1 20 1 https://history.okeq.org/files/original/82c6bc53156222a59e4bfb3920b1a22d.jpg 706d49f86f9f342789d5a645df62a793 https://history.okeq.org/files/original/32ca4a3a98a45ae543ce906666a1d233.pdf 5e8c61f02a3bf70e64604cb0f08a21b5 PDF Text Text ¯ Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends ! 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. 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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. The e~ and commercial services, such library does have afilter which as CompuServe. There is a [or will block the sex sites, but scathing chapter on America you can still access Gay and .Online (AOL). and some of Lesbian sites for news, travel, politics .and their past problems with the Gay commu~ several sites on coming out. Check for Get nity. For youth, there is ~o~mation on On with It, and be sure to ask about the some young adult sites, such as Youth free intemet access at local libraries. Action Online and OutProud! The Advo- FRESH RAINBOW TROUT IGTA member Call 341.6866 international Tours :ormoreinformation. of Eureka Springs Voted Number One in Arkansas! (501) 253-680Z Closed Wednesday 5 Center Street, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 f.t move. ¯ that HGChas been acceptedinto the Tulsaby James Christjohn Oklahoma City singer Julia Robinson : area UnitedWay family of organizations. 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The exhibit, couldn’t get any better," says ’cherry on top.’ never before seen outside of Sandy Eades, owner of OklaHillwood museum in D.C., homa City’s Sandman’s CofIt ~ust couldn’t runs September 6 - November fee Grounds. ~et any better," 1. Sunday September 13 at Robinson has been singing 2pro, the Archduke Geza von says Sandy professionally for more .than HabSburg will lecture on Peter three, years. She has a voice Eade~, Carl Faberge and the Hillwood often compared to Anita Baker San,l~an’s Collection. On Saturday, Sepwith the ability to touch the very soul of her audience. Coffee Grounds. tember 26 at 6:30pm, Janet and Jack Zinc will host the James is an Oklahoma City favorite with a style of comedy that brings ¯ Philbrook Gala, and evening in the spirit tears-of laughter while delighting both ¯ of MM Post. On Sunday, October 4 at 2pm, a lecture Lesbians and Gay men. Her rantings on : "How to Tell if You,re a Lesbian,’" are ¯ entitled "Marjorie Merriweather post: what legends are made of. For more infor- ; Collector with a Passion for Beauty" will mation, contact Jeff James Productions, : be given by Frederick J. Fisher, director ¯ of Hillbrook Museum. Thursday, Octo405~755-4916. Ken Johnston supervis~xl the produc- ~ bet 29 at 6pm, Anne Odom will present tion of a series of notecards to be sold to ~ "A Taste for Splendor: Luxury Art in benefit Tulsa’s only nonprofit hospice ~ Imperial Russia". Info: 748-5330. The first show of the Tulsa Ballet’ s new organization, Hospice of Green Country ¯ (HGC). His artwork is featured on one of ; season is Cinderella intoning September the cards. These cards are premiering this : 18 - 20, for tix call 749-6006. The next September, to coincide with HGC’ s 1 lth ¯ production will be "Death & The Maiden", anniversary. Hospice is also announcing ¯ October 30 - Nov 1. e owd pb. ers. 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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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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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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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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 all€tess. 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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