorial 252-5850 Corporate Sales 523-8600¯ .: ........................ ~ Get more from .life !~y .ludy .\ lcCormick, s±~ecial contributor This week has been a week of l)rtilizmg Grass, trees, slm~bs,just about cver3- thing except m3 a/aleas. Some of then] haven’t finished blooming )el, so I mn waiting until 1 can fertilize them ~dl at tim smnc time. This is i~l oplllllUln lime for feeding because cvcoflfing is acovch growing. Xlan~. plmlls go into a scmidonnm~ t stage in the hot summer and they don’t imll as inuch~ml of the soil at that lime. Now you get the best use Of your fertilizer Itcrc ~s a scene that was played oul mmiv mncs when I had a lawn and g~den touter; a customer would come in m~d sayS’My plm~ts just ~en’t growing like they should." "They are Mire, they just. aren’t doing ~at wall.’" Then I would say, "’llow oftcu do you fertilize them." There would be a lon~ silen~ mid the customer would get a gipsy look in their eve ~d say, "’Fertilize the~." TNs is probably not SOlnetlfing you could relate to at ~1, but it is common. Feeding your plm~ts is m~ importmlt p~t of spnug mid now is the time. Arc you tired of me nagging you about l)rdfi~ng yet? Plm~t yo~ ~adimns m~y time now, it is warm enough I saved some bulbs over from last year It \viii be fun to see their return pcri’om]~mcc My pansies look so ~ood that I haven’t planted the ammals ¯ that $o in their spot . . . ma:,be I’ll Set one of those ¯ [sugar erystallzin~ kits] so I can preserve all nay ~ansies in sugar and decorate desserts with them. Now all I have to do i~ find ~omeone else to flx the de~ert~. My t)m>acs look ~o good flint I haven’t pllmtcd the thai go in their spot vet. I )ust doll’t have ihc hc~t to get rid of thcnl x cl. I Mt~ a cry ~t~d~izJng kit in a caudog dm o~]cr maybe I’ll get one of th~;se so I cm~ preserve Ml my pm~sies in sug~ mid decorate desserts with them. Now all I have to do is find someone else to fix the desserts. If you havcu’t tfimlned your crepe myrtl~.vet, it isn’t too late. We had ~m oak with fungus last vc~ and I should have sprayed our tree When it first ledcd out but I didn’t. Oh well. maybe ins year won’t be as ~vct m~d we won’t have the problem. I wish this tree would let mc pay a fine or solnething mid then do what I shouldhavc done t~vo weeks ago, maybe I’ll tMk to Nm aboul it’ m~d see what we ~work out. If you have been working in your g~dcn this last few weeks ~d it didn’t m~e you fecl better, go back out there - you ~:eren’t paying enough attention. Go Ye Forth mid Fcrtilize~ Judy McCormick formerly w~ the owne; of Cox Nursery m 7~dsa. THE MUSEUM SHOP AT PHILBROOK 748.5304 Timothy W. 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And as I had noted some particularly handsome, er, scenery in the restaurant in addition to the loveliness of the verdant grounds be~nd a veil of rainfall, I odjusted my seating position so I could enjoy the best of both worlds. The tableful of handsome gentlemen provided a lovely v~ew m one direction,not to mention the fact that the waiters were cute, too. And the sen’ice was excellent. My glass of iced tea was never empty very long, which ~s one of my barometers of good sela’ice.’Leave me thirst). and go without a tip -well, other than this verbal one: "’you really should keep the patron" s glass full.’" The ambience was lovely, and the player piano tinkling gaily in the background added just the right touch. Dress ranged from suit and ties to leather jacket and jeans, so informal is ok. The buffet, which looked gorgeous, included something for everyone.Various - salads, grilled veg~es (squash, zucchini, and carrots), rosemary potatoes, veg~e lasagna (they must of had one heck-of-a deal on the squash and zucchini), roast beef, grilled chicken over wild rice, cheese grits (which I found unusual - more later), ham, and for those more inclined towards brealffasty-things, an omelette bar and Bet~an waffles to order. And the dessert table.., ah the dessert table. Westarted offatthe salads ofcourse. I had mixed greens though afew pieces of which were brown, and a vinegar and oil concoction. T’was a bit tart, but good. A CaeS.ar and pasta salads were also featured. They servedpoppy seedmuffmettes and also biscuits, which unfortunately were your average, everyday ones. My dining companion was daring, and tried the cole slaw, which he left untouched after the first bite since it looked much more interesting than it was - lovely preannouTnced her sexual orientation a year ago. Since then, however, the show’s ratings have been disappointing. This year, "Ellen" averaged fewer than 11 million viewers, a 22 percent drop over the previous year. The sitcom, which airs at 8:30 pm Wednesdays, made its debut in 1994 with DeGeneres’ character, Ellen Morgan, playing a young heterosexual. But the actress and her character both came out as Lesbians last season. DeGeneres and the network have since disagreed over the show’s content, including whether a kiss between women could be aired. [ sentation but an ordinary sugary mayon- ¯ naise dressing. They also offered a thick cheese-broc- ~ colt -I hesitate to call it soup, but there’s ¯ not really another word that fits. It was ¯ luke-warm, with crunch.), broccoli florets ." that could have used some more blanching. Where’s Bette Davis when you need ¯" her? : The main courses - I had the chicken (dry and cold) and rice (cold),& a small Sunday Brunch at Ph;lbrook la Villa 2727 So. Rockford Hou,s: Tu~. - S~n.. llto 9 Brunch on S~-Mays Prices: Expensive Payment: ~V/ajor eredlt cards Smoking: None Alcohol: FMIy licensed Rating: bit of veggie lasagna. I use the term lasagna loosely. It was basically scorched lasagna noodles, tomato sauce and zucchini and squash, cut to look like potato chips. In fact, I hesitated to get some because of that - so did my companion. It looked like potato chip lasagna. And it too, was cold to the taste. I think I tasted sun-dried tomatoes, but I couldn’t be sure. The roast veggies ~ver also tepid. My dining colnpamon had pretty much the same thing, with the addition of rather glutinous cheese grits that had solidified as soon as the)" hit the plate. Mnm~! On to the denserr table, which ~vas ~vondrous to behold. Carrot cake, the most succulent (I love that word!) chocolate cheesecake I’ve ever tasted, regular cheesecake, and chocolate cake with mousse filling and dark chocolate ic-’ ¯ ing and pecan sprinkles. The latter was ¯ good, but the mousse had a slight bitter- -¯ ness to it, which was unexpected and not too pleasant -though my companion ¯ thought other~vise. We were too stuffed ¯ by then to try the other selections, but they ¯ were very tempting. ¯ My advice: go straight (so to speak) for ." the dessert table. The rest was a disap- ¯ pointment and a waste of appetite. Hope- " fully, this will be corrected, or perhaps, ¯ this wasjust aparticularly bad day, but till ¯ then: caveat emptor. And at $15 per person, you can get a much better meal for a ¯ great deal less at Piccadilly Cafeteria. Editor’s note: Jean-Claude de ¯ FlambeauchaudwillcontinueTulsaFam- ¯ ily News and Jean-Pierre Legrand- ¯ bouche’s tradition ofrestaurant reviews ¯. which are distinguishedfor theD" candor. ¯ Unlike most other Tulsapublications, we ¯ do not use our reviews as an advertising ¯ tool. In.fact, we’ve lost advertising be- ". cause we did not cater to the egos ofsome ¯ restaurateurs. With us, you get the truth as ¯ we see it. If they don’t like it, tant pis. ~ Joan Garry, executive director of the ¯ Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said the cancellation was a disap- ¯ pointment but not a surprise. ¯ "We’re all disappointed ABC made a decision based on ratings. We really wish ¯ that they had seriously considered the ¯ impact of Ellen’s work and looked at it ¯ from a broader perspective," she said. :. "The show may have been canceled, but I ¯ think she gave a gift to Gay and straight ¯ Americans and that’s a legacy that the ¯ cancellation cannot take from her," Garry ¯ said. ¯ The show’s one-hour finale is sched- ¯ uled for May 13 and will take viewers ¯ through a satirical retrospective of her ¯ career. Guest stars will include Jennifer ¯ Aniston, Glenn Close and Phil Donahue. y Lesbian mothers ¯ ¯ Lesbians that we interviewed even a few and their children: ¯ ¯ years later had begun to use known do- Interview with Nanette Gartrell ," nors. We actually stopped inviting new by Esther Rothblum ¯ participants in 1992 because the ’old’ In the early 1980s lots of Lesbians were ¯ Lesbians differed so much from the’new’ beginning to figure out ways to have children by donor insemination. Nanette Gartrell, a Lesbian psychiatrist, was interested in studying these pioneer Lesbians. "We had no money," she said in a recent interview, "but of course none of the work I’ve ever done has been funded. It’s usually too controversial to be funded by any of the traditional sources, such as the National Institutes of Health. It’s years ahead of its time in terms ofwhensuchagencies would fund this kind of research. We decided if we waited for funding agencies to get over their homophobia to fund this study, we’d be waiting another decade. So we went ahead and funded it our- "We had no money," she said in a recent interview, "but of course none of the work I’ve ever done ha~ been funded. It’s usually too eontroverslal to be funded by any ofthe traditional sources ¯.. It’s.years ahead of its time in terms of when such agendes would fund this kind of research. ~¢e deelded ff we walt~d for selves." Nanette’s studyis- ,’~.funding ageneles to now the longest-running study of Lesbians who had children via donor insemination. "It’s already been walldocumented that kids of Lesbian morns are healthy," Nanette told me, "so we’re not trying toreestablish that. What we’re interested in is how they get over their homophobla to fund this study, we’d be. wa;t;ng another decade. So we w~nt~ ahead and funded it ourselves." hav~copedwi.thhomopho- , bia. At the time, Nanette s major collaborator was living in Washington, D.C. and Nanette was living in Boston, sothey began the research with Lesbians in those two cities. Then Nanette moved to San Francisco and included Lesbians from the Bay Area. Thefirst step was finding Lesbian mothers to participate. Nanette’ s research team advertised in bookstores and Gay and Lesbiannewspapers. Theymade upflyers to distribute at Lesbian films and community events. They went to all the workshops on choosing children and told par: ticipants about the study. The original study began with 154 mothers. The first interviews took place when the mothers were pregnant. Then the mothers and co-mothers were interviewed again when the chil&en were a year and a half old and when they were five. Nanette’s team is currently interviewing the families now that the children are 10, and this for the first time includes interviews with the .children themselves. Then the families will be interviewed next when the children are 17 and when they are 25. "When we interviewed the mothers at first, when they were pregnant, they anticipated being out as Lesbians," said Nanette. "For the most part they used unknown donors, because there was a lot more fear at that time that somehow the state would come in and take the children away. By the lime of the next interviews, when the children were toddlers, many of them regretted this and wished they had used a known donor who could have participated in the child’s life as a father. ones interms ofdonoridentity." Not surprisingly, the children were very. much desired. When" the Lesbians were first interviewed while pregnant, about half the women werelncoupled relationships, andhad been with their parmers from a few months to a decade or more. Others were single mothers. When Nanette’s team re-interviewed the mothers when the children were a year and a half, they were not surprised to find completely exhausted, harried mothers whohadvery litile time for their own lives other than childrearing and paid employment. One of the areas of difficulty was the little contact with their partners, and this was often a source of tension. By the time of the interviews when the children were five, a number of the couples had broken up. Those couples where the mothers had spent time . away from the children,in order to have more time with each other, weremore likely to still be together than the couples that had been most child-focused. ¯ Now the team is interviewing the ten- " year old children. "It’ s very exciting to be ¯¯ interviewing the kids for the first time," said Nanette.-"Because we have these : very articulate kids who are highly edu- : cated around issues of diversity, racism, ¯ and homophobia." ¯ Doinglongitudinal research is not easy. : WhenNanettehad a floodinher basement : a few years ago, some of the file cabinets ¯ got wet. "I was frantically using a hair ¯ dryer to dry the pages of the interviews so ¯ the data wouldn’t be lost," she recalls. ¯ Nanette phones all the families each year : to see if they have moved, so she won’t ¯ lose touch with them. A couple of women ¯ who once identified as Lesbians are now ¯ involved with men; a few women have died. ButNanettehas stayedintouchwith ¯ just about all the women from the original ¯ sample. As couples break up and then get ¯ involved with new parmers, Nanette in- " corporates all these "step-m0ms" in the ¯ study. ’This means we may be the only ¯ study that has more participants at the end of the study than at the beginningU’ she ¯ said. ¯ More information about the study re- -¯ sults can be read in: Nanette Gartrell et at. 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Instead, we will begin a journey together in developing that most versatile and most necessary of all skills - painting. Dear ones, do not groan and run away so quickly! Certainly, unguided paintingprojects have almost spelled out D:I-V-O-R-C-E for too many ofmy brethern ... we will begin a journey together in developing that most versatile and most necessary d all stalls - painting. Dear ones, do not groan and run away so qttlcl~y!Certainly, unguided painting projects have almost spelled out D-I-V-O-R-C-E ¯.. but it doesn’t have to be so traumatic. and sistern, but it doesn’t have to be so traumatic. Indeed, follow the advice proffered in the next few colunms, and perhaps your delighted love will buy you a : tool belt with all the accessories, too. ¯ The DIYD begs your indulgence; a ," whole colunm devoted to the selection : and.care of paintbrushes is not as bizarre ¯ as youmayinitially think. Over ,theco~se ." ofyour Do-It-Yourselflife, youmaypaint every room in your house as well as some or all of the exterior at least once. ff you’ve ever paid a paint contractor, you can see the economy of widding a (good) paintbrush yourself. And the grim fact is, the type and quality and care of your paintbrushes is directly related to the finished quality of your paint job. Yes, ducklings, wereturn to theDIYD’s recurring theme o" tools : Always Buy the Very Best That You Can Afford. You may choke at the prospect of paying $13 - $24 for a brush, and certainly they canbe had for cheaper (although I don’t recommend buying even a small brush for less than $5), but this is definitely a case of .getting what one pays for. And please don’t look at brushes as a limited use, throw-away commodity; my father, the original DIY Oracle, has brushes that are about my age, and they are as marvelous looking and functional as I am, too! Well, maybe more so. I will teach you that lesson in longevity, too, so that you can get the most out of your investment. In selecting brushes, you will want a 1 l/2 inch or 2 inch brush and a4 inch brush as a minimum. When you buy a good paintbrush, you don’t need a smaller one for the anal retentive job of cutting in (painting around trim, molding, etc.); if you have a real steady hand and good eye, you won’t even need to use masking tape very often, and that’s a great time saver. You will seldom use a 4 inch brush indoors, but it’s very handy when you do need it, and absolutely necessary if you are painting outside. As you go up the quality and cost ladder, the brushes will be marked specifically for external or ¯ inside paint jobs, and {hat should be re- , spected. However, if you are in the upper ¯ middle range, the brushes can, with care, : be used interchangeably..DO NOT BUY ¯ BRUSHES WITH VINYL BRISTLES! ¯ TheDIYDcaunotbediscreethere: reader, they are crap. Natural bristle brushes are the sine qua non ofpaintjobs; yours will probably read "Natural China Bristles" and they are made of hogs hair; if you have ethical objections to this, skip down a paragraph. After you have sucked up and bought your precious brushes, takethemhome and continue to treat them with the loving respect they deserve. Before usingyournew brushes, dip them in what- . ever solvent is related to the type of paint you are using (paint thinner for oil-based paint, water for water based paint); this moistens areservoir located up at the top of the bristles, and is essential to the longevity of the brush as well as the quality Of your paintjob. Tap off the excess moisture (please, no crass comments) so that the brush is just damp. Repeat this if ." your brush starts to dry out oryou stop for : lunch or whenever you are going to use a ¯ clean and dry brush to paint with. As youpaint, dip yourbrushhalfway up the bristles into the paint, the tap the side of the brush on the side of yourpaint can. This is called loading your brush; if you scrape most of the paint off on the side,of the bucket, you are completelydefeating the purpose of loading the brush. That is, a dry brush is not a) going to apply much paint and b) is not going, to last very long. A loaded brush is going to apply the paint smoothly and with little friction; as soon as it sounds a little raspy, load up again (more on painting technique next month). Please do not squish the brush downor get thebrisdes all bentand broken and crooked as you paint; you’re not trying to kill the poor thing. Smooth and gentle and flowing is the technique you’re after. Painting is a Tao thing, if you please. You may have read the helpful hint of putting abrushin aplastic bag and storing it in the freezer if you will be continuing ¯ your paint job later; the DIYD strongly ¯ discourages you from doing so, with all ¯ duerespect to Heloise. Using the Oracle’s ¯¯ techniques, it doesn’t take long to clean a brush and it will prolong the life of your ¯ expensive tool. For water based paints, ¯ rinse the brush under a tap of.running ¯ lukewarm water, gently working the ¯ bristles from side to side to get the paint ¯ out of the reservoir. Workin a dab of dish ¯ soap on the bristles and rinse some more; ¯ tam the brush on its side and work the ¯ water in from that angle too; it’s ok to use ¯ your hands, and it’ll help you clean up a ¯ bit, too. When all traces of the paint are : gone and the rinse water is clean, squeeze ; off the water, put the brush head on a ; paper towel androllitup flat (don’t squish ¯ the bristles tightly together). It keeps the ¯ bristles safe and dust free ¯ An oil based paint is more finicky to : clean up after, but is not a chore to be ¯ dreaded. You’ll need paint thinner (It’s : .flammable, so don’t useit near a flame ¯ source and see Dyke, page 14 by Lamont Lindstrom ¯ is a challenge for you: Reflect anthropo- A few years ago, at a dinner party, my " logically on Oklahoma culture and why friend Andrew dropped his pants to show ¯ this shouldfear tattoos. Nonetheless, some me two piercings. Or rather, he showed " of you may have come across a tattoo me one (a t-bar) and some ripped skin " eslablishmentthatsetupshopintheBrady where the second had been. He somehow District late last year. Delighted, I took had lost this on a flight from the UK to " advantage of this local opportunity to NewZealand. (Ididn’tthen have tattooed on me my want much to go into the No one l~,nows Japaneseinkan-thesmall, details, halfway through where and wlaen round name stamp that all my salad, of just how this banks inJapandemand one loss could have occurred.) laumans ~rst uses in order to deposit or Andrew since has some- transformed t~elr withdraw anymoney. Next how arranged a replace- time I am in Japan, I plan ment. He likes to fiddle bodies into worlds Of just to pull up my sleeve with hisjewdry, so he tells art. T]als eertalnly instead. me, duringlongandtedious No doubt I will horrify business meetings at the occurred tlaousands thebankladies. Tattooing London architectural firm - per]aaps tens of in Japan (like Oklahoma) where he works. These is scandalous. This despite piercings, there inside his thousands - of years the fact that Japan has an pinstriped trousers, com- a~o. En~llsh internationally renowned pensates for the boring businessman’s garb he has speahers, in tl~e late tradition of brilliant fullbody tattooing. Japanese to wear. 18th century, bor- tattoos,however, arediffi- Andrew is less happy cult to find and admire. with some of his other rowed the word Many of the public-baths I piercings. He complains, "tattoo" from the frequented had signs proin a recent email message: Polynesian ’tatu’.. claiming "NO tattoos al- "I have JUST ABOUT de- ¯ lowed." This reflects aseider to remove my nipple Tattooln~ qulehly sociations of tattoos with rings... Amobile phonein - the top pocket also causes became a fad amon~ mafiathe yakuzagangs thatJapaneSecontrol considerabledamagewhen "-both urbanites and much of the underground running across the office. Noonehaseveraskedwhy the avant-~mrde r~eb economY.thoughI, hadOneclimbedday’ I suddenly collapse in a (muela as it is today, Sakurajima volcano and heap swearing,., so I think " they will have to go." He two centuries later), itsWasbackside.makingmYi WaYranintod°Wna hopes, though, to get him- . party ofWell-dressed sightself a tattoo by way of compensation for " seers sporting black patent leather shoes. the sacrifice of his nipple d~cor. They off&ed me a ride back to the city in I am a fan oftattoos mysdf, so I hope ¯ their van. Squeezed into the back seat Andrew does decide to undergo the inky " with two ofmy hosts, I noticed a tattooed needle. No one knows where and when ¯ wristjustshowingfromnnderashirtsleeve humansfirsttransformedtheirbodiesinto ¯ cuff. Soon, my new companions had hapworksofart. Thiscertainlyoccurredthou- " pily pulled off their clothing to’reveal sands - perhaps tens of thousands - of : magnificent kaleidoscopic tattoos coveryears ago. English speakers, in the late ¯ ing every inch of their bodies, except 18th century, borrowed the word"tattoo" : head, hands, and feet. Bygone yakuza from the Polynesian ’~atu’. James Cook, - ¯ sometimesarrangedforthemselves,when and his fellow explorers, came across: ¯ theydied, to be partly skinned, and the richly decorated male Polynesian bodies " skin tanned, in order to preserve their in Tahiti, the Marquesas, Hawai’i, and " luxuriant tattoos. New Zealand. Eager sailors pulled up ¯ Fewof us would be so willing to betheir shirts to offer their skin to the bone ¯ come altogether a body-art canvas. Still, needles of Polynesian artists. They thus ¯ tattooing allows us to remodel our bodies imported Pacific tattoo designs back to " and thereby our senseand presentation of Europe. Tattooing quickly became a fad ¯ self..IrecentlywanderedaroundHouston’s amongbothurbanitesandtheavant-garde " Gay ghetto, the Montrose district - it rich (much as it is today~ two centuries " could have been ancient Tahiti. Many of later). This actually was a reintroduction - : us, too, will make handsome, decorated of forgotten body art to Europe. Ancient , corpses. I am suggesting to Andrew that peoples from across Europe once also had this time he just have a ring tattooed onto decorated themselves by needling dyes " his nipple. That way those troublesome under the skin. ¯ cell phones won’t get inthe way. Oklahoma is one of only three of the ¯ Lamont Lindstrom is a professo? of United States that outlaw tattooing. Here : anthropology at the University of Tulsa. ¯ more. Your brush should be nice and ¯ dean now, so use a paper towel to absorb : the excess thinner, then store as above. get lots of ventilation going), an empty ¯ Storetheusedthinnerinyourcontainerin paint can or bucket, and a sealable con- ¯ a wall ventilated spot away from ignition tainer and a couple of paper towels. Pour " sources. The next time you use an oilsome thinner in your dean bucket, and " based paint, you can reuse the thinner work the bristles firmly but gently back ¯ from that container. 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(Tulsa’~ ~13687 MIDWEST TIES I’m a Lesbian writer and journalist who’s tied to the midwest for a while, rm interested =n meet=rig other womyn with whom tc discuss hterature and the world. Who knows what might develop? (Tulsa) ’~10163 NEW TO THE SNOW This 20 year o~o, Gay, White female, 5’5, 1201bs. just moved here from Ft. Lauderdale haven’t met many Gay and Bi womyn yet, but am anxious to make some friends. I prefer womyn between 18 and 30, of any race. Some of my interests include rollerblading, movies, aria going to corks. (Tulsa) ~10181 CALl TRANSPLANT I recently moved here from California aria need some friends to show me what Oklahoma is ~, about, i enjoy music, dancing, scorts, going our for fun, and good peop~ -’~ share it all with. (Tulsa) ~9651 To respond, browse o~" check your messages, catl 1-900-786-4865 $1.99/Min. 18+ Discreet * Confidential o Easy andexecutive director of the Lesbian Gay Rights Lobby ofTexas. "More states than ever before are facing anti-Gay measures and/or are fightingforpro-Gay civil rights protections. Nearly every state has faced abill banning the recognition of same-sex marriages in the last two years. Over thirty states have groups activdy working on pro-Gay pieces of legislation." "In Oklahoma, the logical lead organization for this action is the Cimarron Alliance," noted community activistTom Neal who had represented Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights in last year~s Federation meetings. "Hopefully a consortium of organizations, like TOHR, OGLPC, PFLAG and others, will come together for such an event," he added. The Equality Begins at Home actions will be organized by. each of the existing 36 political organizations active in the Federation. Each state will desig-n an ac~ tion that best fits with their state and their political goals. Each state will develop a plan for integrating local groups and our allies into the Action. The National Gay Lesbian Task Force will help to organize the states that do not have e:dsting statewide political groups. The Equality Begins atHome actions has been g~ven office space in the National Gay Lesbian Task Force office. Kerry Lobel, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said, "The political center of gravity is in the states. Equality Begins at Home will allow organizers to focus their energy on building the movement in all fifty states. At this critic~ time in our movement, NGLTF is fully committed to the Federaraon and the state actions. We urge our colleague or~ mizations to join us in suppo,- txng this critical political work. Several national and local groups have jointed in supporting the Equality Begins at Home Actions by helping with re- 5~udraising, publicity-, organiz- ,.~ ~’,~ ~w-~.ic.~ and expertise. There will also 0e a pc,~ .~i’~d effort to make sure that both the Equality Begins at Home actions and the Millenium March compliment each-other and share resources. "The Equality Begins at Home actions enjoys the full support and enthusiastic supportofthe organizers of the Millenium March," said Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign. "It is imperative that we focus our energies as a movement at both the state and federal level. These two events will cornpliment each other as together we build the momentum to achieve equality in the next century." "Each state capitol must hear voices of every color thatmakes-up theLGBTcommtmity. LLEGO will make sure that Latina/os are active in this event and looks forward to making a forceful manifestation ofunity and inclusiveness. Ourmovement will be raised to anew level with the success of Equality Begins at Home, said Martin Omelas-Quintero, Executive Director of LLEGO, The Nadonal Latinwo Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organization. For more .information about Equality Begins a~ Home, contact Tom Neal at 583-1248 or tulsanews@earthlink.net. The Pride Store 1307 E. 38th, 2nd floor in the Pride Center, 743-4297 6-9 pm, Sunday - Fridc ’ 12-9 pm, Saturday all sales benefit the Pride Gifts ¯ Cards ¯ PrideMercl!,,~di, http://members.aol.com TulsaPride/index.html record, listen & respond to ads FREE! Simple and direct,, Find the man you need by listening, to hot ads. Make the right call!sM 9 18-5 92-5 95 9 USE ACCESS CODE: 9105 www.confidentiaiconnection.com Just $2.49 per minute for cerlain oplional fealures. 18+. Movo Media, Inc does not prescreen callers and lakes no responsibility for personal meetings. 800-825-1598 01998 MovoMedia, Inc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1998] Tulsa Family News, May 1998; Volume 5, Issue 5 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tulsa Family News Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://history.okeq.org/collections/show/24 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Tom Neal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 1998 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource James Christjohn Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud Barry Hensley Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche Lamont Lindstrom Judy McCormick Esther Rothblum Mary Schepers The Associated Press Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tom Neal/Tulsa Family News Relation A related resource Tulsa Family News, April 1998; Volume 5, Issue 4 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image PDF Online text Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource newspaper periodical Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tulsa(Oklahoma)---newspaper Tulsa---Oklahoma Oklahoma---Tulsa United States Oklahoma Tulsa United States of America (50 states) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context https://history.okeq.org/items/show/547 'Equality Begins at Home' Adam West AIDS/HIV AIDS/HIV education AIDS/HIV prevention Americans with Disabilities Act arts and entertainment attorneys Barry Hensley Bars Bill Clintion Boy Scouts businesses churches Comic Strips Dave Fleischer Do-It-Yourself Dyke Dyke Psyche Entertainment Notes Esther Rothblum gardening Gay Studies Great Plains Regional Rodeo Greetings from the Garden harassment holocaust homophobia James Christjohn James Hormel James Inhoffe Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud Judy McCormick Lamont Lindstorm marriage Mary Schepers Nanette Gartrell National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Native Americans needle exchange O'RYAN Oklahoma Congress Oklahoma House of Representatives Oklahoma State Department of Health parade performing arts picnic Pride Read All About It representation restaurants Rik Isensee sodomy laws students threats Tom Neal Tulsa Family News Tulsa Two-Spirited Indian Men's Support Group United Methodist Church United States Congress United States House of Representatives https://history.okeq.org/files/original/ab6d96297bb9314bbd40f0fe0c16b1c5.jpg fbb34d10d74edc1a764a4f4a3c6a3769 https://history.okeq.org/files/original/fd96d9ba3bb3b4676f22d396c4157029.pdf dca0b2e14ed97e628a79d8524110b4af PDF Text Text Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsens, Our Families + Friends Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community Paper Available In More Than 75 City Locations TU/BLGTA Presents Annual Film Festival Women at Risk Video AIso Showing q~,3LSA The University of Tulsa’s Bisexual/Lesbian! New MCC-GT Pastor Brings Radical Past + Present Grace TOHR HIV Program TUI~qA - After two years, Tnisa’s oldest Lesbian and Gay congregation, the Metropolltan Corunauait y Church of Greater Tulsa has a pastor again. Tracy I. Barber came to Tulsa about 2 moaths ago from Los .Amgales. She’s only recently ordained as a Metro politan Conununity Church pastor having [men originally ordained as a Mennonite after graduahag from the lfigMy respo~ted Fulhi~ Theologieul Seamnat~ in 1994. And though she was born in Califomi~L shehas ties to this ~’ea, having studied at Evangel MCC-GT Pastor Tracy Barber Collage hi Spr~gfield, MO. featuredonthe¢overoftheOet. 26, 1990 la)s Angeles Roader2 Barber, uldike some who ve become clergy, has an unusual profess olml background. WhJhi th Cafifomia, she worked in Hollywood film production: commercials, music videos, and Entertaitmlent Tonight, serving as Leeza Gibbons’ assistam. She Mternated between doing hatter paying filial work and non profit work. In one extraordinm-y stint featured in the Los Angeles Reader, she infiltrated the radical and-abortion group, Operation Rescue (OR). as an Unpaid spy for a coalition of feminist orgimlzadons. This work was crucial to defense work and gave OR its first substantial defeat. But for MCC-GT, Barber and her congregation is m the thick of preparing a rtfission statement, a statement of die vision of where they want to go, and of their vahles. Barber. with injoumniism,recafls that tbeulogian Carl Bart said that a nfihister needs the Bible in one hand and a newspaapar in the other - you have to know what is ~oin~ on in the world. News analysis by 7T’N staff. TIYLSA At March s general nembership n ecting. a member of Tulsa Oldahomans for Htm~an Right. Inc. who had joined ouly earlier dmt da) made a motion that the membors o~ edde the vole the orgathzadon’s board of directors and tfl g~c away TOHR’s HIV prevention programs to yet non existent nonprofit "l~is svas approved h the hanth’ul of members present. Most of those votin against the board of directors were emplo.’, Lesbian Health Care : Mel WhiteSays to PFLAG: NEW YORK (AP) - For 20 years. Nayla Rolle lived with a paralyzing pain that dectors distthssed a.s stress related, It wasn’t until the B~oldyn social worker skarted seeing Joan Waitknvic,z - a spacialist ia Lesbiau health issues - that her aliments were diagnosed cor recfly, as lupus and asthma. "Other doctors saw me as a young woman of color, a l~sbian and they couldn’t get beyond what I was saying."says the 41 -year old Rolle. Wailkevicz, who began seeing Rulle hine years ago whihisha was in private practice, is now director of Beth lsrael Medical Center’s Gay Women’s Focus. Heulthcare workers say it is the first hospitul-hasext health care provider in the country fo~ 1 esbialxs. The connection to the hospital, proponents say, conid give Lesbian patients better access to SlX’Cth~sts and more comprehensive insurance than they wonid otherwise have. "’We w ant w omen to come in here and feel uulniu biled about their lifestyle,’says \Vaitkevicz. Gay Women’s Focus is a plimary care provider and gives referrals. Since opathng in 1996, it has treated more than 3,000 patient s - 30 parcent of them Lesbians. There have ~ similar hospital bosed clinics - often AIDS-related that focas on Gay men’s health. Experts say Gay women have spatial medical cow ceres: They may be at higher risk of developing coro nary disease, breast and colon callcer, and some ~ aginai infections, research shows. And sexual practices can have an effect. Teresa Cuadsa, the cento"s gynecologist, says ma~y Lesbians may go y~rs without vhatmg a gynecologist, for ex ,’maple, because they think they are not at risk for Truth + Love, Relentlessly TULSA - The Rev. Mel \Waite. former ghost,\alter to the likes of the Gay-ba.~hing TV preaebers Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson pregehed the gospel of Ghandi and Martin Luther King. Tlfis message of r~n-violem elal change was delivered to about 200 who attended Pareats. Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. PFL~.G’s re~onaiconferenee dth~er at All Souls Uthtafian Church on Sat. March 7. ~q’fite. who was formerly associated with the Metropolitan Communit.~ Churches’DallasCathedraiofHope, The Rev. L~el White, joined !Lv now works with his life partTulsan S ~e Knause, and White s ner Gap, Nixon in an interpartner Gary NLron at All Souls. faith justice minisl~, called Soulfo rce based in Laguna Beach. California. see White, page 3 Minister Acquited Church Trial Over Lesbian Union Ceremony major change !n church policy. "1 don’t know the implicatig,m~ of tkni r dnci sion," Ct~ech said from the pulpit. "B u t I believe it s the ChangesAmid Criticism �Carbon Copy Homosexual Marriage and the Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants 832-1269 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, PUB 4140. Tulsa. OK 74159 *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine Assault on Your Family 592-2143 *Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston e-mail: TulsaNews @ earthlink-net 744-0896 by Jay Alan Sekulow~ Chief Counsel website: http://users.aol.com/Tul saNews/ *Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 599-9512 American Center for Law & Justice Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal *Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria 583 -6666 Virginia Beach, Virginia 23467 - 4429. 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PUB 14001, Tulsa 74159 ¯ letters must be signed & have phone num583-7815 ¯ Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-253-6001 E 6 583 - 9780 BI ess The Lord at All Times Christian Center ’b2207 Ctr " bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word letSparky ’s, Hwy ¯ 62 East ¯ B /L/G/TAlliance, Univ "~ of.... Tulsa Canter ury ., 585-1201 ¯ ters are preferred. Letters to other publi~ c Boston FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS ¯ 501-442-2845 ~ cations will be printed as is appropriate. ¯ Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. ¯ is where you can find TFN. Not allare Gay-owned but all are Gay-friendly. ¯ Church of the Restora.~o.n. U,U. :I~, l_4~L "545 S ¯ Yale 585-1800 �Gay-Baiting + What Really Happened in the Mayor’s Race Well M. Susan Savage, our"pretty and nice" as well a~’ politically savvy mayor squeaked on through the election despite her opponent’s last minute Gay-baiting tactics. Our mayor’s advisors spent weeks worrying about rumors that her Republican opponent, Terry Simonson, would use "Gay issues" to attack Savage. They were right. Simonson, with advice from Oklahoma’ s "hate and lying ARE Christian values’~ Congressmen S teve Largent and Tom Cobum, and their "Oklahoma Values" Coalition, did air TV advertisements that attacked Savage for issuing a Gay Pride proclamation: What they didn’t say is that the proclamation was from 1994, and that Savage has refused to issue another since. Her reason: by allowing the "mainstream" media, i.e. Channel 6, to see the proclamation, Pride Picnic organizers were using the proclamation "for political purposes" which is not allowed. Hundreds of proclamations are given to non-profits which routinely share these with the media but if a Gay group does precisely the same thing, it is being ~’political". Does this sound like doubletalk? Wall, consider this is the same mayor Who claims that she doesn’t issue proclamations for "commercial" purposes, and yet, issued one for "Jackie Cooper Imports Day" in honor of breaking ground for a new south Tulsa dealership. Not to pick on Jackie Cooper Imports, since other commercial enterprises have been similarly honored. And with Cooper, the business really has done a great deal of good civic work, especially around HIV/ AIDS issues in Oklahoma City. The Gay-baiting ads, however;, may well have helped our mayor get dected. Going into the race, some politicalobservers thought she might lose, or at best, win by the thinnest of margins despite being the incumbent, and having more than one-hundred thousand in campaign dollars. But the ads, which aired a few days before the race, may have shifted some votes. ~My father, as rock-solid a Republican as you will find, after he heard the Simonson ad, tore up his Simonson sign, threw it in the trash and went to Simonson HQ to express his anger- and changed his vote. His view is that others didso as well. And that The Tulsa World article on Tony Orr and Tim Beauchamp, (about whom TFN wrote last fall when they spoke at th~ National Gay!& Lesbian Task Force/TOHR hate crirn~e~ forum) who had been- Gay - one other person not yet named at the last TOHR board meeting), a .single proposed new board member was interviewed. However, Neal noted that, ",after Frank Ramirez began his presentataon by stating, seemingly proudly, that he violates Oklahoma’s Open Meetings.,’ Open Records laws in ranning Morton, I have to question the ethics some of the persons to whom HOPE is being given. Hulsey and Thompson have good reputations, but after hearing Ramirez’ comments, and after learning that Fr~sbee was already accepting donations for the as-ofthen yet non-existent new organization while she was still working for TOHR, and that she was doing so in violation of her board’s instructions, I am appalled by the misconduct and unprofessionalism of Frisbee." Indeed, in the often stormy membership meeting, Neal accused Frisbee of unprofessional conduct. He told TFN, "I hired Kristi Frisbee after our board voted to fire Mallory Degen Brown for cause. But I hired her to fix the problems of TOHR’s HIV programs, not to redesign it with by-laws she wrote, with a board of her own chosing. A good non-profit professional certainly has the right to try to persuade her board of her vision but ultimately she works for the organization. An organization should not rum itself inside out for her convenience?" Neal continues, "The real loser here is the whole Gay community. A program that was created because few in Tulsa gave a datnn that Gay men wer~ dying has been coopted- to deal mostly with HIV for non-Gay people. That’s worthy but other ’health organizations could do ¯ that. And the consideration of whether this historically Gay-focused program should address Lesbian and Gay health needs hasfallen victim to Kristi Frisbee’ s ruthless hess." Neal also criticized Horn strongly, "when I was president, we built consensus. The difficult vote to fire Mallory was unanimous. You have to wonder about a leader who forces through that which a majority of his board voted against." Neal said he resigned because the members were not given advance notice of this proposal. bashed, may have made real for many non-Gay citizens what can result from Simonson-style verbal attacks. So now Mayor Susy’s back, and we, Lesbian and Gay citizens and our friends and family need to hold her accountable. It is no longer acceptable for her to act like merely talking to us is enough. We need to see some specific results like diversity training for our often Gayr hating Tulsa police officers, though such traimng also should be extended to fire and other city departments. The mayor should also ~ssue an executive order banning discrimination in city employment - something she can do under the city charter. And since proclamations are Omer Cowan andPrime Timers President John Madigan essentiallypublic paper towels - important to those who present a check for a $1,000 donation to TOHR/Pride .want them but of little use for anyone else - our mayor Center President Steve Horn. should treat her Lesbian and Gay consti:uents as well as all others, and give us Lesbian and Gay Pride Week proclamations, even Pride Month as we asked for in ’96. After all, we supported her in this race, more than ever before. Cimarron Alliance Group, Oklahoma’s Lesbian by Billy Hileman and Gay political action committee donated $2,000 to Savage (this is no secret I’m disclosing, donations of this The current debate of a LGBT civil rights event in size are public by law). And several of our most promiWashington, D.C. in 2000 may look like "’politic~ innent commumty members worked themselves into a fighting" if one only takes a quick glance. But just below frenzy helping her and my guess, resulted in further the surface is one of the most important community donations to Savage of many times that $2k. Remember, discussions to occur in decades. Our community is in the $5k is the legal maximum donation, so S2k should get our process of redefining the movement. items at least some consideration not that quidpro quo If organizing for a national LGBT civil rights event an ever has anything to do with Oklahoma politics Washington proceeds on its current course, then progresThe real danger to these reasonable reforms: that public sive, grass-roots, democratic organizing in our co~mnuemployees should have the training to act appropriately nity will suffer a serious iujury. with all citizens and that our own government should The tragedy of this situation is that the.Hmnan Rights Campaign’s (HRC) executive director Elizabeth t3irch, pledge not to discriminate against any of its own citizens. is likely M. Susan Savage’s further political ambitions. comedian Robin Tyler, and the Universal Fello~vsl~p of Our mayor says she’s not looking at higher office. But Metropolitan Community Churches’ Troy Perry are the some think she’s just waiting until her daughters are willing architects of this attack on queer democracy. college age to run. If so, she may still hold fairness to Right now, Perry, Birch, and Tyler are frantically Tulsa’s Lesbian and Gay citizens hostage, not because lobbying the community to sup,tvort an event they decided she’s personally opposed but because she feels it’s politito produce. They are trying to prop up grass-roots support cally advantageous. But maybe,just maybe, this election for an event on] y they had input on. Perry has just sent out in which Gay-baiting likely’ helped her win, will give her a letter with "’six very specific steps, very definite steps" the courage to appeal to the decency mad intelligence of ¯.. to lobby congress?. . no, to lobby the president’?.. Tulsans. Then she will say’, as-she did about the "94 ¯ no, to zap Jesse Helms? No. Troy Perry is asking you to lobby the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the proclamation in response.to Simonson in the debates, "I represent all citizens" and-do’what"s right. ¯ ’Natitnal Black Eesbi~n mad Gay Leadership Fornin to ~ Tom Neal, publisher & editor : support the Mille~inimn .March! What s wrong with that? in Troy Perry’s plea for help, he says, "’If you are a contributor, member or supporter of these organizations, be sure to mention that too." That is sickening. The MillenmumMarch is about money. It is not about Their business card features the likenesses of King and whether 2000 is a good year to rally in Washington. It is Ghandi, and \Vhite told of his recent travels in India with not about ENDA, or domestic partnership, or about Ghandi’s grandson to see the site~ that were significant in lesbians and gays in the military. Right now there is only the life of the man who inspired King and also White to one organization in our community with the resources to his work challenging those in Christianity who attack support a huge national action in Washington. And there Lesbians and Gay men. is only one organization that has vowed to have 1 million Throughout the dinner, \Vhite persuaded his overflowmembers by the year 2000 - HRC. ing audience to repeat as a mantra, "truth and love Never before has one of our organizations been xn a relentlessly"; that is that he~ and they, should do their position to unilaterally call for a March on Washington. work inspired b~ the truth, full of love but working for The Millemfium March is a test of HRC’s new power. It change relentlessly. This lesson, White noted, was taught is a test whether the community will allow HRC to to him by Coretta Scott King, and her assistant, Gay ¯ o circumvent the progressive, grassroots, democratic prinactivigt Lynn Cothren, when White was despairing of ¯ ciples that were the basis of the three previous marches having any dialogue with his former friends and employand the heart of our movement. ers, Robertson and Falwell. At the end of Perry’s letter, he writes, "History’s And in remarks of praise for the work that PFLAG greatest movements have been grassroots movements. does, White added a comment of local interest. He stated ~ And history’s greatest leaders have been those who that Tulsa evangelist Oral Roberts should be a PFLAG heeded the call of their grassroots members." But, there parent, since his older son commited suicide because due has been no "call." HRC and UFMCC didn’t allow the to being Gay. Tulsa’ s new Council Oak Mens Chorale ¯ forum for a"call."’ And now that people are voicing their also performed for the dinner to a very warm reception. ¯ concern about the process, Birch, Tyler and Perry are putting a call out to the grass-roots instead of the other ¯ way around. In March of 1991 the executive directors of NGLTF ¯ and HRCF, Urvashi Vaid and Tim McFeeley hosted a to re-define marriage and force acceptance of the gay meeting i~ Washington, D.C. for activists to discuss a lifestyle.., please add your voice to mine by signing the third march on Washington. Minneapolis City enclosed statement of support. In the coming weeks I will ¯ Councilmember Brian Coyle had pushed the idea at the take our case to the media and key public officials in ¯" 1990 Creating Change Conference. During the March Hawaii. Your signature on this statement of support will (E91 meeting, and a second national meeting in .May, allow me to say that tens of thousands of concerned ¯ dozens of proposals’~and -concerns were discussed by Christian citizens have written and asked me to make sure ." hundreds of activists. the pro-family voice can be heard above the shouts of the ~ Proposals for marches in 1992 and 1993 were dismilitant homosexual... Next, please send of a gift of $50, . cussed. Bi-annual MOWs with a permanent committee; ¯ $75, $100 or more today so we can defend the family in 52 regional marches: states, DC and Puerto Rico; and a the court of public opinion as wall as courtrooms across ¯ MOW before every presidential election were all proAmerica. " posed, see March,page15 Your friend advocating Jesus, Jay Allen Sekulow Grassroots vs. DC/LA Elite March on DC- Who Decides? �Houston Judge Blocks ¯ Burzinski, 29, walking to his car parkett" outside aGay He attacked Burzinski, who the court said was Civil Rights Protections ¯¯¯ bar. noticeably drunk, and threw him into the backseat of HOUSTON (AP) - A~judge has blocked the city, at Burzinski’s car. According to testimony, McCullum least temporarily, from enforcing Mayor I~e Brown’ s ¯ announced that Burzinski had to be killed because he executive order banning discrimination against Les- ¯ knew his attackers’ names. He then shouted aloudhis ¯ bians and Gays in city government. State District own name and the name of the men with him Judge Patrick W. Mizell agreed with City Council ¯ Decedrick Ganious, Terrance Perro and Chris Lewis: member Rob Todd and conservative businessman ¯ McCullum then drove Burzinski to a secluded locaRichard Hotze that Brown lacks authority under the ¯ tion, forced Burzinski from the car and shot him once city charter to impose such an order. ." in the back of the head. After a briefing by city attorneys, Brown said he is considering an appeal. "We are disappointed with Judge Mizell’s ruling," Brown said. "We continue to bdieve that our interpretation is correct, that the mayor has the power to issue executive orders." ¯ Brown signed the order in January, fulfilling a cam- ¯ WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Two men accused of using an Internet chat room to lure a Gay man to a paign pledge to ban discrimination in city govern¯ deserted field and then beating him have been sued ment on the basis of sexual orientation. Although criticized by some City Council conser- : for civil rights violations. The attorney general’s civil vatives, Brown’s idea had the support of a council ¯ rights division filed a proposed preliminary injuncmajority if he decided to seek an anti-discrimination : tion against William D. Peters, 21, and Frank Labbe, ordinance..But Brown issued an executive order, ¯ 18, both of Webster. If successful, the injunction ¯ would mandate stiff punishments should the men instead. ¯ commit additional civil rights crimes. Mizell said the charter authorizes only the council ¯ Peters and Labbe allegedly attacked a 46-year-old and the Civil Service Commission to.make rules ¯ Cambridge man in the early morning hours of Jan. 8 regarding discrimination, not the mayor. Todd has denied that their lawsuit was intended to suppress : after exchanging messages in a Gay-oriented online homosexuals. He and Hotze say their suit is aimed at ¯ chat room. According to court documents, the defen¯ dants used anti-Gay language to taunt the victim and procedural concerns alone. . ¯ wamedhim,"If you go to the cops, we’ll kill you. And But some in the Gay community remain unpersuaded, including some Gay conservatives who : if we ever see you online again or in a~!_.y (chat) rooms said eradicating discrimination is a goal all conserva- : again, we will kill you!" Earlier this month, Labbe and Peters were indicted fives should share. "It’s certainly ironic that Mr. ¯ "- . on charges of armed robbery, assault and battery with Hotze wants to perpetuate discrimination, and that in all the years he has been involved in politics in : a dangerous weapon, civil rights violations, threatenHouston he has never questioned the~ayor’s right to : ing to commit a crime, intimidating a witness and issue executive orders until it comes dtwn to employ- ¯ conspiracy, according to the Worcester County disment equality for Gay city employees," said Clarence : trict attorney’s office. Assistant Attorney General Bagby, president of the Houston Gay and Lesbian ¯ Richard ,Gordon said the civil rights action filed : Thursday, whichis separate from the criminal charges, Political Caucus. ¯ was brought because of the severity of the case. : In the affidavit filed this week,the victim said he remains terrified of his alleged attackers. "The defen¯ dants’ threats and intimidation towards me have made mefearful for my safety, even in my own ¯ home," the testimony reads. JUNEAU; Alaska (AP)- A State judge hearing a challenge to Alaska’s ban on same-sex marriage says choosing a partner is a fundamental right that could result in a"nontraditional" choice. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Peter Michalski said that the state must show why it should be able to regulate who : FORT COLLINS,Colo. (AP)-Theday after the City petple marry. ¯ Council voted to extend anti-discrimination protecThe court challenge, began last year when Jay : tion to Gays & Lesbians, opponents to the new law Brause and Gene Dugan of Anchorage challenged a said they will petition for a vote on the plan. Council 1996 law banning same-sex marriage. The Gay couple, : members said two years of study and months of who sought state recognition of their relationship of ¯ public meetings convinced them that discrimination 20 years, said the marriage ban violates the Alaska ¯ is a legitimate problem for Gays and Lesbians. Constitution. Michalski threw out the state’s bid to ¯ The new law, adopted recently, adds sexual oftendismiss the case and ruled that choosing a partner is : tation, defined as actual or perceived heterosexuality, a fundamental right. ¯ homosexuality, bisexuality and asexuality, as a pro"It i s the deci sion its elf that i s fundamental, w hether hibitedbasis 6f discrimination. Opponents argued the the decision results in a traditional choice o~ the ordinance gives homosexuals special rights by connontraditional choice Brause and Dugan seek to have ¯ . doning and protecting their lifestyle. One man ac¯ recognized," Michal’ski wrote. "The same Constitucused city leaders of "government tyranny"for ention protects both." John Gaguine, the assistant attordorsing the measure. "I’m sure it’s going to be ney general who argued the case, said the state prob: challenged,"said the Rev. Ken Stephens of Front ably will ask the Alaska Supreme Court to review the ¯ Range Baptist Church. "We do not need the ordidecision. Proving a compelling state interest in ban¯ nance for a lifestyle which I believe is a chosen ning same-sex marriage may be difficult, said Matt lifestyle." ~ Coles, director of the Lesbian and Gay civil rights ¯ Opponents said they are gearing up for a referenProject of the American Civil Liberties in.New York. dum’on the controversial law. City Clerk Wanda ’The state is. going to have to have a very good Krajicek said petitioners would have until mid-April justification," he said. to collect 1,783 valid signatures from registered voters who live in the city. The City Council could then repeal the ordinance, submit the measure to voters in a general election, or call for a special election to settle the matter. A vote could be scheduled as early as this summer, Krajicek said. AUSTIN (A~) -~A death sentence .imposed against a former~h;§b]a~bol football star whb was convicted of abducting and Shooting to death a Gay man has been upheld by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. According to court records, Demarco Markeith McCullum and three companions targeted a Gay man : BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) - Supporters of Gay for robbery in 1994 because McCullum believed Gay : civilrights ordinances in two Maine tourist towns say men always carried a lot of cash. 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Camden and Bar Harbor voted about 3-1 in favor of the Gay civil rights legislation that was narrowly defeated in the Feb. 10 referendum. After two of its members raised the issue, the Bar -Harbor Town Council voted in March to ask the town attorney to draft an ordinance that would be a focus for debate at a future meeting. The night before, Camden real estate broker Susan Dorr asked the Boar,d,. of Selectmen to adopt a Gay civil rights measure. It just makes use of the very clear message that Camden voters have said twice on this matter,"said Dorr, who pointed to the town’s strong anti-discrimination stance in two statewide votes. ’¢Fhis is an important area to explore, to say unequivocally that Camden won’t discfiminate,"she said. While expressing support for Gay civil rights, selectmen instructed the town attorney to review the legal ramifications and advised the town manager to seek information on local anti-discrimination ordinances. If the proposals pass, the two ¯ coastal towns would join Portland and Long Island as the only Maine communities with Gay civil rights ordinances on the books. A leader in the Gay civil rights campaign, Karen Geraghty of Maine Won’t Discriminate, said she could understand the frustration of townspeople that prompted the local efforts but reiterated that a statewidelaw was theideal solution. "Every citizen in Maine ought to have the same basic rights," Geraghty said. "I don’t think that if you grow up in Bangor that you ought [o have to move to Portland or Camden or any other place in order to have protection against discrimination." l.esbian CityA CouncilOrin :Settles nto Job HOUS,TON (AP) running joke Annise Parker s camp during her run for Houston City Council eame from a caller’s r,,e~,~~tion to her television campaign commercial. She looks, just like some suburban housewife," the viewer said. Parker didu’t mind the comparison. "That’s what I wanted to convey. I’m just like everybody else when it comes to the issues that I’m concerned about," Parker, 41, said. "Because I happen to be Gay doesn’t mean that I have a shaved head and wear Doc Martens, either." On a recent morning, this 20-year veteran of corporate America happened to be wearing a white turtleneck, brown jacket and tan pants. The muted outfit and Parker’s low-key style certainly gave no clue to the fact that she’s a trailblazer who has broken a major barrier in becoming Houston’s first openly Gay elected official. That distinction became official on Jan. 2, when Parker took the oath of office with her partner of seven years at her side. She joined only 122 other openly Gay elected officials in the U.S., according to the Washington, D.C.-based Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. At City Hall, though, Parker says she’s just another councilwoman. Parker is an at-large council member, meaning she was elected by voters across the city. "There’s no difference inside this ¯ tive legislative work." Still, Parker doesn’t shy ¯ away from her role in Houston’s history or the ¯ responsibility that comes withit. "Somebody has to ¯ be first and you want the first to do a great job, so : that the next one has it easier. And I feel that ¯ responsibility, but I’m very pleased that within ¯ these walls and when I~m at a civic forum that that’s ¯ not the issue," she said. ¯ Houston’s Gay and Lesbian community certaiuly claimed Parker’s victory. "Voters care more ¯ about what our representatives doin council chain: bets than what they do in their bed chambers and ¯ that’s a good sign for the future of this city," said , Dale Carpenter, a Houston lawyer and past state president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of ¯ Gay and Lesbian conservatives. Over the years, : Houston’s Gay community has seen many disap¯ pointments, including the repeal 13 years ago of a ¯ city ordinance Nving job protection to Gays ." During the first few council meetings of the year, ¯ a man showed up spewing what Parker termed ; "rather ugly" comments toward her and other mi¯ nority councilmembers. He also made obscene and ¯ threatening phone calls to her office. "It’s part of ¯ the job," Parker said. "You’re a public figure. ¯ You’re a target because you have to be accessible ¯ and everyone has First Amendment rights." But there have been some signs that the nation’s ¯ fourth-largest city is growing up. During last ¯ November’s election, incumbent city controller ¯ Lloyd Kelley lost to Sylvia Garcia after calling her : his "Gay opponent." ’q’he atmosphere has dra¯ matically changed here for the better," Carpenter : said. "Annise Parker’s election is certainly the ¯ most prominent example of that." Parker spent ¯ about 20 years working for Mosbacher Oil and ; Energy and in that time also owned two small ¯ businesses. She’s also served on the Houston Po¯ liceDepartmentAdvisory Committeeand thecity’s Citizen Review Committee. She has been a police liaison for the Gay and Lesbian community. Parker’s activism also has extended to the restoration and preservation of historic sites in Houston. "I care about the architectural heritage in the community," she said. "I just care about old buildings." Now she is navigating the transition from private life as a businesswoman and activist to city official. Meeting the needs of her constituents, she said, largely means dealing with their concerns about everyday issues like street repairs and garbage collection. Said Parker: "Potholes aren’t Gay or Lesbian or black or Hispanic or Asian." : Illinois Civil Rights Bill ." SPRINGFIELD, ill. (AP) - The state of Illinois ." forbids discrimination based on race, color, reli¯ gion, sex, marital status and six other characteris¯ tics. Now, sexual orientation might be added to the : list. A bill advanced by an Illinois House commit. ¯ : ; building," Parker said. "I’m a freshman council member so I’m down on the totem pole with the otherfreshman councd,members. The difference is outside. It’s important for the Gay, Lesbian and Transgender community. It may be important to people who oppose advances for thosecommum~es, For ~e l~st of Houston,_~ey w~t m ~ow whe~ef I ~ ffehv~ on &er p~ac~ nelgh~r " ..... hood issues." tee wouldltrohibitlandlords,employers and creditots from discriminating against Gays. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Larry McKeon, D-Chicago, would amend the state’s human rights ¯ law by adding the phrase %exual orientation" to the list of categories protected against bias. McKeon, ." who is Gay, told the Human Services Committee ¯" that the bill "highlights Gays’ status as citizens under Illinois law" but does not :’promote or con" done any lifestyle." Kelly Cassidy, of West Chicago, told the corn." mittee that she and her partner had been forced out : of their aoartment because their landlady "~aid " did not~’nt ,~,~,~i,-’lil~,~ t~~.,-;-~,,;-’~-~-i~,~ --;-’7; ¯ ino’"~a~dlad,~tri~,:t~’:aa 1. : et"~in an0th~’Sh~rt~"ne’~t~‘ ’~ % . tivelandl0rds ~idv s~Id . o0t lucky" §l~kM~f ¢~,~ai’m, ;/6#~i7,~ ¯ ’ ta-"~,v~ li’oA~.;i e~ ’ hav ’ " :’ etogetlu~k~tbhaveajob:&apiactlblive. ¯ McKeon s~ess~ &at &e proposM wo~d not Fellow councilman Jew Don Boney Jr., who considers himself a staunch supporter of Parker’s, said she’s a welcome addition to Houston government. "She is a seasoned veteran who is a decisive advocate on behalf of neighborhood interests," he said. "She is fiscally responsible. She is a worker. She is not here to profile. She is here to do substan- : require religious institutions that regard homo: sexuality as immoral to hire or promote Gay people. ¯ It also would not require employers or unions to ¯ give preferential treatment or other affirmative : action to Gays, he said. The committee approved : the bill on an 8-2 vote. The House defeated a similar ¯ measure by McKeon last April. �Proteins Protect A Few Hemophiliacs year, said Mary McKee, spokeswoman for the Marion County, Ind., health department. To combat false results, the clinic gives NEW YORK (AP) - Fourteen hemophilithree quick HIV tests. If one or more acs who repeatedly got HIV-contaminated comes back with a false-positive, a tradiinfusions resisted infection because they tional bloo.d test is taken and the results had high levels of certain immune system proteins, a study suggests. . are made available in about seven days, she said. "Most people felt it would be The proteins are called chemokines. better to know.., because they could take Prior studies have shown they can block HIV infection in ~he test tube, and scien- " the precautions they need to take with usts have been hoping to use them to : their partners", while they waited, Ms. develop AIDS drugs or a vaccine. ¯ McKee said. The’CDC said the use of the new tests TheAssociated Press reported the study : of hemophiliacs in September when it . should be based on a combination of factors: the prevalence of HIV in a commuwas presented at a meeting. The work now appears in a recent issue of the Pro- " nity and return rates for test results. In ceedings of the National Academy of Sci- : cities where there is a high prevalence of HIV and a low return rate, the new tests ences. It was presented by Daniel Zagury of : should be used, Branson said. The new test is not publicly funded and the Pierre and Marie Curie University in : costs S 10 to $25 at public clinics across Paris, Alessandro Gringeri of the Univer- " sity of Milan in Italy, Dr. Robert Gallo of ¯ the country. TraditiOnal AIDS tests at the Institute of Human Virology at the " public clinics typically are free. Currently, only one rapid test has been University of Maryland, and others. " approved by the FDA for use in clinics in The hemophiliacs, from Italy, were ex- ¯ the United States. The test, manufactured posed to the AIDS virus through contaminated infusions of blood products. Blood " by Murex of Norcross, Ga., takes about 10 cells taken from them Were found to pro- : minutes to determine whether the virus is dace about twiceas much of three kinds of " present. Several other tests are awaiting FDA approval, Branson Said. chemokines as did cell s from healthy blood donors, or from hemophiliacs unexposed to HIV. The study involved 128 hemophiliacs who had repeatedly been expo~.d to HIV from blood products between 1980 to . SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Making a 1985, before a test to screen blood for the " strong statement in favor of needle exvirus became available. Only three were . change programs, President Clinton’s infected by the first infusions. The total ¯ AIDS adviser said 33 Americans contract number of those infected rose to 59 in " the HIV virus through drug injections 1982, 84 in 1983, 103 in 1984 and 114 in ". every day. 1985. The pattern shows most hemophili- ¯ ’q~hese are not numbers but real lives,’: acs had a natural but temporary resistatice .... Saiadra Thurmah said Wednesday ih a to HIV infection, the researchers said. speech to the National AIDS UPDATE Conference. "I have cradled them in my arms, often in their last moments. I am. haunted by the responsibility to use my position,to do everything I can to stop this carnage. ATLANTA (AP) - Tony Braswell’s staff A congressional moratorium on federal spends weeks, sometimes months, waitfunding for local needle exchange proing for people Who took anonymous HIV grams expires at the end of March. Health tests to return for their test results. Many and Human Services Secretary Donna never show. "It’s an anonymous testing Shalala then could order release of funds site. It’s not like you can call these people to commtmities that have programs exup and say ’Hey, your test came back changing clean needles for contaminated positive. We need to talk to you,’ "said ones, a commonsource of the AIDS virus. Braswell, executive director of AID AtThurman has been lobbying Shalala to lanta. support such programs. The federal government recently recBarry McCaffrey, head of the White ommended the use of a new HIV test that House Office of National Drug Policy, yields results instantly, making it possible opposes the programs, contending they for health workers to cut down on cases promote drug use. Shalala has declined to slipping through the cracks. recommend funding in the past, saying it The Centers for Disease Control and needed more study. Shalala’s office did Prevention estimated the new test would not return a telephone call seeking reaccatch nearly 700,000 people a year, intion to Thurman’s speech. cluding 8,000 infected with HIV, who Thurman’s comments were welcomed take the test but never return for results, Thursday by Daniel Zingale of the advosaid Bernard Branson, a medical epidecacy group AIDS Action. The speech miologist at the CDC. "sends a signal that the time is now to let There is a downside: A~additional 8,000 locals get the dirty needles off the street," people would receive false-positive rehe said. "It’s the strongest signal we’ve suits, ~aid Branson, the chief architect Of . ClintonAide Favors :Needle Exchange Faster HIV Test Recommended the CDC;s recommendation. "It’s clearly a risk messing with people s psych~, telling them the,y are HIV,pOsltlve, he sm . "Bin ~b.:.u~h~i~O ask.whether the"beaefit outweighs~ ~e risk." " ’ Both the new and the old tests look for antibodies in the blood. But the traditional, one-week test also looks for specific protein bands that are considered the absolute indicator of HIV. The CDC estimated the false-positive rate of infections using 1995 data. The Bell Flower Clinic in Indianapolis has been using the rapid test for about a seen." Lastweek, Clinton’s Presidential Council on HIV/AIDS unanimously expressed no confidencein the administration’ s commitment to reducing the spread of the: disease. The council said the refusal to support needle exchanges "threatens the public health and directly contradicts current scientific evidence." Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thurs- . day she would call on Shalala to lift the funding ban after March 31. "The findings are dear," she said. ’q~he only thing standing in the way is politics." Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates 1515 S. 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The dual epidemic of tuberculosis and HIV has become one of the most serious publichealththreatsintheworld, UNAIDS said. "One third of the world’s population has TB, but inmost peopleit is dormant," UNAIDS spokesman Gareth Jones said. ’q’B is only dangerous when it becomes active; Ifyouhave the HIV virus and your immune system is down, the odds of dormantTB becoming activeis muchhigher." The World Health Organization estimates that more people will die from TB this year it than any other year in history. Tuberculosis, which attacks mainly the lungs, is a bigger killer than malari~ and AIDS combined. Last year over7 million people worldwide became sick and nearly 3 million died of TB, the WHO said. Last year, AIDS killed 2.3 million people and infected 16,000 more people daily. UNAIDS says more than30 million people worldwide areinfected with AIDS. Reparative Therapy Slammed in Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Some therapists contend unhappy, homosexuals can _ ’abandon their lifestyle through so-called "reparative" or conversion treatment, but a Utah social-work group says they shouldn’ t try. In aunanimous affirmation of a 2-yearold stance by its parent group, the Utah chapter of the National Association. of Social Workers has adopted a policy discouragingreparative therapy. The group’s state board found there is insufficient scientific data supporting the treatment. The American Psychological Association in August also passed a resolution opposing reparative therapy. "Social stigmatization of lesbian, gay and bisexual people is widespread and is a primary motivating factor in leading some people to seek sexual orientation changes," the policy states. "Discomfort about working with this population may lead to inappropriate, ineffective and even damaging interventions by social workers." Board president Joanne Yaffe said the action came after it received an anonymous complaint, redirected from the national committee. "They toldus they knew of Utah social workers who were practicing reparative therapy and asked us what we were going to do about it," she said. The state chapter’s action was criticized by such groups as Evergreen International and LDS Social Services. ’q’he church’s licensed professional counselors take the position that thereis substantial evidence that individuals can diminish their unwanted homosexual attraction and make changes in their lives," said Mormon church spokesman Don LeFevre. "The church and these professionals are supportive of a person’s right to seek assistance in doing so." Reparative or conversion therapy attempts to change homosexuals to heterosexuals, and has existed for more than a century. Earlypracticesincorpomtedelec- " behavioral therapy techniques to dimin¯ ish or eliminate same-sex attraction. -" Critics contend the therapies have a 60" 70 percent failure rate, but supporters ¯ insist there is ample proof that homosexu: als can change, or at least curb their be¯ havior. : NASW board member Shirley Cox, a ¯ Brigham Young University social-work professor and Evergreen Intemationa board member, said there is a distinction ¯ to be made between reparative therapy ¯ and what she calls "lifestyle-change" ¯ therapy. "Reparative therapy assumes : people are broken and in need of repair. ¯ don’t believe that," she said. "But I will ¯ help people who want to live as hetero¯ sexuals. They have a right.to choose." " Egergreen Executive Director David Pruden said NASW made itself "vulnerable when, as an organization, they be. come the arbiters of lifestyle decisions. " What happens if something goes wrong " because they have affirmed a certain ¯ lifestyle7’ Pruden said about 40% of the : people served by his organization leave " homosexuality entirely and about 30% ¯ diminish their homosexual behavior. ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ,¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ; ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ " ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ of others." "Dr. Bragdon believes that when he provides a service in the face of the risk of death he should be allowed to take additional precautions" such as insisfing on filling Ms. Abbott’s cavity at a hospital, McCarthy said. However, Breyer said that "after 15 years and hundreds of thousands of deaths" from AIDS there appeared to be no documentedcasesinwhichadenfistcaughtthe virus from a patient. "How can we say here that your client exercised reasonable medical judgment.’?" Breyer asked McCarthy replied that there were seven possible cases of HIV transmission in dental procedures. Klein said that unless HIV-infected people have clear protections under the law,many will hide the fact that they carry the virus. The court never has decided a case involving an HIV-related issue or the disability-bias law, signed in 1990 by President Bush. A decisionis expected by July. Thejustices’rulingcouldprovidedues as to whether the law covers other kinds of disabilities, such as cases of epilepsy or diabetes that are controlled by medica- don. US Supreme Court: ¯ Are HIV+ Disabled? ¯ Titanic Necklace WASHINGTON (AP) - In a major test of disability rights, Supreme Court justices ¯ sparred Monday over whether HIV-in- ¯ fected people should be considered dis- ¯ abled because of dangers involved in sex ¯ " andchildbearing. " The lawyer for Bangor, Maine, dentist ¯ ." Randon Bragdon argued that Bragdon did ¯ not illegally discriminate against an HIV - . " infected woman by refusing to treat her at " ¯ his office. The patient, Sidney Abbott, suffers no AIDS symptoms and therefore " ¯ is not protected by the Americans With ¯ " Disabilities Act, said attorney John ¯ McCarthy. But Ms. Abbott’s lawyer said lower ¯ courts correctly found that Bragdon vio" lated the law, which bars discrimination ¯ against the disabled in jobs, housing and public accommodations. The law - re- .. : sponsible for such aids as wheelchair ¯ : ramps at countless public places - says ¯ ¯ people are disabled if they have a physical ¯ ¯ or mental impairment that "substantially ¯ " limits one or more major life activlties." . " HIV-infected people should always be : ¯ considered disabled because the conta- ." ¯ gious and fatal nature of acquiredimmune : " deficiency syndrome severely limits their ¯ ¯ ability to have sex and bear children, said ¯ ¯ Ms. Abbott’s attorney, Beunet,t hi. Klein. ¯ Some justices disputed whether HIV " infection really creates such a limit. Jus- : " tices David H. Souter and Antonin Scalia : ¯ suggested an HIV-iufected person faces a ~ ° "moral choice"rather than an actual physi- ¯ " cal limit on his ability to have children. : ¯ "I’m not sure that’s what the statute is ¯ ¯ , talking about," Souter said. However, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy ¯ ¯ said that if .a person with highly iufectious ¯ ¯ ¯ tuberculosis stays away from other people, -" -"we don’t just call it a moral choice." : " Someone with bubonic plague would be ¯ ¯ considered disabled, added Justice ." Raises $$ for AIDS BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -A 170carat sapphire and diamond necklace modeled after a piece of jewelry in the movie ’q’itanic" sold for $2.2 miilion at a fundraiserheldinhonorofPfincessDiana. The black:fie Princess Ball was part of a gala to raise money for the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and South- era Califomia~s Aid for AIDS. The two charities will split the money. The necklace was valued at $3.5 million before the auction. The buyer was not identified. Volunteers Needed :f_or TU Study of ¯ Anti-Gay Violence Elana Newman, Ph.D., a clinical psy- : Stephen G. Breyer. ¯ Bragdon’s lawyer said the disability : law aims .to protect people whose disabili¯ ties affect their "day-to-day indepen,,dent living and economic self-sufficien~y, not " HIV-infectedpeople who suffer no symp." toms. chologist who joined the University of Tulsa faculty a year and half ago, is an expert in studying the impact of violence and post-traumatic stress disorder. In collaboration with her students, she is conducting several studies regarding the psychological impact of sexual assault, assault, hate-violence, workplace violence, accidents and natural disasters. Currently Dr. Newman is collaborating with studeiats Tim Studebaker and Bradley Hunt on a study investigating the impact of hate violence on psychological heath and political beliefs. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Straight volunteers (both who have and have not experienced hate violence) are needed to complete an anonymous and confidential survey. Not much is understood about hate violence and the results may help develop psychological treatment and policy for potential victims. Volunteers can obtain a copy of this sensitive survey byleaving a message with their name and address at 631-2031. Several studies on hate violence, sexual : assault and alcohol use are planned to ¯ begin in Fall 1998. Volunteers who are ¯, interested in participating in future stud," ies are encouraged to contact Dr. ¯ Newman"s research lab and leave their : name, phone number and address. �: genuinely get a sense of what it must have by James Christjohn If you missed Betty Buckley’s concert, ; been like to be on that ship. Having sailed on the Tomtanic, and you missed a lot! She w~s in fine voice - ¯ : bumped into all kinds of icebergs but and what avoice! The stateside originator of "Memory" from "Cats", she gave that : miraculously never sinking completely, I song moremeauing than any of ~hose who ¯ could relate to the captain’s arrogant attihave followed her. And she is one of a few ". tude that the ship was unsinkable and the performers who could make the vast cav- ¯ White Star Line’s manager, Bruce Ismay, who according to some erns of the PAC seem sources waved away all like an intimate cabawarmngs of ice that ret. She reminded me were coming in and very much of local perurged for more speed. former Susan McBay Not to mention that the in her deceptively ship and her Captain simple approach and only had one day for enjoyment of the musitesting and maneuvers, cians playing with her. where six weeks was Having run the the norm. How ’could gamut from Broad- After her Friday Pops performance way’ s"Pippin"toTV’s with theTulsaPhilharmonic, thefabu- the captain or any of the crew have "known "eight Is Enough" to lous Betty Buckley graciously met ’s "Cats" to her most re- with Council Oak Men Chorale di- that the rudder was too to turn the ship in cent star turn as Norma rector, Rick Fortner and TFN Enter- small time?Andthatifthey’d Desmond in "Sunset tainment writer, James Christjohn. hit the iceberg head on, ¯ Boulevard,, she had a the ship would have stayed afloat until multitude of stories to tall. And "With One Look" will never be the same for me. " help came? The film does a really good ~ job of showing how such small decision No one can toUch her version. Her stories were witty as well - I really ¯ can forever alter the course of history, . enjoyed the one in which she was in ." sending ripples through time. ¯ I will say that Cameron borrowed a Pippin, and one’of the writers wrote a ". trick or thr~e from the time travel film, show called "’The Baket~.Wife" with her ," "Somewhere in Time", starting Christoin mind for the lead. "’A show written for me! I was thrilled!". Unfortunately, the ", pher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Particuat the end, but I’ll l~t you figure out producer was unfamiliar with her work, ¯~ larlv wh~t I mean by that. And if you’ve not so she had to audition. 9 times. She did not get the part. After many therapy sessions, ; seen "Somewh’ere.. "’, it’s well worth in wfiich she acknowledged that she"was ~ renting. And "Tita~fic’" deserved the Os¯ cars it took home. So if you’ve resisted somewhat resentful and bitter", the therapist finally said "Claim the song from the : seeing ,it due~to the hyp~rinflated hype, show written for you - and get over it!" : don’t. It’s wall worth seeing. But ~o while And so, "The Meadowlark" became her ," you can still see it in surround sound s~gnature tune. (And a beautifully haunt- ¯ ~heatre~. That really’ puts youin filemiddle of the action. Blub. ing song itis, too.) After the Show, I was Just had the first "Follies Revue" Refortunate to share a moment or two with hearsal, and it looks like it’ll be a ftm her, and to tell her how much I enjo.yed the show. The dates are June 25-27, and I show. She was very gracious. believe it’ll be at the-PAC again. Stay I went to "Titanic" late in. the game tuned for mtre details... just a few weeks ago. I was prepared to The Council Oak Men" s Choral~ (which hate it and mock Jim Cameron for an was Council Oak Chorale, until someone budgetarily overinflated flop¯ Instead, pointed out that the acronym, COC, could what I saw amazed me. Despite my attibe cause for some consternation. I was tude going in, I was drawn into the story, disappointed- imagine all the wonderftd and "’went down with the ship. "And even fodder for this colunm it could have prothough I knew how they did the effects, I vided - pity.) performed to much apwas still left with total astonishment at plans~ at the PFLAG spaghetti supper last what the thousands of people behind the month. Mel White was the guest speaker, scenes worked so hard to create. In short, he also did well on the applause--o-meter. they put you on the ship - no mean feat. He’s a very good speaker, and makes Now, I’m not a DeCaprio fan and to my some good points when it comes to what eyes, he was the weakest link in the film. the religions wrong is all about. Scary He seemed too young to play the p~.t he stuff, that. did - and yes, I know he’s 25 and the Anyway, COMC is in rehearsal now for character was 20. He still looks 15, and ~¯ a concert TBA. Rick Fortner, the fearless ¯ could not adequately convey a character leader ofthislittlebandofvocalists,lhinks who’d had a hard knock life and been all over the world as the Jack Dawson char- ~ perhaps May-end or June might be appro: pilate. Details comc-ing soon. acter had. Broken Arrow Community Playhouse Billy Zane portrays the villain of the piece, though if he showed up in my ~¯ presents "The Dresser", a backstage ~anee stateroom and showered me with jewels, ¯ at lifein a3rdrate Britishtheatrical troupe in 1942, just when most touting compaI’d ~e, hard pressed to say no. I understand nies (which took theatre all over Britain to Rose s (Kate Winslet) repugnance all too ¯ small communities and grand dries in the w all. His h~.dsomeness and manners were o~fly surface. And surface is’what the ~ days. before film and television were as commonplace as they are now) were foldworld saw. The reality in private was " ing due to the film industry’s takeover of much different. Been there, dealt with ¯ entertainment. Performances run through that. He’s an easy character to hate - ¯ almost too easy, as the character tends ¯ April 5th at the BACP, 1800 Main St. For ticket info and reservations, call 258toward stereotype. Although I’ve read about the Titanic ¯¯ 0077. Over at the Comedy Club, Jeff Dunham many times as an historical event, and ¯ can be heard throwing his voice around. despite those flaws, the film does capture see Notes, page 10 you and suck you in (or down?). You PHILBROOK 749.7941 Visit Tuesday - Sunday adults $6.25, children 12 & under free Music on Exhibit IV At Philbrook Museum T U L S A PHILHARAAONIC Woodwind Quintet Brass Quintet String Quartet Music by Nielsen, Ewald, Brahms For tickets, call 747-7445 The University of Tulsa’s B i se xual/Lesbi an/Gay/Trans gendered Alli ance presents on April 16 - 19 in Lorton Hall, the Tulsa Queer Film Festival Thursday, April 16 9:00 Nitrate Kisses 10:30 Blooclsisters Friday, April 17 7:00 Cruel 7:30 Boys’ Shorts 9:30 Wavelengths 10:00 Girl Talk Saturday, April 18 1:00-4:00 Feminist Films Girls Like Us Under the Skin Game ¯ My Feminism Real Indian 6:00 Rules of the Road 6:30 Elevation 7:00 Shinjuku Boys 8:00 Defying Gravity 9 45 She’s Safe Sunday, April 19 1:00 Out at Work 2:00 Faggots Are For Burning Stop the Church 3:00 Thank God l’m a Lesbtan 4:00 Hide and Seek All.tim,s.and details ofschedule are tentative. IZ~yers will be Fosted closer to tl~ event. 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Confidential), this fun Aus¯ tralian filmrevolves around a well meanby Barry Hensley " ing father who tries to help his son find Tulsa City-County Library Mr.Right. Incase youhaven’t checked In ease you When A Kid is Gay (1995): out the library in the last dehaven’t eheeked Young lesbians and gays share cade or so, it’s not just books their thoughts and feelings anymore! Besides magazines out the about their sexual orientation, (Advocate, Out, Lambda Book llhrary in the families and the church. Report) and CDs (Melissa Classic older rifles include: Etheridge, k dlang, EltonJohn, last decade or La ,Cage aux Folles (1978): lots of Cole Porter), the liso, it’s not The original Birdcage, from brary has some entertaining just hooks France, which inspired the videos that are of interest to fabulousBroadway musical. the gay and lesbian commuanymore! How can you force a flamboynity. Besides ant drag queen to actlike John Newer films include: Philadelphia (1993): Ton~ maffazlnes . . . Wayne? Sunday, Bloody Sunday Hanks won an Oscar for his and CDs . .. (1971): Classic love mangle portrayal of a lawyer with with handsome Murray Head AIDS who is wrongly fired the library has caughtbetween Glenda Jackfrom his prestigious law firm. some son and Peter Finch. Director He sues, and wins, with the entertaining John Schlesinger dared to inhelp of homophobic Denzel Washington. videos that are clude a male-to-male kiss in this groundbreaker. Celluloid Closet (1995):of interest to Videos check out from the Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this the Gay and library for three days and - is an overview of homosexuthey’re free! (Fines, however, ality in themovies and includes Lesbian are $1 per day for videos.) interviews With Harvey eommunlty. Check for videos and CDs at Fierstein, Whoopi Goldberg die Media Center at the CenandGore Vidal, among oth¯ tral Library (596-7933) or contact your ers. ¯ local libra@. The Sum of Us (1996): Stamng Russell ¯ Mac. The rimes, they have a-changed! ¯ The Stevie Nicks boxed set, ENNo, not screaming at the hecklers, but as ¯¯ CHANTED, will be releaged on April 28, followed by an appearance On Letterman one Of the fiinnlest ventriloquists around. ¯ April 30. Then, she will release a newly Most of you might remember Peanut th~ Woozle, Walter the grumpy old man, and ¯¯ recorded album in fall, with perhaps m~other tour to follow that effort. And Jose thejalapeno from appearances on the hopefully, all these Tonight Show and ¯.. the Turner exhibit at things will occur other talk shows, as when the publicists Philbrook Museum vAll be well, as many of the say they will. To comedy shows ending on April 12. quote Stevie, 1 Can’t broadcast from comDon’t miss this exhibit Wait. As of right edy clubs onTV. Just the first single named Stand-upCowhieh is the sole worldwide now, from the boxed set is median of the Year, venue. Turner is considered scheduled to be Reagain, at the Amerithe greatest British painter consider Me. Since can Comedy her music and lyrics Awards, he’ll be doof the 19th century, and one eerily coincide "with ing 4 showshere in of the monumental figures happenings andcriTulsa at the Tulsa ses in my life, I can’t Comedy Club, 6906 of Western painting. wait to hear what that S. Lewis. For info, ; song’s about. call 481-0558. Wayward Theatre Company will Jerry Lee Lewis will be at Cain’s Ball- ¯¯ present THE BALTIMORE WALTZ on room April 17. Tickets available at ¯ April 2-19in collaboration with the DelaMohawk Music (51 & Sheridan, behind Wendys, 644-2951, or by calling 747- ¯¯ ware Playhouse. For more information, call 712-1511. 0001~ ¯ The Thomas Moran exhibition will be Barbara Ariadne will be one of the ¯ featured photo~aphers in the npcoming ¯ continues through May 10 at Gilcrease Tulsa Photography Collective’s exhibit at ¯ Museum. But the Turner exhibit at Philbrook Museumwill be endingonApril Rogers University. These shows high¯ 12. Don’t miss this exhibit which is the light some really goodlocal artists, so I would encourage you to take a jaunt out to Rogers ,for a coffee and a viewing. Barbara-~?photos are really beautiful images, and each one tells a story and will leave you thinking about what you’ve seen. She’ll be a talent to watch in coming years. Stevie’s tour dates just announced ! She will perform in Dallas July 17 at the Starplex, otherwise you can catch her in St. Louis at the Riverport Amphitheater on July 11, or in Kansas City at the Sandstone on July 11. Tickets available through ticketmaster, from $40 to $80. I remember paying $25 in 1982 to see Fleetwood . ¯ ¯ ¯ ] ¯ ¯ ¯ sole worldwide venue. Turner is considered the greatest British painter of the 19th century, and one of the monumental figures of Western painting. Tulsa Opera brings to a close its 50th anniversary season with Madama Butterfly on May 2, 7 and9,1998 at the Performing Arts Center. General Director Carol I. Crawford made her conducting debut with Butterfly when it was last performed in 1991. Maestra Crawford said "Madama Butterfly was the first grand opera the Company presented (1953 -54), and seems a fit.ting conclusion t,,o Tulsa Opera’s 50th anmversary season. Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation April 15th .is all but upon us - call now! Lesbiatis and Gay men face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. Electronic filing is available for faster refunds. 7 47 - 5.466 4021 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 Wom en: At R.isk What’s Love Got to Do with It? An Evening for Advocates of Women’s Issues Premiere of a Melanie Spector Film April 16th, 5-7pm, All Souls, 2952 S. Peoria RSVP by April 15th: 585-5551 This advertisement donated by Tulsa Family News. 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Many we live would hardly be suitable for enter¯ Americans are squeamish at the thought taining the descendant of the goddess of of eating "’raw fish" at a sushi bar, and the Sun and ins gracious partner. nothing takes sushi eating to an extreme When amongst Polite Society in Japan, more than sashimi, winch is simply fish one can pay no greater comwithout the rice. When the pliment to one’s host or hostFu~i Japanese Japanese eat seafood that has ess than to compare the foodnot been cooked, they do not Cuisine and the art - presented, with a meal eat just any fish or sea creature Sushi Bar fit for the Emperor. And, while that comes along. Strict stan8226 East 71st we’ve always found the susin dards of the highest quality at Fuji to be good, we were Hours: Lunch and freshness are required. unprepared for the magnifi. Mon. - Fri.,, Fish and sea creatures for sushi cent feast we were presented mad sashimi are very expen11:30 to 2: dinner tonight. sive, and it is eaten uncooked 5:30-10, until Japanese cuisine descends to accentuate the crisp fresh10:30 on Fridays. from an ancient and glorious ness, the delicate flavors and Sat. 11:30 to heritage, stretching back a the wonderful textures of the millennimn or two. Everything dish. Our plate of sasinmi was 10:30~ Sun. 11:30 is carefully planned and exartfully arranged with three to 9:30. Prices: ecuted with meticulous attenslices each of wonderful, Expensive to tion to detail as only the Japabright red tuna and the tender, very expensive nese can do. .purple-tinged winte flesh of Pa,~anent: NIajorUpon arriving at the restauoctopus tentacles, plus a rant, we were immediately credit cards mound of some of the most welcomed and escorted to ot~r fabulous squid dredged in Smohin~: Sepatable in the large, open dining caviar that we have ever eaten. rate room. No sooner had we gotOften times, squid is a bi~ smokin~ section ten settled in, then we were chew),, but this sashimi was Alcohol: Fully greeted by our waiter, who so exquisitely delicate and distributed hot washcloths to fresh, that we ~isk nmning out licensed, each diner, permitting them to of superlatives to describe the including cleanse their hands before dinexperience. The plate was also Japanese ~tems ner. An assistant am red, beargarnished with carved pieces Ratin~: A list ing a small basket of warm of carrot and cucumber, and shrimp chips - very light and strewn with delicious young airy cinps made of rice flour, flavored radish sprouts. wi[h shrimp, colored inassorted pastels-, A word of education for those who hav e and fried to a crispy crunchiness. never done the sushi experience is ~varThe menus are lengthy and detailed, ranted for another item thatappears ou the and present offerings representative of plate with sushi and sashimi. There will the major varieues of Japanese cmsine. almost always be a little ball or mass of We had been to Fuji many, many tirnes green paste the Japanese call wasabi. Bebefore, but, for some reason, we had alware. Do not put the green paste into your ways made selections only from the long mouth ~vithout proper preparation, or it list’of sushi, sushi rolls, and sashimi. So, will give you such an incredible rush that we asked our waiter to bring us ins choice your sinuses will clear, the top of your of dimmer, highlighting thenon-sushi items head will feel as though it is coming off, that we had not before tried in Tulsa. your eyes will water, andyou will want to Mist soup arrived immediately. MisO, stop breathing. Wasabi is Japanese horsea soup made from fermented soybean radish. It is a delicious condiment, but paste, is a staple of the Japanese breakfast potentially fatal in novice hands ! On your table and practically every other meal. table, you will find a little tiny bowl or Fuji ser~’es a mild, light-colored mist plate. Put alittle of the wasabi on the plate characteristic of the soups of Kyoto and (using your chopsticks, of course), and Osaka, that also contained small cubes of pour soy sauce into the bowl. Mix the two tofu and bits of nori - sheets of dried together until you make a thin sauce, seaweed. The soup arrives in a pretty, winch you can make hotter or milder to lidded bowl, and one partakes by sipping your own tastes. When you eat your piece directly from the bowl. It was followed in of nigirisusin or your sasinmi, dip the fish qnick succession by the Japanese concesin.to the sauce before conveying the whole sion to American tastes, a salad of iceberg pwce to your mouth. lettuce and a tomato wedge. It was garBy this point in the meal, we were quite nished with little fried noodles and shavcompletely stuffed, but it was now time !rigs of red cabbage, and dressed in an for the main course to arrive. Our waiter interesting sauce of ginger, sesame paste, had selected two large salmon filets preand peanut oil pared in the Sinoyaku style ~ charl~roiled It was now time for the appetizers, mad with sea salt and special spice, s, and served what an embarrassment of riches we rewith a:ginger sauce. Tins salmon was ceived! First came the Hiya-Yakko Tofu, unlike anything we had ever tast~l bewhich was probably the only food we ate fore, with an amazing, full-bodiedflavor, requiring an "advanced" palate. Two large and it was so incredibly rich that we were wedges of cold, delicate, custard-like tofu unable to eat the entire, enormous servwere garnished with sliced scallions and ing. The salmon was accompanied by grated ginger, and served with a gentle vegetable tempura and an artfully carCed ginger-soy sauce. Yakitoriis alittle skewer and dissected fresh orange. Rice, of course, of charcoaled cincken meat interspersed was present throughout the meal. with onions and bell pepper, and served Truly, we had eaten so much, warm with tonkatsu sosu, a dark spicy see Fuji, page 12 �Eureka’s by Larnont Lindstrorn." would be right if he wore a t-shirt marked with the ASL signs for, "You wouldn’t Nowadays everyone has his or her "culture." This one-time anthropological term ’ understand. It’s. a Deaf thing." Lermy’s command of written English used to mean the system of knowledge ¯ sharedby members of a society. For an- ¯ grammar is spotty, but he is brilliant at thropologists, thus, thereis only one corn- " negotiating the boundaries between deaf prehensive culture in the U.S. despite the : and hearing as wall as all the other boundfact that American understandings of the ¯ aries (Gay/Straight; male/female; black’ world may be contested, variable, contra- " white) that most of the rest of us also dictory, and negotiated. But for the rest of ¯ encounter daily. I first met Lenny several us, the term ’.~culmre" has become person- ¯ years ago as he made the rounds of a alized.Tormentedby 1990s worries about : downtown Philadelphia dub with small notebook and pencil stub in hand. His barlosing, finding, building, eroding, estabtalk took the form of short notes that he lishing, proving, celebrating, and marketrapidly scrawled in his own version of ing identity, we have fervidly grasped this English. (Lenny could scribble impresword to help make sense of who we are. sively fast.) He then handed over the note(There are good reasons why personal book and pencil, and waited for a written identity in late 20th century America is response. Last summer I ran into Lenny such aheadache, but we can save those for again in a bar in New Hope, PA. He was another column.) the only deaf person there but was having This all has led to "Let a thousand a great time socializing with his hearing cultures bloom." All over the country, we friends and, perhaps, arranging some more hear new talk of youth culture, gang culintimate date for that evening. It would be ture, Chicano Culture,Black culture, White a challenge for many of us, I imagine, to culture (no trailer-trashjokes, please) and, scribble and make love at the same time. closer to home, Gay culmr~ and Lesbian Lenny’s cross-cultural skills in naviculture. One could argue that all these are gating the deaf/hearing divide are much just minor components of an encompassbetter than mine. He took me along to a ing albeit multifaceted American culture. club where Philadelphia’s deaf Gay comIt is dear, though~ that we have taken to munity meets every second week or so. phrasing our individual distinctiveness The room was crowded with people all and why we are special in a language of vigorously signing among themselves. cmtur , and we struggle to defend the This was one of the oddest bar experirighteousness and honor of this particuences I ever have had. No noise. No talk. larized "~culmral" uniqueness. No wild laughter or greetings yelled from But I am not complaining about this across the room. Just a rich, silent chore- recent popularization of anthropological ography of hand and ann gestures, a jargon: The more cultures out there, the hushed language of bodies and the quiet more wor,.k there is for us an,t,h,r,opologists! motion- of faces." Unlike tae; the two or Thei’bi~~il6~ 6fadffon around academia as three other hearing people there knew scholars debate whether or not some disASL. One of them complained, though, tinctly Gay culture, language, and lifestyle that hewas getting a headache trying to exi st and, if they do, what exactly they are. make sense of the conversations around Politically, too, there is the debate behim since most people were holding drinks tween those who believe that Gays are (or and were signing one-handedly. ’Although ought to be)just the same as everyone else in unfamiliar territory, I still knew enough with one minor erotic difference, and those about Gay-American "bar culture" sucwho argue that there.is a unique Gay cessfully to order a drink ("read.my lips, sensibility.that should be celebrated, p.robartender, wwhiittte wwiirme") and othtected, and passed along to upcotmng erwise not make a fool out of myself. generations x, y, and z. As Americans living in the same sociI was thinking about difference - culety, even when our "cultural" differences tural or otherwise - when I stopped in are greatest (as between the Engh.sh-speakPhiladelphialast snmmer to visitmy friend ing hearing and the ASL-sigmng deaf), Lenny. Lenny is African-American, Gay, and deaf. If he wanted to talk that way, he ¯ we still have a 1.ot in common. In fact, the surely could claim to have a few more ¯ various personal differences that we pursue, maintain, and today protect as culcultures than most of us do. And there is some justification to admit a distinct deaf ¯¯ rural-like those asserted to exist between culture, if one associates cultural bound- ¯ Gay and Straight-only can be recognized aries with language difference. Lenny’s ¯ and made sense of as parts of the larger, American cultural whole. Lenny is deaf, native language, like most deaf people, is American Sign Language (ASL). ASL ¯ but he is also Gay. He is black, but he is has its own set of morphological and ¯ also African-American. Like all of us nowadays, Lenay is "multicnltural" (Gay syntactic rules that are independent of plus whatever else), but only in the singuEnglish. Unlike most fashionable warnings of multicultural bewilderment, Lenay ~ larly American sense of this word. Old ]ail-house Historic Lodging in the Heart of Eureka Springs 501 253-5332 15 Montgomery (comer of Mountain & Main) Gay Owned, Operated & Rainbow Proud Gay Mecca of the Ozarks Beautiful Eureka Springs, Arkansas Outside Hot Tub COCONUT BEER BATTERED SHRIMP PRIME RIB FRESH CLAMS VEGIE STIR FRY COQUILE ST. JA~UES MAHI-MAHI RACKOF LAMB CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE It’s Here !. 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Mark Bowman, executive director of Reconciling Congregations, called ¯¯ that declared homosexuality incompatthe decision "some measure of welcome ¯ ible with Christian teaching. Not all Gay Methodists think same-sex..~ from the church" and reassuring to homosexual members "that not all of the ¯ unions are worth fighting for, Lawrence :/. ¯. said. As he noted, other issues of hate church’s doors are dosed to them." crimes and job discrimination may be The panel of Nebraska ministers, four women and nine men, denied that the ." more important. During Creech’s two-day inquiry in finding served as a positive signal about . . Keamey, even those presenting the homosexuality. "Just because this jury church’s case exp.ressed overtones of supvo.t~d this way doesn’t mean the next one will:’ one panelist, the Rev. M. Maniek :., port.!n an. 0Pemng.smtem_ent, the Re.v. Samuel of l(,linden~ told th~ Om~h~aW,tbtl~l Herald. " lated current church policy-even though The decision, he added, is no authorization for more Methodist ministers to perform same-sex ceremonies. During the inquiry, Creech said he would continue to officiate at unity ceremonies, if asked. But despite what he called "active talk;’ the Rev. Bill Lawrence, a professor at Duke University studying the Methodist Stonewall 25 organizers pleaded that no national action take place before 1994..A call for indnsion of youth in the orgamz2 ing was made and a request to be aware of the dates of the many women’s music festivals was voiced. Native American gays andlesbians explained that they could not participate in the fall of 1992 - the 500thauniversary of the survival of indigenous cultures. And that is a very small sample. In 1998, all that expression and creativity has been silenced in one meeting between Perry, Birch, andTyler. They want to control the timing, message, and money associated with the Millennium March. They may achieve that. But in the process, they’ll lose the movement. Arrogance is not the word. Only sheer contempt for democracy can describe their organizing style. Several national leaders authored letters distributed at the !991 meetings explaining why a march before 1994 was misguided. Where are their voices now? Some of the very same people have privately expressed their concerns about the Millennium March, but won’t do so publidy. Why? They’re afraid that in the year 2000, they’ll be on the outside looking .in.. - There shouldn’t be an outside. Orgamz- policy may someday accept Gay unions. Support for Creech came from a retired bishop, who admitted that the church may need to reconsider its policy regarding homosexuals. "As I get older," observed the Rev. Kenneth Hicks of Little Rock, Ark., "it.burdens me to know that maybe the church needs to make a change." ing a national civil rights event without a grassroots "call" is exclusive no matter how much multicultural rhetoric they try to pour over it. But its worse than that. Birch is smart enough to know that Barney Frank is right when he says that big marches do nothing politically for the community. All that stuff about the political benefits of being in Washington before the dection is a lie. Birch wants her Millennium March so she can get her 1,000,000 members and the associated loot. Grassroots democracy might produce 50 state marches. Big bummer for Birch. In a recent Out magazine article, Birch responds to her critics by saying, "Imagine what you would have done if three years ago you woke up and found that someone had handed you the movement. .. I’ll bet that you would have made most of the decisions I made." It’ s time to wake up again. It’ s not your movement~.We can help. : Billy Hileman is a Pittsburg-based activist and was one of four national cochair"s for the ’93 March :on~Washt~zgton. �Simple and direct. Find the man you need by listening to hot ads. 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New MCC-GT Pastor Brings Radical Past + Present Grace TUI~qA - After two years, Tnisa’s oldest Lesbian and Gay congregation, the Metropolltan Corunauaity Church of Greater Tulsa has a pastor again. Tracy I. Barber came to Tulsa about 2 moaths ago from Los .Amgales. She’s only recently ordained as a Metro politan Conununity Church pastor having [men originally ordained as a Mennonite after graduahag from the lfigMy respo~ted Fulhi~ Theologieul Seamnat~ in 1994. And though she was born in Califomi~ L shehas ties to this ~’ea, having studied at Evangel MCC-GT Pastor Tracy Barber Collage hi Spr~gfield, MO. featuredonthe¢overoftheOet. Barber, uldike some 26, 1990 la)s Angeles Roader2 who ve become clergy, has an unusual profess olml background. WhJhi th Cafifomia, she worked in Hollywood film production: commercials, music videos, and Entertaitmlent Tonight, serving as Leeza Gibbons’ assistam. She Mternated between doing hatter paying filial work and non profit work. In one extraordinm-y stint featured in the Los Angeles Reader, she infiltrated the radical and-abortion group, Operation Rescue (OR). as an Unpaid spy for a coalition of feminist orgimlzadons. This work was crucial to defense work and gave OR its first substantial defeat. But for MCC-GT, Barber and her congregation is m the thick of preparing a rtfission statement, a statement of die vision of where they want to go, and of their vahles. Barber. with injoumniism,recafls that tbeulogian Carl Bart said that a nfihister needs the Bible in one hand and a newspaapar in the other - you have to know what is ~oin~ on in the world. Lesbian Health Care : Mel WhiteSays to PFLAG: NEW YORK (AP) - For 20 years. Nayla Rolle lived with a paralyzing pain that dectors distthssed a.s stress related, It wasn’t until the B~oldyn social worker skarted seeing Joan Waitknvic,z - a spacialist ia Lesbiau health issues - that her aliments were diagnosed cor recfly, as lupus and asthma. "Other doctors saw me as a young woman of color, a l~sbian and they couldn’t get beyond what I was saying."says the 41 -year old Rolle. Wailkevicz, who began seeing Rulle hine years ago whihisha was in private practice, is now director ofBeth lsrael Medical Center’s Gay Women’s Focus. Heulthcare workers say it is the first hospitul-hasext health care provider in the country fo~ 1 esbialxs. The connection to the hospital, proponents say, conid give Lesbian patients better access to SlX’Cth~sts and more comprehensive insurance than they wonid otherwise have. "’We want women to come in here and feel uulniubiled about their lifestyle,’says \Vaitkevicz. Gay Women’s Focus is a plimary care provider and gives referrals. Since opathng in 1996, it has treated more than 3,000 patients - 30 parcent of them Lesbians. There have~similar hospital bosed clinics - often AIDS-related that focas on Gay men’s health. Experts say Gay women have spatial medical cow ceres: They may be at higher risk of developing coro nary disease, breast and colon callcer, and some ~ aginai infections, research shows. And sexual practices can have an effect. Teresa Cuadsa, the cento"s gynecologist, says ma~y Lesbians may go y~rs without vhatmg a gynecologist, for ex ,’maple, because they think they are not at risk for Truth + Love, Relentlessly TULSA - The Rev. Mel \Waite. former ghost,\alter to the likes of the Gay-ba.~hing TV preaebers Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson pregehed the gospel of Ghandi and Martin Luther King. Tlfis message of r~n-violem elal change was delivered to about 200 who attended Pareats. Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. PFL~.G’s re~onaiconferenee dth~erat All Souls Uthtafian Church on Sat. March 7. ~q’fite. who was formerly associated with the Metropolitan Communit.~ Church- The Rev. L~el White, joined !Lv es’DallasCathedraiofHope, Tulsan S ~e Knause, and White s now works with his life partner Gap, Nixon in an interpartner Gary NLron at All Souls. faith justice minisl~, called Soulforce based in Laguna Beach. California. see White, page 3 MinisterAcquited Church Trial Over Lesbian Union Ceremony major change !n church policy. "1 don’t know the implicatig,m~ of tkni r dncision," Ct~ech said from the pulpit. "But I believe it s the TOHR HIV Program ChangesAmid Criticism News analysis by 7T’N staff. TIYLSA At March s general nembership n ecting. a member of Tulsa Oldahomans for Htm~an Right. Inc. who had joined ouly earlier dmt da) made a motion that the membors o~ edde the vole the orgathzadon’s board of directors and tfl g~c away TOHR’s HIV prevention programs to yet non existent nonprofit "l~is svas approved h the hanth’ul of members present. Most of those votin against the board of directors were emplo.’, Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. 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First, I have established a special task 749-4901 ~ forcededieatedtomonitq_ring .a.n.d.respot~idr~ 587-7674 ~ ingto developments in Hawaii. tam pe - 743~4297 ¯ soiaally spearheading this task force, ¯ which, wliich incl,u,d_es senior deputies in 749~4195 " the Chief Counsel s office, our research ¯ ot~ff ~,dtheACLl’s on_the~groundteam in Hawau: WE MUST APPLY CO - ¯ STANT LEGAL PRESSURE AND BE ¯ PREPARED TO COUNTER THE. ~ STRATEGIES OF THE MILITANT ¯ HOMOSEXUAL LEGAL COMMU- ~ N1TY. "- e ¯ Second, I am announcing an miens "¯. pubh¯ceducatt"oncampaign hea.d..e.d.b.y..the ~ ACLJ to combat the flood of homoseX.~Uat i propaganda that will soon blanket tia- ~vaii. So far, we have been successful in : HOLDING OFF THE ENEMY in the : courts of law. Now, we. must .win. the ¯ battle in the court of pubhc optmon: ~ In addition, I must ensure that ACI.J ¯ attorneys are ready to respond to the ¯ mounting evidence that CHRISTIANS ACROSS AMERICAN ARE BEING HARASSED FOR OPPOSING THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA.... WE ARE AGGRESSIVELY DEFENDING CHILDREN FROM HOMOSEXUAL INDOCTRINATION IN SCHOOLS ACROSS AMERICA - ¯ ¯ the enclosed ¯ situational report gives more details on ¯ how homosexuals are undermining the ¯ family. The fact is, no business, no family, no schoohaged chi!d is safe from this sweeping pu.qh see Anti-Gay, p.3 - : .~ Letters Policy TulSd Family News ~.d~oines l~tters on issues which we’ve covered or on issues ¯ youthink need to be considered.Y°umay ¯ request that youi name be withheld but ¯ letters mustbe signed&havephonenum- " bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let- ¯ ters are preferred. Letters to other publi- ~ cations will be printed as is appropriate. Learme M: Gross, Insurance & financial planning 744-7440 ¯ MarkT. 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M~ain ¯ DeVito’s Restaur~ant, 5 Center ~t. *.,_F~,,,,erald Rainbow; 45 All2 Spring St. MCC of the Living Spring ¯ Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, PUB 429 Old jailhouseLodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-6807 501-253-5~45 " : 501-253-9337 5131-253-2776 501-253-5332 ¯ Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646 k ’s, Hwy 62 East 501-253-6001 Spar y ¯ ¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS ¯Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442-2845 ¯ is where you canfindTFN. Notallare Gay-ownedbutall are Gay-friendly. Gay-Baiting + What Well M. Susan Savage, our"pretty and nice" as well a~’ politically savvy mayor squeaked on through the election despite her opponent’s last minute Gay-baiting tactics. Our mayor’s advisors spent weeks worrying about rumors that her Republican opponent, Terry Simonson, would use "Gay issues" to attack Savage. They were right. Simonson, with advicefrom Oklahoma’s "hate and lyingAREChristian values’~ Congressmen Steve Largent and Tom Cobum, and their "Oklahoma Values" Coalition, did air TV advertisements that attacked Savage for issuing a Gay Pride proclamation: What they didn’t say is that the proclamation was from 1994, and that Savage has refused to issue another since. Her reason: by allowing the "mainstream" media, i.e. Channel 6, to see the proclamation, Pride Picnic organizers were using the proclamation "for political purposes" which is not allowed. Hundreds of proclamations are given to non-profits which routinely share these with the media but if a Gay group does precisely the same thing, it is being ~’political". Does this sound like doubletalk? Wall, consider this is the same mayor Who claims that she doesn’t issue proclamations for "commercial" purposes, and yet, issued one for "Jackie Cooper Imports Day" in honor of breaking ground for a new south Tulsa dealership. Not to pick on Jackie Cooper Imports, since other commercial enterprises have been similarly honored. And with Cooper, the business really has done a great deal of good civic work, especially around HIV/ AIDS issues in Oklahoma City. The Gay-baiting ads, however;, may well have helped our mayor get dected. Going into the race, some politicalobservers thought she might lose, or at best, win by the thinnest of margins despite being the incumbent, and having more than one-hundred thousand in campaign dollars. But the ads, which aired a few days before the race, may have shifted some votes. ~- My father, as rock-solid a Republican as you will find, after he heard the Simonson ad, tore up his Simonson sign, threw it in the trash and went to Simonson HQ to express his anger- and changed his vote. His view is that others didso as well. And that The Tulsa World article on Tony Orr and Tim Beauchamp, (about whomTFN wrote last fall when they spoke at th~ National Gay!& Lesbian TaskForce/TOHRhate crirn~e~ forum) who had been-Gay- Really Happened in the Mayor’s Race bashed, may have made real for many non-Gay citizens what can result from Simonson-style verbal attacks. So now Mayor Susy’s back, and we, Lesbian and Gay citizens and our friends and family need to hold her accountable. It is no longer acceptable for her to act like merely talking to us is enough. We need to see some specific results like diversity training for our often Gayr hating Tulsa police officers, though such traimng also shouldbe extended to fire and other city departments. The mayor should also ~ssue an executive order banning discrimination in city employment - something she can do under the city charter. And since proclamations are essentiallypublic paper towels - important to those who .want them but of little use for anyone else - our mayor should treat her Lesbian and Gay consti:uents as well as all others, and give us Lesbian and Gay Pride Week proclamations, even Pride Month as we asked for in ’96. After all, we supported her in this race, more than ever before. Cimarron Alliance Group, Oklahoma’s Lesbian and Gay political action committee donated $2,000 to Savage (this is no secret I’m disclosing, donations of this size are public by law). And several of our most prominent commumty members worked themselves into a frenzy helping her and my guess, resulted in further donations to Savage of many times that $2k. Remember, $5k is the legal maximum donation, so S2k should get our items at least some consideration not that quidpro quo ever has anything to do with Oklahoma politics The real danger to these reasonable reforms: that public employees should have the training to act appropriately with all citizens and that our own government should pledge not to discriminate against any of its own citizens. is likely M. Susan Savage’s further political ambitions. Our mayor says she’s not looking at higher office. But some think she’s just waiting until her daughters are college age to run. If so, she may still hold fairness to Tulsa’s Lesbian and Gay citizens hostage, not because she’s personally opposed but because she feels it’s politically advantageous. But maybe,just maybe, this election in which Gay-baiting likely’ helped her win, will give her the courage to appeal to the decency mad intelligence of Tulsans. Then she will say’, as-she did about the "94 proclamation in response.to Simonson in the debates, "I represent all citizens" and-do’what"s right. ~ Tom Neal, publisher & editor one other person not yet named at the last TOHR board meeting), a .single proposed new board member was interviewed. However, Neal noted that, ",after Frank Ramirez began his presentataon by stating, seemingly proudly, that he violates Oklahoma’s Open Meetings.,’ Open Records laws in ranning Morton, I have to question the ethics some of the persons to whom HOPE is being given. Hulsey and Thompson have good reputations, but after hearing Ramirez’ comments, and after learning that Fr~sbee was already accepting donations for the as-ofthen yet non-existentnew organizationwhile she was still working forTOHR, and that she was doing so in violation of her board’s instructions, I am appalled by the misconduct and unprofessionalism of Frisbee." Indeed, in the often stormy membership meeting, Neal accused Frisbee of unprofessional conduct. He toldTFN, "I hired Kristi Frisbee after our board voted to fire Mallory Degen Brown for cause. But I hired her to fix the problems of TOHR’s HIV programs, not to redesign it with by-laws she wrote, with a board of her own chosing. A good non-profit professional certainly has the right to try to persuade her board of her vision but ultimately she works for the organization. An organization should not rum itself inside out for her convenience?" Neal continues, "The real loser here is the whole Gay community. A program that was created because few in Tulsa gave a datnn that Gay men wer~ dying has been coopted- to deal mostly with HIV for non-Gay people. That’s worthy but other ’health organizations could do ¯ that. And the consideration of whether this historically Gay-focused program should address Lesbian and Gay health needs hasfallen victim to Kristi Frisbee’ s ruthlesshess." Neal also criticized Horn strongly, "when I was president, we built consensus. The difficult vote to fire Mallory was unanimous. You have to wonder about a leader who forces through that which a majority of his board voted against." Neal said he resigned because the members were not given advance notice of this proposal. Their business card features the likenesses of King and Ghandi, and \Vhite told of his recent travels in India with Ghandi’s grandson to see the site~ that were significant in the life of the man who inspired King and also White to his work challenging those in Christianity who attack Lesbians and Gay men. Throughout the dinner, \Vhite persuaded his overflowing audience to repeat as a mantra, "truth and love relentlessly"; that is that he~ and they, should do their work inspired b~ the truth, full of love but working for change relentlessly. This lesson, White noted, was taught to him by Coretta Scott King, and her assistant, Gay activigt Lynn Cothren, when White was despairing of having any dialogue with his former friends and employers, Robertson and Falwell. And in remarks of praise for the work that PFLAG does, White added a comment of local interest. He stated that Tulsa evangelist Oral Roberts should be a PFLAG parent, since his older son commited suicide because due to being Gay. Tulsa’ s new Council Oak Mens Chorale also performed for the dinner to a very warm reception. to re-define marriage and force acceptance of the gay lifestyle.., please add your voice to mine by signing the enclosed statement of support. In the coming weeks I will take our case to the media and key public officials in Hawaii. Your signature on this statement of support will allow me to say that tens of thousands of concerned Christian citizens have written and askedme tomake sure the pro-family voice can be heard above the shouts of the militant homosexual... Next, please send of a gift of $50, $75, $100 or more today so we can defend the family in the court of public opinion as wall as courtrooms across America. Your friend advocating Jesus, Jay Allen Sekulow Omer Cowan andPrime Timers President John Madigan present a check for a $1,000 donation to TOHR/Pride Center President Steve Horn. Grassroots vs. DC/LA Elite March on DC-Who Decides? by Billy Hileman The current debate of a LGBT civil rights event in Washington, D.C. in 2000 may look like "’politic~ infighting" if one only takes a quick glance. But just below the surface is one of the most important community discussions to occur in decades. Our community is in the process of redefining the movement. If organizing for a national LGBT civil rights event an Washington proceeds on its current course, then progressive, grass-roots, democratic organizing in our co~mnunity will suffer a serious iujury. The tragedy of this situation is that the.Hmnan Rights Campaign’s (HRC) executive director Elizabeth t3irch, comedian Robin Tyler, and the Universal Fello~vsl~p of Metropolitan Community Churches’ Troy Perry are the willing architects of this attack on queer democracy. Right now, Perry, Birch, and Tyler are frantically lobbying the community to sup,tvort an event they decided to produce. They are trying to prop up grass-roots support for an event on] y they had input on. Perry hasjust sent out a letter with "’six very specific steps, very definite steps" ¯.. to lobby congress?. . no, to lobby the president’?.. ¯ no, to zap Jesse Helms? No. Troy Perry is asking you to lobby the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the ¯ ’Natitnal Black Eesbi~n mad Gay Leadership Fornin to : support the Mille~inimn .March! What s wrong with that? in Troy Perry’s plea for help, he says, "’If you are a contributor, member or supporter of these organizations, be sure to mention that too." That is sickening. The MillenmumMarch is about money. It is not about whether 2000 is a good year to rally in Washington. It is not about ENDA, or domestic partnership, or about lesbians and gays in the military. Right now there is only one organization in our community with the resources to support a huge national action in Washington. And there is only one organization that has vowed to have 1 million members by the year 2000 - HRC. Never before has one of our organizations been xn a position to unilaterally call for a March on Washington. The Millemfium March is a test of HRC’s new power. It is a test whether the community will allow HRC to ¯¯ o circumvent the progressive, grassroots, democratic principles that were the basis of the three previous marches and the heart of our movement. At the end of Perry’s letter, he writes, "History’s greatest movements have been grassroots movements. ~ And history’s greatest leaders have been those who heeded the call of their grassroots members." But, there ¯ has been no "call." HRC and UFMCC didn’t allow the forum for a"call."’ And now that people are voicing their ¯ concern about the process, Birch, Tyler and Perry are putting a call out to the grass-roots instead of the other ¯ way around. In March of 1991 the executive directors of NGLTF ¯ and HRCF, Urvashi Vaid and Tim McFeeley hosted a meeting i~ Washington, D.C. for activists to discuss a ¯ third march on Washington. Minneapolis City Councilmember Brian Coyle had pushed the idea at the ¯" 1990 Creating Change Conference. During the March ¯ (E91 meeting, and a second national meeting in .May, dozens of proposals’~and -concerns were discussed by ." hundreds of activists. ~ Proposals for marches in 1992 and 1993 were dis- .¯ cussed. Bi-annual MOWs with a permanent committee; 52 regional marches: states, DC and Puerto Rico; and a ¯ MOW before every presidential election were all pro- " posed, seeMarch,page15 Houston Judge Blocks Civil Rights Protections HOUSTON (AP) - A~judge has blocked the city, at leasttemporarily,fromenforcing MayorI~eBrown’s executive order banning discrimination against Lesbians and Gays in city government. State District Judge Patrick W. Mizell agreed with City Council member Rob Todd and conservative businessman Richard Hotze that Brown lacks authority under the city charter to impose such an order. After a briefing by city attorneys, Brown said he is considering an appeal. "We are disappointed with Judge Mizell’s ruling," Brown said. "We continue to bdieve that our interpretation is correct, that the mayor has the power to issue executive orders." Brown signed the order in January, fulfilling a campaign pledge to ban discrimination in city government on the basis of sexual orientation. Although criticized by some City Council conservatives, Brown’s idea had the support of a council majority if he decided to seek an anti-discrimination ordinance..But Brown issued an executive order, instead. Mizell said the charter authorizes only the council and the Civil Service Commission to.make rules regarding discrimination, not the mayor. Todd has denied that their lawsuit was intended to suppress homosexuals. He and Hotze say their suit is aimed at procedural concerns alone. . But some in the Gay community remain unpersuaded, including some Gay conservatives who said eradicating discrimination is a goal all conservafives should share. "It’s certainly ironic that Mr. Hotze wants to perpetuate discrimination, and that in all the years he has been involved in politics in Houston he has never questioned the~ayor’s right to issue executive orders until it comes dtwn to employment equality for Gay city employees," said Clarence Bagby, president of the Houston Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus. Judge Overturns Alaska Anti-Marriage Law JUNEAU; Alaska (AP)- A State judge hearing a challenge to Alaska’s ban on same-sex marriage says choosing a partner is a fundamental right that could result in a"nontraditional" choice. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Peter Michalski said that the state must show why it should be able to regulate who petple marry. The court challenge, began last year when Jay Brause and Gene Dugan of Anchorage challenged a 1996law banning same-sex marriage. TheGay couple, who sought state recognition of their relationship of 20 years, said the marriage ban violates the Alaska Constitution. Michalski threw out the state’s bid to dismiss the case and ruled that choosing a partner is a fundamental right. "Itis the decisionitself thatis fundamental, whether the decision results in a traditional choice o~ the nontraditional choice Brause and Dugan seek to have recognized," Michal’ski wrote. "The same Constitution protects both." John Gaguine, the assistant attorney general who argued the case, said the state probably will ask the Alaska Supreme Court to review the decision. Proving a compelling state interest in banning same-sex marriage may be difficult, said Matt Coles, director of the Lesbian and Gay civil rights Project of the American Civil Liberties in.New York. ’The state is. going to have to have a very good justification," he said. Deat,h Sentence Holds for Murderer of Gay Man AUSTIN (A~) -~A death sentence .imposed against a former~h;§b]a~bol football starwhbwas convicted of abducting and Shooting to death a Gay man has been upheld by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. According to court records, Demarco Markeith McCullum and threecompanions targeted a Gayman for robbery in 1994becauseMcCullumbelievedGay men always carried a lot of cash. According to the court, McCullum saw Michael ¯ Burzinski, 29, walking to his car parkett" outside aGay ¯¯ bar. He attacked Burzinski, who the court said was noticeably drunk, and threw him into the backseat of ¯ Burzinski’s car. According to testimony, McCullum ¯ announced that Burzinski had to be killed because he ¯ knew his attackers’ names. He then shouted aloudhis ¯ own name and the name of the men with him - ¯ Decedrick Ganious, Terrance Perro and Chris Lewis: ¯ McCullum then drove Burzinski to a secluded loca- ¯ tion, forced Burzinski from the car and shot him once ." in the back of the head. ,Massachusetts Men Sued for Gay Bashing ¯ WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Two men accused of ¯ using an Internet chat room to lure a Gay man to a ¯ deserted field and then beating him have been sued : for civil rights violations. The attorney general’s civil ¯ rights division filed a proposed preliminary injunc- : tion against William D. Peters, 21, and Frank Labbe, ¯ 18, both of Webster. If successful, the injunction ¯ would mandate stiff punishments should the men ¯ commit additional civil rights crimes. ¯ Peters and Labbe allegedly attacked a 46-year-old ¯ Cambridge man in the early morning hours of Jan. 8 : after exchanging messages in a Gay-oriented online ¯ chat room. According to court documents, the defen- ¯ dants used anti-Gay language to taunt the victim and ¯ wamedhim,"Ifyougo to the cops, we’ll kill you. And : if we ever see you online again or in a~!_.y (chat) rooms : again, we will kill you!" ¯ Earlier this month, Labbe and Peters were indicted "- . on charges ofarmed robbery, assault and battery with : a dangerous weapon, civil rights violations, threaten- : ing to commit a crime, intimidating a witness and ¯ conspiracy, according to the Worcester County dis- : trict attorney’s office. Assistant Attorney General ¯ Richard ,Gordon said the civil rights action filed : Thursday, whichis separatefrom the criminal charges, ¯ was brought because of the severity of the case. : In the affidavit filed this week,the victim said he remains terrified of his alleged attackers. "The defen¯ dants’ threats and intimidation towards me have made mefearful for my safety, even in my own ¯ home," the testimony reads. Bias Protections Under Attack in Colorado ii Maine Towns Consider Civil Rights Protections : FORT COLLINS,Colo. (AP)-Theday after the City ¯ Council voted to extend anti-discrimination protec- : tion to Gays & Lesbians, opponents to the new law said they will petition for a vote on the plan. Council : members said two years of study and months of ¯ public meetings convinced them that discrimination ¯ is a legitimate problem for Gays and Lesbians. ¯ The new law, adopted recently, adds sexual often- : tation, defined as actual or perceived heterosexuality, ¯ homosexuality, bisexuality and asexuality, as a prohibitedbasis 6f discrimination. Opponents argued the ¯ ordinance gives homosexuals special rights by con- ¯. doning and protecting their lifestyle. One man accused city leaders of "government tyranny"for endorsing the measure. "I’m sure it’s going to be : challenged,"said the Rev. Ken Stephens of Front ¯ Range Baptist Church. "We do not need the ordi- ¯ nance for a lifestyle which I believe is a chosen lifestyle." ~ ¯ Opponents said they are gearing up for a referendum’on the controversial law. City Clerk Wanda Krajicek said petitioners would have until mid-April to collect 1,783 valid signatures from registered voters who live in the city. The City Council could then repeal the ordinance, submit the measure to voters in a general election, or call for a special election to settle the matter. A vote could be scheduled as early as this summer, Krajicek said. : BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) - Supporters of Gay : civilrights ordinances in two Maine tourist towns say : they are motivated by economic considerations as ¯ well as by a desire to prevent discrimination. 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The night before, Camden real estate broker Susan Dorr asked the Boar,d,. of Selectmen to adopt a Gay civil rights measure. Itjust makes use of the very clear message that Camden voters have said twice on this matter,"said Dorr, who pointed to the town’s strong anti-discrimination stance in two statewide votes. ’¢Fhis is an important area to explore, to say unequivocally that Camden won’t discfiminate,"she said. While expressing support for Gay civil rights, selectmen instructed the town attorney to review the legal ramifications and advised the town manager to seek information on local anti-discrimination ordinances. If the proposals pass, the two ¯ coastal towns wouldjoin Portland and Long Island as the only Maine communities with Gay civil rights ordinances on the books. A leader in the Gay civil rights campaign, Karen Geraghty of Maine Won’t Discriminate, said she could understand the frustration of townspeople that prompted the local efforts but reiterated that a statewidelaw was theideal solution. "Every citizen in Maine ought to have the same basic rights," Geraghty said. "I don’t think that ifyou grow up in Bangor that you ought [o have to move to Portland or Camden or any other place in order to have ~ayyour om~ara love be tt~b us, totd as~~t our bol~ inyoa"- Ps. 33:21 protection against discrimination." qi nite, :G°dLo’vse ¯ l.esbian CityA CouncilOrin :Settles nto Job ~’~ Gv~’;~o~oda"~, ~’~’E;g~r~;~r;~’uran~ HOUS,TON (AP) - running joke Annise J~7~X,. burdens. Come share in the bounty of Gods Parker s camp during her run for Houston City ~ love with us each Sunday at 10:45 ~a. Council eame from a caller’s r,,e~,~~tion to her televi- ~ : Children Are Always Welcome! sion campaign commercial. She looks, just like some suburban housewife," the viewer said. Parker ]~/I~Fol]tal1 Col]].l]lun]t~ 91~8/hs~U~171~5~ didu’tmind the comparison. "That’s what I wanted to convey. I’m just like everybody else when it 1625 N. Maplewood of GEt.tel" Tulsa. comes to the issues that I’m concerned about," JACOXANIMAl, CLINIC M - F 7:30 - 7, Sat 9 -1 2732 East 15th Street Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104 Family’s Pet Physician DR. MALCOLM JACOX tel: 712-2750, fax: 712:2760 Now Featdring Dog Grooming, Mon. - Fri. Country 13rco Club Parker, 41, said. "Because I happen to be Gay doesn’t mean that I have a shaved head and wear Doc Martens, either." On a recent morning, this 20-year veteran of corporate America happened to be wearing a white turtleneck, brownjacket and tan pants. The muted outfit and Parker’s low-key style certainly gave no clue to the fact that she’s a trailblazer who has broken a major barrier in becoming Houston’s first openly Gay elected official. That distinction became official on Jan. 2, when Parker took the oath of office with her partner of seven years at her side. She joined only 122 other openly Gay elected officials in the U.S., according to the Washington, D.C.-based Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. At City Hall, though, Parker says she’s just another councilwoman. Parker is an at-large council member, meaning she was elected by voters across the city. "There’s no difference inside this ¯ tive legislative work." Still, Parker doesn’t shy ¯ away from her role in Houston’s history or the ¯ responsibility that comes withit. "Somebodyhas to ¯ be first and you want the first to do a great job, so : that the next one has it easier. And I feel that ¯ responsibility, but I’m very pleased that within ¯ these walls and when I~m at a civicforum that that’s ¯ not the issue," she said. ¯ Houston’s Gay and Lesbian community cer¯ taiuly claimed Parker’s victory. "Voters care more about what our representatives doin council chain- : bets than what they do in their bed chambers and ¯ that’s a good sign for the future of this city," said , Dale Carpenter, a Houston lawyer and past state president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of ¯ Gay and Lesbian conservatives. Over the years, : Houston’s Gay community has seen many disap- ¯ pointments, including the repeal 13 years ago of a ¯ city ordinance Nving job protection to Gays ." During the firstfew council meetings of the year, ¯ a man showed up spewing what Parker termed ; "rather ugly" comments toward her and other mi- ¯ nority councilmembers. Healso made obscene and ¯ threatening phone calls to her office. "It’s part of ¯ the job," Parker said. "You’re a public figure. ¯ You’re a target because you have to be accessible ¯ and everyone has First Amendment rights." But there have been some signs that the nation’s ¯ fourth-largest city is growing up. During last ¯ November’s election, incumbent city controller ¯ Lloyd Kelley lost to Sylvia Garcia after calling her : his "Gay opponent." ’q’he atmosphere has dra- ¯ matically changed here for the better," Carpenter : said. "Annise Parker’s election is certainly the ¯ most prominent example of that." Parker spent ¯ about 20 years working for Mosbacher Oil and ; Energy and in that time also owned two small ¯ businesses. She’s also served on the Houston Po- ¯ liceDepartmentAdvisory Committeeand thecity’s Citizen Review Committee. She has been a police liaison for the Gay and Lesbian community. Parker’s activism also has extended to the restoration and preservation ofhistoric sites in Houston. "I care about the architectural heritage in the community," she said. "Ijust care about old buildings." Now she is navigating the transition from private life as abusinesswomanand activist to city official. Meeting the needs of her constituents, she said, largely means dealing with their concerns about everyday issues like street repairs and garbage collection. Said Parker: "Potholes aren’t Gay or Lesbian or black or Hispanic or Asian." : Illinois Civil Rights Bill ." SPRINGFIELD, ill. (AP) - The state of Illinois ." forbids discrimination based on race, color, reli- ¯ gion, sex, marital status and six other characteris- ¯ tics. Now, sexual orientation might be added to the : list. A bill advanced by an Illinois House commit- . tee wouldltrohibitlandlords,employers and credi- ¯ tots from discriminating against Gays. : Themeasure, sponsoredby Rep. Larry McKeon, ; D-Chicago, would amend the state’s human rights ¯ lawby addingthephrase%exual orientation" to the list of categories protected against bias. McKeon, ." who is Gay, told the Human Services Committee ¯" that the bill "highlights Gays’ status as citizens under Illinois law" but does not :’promote or con- " done any lifestyle." ." 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It may be important to . tivelandl0rds ~idv s~Id people who oppose advances for thosecommum- . o0t lucky" §l~kM~f ¢~,~ai’m, ;/6#~i7,~ ~es, For ~e l~st of Houston,_~ey w~t m ~ow ¯ ’ ta-"~,v~ li’oA~.;i whe~ef I~ffehv~ on &er p~ac~ nelgh~r ’ hav ’ e~ ..... " - :’ etogetlu~k~tbhaveajob:&apiactlblive." hood issues." ¯ McKeon s~ess~ &at &e proposM wo~d not Fellow councilman Jew Don Boney Jr., who considers himself a staunch supporter of Parker’s, said she’s a welcome addition to Houston government. "She is a seasoned veteran who is a decisive advocate on behalf of neighborhood interests," he said. "She is fiscally responsible. She is a worker. She is not here to profile. She is here to do substan- : require religious institutions that regard homo- : sexuality as immoral to hire or promoteGay people. ¯ It also would not require employers or unions to ¯ give preferential treatment or other affirmative : action to Gays, he said. The committee approved : the bill onan 8-2 vote. The House defeated a similar ¯ measure by McKeon last April. Proteins Protect A Few Hemophiliacs NEWYORK (AP) - Fourteen hemophiliacs whorepeatedly gotHIV-contaminated infusions resisted infection because they had high levels of certain immune system proteins, a study suggests. . The proteins are called chemokines. Prior studies have shown they can block HIV infection in ~he test tube, and scien- " usts have been hoping to use them to : develop AIDS drugs or a vaccine. ¯ TheAssociated Press reported the study : of hemophiliacs in September when it . was presented at a meeting. The work now appears in a recent issue of the Pro- " ceedings of the National Academy of Sci- : ences. It was presented by Daniel Zagury of : the Pierre and Marie Curie University in : Paris, Alessandro Gringeri of the Univer- " sity of Milan in Italy, Dr. Robert Gallo of ¯ the Institute of Human Virology at the " University of Maryland, and others. " The hemophiliacs, from Italy, were ex- ¯ posed to theAIDS virus through contaminated infusions of blood products. Blood " cells taken from them Were found to pro- : dace about twiceas muchofthree kinds of " chemokines as didcells fromhealthy blood donors, or from hemophiliacs unexposed to HIV. The study involved 128 hemophiliacs who had repeatedly been expo~.d to HIV from blood products between 1980 to . 1985, before a test to screen blood for the " virus became available. Only three were . infected by the first infusions. The total ¯ number of those infected rose to 59 in " 1982, 84 in 1983, 103 in 1984 and 114 in ". 1985. The pattern shows mosthemophili- ¯ acs had a natural but temporary resistatice .... to HIV infection, the researchers said. Faster HIV Test Recommended ATLANTA (AP) - Tony Braswell’s staff spends weeks, sometimes months, waiting for people Who took anonymous HIV tests to return for their test results. Many never show. "It’s an anonymous testing site. It’s not like you can call these people up and say ’Hey, your test came back positive. We need to talk to you,’ "said Braswell, executive director of AID Atlanta. The federal government recently recommended the use of a new HIV test that yields results instantly, making it possible for health workers to cut down on cases slipping through the cracks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated the new test would catch nearly 700,000 people a year, including 8,000 infected with HIV, who take the test but never return for results, said Bernard Branson, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC. Thereis a downside: A~additional 8,000 people would receive false-positive resuits, ~aid Branson, the chief architect Of the CDC;s recommendation. "It’s clearly a risk messing with people s psych~, telling them the,y are HIV,pOsltlve, he sm . "Bin ~b.:.u~h~i~O ask.whether the"beaefit outweighs~ ~e risk." " ’ Both the new and the old tests look for antibodies in the blood. But the traditional, one-week test also looks for specific protein bands that are considered the absolute indicator of HIV. The CDC estimated the false-positive rate of infections using 1995 data. The Bell Flower Clinic in Indianapolis has been using the rapid test for about a year, said Mary McKee, spokeswoman for the Marion County, Ind., health department. To combat false results, the clinic gives three quick HIV tests. If one or more comes back with a false-positive, a traditional bloo.d test is taken and the results are made available in about seven days, she said. "Most people felt it would be better to know.., because they could take the precautions they need to take with their partners", while they waited, Ms. McKee said. The’CDC said the use of the new tests should be based on a combination of factors: the prevalence of HIV in a community and return rates for test results. In cities where there is a high prevalence of HIV and a low return rate, the new tests should be used, Branson said. The new test is not publicly funded and costs S 10 to $25 at public clinics across the country. TraditiOnal AIDS tests at public clinics typically are free. Currently, only one rapid test has been approved by the FDA for use in clinics in the United States. The test, manufactured by Murex ofNorcross, Ga., takes about 10 minutes to determine whether the virus is present. Several other tests are awaiting FDA approval, Branson Said. . ClintonAide Favors :Needle Exchange SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Making a strong statement in favor of needle exchange programs, President Clinton’s AIDS adviser said 33 Americans contract the HIV virus through drug injections every day. ’q~hese are not numbers but real lives,’: Saiadra Thurmah said Wednesday ih a speech to the National AIDS UPDATE Conference. "I have cradled them in my arms, often in their last moments. I am. haunted by the responsibility to use my position,to do everything I can to stop this carnage. A congressional moratorium onfederal funding for local needle exchange programs expires at the end of March. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala then could order release of funds to commtmities that have programs exchanging clean needles for contaminated ones, a commonsource of the AIDS virus. Thurman has been lobbying Shalala to support such programs. Barry McCaffrey, head of the White House Office of National Drug Policy, opposes the programs, contending they promote drug use. Shalala has declined to recommend funding in the past, saying it needed more study. Shalala’s office did not return a telephone call seeking reaction to Thurman’s speech. Thurman’s comments were welcomed Thursday by Daniel Zingale of the advocacy group AIDS Action. The speech "sends a signal that the time is now to let locals get the dirty needles off the street," he said. 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Reparative Therapy Slammed in Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Some therapists contend unhappy, homosexuals can " _ ’abandon their lifestyle through so-called " "reparative" or conversion treatment, but ." a Utah social-work group says they ¯ shouldn’ t try. " In aunanimous affirmation ofa 2-year- ¯ old stance by its parent group, the Utah chapter of the National Association. of ¯ Social Workers has adopted a policy dis- " couragingreparative therapy. Thegroup’s ¯ state board found there is insufficient scientific data supporting the treatment. The ¯ American Psychological Association in " August also passed a resolution opposing ¯ reparative therapy. "Social stigmatization of lesbian, gay : and bisexual people is widespread and is : a primary motivating factor in leading ¯ some people to seek sexual orientation ¯ changes," the policy states. "Discomfort " about working with this population may " lead to inappropriate, ineffective and even ¯ damaging interventions by social work- ¯ ers." " Board president Joanne Yaffe said the ¯ action came after it received an anony- ¯ mous complaint, redirected from the national committee. "They toldus they knew " of Utah social workers who were practic- " ing reparative therapy and asked us what ¯ we were going to do about it," she said. ° The state chapter’s action was criti- " cized by such groups as Evergreen Inter- ¯ national and LDS Social Services. ’q’he , church’s licensed professional counselors take the position that thereis substan- ¯ tial evidence that individuals can dimin- ¯ ish their unwanted homosexual attraction -" and make changes in their lives," said " Mormonchurch spokesmanDonLeFevre. ¯ "The church and these professionals are : supportive of a person’s right to seek ¯ assistance in doing so." : Reparative or conversion therapy at- ¯ tempts to change homosexuals to heterosexuals, and has existed for more than a " century. Earlypracticesincorpomtedelec- ." tric shocks, castration, lobotomies and aversion therapy. Today, therapists instead use psychoanalytic, cognitive or behavioral therapy techniques to diminish or eliminate same-sex attraction. Critics contend the therapies have a 60- 70 percent failure rate, but supporters insist there is ampleproof thathomosexuals can change, or at least curb their behavior. NASW board member Shirley Cox, a Brigham Young University social-work professor and Evergreen Intemationa board member, said there is a distinction to be made between reparative therapy and what she calls "lifestyle-change" therapy. "Reparative therapy assumes people are broken and in need of repair. don’t believe that," she said. "But I will help people who want to live as heterosexuals. They have a right.to choose." Egergreen Executive Director David Pruden said NASW made itself "vulnerable when, as an organization, they become the arbiters of lifestyle decisions. What happens if something goes wrong because they have affirmed a certain lifestyle7’ Pruden said about 40% of the people served by his organization leave homosexuality entirely and about 30% diminish their homosexual behavior. ¯ US Supreme Court: Are HIV+ Disabled? WASHINGTON (AP) - In a major test of disability rights, Supreme Court justices sparred Monday over whether HIV-infected people should be considered disabled because of dangers involved in sex andchildbearing. The lawyer for Bangor, Maine, dentist Randon Bragdonargued that Bragdon did not illegally discriminate against anHIVinfected woman by refusing to treat her at his office. The patient, Sidney Abbott, suffers no AIDS symptoms and therefore is not protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act, said attorney John McCarthy. But Ms. Abbott’s lawyer said lower courts correctly found that Bragdon violated the law, which bars discrimination against the disabled in jobs, housing and public accommodations. The law - responsible for such aids as wheelchair ramps at countless public places - says people are disabled if they have aphysical or mental impairment that "substantially limits one or more major life activlties." HIV-infected people should always be considered disabled because the contagious andfatal nature ofacquiredimmune deficiency syndrome severely limits their ability to have sex and bear children, said Ms. Abbott’s attorney, Beunet,t hi. Klein. Some justices disputed whether HIV infection really creates such a limit. Justices David H. Souter and Antonin Scalia suggested an HIV-iufected person faces a "moral choice"rather than an actual physical limit on his ability to have children. "I’m not sure that’s what the statute is talking about," Souter said. However,JusticeAnthony M. Kennedy said that if .a person with highly iufectious tuberculosis stays away from other people, -"we don’t just call it a moral choice." Someone with bubonic plague would be considered disabled, added Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Bragdon’s lawyer said the disability law aims .to protect people whose disabilities affect their "day-to-day indepen,,dent living andeconomic self-sufficien~y, not HIV-infectedpeoplewhosufferno symptoms. ¯ The disability-rights law says disabled ¯ people can be treated differently if they : pose a"direct threat to the health or safety : of others." "Dr. Bragdon believes that ¯ when he provides a service in the face of ¯ the risk of death he should be allowed to ¯ take additional precautions" such as in- ¯, sisfing on filling Ms. Abbott’s cavity at a hospital, McCarthy said. ¯ However, Breyer said that "after 15 ¯ years andhundreds ofthousands ofdeaths" ¯ fromAIDS there appeared to be no docu- ¯ mentedcasesinwhichadenfistcaughtthe ¯ virus from a patient. "How can we say : here that your client exercised reasonable ¯ medical judgment.’?" Breyer asked ¯ McCarthy replied that there were seven ¯ possible cases of HIV transmission in ; dental procedures. ¯ Klein said that unless HIV-infected : people have clear protections under the ¯ law,many will hide the fact that they carry ¯ the virus. ¯ The court never has decided a case ¯ involving an HIV-related issue or the dis- " ability-bias law, signed in 1990 by Presi- ¯ dentBush. Adecisionis expected by July. ¯ Thejustices’rulingcouldprovidedues as ¯ to whether the law covers other kinds of ¯ disabilities, such as cases of epilepsy or ¯ diabetes that are controlled by medica- ¯ don. ¯ Titanic Necklace ¯ Raises $$ for AIDS ¯ BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -A 170- ¯ carat sapphire and diamond necklace ¯ modeled after a piece of jewelry in the movie ’q’itanic" sold for $2.2 miilion at a ¯ fundraiserheldinhonorofPfincessDiana. ¯ The black:fie Princess Ball was part of a gala to raise money for the Diana, Prin- . cess of Wales Memorial Fund and South- " era Califomia~s Aid for AIDS. The two charities will split the money. The neck- "¯ lace was valued at $3.5millionbefore the auction. The buyer was not identified. Volunteers Needed :f_or TU Study of ¯ Anti-Gay Violence .. Elana Newman, Ph.D., a clinical psy- ¯ chologist who joined the University of ¯ Tulsa faculty a year and half ago, is an ¯ expert in studying the impact of violence ¯ and post-traumatic stress disorder. In col- . laboration with her students, she is con- : ducting several studies regarding the psy- ." chological impact of sexual assault, as- : sault, hate-violence, workplace violence, ¯ accidents and natural disasters. ¯ Currently Dr. Newmanis collaborating ¯ with studeiats Tim Studebaker and Bradley Hunt on a study investigating the : impact of hate violence on psychological : heath and political beliefs. Gay, Lesbian, ~ Bisexual, Transgender, and Straight vol- ¯ unteers (both who have and have not : experienced hate violence) are needed to ¯ complete an anonymous and confidential ¯ survey. Not much is understood about ¯ hate violence and the results may help ¯ develop psychological treatment and ¯ policy for potential victims. Volunteers : can obtain a copy of this sensitive survey ¯ byleaving amessage with their name and ." address at 631-2031. Several studies onhate violence, sexual : assault and alcohol use are planned to ¯ begin in Fall 1998. Volunteers who are ¯, interested in participating in future stud- ," ies are encouraged to contact Dr. ¯ Newman"s research lab and leave their : name, phone number and address. by James Christjohn If you missed Betty Buckley’s concert, you missed a lot! She w~s in fine voice - and what avoice! The stateside originator of "Memory" from "Cats", she gave that song moremeauing than any of ~hose who have followedher. Andshe is one of afew performers who could make the vast caverns of the PAC seem like an intimate cabaret. She reminded me very much oflocal performer Susan McBay in her deceptively simple approach and enjoyment of the musicians playing with her. Having run the gamut from Broadway’ s"Pippin"toTV’s "eight Is Enough" to "Cats" to her most recent star turn as Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard,, she had a multitude of stories to tall. And "With One Look" will never be the same for me. No one can toUch her version. Her stories were witty as well - I really enjoyed the one in which she was in Pippin, and one’of the writers wrote a show called "’The Baket~.Wife" with her in mind for the lead. "’A show written for me! I was thrilled!". Unfortunately, the producer was unfamiliar with her work, so she had to audition. 9 times. She did not get the part. After many therapy sessions, in wfiich she acknowledged that she"was somewhatresentful andbitter", the thera- : genuinely get a sense of what itmust have ; been like to be on that ship. ¯ Having sailed on the Tomtanic, and : bumped into all kinds of icebergs but : miraculously never sinking completely, I ¯ could relate to the captain’s arrogant atti- ". tude that the ship was unsinkable and the ¯ White Star Line’s manager, Bruce Ismay, who according to some sources waved away all warmngs of ice that were coming in and urged for more speed. Not to mention that the ship and her Captain only had one day for testing and maneuvers, where six weeks was After her Friday Pops performance the norm. How ’could with theTulsaPhilharmonic, thefabu- the captain or any of the crew have "known lous Betty Buckley graciously met with Council Oak Men’s Chorale di- that the rudder was too rector, Rick Fortner and TFN Enter- small to turn the ship in tainment writer, James Christjohn. time?Andthatifthey’d ¯ hit the iceberg head on, the ship would have stayed afloat until " help came? The film does a really good ~ job of showing how such small decision ¯ can forever alter the course of history, . ." sending ripples through time. ¯ I will say that Cameron borrowed a ". trick or thr~e from the time travel film, ," "Somewhere in Time", starting Christo- ", pher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Particu- ¯ larlv at the end, but I’ll l~t you figure out ~ wh~t I mean by that. And if you’ve not ; seen "Somewh’ere.. "’, it’s well worth ~ renting. And "Tita~fic’" deserved the Os- ¯ cars it took home. So if you’ve resisted pist finally said "Claim the song from the : seeing ,it due~to the hyp~rinflated hype, show written for you - and get over it!" : don’t. It’s wall worth seeing. But ~o while And so, "The Meadowlark" became her ," you can still see it in surround sound s~gnature tune. (And a beautifully haunt- ¯ ~heatre~. That really’ puts youin filemiddle ing song itis, too.) After the Show, I was fortunate to share a moment or two with her, and to tell her how much I enjo.yed the show. She was very gracious. I went to "Titanic" late in. the game - just a few weeks ago. I was prepared to hate it and mock Jim Cameron for an budgetarily overinflated flop¯ Instead, what I saw amazed me. Despite my attitude going in, I was drawn into the story, and "’went down with the ship. "And even though I knew how they did the effects, I was still left with total astonishment at what the thousands of people behind the scenes worked so hard to create. In short, they put you on the ship - no mean feat. Now, I’m not a DeCaprio fan and tomy eyes, he was the weakest link in the film. He seemed too young to play the p~.t he did - and yes, I know he’s 25 and the character was 20. He still looks 15, and could not adequately convey a character who’d had a hard knock life and been all over the world as the Jack Dawson character had. Billy Zane portrays the villain of the piece, though if he showed up in my stateroom and showered me with jewels, I’d ~e, hard pressed to say no. I understand Rose s (Kate Winslet) repugnance all too wall. His h~.dsomeness andmanners were o~fly surface. And surface is’what the world saw. The reality in private was much different. Been there, dealt with that. He’s an easy character to hate - almost too easy, as the character tends toward stereotype. Although I’ve read about the Titanic many times as an historical event, and despite those flaws, the film does capture you and suck you in (or down?). You of the action. Blub. Just had the first "Follies Revue" Rehearsal, and it looks like it’ll be a ftm show. The dates are June 25-27, and I believe it’ll be at the-PAC again. Stay tuned for mtre details... TheCouncil Oak Men" s Choral~ (which was Council Oak Chorale, until someone pointed out that the acronym, COC, could be cause for some consternation. I was disappointed- imagine all the wonderftd fodder for this colunm it could have provided - pity.) performed to much applans~ at thePFLAG spaghetti supper last month. Mel White was the guest speaker, he also did well on the applause--o-meter. He’s a very good speaker, and makes some good points when it comes to what the religions wrong is all about. Scary stuff, that. ~ Anyway,COMCis in rehearsal now for ¯ a concert TBA. Rick Fortner, the fearless ¯ leader ofthislittlebandofvocalists,lhinks ~ perhaps May-endor June mightbe appro- : pilate. Details comc-ing soon. Broken Arrow Community Playhouse ~ presents "The Dresser", abackstage ~anee ¯ at lifein a3rdrate Britishtheatrical troupe ¯ in 1942, just when most touting companies (which took theatre all over Britain to ¯ small communities and grand dries in the ~ days. before film and television were as commonplaceas they are now) were fold- " ing due to the film industry’s takeover of ¯ entertainment. Performances run through ¯ April 5th at the BACP, 1800 Main St. For ¯ ticket info and reservations, call 258- ¯ 0077. ¯ Over at the Comedy Club, Jeff Dunham ¯ can be heard throwing his voice around. see Notes, page 10 PHILBROOK 749.7941 Visit Tuesday - Sunday adults $6.25, children 12 & under free Music on Exhibit IV At Philbrook Museum T U L S A PHILHARAAONIC Woodwind Quintet Brass Quintet String Quartet Music by Nielsen, Ewald, Brahms For tickets, call 747-7445 The University of Tulsa’s Bi sexual/Lesbian/Gay/TransgenderedAlliance presents on April 16 - 19 in Lorton Hall, the Tulsa Queer Film Festival Thursday, April 16 Saturday, April 18 9 45 She’s Safe 9:00 Nitrate Kisses 10:30 Blooclsisters Friday, April 17 7:00 Cruel 7:30 Boys’ Shorts 9:30 Wavelengths 10:00 Girl Talk 1:00-4:00 Feminist Films Girls Like Us Under the Skin Game ¯ My Feminism Real Indian 6:00 Rules of the Road 6:30 Elevation 7:00 Shinjuku Boys Sunday, April 19 1:00 Out at Work 2:00 Faggots Are For Burning Stop the Church 3:00 Thank God l’m a Lesbtan 8:00 Defying Gravity 4:00 Hide and Seek All.tim,s.and details ofschedule are tentative. IZ~yers will be Fosted closer to tl~ event. Ad donated by Tulsa Family Parish Church ofSt. Jerome Evangelical Anglican Church in America An Inclusive Anglican Community Holy Week Services Sunday - April 5th Blessing of the Palms - 11:00AM Maundy Thursday - April9th 7:00 PM Good Friday - April 10th Rosary - 6:30 PM Service - 7:00 PM Holy Saturday - April llth t Prayer Service - 10:00AM Liturgy of Light - 7:00PM~_ Easter Sunday - April 12th 11:00AM 205 West King Tulsa, OK (918) $82-308S The Rev. Canon Rick Hollingsworth, Pastor The Rev. Debbie Starnes, Deacon ~SUNDAYS Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Community of Hope. (United Methodist), Service - 6pm, 2545 S: Yale, 585-1800 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation Service - 11am, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595 Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist Service - 1lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314 Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church Service - 5pro, Childrens Minislry - 5pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715 Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America) Mass - 11am, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088 University~ of Tulsa BisexuaULesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance 6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780 ~" MONDAYS Council Oak Men’s Chorale, 7 pm, leave meSsage for more information: 743-4297 HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonym6us testing.. No appointment required. ,Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard) HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center 7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays 2nd Monieach mo. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pm, call Shawn 491-2036. Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 3/2, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder ~TUESDAYS AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 3/10, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder .HIV+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium l:30pm 3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), Info: Wanda @ 834-4194 Multicultural AIDS Coalition, 3/3, 12:30pm, Urban League, 240 East Apache Shanti-Tuisa, Inc. HIV!AIDS Support Group, and Friends & Family I-IiViAr~)S Support Group - 7 pm,-Locations, call: 627-2525 Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 743-4297 PrimeTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues/each mo., 7pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE) Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297 ~" WEDNESDAYS Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815 Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer = 6:30pro, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441 House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210 So. Norwood Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group For more information, call 582-7225, John at ext. 218, or Tommy at ext. 208 TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632. Lambda A-A, 7 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft. ~" THURSDAYS HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN) Support!social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325 From Our Hearts to Our House, 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/each mo. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194 ~ FRIDAYS SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group; 1 st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th Community Coffee House, varying dates, 7 pm, Pride Center, Info: 743:4297 ~ SATURDAYS ’ ...... Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community ofHope,1703 E. 2nd’i tnfo: 585=1800 Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E~ 38th, 2ndfl.. ¯ ~" OTHER GROUPS T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222. Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978 OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157 Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call orfax 583-4615. CHECK OUT THE LIBRARY! by Barry Hensley Tulsa City-County Library Incase youhaven’tchecked out the library in the last decade or so, it’s not just books anymore! Besides magazines (Advocate, Out, LambdaBook Report) and CDs (Melissa Etheridge,kdlang, EltonJohn, lots of Cole Porter), the library has some entertaining videos that are of interest to the gay and lesbian community. Newer films include: Philadelphia (1993): Ton~ Hanks won an Oscar for his portrayal of a lawyer with AIDS who is wrongly fired from his prestigious law firm. He sues, and wins, with the help of homophobic Denzel Washington. Celluloid Closet (1995):- Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this - is an overview of homosexualityin themovies andincludes interviews With Harvey Fierstein, Whoopi Goldberg andGore Vidal, among others. The Sum ofUs (1996): Stamng Russell ¯ Crowe (L.4. Confidential), this fun Aus- ¯ tralian filmrevolves around a well mean- " ing father who tries to help his son find In ease you haven’t eheeked out the llhrary in the last decade or so, it’s not just hooks anymore! Besides maffazlnes . . . and CDs . .. the library has some entertaining videos that are of interest to the Gay and Lesbian eommunlty. No, not screaming at the hecklers, but as one Of the fiinnlest ventriloquists around. Most of you might remember Peanut th~ Woozle, Walter the grumpy old man, and Jose thejalapeno from appearances on the Tonight Show and other talk shows, as well, as many of the comedy shows broadcast from comedy clubs onTV. Just named Stand-upComedian of the Year, again, at the American Comedy Awards, he’ll be doing 4 showshere in Tulsa at the Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis. For info, call 481-0558. Jerry Lee Lewis will be at Cain’s Ballroom April 17. Tickets available at Mohawk Music (51 & Sheridan, behind Wendys, 644-2951, or by calling 747- 0001~ Barbara Ariadne will be one of the featured photo~aphers in the npcoming Tulsa Photography Collective’s exhibit at Rogers University. These shows highlight some really goodlocal artists, so I would encourage you to take ajaunt out to Rogers ,for a coffee and a viewing. Barbara-~?photos are really beautiful images, and each one tells a story and will leave you thinking about what you’ve seen. She’ll bea talent to watch in coming years. Stevie’s tour dates just announced ! She will perform in Dallas July 17 at the Starplex, otherwise you can catch her in St. Louis at the Riverport Amphitheater on July 11, or in Kansas City at the SandstoneonJuly 11. Tickets available through ticketmaster, from $40 to $80. I remember paying $25 in 1982 to see Fleetwood ¯.. the Turner exhibit at Philbrook Museum vAll be ending on April 12. Don’t miss this exhibit whieh is the sole worldwide venue. Turner is considered the greatest British painter of the 19th century, and one of the monumental figures of Western painting. ; song’s about. Mr.Right. When A Kid is Gay (1995): Younglesbians and gays share their thoughts and feelings about their sexual orientation, families and the church. Classic older rifles include: La ,Cage aux Folles (1978): The original Birdcage, from France, which inspired the fabulousBroadway musical. How can you force a flamboyant drag queen to actlike John Wayne? Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971): Classic love mangle with handsome Murray Head caughtbetween Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch. Director John Schlesinger dared to include a male-to-male kiss in this groundbreaker. Videos check out from the library for three days and they’re free! (Fines, however, are $1 per day for videos.) Check for videos and CDs at die Media Center at the Cen- ¯¯ tral Library (596-7933) or contact your local libra@. ¯ Mac. The rimes, they have a-changed! ¯ The Stevie Nicks boxed set, EN- ¯ CHANTED, will be releaged on April 28, ¯ followed by an appearance On Letterman ¯ April 30. Then, she will release a newly ¯ recorded album in fall, with perhaps m~- ¯ other tour to follow that effort. And hopefully, all these things will occur when the publicists say they will. To quote Stevie, 1 Can’t Wait. As of right now, the first single from the boxed set is scheduled to be Reconsider Me. Since her music and lyrics eerily coincide "with happenings andcrises in my life, I can’t wait to hear what that ¯ Wayward Theatre Company will ¯ present THE BALTIMORE WALTZ on ¯ April 2-19in collaboration with the Dela- ¯ ware Playhouse. For more information, ¯ call 712-1511. ¯ The Thomas Moran exhibition will be ¯ continues through May 10 at Gilcrease ¯ ¯ Museum. But the Turner exhibit at Philbrook Museumwill be endingonApril ¯ 12. Don’t miss this exhibit which is the sole worldwide venue. Turner is considered the greatest British painter of the 19th century, and one of the monumental figures of Western painting. Tulsa Opera brings to a close its 50th anniversary season with Madama Butterfly onMay2,7 and9,1998 at the Perform- . ing Arts Center. General Director Carol I. ¯ Crawfordmadeher conducting debut with ¯ Butterfly when it was last performed in ¯ 1991. Maestra Crawford said "Madama ] Butterfly was the first grand opera the ¯ Companypresented (1953 -54), and seems ¯ ¯ a fit.ting conclusion t,,oTulsaOpera’s 50th anmversary season. Kelly Kirby CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional corporation April 15th .is all but upon us - call now! Lesbiatis and Gay menface many special tax situations whether single or as couples. Electronicfiling is availableforfaster refunds. 7 47 - 5.466 4021 S. Harvard, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 Wom en: At R.isk What’s Love Got to Do with It? An Evening for Advocates of Women’s Issues Premiere of a Melanie Spector Film April 16th, 5-7pm, All Souls, 2952 S. Peoria RSVP by April 15th: 585-5551 This advertisement donated by Tulsa Family News. Call 918-742-1971 or Toll Free 1-8OO-559-1558 Tulva & Nationwide Relocation Real.Estate Serv~ce~ At least now when you have a bad hair day, you’ll have a good reason why! Don Carlton Mitsubishi 46th & So, Memorial 665-6595 1998 Eclipse Spyder GS only$ 2 2, 76 7 Built HITSUBISHi HOTORS For Living.TM THE MUSEUM SHOP AT PHIL13ROOK 748.5304 by Jean-Pierre Lagrandbouche Tonight we dined with the Emperor. Yes, we were in Tulsa, and no, their Imperial Majesties, the Emperor Akiinto and the Empress Michiko, were not in town for an intimate little dinner party with Jean-Pierre. The little hovel in winch we live wouldhardly be suitable for entertaining the descendant of the goddess of the Sun and ins gracious partner. When amongst Polite Society in Japan, one can pay no greater compliment to one’s host or hostess than to compare the foodthe art- presented, with a meal fitfor the Emperor. And, while we’ve always found the susin at Fuji to be good, we were unprepared for the magnificent feast we were presented tonight. Japanese cuisine descends from an ancient and glorious heritage, stretching back a millennimn or two. Everything is carefully planned and executed with meticulous attention to detail as only the Japanese can do. Upon arriving at the restaurant, we were immediately welcomed and escorted to ot~r table in the large, open dining room. No sooner had we gotten settled in, then we were greeted by our waiter, who distributed hot washcloths to each diner, permitting them to cleanse their hands before dinner. Anassistantamred, bearing a small basket of warm shrimp chips - very light and airy cinps made of rice flour, flavored wi[h shrimp, colored inassorted pastels-, and fried to a crispy crunchiness. The menus are lengthy and detailed, and present offerings representative of the major varieues of Japanese cmsine. We had been to Fuji many, many tirnes before, but, for some reason, we had always made selections only from the long list’of sushi, sushi rolls, and sashimi. So, we asked our waiter to bring us ins choice ofdimmer, highlighting thenon-sushi items that we had not before tried in Tulsa. Mist soup arrived immediately. MisO, a soup made from fermented soybean paste, is a staple of the Japanese breakfast table and practically every other meal. Fuji ser~’es a mild, light-colored mist characteristic of the soups of Kyoto and Osaka, that also contained small cubes of tofu and bits of nori - sheets of dried seaweed. The soup arrives in a pretty, lidded bowl, and one partakes by sipping directly from the bowl. It was followed in qnick succession by the Japanese concession to American tastes, a salad oficeberg lettuce and a tomato wedge. It was garnished with little fried noodles and shav- !rigs of red cabbage, and dressed in an interesting sauce of ginger, sesame paste, and peanut oil It was now time for the appetizers, mad what an embarrassment of riches we received! First came the Hiya-Yakko Tofu, which was probably the only food we ate requiring an "advanced" palate. Twolarge wedges of cold, delicate, custard-like tofu were garnished with sliced scallions and grated ginger, and served with a gentle ginger-soy sauce. Yakitoriis alittle skewer of charcoaled cincken meat interspersed with onions and bell pepper, and served warm with tonkatsu sosu, a dark spicy Fu~i Japanese Cuisine and Sushi Bar 8226 East 71st Hours: Lunch . Mon. - Fri.,, 11:30 to 2: dinner 5:30-10, until 10:30 on Fridays. Sat. 11:30 to 10:30~ Sun. 11:30 to 9:30. Prices: Expensive to very expensive Pa,~anent: NIajorcredit cards Smohin~: Separate smokin~ section Alcohol: Fully licensed, including Japanese ~tems Ratin~: A list ¯ sauce similar ~o soy enriched with toma- ¯ toes and fruit. We also had exquisite ~ Sunomono: crab leg, sin-imp, octopus, " cucumber, and wakame (seaweed) lightly ¯ pickled in a sweet, bonito- flavored vinegar. " The next course was sashinfi. Many ¯ Americans are squeamish at the thought of eating "’raw fish" at a sushi bar, and nothing takes sushi eating to an extreme more than sashimi, winch is simply fish without the rice. When the Japanese eat seafood that has not been cooked, they do not eatjust any fish or sea creature that comes along. Strict standards of the highest quality and freshness are required. Fish and sea creatures for sushi mad sashimi are very expensive, and it is eaten uncooked to accentuate the crisp freshness, the delicate flavors and the wonderful textures of the dish. Our plate of sasinmi was artfully arranged with three slices each of wonderful, bright red tuna and the tender, .purple-tinged winte flesh of octopus tentacles, plus a mound of some of the most fabulous squid dredged in caviar that we have ever eaten. Often times, squid is a bi~ chew),, but this sashimi was so exquisitely delicate and fresh, that we ~isk nmning out of superlatives to describe the experience. The plate was also garnished with carved pieces of carrot and cucumber, and strewn with delicious young radish sprouts. Awordof education for thosewhohave never done the sushi experience is ~varranted for another item thatappears ou the plate with sushi and sashimi. There will almost always be a little ball or mass of green paste the Japanese call wasabi. Beware. Do not put the green paste into your mouth ~vithout proper preparation, or it will give you such an incredible rush that your sinuses will clear, the top of your head will feel as though it is coming off, your eyes will water, andyou will want to stop breathing. Wasabi is Japanese horseradish. It is a delicious condiment, but potentially fatal in novice hands ! On your table, you will find a little tiny bowl or plate. Put alittle of the wasabi on the plate (using your chopsticks, of course), and pour soy sauce into the bowl. Mix the two together until you make a thin sauce, winch you can make hotter or milder to your own tastes. When you eat your piece ofnigirisusin or your sasinmi, dip the fish in.to the sauce before conveying the whole pwce to your mouth. By this point in the meal, we were quite completely stuffed, but it was now time for the main course to arrive. Our waiter had selected two large salmon filets prepared in the Sinoyaku style ~ charl~roiled with sea saltand special spice,s, and served with a:ginger sauce. Tins salmon was unlike anything we had ever tast~l before, with an amazing, full-bodiedflavor, and it was so incredibly rich that we were unable to eat the entire, enormous serving. The salmon was accompanied by vegetable tempura and an artfully carCed anddissected fresh orange. Rice, ofcourse, was present throughout the meal. Truly, we had eaten so much, see Fuji, page 12 by LarnontLindstrorn." Nowadays everyone has his or her "culture." This one-time anthropological term ’ used to mean the system of knowledge ¯ sharedby members of a society. For an- ¯ thropologists, thus, thereis only one corn- " prehensive culture in the U.S. despite the : fact that American understandings of the ¯ world may be contested, variable, contra- " dictory, and negotiated. But for the rest of ¯ us, the term ’.~culmre" has become person- ¯ alized.Tormentedby 1990s worries about : losing, finding, building, eroding, establishing, proving, celebrating, andmarketing identity, wehave fervidly grasped this word to help make sense of who we are. (There are good reasons why personal identity in late 20th century America is such aheadache, but we can save those for another column.) This all has led to "Let a thousand cultures bloom." All over the country, we hear new talk of youth culture, gang culture, Chicano Culture,Black culture,White culture (no trailer-trashjokes, please) and, closer to home, Gay culmr~ and Lesbian culture. One could argue that all these are just minor components of an encompassing albeit multifaceted American culture. It is dear, though~ that we have taken to phrasing our individual distinctiveness and why we are special in a language of cmtur , and we struggle to defend the righteousness and honor of this particularized "~culmral" uniqueness. But I am not complaining about this recent popularization of anthropological jargon: The more cultures out there, the more wor,.k there is for us an,t,h,r,opologists! Thei’bi~~il6~ 6fadffon around academia as scholars debate whether or not some distinctly Gay culture, language, and lifestyle exist and, ifthey do, what exactly they are. Politically, too, there is the debate between those who believe that Gays are (or ought to be)just the same as everyone else with oneminor erotic difference, and those who argue that there.is a unique Gay sensibility.that should be celebrated, p.rotected, and passed along to upcotmng generations x, y, and z. I was thinking about difference - cultural or otherwise - when I stopped in Philadelphialastsnmmerto visitmy friend Lenny. Lenny is African-American, Gay, and deaf. If he wanted to talk that way, he surely could claim to have a few more cultures than most of us do. And there is somejustification to admit a distinct deaf culture, if one associates cultural boundaries with language difference. Lenny’s native language, like most deaf people, is American Sign Language (ASL). ASL has its own set of morphological and syntactic rules that are independent of English. Unlike most fashionable warnings ofmulticultural bewilderment, Lenay that watt,ere_.~apable ev~en to b~temptegt bythe~ eleeti0~.of~de.ssert’~, ~whidii~iuded tea~g~L~tg.gq~.a-~attered~an~d~- ~i cheesecake; ice. eream,~or banal_~.~:,/~ Several other noteworthy meniacategories are on Fuji’s long menu, including various teriyakied meats, nabemono dinners - stews for two cooked tableside - including sukiyaki, shabu-shabu, and yosenabe (thekitchenrequests eighthours advance notice for these fabulous specialties), and various meats prepared in the would be right if he wore a t-shirt marked with the ASL signs for, "You wouldn’t understand. It’s. a Deaf thing." Lermy’s command of written English grammar is spotty, but he is brilliant at negotiating the boundaries between deaf and hearing as wall as all the other boundaries (Gay/Straight; male/female; black’ white) that most of the rest of us also encounter daily. I first met Lenny several years ago as he made the rounds of a downtown Philadelphia dub with small notebook and pencil stub in hand. His bartalk took the form of short notes that he rapidly scrawled in his own version of English. (Lenny could scribble impressively fast.) He then handed over the notebook and pencil, and waited for a written response. Last summer I ran into Lenny again in a bar in New Hope, PA. He was the only deaf person there but was having a great time socializing with his hearing friends and,perhaps, arranging some more intimate date for that evening. It would be a challenge for many of us, I imagine, to scribble and make love at the same time. Lenny’s cross-cultural skills in navigating the deaf/hearing divide are much better than mine. He took me along to a club where Philadelphia’s deaf Gay community meets every second week or so. The room was crowded with people all vigorously signing among themselves. This was one of the oddest bar experiences I ever have had. No noise. No talk. No wild laughter or greetings yelled from across the room. Just a rich, silent chore- - ography of hand and ann gestures, a hushed language of bodies and the quiet motion- of faces." Unlike tae; the two or three other hearing people there knew ASL. One of them complained, though, that hewas getting a headache trying to make sense of the conversations around him since most people were holding drinks and were signing one-handedly. ’Although in unfamiliar territory, I still knew enough about Gay-American "bar culture" successfully to order a drink ("read.my lips, bartender, wwhiittte wwiirme") and otherwise not make a fool out of myself. As Americans living in the same society, even when our "cultural" differences are greatest (as between the Engh.sh-speaking hearing and the ASL-sigmng deaf), ¯ we still have a 1.ot in common. In fact, the various personal differences that we pur- ¯ sue, maintain, and today protect as cul- ¯ rural-like those asserted to exist between ¯ ¯ Gay and Straight-only can be recognized and made sense of as parts of the larger, ¯ American cultural whole. Lenny is deaf, ¯ but he is also Gay. He is black, but he is also African-American. Like all of us ¯ nowadays, Lenay is "multicnltural" (Gay plus whatever else), but only in the singu- ~ larly American sense of this word. ¯ agemono technique, which dusts themeat with special Japanese bread crumbs be- ~. fore deep-frying and serving with tonkatsu ¯ sauce. 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Well, for about $7.00 and a half hour of ti~ne and with some of those tools you rushed out and bought aftermy last colunto, you can have a qmet, efficient toilet. Now, that’s, something to contemplate! The plumbing section at Homo Depot or Builder’s Queer or any other hardware store will have a universal repair "kit that includes afloat and a rubber stopper. Yes, these are the mysterious ~vor’kihg parts of the toilet. You may now be nonplused. Don’t worn that the float The plumbing section at Homo Depot or Bu~/der~ ~eer or any other hardware store will have a universal repair kit that includes a float and a rubber stopper. Yes, these are the mysterious working parts d the toilet... Dolt worry that the float doesn’t look llke the one in your tank - you know, the copper rod with the little ~loaty thing attached. That was~ quite honestly, called the "’ball cock", so if I say your ball eoek is dripping. ~o~’t tahe it persona~|y. doesn’t lool~like the onein your tank- you ~ know, the copper rod with the little floaty dfing attached. That was, quite honestly, ~ called the "’ball cock", soif I say your ball ~ cock is dripping, don’t take it personally. ; They are a thing of the past, at least as far as plumbing is concerned. This should be all that you need, but it dqes prompt me to a standard warning - anytime you work on your plumbing, you may need to make extra trips for other parts you didn’t think you’d need. That’s because pipe fittings [to rust, and those nice little chrome water cut-offvalves under the tank have a bitchy way of just twisting off.when you try to shnt them off. But that isn’t always the case, so dick your heels together three tittles and wish real hard. The first step is to get your tools together. You’ll need an adjustable crescent wrench and a pair of channel lock pliers, and it doesn’t hurt to have a pipe wrench on hand, either. If you don’t have these tools or the task is too daunting already, find ahandy dyke, buy her some beer and cook her something fabulous and turn her loose. It’ll still be cheaper than the plumber. Have some paper towels or rags ready, because the toilet will leak, sometimeand somewhere. Next, turn off the water. Most of the time there is that chrome shut off valve under the tank and running into the wall, It probably hasn’t been moved in years, so expect some resistance (kind. of reminds m~ ofan ex. : .); you might have to wrap a rag around the handle and use your channel locks - gently! - and turn the handle counter-clockwise until it closes completely. If it doesn’t turn or, more likely, the handle twists off but the valve .doesn’t move, grab your keys and head for the hardware store - but we’ll address that in a little while. Assumang youhave successfully dosed the valve, flush the toilet to drain the tank and mop up the water remaining in the bottom of the tank. This will also get those nasty deposits out ofthe bottom that can cause problems later, so that’s aplus. Unclip the little hose that empties into that tube in the center of the tank, remove the ball cock (if you have one) or float assembly, and then comes the furl ~art: removing the vertical water supply line into your tank.. This is attached to the float assembly. You have to loosen a threaded collar on the bottom of the tank directly under that vertical inlet tube. Use your channel locks and remember that you’re working upside down and that it will unscrew the opposite of whatyou’dnormally expect. Well, it’s still counterclockwise to loosen, but only if you’re on your head. This is the time you’ll appreciate whether or not your toidy is in a tight spot or not. The cussing is directly proportionate to the amount of workspace you have. Welcome to Plumber’s World. rake the collar off, remove the veaical water supply tube and mop up the water on the floor. Replace it with thenew float device and tighten the collar over the bottom. It will have a new rubber or plastic tube that you clip onto the outlet pipe - pretty much opposile of the removal. You may have to adjust that "Tea cup" at the top of the float so you can put the toilet hdback on, but that s sxmp 3 accomplished by twisting itup or down as needed. You can also control the water level this way, but don’t get too chintzy with the water supply, or you’ll regret it. Reattach the water supply, from the shutoff up to the tank and you re ready for the next step. Now, remove the old rubber stopper that’s attached to the handle. Take the " ¯ little chain loose and then remove the ¯¯ flapper - it usually is attached to the stem of the outlet tube by a couple of little ¯ rubber or plastic ears and comes off eas- ¯ ily. The rubber on the flapper can be kind ¯ of slimy, so use a rag to hold it when ¯ you’re taking it off. Replace it with the ~ new flapper in the kit just the opposite of ¯ how youremovedit:Thelittlechainneeds ¯ abit of slack, but not toomuch or itwinds ¯ around the lever from the handle and the ¯ water will still run and annoy the hell out : of you. ¯ There are pretty good instructions on ¯ the pac,~ka~e, complete with illustrations, ¯ ~6don t feel too confused. However, the ¯ first kit I used forgot to tell me about that ¯ locking collar on the bottom of ther tank, ¯ and. was I one frustrated.lezzie until I : figured it out! If you’re still:uncomfort- ¯ able doing this job but are determined to ] learn, find someone patient enough to ¯ coach you while you do the work. It’s a ¯ great way to learn this stuff. ¯ If youhave troublewith the shutoffyou ¯ have two options - yell for help or replace ~ it yourself, This is where the pipe wrench come in handy. You have to be able to shut the terms of health care issues,"says Kate. Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Advocates have made gains in recent ~akears in getting the _m__edical,co~_n~_un~ty, to enotice. AtGayWomen s t~ocus, helping women who have been afraid to see a doctor or acknowledge their sexuality !s the priority. Robert G. Newman, premdent of the Greater Metropolitan Health Systems Inc., who proposed the clinic in 1994, says Lesbians have had "spe~.ial "difficulty accessing sensitive,compassionate care." A small sign reading "GWF"is theonly : marker outside the office at Beth Israel where Waitkevicz treats patients. ".We don’t want to label people coming in if that would be a barrier to getting treatment,"says Waitkevicz, who was a founding member of New York’s St. Mark’s Clinic, one of the first community- based clinics for Lesbians. "Wehave to be non-judgmental,"she says. Pat Troy and her partner began seeing Wai~evicz more than 16 years ago, after Troy s previous gynecologist molested her. "I was afraid to go to a male doctor after that,"she says. Experts say such stories are common. In addition, Lesbians may avoid doctors for fear they will be denied insurance coverage orbeforced to reveal their sexual orientation at work. "For some women it is still not completely safe to come out," says Marj Plumb, director ofpublicpolicy for San Francisco’s Gay and Lesbian - Medieval Association. According to a 1994 survey of members of the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, 67 percent of doctors and medical students said they knew of a Lesbian, Gay or bisexual patient who had received substandard care or been denied care because of sexual orientation. In the 1970s, independent Lesbian health clii~,cs began popping up in cities. But in the 80S, with the AIDS epidemic, activists’ focus shifted to AIDS advocacy, and interest in Lesbian health care waned. The bonds created in the fight against AIDS have helped, however."One thing the AIDS movement dirt was to expand from the self-help experience to an interaction with the health establishment;" Plumb said. "We said we are going to fightyouto treatus better,~learned the language and held our own. In addition to Beth Israel’s program, other recent de,v_elopments are! . - TheWomen s Health Initiative, a longterm study by the National Institutes of Health, will include-a question about sexual orientation on its questionnaire. The study of about 164,000 women is aimed at determining the effects of. diet andhormonereplacement therapy onheart disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and bone disease. - The National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine is preparing arep~,.rt addressing theneedforresearchonLesmans’ he~l~, and will review methods for studying the Lesbian population. - The American Medical Association has written policy.papers outlining the need for physicians to pay attention to Lesbians’ health issues. Such moves, says Waitkevicz, gives "those of us who want to teach professionals ontheimportance ofLesbianhealth the encouragement weneed to keep doing our jobs." water off at the curb; the valve for your main water supply is in the meter box by the curb and the bar on top of the valve needs to be turned 180 degrees to shut it off. You can use a large wrench, but you can buy a device called a water key that makes it easier; it has a long hand, which is nice if your meter box is full of questionablewater. They only costabout $8.00 and are priceless when you really need them, so consider investing in one. After turning off the water, flush the .oilet. If it fills back up, the main water isn’ t off and you’ll have to try again. If the rater is off, put some ra~s under the valve, grasp the pipe going into the wall with a pipe wrench and turn the collar of the valve with a crescent wrench. If the parts are rusted together, you can have a real wrestling match. Once the valve is off, remove the tube from the valve from the bottom of the toilet with the crescent wrench. Take everything tO the hardware store,handit tO thehapless clerkinplumbing and tell them you want ’q’his". Go ahead and get a new water inlet hose - you’ll be sorry later if you don’t. Also pick up a roll of the Teflon tape they sell in plumbing. Check out and cuss some more, because this is costing more than the replacement kit, but remember that the plumber wouldbe charging you labor, and that hurts. Back at home, wrap a couple of turns of Teflon tape clockwise around the threads on the pipe sticking out of the wall. Use your wrenches again to attach the shut-off valve snuggly in place; wrap the threaded end on the valve with Teflon tape and attach the water i...nl,et hose. Rule of thumb in plumbing - if it s threaded, us.e T.eflon, tape on it. This helps give a good sea] ana alsb makes it a lot easier if you have to remove these parts again in the future. Now you can proceed with your toilet repairs as above. Once everything is attached and snug, turn your water back on and admire your handiwork. Yonrll be flush with pride! Before thedecision, activists onboth sides agreedthatthepanel’s f’mding co.uld shape how 9.5 million Protestants interpret policy affecting Cmys and Lesbians. 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Two years ago,:i~: voting 577-378, these Methodist clergy’ : and lay members endorsed church policy ¯ that declared homosexuality incompat- ¯ ible with Christian teaching. ¯ Not all Gay Methodists think same-sex..~ ¯ unions are worth fighting for, Lawrence :/. ¯. said. As he noted, other issues of hate crimes and job discrimination may be ." more important. ... During Creech’s two-day inquiry in vo.t~d this way doesn’t mean the next one Keamey, even those presenting the church’s case exp.ressed overtones ofsupwill:’ one panelist, the Rev. M. Maniek :., port.!n an. 0Pemng.smtem_ent, the Re.v. Samuelofl(,linden~toldth~Om~h~aW,tbtl~l Herald. " lated current church policy-even though The decision, he added, is no authorization for more Methodist ministers to perform same-sex ceremonies. During the inquiry, Creech said he wouldcontinue to officiate at unity ceremonies, if asked. Butdespite whathe called"activetalk;’ the Rev. Bill Lawrence, a professor at Duke University studying the Methodist Stonewall 25 organizers pleaded that no national action take place before 1994..A call for indnsion of youth in the orgamz2 ing was made and a request tobe aware of the dates of the many women’s music festivals was voiced. Native American gays andlesbians explainedthat they could not participate in the fall of 1992 - the 500thauniversary ofthe survival ofindigenous cultures. And that is a very small sample. In 1998, all that expression and creativity has been silenced in one meeting between Perry, Birch, andTyler. They want to control the timing, message, andmoney associated with the Millennium March. They may achieve that. Butin the process, they’ll lose the movement. Arrogance is not the word. Only sheer contempt for democracy can describe their organizing style. Several national leaders authored letters distributed at the !991 meetings explaining why a march before 1994 was misguided. Where are their voices now? Some of the very same people have privately expressed their concerns about the Millennium March, but won’t do so publidy. Why?They’re afraid that in the year 2000, they’ll be on the outside looking .in.. - There shouldn’t be an outside. Orgamzpolicy may someday accept Gay unions. Support for Creech came from a retired bishop, who admitted that the church may need to reconsider its policy regarding homosexuals. "As I get older," observed the Rev. Kenneth Hicks of Little Rock, Ark., "it.burdens me to know that maybe the church needs to make a change." ing a national civil rights event without a grassroots "call" is exclusive no matter how much multicultural rhetoric they try to pour over it. But its worse than that. Birch is smart enough toknow that Barney Frank is right when he says that big marches do nothing politically for the community. All that stuff about the political benefits of being in Washington before the dection is a lie. Birch wants her Millennium March so she can get her 1,000,000 members and the associated loot. Grassroots democracy mightproduce 50 state marches. Bigbummer for Birch. In a recent Out magazine article, Birch responds to her critics by saying, "Imagine what you would have done if three years ago you woke up and found that someone had handed you the movement. .. I’ll bet that you would have made most of the decisions I made."It’ s time to wake up again. It’ s not your movement~.We can help. : Billy Hileman is a Pittsburg-based activist and was one offour national cochair" sfor the ’93 March :on~Washt~zgton. record, listen & respond to ads FREE! Simple and direct. Find the man you need by listening to hot ads. Make the right call!sM 918-592-5959 USE ACCESS CODE: 9105 www.confidentialconnection.com Jusl $2.49 per minule for certain opllonal features. 18+. Movo Media, Inc does not prescreen callers and takes no responsibilily for personal meetln_~.s. 800-825-1598 ©1998 Movo Media, Inc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [1998] Tulsa Family News, April 1998; Volume 5, Issue 4 Subject The topic of the resource Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities. Description An account of the resource Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9). The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level. This document is available in searchable PDF attached. It is also available to be seen at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center with permission. 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