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Ohio Anti-Gay Case Wins
CINCINNATI (AP) - A federal appeals court cleared
the way for the city to deny anti-discrimination protections
based on sexual orientation. The 6th U.S. Circuit
Court 6fAppeals affirmed an earlierruling that allowed
CincJnnati to implement a 1993 voter-approved amendment
to the city charter barring enactment or enforcement
of any law aimed at ending bias based on sexual
orientation. The U.S. Supreme Court had ordered the
appeals judges to restudy the matter in light of a high
court decision striking down a Colorado civil rights
measure last year. "It’s a big win for us," said attorney
Karl Kadon III, for Cincinnati assistant city solicitor.
"Flee whole case is about the right of people to decide
what their government can do," he said.
Patricia Logue, a Chicago attorney for the Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund, which advocates
for civil rights for Lesbians and Gay men, called the
ruling indefensible, the result of "very specious reasonidg."
’q’his is a renegade decision approving a done of
the Colorado ballotmeasure thrown outby the Supreme
Court," she said.
Gay civil rights advocates sued over the charter
amendment, contending that the.~measure.unlawfulty
thwarted their political participation. U.S. District Judge
S. Arthur Spiegel ruled in 1994 that the amendment was
unconstitutionally vague and violated the free-speech
and equal-protection rights of homosexuals.
The following year, a three-judge panel of the appeals
court reversed Spiegel’s decision, saying Gays were not
an identifiable group and could not be entitled to specific
legal protection. The court said that unlike skin
color, Gays generally are not identifiable unless they
choose to be "by conduct, such as public displays of
homosexual affection."
Col. Cammermeyer May
Run for US Congress
LANGLEY, Wash. (AP) - Retired Army Col.
Margarethe Cammermeyer, who once called hersdf
"one of the most famous Lesbians in the country," is
thinking about a run for Congress. The Democrat, who
drew national attention with her successful fight to stay
in the Washington National Guarddespite themilitary’s
policy of discharging homosexuals, says she is mulling
a challenge of two-term Republican Rep. Jack Metcalf.
The 2nd Districl includes western Washington from
Everett, north of Seattle, to the Canadian border.
Cammenneyer, 55, recently retired from the military
and lives with her partner, Diane Divelbess on Whidbey
Island.
The decorated Vietnam veteran was fired in 1992
after disclosing her sexual orientation in a 1989 interview
for a top-secret security clearance, see Col.p. 3
Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgender l Tulsane, Our Familie + Friends
Tulse’s Largest Circulation CommunityPaperAvailable In More Than 65 City Locations ¯¯ Nationally N oted Lesbian
Lawyer to Speak in Tulsa
Ruth Harlow
¯ TULSA - Ruth Harlow will be the featured speaker at the Nov.
: 6th Tulsa Kick-off and reception for the Oklahoma Lesbian and
¯ Gay Lawyers Association (OLGLA) to’be
held at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel
¯ beginning at 6:15 pro. Harlow is a nation-
" ally respected attorney for Lambda Legal
¯ Defense and Education Fund, one of the
~ oldest Lesbian~and Gay advocacy organi-
: zations in the US. The reception is open to
~ all free of charge. Attorneys are encouraged
to join OLGLA for an annual mem-.
i bership fee of $50
~ Lambda is heavily involved in helping
." to litigate the Hawaii same gender mar-
- riage court cases and has been involved in most major US legal
’. battles involving Lesbian and Gay civil rights issues, ranging
: from parenting to military to employment and housing cases.
." Harlow has served as managing attorney on cases such as
¯ Shahar vs. Bowers in which a Lesbian attorney~sued the Georgia
." State attorney general, Michael Bowers. Bowers had offered
: Robin Shahar a job and then withdrew the offer after it became
.- publically known that she and her partner were to have a private,
: religious marriage ceremony.
¯ Atty. Gen. Bowers cited the ceremony as an indication that
". Shahar would break the Georgia sodorny law which he defended
¯ successfully at the US Supreme~.Later Bowers admitted to
¯" having had an adulterous affair which is also illegal under
," Georgia statutes.
~ Harlow was graduated from Stanford University in 1983 and
¯ from Yale Law School in 1986. She also was the author of an
-" amicus briefwhoseconceptthe Courts used to overturn Colorado’ s
~ Amendment 2 in Romer v. Evans. Prior to joining Lambda,
¯ Harlow was staff counsel and then Associate Director for the
~ American Civil Liberties Union’s Lesbian and Gay Rights and
¯" AIDS projects.
: OLGLA which began~ last summer in Oklahoma City, is
: begimting a membership drive in Tulsa with this event, and is
,- promoting continuing legal education programs (CLE) on issues
. Concerning Lesbian~ ~it] Gay men ~ see Harlow, phge 3
i "Friend of Bill" David Mixner
: Wows OKC’s Cimarron Alliance
by Tom Neal
OKLAHOMA CITY - You know that you’re in the presence of
someone who’s lived and breathed politics for many years when
you overhear him say that the last time he was in Oklahoma City
w~ with Bobby Kennedy. But that’s what David Mixner, former
semor advisor to Pres. Clinton said. Mind you, you have to think
that Mixner must have gotten involved in politics very, very
young because he doesn’t seem old enough to have been that
active in 1968. However, when you listen to what he has to say
you realize that he’s been at the table with most of the major
Democratic leaders of the US since the late 60’s. Mixner was
active in the campaigns of former Los Angeles Mayor Bradley,
Sen. Gary Hart, and of course, Bill Clinton.
Mixner was in Oklahoma City on Oct~ 18 to speak to the
Cimarron Alliance, a political action committee designed to
bring about equal rights for everyone- see Mixner, page 14
TFN Publisher to Run for
City Council District 4
by Josh Whetsell
TULSA - In 1974, the first two openly
Gay persons were elected to public office.
To date, Tulsa has yet to elect an openly
Gay candidate, butTom Neal says that it is
time for that to change.
Neal, 40-year-old publisher of Tulsa
Family News and civil fights activist, has
announced his interest in running for the
District Four seat on the Tulsa City Council.
The seat is currently held by Gary
Watts who has announced he is not running again.
"I am not running as a"Gay candidate", but as a candidate who
is Gay, just as I’m also a candidate who goes to a North Tulsa
church, and I’m a small business owner" Neal said. His own
experience facing discrimination, however, is what has made
him sensitive to issues of discrimination see Neal. oa~e 13
:Benefits for Federal
Employees Proposed
¯ WASHINGTON DC - At a Capitol Hill press
¯ conference on October 29, 1997, Representative
¯ Barney Frank (D-M.A), together with 14 other lead
¯ co-sponsors, introduced legislation to make do-
- mestic partnership benefits available to federal
¯ employees. Some sponsors of the bill are Con-
. gresswomen NitaLowey (D-MA), Elizabeth Furse
¯ (D-OR), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Bob
¯ Filner (D-CA).
¯ Under Representative Frank’ s proposal, the do-
" mestic partner of a federal employee would be
¯ eligible for benefits in the same manner and to the
¯ same extent as the spouse of a federal employee.
; The term"domesticpartner"is defined to mean"an
¯ adultperson living with, but not married to, another
: adult person in a committed, intimate relationship."
¯" This eligibility would extend to retirement beni
efits, health insurance, life insurance and compen-
¯ sation for work injuries. To be eligible, same or
~ opposite sex couples wonldfile an affidavit certifysee
Frank, page 13
i HIVRC Moving
: TULSA-TheHIV Resource Consortium (HIVRC)
: spent the last part of October moving across town
¯ to its new home at 3507 East Admiral, just east of
~ Harvard. According to executive director, Sharon
¯ Thoele, the HIVRC had been at its South Harvard
~ location for 5 or 6 years, having moved there from
"- a Skelly Drive temporary office near the Visiting
Nurse Association.
Thoele noted that the organization was faced
with a significant increase m rent if it were to stay
in the same location. After looking all across the
city, the former AFL-CIO building seemed the best
fit. However, the building, required some renovation
to bring it up to current see HIVRC, page 3
ii iHnlV CWenestet r OTpuelnsas
¯ WEST TULSA, OK - Bruce Begley is standing in
: his dream come true- a support center for persons
~ affected or infected with HIV and living with
¯ AIDS. The tiny looking storefront which houses
." the HIV Education and Recreation Center near
." Mark Twain School in West Tulsa (almost in Sand
¯ Springs) actually is larger than it appears. The
~ Center, which has been open now for two months,
~ has a lounge with pool table, tiny work-out area as
¯" well as office, kitchen, bathing and sleeping spaces.
¯ Begley notes that there is one bedroom available
: for those who need short-term emergency housing.
: Much of the renovation on the space which for-
." merly housed Neighbors Along the Line, another
west Tulsa social services agency, was done by
Begley, and other volunteers.
Volunteers have come forward to help with a
number of needs. Marlene who helps as a receptionist
is often joined by .her morn, Frances who is
identifying compassionate see HIVER, page 3
World A.IDS Da.y March
Memorial Serwceto Be i&n
Brookside, at All Souls
InterfaithAIDS Ministries (IAM) will hold the 8th
annual Candldight March & Memorial service on
Mon., Dec. 1st. Marchers will gather at 6pro at
Southminster Presbyterian Church Parking Lot
.(35th & Peoria) and will march at 6:30 to All Souls
Unitarian, 2952 So. Peoria, for the service at about
7pm. Marchers are encouraged to bring bells and
group banners. Candles will be provided. I_AM also
needs phone volunteers to provide telephone supportfor
those affected by HIV/AIDS and to support
the 24 info. line: 438-2437.
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants ~
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston
*Blue Room, 606 S. Elgin
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
*JJ’ S Country&Western Dance Club, 6328 S. Peoria
*Jason’s Dell, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*The Palate Cafe & Catering, 3324G E. 31st
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st
*Samson & Delilah Restaurant, 10 E. Fifth
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
*TNT’s, 2114S. Memorial
*Tool BOX, 1338 E. 3rd
*Umbertos Pizzeria, 21st west of Harvard
832-1269
592-2143
592-2583
744-0896
583-6666
749-4511
585-3134
712-2119
599-7777
749-1563
745-9899
745-9998
585-2221
834-4234
585-3405
584-1308
599-9999
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 747-1508
~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
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313
Don Carlton Honda, 4141 S. Memorial 622-3636
Don Carlton Mitsubishi, 46th & Memorial 665-6595
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
*Daisy Exchange, E. 15th 746-0440
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337, 712-9379
*Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
*Gloria Jean’s GourmetCoffee, 17.58 E. 21st 742-1460
Leanne M. Gross, Southwest Financial Planning 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
*International Tours 341-6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th 712-2750
*Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018
David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236
*Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, PUB 14011, 74159 747-5466
Langley Agency & Salon, 1316 E. 36th PI. 749-5533
Laredo Crossing, 1519 E. 15th 585-1555
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951
*Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672
*Peace of Mind BookStore, 1401E. 15 - 583-1090
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2rid floor 743-4297
Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo 838-7626
Rainbowzon the River B+B, PUB 696, 74101 747-5932
Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617
Scott Robison’s Prescriptions, see ad for 3 locations, 743-2351
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921, 747-4746
Christophe~Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 582-7748
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
*Sedona Health Foods, 8220 S Harvard 481-0201
*Sophronia’s Antiques, 1515 E. 15 592-2887
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017
*Trizza’s Pots, 1448 S. Delaware 743-7687
*Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767
Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & Universities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, PUB 1071., 74101-1071 579-9593
*All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363
Black & White, Inc. PUB 14001, Tulsa 7415.9 587-7314
Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E 6 583-7815
*B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence
*CommtmityofHopeUnitedMethodist, 1703 E. 2nd 585-1800
918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, PUB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159
e-mail: TuisaNews@earthlink~ net
website: http://users.aol.eom/TulsaNews/
Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal
Entertainment Diva + Mao Guru: James Christjohn
Writem + contributorS: Leanne Gross, Barry Hensley, Jean-Pierre
Legrandbouehe, Lamont Linstrom, Kerry Lobel, Judy
McCormick. Josh Whetsell, Meml~r o! The Associated Press
Issued on or before the 1 st of each month, the entire contents Of this
~9blieation are protected byUS copyright 1997 by 7"~
Nc~u~ and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part withoilt
written permission from the publisher..Publication of a name or
photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Cor~espon-
:¯ dence is assumed to befor publication unless_otherwise noted, must
_be signed & becomes the sole property of Td~t ~:~.’.
.¯ Each reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at. distribution
¯ points. Additional eo.pies are available by calling 583,1248.
¯
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
." *ChurehoftheRestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood ’587-1314
." *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457
¯ Dignity/Integrity-Lesbian/Gay Catholics/Episcopal. 298-4648
¯ *Family. of Faith MCC, .5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441
¯Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777
: *Free Spirit Women’s Center, Call forlocation &info: 587-4669
¯ Friend For A Friend, PUB 52344, 74152 747-6827 ¯
Friends in Unity Social Org, PUB 8542, 74101 582-0438
: *HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd: 583-661.1
¯ *HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral 834-4194 ¯
HOPE (TOHR), HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
: 1307 E. 38, 2nd fl. 712-1600, HOPE/TOHR Anonymous
¯ HIV Testing Site, Mon/Thurs. eve. 7-9pm, call 834-8378
¯ TNAAPP(Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225
: Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
¯ *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N: Maplewood 838-1715
NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-I 748-3111
¯" NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, PUB 14068, 74159 365-5658
: OK Spokes Club (bicycling), PUB 9165, 74157
¯Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 584-7960
PFLAG , PUB 52800, 74152 749-4901
: *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S, Peoria 587-7674
¯ *The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 743-4297 ¯ Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152
¯R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195
,¯ Rainbow BusinessGuild, PUB 4106, 74159 665-5174
*Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 584-2325
¯ O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults
¯ O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth
¯ St. Aidan’ sEpiscopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 425-7882
St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 3841 S. Peoria 742-6227
¯ *Shanti Hotline & HIV/AIDS Services 749-7898
¯ Trinity Episcopal Church, 501 S. Cincinnati 582-4128
¯ Tulsa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 595:4105
¯ Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only
: Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297
¯ T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222
¯Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule
: *Tulsa Community College Campuses
¯ .*Rogers University (formerly UCT)
: BARTLESVILLE
¯ *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353
¯ NORMAN
¯ *Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907
OKLAHOMA CITY
: *Borders Books&Music, 3209NWExpressway 405-848-2667
: TAHLEQUAH
¯ *Stonewall League; cailfor information: 918-456-7900
¯ *TahlequahUnitarian-UniversalistChurch 918-456-7900 ¯
*Green Country AIDS Coalition, PUB 1570 918-453-9360 ¯ NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand
¯ HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for date
: EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
¯" *Autunm Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23
¯ *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main
DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St.
*Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St.
¯ MCC of the Living Spring
¯ Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, PUB 429
¯
Positive Idea Marketing Plans
¯ Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East
¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
*Edna’ s, 9S. School Ave.
501-253-7734
501-253-7457
50 1-253-6807
501-253-5445
501-253-9337
501-253-2776
501-624-6646
501-253-6001
501-442-2845
indicates a distribution point. Listed businesses are not all Gay-owned
but welcome Lesbian/Gay/Bi & Trans communities.
by Kerry Lobel, executive director
¯ National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
¯ Recently, I traveled the middle of the
." country to discuss the state of violence
¯ directed against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
: and Transgendered people in America.
¯ These town meetings took me to seven
¯ cities in three weeks for a series offorums
¯ on hate crimes.
¯ FromWichita andLawren~Kansas to
¯ Nashville, Tennessee to Oklahoma City
¯ and Tulsa,-Oklahoma to Little Rock, Ar-
¯ kansas an~ilto Detroit,. Michigan, dozens
ofGay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trausgenderedactivists
and our allies gathered to
¯ tell stories of hate crimes and stories of
: survival.
Every town shared similar themes. As
¯ Gay, :Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered
¯ and questioning youth come to visibility,
¯ their, school districts have been ill-
: equipped to counsel them or ensure their
¯ safety. As communities become more or-
, ganized and open, violence is still never
¯ far from our lives.
- In Oklahoma City, fourteen-year Eli
¯ told the story of daily harassment that had
¯ led him to drop out of school. Now in an
alternative school, his new principal told
¯ him that he’ll be fine as long as he acts
: "normal." His hope comes from his asso-
¯ ciation with a youth group that provides ¯
comfort and offers strategies for survival..
¯ - In Little Rock, Carolyn Wagner told
¯ the story ofher son’ s abuse at thehands of ¯
¯ schoolmates and an indifferent school
administration. Her son is now bein~
: schooled at home, but the school district
: just recently changed its policy to make
¯ more options available to young victims
: of hate.crimes.
: - Emporia State University and Univer-
¯ sity 0f Tulsa students have organized a ¯
campus organizati6n for Gay, Lesbian,
¯ Bisexual and Transgendered students.
¯ Safety zone stickers mark the offices of
, faculty, staff, and the student newspaper.
¯ In trouble? Offices that bear the stickers
: provide safe haven and counsel. Many
¯" Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgen-
¯ deredpeopledon’tfeel thatthey cancount ¯
on thepolice to investigate and report hate
¯ crimes or city prosecutors to charge the
¯ crime to the fullest extent allowed by law. ¯
Police and prosecutors are often under
¯
trained about hate crimes.
: - In Tulsa, two men were brutally vic-
: timized by three attackers. Their injuries
¯ required stitches and one man had facial
¯ bones broken. Whilethepolicewerequick
: to respond, city prosecutors filed the case
: as a simple misdemeanor. Local attorneys
¯ are attempting to intervene.
: - InLawrence, an egg was thrown at a
¯" woman standing in front of a gay club:
She was called a dyke by her attacker.
: Police on the scene recorded the incident,
but not as ahate crime because there was
"not enough evidence." The Police Chief
has asked for help getting training for his
department.
In every town, nearly every participant
had been either the victim of a hate crime
or knew someone that had. Yet the number
of documented hate crimes is woefully
low. see Heartland, page 3
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NAMES PRO~ECT vohbiiee~S’dwait the-clo~ing cer- " " Jonathan Stanley joins Kenneth Benton ofOKC’sFirst
emonyoftheOctobd~’sAiDSMemtrial (~filt:~hOwing at Unitarian Church after Benton spoke at Community
the Tulsa Fai~’~Grounds;, " ....... " " " Unitarian Universalist Church.
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y,ear’~ AIDS Walk, Wal.k for IJfe:~DediaaibdJ~DOg
held hbr :own leash to me amiisementofrnany,~alk~:~
Thepowerful closing ceremonyfor The Quilt, although
lightly attended, featured native American drumming
and chanting as well as other singers and volunteers.
Frank Nowicki, Mid-Atlantic Leather ’93 mceed Oklahoma
Mr. Leather 1998 and is seen with two contestants.
Police and prosecutors are under trained and community "
members feel unsafe about reporting hate crimes to them. "
All too often, victims who spoke at these meetings
blamed themselves for the crime or felt that others in our
commtmity would judge them for being in the wrong "
place at the wrong time. Fortunately, community centers, ¯
anti-violence projects and other community orgamza- ¯
tions have stepped up to provide safety education as well "
as resources to victims of hate crimes. "
Hates crime laws provide some of our country’s best
hopes for coalition building across race, national origin, ¯
religion, gender and sexual orientation. Yet, each state on ¯
our tour lacked a hate crimes law altogether or one that ¯
includes sexual orientation. It is NGLTF’s hope that :
before the year 2000 every state will set publicpolicy that ¯
makes it dear that hate crimes will not be tolerated in any
city or any state.
Half-way: through.the trip~ I found myself~standing on. ".
the site of the Oklahoma City bombing. The city-blockis ¯
leveled now and surrounded by a tall chain link fence. :
The fence is lined with stuffed animals, poignant notes, "
and t-shirts and license plates bearing tributes from
around the country. It is amonument that pays respect to ."
lives lost as well as one that is filled with hope and "
courage. What touched me were the oaths, many from ¯
children, pledging to work for a better world.
We’ve each seen the price our society has paid for "
hatred. And it’s time for each of us to commit ourselves "
to a world that values safety and respects difference. For ¯
those in states without any hate crimes laws or laws that
do not include sexual orientation, we must work to pass :
inclusive hate crimes laws. For those in states that have
hate crimes laws we must engage in the political process,
we must continue to work for change so that these laws ¯
remain meaningful.
Kerry Lobel ofthe National Gay &Lesbian Task Force ts
flanked at a reception at the Pride Center by Center
volunteer, Tony and Center president, Tom Neal.
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church has
welcomed the Rev. Sherry Hilliard asinterim pastor.
standards and to fit the needs of the HIVRC. Much of the
renovation work was done after hours by HIVRC staff
and volunteers.
In this building, unlike the old site, all parts of the HIV
RC are under one roof and are entered through one door.
For Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights HOPE HIV
Testing Clinic this means greater privacy for those being
tested, since the waiting room is no longer outside the
testing rooms. Also, individuals who have been tested
and who may be distraught will have the ability to leave
discreetly from a rear entrance.
The new building will also house the HIV RC Food
Pantry which is run by volunteer Claudette Peterson, as
well as offices for the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network
care programs for HIV treatment drugs.
B.egleymakes apoint to statethat theHIVERCdoes not
receive any state or federal funds. It’s supported just by
private donations, his and his partner’s and others. He
hopes that others will come to see the project and will
both share and support his dream. The center is seeking
sponsors who will make monthly donations Of $15, 20 or
25 a month.
Begley who has been publically critical of other HIV
care programs in the past, adds that he and his volunteers
are working with other organizations like the HIV Resource
Consortiumand Shanti to share information and to
do referrals as is appropriate.
The HIV Education and Recreation Center typically is
openfrom 12:30 to 9pro or 10 depending on the night. For
more information on the programs, call 583-6611.
Gaycivil rights andAIDSactivist, JimmyFlowers, shows
offhis new marching sign at Walk for Life. Local band,
Jiffy Trip is seen performing prior to the Walk.
The NAMES PROJECT volunteers joined marchersfor
Walk for Life along Riverside Drive.
A federal judge later ordered her reinstatement and the
government did not appeal. Her battle resulted in a bestselling
book and a TV movie starring Glenn Close.
Cammermeyer is co-chair of the campaign for Initiative
677, the state ballot measure to ban employment
discrimination based on sexual orientation. She said she
¯¯ willmake no final decision on her congressional bid until
after next month’s election. If elected to Congress next
¯ year, Cammermeyer said she would not be a spokes-
" woman just for Gays.
¯ "If you look at what I have focused on the last seven ¯
years, it is not Gays and Lesbians-it is discrimination. It
¯ is civil rights for individuals," she said. "If peop_l~e make
¯ you an icon, it is their stuff.- it is not mine. I have never
¯" been caught up with organizations. I am a person con-
" cerned withissues... I wouldgo to Washington, D.C.,not
: to represent me,-but the 2rid District."
~ She said she anticipates some hostile encounters. "My
¯¯ .lob ~s not to change anyone s rehg~ous behefs or stands,
she said. "People have an absolute right to their convic-
¯ ti0ns. Bu.t when their beliefs infringe 0n..anotherper.son~s
¯ civil rights, I must challenge that. Civil rights are fundamental
to America."
and their families, and hopes to conduct a survey ofTulsa
and Oklahoma City law firms concerning their nondiscrimination
and employment practices, among other
goals. Its mission is to promote equality in and through
the legal profession and our society. For more information,
contact Kerry Lewis at 582-1173 orOLGLA at 405-
340-1957.
Dad Can See His Kids
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A circuit judge’s rulin~
prohibiting twoChildren fromvi~iting their-gay fathe~
if anyone with "homosexual tendencies" was present
was reversed.Wednesday by the Court of Special
Appeals. The order reversedby the appeals court also
had prohibited overnight visits and prohibited the
childrenfrom seeing their father in the presence ofhi s
lover.
Such restrictions on visitation in divorce eases can
be imposed only if there is evidence that visits would
be harmful to the children, the court said in an opinion
by Judge Arrie W. Davis. "The (circuit) court made
no finding of possible harm to the children ...."said
the unanimous opinion issued by a three-judge panel
of Maryland’s second highest court.
The appeals court ruling was hailed as a victory for
gay and lesbian parents by Beatrice Dohrn, legal
directorfor theLambdaLegal Defense and Educauon
Fund in New York.
She said the ruling is important because it applies
the same standards to gay and lesbian parents as to
heterosexual parents and says visitation can be limited
only if there is evidence ofharm to the children.
"What we are really seeking is a kind of sexual
orientation neutrality, and that’ s what we got in this
case," Ms. Dohrn said.
Cynthia Young, lawyer for the mother, said there
are a variety of options her client could follow,
including doing nothing, asking for a review by the
Court of Appeal.s and returning to circuit court to’seek
new restrictions. She said she does not know what her
client will do. ’qqae way I read it, it’ s just one more
step on the path toward determining what’ s in the best
interest of these children," Ms. Young said.
Dutch to Allow Adoption
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Dutch society,
renowned for its tolerance of homosexuality, is pushing
for a federal law that would perrmt gays and
lesbians to adopt children. The legislation, which
would also sanction same-sex mamages, was approved
this week by a parliamentary panel. Believed
to have broad backing in Parliament and expected to
be enacted early next year, it also gives gay couples
the same pension, inheritance and social security
fights as married heterosexuals.
"The fights of children in homosexual relationships
must be better regulated," said Bas Kortmann,
chairman of the parliamentary panel. He called the
bill "an important symbolic step against the old idea
that homosexuality is heresy.’"
If the current version passes, the Netherlands would
become the first country to sanction homosexual
adoption at the federal level. In the United States,
matters of marriage and adoption are overseen by
states. Some U.S. states allow homosexual adoption
and a few forbid it.
There didn’ t appear to be any organized opposiUon
to the legislation. In fact, public opinion surveys have
shown that seven in 10 Dutch think gays can be good
parents. The Dutch Federation for the Integration of
Homosexuality hailed the new proposal, saying it
would stop gay couples from having to lie about their
sexuality in adoption papers. Dutch lawmakers had
planned to approve a similar bill this year but held off
because it didn’ t include adoption rights.
The committee, commissioned by State Justice
Secretary F_lizabeth Schmitz, said most of its members
concluded that "same-sex couples can only receive
equal treatment if they are permitted to enter
into civil marriage." Marriage "has always been a
flexible institution that has kept pace with social
change," the panel said in a report.
The Dutch panel conceded that legalizing gay
marriage and adoption in the Netherlands could lead
to "international complications" for Dutch gays and
lesbians who move with their adoptive children to
countries hostile to the idea.
ENDA Hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) - At the front of a crowded
Senate heating room, a confident young man from
Columbus, Ohio, talked authoritatively about antidiscrimination
policy at the 117-store chain he operates.
In the audience, a fragile-looking man from
Marion, Ohio, clutched an accordion file full of
medical affidavits and documehts frotu what he described
as years of harassment by co-workers. Both
made the trip Thursday to sulgp~Yi~ legislation outlawmg
sexual orientation as a basis for hiring, firing,
promotion or compensation. It would apply to businesses
with at least 15 employees, "and would not
apply to churches or any other tax-exempt organization.
Thomas Grote, chief operating officer of Donatos
Pizza, said he did not believe the bill would hurt his
business. "It is an unfortunate necessity that government
sometimes has to step in and set some of the
ground rules for business," he said.
As the son of the chain’s founders, Grote said
corporate retribution was never a concern but he still
was afraid of having problems with his employees
after revealing that he is gay. "I hhvejob security and
it was hard for me," he said "Unfortunately there are
many people who have to lie about who they are for
fear of losing their jobs."
Grote testified at a hearing unusual for its imbalance;
no opponent of the bill accepted Labor and
HumanResources CommitteeChairmanJimJeffords’
invitation to testify against it. Jeffords, the sponsor of
the bill, was the only Republican in attendance. The
othernineGOPcommitteemembers, including Ohio’ s
Mike DeWine, were no-shows.
Spokesman Charles Boese! said DeWine was at a
news conference promoting a national drunken driving
standard and then had another hearing to attend.
Staffers met with the bill’s supporters, and DeWine
previously met with a group lobbying for the bill,
Boesel said. DeWine voted against a different version
of the bill last year on the grounds ttmt it was "’an
increased mandate on business," the spokesman said.
Ohio’s other senator, Democrat John Glenn, voted
for the bill, which failed on a vote of 49-50.
Jeffords said he changed this year’ s bill to.meet the
concerns of senators who argued against it last year
on the groands that it could clog the nation’s courts
with new lawsuits or require preferential treatment.
He also released a study by the General Accounting
Office showing lawsuits have not increased signifi=
cantly in the 11 states that have passed their own gay
anti-discrimination laws.
The conservative organization Family Research
.Coma.cil distributed literature at the hearing explainlng
its v~ew that the legislation is a "homosexual
quota bill" granting special rights to gays. The Traditional
Values Coalition also issued a written statemerit
criticizing the hearing as "orchestrated care.-
fully to exclude this committee’s Republican majority
and those groups which are critical of preferential
treatment under law for homosexuality."
Gay Rabbi Welcomed
LOS ANGELES (AP) - When Temple Judea of
Tarzana installs Donald Goor as senior rabbi this
week, the 900-family Reform congregation will be
the largest mainstream synagogue to-have an openly
Gay man as its spiritual leader. "I’m a rabbi who
happens to be Gay," said Goor, 39, "but the congregation
and I have been able to build a relationship
where it isn’ t the primary issue." Although the liberal
Reform branch of Judaism allowed Gay and Lesbian
rabbis seven years ago, few have been chosen to fill
assistant or senior pulpit posts, rabbinical estimates
show.
Goor insists his sexuality is secondary to his position,
yet he does not dodge Gay issues. ’Tmcomfortable
discussing homosexuality. There’ s nothing that’ s
hidden," said Goor, who has lived with his companion
for 12 years.
Officials of the Tarzana congregation said Goor,
whose father is a rabbi in New York, was an easy
choice to replace outgoing Rabbi AkivaAnnes. "He’ s
exactly what clergy should be - sensitive to older
congregants andinvolved with the youth," said temple
President Michael Rudman. "He is not a one-dimensional
rabbi."
More than a year-before Annes retired, Goor had
been chosen as the future senior rabbi by aunanimous
voice vote of the congregation. "TempleJudea should
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"He’s a very, very,_~4fted rabbi with strong
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And when Reform rabbis hold their national convention
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for Jewish Gay and Lesbian couples. The
issue was controversial at last year’ s meeting. Orthodox
and other traditional Jewish leaders say homosexuality
violates Jewish law, and thus cannot be
integrated into the synagogue. Some moderate conservatives,
however, have pushed for a more sympathetic
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Billy Graham:
Gays Welcome
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Rev. Billy Graham -
who has Parkinson’s disease and prostate cancer -
appears to be in faihng health again. Graham, who
concluded his three-day San Francisco crusade Saturday
night, has been so weak that he skipped a VIP
reception before Thursday’ s crusade.
He alsohas walked onto the stageat SanFrancisco’ s
COW Palace with obvious pain and difficulty. "’They
have me staying in bed much of the day. Mostly, I’m
just old," the 78-year-old evangelist told the San
Francisco Chronicle. He has, however, been able to
make it to the pulpit and has addressed the most hotly
contested issue of his trip to the San Francisco Bay
area: homosexuality.
"Whatever yourbackground, whatever your sexual
orientation, we welcome you tonight," he has told
crusade crowds in San Francisco. Responding to a
quesuon at the press conference, Graham said the
Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but quickly
added, "There are other sins. Why do wejump on that
sin as though it’ s the greatest sin?"
UK Labor Govt, Relaxes
Immigration Law
LONDON(AP) - The Labor government said Saturday
it is making immigration laws fairer by giving
foreign partners of Gay Britons residence rights after
a four-year relationship instead of the current 15
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’q’his is a relatively minor change affecting about
100 people a year," Immigration Minister Mike
O’Brien said in a BBC radio interview. "Marriage
will retain its special position and people should
marry if they can... (but) Some people, such as Gays
and some common law couples are actually prohibited
from marrying by law. I think it’ s unfair to
destroy their relationships," he added.
Rank-and-file lawmakers from the opposition
Conservative Party criticized the move as undermining
marriage. They objected despite Conse,~ative
leader William Hague adv0catiiiga( the part~ S~annual
conference this week a indite liberal attitude
toward Gays and single motherS. - --
Hague made no immediate comment. A:n aide,
speaking on condition of anonymity, described the
government move as a "’political stunt." "It undermines
marriage and it undermines imtmgration control,"
said Tory lawmaker Ann Widdecombe. She
was a minister in the Home Office, whose responsibilities
includeimmigration, in the Conservativegoverument
which lost power in May 1 elections. Said
O’Brien: "They really did fltmk their first test for
becoming a compassionate party." He said common
law spouses not able to marry included some from
Catholic countries where divorce was difficult.
Stonewall, a national Gay rights movement, gave
higher estimates than the government of potential
applicants- notincluding hetrosexual couples. Stonewall
spokesman Mike Watson estimated 200 Gay
couples would apply immediately, with another 200
applications each year.
Lesbian Teacher Sues for
1st Amendment Rights
SALT LAKECITY (AP) - Gay civilrights advocates
weren’t surprised when high school officials fired
Wendy Weaverfrom herjob as volleyball coach after
she divorced her husband andmovedin with awoman.
But when Weaver received a written order not to
discuss her "homosexual lifestyle" with parents, students
or staff members at Spanish Fork High School°
gay-rights groups and the American Civil Liberties
Union got involved.
The ACLU on Tuesday filed a federal civil rights
lmvsuit on Weaver’ s behalf against Principal Robert
Wadley, Nebo School District and three of its officers.
The suit contends Weaver was illegally fired as
coach for being alesbian and that eventhoughshe still
has her teaching job, the district’ s gag order violates
her right to freedom of expression.
Gay teachers around the country deal with similar
treatment, gay rights advocates said. "But the school
authorities in Spanish Fork, Utah, had the temerity to
put these rules in writing and demand that Wendy
sign away her constitutional rights if she wished to
keep her job," said Kevin Jennings, executive director
of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
in New York.
"For 18 years, I’ve been a good coach and a good
teacher. I’ve never done anything that has infringed
on anybody," Weaver said. "Then, all of the sudden,
I was not living the lifestyle they wanted me to live or
being the role model I had always been." Wadley
fired Weaver this summer, saying his "perception" of
her had changed.
The 40-year-old mother of two was given a written
gag order from the Nebo School District, which has
more than 18,000 students, saying she would be fired
if she talked about her sexual orientauon with students,
parents or staffmembers. Weaver turned to the
ACLU when she was unable to find an attorney in the
conservauve, predominantly Mormon community.
Doug Bates, the attorney for the state Office of
Education, said speech may be protected, but ajob is
not. "If you engage in speech activities that undermine
the confidence of the public in your ability to
perform thejob, then the goveminent does not have to
retain you," he said.
Weaver is considered by many to be a role model
on the volleyball court and as a teacher. "Wendy has
never done anything that anyone could say was even
remotely shady," said Kayleen Kidman, whose two
daughters played for Weaver.
New Vaccine Effort
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - ScieNtists at St.
Jude Children’s Research Hoslbital have
federal permission for an AIDS study
they say approaches the search for a vaccine
in a new way. The vaccine, developed
at St. Jude, is designed to show the
human body’s immune system how to
recognize diverse strains of HIV, the vires
that causes AIDS.
Most other studies on AIDS vaccines
have not had such a broad approach,
thought.the HIV. virus has many strains;
said Mark Grabowsky of"the National
Institum of Allergy and Infectious Disease:
’% lot of people have tried to solve
the variation of HIV problem by making
one vaccine that’ s broadly reactive against
all types. They’ re taken the unique approach
of saying, ’Let’s take as many
different types as we can and put it all in
the same vial,’" Grabowsky saidWednesday
from his office in Maryland.
The St. Jude vaccine was designed by
faculty researchers Julia Hurwitz a~d
Karen Slobod. Basically, it is similar to
test vaccines developed by other scientists
in that it carries proteins from the
outer shell or envelope of the HIV virus.
But Hurwitz said the St. Jude vaccine
carries 23 different HIV envelopes rather
than just one or two, as is common for
most vaccines now under study.
The DNA sequences of HIV envelopes
vary widely, meaning a vaccine thatwould
protect against one strain of the virus
might not do the same for another, she
said. "You’ve got to attack the diversity.
You’ ve got to acknowledge that you ha~;e
to attack it and use the strength of the
immune system to do that," Hurwitz said.
St. Jude got approval last month from
the Food and Drug Administration to begin
human safety trials, and the researchers
are looking for up to 18 volnnteers to
take the vaccine. It could be five to 10
years before it’s known the Vaccine acreally
works, but the researchers said early
animal tests have been encouraging. "Various
studies in the laboratory have shown
that it does elicit an immune response,’"
Slobod said.
Since its founding in 1962, St. Jude has
made an international name for itself in
research and treatment for leukemia and
other childhood cancers. The hospital
began an AIDS treatment program in the
late 1980s. Four years ago, the St. Jude
staffbegan working on the AIDS vaccine.
So far, the hospital has financed that research.
"They’ ve been able to accomplish
on their own what many of the largest
vaccine companies have not been able to
do, that is bring a vaccine to human clinical
trials," Grabowsky said.
Much oftheAIDS vaccine work aroundthe
country is financed by private industry,
and Grabowsky said St. Jude will
likely look for a partner as the Stud),
progres’se~. "At some point theywill do
the same thing that almost every developer
does, that is try to interest a company
to put it in a vial and market it," he said.
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The strength of this book lies in the fact
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Molecule May Work
for HIV Therapy
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a basic discovery
that eventually could lead to powerful
new types of AIDS drugs or even a
vaccine, researchers have identified in the
laboratory a natural molecule that prevents
the AIDS virus from infecting cells.
The molecule was discoveredby a team
led by fumed AIDS researcher Robert
Gallo. A report today inthe journal Science
said the molecule works against HIV
by physically blocking the portal used by
the virus to invade lymphocytes and other
types ’of blood cells.
Three similar molecules, all called
chemokines, werefound earlierby Gallo’ s
team at the Institute ofHuman Virology at
the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
But Gallo said the new molecule is much
more effective because it protects all the
cell types attacked by HIV.
Periodic injections ofthese chemokines
could create a barrier between HIV and its
target cells, and prevent the virus from
spreading its deadly infection, Gallo said.
"Its .breadth of activity and its potency
will make it more important than any of
the other chemokines found so far," he
said in an interview.
He emphasized, however, that before
chemokines can-be tried against HIV in
humans, the molecules must be exten,
sively tested in monkeys against a related
virus called SIV, or simian immunodeficiency
virus, the monkey equivalent of
HIV, human immnnodeficiency virus.
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Experts estimate more than 6,000 addicts
frequent the area, perhaps half of them
inf~ted with HIT because of pervasive
sharing of contaminated needles.
Dr. Martin Schechter, a University of
BritishColumbiaepidemiologist, saidthe
infection rote among Eastside drag users
is the highest in North America at nearly
20 percent annually. In other words, out
of every 100 addicts who were were free
ofHIV at the start of the year, 20would be
HIV-positive by year’s end.
The problem has been building forseveral
years, but came into the spotlight this
month when Bud Osborne, a community
activist and former addict, convinced fellow
members ofVancouver’ s healthboard
to declare a medical emergency. ’This
epidemic is kind of like the plague,’"
Osborne said in an interview, "It’s going
to spread."
Under the emergency, the province has
allocated dlrs 3 million (dlrs 2.2 million
U.S.) to combat the epidemic~, and pressure
is mounting for the federal government
to help. Vancouver’s coroner and
deputy police chief have joined AIDS
specialists in urging the government to
decriminalizepossessionof Smallamounts
ofillegal drugs forpersonal use. "It’ s time
to recognize that we have a public health
crisis and, take it out of a criminal context,"
Scheehter said.
The epidemic is raging.: despite
Vancouver’ s ambitious ne~lleT-exchange
program, which started in 1988. More
than 2.5 million clean needles are distributed
annually, but many addicts don’t
bother to participate and instead share
used needles. Schechter said HIT-infections
in the Eastside began multiplying.
about four ,years ago when many addicts
changed habits - switching to a dozen or
more injections a day of cheap cocaine
rather than two or three injections of
heroin. ’~Fhenumberofinjections per day
goes up - the ability to take precautions
goes way down," he said. "That’s how
you get this explosion."
The health board has asked its staff to
develop a comprehensive action plan by
the end of October. It will likely ~nclude
expanded needle--exchange and addiction-
treatmentprograms, andrecommendations
to improve living conditions in
the Eastside.
Real estate prices in many Vancouver
neighborhoods are among the highest in
Canada, and very tittle new low-income
honsing is being built. Osborne saidowners
of the Eastside’s cheap hotels are
content to let them deteriorate, hoping
gentrification will sweep into the area in a
few years and boost property values.
"If you don’t have a decent place to
¯ sleep, all the health care in the world isn’ t
: going to make a difference," said
: Vancouver’s chief medical officer, Dr.
¯ John Blatherwick.law would have pre-
: vented the activities of which Williams is
¯ accused, however. "It is like the death
¯ penalty and murders," he said Monday.
: "Maybe this will save one life, or five
: lives. It’s not going to turn everybody
¯ around."
¯ HIV Experts Resign
Over Editorial
BOSTON (AP), Two !0P AIDS experts
: haveresignedfromtheNewEnglandJour-
¯ hal of Medicine’s board to protest an
: editorial that likened AIDS studies in the
: Third World to the notorious Tuskegee
¯ experiment.
¯¯ Dr. David Ho, head of the Aaron DiamondAIDS
Research CenterinNewYork
: City, and Dr. Catherine M. Wilfert, a
: pediatric AIDS expert at Duke Univer-
¯ sity, said as board members they should
: have been consulted about the editorial
: before it was published last month.
¯ The editorial criticized several studies,
: mostly in Africa, that are intended to see
: if brief, inexpensive doses of the drug
: AZTwillkeepHIV-infectedmothcrsfrom
: passing the virus to their babies. Some of
¯ the women are receiving,dummy pills
¯ instead of AZT.
." Dr. MarciaAngell, thejournal’ s execu-
¯ five editor, said in the editorial that the
¯ studies are unethical. She likened them to
: the Tuskegee study in which poor black
: men in the South with syphilis were left
¯ untreated even after penicillin became ¯
available.
¯ The editorial upset many AIDS re-
: searchers,including Ho and Wilfert, who
¯ believe the African studies are the only ¯
practical way to prove that a simple ap-
¯ proach works better than nothing at all.
¯ Wilfert and others worried that the influ-
¯ ential journal’s criticism could bring the
¯
studies to a halt.
¯ In an opinion piece in the Sept. 29 issue
: ofTimemagazine,Hocalled theTuskegee
¯ comparison "inflammatory and unfair."
: He said it"could make a desperate situa-
¯ tion even worse."
¯ Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer, the journal’s
: editorinehief, fired off an angry e-mail to
." Ho, criticizing him for not talking to the
." journal before writing in Time, Kassirer
¯ saidWednesday thatHowrotebackoffer-
." ing to resign. "zI sat on it for a couple of
." days and then decided to accept his resig-
¯ nation," Kassirer said.
¯ Wilfert said she submitted her resigna-
: tiontotakeeffectaftertheeditorialboard’s
: next once-a-year meeting in December.
¯ There she said she hopes for "a very cool ¯
discussion about the role of the editorial
She said thejournal’ s decisionto present
: just one side of the controversy was a
¯ policy issue thatshouldhavebeen brought
: to the 25-member board. "I resigned be-
¯ cause ofthe way in whichit was handled,"
¯¯ Wilfert said.
Kassirer saidtheboardmem.bers, among i some of themost prominentphysicians in
~ research, are asked for advice on such
¯ policy questions as conflict ofinterest and
: Internet publishing but never on the
: journal’ s content.
: "I regret this happened," Kassirer said.
¯ "On the other hand, we can’t be ham-
: strung by trying to have decisions made
: y conmnttee. Dr. Richard P. Wenzel of
the Medical College of Virginia, another
i AIDS expert on the editorial board, has
¯ not resigned.
by James Christjohn, entertainment diva
BernadettePeters arrives freshfrom the
woods to perform at the Performing Arts
Center (PAC) with the Tulsa Philharmonic
on.November 21 and 22 at 8pro for
the Pops Series. I can’t wait to see this
show! Ms. Peters is sure to make the wait
worthwhile, and I encourage youto check
out her "Sondheim, Etc."
CD, recorded live at
Carnegie Hall. The show
was a benefit for Gay
Men’s Health Crisis
(GMHC), and includes
songs from all her
Sondheim shows - "Into
The Woods", "Sunday In
The Park With George"
as wall as many other delightful
and risque tunes.
I would love to hear her
sing "Making Love
Alone", an ode to mas- Broadway’s Bernadette Peters
turbation, but since this is
Tulsa, I suppose that will be droppedfrom
her repertoire. Atleast this time, the symphony
will have someone worthy of their
talent to perform with. For dx, call 747-
7445. They range from $10 - $37.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and
Rykodisc have announced a co-venture to
produce, launch, and promote a new series
of high-quality original soundtracks,
many of which will be released on compact
disc for the first time, ’The Deluxe
-MGM Soundtrack Series" will feature
previously unavailable orlong-out-of print
soundtracks from the legendary library of
United Artists Pictures, a subsidiary of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
In addition to pristine remastered recordings,
each compact disc is enhanced
with extras, including extensive liner
notes, exclusive photographs, and CDROM
capabilities featuring film clips and
original theatrical trailers.
Select rifles also will be released in
’.’Superlative Editions" that combine the
CD, and where available, the home-video
release, and will include original onesheets
and lobby cards, filmographies of
casts and composers, and alternate
takes from the recording Sp~l~ng
sessions, among many other
additions.
The "Deluxe MGM
Soundtrack Series" will unveil
the recordings of many landmark
United Artists films, including
200 Motels, Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang, Octopussy,
Rancho Deluxe, and It’sAMad,
Mad, Mad, Mad World. These
¯ recording sessions andpreviously unavail-
¯ able tracks; Dialogue and sound effects ¯
excerpts from the film; Biography and
: filmography ofcomposer, cast, and direc-
¯ tor; Gallery of original one-sheets and
: lobby cards.
¯ Editor’s note: the writer now can drive
: his spouse mad byplaying over and over
and over:
CHITTY CHITTY
BANG BANG has music
by Irwin Kostal & lyrics
by Robert and Richard
Sherman (1968) (RCD
10702). Based on Ian
Fleming’s original story,
this children’s musical
classic is MGM’s most
requested soundtrack.
The rifle track was nominated
for an Academy
Award® for Best Song,
whileunforgettable tracks
sung by Dick Van Dyke,
Lionel Jeffries, and Sally Ann Howes
(among others) round out this delightfully
charming collection. The arrangements
are performedby a90piece orchestrawho
add the zany flourishes so perfect for the
film.
Irwin Kostal, who is highly regarded
among soundtrack aficionados, produced
hits for well-known films like The Sound
of Music, Mary Poppins, and West Side
Story. The Sherman Brothers ("Mary
Poppins", numerous Disney films) were
masters of the tongue-twisting lyric, and
coined the word ’$antasmagorical" especially
for this movie. CHITTY CH1TIN
BANG BANGis making its compact disc
debut with this release and will also be
available on cassette.
It’s my favorite childhood movie, and I
wore out the LP copy I had (still have)
long ago. You can almost make out the
musicunder thewear&scratches - barelv.
It still has the scrawl of my name froha
when I took it to school for show & tell.
Myother childhoodfavs, Willie Wonka
and Dr. Doolitflehadbeenreleased onCD
(I’m still waiting for "Pufnstut" & ’The
Little Prince"), so I had long
otr Peter hopedfor this. I cannot tell you
Pan... Disney is
releasing the video
in March ’98. Relive
that tlme when
all yo~ needd for
¯ome marie is a bit
of fairy dust. We
got it in spades,
didn’t we?
how great it is tohear the music
without .scratches and noise
from a worn LP. It’s amazing
they can make a 1969
.soundtrack soundgoodas new,
but such is the technology of
today. Rykodisc has done an
incredible job.
The disc contains all
the music from the original aldries,
andmany more, include some of the
biggest names in the recording industry
today. All deluxe rifles include the following
features wherever possible:
The complete original soundtrack recording,
remastered for the best-possible
audio reproduction; Extensive liner notes
covering the film, the score, and the composers/
vocalists; Captivatingphotographs
from theMGM archives, including some
never-before-seen images and candid behind-
the-scenes stills; CD,Rom features,
including theatrical trailers and/or film
clips in both Quicklime and MPEG formats,
a Web rink, and more; additional
tracks that feature key dialogue from the
films;areproductionoftheoriginalmovie
poster and original LP cover art.
Superlative Editions will include the
following additional features: Videocas-
° sette of-film; Alternate takes from the
¯ bum, remastered for CD and a CD-rom
¯ track that shows the original trailer on
: your computer. The trailer is, well, laugh-
" able. The announcer is the same guy that
"¯ did narration on the ’60’s Barman TV ¯
series, and over-emphasizes the "r’s in
." "Chitty". And at one point, he says: "Re-
. member the name of this film: It’s not
¯" Chitty Chitty Boing Boing, but..." They
." musthavebeen behind schedule, because
: I wouldhave fired that ad agency then and
¯ there. ¯
The film itself is fun, but disjointed. I
: just found out that Roald Dahl, the
¯ children’s book author ("James & The
"¯¯ Giant Peach", ’L’-’harlie and theChocolate
Factory" - also known as "Willie Wonka
¯ and...", "Matilda", ’The Witches", etc.)
o was towritethe screenplay,butgotmiffed ¯
whea they decided to restructure the f’flm.
: see Chitty, page 13
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I~ SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - l lain, 1703 E. 2nd, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - llam, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service, 5pro, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa
Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gayfrransgendered Alliance
Sundays at 6:30 pro, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
l~= MONDAYS
HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm Results: 7-gpm, Info: 834-TEST (8378)
aIV 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 Mor~ieach too. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Gay & Lesbian Book Discussion Group, Borders Bookstore
1st MonJea. too., 7:30pro, 2740 E. 21st, 712-9955
Mixed Volleyball, 6:30pm, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 587-6557
Monday Night Football, 8 pro, Pride Center, Renfro Room, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~TUESDAYS
HIV+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium 1:30 pm
3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), Info: Wanda @ 834-4194
Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HIV!AIDS Support Group, and Friends & Family HIV/AIDS
Support Group - 7 pm, Locations, call: 749-7898
Rainbow Business Guild
Business & professional networking group, call for info: 665-5174 -
PrimeTimers, mens group, 11/18, 7:30 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE)
Alternating Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, in~o: 743-4297
~ WEDNESDAYS
Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer-6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
Tulsa Native American Meus Support Group
For more information, call 582-7225, John at ext. 218, or Tommy at ext. 208
TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632.
Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
Ellen Watch Party, 8:30pro, Pride Center, Renfro Room, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~THURSDAYS
HOPE, I’HV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pro, Results: 7 - 9pm, Info: 834-8378
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325
Tulsa Family Chorale, Weekly practice - 9:30pro, L01a’s, 2630 E. 15th
From Our Hearts to Our House, 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/each too. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS 3507 E. Admiral
(east of Harvard), Info: 834-4194
~ FRIDAYS
SafeHaven, Yoang Adults Social Group, I st Fd/eachmo. 8pro, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th
Community Coffee House, varying dates, 7 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info:
743-4297
~SATURDAYS
St, Jerome’s Church, Ma~s - 6 Inn Garden Ch~el, 3841 S. Peoria, Info: 742-6227
Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pro, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Lamlxla A-A, 6 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2rid ft.
~OTHER GROUPS
T.U.L.S.A~ Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, into: 838-1222
Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978
OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organizatio~L Long and short rides. All
rides start at Ziegler Park Recreation Center, 3903 W. 4th St. Members of the Spoke
Club get access to the Club’s hot line for updates on rides. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa
74157
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READ ALL ABOUT IT
by Barry Hensley, Tulsa City-County Library
For information regarding HIV/AIDS topics, the Tulsa City-County Library is an
excellentresource. Thereare books, videos, audio cassettes, government documents and
periodical articles full of updated information. Many branch libraries have books and
other materials, although the Central Library, at 4th and Denverin downtown Tulsa, has
more detailed information. Here are some of the current items available through Central
Library departments:
BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
4th floor, phone: 596-7988 (Dewey area 616.9792)
AIDS and HIV in Perspective (by Barry Schoub)
Immune,Power: The Comprehensive Healing Program for HIV (by John Kaiser)
Dictionary of AIDS Related Terminology (by Jeffrey Huber)
Rethinking AIDS (by Robert Root-Bermtein)
Everything You Need to Know When a Parent Has AIDS (by Barbara Draimin)
AIDS and the Law of Workplace Discrimination (by Jeffrey Mello) (344.7301)
READERS SERVICES
2nd floor~ phone: 596-7966 (Dewey area 362.1969)
People, Sex, HIV and AIDS (by Pierre Andre)
Everything You Need to Know About Being HIV Positive (by Amy Shire)
D_I Not Go Quietly (by Mary Fisher)
We Are All Living With AIDS (by Earl Pike)
Women’s HIV Sourcebook (by Patricia Klosser)
Search for an AIDS Vaccine (by Christine Grady) ( 174.2 G)
Recovering From the Loss of a Loved One to AIDS (by K. Donnelly) (155.937)
Diary of a Lost Boy (by Harry Kondoleon) (fiction)
Labour of Love (by Doug Wilson) (fiction)
Such Times (by Christopher Coe) (fiction)
Promise of Rest (by ReYnolds Price) (fiction)
CHILDREN’S
2rid floor, phone: 596-7971
Magic Johnson (by Martin Schwabacher)
AIDS: How it Works in the Body (by Loma Greenberg)
Daddy and Me (by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe)
David Has AIDS (by Doris Sanford)
Know About AIDS (by Margaret Hyde)
MEDIA CENTER
1st floor, phone: 596-7933
Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness (video)
Heart of the Matter (video, HIV+ women)
HIV Test: Who Should Take It? What Does it Show? (video)
AIDS: Why We Won’t Look (audio cassette)
Let’s Talk: C. Everett Koop (audio cassette)
AIDS QuiR Songbook (compact disc)
There are also various Government Documents available in both the Reference
Department and the Business and Technology Department. Please call the Central
Library at 596-7977 or any branch library for more information.
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The non-gardener might imagine that
November, with its frosts and freezes,
brings an end to garden work. For the
gardener, however, there is still plenty to
do at this time.
Fall brings anendto mostlawnmowing
but brings down many leaves! Many
people bag those leaves but a thrifty gardener
can mm those leaves into soil-enriching
compost with little effort. Acircle
of wire fencing is enough to corral leaves
which will slowly break down with little
more work than being wet down regularly.
It does help if you use a blower/
vacunm to vacuum up the leaves since
shredding the leaves helps them breakdown
faster.
Moreelaborate eomposting systems are
commercially available as are plans for
handy-person versions in many garden
guides. Just find a comer of your yard oi~
¯ garden for the compost pile. Actually,
¯ some gardeners use their compost piles to
¯¯ recycle quite a bit of their green clippings
(like from the lawn) and wind up with
: moresoil-enriching material. Manyhouse-
¯ hold scraps can go in also though it’s not
¯ recommended that dairy or meat or weed
¯ seeds go into compost for sanitary rea-
¯ sons and to avoid reseeding if the tern-
¯ peratureinacompostpiledoesn tgethigh
; enough to kill the seeds.
¯ And for the thrifty gardener, fall can be
: a great time to get bargains! Especially at
: the large discount chains, perennials are
¯ usually siguificanfly discounted now. At
¯ one super center, butterfly bush, scabiosa
: (lovely flowers with an ugly name) and
: more were selling for 1/4 of their summer
¯ price. If you get them into the ground and
¯ mulch them well, these plants, true to
: their names, will return next spring.
9
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Aficionados of Mexican food in the
Tulsa area have long been familiar with
the small Alfredo’s franchise here in town
and in other Green Country cities~ and
may have visited the store at the comer of
30th and Harvard. Last spring, the owner
of that store wentprivate, and changed his
restaurant’s name to Sefior Perez
Restaurante Mexican0.
Thedecorremains much the
same, and situates diners in a
pleasant fiesta setting reminiscent
of a small Mexican
plaza.
Menus remain much the
same as when Sefior Perez’
was Alfredo’s, the major difference
being that the cute,
but.meaningless,names for the
various plate dinners have
changed. Theyhavealso added
several new "huevo," or egg,
dishes to the menu, including
huevos ranchero, which is two
fried eggs presented on a fried
tortilla and topped with a
Mexican style saucefor $4.50, machacado
con huevo and chorizo con huevos, consisting
of scrambled eggs mixed with
shredded beef or with ground Mexican
sausage, respectively, both $5.50, and a
torta de huevo, which is the Mexican
name for a Spanish omelette, for $4.50.
Entrees here are very inexpensive, as
seen from the eggs entrees. Most of the
simple dinners are $4.95, and the larger
plate, dinners are in the $6 range. Only
four Mexican items are more than $7.45.
The tacos al carbon, ribeye steak soft
tacos, are $8.95, came asada, strips of
beef steak, is $10.95, a ribeye steak Ranchero,
topped with ranchero sauce and
melted cheese, is $12.95, and the
Alambres, a Mexican-flavored steak ka:
bob, is $11.95.
One thing about themenu that struck us
as oddis theheavy dependenceuponbeef,
with only the random chicken dish. No
pork is on the menu, and with the-exception
of the non-Mexican shrimp scampi
and orange roughy, seafood didn,t make
the cut, either. Interesting, considering
how much of Mexico has a seashore.
On our recent visit to Sefior Perez, we
were greeted at the door by a friendly
hostess and immediately shown to our
window-side booth. Almost magically,
another staff member appeared beating a
complimentary basketofhottortillachips,
and a bowl of excellent salsa. The fresh
salsa was a thick paste, with a hint of
garlic and cilantro, and a slightly sweet
taste.
We began our meal with the very tasty
queso flatneado, or "flaming cheese"
($3.95). A sprinkling OfMexican chorizo,
or ground sausage, on the bottom of an au
gratin dishwas covered in a thick layer of
melted Monterey Jack cheese, and served
with several warm, but commercially prepared,
flour tortillas. We were a bit disappoimed,
though, since when we’ve had
this dish south of the river (the Red River,
thatis), the cheese has always been doused
with liquor and presented tableside in
flames -hencethe name, quesoflameado.
Ourcompaniontried theMexicanpizza,
$4.95. A major disappointment that we
didn’t completely eat, the "pizza" was a
flour tortillatoppedwith amild chili sauce,
aratherblandranchera sauce, somemelted
Jack cheese, and slices of jalapefio pep-
¯ per. Other appetizer choices included sev:
¯ eral varieties of nachos, stuffed fried
¯ jalapefio peppers, guacamole salad, and
¯ quesadillas.
¯ For our entrees, our companion opted
¯ for the chile relleno dilmer, $6.75. Achile
relleno is a large, long, greenish-yellow
¯ Mexican pepper that is stuffed with a ¯
¯ meat tilling (in-thi~~case~ ’beef), then
breaded and deepfried. The stuffed pepper
itself seem~i’ (~,t~"fl~off,~, but it
Senor Perez
Restaurante
Mexleano
3023 So. Harvard
11 am -.10 pm daily
Prlees: Moderate
All major plastic;
no eheek~
Smoking:
Serrate s~tlons -
poorly diffe~tlat~
Alcohol: F~I ~r
Ambi~ee: Casnal
Rating: C lls*
was topped ~ith ;that bland
ranchera sauce and melted
Jackcheese, whichgotscraped
off and not eaten. The dinner
was accompanied by frijoles
refritos (vegetarians, beware:
the beans were very tasty, and
we would almost bet that they
were seasoned with the traditional
lard), a rather too-moist
and tomatoey Spanishrice, and
a mound of shredded Iceberg
lettuce.
One of the great tests of.the
Mexican kitchen is the artful
preparation ofso simple acomfort
food as a light, fluffy,
¯ steamed tamale. SO, we put the place to
¯ the test, and ordered the five tamale plate,
~ $3.95. Let us assure you that that was five
~ tamales too many. They should never
have been allowed to leave the kitchen. In
¯ fact, when they arrived, wethought atfirst
: that they were tive enchiladas, made with
¯ corn tortillas, instead of the hand formed ¯
masa cornmeal dough that makes up the
¯ tamale. The masa coating was thin to
¯ begin with, but they very obviously had
been allowed to stan~lin thekitchen warm-
; ing table and desiccate for far too long.
¯ Even the splash of mediocre chili could
¯
not resurrect these tamales. Now, in de-
" fense of the kitchen, it was late on a slow
¯ night when we dined- about 8:30 -but,
¯ given the Mexican tradition of dining at ¯ 10 or 11 at night, this can be no real
¯ excuse. We decided to forgo the limited
¯ choices for dessert. ¯
Now that Sefior Perez has decided to go
"- his own way, independently of the fran-
¯ chise, the very survival ofhis restaurantis
¯ going to dependupon the improvement of ¯
his kitchen product and him finding his
¯ "niche" amongst Mexican eateries in the
: Tulsaarea. Theblandness ofthefranchise
¯ product just won’t work in an indepen-
¯ dent restaurant in Tulsa. We Oklahomans
¯ have grown up. with Mexican friends, not
¯ to mention their mother’s fantastic and
¯ piquant cooking. We’ve far too many
good "morn and pop" restaurants, not to
¯ mention the ubiquitous, but consistently
¯ hig.h quality, local Chimi’s chain and the
¯ various national franchises with lots of ¯
marketing dollars, to have.to,patronize
¯ mediocrity.
~ Right now, the Perez menu reflects the
¯ Mexican "theme food" of the appeal-to-
" all-Americans-franchise. There is no re-
." gional character or personal flare to the
¯ food. Wecould find such nondescript fare
¯ at a Yankee restaurant up north. Here, so
¯ near Mexico and Baja Oklahoma (Tejas),
¯ we demand more authenticity and more ¯
¯ flavor. But, fortunately for Sefior Perez,
Mexican ties of familia are strong, so
~ when he puts out the distress .call to his
." grandmothers, aunts and sisters, we have
¯ every confidence that they will come for-
: ward with the old family recipes, and he
: thencanpresentadislinctiveandculinarily
: interesting product that will pack in the
¯ crowds to the Perez family restaurante.
by Lamont Lindstrom ." After two weeks I went into a place
Kagoshima, like all Japanese cities, is named, I hoped propitiously, The Down
both ugly and beautiful at the same time. " Under. It turned out that this specialized
It lies along the eastem shores of a superb " in Australian beers, the proprietor having
harbor in the far south of the southern " livedseveralyearsinQueensland. Hewas
island Kyushu. Sakurajima (’Cherry Is- ¯ there tending bar. After the usual small
land’) squats down just offshore in the talk about why I was in Kagoshima, I
center of the bay. This is a massive, hulk- nervously asked the question: "Uh, are
ing volcano; 3500 feet tall, that erupts " there any Gay bars in town?" "Why of
continuously sending course," he replied quickly
plumes of ash skywards into 1Mly flrst two grabbing a napkin to sketch
the stratosphere. With every weel~s in town~ a map that would lead me
west wind, a sprinkling of
nearly every night through the unnamed streets
black, crystalline volcanic
I went bar-hopof
the city.
ash covers everything in ’%Vell, that was easy," I
town. Whenever I was de- Pi~g.¯ Herewasmy thought. I managed to find
pressed, I could always look challenge: could I thebuilding indicated onthe
up at Sakurajima and imag- {in(l a qay bar.~ In map, locating the bar up on
ine the city laid ruin, smoka
eltlr ot 500,000~ the 4th floor by comparing
ingundertwentyfeetofburnso
I l:igured, there
signs with the kanji characing,
creeping lava.
In 1995, I went to live in had to be one or
ters he had drawn on my
napkin. I opened the door
Kagoshima for seven two.Ihardlyspol~e and edged inside. Theplace
months.Imovedintoagaijin any Japanese... wasemptyexceptforagroup
shukusha (foreign-style Wors% my hnowl- of guys dressed as waiters
lodging) built on the rim of
edge of tke tkree
lounging at a table. They.all
the old caldera. Kagoshima,"
orthograph,es
jumped up and one, who
as is typical of Japanese cit- spoke some English, came
ies, has a concentrated enter- that Japanese use over to me. "Did I "know
tainment district. Ten- was rill so I where I was?" he asked.
monkan is about 10 square couldn’t read any "Yes," I said, "Isn’t this a blocks of hundreds of tiny d the tho.sands Gay bar?" I showedrm my
bars, clubs, movie theaters,
of neon signs that map.’"vVell,yes,"hereplied,
restaurants, food stands, and ’"out did I really want a Gay
pachinko (Japanese pinball) llt the night bar?Whatexactly didllike?
parlors. Men, or men dressed as
TheAmericans bombed Kagoshimaflat woman?"
duringthePacificWarandmostbuildings It dawned on me that a ge ba (’Gay
in town are ugly cement mid-rises thrown bar’), atleast in Kagoshima, is a bar where
up in the 1950s. Drinking establishments straight businessmen, the hip, and the
of all sorts squeeze into every corner of adventurous come to be entertained by
these five and six story buildings, guys in drag- mostly dressedin exquisite
My first two weeks in town, nearly kimono.Tablesbeginatabout$100which
everynight I went bar-hopping. Here was buys part of a botde of whiskey and a
my challenge: Could I find a Gay bar? In beautiful boy-girlin silkkimono and clasa
city of 500,000, so I figured, there had to sical wig who fills your glass with ice and
be one or two. I hardly spoke any Japa- tops it off with whiskey after every sip.
nese, although I had diligently practiced I should have been asking for homo ba
some useful words and sentence struc- (homo bar) since this is where the guys
tures. Worse, my knowledge of the three ~hang out. The waiter, who admitted to
orthographiesthatJapaneseusewaslfilso being a student at the university I was
I couldn’t read any of the thousands of visiting, kindly took me by the ann and
neon signs that lit the night. Japanese led me around the block to where three
urban streetscape is a confusing riot of poky homo ba were located, stacked one
color and sound. And, although all Japa- above the other in a tall, narrow building.
nese take at least six years of Falglish in There are five homo ba in Kagoshima,
school, hardly anyone - in Kagoshima at all of which are similar. All are snaku -
least- would admit to knowing any Eigo. the sort of establishment whose standard
And I was a bit hesitant to ask. Who cover charge ($10-$15) includes a small
might I shock or insult by inquiring, ’Mh, plate of snacks that accompanies one’s
do you know any Gay bars?" And I’m drinks. ~Each boasts powerful karaoke
¯
enough of an American to have absorbed machines and clienteles of eager but very
our masculine cultural imperative: indifferent singers.
NEVER ASK DIRECTIONS. T’nese homo ba do not sort thematically
So I walked around. I checked out the in the American way. Rather, locals claim
environs of the train and bus stations. I only that they are age-graded: one is for
consulted the Spartacus guide (no the younger crowd, one is "mixed," and
Kagoshima). I telephoned a bar listed one toshi yuri - older gentlemen only.
therein in the larger city, Fukuoka, across They all looked mixed to me. I felt sorry
the island and had an unhappy conversa- for I~agoshima’s Lesbians. If they want to
tion in pidgin Japanese. I followed (sur- drink, they probably have to go to Tokyo.
reptitiously, I hoped) guys around who Until I left Kagoshima, I watched everylooked
Gay. But could I tell? what was day at the university for that studentthe
Gay-look in Japan anyway?. Still, I waiter who led me to the city’s hidden
hoped they w6uld lead me somewhere. I homoba.Iwantedtothankhimbutlnever
.gave up. met him again.
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The film itself is fun, but disjointed. I
just found out that Roald Dahl, the
children’s book author ("James & The
Giant Peach", "Charlie and’the Chocolate
Factory" - also known as "Willie Wonka
and...", "Matilda", "The Witches", etc.)
was to write the screenplay, but gotmiffed ’
when they decided to restructure the film.
He refused to write any more, and the
director, Ken Hughes, ended up writing
the script the day of shooting. Trivial
Pursuit, anyone?
I recall arguing with a classmate over
how they got the car in the air and water.
Myposition was that Chitty was indeed a
real car. His theory was that the filmmakers
used invisible piano wires to make the
car fly. I just thought that was utterly
ridiculous. And, as it turns out research
proves me right - sort of. There were
several cars blfilt: One that actually was a
working car - it’ s in England, and for the
right price, available for rental. (Tom has
long taunted me with the promise of a trip
to England upon my graduation from TU
I told him, after finding the previous info,
that if he REALLY wanted credit for
making a dream come true...) There was a
"car" built on pontoons - so that it was
basically a boat with a car body. Chitty
was indeed a floating car! There was
another car for flying. OK, it didn’ t really,
but the propellers worked! With the help
of a hydraulic lift, and a crane, it did get
into the air. One of those is in an auto
museum in Ohio, I believe. But"invisible
piano wire.s", really! How childish!
I’ve even found other Chittyfans here in
Tulsa, amazingly enough. (Hi Peter &
Robert! ) Yes, it’s silly, but childhood treasures
take me back to that feeling of
innocence that I once had as a child - even
if for a moment. Once lost, innocence is
impossible to regain, but every so often
something might trigger thatfeeling again.
Those "someflfings" are life’s treasures.
For.me, it’s music & fill: Chitty, Willie,
Oz, Peter Pan, Doolittle & Pufnstuf. And
Petula Clark’s "Downtown". I guess they
remy escape from the mundane, mto
the realm of hope and dream. Symbols of
the possible. What are yours?
Speaking of Peter Pan, (My first Crush
was on the Disney cartoon character. I
wanted to be a lost boy so bad.) Disney is
re-releasing the video in March ’98, with
a remastered soundtrack, (first time on
CD). Re-live that timewhenall youneeded
for some marc is a bit of.fairy dnsL We
got itin spades, didn’t we? Magic tends to
get more complicated as we get older.
(It’s why I’ve always hung on to mine, no
matter what. Onecanneverhave too much
magic - unless you’re the sorcerer’s apprentice.
(Just Checking to see how many
will "get" that reference.)
¯Andfmally, for those dealing with Pride
and Prejudice (I deal with it daily myself,
in theformofa certainLeo I’macquainted
with), authors Ted and Marylin Bader
will appear at Border’s Books November
6th from 12 - 1:30 pm in period costume
for a discussion of their book, "A Sequel
to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice". A
.19th century style "tea" will be held, during
which the Baders will prevail in a
discussion of the literature of"their day".
At 1:30, Darth Bader will appear and zap
them into the present. (Joke! It’s a joke!)
Oh, I missed my calling. I should have
been a comedy writer. Or not.
ing, among otherfacts, that they are living
together in a committed, intimate rela- ¯
tionship, thattheyareresponsibleforeach -"
other’s welfare and financial obligations :
and that they are not related in a way that :
would prohibit legal marriage in the state ¯
in which they reside. The proposed bill "
sets forth the process of eligibility for :
domestic partnership benefits and for the
estimated that up to 40% of a worker’s
remunerationcomes in theform of"fringe"
benefits. Clearly, some federal employees
are getting paid more than others
whenfringebenefitpayments areincluded.
It is time to stop this discrimination in
how we treat similarly situated federal
employees. The proposal by Representative
Frank would, for the first time, provide
equity in pay, including benefits
received, for all eligible federal employees.
NGLTFlauds Representative Frank’ s
cutoff of such benefits if a partnership is " introductionofthislegislation, whichrepdissolved,
resents another step forward in the fight
"The National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force (NGLTF) applauds Representative
Barney Frank and the other 14 lead co-
.sponsors of this legislation which could
just as easily be entitled ’The Workplace
Equality Act.’ " responded Helen
Grn~ales, Public Policy Director of
NGLTF.
’"Pne proposal introduced today gives
recognition to the diversity of families in
our country. According to a 1991 U.S.
Census Bureau report, fewer than 30% of
American families fit the traditional defiuition
of family- that is, two heterosexual
parents living with children under-18.
Yet, it is this definition of family which is
the key factor in determining the type and
amount of benefits a federal worker and
his or her family receives.
"A married heterosexual federal employce
with a spouse and child can be
eligible for a host of benefits, including
health insurance, life insurance, and participation
in a federal employees’ retirementprogram.
Yet, anotherfederal worker
with a partner and a child who does
exactly the samejob wouldnot qualify f6i:
the same benefits. That’s the same as
advertising a job m a newspaper saying
"salespeople wanted: salary for married
heterosexuals, $12 an hour, salary for
unmarried heterosexuals and gays, lesbians,
bisexual and transgendered persons,
$7.20 per hour. We would all recognize
that as unfair, illegal and discriminatory.
"The U.S Chamber of Commerce has
for equality for all.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
echoed the words of NGLTF. HRC Executive
Director Elizabeth Birch stated,
"As a former executive of a Fortune 100
company, I have seen firsthand the effects
of equitable treatment of gay and lesbian
employees in the workplace. . Put simply,
it not only promotes fairness and
great values, it is good business."
Birch pointed out that an increasing
number of the most successful and fastest-
growing U.S. corporations haveimplementeddomesticpartner
coveragefor their
gay employees, including such household
names as IBM, American Express,
Eastman Kodak and Nike.
"They took this stepnot only because it
ensures the ability to attract the best talent
from the broadest pool, or because the
commitment and loyalty of every emp!
oyeeis enhanced, but because suchpolioes
honor and celebrate the values of
fairness and equality on which tiff s nation
was founded," she said.
She also noted that no company thathas
ever instituted such.:benefits has withdrawn
them, that there has never been a
documented case of fraud surrounding
such policies and that the cost of extending
domestic partner benefits is minimal.
Among the benefits extended under this
legislation: Participation in the civil service
or federal employees’ retirementpr0-
gram; life insurance; health insurance;
and workers’ compensation.
The Many Marches of Aida
Aida is one of thOse operas people usually
see more than once, and there is good
reason for that. The grandest ofall Verdii~
operas,itis at once heroic, seductive, tragic
and an epic of huge proportions. It was
composed to commemorate the btfil~ng
and opening of the Suez Canal. And of
course thereis the gut-rending music.
Since the 1920’s, the opera has proved to
be a favorite with Tulsa audiences.
Yet when Tulsa Opera opens its 50th
Anniversary season November 8, 13 and
15, this Aida will boast more artists, chorus
and supers in front of a smashing set
fromL’Opera de Montreal, with animals
- boa constrictors specifically, from
Safafiis Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary ofBroken
Arrow.
The story of Aidais a deliciously complicated
struggle between at least three
major factions - the Egyptians and the
Ethiopians, the priests and the royalty,
and the romantic triangle between the
Egyptian princess Amneris and the General
Radames and the princessi Ethiopian
slave, Aida.
Although the story remains constant,
every Aida that has been performed in
Tulsa has some distinctive element.
The Chicago Civic Opera first brought
Aida to the Tulsa Convention Hall (the
old Lady on Brady) in the 1920s.
As many opera companies were curtailing
activities or ceasing to exist when the
¯ Great Depression hit the nation, opera
" continued in Tulsa. The next production
¯ of Aida, noted for its mammoth propor-
¯¯ tions, came July 13 and 15,1933,at Skelly
Stadium. About six thousand people at-
" tended the first performance, making it to
¯ date the largest single Tulsa audience for
¯ opera.
~ On November 1 and 3, 1956, Tulsa
¯ Opera Inc. presented its first production ¯
of Aida with Gerald Whitney as Conduc-
¯ torandChorus Master, AnthonyStivanello
¯ as Stage Director and Marguerite Bailey
¯ as Choreographer. The stage band was
¯ from Central High School and the extra
¯ trumpeteers were from Will Rogers High
School. On November 6 and 8, 1964,
¯ Aida was again performed at the Old
¯ Lady. Jauice Yoes made her opera debut
_" as the High Priestess in this production.
¯ When Tulsa Opera staged first its pro-
" duction at the new Tulsa Performing Arts
¯ Center in 1977 it was - you guessed it -
¯¯ Aida. Next in 1985 - The Nile Goes
Neon. Tulsa Operais fifth production of
¯
Verdiis renownedmusical dramabrought
~ thestellarvoiceofsopranoLeonaMitchell
¯ back to the Tulsa stage in the tire role. ¯
¯ Now, more than a decade later, Aida -
in the largest production yet, starring
¯ Priscilla Baskerville as Aida, Tichina
¯ Vaugllas Amneris and John Keyes as
Radames. For tickets and more informa-
¯ tion, call the Tulsa Opera Ticket Office at
¯ 587-4811.
particularly focusing on ending discrimination
based on sexual orientation
through elections, legislation,
public awareness and education. The
event was presented with the Gay &
Lesbian Victory Fund which works
to elect openly Lesbian and Gay public
officials.
Mixner’s speech was both funny
and
whenhe
AIDS,
in
values inspire his courage.
And he cited the example of a lady,
Fannie Lou Hamer, who suffered
.multiple beatings, to the point of bemg
o’ippled; until she finally was.
allowed to register to-vote. She told
Mixner she dfditso that one day, her
grandschild could hold office and
today, one grandson is a county supervisor.
Mixner exhorted his listeners
to workfor thosewhoareyounger,
to make it better for them. The crowd
of 150 were in the palm of his hand.
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20 year old, White male, 5 9, 1451bs,
seeks friends to hang out with. A
relationship is possible after some time.
(Tulsa) =7257
BULLSEYE AIM I’m looking for
~’iendship,and fun with other guys in
the a~ea. I m a 33 year old, White
male, 5~’10, 1651bs, with Brown hair,
Blue eyes, and a mustache. I like
listening to music, going out, playing
darts, and bowling, among other
things. (Tulsa) =7007
NEW TOOL IN TULSA This very
sexy, gooo Iooking,ltalian male, new
tothe area, has heard that cowboys
can be very hot.
SMOOTH AND HAIRY Nice
looking, White male, 40~ 6ft, with
Blond hair, Blue eyes, and a smooth,
muscular, swimmer’s build, seeks a
hairy man for good times, laughs,
and, ’1 hope, a 10ng term relationship.
I enjoy camping, swimming, dancing,
cooking, playing cards with friends,
and a whole lot more. (Tulsa)
=4309
SPEND THE DAY WITH ME I’m
an. attractive, 43 year old, White
male, 6’2, 2151bs. I’d like to meeta
guy to spend time with. I’m into
movies, going out to dinner, running,
cycling, bowling, dancing, spending
quiet times at home, and whatever
our imaginations can conceive of.
(Tulsa) =6538
TRANSGENERATION LIFE I’m a
Transgendered, Bisexual male. I’m
seeking a Gay or Bisexual,
Transgender male, between the ages
of 25 to 35, for relationship or
friendship. (Tulsa) =1471
FRIENDLY ROUNDUP ~utgoing,
friendly, White male, 35, 5 10, with
Brown hair and eyes, seeks other nice
guys for friendship and fun. (Tulsa)
=4304
HIGHER LEARNING Dru~] and
s.,m.oke free, 21 year old, White male,
5 10, 140ibs, with Brown hair and
seeks a similar who takes
good
mes and friendship. I’m interested in
guys who are college educated or
are in college now. I like travel,
music, concerts and more. like the
clubs now and then but don’t want to
meet someone who hangs out there.
(Tulsa) =4010
NATIVE NEEDS Good looking,
Native American, 23, seeks a man,
18 to 30. I’m open to good times,
or a relationship. I’m
’ interested in a biracial
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CLOSET HANGER Young, Gay
male, 20, seeks long term
relationship with a straight acting
man, 18 to 24. Like me, you are also
in the closet. I love music, quality time
with friends, watching movies, or
simply hanging out and having fun.
So, leto’s hang out in the closet
together. (Tulsa) =5947
STRONG, SILENT TYPE My name
is Michael. I’m from Tulsa. I’m a man
Of few words, looking to meet single
men. If you qualify, give me a call.
(Tulsa) =5282
TULSA TRAINEE Very
inexperienced, White male, 5’9,
1601bs, with Blond hair and Blue
eyes, seeks a Bi male, or a couple
with a Bi male, to show me how it’s
done.
(Tulsa)
~4571 later. (Tulsa) =4795
HOW DO YA HANDLE A
~UNGRY MAN? Hungry man, 21,
5 11, 1701bs, with BIon~d hair and
Blue eyes, seeks hot guys for good
times. (Tulsa) =2S49
QUALITY FRIENDSHIP Masculine,
g,o.od looking, discreet, White male,
6 2, 1751bs, with a sexy, deep voice,
seeks fun loving guys for great times.
I’m a dark haired, Blue eyed, hairy,
well defined man, hungry for action.
Call for a quality~ sexual friendship.
(Tulsa) =2776
WILD MAN I wanna get wild and
nasty with a.young, smooth, muscular,
White male. I’m a buffed, very
intelligenh 39 year old, Bi, White
male, 6ft, 1671bs, with Brown hair,
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=2594
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=2640
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music, especially alternative and
industrial music. If you’d like to make
a new friend, give me a call. (Tulsa)
=2038
BLONDE AND BI Attradive, Bi,
White female, 6ft, with Blonde hair,
seeks.another Bi female, who likes to
pa~, go out dancing, see movies,
and have fun. (Tulsa) =7095
NEW STATE OF MIND This very
Feminine, Bi curious, White female,
new to the area, wants to hook up
with other Bi, or Bi curious womyn,
for fun. Lel’s get to know each other.
(Tulsa) =7030
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the are~. (Tulsa) =6289
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walks, and having fun. Wanna be
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movies, and the outdoors.and I d like
to meet a womyn who can share
these interests with me. I’m a 25 year
old, White female, 5’6, 1701bs, with
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to go back to school to get another.
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and fun loving. (Tulsa) =!456
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m
World AIDS Day 1997
Candlelight March & Memorial Service
sponsored by
Interfaith AIDS Ministries
6 pm Gather at Southminster Presbyterian
Church Parking Lot.
6:30* March begins.
7 pm* Memorial Service at
All Souls Uttitarian Church.
Reception to follow in
Emerson Hall, All Souls.
*Time approximate
Bring bells & banners -candles & matches provided.
(All Souls will provide shuttle transportation for the March)
For more information, call 438-2437 or 800-284-2437
ATda November 8, 13, & 15
1997
Dreamkeepers
March 7, 12, & 14, 1998
Madarna Butterfly
Mav2 7,&’),
For the ~t seats ~n ~hc house, order .vour season tickets today:
Single tickets aiso on sale now
Call 587-4811 to subscribe. Or buy your tickets online at
www.webtek.com/tulsaopera/
Interfaith AIDS Ministries
presents
Red Ribbon
Holiday Bazaar
at the Pride Center
1307 East 38th Street, 2nd floor
Opening reception: Friday, Dec. 5, 7-10pm
Saturday hours: Dec. 6, n0on-6pm
The Bazaar will feature all types of holiday
decorations and gifts, including trees, wreaths,
centerpieces, ornaments and gift items.
All funds from this event will support the HIV/
AIDS services of Interfaith AIDS Ministries.
Donations of items to be sold are welcome as well
as donations of cash or volunteer time.
For more information,
call Ray, 628-0468, or IAM at 438=2437.
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Given Electric Shocks
LONIX~N (AP) - Gay prisoners were given electric
shocks in government-sponsored tests in the 1950s to
see ifhomosexuality could be controlled, The Guardian
newspaper reported recently. Documents released by
the government showed that inmates were given shocks
if they stared at pictures of men for more than eight
seconds, the newspaper said. Other inmates were given
the female hormone estrogen.
TheHomeOffice, which funded the study by London
University, concluded at the dme that up to half themen
who participated in the trial "have benefited from it- in
the. sense that they are less likely to indulge in homosexual
behavior." The newspaper did not report when
during the 1950s the trial was carried out, or on how
many people. It said that experiments were carried out
at four prisons in England.
The Guardian also said that the documents showed
the government was concerned that legalizing homosexuality
wouldencourage greater numbers ofpeople-to
try it. "Would homosexual conduct spread, or, losing
the glmnor of rebellion, decline?" the paper quoted a
government report as saying. In 1957, the government
ordered a review of Bfttain S homosexuality laws, which
resulted in their liberalization 10 years later.
Gay Holocaust Survivor
CAMBRIDGE (AP) - Stefan Kossinsky is wanned by
the memory of an old love, and chilled by a haunting
uncertainty. What happened to Kossinsky’s lover - a
German soldier- all those years ago? Kossinsky was a
teen-ager when he fell in love with a Nazi soldier in
1941, after Germans seized his Polish town of Torun,
Kossinsky told a group of Harvard students on Friday.
The 72-year-old Kossinsky, on campus to attend the
sold-out play, "Angels in America," which was dedieated
to him, said the young men met in an abandoned
shed for nearly six months. But then the soldier was sent
to the Russian front. Kossinsky was caught trying to
send a letter, was tortured by the Gestapo and sent to a
prison camp for five years.
"It was my greatest love, my first one," The Boston
Globe quoted Kossinsky as saying. Fearing that he had
sealed his lover’s fate with his hastily-launched letter,
Kossinsky began a frantic search for the soldier. He
examined archives in Germany, Poland, and Austria,
but found no trace of the man.
One of the most difficult things for Kossinsky, aside
from having to live without his lover, has been having
to live with the gnawing uncertainty of what happened
to him and the torturous guilt of possibly having contributed
to his demise.
The Holocaust devoured millions for their ethnicity,
politics, and religion. But it is estimated that as many as
.15,000 were put to death-for homosexuality. Kossinsky
is one of only seven gay Holocaust survivors to be
located by the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los
Angeles, see Shoah, page14
MJ DIRECTORWLE’[TERS/EDITORIAL P. 2/3
~m~ US & WORLD NEWS P. 4
HEALTH NEWS P. 6
m ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 8
COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9
BOOK REVIEW & GARDEN COLUMN P. 10
Z RE~AU~NT REVIEW P. 11
1 GAY STUDIE~ANTHROPOLOGY P. 12
¯ Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
: Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 7’0 City Locations
: Anti-Bias Policy,Add.ed
.At Rogers University
: First Ever ComprehensivePolicy atOKCollege
: TULSA.- In a move made with no attendant publicity, the board
: of regents for Rogers University added the words "sexual often-
" tation" to the university’s comprehensive non-discftmination
¯ statement last summer. The statement is printed on nearly all of
" Rogers’ newer publications, from Student Handbook & Rei
sources Guide to its 1997-99 catalog.
¯ The specific language reads: Rogers University, in compliafice
¯ with Tides VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive
¯ Order 11246 as amended,Title IX of the EducationAmendments
: of 1972, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and other
: federal laws and regulations, does not discriminate on the basis
¯ of.race, color national origin, sex, age religion, disability, sexual i orientation or status as a veteran in any of its policies, practices,
¯ or procedures. This includes, but is not limited to admissions,
¯ employment, financial aid, and educational services. Formerly
¯ Rogers documents used the same language minus the words,
" sexual orientation.
: While the addition of this language was done as much as 20
: years ago by the "flagship" public and private universities in the
nation (University of California System, University ofMichigan,
¯ University of Texas System, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford
." and Rice University), no other Oklahoma institution of higher
learning, public or private is known to have a similar policy. The
: regents of the University of Oklahoma did adopt after years of
¯ efforts by campus activists a very limited non-discftmination
¯ policy a few years ago which applied only to student organiza-
¯ t~ons.
¯ The change which protects all i~adividuals, Heterosexual, Gay,
’ Bi or Lesbian, from discriminauoz~ was introduced by regent
¯ Nancy Feldman, attorney, former TU professor and longtime
¯ community social jusdce activist in response to a request from a
¯ Gay commumty civil fights activist (A.) who prefers to remain
¯ unnamed. The activist had requested for severa] years that Rogers
!TOHR Protests Bias in
:Tulsa Centennial Book
: by Kelly Kurt, Associated Press
: TULSA (AP) -A Gay civil rights group is protest-
¯ ing the official Tulsa Centennial history, saying the
¯ book excludes contributions and events involving
¯ Gays and Lesbians. Tulsa Oklahomans for Human
¯ Rights (TOHR) charges that.’’Tulsa! A Biography
¯ of the American City" is a biased and incomplete
: account of the city’s first 1.00 years.
." "’An entire minority community is treated as
: though it doesn’t exist,"-Tom Neal, president ofthe
¯ approximately 150-member Gay and Lesbian or-
" ganization, stated. The group has contacted local
." retailers asking that they post its views adjacent to
¯ displays of the book, which Centennial organizers
¯ officially unveiled on November 18th..
: Author Danney Goble said the book’s intent was
: "to cover as fairly as possible the mainstream
¯ history of Tulsa as a whole.""The book never had
: the purpose or the intention of being a politically-
" correct encyclopedia of the contributions of or
: issues centra] to any one social group orminority,"
¯ he said.
: He based the book on 10,000 pages of research
: notes deftved mostly from publicrecords andmain-
: stream, publications. Most historical public ac-
¯ counts have not addressed homosexual issues, he
¯ said. "This should not be surprising because, as a
¯ professional historian, I know that until very recent
." times such highly persona] issues were considered
¯ taboo for public discussion and aiftng," Goble said.
¯ Nea] likened the exclusion to previous histories
¯ that failed to mention the 1921 race riot, which
: destroyed the city’s black business district. For
¯ example, he said, a-Tulsa commission produced a
¯ report in the mid- 1970s on anti-Gay discrimination
¯ at a time when few citie~ nationwide even consid-
University president, Roger Randle and other administrators ¯ ered the issue. "Fairness would only have required
: adopt the change. However, according to "A", thesereouests fell " - o " "
¯ on deaf ears tmtal Ms. Feldman became ~nvolved. "A’~oted tha~t , .¯,.~,~Gpaorbalger~aapihdohretw~,o0,uldhneosmt idn:cludeall groups in the
Ms. Feldman understood see Rogers, page 3 , nearly 3_00-page book. see Centennial~ page 14
No More Church in a Box!
St. Jerome Finds A Home
TULSA - After two years of
sharing others’s space, the
Parish Church of Saint
Jerome celebrated its first
Mass in its own building at
205WestKing StreetonSunday,
Nov. 30th. According to
the Reverend. Father Rick
Hollingsworth the congregation
has under gone many
changes -not the least of
which is no longer having to pack up the altar and all the items
needed for the service: i.e. church in a box!
St. Jerome began its services as a group committed to a
traditional liturgical style of worship; in fact, many at St. Jerome
had gone to Trinity Episcopal Church. But because of ongoing
debates in the Episcopal. Church USA’ about inclusivity, specifically
allowing Lesbians and Gay men to serve the Church openly,
those who founded St. Jerome originally affiliated with an
independent Catholic denomination.
The congregation first met at the United Methodist Commuuity
of Hope where they literally had to move the altar in and out
of the room for services. Later St. Jerome moved to the Garden
Chapel of the Ninde Funeral Homenear 41st&Peoria where they
remained until recently.
For much of the last year, the parish council and the members
of St. Jerome have searched Tulsa for a home. In the meantime,
some church events were held at the Pride Center and others in
homes. The search was made more difficult since Tulsa has few
church buildings on the market and a number of congregations
looking (of congregations fftendly to Lesbians and Gay men,
Commtmity of Hope a~d Community Unitarian Universalist
Congregation have been looking at space).
However, about September in a series of events which Father
Rick and Deacon Debbie characterized as the work of God, the
congregations ofSt~ JeromeandWestmiusterPresbyterianChurch
came together, see Jerome. page 10
¯ TOHR Board Changes
"Staff of HIV Program
¯ TULSA- The board of directors of Tulsa Oklaho-
¯ mans forHumanRights, Inc. (TOHR), Oklahoma’s
¯ oldest. Le.sbian and Gay non-religious community
orgamzauon, have announced changes in their
¯ HIV education, prevention and testing programs,
-" which do business under the name: HOPE: HIV
¯ Outreach, Prevention & Education. The board will.
¯" be hiring a new program director to take the place
which Mallory Degen Brown held. Also the board
¯ willbe replacing theHWclinic co-ordinator. Former
¯ clinic co-ordinator Leslie Johnson resigned due to
." a move out of the state. Other staff members are
¯ temporarily undertaking the duties of program di-
¯ rector and clinic co-ordinator.
The 1997 board of directors of TOHR include
¯ Dennis Arnold, Tim Daniel, Robert.Hill, Steve
¯ Horn, Sue Knause, The Rev. William Chester
¯ McCall, III, Jonathan Stanley and Tom Neal.
¯ TOHR/HOPE provides Tulsa with its principal
¯ anonymous HIV testing site at the HIV Resource
¯ Consortium. TOHR/HOPE staff members also do
’ targeted outreach for HIV prevention in several
: programs. These include "MSM’s" - men who
: have sex with men, younger Gay men; MSM’s in
¯ rural Oklahoma and women in Tulsa who are at
¯ high risk because of drug use or because they are
¯ sex workers.
: TOHR, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt, non-political or--
, ganization, also provides the Pride Center, Tulsa’s
¯ community center for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Trans-
" gendered persons, our families and friends. The
¯ Pride Center is located at 1307 E. 38th Street, 2nd
¯ floor. Individuals who support the mission of the
: organization may become members and support
: the community and HIV work of the organization.
¯ Formoreinformation, call 712-1600, 9-Spin, M-F,
¯ or 743-4297, 6-10pro, M-Sat.
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*Boston Willy’ s Diner, 1742 S. Boston
*Blue Room, 606 S. Elgin
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
*Jason’ s Deli, 15th & Peoria
~Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*The Palate Cafe & Catering, 3324G E. 31st
*St. Michael’s Alley l~taurant, 3324-L E. 31st
*Samson & Delilah Restaurant, 10 E. Fifth
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
*TNT’s; 2114S Memorial
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd
*Umbertos Pizzeria, 21st west of Harvard
832-1269
592-2143
592-2583
744-0896
583-6666
749-4511
585-3134
599-7777
749-1563
745-9899
745-9998
585-2221
834-4234
585=3405
660-0856
584-1308
599-9999
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 747-1508
*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
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313
Don Carlton Honda, 4141 S. Memorial 622-3636
Don Carlton Mitsubishi, 46th & Memorial 665-6595
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
*Daisy Exchange, E. 15th 746-0440
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’ s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611
I3oghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria- 744-5556
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337, 712-9379
*Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
*Gloria Jean’ s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
Lealme M: Gross, Southwest Financial Planning 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744=7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS,.Psychotherapy, 2865E. Skelly 745-1111
*International Tours 341-6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 t3. 15th 712-2750
*Jared’ s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018
David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236
*Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, POB 14011, 74159 747-5466
Langley Agency & Salon, 1316 E. 36th Pl. 749-5533
Laredo Crossing, 1519 E. 15th 585-1555
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers,9720c E. 31 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951
*Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 743-4297
Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo 838-7626
Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 747-5932
Richard’ s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617.
Scott Robison’ s Prescriptions, see ad for 3 locations, 743-2351
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921, 747-4746
Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S- Main,#308 582-7748
*Scribner’ s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
*Sedona Health Foods, 8220 S. Hatward .. 481-0201
*Sophronia’ s Antiques, 1515 E. 15 592-2887
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria
*Trizza’ s Pots, 1448 S. Delaware
*Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 _S. Lewis
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis
697-0017
743-7687
742-2007
481-0558
743-1733
592-0767
Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & Univemities
AIDS WalkTulsa, POB t071°, 74101-1071 579-9593
*All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria :..-.. 743-2363
Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 .--i-. 587-7314
Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207E: 6 583-7815
*B/L!G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury ctr. 583=9780
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201
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TOHR on Centennial Book Bias
Dear Mr. Goble, Rogers University -
¯ We are disappointed that you appar-
¯ enfly lack both the professionalism and
the courtesy to respond to our several
: requests to speak with you about ’q’ulsa!
." ABiographyoftheAmericanCity". How-
. ever, thanks to the Associated Press, for
whom you seem to have more respect, we
have some insight into the erroneous assumptions
that appear to have motivated
your purposeful exclusion of any mention
of Gay and Lesbian Tulsans in this official
centennial Tulsa history.
"Author Danney Goble said the book’s
intent was ’to cover as fairly as possible
the maimtrewn history ofTulsa as awhole.
.. The book never had thepurpose or the
intention of being a politically-correct
encyclopedia of the contributions of or
issues central to any one social group or
minori~., ’ he said."
This use ofhighly prejudicial language,
"politically correct" to dismiss and .~
marginalize criticism is a cheap shot not
worthy of a serious scholar. Likewise is
the specious suggestion that the only alternative
to what you wrote would have to
be an encyclopedia. For example, if you
had chosen to wax less lengthy about Dan
Alien, you might have found room for a
paragraph or two about the issues we
discussed. And are Tulsa Metropolitan
Ministries (TMM) or DomesticViolence
Intervention ServiceS really more than
Tulsa Oklahomans forHuman Rights and
the work this organization has done in
responding to HIV/AIDS?Ori s itjust that
you were an admirer of Dan Allen, or felt
the need to suck up to TMM or DVIS?
"He based the book on l O,O00pages of
research notes derived mostlyfrom pub--
lic records and mainstream publications,
Most historical public accounts hitve not
addressed homosexual issues, he said."
Perhaps youdepended entirdy toomuch
~ on other peoples’ research? Was it too
much to ask you to do a little original
work? You certainly had ample opportu-
~ nity from the names and phone numberw
¯ we provided you before you began the
¯ book but chose not to take it. For that ¯
matter, once most historical accounts did
¯ not address the experiences of Blacks or
" women in this country well either. Most
~ scholars have learned that these biases in
¯ earlierworkisno excuse for shoddy schol-
: arship now.
". " ’This should not be surprising be-
" cause, asaprofessionalhistorian, lknow
¯ that until very recent times such highly
¯ personal issues were considered taboo
¯ for public discussion and airing,’ Goble
¯ said."
: This comment proves just exacdy what
¯ was wrong with your assumptions about
-" Gay & Lesbian Tulsans. To be Gay or
¯ Lesbian is not merely a function of one’ s
; private sexual behavior as you imply
¯ above. Just like other minority communi-
." ties, Gay &LesbianTulsanshaveadistin-
¯ guishable sub-culmrewhoseexistence can
¯ be documented at least back to the middle
: 60’sbypeoplewhoarestillaliveinTulsa.
¯ see Book. page 16
Letters Policy
: .Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on
¯ ~ssues which we’ve covered or on issues
: youthinkneedtobeconsidered.Youmay
¯ request .that your name be withheld but
¯ letters mustbe signed&have phonehum-
: bets, or be hand delivered. 200 word let-
" ters are preferred. Letters to other publications
will be printed as is appropriate.
Our Fifth Year Begins
by Tom Neal, publisher & editor .
This issue marks the beginningof our 5th year. We take ¯
some space each year to comment on this event which we
believe is of importance, obviously to us, but also to the "
Tulsa and Oklahoma LGBT communities. ¯
Some may forget the pioneering contributions of this "
newspapers since much of what we .started, others have "
since imitated. Tulsa Family News was the first Gay ¯
newspaper in Oklahoma to establish extensive "main- ¯
stream"distribution across an Oldahoma town. Where "
once you could only get acommunity newspaper in a club ¯
or a"specialty" bookstore~ TFN is found at more than 70 .
locations across Tulsa as well as in Oklahoma City, "
Bartlesville, Tahlequah, Muskogee, Eureka Springs and
Fayetteville, Arkansas. Our Tulsa locations range from ¯
near North Tulsa, TulsaCity Hall, theTulsa Metropolitan
Chamber of Commerce, and local colleges and universities
to large Southside retail establishments, and our
acceptance in those venues is, we believe, not just a
positive reflection on this newspaper but a sign of ;growing
tolerance of Tulsa’s Lesbian and Gay communities.
Tulsa Family News was the first Gay newspaper in
Oklahoma to become a member-of the Associated Press
and serious news coverage has been a feature of the
newspaper since the beginning. In fact, much of the early
coverage in the mainstream press about the paperfocused ."
on that then unusual aspect. However, TFN has always .
balanced our national and international news with local ¯
coverage and commentary., and unlike some of our competitors,
our columnists are almost all locals and "wire"¯"
stories do not make up 80-90% of our content.
Fnrthermore, Tulsa Family News has consistently do- "
hated substantially greater amounts of advertising space "
to Tulsa.Lesbian and Gay, and HIV/AIDS charities. One."
of our competitors has a standing policy of not donating
but only giving discounts and another gives just tiny ads "
and tho,~e sdectivdy tojust a few charities. Nearly every .
HIV/AIDS charity in Tulsa has received or been offered "
free ad space in the last two years. It may be bad form to
brag about this but this record of donations is just one way "
that Tulsa Family News gives back to our community, "
unlike others who~takefrom it, and worse, send what they ¯
take out of town. ¯
Another contribution of Tulsa Family News is more :
controversial and that is our commitment to investigative
journalism and serious commentary. In that area, we have
done, we believe, much good work and have easily lived
up to themotto attributed to the early 20th century radical, "
Mother Jones, "to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the "
comfortable.’" ¯
In the process, we’ve angered some influential and
prominent Tulsans, both in and out of the community, ."
Which is probably good. Power gone unchecked often "
leads t° arrogance if not abuse. And it is the role of a real ¯
newspaper sometimes to question thejudgments of those "
who put themselves forward as leaders, to askif they have "
acted always with due diligence, to ask if their action."
benefit the community as whole ormorebenefitindividu~ ,
als’ quests for greater personal influence and position. ¯
It is our very real regret that raising these questions
sometimes hurts the feelings of thoseinvolved especially ¯
when those individuals seem well-intentioned. However, ¯
the goal of creating a tradition of debate and dialogue, of "
a shared democratic and-non-elifigt decision making
process are so critical to the long term growth and well
being ofTulsa’s LGBT community, that those who chose
to be in leadership positions must accept that criticism :
from TFN is as much a part of a healthy community as is ¯
their well-documented criticism of us for our positions.
We commit to our readers to continue to do the good
work we.have been doing; to improve where we need to
and to continue, edi~t0rially~ to be .advocates for Lesbian,
Gay, Bi and.Transgendered persons, for our friends and
families. We don’t promise perfection; in fact, we?likely
miracles, be they Yule, Christmas, HanukkJ~h~-KwaanTa
or merely thejoy of celebrating our,~r~,e..n,ds and families,
honoring thosewhom we ve lost mi~lofWelcoming anew
year, we wish each of you, the blessings of wisdom, joy
Please note these TFN & community updates:
our new phone number and preferred e-mail
address: 918-231-7372, fax: 918-583-4615 and
TulsaNews@earthlink.net
Also, Concessions wants its patrons to know
they will be closed on Christmas Eve but
will be open on Christmas Day. Marlene, Chris, Bruce and Tony are volunteers with the
HIVEducation and Recreation Center in West Tulsa.
¯ Tulsa Family News Endorses The Cimarron Alliance
"- by Tom Neal, editor & publisher
." Tulsa’s Gay rumor mills have been working overtime
¯ again. Those of you who don’t have the opporttmity to
¯ hear some of the concoctions that circulate are missing
: some of the most interesting fiction created today.
.. The latest fable of the rumor circuit is that a new
Oklahoma City Organization, The Cimarron Alliance, is
¯ coming to Tulsa to take over everything and everyone.
One friend was told that Cimarron aspires not only put
TOHR
Oklahoma’s oldest Lesbian and Gay non-religious organization)
and the Pride Center out ofbusiness but they are
going to take over ALL the HIV service organizations as
well. My goodness!
When I hear these things, I can’t help but think that if
perhaps just a fraction of-the energy our community
expends on gossip went into good works and substantive
efforts towards change, we would see progress for our
community and for our city as we’ve never seen before.
Well, here’s what we know about The.Cimarron Alliance.
The Oklahoma City based organization is coming
toTulsa- that’s true. But they’re aPAC, apolitical action
committee, registered with the State of Oklahoma and
authorized to do fundraising for political races. They do
not have the tax or legal status to take over TOHR, the
HIV Resource Consortium or any other Tulsa charitable
organization: Nor do they want to do so. Oklahoma City
attorney and board member, Jim Roth, expressed amazemerit,
and dismay, at the suggestion.
What they do want to do is to raise the kinds of dollars
to give to candidates that will result in Lesbian and Gay
issues andpeople being on Oklahoma’s political agenda.
Right now, We’re not even on most politicians’ radar,
except’perhaps as an issue to avoid, or in Jim lnhofe’s
case, to demonize for cheap political points. Cimarron
has raised substantial dollars in Oklahoma City andmade
significant donations in the last OK.C city council races.
That’s what they want to do in Tulsa as well.
Seems reasonabledoesn’t it? Seems damn well overdue,
even. But hey, in the fashion of many minority
communities, it seems we’re not happy just with the
obstacles that others put in fro]it of us, we need to add
some of our own. Already, we’re hearing some Tulsans
say we shouldn’t trust people from "The City" (sorry,
Marty - I know you hate that phrase). And Tulsa does
have ample evidence of Oklahoma City taking dollars
from us with little benefit returning. Others have characterized
Cimarron, rather uncharitably, as just another
(Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights " Dennis Neill, Rick Phillips, Marty Newman, Peter Ath-
¯¯ the need for thepolicy practically without any explanation.
"A" added that months more might have passed before
¯ :he and others kn~w abOUt the chaageexceptfor aconver-
"- : sation that Ms. Feldman had:With oriecotnmunity leader,
can promise that our occasional mistakes will be pre~ ¯ ." Marty Newman. Newman mentioned this to "A" who
sented in print for al!.to, see - !ik¢ having dectronically
lost the second half 0f Josh Whetsell’s story last month.
We will promise to do our best to present the news
fairly and accurately. We promise to work for social
justice, and specifically that if forced to chose, we will
stand withthe poor and oppressed before we stand with
those with privilege, and that we will work for a world in
which the many human differences, like race, gender or
gender identity, class, religion or sexual orientation, are
of only minor biographical significance.
Finally, in this holiday season of celebrating various
: self-appointed "A-list" group whose values may or may
¯ not really reflect those of our community as a whole. So
." there are some legitimate issues to discuss.
¯ But we at Tulsa Family News would like to endorse
¯ The Cimarron Alliance and to welcome them to Tulsa.
: Some Tulsans tried to get ourown version of thi_s type of
¯ group together, and frankly, failed. It wasn’t that the
¯ "right" people weren’t involved; most of the usual sus-
¯ pects were there: Nancy & Joe McDonald, Kelly Kirby,
confirmed the policy withRogers University vice.presidenh
Carolyn Thompson Taylor, a former Norman state
legislator and spouse ofOklahomaSenateleader, Stratton
Taylor.
Students in the University of Oklahoma Gay, Lesbian
.Bisexual Alliance (GLBA) wdcomed the news, expressmghope
that this mighthave a"domino effect" to shiftthe
OUboard of regents off dead center. They also noted that
former Oklahoma Sen. David Boren had not been particular!
y supportive of their efforts get anti-bias policies
passed.
¯ ens,meand others. Likely, the Tulsa effort failed because
¯ most everyone listed is already overcommitted to other
¯ worthy civic work.
So we’re saying let’snmwith what OklahomaCity has
¯ already done. It’s likely better that we have a statewide
¯ organization. Tulsans will need to be careful that the
Oklahoma City dominated board not just take dollars
¯
from our city without giving back. at least proportion-
: ately. And we’d suggest that if Cimarron really wants to
¯ overcome Tulsans’ long established and legitimate dis-
" trust of Oklahoma City motives, the organization should
¯ make having a board that equally balances Tulsans_ with
Oklahoma City residents a priority.. Not only will that
diffuse some of the traditional distrust, it’s a great way to
sell the organization. After all, folks here will much more
likely join a group where they know someone.
As forus, we’re putting ourmoney where ourwords are
- wejoined. And we made a commitment to support and
- promote the organization as much as wecan. Weencourage
you to do so as well.
Note: as many ofyou know, I am a candidatefor Tulsa
City Council and obviously, have been talking with
Cimarron about that race in hopes of having their support.
Indeed, t’t seems likely that a new organization to
Tulsa, a Lesbian and Gay PAC that wants to be credible
in Tulsa’s community, would support Oklahoma’s first
openly Gay candidate to runfor municipal office.
However, to clarify any question ofconflict ofinterest
in my endorsement ofFhe Cimarr0n Alliance, I made my
commitments to support the organizatt’on more than a
month prior to any announcement of incumbent city
ounctlor Gary Watts dectston not to runfor re-electron.
¯ Mr. Watts waswidely expected to continue in office by ¯
Democratic Party leaders and most city hall observers,
¯ including thi-s writer. If Mr. Watts had chosen to run
¯ again, I would not be runningfor city council butI would
¯ still be supporting Cimarron.
¯ A spokesperson for Tulsa Oklahomans for Human
". Rights expressed pleasure at the Rogerpolicy, noting that-
¯ Oklahoma’s largest employer, AmericanAirlines as well
: as a number of other corporations had adopted similar
¯ policies: He added, "promu" s"ing to j"ua"ge people j~t on
¯ their performance, not on their beliefs or statusis aot,Only
¯ good for business, it’s the only morally and
cally justifiable position for a public institut~t)n,to take~:
¯ .TOHR would like to see the City of Tulsa~ T~Sa:Cr~y,
and Tulsa City County Library make an equal:c0mmitment
to fairness."
Vermont Gay Marriage
License Case Filed
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP)- L~,wyers for three samesex
couples who want.the state ~o give them marriage
licenses have filed arguments in court. The arguments,
filed Tuesday in Chittenden Superior Courtby
attorneys for the law firm Langrock, Sperry & Wool
in Middlebury, Say Vermont marriage law supports
all committed couples, including those of the same
gender. The papers say interpreting the law to deny
the couples access to marital benefits goes against the
Vermont Constitution.
Two lesbian couples and a gay couple who were
denied marriage licenses in their towns filed suit
against the state in July. The suit challenges a 1975
ruling by the state Attorney General concerning a
same-sex marriage request in Plainfield. That ruling
advised town clerks that Vermont law defined marriage
as a union between a "bride and a groom,"
prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying.
The Attorney General’s office responded to the
three couples’ lawsuit on Nov. 10, requesting that it
be dismissed. It said the Vermont Constitution does
not guarantee same-sex partners the right to marry.
In the papers filed Tuesday, the couples’ lawyers
said the state has not shown a "valid pubfic purpose"
to deny the couples the benefits of civil marriage.
Those benefits include sick leave, inheritance rights,
and being appointed guardian if a spouse becomes
incapacitated.
Thefiling Tuesday also referred to studies showing
that children raised by same-sex parents are welladjusted
and don’t suffer from psychological or social
development problems. The filing said the state
relied on outdated roles and .stereotypes of men and
women in its arguments.
"Marriage is about much more than procreation,"
said Susan Murray, an attorney representing the
couples. "It’s about sharing. It’s about sacrifice. It’s
about companionship. It’s about loyalty.
Cammermeyer Running!
LANGLEY, Wash. (AP) - Retired Army Col.
Margarethe Cammermeyer has mailed her filing
papers to the secretary of s tateand opened a campaign
office to take on Rep. Jack Metcalf in Washington’s
2nd congressional district. Cammermeyer, 55,- drew
national attentionby successfully fighting to stay in
theWashington National Guard despite the military’ s
policy of discharging homosexuals.
Cammermeyer, a Democrat, said Monday she had
opened her campaign headquarters in Langley, the
Whidbey Island town where she lives. The 2nd Dis=
trict includes Western Washington from Everett to
the Canadian border.
Her early campaign entry against Republican
Metcalf gives her time to rinse cash and drum up
support in a race bound to receive national attention,
party activists said. "We’ve got the ’L’ word in this
race, and we’re not talking about liberal," Paul
Foumier, an Island County Democratic activist, told
The Seattle Times.
Cammermeyer recently retired as chief nurse of the
Washington Army National Guard. She had been
fired in 1992, three years after telling an investigator
she was a lesbian. But a federal judge ordered her
reinstated in 1994, and the government dropped its
appeal of thin ruling. Her battle resulted in a bestselling
book and amade-for-TV movie starring Glenn
Close.
Metcalf, 69, has won twice in the nominally Democratic
district. Before that, he spent years in the state
Legislature. Heis a retired history teacher, and he and
his wife operate a bed-and-breakfast inn on Whidbey
Island. Metcalf has said he considers Cammermeyer
"a substantive candidate" and will take her seriously
if she wins the nomination next year.
Benefits for Detroit
DETROIT (AP) - The City Council is considering
legislation that would allow benefits for domestic
partners,
’q’his does indicate movement forward on this
issue," Jeffrey Montgomery, president of the Gay
civil rights advocacy groupTriangle Foundation, told
the Detroit Free Press. "We look forward to going
through the process. It’s very encouraging."
The legislation, submitted by Councilman Clyde
Cleveland, would allow any committed adult couple
to register with the city a~a-.f-amily.It also would
enable nonunion city employees to declare their partners
as dependents so they could collect life and
health insurance benefits, the paper said in a recent
story, ff adopted, Detroit’s ordinances would be in
line with those found in at least 20 other cities -
including Ann Arbor- which already recognize domestic
partnerships.
None of the council members would comment on
the legislation. Mayor Dennis Archer would not say
whether he will support it. "He’s not going to deal
with that measure until it’s presented to him by the
City Council," Anthony Neely, Archer’s press secretary,
told the Free Press. The council likely will vote
on the ordinances in January.
Wash. St. Rights Initiative
SEATTLE (AP) - His voice still, thickens when he
recalls the day he got fired, 12 years ago. David
Biviano, then a probation supervisor for a Spokane
County court project for youth offenders, says his
bosses told his work was terrific, but that he’d have to
go. There was just one little problem, they said:
Biviano is gay.
"I was wiped out. It was devastating," he says.
"They said they regretted having to do that because it
was a tremendous loss to the county, to the clients and
to the courts, but that.they.., could not employ a gay
man in this position. "I lost my job, my ability to
support my six children, my ability to maintain a
home," says Biviano, now 56. "I became extremely
depressed: I became dysfunctional in many ways.
My children ended up on welfare. It was quite a
struggle making my way back, maintaining some
kind of mental health, some kind of self-esteem."
Biviano now has his own diversity-trmnmg consuiting
firm in Centralia. But he says he was out of
work or underemployed for the better part of six years
before he got work in Seattle, and later with state
government, that reflected his abilities.
Today he is stumping for Initiative 677, which
would make Washington the 12th state to ban employment
discrimination based on sexual orientation.
If it passes, Washington would be the first state to
adopt such a law through the iuitiative process
State law currently bans discrimination based on
race, creed, national origin or disability. Employers
also cannot ask about marital status, children or
religion. The initiative would add sexual orientation
to the list of characteristics the employer can’t take
into account It would apply to government and the
private sector, exempting religious organizations and
employers with fewer than eight workers. The measure
expressly says it would not require preferential
treatment or quotas and that employers could regulate
dress and conduct in the workplace. If the initiative
becomes law, those who believe they have suffered
discrimination could sue in Superior Court.
The citizen initiative was mounted after advocates
tried for two decades to get a "gay civil rights"
measure through the state Legislature - it repeatedly
passed the House only to stall in the more conservative
Senate. The measure began as a response to the
Republican-controlled Legislature’s vote earlier this
year to ban same-sex marriage. When Democratic
Gov. Gary Locke vetoed the ban, backers began
trying to place the bill on the ballot as a referendum.
.That prompted the gay community to begin collectmg
signatures for this counter-measure.
The Gay-marriage referendum died in-the Senate
but the initiative backers went ahead, though some
activists consider it unwise to make civil rights a
ballot-box popularity contest.
The campaign can’t quantify the scope of the
problem, since no one keeps records. Proponents
have offered a handful of examples, but say their
documented eases of discrimination arejust the tip of
the iceberg.
"Nearly everyone in the gay and lesbian community
would say they’ve been affected at some point,"
says Jan Bianchi, a Seattle attorney who heads Hands
Off Washington, a gay-rights organization that has
beaten back anti-gay rights initiatives.
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In addition to direct discrimination in hiring, firing
and promotion decisions;~"m’fiiiy homosexuals face
hostile work environments that the initiative might
help to slowly eliminate, Bianchi says. "in this culture,
we define ourselves through work, and if we are
having to be afraid weql lose our jobs .. or we can’t
be open about our lives, it has a major impact on how
we look at ourselves," she says.
Unincorporated King County, Seattle, Olympia
and Tumwater have anti-discrimination laws covering
mostemployers, and statutes in Clark and Clallam
counties and the cities of Bellingham, Pullman and
Vancouver cover local government employees.
That covers about 18 percent of the state population,
but legal action must be taken by a government
agency on behalf of the person. Under the initiative,
the individual would gain the right to filea civil
lawsuit in Superior Court.
Backers note that Microsoft, Nordstrom, Safeco,
Group Health, Weyerhaeuser and some other employers
have non-discrimination clauses.
Opponents say the initiative is part of a broader
effort to gain public acceptance ofhomosexuality and
w.onld lead to "an epidemic of costly lawsuits against
private employers."
The initiative would make outlaws out of those
who consider homosexuality wrong and harmful,
says Bob Larimer of Vancouver,leader ofNoOfficial
Preferential Employment (NOPE). While advocates
portray the measure as "a harmless gesture of tolerance,"
he contends itwouldcreate special rights in the
workplace.
Latimer and other foes say the initiative could lead
to quotas despite wording to the contrary. The only
effective way for a company to prove it does not
discriminate would be to hire homosexuals and adopt
workplace rules that "honor diversity, which actually
means honoring and legitimizing homosexuality,"
Larimer said at a legislative hearing this month.
The.state Christian Coalition calls it"a quota requirement
in disguise." Opponents also insist that homosexuality
is a lifestyle choice, not an in-born characteristic,
and has no place in a anti-discri~mnation law
based on. "immutable characteristics" such as race
and disabilities.
In a fundraising letter, NOPE uses the bogeyman
tactic: "Your children are the target.... They have not
g~ven up. They still want your kids, and 1-677 is
another move toward that goal." The group says the
initiative would allow cross-dressers in the classroom
and glorify sodomy._
A fundraising letter from initiative supporterscalls
such allegations "stereotypical misinformation and
verbal gay-bashing" Bianchi says the initiativewould
create no special rights or quotas and would simply
require that employment decisions be based on merit,
not on sexual orientation.
"There are not quotas about how many Jews or
Buddhists or Christians someone has to hire," though
religious discrimination is barred, says Hands Off
Washington leader Laurie Jinkins. "Likewise, there
won’t be any quotas about how many gays or lesbians
someone has to hire."
There have been no media or independent polls on
the initiative. A campaign poll taken months ago
showed 9 out of 10 voters agreeing that "It is wrong
to fire someone from their job just because of their
sexual orientation.Y Asked if they’d support a law to
keep that from happening, 62 percent said yes. The
poll was conducted by Lake Research, with 500
respo.ndents contacted by telephone in February. The
margin of error was 4.4 percent.
Sydney Wins Gay Games
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Sydney will host the
2002 Gay Games after beating four North American
cities in a vote in Denver on Thursday. Sydney beat
Dallas, Long Beach, Montreal and Toronto and will
hold the Games in September 2002.
The games will have more participants than the
10,000 expected at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Sailing, netball and touch rugby will be Sydney’s
addition to the list of official sports which includes
ballroom dancing, tenpin bowling and golf. Events
will take place in ,Olympic venues and mother land-
,.marks;including the Sydney OperaHouse. The openlug
ceremony will held at the Olympic baseball
stadium at Homebush.
Chairman of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games bid,
Tom Seddon, said the 2002 g~ames have a budget of
US $7.35 million. "The economic impact of the
event, most of it in Sydney, is expected to come in at
over $100 million (US $70 million)," Seddon said.
The Gay Games started in 1982 with just 1,200
participants but 12,000 competed at the New York
edition in 1994.
Sydney’s bid was criticized earlier this month by
Ian Armstrong, a conservative ptlitician and member
of the board of SOCOG, the 2000 Olympics organizing
body. Armstrong said he was staggered by a
request for US .$700,000 in government funding. "I
predicted that this business was just a stunt to allow
Sydney’s homosexuals to give their overseas colleagues
acheap holiday in the harborcity,"Armstrong
said. "And it appears I was right.’"
Organizers received about US $50,000 government
funding to help win the bid and were promised
use of some of the venues to be used at the 2000
Olympics.
"The Olympics are for all people, and will be paid
for by the community. But why should the New South
V~ales commumty have to pay for the Gay Games
which by its very name is intended to cater for.only a
minority?" Armstrong said.
Gillian Minervini, a member of the successful bid
team m Denver, said Armstrong’s comments had
"empowered" the team. "I think the gay and lesbian
commumty in Sydney has a history of enormous
strength and those kind of detractors are just not
worth listening to anymore," Minervini said. It was
the third time Sydney has bid for the Gay Games and
the first time the games will be held in the southern
hemisphere.
Senator Supports .ENDA
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Sen. Harry Reid says he is cosponsoring
a federal bill on Gay civil rights because
it’s fundamentally fair. The bill outlaws hiring, firing
or promoting employees based on sexual orientation.
Reid told about 180 gay and lesbian business leaders
Monday night that sexual orientation should not be a
factor in hiring or firing someone. Reid, D-Nev., told
the LAMBDA Business and Professional Association
that thebill does not promote special ghts. It is
not a quota bill or a special treatment bill," Reid said.
"It’s just a fundamental call for fairness."
Rep. John Ensign, R-Nev., opposes the bill. Retired
businessman Bruce James has not taken a position on
the bill, known as the Employment Non-Discrimination
Act. Ensign and James are seeking the Republican
nomination for the 1998 Senate race, while Reid
is seeking a third term in the office.
Thenon-discrimination act was introduced in Congress
m 1994 and has been introduced in every
session since. It failed to pass in 1996 by one vote.
The bill is the leading piece of legislation sought by
the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national
political organization for Gays and Lesbians. The
campaign is supporting Reid’s re-election effort.
Reid told the association he supports the bill because
no laws exist to prohibit putting up a sign in a
business that says, "Wehire everybody but lesbians."
He recalled the days when storefront signs stated"no
blacks, Jews or Mexicans." To discriminate in the
workplace based on gender, race or religion has since
become illegal. Sen. Richard Bryan, D-Nev., is also
one of at least 30 co-sponsors.
Ensign said he is not convinced Gays are being
discriminated against economically. And he said he
sees other problems with the bill. "Somebody could
say they are gay, and who can say they are not?" he
said. Ensign said he thinks people would lie ~to Win
lawsuits by claiming they are Gay, just as people lie
about being injured k0 win setfle~entsi~ ¯ ¯ "
Ensign said as a veterinarian and gaming executive
he hired and promoted Gays and Lesbians. "I’ve
never discriminated against Gay people," he added.
U. of Cal. Gives Benefits
LOS ANGELES (AP) - By a one-vote margin, the
University of California Board of Regents approved
a plan Friday to offer health benefits to domestic
partners of its Gay employees, see News, page 14
,I
Young Men
Not Being Safe
. t
BOSTON (AP) - A sex survey criticized
for its frank language has fouffd that 59%
of the young gay men whoresponded had
unprotected sexual intercourse within the
last year. T,he sex survey enraged lawmakers
such as House Speaker Thomas
Finneran who said the questions were
filled with profanity. But it confirmed the
need for HIV prevention programs for
young gay men, said- John Auerbach of
the Department of Public Health. "We
found it to be very helpful," Auerbach
told the Boston Herald.
The survey results convinced DPH to
divert $300,000 from otherAIDS prevention
programs to target young gay men.
The survey questioned 250 gay and bisexual
men aged 13 to 24. It found that 85
percent of men who have sex with both
men and women had unprotected intercourse.
Bisexual menwere twice as likely
to have unprotected sex than those Who
only have sex with men. Those who reported
having sex with unfamiliar partners
were much more likely to have
unprotected intercourse than those who
knew their partners before having sex
with them, the survey reported. AIDS
Action designed and conducted the survey,
butitwas analyzed and printedby the
DPH for $20,000.
Court to Clarify HIV
Bias Protections¯
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme ¯
Court said Wednesday it will use a dis- ¯
pute over a dentist who refused to treat an :
HIV-infectedwomanat his office to clarify "
protections against bias for people with ¯
the AIDS virus. The court said it will hear
an appeal by Maine dentist Randon ."
Bragdon, who a lower court said violated ¯
the federal Americans With Disabilities ’
Act when he told Sidney Abbott he would ¯
only fill her cavity at a hospital.
The 140,000-member American Dental
Association supported Bragdon’s appeal
in a friend-of-the-court brief that
urged thejustices to clarify dentists’ legal
obligations in such circumstances. The
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders,
which is representing Abbott, said in
a statement, "Without strong legal protections
against discrimination, the nearly 1
millionAmericans inthis countrywhoare
living withHIV will become second-d_ass
citizens."
Lower courts have split on whether
people who are infected with the HIV
virus, but do not yet suffer from symptoms
of AIDS, are considered disabled
under the 1992 anti-bias law. Under the
law, someone is disabled if they have a
physical or mental impairment that substantially
limits "one or more major life
activities."
Bragdon’ s appeal also argues thatcourts
should defer to his professionaljudgment
on whether to provide treatment such as
filling a cavity in his dental office or at a
hospital. Ms. Abbott visited Bragdon’s
office in Bangor, Maine, for. an appointment
on Sept. 16, 1994. On her patient
information form, she indicatedthat she
was HIV-positive buthadnoAIDS symptoms.
Bragdon examined Ms. Abbott and
discovered that she had a cavity near the
gum line on a back lower tooth. He told
her that, under his infectious-disease
policy, he would not fill her cavity in his
office. Bragdon told Ms..Abbott he would
treat, her in a hospital setting, and she
would have to bear the additional costs
~ imposed by the hospital. Two months
¯ later, Ms. Abbott sued. She sought, among
¯
other things, monetary damages..A f_edi
eraljudge ruled thatBragdonhad vioIfffed
: federal law, and the 1st U.S. Circuit Court
: of Appeals agreed. "Ms. Abbott’s HIV-
: positive status is a physical impairment
¯ which substantially interferes with her
." major life activity of reproduction, and
¯ sheis therefore disabled within the mean-
" ing of the ADA," the appeals court said. It
¯ added that Bragdon did not offer enough
¯¯ evidence to show that it would have been
¯ unsafe to fill Ms. Abbott’s cavity in his
office. "Cases of this kind are necessarily
: fact-sensitive," the 1st Circuit court said.
¯ "Had the patient required more invasive ¯
treatmentorhad the dentistproffered stron-
¯
ger evidence of a direct threat, the result
¯" may well have differed.’"
¯ Beforemonetary damages couldbe cal- ¯
culated, Bragdon appealed to the nation’s
¯ highest court. His lawyers argued, among
¯ other things, that reproduction should not
¯ be considered amajor life activity compatable
to walking, seeing, hearing, speak-
" ing, working or caring for one’s self.
¯ AIDS Spread Worse
i Than Thought
: PARIS (AP) - AIDS has struck the world
much harder than previously thought, a
U.N. agency said Wednesday in a report
showing more than 30 million people are
infected - one-third more than earlier
estimated. About 16,000 people are infected
daily, one in every 100 sexually
active adults under age 49 worldwide has
HIV and among those infected, only one
in 10 knows it, UNAIDS said in the report
released in Paris.
"The main message of our report is the
AIDS epidemic is far from over. In fact,
it’s far worse," Peter Piot, director general
of UNAIDS, told a news conference. Released
ahead of World AIDS Day on-Dec.
¯ 1, the report said that if current rates hold
steady, those infected with the immune-
" .stripping virus "will soar to 40 million"
¯ by the year 2000. The impact of AIDS
deaths, which rose an estimated 50 per-
" cent this year, "is only just beginning."
¯. Despite advances in AIDS treatment
and falling infection rotes in the West, the
: virus is hitting Africa much harder than
; earlier believed, said the "Report on the
¯ Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic." Instead of ¯
relying on regional estimates, "for the
: first time, we went country-to-country to
¯ see what was happening," Piot said. "The ¯
: rate oftransmissionwas grossly underes-
¯ fimated, especially mNigeria and South ¯
Africa, he said. Rates are also rising in
¯ Eastern Europe, primarily due tointrave-
: nous drug users and lack of AIDS educa-
¯ tion, said the report by Geneva-based ¯
UNAIDS.
: The report also called for better educa-
¯ tion, which it said does not encourage ¯
¯ young people to have sex, as some believe.
On the contrary, it said sex educa-
¯" don "helps delay first intercourse" and
¯ reduces teenpregnancy. EvenintheWest,
Plot said; "prevention efforts are far in-
; sufficient for youth. I have a daughter at a
: lycee here, and what she’s gettingin terms
¯ of sex education is inadequate." ¯
Thereport said some 5.8 million people
: have been infected in 1997, and an esti-
¯ mated 5.3 million were infected in 1996,
"- up from the count of 3.1 million people
¯ that doctors originally estimated. A total
: of 30.6 million live with HIV or AIDS
¯ globally, two-thirds of them in sub-Sa-
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hhran Af~ca, it said. The epidemic has
,-~st~ck yoUth the hardest, Piot said. "Most
of them are under 25 years old."
The report estimated that 2.3 million
people died of AIDS in 1997 - a 50
percent increase over 1996. Nearly half of
those deaths were among women, and
460,000 were among children under 15.
AIDS is wiping out gains in life expectancy
made in the developing world in
recent decades and has orphaned 8.4 million
children, the report said.
The report paints a devastating picture
ofAIDS-ravaged sub-SaharanAfrica, with
7.4 percent of people aged 15 to 49 there
thought to be infected:
- the number of HIV-infected in
Botswana has doubled over the last five
years, now reaching 25 percent to 30
percent of the total population.
- one in five adults in ~Zimbabwe was
HIV-positive in 1996. In one town with a
largepopulation ofmigrantworkerS~ seven
pregnant women in 10 were HIV-positive
in 1995.
- 25 percent more infants are dying in
Zambia and Zimbabwe because ofAIDS.
The disease is expected to push
. Zimbabwe’s infant mortality rate up 138
percentby 2010. Ugandais Africars bright
.spot, reporting falling infection rates that
were credited to education and wider
condom use.
The report said Asia’s AIDS epidemic
is morerecentthanAfrica’s, though India’s
3 million to5million HIV-infectedpeople
make it the country with the most HIVinfected
in the world, Indicating Asia’s
fi.g~res couldjump later, it cautioned that
estimates there are made on "less informarion
than in other regions." In the
world’s most populous nation, China reported
up to 200,000 cases and the figure
was expected to double this year, it said.
Speedier Drug
Approval Process
WASHINGTON (AP)-President Clinton
signed a law Friday giving the Food and ¯
DrugAdministrationnew powers to speed :
the approval of drugs to combat a host of :
killerdiseases including cancerandAIDS. :
Some critics have argued that thelaw will ¯
expose patients to risky medicine for the ~
. benefit Of the makers of experimental :
drugs and new devices.
But Clinton said,"TheFDA has always !
set the gold standard for protecting the. :
public safety," "Today, it wins the gold "
medal forleading theway into thefuture," ¯
he said at the bill-signing ceremony in the ¯
Old Executive Office Building next to the "
White House. ¯
A hard-fought compromise, the FDA ¯
Modernization Act of 1997 took three ."
.years to hammer out. Many of its provi- "
sions.have been put into effect adminJs- ¯
,~,atively throughVicePresidentA1 Gore’s ¯
reinventinggovernment"programs."We .
know that for many patients, experimen- "
tal treatments represent their best - per- ¯
haps their only - chance for recovery," ¯
Clinton said. "That’s why this bill writes .
intolaw current FDA policies that allow "
doctors and patients to use new drugs :
before they are formally approved." "A1- ¯
ready thousands of AIDS, cancer, and :
Alzheimer’ s patients havefoundnewhope :
- even new life- with these experimental ¯
therapies," he said. "
Clinton said he first became interested :
in the issue during his 1992 campaign ¯
when he heard complaints that the FDA ¯
drug approval system was "too slow and :
somewhat arbitrary and not giving the "
: American people the drug approvals and
: the medical-device approval~ in a timely
¯¯ fashion."
Clinton allies applauded the new law.
¯ "The challenge now is to implement this
¯ far-reachinglegislationrapidly andeffec-
: tively, so that the full benefits of these
¯ changes will be available to patients and
¯ industry as soon as possible," said Sen.
: Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
¯ But Dr. Sydney M. Wolfe, director of
¯ Public Citizen’s Health Research Group,
: called the new law "the worst attack on
_" the Food and Drug Administration’s abil-
¯ ity to protect consumers and patients in 91
¯ years." "Americans will be exposed to ¯
defective drugs and medical devices that
¯ Europeans with their weaker laws have
¯ been exposed to for a long time," Wolfe
¯ said. He contended thatpolitical contribu- ¯
tions greased the bill’s progress through
Congress and added. This bill,s good for
: corporate profits and.bad for public health
¯ - period."
i Cell Fights HIV
¯ WASHINGTON (AP) - How do some
." patients infected with theAIDS virus sur-
¯ vive for years without treatment and with-
: out getting sick? A Boston team of re-
: searchers says it may have the answer to a
¯ question that has puz~.led scientists for
: years. In a study published in the journal
~ Science, researchers say an analysis of
¯ blood from a robust Boston man infected
." witthHIV for 18 years shows he is pro-
¯. tected by a large number of immune sys- tern cells, called helper T-ceils, that spe-
¯ cifically attack the AIDS virus.
¯ Using:this clue, researchers at the Massachusetts
General Hospital went on to
." find that these special helper T-cells may
: be the essential difference between being
¯ well while infected with HIV and being ¯
sick with the disease. "Our work provides
." an explanation of why a very small group
¯ of people have been able to avoid getting
¯ sick from this virus even though they _are
infected," said Dr. Bruce Walker, the seuior
author of the study.
Helper T-cells direct the body’s immune
system. There is a variety of the
ceils, and each type is primed to attack a
specific virus .or other invader. As these
ceils detect the presence of a target virus,
they reproduce by the billions, flooding
thebloodstream with defenders. ButHIV,
the AIDS virus, has broken down this
defense. For reasons not understood,
helperT-ceils specificforHIV oftenareat
t0w levels in or absent from patients infected
with the virus.
Experiments at Massachusetts General
confirmed that high levels of HIV-specific
T-cells may be essential for the body
to hold the AIDS virus in cheek. Walker
said laboratory tests of blood from HIV
patients found that those with the strongest
T-cell response to the HIV antigen
had the lowest amount of virus in their
bloodstream, but those with weak T-cell
responses had high virus loads.
Thediscovery suggested thebodymight
be able to control HIV if helper T-cells
that target the virus could somehow be
protected. To test this idea, researchers
used powerful anti-viral drugs to treat
patients recently infected with HIV.
Walker said the drugs caused the vires
load to drop quickly, and the patients’
immune systems then started producing
T-cells that specifically attacked HIV.
Walker said the HIV-specific T-cells
were not produced in the bodies of patients
whohad been infected withHIV for
more than six months, see Health, p. 14
by-James Christjohn Bernadette Peters was the
Hello, playmates in the amusement park ¯ artistatthelast TulsaPhilharmonicPops
of life. Well, since I missed it last month, : concert, and put on a great show. To see
Happy Thanksgiving in re~,ospect, and " her perform live is to understand why she
Merry Yule. Good, now that s out of the ¯ is a star. You know the moment she sets
way. I’vebeenrunningamonthbehindall " foot on the stage that a star is present, her
year. ’Bout time I caught up. : charisma is so powerful. Every move-
Well, the one person ¯ ment was perfect, every note a gem, and
who actually reads this the performance one of
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I know of now (Hi Robert Reed,
formed many of the se-
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one who lets me know whathe really thinks,pro- Plaillmrmonlc release"LiveatCamegie
Hall" and included- the
claimed me insane after executive director, patter developed for that
reading last month’s ode mue]z dlseusslon at show. Starting off with
to all things Uhi~y Uhitty "We’re in the Money"
Bang Bang. And Peter’s t]ze prior day’~ and "Pennies from
the one who remembers re]zearsal centered on Heaven", during which
exactly where he bought _ she walked into the audihis
Corgi diecast model w]tet]ter or not to ence and scattered cop-
(Marge McNeamey’s at
form per confetti all over
Utica Square, the "Baby ][mr
people, then thanked the
Gap" of its day), and how "M~xl~ Love crowd for coming and
much it cost at the time Alon~" a ltilt~t-~ou~
told us that shehadheard
($12 in 1968). He also , that Tulsa was famous
admits to still having the ode to t~te joys of... for its oil. She then said
car somewhere in his at- that she loved the city
tic, and to have retained well, mal~in~ love and was only upset that
his childhood copy of the alone. A taste[ul and herhotelwasnexttorail-
LP soundtrack. Sounds roadtracks.~okingiyMs.
like the pot calling the humorous little ditty, Peters said well! guess
kettle tome. . . butnomore. Ms. Peters ]~ad no the only .,fixing that mat-
I have outgrown last ters is if I m on the fight
month’s column, and am small trepidation as side of them!"
now into more mature
to laow well it would Therestofthefirstsectoys.
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So we move on to the l~e reeelved, as Tulsa much like the
review section, inwhichI
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I’ve seen 2 shows with tiontoacertaininfamous
major headliners in the last month, ~ song that began ’¢Hais song has become
Fleetwood Mac and Bernadette Peters. : legendary in certain circles" began clap-
Those who are even slightly acquainted ¯ ping and hollering and she said "well I
with me, or have heard Tom complain in : guess those circles are all here tonight!"
his inimitable fashion about my obses- : (See, it’s notjustme that engages insuch
sions, know that I am fans of both. Espe- : rowdybehavior!Therewasawbolebunch
cially Stevie Nicks. (I’m so jealous that ¯ of us! The bluehairs didn’t know what to
she gets.away with capes and I can,t.) : think!) And according to Robert Reed,
Anyway, one performance was GREAT : Philharmonic executive director, much
and one was woefully disappointing. " discussion at the prior day’s rehearsal
Which was which? Stay tuned for de- ¯ centered on whether or not to perform
tails... ." "Making Love Alone", a hilarious ode to
Don’t miss the University ofTulsa’s : the joys of... well, making love alone. A
production of"FALSETTOS". The kids ¯ tasteful and humorous litde ditty, Ms.
fought long and hard to get this show : Peters had no small trepidation as to how
mounted (don’tgo there)andfinally gotit ." well it would be received, as Tulsa has a
going! The show, which won Tonys ga- : reputation for not being very accepting of
lore duringits Broadway run, was penned ¯ anything off-center Imagine. Wall, she
by James Lapine, author of the book for" : need not have worried, there was a large
Into The Woods". The musical is corn- : contingent of fans who knew the song,
prised of what were originally 2 one-act " and let out a cheer at the intro. The rest of
plays, detailing the changes in a Jewish ¯ the audience wouldn’t have understood it
family brought about by the father’s ac- : anyway. I was able to personally thank
knowledging he is gay. The first act cen- : her for singing it.
ters on the reactions of the family - his : Also included were "Not a Day Goes
wife, son, and lover - to the announce- o By , FmthlessLove ,and GlowWorm.
ment. The second act follows the family : Almost all the students of the theatre
as they deal with the Son’s Bar Mitzvah, : departmentoftheUniversityofTulsawas
the ex-spouses dealings with each other, ° at the show, and waited in the cold for the
AIDs and the lover who had left but now ¯ chance at an autograph. Ms. Peters didnot
is back. TU presents the musical at 8pm ° disappoint, stopping her limo so that she
December 4-6 and two matinees at 2pro ~ could give a wave and a greeting to the
Dec..6 & 7 in Chapman Theatre on cam- ¯ kids, and even signed autographs. I’m
pus m Kendall Hall. A special perfor- : sure her writer’s cramp will fade in time.
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READ ALL ABOUT IT
reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-County Library
Even the most enlightened parent who
learns that their childis
Gay/Lesbian/Transgendered
goes through
anemotional andstressful
period. Christian or
particularly religious
parents often have an
even more difficult
time. Coming Out As
Parents is arevised edition
of afabulous book
written by David
Switzer, Professor
Emeritus of Pastoral
Theology at Perkins
School of Theology at
Southern Methodist
University in Dallas.
Switzer examines the
standardreactions from
mostparents, including
denial, guilt and anger.
This book will guide
disbelieving parents
through the maze of
emotions, and help
themcontinue to have a
constructive and posi-
"five relationship with
their child.
Chapters on"WhatWill PeopleThinkT’
and"Where Does the Fault Belong?" confrontthe
c0unterproducfive andultimately
ummportant feelings that parents may
have. Parents who are ashamed or embarrassed
by their child may decide to keep
seemingly inanswerto eachothers’ prayer.
The congregation of Westminster Presbyterian
Church had aged and they no
longer needed nor could maintain their
1920’s building in Tulsa’s historic Brady
Heights district. They were seeking a
younger, and as it were, "needy" congregation
to take over their building.
So on a Saturday in September, the
Parish Church of St. Jerome held its annual
meeting and decided on a budget to
acquire its own space, citing the need for
their own "sacred space". The next day,
St. Jerome officers connected with
Westminster Presbyterian and found that
the price for Westminster was exactly the
amount to which St. Jerome’s members
had committed the day before!
Father Rick, waxing both serious and
lighter-hearted, noted how important it
was for those "who have been turned
away [from the Church] or disenfranchised,
to have a space to call our own,
where we can be completely free." Humorously,
he added that it would also be
nice to be able to plan HolyWeek services
without having to worry about whether
there would be a body in the Garden
Chapel and be able to carry in the cross
without hitting the low ceiling as happened
at CommlLnity of Hope.
For now, St. Jerome will have all its
parishioners’ hands busy just doing repairs
and renovations to the 10,000 s.f.
main building. But St. Jerome’s also has a
5,000 s.f. auxiliary building which they
hope to make available to community
¯ the information about their Gay child to
: themselves . Switzer’s observation:
¯ "People feel they must keep shame to
: themselves, and yet the sense of isolation
of particular interest
is the chapter
titled "But Doesn’t
the Bible Condemn
It?". In astoundingly
logleal prose,
Switzer examines
the biblical
implications of
homosexuality in a
completely
different light than
we commonly get
from-television
preachers...
that is intensified by
keeping the secret also
further feeds the feelings
of Shame. It is a
destructive trap." Parents
and Friends ofLesbians
and Gays
(PFLAG) is mentioned
as a good resource for
confused parents.
Of particular interest
is the chapter tided
"But Doesn’t the Bible
Condemn It?". In astoundingly
logical
prose, Switzer examines
the biblical implications
of homosexuality
in a completely
different light than we
commonly get from
television preachers. If
a parent is able to go
beyond their emotional
reaction to their Gay
child, this chapter will
bring much comfort
and understanding.
Any parent of a Gay
child, regardless of
their religious beliefs, will benefit from
this slim volume. It packs invaluable information
into just 100 pages.
Check it out at your local Tulsa City-
County branch library, or call the Readers
Services at 596-7966.
: non-profits. Also they plan to create a
¯ garden with a columbarium. The latter
¯ would provide a place not only for the
¯
ashes ofmembers Of St. Jeromebut also a
: place for beloved pets. Father Rick holds
¯ an annual blessing of the animals on the
¯
Feast Day of St. Francisl At this year’s
: blessing, St. Jerome was host not only to
¯ a number of dogs and cats but ~also tO a
chicken, aNile lizard (rather "bitey" said
: Father Rick).
: St. Jerome in addition to having found
¯ a physical home has also found a denomi-
: national home in the Evangelical Angli-
¯ can Church in America (EACA). St.
¯¯ Jerome’sVisitor’sGuidenotes thatEvangelical
Anglican Church in America dif-
¯
fers little from the Anglican Communion
: in matters of church polity, worship or
¯ doctrine. The brochure adds that Chris-
: tians from "every Christian tradition are
¯ welcome" and states that all who are bap-
_" fized are welcome at the Communion
¯ table. St. Jerome’s welcomes all mere- ¯
bers, regardless of "heritage, culture, fi-
¯ nancial status, sexual orientation, age,
¯ gender, ormarital status" toreceive"ALL
¯ sacraments of the church." This includes ¯
the sacrament ofmarriage and Father Rick
¯ presided over the marriage of Deacon-
." Deb Statues and her spouse.
¯ OnSaturday, December6th, the Church
¯
of St. Jerome will welcome the Right
." Reverend Craig Bettendorf, Bishop ofthe
: Evangelical Anglican Churchin America
¯ who will hold a consecration service for
¯
St. Jerome at 7 pm. Also, St. Jerome will
." hold a Christmas Eve Midnight Mass at
¯ 11:30 on Dec. 24. For more information
about the services, call 582-3088.
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q~y Jean-Pierre La Grandbouche
After a hard day of braving the shopping
throngs and cold Oklahoma winter
winds, there is nothingmorerelaxing than
sitting down by the fireplace at one of
Brookside’s older and long-popular cafes,
The Grapevine, for a quiet glass of
wine andanicemeal."Conveniently nestled
at the comer of35th and Peoria, this place
is popular not only with the young professional
crowd, but those withmoreeclectic
tastes, as wall.
Some people come just to
sit at the crowded, narrow,
upstairs bar in this see and-beseenestablishment,
while others
come for quiet cocktails
and hors d’oeuvres. Many
come for the full dining experience,
and we’ve even been
there when wedding receptions
have movedin for a lesschaste
after-party.
Much of the menu has been
selected to complement the
bar’.s large selection of wines
by the bottle and by the glass.
Cheese beards ($1.85 to $9.50)
are very popular, and nibblers
can sample up to a dozen different
cheese varieties, served
withfreshfruit and crusty sourdough
breads. Abaked brie en
croute ($8.75) is also available
with an original touch of
being wmppedin phyllo leaves
instead of the traditional puff
pastry. Those who can afford
the fat grams and calories will
love to indulge in the homemade
hot artichoke spread
($5.25), and they have a very
tasty country-style chicken
liver pate ($6.50) served with
small American gherkins instead
of the usual French
comichons.
: Zealand orange roughy ($12.50), a sturdy
: white fish which is prepared meuniere,
¯ and then sauced with the white wine that
: was used to deglaze the pan. Roughy is
.’. getting to be cliche in Tulsa, but this is a
¯¯ satisfactorypresentation.Theseafooddish
du jour was a Caribbean grilled salmon
¯ ($12.50), which was tantalizingly scented
¯ with the fiery hot Jamaican jerk season-
: ings, and finished with a bell pepper and
Mack olive butter and garlic in olive oil -
The Grapevine
3509 Soutl~ Peoria
Olmn:
llm - lOpm on
Tues. &Wed.
11 am until 11pro
Thurs. through Sat.
Clmed Sun.& Mon.
The imr stays open
-as long as ther~ is
business, sometimes
until 2am
Moderately
expensive
Pavement:
All major plastic
Smoking: "
N0n-smoking and
smoking rooms
Alcohol:
Full
Ambiance:
Dressy casual
Rating:
A llst
abizarre combination thathad
a surprisingly fabulous flavor
for those brave enough to em
dure the jerk seasonings.
Part of the charm of The
Grapevine is that, not only do
they have finerfoods, they also
havegoodold,O~klahoma-style
home cookin, ~oo, with a decent
chicken fried steak
(.$6.75), Dutch oven pot roast
($9.50), and a ham hock and
butter bean special ($7.50).
The deep-fried catfish fillet is
okay, but it’s farm-raised fish,
and at $12.25, wecati find less
expensive and just as goodfried
fish elsewhere. If one
likes meatloaves, don’t pass
up the Mom’s Dangerously
Good Meat Loaf ($7.50),
which is a welVflavored individual
loaf filled with bits of
onion, garlic, carrot, and celery,
sliced in rounds, drizzled
with a thin brown gravy, and
presented on a bed of lumpy,
.homemade mashed potatoes.
Diners with smaller appetites
or smaller pocketbooks
will be well fed by The
Grapevine’s big selection of
hearty sandwiches, ranging in
price from $4.25 for a gour-.
met greaseburger to $9.75 for
a prime rib sandwich. We par-
In addition to their usual chicken enchilada
soup, there is always a substantial
soup dujour, which, on the evening ofour
visit, was country ham and broccoli. Cups
are $2.50 and bowls, $3.50. They also had
two appetizer specials, a grilled chicken
pizzaonafoccacia crust ($7.50) and some
fascinating Chinese-style "pot stickers"
($6.50), which are little packets or dumplings
of pork and-chicken braised and
poached, and served in a roasted garlic
sesame sauce, accompanied by a little
shrimp egg roll.
The dinner menu shows a .refreshing
creativity and willingness to accommodate
both foods-of-the-season and the
tastes ofregular customers. One of the old
standby favorites is the Grapevine’ S Beef
Wellington ($18.50). Now, the traditional
boeuf Wellington recipes involve an entire
beef tenderloin partially roasted, then
encased in arich, truffled, liver pate, all of
which is then rolled up in decadent puff
pastry dough and baked until golden -
certainly an elegant dish for an entire
gourmet army! The Grapevine chef has
improved upon the theme, also making
sure that his kitchen prOductis more suited
to the whims ofthe evening’ s patrons, ahd
created a mouth-watering individual beef
Wellington out of a bacon-wrapped filet
mignon, surrounded by a sauteed mushroom
duxelles, seasoned with Dijon mustard,
and encased in puffpastry. It’s adish
with which we’ve never been disappointed.
Another popular item is the New
ticularly like the ham on German black
bread sandwich ($5.00); with cu(umbers
and sour cream on excellent black rye
bread. Sandwiches usually comejust with
banal potato chips, but th~ $2.00 Order of
beer-battered French fries is well worth
the cost.
One of our favorite things about the
food here is the attention paid to humble
vegetables. During our review meal, we
were served a delicious bowl of sliced
parsnips which had been sauteed in butter
until golden brown, a choice recommended
by our surly waiter. Our dinner
companion’ s meal had excellently prepared,
lightly battered, and sauteed eggplant
circles. The vegetable dujour was a
bowl of huge, Oklahoma-grown Brussels
sprouts. There are always a dozen ormore
fresh vegetables available, and worth every
penny of the $1.50 extra charge. We
also recommend highly the garlicky and
rich cheese grits and thecom souffle, both
$1.75.
If there’ s room for dessert, they have a
large selection of typical Tulsa cakes and
cheesecakes which are popular, but commercially
obtained and, rather boring,
since everyone else in townhas them, too.
However, there are a couple of items
made in-house which are always worthwhile,
inclhding various flavors of creme
bmlee($3.00), anexcellentcoconutcream
pie withfresh, real whippedcream ($2.00),
a simple bread pudding ($2.00), and the
ever-popular baked fudg~ ($3.00),
see Food, page 12
by Lamont Lindstrom
TheJapanese like their gaijin (’ foreigners’)
to have big noses. I worked for a
number ofmonths at auniversity in the far
southern Japanese city Kagoshimawhose
foreignpopulationmostly consists ofsnubnosed
Chinese and Korean immigrants.
Only ahandful ofAmericans and Europeans
live in that city. Most of these are
employed teaching English
in local secondary schools.
Because of this, unlike Tokyo
or Osaka, gaijin are infrequent
patrons ofthe city’ s
several gay bars.
When I dropped in one of
these establishments, the
bartenders and patrons were
invariably polite and curious
about how I had come to
live in Kagoshima. MyJapanese
improved enough to
answer the stock set of questions
always asked: Whywas
I there? What did I do? Was
I married? Didn’t I find
Kagoshimapeoplefriendlier
than other Japanese? Did I
like Japanese men (or food,
or drink, or housing, or the
weather, etc. etc. etc.)? But I
always sensed my new barfriends
checking out my
nose. GayJapanese share our
folk belief that big nose
equals big penis and I was frequently
apologetic that.my nose is of modest dimension.
I did very soon learn the phrase
anata no chinpo wa okii desuka? (’is your
dick big?’). I wasn’ t~telling.
Amerika-jin were still scarce enoughin
Kagoshima that people wanted to check
out rumors ofWestern endowment. I once
met a young American wandering the
entertainment district. He was handing
out flyers for a strip show later that night.
He claimed to been enslavedby a crooked
Japanese entrepreneur who had brought
.him to town to strip at a local dub for
Japanese woman hungry to see white naked
flesh. This boy looked gay to me. He
invited me to a performance but I didn’ t
want to get in the way of those eager
women.
I made friends with Eichiro who was
one ofthehandful ofpeopleinKagoshima
who spoke English well. Eichirohad taken
English courses in New York City and
had worked at his uncle’ s Japanese restaurantin
Glendale, California. He metan
American boyfriend in Hawai’i, and the,
two ofthemhad retamaed to Kagoshima to
be near Eichiro’ s mother. Back home, he
had taken a job as a bartenderin a small
place thatcatered to Japan’ s growingnumbers
of professional working women.
(Young Japanese ~women are fascinated
by gays.)
I hung out there, too, hungry to talk
English. Eichiro was 30 but was obviously
going to remain perpetually, terminally
cute. I would walk downtown to the
bar, drink acouple of glasses of hot shoju
(Kagoshima’s infamous sweet potato
brandy), and thenleave before 11:00 pm
so I could catch abus home. (Kagoshima’ s
city council is in cahoots with the taxi
companies - public transport stops about
11:00 and drinkers have to fall into taxis
when the bars close.)
Eichiro and Isoon developed a routine.
Each time I was making to leave, he
would beg to follow along and check out
my chinpoin the darkened stairwdl. "No,
: Eichiro, you are married." He was, too.A
¯ lesbian minister had married him and the
: American boyfriend on the beach in
¯ Waikiki. ButEichirowouldclaimtobeso
: franticfor gaijin chinpo thathe could even
: forego the shower he normally had to
¯ have after sex. How soJapanese, Ithought.
¯" Good bartenders always Know how to
: make one feel special.
¯ I was lonely for Ameri-
My first two
weeks in town,
nearly every night
I. went bar-h~pp.
m ¯Herewa. smy
ebb?lenSe: could I
find a Gay bar? In
a eitK of 500,000,
so I tlaured, there
had t~ be one or
two. I hardly spoke
any.Japanese ...
Worse, my knowledge
of the three
orthographies
that Japanese use
was nll so I
cans so I called up the boy:
friend one day and asked
him to lunch. He insisted on
eating only at McDonalds,
Pizza Hut, Mr: Donut, or
Subway- thefourUS chains
that have found their way to
distant Kagoshima. We met
at Subway. I didn’ t like boyfriend
much. He whined
about Kagoshima and the
Japanese. He-did have a
mother-of-a-nose, though.-
He and Eichiro were planning
a return to Los Angeles
where they would live by
"selling theJapanese antiques
that they had accumulated
over two years in
Kagoshima. Boyfriend left
first and Eichiro followed a
month behind. I said my
goodbyes. But a few weeks
later, Eichiro called me at
my office. "Eichiro! What
on earth are you doing here?" I asked.
He had arrived at LAX where US Immigration
immediatdy arrested him and
threw him back on the next plane for
¯ Japan. He was on the blacklist, having
overstayed his previous visaby 18 months.
I helped Eichiro fill out the immigration
: lottery form that the American Embassy
¯ in Tokyo had sent him as his only chance
for a US Visa. It didn’t seem very prom-
: ising to me. I left Japan soon afterwards.
Six months later, when I returned to the
US, l sent a postcard to Kagoshima ad-
: dressed to Linda--Eichiro’ s bar name. It
: came back marked "unknown." I started
calling the 28Japaneserestaurants in Glen-
: dale one after the other but gave up, feel-
. ing foolish;.after a dozen or so. Eichiro -
¯ where are you? I sure hope you’ ve found
your way to the land of the free, the home
of the big nose.
¯ although their versionis abitmore on the
¯ half-baked brownie side.
¯ The full bar stocks a lot of domestic
wines andafewimports,thoughnotnearly
¯ as many as we would expect from a bar
¯ that holds itself out to be a wine bar. The
¯ prices are reasonable, though, both by the
bottle andby the glass, and they occasion-
" ally do get in some rare and unusual
: vintages. We were quite shocked, how-
¯. ever, when we went in for dinner on the third Thursday of November (the tradi-
¯ tional release date for the new crop of
¯ beaujolais nouveau) and discovered that
thebarhadn teven ordered any nouveaus.
¯ We trust that their bar manager will be
¯ severely pelted with used wine corks for
: thatfauxpas.
¯ Nonetheless, The Grapevine remains
: one of our favorite eateries for a cozy
: meal. Best of all, we find it to be a com-
¯. fortable place. And, one needn’t wait for
a Brookside shopping day to try it out -
¯ it’ s worth a special trip of its own.
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production "Into the Woods" which she
was acastmemberof;"Unexpected Song"
from Loyd-Webber’s "Song and Dance"
for which she won the Tony in 1985 (and
a highlight of the performance for me);
several gems like "Faithless Love", given
an almost ethereally Celtic
rendering; "Glow Worm",
which only she could pull
off well, and did; and finally,
’Tll Be Seeing You".
Mist notes: Her drummer
is Cubby O’Brien - yes, the
original Mouseketeer, for
those that recall the Mickey
Mouse Club of the ’50’s.
Her conductor is Marvin
Laird, who wrote the musical
"Rut[fiess" and is collaborating
with Speilberg on
a new animated film.
She was poured, and I do
meanpoured, into areddress
withredhigh heelsl Thedress
was simple, not glitzy, but
did maintain a glamourous
effect, while being .easy to
travel with - no ironing, no
muss, no fuss.
When she left, she was in a
black pantsuit and coat. And
boy, is she pale! And tiny. I
have been consistently
amazed that most of the female.
stars I have seen perform
are incredibly tiny. Yet
while on stage, they seem
larger than life. So I would
have been a star had I been
born an incredibly small,
very pale woman. Well, it
seems logical to me.
L;vlng Arts
of Tulsa
presents the
Gay & Lesbian
Issues Series, a
month of ereatlve
events. The "Love
Makes A Family"
exhibit runs
through Dee. 14,
sponsored in part
by PFLAG...
Dee. 19 brings us
the alternative
video evenlng,
featuring
"Tongues Untied",
"Jddy: An hon"
about la dlva
Foster, and
"Glennda &,
Camille do
Downtown", a
moe~umentary
about Camille
Paglia and a
cross-dresser...
The orchestra was in excellent fornl, ]
and the classical selections were-all tied -:
together by a "water" theme by the new
conductor Kenneth Jean. Introduced as a
guess what the tie of the music to the
theme is, some pieces were obvious, such
as "Blue Danube Waltz". Others less so;
"’Pomp and Circumstance" - Watergate;
one piece from an opera .set in Venice,
Italy, performed by the characters in a
gondola, which floats on the.., you get the
idea. Jean is fun to watch, looking at times
like a mad scientist who’s just gotten the
monster to move, or a sidekickto Disney’s
Quasimodo in "Hunchback of Notre
Dame". During Ms. Peter’s concert, the
orchestra members even got to show off
their singing voices.
It’s not too late to catch Philbrook
Museum’s "Festival of Trees: A Century
of Holiday Traditions", which runs
through Dec. 7. All kinds ofYule goodies
are on display. And, through January 11,
you can take someone special there to
"look at etchings" during the "British
Etching Revival" exhibition.
On to Fleetwood Mac. Basically, for
those that couldn’t afford lawn seats at
$50.00 and who have the Dance video -
you’re not missing a thing. The FM that
playedin Dallas was abunch oftired folks
who did reasonable justice to the songs,
but were dearly there to get the money
and go home. Every word of the betweensong
patter was from "The Dance", all by
rote, word for word. Fortunately, l got ’
press tickets, so I didn’t feel ripped off.
But I would have hated to.have paid the
$80 bucks for seats that were worth $20 at
the most. Lindsey Buckingham was terribly
off key throughout the show, and
: making obnoxious gestures behind Stevie
¯ Nicks’ back while she was speaking some
¯¯ of her by-the-book patter between songs.
She tried to play off the alleged
¯ "Buckingham-Nicks" tension by singing
," to him at many points during her lover’s-
, revenge ballads, but he mostly ignored
[ her. Christine looked bored throughout
¯ the evening, watching the audience &
singing along off-talc during main verses
when the others were singing
their songs. John was,
wall, John, and Mick was
the only one who seemed to
be enjoying himself. I made
a 5 hour trip to get to the
show, and I am still wondering
if it was.worth it. -And
I’m adiehard Stevie fan!
Withke.ychains the cheapest
souvemr at $10, the reason
for the tour was made quite
clear. Stevie’s tax bill,
Mick’s constant bankruptcies,
and Christine’s restoration
of an English manor
house - and John’s yachts -
are the reason behind the reunion.
Stevie did sound bet:
ter than ever, so that was
what made the trip worthwhileforme.
Hersongs were
the best Of the bunch. Too
bad Nicks wasn’t on a solo
tour. Maybe next year. Plans
are in the works for a new
solo album and a box set.
The box set is rumored to be
out early next year.
Living Arts of Tulsa presents
the Gay & Lesbian Issues
Series, a month of creative
events The "Love
Makes A Family" exhibit
runs through Dec. 14, sponsored
in part by P-FLAG, with
Rainbow Business Guild and the Pride
Center, withaperformanceworkshop Dec.
6 &7 for Gays and Lesbians who’dlike to
perform but don’t know where to start.
Dec. 12 is Performance Night, giving
honor to those artists who are Gay and
Lesbian. Dec. 19 brings us the~ alternative
video evening, featuring ’’Tongues Untied",
"Jody: An Icon" about la diva Foster,
and "Glennda & Camille do Downtown",
a mockumentary about Camille
Paghaandacross-dresser walking through
downtown New York and the adventure
they encounter. $5, $3 students and members.
No, not that kind. Of the organization,
silly! All of these events take place at
Living Artspace (hmmm - an offshoot of
"Living Island", where H.R. Pufnstuf is
mayor? Gives me an idea for my next
column. Oh, Peter...), at 19 E. Brady. For
more info, call 585-1234.
Heller Theatre is holding Improvisation
classes on Thursday evenings from
6pro. Participants perform in their "Laughing
Matter Improv" shows. An advance
workshop is scheduled Jan 10, 1-4pro.
Free to Laughing Matter participants, $10
otherwise. Laughing Matter Improv per-
.formances are $4, and the next evening of
~mprov will be Jan 9. Heller presents
"Lonely Planet" : Dec. 4-6 & 11-13, a
drama dealing with two men and their
lives and loneliness. For ticket info, call
746-5065.
AndBroken Arrow Community Theatre
is presenting the musical comedy
"Once Upon A Mattress", another of my
childhood favorites. I remember seeing
Carol Burnett in the televised version.
The show runs Dec. 5 - 14. For reservations,
call 258-0077.
which documents Holocaust survivor stories.
Kossiusky went back to Poland after
thewar, workedas an economist andlived
a secret life as a gay man. Kossinsky
wrote an award-winning book about his
affair with the soldier in 1991.
A group in Vermont that teaches high
school students about the Holocaust is
making a moviebased on the book., which
is tiffed "Damned Strong Love." "It’s an
extremely compelling love story thathappens
to be about gay men," filmmaker
William Stetson, president of the Vermont
Film Commission, told the Globe.
In Nazi Germany, homosexuality was
punishablebyup to 10yearsinprison,and
love letters could be considered evidence.
Homosexuality among German police
officers was punishable by death.
Kossinksy read theletter to the Harvard
students, part ofwhichread: "I pray every
day that you will come back Safe. I’mjust
true to you and will remain so for my
whole life."
As far as comparing the issue with omissions
of the race riot: ’qqaat is unfortunate
anditis absurd," Goble said. "I can assure
members of this group that if 35 square
blocks of Gay-owned housing had been
burned and as many as 1,000 Gay and
lesbian people had been murdered, that
that event would have been very much a
part of the public record and very much a
part ofthis history."
ACentennial committee commissioned
Goble to write thebook. Paula Hale, coordinator
of the City’s yearlong Centennial
celebration, said the boo.k was funded
through private funds and pre-release
sales.
Editor note: while the Centennial boak
was privately funded, the Centennial office
and co-ordinator, Paula Hale, who
helped to coordinate the book are paid
throughpublicfunds, directly subsidized
by the Mayor’s office. The statement
TOHR sent to the Centennial committee
as well as to local news media is reproduced
below.
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights :
(TOHR),at 17years o!d Oklahoma’s old- ¯
est n0n-religious Lesbian and Gay orga- -"
uization, is formally protesting the new
Tulsa Centennial book, ’q~ulsa! Biography
oftheAmerican City"for its failure to. ¯
acknowledge any contribution, or. even
the existence of Lesbians and Gay men in
Tulsa’s 100 year history.
Author, and Rogers University profes- ¯
sot, Danny Goble was asked by TOHR "
prior to beginning the book to be both fair "
and accurate by having at least a brief
mention of the eMstence of Lesbian and ¯
Gay contributions, organizations, or is- "
sues¯ Goble was told of the nationally "
groundbreaking report doneby the City of ¯
Tulsa i~ ~.ei~m~_’dt:!le:. 70’s on anti-Gay..~ ,"
discrimi~ff0~. Jk~ thai time, ouly a hand-i’~ :
ful of Am",ericau,Citie~were even consid- :
efing thi~.:sort’~i~g~,T,OHRgaye Goble ¯
the nam~S~~b6~.~..~s of TulSanS :
who were p~~bf:~ffiS~’i t~ er~te~ atrendsetting
non-discrimination policy.
Despite Goble’s published intention to
write a history that would be inclusive of "
Tulsans whosehistory oncehad been sup- "
pressed, his deliberate exclusion of Les- ¯
bian and Gay issues.makes his sections on
Civil rights and diversity incomplete and "
inaccurate. .
: Since this is the offiCial commemora-
¯ tive book for this city, and because the
-" Centennial office and Centennial Co-
" ordinator Paula Hale are paid with public
¯ dollars throughthe Mayor’s office, Tulsa’s
-" Lesbian and Gay taxpayers have the right
~ to be outraged by our exclusion. And
." Centennial Committee members and the
¯ bookCommitteemembers are to be chided
¯" for their efforts to defend Goble’s biased
¯
product with claims that the only other
¯ alternative would have been an encyclo-
¯¯ pedia thousands of pages long. Fairness
would only have required a paragraph or
¯ two.
¯ ’cliffs suggests that there is a window of
: time during the acute phase of infection
¯ when anti-viral treatment can rescue the
¯ helper T-cell response to HIV;" Walker
: said. If treatment is delayed, he said, that
¯ natural protection may be lost forever.
¯ Dr. DavidH. Schwartz, aJohas Hopkins
¯ University AIDS researcher, said the
Massachusetts General finding confirms
." work performed earlier at Hopkins. He
¯ said there may be immune system ele- ¯
merits other than the helper T-cells, how’-
: ever, that are responsible for suppressing
¯" HIV infection in the rare patients who
¯ never get sick from the virus. In any case, ¯
Schwartz said, the new research empha-
¯ sizes the importance of early and aggressive
anti-viral treatment against HIV.
: Virus to Fight Virus
¯
WASHINGTON (AP) - It may take a
¯ virus to kill a virus, say researchers who
¯. have made a biological weapon that seeks
¯ out cells infected with HIV. In laboratory
experiments at the University of Pennsyl-
¯ vania Medical Center, scientists ha~,e
¯ shown that a harmless virus coated with
s.pecial.proteins will search out cells in-
" fectedwith HIV and then lock onto the
: cell surfaces.
¯ Dr. James A. Hoxie, senior author of ¯
he study in the journal Science, said t
¯ at the hunter virus could be loaded with a
: iological weapon that would attack HIV
¯ nside infected cells and, thus, contr ¯
1 the AIDs virus. HoMe said the technique
: takes advantage of the fact that HIV carries
molecules that it uses to link up with
receptors, or receiving molecules, on the
surface of cells that it invadesS When the
HIV molecule connects with the receptor,
it acts like a key in alock, opening the cell
surface to allow the virus to enter.
A prime receptor used by HIV is called
CD4. This receptor is present on immune
system blood cells that are the primary
targets of HIV. HIV also requires the use
of at least one of two other receptors. A
receptor called CCR5 is used by HIV
early in the disease to infect macrophages,
a type ofimmune system blood cell.
: This means,that the hunter virus is rather
: like a biological "smart bomb" that seeks
¯ oat÷specific targets, ignoring the rest.
¯ The technique is still in an early stage of
: study and will require extensive develop-
. ment before it can be tested on patients.
¯ But Hoxie said that it may be possible to
." use the hunting virus to deliver toxins or
¯ attacking genes to the cells where there is ¯
HIV. Once it is locked onto the target,
¯ then the hunting virus would release its
¯ - w.eapon into the infected cell, killing the
.- v~rns or preventing it from reproducing.
More HIV Drugs
¯ NEW YORK (AP) - Drug makers are
¯ working on an unprecedented array of
¯ new mediCines to combat theAIDS virus,
: enough to triple the number of drugs and
¯ vaccines on the market today, according
¯ to a recent survey. Drug companies are
testing 124 new treatments on patients,
: according to the survey by the Pharma-
¯ ceutieal Research Manufacturers of
¯" America. The Food and Drug Adminis:
trationhas approved 50 AIDS-related
.’. drugs, including eight this year.
~ With the first-ever drop in the number
¯ ofnew cases last yearin the United States,
~ drug makers have come a long way since
¯ the first drug, Glaxo Wellcome’s AZT,
." was approved in 1987, said Dr. John
¯ Siegfried, the industry group’s head of
¯ medical affairs. "Here we are ten years
¯ later, just a decade, andnow there are 50
: drugs either for the disease or for associ-
¯ ated conditions," he said. ¯
The treatments under development in-
" elude:
¯" - 40 anti-viral mediCines and protease
¯ inhibitors, whichhave proven effective in
reduCing.the amount of the virus in some
¯ patients..
- 23 drugs to fight AIDS-related cancers,
such as Kaposi’s sarcoma.
- 11 anti-invective medicines to fight
¯ opporttmisdc diseases, including a type
¯ o~’-.pneumouia that afflicts 8 out of 10
¯ pataents. ¯
- 5 gene therapies designed to genetically
: alter patients’ cells to make them more
¯ resistant.
: - 12 vaccines, including the first DNA-
¯ based preventive vacCines.
¯ The National Centers for Disease Con-
¯ trol and Prevention said the drop in AIDS ¯
deaths and new diagnoses last year shows
: that powerful new drugs seem to be slow-
" ing down the virus.
In 1996, an estimated 56,730 people
¯ were diagnosed with AIDS in the United
¯ States, down 6 percent from the 60,620
¯ new cases in 1995, according to the CDC. ¯
¯ AIDS deaths also dropped 23 percent,
from an estimated 50,140 in 1995 to about
¯ 38,780 in 1996. About 235,470 people
¯ wereliving withAIDS in 1996¯ The CDC ¯
said powerful drugs such as protease in-
" hibitors are apparently preventing ~HIV
tackle oppommistic infections and other
related problems.
Doctors who treat AIDS patients have
eagerly called for more drugs since mutations
in the virus can reduce the effectiveness
of drugs. New drugs are being approved
more quickly, in part due to an
FDA.programthatuses contributions from
drug makers to hire more offiCials to review
drugs.
The plan was approved 13-12, with one
abstention, after Republican Gov. Pete
Wilson made two llth-hour regent appointments,
provoking charges he was
trying to "stack" the board. Both appointees
voted against the plan.
"I was very relieved, ecstatic," said
Jonathan Winters, a UC Berkeley employee
and member of the UC Lesbian
Gay Bisexual Transgender Association.
The vote came 16 years after a gay UC
employee first asked the university to
provide health coverage for his partner.
He was turned down. Under the plan,
domestic partners must be at least 18, the
couple has to have lived together for at
least a year, be in a "long-term relationship
of infinite duration," and provide
documents showing mutual home ownership
or leasel common bank accounts or
investments, among other requirements.
The plan applies to 130,000 employees
on the UC system’s nine campuses. UC
has estimated it could cost an .extra $1.5
million to $5 million a year- a very small
percentage of the health care costs for the
UC system.
Opponents, including Wilson, said extending
the benefits would be "devaluing
mamage." Supporters counteredit was an
issue of equality and that without the plan,
UC~s ability to recruit and retain quality
professors would suffer because .comparable
institutions already offer such benefits.
¯
Partners Housing at
U. of Washington
¯ SEATTLE(AP) -Beginuing next month,
¯ same-sex couples who register as domes-
; tic parmers can apply for subsidized mar-
. ried and family housing at the University
of Washington. The UW Board of Regents
voted unanimously and with little
commentto allow gay andlesbian couples
¯ to live in married student housing. "We
had really mad~ clear our intentions early
¯ on,"regentCindyZehndersaid.Themove
¯ comes after the board in May extended
undergraduate health insurance to same¯
sex partners. Five couples have signed up
for that benefit so far.
Bothmoves havebeen opposed by some
¯ state lawmakers. "They shouldn’t be setinfection
from progressing to full-blown ¯ ting policy in the face of the values of the
Another receptor, called CXCR4, is used ." AIDS es,~eciall,, i-n~t~nt~ ,.he~ ot,~vt people of the stateof Washington," said
by HIV later to in¯fect T-cells, wh.ich are ¯¯ taking m.e m.e~c~.ne ea.rl ... ep. Mike -Sherstad, R-Bot¯hell " Th,e
another type of Immune system blood ¯ ~..,,+ a’l’~ ~t,t;vi~t~Y~-~ that tl~,a ** people of the state of Washington don t
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cells. The altered virns was then exposed
in tile.lab0ratory tO HIV-infe~ted ~lls:,
HoMe said that the hunter virus coated
with CD4 and CCR5 locked onto macrophages
that were infected with HIV.
When coated with CD4 and CXCR4, the
hunter virus sought out and locked onto
T-cells infected with HIV. In both cases,
he said, the hunter virus ignored normaJ
cells that were not infected with HIV.
¯
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¯ they’ve made in the fight against HIV and ¯ housing. To quahfy, the couples will have
~ AIDS¯ The challenge is to make. those " to register as domestic partners with the
: treatments more available to people," he : City of Seattle or anotherjurisdiction with
said. Patients pay as much as $15,000 a " similar regiStration procedures. All fami¯
year for the three-drug cocktails usually ¯ liesmust demonstrate finanCial need to be
¯ eligible for the subsidized housing¯
used to treat AIDS and other drugs to . ¯
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DOING TIME I’m look ng for another
Black man to spend time with and get to
know. [Tulsa) =7247 "
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working out at the gym. (Tulsa)
=9336
MAKE IT FEEL GOOD I’m a
Blond, hairy, tann~, good looking,
White male, 33, 6 1, 1801bs, with a
~oatee. I Want some good times on
me phone or ~n person. (Tulsa)
=8674
FUN-LOVING DA~ This fun
laving, White male, 5 8, 1451bs,
with Black hair and Brown eyes,
laves doing everything. Call me and
have a great nig’ht. (T~lsa)
BASELINE OF THE BLUES I’m,a
39 year old, Gay, White male, 5 10,
1551bs, into light music; blues, bike
riding, playin.q tennis, h~king, and
camping. I’d like to meet another
Gay, WRite male, 25 to 40, w th
s mi ar interests, for friendship or
more. (Tulsa) =8381
BOOT STOMPER This nice,
average guy, is looking for the ri.qh~,
person to have a relationship wi~ m a
~h te male, 5’9,2101bs, with Brow~ ~,air, Brown eyes, and average looks. I’d
ike to share romantic evenings, walks
along Riverside Drive,, and going out for
an occasional drink. I m also interested
in bingo and coun~ and western
dancing. (Tulsa) =7833
TROPICAL ISLAND~Very active, 30
year old, White male, into the out~ioors,
hiking, biking, and sunbathing, seeks a
distii~guished’genfleman, 30 to 45, who
has similar interests. I work for a major
airline and would love to whisk you
away on a tropical trip. (Tulsa) =7553
JUST LIKE A WOMAN intelligent,
White male, 37, seeks a feminine guy,
maybe. ,even a cr0ssdresser, to be my
friehd. I m especially interested in a
Transsexual, pre-ol~ or post-op. (Tulsa)
=7568
GYMNAST BUILD I’m a dancer and
gymnast, so you can imagine what a
nice body I have. I’m a White male, 5’2,
very out.~ing and fun ov ng I’m
looking ~or someone to get to know for a
possible relationship. (Tulsa) =7401
STRONG, SILENT TYPE My name is
Michael. I’m from Tulsa. i’m a man of
few words, looking to meet single men. If
you qualify, give me a call. (Tulsa)
=5282
TRANSGENERATION LIFE I’m a
Transgendered, Bisexual male I’m
seeking a Gay or Bisexual, Tr~nsgender
male, Between the ages of 25 to 35, for
relationship or ffienc[ship: (Tulsa)
=i471
eyes, and a mustache. I like listenin.q to
music, going out, playing darts, ancl
bowling, among other things. (Tulsa)
=7007_
PRETTY STRAIGHT This masculine,
Straight male, 31, doesn’t have much
experience with men but wants to reap
so.me of the benef ts of the Gay lifestyle.
Let s do some stuff. (Tulsa) =7449 "
GOOD TIME CHARLEY This fun
oving, White male, 5 8, 1451bs, with
Brown hair and BI,ue eyes, seeks buddies
to hang out with. I m seeking fr ends and
a relationship. (Tulsa) =7260
RUB It AGAINST ME This smooth
bodied, Gay, White male, 31,5’9,
1451bs, witrn Red hair and Green ~es,
seeks a masculine, intelligent man, who -
has a hairy body. (Tulsa) =7153
I’M IN THE MOOD I’m in the mood to
have agood time. This .n,ice looking, 20
year old, White male, 5 9, 1451bs, seeks
friends to hang out with. A relationship
is possible a~r some time. (Tulsa)
=7257
SPEND THE DAY WITH ME I’m an
attractive, 43 year old, White male 6’2
2151bs. I d hke to meet a gUY to spend
time with. I’m into movies, going out to
dinner, runninn, cycling, I:~wling
dancing, spen~]ing quiet times at ~ome,
and wtiatever our in:~aglnations can
conceive of. (Tulsa) =6538
NATIVE NEEDS Good looking, Native
.,American, 23, seeks a man, i 8 to 30.
I m open to g~,ood times, friehdship, or a
relationship. I m particularly interested n
a biracial guy. (Tulsa) =3883
HOW DO YA HANDLE A
HUNGRY MAN? Hungry man, 21,
5’11, 1701bs, with Blond-hair and Blue
eyes, seeks hot, intelligent men for good
times. (tulsa) =2549
CLOSET HANGER Young, Gay ma e,
20, seeks long term relationship with a
straight acting man, 18 to 24. Like me,
you are also in the closet. I love music,
quality time with friends, watching
movies, or simply hanging out an~
h,aving fun..So, let’s hang out in the
closet together. (Tulsa] =5947
TULSA TRAINEE Very inexperienced,
White male, 5 9, 1601bs, with Blond
hair and BI ~e eyes, seeks a Bi male or
a couple with a Bi male
(Tulsa) =4795
NEW IN TULSA This very
sexy, good looking, Italian male, new to
the area, has heard that cowboys can
be very h~t. If you show mehow hot "
you are, I II give you access to.my
hitching post. You’ll love it. (Tulsa)
=4571
FRIENDLY ROUNDUP ~utgoing,
friendly, White male, 35,5 10, with
Brown hair and eyes, seeks other nice
guys for friendship and fun. (Tulsa)
=4304
SMOOTH AND HAIRY Nice
looking, White male, 40 6ft, with Blond
hair, Blue eyes, and a smooth, muscular,
swimmer’s build, seeks a hairy gUY for
good times, laughs, and;-I hope, a long
term relationship. I en oy camping,
swimming, dancing, Cooking, ’pl.aying
cards with friends, and a wt~o[e lot more.
(Tulsa) =4309
HIGHER, LEARNING Dru.q an.,d smoke
free, 21 year old, White mate, 5 10,
1401bs, ~ith Brown hair and eyes, seeks
a similar guy~ who takes good care of
,h,is body, For good times and friendship
I m interested in guys who are college
educated or are in college now lille
travel, music, concerts and mor,e. I like
the clubs now and then but don t want to
meet someone who hangs out there.
(Tulsa) =4010
QUALITY FRIENDSHIP Masculine,
good looking, discreet, White male, 6’2.
1751bs, with a s.e~, deep voice, seeks °
fun loving guys for great times I’m a
dark hairba,i~lue e~ hairy,’~,e
defined man, hungry for acton Call for
a quality friendsh p. (Tulsa) =2776
NO PRESSURE Thisfeminine, Bi, While
female, 5’4,1151bs, wilh Brown hair and Blue
eyes, se~s another feminine, Bi female who
shares some of my inlerests, for lriend~ip or
more. I dike to .qo out, but I also enjoy staying in
washing a video. I’m into the o~ldo~rs. I ~n’t
smoke I~ut I have a drink occasionally. (Salina)
=9470
BLONDE AND BI Ah’Tadive, Bi While fema e,
6ft, With Blonde hair, s~eks anolher Bi female,
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and have a ,~to~ ~n. IT~lso) ~,~:!~S ’
NEW STATE Of MIND Th s ve~/feminine, B
curious, While ~nale,’now to Ihe area, wants to
,hod~ up with ofher Bi, or Bi curiou~ wornyn, for
I~n. ~s 9et to know each oCner.
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!ndepeodent, Black female, 21, likes to~ar~
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wom),n in fne area. {Tulsa) ’e6289
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.womyn is what i’m afler. This Ga~.~, While
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~ female, ",’I to 38, for a possi~e live in
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This sub-culture has had its own
meeting places, churches, traditions,
language and yes, history. Your unfamiliarity
or prejudices should not
have limited your inquiries.
It is true that ithas been part hidden
because of severe and systematic legal
persecution. In fact, there isa
Tulsan you could have interviewed
who was imprisoned in the 60’s in a
mental institution for the "sickness"
of being a Gay teenager. While imprisoned,
hewas tortured withelectro,
shock"therapy". Healso witnesseda
young Lesbi,~,. being raped so that
she would be turned heterosexual."
In Tulsa, in the 60’s, 70’s andinto the
80rs & 90’s, people have been fired
jnstforbeingidentifiedas Gay. Tulsa
police made, and continue to make,
harassment and entrapment of Gay
mena regularpart of their work, even
perjuring themselves whennecessary.
"Goble said he could not include
all groups in the nearly 300-page
book. Asfar as comparing the issue
with omissions ofthe race riot: "That
is unfortunateandit is absurd, ’ Goble
said. ’I can assure members of this
group that if35square blocks ofgayowned
housing hadbeen burned and
as many as 1,000 gay and lesbian
people had been murdered, that that
event would have been very much a
part of the public record and very
much apart of this histo~.. ’ "
This comment is particularly idiotic
but to try to give you the benefit
of the doubt, perhaps the AP reporter
failed to aecurateiy convey the point
we were making. Or perhaps you
deliberately.responded in such a way
to make us look as though we were
making the comparison which you
accurately characterized as absurd.
We never suggested that Tulsa’s
Gay history was comparable to the
"Race.Riot." The pointwe were making
is that that event was suppressed
.thoroughly for many, many years
because it was considered "embarrassing"
to "mainstreamTulsa"- that
was, of course, when "mainstream
Tulsa" did not treat Blacks as equal
human beings.
Our pointis since Lesbian and Gay
Tulsans now occupy a position
slightly similar to that which Black
Tulsans once held, we find that our
experience andcontributions arerendered
invisible or marginalized just
like theirs were. It is the process that
is similar, not the specific, eventg.
The "mainstream" culture censors
that which it finds objectionable or
embarrassing or uncomfortable.
In the final assessment, Mr. Goble,
with the inaccuracy and omissions of
the Centennial book, you not ouly
rob Lesbian and Gay Tulsans of the
dignity and respectwhich we deserve
as members of this community,-you
also rob all Tulsans of part of our
history. No doubt, 10 or 20 years
later, more progressive scholars will
look back and see you much like .the
racist scholars of some decades back,
and in both cases will say how could
you ignore what really happened?
If you are interested in educating
yourself, we are at your disposal~
Pleasegive these matters serious consideration.
Thank you.
- the board ofdirectors
TulsaOklahomansforHumanRights
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Hawaii Court Setback for
Anti-Gay Lawmakers
HONOLULU (AP) - The state Supreme Court says
eight state lawmakers who oppose same-sex marriage
won’t be able to intervene in the court matter.. Eight
members of the state House of Representatives asked
-the high court to let themjoin the court fight on the side
of the same-sex opponents. . .
" Circuit Court Judge Kevin Chang - who ruled the
state to be in violation of the law for not allowing Gays
to legally marry-ruled against allowing the lawmakers
to join the case. The Supreme Court upheld the ruling
’Without comment on Friday.
Chang’s decision in the same-sex marriage case is
under appeal to the state Supreme Court. The high court
ruled in 1993 that denying marriage licenses to samesex
couples was unconstitutional. The court then sent
the case back to Circuit Court to allow the state a final
chance to defend its position.
Changruled against the state last year, but delayed the
Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
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Local Gay Athelete Takes
World Class Skating Honors
by Tom Neal
Tulsan Marc Goohs, 1997 Pairs
Figure Roller Skating World
Champion with partner, Gari
Phillips & runners up in Finland.
TULSA - You may have
seenhim around Tulsa, perhaps
at the Silver Star, or at
a local restaurant where he
works patl-time. You’d notice
him since he’s a goodlooking
man - but who’d
q~eSs that this seemingly
et, regular guy living in
Tulsa is a world .champion
skating tide holder?
Marc Goohs, 28, with his
skating partner oftwo years,
Gari Phillips, 23, won top
honors in the Pairs Figure
Roller Skating competition
of the International World Games Association in Lahti, Finland
afew months ago. While not as widely known as the Olympic ice
skating competitions, these events are affiliated with the International
Olympic Committee (IOC). And the skating competitions
share some aspects.
Both are combinations of athletic skill and artistic style with
the couple skating together as though they were dancing and
involving overhead lifts. Goohs feels that ice skating is more like
: ballet whileroller skating is more athletic. Goohs notes that while
: roller skating does not have a great following in the US, it is very
¯ big in Latin America, and in Italy .where the sport is subsidized
: by the government. He says the sport is dominated by the US,
¯ Italians, and Germans.
_" Goohs, who’s originally from Cleveland, Ohio, has been
¯¯ skating for 20 years, 10 as apairs skater. He came toTulsa to train
with a well respected coach who lived here. However, when that
", coach up and moved, Goohs stayed on in Tulsa, and for a while
¯’Exporting Hate:
Largent "rakes Anti-Gay
Messageto Wash. State
¯
WASHINGTON STATE - According to a Nov.
¯ 5th article by Kery Murakami, of the SeatfleTimes
¯ Olympiabureau, Oklahoma’s First District (largely
¯ TulsaCounty) Congressman Steve Largent lent his
name and reputation to foes of a civil fights initia-
: tive in Washington State.
Initiative 677, which was overwhelmingly de-
, feared statewide - except in two urban counties,
¯ would have added the term"sexual orientation" to
: state civil-rights laws; which already bar work-
¯, place discrimination based on age, race, gender,
and religion. Though some Washington State cit-
¯ ies, like Seattle, already have similar ordinances,
¯ Gays have nojob protection elsewhere in the state.
¯ The measure was intentionally focused narrowly ¯
on workplace discrimination.
¯ Congressman Largent, who lived in Washinglon
: State while he played football for the Seattle
¯ Seahawks, claimed in the anti-initiative-677 ad- ¯
vertisement that sexual orientation, unlike age,
¯ race, gender, and religion, was a choice. He added
¯ giving civil-rights protections based on sexual ori¯
entation would be granting Gays "special fights."
In the ad which looked like a letter to the voters,
¯ Largent said,"I-677 isn’t about fainiess, it’s about
: special rights... 1-677 goes too far in trying to
¯ extend civil rights protections to behaviors and
¯
lifestyles that are controllable, and creates special
¯ rights for choices that some people have made in
¯ defining their sextml identity." ¯
In several Tulsa forums, Largent has made simi-
¯ lar statements that he opposes civil fights protecissuing
of marriage licenses until the appeal to the ¯ dropped out of training with the attitude that maybe he should go ¯ tions based on sexual orientation becausehe feels
stipreme Court is decided. A.ruling is expected some- : onwithhislifeandforgetskating. Butafter getting a call from the ¯ that sexual orientation is a choice as opposed to
Li-ti~ in 1998. . - . , Games Committee saying . see Goohs, page 3 : race, gender or age. see Largent, page 3
~,- ....
. , ¯ ,
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Adam is like most 2-year-olds ¯ First Performance Was at World AIDS Day Service " "1" HIV Program Di rector -quick, curious, scurrying here and there. Unlike most, " TULSA - They first came together forjust one performance and
his adoptive parents are both men - whose successful ¯
still don’.t have a name of their own, but the Gay mens ensemble ¯ TULSA - The board of Tulsa Oklahomans for
¯ that performed at this last December’s World AIDS Day Candle-
" light March.and Memorial Service at All Souls Unitarian Church
: is continuing under the direction of musician Rick Former, Jr.
Fortuer, who teaches voice at the University of Tulsa and is
: music director at Hope Unitarian Church, gathered the initial
¯ group by "word of mouth". In about 8 weeks, the ensemble
¯ learned four songs which were received with great praise from
¯ those attending the service. The initial group included singers ¯
with considerable experience, some with Follies Revue perfor-
¯ mances, others with Theatre Tulsa, and still others with strong
¯ backgrounds in church music programs.
¯ The groupis planning to start rehearsals near the endofJannary
with the goal of doing a benefit for TOHR’s HIV programs and
: the Pride Center, hopefully in March. The group has been
¯ meelang onMonday evenings and will likely continue that time. ¯
It’s hoped that the ensemble can rehearse at the Pride Center but
¯ Women Win Case for Being ¯ Called Lesbian by Pastor
¯ TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The Rev. Ernest G. Bass said.he told his
¯ congregation that theirmusic director was involved in a Lesbian ¯
¯ affair to "extinguish rumors and let the healing process begin"
and that as her minister he had the right to rebuke her. But a civil
¯ jury believed otherwise and awarded the two women$340,000 in
: a slander lawsuit settled just before Christmas. Bass made the
¯ comments during an evening worship service in July 1994.
¯
The civil trial fordefendants Bass, the First United Pentecostal
¯ Church, the Oklahoma District of the United Pentecostal Church
¯ International andits superintendent, Robert D.Whalengotunder ¯
way three weeks ago, more than three years after the incident
¯
occtn-red.
¯ .: Rhonda J. Morrison andCynthia A. Gass each were awarded
¯ $20,000 for slander, $150,000 for invasion ofprivacy and $2 for
intentional infliction of emotional distress.
¯ The defense maintained that what Bass said was the truth, and
: therefore, could not be considered slander. The defense also said
Bass’ announcement should receive, see Friends, page 14
: Human Rights, Inc. (TOHR), Oklahoma’s oldest
: Lesbian and Gay non-religious commumty orgam-
¯ zation, has hired Kristi Frisbie as director of their
° HIV programs: TOHR/HOPE: HIV Outreach, Pre:
¯ vention & Education. The organization has also ¯
hired Greg Hisaw as HIV Testing Clinic Coordina-
¯ tor.
¯ - Frisbie has significant experience with HIV/ ¯
AIDS organizations having worked as a National
: AIDS Fund Americorp member and team coordi-
¯ nator. She’s worked with Whitman Walker Center
¯ in Washington, DC andhelped with the DC Needle
¯ Exchange Program. She workedwith Visiting Nurse
¯ Association’s Wellness program immediately be-
: fore joining TOHR’s programs.
¯ Greg Hisaw has been a see TOHR, page 3
¯ Bowersv. Shahar: Rights
;Case May Be Critical
: WASHINGTON (AP) - Robin Shahar believes
¯ that being a Lesbian is why she’s not working for ¯
Georgia’s attorney general, but the state’s lawyers
¯ say bias against homosexuals played no role. She
: lost thejob, they say, only after deciding to"maID"’
¯ another woman. The legal dispute, carried to the ¯
Supreme Court by Gay civil-rights groups, has
¯ historic potential. Andit already may have compli-
." cated the political aspirations of the man Shahar
¯ sued - would-be governor Mike Bowers. ¯
He was the state’s attorney general when, in
¯ 1991, he withdrew Shahar’s job offer to become a
¯ staff attorney in the Georgia Department of Law. ¯
¯ Bowers said her impending marriage would affect
public perception of his office’s dedication te en-
¯ forcing the state’s anti-sodomy law.
¯ Shahar and her partner were planning to cel-
; ebratealifelongcommitment seeBowers,page14
fight to keep their boy won the Gay movement a step
toward equality with heterosexuals, activists said after
a landmark court settlement.
The struggle began soon afterJon Holden and Michael
Galluccio began caring for Adam, then 3 months old.
On Wednesday, they won a settlement that gives Gay
and unmarried couples inNew Jersey the right tojointly
adopt children, like married couples. It only affects
children in state custody. Adam Holden Galluccio,
blond-haired with rosy cheeks, scumedbefore the news
cameras. "This is a victory about goodness and equality,"
Holdensaid.
Conservatives, already fighting efforts to legalize
same-sex marriages, were diametrically opposed. The
setdement is "a victory for homosexual activism and a
defeat for children already bruised in life and in need of
an intact, committed husband-and-wife .family," said
Robert Knight, director of cultural studies for the Family
Research Council in Washington.
"I think it’ s a sad commentary," said state Assemblywoman
Marion Creeco, Republican sponsor of a bill
banning same-sex mamage that has not yet made it to
the Assembly floor. "I think every child deserves to
grbw ,u,pwith a mother and father. It’s a very natural
thing, she said.
The agreement by New Jersey authorities came in a
class-action lawsuit broughtin June by Gay and Lesbian
families with the assistance of the American Civil
Liberties Union. Holden and Galluccio won the right to
adopt Adam on Oct. 22. see Adoption, page 14
DIRECTORY/LETTERS P. 2/3
US & WORLD NEWS P. 4
HEALTH NEWS P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 8
COMMUNITY CALENDAR P, 9
BOOK REVIEW P. 10
RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 11
GAY STUDIES/ANTHROPOLOGY P. 12
CLASSIFIEDS P. 14
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
*Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*The Palate Cafe & Catering, 3324G E. 31st
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st
*Samson & Ddilah Restaurant, 10 E. Fifth
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
*TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd
*Umbertos Pizzeria, 21st west of Harvard
832-1269
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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 Nieole, 2722 E. 15 712-1122
*Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313
Den Carlton Honda, 4141 S. Memorial 622-3636
Den Carlton Mitsubishi, 46th & Memorial 665-6595
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581~0902, 743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
*Daisy Exchange, E. 15th 746-0440
Tim Daniel, .Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E~ 15th -. 749-3620
*Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611
Deghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337. 712-9379
*Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
*Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
Leaune M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 28~5 E. Skelly 745-1111
*International Tours 341-6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 K 15th 712-2750
*Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018
David Kanskey,Country Club Barbering 747-0236
*Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 . 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, PUB 14011, 74159 747-5466
Langley Agency & Salon, 1316 E. 36th Pi. 749-5.533
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*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951
*Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 7434297"
Puppy Pause II, l lth & MAngo 838-7626
Rainbowz on the River B+B, PUB 696, 74101 747-5932
Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617
Scott Robison’s Prescriptions, see ad for 3 locations, 743-2351
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921, 747-4746
Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 582-7748
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
*Sedona Health Foods, 8220 S. Harvard 481-0201
*Sophronia’s Antiques, 1515 E. 15 592-2887
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017
*Trizza’s Pots, 1448 S. Delaware 743-7687
*Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767
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AIDS Walk Tulsa, PUB 1071, 74101-1071 579-9593
*All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363
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*Community Unitarian-Universahst Congregation 749-0595
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¯ DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St.
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Carbon Copy: The Tulsa World
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights,
Oklahoma’s oldest non-religious Gay &
Lesbian organization wishes to applaud
our Mayor (and the National Conference
for its letter supporting her) for her courageous
stand on the issue of religious displays
on public buildings.
As members of a community still denied
basic civil rights and the right to live
by the dictates of our faith traditions -
usually, by those claiming to be "Christian",
we recognize the.need.for the separation
of church and state. Tul sa’s public
: buildings should not display the symbols
¯ of a single faith - even if it is the faith of ¯
the majority of those who work within.
¯ Likewise, Tulsa’s government should not
¯ promote the religious views of our elected
¯ leaders, even if they claim that amajority ¯
of Tulsans support those views.
¯ This is not only constitutionally cot-
¯" feet; it is the epitome of "treating your
neighbor as you would be treated" - a
¯ tenet at the heart of Christian belief. As
: most ofour directors are indeed Christian,
: we do not oppose the expressions of that
:¯ .ifnaicthh,uwrcehseism, ipnlypsraivyakteeebputshinemessoenshiofmtheesy,
." choose and in your hearts, but respect
: your neighbors whose beliefs are differ-
. ent. - The Board ofDirectors, TOHR
ACTION ALERT
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URGE LAWMAKERS TO GET
TOUGH ON HATE CRIMES,
COSPONSOR THE HATE
CRIMES PREVENTION ACT
,, (S.1529/H.R. 3081)
from the
Human Rights Campaign
1101 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
emzil: sloan.wiesen@hrc.org
WWW: http://www.hrc.org
Call on Congress to pass important
bipartisan crime measure to include
Semad Orientation, Gender and Disability
in existingfederal laws targeting biasmotivatedviolence.
Your lawmakers need
to hear your support for an important
piece of crime legislation that was recently
introduced in Congress.
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act
(HCPA) would protect Americam from
most violent hate crimes based on their
real or perceived sexual orientation, gender
and disability. The HCPA was introduced
on Nov. 13 in the U.S. Senate by
Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Edward
M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and in the House
of Representatives by Reps. Bill
McCollum, R-Fla., and Charles Schumer,
D-N.Y.
According to the FBI, hate crimes committed
because of an individual’s sexual
orientation arealready the thirdmostcommon
type of bias crime - and they are on
the rise. The National Coalition of Anti-
Violence Programs see Hate, page 13
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 must be signed&have phone numbers,
or be hand delivered. 200 word letters
are preferred. Letters to other publications
will be printed as is appropriate.
Pictured are the staff of Tulsa OklahOmans for Human
.RightsHtV Programs: -Johnnie Eilerts and Jeremy
S~mmOns who do Gay rnens and group and community
outreach, Kristi Frisbie, thenew director oftheprograms
which are called HOPE: H1V Outreach Prevention and
Education, andGreg Hisaw, Testing Clinic Coordinator.
However, when local activists have pointed out to
Largent that religious views are also choices and yet
citizens enjoy civil rights protections based on their
religious status, Largent has just made statements to the
effect of "that’s religion, that’s different." When Lesbian
and Gay citizens challenged about his "special rights"
rhetoric at a town hall meeting held at the Bixby Public
Library, noting that protections based on "sexual orientation"
would also protect heterosexuals, Largent failed to
respond directly to that claim.
A spokesperson for Tulsa Oklahomans for Human
Rights (TOHR), Oklahoma’s oltlest Lesbian and Gay
non-rdigious community organization, expressed dismay
at Largent’s’comments and that he got involved in
the affairs of another state.
~"Apparently;_our Congressman is not satisfied attackin_
g his own Lesbian and Ga_y constituents but feels the
need to export this hate~:to.his .former state. We believe
Steve,kn.o.ws very well~ fliat hisb,omments about ’special
fights a~efalsebuti.~t~h~ is deliberatelybearing ’false
witness’ to promote his extreme Right-wing religious/
political, views - that hardly seems to be the conduct of
someone who claims-to.be ’Christian’."
Gay organizers of Initiative 677 also noted that a gun
control initiative on the ballot probably hurt the civil
rights measure. Again according to the Seattle Times,
Lori Jinkins, board president of the Gaycivil-rights group
Hands Off Washington, said umque political forces
worked against the measure. She noted that the National
Rifle Association spent more than $2 million against
Initiative 676, the gun control measure. Gun-fights advocates
according to a Seattle Times Washington Poll were
overwhelmingly opposed to the Gay civil-rights measure.
"Guns clearly brought out the ’no’ votes," Jinkins
said.
Jinkins also noted that many people believe that job
discrimination is already barred. In the Times poll, a
sizable number saidthey opposed the initiative because
they thought Gays are already protected by civil,rights
law. "Our early polling showed that 30 percent thought it
was already illegal in the state, and our biggest challenge
has been getting the word out that it i sn’t illegal," Jinkins
said.
Gay community organizers had hoped the_initiative
would be the best opportunity to gain civil rights protections.
Although a Newsweek po!l last y~ar’ f0und’that’
most people do not support Gays being allowed to live
anywhere they please, two-thirds said their sexual onenmtiQn
shguldn’t interfere_ with their ability to make a
living.
Therefore, Gay civil-rights advocates, tired 0f fighting
off attacks from the Radical Right, and heartened by
national polls showing support for. anti-discrimination
laws for Gays when it comes to employment, went ahead
with the $750,000 initiative campmgn.
However, The SeattleTimes poll also found that a large
number agreed with 1-677’s opponents’ argument that
sexual orientation was different from race, age, gender or
religion.
Robert Larimer, spokesman for a coalition of conservative
groups who opposed the initiative, said to the
Times that the defeat of the initiative would fuel the
passage in the Legislature next year of a law barfing Gay
marriages. "When you see a margin this big, it’s sending
¯ Father Rick Hollingsworth, the Right Reverend Craig
: Bettendorf, Presiding Bishop.of the Evangelical Angli-
¯ can Church in America, Father Jim Lehman of Holy
¯. Family Parish in Las Cruces, NM and Deacon Deb
¯ Starnes celebrated the Consecration and Dedication of
the new building of the Parish Church ofSaint Jerome.
a powerful message to the Legislature that they should
continue to refuse bestowing special status for sexual
behavior," Larimer said. "It should encourage the Legislature
to once again pass ’defense of marriage’ legislation,"
he said. "Andit should send a couple of strong signs
to our governor that he should not veto it."
Gov. Gary Locke, a vocal supporter of 1-677, had
angered conservatives earlier this year by vetoing a Gaymamage
prohibition.
The initiative’s defeat creates a stalemate over Gay
civil-rights in the state. Initiative drives in 1994 and 1995
to restrict civil-rights protections for Gays, bar teaching
about homosexuality in schools and prohibit Lesbian-and
Gay couples from adopting children failed to garner
enough signatures even to make the ballot.
Steve Liggett ofLiving Arts of Tulsa is joined by Nancy
McDonald; national prestden~ of’PFLAG, artist’Robert
Hernandez, Ken Youngbloodand his morn’at the Love
Makes A Family exhibit, sponsored by Eiving Arts,
PFLAG and Rainbow Business Guild. December was
dedicated to Lesbian & Gay art, artists and tssues,
at Six Flags, and maybe makejust a little money. Unlike
ice skaters who can retire wealthy, roller skaters often
barely cover their costs. Andjust as much, Goohs andhis
partner wouldn’t mind getting a little recognition here in
Tulsaand nearby - after all how many World Champions
do we have here?
it needs to get a loan or donation ofa piano that’s in good
¯ shape in order to meet there. Otherwise the group will
¯ meet at Hope Unitarian Church.
The group will have an organizational meeting on
¯ January 19 at 7 pm in the Neal-Padgett Hall of the Pride
¯ Center, 1307 East 38th Street, 2rid flotr. Formal audi-
¯" tions are not required but those interested should call
¯ Fortaer at 585-8595 for an informal interview prior to the
19th.
reputations with their peers and feel that each will brin:g
significant skills to the organization.
And at the December meeting of the orgamzation,
longtime volunteer Steve Horn was elected President of
the Board. He is joined by Dennis Arnold, Tim Darnel.,
Robert Hill, Jonathan Stanley and Tom Neal.
TOHR/HOPEprovides Tulsa with its principal anonymous
HIV testing site at the HIV Resource Consortium.
TOHR/HOPE staff members also do targeted outreach
forHIV prevention in several programs. TOHR, a 501 (c)3
tax-exempt, non-political organization, also provides the
Pride Center, Tulsa’s community center for Lesbian,
Gay, Bi, and Transgendered persons, our families and
friends. The Pride Center is located at 1307 E. 38th Street,
2nd floor. For more information, call 712-1600, 9-5pm,
.M-F, or 743-4297, 6-10pm, M-Sat.
that Goohs and Phillips had qualified for a competition "
based on an earlier performance in Mar del Plata, Argen- "
tim in December 1996, Goohs and Phillips.were back in ¯
training. Goohs says they had no costumes, no music, no ¯
routine and he was out of shape but in a matter of weeks ¯
- a ftacti’on 6f the normal time required, they got thing~ :’
together, and "just for grins" skated a national competiuon
in Florida where they got 3rd place for their short ¯
program, andwon first place much to their surprise for "
their long program; ~
This is what qualified them to go to Finland to represent
the US. He says that at 28, he’s getting to the end of a "
career in competitive skating - as you get older, it’s just ]
harder to keep in shape and to recover from injuries. He ¯
never dreamed though that he’d be ending his skating
with a gold medal. ¯
When asked about being Gay in the sport, he smiles and
says that there are many Gays in the sport but not so many -
in the pairs skating that he does. He says that it’s pretty ¯
hard work and his observation is that the Gay guys want ¯
to do more glamorous stuff- not the physically demand- ¯
ing lifting of a partner. .
Looking ahead, Goohs says he’d like to teach skating °
or do some theme show skating like at Disney World or ¯
ALBANY- Amid-level appealsCiSUrt denial amarrittge
license to a gay couple from itli~iea, i’eCently, cifng
technical flaws in their argument. -.......
The state Appellate Division said Hxillip and Toshav
Storrs erred in not including the state Department of
Health, which has jurisdiction over marriage licenses, in
their lawsuit. The Storrs had filedth~ff~elaim againstthe
Ithaca city clerk, who said sh~ Was prohibited by state
agency guidelines from issuing them a license.
"In our view, (the Storrs) are essentially challenging
the authority of (the Health Department) ’ to issue such
directives, the validity of those directives and its author-
~ty over the issuance of marriage licenses," the fivememberjudicial
panel wrote in a d~cision handed down
Christmas Eve. "We therefore conclude that (the agency)
was a necessary part of this action."
The Storrs said they would consult with their attorney
before deciding whether to appeMto a~kigher court, or
bring suit against the health department: "We’re not
surprised, and we certainly are not disappointed, because
we haven’t heard no yet," said Toshav Storrs.
Mariette Geldenhuys, who represented the city clerk’s
office, said the ruling "affirmed the city~s position.""The
city is constrained by the directives of the Health Department,"
Geldenhuys said. "This places the focus on the
real issue, between the (Stprrs) and the Health Department."
- -
Same-sex marriage is a volatile issue that state courts
only in Hawaii, Vermont and Alaska have wrangled with.
Hawaii’s decision to recognize gay and lesbian marriages
sparked debate in Congress as to whether other states
have to recognize it as well.
phillip, 38, and Toshav, 36 (who was formerly a Tulsa
resident), applied to the Ithaca city clerk’s office for a
marriage license two years ago. Toshav changed his last
name from Greene after the couple went through a
commitment ceremony in 1995~
Ithaca’s Common Council passed a resolution urging
the state to allow same-sex marriages, but city attorneys
ultimately determined Ithacahad no authority to issue the
license.
The Storrs then launched their lawsuit, asking for the
right to marry or to allow the Ithaca city clerk’s office to
evaluate the license application without taking into account
the state directive.
longtime volunteer with TOHR’s Testing Clinic and also
did testing f0rthe Tulsa Count)’ Health DepL The_ board
Colorado Commission
Examing Couples Rights
DENVER (AP) - A state commission looking at the
rights and responsibilities of same-sex couples won’t
meet a March 1 deadline to issue its findings. The
Commission on Rights and Responsibilities of Same-
Sex Relations has met twice since Gov Roy Romer
appointed its 16 members in September. More meetings
are set for January and February, but public
hearings won’t be held until March 4.
The commissionis charged with compiling areport
comparing the-legal and economic fights, responsibilities
and benefitS of same-sex couples and married
couples. ’%Ve’re only just a little bit beyond the
beginning org~zation in trying to identify tasks arid
processes," said state Rep. Gloria Leyba,D=Denver,
a committee member.
The commission is headed by Bishop William J.
Winterrowd of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado.
Othermembers include Catholic Archbishop Charles
J. Chaput; Rabbi Steven Foster of Denver; Wade
Buchanan, director of the CO Office of Energy Conservation;
Shirley O. Harris, former state personnel
director; and Paul Klinge of US West Media Groups.
Sen. Ken ArnOld, R-Westminster, and state Rep.
Marilyn Musgrave, R-Fort Morgan, sponsored a bill
earlier this year that sought to strengthen Colorado’s
ban on same-sex ~marriages. The measure passed but
was vetoed by Romer; who appointed the commission
without naming Arnold or Musgrave. "You can
dictate the outcome of a committee’s decision by the
people youappointto the commit,t,ee, and it looks like
that’s a predetermined outcome, Arnold said.
"It’s an important commission," said Sue Anderson,
executive director of Equality.Colorado, a Gay
fights organization in Denver. "It’s the first time
there’s been a formal government-sanctioned body
looking at Gay issues at all. "The nature of families is
changing," Andersonadded. "It’s important to examine
what does that mean, for individuals in the relationships,
the children, for property issues, inheritanee,
survivorship fights."
Leyba said the commission will look at "what
barriers may be created by existing law" to same-sex
partnerships. While the commismon is unlikely to
propose a law for the legislative session that begins
Jan. 7, she said, "If we determine there are statutory
barriers, legislation could be something down the
road."
Expanded Anti-Bias Law
CONCORD,.N:H. (AP) -A new law that grew out of
years of contentious debate is expected to generate
onlya trickle of action. Starting Jan. 1, New
Hampshire’ s "civil fights law will protectGays injobs,
housing and public places like restaurants and hotels.
But the state Human Rights Commission, which
will-handle complaints under the law, does not expect
to be bombarded with calls. "I don’t expect there are
going to be high number of complaints filed," commission
Director Raymond Perry said. "It’s still going
to be very difficult to be Gay in New Hampshire.
It was clear from the hearings that many people
remain prejudl.’~~"
Perry predicts his office will handle three to five
complaints in 1998 from people who believe they
have been discfiminated againstonthebasis of sexual
orientation. Tharis a drop in the bucket compared to
the 250 to 300;complaints filed by people charging
discrimination based on race, religion and other protected
statuses.
That doesn’t’mean the law. won’t, make-a ~difference:
It will,but 16y. producing peace of.mind rather
than complaintg, Sa~d Marcus ~Iurn, a law professor at
Franklin Pierce Law School who is Gay. ’~It’s not so
much that there is such agreat n.u~a.b.~r of landlords
and bosseswho a~e 0na~witch hunt, it. s that any time
you heara ~tory aboutthat you think, ’Next time it
could be me,’ "he said. "Now, the law is clear, and
we’ve got a pretty conservative but fair state organ~.-
zation-theHumanRights Commission-thatconsctentiously
does its job."
The law will have a significant impact among
public school teachers and state employees, be said.
"It’s never been real clear in the past whether you
were safe in your teacher tenure or state employee
¯
status if you were Gay or Lesbian," he said. "Now
they can rest easy because it’s very plain in the law.
A lot of worry hanging over people will lessen. I
suspect that will be the biggest effect."
Gov. Jeanne Shaheen signed the bill in June. Earlier
attempts to include Gays in the civil rights law
failed due to pressure from then-Gov. Steve Merrill,
who said it wasn’t needed, and the Catholic Church.
This lime, the Roman Catholic Diocese ofManchester
helped shape the language, which includes a
statement that "New Hampshire does not intend to
¯ promote or endorse any sexual lifestyle other than the
¯ traditional mamage-based family." Once the church
¯ endorsed the bill, "that started the ball rolling down
¯ hill at a pretty good clip," said Rep. Bill McCann, the
; bill;s main sponsor.
¯ .He said Bishop Leo O’Neil, who died last month,
¯¯ was concerned about the bill’s effect on schoolchildren.
McCann, a Democrat from Dover, said he was
¯
abletopersuadeO’Neil that school boards wouldstill
¯ be able to discipline teachers who act inappropriately
¯ regardless of their sexual orientation. "ff you have a ¯
heterosexual teacher who is openly carrying on with
¯
two or three different people, that’s something a
¯ school board would look at. The same is true of Gay
¯ people," McCann said. ¯
Opponents say the law sanctions sin and asks
¯ people to embrace homosexuality as socially accept-
; able. "I don’t believe in adding a new classification
¯ outside of the realm of things you have no control
; over," said Rep.. Gary Daniels, R-Milford. "In cases
¯ of race, color or creed, you don’t have control over
¯ that, and those are constitutional. It wasn’t right inmy
: mind to raise sexual orientation to a constitutional
: level,"
: New Hampshire is among 11 states that have en-
¯ Acted similar laws. Maine voters will decide on Feb.
: 10 whether to keep their civil fights law for Gay
¯ citizens. The law was enacted in June and signed by
~ the governor, but opponents collected signatures to
¯ force the referendum.
i Canadian ProvinceAdds
Civil Rights Protections
: ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP)- The legislature
in the eastern province of Newfoundlandhas voted to
¯ include sexual orientation in its human rights code.
¯ The vote leaves Alberta and Prince Edward Island as
: the only Canadian provinces that don’t extend protec-
¯ tion to Gays and Lesbians.
i .The Newfoundland human rights code will now
: prohibit discrimination against Gays in areas such as
employment, housing and access to establishments
¯ and. services. Some pension plans are excluded from
: the amendment in accordance with the federal In-
. come Tax Act, which defines aspouse as someone of
¯
the opposite sex. NewfoundlandPremier BrianTobin
¯ had promised to amend the human rights code when
¯ he was elected in February 1996.
i Salt Lake City Adds
¯ Employment Protections
¯ SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The City Council has
: voted 5-2 to approve an ordinance protecting Gay city
employees from discrimination. Oneopponent, Coun¯
cilman Bryce Jolley, said the law will be repealed in
January by’the new council. "If you choose to pass
this, it will be for two weeks only," he said Tuesday.
’q’his vote will be symbolic. This ordinance will be
¯
Co"Uficil inembers’ Tom Godfrey, Mary Mark~ Lee
¯ Martinez, JoanneMilner and Deeda Seed voted for
¯ thenewlaw. Jolley~andCotthcilmanKeithChfist’elsen
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¯ Christensea, Tom Roganand Roger Thomps0"~;
¯ CarltonChristensen saidhewould support Jolley’s
efforts to repeal the ordinance. Rogan supports the
¯ new law. Thompson would not say what he thinks
¯ abo~t the issue.
¯ Salt lake City is the first Utah municipality to ¯
adopt such an ordinance. Salt Lake County and the
: University of Utah have similar policies. Many busi-
¯ nesses have similar protections.
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Two hours ofvitriolicpublic debatepreceded the
council’s vote, More than 30 residents argued for
andagainst thenew law~ Gay city residents pleaded
with council members to approve the ordinance
that protects city employees from job discrimination
based on their race, color, national origin, sex,
religion, age, sexual orientation or disability. They
say it’s a matter of fairness and equity.
University of Utah Law School professor Terry
Kogan said he is grateful the university has a
similar nondiscrimination policy that protects him
fromjob discrimination. "My life would be miserable
if I hg.d hanging over my head the worry that
my superiors could fire me based solely on my
sexual orientation, something totally unrelated to
my job performance," Kogan said.
Employment attorney Erik Stringberg urged
adoption of the taw and cited the case of two Utah
Lesbians dismissed from their jobs when their
sexual orientation was discovered. "Employees are
repeatedly and regularly fh’ed from their jobs becauseofsexual
orientation"," Stn’nqgbe’rghsai"id.s"
proposed ordinance would not give any special
rights to Gay employees. It would merely ensure
that employees are given a fair chance and are not
discriminated against based on something that has
nothing to do with their job performance."
Others at the meeting disagreed. Some claimed a
parental right to know if Gay city employees might
have contact with their children. Some argued the
law was giving Gay city employees special protections
not afforded other workers.
A few attorneys contended the city ordinance
was too vague. Some said the law could be extended
to include all businesses in the city. Other
speakers raised religious arguments against the
ordinance. "Homosexuality is a perversion," said
U. instructor Brian Fetzer. "It "always will be an
abomination before God."
i Ex-Scout Still Appealing
¯ HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) - Kicking James Dale ¯
out of the Boy Scouts because heis Gay violates the
: state’s anti-discriminationlaw, attorneys saidinan
¯ appeal to reinstate the former assistant scoutmas-
¯ ter. "We want an end to this discriminatory policy,"
: attorney Evan Wolfson said of the Boy Scouts of
." America’s 80-year-old practice of barring homo-
. sexuals. Wolfson argued Dale’s case beforea three-
¯ judge state Appellate Division panel of Superior
: Courtjudges. Thejudges didnotimmediately rule.
: Dale earned30 merit badges, seven achievement
¯ honors and other awards, and was an Eagle Scout ¯
during his 12 years as a Scout. He was expelled in
: 1990 alter the Boy Scouts learnedhe was Gay from
: a newspaper article. He sued the organization in a
: 1992 and a Monmouth County judge ruled in the
¯ Scouts’ favor in 1995, calling homosexuality "a
: serious moral wrong."
¯ Dale’s attorneys claim the Boy Scouts policy
¯ violates New Jersey’s anti-discrimination law,
"- which was expanded in 1992 to prohibit most
¯ organizations from discriminating on the basis of
: sexual, orientation. In his argument, Wolfson noted
: that the Scouts’ commitment to being "morally
¯ straight"-never mentions sexual 0iientation. The
¯ Scouts, he says, stand for "teaching boys, team-
. work, se!f-reliance, courage, torespect the rights of
¯ all people." .
." A national spokesmzn for thail~ Scouts says
¯ the organization’s stand on homosexuality is crucial
to its mission. ’q’his is a ~0,~aional policy that’s
¯ the proposal in August the legislature intended to
protect women and childrenfrom abuse and protect
a traditional family unit. Philpot said he is open to
.. the possibility of providing protection to homo-
. sexual victims of domestic violence if Gays prove
¯ there is a problem.
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goes against everything I learnedinmy
; 1,2 years of Scouting," Dale said in..a press release
." issued by his attorneys. "I want the Boy Scouts of
¯ America to give back what I earned and allow me
.- to continue to serve." Despite the national policy,
¯ the Boy Scouts’ San Francisco-area chapter last
; year adopted a more lenient "don’t ask, don’t tell"
¯ policy toward Gays.
¯ Ellen Honored byACLU
¯
BEVERLY HILLS,Calif. (AP)- Ellen DeGeneres
¯ never wanted to be a spokeswoman for Gay rights,
~ but that’s exactly what happened after she publicly
disclosed her sexual orientation. "I just got to the
." place where I didn’t want to live my life feeling
¯ ashamed, and thankGodthat I don’t have to do that
." anymore," she said Sunday at a dinner where she
¯ was honoredbytheAmericanCivil Liberties Union
of Southern California.
: "From the beginning, I said that I didn’t want to
.. become a spokesman for Gay rights. But here I
¯ am," she said. DeGeneres said her ABC sitcom ¯
"Ellen" serves an important function in trying to
." remove the stigma attached to Gays and Lesbians.
¯ "But there’s still a lot more to do," she said. ¯
’q’here’s a warning label on my show sending a
¯ message that there is something wrong with me."
". DeGeneres has beenfighting withABC executives
¯ in an effort to.,~emove the parental guidance warn-
" hlgs at the beginning of her show.
: TheACLU gave her its Bill of Rights Award for
: advancing" the cause of Gay rights 100-fold" by
¯ announcing her sexual orientation on the April 14 ¯
issue of Time magazine and later appeared on the
: groundbreaking "Ellen" episode. The ACLU Bill
¯ of Rights Award commemorates the ratification of
: the Bill of Rights in December 1791. Funds raised
¯
at the annual dinner support the ACLU’s legal
¯ battles, advocacy and public education programs.
faces abuse from the other could inflame legislative
debate on the topic. One state’ ~enator has
already proposed a change in thelaw to prohibit the
issuance of domestic violence orders to members
of a same-sex couple. The appellate decision reversed
a Fayette Circuit Court ruling, which had
taken the position that the law applies only to a
married couple or a heterosexual couple.
Judge David Buckingham of Murray, who wrote
the majority decision, said the statute applies to
couples engaged in an intimate relationship and
would not apply to roommates. ’q’he language of
the statute is unambiguous, even though it is gender-
neutral and does not specifically include or
specifically exclude same-sex couples from its
scope," Buckingham wrote. ’I’he General Assembly
has not given preferential treatment to samesex
couples or homosexuals; rather it has provided
for equal treatment under the law for same-sex or
homosexual victims of domestic violence."
.Judge Joseph Huddleston of Bowling Green
joined Buckingham’s opinion. Judge Rick Johnson
of Mayfield dissented. He said the legislature intendedto
allow domestic violence orders forcouples
that are composedof members of the opposite sex.
The statute now allows "any family member or
member ofan unmarried couple" to petition a court
for a domestic violence order to refrain from any
contact with the partner. It has generally been
applied to nnmarried couples who live together,
formerly lived together or havea child in common.
It also covers spouses and some other relatives.
According to the court case, John W. Ireland and
Blake Allen Davis were homosexual males living
together in an intimate relationship. Ireland sought
a protective order, alleging he had been abused by
Davis.
Sen. Tim Philpot, R-Lexington, has proposed a
revision that would add to the definition of an
unmarried couple, limiting that category to people
"of opposite sex." philpot said prior to a heating on
Denver Needle
Exchange Program
DENVER (AP)-Hopingto slow Denver’ s
growing number of HIV and A{DS cases,
the City Council has approved a.controversial
needle-exchange program that
would allow drug users to trade used
syringes for new ones.
The exchange program, which was approved
Monday on an 8-3 vote, cannot go
into effectwithout the authorization ofthe
state legislature. Lawmakerslast session
killed a bill to ~nodify .Colorado’s drug
paraphernalia lacy.
Despite the uphill battle; progr,a,in proponent~
saidiris a.neces~ary step’to preventing
spreaff of-HIV and AIDS: An.
estimated 10.5percent of Denver’s AIDS
cases in 1996 were attributed to intravenous
drug use. ’Tnis is a public health
issue," councilwoman Happy Hayes said.
"The goal is tO decrease the spread of
infectious and deadly diseases. I see no
evidence that it will increase drug use."
Councilman ~Ed,~Thomas, a former Denver
police offi~ jofixed~ Susan Bames-
Gelt andTed Hackworthas the dissenting
voters. "We’re taking a giant lehp of faith
with people invo{~ed in heroin and injection
devices, T,homas stud. There s not
absolute proof that a needle-exchange
program ... is successful."
Mayor Wellin~gt0ii Webb, who initially
opposed the needle program, changed his
position out of concern for the gro,,wing
number of children infected with HIV
throughtbeirmothers. UnderWebb’ s proposal,
the city’s department of environmental
health would register, inspect and
monitor any needle-exchange program.
Denver would join "75 other U.S. cities
,with such a program.
Boulder has a personal needle-exch~
mge program in which individtmls receive
dean needles for used ones, but it is
not recognized by authorities and is generally
.regarded as illegal. "It just doesn’t
make sense," Denver police officer Kirk
Miller said ofneedle-exchange programs.
"Let’s do some outreach and education
first before we give a drug user the equipment
to commit a felony."
Call For HIV Case
Reporting by Name
SEATTLE (AP) - The first U.S. decline
in new AIDS eases is increasing support
for a proposal that was once almost too
controversial to discuss: identifying and
monitonng everyone who tests positive
for the virus that causes the disease. Such
a shift, now gaining momentum at the
state and federal level, would mark a
turnaround in public health policy.
In Washington state, public health officials
now track only full-blown AIDS
cases. Underthenew proposal, they would
monitor, by name, everyone who tests
positive forHIV, thehumanimmunodeficiency
virus that causes AIDS, and try to
notify their sexual or needle-sharing partners
that they have been exposed and may
be infected.
The federal Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention is asking all states to
consider the policy change. Now thatnew
AIDS:drugs are keeping people with .HIV
healthier longer, thereby leading to a atop
in full-blownAIDS cases, such a change
would enable authorities to get more
HIV-positive people on the drugs sooner.
"We need to keep our policies in line
withthenew scientific evidence that early
notification saves lives," said Dr. Alonzo
Plough, director of the Seattle-King
County Department of Public Health.
"Names reporting is the best way for us to
keep track of the epidemic and to make
sure individuals andinfected partners have
this information," he said.
The change would also mean that epidemiologists
could for the first time enlist
traditional .public-health strategies in the
battle against AIDS. For years, the stigma
of a disease that primarily infected gay
men and injected-drug abusers was so
great that officials, at the insistence of the
gay community, relied on nontraditional
methods such as anonymous testing and
treatment.
Thirty states already record the names
of people who have tested positive for
HIV. InWashington state, for example,
reporting by name begins when the patient
has clinically defined AIDS - an
AIDS-related infection or other symptom,
or an immune system weakened to
below a certain level.
Names reporting has long been used to
helpcontain and combat other dangerous
infectious diseases. The state monitors 54
such ailments including measles; tuberculosis,
whooping cough, certain types of
hepatitis and several sexually transmitted
diseases,
Now some health authorities say it’s
time to add HIV to the list. They want the
freedom to attack AIDS with the traditional
tools of public health: routine testing
of large segments of the population,
names reporting of those who test HIV
positive, and notification of people who
may have been infected so that they can
get tested for HIV and seek treatment if
necessary.
.The CDC considers names reporting of
HIV the only accurate way to "track the
front end of the epidemic," said Judith
Billings, Washington state’s former top
school offici’,d and a member of the
President’s Advisory Council on HIVAIDS.
Billings, who stepped down from her
stat~ post after disclosing her own AIDS
diagnosis last year, also leads a subcommittee
of the Governor’s Advisory Council
on HIV-AIDS. The group has held five
public hearings on HIV names reporting
and will report its findings to Gov. Gary
Locke next month.
Early intervention allows health authorities
te stretch limited AIDS-prevention
resources, Billings said. But, as a
person with AIDS, she said she understands
concerns that it could lead to discrimination
in housing, employment and
medical care. "There are plenty of people
who went through 10, 12, 15 years of
discrimination who are very concerned,"
Billings said. "And we all know too well
that there are somepretty innovative (computer)
hackers."
Citing such concerns, the Seattle-based
Northwest AIDS Foundation is opposing
the proposed change in policy. "We think
HIV surveillance is important, but we
think there needs to be an alternative to a
name-based system," said Steven Johnson,
the foundation’s public policy director
and a member of the governor’s advisory
council.
The alternative could be some sort of
unique identifier or code numbers that
enable officials to track the epidemic without
raising patient fears of disclosure,
Johnson sai& "The CDC hasn’t come
down with a definitive position on what
they want from the states," he said. "It’s
unclear if the CDC will ask states to
comply with the name-based system or let
states do their own surveillance."
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lows some rare good news in the AIDS
epidemic. Combination-drug therapies -
especially a new class of drugs known as
i’pr.otease inhibitors"-have shownprom-
1se m many patients.
In September, the CDC reported the
first U.S. drop in new AIDS cases. In
1996, 56,730 Americans were diagnosed
with AIDS, down 6 percent from the
60,620 new cases reported in 1995. At the
same time, AIDS deaths declined 23 percent,
from 50,140 to 38,780.
The new anti-AIDS drugs are expensive
and don’t work for everyone, but
supporters of names reporting say .the
latest developments are encouraging
enough to warrant re-examining public
policy.
"We can?t tell you what proportion of
people who have HIV infection are on
effective drugs - or what proportion of
those people are even in care systems -
because we have no idea who they are,"
said Dr. BobWood, AIDS-control officer
for the Seattle-King County Department
of Public Health. ’qf you want to answer
those very important questions, we need
to have the data," he said.
To Wood and others in the field, public
health officials are negligent if they do
anything less than seek out the disease
and eradicate it. For them, that means
notifying an HIV-positive person’s sexual
partners, because "if you leave it to the
person, it doesn’t happen," Wood said.
HIV Warning For
UK Soldiers
: Sustiva, a trademark name of DuPont
: Merck, is expected to be filed with the
: Food and Drug Administration next year.
: The access program allows companies
¯ to get the drug to patients in need who
: have few other choices while it is being
considered by the FDA. Once the drug is
: licensed and marketed, the free access
: program would end. In the program,
: Sustiva must be used in combination with
¯ and initiated at the same time asat least
one other marketed or investigational
¯ antiretroviral drug which the patient :has
: not taken previously. Patients would only
: be eligible if their, current ~regimen’ and
¯ drug cocktaiIs are not effective. ¯
Preliminary data indicates that Sustiva
¯. can significantly reduce viral loads and
improve healthy cell counts when used
: with other drugs, the company said. Pa-
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! Chinese Hood
: Bettor AIDSlnfo,
! BEIJING (AP) - Many doctors in China
: need a crash course in treating AIDS, a
: survey shows. It found that nearly 60
¯ percent of doctors in eight Chinese cities
: mistakenly believed that AIDS could be
: transmitted by sharing bowls and chop-
: sticks, the Beijing Youth Daily newspaperreportedWednesday.
Thesurveyfound
: that more than 70 percent of ordinary
¯" people held the same view. It also found
: that one in three people surveyed and one
¯ in six doctors-mistakenly thought AIDS
LONDON (AP) - Commanders at : conldbetransmittedthroughahandshake.
Britain’s largest military base have ad- : The survey was conducted in Beijing,
Shanghai-and-six..other..cities~by~tl~7~C~h~.~~
least two HIV-positive women had a se- nese Academy for Preventive Medicine,
ties of sexual affairs with soldiers. The
two women had been having sex with
soldiers based at Catterick gamson in
Yorkshire, 210 miles north of London,
Col. Nell Donaldson said in a special
order.
The women "are believed to be liberal
with their affections, particularly to soldiers,
and are not averse to indulging in
casual sex, often unprotected," Donaldson
said in the statement issued Tuesday.
The Sun tabloid newspaper said that
more than 100 men had asked for AIDS
tests after the announcement and speculated
that the women may have been deliberately
trying to infect soldiers. The
Ministry of Defense did not say whether
any of the soldiers tested had the HIV
virus.
Sustiva Drug
Program Expands
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP)-The DuPont
Merck Pharmaceutical Co. is making the
drug Sustiva available to more HIV-infected
patients. Under the broader Sustiva
Expanded Access Program, patients who
have had less than 400 CD4 cells per
millimeter will qualify for free doses of
the drug, which must be taken with other
protease inhibitors.
The old access program was designed
for patients with less than 50 CD~ cells
per millimeter - meaning the patient’s
condition was much more severe, said
Sandra Kingsberry, a spokeswoman for
the company.
DuPontMerck, ajoint venturebetween
Merck &Co. and DuPont Co., expanded
its access program one month ahead of
schedule because of an increased supply
of the drug. A new drug application for
the newspaper reported. It did not give
details about how the survey was conducted
or any percen~ge of error.
AIDS is spread through intravenous
drug use, sexual contact, blood and breast
milk.. China has 7,253 official cases of
HIV infection, but experts say the real
figure could be as high as 200,000.
Fighting AIDS in
Black Communities
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP)-Two statewide
groups are joining together in an effort to
slow the rapidly increasing surge ofAIDS
and HIV infection in Kentucky’s black
communities. Representatives from the
NAACPand the Kentucky Department of
Public Health said at a news conference
Friday that they’re planning a series of
workshops, health fairs and other events
around the state next year to provide information
about AIDS and alert blacks to
the growing threat.
"If we don’t address this issue now,
there will be no .tomorrow," said Anna
Davis-Nail, representing the WIN
(Women in the NAACP) Auxiliary of the
Kentucky Conference of NAACP
Branches. "We must take a stand to make
a change in our own community."
Davis-Nail said that, as a part of the
plan, organizers want to create a core
group of at least 150 blacks fromdifferent
backgrounds who would spread the word
aboutAIDS in black comm~lnities around
the state. The group would consist of 50
young people, 25 ministers, 25 people
with AIDS and 50 commtmity .leaders,
she said. Blacks make up about 7 percent
of Kentucky’s population, but they
count for about 30 percent of new HIV
infections in the state.
by James Christjohn, TFN bon vivant
Well ,jokers, chokers, and smokers, it’s
timeforyet another wonder-columnfilled
with wit, intelligence, and bad jokes
aplenty. Before I forget:
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Worth a trip to Dallas (from which
environs I’ve just returned), Cirque De
Soleil’s production of
Quidam arrives there on
Feb 11. If you have never
seen orheard ofthis troupe
from Canada, run to
Blockbuster and rent their
videos. The acro-aerobatits
are incredible, the
hunks amazingly beautiful,
the womendivine, and
the music (performed live
at the shows, and available
on CD at Best Buy)
simply breathtaking.
I’ve been a good boy,
Santa, can I have next
year’.s present just a tad
early...? This troupe, particularly
m the
Salt~mabanco video, puts
on a very homoerotic display
of two women on trapeze
and twomenin gymnastic
feats that have to
been seen to really be appreciated.
The whole
thing’s a circus of
surreality.
IfyoumissedTU’s production
of Falsettos, you
missed the best production
I have seen since, arrivinginTulsa4years
ago.
The acting, singing, and
choreography were as near
to perfect as you can get
and still be off-Broadway
(-way off Broadway).
The cast put on a professional
show, and I was utterly
absorbed into the action
onstage. The cast had
obviously workedhard on
this show, and I know this
is a show they’ve been
wanting to do since 1995.
Andsuch voices! Falsettos
is difficult musically,
and these folks made it
look so easy!
Falsettos tells the story
of Marvin (Gabriel
Washam) who, in the first
act, has come out to and
left his family - his exwife,
Trina (Ashleigh
Siegfried), their son Jason
(Simon Plohocky), and
also tells of relationship
with his lover, Whizzer
(Joel Sutliffe).
The dynamics of all
these relationships are
For those who ~,ike
their art visual,
Philbrook Museum
will be exhlbltln~ the
-work of
J,M.W. Turner,
"the ~reatest of landscape
palnter~" from
London, February 8-
Ap~l 1~.
Thls exhibit ~ll be
the sole world,de
venue - imagine, here
in little old Tulsd
~ More seriously,
Turner is eonsldered
the ~r~test British
~inter of the 19th
e~nt~r~ ~n~ one
of the monum~tal
fi~ures of ~estern
~intln~. This ~
pleee exhibit draws on
the holdln~s of three
~r~t Bdtlsh eolleetlons,
the Tate
Gallery, the Victoria
and Albert Museum
and the Unlve~ity of
London’s Courtauld
Institute Gallery."
The curator is Richard
To--send of
Philbr~k who ls also
the author of the
exhibit ~talo~ue that
~ll f~ture es~ys by
To--send, and
dlstln~ulshed Turner
spedallsts.
played out with help from Marvin’s psychiatrist,
Mendel (Jonathan Scott Chin)
who has a few-disorders of his own to
explore.
In short, Marvin wants it all - he wants
to keep his relationship with his family
and his lover. 1"hus is the scene set for
some really hilarious and poignant songs,
and of course, points about acceptance
and what constitutes a family nowadays.
The first act ends with Whizzer leaving
Marvin, and Trina deciding that she, too,
needs tofindherownwayinlife. Sheends
up with the psychiatrist.
The second act begins a couple of years
later - it’s time for Jason’s Bar Mitzvah,
and Trina and Marvin are having a terrible
time planning it. They are at odds over
everything. Jasonjust wants to disappear,
and Mendel ends up trying .all of the
psychology heknows tokeep ruffled feathers
from flying. Or is it
fur? Anyway,
Whizzerappears onthe
scene at Jason’s invitation
just in time to provide
some more complications.
And, as such
things do happen,
Whizzer and Marvin rekindle
the flames. This
come just as the Lesbians
next door, Doctor
Charlotte (Elizabeth
Haley) and her spouse,
caterer Cordelia (Jeni
Martin) arereading about
a strange new disease affecting
Gay men.
Thus the scene is set
for Whizzer’s future. He
-has AIDs. As the Bar
Mitzvah draws nigh, he
weakens and becomes
sickerand sicker. The day
of the Bar Mitzvah, he is
in hospital, and Jason,
disgusted with the arguing
adults around him,.
decides to have the Bar
Ivlitzvah in the hospital
room so Whizzer can be
there.
The show was profoundly
moving, and I
was gratified to seemany
members of the community
in the audience - a
large one, considering it
was the final performance,
and a matinee.
Tom had seen the original
off-Broadway production
of Falsettoland
(which comprised the
second act of Falsettos)
and proclaimed this TU
production as good. I feel
safe in saying there
wasn’t a dry eye in the
house - literally.
The actors in this production
were excellent-
Gabriel Washamhadjust
the right amount of neuroses
and pathos in
Marvin to keep the character
real. Joel Sutliffe
was absolutely perfect
(and handsome) as
Whizzer - again, not too
bitchy, but enough edge
to make the relationship
between Whizzer and
¯ Marvinreal withoutbeing utterly depress-
2 ing. I received many an elbow jab to the
¯
ribs by Tom after his character made a
¯ bitchy remark - I don’t know why.
¯¯ Eleven year-old Simon Plohocky can- nothaveenoughgoodthings written about
¯ him. He displayed an amazing depth with
¯ Jason that is a hard thing to achieve,
¯ especially with very young actors. This is
no fluff musical, and Jason is a pivotal
¯ character. The original Broadway cast of
¯ March of the Falsettos (the first act) lea- ¯
tured seeFalsettos,page 10
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by Jean-Pierre La Grandbouche
TFN restaurant reviewer
One of the best kept secrets of Tulsa’s
beautiful people has been a quiet little
bistro in a faux-Tudor strip center near
Southern Hills Golf and Country Club.
Yet, that bistro has been the Site of a lot of
excitement in the local culinary world
since they reopened in November after
extensive redecorating and
remodeling; .... - , -
Cardigan s, An American
Bistro, at 5800 South Lewis,
now boasts a revised menu
and a fresh, new look, while
still retaining a clubby, comfortable
feel. Diners who
haven’t been to Cardigan’s in
the past couple of months
won’t recognize the place,
which now features tall wainscotting
in a deep, mahogany.
color, surmounted with crisply
painted walls in a soothing,
basil green shade. Dramatic,
large Italian and New York
deco-era posters decorate the
walls.
The designers have been
successful in updating the
look, while still giving the
rooms a cozy, lived-in feel that
looks as if it has been there for
years. Waiters wear solidblack
wing-collar shirts with blue
jeans and waist-to-floor white
aprons, while busboys wear
black polo-style shirts with
their jeans. . ....
During our"~¢~riV 9isW~~
Cardigan’ s for this review, we
were somewhat disconcerted
at the wait to be greeted at the
door by anyone connected with
the staff. However, once the
maitre d’ materialized, we
were warmly greeted and
promptly escorted to a prime
table. During tiffs dinner, we were privileged
to be the guest of the doyen of
Tulsa’s artistic musical community, who
is a frequent diner at Cardigan’s, so our"
reception was more probably a result of
his patronage and renown than a usual
reaction to dinner guests.
The new menus are quite adventuresome.
While making a more than adequate
bow to the standard cliche foods of
the typical Oklahoma-Texas popular eatery,
the Cardigan concept includes its
own flair with items like the cheeseburger
with Gouda cheese and caramelized onions
and the ten5ne incorporating fetaand
cream cheeses with the ubiquitous sundried
tomatoes.
Items from the Mexican, Italian, and
Chinese repertoire are included, plus a
few things from Santa Fe, New Orleans,
and the New York delicatessen, making
categorization of this eclectic smorgasbord
difficult. But, with such a broad
variety, practically everyone can find at
least Onefavorite item on themenu, and in
all price ranges from pricey entrees to
economical pizzas and sandwiches.
Avariety of salads are available both as
side salads and as main course salads,
including a classic Caesar, hot dressed
spinach, Greek, and Cobb, with prices
from $2.25 to $6.50. French onion soup in
a daily standard, and, on the night of our
visit, the soup of the day was New
gland style clam chowder (cup. $1.95,
Cardlgan’s
An
American
Bistro
5800 S. Lewis
Amblanee:
Dressy casual
Prices:
Expensive
Payment:
All major
plastle accepted
Non-smoking
seetlon: Yes
............Alcohol: ,-
Full bar and
wine llst
Rating:
A llst
¯ bowl $2.95). Weopted for the clam chow-
: der, and, while it was a tasty soup, it was
¯ rather more of a clam-flavored potato
¯
soup than a seafood chowder.
While our waiter, rather ineptly, was
¯ uneducated as to the evening’s specials
and their preparations, we, nonetheless,
¯ opted to order the chef’s fish of,the day,
¯ whichwas apecan~encrustedfiletofChilcan
blue-nosed sea bass
($17.95). Sea,bass i~. a large,
flak~, White fish, an66u~!~rge~
thick slab Was very"tiicely
cookedthroughout, th6ughwe
found the ground pecan crust
to have an ever-so7s!ighfly
scorched taste. The pecan-encrusting
conceptis ago&tone,
though, and would probably
beperfectona thinnerpiece of
fish. The one thing we didn’t
like about the fiSh ~,~ ’the
very sweet blueberry sauce
that was ladled over th~ Serving--
we would .mUch. rather
have preferred the sauce on
the side.
Our host chose the medallions
of beef tenderloin
($14.50). Several-medallions
were presented, cooked correctly
to the requested degree
of doneness, and were covered
in a marsala sauce, which
our companion termed, "ten5-
bly ordinary." Both entrees
were accompanied by mashed
potatoes and a winter vegetable
saute. 7~e did. notice
that everything -~e elam
chowder, the medallions, the
mashed potatoes - were garnished
the same way, with a
rather unimaginative scattering
of chopped parsley.
After our waiter convinced
us to try the lemon custard
meringue pie ($3.25) for des-
" sert, he later had to come back to report
¯ that the kitchen was out of lemon pie. We
¯ were not amused. In lieu of the pie, we
¯ decided upon the fresh vanilla bean flan
($3.50). Flan, of course, is h delicate egg
¯ custard, and in this case, we were very
¯ pleasandy surprised and interested to be
¯ served a thick, almost cheesy, custard that
¯ was quite good.
¯ Our dinner companion had the black
Russian cake ($3.25). Wewere expecting
¯
something perhaps Kahlua-flavored, re-
" calling the black Russian cocktail made
: with vodka and Kahlua, a coffee liqueur.
¯ Instead, a several slices of afudgey choco-
¯
late tube cake with chocolate icing served
on a bed of decorated whipped cream and
¯ cocoa arrived, and neither we nor the
waiter (ourhero, who was moving quickly
¯
toward an e~ght percent tip) could explain
¯ why the cake bore the "black Russian"
¯ moniker. ¯
Now, whileweare being abit cridcal on
¯
the finer points of execution of our re-
" view-night meal, wedon’t want to give an
: overall negativeimpression ofCardigan’s.
¯ Yes, the kitchen could use abitmore flare
¯
in their saucings and presentations, but
." the basic food underneath is generally
¯ good and a fair value for themoney,when ¯
comparedto similar establishments in this
: region. And, while our waiter was inex-
: cusably inept and insuffieiendy ~rained,
¯ he was friendly and didn’t actually give
: badservice, seeCardigan’s,page 12
Gays & Religion
by Lamont Lindstrom
I lived for a couple of years in a village
on an isolated island in what today is the
South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. I was at
one time the only American on this island
until a Catholic priest arrived from the
U.S. He had been assigned to a mission
station about three miles walk away from
mcoea,sffdmoew. TniffaslownagsPa~rreoBcokby.
(Up until then, all priests
serving the Catholic mission
had been French-speaking
l~res.) P~re Bob was hospitable
and engaging; he was
also vigilantly taken care of
by a gaggle of Italian nuns,
and he had laid in a fine
supply ofwine and whiskey.
P~re Bob was interested
in island culture and language
and he often joined
localmenandboys whogathered
at dark village clearings
each evening to prepare and
drink kava, the Pacific’s traditional
drug substance.
Kava ordinarily has light
depressant, mood-levding
effects, something like
valium. It wasn’t long before
teen-aged boys were
whispering to me that P~re
Bob, everyone zoned out on
kava, would sometimes feel them up. The
boys ~weren’.t upset about this; they just
giggled at the p&e’s sexual eccentrictty.
It came to me then that the connections
between religion and sexuality a~e .long
and twisted in human history.
Whaf~v_er one believes about the supernatural,
the problem in all religions is one
of access and commlmication. Who controis
the flow of messages back and forth
between humans and the gods? Specialist
mediators, operate in most religions as
supernatural guides, as did Pdre Bob, in
his own way, onmyisland. Many cultures
presume Gays and Lesbians to bridge
fundamental gender categories. Religious
systems have often built, metaphorically,
on this positional intermediacy of Gays
and Lesbians. Homosexuals (however
culturally conceived),who themselves are
in between gender categories are effective
religious mediators linking humans
and the gods. Mohave Indian cross-dressers,
for example, traditionally, often were
powerful shaman; they cured sickness by
contacting the world of the spirits. Crossdressers
in India, the hijras, similarly possess
powerful abilities to bless and to
curse based on their dose links to the
Mother Goddess. (Anyone interested in
hijras, afew ofwhomare hermaphrodites
and some of whom ritually emasculate
themselves, mighthavealookatmyfriend
Serena Nanda’s book Neither Man Nor
Woman: The Hijras ofIndia (1990).)
Anthropologist Weston La Barre once
suggested that original human religion
everywhere was shamanistic and therefore
relatively egalitarian. Although
people might turn to part-time specialist
shamans to diagnose and cure disease and
for other sorts of assistance with the supernatural,
everyone had the capacity and
the right to contact his or her own ancestors
or other family spirits. With the development
of agriculture, though, religion
and social life in general became
much more hierarchical. When the great
religions - the religions of the book -
: appeared in human history, they quickly
¯ acquired an official monopoly on spiri-
: tual mediation. Priesthoods, notably,
¯ emerged and gained control of tallking to
¯ the gods.
¯ Organized priesthoods may have se-
¯ cured the function of mediating with spit-
¯ its but they have not escaped issues of
: sexuality and religious function. The Ro-
¯ man Catholic Church, for
example, particularly since
the 12th century has symbolically
remarked the powers
of its priestly mediatorsthrough
an elaboration of
celibacy. But some of the
same sorts of people whose
intermediate sexuality once
would have led them to take
up the spiritual quests of the
shaman nowadays become
clergy within religton organizations
that are hostile to
homosexuality. Nonetheless,
some of the best priests
and pastors, at least in my
experience, are Lesbian or
Gay. In this, they maintain a
wide-spread; cross-cultural
tradition of great antiquity.
My friend William now
studies in a semanary in the
eastern United States. He is
a monk on his way to the
priesthood. He loves men
and, I should also tell you, he is super cute:
I worry about William. Sometimes I
suspect h’e has thrown himself into a celi~
¯ bate church as a means to control a per-
" sonal sexuality thatdiscomforts and vexes
-" him. Marriage~t0~tbe chu~ehmean~ never
having to go on a date. "This is dangerous
¯
overkill," I pleadwith him: "Can’t you
," become a priest after you are old and
¯ ugly?"
But part of me knows he is realizing a
¯ primal humancultural pattern. Those who
¯ find themselves in between male and fe-
: male also move easily between earth and
¯ heaven. William’s retreat to the monastery
might be a loss to the Gay bars - that
mundane world of the flesh - but it is a
gain for the realm of the spirit. I am glad
that the messenger .who helps carry my
prayers up to the .gods is so beautiful.
Lamont Linstrom teaches anthropology
at the Uttiversity of Tulsa.
I worry about
. William. Sometimes
I snspect
he has thrown
himself into a
eellbate ehnreh
as a means to
control a personal
sexuality
that dlseomforts
and vexes him.
Marriage to the
church means
never having to
"go on a date.
However, at Cardigan’s prices,~we have
to demand at least better training of the
wait staff.
The place is fun, though. And, a broad
rangeofgenerations patronize Cardigan’ s
for dinner, possibly skewed a bit toward
the more mature parties, though that may
be more a factor of economics and neighborhood.
A whole other crowd frequents
the bar, where watching televised sports
and smoking cigars seems to be a highlight.
Cardigan’s bears careful watching. Already,
a very popular and most adequate
place to eat, with just a little effort and
polish, they could become one of the top
dinner destinations in Tulsa. Will they
make it? We hope so.
Editor’s note: sometimes tart, other
times saucy, M. LaGrandboucheprovides
Tulsa with its most honest restaurant reviews.
Ergo, his column has attracted a
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¯¯ KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) -When gay
divinity school student Thomas Brown
¯ was ordained a deacon during a ceremony
¯ last June, two Episcopal priests rose to ¯
object. But Brown was undaunted. The
¯ 27-year-old recently graduated from di-
¯ vinity school and plans to return to Epis-
¯ copal Church of Christ the King in Janu-
: ary to be ordained asa priest.
¯ Brown, formerly of Kalamazoo, says
¯ people in his hometown parish have been
: les~ openly critical of hima~ tim~ has
: passed.BrOwnnowlivesinCalifomiabut
¯ frequently returns to the Kalamazoo area.
¯ "Of course, in the wake of my ordina- ¯
tion, people knew who I was. If they
¯ didn’t already know me, they were able to
¯ figure out, ’That is the homosexual’,"
¯ Brown told the Kalamazoo Gazette in a
¯ recent story.
¯ "But I was touched by how welcoming
¯ many people were.... I think that’s a
¯ tribute to the Episcopal Church in West-
" ern Michigan and Bishop Edward Lee for
" helping us maintain that type of unity."
¯ AfterBrownis ordainedapriest, he will
¯ be eligible to lead a parish of his own. ¯
Rightnow,heis the directorofalumni and
¯ church relations at the Church Divinity ¯
¯ Sehool of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif.,
and a part-rime clergy associate at the
: Church of St. John the Evangelist in San
: Francisco.
¯ "I feel called to my work at the semi-
" nary and my work at St. John the Evange-
¯ list," Brown said. "I aspire to serve a
: parish full-time in the next one to two
hate crimes. Refer to the HCPA by its full ." years."
name -and bill m bet" S 1529 in the " Still, there are some in the church who
In Tulsa, call Steve Largent, Don NicHes
and Jim Inhofe. Even better would be a
letter faxed up.to DC.
US Representative Steve Largent
v: 749-0014, f: 749-0781,
DC v:202-225-2211, DCf: 202-225-9178
The local office just refersyou up to DC
for any real discussion. Amy is the staffer
for this issue. She said a letter would be
even better than just the call.
Senator Don Nickles
v: 581-7651, (the local office can transfer
youup to DC withno long distance cost to
you), f: 581-7195, DC f: 202-224-6008
Staff contact: Ryan Leonard
Senator Jim Inhofe, v: 748-5111
Call Congress through the Capitol
Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Ifyouare
not sure who your senators and representative
are, just ask the switchboard operator.
You can:also send electronic messages
to Congress through HRC’s Website at
http://www.hrc.org. Write to Congress
through the U.S. mail as well. Include
your name and address, and s~nd your
politely worded letter to:
The Honorable
U:S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
The Human Rights Campaign i~ the
largest national lesbian and gay political
organization, with members all over the
United States. Tojoin, call 800-777-4723.
¯ Raymond Bierlin, one of two priests who
¯ stood to object When Brown became a
: deacon in June, said he plans toaitend
¯" Brown’s ordination into the priesthood.
¯ ’q~ere will be an objection to his ordina-
¯ tion," Bierlin said.
: Brown said he feels people like Bierlin
: are the exception. "I feel like I have been
¯ received really well," he said.
¯ Brown grew up in the Upper Peninsula
and graduated from Western Michigan
." University in 1992. After his graduation,
¯ he worked in the Kalamazoo area for two
," years as a teacher atPlainwell High School
." and as an educator and trainer for Planned
: Parenthood of South Central Michigan.
¯ The Episcopal Church of Christ the ¯
King sponsored Brown when he entered
the Church Divinity School of the Pacific
¯ in 1994.
: Dist. 4 City Council
¯ Race Update
: TULSA- CandidateforTulsaCityCoun-
¯ cil District4and Tulsa Family News publisher,
Tom Neal, has announced the for-
.’ marion of a campaign organization.
¯ Peter W. Athens has agreed to serve as
,,: campaign treasurer, and a campaign ac-
¯ count has been.0pened. A number of do-
: nationshave~been received from b0C,h
¯ Lesbian and Gay supporters and non-Gay
¯ ones as well. Individuals who Wish to ¯
contribute may send any donations to
! Friends of Tom’Neal, attn~ PeterW. Atli~
." ens, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK74159. To get
¯ involved in the campaign, call 583-4615.
¯ Two other Democratic candidates have
: declared their intention to run at press
¯ time. Dennis Dowell, a Native American
¯ and neighborhood activist, and Gary
¯
Boyle, an attorney with the Williams Cos.
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In,about half the states, including New
Jersey, each individual in aGay or unmarried
relationship could adopt a child, but
the "second-parent" adoption required an
additional petition, taking more time and
money. Florida and New Hampshire bar
adoptions by Gay and Lesbians. The rest
allow individual adoption by Gays and
have not been tested for second-parent
adoptions by a Gay partner, said Micha,el
.A~S~ a.,~:.t~.f att0i-h~y with the ACLU s
_ Lesbi~/afid.Ga~)iRiglitS Project;
":Ui~der’the setflem~n(~New J~sey must
scrap its policy barring joint adoption of
its wards by Gay or unmarried couples.
"The settlementguarantees that all couples
seeking adoptions will be judged only by
their ability to love and support a child,"
said Lenora M. Lapidus, legal director of
the state ACLU.
The .state may deny consent only by
appl)iing the same standards it applies to
married couples, including "consideratlons
such as the stability of the prospective
adoptive couple’s relationship," the
settlement Said.
In addition, it allows any Gay or unmarried
couple who believe they are denied
joint adoption based on marital status or
sexual orientation to ask a state judge to
enforce the decree and award them legal
tees.
ActiViSfssaid the settlement will put
more f0hter children in permanent homes.
Wendi Patella, a spokeswoman for the
state Division of Youth and Family Services,.
said.the agency now has custody of.
about 100 ~htldren who are eligible for
adopt&on. In_1996, 687 children in the
agency’~ care were adopted, she said. The
agencY.said there are currently 15 unmarried
couples seeking to adopt children in
state custody..
Kate Kendell, executive director of the
National Center for Lesbian Rights in San
Franei’~co.;estimated there are 8 million to
13 millionchildren being raised by Gay or
Lesbian parents in the United States.
"ecclesiastical immunity" under the First
Amer~dment of the U.S. Constitution.
Accorcling to testimony,Ms. Morrison’s
husband, Steve Martens, went to talk with
Bass _about sexual problems within the
marriage..Bass reportedly quizzed Martens
about whether his wife was a Lesbian.
Martens, who was also a licensed
minister, went back to Bass to ask for
permissitn from the Church to get a divorce-
because he thought his wife was
having an affair with another woman,
according to testimony.
B~s reportedly told Martens that he
had t6 get proof about the affair before a
divorce could be sanctioned by the church.
Otherwise, Martens’ minister’s license
could be in jeopardy. Martens hired a
private detective to tap phones and use
video surveillance and later confronted
his wife, who reportedly confessed to a
Lesbian affair.
But on the witness stand, Ms. Morrison
said she has never confessed to a Lesbian
affair. Both women have said they are
only platonic friends and that they believe
homosexuality is wrong.
A number of defendants, including
Martens and other church members who
spread the allegations, settled out of court
before the case went to trial.
to each other xn,a religions ceremony,
even though Shahar, who later got work
as alawyer for the city of Atlanta, says she
knew the ceremony carried no legal significance.
Her lawsuit said Bowers violated
her constitutional rights of association
and equal protection.
Bowers’ name already is attached to the
Supreme Court’s most important Gayrights
ruling, a 1986 decision called Bowers
vs. Hardwick in which he successfully
defended Georgia’s anti-sodomy law.
Consenting adults have no constitutional
right to engage in homosexual conduct,
the nation’s highest court ruled by a 5-4
vote then.
Bowers, who this year resigned to pursue
the Republican nomination for governor
in 1998, has since had to admit he was
involved in an extramarital affair that
lasted more than a decade. Adultery, like
sodomy, is a crime in Georgia.
Asked if he had been hypocritical in
Shahar’s case, Bowers said, "In a moral
sense, yes. But legally, I do not believe
there was any choice with the Shahar case
but to do that. Did that make me a moral
hypocrite? Yes."
Nevertheless, Bowers’ decision to withdraw
Shahar’s job offer has been upheld
in court. A federal trial judge ruled that
Shahar’s rdationship with herparmer was
a "constitutionally protected intimate association"
but concluded that Bowers had
not acted unlawfully.
The entire 1 lth U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals agreed last May, voting 8-4 that
Bowers had not violatedany of Shahar’s
rights. The appeals court judged Bowers’
action after assuming - only for the sake
of argument - that Sl~iflaar had some constitutional
right to be intimately assooated
with another woman. The appeals
court went:on to say, however, it was
reasOfiable tobelieve that Lesbians who
..............................
in illegal homosexual rdations.
Its decision added: "We cannot say that
Georgia’ s attorney general is dearly wrong
to worry that reasonable people - inside
and outside,,~,e Law Department - in
Georgia could think along these same
lines." Suchassumptions, the appeals court
said, could affect public confidence in the
attomey general’s office.
But three dissenting judges said that
should not matter. "It is important to note
that catering to private prejudice is not a
legitimate governmentinterest," they said.
In her Supreme Court appeal, Shahar’s
lawyers contendthat Bowers’ action "rests
on irrational prejudice toward Gay
people." But Georgia’s lawyers say his
action was based on Shahar’s "holding
herself out as married to another woman,
and was not precipitated by some generalized
animus against homosexuals." If the
Supreme. Court agrees to study Shahar’s
appeal, it will decide who’s fight.
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Social Organization, Inc.
FUSO is a community based
organization not-for-profit 501 (c)3
agency providing services to African-
American males + females who are
infected with HIV/AIDS in the Tulsa
community. FUSO also hel~s
individuals find other agencies that
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but he has been the one to take the heat for
coming out and breaking the silence. Yes,
he is scheduled to appear. Tix available at
Carson Attractions locations and you can
charge by phone at
584-2000, or online at:
WWVC.CARSONTIX.COM.
And should we all organize (giggle) a
group (guffaw) of 20 or more, discounts
are available at 254-1069. Of course, I’ve
watched people try to organize a ~,oupof
5 people with little success, so that s wh~:
the notion provokes some amusement.
And if you’re in the mood for some
jazz, Manhattan Transfer will be with
the TulsaPhilharmonic at the PAC, January
9 & 10. For tix, call 747-7445.
For those who like their art visual, The
Philbrook Museum will be exhibiting
the work ofJ.M.W. Turner, "the greatest
of landscape painters" with watercolors
From LondonMuseums February 8- April
12. This exhibit will be the sole wordwide
venue - imagine, here in little old
Tulsa!
More seriously, Turner xs considered
the greatest British painter of the 19th
century, and one of the monumental figures
of Western painting. This 42 piece
exhibit draws on the holdings of three
great British collections, the Tate Gallery,
the Victoria and Albert Museum and the
Umversity of London’s Courtauld Institute
Gallery. The curator is Richard
Townsend of Philbrook who is also the
author of the exhibit catalogue that will
feature essays by Townsend, and distinguished
Turner specialists.
This exhibit is the kick-off event of
Philbrook’s Year of Europe to be followed
by exhibits from the National Mu- ~"
scum of Art of Romania and the Hillwood
Museum.
This extravaganza is subsidized by generous
contributions from Tulsa corporations,
family foundations and individuals.
Tulsa Family News is proud to be one of
The Year of Europe mediapartners, along
with KJRH, Oasis 92.1, The Oklahoma
Eagle, NPR@89.5, KMOD, Oklahoma
Family and others.
A Thomas Moran exhibition will also
beheld February 8 - May 10 at Gilcrease
Museum. Moran was highly influenced
by J.M.W. Turner, and this exhibit is the
first retrospecfiye of the late 19th century
artist. The National Gallery organized the
exhibit with assistance from Gilcrease
Museum which has the largest single collection
ofMoran works, some 2500pieces.
Moran, British born but raised in Philadelphia
became perhaps best known for
his paintings of Yellowstone. It was his
sketches which helped influence members
of Congress to enact legislation making
Yellowstone the first national park.
Heller Theatre presents Jitterbug
Waltz, a fihn-noire style play about a
nightclub owner and her relationship with
her father, rnnnmg Jan 22-31. Call 746-
5065 for info. And if you’re in the mood
for improvisational comedy, attend
Laughing MatterImprovat HellerJanuary9.
Viva Flamenco! dances its way into
the PAC Jan 17. 596-7111.
Well, folks, it looks like that is what the
new year’s first month is offering up for
fun. If anyone knows of events that need
to be noted here, please let me know by
faxing or calling 583-4615. Have a safe
New Year’s celebration and a great year!
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Quiet Life Despite Lawsuit
: Serving Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Famllle~ + Friends
The National Conference ! Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
i DoesAntI-Blas Group Discriminate?
Unmarried OKCouples iAudra Sommers’ Food
May Lose Right to Adopt : Pantr~ Benefit Starts Early
OKLA~-IOMA CItY -- Unmm~ied couples would no : TULSA - Local Diva Audra Sommers is well Imown for
1o~.~have therlght to adopt .c~.d~anader Oklahoma : suc~essfal bealellt shows she organizes for area chmld~. Her
i Prime Timers’ Affair of the
: Heartto Benefit Pride Center
i Tulsa PFLAG to Host
i Regional Conference
i Doesn’t Seem to Work
HONOLULU (AP) - Thnothy McVeigh was back
at wodc at’tea" a federal judge ot’de~l the sailor
Sporkin nded from W,ash~t~,~oa~ .ti~.,t the Navy had
an upcoming Chfisa-~ party.
Oscar’s 70! Benefit for
Local AIDS Charities
TULSA - Follies R~va¢, Catholic Charities, aad
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*Boston Willy’ s Diner, 1742 S. BostOn
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S..Peoria
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
*Jason’ s Deft, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*The Palate Cafe & Catering, 33240 E. 31st
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st
*Samson & Delilah Restaurant, 10 E. Fifth
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
*TNT’s, 2114S. Memorial
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd
*Umbertos Pizzeria, 21st west of Harvard
832-1269
592-2143
744-0896
583-6666
749-4511
585-313~
599-7777
749-1563
745-9899
745-9998
585,2221
834-4234
585-3405
660-0856
584-130[
599-9999
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 747-1508
*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. 71 250-503z
Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 .712-1122
*Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313
Don Carlton Honda, 4141 S. Memorial " 622-3636
Don Carton Mitsubishi, 46th & Memorial 665-6595
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902,.743-4117
Commtmity Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
*Daisy Exchange, E. 15th 746-0440
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deeo to Disco, 3212 E 15th "" 749-3620
*Devena’ s Gallery, 13 Brady .587-2611
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337, 712-9379
*Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
*Gloria Jean’ s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E.: 21st 742-1460
Leanne M. Gross, Insurance &financial planning 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney ’, ~ 744-7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
*International Tours 341-6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th 712-2750
*Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018
David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236
*Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15. 59%8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, PUB 14011, 74159 747-5466
Langley Agency & Salon, 1316 E. 36th P1. 749-5533
Laredo Crossing, 1519 E. 15th 585-1555
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3 - 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720cE. 31 ’- 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951
*Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard :: 747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste..633 747-7672
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 ~ 15 583-1090.
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor : 743-4297
Puppy Pause II, llth & MAngo 838-7626
Rainbowzon the RiverB+B,POB 696, 74101 747-5932
Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617
Scott Robison’s Prescriptions, see ad for 3.:locations, 743-2351
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746
Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 582-7748
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
~Sedona Health.Foods,8220 S. Haryard ....... 481-0201
*Sophronia’s Antiques, 1515 E. 15 592-2887
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017.
*Triz~a’s Pots, 1448 S. Delaware 743-7687
*Tulsa Book Exchange; 3749 S.-Peoria .....742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767
Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & Universities
AIDS WalkTulsa, PUB 1071, 74101-1071 579~9593 ."
*All SOulS Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363 ."
Black&White, Inc. PUB 14001,Tulsa74159 587-7314 ."
Bless The Lord atAIl Times’Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815 ¯
*B/L/GFF Alfta~ee, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Cir. 583-9780 ."
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S.Boston 585=1201 ."
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th Pl. & Florence ."
*CommunityofHopeUnitedMethodist, 1703 E.2nd 585-1800 ¯
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595 ."
*Church.oftheRestomtionUU,1314N.Greenwood 587-1314 "
918.231.7372, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140~ Tulsa, OK 74159
e-maih TulsaNews@ earthlink.net
wobsite: http:/lusers.aol.com/TulsaNewsl
Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal
Entertainment Diva + Mac Guru: James Christjohn
Writers + contributors: Leanne Gross, Barry Hensley, Jean-Pierre
Legrandbouehe. Lamont Linstrom. Kerry Lobel, Judy
McCormick, Josh Whetseli, Member o! The Associated Press
Issued on or before the 1 st of each month, the entire contents of this
]~blieation are protected by US copyright 1997 by Ttdn,t ~:...~.
N,w~and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without
written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or
photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence
is assumed to be for publication unless_otherwise noted, must
be signed & becomes the sole property of TtJ~ut ~~ta~9."" Nva,:.
Each reader is entitled to 4 eopies of each edition at dishibution
points. Additional copies are available by calling 231-7372. .
*Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712-193~
*Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457
Dignity/integrity-Lesbian/Gay Catholics/Episeopal. 298-4648
*Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441
*Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777
*Free SpiritWomen’ s Center, call for location&info: 587-4669
Friend ForA Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827
Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0438
*HIT ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 583-6611
*HIT Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral 834 4194
HOPE (TOHR), H_IV Outreach, Prevention, Education
1307 E. 38, 2rid ft. 712-1600, HOPE/TOHR Anonymous
HIT Testing Site, Mon/Thurs. eve. 7-9pro, call 834-8378
*House of the Holy Spirit Minslaies, 3210e So. Nonvood
Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
*MCC.of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715
NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 748-3111
NOW, Nat’ 10rg. for Women, POB 14068,74159 365-5658
OK Spokes Club (bieyding), POB 9165, 74157
*Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 584-7960
PFLAG, POB 5.2800, 74152 749-4901
*Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 587-7674
*The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 743-4297
Pdme~Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 ,..
*R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195
Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 665-5174
*Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 584-2325
O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults
O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth
t. Aidan s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 425-7882
St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 582-3088
*Shanti Hotline & HIV/AIDS Services 749-7898
TNAAPP(Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225
Tulsa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 595-4105
Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only
TulsaOkla. for Human Rights, c/o The PddeCenter 743-4297
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222
*Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule
*Tulsa Commlmity College Campuses
*Rogers University (formerly UCT)
BARTLESVILLE
*BartlesvillePublic Library, 600 S: Johnstone 918-337-5353
NORMAN
*Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907
OKLAHOMA CITY
*Borders Books &Music, 3209NWExpressway 405-848-2667
501-253-7734
.501-253-7457
501-253-6807
o501-253-5445
501-253~9337 ~
" 501-253-2776
501-253-5332
501-624-6646
501-253-6001
Call for Caymans Boycott
Out & About, the Gay travd newsletter,
has called .for a boycott of the Grand
Cayman Islands following their governments,
decision to ban Gay Lesbian tourists.
Please call the Grand Cayman Islands
Tourism Office (on their dime) at
800-346-3313 and tell them what you
thinkabouttheirgovernmentturningaway
Gay tourists. Even if you weren’t planrang
on a Caribbean vacation, every call
to the Grand Cayman’s tourism board
cost themmoney, 500 calls would effectively
erasew_h,a,_,t an average couplemight
spend in a week s vacation! Explain why
you are calling andbe polite- 800 numbers
sometimes get your home address
and phone number!
Remember that a boycott is not an angry
or vengeful act, but a tool At the other
end of the telephone will be employees
and residents of the Grand Cayman Islands,
but not the person(s) directly responsible
for the ban on Gay tourism.
- Mark Haile, Los Angeles
Editor’s note: for more information on
this issue, see the News stories onpage 4.
A fifth-grader writes:
I am a fifth grade student in California. I
amdoing areportonOklahomaand would
like to ask your readers if they would be
kind enough to help me. I would like to
receive apost card withafact about Oklahomaand/
orathoughtaboutwhatit is like
to live there. I think that it will be important
in my report to hear the thoughts of
people that live in Oklahoma. The responses
will begreatly appreciated. Thank
you for your time and effort.
....Maya Cohn-Stone
¯" TAHLEQUAH ."
: *Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900 :
: *TahlequahUnitarian-UnivetsalistChurch 918-456:7900-:
: *Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-453=9360 :
¯ NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand ¯ : HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for date ¯
: EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
: *Auttmm Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 :
: *Jim & Brent’s BiStro, 173 S. Main :
¯ DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. ."
¯Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St.
MCC of the Living Spring ¯
Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 :
Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery
Positive Idea Marketing Plans
Sparky’s; Hwy. 62 East
,.
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS ¯
¯Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442-2845
¯ indicates a distribution point. Listed businesses are not all Gay-owned ¯
but wekome Lesbian/Gay/Bt& Traus communities. ¯
Editor’s note: any reader who wouM like
to send Maya a postcard may send it to
Maya Cohn-Stone, c/o TFN, POB 4140,
Tulsa 74159.
GLAAI~~ (~alls for Action on Ellen
ABC needs to know how much the
impact of this show has had on ~e Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender eommtmityandourfamilies
and friends. Don’t
let the voice of a radical fundamentalist
minority be the only one that ABC hears.
Let the network know how having apositive
portrayal of a Lesbian lead character
onprimetime television has affected your
life and the lives of those dose to you.
GLAAD has learned that the decision
from ABC on whether or not to renew
Ellen for another season may happen as
early as.next week. Ellen has broken precedent
after precedent by bringing
America a honest, funny and poignant
look at Ellen Morgan and in doing so, at
Lesbians and Gay men everywhere.
~ tt is essential,that the. community and
our friends rally around the television
every Wednesday and support the show.
Since she and her character emergedfrom
the closet, Ellen DeGeneres has become
an unstoppable force in figh.ling for equal
rights. Ellen has brought the real experience
of the Lesbian and Gay community
to milftons of viewers seeGLAAD,p.13
Letters Policy
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issues whichwe’ve covered or on issues
you think’fi~l 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.
The "Saint" + Her Sidekick
Get Their Revenge :
by Tom Neal, editor and Democrat Candidate
~for Tulsa City Council District Four "
If you all haven’t figured it out yet, one of the values ¯
whichguides this newspaper isahigh regard for the truth. "
We don’t claim that we always get it fight, but it is our ¯
goal. Unlike some in our community, we fLrmly believe ¯
that the benefits ofopendialogue and debatefar outweigh "
the friction that comes from the process. :
And toward that goal, we have, at one time or another, ¯
enraged some members of this community. We believe -"
they are mostly few in number but they are some ofour "
more ~wealthy, self-impct.rtant, and, in. a0few cases, profoundly
unethical -if not dishonest - members. These ¯
latter are the types who Seem.to believe that because of
their wealth or influence that the rest of us shouldjust go "
along with whatever they think is best. Indeed. ¯
It’s likely that this editorial will anger these folks again. ¯
Pity. Sometimes we act much like.the folks in the tale of
the emperor’s new clothes,we all know better, butwejust
pretend things are not what they are because we don’t
want to anger someone or because weavoid.conflict, etc.
All this is preamble to the question of why a Lesbian
and Gay political action committee, Cimarron Alliance
Group has refused even token support to an openly Gay.
Tulsa’city council candidate (this walter).
You just have to wonder what they were thinking?
Y.ou’d think that an organization dedicated to improving
the political conditions for Oklahoma’s Lesbian and Gay
.communities would, jump at the-chance to support a
candidatewhowash tjustafriendto our communities but
actually was one of us. A candidate whose record of
working for.fairness and equality for our communities
can rival most others in this city. Especiall,_y.why would
they hold back, when at this very_time, they ve commited
to expand into Tulsa? ~,:~
The answer lies in a few. Tulsaus who would put
persoaality over principle. Cimarron is an Oklahoma
City organization whose leadership admit that they know
littleabout Tulsa~ Theyhave dependedontheirhandful of
Tulsa members toinformthem,aboutour.city. Several of
these may be counted as our mos~ dedicated, ethical and
devoted community leaders. Unfortunately, afew are are .
equally dedicated but doenmentably unprincipled. And ¯
these latter have pursued their personal vendettas. :
But despite the pettiness of these two, the failure is on .
Cimarron’s part. The organization.behaved mostly in an ¯
unprofessional manner. It’s g~fi~ly been considered "
goodform to allow one who’s b~Seh~ hccused to respond to .
charges, if not actually to confront his/her accusers. _"
(Certainly this is acourtesy we’ve extendedin print to the :
critics of this newspaper, idcluding to the individuals to ¯
whom we refer.) Yet, Cimarron took the word of these "
people without providing an opportunity for response, :
and I suspect, without questioning the individuals as to :
any bias on their parts. .
Furthermore, repeated inquiries made to several indi- "
viduals in the organization about getting support were .
simply left unanswered for two months. Only after sev- ¯
eral calls.to officers about this lack ofresponsiveness, did "
the organization change its .behavior.
In all political races, there are questions of "viability",
that is, is this a candidate who really has a chance of
getting elected. And one of the key issues of viability is
getting funding. This is a challenge for all candidates but
especially for minority and non-establishment ones.
Indeed Cimarron officers say they have an obligation
to be thefirst to support-their own if only because no one -
else may at first. They cite their support for a Lesbian in
an Oklahoma City area race who was not deemed to have
a chance but whom they supported because they felt the
obligation to help their own.
But inTulsa;it seems therules are different. Andagain,
apparently, ordinary manners are lacking. After making
a trip to OKC to discuss the campaign with Cimarron’s
"pick" committee, you’d think at least the courtesy of a
phonecall toinformacandidateoftheirdecision, whether
in favoror opposed, wouldhayebeen in order. We’re still
wailing.
Cimarron will notbecome a credible organizationuntil
it puts principles before personalities and until operal~s
professionally. And as for the "saint" and her sidekick,
many in Tulsa appreciate the good you have done but are
on to your shenanigans. We don’t like how you operate.
For us, the end does not ultimately justify the means.
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights board members
and staffheld a goal-setting andplanning retreat at the
Episcopal Conference Grounds near Lake Fort Gibson.
¯ by Kerry Lobel, executive director ¯
¯. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force ¯
¯ Right now I’m really missing noted futurist Jeanne
-" Dixon. Jeanne, now deceased, used to make sweeping ¯
: predictions about the intimate lives of celebrities as well ¯
¯ as events that would shape the year to come. While I’ll
miss her predictions, we don’t have to predict the future
: to shape it. Weneed only to look to some ofthe events that ¯
ended 1997 for proof.
¯¯ In November, President Clinton’s Hate Crimes Sum- "
mit brought together 200 leaders from around the country ¯
¯ In.an effort to wage acampaign against bias violence. The "
¯ summit ended nearly a ten year effort by groups like the "
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Anti- :
-" Defamation League to bring hate crimes to national ."
." recognition. This historic moment was rooted in longterm
work and commitment. ¯
¯ In December, a judge ruled that two gay men may
i jointly adopt a child in-their care. The judge recoguize~i ."
¯ their commitment to their relationship and to th~ child.
¯ We need only to look to the hundreds of thousands of ¯
Gay, Les~an, Bisexual and Transgendered couples and,
single l~tr~nts ~t have raised"childrefioveith~ last 40 .
i years. Politicallyandculturallytheseparentshavemoved,
our society forward, resulting in this moment. ¯
When a Hawaii Court rules on same-gender marriage "
sore.eti,me early this year, it will very possibly change our.:
"society s view of same=gender marriage forever. The
courage of.the Hawaii marriage plaintiffs, the hard work ¯
of Hawaii organizers hround sovereignty and Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgendered issues, the dedication ."
ofthe legal staff at Lambda Legal Defeuse and Education :
Fund, and efforts by hundreds oflocal, state and national ¯
organizations lay the foundation for the ruling. :
When Maine voters go to the polls in February, it will :
be to hold onto their civil rights bill. Maine activists have ¯
already beat back a discriminatory ballot measure. That :
winning-coalition resulted in a bill passed by the state "
legislature in 1997 that banned discrimination based on "_
sexual orientation. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans- ¯
gendered activists and their allies have steadily trans- "
Friday, Febmaly 6,1998
7:00p.m- 9:00p.m.
Please join us for lhis very special evening to discuss the upcoming Tulsa
Cily Council elections and to learn more about lhe Cimarron Alliance Group.
For More Informalion 10 R.S.V.P Please Call (918) 743-4354.
Some Rainbow Business Guild members gather atone o
heorgantzat~on s lastevents. Co-prestdentDenntsArnoh
says the group’s ne~t’meeting will be in Mitrcli.
formed the Maine landscape but the Right-wing conservatives
wofi’t give up. Neither will the Mainers.
In every city and in every town, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
.and Trausgendered people are creating change and shaping
Our history. Most of them do not think of themselves
as more remarkable or more talented than their friends or
neighbors. And in truth, they’re not.
But they do feel called - called on to right a wrong, to
tell a truth instead of an omission or lie, and to act instead
of stand by. For some it is to come to visibility to friends,
family or colleagues. To others it is to interrupt a
homophobi.cjoke or comment or to advocate for changes
in their companies policies or practices. And for still
others, it is to pass anti-discrimination laws in their town
or state. These combined efforts have fundamentally
changed society as we know it.
Most every American feels like they know a Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgendered person. Face it,
Ellen and the over 20 gay characters .on television and
several film characters have helpedwith this effort.
Politicians courttheGLBT voters. AS the Victory Fund
will attest, tee?reincreasingly becoming electedof~cials..
We need only look to the Congressional campaigns of
Christine Kehoe, Tammy Baldwin and Margarethe
Cammermeyer to realize that we have the capacity to
make public policy in entirely new forums.
’More and more laws benefiting the Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgenderedcommunity are being introduced
in state legislatures. The Federation of Statewide
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trausgendered Political Organizations,
coordinated by the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force, is an unprecedented gathering of statewide
groups led by a dynamic executivecommittee.
An energized and mobilized Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
and Transgendered community that works to build coalitions
with other communities is an unstoppable force for
change. We don’t need Jeanne Dixon or the futurists, to
predict our future.
With each of our actions now, we write the list of
accomplishments for our movement in 1998, 1999 and
the next decade.
no hope and no sense of family for any child, especially
one who desperately needs it. "And while there are many
fine single parents out there, the best situation for: any
child- especially an adopted.one- is a two-parent, stable
and loving home."
Rep. Pope told Tulsa Family News that despite "the
aberrant and deviantlifestyles ofhomosexuals" the target
of the bill was not adoption by Gay couples. When
questioned about whether high rate of divorce might
indicate that marriage was no guarantee of "stability,"
Pope agreed but suggested that statistically married
couples were still more "stable." Pope also stated that the
idea for this .bill came from Gov. Keating’s staff at a
recent leadership conference.
Pope suggested single-parent families are ill-equipped
to cope with myriad social and emotional problems such
as poverty,juvenile crime, teen-age suicide, alcoholism,
drug abuse, etc."We need to guarantee more for adopted
children," he asserted. Lawmakers will begin considering
Pope’s legislation when the 1998 session begins
Monday, Feb. 2.
Mixed Reception for
Lesbian & Gay Travelers
(AP) - American Airlines has five sales representafives
specifically marketing to Gay travelers, but the
carrier won’ t extend health benefits to Gay employees’
domestic partners.
St. Maarten is trying to attract Gay visitors to its
sandy beaches, while its Caribbean neighbor, Grand
Cayman, refused to allow a cruise ship carrying Gay
passengers to dock for the day.
Sought after for their tourist dollars, Gay and
Lesbian travelers find that in some circles they are
still shunned. For.instance, Sandals, which runs.lO
couples-0nly resorts in Jamaica and other Caribbean
islands, only allows heterosexual couples as a matter
of policy.
"I constantly remind myself where we’ ve come
andhow fast we’ ve come as a community," said John
d’ Alessandro, president of the International Gay and
Lesbian Travel Association. "We are no longer illegal.
The question of Us being’ sick’ has gone away
completely. But the fact is people grew up in an
environment where we’ re not an accepted crowd.
Today we are, but it’ s going to take people some
time."
The Cayman Islands this month refused to allow a
cruise ship chartered for about 850 Gay men to make
’a one-day stop in port, saying "careful research and
priorexperience has led us to conclude that we cannot
count on the group to uphold the standards of appropriate
behavior."
In contrast, the island of St. Maarten in the Netherlands
Antilles welcomes Gay travelers and will be
advertising, this year in Out magazine. "We’re lookingat
various niche markets and one of those niche
markets would be the homosexual market," said
ReginaLaBega, director ofmarketing for St. Maarten.
"They do have the discretionary income, and they
spend, and we haven’ t had any problems with homosexuals
- or any other group - coming to theisland."
The IGLTA estimates that Gay and Lesbians account
for nearly 10 percent of the $200 billion that
Americans Spend annually on business and leisure
travel. With that sort of spending power, the travel
industry has increasingly put out the welcome matfor
homosexual travelers.One result is that the IGLTA,
founded in 1983 with 25 tour operators and travel
agentmembers, reached about 600 members by 1992
and today boasts nearly 1,400 members, including
the Avis and National car rental chains, the philadelphiaConvention
and Visitor’s Bureau, the Australia
tourism council, and most of the major U.S. airlines,
with the exception of Delta.and TWA.
"In the last five years, major tourism organizations
and countries have come to realize the dollar value Of
the Gay market," said David Alport, publisher of the
Gay travd newsletter OUt & About. ’¢rhere’s no
question that tourism is an economically driven segment
of the business-world."
But even while courting the niche market, some
companies still wrestle with their own issues involving
Gay employees. American Airlines added five
employees to its 100-person marketing department to
focus soldy on the Gay community. The airline is an
active member of the IGLTA, has added sexual
orientation to its nondiscrimination policy, allows
group discounts for people traveling to Gay and
Lesbian conventions and donates money to orgamzations
important in the Gay community.
Despite the marketing effort that brings in about
$150 millioninnew revenue annually, the airline still
doesn’t extend spousal travel privileges and pension
programs to partners of Gay employees. In fact, no
U.S.-based airline does.
’q~here’ s some measure ofhypocrisy, butin r,e~lity,
all progress is made one step at a time," Alport said.
Five years ago, none of the airlines allowed a Gay
person to sign up their partner for a lounge dub
program or transfer a frequent flier award to a significant
other. Many of the airlines have since changed
those policies. "American may not offer every sort of
benefit for its Gay employees, but they are doing so
much more than the vast majority of compames out
there," Alport said. "Sometimes, recognizing the
value of your employees is the last step a company
will take."
Out & About, which has 10,000 subscribers, recently
rated several airlines on their Gay-friendliness.
Only the foreign-based British _Airways and
Virgin Atlantic scored an ’A,’ and even they don’t
offerhealth and insurance benefits to Gay employees.
Indeed, American and United Airlines - the only U.S.
airline to advertise in a national Gay magazine with
its "United with pride" ads -joined a lawsuit filed on
behalf of 25 airlines last year that sought to block a
San Francisco law that would force airlines that fly
into the city into adopting domestic partner.plans.
American spokeswomanAndreaRadar doesn’ t see
that as a dichotomy. The Gay-friendly marketing
campaign and the lack ofdomestic benefits are "two
entirely different issues," she said.
The lawsuit is "a broader issue of what a city can tell
an airline to do in terms of how it operates," Redar
said.
As for why American - and the other U.S. carriers
- don’ t follow some major companies like American
Express Co. and the Walt Disney Co. in offering
domestic partner benefits, Radar said it has been
proposedby the airlines Gay and Lesbian employees’
group and was "being studied."
There is no doubt that companies that appear Gayfriendly
set themselves up for criticism by conservafives.
SouthernBaptistleaders have asked thechurch’ s
15 million members to boycott Disney, in part because
of the domesticbenefits and other Gay-friendly
policies.
American gets it from both sides. "We have been
criticized by some family organizations for marketing
to Gay and Lesbian groups and by Gay and
Lesbian employees who would clearly like this matter
to move more quickly," Radar said. "If both Sides
are complaining.., you’ ve probably got it right," she
added.
And certainly, with some doors still closed, Gay
travelers are grateful for the recognition they have
been getting from the travel industry. "Every consumer
is viewed by people selling to it as just that, a
consumer. If someone recognizes my value as a
consumer and that’s the first step to recognizing my
value as a person, then I’ll accept that," Alport said.
"Often the dollar is the way that people are heard."
Gay Kids at CA Capitol
SACRAMENTO (AP) - About 200 Gay youths ralliedWednesday
at the state Capitol to demandproteetions
against harassment of homosexual or bisexual
students at school.
’q’here are no state policies that make our schools
accountable to the needs of Lesbian, Gay, bisexual,
and trans-gendered youth. We demand that the state
Legislature work to stop the violence and harassment
that queer youth face," said Ellen McCormick of
LIFE Lobby, which sponsored-the event.
The youths participated in a noon rally and other
events that were part of the group’s third annual
YouthLobby Day. Organizers said this year’s agenda
was shaped by students’ stories of harassment and by
defeat last year of a bill aimed at protecting students
against discrimination in public schools on the basis
of their sexual orientation.
Themeasure was authored by Assemblywoman
Sheila Kuehl, a Santa Monica Democrat who was the
state’s first openly Gay legislator. Kuehl said that if
lawmakers truly listened to students’ stories, they
would "not in good conscience be able to deny them
equal protection." Assemblywoman Carole Migden,
a SanFrancisco Democrat who is another openly Gay
legislator, addressed the rally, telling youths she is
supportive of their cause.
Activists also said they were seeking allocation of
state funds for training teachers, counselors and other
school staff about harassment and violence prevention,
crisis intervention, conflict resolution, and Gay
issues. In addition, the group requested allocation of
money for research on violence and harassment in
California’s schools and the needs of Gay youth.
Activists claimed Gay youths are almost two times
more likely than their peers to have been in a fight,
more than four limes more likely to have skipped
school because of feeling unsafe, more than twice as
likely to have been threatened or injured with a
weaponat school andnearly four times morelikely to
have attempted suicide.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Same-sex couples who
were forbidden from attending a high school prom
will be allowed to go following a challenge by two
female homosexual students. The two students at
Marshall HighSchool askedprincipal JohnBordano
last week if same-sex parmers could attend the
senior prom together. They were told only opposite-
sex partners were allowed to attend.
"Thereis alargeGay communityat Marshall and
it really hurt me," Katherine Stanfield, 17, one of
the students who challenged the rule, was quoted
as saying in Wednesday’s San Antonio Express-
News. "Wehave rightsjustlike everyone else," she
said. "Gays and Lesbians aren’t heterosexuals, but
they should have rights, too."
The policy of selling couple tickets for dates of
the opposite sex came about after the school had a
problem with groups of boys going to the prom and
flirting with thefemale dates ofotherboys, Bordano
said. School officials also worried about gang
activity if large groups attended the function together.
Inresponse to the girls’ complaints,Bordanomet
Tuesday with the student leaders - the presidents of
the senior and junior classes, the student council
president and editors of the school newspaper - to
get their input.
-They agreed each senior should be allowed to
. buy two tickets and take whomever they choose to
the dance. "We never had an intention to discriminate
against anybody," Bordano said. "We talked
about it and we’re going to do something about it
now." Chris Duke, editor-in-chief of the student
newspaper the Rampage, said the new policy also
is good for students who don’t have prom dates.
"People who wouldn’t normally go because they
didn’t have dates could go," Duke said. "Every
senior who wants to go can buy two tickets."
Bordano said if he receives complaints from
parents about same-sex couples attending, he can’t
help it. ’q’hat’s society as it is," the principal said.
’q2mse kids don’t feel uncomfortable with it and
they’re the leaders of our campus."
Ellen’s Mom on TV:
Support Your Kids!
WASHINGTON(AP) -Every motherlikes to brag
about her children. Ellen DeGeneres’ mother is
getting to do it on national television. Betty
DeGeneres stars in a 30-second television adurging
parents to offer loving support to their Gay
children.
"Hello; myname is Betty DeGeneres andmy kid
is the greatest. You know her. She’s Ellen - and
she’s Gay," Mrs. DeGeneres says in the public
service announcement as she and a group of children
build a huge American flag out of red, white
andblueboxes. "For too long, GayAmericans have
suffered discrimination," she says. "As long as our
sons and daughters are excluded from the basic
protection of law, we must share that burden- as a
family."
Ellen DeGeneres made a splash onher television
Show, "Ellen," in an episode in which her character
declared she was Gay. Mrs. DeGeneres, 67, made
the commercial as part of her duties as a spokeswomanfor
theHumanRights Campaign,oneof the
nation’s largest Gay political groups.
Mrs. DeGeneres will be in Portland, Maine,
Saturday to support Gay rights in advance of the
Feb. 10 referendum trying to block the state’s antidiscrimination
law. She said she is enjoying the
job, and believes her appearances and the "Ellen"
episode have helped parents accept their Gay childrenmorewholeheartedly.
’Tmhearingfrom young
people - especially since Ellen’s coming out episode-
that their parents are more accepting," Mrs.
DeGeneres said. ’q~hey’re seeing a positive image.
for the first time instead of all this negativity," she
said.
Elizabeth Birch, the group’s executive director,
said, "Gay people report that one of the most
wrenching things in their lives, among all the things
they have to confront, is being honest and open
¯ with their own family members... So, what Betty
¯
brings to this is this compassionate voice coupled
: withcommon seuse why everyone should embrace
¯ thorGayandLesbian children," BirchsaidWednes-
: day.
: The 30-second spot will be distributed to televi-
¯¯ sion stations nationwide, HRC spokesman David
Smith said. It will include special coding that will
: allow the group to track where and how often it is
¯ aired.
:i
DAto Fight Hate Crimes
¯ NEWORT.F.ANS (AP)- Louisiana’s Gay commu-
: nity has found a powerful ally to lobby the state’s
," district attorneys and push proposed legislation.
: Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick
¯ saidTuesday he will convene a task force ofleaders
: from the New Orleans Gay and Lesbian commu-
: nity and top city officials.
: In a press release, Conuick also committed to
¯ hdp.ing Gay groups lobby the Louisiana District
¯ Attorneys Association and help find sponsors for
: proposed legislation arising from the task force
¯ meetings. "My office stands for the fair and equal
¯ treatment of all our citizens, regardless of their
: race, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion or ha-
¯ tional origin," Connick saidin therelease. Connick
¯ also pledged to continue sensitivity training for his
: staffers.
¯ The task force- including Police Superintendent
: Richard Pennington, the mayor’s office and other
¯ officials of the justice system - will meet Feb. 12.
: That meeting will discuss the constitutionality of
¯ the crime against nature state law. Homosexual
¯ groups contend the law has been used by some law
¯ enforcement ageneies to discriminate againstGays ¯
and Lesbians. Connick saidrecentpassage ofanew
¯ state law calling for stiffer penalties for crimes
¯ motivated by a victim’s race or sexual preference, ¯
knownas hate crimes, indicate statewideinterestin
: the issue.
Lesbian Moms Fight
Each Other for Daughter
¯ DENTON, Texas (AP) - A jury will decide next
¯ week on a custody battle between two womenover
", a 5-year-old girl, and its verdict could set a Texas
: precedent. Sharon Banghman, 38, became preg-
: nant with the child by artificial insemination. Her
¯ former lover, 37-year-old Sylvia Benavides, 37,
: took part in the conception. The couple raised the
¯ girl for four years before separating in November
: 1996. Now, each woman claims rights to the girl.
¯ Ms. Baughman is asking.Judge Phillip Vick to
: take visitationrights from Ms. Benavides. Ms.
: Benavides, in ram, is asking for full custody of the
¯ child. If the woman who loses the case appeals to a ¯
¯ higher court - which is likely - the appellate decision will make Texas case law. It would be the
~ only case law in any state that addresses the issues
¯ of the lawsuit.
: Appellate bourts in two other states have sent
: similar cases back to state judges who denied
~ standing to bring a custody suit to the female
: partner of the birth mother.
¯ Attorneys brought several witnesses who de-
: scribed the women’s lifestyles, friends and the kind
: of care each gave the child. Friends testified that
¯ Ms. Benavides was a good parent and the child
: called her "Morn." Ellen Pesserillo, Ms.
: Banghman’s attorney, brought wituesses who told
: of Ms. Benavides’ hostility to outsiders, her vio-
¯ lence and their fears that she would run away with
: the little girl.
:i
Pastor Fights for Gays
." LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The suspended pastor at
¯ First United Methodist Church in Omaha said he
¯ wants to get back in the pulpit, but he will continue
: fighting for the right to perform marriage-like
¯ ceremonies for homosexuals. "It’s not possible for
; me to work on reconciliation (with members of the
¯ church) while I’m not connected with the congre-
¯ gation," see News, page 15
Monkey Study
Shows Promise
NEWYORK(AP) - Monkeys got unusually
mild infections from a cousin of the
AIDS virus after scientists gave some of
their blood cells a geue ,to interfere with
the virus’ reproduction. Thefindings lend
support to the idea of treating HIV-infected
peoplewith such gene therapy. The
monkeys studied were infected with the
simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV.
Those treated with the gene therapy
showed much less virus in their bodies
and f~r less damage to their lymph nodes.
¯ They also showed no drop in their blood
counts ofdiseasc-fightingCD4cells, while
untreated ~nimals showed a steep decline.
The inserted gene bloeked chemical
"orders" issued by two SIV. genes to infected
cells. With those orders stymied,
the virus couldn’treproduce. So the treated
cells became "a dead end for that virus,"
said Richard Morgan, an author of the
study inthe February issue of thejournal
Nature Medicine. He is aresearcher at the
National HumanGenome Research Institute,
part of the National Institutes of
Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Researchers treated three rhesus
macaques. They drew blood from the animals,
inserted the gene into CD4 cells,
and returned them. A week later, the
animals were deliberately infected with
SIV. At that time, only about 2 percent to
10 percent of CD4 cells in the treated
animals’ blood carried the therapeutic
gene. But that was enough to dampen the
infection.
Morgan speculated that those relativdy
few cells may have proved especially
attractive to SIV because they had been
"activated:’ or turned on to fight germs,
during the treatment. SIVprefers to infect
activated ceils. The treated ceilsmayhave
acted like sponges, taking in virus but not
alloWing it to make any progeny to get
back out again, Morgan suggested.
Dr. Gary Nabel of the University of
Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, who is also studying gene
therapyforHIV infection, calledthemonkey
work encouraging. But he cautioned
that the implication for human therapy
isn’t clear.
Anti-AIDS Gene
May Help Infants
CHICAGO (AP) - A gene mutation that
slows the progression of AIDS in adults
also helps newborns fend off AIDS-related
illnesses if they hav_e caught HIV
from their mothers before or during birth,
a new study found.
"It doesn’t mean that they will not be
infected, but there is a significant delay in
the appearance of clinicaland biological
symptoms," said Dr. Michdi-e Misrahi
in a telephone interview Monday from
Paris, where she is a professor of biochemistry
and molecular biology at the
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche
Medicale. The mutation, which
occurs on a gene called CCRS, is believed
to be absent in blacks and Asians but
present in 10 percent to 15 percent of
Caucasians, Misrahi said.
In the study, HIV-infected newborns
with themutation stayedillness-freemuch
longer than infants who lacked the mutation,
the researchers reported in today’s
issue of The Journal of the American
Medical Association~ By age 8; only 11%
of HIV-infected babies with the mutation
had suffered serious AIDS-related mala-
¯ dies, such as severe bacterial illnesses,
¯ compared with49% ofbabies who lacked
: the mutation, the researchers said.
¯ The finding will have no immediate
: impact on preventing or treating AIDS,
: but it co.uld help scientists develop new
¯ ".d~ugs to combine with antiviral medi-
¯ ctnes in an effort to prevent or kill HIV
-" infectioninnewborns, theresearchers said.
¯ Such a treatment would help all races
: because it would give them the biological
¯ advantage now afforded only by the gene
¯ mutation, a U.S. researcher said.
: In the United States, about 500 babies
: ofHIV-infectedmother~ hrcborn with the
: virus each year. In developing ~,ountries
¯ the rateis more than 300,000 a year and is
: still increasing. Without treatment, more
: than 25 percent of HIV-positive mothers
: will pass the disease to their ncwborus.
¯ With current-anti-viral drugs, the rate is
: about 8 percent.
: An expert with the National Cancer
¯ Institute said the French study is the first
¯ to show that a geue mutation can slow
: HIV-disease progression in newborns as
: well as in adults. "It looks like the effect
: could actually be a little stronger in these
¯ children," said Dr. Thomas R. O’Brien, a
." senior researcher and viral epidemiolo-
¯ gist who was not involved in the work.
¯¯ "But it’s only a single study, so it’s hard to
know whether that will prove to be the
¯ case," he added in a telephone interview
: Monday.
¯ Two otheT types ofgenemutations have ¯
been shown to be protective in varying
¯ degrees in adults, and more may exist, he
¯ said. The study included data from 52
¯ French medical centers on 512 newborns ¯
born to HIV-infected mothers between
¯ 1983 and 1996. Some 276 of the new-
; barns were infected, researchers said.
Insurer Accused of
HIV Discrimination
¯ CHICAGO (AP) - Mutual of Omaha In-
¯ surance Co. was sued Wedesday for al-
: legedly placing illegal limits on HIV-
: related health-eare coverage. The lawsuit
¯ contends such caps violate the Americans
-" with Disabilities Act and the Illinois Insurance
Code.
¯ Lambda Legal Defense and Education
: Fund and the AIDS Legal Council of
: Chicago filed their suit in U.S. District
¯. Court on behalf of two HIV-positive Chi-
¯ cago-area men, whosenames were kept ¯
secret. "Mutual of Omaha caps HIV-re-
: lated care at a fraction of the amount
¯ allowed for other illnesses or conditions.
¯ This discrimination severely limits ac- ¯
cess to standard, lifesaving therapies and
¯. is illegal," said Heather C. Sawyer, an
¯ attorney for Lambda.
¯ Mutual spokesman Jim Nolan said the
: company hadnot yet seen the suit, andhad
¯ no comment.
¯ Lambda and the council said one of the ¯
men’s policy caps his lifetime benefits for
¯
HIV-related conditions at $25,000 and
: the other man has a $100,000 cap. The
¯ statement said this was in contrast to $1 ¯
million cap that Muttml of Omaha would
: allow they needed care for other medical
: conditions.. The lawsuit claims the caps
¯ have forced the men to consider going ¯
without therapies that could prolong their
¯ lives. The lawsuit seeks an end to such
¯ limits. It also seeks to have the men corn-
¯ pensated for any damages they have suf-
: feted but does not specify an amount.
¯ Lambda is a New York-based national
¯ organizationthat works for the civil rights
of Gays and people with HIV and AIDS.
: Wash. St. Tracking
: Not Needed for HIV
: OLYMPIA (AP) - Health experts say
¯ Washington state can accurately monitor
¯ the spread of the AIDS virus without
: using thenames ofthose whoare infected.
¯ Instead, they are recommending a system
¯ using some type of unique identifier code
: for each person’ who tests positive for
¯ HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. °
." Advisers to Gay. Gary Locke say this
¯ alternative wouldallow health officials to
i cpoeollpelcet,sar_ig~hattsetodaptraivwacityhiomutdtchornefaitdeennintig-
: ality. Members of a governor’s advisory
." council voted Tuesday for an alternative
¯ to a name-based system. The vote fol-
¯ lowed months of sometimes contentious
." public hearings about whether health of-
: ficials should change their methods, of
¯ fighting-the disease. Currently, the state
: tracks AIDS patients by name but does
: not require people who test positive for
¯ HIV to provide their names.
¯ Improvements in AIDS-resistant drugs
¯ and the first drop in new AIDS cases,
." however, haveled many health experts to
: call for a name-based system to track
¯ everyone who tests positive for HIV.
¯ Advocates said it would present a better
:, picture of the epidemic and thus would
¯ allow health officials toreachmorepeople
¯ who may-have.been infected with HIV.
¯ Opponents arguedthatfewerpeople would
: seek testing and treatment for the virus
¯¯ unless their anonymity were guaranteed.
The Governor’s Advisory Council on
¯ HIV-AIDS met at a hotel in SeaTac on
." Tuesday. Within a few days they plan to
¯ present two things to Locke: A report that
¯ includes informationonboth name-based
¯ and identifier systems, and a letter that
¯ includes the council’s preference.
The council voted 14-4 in favor of a
: system that does not use people’s names.
¯ One member did not vote. Locke has not
¯ yet indicated which system he wants state
¯ health officials to pursue, policy adviser
." Duane Thurman said. ’q’he spirit of the
." meeting this morning emphasizes that
¯ there’s not one right answer," Thurman
: said. "It’s a very difficult issue."
¯" State Health Secretary Bruce Miyahara
; urged the council torecommendanAIDS-
¯ tracking system that includes names.
¯ While acknowledging security concerns,
; he said health experts should be allowed
¯ to reevaluate their strategies to keep up
¯ with the epidemic. "It’s part of the matur-
¯ ing of this disease," he said. "At this point
: in time, we feel names reporting is a
¯ legitimate issue to put on the table."
¯ As public policy director of the North-
" west AIDS Foundation, Steve Johnson
¯ helped lead the fight for an alternative to
¯ a system that uses names. Most people
¯ who testified at public hearings said they
." wouldn’t get tested for HIV if they knew
; their names would be used, he said. "It’s
¯ time to explore the major components of
¯ how a unique-identifier system would be
; established," Johnson said.
¯ Such a system would probably include
¯ age, gender, race, county of residence,
: andinformahon abouthow apersonmight
_" have been exposed to HIV, he said.
¯ Johnson, whoplannedtomeetwithLocke
¯ on Wednesday, said he would restate the
¯ Northwest AIDS Foundation’s opposi-
." tion to aname-based system. He also said
¯ health officials - not legislators shonld
¯ address the issue.
: Council Chairman Jack Jourden diS-
: agreed with Johnson, but he noted the
¯ council’s report provides Locke with a
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Even though I min the minority, I don t
feel I lost anything because there was a
series of hearings around the state.., to
allow inputby infected and affected communities,"
he said. "The governor will
benefitfrom that input, so the council- as
a. conduit of information - did its job,"
Jourden said.
Dr. Bob Wood, AIDS control officer
for the Seattle-King County Department
of Public Health, said using names to
monitor AIDS helps authorities track the
epidemic more acourately. "If public
health can’t get the names, we can’t be
proactive," he said. "We have to .wait for
people to come to us."
Nearly 30 states have name-based HIV
reporfing,.and two - Maryland and Texas
- use umque identifiers. The national
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
recently reported on the Maryland
and Texas experiments with unique idendriers.
The account noted several prob-
Jems, including incomplete codes, difficulty
in conducting follow-up on specific
cases and the absence of behavioral risk
data. "A lot of labs either didn’t have the
data to make up the unique code, or they
didn’t do it right," Wood said.
Johnson criticized the report, however,
saying the CDC had not invested enough
money to help make sure an anonymous
tracking system could be effective.
Fewer HIV
Infections in SF
,SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The number
ofnew HIV infectious has dropped during
the past rive years, and a smaller percentage
of Gay. and bise:~ual men are living
with the disease, the city’s health department
says.
The Consensus Report on HIV Preva- ¯
lence report, issued Tuesday, estimates ."
that there will be 500 new HIV infections "
in 1998, two-thirds of them among Gay
and bisexual men. The last report - pub- ¯
lished in 1992 - estimated 1,000 new ,
infections per year, 650 of them among
Gay and bisexual men. ¯
The current report also found that 30
percent of the city’s estimated 43,100 "
Gay and bisexual men are HIV-positive, ¯
down from 43 percent in the 1992 report.
"The new (report) shows that Gay and .
bisexual men’s efforts to change our be-
¯ -.HIV reports until recently. They worried
¯ that fear about breaches of confidentiality
would deter people from getting tested
: hnd receiving early treatment.
." But the consensus appears to be shifting
in support of reporting. Successful
; new drug treatments are reducing AIDS
i deaths and delaying for years the onset of
. AIDS-relatedillnesses. Whilethisisgreat
¯ news for HIV patients, it means knowl-
: edge of the epidemic’s extent lags many
," years behind the actual spread of the in-
" fection.
: Public health officials ~want,to know
: where H!V, the virus that causes AIDS,is
: prevalent in Alaska- in which segments
¯ of the population, andin which regions so
: they can target spending on prevention.
: "We’re getting a picture of the epidemic
: many y.ears ago and where the infection
¯ was going then," said Noel Rea, a public
: health specialist with the state’s AIDS
" program. "We need to know who are the
." most at-riskpopulations and who needs to
: be targeted now." State officials also are
¯ concernedthatdecliningnumbers ofAIDS
deaths might make people think the disease
has been curbed, when in fact it
continues to spread.
Twenty-eight states have changed their
policies in recent years to require HIV
reporting for adults. The states with the
largest incidence of HIV infection, including
New York and California, have
not changed their policies but are reconsidering
them.
HIV reporting would require changing
state regulations. That’s been recommendedby
the state Department ofHealth
and Social Services, said Rea. After a
review by state lawyers, the proposal will
be openfor public comment with possible
adoption this summer, he said.
The head of an Anchorage group that
works with some 250 H’IV-positive patients
says she is tom about the idea. It’s
important to get a better picture of the
disease’s patterns, said Andrea Nenzel,
executive director of the Alaskan AIDS
Assistance Association. But at the same
time, she said, the lack of sympathy towardpeople
withHIVinAnchorage, compared
with some other cities, could discoura,
ge testing. "In this commtmity,
there s still a very high level of discrimination
and ostracizing that goes on,"
Nenzel said.
haviorhavepaid off," saidDanWohlfeiler,
spokesman for the STOP AIDS Project. San F.raneiseo: HIV "The epidemicis not over, however, and we want to make sure that we don’t lose Trackln _reposed
any of the ground that we’ve won."i SANFRANCISCO(AP)-Doctors should
Thereport, basedonaMay 1997 survey report all patients with HIV, notjust those
of local AIDS experts, said the improve- with full-blown AIDS, a new report sugments
were mainly the result of more ¯
gests. That might be the only reliable way
accurate information on at-risk popula-.
tions, better prevention efforts and AIDS
deaths.
Alaska Considers
Names Reporting
ANCHORAGE (AP) - Reversing a
longstanding policy, state officials want
to start requiring health care workers to
report all cases of HIV infection to the
state Division of Public Health.
Currently, only the names of patients
with full-blownAIDS must bereported to
public health ofricials. Those names are
kept confidential, and the retxn~ are used
by the state to chart the spread of the
infectious disease just as it tracks other
sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis.
Many health care professionals
around the nation had opposed requiring
to track the course of the disease, experts
say. That finding was presented at a San
Francisco AIDS summit convened by
Mayor Willie Brown.
. The report’s authors emphasize that the
identities of the HIV patients would be
encoded to prevent discrimination. But
reporting HIV cases may help track the
disease’ s development, concludes the 175-
page evaluation of the city’s AIDS. programs
by anexpert panel. "Changes in the
.epidemichaveledmanypeople to express
increasing concern that existing AIDS
surveillance efforts are becoming outdated~
Because new treatments are slowing
progression of disease, these people
are not being reported," the report says.
U.S. doctors have been required to reportAIDS
cases to publichealth officials,
but there has been no similar order to
report patients see Health, page 15
by James Christjohn, entertainment diva ¯
Happy Valentine’s Day! - for those
who celebrate it. For the others whofeel it
is a cardmaker’ s/choc;o,~latier’ s/jeweler’ s ¯
excuse to make tOnso bucks, ignore the
previous message. Ditto to the many
spouses/lovebirds whose mates always ¯
forget/ignore the whole thing anyway.
LIKE MINE, for
instance. (editor’s
note: is thissupposed
to be a subtle hint?)
Well, it’ s become a
sort of tradition to
guess how many
days/weeks/months
after Valentines/
BirthdaylYule I will
get an acknowledgement
the day
has passed. Or
wheth¢~ there wasa day to begin with...
I really can’ t complain, he did give me a :
nice dinner for the birthday, even if he ¯
didn’ t know how old I was -and that can "
be a eood thingI (Only if he’ s subtracting, ¯
tho .) Although Valenune s this year ts
questionable - I read in The Tulsa World :
that my spouse was single. Hmmm. The
spouse is always the last to-know...
Well, rye ranted on long enough, I
suppose I have to write an actual column
now. I’ dlove to say thatTheManhattan
Transfershow wa~ wonderful, but I honestly
don’ t know. And I was there! Neither
Tom nor I could hear the group over
the orchestra! It was most dishearteningwe
are both of the firm opinion that whoever
was mixing sound was utterly deaf or
reading a magazine during the show. Or
listening to the radio; they certainly
weren’t paying attention to the vocalists.
And since we were in the balcony this.
time, I couldn’t cheat and read lips to.
figure out the lyrics. They looked good - "
from an aerial view, anyway. The people "
below must have been able to hear, from ¯
their response, but all one could hear in ¯
the balcony were the three people who "
very noisily unwrapped their candy and "
the orchestra. One candy-sucker was so ¯
annoying that when I asked the usher if
tossing such folk over the balcony would
be bad form, she responded, "No, I think ."
it’ s agood idea. I’ll help !"TomandI were ¯
so discouraged at all of this we almostleft"
before the end of the show - which is "
usually an utter no-no in my book, as it’s "
rude to the performers and rude to the
people around you. It was a very disappointing
evening.
Fortunately, I can say that if you see
Sarah McLachlan in Oklahoma City at ¯
the Civic Center Music Hall on March 17, "
you likely will ha~;e no problem hearing "
her angelic voice soaring over theinstruments.
She is one of my favorite artists, -
and I can tell youfromexperience that she "
isworth any effortyou go to to get tickets.
I saw her as she was beginnin_"g. to, .make. a ".
name for herself, and thought she amaze.
thebig time,andshehas, evenifyoudon’t
hear her on the radio here in the cuttingedge
town of Tulsa. And yes, that was ¯
meant with as much sarcasm as I could
muster. Hopefully, that will .clym~.e. ~h.~ "
made a cameo appearance on~eJan./m ¯
Scott Fraser still life at Philbrook
works of art not to be missed, available
everywhere. Cheek outMohawk Music,
who carries some of her hard to f’fnd stuff.
"Surfacing" is h~rmostrecenteffort. Catch
her now, she won’ t be back this way for
some’time. And tickets went on sale Jan
17, so get the orders in now because she
sells out wherever she goes.
Andmy other
favorite Diva, the
ever lovely Stevie
Nicks, will be having
a banner year.
Enchanted, a box set
comprised of three
CDs .one greatest
hits (yes, I know, we
had "Timespace:
Greatest Hits" in
1991 - gofignre),and
another of movie
soundtrack songs (from Twister, Against
All Odds, Heavy Metal) and the third
unreleased songs and hopefully some of
the demos that are floating around in
various bad states of recording quality.
Then a sorin~ (?~ tour to support that
~or~, and~-ane~vl’y~eeorded albumin fall.
Now, knowing how, ahem, flexible
Stevie’ s timetable can be on these affairs,
the only thing I canreport withcertainty is
thebox set. The tour is supposedly set, but
until a more comprehensive announcement
is made, I will not be holding my
breath. And many fans waited up to. two
years after the origin_~.street date of Street
Angel to get that CD into our colleclaons.
Even so, to quote Stevie, I Can’ t Wait..
And neither can Tom, I"m sure.
Broken Arrow Community Playhouse
presents the Owl and the Pussycat,
Feb. 6-15. A romantic comedy about the
relationship between a shy bookworm
and an outrageous hooker, the show features
the talents of Kevin Barrentine and
Melinda M. Davis. Reservations can be
made by calling 258-0077.
Phflbrook Museum of Art presents a
display of Scott Fraser Paintings through
Mar. 15. Fraser paints very striking real
life, mixing ~bjects with.a ,touch .of .the
surreal, like’ floating sticks , a pamUng
of sticks gathered in Scotlandlevitating in
midair. Quite frankly, 1 .normall,y,f~!nd,
still-lifts rather boring, buthis worKt zlna
intriguing. Check it ouL
Philbrook is.also theONLY worldwide
venue thathas the pleasure of showing the
~ "JNIW Turner Watercolors fromLon-
¯ . don" exhibit Feb. 8- April 12. Tickets are
available at Carson Attractions outlets or
by calling 584-2000. The show spans the
entire career of British Romantic Painter
JosephMallardWilliamTurner, andkicks
off the "Year of Europe" exhibitions, advance
ticketpurchases arerecommended,
as tickets available at the door will be
limited.
If you want to learn more about Turner,
and also about Thomas Moran whose
work will be seen at Gilcrease, a
Chautauqua-stylereinactmentofbothartists
will be presented-at the Waiters Art
Center at Holland Hall School on Tues.,
Feb. 17th at 7pro, .and in the Oilcrease
Museum Auditorium on Sun., March 1 at
1:30. DavidBrownofLondon’sTateGal-
PHILBROOK Your window on the world
Tickets on sale now at ~arson Attratlions. 584-2000
TOM NEAL D mocrat City Council District Four
For our city:
~ End Sales Tax on groceries!
~ Common Sense Redevelopment - No more Tulsa Projects
¯ .Neighborhood-based Recyclin~ Program with Mini
Recycling Centers at Schools.
¯ Real public transit - reduce impact of traffic on our
neighborhoods, provide transit options for young & old.
For our district:
¯ Quarterly District/Councilor meetings at Dist. 4 schools.
¯ Neighborhood Preservation - balance business develop
-ment with homeowners rights.
¯ Safety- Neighborhood, based polic.ing:, .
¯ Replant curbside trees ~ improve street lighting.
30 Dancers. 48 Musicians. I00 Singers. You’ll need a score card for our cast of dozens. Carl
Oqffs powerful music and the overpowering feelings of love and passion it evokes make
Carmina Burana a must-see ballet. Add a huge chorus from Tulsa. Stillwater and
Bartlesville and a full orchestra, andyou have one impressive spectacle -- and an overwhelming
Oklahoma premiere. Tarantella pays tribute ro the Company’s artistic co-founder, Roman
Jasinski. His cho~’eography explores the rhythms and music of Naples, Italy.
Carmina Burana, Friday & Saturday~ Fel~uary 13 & !4, 8pro
Sunday, February 15, 3pm
For Tickets, call: Tulsa Ballet Ticket Office 749-6006
or the PAC: 1~800-364-7111, 5967111; Carson Attractions: 58z1~2000
All shows at the Performing Arts Center, 3rd & Cincinnati
1/2 Season Tickets at 1/2 Prica! Now availaMe.
Two performances remain. Tickets start at just $16 for aduit~
Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Community ofHope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - 11am, 1700 E. 2nd, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - 11am, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service - 5pm, Childrens MinisaT -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 Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America)
Mass - 11am, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088
University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance
Sundays at 6:30 pro, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
~ MONDAYS
AIDS Walk Planning Meeting, 2/16, 5pm, Resonance, 1609 S. Elwood
HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm Results: 7-gpm, Info: 834-TEST (8378)
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 mo. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Gay & Lesbian Book Discussion Group, Borders Bookstore
1st Mon/e~ too., 7:30pro, 2740 E. 21st, 712-9955
Mixed Volleyball, on hold for winter, call 587-6557 for info.
Monday Night Football, 8pro, Pride Center, Renfro Room, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 2/2, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
~TUESDAYS
AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 2/10, noon, United WayBldg. 1430 S. Boulder
HIV+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium 1:30pro
3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), Info: Wanda @ 834-4194
Multicultural AIDS Coalition, 2/3, 12:30pro, Urb~m League, 240 East Apache
Shanti-Tulsa, Inc, HIV/AIDS Support Group, and Friends & Family HIV/AIDS
Support Group - 7 pro, Locations, call: 627-2525
Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 665-5174
PrhneTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues/each too., 7pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE)
Alternating Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297
~ WEDNESDAYS
Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E.6th, 583-7815
Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer-6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pro, 3210e So. Norwood
Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group
For more information, call 582-7225, John at ext. 218, or Tommy at ext. 208
TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632.
Lambda A-A, 7 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
Ellen Watch Party, 8:30pro, Pride Center, Renfro Room, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~THURSDAYS
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing,Testing: 7 - 8:30pm, Results: 7 - 9pm, Info: 834-8378
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325
Tulsa Fanfily Chorale, Weekly practice - 9:30pro, Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
From Our Hearts to Our House, 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/each mo. Lola’s, 2630,E. 15th
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194
~ FRIDAYS
SafeHaven, Young AdultsSocial Group, 1st Fri/eachmo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E, 38th
Community Coffee House, varying dates, 7pm~ Pride Center, Info: 743-4297..
~SATURDAYS
.Nurtmks Anonymous, 11 pro, Commlltlity of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info:.585-1800
Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th~ 2nd ft.
~OTHER GROUPS
T.U.L.S.A. Tuba Unlform&Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222 ~ ~
WomemSupper Club, Call fo~ info: 584-2978
OK Sp0ke:Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike.Or~ni~,’i~ I~fo: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157
Ifydl~LOr~l~ZatJotl b’tlofl~d, ~etose l#.t IM l~tow, Call Ot~583,4615,
Read All About It
reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-County Library
Despite the pontifications of some of
ourpofitical andreligions leaders, the fact
remains that lesbian, gay, and
bisexual youth have very few
positive role models in our
culture. Isolation and fear, at
this already confusing time of
life, are the standard feelings.
In The Shared Heart, these
emotions are turned around
and result in positive, life-affirming
narratives.
Combiningbeautiful blackand-
white photographs with
the coming out stories of forty
American young people, this
is an inspiring book. Each
youth gets a full page to explain
their situation and history.
The facing page has a
large photo with a hand written
caption. It’s an interesting
andeffectivelayout. Theyouth
come from every walk of life
and include a wide spectrum
of cultures, races and genders.
One Asian-American explains
her frustration that, in
her native culture, "gayness
was seen as a western problem. There was
no one with whom to share my experiences.
When I finally/met other gay, lesbian,
andbisexual peoplewho also shared
similarethniebackgrounds, itwas incredible."
Many of the young people discuss
going to the library and looking up inforin
particular from the Ute tribe, and was
commissionedfromDavid Carlsonby the
Utah Opera. The Tulsa performance will
have some changes in the libretto and
score but these are for character and musical
development notto adapt the workto
an Oklahoma tribal setting, according to
Tulsa Opera General Director, Carol
Crawford.
The story of Dreamkeepers is that of a
contemporary Ute Indian woman caught
between her tribal culture and heritage,
and that ofthe Anglo society in which she
works as an attorney. Like many great
opera’s, the heart of the work is a love
story. The cast is, as we have come to
expect under Maestra Crawford, talented
anddistinguished: Singers Ashley Putnam,
Rosalind Elias, Jake Gardner, Antonio
Nagore will be directed by Albert
Takazauckas.
The University of Tulsa Theatre Department
is presenting the Tony Award
winning play, DancingAtLughnasa, set
in 1936 Ireland. (By the way, Lughaasa is
pronounced "loo-nuh-saw" with the accent
in the middle.) The play is about
freedom and escaping the shackles of
society - something ourparticular subeulrare
can readily identify with. The freedom
comes with music and that is also
mirroredin theGay culture. Ifitis as good
as Falsettos was, ~’Daneing.. ." shouldprovide
an evening of excellententertainment
and thought It even has something
for thepaganfolk in the audience! (Lughnasa
is the pre-christian harvest festival
As the
photographer,
Adam Mastoon,
daserlbes his
subjects:
"Together
they tell a
eolleetlve story
of the courageous
journey from
silence to
expression
and from
isolation to
freedom.
They are heroes
for our tlme
and role models
for us allo.."
marion whichmade themrealize that they
were not alone.
Parents, of course, get a heavy dose of
bothpraise and condemnation. Onelucky
young man; shown with his parents, expresses
his thanks to his "dad
and morn everyday of my life
for showingme what reaHove
and a real family are." Atthe
opposite end, another guy, an
openly gay senior in high
school who was electedjunior
and seniorclass president, says
that his parents "have warned
that if I confirm my sexuality
as anything other than heterosexual,
I will be disowned."
Due to these types ofsituations,
it is not surprising that
many of the stories have early
thoughts of suicide. However,
most of the youth have found
enough supporttocomeacross
as confident and proud.
As the photographer, Adam
Mastoon, describes his subjects:
’q~ogether they tell acol~
lective story ofthe courageous
journey from silence to expression
and from isolation to
freedom. They are heroes for
our time and role models for
us all..."
This is truly a beautiful and exciting.
book that gives some hope for the future.
Check for The Shared Heart at your local
branch library; or call the Readers Services
department at the Central Library at
596-7966.
of Ireland.) Reservations can be made by
calling 631-2567. Tickets are $2 - $7.
Heller Theatre offer us Laughing Mat-
¯ter Improv on Feb. 27. Tickets are $3
with areservation (746-5065) or $4 walkin.
That’s a pretty good value entertainment-
wise - and with audience participation
to boot! Heller also presents Ancient
Hi~tory, about the various stages of a
couple’s relationship, Feb. 12-21.
One of Tulsa’s younger but upcoming
performing troupes, TheWayward Theatre
Company will present Blood Knot
by noted South African playwright, Athol
Fugard on Feb. 18 - March 8. First produced
in 1961, the play about two brothers,
one white-skinned, the other blackskinned,
addresses the larger issues of
race. Call 596-.1475 for info. This spring,
Wayward will mount Paula Vogel’s fantasy
comedy The Baltimore Waltz about
"ATD - a fatal new malady with a high
risk factor, for elementary school teachers."
Full of erotic jokes, movie kitsch &
medical nightmare, look for it in April.
Last but not least, and perfect for
Valentine’s, is Tulsa Ballet’s Carmina
Burana. With, as they breathlessly note,
30 dancers, 48 musicians, and 100 singers,
the premiere should be spectacular. If
you haven’t been to the ballet lately, you
hot only have been missing some fabulous
bodies (indeed) but more interesting
dancing than Tulsa has seen in years.
Highly recommended. Carmina Burana
will be at the PAC on Feb. 13, 14 at 8pro
and on Feb. 15 at 2pro. The program also
features Tarantella by company cofounder
Roman Jasinski. Info: 749-6006.
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by Jean-Pierre La Grandbouche
TFN restaurant reviewer
Every year about this time, we get the
ge to eat Oriental foods. No doubt, this
s our contribution to help the Asian community
celebrate the lunar new year.
Amongst the Vietnamese people, the new
year celebration is called Tet, and it fell
the last few days of January this year.
For our Tet Observance, we sought out
the long popular Tulsa restaurant,
Ri L8 (pronounced like
the English word, "relay"),
located in midtown near 31St
and Yale. The Ri-L8 family
has been pleasing the palates
of local diners for nearly
twenty years with their traditional
Vietnamese family recipes,
and was probably the first
strictly Vietnamese establishment
in town.
After visiting so many Oriental
restaurants which boast
enormous menus filled with
doZens of meal choices, the
Ri-L~ selection at first strikes
us as spare, but this small family
operation has wisely chosen
to concentrate on a few,
well-made dishes, rather than
over taxing the kitchen with
too many recipes. Everything
is freshly made to order, and
that freshness has always
shined through on every visit
we,ve made, regardless of the
time of day.
One of our favorite starters
is a bi~ steaming bowl ofPho-
- pho is the Vietnamese word
for soup--and Ri-l_~,s Special
Beef Soup ($2.49) is particu-
!arly f’me. A dear, fragrant
broth is studded with an assortment
of vegetables,
noodles, and thinly sliced
pieces ofbeef, andhas anodd,
but appealing, slightly sweet
taste. A similar chicken pho is
also available. Soups are an
important component of Vietnamese
cuisine, and we often
see patrons order a large bowl
ofpho,making soup theircomplete
meal.
In a similar vein, but with
substantially more meat is the
special Hiosin Beef ($7.98),
which is a hearty serving of the tender, ¯
simmered beef. Asian seasonings have ¯
long been an art we have been unable to :
tell what it is that give the Vietnamese ¯
beef soups their interesting taste.
Another popular dish is Bdn Ch~ Gib "
($5.98), which is a large serving of Viet- "
namese noodles topped with green veg- ¯
etables, sprouts, slices ofbeef, and pieces
of chopped egg rolls, served in a large ¯
bowl with a small amount of broth, gar- °
nished withchoppedpeanuts, and accom- ¯
panied by a small bowl 0f piquant fish "
sauce. It’s a very filling dish, and Viet- ¯
namese noodles are quike unlike Italian ¯
pasta or American egg noodles. For an :
additional 81 cents, the deluxe bdn chit "
gibincludes chicken, shrimp, and chopped "
shrimppotatoes.. ¯
Over adozen chicken-based entrees are :
featured on the menu. While many corn- :
binations are reminiscent of Chinese cul- :
sine, we try to stay with the more tradi- ¯
tional Vietnamese flavorings. Chicken :
Lemon Grass ($7.95) gets its tangy flavor :
: from the blades of lemon grass. The
¯" ChickenSesamese ($7.19).features chunks
¯ of chicken battered and rolled in sesame
: seeds. Diced ChickeninSweetChili Sauce
: ($7.19) illustrates the Vietnamese taste
¯ for sweet spicy sauces that pack a power-
: ful fiery wang. On our Tet visit, we se-
¯ letted the Hot Ginger Chicken ($7.19),
: which was a nice melange of traditional
¯ vegetables with succulent bits of white
RLLe
and Family
Vietnamese
Restaurant
3206 So. Yale
Hours.-
11 to 9:30
Mon. -Thurs.
until 10 p.m,
Frl. & Sat.
closed Sundays.
Payment:
Cash, Visa,
Mastercard,
American
Express.
No checks.
Prices:
Moderate
Amldance:
Casual
Smoking
Seetlon: Se~parate
rooms, but
ventilation could
stand
improvement
Alcohol: only
Oklahoma beer
Ratlng: A
meatin alightsauce, seasoned
with long julienne slivers of
fresh ginger root, a goodly
amount of garlic, and enough
hot pepper to make a serious
impression on the back of the
tongue. It was a delicious en-
Our dining companion, who
has been spending alotoftime
recently amongst liberal
Democratic politicians, opted
for the vegetarianroute. There
!s a large selection of vegetartan
entrees on the menu, and
most combinations are indicated
as being available both
with tofu and with beancurd.
Now, those who have done
vegetarian cooking know that
"tofu" is the Japanese word
for beancurd, so one might
ask whether or not this was
some sort ofredundancy, kind
of like the pretentious American
restaurants that feature
"shrimp scampi" on their
menus. But, here at Ri-L~, the
distinction is made made with
pieces ofdeep-friedbeancurd,
and the "bean-curd" entrees
are not fried. Our friend’s tofu
entreewas sldllfullymade, and
the tofu pieces were not
overfried to a state of toughness,
as we have experienced
at several other establishments,
but had just enough
"tooth".to add a new dimension
to the taste experience.
A lot of Tulsaus have discovered
the delicious and filling
dish of Oriental pasta
known as "lo-mein," and are
chagrined to find the most expensivelo-
mein prices in town
here at Ri-L~--even more expensive
than at the pricey Fifteenth
Street Wok on Cherry
Street--at $9.98 per order. The lo-mein
here is, indeed, ddicious, and the orders
are enormous, truly enough to make complete
meals for two persons. With that in
mind, the lo-mein then becomes an affordable
concept. If ordering for one only,
be prepared to take home a doggie bag.
And, of course, no trip to a Vietnamese
restaurant would be complete without a
glass of Vietnamese coffee ($1.85) at the
dose of the meal. This delicious drink is
made with a special individual drip coffee
maker, mixed with sweetened condensed
milk, and served on the rocks.
Service is efficient and friendly, and we
think much of the staff must be from the
same family. Most all speak English
intelligibly. On a recent visit, our waitress
was also watching two small children
in the dining room.
There is no greater testimonial as to a
restaurant than a long tenure, and Ri I_~
has never disappointed us. Drop by and
try it. Southside diners may want to visit
the branch Ri-/_~ location at 4932 E. 91 st.
by Lamont Lindstrom : all evil European ma~ters and innocent
I rived for two years in one of the last ¯ native boys. There were interesting, and
colonies in the world. It was the late : easily expected, sexualrolereversals. An
1970s. The colony was the "Condo- ¯ Englishlinguistofmyaeqnaintance, there
minium" of the New Hebrides (or Les ¯ to study, the New Hebrides’ many lan-
Nouvelles-He’brides), which was unique ". guages, was infamous for his parties
in colonial history for having two admin- : wherein he managed to entertain entire
istrativepowers,GreatBritainandFrance. : squadrous of the colony’s fledgling new
Needless to say, the two colonial mzsters ¯ army. These sexual reversals of pofitical
engaged in frequent vicious inequality are not uncomdispute;
not much effective the New Hebrid~ m0n: "Iaminehargeinpubgovernment
took place; and ... was unique in lie, but I surrender myself to
thelocal joke was to rename colonial kistory for you in bed; I may be the
this island archipelago the civilized European but I de-
"Pandemonium" oftheNew lmvln$ two sire you, the savage other, to
Hebrides. For some years in a~]mlnlstratlve subdue me."
the 1920s, so goes the story, powers, Great The politics of sex are ofthe
British insisted on driv- ten strangein today’s former
ing on the left while the Britain anti France colonies.Someofthisqueer-
French demanded to drive ... the local iohe hess no doubt results from
on the right along the (luck- was to rename this people’s desire to address
ily) few kilometers of dirt the wounds of colonialism
road that the colony then iS]anti arcltlpelago by having theirformermasboasted,
the "Pantiemonlum" ters. I once spent a few days
In 1980,theNewHebrides ... For some years in Port Moresby, the capital
at last became an indepenin
the 1920s, so
ofPapuaNew Ouineawhich
dent nation and changed its had been an Australian
nametoVanuatu. Thepeople goes the story, the colony up until 1975.
of this archipelago are hand- British ~nslsteti on One evening, I was fiercesome,
dark-slduned South tirivlng on the le~t ly hounded around the hotel
Pacific Islanders, most of by a local guy who clearly
whomstill have an economi- while the French had his eyeuponmyperson,
cally poor, although cultur- demanded to tirive seeking to reverse, sexually,
ally rich, life as farmers and ’-- on the right . . . onetime colonialist power
fishermen, relations. "No way," I told
In recent times, around academia at " him. "You go find some dinkum Australeast,
plentyofeverythingis"post":post- ¯ lian to have your way with. Me, I’m
modernism, post-strucmralism, and-an- ¯ obliged instead to throw my American
othernewar~a-"post-colonial"studies.-" bodyintothetaskofrectifyingthehistori-
New writing about colonialism has fo- " cal injuries and social residues of U.S.
cused on trying to understand the texture slavery."
of power relations that existed between " If politics is always sexual, so is sex
(mostly) EaropeanmasterS and their vari- : always political. Sometimes having sex
ous subject peoples. One of the most in- ¯ with a person just confirms and deepens
terestingofthesebooksisRobertYoung’s " already existing relations of inequality;
Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, : but sometimes sex, at least temporarily,
Culture, and Race (1995). This explains : can reverse and weaken such inequality.
the colonialist’s political will to rule by : Althoughmostofthewofldhasnowadays
seeing how this overlapped with sexual ¯ emergedfromthecolonialistemandjoined
desire. It uses the inequality inherent in : the United Nations as sundry independent
Western genderrelations to rethink broad : states, cross-cultural sex still remains a
structures of political power. It explores : charged political issue. Anyone who goes
how colonialism was always sexualized., on one of those sex tours to Thailand, as
Westemdesireforthe"other"-thenative " adverfised in the pages of The Advocate
,subject- typically worked to masculinize ¯ and Out magazines, can get a flavor of all
the ruler and feminize the ruled. Political : of the personal and social complications
relations of domination spilled, at least " of the bygone days of colonialism.
symbolically, into island bedrooms. S/M : I’m all for.using one’s body to underand
B/D sexinherenfly was inthe colonial _" mine hurtful power structures, and histoair.
TheFrenchwriterOustaveFlaubert’s ¯ riesofdomination, through the disruptive
19th century sex-tour of Egypt is a good : capacities of sex. But this business of
example of this. : cross-cultural tricking is always a tricky
InVanuatu, theBritishandFrenchpartly ¯ business.
conceivedofthemselvesandoftheirrela- : Lamont Linstrom teaches anthropoldons
with local people in metaphoric, .~ ogyatthe University of Tulsa.
¯sexualized terms along these lines. AI- :
It’o Here! close attention at that time, there was also
a lot of real.sex going on. This enlivened o
rela|ious amongthesmall, expatriate commt~
ity and also between Europeans and l s. : Children’s Ministry
As one might expect, much sex took "
place between expatriates and their ser- ¯
vant haosgel ("house girls" in Bislama, : Sunday’ s at 5 pm
the country’s Pidgin ~aglish) or, notably, :
their haosboe 0aouseboys). The post-colonial
approach to colonialism as a reflex ¯
of sexual desire has mostly focused on -"
heterosexuality, ignoring afarmoreinteresting
(for some of us anyway) homosexual
desire between colonial masters ¯
and their male subjects
In the New Hebrides, though, it wasn’t ."
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and said it regrets disclosing to a Navy
investigator the identity of a senior sailor
now facing dismissal from the service as
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McVeigh, 36, who is no relation to the
man with the same name who was sen-
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said he is happy to be returning to the
Navy to continue his 17-year career.
’¢Fhere’s uncertainty," he said. "I don’t
know what I’ll be doing. They don’tknow
what I’ll be doing. But I’m happy. I’m
fight in this case."
The Navy went too far in pursuing
allegations of homosexuality against a
senior sailor and surreptitiously obtaining
key evidence against him from a computer
online service, the judge ruled. "In
these days of ’big brother,, where through
technology and otherwise the privacy interests
oflndividuals from all walks oflife
are being ignored or marginalized, it is
imperative that statutes explicitly protecting
these rights be strictly observed,"
Sporkin wrote. "This court finds that the
Navy has. gone too far."
Though not the final word in the case,
the decision represents a sharp rebuke of
the Navy, both for its enforcement of the
military policy on homosexuality and for
the intrusiveness of its investigation. It
promises to reverberate beyond the military
to all government agencies that might
want to bolster investigations by demand-
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¯ services.
: MeVeigh is suing the Navy for violat-
¯ ing federal law in trying to force an end to
" his career. He can remain in the Navy
¯ pending final outcome of the case, which
¯ Sporkin said was likely togoin the sailor’s
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¯ "Although McVeigh did not publicly
: announcehissexual orientation, the Navy
: nonetheless impermissibly embarked on
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Weaver and Smith have joint custody of
the kids~ who range inage from 4 to 12,
with their ex-husbands.
"My boy (who is 10) has struggled a
little bit. We talk about it," said Weaver.
"With our kids, the fathers are real involved
with them.Wework well with our
ex-husbands in raising them. We never
fought with our husbands. I don’t .want to
underestimate the effects of divorce, but
it’s not as traumatic as it could be.
’ffhe biggest change for us came when
we moved in together. Nothing has been
as traumatic as that, trying to todd our
families together," Weaver said.
And this is a family that has experienced
its share of traumatic changes. The
public revelation last fall that she is Gay
hurled Weaver, a Spanish Fork High psychology
teacher, into the center of a raging
controversy in this conservative community.
In October, she filed a civil lawsuit
against Nebo School District, contending
it violated her civil rights of free speech
when it told her she could not discuss her
sexual orientation with anyone inside or
outside of the classroom:
The longtime volleyball coach who
guided Spanish Fork to four state championships
was:relieved of her coaching du,
ties before the current school year. One
group, led by attorney Matthew Hilton
sued Weaver for alleged misconduct with
her players. Last month, a group of
Weaver’s formervolleyball players called
a press cotfference to.refute the charges.
The district, meanwhile, is vigorously
defending itself against her suit, which
will likely go to trial.
"What bothers meis I’m not Wendy
Weaver ,,a~,y more. I’m ’the LeSbian
teacher,’ Weaver said. "It’s not who I
am. I’m a teacher, a mother, and I was a
coach.. But being Gay is my identifying
factor. "The real issue in my suit was that
the government told me what I could and
could not say," she said. ’ffhe Gay issue
hasbecomethefocal point, butit shouldn’t
be."
While Weaver and Smith try to shield
their children from the publicity as much
as possible, they don’thide their lifestyle.
Instead, they. talk about it openly. ’q’he
kids have adjusted really well. They’re
too youngtobehassled at school,"Weaver
said.
For Weaver and Smith, though, the
public debate has taken its toll¯ "We’ll
take a long drive or. long walk and cry a
few tears," said Smith, who works as a
real estate appraiser from home and taltes
care ofthe childrenwhenWeaveris teaching.
Smith also officiates high school and
college basketball, volleyball and softball
games.
Still, both Weaver and Smith say they
have heard more from supporters than
from opponents who want the schooldistrict
to fire Weaver. "There’s no open
persecution," saidSmith. "Noangryphone
calls, no vandalism. No one’s thrown
snow-balls at us."
Weaver said she has had support from
SpanishForkresidents whomaynot agree
withher lifestyle. "This community is not
like theparents group. Mostbelieve this is
my private life. They judge me for how
they interact with me."
Weaver never dreamed she’d become
embroiled in a controversy that would
attract national attention. For years~ she
said, she battled her feelings. She and her
ex-husband, Gary, who is also.employed
by theNebo District, were seen as amodel
: conple. They welcomed foster children
¯ into theirhome and servedin the commn-
: nity. The Weavers were nominated for
: Family of the Year Award in Salem sev-
¯ eral years ago.
: Whenthecoupledivorced after 15 years
." of marriage, rumors about Weaver’s
: lifestyle arose but didn’t become public
¯ untillast summer when a student who was
: trying to decide if she should play on the
." team askedWeaverpoint-blankifshewas
¯ Gay. Weaver says she told the truth. Not
: long afterthat, thedistrictinformedherof
: the decision to let her go as coach. "I
: wasn’t going to lie about the relationship.
: These kids are 16, 17, 18 years old~ Tell-
. ing them it’s none of their business is
¯ Weaver denies the allegations from
¯¯ some former students that she promoted Lesbianism among athletes. "I pride my-
" self in that I was a coach who played
¯ according to who was best. I played the
¯ best athletes. I didn’t play Gays over non-
" Gays," she said.
¯ Smith says she can relate to those who
¯ are opposed to Weaver. "Six, seven years
¯ ago I probably wouldn’t have gotten in-
" volvedmyself," she said. "I was raised the
: same way these people were raised....
¯ told my morn about eight years ago ¯
¯ wished these peoplewouldjust stayin the closet. I understand their fears, and their
¯ ignorance. That’s the premise they baseit
¯ on, that you can make someone be Gay. ¯
¯ You can’t. They’re operating on a bias they’ve been taught from birth.
: Weaver said shedoesn’t regret the de-
, cisions she’s made. "I would tell .this girl
: again the truth and I wouldfile thelawsuit
: again. I still feel that what the school
: district did to me is wrong.. I feel pretty
¯ OK with where I am."
:Son ConViCted of
: Killing Dad’s Lover ¯ YADKINVILLE, N.C. (AP) -Ason who
¯ had been embarrassed since age 13 about
_" his father’ s homosexuality was convicted
¯ of shooting his dad’s lover to death and
. blinding his father. Jerry Mac Matthews
," Jr., 36, could get the death penalty in the
¯ 1996 attack.
¯ Matthews Shot and wounded his 60-
," year-old father and killed 45-year-old
," Everette Lee Kerley as the two men sat in
¯ a car pfirked outside a restaurant.
¯ The elder Matthews had had a 25-year ¯ relationship with Kerley. The son was
¯ was foundgui!tyWednesday ofmurderas
¯ wall as assault with intent to kill.
¯ Pyschologist Jerry Noble testified that
," the younger Matthews once idolized his
¯ - father but became disillusioned at 13,
¯ when his parents divorced and his father
¯ told him he was homosexual.
¯ Noble said Matthews felt ashamed and
: "feared that one day he may become h0-
¯ mosexual himself."
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the Rev. Jimmy Creech said Wednesday.
Last week, Nebraska Bishop Joel
Martinez extended Creech’s suspension
at least until a committee investigating
Creech’s officiating at a Lesbian-union
ceremony completes its work. Creech performed
the Lesbian "covenanting" ceremony
on Sept. 16, after Martinez told
himnotto. Creech saidhefelt the church’s
prohibitionon such unions was "discriminatory
and unjust" and "because I felt it
was my responsibility as a pastor to sup
port the couple."
The names of the Lesbian couple, who
came to Creech in April requesting the
ceremony, have not been made public.
The issue has divided the 1,900-member
church and galvanized United Methodists
across the state and around the country.
Church member Mel Semrad, who was
head of the .finance committee when
Creech was hired, said he believes most
members welcome people regardless of
sexual orientation. "But we also believe
we should follow the guidelines of the
General Conference" that prohibit sexual
unions, he said.
If the investigation determines .Creech "~
acted wrongly, either in violation of the
church’s rules orbecause he failed to obey
Martinez’ order, Creech said he is ready
to appeal to the United MethodistJudicial
Council, which acts as asupreme courtfor
the denomination. Creech saidhebelieves
a statement in the church’s Social Principles
adopted in 1996 that prohibits homosexual
unionceremonies is contrary to
the biblical .teachings of Christ.
Creech performed more than a dozen
such ceremonies for Gay and Lesbian
couptes while a pastor at FairmontUnited
Methodist Church in Raleigh, N.C. All
those ceremonies occurred several years
before the 1996 General Conference of
the UMC passed the ban, be’said.
Creech said he and his wife, Chris
Weedy, married in 1992 in a courthouse
marriage ceremony followed by a
convenant ceremony in the church that
did not include marriage vows as a statement
of solidarity to what homosexuals
face. "We did it to be in solidarity with
GaymenandLesbians who are denied the
righttohave their relationship recognized
as legal," he said.
In part because of his activism on Gay
issues,Creechlosthis position atFairmont
UMC, was unemployed for six months,
then served as a social lobbyist for the
North Carolina Council of Churches for
five years before coming to Nebraska.
Marriage Case to
Goto VT High Court
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The issue of
Seine-gender marriages is going to the
state-Supreme Court. Three Chittenden
County same-gender couples filed an appeal
Thursday of a December Superior
Courtruling dismissingalawsuitin which
they sought the right to mzrry.
Judge Linda Levitt had agreed with the
couples on several areas, but disagreed on
the overriding issue. "While all of the
(couples’).arguments claiming the.state’s
publie purpose is invalid are clear and
sensible, none is persuasive enough for
this Court to determine that the Legislature
is unjustified in using the marriage
statutes to further the link between procreation
and child rearing," Levitt s~id.
Three couples - Start Baker and Peter
Harrigan of Shelbume, Nina Beck and
who carry the AIDS virus but do not have
full-blownAIDS. The policy of San Francisco
has been that there shouldno reports
of HIV tests without the explicit consent
of the patient.
But this has made it tough to track
where the virus is spreading, what risk
factors lead to infections, and where to
target treatment and prevention. Because
of improved treatments, fewer and fewer
HIV-infected people actually progress to
AIDS, so they remain unreported.
The panel explicitly rejected reporting
names, instead proposing a system that
uses crypticcodes, basedonunique"identifiers"
- numbers or letters corresponding
to an individual. This would protect
privacy andminimizefear ofAIDS-based
discrimination, the panel said.
Several AIDS and civil rights groups
have dropped their resistance to HIV reporting,
includingthe S,an FranciscoAIDS
Foundation; GayMen s Hcalth Crisis, the
nation’s largest service provider; AIDS
Action, a national group representing
2,500 commtmity providers ofAIDS services;
theAmericanCivil Liberties Union;
and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund.
The panel also insisted that all HIV
testing be voluntary,not required. To better
detect chznging trends inthe epidemic,
the city should seek a way to offer free or
low-cost AIDS tests, according to the
report.
The summit also addressed treatment,
employment, prevention, housing and
funding. More than 100 experts, led by
Drs. Marcus Conant and Thomas Coates
of the University of California, San Francisco,
formed subcommittees to study the
issues and makeformal recommendations
to the mayor. Brown has vowed to.implement
¯e recommendations through his
newly created Mayor’s AIDS Leadership
Forum and the appointment of a seniorlevel
staff person in his office.
AIDS Increases In
Older Americans
ATLANTA (AP) - New AIDS cases rose
morethan twice as fast among those over
50 than among younger adults between
1991. and 1996, suggesting that older
people aren’t protecting themselves
against the disease.
The-Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention said 6,400 AIDS cases were
diagnosed in the United States among
people at least 50 years oldin 1996, a22%
increase from 1991. Cases for the 13-to-
49 age group rose 9% in the same period,
to 50,300. The center recently reported
that 12 - 15% of the AIDS cases in Arizona
are people over 55.
The CDC said most older adults who
gotAIDS in theearly days ofthe epidemic
probably contracteditfromatsintedblood
transfnsion. Now,moreare being infected
byunprotected sex andbyinjecting drugs.
’q’hese are older.adults who are engag~
ing in some risky behaviors because they
don’t perceive themselves to be at risk,"
Dr. Kimberly Holding of the CDC said
Thursday. AmongOlderwomen, thenumber
of new AIDS cases linked to unprotected
sex more than doubled between
1991 and 1996-from340 to 700. In older
men, that increase was almost as sharp,
from 360 to 700. New cases among older
men who inject drugs jumped 53%, from
850 to 1,300. Among older women, the
increase was 75%, from 160 to 280.
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q~,3LSA The University ofTulsa’s Bisexual/Lesbian!
New MCC-GT Pastor Brings
Radical Past + Present Grace
TUI~qA - After two years,
Tnisa’s oldest Lesbian and
Gay congregation, the Metropolltan
Corunauaity Church
of Greater Tulsa has a pastor
again. Tracy I. Barber came
to Tulsa about 2 moaths ago
from Los .Amgales. She’s only
recently ordained as a Metro
politan Conununity Church
pastor having [men originally
ordained as a Mennonite after
graduahag from the lfigMy
respo~ted Fulhi~ Theologieul
Seamnat~ in 1994. And
though she was born in Califomi~
L shehas ties to this ~’ea,
having studied at Evangel MCC-GT Pastor Tracy Barber
Collage hi Spr~gfield, MO. featuredonthe¢overoftheOet.
Barber, uldike some 26, 1990 la)s Angeles Roader2
who ve become clergy, has an unusual profess olml background.
WhJhi th Cafifomia, she worked in Hollywood film production:
commercials, music videos, and Entertaitmlent Tonight, serving
as Leeza Gibbons’ assistam. She Mternated between doing hatter
paying filial work and non profit work.
In one extraordinm-y stint featured in the Los Angeles Reader,
she infiltrated the radical and-abortion group, Operation Rescue
(OR). as an Unpaid spy for a coalition of feminist orgimlzadons.
This work was crucial to defense work and gave OR its first
substantial defeat.
But for MCC-GT, Barber and her congregation is m the thick
of preparing a rtfission statement, a statement of die vision of
where they want to go, and of their vahles. Barber. with
injoumniism,recafls that tbeulogian Carl Bart said that a nfihister
needs the Bible in one hand and a newspaapar in the other - you
have to know what is ~oin~ on in the world.
Lesbian Health Care : Mel WhiteSays to PFLAG:
NEW YORK (AP) - For 20 years. Nayla Rolle lived
with a paralyzing pain that dectors distthssed a.s stress
related, It wasn’t until the B~oldyn social worker
skarted seeing Joan Waitknvic,z - a spacialist ia Lesbiau
health issues - that her aliments were diagnosed cor
recfly, as lupus and asthma. "Other doctors saw me as a
young woman of color, a l~sbian and they couldn’t get
beyond what I was saying."says the 41 -year old Rolle.
Wailkevicz, who began seeing Rulle hine years ago
whihisha was in private practice, is now director ofBeth
lsrael Medical Center’s Gay Women’s Focus. Heulthcare
workers say it is the first hospitul-hasext health care
provider in the country fo~ 1 esbialxs. The connection to
the hospital, proponents say, conid give Lesbian patients
better access to SlX’Cth~sts and more comprehensive
insurance than they wonid otherwise have. "’We
want women to come in here and feel uulniubiled about
their lifestyle,’says \Vaitkevicz.
Gay Women’s Focus is a plimary care provider and
gives referrals. Since opathng in 1996, it has treated
more than 3,000 patients - 30 parcent of them Lesbians.
There have~similar hospital bosed clinics - often
AIDS-related that focas on Gay men’s health.
Experts say Gay women have spatial medical cow
ceres: They may be at higher risk of developing coro
nary disease, breast and colon callcer, and some ~ aginai
infections, research shows.
And sexual practices can have an effect. Teresa
Cuadsa, the cento"s gynecologist, says ma~y Lesbians
may go y~rs without vhatmg a gynecologist, for ex
,’maple, because they think they are not at risk for
Truth + Love, Relentlessly
TULSA - The Rev. Mel \Waite. former ghost,\alter to the likes of
the Gay-ba.~hing TV preaebers Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson
pregehed the gospel of Ghandi and Martin Luther King. Tlfis
message of r~n-violem
elal change was delivered to
about 200 who attended Pareats.
Families and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays. PFL~.G’s
re~onaiconferenee dth~erat
All Souls Uthtafian Church
on Sat. March 7.
~q’fite. who was formerly
associated with the Metropolitan
Communit.~ Church-
The Rev. L~el White, joined !Lv
es’DallasCathedraiofHope,
Tulsan S ~e Knause, and White s
now works with his life partner
Gap, Nixon in an interpartner
Gary NLron at All Souls. faith justice minisl~, called
Soulforce based in Laguna Beach. California. see White, page 3
MinisterAcquited Church Trial
Over Lesbian Union Ceremony
major change !n church policy. "1 don’t know the implicatig,m~ of
tkni r dncision," Ct~ech said from the pulpit. "But I believe it s the
TOHR HIV Program
ChangesAmid Criticism
News analysis by 7T’N staff.
TIYLSA At March s general nembership n ecting.
a member of Tulsa Oldahomans for Htm~an
Right. Inc. who had joined ouly earlier dmt da)
made a motion that the membors o~ edde the vole
the orgathzadon’s board of directors and tfl g~c
away TOHR’s HIV prevention programs to
yet non existent nonprofit "l~is svas approved h
the hanth’ul of members present. Most of those
votin against the board of directors were emplo.’,
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Homosexual Marriage and the
Assault on Your Family
by Jay Alan Sekulow~ Chief Counsel
American Center for Law & Justice
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23467 - 4429.
We stopped homosexual activists m
Hawaii last year, but now they are putting
together a desperate new assault. Wecant
: afford to lose this battle for the family.
¯ Please read this letter carefully. - Jay
Thehomosexual community is about to
; launch a massive assault on the family,
; and once again Hawaii is the focus of their
¯ attack. Militant homosexual groups from
~ across the nation are joining together to
: defeat a stare-wide referendum in Hawaii
¯¯ this fall. Itis all part of the gay andlesbian
community’s sweeping ag_end,2., fo.r 1.,99.8
that seeks to redefine the family m mexr
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¯ battle in the court of pubhc optmon:
~ In addition, I must ensure that ACI.J
¯ attorneys are ready to respond to the
¯ mounting evidence that CHRISTIANS
ACROSS AMERICAN ARE BEING
HARASSED FOR OPPOSING THE
HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA.... WE
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INDOCTRINATION IN SCHOOLS
ACROSS AMERICA - ¯ ¯ the enclosed
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Gay-Baiting + What
Well M. Susan Savage, our"pretty and nice" as well a~’
politically savvy mayor squeaked on through the election
despite her opponent’s last minute Gay-baiting tactics.
Our mayor’s advisors spent weeks worrying about
rumors that her Republican opponent, Terry Simonson,
would use "Gay issues" to attack Savage. They were
right. Simonson, with advicefrom Oklahoma’s "hate and
lyingAREChristian values’~ Congressmen Steve Largent
and Tom Cobum, and their "Oklahoma Values" Coalition,
did air TV advertisements that attacked Savage for
issuing a Gay Pride proclamation:
What they didn’t say is that the proclamation was from
1994, and that Savage has refused to issue another since.
Her reason: by allowing the "mainstream" media, i.e.
Channel 6, to see the proclamation, Pride Picnic organizers
were using the proclamation "for political purposes"
which is not allowed.
Hundreds of proclamations are given to non-profits
which routinely share these with the media but if a Gay
group does precisely the same thing, it is being ~’political".
Does this sound like doubletalk?
Wall, consider this is the same mayor Who claims that
she doesn’t issue proclamations for "commercial" purposes,
and yet, issued one for "Jackie Cooper Imports
Day" in honor of breaking ground for a new south Tulsa
dealership. Not to pick on Jackie Cooper Imports, since
other commercial enterprises have been similarly honored.
And with Cooper, the business really has done a
great deal of good civic work, especially around HIV/
AIDS issues in Oklahoma City.
The Gay-baiting ads, however;, may well have helped
our mayor get dected. Going into the race, some politicalobservers
thought she might lose, or at best, win by the
thinnest of margins despite being the incumbent, and
having more than one-hundred thousand in campaign
dollars. But the ads, which aired a few days before the
race, may have shifted some votes. ~-
My father, as rock-solid a Republican as you will find,
after he heard the Simonson ad, tore up his Simonson
sign, threw it in the trash and went to Simonson HQ to
express his anger- and changed his vote. His view is that
others didso as well. And that The Tulsa World article on
Tony Orr and Tim Beauchamp, (about whomTFN wrote
last fall when they spoke at th~ National Gay!& Lesbian
TaskForce/TOHRhate crirn~e~ forum) who had been-Gay-
Really Happened in the Mayor’s Race
bashed, may have made real for many non-Gay citizens
what can result from Simonson-style verbal attacks.
So now Mayor Susy’s back, and we, Lesbian and Gay
citizens and our friends and family need to hold her
accountable. It is no longer acceptable for her to act like
merely talking to us is enough. We need to see some
specific results like diversity training for our often Gayr
hating Tulsa police officers, though such traimng also
shouldbe extended to fire and other city departments. The
mayor should also ~ssue an executive order banning
discrimination in city employment - something she can
do under the city charter. And since proclamations are
essentiallypublic paper towels - important to those who
.want them but of little use for anyone else - our mayor
should treat her Lesbian and Gay consti:uents as well as
all others, and give us Lesbian and Gay Pride Week
proclamations, even Pride Month as we asked for in ’96.
After all, we supported her in this race, more than ever
before. Cimarron Alliance Group, Oklahoma’s Lesbian
and Gay political action committee donated $2,000 to
Savage (this is no secret I’m disclosing, donations of this
size are public by law). And several of our most prominent
commumty members worked themselves into a
frenzy helping her and my guess, resulted in further
donations to Savage of many times that $2k. Remember,
$5k is the legal maximum donation, so S2k should get our
items at least some consideration not that quidpro quo
ever has anything to do with Oklahoma politics
The real danger to these reasonable reforms: that public
employees should have the training to act appropriately
with all citizens and that our own government should
pledge not to discriminate against any of its own citizens.
is likely M. Susan Savage’s further political ambitions.
Our mayor says she’s not looking at higher office. But
some think she’s just waiting until her daughters are
college age to run. If so, she may still hold fairness to
Tulsa’s Lesbian and Gay citizens hostage, not because
she’s personally opposed but because she feels it’s politically
advantageous. But maybe,just maybe, this election
in which Gay-baiting likely’ helped her win, will give her
the courage to appeal to the decency mad intelligence of
Tulsans. Then she will say’, as-she did about the "94
proclamation in response.to Simonson in the debates,
"I represent all citizens" and-do’what"s right.
~ Tom Neal, publisher & editor
one other person not yet named at the last TOHR board
meeting), a .single proposed new board member was
interviewed. However, Neal noted that, ",after Frank
Ramirez began his presentataon by stating, seemingly
proudly, that he violates Oklahoma’s Open Meetings.,’
Open Records laws in ranning Morton, I have to question
the ethics some of the persons to whom HOPE is being
given. Hulsey and Thompson have good reputations, but
after hearing Ramirez’ comments, and after learning that
Fr~sbee was already accepting donations for the as-ofthen
yet non-existentnew organizationwhile she was still
working forTOHR, and that she was doing so in violation
of her board’s instructions, I am appalled by the misconduct
and unprofessionalism of Frisbee."
Indeed, in the often stormy membership meeting, Neal
accused Frisbee of unprofessional conduct. He toldTFN,
"I hired Kristi Frisbee after our board voted to fire
Mallory Degen Brown for cause. But I hired her to fix the
problems of TOHR’s HIV programs, not to redesign it
with by-laws she wrote, with a board of her own chosing.
A good non-profit professional certainly has the right to
try to persuade her board of her vision but ultimately she
works for the organization. An organization should not
rum itself inside out for her convenience?"
Neal continues, "The real loser here is the whole Gay
community. A program that was created because few in
Tulsa gave a datnn that Gay men wer~ dying has been coopted-
to deal mostly with HIV for non-Gay people.
That’s worthy but other ’health organizations could do
¯ that. And the consideration of whether this historically
Gay-focused program should address Lesbian and Gay
health needs hasfallen victim to Kristi Frisbee’ s ruthlesshess."
Neal also criticized Horn strongly, "when I was
president, we built consensus. The difficult vote to fire
Mallory was unanimous. You have to wonder about a
leader who forces through that which a majority of his
board voted against." Neal said he resigned because the
members were not given advance notice of this proposal.
Their business card features the likenesses of King and
Ghandi, and \Vhite told of his recent travels in India with
Ghandi’s grandson to see the site~ that were significant in
the life of the man who inspired King and also White to
his work challenging those in Christianity who attack
Lesbians and Gay men.
Throughout the dinner, \Vhite persuaded his overflowing
audience to repeat as a mantra, "truth and love
relentlessly"; that is that he~ and they, should do their
work inspired b~ the truth, full of love but working for
change relentlessly. This lesson, White noted, was taught
to him by Coretta Scott King, and her assistant, Gay
activigt Lynn Cothren, when White was despairing of
having any dialogue with his former friends and employers,
Robertson and Falwell.
And in remarks of praise for the work that PFLAG
does, White added a comment of local interest. He stated
that Tulsa evangelist Oral Roberts should be a PFLAG
parent, since his older son commited suicide because due
to being Gay. Tulsa’ s new Council Oak Mens Chorale
also performed for the dinner to a very warm reception.
to re-define marriage and force acceptance of the gay
lifestyle.., please add your voice to mine by signing the
enclosed statement of support. In the coming weeks I will
take our case to the media and key public officials in
Hawaii. Your signature on this statement of support will
allow me to say that tens of thousands of concerned
Christian citizens have written and askedme tomake sure
the pro-family voice can be heard above the shouts of the
militant homosexual... Next, please send of a gift of $50,
$75, $100 or more today so we can defend the family in
the court of public opinion as wall as courtrooms across
America.
Your friend advocating Jesus, Jay Allen Sekulow
Omer Cowan andPrime Timers President John Madigan
present a check for a $1,000 donation to TOHR/Pride
Center President Steve Horn.
Grassroots vs. DC/LA Elite
March on DC-Who Decides?
by Billy Hileman
The current debate of a LGBT civil rights event in
Washington, D.C. in 2000 may look like "’politic~ infighting"
if one only takes a quick glance. But just below
the surface is one of the most important community
discussions to occur in decades. Our community is in the
process of redefining the movement.
If organizing for a national LGBT civil rights event an
Washington proceeds on its current course, then progressive,
grass-roots, democratic organizing in our co~mnunity
will suffer a serious iujury.
The tragedy of this situation is that the.Hmnan Rights
Campaign’s (HRC) executive director Elizabeth t3irch,
comedian Robin Tyler, and the Universal Fello~vsl~p of
Metropolitan Community Churches’ Troy Perry are the
willing architects of this attack on queer democracy.
Right now, Perry, Birch, and Tyler are frantically
lobbying the community to sup,tvort an event they decided
to produce. They are trying to prop up grass-roots support
for an event on] y they had input on. Perry hasjust sent out
a letter with "’six very specific steps, very definite steps"
¯.. to lobby congress?. . no, to lobby the president’?..
¯ no, to zap Jesse Helms? No. Troy Perry is asking you to
lobby the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the
¯ ’Natitnal Black Eesbi~n mad Gay Leadership Fornin to
: support the Mille~inimn .March! What s wrong with that?
in Troy Perry’s plea for help, he says, "’If you are a
contributor, member or supporter of these organizations,
be sure to mention that too." That is sickening.
The MillenmumMarch is about money. It is not about
whether 2000 is a good year to rally in Washington. It is
not about ENDA, or domestic partnership, or about
lesbians and gays in the military. Right now there is only
one organization in our community with the resources to
support a huge national action in Washington. And there
is only one organization that has vowed to have 1 million
members by the year 2000 - HRC.
Never before has one of our organizations been xn a
position to unilaterally call for a March on Washington.
The Millemfium March is a test of HRC’s new power. It
is a test whether the community will allow HRC to
¯¯ o circumvent the progressive, grassroots, democratic principles
that were the basis of the three previous marches
and the heart of our movement.
At the end of Perry’s letter, he writes, "History’s
greatest movements have been grassroots movements.
~ And history’s greatest leaders have been those who
heeded the call of their grassroots members." But, there
¯ has been no "call." HRC and UFMCC didn’t allow the
forum for a"call."’ And now that people are voicing their
¯ concern about the process, Birch, Tyler and Perry are
putting a call out to the grass-roots instead of the other
¯ way around.
In March of 1991 the executive directors of NGLTF
¯ and HRCF, Urvashi Vaid and Tim McFeeley hosted a
meeting i~ Washington, D.C. for activists to discuss a
¯ third march on Washington. Minneapolis City
Councilmember Brian Coyle had pushed the idea at the
¯" 1990 Creating Change Conference. During the March
¯ (E91 meeting, and a second national meeting in .May,
dozens of proposals’~and -concerns were discussed by
." hundreds of activists.
~ Proposals for marches in 1992 and 1993 were dis-
.¯ cussed. Bi-annual MOWs with a permanent committee;
52 regional marches: states, DC and Puerto Rico; and a
¯
MOW before every presidential election were all pro-
" posed, seeMarch,page15
Houston Judge Blocks
Civil Rights Protections
HOUSTON (AP) - A~judge has blocked the city, at
leasttemporarily,fromenforcing MayorI~eBrown’s
executive order banning discrimination against Lesbians
and Gays in city government. State District
Judge Patrick W. Mizell agreed with City Council
member Rob Todd and conservative businessman
Richard Hotze that Brown lacks authority under the
city charter to impose such an order.
After a briefing by city attorneys, Brown said he is
considering an appeal. "We are disappointed with
Judge Mizell’s ruling," Brown said. "We continue to
bdieve that our interpretation is correct, that the
mayor has the power to issue executive orders."
Brown signed the order in January, fulfilling a campaign
pledge to ban discrimination in city government
on the basis of sexual orientation.
Although criticized by some City Council conservatives,
Brown’s idea had the support of a council
majority if he decided to seek an anti-discrimination
ordinance..But Brown issued an executive order,
instead.
Mizell said the charter authorizes only the council
and the Civil Service Commission to.make rules
regarding discrimination, not the mayor. Todd has
denied that their lawsuit was intended to suppress
homosexuals. He and Hotze say their suit is aimed at
procedural concerns alone. .
But some in the Gay community remain
unpersuaded, including some Gay conservatives who
said eradicating discrimination is a goal all conservafives
should share. "It’s certainly ironic that Mr.
Hotze wants to perpetuate discrimination, and that in
all the years he has been involved in politics in
Houston he has never questioned the~ayor’s right to
issue executive orders until it comes dtwn to employment
equality for Gay city employees," said Clarence
Bagby, president of the Houston Gay and Lesbian
Political Caucus.
Judge Overturns Alaska
Anti-Marriage Law
JUNEAU; Alaska (AP)- A State judge hearing a
challenge to Alaska’s ban on same-sex marriage says
choosing a partner is a fundamental right that could
result in a"nontraditional" choice. Anchorage Superior
Court Judge Peter Michalski said that the state
must show why it should be able to regulate who
petple marry.
The court challenge, began last year when Jay
Brause and Gene Dugan of Anchorage challenged a
1996law banning same-sex marriage. TheGay couple,
who sought state recognition of their relationship of
20 years, said the marriage ban violates the Alaska
Constitution. Michalski threw out the state’s bid to
dismiss the case and ruled that choosing a partner is
a fundamental right.
"Itis the decisionitself thatis fundamental, whether
the decision results in a traditional choice o~ the
nontraditional choice Brause and Dugan seek to have
recognized," Michal’ski wrote. "The same Constitution
protects both." John Gaguine, the assistant attorney
general who argued the case, said the state probably
will ask the Alaska Supreme Court to review the
decision. Proving a compelling state interest in banning
same-sex marriage may be difficult, said Matt
Coles, director of the Lesbian and Gay civil rights
Project of the American Civil Liberties in.New York.
’The state is. going to have to have a very good
justification," he said.
Deat,h Sentence Holds for
Murderer of Gay Man
AUSTIN (A~) -~A death sentence .imposed against a
former~h;§b]a~bol football starwhbwas convicted of
abducting and Shooting to death a Gay man has been
upheld by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
According to court records, Demarco Markeith
McCullum and threecompanions targeted a Gayman
for robbery in 1994becauseMcCullumbelievedGay
men always carried a lot of cash.
According to the court, McCullum saw Michael
¯
Burzinski, 29, walking to his car parkett" outside aGay
¯¯ bar. He attacked Burzinski, who the court said was
noticeably drunk, and threw him into the backseat of
¯
Burzinski’s car. According to testimony, McCullum
¯ announced that Burzinski had to be killed because he
¯ knew his attackers’ names. He then shouted aloudhis ¯
own name and the name of the men with him -
¯ Decedrick Ganious, Terrance Perro and Chris Lewis:
¯ McCullum then drove Burzinski to a secluded loca-
¯ tion, forced Burzinski from the car and shot him once
." in the back of the head.
,Massachusetts Men
Sued for Gay Bashing
¯ WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Two men accused of
¯ using an Internet chat room to lure a Gay man to a
¯ deserted field and then beating him have been sued
: for civil rights violations. The attorney general’s civil
¯ rights division filed a proposed preliminary injunc-
: tion against William D. Peters, 21, and Frank Labbe,
¯ 18, both of Webster. If successful, the injunction
¯ would mandate stiff punishments should the men
¯ commit additional civil rights crimes.
¯ Peters and Labbe allegedly attacked a 46-year-old ¯
Cambridge man in the early morning hours of Jan. 8
: after exchanging messages in a Gay-oriented online
¯ chat room. According to court documents, the defen-
¯ dants used anti-Gay language to taunt the victim and ¯
wamedhim,"Ifyougo to the cops, we’ll kill you. And
: if we ever see you online again or in a~!_.y (chat) rooms
: again, we will kill you!"
¯ Earlier this month, Labbe and Peters were indicted
"- . on charges ofarmed robbery, assault and battery with
: a dangerous weapon, civil rights violations, threaten-
: ing to commit a crime, intimidating a witness and
¯ conspiracy, according to the Worcester County dis-
: trict attorney’s office. Assistant Attorney General
¯ Richard ,Gordon said the civil rights action filed
: Thursday, whichis separatefrom the criminal charges,
¯ was brought because of the severity of the case.
: In the affidavit filed this week,the victim said he
remains terrified of his alleged attackers. "The defen¯
dants’ threats and intimidation towards me have
made mefearful for my safety, even in my own
¯ home," the testimony reads.
Bias Protections Under
Attack in Colorado
ii
Maine Towns Consider
Civil Rights Protections
: FORT COLLINS,Colo. (AP)-Theday after the City
¯ Council voted to extend anti-discrimination protec-
: tion to Gays & Lesbians, opponents to the new law
said they will petition for a vote on the plan. Council
: members said two years of study and months of
¯ public meetings convinced them that discrimination
¯ is a legitimate problem for Gays and Lesbians.
¯ The new law, adopted recently, adds sexual often-
: tation, defined as actual or perceived heterosexuality,
¯ homosexuality, bisexuality and asexuality, as a prohibitedbasis
6f discrimination. Opponents argued the
¯ ordinance gives homosexuals special rights by con-
¯. doning and protecting their lifestyle. One man accused
city leaders of "government tyranny"for endorsing
the measure. "I’m sure it’s going to be
: challenged,"said the Rev. Ken Stephens of Front
¯ Range Baptist Church. "We do not need the ordi-
¯ nance for a lifestyle which I believe is a chosen
lifestyle." ~
¯ Opponents said they are gearing up for a referendum’on
the controversial law. City Clerk Wanda
Krajicek said petitioners would have until mid-April
to collect 1,783 valid signatures from registered voters
who live in the city. The City Council could then
repeal the ordinance, submit the measure to voters in
a general election, or call for a special election to
settle the matter. A vote could be scheduled as early
as this summer, Krajicek said.
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Harbor expressed fear that some would-be vacationers
may boycott all of Maine this summer
without realizing that both towns support Gay civil
rights.
Camden and Bar Harbor voted about 3-1 in favor
of the Gay civil rights legislation that was narrowly
defeated in the Feb. 10 referendum. After two of its
members raised the issue, the Bar -Harbor Town
Council voted in March to ask the town attorney to
draft an ordinance that would be a focus for debate
at a future meeting.
The night before, Camden real estate broker
Susan Dorr asked the Boar,d,. of Selectmen to adopt
a Gay civil rights measure. Itjust makes use of the
very clear message that Camden voters have said
twice on this matter,"said Dorr, who pointed to the
town’s strong anti-discrimination stance in two
statewide votes. ’¢Fhis is an important area to
explore, to say unequivocally that Camden won’t
discfiminate,"she said.
While expressing support for Gay civil rights,
selectmen instructed the town attorney to review
the legal ramifications and advised the town manager
to seek information on local anti-discrimination
ordinances. If the proposals pass, the two
¯ coastal towns wouldjoin Portland and Long Island
as the only Maine communities with Gay civil
rights ordinances on the books.
A leader in the Gay civil rights campaign, Karen
Geraghty of Maine Won’t Discriminate, said she
could understand the frustration of townspeople
that prompted the local efforts but reiterated that a
statewidelaw was theideal solution. "Every citizen
in Maine ought to have the same basic rights,"
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doesn’t mean that I have a shaved head and wear
Doc Martens, either."
On a recent morning, this 20-year veteran of
corporate America happened to be wearing a white
turtleneck, brownjacket and tan pants. The muted
outfit and Parker’s low-key style certainly gave no
clue to the fact that she’s a trailblazer who has
broken a major barrier in becoming Houston’s first
openly Gay elected official.
That distinction became official on Jan. 2, when
Parker took the oath of office with her partner of
seven years at her side. She joined only 122 other
openly Gay elected officials in the U.S., according
to the Washington, D.C.-based Gay and Lesbian
Victory Fund.
At City Hall, though, Parker says she’s just
another councilwoman. Parker is an at-large council
member, meaning she was elected by voters
across the city. "There’s no difference inside this
¯
tive legislative work." Still, Parker doesn’t shy
¯ away from her role in Houston’s history or the
¯ responsibility that comes withit. "Somebodyhas to ¯
be first and you want the first to do a great job, so
: that the next one has it easier. And I feel that
¯ responsibility, but I’m very pleased that within ¯
these walls and when I~m at a civicforum that that’s
¯
not the issue," she said.
¯ Houston’s Gay and Lesbian community cer¯
taiuly claimed Parker’s victory. "Voters care more
about what our representatives doin council chain-
: bets than what they do in their bed chambers and
¯ that’s a good sign for the future of this city," said
, Dale Carpenter, a Houston lawyer and past state
president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of
¯ Gay and Lesbian conservatives. Over the years,
: Houston’s Gay community has seen many disap-
¯ pointments, including the repeal 13 years ago of a
¯
city ordinance Nving job protection to Gays
." During the firstfew council meetings of the year,
¯ a man showed up spewing what Parker termed
; "rather ugly" comments toward her and other mi-
¯
nority councilmembers. Healso made obscene and
¯ threatening phone calls to her office. "It’s part of
¯ the job," Parker said. "You’re a public figure. ¯
You’re a target because you have to be accessible
¯
and everyone has First Amendment rights."
But there have been some signs that the nation’s
¯ fourth-largest city is growing up. During last ¯
November’s election, incumbent city controller
¯ Lloyd Kelley lost to Sylvia Garcia after calling her
: his "Gay opponent." ’q’he atmosphere has dra-
¯ matically changed here for the better," Carpenter
: said. "Annise Parker’s election is certainly the
¯ most prominent example of that." Parker spent
¯ about 20 years working for Mosbacher Oil and
; Energy and in that time also owned two small
¯
businesses. She’s also served on the Houston Po-
¯ liceDepartmentAdvisory Committeeand thecity’s
Citizen Review Committee. She has been a police
liaison for the Gay and Lesbian community.
Parker’s activism also has extended to the restoration
and preservation ofhistoric sites in Houston.
"I care about the architectural heritage in the community,"
she said. "Ijust care about old buildings."
Now she is navigating the transition from private
life as abusinesswomanand activist to city official.
Meeting the needs of her constituents, she said,
largely means dealing with their concerns about
everyday issues like street repairs and garbage
collection. Said Parker: "Potholes aren’t Gay or
Lesbian or black or Hispanic or Asian."
: Illinois Civil Rights Bill
." SPRINGFIELD, ill. (AP) - The state of Illinois
." forbids discrimination based on race, color, reli-
¯ gion, sex, marital status and six other characteris- ¯
tics. Now, sexual orientation might be added to the
: list. A bill advanced by an Illinois House commit-
. tee wouldltrohibitlandlords,employers and credi-
¯ tots from discriminating against Gays.
: Themeasure, sponsoredby Rep. Larry McKeon,
; D-Chicago, would amend the state’s human rights
¯ lawby addingthephrase%exual orientation" to the
list of categories protected against bias. McKeon,
." who is Gay, told the Human Services Committee
¯" that the bill "highlights Gays’ status as citizens
under Illinois law" but does not :’promote or con-
" done any lifestyle."
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Fellow councilman Jew Don Boney Jr., who
considers himself a staunch supporter of Parker’s,
said she’s a welcome addition to Houston government.
"She is a seasoned veteran who is a decisive
advocate on behalf of neighborhood interests," he
said. "She is fiscally responsible. She is a worker.
She is not here to profile. She is here to do substan-
: require religious institutions that regard homo-
: sexuality as immoral to hire or promoteGay people.
¯ It also would not require employers or unions to ¯
give preferential treatment or other affirmative
: action to Gays, he said. The committee approved
: the bill onan 8-2 vote. The House defeated a similar
¯ measure by McKeon last April.
Proteins Protect A
Few Hemophiliacs
NEWYORK (AP) - Fourteen hemophiliacs
whorepeatedly gotHIV-contaminated
infusions resisted infection because they
had high levels of certain immune system
proteins, a study suggests. .
The proteins are called chemokines.
Prior studies have shown they can block
HIV infection in ~he test tube, and scien- "
usts have been hoping to use them to :
develop AIDS drugs or a vaccine. ¯
TheAssociated Press reported the study :
of hemophiliacs in September when it .
was presented at a meeting. The work
now appears in a recent issue of the Pro- "
ceedings of the National Academy of Sci- :
ences.
It was presented by Daniel Zagury of :
the Pierre and Marie Curie University in :
Paris, Alessandro Gringeri of the Univer- "
sity of Milan in Italy, Dr. Robert Gallo of ¯
the Institute of Human Virology at the "
University of Maryland, and others. "
The hemophiliacs, from Italy, were ex- ¯
posed to theAIDS virus through contaminated
infusions of blood products. Blood "
cells taken from them Were found to pro- :
dace about twiceas muchofthree kinds of "
chemokines as didcells fromhealthy blood
donors, or from hemophiliacs unexposed
to HIV.
The study involved 128 hemophiliacs
who had repeatedly been expo~.d to HIV
from blood products between 1980 to .
1985, before a test to screen blood for the "
virus became available. Only three were .
infected by the first infusions. The total ¯
number of those infected rose to 59 in "
1982, 84 in 1983, 103 in 1984 and 114 in ".
1985. The pattern shows mosthemophili- ¯
acs had a natural but temporary resistatice ....
to HIV infection, the researchers said.
Faster HIV Test
Recommended
ATLANTA (AP) - Tony Braswell’s staff
spends weeks, sometimes months, waiting
for people Who took anonymous HIV
tests to return for their test results. Many
never show. "It’s an anonymous testing
site. It’s not like you can call these people
up and say ’Hey, your test came back
positive. We need to talk to you,’ "said
Braswell, executive director of AID Atlanta.
The federal government recently recommended
the use of a new HIV test that
yields results instantly, making it possible
for health workers to cut down on cases
slipping through the cracks.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention estimated the new test would
catch nearly 700,000 people a year, including
8,000 infected with HIV, who
take the test but never return for results,
said Bernard Branson, a medical epidemiologist
at the CDC.
Thereis a downside: A~additional 8,000
people would receive false-positive resuits,
~aid Branson, the chief architect Of
the CDC;s recommendation. "It’s clearly
a risk messing with people s psych~, telling
them the,y are HIV,pOsltlve, he sm .
"Bin ~b.:.u~h~i~O ask.whether the"beaefit
outweighs~ ~e risk." " ’
Both the new and the old tests look for
antibodies in the blood. But the traditional,
one-week test also looks for specific
protein bands that are considered the
absolute indicator of HIV. The CDC estimated
the false-positive rate of infections
using 1995 data.
The Bell Flower Clinic in Indianapolis
has been using the rapid test for about a
year, said Mary McKee, spokeswoman
for the Marion County, Ind., health department.
To combat false results, the clinic gives
three quick HIV tests. If one or more
comes back with a false-positive, a traditional
bloo.d test is taken and the results
are made available in about seven days,
she said. "Most people felt it would be
better to know.., because they could take
the precautions they need to take with
their partners", while they waited, Ms.
McKee said.
The’CDC said the use of the new tests
should be based on a combination of factors:
the prevalence of HIV in a community
and return rates for test results. In
cities where there is a high prevalence of
HIV and a low return rate, the new tests
should be used, Branson said.
The new test is not publicly funded and
costs S 10 to $25 at public clinics across
the country. TraditiOnal AIDS tests at
public clinics typically are free.
Currently, only one rapid test has been
approved by the FDA for use in clinics in
the United States. The test, manufactured
by Murex ofNorcross, Ga., takes about 10
minutes to determine whether the virus is
present. Several other tests are awaiting
FDA approval, Branson Said.
. ClintonAide Favors
:Needle Exchange
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Making a
strong statement in favor of needle exchange
programs, President Clinton’s
AIDS adviser said 33 Americans contract
the HIV virus through drug injections
every day.
’q~hese are not numbers but real lives,’:
Saiadra Thurmah said Wednesday ih a
speech to the National AIDS UPDATE
Conference. "I have cradled them in my
arms, often in their last moments. I am.
haunted by the responsibility to use my
position,to do everything I can to stop this
carnage.
A congressional moratorium onfederal
funding for local needle exchange programs
expires at the end of March. Health
and Human Services Secretary Donna
Shalala then could order release of funds
to commtmities that have programs exchanging
clean needles for contaminated
ones, a commonsource of the AIDS virus.
Thurman has been lobbying Shalala to
support such programs.
Barry McCaffrey, head of the White
House Office of National Drug Policy,
opposes the programs, contending they
promote drug use. Shalala has declined to
recommend funding in the past, saying it
needed more study. Shalala’s office did
not return a telephone call seeking reaction
to Thurman’s speech.
Thurman’s comments were welcomed
Thursday by Daniel Zingale of the advocacy
group AIDS Action. The speech
"sends a signal that the time is now to let
locals get the dirty needles off the street,"
he said. "It’s the strongest signal we’ve
seen."
Lastweek, Clinton’s Presidential Council
on HIV/AIDS unanimously expressed
noconfidencein the administration’ s commitment
to reducing the spread of the:
disease. The council said the refusal to
support needle exchanges "threatens the
public health and directly contradicts current
scientific evidence."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., saidThurs- .
day she would call on Shalala to lift the
funding ban after March 31. "The findings
are dear," she said. ’q~he only thing
standing in the way is politics."
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3m Tuberculosis:
GENEVA (AP) - The spread of AIDS is "
expected to trigger more than 3 million ¯
new tuberculosis cases worldwide over -"
thenextfour years, the U.N. AIDS agency "
saidin March. UNAIDS said tuberculosis ¯
is on the increase because it spreads rap- :
idly to HIV-infected people. A person ¯
with HIV is 30 times more likely than a :
non-infected person to develop tubercu- ¯
losis.
The dual epidemic of tuberculosis and
HIV has become one of the most serious ¯
publichealththreatsintheworld,UNAIDS ¯
said. "One third of the world’s population ¯
has TB, but inmost peopleit is dormant," :
UNAIDS spokesman Gareth Jones said. ¯
’q’B is only dangerous when it becomes ¯
active; Ifyouhave the HIV virus and your ¯
immune system is down, the odds of dor- "
mantTB becoming activeis muchhigher."
The World Health Organization estimates
that more people will die from TB .
this year it than any other year in history. "
Tuberculosis, which attacks mainly the "
lungs, is a bigger killer than malari~ and ¯
AIDS combined. Last year over7 million :
people worldwidebecame sick andnearly "
3 million died of TB, the WHO said. ¯
Last year, AIDS killed 2.3 million ¯
people and infected 16,000 more people
daily. UNAIDS says more than30 million
people worldwide areinfected withAIDS.
Reparative Therapy
Slammed in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Some therapists
contend unhappy, homosexuals can "
_ ’abandon their lifestyle through so-called "
"reparative" or conversion treatment, but ."
a Utah social-work group says they ¯
shouldn’ t try. "
In aunanimous affirmation ofa 2-year- ¯
old stance by its parent group, the Utah
chapter of the National Association. of ¯
Social Workers has adopted a policy dis- "
couragingreparative therapy. Thegroup’s ¯
state board found there is insufficient scientific
data supporting the treatment. The ¯
American Psychological Association in "
August also passed a resolution opposing ¯
reparative therapy.
"Social stigmatization of lesbian, gay :
and bisexual people is widespread and is :
a primary motivating factor in leading ¯
some people to seek sexual orientation ¯
changes," the policy states. "Discomfort "
about working with this population may "
lead to inappropriate, ineffective and even ¯
damaging interventions by social work- ¯
ers." "
Board president Joanne Yaffe said the ¯
action came after it received an anony- ¯
mous complaint, redirected from the national
committee. "They toldus they knew "
of Utah social workers who were practic- "
ing reparative therapy and asked us what ¯
we were going to do about it," she said.
°
The state chapter’s action was criti- "
cized by such groups as Evergreen Inter- ¯
national and LDS Social Services. ’q’he ,
church’s licensed professional counselors
take the position that thereis substan- ¯
tial evidence that individuals can dimin- ¯
ish their unwanted homosexual attraction -"
and make changes in their lives," said "
Mormonchurch spokesmanDonLeFevre. ¯
"The church and these professionals are :
supportive of a person’s right to seek ¯
assistance in doing so." :
Reparative or conversion therapy at- ¯
tempts to change homosexuals to heterosexuals,
and has existed for more than a "
century. Earlypracticesincorpomtedelec- ."
tric shocks, castration, lobotomies and
aversion therapy. Today, therapists instead
use psychoanalytic, cognitive or
behavioral therapy techniques to diminish
or eliminate same-sex attraction.
Critics contend the therapies have a 60-
70 percent failure rate, but supporters
insist there is ampleproof thathomosexuals
can change, or at least curb their behavior.
NASW board member Shirley Cox, a
Brigham Young University social-work
professor and Evergreen Intemationa
board member, said there is a distinction
to be made between reparative therapy
and what she calls "lifestyle-change"
therapy. "Reparative therapy assumes
people are broken and in need of repair.
don’t believe that," she said. "But I will
help people who want to live as heterosexuals.
They have a right.to choose."
Egergreen Executive Director David
Pruden said NASW made itself "vulnerable
when, as an organization, they become
the arbiters of lifestyle decisions.
What happens if something goes wrong
because they have affirmed a certain
lifestyle7’ Pruden said about 40% of the
people served by his organization leave
homosexuality entirely and about 30%
diminish their homosexual behavior. ¯
US Supreme Court:
Are HIV+ Disabled?
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a major test of
disability rights, Supreme Court justices
sparred Monday over whether HIV-infected
people should be considered disabled
because of dangers involved in sex
andchildbearing.
The lawyer for Bangor, Maine, dentist
Randon Bragdonargued that Bragdon did
not illegally discriminate against anHIVinfected
woman by refusing to treat her at
his office. The patient, Sidney Abbott,
suffers no AIDS symptoms and therefore
is not protected by the Americans With
Disabilities Act, said attorney John
McCarthy.
But Ms. Abbott’s lawyer said lower
courts correctly found that Bragdon violated
the law, which bars discrimination
against the disabled in jobs, housing and
public accommodations. The law - responsible
for such aids as wheelchair
ramps at countless public places - says
people are disabled if they have aphysical
or mental impairment that "substantially
limits one or more major life activlties."
HIV-infected people should always be
considered disabled because the contagious
andfatal nature ofacquiredimmune
deficiency syndrome severely limits their
ability to have sex and bear children, said
Ms. Abbott’s attorney, Beunet,t hi. Klein.
Some justices disputed whether HIV
infection really creates such a limit. Justices
David H. Souter and Antonin Scalia
suggested an HIV-iufected person faces a
"moral choice"rather than an actual physical
limit on his ability to have children.
"I’m not sure that’s what the statute is
talking about," Souter said.
However,JusticeAnthony M. Kennedy
said that if .a person with highly iufectious
tuberculosis stays away from other people,
-"we don’t just call it a moral choice."
Someone with bubonic plague would be
considered disabled, added Justice
Stephen G. Breyer.
Bragdon’s lawyer said the disability
law aims .to protect people whose disabilities
affect their "day-to-day indepen,,dent
living andeconomic self-sufficien~y, not
HIV-infectedpeoplewhosufferno symptoms.
¯ The disability-rights law says disabled
¯ people can be treated differently if they
: pose a"direct threat to the health or safety
: of others." "Dr. Bragdon believes that
¯ when he provides a service in the face of
¯
the risk of death he should be allowed to
¯ take additional precautions" such as in-
¯, sisfing on filling Ms. Abbott’s cavity at a
hospital, McCarthy said.
¯ However, Breyer said that "after 15
¯ years andhundreds ofthousands ofdeaths"
¯ fromAIDS there appeared to be no docu- ¯
mentedcasesinwhichadenfistcaughtthe
¯
virus from a patient. "How can we say
: here that your client exercised reasonable
¯ medical judgment.’?" Breyer asked ¯
McCarthy replied that there were seven
¯ possible cases of HIV transmission in
; dental procedures.
¯ Klein said that unless HIV-infected
: people have clear protections under the
¯ law,many will hide the fact that they carry
¯ the virus.
¯ The court never has decided a case
¯
involving an HIV-related issue or the dis-
" ability-bias law, signed in 1990 by Presi-
¯ dentBush. Adecisionis expected by July. ¯
Thejustices’rulingcouldprovidedues as
¯
to whether the law covers other kinds of
¯ disabilities, such as cases of epilepsy or
¯ diabetes that are controlled by medica- ¯
don.
¯ Titanic Necklace
¯ Raises $$ for AIDS
¯ BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -A 170-
¯ carat sapphire and diamond necklace
¯ modeled after a piece of jewelry in the
movie ’q’itanic" sold for $2.2 miilion at a
¯ fundraiserheldinhonorofPfincessDiana.
¯ The black:fie Princess Ball was part of a
gala to raise money for the Diana, Prin-
. cess of Wales Memorial Fund and South-
" era Califomia~s Aid for AIDS. The two
charities will split the money. The neck-
"¯ lace was valued at $3.5millionbefore the auction. The buyer was not identified.
Volunteers Needed
:f_or TU Study of
¯ Anti-Gay Violence
.. Elana Newman, Ph.D., a clinical psy-
¯ chologist who joined the University of
¯ Tulsa faculty a year and half ago, is an
¯ expert in studying the impact of violence
¯ and post-traumatic stress disorder. In col-
. laboration with her students, she is con-
: ducting several studies regarding the psy-
." chological impact of sexual assault, as-
: sault, hate-violence, workplace violence,
¯ accidents and natural disasters.
¯ Currently Dr. Newmanis collaborating
¯ with studeiats Tim Studebaker and Bradley
Hunt on a study investigating the
: impact of hate violence on psychological
: heath and political beliefs. Gay, Lesbian,
~ Bisexual, Transgender, and Straight vol-
¯ unteers (both who have and have not
: experienced hate violence) are needed to
¯ complete an anonymous and confidential
¯ survey. Not much is understood about
¯ hate violence and the results may help
¯ develop psychological treatment and
¯ policy for potential victims. Volunteers
: can obtain a copy of this sensitive survey
¯ byleaving amessage with their name and
." address at 631-2031.
Several studies onhate violence, sexual
: assault and alcohol use are planned to
¯ begin in Fall 1998. Volunteers who are
¯, interested in participating in future stud-
," ies are encouraged to contact Dr.
¯ Newman"s research lab and leave their
: name, phone number and address.
by James Christjohn
If you missed Betty Buckley’s concert,
you missed a lot! She w~s in fine voice -
and what avoice! The stateside originator
of "Memory" from "Cats", she gave that
song moremeauing than any of ~hose who
have followedher. Andshe is one of afew
performers who could make the vast caverns
of the PAC seem
like an intimate cabaret.
She reminded me
very much oflocal performer
Susan McBay
in her deceptively
simple approach and
enjoyment of the musicians
playing with her.
Having run the
gamut from Broadway’
s"Pippin"toTV’s
"eight Is Enough" to
"Cats" to her most recent
star turn as Norma
Desmond in "Sunset
Boulevard,, she had a
multitude of stories to tall. And "With
One Look" will never be the same for me.
No one can toUch her version.
Her stories were witty as well - I really
enjoyed the one in which she was in
Pippin, and one’of the writers wrote a
show called "’The Baket~.Wife" with her
in mind for the lead. "’A show written for
me! I was thrilled!". Unfortunately, the
producer was unfamiliar with her work,
so she had to audition. 9 times. She did not
get the part. After many therapy sessions,
in wfiich she acknowledged that she"was
somewhatresentful andbitter", the thera-
: genuinely get a sense of what itmust have
; been like to be on that ship.
¯ Having sailed on the Tomtanic, and
: bumped into all kinds of icebergs but
: miraculously never sinking completely, I
¯ could relate to the captain’s arrogant atti-
". tude that the ship was unsinkable and the
¯ White Star Line’s manager, Bruce Ismay,
who according to some
sources waved away all
warmngs of ice that
were coming in and
urged for more speed.
Not to mention that the
ship and her Captain
only had one day for
testing and maneuvers,
where six weeks was
After her Friday Pops performance
the norm. How ’could
with theTulsaPhilharmonic, thefabu- the captain or any of
the crew have "known
lous Betty Buckley graciously met
with Council Oak Men’s Chorale di- that the rudder was too
rector, Rick Fortner and TFN Enter- small to turn the ship in
tainment writer, James Christjohn.
time?Andthatifthey’d
¯ hit the iceberg head on,
the ship would have stayed afloat until
" help came? The film does a really good
~ job of showing how such small decision
¯ can forever alter the course of history, .
." sending ripples through time.
¯ I will say that Cameron borrowed a
". trick or thr~e from the time travel film,
," "Somewhere in Time", starting Christo-
", pher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Particu-
¯ larlv at the end, but I’ll l~t you figure out
~ wh~t I mean by that. And if you’ve not
; seen "Somewh’ere.. "’, it’s well worth
~ renting. And "Tita~fic’" deserved the Os-
¯ cars it took home. So if you’ve resisted
pist finally said "Claim the song from the : seeing ,it due~to the hyp~rinflated hype,
show written for you - and get over it!" : don’t. It’s wall worth seeing. But ~o while
And so, "The Meadowlark" became her ," you can still see it in surround sound
s~gnature tune. (And a beautifully haunt- ¯ ~heatre~. That really’ puts youin filemiddle
ing song itis, too.) After the Show, I was
fortunate to share a moment or two with
her, and to tell her how much I enjo.yed the
show. She was very gracious.
I went to "Titanic" late in. the game -
just a few weeks ago. I was prepared to
hate it and mock Jim Cameron for an
budgetarily overinflated flop¯ Instead,
what I saw amazed me. Despite my attitude
going in, I was drawn into the story,
and "’went down with the ship. "And even
though I knew how they did the effects, I
was still left with total astonishment at
what the thousands of people behind the
scenes worked so hard to create. In short,
they put you on the ship - no mean feat.
Now, I’m not a DeCaprio fan and tomy
eyes, he was the weakest link in the film.
He seemed too young to play the p~.t he
did - and yes, I know he’s 25 and the
character was 20. He still looks 15, and
could not adequately convey a character
who’d had a hard knock life and been all
over the world as the Jack Dawson character
had.
Billy Zane portrays the villain of the
piece, though if he showed up in my
stateroom and showered me with jewels,
I’d ~e, hard pressed to say no. I understand
Rose s (Kate Winslet) repugnance all too
wall. His h~.dsomeness andmanners were
o~fly surface. And surface is’what the
world saw. The reality in private was
much different. Been there, dealt with
that. He’s an easy character to hate -
almost too easy, as the character tends
toward stereotype.
Although I’ve read about the Titanic
many times as an historical event, and
despite those flaws, the film does capture
you and suck you in (or down?). You
of the action. Blub.
Just had the first "Follies Revue" Rehearsal,
and it looks like it’ll be a ftm
show. The dates are June 25-27, and I
believe it’ll be at the-PAC again. Stay
tuned for mtre details...
TheCouncil Oak Men" s Choral~ (which
was Council Oak Chorale, until someone
pointed out that the acronym, COC, could
be cause for some consternation. I was
disappointed- imagine all the wonderftd
fodder for this colunm it could have provided
- pity.) performed to much applans~
at thePFLAG spaghetti supper last
month. Mel White was the guest speaker,
he also did well on the applause--o-meter.
He’s a very good speaker, and makes
some good points when it comes to what
the religions wrong is all about. Scary
stuff, that.
~ Anyway,COMCis in rehearsal now for
¯ a concert TBA. Rick Fortner, the fearless ¯
leader ofthislittlebandofvocalists,lhinks
~ perhaps May-endor June mightbe appro-
: pilate. Details comc-ing soon.
Broken Arrow Community Playhouse
~ presents "The Dresser", abackstage ~anee
¯ at lifein a3rdrate Britishtheatrical troupe
¯ in 1942, just when most touting companies
(which took theatre all over Britain to
¯ small communities and grand dries in the
~ days. before film and television were as
commonplaceas they are now) were fold-
" ing due to the film industry’s takeover of
¯ entertainment. Performances run through
¯ April 5th at the BACP, 1800 Main St. For
¯ ticket info and reservations, call 258-
¯ 0077. ¯ Over at the Comedy Club, Jeff Dunham
¯ can be heard throwing his voice around.
see Notes, page 10
PHILBROOK
749.7941
Visit Tuesday - Sunday
adults $6.25, children 12 & under free
Music on Exhibit IV
At Philbrook Museum
T U L S A PHILHARAAONIC
Woodwind Quintet
Brass Quintet
String Quartet
Music by Nielsen, Ewald, Brahms
For tickets, call 747-7445
The University of Tulsa’s
Bi sexual/Lesbian/Gay/TransgenderedAlliance
presents on April 16 - 19 in Lorton Hall, the
Tulsa Queer Film Festival
Thursday, April 16 Saturday, April 18 9 45 She’s Safe
9:00 Nitrate Kisses
10:30 Blooclsisters
Friday, April 17
7:00 Cruel
7:30 Boys’ Shorts
9:30 Wavelengths
10:00 Girl Talk
1:00-4:00 Feminist Films
Girls Like Us
Under the Skin Game
¯ My Feminism
Real Indian
6:00 Rules of the Road
6:30 Elevation
7:00 Shinjuku Boys
Sunday, April 19
1:00 Out at Work
2:00 Faggots Are For
Burning
Stop the Church
3:00 Thank God l’m a
Lesbtan
8:00 Defying Gravity 4:00 Hide and Seek
All.tim,s.and details ofschedule are tentative. IZ~yers will be Fosted closer to tl~ event. Ad donated by Tulsa Family
Parish Church ofSt. Jerome
Evangelical Anglican Church in America
An Inclusive Anglican Community
Holy Week Services
Sunday - April 5th
Blessing of the Palms - 11:00AM
Maundy Thursday - April9th
7:00 PM
Good Friday - April 10th
Rosary - 6:30 PM
Service - 7:00 PM
Holy Saturday - April llth t
Prayer Service - 10:00AM
Liturgy of Light - 7:00PM~_
Easter Sunday - April 12th
11:00AM
205 West King
Tulsa, OK
(918) $82-308S
The Rev. Canon Rick Hollingsworth, Pastor
The Rev. Debbie Starnes, Deacon
~SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Community of Hope. (United Methodist), Service - 6pm, 2545 S: Yale, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - 11am, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - 1lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service - 5pro, Childrens Minislry - 5pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc.
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa
Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America)
Mass - 11am, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088
University~ of Tulsa BisexuaULesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance
6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
~" MONDAYS
Council Oak Men’s Chorale, 7 pm, leave meSsage for more information: 743-4297
HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonym6us testing.. No appointment required.
,Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard)
HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
2nd Monieach mo. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pm, call Shawn 491-2036.
Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 3/2, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
~TUESDAYS
AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 3/10, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
.HIV+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium l:30pm
3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), Info: Wanda @ 834-4194
Multicultural AIDS Coalition, 3/3, 12:30pm, Urban League, 240 East Apache
Shanti-Tuisa, Inc. HIV!AIDS Support Group, and Friends & Family I-IiViAr~)S
Support Group - 7 pm,-Locations, call: 627-2525
Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 743-4297
PrimeTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues/each mo., 7pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE)
Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297
~" WEDNESDAYS
Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer = 6:30pro, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210 So. Norwood
Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group
For more information, call 582-7225, John at ext. 218, or Tommy at ext. 208
TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632.
Lambda A-A, 7 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~" THURSDAYS
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support!social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325
From Our Hearts to Our House, 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/each mo. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194
~ FRIDAYS
SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group; 1 st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th
Community Coffee House, varying dates, 7 pm, Pride Center, Info: 743:4297
~ SATURDAYS ’ ......
Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community ofHope,1703 E. 2nd’i tnfo: 585=1800
Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E~ 38th, 2ndfl.. ¯
~" OTHER GROUPS
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222.
Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978
OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157
Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call orfax 583-4615.
CHECK OUT THE LIBRARY!
by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-County Library
Incase youhaven’tchecked
out the library in the last decade
or so, it’s not just books
anymore! Besides magazines
(Advocate, Out, LambdaBook
Report) and CDs (Melissa
Etheridge,kdlang, EltonJohn,
lots of Cole Porter), the library
has some entertaining
videos that are of interest to
the gay and lesbian community.
Newer films include:
Philadelphia (1993): Ton~
Hanks won an Oscar for his
portrayal of a lawyer with
AIDS who is wrongly fired
from his prestigious law firm.
He sues, and wins, with the
help of homophobic Denzel
Washington.
Celluloid Closet (1995):-
Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this
- is an overview of homosexualityin
themovies andincludes
interviews With Harvey
Fierstein, Whoopi Goldberg
andGore Vidal, among others.
The Sum ofUs (1996): Stamng Russell
¯
Crowe (L.4. Confidential), this fun Aus-
¯ tralian filmrevolves around a well mean-
" ing father who tries to help his son find
In ease you
haven’t eheeked
out the
llhrary in the
last decade or
so, it’s not
just hooks
anymore!
Besides
maffazlnes . . .
and CDs . ..
the library has
some
entertaining
videos that are
of interest to
the Gay and
Lesbian
eommunlty.
No, not screaming at the hecklers, but as
one Of the fiinnlest ventriloquists around.
Most of you might remember Peanut th~
Woozle, Walter the grumpy old man, and
Jose thejalapeno from appearances on the
Tonight Show and
other talk shows, as
well, as many of the
comedy shows
broadcast from comedy
clubs onTV. Just
named Stand-upComedian
of the Year,
again, at the American
Comedy
Awards, he’ll be doing
4 showshere in
Tulsa at the Tulsa
Comedy Club, 6906
S. Lewis. For info,
call 481-0558.
Jerry Lee Lewis will be at Cain’s Ballroom
April 17. Tickets available at
Mohawk Music (51 & Sheridan, behind
Wendys, 644-2951, or by calling 747-
0001~
Barbara Ariadne will be one of the
featured photo~aphers in the npcoming
Tulsa Photography Collective’s exhibit at
Rogers University. These shows highlight
some really goodlocal artists, so I
would encourage you to take ajaunt out to
Rogers ,for a coffee and a viewing.
Barbara-~?photos are really beautiful images,
and each one tells a story and will
leave you thinking about what you’ve
seen. She’ll bea talent to watch in coming
years.
Stevie’s tour dates just announced ! She
will perform in Dallas July 17 at the
Starplex, otherwise you can catch her in
St. Louis at the Riverport Amphitheater
on July 11, or in Kansas City at the SandstoneonJuly
11. Tickets available through
ticketmaster, from $40 to $80. I remember
paying $25 in 1982 to see Fleetwood
¯.. the Turner exhibit at
Philbrook Museum vAll be
ending on April 12.
Don’t miss this exhibit
whieh is the sole worldwide
venue. Turner is considered
the greatest British painter
of the 19th century, and one
of the monumental figures
of Western painting.
; song’s about.
Mr.Right.
When A Kid is Gay (1995):
Younglesbians and gays share
their thoughts and feelings
about their sexual orientation,
families and the church.
Classic older rifles include:
La ,Cage aux Folles (1978):
The original Birdcage, from
France, which inspired the
fabulousBroadway musical.
How can you force a flamboyant
drag queen to actlike John
Wayne?
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
(1971): Classic love mangle
with handsome Murray Head
caughtbetween Glenda Jackson
and Peter Finch. Director
John Schlesinger dared to include
a male-to-male kiss in
this groundbreaker.
Videos check out from the
library for three days and
they’re free! (Fines, however,
are $1 per day for videos.)
Check for videos and CDs at
die Media Center at the Cen-
¯¯ tral Library (596-7933) or contact your
local libra@.
¯
Mac. The rimes, they have a-changed!
¯ The Stevie Nicks boxed set, EN-
¯ CHANTED, will be releaged on April 28,
¯
followed by an appearance On Letterman
¯ April 30. Then, she will release a newly
¯ recorded album in fall, with perhaps m~- ¯
other tour to follow that effort. And
hopefully, all these
things will occur
when the publicists
say they will. To
quote Stevie, 1 Can’t
Wait. As of right
now, the first single
from the boxed set is
scheduled to be Reconsider
Me. Since
her music and lyrics
eerily coincide "with
happenings andcrises
in my life, I can’t
wait to hear what that
¯ Wayward Theatre Company will ¯
present THE BALTIMORE WALTZ on
¯ April 2-19in collaboration with the Dela-
¯ ware Playhouse. For more information, ¯
call 712-1511.
¯ The Thomas Moran exhibition will be
¯ continues through May 10 at Gilcrease ¯
¯ Museum. But the Turner exhibit at Philbrook Museumwill be endingonApril
¯ 12. Don’t miss this exhibit which is the
sole worldwide venue. Turner is considered
the greatest British painter of the
19th century, and one of the monumental
figures of Western painting.
Tulsa Opera brings to a close its 50th
anniversary season with Madama Butterfly
onMay2,7 and9,1998 at the Perform-
. ing Arts Center. General Director Carol I.
¯ Crawfordmadeher conducting debut with
¯
Butterfly when it was last performed in
¯ 1991. Maestra Crawford said "Madama
] Butterfly was the first grand opera the
¯ Companypresented (1953 -54), and seems
¯
¯ a fit.ting conclusion t,,oTulsaOpera’s 50th anmversary season.
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Premiere of a Melanie Spector Film
April 16th, 5-7pm, All Souls, 2952 S. Peoria
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AT PHIL13ROOK
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by Jean-Pierre Lagrandbouche
Tonight we dined with the Emperor.
Yes, we were in Tulsa, and no, their
Imperial Majesties, the Emperor Akiinto
and the Empress Michiko, were not in
town for an intimate little dinner party
with Jean-Pierre. The little hovel in winch
we live wouldhardly be suitable for entertaining
the descendant of the goddess of
the Sun and ins gracious partner.
When amongst Polite Society in Japan,
one can pay no greater compliment
to one’s host or hostess
than to compare the foodthe
art- presented, with a meal
fitfor the Emperor. And, while
we’ve always found the susin
at Fuji to be good, we were
unprepared for the magnificent
feast we were presented
tonight.
Japanese cuisine descends
from an ancient and glorious
heritage, stretching back a
millennimn or two. Everything
is carefully planned and executed
with meticulous attention
to detail as only the Japanese
can do.
Upon arriving at the restaurant,
we were immediately
welcomed and escorted to ot~r
table in the large, open dining
room. No sooner had we gotten
settled in, then we were
greeted by our waiter, who
distributed hot washcloths to
each diner, permitting them to
cleanse their hands before dinner.
Anassistantamred, bearing
a small basket of warm
shrimp chips - very light and
airy cinps made of rice flour, flavored
wi[h shrimp, colored inassorted pastels-,
and fried to a crispy crunchiness.
The menus are lengthy and detailed,
and present offerings representative of
the major varieues of Japanese cmsine.
We had been to Fuji many, many tirnes
before, but, for some reason, we had always
made selections only from the long
list’of sushi, sushi rolls, and sashimi. So,
we asked our waiter to bring us ins choice
ofdimmer, highlighting thenon-sushi items
that we had not before tried in Tulsa.
Mist soup arrived immediately. MisO,
a soup made from fermented soybean
paste, is a staple of the Japanese breakfast
table and practically every other meal.
Fuji ser~’es a mild, light-colored mist
characteristic of the soups of Kyoto and
Osaka, that also contained small cubes of
tofu and bits of nori - sheets of dried
seaweed. The soup arrives in a pretty,
lidded bowl, and one partakes by sipping
directly from the bowl. It was followed in
qnick succession by the Japanese concession
to American tastes, a salad oficeberg
lettuce and a tomato wedge. It was garnished
with little fried noodles and shav-
!rigs of red cabbage, and dressed in an
interesting sauce of ginger, sesame paste,
and peanut oil
It was now time for the appetizers, mad
what an embarrassment of riches we received!
First came the Hiya-Yakko Tofu,
which was probably the only food we ate
requiring an "advanced" palate. Twolarge
wedges of cold, delicate, custard-like tofu
were garnished with sliced scallions and
grated ginger, and served with a gentle
ginger-soy sauce. Yakitoriis alittle skewer
of charcoaled cincken meat interspersed
with onions and bell pepper, and served
warm with tonkatsu sosu, a dark spicy
Fu~i Japanese
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Hours: Lunch
. Mon. - Fri.,,
11:30 to 2: dinner
5:30-10, until
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Sat. 11:30 to
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to 9:30. Prices:
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¯ sauce similar ~o soy enriched with toma-
¯ toes and fruit. We also had exquisite
~ Sunomono: crab leg, sin-imp, octopus,
" cucumber, and wakame (seaweed) lightly
¯ pickled in a sweet, bonito- flavored vinegar.
" The next course was sashinfi. Many
¯ Americans are squeamish at the thought
of eating "’raw fish" at a sushi bar, and
nothing takes sushi eating to an extreme
more than sashimi, winch is simply fish
without the rice. When the
Japanese eat seafood that has
not been cooked, they do not
eatjust any fish or sea creature
that comes along. Strict standards
of the highest quality
and freshness are required.
Fish and sea creatures for sushi
mad sashimi are very expensive,
and it is eaten uncooked
to accentuate the crisp freshness,
the delicate flavors and
the wonderful textures of the
dish. Our plate of sasinmi was
artfully arranged with three
slices each of wonderful,
bright red tuna and the tender,
.purple-tinged winte flesh of
octopus tentacles, plus a
mound of some of the most
fabulous squid dredged in
caviar that we have ever eaten.
Often times, squid is a bi~
chew),, but this sashimi was
so exquisitely delicate and
fresh, that we ~isk nmning out
of superlatives to describe the
experience. The plate was also
garnished with carved pieces
of carrot and cucumber, and
strewn with delicious young
radish sprouts.
Awordof education for thosewhohave
never done the sushi experience is ~varranted
for another item thatappears ou the
plate with sushi and sashimi. There will
almost always be a little ball or mass of
green paste the Japanese call wasabi. Beware.
Do not put the green paste into your
mouth ~vithout proper preparation, or it
will give you such an incredible rush that
your sinuses will clear, the top of your
head will feel as though it is coming off,
your eyes will water, andyou will want to
stop breathing. Wasabi is Japanese horseradish.
It is a delicious condiment, but
potentially fatal in novice hands ! On your
table, you will find a little tiny bowl or
plate. Put alittle of the wasabi on the plate
(using your chopsticks, of course), and
pour soy sauce into the bowl. Mix the two
together until you make a thin sauce,
winch you can make hotter or milder to
your own tastes. When you eat your piece
ofnigirisusin or your sasinmi, dip the fish
in.to the sauce before conveying the whole
pwce to your mouth.
By this point in the meal, we were quite
completely stuffed, but it was now time
for the main course to arrive. Our waiter
had selected two large salmon filets prepared
in the Sinoyaku style ~ charl~roiled
with sea saltand special spice,s, and served
with a:ginger sauce. Tins salmon was
unlike anything we had ever tast~l before,
with an amazing, full-bodiedflavor,
and it was so incredibly rich that we were
unable to eat the entire, enormous serving.
The salmon was accompanied by
vegetable tempura and an artfully carCed
anddissected fresh orange. Rice, ofcourse,
was present throughout the meal.
Truly, we had eaten so much,
see Fuji, page 12
by LarnontLindstrorn."
Nowadays everyone has his or her "culture."
This one-time anthropological term ’
used to mean the system of knowledge ¯
sharedby members of a society. For an- ¯
thropologists, thus, thereis only one corn- "
prehensive culture in the U.S. despite the :
fact that American understandings of the ¯
world may be contested, variable, contra- "
dictory, and negotiated. But for the rest of ¯
us, the term ’.~culmre" has become person- ¯
alized.Tormentedby 1990s worries about :
losing, finding, building, eroding, establishing,
proving, celebrating, andmarketing
identity, wehave fervidly grasped this
word to help make sense of who we are.
(There are good reasons why personal
identity in late 20th century America is
such aheadache, but we can save those for
another column.)
This all has led to "Let a thousand
cultures bloom." All over the country, we
hear new talk of youth culture, gang culture,
Chicano Culture,Black culture,White
culture (no trailer-trashjokes, please) and,
closer to home, Gay culmr~ and Lesbian
culture. One could argue that all these are
just minor components of an encompassing
albeit multifaceted American culture.
It is dear, though~ that we have taken to
phrasing our individual distinctiveness
and why we are special in a language of
cmtur , and we struggle to defend the
righteousness and honor of this particularized
"~culmral" uniqueness.
But I am not complaining about this
recent popularization of anthropological
jargon: The more cultures out there, the
more wor,.k there is for us an,t,h,r,opologists!
Thei’bi~~il6~ 6fadffon around academia as
scholars debate whether or not some distinctly
Gay culture, language, and lifestyle
exist and, ifthey do, what exactly they are.
Politically, too, there is the debate between
those who believe that Gays are (or
ought to be)just the same as everyone else
with oneminor erotic difference, and those
who argue that there.is a unique Gay
sensibility.that should be celebrated, p.rotected,
and passed along to upcotmng
generations x, y, and z.
I was thinking about difference - cultural
or otherwise - when I stopped in
Philadelphialastsnmmerto visitmy friend
Lenny. Lenny is African-American, Gay,
and deaf. If he wanted to talk that way, he
surely could claim to have a few more
cultures than most of us do. And there is
somejustification to admit a distinct deaf
culture, if one associates cultural boundaries
with language difference. Lenny’s
native language, like most deaf people, is
American Sign Language (ASL). ASL
has its own set of morphological and
syntactic rules that are independent of
English. Unlike most fashionable warnings
ofmulticultural bewilderment, Lenay
that watt,ere_.~apable ev~en to b~temptegt bythe~
eleeti0~.of~de.ssert’~, ~whidii~iuded
tea~g~L~tg.gq~.a-~attered~an~d~- ~i
cheesecake; ice. eream,~or banal_~.~:,/~
Several other noteworthy meniacategories
are on Fuji’s long menu, including
various teriyakied meats, nabemono dinners
- stews for two cooked tableside -
including sukiyaki, shabu-shabu, and
yosenabe (thekitchenrequests eighthours
advance notice for these fabulous specialties),
and various meats prepared in the
would be right if he wore a t-shirt marked
with the ASL signs for, "You wouldn’t
understand. It’s. a Deaf thing."
Lermy’s command of written English
grammar is spotty, but he is brilliant at
negotiating the boundaries between deaf
and hearing as wall as all the other boundaries
(Gay/Straight; male/female; black’
white) that most of the rest of us also
encounter daily. I first met Lenny several
years ago as he made the rounds of a
downtown Philadelphia dub with small
notebook and pencil stub in hand. His bartalk
took the form of short notes that he
rapidly scrawled in his own version of
English. (Lenny could scribble impressively
fast.) He then handed over the notebook
and pencil, and waited for a written
response. Last summer I ran into Lenny
again in a bar in New Hope, PA. He was
the only deaf person there but was having
a great time socializing with his hearing
friends and,perhaps, arranging some more
intimate date for that evening. It would be
a challenge for many of us, I imagine, to
scribble and make love at the same time.
Lenny’s cross-cultural skills in navigating
the deaf/hearing divide are much
better than mine. He took me along to a
club where Philadelphia’s deaf Gay community
meets every second week or so.
The room was crowded with people all
vigorously signing among themselves.
This was one of the oddest bar experiences
I ever have had. No noise. No talk.
No wild laughter or greetings yelled from
across the room. Just a rich, silent chore- -
ography of hand and ann gestures, a
hushed language of bodies and the quiet
motion- of faces." Unlike tae; the two or
three other hearing people there knew
ASL. One of them complained, though,
that hewas getting a headache trying to
make sense of the conversations around
him since most people were holding drinks
and were signing one-handedly. ’Although
in unfamiliar territory, I still knew enough
about Gay-American "bar culture" successfully
to order a drink ("read.my lips,
bartender, wwhiittte wwiirme") and otherwise
not make a fool out of myself.
As Americans living in the same society,
even when our "cultural" differences
are greatest (as between the Engh.sh-speaking
hearing and the ASL-sigmng deaf),
¯ we still have a 1.ot in common. In fact, the
various personal differences that we pur-
¯ sue, maintain, and today protect as cul-
¯ rural-like those asserted to exist between ¯
¯ Gay and Straight-only can be recognized and made sense of as parts of the larger,
¯ American cultural whole. Lenny is deaf,
¯ but he is also Gay. He is black, but he is
also African-American. Like all of us
¯ nowadays, Lenay is "multicnltural" (Gay
plus whatever else), but only in the singu-
~ larly American sense of this word.
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¯ Fuji also features several tradition.a!
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Toilets - Liberate thought them ¯
unglamorous, Edmund White finds them
seductive, and most of the straight men I,"
work with find them an inspirational device
(well, they say they go in there to °
think deep thoughts, and it
takes sooo long...). But the.
Do-It-Yourself Dyke, quite
prosaically, sees only an afternoon
project that isn’t as
daunting as people make it
out to be.
And no small wonder that
toilet repairs seem so mysterious
- anything a plumber
values so highly must be
awfully complex and arcane.
The DIYD merely replies
"Poop-ola!"Afriendofmine
said her toilet ran all the time
and that it was going to cost
$50.00 to have it repaired, so
she ought to just go ahead
and buy a new one. Well, for
about $7.00 and a half hour
of ti~ne and with some of
those tools you rushed out
and bought aftermy last colunto,
you can have a qmet,
efficient toilet. Now, that’s,
something to contemplate!
The plumbing section at
Homo Depot or Builder’s
Queer or any other hardware
store will have a universal
repair "kit that includes afloat
and a rubber stopper. Yes,
these are the mysterious
~vor’kihg parts of the toilet.
You may now be nonplused.
Don’t worn that the float
The plumbing
section at Homo
Depot or Bu~/der~
~eer or any other
hardware store will
have a universal
repair kit that
includes a float and
a rubber stopper.
Yes, these are the
mysterious working
parts d the toilet...
Dolt worry that
the float doesn’t
look llke the one in
your tank - you
know, the copper
rod with the little
~loaty thing
attached. That was~
quite honestly,
called the
"’ball cock", so if I
say your ball eoek
is dripping. ~o~’t
tahe it persona~|y.
doesn’t lool~like the onein your tank- you ~
know, the copper rod with the little floaty
dfing attached. That was, quite honestly, ~
called the "’ball cock", soif I say your ball ~
cock is dripping, don’t take it personally. ;
They are a thing of the past, at least as far
as plumbing is concerned. This should be
all that you need, but it dqes prompt me to
a standard warning - anytime you work
on your plumbing, you may need to make
extra trips for other parts you didn’t think
you’d need. That’s because pipe fittings
[to rust, and those nice little chrome water
cut-offvalves under the tank have a bitchy
way of just twisting off.when you try to
shnt them off. But that isn’t always the
case, so dick your heels together three
tittles and wish real hard.
The first step is to get your tools together.
You’ll need an adjustable crescent
wrench and a pair of channel lock pliers,
and it doesn’t hurt to have a pipe wrench
on hand, either.
If you don’t have these tools or the task
is too daunting already, find ahandy dyke,
buy her some beer and cook her something
fabulous and turn her loose. It’ll still
be cheaper than the plumber. Have some
paper towels or rags ready, because the
toilet will leak, sometimeand somewhere.
Next, turn off the water. Most of the time
there is that chrome shut off valve under
the tank and running into the wall, It
probably hasn’t been moved in years, so
expect some resistance (kind. of reminds
m~ ofan ex. : .); you might have to wrap
a rag around the handle and use your
channel locks - gently! - and turn the
handle counter-clockwise until it closes
completely. If it doesn’t turn or, more
likely, the handle twists off but the valve
.doesn’t move, grab your keys and head
for the hardware store - but we’ll address
that in a little while.
Assumang youhave successfully dosed
the valve, flush the toilet to drain the tank
and mop up the water remaining in the
bottom of the tank. This will also get those
nasty deposits out ofthe bottom
that can cause problems
later, so that’s aplus. Unclip
the little hose that empties
into that tube in the center of
the tank, remove the ball
cock (if you have one) or
float assembly, and then
comes the furl ~art: removing
the vertical water supply
line into your tank.. This is
attached to the float assembly.
You have to loosen a
threaded collar on the bottom
of the tank directly under
that vertical inlet tube.
Use your channel locks and
remember that you’re working
upside down and that it
will unscrew the opposite of
whatyou’dnormally expect.
Well, it’s still counterclockwise
to loosen, but only if
you’re on your head.
This is the time you’ll appreciate
whether or not your
toidy is in a tight spot or not.
The cussing is directly proportionate
to the amount of
workspace you have. Welcome
to Plumber’s World.
rake the collar off, remove
the veaical water supply tube
and mop up the water on the
floor. Replace it with thenew
float device and tighten the
collar over the bottom. It will have a new
rubber or plastic tube that you clip onto
the outlet pipe - pretty much opposile of
the removal. You may have to adjust that
"Tea cup" at the top of the float so you can
put the toilet hdback on, but that s sxmp 3
accomplished by twisting itup or down as
needed. You can also control the water
level this way, but don’t get too chintzy
with the water supply, or you’ll regret it.
Reattach the water supply, from the shutoff
up to the tank and you re ready for the
next step.
Now, remove the old rubber stopper
that’s attached to the handle. Take the "
¯ little chain loose and then remove the
¯¯ flapper - it usually is attached to the stem
of the outlet tube by a couple of little
¯ rubber or plastic ears and comes off eas-
¯ ily. The rubber on the flapper can be kind
¯ of slimy, so use a rag to hold it when ¯
you’re taking it off. Replace it with the
~ new flapper in the kit just the opposite of
¯ how youremovedit:Thelittlechainneeds
¯ abit of slack, but not toomuch or itwinds ¯
around the lever from the handle and the
¯ water will still run and annoy the hell out
: of you.
¯ There are pretty good instructions on
¯ the pac,~ka~e, complete with illustrations,
¯ ~6don t feel too confused. However, the
¯ first kit I used forgot to tell me about that ¯
locking collar on the bottom of ther tank,
¯
and. was I one frustrated.lezzie until I
: figured it out! If you’re still:uncomfort-
¯ able doing this job but are determined to
] learn, find someone patient enough to
¯ coach you while you do the work. It’s a
¯ great way to learn this stuff.
¯ If youhave troublewith the shutoffyou ¯
have two options - yell for help or replace
~ it yourself,
This is where the pipe wrench come in
handy. You have to be able to shut the
terms of health care issues,"says Kate.
Kendell, executive director of the National
Center for Lesbian Rights.
Advocates have made gains in recent
~akears in getting the _m__edical,co~_n~_un~ty, to
enotice. AtGayWomen s t~ocus, helping
women who have been afraid to see a
doctor or acknowledge their sexuality !s
the priority. Robert G. Newman, premdent
of the Greater Metropolitan Health
Systems Inc., who proposed the clinic in
1994, says Lesbians have had "spe~.ial
"difficulty accessing sensitive,compassionate
care."
A small sign reading "GWF"is theonly :
marker outside the office at Beth Israel
where Waitkevicz treats patients. ".We
don’t want to label people coming in if
that would be a barrier to getting
treatment,"says Waitkevicz, who was a
founding member of New York’s St.
Mark’s Clinic, one of the first community-
based clinics for Lesbians. "Wehave
to be non-judgmental,"she says.
Pat Troy and her partner began seeing
Wai~evicz more than 16 years ago, after
Troy s previous gynecologist molested
her. "I was afraid to go to a male doctor
after that,"she says.
Experts say such stories are common.
In addition, Lesbians may avoid doctors
for fear they will be denied insurance
coverage orbeforced to reveal their sexual
orientation at work. "For some women it
is still not completely safe to come out,"
says Marj Plumb, director ofpublicpolicy
for San Francisco’s Gay and Lesbian
- Medieval Association.
According to a 1994 survey of members
of the American Association of Physicians
for Human Rights, 67 percent of
doctors and medical students said they
knew of a Lesbian, Gay or bisexual patient
who had received substandard care
or been denied care because of sexual
orientation.
In the 1970s, independent Lesbian
health clii~,cs began popping up in cities.
But in the 80S, with the AIDS epidemic,
activists’ focus shifted to AIDS advocacy,
and interest in Lesbian health care
waned.
The bonds created in the fight against
AIDS have helped, however."One thing
the AIDS movement dirt was to expand
from the self-help experience to an interaction
with the health establishment;"
Plumb said. "We said we are going to
fightyouto treatus better,~learned the
language and held our own.
In addition to Beth Israel’s program,
other recent de,v_elopments are! .
- TheWomen s Health Initiative, a longterm
study by the National Institutes of
Health, will include-a question about
sexual orientation on its questionnaire.
The study of about 164,000 women is
aimed at determining the effects of. diet
andhormonereplacement therapy onheart
disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and
bone disease.
- The National Academy of Science’s
Institute of Medicine is preparing arep~,.rt
addressing theneedforresearchonLesmans’
he~l~, and will review methods for
studying the Lesbian population.
- The American Medical Association has
written policy.papers outlining the need
for physicians to pay attention to Lesbians’
health issues.
Such moves, says Waitkevicz, gives
"those of us who want to teach professionals
ontheimportance ofLesbianhealth
the encouragement weneed to keep doing
our jobs."
water off at the curb; the valve for your
main water supply is in the meter box by
the curb and the bar on top of the valve
needs to be turned 180 degrees to shut it
off. You can use a large wrench, but you
can buy a device called a water key that
makes it easier; it has a long hand, which
is nice if your meter box is full of questionablewater.
They only costabout $8.00
and are priceless when you really need
them, so consider investing in one.
After turning off the water, flush the
.oilet. If it fills back up, the main water
isn’ t off and you’ll have to try again. If the
rater is off, put some ra~s under the
valve, grasp the pipe going into the wall
with a pipe wrench and turn the collar of
the valve with a crescent wrench. If the
parts are rusted together, you can have a
real wrestling match. Once the valve is
off, remove the tube from the valve from
the bottom of the toilet with the crescent
wrench. Take everything tO the hardware
store,handit tO thehapless clerkinplumbing
and tell them you want ’q’his". Go
ahead and get a new water inlet hose -
you’ll be sorry later if you don’t. Also
pick up a roll of the Teflon tape they sell
in plumbing. Check out and cuss some
more, because this is costing more than
the replacement kit, but remember that
the plumber wouldbe charging you labor,
and that hurts.
Back at home, wrap a couple of turns of
Teflon tape clockwise around the threads
on the pipe sticking out of the wall. Use
your wrenches again to attach the shut-off
valve snuggly in place; wrap the threaded
end on the valve with Teflon tape and
attach the water i...nl,et hose. Rule of thumb
in plumbing - if it s threaded, us.e T.eflon,
tape on it. This helps give a good sea] ana
alsb makes it a lot easier if you have to
remove these parts again in the future.
Now you can proceed with your toilet
repairs as above.
Once everything is attached and snug,
turn your water back on and admire your
handiwork. Yonrll be flush with pride!
Before thedecision, activists onboth sides
agreedthatthepanel’s f’mding co.uld shape
how 9.5 million Protestants interpret
policy affecting Cmys and Lesbians.
Creech presented the first challenge to
: the denomination’s 1996 decision in.its
¯¯ Social Principles to prohibit"ceremomes
that celebrate homosexual unions." Ac:
¯
cording to church procedure, nine of 13
¯ panelists had to agree to sanction Creech.
¯ One vote short, the close decisionintensi-
¯ fied debate.
¯
"Eight jurors, a majority, thought in
this ease that conducting a homosexual
¯
¯ ceremony was wrong, andwe agree that it
is sinful," said the Rev. Bob Kniper of
¯ Bakersfield, Calif. But, he also added: "I
¯ just hope this kind of decision will at least
¯ keep us away from witch hunts to find
¯
those who have conducted these ceremo-
¯ nies." Kniper is a spokesman for Trans-
" forming Congregations, a group of
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tifyhomosexuality as anillness thatneeds
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¯" They are opposed by Reconciling Con-
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" isis to encourage churches to welcome
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Some 140 of the denomination’s 37,000
congregations throughout the world have
adopted the program, but not Creech’s
church. Mark Bowman, executive director
of Reconciling Congregations, called
the decision "some measure of welcome
from the church" and reassuring to homosexual
members "that not all of the
church’s doors are dosed to them."
The panel of Nebraska ministers, four
women and nine men, denied that the
finding served as a positive signal about
homosexuality. "Just because this jury
~ church, does not believe that Gay rites
¯ will become policy anytime soon. The
", Methodists’ General Conference; alegis-
¯ lative body that can change policy, does .:
¯ notmeet againunti12000. Two years ago,:i~:
voting 577-378, these Methodist clergy’
: and lay members endorsed church policy
¯ that declared homosexuality incompat- ¯
ible with Christian teaching.
¯ Not all Gay Methodists think same-sex..~
¯ unions are worth fighting for, Lawrence :/.
¯. said. As he noted, other issues of hate
crimes and job discrimination may be
." more important.
... During Creech’s two-day inquiry in
vo.t~d this way doesn’t mean the next one
Keamey, even those presenting the
church’s case exp.ressed overtones ofsupwill:’
one panelist, the Rev. M. Maniek :., port.!n an. 0Pemng.smtem_ent, the Re.v.
Samuelofl(,linden~toldth~Om~h~aW,tbtl~l
Herald. " lated current church policy-even though
The decision, he added, is no authorization
for more Methodist ministers to perform
same-sex ceremonies. During the
inquiry, Creech said he wouldcontinue to
officiate at unity ceremonies, if asked.
Butdespite whathe called"activetalk;’
the Rev. Bill Lawrence, a professor at
Duke University studying the Methodist
Stonewall 25 organizers pleaded that no
national action take place before 1994..A
call for indnsion of youth in the orgamz2
ing was made and a request tobe aware of
the dates of the many women’s music
festivals was voiced. Native American
gays andlesbians explainedthat they could
not participate in the fall of 1992 - the
500thauniversary ofthe survival ofindigenous
cultures. And that is a very small
sample.
In 1998, all that expression and creativity
has been silenced in one meeting between
Perry, Birch, andTyler. They want
to control the timing, message, andmoney
associated with the Millennium March.
They may achieve that. Butin the process,
they’ll lose the movement. Arrogance is
not the word. Only sheer contempt for
democracy can describe their organizing
style.
Several national leaders authored letters
distributed at the !991 meetings explaining
why a march before 1994 was
misguided. Where are their voices now?
Some of the very same people have privately
expressed their concerns about the
Millennium March, but won’t do so publidy.
Why?They’re afraid that in the year
2000, they’ll be on the outside looking .in..
- There shouldn’t be an outside. Orgamzpolicy
may someday accept Gay unions.
Support for Creech came from a retired
bishop, who admitted that the church may
need to reconsider its policy regarding
homosexuals. "As I get older," observed
the Rev. Kenneth Hicks of Little Rock,
Ark., "it.burdens me to know that maybe
the church needs to make a change."
ing a national civil rights event without a
grassroots "call" is exclusive no matter
how much multicultural rhetoric they try
to pour over it.
But its worse than that. Birch is smart
enough toknow that Barney Frank is right
when he says that big marches do nothing
politically for the community. All that
stuff about the political benefits of being
in Washington before the dection is a lie.
Birch wants her Millennium March so she
can get her 1,000,000 members and the
associated loot. Grassroots democracy
mightproduce 50 state marches. Bigbummer
for Birch.
In a recent Out magazine article, Birch
responds to her critics by saying, "Imagine
what you would have done if three
years ago you woke up and found that
someone had handed you the movement.
.. I’ll bet that you would have made most
of the decisions I made."It’ s time to wake
up again. It’ s not your movement~.We can
help. :
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and was one offour national cochair"
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Inhofe Still Blocking Gay
Ambassadorial Nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate faces a decision
soon on whether America will have its first openly Gay
ambassador. Supporters of James Hormel are demanding
he at least get a vote while conservative opponents
insist that Republicans take a stand on a key "lifestyle"
Issue.
Hormel, President Clinton’s choice ~to be envoy to
Luxembourg, was the only foreign ~elations nominee
not acted upon at the end of last year’s session. Three
Republican senators, expressing concern that he would
use the post to promote a "Gay agenda", put "holds" on
the nomination, effectively freezing it.
Democrats now-are demanding action. Before leaving
for the Easter recess, 42 Democrats sent Senate
Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., a lett~r supporting
the nomination and urging a vote. Democrats also took
: -Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, ,Our Families + Friends
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i
Tulsa’s Gay You!h Progra,ms
Hurt by States Inact,on
: O’RYAN Program in Limbo Dueto Funding Lapse
¯ TULSA - Red Rock Behavioral Health Center is in a financial
: crisis with its Lesbian/Gay youth support program. The program
¯ which goes by the acronym, O’RYAN for Oklahoma Rainbow
¯ Young Adults’ Network, provides."developmentally appropri-
¯ ate" education, support and social activities for "Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgendered andquestioning" adolescents and young
: adults from 14 to 24.
~ According to Betsy Murphy, program director, a large portion
:’ of the program had been funded through a federal grant for HIV
¯ prevention and education from the CDC, Centers for Disease
¯ Control. However, the grants are administered through the Okla-
¯. homa State Dept. of Health (OSDH) which is running weeks
behind schedule in seeking grant proposals. While Murphy was
¯ extremely reluctant to criticize OSDH, she acknowledged that in
¯ the past OSDH has handled grants so that a new year’s grant if
¯ won, began close to the time the prior year’s grant ended. And ¯
although Red Rock pays for a substantial part of the costs of the
¯" O’RYAN program, theOSDHgrants typically have paid most of
¯ staff salaries. As ofApril 1 st, nomore funds are coming fromthe
CDC/OSDH and Murphy is appealing to theTulsa community to
¯ provide financial aid. "
,,
¯ In a press release, Red Rock states, while in the past, we have
: been able to weather out these funding cycles, the situation now
¯ is dire and without outside help, we cannot continue.. "
¯ Red Rock notes that the program has helped hundreds of youth
: in Tulsa County and surrounding areas. O’RYAN. provides
: weekly support groups, individual and family counseling, HIV
¯ peer education and HIV testing and counseling, a informational
¯ library, and safe, alcohol-free and drug-free recreational and
social events. O’RYANhelps to providepositiverole models and
to the Senate floor to express concern that confirmation : helps to foster a sense of self-esteem and worth.
w,.aso..em..gn.e.ta.up.o.m.y.tw..,cau¯ se’t"iIorm,e,l"-,isVOay "r~rej"u.."... D.on.au.on.s c.an.be7m.a.de.t.o O..RYAN, c/oRedRockBeha ]oral :" : =
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thi~ debate" , ~aa .-lrl~rmal ~Oa ~ ¯ more nuprmg~0n, can ~etsyor ~en
Oklahoma Gay : ROdeo: ..........P[a-nning for Tulsa-Pride
Group Holds 13the.Event : March. &. Picnic Under Way
Red Ribbon Revue.& Concessions Carwash Slated
TTULSA - Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, in conjunction
with several co~umuaity businesses is preparing for this
June’s Pride Events. On June 6th, Concessions will be again
holding another Drag Queen Car Wash from 11-4 in the back
parking lot of the dub, 3340 S. Peoria. Organi,zers promise the
event will happen come rain or shine, and last year’s car wash did
have a little rain.
This year’s event will benefit TOHR and Tulsa’s Gay Pride
Picnic. Organizers say yon will see all your favorite Broo"kside
Divas and some of Oklahoma’s top title holders wash cars for
charity in full drag and there may also be a man or two in a string
bi"kini helping out. Donations will be collected for these charities
through out that weekend- notjust at the ear wash. Tickled Pink
will have ffome Pride items available for sale also. Organizers
added that last year they raised $1000 and that this year they hope
to double or triple that amount.
Later on that Saturday, Renegades/Rainbow Room will be
holding their annual Red Ribbon Revue which will also benefit
this year’s Pride events. Helga will host this event and call
Renegades at 585-3405 for details and times.
This year’s Pride events have moved again due to concerns
from the City ofTulsa’s Parkand Recreation Dept. about parking
problems at Owen Park~ This year’s site is Veteran Park between
18th & 21st Streets at Boulder. Rick Martin, Pride Events
coordinator noted that this park is larger than Owen and though
it doesn’t have much parking itself, it is surrounded by business
parking lots which should be available on a Saturday.
While a few community members, such as those in sensitive
professions, like public school teachers, have expressed concerns
about the more visible location, many others have welcomed the
new site - especially the owners of Renegades/Rainbow Room
which is 2 blocks north of the park. Details are not yet available
: but organizers indicate that Renegades will host a post picnic
¯ event. TOHR co-organizer Greg Gatewood said that plans are
¯ underway for the 2rid annual Pride March to be held just before ¯
and to the picnic but that details will be forthcoming. Organizers
¯
note that community organizations and businesses are Welcome
¯ to have booths at the Picnic for a modest fee.
: Later in June, probably June 28th, Oklahoma City will ho~t the
¯
statewide Pride parade. More details should be available in early
¯
June on those events. Info. on Pride events, call 743~4297.
OKLAHOMACITY - OKC will host the annual Great "
Plains Regional Rodeo on Memorial Day Weekend, ."
May 22 -24. While the rodeo will take place in the newly ¯
remodeled and air-conditioned Barn Six of the Okla- "
homa State Fairgrounds in southwest Oklahoma City, ¯
registration, parties and the awards ceremony will be’at ¯
the Ramada Inn Airport Northwest. :
The Great Plains Regional Rodeo is One of a number :
of continent wide rodeos sponsored by 23 member
associations of the International Gay Rodeo Associa- ¯
tion. While many of these organizations are in the "
southwest, there are also groups in California, Wash- "
ington, DC and in Canada.
The Oklahoma Gay Rodeo Association (OGRA) was ¯
formed in 1984 to promote rodeo-ing and to raise funds
to fight HIV and AIDS. Since 1986, OGRAhas contrib- "
uted over $60,000 to Oklahoma AIDS organizations.
OGRA invites all who are interested to join the "
organization -neither riding nor competing are re- "
quired. Tickets f0r this year’s rodeo are $30 for the "
packet which includes both days rodeo events, the ¯
Friday evening party and the awards ceremony. Tickets "
to individual~events are available at the door. Room "
rates at the Ramada are $55 for up to four persons, and "
suites are $95/evening. Call 405-~47-2351 for reservations;
"
OtherDivisi0n III rodeos are: Omaha, NE, June 19- "
21; Wichita, KS, AUgust %9;. and Kansas City, MO, ¯
August 29-31, The Internatii~nal:iGay !~odeo..Association
Finals Rodeo .will beheld ~inPho~i~x-, ~AZ0n "
October 22-25. ¯ ’ "
For more informati.on; cal~405z842-08~9! "
DIRECTORY~E~ERS P..~
US & WORLD NEWS P..4
HEALTH NEWS "- P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P: 8 COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 -
BOOK REVIEW P~ 10
RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 11
GAY STUDIES + DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 12
CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14~5
i Oklahoma House
Attacks Gays Again
¯ TULSA, Okla. (AP)-Oneoftheresolutions adopted
in 1997 by the Democratic Party State Conventiofi
¯ says the party "opposes, deplores and disavows
¯ discrimination, extremism and hatred of every ¯
kind."
But state Democratic lawmakers raised no argu-
: ment recently when a bill to bar convicts from
¯ working in schools was amended to also bar "ho-
¯ mosexuals or lesbians": Nor did they say anything ¯ when legislation was amended to bar children
¯ being placed in the foster care of"someone who is
¯ a homosexual or a lesbian." ¯
Both amendments were offered by Republican
¯ lawmakers who are vocal about their opposition to
¯ homosexuality. But it was Oklahoma Democratic
¯ Party ExecutiveDirector PatHall who was taken to
task for the inaction of Democratic lawmakers, a
¯ story in Sunday’s Tulsa World said.
¯ In aletter toHall,TomNeal, editor and publisher
of Tulsa Family News, said it may be the Republi-
¯ cans who publicly bash Gays, but it is the Democrats
who are passing the legislation.
¯ "I genuinely believe that these nearly unanimous
votes help create a climate where physical assaults
¯ are considered perfectly acceptable," said Neal,
¯ citing Gay-bashing crimes, including an assault on
¯ two men in Tulsa. "Why is it, Pat, that Democrats ¯
only recognize my.community’s existence when
¯ they’re voting to compare us to convicted felons
¯ who should notbe allowed to teach, but when we’re
¯ being assaulted.., we don’t exist," Neal asked.
Hall tried to defend House Democrats and their
¯ failure to debate the amendments.’ If) ou debate it,
¯ it gives thos~ preaching hate a bully pulpit," he
~ ’ said. "If youjustmove it through with a voice vote,
¯ then you have eliminated, see House, page 3
Equality Begins at Home
:1999 March= on The
Oklahoma State Capitol
¯ April 29, 1997 - The Federation of Statewide
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and April 29, 1997 - The
; Federatiola of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
¯ and Transgender Political Organizations will spon-
: sor a historic, coordinated weekofactions focussed
: on state government and statewide organizang.
," After many national and statewide discussions and
¯ after conducting a state-by-state assessment from
¯
its members, the Federation of Statewide Lesbian,
¯ Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Orgam-
¯ zations has decidedit is time to focus energy on our
¯ home states. Under the theme Equality Begins at
¯
Home, each state is called upon toplan an activity
¯ - amarch, rally,lobby day, state conference, or any
other visibility campaign m their state capitol to
: occur during the week of March 21-27, 1999.
¯ Equality Begins at Home will provide an opportunity
to focus the national spotlighton the organiz-
: ing challenges and legislative battles faced by the
¯ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender people in
¯ state houses across the nation. The goal is to build
¯ statewide orgamzing capability across the nation.
: The purpose of the Equality Begins at Home ac-
¯ tions will be to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
¯ and transgender equal rights in every state.
: "The Equality Begins at Home actions enable us
¯ to focus our energy on orgamzing and educating at
¯ the state level. Clearly, more and more battles are
¯ fought in the states. With anti-Gay initiatives and
: referendums from Colorado to Maine, and the right
¯ wing organizing against our families; we must
¯ build,,a stronger grassroots movement in every state, explained Paula Ettelbrick, Co-Chair of the
: FederationandLegislativeDirectorofNew York’s
¯ Empire State Pride Agenda. ¯
"The Equality Begins at Home actions give us a
tremendous opportunity to strengthen our efforts in
: the states and create a more powerful network
¯ across our country," stated Dianne Hardy-Garcia,
co-chair of the Federation see March, page 15
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*Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffe~ House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
*Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
832-1269
592-2143
744-0896
599-9512
583-6666
749-4511
585-3134
599-7777
749-1563
*The Palate Cafe & Catering, 3324G E. 31st 745-9899 :
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*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, 21.14 S. Memorial
660-0856 ¯
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd
584-1308 ¯
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599-9999 ¯
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747-1508
*Affinity News, 8120 E. 21
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743-1000
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712-1122 ¯
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712-9955 "
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743-5272 :
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746-0313 :
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622-3636 ¯
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665-6595
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838-8503 "
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th
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744-~595 ¯
*Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E: 21st
742-1460 ¯
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*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111 ¯
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341-6866 "
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712-2750 "
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582-3018
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747-0236 ¯
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599-8070
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585-1555 ¯
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747-6"]11
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747-7672
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583-1090
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838-7626
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747-5932
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834-0617
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582-7748
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749-6301
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481-0201
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697-0017
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743-7687
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742-2007
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481-0558
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743-1733
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592-0767
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Carbon Copy:
Gay people should be
included, in Scouts
Letter to the Editor
Petaluma (California) Argus-Couri’er
I am 12 years old and a Life Rank Boy
Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. I like
Scouting alot. Iamwriting to youbecause
I wantpeople toknow that the Boy Scouts
of America is a great program but it excludes
Gay people. The Boy Scouts won’t
allow Gay.kids or grown-ups in Scouting,
The Boy Scouts of America discriminates
agaihst Gay people. Every time the
Scout Law is read at our troop meetings,
I don’t even say it because the Scout Law
is not followed by the Boy Scouts of
America when they discriminate against
Gay people.
¯ The Scout Law says a Scout is true to
his friends.., nation.., world commu.-
nity. This is not true when not everyone ~s
included in that community, when Gays
are excluded.
. The ScoutLaw says a Scout should be,
hdpful. A Scout should be concemeo
about other people. This is not true for the
Boy Scouts ofAmerica whenit bans Gays
or expels them when they are found out.
. The Scout Law says a Scout should be
friendly to all: He seeks to understand
others. He respects those with different
ideas and customs. This is not true w_hen
the Boy Scouts ofAmericaban Gays from
scouting.
The Scout Law says.a Scout should be
kind. He should treat others as he would
want to be treated. I don’t know anyone
who wants to be discriminated against the
way the BoyScouts ofAmerica discriminateagainst,
Gays- My dad and I-were ¯
told we can t e~en bring this issue up at
ourmeeting with other Scouts in our troop.
I hope to change this one bad things
about the Boy Scouts of America. I hope
all of you who read this letter to the editor
will also want to help me in my efforts by
calling Scouting For All at (707) 778-
0564.
Gaykids shouldbe allowed to be Scouts.
And I know kids who have Gay dads
would want their dads to be able to be an
assistant Scoutmaster like my Dad.
- Steven Cozza, Life Rank Boy Scout
Appreciates Coverage
I wanted to say thank youfor the stones
Tulsa Family News does about different
commumty organizations. Many times I
don’t agree with your editorials but I do
like.that I get more Tulsa information
from Tulsa Family News than from other
Gay community newspapers.
Also please continue to look hard at
those who are revolved in HIV/AIDS
services. Some are doing a great job.
Others need more oversight to make sure
they treateveryone as good as they should.
Iknow youhaye received a 1ot of criticism
for this but please conunue. Thank you
but please don’t print my name - I don’t
want the grief I’d get.
- name withheld by request. Jenk~
Editor’s note: thank you for your kind
words - we’ll do the best we can.
¯ Letters Policy
Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on
¯ issues which we’ve covered or on issues
". you thinkneed to be considered. Youmay
¯ request that your name be withheld but
¯ letters mustbe signed &have ph°ne num-
~ bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let-
" ters are preferred. Letters to other publi-
: cations will be printed as is appropriate.
¯ Do Tulsa Jews Hate Gays?
First they came for the Gays and ! didn’t
speak up because I was not Gay... finally
they came for the Jews, and by that time
there was no-one left to say anything at all
- aparaphrase ofGerman pastor Martin Niemoeller
who referred to the systematic persecution ofJews,
other Germans, including Gay men,
and non-Germans, by the Nazis.
Now that we are just a few weeks past Passover, the
ancient celebration of the liberation of Jerks from Egyp-
¯ dan slavery,-and right after Holocaust remembrance
ceremonies, perhaps it’s equally just to comment on the
ongoing silence of Tulsa’s Jewish leaders about recent
Oklahoma House of Representatives legislative attacks
on Gay & Lesbian Oklahoma citizens (see related story;
page one).
Ofcourse, to those who follow these issues, this silence
is nothing new. Last year when the legislature attacked
s,Tulsa s Jewlshleadership was silent too. And the year
before that. And back to those nasty, hate-filled public
hearings about the City’s Human Rights COmmission’s
Task Force report, Tulsa’s Jewish leaders were silent.
Yolanda Chamey, formerly community relations specialist
with the Jewish Federation, claimed that the Jewish
Federation did send aletter to Mayor Savage supporting
fair and equal treatment fo!~ Gay & Lesbian citizens
but no one ever saw this letter, or wouldeven haveknown
about it if not for this newspaper asking. And while such
a position could have set a standard for the greater
community had it been known, the secretive manner in
which the letter was sent guaranteed that no one would
know about it.
Some will ask why pick on the Jew~.~Why not ask why
other groups which should speak out for social justice
remain silent? It is a fair question. Indeed, the silence of
the Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Disciples ofChrist,
even the Roman Catholics - most ofwhom haye 0fficial
denominational policies which call them toworkfor civil
rights protections for Lesbians and Gaymen (not just
oppose attacks) - is troubling. And of course, Tulsa
Metropolitan Ministry which hardly has met a social
justice issue it couldn’t embrace, seems to continue to
find Gay people not worthy of justice or even minimal
civil rights protections.
Even the voice of the courageous Rev. Russell Bennett
of the most Gay-friendly "main-line" Christian denomination
inTulsa, the UnitedChurch ofChrisL has not been
heard publicly on this matter as ofourpress time¯ To their
no place in the Senate andno#ace in America," said Sen.
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
Hormel, a (>-year-old San Francisco businessman,
philanthropist, Democratic Party contributor and heir to
theHormel Meat Co. fortune, receivedunanimous Senate
confirmation last May for another post, as an alternate to
the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly¯
He sailed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
winning approval on a 16-2 vote last November,
after Secretary of State Madele’meAlbrightassured Chair-.
man Jesse Helms~R-N.C., that Hormel was highly qualified
and would not promote his personal interests. Helms
voted against Hormel but let the nomination advance to
the Senate floor¯
In a letter to Sea. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., a committee
member, in February, Hormel said: "I will not use, nor do
I think it is appropriate to use, the office of the ambassador
to advocate any personal views I may hold." He
pledged to resign from mostofhis board seats, limit his
charitable giving and prohibit use of his name in fund
raising.
But that has not satisfied Republican Sens. Tim
Hutchinson of Arkansas, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and
Bob Smith of New Hampshire, who put holds on the
nomination. Conservative groups also continue to oppose
Hormel as a "radical Gay activist".
Gary Bauer’s Family Research Council cited Hormel’s
financial support for a documentary aimed at educators
that the group said promotes "Gay lifestyles"¯ It also
pointed to a Gay and Lesbian materials wing in the San
" crediL some Tulsa Unitarians and the Episcopal Diocese
¯" ofOklahoma, and I hope, Bennett, are doing workbehind
." the scenes to protest these hate-based actions.
¯ However, it is the Jews with whom Gay people share
~ the experience of systematic Nazi persecution. Gay men,
¯
like Jews, were targeted by Nazi legislation which essen-
¯ tially made their existence illegal and which set the stage
: for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. And while
the persecution of Gay men may not havebeen part of a
: .systematic genocidal theory, the.experience of the camps
¯ m which Gay men typically suffered some of the worst
." conditions and were most despised of all the prisoners,
¯ leftthemjustas dead. AndwhilethoseJews who survived
¯ can speak of "liberation" from the camps, and even
-" received reparations with which to beginlife again, those
; Gay menwhodidsurvivewereimmediatelyreincarcerated
¯ as "criminals" - for the crime of loving - by the Allies.
¯ Soitis this sharedhistory as well as the observation that
: in the US, Jews have traditionally heldleadership roles in
¯ social justice movements, that makes this silence so
paiufU~. Jewish Americans were active in the civil rights
movement of the 50’ s and 60’s which sought to end legal
segregation. This was true in Tulsa as it was elsewhere.
It’s not that Tulsa’s Jewish community has not been
¯ asked to help¯ The day after the first piece of hate
-" legislation was passed (the amendment of Senate bill
; #1394 by Rep. Bill Graves, R-OKC), Rabbi Charles
¯ Sherman of Temple Israel who is also president of the
¯ National Couferenee of Community and Justice (for-
." merly of Christians and Jews), and David Bernsiein,
". executive director of the Jewish Federation were tele-
¯ phoned to ask for their help. To date, nearly four weeks
-" and several follow-up calls later, neither has responded.
." What does this mean? Are they scared? Is it that
; speaking up for Gay people would somehow threaten the
¯ security of Tulsa Jews? This is hard to believe. Tulsa’s
: Jewish community, though Small in numbers, has largely
been rather successful and now is represented on nearly
¯ everymajorinfluential community organi7ationfrom the
¯ Chamber of Commerce to TU’s Board ofTrnstees to the
: National Conference.
: Whetherit isjustplain old-fas_hionedbigotry, ormerely
: ¯ the catering to other’s pi’ejudice, it’s coming from those
¯ who ought to know better. Hebrew Scriptures, whichJew
: and Christian each revere, exhort us "to seek justice" -
; not "to seek justice - except for those socially inconve-
¯ nient Gay people over there". Hopefully, Tulsa’s Gay
¯ community will see Tulsa’s Jewish community take this
: exhortation more seriously someday, and the next time
; thelaws of the land are used to attack Gay citizens, there
¯ will be as much outcry as there was when a cross of
: Christmas lights was placed, wrongfully, on a public
: building. - Tom Neal, editor &publisher
:. Francisco public library supported by and named for
¯¯ Hormel that contains controversialliterature. Further, the
council said, Hormel presided over a 1996 Gay pride
¯ parade in San Francisco at which he was heard laughing
¯ at n/ale drag queens dressed as nuns. Bauer said Luxem-
¯ bourg is 97 percent Roman Catholic, and"appointmg an
; ambassador who shows no~hing but contempt for certain
¯ groups of believers should offend every American who ¯
believes in the Constitution."
¯ Hormd said he had no role in deciding the contents of
¯ either thelibrary collectio,n or the documentary. "I hardly
view myselfas a’radical. I amabusinessman and lawyer
¯
withmore than30years ofcommitment to public service,
¯ social justice and human rights," he wrote Smith.
¯ InconsideringHormel’s n0mination,Republicansmust
deal both with general gripes by socialconservatives that
-" they haven’t done enough to advance pro-family pro-
_" grams, and conversely with concerns about being de-
¯. picted as hostile to Gays.
"I don’t see how the Republican Party wants to be
¯ known as the party that discriminates on the basis of
¯ sexual orientation," said Winnie Stachelberg of the Hu-
¯ man Rights Campaign, a leading Gay political organiza- ¯
tion. Hormd is on the board of the Human Rights Cam-
" paign Foundation, the group’s educational arm.
¯ "’It’s not his sexual orientation," countered Herb
Johnson, chief of staff to Inhofe, one of Hormel’s leading
¯
Senate opponents..’q’he biggest problem is he has been
¯ inclined to use this to push an agenda that doesn’t neces-
.. sarily represent the agenda of the American people."
¯ a hate pulpit." Hall said Democratic leaders in the House
of Representatives don’t want "to let hate spill out on the
¯
floor of the House." Hall also said House Speaker Loyd
Benson deserves credit for "literally making sure Oklahomais
not shown nationally as a state of hate mongers.’"
¯
Both of the bills in question were sent on to conference
¯ committees for more work.
"I think the bottom line is you need to look at the final
¯
vote on those measures and look at the final versions of
the bill. I think that will speak for itself," said Benson, DFrederick.
¯
Rep. Bill Graves, R-Oklahoma City, author of the
¯ measure to prohibit"knoWn homosexuals and Lesbians"
¯ from working as contract or support employees in public
schools, acknowledged that similaramendments onother
¯
bills have failed to survive conference committees.
¯ Whether the amendments are quietly removed in con-
-¯ ference is beside the point for Ncal, who maintains that
the failure to oppose such measures loudly creates bigger
¯
problems for the Gay community.
Hall admitted that another reason the amendments
¯ were passed without protest is that this year is an election
¯ year. Those who openly oppose such measures could be
¯ branded by their political opponents as promoting homo-
" sexuality.
In fact, in 1996 Sen. Penny Williams, D-Tulsa, was
¯
criticized by her Republican opponent for voting against
¯ an amendmentbamng same-sex marriages in Oklahoma.
Ms. Williams, who won re-election, was one of only two
state senators who voted against that amendment.
¯
Republican lawmakers aren’t always behind such con-
" troversies. In 1995, Democratic state representatives
wrote resolutions opposing teaching about homosexuality
in public schools even though no public schools in the
¯
state taught such subjects.
The president of the Oklahoma Education Association
said the resolutions were b~ed on a "blatantly misconstrued"
measure passed by the National Education Asso-
¯ ciadon that dealt With training programs for education
¯ employees."for~the purposerf identifying and eliminat-
¯ ing sexual orientation stereotyping in the education s~tting.’"
Hall said the finai resolution byRep. Jim Hamilton,
D-Poteau, was rewritten so that it was not offensive to
¯ Gay people.
¯ Editor’snote: there was considerable disagreement in
¯ OMahoma’s Gay communities about whether the final
¯ resolution was in any way "acceptable" as Hall claims.
International AIDS
Candlelight Memorial
and Mobilization
SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1998
4:00 P.M.
LaFortune Park
Southeast Shelter
61st & Yale
PICNlC SLIPPER FOLLOWING THE SERVICE
~}R MORlg INI~3RMATION
INTERFAITH AIDS MIN~TRIES
438-2457
Gay Couples Provide
College Leadership
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The names Harvard
and Yale by themselves evoke decades of tradition
and conformity. Now these Ivy League bastions are
breaking new ground for universities, as homosexual
couples provide new models of domestic life for
undergraduates as dormitory leaders. And so far, the
ground-brealdng appointments have created little
commotion.
This July,.a Lesbian couple will assume duties as
housemasters at Harvard’s Lowdl House, asix-story
brickbuilding with a grassy quadrangle anda bell
tower close to the fabled Harvard Yard. A Gay man
appointed dormitory dean is moving with his partner
into Yale’s Trumbull College, a Gothic structure of
seam-faced granite with limestone trim and arching
windows enclosing three courtyards.
"I think it’s a great new erain being able to provide
role models that have not been available at this level
before," said Peter Novak, 32, the Yale.appointee.
"We’ve been welcomed, and it says a lot about the
Yale community and how tolerant it is, especially
within the administration."
.. At Haryard, professor Diana Eck, 52, realizes that
she and her partner of 20 years may raise some
eyebrows. "We know what it’s like in the culture
generally: There are many people who are still very
uncomfortable with this issue, so I’m sure that will be
the case here," said Ms. Eck, a professor of comparafive
religion and Indian studies at Harvard.
The dormitories are not forsaking their traditions,
however. The housemaster’at Lowell House, for
example, has been host of a weekly afternoon tea
since 1930, a custom Ms. Eck plans*’to continue.
Novak~ who is-pursuing a master of fine arts in
dramaturgy anddramatic criticism at theYale School
of Drama, says he will h,e,!p students with aead.emics
and personal problems. This will allow me to be an
influence in people’s lives)’ Novak said. His partner
¯
first leading homosexual character, butGays will still
¯ be seen elsewhere on American television.
: One year ago this month, "Ellen" made television
¯¯ history as the first series with a homosexual lead
character. It drew both praise and fire for its
¯ groundbreaking portrayal of a woman coming to
: terms with being Lesbian. What it didn’t draw was
¯ ratings on a consistent basis. After months of specu- ¯
lation, ABC confirmed late Thursday that Ellen
¯ DeGeneres’ last show would be a one-hour finale
: May 13.
¯ Both ABC and DeGeneres declined to comment ¯
recently. The conservative Southern Baptists Con-
" vention praised the decision, while Gay rights groups
¯. said theloss of amajor Gay character andperspective
: on television is a serious blow.
¯ The sitcom, which has been airing Wednesday
¯ : nights after thehigher-rated’qqae Drew Carey Show,"
¯ made its debut in 1994 with DeGeneres playing a ¯
¯ singleheterosexual with a,,Friends~’_like close group of pals. After the comedian and her character, Ellen
¯ Morgan, both came out as Lesbians last season,
¯ DeGeneres and the network fought over the show’s ¯
content, including story lines that concentrated on
: sexual orientation.
¯ More than 36 million people watched the April30,
: 1997, episode when Ellen came out. This year, the
: series averaged fewer than 11 million viewers - a 22
" percent drop over the previous year.
i Kansas "Sodomy"
: .- Law Upheld
: TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)-A state law that makes homo-
: sexual sex a crime has been upheld as constitutional.
: A three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals
¯ refnsed Friday to overturn the muuicipal court misde-
¯ mean0r conviction of Max D. Movsovitz, a Topeka ¯
artist. Movsovitzwas arrestedinTopeka’s Gage Park
: in April 1995 after soliciting sex from an undercover
¯ police officer.
of four years, Curtis Lee, a store manager, will not x~.....it? rh.]]~noed the constitutionality of a
lntramura.l., sports ana being a part oI StiMd~HL/S "11.v¢~, :. arguing theY, v~ol"a.ted." h.is.rights, to p’nvacy;, e~.ual
- Novak sat& - ¯ treatment under the law and freedom of expression.
: He and the American Civil Liberties Union claimed
the law unfairly discriminates against homosexuals.
¯ The Court of Appeals panel, in a unanimous un-
In a Yale dorm, the dean and.the master act as
surrogate parents in the lix,esof the 440 students who
live there. Master Janet Henrich, amedical professor,
has lived in the durra for ayear with her husband,
Victor, a physics professor.
At Harvard, Ms. Eek and Dorothy Austin will
become housemasters overseeing daily life for 450
students. Ms. Austin will split her time between
Harvard and Drew University in New Jersey, where
she is an associate professor of psychology and religion.
"We knew that it would be an issue for the first
time to have a same-sex couple as masters," Ms. Eck
said. "I don’t know if we would have been appointed
10 years ago."
Administrators say sexual Orientation made no
difference in the appointments, which:were decided
by student-faculty committees. Dean of Harvard
College Harry Lewis saidmany peoplehad suggested
Ms. Eck for the position notknowing what her sexual
orientation was. "Our first criterion in looking at
people was the quality of the individual master and
what they would bring to the house," he said.
At Yale, Novak will succeed dean William di
Canzio, who lived alone in the dorm for eight years
and is leaving for California.. Ms. Eck and Ms. Austin
will replace professor William H. Bossert and his
wife, Mary Lee, who are retiring after 23 years.
Harvard students seemed to see the appointment as
little cause for concern. "People are more interested
in who she is, and what her dedication to the house is,
than her personal life, which isn’t our concern," said
Lisa Mignone, a senior from Bronxville, N.Y.
The same goes for many at Yale. "It’s really not a
big deal," said Tya Harris, a sophomore from Nashrifle,
Tenn. "There are a lot ofpe0ple who are openly
Gay on this campus."
Ellen Gone But
Gays Still on TV
LOS ANGELES (AP) L The cancellation of ABC’s
"Ellen" will leave prime-time television without its
: signed opinion, rejected all of the arguments.
¯ Movsovitz can appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court.
"As societal values evolve, the Legislature may fol-
¯ low some other state legislatures and decriminalize
: private sexual behaviorbetweenall consenting adults,"
¯ the court satd. Ho ever, these are issues that should
¯ be addressed by legislatures and not courts."
According to court records, two men approached
.. Movsovitz while he was parked in Gage Park, the
¯ city’s largest park and home of the Topeka Zoo.
~ During a conversation, Movsovitz agreed to engage
." in oral sex. The two men were undercover police
¯ officers.
: Canada Recognizes
i Same-Sex Spouses
TORONTO (AP) - Ontario’s highest court has ruled
¯ thatthe Canadian government’s definition of"spouse"
¯ is unconstitutional because it excludes same-sexpart- ¯
¯ ners.. A three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of
Appeal ruledthat the definitionof"spouse" shouldbe
¯ amended in the federal Income Tax Act to recognize
¯ same-sex couples as well as opposite-sex couples. ¯
¯ The ruling came in a case involving pension benefits
and technically applies only to the Income Tax Act.
: But Gay activists said it could set a precedent that
¯ would affect similar sections of other federal acts. ¯
"It opens the door for same-sex pension benefits,
¯ certainly, but it’s also a very significant statement by
¯ the courts thatdiscriminating against same-sexcouples
is not only immoral, it’s unconstitutional," said John
¯
Fisher, executive director of Equality Ior Gays and
¯ Lesbians Everywhere.
: The case was broughtby Nancy Rosenberg andher
¯ employer, the Canadian Union of Public Employees,.
: regarding pension benefits which R0senberg sought
¯ to arrange for her Lesbian partner. The union in 1992
amended its pension plan to’extending spousal ben-
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Canada’s revenue department argued the amendment
violated the tax s opposite-sex definition of spouse.
The court ruling gave the union the right to include
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losing any tax benefits. Revenue department officials
said they hadn’t decided whether to appeal the ruling to
the Supreme Court of Canada.
Special Classes for Gay
Students Nixed
BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) - Gay and Lesbian students
who say they dropped out ofpublic high school because
of harassment almost got their own one-room schoolhouse,
but organizers forget one detail: getting permissi’on
from their bosses.
Top officials of the sponsoring government agency,
the Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Education
Services, said they learned about the schoolhouse from
a Newsday reporter. Board president Bruce Brodsky
immediately halted plans to open the school, the newspaper
reported last month.
He was unaware that members of his own staff had
enlisted a teacher, arranged for a classroom at the Long
Island Gayand Lesbian Youth Inc. in BayShore, and
had been advertising to attract students for several
weeks. Three had signed up. The board Serves youngsters
with special needs, including those who are pregnant,
handicapped or seeking occupational training.
"I don’t believe there should be a separate facility for
Gay and Lesbian students. I don’t want to throw them
back into the closet;’ Brodsky said.
David Kilmnick, executive director of the Gay youth
agency, said he would still push for the separate classes.
"We want to make sure that this school happens, that
these kids are not harassed or subject to violence because
oftheir sexual orientation.-Theyneed a safer place
to-learn," he said.
Californian Trying
to Ban Gay Marriages
SACRAMENTO (AP) -Alawmaker who failed in two
attempts to get a law bauning Gay_m~ages through the
Legislature has received~the go-ahead to start collecting
signatures to submit his proposal direcdy to voters.
State Sen. Pete Knight, R-Palmdale, has until June 25 to
collect the 433,269 signatures needed to place his initiafive
on the November ballot. If he misses that date, but
collects enough signatures by Sept. 21, his proposal
willbeplacedonthe presidential primary ballot in 2000.
His proposal, which was certified to circulate petitions,
brings the number ofproposed initiatives seeking
a spot on the November statewide ballot to 47. Knight’s
proposal, tided the "California Defense of Marriage
¯ Act," adds just one sentence to the state Family Code:
"Only marriage between a man and a woman i s valid or
recognized in California."
Statelaw already says that any marriage pfrformed in
California must be between a man and a woman. But
that lgw also recognizes as valid any marriage performed
elsewhere. After a Hawaiian court riding in
1993 made recognition of Gay and Eesbian marriages
possible, Congress gave states the authority not to
recognize same-gender marriages performed in another
state. An earlier attempt to place aban on Gay marriages
on the June primary ballot failed to collect enough
signatures.
Students Sentenced
for Anti-Gay Attack
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Three teen-age boys have
been sentenced to eight days each on a work crew and
a year or more of probation in the intimidation and
assault of a Gay high school student in February. Paul
.Miller, a senior at Corvallis High School, said the boys
taunted him and then punched him, knocking out his
two front teeth.
Cyle Schroeder, 15, and Robert Huffaker and Michael
Nash, both 16, appeared before Benton County Circuit
Judge Robert Gardner. Miller did not attend the hearing.
Schroeder, who threw the punch, will serve two
years’ probation after his time on the work crew. He
:¯ earlier spent 16 days in juvenile d~tenfion at the
Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility. Huffaker,
¯ who served five days at Oak Creek and 69 days of
¯ home detention, will be on probation for one year. ¯
Nash, who served five days at Oak Creek and 33
¯ days of home detention, will be on probation until
: his 18th birthday.
¯ All three must undergo diversity education, pay ¯
restitution to Miller for his dental bills and write a
¯ letter of apology, the judge said. While what was
done to Miller can’t be undone, Gardner said the
case can send a message to people in the commu-
: nity to think twice before taunting others. The
; judge said he got the impression that the boys have
: come to realize the seriousness :of what happened.
If people are assaulted because of their particular
status, the assault is notjust on that person, but also-
: on the group, he said. "That’s the reason I think this
¯ case had the publicity and had the attention I think
¯ it deserved," Gardner said.
Support for Gays
Provokes Death Threats
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Gay-rights issues have
divided the United Methodist Church, but death
threats against a student who supported Gay rights
¯" at the church’s Nebraska Wesleyan Uni.versity
¯ have caused a deeper controversy. "Everyone is
¯ welcome at this university, regardless of how they
¯ live or how they love," the Rev. Bill Draper Finlaw ¯
told a crowd of about 300 people gathered on
¯ campus Thursday to show support for sophomore
: Jonathan Judge.
¯ The small, liberal arts Methodist school, which ¯
has about 1,500 students, was rocked last week
: when Judge received two messages on his answering
machine threatening him with death for supporting
a campus Gay rights group. Judge reported
’. the messages to police. Judge, who is not Gay, is a
¯ member of the student senate and has introduced a
bill on behalf of the Gay civil rights group, Plains ¯
Pride, to have it recognized as a legitimate campus ¯ organization.
¯" The rally camejust two days before the church’s
¯ national Council of Bishops is to meet in Lincoln.
The bishOps have been asked to call a special
: session ofthe General Conference, the church’s top
¯ legislative body, to discuss Gay civil rights.
¯ These rights became a hot-button issue among
: the church’s 9.5 million members when a Method-
" ist minister in Omaha was acquitted last month on
¯ charges of disobeying church rules for performing
; a Lesbian marriage. The Rev. Jimmy Creech per-
" formed the ceremony in September in defiance of
: anorderby Nebraska BishopJoel Martinez. Creech
: was suspended and put on trial before a jury of
¯ Methodist ministers.
Following a two-day inquiry in Keamey, a panel
¯ of 13 ordained elders voted 8-to-5 to convictCreech
of violating the church’ s Order and Discipline. The
¯ vote fell one short of the nine required for convic-
¯ tion. Creech presented the first challenge to the
denomination’s 1996 decision in its Social Principles
to prohibit"ceremonies that celebratehomo-
. sexual unions." The United MethodistChurch is
¯ the second largest Protestant denomination in the
United States, after the Southern Baptists. It has
about 120 colleges nationwide, including Southern
Methodist, Duke and Emory universities in addition
to Nebraska Wesleyan.
: Dina Weisser, a 21-year-old junior at Nebraska
¯ Wesleyan, said she has several Gay and Lesbian
: friends whohavebeenharassedoncampus.Weisser,
¯ wh0is not Gay but belongs to Plains Pride, said two
¯ members of the group have been attacked on or
near campus in recent weeks. ’q?here’s been so
¯ much violence going on - so much hatred," she
¯ said. ’q’hey are trying to silence us by threatening
¯ senators in our student senate ~.. trying to take away
our First Amendment rights"
¯ Judge sat on a brick wall during the rally, stanng
¯ down at the sidewalk as he listened to the speakers.
¯ "It was very reassuring." he said. "It ¯renewed my
faith in this campus." Judge appeared nervous
¯ when asked how he was coping after the death
threats. "I’m here," he said.
Every 5 Minutes,
Another Young
Person’s Infected
MOSCOW (AP) - Every minute worldwide,
five people between the ages of 10
and 24 become infected with HIV, according
to a report released here inMoscoW.
The UNAIDS report also warned that
Eastern Europe is set to become "one of
the next epicenters" of the world AIDS
crisis, with HIV’ infection.rates having
increased at least sixfold .since 1994. It
said that 190,000 people in the region are
infected, a contagion rate driven by a
sharp rise in the use of injected drugs.
In conjunction with the report, thejoint
U.N. Programon HIV/AIDS launched a
yearlong campaign called "Force for
Change: World AIDS Campaign with
Young People." The report was released
in,Moscow to draw attention to the threat
facing Eastern Europe. "In.Russia, where
injecting drug use and unsafe sex are
fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, it is time
for young people to engage in HIV/AIDS
prevention efforts and make their voices
heard," said G4anni MtuTi~ UNICEF’s
Moscow representative. "They have the
right and responsibility to change the
course of the epidemic and the support of
adults is crucial to make it happen."
The report said that the young are particularly
hard-hit by the world epidemic,
with at least one-third of the 30 million
HIV carriers being 24 or younger. Each
day, 7,000 young people worldwide contract
HIV, adding up to 2.6 million new
-infections annually, it said. The report
warned Of an explosion in sexually transmitted
diseases across Eastern E~ope.
New syphilis cases have gonefrom 10 per
100,000people each yearin thelate 1980s
to - in some regions-- hundreds per
100,000.
UNAIDS is a grouping of 5 U.N. agencies
and the World Bank.
More $ Could 1/2
New Infections
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - More spending
could halve the number of new HIV
infections worldwide, according to a
United Nations study presented at a San
Francisco AIDS conference. "We know
what works. We’ve shown it’ s effective.
What we need now is the money to implement
them," said Martha Bulter deLister,
director oftheDominicanRepublicAIDS
organization Fundacion Genesis. "We
can’t wait for a vaccine."
The result could be achieved if affluent
governments, corporations and individuals
dug deeper and spent 10 to 15 times
more on global preventionprograms, said
the UN study presented at this week’s
University of California, San Francisco
conference. HIV infection is rampaging
through Africa, the Caribbean, Latin
America and Southeast Asia, but many
countries are unable to afford something
as simple as a blood test to keep the blood
supply dean.
Nor can they afford testing, and counseling
of HIV-infected people to warn
against transmitting the infection to others.
Sexually transmitted diseases, known
to boost the risk of HIV infection, go
untreated. Furthermore, mothers pass on
the virus to their infants because they lack
access to theAZT drug regimen that could
interrupt deadly viral transmission.
While much of. the globe is riveted by
three- and four-drug anti-viral regimens,
costing $25,000 to $37,000 per person a
¯ year, an estimated 16,000 men, women
~ and children in developing countries are
¯ newly infected each day.
." Conference co-chair MargaretChesney
¯¯ of the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention
Studies, working with AIDS specialists
¯
from 38 different nations, sought pmcti-
¯ cal and affordable solutions to the growing
epidemic.
Among the prevention costs estimated
by experts:
- 50 cents to test blood for theAIDS virus.
- Several dollars to cure a sexually trans-
" mitted disease.
-$50 to give an infected mother a short
course ofAZT to prevent transmission of
the virus to her baby.
Worldwide, about $1.5 billionhas been
spent each year on comic books, radio
spots and condom rallies in devdoping
.nations. But such prevention efforts have
proved to be mere speed bumps, not roadblocks,
in the path of HIV, the report
found.
US HIV Infection
Rate Steady
ATLANTA (AP) - The rate at which
people arebecoming infected withHIV in
the United States has heldrelatively steady
despite a historic drop in AIDS cases,
suggesting thatmany people are not heeding
warnings about prevention. A study
released by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention estimated a2 percent
decline from 1995 to 1996 in.the number
ofnew HIV cases diagnosedamongpeople
13 or older.
"This is a case of the glass is half full,"
said CorneliusBakerof the National AS:
sociation of People with AIDS. "People
are living longer. That’s great. But with a
steady infection rate, it means the epidemic
isn’t going away."
"- The study Used statistics from the 25
~ states that report infection r~ites. AIDS
_" deaths dropped 21%in 1996, while the
¯ number of people with AIDS dropped ¯
6%, according to figures previously re-
: leased by the CDC. AIDS deaths were
¯ down an additional 44%in the firsthalf of
1997. People diagnosed with HIV are not
¯
considered AIDS cases until they actually
: develop symptoms of the disease. So de-
" laying the onset of AIDS and prolonging
¯ the lives of AIDS patients can reduce the ¯
numberofAIDS deaths even while there’s
~ little changein the rate ofnew HIV cases.
¯ "We’renot seeinggoodnews in the fact ¯
that we are not seeing a substantial de-
" dine," in the H_IV infection rate, said Dr.
¯ Palricia Fleming, a CDC researcher. The ¯
¯ CDC estimated that HIV cases between
1994 and mid-1997 dropped slightly
among menbut increased among women.
The study also showed HIV infections
¯ among young people overall had leveled
off, but minorities now make up a greater
¯ portion of that group. Of the 7,200 cases
¯ of HIV reported among 13- to 24-y.ear¯
olds, 63% were black and 5% Hispamc.
Ms. Fleming warned that not all states
¯ were required to report infection rates.
~ The new figures don’t include California
¯ and New York, so the true national infec- ¯
tion rate could be higher or lower, she
¯ said. The CDCwants all states to create a
¯ name-based HIV reporting system.
~ "You need to know about the front end
¯ oftheepidemicifyou’retryingtofindout
¯ what’s going on With the disease," said
¯ Eve Mokotoff, chief of the HIV/AIDS ¯
epidemiology unit at the Michigan De-
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House Bars Needle
Exchange Funds
WASHINGTON (AP) - Not satisfied with
what members called a halfhearted effort
by the administration, the House voted
Wednesday to bar federal money for
needle-exchange programs.
The 287-140 vote came during a week
when the parties were vyi.ng for the high
groundin anti-drug policies. Many Democrats
said the GOP-backed bill was political
posturing that would cripple programs
proven to stop the spread of AIDS. House
Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas,
said the action was needed to counter "a
deadhead president that supports a program
that gives free needles to drug addicts."
The House action came just days after
the White House announced that it would
continue to ban federal money for needle
exchange programs while recognizing that
suchprograms have been effectivein fighting
the spread ofAIDS without encouraging
illegal drug use. Linda Ricci, spokeswoman
for the White House Office of
Management and Budget, said the GOP
bill.was "unnecessary and unwarranted."
The Health and Human Services secretary
"should have the authority to determane
the merit of such programs and...
the decision on which HIV prevention
strategies to use should be in the hands of
state and local offidials,’.’ Ricci said.
The issue divided the administration.
HHS Secretary Donna Shalala encour-
. ~aged local ~Orn)nlmiti~st0,expandthe 1 i 0
.~e&tleexchar~ge~programs now operating
in 22 states while drug policy chief Barry
McCaffrey argued that theprogramsjeopardize
the administration’s war on drugs.
Clinton’s surgeon general, Dr. David
Satcher, said he was "disappointed" funds
wouldnotbe availablefor effective needle
exchange programs. Members of theCongressional
Black Caucus last week called
for McCaffrey’s resignation, saying lives
would be lost if needle distribution is
halted.
But Republicans said the administratiou
policy was consistent with its failure
to get tough on drugs. They disputed scientific
studies concluding that needle exchange
programs are working. "The
Clinton administration’s endorsement of
needle exchange programs is part of an
intolerable message to our nation’s children
sent by the White House that drug
use is a way of life;" Said Rep. Gerald
Solomon, R-N.Y., a sponsor of the legislation.
Democrats accused Republicans of
rushing a bill to the floor withom hearings
to make a political point. "This legislation
is a travesty and a blight upon true medical
science and it plays into the hands of
those who would" use the lives of our
children aud those addicted for political
purposes," said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee,
D-Texas. "You’d think we’re having a
meeting of the flat earth society," said
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "How can we
turn our back on science?"
The federal government since 1989 has
barred the use of federal funds to provide
hypodermic needles and syringes to intravenous
drug users. The legislation, which
still needs Senate consideration, would
repeal, language in a 1998 spending bill
that would allow funding if the HHS secretary
determines exchange projects are
effective in preventing the spread of HIV,
the virus that causes AIDS, and do not
encourage illegal drug use.
TheHouse votecameas the Republican
leadership prepared to unveil an dectionyear
package of anti-drug proposals, including
more money for border guards,
tougher penalties andgrants to small businesses
that fight workplace drug use.
House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt
of Missouri sought to get thejump on the
Republicans Wednesday by issuing aninepage
report critical of the GOP record in
fighting drug.s. "By making the war on
drugs a parusan war, Speaker (Newt)
Gingrich is drawing thebattle lines against
imaginary enemies. The onfy thing he
will accomplish is to reduce the prospects
for bipartisan anti-drug legislation in this
Congress," he said.
$1rn Offered for
Needle Exchange
NEW YORK (AP) - International financier
George Soros has offered $1 million
in matching funds to support needle exchange
programs around the country. The
move came in response to the Clinton
administration’s position that it does not
favor federal funding for the programs,
which are credited with helping slow the
spread of the AIDS virus.
The Sorts pledge "was in the works,
and we d~cided to announce it when the
federal government decided not to fund
programs," said Ty Trippet of the
Lindesmith Center, a drug policy research
organizanon that is part of the Sortssponsored
Open Society Institute.
Sorts said an estimated 35 percent of
all new HIV cases in the United States are
due to druginjectionwith unclean needles.
"It has been scientifically proven, and the
federal government agrees, that making
sterile syringes readily available to addicts
reduces the spread of HIV and does
not encourage drug use," he said.
Health and Human Services Secretary
Douna Shalala has urged state and local
officials to use their own funds to implement
such programs. Last 3ear, Sorts
donated S1 million to various needleexchange
programs. This year’s repeat
donation will be used to match the amount
that donors increase their donations over
last year. For exan~ple, if a foundation
don£ted $50,000 to a needle exchange
program last 3,ear and is donating $75,000
this year- then Soros will donate $25,000.
It is oifl.v the latest in a series of contributions
to various causes by the Hungarian-
born financier, who is ~ U.S. cidzen.
In 1997, Soros made charitabledonadons
of about $’540 million, according to Fortune
magazine. Much of his largess has
gone to benefit eastern Europe, including
Russia.
Also Baltimore Mayor. Kurt Schmoke
said Clinton would agree to exchange
programs if he saw how well they worked
in Baltimore. Schmoke renewed his offer
to talk to officials throughout the country
in support of needle exchanges, including
to the nation’s" chief executive. "I’m convinced
if we can get the president over
here, we can change his opinion," he said.
Baltimore’s program, providing needles
to about 7,000 addicts at a cost of about
$300,000 a year, is the largest city-rim
program in the country, Schmoke said.
Mom Pleads for
Infected Child
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - The 7-yearold
boy already is slowly dying of a disease
that authorities say his own father
deliberately inflicted. The mother of the
¯ youngster, whose father is accused of
¯ injecting him with the AIDS virus, says
¯ her goal now is to prevent him from bei;ag
i victimized again.
The mother, identified on!y as Jennifer,
¯ said she was grateful for the compassion
¯¯ she had received. But she was obviously
shaken by the number of reporters and
¯ television cameras she faced at a news
¯ conference. She took no questions after
¯ making a brief statement. "I plead with ¯
you to respect the privacy and dignity of
¯ my son andmy family. He’s been through
¯ so much already," she said. "My main
¯ concern is to protect my son from any
: further victimization."
Her voice broke several times as she
¯ explained how her son’s illness - he was
¯ diagnosed with full-blown AIDS in 1996
- has affected their lives. She said her son,
who was once near death, ~s dome, better
¯ now" but that she realizes he will eventu-
¯ ally die of the disease. The boy must be
¯ fed small amounts of food frequendy and
¯ must take about 10 medications several
¯ times a day. He is trying to live as normal
: a life as possible, even going to school
¯ when he is able.
Brian T. Stewart is charged with firstdegree
assault, accused of deliberately
¯" injecting his infant son with AIDS-tainted
¯° blood six years ago. He haspleaded iuno¯
cent and is being held on $500,000 bond.
County prosecutor Tim Brann said he
could not comment on any of the evidencc
policemayhave gathered against StewarL
except to say that there was enough to
allow a judge to issue a ~varrant for
Stewart’s arrest on charges of first-degree
assault: - ¯ : ¯ 7
Police said Stewart once told the bo\"s
mother not to worry about trying to collect
child support because the boy ,votdda’t
live that long. His lawyer, Joe Murphy,
has said Stewart maintains that he is immcent.
Murphy has accnsed prosecutors of
trying and convicting his client in the
media.
HIV Positive Kid in
Day Care Dispute
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - An agreement
with two day-care centers sets a precedent
by applying the Americans with Disabilities
Act’s protections to a child who has
the virus that causes AIDS, a govenmaent
prosecutor says. The Beloit centers were
accused of denying service to the bm
because ofhis HIV virus. They have agree~t
the v~rus is a disability under the act,
according to U.S. Attorney Peggy
Lantenschlager. "What this says is, because
someone is HIV positive doesn’t
mean that they can be discriminated," she
said. The lawsuits claimed the centers
illegal|y turned the boy, now 5, away in
1996 because of his disease. The centers’
lawyers had argued the boy was not protected
by the federal law, which requires
that people have an impairment that substantially
limits a major life activity. The
lawyers said the boy was well-adjusted
and functions normally, despite his suppressed
immune system.
Last week, U.S District Court Judge
John Shabaz allowed prosecutors to proceed
with the lawsuit against the centers.
Shabaz ruled that there was enough evidence
to let a jury find that the boy could
beconsidereddisabled under the act. Chris
Kinast, the lawyer for Kiddie Ranch, said
his client settled because federal prosecutors
have virtually unlimited resources
and the center could not afford to defend
itself.
Well, happy May day! For those who
don’tknow,inPagan terms, it~ s the ,d~,y.
celebrate fertility and creativity in au it s "
many forms. Maypoles, phallic symbols
and dancing are the Usual forms of celebration
as Spring returns.
Speaking of creative endeavors, the
Council Oak Men’s Chorale is pleased to
announce our first formal
concert! It will be
atAll Soul’s Unitarian
Church at8pmonMay
29. Hmm. I’d better
start practicing. ,,
"Song and Dance~ ,
my favorite of the
Lloyd-Webber musicals,
Opens here in
Tulsa for a 3 day performance
June 26 at
Tulsafest at the Performing
Arts Centerfor
Education,TCC South
Campus, 10300 E. 81st
Street. The musical is
unusual in that the first act is .to.ldfrom the
perspective of an English g~d newly arrivedinNewYorktobe
withherlovcr and
to pursue her hat making career..The r~est
of ~ct one follows her relationships as her
perspective and lovers change:’,The.first
acti~ done entirely in song. The second
act is told in dance; and follows a young
man who she falls inlove with, andworks
from his perspective. I saw the National
TourwittiMefissaManchester (Bernadette
Peters originated the role here in the
States), andfell inlov¢withthechar,a~c,t~s
and the show. And even if you don t like
dance, if their choreography is anything
even close to what I saw, you will be
.......enchanted and amazed: SEE IT!!!!
It is part of an arts festival which indudes
many other fine events, from orchestras
to dance to pop(call for info) and
"An EveningWith Patti Page", who is a
Claremore native, June 20th at the PACE.
For Ticket info, caI1.595~7777.
Opera buffs, rejoice! June holds lots_a
fun for fans of Gilbert and Sullivan, with
Light Opera Oklahoma p,r,o~_u.d,ng thre~,
shows: ’ffheNew Moon’ by Si..g.m,,una,
¯Romberg, an operetta with all kinds oi
romantic hijink~ of a French chevalier
fleeing royal fury, falling in love and
buckling I~is swish, swash. Sorry. That
opensJune 11; and June 1.2 brings Pineapple
Poll.. The description for this is
infi-iguing: Pineapple Poll and all her
friends are madly in 10ve with the Captain
Philbrook is bringing
old masters to light in
an exhibit entitled
"Old Masters brought
to Light". Catchy,
huh? The exhibit
features some really
beautiful works from
the National Museum
of Art of Romania...
Broken Arrow Community Playhouse
comes to the rescue of an otherwise dull
month with ’q’he Importance of Being
Earnest" by Oscar Wilde May 8 --17. M.y
fav.orite classic comedy, Oscar turns society
upside down in this comedy.of manners.
Call 258-0077 for reservauons.
The Thomas Moran exhibition winds
down May 10 at
Gilcrease Museum, so
catch it while you can.
Philbrook is bringing
old masters to light in
anexhibitentitled"Old
Masters brought to
Light". Catchy, huh?
The exhibit features
some really beautiful
works from the National
Museum of Art
of Romania, where, by
the way, the real
Dracula made many
peasant’s lives rather
difficult. The real
¯ McCoyhad apenchant for punishing anY-
¯¯ one who violated his sense of re,orals by
impaling them on stakes. No, it s true -
¯ ro~ "In Search of Dracula" . He was a ¯ .cad .
convertedChristian, to boot. Andhis sense
". of morals changed on a whim - kind of
". like Pat Robertson, Robert Tilton, Jerry
¯ Falwell, and Jimmy Swaggart. But I di-
". gress, much I’m sure, to the eternal cha-
". grin of my editor, who never d...o~.s ~at.
-’. At any rate, the paintings will t~e hung
~ baroque eras from such diverse locales as
¯ Italy, Spain, Germany, and the Nether-
" lands. Masters such as ElG~eco,
[ Rembrandt, Veneziano, and Jordaens are
re1~resented. This is not to bemissed.
! " "On May 24, a lecture on ’~he Age of
ii BdiesrcnuasrsdinogSGtroenzzoie"sewpilalibnetinggivienntahte2eparrloy,
17th century. Another exhibition cel:
~ ebrates a recent acquisition by Philbrook
¯ of Strozzi’s "St. Francis in Ecstasy" ,
i subtitled"An Acquisition in Focus" ¯ rnnning
May 17 - July 12.
i ¯ Local news: vaudeville was all the rage
i when Doris Travis lied about her ageto
~ join the Ziegfeld Follies. Now 94, she’s
: pulled, out tier tap shoes for a return en-
¯ gagement "I dance the same as I did 79
i years ago," Mrs. Travis said. "Maybe not
~vith th~ same spring in my foot, but my
i style hasn’t changed. I haven’t tried any
of the ttMS Hot Cross Bun. Yes, folks, ". of these new jazz or rock moves!" She
tbheattteirs:~qh’haetythceopnrtersivsereallelamseeasnasyst.oI.Itxg~ear~a :~ hfoeramdeedr ZtoiegNfeewld gYirolrskfotroajnoAinIDfiSvebeontehfeirt
his ship". I bet they do. Seems to me the ¯ at the New Amsterdam Theatre, the remen’s
chorus could have fun with that "¯ storedvaudeville-erashowplaceoffTimes Square where the original Follies were
piece. Oh my, it’s getting warm here. ,, . st,~ged. Mrs. Travis was ju.st l~4,,w.hen~s_h_e.
And.the 3rd offering is "The Mikado , i lied a,.bout her age to join me uomes, t nat
which is a more well-knownwork. And
with character names like Nauld Poo, "- wasn t the last time she refused to be
Yum.Yum,andKo-Ko,it’ssur¢,toaw.ak¢,n : limited by her years: She gr.ad..ua2~ ~[~hm~
the appetite. Theperforman._ces wi.11 runat : theUniv~rsitv ofOklahomamlv’yzatm.
the University of Tulsa, in 3 week reper- ~ age of 88, as ~ history major and mem.b~.r
tory format. Formore info and reserva- : 0fPlaiBetaKappa. Wayt.ogo!,Ilove.tl~,s.
ti6us, call 583-4267. . story, becaus_eitgoesto.snowtlaeremtgmo
"Ohieetof Mv AffectiOus:~ ; a comedy ~ jus"tEblelehno;p’ tehfeotremleeviyseiot!n sitcom that was
about a stratght woman who falls mlove ¯
withhergayroonimate,iscurrently show- ~: the first with a Gay leading character, has
ing at Parklane, Eton, Easfland, and M°v- beencanceledafterfive seas’°~"TheA.BaCnC
ies 8. It comes higtdy recommended,and show will not remmfor a mxthlseason,
I would have had a review for you, but "- network spokeswoman said, declining
lfirfoem’s sleitetilneghtahnedfiglmreinnadtiemsepfroervtehnisteidssmuee, ~ fthuertshuebr jecoctmomfneantti.onTahledepbroagterawmh.e~n~beea~te,n,e,
There’s always Mayfest, and the ¯
played by comedian Ellen DeGeneres,
Renegade’ s answer to that, Gayfest.
" see Notes, page 11
PHILBROOK Visit Tuesday- Sunday
Adults $5, Seniors & Students $3
¢ous¢iL oak
meN’5 ¢i-IoKaLe
will present a flee performance on Friday,_
May 29th at All Souls Unitarian Church at 8
For more information, please call 743-4297.
TOHR/the Pride Center
presents
1998 Tulsa Pride March &.Picnic
Saturday, June 20
Veterans-Park, 18th & Boulder
March: 11:30,.Picnic: Noon- 5pm
_ .Community Organization& Businesses Booths,
Games,-Music & Free Refreshments.
Information? Call TOHR/the Pride Center at 743-GAYS (743-4297)
This ad donated by Tulsa Family News.
Follies Revue,. Inc.
presents its l Oth anniversary benefit
The-Best of Follies ’98
John H. Williams Theatre
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
Patron’s Night
Thursday, June 25, at seven o’clock
Champagne reception to follow, $~0
Benefit Performances
Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27
at eight o’clock, $2o
Tickets available at t~e PAC Box O ffice: :596-7111,
¯ 800-364-7111 or Carson Attractions~ 584-2000.
Beneficiaries are: Community of Hope, HIV-Resource Consortium,-Hope
Testing Clinic, Hospice of Green Country, O ur House, St.Joseph Residence,
Tulsa Community~ AIDS part.i~rshiP, and .the Visiting Nurse Association’.
1 st Annual
Red Ribbon Run
5k Run, Race Walk &.,Casual Walk
mbenefitHIV services ofInteffaithAIDS Ministries
& Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership
sponsored by Bank of Oklahoma, Stax/Circle K
Bama Companies, Interim Health Care, Joel, Tracey &
Clay Norvell, & Tulsa Family News
Saturday, June 13
Mens- 7am, Womens - 7:30 am
LaFortune Park, 61st & Yale
Registration SW Shelter, 6 am
Parking at south 10t only, USATF sanctioned event.& c.ertifie~
coordinated by-Glen’s; Ine Prereg.istratio.n: $1.2 wit~ }=sla!~, $~
withoutl Race Day Registration: $15 witla t-shirt, $1o wlmout.
Awards to top three men and women-in each USATF age group, as
well as top overall male& femalefinishers&top threerace walkers.
You dont have to run .to help! Join the Red Ribbon
Booster Club by making a donation to the Red Rib,b.on.
Run. Those donating $25 or more will receive a t-start.
Info: IAM.438-2437orPOB691438, Tulsa, 74169
I~P SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - .11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - 11am, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - 1lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service - 5pm, Childrens Ministry - 5pro, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, .Inc.
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:~tSam, 3210e So. Norwood
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa
Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America)
Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088
University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/GayfFransgendered Alliance
6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
~ MONDAYS
Council Oak Men’s Chorale, 7 pm, leave message for more information: 743-4297
HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard)
HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
7:30pm, 2207 E: 61h;583-7815
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
2nd Mon/each mo. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pm, call Shawn 491-2036.
Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 3/2, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
I~" TUESDAYS
AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 5/12, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
HIV+ Support Group~ HIV Resource,Consortium l:30pm
- 3507E Admiral(east ofHarvard), I~fo: Wanda@ 834-4194
Mnlticultnrai AIDS Coalition, 5/5, 12:30pro, Urban League, 240 East Apache
Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HIV!AIDS Support Group~ and Friends & Family HIV!AIDS
Support Group - 7 pm, Locatiom, call: 627-2525
Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group. Info: 743-4297
PrimeTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues/each rot., 7pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 381h
Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE)
Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297
~ WEDNESDAYS
Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210c So. Norwood
Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group
For more information, calI 582-7225, John at ext. 218, or Tommy at ext. 208
TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632.
Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~" THURSDAYS
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 ~- 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support/social group for 18-24"s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325
From Our Hearts to Our House~ 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/cach mo. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194
~ FRIDAYS
SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, tat Fri/each rot. 8pro, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th
Community Coffee House, varying dates, 7 pro, Pride.Center, Info: 743-4297
~ SATURDAYS
Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Lambda A-A, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
I~’ OTHER GROUPS
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222
Womeus Supper Club, Call for info: 584-.2978
OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157
Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call orfax 583-4615.
Reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa Cir,-Count, Library
Author Isensee has ,’m interesting approach
to currentGay male culture. With
analogies to posttraumatic
stress syndro~ne, he explains
how events ,and society conspire
to create a d,’mgerous
enviromncut for Ga3 males.
While understanding that
mm~v Gay men come l~om
dvsf{mcfi~md or abusi ve fromlies
~md ~e trying to overcome
the effects of our
homophobic culture, it is important
to realize that. in
Iscuscc’s approach, tiffs is a
book about, m~d for, victims.
Divided lUtO two scctmns.
Reclaiming Your ldJ~ begins
by cxamimug homopho~m.
abusive f~nilies, shmne
self-destructive behavior.
Iscnscc sees a direct ton’elation
between posttraumatic
stress (uustmsl. uightmarcs.
With
analogies to
posttraumatie
stress
syndrome, he
explains how
events and
soeiety
conspire to
create a
dangerons
environment
for Gay
males?
m]xict\ ) mid the problems that kc.cj~ some
Gay u’mlcs from living full m~d "happy
lives. Guilt. shmnc, withdra~v~d, m~d isolation
arc cxmnincd, thrlv scxwfl abuse
nla31 cause the adult Gay m[dc to engage m
scxuall3 compulsiv c behavior, often pracuqing
uns~d’c sex. "’Associating sex with
sh;mm, a sexuM abuse snrvivormav seek
out sexmd contact in wlfich he is li~ely m
feel degraded."
Overwork is mmfl~cr area of compulsive
behavior. %Vhen xour sense of sellis
dependent ou overacl~ming, it is vulnerable
to the shifting fortunes of success or
-failure -just as your self-esteem was
dependent on how your parents felt about
themselves at any particularmoment. You
cma never do or accomplish
enongh to gain the approval
that you never had from your
pare~’~ts. Instead you can ~:ieve
for thig loss. This will enable
you to b,’dmace work that expresses
yonrmminterests wifl]
rest. recreatmn, mid intinlate
relationships."
The sccoud half of this
book ex,’uniues the stages of
healiug, including acknowledging
abuse, recoguizing
sclf-desmmtive behavior, nurturing
yoHrself ,’rod asserting
\onr-o~\n needs. Being a so-
[’ial \yorker mid psychotlacrapisl.
Iscnsce has ma interest in
iudi\iduld m~d group fllerapy.
Because of his background.
nmch of his knoMcdgc about
(];.ix lllell COllieS fronl his patients.
Solnctn’ncs the reader gob the incorrect
imprcs.,ion that ~dl Ga.v Ulell
vicums of abuse lind iuc incapable of life
without tlierap3.
X luch of tiffs book is ps3 cholog3 101.
.but it will be of v~fluc to 3 oung adults grad
older Gay men ~ 1~o just
their lives togclher..kn upqo-datc list of
resources and refere~lces is provided.
Check for tCeclaim:n~ })~ur 1.(/~’ at xour
loctd brmich librz~x or c~dl the Readers
Services dep~ncnt at Tulsa (’itx -( "otlnlx
Centr~ libr~v at 596-’9~.
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!~y .ludy .\ lcCormick, s±~ecial contributor
This week has been a week of l)rtilizmg
Grass, trees, slm~bs,just about cver3-
thing except m3 a/aleas.
Some of then]
haven’t finished
blooming )el, so I mn
waiting until 1 can
fertilize them ~dl at
tim smnc time. This
is i~l oplllllUln lime
for feeding because
cvcoflfing is acovch
growing. Xlan~.
plmlls go into a scmidonnm~
t stage in the
hot summer and they
don’t imll as inuch~ml of the soil at that
lime. Now you get the best use Of your
fertilizer
Itcrc ~s a scene that was played oul
mmiv mncs when I had a lawn and g~den
touter; a customer would come in m~d
sayS’My plm~ts just ~en’t growing like
they should." "They are Mire, they just.
aren’t doing ~at wall.’" Then I would say,
"’llow oftcu do you fertilize them." There
would be a lon~ silen~ mid the customer
would get a gipsy look in their eve ~d
say, "’Fertilize the~." TNs is probably not
SOlnetlfing you could relate to at ~1, but it
is common. Feeding your plm~ts is m~
importmlt p~t of spnug mid now is the
time. Arc you tired of me nagging you
about l)rdfi~ng yet?
Plm~t yo~ ~adimns m~y time now, it is
warm enough I saved some bulbs over
from last year It \viii be fun to see their
return pcri’om]~mcc
My pansies look so ~ood that
I haven’t planted the ammals
¯ that $o in their spot . . .
ma:,be I’ll Set one of those ¯
[sugar erystallzin~ kits] so
I can preserve all nay ~ansies
in sugar and decorate desserts
with them. Now all I have to
do i~ find ~omeone
else to flx the de~ert~.
My t)m>acs look
~o good flint I haven’t
pllmtcd the
thai go in their spot
vet. I )ust doll’t have
ihc hc~t to get rid of
thcnl x cl. I Mt~ a
cry ~t~d~izJng kit in a
caudog dm o~]cr
maybe I’ll get one of
th~;se so I cm~ preserve
Ml my pm~sies
in sug~ mid decorate
desserts with
them. Now all I have to do is find someone
else to fix the desserts.
If you havcu’t tfimlned your crepe
myrtl~.vet, it isn’t too late. We had ~m oak
with fungus last vc~ and I should have
sprayed our tree When it first ledcd out
but I didn’t. Oh well. maybe ins year
won’t be as ~vct m~d we won’t have the
problem. I wish this tree would let mc pay
a fine or solnething mid then do what I
shouldhavc done t~vo weeks ago, maybe
I’ll tMk to Nm aboul it’ m~d see what we
~work out. If you have been working in
your g~dcn this last few weeks ~d it
didn’t m~e you fecl better, go back out
there - you ~:eren’t paying enough attention.
Go Ye Forth mid Fcrtilize~
Judy McCormick formerly w~ the
owne; of Cox Nursery m 7~dsa.
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It eez I, le cousin de Jean-Pierre! He is
on the sabatical- under the circumstances,
how do you say, mysterieux, et Iamdrafted
to fill in. Bien-sur, he will be back,
probablement. Mats maintenant, je ne
parlerai pas en francais - I will use the
English.
This Sunday, I had the pleasure of dining
at Philbrook Museum’s brunch buffet
The atmosphere was lovely, as we
arrived just as the rain fell in
droves, and were seated near
the window by the striking
maitre d’. And as I had noted
some particularly handsome,
er, scenery in the restaurant in
addition to the loveliness of
the verdant grounds be~nd a
veil of rainfall, I odjusted my
seating position so I could enjoy
the best of both worlds.
The tableful of handsome
gentlemen provided a lovely
v~ew m one direction,not to
mention the fact that the waiters
were cute, too.
And the sen’ice was excellent.
My glass of iced tea was
never empty very long, which
~s one of my barometers of
good sela’ice.’Leave me thirst).
and go without a tip -well,
other than this verbal one: "’you
really should keep the patron" s
glass full.’" The ambience was
lovely, and the player piano
tinkling gaily in the background
added just the right
touch. Dress ranged from suit and ties to
leather jacket and jeans, so informal is ok.
The buffet, which looked gorgeous,
included something for everyone.Various -
salads, grilled veg~es (squash, zucchini,
and carrots), rosemary potatoes, veg~e
lasagna (they must of had one heck-of-a
deal on the squash and zucchini), roast
beef, grilled chicken over wild rice, cheese
grits (which I found unusual - more later),
ham, and for those more inclined towards
brealffasty-things, an omelette bar and
Bet~an waffles to order.
And the dessert table.., ah the dessert
table. Westarted offatthe salads ofcourse.
I had mixed greens though afew pieces of
which were brown, and a vinegar and oil
concoction. T’was a bit tart, but good. A
CaeS.ar and pasta salads were also featured.
They servedpoppy seedmuffmettes
and also biscuits, which unfortunately
were your average, everyday ones. My
dining companion was daring, and tried
the cole slaw, which he left untouched
after the first bite since it looked much
more interesting than it was - lovely preannouTnced
her sexual orientation a year
ago.
Since then, however, the show’s ratings
have been disappointing. This year,
"Ellen" averaged fewer than 11 million
viewers, a 22 percent drop over the previous
year. The sitcom, which airs at 8:30
pm Wednesdays, made its debut in 1994
with DeGeneres’ character, Ellen Morgan,
playing a young heterosexual. But
the actress and her character both came
out as Lesbians last season.
DeGeneres and the network have since
disagreed over the show’s content, including
whether a kiss between women
could be aired.
[ sentation but an ordinary sugary mayon-
¯ naise dressing.
They also offered a thick cheese-broc-
~ colt -I hesitate to call it soup, but there’s
¯ not really another word that fits. It was
¯ luke-warm, with crunch.), broccoli florets
." that could have used some more blanching.
Where’s Bette Davis when you need
¯" her?
: The main courses - I had the chicken
(dry and cold) and rice (cold),& a small
Sunday Brunch
at
Ph;lbrook
la Villa
2727 So. Rockford
Hou,s:
Tu~. - S~n.. llto 9
Brunch on S~-Mays
Prices:
Expensive
Payment:
~V/ajor eredlt cards
Smoking:
None
Alcohol:
FMIy licensed
Rating:
bit of veggie lasagna. I use the
term lasagna loosely. It was
basically scorched lasagna
noodles, tomato sauce and zucchini
and squash, cut to look
like potato chips. In fact, I
hesitated to get some because
of that - so did my companion.
It looked like potato chip lasagna.
And it too, was cold to the
taste. I think I tasted sun-dried
tomatoes, but I couldn’t be
sure. The roast veggies ~ver
also tepid.
My dining colnpamon had
pretty much the same thing,
with the addition of rather glutinous
cheese grits that had
solidified as soon as the)" hit
the plate. Mnm~!
On to the denserr table, which
~vas ~vondrous to behold. Carrot
cake, the most succulent (I
love that word!) chocolate
cheesecake I’ve ever tasted,
regular cheesecake, and
chocolate cake with mousse
filling and dark chocolate ic-’
¯ ing and pecan sprinkles. The latter was
¯ good, but the mousse had a slight bitter-
-¯ ness to it, which was unexpected and not
too pleasant -though my companion
¯ thought other~vise. We were too stuffed
¯ by then to try the other selections, but they
¯ were very tempting.
¯ My advice: go straight (so to speak) for
." the dessert table. The rest was a disap-
¯ pointment and a waste of appetite. Hope-
" fully, this will be corrected, or perhaps,
¯ this wasjust aparticularly bad day, but till
¯ then: caveat emptor. And at $15 per person,
you can get a much better meal for a
¯ great deal less at Piccadilly Cafeteria.
Editor’s note: Jean-Claude de
¯ FlambeauchaudwillcontinueTulsaFam- ¯
ily News and Jean-Pierre Legrand-
¯
bouche’s tradition ofrestaurant reviews
¯. which are distinguishedfor theD" candor.
¯ Unlike most other Tulsapublications, we ¯
do not use our reviews as an advertising
¯ tool. In.fact, we’ve lost advertising be-
". cause we did not cater to the egos ofsome
¯ restaurateurs. With us, you get the truth as
¯ we see it. If they don’t like it, tant pis.
~ Joan Garry, executive director of the
¯ Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,
said the cancellation was a disap-
¯ pointment but not a surprise.
¯ "We’re all disappointed ABC made a
decision based on ratings. We really wish
¯ that they had seriously considered the
¯ impact of Ellen’s work and looked at it ¯
from a broader perspective," she said.
:. "The show may have been canceled, but I
¯ think she gave a gift to Gay and straight ¯
Americans and that’s a legacy that the
¯ cancellation cannot take from her," Garry
¯ said.
¯ The show’s one-hour finale is sched- ¯ uled for May 13 and will take viewers
¯ through a satirical retrospective of her
¯ career. Guest stars will include Jennifer ¯
Aniston, Glenn Close and Phil Donahue.
y
Lesbian mothers ¯
¯ Lesbians that we interviewed even a few
and their children: ¯
¯ years later had begun to use known do-
Interview with Nanette Gartrell ," nors. We actually stopped inviting new
by Esther Rothblum ¯ participants in 1992 because the ’old’
In the early 1980s lots of Lesbians were ¯ Lesbians differed so much from the’new’
beginning to figure out
ways to have children by
donor insemination.
Nanette Gartrell, a Lesbian
psychiatrist, was interested
in studying these pioneer
Lesbians. "We had no
money," she said in a recent
interview, "but of
course none of the work
I’ve ever done has been
funded. It’s usually too
controversial to be funded
by any of the traditional
sources, such as the National
Institutes of Health.
It’s years ahead of its time
in terms ofwhensuchagencies
would fund this kind
of research. We decided if
we waited for funding
agencies to get over their
homophobia to fund this
study, we’d be waiting another
decade. So we went
ahead and funded it our-
"We had no money,"
she said in a recent
interview, "but of
course none of the
work I’ve ever done
ha~ been funded.
It’s usually too
eontroverslal to be
funded by any ofthe
traditional sources
¯.. It’s.years ahead
of its time in terms
of when such
agendes would fund
this kind of
research. ~¢e deelded
ff we walt~d for
selves." Nanette’s studyis- ,’~.funding ageneles to
now the longest-running
study of Lesbians who had
children via donor insemination.
"It’s already been walldocumented
that kids of
Lesbian morns are
healthy," Nanette told me,
"so we’re not trying toreestablish
that. What we’re
interested in is how they
get over their
homophobla to fund
this study, we’d be.
wa;t;ng another
decade. So we w~nt~
ahead and funded it
ourselves."
hav~copedwi.thhomopho- ,
bia. At the time, Nanette s major collaborator
was living in Washington, D.C.
and Nanette was living in Boston, sothey
began the research with Lesbians in those
two cities. Then Nanette moved to San
Francisco and included Lesbians from the
Bay Area.
Thefirst step was finding Lesbian mothers
to participate. Nanette’ s research team
advertised in bookstores and Gay and
Lesbiannewspapers. Theymade upflyers
to distribute at Lesbian films and community
events. They went to all the workshops
on choosing children and told par:
ticipants about the study. The original
study began with 154 mothers.
The first interviews took place when
the mothers were pregnant. Then the mothers
and co-mothers were interviewed again
when the chil&en were a year and a half
old and when they were five. Nanette’s
team is currently interviewing the families
now that the children are 10, and this
for the first time includes interviews with
the .children themselves. Then the families
will be interviewed next when the
children are 17 and when they are 25.
"When we interviewed the mothers at
first, when they were pregnant, they anticipated
being out as Lesbians," said
Nanette. "For the most part they used
unknown donors, because there was a lot
more fear at that time that somehow the
state would come in and take the children
away. By the lime of the next interviews,
when the children were toddlers, many of
them regretted this and wished they had
used a known donor who could have participated
in the child’s life as a father.
ones interms ofdonoridentity."
Not surprisingly, the
children were very. much
desired. When" the Lesbians
were first interviewed
while pregnant, about half
the women werelncoupled
relationships, andhad been
with their parmers from a
few months to a decade or
more. Others were single
mothers.
When Nanette’s team
re-interviewed the mothers
when the children were
a year and a half, they were
not surprised to find completely
exhausted, harried
mothers whohadvery litile
time for their own lives
other than childrearing and
paid employment. One of
the areas of difficulty was
the little contact with their
partners, and this was often
a source of tension. By
the time of the interviews
when the children were
five, a number of the
couples had broken up.
Those couples where the
mothers had spent time
. away from the children,in
order to have more time
with each other, weremore
likely to still be together
than the couples that had
been most child-focused.
¯ Now the team is interviewing the ten-
" year old children. "It’ s very exciting to be
¯¯ interviewing the kids for the first time,"
said Nanette.-"Because we have these
: very articulate kids who are highly edu-
: cated around issues of diversity, racism,
¯ and homophobia." ¯
Doinglongitudinal research is not easy.
: WhenNanettehad a floodinher basement
: a few years ago, some of the file cabinets
¯ got wet. "I was frantically using a hair
¯ dryer to dry the pages of the interviews so
¯ the data wouldn’t be lost," she recalls.
¯ Nanette phones all the families each year
: to see if they have moved, so she won’t
¯ lose touch with them. A couple of women
¯ who once identified as Lesbians are now
¯ involved with men; a few women have
died. ButNanettehas stayedintouchwith
¯ just about all the women from the original
¯ sample. As couples break up and then get
¯ involved with new parmers, Nanette in-
" corporates all these "step-m0ms" in the
¯ study. ’This means we may be the only
¯ study that has more participants at the end
of the study than at the beginningU’ she
¯ said.
¯ More information about the study re-
-¯ sults can be read in: Nanette Gartrell et at.
(1996), The National Lesbian Family
¯ Study: InterviewsWithProspectiveMoth-
: ers.AmericanJoumalofOrthopsychiatry,
¯ volume 66, number 2, pp. 272-281.
: Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psy-
¯ chology at the University ofVermont and
¯
iseditoroftheJournalofLesbianStudies.
¯¯_ She has been chair of the Committee on
Lesbian and Gay Concerns of the Ameri-
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by Mary Schepers, Do-It=Yourself-Dyke
My .friend J. was so delighted that her
leaky toilet was featured in last month’s
column that she set her girlfriend on the
project right away. The DIYD is happy to
report the repair was a success, much to
her friends’ mutual satisfaction.
J is so happy, in fact,
that she promises to bfiy her
girlfriend a tool belt very
.soon -since a pair of silk
boxers will be tucked in one
of the pockets, the DIYD
can only assume the nature
of the first project...
A continuation of the toilet
theme was originally
planned for this month, but
after further consideration, I
have decided to defer unmasking
the mystery of the
wax ring for a later date.
Tttming a toilet over is not
forthe timidorfaint-hearted!
Instead, we will begin a
journey together in developing
that most versatile and
most necessary of all skills -
painting. Dear ones, do not
groan and run away so
quickly! Certainly, unguided
paintingprojects have almost
spelled out D:I-V-O-R-C-E
for too many ofmy brethern
... we will begin a
journey together
in developing that
most versatile and
most necessary
d all stalls -
painting. Dear
ones, do not groan
and run away so
qttlcl~y!Certainly,
unguided
painting projects
have almost
spelled out
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
¯.. but it doesn’t
have to be so
traumatic.
and sistern, but it doesn’t have to be so
traumatic. Indeed, follow the advice proffered
in the next few colunms, and perhaps
your delighted love will buy you a :
tool belt with all the accessories, too. ¯
The DIYD begs your indulgence; a ,"
whole colunm devoted to the selection :
and.care of paintbrushes is not as bizarre ¯
as youmayinitially think. Over ,theco~se ."
ofyour Do-It-Yourselflife, youmaypaint
every room in your house as well as some
or all of the exterior at least once. ff
you’ve ever paid a paint contractor, you
can see the economy of widding a (good)
paintbrush yourself. And the grim fact is,
the type and quality and care of your
paintbrushes is directly related to the finished
quality of your paint job.
Yes, ducklings, wereturn to theDIYD’s
recurring theme o" tools : Always Buy the
Very Best That You Can Afford. You
may choke at the prospect of paying $13
- $24 for a brush, and certainly they canbe
had for cheaper (although I don’t recommend
buying even a small brush for less
than $5), but this is definitely a case of
.getting what one pays for. And please
don’t look at brushes as a limited use,
throw-away commodity; my father, the
original DIY Oracle, has brushes that are
about my age, and they are as marvelous
looking and functional as I am, too! Well,
maybe more so. I will teach you that
lesson in longevity, too, so that you can
get the most out of your investment.
In selecting brushes, you will want a 1
l/2 inch or 2 inch brush and a4 inch brush
as a minimum. When you buy a good
paintbrush, you don’t need a smaller one
for the anal retentive job of cutting in
(painting around trim, molding, etc.); if
you have a real steady hand and good eye,
you won’t even need to use masking tape
very often, and that’s a great time saver.
You will seldom use a 4 inch brush indoors,
but it’s very handy when you do
need it, and absolutely necessary if you
are painting outside. As you go up the
quality and cost ladder, the brushes will
be marked specifically for external or
¯ inside paint jobs, and {hat should be re-
, spected. However, if you are in the upper
¯
middle range, the brushes can, with care,
: be used interchangeably..DO NOT BUY
¯ BRUSHES WITH VINYL BRISTLES!
¯
TheDIYDcaunotbediscreethere: reader,
they are crap. Natural bristle
brushes are the sine qua non
ofpaintjobs; yours will probably
read "Natural China
Bristles" and they are made
of hogs hair; if you have
ethical objections to this,
skip down a paragraph.
After you have sucked up
and bought your precious
brushes, takethemhome and
continue to treat them with
the loving respect they deserve.
Before usingyournew
brushes, dip them in what-
. ever solvent is related to the
type of paint you are using
(paint thinner for oil-based
paint, water for water based
paint); this moistens areservoir
located up at the top of
the bristles, and is essential
to the longevity of the brush
as well as the quality Of your
paintjob. Tap off the excess
moisture (please, no crass
comments) so that the brush
is just damp. Repeat this if
." your brush starts to dry out oryou stop for
: lunch or whenever you are going to use a
¯ clean and dry brush to paint with.
As youpaint, dip yourbrushhalfway up
the bristles into the paint, the tap the side
of the brush on the side of yourpaint can.
This is called loading your brush; if you
scrape most of the paint off on the side,of
the bucket, you are completelydefeating
the purpose of loading the brush. That is,
a dry brush is not a) going to apply much
paint and b) is not going, to last very long.
A loaded brush is going to apply the paint
smoothly and with little friction; as soon
as it sounds a little raspy, load up again
(more on painting technique next month).
Please do not squish the brush downor get
thebrisdes all bentand broken and crooked
as you paint; you’re not trying to kill the
poor thing. Smooth and gentle and flowing
is the technique you’re after. Painting
is a Tao thing, if you please.
You may have read the helpful hint of
putting abrushin aplastic bag and storing
it in the freezer if you will be continuing
¯ your paint job later; the DIYD strongly
¯
discourages you from doing so, with all
¯ duerespect to Heloise. Using the Oracle’s
¯¯ techniques, it doesn’t take long to clean a
brush and it will prolong the life of your
¯ expensive tool. For water based paints,
¯ rinse the brush under a tap of.running
¯ lukewarm water, gently working the ¯
bristles from side to side to get the paint
¯
out of the reservoir. Workin a dab of dish
¯ soap on the bristles and rinse some more;
¯ tam the brush on its side and work the ¯
water in from that angle too; it’s ok to use
¯ your hands, and it’ll help you clean up a
¯ bit, too. When all traces of the paint are
: gone and the rinse water is clean, squeeze
; off the water, put the brush head on a
; paper towel androllitup flat (don’t squish
¯ the bristles tightly together). It keeps the ¯
bristles safe and dust free
¯
An oil based paint is more finicky to
: clean up after, but is not a chore to be
¯ dreaded. You’ll need paint thinner (It’s
: .flammable, so don’t useit near a flame
¯ source and see Dyke, page 14
by Lamont Lindstrom ¯ is a challenge for you: Reflect anthropo-
A few years ago, at a dinner party, my " logically on Oklahoma culture and why
friend Andrew dropped his pants to show ¯ this shouldfear tattoos. Nonetheless, some
me two piercings. Or rather, he showed " of you may have come across a tattoo
me one (a t-bar) and some ripped skin " eslablishmentthatsetupshopintheBrady
where the second had been. He somehow District late last year. Delighted, I took
had lost this on a flight from the UK to " advantage of this local opportunity to
NewZealand. (Ididn’tthen have tattooed on me my
want much to go into the No one l~,nows Japaneseinkan-thesmall,
details, halfway through where and wlaen round name stamp that all
my salad, of just how this banks inJapandemand one
loss could have occurred.) laumans ~rst uses in order to deposit or
Andrew since has some- transformed t~elr withdraw anymoney. Next
how arranged a replace- time I am in Japan, I plan
ment. He likes to fiddle bodies into worlds Of just to pull up my sleeve
with hisjewdry, so he tells art. T]als eertalnly instead.
me, duringlongandtedious No doubt I will horrify
business meetings at the occurred tlaousands thebankladies. Tattooing
London architectural firm - per]aaps tens of in Japan (like Oklahoma)
where he works. These is scandalous. This despite
piercings, there inside his thousands - of years the fact that Japan has an
pinstriped trousers, com- a~o. En~llsh internationally renowned
pensates for the boring
businessman’s garb he has speahers, in tl~e late
tradition of brilliant fullbody
tattooing. Japanese
to wear. 18th century, bor- tattoos,however, arediffi-
Andrew is less happy cult to find and admire.
with some of his other rowed the word Many of the public-baths I
piercings. He complains, "tattoo" from the frequented had signs proin
a recent email message:
Polynesian ’tatu’..
claiming "NO tattoos al-
"I have JUST ABOUT de- ¯ lowed." This reflects aseider
to remove my nipple Tattooln~ qulehly sociations of tattoos with
rings... Amobile phonein -
the top pocket also causes became a fad amon~ mafiathe yakuzagangs thatJapaneSecontrol
considerabledamagewhen "-both urbanites and much of the underground
running across the office.
Noonehaseveraskedwhy the avant-~mrde r~eb economY.thoughI, hadOneclimbedday’
I suddenly collapse in a (muela as it is today, Sakurajima volcano and
heap swearing,., so I think "
they will have to go." He two centuries later), itsWasbackside.makingmYi WaYranintod°Wna
hopes, though, to get him- . party ofWell-dressed sightself
a tattoo by way of compensation for " seers sporting black patent leather shoes.
the sacrifice of his nipple d~cor. They off&ed me a ride back to the city in
I am a fan oftattoos mysdf, so I hope
¯
their van. Squeezed into the back seat
Andrew does decide to undergo the inky " with two ofmy hosts, I noticed a tattooed
needle. No one knows where and when ¯ wristjustshowingfromnnderashirtsleeve
humansfirsttransformedtheirbodiesinto ¯ cuff. Soon, my new companions had hapworksofart.
Thiscertainlyoccurredthou- " pily pulled off their clothing to’reveal
sands - perhaps tens of thousands - of : magnificent kaleidoscopic tattoos coveryears
ago. English speakers, in the late ¯ ing every inch of their bodies, except
18th century, borrowed the word"tattoo" : head, hands, and feet. Bygone yakuza
from the Polynesian ’~atu’. James Cook, - ¯ sometimesarrangedforthemselves,when
and his fellow explorers, came across: ¯ theydied, to be partly skinned, and the
richly decorated male Polynesian bodies " skin tanned, in order to preserve their
in Tahiti, the Marquesas, Hawai’i, and " luxuriant tattoos.
New Zealand. Eager sailors pulled up ¯ Fewof us would be so willing to betheir
shirts to offer their skin to the bone ¯ come altogether a body-art canvas. Still,
needles of Polynesian artists. They thus ¯ tattooing allows us to remodel our bodies
imported Pacific tattoo designs back to " and thereby our senseand presentation of
Europe. Tattooing quickly became a fad ¯ self..IrecentlywanderedaroundHouston’s
amongbothurbanitesandtheavant-garde " Gay ghetto, the Montrose district - it
rich (much as it is today~ two centuries " could have been ancient Tahiti. Many of
later). This actually was a reintroduction - : us, too, will make handsome, decorated
of forgotten body art to Europe. Ancient , corpses. I am suggesting to Andrew that
peoples from across Europe once also had this time he just have a ring tattooed onto
decorated themselves by needling dyes " his nipple. That way those troublesome
under the skin. ¯ cell phones won’t get inthe way.
Oklahoma is one of only three of the ¯ Lamont Lindstrom is a professo? of
United States that outlaw tattooing. Here : anthropology at the University of Tulsa.
¯ more. Your brush should be nice and
¯ dean now, so use a paper towel to absorb
: the excess thinner, then store as above.
get lots of ventilation going), an empty ¯ Storetheusedthinnerinyourcontainerin
paint can or bucket, and a sealable con- ¯ a wall ventilated spot away from ignition
tainer and a couple of paper towels. Pour " sources. The next time you use an oilsome
thinner in your dean bucket, and " based paint, you can reuse the thinner
work the bristles firmly but gently back ¯ from that container. The paint settles out
and forth against the bottom and side of " and the thinner and oil can gently be
the bucket. This will get the majority of ° decanted from the top. The Oracle swears
the paint out of the bristles. Pour the used ¯ that this product is even better than virgin
thinner into your sealable container and " thinner, and you’re recycling.
replace the lid; be a good eco scout and " Now that you are savvy with brush
mark"used paint thinner" on the lid. Pour basics, we’ll get prepped for the big paint
another inch or two of dean thinner into ¯ job: "Gird your lions" as Aunt Carmen
your bucket and work your bristles some " used to say; we’ll beback next month.
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DATEWHO PUTS OUT This fun loving,
White male, 5’8, 1451bs, with Black hair
and Brown eyes, Ipves doing everything.
Call me and have a great night.
(Tulsa) ~r8380
HUNG? COOL! This 31-year-old Male,
6’, 245 Ibs., brown hair and blue eyes
seeks well-endowed men for hot times.
~14539
NEW DUDE IN TOWN Well built, athletic,
Black ma~e. 28, 6’3, 1691bs, with
short, Black hair, Brown eyes, and good
looks, is new to town and seeks a masculine,
attractive, White male, 21 to 28,
to hang out with. (Tulsa) ~10147
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year old, Bi male, wants to meet other
guys interested in making the scene.
You must be masculine and well hung.
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Hispan=c men, especially tops, with
hairy bodies. I’m a good looking, very
well built, White male. in my mid 30’s,
6’1, 1951bs, with short, dark, Red hair,
Green eyes, and a smooth, sculpted
body. (Broken Arrow) ’1~’9692
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34. 6’1. 1701bs, with Brown hair and
Blue eyes, seeks aggressive, fit guys, in
their 20’~ and early 30’s, for hot times.
(Tulsa) ~9687
BLUE COLLAR BUSINESS This Gay,
White male, 45, 5’10, 2201bs, with light,
Brown hair and Green eyes, seeks a
blue collar type who’s down to earth,
caring, and enjoys sports and the outdoors.
I want to have a one on one relationship.
I don’t drink or do drugs, but I
do smoke cigarettes. (Henrietta) ~9661
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in umping in bed, right off the bat. I’d
I ke to start a friendship and see where
things go. I’m an attractive, little guy,
5’4, 1351bs, with short, Brown hair, Blue
eves, and a nice tan. I’m into most
s~orts, especially basketball, and workin’g
out at the gym. (Tulsa) ~9336
ON THE UP AND UP Handsome, Gay,
Seminole Indian, 27, 5’6, 1301bs, seeks
an honest, trustworthy person, 27 to 35,
who shares my =nterests in movies,
music and dancing, for friendship leading
to a long term relationsh p. I don’t
smoke and am a social drinker.
(Stillwell) ~9241
NORMAL, COUNTRY BOY I guess rm
a normal country boy at heart. This
attractive, well built, White male. 5’8
1601bs, likes gping to the gym, running,
cooking, eaang, fishing, and doing
other outd6or stuff. I’m waiting to meet
someone to spend some special times
with. (Ft. Gibson) ~10384
MAKE IT FEEL GOOD I’m a Blond.
hairy, tanned, good looking, White
male. 33..6’1, 180ibs, with a goatee. I
want some good times on the phone or
in 0erson. (Tulsa) ’~8674
RUNNING AROUND Very outgoing, fun
loving, 19 year old, White male, 6ft,
.1651bs, with Black hair and Blue eyes,
seeks other guys for friendship or a
long term relationsfiio. (Tulsa) ~10572
BASELINE OF THE BLUES I’m a 39
year old, Gay, White male, 5’10, 1551bs,
into light music, blues, bike riding, playing
tennis, hiking, and camping. I’d like
to meet another Gay, White male, 25 to
40, with similar interests, for friendship
or more. (Tulsal ~8381
THINK KINK I like all kinds of kinky sex
and want to meet guys, 18 to 45, who
have some creative ideas, rm a good
looking, 30 year old, White male, 5’9,
1501bs. rm well built and prefer the
same. (Fort Smith) ’118308
TRUE LOVE This Gay White Male is
31-years of age. rm looking for.someone
to have a safe discreet time with. If
your interested in this message, g~ve
me a call ple.ase. (Tulsa) "~16325
I LIKE OLDER GUYS Healthy, attractive,
HIV positive. White male, 37,
1701bs, with Brown hair, Hazel eyes,
and a mustache, seeks a sincere, honest,
well endowed guy, 25 to 55, WhO
likes to be a top. Race ~s open and
ooks are unim0ortant, as long as you’re
clean cut. (Tulsa) ~’12249
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to lay back, have a good drink, and
think about a hot Man and wish I had it
in my hand. Then I start massaging
myself. I’d ove to talk to you. (Tulsa)
"~16161
THE DOOR IS OPEN I’m a 23-year-old
college st0dent, 5’10", 135 Ibs., slender,
good-looking, with brown hair and
green eyes. rm on my way out of the
closet but not quite there yet. My hob,
bies are ust about everything, but I
especially en oy reading, history, travel,
and socializing with lots of different
fdeods. I’m alot of fun to be with and
am looking for someone similar.
(Norman) "~ 15342
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black hair and hazel eyes. I’m looking
for an aggressive, hot top or a master
for light S/M. I guarantee you’ll enjoy
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details or gi~e. your first order in my
mailbox. I’m ready to serve. (Tulsa)
~11921
ARE YOU OUT THERE? I’m a Single
Male, 28, 5’8", 145 lbs, good-looking. I
just want to meet some Guys out’there.
~15065
TONED BUT TIMID Attractive. Gay,
White male, 38, 5’9, 1721bs, with Brown
hair Hazel eyes, a mustache, goatee,
and well defined body, is HIV positive
but very healthy. ~’m shy, sincere, and
masculine. I’d like to meet a good looking,
Gay or Bi male, 20 to 45, who’s versatile
or a top, who has an above average
endowment, for casual fun. Body
hair and facial hair are plusses. (Ft.
Smith) ’~8893
NICE AND EASY This friendly, 58 year
old White ma~e seeks a n=ce guy to
have pleasant conversations w th, and
to enjoy during relaxing evenings
ttgether. (Tulsa) ~14641
BELLS ON MY TOES I’m a White male
into crossdressing and painting my toenails.
I love getting my toenails and
everything else, sucked on. If you’re in
the area and turned on, call me. I’m 35,
with Blond hair and Blue eyes.
(Tahlequah) ~11743
RUGGED AND RANDY This good looking
rugged, cowboy type, blue collar
worker, 30, 6’4, 200ibs, wth Blond hair.
Blue eyes and a hairy body, seeks
other cowboy types for fun, I like go ng
out, watcblng tv at home, taking long
drives, and being very romantic, I’d like
a permanent relationship but we should
be friends first. (Henrietta) ’~14467
MY SCHEDULE’S CLEAR Guess
what! have no plans tonight, This
attractive, 20 year old, White male,
wants to go out and do something with
you. Give me a call. (Tulsa) m’14309
ENOUGH DAYDREAMING I’ve always
considered myself Straight, but lately I
haven’t been able to stop thinking about
sex with anomer man. I need someone
Straight acting, discreet, healthy, and
drug free. I’m a good looking, pretty well
built’Single. White male, 29, 6ft,
1901bs. with Brown har and Green
eyes. (Grand Lake) ~12004
TRIPYOUR TRIGGER This good looking,
happily Married, Bi, White male, 34,
6’2, 2301bs, is new to this scene. I’d like
tc meet other Bi males. 18 to 28, who
are petite, smooth, and preferably feminine,
for erotic entertainment only. Your
endowment doesn’t matter to me. but
tTOuU must be discreet and very clean.
Isa) ~13211
BEDWARMER WANTED This hot stud
in Tulsa, needs a warm body to heat me
up en cold nights. (Tulsa) ’1~13077
LIKE A LADY want to get together
with Cross-Dressers or She-Males. I
ust want to meet you and treat you
rice. ~15427
MAN OF ACTION This good looking,
masculine, 34 year old, White male, 6ft,
1751bs, with a good build, seeks similar
guys, 21 to 35, into sports, fun times,
traveling, and relaxing at home.
(McAllister) ~13473
IT’S THIS SIMPLE This White Male, 6’,
240 Ibs.. with brown hair and blue eyes
seeks Black Males. ages 25-40.
~r14539
BUTT BUDDY Friendly, 36 year old,
uncut, White male, 5’10, 1601bs, with
Brown hair, Brown eyes, and a great
butt, seeks friends to hang out with.
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hair and green eyes. My husband’s out
of town a lot, and rm lonely. I’m looking
for a nice Female who likes to go out, or
just stay nome and watch movies.
(Tulsa) ~15293
BUSY NEWCOMER ’m an attracbve~
petite, Black female, 25, 4’11, 1201bs,
with one child. I’m new to this area and
this scene so I hope you’ll be patient
with me. I have three jobs ano am very
busy but have time to meet some
womyn, 25 to 30, of all races, for friendship
or more. (Tulsal ’~14485
TEACH ME, PLEASE I’m not very
experienced n this and I’m hoping ro
meet someone who can talk to me, give
me pointers, or tell me how it is. I’m 23
years 01d and have been attracted to
women, but have never acted on it.
(Tulsa’~ ~13687
MIDWEST TIES I’m a Lesbian writer
and journalist who’s tied to the midwest
for a while, rm interested =n meet=rig
other womyn with whom tc discuss hterature
and the world. Who knows what
might develop? (Tulsa) ’~10163
NEW TO THE SNOW This 20 year o~o,
Gay, White female, 5’5, 1201bs. just
moved here from Ft. Lauderdale
haven’t met many Gay and Bi womyn
yet, but am anxious to make some
friends. I prefer womyn between 18 and
30, of any race. Some of my interests
include rollerblading, movies, aria going
to corks. (Tulsa) ~10181
CALl TRANSPLANT I recently moved
here from California aria need some
friends to show me what Oklahoma is ~,
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Rights Lobby ofTexas. "More states than
ever before are facing anti-Gay measures
and/or are fightingforpro-Gay civil rights
protections. Nearly every state has faced
abill banning the recognition of same-sex
marriages in the last two years. Over thirty
states have groups activdy working on
pro-Gay pieces of legislation."
"In Oklahoma, the logical lead organization
for this action is the Cimarron
Alliance," noted community activistTom
Neal who had represented Tulsa Oklahomans
for Human Rights in last year~s
Federation meetings. "Hopefully a consortium
of organizations, like TOHR,
OGLPC, PFLAG and others, will come
together for such an event," he added.
The Equality Begins at Home actions
will be organized by. each of the existing
36 political organizations active in the
Federation. Each state will desig-n an ac~
tion that best fits with their state and their
political goals. Each state will develop a
plan for integrating local groups and our
allies into the Action.
The National Gay Lesbian Task Force
will help to organize the states that do not
have e:dsting statewide political groups.
The Equality Begins atHome actions has
been g~ven office space in the National
Gay Lesbian Task Force office.
Kerry Lobel, executive director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
said, "The political center of gravity is in
the states. Equality Begins at Home will
allow organizers to focus their energy on
building the movement in all fifty states.
At this critic~ time in our movement,
NGLTF is fully committed to the Federaraon
and the state actions. We urge our
colleague or~ mizations to join us in suppo,-
txng this critical political work.
Several national and local groups have
jointed in supporting the Equality Begins
at Home Actions by helping with re-
5~udraising, publicity-, organiz-
,.~ ~’,~ ~w-~.ic.~ and expertise. There will
also 0e a pc,~ .~i’~d effort to make sure that
both the Equality Begins at Home actions
and the Millenium March compliment
each-other and share resources.
"The Equality Begins at Home actions
enjoys the full support and enthusiastic
supportofthe organizers of the Millenium
March," said Elizabeth Birch, executive
director of the Human Rights Campaign.
"It is imperative that we focus our energies
as a movement at both the state and
federal level. These two events will cornpliment
each other as together we build
the momentum to achieve equality in the
next century."
"Each state capitol must hear voices of
every color thatmakes-up theLGBTcommtmity.
LLEGO will make sure that
Latina/os are active in this event and looks
forward to making a forceful manifestation
ofunity and inclusiveness. Ourmovement
will be raised to anew level with the
success of Equality Begins at Home, said
Martin Omelas-Quintero, Executive Director
of LLEGO, The Nadonal Latinwo
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Organization.
For more .information about Equality
Begins a~ Home, contact Tom Neal at
583-1248 or tulsanews@earthlink.net.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - An executive order signed by
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Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperA veilsble In More Than 75 City Locations
Tulsa Pride Picnic Threatened
With Radical Anti-Gay Protests
TULSA The Rev. Johnny Lee Clary, best known as an cx-
Klansman and for testifying agaimt former debutant and one
time neo Nazi Carol Howe, is orgaaizJrtg a protest of Ttdsa’s
annual Gay Pride Picnic and March scheduled to be at Veterans’
park 18th & Boulder on June 20th from 1 l:30am to 5pm.
Clary. apparently has invited the Rex’ Fred Phelps of Topeka
tojoha him. Clary has a telephone hofline,49~0004, on which he
defends Demos Mahon, white suprermdst and ulso, the FBI
suspect accused of bombing abortion providers and an Adan~a
NE OK HIV Prevention
Programs Lose Funding
HIV Chief Promises to Fast.track Refunding
TULSA - E-mall is flying and protest meetings are
being planned of the complete shut-off of all fund
ing for HIV/AIDS prevention th Northeastern Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma Congressmen
SupportAnti-Gay Remarks
WASHINGTON (AP) - Religious fight and conservative Repubtic2m
leaders embraced Gree~ Bay Packers defensive lineman
Reggie White, who cngeudered controversy after slmaking
out a~ai.~t homosexuality a~d abortion, While praising White,
an ordained Bapfist mlnlster, at a Iuncheon in Iris honor Monday.
they also ctitidzed meml~ of Congress who declined invitatiom
to attend.
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*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 832-1269 ¯
*Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston 592-2143 ¯
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*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 Dell, 15th & Peoria 599-7777 ¯
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 749-1563 :
*’Iqae Palate Cafe & Catering, 3324G E. 31st 745-9899 :
*St. MichaeFs 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, 2114S. 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 747-1508 "
*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 Nicrle, 2722 E. 15 712-1122
*Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 2P 712-9955 "
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272 "
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313 ¯
Don Carlton Honda, 4141 S. Memorial 622-3636 "
Don Carlton Mitsubishi, 46th & Memorial 665-6595 "
Cherry St. Psych0therapy,!515 S. Lewis 581-0902,743-4117 ¯
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700 :
*Daisy Exchange, E. 15th ~-- 746-0440 ¯
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468 "
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620 ¯
*Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611 ¯
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S~ Peoria 744-5556 "
*Elite Books& Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503 "
*RossEdward Saloti, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337, 712-9379 :
*Floral Desi,g~., Studio, 3404 S. Peoria " 744-9595
*Gloria~Jean’g GOUrinet Coffee, 1758 E. 21St....742-1460:
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MarkT. Hamby; Attorney ~ .: .. . :. . 744-7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
*International Tours 341-6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th 71.2-2750
*Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th . 582-3018
David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236
*Keu’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 74%5466
Langley Agency & Salon, 1316 E. 36th P1. 749-5533
Laredo Crossing, 1519 E. 15th 585-1555
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3" 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers; 9720c E. 31~ 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951
*Novd Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672"
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 743-4297
Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo 838-7626
Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 74%5932
Pdchard’s Carpet Cleamng 834-0617
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746
Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616S. Main, #308 582-7748 ’
*Scribner’s Bookstore. 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
*Sedona Health Foods, 8220 S. Harvard 481-0201
*Tickled Pink,’33~0 S.’ Peoria ~ 697-0017 "
*Trizza’s Pots, 1448 S. Delaware 743"-7687 .
*Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria .742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy C1._u.,~, 6906 S Lewis : 481-0558 " ¯
Tul~g~~iries, C:liurche~.~~hoolS & Universities :
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB.I~33%"72~t(~l ~ 579-9593 :
*AllSiJuls:~J~tariiin Cti~ch, ~9~2 S. Peoria 743-2363 ¯
Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-7314 "
Ble~s The Lord at All Times Christian Center 2207 E. 6 583-7815 "
*B/L/G!T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780 ¯
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University. of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence
*ChurchoftheRestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314 "
*Community 0f_Hope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 585-1800
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
*Council Oak Men’ s Chorale, rehearsals on Monday~, 743-4297
918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140. Tulsa, OK 74159
e-mail: TulsaNews@ earthlink.net
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington
Gay & Lesbian Pride Celebration, 1998
Warm greetings to everyong taking part
in the 1998 Gay and Lesbian Pride Cel~
ebration.
As Americans, we can be proud of our
diversity. Striving together, people of different
etlmicities, backgrounds, races,
beliefs, and sexual orientation have contributed
to the success of our nation, reflecting
the profound truth that this rich
diversity is one of our greatest strengths.
But wemust face the reality that some--
times our differences divide us; sometimes
the voices of hatred and prejudice
drown out the harmony in our natio~ml
life. Events like the Pride Celebration
help us to recognize anew that working in
a spirit of community is not only a hope
but a necessity, and that our individual
dreams can only be realized by our shared
efforts.
Our ideals and our history hold that the
rights guaranteed us as Americans are
inalienable. They are embedded in our
Constitution and amplified over time by
our courts and legislature, and I am bound
by my oath of office and the burden of
history to reaffirm them. Ournation stands
to lose if we let prejudice and discrimination
stifle the hopes or deny the potential
of a single American. And we stand to
lose when any person is denied or forced
out of ajob because of sexual orientation.
I commend each of youfor your dedication
to working for an America that celebrates
our diversity, builds on our
strengths, and fulfills our fundamental
values of mutual respect and compassion.
Working together, I am confident that we
can enter the 21 stcentury as OneArnerica.
Best wishes ,for a wonderful celebration..~
- Bill Clinton
GREEN COUNTRY
FRIENDS MEETING
The Religious Society of
Friends, (Quakers)
Dear State Legislator,
As a Meeting of the Religious Society
of Friends (Quakers), we are deeply
troubled by the spirit of two laws being
considered by the State Legislature. These
proposed laws would deny or restrict civil -
rights to gay and lesbian people. These
laws would deny homosexual men and
women the right to maintain or seek employment
in the public schools and the
custody of children.
We believe that legalized discrimination,
prejudice and bigotry is unacceptable
for our state and country today. We
have struggled against these challenges
before in the areas concerning slavery,
ethnicity, cultural; race, gender, religion
and immigration. Oppression shifts ~ts
focus, t9 discriminate again_st particular
groups but it is the same basic problem
that we face again and again. Not to rec-
"ogfii.~the prolrlem.hnd=to perpetuateit is
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; issues which we’ve covered or on issues
¯ you think need to be considered. Youmay ¯
request that your name be withheld but
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A- FUTURE TO.
CELEBRATE
by Kerry Lobel
Recently, my partner Mary and Ihad
dinner with Del Martin and Phyllis
Lyon. Both Del and I share the sign of
Taurus. Each year, I mark-my birthday
by recalling how long Phyllis and Del
have been palmers. They have been
together the entire 45 years I’ve been
alive. I’ve known them for more than
25 years. And at two key points in my
life, they provided the tools I needed to
create a life. As a young woman of 19,
their book "LesbiaWWoman" changed
my life. Tired of digging in scientific
and religious journals that described
homosexuals as sick or sinner, the publication
of their book in 1972 was a
breath of fresh air. By then they had
been partners for almost twenty years,
and had traveled many Lesbian roads.
Their book gave me the hope that I
could have a life, connected with other
.Lesbians. And, they taughtme thatalong
with my sisters, I should not expect
only tolerance, but rather demand liberation.
Theirlives have beenframedbymany
movements, chief among them, the’
feminist movement. They understood
early on thatby making coalitions for
socialjustice, we would not only bring
our Lesbian selves forward; but the re.st
of society as a whole. Andthey’ve been
unafraid to tackle the toughissues. Their
book "Battered .Wives" changed the
ways in which our country addressed
woman abuse. When I edited"Naming.
the Violence: .Speaking OutAboutLes~
bianBattering" Del was quick to offer
.her ~adv.ice and support. While some
were afraid to talk about abuse in our
.~ommunity, she knew that our commu~
nity could only be strengthened bythis
honest discussion.i ¯ -
Justas Phyllis and Del have helped us
navigate our 20s, 30s,40s, 50s, and 60s,
they are also helping lead us through
our issues as old Gay men, Lesbians,
Bisexuals and Transgendered people.
They served as participants intheWhite
House Conferenc,. on Aging and led
workshops at a recent SAGE conference
on aging issues. When NGLTF
was challenged onissues related to ageism,
Deland Phyllis, as well as Shevy
Healey and Ruth Silver from Old Lesbians
Organized for Change, trained
our staff and demanded more visibility
at NGLTF’s Creating Change conference.
A recent stop of our families tour in
Providence, Rhode Island, reminded us
that no discussion of family issues is
complete without the recognition that
our Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and transgendered
family is comprised of individuals
from each generation. Issues
related to schools, parenting, and children
are only one part of our life cycle.
Issues related to Medicaid, social security,
healthcare and social services are
another.
As our colleagues at SAGE remind
us, in the world’s eye, the GLBT eommunity
appears to lack a family of all
ages, and in the imagination ofmany of
us, there is no furore beyond age 40.
Seniors arenearly invisiblein theGLBT
community, shunned to the detriment
ofus all. In our work, as diligently as we
work for the lives and well-being of
youngpeoplewemustaddress.the needs
of seniors. We must challenge bias in
the healthcare system,
see Lobel, page 14
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A TFN Update
by Tom Neal, publisher & editor
Usually I write a column about how
¯¯ this newspaper is doing and where we
think we’re going at the end of the year
¯ to coincide with the anniversary of our
¯ first issue. However, we’ve recently ¯
had some changes about which we’d
¯
like to make you aware.
¯ We have had some.changes in writ¯
ers. We’re delighted to have added my
friend Mary Schepers, our Do-It- Your-
" self Dyke, and Esther Rothblum who
¯ writes Dyke Psyche from her New En-
¯ gland base.-TFN has always tried to be.
a newspaper for all parts of our very,
¯ very diverse community, from our self-
" appointed A-list to truckers and queer
¯ biker-dudes, fromdrag queens to dykes,
and from closeted to screamingly out -
¯ an inherendy challenging task. We’re
¯ delighted that these two writers are providing
a "dyke" sensibility, though I
believe you don’t have to be a Lesbian
¯ to enjoy or be enlightened by their work
; We sad to have lost, we hope Just
¯ temporarily, our entertainment writer,
Jim Christjohn. Many of you will know
¯ that Jim & I were spouses (partners-in-
: life, husbands?- language continues to
¯ fail us) for nearly six years. Jim is
concentrating on making a living and
¯ finishing his education, and as he puts
¯ it, has neither the time norinclination to
: write at this time. His work will be
¯ missed. TFN will try to contume to
; provide good entertainment coverage
though likely not nearly with the same
¯ wit - or with the regular Stevie Nicks/
Fleetwood Mac updates.
¯ Onapersonal andbusiness note, I’ve
: written before th,at publishing.a smal!
:. community newspaper like TFN:i~:a
¯ labor of love - that you can make a
¯ living but only if you’re willing to live
¯ very, verymodestly. This has been true
with this newspa~l~,,, even thoug_h,,it has
:- always operated in the bla~k . We
¯ understand .that several of our out-of-
¯ town competitors might not be able to
¯ claim even as much. But even living
¯ very, very modesdy is not always
¯ enoughandas I’ve suggested in thepast ¯
that I might do, I’ve gone to work part-
" time for a downtown home improve-
" ment center (once in retail, always in
¯ retail?). Since my avocation is garden-
: ing~ I asked for and am working in the
~ garden section - so please stop by and
¯ see me there!
~ However, lest anyone be concerned,
: we intend to continue publishing Tulsa
i Family News and providing our com¯
munity with quality newscoverage.
We’re proud that the serious news for-
" mat which we introduced to Oklahoma
_" has been imitated by The Gayly Okla-
¯. homan and by The Community News
Voice as was our introduction of main-
" stream distribution locations. Before
: we started, you could finda community
¯ newspaper only in about 7 dubs and 4
~ "bookstores". Today, Tulsa Family
¯ Newsis foundinmore than751ocations
¯" in Tulsa alone- from City Hall to Holland
Hall, as wall as in OKC and other
~ regional towns.
~ I particularly want to thank Tulsa
¯ Family News" advertisers because they
¯ are the ones who make it possible to
." publish this paper. A number of them
: have been withus from the very begin-
: ning and those courageous ones we
¯ especially thank. Also TFN has been
; blessedwith kind, generous and tal-
; ented writers without whom we would
: be alesser publication. To all these and
¯ to you, our readers, we give our thanks.
Anti-Abortion Radicals i
Now Targeting Gays;
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The signs read "Life." The "
100 or so protesters sang spirituals and shouted out
Bible verses, flouting a court order to keep the noise
down as they marched in front of an abortion clinic. ¯
Orlando, . the fantasy playland of rides, stories and "
animated characters, is host this week to a different "
kind of show: protests by Operation Rescue over ¯
abortion rights, gay rights and child pornography. ,
About 100 abortion opponents defied a court order ’
banning them from singing, whistling and.ch.anting "
within earshot of patients at the EPOC clime. The
tnjunction also allows police to search backpacks or
purses within 1,000 feet’of a clinic and requires .
abortionrights supporters and foes to be 10 feet ~part.
Thecity ofOrlando obtainedtheinjunctionagainst :
Dallas-based Operation Rescue last week. Police ¯
made no arrests for violating the injunction, which is
in effect through the end of the week.
Five people were arrested for blocking the street
next to the clinic by lying down on the ground. They
were charged with obstructing a roadway and resisting
arrest. :
As the group protested, a half-dozen supporters of
abortion rights and Gay civil rights stood in front of
metal barricades with signs that read "Mobilize, Defend
Abortion Providers," and about 75 police officers
watched. Later in the afternoon, the anti-abortion
protesters attended a city council meeting to object to
a plan to fly rainbow-colored.flags aro_und the city to
commemorate Gay Pride month in June. Protesters
carried signs that said "America Remember Sodom"
outside City Hall and inside told cotgmissioners they
shouldn’t promote homosexuality.
Gay activist Bob Kunst sai,d,, the gay community
won’t tolerate discrimination. Weare tired of being
misrepresentedbypeople who are so emotionally and
sexually hung up that.they exploi,t God, the~ e~xploit
gays and they exploit the country,’ Ktmst saia. t~ouncil
members decided to let the flags fly.
In almost its 10th year of targeting cities for abortion
protests, Operation Rescuefinds itself with dwindling
numbers and-hampered by recent federal- legislation
and court decisions. "Nobody knows what’s
legal and not legal anymore, stud Fltp Benham, th
group’s leader. .
Some abortion opponents tried to get their message
out Monday by surrounding a woman and her teenage
daughter as they arrived at the EPOC clinic. "We
have an appointment, let. us xn, th mother told
police. One protester, Maria Jordan, shouted at the
woman in Spanish, "This is a sin of God!"
Operation Rescue also plans demonstrations at
Barnes & Noble Booksellers to protest what the
group considers childpornography, andatWaltDisney
World to protest its gay-friendly policies.
Anti-Gay Groups Oppose ¯
City Anti-Bias Rule l
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Some local ministers
and other residents have begun a campaign to put to
a vote this fall a city r~solution banning discrimination
against Gays incity hiring. The City Council .t~,~s "
month overturned the mayor’s veto of the council s ¯
passage of the measure.
The resolution forbids discriminationin city hiring ’
based on sexual orientation andfamilial status, which "_
addresses marital statns and members of families not- ¯
bound by alegal marriage. It also addresses discrimi- ¯
nation in areas covered by federal law, such as race, "
sex, religion, ancestry and disability.
Critics oppose the.part of the resolution:regarding "
homosexuals. "We think werepresent the majority °f ~
peoplein Fayetteville," said the Rev. Charlie Brown, ¯
~iulster at Ridgeview Baptist Church. He said the ¯
measure may signal the beginning of a moveme,n,t ¯
toward Gays earning special status in Fayetteville. I
believe very strongly, as an individual, as a citizen, ~
that this resolution is dangerous because xt cracks the .
door open for special rights," Brown said. . ¯
State law requires the petitions seeking a referen- "
dum on a council-approved measure be submitted no :
later than 31 days after the Council’s May 5 vote. The :
group also must get 1,925 signatures to get the mea- ¯
sure on the November election ballot. The Rev. Gene
Fulcher of Calvary Baptist Church said the petition
drive was organized by ministers, business people
and others.
City officxalshave saldtheresoluttonwon tchang
- whatwas already unwrittenpractice. AldermanRandy
Zurcher, who proposed the resolution, said Gays
won’t be preferred for jobs over heterosexuals. He
said he believes he speaks for the majority. ’‘There is
a progressive majority in this town," he said Friday.
"I just hope they’re voting.’"
Black Preacher Warns
of "Gay Takeover"
ATLANTA (AP) - A black preacher stirred UP controversy
in an east Atlanta neighborhood when he
distributed a flier to save it from what he called the
"white takeover" and to discuss how to end a Homosexual
and Lesbian takeover. A meeting was’called
by the Rev. Amos Moore, pastor ofNew Mount Sinai
Baptist Church. About 85 people confronted the
preacher and a small group of black residents who
said they felt disenfranchised by the influx of white
residents in the past five years. The flier said: "Save
our neighborhood. If you are concerned about the
’white takeover’ of Kirkwood, come meet .... to
discuss how we can put an end to the Homosexual and
Lesbian takeover of our community. Kirkwood concerned
black neighbors."
"I don’t care who lives here," said David Jackson,
a black lifetime Kirkwood resident. "This neighborhood
is open." But Moore said, "The purpose of the
flier was to pull our people together as one in the
community, not as a hate group... I do believe in
loving my neighbors. But I have to s~t~n,d firm on
God’s wordabouthomosexuality and that s an abomi-
.nation under God." Several residents said it is more
important to confront the neighborhood’s drug dealers.
A white Gay couplewon a suit last year against
black neighbors for rurming an alleged crack house.
School Gives Domestic
" Partners Benefits
MADISON, Wis. (AP) = The Madison School District
extended health insurance benefits to the domestic
partners of teachers Monday, despite alegal effort
to block the move. About 30 teachers signed up for
the benefit, said Bob Nadler, the district’s benefits
manager. The policy allows teachers to extend their
insurance coverage to their unmarried partners, either
of the same sex or opposite sex. Those applying for
the domestic partner benefit must have more than a
casual relationship, and verify that they live together
and share finances. Teachers had until May 15 to
retmn ~e enrollment forms for the program.
Madison resident Mason Sproul filed a notice of
claifia against the district 1astmonthin an effort to stop
the plan, which teachers won during their last round
of collective bargaining. Sproul’s claim against the
district "is not going to stop our implementation,"
Nadler said. "We will do whatever we need to do to
answer the complaint." Sproul’ s claim asksthathealth
benefit coverage be extended only to employees,
their spouses
Florida Catholic Bishop
Starts Gay Ministry .
JACKSONVILLE, Ha (A.P) - Bishop John J. Snyder
celebrated Mass to launch a new ministry for Gay
men and Lesbians at Assumption Catholic Church,
saying PopeJohn Paul II himself approved the project.
The bishop said he brought up the idea of opening the
specialized ministry during a recent audience he h,ad
with the pope. But Snyder.said he made ~t dear ne
planned to keep with the church’s teachings, too. The
pontiff, he said, sat quietly for a few moments, then
said: "We all need redeeming, don’t we?
Still, Snyder said during a recent Mass that the
Roman Catholic church is not changing its position
and does notcondonehomosextml activity. "We want
brothers and sisters to be part of the church and to
have an active role," Snyder said.
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The Diocese of St. Augustine became the 36th in the
nation to start a Gay and Lesbian ministry. During his
homily, Snyder said the church is making an effort at
reconciliation. "We have taken steps. We are not yet
where we need to be," he said. "I believe that ultimate
judgment belongs to the Lord.’"
While an estimated 300 Gays and Lesbians attended
the Mass, a smaller group outside protested, praying
and holding aloft signs critical of the initiative. The
bishop acknowledged disagreement still exists among
Catholics over whether homosexuality should have a
role in church affairs. "I fully realize we are not going
to keep everyone happy," he said, "especially those on
either end of the spectrum."
The Diocese ofS t. Augustine, coveting 17 cotmties in
northeast and central Florida, already has begun reaching-
out to’ Gays and Lesbians, according to church’
SlJo.kesv~oman Kathleen Bagg-Morgan. "We’re not focusxng
so much on the sexuality of this as we’re focusing
on the human being," she said.
Outside the church, protesters carried signs reading:
"The Truth Does Not Validate Sinful Acts," "I’he
Catholic Church Does Not Condone Homosexual Activity"
and "The Bible Condemns Homosexual Acts."
About 40 people prayed but refused to discuss their
positions with reporters. Instead~ they issued a written
statement that said ministering to homosexuals contradicts"
the clear teachings of theRomanCatholicChurch
and many other faiths." The protestors also said special
Masses should not be held for people based solely on
their sexual orientation.
But those attending the Mass expressed support for
the move by the church. "I think it’s great," said Terry
Douglas of the Southside. "The Catholic Church sort of
wentbackwards before, i thinkthey’ velost morepeople
than they thought."
Archbishop Refuses
Communion to Gays
MELBOURNE, Ausmdia (AP) - The Catholic Archbishop.
of Melbourne Sunday refused communion to
about 50 homosexual protesters:~ho sought to receive
the Eucharist at Mass. The group attended the service to
challenge the church’s ban on practicing homosexuals
receiving communion, spokesman Michael Kelly said.
During Mass at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Pell told
the congregation that homosexual acts were contrary to
natural law.and that the group was ineligible for communion
in the same way as was a heterosexual couple
who engaged in adultery.
Archbishop George Pell instead offered blessings to
the protesters, who worerainbow-colored sashes, and at
the end of the Mass told the congregation that he would
pray for them.
Outside the church, Kelly, aformer chaplain, accused
Pell of ~aarginalizing homosexuals. "For the first time
in my life, I saw my 74-year-old mother, who has been
a Catholic all her life, refused Holy Communion because
she went forward openly in support of her Gay
son," he said. Earlier, members of the Rainbow Sash
Movementjoined othermembers of the congregation in
walking up the aisle to receive communion.
Pell told the congregation his refusal to .give them
communion was "not a matter of rejecting homosexuals."
’‘The rule is the same for everyone. If someone is
practicing something cdntrary to the church’s doctrine,
they are not eligible to accept communion," Pell said.
’qqae same would apply to a couple living in adultery."
His statements were met with loud applause by
the congregation. -
Outside, Kelly said his group would not be "condemned
to silence or invisibility." "We claim our dignity
as people made in God’s image and our right to
freedom, justice and love, the right to live fully human
lives with the sexuality that God gave us," he said. He
accused the church of being a bastion of homophobia,
discrimination and abuse.
Candidates’ Sexuality
Not Relevant
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Education. Crime. The environment.
Congressional candidate Christine Kehoe insists
voters in California’s 49th District care more about
those issues than her homosexuality. "When people
understand what I am about, my sexual orientation
doesn’t matter," said Kehoe, a San Diego councilwoman
and the only Democrat in the race. "My
record shows I work for everyone."
Still, Kehoe’s sexuality could make history: If
elected, she would be one of the first openly Lesbian
candidate to be elected to national office.
Kehoe, 47, may downplay the importance, but as a
flier for a recent fund-raiser proclaimed: "History
is about to be made, and you can be part of it.’"
Kehoe is one of four Lesbians running for Congress
this year, as well as three Gay men. That
number represents the largest group of openly Gay
candidates to run for national office.
Rep. BarneyFrank, D-Mass., and Rep. Jim Kolbe.
R-Ariz., did not reveal their homosexuality until
after they were in office, but the other Congressional
candidates disclosed their sexual orientation
prior to this year’s elections.
They are Wisconsinlegislator Tammy Baldwin:
former Massachusetts legislator Susan Tracy; refired
Army Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, who
was discharged from the military in 1992 after
revealing her homosexuality; and rancher and oilman
Paul Barby.
It isn’t that the current political climate is more
friendly to Gays and Lesbians - it isn’t friendly to
anyone, said Brian Bond, executive director of the
Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a group dedicated
to getting homosexuals elected. "These candidates
are not running as Gays or Lesbians," Bond said.
"They are candidates who happen to be Gay or
Lesbian. They have a track record inpublic service,
representing people on a wide range of issues, and
it’s only natural that they start moving up."
With the help of the Victory Fund, Kehoe has
raised about $370,000 since last year, compared to
$320,000 by her Republican challenger, two-term
incumbent Brian Bilbray. As the first openly Gay
member of the San Diego Council, Kehoe was
initially expected by some of her colleagues her to
pursue a particular agenda, fellow councilwoman
V.alerie Stallings :said. "They ~w~re all pleas..autl¥........
surprised to find she was well-rounded, wii~ ii~~
agenda or ax to grind," said Stallings.
Arkansas Sodomy
Law on Trial
LITFLEROCK(AP)-Anattorney argnmg against
an Arkansas law barring homosexual sex said today
that the courts would never tolerate such a law
ifit applied to sex betweenpeople of different races
instead of homosexuals. "ff there was a law that
said that interracial couples could not engage in
intimate sexual acts that everyone else in the state
cmfldengage infreely, the court would clearly have
the power to address that discrimination," lawyer
Suzanne Goldberg said.
Ms. Goldberg said that was one analogy she
offered Pulaski County Chancellor Collins Kilgore
in a heating this morning. The heating was on a
motionfiledby the state attorney general’ s office to
dismiss a lawsuit filed by the orgamzation Ms.
Goldberg represents, the Lambda Legal Defense
and Education Fund ofNew York. That group filed
suit to strike down Arkansas’ anti-sodomy law,
which outlaws homosexual sex and carries maximumpenalties
of one year injail and a $1,000 fine.
Kilgore took the motion under advisement.
¯ " Thestate argues that the law doesn’t need to be
struck from the books because it isn’t being enforced.
Homosexuals shouldn’t worry about being
prosecuted for what they do as consenting adults in
private because no one has been taken to court in
Arkansas for such conduct in 70 years. "In light of
the history of nonenforcement ... plaintiff’s alleged
’fear’ of future prosecution is unfounded," said
Timothy Gauger, an assistant attorney general
’qqlis law creates a second-class status for Lesbians
and Gay men, criminalizing intimate, sexual
behavior that is perfectly legal fornon-Gay people,’~
Ms. Goldberg said. "The Arkansas statute causes
terrible harm to Gay people, depriving parents of
cnstody of their children and putting people at risk
of losing their professional licenses, theirjobs, and
their homes, s~mply for intimacy with aloved one."
Teaching Condom
Use Works Better
CHICAGO (AP) - Safe-sex lessons for
children work best if condom use is emphasized
rather than abstinence, researchers
foundin a study oflow-income blacks.
A separate finding underscores a compelling
need for the grown-up subject matter:
although their average age was just 11,
25% of the youths were no longer virgins.
"We shouldn’t underestimate that and we
have to begin earlier to give children the
¯ kind of information they need to protect
themselves," said Princeton University
psychologistJolmB. Jemmott III, thelead
author. "We can’t wait because we may
be waiting until alter they’ve already had
sex for the first time."
The study of 659 inner-city Philadelphia
youths sought ways to stem the high
rate of sexually transmitted diseases
among black adolescents. Among 13-to-
19 year olds with AIDS, blacks comprised
57% and whites just 23% in 1996,
federal statistics show, while the gonorrhea
rate among 15-to-19 year olds was
about 24 times higher among blacks than
whites.
The authors evaluated which programs
workbest at curbing the riskiest behavior:
unprotected sex. ’~If the goal is reduction
of unprotected sexual intercourse, the
safer-sex strategymayhold themostpromise,
particularly with those adolescents
who are already sexually experienced,"
the authors wrote in the Journal oj the
American Medical Association. Conservative
groups like the Family Research
Council have pushed the abstinence approach,
and the federal government has
mandated that states use $50 million in
sex-educationmoney for abstinence-only
programs. ButinaJAMA editorial, Emory
University psychologist Ralph J.
¯ DiClemente said the findings "indicate a
need to reconsider the role of abstinence
programs" in safe-sex education.
The authors studied sixth- and seventhgraders
at three Philadelphia middle
schools. The students were divided into
three gronps, each receiving eight hours
ofhealth education. One focused on abstinence
as a means of avoiding sexually
translnitted diseases and pregnancy; one
focused on condom use; and a control
group addressed avoiding other diseases
unrelated to sexual behavior.
Results were measured at three months,
six months and a year afterwards. At three
months, just 12~5% of the abstinencegronp
students reportedhaving recent sex,
compared to 16.6% among the condom
group and 21.5% in the Control group. At
six months, slightly more of the abstinence-
group students were having sex
than the condom-group students. By 12
months, 20% of the abstinence group had
recent sex, compared to 16.5% of the
condom group and 23.1% of the control
group.
Theabstinence group also reportedhaving
engaged inmore unprotected sex than
the condom group throughout the
followup. Condomuseamong thecondom
group was significantly higher than the
other groups at all measuring periods.
Jemmott said he was surprised by the
abstinence program’s early success, because"
ifyou’re teaching them abstinence,
you’ re battling against the norm." That its
failure rate grew over.time indicates the
students probably succumbed to peer pressure
to have sex, he said.
Jemmottalso theorized that thecondom
class had better, long-term success because
it taught students a positive message
about something they could do, rather
than anegativemessage about what not to
do. However, Gracie Hsu, a Family Research
Council policy analyst, said the
abstinence program likely would have
had more long-term success if the class
had lasted longer. "We recognize tha{
society is very sex,saturated, and in order
for these kids to resolve to abstain, they’ll
need a constant message," Hsu said.
Jemmott said more research is needed
to see if similar programs would have
similar results among other minority and
white students.
FDA Approves
.Urine HIV Test
WASHINGTON (AP)-Calypte Biomedical
Corp. says the Food and Drug Administrationhas
approved its urineHIV Westem
blot test. Calypte already had created
a test that screened for antibodies to the
AIDS virus in unne. But people who
tested positive still needed a more accurate
blood test called the Western blot to
confirm infection. The new approval announced
Monday allows confirmatory
testing in urine, too, which Calypte says is
safer and easier than traditional HIV
blood tests because it doesn’t require
needles or specially trained health-care
workers.
But the FDA cautioned that arine testmg
is not quite as accurate as blood testing.
In a study of 748 people who tested
HiV-positive with blood tests, the urine
test missed two patients, the FDA said.
Calypte says the misses occurred because
tho~e patients had begun taking AIDS
medications that lowered their HIV levels.
Still, labs must give people about to be
tested special brochures that warn that
blood tests are somewhat better at catd~-
ing HIV i~ffections, said Paul A. Mied,
FDA’s deputy director bf transfusion-related
diseases.
The brochures also say the unne test
causes more false-positive results than
the blood test in certain people at high risk
for H1V or who have medical conditions
like kidney or liver disease, he said.
High Schoolers Go
for HIV Testing
KANSAS CITY, Kan..(AP) - More than
100 students at Turner High School were
tested voluntarily £or HIV this spring as
part of a program that some say indicates
a growing awareness about AIDS among
area teenagers. Students at the school in
southern Kansas City, Kan., were tested
in April andMay by the Kansas City Free
Health Clinic at the request of a student
organization. Noalarming trends atTurner
prompted the test. Members of a student
group called BeActive in Self-Education,
or B.A.S.E, simply wanted .their peers to
understand that pregnancy and herpes
aren’t the only consequences of unprotected
sex~ All the-students had to have
parental permission to be tested. "Nobody
made us do this," saidJason Schultz,
a 17,y,,ear~old junior. "We wanted it to
come.
None of the 112 students tested positive
forthe virus that causes AIDS, saidRueben
Perez, the clinic’s director of HIV ,Prevention
Services. It was the first time that
the clinic, one of the largest HIV testing
centers in the area, had conducted tests in
a high school. The Kansas City, Mo.,
Kansas City, Kan., Shawnee Mission and
Independence, Mo., school districts have
not offered HIV tests in their schools,
officials said.
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"People, especially youngerpeople,just
don’t want to see that it can affect them,"
said Schultz. "They think that it’s a Gay
disease, a ’them’ disease, and not an ’us’
disease." Perez, the clinic’s director, was
surprised so many students agreed to be
tested. Last year, for example, only 169
people from 13 to 19 years old were tested
at the clinic for HIV, despite widespread
speculation that most teen-agers do not
use condoms regularly.
So why should teen-agers heed all the
warning+ about not using condoms? "It’s
reasonable to assume that if we’re having
a lot of cases in their 20s and 30s, some of
those folks may have been infected as
teen-agers," said Betsy Topper, exectmve
director of the AIDS Council of Greater
Kansas City.
The day of the first test, 16=year-old
Jessica Meditz,,a junior, reflected on the
importance of AIDS awareness. She said
it would be nice if students would practice
abstinence, but she doubts that would
work. "I’ll hear girls talking about their
first time (for sex) was 13," she said,
raising her eyebrows and shaking her head.
"You can’t just preach abstinence," she
said. "ff you’re going to experiment,
you’ve got to be smart." Thetesting shows
that AIDS awareness is growing in some
schools, officials said. "Until a few years
ago, AIDS education really depended on
an individual teacher thinking it was important
to do," said Steve Walker, community
set¯rues program manager at
Wyandot Mental Health Center Inc. "It
could be a science teacher talking about it
for one day to a whole unit."
The Kansas State Board of Education
now requires all .districts to offer a com~
prehensive program about human sexuality
that includes AIDS education. Walker
and othercommunity leaders are trying to
improve on that requirement. Three years
ago, the Heart of America United Way
CommunityAIDS Partnership approached
Walker about starting a program that
would use teen-agers to promote AIDS
awareness. Walker’ s programhas received
annual grants of $20,000 to $30,000 from
the partnership. Themoney is usedpfimafily
to pay for several student "AIDS
ambassador" positions and for AIDS
awareness projects at schools.
Tumer’s B.A.S.E. students received
about $750 for this year’s AIDS Awareness
Week, which included bringing the
Free Health Clinic to the school. The
testing at Turner achieved at least one
goal - getting students to talk about and
consider the consequences of unsafe sex.
When asked about the two-week wait
between testing and getting the results,
some students said that they had spent
more time than usual thinking about their
mo~tlity.
An 18-year-old said she had been having
unprotected sex for three years. This
wasn’t her first HIV test. She admitted
that she should make her, partner~ use
condoms, "But when you’re fight there in
the situation... "When asked whether the
test would encouragei~,er to change her
behavior, she replied: I mnot confident.
It’s difficult. I’m going to try,."
Experimental AIDS
Vaccine to Be Tried
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Researchers
in Trinidad and Tobago said
they will begin injecting volunteers with
an experimental AIDS vaccine that has
caused controversy in Uganda, another
test site for the formula. Doctors at the
Medical Research Foundation ofTrinidad
and Tobago said last week they will begin
testing ALVAC-HIV, a vaccine developed
at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, on 20
virus-free people to see if it will prompt
creation of antibodies to fight the disease.
Trials will begin in 2000.
Tests of the vaccine in Uganda last year
weredelayed aftersomepoliticians voiced
unfounded worries that the formula might
create another, stronger strain of the vires
that causes AIDS. Opponents of the trials
also accused researchers of using residents
of lesser-developed comatnes as
guinea pigs for the drug. To avoid such
problems in Trinidad and Tobago, a twinisland
country off the coast of Venezuela,
researchers will launch a two-year education
program before beginning the first
trials, said Courmey Bartholomew, a doctor
at the Medical Research Foundation
Preliminary trials in Europe showed the
vaccine is safe, Bartholomew said. Now
researchers are trying to see if it is effective.
"If we embark on the vaccine trials,
it will be with a safe vaccine already
proven to be safe in the first world countries,"
Bartholomew said. Testing will
eventually take place in 11 countries, he
said. If the vaccine works, the immune
systems of people injected with it would
have the virus antibodies, normally the
first sign of infection, but would not contract
the virus. "They ,would be anti-body
positive and virus negative," Bartholomew
said.
Volunteers Aid
Search for Vaccine
SEATTLE (AP) - Hundreds of Puget
Sound-arearesidents areusing anunusual
weapon - their bodies - to help re,searchers
in their quest to develop a vaccine
against AIDS. The University of Washington
is among six U.S. universities - the
AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Group - that
have been conducting vaemine research
for several years, saidDavidBerger, clinic
coordinator andresearchnurse at the UW’s
AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Unit. The volunteers
are critical, and appreciated.
"Without the~e people, we don’t go forward,"
Berger said. "They are willing to
literally roll up their sleeve and take the
risk to see HIV eradicated in their lifetime."
One of them, Susan Cole, said she felt
compelled to help fight the disease that
killed a close friend, David Armstrong, in
January. "I still don’t know why David
(died), but I do know he’s the reason I’m
as involved as I am," said Cole, 37. "If
there was any way to go back in time, 10-
15 years ago, and know David would be
OK, I’d do this every day."
At this point, all the vaccines are experimental.
Since 1988, the UW has nm
42 trials examining whether the vaccines
are safe and whether they spark an immune
response in the body, Berger said.
The next step is to get enough information
to. warrant testing whether a vaccine is
effective, Berger said. "We still don’t
understand how much of a defense we
have to genenite in a body to get protection,"
he said.
One key to attracting volunteers is educating
the public that there is no risk of
contracting HIV ,through the v~ccines,
Berger said. That s because the vaccines
don’t use the complete HIV virus. Instead,
they contain snippets of the genetic
code for the virus, or pieces ofprotein that
makeup the coatingonthe virus. In theory,
those pieces should be enough to engage
the body’s natural attack system, creating
an immune response to the’ virus.
Light Opera Oklahoma ’98
TULSA - TheGilbert & Sullivan Sod- renowned cast of Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah,
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ing assistance to other
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missionis also to stimulate
interestandprovide
educational experiences
in the works of
W.S. Gilbert & Sir
Arthur Sullivan. The
1998 season, June 11-
28at theChapmanTheater
in Kendall Hall on
the University ofTulsa,
will feature threeblockbuster
shows.
They begin with
THE NEW MOON by
Sigmund Romberg.
This very popular love
~story takes place in.
.New Orleans andonthe
New Moon, a ship
bringing ladies from
Francefor wives for the c°mingprq,ducti°ns"
settlers. Amanwhohas incurred the wrath
of a French noble in.Paris fled the country
and a detective is sent to the New World
to find him. He is thought to be a member
of a group planning the overthrow of the
Frenchmonarchy andmustbe captured so
he can be executed as an example to the
public. He is of course in love with a
beautiful and prominent lady, so we can
thrill to the songs thatmade this show one
of the biggest hits of all time: songs like
Lover come back to Me, Wanting You,
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, and Stouthearted
Men.
NEW MOON is followed by the regional
premiere of PINEAPPLE POLL.
This ballet, set by Sir Charles Mackerras
to music from G&S operettas, is one half
of this production. About40 minutes 1ong,
the story is based on Gilbert’s The
BumboatWoman’s Story,later to bemade
intoHMS Pinafore. This rarely performed
piece will be coupled with TRIAL BY
JURY, the collaborators’ only opera.
There is no dialogue, and it is an hilarious
story of a very unusual Judge and his
handing of a breach of promise of marriage.
Completing the ’98 season will beTHE
MIKADO, or theTown of Titipu, with its
Cast membersfrom several ofLOOK
’98, Light Opera Oklahoma’s up-
G&S operettas, this one
is the world’s favorite
and has been so since it
opened on the 14th of
March, 1885.
The Company received
a rave review in
the Tulsa World last
year; both thefree concerts
played to standing
room only crowds
and the films had an
audience to revisit the
world of filmed operetta.
The Suppers and
Cream Teas were very
popular and each night
that the Cafe LOOK
was open, itwas always
full
Membership is open
to.all .who support their
mlssion to preserve
¯ operetta and especially the collaborative
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Dues are $25 for single and $40 for fam-
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Ticket sales to productions account for
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Auditions are held early each year for
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McNally Play to Go On With Gay Contdnt
NEW YORK (AP) - An off-Broadway
theater reversed itself and agreed to produce
a controversial play about a Gay
Christlike figure, despite several anonymous
death threats. "In our 25-year history,
we have never censored a play nor
turned a play down because of content,"
Lynne Meadow, Manhattan Theater
Club’s artistic director, said Thursday.
"The only issue for us has been safety and
security."
The theater had canceled the production
of Terrence McNally’s "Corpus
Christi" in the face of anonymous threats
made against the building, its audience
and the playwright. Meadow said the theater
club reversed its decision after New
York City Police Commissioner Howard
Safir promised to ensure safety if the play
was produced. Meadow would not elaborate
on those measures.
At anews conference, Meadow played
a tape of one of the phone calls the theater
received. The raspy, possibly computerdistorted
voice was difficult to understand,
but Meadow read a transcript of the
message, which was addressed to
McNally. "Because of you we wil! exterminate
every member of the theater and
burn the place to the ground. This is a
message from National Security Movement
of America," part of it said.
The group’s background was not immediately
dear. qTne theaterreceivedmany
protests and five specific death threats,
beginning on May 11, said Barry Grove,
the theater’s egecutive producer.
Neither Meadow nor Grove would discuss
the play’s subject matter, which,
according to accounts in the New York
Post, deals with a Christlike young man
see McNally, page 14
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S,ervice - 1 lain, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - 1 lam, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service - 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 Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America)
Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver),/afro: 582-3088
University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance
6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
~" MONDAYS
Council Oak Men’s Chorale, 7 pro, leave message for more information: 743-4297
HIT Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard)
HIT Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
2nd Mon~each mo. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
June 8th, Picnic at Whiteside Park, 41st & Pittsburgh
Mixed Volleyball, Hdmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pm, call Shawn 491-2036.
Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 6/1, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
~ TUESDAY S
AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 6/9, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
HIT+ Support Group, HIT Resource Consortitma 1:30pro
3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), Info: Wanda @ 834-4194
Multicultural AIDS Coalition, 6/2, 12:30pro, Urban League, 240 East Apache
Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 743-4297
PrimeTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues/each too., 7pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
Coming Out Support Group(TOHR/HOPE)
Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297
~ WEDNESDAYS
Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583:7815
Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pro, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 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 fll
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HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325
From Our Hearts to Our House, 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/each mo. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194
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SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, 1 st Fri/each too. 8pm, Pride Ctr., t307 E. 38th
~" SATURDAYS
Narcotics Anonymous, l l pm, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, [nfo: 585-1800
Lambda ’A-A, 6 pm, 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 rides, 6:30pm: 6/3 & 6/10, Long rides, 7am: 6/6 & 6/20. Meet at Zeigler Park,
3903 West 4th. Pride Rides from the Pride Center, 3749 S. Peoria, Short ride: 6/24
@ 6:30pm. Long ride: 6/27 at 9am.
lfyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call orfax 583-4615.
22
reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-County Library
With two plays and a new movie coming
out, Oscar Wilde’s popularity just
keeps on growing, almost 1.00 years after
his death. The author of such The Wilde
classics as "The Picture of
Dorian Gray" and "The Importance
ofBeing Eamest"led
an interesting double life and
this biography, with wonderful
illustrations and photos,
was written by his grandson.
Wilde was a well known
playright and novelist in England
in the late 1800’s. He
was quite a celebrity and his
fans managed to overlook his
outwardly Gayappearance and
behavior. As ostentatious as
he was, he still sought to cover
up his sexual orientation and
even married, and had chil-
AlBum is a
" wonderful overview
of the life d
one o[ the most
[amous persecuted
Gay men
in history... Hls
story ls lnt~uln~
and one t~at
shouldbe kno~
by all Gay
people.
dren with, ayoung lady named Constance
Lloyd. She ended up taking care of their
children while he was busy giving lectures,
writing and seeing other men.
It doesn’t take long to realize that
Wilde’s ego was overwhelming. Upon
arriving in the US for a lecture tour m
1882, Wilde informed the customs official,
"I have nothing to declare but my
genius." America wasn’t quite ready for
this flamboyant gentleman with a gift for
speaking in sound bites.
In 1895, in England, Wilde was finally.
prosecuted for being Gay. and was sentenced
to two years hard labor. His plays
closed, his books were censored and his
friends deserted him.
Adamant that being Gay was not wrong,
Wilde saw himself as "crucified, Christlike,
by society." When released from
¯prison, his wife having changed’her last
name and refusing to allow him to see his
children, Wilde wandered aimlessly
around Europe, "poor but not pem~less,
alone but not without friends." He died of
meningitis in 1900, bankrupt
and forgotten.
The Wilde Album is a wonderful
overview of the life of
one of the mostfamous persecuted
Gay men in history. It is
short, easy to read and the
cartoons, manuscripts andpictures
are beautifulreproductions.
His story is intriguing
and one that should be known
by all Gay people.
Check for The Wilde
Album and other materials on
similar topics, at your local
branch library, or call the
Readers Services of the Central
Library at 596-7966.
The result seems to have been that DCS,
notOSDH,is now worldng by the strictest
letter of Oklahoma bidding statutes and
most of the agencies don’t know and
¯ didn’t meet those reqnirements. Pierson
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is open in a 2nd location at the northwest
corner of61st &Sheridan.
by Jean-Pierre
Legrandbouche
TFN Food Critic
Days of snow and ice and
brisk prairie winds can make
even the most devoted
Oklahomaphile abit testy, and
this January has been one of
those more challenging times.
The people of Europe often
find the need toescape winter’s
grasp as well, and they most
generally go on holiday to the
sunny Mediterranean.
A Mediterranean cruxse
might not be in the budget for
an evening’s entertainment, so
we have to just pretend, and
look for a Mediterranean re-~
gional restaurant to get that je
ne sais qua atmosphere for a
relaxing, fun evening. When
we think ofMediterranean, we
think of Greece, Italy, Spain.
and France. We’re really not
in the mood for a gyros sandwich,
so there goes the Greek
opuon, andTulsa doesn’ thave
a Spanish restaurant (Mexican
isn’t the same, and, by the
way, for those of who going to
see Evita and then doing Mexican,
Argentine isn’t the same,
either). French would be a
wonderful comfort food in the
winter, but, alas, the talented
culinary triumvirate of Curt
Herrm~nn, Marjorie Alexander,
and Thomas Radcliffe
had their last weekend at
Montrachet. and have left the restaurant
to develop their own gourmet take-out
food concept. So, there isn’t a decent
French restaurant in town any more.
That leaves us with Italian. Shall we go
to the faux-Italian, market study driven,
Olive Garden for cardboard pasta and
wallpaper paste sauces (they do have good
salad and breadsticks)? Maybe a little
overcooked spaghetti at a pizzajoint? We
think not. But, voila!, there is a.rather
secret, unknownItalian restaurantinTulsa
which offers delicious, made to orderfood
with trained staff and elegant service.
And, surprisingly, it is hidden away in a
shopping center in east Tulsa.
Ti Amo hides on the end of a strip mall,
east of the Albertson’s grocery store at
21st and Memorial. It’s a bit hard to find,
but it’s wall worth.the effort.
With a menu having a wide variety of
styles "representing the whole of Italy,"
Ti Arno’s forteis Sicilian style cuisine. As
you know, the island of Sicilly is in the
Mediterranean, off the boot of Italy. Ithas
an ancient culture and cuisine, and due to
it’s island isolation, has preserved more
authentic old Roman style cookingtechniques
than the main country of Italy.
And, sitting in a major ancient shipping
lane, Silicianos have ofthadexotic spices,
such as saffron and curries, to incorporate
into their recipes. Seafood has also played
an important role in the Sicilian diet.
All diners are greeted with a complementary
dish ofbruscetta,, whichis a slice
of toast topped with a garlicky tomato and
olive oil salsa. Fresh soups are made.daily-
-the zuppa di giorno--and lovely fresh,
Ti Amo
8151 E. 21st
Cuisine:
Italian
Amblanee:
Dressy
Luncheon:
~[on.-Fri. 11-2
Evenln~s:
Mon-Thurs. 5-9
Fri-Sat. Gl 10
Sundays ll-9pm
Reservations
advised on
weekends.
Smokln_$ Area?
Not dlstlnet
enouOh from
non-smokln~.
Full and
wine list.
Payment:
Cash, American
Express,
Diners’ Clnb,
Visa,
~/Iastereartl.
No
green salads are served family style.
The biggest challengeis selecting one’s
entree. Just want a simple plate of spaghetti?
Well, which sauce? Pesto?
Napolitana? Bolongese? Marinara?
Carbonara? Aglio? These are
the authentic recipes. And, as
with any respectable Italian
restaurant, pasta isn’t limited
to spaghetti, the tortellini alia
panna is a delicious pocket of
pasta stuffed with ricotta
cheeseand sauteed in a creamcognac
sauce ($8.95). Particularly
mouth-watering in the
rigatoni con gorgonzola, big
tubes ofmacaroni sauteed with
fresh broccoli and served in a
creamy gorgonzola cheese
sauce ($9.50). You can get a
fettucine Alfredo ($8.95) or a
fettucine vongale ($8.95),
which is sauced with a red or a
white clam sauce. Keep in
mind that all of these sauces
are made the traditional way,
with fresh cream and butter
and freshly grated Italian
cheeses - none of the thickeners
and extenders you see in
lesser restaurants.
The lasagna al forno is a bit
controversial. It is dry. But,
it’s supposed to be dry, because
that is the Sicilian way.
So, don’t expect one of those
huge, gooey mounds like they
serve at the Spaghetti Warehouse.
While recognizing their
salute to lasagna tradition,
personally, wedon’t care for
the lasagna..Especially, since
there are so many other, trttly
wonderful dishes from which
to choose. ~vteat based entrees
also abound. The chickendella
casa ($10.95) is a flavorful chicken breast
with green peppers, mushrooms, and asparagus
in a white wine parnlesan cream
sance. Vitello alla TiAmo ($12.95) is n
fork-tender p~ece of veal sauteed xn a
cream sauce with artichokes and .walnuts.
Worth every calorie. The shrimp coriana
(S12.95) features figs and peppercorns.
An orange roughy fillet ($12.95) is prepared
meuniere and topped with pesto
butter. One can also have the exquisite
filletto bordelaise ($14.50), a gendy prepared
beef tenderloin witkmushrooms,
burgundy, sundried tomatoes, and herbs
and spices.
For dessert, several selections are always
available, but the signature item is
strawberries alla TiAmo. Much like a
cherries jubilee, the strawberries are
cookedin a variety ofliqueurs and poured
overa big scoop of vauillaice cream, then
topped with whippedcream. Always save
room for the strawberries.
Service at Ti Amo is generally pretty
good. They strive for an efficientand well
trained work staff appropriate to a"white
tablecloth" restaurant. The ambiance is a
little on the I_as Vegas side, with large,
round, red vinyl booths lining the. walls of
the main dining room, but regular tables
are available, as well. There is a full bar~:
and a decent wine list, though one not
featuring as many Italian wines as one
might.
Ti Amo is a restaurant well-deserving
of it’s name, which in English, is translated,
"I love you." Once you find and
experience this place, you’ll love it. It’ s an
Italian adventure well-worth the search.
by Esther Rothblum : own femininity. Whenever women put
Until recently, there was little open . energy into that, they’re taking energy
discussion about Lesbians in sports:. The ° away frombeing strong womenand being
mediafocuSedonBillieJeanKing’s"pali- ¯ the Uest athletes and coaches they can be.
mony" suit, MartinaNavratilova’s break- " "I wish there were more Lesbians that
up with her romantic part- could come out," Pat conner,
andthe"Lesbianpres- tinued. "Some ofitis inter-
"I wls]~ tlaere were nalized homophobia. ence" in professional golf. _
Of course, Lesbian sports more Lesbians Some of it is the nature of
fans could give you the that couldcome athletics - athletes and
names ofLesbians atheltes, coaches are often not parcoaches,
and media sports out . . . Some of it ticularlypolitical. Coaches
reporters - but these
is internalized don’t want.to do anything
women were very, very thatis controversial, especloseted.
]lomoo]lobia. cially at the Division I col-
Now Pat Griffin has Some otzt=’--zs tide lege level where it could
written the book Strong hurt their recruiting ef-
Women, Deep. Closets: nature of at]aletles forts." Pat finds that Divi-
LesbiansandHomophobia -- at]aletes and sion II or III coaches are
in Sports. ’TvebeenaLes- oftenmoreopenabout their
bian athlete ,and coach eoaelaes are o~en Lesbianism. "They don’t
myself so a big part of tliis not particularly have that public scrutiny
book comes from my own
experience" she toldmein pol~tlcal. Coaclaes
athnedrYecorunitingl."erses dependent
a recent interview, "and
over the last 15 years or so don’t want to do Even Lesbian fans are
invisible. A recent article
I’vetakenonthistopicasa anyda~ng tll.at, is in The Advocate was ensemi-
crusade."
controversial
tiffed "Phantom fans: No-
Patherselfplayedsports body wants to admit
inhigh school and college, espeeially at tl~e they’re there, but the Lesand
then went onto coach Division I college bian presence- at profeshigh
school and college sionalwomen’sbasketball
students. Shelived withher "level vi]aere it games is obvious." Of the
Lesbianloverbutdatedthe could hurt tlaelr
twoprofessionalwomen’s
high school wrestling basketball leagues, Pat
coach for "cover." As she reerultln~ Griffin has found the ABL
writes in her book: "I re- efforts."- tobemoreope~ywelcommember
a teacher evalua- ing to Lesbian fans than.
tionmeeting Ihadwiththe the WNBA. She says this
principal ofthehigh school where I taught " reflects the fact that the WNBA is_ conand
coached. He complimented me be- " trolled by the male NBA.
cause "I pre~ented such a good image for ¯ Increasingly; th0ugh, Lesbiansin sports
physical education, not like some of the ° are coming out. In its November 1997
other womenP.E. teachers and coaches in " issue, OUT magazine reported on Divithe
country.’ Though he never explicitly : sion I coachKarenWeaver; who was fired
mentioned being a Lesbian, I knew ex- ¯ as field hockey coach from Ohio State
actly what he meant and cowered further " University. Now she is suing for antiback
in my closet." .¯ Lesbian discrimination. Lesbian film-
Lateron, Pat began to come out, firstby ¯ makerandOscarnomineeDeeMosbacher
attendifig Lesbian events and then by " has produced the film OUT FOR A
speaking openly about homophobia at " CHANGE (WomanVision Productions)
women athletic conferences. After a life- : about Lesbians in sports. As Pat writes in
time as ah athlete and coach, she is cur- ¯ theconclusionofherbook: "Inmy vision,
rently professor at the University of Mas- : women will take pride in our athleticism
sachusetts in Amherst in a program on " without apology. Women will not be con=
social justice education. "I see myself as ¯ strained by socially constructed notions
an educator/activist," she told me, "and a " of femininity 9r compulsory heterosexulot
of that comes frommy sport andphysi- ° ality. There will be no need to apologize
cal education background. I have coaches ¯ about muscularity, physical competence,
inmy classes now, and some ofwhat I say ¯ or passion for and commitment to sport.
blows their minds, particularly when I ..inmyvisionofsport, womenwillvalue
talk about heterosexism. In athletics, this " our relationships with other women. We
topic is so silent." . will not be self-conscious about loving
Strong Women, Deep Closets focuses ° teammates and competitors as friends or
onthefactthathomophobiadoesn’tjust " lovers." Strong Women, Deep Closets can
affect Lesbians, but all women athletes ° be obtained from Human Kinetics, 1607
and coaches. The "Lesbian label" is used ¯ North Market St., P.O. Box 5076,
to intimidate women. ’q’he main message Champaign, IL 61825-5076.-
that I’dlike women to get is how Lesbians . Books about Lesbians in Sports:
are demonized in sports, and how that -: Ifit’sarainyday, or your favorite sport,
workstothedetrimentofwomen’sathlet- ° isoverfortheseason, herearesomebooks
ics in general," said Pat. ’q’here is so : with a Lesbian sports theme to enjoy:
muchdi~,isivenessamongwomeninsports " General Fiction about Lesbians in
-heterosexual women are afraid of being " Sports:
called Lesbians and they resent Lesbians ¯ Sportsdykes: Stories From On and Off
and blame them for having caused -this " theField, editedby Susan Fox Rogers. St.
’image problem.’ I want women in sports " Martin’s Press, 1994.
to realize that it’s to their advantage to : Sweat, edited by Lucy Jane Bledsoe. Seal
work together against that kind of intimi- ¯ Press, 1995.
dation ,.that’s how women’s sports is ". A Whole Other Ballgame: Women’s Litgoing
to grOW. It’s not going to grow by " erature and Women’s Sport, edited by
women being embarrassed by the Lesbi- : Joli’Sandoz. Noon Day Press, 1997.
ans and insisting that the Lesbians be ¯ Lesbians in Basketball:
closeted, or being defensive about their " see Psyche, page 15
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My, how time flies when you are antici- ¯
pating a grand painting project. Just c,olor, "
me pink - dckled pink. yes, go ahead and ,
mutter about the DIYD’s warped nature,
but after a successful and
beautiful - paint project is
completed, you too may become
a house painting fanatic.
Confession: I offered
to start painting for Morn
and the Oracle. However,
they seem somewhat reluctant
to take advantage of the
DIYD’s good graces; not, I
must emphasize, because of
my. skills. I rather suspect
that it may be related to to
myinspired, youthful crayon
murals instead. Parents, like
elephants, never forget, and
they make sure you don’t
either. It’s part of their job.
But you, patient reader,
are here for painting advice,
not atherapy session, so let’s
proceed. This month we’ll
get our work area prepped.
The anal retentiveinthereading
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all thepreparations for
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is that the actual paindng will seem like a
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assembling the items on your list well in
advance ofcommencingyour.project since
they can add up to a sizable purchase.
This discussion will assume a prey
straight forward paint job - if you want
" any of the Specialty finishes now available,
your local mega-hardware store can
provide information and sometimes even
seminars to guide you.
For new walls, and dark color coverup,
I recommend a coat of white, water-based
primer. In the bathroom, you might consider
using an oil based primer, such as
Kilz (it dries in 60 minutes); this give you
more protections from moisture and mildew.
Irecommend amatte white ceiling paint
(or you can have it tinted); these paints are
ultra flat and actually help your room
appear larger. The white reflects light
nicely, too. Wall can be painted in flat,
eggshdl, satin, semi-gloss or gloss finishes
Generally, youwoulduse anY of the
former three in you general living areat]’
depending on the level ofsheen youwan ;
the semi-gloss and glosses are reserved
for moisture areas such as bathrooms,
kitchens and utility rooms because they
repel moisture, discourage mildew and
easier to keep clean. Derkins, my puppy
terrier=ist, has made me grateful for
scrubbable paints. Buy as good a p,ai."nt as
you can afford; cheap paint don t last,
usually requiremore coats, anddon’tdean
¯.. Buy as good a
palnt as you e.an
afford; el~eap palnt
don’t last, usually
r~ulre more coats,
and don’t clmn well.
You’re not going to
want to prep, paint,
and move ~urnlture
every year or two
unless you are a
High Grand
Masoctdst.
And ff you’re one
those why aren’t you
palntllag someone
else’s house?
There’s an "S"
every "M."
well. You’re not going to want to prep,
paint, and move furniture every year or
twotmless you,are a High.Grand,Masoch,-
ist. And if you re one of uaose why aren t
you painting someone else’s house?
There’s an for every
I recommend washing the
wallsbeforeyoubeginpainting.
Iftherehas been aheavy
smoker or grubby hands
present, you’ll need to do so
anyway, and the paint adheres
better to cleaned walls.
You can useTSP (trisodium
phosphate) powder purchased
from a paint or hardware
store., but 1/4 cup of
Spic’n’Span and 114 cup of
bleach in 2 gallons of water
works just as well. Break
o~tthose operalength Platex
gloves and work it girl! A
quick wash and rinse is just
fine; it doesn’t have to be an
all day project. After all,
you’re getting ready to cover
it with paint.
Move your furniture - the
DIYD gently urges you to
find a friend to help. Use
masking tape to protect
floors, trim, windows, etc. Theblue painters
tape works best but cost more. There is
also a new product that has masking tape
attached to 6 inches of kraft paper on a
roll. This is great for trim where paint can
spatter or spill. Unless you are a terrific
trim painter ,pleasego to the extra _trouble
of maskingoff hght s.w.itche.s .a~..d 9u.ttet.
plates. Painting around them tn sire is JUSt
tacky, tacky, tacky. The DIYD expects
higher standards from her proteges Use a
light, weight spackling compound and a
putty knife to repair small cracks .and
holes; when dry sand lightly and dean on
the dust. Larger cracks -not the kind
Jerry Falwell find so offensive; those on a
wall - require a slightly more sophistieated
repair that the DIYD promises to
teach in a future column. Lay down your
dustcloths and cover your furniture and
prepare to paint.
Referring back to last month’s article,
assemble yourbrushes andpaint the edges
of your work area. Do ceilings first, then
walls, then trim if you’re painting that.
Clean your brush, then put a damp roller
cover on your roller, put some paint in the
roller pan, andload theroller withpaintby
rolling it back an forth in the pan of paint.
Work in as much paint without it dripping,
but don’t squeeze it dry. Roll the
paint on in the shape of a large "M", then
roll to fill it in. Don’tbe too stingy with the
paint, or that one coat paint will turn into
¯ a two coat paint; roll out any drips or lap
marks. Workyour way across the ceiling
: or wall until it is coated, rolling paint just
¯. into the outer part of your brush painted
margin.
~ Let the paint dry about an houL With
~ lots of good light, look for thin or missed
~ spots and touch them up. Remove you
¯ masking tape. Don’t wait more than 12
¯
hours to remove tape, or you’ll probably
¯ remove paint on the wall, too, which will
¯ make you cranky. Clean any wayward ¯
drops or spatters ofpaint withawet, soapy
sponge. Paint brushes should be cleaned
: as described last month. The DIYD buys
¯ a package of moderatdy priced roller
covers and just discards them when fin-
~ ished; see DIYD, page 14
President’s Statement on Executive
Order 11478, entitled "Further Amendment
to Executive Order 11478, Equal
Employment Opportunity in the Federal
Government"
Today I have signed an Executive Order
endfled Further Amendment to Executive
Order 11478, Equal Employment
Opportunity in the Federal Government.
The Order provides a uniform policy for
the Federal Government to prohibit discrimination
based on sexual orientationin
the federal civilian workforce and states
that policy for the first time in an Executive
Order of the President.
It has always been the practice of this
Administration to prohibit discrimination
in employment based on sexual orientation
in the civilian workforce, and most
federal agencies and department have
taken actions, such as the issuance of
policy directives or memoranda from the
agency heads, to memorialize that policy.
The Executive Order I have signed today
will ensure that there is a uniform
policy throughout the Federal Government
iby adding sexual .ti-ientation to the
!istof categories for which discrimination
xs prohibited in Executive Order 11478
(i.e. race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, handicap, or age).
This Executive Order states,.Administration
policy but does not antl cannot
create any new enforcement rights (such
as the ability to proceed before the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission).
Those rights can be granted only by legislationpassed
by the Congress, such as the
l~-.mplbyment Non-Discrimination Act. I
again call upon Congress .to pass this
important piece.of ci:vil.rights legislation
which wo~ldextend these basic-~mploy~
mentdiscrjmination protections to all Gay
and Lesbian Americans. Individuals
should not be denied ajob on the basis of
something that has norelationship to their
ability to i~erform their work.
and wounds us; .. stand fast, my brother.
¯ ." Largent wrote,"I want toaddmy voice
to those..: who’ve gathered in supixa’t of
Reggie-White... America desperately
needs more men of courage like Reggie
White, who won’t allow the ’politically
correct’ culture to keep him from speaking
the truth..."
During the lunch, White urged fellow
Christians. to stand up for their beliefs,
saying too many are intimidated by antireligious
seem: ’Tmtired of the devil
pushing us around," he said. "God is trying.
to give people some guts to speak out
on truth."
In March, White told the Wisconsin
state Assembly that abortion and homosexuality
are sins, andAmericahas turned
away from God, partly by allowing homosexuality
to "run rampant." He also
said the activities ofGay rights advocates
shouldn’t be compared to the black civil
rights movement. White said he does not
hate Gays and that the mediadistorted his
remarks~ "I’ve been viewed as someone
who hates, and the people who know me
know I don’t," he said.
DavidSmithoftheHumanRights Campaign
said,~te has every fight to speak
hisnfind. We are Simply expressing our
dismay atthe toneandtenorofMr. White’ s
remarks against Gay. people and are simply
expressing ourFirstAmendmentfights
in speaking out against those remarks."
They also represent the library’s goal to
maintain a high standard of quality for
this collection."
All showings are free and open to the
public. For more information, call 596-
7933.
who has sex withhis disciples. Grove said
no details about the play’s plot would be
released beyond a description in a brochure
sent to potential subscribers’earlier
this year. "From modem day Corpus
Christi, Texas, to ancient Jerusalem, we
follow a young Gay man named Joshua
on his spiritual journey, and get. to know
the 12 disciples who choose to follow
him," the brochure reads.
McNally, author of the Tony Awardwinning
,"Love! Valour! Compassion.
and "Master Class," was traveling and
unavailable tbr comment. "Wait for the
production to be finished and on stage
and, we assure you~ theplay will speak for
itself," Grove said. "You can come and
judge for yourself when the play is on
stage." Exact dates were not announced.
The Catholic League for Religious and
Civil Rights, which disavows violence,
beganaletter-writing campaignafterread:
ing the initial Post article. "We will simply
continue to publicly challenge their
moral right to put on something that is this
offensive to Christians," league spokesman
Rick Hinshaw said after learning of
the theater club’s latest decision.
it is just about impossible to get all ,the
paint out; and the nap, or fluffiness, of the
roller is never the same again. Wash out
the rollerpanwith warm, soapy waterand
turn it over to dry,
If at all po~sibl’e, find a painting partner
to help out -maybe not your spouse,
unless your communication skills a~e quite
good. For neophyte painters, pairing up
with an experienCed.painter is invalu~able
- you’ll learn a lot and the job will go
quicker. With a,b,it of patience and good
prep work, you 11 have a first-rate paint
job thatwill dramatically improve.the
looks of your home. Let the good times -
and the paint - roll!
Pierson also adds that OSDH is not
required to award any contracts but
chooses to work with CBO’s - feeling
that they are more effective in reaching
the target populations. However, when
asked what OSDH would do if it did not
work with the .CBO’s, Pierson seemed
stymied and then suggested that OSDH
might Work with county health departments.
"
HOPEis continuing to provide walk-in
testing every Monday and Thursday evenlngs
from 7:00 to 9:00, as well as by
appointmentTuesday andThursday from
Noon-4:00. Volunteers a~e alsoproviding
walk-in testing every other Saturday 4:00
to 8:00 at the Pride Center and every
Wednesday from 1:00 to 3:00 at the OSU
College of !vledicine.
A meeting to discuss how the existing
ageneiescan continue to provide services
will be held June 10, at 5pro at 3503 E.
Admiral. Call 918-834-8378 for info.
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Lady Lobo, by Kfisten Garrett. New
Victoria Publishers, 1993.
Lesbians in Tennis:
Courted, by Cdia Cohen. Naiad Press,
1997
Forty Love, by Diana Simmor~ds. Naiad
Press, 1997.
Lesbian Swimmers:
The Sea ofLight, by Jennifer Levin. Penguin
Books, 1993. © Esther Rothblum
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In his interview with Roll Call, Inhofe
said Hormel "has made statements that
¯ have convinced me and others that he’s
: much more concerned about his own Gay
." agenda than heis inrepresenting the inter-
¯ ests of the U.S." Of blocking the noa~inalaon,
Inhofe sat& I would feel tlie same
¯ way if it were David Duke or anybody
." whose agenda is more important than the
¯ country."
Hormel has promised to avoidGay poli-
: tics on the job. "I will not use, nor do I
¯ think it is appropriate to u~e, the office of
the ambas.sador to advo~’any,,p~,,rsonal
views I may hold on any.’i~e, Hormel
" wrote to Sen. Gordon Smith, R~Ore, who
¯ now supports him.
¯ Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she believes Hormel’s nomination would
¯ easily be confirmed if it reached the floor
¯ and there are close to enough votes -60 -
¯ to halt any Republican filibuster. As for Inhofe’s comments, she said,"This really
¯
mffor.~Rmatereference reveals the depth of,
bigo.~.that is pursuing, this nominee..
Se~’P.-aul Wellstone, D-Mian~ .said he is
planning a push after.theMemorial Day
¯ recess to get a vote on Hormd in the
Senate.
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Nickles Blocks Hormel Vote
& Denounces-Homosexuals
WASHINGTON (AP)-A national civil rights group is
accusing Sen. Don Nickles, Oklahoma’ s senior senator,
the Senate’ s second-ranking Republican,
of wrongly mixing
government and religion in saying
a Gay philanthropist nominated
for an ambassadorship is
tmqualitiedbecausehepromotes
"immoral behavior."
"This is.a perfect example of
religious beliefs infringingupon
publicpolicy," saidDavid Smith,
a spokesman for the Human
Rights Campaign, a political
group. "In the history of this country, those that have
used religion tojustify bigotry have been~proven wrong.
" Smith said.
¯ "The criticism came hfter Nickles denounced President
Clinton’ s nomination of James Hormel of California
as ambassador to Luxembourg. "He has promoted
that lifestyle and promoted it in a big way, in a way that
is very offensive," Nickles, the Senate majority whip,
said on¯ ,Fox News Sunday." "One might ihave that
lifestyle; butif one promotes-it a~ aceeptaSle behavior,
¯.. I don’t think-they should be a representative of this
countr.y." "I think it" s immoral behavior and I think a lot
of other behavibr is immoral anti shouldn’t be treated as
acceptable behavior?’ Nickles said. While homosexuality
i~ a sin, so is adultery and fornication, he added.
A struggle over Hormel’s nomination has been going
on formonths. Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., has
refused to bring the matter to the Senate floor for a vote.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D:Calif., criticized the delays
recently. Hormel is "entitled to his due process," she
said on CNN’s "Late Edition." "Yes, he happens to be
Gay. But all men are created equal as a matter of public
policy - or should be," Feinstein said.
The renewed debate over Hormel followed controversy
about connnents by Lott that homosexuality is a
Sin. "~lrOU should still love that person," Lott said on
cable television’s "’The Armstrong Williams Show."
"You should not try to mistreat them or treat them as
outcasts. You should try to show them a way to deal with
that problem, just like alcohol.., or sex addiction...
or "kleptommfiacs.’" The co~uments thrust Lott into the
debate of whether homosexuals have chosen their sexual
orientation or whether it is biologically predetermined.
Afterward, Sen. Alf0nse D’Amato, R-N.Y., criticized
Lott for refusing to let Hormel’s nomination go
forward. D’Amato said Lott’s only reason is that Hormel
is Gay. But Sen. Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., said,"I talked
with Jim Hormel myself and asked him to disavow
some of the groups that ridicule and disdain organized
religion.¯, and he refused to do that," Hutchinson said.
"The question is one of suitability and whether he’s
sensitive to organized religion. Luxembourg is a country
that’s 97% Catholic.’"
Sen. Don Nickles
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Supreme Court Rules
DisabilityAct Covers HIV
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a decision praised by advocates for
AIDS patients and the disabled, the Supreme Court has ruled that
people infected with HIV are protected by a key anti-discrimination
law even if they have no visible AIDS symptoms. The 5-4
ruling said a woman whose dentist refused to fill a cavity at his
officebecause she was HIV-posidveis coveredby the Americans
With Disabilities Act, the 1990 law that protects the disabled
against discrimination in jobs, housing and public accommodations.
"HIV infection, even in the so-called asymptomatic phase, is
an impairment which substantially limits the major life activity
of reproduction" and therefore qualifies for coverage under the
disability law, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court.
It was the high court’s first ruling involving the human immunodficiency
virus, which causes AIDS.
President Clinton praised the decision, saying it "reinforces the
protections offeredby the landmark Americans With Disabilities
Act for Americans living with HIV and AIDS."
Jennifer Middleton, of the American Civil Liberties Union’s
AIDS Project, predicted the decision will help people with other
disabilities - such as cancer, epilepsy and diabetes - who sometimes
have had trouble convincing lower courts they are covered
by the disability law.-And Daniel Zingale of AIDS Action, a
network of organizations that provide health care and services tO
AIDS patients, called the decision HIV patients’ "greatest legal
victory since the beginning of the epidemic."
The decision set aside the ruling of a Boston federal appeals
court, which said dentist Randon Bmgdon of Bangor, Maine,
violated the anti-discrimination law when he refused to fill
Sidney Abbott’s tooth at his office because she carries the virus
that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. While the
justices ruled that Abbott was covered by the ADA, they ordered
lower courts to reconsider whether Bragdon violated the law.
Those courts previously had said Bragdon did not show the
treatment would have been unsafe, see Court, page 3
: A handful ofanti-Gayprotesters (ratio: 15 to 150)
¯¯ picket white marchers circle Veterans Park at the
Tulsa Pride Picnic. Typical signs read: "Fags die.
¯ God laughs", and "God hates fags ".
: Tulsa Pride Unfazed by
¯ Anti-Gay Protesters
¯
TULSA - Despite the picketing of Topeka’s anti-
¯ Gay extremist, the Rev. Fred Phelps and friends,
¯ the Tulsa Pride March & Picnic went off with no
significant problems according to organizers. Pride
: Committee member, Greg Gatewood, noted that
¯ there were nearly 30 booths by various community
¯ organizations and businesses and estimated that
attendence at the event was about 700-800, which
¯ organizers say is about usual. One attendee noted
that some of his friends decided not to come citing
¯ the Phelps protest but others came who’d never
been before, also inspired by the picketers.
The Phelps contingent, carrying Sl~,ns like, Fags
die, God laughs," and such, numbered about 15 at
the most. A marcher observed that Gay and Gayfriendly
marchers numbered about 150, more than
double the number in last year’s inaugural march,
outnumbering Phelps-ires about 10 to 1.
see Picnic, page 3
FayettevilleSch0olsto Protect ¯ Gay Pride Worldwide!
Gay :..-...K.. ,ids’ .F .rom.H .s,.m., :e.n,t-.::-. ReportS from The A_sso.C.ia.te.d Press
L;all~Ornla
FAYET~EViLL~, .M:k. (AP) - Tlie school district here lias ;
agreed to train its staff mad set up procedures to deal with " SAN" FRAN’CISCO W. HOLLYV¢O©D - \Vi0z a
harassment of Gay students in a settlement of a complaint by the
mother of a Gay teen-ager, according to a Gay civil rights group.
The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund mmounced that
officials of the Fayetteville School District had reached m~
agreement with the Office of Civil Rights of the federal FAucation
Department.
The agreement, called a"commitment to resolve," stems from
a sex-discrimination complaint filed by the parents of V~qlliam
Wagner, 17. His mother, Carolyn W~gner, said her son was
beaten in an attack bx other students on Dec. 2, 1997, and said her
son had endured daiiv harassment and destruction of his belongings
because of his s~xual orientation.
The Lambda Fund said the Fayetteville district agreed to
"’recognize the various forms of sexual harassment (including)
sexual harassment directed at Gay or Lesbian students." The
district agreed to overhaul i.t,~s poli~ies and procedures and train
faculty, staff and students tO diminate harassment and deal with
it when it occurs, Lambda Said. see Ar’kansas, page 11
World AIDS Conference
GENEVA (AP) -The largest AIDS conference ever began with
a mix of optimism and frustration: Cheer over potent new viruskilling
drugs was tempered by despair that AIDS sail spreads
explosively in parts of the world that cannot afford these medical
breakthroughs. Abou! 13,200 scientists, doctors, advocates and
journalists gathered for the 12th World AIDS Conference to hear
5,400 presentations on new treatments, insights-into the basic
workings of the virus and how the disease affects everyone from
pregnant women to prisoners to "’commercial sex workers," the
conference euphemism for prostitutes.
During the weeklong meeting, scientists are expected to.discuss
newly developed treatments that may offer alternatives to
protease inhibitors, the class of drugs that have revolutionized
AIDS care. Moreover, experts believe they are closing in on
simpler regimens that will require people to take far fewer than
the 20 pills a day which is now common.
Doctors also will hear encouraging reports on preventing the
spread of the virus see HIV, page 10
’ purple fedora perched on his head, San Francisco
¯ Mayor Willie Br0wnjoined hundreds of thousands
¯ of people who celebrated the annual Gay and
Lesbian pride day at two California cities S~ndav.
In West Hollywood, more than 350,000 people
¯ participated in a two-da.v 28th annual Gay and
Lesbian Pride Festival and Parade. The parade was
¯ preceded by a 5- and 10-kilometer run led by
¯ Olympian Greg Leuganis.
¯ In San Francisco, fes tivities began Sunday moruing
with loud whoops and cheers for hundreds of
¯ women on motorcycles who led the parade down
¯ Market Street, which was lined with rainbow flags.
Brown marched along, sporting a purple fedora,
¯ bright orange jacket and rainbow-colored shirt. He
¯ said it marked his 28th appearance at the annual
¯ event. "’(The parade) represents almost a Super
¯ Bowl for/_he city, from a commercial standpoint,"
he said. "It (also) represents the spirit of this oty.
.. the creativity that is this city and the diversity thal
¯ is this city." ¯
The cyclists were followed by an array of danc-
¯ ers, marching bands, drag queens, politicians; military
veterans, unusual floats and a police-escorted
¯ riderless horse - representing deaths in the Gay
¯ community. Organizers estimated the crowd in the
hundreds of thousands.
In the Southern California parade, Los Angeles
: Mayor Richard Riordan joined city officials from
¯ .throughout the regionin a two-hour, 200-organiza-
¯ aon strong parade led by Grand Marshall Wilson
Cruz of the Broadway musical "Rent" and canceled
TV series "My So Called Life."
¯ Community groups and about 13 corporate spon-
¯ sots drove floats and marched in the parade to this
year’s theme of "Freedom to Love, Freedom to
Choose." The West Hollywood parade is touted as
¯ the third-largest in California, behind the Rose
Parade and the Hollywood Christmas Parade, orgauizers
said. see World Pride, p. 3
NY Mayor Praises Gays
NEW YORK (AP) - Embracing diversity and rejecting
intolerance have made the city stronger, Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani said as he gave Gay men and
Lesbians credit for playing an important role in New
York’s boom. "Our society has to be better off as we
go through sometimes the pain of opening somety up,
so that everyone gets a chance to make their maximum
contribution," he said at a ceremony recognizing
Gays working in city government.
"When you think back to 100 years ago, when lots
of people were excluded from govenanent, some
based on race, some based on gender, some based on
sexual orientation, we were working with half or less
than half of the potential talent that was available."
Giuliani said. "Maybe that’s one of the reasons why
the city does so much better now than it did 20 and 30
and 40 years ago."
In a proclamation, the Republican mayor declared
"Out in Government Day," part of the commemoration
of Lesbian and Gay pride and history month. He
aiso cited his efforts to enact le~slation that would
ensure that unmarried.couples are treated the same as
roamed ones on everything from housing to parking
permits - a bill touted as an important advance in Gay
and Lesbian rights.
Giuliani’s support for most Gay civil rights has
made trim the target of criticism frown the GOP’ s right
wing. When asked later about Republican criticism of
President Clinton’s nominee for ambassador to Luxembourg,
homosexual philanthropist James Hormel,
the ma~’or stud he hadn’t looked into the dispute. But
he added: "Someone’s sexual orientation is a private
matter, and that should not be the basis on which
someone ~s hired or fired by gov~t’unent... I’m going
to have that view until I die." In contrast, Sen. Don
Nickles, R-Okla., said Hormd was unqualified because
he promotes "inmmral behavior.’"
Lesbian Mom Loses
Custody Case
MONTGOMERY, Ala. ~AP) - The ,Alabama Supreme
Court, overturning an appeals panel, has removed
a child from the custody of her homosexual
mother, ruling that the woman exposed her daughter
to a "lifestyle" thatis illegal in Alabama. The 7-0
decision authored by Justice Champ Lyons found that
the child’s best interests would be better served in a’
home with her father and his new wife.
The Supreme Court’s ruling said Jefferson County
Circuit Judge Ralph Ferguson applied the correct
legal standard by removing the young girl from a
mother who was living with another woman in an
"’open Lesbian relationship." The Alabama Court of
Civil Appeals had reversed Ferguson’s order, holding
that the father didn’t prove the mother’s conduct
was having a "’substantial detrimental effect" on the
child. But the high court said there was no need to
prove there was a substantial detrimental effect, only
that the child’s interests were better served in the
father’s home.
%~qaile the evidence shows that the mother loves
the child and has provided her with good care, it also
shows that she has chosen to expose the child continurush’
to a lifestyle that is ’neither legal in this state,
nor ~;aoral in the eyes of most of its citizens,’ "Lyons
wrote, quoting a previous court decision. A 1975
Alabama statute proclaims all homosexual conduct to
be criminal. Earlier this ye.ar, the state enacted a law
that banned same-sex mamages.
At the time of the 1993 divorce, the father gave up
custody knowing the moth.er was revolved in a Lesbian
,relationship, but witt~ the undexstanding she
wouldkeep it discrete and not let the childknow about
~t. The father later remarried. During visits to his
house, the girl told her dad that her mother and
companion were sleeping in the same bed together.
That prompted the father to sue for custody.
Kate Kendell, executive director of the National
Center for Lesbian Rights, which helped argue the
case on the mother’s behalf, said the mother.essentially
lost custody because she was honest about her
relationship: "What’s unique about the case is that it
doesn’t appear to hold that a Lesbian or Gay parent is
always disqualified from custody," Ms. Kendell said
in a telephone interview from her San Francisco
office. "Rather, it enforces upon those parents that
the3’ live a lie - that they not live their lives with
integrity or be honest with their children about being
Gay."
The decision cited testimony from several psychologists,
who had differing op~mons on where the
child should live, but all agreed the girl had a good
home relationship with her mother and her parmer.
The Christian Family Association, an Alabama
group that has promoted fundamentalist Christian
positions, said that was no substitute for a traditional
family environment. "The Supreme Court has placed
the g~rl with a real family," said spokesman Dean
Young. "People aren’t fooled. People can say a family
is whatever they want to, but God said a man and
a’woman would c(~me together to start a family, not
two women or two men."
Congress,.ma Wants to
Stop Anti-Bias Order
WASHINGTON, DC -I;.S. Rep. Joel Hefley, RColo.,
wants to "’neutralize" President Clinton’s executive
order protecting homosexual federal workers
fromjob discrimination. Hefley claims that the order.
signed last month, gives homosexuals specia! status
a~ a protected class throu,~hout the federal government.
He said he has proposed an amendment to the
1999 Treasury-Postal Appropriations bill that would
prevent any o’f the fmads appropriated in the bill from
being nsed"’to implement, administer, or enforce" the
order "’Bill Clinton has added a new category to the
nation’s civil rights laws,’" the Colorado Springs
congressman said. "With this action, the president
effectively established institutional quotas for homosexual
ern’ployees.’" The amendment would"neutralize
this order," Heflev said.
A White House sp~)keswoman said, "’this is about
[fighting] discrimination," said Nanda Chitre, tim
spokeswoman. "If this is what the Republicans want
to focus on, we’re willing to engage .on this issue
because we are anti-discrirmnation." Chitre added
that the amendment ~eflects comments made by Sen.
: TfentLott, R-Miss., who earlier :thi~~ mdfith said~
homosexuality should be treated "ju.st li,k,e alcohol..
or sex addiction or kleptomaniacs
Baptists Promote_Book
Censorship in Texas
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - Two children s
books depicting families with homosexual parents
will be shelved in a juvenile nonfiction section of the
Wichita Falls Public Library, instead of the picturebook-
area meant for younger children. The First
Baptist Church of Wichita Falls and several reliDous
groups had sought the removal of "Heather Has Two
Mommies" and "Daddy’s Roommate" or placement
on adult bookshelves.
However, Librarian Linda Hughes said it’s inappropriate
to put the books in the adult section "because
children are looking for these books now because
of the furor." She added: t hey are ery curious.
They want to know what is going on. Sending
them to the adult area would mean browsing through
very graphic texts that were written for adults."
The city’s library advisory board reviewed the
books after the Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, sharply criticized the books.
The board recommended Tuesday that "Heather Has
Two Mommies" be moved to thejuvenile section, the
WichitaFalls Times Record News reportedin today’s
editions.
But Ms. Hughes had the final say. She said she
decided children who wanted the books could find
them in the social sciences area for juveniles. The
juvenile section is geared toward children in grades 3
to 7. Jeffress was out of town and not available for
comment on Thursday. But earlier in the week, he
promised to take the matter to the City Council if the
books were placed where children wouldhave access
to them.
But Nancy Horvath, pastor of the Wichita Falls
Metropolitan Community Church, praised Ms.
Hughes’ decision. Ms. Horvath is raising one child
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only five people had asked about the books. By
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NYC Passes Domestic
Partner Benefits
NEW YORK (AP) A proposal that would cement the
rights of domesuc partners in J.ssues from health benefits
to parking permits has cleared the City Council. "I
think the impact will be very far reaching," said Councilman
Thomas Duane, a M~ahattan Democrat who led
supporters. "It is another step toward fnll equalization
of benefits for non-traditional family members."
The legislation, which is intended to ensure that the
city treats unmarried couples the same as those who are
married, has been touted as an important advance for
.Gay couples.: It was crafted by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
m cooperation with Council members and Gay civil
rights advocates.
New York for years has been recognized for its
accommodating policies toward Gay and Lesbian
couples. A series of directives, some of which date to the
1980s, extended to domestic partners the rights once
reserved for spouses and family members, such as
visitationin city jails and hospitals, child-care leave and
succession for city-supervised housing.
Approved 39-7 with one abstention, the legislation
would make those policies permanent by writing them
into law. It would apply to heterosexual and homosextml
domestic partnerships registered with the City
Clerk. The mayor is expected to sign it promptly.
Since the settlement of a lawsuit in 1993, the city has
provided health and dental benefits to the domestic
parmers of city workers. Under the bill, labor negotiations
would be required to extend to employees" partners
the samebenefits provided for employees" spouses,
potentially opening the way for those benefits to be
. expanded. But the le~slation also, would venture into
new areas, like allowing domestic partners of police
and other uniformed employees to be eligible for death
benefits if the employee is killed in the line of duty. A
domestic partner would also have the right to be buried
with a partner in the city-owned Canarsie cemetery, a
right now reserved for spouses. Other changes invoh’e
rights to parking permits and disclosure statements filed
by city employees.
Councilman ,Michael Abel, a Queens Republican
who voted against the bill, called it another nail in the
coffin of the institution of marriage. "What you are
d.oing is setting yourself up to give an economic incentive
not to get married," Abel said. "It’s anti-societal to
the extent that it’s an anti-mamage bill, and I still
believe most New Yorkers favor marriage.’"
There are about 8,700 registered domestic partners in
¯ the city, and at least 55percent are heterosexual couples,
according to the mayor’s office.. Similar issues have
been debated around the country, including in Philadelphia,
where the City Council approved a measure to
extend health and pension benefits to same-sex partners
of city workers.
The Council vote was preceded by an unusual demonstration
on the City Hall steps, in which a group of
Hasidic Jewish rabbis and rabbinical students invoked
a biblical curse on legislators and officials supporting
the bill l They prayed, held candles and blew into shofars,
a ram’.s horn used in religious ceremonies. "Almighty
God, the arrogant officials who run this city, New York,,,
have declared war against you and your biblical law,
said Rabbi Yehuda Levin, a vocal opponent ofGay civil
rights. "Strike down the hands that are raised in support
of this bill. Silence the voices that speak up in favor of
this bill," he said. When asked about the protest, Duane
said, "I don’t think any religious person would ever
believe God would ever pinfish a person for standing for
fairness and equality.‘°
Arkansas Seeks to Ban
Gay Foster Parents
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - The ,amaerican Civil Liberties
Union of Arkansas objected recently to a proposal that
would prohibit Gay people from serving as foster parents.
Rita Sklar, ACLU executive director in Arkansas,
said in a news release that the proposal
could be challenged as a violation of the right to
equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. "The
"qu~ties that make good parents, or good foster
paren-t~,are universal." she said. "The ability to
love and care for a child is not going to be determined
by one’s sexual orientation. Gay men and
Lesbi an~ are not anymore likely to engage in criminal,
abusive or psychologi"cally damaging behavior
than the rest of the population "
At a meeting in Paragould. the state Child \\%llare
Agency Review Board proposed prohibiting
homosexuals from serving as foster parents. The
board sets minimum standards for liceused childplacement
agencies, foster homes and therapeutic
foster homes. The board asked Assistant Attorney
General Karen Wallace to research the issue and try
to come np with a resolution. "I would like to
require foster parents to be heterosexual, married
couples" Robin Woodruff said during the meeting
of the nine-member board. "Allowing single foster
care.., takes away enforcement" because it opens
the process to "homosexuals who say they’re single
with a roommate or boarder."
Ms. Wallace said state law says marriage must be
between a man and a woman. "Where the difficult)
comes is it’s hard to determine if someone’s a
homosexual . . . and it’s real hard to regulate a
person’s status," she said. "’In other words, you can
regulate what someone does - not what someone
is." She said the board should not "single people
out, because it could be challenged constitutionally."
~ls. Woodrnff said people have "a right to behave
how they want, but they don’t (necessarily)
have the right to be foster parents." Ms. Wallace
said one option would be to require foster pareuts
to be related by blood or marriage. Such an option
would allow ~ingles to remain in the picture as
foster parents.
Other board members agreed with the goal of
preventing homosexuals from being foster parents.
"I think we should never promote homosexuality in
any fashion," said David V,rhatley. "I know there’s
a problem getting foster parents, but in my opinion
it would be devastating for a child to go into a
homosexual home."
But some members expressed concern about the
proposal. "I don’t think we need to promote the
homosexual lifestyle, but we do need to recognize
the necessity for alternative settings," said Steve
Dunaway. "As much as I support the board on that,
I can see situations where it would be suitable" for
a child to have homosexual foster parents.
Canadian Province
Gives Partner Benefits
VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) - British Columbia
will become the first province in Canada to
voluntarily grant pension benefits to same-sex
couples who are public employees, under legislation
introduced recently. Other provinces have
moved that way, but under duress. Court decisions
have forced Ontario and Nova Scotia to address
pension issues involving Gay and Lesbian couples.
British Columbia paved the way last summer for
extended pension benefits when the provincial
government allowed same-sex partners to be defined
as spouses. It also extended to homosexual
couples the same rights as heterosexual couples on
child custody and maintenance issues.
The new legislation affects British Columbia’s
235,000 public employees, including government
workers, municipal employees and public school
teachers. "It’s very significant because Gays and
Lesbians have been paying into the fund and never
before have they been able to receive the benefits,"
said legislative member Tim Stevenson, who is
Gay and who expects protests from some groups
and political parties opposed to same-sex relationships.
"Here you have a government, to its credit,
that has decided not to fight this in the courts,"
echoed Lawrence Aronovitch, vice president of
EGALE, see Canada, page 14.
Activists Welcome
Court Decision
JACKSON, Miss (AP)-Mississippi AIDS
activists hope a U.S. Supreme Court decision
protecting HIV-infected persons
against discrimination will curb intolerance
of the disease’s victims. The ruling
places persona living with AIDS and HIV
positive individuals, even those who show
no symptoms, under the Americans with
Disabilities Act. The federal law bans
discrimination against disabled people.
Debbie Konkle-Parker, former chairwoman
of the Mississippi HIV/AIDS
Assembly, said. she welcomes the decision
but doesn’t believe it will entirely
end discrimination against AIDS/HIV-
: released recently.
The report provided country-by-c6un-
: try statistics to back up a study released in
November, which estimated that 2.3 rail-
: lionpeoplediedofAIDSin 1997,up50%
¯ from 1996. About 16,000 people a day
¯ contract HIV. The latest study, by the
: WorldHealth Organization andUNAIDS,
: comes ahead of Sunday’s opening of the
12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva,
~ where 12,000 specialists and others will
~ discuss advances in HIV research.
: Limited education about the virus is a
major hurdle, particularly because an ef-
~ fective cure may be at least 10 years away,
~ UNAIDS DireCtor-General Peter Piot said
~ atanews conference. "Let’s be very aware
AIDS is with usto stay for a very long
infected persons."Generally, anydiscrimi- " time," Piot said.
nalaon is not out front," she said. "They
choose other reasons to discriminate.
(against infected persons).
"’There is opposition based onhomophobia
or that folks with HIV did it to themselves.
But I know there are folks throughout
the state who can use this (ruling) to
speak out.’"
"My initial reaction is one of elation
and hope," said Robert McGowan, cochair
of the Mississippi HIV/AIDS Coalition,
"The Supreme Court has finally recognized
laws that find that people with
HIV can be protected by the government.
(But) I am cautiously optimistic. We must
see how this is implemented.~,’,
The rifling set aside a lower 6ourt decision
that said dentist Randon Bragdon
violated the anti-discriminationlaw when
he refused to fill Sidney Abbott’s toothin
his office because she carries the virus
that causds acquired immune deficiency
syndrome. Justices ruled that Abbott was
coveredunder theADAbut ordered lower
courts to reconsider whetherBragdon discriminated
against her.
According to the Mississippi Department
of Health Services, there were 2,856
colffinned cases of AIDS and 3.461 HIV
ilffections repdrted in the state in 19.97,
the last year for which numbers are available.
The ADA, signed by President Bush in
1990. protects the disabled against discfimination
in jobs, housing and public
acconunodations. Some of the law" s most
visible results are aids such as wheelchair
ramps at countless public places. The law
says people are disabled if.they have a
physical or mental impairment that "substantiallv
limits one or more major life
activities." Ms. Abbott’s lawyers said that
if HIV-infected people did not have clear
protection under the taw, many would
hide their condition.
McGowan says-he hopes the court’s
decision will lead to more funding for
HIViAIDS research and to help treat patients.
"I look fonvard to seeing implementation
of this at the federal and state
level,’" he said. "We can, perhaps, see for
the first time that we are our brothers
keepers and hope that this prejudice can
be eroded."
Rise in AIDS Due to
Lack of Awareness
GENEVA (AP) Declining HIV infectxon
rates in some countries are being
edipsed by huge rises in others where
AIDS awareness and access to new drug
therapies are lacking, according to a new
U.N. report. In parts of Africa, one adult
in four is infectS, with the virus that
causes AIDS while the figure is less than
1% in the United States and across Westem
Europe, experts said in the report
Access to new therapies for AIDS-related
infections such as tuberculosis and
diarrhea is the "overwhelming issue" for
90% of those living with the AIDS virus,
the report said.
Zimbabwe and Botswana, where
UNAIDS estimates around one in four
adults carry HIV, had the highest infection
rates. The United States figure was
0.76% - 820,000 people in all. It was less
than 1% across Western Europe. North
Africa and the Middle East are "the great
unknown," with cultural difficulties in
talking about the epidemic hampering
collection of statistics, UNAIDS said.
Political courage to prevent the spread
ofAIDS is the ke3 to narrowing the"AIDS
gap," Piot said, praising HIV prevention
efforts inUganda, Thailand and Senegal.
The November study said 5.8 million
people were ixffected x~’ith HI\’ in 1997,
up from 5.3 million people the year be-.
fore. Globall.v. 30.6 million live with HI\"
or AIDS, two-thirds of them in snb-Saharan
Africa, it said.
Prices Cut on AIDS
Drugs for Poor
NEW YORK (AP) - Several major pharmaceutical
companies have agreed to cut
their prices for AIDS drugs by up to 75%
to make thmn more available to pe6ple in
developing parts of the world. The medication
will soon be sold at a discount in
Africa, Asia and South America, under a
progrmn overseen by the United Nations.
"If you’re charging a New York price in
Uganda and not selling anything, you’re
not helping anyone." said Peter Young, a
G1a.xo WellcomePLC official involved in
the U.N. program. Mor~ than 90% of the
world’s 30.6 million people ilffected with
the AIDS virus live in the developing
world. Uganda and the Ivory Coast wi!l
receive the first shipments of discounted
drugs this week, Dr. Joseph Saba, an infectious-
disase specialist with the U.N.
pro~am, said Tuesday.
Glaxo Wellcome will sell its combination
treatment of AZT and 3TC for $200
a month or less, a 60% discount. Hoffman
LaRoche Inc. will offer several drugs at
reduced cost, including its protease inhibitor
Invirase and medicines to treat
infections that often accompany AIDS.
Other companies that have committed
themsdves to the price cuts include Abbott
Laboratories and Bristol-Myers Squibb
Co. Merck & Co., which makes the protease
inhibitor Crixivan, will not participate.
In recent years, AIDS activists have
been pressuring drug makers to offer less
expensive treatments. Saba said about
3,000 people will be able to receive the
most advanced medidnes, like AZT, in
the coming year. Far more will be able to
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AIDS Cure Lab
NEW YORK (AP) - President Allen
Sessoms of Queens College turned over a
spade of earth Tuesday to symbolically
start construction ofa $30-million, worldclass
AIDS research center headed by one
of the discoverers of the HIV virus. "Because
millions around the world are suffeting
from AIDS, there is not a moment
to lose," Sessoms said.
"My colleagues and I are impatient to
start work in these facilities," said Dr. Luc
Montaguier, the French co-discoverer of
the virus that causes the fatal immune
deficiency disease. ".It will save many
lives." Jay Bargmann, a semor executive
ofRafael Vinoly Architects, said hewould
"guarantee that work on AIDS research
will begin in this building 30 months from
now" - the year 2001.
Meanwhile, Montagnier and his staff
will workin a temporary laboratory on the
campus. "We are very optimistic about
improving treatment by bolstering the
immune system of patients and about our
ultimate goal, a vaccine to prevent infection
by the AIDS virus," Montagnier said.
He added that it looked like a 107yearjob.
In addition to combating AIDS,
Montagnier has said he expected secondary
benefits from the research in the form
of treatments for cancer and, eventually,
multiple sclerosis.
Montagnier, whoseresearch has been
at the Pasteur Institute in Paris,.is taking
up a chair at the college endowed with $3
million by Bernard Salick, a graduate of
Queens College who became a physician
and then a medical entrepreneur. The new
facility will be called the Salick Center for
Molecular and Cellular Biology, with
space for a staff of 70 and laboratories for
Virology, immunology; molecular genetics
and vaccine development.
The building, looking out on a reflecting
pool, will be crescent-shaped and
mostly one story. Administration offices
and exhibit and meeting space will be
housed in a three-story wing at one end.
New York City and state are contributing
nearly $20 million to the project and the
rest is being raised privately. Queens is a
senior college in the City University with
18,000 students.
Supplement May
Stop Muscle Loss
AMES, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa State University
professor’s discovery of a supplement
that AIDS patients can take to fight
deadly muscle loss will be unveiledThursday
at the World AIDS Conference in
Switzerland. Steven Nissen, a professor
of animal science and chief executive
officer of MTIBiotech Inc. in Ames, invented
Juven, a dietary supplement that
Nissen says helps AIDS patients gain
muscle mass.
Juven’s main ingredient is HMB (betahydroxy-
beta-methylbutyrate), which is
producedin small amounts in the body as
it breaks down amino acids. The professor
discovered the substance while doing
research at Iowa State in 1988, and he
turned it into a supplement used mainly
by athletes. However, his hopes for its
benefits to AIDS patients weren’t confirmed
until April, when he received final
results of a study done in New York.
"Every time you go into this, you hope for
the best, but this time it actually worked,"
Nissen said.
Juven, a powder that when mixed with
water tastes like Tang, is created in a
laboratory using a chemical reaction.
During the eight-week study, AIDS patients
who had been wasting away from
the disease gained an average of 6 1/2
pounds,including 51/2 pounds ofmuscle.
The group of AIDS patients who took a
placebo lost an average of 1 1/2 pounds of
muscle during the study.
One way AIDS devastates its victims is
by accderadng muscle breakdown to the
point where people do not have enough
energy for day-to-day activities. Muscle
loss can be deadly when it leaves so litde
strength that victims can’t even cough,
and they develop pneumonia.
While HMBhas been a popular musclebooster
with bodybuilders and athletes
for several years, Nissen said he is glad
attention to it is being gained in the medical
field.
In the fall, he will begin researching
how Juven can help victims suffering
muscle loss because of cancer, muscular
dystrophy, Lou Gehrig’s disease, trauma
and aging. One cancer victim has already
benefited from Juven. "My mother was
the first gmnea pig," Nissen said. When
his mother, Audrey Nissen, was diagnosed
with a severe form of ovarian cancer
in April 1997, she agreed to use Juven.
Throughout two exploratory surgeries and
chemotherapy, she did not lose any weight
and is now in r~mission,he Said.
Before Juven, AIDS patients could use
anabolic steroids or human growth hormone
as muscle-loss therapies, both of
which have proven side effects. Because
Juven is composed of amino acids found
in the hmnan body, it does not cause side
effects, Nissen said. To prove it, study
coordinators conducted repeated blood
tests and had padents fill out questionnaires
and under go psychological tests.
Mother-Child HIV
Transfer Reduced
CHICAGO (AP) - French researchers
say using Caesarean sections during birth,
coupled with the HIV-fighting drug AZT, :
could nearly eliminate transmission ofthe ¯
AIDS virus from mother .to child. As "
recently as 1994, a baby born to an HIV- "
posit.ire mother had about a 25% chance °
of contracting the virus. AZT alone ¯
dropped that rate to less than 8%. Two "
new studies show the rate of mother-to- °
infant transmission plummeting to 2% ."
and, in some cases, lower than 1% when ¯
the C-section is used with AZT therapy. :
"The goal was to have the rate of trans- "
mission below 1% by the end of the century,
and I think we’re really getting there,’" ¯
said Dr. Laurent Mandelbrot, leader of a °
French study that will be published in the "
HIV/AIDS-themed edition of the Journal ¯
of the American Medical Association. ¯
The study, which included 2,834 "
mother-infant pairs in France, found that ¯
of the 1,917 mothers who did not receive ¯
AZT, 17.2% transmitted HIV to their in- ¯
fants. Of those who received AZT, "
the%age dropped to 6.6%. Of the mothers ¯
who took AZT before delivery and also
elected to have a C-section, only 0.8%
transmitted the AIDS virus.
A study-by the Nadonal Institute of
Child Health and Human Developmentm
Washington combined the findings of that
study with several others in Europe and
North America and found that C-sections
reduced transmission by half and, when
combined with AZT treatment, cut transmission
to just 2%.
Dr. John Flaherty, an infectious disease
specialist at the University of Chicago,
also has seen a drmnatic drop in motherto-
infant transmissions among his patients
- in large part because of treatment wilh
"cocktails" ofAIDS drugs, includingAZT.
But he wonders if it’s worth the risk of
complications and even death for the
mothers to add C-sections to the process.
’Tin kind of on the fence on it," Flahertv
said. "You have to ask, "Is it worth it to d~
C-sections on 100 women to prevent one
transmission?’ "
Dr. Patricia Garcia, an assistant professor
ofobstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern
University, is even more wary of
routinely using an invasive procedure.
"There isn’t a woman alive who wouldn’t
do anything to reduce the risk of transmission
to her child," Garcia said of pregnaut
women who are HIV-positive. "’But until
we sit down and so carefully go over thc
implications of this, I’m very concerned
about implementing it."
Prevention Effort
Targets Blacks
BOSTON (AP) - In response to a growing
AIDS problem among blacks statewide,
the Department of Public Health
launched an AIDS treatment and prevention.
campaign targeting blacks.
While new cases ofHIV/AIDS are down
about 50% from last 3’ear, Commissioner
of Public Health Howard Koh said the
state has fallen short in reaching the black
conununity. Blacks make up 5% of the
state’s population but comprise23% of
HIV cases in the state. They also make up
32% of those cases reported in the last
year, according to a recently released report.
The state will begin an advertising cmnpaigu
in four cides with the highest rates
of AIDS cases among blacks: Boston,
Springfield, Brockton and Cambridge.
. Ads depicting black campaigu volunteers
and emblazoned with the slogan - Free
Testing. Free Treatment. Free Yourself. -
will appear on commuter buses and trains
and conventional posters. Theposters also
advertise a special, toll-free hotline, 1-
888-I-ACT-NOW.
Callers of the toll-free hofline will be
directed to free testing and treatment programs.
Workers will also distribute 10,000
wallet information cards across the state.
"The bottom line is that we want to promote
a message of hope, that this ~s a
treatable epidemic and a preventable epidemic,"
said Koh.
The launch of the campaign was timed
to correspond with National HIV Testing
Day in which testing centers across the
state will make a special push for people
to find out if they are carrying the virus
that causes AIDS. The Supreme Court
this week rnled people with HIV are protected
from discrimination under the
Americans with Disabilities Act. "There’ s
never been a better time to be tested," said
Larry Kessler of the AIDS Action Committee
of Massachusetts. "The sooner your
know you are infected, the better your
chances for staying healthy.’"
by James Christjohn
TFN Entertainment Writer
To those who skipped the picnic fearing
a fierce confrontation with a mob of ravenous
homophobes, well. fear caused you
to miss out onlotsa fun. About 12 anti-gay
protesters appeared (victims of inbreed- "o
lng one and all), and
were kept at bay way
across the field by about
as many mounted police.
OK, now that’s
fodder for obvious
jokes, but I’ve promised
to be good. And I
alIL
So, back to the subject...
I almost felt
sorry for the poorfools.
They tried to broadcast
hatefulness through
their bullhorn, but the
music drowned them
out. What a pathetic
way to spend your life.
Council Oak Men’s
Chorale performed to
standing ovations at
both their premier concert
at A!l Sonl’~ Unitari~an - standing
room only, and also to a warm,response at
the National Organization for’Women’ s
annual awards banquet. A fall concert is
in the planning stages, in which choreography
was promised (yay!). The Chorale
performed as part of Follies Revue, June.
25-28, at the PAC. The variet5~ show benefit~
various AIDS charities° as most of
"¢ot~ know.
I am in a show to be performed in
August, entitled "Tight Quarters". No,
not hind quarters, "’Tight Qnarters", to be
performed August 27-30, 8pro, at the Performing
Arts Center. It is an old fashioned
screwball comedy - melodrama - musical
in which I get to play (fanfare, please) a
villain. Yes, a good, old fashioned, scenery
chewing villain. And to those of you
mhttefing "’surprise, surprise’", I will get
you, my pretties, and vour little...
~vhatevers, too. It should be a blast. Oh
yes, and for the audience, too. There are
~everal moments in the show of relevance
Tulsa Family News Entertainment
Writer. James Christjohn.
to our conm~unity, to detail them would
be to rnin the ending, but trust me, this is
amust-see! The performances benefit the
"MakeAWish" Foundation, which grants
terminally ill children their dream wishes.
For yours trnly, it marks a remm to the
stage after a ten year absence. And as my
friends have noted in
various ~vavs (editor’s
note: notal~vays in nice
ways ;-), "You can take
the actor oul of the theatre,
but you can’ t take
.the theat]e out of the
actor". We just had
our first run-through,
and the show will be
good. It is a new musical,
and the producer &
director, Hilary Genga
-(a Tulsa native) &
Teresa Bringle,respectively,
hope to take it to
New York eventually.
The cast includes, in
no particular order:
Kristina Van Dyne,
James Chase, James
ChriStjohn (told ya 1
was in it!), Cvndi Caldwell (last seen in
TU’s excelle~t "Colnpany’" playing the
Elaine Stritch role), Kevin Re3aaard, Kailee
Mclntosh, Simon Plohocky (last seen in
TU’s "Falsettoland’" as Marvin’s son),
Scott Gaffen (also a TU alumni and an
excellent actor), Brad Gillespie, Martha
Barth, David Hubbard, Je~my Buchanan,
mad Adeena Nayfa. For ticket information,
call the Performing Arts Center Box
Office at 596-’7111.
Stevie Nicks performs in Dallas July
17. This ~s a must see, since she will be
performing material never before heard in
concert. Many selections won’t be heard
live .again, most likely. Not 3our typical
"greatest hits" show, the reviews I’ve seen
have been all raves, and the performances
have been consistently praised. The "En- "
chanted" tour tix are available through
Ticketmaster. for up to date info, and to
see that someone actually likes her as
much if not more than I do, check out
www.mcksfix.com.
Tulsa Morgan Horse Show .Extravaganza
TULSA -Organizers of Tulsa Morgan " National Anthem will be sung by lomn
HorseShow Extravaganzahave dedicated
tiffs year’s event to the memory of Gary
Wayne Walters;a greathorseman and one
of the founders of the
event. Waiters was
46 years old.
,~ portion of the
profits from the event
as well as all the gate
admission ($3) will
benefit Tulsa
C/A.R.E.S., formerly
"known as the HIV
Resource Consortium.
The Show, which
is Oklahoma’s only
all Morgan Breed event and a qualifier for
October’s Morgan Grand National and
World Show, will be held from July 30 to
August 2 at the Bedrock Arena, 1901
West 171 st Street South in Glenpool. The
arena is at the corner of 171st Street and 1-
75 (the Beeline) and is visible from 1-75.
Sessions will be held at 7pro onJuly 30,
8:30am & 7pro on July 31 & August 1,
and at 9am & lpm on August 2. The
Ric Poston, Tulsa Morgan Horse Show
Gwinup of Evans Training Stables from
Sapulpa, and Debbie SeyboldofEspanola,
New Mexico will serve as judge.
Two pro’ties will
occur during the extravaganza.
TRIAD
Morgan Farm of
Jenks will host the
first after the In-Hand
Championships on
Thursday evening.
The second will take
placeon Sat. evening
after the last class.
The "progressive"
dinner will also feature
a dance andlight
¯ show by "Thunder-N-Lightening".
~ The extravaganza will also have a silent
~ auction with items totalling $10,000 in
¯ value. Items include stallion breedings,
: 0figinai paintings, dinners, anautographed
." guitarfromDiamondReo, andmuchmore-
¯ Distinguished Oklahoma artists, Dana
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Sunday Schoo! - 9:45am, Service - 11 am. 2207 E. 6th. 583-7815
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Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - 11am. 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service - 5pm, Childrens Ministry - 5pm. 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc.
Sunday School - 9:45am, Ser~qce - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa
Service. 10:4Aam, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America)
Mass - 1 lani, 205 W. King (east of No Denver), Info: 582-3088
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HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anon.vmous testing. No appointment required.
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HIV Rap Sessions at Bless theLord At All Times Christian Center
7:30pro, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
2nd Mon each too. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Juue 8th. Pic~tic at Wlfiteside Park, 41st & Pittsbttrgh
Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich P~k, -71 st & Riverside. 7pro, call Shawn 491-2036.
Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 7 6, noon, United \Va) Bldg. 1430 S. Bonlder
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AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 7 14. noom [~fited Way Btdg. 1430 S. Boulder
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Prin~eTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues each mo.. 7pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE)
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Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225
TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632.
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Almost thirty years afterher death, Judy
Garland’ s popularity continues: Formany
years, there has been much interest in the
relationship between Gay men and Judy
Garland as a performer. This
book, writtenbyJudy’ s middle
child, Loma Luft, addresses
the mother and human being
as wall as the performer, and
also offers some insight into
the life of Lorna’ s sister, Liza
M_innelli - and juicy gossip it
is!
By the time Luft was born in
1952, Judy Garland had finished
her career as a movie
star after being firedbyMGM.
Her insulated world had vanished
andherpersonal andprofessional
life was beginning a
frantic roller coaster ride from
which she would not survive.
Luft fondly remember~ her
early years as relatively stable
and it was only after Judy divorced
Lorna’s father, Sid
Ll~ts comments
regarding the
Gay community
are troubling.
While insisting
that she has
many Gay
friends and she
supports them
unconditionally,
she also blasts
those Gay guys
who tried to help
her mother in her
later years. Luft
believes, not that
these guys were
helping and
hermother’ s memoryinto apositive thing,
and feels that when she hears Judy’s recordings,
she is being watched over by a
guardian angel
As with many children from dysfunctional
families, Luft has had her share of
broken relationships, and became
addicted to recreational
drugs, in a vain effort to shed
her sweet, innocent image. She
seems inexplicably proud of
turning her sister on to cocame.
Now happily married
with children, Luft seems comfortable
with her life, past mid
present, and she lambastes
Lizafor continuing, in Lorna" s
eyes, down the path of destruction.
Luffs comments regarding
the Gay community are troubling.
"While insisting that she
has man)’ Gay friends and she
supports them unconditionall3’,
she also blasts those Gay
guys who tried to hdp her
mother in her later years. Luft
believes, not that these guys
Luft, that Judy’s inevitable eneouraglng Judy
decline would impact Lorna, when nobody else
Liza and brother Joe.
Luft is not bitter about her
mother’s erratic behavior of
the time. She understands that
when a person is severely addicted
tomind~numbingmedication,
they donotalways have
the ability to control their actions.
At about age twelve,
would, but that
their sup_port was
harmful and
their enthusiastic
devotion was. and
is, unhealthy.
Lorna and Judy, in effect, changed roles.
Lorna began taking care ofhermother and
learned how to manipulate her mother’s
environment so that Judy could continue
to work. Finally, the stress and sleepless
nights caught up with her, and Lorna had
a nervous breakdown. She went to live
with her father, never to see her mother
alive again.
Judy’s death, in 1969, was; of course, a
major turning point in Luft’s personal and
professional life. The second half of the
book details her efforts to emerge from
her mother and sister’s shadows, with
mixed success. She has managed to turn
from infected mothers to their babies during
birth. Already,researchers have shown
that brief treatment with the drug AZT
cuts this hazard in half, while longer use
coupled with a Caesarean delivery virtually
eliminates the risk. Despite such
progress, "there is news so devastating
that few in this roomcouldhave predicted
or imagined it a decade ago," Dr. Peter
Plot, head of the United Nations AIDS
program, told the opening session.
His organization estimates that 12 million
people around the world have already
died of AIDS, and another 31 million are
alive but infected. Each day, 16,000 more
people catch the virus. Since the last international
AIDS conference in Vancouver
two years ago, 10 million people have
contracted HIV, said Piot. "That represents
a collective failure of the world."
The opening ceremonies were briefly
disruptedby chanting, horn-blowing demonstrators
protesting the high cost ofAIDS
were helping and encouraging
Judy when nobody else
would, but that their s~pport
was harmful and their enthusiastic
devotion was, and is,
unhealthy. Of course; as a
child, she welcomed these
guys because they were often
the only ones who could get
Judy b~ck on track, and Lorna
cotmted on some of Judy’s
¯ Gay fans for information When writing
¯ this book.
; Putting aside this hypocrisy mid the
." poor editing job, Me mid .My Shadows is
an entertaining and lively bio~aphy, full
; of fun name-dropping. Luft has survived.
¯ a stressful early life, not unlike many
other kids, except that her fanfily turmo;l
was played Out in public. This is a fun and
." amusing book, mid provides a first person
account of the tribulations of one of our
: favorite show biz families.
~ Check for .Me and My Shadows at your
local branch library, or ~call the Readers
Services at 596-7966.
¯ I ¯
drugs. A year’s treatment with protease
: inhibitors and other drugs can cost S 10,000
or more. More than 90% of HIV-infected
¯
people live in parts of the world where
¯° these medicines are too expensive to be
widely used. "We forget that of the millions
ofpeople living withAIDS,most are
¯ condemned to death because of the ab-
." sence of care," said Peter Lamptey of
¯ FamilyHealth International, an anti-AIDS
group in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
." In the United States, Europe and other
." wealthy parts of the world, the epidemic
¯ has leveled off or is declining. After ex-
¯
plosive spread, it is also beginning to
¯ abate in some poorer areas, such as
¯ Uganda, Senegal, Brazil andparts ofTan-
¯ zama. However, Plot noted that"this epi-
¯
demic is truly out of control in many
¯ COuntn’es," i"ncludi"ng some parts ofAsi"a,
¯ Africa and Eastern Europe. One-quarter ¯
of the population is infected in Botswana
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Written reports of progress will be provided
to the civil rights office through
June 1999, Lambda said. School district
officials declined comment.
Mrs. Wagner said she welcomed the
agreement. "My heart broke whenmy son
was so terribly abused, just for being
himself," she said. "This agreement...
hopefully, will safeguard many parents’
dreams and protect their kids?’
by Esther Rothblum " part of the message too; it’s not filler,"
When Dee Mosbacher completed the ¯ explained Sylvia"because even when we
film STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART " play the film to people who are resistant to
(for which she received
an Oscar
no|ninarion) she was
told that a film about
Lesbians and their
patents needed to be
more communityspecific.
The Washlngton
Sisters, African
American Lesbian
musicians who
appear in the film
with their mother,
told Dee that Lesbians
faced different
issues around homophobia
in the African
American
church-going community.
Dee decided
to collaborate with Sylvia Rhue and
Frances Reid to co-produce a film about
Black churches and the Gay/Lesbian ex-
Professor Esther Rothblum
perience.
Sylvia Rhue came up
with the new film’s rifle,
ALLGOD’ S CHILDREN,
a phrase that was used so
often by the people they
interviewed. As Jesse Jackson
says in the film, "In the
larger civil rights movement,
we must see all
people as God’ s children."
The Reverend Dr. Cecil
Murray of the First AMC
ChU-rch~-. the oldest Black:
church in Los Angeles de=
dares: ’q’he church exists
for all God’ s children."
ALL GOD’S CHILDREN
is a 25-minute
documentary that explores
issues of the African
American church and
congregants in that church
about homosexuality and
homophobia. As Sylvia
told me: "It was important
to get church leaders that
our parents respect, the seniorpastors.
Marjorie Hill,
Ph.D. from the National
Boad Unity Fellowship
Church says in the film:
"Gay and Lesbian African
Americans are intertwined
with our community, and
we need the church."
ALL GOD’S CHILDREN
also includes wellknown
people from the
Black community such as
Congresswoman Maxine
Waters, Linda Villarosa,
Sylvia Rhue
cahae up with the
new film’s title,
ALL GOD’S
CHILDREN,
a phrase that was
use,t so o~en by
the people they
interviewed.
As Jesse Jackson
says in the film,
"In the larger elvil
rights movement,
we must see all
people as God’s
children."
The Reverend Dr.
Ceell Murray of
the First AMC
Church, the oldest
Black church in
Los Afigeles
declares: "The
church exists for
all God’s
children."
Executive Editor of Essence Magazine,
and Cornel West, Professor of Harvard
Divinity School. U.S. Senator Carol
Mosely-Brown states: "... our diversity is
after all a strength and not a weakness."
The film also includes Black families
discussing having a Gay or Lesbian family
member. Finally, music plays an important
role in the film as background and
foreground. Lavender Light: The Black
and People ofAll Colors Lesbian and Gay
Gospel Choir performs gospel music with
which Black churchgoers are so familar.
"You have to understand that music is
the message they
can’t resist the music."
The daree co-producers
all have prior
film-making experience
(Frances Reid.
in fact, was nominated
for two Oscars
in one year) but that’ s
where the similarities
end. Deeis a psychiatrist.
Sylvia has
a Ph.D. in human
sexuality and is also
a Bible scholar!student.
She says:
"Western society has
kept sex and reli~on
very separate and
that shouldn’t be." Frances xs a professional
film- maker.
The co-producers are now involved in
getting the film shown across the country.
"’The bottom line is that
Lesbian, G~, and Bisexual
people should see the film
and feel better about themselves,
too see people, including
leaders in the Black
community, support them
as heterosexual allies, and
also to see the pioneers of
the current Black Gay
movement on fihn" said
S.ylvia "’This is the first
txme that Black Gay and
heterosexual people have
goue on record to this degree
for an absolutely pro-
Gay stance. Since the
Bla’ck church is the strongest
iusrituriou in the Black
community, to have the
ministers talk xs very unportant."
The film includes
interviews with six Black
ministers.
Dee explained "We really
try to use the film as an
orgamzing tool. Ourefforts
have been trying to get the
film to as many people as
possible who would take it
to their community--
whether the church community,
the educational
commtmity, PFLAG (Parents
and Friends of Lesbians
and Gays), etc. We’ ve
tried to act creatively and
gotten a number of people
to subsidize copies of the
videos and accompanying
materials so that the film
can get out to communities." They wrote
ajoint letter with Phil Wilson, the founder
of the Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership
Forum, to get the film out. Sylvia now
travels all over the country to show the
film. As she says: "The project itself, I
think, was divinely led." The film ALL
GOD’ S CHILDREN can be obtained from
WomanVision Productions.
Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psychology
at the University of Vermont and
Editor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.
DYKE PSYCHE is a monthly column.
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many straight peop!e draw
the line. Real mamage, so
they say, requires a man and
a wbman. Dogs are optional.
This growing dispute over
marriage, many have noted,
reflects the noisy rhetoric of
I went to a party
the other day at the
house of
two new friends.
Recently come to
Tulsa. these
witty and cheerful
women had already
made a
eomfortab]te home
to~ether, complete
with
soulful-eyed hea~le.
Two women and a
do~ - it looked llke
a marrla~e to me.
"family values" that has
dominated much of Ameflcan
politics for the last two
decades. One can draw easy
connections between an mcreasing
instability’ of .the
American nuclear fmnily mid
pamcky public evocatio.ns of
family values. Nowadays,
half of married people get
themselves unmarri ed.
[but] ¯ ¯ ¯
marrla~e is also
the place where
man)’
straio_~’ht PeoPle
draw the llne.
Real marrla~e,
so they say,
requires
rhis recent collapse of a man and a wonaan.
American marriage ~s Do~s are optional.
nobodv’s fault in particular.
Rather’, it is an effect of the
ekpanding labor mad other demands of our
.post_industrial_e~gg/]~,s~.z.te.m-tha~.~ucks
hp f&fi51’e’,XG~i~’~’r-~. Perplexed and worfled,
those of ns who find it harder mad
harder anymore to stay roamed respond
emotionally to fearful" media-hyped stories
of abt~sed and abandoned children,
and to blustery Sunday sermons about
Adam and Eve’, not Adam and Steve.
Clearly, it’s already too late to save
much of American mamage (as this existed
up to the 1970s) even if all the rifty
states outlaw tmions between homosexuals
And one might ask those Gay activists
who are struggling to gain the right to
marry (and the legal and economic benefits
and respectability marriage offers) to
also prepare us for the divorces that are
sure to follow. At least my ex-boyfriend
hasn’t cost me any alimony - unlike my.
mercenary ex-wife who spends my salary
in Honolulu.
As human societies go, divorce, rate.s in
United States are recently creeping into
the upper range. Still, in some societies,
almost everyone marries and divorces at
least once and a 100% divorce rate in no
way threatens the general social fabric.
Anthropologists call the marital pattern
now emerging in the US "serial po- ¯
lygamy." Most of us will have more than ;
one spouse during, our lifetimes, just not
all at the same ume. Why even Frank "
Sinatra, that all-around American guy, ¯
good buddy of Jane and Nancy and Ron,
had made i’t to wife number four.
When I took my first anthropology "
course in 1971, my professor impressed ]
on me the difficulty in coming up with a ¯
umversal definition of marriage. The "
multiple and complicated ways that hu- "
roans around the world unite themselves ]
are exceedingly difficult to encapsulate ¯
within a single label like "marriage." In "
(of the southern Sudan)
sometimes are married to
dead men. Their children (go
figure how!.) become the legal
offspring of this ghost.
The Nayar of Kerala, southwestern
India, were famously
difficult for anthropologists
trying to classify
human marriage. Nayar
women do go fiarough a ritual
umon with a man. They
might never sleep with him,
though. Instead, they remmn
in their mother’ s home merrily
having sex and children
with whomever they please.
The term "marriage". accurately
describes various
sorts of gay or lesbian relationships
in societies around
the globe. Some Nucr
woman, by exchanging
cattle, marry another
younger woman. Her chil-
~tren are socially recognized
as the children of the female
"husband" who provided the
bovine bride wealth.
The glossary of that 19"71
anthropology text, politicall3
CO~Xect qvant la lettre,
defined mamage m a way
that omitted our AdmniEg’e presumptions.
uman marriage is "tan. ix~tstimtiorta~ized .
form of relatmnship m which sexum re~ -
tionships and parentage legitimately take
place." This definition would cover my
Tulsa friends, except for the fact that their
umonis illegitimate as defined by State of
Oklahoma law.
11acre are other sources of legitimacy
beyond the state, though. My two new
friends, and anyone else who wants to be
joined, can establish a "domestic partnership"
recognized by increasing nmnbers
of communities and compani,e,s, and tl}.ey
may arrange for themselves a holy umon
ceremony," offered by various churches,
temples, and other religious groups.
This begs the question why Gays and
Lesbians aredemanding state-legitim!."zed
marriage just at the point in American
history when straight marriage is in such
deep hot water (we might call it). Wall,
there’ s respect, of course. And there’s the
kids. You wouldn’t want that innocent
beagle to be illegitimate, would you?
have included government-sponsored
safe-sex campaigns, an increased availability
of condoms and better treatment
for other sexually transmitted disease:
Many experts believe that developmg
an AIDS vaccine i.s key to controlh.’ng the
epidemic. Thefirst large-scale testtng of a
possible vaccine began last week. The
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a
nonprofit group, announced a plan to try
to focus spending of betweenS350 million
and $500 millibnonvaccine development
over the next nine years. The group
said Microsoft founder Bill Gates had
contributed $1.5 million to its effort.
the vehement, negative reaction of my
very straight but very cool next neighbor
is probably typical. Whether or not he
thinks being Gay is sinful, he rejects the
notion of a God that hates like Phelps
promotes.
It also probably helped that Phelps also
intended to picket a number of Tulsa’s
most established churches. One does. wonderhow
he came up with his list ofchurches
though. Although Triztity mad St. John
Episcopal are mostly Gay-friendly, All
Souls Unitarian is very, and First Lutheran
is mostly neutral but ironically, First Methodist
is known as one of the ~nost
homophobic mainline congregations m
Tulsa.
But then this was the man who x~-as
going to picket Oral Roberts University
because Richard Roberts has had a di’-
vorce. Actually, Roberts, like a certain
former Oklahoma US senator, seems to
be dogged by the most curious allegations
about their lives when out of state. Maybe
it’s just as wall that Phelps hadn’t heard
those yet or he’d be in Palm Springs and
Norman next.
Regardless, I encourage all to thank
Steve Horn, Rick Martin, Greg Gatewood
and the other volunteers who put our
Pride events together. It’s a lot of hard
work and they deserve our recognition.
(Equality for Gays and-Lesbians Everywhere).
The British Columbia move and recent
courtrulings are positive changes for samesex
couples, he said, because private employers
and Ottawa will no longer be able
to use courts to deny pension benefits.
"The B.C. government will be a strong
example for other employers in the province,"
Aronovitch said.
A spokesmanfor afamily support organization
saidhe wasn’t as concerned about
pensionbenefits as the government’s definition
of a spouse and family. "We obviously
have a government here that really
desires to be seen to be out in front of
.everybody in terms of redefining spouse,
marriage and family," said John Sclater,
spokesman for Focus on the Family
Canada. "’.. LWe think there’s something
rooted in the biology and dynamic of a
heterosexual couple. We have to uphold
the ideal that most people say works best."
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Sapulpa Teen Flees Bias
SAPULPA, Okl~ (AP) -The 17-year-old son ofa local
school board member has faced threats and harassment
because of his sexual orientation, but the boy’s father
said his other children will remain in the suburban
district. Will .Allen, a junior at Sapulpa High School,
will attendTulsaW~hingtonHigh School whenthefall
semester begins Aug. 12. The family requested the
transfer in February, his father, Sam Allen, said.
Allen said Will has been vexed and tormented by his
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Orientation. ;The Allen family appeared recently on
NBC’s "The Today Show"; and Will encouraged other
young Gay men and women to confide in people with
whomtheyfeltcomfortable. ’Tvehadmany Gayfriends
who have been kicked out of their homes, treated very
poorly - physical abuse," he said. "The first thing you
should do .is find somebody, maybe,not your parents,
who you know and feel positive that ~hey can give you
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Will was inMichigan atamusic academy andwas not
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arranged for the television appearance. Will’s situation
is cotfimon for homosexual teen-agers, Ms. McDonald
said. "Some (schools) are doing a great job, and some
are sticking their heads in the sand," she said. "We’re
just beginning to work with Tulsa-area schools."
Allen said he had no complaints about the Sapulpa
district and said his two other children will continue to
attend Sapulpa schools. He also has no plans to step
down from the school board. ’‘The community support
has been wonderful," he said.
: WASHINGTON (AP) - Recalling his childhood in the segre-
¯ gated South, Surgeon General David Satcher compared the fight
: against AIDS, which is hitting the Black community hard, to the
-’: struggle for civil rights. Speaking to one of nation’s oldest civil
.: rights groups, he called on Black leaders to reject stereotypes
¯ around AIDS, overcome shyness about sex and confront the
[ issue. ’‘This is anareawhere weagain need to mobilize," Satcher,
." who is Black and grew up in Alabama, told the Southern Chris-
: tian Leadership Conference in a speech Tuesday. ’Tm talking to
¯ you about you."
While Blacks make up 13% of the U.S. population, they
¯ account for 57% of the new infectious, according to the federal Family of Faith to Present : CentersforDiseaseControlandPrevention.Amongsomegroups,
¯ the statistics are even more striking: Blacks and Hispanics make Noted Christian Singer
TULSA -Marsha Stevens, composer of For Those
Tears I Died (Come to the Water), will perform a free
concert at Family of Faith Metropolitan Commlmity
Church on Saturday, Sept.. 5th at 7:30 at 5451e South
Mingo as wall as at Family of Faith’s regular Sunday
evemng service on Sept. 6th at 5pm.
Stevens’ song, For Those Tears... has become a
standard of evangelical Christian hymnals since 1972
even though the songwriter experienced rejection and
scorn from part of the church since she came out as a
Lesbian. Active in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan
Community Churches (UFMCC), Stevens performs
over 150 concerts a year and has recorded six solo
albums and a concert video on her independent BALM
(Born Again Lesbian Music) labd. She now ministers
with the SW UFMCC district. Info: 622-1441.
P. 2/3
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: up 82% of HIV-positive women ages 13 to 24. Andlife-prolong-
" ing AIDS drugs are helping whites more than Blacks. In 1996,
¯ deaths among whites with AIDS were down 28%; for Blacks, it
¯ was just 10%.
¯ The Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s new presi-
¯ dent, Martin Luther King III, underscored the difficulty ofAIDS
¯ education, saying he is not comfortable promoting use of con-
" doms. "The only way is abstinence," he said in an interview after
¯ Satcher’s speech. "Sex should not be something that we just
: casually engage in and take lightly." The solution, King said, is
¯ restoring fundamental values to society. He said AIDS is an
¯ important issue, although it is not among his top priorities.
Satcherdid notrecommendany particularprevendon strategy.
" But he and other public health experts agree that use of condoms"
¯ is essential to halt the spread of HIV among people who are not
: likely to abstain from sex. The surgeon general will hammer the
~ AIDS message in upcoming speeches to Black journalists and
¯ doctors, and he plans to reach out to other groups such as Black
¯ fraternities, sororities and newspapers.
¯ But his speech to church leaders was particularly important.
¯ Churches play a central role in many Black communities, and
¯ ministers are,often among the most prominent community lead-
,: ers. But church leaders have been reluctant to talk about AIDS
¯ because it relates so closely to sex and homosexuality, Satcher
¯ says. The issue is also thorny because of its relationship to drug
¯ use, amajorprobleminside the Blackcommunity withits ownset
¯ of taboos, see Surgeon,p.ll
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - From skimpily
clad revelers to Bible-toting evangelists, the
Gay Games are drawing an eclecdc crowd for
weeklong festivities ce,!ebrating Gay pride and
culture. With the,,theme Friendship Through Culture
and Sports, the quadrennial Olympics-style
sports festival begins Saturday, offering competitors
everythingfrom ballroom dancing to wrestling
and more cerebral pastimes such as bridge and
chess.
This is the
first time the Gay
Games are being
held in Europe
since they beganin
San Francisco in
1982. New York
City was the site
¯ of the last Games
¯ in 1994; Sydney,
¯ site of the Summer
Olympics in 2000,
¯ will have the first
¯ Tulsan CliffBaileyis compet- southern hem|-
¯ ing in this year’s Gay Games .sphere Gay Games
¯ in Amsterdam, accompanied in 2002.
¯ by his spouse Chris Ritthaler. The opening
night’s ceremony
¯ will feature the Israeli transsexual pop star Dana
¯ International, who gained fame- and notoriety-in
¯ May after winning the 25-nation Eurovision song
¯ contest and incensing Orthodox Jewish leaders at
¯ home.
¯ Some 30 competition sports will be available at
¯ these games, which run through Aug. 8. But with-
" out top-level athletes, they threatened to be eclipsed
¯ by the many parties outside the stadium.
¯ Amsterdam is renowned for its tolerance and its
¯ lively Gay community, so these games are almost
~:. inconspi~ug~s, ap.ar~ [rg~ so,me posters and a few
~ more same:~e~couples than USUal-:strolling arm-in-
¯ arm a!Orig the canals.
With up to 14,000 participants and 200,000 visi-
¯ tors in town, the Dutch capital is about to be
¯ transformed into the ultimate Gay hangout with
¯ enough temptations to satisfy even the most vigor-
. ous partygoer. There are transvestite shows and
¯ drag queen contests. For the more athletic, there’s
¯ even oil wrestling.
One top attraction officially has nothing to do
¯ with the Gay Games: Saturday’s yearly canal pa-
: rade of decorated boats. Games organizers prom-
- ised a flotilla of Gays and Lesbians on the city’s
¯ famous medieval waterways. But not everyone
¯ will be party-hopping. For the straight-laced and
intellect’ual types-; there are plenty of alternatives,
including art exhibits, symposiums on Gay and
¯ Lesbian issues, and cooking shows.
¯ Participants might get a dose of religion. Up to
¯ 100 representatives from the international evange-
¯ lism group Youth With a Mission plan to stage
[ C.hristian-themed street dramas and pray with par-
¯ Uopants. "God wants to care for people whether
¯ they are homosexuals or heterosexuals," YWAM
¯ spokeswoman Nelleke Bosshardt said.
Sigrid Johannisse of the Netherlands, who will
". be competing in the badminton competition, said
¯ she’s searching for fun and friendship. Even so, she
¯ hopes the Gay Games one day will disappear as
Gays become more accepted.
¯ Although heterosexuals are welcome to com-
" pete, few do, triggering criticism within the Gay
¯ community that the games createneedless segrega-
¯ don. "! hate all the separation," said Johmmisse, a
¯ 33-year-old art historian. "in sports, there isn’t so
¯ much integration.., it was just easier to play with
¯ Gay people."
¯ Eddy Feenstra has a more carefree attitude as he
¯ prepares to compete in ballroom and Latin Ameri-
¯ can dancing with partner Tonny Aliens. Girding
¯ for victory, Feenstra says "I am doing it for the
¯ fun," he said. "I would also like to show off what I
¯ am good at."
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Keep Up the Good Work
Thanks for your paper. It is a welcome
relief from the crosstown neo-fascist
infotainment weekly, i particularly enjoyed
last issue’s cover story about SenatorNickles,
presumably the selfsame Senator
once knownfor closeting himself with
a reputedly Gay [Oklahoma] . fellow politico,
but who now wishes to protect the
Luxembourgians from the possibility of
an "immoral" ambassador. From what I
understand, the Luxembourgians aremuch
less concerned with the comings and goings
.in an ambassador’s, boudoir than is
Sen. Nickles.
As a politically leftist straight older
male, I naturally fmd common cause with
the Gay community: when the good Senator
and the Right good Rev. Phelps get
finished with the queers, they’ll be after
me next. I applaud your efforts to establish
dialogue with straightminority groups
who have themselves been the targets of
bigotry an discrimination. Ifwelearnnothing
more from History, at least we should
know that solidarity is the only hope for
the oppressed, and perhaps the best defense
from the excessively repressed.
This town needs a paper that gives
voice to all those outside the power elite,
performing the traditional role of the
Fourth Estate: to hold our governments
accountable for their actions, and to protect
the liberties of the individual. Keep
up the good work. - Keith Bolton, Tulsa
: A Letter from RAIN Oklahoma
," Thank you for providing me with providing
me with a way to address some
questions and concerns I’m aware of re-
"¯ garding a policy for volunteers that
RAIN’ s Board of Directors approved and
¯ that RAIN Staff are now charged with,
’ implementing. The policy in question is
". in regard to criminal history reports now
¯ being performed (with the volunteer’s
¯ permission) for all new volunteers effec¯
tive June 1, 1998 and gradually incorporating
such reports on all volunteers by
: March 1, 1999.
¯ I ask readers to consider the nature of ¯
¯ RAINvolunteers’ service topeopleliving
with HIV/AIDS [PLWA’s] and those in
; theirhouseholds. Volunteers provide non-
¯ medical,non-technical careto [PLWA’s],
"- most often in the RAIN client’s home.
¯ The services vary, depending on the ex-
." pressed needs and the volunteerrs avail-
- ability, but can include transportation,
¯ meal preparation, housecleaning, child
; care, pet care, and social outings. Emo-
; tional support is often a Valuable compo-
¯ nent of the relationship between RAIN
¯ Client and volunteer.
¯ RAIN’s Board of Directors and staff
¯ realized that we have a tremendous responsibility
to do what we can to ensure
¯ thesafety ofchildrenandvulnembleadults
¯ that volunteers contact: The policy was
: not-initiated naively or without regard to
¯ potential negative consequences. In a fo- ¯
cus group with volunteers many months
¯ ago, responses ranged from "against it
¯ -under any circumstance" to "yes, absoi
lutely, I support this fully." see RAIN, p.3
: Letters Policy
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issues which we’ve covered or on issues
¯ you think need to be considered. Youmay
¯. request that your name be with/add but
¯ letters mustbe signed&have phone num-
" bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let-
. ters are preferred. Letters to other publi-
¯ cations will be printed as is appropriate.
Rev, Howard vsthe Evil Steve
by Tom Neal, editor & publisher ".
Severalyears ago whenUS Congressman Steve Largent "
firstranforoffice, this newspapermet withLargent, athis ¯
request, andafterwards I argued, despiteLargent’s record ¯
of bigoted,.anti-Gay comments and his association with "
radical extremist religio~political groups, for an initial ¯
policy of tolerance for Herr Largent. I’d hoped that ¯
Largent might just really believe in real Christian and "
American values of loving and respecting not only your "
neighbor but also the US Constitution. He sure tried to
sweet-talk us that way.
And to be fair, Steve did agree to a town hall meeting "
with Tnlsa’s Lesbian and Gay community - something "
none of his predecessors had ever done, certainly not the ¯
Idiot Congressman Inhofe (now US Senator and in competition
with Ernest "
Istookfor mostembar- "
rassing Oklahoman in
Washington) but not ¯
even the Democrat, "
Jim Jones, who’d held "
the seat before. ¯
But obviouslyI was "
wrong. Nomatterhow "
Largent may want to
see himself as just a
nice guy, he’s chosen "
to promote rdigious "
extremism and to surround
himself with "
folks so bigoted that "
they make him look a "
littlebit~m,oderate. His ."
chief of staff, Terry
US Rep. Steve Largent making Allen, thepoliticalex- "
those endorsement dollars by tremist calling the "
showing offhis son in his Hanes plays for our football ."
underware. Yep, Steve andsome hall-of-famer, comes ¯
of those Republicans sure know to mind. Actually "
about thosefamily values. Steve’s not moderate ¯
but his staff is openly
hate~:.t.o~ir Lesbian aod Gay constituents while Steve
.... a~’[d.~t~tu§~ly is polite. "
Now Steve et al will argue that their radicalism is just
repres.enting the views of the First District (which is more
or less Tnlsa county). But as a nearly lifelong Tnlsan (my
f,am~ly moved here from Oklahoma City in 1960), I just
don t ihink So. Yes, wedo have a sufficiency of Baptists,
Methodism, and also those no-name, make-it-up-as-yougo-
along~they-claim-they-areChriStians, many ofwhom
seem to think that their faith demands that they hate their
nexgt~bor as tlaey would be loved. Or.who engage in the
profoundly insincere rhetoric of claiming "to love the
person and to hate the ’sin’:" Often one wonders if these
types on meeting Christ would not reject Him as a "longhairedcommie,
pinko-fag."
But I don’t believe that these types represent the
majority of Tulsans, and regardless, given the values of
the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, ¯
minority civil fights are not supposed to be subject to the
tyranny of the majority. And I believe that many Tulsa "
Baptists, Methodists, Jews, Muslims, Pagans and non, "
believers recognize that once the power of the govern- ¯
merit is used to promote a particular religious agenda, ¯
each tradition could be targeted just as Lesbian mad Gay "
citizens are the target du jour. ’
So, it is with some relief to learn that a brave soul, the ’
Reverend Howard Plowman, retired Methodist pastor,
has announced his willingness to face the football bully..
According to The Yellow Dog Democrat, the newsletter ¯
of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, Rev. Howard will ¯
challenge the ,hard-core Christian Coalition which has ¯
done a disservice to all political parties..." He adds, "1 "
resent them taking a Christian name and pretending-to: ]
have no other agenda..." Plowman, 73 years old, with ..
kids and grandkids, went to Tulsa Public Schools,TU and "
SMU’s Perkins School of Theology.
This newspaper certainly agrees that the so-called ¯
Christian Coalition has done a disservice to all Ameri- ¯
cans who believe in real religious freedom and have "
respect for America’s rich diversity. And I applaud Rev. "
Howard and his spouse and family for being willing to ¯
stand up against the Evil Steve. Tulsa deserves better. ¯
Editor’s note: More information is available about ¯
Plowman ’for Congress by writing to 3617 East 48th "
Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74.135. ¯
by James Christjohn
Greetings! Welcome to a new occasional colunm, one
that I hope you will fred interesting. The focus is to
comment on the world around us with the perspective of
being a Gay man in a diverse world. Topics will have a
wide range, from frivolity to high drama to serious issues
that affect us all. In this exploration, the question will
always be: What exactly is a Gay lifestyle?
I had an acquaintance once remark to me
"I don’t approve of your lifestyle, but I like
you." My first thought was "Well, I don’t
approve of your lifestyle, but I accept it as
part of you without comment: Who the hell
are you to judge me?" Before I did so, I
thought to myself, ’q’hat is not her rational
mind speaking, it’s her brainwashing coming
through. She doesn’t know any better.
She knows not what she speaks." I had to
ponder thatfor awhile. Itwas terribly tempting
to ask, "Does your brainknow what your
mouth is saying?"
I began pondering: what the hell is a Gay
lifestyle, anyway? There are perceptions,
usually starting witha"mis", that the straight
world has of Gay folk, and our so called
lifestyles, such as apparently we spend 90%
of our time in Gay bars in the pursuit of sex.
I know.that there are some folk who like to
go clubbing, straight and Gay, I know some
folk who do drugs, straight and Gay, I know
some folk who are promi.scuous (yes, even x
years into the AIDS epidemic), again, both
straight and Gay, - and I know many folk
who do none of those things. Yet, in the
straight world, we are all lumped under a
stereotype of eternal drugging, drinking,
slutty behaviors. Why is this, and.do we
need to hire publicity firms to turn theimage
around?
Thus I
dragged,
kicking and
sereamina, out
of the closet
by two very
curious Baptist
women from
Q)dessa-latlon,
Texas¯
And despite all
" my f~ars~
notlang
happened.
In fact, when I
leh, they were
very qulch to
tell me I
replaced
another
Gay man . . .
¯ and they still want me. Another time, I was copying some
¯ recipes out of a book in the office, when the same sister
; noticed and said, "Oh, you like to cook? You’ll make
¯¯ some wo - person a wonderful hus - mate."
Well, the cat was definitely coming out of the closet
¯ then. Shortly thereafter, I met my future mate, and all of ¯
a sudden, there was much curiosity about my life, which
I kept sidestepping, still fearing I could lose
ajob. It came to ahead one evening when I
was drawing plans ofTom’ s apartment, and
trying to figure out how to combine stuff,
furniture, etc. Cyndee, the boss, came over
and was looking over my shoulder. She
noted I had not drawn another bed, and
remarked "So, where ya golma put your
bed? or are ya gonna sleep with him?" It
was so surprisingly I my only response was
-- ..u..hhh ~ ana men to oraw in a bed real fast.
It was utterly silly, and she was letting me
know that she knew and it was no big deal,
.she had known, and now I knew she knew.
After that, the questions were exhausting.
The next year was one big Gay 101
Question and Answer session, as I ,demythified
Gayhood (Gaydom?) to them and
did no small amount of education. Cyndee
even shielded me from a stalker who’d
become obsessed with me, and nearly had
him arrested for calling the business repeatedly.
That was not fun, but it was notable in
the way she was ready to defend me. They
came from Irish stock, and Cyndee mad was
a sight to avoid.
And I became the one to turn to when
Annie, the other sister, was planning parties.
Which she did. A lot. I was the one
draftedinto helping herdo artsy-crafty things
for her parties, and when she was selecting
new furniture, I was always asked for de-
¯ I tend to think that theimagecanbe turned
arotmd,though it will mked~ne, ~aad lots ofpatiehee:The
¯ woman I referred to before may have a different image of
: Gay people than what she’d been brainwashed into be-
¯ lieving because we knew each other. Maybe not a magic
." transformation, but a little logic, here and there,:can add
¯ For example, I worked for three years in a physical
¯ therapy office, for two small.town Baptistwomenl It was ¯
a nice job, and I liked them, so I didn’t talk about myself
¯ much for fear oflosing thejob:! was rather silly. TI~first
¯ day f worked there, "a client came in and demanded that
¯ one of the "purty wimmin" do his therapy because he
didn t want no pansy-assed faggot to touch him. Well,
¯ we were both nonplused. I thought I was pretty low key,
¯¯ having left the bright, hotpinkneon"QueerHere" sign at
¯ home.
After h~ left, one of the sisters begged me not t6 quit,
saying their clients were not all like that, and he was an
exception, not a rule. Wall, I thought, at least they know,
¯ sign opinions. I guess it’s part of the Gay gene, that interior d(sign comes with it. (I really had no
talent forit, but it was a misconception that wouldil’t die.
No matter how hard I tried to dispel the myth that not all
Gay men had impeccable taste, even to the extent of
describing my past relationships.)
Thus was I drug, kicking and screaming, out of the
closet by two VerY curious Baptist women from Odessalation,
Texas. And despite all my fears, nothing bad
happened. In fact, when I left, they were very quick to tell
me I was being replaced with another Gay man, who’d
actually made a pass at their very handsome but terribly
straight brother. Apparently, the strategy worked.
I had a point in all this somewhere. Oh yes, it is by
events like these - and not being afraid to be who we are
- that this whole mythification of what we are can be
¯changed. It’s not always the loud voices that help create
change, sometimes it’s the whisper on the wind. And in
that way, everyone can help make long-lasting changes
for.the benefit of all.
characterizingit as an attack on the rights of Gay citizens
and a federal imposition on local rule. Only Riggs-vigorously
supported it during the debate,
"It’s a message amendment.... It will unquestionably
encourage intolerance," said Rep. Henry Waxman, DCalif.
The San Francisco ordinance has been criticized by
some businesses as well as nonprofit orgamzadons including
Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army. "The
SalVation Army, which refused to buckle to city policy,
forfeited $3.5 million of its $18 million budget," said
Riggs, because it didn’t want to comply with the city
ordinance on domesdc partner benefits.
The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national
Lesbian and Gay political organization, called theamendment
"the latest salvo in fight-wing attacks .against Gay
people." "The amendment is a thinly veiled attempt to
attack San Francisco and micromanage the city," said
Winnie Stachelberg, the political director for the Human
Rights Campaign.
In another action ofinterest to the Gay community, the
House decided to reduce money it had allocated
see Attack, p. 13
There were concerns expressed regarding the cost ($15/
report) and it was decided to handle it similar to the way
we handle our $25 volunteer training fee. Scholarships
are offered for training to anyone who request one and
RAIN will pay the report fee for any volunteer, so that no
one is prevented from volunteering due to the cost.
All decisions for volunteer eligibility are made at the
discretion of the RAIN coordinator and any grievances
against the policy or any decision made my the RAIN
coordinator may be taken up with me. I hope that current
RAIN volunteers will understand RAIN’s mission of
providing a compassionateresponse to HIV/AIDS through
education and service has not changed. We appreciate the
love and concern shown by our volunteers and we are
grateful that men, women and children living with HIV/
AIDS are willing to risk letting strangers into their lives
by asking for a RAIN team.
- Pam S. Cross, MPH, Executive Director
No Gays or Singles to
Adopt in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A state board that sets standards
affecting foster care has approved a requirement
that prohibits private agencies from placing
children with homosexual.or unmarried heterosexual
adults. The new rule must undergo a public comment
period before becoming effective. Rules have not
been written for public foster care agencies, said Joel
Landreneau, alawyerfor the licensing unit ofthe state
Human Services Department. The state has some
2,700 to 2,800 children in foster care. In the past, the
ruleshave been silent on homosexual or single heterosexual
foster parents.
Along with passing the new rule, the Child Welfare
Agency Review Board discussed the possibility of an
exemption for unmarried heterosexuals. Board member
James Balcom of Paragould said agencies could
use single people by applying for an exemption called
alternative compliance.
Bob West of Little Rock, also a board meml~er and
the only dissenter, said he believes there will be many
requests for exemptions. "I don’t think you can exclude
anyone just because they’re single," he said. "I
really think it should be up to the local agencies who
is qualified to be a foster parent. I just think it has to
be done on a case-by-case basis.’"
Board member Robin Woodruff of Little Rock
proposed the prohibition, saying "I would like for our
children to have a mom role model and a dad role
model." After the meeting, Ms. Woodruff said she
had been told that the Centers for Youth and Families
had placed at least one child with a Gay family and
had other such families waiting.
Kay Kimbrough, the centet"s service administrator
for adolescent services, said her agency doesn’t inquire
rote foster parents’ sexuality. "That is not an
issue for us, asfar as gender of parents. We don’ t have
a policy or practice that dictates whether we place
kids in that type family," Ms. Kimbrough said. "We
don’t make a practice to determine whether a family
is heterosexual or homosexual."
At the board meeting, Chris Pyle, family life issues
Aiai.~.On f~o~ Q.o,v..~Mike Huckabee~ said the. govemgr
supports-applying the principle of foster parents being
heterosexual married couples. Pyle said Arkansas
law prohibits marriages between members of the
same sex. He said Huckabee believes "it is not in the
best interest of children for them to be placed in an
environment that.the Legislature has specifically and
purposely removed from legal sanction and recognition."
"I think there are a lot of foster children out there
and not enough foster parents, and we may run into
trouble if.we try to limit it to couples only," said West,
apediatric medical consultant who works for the state
Health Department. AssistantAttorney General Karen
Wallace, a lawyer for the board, had recommended
the board stick with the standards as written. She said
she.had concerns about equal protectionand discrimination.
New England Lesbian
Wins Bias Lawsuit
BOSTON (AP) -Ajudge has awarded $906,000 to a
Lesbian who managed a state social services agency,
ruling she was the victim of job discrimination.
Middlesex Superior Com’tJudge Sandra Hamlinruled
that Lowell-based Community Teamwork Inc., the
state’s second-largest .anti-poverty agency, had no
good reason fire Patrica Weber. Hamlin added that
Weber was "eminentlymorequalified" man the CTI’ s
director, the man who was picked over her by the
agency’s board of directors. Hamlin, who said a
"sexist attitude" prevailed at CTI, also ruled that the
reasons given for Weber’ s firing were "a pretext."
"I feel vindicated," Weber, 49 told the Boston
Herald. "What they did tomewas wrong. I’m glad the
!aw feels thatway too. Employers can’ t firepeoplefor
nothing-because they don’tlike them, or they’re the
wrong sex or whatever."
Cheryl Cronin, CTI’s lawyer, said the agency is
appealing. !~We are c~,,n~,~dent that CTI will ultimately
prevail in this matter,’ she said. CTI provides a range
of services,including housing, education and daycare
to low-income residents of 38 communities from
Lowdl to Framingham.
Weber, who worked for CTI for 18 years, was fired
in March, 1996 during a meeting with Executive
Director Jim Canavan. A month later, when she
applied for unemployment benefits, she learned the
reason for her dismissal was listed as "inability to do
her job." Hamlin said inca 38-page ruling that CTI
retaliated against Weber for filing a complaint with
the Massachusetts Commission Against Discriminationbyrefusing
to provide her areference. Weberwas
turned down for dozens of jobs, before accepting one
that cut her pay nearly in half.
"Weber’s past work history while at CTI reveals
only a dedicated, bright, hardworking employee,".the
judge wrote. "Nothing whatsoever in the evidence
supports defendant’ s contention that Weber’ s inability
to perform led to her termination.’"
Tennessee Lesbian
Wins Child Custody
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-Gay activists hope the
case of a Wilson County Lesbian who was granted
custody of one of her children marks a trend in
Tennessee. Pat Finn was awarded sole custody of her
9-year-old daughter this month by ajudge in Wilson
County. Her second child, a teen-age son, chose to
live with his father, who was awarded sole custody of
the boy.
’Tm glad this has been brought to light," said Bev
Clendenen of Nashville, director of the Lesbianand
Gay Community Center. "This reconfirms that Gay
mothers are good mothers. Like everything, there are
good apples and bad. You should be judged not on
your sexuality, but rather what kind of mother you
are.;"
Pa~ck Sullivan, Finn’s ex~husband, plans to appeal.
I thought it was the greatest injustice in the s/ate
of Tennessee," he said. ’q-his case is about her being
a neglectful mother and very little about the homosexuality."
He said he opposes:his ex-wife’ s Lesbian
relationship and does not wanthis daughter exposed
to it "It is about discrimination of me as a father
trying to get custody of his children," he said of the
ruling.
Finn, a registered nurse, was married to Sullivan
for 17 years. She and her female partner have formalized
their relationship with a commitment ceremony
and exchange offings. Finn believes she won custody
of her daughter because she was judged on the facts
and not politics, public sentiment or the judge’s
personal preferences about family life.
"I realized the odds were against me, but I told my
" daughter I wasn’t doing anything wrong and I needed
to show her I would fight to keep her," Finn said. ’Tm
thesame mother. I’m the same woman who has been
raising children for 16 years."
Can A Lesbian Win A Seat in Congress?
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) - Grethe
Cammermeyer, a daughter of the Nazi resistance in
Norway and a decorated Vietnam veteranwhobattled
her owngovernment, hasjumpedheadlonginto anew
challenge: The retired Armycolonel, who wryly calls
herself "one of the most famous Lesbians in the
country" after her successful fight to stay in the
military, is rtmuing for Congress.
Cammermeyer, 56, has never held public office.
Her Gay civil-rights fight - recounted in "Serving in
Silence," a book and made-for-TV movie = made her
a celebrity. Glenn Close, who starred in the movie, its
producer Barbra Streisand and other show-business
notables have contributed to her campaign.
She’s favored to win the Democratic nomination
Sept. 15. That would pit her against two-term Republican
Rep. Jack Metcalf on Nov. 3. Metcalf, who says
this is his last campaign, was boosted to victory two
years ago by absentee voters in the traditionally
Democratic 2nd District.
No openly Lesbian candidate has been elected to
Congress, but Caramermeyer is one of four Democrats
hoping to break the barter this year along with
Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Christine Kehoe of
California and Susan Tracy of Massachusetts. ’q’his
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Kathleen DeBold, polifical director ofthe Victory Fund,
a Washington, D.C., group that backs Lesbians and
Gays for public office. "Grethe is so admired, both for
her record in the military and for her willingness to stand
up and fight homophobia," says state Rep. Ed Murray,
. a Seat-de Democrat who’s Gay.
Cammermever earned national attention with her
fight to stay in~eWashington National Guard. She was
f!red, in 1992.after disclosing her sexual orientation
aunng a 1989 Interview for a security clearance as chief
nurse of the National Guard.Afederaljudge orderedher
reinstated in 1994; the government did not appeal.
On the campaign trail, she doesn’t talk Gay civil
rights. At an ice cream social held by Skagit County
Democrats earlier this month, Cammermeyer spoke
about education, health care, the environment and countering
a Republican Congress she considers radical and
heartless. "I am not a politician," she told The Associated
Press. "I’m an everyday person who has a healthcare
background and an education background. I am a
mother, a grandmother and served in Vietnam. I have
had thebest and the worst of social experience."
Cammermeyer was born in Oslo, Norway, to a doctor
and a nurse who sheltered undergroundresistance fighters
in World War II. A now familiar tale has her mother
shuttling weapons to the Nazi resis,_t~_,ce by hiding them
beneath the mattress in Grethe s baby buggy.
Cammermeyer was 9 when she came to the United
States with her parents and three brothers. She became
a eitizen in 1960. Ntlrsingmeshed well with her military
ambitions, she has said, because it was a job she could
take to the batflefront. She served in the military 31
years, including active duty in Vietnam. She earned the
Bronze Star. for treating wounded soldiers in the. Tet
Offensive in 1968. She has four grown sons from her
marriage to a fellow officer she met while serving in
Germany.
She’s wall aware why she.has such ready name
recognition. :But the personable, 6-foot-tall
.Cammermeyer-whosefirstname, shortforMaxgarethe,
is pronounced Greta- bdieves most voters are ready to
move past her sex,,,u~,, ori,entadon to the issues affecting
their own lives. Whats.most difficult is suddenly
realizing there are some people who don’t want you to
approach them or shake their hand or even say hello,"
she said of experiences on the campaign trail.
-State Democratic Chairman Paul Berendt, neutral in
the primary, says Cammermeyer needs to let voters
know the range of issues she cares about. "If people see
her as one-dimensional,it’s over," agrees Murray. "We
don’ tknow how big ofanegative it is" to be openly Gay
in a district with no major homosexual enclaves and a
sizablenumber ofreligious conservatives, Berendt says.
Cammermeyer’s lone primary opponent, businessman
and environmentalist Fran Einterz, 44, makes apoint of
telling audiences he’s been in the district for 17 years.
Einterz plans to raise only $100,000 for the primary
election. Cammermeyer has raised $502,801 so far.
Neither Einterz nor Metcalf has made an issue of
Camm.ermeyer’ s sexual orientation, althoughthe Metcalf
campaign sent out a fund-raising letter that said the
Cammermeyer campaign is being underwritten by the
national Gay movement.
Boy Scouts-Feud
with Unitarians
BOSTON (AP) -A feud between the Boy Scouts of
America and the Unitarian Universalist Assocaation
over homosexuality has led to cries of outrage by the
Boston-based branch of the church. 2~he Unitarian Universalist
Association, a long-standing New England
liberal denomination that~supports civilrights for Gays,
has condenmed in a church manual the Boy Scouts’
rejection of homosexuality. As a result the youth orgamzation
has ordered the association to stop honoring
Unitari.~an scouts with religious awards.
But the president of the Boston-based 250,000-member
association called the order "’outrageous" and said
the Unitarians do not intend to honor the Boy Scouts’
emand., They simply can t tell us how to teach our
children ’ John Buehrens, a former Boy Scout, told The
Boston Globe. "Telling us we can’t give out awards to
our boys is blatant discrimination against children.
That’s not in the Boy Scouts’ tradition," Buehrens said.
¯ The religious emblems awarded by Unitarimas
¯
are also presented by several other religious groups,
¯¯ including the Roman Catholic Church, ant many
¯ Protestant, JewishandMuslim denominations. The emblems differ from the merit badges that are
¯ earned for mastering a specific task, but can still be
¯ worn on scouts’ ufiiforms as badges of honor.
In recent years, the Boy Scouts has drawn fire
¯ from human rights groups and a number of reli-
¯
gious organizations for its view of homosex,u~l,ity
¯ and refusal to admit Gay scouts and leaders. We
resp.ect other people’ s rights to disagree with us and
: we simply ask people to respect our rights as a
¯ private voluntary orgamzation," Gregg Shields. ¯
national spokesman for the Scouts, said.
¯
But in its manual distributed to tecn-agers, the
: associadonmakes it clear thatit does not agree with
¯ the Boy Scouts’ view. The manual describes the
Unitarians’ "ongoing concern regarding the
¯
homophobic and discriminatory attitudes of the
: nationalleadership of the Boy Scouts ofAmerica.’"
¯ Since then, letters have gone back and forth
between the two sides, leaving Buehrens wi th the
¯ hope that the dispute can be resolved by a mee.ting
¯ with Boy Scouts officials this fall.
¯ "I’m perfectly willing to sit down with the Boy
Scouts, but I also need to be very clear that they are
¯ in grave danger of having much of America’s
: mainstream religious community concerned abom
: the way in which they are acting," Buehrens said.
¯i Anti-Gay Hawaii TV
Ads Criticized ¯
HONOLULU (AP) - Opponents of a proposed
: state constitutional amendment that would ban
same-sex marriage are criticizing a pro-amend-
, ment television ad featuring professional football
: player Reggie White.
¯ Jaekie Young, coordinator of the Protect Our
¯ Constitution campaign, said this isn’t about letting
¯ the people decide but about "political extremists"
coming to Hawaii to argue anissue aboutbasic civil ¯ rights and dividing the community.
¯ Noelani Foster, spokesman for a group called
¯ Save Traditional Marriage, said White, defensive hneman for the Green Bay Packers, "feels a con-
; nection to theislands" because he has played in the
: Pro Bowl in Honolnlu for the past 12 years.
¯ White, an ordained minister, filmed the TV spot
¯ re~enfly as part of a broader advertising campaign
¯ to educate Hawaii voters about the ballot question.
: Hawaii voters will decide during the Nov. 3 Gen-
¯ eral Election whether to ratify an amendment that
¯ would restrict marriage to opposite-sex couples.
¯
¯ Alaska Lawmakers Sue
Over Ballot Language ¯
¯ JUNEAU (AP) - Republican lawmakers are suing
Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, claiming she distorted the
¯
meaning of a proposed constitutional amendment
." banning same-sex marriage when she summarized
it for the November ballot. As part of her duties,
¯ Ulmer, a Democrat, must compose impartial summanes
of proposed amendments-and initiatives.
Thefirst sentence ofher summary ofSenate Joint
¯ Resolution 42 read: "This measure would amend
¯ the Declaration of Rights section of the Alaska
¯
.Co.nstitution to limit marriage." "The word ’limit’
¯ is incorrect because as of this date no nation in the
.. world and no state in this country recognizes or has
¯ ever recognized homosexual same-sex marriage,"
¯ attorney Kevin Clarkson wrote on behalf of the
¯ Legislative Council, a committee of lawmakers
¯ that acts for the Legislature between session, M0ng
¯ with Sen. Loren Leman, R-Anchorage and Rep.
¯ Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks.
¯ In the lawsuit, the.lawmakers accuse Ulmer of
¯ altering the language at the behest of opponents of the measure, bqmers position was spelled out in a
¯ July 20 letter to the Legislative Council. "’The
¯ proposed constitutional amendment restricts the
¯ cour! .from "interpreting Alaska’s constitution as ¯ reqtunng a broader definition of marriage than that
¯ which is defined by statute," seeBriefs, p.]l
HIV Creates
Infection Resevoir
WASHINGTON (AP) - New research
shows th~it the AIDS virus takes as little as
little as 10 days to establish a stronghold
inimmunecells of thebody that could last
for years, waiting to erupt into disease.
Researchers at the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Disease say a study
of 10 patients show that alatently infected
pool of immune cells quickly established
following infection by HIV, the virus that
causes AIDS. Drug treatment apparently
does not easily clear out the pool of infected
cells, the experts said. A report on
the study was published in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
Evenif the active HIV disease is held in
check by a three-drug combination of
antiviral drugs, the researchers say, the
virus continues to lurk in resting CD4 Tcells
in the blood. These are immune ceils
that detect and lead the attack on infections,
but the CD4s are also the primary
target of the HIV.
CD4 T-cells are usually resting. They
are activated only when they detect some
pathogen invader in the blood. When this
happens, the cells attack the invader and
prompt otherimmunecells to dothe same.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director ofNIAID
and co-author of the study, said that studies
of the blood from the 10 HIV patients
showed that their resting CD4 T-cells
became infected as earl,y~ as 10 days after
their initial HIV infection symptoms appeared.
Earlier studies had shown that the
re.sting CD4 T-cells continued to contain
v~rus even when the antiviral drugs suppressed
the virus elsewhere in the body.
" The new study, said Fauci, shows that
these reservoirs of virus are established
very early in the infection. Such reseryoi~
s.’.’Presentafo~dableobstacle to the
Ultimate~ 0ntrbland possible eradication
of HIV from an infected person’ s body,"
saidTae-Wook Chun, aN!AID researcher
and co-author of the study.
Activists Urge
Better Prevention
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lulled by lifeprolonging
AIDS drugs, the nation has
slacked off vital efforts to keep Americans
- especially young people - from
catching the deadly virus in the first place,
say AIDS activists who are demanding
major increases in HIV prevention work.
.Activists called formillionsmorein spending
on HIV education, televised condom
ads and outreach to at-risk teen-agers via
the Interuet, saying such AIDS prevention
programs are a "virtual vaccine.’"
"If there were a medical vaccine for
AIDS, imagine the forces mobilized to
deploy it," said Daniel Zingale of AIDS
Action. "The irony is that today we have
a virtual vaccine- prevention and education
- and those forces are paralyzed."
Saving lives isn’t the only issue. At
least 40,000 Americans every year catch
HIV, adding add $6.2 billion in lifetime
treatment costs to the nation’s health care
bill, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention announced recently. "AIDS
drugs cost $40 a day" and do not cure the
disease, added Zingale. "This condom
costs .40 cents. Our plan today will not.
only save lives, it would save dollars."
The CDC hash’ t won.a budget increase
to fight new infections in three years, and
some people most at risk of HIV have
become complacent, activists said. For
example, two-thirds of Gay men say
¯ they’ve had unsafe sex at least once in the
: last 18 months, concluded a study pre-
¯ sented at last month’s World AIDS Con-
" ference.
." Also, Secret Service agents arrested 10
; other AIDS activists who briefly chained
¯ themselves to desks in the office of Presi-
" dent Clinton’s topAIDS adviser to protest
¯ the administration’s refusal to federally
: fund needle exchange programs. Experts
¯¯ say 33 people a day catch HIV fromdirty
drug needles or sex with addicts. Seien-
¯ tific studies show letting addicts swap
¯ used needles for dean ones lowers the
¯ risk of HIV’s spread. Some 110 U.S.
¯
needle exchanges operate with local or
¯. privatefunding,but communities say they
¯ need federal tax dollars to reach more ¯
addicts. Clinton refusedin April, side-
" stepping a political fight. ’’To have the
¯ United States government play politics.
¯ with people’s lives - it’s just not OK
¯ anymore," said Kenneth Vail, who rims a
¯ needle exchange program in Cleveland,
¯ after his arrest.
¯ Separately, AIDS Action gatheredpub~
liehealthofficialsandAIDS workers who
¯ called for a 25 percent increase inCDC’s
¯ $634 million budget for AIDS education
¯ and prevention. Congress has addedmil,
lions to government programs thatpay for
¯ drugs for AIDS patients, but increasing
AIDS prevention money significantly is
¯ considered a tougher fight, particnlarly in
~ view of a new conservative campaign
¯ against homosexuality.
¯ But HIV ,infects across:the-board, Dr~
: Helene Gayle, CDC’s AIDS chief, said
¯ Monday. Some 26 percent of HIV-infected
young people caught the v~rus
¯ through heterosexual intercourse, she
: notea.. "If people in leadership positions
: care about thefuture of this nation, you’ ve
¯ got to care about H’IV prevention," she
¯ said. ¯
Activists also called for:
: - TV networks that air programs rated
¯ "S" for sexual content to also allow
¯ condom ads to air during those programs.
- Doctors, clinics and hospitals to begin
." using a new 10-minute HIV test immedi-
: ately. An older test takes about a week to
¯ get results, and thousands of Americans
¯
who get tested each year never return to
¯ leamifthey’reinfected. Pcoplewhodon’t
¯ know they are infected can unknowingly
spread HIV to others.
- AIDS education to reach more teen-
" agers by .creating an AIDS prevention
¯ web site that links to popular teen Internet
sites.
¯ - CDC to launch a campaign persuad-
¯ ing more people to get tested. An esti-
¯ mated 50,000 people in New York State ¯
have HIV and don’t know it, says a corn-
: puter model by Gay Men’s Health Crisis.
! HIV+-Teacher Can
: Be Transfered
¯ ATLANTA (AP) - An order prohibiting ¯
¯ the DeKalb County School District from transferring a teacher infected with HIV,
¯ the .virus that causes AIDS, has been re-
¯. versed by the EleventhU.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals. Last year, a district court
¯ granted the teachcr, known as "John Doe"
: in court documents, a permanent injunc-
¯ tion disallowing his transfer under the ¯
Americans with Disabilities Act.
¯ Doe worked with children with severe
¯ behavioral disorders at the district’s
¯ Shadow Rock Psychoeducational Center. ¯
The school district says the students are.
¯ violent and teachers often suffer bruises
: and scrapes. "Because district officials
¯ feared thatviolence and subsequentblood-
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to-blood contact between Doe and one of
his psychoeducation students might lead
to transmission of HIV, the District transfenced
Doe to an ’interrelated’ classroom
at a different school in April 1995," the
appeals court wrote. After being transfenced,
Doe worked with students with
mild disorders that are often in mainstream
classrooms for most of each day.
The school district and Doe are disputing
whether or not the Wansfer was voluntary.
Although Doe’s salary, benefits and
seniority all remained the same after the
transfer, the move requires him to take an
additional 10 hours of course work to
obtain an interrelated certificate.
Doehadinformed Shadow Rock’ s principal
of his illness in February 1995. He
spent the months following his transfer
trying to convince school officials to return
him to his psychoeducation class or
assign him to a group of children who are
’self-contained’ or too ’disordered’ to
participate in the ’interrelated’ program,
the court wrote. Doe eventually filed a
lawsuitclaiming the districtdiscriminated
against him. The district court supported
Doe’s assertions in August 1997.
"The district court, however, failed to
make explicit findings of fact regarding
any dangers that Doe’ s illness might pose
to violent psychoeducation students," the
appeals court ruled. "In addition, the district
court erred by applying a subjective
standard for determining whether Doe’s
transfer was adverse." The three-judge
panel said the district court should take a
. second look at the case and make a decision
following the guidelines of its reversal.
City Approves
Needle Exchange
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP)-After years
of heated debate and flip-flopping, the
city council has approved a needle exchange
program. After two hours of publiccommentand
debate, the council voted
5-4infavor oftheprogram. Council memberWilliam
Foley received applausefrom
the crowd of 100 people when he cast the
swing vote.
MayorMichael Albano, whohas pushed
for an exchange program for two years,
said there was an AIDS epidemic in
Springfield. "This is not a political issue,
this is a medical issue," he said. "We are.
getting people into treatment and stopping
people froin getting a deadly disease."
But Hampden District Attorney William
Bennett accused the council of "giving
out tools to commit a crime with."
After the vote, council member Timothy
Rooke asked the board to consider an
amendment that would require health officials
to test all needles to seeif they were
used by more than one person or if they
contained any viruses. "It is not a stalling
tactic," he said. "Now it’ s a matter of fine
tuning the #an."
Theneedle exchangewouldoperate out
of a!-Iigh Street building of the Bay State
Medical Center. Drug users can turn in
used needles for clean needles in an even
exchange. They would all’be referred to
drug treatment programs and be asked
questions so city officials could track the
program.
The city council first rejected the plan
5-4 in 1996. It agreed to reconsider after
the city’ s Public Health Council declared
a health emergency in May and tried to
launch the program on its own.
Springfield Health Director Helen
Caulton said thenumber ofAIDS cases in
the city had reached epidemicproportions
and most had been caused by addicts
sharing needles. However, city lawyers
ruled that only the city council could seek
state funding for the program.
State law provides funding for 10 programs
to hand out clean syringes to drug
users, but, so far, they have been established
only in Boston, Cambridge,
Northamptonand Provincetown. The state
pitches in about $200,000 for the programs.
TheClinton administmtionhas endorsed
needle exchanges. Still, Health and Human
Services Secretary Donna Shalala
said the federal government would not
help pay for the programs. The House of
Representatives voted in April to ban using
federal money for such programs.
New Eyesight
Saving Drug
WASHINGTON (AP)- Scientific advisers
are recommending approval of a new
¯¯ The code also outlaws any form of job discrimination against a worker infected
¯ by the HIV virus, and requires that any
¯ employee too ill to performnormal duties ¯
be reassigned, the newspaper said.
According to 7fiord Health Organiza-
¯ tion figures released in June, one-fifth of
¯ Namibia’s population of 1.8 million is ¯
infected with HIV. Some densely popu~
¯ lated areas are estimated to have an infec-
_" tion rate of as high as 40%.
i Inmates Being
i "rested for HIV
¯ GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Now that
¯ South Carolina is testing all state prison
inmates for the AIDS virus, some law-
" makers and others want to know how the
¯ .information will be used. The federal
¯ Bureau of Prisons and 17 other states
: already have mandatory testing for HIV,
¯ the virus that causes AIDS, according to
¯ the American Civil Liberties Union’s
: National Prison Project.
¯ State Sen. Kay Patterson, D-Columbia,
genetic drug therapy to help save AIDS ¯ likes the idea of testing all prisoners, but
patients’ eyesight. Isis, Pharmaceuticals’ : is concemed about how prison officials
Vitravene is the first antisense" drug to -" will use the information. "What will the
be reviewed by the Food and Drug Ad- ° department do once they find out they’re
ministration. This novel class of drugs is
created from DNA coding, working at the
genetic level to block production of disease-
causing proteins. Thebioteclmology
industry is stressing development of
antisense drugs against myriad diseases.
Isis says Vitravene slows the progression
of cytomegalovirus retinitis, an infection
that destroys AIDS patients’ rednas.
Advisers to theFDAvoted 5-2Wednesday
to recommend approval of Vitravene,
saying that although powerful new .anti-
HIV drugs have prevented many AIDS
patients from getting the eyeinfection in
recent years, some still fail standard
therapy.
¯ Chinese HIV
¯ Infections Increase
¯ BEIJING (AP)-Chineseauthorities urged
¯ greater efforts to slow the spread ofAIDS
¯ as the official tallyofpeopleinfectedwith
: the virus that causes the disease topped
10,000, an official newspaper said Tues-
" day. The newspaper said the actual num-
" ber of people infected with HIV may be
¯ as hi.gh as 300,000 - 100,000 more than
¯ previous estimates.
That figure could pass 1 million by
¯ 2000 if more is not done to check the
¯ spread of HIV, Xiao Yan, an official with
the Department of Disease Control, told
¯ state television.
¯ Loc~ health authorities have been or-
¯ dered to speed up education and preven-
¯ tion campaigns, the newspaper said. The
¯ disparity between official numbers and
¯ estimates is likely due tO undenceporting,
the lack of government resources to perform
tests and the stigma attached to ac-
: knowledging HIV,infection.
: Namibia Bars HIV
¯resting for Jobs
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) - Namibia,
: whichhas one of the word’s highest HIV
: infection rates, has made it illegal for
¯ employers to require tests for the virus
: that causes AIDS. The country’s new
¯
AIDS testing code binds both public and
private employers. It says HIV-infected
employees are under no obligation to inform
their employer of their condition.
infected? That’ s the missing piece to me,’"
¯ said Patterson, a member of the Senate
¯ Corrections and Penology Committee.
: Jackie Walker, an AIDS expert for the
¯ National Prison Project, is skeptical. I’ve
¯ never seen them say, ’OK, we’ll test you
¯ and you’ll be provided with correct level
¯ of care, medications and access to outside
¯ specialists whenit’ s neededand appropriate.’
It has just not happened across the
¯ board," she said.
¯ The $126,000 mandatory screening of
¯ about 21,000 prisoners should be done by ¯
Aug. 31, Corrections Department spokes-
¯ woman Linda Davis said. Correctional
¯ officers can use minimal force to ensure ¯
all inmates comply, including holding
¯
them down while blood is drawn, Davis
¯ said. So far no one has objected, she said.
"It’s a public safety issue. Considering
¯ the nature of our population and the
~ lifestyle, there’s a potential for health-
" related problems," she said. "It gives us a
¯ gauge to measure potential problems." ¯
However, Steve Bates, executive direc-
¯ tor of the state ACLU, worries that HIV-
¯ positive inmates will be segregated and
denied educational and vocational train-
. 1rig opportunities.
: Davis said the department does not yet
¯ haveapolicy onhousingforHIV-posltive
¯ inmates. State Sen. David Thomas, R- ¯
Fountain Inn, who heads the corrections
¯ committee, said the department could see
: roughly how many inmates are infected
¯ by doing a random sampling of 250 pris-
¯ oners. "They may have some reason to
." believe there is an accelerating number of
¯ cases and they need to segregate thepopu- ¯
lations. Given how AIDS usually spreads,
¯ they may have somereason to believe that
: they need to look very, very carefully at
¯ what is happening in that population,"
¯ Thomas said.
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Lars Eiglmer’s novel Pawn to Queen
Four is pretentious, disturbingly campy
and fantastically absurd. That’s exactly
what makes it so much fun to read. This is
a gay novel that does not take
itsdf any more seriously than
it does the ’moral majority.’
But Eighner keeps his tacky
brand of~humor from getting
tedious by plying his skill at
intricate plot twists, quick-andquirky
characterizations and a
unique insight into the fears
and desires of both the Gay
commnnity and ourdetractors.
As the story opens, Agnes,
the six-foot seven,350lb. drag
queen is facing quite the dilemma.
As ruler of the Court
of the Jade Chimera, she must
faithfully oversee the ’Gay
agenda’ throughout her territory
which covers most of
Texas and part of Oklahoma,
including the tiny town of
Osage. Osage is home to Holy
Word of God University and
Technical Institute, the headquarters
of the charismatic
Brother Earl, Agnes’ old enemy.
Agnes has been able to
keep Brother Earl’s violently
anti-gay rhetoric in check for
years, but now Earl has the
upper hand. Agnes has lost a
certain set of photographs of
Brbther Earl engaged in his
favorite bad habit - namely, seducing his
male students. Now Brother Earl has rejuve~
ted his homophobic campaign and it
is Agnes’ duty as Empress of the Jade
Chimera to stop him. Her mission: retrieve
the photographs or, failing that.
make new ones.
Enter Jim, our reluctant hero. Through
various types of bribery, appeals to his
duty as a Gay man and assurances of
lifelong sexual satisfaction by the finest
men in Houston, Agnes convinces Jim to
undertake this desperate, dangerous mission.
Now the fun’begins as Jim, his new
boyfriend Phil and eventually Agnes herself
infiltrate HWOGUTI, the Ku Klux
Klan and the sleepy town of Osage.
Eiglmer has a refreshing talent for creating
characters so natural and detailed
that you forget they are unbelievably stereotypical.
Jim is a typical clone; Phil is a
twink; Agnes is the UltimateDrag Queen,
but you never doubt that any of them
could be real. Even Brother Earl, though
hopelessly two-dimensional, seems to be
an exact replica of the kind of people we
elect to Congress all the time. This kind of
stereotyped hyper-neo-virmal-realism almost
makes Pawn to Queen Four an
EverYman play for the modem Gay individual.
The characters are so typical, yet
so real, that you could plug yourself into
whichever one fits best and pretend that
you are a part of this grand adventure.
There’s even a Lesbian (yes, only one)
who shows up with the Hell’s Fairies, a
Gay motorcycle gang.
There are more admirable things going
onJaere however¯ The three main characters
have a point in-their stereotyping.
Jim’ s uncertainty about his role in such an
exotic world draws you in. You begin to
refreshing talent
for ereat~g
characters so
natural and
detailed that you
forget they are
unbelievably
stereotypical...
Agnes is the
Uh~-nate Drag
Que n... Even
Brother Earl...
seems to
exact re~|~ea of the
klnd~mpeople we
elect to Congress
all the time. Th~s
kind of stereotyped
hyper~neo-wirtualrealism
almost
makes Pawn to
¯ been Four an
Everyman play for
the modern Gay
~dl,ad~l.
wonder how much of our culture is controlled
by a marginalized minority of our
society. You start to wonder, "how much
does that drag queen control what club is
’ in’ or’ out?’ "or"am I on the A-list for all
the best partiesT’ Though the true extent
of an underground society’s
control is questionable,
Eighner wants you to question
the image we have and
who gives it to us.
Even more infectious than
Jim’s trepidation is his admi=
ration of Phil. Phil’s angelic
beauty and innocent devotion
give the story apeaceful wonder
missing from most Gay
novds. Oh, there are plenty of
beauties, plenty of innocents
and plenty of devoted lovers
in Gay literature, but how
many characters really have
all three traits? Phil reminds
us thatwe canretain ourchildlike
fascination with the world
no matterhow adverse the cir=
cumstances and still beresponsible,
capable, respectable
human beings. This is a quality
of life that so much of the
gay community neglects in
favor of that oh-so-chic snide
cynicism. Though Jim is the
protagonist, Phil is the one
youwill involve yourself wi~.
You will be proud when he
comes into his own destiny;
you will admire him as Jim
does, because Phil is that beatl-
¯ tiful person that would actually talkto you
¯ in a bar.
¯ Alas, Agnes... with the resourceful-
" hess and style of a true pageant-winner,
¯ the Queen of the Jade Chimera inspires
¯ belief in the impossible, faith in the unbe-
¯ lievable . . . and that she does just by
¯ carrying 350 pounds of drag queen in
¯ seven-inchheels! Regency and flare have
¯ never been in better form. She can imper~
¯ sonate a grtmgy old gardener or a Klan
¯ member and never break a two-inch-long
: nail. Truthfully, any respect and dignity
¯¯ wehave neglected to allow drag queens to
haveis broughtforth with no apologies by
¯ the glorious Agnes. She is a true heroine
in the vein of those queens who started
¯ this most groundbreaking era of our
¯ struggle for equal rights. I wouldn’t be
¯ surprised tolearn thatAgnes or some real¯
life equivalent was actually at Stonewall.
Her Highness is controlling, deceptive
¯ and stubborn but you can’t help but love
¯ her .... and you can’thelp but watch her.
¯ Ultimately,whatmakes Pawn toQueen
Four a good read is what it teaches (al-
¯ though I think Eighner might hate me for
: saying that). For all its outlandish hijinx
¯ and biting wit, this book has a serious, ¯
though probably unintentional, message
¯ - we in the Gay community have become
" so obsessed with fighting our enemies
¯ that we forget to have fun, or the exact
: opposite. Pawn to Queen Four is ulti-
: mately aboutbalance. Agnes doesn’twant
Brother Earl out of the picture. She has
¯ plenty of chances to ruin him, but she
¯ knows that he has every right to exist that
¯ she does. Surprisingly, Brother Earl feels
: the same, although he gets a little threatening
when he leads the Klan in a true
" Oklahomabackroads see Queen4,p. 14
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The DIYD admits the following with a
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"We need your help," Satcher told the
organizationformedby ministers in 1957.
"We need the church to help us to deal
with the prejudice and the bias that-we
face as we’re trying to fight this epidemic."
Ministers are uneasy talking about
AIDS, said the group’s chairman, Dr.
Claud Young, a family doctor in Detroit.
’qqaey speak about sex in any form as if
it’s a form of cancer," he said, recalling
preachers asking him not to use the word
"condom" inside the church. "I said, ’Not
only is the word condom being usedinthe
church; I can assure you condoms are
being used in the church.’" Young added
thatin Michigan,Blackorganizations have
received little of the grant money available
for prevention.
Today’s fight presents challenges that
did not exist during the 1960s, Satcher
said. During the civil rights movement, he
said, people had hope that they could
effect change. Today, too many young
people are hopeless about their futures so
they do not try as hard to avoid risky sex
and other health threats, he said. But that
can change, he said. "Leadership is critical,"
he said. "I don’t think we’ve found
any~substitutes for good leadership."
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Dr. Marny Hall is a San Francisco Bay
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experienee speeializing
in Lesbian relationships.
In her book, The
Lesbian Love Companion:
How to Survive
Everything from
Heartthrob to Heartbreak,
she tackles issues
of Lesbian relationships,
sex, breakups,
rituals, and jeab
ousy.
"I had had a painful
break-up," she told me
m a recent interview,
"and-decided to find
somelongterm couples
who had managed to
weather the difficulties
that had undermined
my relationship. I was particularly interested
in finding couples who had survived
outside affairs." She located a.handfu!:0f
long term Lesbian couples and contacted
them periodically over anumber of years.
She asked, how they met, how their relationshipprogressed,
andhow they handled
difficult situations:such as jealousy, conflict,
desire, homophobia, work, and illness.
"I was searching for a formula," said
Mamy, "but I didn’t find anything. Then
five years into this experiment, two of the
model couples I had been tracking broke
up. I had come to think of them as perfect
couples. I felt a bit shell-shocked but I
decided that I wouldcontinue to interview
both ex-partners. It was then that I found
the answers I was looking
for. Now the ex-
.partners started talking
about their relationships
in entirely different
ways. One woman,
who had said that she
was really in lust now
told me that they had
never had any passionate
chemistry! Another
womanused to say that
her community of
friends kept them together;
now she said
that she never felt a
sense ofcommtmity ! A
third said she wanted to
be with her partner until
her breath was no
: longer in her body. After the break-up she
¯ told me that even if her partner were
available, she wouldn’.t go back. These
¯ 180 degree turns made me realize that so
¯ much of how we process relationships is ¯
through the tales that we tell. The tales do
¯ all sorts of things - they certify legit1-
¯ macy, they heal broken hearts, and they ¯
explain betrayals."
: After this revelation, Mamy decided to
¯ go back and reread the transcripts from
the interviews she had conducted with the
¯ couples that were still together. Now she
¯ could see shifts in their stories too, over
: time. Their stories had kept them going
Dr. Marny Hall
through hard times. For example, if one
partnerhadhadan affair, .theother discovered
a motive that explained everything.
Perhaps the straying partner had been
depressed about her job or angry at her
partner. The affair had been a coded way
of announcing these dissatisfactions. In
other words, the two partners collaborated
on a story that turned an unpardonable
betrayal into a forgivable misdemeanor.
By reconstruing the potentially
damaging revelation in more positive
ways, they were able to stay together.
"So I thought, why not think of more
stories?" said Marny. Her book focuses
on stories that provide alternatives to the
"master stories" ab0utforever-after, about
terrible betrayals, about bad times. "If I
could tell stories about small break-ups or
trivial passions or benign other women
then I could contribute to partners’ flexibility
and givethemmore staying power,"
Maruy told me.
Originally planned as a book about successful
long-term couple relationships,
The Lesbian Love Companion took on a
life ofits ownl "I love the story of ~happily
ever after," Marny said, "but we. can tell
other stories, too. Everyday stories about
contentment instead of epics about do-ordie
love affairs. Stories of downsized disenchantments
instead of major dyke dramas.
The first time you realize that your
.lover snores and you love her anyway is
not exactly a swash-buckling bodice-ripper.
But it does qualify as a modest tale
about a small turning point. Our lives are
packed with all kinds of minimalist ro-
: mances. We just have to tune in to them.
: "The same thing is true about sex,"
¯ Mamy continued. "We’re all so familiar
¯ with the story about the earth-moving sex.
: But we can tell a lot of different stories
: about sex- maintenance sex that depends
¯ on cultivating orgasmic habits, sex for ¯
comfort or fun, psychodrama sex that
exorcises old demons. Even the fond
sexual memories we share with ex-lovers
is anotherform of sex. Wemight call it exsex.
These stories aren’t the mainstream
favorites so they aren’t heard, they’re
inaudible, private." As Marny putsit, her
book puts some "amplification" on the
stories that many of us are already telling.
’q’he bookis for long-term couples. It is
also for the sluts and passionate friends,
the celibates andthecommunally minded,"
Mamy added. "All of us are affected by
¯ the traditional stories. Uncoupled Lesbi-
: ans often feel as though they have failed
¯ some crucial test. And long-term couples
: may feel such pressure to live up to these
¯ stones that, as aresult, they feel they must
¯ conceal anything thatisn’t congruentwith ¯
’perfect coupledom.’ Such self censor-
" ship makes~thard for partners to be play-
" ful .or spontaneous. The perfect couple
¯ ideal exacts a toll on everyone- Ltgbians ¯
who are coupled,unpartnered or who have
¯ multiple partners."
"It tends to turn us all into intimacy
¯ overachievers," said Mamy. "The pur- ¯
pose of my book is to counteract that
¯ sense of performance anxiety. Almost
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I met brown-eyed Burt one summer
when I was working in Hawai’i. Burt had
grown up near Manila in the philippines.
He taught English for some years at a
Catholic high school. Then
he came to Honolulu to work
on a Ph.D. in philosophy at
the University of Hawai’i
In his thesis, Burt planned to
reexamine traditional Asian
philosophy in light of the
work of post-modernists
suchas Foucault and Derrida.
When I met Burt, he was in
his mid 30.s and solidly built,
just runmng to chunk. But
you could still look through
those added pounds to see
that he had been a graceful
young man.
In Honolulu, Burt found
an American boyfriend- an
older man retired from the
telephone company. Burt
movedinand tookovercooking
and cleaning for the two
of them. His lover’s elderly
mother came to stay and he
took care of her too. Burt
kept purposely missing his
thesis deadlines to maintain
his relationship. His student
visa and US Immigration
demanded that, after finishing
a degree, he return to the
Philippines and not come
back to America for three
years, even as a tourist. His
Ph.D. thesis wa~ already four
Throughout
muck of the
Philippines -
especially the
Muslim south
- there aretraditional
roles
in which men
take on tTemlnlne,
eharaeteristles
and clothing.
In Tagalog,
the main Filipino
language,
these men are
cafled ba/da.
Traditionally,
many bakla
¯were dancers.
actors, and
entertainers.
years overdue.
~-Since that summer, I’ ve met a number
of American/Filipino couples - the Filipino
half typically keeping house.
Throughout much of the Philippines -
especially the Muslim south = there are
traditional roles in which men take on
.feminine characteristics and clothing. In
Tagalog, themainFilipino language, these
men are called bakla. Traditionally, many
bakla were dancers, actors, and entertainers.
MarkJohnson’snew bookabout transvestites
in Sulu, Beauty andGender (Berg
1997), describes numbers Of feminine,
cross-dressing Filipino boys who are .on
the prowl for masculine (i.e., ’straight
acting’, even married) boyfriends. In recent
years, these guys have taken overand
developed the hairdressing and beauty
business sectorthroughoutthe Philippines.
Most reject, however, a traditional bakla
identity and embrace instead the label
"gay." Our Western term here continues
to extend its global’ spread. Burt, too, was
horrified when I asked if he was a bakla.
This term today resonates too many sour
tones of backwardness, effeminacy, and
male prostitution.
There is a straight parallel to Butt and
his boyfriend in Hawai’i. In any romance
magazine sold at Quiktrip, one can find
advertisements touting the merits of submissive,
yet sexy, Asian women. You,
too, can easily send away for a mail-order
Oriental bride! One ofmy second cousins
had a fairly successful marriage with an
able woman from Vietnam until his warrelated
post traumatic stress syndrome
worsened one day and he attacked an old
lady gassing her car up at a California
service station.
Feminists decry the Ameriean stereotype
ofsexy Suzy Wongs who serve white
° men in bed, serve them dinner - who
¯ meekly serve all their needs whatever.
," But the international marriage marketl
." place works to bring women out from the
Philippines, and other Southeast Asian
countries, into the US.
Ainerican wealth allows at
leastsome ofus to shop overseas
and purchase our sexual
fantasies, even if we don’t
always get what we think we
are buying. And Americans
.profit, too, from positive
images that encourage at
least some Asians to hop a
plane and fly into the arms
of an unknown Occidental
spouse. Obviously, just as
many Filipinas (and Filipinos)
are 1.ooking for Americans
as vice versa.
The market for gay Asian
fianc6s is constrained by the
inability of homosexuals to
marry legally and thereby
obtain green cards for our
~mported boyfriends. Still,
I’ve had interesting email
correspondence with several
guys in Indonesia, Malaysia,
and the Philippines. They
wonder if I can set them up
with American lovers. One
gayboy in Jakarta, a civil
servant whose nom de email
is Koko, asked my advice
about accepti.’ng a one-way
air ticket from an American
Internet correspondent. I
counseled him to take care
lest he end up a sex slave, bound up in
somebody’s basement. The Hollywood
~mage of the United States is very powerful
overseas. Even Tulsa can seem urbane
and sophisticated to somebody in
Zamboaga or Chiangmai or Penang.
Mostrecently, I havebeenin touch with
a sad, young Filipino in the port city of
Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Joe moved
to Dubai from Saudi Arabia severa! months
ago. He had broken up with his 50-something,
bald American lover whom he was
with for three years. Joe, understandably,
is depressed. He emails me that he misses
fixing dinners for the two of them. He
misses fussing about his ex-lover’s various
medical conditions. Gay life in Dubai
is no doubt grim. Joe nowadays appears to
live mostly on the Internet. The American
boyfriend, perhaps because he was at the
end of an employment contract or perhaps
becauserelations with Joehadlanguished,
returned here to Tulsa by himself. Well,
almost by himself. He brought their eat
back to Tulsa but he left his Filipino
boyfriend behind in the Arabian deserts.
for housing programs earmarked for
people with AIDS. The $21 million was
shifted to help f’mance state extended care
programs for veterans. Rep. VanHilleary,
R-Tenn., said the reduction was justified
because of a 6 percent decline in the
annual number of AIDS cases. Opponents
of the amendment argued that the
decline is attributed to the wider use of
¯ new drugs and the success ofsuch drug
tr~tments often depends on patients having
decent housing.
Almost everybody wo~nders about the
paths not taken. By telling our untold tales
and making them normal, I hope that our
sense of failure will be reduced.’" As a
psychotherapist, Marny has been witness
to many stories by Lesbians. An example
of the man3’ excerpts from The Lesbian
Love Companion: "You might ~’ant to
develop your other-woman fantasy. Install
her as your permanent muse. Pay
attention to her. She’ll tell you whether t~
sign up for scuba class or just buy some
new lingerie. And after you do what she
suggests, check in with her from time to
time. Has she changed? Is she suggesting
another direction? You are entitled to
keep her toyourself: ,She is, after all,
purely 3"our playmate, soul mate - combination
projection, reflection, guide. And,
:Aphrodite forbid, ifanything should ever
happen to ),our partner, ’*our fantasy lover
";~q]l be there for you. SlOe will shoe 3"our
’memories and your tears. She will con-
~ble and commiserate. And, one chy, when
the time is right, she will lead You back to
~E world.’" As Mamv writes i’n the book:
"V~qlen it comes to ou~ lives and loves, we
need a generous supply of alternative stoi~
es: Instructive sci-fi fabIes and twilight
zone mysteries, endless sequels and whitel~
uckl~ exploits. \Ve ~e both hearth
buggers and voyagersl We must make
room in our lives for the dream of foreverafter
and the determination to never look
back."
Early reactions to Marny’s book? Rumorhas
it that Lily Tomlin loves it ! Alison
Bechdel, creator of the comic strip Dykes
To Watch Out For, calls it".., a veriiable
Karma Sutra of emotional possibility."
For further reading: Mamy Hall (1998),
The Lesbian Love Companion: How to
Survive Everything from Heartthrob ~o
Heartbreak. HarperCollins, I0 East 53rd
St., New York, NY 10022.
Prof. Esther
Rothblum
is teachek psy-
6hology at the
University of
Vermont 6nd is
Editor of the
Journal of Lesbian
Studies.
She can be
reached at Jo,"n
Dewey Hail,
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
05405. e~ail: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu.
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New AIDS Vaccine
To Be Tested In Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Tulsa’s participation in the
national test of a vaccine that could help prevent infection
from the virus that causes AIDS puts that city at the
forefront of science, according to one doctor.. Homosexual
menat high risk of contracting the HIV virus will
be recruited for the study as will womenin relationships
with men who are HIV-positive. Candidates could
begin enrolling as early as October.
"It puts Tulsa on a
top levelin terms ofnew
science," saidDr. Ralph
Richter of St. John
Medical Center. "Here
is the development of a
new science - a potential
breakthrough that
could protect millions
of individuals from de-
"It puts Tulsa on a
top level in terms
o~ new sclence~
- Dr. Ralpla Richter
St. Jolm Medical Center
¯ Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
! Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations
¯ Pride Center VandalizedAgain Calling all Lesbians!
TULSA - A new activities-related group, GALAVanting,
wants you to come out and play. Recentl y
formedby local poetandTFNDo-It- YourselfDyke,
Mary Schepers and one ofher friends, Joan, GaLAVanting
will host a variety of activities for Tulsa
area women throughout the year.
"Not to disparage the bars, but there aren’ t many
social activities for women outside the clubs,"
explained Schepers. "If you prefer a different environment
or entertmnment, your options are limited.
Gal-A-Vanting is going to change that. And we’re
planning our activities before the regular bar hours
to avoid competition with those longtime community
institutions."
Gal-A-Vanting emerged from a conversation in
which Mary and Joan bemoaned an apparent lack
of Lesbian community in the area. They decided to
roll up their sleeves and provide those opportumties
they themselves would be interested in. "It
does sound like ’Hey kids, let’s put on a show,’ "
Schepers acknowledged, "but if we sat around
waiting for the situation to magically change, it
would be a long wait. We are the community, we
should do something about it."
Two activities are in the works for the balance of
this year: an Arts Night and a Dance. The Arts
Night is scheduled for Friday, October 23, 7:00:
9:00 p.m. at the Pride Center 1307 E. 38th on
Brookside. Featured will be works of art for display
and sale, poetry readings, and music. There is room
available to showcase more talent; call Mary at
743-6740 if you are interested. Schepers emphasizes
that, while this event is by and for women,
"our brothers are welcome, too." Most subsequent
events will be for women only. Light refreslunents
will be served and a two dollar donation, to benefit
the Pride Center, is requested.
The dance will be in November, before holiday
madness sets in. The date, nine and place haven’t
been~ s_et y,eL but the eny~ronment will be to~acc~_~
Events will be scheduled frequently throughout
1999, and Gal-A-Vanting wants to know what
activities women would like to attend. "We’ re here
to help people get together, have fun, meet new
friends. Joan and I are doing this as a non-profit
- service," Schepers said. "No agenda except a good
¯ time - come join us for a little Ms-adventure!’"
Holy Spirit Rev,val to
¯ Feature Rev, AliceJones
¯¯ TULSA -The Rev. Alice Jones, longtime Tulsa
commumty leader and former pastor of the Metro-
" politan Commmunity Church of Greater Tulsa
¯ (MCCGT) will lead a mini-revival for spiritual
¯ renewal on Sept. 23-25, Wed.-Fri. at 7pm at the ¯
House of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is located at
~ 3210e South Norwood, just south of Mall 31. Rev.
; Jones will also conduct services Sunday, 9/27 at
¯ 10:45am and the church will host a potluck lunch
after the service.
Holy Spirit will also hold a garage sale at the
church on Fri. & Sat. Sept. 11 & 12. For more
information, call 224-4754.
TULSA, Okla. (AP/TFN)-Vandals targetedacenterhererunby
aGay civil rights group again, smashing the facility’s glass door,
authorities said. The door at the Pride Center, operated by Tulsa
Oklahomans for Human Rights, was broken in with a bat or a
stick of some kind after 9:30 p.m. Thursday night, said Greg
Gatewood, a volunteer at the center. The glass door was also
smashed the night of Aug. 7, and was later replaced.
The buiIding in which the center is located also houses several
other businesses, none of which were vandalized. The center
caters to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender groups,
Gatewood said.
State law does not classify
crimes motivedby hatred toward
sexual orientation as "hate
crimes," but vandalism statutes
wouldapply to the incidents. The
police were called both times
and Pride Center organizers said
they will implement additional
security measures. Gatewood
said that in addition to a bomb
threat last fall, the center has
seen its signs taken down and
thrown away and several Pride The door ofthePride Center
flags stolen, prior to theglass replacement.
However, activities continue
at the Center with a number of organizations meeting regularly.
The Center also is now showing Lesbian and Gay-interest video
every Thurs. evening at 7:30 pm. For more info., call 743-GAYS.
’99 Parade Planning Begins
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Officers of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human
Rights (TOHR) are calling all interested community members to
come to a Lesbian/Gay Pride Parade planning meeting onThnrsday,
Sept. 22 at 7pm at the Pride Center, 1307 E 38th, 2nd ft.
While Oklahoma City has had a Gay Pride Parade for more
veloping HIV infection or AIDS." Tulsa will be among than 10 years, Tulsa had its first Pride March in 1997 with 65
nearly 40 clinical sites nationwide to participatein the people marching from Gilcrease Museum Road to the Tulsa
study. Other sites include New York, Chicago, St. ~ Pride Picnic at Owen Park.
Lo,ui~s~ ~en~~7~ PhiladelPhia and s~e~ in H-°rid~,.Tcx~ : -..~year t~e .M~ch ~i.~ a_bo..ut double..~~ip~ats~went -
Between 125 and 150 people will be recmited for the ]
Tulsa trial, Richter said. Local AIDS groups and the ]
Tulsa City-County Health Department are working on
the project and will help recruiting participants.
march can be held on the sidewalk, neither event required street
closings nor a permit. However, if there is suffioent commumty
interest,TOHR will organize a parade with street closings and the
opporttmity for community organizations to have floats. For
more information, call 743-GAYS (4297) or attend on 9/22.
Methodists: Apartheid - Yes!
¯ DALLAS (AP) -The United Methodist Church early last month
¯ elevated a guideline against same sex marriages into church
¯ canon [church law] and saidministers who perform the ceremonies
could be removed, The Judicial Council of the church, the
nation’ s second largest Protestant denomination with 9.5 million
members, ruled that ministers who violate the ban on Lesbian and
Gay Holy Unions are "liable to be" brought to church trial.
The decision of the nine-member council, which heard testimony
"in Irving, Texas, affects one sentence in the Social Principles.
It reads: "Ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions
shall not be conducted by our ministers and shall not be Conducted
in our churches." That statement was added by the 1996
General Conference, the denominati0n’ s top policy-making body.
The council decided the conference delegates "’were enacting
legislation that would be binding as the law of the church."
"The specific prohibition is law," said Bishop George W.
Bashore, president of the Council of Bishops of United Methodist
Church. The gmdeline, which was part of the congregation’ s
Social Principles, states: "Ceremonies that celebratehomosexual
unions shall not be conducted by our manisters and shall not be
conducted in our churches."
Social Principles serve as moral standards for the congregation.
The ruling has .the effect of transforming the standard into
church law, and pastors who violate the law may be.reprimanded
or even defrocked. "It has all of the potential for a minister to lose
his or her credentials in the Methodist Church," Bashore said.
The issue arose with the case of the Rev. Jimmy Creech, former
pastor of the 1,900-member First United Methodist Church of
Omaha, Neb. He was accused of disobedience after performing
a Lesbian wedding ceremony last September in defiance of his
bishop. Creech was acquitted six months later by a church jury.
The acquittal prompted the regional bishops to appeal to the
Judicial Council for a formal ruling on whether the guideline was
merely a moral standard or church law. see Apartheid, p. 3
The Food and Drug Administration approved testing
of the vaccine by a California company, VaxGen Inc., ,
in June. The AIDSvax vaccine alre?ady has been tested
in preliminary trials that included 1,200 people. Those
tests, which began in March 1992, showed that 99
percent of those-vaccinated produced strong levels of
antibodies. Final testing of the vaccine will include
5,000 U.S. volunteers at high risk of contracting the
AIDS virus and 2,500 high-risk people in Thailand.
In the "blinded" trial, two-thirds of the U.S. volunteers
will receive the vaccine, while the rest will receive
a placebo: Volunteers will participate for three years
and will receive HIV counseling about the dangers Of
unsafe sex. "We don’ t want to encourage people to go
and become more reckless," Richter said.
Volunteers will receive three injections of the genetically
engineered vaccine over several months. Those
will be followed by a series of booster shots. The
vaccine uses-engineered copies of the gpl20 protein,
which is found on the Outer coating Of the HIV virus.
Once injected, the vaccine is supposed to prompt the
immune system to make antibodies, which can attack
invading viruses before they infect healthy cells.
Opponents doubt the vaccine will be successful,
arguing that earlier tests showed the vaccine boosted
only one 15artoftheimmune system and therefore would
not be effective in large numbers of participants. Some
also question whether new strains of theAIDS virus
might render the vaccine useless.
MJ ° DIRECTORYILE’I-I’ERS P. 2/3
US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 ~ HEALTH NEWS P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 8
~ COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9
BOOK REVIEW P, 10
DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 11
DYKE PSYCHF_JGAY STUDIES P. 12/13
---, CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14
Brookside Jewelry &
TNT’s To Host Benefit
TULSA- Two Tulsa businesses will host a benefit
for Oklahoma Indian HIV/AIDS activist, Lisa Tiger,
on Saturday, Sept. 19 at TNT’s on the NW
corner of 21 st & Memorial, The evening event will
feature music and other entertainment as wall as
Tiger posters and copies of the book, Voices From
the Next Feminist Generation, for $15.
Ms. Tiger has adopted 50glala Sioux children
from South Dakota’ s Pine Ridge Reservation and
greatly needs help to care for them. Anyone unable
to attend the benefit may help by sending any
donation to Lisa Tiger, c/o Tiger Blair Gallery,
2110 East Shawnee, Muskogee, Oklahoma.
For more info. call Mdody at 743-5272.
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. 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
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313
CherrySt. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902,743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*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
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337, 712-9379
*Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 628:3709
*Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
Leanne M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
*international Tours - 34t’~6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E, 15th 712-2750
*Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018
David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236
*Ken’s Flowers~ 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 747-5466
Langley Agency & Salon, 1316 E. 36th P1 749-5533
Laredo Crossing, 1519 E. 15th 585-1555
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951
*Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090
~he Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 743-4297
Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo 838-7626
Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 747-5932
Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746
Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 582-7748
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
*Sedona Health Foods, 8220 S. Harvard 481-0201
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017
*Trizza’s pots, 1448 S. Delaware 743-7687
*Tulsa Bookl~change, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767
Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & Universities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 - .579-9593
*All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363
Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-7314
Bless The Lord atAll Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815
*B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S, Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PI: & Florence
*ChurchoftheRestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314
*Community ofHope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 585-1800
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
*Council Oak Men’s Chorale 743-4297
*Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712-1511
*Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457
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
Issued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this
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
written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or
photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence
is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,.oaust
be signed & becomes the sole property of T¢ff.~ ~,o~.’. h/tag,.
Each reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at distribution
points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248.
Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics &
Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475 355-3140
*Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441
*Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777
*Free SpiritWomen’s Center, call forlocation &info: 587-4669
Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827
Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0438
*HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 583-6611
*HIV Resource ConSortium, 3507 E. Admiral 834-4194
*Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st 481-1111
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education 834-8378
HIV Testing, Mon/Thurs. 7-9pm, daytime by appt. only
*House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood
Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
*MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715
NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral P1. 748-3111
NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 365-5658
OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157
*Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 584-7960
PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 749-4901
*Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 587-7674
*The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 743-4297
Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152
*R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195
Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 665-5174
*Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 584-2325
O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults
O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth
St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 425-7882
*St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 492-7140
*St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 582-3088
*Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder 583-7171
TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225
Tulsa County Health Department, 46 16 E. 15 595-4105
Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only
Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222
*Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule
*Tulsa Community College Campuses
*Rogers University (formerly UCT)
BARTLESVILLE
*Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353
OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN
*Borders Books &Music, 3209 NWExpressway 405-848-2667
*Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907
TAHLEQUAH
*Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900
*Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 918-456-7900
*Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-453-9360
NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand
HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call fo~ dates
EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
*Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23
*Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main
DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St.
*Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St.
MCC of the Living Spring
Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429
Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery
Positive Idea Marketing Plans
Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East
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¯ Spending Commission has lifted the donation
limit of $1000 per person for an
"issue" campaign. The sky is now the
¯ limit, and North American religious ex-
¯ tremists arepouringmoney into Hawaii’s
vote on a proposed constitutional amend-
" merit. Dobson’s group [Focus ontheFam-
¯ ily] may be spendingthe most in Hawaii,
but the ChristianCoalition is raisingmoney
~ worldwide as well to use in Hawaii.
; The key team standing up to this on-
, slaught is: Protect Our Constitution,
¯ PO Box 235704, Honolulu, HI 96823.
Donations to Protect Our Constitution are
¯ not tax deductible. Donations are reported
¯ to the campaign spending commission.
¯ Protect Our Constitution is affiliated with
~ the national Human Rights Campaign.
¯ Other Players:
¯ Supreme Court- silent; no news on the
¯ final appeal of the Baehr case
¯ Legislature -not in session; most of ¯
them runniug for re-election
." Governor - running for a second term;
: uphill battle against a charismatic woman
¯ Republican who might even be Lesbian ¯
but vigorously denies it publicly
¯ Constitutional Amendment- ffthe vote
¯ were held today; the "no" would win. A
¯ "no" vote protects the equal civil rights of
Gays and Lesbians. However, the amend-
" merit is confusing to many voters and
¯ many more have yet to realize that itis on ¯
¯ the November ballot.
Call for a Constitutional Convention -
~ more and more people realize that such a
¯ convention, held under the shadow of
¯ hysteria over same-gender marriage,
¯ would be a disaster for environmental
¯ protection, native Hawaiian gathering
¯ - rights, the right to strike, the freedom tochoose
as well as the freedom to marry.
The only question is whether this broad o
coalition of interests can deliver the votes
on November 3rd[
The exact constitutional question [is]:
"Shall the constitution of the State of
Hawaii be amended to specify that the
legislature shall have the power to reserve
mamage to opposite-sex couples."
Note that it doe-s not directly ban samegendermarriage,
butmoves the topicaway
from protection of the bill of rights in the
constitution. Note also that it is a power
grab by the legislature at the expense of
theiudependentjudiciary. As mostpeople
in Hawaii learn this, they decide to vote
"no". Can they be educated fast enough,
in 72 days? In the meantime, the opposition
is working hard to make this amendment
a referendum of whether one supports
same-sex marriage (vote "yes" if
you oppose same-sex marriage is their
campaign focus).
The Role ofMarriage Project Hawaii
- MPH is operating under a tax-deductible
status that limits its lobbying and
election activities. It continues to support
the Baehr case, to educate the public on
issues related to same-gender marriage,
and to build a. network of supporters in
Hawaii. It’s address is PO Box 11690,
Honolulu, HI 96828. - Tom Ramsey
Hawaii Marriage Update
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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
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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-
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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. Missing just a few
¯ dosesallows resistant viruses to grow
explosively. Once that happens, there is
: no guarantee that switching drugs will do
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Not Protect
BOSTON (AP) - A study challenges the
popular belief that spermicides protect
against AIDS and other sexually transmitted
diseases. 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
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reproductive health, primarily
through contraception and the prevention
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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."
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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.
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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-
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¯ other print publications, have websites as
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good chapter on health, not
"only for HIV, but for mental
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other general topics. For newcomers
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GetOnwith/twill be ahelpful
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There. are many of you,
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Ken Johnston supervis~xl the production
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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
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" Treasures from Hillwood Museum", a
display of the treasures of
Marjorie Merriweather Post,
the heiress to the Post Cereal
fortunes, who liked to collect
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a neo-Georgian man-
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her collection. The exhibit,
never before seen outside of
Hillwood museum in D.C.,
runs September 6 - November
1. Sunday September 13 at
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26 at 6:30pm, Janet
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¯ ofMM Post.
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¯ 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
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neighbors get you down? Tired of the
bucolic voyeurism that occurs whenever
you host the Annual Miss Gay Croquet
Tournament? Do you long for privacy in
yoOx own yard? Does
thatold chainlinkfence
clash with your fabulous
landscaping?
Then, gentle reader, it
is time to install that
privacy fence. The
DIYD whimsically envisions
a barebreasted
dtaimming circle.., but
we digress.
Privacy fencing is a
majorinvestment, even
when you do it yourself,
although taking on
the labor, as always,
results in a substantial
savings. If you can persuade
yourneighbors to
help defray the cost (after
all, you are enhancing
their privacy and
property too), the
projectwillbe evenless
painful; however, a caveat
is in order. If the
guy nextdoorhelps pay,
he will be tempted-
Does the overt
heterosexuality of your
neighbors get you down?
Tired of the bucolic
voyeurism that occurs
whenever you host the
Annual Miss Gay
Croquet Tournament?
Do you lon~ for
privacy in
your own yard?
... Then, ~ent]e reader,
it is time to install
that privacy fenee.
The DIYD whlmsleally
envlslons a ]~arehreasted
drummln~ elrele
... hut we alltess.
fence. Now, for your picket choices, in
order of expense: white wood pickets
have no protection, can be easily stained
any color you want, and will not last more
thanfiveyears or so, dependingonweather
conditions. If money is tight, go with that
optionnow,use screws
to attach them, then replace
them out later
when you can afford
to, but this is wasteful
of time, money and resources.
There arenow
pre-treated pickets,
same as above except
that you didn’ t have to
stain them. They cost
slighdy more.
Next option is pressure
treated pickets,
which have been
soaked in pickling
compounds topreserve
the wood long-term.
TheDIYDdoesn’ tcare
forthese chemicals and
strongly urges you to
use gloves when handling
them, and a dust
mask when sawing the
wood. Thepickets were
trees only a couple of
weeks ago, so they will
be heavy and damp
no, obliged-tostickhisnoseinandoffer " when you first get them and may warp
advice ad nauseum. Usually, this doesn’t ¯ when they dry. Cedar is the creme de la
extend to his actually digging a post hole : creme of pickets - beautiful, fragrant,
or hel in in an other hysical way. : enduring, lightweight, tough and expen-
P g Y" ’ " P " the ¯ ivel It is the DIYD’s oicket of choice,
Your next decision is where to put . s
u ly side ot me......, ~.................... . . ¯
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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
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by Lamont Lindstrom
Someone left amessage onmy answering
machine the other day and a friend,
who heard it, said that the voice sounded
like a"real woman." This was no complimerit.
My friend was disgusted
that any guy could
sound that much like a gift.
This set me thinking about
Americancultural categories
- the basic opposition we
make between masculinity
and femininity.
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.
EstherRothblum teachespsychology at
the Univ. of Vermont and. edits the JournalofLesbian
Studies. Shecan be reached
at John Dewey Hall, UVM, Burlington,
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Fayetteville Civil Rights
Measure Gains Support
FAYEI II~VILLF~ Ark. (AP) - A "hmn~ dignity"
ordinance that Ires d~vided city residents hexe has won
Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulesns, Our Families + Friends
Tules’s Largest Circulation CommunityPaperAvallable In More Than 75 City Locations
PublicAwareness Campaign
Begins: Gay or Straight,
Everyone Deserves a Job
¯ by Tom Neal, TFN reporter
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Ask, Don’t Tell" Decision
NEW YORK (AP) - Six members of the nfilltarv are in line for
Lesbians: At Higher
Risk of Breast Cancer?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A limited study of
afients at a women’s health clime found Lesbians
1~ a higher risk of breast cancer than beterosextml
patients, according to a report in the Journal oft/w
Gay and Lesbian Medical .4ssociation.
An analysis of 1,019 women seeking services at
Lyon-Martha Women’s Health Services in San
Francisco bet~veen 1995 arid 1997 showed thai
Lesbians bad a higher body mass index and fewer
pregnancies, both previously idenli fled as risk fac
tars for breast cancer.
Eageula Calle. director of epidemiology for the
American Cancer Society. said the study was onl)
a prelimiq,~ look at risk factors and was not wide
enoughin scope to draw general conclusions aboul
Lesbians. "The real question is, ’Is the population
large enough and is it similar enough to the entire
population of L~sbia~ women and the entire popuhifion
of heterosexual women?’ " seeBreost, p. 3
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Als0, an estimated 1 A00 people participated in
y~ffs old Colin Cadarette received the Crystul
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*Umbertos Pizzeria, 21st west of Harvard 599-9999
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS,.Digital Cellular 747-1508 ¯
*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 "
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*Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955
*Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale 494-2665 "
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272 "
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313."
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700 "
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*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’ s Gallery, 13 Brady .... 587-2611 "
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*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337, 712-9379 ¯
*Horal Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595 "
Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 628-3709 "
*Gloria Jean’ s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21 st 742-1460
Leanne M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 459-9349 ¯
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, PsyChotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
*International Tours 341-6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th 712-2750
*Jared’ s .Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018
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*Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
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*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd 584-3112
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*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1 40 1 E.~ 15 583-1090
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* is Where you can find TFN. Notall are Gay-owned butall are Gay-friendly.
W~SHINGTON, D.C. - Parents, Families
and Friends of Lesbians and Gays this
month named as its new president National
PFLAG Board Member Paul
Beeman. An ordained minister who lives
in Olympia, WA, Beeman is the father of
four, aGay son and Lesbian daughter, and
two non-Gay children. In addition to serving
as a United Methodist pastor for many
years, Beeman also has a strong backgroundinfundraising,
marketing andjournalism.
He has served on PFLAG’ s board
since 1994.
Beeman, who was elected Sept. 12 by
PFLAG’s National Board of Directors,
says he is eagerly looking forward to lead
the group as it presses ahead nationally
and locally in its fight for equal civil
rights. "What a dynamic time this is for
PFLAG," Beeman said. "With two years
to prepare, will the year 2000 be a turning
point for welcoming Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals
and transgendered persons into
full equality in our society? I believeit can
be!"
"PFLAG is all about being able to give
kids back to their parents," Beeman emphasized.
"As with slavery and women’s
rights, barriers to equality will eventually
fall in our communities of faith and in our
whole society. It will happen as we family
members tell the stories of our children
and families and explain their commitment
to stable family relationships," he
said.
Beeman also hailed PFLAG’s tremendous
growth in membership over the last
few years. "Our influence in more than
420 communities across all 50 states is the
result of so many members in countless
rural towns and big cities across the country-
working on the frontlines of change."
Among .his. goals are to assure safe
space foi: all children in school and at
worship and to enhance the education of
¯ the majority of middle Americans who
¯ don’ t yet understand how natural homo-
" sexuality truly is. Beeman will be work-
" ing closely withPFLAG ExecutiveDirec-
] tor Kirsten Kingdrn, who is based in the
¯ group’s national office in Washington,
DC.
Beeman strongly praised his predeces-
¯ sor, Tulsan Nancy McDonald, who dur-
: ing her two-year termrepresentedPFLAG
¯ in Washington, DC, in giving testimony before the U.S. Congress and meeting
¯ with federal officials, as well as criss-
¯" crossing the country to speak out for Les-
¯ bian and Gay loved ones and their fami-
¯ lies.
¯ Members of Parents, Families and
] Friends of Lesbians and Gays voted over-
. whelmingly earlier this month in favor of
¯
a proposal to include Transg.endered
¯ peopleintheorganization’ s mission state-
¯. merit.
The near unanimous vote, which came
¯ during PFLAG’ s Sept. 12 annual meeting
¯ in San Francisco, followed a recommen-
~ dation by the group’s national Board of
: Directors last May to amend the group’ s
¯ bylaws to include Transgendered people
¯ in its mission statement, which covered
~ Lesbians, Gays and Bisexual people.
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¯ Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on ¯
issues which we’ ve covered or on issues
~ you thinkneed to be considered. Youmay
¯ request that your name be withheld but
¯ letters must be signed &have phonenum-
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." ters are preferred. Letters to other publi-
¯ cations_will be printed as is appropriate.
At a 45-minute news conference, Colorado for Family
Values, Concerned Women for America, the Christian
Coalition of Colorado, Where Grace Abounds~ Family
First and the American Jewish Assembly all roundly
condemned the commission’ s report and suggested there
were other motives involved.
Chuck Gosnell of the Christian Coalition said "overwhdming
evidence" proves "a loving, committed marriage
between one man and one woman is the most
beneficial toward raising children and encouraging a
healthy society." "Romer," he said, ,’has used a taxpayerfunded
commission in an attempt to force affirmation of
his personally skewed vision of marriage and the family.
The governor’s already tarnished legacy will only be
damagedfurther ifhe continues to imposehis anti-family
values on mainstream Coloradans."
A statement by Nancy Sutton of Family First said there
is no basis for the claim "committed relationships" are
beneficial to society. ’q~here is no basis for much of what
the commission found." Colorado for Family Values
spokesman Dr. Paul A. Jessen said "without evidence or
support, the claim is made same-sex couples have been
unfairly denied the samerights as normal married couples,
and this denial calls for a redress of inequity, but will not
diminish the rights and benefits enjoyed by married
persons." "Parallel fights and responsibilities," he said,
"is a disguise for homosexual marriage."
ButSueAnderson, executivedirector ofEquality Colorado,
and a member of Romer’ s commi ssion, listened to
the complaints of the groups and said she wasn’t surprised
at their attack. "We’re here," she said ofherself and
other Lesbians, "We’re living our li~,.e.s. We’re trying to
protect our relationships. We’re trying to protect our
families." "We’re looking for basic economic rights. SO
what happens to me if my partner dies? Do I have access
to her pension? No. Do I have access to her health
insurance, likemy colleagues and their wives have? No."
"What we are looking for is something to protect ourselves
when something bad happens,"
She said she was not surprised at their remarks.because
she had heard their position againsthomosexuality often.
"I didn’ t wake up in the morning, put on a lavender shirt
and say: ’I’mgoing to be a Lesbian today.’ That’ s just not
how it works."
While the groups said flatly they had not been asked to
participate in the commission’s studies, Anderson said
she understood a variety ofpeoplefromColorado Springs
were invited, "and everybody said no." But the commission
did go to Colorado Springs and met with conservative
groups, and the commission did do public forums,
whichtheGay community attended, she said. "They were
included as much as anybody else," she said. "I don’t
agree with them and their basic premise. Am I angry?
No."
The report by Romer’s commission recommended
granting same-sex couples the same legal rights and
benefits as married heterosexual couples, but stops short
of endorsing same-sex marriages. Romer made it clear in
response to two bills banning same-sex marriage, he had
established his own position: that marriage in Colorado
should be reserved for the union of a man and a woman.
"That is current law, and it should remain a law," he said.
He wants communities to address the legal and ethical
issues posed by same-sex relationships, he said. "But
there should be no conclusion as to what the end result is."
The 16-member comrmssion was charged with comparing
the legal and economic rights, responsibilities and
benefits of same-sex couples and married couples: The
commission was at that time criticized by people on both
sides of the issue. Some critics say there were no conservative
members who are unalterably opposed to samesex
marriages. Several were invited to serve on the panel,
Romer said, but they declined to serve.
In his 4 years of participating, Colin has raised nearly
$47000. The boy stole the show from luminaries like
Madonna, actor Nathan Lane and a gaggle of politicians.
During the ceremony, Madonna criticized spending millions
of dollars to investigate President Clinton, saying
the money could be better spent on research.
whenColin took the podium, hejust said~"Hi." "It was
so cute. He was very shy," see Walk, p. 10
by Tom Neal, editor & publisher
A week or so ago, I received a call from a reader, telling
me about how she’ d had a very negative experience with
a Hillcrest associated physician. As a part of the discussion
about her treatment, she shared with the
physician and staff that she is Lesbian. Indeed
for a number of medical conditions,
not just the issue of HIV, sexual orientation
can be relevant (see The Associated Press
story about Lesbians and breast cancer on
page 1). The physician.and staff’ s response
was to ask her if she wanted to be prayed for.
And as a person of faith, she said yes -
assuming that the prayers would be for
good health. Instead she found the doctor
and staff praying for her "release from homosexuality"
where all she wanted was release
from a minor infection.
Last year, two acquaintances wound up at
St. John Emergency Room after one took a
duding claims that the highest level ofmanagement have
Perhaps, Lesbians
and Gay men will
have to create our
own institutions to
meet our needs.
Thls is what we
did all over thls
country in
response to the
HIV/AIDS erlsls.
fairly serious fall with a blow to his head. Although this
couple has been together for a number of years, even
raising children, St. John staff refused to recognize the
relationship, denying the very worded partner any informarion
about his spouse’s condition and also denying
access that would have been routinely provided to a
heterosexual couple. This went on until emergency room
staff had a shift change and a nurse, a Gay man, whom
they knew, came on duty and corrected the situation.
Back during the GulfWar and the debate about Gays in
the military, my father, now a retired physician, heard a
few of his St. Francis colleagues say that they,i e we Gay
and Lesbian folk, should all .just be killed. This from
professionals allegedly devoted to the health and well
being of humankind.
¯ Granted these are anecdotes, possibly only isolated
incidents. But they suggest a fai_lure ofTulsa’ s health care
¯
delivery system to deal seriously with providing Lesbian
¯ and Gay citizens with fair, adequate and sensitive medi-
¯" cal care. Not one ofTulsa’s majormedical institutions haS
: adop/ed a non-discrimination policy which would indi-
¯ cate both to patients and to providers that discrimination
¯ based on sexual orientation will not be tolerated.
Now in their defense, St. John officials responded with
¯ speed and concern when they became aware of the
¯ discriminatory treatment which the two men mentioned
: above experienced. Those officials have stated that they
¯ will not tolerate this behavior and also, have reached ot[t ¯
to Tulsa’ s Lesbian, Gay and Bi communities by advertis-
¯ ing in this newspaper.
¯ In contrast, St. Francis, Hillcrest, and Tulsa Regional/
: Doctors (the various ColumbiaJHCA ownedinstitutions)
¯ have done nothing to addregs possible bias in their insti-
~ tutions or to manifest any commitment to serving the
¯ needs of Gay and Lesbian Tulsans
¯ Hillcrest in particular continues to have allegations of
anti-Gay employment practices brought against it, in-
The Polo Grill ¯
by Tom Neal, publisher
¯ Local publicity guru, Tracey Norvell, of Arts Society,
¯ along with The Polo Grill owners, Ouida and Robert
¯ Merrifield, definitely have the right notion about getting ¯
the attention of members of the press wine them and
¯
dine them - quite literally. The already award winning
~ restaurant has two new distinctions, awards from The
¯ Wine Spectator and the Unipro Cully Award. ¯
At a recent lunch, Tulsa media types sampled five
¯ courses of exquisitely fresh and well prepared food and
~ three California white wines, and a lovely Merlot. The
¯ stars of the lunch were fresh North American rainforest ¯
salmon and a very low fat cut of Piedmontese beef filet
¯ grown near Tulsa (though the point of alow-fat cut when
¯" it’s served with a fat-rich bernaise sauce eludes me, or
¯ maybe that is the point, so that you can have the bemaise).
." Service was gracious and attentive, from several of
: Tulsa’s best-looking and delightfully everrso-gay staff.
¯ The Polo Grill is, of course, not cheap but unlike many ¯
wanna-be restaurants in this town, is worth it when the
¯
restaurant lives up to this high standard it’ s set.
: Check it out whenever your budget permits.
¯
openly expressed bias against Lesbians and Gay men. If
¯ these allegations are true, then certainly I, as a health care ¯
consumer, would have questions about the safety and
quality of my health care at Hillcrest.
And a related issue is that of finding a
Lesbian or Gay, or Gay-friendly physician.
You can call the physician referral lines and
find, if you want, a Black physician or a
"Christian" physician but if you ask for a
Gay or Gay-friendly physician, you’ re just
out of luck.
Now if you have lived here for a while and
start to network in the community a bit,
eventually you’ll find that there’ s a Lesbian
gynecologist, a Lesbian general practioner.
a number of Gay physicians from Owasso
to south Tulsa as well as the better known
doctors who’ve specialized in HIV/AIDS
care like Drs. Beal and Peake. But most of
these physicians are closeted, fearing repercussions to
their practices.
Indeed I’ ve only, just found out aboutmore two dentists,
one Lesbian, the other Gay and it’ s my job as newspaper
publisher to know who’ s who in the community even if I
don’t write about them. Contrast this with Dallas, certainly
a conservative place in many respects but whose
community newspaper is filled with choices for health
care providers.
Perhaps, Lesbians and Gay men will have to create our
own institutions to meet our needs. This is what we did all
over this country in response to the HIV/AIDS crisi s. The
Los Angeles Community Center has begun its own clinic
in recogmt~on of the community’s needs.
Last spring Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights"
(TOHR) HIV anti-body testing clinic (HOPE) split off
under the direction of clinic director, Kristi Frisbie.
However, a few members of thatTOHRboard suggested
that the clinic should broaden its health care services for
Lesbians.and G0y-men, remaining true to its origins as a
Gay & Lesbian organization, instead of trying to become
a broader based HIV prevention orgmfization..After all,
while Tulsa has a number of other prevention groups
addressing non-Oay aspects ot ~]\’~IA]~)~, there is no
one looking at non-HIV related Gay & Lesbian health
care, other than perhaps Drs. Peake & Beal.
Even now that HOPEis independent, there is no reason
that TOHRand The Pride Center could not be the site of
a free clinic, perhaps monthly, where Tulsa’ s Lesbian and
Gay physicians could volunteer to do basic examinations
and consultations. Obviously anything requiring specialized
equipment or testing would have to be referred to the
physicians regular office, and some kind of legal waivers
would be needed as well to protect the physicians and the
Center. Maybe one or another ofourGay lawyers rtmning
around could help there? What do you tlfink? Do any of
you care? Let us know via e-mail, post, tdephone or tax.
Ms. Calle asked. "All women should be concerned about
breast cancer and getting age-appropriate breast cancer
screening," she added.
Still, researchers said the study shows a need for more
research that compares Lesbian women to heterosexuals
of various ages, economic and geographic groups. The
study was conducted by the clinic’s medical director,
Stephanie Roberts, and Suzanne Dibble, an associate
professor at the University of Califomia at San Francisco.
"It’s still too early for us to develop specific
mammography guidelines for Lesbians, but our study
shows the importance of encouraging Lesbians to seek
medical care on a regular basis," Roberts said. Roberts
and Di’bble found no significant differrnces between the
two groups on risk factors such as family history of breast
cancer or alcohol use. Nearly all of.the women surveyed
for the study were low-income and lacked health insurance.
Of the 1,019 women studied, 57.6 percent identified
themselves as heterosexual and 42.4 percent as
homosexual.
"For far too long Lesbians have had more questions
about than answers about their health," said Kathy Oriel,
president of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association,
whose group funded the study.
California Politician to-
Try to Ban Gay Marriages "
NORWALK, Calif. (AP) - A group that wants to .
keep Cnlifornia from recognizing Gay marriages "
collected 675,000 signatures to place the measure on ¯
the state ballot - more than enough signatures to
qualify the Defense of Marriage Act for a future "
election, Sen. Peter Knight announced. "
The measure is designed "to protect our definition
of marriage from being undermined by liberal judges ¯
from other states," Knight said. "Given the push for "
"same-sex’ marriage across the nation, Califorma
must prepare by making it clear we only recognize
iraditional marriage." Courts in Hawaii,Vermont and "
Alaska are considering rulings that "could legalize
same-sex marriage.
Knight was on hand as volunteers hauled boxes ¯
containing 144,000 Signatures collectedinLos Ange- "
les County into the office of the county registrar of
voters here. Signatures gathered elsewhere w,,ere submitted
to registrar offices in other counties all over
the state," said Matthew Cnnningham, a member of
the Orange County-based Californians for the Defense
of Marriage.
The initiative states: "Only marriage between a
man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."
Twenty-six states have passed similar laws and
five are considering such laws. Alaska voters will
consider an initiative on the November ballot that
wouldamend the state constitution to define marriage
as being "between one man and one woman."
Knight, R-Palmdale, introduced bills in 1996 and
1997 in the Legislature to bar recOgnition of Gay
marriages. Both times the legislation was defeated.
He will face a fierce fight this time, critics vowed. "If
that measure is qualified, we’ll beat it back as we have
every time," Assemblywoman Carole Migden, DSan
Francisco, said last week. "It is gratuitous and
polarizing and unnecessary," she said. "The community
will beat it back at the polls."
The measure cannot make the upcoming November
election. It will take several weeks for the secretary
of state’ s office to determine whether supporters
gathered the necessary 433,269 valid signatures of
registered voters. The .measure could qualify" in time
for the March 2000 state primary or for any earlier
statewide special election next year, said AndS" Pugno,
a Knight spokesman.
Assembly Speaker Pro Tern Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa
Monica, who helped lead legislative efforts to defeat
Knight’s anti-Gay mamage bills, said sh’e thinks the
initiative can be defeated again in California. "They
better be prepared for a fight," she said. But she
added: "I think that it is a very difficult thing for a
community tO be forced to prove its own humanity
over and over and over."
only states to do so.
Adoption decisions in Indiana are based on what is
best for the child, and the sexual orientation of prospective
parents isn’ t considered, said Andrew Stoner,
spokesman for the state Family and Social Services
Administration, which regulates adoption and.f.oster
care. The Madison County case is not necessarily the
first in Indiana in which Gays or Lesbians have been
considered as adoptive parents, Stoner said. "It’s
likely it has occurred, although it’ s not something that
people always disclose and there’s no requirement
that they do so.’"
The case has sparked sharp reactions from those on
both sides of the issue. The child’s foster parents,
Butch and Sandy Kimmerling of Anderson, have said
they will seek to adopt the child because they say it
would be destructive to have her raised in a homosexual
environment. U.S. Rep. David Mclntosh, RInd.,
called the adoption proposal "egregious and
¯ morally unacceptable" and urged Gov. Frank
¯ O’B~on to support any propos.ed.legislation bar-
¯ fing homosexuals from adopting children. Opponents say Burton and Lutz’ proposed bill is an
¯ unconstitutional and unnecessary infringement on
¯ the privacy of the adoption process that will deprive
: children of needed homes. "It’ s a completely unnec-
¯ essarv law. More than 25 years of research has dem-
¯ onstr~ted that a person’s Sexual orientation makes ¯
absolutely n,o, difference in his or her ability to be a
good parent, said John Knfll, executive director of
¯ the Indiana Civil Liberties Union. "A lot of children
¯ who need homes are going to be left in foster care."
" ,nti-Gay Attacks Up 81%
NEW YORK (AP) - Anti-Gay attacks citywide are
up 81% this year, and a spate of 27 such attacks since
late August has a civil rights for Gay people group
demanding increased police presence in areas where
the assaults have been prevalent. As of Sept. 13 - the
latest figures provided by the pol.ice department -
there have been 76 anti-Gay attacks citywide, com-
. ,ared with 42 attacks last year during the same time
period. However, overall bias attacks citywide are
down3.4%. There were368bias attacks as of Sept 13,
compared with 38 t last year. Bias crimes are slurs or
attacks that include an element of race, religion,
stxual preference or gender.
Christine Quinn; executive director of the New
York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project,
said the Police Department’s bias unit was doing an
dmirable job responding to the crimes, but more
¯ ~olice presence still was needed, especially in the
Greenwich Village area, where most of the attacks
have occurred. Since Aug. 25, there have been 27
such attacks citywide, she added. "The attacks, harassment
and threats against our community have
continued in full force since Labor Day weekend,"
Ms. Quirm Said. "Almost every day a New Yorker is
the victim of violence because he or she is perceived
to be Gay.’"
Police Commissioner Howard Safir said the department
is aware of the increase in anti-Gay attacks
and has dispatched additional officers to the Village.
Buthe saidhe does not think the attacks are prevalent.
"We don’t see an epidemic throughout the city," he
said.
The Gay and Lesbian anti-violence group is planning
a community demonstration Oct. 3 to condemn
the attacks and teach people how to better protect
themselves;
Indiana May Ban
Adoption by Gays
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The proposed adoption of
an 8-year-old gift by a Gay couple has sparked a
campaign to bar Gays and Lesbians from becoming
adoptive or foster parents in Indiana.
Word that the Madison County Office ofChildren
and Family Services was considering letting an Indianapolis
couple adopt the girl prompted two lawmakersto
announce Friday they wonld sponsor a bill
making Indiana the third state toban such adoptions.
Opponents called the proposed ban unconstitutional
and unnecessary.
"Their lifestyle is their business, but when they
start using government to promote their lifestyle, It
ta.me.to s.tep I.n, Rep. Woody Burton, R-Greenwood,
said Monday. Burton said he and Rep. Jack Lutz, RAnderson,
proposed the ban to protect children from
the abuse and discriminationmany homosexuals suf:
~er "’What’ s ~oin~ to happen to those kids when they
o ~o school a~nd tl~e othe]: kids at school find out about
~t?" Burton asked. "It actually invites discrimination
against those kids.’"
Burton and Lutz say they plan to introduce legislation
in next year’s General Assembly session. If it
passes, Indiana would become the third state to bar
homosexuals from adopting Children or being foster
parents. FloridaandNew Hampshireare currently the
Controversial Play
Draws Protesters
NEW" YORK (AP) - Theatergoers flocked to the
¯ debut performance of an off-Broadway play, ignor-
¯ ing angry protesters who believe it depicts a Gay
: Christlike figure who has sex with his apostles. As
~ patrons passed through a metal detector to see the
¯ Terrence McNally play "Corpus Christi," about 100
¯ protesters held a prayer vigil across the street, led by
". members of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
¯. Police said one protester was arrested Tuesday night
¯ for disorderly conduct.
¯ "We are inviting people to get. up a~d 1~eTa,ve.w,h~en ¯ blasphemies are enunciated in the play, sam me
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praying for the conversion of people attending the
play."
Theatergoer John Friedman, 34, of Greenwich, Comi.,
saidhe understood why the show is controversial. "It
may not be for everybody, but I thought it really brought
out the transcendental nature of Jesus," he said after the
preview performance. "It emphasized that he was an
outcast."
While theater officials and patrons were tightlipped
about the content of"Corpus Christi," published reports
have said the play depicts a Gay Christlike character
who has sex with his apostles. A brochure released
earlier this year described the play this way: "From
modem day Corpus Christi, Texas, to ancient Jerusalem,
we follow a young Gay man named Joshua on his
spiritual journey, and get to know the 12 disciples who
choose to follow him.’"
In May, the Manhattan Theater Club canceled plans
to produce the off-Broadway play after receiving anonymous
death threats against its actors, audience and
McNally, a multiple Tony Award-winner. Days later,
theater executives reversed their decision, saying police
promised to ensure safety if the play was staged. The
official opening is scheduled for Oct. 13; Tuesday was
the first night of previews, in which a play is generally
fine-tuned before its official opening. No tickets were
provided to reviewers, The New York Times reported.
A statement from the theater Tuesday’ reaffirmed its
support of"McNally’ s right to express his artistic vision
freely" as well as the right of protesters to object "in a
peaceful and law-abiding manner." Most theatergoers
were not dissuaded by the commotion. "It’s all about
free speech," said Candace Simon of Newark, N.J.
"They have the right to protest. The theater has aright
to stage it. I have the right to see it.’"
Churches Re|ect
Pro-Gay Pastors
OMAttA, Neb. (AP) - Two rural United Methodist
churches are telling denomination leaders that they will
not accept appointments ofpastors who snpported former
Omaha Rev. Jimmy Creech in his decision to perform a
Lesbian marriage. The Nehawka and \Veeping Water
United Methodist churches told Omaha District Superintendent
Ronald Croom that they will not accept the
Rev. Doyle Burbank-Williatns as their new pastor.
Burbank-Williams was an early supporter of Creech.
who created a furor when he performed a same-sex
marriage at his Omaha church last September.
Burbank-Williams was pastor of Dietz .\Iemorial
United Methodist Church and of homeless people in
downtown Omaha. He also was one of about 200
pastors nationally who pledged to. defy the United
Methodists" prohibition against same-sex mamages.
Weeping Water church officer Farley Amick said the
rural churches want a conservative pastor.
Burbank-Williams said he would keep Iris name on
the pledge list but would not perform a covenaut ceremony
in churches that are on record as opposed to such
ceremomes. Amick said that was not good enough. He
said the churches do not want a pastor who believes that
same-sex mamages are OK. He said it is a bad influence
for young people.
Meanwhile, a second pastor in Omaha has presided
over a satne-sex mm-riage The Rev. Nancy Brink said
it was the first she had performed at the North Side
Christian Church in Chnaha. The church is affiliated
with Disciples of Christ. which does not have prohibitions
against covenant ceremomes. Brink noted the
ceremony was given near unmnmous approval last
spring bf the church’s board of elders. But the event has
caused dissensmn within the 300-member congregation.
Brink declined to say how man~ members had left
the church over the issue~ Brink said covenant ceremonies
are in line ~vith Christ’s admonition to love one’s
neighbor as oneself.
Utah Group is Anti-Gay
But Suppo.rts Polygamy
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - \~qfile Gov. Mike Leavitt
has changed his tune regarding polygamy, Eagle Forum
President Gayle Ruzicka still sings the original notes.
The conservative Utah Eagle Forum has campaigned
against civil rights for Gay people, which
Ruzicka says is a question of morality, but she says
men who live with several women in polygamy
"may find support in the Bible.
"For polygamous folks - it is a religious belief
and at least through their religious ceremomes they
think they are married before God," Ruzicka said.
"Homosexuality is not part of somebody’s religion."
Ruzicka said she would urge Utah polygamists
to lobby to change the state’s constitutional
provision outlawing polygamy. "Polygamy has
been blown totally out of proportion," she said.
"These people out there living polygamous lives
are not bothering anybody."
In July, Leavitt acknowledged his polygmnist
ancestors and said he knew many polygamists and
"for themost part, they were hardworking and good
people." While the pracace is baamed by the state
constitution, Leavitt first said there were religious
freedom questions that could prevent prosecuuon
of the tens of thousands of practicing polygmnists
believed living in Utah. Within four weeks, his
position had changed to: "I believe polygamy is
against the law, and it should be." Polygamy has
come under renewed scrutiny due to reports of
child abuse, incest and welfare fraud within some
polygamist groups.
Some legislators may address the issue in the
1999 legislative session. "The next legislative session
will bring a healthy discussion about polygamy
that Utah needs," says Rep. Sheryl L.
Allen, R-Bountiful. "This has been postponed for
too long. It is past due."
Gay Family Struggles
for Acceptance
WATERTOkVN, Minn. (.-\P) - In this insular \ll
lage of 2,400. where bird feeders and American
flags h~g on front ~rches and cl~ldreu ride their
.bikes to,tl~e O~fl) grocery store ~ound, XV atcrto~ n
is grappling with the most di~ isive question
encountered in ve~s: How to) deM wi t!~ opeul
p~ents? Aboui 100 residents attended a
two-ho~ town meeting Sept. 10 at Waterto~
Nement~ School to discnss the issne. Or~mn zer~
stud they ~’anted to create awareness of violence
and hate crones and to invite di~dogne about
and ~sbi~s. ~ae meeting ~ne mnidst ~dlc~ations
that for the p~t two ye~s Robert Protomastcr.
35; Ns p~tner, Brian C~Isou, 35: and their three
teen-age sous have been the t~gets of verb~d and
physicM h~assment because Protomaster and
C~lson ~e Gay.
~e clmms ~e disturbing: Epithets hurled at the
fanfil~, as they drove tl~ough to~vn. Statues m their
front v~d smashed at mght. Homophobic notes
stuck haside their front door. And, most troubling,
stud the fanfilv, repeated h~sment of the boys
wNle they attended Watertown Middle School in
1996 and 1~7. ~ev stud that they repeatedl3
were cMled "’queei" and "’faggot" and that other
students refused to sit b~ them be~ansc they lc~ged
that "’they .. would become Gay,’" said "lqmoth~.
13. "’So f~r a long time no one ~votdd come ne;g us.’"
Michael. 14, stud he was held down b~ studcnts
~vNle one wrote "’faggot" ou lfis :ran. S~hool offitins
did little to stop the harassment, the fiunil~
says.
~e school district issued a statement on the da~
of the town zneeting saying that the district "has a
record of responding appropriately to comphunts
of h~sment." The Watertown mayor’s office
and C~ver County officiMs issned statements the
day before the meeting saying that Watertown
stands agmnst Violent, hate crones and harassment
of ~v kind.
The bow - Jo~, ~vho"s 16. Michael and "l’imo~
thv - spent most of their [iveg in and out of foster
hdmes before Protom~ter mad C~Mson adopted
them about 3 years ago. Although the boys no
longer attend s~hool in Watertown School Distnct.
their p~ents filed a discfinfinatiou complmnt last
ye~ agmnst ~e dis~ct w~th the state lluman
~ghts Dep~tlnent. The case is no~v on appeM.
More HIV Drugs,-
More Errors
..\I.BAN’f. N.Y (AP) - Two ’,ears ago,
o~fl\ a few drugs were availatJle to treat
tti’{’. Now. 14 types of ~nedicatton ,°re
used to treat the disease. And while the
chmaces for survi,,al have increased, so
have the chances for error in the prescribing
of these drugs, hi fact, mistakes in
prescriptions wntten for people with HIV
arc much more counnon than for other
hospital patients, according to a recent
two ‘.ear study. Fortunately, most of the
time the wrongly prescribed medicines
aren’t actuMly given to the patients. They
usu-all,. oaflv make it tothe pharmacist’s
desk. said l)r. Bonnie Purdy, the stud\"s
author ,’rod AI ban’~ *ledical Center cli~lical
phmanacist.
"Without may doubt, there ,are physicians
who don’t’understm]d therapies ~orrectlv.’"
said Paul Volberding, director of
S~m i:rancisco Geueral’s AIDS program.
And because HIV patients can become
resxst,’mt if not treated correctly the first
time. he added. "There’s not very much
margin for error.’" Johi] Bartlett. ~:hief of
itffectious disease and AIDS ser‘.tce at
Jolms ttopkins .Medical Center. said the
stud} findings show a needfor more HIV
specialists. Other studies have suggested
that 3% of Ml prescriptlous written b’,
physicim]s coutai n an error, Purd’, said.
f~ors m ItIV prescnptions rose from
about 2c} iu 1~)6 to 14% this ",ear. Rapid
chmtges in treatments are conhtsi,ng doctors..
Some doctors have even written potentiall
y deadl y formulas for medical care
at the .-\Ibm]} hospital over the last two
vein’s, the report said
()he lily specMist, whose practice was
not studied for the report, admits that the
increase in treatmcuts has been tough to
follo\~. "’it .~ccm> cvcrx three or four
months a ne~ drag is rel~.ased. The drugs
have unforeseen side effects." said Dr.
l)avid l !ermm]. of the \Vhitne‘. .X i. Young
!tcalth (’cater. The :\lb,’m,. c’linic ser,.-es
1 it} lilY patients. Additiouallv. "’patients
mc living longer, mM as the‘. live longer
the} require more ,’rod ntore complicated
drug rcgmmns said I)r. Douglas Fish.
acting director of the lilY medicine divistun
at .-\tbmav Medic,’d College.
Purdx said :730 of the prescription errors
were "’serious" or "’se,.ere. meamng
they could bc fatal or increase resistance
IO dlllgs.-The most connTlon error was
either prescribing doses that were either
too high or too lmv. Most of the mistakes
were made by people who weren’t HI\-
svccialists, the report said. Herman warned
that the nuntber of errors may be higher in
hospit~fls where interus and students can
~vnte prescriptions. The rates of error have
decreased at :\lbany Medical since Purd,.
revealed the results of the stud,, With the
hospital staff., she said. "’We ~]ow pauents
li,.e longer with these regimens,"
third,. stud. "’But if we don’t prescribe
thcm’correctlv, we ha,an the patient."
FDA Approves
New Treatment
W.\SHINGTON (AP) - AIDS patients
got an easier-to-swallow drug as the Food
and l)rug Administration approved a new
once-a-day medicine that offers the first
good alternative foF patients who cannot
take today’s best AIDS treatment.
l)uPout Pharmaceuticals" Sustiva appears
to be about as effective as protease
nfllibitors, the landmark medicines that
have helped thousands of HIV patients
rebound from their disease, tile FDA said.
Ahd because it’s taken only. once daily,
Susti,.’a conld significantl‘.’ cut the number
of pills AIDS patients’now swallow.
:’It really gives soane flexibilit,. ~md some
new options for patients," said Dr. Heidi
Jolson. FDA’s antiviral chief.
But the FDA warned that patients
shouldn’t race to switch to Snsti,.a if
they’re doing well on other AIDS medic,ations.
The HIV virus relentlessl,. mutates
to overcoane drug treaunent, metaling
patients must take a drug until it qmts
working- not switching on the spur of the
~noment - so file’, don’t exhaust their
options too quickl}:, stressed AIDS expert
Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Iustitutes
of ttealth. But for newly diagnosed
patients, or those whose current cocktail
of AIDS medicines is failing or causmg
too many side effects. Susti,.’a offers a
good option, he said.
In a sixqnonth stud’, of 450 patients
taking the standard drugs AZT mid 3TC
plus either Susti,.a or the most popular
protease inllibitor, Crixivan, both theraptes
were equally effecti,.e. The FDA
approved Susti,.-a. kalown chemically as
efa,.irenz, for both adults and children]. It
is to be taken with a protease inhibitor
and or older AIDS medicines.
The Sustiva portion of that cocktail will
cost almost $4,000 a ‘.ear. DuPont says
the price is.midrange f6r AIDS drugs, ai~d
that Sustiva therapy could sa,.’e up to S500
avear over Crixivan cocktails. DuPont
al~o promised a treatment assistm]ce program
for poor patients, but would not
reveal details. But some AIDS activists
attacked the price; the group Act Up wrote
DuPout this week threatening protests to
"’reveal your greed." Sustiva "addresses
some imporumtissues in the lives of people
with HIV. including the complexity of
taking a large number of drugs," said
D,’ufiel Zingale of AIDS° Action. "But I
.don’t think the company went far enough
m fair pacing... The‘. could pfi.ce this
lower mid still make a ~rofit.’"
T,.pical HI\ pauents s~,. allow some 20
pih~ throughout the day to combat the
virus, timed carefully to take some with
meals and some without. The,, may also
take additional medicines to pre,.ent HIVcansed
refections. Missing e,.eu a few
,’mtiviral pills, however, allows the HIV to
mutate and become more difficult to treat
Sustiva is taken just once a day, in three
capsules, whenever it’s convenient.
DuPonl also is de,.eloping a formulation
that will require only a single tablet a day.
Easing patients" "pill burden" ma,. be
Sustiva’s main" ad,.’ance. With it, some
patients may get by onjust five pills a day.
"I have some patients who absolutely will
only take medicine twice a day," said Dr.
Do~aald P0retz of Virginia’ s Inova Fairfax
Hospital. ’This is a race addition."
Half of Susti,.’a pattents suffer dizziness,
insomnia, impaired concentrauon,
abnormal dreams and drowsiness. Therefore,
patients should consider taking
Sustiva at bedtime, the FDA said, and
definitely avoid driving or operating machinery
if they suffer the side effects.
TheSe are milder side effects than many
AIDS drugs cause, and unlike other drugs
they usually disappear over time, theFDA
said.
But FDA’s Jolson cautioned that Sustiva
can also cause some severe side effects,
and that it has been studied for only six
months. Longer use of AIDS drugs typically
turns up more problems. Sustiva’s
cautions include:
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histoU of substance abuse or mental illness
- suffer severe depression or delu-
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- 40% of children and some adults
suffer skin rashes, occasionally severe.
Womenmust use effecnve contraception
because animal studies suggest
Susfiva causes severe birth defects. The
FDA ordered DuPont to track accidental
pregnancies to determine the true risk.
In a separate development Friday,
Merck &Co. stopped a study it had hoped
would pave the way for easier Cfixivan
use. But taking Cfixivan twice a day instead
of the government-approved three
daily doses proved far less effective.
Insurance for
Working PLWA’s?
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Unemployed
people living with HIV want to work but
fear they’ll lose .their health insurance if
they become employed, according to a
new study. "Discrimination is still very
much an issue for those Seeking employment,"
said Dr. Ronald Brooks, a researcherfrom
Los Angeles County Harbor-
UCLA Medical Center. Brooks and
Dr. ,David Martin of AIDS Project Los
-Angeles conducted the study, which they
said was the first one to analyze employ:
ment issues for LOs Angeles residents
living with HIV and AIDS.
In July and August, the doctors surveyed
5,685 people with HIV or AIDS
who were case-managed by LOs Angelesarea
AIDS service organizations. An estimated
13,000 people in LOs Angeles
County are infected with HIV, Brooks
said. The survey released in September
found about 37% of respondents were
working. More than half of them had fulltime
.jobs. Some of the 67% of those
unemployed said they were disabled. The
majority said they were thimkmg about
retumilig to work ~o increase their tncoxne
and feel useful to society.
, Mayor Richard Riorcl~m vowed to encourage
health insurers to cover all employees,
including those with AIDS. Their
medications alone can cost S12.000 to
S16,000 a )’ear. The law states no HIVinfected
person may be deified employment
because of the disease. But m,’my
sufferers are afraid they will lose their
current health insurance~including Medi-
Cal, and will not obtain adequate insurance
from a new employer, said Los Angeles
City AIDS Coordinator Ferd Eggan.
",’AIDS remains a highly stigmatized disease,"
Eggan said.
Jusfina Thompson, an HI\’-infected
Venice resident, blames her honesty for
her inability to find work. "’If you’re infected
and ):ou tetl people you’r~ infected,
they won’t ~ve you a job," said Thompson,
who now works with Women Alive,
a drop-in center in Los Angeles for women
with HIV or AIDS.
Craig Thompson, executive director of
AIDS Project Los Angeles, said retunfing
HIV-i~ffected people to the workplace
actually would have a positive effect on
society. If employed, they would pay into
social security and pay taxes which are
lost when th@ are uot working, he said.
"It’s actually revenue-positive for the taxpayers
in the long rim,’" Thompson said.
Monkeys and the
Origin of HIV
COVINGTON, La. (AP) - Preston Marx
is still gettiug settled, and it shows. Books
are heaped in stacks, and boxes of all sizes
- some unpacked, manynot - crowd the
floors of his office at Tulane University’s
primate center. Despite the helter-skel ter
appearance of his office, the center’s new
headofAIDS researchknew exactly where
to look for what he wanted. From a pile of
plaques and framed photographs, Marx,
54, pulled out a picture that, perhaps more
than anything else, sums up the nature of
his work. The photograph, which he shot
nearly a decade ago in Liberia, shows a
brightly clad girl 9-year-old girl and her
pet monkey, a sooty mangabey, clutching
each other as tightly as possible. The
monkey’s forepaws and prehensile toes
are wrapped tightly around the girls’ left
arm.
Sunny at first blush, the picture has a
sinister side: It symbolizes the easy passage
between monkeys and humans of a
.simple vires that has developed into the
microorganism that causes AIDS, said
Marx, a New Orleans native who was at
the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
in New York before coming this summer
to the primate center in rural St.
Tammany Parish. ":My work has shown
that the viruses carried by these monkeys
are closely related to the viruses earned
by people in the local villages," he said.
Marx, whosucceeded Michael Murphy-
Corb at Tulane, also has studied the way
AIDS infection develops, and he has con’-
ducted vaccine research. He will continue
in both fields at the primate center and at
the Diamond center, which shares him
with Tulane. In return for letting Marx
move south, Diamond gained access to
what is, with 4,500 monkeys, the country’s
biggest primate center. The two institutions
plan to co_ltaborate on .-kIDS research.
"I’m not onlyOK with that; I think
it’s a tremendous opportunity,’" said Peter
Gerone, director of the Tulane Regional
Primate Research Center. "’Talk about
sometlfing being mutually beneficial." As
part of the agreement, Marx received a
professorship of tropical mediciue - and
the enthusiastic welcome from Dr. Paul
\Vhelton, dem~ ofTulane’s S cbooi of Public
Health and Tropical Medicine "’He
has provided fltndamental underpinmng
of the sinuan innnunodeficiencv virus
and the origin of AIDS.’" said \\~elton.
For Marx, named the primate center’s
senior scientist, flats is his first priority: to
trace the history of the iucurabte illness by
detennimng the origin of the virus that
causes ~t "%’obodv else is doing that,"
Ronald Desrosier,~. imcrobiologist and
molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical
School and Harvard’s New Fmgland Primate
Center. "’I tlm~k he ki~ows mo~tkevs
and monkey natural history very we~l.
This is a niche where he can contribute
and he tries to make the most of it ""
The work, wlfich Marx conducts in the
United States and Africa, may lead to a
vaccine and better ways to fight.AIDS,
said Dr. Andrew Lach~er, a pathologist at
Harvard Medical Center and ~ts pinnate
center, "-[’he tnore you le,’~t about these
viruses. . will provide very significant
clues to what’s different in sooty
mangabeys, where the virus can be
haudled, and humans, and humans, where
it’s not," Lackner said. Which leads back
to Marx’s photograph of the ~fl and her
pet, and the potential for monkey viruses
to leap the species barrier. In villages like
the ~fl’s, monkeys bite people and people
hm~t and eat monkeys. And angry farmers
have clubbed to d~th sooty mangabeys
that devoured their crops, said Dr. Beatrice
Hahn of the University of Alabama at
Birminghana.
Through such incidents, the simian
nmnunodefiency virus, "known as SIV,
regularly invades human bloodstreams,
said Marx, who has worked in :\frica
since 1987. Under normal circumsumccs,
he has found a huntan can elinmmtc il
wi~n 12 weeks. The mo~ev vm~s. Much
has been in Africa more than 100,000
ye~s, c~~nutate in ml attenlpt to survi vc,
but he s~d, the body’s defenses gencrall3
work f~ter. HIV, an offshoot of thc
IN vires, is relatively nee in human~
M~x stud, dating b£ck to about 1950
"~at t~t me~s, in a sense, is thal
there’s a mo~ey out ~ere that donated
vires to people," Marx stud. ’The question
becomes, "X~at’s the mechmfism ’
.. Some~ng ~p~ned in 1950 that caused
tNs vires to st~t crossing over. I kmm
what it is, but I ~n’t prove it.’" ttis hunch:
widespread use of hypodenmc ucedlcs.
wNch beg~ about the s~e ti~nc injectable
~gs ~c~e available to fight dise~
es such as tonga. In countries that
~’t ~forda new needle for each pattern.
ne~les ~e often reused, picNng up Inicr~
rg~sms ~ong the way.
A ~ad~te of 1 ~uisi~a ~tatc Iuivcrsitv
in New ~leans (now the Univcrsit~
of ~’ew Ofl~s) and~1" Mcdic~fl Center
, M~x beg~ ~s quesl for the ofigiu of
AIDS in 1987. ~e quest h~ U~en him
~ound ~e world, including a remote Affi~
b~ where he and a colleague stopl~,d
for a beer ~ter a frustrating day of collecting
blo~ smnples from redcap
m~gabeys in a hunt for a r~e SIV strain.
H~ picked up the stor~, w~ch has bccome
p~t of the Marx lebend: "Thcv
a redcap monkex tied to the b~, ~ating
pe~uts. ~esto~ stud, "We could blccd
that one as well." "" After a pause. !l~dm
delivered the puuch line. ’Thin happcncd
to be the monkey that was i~fl~ctcd with
that vm~s.’" she stud "’Preston told mc
later. "As you can see. I do my best work
m b~.""
HIV+ Prisoners
To Be Separated
GREENVII.I.1L S.(’. {.-\P) - With ntorc
than 600 S. Carolina prison inmates about
to be segregated because they tested postfive
for &e AIDS-casuing virus, one AII)S
expert says the state has far underesu
mated the cost. The state esdmalcs it will
cost St,Q00 wr ~mnate l~r ~eatment. Tha~
is more likely.to k S15,000. Dr. Rick
Altice. ~ AIDS expert m Yale-New ttayen
HospitN in New Haven. Conn.. u)ld
The Greenville News.
In a prison system of 21.0~) lmnmcs.
~ of them t~IV-positive, a system of
providing condoms, sex eduction and
drug rehabilitation wouldbe more effective.
sav some of those who speciNize in
tracing ~edise~e. [nprotccted consensu~
sex~drapes remmn prev~ent mnong
prisoners, m~v of whom don’t know
HIV ~ be transmitted bv unsafe ratercourse,
sMd Steve Nesselr~th of the AIDS
m Prison Project.
17 states have m~datory testing, lto~vever,
one-time testing ~ give pnson
officiM s a fMse sense of secuntv, sMd Dr.
Jo~ Miles, of the Centers f~r Disease
Con~ol & ~evenfion. Without lbllowup
testing, i~ates who~~ey ~c
sine~fur~er spread H1V, Miles sMd. It
~es ~ long ~ six months tbr ~e vires to
be det~mble. ~ficiMs pl~ follow-up
tests ~d say i~ates will ~tested ~fore
¯ey l~ve prison st~ngnext ye~. "AVith
the follow-up ~gsfing, we feel like we’ll
~tch~yone~o~’ttest ~sifive whea
we test~ or when they c~e into the
system," B~Mey sMd.
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CINDERELLA
Sept. 18-20, 1998
~, sweeping tale of prince gels gift. Where between
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love and romance, greed and envy, beauty and ugliness.
And the realization that timing is everything.
DEATH AND THE MALDEN
Light Fandango ¯ Mare Nostram
Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1998
Matters of death and life. From two choreographers.
An established American, Robert North, takes on mortality.
The upstart Italian, Luciano Cannito, explores immortality.
Contemporary ballet in classical terms. The real spice of life.
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Feb. 5-.7, 1999
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SWAN LAKE
Apr. 9-11, 1999
Ali’s fair in love. The only emotion over which countries
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For the first time eve~; Tulsa Ballet presents the four-act
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Read All About It
by Adam West, Helmerich Library
We all love Auntie Marne. It’s pracfiv~
V a orere~uisite; it’s possibly genetic.
~t’-s’not t~ love in a s-tory @’out a bo.y
growing up with a bohemian’, eccenmc
and rich aunt for a guardian? But if you
ever wondered where all of
Marne’s gay friends were (oh,
of course she had them!), you
will definitely adore Say Uncle
by Eric Shaw Quinn. Although
the whole plot rests on a gruesome
tragedy, this comedy has
enough absurdity and sardonic
humor to keep you smiling for
weeks. The characters are so
engaging that they become a
part of your family -even
when you hate them; and
Quirm’s evocative style will
rivet you with your own emo~
tional reactions.
InSav Uncle, Michael Reily
finds l~s life turned inside out
when his sister and her husband
are killed tragically ,leaving
Michael the guardian of
their baby, Scott. Urged on by
his mother and challenged by
the baby’s patemal grandfather,
a conservative former
Senator, Michael’s fights
anaidst a media blitz as his
homosexnality and Suitability as a parent
are "called into question.
The most noticeable aspect of this brilliant
first novel is certainly its brand of
humor. Part Congreve, part Dickens, part
Fierstein, Quinnmanages a seamless blend
of Restoration comedy, bitter irony and
modem disillusioned idealism. The resul_t
is a classic style in today’s language.
Qmma clearly wanted to go for the literary
throat with his debut. The scope and
scheme of Say Uncle is of Shakespearean
proportions. ~a,s an actor lfimself, the author
was possibly hoping for a movie deal
with a cast on the level of Steel Magnolias
(of wlficli this is also reminiscent). Say
said Nicole Russo, spokeswoman for
AIDS Project Los Angeles, which organizes
the event every year. Colin’ s mother
got him started when he was four to learn
about helping others, Ms. Russo said.
The event raised an estimated $3 million
that will provide care for the nearly
7,400 people with AIDS in l_~,s .Angeles
County. Participants asl~ people to sponsor
them for every mile they walk. The
course, about 6.2 miles long, started at
Paramount Studios in Hollywood, looped
onto Melrose Avenue and then back to the
studio through Hancock Park.
Craig Thompson, executive director of
AIDS Project Los Angeles, said he was
encouraged to see so many.young people
taking part in the fund-raiser this year.
’q’hat’s good because half of all .new
infections of HIV occur among 18- to 25-
year-olds," he said.
Here in Tulsa, however, local HIV/
AIDS andcivil rightactivist,Jimmy Flowers,
bemoaned what he called the shamefully
low turnout at Tulsa’ s 6th nnn~al
AIDS walk, Walk For Life held Sat. sept.
26th. Flowers claims therewere only about
80 persons participating in the 2 mile
walk along the Riverparks and that some
The most
notleeable aspect
of this brilliant
first novel is
eertalnly its
brand of humor.
Part Congreve,
part Dickens,
part Fiersteln,
uhn manages
a~seamless blend
of Restorat;on
comedy, hitter
irony and modern
dlsillusloned
ideallsm. The
result is a elassle
style in today’s
Uncle’s beauty shines through, covering
~ a span of over twenty years and doing so
¯ without neglecting continuity or cohe-
¯ siveness.
¯ Even thOugh half of the book is told
¯ mostly from Scott’s perspective, the clear
star of the novel is Uncle Michael.
Michael’s straight-forward
and amusing take on life fuels
the story and you adore him
more with each page¯ He’ s not
a perfect man, but he"s close
enough, and his flaws just endear
you to him more¯ His
blunt’and occasionally odd
rapport with his meddling
mother is so similar to somany
of us that you’ll surdy find
new realizations m your own
maternal rdationship. Best of
all, .kfichael fights for respect
the way we all would like to:
withh~nor, ~ace and tremendous
gumpuon.
The circumstances of Say
Uncle wouldn’t happen to
mare of us. \~2tile overall you
mav~ehappy about that, there
will also be a part of you that
longs for it. Michael Reily is a
tree hero in so many ways -
Iris di~mfity, his selfish selflessness,
his passion for life¯
\Xqao ,’unong us doesn’t want
to star ~n a life of feature film quality. Say
Uncle has its realism, and even its absuiditv
is plausible, but in the end what gets
us ior at least gets me) is thejourney of the
characters from letters on a p0ge to human
beings we would like to kaaow..Say Uncle
is the story we would have if we got the
option - and the strength - to enjoy it.
You can request Say Uncle from your
nearest’l"ulsa City-County library br~ch
or by calling th~ Reader’s Services department
of the Central Library.
Adam West is an associate with lulscl
City-County Library S3wtem and an OSU
ah~mus. Hets m)t now and,ever has bee,
Batman.
agencies whi,c,h serve People Living with
AIDS~(PLWA s) werenot represented by
their staff.
However, Community Service Council
AIDS f~mdraiser and organizer, Janice
Nicklas claimed about 100 attended and
that, for Tulsa, that’ s a good turnout. According
to Nicklas, about $5,000 was
raised which will be matched by an addi-
¯
ttonal $2500 from the Nat’1. AIDS Fund.
LongtimeHIV/AIDS activist/volunteer,
¯ Claudette Peterson, noted that she was
¯ unable to attend the event because The
¯ Food Pantry of Tulsa CARES (formerly ¯
¯ theHIV ResourceConsortium)whichshe directs was scheduled to getalargeamount
¯ of donated food that morning.
¯ Walker, Nancy Smith, and walk team, i Soles for Souls brought in the highest
donations. Street School student Kat
¯ Morgan won a prize for her HIV/AIDS
¯. poem,, and the poster design used on tiffs
¯ year s t-shirts was createdby amember of
¯
Red Rock Mental Health Group’s Gay
¯ youth support group. Chairpersons were
¯ ~Vlichael Bmmgardt of Youth Services
~ andTerry Russell of Planned Parenthood
". of America, NE OK/NW AR. Business
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Announcingfencing lessons for the nonathlethic
members of the family! Like the
wise creatures you are, you heeded your
DIYD’s sage advice in the last column
and selected the picket type and size that
suits your needs and
budget, made your measurements,
purchased
your posts and stringers
and are ready to get
nailed. Pardon. To get
nailing. Or, the DIYD’ s
preference for fencing,
to get busy screwing,
because screws are always
the preferred fastener
for fence construction.
They hold
better, won’t pull out,
and make any future
repairs oh so much
eas~er - and we love
easier, don’t we?
The DIYD has certain
other preferences
when it comes to
screws, and the primary
one is for square drives
(as opposed to standard
or - shame-on you for
smirking - Phillip’s
head). -Ihex do not
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means they don’t get
all cheered’up and ratty
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aesthetics does for the DI’YD~ Order the
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heaven; of course, youcan order the square
drives from them as well. The quality is
lfigh, the service good and the delia:err
prompt - mad most of us can’t say that
about our exes. can we?
You will be using a #8 scre~v. 2 1 2"
long, to attach stringers t.o posts. ,and \ou
will need to order the"No-Co-Rode’" ty"pe.
The’* will We you good rust resistance
along with strength. For attaclfing 3our
pickets to the stringers, you wi!l need #8
scre~vs. 1 1 4." long; the wood ’*ouve
chosen for the pickets will deterrrdue the
type of screw. For wKite wood or treated
pickets, use the No-Co-Rode screws, but
for cedar, vou must_use stainless steel
because thd acids and volatile oils in the
cedar will seriously corrode an\ other
fastener you use. Tt~e DIYD realizes that
some of this informaUon is a rehash, but
speaking for herself, the old memory isn’ t
quite what it used to be. Remember also
that you will need4 screw s for each stringer
and 5 screws for each picket.
Now that you’ve assembled all ’,our
raw material s, it is time to gather up ’,’our
tools. The DIYD is delighted to inform
you that this is the perfect project for that
stunning leather tool belt, so if you haven’t
indulged yourself yet, do so now. You’re
paying so much for the fence, at this point
you canjustify the few extra dollars for an
accessory that will give years and years of
good use and satisfaction. In adcfition to
the .tool belt, you will need the following:
a good level (bigger really is better here;
don’t settle for an.vthin~ under 12"); a
drill and drill bits (2 drills are better); a #2
square driver for the screws; a wheelbarrow
or very large tub to mix concrete in
(there is an nnapproved method to cheat
this, which will be passed along forthwith);
a hoe and shovel for mixing and
scooping concrete; and a device for dig-
Trust me darll-nCs, you do
not want to d;~ a post
hole wlth a shovel.
too much work, and
requires more
mater~al to fill it.
Oh., dear, there ~oes the
ex factor a~aln...
The standard method is
to use a post hole di~¢er.
but thls too is much too
painful, and you will use
an entire 80 lb. ba~ of
quiekrete to fill the hole.
It is not laziness that will
drive you at thls point to
the E-Z equipment
rental, but efficiency!
ging the holeS.
Trust me darlings, you do not want to
dig a post hole with a shovel. Ugly, too
much work. and reqmres more material to
fill it. Oh, dear, there goes the ex factor
again.. : The standard method is to use a
post hole digger, but
this too is much too
painful, and yon will
use an entire 80 lb. bag
of quic"krete to fill the
hole. It is not laziness
that will drive you at
this point to the E-Z
Equipment rent,d, but
efficiencv! Go rent an
auger and forget the
Ph.D. altogether. You
have two options: a
hand operated auger,
which is just fine in
soils that arc not rocky,
or a gas powered auger.
Hm Bet we’ve
made a choice already.
Get a bit instruction ~n
how to rev the little
darlin" up and you’ll
be sinking more holcs
that an Oklahoman
wildcatter in July. Besides,
power to~ls arc
fl~n, and you’ll get yonr
job dgne quicldy. And
you "ll use less
Quickrete, too.
In order to buy your materials, you have
already measured your fence li~]e. ()nce
again, you will space 3"our posts 8 feet on
6enter for treated pickets and 10 feet on
center for cedar pickets. You will rarely
come out perfectly, so plan on splitting
the difference ou either end of the fence
unless the distance left over ~s over a few
~’eet. In other words, you may have ten
posts 10" apart and have 3" at the end, so
put nine posts 10" apart, and at the ends
have the posts 61 2’ apart. More than that.
put the short section of fence on the cud
you won’t see as often. If this confuses
you. draw ~t out on paper first. It never
hurts to have a visual.
Drill your holes Zccording to your spacing
plan. Go ahead and give yourself an
inch or so less between the posts for a bit
of a fudge factor (you can cut a board, but
stretching it is ~mpossible). Drill the holes
2".deep. Center 3our posts in the holes,
using the level to get the post as level as
possible in the horizontal as well as the
vertical plane. If you" ve never used a level
before, ask someone who has for a few
pointers. It’s reall,v quite easy. Do not skip
this step or the fence will be a disaster and
you’ve paid too much for that. After centenng
the post in the hole, add your mixed
concrete until the hole is filled level with
the ~ound. Use a stick to work the concrete
mix down and the air bubble out.
Always put the post in the hole and fill
around it. The moisture needs to be able to
drain away from the bottom of the post. If
you drill your holes with an auger, you
shonld only need about 3/4 of an 86 lh
bag of quickrete per hole. Let the concrete
sit for at least 12 hours before proceeding.
Cheater’s method: Pour a bag of quikrete
into the hole, add water to fill. Let sit for
24 hrs. Results not guaranteed.
Once again, your beloved DIYD has
waxed eloquent to the point of being verbose,
so join us next month when we will
finish this project. Promise. Until theu,
enjoy the tool belt.
by Esther Rothblum
I recently met with three members of
the Crones, a group for old Lesbians in
Vermont. "We were at a dance one night,"
said.Alverta, "and I asked the woman l
was with, where are all the Lesbians our
age?" They put an ad in the local Lesbian
newspaper, and had to drop
the minimum age to 40 because
there were so few Lesbians
older than that who
were out in the community
at that time. They started as ~
political group, butit quickly
became a social group because
so many women
wanted just to meet someone
their age.
"’And even now," added
Mary Wallmyn, "here we all
sit together in your living
room and wonder where are
the Lesbians in their 60s and
70s like us.’" The women
agrecd that some of the~e
older Lesbians are extremely
closeted or out to only one
"It’s even hard
for older
Lesbians
to meet someone
to be a friend
or just someoue
to han~
out wlth."
sald Alverta.
’%Vhere do
older Lesbians
disappear to?"
other person. They lived through times
that were very hostile to Lesbians and
aren’t willing io be too out, eve!.13o other
old l~esbians..klan3 don’t even hse the
word "Lesbian"- they refer to themselves
as "that wax" or use other euphemisms.
I asked ~’hat Alverta, Mary, and Joy
thought the major issues were facing Les’-
bians over 60. Getting a job mad facing
ageism, said Alverta. Leaving a husband,
coming out as a Lesbian, andbeing thought
too old for full-time work yet not old
enough for social security, said Mary.
Beiug closeted on the job and needing 1o
move in order to live near a lover, said
Joy. Working for a non-profit organization
that has no retirement benefits. Getung
sick in old age.
In fact, thewomen agreed that discrimination
due to age was more severe than
discmninauon due to being a Lesbian.
And many have found this hideaway in
the Ozarks to be an ideal spot for a holy
union or commitment ceremony.
Early reservations for the weekend are
advised. For more information on the
schedule of activities or Diversity Cooperative
listing, please check out the website
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call the event sponsors,The Emerald Rainbow,
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Schedule of Activities
Friday, November 6, 8:30pm-12:30am
Kick off the weekend with a dance in
the Basin Park Hotel Ballroom to benefit
¯the Metropolitan Comnmnity Church of
the Living Springs & the Eureka Springs
R.A.I.N. Team. Music by Sisters II. $3
single; $5 couple. 12:30-2: 00am, after the
dance, head over to Center Street So. for
more "family’" fun !
Saturday, November 7, 8:00-10:30am
Meet Charlotte for a trout fishing adventure
on die beautiful, crystal clear
White River. Arkansas fishing license is
required. Meet at the Beaver Dam Store
by 7:45am. Fxtuipment rentals & licenses
available: Reservations: 501-253-6154.
1 l:00am-l:00pm, Take a leisurely float
trip down the White River. Enjoy the fall
colors mad peacefulness of the Ozarks.
Mary had noticed that even the personal
¯ ads in thelocal newspapers had "seniors"
¯ under a special section. They mentioned a
; Lesbian friend who had stated her age in
; apersonaladandgotalmostnoresponses.
¯ "’It’ s even hard for older Lesbians to meet
someone to be a friend or just someone to
hang out with,’" said,Mverta:
"Where do older Lesbians
disappear to’?" the women
wondered. Perhaps some
leave to take care of families
of origin, the)’ thought.
The Crones talked about
interacting with younger
Lesbians. When older and
younger Lesbians become
lovers, people may assume
that one is the other:s mother.
It’s hard to go to the health
care center mad have a 20-
year old woman do the in-
. take extort.
Old women are "called
wise, said Alverta. vet they
are ignored iu meetings that
include yOtmger women. Joy
found that the younger women go off to
socialize together mid don’t iuclude old
Lesbians. But the women did feel that
the) have become more outspoken as they
have become older.
The women remiaisced about living
through extremely homophobic times.
They talked about bein_o in the ntilitary
and Working as school teachers. But now.
as older women, they were living in times
that were more affirming of Lesbians, but
hostile to old women. Yet ever.vone agreed
that ageism was worse in the Gay male
mid in the Heterosexual co~mnunitv.
For more information about the C~’ones.
write to 143 RoIlin Irish Road, .\lilton. VT
05468. Esther Rothblum is Professor of
Psychology at the Umversitv of Vermont
affd Editor ofthe Journal ofLesbian Studies.
She can be reached at John Dewey
Hall, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington. VT.
Bringa ~nack or pick up something at the
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Reservations apprecmted
1 l:30am- 1:00pm,Take an historic walking
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town.
2:00-4:00pm, Be a part of nature on this
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Last summer, I visited Carl, an old high
school friend who lives near Princeton,
New Jersey. Carl and I grew up together in
the same small California town but I did
not learn he was Gay until
years after we had both
moved away. The previous
time I ran into Carl, back in
California for the holidays, I
thought he was straight. Eccentric,
but straight. I looked
forward to seeing him again
in this different light, and in
his own place- a condo that
he and his lover had purchased
a few years before
AIDS cuthim down, leaving
Carl single once more.
We sat digesting our dinner
around the kitchen table
joined by Richard, a recent
acquaintance from New
York City. Contemplating
the dr~gs of my wine, I was
startled when Carl and Richard
began comparing the
relative merits of the sadomasochist
clubs inNYC that
tfiey both frequent. Not just
merely Gay, I also hadn’t a
clue that my boyhood buddy was into ¯
whips and chains and fit-clamps. Carl ¯
enthused that his peak sexual experience ."
had come when once he was "sewn up." ¯
Don’t ask - I didn’t. I preferred to let a
heated imagination race through the pos- ¯
sibilities of exactly WH_AT was sewn up .
HOW, and WHERE. (If anyone cares to ¯
enlightenme, my email address is below.) ¯
Richard advised
ttmt the best place
to acquire such
paraphernalia
cheaply is
your local
hardware store.
Waltdn~ those
TrueValue
aisles, the SIM
eye sparhles at
exeltln~ possibilities
brought to
mind by hoohs,
clamps, struts,
braehets, and
power tools.
~ added leather and clamps to his interests
¯ in music and math. A previous artist boy-
" friend had even recruited him to model for
¯¯ a drawing; and Carl stands there in full
leather and chains illustrating the SADOMASOCHISM
sectxon of
Silverstein and Picano’ s New
Joy of Gay Sex -a volume
that Ihad often meticulously
studied without recognizing
my old high school friend!
As an old-fashioned anthropologist,
I’ ve sometimes
made fun of contemporary
identity politics that begets
aperfusionofculture claims.
Nowadays, everyone has to
have his or her own culture:
Gay-culture, Lesbian-culture,
deaf-culture, black-cultin’e,
Polish-American culture,
skater-culture, it goes
on. However, because all of
us continue to speak English
and to eat the same Burger
Kings, the stodgy anthropological
term for these various
yet connected spheres is
"subculture." But whatever
you want to call it, listening
to Carl and Richard chat
merrily together, it was clear to me that S/
Minvolves a closecommunity with shared
understandings of its sexual world.
These shared S/M understandings in-
" clude well-defined statuses (all those vanetaesof
tops and bottoms ),andrule
governed practices for combining sexual
pleasureandpain. Americans like to regularize
and institutionalize the world as
Carl and Richard attend several well- ¯ much as ~auyone, and at s no s~nse tha
~eir doo~ abour9 p.m. ~~oWo ms~a¢ . corona: i~¢opnytCs ~ ~~ ~/~v~-~mthen
wiles away~~ght ho~s by orga- ¯ ~ on ~ Intem¢t, or even by ~ng
m~ng what I t~¢ to be a series of im- ¯ semin~s: P~n 101.
promptu demonstrations and skits. Up on
stage a leather daddy whips his boy. A
rough dyke strings up the bottom she has
just met. Guys dripping hemp rope enthusiastically
demonstrate, likemyBoy Scout
troop master of long ago, a plethora of
complicated knots. Someone whohas visited
the supermarket unpacks boxes of
plastic wrap and wraps his partner in
yards and yards of plastic, poking holes
here and there in the bulging saran cocoon
for purposes of breathing and so forth.
From all corners chains rattle and hand-
"cuffs clank.
Richard advised that the best place to
acquire suchparaphernalia cheaply is your
local hardware store. Walking those
TrueValue aisles, the S/M eye sparkles at
exciting possibilities brought to mind by
hooks, clamps, struts, brackets, andpower
tools.
This all was a revelation to me. My
image of Carl, dating back to high school,
was of a shy, quiet, reservedboy whom, of
all of us, I would have bet on to die a
virgin. He had outstanding talents in both
music and mathematics-that odd, not uncommon
mixture of aptitude that lends
support toAmericanpop theories ofrightbrained
versus left-brainedpeople. Iknew
that Carl was wall into a second decade of
work on a Princeton University PhD thesis
in musicology-one that was tracing, in
tortuous-detail, a chronicle of 17th century
German organ music. Twenty years
academic slavery in the music archives -
this all made sense to me, knowing Carl.
But years of sexual slavery inNew York
S/M clubs-that came as a shock.Carl had
: A message on an Internet list-serve, in
: fact, recentlycomplainedbitterlythatpro-
¯ liferating confusion in the "hanky code"
was undermining S/M cultural unlfor-
: mity. And one can think up amusingly
[ horrible scenarios where someone sport-
. ing a mustard yellow hankie (seeking the
: well-endowed) ends up witha2am"golden
." shower" instead. (editor’s note: or as our
¯ First District US Congressman Steve
". Largent likes to refer to them. "yellow
". showers.")
: Carl talked enthusiastically about his
¯ vocationasagingleather-boy.Itooknotes.
." Gay-culture mightbe rich and elaborated,
: but the number of roles it allows us 40-
." somethings is limited. What comes next
¯ after "sweet young twink"? Bear, queen,
: leather-daddy - there really isn’t much
¯ ~hoice. I’m heading down to my neigh-
"borhood TrueValue soon.
Lamont Lindstrom is a professor of
anthropology at the University of Tulsa.
Contact him at: lamont_.tu@ionet.net
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Wisconsin Lesbian Elected
To United States House
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wisconsin voters elected the
first opeuly Lesbian woman member of Congress on
Tuesday. But an acknowledged Lesbian House challenger
lost in Washington state and another was behind
in California. In Wisconsin’ s open 2nd District, Democratic
state Rep. Tammy Baldwin defeated Republican
Josephine Musser, the former state insurance commissioner,
to replace retiring GOP Rep. Scott Klug.
Baldwin, 36, made healtheare a cornerstone of her
campaign, saying the United States should adopt a
~national, publicly funded system like that in Canada.
’°Tammy Baldwin is a solid representative who happens
to be a Lesbian," said Elizabeth Birch, executive
director of the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign,
a Gay civil rights group that helped bankroll the
Baldwin campaign. "She has broken down a very large
door," Birch added.
see Baldwin, p. 10
Hawaii.+Alaska Voters
Reject Gay. Marriage
’Th~As;oc;’atedPress ~Stri~ggiingt; satisf~y~l~ot~.~0ei-al
conservatives and the law of the land, Hawaii on Tuesday
took another step toward banning same-gender
marriage, giving its Legislature the go-ahead to write a
new law. Elsewhere, Alaskans voted a Gay-marriage
ban into their constitution, and voters in Fort Collins,
Colo., defeated a measure to protect Gays and Lesbians
from discrimination.
News was more hopeful for Gay civil rights advocates
in Maine, whereindividual communities are fielding
anti-discrimination bills to circumvent this year’s
statewide vote that overturned protections on the basis
of sexual orientation. South Portland approved a Gay
rights initiative; Ogunqult’s vote on a similar proposal
was too close to call early Wednesday.
The Hawaii initiative was lawmakers" latest try to
sidestep the state Supreme Court’s 1993 ruling that the
state had no constitutional right to ban same-gender
marriages because that would deny some citizens the
rights provided to others. Because the U.S. Constitution’ s
Full Faith and Credit .Clause requires states to honor
each other’ s statutes and legal bonds, the 1993 ruling set
off some furious preemptive legislating around the
country. At least 30 states have now banned Gay marnage,
and Congress passtd the Defense of Marriage
Act, which denied federal recognition ofGay marriage
and allowed states to ignore same-sex tmions licensed
elsewhere.
The two sides in Hawaii spent millions of dollars in a
relendess media campaign. "It’s really sending aclear
message, a strong message, that the people of this
community will not allow homosexual marriages;" said
Mike Gabbard, a leader of the Save Traditional Marriage
group, seeVote, p. 10
UJ DIRECTORY/LETTERS P, 2/3
US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 ~ HEALTH NEWS P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 8
~ COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 8
BOOK REVIEW P. I 0
DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 11
DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES P. 12/13
~ CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14
¯
200 Attend Tulsa Vigil
For Hate Crime Victim
Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
Tulsa’s Largest Circulation CommunityPaper Available In More Than 75 City Locations
¯ The Associated Press & TFN- Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old
¯ Gay University of Wyoming freshman, was found severely
¯ beaten Oct. 7. He died Oct. 12 in a Fort Collins, Colo., hospital.
¯
His deathsparkedanintemational
"[your vi$11 represents]
a eommhment to an
end of vlolenee and
[to] appropriate
proteetlon under the
law... Matthew
Shepard’s death was
horrible and senseless;
it would be more so if
it. was in vain."
- Drew Edmondson
OkLaltom Attorney General
. .," outpouring of sympathy for vic-
¯ ¯ tims of hate crimes and calls for
~: a-federal hate crime law from
Clinton.
All across the US, communities
heldvigils andrallies tohonor
and mourn the slain student. In
¯
Tulsa, a group of about 150-200
¯ persons gathered at the Civic
Center Plaza. Anumberofclergy
¯ spoke, including the Rev. Father
: Rick Hollingsworth of the Parish
¯ Church of SaintJerome, the Rev.
¯ Leslie Penrose of Community of
: HopeUnited Methodist, the Rev.
¯ Helen Calloway of the Unity
: Church and the Rev. Russell Bennett of Fellowship Congrega-
¯ tional Church.
: Oklahoma’ s Attorney General, Drew Edmondson, sent a state-
: ment which was read by Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights
vice president, Greg Gatewood: "[your vigil represents] a commitment
to an end of violence and [to] appropriate protection
¯ under the law.. see Hate, p. 11
:
- Fayetteville Civil Rights
¯ Measure Overturned
FAYEFFEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -.Voters here rejected a resolution
: that backers said would have protected Gay people against job
¯ discrimination in city government. Final but unofficial results
¯ from Tuesday’. s .balloting 8howed7~811" v_otes against the measure,
6r58pe~-cent~ whil~ 5,731,or_42 percenL.we~_e cast in favor.
Known as the human-dignity resolution, the measure was passed
¯ by the Fayetteville City Council earlier this year, vetoed by the
¯ mayor, then passed by the council again in overriding the veto.
: It wouldhave required that all applicants for city staffpositions
¯ have equal access to employment, regardless of race, sex, reli-
: gion, color, national origin, age, ancestry, familial statUS, disabil-
¯ ity or sexual orientation, A group opposed to including "sexual
¯ orientation" on the list successfully petitioned to get the resolu-
¯ tion.on the ballot. ¯
Claudette’s Leaving!
Longtime AIDS Activist
Moving to Aggieland
¯
TULSA - For half a decade, anyone seriously involved with
¯ HIV/AIDS, knew Claudette Peterson. For a nu~nber of years, a
¯ Tulsan being tested for HIV anti-bodies likely had their blood
¯ sample taken taken and results given by her when she ran Tulsa
¯ Oklahomans for Human Rights HIV Testing Clinic.
¯ More recently, Persons Living with AIDS (PLWA’s) have
¯ benefited fromher tireless (and initially unpaid) efforts to establish
Food Chain, a food pantry and more. However, since her
¯
spouse, Tim Peterson has recently been taken a teaching job at
¯ TexasA&Mwherehe received his ph.D, Tulsa is losing Peterson
¯ to College Station.
Another prominent figure amongTulsaHIV/AIDS fundraisers
¯ and caregivers, Janice Nicklas, bemoaned Peterson’ s departure.
¯ "It’ s a major loss for our community.., she has tireless energy for
¯ developing resources for HIV prevention and care and we owe ¯
her a lot . . . anyone’s fortunate to have her living in their
community."
¯ Peterson noted that her work has been a labor of love, and is ¯
proud of the fact that she and Foo~t Chain have never had to turn
; away a client and they are now. serving over 100 PLWA’s a
¯ month. She notes that donating food has brought very diverse
: people together- drag queens working right next to conservative
church people. Peterson also recognizbA Audra Sommers for her
¯ very generous support ofFood Chain and other care programs as
¯ wall as support from the National AIDS fund, Tulsa Comm
¯ AIDS Partnership, the Rath Foundation, &Philip Morris Co. Inc.
: Tulsa Library Rever,s,es
Anti-Gay Paper Poltcy
¯ TULSA- Fornearlyfiveyears,Tulsa’sCity/County
¯ Library System (TCCLS) had refused to allow the ¯
distributionofGaynewspapers,TulsaFamilyNews
¯
in particular, in its lobbies. Early in October, TFN
¯ received a letter inviting the newspaper to provide
¯ copies to be distributed at the Central and each of
¯
the four regional libraries. Tulsa Family News is
¯ now found in those locations.
¯ The dispute over distribution privileges began ¯
when TFN publisher, Tom Neal, was representing
_" a now defunct out-of-town Gay paper and re-
" quested equal distribution access as magazines like
¯ TulsaKids, TulsaPeople and Urban Tulsa enjoyed ¯
a number of library lobbies. The response of the
." then TCCLS director, Pat Woodrum and the
¯ library’.s board of trustees was to change the rules
; to ban "out of town" publications.
Shortly after that decision, Neal began Tulsa
¯ Family News and reapplied as a local publication.
¯ Once again, TCCLS changed the rules to continue
to grant access to non-Gay publications and not to
." aGay one. Thesenew rules required that50% ofthe
¯ content of the publication be "local."
¯ TFN challenged TCCLS to clarify how it was ¯
defining and connting local content. Neal notes,
¯
"we had issues where it appeared that we met the
~ 50% standard as we understood it and yet we were
¯ told we didn’ t have enough local content. Further-
." more, we documented multiple violations of that
: rule by other publications but the library administration
refused to respond to our requests to clarify
the policies and to explain their seeming tolerance
¯ for rule-breaking by other publications."
see Library, p. 12
World AIDS ¯ IAM Director Decides to Step Down ¯
TULSA~interfaithAIDS Ministries is sponsoring
¯
its annual World AIDS Day Candlelight March.&
¯ Memorial Service. As is customary, the event is on
¯ December 1 st,Tuesday andwill beginat 6:30 at the
parkinglot of Centenary United Methodist Church
¯
(631 North Denver) just north of downtown. The
¯" march begins to the Parish Church of Saint Jerome
(205 West King) at about 7pro and the memorial
service will start about 7:30. There is a reception
¯
following the service. Marchers are asked to bring
: banners & bells, but candles & matches will be
¯ provided. St. Jerome will be accessible to the
disabled at the east entrance.
¯ Also, this will be the last World AIDS Day for
which ]AM’ s executive director ofmany years will
¯ serve. Diane Zike, who helped found the organiza- ¯
fion when it was part of the Episcopal Diocese of
¯ Oklahoma’s AIDS care, will be stepping down at
¯ the end of the yearforpersonal reasons. Zike stated,
"my work in AIDS ministry has been a very impor-
¯
taut and meaningful part ofmy life fore the past 12
years. I regret the need to step down now from my
role as director but I will continue to be active and
supportive in any way I can."
TFN publisher, Tom Neal, noted, "Diane is one
of the unsungheroes of the TulsaAIDS community
- she has worked long and hard at great personal
cost." Info: 438-2437 or 800-284-2437.
: Blues Concert for AIDS
¯ TULSA-Walkfor Life will presentits 2ndannual
." blues concert later this year (the date will be an-
¯ nounced). Last year’s event was held at at
¯" Streamroller Blues and featured a surprise visit
from Hanson. The tickets to the event will be $5 at
~ the door and will benefit local AIDS care organizations.
For info., call 918-579-9593.
see Editorial, p. 3
Tul;a C~ubs & Restaurants
*Bmnboo Lom~ge, 7204 E. Pine
*Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria
*Full Moon Care, 1525 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
*Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
*TNT’s, 2114S. Memorial
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd
832-1269
592-2143
744-0896
599-9512
583-6666
749-4511
585-3134
599-7777
749-1563
744-4280
745-9998
834-4234
585-3405
660-0856
584-1308
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 747-1508
*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
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S.-Peoria
746-0313
Cherry Sf. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742:9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’ s Gallery, 13 Brady .
587-2611
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S~.’Peoria 744-5556
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337, 712-9379
*Iqoral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq: Med. Ctr. 628-3709
Gloria Jean s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
Learme M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning
459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney.
744-7440
*Sandra J. I-Iill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
341-6866
*International Tours
Jacox ~rtimal Clinic; 2732 E. 15th
712-2750
-~*Jared s Antiquesi i602 El 15th
’ - - ’ 582-3018
David Kanskey, Country Club Barbering
747-0236
~Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. i5
599-8070
Kelly Kirby CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 747-5466
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady
585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd
584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31
663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place
664-2951
Novel Idea Bookstore, 51 st & Harvard
747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633
747-7672
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15
583-1090
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2rid floor
743-4297
Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74t01
747-5932
Richard’ s Carpet Cleaning
834-Q617
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921. 747-4746
Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 582-7748
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square
749-6301
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria
697-0017
*Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria
742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis
481-0558
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling
743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis
592-0767
Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & U niversities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101
579-9593
*All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria
743-2363
Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159
587-7314
Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6
583-7815
*B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence
*Church of the RestorationUU, 1314N.Greenw°°d 587-1314
*Commlmity ofHope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747:6300
*Commumty Unitarian-Universalist Congregation
749-0595
*Council Oak Men’ s Chorale
743-4297
*Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S Delaware
712-1511
*Democratic Headqtmrters, 3930 E. 31
742-2457
Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa - Lesbian & Gay Catholics &
Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475
355-3140
*Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo
622-1441
*Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777
*Free Svirit Women’ s Center, call for l°cati°n &inf°: 587-4669
747-6827
918.583.1248, fax: 583.46 15, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159
e-mai!: TNsaNews@earthlinl~net
website: http:Husers.aol.com/TulsaNewst
Publisher + Editor:
Tom Neal
Writers + contributors:
James Chfistjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud
Balry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom
Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Adam West
Member of The Associated Press
Issued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this
oublication are protected by US copyright 1998 byT~ J::.~. ¢L~
~and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without
written permission from the publisher. Publication of a r~ame or
photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence
is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,_oaust
be signed & becomes the sole prope,rty of, T,~.~. /:.~Lg,’...ff.*~.*"
Each reader is entitled to 4 copies o~ each eoition at msmouuon
points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248.
Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0438
*HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 583-6611
*HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral
834-4194
*Holland Hall SchOol, 5666 E. 81st 481-1111
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
834-8378
HIV Testing, Mon/Thurs. 7-9pm, daytime by appt. only
*House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood
Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
*MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood
838-1715
NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral Pi. 748-3111
NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 365-5658
OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157 .
*Our House, 1114 S. Quaker
584-7960 ¯
PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152
749-4901 .
*Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria
587-7674
*The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105.
743-4297 "
prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 .
*R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 74%4195
Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159
665-5174 ¯
*Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8
584-2325
O’RYAN, support group.for 18-24 LGBT young adults
O’RYAN Jr suppOrt group for .14-17 LGBT youth
St Aidan’s ~ i~co ~1 ChurCh "4045NCineinnat4
p P , ¯ 425~7882
*SL Dunstan’ s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71St"
492-7140
*St. Jerome’s Parish Church; 205 W. King
582-3088
*Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S Boulder
583-7171
TNAAPP (Native American men) Indian Health Care
582-7225
¯ Tulsa Cbunty Health Department, 46 16 E. 15 595-4105
Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only
Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222
*Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule
*Tulsa Community College Campuses
*Rogers University (formerly UCT)
BARTLESVILLE
*Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Jolmstbne - 918-33%5353
OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN
*Borders Books &Music, 3209NWExpressway 405-848-2667
*Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907
TAHLEQUAH
* Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900
*Talilequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 918-4.56-7900
*Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-453-9360
NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand
HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30. call for dates
EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
*Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 501-253-7734
*Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main
501-253-7457
DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St.
501-253-6807
*Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445
MCC of the Living Spring
501-253-9337
¯ Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429
501-253-2776
¯ Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery
501-253-5332
Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646
¯
Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East
501-253-6001
¯ *V~qfite Light, 1 Center St.
501-253-4074
¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5
~ *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave.
501-442-2845
¯ JOPLIN, MISSOURI
: *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696
* is where you can findTFN¯ NotallareGaY"ownedbutallareGay"friendly"
Coors Donation Condemned
Imagine a Lesbian or Gay activist who
left the country a few years ago and just
recently returned back to our community.
Talk about culture shock! She or he would
witness a brave new’queer world, one in
which GLAAD has accepted $110,000
from Coors, theHumanRights Campaign
(a Lesbian and Gay PAC) has endorsed
D’Amato for Senator in New York, and a
young Gay man was tortured and murdered
in Wyoming. Importantly for us,
these three things are not unrdated -
appeasement comes at a price - and that
price is not acceptable to us.
Weare writing (respectively) as aformer
taffer and former board member of
GLAAD/SFBA. Therefore we will focus
rathe GLAAD-Coors connection.
GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation) has accepted
$110,000 from the Coors Brewing company
to support its new "sexual orientation
in the workplace" training effort.
GLAAD was founded by activists such as
Vito Russo (author of The Celluloid
Closet) with a single, very spedfic rmssion:
to watchdog and critique the media’ s
coverage of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgendered issues.
It has strayed from that mission often to
deal with the substance of issues rather
than how they are covered. We believe
that conducting sexual orientation in the
workplace trainings is outside GLAAD’ s
niche.
No other organization in our community
focuses on anti-defamation. There is
plenty of defamation (some have lately
taken to calling it hate speech) runmng
around loose these days. GLAAD has
plenty enoughmediaanalysis andresponse
to do and litde enough money to do th.at
vital work, without implementing a new
: project with dirty money.
Much has already been said about the
politics of Coors and the politics of accepting
money from Coors. We would
like to emphasize our dismay thatGLAAD
would accept money from such a source.
When we were with GLAAD, RJR
Reynolds (Big Tobacco, a key backer of
powerful, homophobic North Carolina
Senator Jesse Helms) was also offering
the community money and some were
considering taking it!
So, we in GLAAD/SFBA back then
"did the math" and realized that taking
money from people trying to kill youjust
doesn’t add up to anything that makes
sense. Same for Coors once removed -
that is the Coors Foundations.
- Tom di Maria, Exec. Director, 1993-95
- Jessea Greenman, Co-Chair, 1990-94
GLAAD/San Francisco Bay Area
[Editor’s note: the Coors family wealth
has been closely associated with a number
of the most ultra rtght wing and anti-
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At the present time. there are only 25 states that have laws against
homoffexuals, most nbted are; Alabama 20 years, Georgia 20 years, l~hode
Is and ant ess than 7 years nor more than 20 years, Oklahoma 10 years. The
homosexuals are working hard to get these laws changed to permit their
perversion ofour country, and it appears they are successfuq at it. "
A great many laws have been changed. Until 1990
our country. In 1986the U.S. SupremeCourtuph,
(in a 5 to 4 vote), noting that "prohibitions again
jurisprudence since the colonization of the countr
the laws of’he original thirteen states when they r~
outlawed sodomy. Noah Carolina’s original sodl
the abonimable and detestable crime against natur
adjudged guilty of a felony and SHALL SOl:
CLERGY".
the U.S. barred admission ofsexual deviants into
d the constitutionality of Georgia’s sodomy law
homosexuality have been a part of Ainerlcan
" Sodomy was a criminal offense forbidden by
fiodtheBillofRights. Until 1961, allb0states
ay statute nut: "Any person who shall commit
not fit tb be named among Christians... Shall be
ER DEATH WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF
Without proper punishment of these, perveRs, u( great comitxy has become like Sodom &
Gomorrah. It’s gotten pretty sad when we allo’~ mmosexuals to teach our children that there is
nothing wrong with being *gay".- ttawthome I ementary public school, Madison, Wisconsin,
where lesbian TummY" Boldwln is Distriet Cotmty ~upcwisor, bes just one ofmany pilot programs
to teach against homophobia, At the direction of~[hoir teachers, Ist and 2nd graders made a book
titled "Everybody is Equal, A Book About Gay &. Lesbian." The book teaches our very young
chiltlrcn respect for homos, a.s well as the Ga~ Pride chant’Hay-Hay-Ho-Ho-Homophobia’s got to
go’and"Wewant rigbl,~tao*: 1ST&2..NDGRADERS!!! OneolderstudenL whenaskedwhatshe
had learned, statedshe’loaksatitlnadifferentlight. Toknowwhatbeinggay isallabout, it’snot
actually diffcrent from anybody else".
Cambridge Mass. schools hold functions like a Gay Family Photo Exhibit on school grounds, and
another celebrates Gay Pride Day as a holiday. Third graders n New York earn tolerance for
borons, tlomosexuals argue that wbat consenting adults do in the privacy oftbeir home is protectod
under lhe tight to privacy. Vsctlmless crimes, sucKas the possession and distribution ofillegal drugs
do not escape the law where they are committed at home; right to privacy in no way allows one to
break the law. Not State law and not God’s !aw...sodomy is a crime and must be prosecuted. By
dolng nothing and allowing sodomites to run amuck, just look around and see where our morals are
today. Prison terms for sodomy are designed to punish persons who undertake by unatural and
indecent methods to gratify a perverted and depraved sexual appetite which is an offence against
public dccancy and morality. To i mprison a conlinnod homosexual is like throwing Brer Rabbit i nto
the briar patch To ~ve our nation we need the DEATII PENALTY to put an end to the sodomites
~erverslon ofour country.
Can honmsexuals repent and be saved I I Corinthians 6:1 I)? A few are, but this still
does not mean society eannol INSTITUTETHE DEATI I PENALTY for this crime, just
as it has for the crime of murder. No one says a murderer cannot repent and come to
Christ, nor does society allow such a conv~’sion to stop the death penalty from being
carried out. Lev. 20:13: "Ira man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman both of
.them have committed an abominatiott. They shall surely be put to death".
Asa did that which was right in the eyes ofthe I.ord, and hc tookaway the sodimites out
of the hind (IKings 15:12). ]-lad Asa execu~.d these sexual deviants, Jehnsaphat
wouldn’t have had to remove the remaining sodomites out ofthe land (I Kings22: 46).
The Death Penalty is our only answer to ensure these pe~’erts are out ofour contr~’ and
stay out for good. ]
But God is love, oh yes, God is love ~nd if you love God, you will keep his
commandment {Matt 22:37 and Jol~ 14:15). So for our people to keep the
commandment of l.ev. 20:13 is tO love Grd. Romans 1:2~-32: :,re have changed.the .
troth ofGod into a lie. worshippingand se~ing the creature more than the Creatbr. God
has given us up to qle afflictions, even our woman go against nature, ~nd likewise also
the men burned in their lust one toward another, They \vhich commit such things arc
worthyofdeath, SodomandGomorrahwcredestro.vedforsuchthings. Ourendcould
be #n uch worse ifwe don’t follow God’s law’.and uphold the Death Panahy forsodom):
Pastor Pete Peters points out in his book,"Death Panalty for Homosexuals" that the top
6 leading scrialki||ers in the U.S- are: Donald | larvt:y - 37 killed. John \Vay’ne Gaq." - 23
killed. Patrick Keamev - 32 killed, Bruce Davis - 28 killed. Core Henley Brooks - 27
killed. Juan Corona -’25 killed, al! of which were homosexuals; add to that Jeffrey
Dahalcr.
In closing. I would like to poinrout that God has the answer to all our problems. God
has Ills law and the law is good tfa man use it lawfully( I Timothy 1 :g-I 0).
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"To save our nation, we need the DEATH PENALTY t~
put an end to the sodomites perversion of our country." No
doubt, your reaction is much like mine was - this is ludicrous,
almostlaughable! Andthatreactionis increasedwhen
we note the source: the extremely disreputable, publicityhungry
ex-Klansman, the "Reverend" Jonny Lee.Cleary.
But just as the extremist rhetoric of anti-abortiomsts has
created a climate in which extremists murder in order to
"save lives," this adds to a climate in which Lesbian and Gay
lives .(and those of our non-Gay friends who shand by us) are
already devalued and at risk.
Though ultra conservative political groups, like the Family
Research Council, Focus on the Family and the Republican
Party now distance themsdves from recent violence
against Lesbians and Gay men, their systematic attacks onus
and their exploitation of anti-Gay fear for political gain also
have helped create a climate ripe for violence.
Murdered University of Wyoming student Matthew
Shepard’ s death was horrible but it was not the only one of
its type, nationally or even locally. According to Kelly
Kirby, 1ongtimeTulsacivilrights activist, therewas one Gay
man murdered each .year from 1991 to 1996. And yet when
Tulsans held a public vigil for Shepard, not one elected
official came or sent a representative. Mayor Savage was out
of town but surely some one member of her staff could have
shown up? What about the district attorney? Only former
DA Bill LaFortune came and that reflects not only on his
decency and compassion see Penalty, p.14
Ray of Light Campaign Invites Gay People To Tellof Experiences With Ex-Gay Ministries
by Wayne Besen . Of course, you would never see a cover story about a
HRC Associate Director of Communications ".
It is morning once again, and as you rub your tired
eyes and peer into the unforgiving bathroom mirror, the "
shiny reflection of your head is a painful reminder that
you look just as much like Kojac as the day before.
Although your friends say you should learn
to accept your baldness, you desperately
want to change and have spent years pursu-
: ing the latest hair growth remedies to no
: avail. But today is your lucky day. While
: sipping the morning coffee, you pick-up a
¯¯ copy of a respected news magazine and a
bold, splashy headline proclaims: BALD
: FOR LIFE? Underneath the headline, two
¯ smiling, bushy haired people, who look en-
~ thralledby their new hair-dos, claim to have
: been "cured" by a miracle hair tome, corn-
: blued with bible study.
Ecstatic, you excitedly turn the pages un-
: til youf’md the story about this new "miracle
." cure." But as you read on, your enthusiasm
¯ quickly begins to diminish. First, you find
that the smiling mop-tops on the cover-page
: are full-time, paid employees for acompany
: marketing this product. Next, even the most
: fervent supporters claim that the success
¯ rate of this so-called panacea is a paltry
:
Currently, ~alse
notions about
Gay Amerleans
are beln~
perpetuated hy a
media whleh
erroneously
believes it is
honorable
journalism to
simply
regurgitate
sound bltes rom
both sides in the
name of bahnee.
30%. What about the other70%? According
to the company, the hair tonic is not working for these
folks because they are "not praying hard enough."
As you skim down the page, you perkup because you
read there is still hope! A competing company claims
that their hair tonic has a miraculous success rate of
71.6%. But when asked by the magazine reporter for
hard data to corroborate the claim, the company spokes-
person gli"bly repli¯es,. "I don’t have time to conduct
follow-up studies." How then, you wonder, does the
¯ company come up with a specific number like 71.6%
without ~’011ow-ti~ studies to document whether or not
: the patients sprouted hair?
~ The article then points out that the two scientists who
¯ founded the hair tonic formula have feverishly traveled
" to science conventions around the world to declare that
~ their invention.does not work as they once said it did.
~ They say that many people would he harmed psycho-
. logically if they pinned all ,of,their ho.p~,s a~,d dream~,on~
what they now Call a"fraud. The article atso states mat
"- all respected medical and mental health organizations
agreed with the inventors that the hair tonic was no more
i likely to help one grow hair than dipping ones head in
~ a vat of Ben and Jerry’ s ice cream.
¯ If that isn’ tbad enough, the companies promoting the
¯ hair tonic have taken out full page ads in major newspa-
: pers which have distorted a baldness study by one of the
¯ premier hair loss specialists in the nation. The ac-
"_ claimed expert retorted acrimoniously to the lies by
¯ saying, "It was a complete misrepresentation of what
~ the research actually said. It was taken completely out
~ of context. I am horrified and angry and they are
¯ spreading an awful and destructive message."
¯ Your dreams of looking like Fabio are dashed for ¯
good when you read that of the people lumped in the
¯ 30% success rate category, the majority believed that if
~ thehairtonicdidnot work, biologicalbaldness couidbe
¯ overcome bywearing atoupee. The article ends with the ¯
testimony of angry ex-ex bald people who claim that
] they were misled and cheated by the hair tonic compa-
¯ rues. One company’s spokesperson dismisses the in-
] convenient complaints of the ex-ex-bald people by
~ saying: "Some p~.ople fall of the wagon."
~ You now sit m your living room, enraged by the
¯ misleading story, wondering how a respected news
~ outlet would g~ve this "snake oil" that has been so
~ thoroughly discredited, the slightest bit of legitimacy,
~ no less a cover story. Shouldn’t the ex-ex-bald people
~ have been on the cover, or at least been the focus of the
¯ story instead because their experiences are a more
~ representative of the vast majority who took the tomc?
~ Dojournalistic ethics and standards exist anymore, you
¯ wonder? Whoops, you almost forgot, it is 1998, ’‘The
: Year of the Journalist."
discredited, unsubstantiated, cure for baldness, or anything
rise for that matter.., except homosexuality.
When it comes to a so-called cure for Gay people, (as if
one were wanted or needed) veracity does not seem to
be of much importance to the media. In the following
passa~, all of the shenanigans attributed to
the ex-bald movement actually occurred in
the so-called ex-Gay ministries, from the
bogus statistics to the distortion of scientific
research, to the founders of the ex-Gay ministries
marrying each other and repudiating
these "cures." Yet, despite these gross irregularities,
the media still unwittingly legitimizes
"ex-Gay" ministries by not holding
them to the same standard of scientific
proof that they would demand from any
other group.
Advocates for Gay equality believe
these ministries should have an opportunity
to voice their opinions. However, the media
has a duty to research the accuracy of statements
made or statistics reported. Currently,
false notions about Gay Americans are being
perpetuated by a media which erroneously
believes it is honorable journalism to
simply regurgitate sound bites from both
sides in the name of balance. While balance
is important, it is not an excuse to eschew
accuracy and tough, fact checking. All statements are
not equally valid and it is the media’ s responsibility, to
distinguish factfrom fiction. Inmost of the news stones
about the "ex-Gay" mimstries or the Right wing ad
campaign in which these mimstries are highlighted,
fiction has been the norm and the truth has been a
For example, ex-Gay leader Anthony Falzarano recently
said dn television that nearly 80% of Gay people
were:molested as children. This is factually incorrec~by
any objective standards, withGaypeoplenomorelikely
to be molested as children than heterosexuals. Unfortunately;
because he is talking about Gay people, the
lethargicmediafelt there was noneed to hold Falzarano
¯ iecountableforhis lie. IfFalzaranowouldhave mad.e .a9
outrageous claim about any other minority group, ~t ~s
guaranteed the media would have followed-up and
excoriated him for his hysterical statement.
At the Human rights Campaign, our biggest challengeis
not countering political religious activist ~oups
whoexistmdeny us equal rights. The toughest battle we
face is getting the media to accurately follow-up on
outrageous statements made by these groups. As it
stands, our opponents can say anything they want about
Gay people, no matter how despicable, and they never
. havemanswer for it~Through lazy reporting, the media
has becomean accomphcemthe Right s discnnnnalao
campaign against Gay Americans by giving bald faced
lies equal stature to documentedfacts. It is our hope that
as the news media begins to evaluate some of their
glaring ethical lapses in 1998, they will consider stopping
the harmful practice of printing false information
about Gay people perpetuated by the Right without first
verifying the outrageous claims.
This perpetuation of myths by the media has forced
the Human Rights Campaign to start the Ray Of Light
(ROL) project. TheROLseeks to shine the spotlight on
these ministries so people can see beyond the rhetoric
andhearfromthe vast majority ofpeoplewhohave been
through these ministries and now call their techniques
psychological terrorism. This project will invite former
¯
ex-Gays from around the nation to share their stories
¯ with the Human Rights Campaign and lift the veil of
¯ secrecy surrounding these mimstries. The Ray of Light
¯ will:
¯ *Seek and chronicle the stories of former ex-Gays;
¯ *Share these smiles with the public and the media; ¯
*Compile information by leading mental health and
¯ medical experts on the most recent studies; and
¯ *Examine the literature of the ex-Gay ministries to
¯ look for flagrant abuses and fraudulent claims.
If you have been through these ministries, please
¯
submit your story so we can share it and help others.
~ Stories can be submitted, to: www.hrc.org/ncop/rol
Churches Create Hate
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Mainstream Christian denominations
are to blame for a climate of hate and
bigotry that fostered the fatal beating of a Gay University
of Wyoming student, a United Methodist
Church pastor says. "It’s not just the fight-wing
conservatives" who are teaching that homosexuality
is a sin and that Christian churches should shun Gays
and Lesbians, the Rev. Jimmy Creech said while in
Minneapolis recently. "I hold the church accountable
for helping to create a culture that allows violence
against Gays and Lesbians," he said. "Churches don’ t
intend for the violence to happen, but they lay the
groundwork for it."
Creech gained national notoriety" for officiating at
a same-sex covenant ceremony in his Omaha, Neb.,
congregation. In August, he was narrowly acquitted
of violating church law. He subsequently resigned
from his Nebraska congregation.
Creech argues that when the church denies clergy
members the right to perform same-sex ceremonies,
it is preventing them from "being a pastor to all
members of the congregation.r’ For him, "’This is the
denial ofmy freedom to be a pastor to everyone, and
that’s very offensive."
Crecch was in Minneapolis to preach at two services
at All God’s Children Metropolitan Church.
Theday before, hemetwith several Minnesota United
Methodistclergy andlaity. Recently,22United Methodist
members from Minnesota joined 344 other
Methodists around the country in asking the national
bishops to address the issues of treatment ofGays and
Lesbians in the church.
Non-Biological L sbian
Mom Shares Custody
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A woman who stayed home
[o raise a 2-year-old boy while her Lesbian partner
earned a living can share custody of the child, even
though she isn’ t the biological mother, a judge has
ruled. The partner, identified only as R.E.M., stayed
home to take care of the boy while herpartngr, S.L..y.,
worked at a hospital. The Lakewood couple decided .
to have the child together, chose a sperm donor to
inseminate S.L.V. and sent out birth announcements "
with both women’ s fingerprints on them.
Experts who follow Lesbian custody battles say the ¯
decision goes further than any other in granting bro,a,d ,"
custodial rights to a woman who is not the child s
birth mother. "-
"The court is satisfied that R.E.M. has been able to ¯
show that she stands in the shoes of a parent to the
child and should be accorded the status of parent in "
parity with S.L.V.,’7 Superior Court Judge Vincent ¯
Grasso wrote inhis decision issued Monday in Ocean
County.
Kate Kendell, who heads the National Center for
Gay and Lesbian Rights in San Francisco, called the
decision "an enormous victory ." "Our children have
as much right to a continuing relationship with both
parents as any other child of two parents," she said
Tuesday,
Thejudge’ s declsxon, however, lsn t binding stat -
wide and is inconsistent with an opinion issued in
Essex County in September. Two other similar cases
have yet to be decided in Mercer and Union counties.
"Right now, you have a situation that really cries out
for an appeal," said Paul Urbania, S:L.V:’s attorney.
’q’he law in New Jersey shouldn’t depend on where
geographically you’ re located."
One woman in Essex County, who said she helped
raise 4-year-old twins with her ex-partner, lost custody
of the children and vowed to appeal. Attorney
Robin Wernik said the woman will use the Ocean
County opinion to bolster her case.
Lawyers are stillformalizing thedetails, butR.E.M.
will likely be able to care for the boy for three or four
12-hour days each week while S.L.V. isat work, as
well as on alternate weekends, said her attorney,
Bettina Munson. R.E.M., a former bartender, does
notworkbecause ofapermanentdisability toher arm.
Both women must share the cost of supporting the
boy, identified only as A.J.M.V., thejudge said. The
boy, who was born on March 2, 1996, goes by the
surname of both women.
The couple, who met in 1989 and moved in to-
¯
gether in 1991, chose a sperm donor together with a
¯ geneticprofilethatwas compatible to theirs once they
decided to have a child. S.L.V. was inseminated
¯
because R.E.M. had had a hysterectomy, the opinion
¯ satd. The women went by mommy and mamere,
¯¯ and drew up respective, detailed family trees for the
baby. The relationship ended in November 1996,
¯
although S.LV. remained in the home until Septem-
¯ ber 1997, the opinion said. R.E.M. sued for castody a
¯ month later.
"BBC Apologizes For
¯ Calling Politician Gay
LONDON (AP)-TheBritish Broadcasting Corp. has
apologized to a Cabinet minister who was described
as Gay during a news program. Aides to Trade Secretary
Peter Mandelson said Monday he had received
~ a letter of apology from BBC chairman Sir Christo-
¯ pher Bland. Mandelson, who prefers not to make an
¯ issue of his sexual orientation, planned no comment
: on the letter, the aides said.
The controversy beganwhen newspaper columnist
Matthew Pards saidonalate-nightBBCprogram that
¯ Mandelson was "certainly, Gay. The remark came ¯
during speculation about the sexuality of another
¯ Cabinetminister, RonDavies, whoresigned as Welsh
¯ Secretary last weekbecause ofwhathe called a"lapse
¯ of judgment" with a stranger who robbed him after
the two met at London’ s Clapham Common, a popu-
: lar Gay hangout, and left together. Davies has given
: no clear explanation of what happened. But he has
¯ denied he was seeking Gay sex or drugs, even after
days of banner headlines and tabloid stories.
: Meanwhile, the BBC added to the controversy by
¯ ordering staffmembers never to repeat the remark by
¯ Parris, who is openly Gay, on any of its programs.
¯
That move provoked charges of clumsy censorship
¯
and of giving special treatment to Mandelson, a close
¯ adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair and among the
¯" country’ s most influential politicians.
¯
Protesters included the opposition Conservative
~arty., severa! 9f whose.politicians were pursu.,e,d.by
the media over extramarital affairs when the party
was ~n power.
Also opposed to the BBCrs move was Northern
Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam, also a leading member
of the Blair Cabinet. Ms. Mowlam said she and
other panelists on a Friday nightBBCradio talk show
were told not to mention Mandelson and the Gay
remark. "I’m not about to be unfair or unjust to
colleagues, but we’ve all state~,,very clearly that to be
given guidelines is insulfing~ she said during the
show.
The BBC altered.anews quiz program last week to
remove a running joke about Mandelson, but the TV
¯ satare program .Ha. e I Got Ne~ws For You.’?" was
¯ allowed to broadcast a Clip of the Parris comment.
i Schools LawSuits Help
"Prevent Gay-Bashings
¯ OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - In the wake of the recent
~ death ofaGay collegestudeut, administrators, teach-
¯ ers and students methere this weekend to diSCUSS Gay
~ bashingin schools. They say lawsuits are a powerful
¯ weapon in the ending name:calling, harassment and
: violence agMnst young Gay people. S.chool districts
¯
that have ignored the problem are being held liable.
¯ No federal anti-discrimination laws cover sexual
: orientation, and Massachusetts is the only state to
¯ mandate such protection. But officials-fro_re, the U~S.
¯ Department of Education saidthat under T~tle IX of
theCivil RightsAct,new legal groundis being carved
; out to help Gay youth.
¯" For instance, a boy who is harassed by other boys
¯ because he is.effeminate may have a valid claim that
¯ he’ s being discriminated against because of his gen- ¯
der. Agency officials said they werelooking into such
¯
a case at a private school in the San Francisco Bay
; area. ’Tm n0t saying we came to tell you we’ve got
¯ all the magic bullets and fight answers," said Art
i¯ CCiovlielmRanighotfs.,,D’F~rpa~narktmlye,ntwoef.aErdeusctarutigognl’isngOfwfiicthe aosf
; many questions as you have."
¯ The issue has taken on new urgency since the Oct.
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fence to die, officials said. "When you don’t deal with ¯
sexual harassment, it leads to society accepting it, and
that leads to tragedies like that," said Gloria Estolano, "
who works in the agency’s San Francisco office.
Those attending the second annual conference hosted
by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network "
said lawsuits should be a last resort. "The last time "
students needed lawyers ,to g~t them through high
school was in the ’50s and 60s’ during the civil rights
movement, said Kate Frankfurt, an organizer of the ¯
gathering. What’s needed instead, she said, is organiza- ¯
tions that can stimulate dialogue on the issue.
Learning how to better run her own such group ¯
brought Veronica Lopez, 22, from Stockton to the ¯
conference. Lopez, a college student who works full
time in a day care center, said homophobia starts early.
She said a 4-year-old boy recently came to her in tears .
because a 5-year-old had just called him an anti-Gay "
epithet. "It shows the parents are talking about it, ."
because kids don’t even know what (Gay) is," Lopez ¯
said. "I thinkit’ s important that people realize we’re not "
sick people... I consider myself pretty normal."
Gay Man in NY SenateI
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Thomas Duane, openly Gay ¯
and HIV-positive, describes himself as "distinctly "
progressive." TheDemocraticNew YorkCity Council- "
man is running for a seat m the state Senate that has ¯
rarely, if ever, been described in those terms. If Duane ¯
is elected - and the heavy Democratic makeup of his "
Manhattan district makes that very likely - he will ¯
become the state Senate’s first openly Gay member and
only the second openly Gay member of the state Legis- ¯
lature.-"I’m hoping to add something that has been "
missing from the debate in Albany," Duane said.
He runs as the recent beating death of Gay University ¯
of Wyoming student Matthew Shepherd focuses national
attentiononhatecrimes legislation, one of Duane’ s "
key issugs. Known for his outspoken support of issues ¯
relating to Gays, women and the disabled in.the rough ¯
and tumble city council, Duanehas said that the absence ¯
of hate crime statutes permits and, ina sense, encour- "
ages violence against homosexuals. This-year, he called
for can-cellation-of the annual GreenwiEii Village Halloween
Parade, clting rising anti-Gay violence in the "
traditionally tolerant New York City enclave. "
Such abate crimes law has been blockedinNew York ¯
by the very Republican-controlled state Senate Duane ¯
hopes to take a seat in. Senate Majority Leader Joseph ¯
Bruno opposes the law, saying it creates a special class "
of victim. "
’‘The state Senate has been absolutely backward,"
Matt Foreman, executive director ofEmpire State Pride ¯
Agenda, New York’s largest Gay advocacy group. ¯
"Someone like Tom is desperately needed there."
It is highly unlikely that Duane he will have any luck "
pushing legislation through the highly-regimented Senate
from the Democratic side of the aisle. Still, support- ¯
ers say his status is likely to hold sway in debates. "To ¯
have someone who lives with HIV talking about HIV- :
related bills will be quite powerful and I think his "
opinion willcarry real weight," said state Sen. Catherine ¯
Abate.
Duane is running for Abate’ s seat after she vacated it "
to nm unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination ¯
for state attorney general. The district winds from the ¯
Upper West Side through Times Square downtown to
Greenwich Village and the Financial District. Voter
registration is 67 percent Democrat and only about 11 "
percent GOP. His opponent, Republican Karol Murov, ¯
has failed to mount mu’ch of a challenge, observers said.
Bruno spokesman John McArdle refused to discuss
Duane’ s candidacy. But in response.to criticisms about "
the chamber’s attention to Gay issues he said "the ..
Senate has responded to concerns of New Yorkers as a
whole." ."
Duane’s election would bring New York even with ¯
Arizona and California, which both have two Gay ¯
members in their state Legislature. Only Oregon and "
Maine have more. ."
AssemblywomanDe_borah Glick, the-New York’s
first openly Gay legislator, points to legislation r~quiring
AIDs testing for newborns and this year’ s mandate :
that people who test positive for HIV notify their "
: partners as si.gns that New York’ s Legislature is ill-
" informed on issues important to Gay groups. Yet
she sounds a cautionary note for Duane, saying to
expect at least some hostility. "I’m sure he will
encounter homophobia. I did and still do," Glick
said.
Gay MayorforWinnipeg
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - A city councilman
once featured in a documentary about Gay foster
fathers has won the mayoral race in Winnipeg,
becoming the first openly Gay mayor of a major
Canadian city. "It was a history-making night,"
said Glen Murray after returns showed him winning
easily over six other candidates. Winnipeg is
Manitoba’s capital and, with 667,000 residents, is
the largest Canadian city between Toronto and
Calgary, Alberta.
Murray, 41, became one of Canada’s betterknown
Gay politicians six years ago when, with his
troubled foster son Michael Curtis, he was featured
in a film documentary called "A Kind of Family."
Murray did not make his sexual orientation a focus
of the campaign, concentrating instead on economic
issues and moderating some of the left-ofcenter
positions he espoused during three terms on
the city council.
His main opponent, grocery-store executive
Philip Kaufman, did not raise the homosexuality
issue explicidy, thoughhe made references early in
the campaign to family values. Late in the campaign,
a local minister organized a prayer vigil and
urged voters to oppose Murray. "This is not a
matter ofhating anyone," said Bruce Martin, pastor
of Calvary Temple Pentecostal Church. "It’s a
matter of biblical interpretation."
Murray’s victory was celebrated by Gays in
Winnipeg. "It’ s apotent symbol that an openly Gay
person should be elected to a high post like this,"
said Chris Vogel, a Gay rights activist. "It contributes
to the growing sense that there’s nothing
wrong with being homosexual."
Murray, seeking to portray himself as mainstream,
said he would follow the practice of previous
Winnipeg mayors and refuse .to officially proclaim
a Gay Pride week in the city. In fact, he said
he _will try to avoid issuing such proclamations on
behalf of any group or cause. "We’re a city of such
diversity, of so many cultures," he said. "We’re a
city of great tolerance, ofhope and Ijust think all of
those values were reaffirmed tonight." There are
only a couple of dozen openly Gay politicians in
Canada, including two members of the federal
Parliament.
Bishop in Bind
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A bishop who performed
two same-sex ceremonies when he was a
Columbus pastor said it was an agonizing decision
for him to file a complaint against a minister for
performing a Gay ceremony. Bishop Joseph
Sprague, head of the Chicago United Methodist
Church, said he performed services for two men
and two women.
Sprague charged Rev. Gregory Dell, pastor of
Broadway United Methodist Church in Chicago,
with "failure to uphold the order and discipline of
the United Methodist Church." Sprague said he
:’ chose to write the complaint to avoid inflammatory
language he expected others might use.
Dell will be tried before a 13-person jury of his
peers. Dell said he didn’ t talk with Sprague before
conducting the recent service, but knew the bishop
would be required to file charges.
Sprague said before he performed the Gay ceremonies
he first discussed it with Bishop Judith
Craig of the West Ohio Conference, which has
jurisdiction over Columbus. "I told him he could
not use the marriage ceremony in that setting... I
toldhim that in terms of any ceremony he designed,
I wouldleave it to his pastoral discretion to do what
was necessary to providepastoral care," Craig said.
Sprague has refused to remove Dell from his
duties pending the trial, and said he isn’ t sure what
he will do if the jury votes to oust Dell.
Jocelyn Elders:
No Regrets
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Jocelyn Elders,
who lost her job as U.S. surgeon
general four years ago, says she does not
regret taking such controversial stands as
advocating se~x education for kindergartners
and conitoms in teen-agers’ pockets.
"You look back on things like that more
than once, and I have tried to think how I
would have said things differently or
should I have said those things, and I have
to say I have no regrets," she said at an
annual state conference on sexually transfnitted
diseases and HIV, the AIDS virus.
Even the invitation for her to speak
stirred controversy. The state Department
of Health and Environmental Control last
month withdrew its sponsorship and
$40,000 in funding, saying Elders’ presence
would distract from the issues. That
left AIDS service organizations as the
primary sponsors, with funding frompharmaceutical
companies.
Eiders, who drew bursts of applause
and cheers from the audience of nearly
650, said she advocates explaining sex to
youngsters so they can protect themselves
from abuse. "We want tO teach our children
early that there are places that people
should not touch," she said in an interview.
What about leaving sex education to
parents? "We don’t let the parents teach
physics," Eiders said. "Your health is far
more important than physics." And if site
had a teen-age daughter? "I would never
want my teen-ager to go out on a date
without a condom in her purse," Elders
said, saying vows ofabstinence"are easier
to break than a latex condom.’"
Elders, the first black woman to be
surgeon general, held the job 15 months
until she was forced to resign in December
;t-994: ~Her downfall came. when she
said Gays and Lesbians must help save
children from the un-Christian religious
right.
Needle Exchange
Program Prevails
WASHINGTON (AP) -Even before a
congressonal bahon funds for needleexchange
programs became law, anAIDS
clinic in the nation’ s capital had set up a
private group to supply drug addicts with
clean needles. "This law is intrusive,"
said Jim Graham, executive director of
the Whitman-Walker Clinic. "It not only
tells D.C. how we can spend ourownlocal
tax dollars, but it tells charities like
Whitman-Walker how we can spend pri:
rate funds."
Congress, as part of the $520 billion
spendingpackage signedintolaw Wednesday,
banned use of local and federal funding
for any needle-exchange program in
the District of Columbia. That was on top
of a permanent ban on federal funding of
needle exchanges anywhere in the country.
The Whitman-Walker Clinic, one of
the nation’ s largest, has created a private,
nonprofit group to run theprogram, transferring
equipment, supplies and $50,000
in private funds to the new operation. The
Washington-based Drug Policy Fotmdation
gave the new group, Prevention
Works, an additional $25,000. "Sounds
like they’ ve. got some pretty sharp lawyers,"
said Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan.,
who sponsored the ban.
The clinic gets $7 million a year in
federal and local government dollars and
has operated a clean-needle exchange for
three years. It got $210,000 from the dis- -
trict last year for the effort and raised
$50,000 from private donors. Last month,
its van disU-ibuted 17,000 needles. Prevention
Works should have. enough resources
to keep the needle-exchange van
rnnning for four or fivemoremonths, said
Graham, who is running for City Council.
Needle exchanges are operatingin about
100 U.S. cities. Supporters say such programs
help prevent the spread ofAIDS by
allowing addicts to exchange contamimated
needles for dean ones. Opponents
contend the programs encourage drug
abuse.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, the distriCt’ s
delegate to Congress, called the provision
"callous... (and) ignorant, because the
entire scientific establishmenthas reached
the same conclusion: Needle exchange
markedly reduces AIDS infection and
deaths without spreading drug abuse." Its
racial implications are inescapable, she
said, because AIDS is hitting black and
Hispanic populations the hardest. Last
year, she said, the District’s AIDS rate
was nine times the national average.
Tiahrt and Sen. Jolm Ashcroft, R-Mo.,
the Senate sponsor of the ban, cite Canadian
studies they say demonstrate that
. clean needle programs have failed to reduce
the spread of HIV. "’Wherever the
needle exchange programs took place,
theybecame hubs for drug activity," Tiahrt
said. Addicts~ need "help ~o get off drugs,
not help to get new needles." A possible
White House contender, Ashcrofl likens
needle exchange programs to the idea
"that providing bulletproof vests to bark
robbers would make it safer for them to
rob banks."
The authors of the Canadian studies
have said congressional leaders misinterpreted
their report. Because the programs
served inner-tory neighborhoods, they
served users.already at the.greatest risk of
infection, they said, and the programs did
not provide enough syringes to be effecfive.
Investors Suing
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: wEsT PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A
¯ group of mvestors has sued two compa-
¯¯ nies that buy and sell life insurance policies
ofterminallyill patients, saying medi-
¯ cal advances are keeping AIDS patients
¯ alive longer. ¯
¯ The two companies targeted in the lawsuits
broker what arb known as viatical
¯ settlements. A terminally ill person, usu-
¯ ally an AIDS patient, sells his life insur-
¯ ance policy for less than the death benefit
to get the cash. The person who buys the
¯ policy becomes the policy’s owner and
¯ beneficiary and collects the full benefit ¯
when the patient dies.
¯ The deals were invented in the 1980s as
¯ thenumberofAIDS cases exploded. They
¯ have been controversial since their incep- ¯
lion because, in .crass terms, they are an
: investment in someone else’ s death. But
: the deals are touted as making the best of
¯ a bad situation. They often help AIDS ¯
patients pay for treatment and live out
¯ their final days in relative comfort.
¯ However, the lawsuits filed recently in ¯
Palm Beach County Circuit Court con-
" tends the system is falling apart. Medical
¯ progress means AIDS patients whomight
_- have expected to live only for another
¯ year are living for three, four or five years.
¯ Thelonger a patient lives, the lower the
¯ return. If an investor buys a $110,.000
: policy for $100,000, and the patient dies
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in a year, that’ s a $10,000 or 10% return.
If the patient lives two years, the annual
return falls to 5%, in uncompounded interest.
At three years, it’ s 3.3%.
So for the investor, the deals are no
longer viable, said Mitchell L. Perlstein, a
Boca Raton attorney who is representing
the investors. The deals now amount to
deception on the ,part of the two companies
in the lawsuits, he said P6rlstein said
there’ s no longer areasonable certainty as
to the projeqti~n Of life expectancy. The
lawsuits seek a~jury trial and unspecified
damages. A Judge must certify them if
they are to become class actaon.
Officials at Accelerated Benefits in
Orlando and Dedicated Resources Inc. of
Delray Beach said they had not seen the
lawsuits and could not comment on the
Specific charges. "It’ll be interesting to
see what they have to say," said Michael
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HIV & Elder, Sex
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Sue Saunders is 65
and has AIDS. As far as she’ s concerned,
the more people who know it the better.
Saunders pioneered aproject in herhometown
of Fort Lauderdale to educate Flori~
ans over age 50 about therisk ofde¯eloplng
acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Her first challenge was getting the
attention of an age group largely ignored
when it comes to AIDS education.
"Yes, there is sex after 50. After 60.
After 70. People think after 50 we die
from the neck down," Ms. Saunders said.
"People look at you like you’re crazy.
What?You mean, Grandma and Grandpa
are still having sex?"
Ten% of all AIDS cases in the country
are people over age 50, according to the
Florida Department of Elder Affairs. In
Florida, the figure is higher - ranging
between 12% and 14%. One in eight Floridians
living with AIDS is 50 or older,
state health officials said. Yetwhengroups
are addressed that are considered.at risk of
contracting the virus that causes AIDs,
older Americans are often left out.
Eighteen months ago, Ms. Saunders
began inviting herself to small South
Florida groups to discuss prevention, promote
education and warn seniors to abstain
from sex or use condoms. "You’ re
telling people 50 to 90 years old: ’You are
at risk for a fatal disease. Youjust went to
bed with aguy and y,oudon’ tknow where’ s
he’ s been.’"
Ms. Saunders was healthy and active.
She was divorced, in love and in a longlime
relationship. HerBahamianboyfriend
was the spark of her life. They spent lazy
days on the water, fishing. Life was good.
That was in 1990: Suddenly, her boyfriend
was diagnosed HIV positive. Nine
months later, he was dead. She feared the
same thing would happen to her and began
saying goodbye to her four grown
children.
A son took herto an HIV-infected doctor
in Laguna Beach, Calif. That visit
helped change her life. She dropped the
self-pity and went to the Broward County
Health Department but found little informarion.
After six months doing research,
she went to Bentley Lipscomb, elder affairs
secretary, who found $170,000 to
fund SHIP, the Senior. HIV Intervention
Project.
Ms. Saunders worked long and hard
getting into the crowded retirement condominiums
along Florida’ s Gold Coast to
give her message. In these building complexes,
women outnumber men seven-toone,
she said. "The women are starved for
affection. The men are having a ball. They"
can have all the women they want. "Ev~
erybody says ’it can’t happen to me. I’m
uot aprostitute. I don’ t fool around,’" she
said. "You’ie never too old. And all it
takes xs one partner - if he or she is
infected.’"
Older people are rarely targeted for
prevention. The health care system, including
doctors, often is reluctant or uneasy
about discussing AIDS and sex with
them, said Dave Bruns, elder affairs
spokesman. "Not only is it an insult, it’ s
rampant ageism," Bruns said. "Just who
do they think is buying all this Viagra?"
There are 67,282 cases of AIDS cases
statewide and 8,400 of those infected are
age 50 or older, according to the Florida
Department of Health.
When Ms. Saunders left the SHIP program
recently, the demand for lectures
was enormous. "Everybody wanted us to
come talk to them," she said. They were
scheduling 20to30 presentations amonth.
The project was so successful, a second
program was launched in the Tampa Bay
area under Edith Ellerson in June. She
encountered similar apprehension as she
started talking at senior centers, assistedliving
residences, senior nutritional programs.
Gradually, the audiences became more
receptive and willing to listen. She brings
condoms, urges listeners to be tested and
find out firstabout themselves, then question
their partners. "You’ re not only sleeping
with your partner, but with whomever
your partner slept with for the past five
years, and whoever they slept with - like
a pyramid or domino effect," she said.
Hemophiliacs to
Get Compensation
WASHINGTON (AP) - Last-minute lobbying
led to deceptively easy approval of
a plan to allow the government to compensate
hemophiliacs infected with HIV
during the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
The bill, passed by the Senate on a
voice vote, authorizes payments of
$100,000 apiece to compensate hemophiliacs
or their survivors for the
government’s failure to aggressively
screen tainted blood products.
The measure, which President Clinton
is expected to sign, does not put the checks
in the mail, though, because it does not
allocate any money. However, with the
authorization in hand, the bill’s backers
can lobby Congress to appropriate the
estimated $750 million it would cost.
The bill, named after Ricky Ray, a 15-
year-old hemophiliac from Florida who
died from AIDS in 1992, became controversial
late in the legislativeprocess, when
others who contracted the .disease from
tainted bloodtransfusions argued thatthey
deserved to be included.
Sen. James Jeffords, R-Vt., took up the
cause of the transfusion victims, and at
one point blocked consideration of the
Ricky Ray bill in an effort to force action
on a more encompassing authorization.
Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, said he
spent the weekend on the phone pressing
Senate leaders to move the bill to the floor
and dealing with the last-minute objections
of other senators.
Jeffords’ spokesmanJoe Karpinski said
he never planned to hold up the legislation
altogether, and dropped his objections to
the House bill after it became clear thathe
could not develop consensus to include
the.transfusion victims, potentially dou-
\
¯
b.ling the cost. Hemophiliac,~ m~d tra:>/;usxon
recipients were infected wifl~.~~,--,.,.,~.,..~.
¯
donated by people who carried th6 AIDS
¯ virus.
The Institute of Medicine, a scientific
¯ organizationthatadvises the government,
¯
later concluded that government caution.
¯ fear of criticism and inadequate leadership
delayed effective screening of donors
and proper blood testing.
¯
Hemophiliacs already have won
: $100,000 each from the blood industry
¯ through the settlement of a class action
lawsuit. Transfusion court victories have
¯
been more sporadic.
¯ Karpinski said Jeffords will try again
¯ next year toinclude transfusion victims, a ¯
move DeWine backs. "We should work to
¯ see that justice is done for this group of
¯ victims as well," said DeWine. "Wemade
¯ the decision that it was better to deal with
part of the problem than none of the prob-
" lem." "I think the precedent of this bill
¯ willmakeit easier to address the concerns ¯
ofthosewhohaveAIDS because oftrans-
¯ fusions."
School NamedAfter
Boy with AIDS
WESTMINSTER,Colo. (AP)-Ten years
¯¯ ago, a little boy from Broomfield began
first grade while 30 children stayed home
¯
in protest. Threatening statements and
¯ letters from parents demanded a separate
: bathroom and eating area for Ryan
¯ Sheridan, who was infected with HIV. He
¯ died ofcomplications fromAIDS in 1993.
Public perception of the disease has
¯ changed since 1988, but misunderstand-
, ings still exist. Reminding students, teach-
¯ - ers and admimstrators ol~the hard lessons
¯ learned about Ryan is a school named
¯ after him: Ryan Elementary School in
¯
Westminster. His picture, a plaque and a
¯ red ribbon hangin thelobby of the school.
"It’s tough to remember. People were
¯ backed in a corner and forced to deal with
¯
something they didn’ t want to deal with,"
¯ said Tim Sheridan, recalling the events
¯ leading up to his son’s first day in first ¯
grade. When the Shefidans, now divorced
¯
and bothlivingin ~Ihornton, told adminis-
: trators Ryan was infected, the Jefferson
¯ County school boarddecided to inform all
parents by letter that a student with HIV
¯
would attendJuchem Elementary School.
¯. Juchem closed in 1994 after being replaced
by a new school named Ryan Elementary.
¯ The letter caused a firestorm of controversy
that forced the school board to have
¯ a number of secret meetings with Ryan’ s
¯
teacher and publicmeetings to discuss the
¯
issue. Throughout, Ryanremained anony-
¯ mous to everyone but his teacher, the
principal and the school board.
¯
Ryan contracted HIV when he was 2
¯ years old from a blood transfusion during
¯ 9Pen-heart surgery. Teachers and admin-
¯ lstrators say Ryan taught everyone at the
¯
school difficult lessons about tolerance
; and courage, but AIDS educators say the
public still has a long way to go in understanding
the disease. "in my opinion, we
¯ haven’t gone all that far in 10 years. Our
¯ homophobia is what gets in the way of
¯ hearing about HIV," said Katy Fleming,
education director at the Boulder County
; AIDS Project. "Studies have shown that
¯ manytimes peoples’ attitudes towardchildren
(with AIDS) have been negative
¯
because of issues of sexual orientation "
¯ Although HIV and AIDS education is
¯ better today, moral issues still need to be
¯ separated from medical issues, Fleming
¯ said.
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ff there is a movie that I would heartily ¯ throughout the film.
recommend to all folks this Halloween,,it ; And speaking of magic, The Divine
is Practical Magic. It has something for ¯ Miss M’ s new release, "Bathhouse Betty"
everyone: laughter, tears, sus- is a must-have for any gifting
pense, horror, magic, and
Stevie Nicks (betcha were
wondering how I’d work her
in, huh?). A comedy about a
family of hereditary witches -
that actually gets the gist of
Wicca correct for a change,
even if adding a few "eyes of
newt and a liberal dose of
frogs" - and romance, the favorite
line will be the one
where one of the townsfolk
says of one of the witches
"Goodnews - she’ s come out!"
And, tomy delight, Stevie~ s
reworked "Crystal" is a major
theme in the film in the score
as well as sung. The advice
given in the film to those considering
or afraid of relationships
is well worth the price of
admission. Stockard Channing
and Diane Weist are absolute magic as the
Annties who pass on the family traditions
with liberal doses of love and laughter.
One of the lovely things about the film
is .that it deals with being perceived as
different, inhuman, "other" in the ’~mainstream"
world, and being a magical film,
how the wOmen of this family transcend
that difficulty. It very much has a Gay
sensibility to it and thus would be enjoyed
by those in our community especially, for
"I’m Beautiful,
Dammlt"
[Bette Midler’s
new recording]
is a standout
track that
should he a hit
in the dance
clubs, being an
anthem to
being-different
and eelebratln~
that dlfferenee
in .spite of the
flak it brin~s.
this season. It is Bette at her
best, full of everything from
tearful ballads ("One True
Friend") to bawdy blues (my
personal favorite, and new
theme song, "One Monkey
Don’t Stop No Show"), to
comedic with a message (another
theme song, a hiphoppin’
’Tm Beautiful,
Dammit!").
It marks a return to the
eclecticism that was one of
Bette’ s most delightful qualities,
whereyoumightdiscover
songs you’ d never find otherwiseifyouhadn’
t been liste~ning
to her albums. ’Tm Beautiful,
Dammit" is a standout
track that shouldbe a hit in the
dance clubs, being an anthem
to being differentand celebrat-
¯ ing that difference in spite of the flak it
¯ brings.
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Gal-A-Vanting, Tulsa’ s new
tivities network specializing
in Ms-adventures for women,
kicked off its program with a
WomenIn the Arts nightat the
Pride Center on October 23.
While attendance was somewhat
thin, with approximately
20 women in the audience,
Gal-A-Vanting founders Joan
and Mary were still quite
happy with the event.
"Wedidn’ t takeinto account
Oktoberfest," Mary explains,
"And we are still developing
our mailing list and contacts.
The artists were really outstanding,
each with a style and
media that was quite unique~
We’re hoping to do a week
long show in the spring so that
the art exhibits can be stationary
and serve as an anchor for
performing arts such as readings,
music and so forth. And
this will give people a better
chance to see the works of
these fine women artists, and
support them by purchasing
their worl~ You don’ t have to
go to Eureka Springs or to Ptown
to find exceptional artwork
for your home."
social ac-
The
long-awalted
dance will be
held at the
Pride Center
on Saturday
November 14
from eight
p.m. tll ??? and
will be D.J.’d
by
Sue Knause,
who promises
to play a wide
array of tunes
for the
danelng
pleasure of
Tulsa’s
" play a wide array of tunes for the dancing
pleasure of Tulsa’s women.
With the smaller lounges in
the Pride center, opportunities
for a quiet conversation are
also available. Light refreshments
will be available and
the entry fee is $3 for singles
and $5 for couples.
"We’ ve had a lot of interest
in this dance, because somany
women like to dance but for
whatever reason don’ t care to
be arbund smoking or drinking.
It will also provide a nice
venue for women to meet new
friends and make new contacts."
says Mary.
The December Gal-AVanting
event will be a movie
night on December 16 at the
Pride Center, beginning at6:30
p.m. A feature film and a
couple of documentaries will
be shown.
We’re getting ready to prepare
our schedule of events
for the first of the year and
we’ d really like some ideas
from the women in the Tulsa
area of what they’d like to
do," explains Mary. "Please
feel free to call me with your
The long-awaited dance will be held at : wish list of activities at 743-6740. And if
the pride center on Saturday November . you’re not on our mailing/call list, please
14 from eight p.m. til ??? and will be : let us know, This information is strictly
D.J.’ d by Sue Knause, who promises to ¯ confidential and will not be shared."
Humperdinck’s
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rete
Parade of Lights.
Come celebrate the spirit of the holiday season
at the PSO Christmas Parade of Lights.
Saturday, December 12. Downtown Tulsa at 6 p.m.
View parade floats up close, Friday, December 11,
at the HolidayFest.(Brady Arts DistriCt) from 6-9 p.m.
Public Service Company of Oklahoma
A Central and South West Company
World AIDS Day 1998
Candlelight March & Memorial Service
sponsored by
Interfaith AIDS Ministries
Tuesday, December 1st
6:30, Gather at
Centenary United Methodist Church Parking Lot
631 North Denver
7:00", March Begins to Saint Jerome
7:30*, Memorial Service at the
Parish Church of Saint Jerome. 205 West King
Reception following seine.ice. *time approximate
Bring banners & bells~ candles & matches provided
st. Jerome will be accessible to the
disabled at the east entrance.
Into: 438-2437 or 800-284-2437
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The big news is Warren Duck Club’s new lunch menu. And the Horseradish Orange
Crusted Halibut with Apricot Basil Sauce is just one of the tastiest stories. From familiar
favorites, to late-breaking dishes hot from Chef Dan Broyles’ creative kitchen,
this is news to truly savor. Call 495-1000 for the whole story and for reservations.
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~ SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - 1 lam, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - 1 lam, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service - 1 lam, Childrens Ministry also, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc.
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa
Service, 10:45am. 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America)
Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088
University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance
6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals at 5pm, Info: 743-4297
~" MONDAYS
nIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard)
HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians.& Gays
2nd Monicach too. 6:30pro, Fellovcship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pro, call Shawn 491-2036.
Women/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551
~ TUESDAYS
AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 11 i 10, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
H!V+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium l:30pm
3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), lnf6: Wanda @ 834-4194
Multicultural AIDS Coalition, 11/3, 12:30pm, Urban League, 240 East Apache
Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 743-4297
PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE)
Tuesdays, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297
!~ WEDNESDAYS
Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
¯House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210e So. Norwood
Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225
TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632.
Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~ THURSDAYS
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support/social group for 18-24’ s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194
I~" FRIDAYS
SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, 1st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th
~" SATURDAYS
Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pro, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2rid ft.
~OTHER GROUPS
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222
Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978
OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157,
Short rides, 6:30pro, Long rides, 7am: Meet at Z~igler Park,.3903 West 4th. Pride
Rides from the Pride Center, 3749 S. Peorial Write for dates.
Ifyour organization is not listed~ please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615.
Barry Hensley
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~lany Gay and Lesbian families have
rallies finding materials for children
h depict their family sire-
... In the past few years,
., has been a slow change
te publishing world and
re beginning to see a few
~ for children, early school
and .under, which depict
and Lesbian families.
ae trailblazer ~as Heather
Two Mommies, by Leslea
man, which stimulated
di "~
8t~’~
the
in
we
tifl
ag~
Ne
dis~ usslons across the country
and ’opened a new line of attad
~.on theGay community by
the Religious Right. A simple,
short book, it depicts a young
girl and her family: two pets
and two mommies. Heather
suddenly realizes that she
doesn’t have a daddy and becomes
upset. She is gently
shown other children who, for
a variety ofreasons, don’thave
fathers. Heather realizes that
there are many different family
situations and that she is
lucky to have two mothers.,
A companion book "i§
Daddy’s Roomate,by Michael
Wi!lhoite, depicting a boy
Willholte has a
third,
hilarious book,
Uncle What-ls-h
Is Comln~
To V;s;t.
It concerns a
youn~ brother
and sister who
.have just learned
that their Gay
uncle, whom they
have never met,
is eomln~ to visit.
They ask older
kids what it
means to be
Gay and are
horrified as the
stereotypes of
leather queens
and Carmen
Miranda look~alikes
spew forth.
Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit. It
¯ concerns a young brother and sister who
¯ have just learned that their Gay uncle,
¯ whom they have never met, ts coming to
visit. They ask older kids what
it means to be Gay and are
horrified as the stereotypes of
leather queens and Carmen
Miranda look-a-likes spew
forth. Their fears are shattered
when Uncle Brett shows up
and tunas out to be a normal,
everyday kind of guy.
Other appropriate books for
young children include The
Duke Who Outlawed Jelly
Beans, a satire on today’s polirical
scene. In it, the Duke
issues a proclamation: "I had
exactly one mother and one
father, and I turned out so well,
I thinkall children shouldhave
exactly one mother and one
father. Any that don’t- why,
we’ll throw ’em in the dungeon."
Fortunately, the Duke
learns the error of his ways.
For slightly older children,
ages 6-12, tryHow Would You
Feel If Your Dad Was Gay?
by A~n Heron and Meredith
Maran. Written by two Lesbian
mothers with help from
their sons,it depicts three chilwho’s
divorced father is in a long term,
canng Gaymlationship. AnotherWillhoite
rifle, not owned by the public library, is
Daddy’s Wedding, which continues the
saga of Daddy’s Roomate. Ask your librarian
to interlibrary loan Daddy’s Wedding
for you from another library system.
Willhoite .has a third, hilarious book,
"She has created an arch of hope that
future Gay and Lesbian candidates will be--
able to walk through." Baldwinis also the
firstwomanever elected to Congress from
Wisconsin.
Another openly Lesbian Democrat,
former Army colonel Grethe
Cammeremeyer, was defeated by incumbent
Republican Rep. Jack Metcalf in
Washington state. A third, Democrat
Chrisline Kehoe, was trailing in her bid to
upset California Republican Rep. Brian
Bilbray.
Gay Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe of
Arizona, bidding for an eighth term, held
a solid l(ad with more than three-quarters
of the votes counted in his race against
Democrat Tom Volgy.
In an Oklahoma rematch, Republican
Rep. Frank Lucas easily won. a fourth
term against Democrat Patti Barby, an
openly Gay OklahomaCity businessman.
Another openly Gay member of Congress,
Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of
Massachusetts, was unopposed for a 10th
term. Frank is an outspoken member of
the House Judiciary Committee, which
will consider impeachment charges
against President Bill Clinton.
In most cases, the Gay candidates and
their opponents kept sexual orientation
out of the campaigns. But 6ational Gay
civil rights organizations poured money
into the races, notably $1 million spent t~y
the Human Rights Camp~gn.
: drenwithGayparents.Ithasmulticultural
¯ characters andcompassionately shows the
¯ reality of different types of families.
¯¯ Don’t forget to check your local library
for information regarding Gay and Les-
¯ bianfamilies. Also youmay call the Read-
. ers Services department of the Central
¯ Library at 596-7966.
"People are taking a stand for traditional
mamage." Not surprisingly, Joseph
Mdillo, who with his partner and two
Lesbian couples sued the state when they
were denied marriage licenses in 1990,
felt differently. "It’ s putting into our state
constitutaon a discriminatory clause that
will distinguish us from other people," he
said.
Alaska’s constxtutional amendment
defines marriage as the union of one man
and one woman. The Legislature put the
question on the ballot after a Superior
Courtjudge ruled infavor oftwo Gay men
who challenged the state ban on same-sex
marriage. The judge said choosing a life
partner was a fundamental right and the
state had to prove a compelling reason to
regulate it.
In Fort Collins, a civil rights proposed
had become especially emotional since
the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a
Gay student from the University of Wyoming
who died in a Fort Collins hospital.
Ordinance 22 would have prohibited discrimination
in housing, employment and
public accommodations on the basis of
sexual orientation.
"National Gay civil rights advocacy
groups built this up as an important watershed
and I think it was," said Fort Collins
lawyer Jon-Mark Patterson, an opponent
of the ordinance. "I ~hink tonightitshowed
most people here don’t want the government
to take a side in a controversial
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by Mary Schepers, DIYD
Your.DIYD is fired and cranky, so let’s
snap to xt, get this fence up and get it over
with. After all, you’ve been waiting three
months to finish this project and it is
getting sooo tiresome. You’ve bought all
of your materials, put
up your posts and assembled
all your tools.
Your beverages have
been cooling and
you’ve got a pile of
pickets stacked in the
yard, and the neighbors,
the Nosey Parkers, are
still muchtoo interested
in your private life. So
put on that toolbelt
you’ve been breaking
in, and let’s work it.
The fence stringers
are the backbone of
your fence. If they are
on the inside of the
fence, you’ll want to
channel" your anal retentive
side and take
Your DIYD is
tired and cranky,
so let’s snap to it, get
this fence ~p and get
it over with.
After all, you’ve been
waitin~ three months
to finish this project
and it is getting sooo
tiresome... So put
on that toolbelt
y.ou’ve been breaking
m, and let’s work it!
particular pains to get everything level
and true. If your neighbors are getting that
side of the fence, one can be somewhat
more cavalier, though not messy, about
stringer placement.
For the perfect stringer array, you will
need enough string to stretch from one
end of the fence to the other, a spare body
for help, and a level. A chalk line won’t
hurt, either. There are small levels that
attach to your string and they are not
expensive; but if you’re tired of waiting,
we’ll make do with a regular level. Measurefrom
the groundup abouteightinches
and make a mark on the fence post on
either end. This will be where the bottom
edge of your bottom stringer will go.
Don’t worry, the tops (and the middies)
will get their chance momentarily. You
can no either stretch and attach a string
line from end to end, using a level to
ensure eveness, and mark the other posts,
or you can use a chalk line and snap the
mark across the posts. This saves time, if
you know how to use one. Attach your
bottom stringers withNo-Co-Rode screws.
drilling a pilot hole slightly smaller than
the diameter of the screw.
You will need help with this if you are
going for the perfect look. ff not, then you
can attach a 1x4 so that the top is even with
your bottom line. Do this on both posts
and use them to support your board while
you drive the two screws into each end of
the stringers. You can remove and reuse
the lx4’s as you go down the fence. The
stringers will meet in the middie of each
post, so if you’re over the length a bit,
measure carefully (twice!) and remove
whatever is necessary; if it isn’t long
enough, have you got trouble! The only
solution-is to b.uy a board two feet longer
and saw off the extra, and darling, that is
going to hurt.
Once your swingers are all attached,
you are ready to start putting up your
pickets, ff you are using Cedar pickets, the
wood is soft enough that drilling pilot
holes are not necessary, but they will be
for any other type of wood; otherwise, it
will split your pickets, and the possibility
of screw head cam-out is very much enhanced.
News Flash: your pickets will not
be even, square, or straight. Sorry, but this
would actually be desirablein wood. Keep
that level handy and use it when setting
each picket unless you want your fence to
develop a curious slant in a hurry.
Set up your first picket so that it is about
1/4 to 1/2" off the ground; put the square
in the middie of one side and move it
gently until the bubble is between the two
middie lines. Attach picket with the first
screw, in the middie.
This frees up your
hands,for attaching the
top and bottom screws.
Put two screws into the
picket at the top and
bottom stringer, about
3/4" from each outer
edge. Do the same for
the remaining pickets,
leveling each as best
you can.
As you approach the
end of your fence, you
will, unless most fortunate,
discover that the
last picket will not fit
perfectly, being either
too wide or too narrow.
Start paying attention
to this about a half
dozen pickets from the end. If you will not
be off by much, you can adjust the spacing
between the last few pickets so they come
out fine, otherwise, you’ll have to find a
way to np cnt an end picket, or to get
sneaky. You know what the DIYD prefers:
sneaky ways are deliciously evil and
always appeal, especially if they equate
with less work. On the DIYD’s last fence
project ( which is also the current fence
project...), a lx4" picket was used in the
last space, and the other pickets were
spaced ever so slightly wider apart without
being the least bit obvious. You’ll
have to play around with it, but if vou
haven’ t got access to a table saw to rip’cut
a picket, it is well worth it, and safer as
well. Rip cuts have a nasty reputation.
Now youare asking yourself what there
was about this project that took so long,
and the answer is the same as so many
others - prep work makes the difference
in any home project. It is well worth the
investment of your ume to measure, level
mad true up any part of your fence before
it becomes regrettably permanent. And it
looks so much more beautiful - mad darlings,
you are worth it!
There. Your DIYD is less cranky now
that you’ve built your privacy fence so
well. Rest up. We’ll have more fun next
month when we freShen up those fired old
kitchen cabinets with a bit of sanding,
some paint, and some more stylish pulls.
Matthew Shepard’s death was horrible
and senseless; it would be more so if
it was in vain."
Kelly Kirby, longtime civil rights activist
and Gay community leader spoke of
his family’s direct experiences with hate
crimes, including an assaultonhis spouse,
Ric, which resulted in over 100 stitches
being required. Kirby also claimed that
each year from 1991 to 1996, a Gay man
was murdered in Tulsa.
In New York City, participants of the
recent Fifth Avenue rally to remember
Shepard alleged that police beat them
with batons and ran into them with mopeds
and that police horses kicked them
because they had no permit for the event.
Police were dispatched to themarch when
about 4,000 people flocked to the event.
see Hate, p. 14
by Esther Rothblum
At a time when sexual orientation and
gender are being viewed as more continuous
categories, there is renewed interest
in the fluidity of who is a "woman" and
whois a"Lesbian." InmanyNativeAmerican
cultures, gender and sexuality have
not been as fixed as in western
cultures.
Recently, a number of
books have appeared on
"two-spirit¯ people," a term
coinedby Native Americans
for individuals in their cultttres
who are Gay or Lesbian,
or who are transgendered,
or who have multiple
gender identities. The term
"two-spirit" is an attempt by
Native American commttnities
to re-define their past
from the way in which it has
been depicted by white male
anthropologists,and also to
distinguishNativeAmerican
concepts ofgenderandsexuality
from those of the.western
Gay and Lesbian communities.
I recendy spoke with Sue-
Ellen Jacobs, one of the coeditors
of the book, Two-
SpiritPeople: NativeAmerican
GendertIdentity, Sexuality
and Spirituality. She
-said: ’¢Fhere are a number of instances
where there are Native women, living on
reservations, who don’t stand out, who.
don’t come forward. The Gay white men
who are out there studying Native American
men don’t see the women because
these.researchers don’ t recognize, these
Women as Who they are with~n their cul~
ture. Not many Native women use the
words ’Lesbian’ or ’dyke’ to describe
themselves. The researchers didn’t realize
that there was a movement going on
within the Native American communities,
the two-spirit movement."
Sue-Ellen Jacobs described instances
of"male-bodiedwomen"or "female-bodied
men" who took on the roles and became
known as being of the "other" genderin
NativeAmericancultures. AsJacobs
and the other editors state in the introduction
to their book: "Using the word ’two-
Spirit’ emphasizes the spiritual aspect of
one’ s life and downplays the homosexual
persona."
After experiencing several years of "discriminatory
treatment," and many efforts
to work out the differences with TCCLS,
Neal contacted Tulsa County Commissioner
John Selph to discuss what Neal
called"theseblatant violations ofthe First
Amendment" and his intention to file a
lawsuit to resolve the matter.
While Neal neverreceived any response
fromhis letter to Selph, shordy afterward,
TCCLS banned all free publications from
its lobbies- withthe exceptionofaLatino
publication, Imagen in the 3rd Street Library
which serves an increasingly Spanish-
spealdng neighborhood.
According to Neal; lmagen blatenfly
violated the 50% local content nile but
said he was told that TCCLS director,
Linda Saferite, approved that violation
because having the publication helped to
traditions
acknowledge that
the he-shes
and she-hes
. . . were amon~
the ~reatest
eontrlhutors to the
well-heln, and
advancement of
their eommunltles.
They were
(and we are)
the Sreatest probers
into the ways of the
future, and they
qulekly assimilated
the lessons of
ehan~in~ times
.... and people..."
." In the chapter "I am a Lakota womyn,"
¯ Beverly Little Thunder writes: "Most
¯
tribes that I have had the honor of know-
" ing have specificnames formenwholove
¯ men and women who love women... I
¯" can understand that theremay be a need
¯ by some to findapan-Native term that can
be used as a marker for the
general population of Native
Lesbians and Gays. We
are all so different in somany
ways, however. Culturally
and physically, we are all
different. Each tribe has its
own name, its own structure.
How canwe all even be
called ’Natives’?... The
words I would like to see
written about me and read
fifty years from now should
be words that reflect who I
am as an individual.’"
Came House, of Navajo!
Oneida descent, writes: "Our
oral traditions acknowledge
that the he-shes and she-hes
(those who hold in balance
the male and female, female
and male aspects of themselves
and theuniverse) were
among the greatest contributors
to the well-being and
advancement of their communities.
They were (andwe
are) the greatest probers into
¯ the ways of the future, and they quickly
¯ assimilated the lessons of changing times
and people. Recent studies into the lives
¯ of she-hes and she-hes have recovered
¯ models or near models of this rich, inven-
¯ tive, reverential, and highly productive
¯ approach t.o k.eg,ping balance within a s~-
¯ ciet~ viewed as an extension of nature."
Further reading, see: Sue-Ellen Jacobs,
¯
Wesley Thomas & Sabine l_xtng (’97).
¯ Two-SpiritPeople: NativeAmerican Gen-
: der Identity, Sexuality and Spirituality.
¯ Urbana, IL: Univ. of Blinois Press. Will
: Roscoe (’98). Changing Ones: Third and
¯ FourthGendersinNativeNorthArnerica.
¯- NY: St. Martin’s Press. Lester Brown
" (’98). Two-Spirit People. NY: Haworth
: Press.
: Esther Rothblum teaches Psychology
¯ at the Univ. of Vermont and edits the
: Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be
¯ reached at John Dewey. Hall,Univ. of
: Vermont," Burlington, VT, email:-
¯ esther.rothblum@uvm.edu.
¯" serve a special needs population. Neal
¯ said his arguments about the Lesbian and
: Gay communities’ special needs were ig-
¯ nored.
¯
Neal adds, "I have no illusion that
¯ TCCLS made this change to accomodate
¯ Tulsa Family News. It’ s likely that given"
¯
the’society’ make-upoftheTCCLSboard,
¯ that the rifles were changed to keep Tulsa ¯
People happy rather than to be fair -
¯
however, I’m pleased with the result. I
: guess it means if you wait long enough
¯ andarepersistentenough, youwillacheive ¯
fairness."
¯ PFLAG - Parents, Family &
." Friends of Lesbians & Gays
¯ Tulsa Area Chapter
: POB 52800, Tulsa 74152
¯ 749-4901
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For ir~formation call Tulsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project
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A Lesbian friend recently complained ¯ .ties. Women may not touch men’s bows
about the organizational shortcomings of " or arrows. Few women anywhere in
"Gay boys - They’re hopeless!" she ¯ Vanuatu drive vehicles. The night before
fumed. That same day, an- any important event, such as
other friend griped about A Lesblan a dance performance or socpacks
of Lesbians invading 17rlend recently cergame, menleavewomen
his favorite bar, poisoning
its atmosphere. Pleas for eomplalned about
behind in the village to sleep
by themselves. TheTaunese
Gay/Lesbian unity ("why the orffanlzatlonal practice the samesex taboos
can’t we all just get along")
shorteomln~s ot7
demanded by many Ameriare
perhaps as common as can football coaches: No sex
jokes that poke fun at this "Gay boys - before the big game! Every
continental divide in our They’re
. hopeless!" evening, men also go off by
commumty, themselves to prepare and
Public constemation about she ~ttumed. That drink kava (Piper
relations between women same day, another methysticum) - the traditional
South Pacific drug
differemntaennd -_good,evokedbad,memoi_nO-r t~rlend gaped substance that is becoming
ries ofmy years in Vanuatu. about pael~s o17 increasing popular in the
ThiSlocatedtropictahline archipelagOsouthwespta-iS Lesbians invadln~ U.S. as a natural relaxant.
Men assert that women can
cific-aculturalregioncalled h~.s 17avor~.te bar, strip away the potency of
Mdanesiathat also includes polsonln~ its kavamerely by touching the
the islands of New
atmosphere,
plant before it is prepared;
Caledonia, the Solomons, and drinkers bitterly blame
and New Guinea. RitualiZed hostility be- ¯ women, talking too loud back in the viltween
men and women is a cultural curi- " lage, for spoiling their kava high.
osity of much of Melanesia. Anthropolo- " Women endanger men notjust because
gists who first analyzed the phenomenon ¯ of their polluting vaginal fluids. Men are
labeled it "sexual antagonism," though " also threatened by naturally female crenowadays
we’d more likely call it"cross- " ative powers. Women are mothers. The
gender opposition" or the like. ¯ children they bear sustain the cycle of
Full-fledged sexual antagonism exists " human life and death. Women’s vaginas
notably in the highland valleys of New " are powerfully dangerous openings back
Guinea. My village neighbors on an is- " into the spiritual world inhabited both by
land called Tanna, on the eastern edge of ¯ the ancestors and the unborn. Men per-
~ Mdanesia, practice only an attenuated " haps fear the vagina as muelx for its lifeversionofgenderopposition.
Still,likeall ". giving as for its deadly powers. It’s a
Melanesians, they have’great ~ear and ¯ psychological commonplace that men are
suspicion of the body fluids of the oppo- ¯ jealous of natural female creativity. This
site sex. Men believe that contact with drives us, so the story goes, to various
menstrual blood and other vaginal fluids " sorts of "cultural creativity" - art, literacan
make them seriously ill. An anthro- ¯ ture, politics, business - as a sort of corn-
" pologistlonceknew, who worked among pensation for our inability to bear chil-
- the Enga of Papua New Guinea, attracted dren. .
much attention with his magnificent and ¯ Throughout much of Melanesia, along
luxuriant red beard, much admired by all. ¯ theselines,meniusistthatalthoughwomen
When people asked for hair-growing ad- ¯ give birth, only men can make boys into
vice, he liked to disgust and appall them men. On Tanna, fathers arrange male iniby
claiming that the secret was to rub ° tiation ceremonies for their sons. They
menstrual blood on his face. : circumcise these boys who then spend six
In many Melanesian cultures, women ¯ Weeks in the bush, isolated from all conretii’etomenstrualhutslocatedinthebush
" tactwithwomen.ElsewhereinMelanesia~
(outside the Village) during their periods. ¯ people believe that precious semen itself
One can imagine that many women look ¯ transforms boys into men. Male initiaforward
eagerly to these monthly vaca- ¯ dons include practices of ritual fellatio -
dons from thedailydrudgeryofcooking, ." young .boys masculinize themselves by
childcare, and farming. Nomenstrual huts : consnm|ug the semen of older, already
exist on Tanna, though men and women ¯ initiated youths. (Gil Herdt describes one
here rarely share the same sleeping mat. " such societyin his book The Sambia:
And a menstruating woman stops prepar- ° Ritual and Gender in New Guinea.)
ing her husband’s dinners. Men, particu- : So, next time those Lesbians (or, alterlarlythosewithrockymarriages,
aresome- ¯ natively, those Gay boys) invade your
times suspicious that angry wives may be " favoriteclub, whatis that sudden chill you
poisoning themby dripping bloodinto the ¯ feel -- is this the "death threat of sexual
cooking pots. : pollution," or a contentiousjealousy over
And if vaginal fluids don’t kill you, sex ¯ human creativity?
itselfmay. Melanesians also shareabelief " Lament Lindstrom teaches anthropol-
- one that reaches back into Asia - that ¯ ogy at the University of Tulsa.
men are born with a finite amount of ¯
semen. Worse, the faster one uses up his " NOW NOV, Meeting lifetime supply of semen, the faster he
ages and dies. Have too many girlfdends : at Pride Center
or too .much masturbatory fun, and you
die young! Fathers warn their sons about " The Tulsa Chapter of the National Orthe
deadly dangers of sex. Dry, flaky skin " ganization for Women will feature Lucy
Tamayo of DVIS, Domestic Violence
~s an early sign of semen depletion, and . Intervention Services, speaking about
those teenagers withunforttmate skinprob- ¯ methods of empowering women at its
lems get teased mercilessly for messing ¯ Nov. meeting, 12:30 pm at The Pride
around. ¯ Center, 1307 E. 38th St. 2rid floor. NOW
Men (and women, too) believe that ¯¯ will .also hold elections for its executive .
female substances may pollute, or other- : board at the meeting. Info: 365-5658.
MY KITTY
but also his leadership on Tulsa’ s Say No
to Hate Coalition. Nor have any other
officials ofOklahoma’ s establishment spoken
out. Our governor says our "hate
crimes" law doesn’t need to address violence
agai.’nst Gay people, though note
that he hasn’t suggested removing it for
Oklahoma Jews or Blacks 7,,.or Catholics
like him.
None of our congressional delegation
has exemplified the compassion which if
they were the Christians they claim to be,
they might show. For example, a few
months ago, I askedPam Pryor, JC Watts,
Jr.’ s press secretaryhow many Gaypeople
needed to die before JC would speak out
against, anti-Gay violence? Obviously,
Shepardi~not enough. Maybeifone ofus
were crucified on the South Oval of the
OU campus, Watts (and that other disappointing
Oklahoma politician, David
Boren) might take the issue seriously.
Butat least withWatts, I still believehis
spokesperson’s claims of some decency
in the man to bother to ask. With The Evil
Steve and his good buddy and roommate,
Tom Cobum, there’s no point in wasting
my breath.
However, given the desire of Matthew
Shepard’s family and friends that some
bit of good come out of the horror of his
tormentand death,let us resolveto change
our state to reduce the chance that this will
happen here.
Passing an amendment to our hate
crimes (Oklahoma statutes, 21:850, Malicious
intimidation...) has got to be the top
priority for Lesbian and Gay Oklahoroans,
our families and friends. Find out
who your representatives are and talk to
them now.
Furthermore, we must demand that all
those groups that claim to be working for
justice andfairness, must end their convenient
silences. For example, if the Methodist
Bishop of Oklahoma can work so
hard to ban same-gender marriage ceremonies,
surely he can finally open his
mouth to say something against anti-Gay
violence. But he must be joined by OklahomaPresbyterians,
theOklahomaCouncil
of Churches, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries,
our Catholic bishops and all others
who claim to value human life. Imagine,
maybe even human rights groups like the
National Conference for Community and
Justice, and others, like the Jewish Fed:
eration and African-American organizations
will standup to say that Gay Oklahomans
have a right to live too. Imagine.
8LAH BLAH
: police arrived, organizers said scores of
¯ arrestsbegan.Mostoftheorganizers were
taken away first, leaving the marchers
: adrift, participants said.
¯ And at the University of Wyoming, a
¯¯ visiting professorwhois teaching acourse on hate crime received a first hand view.
¯ "I reacted with shock-and disbelief," said
¯ Graham Baxendale, a Ph.D. student at ¯
England’ s Reading University. "I certMnly
¯ was not prepared for such an event here.
¯ One can read many textbooks and the
: academic literature, but until you are ac-
¯
tually confronted by something like this
¯ within your own community, you recog-
¯ nize that you really don~t understand this
¯
Baxendale said hate Crimes rarely end
Only 500 people were expected. Once
¯ in murder and usuallyinvolve low-level
¯ violence or intimidation. The victims of
¯ such crimes typically are selected at ran-
" dom because they represent a particular
¯ group. "Gay males are one of the largest
¯ victim catego.rie,s. for thrill hate crimes,
but ethnic rmnonty groups such as His-
" panics, Blacks, and Jews also are tar-
" geted," he said. The perpetrators of such
¯ crimes againstGays,Baxendale said, typi- ¯
cally are young male adults or youths who
¯ are experiencing the emotions that come
¯ with emerging sexuality. To demonstrate
: to theirpe~rs that they are wholly hetero-
¯
sexual, these people may express vie-
¯ lance and hatred toward Gays.
.. Hate crime victims,’he said, usually are
¯ chosen because they are available, not
¯ because of any individual characteristics
¯ or actions, and because of what they rep-
¯ resent to the perpetrators. Hatred towards ¯
the victim’s group is often manifested in
¯ exceptignal violence. "The perpetrators
: often despise and de-humanize their vic-
¯ rims, so such crimes typically are more ¯
violent than corresponding crimes that
¯ are not hate-inspired," he said. "Displayr
¯ ing the victim (Shepard) by tying him to a
fence is amanifestation ofsuch dehuman-
¯
ization."
¯ Baxendale, who has studied violence
¯ perpetrated by groups, such as the Irish
Republican Army, said it is important that
: the university, Laramie and Wyoming
¯ communities continue to be vocal in their
¯ condemnation of the crime and to show ¯
that the community fosters diversity and
¯
understanding, rather than intimidation
¯ and discrimination.
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Shepard Murder Update
LARAMIE,Wyo. (AP)-A suspect in the deathofaGay
University of Wyoming student admitted to an investigator
that he drove off with the victim and then told him:
’~3uess what. We’renot Gay. You’regonnagetjacked."
After hearing testimony at a preliminary hearing, a
judge ordered Aaron McKiuney to stand trial in the
death of Matthew Shepard, an attack thatbrought widespread
outrage, a condenmation from President Clinton
and calls for tougher hate-crime laws.
The other suspect, Russell Arthur Henderson, had
waived his fight to a preliminary heating and is scheduled
to be arraigned Dec. 2. Both men are charged with
first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery.
The21-year-old Shepard, who had been found tied to
a fence outside of town, died five days after the Oct. 7
beating.
The lead investigator, Sheriff s Detecfi~÷’e Sgt. Rob
DeBree, testified that McKiuney, 21, admitted to the
beating and implicated his friend Henderson, also 21.
According to DeBree, McKinney said that robbery was ."
the main motive but that Shepard was chosen,,as a targe~
because he was Gay. DeBreesaidMcKinney admitted °
Matthew did not hit on them or make advances" in the
.,~FiresideBar,.batthat they luredhimoutintending:to rob :
him and 6urgiari~e hi~ house. ....... :~ . 2 ~
According to DeBree, McKimaey told investigators
that the attack began after Shepard placedhis fight hand ".
on McKinney’ s leg as the trio drove on Laramie’ s east
side." ’Guess what. We’re not Gay,’ "DeBree quoted "
McKinney as saying. ’"You’re gonna get jacked. It’s
Gay Awareness Week.’"
DeBree said McKiuney admitted he hit Shepard two ¯
to three times with his fist, then pistol-whipped and
robbed him. see Shepard, p. 10
Tulsa MCC’s Merge! TULSA - After years of strife,Tulsa’ s two Mb~~poli’-
tan Community Church congregations have voted to
merge beginning at the end of November and at the
beginning of the Advent season. The Metropolitan
Church of Greater Tulsa (MCC-GT) is likely the oldest
Lesbian and Gay organization in the state at more than
20 years old. It was one of the first MCC’ s in the US to
purchase its own building in an innovative bond based
fundraising program. Family ofFaith’MCCwas younger
congregation that grew out of MCC-GT starting out in
Jenks, then later moving to a storefront in southeast
Tulsa.
Both congregations are currently without permanent
pastors and members of each congregation approved
the merger with "overwhelming majorities." The move
also enjoys denominational support. The new congregation
will meet at the building near Pine and Sheridan
which has been the home for MCC-GTbut the vision
that thenew congregationhas is tomove to anew shared
home and see MCC, p. 2
ATLANTA (AP) - Twelve years after the U.S. Supreme Court
upheld Georgia’s controversial anti-sodomy law, the state Supreme
Court threw out the statute late last month in a ruling that
Gay civil rights activists hope
will lead to the downfall of similar
laws around the country.
The state court voted 6-1 to
overturn the conviction of Anthony
Powell, now of Shreveport,
La. Hehad been foundguilty
of sod.omizing his 17-year-old
niece m 1996. He had beencharged
with rape, but his lawyers
argued that the sex was consensual
and thejury acquitted on
that charge.
The court’s majority opinion,
by ChiefJustice RobertBenham,
said the law violates the state
"We cannot think dany
other aetlvlty that
reasonable persons
would rank as more
private and more
deserving of proteetlon
from governmental
interference than
eonsensual, private,
adult sexual aetlv~ty,"
- Georgia Chld Justiee
Robert Benham
constitution’ s provision that citizens are entitled to privacy. "We
cannot think of any other activity that reasonable persons would
rank as more private and more deserving of protection from
governmental interference than consensual, private, adult sexual
activity," he wrote.
In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 165-year-old
Georgia law banning oral and anal sex, ruling that ~e U.S.
Constitution provides no right to private homosexual conduct.
see Georgia, p. 8
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¯ MarriageLawsuit Heard
: MONTPEIJI~.R, Vt. (AP)- Vermont’s Supreme
¯ Courtjustices dearly wereready for thepotenfially
¯ historic case before them. Before 10 minutes had
¯ gone by in their hour-long heating on the question
¯ of same-gender marriage, Justice Denise Johnson
: cut off a lawyerandtoldher to get to the point. "We
¯ have toknow what yourtheories are that entitle you
¯ to relief,"Johnson toldlawyer Beth Robinson, who
¯ was arguing the case for three couples seeking the
¯ right to marry.
: Throughout the hearing, justices peppered law-
, yers from both sides withquestions about theories
: of law, Gay politics and common sense. Each
: jnstiee, from the chief to themost seniormember of
: the court to its most recent appointee, asked at least
¯ one question. They listened intently, cajoled, prod-
¯ ded, occasionally chuckled and scribbled notes.
: "tit’ s good to know the court is thinking about these
¯ issues, and if you think hard about this, we win,"
¯ Robinson said following the arguments.
¯ Oral arguments before the Supreme Court can be
: curious affairs. Lawyers go prepared to fill their
¯ allotted time with an oral recitation expanding on
¯ the written arguments they have previously filed.
¯ They rarely get a chance to deliver their remarks
: tminterrupted because at least one of the justices
¯ generally wants to probe a point more deeply or
¯ perhaps go off in another direction. But seldom
¯ does the court become so immersed in the case
¯ before it. Seldom does the court have as much time
¯ as it allotted Docket No. 98-32, Baker v. State of
: Vermont. Lawyers had an hour to make their case.
¯ Normally they get half that, sometimes less.
: In the hearings in November, they had to share it
¯ pretty much.eq.ually with the three men and two
: women in black robes.-It was almost l~ke a law
: school class where thefivejustices were theprofes-
¯ sots and the individual lawyers were the students
: getting uncomfortably close seruuny.
: - When Robinson rejected a notion that
Local AIDS activist, Bruce. Begley before World AIDS Day
memorial service and march. For more, see page 3.
Tulsa Is Site to Test HIV Vaccine
: TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Researchers in Tulsa are participating in
: a nationwide trial of a vaccine that may help prevent infection
: from the virus that causes AIDS. Tulsa is one ofahandful of cities
_. chosen to participate in final testing of the AIDSvax vaccine,
¯ developed by California-based VaxGen Inc.
¯ "I think it is an opportunity to make history as the first major
¯ trial to prevent HIV infection," said Dr. Ralph Richter of St. John
.. Medical Center, who is leading the local branch of the trial. "It’ s
¯ aumque opportunity, and the challenge is to prove that this works
: by doing a very highly scientific study."
¯ Researchers are recruiting HIV-negative Gay men who are
¯ considered at high risk Of contracting the disease. That includes
: those who are not in monogamous relationships. They also seek
: women who currently are in sexual relationships with HIV-
: positivemen or who have had more than one male sexual partner
¯ and have been diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases
: within the past year.
: In preliminary trials of AIDSvax, nearly 99 percent of those
: vaccinated produced strong levels of antibodies. Final testing of
¯ the vaccine is targeting 5,000 U.S: volunteers at high risk of
~ contracting the AIDS virus and 2,500 high-risk people in Thai-
" land.
¯ John Lysight, 31, recently got his first shot of the vaccine and
: will get a second injection soon. ’ofhis is a beginning vaccine of
." the future. This is what is going to start what I refer to as the super
: vaccines," Lysight said. "I think we are reaching a totally
¯ different realm of meditfine, and it needs to be taken advantage
: of." Lysightlearned ofthe vaccinefrom Richter almost ayear ago
~ and plans to help the doctor recruit study subjects. He does not
: know if he is receiving the vaccine or a placebo.
¯ see Vaccine, p. 11
:
:
:
:
:
everyone’ s goals~ Justice James Morse responded:
"So the label is everything?"
Johnson was the most animated justice. AssistantAttorney
GeneralEveJac~bs-Camahan pointed
out that no other state in the nation had legalized
Gay marriage. Johnson observed: "Somebody had
to be the first in an interracial state," referring to
states that once banned interracial marriages. Trying
to recover, Jacobs-Camahan said that common
law had always made a distinction between men
and women in marriage statutes, but not between
the races, which was what made interracial marriage
bans unconstitutional. "What does that show
other than how long-standing the discrimination
was?" Justice John Dooley asked.
Reflecting that new legal ground was potentially
being plowed with the case, Chief Justice Jeffrey
Amestoy asked Robinson to explain why the state
would want to discriminate against its citizens.
Figuring that one out is a frustration, Robinson
replied.
The State of Vermont’s representatives have
contended that limiting mamage only to heterosexual
couples is good for procreation and childrearing
- a point characterized as discriminatory
and unconstitutional by Robinson, the lawyer for
three Gay couples who brought the case. Robinson
argued that Vermont’s 28-year-old ban doesn’t
serve to protect children. "If the state’ s concern is
about protecting Children, then that would be protected
by allowing these couples to marry," she
said, noting that two of the three couples have
adopted children.
State lawyers urged the court to turn down the
see Marriage, p. 11
see Editorial, p. 3
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Freedom To Marry
Recently, basketball star Dennis RodmanandBaywatch
starletCarmenElectra
were able to marry on a whim at 7 a.m. in
Las Vegas after anight ofpartying that his
agent says left Mr. Rodman too drtmk to
speak or stand up.
So much for the sanctity of marriage in
this, the second year of the Defense of
Marriage Act, which was passed by Congress
and signed by President Clinton. It
only forbids gay peoplefrom getting married.
Richard Ramirez, the night stalker currently
on death row for committing 13
sadistic, torturous murders can marry a
woman ~n prison, but a gay person who
never even gotaparking ticket can’ t marry
the person he loves.
Ministers who have merely blessed
same-sex unious have found themselves
in trouble with church leadership. One
was quoted as saying "I can bless a battleship.
I can bless a nuclear weapon. I can
bless dogs or animals, but I can’ t bless two
people who want to make a commitment
to each other."
The freedom to marry the person you
love is a basic civil right, a basic human
right, and an important, individual personal
choice that bdongs to the couple in
love, not to politicians or the government:
Some day, probably not un61 the next
century, that won’ t be an unpopular idea.
- William C. Stosine. Iowa City
With Credit to
The Village Voice
The 1998 Wacko Awards: Losers, Liars,
and Other Political Lowlifes
The Human Rights Campaign
Well, the folks- at the. Human~ Rights
Campaign sure do know how to pick ’em]
After a protracted internal battle, the
country’s largest gay fights group voted to
endorse Al D’ Amato. Actually, it was the
HRC’s board- in a 15-7 vote - that chose
to support the Fonz. Mostmembers backed
Schumer, who romped in the Gay community.
For mstanee, in Manhattan’ s 66th Assembly
Dislrict, Schumerrouted D’ Amato
by about an 8-to-1 margin. This Greenwich
Village district was the first to send
an openly gay woman, Deborah Glick, to
the state assembly and provided Schumer
with his biggest vote total ofany city A.D.
In recognition of HRC"s misguided endorsement,
we present the group’ s board
with the Out ofTouch Plaque and a global
positioning system, so they are better informed
when they next get the urge to
veer right.
¯ Letters Policy
: Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on
¯ issues which we’ ve covered or on issues
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by joining forces to be able to secure a
permanent full-time pastor as well. Tins
also will allow them to increase their
outreach to the community. Both congregations
were predominenfly women and
leaders stated the hope of encouraging
men to feel welcome as well.
World AIDS Day 1998i
WASHINGTON, DC - A new studyjust released resoundingly
debunks widely held beliefs about the economic status
of. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual (GLB) people. Contrary to
what has become the conventional wisdom on the subject,
Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual people do not earn more than
"We lmve long
known that
the myth of Gay
wealth
is ju,t that
- a myth . . .
lneome I~at~on
s~nes t~e
o~ truth on yet
another o[
The Ri~ht~
~stortlon
of the ~a~s,"
- Urv~hl Va~d
Heterosexual people. In fact, they
may even earn less.
lncome Inflation: The Myth of
AffluenceAmong Gay, Lesbian, and
Bisexual Americans was released
by the Policy Institute of the Na-
. tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force
and the Institute for Gay and Lesbian
Strategic Studies (I~LSS). The
report was authored by M.V. Lee
Badgett, Ph.D., professor of economics
at the University of Massa-
.chusetts at Amherst and executive
director of IGLSS.
Income Inflation is a startling
study of the economic status of a
frequently stereotyped population
ofAmericans. Badgett explores the
pervasive andinaccuratenotion that
GLBpeopleform aneconomic elite,
insulated from discrimination by
their wealth and disconnected frbm society at large by a
special, privileged status. After examining data from seven
different surveys, she finds that none support this stereotype.
"The evidence from many different scientifically sound
data sources points to the same dear conclusiom Gay,
Lesbian, and Bisexual people do not earn more than Heterosexual
people, either as individuals or as couples," reported
Badgett. "Some GLB people are poor, some are rich, and
most are in the middle,jnst as heterosexual people are. Now
that we have credible data, we can stop relying on flawed
stu~di.’e3, that were designed to find high income Gay people."
right-wing organizations and individuals perpetuate and
regularly exploit the myth of Gay wealth to bolster their
attacks against the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender
eommtmity. The mythis so pervasive and accepted that even
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia injected it into the
dissenting opinion in the Colorado Amendment Two ease.
"We have long known that the myth of Gay wealth is just
that - a myth," said Urvashi Vaid, director of the Policy
Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
"’Income lnflation shines the light of truth on yet another of
The Right’ s distortion of the facts," added Vaid.
by Tom Neal, editor andpublisher
One of the consolations ofgrowing older is that every
once in a while, something "right" happens you thought
you might never see. Justice sometimes prevails.
Forexample, in thelate 80’ s,my youngest
brother spent some time in the then German
"Democratic" Republic (the DDR in a program
organized by the University of Oklahoma);
and we wondered when, if ever, all
of Germany would be one again.
More recently, we’ ve seen Chilean murderer
and former dictator, Gen. Pinochet, at
least called tojustice-even ifhis age and the
legal wrangling may prevent any real payment
for his part in the systematic disaFpearance
and murder of his own, and foreign,
citizens.
So too, the decision of the Georgia Supreme
Court to say that the apparatus of the
State, here Georgia, has no compelling, legitimate
interest in regulating the private,
consensual sexual conduct of adults. Since
Georgia’s law was the impetus for the
wretched, horribly reasoned US Supreme
Court case, Bowers v. Hardwick, to have the
law undermined by its home state constitution
is sweet.
But it is a bittersweet victory because
Bowers still stands rendering Lesbian and
Gay Americans lesser citizens under our
own federal constitution. Like the 19th century
Dred Scott Supreme Court decision that
legitimized slavery, Bowers will someday
fall. But its decision, (based on primarily on
the logic that this behavior, oral and anal
sex, has always been despisedandtherefore,
based on popular revulsion, should be un- titan
constitutional, tliough note that though de~ - -
Spised, a lotof "them" are doing it too) continues to
butlress anti-Lesbian and Gay decisions, like child
custody battles where the Gay parent lives in a state
where "sodomy" is illegal.
What I like about this column is its flexibility to write
¯ . . it’s been both
~unny and l~tter
to learn that
former Georgia
Attorney
General
Michael Bowers
during the very
time in whleh
he was defending
the Georgia
"sodomy" statute
was himself
breaking a
different
Georgia law by
haGn~ an
adulterous affair.
Obdously,
all animals are
equal but some
are more e~ual
otherS.
¯ ABC’ s 20/20programhas never run a story critical of
¯ nuclear power. Come to find out, the show’ s producer
¯ Victor Neufeld’ s wife works for the nuclear industry.
¯ Rupert Murdoeh, an ultra right wing activist, (he initially offered Newt Gingrich a mulfmi!lion dollar
about any number of things without necessarily having
to pun them together into a completely coherent argument.
So be forewarned that this may wander.
Sent via the Internet: "Morality is what you do when
nobody is looking." - Oklahoma’ s own Congressman,
The Reverend J.C. Watts (R-OK) - who has fathered
two children out of wedlock. Indeed.
Also from our e-mail regarding the so-called "liberal
media": a 1996 Nexis search of sources used by major
newspapers and broadcasters, show that 7,776 medi~
citations were used from conservative think tanks (with
Heritage Foundation topping the list); 4,665 from centrist
think tanks; and 1,837fromliberal think tanks. That
means the news media used sources from conservatives
54% of the time, centrists 33% .and liberals 13%.
KABC, anABCaffiliate in Los Angeles refused to air
any anti-war protest stories during the Gulf war. This
from staffers inside the station.
: book deal thru his H,ar)pe_r Collins publishing firm),
owns the entire Fox media conglomerate, the Fox telei
visionnetwork andFox news channel. He also owns the
New York Post,and TV Guide magazine.
¯ ABC’s David Brinldey had to apologize for making
¯¯* insulting remarks about President Clinton on the air
during the 1996 election. He now is a spokesman for a
; multimillion dollar corporation. John Stossel, known
: for his ultra-rightwing pro-corporate views is a regular
reporter for ABC news.
¯
CBS canned a 60 minutes story on tobacco company
: lies because ofpressure from upper management. NBC
has squdched stories about boycotts of General Electric,
its parent company. CNN has no one as far to the
¯ It is even more bitter now that we’ ve learned that
: former Supreme Court Justice, the late Lewis Powell,
~ decided .that his vote, the"swing" votein Bowers (5-4),
¯ was a mistake. Powell never really seemed to understand
the impact of his act since he also
stated that his mistake never caused anyone
any harm. Indeed.
Also, it’ s been both funny and bitter to
learn that former Georgia Attorney General
Michael Bowers during the very time in
which he was defending the Georgia "sodomy"
statute was himself breaking a different
Georgia law by having an adulterous
affair. Obviously, all animals are equal but
some are more equal than others - if I may
paraphrase that line poorly.
Here in Oklahoma, our Supreme Court had
less courage or less commitment to fundamental
constitutional rights. Oklahoma’s
"crimes against nature" or "sodomy" statute
was declared unconstitutional in 1986. And
like the Georgia decision it involved heterosexual
citizens rather than Gay ones. But our
court chose to state explicitly that itwas only
addressing the unconstitutionality of the law
as it affectedheterosexual behavior. As Steve
Scarborough, staff attorney, Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund, Southern Regional
Office explained to TFN, it’s arbitrary,
it’ s unfair but it’ s what we’ ve got until
the statute’ s overturned in another statelevel
case or until Bowers v. Hardwick is overturned
at the federal level.
The great thing is that’s going to
happen. I don’ t know when, or exacdy how,
but to quote that song of solace for both
Black and Gay folk (and Black, Gay folk),
"deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall
overcome some day" Because the fssue here is not
really whatfolks are doingin theirbedrooms but whether
America’s promise, that all are created equal, is truly,
truly what we believe.
Left as Pat Buchanan is to the right on its nightly
political show Crossfire.
NBC’s reporter Pete Williams is a former Bush
administration official. CBS’ s and ABC’ s Diane Sawyer
was a Nixon administration insider before landing a
job covering the news. Britt Hume of Fox News is a
known conservative ideologue who used to play tennis
with George Bush. _
PBS has many shows dedicated to covering corporate
America - Nightly Business Report, Adam Smith’s
Money World, Tony Brown’s Journal, Wall Street
Week:etc., b~ut~noo’ s,hows dedicated to coveringconsum-
.ers or laoor, r’t~ s tongest running show is Firing Line
l~osted by ultra conservative William F. Buekley, the
editor of the conservative National Review Magazine.
Other shows hosted by conservatives regularly are:.One
on One, The MeLaughlin Group and American Interests.
Additionally, a show has been added to the PBS
lineupthat is based on holier-than-thou conservative
William Bennett’s book The Book of Virtues.
ti Talk"ra’di° is.hosted almost exclusively by conservave
talk snow hosts, headed by Rush Limbaugh, Ollie
North, Larry Elder, Michael Reagan and G. Gordon
Li’_d.dy. Former Republican presidential candidate and
religious rightleader, PatRobertson, owns theChristian
Broadcasting Network which airs nationwide. He also
owns the Family Channel and a radio news service
called Standard News.
And those are just a few things to consider about our
"liberal media" ~ except, of course, Tulsa FamilyNews
which is proudly pro-Gay, moderate to progressive in
our politics.
Hats off to Tulsa Oklahonmns for Human Rights,
the organization that provides our Gay CommRnity
Center, formounting alarge and very visible sign onthe
south face of The Pride Center. The sign can be seen
well down Brookside as you travel north. TOHR president
Steve Horn credits board member and volunteer,
Ric Martin, for getting the sign done. Kudos to Ric and
to Steve and see About, p. 14
Texas Sodomy Challenge
HOUSTON (AP) - Two men found having sex in a
private home pleaded no contest Friday to sodomy
charges, initiating a legal challenge to the 119-yearold
Texas law that bars Gay intercolarse. John Geddes
Lawrence, 55, and Tyrone Garner, 31, were arrested
for engaging in homosexual conduct on Sept. 17
when deputies- responding to a false report of an
_ armed intruder - found them having consensual sex
in Lawrence’ s apartment. Justice of the Peace Mike
Parrott fined them $125 each. The men, who want to
keep the case alive to fight the law, appealed the fine
and posted appeal bonds of $332.50 each, which
moves the case to state district court.
"I hope that the law changes," Garner said. "I feel
like my civil rights were violated and ! wash’ t doing
anything wrong." The sodomy law makes homosexual
oral and anal sex a misdemeanor, punishable
by a fine of up to $500. Although on the books for
more than a century, the law is rarely enforced. Gay
activists have worked unsuccessfully for years to
overturn the statute. Of the 19 states that have a
sodomy statute barfing consensual anal or oral sex,
Texas is one of five that specifically targets same-sex
partners. The other four are Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri
and Oklahoma, according to Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund Inc. of New York.
United Church of Christ
Leader Support Gays
CLEVELAND (AP) -The head of the United Church
of Christ has asked that a document he wrote supporting
the acceptance of Gay ~md Bisexual people into
the church and its clergy be read alou.d at services.
The Rev. Paul H. Sherry, president of the 1.4-million
member church, headquartered in Cleveland, mailed
a pastoral document to his denomination’ s more than
6,000 churches.
Sherry said he wrote the document in response to
the Slaying of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming and
other recent examples of anti-Gay sentiments that
have been in the news. "The hatred exposed in the
shocking murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyormng
last month underscores the critical importance of this
reflection and of the need for our voice to be heard,"
, " Sherry stated recently.
The pastoral letter is titled "Now, No Condemnations,"
and supports the full participation of Gay,
Lesbian and Bisexual persons in the membership and
clergy of the church. "Knowing how challenging this
issue can be for some in our churches, I hope it can be
helpful to you in the exercise of your leadership,
providing a way to initiate needed reflection, study
and action," Sherry wrote in a letter accompanying
the document.
Kentucky Lesbian Fired
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Baptist
Homes for Children fired a supervisor for being a
Lesbian after co-workers saw her pictured with her
partner in a photo contest at the Kentucky State Fair.
The fired worker, Alicia Pedreira, said she acknowledged
she was Gay when she applied for the job last
May. Pedreira¯was dismissed Oct. 23 on the grounds
that her"admitted Homosexual lifestyleis contrary to
the Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children core valties."
In the wake of Pedreira’ s firing, five other employees
resigned in protest, and two universities decided
to withdraw their studentsfromthe BaptistHomes for
Children’ s programs.
The picture of Pedreira that appeared in a contest at
the state fair was takenby an amateurphotographer at
alocalAIDS walk. Thepicture, whichshows Pedreira
standing in front of partner Nance Goodman wearing
an "Isle of Lesbos" t-shirt, was entered without
Pedreira’ s consent.
In an interview, Brenda Gray, a KBHC spokeswoman,
said: "We strive to be fair in our dealings
with all people, including, certainly, our employees.
At the same time, it is important that we stay true to
our Christian values. Homosexuality is alifestyle that
would prohibit employment."
Jack Cox, the home’ s manager until he quit over
Pedreira’s firing, said Pedreira acknowledged she
was Gay when she interviewed for the job as art
therapist and supervisor at the Spring Meadows home
for emotionally disturbed boys m eastern Jefferson
County. Cox said he told her that wouldn’t be a
problem, as long as she didn’ t talk about her private
life at work. In a letter to Pedreira after her termination,
Cox said that no one can be hired or fired at
KBHC without approval of its president, William
Smithwick. Citing privacy concerns, Gray, theKBHC
spokeswoman, declined to elaborate on what promises,
if any, where made to Pedreira when she was
hired or whether Smithwick knew about her sexual
orientation then.
Pedrcira said when she returned to work from a
vacation in August, she learned that several employees
at the children’ s home had seen a picture of her
and Goodman at the state fair and were discussing it
at work. Cox said that his superiors contacted him and
told him that they wanted Pedreira to resign. She
refused. Pedreira said that KBHC. after initially saying
she’d be fired, offered what she considered a
demotion. She said she turned that down and was
fired. She said she’ s still out of work.
After Pedreira was terminated, Cox said he resigned,
as did another supervisor; an employee who
worked for Pedreira; and two clinical social workers.
Cox said Pedreira’ s termination is contrary to the
code of ethics of the National Association of Social
Workers. "For me to continue to work for an agency
that embraces that is against my ethics and personal
belief," Cox said. Spalding University and the University
of Louisville’s Kent School of Social Work
said their students were leaving because discrimination
against Gays is inconsistent with the ethics and
ideals of social work.
TheKBHC,a part of the Kentucky Baptist Convention,
operates eight homes across the state for more
than 3,000 emotionally disturbed children. Most of
the children are placed th(re by the state. The KBHC
received about $12 milhon ofits $15.6 million budget
last year from state agencies, Gray said. The state can
withhold money from private child-care contractors
that discriminate against women, African-Americans
and others who are protected by state and federal law.
But, said Cary Willis, a spokesman for the Cabinetfor
Families and Children, "We can’ t base any funding
decisions on whether somebody discriminates based
on sexual orientation."
: California Marriage
Ban Advances
¯
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)-A proposal to declare
¯ that only marriages between a man and a woman
~ would be recognized as legal in California won a
¯ place on the state’ s prima~u¢ election ballot in 2000.
", The initiative was written by state Sen. Pete Knight,
¯ R-Palmdale.
¯ Knight’ s petition drive collected 677,000 signatures,
of Which more than 482,000 were projected to
: be valid voter signatures based on a random sam-
¯" piing. At least 433,269 voter signatures were needed
to qualify the measure for the March 7, 2000 primary.
¯ Iowa Town Looks at
¯ Anti-Bias Measure
¯
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - The Cedar Rapids
¯ Civil Rights Commission has agreed to recommend
¯ that the words "sexual orientation" be added to the
: city’ s civil rights ordinance. With the 6-1 vote Tues-
. day, the ordinance would prohibit discrimination
¯ based on sexual orientation in matters such as era-
¯ ployment and housing.
¯ Commission Chairman Gerald Matchett abstained
¯ from voting, while Commissioner Taha Tawil cast
: the only dissenting vote. Tawil said he thinks homo-
. sexuality is a"deadly sin" and that an amendment to
: th( civil fights ordinance would chip away at tradi-
~ tional family values. "It is an open door," Tawil said.
¯ ’q’his is a conservative city, and we need to keep it as
a family city."
: Commissioner Kathryn Coulter, who at first did
¯ not think the amendment was necessary, said she was
¯ swayed by comments made at public forums by
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what I saw as pretty organized prejudice in this town
against homosexuals, and I don’t think anything convinced
memore than the testimony that was given," she
said. The recommendation must now be considered by
the City Council.
Openly Bisexual Oregon
Legislator Not Hopeful
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Even though an openly Bisexual
woman now holds one of the Oregon Legislature’ s top
leadership posts, shebelieves Gay civil rights supporters
may have a hard time getting their agenda passed
next year. "I’m skeptical of the leadership," said Sen.
Kate Brown, D-Portland, the newly elected Senate
minority leader.
She noted that the breakdown in the Senate is still 17-
13 in favor of the Republicans, so despite any influence
she may have for civil rights issues, her caucus will still
be outgunned. Brown said civil rights backers might
have to settle for small steps, such as the last session’ s
funding of a state coordinator to help prevent teen
suicides, of which Gays make up a significant share.
"We’re treading lightly," said Jean Harris of Basic
Rights Oregon, thebiggest Gay civil rights organization
in the state. She sees the group’s posture as a mainly
defensive one. If the Legislature pushes an extreme
right-wing bill on Gays "we’ll be there to prevent them
from passing bad things... It’s a fight against the
religious right-wing agenda." "We’ re sort of waiting to
see how many anti-Gay things are going to come up and
whether they’ 11 pass theemploymentbil! after23 years,"
Harris said. "The employment bill is the only thing on
the front burner."
The measure to outlaw discrimination against homosexuals
in employment, first introduced in 1975, has
been a key part of the civil rights lobbying efforts for
years. The measure passed in the House in the 1997
Legislature but fell short of getting a Senate vote in the
waning days of the session. ’.’I certainly feel that’s an
unsolved issue out there," Brown said. "Gay, Lesbian
and Bisexual people still are discriminated against in
employment."
But House Speaker-elect Lynn Snodgrass, R-Boring,
who describes herself as a social conservative, said she
doesn’t particularly want to spend time dealing with
thorny social issues. "We need to focus on issues the
people sent us here to do," she said. But added she’ll
bow to the will of her caucus if the members want an
issue advanced.
Harriet Merck of Eugene, a Gay woman who works
at the University of Oregon, said it’ s discouraging that
"we still don’ t have an anti-employment discrimination
bill." But she said she doesn’ t have too much hope of
pro-Gay civil rights gains in the coming session. "You
have to work what you have to work with in any given
session," she said. "
1,000 in Chicago
Counter Phelps Protest
CHICAGO (AP) - More than 1,000 Gay-fights supporters
surrounded a church where an anti-homosexual
minister protested a marriage ceremony for two men
conducted earlier this year. The Rev. Fred Phelps of the
WestboroBaptistChurchofTopeka, Kan., and about 10
of his supporters gathered recently to protest a September
marriage presided over by the Rev. Gregory Dell,
pastor of the Broadway United Methodist Church.
Gay civil rights supporters surrounded the church,
gathered on rooftops, and held signs that read "Stop the
Hate," in anticipation of Phelps and his followers.
Phelps and his followers have engaged in anti-homosexual
picketing around the country, including a demonstration
at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a Gay
University of Wyoming student who was beaten to
death in October.
Chicago police surrounded the anti-Gay group with
barricades as they gathered on a street comer facing the
church. Phelps waved different anti-Gay signs throughout
the demonstration. One signread "God Hates Fags."
"This is tack3,, minimal, cheap, tawdry stuff," Phelps
said in referring to those protesting against him and his
followers.
Midway through the demonstration, some Gay supporters
approached Phelps and his group and were
forced back by police. The anti-Gay demonstration
ended whenPhelps andhis followers were escorted
away by police. Phelps said he plans to return to
Chicago in the next few weeks to continue the
protests.
"It’s unfortunate that individuals and groups
carry the kind of hate and fear that these folks do,"
Dell said of the Kansas protesters. "But however
offensive their message might be, the strength of
community, justice and love is stronger." Dell
performed the Gay marriage service despite a ban
on such ceremonies that was inserted in his
denomination’s "Book of I>iscipline" in August.
The United Methodist Church will put Dell on trial
next year for violating the ban. He could be
defrocked.
Is West Virginia Gov.
Gay-Friendly?
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Gov. Cecil
Underwood is exasmniDg several Gay civil rights
initiatives and has not ruled out proposing legislation
to enact them, his spokesman said recently.
"Does it fit in his legislative agenda? That is being
decided right now," Dan Page said.
Underwood sent a letter to a Gay member of the
state Republican Executive Committee saying he
does not support a "quick fix" on discrimination
issues. But he said "we shall examine very carefully
the positions" Larry Tighe Of Wheeling had
asked him to support.
Tighe asked Underwood in September whether
he stands by his 1996 campaign pledge to seek
changes in state fair housing and human rights acts
to make it illegal to discriminate against Lesbians
and Gays. Underwood said then, "I am opposed to
using sexual preference to discriminate. I feel they
are entitled to the same-protection we offer everyone."
Tighe asked Underwood specifically if he
supports amending the state I-Iumun Rights Act to
include aban against diseriminating againsthomosexuals
in empl0yment,housing andpublic accommodation.
The act now prohibits discrimination because of
race, religion, color, nationality, sex and age. Opponents
have said the additional language would
give homosexuals special privileges. Supporters
say it is necessary to protect homosexuals from
growing violence.
Tighe also asked whether Underwood would
sign an executive order banning discrimination
based on sexual orientation in state government
employment and if he would support changing
West Virginia hate crimes laws to protect homosexuals
as a class. And he asked Underwood to
include the proposals in his State of the State
address in January.
Underwood’s Nov. 20. reply, which Tighe received
Monday, said, "My position on human
rights issues is straightforward and unwavering:
No West Virginia citizen should suffer discrimination
for any reason. "We can realize the vision of
Americaembodied within ourconstitutionby maintaining
vigilance and fighting prejudice where we
find it. We cannot and should not opt for a’ quick
fix’ that touches only the surface of a problem," the
governor’ s letter said.
Page said Underwood’ s opposition to a "quick
fix" does not necessarily mean he has rejected the
legislation Tighe supports. "The governor believes
the long-term solution is changing people’ s attitudes,"
he said, noting Underwood has established
a commission to teach West Virginians about the
Holocaust and has an initiative to promote better
race relations.
Underwood’s letter said, "We should work together
to promote tolerance and understanding
among all Americans, especially those citizens
who would deny freedoms and opportunities to
others... That is a long-term process that deserves
our full attention."
Underwood opposes same-sex marriage and has
voted against ordaining Lesbians and Gays as ministers
in the United Methodist Church.
Rural Americans:
Some HIV Ignorant i!
ATLANTA (AP)-They had_unprotec~d..
sex withpartners ofthesameandoppostte
sex, somclinlcs in exchange f~ .d~gs -
yetmany neverlmew they were~il~
of gettiilg AIDS..I~,tervi.ews wire ~a~
infected pati__egts snow .tpat .s~e ¯
Americans still aren’ tgett~.gtttemessage
about how AIDS is uansmitted, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
reported recently. _ .
Despite theirrisky behavior, about~
never thought they were at risk of contracting
the AIDS virus, theCDCsaid. Of
those, roughly a third admitted they had
notdeahow thevtrus was spread. ~learly
it’ s the people who are engaging in the
higher risk behaviors who appear not to
be getting the basic information about
transmission,"CDCepidemiologistAmy
Lausky said Thursday-. "I guess we’d all
like to think that, 10 to 15 years into the
epidemic, people would know.how HIV
is spread."
Researchers interviewed608adults with
HIV living in rural areas of Georgia,
Florida, South Carol",ma. and Delaware.
Asked why they didn t consider themselves
at risk, 33% of men and 29% of
women said they didn’t know how HIV
was spread. Other reasons given included
not tl~nking their sex partners were infected
and the belief that only homosexuals
and intravenous drug users contracted
HIV. LTnprotected sex and cracl~’use were
common among those interviewed.
The CDC said it doesn, t know of any
studies in which it asked urban HIV patients
the same questions. Researchers
noted that the vast majority of AIDS cases
are concentrated in urban areas. AIDS
cases in rural areas made up fewer than
10% ofthe 641~086 cases reported through
1997, the CDC said.
ter. ’The disease also progresses faster"
in females~ she sai& She also saidwomen
and minorities are underrepresented in
clinical tri~,s, ofnew AIDS and HIV treati
ments, and There may be some biologi-
: cal and genetic differences in how some
people respond to the drugs."
! ~ Stone said everyonein her study had
i -some health insur~ce, so she eliminated
cost as a reason some were ~eated with
protease inhibitors and others were not.
i She said it appeared that patients were
more likely to get the treatment if they
knew about the drugs and asked for them.
’"Some said they had never heard of the
therapy. Whites weremuchmorelikely to
have heard of the new drugs," she said.
Heterosexuals were less likely to get
~ the therapy because they often face the
~ ailment alone, she suggested. ",Many
people get help through networks¯ Gays
i have their networks and so do IV drug
¯. users,"she said. Heterosexuals withAIDS
: usually are women who got the disease
¯ from having sex with men, who were or
: had been drug-users or Bisexual. The
: women often did not know anyone else
." with the diseas&, she said. ’~nis was sur-
¯¯ prising, but even IV drug users knew
more about AIDS than these women/’ she
: said. Of women with AIDS, 58% are
¯ black, she said. Nationally,43% ofAIDS ¯
patients are black; 36% are white, and
. 20% are Hispanic, according to data pre-
¯ sented at the conference.
i¯ HIVTreatments blot
Available to All
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Physicians sometimes
steer HIV-infected New Yorkers
away from the best drug treatment regi:
mens because they do not believe the
patients are motivated or stable enough, a
state-sponsoredpanel ofexperts has found.
Health providers often saw. those with
HIV as members of suspectpatient groups
- immigrants, homeless people, inmates,
¯
the mentally and physically disabled -
: and prescribed treatment accordingly, in-
" stead of treating cases on an individual
: basis, the group said.
¯ An HIV treatment plan "should not be
¯ based on presumptive judgments about
¯ people in any racial, ethnic, gender, age,
¯ riskor other category," thepanel declared.
¯
"The state of New York should ensure
: that every person with HIV has access to
¯ basic health services as well as to provid- ¯
ers with HI¥ expertise," the group con-
" cluded.
¯ The 44-member panel included physi-
¯ clans, medical ethicists, public health ex- ¯
perts and advocates for groups at highrisk
of contracting the virus that causes AIDS,
¯ including Gay Men’s Health Crisis and
¯ Housing Works. It was formed in mid-
" 1997 after reports surfaced that someHIV
¯ patients werereceivingless-than-op~dmum
¯ care because of who they are or because
¯ some doctors and other health care work-
" ers were not up to speed on thelatest drug
¯ treatment methods.
¯ Dr. Guthrie Birkhead, director of the
: state Health Department’s AIDS Institute
: andco-chair of the panel, said the report
: was thefirst ofits kindin theUnited States
¯ to examine the ethical issues involved ¯
with the complicated drug treatments
: which have evolved for HIV and AIDS
¯ patients. Those treatments have become
". especially prevalent in the last three or
¯ four years. Problems with matching pa-
: tients with optimum treatment regimens
¯ "are still not solved at this point" in New
: York, Birkhead said. "It’s very important
: not to make assumptions about people’s
For Some, Less
Access to Care
BOSTON (AP) -Women, minorities and
heterosexuals with AIDS are less likely
than others to get a new and effective
treatment, andignorance of the procedure
may be one of the reasons, according to a
new study, The situation maybe particularly
bad for women, who, according to
another report, may be more susceptible
than men to HIV, the virus that causes
AIDS.
The reports were given at the "AIDS at
the Millennium" conference sponsored
by the Massachusetts Medical Society
and Lemuel Shattuck Hospital. A study
by Dr. Valerie Stone of the Brown University
School of Medicine found that
nearly three-quarters ofMassachusetts and
Rhode Island men with AIDS got the
three-drug, protease inhibitors treatment,
but only half the afflictedwomendid. The
study also found that 75% of whites with
AIDS got the multi-drug, or "cocktail"
treatment, but only 58% of blacks and
50%ofHlspanics did. Half ofheterosexuals
withAIDS were being treated with the
drugs, compared with 81% of Gays and
61% of those who contracted the disease
through drug injections. The study was
made at five sites, including community
health centers and teaching hospitals.
Protease inhibitors given in combinations
have improved and prolonged the
lives of many AIDS victims. New biological
evidence suggests women may be
more susceptible to HIV than men, said
Dr. Deborah Cotton, director of AIDS
clinical research at Boston Medical Cem
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he said. "In some cases, that may mean
deferring treatment- getting peoplehousing,
drug treatment, whatever. But in no
instances does that mean denying people
proper treatment."
Doctors and researchers have had the
best results in delaying the onset ofAIDS
among HIV-infected peopleusing a combination
of "antiretroviral’ drugs which
inhibit the development Of the virus in
human beings. Often, the drugs can extend
the lives of HIV-infected people for
many years.
Typically, HIV patients take three different
drugs two to three times a day,
Birkhead said. "For the average person,
withoutany problems,keepingona(medication)
scheduleis very difficult,"he said.
With HIV and AIDS patients, doctors
must recognize a whole series of related
problems that can prevent medications
frombeing taken, including havingproper
refrigeration for the drugs and language
barriers involving non-English speaking
- HIV victims, the panel found. And,recent
studies have shown that taking HIV drugs
in proper doses and sequences is crucial
because if some drugs are stopped, the
body could develop immunities to them
that will hasten the onset of AIDS.
Thepanel ofexperts saiditis the duty of
doctors and other health care providers to
stay current about the latest drug treatments
for HIV, to make them as widely
available to patients as possible and to
help get patients into situations where
they will stick to a medicinal schedule.
Patients, the panel said, have an obligation-
to religiously take the drugs, to eat
properly, to take other steps to maximize
the effect of the medications and to otherwise
aid in their own treatmentS. In cases
where a patient "demonstrates an inability
to initiate or maintain a treatment regimen"
it may be "appropriate" for a health
care provider to discontinue drug treatment,
the panel concluded.
Amemberofthepanel, Deunis DeLeon
of the Latino Commission on AIDS, said
he would like to see its recommendation
that all NewYorkers have access to anonymous
HIV testing become reality. ’There
was not equal access to appropriate preand
post-test counsding," DeLeon said.
’~3nce a person got tested, thefollow-up
in terms of the medical referral was lacking,
even in some major urban centers
throughout the state." State health officials
estimate that between 150,000 and
200,000 New Yorkers are HIV positive,
believed to be the highest snch population
in the nation.
Quilt to Move to DC
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The AIDS
Memorial Quilt, a 52-ton symbol born in
San Francisco as the deadly epidemic
ravaged the city’s Gay community, appears
to be headed permanently to Washmgton
D.C. The board of the Names
Project voted to begin searching for new
executive offices and a place to store and
display the quilt, which has grown to
more. than 100,000 pounds of cloth and
imagery.
The vote has not been formally announced,
but Names Project Executive
Director Andy lives told the San Francisco
Examiner the move won’t happen
for several years. ’XDbviously there is a
strong emotional tie to San Francisco,
birthplace of the quilt,"he said. "But what
began 10 years ago as an ad hoc response
to this tragedy has become an icon and the
No. 1 AIDS prevention .and education
tool in the country. "My position is that
logistically, we belong in the nation’s
capital... None of us has any interest in
having the quilt be this musty, dusty relic
stored on shelves:. 2’ The Names Project
intends to keepits original storefront space
at Castro and Market streets, where the
local chapter displays a segment of the
quilt. There are 52 US chapters.
~The quilt was the concept of AIDS
activist Cleve Jones during a candlelight
march on Nov. 27, 1985 honoring slain
Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor
GeorgeMoscone. Heaskedfellow marchers
to write on pieces of cardboard ~the
names of lovers and friends claimed by
AIDS. When the marchers covered the
Federal Building with their placards, "it
looked like a patchwork quilt of lives
cruelly cut short," Jones said.
’~ understand what they’re trying to
do," said Mike Salinas, news editor of the
Bay Area Reporter, a Gay newspaper.
"Relocating to Washington will let them
reach a broader audience of visitors from
around the globe, many of whom are in
desperate need of better AIDS education."
World AIDS Watch:
Indian Youth
MANESAR, India (AP) --Hard as it is to
talk about sex with young people, involving
them in AIDS education is crucial to
preventing the spread ofthe sexually transmitteddisease,
communityworkers, health
experts andyoungpeople themselves said.
’Young people have an enormous curiosity
about sex. So let’s build an information
systemaroundthem," saidLN. Balaji,
chiefofplanning ofUNICEF, India, which
is organizing a four-day workshop on the
role of youth in fighting AIDS epidemic
and HIV, the virus that causes the fatal
disease: People in their teens and 20s who
act as. health activists in their own communities
in 17 countries are attending the
workshop. They’ll return home with new
ideas about education and counteracting
discrimination against thosewho have the
disease.
About 1.7 million people in Africa. and
700,000 others in Asia and the Pacific are
infected with HIV every year, according
to United Nations statistics. Indiaaccounts
for the most cases in the world, at 4
million. One half million of the victims in
India are young people. Their number
will rise if young people do not have
access to information, skills and services
to fight the problem, Balaji told a news
conference in Manesar, a town near New
Delhi. Many participants in the UNICEF
conference said youth in their countries
are unable to discuss sex with their elders
because of societal taboos. They usually
endup gettingbadinformationfrompeers
or reading pornographic literature or experimenting
with unsafe sex.
In India, school principals balked at the
idea of health experts talking to studentsabout
drugs, sex or even problems of
youth. ’Talking about sex was considered
outrageous," said Gunjan Shah, one of the
4,000 students and teachers trained by
Sevadham Trust, a voluntary orgamzation
in Pune that is helping spread the
message of AIDS. Sevadham volunteers
slowly persuaded authorities to talk to
teachers. "Soon, they were saying’ This is
exactly what we want.’ From then, there
was no problem." Today, nearly all public
and private schools in Ptme and many
others in Bombay have asked Sevadham
to conduct training for their staff.
That ruling came in a federal lawsuit filed
by a homosexual who had been arrested
under the Georgia law, Which carried a
maximum sentence of 20 ysars.
’This is a symbolic victory," said David
Smith, a spokesman for the Gay civil
rights group, The Human Rights Alliance.
"It sends a message - the demise of
the Georgia sodomy law that was upheld
by the U.S. Supreme Court will hopefully
be a precursor to the U.S. Supreme Court
invalidating all thenation’ s sodomy laws."
Three other states - Kentucky, Tennessee,
and Pennsylvania - have recently
overturned such laws. ’This would help
the continuation of this trend," Emory
constitutional law professor Robert
Schapiro said.
Even though the law applied to both
heterosexual and homosexual activity, it
was seen as an example of discrimination
against homosexuals. The law "has made
Gays and Lesbians a target for unjust
police action in the past and unjust prosecution.
Wehope with this, that will come
to an end," said Harry Knox, interim director
of the Georgia Equality Project
Foundation.
Powell, formerly of Norcross, spent 14
months injail beforemakingbail last year
pending his appeal. "I don’t really espouse’
the Gay lifestyle,’ but’I:understand
their point of view," said Powell, whose
defense was helped by Lambda Defense
and Education Fund, aGay andHIV rights
advocacy group. Powell is now living in
Shreveport, La.
Theruling cannotbe appealed, because
the GeorgiaSupreme Courtis theultimate
authority on the state’ s constitution. Legislators
wouldhave to amend the constitution
to pass a similar law.
FormerAttorney General Michael Bowers,
who defended the law before the U.S.
Supreme Court in the 1986 case, said he
was surprised by the ruling. "I can’ t imagine
how. they can make such a ruling... I
would be very surprised if you don’ t see a
legislative move to alter that."
The 1986 case involved a challenge by
Michael Hardwick, a Gay Atlanta bartender
who was arrested for committing
sodomy in his home. Prosecutors later
dropped the charge..Hardwick, who died
of AIDS in 1991, sued state officials to
have the law declared unconstitutional.
The Georgia Supreme Court never ruled
on Hardwick’s case because his suit was
filed in federal court.
In the lone dissent to the ruling, Justice
George H, Carley wrote that the majority
misconstrued the state constitution and
"’usurped the legislative authority of the
General Assembly to establish the public
policy of this state." Carley said the Georgia
Constitution contains "no express recognition
of a right to privacy." The antisodomy
law was upheld by the state Supreme
Court in 1996, but that case turned
on the solicitation of sodomy, not the act
itself.
Eighteen states still have laws against
sodomy. Louisiana has such a law. It is
under state court challenge and a judge’s
ruling is pending. Thosechallenging these
laws in various states now have ’Tuel and
ammunition see Georgia, p. 14
to fight the battle," said Powell’ s attorney
Steven H. Sadow.
The following are excerpts from the
majority and dissenting opinions:
The majority opinion was written by
Chief Justice Robert Benham:
’q~he right of privacy has a long and
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Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - 1 lam, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
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Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
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Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood
Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America)
Mass - 11am, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088
University of Tulsa Bisexuai/Lesbian~Gay/Transgendered Alliance
6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
Council Oak Men’ s Chorale, rehearsals at 5pm, Info: 585-COMC (2662)
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HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
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Urban League, 240 East Apache
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Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225
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by Adam west " " "
Tulsa City-County Library
With the millenium close to an end, the
rate of novels dealing with the subject are
sure to skyrocket. Some wise individuals
got onto the trend early,
though, and one of these is
British science fiction author
Elizabeth Hand. Due to my
intense love of sci-fi, I was
recently asked to review this
bookfor theTulsaCity-County
Library system in response to
a customer’s request to have
the book withdrawn from our
shelves. Customer objections
to material are always taken
seriously, and so I found myselfreading
this The Glimmering
looking for evidence of
obscenity in its rather graphic
sexual scenes.
Before you run out and
snatch this one off the shelves,
let me warn you - the sex
scenes aren’t that graphic, and
what’s worse, they’re written
with little, attention to the
beauty of the written word and
an inordinate amount of pornlevel
vulgarity. Hand is inept
at writing worthwhile erotica,
but there are other reasons to
devote some time to this dismrbing
and elegant novel.
For those ofyouwho dislike
sci-fi, you should know that
this book is more speculative
fiction (along the lines of
Marge Pierey) than science fiction. There
are no aliens here, only some premature
advances in technology and some lessthan-
scientific consequences. This novel
should not be enjoyed for its sci-fi aspects
anyway. The real beauty of The Glimmering
shines through its characters, thanother
note to the style, The Glimmering is
in split-focus, with every other chapter
altemating between two protagonists, Jack
and Trip. It is only near the end that
everything comes together, but keep reading-
the coalescent result is smooth and
logical (albeit extremdy coincidental).
Jack is a forty-something gay man dying
of AIDS; who finds an unlikely cure
called Fusax. Trip Marlowe is a teenage
Christian Rock idol who loses his faith
¯when he discovers sex and the female
body. The two characters could hardly be
reached a sagebrush-strewn area at the
foot of the Laramie Range where the
dying Shepard was found 18 hours later.
DeBree said that McKinney was asked if
Shepard begged for his life and the defendant
replied: "Well, yeah- he was getting
the (expletive) beat out of him."
The autopsy showed that the 5-foot-2-
inch Shepard was struck in the head about
18 times, prosecutor Cal Rerucha said.
Officers testified that Shepard’s face was
caked with blood - except where it had
been partially washeddeanby tears. They
said his wrists were bound so tightly, it
was difficult to cut the rope.
Explaining the violence, McKinney told
his girlfriend, Kristin Price, "’Well, you
know how I feel about Gays,"’ Police
Detective Ben Fritzen testified. And
DeBree said McKinney repeatedly re-
: in more polar opposition. While Jack is
: noble, dignified and worldly, Trip brings
: self-absorption, infantile behavior and ig-
¯ norance to new lows. The chapters focus-
: ing on-Trip will probably be tedious for
For those d
you who dislike
sei-fi, you
should know
that this book
iS more
speeulative
fietlon...
There are no
aliens here...
This novel
should not
be enjoyed
for its sei-fi
azpeets anyway.
The real
beauty of The
Gl;mmer~ng
shines through
its characters.
anyone with depth, although
he does have his looks and a
misguidedinnocentloyalty (to
the girl he impregnates) to save
him from complete inanity.
It is nldmately the character
of Jack that makes this
book so important. Jack constanfly
berates himself for being
selfish, but he is horribly
mistaken. Jack comes from
wealth, and in the political destabilization
of 1999,his home
is one of the few havens availablein
thenovel. Thoughmost
of his family’s money is gone,
he maintains the upstate New
Yorkestatein order to give his
aging grandmother comfort
and provide his friends with a
secure getaway in times of
need.
Jack undertakes a sort of
spiritual journey that we all
sometimes feel a need for: the
process of remembering what
is important in our lives. Jack
longs for health and sex and
stability, but what he really
needs is’the "knowledge thathe
has had a positive impact in
the lives ofthe people he loves:
It’s not a complicated lesson,
but for some reason it escapes
most of us, most of the time.
I’m aware that I haven’t given you a
great amount 6f detail about this particu-
¯ lar story, and my descriptions of the characters
are rather vague, but that really
can’t be helped. Although ElizabethHand
has a complete lack of skill with erotica,
her ability to create elegant, complex stones
and characters and weave them together
so intricately with her plot is superb.
To tell you much more about the
characters would reveal too much of the
progression of the plot. Read this one
before the millenium ends. It’s not going
to be accurate, but you’ll have plenty of
ideas to consider on December31 st, 1999.
Adam West is an associate with Tulsa
City-County Library System and an OSU
alumnus. He is not now and never has
been Batman.
ferred to Shepard as "queer" and "faggot."
McKinney sat expressionless for most
of the five-hour hearing, smiling once or
twice when he spoke with l’us attorneys.
Shepard’s parents, Dennis and Judy
Shepard, sat in the front row, his mother
crying when a deputy identified photo-
., graphs of her son in the hospital.
¯ Public defender Dion Custis said the
¯ state failed to meet its burden ofproof that
" the murder was planned and said Shepard
¯
was not kidnapped, but went willingly. A
¯ watch, money and other property left at
¯ the crime scene showed that robbery was
¯¯ not a factoreither, he said. Ms. Price, 18, and Henderson’s girl-
: friend, Chasity Vera Pasley, 20, will be
¯ arraigned Dec. 9 on accessory after the ¯
fact to first-degree murder. Henderson
¯ and McKinney are being held without
¯ bond. Rerucha has not yet indicated if he
¯ will seek the death penalty.
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Some of oureatin’ andda’tnkin’ buddies
will go to a restaurant, f’md a dish they
like, and then order the stone food, over
andover,eve~ time they go thct~. Notus.
We prefer the adventure of tr~ng everything
on the menu, and
the variety of selecting
differententrees ondifferent
occasions. If our
waiter shouldhappento
remember a previous
-visit and suggest a repeat
sampling, invariably,
we will decline
and eat something different.
Exceptat Phill’ s.
We have the waitresses well trained by
now, and they know that any time we
come in after l0 a.m., they’d better put
aside a slice of the coconut creme pie for
us, because we always eat a piece whenever
we’ re in for luncheon. This coconut
pie is wonderful. Made from scratch -
none of that coconut-flavored vanilla
pudding stuff - with a classic creme
patisserie-style recipe,it’ s lovingly poured
into adreamy, flakey, flavorful, lardpastry
shell, and topped with clouds of real
whipped cream. It’ s not a snooty coconut
tart from a New York City bistro cooked
by a cook with a bad French accent. It’ s
just a plain old piece of good old Oklahoma
pie.
Phill’s Diner, located just east of
Harvard on 32rid Street, serves up a lot of
plain ,old .good Oklahoma cooking. In
fact, it s such a classic, that when we’re
¯ .entertaining out-of-town performing artists
in for a gig with the Phil or the Ballet
or the Opera, and they want some "Oklahoma
fOod," this is where weend up.
Only open for breakfast and lunch,
phill’ s is a classic diner. Blue plate specials.
Biscuits andgravy. Basichamburgers
and fries. Chicken fried steak. Homemade
cinnamon rolls that sell out almost
every morning. Sirloin steak and egg
breakfasts. And, unlike other popular diners
in Tulsa, Phill’ s hash’ t succumbed to
being trendy. It’ s still a neighborhood
place,marketing mostlyby wordofmouth.
But, you have to remember that this is
a low key kind of place. Vinyl banquettes
havethe occasional tapepatch. Sodafountain
bar stools face a functioning service
area. Glasses are plastic. Dinnerware is
mismatched - and includes the sundry
remnants of an IHOP going out of bnsi~
heSS sale. There is nothing pretentious
about this place.
On a recent visit, we decided to have
the grilled liver and onions, which, with a
simple Iceberg salad, two,~egetables (cho-
Two-thirds of U.S. volunteers will re-
¯ sen from the chalkboard), and a basketful
: of-freshly baked dinner rolls, only cost
: $4.99. Theliver, an easy meat to over-
. e~ok, was nicely done, and our only corn-
: plaint was that we got a few onions from
¯ the outside stem-end of the bulb which
were a bit papery. Our
companion opted for
the chicken fried steak,
which cost just a little
moreat $5.69. His steak
filled the plate, and the
aroma was wonderful.
Phill’s recipe includes
abitmore than a hint of
garlic, and the steak
was very satisfying.
: The green beans with bacon were heavily
¯ seasoned with black pepper, and that is
¯ almostatrademarkcharacteristicofPhill’s
: food. He likes things to have seasoning.
¯¯ Somemay not like things so "spicy," but,
with his tendency to use exotic ingredi-
." ents like salt, pepper, butter, onions, gar-
¯ lic, and bacon, we find the spicing charm-
: ing - kind of like visiting a friend’s
: mother’s house for supper.
Another great time to visit Phill’ s is for
¯" a late breakfast on a Saturday or Sunday
’. morning. The chalkboard specials almost
: alwayshaveanmterestmg *orunch food,
¯ ~uch asMalibu French toast (French toast ¯
with orange marmalade), an avocado,
¯
bacon, and cheddar cheese omelette, and,
¯ for those who like corned beef, a hefty
, serving of eggs and hash. Prices vary,
generally in the $4-5 range. Huge, fluffy
¯ hotcakes are also apopularmorningitem,
: with one ample cake going for $1.29, and
¯ two for $2.29. If you really think you can ¯
eat it all, they also have a triple stack for
." $3.29 (but eating like that is not going to
¯ help youfitinthosenew bicycling shorts).
¯ And, in the best Southerntradition, one ¯
can also order a brealffast side order of
¯ sliced tomatoes forjust99 cents. After all,
¯ it isn’ t breakfast without tonaatoes.
¯ Whenthe autunm weatherbegins to get ¯
more of a nip in the air, we’ 11 be looking
¯ forward to several other Phill’s staples.
¯ especially his homemade Irish stew and
his pinto beans with ham. A big bowl of
¯
one of these ($1.99 cup, $2.99 bowl) and
¯ a basketful of his cornbread is more than
¯ enough to refuel on a chilly afternoon.
." Phill’ s slogan is, "home of good food."
: Go to Phill’ s. You’ II feel at home. Andthe
¯ food certainly is good.
: I Editor’s note: Mary Schepers. our Do-
"I It-Yourself-Dyke is taking this month
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Jean-Pierre Legrandbouchewhichfirst
". ran tn our November 1997 issue.
ceive the vaccine. Richter said the Tulsa
trial has enrolled about 12 volunteers but
can enroll as many as 150. No women
have enrolled yet. Volunteers receive free
shots and about $40 to help with transportation,
Richter said.
Lysight said Tulsa has a large Gay
community, making it an ideal.site for the
study. He said he has known at least 15
people who died of AIDS complications
within the past seven years. Study volunteers
commit to participatefor three years.
They receive three injections of the genetically
engineeredvaccine over several
months. Those are followed up with a
Phill’ slogan is,
"home of goocq food."
Go to Phill’ .
You’ll feel at home¯
And the food
certainly is good.
series of booster shots. The vaccine uses
: engineered copies of a protein found on
." the outer coating of the HIV virus. It is
¯ designed toprompt theimmune system to
: make antibodies, which can attack invad-
¯ ing viruses before they infecthealthy cells.
¯ Lysight said he hopes to help pave the
¯ way for avaccinethat blocks HIV the way
~ today’s vaccines target small pox or
¯ chicken pox. "Until there is a vaccine or
: anything to help it. nobody will want to
: accept what the problem is," he said.
: Local AIDSgroups and the Tulsa City-
County Health Department are collabo-
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Louis, Denver, Philadelphia and sites in
"- Florida, Texas and California.
by Esther Rothblum
I recently talked with a group of five
young women in a Vermont high school
about what it means to be Lesbian, Bi, or
questionning. These women students -
and a teacher- have been
meeting weekly in their
school after hours. Hard as it
may be for us older Lesbians
to believe, but such groups
are a part of all high schools
in the Burlington, Vermont
area.
The women were proud
that their classmates hadjust
voted in (500 in favor, 100
against) a club to be called
the "Gay and Straight Alliance."
As one woman said
"what was so good about the
process was that it was so
out there, and an explanation
went along with it, so
.... ~bool life is not
wlthout harassment,
¯ . . Another woman,
who is Bisexual,
has been called a
"dyke"by another
student.
Als0, students in
their high school will
refer to something
they don’t llke as
"gay," as in "thatdress
is so
people knew it wasn’t just a
Gay thing." In fact, one of the club’s
organizers received a school medal for
her efforts.
BUt school life is not without harassment.
One student said: "Yesterday, a kid
came up to me and said ’I would really,
appreciate it if you didn’t make out with"
other girls in the hallways.’ I’ve never
done anything like that in school." Another
woman, who is Bisexual, has been
called a "dyke" by another student: Also,
students in their high school will refer to
something they don’t like as "gay," as in
"that dress, is so gay.’"
The women I interviewed were aware
of internalized homophobia as well. One
woman said: "In eighth grade there was
this kid that everyone said he was Gay. He
couples’ request to overturn the prohibition.
In legal briefsand arguments to the
court, they said mamage historically has
been defined as a union between a man
and a woman because same-sex couples
can’t biologically bear children. ’‘To say
(otherwise) would be to say there’ s absolutely
no connection between marriage
and procreation," said Assistant Attorney
General Eve Jacobs-Camahan. "It’s a
unique social institution based on the
sexual communion of a man and a
woman."
Vermont is now the only state with a
Supreme Court considering the question
of Gay marriages. In last month’s elections,
voters in Hawaii and Alaska essentially
overturned court rulings that were
moving toward legalizing such unions.
Robinson said refusing to allow samegender
couples to marry was as discriminatory
as bans on interracial marriage,
firstoverturnedby the CaliforniaSupreme
Court in 1948. "The parallels between
that case and this case are striking," she
said. In 1948, proponents of California’ s
interracial ban used many of the same
arguments as Gay marriage opponents
today, such .as the promotion of procreation,
she said.
But Assistant Attorney General Timothy
Tomasi said bothmen and women are
given the right to marry, and a court redefining
it would cut into the rights of the
Legislature. ’‘There’ s no benefit given to
¯¯ had a very hard time with harassment.
Then when I came out my freshman year,
¯ hestartedmaking fun ofm!! I said to him:
: ’Don’t yon remember how-bad it felt
¯ when everyone made fun of you?’ He
said: ’But I wasn’t and you
are." In s,o,me ways, I was his
revenge.
Another woman was concerned
about how her heterosexual
friend would be
viewed. She said: "I think
mybeing fairly out in school
affected her. We used to sit
together in class and spend a
lot of time together. We’ve
been friends since kindergarten.
I think the fact that
we were so close actually
negalively affectedher, with
people assuming that she was
Gay as well. I found myself
pulling away from her so
that she wouldn’t be stereotyped.
I wanted her to be able to find a
boyfriend and be happy; I didn’t want her
harasssed."
In some ways, being Gay is viewed as
trendy in their school, but only when it
refers to female students, mostly those
who are Bisexual. But the women I interviewed
felt that trends are viewed as a
phase, and their classmates wonder When
this particular trend will finalh, be over.
"My friends thought I was a "~oser’ because
I told them that I was Bi," said one
woman.
Esther Rothblum teaches Psychology
at the University ofVermont andEditor of
the Journal ofLesbian Studies. Ske can be
reached at Dewey Hall, Univ. of Vt.,
Burlington or: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu
males that isn’ t given to females," he said.
The lawsuit challenges a 1975 rulingby
the state’ s attorney general advising town
clerks that Vermont law defined civil
marriage as a union between a "bride and
a groom," in effect prohibiting same-sex
couples from marrying. Ten groups, ~ncluding
a coalition of other states, wrote
briefs supporting Attorney General William
Sorrell’s definition. Seven other
groups have filed arguments that contend
Vermont" s Constitution guarantees Gays
the same rights to marriage as heterosexuals.
Hordes of people showed to watch the
arguments. Folding chairs were setup and
the court, for the first time ever, required
tickets to get in the building. They were
snatched up the moment doors opened,
hours b.efore the scheduled arguments.
From the point of view of the couples,
who found themselves at the center of a
national debate and sat in a front row, the
arguments couldn’t come soon enough.
"Twenty-five years ago, when we met
and fell in love, mamage was not something
any of us that were same-gender
couples thought about," said Holly
Puterbaugh of Milton, one of the plaintiffs.
"it just was not in the conversation,
it was not in the thinking." She and Lois
Farnham are raising a daughter together.
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Whenl moved into Iankahar, a
small South Pacific village in Vanuatu, I
worked hard to learn all the names of my
70 or so new neighbors. I
was proud of myself for
memorizing everyone’ s
name in just a week or two,
particularly since many
people have both a local
name and a European one.
Or I was until the day I called
out to young Joshua, an active
5-year:old who liked to
hang around my hut. He
shyly informed me that his
name was now Tio. "But
what happened to Tio?" I
asked, confused. Tio, I
thought, was the helpful son
of my neighbors Vani and
Kaisaia. Joshua, or rather
now Tio, drawing in the dirt
with his big toe, told me that
Tio was now called Kamuti.
But this was equally confusing.
Kamuti - or so I had
memorized - was an older,
childless man who lived in a.
rattletrap hut at the end of
the village.
I pestered people in my
rudimentary Pidgin English
until they" helped me understand
that old Kamuti, sensing
death, had just adopted
20-someflfing Tio who took
his name. This left open the
Ameriean Gay
culture includes
several drag
naming traditions.
Much of the
attraetlon of drag
comes from its
eonstruetlon of
hyper-femlnlnlty
- an image of
perfected
womanhood that
no real female
could, in reality,
obtain.
This is why
RuPaul and
Barble are twins -
they both are
way beyond
female reality.
name-"Tio" that the former Joshua assumed.
Men’s names on this island are
really titles. They emplace individuals
within a structure of kinship groups. Each
nmne. moreover, comes with rights to
certain land plots. Joshua’s father had
more sons than nmnes to give out, so the
bob was making do with the European
"’Joshua" until a landed personal title (like
Tio) freed up. Persona! names in Iankab,ar
thus link individuals into land-holding
kinship ~oups which are the basic building
blocks of island society.
AnthropoloNsts study personal naming
systems in order to learn more about
people’ s understandings of selfhood, and
of the ways in which they conceive of
individuality and society. In many cultures,
people may have several names at
once, or may take on additional names as
they go throughlife. ,americans are familiar
with first names, middle names, nicknames,
family or surnames, pen names,
stage names, and aliases; and the majority
of ~american women still change their
familynames at marriage (as Hillary went
from Rodham, to Clinton, to Rodham
Clinton). Still, people in other societies
may have far more opportunities than we
do to collect various names or to swap one
name for another
In some cultures, each time an individual
enters a new phase of life (childhood,
adulthood, old.age), he takes a different
name. In classic Chinese society,
important men acquired "death names";
because, dead, you ate a changed person
and you need a different name. The Japanese
borrowed this custom which is why
theformerEmperor!tirohito is now called
Showa. Elsewhere, people takenew names
after important events in their lives, such
as surviving a major illness. In Samoaand
other Polynesian cultures, people commonly
have several names, one of which
may be a tide. Names are context dependent-
people call one another by whichever
of their names best fits the occasion.
Most American names are gendered;
some are male, others female.
It is not surprising,
therefore, that transgendered
individuals, and drag queens,
almost always acquire new
names as part of their transformed
personality. Something
similar to Samoa’s
context-governed names
occurs here with American
cross-dressers and drag artists.
When you meet up with
your friend, do you use his
boy name or his gift name?
This mostly depends on
where you are at the moment
and also, of course,
what s/he’s wearing. Personal
nmnes in Iankahar give
men rights to family and
land; here in America they
give us rights to be, and to
act, male or female.
American Gay cnlture
includes Several drag naming
traditions. Much of the
attraction of drag comes
from its construction of
hyper-femininity - an image
ofperfected womanhood
that no real female could, in
reality, obtain. This is why
RuPaul and Barbie are twins
- they both are way beyond
female reality. One drag naming tradition
is the hyper-feminine. Here, the queens
take on Barbie-ish names. I surfed through
a number of drag queen websites on the
Internet (yes, those gifts are online) and
turned up hyper-ladylike names such as
Zhanna, Monique, Vaunessa, Cookky,
Felicity, Chynna, Windy, Misty De Mute,
and so on. Sometimes these names pair
with the drag equivalent of a surname.
There are named drag houses in many
cities, and a daughter takes the family
name of her drag-mother (and sometimes
also drag-father). This creates a structure
of ficdve kinship that anthropologists call
matrilineal descent.
There is a second, comic naming tradition
in American drag. Her~ the queens
celebrate the carnival foundations of their
art. There are ancient and widespread
associations of masking and naughtiness
in Western culture, as all of us learn very
young ("Trick-or-Treat, smell my feet!").
Those sly queens adore bad puns. My
quick tour of the web discovered Miss
Pencil Vania, Charity Kaesse, Paige
Turner, Evian Water, Sister Dana van
Iquity, and of course Hedda Lettuce. And
I’m sure you can bring many coarser
examples to mind. But,just like people in
Vanuatu, China, and Samoa, the more
names you have, .the more you are.
Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthropology
at the University of Tulsa.
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distingnished history in Georgia. In 1905,
this court expressly recognized that Geor~
gia citizens have a ’liberty of privacy’
guaranteed by the Georgia constitutional
provision which declares that no person
shall be deprived of liberty except by due
process of law... This court has determined
that a citizen’ s right to privacy is
strong enough to withstand a variety of
attempts by the State to intrude in the
citizen’s life."
"v~re cannot think of any other activity
¯ .that reasonable persons would rank as
more private and more deserving of proteetion
from governmental interference
~consensual, private, adult sexual ac-
:~tivity. :. We’conclude that such activityis
at the heart of the Georgia Constitution’ s
protection of the right of privacy."
’q’he State fulfills its role in preventing
sexual assaults and shielding and protecting
the public from sexual acts by the
enactment of criminal statutes prohibiting
such conduct... The only possible
purpose for the statute is to regulate the
private conduct of consenting adults, the
public gains nobenefit, and the individual
is unduly oppressedby the invasion of the
right to privacy. Consequently, we must
conclude that the legislation exceeds the
permissible bounds of police power."
"In undertaking, the judiciary’ s constitutional
duty, it is not the prerogative of
members of the judiciary to base decisions
on their personal notions of morality.
Indeed, if wewere called upon to pass
upon the propriety of the conduct herein,
we would not condone it... While many
believe that acts of sodomy, even those
involving consenting adults, are morally
reprehensible, this repugnance alone does
not create a compelling justification for
state regulation of the activity."
"We agree with our fellow jurists that
legislative enactments setting ’social majority’
are not exempt from judicial review
testing their constitutional mettle."
The minori~ opinion was written by
Justice George H. Carley:
"Clearly, Powell has no right under the
federal constitution to engage in the act.
.. since there is no fundamental right
¯ . under theConstitution ofthe United States
~ to engage in consensual sodomy."
"The Court has exceeded the limits of
its judicial authority and usurped the legislative
power ’to enact laws to promote
¯the public health, safety, morals and welfare
of its citizens."
"Until the majority’s advancement of
: its overly expansive notion of the state
." constitutional guarantee of’liberty,’ there
¯ has never been any doubt that the General
~ Assembly,in the exercise ofpolicepower,
: has the authority to define as crimes the
¯¯ commission of acts which, withoutregard
to the infliction of any other injury, are
¯ considered to be immoral. Simply put,
¯ commission of what the Legislature has ¯
determined to be an immoral act, even if
: ¢gpsensual andprivate, is aninjury against
¯ society itself."
: "!’he majority should take no comfort
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¯ from the rank of those states which have
¯ held that thematteris for resolutionby the
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Shepard Murder Update
Murder Accessory Pleads Guilty
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - A woman whose boyfriend
was accused in the murder of Gay University of Wyoming
student Matthew Shepard has become the first
person to be convicted in the case. Chasity Vera Pasley,
20, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to
first-degree murder.
"The impetus behind this plea was Ms. Pasley’s
alone," said her lawyer, Maribeth Galvan, who also told
the court her client could testify about what she knew
about the attack.
Shepard, 21, suffered 18 blows to the head after he
was lured out of a downtown Laramie bar Oct. 7, tied to
afence androbbed. Earlier testimony indicated Shepard
was singled out party because he was Gay.
Ms. Pasley’s boyfriend, Russell Arthur Henderson,
21, and another man, Aaron James.iMcKinney, 21, are
accused of first-degree murder, kidnapping and aggravated
robbery. Both pleaded innocent and will be tried
separately next year.
McKiuney’s girlfriend, Kristen LeAnn Price, 19, was
¯ Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Location-~
i Tulsa Plans 1st Ever Pride
Parade, 18th Pride Picnic ¯ TULSA - For a number of years, Oklahoma’s only Gay Pride
¯" Paradehas beenin Oklahoma City. But this year that will change.
Organizers ofTulsa’s anmml Pride events have scheduled Tulsa’s
first Gay Pride parade for
¯ June 12.
¯ The parade is tenta¯
tively scheduled to begin
at the Pride Center, the
¯ Gay commuuity center at @KJ MA ¯ 38th & Peoria and will
¯ move up Peoria through
¯
Brookside to 31st St. Then
theparade will follow 31st
to Riverside Drive and
continue to Veterans Park
for the 18th annual Pride PRIDE ’99 picnic.
Because of the higher
cost involved in organizing
a parade (fees for police
assisfance, street closings,
etc.) organizers are IT’S TIME FOR TULSA!
seeking major corporate MJOAINKEYAODUIRFFECROEMNCMEUNAINTDY
sponsorship beyond that IN SUPPOP£flNG THIS EVENI~.
which they’ve received CALL 743.4297 FOR. INFO!
(former corporate supporters
have included
American Airlines,
Coors, Budweiser and
Miller as well as Pepsi- Pride Activities Graphics
Cola). Sponsors are sought atthe $2000, S 1000 and $500 level as
well as at a $250 non-profit level. Major sponsors will receive
high visibility in all event materials (program, t-shirts, and other
promotional materials).
Withmore corporate support, organizers hope to provide a tent otherwise, have been quite successful in bringing
also charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree for better shelter from the heat ¢and
murder. !~Is. Pricepleaded innocent and will go on ~rial .. e ’ " " ...... ~:~:- ’ " ’~ - potentially, any rain).Also ¯ theCentertothe~attent~onofmor,epeople,localan&
Ma,, 24¯ Afithorities said "~’e w"<’~ ~’o~2~ a;~rZ’ ~x ~.~ "-’ xpa~ea-:..ente~tamment,~s-p~annea with lon~fim~ TUfsa dive, ~" ou~50f-towners. Oat~V~0~ ~dso S~id ~hat financial : fundraiser and community activist. Miss Kris Kohl helping to support for the Center is up though many more bloody clothing worn by Henderson. ¯ orgamze those efforts. For more information, call Ric Martin. members need to join in order to reach their goal of
Tulsa!
At the hearing, posecutor Cal Rerncha told District
Judge Jeffrey A. Donnell that if Pasley’s case had gone
to trial, the state would have produced evidence to
indicateHenderson and McKinneyhad attacked Shepard
with "premeditated malice," and "inflicted pain and
torture On this individual." "Pleadings for his life fell on
deaf ears," Rerucha said. see Shepard, p. 10
Oregon Bans Workplace Bias
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A December Oregon Court of
Appeals ruling has effectively outlawedjob discrimination
based on sexual orientation across the state, state
officials said.
The ruling involved a lawsuit by three lesbian employees
at Oregon Health Sciences University who
claimed their domestic partners were entitled to benefits.
Though the school began offering such benefits
last June, the court nailed down the university’s obligations.
State government also began offering gay partner
benefits to its 45,000 employees in June.
The "denial of insurance benefits to the unmarried
partners of its homosexual employees" violated the
equal protection provisions of the Oregon Constitution,
said a unanimous three-judge panel.
The state attorney general’s office said the ruling puts
sexual orientation on the same level as gendeT discriminat~
ion. ’q’his tells Oregonians that discrimination based
on sexual orientation in employment, public and private,
is illegal," said Deputy Attorney General David
Schuman.
Basic Rights Oregon, see Oregon, p. 10
DIRECTORY/LETrERS P. 2
EDITORIAL P. 3
US & WORLD NEWS P. 4
HEALTH NEWS P. 6
COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9
BOOK REVIEW P. 10
DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE P. 11
DYKE PSYCHE ~ P. 12
GAY STUDIES: ANTHROPOLOGY P. 13
CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14
¯ parade chair, or 2vfitchell Savage, picnic chair, at 743-4297.
¯ Law Group .To Offer Gay
Issues Sem,nar ,n OKC
¯ OKLAHOMA CITY-OLGLA, the Oklahoma Lesbian and Gay
Law Associauon will present a Continuing Legal Educatioh
seminar this next March (date and location to be announced),
"WhereAreWe &Vvqaere DoWeGo From Here- How to Handle
; Lesbian and Gay Law Issues", in Oklahoma City. Featured
speakers will be longtime Lesbian political and legal activist,
Paula Ettelbrick. Ettelbrick was formerly the Legal Director for
Lambda Legal Defense and Education" Fund, a national civil
¯ fights litigation organizauon. She now selwes as Legislative
Comisel for the Empire State Pride Agenda, a statewide Lesbian
." andGaypolitical organization in the State ofNew York. Ettelbrick
also teaches "Sexuality and the La~ at the Umversxty of Michigan
Law School and New York University Law School. She will
speak on "Legislatively Lawyering?"
: Also speaking will be Suzanne Goldberg, a staff attorney for
¯ Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who has been
involved in numerous cases involving the legal rights of Lesbian
and Gay citizens. Currently she is representing several Arkansas
¯ citizens in a challenge to the Arkansas "’sodomy" law. She is also
¯" counsel in the case of Equality Foundation of Greater Cincinnati
¯ v. City ofCincinnati, to contest an anti-gayballotmeasure similar to Colorado,s Amendment 2, which was struck down by the U.S.
Supreme Court in Romer v. Evans. Ms. Goldberg’s CLE topic is
¯ "’Update on Legal Issues Affecting Lesbians and Gays".
¯ Other topics will include, "’EmploymentDiscriminationAgainst
Lesbians and Gays," "Jury Nullification of Legal Protections for
¯ Lesbians and Gays," and "Best Interest of the Child: Custody
¯ Issues for Lesbian and Gay Parents.’"
Jimmy Goodman of Crowe & Dunlevv’s Oklahoma City
¯
office and Kerry Lewis from Rhodes, Hieron’ymus, Jones, Tucker
& Gable in Tulsa will moderate the sessions¯
The OLGLA is a statewide organization for attorneys who are
¯ supportive ofthelegal issues facing Lesbians and Gays.-Formore
¯ inlbmaation, call Kerry Lewis at 918-582-1173.
PrideCenter Served
With Eviction Notice
TULSA - The Pride Center, Tulsa’s Gay & Lesbian
Community Center, has been served with an
eviction notice by its landlord. TheCenter, which
is a program of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human
Rights, Inc. (TOHR) a tax-exempt, educational
not-for-profit corporation, was charged by the new
building owners with violating its lease by hanging
new vinyl signs on the south and west faces of the
upper floor, stated Center spokesperson, Greg
Gatewood. The signs read,"Gay Commumty Center
and Pride Store, Benefiting The Gay Communit)-".
Gatewood, who is a member of the TOHR board
of directors, indicated that the lease did require
getting .prior permission for any building signs
from the building owner, and that the owner alleges
that permission was not requested. Gatewood also
noted that the owner objected to the vinyl banner or
"temporary" quality of the signs. He says the owner
claims he has no objection to the content of the
signs, i.e. their "Gayness."
Gatewood did say that the organization has had
a similar vinyl sign up without objection from the
prior landlord until it was stolen and that other
tenants have had a variety of similar signs up.
However, on advice of their legal counsel, board
members have removed the signs until they can
hold a board meeting and determine a suitable
response to the building owner.
Some real estate observers have speculated that
the move on the part of the new landlord may be
motivated by the desire to move out a lower paying
tenan! and lease the space at a higher rate.
Gatewood said that the TOHR board will meet
within the next two weeks. He added that the signs,
1,000 supporters by the end of the year.
Red Rock Efforts for
Gay Youth Expand
TULSA - She has a familiar face but it’s in a new
location. Lisa Pottorf, seen by many in Tulsa’s
Lesbian and Gay co~mnunities as a guardian angel
for Gay and Lesbian youngsters, is now with Red
Rock Behavioral Health Services’ Tulsa office.
Her position was formerly held by Betsy Murphy
who came from Red Rock’s Oklahoma City programs
to open their Tulsa office.
The Tulsa office began a program for young
adults that became known as O’RYAN, Oklahoma
Rainbow Young Adult Network, an outreach organization
for Lesbian, Gay, Bi and questioning 18-
24 year olds.
The organization later created a program called
O’RYAN Jr. to provide support for youths from
14-18 years old. As part of the O’RYAN efforts, the
group IS now holding a drop-in time at the Pride
Center every Tuesday from 2:30 - 5pm.
Pottoff acts much like a surrogate morn to most
of those who attend the group, though she, as she
¯ ° puts it, is ably assisted by Ken Draper, who began
¯ working with the program as a volunteer.
¯ Red Rock also does free, confidential HIV test-
. ing at the Pride Center on Tuesdays from 5-8 pm
¯ and at their offices at 1724 Fast Sth on Wednesdays
¯ from 5-8pm. Their office which is adjacent to the
¯ Center for the Physically Limited also provided
¯ mental health support for that organization.
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria
*Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
*Jason’s Ddi, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
¯ *TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd~ "
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585-3134
599-7777
749-1563
744-4280
745-9998
834-4234
585-3405
.6.60.-0856
584-1308
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 747-1508
*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 Booksdlers, 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
Brookside Jewdry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313-
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556
*Elite BoOks & Videos, 821 S. Sheri,dan 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th ’" 584-0337, 712-9379
*Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744~9595
Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980UticaSq. Med. Ctr. 628-3709
*Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
Learme M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440
*Sandra ~. Hill, MS~ Psychotherapy, 2865,E. Skelly 745-1111
*International .Tours 341-6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. [5th 712-2750
*Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582~3018
David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236.
*Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 747-5466
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319 E 3rd 584-3112
Miugo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951
Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 743-4297
Rainb0wz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 747-5932
Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746
Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 582-7748
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
Paul Tay, Car Salesman 260-7829
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017
*Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counsding 743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767
Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & U niversities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 579-9593
*All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Pe0iia 743-2363
Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-7314
Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815
*B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Cir. 583-9780.
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence
*Church ofthe Restoration UU, 1314 N.Greenwood 587-1314
*Community ofHope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
*Council Oak Men’s Chorale 585-COMC (2662)
*Ddaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712-1511
*Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457
Dignity/integrity of Tulsa - Lesbian & Gay Catholics &
" Episcopalians, POB 701475,74170-1475 355-3140
*Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441
*Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777
*Free SpiritWomen’s Center, call for location&info: 587-4669
918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa. OK 74159
e-mall: TulsaNews@ earthlink.net
website; http://users.aol.com/TulsaNews/
Publisher + Editor:
Tom Neal
Writers + e0ntributors:
James Christjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud
Barry. Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom
Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Adam West
Member of The Associated Press
Issued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this
~4uc,~blication are protected by US copyright 1998
by.TJ
arid may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without
written pemaission from the publisher. Publication of a name or
photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence
is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,_rpust
be signed & becomes the sole property of TJ.~
Each .reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at distribution
points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248.
Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827
Friends in Unit3’ Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0438
*HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 583-6611
*HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral 834-4194
¯
*Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st 481-1111
¯ HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education 834-8378
¯¯ HIV Testing, Mon/Thurs. 7-9pm, daytime by appt. only
*House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood
¯ Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
¯ *MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715
¯ NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral P1. 748-3111 ¯
NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 365-5658
¯ OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157
." *Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 584-7960
¯ PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 749-4901 ¯
*Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 587-7674
¯ *The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 743-4297
Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152
¯ *R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195
Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 " 665-5174
¯ *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724E. 8" ".~ .... 584-2325
¯ O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults
¯ O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14z17 LGBT youth
St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 425-7882
¯ *St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 492-7140
¯ *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 582-3088
*Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder 583-7171
¯ TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225
." Tulsa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 595-4105
¯ Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only ¯
Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297
¯ T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222
: *Tulsa City Hall, GroundFloor Vestibule
¯ *Tulsa Community College Campuses ¯
*Rogers University (formerly UCT)
¯ BARTLESVILLE
: *Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353
": OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN
¯ *Borders Books &Music, 3209NWExpressway 405848-2667
¯
*Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907
¯ TAHLEQUAH
¯ *Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900
¯ *Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 918-456-7900
¯ *Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-453-9360
: NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand
: HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for dates
¯
EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
¯ *Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 501-253-7734
*Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-7457
DeVito’s Restaurimt, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807
¯
*Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445
¯ MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337
¯ Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-2776
¯ Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-5332
¯
Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646
¯ Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-6001
: *White Light, 1 Center St. 501-253-4074
¯ FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5
¯ *Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442-2845
¯ JOPLIN, MISSOURI
¯ *Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696
¯ * is where you can find TFN. Notall are Gay-owned butall are Gay-friendly.
Remember Matthew Shepard
by Donating Books to the
University of Wyoming
A Different Light bookstore is offering
a unique way to honor Matthew Shepard.
Customers can purchase any new hardcover
book and donate it "In Memory of
Matthew."
The collection of books will then be
sent to the Universtiy ofWyoming, where
Shepard was a student. Each donated
book will have a bookplate stating, ’q’his
.book was donated inmemory ofMatthew
Shepard: 1976-1998."
A list of suggested titles is available at
the store, including books specifically requested
by the University of Wyoming
library. A Different Light is at 8853 Santa
Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.
For more details, call 310.854.6601.
- via e-mail
Editor’s note: A Different Light is one of
the US’s oldest Gay & Lesbian independent
bookstores with locations in Los
Angeles and New York City.
Scouting for All
Dear Scouting For All Supporters,
So far over this last year Scouting For
All has collected dose to 28,000 signatures.
My goal is one million. I am asking
youall to standwithmeinmyeffort to end
discrimination by the Boy Scouts of
: America against Gay kids and adults.
¯ My dad and I, with the help of friends,
: collecteddoseto3,000 signatures inNew
¯" York and over 5,000 signatures in San
¯ Francisco in just 3 days. Alex, a tender-
: foot scout in the midwest who is support-
~ ing me, collectb,d 400 signatures himsdf.
: Alex is 12 years old!
¯ Every signature helps and represents’a
¯ voice of protest. If we really want to see
: this policy of discrimination change I am
] asking all of you to step up our efforts of
: getting signatures. I am asking each of
¯ you to collect at least 100 signatures.
~ By collecting signatures you also edu-
: cate thepublic thatagreat youthorganiza-
¯ tion in America, the Boy Scouts of
: America, has one thing wrong about it.
-" It teaches us scouts to discriminate
against people who they say are different
- who they say don’t have family values.
How can the Boy Scouts of America say
that?They mustnotknow any Gay people
like I do. If they did they’d change their
policy against Gays tomorrow.
I am asking your help to make the Boy
Scouts a better program that’s for all kids.
To getblank copies ofthepetition, go to
out website at:
http://www.scouting~forall.org/
petition.htm
and print out as many copies as you need.
There’s an address at the bottom where
you can mail completed petitions back to
US.
I’m proud to be a scout. I’m just doing
whattheBoy Scouts ofAmericahas taught
me to do, to help make the earth a better
place for all people-notjustsomepeople.
Thanks. - Steven Cozza
13 year-old Life Rank Scout
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To those who’ve been watching Brookside’ s increasingly
upscale redevelopment, it should come as little surprise that
The Pride Center would be threatened with eviction. Since
it opened, one local developerandhis partners havemade the
old John Zink industrial site (about a mile south of the
Center) into moderately expensive homesites, office and
retail spaces. Across the street from the Center, an old
warehouse was renovated into a trendy bakery and fancy
medical offices. The success of Brookside’s north end
dearly is spurring developers to move south along Peoria.
Therefore, when the building in which the Pride Center is
located was sold recently to owners associated with the
Brook Restaurant, it struck some as ’~andwriting on the
wall". The current tenants, most of whom are on limited
budgets, were likely to get priced out as the new owner
sought to renovate the spaces and lease them for more
money. Few thought that this wguldhappenrightaway since
the Center has a three year lease that began in late 1997.
However, as the articleon page one indicates, the landlord
claims that the Center organizers hung signs (Gay Community
Center and Pride Store) in violation of their lease and
thereforeheis seeking to break the lease. Center spokesman,
Greg Gatewood says that the owner claims he is not troubled
by the content of the signs (i.e. Gay) but rather the quality of
the signs (vinyl versus some othe~material) and lack of prior
permission. Center organizers note that these signs were not
new but merely were replacements for earlier authorized
signs whichhad been Stolen. Center organizers also note that
other tenant businesses have similar vinyl signs.
Obviously, as a non-profit organization, the Pride Center,
and its parent organization, Tulsa Okl~i~omans for Human
Rights, Inc. has limited funds for rent. The notion of a
community center has been a challenge for Tulsa’s Gay and
Lesbian community which often seems very, very fragmented.
Support for the Center has, frankly, not been what
it should be. Fortunately, that has been changing. Slowly,
people have been realizing that .the Center is thtre. In fa~t;
the Signs~:liavebeen successful,in attracting new locals and
out-of-towners to the Center.
No doubt, Center organizers and their capable legal comasel
will do their best to resolve this matter in a manner that
is fair to all parties. Andhopefully, anti=Gay bias is not really
part of the issue. But the lesson we need to draw from this is
that weneed to startnow onabuilding fundendowment with
which we can own our space. Then any decisions to move
will be ours.
Some will say that is unrealistic- that we don’t have the
resources. They said much the same about the Pride Center
once. Frankly, there are individuals in our community who
could substantially underwrite such an endowment. I won’t
name names, though many of you know them wall enough.
In the larger community, there are also resources such as
the newly formed. Tulsa Community Foundation spearheaded
by banker George Kaiser. This new organization is
drawing on the resources and generosity of some of Tulsa’s
mostprominentfamilies andbusinesses, Schusterman, Bank
of Oklahoma, Williams, Zarrow, Bartmann, Bama Cos.,
Helmerich & Payne, etc. just to mention specifically the
families and businesses that have ties to Gay Tulsans.
Kaiser has said that he supports treating Lesbian and Gay
Tulsans fairly and implied that this foundation would likely
do.the same. Let us contrast this with Tulsa Area United
Way’s funding of organizations, like the homophobic Boy
Scouts ofAmerica, whichpromotes religiously-basedpreju-
At a national level, there are foundations that will specifically
assist Lesbian and Gay groups or projects, such as the
Kellogg Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Gill
Foundation. The latter should be high priority for Tulsans
since it specifically targets "rural" projects and Foundation
guidelines classify anything under 1.5 million as rural ! And
it can’t hurt that several prominent Tulsans now claim close
ties to Tim Gill, creator ofQuark software and founder of the
Gill Foundation.
However, to get from here to there, we are going to have
to start seeing a future. Too often we’ve just reacted to one
assault or another, whether it was a directly physical one, the
ongoing emotional battering that just being Gay in America
entails, or the bullying and/or cowardice of our elected
officials. Now is the time to build for our future.
If you want to help the Community Center, call 743-
GAYS (4297).
It’sasadcommentary on our fine state that the annual :
gathering of "our elected representatives" should be ¯
fraught with dread by Oklahoma’s Lesbian and Gay ."
citizens, our families and our friends.
We know we can count on at least one or
two virulently anti-Gay bills. These usually
are patently unconsfitutonal but they’ll get
the votes of all but one or two ofmembers of
the Oklahoma House because those members
are too cowardly to vote for anything
that resembles treating Gay Oklahomans
like equal human being. Fortunately, usually
the Oklahoma Senate behaves more
wisely.
And Cimarron Alliance, despite having
entirely too many pretentious queens formy
taste (note that I’m not referring toits Tulsa
representatives), is beginning to do some
good at least with Democratic Party leaders.
Some of this is just the result of money - no
matter what the politicians say, political
donations do buy the ears of most politicians.
Don’t believe me? Look at the source
ofpolitical dollars, then look at who benefits
from majority of those votes.
progress.
Now here’s what you can do to make a difference:
Cimarron reports that Oklahoma House leadership has
Cimarron . . . is
beginning to do
some good at lca~t
w~tk Democratlc
Party leader~.
Some of tlds is
just the result ot~
money - no
matter what tke
dPoonlalttm.icnlasndsosabyu,y
the cars o~ most
pollt-ldans. Don’t
believe me~ Look
at tke source o~
political dollars,
then look at who
benefits., .
made several committee chair assignments
to fair minded individuals. In particular, one
committee which is often the gate through
which anti-Gay legislation passes, has been
assigned to Tulsan Betty Boyd. Mrs. Boyd,
known to many in Tulsa for her work as a
television journalist, needs to hear from us.
A few years ago, interviewing her after she
(and every other member of the House save
one) voted for an anti-Gay bill, she said that
the.call fromTFN was literally the first she’d
received about Lesbianand Gay issues. This,
despite the fact that I personally know a"
number ofher Lesbian and Gay constituents~
Bottom line: you won’t be represented unless
you call!!!
The other thing you can do is to send
Cimarron some money. Many of us have
little to spare and many of us wonder if
becoming a member of the Cimarron PAC
(political action committee) at.$20 a month
is "do-able." However, the Cimarron Foun-
But just as much a part of what’s helping dation, the tax-exempt group associated with
at the Capitolis the ongoing work of a Cimarron officer, the PAC sets no minimum on donations. It is the entity
Keith Smith who lobbies for several progressive orga- ¯ that sponsored the bus stop advertisements, "Gay or
nizations. Smith and I have disagreed on issues before, ~ Straight, Everyone Deserves a Job" both here and in
and may again, but it is his steady presence, quietly : Oklahoma City. Every bit helps. So when you’re thinkvoicing
the concerns of Lesbian and Gay Oklahomans ¯ ing about buying that new sweater, CD, or going out to
as he does his other work, that has won us some. ¯ eat again, consider w.hat price our freedom is worth.
by James Christjohn . " much later. I suddenly wasn’t able tO breathe, and the
ThisChrislmas Eve, somethinghappenedthatehanged~ ". cal~ .tiaras.t. had .gotten~me .tO ~that pointvevaporate& 1
my life~ Iwascelebrating the holiday with friends, and ." started hyperventilating. About this time, my phone
suddenly felt compelled to return to my rang - it was Tom, readytocomegetme, and
apartment. I didn’t have to; I could have I called 911. askingaslewofquestious.Inbetweengasps
stayed the night, but it was important to Looking back, of air, I told him "I’m fine, you don’t need
return to that place. I got home, noticed a I can laugh -"I’m (gasp) to come (gasp) get me. (gasp) I’ll be
strange smellin theentry hall. Acrid, almost in a smoRe ~illed over (gasp) after (gasp) while." So he said,
oily. I entered my abode, and thought "Boy,
apartment, at doubtfully, "OK... Grab what you need and
do I need to dean my glasses!" Then I come on over."
looked over the frames, and saw that the xxyy street." The fireman came out and said the
haze was not from dirty glasses, but smoke "You’re at xxyy guydownstairshadbeenusingaspaceheater
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apartment. I immediately went to the gas xxyy street." "Is tied into two extension cords; The cords
heater, shut it down. Well, that didn’t help- that in Tulsa.~’" were lightweight (heating appliances need
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might want to vacate the premises." "I am smoke obvious place of one of my trademark reready
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phone with you!" She got the hint. "~v’ell, sir, ff tke take?How does one decide? I wanted to take
I left takingmycordless phone, andknock- room is smoke it all. Allthe gifts that are symbols of the
ing on all the doors. No one came out, or ~iled, you mi~kt love and people that gave them to us; the
even opened the door. I heard the sirens of prized possessions that we .surround ourthe
fire trucks approaching. I calmly called want to vacate
my landlord, and informed his answering tke premises." "I
selves with, all symbols really, but symbols
that remind us of who we are, and the ones
machine of the events. I then called my ex, am ready to do we love. I settled on a picture morn sent me
Tom, andleftamessageonhismachine.The just tlmt, as soon for Christmas - a photo ofme taken in 1970,
fire folk arrived. (One of whom was very holding my prize possession at the time - a
attractive funny wha! you notice under as I ~et off tke - diecastmodel ofChitty Chitty Bang Bang. It
suchcircumstances.)They went throughmy pkone w~tk you.p’ was all I could think of to take at the time,
apartment, and couldn’t find a fire-just lots Ske got tke ldnt. because I knew it was irreplaceable. And a
of smoke. They looked in the attic, noting memento of a rare time in my childhood
that the smoke was throughout the building. At that : when I was happy. So off I went.
point, I thought, "What am I doing in here’?" I decided ¯ I never knew how devastating something like this
to leave the building again, and then as I was going ¯ could be. Panic attacks are no small thing - I never
down, both I and the hunky firefighter heard smoke : understood them until now. A smell reminiscent of that
alarm, finally going off in the apartment below mine. ¯ smoke can tighten my chest to the point of not being
They busted in the door, and smoke billowed out. " able to breathe. Tears come unbidden, for no reason.
My worst fear is dying by fire - due to probably : Fear of being alone leads you to surround yourself with
haviug been hiu-nt at the stake in a previous life. (Those :- people, to reassure yourself in some way that you are
of you who know me will probably agree.) I had never ¯ alive, that you didn’t end up dying after all. It’s irratiohad
a panic attack, so I didn’t know what hit me until " nal, you know it, see Viewpoint, p. 14
Utah to Look at
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or tegofize someone~ddeprive them of 6eir constimfion~
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h~l~g raci~ slurs at a black womb.
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bring pe~e~a~ ag~nst ~oups of people. "We
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Gay Mens’ Killer Gets
168 Year Sentence
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A 20-year-old killer
smirked after being told through an interpreter that he
probably would spend the rest of his life in prison in
the deaths of three Gay men.
Ricardo Rodriguez was the first of four defendants
to go on trial in the 1997 slayings. He was sentenced
to the maximum term - 168 years - after he was
convicted in November on 13 counts, including firstdegree
murder and kidnapping.
With three consecutive life sentences, each 30
years without parole, and three consecutive 18-year
terms for tirst-degree kidnapping, "in ~1 likelihood
Mr. Rodriguez will die in prison," stag prosecutor
Jody Curran.
The bodies of Victor Monzon, 41, and Jesus
Contreras, 30, were foundbound, beaten and strangled
in an Albuquerque motel in February 1997. The
decomposed body of Osvaldo Travieso, 37, was
found dumped along Interstate 25 near Santa Fe two
weeks later. The four defendants were arrested m
Salinas, Kan., driving Monzon’s car.
Indian Police
Harass Gays
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Police are preventing
Gays from going to a park in the north Indian city of,
LuCknow following protests from thepublic that they
were having sex there, an official said Thursdw.
Policemen have been posted at the GPO Park, a
popular rendezvous for the city’s Gays, said police.
spokesman R. S. Tomar. "Police will not allow male
couples into the park if they kmow they are GWs...
Pol icemen will ask them if they are Gay. If they hold
hmxds or are demonstrative about their affection:
we,ll suspect them of being Gay," he said in m~
interview
State prosecutor S
of parks violates :ivi; ri~i~vs, m~,> :.[i police ;krc
pzoles[ the Dohcc
Publicdisplay of a~ Iection cvcn b::~wecn a mm~ m~d
a wom~m is rare in h:dia, where man} believe homosexuMs
exists ouly in Westen~ nations
Hawaii Marriage Update
HONOLULU (AP) No further legislation is needed
on same-sex marriage, according to the state attorney
general" s office. Attoniey General Margery Bronster" s
office submitted a brief to the state Supre~ne Court
swing the consntutional amendinent approved bv
voters last month validates the current state ban on
same-sex mamage and that no further action is required.
After the amendment was approved, the Supreme
Court, Which is considering an appeal in the case,
asked the state and attorneys for three Gay couples to
submit briefs on how the amendment affects the case.
Civil liberties attorney Dan Foley, who represents the
couples, said he will submit a brief with a different
op~mon.
Senate Judiciary co-chairman Matt Matsunaga said
le~slators will have to determine if approval of
additional legislation.would help or hurt the attorney
general’s case or make no difference.
The Supreme Co.urt earlier ruled that the state’s ban
on same-sex mamage ~s unconstatutional unless the
state can show a compelling interest in Continuing the
ban. During a subsequent trial, Circuit Judge Kevin
Chang ruled that the state had failed to show a
compelling reason for continuing the ban.
The Supreme Court was considering the state’s
appeal of that ruling, but put the case on hold pending
outcome ofthe vote on the constitutional amendment.
Two Banned
Gay Books Restored
BARRON, V¢is. (AP) - Two of four books banned
because of vulgar language have been temporarily
returned to school library shelves while educators
search for a less explicit book on the same subject,
homosexuality. The school board reached a compromise
to restore thebooks,’q’woTeen-agers inTwenty"
and "When Someone You Know Is Gay" for 90 days
at the Barton High School library.
School mediadirector Irene Cooley was directed tofind
areplacement book dealing with homosexuality,
but without profanity and vulgarity. The books and
two others were banned because school board members
said they contained profane language. At its
meeting, the board voted to continue the ban on the
other books, "Baby Be-bop" and "The Drowning of
Stephan Jones."
The books were removed permanently because of
"’pervasively vulgar language, educational unsuitability
and failure of the book to reflect the
community’s values," said Superintendent Vita
Sherry.
About 60 people turned out for the board’s meeting,
with the crowd about evenly divided on whether
to maintain the bookban. "If we allow books with this
language, should we allow our children to speak like
this?" said one supporter of the ban, Bill Balz. Opponent
Mike Urseth said the ban infringed on intellectual
freedom. "In tiffs case, the freedom to learn,"
Urseth said. "Please put the books back on the shelf."
Board members said their action on the books was
based on complaints of profane language, not be:
cause they deal with homosexuality. The American
Civil Liberties [;mon of \Vi~c(msi~ ~onndation said
~n a statement ~t amic,,pates fili:..-t~ a ~’edera! lawsuit
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Texas Sodomy Challenge
HOUSTON (AP) - A challenge to Texas’s 119-yearold
anti-sodomy law has been sent to a Texas appeals
court, the latest step in a privacy rights case that could
wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court. A decision by
that court could effect anti-sodomy laws on the books in
18 states, including Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.
In the Texas case, John Lawrence, 55, and Tyrone
Garner, 31, were arrested Sept. 17 in Lawrence’s apartment
and charged with engaging in homosexual conduct,
a misdemeanor. Both pleaded no contest last
month, but appealed with a motion to quash the charges.
Judge Sherman A. Ross dismissed the motions. Under
an agreement reached with prosecutors, Lawrence and
Garner again pleaded no contest. The judge fined them
$200 each and allowed the immediate filing oftheir new
appeals.
The case may end up before the Supreme Court
because Garner and Lawrence’s challenges are based
on state and federal constitutional questions involving
privacy rights. "I believe in the Constitution of the
United States and I believe in the rights of all citizens,"
Lawrence said. "Would you like someone busting into
your house?"
Harris County deputies entered Lawrence’s apartment
and found the men engaged in consensual sex. The
deputies were res.ponding to a false report that someone
was going crazy ~n the apartment and was armed with a
gun, according to court documents.
Although on the books for more than a century, the
Texas sodomy law is rarely enforced. Gay activists hav(
worked unsuccessfully for years to overturn the statute
there and in 17 other states that have sodomy statutes
barring consensual anal or oral sex. Five of those states,
includingOklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, specifically
ban sodomy between same-sex partners, according to
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., a
Gay-rights group based in New York.
The Georgia Supreme Court in November struck
down that state’s sodomy law, following similar decisions
by courts in Kentucky, Montana and Tennessee,
and sodomy laws in Arkansas and Louisiana are under
currently attack in state courts.
Kansas" law was upheld as constitutional earlier this
year after a three-judge panel of the state Court of
Appeals refused to overturn a municipal court misdemeanor
convicuon involving a Topeka man.
Montana May Add Gays
to Hate Crimes Law
HELENA (AP) - Attorney General Joe Mazurek says
he will proceed with plans to ask the 1999 Legislature
to extend the state hate-crimes law to cover Gays and
Lesbians. But the proposal faces opposition from conservatives,
who say it would advance what they call "the
homosexual agenda".
Mazurek, a Democrat, is asking for two changes to
the current hate-crimes law. First, sexual orientation
would join the protected ranks of race, creed, religion,
color, national origin and involvement in civil rights.
And second, a harsher sentence would be allowed for
those who commit a crime and choose their victim for
those same reasons.
"We hope this would prevent people from commitung
what are already criminals acts against another
person, solely because that person is Gay or Lesbian,"
said Mazurek. %~rhat we’re trying to do is ensure that
people don’t become victims simply for something they
believe in or a lifestyle they lead.’"
The question of v~olence against Gays and Lesbians
was stirred up this year after the murder in Laramie,
Wyo., of Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming
student who was openly Gay. Several human rights
groups in Montana have said" the crime committed in
Laramie could easily have happened here and anti-hate
crime legislation is necessary to quash any notion that
such crimes are acceptable.
Similar attempts have failed in past legislative sessions.
But this group of lawmakers may be more willing
to make the change, one Republican leader said. "I want
to keep an openmind about that 1 egislation," said Senate
Majority Leader John Harp, R-K*dispel!. Harp said
nobody could condone what happened to Shepard.
Republican Gov. Marc Racicot has said he wonld
sign anti-hate crime legislation that protects homosexuals.
But the proposed changes will not come without
opposition. Arlette Randash, a Helena resident
who works as a lobbyist for the socially conservative
Eagle Forum, said her group will fight against
the measures. She said the changes are not needed
because such acts already are illegal, and she sees
the proposed change as a furtherance of a homosexual
agenda.
"I believe that hate crime legislation, in large
part, is being used as a front to move the homosexual
agenda forward so It is accepted by people
as an accepted standard in our community," she
added. Also, Randash said, "We don’t give people
special status based on behavior alone."
On the other hand, Mazurek said, it’s essential to
let people know hate-driven actions aren’t acceptable.
"We as a society are saying we are tolerant of
people’s views and lifestyles," said Mazurek.
Gay Man Assaulted
in Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE,R.I. (AP)-Twomenwere charged
with a hate crime in the assault of a man leaving a
Gay and Lesbian bar in Providence. On Nov. 26,
19-year-old David E. Sheldon of East Providence
and 18-year-old Taylor Grenier of Warren allegedly
initiated the attack by yelling anti-Gay slurs at
Diana Obidowski, The Providence Journal reported.
Police report that the two teens had gotten bored
at a party in East Providence and had driven downtown.
When they saw Obidowski, they got out of
their car, ran to him, knocked him down and kicked
him in the head and ribs, police said.
When Obidowski tried to run, the teens allegedly
knocked him down agmn, kicked him and punched
him in the. face. The incident ended when two
Providence police cruisers arrived.
¯ Obidowski, a 44-year-old Air Force veteran, was
treated at the Veterans Administration Medical
Center in Providence. He had cuts that he said
required 12 stitches. He was released the same day.
Obidowski is a tall transvestite who wears ladies"
size 13 shoes, but was not dressed as a woman on
the night of the attack, television station WJAR in
Cranston reported.
The teens accused in the beating face simple
assault charges in District Court under the state
Hate Crimes Sentencing Act. The law, passed by
the state legislature in July, requires offenders to
receive sentences of at least 30 days in jail.
Obidowski said he "’very, very impressed" with
how police handled their investigation. ’qhey made
me very comfortable," he told WJAR.
There were 44 hate crimes last year, including 25
in Providence. According to Bay Windows, a Gay
newspaper, there were at least six anti-Gay attacks
in Providence last summer.
Internet Bank to Target
Gays and Lesbians
PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) - When banks refused
to finance his planned Gay and Lesbian
resort, Steven Dunlap scrapped that idea and decided
to start a financial institution that would
welcome homosexuals instead of spurn them. The
result is G and L Bank - the initials stand for Gay
and Lesbian - expected to open here in the spring.
Not only would it be the only bank in the United
S tates catering specifically to homosexuals, itwould
be one o,f the first operating primarily via the
Internet. q’he whole deal is to take banking away
from you having to go to the bank and let us bring
the bank to you," Dunlap said. He envisions Gays
and Lesbians as an entry market but not the bank’s
sole customer base. "Just like Federal Express is
doing to overnight delivery, I expect to be the No.
1 brandnamein the Interact banking arena," Dunlap
said. Bold talk, but Dunlap, 42, has some unique
business credentials to back it up. He went from
selling watermelons see Bank, p. 11
Reporting May expenditures on patients.
"Compared to what we spend on all Discourage Tests? ~nds of other things, it’s just not that
ATLANTA(AP) - Some Gay men are muchmoney"for the governmentto spend,
avoiding testing for theAIDS virus in part " said project co-director Dr. Samuel A.
because they don’t want their names re- Bozzette, a health care researcher at
ported to the federal government, accord- RAND, the Santa Monica, California,
ing to a new study from the Centers for think tank overseeing the government-
Disease Control and Prevention. sponsored research.
The CDC said the survey, released re- The $20,000 tab is roughly one-third of
cenfly, underscores the need to continue the estimates from the early 1990s, when
government funding for anonymous HIV firm figures were hard to come by, and
testing, even as the agency asks states to before the advent of AIDS drug cocktails
start keeping names of people who get that have proven powerfnlly effective in
treated for the virus that causes AIDS. fending off the disease and keeping pa-
Earlier, theCDCpublishednew recom- tients out of the hospital. The stud)’ was
mendafions in which it asked all states to
¯ conducted in 1996, just as the combinabegin
reporting HIV cases either with the tion therapy was coming into widespread
person’ s name or anidentifying code. The use. It found 55% of people being treated
CDCsaystheinformationwillhdphealth for HIV were taking one of the newer
officials track HIV cases before they be- AIDS drugs by December 1996. Doctors
come full-blown AIDS. But some activ-
¯ >elieve use of the new drugs has since
ists believe privacy concerns will steer risen sharply.
some away from being tested at all. The study estimated that only half of all
The CDC surveyed 556 people in nine American adults infected with the AIDS
states in late 1995 and 1996 who were
" virus saw their doctor at least once every
considered at high risk forHIV but said six months. Many of those not getting
they had not been tested, They included " are were unaware they were infected.
homosexuals, intravenoUsdrug users and However, an encoura~ng 85% of those
heterosexuals recruited from clinics for with full-blown AIDS were getting regusexually
transmitted diseases. 19% said lar care, with most of them seeing AIDS
not wanting their names reported was one specialists.
reason they had not been tested. Only 2%
Early treatment can slow the disease,
said it was their main reason. Gay men
extend’lifespan and save money by reducliving
in states that already report~names ing hospitalizations. The study was pubwere
more concerned about privacy. 35% lished in The New England Journal of
of that group said name reporting was one Medicine. It was based on interviews of
reasonthey avoidedtesting..Still, the.most 3,072 people treated in hospitals or doccommon
reason for not getung te.stext ~.vas
tots’ offices in dozens of urban and rural
that people were afraid of learmng they
-areas around the country.
were .IV-positive.
Arkansas Accused
Ukraine to Provide of Poor HIV Care
Free HIV Medicines LrrrLEROCKC’ P -Ifyouhav AIDS
ment has ordered the free distribution of
treatment for the deadly disease, Arkanmedicine
to those infected with the HIV sas is a less than ideal place to be. The
virus and AIDS, a news report noted. In a state is one of only ahandful that contrib~
recently released resolution, the Cabinet utes no money to help people with the
also introduced free medical examina-
AIDS virus buy thenew drugs for treating
tions for .people suspected of carrying
the disease, either through joint federal
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the
¯ ~rograms or special state programs.
It is one of 13 states that contributes no
Interfaxnews agency reported. The report
didnotspecifywhichmedicineswouldbe money to the joint federal-state AIDS
distributed.
Drug Assistance Program, according to
The number of people infected with
GaryRose, directorofpublicpolicyforan
HIV in Ukraine, a nation of 50 million AIDS national network. Rose says Atpeople,
has soared to 23,000 people, up kansas has the "worst ADAP program."
from 18,500 in mid-1997, according to It is one of seven states - Arkansas,
govemment statistics. 80%oftheinfeeted Alaska, Montana, North and South Dawere
intravenous drug users,
kota, Oregon and Wyoming - that con-
~l~ae official figure is larger than in any tributes no money specifically for the
otherformer Soviet republic. Russia, with treatment ofAIDS and those with the HI¥
three times as many people, has reported virus that causes AIDS. Of those seven
10,283 eases, though the actual figure is states, all but Oregon have significantly
thought to be higher, fewer AIDS patients than Arkansas, and
In its resolution, the Cabinet also or- Oregon offers a special high-risk insurdered
the Foreign Ministry.to-make sure ance program for AIDS patients, Rose
that foreign .citizens staying in Ukraine says. Boiled down, Arkansas’ situation is
for more than three months have docugrim,
he adds.
ments certifying they are not infected The Ryan White Center in Little Rock
with HIV. Some 642 Ukrainians have helps patients buy drugs, but the center is
contractedAIDS over thelast decade, and so strapped for money it has stopped takhalf
of them have died, according to goving
new cases. ’%Vhat can we do?" says
emment data. Susan Goggans, the center’s director of
client services. "We can’t afford to pay AIDS CaroCosts ¯ foreverybody-we’vereachedastopping
¯ point."
Less Titan Tlaouglat " Theagen~y gets amonthly $30,270in
AIDS Drug Assistance Program money
Care for AIDS padents in the United " from the federal government. Usually,
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believed - about $20,000 per person per : addition, the center offers counseling,
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Through the drug assistance program,
each of the center’s 272 clients take drugs
costingfrom $1,000-$2,000 every month.
But federal help doesn’t go far enough to
pay for the most expensive drugs, the
protease inhibitors, and the center often
relies on pharmaceutical companies’ patient
assistance programs to provide the
drugs for free.
Goggans says that because Arkansas
does not cover purchases of protease inhibitors,
the Ryan White Center is in a
"drug crisis." Patients taking the life-giving
but expensive protease inhibitors often
spend a large percentage of their time
chasing the drugs - trying to eke out
money from government agencies or get
drugs donated from pharmaceutical companies.
"It’s just not enough money,"
Goggans says. "We’re not doing what
other states are doing. We’re not giving
the best care we can."
Since April 1997, the Center’s caseload
has nearly doubled from 156 to 272 because
more AIDS-HIV patients are seeking
treatment and living longer. But the
$30,270 in federal funds the local center
receives through the Ryan White Care
Act has remained the same since early
1997.
SomeAIDS and HIV patientsotry to get
their medical treatment covered by
Medicaid’s medically needy program. But
many have incomes considered too high.
Patients must.reapply every three months
and often are left without coverage during
the weeks their applications are reviewed
Also, patients can’t reapply before the
¯ three-month coverage period is over. and
have to wait two week~ to-~a moffth -
sometimeslonger until theircoverageis
renewed.
Dr. Henry Masters, fonner medical director
for the health department’s AIDS
and sexually transmitted diseases division.
now treats more than 250 AIDS and
HIV patients. Masters says the criteria to
qualify for Medicaid were designed for
people with one-time medical bills, not
those with chronicillnesses. "I believe the
Medicaid system that we are using to deal
with HIV is the worst that could have ever
been dremned up," Masters says. "It’s a
very cumbersome program that results in
people starting and stopping their HIV
medicines. This is a recipe for disaster."
If a patient on protease inhibitors takes
a break from the drugs, HIV can mutate
and re-establish itself in drug-resistant
strains, making protease inlfibitors ineffective.
Even if patients manage to get the
drugs the)’ need between coverage periods.
the not -knowing whether they’ll be
covered in the future can be an all-consuming
worry, Masters says¯ "It’s stressfnl
and I think it actually worsens their
immune function," Masters says.
Officials with the state Human Services
Department-acknowledge the pro~am
isn’t perfect. Roy Jeffus, assistant director
of the department’s Medical Services
Division, says Arkansas may seek a Medicaid
waiver that would all-ow patients
with chronic diseases, such as AIDS, to
qualify for Medicaid even if their income
level or assets are too high.
Also, Gary Horton, directorof the Health
Department’s AIDS-STD Division, says
the state next year expects to see a30% to
40% reduction in the price of drugs from
.pharmaceutical companies. The state plans
to reinvest the saved money in more drugs,
including protease imhibitors, for an AIDS
Dru/ Assistance Program, he says. In
a&~i~iop.. ,’.he state will receive abou~
q~";:"o"tV,,’.!..’.)(0,: ) :uore ,ro~4 ~he icdc3:a! gcwemmerit
for AIDS drugs next year, he says.
The1998 federal budget for Arkansas’
AIDS Drug Assistance Program was $2.5
million.
Colombians Stress
Condom Use
¯ BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Size does
." matter- at least as far as ColombianAIDS
: activists are concerned. The activists pa-
¯ raded an enormous inflated condom
~ through the streets of the country’s third
largest city hoping to draw attention to the
¯ threat of AIDS. ’The idea is for people to
¯ realize that the disease exists, that it’s ¯
here, and that it represents a far greater
." threat than the condom we’re display-
. ing,"Dr. John Jairo Palacio told reporters.
¯ Themockprophylactic, which weighed
: roughly 3,000 pounds, stretched over a
: half-mile down a holiday street fair in
¯ Call acity of two million inhabitants.
¯ The huge plastic condom was the idea
¯ of doctors specializing in sexually-trans-
¯ mitted diseases at the Santiago de Cali
¯ ¯ University and workers from drug rehabilitation
programs. Palacio said the
¯ condom took two months to build at a cost
¯ $13,000, and was paid for by the univer-
¯ sity and a condom manufacturer.
¯ Homeless PLWA
Changes Policy
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - It’s been a
tough 3ear for Patrick Biggers since he
was evicted from a homeless shelter in
Ellsworth two days before Clmstmas beca~
ise he has the virus that causes AIDS. ,4
chef who worked at some of the uation’s
finest restaurants, Biggers remains home-
" les s and has been unable to return to work.
He underwent triple bypass surgery three
months ago. But unlike last year, Biggers,
36, was not alone on Christmas. And he
takes comfort in knowing that somettfing
good has emerged from his ordeal in
Ellsworth: a policy to promote AIDS
awareness and education that he hopes
might become a model for shelters in
Maine and across the country.
The night of Dec. 23, 1997, when the
manager of the Emmaus Center ordered
Biggers to leave, remains etched in his
memory. He was told that his HIV status
posed a needless risk to residents and
staff. Biggers said his "dangerous behavior"
included talking about hi s condition,
handling a coffee cup, setting the table,
asking to pick up a baby and having sores
on the back of his hands, even though
there was no fresh blood in sight. The 22-
bed shelter arranged to put him up temporarily
in a hotel.
AIDS activists directed him to the
Mnerican Civil Liberties Union, which
concluded that the Ea-nmaus Center violated
the Americans with Disabilities Act
by discriminating against him because he
is HIV-posifive and has hepatitis C. The
ACLU filed a complaint on Biggers’ behalf
to the Maine Human Rights Commission,
asking H.O.M.E. Inc.~ the non-profit
operator of the Emmaus Center, to estab2
lish a non-discriminatory policy and be
required to pay Biggers $10,000 in damages.
The case was quickly settled.
H.O.M.E., which had replaced the shelter
manager even before the complaint
was filed, did not dispute Biggers’ assertions
and agreed to write a letter of apology,
adopt the new policy and begin education
and training. The agreemen~ set the
s~a,,e.., for devdopmer_,t of a_. five-session
I started to say that since it’s winter,
Tulsa’s arts scene is happening big time
but then if you think
about it, pretty much
ye.ar-round Tulsa is
blessed with arts events
of generally very good
quality. Already early
information is coming
"out about spring and
summerperformances,
like Bartlesville’s annual
OK Mozart Festival,
now known for its
world class perf0rmances.
AndinTulsa,LOOK,
Light OperaOklahoma
is seeking 100 singers
for its June 9-July 4th
season presented in
TU’s Kendall Hall.
LOOKis holding auditions
on Sat. Jan. 16 & Sun. Jan. 17 from
2-5pro in TU’s Tyrrell Hall, room 302.
For more. information or to schedule an
audition, call 583-4267.
At the end of January,
Philbrook will open two new
exhibits, "Pure Vision: American
Bead Artists" and "Beads:
A Cross-Cultural Medium".
The first show .will present 60
works by 28 artists. Theworks
vary from moe traditional
necklaces and bracelet forms
to large-scale sculptures, constructions,
and shrines. The
exhibit was co-ordinated by
Chris Knop Kallenberger and
was curated by Sherry I~edy of the Leedy
Gallery in Kansas City and B.J. Shegaki,
director of the Rochester Arts Center in
Minnesota. Local support is from
Philbrook’s Contemporary Cousortium.
The companion show will explore the
use of beads in cultures from 15,000 BC
Egyptian to ones from 100-
200ADSyrian to SpiroMound
of 1,200 AD and 19th century
North American Native works.
Early in February, Tulsa
Ballet will present three
dances, The Green Table,
Equinoxe, Jardi Taneat (Feb.
5 &6 at 8pro and Feb. 7 at3pm
in the Chapman Music Hall of
Tulsa’s Performing Arts Center).
The Green Table, a critically
acclaimed dance drama
set in Germany during the rise
of Adolph Hitler, is the center-.
piece of the February program.
Kurt Jooss’ ballet is as he intended
it -- to show the world
that the only w~nner of war is
death.
It opens With masked politicians
sitting around a table in
heated di scussion. Thereafter,
war breaks out and in the end,
the same politicians, wearing the same
masks, are seated at the same table forgetting
all the cruelties and casualties the war
has caused.
Paired with The Green Table will be
twomoreOklahomapremieres thatpromise
to provide an exceptional evemng of
entertainment. James Canfield’ s Equinoxe
recalls underwater images of sea creatures
which gracefully move with the
ocean’s ebb and flow and is set to a synthesizer
score byJan-Michael Jarre. Canfield,
¯ a former dancer with Joffrey, is the Artistic
Director at Oregon Ballet Theatre.
Rounding out the program
is Naco Duato’s
Jardi Tancatwhichwas
Duato’s first ballet,.
choreographed for
Nederlands Dans Theater
in 1983.
"Duato, the Artistic
Director for the National
Ballet of Spain,
is one of the brightest
stars in Europe and, in
my opinion, one of the
best choreographers in
the world today," Tulsa
Ballet’s .Artistic Director,
Marcello Angelini
related to TFN. "’He
brings a new intensity
to dance, a fluidity of
movement never seen
: before, and a new way to express emo-
¯ tions that is so deep, so powerful, it will
: change your vision of dance."
The ballet is a collection of Maye
who was dubed
by
Ella Fitzgerald.
"the greatest
white female
singer in the
world,"
will present
"A Tribute to
Frank Sinatra"
folk songs, based on ancient
Spanish folk tales in which
three couples are occupied
with the sowing, planting and
threshing of their barren land
while asking God for water to
make their crops grow. Jardi
Tancat won Duato first prize
at the International Choreographic"~
rorkshop inCologne.
He has received recognition
throughout Europe for his talents
as a dancer and choreographer.
¯
Also early in February, extraordinary
jazz vocalist, MarilynMaye, will perform
at the PAC’ s JohnWilliams Theatre. Maye
who was called by Ella Fitzgerald, "th,e,
greatest white female singer in the world,
will present "A Tribute to Frank Sinatra"
in several shows Feb. 4-6 at
Les Ballets
Troekadero de
Monte Carlo has
delighted audlenees
around the
world. Parodying
elassleal works
from "Swan
Lake" to "Giselle"
and the choreography
of Isadora
Dunean, George
Balanehine and
Martha Graham,
Les Troekaderos
offer irresistible
entertainment for
dance afieionados
- and complete
novices.
8pm and Feb. 7 at 3pm. Maye
began her careerin small clubs
and cabarets but since has performed
with orchestras from
Tulsa to Phoenix to Philadelphia.
She first appeared on
television on the Steve Alien
Show hnd appeared onJohnny
Carson’s Tonight Show a
record 76 times. Tulsa has a
tradition of bringing the great
female vocalists of our time
and Maye’s appearance continues
that.
Last but not least the famed
"drag" ballet, Les Ballets
Trockadero de Monte Carlo
will grace thePAC’s Chapman
Music Hall on March 16,
1999. Dancing the fine line
between high art and high
camp, Les Ballets Trockadero
de Monte Carlo has delighted
audiences around the world.
Parodying classical works from "Swan
Lake" to "Giselle" and the choreography
of Isadora Duncan, George Balanchine
and Martha Graham, Les Trockaderos
offer irresistible entertainment for dance
aficionados - and complete novices. The
troupe combines a knowledge of dance
with a wicked comedic sensibility -- a
buoyant and hilarious show.
Girls (and you real girls too), you don’t
want to miss this one at any cost!
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W0men/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551
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AIDSCoalition of Tulsa, call for next meeting date. 1430 s. Boulder, 585-5551
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12rban League, 240 East Apache
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Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978
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Reviewed by Barry Hensley
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A few years ago, author Liza Ketchum
wrote an award winning book for young
adults titled Twelve Days in
August. One character, Alex,
touchedmany readers, and the
author was swamped with requests
to continue his_ story.
Her new book, Blue Coyote,
follows the teenage Alex and
his family to yet another new
home, this time in Vermont.
Being a child of southern
California, Alex isn’t too
pleased with being stuck in
Vdrmont. He’s had a difficult
time making friends and
doesn’t just miss the beach,
but also his only tree, close
friend, Tito. He and Tito had
kept in touch with each other
for awhile, but, suddenly,
Tito’s letters stopped coming.
Alex attempts to track him down, but Tito
seems to have simply disappeared.
Luckily, Alex’s father, a writer, has
been offered work back in California, not
far from Where they had once liyed. Amid
some dissension Within the family, Alex
and his father move back to California.
¯ This gives Alex a chance to try to locate
Beln~ a child d
southern
Cal~ornla,
Alex isn’t too
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a difficult
time mal~in~
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alsohls only true,
dose friend, Tito.
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This sets the stage for Alex to not only
getinto avariety ofsituations inhis search
for Tito, but also to realize that the trust
and affection he has for his
friend is actually infatuation.
Eventually, Alex comes to the
understanding that he is Gay,
and there is quite a bit ofattention
paid to the reaction of his
family. It is interesting to see
the different reactions of two
families whenconfronted with
Gay children, siblings and
friends. Alex’s sister is an
important character and positively
handles the realization
that both she and her brother
had, at one time, had a crush
on Tito.
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and young adults alike. You
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Blue Coyote. Although it does continue
Alex’~ story, Blue Coyote stands
alone well. There isn’t any graphic sex
and only a few words that anyone could
find offensive. This is a tame but provocative
read. Check for Blue Coyote at your
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hailed the ruling. The state court gave us
a ban on discrinfination in employment
stronger than anything we could introduce
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Jean Harris, executive director of the orgamzation.
"We love it. We’ll take it."
The court turned aside the university’s
argument that it made benefits available
on equal terms to all married employees.
Thejudges said that reasomng misses the
point because homosexuals cannot marry.
"Accordingly, the benefits are not made
available on equal terms. The~y are made
available on terms that, for gay and lesbian
couples, are a legal impossibility,"
the court said.
The court concluded that homosexualg
are a distinct class and that it’s beyond
dispute that they "have been and continue
to be the subject of adverse social and
political stereotyping and prejudice."
Rerucha said HendersonandMcKinney
asked their girlfriends if they would provide
an alibi for their whereabouts and
"initially they did that."
The alibi was "broken down by investigators"
and testimony would have shown
that the two women drove to Cheyenne 50
miles east - to dispose of clothing in a
trash container and that Henderson’s
bloody shoes were later placed in a
relative’s storage shed in Laramie,
Rerncha said.
Ms. Pasldy had pleaded innocent two
weeks earlier. At the end of the 17-minute
heating, she was led from the court, head
down, long hair hiding her face. No sentencing
date was set, but Donnell indicated
it would take about 45 days for a
presentence report to be completed. Ms.
Pa~e,’ faces up to three years in pr:~sou
for the shelter’s staff that seeks to dispel
myths about AIDS and clarify legal issues
and disclosure reqmrements.
"A lot of the discrimJnatiofi is based on
fear and misinformation surrotmding these
issues," said Mary Harney of the Down
East AIDS Network. who helped develop
the program. "There are still some people
who think (HIV) can be passed by mosquitoes
and that you can get it from a
teacup if someone who has it has been
drinking from that cup." Sister Lucille
MacDonald, director of the Emmaus Center,
acknowledged that the episode was
stressful for everyone involved but said
she was pleased .at how it was resolved.
"We think a lot of important things will
happen, education-wise, for residents and
staff. That benefits all of us," she said.
Biggers, who has struggled to get by on
Social Security benefits, decided to forgo
any financial recovery. ’’The goal was to
change the policy," he said. "That was my
goal from the very beginning.’"
The ACLU said the impact of the settlement
could spread beyond Hancock
County and Maine, and perhaps be adopted
by many shelters nationwide. "My guess
is that the response will be good," said
Matthew Coles, director of its AID!HIV
Project in New York. "People who run
homeless shelters are almostby definition
good people who are trying to do something
positive in the world and make it a
better place. The problem is usually ignorance,
not malice."
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your kitchen is as drab as that dishwater excited at what somepaintandnew hinges
you’ve got your opera-length latex Platex " and pulls did for your cabinets that you
gloves submerged in? Do you long for a ¯ won’t mind doing the floors next month.
fantasy kitchen that makes Martha’s look " This also can allow youto have a financial
like something, from - breather, ifyotH~’~eclit.
suburban New Jersey?
Then, after comparing
your dream against
your checkbook balance,
do you weep copious
tears of disappointment?
Weep not,
child; you are not alone.
YourDIYD shares your
frustration and offers
comfort. Not a miracle,
but comfort. Remember
that as we go along.
Yes, your fairy Do-
It-YoursdfDyke-y has
a trick or two in her
magic wand (minds out
of the toybox, children!)
that canhelp you
muddlealong with your
current kitchen until
you can save up and
move up to something
more delicious. It involves
our pesky old
friend, Elbow Grease,
and dreams deferred,
but the results of a
kitchen face lift can
Are you depressed,
d~rllngs, because your
kltehen is as drab. as that
dishwater you’ve got your
opera-!ength latex Platex
gloves submerged
Do you long for~ fantasy
kltehen that makes
Martha’s look llke
something from suburban
New Jersey? Then, after
eomparlng your dream
against your checkbook
balance, do you ~eep
eoplous tears of d~sappolntment?
~Veep not,
child; you are not alone...
Yes, your fairy Do-h-
Yourseff Dyke-y has a
trlek or two in her magle
actually satisfy your
.kitchenlust- rfioderately.: Not a rip and
tear project, but a nip and rock. An eye
wash, if you will.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again
(quite possibly every month) a little paint
can do wonders. That will be the coruerstone
of our project, which your DIYD
proposes to drag out shamelessly for the
next few months. But first, put away your
rose,tinted glasses and prepare for some
coldhearted evaluations of what you have
to work with.
Obviously, ff)’our cupboards are cheap,
flimsy and dilapidated, our success ~s going
t~ be pretty limited, so keep it all in
perspective.
Also, match your budget with what can
be accomplished, and learn how to scour
the areaforbargains-outlets, resale stores,
architectural salvage, etc. Then, if a rehab
is in your relatively near future, you can
buy a few nice things and carry them over
on the redo. We are a creative lot, so let’s
use it to our advantage.
Don’ t be afraid to do the workin stages.
Actually, it prolongs the enjoyment, and
outside his father;s appliance store in
Jonesboro, Arkansas, at age 8 to retirement
in his early 30s after developing a
series of novelty products. He made his
real fortune, however, by sdling millions
of Moonies. The chubby doll-size figures
attach to car windows with suction cups
like the ubiquitous Garfidd-the-cat stickons,
but with a risque difference. "You
squeezed the b,~b and the little guy
mooned people, Dunlap said. "I got rich
off of it and I quit."
He movedin 1990fromMemphi s,Tennessee,
to Navarre Beach, about 20 miles
east of Pensacola, platming nothing more
than to siton the sugar-white beach. How-
Look at tak:t~g the
opportunity to h~prove
some essentials that
don’timmediately leap
to mind when y~u think
about fluffing up the
kitchen - it might be a
good time to learn a
little bit about wiring
and dectrical, to the
extent that you put in a
new light fixture or replace
the old outlets
with GFCI (ground
fault circuit interrupters),
which are truly a
safety must anywhere
you have water.
There are some good
do it yourself books,
complete with very
necessary illustrations,
to walk you through it,
and ifyouhave a friend
that is familiar with the
process, flatter, pitch
wand (minds out of the
wooorwhateverelseit
toybox, children!)
rakes to enlisttheir help
¯ ¯ ¯ on the project.
¯ astainless steel sink 0r~iga~bage disposal.
~ Be wary about letting your fancy stray as
¯ far as a dishwasher - you’re heading into
" more complicated territory there. Think
about flooring options.
,and if your kitchen is in the darker
coruer of your house, as is the DIYD’g,
definitely thinklight. Notjust visual light,
which is where the fixtures come in, but
¯¯- light surfaces -walls, cabinets, appliances.
It might not be the right time to go withthe
¯ retro phase and install that avocado har-
¯ vest-tone range (but if you decide you
must, the DIYD has a deal for you! Take
my old range, please.)
~ Think about using a low-luster semi-
" gloss paint - it makes clean ups easier and
¯ resists water and mildew and other dis-
" tasteful things. And new finishing tech-
¯ niques open up a plethora of possibilities.
¯ Sleight of hand is very necessary in Eye
Wash jobs. Ask any drag queen.
¯ So dream easy dreams until next month,
¯ when your DIYD helps you spiffy up ¯
those horrid, depressingly dark kitchen
¯ cupboards.
~ ever, after noticing thatthousands ofGays
¯ congregate on area beaches every Memo-
" rial Day, he decided the panhandle could
¯ support a small Gayresort. Dtmlap and a
motel developer took aplan to local bank-
" ers about six years ago. "You could just
¯ see the color runoutoftheir faces,"Dunlap ¯
¯ recalled. "My personal impression and
observation was that they did not want
[ anythiag to do with the financing solely
~ because it was a... ’Gay and Lesbian’
¯ business."
Dunlap, himself Gay, figured if that
¯
was happening hereit also washap~g
to others elsewhere. Creating a b~ak~Jr
¯ such a geographicallywidespreadmarket ¯
niche would have been difficult at b~t
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by Esther Rothblum
I recently watched Janice Perry perform
during National Coming Out Week
at the University of Vermont. By the time
I asked her to describe her life and her
work, she was off performing
in Switzerland. So we
communicated over email.
Here are her responses to
my questions:
ER: tell me the story of
how you became a Lesbian
comedian?
JP: Is this a trick question?
Because of course, there is
the story of how I became a
Lesbian, and then the story
ofhow Ibeganperforming. I
never intended to become a
"Lesbian comedian". I began
performing and because
my sexuality is part of my
life, itcomes outin the show,
undisguised¯ Audiences
don’t often see Lesbianism presented in
this way, it’s either ’%rOW, LOOK AT
ME, I’MA BIG DYKE!!" or very covert.
Mymissionis topresentchallenging work
in a way that is accessible.
Most, but not all, of my work is highly
exaggerated autobiography. I am always
trying to find common denominators, trying
to weave many different aspects into
each piece. The major theme of a piece
about an IRS audit was power and abuse
of power (this was pre-IRS refo.rm), and
the fact that the auditor was conung on to
me was the vehicle to exaggerate the
taxpayer’s fear and the auditor’s power. I
wanted to unequivocally show the equation
between sex and power and fear. That
the auditor i~-awoman adds another layer.
This piece also unequivocally describes
both the dedication required and the extremely
dire financial situation of artists
in general. So there are many levds that
are available to the audience. They can
take whatever they want from the performance,
While this is a theatrical exag-
¯ Satire"¯ When I first started working in
: Europe, Ifoundoutthatthereis awordfor
: it-"kabarett".
I use my .whole body to deliver the
: monologues, as wall as costumes, singing;
lighting and very strong
I never intended facialgestures. Iamperforming
pieces with what I see to
to ]~eeome a be the big themes - Greed,
"Lesl~ian Fear, Abuse of Power, Sex,
comedian". War, Death and Taxes. I’m
not so interested in just telll
l:le.~an ing jokes. I am presenting
performin$ and strong content from a Lesbian-
feminist perspective in
]~eeause my a highly comedic way. The
sexuality is part comedic aspect makes my
of my llfe, it
work much more accessible
to many more people.
comes out ER: is there a particuin
tlae slaow,
lar performance that stands
out as memorable?
undls~ulsed, jp: Last year (199~/) the
Swiss queers organized a
demonstrationinBem (the capitol) against
thenew constitution, and the refusal of the
government to include equal rights for
homosexuals as partofbasichumanrights.
The organizers of the demo invited me to
come and perform. There were Swiss,
French, German, Italian speakers and me.
I came out on stage wearing a Statue of
Liberty crown and carrying a big penis
and said, "I want to.thank the Swiss Government
for making me feel right at home
here. It’s so reassuring to "know that I will
be discriminated against wherever I go."
Then I did a piece from the early 80’s
about the constitution which says that the
preamble really should readlike this:’ "vVe,
the MEN of the United States, in order to
: form a more perfect union. . No, that
should be, ’We, the WHITE MEN of the
United States.. ’ No, that should be ’We
: theCONSERVATIVEWHITEMEN...’
~ No, that should be ’We the RICH, CON-
. SERVATIVE, WHITE, MEN . .’ No,
2 that should be ’We the OLD,
RICH ,CONSERVATWE,XVHITE,MEN
geration of the truth, it is a true story. I .... " "" They really got it.
WAS audited by a woman, who D!D ER: is Janice Perry the performer difabuse
her power.
ER: What are the messages you are
bringing to Lesbians?
JP: I want Lesbians and gays to see that
it really is okay to be out. That we can
present ourselves in public and not be ki¯ lled for i" t. I ’m not hi"ding anything, I’m
not preaching anything, I’m just going
about my’business of performing in a
perfectly natural way (orimperfecfly natural).
When I play in some sin_all t.ow,.n, .an,d
the audience is mixed, as it often i s, I trunk
that it is empowering for all of us. Internalized
homophobia is the real killer.
I am also showing my total commitment
to my work. My pe,rformance, is
more theatrical than stana-up comeay.
This is "kabarett" with a small "k" in the
European tradition of powerful political
statements launched from the platform of
comedy, rather than"Kabarett" with a big
"K" or "Cabaret" with a "C" which is
usually women in glittery evening gowns
singing "Se~d in the Clowns".
This is why I am able to work so often
in Europe. In 1982, when I first started,
there was either theater or stand-up in the
USA, and nothing in-between. I had no
language to describe my work. I called it
"Comedy - Rock - Music - Theater -
ferentfrom Janice Perrry the individual?
Do youfindyourselfperforming tofriends
and lovers?
JP: I am really h~cky in that I get to let
out a lot of my desire for attention in my
Work. Before I startedperformingon stage,
I was performing all day long, because I
had no outlet for this creativity. It must
have been hell to be around. I thank my
friends for putting up with me. Now I am
much more relaxed in my personal life.
Sometimes when I arrive at a theater
where they don’t know my work, they
look a bit worried, like - "Uh-oh, this is
just a normal 48 year old woman, and she
isn’t even wearing make-up and what
kind of show will this be?" When I go on
stage, they are amazed by my energy,
which is very intense. They can’t believe
it’s the same person. There is a definite
difference between my work and my private
life.
I lead a quiet life and I have many and
vailed interests. I love nature, hiking, gardening,
cross-country skiing, bird-watching.
I’m an avid reader, I love the classics,
English social comedies from the 20’s
and 30’s, fiction, history. I love music -
rock and roll, classical, heavy metal, opera.
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we can employ
er~t~vely to
whh and eMllen~e
our ~ender roles.
Many Gay men
regularly apply
female pronouns
ehher to themselves
or to thelr
(or enemies...).
When talkln~ about
my f~ends who do
dra~, I no longer
hedtate to
or the ;ack d ~ereof (~ t). MaIU
Austronesian languages
(spoke~ from Hawm’i to
Madagascar), conversely,
possess 15 different subject
pronoun. When I liv~ on
T~a, V~tu, before I
could Mk about ~ybody, I
had to count~emfirst. ~ere
is a prono~ for "you", a
different one for you-two ,
~other one for "you-t~"
~d still ~other for "you-
Moreover, two sorts of
"we" must be distinguished
on~msl~d.Our we blur
together two logically different
groups. Sometimes,
when we say "we," we in- use "she" and "her."
dude who we’ve speaking
to; but sometimes "we" excludes the
speaker. For example, if I tell you that
"we’re going to kiss" this mightmean that
I about to plant one on you, or ~t could
mean that I’m going neck with someone
else. On Tarma, separate pronouns exist
dicuonanes before fadi~,
away. Other dc-.gende~ed
substitmes d~at have been
proposed include s~ m~ and
air.
Gender in our pronoun system
may sustmn inanities
between men and
womenbutitis Nso am~ha-
Nsm ~at we ~ employ
creatively to play wi~ ~d
chNlenge o~ gender roles.
M~y Gay men regM~lj
apply female pronouns
ther to ~emselves or to ~eir
friends (or ene~es -"She’s
not N1 ~at~"). ~entNNng
about my friends who do
drag, I no longer hesitate to
use "she" ~d "her."
TNs is ~e in o~er c~tures whose
pronoun systems Nso encode gender.
~Nysis of ~e sp~h of a Gay ~uple
por~y~ in ~e first document~y film
about Gay life in Jap~ R~en no Sobyo
("Rough S~eteh of a SpirN") shows
that do not allow this ambigui.t},,;
,w.e’.’ includes vou;.the, other "we dales ~ more ~ermmne partner’re~ers to mmsm~
not. . with female or gender-neutral terms
set, peopte use tnese woros to tam aoout
the world and about themselves. If we
listen to how people do this, we can learn
something of their underlying concepts
about human identity. There is always
also a politics of pronouns. People use
pronouns creatively in order to demonstrate
or to assert certain claims about
themselves, and about others. My old
friend Rapi, who was the "big-man" or
leader of the village in which I lived,
surprised me one day with apronotm. He
was tdling the story of one of his great-
~andfathers, who was also named Rapi,
and he used the ’T" pronoun - "When I
smote the enemy back before Captain
Cook arrived..." (and this was in 1774!).
It became clear tome thatTannesepeople,
more so than we, incorporate into their
sense of self their ancestors, particularly
if these were ancestral namesakes. Part of
their personhoodincludes these forebears.
Whenrecounting history whichhappened
generations before they were born,, they
talk about "what I did"in that these events
are part of who they are today.
The pronoun system on Tanna, despite
its complexity, does not recognize gender.
He, or she, and it are all called "in."
Inequality between men and women on
the island runs fairly deep, but this social
ineqtmlity is not reflected in the pronominal
system. The relationship between linguist’ic
form and social structure has been
long and fiercely debated. Whatever the
facts about this might be, here in the US
there has been a fairly successful campaign
to de-genderize our first person
pronouns. In this politics of pronouns,
college students may get marked down ifthey
use "he" as the default in their essays.
~1~ polifical!y correct choice nowadays
is "Ec or she" or even the grammatically
uses mate-marKeo pronouns (ore, jtoun,
washi). Justlike Rapi and his ’T’ onTanna,
our self-construction depends on creative
use of the pronouns that our language
provides.
This appropriation of the other sex’s
pronoun may be a male thing. I have not
seen many studies of Lesbian use of "he."
(If anyone has come across he-women,
please email me.) Some feminists might
fault men for, once again, abridging
women’~s rights and experience by stealing
their "she." It seems to me, though,
that if one might attack gender hierarchy
by spaying language - replacing he/she
with thou-one can also undermine the
systemby messing with its rules. I can call
you he; or maybe this time I’ll call you
she. Remember, everyone must use her
condoms.
Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthropology
at the University of Tulsa and my be
reached at lamont-lindstrom@utulsa.edu
I love to go to the theater. Dance. Visual
Arts. Architecture. Archeology. Yoga.
Fashion. I’m very, interested in both prehistory
and pop culture. I like to see what
is gomg on in "society," both regionally
and globally, to try to identify the trends,,
see what is universal and then use this
information inmy work. In some way I’m
always working, always noticing, observing.
But I can do it from the sidelines. I
don’t need to be the center. I get enough of
that onstage.
For further informauon and to schedule
a perfornlance, contact: Janice Perry RD
1 Femsburgh~ Vermont 05456
jpakagal @aol.com
but it doesn’t stop it from happening, and
it’s frustrating to you, and the people
around you. Some of it has passed, some
ofithasn’t and will take time, and some of
it will never go away or be forgotten.
Right after, if I was alone, the chest would
tighten, I couldn’t breathe and I would
feel overwhelmed. Evenin agrocery store,
whenTom and I went together, but separated,
as we usually did, I found’mysdf
alone on an aisle, and feltmy chest tighten
- it scared the 1x;jeezus out of me. We
passed a car emitting fumes with a similar
odor to the smoke in the apartment, and I
Was right back there. And in a panic attack.
I thought, .’ffhis is silly. Stop it".
Well, you can’t. I decided to stay at the
apartment two days later.
Tom was doubtful, again, but supportive.
I did try to go back and face down my
fear. Then, as I gotintomy smokybed (I’d
left windows wide open for the two days,
and it helped - a little. The smoke issomething
that doesn’t go away easily.)
Then the ’~vhat- ifs" started. What if I had
gone home earlier (whichI had thought of
doing) and gone to sleep? What if I hadn’t
gone home till later? No one else called
911. In fact, the neighbor that finally did
come out, said "Well, I smdled a funny
smell, but didn’tpay any attention to it..."
With neighbors like that, who needs enemies?
What if...
Then the big one hit: If I was in a smoky
smelling apartment, and another fire
started, how would I know another one
had started? I mightjust chalk it up to the
already smoky apartment I was in, and
then what? An~twhatelsemightbeplUgged
in...? So, I tookTom up on his very kind
offer that if I became uncomfortable, I
could come back to his place and stay.
So, on this new years, take stock. Look
at whoyourreal friends are. Tomhas been
Wonderful., going far above and beyond
the call of duty. Look at your extension
cords. Are they the right kind for tbejob?
Are they over loaded?
Funny what you notice after an event
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ago, and noticed that their xmas lights
were connected by 3 extensions cords
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them throughout dinner.
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am to be here to grumble. I am lucky to
still have my symbols, collected throughout
my life, of the people who love me,
and the people I love. I am lucky to have
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I’m not too thrilled at having so much
stuff to dean, but I realize that I amlucky
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months, due to the aforementionedneighbors
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which I used to do myself- just think: You
might not be here to be able to grumble. It
~ves you a whole new perspective. Have
a happy New Year!
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Gays in the Military Update
More "Gays" Leaving US Armed Forces
WASHINGTON (AP) -TheAir Force andArmyreport
sharp increases in the number of troops discharged for
homosexuality, and officials believe many are discontented
non-Gay recruits looking for a way out. In
releasing the figures, the Defense Department said it
was satisfied with its "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on
homosexuality in the services. It asserted that the 1998
dischargenumbers "align" with those ofprevious years,
even though they reached an 11-year high.
A watchdog group, the Servicemembers Legal Defense
Fund, said the’figures were fresh evidence that
Gays still are being mistreated in the 1.4-million-member
active-duty military. "Commanders are still asking,
pursuing and harassing people," said Dixon Osbum, the
group’s co-executive director. ,,,~
The "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy, adopted in 1994, is
supposed to allow Gays to serve if they keep their sexual
orientation private. It punishes those who engage in
homosexual acts or take actions that call attention to
their orientation. But critics accuse the services of
hunting down Gays and driving them out of the service.
If a service member voluntarily states his or her
homosexuality, discharge is automatic.. In the.case oLa
recruit still in basic (raining, av0iuniary declaration of
homosexuality means an admjuistrative discharge that
does not carry a bad-conduct stigma. Under the Pentagon
policy there are three grounds for discharge: if a
service member voluntarily states that he or she is Gay;
if someone is determined to have engaged in a homosee
Military, p. 3
Maryland Judge Throws
Out Sodomy Law
BALTIMORE (AP) - A judge who rtded Baltimore’s
80-year-old anti-sodomy law does not apply to consensual
acts has expanded the ruling to include anal as well
as oral sex. The ruling by Circuit Judge Richard T.
Rombto settles a 1997 clas s-action suit by theAmerican
Civil Liberties Union. "This is saying the government
will not intrude in the bedroom," said Dwight Sullivan,
a staff counsel for the ACLU’s Maryland chapter,
which sued on behalf of several Gay men and Lesbians.
State officials, who did not object to tLe ACLU’s
efforts, said the ruling was largely symbolic because
few if any state residents have been prosecuted for
sodomy. ACLU officials, however, said the existence
of the law posed a threat to privacy rights and left
homosexuals vidnerable to job discrimination and unfair
attacks in child custody cases.
Thirty-one states have rep.ealed anti-sodomy laws,
while 17 still have them on the books, including Virgiuia.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Georgia case
in 1986 that anti-sodomy laws are constitutional.
In 1990, the Maryland Court Of Appeals ruied the law
could not be used to prosecute consentual, nonpublic
acts of oral sex, see Maryland, p. 14
DIRECTORY/LETTERS P. 2
EDITORIAL P. 3
US & WORLD NEWS P. 4
HEALTH NEWS P; 6
COMMUNITY CAL ENDAR P. 9
BOOK REVIEW P. 10
DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYK E P, 11
DYKE PSYCHE P. 12
CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14
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Hate Crimes Amendment Has
A Chance in OK Legislature
TMM - Metropolitan Ministry Endorses Amendment
TULSA/OKLAHOMA CITY - Those who knew Matthew
Shepard say that he would have wished that some good come out
of evil. And it appears that, in Oklahoma at least, some good
might come out of the horror of his murder. That at least is the
conclusion drawn by some commumty activists who see the new
willingness of Oklahoma political leaders to address hate crimes
based on actual or perceived sexual orientation.
Speaking anonymously, one clergy participantinTulsa Metropolitan
Ministry, an influential local interfaith organization,
indicated that Shepard’s murder is what helped shake the organization
out of its unwillingness to address the concerns of Lesbians
and Gay men. As she put it, they could no longer remain
silent.
And moving amazingly fast for such a diverse group, TMM
adopted as one of its legislative goals for this 1999 session, the
amendment of Oklahoma’s Malicious Intimidation Statute, otherwiseknown
as the Hate Crimes law. In fact, abill (HB 1211) for
this amendment has been introduced by Tulsa legislator, Don
Ross. HB 1211 has a companion bill introduced in the Oklahoma
Senate by Sen. Ben Brown, and Democratic party rumors have it
that Speaker of the House, Loyd Benson has committed to
support the bill. Oklahoma Attorney G~neral Drew Edmondson
already has committed publicly to supporting this amendment as
has former Tulsa County District Attorney see Hate.p. 13
Activists kick off Eq~mlity Begins at Home at fall conference.
Thousands to Go to Capitols
First Ever National Week ofAction for Equality
WASHINGTON, DC - January 25, 1999 - In the 30th aunivers.
ary year of the S tonewall rebellion- the birth of the modern Gay
rights movement - thousands of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgender people will launch an unprecedented national week
of action for equality. Equality Begins at Home, slated for the
week of March 21 - 27, is a major initiative to push state
lawmakers to support a platform of equality.
Planning for these by local activists is well under way. In
Oklahoma, Paul Thompson, of the Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian
Political Caucus is co-ordinating the Oklahoma event at the State
Capitol on Saturday, March 27. Paid can be reached at email:
Gayoglpc@flash.net, or 405-791-0202. Tulsa Oklahomans for
Human Rights (TOHR) is working to help organize Tidsans to
go.
From Montana to Maine, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgender people will come out and speak up in simultaneous
events nationwide, most ofwhich will take place at state capitols.
These actions will, mnong other things, build support for laws
that counter hate violence, ban employment discrimination,
provide for safe schools for all students, ensure.the right to adopt
and become foster parents, and address health issues including
HIV/AIDS.
Equality Begins at Home is coordinated by the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force .and organized by the Federation of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Statewide Political
Organizations. As part of its coordinating efforts, the Task Force
provided Federation member groups $5,000 each to support their
Equality Begins at Home organizing efforts and hired a national
coordinator for the event. Dozens of national organizations have
signed on in support of this week of action.
"Equality Begins at Home is not an end point but a beginning
point. We are going to make our statewide organizations stronger,
mobilize more people, register more voters, and demand
greater accountability from our state legislators and policy makers,"
stated Kerry Lobel, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
executive director, see EBAH, p..13
Pride CenterAnnounces
OneRecruitShortofa ToasterMembers
Drive and Gay Legal Rights Program
TULSA - How do you feel about winning a very
stylish toaster or toaster oven? That’s what Pride
Center organizers want to know. They’re hoping
that these possibilities will motivate you to join
Tulsa’s Gay & Lesbian community center, the
Pride Center and to persuade as many of your
friends, family and acquaintances to do the same.
Pride Center volunteers have organized a membership
drive from Feb. 1 to March 31 that was
inspired by Lesbian comedian, Ellen Degeneres,
and they’re offering prizes for "recruiting" new
community center members. Center spokesman,
Greg Gatewood stated that any current or new
member will receive "a toaster accessory" (what is
that???) for bringing in five new members. Ten
new members will win you a sleek new bagelcapable
toaster. And if you get 25 new memberships,
you’ll get, not just a toaster, but a toasteroven!
However, the grand prize is airfare to an exotic
seaside location so you can toast yourself in the
tropical sun. Sound good? To win this you need to
get at least 50 new memberships though the winner
will be the person who gets the most memberships
of 50 ormo~e by March 31 st. Tojoin or to get more
information, call the Center at 743-GAYS (4297).
Beginning in Feb. specifically Feb. 18 at 7:30,
the Oklahoma Lesbian and Gay Law Association
will begin a series of free legal seminars for Lesbians
and Gay men. These seminars are set up as
informal discussions drawing on the skills of attorneys
who specialize in areas of interest to the
community. Tulsa attorney Camille Quiun will
lead the first discussion on estate planning. The
discussion will be geared toward both couples and
individuals. Again for more information, call the
Center at 743-GAYS (4297)..
Other evenfs a( the ~enter include a Mardi Gras
costume party on Feb. 13 with dancing to music by
"Grandmaster DJ Tim."
see Center, p. 14
GaI-A-Vanting
TULSA - More than fourteen women met recently
to plan monthly events for "Gal-A-Vanting, Ms.
Adventures for Women." Gal-A-Vanting is a social
and cultural organization for Lesbian women.
The group seeks to provide social, cultural and selfexploration
opportunities for women as wall as a
venue for meeting and for developing a sense of
The organization was the brainchild of two
friends, Mary (also known as the Do-It-Yourself
Dyke) and Joan, who decided that there was not
enough for women to do in the Tulsa area and who,
also, were tired ofdriving to Arkansas for women’s
activities. They believed there would be enough
interest in the Tulsa community to create an organization
to provide activities here.
Approximately 20 women have attended each of
the activities hosted by Gal-A-Vanting in the past
four months. There are now more than 65 women’s
names on the mailing list. The organization has
hosted a number of events, a "women and the arts
evening" which featured poetry and various artist’s
work, a dance, a drumming circle and a movie
night.
Monthly activities are planned for the second
Samr.day ev.e.mng of each month. Also, community
service acttvltles, such as adopting a mile of road
for clean up or working with the elderly are also
planned, see Gal, p. 14
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria
*Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Interurban Restanrant,717 S. Houston
*Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
*TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd
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834-4234
585-3405
660-0856
584-1308
Tulsa Busine.~q~s, $¢ntiees,.& Professionals
Advanced Wirdess & PCS, Digital Cellular 747-1508
*Affinity News, 8120 E. 21 610-8510
Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor 746-4620
*Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000
Kent Baler & 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
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902,743-41!7
Community Cle,qning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’ s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sherid~ii 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337, 712-9379
*Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 628-3709
*Gloria Jean’s Gourmet COffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
Leanne M. Gross, Insurance &financial planning 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-I111
*International Tours 341-6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th 712-2750
*Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018
David Kanskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236
*Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 747-5466
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319.E. 3rd 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951
Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672
Puppy Pause II, 1060 S. Mingo 838-7626
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090
The Pride Store, 1300 E. 38, 2nd floor 743-4297,
Rainbowzon the River B+B, PUB 696, 74101 747-5932
Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746
Christopher Spradling, attorney,616 S. Main, #308 582-7748
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
Paul Tay, Car Salesman 260-7829
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017
*Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767
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AIDS Walk Tulsa, PUB 4337, 74101 579-9593
*All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363
Black & White, Inc. PUB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-7314
Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815
*B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Cir. 583-9780
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PI. & Florence
*Churchofthe RestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314
*Community ofHope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
*Council Oak Men’s Chorale 585-COMC (2662)
*Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712-1511
*Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457
Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics &
Episcopa]ians, PUB 701475, 74170-1475 355-3140
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¯ *HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 583-6611 ¯
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¯ HIV Testing, Mon/Thurs. 7-9pm, daytime by appt. only ¯
¯ *House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood
Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2,437, 800-284-2437
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¯ NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral PI. 748-3111 ¯
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OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157
: *Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 584-7960
¯ PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 749-4901 ¯
*Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 587-7674 ¯
*The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2rid floor, 74105 743-4297
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Rainbow Business Guild, PUB 4106, 74159 665-5174
¯ *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 584-2325
O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults
¯ O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth
St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N: Cincinnati 425-7882
¯ *St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 492-7140
*St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 582-3088
*Tulsa Area UnitedWay, 1430 S. Boulder 583-7171 ¯
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" T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222
¯ *Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule
¯ *Tulsa Community College Campuses ¯
¯ *Rogers University (formerly UCT)
BARTLESVILLE
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*Borders Books &Music, 3209 NWExpressway 405-848-2667
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*Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-5734907
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TAHLEQUAH
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¯ *TahIequah Unitarian-UniversalistChurch 918-456-7900
*Green Country AIDS Coalition, PUB 1570 918-453-9360
¯ NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand
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¯ *Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-7457
¯ DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807 ¯
*Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445
¯ MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337
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¯ Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-5332 ¯
Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501~624-6646
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FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5
*Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442-2845
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Carbon Copy
KMOD Gay Bashing?
¯ Dear Phil and Brent,
¯ As a regular listener of your show, I am ¯
concerned about the words of intolerance
¯ directed toward theGay community. Your
¯ Thursday shows seem especially filled
¯ with the promotion of hate as an acceptable
behavior. Being reasonable people,
; and I assume residents of the Tulsa com-
-¯ mumty, I cannot understand your continued
promotion of hate towards a large
¯ segment of-the Tulsa community. Hate
¯ speech equals hate crimes- aproven fact.
: Your success as morning show hosts
¯ can only mean that there are a great num-
" ber ofpeople listening. The words youuse
¯ can drastically change the world of those
¯ who listen. Your words could be respon-
- sible for the next bashing or killing of a
Gay person. Is this a responsibility you
_" are ready to accept and bear for the re-
, mainder of your life?
¯ I, as you by now expect, will no longer
¯ be tuning into your show, and will encour-
¯ age my friends and acquaintances to turn
¯ the dial as well. After all, you are "the
¯ rainbow station." The rainbow has been
: mmedinto aflag. That flag represents the
¯ pride of the Gay community.
¯ I wouldhope thatKMODwouldchoose
¯ not to continue the verbal assault on our
¯ Gay citizens. I would offer that two orga-
¯ nizations I belong to, teach tolerance
; classes, and perhapsKMOD would liketo
have some of this information. Your re-
" quest may be directed to me, or to the
¯ organizations directly.
- Ned T. Bruha, Tulsa
¯ ce: TOHR
PFLAG
Great Issue
Thelatest edition [January] ofTFN was
really a great issue. Thanks for the important
work that you do. Keep it up. Our
communityneeds it. This recentissue was
a great example of the kind of quality our
community is capable of. Anyone can be
proud with that kind ofleadership. Bravo.
And thanks.
- M.S. Tulsa
In Memorium
WASHINGTON - The Human Rights
Campaign mourned the death of activist
John Thomas, 51, who died on January
20.
Mr. Thomas served on the HRC Board
from 1982 to 1985 andplayedamajorpart
in HRC’s expansion in the Dallas area.
His contributions withHRCincludedhelping
start the Dallas Black-Tie Dinner
Committee. He helped found numerous
organizations including the Gay & Lesbian
Victory Fund.
Additionally, Mr. Thomas was former
executive director.of the Foundation for
HumanUnderstandingandthe Dallas Gay
& Lesbian Community Center, now
known as the John Thomas Gay & Lesbian
Community Center.
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sexual act; and in the case of same-sex marriage.
"In virtually every self-initiated disclosure, the second
statement made is, ’I’d also like to be discharged,"’ said
David Smith, a spokesman at Randolph Air Force Base,
Texas. He said this led officials to conclude that a growing
number of recruits are using a Gay declaration to get out.
Smith said commanders are legally prohibited from ques-
.tioning Air Forcemembers about such voluntary statements.
"You kind of have to take them at their word,".he said.
T’jae Gibson, anAir Force spokeswoman at the Pentagon,
said an official review of discharges and personnel policies
at Lacklandlast year found that most instructors and trainees
there believed the acknowledgments ofhomosexuality were
made to cut short an enlistment. Armyofficials said they "also
suspect many Gay discharges in their service involve soldiers
looking for a quick way out, but they do not consider
the trend to be a major source of worry.
Supreme Court Lets Military Policy Stand
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court once again left
intact the military’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy today,
rejecting a challenge by two former servicemen discharged
after declaring their, homosexuality. The court, without
comment, turned away arguments by the men that the policy
is based on prejudice agaiust homosexuals and violates their
free-speech rights. This action, while not a definitive ruling,
marked the fifth time in recent years that the highest court
has rejected efforts to invalidate the policy. Every federal
appeals court that has considered the issue has upheld the
policy.
This appeal was filed by National Guard 1st Lt. Andrew
Holmes ofSacramento, Calif.,andNavy Lt. Richard Watson.
Holmes declared his homosexuality to. his commanding
officer in 1993. Watson was serving in Bremerton, Wash.,in
October 1994 when he submitted a written statement to his
commanding officer that said, "’I have a homosexual orientation."
Both men were discharged and sued in federal
courts. A judge in San Francisco ruled for Holmes and
declared the military policy unconstitutional. But ajudge in
Seattle ruled against Watson. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals combined the cases andupheldthe "don"t ask, don’t
tell" policy.
US Law Professors Fight .Military Policy
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hundreds of law professors are
joining the fight to get Gays and Lesbians an equal place in
the U.S. armed forces. The battlefield is a 1996 law thatlets
the government take all federal student aid from schools
which refuse to let military recruiters on campus. Scores of
universities had barred recruiters to protest the "don’t ask,
don’t tell" policy, but let them back after President Clinton
signed the law by former U.S. Rep. Gerald Solomon.
"If we had a recruiter who said, ’We won’t hire anyone
who’s black,’ there’s no doubt about us kicking them off
campus," said David V. Chavkin, director and associate
professor at American University’s Washington College of
Law. "The notion that we should treat discrimination
against our Gay and Lesbian and bisexual and trans~gender
students as different is an outrage. The law school agreed in
1997 to let military recruiters return after attorneys decided
that not only its 1,200 students, but all of the university’s
undergraduates could lose their federal aid, including lowinterest
loans and work-study money.
At the meeting, Chavkin was working a~ a table set up
outside the Association of American Law Schools’ biggest
meeting rooms to sign up people willing to work for repeal
of the law. When theAALS meeting ends, organizers hoped
to have 100 law schools represented.
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who plans to lead the
repeal fight, thinks the law is very vulnerable, said Alan
Minuskin, a Boston College Law School professor. At one
point, 138 campusesbarred military recnfiters. By late 1997;.
the list had dwindled to 18. 17 were in Connecticut, where
the policy against discrimination was part of state law. The
federal law applies to all colleges and universities. The
repeal push is starting in law schools because most either
have longstanding rules of their own against discrimination
or belong to the AALS, which had a rule since 1990 against
dealing with any organization that discriminates. It changed
that rule last year, under protest, because of the Solomon
Amendment.
EdwinJ. Butterfoss, deah andprofessor oflaw at Hamline
University in St. Paul, Minn., said, "...we have a lot more
work to do. It [the Solomon law] undermines a law school!s
ability to enforce its own policies - not by attacking the
schools, but they’re attacking the students."
¯ The Associated Press
AtMartin LutherKing Day parades and prayer break-
, fasts, in their offices and in homes, many Blacks said
¯ they have a particular stake in the impeachment trial of
s~dent Clinton- the best thing thathas happened for
¯¯ Blacks in a long time."
"If Clinton is removed from "Dr. Kin~ ¯ office, that’s a slap in the face would be ¯ forBlack America," said Mikel
¯ Holt, editor of the Milwaukee suspect Of the ¯
¯ CommunityJournal, a Black impeael~ment newspaper. ’.’That’s inessence,
derailing the civil fights free- process l~eeause
¯¯ domtrain." he would be
Clinton has long enjoyed
¯ Black support, both from the suspect of tl~e
¯ public and in Congress, be¯
cause he socializes and prays impeaclters,"
¯ with Black people, appoints the Rev. Jesse
¯ them to high positions and un- Jackson said ¯ derstands the struggle of rac-
¯ ism, Black leaders said. a~ter a
: " As the trial entered its secondweek,
some summonedthe breal~ast
: name and message of the slain l~onorin~
¯ civil rights leader in Clinton’s
¯ defense - saying the two men in C]~iea~o.
¯ shared a common dream of Jackson
¯ equality, specffleally
¯ "Dr. King would be suspect
¯ of the impeachment process mentioned
~ because he would be suspect
¯ of the impeachers," the Rev. Senate ¯
JesseJacksonsaidafterabreak- 1MIajorlty leader
¯
fasthonoringKinginChicago. Trent Loft... ¯ Jackson specifically men-
, tioned Senate Majority leader reee_ntly linked.
¯
Trent Lott,who was recently
: linked by his uncle to an ultra- . . . to an ultra-
: conservatl/ve group accused of conservative
¯ promoting white supremacy. ~roup accused
i Lwoastt adfefniliieadteldaswt iwtheethkethgartouhpe of promo~in~
¯ and said he is opposed to rac:
ismand white supremacy. white
: Richard Bailey a historian supremacy¯
¯ and author from Montgomery,
Alabama, said he too was suspect of some of Clinton’s
: critics. "I think (Blacks) are most uncomfortable with
: the way matters are being handled and with the key
¯ players," he said. ¯
¯ "If the conservativepeoplewho are trying to impeach
the president come into power, it will be a tumbaek of
¯ the dock for Afro-Americans," said Edward Lewis Jr.,
i president of the NAACP for Idaho, Nevada and Uiah.
¯ Any current alternative to Clinton could be worse
," said Vicki Washington, director of Equal Opportunity
¯ and Diversity at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Extension
¯ in Madison, Wis. "Of all of our presidents in the recent
¯ past, Clinton seems to be more in tune with the impact
¯ of historic discrimination and how it continues to have
¯ bothapolitical and economic impact onAfriean Ameri_
.. cans and other people of color today," Washington said.
¯ To some, the impeachment itself is being driven by
- :~ fear of-minority power. "My question is, are they real[
hounding him for his personal transgressions, or (to
punish) him for making his administration the most
i
diverse that the country’s ever known? That, to me,
seems the undeit0ne," said Victoria Mares Hershey,
¯ first vice president of the NAACP in Portland, Maine.
Nan Stovall, another NAACP member from Port-
" land, said Clinton is "the best thing that has happened
: for Blacks in a long time," she said.
¯ Via the Internet
¯ Q - What do Howdy Doodie, the Muppets and Steve
Largent have in common?
: A - They all have cute faces with painted-on grins,
¯ empty heads and someone else’s hand up their ass
¯ making their mouths move.
Too vulgar, but too, too funny not to print. What’s
"- dangerous about Largent is that he’s .not stupid at
all.We don’t dispute the hand business though. - TN
by Tom Neal. editor &publisher
As a child, I learned much to my amazement that
some families actually tried to avoid discussing controversial
topics, especially at dimmer. Not mine. When
friends wonder about my interest in discussing ethics
and politics, all I need to do is to invite them to dinner
and.turn my father loose on them. They’ll never wonder
agmn. Note that I regard this familial inheritance of
debate and discussion as a wonderful, wonderful legacy
but it is, perhaps, an acquired taste. I share this bit of
personal history in order to put the following in context.
Since May, I’ve been.arguing at my family’s Sunday
night dinners that Bill Clinton, based merely on the
appearance of inappropriate conduct (that old lawyerly
standard), shouldresign. That is, ifhe were a gentleman.
Of course, we all know that if he had ever been a
gentleman, or even were vaguely acqtminted with the
notion, he wouldn’t be in this nasty PaulaJMonica/
Gennifer/whatever mess in the first place.
But regardless of Bill’s spectacular lapses in judgment,
many Gays and Lesbians, both of color and those
with less color, are going to understand the sentiments
of the adjacent editorial.
If the ultra conservatives, "wing-nuts" as Tul sa Republican
mayoral wanna-be, Terry Simonson, characterized
them, get completely back into power, it will be
a turning back the clock for Gay and Lesbian Americans
as well as for African Americans.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott not only is dosdy
tied to ultra racist organizations like the Concerned
Citizens Council but has had his anti-Gay views well
documented. And I suspect that the ccc is just about as
anti-Gay as it is racist. And while Lott is now denying
that he shares the CCC’s racist and white supremacy
views, he’s not bothering to deny his heterosexist supremacy
stances. Clearly, we Gay folks really haven’t
gotten as far along in the fight for equality as non-Gay
Blacks.
I think it is safe to sa$ that the folks who hate Clinton
because he treats Blacks more fairly than any previous
president, also hate him because he’s treated Gay folks
more fairly than any other too.
Granted his record’s not perfect. He reneged on his
promise to end our military’s ban on Gay soldiers. And
his talk about AIDS is better than his walk has been
much of the time. But he’s appointed more openly Gay
individuals to significant governmental positions than
ever before and he’s used his executive power to ban
discrimination in civilian parts of our government.
And look who’s out to get him: the slimiest of the
slime: Bob Barr, Newt Gingrich, Helen Chenowith,
Bob Livingston (something of a gentleman at least for
resigning), and Henry Hyde, adulterers, fornicators and
hypocrites all.
Note also that all of these folks were big, big supporters
of the Defense of Marriage Act that banned samegender
marriages, if and when they should happen. Let
me see, when did cheating on your spouse become part
of supporting "traditional" marriage? Bill, of course,
also signed this patently unconstitutional law.
Andone hears from time to time a runaor or two about
our saintly First District representative, Steve Largent.
One wonders what he’d say about his sex life under
oath. After all, even if he’s been utterly faithful to his
spouse, he was a great college athletic star and who
hasn’t heard of a fomieating football player? Maybe at
Brigham Young, and then only maybe. Last I checked,
fornication was still illegal in Oklahoma though it is
hardly one of our frequently enforced laws.
However, I do have to give Henry Hyde some credit
for redefining the notion of"youthful indiscretion." Mr.
Hyde cheated onhis wife at the age of 41. This 41 yearold
editor is delighted to learn that anything I do at this
point in my life still has some hope of being declared a
"youthful indiscretion."
I do digress. The bottom line: I don’t like Bill,’s
dishonesty, but I don’t like the behavior of most of the
Congress. I don’t like Congress’ "witch hunt." The $50
million Stair spent could have bought a whole lot of
drugs or food or housing to keep people living with
AIDS alive, or done any number of genuinely worthy
things for our country.
Maybe we could just impeach them all.
Hormel Renominated
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton has renominated
James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg,
and a White House official said Tuesday the
administration hopes "fairness will prevail" in the
new Congress so he can be approved for thejob. The
Senate last year refused to vote on the nomination of
Hormel after several conservative Republicans accused
him of promoting homosexual views: The
White House accused lawmakers of prejudice.
Hormel, who is Gay, was appro,ced by the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, but Senate Majority
Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., didn’ t allow his nomination
to come to the floor in the face of scattered GOP
objections. White House spokesperson, Barry Toiv
said Hormel was among a number of.renominations
Clinton submitted to the new Congress, which began
its work this month. If approved, Hormel wonld be
the first openly Gay U.S. envoy.
Chiistian right groups had’attacked Hormel, a
vocal supporter of Gay rights and AIDS causes, over
his sponsorship ofaGay and Lesbian center at the San
Francisco Public Library that bears his name. Republican
critics called some of the material obscene and
feared Hormel might promote a "Gay agenda" as
ambassador to the tiny European nation.
Hormel must go through the entire nomination
process again, including approval at the committee
level before a Senate vote.
Florida County May Add
Partner Benefits
FORTLAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)-Broward County
may be on its way to extending to domestic parmers
of county employees the same ,benefits that married
couples now receive. A proposed ordinance would
provide medical coverage to Gay, Lesbian and unmarried
partners of county employees to the same
extentas other employees and allow unmarriedcouples
to legally register as domestic partners. The measure
also would require contractors that handle at least
S50,000 in business with the county to offer health
benefits to partners of their own workers.
If adopted later this year, Broward would join one
other Florida county, more than 100 other state and
local governments across the country and some corpora.
tions that have given similar allowances to domestic
partners.
Some business owners in Broward, Florida’s secon&
largest county, object to being told how to run
their companies. However, the commission, which
has already 6utlawed discrimination on the basis of
sexual orientation, appears receptive to the proposal.
CornmissionCha~rwoman Ilene Lieberman said she
supports most sections of the ordinance but had
doubts about imposing the mandate on private comparties
that do business with the county,
County attorneys said the proposal may conflict
with the state’s broad Defense of Marriage Act, the
1997 law that says same-sex marriages are not recognized
in Florida. Supporters said domestic partnerships
are not identical to marriages and the county’ s
proposal says nothing about child custody, divorce,
inheritance or other rights held by spouses.
Robin Bodiford and Dean Trantalis, two lawyers
and Gay civil rights activists, prepared the proposal
with the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, a national Gay
and Lesbian group.
In Florida, the Monroe County Commission agreed
in February 1998 to allow county workers to share
Lheir employee benefits with their domestic partners.
In Miami-Dade County, the state’ s largest county, the
commission approved an ordinance last month barfing
discrimination of homosextmls in the workplace
and housing.
Holocaust Coverup
Uncovered
ATLANTA (AP) - Material about Nazi persecution
of homosexuals, edited out of a teachers’ guide about
the Holocaust, will be sent to Georgia schools in a
separate letter.
The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, which
had previously deemed the material too sexually
graphic for fifth- and sixth-grade students, agreed to
the change after a meeting with civil rights activists.
It was too late to reprint the guides, which were to be
mailed out to schools across the state by this week.
lut the commission decided to send the deleted
material to schools in a separate letter. Harry Knox,
director of the Georgia Equality Project, a civil rights
group said the new mailing also will include four
extra teachers’ guides from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington.
The 15-member Holocaust comrmssion, fornted in
1986, is a state agency. It objected to passages in the
92-page guide "Triangles, Badges, & Stars: Remembering
the Mosaic of Victims of the Holocaust." Gay
civil rights groups were upset when the commission
asked a law firm sponsonng the gnides to delete the
material. The law firm reluctandy agreed and removed
the passages from the Georgia version of the
guide. Versions of the guide were’also produced for
teachers in California and Florida.
HOmosexuals are mentioned in at least four places
in the 6,000 copies printed for Georgia middle school
and high school teachers, said SylviaWygoda, director
and chairwoman of the Holocaust commission.
Vice chairman Alex Gross said commission members
wanted only a few objectionable words removed,
not entire paragraphs.
Here are the para~aphs on Nazi treatment of homosexual
Holocanst victims which the GeorgiaCom:
unssion on the Holocaust asked to be deleted:
"German male homosexuals were targeted and
arrested because they would not breed the master
race: they were an affront to the Nazi macho image."
"’The doors of the third (cattle) car open and the
homosexuals spill forth, males only, because as
Hirnmler concluded, ’Lesbians can give birth.’ The
taunting jeers, and blows of the guards stun the men.
They will stay a night and then be rerouted to
Sachsenhausen mad Buchenwald to be with their
kind. The pink triangle they will soon wear is a result
of ajudgment that they have broken Article 175A, by
sexual act, by kissing, by embracing, by fantasy and
thought. Some will be given an opp_ortunity to recant
by successfully completing sexual activity with a
woman in the camp brothel. Most others will find
themselves tormented from all sides as they struggle
to avoid being assaulted, raped, worked and beaten to
death."
Right-Winger Seeks to
Ban Gay Student Clubs
PHOENIX (AP) - A group of conservative Republican
lawmakers is backing a bill that would ban
support groups for homosexual students from public
school grounds.
The measm’e would require school districts to ban
any student orgamzation that promotes a specific
sexual orientation, sexual activity or any kind of
criminal activity, t’We don’ t allow Playboy clubs on
,c,~tmpus to promote heterosexuality," said Rep. Linda
Gray, R-Glendale, one of the bill’s backers. "Why
should we have Gay clubs to promote homosexuality."
A 3-year-old Gay student group at Desert View
High School in the Suunyside Unified School District
has not caused any problems, said Alan Storm, the
district’s director of student services. The group’s
five members have helped educate students, teachers
and others about discrimination, Storm said. "There
arCh’ t even discussions about sex," Storm said. Storm
added the bill was a bad idea because it jeopardizes
federal funding for schools. Thefederal Equal Access
Actrequires school s to allow all extracurricular groups
to use their facilities. Backers of the federal law said
it was meant to keep schools from banning meetings
of Bible-study and other Christian groups.
Gay Teen Sues Hospital
Over ’Outing’
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Gay Bradford County
teen-ager who attempted suicide last February is
suing the hospital that treated him, claiming news of
his sexual orientation was leaked by an employee,
Cindy Smith, and eventually spread to his high school.
Smith could not be reached by press time, but Troy
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statement denying the allegations.
Greg Congdon, 18 and a former football player and
wrestler, said the disclosure made him an instant pariah,
forcing him to forego his senior year at Troy High-
School and study at home by himself.
Congdon’ s lawyer, Jeffrey P. Osmond of Towanda,
said he believes the suit to be the first of its kind in
Pennsylvania. ’‘This has been a springboard for a bunch
of health-care providers in the area to doubly safeguard
their policies so that this doesn’t happen to them,;;
Osmond said.
Congdon said he realized he was Gay about a month
before the suicide attempt. He told no one, terrified of
the consequences of coming out to his parents and to a
rural, conservative community. Severely depressed,
Congdon ingested 33 Tylenols in the early morning
hours of Feb. 1, 1998, went to school, and took 10 more.
Congdon told the treating physician at Troy Community
Hospital that he tried to kill himself because he was
Gay.
Thelawsuit alleges that Smith- the mother of one of
Congdon’s football teammates -examined Congdon’s
medical records and then told "third persons" that he
was Gay.
Returning to school later, "Everybody just stared at
me,". he said. "I’d get approached by several students
and they would say, ’We heard you’re a faggot, is that
true?’ I would just say, ’Believe whatever you want,’
because I was afraid I’d get beat up." Congdon left
school less than a month after returning.
Troy High School Principal Bob Grantier said he did
not know Congdon was being harassed. "If that was
reported, which it was not, it would have been dealt
with. Bottom line," he said.
Congdon expects to take his high-school equivalency
exam in the summer and attend college next fall as a
criminal justice major. Congdon’s story was featured
last month in an ESPN documentary on Gay athletes.
He also wrote about his experience for a San Francisco-
based magazine for Gay teen-agers. "I’m being
very public with it to raise awareness. We do have a
problem in today’s society and there is hate out there
toward us and other ethnic and religious backgrounds,"
he said. "Something has to be done."
Maryland Governor
Offers Anti-Bias Bill
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Parris Glendening,
prompted by memories of a brother who died of AIDS
after hiding his homosexuality throughout a long military
career, will sponsor legislation this y~ar to ban
discrimination against Gays and Lesbians. Glendening
has endorsed similar legislation in the past, but this year
it will be part of his official administration legislative
package. His bill would add sexual orientation to a law
that already bans discrimination in housing and em-
.ployment because of sex, age, race and religion.
Kathleen Nieberding-Ryan, who has lobbied for the
bill the past few years, said the governor’ s decision to
make it part of his program "will help break down some
of our barriers." "I’ve worked on this bill for a long
time," said Ms. Nieberding-Ryan, lobbyist for MarylandNOWand
former lobbyist for the Free State Justice
Campaign, an organization representing Gays and Lesbians.
"Each year we’ ve inched closer and closer, but
could not secure the one or two votes needed for
passage," she said.
Richard Dowling, head of the Maryland Catholic
Conference, said the church has opposed the bill in the
past and probabl y will do so again. "In our tradition,
discrimination against any person in regard to basic
human fights is a sin," Dowling said. He said that
includes people whose sexual orientation is homosexual,
"but orientation and practice are not the same.’"
"Whether intended or not, this legislation would have
.the eff~t oflegitimating homosexual practice, and that,
m our view, is something government Should not do,"
Dowling said.
Glendening said it was difficult for his brother to live
with the knowledge that his’ career in the Air Force
would be ruined if his homosexuality had been discovered.
"No one should be in fear of their job, no matter
what their occupation, because of their sexual orientation,"
he said.
But ~fracy Conaty, communications director for the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Washing-
, ton, said discrimination "is a fact of life for many
Gay and Lesbian people." "This law is needed
¯ because it is still legal in the state of Maryland to
; fire somebody simply because they are Gay, Lesbian,
bi-sexual or trans-gendered," she said. "Gov.
Glendening is showing real leadership, in not only
recognizing that fact but addressing it," Ms. Conaty
: said.
:¯¯ Anti-Bias Vote May.Lead to Voter Retaliation
¯ CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - City Commis-
: sioner Nancy Evans knows there mightbefallout at
¯ the voting booth after the City Council decided to ¯ offer protection to homosexuals under the Cedar
¯ Rapids civil rights ordinance. The City Council
¯ ,~oted 3-2 early to make the addition, protecting
¯ homosexuals from discrimination in education,
: honsing, credit, employment and public accommo-
¯ dation.
¯ "This could very well cost an election. I under-
. stand that,’" Evans said. "But cost is not what’s
¯ important. If I believe this stands for intolerance, if
I believe this is injustice, then I have an affirmative
¯ duty toact,nomatterwhatitcosts." Evans and Dale
Toddboth mentioned the Novemberelections when
¯ they discussed their votes in favor of the ordinance.
Mayor Lee Clancey joined them in the majority.
¯ Commissioners Don Thomas and Ole Munson
¯ voted against the change. The Rev. Larry Johnson,
¯ a spokesman for conservative Christiar~s in Cedar
: Rapids, saidhewill try to rally political support for
¯ a new set of candidates. Johnson said, "This thing is very offensive to a lot of people. We want to
¯ investigate to see what we can come up with as far
¯ as overturning this."
Anti-Gay Adoption
Law Reconsidered ¯
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Elizabeth Janeway and
¯ her husband wanted to become foster parents, but
: said they couldn’ t stomach the state’ s ban on Gay
¯ adoptive and foster parents. When they applied in
1991, the state asked them if they had any homo-
" sexuals in their family, Mrs. Janeway told a House
¯ committee. "I felt sick answering the question,"
i She said. "Not sick because we have a Gay son and
¯ a Lesbian daughter, but because of what the ques-
¯ tion implied about our children."
¯ Rep. Raymond Buckley, D-Manchester, wants
¯ that to end. Hehas sponsored a bill to repeal a 1987
¯
law that bans Gays and Lesbians from adopting and
¯ serving as foster parents. "This law was enacted
¯ during a time of great fear," Buckley said. "Thank-
" fully, we know much more today than we did a
¯ decade ago." The ban was passed at "the height of
." the season of hate," he said. New Hampshire is one
¯ of only two states with such restrictions; Floridais
: the other.
¯ A crowd of more than 80 doctors, ministers,
foster parents, Gay civil fights activists and others
¯ gathered to urge the committee to send the bill to
the House for a vote.
: Buckley blames the passage of the ban on fears
¯ fed by the surge of AIDS during the 1980s and
mistaken belief that homosexual parents would
molest their adopted or foster children. During the
legislative debate in 1987, one supporter of the ban
argued that Gay people wanted to "raise their own
meat" to sexually molest. "This law was enacted
despite the lack of a single complaint, not one shred
¯ of evidence, without a single incident of concern,"
¯ Buckley said.
¯ Thelaw also requires heterosexual couples wish-
. ing to adopt or be foster parents to sign a form
stating no adult in the household is homosexual.
~ "This law does more thanmerely prohibit Gays and
¯ Lesbians from adopting or serving as foster parents,"
Buckley said. "It intrudes into the homes of
¯ heterosexual couples as well."
¯ Buckley would not say whether he thought the ¯
bill was likely to pass, only that he hopes the
: Legislature has progressed since the original mea-
¯ sure passed.
Dr. ML King Would
Have Fought AIDS
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Martin Luther King
Jr. did not live to see the scourge ofAIDS,
but ifhe had, he would have been a leader
in the battle against the disease, health
care experts and religious leaders believe.
"Of course he would have been out
there talking about AIDS and advocating
programs to help stop the spread Of HIV ,"
said the Rev Lionel Starkes, an HIVi
AIDS counselor for the Clark County
Health District. Starkes was a member of
a panel that discussed the subject "AIDS:
WhatWouldBe Dr. King’ s Involvement?"
The panel was part of activities in observance
of the national holiday honoring
King’s birthday.
Ulysess Palrose, HIV/AIDS care coordinator
for Sierra Health Services, said
that nationwide, the number of people
dying from AIDS has declined, as have
the number of people infected with HIV.
But the number of blacks contracting the
vires has increased.
’Tmnot an expert on Dr. Martin Luther
King, and I don’ tknow all thereis to know
aboutAIDS, but all I doknow tellsme that
he would be a drum major" in the fight
against HIV, particularly in regard to the
African American commumty, Palrose
said.
According to national statistics, 43 percent
ofnew HIV/AIDSpatients are black.
Blacks constitute about 13 perccgt of the
population. More than 50 percent of all
babies and women infected with HIV are
’black.
Scientist Develops
New HIV Treatment
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -A University
of Kentucky (UK) scientist holds patents
on two new methods for treating AIDS
and cancer with drugs that have been
around for years. Trials of the cancer
therapy are at least two years away, but
the AIDS therapy could be tested on human
patients later this year in South Af-
Dr. Vincent Gallicchio, a cell biologist
and associate dean of research in UK’s
College of Allied Health Professions, developed
and patented the AIDS treatment
independently.
Gallicchio came up with the cancer
therapy in partnership with Milton Yatvin,
professor of radiation oncology at the
Oregon Health Science Center. They
jointly hold the patent on this treatment.
In combatting AIDS, Gallicchio proposes
a combination ofAZT or DDI- two
anti-viral drugs now prescribed for the
disease - and lithium, a drug used for
decades to treat manic depression. Research
has shown that lithium, in addition
to its beneficial effects on mental illness,
stimulates the human immune system.
AIDS kills people by destroying their
immunity. Therefore, Gallicchio thinks
that an AZT-lithium "cocktail" might stabilize
AIDS patients by charging up their
immune systems.
Gallicchio and Yatvin plan to attack
cancer with a new kind of drug-delivery
system, putting standard chemotherapy
agents inside naturally occurring human
immune cells called "macrophages."
Theoretically, the macrophages would
carry thehighly toxic chemotherapy drugs
directly to the site of the cancer, leaving
healthy tissue unharmed.
Lithiumwas first suggestedformedical
use 50 years ago, and approved by the
FDA for use in manic depressive patients
about 1970. "We’ re sort of the first to put
two and two together," said Gallicchio
who, in addition to his UKpost, heads the
International Society for Lithium Research,
a.scientific group devoted to learning
more about the drug.
One reason lithium’ s potential in AIDS
hash’ t been researched before, Gallicchio
said, is economics. Lithium is cheap. So,
there’ s been little economic incentive for
pharmaceutical finns to explore its potential
in AIDS because profits wouldn’t be
great. Lithium’s toxicity also has been
problem, but Gallieehio says that’s been
solved.
Gallicchio plans to test his idea in South
Africa, where selected AIDS patients will
be given his lithium cocktail. South Africa
was chosen as the test site, he said,
because its AIDS incidence rate is one of
the world’s highest.
In battling cancer, Gallicchio and his
pamier,Yatvin, envision a system in which
.powerful drugs would zip straight to the
site of the disease, like homing pigeons,
ignoring healthy tissue. To achieve that,
they would use macrophages.
Macrophages are large immune cells,
which are manufactured in the bone marrow
and then migrate to the body’ s orgaus.
Each organ has its own macrophage,
and each macrophage somehow
knows which organ it is assigned to. A
liver macrophage knows it’ s supposed to
go to the liver; a brain macrophage knows
it’ s supposed to travel to the brain, and so
on.
Gallicchio and Yatvin propose to use
this macrophage "homing instinct."To
treat, say, liver cancer, you could pm
chemotherapy drugs inside liver macrophages,
whichthen would carry them straight
to the cancer.
The plan would be to grow macrophages
in an artificial environment, combine
them with cancer drugs, then deliver
the mixture into cancer patients intravenously.
But Gallicchio says it will be
about two years before trials in humans.
First, researchers mustprove the approach
works in animals, and that it poses no
hazards to patients.
Charity to Help
Children with AIDS
tCAMPALA, Uganda (AP)-Funds raised
by Rotary International will pay for
projects devoted to children affected by
polio and AIDS-related diseases, the
organization’s president said recently.
Speaking to reporters before the opening
of Rotary’ s International Summit on Africa,
James Lacy of Cookeville, Tenn.,
said the organization would also fund
facilities that offer corrective plastic surgery
and finance micro-credit facilities,
job training and educational programs.
More than 400 Rotary members from
23 nations have gathered for the three-day
conference opened by Prime Minister
KintuMusoke, whoread a statement from
President Yoweri Museveni. "I’m glad
¯ that President Lacy has chosen poverty as
¯ the main theme of the conference,"
¯ Museveni said in his statement. "Poverty
: is a great problem in Africa, andwehope
; you will offer practical solutions to it."
¯ Lacy, 68, said Rotary’s efforts would
: focus this yearonchildren and their health.
: "I came here to see the problems faced by
: children and to see exactly where we can
¯ help," he said.
: Rotary has committed more than $313
: million since 1985 to the goal of eradicat-
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HIV+ Soldier Guilty
of Assault by Sex
ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) - An HIV-posifive
Army private from New York City
was sentenced to three years in military
prison after pleading guilty to aggravated
assault for having unprotected sex.
Gerland Squires, 21, also will receive a
bad-conduct discharge from the Army
and forfeit all pay and benefits. Her rank
was immediately reduced from private
first class to private.
After a 1997 blood test revealed Ms.
Squires had HIV, her commander at Aberdeen
Proving Ground ordered her to use
condoms and tell her sexual partners that
she carried the AIDS virus. But Ms.
Squires did not tell eight men she was
HIV-positive and had unprotected sex
with four of them, prosecutors said. She
told a ninth man she had the virus but did
not insist he use a condom. None of the
ninemen- six enlisted and three civilians
- has tested positive for the virus.
Ms. Squires,cryingonthe witness stand,
told jurors she had sex to escape her fear
and confusion about having HIV and
passing it on to-her daughter, who is now
9 months old. She said she feared rejeclion
if she told her sex partners she has
HIV.
Aberdeen Proving Ground, about 40
miles north of Baltimore, was the site of
the biggest sex scandal in U.S. mililary
history in 1997. Twelve drill instructors
were accused of forcing female subordinates
to have sex. One instructor was
cleared, and the remaining 11 either were
convicted or re’signed.
India’s Challenge:
AIDS Treatment
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - On paper at
least, India is ready to cope with the consequences
of increasing AIDS cases. It
hopes to avoid being overwhelmed by not
just the disease, but byfear and ignorance.
P.L. Joshi, deputy director of the
government’s National AIDS Control
Organization, confidently fingers a thick,
plastic-bound sheaf of tables and prose
that detail how nearly 1 million medical
workers, from hospital janitors to surgeons,
will be trained to care for AIDS
patients. But Joshi acknowledges the training
has barely begun, and those patients
today face being alined away by hospitals
or, when they are admitted, find that doctors
and nurses refuse even to touch them.
"’There is an element of fear," Joshi
said. "People think that if they handle
these patients, they will get the disease.
Discrimination can only be taken care of
by a strong training program."
Experts say India’s nearly 1 billion
people are in only the early stages of an
AIDS epidemic that already has swept
over Europe and America and decimated
Africa, where in some places a quarter of
the population is infected with the AIDS
virus.
.Joshi and his colleagues in India’ s campmgn
against AIDS have focused on education
and prevention, hoping to keep the
infection rate down. Now they acknowledg.
e they also must face the challenge of
canng for people with full-blown AIDS
and those infected with the virus.
The World Bank predicts that already
snuggling medical systems in developing
countries like India will be so swamped
by AIDS it will be impossible for people
with other diseases to get care.
India’ s government estimates 5 million
people, less than 1% of Indians, are infected
with the AIDS virus. That is considered
low by many experts because it is
based on very limited testing, but even
that figuremeans one of the world’ s poorest
countries has more infected people
than any other nation.
The estimate of infected Indians has
increased steadily from 2.5 million in
1996, spreading mainly through heterosexual
sex into the general public from
high-risk groups like prostitutes and intravenous
drug users. Joshi’s agency says
the number of full-blown AIDS cases has
soared from six in 1986 to 3,167 in 1996
to around 5,000 in 1998.
Knowledge about the disease is lacking
amongmostIndians,including health professionals.
Four years ago, India’ s largest
and most prestigious hospital, the All-
India Institute of Medical Sciences, surveyedits
morethan7,000 employees about
AIDS. Dr. Bir Singh, head ofAIDS training
at the institute, said he found many
staffmembers did not follow even simple
procedures like using needles properly to
ensure they did not prick themselves with
tips contaminated with a patient’s blood.
Worse, Singh found doctors and nurses
infected with the prejudices about AIDS
that are common in the rest of India. A
disease linked to sex and drugs in this
conservative society is deeply shameful,
and those infected with the virus are often
treated as if they deserve to die.
"The moment it becomes known that a
person on a ward is HIV-positive, fear
engulfs the ward. That fear is still rampant.
That shows theignorance among the
medical community," he said. "If the time
comes, God forbid, when one in four
patients is HIV+, what will we do?"
Sahara, a private residential drug treatment
program supported by international
aid groups, already faces that problem.
Director Neville Selhore estimates a third.
of the 120-130 recovering drug addicts
living at Sahara’s house in south New
Delhi are infected. "In 1990, a lot of the
people here started to fall ill," said
Selhore’ s wife and co-director, Elizabeth.
They soon learned the increasing cases of
tuberculosis and shingles pointed to the
spread of the AIDS virus and took on the
task of treating that as well as addiction.
Over the years, the Selhores have developed
a matter-of-factness about AIDS
that would be striking anywhere. The
couple and their young sons live at Sahara
along with the recovering addicts. The
boys "know about the disease, and they’ re
cool," Selhore said. "They see how we
deal with it. They know there are onlv so
many ways it can be transmitted."
At the 16-bed clinic that Sahara opened
earlier this year, attendants pat patients’
hair or help them walk with casual affection.
They counsel the patients not to
share medications like ointment, to use
condoms, to stay healthy.
Pop music plays in the background.
With books and board games on a shelf in
a room that doubles as parlor and nurse’ s
office, the atmosphere is that of an unusually
calm and orderly college dorm. The
message is simple: People with the AIDS
v~rus can live a normal life if they are
armedwithinformation. "Weteachpeople
to take care of themselves. Because how
many people can the government and
orgamzations like this take care of?"
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All of these orgamzations
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stereotypes not withstanding,
Tulsa’s Lesbian
and Gay commuand
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Philbrook’s new Beads exhibit
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Villain no. 1: American Theatre Company.
Repeated calls to
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Ms. Roberts apparently
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Surely this is not a case
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member of this
company is aGay man.
Perhaps once they
couldnothave afforded
the extra stamps but in
these days of faxes and
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nities do support the arts, perhaps even
beyond our numbers. As the lovely
Camille Sartain, formerly ofTPACT and
now working at Gilcrease has stated, it
just doesn’t make sense for arts organizations
not to reach out to the Gaycommu-
So itmakes you wonder about the folks
who just don’t seem to get it! Ani]’they
mostly seem to be theater types, amazingly
enough. Tulsa Family News continues
to have difficulty with several organizations
whom,we will name in hope that
we .might shame them into treating Gay
people fairly. It doesn’t seem that it could
hurt since politely asking for their coop-
¯ Villain no. 2: Theatre Tulsa! run by a
¯¯ wall-known Gay man whom you can see
at Renegades’ pool tables regularly. Re-
" peated visits in person have not persuaded
these folks to share info. about their per-
" formances. Now some with more wicked
¯ tongues than I might say that no self-
" respecting Gay would want to see some of
the ponderous theatrical warhorses this
¯ company produces- still tastes do vary in
¯ ourcommtmity. Notealso, thateveaacall
." toTFboard president Dan Call stillhasn’t
¯¯ moved the mountain.
Villain no. 3: Celebrity Attractions. We
¯ save the worst for last.
¯ see Celebrity, p. 13
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by Adam West
Toby Sligh is one of those characters,
heroes really, who comes along only once
a generation or so. Like Ishmael or Pip or
Hamlet, he brings out all of
0urfears anddreams andhopes
and desires. Don’t get me
wrong, Daniel Vilmure, the
author of Toby’s Lie is not yet
a Melville or Dickens. He’s
nowhere near Shakespeare.
But when this promising
young author decided to make
a worthwhile character, he really
overshot his mark.
Toby is in love with Ia~., the
one-eyed rich kid that has the
"most popular" spot at their
Jesuit-run Catholic school.
Toby wants to take Ian to the
prom. This causes quite a stir,
which gets Toby even more
confusedthanhis mothermoving
out of the house for mysterious reasons.
It confuses him morethan the beautiful
Latin priest who may or may not be the
child molester ofyoungToby’s dreams. It
confuses him more than his theoretically
drug-dealing best friend. It confuses him
almost as much as his relationship with
the AIDS-stricken priest that’]ae visits at
lan’s behest in the local hospital.
Toby’s life gets thrown around in a
whirlwindofstrangefriends, strangerfamily
and familiar strangers. It is how Toby
¯grows tofignreeverything out, andaceept
the strangeness, that makes him a hero.
And make no mistake - to the young
people growing up Gay in this world
l’oby Sligh should be a hero.
What struck me most about Toby’s Lie
was the fact that it’s a cleverly disguised
AIDS novel. Don~t be put off. We’ve all
had enough of our emotions beingjerked
around by badly written, overly soap opera-
ish, ’woe-is-me’ plays, movies, books,
articles, poems, and television specials.
But we should not become disinterested
by a work that truly captures what AIDS
has done to our community (by ’community’
I mean Earth, not the local ’ghetto’).
This problem is not over, and Toby’s
Lie reminds us of that. Finally, an author
reminds us, touches us, in a way that
provokes thought instead of stifling it.
]’oby’s problems are many. He’s bombarded
onall sides by the schemes and lies
of everyone he knows. He’s not innocent.
But he is honest.., in a way that few of us
are ever tndy so: Toby is willing to say
what he fears. And in the end when the
fear ofAIDS piles on top of all the others,
l’oby greets it with true courage.
What Toby’s Lie tinally brings us is a
unique novel in Gay literature. Vilmure
has not succumbed to the need to whine
that our supposed classics (like E.M.
Forster, Edmund White or Andrew
Ric Poston, OklahomaMr. Leather will
host a multi-family garage sale to help
with his titleholder travel fund.
This event will be held in Jenks at 420
West Eighth .on Saturday and Sunday,
Feb. 20-21, from 7am to dark. Donations
of furniture, clothes, magazines, etc. will
be accepted and can be picked up by
calling 299-6442.
Tol~ Sli~h is one
of those
~lmracters,
heroes really,
~ho come alon~
only once a
~eneratlon or so.
Like Ishmael or
Pip or Hamlet, he
brin~s out. all of
our fea~s and
dreams and hopes
and desires.
Holleran) have. Vilmure is aware of the
dangers Of being Gay and being young.
He’s aware of everything that scares us.
However, unlikemostofus who are afraid,
this author faces the fear with
introspection and grace and
dignity. Toby does not run
away fromhis fears in the end,
and that is what saves his life.
This is a coming of age novel,
but Toby grows up like most
of us do not - Toby learns to
stand up for himself. This is a
quality that is sadly lacking in
the Gay community, no matter
how many snappy queens
you know.
I’d like to digress a little
here, soforgivemeinadvance.
This is after all my last review
for you (I’m moving to New
York!). Do you remember
Blaxploitation?Thosehorren-
¯
dous movies, books and television shows
¯¯ (Yes, Shaftwasjustas awful as Blacula!)
that poured onto the market when enter-
." tainment moguls realized that Black
¯ people liked TVtoo?
¯ I’d like to send you a warning. Beware
¯¯ of Queer-ploitation. The signs of its arrival
arehere (was In andOutor To Wong
¯ Foo really for us, even if they were much
¯ loftier than Blacula?). I came across it
¯ most recently when I started a book for
¯ this very review. The book is called Eye ¯
Contact and it is a mystery with a Gay
¯ protagonist. After my years of schooling
¯ and intelligent discourse about literature, ¯
Icouldonly thinkofonewordthatsummed
¯ up this book: stupid.
¯" Don’t be fooled by the attractive half-
¯. nakedman on the cover- his picure is not worth the price. Or the support a purchase
¯ shows to the publisher who would put out
: a badly-written, ill-conceived novel, just
¯ because they discovered Gay people read
¯
tOO.
¯ Be careful what you buy. Just because a
: book has a Gay protagonist, does not
¯ mean it is good to buy. Don’t let them
¯ think they can sell us Good Times when
¯ we could be purchasing Will and Grace.
¯ Buy Toby’s Lie or Blue Coyote (reviewed ¯
last month), rather than something that
¯ has a pretty chest on the cover and no
muscle inside.
¯ Thank you for reading my reviews and
take care of us.
¯ Adam West is no longer a resident of
¯ Tulsa or Oklahoma, having relocated the
¯ Batcave to the state of New York. He ¯
practically has no credentials, and he
¯ certainly no longer has ajob.
¯ Editor’s note: Tulsa Family News would ¯
like to thank Adamfor his work as a book
¯ reviewer and to wish him good luck and
¯ much warmth as he moves to the frozen
northland.s.
¯
Poston, as Oklahoma Mr. Leather, has
¯ traveled to 14 community events in the
¯ last H weeks. He’sbeentotheDistrictof ¯
¯ Columbia twice, San Francisco and the
Mid:Atlantic redon. Poston wants corn-
¯ munity members to know that he is avail-
: abletoassistinbenefitsandalsohasgiven
¯ seminars on Gay family structurerecently
¯ to Red Rock and to PFLAG. He will be
¯ going to IML, Intemational Mr. Leather
¯ inMay, hoping to continue theOklahoma ¯
tradition of Leather leadership.
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Editor’s note: our DIYD expert is in an " try a few out, as there is some slight
alternative universe this month, at least . variation even within a similarlot ofhamaccording
to her answering machine. She ~ mers.
promises to return to earlh orbit with a o A tape measure is handy to have as
new column next month. In the meantime, well, since accurate measurements help
we repeat this useful column from last ensure successful projects. My advice is
March. to buynothing less than
by Mary Schepers Everyone al6 ft and preferably a
Everyone needs a needs a t0oll~it. 25 ft. There is a meatoolkit.
Our editor suring tape called the
laughs lasciviously and Our editor laughs "’E-Z Rule" that not
offers his own sugges- laselvlously and only has the cry.ptic
dons, which I won’t hashmarksbetweenthe
dignify by repeating, o~ers ]~is own inches but also the ac-
Whether your ambisuggestions,
whleh I tual measurement in
tions extend no further number (i.e. 1/8, 1/2,
than installing mini- won’t dignify 5/8,etc.)foraquickand
blinds, or whether it easy fix on just where
involves "project fan- by repeating, you are. I confess that,
tasies" on a regular ba- Wl~etber your prior to owning an E-Z
sis, some basic tools Rule, I sometimes had
should bc standard in ambitions extend no to count out the hash
any home. ~urtl~er than marks to verify my
To begin with; a few measurement, ttome
of the DIYD’s basic installing mlni-bllnds, repairs don’t have to
rules: first, buy the best
- or wl~etl~er it involves be that painful - oh,
tools you can afford, memories of Sister
Trust me on this one; it "project fantasies" Mary Agnes’ s math
does make adifference, class!Always try to use
and it’s a worthwhile on a regular basis, the measuring tool
maxim to follow, even some basic tools each time; this is really
if you must occasion- critical ff you are meaally
resort to layaway should, be standard suring things that need
ordelayedgratffieation, i~i any borne, to fit together, as I
Second, honor your found out to my distools
and save yoursdfalot offrustration: may inmy early handy-dyke days. Seems
keep your tools together and organized, there there’s always some variation even
They deserve b~tter than to be chucked with something as standard as measureunceremoniously
into your standardjunk ment. Of course, size queens have known
drawer, or under the seat of your car, or - this for years.
horrors! - propping up a potted plant. A few wrenches are also he~udy to have
Third, think about the tasks you do most about. My recommendations: one pair of
often and- buy the necessary tools first, normal pliers; one pair of slip joint phers
A screwdriver set is almost a given. If (channel locks); and one pair of adjustyoudon’t
thinkitis essential tohavemore able locking pliers (vise grips). This is a
than just one, used indiscriminately for bare minimum. If you are going to get
everything, please bear with me. Bare serious about home repairs, I’d also sugminimum,
four screwdrivers: large and gest a small set of combination box end/
small each of a fiat blade and a Phillips open end wrenches in the standard (not
head (cross shaped) screwdriver. Myself, metric) size, a pair of needle nose pliers,
I like four.of each type as a minimum, some wire cutters (aka, "Dykes" -Inn),
frommonstroustominute;mosttaskswill and at least one pipe wrench. However,
fall somewhere in the middle, but its great the bare minimum will take care of most
to have the extremes (no, not the Supremes) basic jobs.
on hand when you need them. Referring back to Rule no. 2, do your-
Using the proper type .and size screw- self and your tools a favor and keep them
driver helps prevent the frustration of together.I’mnotjustbeingabitanalhere;
cam-out (or"wallerin’ out", as I was raised I’m still looking for tools I used to rehab
to say) when you are halfway finished my house. Suggestions: a tool drawer in
driving a screw and can neither go further the house; a peg board with hooks in the
nor back it out. When selecting screw- garage; a plastic bucket or trays with
drivers, it is easy to ignore Rule no. 1: handles or a gatemouth bag. The there’s
Darlings, don’t do it! Cheap drivers bend, my favorite, the tool brit. I always keep a
break and lose head integrity, which also ¯ hammer, a couple of screwdrivers, ameacontributes
to cam-out. You didn’t save : suring tape and a small pair of vise grips
much money if you blow through a set of : in mine, along with a carpenter’ s pencil. I
screwdriverseveryyear.Finally,useyour ¯ can just grab that little darling and get
drivers to drive screws only. They are
° started on any basic tasks right away. It
neither cold chisels noricepicks norham- ¯ also holds the nails, screw, drill bits, etc.
mers. that I’ll be using specific to that task.
A proper hammer should also be in ° Tins brings me to a cautionary tale. My
your basic tool box anyway. There are all " friend C. was on a ladder nailing some
sortsofhammers-finishing,framiug,ball ¯ sidingrecenfly;shecarfiedhernailsinthe
peen, etc. If you only have one hammer, ¯ time-honored yet dangerous method -
make it acarpenter’s hammer. It candrive " between her lips. She and the ladder took
or pull nails, nudge a stubborn board into " a tumble, a nail went down her throat,
place, even demolish that tacky Pepto ¯ resulting in a $3500 trip to the ER. In that
pinktile tub surround. Once again, review ¯ Light, a tool belt is also very economical.
Rule no. 1. A cheap hammer will beat you If this st0ry doesn’ t convince of the merits
like a stepchild if you useit for any length ¯ of a tool belt, please consider its aesthetof
time. A hammer should feel well-bal- ¯ ics: a tool belt has a certain butchly charm
anced in your hand and comfortable to : that almost defies description. Just ask the
grip. Stanley makes a good hamm,er, but " men and women who know.
by Esther Rothblum ¯ publishers. One publisher said they had
Irecentlyhadaconversation~vithElana : too many Jews on their list already!"
Dykewomon about her latest book Be- " When Elana was doing a reading of a
yond the Pale, a novd about the lives of ¯ section of the book, an editor who hap-
RussianJewishLesbianswhoimmigrated " pened to be in the audience knew of antoNorthAmericanattheturn
"~rhen I was 12 or
other woman who was
of the century. Elana searching for Lesbian mate-
Dykewomontmsalwaysbro- 18,I tried tol~ll rial to adapt for her
ken new ground. Her book myself. I was one of storytelling performances.
Riverfinger Womanwas one "My
of the first Lesbian novels, those statistics of
section was then dramatized,"
Elana told me. "I
Beyond the Pale won the adolescent Les[rians saw this woman, Helen
1998 Lambda Literary
who attempt su~elde.
Mintz, performing it once
Award for Lesbian fiction, and I was floored. It’ s amaz-
I asked her how she be- "~hen I was . ing to see someone act your
came a writer. "I was always institutionali~d, work. She performed it in
writing. I was a writing Vancouver where the edichild,"
she said."When I was I realked tlmt tors of Press Gang Publish-
12 or 13, I tried to kill my- writers didn’t kave ers heard it and wrote to me
self. I was one of those statistics
of adolescent Lesbi- to be 0endered in the
askingmeif they could consider
publishing the book."
ans who at[empt suicide, same way that 01rls As Elana continued
WhenI was institutionalized, -. and boys did. work on the book, shehad to
I realized that writers didn’ t researchmany aspects oflife
have to be gendered in the same way that at the turn of the century. "I had toread the
. girls and boys did. That is, I could choose really dry stuff," she said, "like the history
to be neither a traditional girl nor boy; I of the grain trade in Odessa. I couldn’t go
could be a writer." Elana.found that she to Russia, so I was looking for descripcould
be eccentric and free in that m.le as tions of streets and figuring outwhat daily
a writer, life was like. My girlfriend Susan
In college at the California Institute of Levenkind is a librarian and she was very
Arts, Elanamet anumber of experimental good at finding tbings out for me. I would
poets and became active in Gay libera- read a book and then use their bibliogration.
One of her teachers knew someone phy as a starting point. I learnedhow to be
in publishing. ’¢Fhis was 1971, and they an historian." A friend gave her a book
were starting a slightly pornographic se- about the Women’ s Trade Union League,
ties for housewives to cash in on the new which turned out be quite a Lesbian orgafeminist
sexuality," Elana remembered, nization. She went to labor libraries, and
laughing, "and told me to write up my even looked up the transportation system
experiences. I wrote the first third of the in New York City at the turn of the cenbook
in !8 straight hours. I wanted to tury.
write a Lesbian novel with a happy end- At book readings, Elana prefers seeing."
But the publisher said it was not tlons of her book that describe the powhat
they were looking for. groins in Russia. "I also like to read the
By this time Elana had moved to the sectionsthathavealittlesexinthem,"she
women’ s community in Northampton, said. For example, when Chava and Rose
Massachusetts. The feminist publisher fall in love:
Daughters Inc. had sent flyers around "Rose leaned towards me, put her hand
townand afriendrecommended thatElana on my cheek to turn my face so we could
send her book to thatnew company. They see each other... ’So if you want to and I
accepted Riverfinger Woman whichcame want to, who starts?’
out in print in 1974, one year after they I pulled the tenement air down to the
published Rubyfruit Jungle. The Naiad bottom of my lungs. This was harder than
Press reprint of Riverfinger Woman con- goingout on strike. I moved my lips onto
eludes with an essay detailing Elana’s Rose’ s. Together. We had been lying in
process in getting this book published, bed together for more than two years.
Elana went on to publish three more ¯ Careful.Cousins. Leftside, rightside, I’m
books before her current novel. They Will worn out, me too, goodnight.
KnowMeByMy Teeth was a colleclion of No, I changed my mind as the kissshort
stories which she self-published in engulfed our faces and my hands found
1976. She also published abook ofpoems the soft flesh of her shoulders and pressed
entitled Fragments From Lesbos. In 1995 her close. This was easier than going on
Onlywomen Press published her book of strike. This was easier than anything."
poems Nothing Will BE As Sweet As The The response from readers has been
Taste. Elana also had a long stint as an wonderful. ’T ve gotten lots ofletters sayeditor
of the feminist periodical Sihister ing ’This is my grandmother’s Story’ or
Wisdom. ’now I understand my history’ or hetero-
Beyond the Pale began over ten years sexualwomenintheir70s or80s wholove
ago as a poem. After she had written that this story," said Elana.
poem, Elana felt that there was a longer . The "Lammies" (Lambda Literary
story there. "So I started to think who ¯ Awards) are to Lesbian writing what the
these two women would be and who their ¯ Oscars are to Hollywood. Elana’ s award
familieswouldbe, whatwouldmakethem " for Lesbian fiction is the eqnivalent of the
migrate. I started to read old books about " best actress award in the Oscars. She was
travellors in Russia at the turn of the : awarded the most recent Lammy for Lescentury.
The depths of the anti-Semitism ¯ bian fiction.
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will ultimately counter the hostility and
gridlock we have come to know from our
nation’s capital," she added.
Never before in the history of the Gay
rights movement has there been a coordinated
political campaxgn of actions in all
50 states as well as the District of Columbia
and Puerto Rico. Equality Begins at
Homerepresents anew phase of the movement
- a focus on state orgamzing and
legislatures. The vast majority of debates
and decisions about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
and Transgender equality occur in
state legislatures. Equality Begins atHome
will bolster the infrastructure of the Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, andTransgendermovement
within the states - where the heart of
the struggle for equality lies - and lead to
greater success in the overall struggle for
equality.
Each state organization will develop
events to highlight priority issues:
* In California, activists will focus on
defeating an anti-Gay ballot measure to
be put before voters next year. Events will
include a rally and youth lobby day.
* In New Hampshire, activists will hold
a rally at the state capitol to focus attention
on the need to repeal a state law
banning Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgender people from adopting children.
* In Nebraska, organizers will target
workplace discrimination. They will hold
a lobby day and circulate a "Workplace
Fairness Petition" to business owners
Early on, Tulsa Family News was’told not
to expect fair treatment from this operation
due to the religious prejudices of the
owner, Larry Payton. And true to that
warning, Payton never has taken Tulsa’s
Gay community seriously as part of his
market.
They do send out press releases sometimes
but at least on one occasion only
after the deadlines for every monthly pul~-
lication had passed. There’s not much
point in writing about this sort of event
two weeks after it’s over.
It would be one thing if their decisions
were made on serious business rationale
such as reach of a publication or the cost
for a particular market segment. But
Payton openly admits that he is motivated
by religion; that is, as a Southern Baptist
he feels it’s his religious duty to discriminate
against Gay readers. Now what was
it that Jesus said? Love your neighbor as
yourself, wasn’t it? Is that how he would
want to be treated?
Note, however, that he doesn’t hesitate
to use Gays when it is to his advantage,
say, like many of the people with whom
he does business: the actors, the theatrical
companies, even a member of his own
staff.
The one time he advertised with this
newspaper for The Phantom ofthe Opera
was because we contacted The Phantom
company who -~magine, were mostly
Gay men. It seems they thought reaching
out to us was a good idea.
Oh well, don’t look to see info. about
these companies anytime soonif wejudge
from past performance. But we always
hold out hope for redemption, that these
hard hearts might be softened.
Meanwhile don’t miss the new shows
at Philbrook. Drop by Gilcrease too when
throughout the state.
"The battleground for equality has
moved to the states, and so have we," said
Paula Ettelbrick, Equality Begins atHome
national coordinator. "We are throwing
down the gauntlet and demanding that
state officials resist the right wing’s efforts
to deny us our basic fights as citizens,"
Ettelbrick added. Equality Begins
at Home is part of a campaign to counter
the growing muscle of the right wing and
its anti-Gay attacks. In the last few years,
the right has passed dozens of anti-Gay
laws in dozens of states.
In addition, 1998 was one of the most
vicious years in recent memory. Senate
Majority Leader Trent Lott likened homosexuality
to kleptomania and sex addiction.
Congress introduced a number of
mean-spirited anti-Gay measures. Rightwing
groups launched a major advertising
campaign attacking Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
and Transgender people. In addition,
voters approved anti-Gay ballot
measures in Alaska; Hawaii; Fayetteville,
Arkansas; Fort Collins, Colorado; and
Ognnquit, Maine
"Our demands are simple and in line
with basic American values: the right to
be safe, to have a family, to hold ajob, and
to participate fully as citizens. It’ s exactly
what every American wants anddeserves,"
said Gina Reiss, co-chair of the Federation
of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Statewide Political Orgamzations
and executive director of New
Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition.
For a calendar of events for Equality
Beg ins atHome, please view our web site
at http://www.equalitybeginsathome.org
Note also that February will be quite the
month for dance with the Tulsa Ballet
seemingly getter better with ev cry performance
(2/5-7 The Green Table. Equinoxe
and Jardi Tancat) and Les Ballets
Trockadero de Monte Carlo in for just
one, mind you, just one fabulous "men in
tights" performanceon March 16th. Don’t
miss it! - TFN entertainment editor
Bill Laforttme. In Republican circles, it’s
said that Gov. Frank Keating has suggested
that he would not oppose the
amendment.
Also the following bills were introduced
in the Oklahoma House:
HB1224- An Act relating to children;
amending 10 O.S. Supp. 1998, Section
7503-1.1, which relates to eligibility to
adopt a child; making persons in certain
cohabitation relationship ineligible to
adopt a child. Author - Pope, Tim.
HB 1707 - An Act relating to children:
amending 10 O.S. Supp. 1998, Section
7503-1.1, which relates to eligibility to
adopt; prohibiting certain persons from
adopting children. Author - Graves, Bill
HB 1314 - An Act relating to the Oklahoma
Department of Libraries; mandating
certain policies related to identification
and separation of sexually explicit
materials. Author - Graves, Bill
HB 1703 - An Act relating to state government;
prohibiting certain discrimanation;.
Authors - Graves, Bill
HB 1703 - An Act relating to state government;
prohibiting certain discrimination;
to any individual ol group on the
basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or
national operation in public employment,
education, or contracting.
Author - Graves, Bill
Plans for 1999 include a creative arts
night in .February both for the artistically
inclined and the not so artistically indined,
a bingo night in March, dance
lessons in February, a Sadie Hawkins
dance in May, a camping and float trip in
June, a spirituality and healing arts night
in July, a Casino night in August, a,.weekend
in Eureka Springs in October, movie
night in November, and a hiatus in December
(since so much else is going on
anyway) and then in January 2000, a progressive
potluck dinner. Additionally the
group has planned a Memorial Day alternative
picnic and softball game for May.
"We tried to create a wide diversity of
ideas and activities knowingthat not every
one enjoys the same kind of things,"
said Joan. "It was also suggested to have
mid-month bike rides, walking groups,
bowling nights and other sports related
activities ."
Joan added, "we hope to attract singles,
couples and break down some of the barriers
womenhave for attending. All of our
activities have a small fee to help offset
printing and postage and site rental costs.
We are also planning fund raisers for
different organizations."
To learn more about Gal-A-Vanting or
to get the mailing list, call Mary at 743-
6740, Kathy at 322-6322, or Barb at 459-
6825.
but specifically shielded only heterosexual,
and nothomosexual, activity. The
decision prompted protests by Gay civil
rights activists, who said the ruling denied
them eq]aal rights. The Court of Appeals
also was silent on anal sex, which
remained illegal for everyone in the state.
The ACLU asked Rombro to declare
the law unconstitutional, but the judge
instead ruled the Court of Appeals’ decision
on oral sex should extend to homosexual
activity as well. In the final ruling,
Rombro agreed that private, consensual
anal sex also cannot be prosecuted under
the law.
AlthoughACLU leaders had originally
planned to lobby the Maryland General
Assembly to rescind or amend the old
law, Sullivan said the organization is now
satisfied with the judge’s ruling. Andrew
H. Baida, an assistant attorney general,
said state officials want to keep the old
law to help prosecute cases of sexual
.assault,prostitution or sex inpublicplaces.
Center spokesman, Greg, adds that the
Center also is hosting regular Pride Dances
every other Saturday at 8pro. The Center
¯¯ now has a pool table to supplement the ping-pong and foosball tables it had be-
" fore.
Also, Centerlegal counsel, Kerry Lewis,
¯
shared that the board of directors of Tulsa
: Oklahomans for Human Rights, the par-
¯ ent organization of the Pride Center, had
: responded to the eviction notice of the
: Center’s landlord.
¯ - Without delving into the legal partieu- ¯
larities, the board responded to the notice
: saying that the Centerwas withinits rights
¯ under thelaw to post its signs and that the
¯ landlordhadWrongfully terminated their ¯
lease. The gist of the matter, according to
¯ Lewis is that all rights go to the tenant
: unless specifically restricted by the landlord.
¯ Lewis stated too that the landlord and
¯
his attorney had failed to show up at a
: meeting that was scheduled to try to re-
. solve the conflict.
: Lewis added that the landlord had been
: asked to respond in a timely fashion, or
: else, the board would seek legal redress
¯ for the damages already suffered by the
: Center.
¯ Editor’s note: TFN will provide our
¯ readers an update to this conflict in our
¯ March issue.
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Call To Action!
Tues., M.arch 2, 8-5
HB 1211 Lobby D.ay
at OK State Capitol
TULSA - State and local community organizers led in
Tulsa by former national Parents, Families and Friends
of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) president, Nancy
McDonald, have called for an emergency lobby day at
the State Capitol on Tues., March 2 in support of HB
1211 amending Oklahoma’s "hate crime" statute.
At the Capitol, Keith Smith, a lobbyist with the
OklahomaACLU and Sierra Club is help~g to coordinate
lobbying. Keith can be reached through Peggy
Leininger in State Senator Bemest Cain’s office. Keith
may also be reached at 405-840-2219 and by e-mail at
OKSmith@aol.com.
Mrs. McDonald has noted that parents are particularly
effective in reaching state legislators. M.C.
Smothermon, who recently ran for US Congress is
herself the mother of a hate crime victim and is encouraging
any parents who’may wish to come to the Capitol
to contact her at 405-340-7015. see Lobby, p. 3
Despite Murder, Wyoming
Rejects Hate Crime Bill
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Four months after Gay
college student Matthew Shepard was beaten to death,
amove to pass hate crimes legislation in Wyoming was
killed in committee. Wyoming is one nine states without
bias crimes laws, and lawmakers have rejected
similar measures four times since 1995.
After Shepard’s death, calls for a bias crimes law
increased - Republican Gov. Jim Geringer for the first
time supported it. Geringer said that he was disappointed
the legislation did not reach the Senate floor for
debate, but he added that no law can change how people
think about each other. Twomeasures died in the Senate
Judiciary Committee. Both would have increased the
maximum fine for a felony by up to $5,000 and raised
themaximumprison term by up to five years if prosecutors
could prove the crime was motivated by bias.
State Sen. John Schiffer, the Judiciary chairman, said
he hoped supporters of bias crime legislation would
come back in future sessions with legislation that would
have broader support. Opponents said they objected to
listing motivating factors, such as race, religion and
sexual orientation, saying the bills offered special protection
to certain groups. Others said no new laws are
needed, just strict enforcement of existing measures.
Wende Barker, state coordinator for theWyoming
Bias Crimes Coalition, said she was disappointed but
not surprised and planned to try to push for such laws
again next year.
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Oklahoma HouseCommittee
Approves Hate Crime Bill
by Tim Talley & Tom Neal
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP/TFN) - A proposal to add sexual
orientation to the list of hate crimes in Oklahoma is being
criticized by opponents who question whether it will deter anti-
Gay assaults.House Bill 1211 would add sexual orientationto the
list of groups in the state’s hate ~wimes law, which already
includes race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin and disability.
"I think we’re going in the wrong direction," Ken Wood,
executive director of the Oklahoma Christian Coalition, said
Wednesday after the House Judicial Committee voted 5-3 for HB
1211 y Rep. Don Ross, D-Tulsa. I think xt creates an inequality
of justice. This elevates particular groups to a higher status,"
Wood said.
Keith Smith, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties
Union, said the measure is supported by many Oklahoma religious
organizations. The bill’s passage by the House committee
says "violence and hatred against certain groups is unacceptable,"
Smith said. But passage by the full Legislature "will be an
uphill battle," he said.
Opponents attacked the measure for "endorsing Gay lifestyles."
’¢l~ais is more about having a homosexual lifestyle as a normal
lifestyle in contravention of 6,000 years of history," Rep. Bill
Graves, R-OKC, said. "It goes against the Christian religion."
Ross saidthe bill is a response to the beating death of Matthew
Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming who was pistolwhipped,
robbed and lashed to a fence in October. Police said
Shepard was attacked, in part, because he was homosexual.
’q’hey thought you were dangerous because you were different,"
Ross said as he read from a letter that Ross said he wrote to
Shepard’s spirit. "You didn’t parade your lifestyle," Ross said.
"Matthew, you were still in the closet.""I’m sorry for the misfits
in our society," said Ross, who closed debate by recmng the
Lord’s Prayer.
.Critics, including Rep. Ray Vaughn, R-Edmond, said the hate
crimes law has not stopped race- and religion-based attacks.
"How would it be effective in stopping hate crimes against ;
. homosexuals?’"Vaughn said. "r(seems to me we’~e creating "a :
special class of Oklahoma citizens. We’re all entitled to the same ¯
respect." see HB 1211, p. 3
Methodist Anti-Gay Marriage
Witchhunt Reaches Oklahoma
TULSA - Tulsa United Methodist pastor, the Reverend Leslie
Peurose of Community of Hope, has had formal charges brought ¯
against her for signing a statement of support for the Holy Union "
ceremony between two California women, Ellie Charlton and ¯
Jeanne Barnett in Sacramento on January 16, 1999. ¯
Penrose, along with the Rev. Susan Ross ofPerkins, Oklahoma
¯ signeddocumentsofsupportfortheceremonylistingtheirnames ¯
: asas"officiantsinabsentia."Nearly80Methodistelergypartici_ ¯
.. pated in the widely publicized service to support the couple and "
¯ toprotestreeentdecisionsoftheUnitedMethodistChurchtoban ¯
-" its clergy from officiating or performing such services or from ¯
¯ such services from being held in Methodist owned facilities. ¯
¯ Boyce Bowden, spokesperson for the Oklahoma Conference, "
United Methodist Church, acknowledged that charges had been "
," brought against Penrose but refused to provide any further
¯" information characterizing the issue as a "personnel issue" and
¯ therefore subject to employment confidentiality rules. Bowden
did notmention charges brought against Ross. The Rev. Peurose
." was unable to comment officially.
¯ However, the charges were brought against Peurose and Ross ¯
¯ by Jake P. Barker of First United MethOdist Church of Eufaula
Barker is apparently tied to anti-Gay elements in the Methodist
." Church and copies of his complaint, as well as official responses
¯ have appeared verbatim on the website of "The Confessing
¯ Movement" (http://shell.surfsouth.com/~jwarrene/news/
ok_disobey2.html)
"_ So while the Oklahoma Conference office and Oklahoma
¯ Bishop Blake has no comment, the full text of the Conferenee’s
¯ response to Barker is available on the intemet.
¯ The heart of the response of Conference’s response is that
¯ participation in a banned same-gender union or relationship
¯ blessing requires the clergy to be physically present. Therefore ¯
the signatures of Penrose and Ross constitute only a permissible
¯ expression of their opinion rather than a violation of Methodist
ophne. Theletterwas signedby Paul Bowles, Tulsa District
Superintendent, and Grayson Lucky, Stillwater District Superintendent,
see Methodists, p. 3
Chastity Bono to Speak
atApril Red Ribbon Gala
TULSA- Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. (Center for AIDS Resources,
Education and Support), formerly known
as the HIV Resource Consortium, will hold its
second annual fundraising dinner; the Red Ribbon
Gala on Saturday, April 17th at 7:30 at the Downtown
Doubletree Hotel. The event will feature a
keynote address by Chastity Bono, author and
Lesbian and Gay media activist. Bono’s address
will emphasize the need for compassion and broad
community support in the fight against AIDS.
Proceeds from the event will support Tulsa
C.A.R.E.S. which is the principal care-giving consortium
for people living with HIV and AIDS in
northeastern Oklahoma. More than 500 clients
receive food, counseling, housing, medical prescription
assistance from the agency. Bono’s participation
in the Gala is co-sponsored by the Tulsa
Chapter of PFLAG.
Bono will also attend a booksigning in the early
afternoon (time tba) on April 17 at the Tulsa Gay
Community Services Center to benefit the Center.
Also on April 17, local divaAudra Sommers will
present Benefit 99, A Connection ofLove from 6-
8pm at the Parish Church of St. Jerome, 205 West
King. Featured artists include Ernestine Dillard,
Gregory Hyde, Link Filion, Rebecca Ungerman,
Jonathan Brown and the Council Oak Men’s Chorale.
Tickets are $25. Info: 836-5447.
Vandal Invades Center
Verbally Abuses Volunteer + Trashes Hail
TULSA - Late last month, aman entered the Tulsa
Gay Community Services Center, formerly known
as The Pride Center, shouting obsenities at the
volunteer, Shawn, who was staffing The Pride
Store that evening: The man, a white male was
described as being just over 6 foot tall and about
230 pounds with military style short red hair and a
full beard and mustache.
Shawn stated that the intruder stormed in the
store, waving a Pride flag that he’d grabbed from a
display near the stairs. She Said his message was
essentially, "how dare you f--king faggots come to
my town, you need to get the f--k out"and "I know
what you look like; I’ll be back to finish what I
started." Shawn then coolly asked him whether he
felt better now and then the intruder stormed down
the hall breaking a framed print and a floor lamp.
Shawn called 911 while the intruder was breaking
things in the hall. Tulsa Police responded
promptly and Shawn said the officers were very
professional and supportive but are not classifying
the incident as a hate crime:
Normally, Center volunteers workin teams; however,
the other volunteer had stepped out to bring
back fast food for dinner. Center board members
have begun fundraising to purchase a surveillance
system for the Center in response to the assault. ¯
Prime Timers to H.old
Gay Center Fundra,ser
¯ TULSA -The Tulsa Area Prime Timers, a local
: mens group, will hold its annual silent auction on
¯ Saturday, March 13 from 5-9pmin the Neal-Padgett
: Hall of the newly renamed Tulsa Gay Community
: Services Center, formerly known as The Pride
¯ Center. The event is held to raise funds for the
¯ Community Center and features a variety of ob-
¯ jeets from art, to collectables and even to services.
¯ Tulsa Area Prime Timers is the local chapter of
an international mens organization. Originally the
¯ group restricted membership to men 40 and above
and their partners. Now the organization is open to
¯ men 21 and above. For more information about the
¯ silent auction or Prime Timers or to donate an item
for the auction, call 627-2359.
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*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
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Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440
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*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
*Council Oak Men’s Chorale ~ 585-COMC (2662)
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Mary Easely, Member
Oklahoma House of Representatives
Dear Mrs. Easely,
As a man who happens to have been a
victim of hate crimes based on sexual
orientation, I would urge you to support
house Bill 1211, simply because it’s the
right thing to do. You may or may not
agree with certain issues surrounding the
subject, but surely you can realize that to
be killed or maimed simply because of
what others perceive you to be is wrong.
We need a means to combat that sort of
behavior in this city, and this bill is an
~mportant step in addressing that.
Since moving to this state in 1993, I
have been verbally attacked withepithets
ranging from "faggot" to "f***ing queer"
while simply-walking down the street
with a friend. We were doing nothing
untoward, simply walking and talking.
~nat has happened several times - unprovoked
attacks.
In another instance, I was nearly forced
off a highway by a carfnl of kids yelling
anti-Gay slurs. It is not hard to imagine
that, considering the Mathew Shepard
case, I was lucky.
In school, I was the victim of several
assaults due to the fact I was perceived as
being Gay - long before I knew I was. I
have never been one to carry flags and
.proclaim my sexual orientation with a
bullhorn in a parade, so these attacks,
especially here in Tulsa, were a surprise -
and an unpleasant reminder of a very
difficult childhood.
I know several men who were physically
attacked, even as recently as this
year, in settings - urban neighborhoods,
daylight - that were surprisxng and upsetting
- and undeserved. If the bill passes,
then we can begin to effectively works
towards eradicating, or limiting this sort
of unacceptable violence.
Please help this bill make it through. Be
a part of the history that promoted a positive,
better; peaceful world, not a part of
history that ignored the hatred in this
world and allowed it free reign.
- name witheld by request, Tulsa
cc: Don Ross
Talking points for HB1211
It’ s not about "special rights ;"it’ s about
¯ stopping violence - Oklahoma’s current
laws arenotprotecting citizens adequately.
Many crimes, such as murder,vary the
penalties depending on the motive of the
perpetrator. A stronger hate crimes law is
no different.
No Oklahomans should fear violence
because of who they are. Hate crimes are
a form of terrorism: Hate crimes are intended
to frighten and silence not only the
actual victims, but all members of the
targeted group. Perpetrators ofhatecrimes
seek to "make examples" of their victims.
Oklahomans recognize the importance
¯ ofstanding strongagainstthosewhowonld
spread fear through violence.
Points provided by Gay Community
Services Center Advocacy Committee.
-:
¯" Letters. Policy
". Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on
: issues which we’ve covered or on issues
¯. youthinkneedtobeeonsidered.Youmay
¯ request that your name be withheld but
¯ letters mustbe signed&have phonenum-
: bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word leti
ters are preferred. Letters to other publications
will be printed as is appropriate.
However, as of press time, Barker had already posted on
the internet a further letter of complaint to the Oklahoma
Conference pursuing charges and a church trial against "
Penrose and Ross. In fact, a lay observer of these proceedings
alleged that Barker’ s complaints were being seen on the
internet for wide public viewing prior to even being received "
at the Oklahoma Conference and before Ross and Penrose "
even knew they were being accused. ¯
The text of the letter follows with only the deletion of the
charges against Ross. Those allegations are identical to
th0ge made against Peurose.
Reverend Paul Bowles and Reverend Grayson Lucky
Re: Reverend Susan Ross and Rev. Leslie Penrose
It is obvious we disagree in your comment "we can only
interpret their signatures as expressions ofpersonal opinion".
I believe thatyou err in this conclusion. In this case the
aforementioned clergy (Ross & Penrose) did infact violate
the statedposition ofthe Social Principles regarding same
sex unions as defined by the Social Principles, which as you
know, have been declared, in this instance, as having the
force of law, by the Judicial Council. By engaging in a
defiant challenge to the statedposition ofThe United Methodist
Church they have more than indicated their willingness
and ability to violate the covenant entered into at the
time of their ordination.
This breaking ofcovenant was evidenced by thefollowing
method:
1. Attaching or causing to be attached their names and
professional titles to a document containing a list of indii
viduals engaged in a behaviorprohibited by a ruling ofthe
Judicial Council.
In addition to myprevious complaints, which still stand, I
am nowfiling these additional complaints againstRev. Ross
and Rev. Penrose:
Reverend Penrose: Allegation: 1. BOD Parag. 2624f:
"dissenination [dissemination] of doctrines contrary to
the established standard.ofdoctrine of the Church"
Rev. Penrose did, on or about January 16th, 1999 attach
or caused to be attached, her name andprofessional title to
a documentin supportofsame sex unions, this is in violation
of Paragraph 3043, quoted in part, "since the practice of "
homosexuality isgncompatible with Christian teaching..." °
and Paragraph 65g "... Although we do not condone the ¯
practice ofhomosexuality andconsider thispractice incom- °
patible with Christian teaching.., ". this action expressed,
diseminated [disseminated] and otherwise revealed to the ¯
church that her doctrines were contrary to the currently ¯
stated doctrine as Contained in the Book OfDiscipline and "
Social Principles. ¯
2. BOD Parag. 2624g: "Relationships or behavior that ¯
undermines the ministry ofanother pastor" ¯
Rev. Penrose did, on or about January 16th, 1999 attach "
or cause to be attached her name andprofessional title to a "
document that encourages breaking the ordination covenant
as defined by Paragraph 2624b. By her behavior she
undermined and renderedfor naught the teaching offellow "
United Methodistpastors seeking to befaithful to the disCi- ¯
pline ofThe United Methodist Church and their ordination ¯
covenant. :
These two clergy have defiantly and unrepentantly vio- "-
lated their vows of ordina~on. 1 am insisting that they be ¯
disciplined appropriately. Ifyou as the district superinten- ¯
dents are unable or unwilling to discipline these two clergy :
persons then I have no other recourse than to demand a ¯
church trial before ajury as defined by the BOD. ¯
Sincerely, Jake Barker
Rt. 4 Box 951A Eufaula, OK 74432
co: Bishop Bruce Blake "
Although the Rev. Peurose declined to comment, lay
individuals associated with Commtmity of Hope noted that
these charges were not unexpected, especially after the
Oklahoma Conference forced the Rev: Kathy McCally of
Oklahoma City to leave the denomination. Ms. McCally ~:
transferred her ordination to the United Church of Christ --"
(UCC), the only "mainline" Christian denomination that~
ordains openly Lesbian and Gay persons. ¯
Furthermore, Oklahoma Bishop Bruce Blake was one of
the leaders in the effort to "criminalize" Methodist clergy
who perform same-gender unions. Prior to his efforts, the
restriction on such ceremonieswas a part of the Methodist
Social Discipline, seen as guidance to the thinking of the
Churchbut notchurch law. Now those who dissentfrom this
view can be charged and prosecutedfor alleged violations as
is happening with the Revs. Peurose and Ross.
¯ See associated editorial, this page.
¯ A few weeks ago, a local woman wrote The Tulsa
World to protest a recent article about Lesbian and Gay
issues featuring PFLAG. She challenged a statement
claiming that her part of the Church, the Methodists,
was one of several Christian groups that have official
positions in support of civil rights for Gay people.
She is, ofcourse, wrong.
Twenty-seven years ago, in 1972, the United Meth¯
odist General Conference adopted a statement saying,
"homosexuals no less than heterosexuals are persons of
: sacred worth... [and] we insist that all persons are
¯ entitledto have their human and civil rights ensured."
¯ Her ignorance is not entirely the lady’s fault. The
Church, Methodist and other parts, in Oklahoma and
¯ many other places, have done little to honor this civil
¯ rights commitment, or to affirm the sacred worth ofGay
¯ and Lesbian persons.
For example, every year, the OklahomaHouse passes
¯ bills clearly attacking the fundamental civil rights of
¯ Lesbian and Gay Oklahomans. Yet not once since this
¯ newspaperbegan publishinghas theOklahomaConfer- ¯
ence of the United Methodist Church ever raised its
¯ voice against these state-sponsored assaults.
¯
. That is not only our recollectionbut also thebegrudg-
¯ lng recollection of Bryce Bowden, communications
¯ directorand spokesmanfor theOklahomaUuited Meth-
~ odistConference. Notoncehas the Conference (OUMC)
¯ ever taken any proactive step towards supporting civil ¯
rights protections. Rumor is, however, that the OC may
¯ be supporting HB 1211, the "hate crimes" amendment.
: Twenty-sevenyearslater, that, atleast, wouldbeastart.
¯ However; while the OUMC has failed to honor this
longstanding civil rights commitment, no less than the
." Bishop of the Oklahoma Conference, Bruce Blake, led
." the efforts to turn the "guidance" of the Methodist
¯ Social Principles which opposed same-gender union
¯ ceremonies into prosecutable church law. It is this new
¯ law under which Tulsa pastor, the Reverend Leslie
¯ Peurose, is accused of wrongdoing. ¯
The actions of United Methodists indicate leadership
that seeks to punish those few brave Methodists who
would treat Lesbians and Gay men as equal human
beings. It is leadership that has not even tried to "ensure
human and civil fights" but worse hash’ t even bothered
to tell its general membfrship that they indeed have an
obligation to work for such civil rights.
" To judge fi:om their actions, their hollow rhetoric of
"loving the ’sinner’ and hating the ’sin,’ " should be
replaced with "we hate you people," and "we hate that
you make us confront the hypocrisy of our words and
actions." No, it’ s not in keeping with "Christian values"
and it makes them very uncomfortable but it sure looks
like the truth.
But to doso would require that these good Methodists
view themselves as less than righteous people - which
ain’t gging to happen. For me, I sometimes think I’d
rather deal with an honest Klansman than some of these
,,ood people. You might despise what the Klansman
values but at least you know his words and actions are
going to be consistent. With "good Christian folk," you
just never know.
- Tom Neal, editor/publisher
If you cannot go to Oklahoma City, you can write
your legislator at the following address:
The Honorable (then name of Representative)
¯ Eureka Springs Plans April
Diversity Celebration
¯ Featuring aQuiltdisplay, Dancing + Kite-Flying
EUREKA SPRINGS, AR - They’re doing it again in
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and you’re invited! The
¯ - fourth Diversity Celebration Weekend is scheduled for
¯ April 9-11, and several new events will make this the
biggest and best yet.
¯ Withgreat pride and respect, the Celebration organizers
are bringing three sections (24 panels) of the AIDS
: Quilt to Eureka Springs. After an opening ceremony on
Thursday evening, April 8, the quilt will be on display
at the Unitarian Clmrch Friday and Saturday, with the
closing ceremony and folding of the quilt taking place
at the .Sunday morning Unitarian service.
Friday night, the Celebration will kick off with a
" dance from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. in the Ozark Room
of the Basin Park Hotel hosted by MCC of the Living
Spring. On Saturday, you can walk the streets of this
¯ quaint village on a guided historic tour or hike on your
own in the spring air at Lake Leatherwood. If you have
a great kite that needs a workout, "Go Fly a Kite" at,
Pond Mountain Lodge from 4:30-7:30 p.m. And in the
afternoon, when you’re ready to slow down a bit for a
light bite to eat and some great coffee, head down to
Mud St. Espresso Cafe for continuous music by local
and visiting Gay/Lesbian/friendly artists.
Now remember when you really wanted to take your
boyfriend or girlfriend to your prom, but you had to
settle for an opposite sex date or stay home? Well, on
Saturday night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Ballroom
atop the Basin Park Hotel, you can bring whomever you
like to the "Pro~n of Your Dreams." Break out the
corsages and boutonnieres and dance to the music of DJ
Jon Caswcll. And be sure to capture this special moment
on film with the prom photographer. (Formal attire is
encouraged, but not required.) Or if you’re looking for
more of a club atmosphere, Center Street South will be
jumping with live entertainment frown 10pro- 2an~.
Sunday, you’ll have time to sleep in and catch some
brunch before the weekend wraps up with the Tea
Dance and Drag Show at Center S tage from 2-6 p.m. Jon
will spin tunes, and the Girls from Tnlsa will delight all
with their terrific performances.
That’s it in a nutshell. For a schedule of activities and
events, or to find a list of Gay-owned or friendly
businesses, check out the Eureka Springs Diversity
Cooperative and Celebration website at
www.shimaka.com/eureka/diversity, call The Emerald
Rainbow at (501) 253-5445 or e-mail emrain@ipa.net.
Make your reservations now!
Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the legislation
provides harsher punishment for individuals whose
attacks are based on who or what their victim is.
Edmondson also cited studies by medical and psychological
groups while stating that homosexuals "are
made to have the orientation they have."
Graves said sodomy is illegal in the state and questioned
whether Edmondson was trying .to legitimize
"Gay lifestyles." "I’m not talking about lifestyle. I’m
not talking about activity," Graves said. "We don’t
expect them to be arrested for what they are." Graves, a
frequent critic of Gays and Lesbians who has authored
many bills targeting homosexuals, revealed during debate
that windows in cars drivenby himand hi s son have
been shattered and his dog poisoned. He said he also has
Room (insert Representatives office number)
2300 N. Lincoln Boulevard
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105-4808.
To find the name of your legislator, you may call the
Tulsa County Election Board (or your county election
board) at 596-5780. If you give them the address at
which you are registered to vote, they will give you the
¯ names of your representatives. Also if you are not
registered to vote or have moved, they can assist yon in
¯ getting registered to vote.
: To speak with your representative or their assistants,
¯ call 800-522-8502 for the Oklahoma House of Repre-
¯ sentatives and ask for your representative’s office.
¯ Editor’s note: a special thanks to Ned Bruha of
¯ TOHR/Tulsa Gay Community Services Center’s Advo-
¯ cacy committeeforsomeofthe information listedabove.
: received obscene phone calls,.,"I can’t prove who did it,
_. whether homosexuals did it, Graves said.
¯ The bill now goes to the full House for debate.
¯" Lobby
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Anti-Marriage Bill Moves
Forward in Colorado
DENVER (AP) -Thelatest effort to ensure Colorado
does not have to recognize gay and lesbian marriages
legalized elsewhere was approved by the Senate and
sent to the House of Representatives.
Other states havepassed similar laws as pre-emptive
strikes against efforts to legalize same-sex marriages.
Challenges to laws restricting marriage between a
man and a woman are pending in Hawaii, Alaska and
Vermont.
Senate Bill 159 would reaffirm the law defining
marriage as a licensed union between one man and
one woman. Even more important to proponents is
the section saying gay and lesbian marriages legalized
by other states would not be valid in Colorado.
This is the third try by Sen. Marilyn Musgrave, RFort
Morgan, to get a bill passed. Past measures were
vetoed by former Gov. Roy Romer. But Gov. Bill
Owens, who took office in January, has said he would
support the legislation.
Musgrave and others fear that if other states allow
same-sex marriages, Colorado would have to honor
the umons unless the state is specifically barred from
doing so.
States have traditionally recognized marriages performed
in other states. The so-called full faith and
credit clause of the U.S. Constitution directs states to
respect each others’ laws.
Congress also adopted a law allowing states to
ignore same-sex marriages legalized elsewhere. Opponents
predict the state and federal laws eventually
will be overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Lesbian-Film
Controversial in India
BOMBAY, India (AP)-Theater owners who want to
screen a controversial film about lesbian love can
have police protection if they think they need it,
Bombay’s right-wing government said last month.
"I don’t think security will be necessary, but if they
ask for police protection it will be provided,"
Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane told reporters
a week after censors cleared the film "Fire"
without any cuts.
Rane’s 81~v 8ena had sent small groups of violent
protestersinto theaters into the Maharashtracapital of
Bombay and the national capital of New Ddhi to
disrupt screenings of "Fire" last year. Frightened
theater owners pulled the film, though it continued
showing to packed houses elsewhere in India. Shiv
Sena protesters had said the film, which explores the
sexual relationship of two women caught in unhappy
marriages, was an affront to India’s centuries-old
Hindu culture.
In an attempt to defuse the controversy after the
violence in Bombay and New Delhi, the government
sent "Fire" back to censors who must vet every film
shown in India and who had already passed "Fire."
Last week, the Bombay-based censor reiterated no
cuts were necessary.
With renewed approval from the censor, the film
will be screened in 17 theaters all over Bombay,
distributor Balkrishna Shroff stated.
Liberal California City
Supports Tinky Winky
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - A city famous for radical
politics is drumming up power to the purple with a
resolution backing Tinky Winky, the children’s TV
character attacked by the Rev. Jerry Falwell as a
purse-toting symbol of Gay pride.
"We take umbrage at the threat to personal style
and choices implicit in Mr. Falwell’s designation of
Tinky Winky as an inappropriate role model," dedares
the resolution, expected to be passed by the
City Council tonight. "Long live Tinky Winky and
long live freedom from self-righteousness!"
Councilwoman Polly Armstrong, who is sponsoring
the resolution, said she wanted tO make a point
and have some fun in a city known for taking stands
on everything from nuclear proliferation (against) to
human rights in Burma (for). "We jump on every
good cause in Berkeley and I thought what fun to do
one we could laugh at. Of course there is a very
serious subtext to the humor and that is that when you
see bigotry and self-righteonsness out there you really
need to stand up to it even when it’s absurd," she
said.
A spokeswoman for Falwell did not rettm~ a telephone
call from The Associated Press Monday. But
the president of Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co., which
licenses the Teletubbies in the United States, did have
a response: Leave Tinky Winky alone.
Kenn Viselman said lie appreciates the show of
support, but he doesn’t think political statements of
any stripe have a place in the gentle world of
Teletubbies. "He’s not Gay. He’s not straight. He’s
ust a character in a children’ s series," Visdman said.
Tinky Winky turbulence began earlier this month
with an article in the National Liberty Journal, edited
and published by Falwell, calling Tinky Winky a
homosexual role model. "He is purple - the Gaypride
color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle
- the Gay-pride symbol," the story said, also noting
that Tinky Winky carries a purse (actually his magic
bag, show spokesmen point out).
Tinky Winky is one of the four stars ofTeletubbies,
a British show aimed at toddlers. The Teletubbies, a
bit like brightly colored oversized teddy bears with
benign baby faces, have antennas of sorts sprouting
from their fuzzy heads and television screens in their
tummies. They spend their days mainly dancing,
playing (falling down is a favorite pastime) and
watching short videos showing real children engaged
in various pursuits.
Lousiana Anti-Sex
Law Struck Down
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A state appeals court has
struck down a 194-year-old Louisiana law that made
oral and anal sex a felony, saying the law violated the
privacy rights ofconsenting adults. The decision adds
to the growing listof U.S. states thathave struckdown
sodomy laws based on rights to privacy granted in
state constitutions.
The Louisiana court on reversed the 1996conviction
of Mitchell E. Smith. He had been accused of
raping a woman but found guilty under the state’s
"crimes against nature" statute only of having her
perform oral sex. "There canbenodoubt that the right
of consenting adults to engage in private non-commercial
sexual activity, free from governmental interference,
is protected by the privacy clause of the
Louisiana Constitution," the court held. Courts in
Georgia, Kentucky, Montana and Tennessee previously
had reached the same conclusion in interpreting
their respective state constitutions and striking down
sodomy laws.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1986 in a
Georgia case that consenting adults have no federal
¯ constitutional right to private homosexual conduct,
activists have turned to individual state constitutions
to find protection from the sodomy laws. The U.S.
¯ Constitution does not mention the word "privacy,"
but the Supreme Court since 1965 has recognized that
such a right predates the 1787 document itself. However,
many state constitutions expressly grant a right
to privacy.
¯ Suzanne Goldberg, senior staff attorney with the
l_ambda Legal Defense Fund in New York City, was
¯ jubilant about the decision. "These-laws have no
: legitimate purpose and that’s what courts are starting
¯ to recognize," she said. ’°The government should not
¯
be in the business of policing private sexual behav-
~ ior." The decision will be appealed, said prosecutor
¯ Tim McElroy.
: New Mexico May Ban
¯ Same Gender Marriages
: SANTA FE (AP)-A New Mexico Senate committee
: recently approved legislation that outlaws Gay mar-
" riages and penalizes anyone who performs them. The
¯ bill passed the Senate PublicAffairs Committee on a ¯
vote of 5-3. It goes to the Judiciary Committee. It
¯ defines marriage as a contract between"one man and
¯ one woman"and says a same-sex marriage wouldnot
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be recognized in New Mexico even if it were valid
elsewhere. Anyone who performed a same-sex marriage
ceremony could be fined $50, under the legislatiorL
Supporters said New Mexico should join 29 other
states that have passed similar bills: Its opponents said
itwas unnecessary, unconstitutional andpunitive. "This
bill was notbom out of fear and ignorance... Tbis bill
simply defines what a marriage is," replied its sponsor,
Sen. Leonard Lee Rawson, R-Las Cruces.
Mass. Religious Leaders
Support Gay Marriage
BOSTON (AP) - Carmen DeBenedictis is safe sleeping
in the arms of either of her two daddies. But the parents
of the newly adopted 6-week-old feel less secure about
the family situation.
That’s because, as a Gay couple, Don Picard and
Robert DeBenedictis aren’t legally married. And there
are lawmakers on Beacon Hill who want to keep it that
way. "It’s strange. Carmen is our next of kin, but we’re
not next of kin to each other," Picard said. The unconventional
Medford family attended a rally at the Statehouse
where dozens of religious leaders called for the
state to recognize same-sex marriages.
About 150 religious leaders have signed a declaration
of support for the right of Gays to marry. The group
includes Jews, Quakers, Baptists, Episcopalians, Unitarians,
Catholics and others. "The most fundamental
human right, after the necessities of food clOthing and
shelter, is the right to affection and the supportive love
of another person," the declaration begins.
But the movement faces opposition on Beacon Hill.
"I am not for Gay marriages," Gov. Paul Cellucci
bluntly declared recently. Rep. John Rogers, D:
Norwood, .is drafting a bill that would more clearly
define marriage in Massachusetts. The language in the
bill wouldrequire that a marriagebe between amanand
a woman, thereby prohibiting same-sex couples to
malty.
So far, Hawaii is the only state where Gay marriages
havebeenupheld in the courts. ButCongress responded
withthe Defense of Marriage Actin 1996, which denied
federal recognition of Gay marriage and allowed states
to ignore the unions of Gay couples married in other
states. So far, 29 states have banned homosexual marriage.
Tile Massachusetts religious leaders said they would
fight to make sure Gay marriages performed legally in
other states are recognized here. The declaration presented
by clergy compares the ban on Gay marriages to
previous bans on interracial marriages and laws prohibiting
blacks to marry.
Many of the ministers said they perform Gay marriage
ceremonies. "I am deeply troubled that...I as a
clergyman see the marriages that I officiate at are not
being legally recognized by this commonwealth," said
Rabbi Howard Berman.
Picard and DeBenedictis said they were united in a
spiritual ceremony. But a legal ceremony would give
them peace of mind. They said they face the same
obstacles as other Gay couples who want to be legally
married: spousal insurance benefits and being considered
next of kin if the other is injured or dies. "It’s
strange that the state is excited we are adopting a baby
but they are resisting letting us get married," Picard
said.
Gays Protest Anti-Gay
Immigration Policies
NEW YORK (AP) - A Gay and Lesbian group protested
U.S. immigration policies, saying the govemment
discriminates against same-sex couples when
granting visas to foreigners. "Love knows no borders,"
dozens of protesters chanted behind police barricades
outside the Immigration and Naturalization Service in
lower Manhattan.
The demonstration was organized by the Lesbian and
Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, a New Yorkbased
advocacy group. The group claims green cards
are routinely granted to heterosexual foreigners who
marry U.S. citizens, while same-sex applicants are
rejected.
"We often face an excruciating choice - our parmers
can either live an ocean apart or stay surreptitiously
in the U.S. without proper papers and under threat
of deportation," said Carl Goodman, an American
whose partner is Peruvian.
"I love an alien," said a sign hoisted by one
protester, and another man with an Australian
partner held up a red placard asking, "Can my
husband come over and stay?"
The INS called the protest misguided. "This is
not an immigration issue," said spokesman Russ
Bergeron. He said it’s a question of"the invalidity
of same-sex marriage under existing U.S. law. Any
person who is legally married has the right to file a
petition for their spouse to immigrate."
At least 10,000 Gay couples are affected, said
task force attorney SuTanne Goldberg. The task
force wants Congress to establish a special category
- such as a legally registered partnership -
that would qualify a foreigner with a longtime
partner to live in the United States, Goldberg said.
Ten countries recognize same-sex relationships for
the purposes of immigration, including Canada,
Britain and Austr~ia.
Ariz. Gov. to Legislature
Issues, Not Bedrooms
PHOENIX (AP) - Gov. Jane Hull wants lawmakers
to give more attention to matters of import and
less to bedroom issues such as medical benefits for
Gays. "I may morallyfeel one way, but I do not
believe that I need to pass laws to putmy beliefs on
the record," Mrs. Hull, a former House speaker,
said during her radio talk show.
Mrs..Hull had been asked about a bill (HB2524)
that would bar the state and universities from
extending medical benefits to "domestic partners"
of homosexuals. Cities and towns could extend
those benefits only if doing so were approved by
voters. Tucson and Pima County are the only two
government employers that offer domestic partners
benefits in Arizona. The bill sponsored by
Rep. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, led to a heated and
personal exchange in the House last week as the bill
passed the Government Reform Committee narrowly.
Such efforts are an inappropriate expenditure of
lawmakers’ time and energy, and they should not
be limiting what benefits cities and towns may
provide, Mrs. Hull said. "I wish that we could get
down to talking about what’s really important,"she
said. "We ought to be looking at state responsibilities,
not worrying about what goes on in cities and
counties and towns and bedrooms. The legislators
are there to worry about the future of the state of
Arizona and I would prefer that that’s what they
did."
Johnson said she was disappointed with the
governor’s remarks and will continue to push her
bib despite seeing little likelihood it will pass.
Lawmakers do have a role in laws dealing with
morality, especially when public tax dollars and
activities barred by Arizona law are involved, she
said. "I feel we’re here to support the nuclear
family,"Johnson said. "I don’ t think our tax money
should be used to subvert the nuclear family."
New Zealand Lesbian
to Pay Child Support
HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) - A Lesbian
recently gaveup her legal fight against paying child
support after a High Court ruling. The former
Hamilton woman, who lives in Wellington, will
have to make child support payments to her former
partner after the High Court upheld an earlier
Hamilton Family Court ruling. The High Court
judges did not comment on whether same-sex
marriages should be recognized in law.
The Family Court had stated she must pay child
support for the children she helped bring up. The
landmark decision has wide-ranging implications
for other same-sex relationships and those where
the adults in parental roles have no biological link
to their children. The women’s names and details
have been suppressed, as are those of the children.
Common Chemical.
May Help Block HIV i
HERSHEY, Pa. (AP)-A substance found ¯
in many shampoos and toothpastes might :
hold the key to stopping the spread of :
sexually-transmitted viruses that cause ¯
AIDS, genital herpes and genital warts, :
researchers from the Pennsylvania State ."
University and two other institutions said . ¯
on Thursday.
The discovery that sodium dodecyl sulfate,
or SDS, can kill such viruses, could
have major worldwide public_health implications,
said lead researcher Mary K.
Howett, professor of microbiology and
immunology at Penn State’s Milton S.
Hershey Medical Center.
Shewasjoinedin the studybyresearchers
from the University of Pennsylvania
and BiosynInc., aPhiladelphia-basedbiotechnology
research and development
company. The group published its findings
in the February issue of the journal
Antimicrobial Agents andChemotherapy.
"This is potentially very exciting,"
Daniel Malamud, professor of biochemistry
at Penn, told The Patriot~News in
Harrisburg. "We have to remember that
these are studies in the test tube and in
animal models. There.have been many
promising drugs in the laboratory thatjust
don’t make it to the marketplace because
humans are different."
Humantrials ofSDS couldbegin within
a year, Ms. Howett said, and within two to
five years could lead to the dc.velopment
of inexpensive over-the-counter products
that women could apply intravaginally
prior to intercourse to protect themselves
or their sexual partners from infection.
The research, conducted the past two
years, was funded through the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
and the Jake Gittlen Cancer Research
Institute. Researchers have applied
for a patent on the discovery, Ms. Howett
said. Such a product, if approved, easily
could be used in creams, gels; foams and
ointments or applied to condoms, sponges
or other types of contraceptives.
In addition to potentially curbing the
spread of AIDS, use of the substance
could stop the spread of the-human
papillomaviruses, orHPV, thatcause genital
warts.
Such warts can turn to cervical and
uterine cancer, which cause 5,000 deaths
among women in the United States each
year and 250,000 deaths annually around
the globe. Cervical cancer is the No. 1
cause of cancer-related deaths in women
in developing nations.
HPVs afflict one out of four women. In
addition to being a potential source of
cancer, they can cause physical lesions
and emotional stress.
Alkyl sulfates, the family of chemicals
to which SDS belongs, are found in high
concentrations inmosttoothpastes, shampoos
and skin product. That could bode
well for the product as it moves toward
possible approval by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration.
Genetic Testing For
AIDS Treatment
CHICAGO (AP) - Deciphering the genetic
code of each patient’s AIDS virus
appears to help doctors tailor treatments
to improve the chance of thwarting HIV’s
dogged ability to develop resistance.
One of the elements that makes HIV
such a difficult foe is the sloppy way it
makes copies of itself. Each new version
is slightly different from its predecessor.
Mutant forms quickly arise through randomgenetic
changes that are able to resist
the most powerful drugs.
In recent months, doctors have increasingly
turned to individual resistance testing.
A study released recently shows this
pays off: Analyzing patients’ viruses for
genetic signs of resistance seems to improve
treatment outcomes.
Estimates vary, but perhaps 30% to
60% of all people taking the AIDS drug
cocktails are considered treatment failures,
because HIV can still be found in
their blood. Either their virus never disappeared
completely or it rebounded.
Without the tests, doctors often must
rely on trial and error to put together fresh
combinations of medicines. Coming up
with these strategies, sometimes called
salvagetherapy, is an increasingly important
part of long-term AIDS care.
"It’s clear the test helps you choose
more active drugs for patients who are
failing therapy," said the study’s director,
Dr. John Baxter of Cooper Hospital in
Camden, N.J. He presented the latest data
Thursday at the 6th Conference on
Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
- Dr. Douglas Richman of the University
of California, San Diego, estamated that
as many as two dozen of these tests are
now on the market, although they have
received little testing to make sure they do
any good. "Personally, I think it’s premature,"
he said.
In Baxter’s study, financed by the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, doctors performed genetic
analysis on the viruses of 78 patients who
had failed treatment, while a comparison
group of 75 received their usual care.
The test analyzed viral genes that produce
two essential proteins- protease and
reverse transcriptase. Both of these proteins
are targets Of standard AIDS drugs.
When the genes become mutated, they
produce forms of these proteins that elude
the effects of the medicines.
After analyzing the tests and determining
the specificmutations in eachpatient’ s
virus, Baxter and two other virologists
then made treatment suggestions to the
patients’ doctors.
The doctors precisely followed the virologists"
advice only about half the time,
although 83% said the information influenced
their treatment decisions.
At the study’s start, median viral levels
were 28,000 copies per milhliter ofblood.
All were switched to new drug regimens,
but those whose viruses were tested did
much better. Their viral levels dropped to
815, compared to 7,950in the comparison
group. After eight weeks, half of those in
the test group had no measurable virus in
their blood, compared with one-quarter of
the other patients.
Baxter said the testing may be useful to
¯ tailor first-time treatment for those who
¯¯ are newly infected with HIV. This could
become especially important if viruses
¯ thatareimmunetomultiple drugs become
¯ more widespread, as many fear.
AFrench study, conductedby Dr. Pierre
Dellamoniea of University Hospital Cen-
¯
tet in Nice, was released at an AIDS
¯ conference in Glasgow, Scotland in No-
- vember. It produced similar results using
." agenetictestdevelopedby VisibleGenet-
¯ ics Inc.
Stopping Treatment
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CHICAGO (AP)-The tentativeresults of
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defense system can be trained to hold
down the AIDS virus.
The clearly risky approach attempts to
mimic the success of the much-talkedabout
"Berlin patient," a newly infected
German man who stopped and started
AIDS therapy and eventually quit it entirely,
only to discover that his virus had
inexplicably disappeared. Hehas remained
free ofHIV for two years,
"I don’t see why others cannot become ¯
the Berlin patient," said Dr. Franco Loft,
head of the Research Institute for Genetic
and Human Therapy at Georgetown University
in Washington.
Lori’s team is one of a few exploring
the idea that it may be possible to wean
people away from the demanding regimen
of AIDS medicines without actually
curing them of their infections. Lori presented
his findings at the 6th Conference
on Retrovirnses and Opportunistic Infections.
Some physicians are skeptical. They
fear AIDS patients who learn ofthese
attempts will stop taking the drugs on
their own-withpotentially deadly consequences.
"My concern is that this will be
overplayed," said Dr. Robert Schooley of
the University of Colorado, a conference
orgamzer. "It sounds good to patients.
Who wouldn’t want to stop treatment?
But the real question is whether you can
change the immune response. I worry
pataents will stop therapy. Whenever that
happens, inmyexperience, the vims comes
roaring back.’"
Loft calls the approach stop and go. The
idea: Treat people with standard AIDS
drugs until all signs of HIV vanish from
the bloodstream. Withhold the medicines
until the virus returns. Then give the drugs
again, Keep repeating the cycle until eventually
the virus never comes back,
It probably won’t be eradicated entirely,
so the theory goes, but the body’s
immune defenses will be able to keel~ it
from the explosive growth that is HIV’s
killing trademark.
Loft has tried the approach so far on
three patients. While it’s still too soon to
know whether it will work, Loft finds the
first few weeks’ results promising. The
interval before the virus returns is lengthening.
Furthermore, he said that in more
aggressive experiments on monkeys, the
only practical nonhuman substitute for
AIDS research, the approach seems to
keep the virus at bay for good. The next
step is amuchlarger study involving40 to
80 patients, he said.
Dr. Bruce Walker is conducting similar
early-stage experiments on patients at
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
"We really don’t have any data yet to
suggest that this (stopping and starting
therapy) is something we should be doing,"
he said.
"I would not put one of my patients on
this," said Dr. Roger Pomerantz of Thomas
Jefferson University in Philadelphia,
"Peoplehave talked about this, but it’s the
first time I’ve seen anyone have the guts
to try it."
In Loft’s study, three patients took a
combination of the drugs DDI,
hydroxyurea and indlnavir. The first time
.they stopped treatment, the virus returned
m one week. Doctors treated them again
and stopped. This time the virus stayed
awayfor21/2weeks. Againdoetors started .
and stopped the drugs. The virus disap- _"
peared for six to eight weeks. ."
No one knows how long this will go on ¯
or whether eventually these cycles will
put the virus into permanent retreat.
Glaxo Wellcome
Tries Combo Drugs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.
(AP) - Glaxo Wellcome is developing
new treatments for AIDS that combine
existing drugs into one-dosage medications.
The world’s second-largest drug
company is in the final stage of development
of a drug that would fuse Ziagen, a
new AIDS drug that won Food and Drug
Administration approval in December,
with Epivir, or 3TC, and Retrovir, or
AZT.
Glaxo Wellcome - based in the United
Kingdom but with U.S. headquarters in
North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park
- expects to submit an application for
marketing approval to the FDA later this
year.
The combination follows the footsteps
ofGlaxo’ s Combivir, a"cocktail therapy",
that allows patients to take a variety of
drugs in prescribed combinations.
Combivir, which combined3TCandAZT
into one pill, posted $443 million in worldwide
sales in 1998, including $325 million
in the United States. Glaxo is already
the leading producer of AIDS drugs.
No Extra Criminal
Charges for Spitter
WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) -A man who
allegedly spit intentionally into an open
knuckle wound on a police officer and
then told the officer he was HIV-posifive
has tested negative for the virus that causes
AIDS, authorities say. Prosecutors said
Dusfin L. Clower, 18,’wouldn’t face additional
charges because of the spitting incident.
The decision was made after a courtordered
test determined Clower wasn’t
HIV-positive. Clower appeared before
Associate District Judge ]~inson Barefoot
to present the preliminary blood test results
from the state Department of Health.
Clower was arrested following a fight
in a restaurant parking lot in Woodward
on Jan. 17. He struggledwith Officer Matt
.Lehenbaur and allegedly intentionally spit
into the split-open knuckle. Lehenbaur
said in an affidavit that Clower told him
after he spit on him that he was HIVpositive.
Clower still faces felony charges of
assault and battery on a police officer and
attempting to escape custody.
AIDS Ride Nets
Only 15% to Charity
DALLAS (AP) - Of $3 million in donations
to the Tanqueray Texas AIDS Ride
last year, 85% went toward expenses,
organizers confirm. The costs included
office space, advertising and the $280,000
fee of the for-profit producer, Pallotta
Teamworks of Los Angeles, The Dallas
Morning News reported. The 15%, or
$450,000, that went to beneficiaries was
far below both projections and industry
standards for such activities.i
Chris Cole, national director of
Pallotta’s AIDS rides, said Pallotta generally
projects that it will return about 50%
of proceeds to participating charities, as it
projected in Texas last year and has delivered
elsewhere. Even that rate is unimpressive
to Daniel Borochoff, president
of the National Institute of Philanthropy.
He urges a minimum of 65%.
Producers of the 575-mile jaunt are
promising to cut expenses and attractmore
participants so that the second-year event,
set for next October, is more successful.
Les Ballets Trockadero ¯ January is an exhibit, Symbols of Faith ¯
and Belief, Art of the Native American de Monte Carlo : Church. The show features paintings,
Dancing the fine line between high art ¯ drawings, photographs, objects and conandhighcamp,
Les Ballets Trockadero de ¯ temporary art from the Native American
Monte Carlo have delighted
audiences
around the world. In
parodies of famous
classical works, from
Swan Lake to Giselle,
and of the choreography
oflsadora Duncan,
George Balanchine,
and Martha Graham,
they offer performances
which both
dance afficionados and
complete dance novices
enLjoeys.Trockaderos began
in 1974 and have
performedin dancefestivals
from New York,
Spoleto, Italy, Vienna,
Paris to the Nether-..
lands. Their tours have
taken them across the
US, Europe, South
America andrepeatedly
across Japan.
And while the repertoire
and casts of Les
Trockaderos may
change, the .original
concept remains constant:
acompany ofprofessional
male dancers
performing the full
range ofballetandmodern
dance repertoire.
The humorous sight of
male bodies delicately
balancing in toe shoes
as swans, sylphs and
water sprites delight,
amuse and still serve
Les Trockaderos original
purpose: to being
the pleasure of dance
to the widest possible
audience.
For tickets or more
information, call 596-
7111. Outside Tulsa,
call 800-364-7111 or
online contact,
www.tulspac.com
Now open at the City
of Tulsa’s Gilcrease
Museum, are two exceptional,
if divergent,
exhibits. Opening in
Tr ;kade
Les Ballets Trockadero
de Monte Carlo, March 16 only
Norman Rockwell: An American
Portrait at Gilcrease, 2/19-5/2
Alphonse Mucha, the Spirit of
Art Nouveau, 4/25 - 6/20
Churchtraditions. The
Native American
Church developed in
the late 1870’s with a
ritual basedon the consumption
of peyote
cactus. For thousands
of American Indian
people, theChurchhas
provided the spiritual
and social basis for
meaningful lives amid
the disruptions and dislocations
of 20th century
life. Grounded in
older tribal religions
from the plains region,
the Churchwas thef’Lrst
native religious movement
organized and
dessiminated on the
model of western
Christian denominations.
Just opening
at the end of February,
is a different aspect
of America: Norman
Rockwell: An
American Portrait.
This exhibitfeatures all
332 magazine covers
the artist didfor the Saturday
Evening Post
overaperiodfrom 1916
to 1963. Even as
Rockwell helped preserveAmericanmyths,
he recreated them and
made them new for following
generations.
After you’ve seen Les
Trockaderos de Monte
Carlo do their Swan
Lake, don’t you think
you ought to see Tulsa
Ballet do the original?
You have that chance,
April 9-11. Call 749-
6006 for tickets.
Also March 6, 11 &
13, Tulsa Opera will
present Dialogues of
the Carmelites, starring
the Metropolitan
Opera’s Rosalind Elias.
Call 587-4811 for tickets
and information.
T. U. L. S. A. Hosts Review + Fundraiser
The Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers
Association (T.U.L.S.A.) will host the
second annual charity fundraising event
called"After the Leather, the GreatLeather
Campout" on Friday, March 19. Making
special guest appearances will be ahost of
Tulsa and Oklahoma City entertainers
and tifle-holders from numerous pageants
and contests.
The event, which organizers hope will
be a ongoing effort, will take place at the
Silver Star Saloon, beginning promptly at
10pm and will benefit three local charities:
Our House, Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. Food
Chain and the Tulsa Gay Community
Services Center, formerly known as The
Pride Center.
Also this year a silent auction will take
place beginning at 9pm. The regular auction
will offer autographed portraits of
Patti LaBelle, Cher, Susan Lucci, Rosie
0’Donnell, Troy Aikman, Reba McIntire,
Travis Tritt, George Straight, Robin Williams,
Michael J. Fox, Diana Ross, Hulk
Hogan, Alec Balwin, Bruce Willis and
others.
A highlight of the auction will be an
autographed CD of Sir Elton John.
T.U.L.S.A. officers hope that this year’s
¯event will outperform last year’s which
raised Over $2500 for charity.
For any additional information, please
call Randall at 1-918-762- 3212, or contactT.
U.L.S.A, atPostOffice Box 33076,
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74102 or
www.tulsaleather.com
NORMAN ROCKWELL:
An American Portrait
May 2, 1999
3 Performances Only!
April 9-11
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reviewed by Barry Hensley . sister andpulls out a shotgun to finish him
Tulsa City-County Library . off. As he jumps into his pickup, never to
What happens when a Gay male couple ¯ be seen again, he yells back to his wife,"a
moves from New York City to
Aiken, South Carolina to re- "Some merctmnts,
man can only take so much
temptation!"
store a post civil war man- it seemed, couldn’t The religious aspect of rural
sion?Almostanythingyoucan sell a pael~ of South Carolina was an eye
¯ imagine! Subtitled "A Resto- cigarettes.., opener for this sophisticated,
rationComedy," this true story
wltl~out invol~in~
urban Gay couple. Aiken is a
is a wonderful memoir of two town that wears Christianity
guys determined to restore a t]~e deity. Jesus on its sleeve, "Some metdilapidated
work of art. was not only t]~elr chants,itseemed, couldn’tsell
After searching across the savlor, ]ae was a pack of cigarettes , rent a
country forjust the right piece tl~elr ~nanclal video, or launder a shirt withof
property, the guys decided
advlser..,
out invoking the deity. Jesus
that Joye was just the chat- was not only their savior, he
lenge they needed. Built by Tl~ey call tlds was their financial adviserand
robber baron William "talzln~ tl~e Lord’s marketing consultant." They
Whitney,Joyecottagehasover name in ~aln." call this ".tak~,ng the Lord’s
60 rooms, 146 windows and name in gain.
128 doors¯ After being abandoned for " After three years of agonizing renovaover
a decade, every room needed exten- - tion, Joye Cottage was finally ready for a
sive work, and the house quickly became " grand opening. It came in the format of a
a "money pit" and a "handyman special " ball, not unlike the kind Mr. Whitney
from Hell¯" ¯ gave earlier in the century. After all they
. We meet a tapestry of colorful charac- went through, the bookends with the guys
ters who populate the lazy town of Aiken. " setting their sights on a 120 room housein
Bubba, a construction engineer, took the Massachusetts!
guys on an early tour of their unrestor.ed The subject of their being Gay rarely
masterpiece. His comments along the way : arises, and the locals simply refer to them
offer a glimpse into the culture of Aiken. " as "the boys¯" However, their campy re-
As they pass the remains of a frog in the ¯ marks throughout the book remindus that
basement, Bubbaexclaims"wherethere’s " they are constantly aware that Aiken is an
frogs, there’s water!" In a effort to get " unusual setting for these longtime corncopies
of keys made, Steve encounters a " panions. The authors have written several
sweet lady in a hardware store who takes ¯ books together, and their masterpiece is
up his afternoon by elaborately detailing " the Pulitzer Prize winner and National
the exploits of her fourteen grandchil- " Book Award finalist, "Jackson Pollock".
dren. This ain’t New York! : Their writing style is fun and witty¯ After
Then, there’s a gardener, Ron, who ¯ your read this book, the idea of enclosing
explains to the guys how women keep " the screened porch won’t seem as intimicoming
on to him, but his religious beliefs " dating.
and family responsibilities keep him on ¯ Check for this title at your branch lithe
straight andnarrow. That is, of course ¯ brary, or call the Readers Services departuntil
his wife catches him in bed with her . ment at Central Library.at 596-7966.
by Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D.
Corey wants to go home to Pine Bluff,
Arkansas. At the moment, he is living
with an aunt in Oakland. He makes a bit a
money as an impresario, running a stable
of male strippers and also stripping occasionally
himself.
I met Corey at Oakland’s one African-
Americangay bar during one ofhis shows.
Hewas kept busy picking uphis strippers’
tips as they dropped these onto the floor.
A wise precaution, I thought. The bar’s
neighborhood was none too good. Who
knows how many quick-fingered drunks
in need ofarefill mighthelp themselves to
a stray bill or two peeking out from gstring
or sock?
Deflecting a hustle, I nonetheless gave
Corey afide home to his aunt’s house on
Fruitvale Ave. We chatted about his two
children,mychildren, Arkansas andOklahoma,
his girlfriends, problems in California,
and his dream of opening a club in
Hne Bluff featuring the music tapes and
CDs he has collected.
Corey claimed that only oneofthe eight
guys who had bared all that evening was
gay. Yeah, right... I’m thinking. Actually,
I am wondering about the psychology
of straight-identified youngmen who
are willing to be transformed into objects
of homosexual desire for a thongful of
dollars. Or perhaps it’s sociology, not
¯ psychology- stripping being a quick way
: for the youthful, urban poor to make a few
¯ extra bucks. But it’s not just money.
¯ There’s something ,deeper than simple
¯ poverty thatmakes so-called straightboys
find satisfaction, and perhaps even pleasure,
in the desiring gaze of other men.
¯ Andmost of these were oldermen- the
bar’s clientele running a little long in the
¯ tooth. And why were we there? We, with
¯ those slippery dollar bills?
¯ Here, we need anthropology, not Sociology.
Cross-culturally, stripping is asso-
¯ ciated withrepression of sexuality and the
¯ human body. Salaciousness is impossible ¯
withoutguilty,hiddenbodies.Inthetradi-
¯ tional Arab word, harem and purdah and
: female gowns and veils go along with
¯ belly dancing and other lubricious dis-
: plays where those women get unveiled.
: The body has long been a problem in
¯ America, too. Your great-grandma put
: ruffs on her piano’s ruddy naked legs;
¯ your great-grandpa referred to his cocks
." as "roosters." But by the 1920s, strict
: taboos onbodydisplayhad erodedenough
¯ so that people didn’t have to wear their
: longjohns at thebeach any longer,women
: lost their corsets, and Vaudeville per-
: formers baredincreasingamounts offlesh.
¯ And now the cultural descendants of
: Gypsy Rose Lee perform every Monday
: night see Anthro, p. 13
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by Mary Schepers
Toilets - Liberace thought them
unglamorous, Edmund White finds them
seductive, and most of the straight men I
work with find them an inspirational device
(well, they say they go in there to
think deep thoughts, and it takes sooo
long...). But the Do It Yourself Dyke,
quite prosaically, sees only an afternoon
project that isn’t as daunting as people
make it out to be.
And no small wonder that toilet repairs
seem so mysterious - anything a plumber
values so highly mustbe awfully complex
and arcane. The DIYD merely replies
"Poop-ola!" A friend of mine said her
toilet ran all the time and that it was going
to cost $50.00 to have it repaired, so she
ought to just go ahead and buy a new one.
Well, for about $7.00 and a half hour of
time and with some of those tools you
rushed out and bought after my last column,
you can have a quiet, efficient toilet
¯ Now, that’s something to contemplate!
The plumbing section at Homo Depot
or Builder’s Queer or any other hardware
store Will have a universal repair kit that
includes afloat and a rubber stopper. Yes,
these are the mysterious working parts of
the toilet. You may now be nonplused.
Don’t worry that the float doesn’t look
like the one in your tank - you know, the
copper rod with the little floaty thing
attached. That was, quite honesty, called
the "ball cock", so if I say your ball cock
is dripping, don~t take it pei:sonally. They
are a thing of the past, at least as far as
plumbing is concerned. This should be all
that you need, but it does prompt me to a
standard warning - anytime you work on
your plumbing, you may need to make
extra trips for other parts you didn’t think
you’d need. That’s because pipe fittings
do rust, and those nice little chrome water
cut-offvalves under the tankhave abitchy
way of just twisting off when you try to
shut them off. But that isn’t always the
case, so dick your heels together three
times and wish real hard.
The first step is to get your tools together.
You’ll need an adjustable crescent
wrench and a pair of channel lock pliers,
and it doesn’t hurt to have a pipe wrench
on hand, either. If you don’t have these
tools or the task is too daunting already,
find a handy dyke, buy her some beer and
cook her something fabulous and turn her
loose. It’ll still be cheaper than the
plumber. Have some paper towels or rags
ready, because the toilet will leak, sometime
and somewhere. Next, turn off the
water. Most of the time, there is that
chrome shut off valve under the tank and
running into the wall. It probably hasn’t
been moved in years, so expect some
resistance (kind ofremindsme ofan ex...);
you might have to wrap a rag around the
handle and use your channel locks - genfl!!
- and turn the handle counter-dockwiseuntil
itcloses completely. Ifitdoesn’t
turn or, more likely, the handle twists off
but the valve doesn’t move, grab your
keys and head for the hardware store - but
we’ll address that in a little while.
Assuming youhave successfully dosed
the valve, flush the toilet to drain the tank
and mop up the water remaining in the
bottom ofthe tank. This will also get those
nasty deposits out of the bottom that can
cause problems later, so that’s a plus.
Undip the little hose that empties into that
tube in the center of the tank, remove the
ball cock (ifyou have one) or float assembly,
and then comes the fun part: removing
the vertical water supply line into your
tank. This is attached to the float assembly.
You have to loosen a threaded collar
on the bottom of the tank directly under
that vertical inlet tube. Use your channel
locks and remember that you’re working
upside down and that it will unscrew the
opposite of what you’d normally expect.
Well, it’ s still counterclockwise to loosen,
but only if you’re on your head. This is the
time you’ll appreciate whether or not your
toidy is in a tight spot or not. The cussing
is directly proportionate to the amount of
workspace you have. Welcome to
Plumber’s World.Take the collar off, remove
the vertical water supply tube and
mop up the water on the floor. Replace it
with the new float device and tighten the
collar over the bottom. It will have a new
rnbber or plastic tube that you clip onto
the outlet pipe - pretty much opposite ofthe
removal. You may have to adjust that
’~Fea enp"at the top of the float so youcan
put tlae toilet lid back on, but that’s simply
accomplishedby twisting itup or down as
needed. You can also control the water
levd this way, but don’t get too chintzy
with the water supply, or you’ll regret it.
Reattach the water supply from the shutoff
up to the tank and you’re ready for the
next step.
Now, remove the old rubber stopper
that’s attached to the handle. Take the
little chain loose and then remove the
flapper - it usually is attached to the stem
of the outlet tube by a couple of little
rubber or plastic ears and comes off easily.
The rubber on the flapper can be kind
of slimy, so use a rag to hold it when
you’re taking it off. Replace it with the
new flapper in the kit just the opposite of
how youremovedit. Thelittle chain needs
a bit of slack, but not too much or it winds
around the lever from the handle and the
water will still run and annoy the hell out
of you.
There are pretty good instructions on
the package, complete with illustrations,
so don’t fed too confused. However, the
first kit I used forgot to tell.me about that
locking collar on the bottom of the tank,
and was I one frustrated lezzie until I
figured it out! If you’re still uncomfortable
doing this job but are determined to
learn, find someone patient enough to
coach you while youdo the work. It’s a
great way to learn this stuff.
If youhave trouble with the shut offyou
have two options - yell for help or replace
it yoursdf. This is where the pipe wrench
come in handy. You have to be able to
shut the water off at the curb; the valve for
yourmain water supply is in themeterbox
by the curb and the bar on top of the valve
needs to be turned 180 degrees to shut it
off. You can use a large wrench, but you
can buy a device called a water key that
makes it easier; it has a long hand, which
is nice if your meter box is full of questionable
water. They 0nly costabout $8.00
and are priceless when you really need
them, so consider investing in one.
After turning off the water, flush the
toilet. If it fills back up, the main water
isn’t offand you’ll have to try again. If the
water is off, put some rags under the
valve, grasp the pipe going into the wall
with a pipe wrench and turn the collar of
the valve see DIYD, p.13
by Esther Rothblum . ¯
Recently a number of books have been "
published about the Lesbian identity or ¯
femalerelationships ofprominent women ¯
who lived in earlier historical periods. "
.Mary Eichbauer was living
in Paris when she became
aware that much of the work
of Natalie Barney (1876-
1972) hadnever before been
published in English. She
receivedpermission to translate
some of Bamey’s writing
and to find an English
audience for this work.
Eichbauer" described
Natalie Bamey’s life and
work to mein a recent correspondence:
"Inherlastbook,
Souvenirs Indiscrets (Indiscreet
Memories), Natalie
says that shehad always felt
drawn to women, from her
earliest days. In the first
chapter, ’Renre Vivien,’ she
describes an intense crush
she.had on a beautiful young cousin, how "
she loved to be close to her and comfort ¯
her (the young woman was pining for :
some young beau). Natalie fell in loee "
with a school friend when she was six- "
teen, at a time when her family lived in ¯
Washington, D,C. and she was being :
courted for her beauty (and her father’s "
money) by more than a few young men. ¯
She and her friend Eva Palmer (heiress to ¯
abiscuitfortune) spent a summer together :
in Bar Harborpla~ngnaked in the woods "
at nymph (Eva) and shepherd (Natalie).
Afterthatsummer, theirrespectablefanfi: ¯
lies made sure they were placed in sepa- ."
rate boarding schools. :
"Ironically, her father’s own egotism ¯
flna!!ygaveBamey the chance sheneeded :
to begin her preferred way of life. Albert :
Barney was so eager to get back to his ¯
beloved London (which Natalie always "
thought of as a male city, as opposed to
Paris, whichwas ruledby women), and so
bored with the business of parenting, that
heleft Natalie staying at a boarding house
under scant supervision, supposing her to .
be occupied, with shopping and ’fittings’ ¯
for a gown intended for her Washington :
’debut.’ Instead, Natalie visited Carmen, :
an artist’s model who had posed for her ¯
mother. The beautiful Carmen welcomed :
Natalie into her bed (Natalie’s first time) "
and educated her in some of the ways of ¯
the world. (According to Jean Chalon, ¯
Natalie wasn’t quite sure that she could
make love to a woman without getting "
pregnant!) She walked home from her "
first meeting with Carmen repeating to ¯
herself, spellbound: ’I have a mistress, I "
have a mistress.’ ¯
"Next, she fell madly in love with one ¯
Liane de Pougy, a celebrated courtesan.
Liane took Natalie for a ride in her car- [
riage through the Bois de Boulogne, and "
their affair was launched. Later, Liane ¯
wrote Idylle.Sap,.hique ( ~apphic ldyll), a "
novelabouther Flossie, thefirstofmany
literary tributes that wouldbe dedicated tO
Barney over the years (Ren~e Vivien, ¯
Djuna Barnes, Radclyffe Hall and Lucie "
Delarue-Mardrus wrote novels featuring :
Barney as a character, and quite a bit of [
poetry was dedicated to her). Bamey’s ¯
father never forgave her for causing such °
a scandal backhome. In fact, he boughtup :
Natalie’s affair
with Vivlen was
tempestuous and
involved frequent
.separations.
Although they loved
each other dearly,
they were essentially
incompatible... She
and Barney are
hurled not far from
¯ inch other inthe
Passy Cemetery...
all the copies of Liane’s book he could
find, along with the printing plates, and
had them destroyed. Too late - the book
had already been circulated widely.
"The greatestpassion ofBamey’s youth,
however, was Ren~e Vivien
(born Pauline Tam), like
herself, an expatriate in Paris
(Tam was born in England).
The first chapter of Souvenirs
Indiscrets describes
their affair in detail. Natalie’ s
affair with Vivien was tempestuous
and involved frequent
separations. Although
they loved each otherdearly,
they were essentially incompatible.
Natalie refused to
pass upany chance for pleasure
that came her way, and
so Ren~e eventually left her
for another woman. In the
end, Ren~e died young, a
victim of anorexia and alcoholism.
She and Barney are
buried not far from each
other in the Passy Cemetery in Paris."
As Barney says in Souvenirs: "Our opposed
natures contrived to make us suffer
at each Other’ s hands for a long time. This
resulted for her in a fertile inspiration and
formyselfin aninstructive defeat. Unable
to live with her or without her, I do not
know which was most painful: our dangerona
meetings, our separations, or our
attempts at infidelity. Like so many other
lovers, wehad still more of those ’terrible
adieus one goes back on’ and those exalt-
.’ ing reunions that did not last. Apart, but
irresistibly attracted to each other, only to
lose each other once again, our persistent
love endured all the phases of a fatal
attraction that perhaps only death could
end. I still loved Ren~e, but with a vanquished
love, enslaved by the circumstances
that she had allowed to have their
¯ way with us... (Souvenirs Indiscrets)"
~ Eichbauer states: "Natalie’s .life was
¯ more important to her than her writing.
: She described the procxss of writing a
: book as one of cleaning out her desk
¯ drawers. Her writingis seldom sustained;
she expressed herself in sharp lightningbolts
of intelligence. In her introduction
to Souvenirs, she says, ’If too little of the
love I invoke appears in this book, it is
because I have better spent it elsewhere.
Here there remain only fragments.’"
Because of the importance of her salon,
Barney is mentioned, at least in passing,
in most accounts ofAmerican expatriates
in Paris. Here are the books by and about
Barney that Eichbauer recommends and
that are most readily available:
Natalie Barney. Adventures oftheMind.
Tr. John Spaulding Gatton. New York:
New York University Press, 1992.
Natalie Barney. The One Who is Legion,
or A.D. ’s Afterlife.
1930; Orono, Me.: U of Maine, National
Poetry Foundation, 1987.
Natalie Barney. A Perilous Advantage:
: The Best ofNatalie Clifford Barney. Ed-
; ited and translated by Anna Livia. Introduction
by Karla Jay. Norwich, Vt.: New
Victoria Pub., 1992. Karla Jay.
The Amazon and the Page: Natalie
Clifford Barney and Rende Vivien.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1988.
see Barney, p. !3
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New Campaign for Federal
Hate Crimes Law Passage
WASHINGTON (AP) - Oregon Sens. Ron.Wyden and
Gordon Smith are renewing their campaign for an
expanded, federal hate crimes statute, hoping thatpublic
outrage over the torture and murder of black and Gay
men will spur passage. "This is about drawing a line in
the sand and saying America.is too good.., to look the
other way in the face of violent, hate-filled acts," said
Wyden, a Democratic cosponsor of the Hate Crimes
Prevention Act of 1999, a replica of last year’s bill.
Last month in Texas, John William King, a white
supremacist, was sentenced to death for chaining a
black man, James Byrd Jr., behind a pickup truck and
dragging him to his death. Two men have been charged
in the October slaying of Gay colleg.., student Matthew
.Shepard, who was pistol-whipped and’lashed to a fence
m Wyoming. Two men also have been charged with
beating to death aGay textile worker, Billy Jack Gaither,
in Alabamalast month and burning his body on a pile of
tires.
Sen. Gordon Smith, another cosponsor of the bill,
said that as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee he often travels abroad and deplores hate
crimes in other nations, see Federal, p. 3
Alabama Man Murdered
in Anti-Gay Hate crime
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - An overflow crowd of
mourners filled Covenant Metropolitan Community
Church, honoring the memory of Billy Jack Gaither
while also calling for an end to hatred against Gays.
There was no standingroom at the 225-seat church as 17
speakers mostly clergy - decried Gaither’s death. A
handful of anti-Gay protesters picketed outside.
Steven Eric Mullins, 25, and Charles Monroe Butler,
21,.confessed to beating the 39-year-old Sylacaugaman
to death with an ax handle last month and setting his
body on fire atop kerosene-soaked tires because, they
claimed, he made a pass at one of them. Gaither’s body
was discovered by apasserby Feb. 20in CoosaCounty,
a day after he was beaten and burned.
"Mullins and Butler stated the reason they killed him
was because he was ahomosexual," said Coosa County
sheriff’s deputy Al Bradley. "We believe this to be the
true motive." Mnllins and Buffer remain in the Coosa
County jail.
Gaither met with the two men in Sylaeanga, a
community about 40 miles southeast of Birmingham,
on the night he was killed, police said. Hehad last been
seeninabarhefrequented. According to the statements,
Mullins called Gaither and asked him to go to the bar,
where they met and.apparently left together, Johnson
said. Authorities said the men apparently took Gaither
to a remote location, where the murder took place.
The memorial service drew people of all races and
ages, from all across the state, seeAlabama,p. 13
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An unprecedented number of supporters, including members ~ongressman Frank is _one of
of Gay and Lesbian groups and representatives of religious me most respected l)emoorganizations
such as TulSa Metropolitan Ministry, went to the _cra~cme..mbers of ~e,,United
Capitol early in March to encourage lawmakers to support House ~ tate.s Hou,s e ox,,~,epre-
Bill 1211. sentataves ana is well ~nown
But the bill’s sponsor, Tulsa Rep. Don Ross said there was not
enough bipartisan support to add sexual orientation to the
Oklahoma Hate Crimes Act. "I said from the beginning I would
not allow this issue to become a partisan wedge issue, used
exclusively against Democrats in the next election," Ross said.
The vote killing the bill followed more than an hour of
sometimes passionate debate between supporters, who said that
certain classes ofpeople deserve special protection, and opponents
who argued that all citizens should be treated equally under the
law. The bill’s final version would have made a first-offense hate
crime afelony and providedfor enhanced penalties when~iolence
was used but did not add "sexual orientation" to the existing law.
Rep. Leonard Sullivan said the measure was divxsive and
singled out certain groups for special treatment. The Oklahoma
Hate Crimes Act distinguishes offenses committed because of
race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin and disability. But
supporters said special status has been given to crimes against
children and women, and that similar recognition is needed for
other groups because of who or what they are.
"The law is an equalizing force," argued Ross, who is one of
three Black House members. "The idea of equal protection is a
very noble concept," but it is up to lawmakers to make it work,
said Rep. Russ Roach, D-Tulsa. "This legislation protects all
people," added Rep. John Sellers, D-Enid.
Ross’ substitute bill deleting ~exual orientation was drafted in
response to the Christian Coalition opposition. Toure said fear,
hatred and misunderstanding are to blame for dropping sexual
orientation from the measure. "I never knew the hatred toward
Gay people as I do now," Ross said.
TOHR’ Steve Horn shivers with Cimarron Alliance’ Terry
Gatewood andfriend at Equality Begins at Home Capitol rally,
Reverend Leslie Penrose
Resigns as Methodist Pastor
TULSA - On March 5,1999, the pastor of Community of Hope
Base Shalom Congregation, the Reverend Leslie Penrose
submitted a letter to Oklahoma MethodiSt Bishop, Bruce Blake
initiating her withdrawal from the Methodist Church: The
following is selections of her letter which circulated by e-mail in
the Tulsa community:
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It is with prayers for its future well-being, that I initiate the
. processofwithdrawingfromtheUnitedMethodistChurch. The
", primary reason for my withdrawal after 18 years offull time
¯ ministry is the increasing focus on complaints and charges
¯ regarding my ministry of blessing same-sex covenant
relationships.ltseemsthattheoptionshavefinallybeenreduced
¯ to either withdrawing or preparing for trial. I simply will not
¯ participate inputting God’s grace- or myprivilege as apastor ¯
¯ to bless andcelebrateany andevery relationship where thefruits ofthe spirit bear witness to that grace - on trial. Nor will I hide
¯ or lie about the ministry I do.
¯ From the time six years ago when I was sent by the Oklahoma
¯ Conference to create a reconciling base community ministry in
Tulsa, see Penrose, p. 13
for his skilled and often
scathing debate.
Mitchell Savage, member
of Tulsa Gay Community
Services Center’s Pride ’99 planning committee,
also noted that in addition to attending the annual
Tulsa Pride Picnic, planned again.for Veterans
Park at 18th and Boulder, organizers are working
on a dinner at which the Congressman would likely
speak and possibly a Sunday morning event.
Congressman Frank was graduated in 1962 from
Harvard University andtaughtundergraduates there
while studying for a Ph.D. Before completing his
Ph.D. degree, Frank became Chief Assistant to
Mayor Kevin White of Boston. In 1972,
Congressman Frank was elected to the
Massachusetts Legislature, where he served for
eight years, until 1980. During that time, he entered
Harvard Law School in September, 1974 and
graduated in 1977. In 1980, Congressman Frank
was elected to the US House of Representatives. In
a recent evaluation of Congress, The Almanac of
American Politics said "Frank is one of the
intellectual and political leaders of the Democratic
Party in the House, political theorist :andpit bull at
the same time." Frank serves on the Judiciary and
the Banking Financial Services Committees.
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BTW Boasts OK’s First
Gay-Straight Alliance
by Tom Neal
TULSA - Elsewhere in the United States, high
school Gay-Straight Alliances have often been met
withconsiderable controversy. In Utah, some school
districts got rid of all their campus organizations
¯ rather than allow a group which tries to supportGay
o young adults andfoster tolerance andunderstanding.
: However, Booker T. Washington High School,
¯ Tulsa’s magnet showpiece school, appears to have
¯ avoided much of that sort of uproar and is thought
: to be the first high school with such an organization
¯ in the state of Oklahoma.
¯ Former SapulpaHigh School student, Will Allen
¯ and Emily Sizemore began the work of creating a ¯
Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) latein 1998, meeting
." withformerBTWprincipal Mr. Stevens andt’mding
¯ a faculty sponsor, Doug Gronberg.
¯ Then in January this year, after creating flyers
¯ and making an public announcement on the school
¯ intercom, they held their first meeting.
¯ Muchto the astonishmentofAllen and Sizemore,
¯ 40 students showedup. In fact, Allen stated that the
¯ turnout was notable especially since that that first
: meeting conflicted with a tryoutfor the Washington
¯ Drama Club’s production of West Side Story:
¯ Apparently BTW’s Gay population is well
¯ represented in theDramaClub and therefore, many
¯ who might otherwise have been expected to attend
¯ weren’t able. Allen also notes that similar groups in
:
Chicago and Boston frequently don’thave as many
¯ attending.
: Allen said that the GSA is comparable to other
:
studentchapters on thecampus, suchas theNAACP
¯ see BTW,.p. 13
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God Would Never
Advocate Hate
I am not pointing fingers. I am pointing
and pitching in.
¯It rained, and was quite cold and m~serable atSaturday’s ("EqualityBegins
At Home") rally on the capitol steps..The
graves of our Gay and African American
martyrs inAlabama,Jasper, andWyoming
are cold, lonely, andmiserable. Why were
there only aprox. 300 folks at the capitol
demanding that our innocent people’s
executions stop? Where were you?
I will speak for myself. When Mathew
Shepard died, Tulsa had a candlelight
vigil for him. It rained, and was nasty out
thatevening, therefore, I decided toremain
in the comfort of my warm home. After
seeing the number of folks from the
Westboro Baptist Church, that endured
the freezing rain at Mathew’s funeral - in
order to spew out hate and condemnation
to the coldbody ofaninnocent child- I felt
like aninsensitive, amoral, spineless snake
for staying.home. Where were you?
Howmany morefolks are going tohave
to die in order for you / us to see that we
need to attend these functions? The hate
crime law was turned down- even in the
state where Mathew Shepard was killed.
Arethe"moral majority" ofourlawmakers
hate mongers? I Thank God for MC
Smothermon, Keith Smith, Paul Barby,
and their likes. We need more folks like
them at our capitol, to defend the rights of
"minorities". We deserve better. Those
who have died because of ignorant hate
deserved better.
Perhaps the world does not fully
understand thathate crimes are committed
every day. Ourminority citizens are scared
to report attacks against themselves as
such, because offurther condemnation, or
for lack of concern by law enforcement.
¯ Folks are scared to speak up for equal ¯
rights - for fear of what few rights they
¯ currently have - will be torn away from
¯ them as a result. Receiving a pink slip
¯ from your employment, and adeath threat
: because of standing up for.equal rights !s
i reality. I know from experience. There ~s
~ plenty ofbehind the scene workthatnee~,s
¯ to be done, that will make a differencem
: your salvation - and the lives of those in
¯ danger of ignorant violence.
~ I know ofmany hate crimes committed ¯
in Tulsa alone- which have not received
¯ the attention they deserve. I am aware of
¯ "minority" children that were victims of
¯ violent I~ate crime - which cannot tell
~ their parents for fear of getting kicked out
¯ of their ho,,m_es. Obvi,o_nsly the general
" public says oh well,it s jt£st another fag,
¯ or blackie". Is the buckle of the bible belt
¯ so. tight.that it is r~.tri_cting blood flow to
; the brains of those who consider
¯ themselves "do-gooders"? God would
¯ never advocate hate. Never.
.’~ The general media image of the Gay,
Bi, Lesbian, and transgendered
community is out cruising River Park,
molesting littleboys, and spreading AIDS.
Wall, I have not used the parks for sex,
and see Letters, p. 3
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theOklahomaStateCapitol as a local partofanational event,
Equality Begins at Home. The turnout really Wasn’ t that bad
considering that, in inimi table Oklahoma spring fashion, the
weather had turned very, very chilly and rainy. It also wasn’t
bad considering how the event’s Oklahoma City organizers
had failed thoroughly to get the word out to the statewide
community.
Their failure actually is rather surprising because those
organizers, Paul Thompson of the self proclaimed statewide
OGLPC, the Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus,
and Paula Hand Brown, an editor and reporter for The Gayly
Oklahomanare easily two of the mostexperienced Gay civil
fights activists in Oklahoma City.
The event itself was only symbolic. The Capitol was
locked and our only audience was, wall, ourselves and afew
media types. Thereal lobbyingwas thatdoneatthebeginning
of the month under the direction of Keith Smith and Nancy
McDonald when the Capitol was unlocked and legislators
werein attendance. But atleastOklahomacould say we were
there; wewere one of those states around the country that did
an "Equality Begins at Home" (EBAH) event.
But the event was marred by a few parochial and petty
aspects which by themselves are not that important but
which point to flaws in our national and state movement.
Th~se are the sorts of flaws that, frankly, often make u~as
effective in hindering our movement as our enemies.
One problem to which this newspaper has particular
objectionis thefailure ofthese experienced andmedia savvy
organizers to provide this newspaper with the most basic
information about the event. While TFN earlier published
" informationaboutEBAHbasedon the press releases provided
by the national sponsors, the National Gay & Lesbian Task
Force and the Federation of Stat,ewide LGBT Political
Organizations, Thompson and. Brown apparently did not
provide even the simplest press release telling precisely
when the event was going to be held.
Now in fairness, they claim that they telephoned TFN but
oddly neither I nor any otherTFN staffever found amessage
onour office number, our wireless voicemail,our e-mail, our
fax machine, or even by that old fashioned method, by post!
Some might suggest that Ms. Brown, an employee of a
somewhat rival newspaper and Mr. Thompson, wall known
to be dosdy tied to that newspaper might have had an
interest in not sharing the information fully.
Certainly, we at Tulsa Family News also acknowledge
that if the only part of rtmning this business and getting a
issue put together was to track down information from
negligentcommunity organizers, then wecould have chased
the information down as wall. However, we do have some
other events we have to cover as well. For the record,
Thompson and Brown did later telephone TFN and actually
leave messages but only after we had gone to press and only
after we complained to NGLTF organizers.
But the real issue for Oklahomain the "Equality Begins at
Home" effort is notjust that ofpoor communications. Part of
the EBAH effort was a grant of to each participating state of
$5,000. In Oklahoma, this $5K went to the Oklahoma Gay
& Lesbian Political Caucus (OGLPC).
Now if you just go by their name, you might assume that
they are genuinely a statewide-organization. However, the
organization in practice only ha~~ad a real impact in.central
Oklahoma City. In that area, they have been fairly effective.
An active OGLPC member claims that they have about 150
members, though they claim to have a mailing list of 7,000.
He surprisingly was unable to provide any numberfor Tulsa
members. And what many Gay and Lesbian civil rights
activists believe, both in Tulsa and OKC, is that OGLPC
really is just a OKC group. It’s never had any impact on
Tulsa politics.
Let us compare this with the Cimarron Alliance which,
although much newer, hasboth Tulsa and other non~OKC
members, and a track record of doing significant work
outside of OKC.
The obvious question is why did NGLTF give $5K to an
organizationwhichhadlittle credibility as agenuine statewide
organization, and which for years has seemed to be little
more than an extension of the personality of Paul Thompson
overTheCimarronAlliance withits documentable successes
across the state?
Here’s where petty local politics meets petty national
politics. NGLTF knew quite wall that OGLPC was not
widely considered credible as a statewide organization.
see Equality, p.lO
~shocked many with his.suggestion that th~ solution to
¯ .famine in Ireland, then under English domination, was
" for the Irish merely to eat their children. Swift, an
¯ Irishman himself,, indeed was being just a wee bit
¯ sarcastic and his essay is still readin literature classes as
an example of that type of essay.
It is the spirit of Swift that I’d like to
¯ invoke for part of this essay but I realize
that these words taken out of context as
¯¯ they no doubt will be, will likely provoke
shock and dismay and anger. All that said,
¯ I’d like to talk about hate crimes and hate
¯ crimes legislation, specifically that which
¯ was considered last month in our ¯
legislature.
¯ First, let us praise The Very Honorable
¯ Don Ross, one of Tulsa’s state
¯ representatives who introduced HB 1211.
¯
He can be cranky but as he once told me
¯ (and proved it), he’s one of our few
_" dependable friends in the Oklahoma
¯ House. He’s also been supportive of
¯ increased funding for people living with
¯ AIDS.
So, take some time to thank him - like
:’ your momma said, it doesn’t take that
¯ long to write a thank you note. Also don’t
¯ forget him when the next election cycle
¯ comes up. Send hima checkif you can, or ¯
volunteer. If we don’t take care of our
¯ friends, who will?
: And to highlight the positive, the
¯ progress HB1211 made is greater than ¯
anything that came before. That’s notjust
¯ my assessment but that of a Tulsa area
¯ Republican representative. He’ll be ¯
happier if I’ll leave him unnamed, but as
¯ he said, just getting the bill out of
¯ committee counts as progress. Headded that afew years
¯ ago,most of the people talking with us would not even ¯
have let us in the door.
¯ Again to recognize those whose work is making
¯ much of that difference, we need to thank Keith Smith
¯ who lobbies for our communities on his own while he ¯
does his other paid lobbying work. One day, if we are
¯ really smart as a community, we’ll figure outhow to pay
¯ Keith so that he can do even more.
¯ TulsaMetropolitanMinistry deserves great praise for
providing the initial leadership on this bill, particularly
¯ the Reverends Mildred Banks, Gary Blaine, Gaff Kecny-
¯ Mulligan and no doubt others whose names I don’t ¯
know. Attorney General Drew Edmondson and former
: DistrictAttorney Bill LaFortunealso were tremendousl)~
¯ helpfui.
Also, I would be remiss in not specifi.ca!,ly honoring
Nancy McDonald for spearheading Tulsa S efforts on
HB 1211. Standing 0utside thechamberoftheOklahoma
¯ House of Representatives with these two and~others, as
or nlzed ome
to lie in
wait outside of
notorious
"straight"-bars,
some guy walking
to his ear alone,
jump him and beat
him senseless?
Or when some
%traight" couple
has the nerve to
flaunt their
sexuality publicly,
by holding hands
or kissing, what if
we drove up on the
sidewalk to run
them down or
pulled a gun and
shot at them.
myfather and I did, is quite the education. Butnext time
we need to get more of us there!
But back to the blasphemous and scandalous, I have
¯ to wonder how quickly hate crimes laws would pass if
" the situation were reversed?
¯ What if we organized some gangs of Gay men to get
alittle drunkand liein waitoutside ofnotorious "straight"
bars, and when we see some guy walking
to his car alone, jump him and beat him
senseless. Orwhensome straight couple
has the nerve to flaunt their sexuality
publicly, byholding hands or kissing, what
if we drove up on the sidewalk to run them
down orjnstpulled agunand shot atthem?
At the very least, we could scream
epithets at them so that they’ll know how
hated and repulsive they are. And if that’s
not good enough to intimidate those
"straight" guys, wemight prevail on some
of our lipstick Lesbians to chat them up in
a bar, pretending to be "straight" and then
lure them out to where they can be beaten
or murdered or tortured - whatever.
How long do you think it would take for
hate crimes legisl.ation which included
sexual orientation to pass? Though our
legislature wouldlikely0uly makeitillegal
for us to beat up "straight" boys but leave
it just fine for them to kill us.
Mind you I do not advocate any of the
violence mentioned above; we all know it
wouldbe wrong. I think it is a testament to
the decency of most Gay people that we
face the injustice and indignity with which
we are treated with as much patience and
kindness as we do. I can’t believe that it’s
just because we have no choice.
Consider this: in the early years of the
AIDS holocaust, we had little hope; there
were no or few effective treatments; we
" had a government that was damning even more to death
¯ through its actions that were indifferent at best, and
more often hostile, and yet we never saw any of our
¯ people resorting to violence - civil disobedience, yes,
¯ butmoredidnothappenas is the casewithdesperate and
oppressed people in much else of the world. Even the
~ Jews became terrorists as old Palestine went on its way
¯ to becoming Israel.
¯ My old friend Peter and I have wondered how it is that
¯ none of those who might well have seen the world as
without hope, sought vengeance or acted in violence?
After all, when faced with the evil that Jesse Helms and
others like that represent, why no one of us sought to
send him or the many in Congress like him to the hell
they surely deserve?
But in the words of an old Holly Near song, "we are
a gentle, angry people, and we fighting, fighting for our
lives..." and maybe our persistence, along with the
righteousness of our cause will move even the hardened
hearts of Oklahoma towards justice someday.
radio programming, the (seemingly)blackmailing
Christian c~alition, and other attractive sprinkles of
ignorance. Prejudice words such as "faggot, blackie,
nigger, colored~ and queer" should never be allowed in
hateful media - of any sort. This is the dawn of a new
century political correctness changes - are we still
Neanderthals? I think that we have evolved enough to
cease advocating senseless -hate towards our brothers
and sisters.
Please make plans to attend the Pride ’99 Gay pride
parade on June 12th. Perhaps we will be more inclined
to attend a function of such ~xtreme value - if the
weather is bright and sunny. Weneed to make it known
to our leaders that hate crimes are not acceptable. Pride
’99 will be a wonderful vehicle to portray the equality
we deserve and demand. Equal rights are just that -
equal, not special.
¯ Please become more involved in advocating equality
v~a organizations such as T.O.H.R., N.A.A.C.P.,
P.F.LA.G., and others. You will be, and feel like, a
better person for your efforts.
I am not pointing t’mgers. Just pointing and pitching
in.
Conform and be dull. - Ned T. Bruha, Tulsa
Icert~ainly there are no more Gays interested in little
boys than the heterosexual community. AIDS has no
sexual preference. The words "Gay" and"black" arenot
needed as verbs. In media, when we talk about an
¯" "average" citizen, we do not say"andin thenews today,
~ a white, heterosexual groi~p of’Christians gathered in a
." local church to discuss how to stop theGays fromkilling
¯ straight folks". Please.
Why do we allow our radio stations to advocate hate
¯ via Gayjokes andracial slurs?Why does theFCC allow
." them that’’freedom of speech"? Why are websites such
¯ as the Gay Nazis, skinheads, KKK, Westboro Baptist, ¯
and Larry the Cable Guy allowed? They all seem to
." inciteignorantintolerance,hate, and sometimes violence
¯ - but when asked about what is inwriting- they refuse ¯
to admit it is hate. "We shouldbe outraged andalarmed,
¯ because theideas canlead to violent crimes"- as stated
¯ in the3/28/1999USAWeekendincludedin your Sunday
¯ papers. The minds of our innocent children are being
" soiled by seemingly innocent media: Crayons using
¯ peach as skin tone, bandages are peach- for skin tone,
Anti-Gay Stand Loses
Church Its Building
BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) - A dispute over Gay
Christians has put a priest and his parishioners who
oppose same-sex marriages on the street, so the
evicted congregation held services right on the
sidewalk. The Rev. Thomas Morris andabout adozen
members of his flock prayed outside on a recent
Sunday, despite their eviction by a judge in their
ongoing dispute with the Episcopal Diocese of
Massachusetts.
Morris and his congregation at St. Paul’s Church
opposed the diocese’s 1994 decision to sanction
same-sex unions and ordain noncelibate homosexuals
as priests. In opposition, the congregation began
withholding fees it was bound to pay the diocese.
Diocese officials maintained the dispute was not
about beliefs or issues. "What this is about is this
church needs a priest ingood standing with the bishop
and other churches in the diocese," said the Rev.
Donald Parker, the diocese vicar. The diocese is
overseen by Bishop Thomas Shaw. In the decision,
Judge Charles J. Hely said his ruling settled a legal
issue about property, not a religious issue.
In 1995, Morris’ predecessor at St. Paul’s, the Rev.
James R. HAles,was defrocked after the diocese found
him guilty of sexual misconduct. But many members
of the church stand by HAles, and say the charges
against him were concocted as punishment for his
stance against homosexuality.
Gay Irish Not Welcome
in Bronx Parade Either
NEW YORK (AP)= Members of a Gay organization
got a Bronx cheer when they tried to join the first St.
Patrick’ s Day-parade held in that borough in70 years.
Six people, including state Sen. Tom Duane and
City Councilwoman Christine Quiun, were arrested
Sunday after a.doze~! supporters of the Lavender and
Green’Al!ian.~ce stepped into the parade. "I’m an Irish
person, I’m a Gay person, I’m here to try to march,"
Duane sai& %
Lavender and Green Alliance founder BrendanFay
said his group"originally "got a call to say we were
welcome, but then we learned the welcome was being
rescindedY The ~Bronx parade’s chairman, patrick
Devine, d~d nrt ieturn telephone calls left at his home
scekin~o crniment and did not make himself fi)aifable
to reporters at.flae~ parade.....
Another gr.oup, the Irish Lesbian and. Gay
Organizafion,’hhs fifed unsuccessfully to join t13~ big
St. Patriek~sD~y??Parade down Fifth Avenue in
Manhattan f0t th(last half-dozen years criir~fruqfngs
have held ~that the.private organizauons thaVsponsor
parades may ch0.Os¢ which groups march
Quim~,Duane, Fay and the others were arrested
after the first marching band passed by and they
stepped into the parade behind the Lavender ~and
Green banner. They were stopped by a line of police
officers and informed they would be arrested if they
failed to l~ave. A few stepped aside, but others stood
fast and were led away to a police-wagon and
handcuffed before being charged with disorderly
conduct."Let themmarch!" shouted a few supporters.
"’Shame!" called outJimmy McNulty,who was among
those arrested. "Why are we not welcome?"
Several dozen spectators cheered when the parad~
resumed without the Gay group. "It’s an immoral
lifestyle," said spectator Martin O’Grady. "If they
wanted to march, the), could have marched without
their banner," said Fannie Sclafani. "t have nothing
against them, but it’s a community parade." Mary
McGarry also said they shouldn’t have tried to crash
the parade. "I have best friends who are Gay, but the
parade is not about sexual orientation. It’s about
being proud to be Irish," she said.
The parade had the feel of a small-town event,
featuring cheerleaders from parochial high schools,
kilted bagpipers, babies in strollers decorated with
Irish flags and groups like the Throgs Neck
Homeowners, which consisted of a dozen ladies
wearing off-white cable-knit fishermen’s sweaters.
Spectators were sparsdy scattered along the mileand-
a-half route along East Tremout Avenue. It was
in sharp contrast to the annual Fifth Avenue parade,
with its glitzy floats, booming drum corps and rowdy
crowds.
Stanley Rygorwas among a half-dozen people who
stood on a sidewalk behind the Lavender and Green
banner after the arrests took place. "They want them
back in the closet. They want them to be anonymous,"
said Rygor, whose wife is Irish. He said his son died
of AIDS five years ago, and he dealt with his grief by
becoming an activist. "I’m here," he added, "in
memoriam to him."
Gay Vets Want to March
FERNDALE, Mich. (AP) - A group of Gay military
veterans are taking steps to march in this Detroit
suburb s Memorial Day parade.Agroup of Ferndale s
Gay veterans hope to join members of Friends and
Neighbors of Femdale (FANS), a Gay group that has
received tentative approval to enter the parade,
according to a parade organizer.
Femdale’s parade leaders have so far downplayed
the significance of including Gays. "As far as I know,
they are planning to meet all our reqmrements,"
Barbara Earl, a secretary with the Femdale Memorial
Association, told the Detroit Free Press for a story
Monday.
The association puts on the annual parade, one of
theregion’ s biggest and oldest, dating to at least 1919.
Organizers say they will strictly enforce arequirement
limiting any show of a group’ s identity to a display of
its nagne. If enforced, that would mean FANS will
march with no explicit banner proclaiming it is an
orgamzation of Gays. "It’s not a day to promote your
own agenda," Ms. Earl said. "This is a day for the
veterans."
Gay group leaders in Ferndale said they are
ctmfortable blending in with the parade’s usual array
ofhonor guards, scout troops, high school bands and
politicians. "We wouldn’t want to do anything to
incite controversy," said Chuck Simon, president of
FANS, whichhas about 80 dues-paying members and
a mailing list of several hundred.
Parade rules require participants to refrain from
displaying their own messages and instead stick to
OffiCial Slogans, which this year are "Lest we forget"
arid "’Fgt _those who gave their all."
Navy veteran Ken Warnock, 32, who co-owns the
Jn~ 4 ~’G~y. ~0oksto~e in F~rndale, told the Free
Pre~;’fimi he will march in Ferndale’s parade with a
¯ mix ofpridd and bft-terhess. In 1987, Warnock, then
- 20, was a hrgpital Corpsman aboard a Navy ship when
he was. broughL.hefore his commanding officer,
q~esfioned abouthis sexual orientation and th]:eafen,ed
"’ With~perjury iia~e, fie said. He resisted the Navy s
" in~esfigatirnfor months, Wamock said. Ultimately,
he.r¢cgived a lessZthan2honorable discharge - not
q~-t.e as bad as a ~dishon0rable discharge, he said.
On Memorial Day, Warnock probably won’t wear
¯ his sailor s umform- it s gettang a htfle t~ght - but
beplans to carry an American flag while keeping a
watchful eye for anyone angry at Gay participants.
Despite his wariness, he said the inclusion of Gay
marchers "speaks very well for Ferndale.’"
Femdale Mayor ChuckGoedert saidhewas unaware
of the Memorial Day plans but supports the inclusion
ofFANS members and Gay veterans. "There are a lot
of groups that participate in our parade to honor those
who served. I don’t know why this would be any
different," he said.
Ohio Diocese to Reach
Out to Gay Catholics
CINCINNATI (AP) - TheArchdiocese of Cincinnati
is creating a ministry for homosexual Catholics and
their families. "The church wants to support the
homosexual person but not homosexual activity,"
said spokesman Dan Andfiacco said. "There is a need
for pastoral care of homosexual persons. The
archdiocese wants to meet that need, and not cede
teiritory to ministries that don’t support the teaching
of the church."
In recent years, RomanCatholicgroups nationwide
have started Gay ministries such as DIGNITY, New
Ways Ministry, and Parents, Friends & Family of
Lesbians & Gays. Some conservative and traditional
Catholics have criticized the groups, saying they
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The Rev. Michael Leshney, chaplain to a Cincinnati
chapter of DIGNITY in the 1980s, will be spiritual
director for the new ministry. Archbishop Daniel
Pil~czyk will inaugurate the ministry with three prayer
services in April.
Leshney saidhomosexual Catholics oftenfeel i solated
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teaching on homosexual relations as "objectively
disordered" and their 10vefor their children. Themini stry
is an outgrowth of community meetings that Auxiliary
Bishop Carl M0eddel led in October to discuss the U.S.
bishops’ document on homosexuality, "Always Our
Children." During those discussions, there was a"sense
of urgency" among parents that the archdiocese have a
ministryforGay ah~tLesbianCatholics and theirfamili es,
Leslmey said. The Catechism of the Catholic Church
holds thathomosexual activity is "contrary to thenatural
law" and,objectively disordered," but thathomosexuals
should be "accepted with respect, compassion and
sensitivity."
Gay Dallas Church
To Televise Infomercial
DALLAS (AP) -A federal court settlement announced
Friday has cleared the way for Cathedral of Hope, the
nation’s largest Gay church, to air a controversial
infomercial onbroadcast superstationWGN-TV. Under
the settlement, Cathedral ofHope will pay the Chicagobased
cable station $35,000 for showing the program
five times. Thehalf-hour video includes testimonials by
members, scenes ofworship atthe3,000-memberchurch
and discussions with the families of church members.
Cathedral ofHope claimed the Chicago-based station
reneged on a contract to air the church’s program last
August. Church officials said the station pulled the
infomercial shortly before the air date for unspecified
reasons. WGN officials argued that they weren’t
obligated to air the program because the station did not
have binding contract with the church.
TheDallas church filed alawsuitin October, claiming
thatWGN accepted the a $13,000 check, made several
suggestions that the church followed and then broke its
contractandreturned the check after deciding the subject
was too controversial. The Rev. Michael Piazza said he
was pleased with the settlement. "Of course our desire
was for it to have been aired last year," said Piazza,
senior pastor at Cathedral of Hope. "But we’re very
grateful to be able to resolved it."
Pia77a told The Dallas Morning News that every
other broadcast outlet approached by the church had
refusedto air the program. ’qqaey don’t have to give you
reasons, but a couple of the media buyers told us that
stations were afraid the conservative religious
programming would be withdrawn if ours was shown,"
he said. The minster said Cathedral of Hope was
attracted to WGN because the station airs on cable
outlets in the rural areas surrounding Dallas and Fort
Worth.
Maryland Gov. Supports
Civil Rights Bill for Gays
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Parris Glendening
testified for the first time before a legislative committee
last month, describing his late brother’s hardship hiding
his homosexuality and urging delegates to outlaw
discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Glendening’s brother Bruce served 19 years in the
Air Force, including three tours in Vietnam. But as the
decorated veteran lay dying of AIDS - when the pain
was so great that it hurt to touch his skin - Bruce
Glendening said it was more painful to keep his sexual
orientation hidden for so long in order to keep his job,
Gleiadening testified.
"He lived in fear.. ," the governor told the House
Judiciary Committee. "This has weighed on me a long
tame... I’m here to ask ifwe couldmake this state amore
fair and just society."
Afterward, the audience applauded his three-minute
speech. One of several people in the audience who
shookGlendening’ s handas heleftwas SilviaRodriguez,
chairwomanofthe stateHumanRelations Commi ssion,
who said no other governor showed such courage in her
15 years with the group. "He knows this is just and fair
for all the people of Maryland," she said.
Delegates Sheila Hixson and Leon Billings, both
Montgomery County Democrats, havefailed to get
the bill approved for six years, but they have not
had such a prominent supporter before. Onlookers
packed the hearing room and one wall was lined
with television cameras.
The bill would add sexual orientation to a law
thatbans discriminationin housing and employment
because of aperson’s race, religion or gender. "The
issue is simply a matter ofintolerance and bigotry,"
Ms. Hixson said.
Baltimore City and Montgomery, Prince
George’s and Howard counties have similar laws
governing 49 percent of the state’s population.
Glendening said Prince George’s County hasn’t
suffered since it enacted the law in 1991 while he
was chief executive. "Western civilization hasn’t
collapsed because of the bill," he said.
Glendeningleftbefore delegates asked questions
about the bill. Several delegates appeared critical
ofit. Delegate Emmett Bums, a Baptist pastor, said
complaints from homosexuals would flood the
Human Relations Commission and create further
delays for Blacks and women who suffer
discrimination. In the hearing’s testiest exchange,
Billings retorted that everyone can suffer
discrimination.
Commission officials said 1 to3% of complaints
in counties that have the law concern sexual
orientation, Advocates argued that nobody should
be discriminated against for any reason. "We’re
trying to cast the net as broadly as possible,"
Billings said.
Teens Protest Gay
Story in Dawson’s Creek
WILMINGTON (AP) - More than 30 teen-agers
gathered outside Wilmington’s EUE Screen Gems
Studios to protest the homosexual subject matter of
thelocally filmed television show Dawson’s Creek.
Members of Youths Against the Promotion of
Homosexuality held placards Thursday reading
"Jack and Jill, Not Jack and Bill" and "Hollywood:
No More Gay Promo."
Screen Gems’ employees were greeted with
chants of "Don’t Holly-weird me!" as they drove
into the studios’ parking lots. "We’re sick and tired
of Hollywood trying to force its pro-homosexual
values down teen-agers’ throats on shows like
Dawson’s Creek," said Robert Hales, 17. "This
show is 100 times worse than Ellen because they’re
targeting high school kids with their ’pro-Gay’
propaganda." Ellen, which starred Lesbian
comedian Ellen DeGeneres, created a national stir
two years ago when the main character announced
she was a.Lesbian.
Theprotests aboutDawson’s Creek center around
a 16-year-old character who announced in a recent
episode thathe was homosexual. Kerr Smith, whose
character Jack was introduced on Dawson’s Creek
this season, said the show simply explores common
adolescent themes. "’Everybody knows that
Dawson’s Creek addresses prevalent issues about
teen-agers, and one of them is homosexuality," he
said. "It’s in the schools now. Ten years ago, it
wasn’t talked aboutbut now it is."
Killer Pleads Guilty
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man accused of
murdering five Gay men because he thought it
would stop the spread of AIDS abruptly ended his
trial by pleading guilty to the charges, prosecutors
said. Juan Chavez, 34, avoided a possible.death
sentence in the capital case by unexpectedly
changing his plea about 1 1/2 weeks into trial,
prosecutor Mike Duarte said. He is scheduled to be
sentenced June 21.
Duarte told jurors during the trial that Chavez
lured themen to theirhomes supposedly for sex and
then robbed and strangled them Chavez coufessed
to the murders while serving a prison sentence for
an unrelated 1996 kidnapping. In September of that
year, he was charged with strangling the five men
in 1986 and 1989.
11 Year Old with
AIDS Speaks Out
CARSON CITY (AP) - Eleven-year-old
Michael Dowling wasn’t supposed to live
this long and he knows it. "I was born
HIV-positive. My morn was told that I’d
probably dieby the timeI was three years
old," Michael told the Assembly as they
designatedWednesday, March24as HIVAIDS
Awareness Day inNevada. Hestood
¯ next to his adopted mother’s friend,
Assemblywoman Barbara Cegavske, RLas
Vegas, as he addressed thelegislators.
The boy was born in Las Vegas to a
drug-addicted mother who passed her
disease along to him before she gave
birth. Now, l~fichael hasbeen adoptedand
is also living with full-blown AIDS.
Michael said he has to make a trip to
Washington,D.C., every couple ofmonths
so he can get two sho~ of a medication
called IL2 every day for a week. "I go to
the National Institutes of Health. The
doctors and nurses, there are the people
that have kept me alive. If not for them I
would be dead,? Mi.chael said,.
Despite his disease, the youngster says
heis planningto live afull andindependent
life. "I plan to. grow up.and be a doctor. I
do not plan to be disabled and live off
welfare and_have Medicaid pay my
doctor’s bills," he added. People.,~ith
AIDS need Nevada’s help to find "good
jobs and insurance to pay their medical
bills," he said.
After his speech, the entire 42-member
Assembly and dozens of observers in the
gallery stood~to applaud. "Mikie is not
supposed to be alive. He’s such a fighter,
he’s incredible," Cegavske said.
Surgeon General at
HIV/AIDS Meeting
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former U.S.
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders opened
the nation’ s annualHIV/AIDS conference
by urging the public to fight growing
complacency about the disease. "We all
have to be in this battle until it’s over, and
I want you to know it’s not over," Eiders
told about 2,000 people at the opening of
the National HIV/AIDS Update
Conference.
Few doubted that among the hundreds
of veteranAIDS health care providers and
public health workers in the crowd. But
now, Elders reminded them, there’s anew
problem: growing public complacency.
Lulledby encouraging early results from
new drag therapies,many Americans have
decided AIDS is no longer much of a
threat, said Dr. Mervyn Silverman, the
former San Francisco public health czar
and chairman of the AIDS conference,
which runs through tomorrow. He cited
survey results that suggest people mustbe
tuning out to all the AIDS awareness
campaigns.
The deadly virus is nearly always
contracted through exchange of blood or
body fluids, often during unprotected
sexual activity or from sharing intravenous
drag paraphernalia. In a survey taken in
1991, 41% still wrongly assumed that
HIV could be contracted from sharing a
drinking glass with an infected person. In
1997, the same misconception was found
in 55% of those surveyed. Similarly, 34%
of those surveyed in 1991 won-ied about
catching the AIDS virus from a public
toilet seat, as compared to 41°/0 in 1997.
87% ofyoung Americans believe they are
at no risk of contracting HIV. Yet about
one in four of every new infection occurs
in the same age group, 17- to 22-yearolds.
"Either we’re really gettingd.u.m.b.er,
or some of us in this room are notdomgI
ourjobs, Sdverm said. ’ ’ ~
Eiders offered-a familiar litany of
su ,~gestions,inclUding universal access to
health care and free needle-exchange
AIDS Researcher
Struggles for $
¯¯ )rograms, both ofwhich seem as far from
reality as when she left office in 1994.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Researcher
Peter Duesberg has become a scientific
outcast because of his unorthodox AIDS
theories. But he’s still in business, thanks
to a fund-raising approach as unconventional
as his beliefs.
Duesberg, who maintains that AIDS is
not caused by the human immunodeficiency
virus but by illegal drugs and
the AIDS medication AZT; has been
raising money from private sources for
some years, living from check to check.
Buthis fund-raising tookonaddedurgency
ast November when he.feared he was
about to lose his lab at the University of
California at Berkdey for lack of money.
Friends of Duesbergsprang into acuon,
soliciting donationsby way of the Internet
and an ad in the alumni magazine. The ad
brought in a stream of small contributions,
which along with $200,000 in foundation
money and some other big individual
donations amounted to $325,000, enough
to eke out another year of operations.
Duesberg is grateful for the kindness of
friends and strangers but said it’s a hard
way to make a living. "You also begin to
see how easy itis if youjust conform," he
said.
Twelve years ago, Duesberg filled out
grant applications and the government
sent him checks. Back then, Duesberg
was a member of the elite National
Academy of Scienees, winner of a 1985
Outstanding Investigator Award from the
National Institutes of Health and aleading
authority on retroviruses, a family that
includes the AIDS virus.
But after he published his HIV theory,
his reputation tanked. The mainstream
AIDS community has rebuffed his
theories, saying it is clear that HIV does
cause AIDS and that arguing otherwise
dangerously undercuts the safe-sex
message. "Whatever inroads we have
made to help people to practice safer sex
or to exchange needles - that all goes out
the window," said David Evans of Project
Inform, an advocacy group in San
Francisco.
Since 1987, Duesberg has had 20 grant
applications turned down. A spokesman
for the NIH declined to comment. As a
tenured professor of molecular and cell
¯ biology, Duesberg still has his salary and
: position at Berkeley. But without grant
¯ money, he cannot operate a lab, which is
¯ crucial to continuing his research.
¯ The private donauons can t overcom
¯ another problem: no students. Duesberg
¯ said students visit early in the semester
¯ andseeminterested.Butafterafew weeks,
..th.ey.t.aa.e.a.wa.y. "TheY’re told bY the
¯ graduate advisers and by their peers they
¯ may not be able to get ajob, I may not be
¯ able to pay them,,,a,n_,_d it would be bad for
their reoutations, he said.
¯ Stuar’t Lynn, head of Duesberg’s
¯ division said the Berkeley ,c~_mmumty
¯ hasn’t o~tracized Duesberg. ’ Ev,eryb.o.dy~
kind of looks at him an amusea sort oz.
way," Lynn said. "Berkele,,y has alotmore
radical people than Peter.
¯ Duesberg said his lab and money
¯ problems reflect his one-man battle with
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scientists and drug companies who, he
maintains, have invested too much in the
HIV-AIDS connection to admit to an
alternative theory. "Most people don’t
realizehow an-freeweare to do sciencein
America," he said. ’q’hey can afford to
give mill.ions, but they cannot afford to
give me $100,000 or $200,000 to prove
them wrong."
Condom Program
in Cambodia Works
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -
Declaring a pilot program to increase
condom use in Cambodia a success, the
World Health Organization and the
Ministry of Health announced plans on
Friday foranationwide campaign to tackle
the impoverished country’s skyrocketing
AIDS rate.
Targeting commercial sex workers who
are the mainlinkin the spread of sexually
transmitted diseases in Cambodia, the
"100% Condom-Use Program" has
significantly increased condom use in
brothels in thepilot’s targetarea, according
to a preliminary report released ahead of
nextweek’s National Conference onHIV/
AIDS.
Prostitutes in the seaside town of
Sihanoukville, 185 km (115 miles)
southwestofPlmomPerth, wereinstmcto
byhealth workers in October to require all
their customers to wear condoms. Ifmen
refused to comply, the sex workers were
encouraged to report them to police.
"Many sex establishments are actively
participating and there has been a rise in
the distribution and use of condoms,"
Health Secretary of State Mare Bun Heng
said Friday. "We are pleased with these
results and.., this year we would like to
expand the program nationwide."
The condom program was inspired by a
similar campaign in Thailand that
increased condom use in sex
establishments from 15% in 1989 tomore
than90%in 1992, preventing an estimated
2 million HIV cases, according to the
WHO.
Cambodiahas the highestHIV infection
rate in Asia, with 50 to 70 people believed
to become infected every day. Recent
studies have estimated that 3% of the
adult population in Cambodia is infected
with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
State Won.’t Require
HIV Marriage Test
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Memphis
lawmakeris no longer pushing legislation
that would require couples wanting to get
married in Tennessee to be tested for the
HIV virus and other sexually transmitted
diseases. Rep. Henri Brooks said she
changed her mind after the Health
Departmentestimated the tests wouldcost
Tennessee taxpayers almost $5 million a
year.
She amended the bill to require county
court clerks to make information about
venereal diseases - such as chlamydia,
syphilis, gonorrhea and hepatitis B -
available to marriage license applicants.
"We are not trying to be Big Brother or
say who should and should not marry. All
we want to do is be responsible as
policymakers," the Democrat said. "The
ones who have to pay for these healthrelated
illnesses end up being the
taxpayers."
The bill,, approved by a House
subcommittee, also requires that a small
sign be conspicuously located in the area
¯¯ Wherepeopleapply formarriagelicenses.
It would read: "AIDS KILLS. HIV and
: other sexually transmitted diseases can
¯" occurwithoutyourknowledge. Don’trisk
¯ thelifeofsomeoneyoulove.BETESTED
: NOW."
: In addition, the bill requires the Health
: Department to make annual reports to the
¯ Legislature on the status of HIV and
-" sexually transmitted diseases by gender
: and ethnicity.
¯ Brooks said sheproposed thelegislation ¯
¯ because one of her constituents found out
her husband was HIV positive after they
: mamed. She said she may renew .her
¯ efforts for testing later.
Harvard to Study
AIDS in Africa
¯ BOSTON (AP) - The Harvard AIDS Institute has been given a $2.5 million
: grant to research the AIDS epidemic
¯ devastating southern Africa. The grant ¯
from the Oak Foundation will support a
¯ three-year program on research and
¯ vaccine development. The grant will also
¯ support a demonstration project to test
: drugs nsed to block mother-to-infantHIV
: transmission.
¯ The AIDS Institute’s basic research
¯ involves sequencing the genes found in
¯ theHIV strainprevalentinsouthernAfrica.
¯ No place in the world has been harder hit
: by AIDS than southern Africa. In
¯ Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and
: Zimbabwe, up to one-quarter of people
aged 15-49areinfected withHIV 0rAIDS.
AIDS has killed 10 million people in sub-
" Saharan Africa - 90% of the world’s
¯ AIDS deaths. Another 20 million are
: expected to die, Harvard researchers
¯ added.
¯ Max Essex, chairman of the Harvard
¯ AIDS Institute, and his colleagues have
." beenresearchingAIDS inAfricaformore
¯ than a decade. The Oak Foundation, an
international philanthropy, has offices in
¯ Boston, Geneva, London and Harare,
¯ Zimbabwe.
: Know Your Legal Rights
:A Seminar for People
¯ Living with HIV and AIDS ¯
¯ TULSA- TulsaOklahomans for Human
Right, theTulsaGay Community Services
¯ Center and the Oklahoma Lesbian and
¯ Gay Lawyers Association (OLGLA) are
hosting a seminar at 7pro on April 22 on
legal issues for people living with HIV/
¯ AIDS. Kathy Nelson, executive co-
. ordinator for the AIDS Legal Resource
¯ Project will conduct the seminar at the
Tulsa Gay Community Services Center at
: 38th and Peoria, 2nd floor.
¯ The AIDS Legal Resource Project was
¯ created three years ago to help provide
," people living with HIV/AIDS with the
¯ resources to meet the challenges in their
: lives. The Project provides free legal
¯ assistance to those who qualify through a
network of 150private attorneys statewide.
: The Project can assist those qualified in
receiving denied Social Security benefits
.and in addressing health, life or disability
¯ Insurance discrimination.
: Ms..Nelson is an alumna of Oklahoma
¯ State University and Oklahoma City
: University School of Law. She has had a
: private practice in oil and gas law, family
¯ law, estate planning and probate law. She ¯
also serves on the board of directors for
¯ CarePoint, Inc. a non-profit consortium
: for HIV/AIDS health care and support in
: Oklahoma City. Info: 743-4297.
by James Christjohn Broadway dance. And a relative-of mine,
"Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums Raymond Christjolm was one of the
and Song" combines the power of ° singers!
Broadway choreography and contem- ° The cast includes 20 dancers with both
porary music with the songs, chants and o modemand traditional training, including
dances born of Native Indian Nation dancers
Americanculture to tell Act I eontlnues with
the story of one
¯ person’s- andanation’s "An Ea~le Above." in
- search for renewal by wlaleh Ron Anquoe
exploring ancestral
roots. (Kiowa tribe, Oh|ahoma)
This multicultural per[orms t]ae ritual
performance event,
which debuted on PBS Ea~le Dance
as part of the March
1999 pledge drive and
to convey the le~eud d
will be released on the Ea$|e Feather.
video April 20, was
conceived by Peter provldln~ the youn$ man
Buffett, working in with [~uow|ed~e and
collaboration with
Chief Hawk Pope. courage [or the journey.
Buffett composed the
music for the pivotal
Fire Dance scene in Kevin Costner’s
Oscar-winning film "Dances with
Wolves." "Spirit - A Journey in Dance,
Drums and Song" features the
choreography and stage direction ofT,o.nywinner
Wayne Cilento, who blends his
demanding trademark "urban dance"
movement with traditional Native
American dance.
And by the~ way, the video is worth
getting just to view the dancers. They are
all beautiful, with appeal to Gay men,
Lesbians, straight folk.., something fol
everyone! And boy can they move! 01~
yeah, themusic’s great, too; the CD is
availablenow, and I highlyrecommendit.
Peter has been one of the few artists te
successfully blend ancient music with
modem. Usually, whenthatblendis made,
it comes out a mess, but he’s done an
excellentjob ofretaining the impact of the
ancient with the feel of the modem, rising
above time and space to create anew form
that is emotionally satisfying on a level
few reach. LoreenaMcKennitt is the only
other artist I would say that about in her
blending of ancient and modem Critic
influences on her CD’s. But I digress,
back to "Spirit: A Journey...".
Taped during the show’s premiere
performance weekend at the Weidner
Center inGreen Bay, Wisconsin,"Spirit -
A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song"
features more than 80 performers -
dancers, choir, percussionists and
orchestra - selected from the worlds of
Native-American performance and
by Allan Smithee, special contributor
Anyone see "Footloose" whileit wasin
town? It had all the appeal of a really bad
high school play. Bad script, awful
choreography and songs worthy ofmaybe
two verses stretched out till one thought
the record player had broken and was
skipping, all added up to an evening of
dreck, despite the cast’s sometimes overenergetic
performances -and especially
the nights when one cast member was off
key. It is usually against my principles to
walk out on a show, no matter how bad -
I hold that it’s rude to the actors and
people around you - but Footloose is one
I would have walked out on after the first
30 minutes.
I find it ironic that local homophobe
and religious bigot Larry Payton, famous
arrayed in fancy dress
of feathers, beads and
bones. The orchestra
features both modem
and traditional Native-
American instruments,
a string section and
percussionists playing
a variety ofdrums. The
40-voice Green Bay
and Oneida Nation
Girls’ Choir provides
additional vocals.
The program also
features soloists
Robert Mirabal (also
very handsome), a
renowned Native-
American flautist,
vocalist and percussionist; Ron Anquoe,
a traditionally trained Eagle Dancer who
is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of
Oklahoma; and Chief Hawk Pope, a
vocalist, lyricist and composer who is
Principal Chief of the Shawnee Nation,
United Renmant Band of Ohio. Chief
HawkPopenarrates. Joanne Shenandoah,
Oneida Nation of the Iroquois
confederacy, adds her beautiful voice to
the proceedings.
"Spirit - A Journey in Dance, Drums
and Song" opens Act I with "Urban
Overtures" as a group of city dwellers
reacts robotically to the stressful sounds
of daily life. Determined,to escape this
chaos, one young man decides in "Fire
Dance" to look back to his roots and
search for a new way to live. In
"Coashelleaqu (The Shawnee Letter)," a
Native-American grandfather encourages
him to begin this journey of renewal.
"Hidden Heritage" celebrates the 500
Indian Nations.
ActI continues with"AnEagleAbove,"
in which Ron Anquoe (Kiowa tribe,
Oklahoma) performs the ritual Eagle
Dance to convey the legend of the Eagle
Feather, providing the young man with
knowledge and courage for the journey.
"Passage," Robert Mirabal’s haunting
flute solo, continues the young man’s
quest to embrace the past. Act I ends with
Spirit Dance, bnngmg together dancers
from the traditional Native-American and
contemporary urban cultures for a
celebration, see Spirit, p. 10
for censoring shows andrewriting themto
make them safe for the good Baptist
families of Tulsa to see would bring in a
show that pretty much rips the views of
fundie-brand organized religion.
In case some of you are too young to
remember the film, it’s based on an
incident in Elmore, OK wherein dancing
was made illegal by virtue of a powerful
minister in town who held that dancing
would lead to all kinds of sinful behavior.
In the film and play, a kidfrom Chicago
challenges the dictatorial evil minister,
and wins the right to hold a school dance.
As a film, it was worth a couple hours at
the dollar movie. As a musical, well, it’s
not worth that much. But Tnlsans seemed
to like it - the shows were sold out. Maybe
it’s that even a bad touring show beats
anvthin~ on TV9 At any rate, the cast was
~mlfor~v cute,’so that hellxd a little.
Tulsa C.A.R.E.S. in association with PFLAG presents
Chastity Bono
at the 2nd Annual
Red Ribbon Ball
Saturday, April 17th
7:30pm, dinner + entertainment, tickets
begin at $75/person/all proceeds benefit
Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., Information: 834-4194
Spring Concert
May 7 & 8, 1999
7:00 PM
All Soul’s
Unitarian Church
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April 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 + 17 at 8 pm
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John Williams Theatre
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Lisa Wilson Directing, Ken Spence as Willie Loman
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It is a fabulous number to see. R makes
you want to stand up and cheer, even if it
is a video:
Act II of"Spirit- A Journey in Dance,
Drums and Song" begins with two
numbers - "The Place Where Crying
Begins" and "The Dream" - offering a
sensual exploration of the relationship of
man and woman in a more natural world.
"Aubenaubee(Prelude to Rebirth)" begins
the young man’s journey back to his own
world; m The Thunderbird, he returns
as anewly enlightenedmemberof society.
In the final number, the two cultures -
traditional andurbancontemporary - dance
in unison, recovering the true spirit of
America.
The showitselfwas a seamless blending
of ancient and modem, combining to tell
a story that many of us can relate to today
of alienation from roots, a discontent
with where man in general is today in the
world, and a yearning for reconnection to
the earth in an age where the earth has
become one more commodity to exploit.
It held me spellbound. Seamlessly
integratingmusic, dance, ..and storytelling,
it moved me to tears-- something that
doesn’t usually happen at all, especially
withregards to avideotapedperformance.
It was beautiful. I have been in
communication with the composer/
creator, Peter Buffett, and, he has
mentioned the possibility of brfilging the
live show here in the fall. (ya heard it here
first, folks!)If that happens, don’t miss it.
It willbe an experience that will touch you
deeply, as theatre was meant to do. Andif
the video is able to move me to tears
(along with several others I spoke with
that saw i0,imagine whatanimpactseeing
the performance live wouldhave! Usually
I find videos of plays, especially musical
performances, lacking. Something is lost
in the translation from live to tape. Not so
in this case.
Peter’s other CD’s are well worth
picking up: "Spirit Dance", from which
many of the numbers in "Spirit: A
Journey..." were taken, is great, and the
soundtrack to "500 Nations" is another
winner. Joanne Shenandoahhas anumber
ofCD’s out, and "Matriarch" is one ofmy
favorites ofhers. RobertMirabal has CD’s
out as wall, and he is fantastic. Peter tends
to get lumped in the "New Age"
although his musicfar surpasses theimage
that particular labding conjures up, While
the other artists are found, at least in
Borders, under "Native American". Other
places might have them under "World
Music".
They knew so because for the last two
years, a representative of Tulsa
Oldahomans for Human Rights (TOHR)
had participated in the planning for this
eventand in the creation oftheFederation.
FromTOHR,NGLTFknew thatCimarron
was the only Oklahoma group genuinely
doing statewideorganizing, Sowhy would
they give $5,000, a huge sum for a small
and under orgamzed state like Oklahoma,
to those less likely to put it to good use?
Well, it turns out that a number of the
individuals who are involved with
Cimarron have also worked closely with
NGLTF’s semi-rival, the Human Right
Campaign (HRC). And rumor has it that
NGLTF didn’t want to help an "HRC"
organization. So, the money which conid
really, really have made a difference in
: Oklahoma went to OGLPC.
¯ WhatdidOGLPCdowiththosedollars?
: They rented a bus to bring Tulsans to the
: rally, and they rented portapots and got
: the necessary, permits for the event. But
¯ interestingly they also hired and paid Ms.
: PaulaHandBrown to help co-ordinate the
¯ event. And they used the funds to pay for
: advertising in various publications, albeit
¯ not this one. (For the record, TFN
: frequently donates ads completely free of
: charge to community non-profit
: organizations unlike our rivals who
¯ typically provide atmosta20%discount.)
¯ Also, OGLPC is permitted, according to
: NGLTF organizer, Dan Haws, to keep
¯ any leftover funds to subsidize their
¯
organizational work.
¯ Perhaps, OGLPC will transcend its past
and prove worthy of the $5K they were
: granted. Butif the reasoning for choosing
: them over Cimarronis true, then OGLPC
: and Oklahoma’s communities have
¯ become once againpawns in the games of
: our"national" organizations.
¯
The bottom line is the money should go
¯ to those who can most effectively use it.
; And you have to wonder if those who
: can’tevenissue a simplepress release, are
¯ the ones who can make the best use of the
¯ money.
" "I speak out abroad, I must not be silent at
home," the Republican said. In a positive
: sign for supporters, Senate Judiciary
¯ Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has
: scheduled hearings on the legislation for
¯
next month.
¯ But it still faces a difficult road. Some
¯¯ co.ngr.es.sionalRepublicans have expressed
mxsgxvmgs that the legislation is
¯ unnecessary because dozens of states have
~ laws protecting the groups identified in
¯ the bill.
¯
Backers are also concemed that social
: conservahves may construe thelegislation
¯ as extending special protections to ¯
homosexuals. "This is not a bill that will,
] in one way, advantage one group over
; another," said Wyden. "I can’t believe
¯ any members of the United States Senate ¯
want to be soft on violence."
Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Aden
Specter, R-Pa.., another bill cosponsor,
said he wasn’t as optimistic as some of his
colleagues. "A lot of opponents.., pick
out hate crimes legislation for a great deal
of criticism," he said. "This is a tough bill
to get very much support."
Under the bill, current law would be
expanded so theJustice Department could
prosecute crimes based on a person’s
sexual orientation, gender or disability.
Now, the statute only covers crimes based
on race, color, religion or national origin.
Also, the bill would make federal
prosecution ofhate crimes eas~er. Current
¯ law limits prosecution to situations whexe
¯ the victim is targeted for engaging in
: certain, federallyprotectedactivities,such
¯ as serving on a jury, voting or attending
¯
public school.
: Over40 states havehate crimes statutes,
¯ but only 21 cover sexual orientation, 22
~ cover gender and 21 cover disability,
¯ according to the White House, which
¯ supports the bill.
: Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat -
¯
Massachusetts, the bill’s lead author, said
¯
the measure wouldn’t undermine the role
¯ of the states in prosecuting hate crimes, ¯
jnstbringinvestigative andother resources
¯
of the federal government to bear where
¯ necessary.
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by Mary Schepers, Do-It-Yourself-Dyke
Poor dears, your DIYD has neglected
you awfully - and she has missed you.
Honest! Sparing you the boring details,
suffice it to say that family situations
regrettably intervened, but your DIYD is
back, tmarchived and just as naughty as
ever. And isn’t that what you
really want? No, I suppose
most of you want me to get on
with that damned project you
werelefthanging withacouple
of months ago, and so I shall.
The DIYD is perfectly
confident that you have not
been squandering the intervening
months but have quite
diligently been scoping ideas
to steal and make your own in
our Kitchen remodel on the
shoestring. Now, being
Now, heln~
economical
does not equate
with being.
cheesy, so wall
the rather "
enthusia~tle
dyke with the
~tn of
Rust-o-leurn
economical does not equa[e please
with being cheesy, so will the eooIher"jets.
rather enthusiastic .dyke with ,’i-,’I
the can of Rust-o-leum please....... t ne DIYD
cool ~her jets. The DIYD
promises that she shall get her
shining moment when we
discuss refurbishing the garage
sale find garden furniture. You
have 0aonesfly] assessed both
your finances and the state’of
yourcupboards? Decidedwhat
you can livewith stylistically’?
Then lef’s get cooking.
We will be working on the
assumption that your cabinets
are sturdy enough and laid out in amanner
that is endurable until the money for the
Dream Kitchen appears (The pessimistic
side of the DIYD cautions.that any time
you have spare money, either your house
or your car will find out about it, so be
sneaky! A friend of hers adds "girlfriend"
to this .corollary.). Given those two
assumpuons, you have options. And we
all love options, don’t we?
The easiest approach may be to repaint
your cupboards, put up new hinges, and
handles and a bit of tasteful shelf paper.
Yes, you still have to prep things for
successful results. Sorry. Youwill need to
lightly sand the surfaces and clean them,
then put on a primer coat. NOT Water
based! That raises the grain of the wood or
separates the veneer..Oil based only. This
might be a good time to review the past
articles on painting and brush care. I will
always recommend that you "extinguish
pilot lights on the range if you have them
and to open windows and doors for good
ventilation. Solvents are just ugly. Then
use Kilz brand paint; it is trouble-free as
oil based paint goes, and dries in an hour
or less. The DIYD strongly recommends
taking one cabinet door at a time offwhen
repainting, and then adding thenew hinges
and handles when putting it hack on. Or
you can take the cabinets off all at once,
but mark them or handle them in some
other methodical way. Especially in older
homes, all things are not equal.
One coat of primer then, unless you get
somebleed-through, then apply two coats.
When that’s all dry, you can paint on your
finish paint. TheDIYDurges you to invest
in a semi-gloss or gloss formulated
especially for kitchens. These paints can
stand up to the moisture, and you’ll really
be grateful when you go to wipe off that
errant cake batter. Put in your shelf paper
and the you’re ready for those new hinges
promises that
she shall get
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and handles.
Regardless of which option you choose,
you will probably want new h,ardware on
the cupboards and drawers. It s amazing
how much it spiffs things up; it is also
amazing how much it costs when you add
them all up, so take a count of what you
need, then use your calculator
when you go shopping.
It is also wise, if
possible, to find hardware that
is similar to the old as regards
screw hole placement. If you
don’t have to drill anything
new, why bother? Put a little
woodfiller in the hole, orbreak
a match stick off in it, then
attach your new hardware.
Always remember to look at
how the hardware you are
removing was attached,
especially hinges. This is not
frivolous advice!
Another option you
have is resurfacing, and this
can yield some remarkable
results. If you are handy and
rather intrepid, you can handle
the job yourself. They have
supplies and instructional
videos at Homo Depot and
other stores of that ilk. If
you’ve a bit extra tucked back
in the cookie jar and a low
reserve of patience for chaos,
by all means look into having
the job done by professional
resurfacers. They can even take care of
that god awful formica counter-top while
they’re at it. As usual, get lots of quotes,
demandreferences, and check thembefore
making this choice.
The option of last resort would be
stripping and refinishing the cabinets. You
should choose this only if a)your cabinets
are fabulous butjust dark or dingy;b) you
have prior refinishing skills; c) You have
an infinite reservoir of patience; d) your
beloved has an infinite reservoir of patience.
Nodream ofglowing wood cabine.ts
is worth a week on the couch - alone. The
dog will be in your place in bed. It can be
that bad, darlings.
As usual, it all sounds so very easy in
print, but ~rd up your channing loins,
dare to be anal retentive and methodical
and you’ll find the work rewarding. I’ll be
back next month when we deal with the
walls - if you’ve finished climbing them
by then:
and confabulations of underwear
collectors - and they establish all those
thousands of websites and chatrooms on
the Intemet. Anthropologists call these
"special interest ~oups" and, despite
pessimistic impresszons that nobody in
the country anymore talks to their folks
and neighbors, the number of interest
groups in this country has expanded
astronomically since the 1950s.
Where once people hid their fetishes as
painfully embarrassing, now, like Jay, we
happily call ourselves fetishists and
proudly broadcast our fascinations. So I
feel like I’m in good company when I’ve
got Jay working onmy toes with a dreamy
look in his eyes. It’s my contribution to
the modem American Way.
by Esther Rothblum
The Antarctic is the coldest, highest,
and driest continent on earth. Unlike the
Arctic, which consists of frozen water
surrotmded by land, the Antarctic is land
surrounded by water. Land is colder than
water, so the Antarctic has Tkere
temperatures ranging from
." here are strong spirited to start with,.and
¯¯ stronger stilluponleaving. BeingaLesbian
was not a contributing factor, whereas
¯ persistence, flexibility, emotional and
physical strength are more important.
¯ There is ajoke that usually goes around
is a joke town toward the middle of
the season: How do you get
40 degrees Fahrenheit in the
warmestpartofthe continent
in summer to minus 100
degrees Fahrenheit (.not
including the wind chill
factor) in the winter. 98% of
the continentis covered with
ice, and in fact the Antarctic
contains 90% of the world’s
ice. The ice is several miles
thick in parts oftheAntarctic
interior, so that the altitude
is similar to high mountainous
regions. Even though
the Antarctic contains 68%
of the world’s freshwater
locked up as ice, the almost
total lack of precipitation
classifies it as a desert.
Frequent blizzards and high winds form
"white outs" that make it difficult to see,
and the view is often a monotonous sheet
of white snow and ice.
Why would anyone choose to go to this
barren continent? In 1913, explorerErnest
Shackleton placed an ad in a newspaper
. that stated: "Men wanted for haTardous
journey. Small wage, bitter cold, long
months of complete darkness . . . Safe
return doubtful.., and recognition in case
of success." He received about 5,000
applications.
Most people who have come "to the
ice" in recent decades engage in scientific
research or support those who do. About
a dozen nations have built permanent
research "stations" in the Antarctic.For
several years, I conducted research on
womenin the Antarctic. I wanted to study
women who take risks, and the Antarctic
seemed the ideal setting. This work
resulted in the recent book Women in the
Antarctic(HaworthPress, 1998), co-edited
with Jacqueline Weinstock and Jessica
Morris.
Only one woman that we interviewed
for this book came out as a Lesbian, and
shewas part ofan all-women’s expedition
that skied to the South Pole. Our research
team did not feel we could ask our
participants about their sexual orientation.
In those days the U.S. Navy transported
personnel to the Antarctic (these days, it’ s
the Air Force) and as a result we were
concerned that our participants might not
want to come out to us as Lesbian or
Bisexual.
But we speculated that there might be
some Lesbians among the women who
live and work in the Antarctic. So I was
intrigued to readan article entifled"Below
the Ice: An Antarctic Journal" by Peggy
Malloy in a recent issue of Weird Sisters,
a Colorado Lesbian newspaper. I emailed
Peggy in the Antarctic (the wonders of
technology!) and she responded as
follows:
For most people who come to work in
Antarctica, it is the sense ofadventure that
draws us to this extreme environment.
Most ofus wouldnever have themoney to
be a tourist-visitor; and we would not be
able to learn to love ffduring such a short
visit, as many of us have done over the
seasons. Those who get through a season
that usually goes
around town
toward the middle
of the season:
How do you
get a date with
a woman?
Answer: be one.
There are
approximately
30g females
working in the
Antaretle program.
a date with a woman?
Answer: be one. There are
approximately36% females
working in the Antarctic
program. Yes, there are other
Lesbians in town, and a very
small handful of Gay men.
The men are quite closeted.
This was a military base at
one time and there are still
plenty ofmilitary influences
since so many ex-military
currently workfor Antarctic
Support Associates, the
civilian contracting firm in
the Antarctic. The Lesbians
are generally out, but several
are not.
This is a generally
¯ accepting environment, mainly since we ¯
all have to work andlive together forlong
¯ periods of dme. If someone doesn’t agree
¯ with a lifestyle, it’s futile to fightit. I do
¯ not try to hide my sexuality, but I don’t
¯ flaunt it either. There is always a fear that
: one won’t get rehired because of it.
¯ However, this seems to be residual from
; living in northern society, and not well
¯ founded in the hiring practices of this
¯ company. If there are any prejudices, I
¯ would say it is against women in general, ¯
not just against Lesbians. There is no
: attempt by the U.S. Antarctic Program to
¯ be Lesbian-affirmative, of which I am
¯ aware.
: I have worked at the U.S. McMurdo
¯ StationontheAntarctic continentfor three
¯" seasons so far. Each year the circle of
: friends increases: friends of friends tell
: friends,andendupcomingworkherewith
¯ us. Each year there seem to bemoremales
: who gravitate to our circle. These are
: straight men who feel more comfortable
¯ striking friendships with us,mosdy since ¯
we are"safe." There is no concern thatwe
¯ will wantanythingmorethan afriendship.
¯ Email is the best way to keep in touch
: withcommuffityfromhome. I amgratefnl
¯
to those who write and keep me informed
¯ of happenings, and gossip, and events
¯ such as the Rainbow Chorus concerts. I
: was quite involved with them before
¯ coming to work down here. This is such
¯ an isolated place, very little outside
¯ stimulation from color (th!ngs are brown
or white), smells (only the smell of fuel),
¯
and life (nothing grows here naturally
: other than some algaes). We see some
¯ seals andmaybe somepenguins at the end ¯
of the summer season. News from home
". or small care packages from friends are
¯ treasured like a long lost love’s return.
¯ Anything, and everything, is a special ¯
gift. This is also the time when I have
¯ more contact with friends than usual, as I
." can sit at the computer and drop a quick
¯ note to say, "hi, how are you doing?"
: Peggy Malloy can be contacted via
¯ email: malloyma@hotmail.eom. Esther
¯ Rothblum is Professor of Psychology at ¯
the University of Vermont and Editor of
¯ theJournal ofLesbianStudies. Shecanbe
¯ reached at Dewey Hall, University of
¯ Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. ¯
email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu.
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They filled thepews, stood against church
walls and packed the steps leading to the
altar. "This is far beyond my wildest
dreams," said the Rev. Marge Ragona,
Covenant’s pastor. "We are amazed so
many felt you needed to be herejust as we
felt we needed to be here."
Speakers called onthe audience to speak
out against hatred and chastised people
who use the Bible to justify hate against
homosexuals. "We’re here to celebrate
this evening that God is not hate, but God
is love," said the Rev. Lawton Higgs St. of
United Methodist Church of the
Reconciler.
Roger Lovette, pastor of the Baptist
Church of the Covenant, encouraged
people to remember Gaither as a person,
not a symbol. "He was like the rest of us
with hopes, dreams and needs," Lovette
said.
Rodney Max, co-chairman of the
Coalition Against Hate Crimes, urged
legislators to pass alaw including offenses
motivatedbyhomosexuality on the state’s
list of hate crimes. "That should never,
ever happen again in this state," Max said.
After the two-hour memorial service
inside the church, people lit small candles
and stood outside singing ’~his Little
Light of Mine."
Across the street, a small group of
protesters from Westboro Baptist Church
in Topeka, Kan., held anti-Gay signs in
protest. "We are outraged at this violent
crime, but the issue is the homosexuals
are exploiting it," said Westboro’s pastor,
the Rev. Fred Phelps. "It is no longer
merely an event for the family and friends
to grieve." Protesters held signs saying
"Billy Jack Gaither bums in hell.’"
Max Griffies, 9, stood near the church’ s
step holdin,,g a sig,n declaring, "God loves
all people. Max smother, Leah Griffies,
but that still some homophobic remarks
were expressed by afew teachers to classes
after the announcement was made. and
flyers went up. However, since a large
part of the group’s mission is to educate
faculty and other students, Allen
characterized these negative remarks as
something to be expected, until Gay and
Lesbians students and is sues become more
visible.
BTW’s GSA typically meets during an
intermittent free period in the school
schedule and the group often discusses
issues or plans for upcoming events. One
such event is the "Day of Silence" on
April 7th which is intended to be a day of
protest in support of civil rights for Gay
and Lesbian persons. Washington’s
Sizemore is actually the key organizer for
the US and Canada. Also, the BTW GSA
is planning to participate in the upcoming
Tulsa Pride Parade.
And Booker T. Washington’s example
has paved the way for GSA’s in at least
two other Tulsa high schools. Smaller and
more informal groups have come together
at Central and East Central High Schools.
All of these groups have joined together
in an organization, S.A.F.E. - Student
Alliance for Equality which meets at the
Tulsa Gay Community Services Center
(the Pride Center).
For more information, messages may
be left for the BookerT. Washington Gay-
Straight Alliance or S.A.F.E. at the Tulsa
Gay Community Services Center, 743-
GAYS (4297).
said she wanted her son "to know you
don’t kill people, regardless of who they
are, and especially for what they believe
in." The message seemed to sink in as
Max watched the protestors across the
street. "Itmakes mefeel disgusted because
everybody is created equal and all people
are created by God," he said.
Police originally charged Mullins and
Butler with murder, which carries a
maximum sentence of life imprisonment
.with a chance for parole. However, grand
jurors upgraded the charge to capital
murder, which cames only two possible
penalties: electrocution or life without
parole.
In Washington, DC, the Human Rights
Campaignissued the following comments:
"in 1997, (the latest FBI statistxcs
available) Alabama reported no hate
crimes to the FBI for any category.
Reporting of statistics is voluntary under
to the Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990.
Alabama’s hate crimes law does not cover
sexual orientation. ’This case in Alabama
shows the great inconsistency between
states in tracking and prosecuting hate
crimes We call on Congress to pass the
Hate Crimes Prevention Act, to set a
uniform federal response for hate
crimes and signal that anti-gay violence is
unacceptable in our society,’ said Human
Rights Campaign Political Director
Winnie Stachelberg."
Kevin Ivers, director of public affairs
.for Log Cabin Republicans added, ’’There
IS something wrong in society when gay
people are continually murdered in this
maimer, and our leaders have amoral duty
~o address it.., The leaders of both parties
must speak out with eqtml forceagainst
the anti-gay hatred and intolerance that is
feeding such crimes. . Every political
leader, especially those who seek-the
presidency, must reflect on why this is
happening, and what they can do to,.h,elp
stop it from continuing."
those who gathered to becomd~othe
Community of Hope have i~orked to be
honest about who we are and what our
ministry is. without insisting that others
agree with or embrace our ministry, We
have consistently insisted that ministries
of healing and hope, and not, Gay
advocacy, be ourfocus; while at the.same
time naming that homophobia and
inhospitality are antithetical to the Gospel,
and refusing to be silent in the face of
them. We have asked only for tolerance
and respect, and have tried to offer the
same. However. increasinly, the goodness
and dignity of Gay and Lesbian persons
and their loving, committed relationships
are so consistently and ’officially’
devalued and dishonored within in this
Conference and by this denomination,
thatI can no longer maintain myaffiliation
with integri&.
Secondly, I have decided to withdraw
because the ministries of justice and
compassion to which God’s church has
been calledand in which this congregation
is engaged, are too urgent and too
important for us to faithfully allow any
more time or energy to be diverted by
denominational arguments aboutwhether
or not Gay and Lesbian persons are part
of the body of Christ, Since the day this
congregation was called into being, Gay
and Lesbian persons have been BEING
the body of Christ - offering their gifts
and graces, their time and energy, their
hearts andhands, in loving service to God
and neighbor - see Peurose, p. 14
while the Church has debated their
acceptability. "Anyone who does the will
of God is my brother or sister"(Mark 3:
35), Jesus said. That debate was settled
long ago. And yet, women, men, and
children in Oklahoma, in the US, and
around the world continue to be robbed of
life every day by hunger, homelessness,
abuse, addiction, and violence, while the
UMC spends more and more of its time
andresourcesfight~ng over who is allowed
to love who. Internal struggles over control
and authority, have seduced our Church
intoforgetting its call to be the bearers of
God’sgospel ofhopeandlove to a hurting
worM. I am weary ofthe ’forgetting’ and
the fighting, and want my life and our
ministry as a community offaith to once
again be about ’remembering Jesus’ in
ways that honor the life he lived among
andfor us.
Therefore, on Thursday afternoon,
by Lamont Linstrom, Ph.D.
My feet are looking niighty fine these
days. I~have been seeing a new friend
named Jay, who calls himself a foot
fetishist. And he has been working these
toes down to hubs, almost. Jay describes
foot-worshipping parties he has attended
where shoes andboots and soqks goflying
in all directions. He has intro~oced me to
foot magazines. The personal ads are
remarkable. They come withphotographs
showing everyone thrusting his best foot
forward into the camera lens. And
websites, too. The intemet is one big
fetish supermarket: rubber and latex here,
feet over there, underwear at the back. Or
uniforms:-I have another friend with a
closet full of uniforms. I never know if
he’s going to show up dressed in Boy
Scout drag, or as Marine, or perhaps a
water meter reader.
While Jay was mass_aging my feet one
afternoon I thought abouttheword"fetish"
- a term oddly shared by anthropology,
psychology, and sexology. SigmundFreud
himself seems to have been the first to
borrow "fetish" from 19th century
anthrol~i0gy. Scholars of West African
religion had.firstused thewordto describe
religip~s..objects from Ghana - small
carvings, amulets, and’the like-thatpeople
bdieve&~were inspirited with divinity.
Feti~h deriYes from the Latin facticious
whi..k once.meant "handmade" or
"man~0~tU~ed" (e.g., see also "factory,"
and "factotum"). The word’s connations
of "artificial," in the original sense of
"made" or "constructed, "expanded to
absorb secondary meanings of "unreal"
or "fake"-or "false." Thus, the fetish
originally was a man-made, artificial
image of-God that African devotees
believed to have divine powers. The term
is still used occasionally in anthropology
and beyond to refer to sacred objects. My
Bay Area newspaper, for example, last
week contained an advertisement for an
upcoming sale of Pueblo Indian jewelry
whichfeaturedZuni fetishes- these small,
carved animal figures sold as both
decorative and spiritual.
I am not sure why Freud borrowed
fetish to describe sexual kinkiness. We
can guess, however, that he shared the
same sorts of. European cultural biases
that led to th~ earlier anthropological use
of the word. The savage religious devotee
focuses his attention on the artifical fetish
- the man-made object - and thus misses
¯ March 4, I submitted the following
¯
statemen¢ to.Bishop Blake:
~ " Bishois.Bruce Blake
¯¯ Oklahoma Annual Conference
United Methodist Church
¯
It is with a deep trust in God’s steadfast
¯ and unconditional love that 1 write to
¯ informyou thatlaminitia,ting theprocess ¯
ofwithdrawalfrom Zhe United Methodist
¯
Church in order to transfer my ministerial
¯ orders to another denominate’on. 1 have
chosen to begin this process because I
¯ cannot remainfaithful to the Gospel and
¯ honor the requirement of the United
¯ Methodist Church not to celebrate and ¯
blesssamesexcovenantrelationships.As
¯
one who has been baptized to "resist.
¯ injustice and oppression" and ordained
: to"lookaftertheconcernsofChristabove
¯ all," I am called and charged to offer the
¯ full ministry ofthe church--including the
¯ blessing ofdovenant relationships- to all
: God’s people, including those who are
¯ Gay or Lesbian. I will do nothing less.
: - Rev. Leslie Peurose
the larger supernatural reality ofgod. The
: sexual fetishist similarly misdirects.his
¯ attention only to this or that body part or
: object, and also misunderstands the
¯ broader, complex whole of human
¯
sexuality. The foot fetishist sucks toes,
: but ignores everything above the ankle.
¯ The hair fetishist gets tangled and stuck
: up there and never moves along towards
¯ "normal" sex.
The 19th century anthropologist and
¯ psychologist both shared the belief that
¯
they could indeed define normal religion
¯ and natural sexuality. Whatever fell short
¯ of this standard could be defined away as ¯
artificial - just a fetish. Lucky for us,
¯
maybe, things aremuchmorecomplicated
: nowadays. Some complications have
¯ come along with 20th century Hedonism. ¯
While hardly triumphant (especially in
¯ Oklahoma),latterday influentialhedonists
: like Dr. Ruth proclaim that all forms of
¯ sexual behavior are good, as long as ¯
nobody gets hurt. And even that can be
¯ good, too, as long as a person wants to get
: hurta,ndiftheboundaries andgroundrules
¯ (we Americans are so legalistic) are
¯
negotiated beforehand.
¯ Jay finds sexuality in toes just as West
Africans discover divinity in beads and
: wood. So fixations .on feet, jocks,
: underwear, underarms, hair, rubber sheets
¯ - it’s all reoently wonderful.
¯ Well, perhaps not that kid living down
the street who’s discovered to have 2000
¯
pairs ofwomen’s panties hiddenunderhis
~ bed thai he’s stolen from neighborhood
¯ clotheslines. Butmostly fetishes are good.
Isn’t the right toa feti~h protected in the
¯ Constitution? At least they contribute to
: the economy.
¯ Sex nowadays is also complicated by ¯
the duty our culture demands of us to
¯ cultivate our individuality. Fetishes here
¯ are extremely useful. They help
¯ differentiate ourselves as unique
¯
individuals. If you remain stuck in plain
¯ old boring vanilla sex, you are just a
¯ cypher in the crowd. Youneed a focus, an
: angle. Somespecial way to define yourself
¯
whenfilling outoneofthosebearortwink
¯ codes one sometimes sees flaunted in
¯ email signature files. But the American ¯
desireforindividuality and our cultivation
¯
of sexual fetishes also eventually leads
¯ around to American sociability. Those
¯ fetishes are shared. Fetishists quickly go ¯
to work organizing societies of foot
¯
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Texas House Passes
Hate Crimes Bill
WASHINGTON-TheTexas HouseofRepresentatives
passed a bill late in March (vote count: 83 to 61,
including the support of 9 Republicans) that would
enhance penalties for hate motivated violence directed
against a person because of their race, gender, religion
or sexual orientation. In addition to the House vote, a
new poll shows that the vast majority ofTexas residents
support hate crimes legislation...
"Reason and principle triumphed in the Texas
legislature today," said HumanRights Campaign (HRC)
Executive Director Elizabeth Birch. ’‘Texas lawmakers
took a giant step towards combating hate violence
against all residents of the state." The Human Rights
Campaign is the largest national Lesbian and Gay
political organization.
A new Scripps Howard poll for The Dallas Mormng
News revealed that 72% of Texans support hate crimes
legislation. According to the newspaper, the poll said
that the public supports the inclusion of all groups
currently included in the legislation: 81% for race; 80%
for women; 78% for religious groups; and 76% for Gay
people, see Texas, p. 14
TU Hosts Women + AIDS
Regional Conference
TULSA-The Second Regional Conference onWomen
and AIDS will be held on The University of Tulsa
campus Monday,June 14,intheAllen ChapmanActivity
Center, located at 440 South Gary Avenue.
Theconferenceis a comprebensive, one-dayprogram
to raise awareness, promote discussion and provide
opportunities for new directions in HIV prevention,
care and treatment for women. "We will gather together
in the spirit of concern for our community," says Jauice
Nicklas, Senior Planner of the Commttnity Service
Council and Conference Spokesperson.
According to Nicklas, the conference will benefit
everyone - women living with HIV and AIDS, people
whodeal with women’sissues, educators, policymakers,
youth organizations,healthand social service providers,
family members, volunteers and concern.ed citizens.
"In theArms oftheAngels," a documentary produced
by the National AIDS Fund Americorps Team Tulsa,
will open the conference at 8:30 a.m. with a look at
women and AIDS. Patty Lather, author of "Troubling
the Angels," will give the keynote address at 8:45 a.m.
In addition to a series of workshops, the conference
will feature a panel of HIV positive women who will
share their stories. Judith Billings of the President’s
Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS will give the luncheon
address. Saiadra McDonald, the founder of Outreach,
Inc., will present the closing address on "WhatWe Can
Do to Be a Force for Change."
see Women, p. 11
MJ DIRECTORY/LETTERS P. 2
EDITORIAL p. $
~I~I~. US & WORLD NEWS P. 4
HEALTH NEWS P. 6
~ ENTERTAINMENT P. 8
COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9
DO-IT-YOURSELF-DYKE P. 11
DYKE PSYCHE P. 12
"" GAY STUDIES P. 13
Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations
Gay Businesses Open + Close
Lesbian-Owned Daycare and Gay-Owned
Restaurant Open But Concessions Closes
by Tom Neal
TULSA - Maybe it’s just spring but a couple of new Gay owned
and oriented businesses have, or are about to open this month.
Andone ofTulsa’ s most visible Gay businesses has unexpectedly
dosed.
From Lesbian Baby Boom, Comes Gay Daycare
The origin of GLAD, Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare,
reflects the frustrations of two new moms, Teresa and Joan, 33
and 32 years old, trying to find good daycare for their 4 month old
son, Joseph (Joey) while they worked.
For Teresa, the final thing that convinced her to leave her 70-
80 hour a week managerial position to start a home based
business was a conflict about getting time off when their son was
sick. But for both, there was more.
After their son was bom, they explored many alternatives for
infant care. Some options using relatives or friends just didn’t
work out. Many of the day care operations which they reviewed
just didn’t seem to be very good. And most had inflexible rules
and were very expensive, with high deposits, inflexible contracts
and schedules.
For example, many day care operations require a year round
contract with perhaps only 10 days off allowed. Any more days
off have to be paid for regardless of whether the child is at the
center or not. For these morns, one of whom is a teacher and has
the summer off, it makes no sense to pay for care year-round.
However, if they don’t, they take the risk that no place will be
available in the fall again.
Furthermore, Joan and Teresa also were concerned about
raisxng their son in an enviroment wherehe will not be mistreated
because he has two morns. And they know that they are not the
only Gay parents who have these concerns. At some of the day
care centers they inspected they were asked, "where’s the father"
and were received with not very well disguised hostility. They
say that they’ve sometimes felt they had~o say they were"sisters"
in order to be treated fairly.
So finally, after thoroughly researching state requirements,
theyjust decided tO start their owndaycare in their cozy midtown
bungalow, see Businesses, p. 14
Red Ribbon Gala + SwanAwards
TULSA, Okla. (AP/TFN) - Some members of Tnlsa’s Gay
community say they were pleased Chastity Bono visited this
weekend because the author has helped mainstream Americans
become more tolerant. "Just by her coming to Tulsa, it means a
great deal to us. It helps people to come together," said Nancy
McDonald, who recently was national president of Parents,
Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG).
Bono was the keynote speaker Saturday night, April 17th at the
Red Ribbon Ball, an annual black-tie gala that benefits Tnlsa
CARES, the Center forAIDS Resources, Educationand Support.
The event attracted more than 250 to the Downtown Doubletree.
Bono, the Openly Lesbian daughter ofSonnyandCher, formerly
served as the entertainment media director of the Gay & Lesbian
Alliance’Against Defamation. She was involved in controversy
for suggesting that the television show of Lesbian comedian,
Ellen Degeneres, was "too Gay." Bono, 30, spent part of the day
autographing copies of her book "Family Outing," which details
how she and others revealed their sexual orientation to their
families.
Also, at the Gala, the co-sponsoring organization, the Tulsa
Chapter of PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians &
Gays presented their annual Swan awards. Among those honored
were State Rep. DOn Ross, the Revs. Leslie Penrose and Gary
Blaine, The Tulsa World, represented by editorial board writer
David Averill, and PFLAG board member Tim Gillean.
The award to Gillean was met with consternation by two
former TOHR presidents attending the Gala,’Deb Starnes and
Tom Neal, as PFLAG credited him as ’~he founder" of the
Community Center. Both noted that Gillean helped start the
Center, particularly doing early fundraising but that after he was
voted out as TOHRpresident, he had dropped his member at the
time when the building was found and leased. "No single person
can claim the Center; Kelly Kirby was president when we began,
Tim certainly did a great deal but Deb Statues, Midge Elliott and
I sweated blood to get that building open, walls tomdown and the
place painted. Tim’s done enough other work that PFLAG
doesn’t have to rip anyone off to honor him," said Neal.
PFLAG president and Swan award presenter, Jan Allen, stated
that she was not aware of the history of the Center and that
PFLAG had not intended to slight any of the Center’s organizers.
Pride ’99 Shaping Up:
Picnic, Parade & More
US Rep. Frank to be Grand Marshall of
First Tulsa Parade + Community
Unitarians Host First Gay UU Pastor
TULSA - Tulsa’s Pride ’99
organizers have confirmed that
openly Gay US Congressman,
Barney Frank of Massachusetts
not only will attend this year’s
June 12th event but will serve as
grand marshall of Tulsa’s very
first Lesbian/Gay pride parade.
The parade will begin at 10 am at Tulsa’s Gay
Community Services Center at 38th & Peoria and
will go north on Peoria to 31st Street. From there it
will go west to Riverside Drive and will continue
north to Veterans (Boulder) Park, the site of the
Picnic as it was last year. The principle sponsors for
this year’s event are Bud Light and MCC United.
The picnic will be from noon until 5pm again. Bud
Light will be providing a large tent to provide some
shelter from the sun as wall the sound system.
Local drag diva Kris Kohl is organizing
entertainment. These range from a local band, an
appearance by the Council Oaks Mens Chorale,
various female impersonators and titleholders, and
more. Refreshments as always will be free.
Congressman Frank will also be the guest of
honorat adinner Saturday evening at the Greenwood
Cultural Center at 322 No. Greenwood near the
OSU-Tnlsa campus. Thedinner will be hosted
joindy byTOHR/Tulsa’s Gay Community Services
Center and by the Cimarron Alliance, Oklahoma’s
Gay and Lesbian political action committee.
Cocktails begin at 7pm and dinner will be at 8.
Dinner and a cash bar cocktail pre-party will be
$50/person anddinner and a complimentary cocktail
reception with Congressman Frank will be $125/
person, see Frank, p. 3
"One Fool" Play Coming
To Eureka Springs, AR
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. - As part of the May
Festival of the Arts, OneFool, a one-woman, oneactplay
will bepresentedTuesday andWednesday,
May25-26, 8 p.m. at Center Stage (on Spring Street
m the downtown Historic Distric0. The play,
featuring Orlando improv-actress, Catherine
Goodison, was written by Terry Baum and will be
directed by Lewis Routh. ’One Fool is a riotously
funny play about a woman’s search for the ’one
love’ withwhomshe canlive forever," says director
Routh. ’‘This wild odyssey takes her across the
world and into your heart."
Catherine Goodison began her acting career in
1994 under the direction ofLewis Routhin the play
BarDykes, where she played the role ofabig butch.
She and Routh have worked together on several
projects since that time, including the 1994showing
ofOneFool in Orlando. Goodison, whosecomedic
talenthas foundits way tomany ofFlorida’s stages,
including the famed Fringe Festival, has been a
featured performer with Act Out Theatre and the
Improvabilities comedy troupe. As part of the
troupe, her most memorable roles include Lucy in
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, and the roles
of the Nanny and the school teacher in Baby With
The Bath Water, both plays directed by Routh.
Playwright Terry Bantu is the founder of Lilith,
the San Francisco Women’s Theater, and was its
artistic director from 1975 to 1980. During that
time, sheco-wroteand/ordirectedeveryproduction.
Moonlighting, which she directed and co-wrote,
toured Europe to great acclaim in 1979. Baum
wrote Dos Lesbos with Carolyn Myers, which ran
for two years in San Francisco and was nominated
for several awards. She has created two other onewoman
shows, Ego Trip and Immediate Family,
both ofwhich were publishedinPlaces, Please, the
first anthology of Lesbian plays.
see Play, p. 14
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*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston
Burger Sisters Restaurant, 1545 S. Sheridan
*Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria
*Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E 31st
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
*TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial
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*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd - 584:1308
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 747-1508
*Affinity News, 8120 E. 21 610-8510
*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
*Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 5231 E. 41 665-4580
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
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556
*Elite Books& Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon .~,. 584-0337, 712-9379
*Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
Four Star Import Automotive, 9906 E. 55th P1. 610-0880
Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 628-3709
Gay & Lesbian Affordable Daycare 808-8026
*Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
I.eaune M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
*International Tours 341-6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th 712-2750
*Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018
David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236
*Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 747-5466
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E 31 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672
Puppy Pause II, 1060 S. Mingo 838-7626
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E 15 583-1090
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 743-4297
Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 747-5932
Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617
Ted Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
Paul Tay, Car Salesman 260-7829
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017
*Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007
*TulSa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558
*Venus Salon, 1247 S. Harvard 835-5563
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counsding 743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767
Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & ,Universities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 579-9593
*All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363
Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-7314
Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815
*B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of TulSa, 5th PI. & Florence
*ChurchoftheRestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314
*Community ofHopeUnited Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
*Council Oak Men’s Chorale 585-COMC (2662)
*Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712-1511
*Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457
Dignity/integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics &
Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475 355-3140
*Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777
*Free SpiritWomen’s Center, call for location &info: 587-4669
: 918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159
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Publisher + Editor:
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¯ Writers + contributors:
¯ James Christjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauehaud
¯ Barry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom
Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Adam West
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Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
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¯ PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 749-4901
: *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 587-7674
: *The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 743-4297
¯ Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152
*R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195
". Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 665-5174
¯ *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 584-2325
¯ O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults
¯ O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth
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¯ St. Dtmstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 492-7140
¯ *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 582-3088
: *Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder 583-7171 ¯
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NGLTF Leader :Resigns
From Millennium March
It is with great regret that I resign as a
member of the Board of Directors of the
Millennium March on Washington,
effective immediately.
The reasons for my resignation stem
from three basic issues, which have¯
continued to grow over time. First, I have
significant political disagreements with
the March call and planning, which ha~’e
not been addressed. Secondly, I have
grown increasingly skeptical of the value
of this event for the Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT)
movement at this time. And finally, I
cannot endorse certain decisions made by
theBoard. Although I have great trust and
affection for each of you individually, it
does not assuage my concerns and
questions. I now believe I will be most
helpful to thecommunityfrom outside the
Board.
Since the initial call for the March,
grassroots activists have consistently
challenged us as national leaders. Their
concerns address the credibility and
legitimacy of the March and they have
demandedanopening of the Marchprocess
for greater discussion. Thequestions have
been on whether to march, what agenda to
march for, and how best to use the
tremendous platform and visibility that
such marches provide.
Despitemypolitical disagreements with
the call and process, I agreed to serve on
the March Board, believing my
participation could change the course of
the process. I also felt that as a
representative of the oldest national
political organization, and one of the few
explicitly progressive national GLBT
groups,myvoice was needed in theMarch
planning process. I stated at the time that
I wouldremain onthe Board as long as my.
presence represented the best interests of
Task Force members, our constituents,
and the movement as a whole.
Since I joined the Board, my
participation has been challenged by
members and activists with whom we
have deep andlongstanding relationships.
Individuals from all perspectives have
intensively engaged me, the Task Force
staff, and our Board. I took their concerns
to heart and carried them in my work on
the March Board. During my tenure, I
voted in the minority on key resolutions
on personnel issues, the naming of the
March, andthebroadening of theplanning
effort to allow more people a seat at the
table. I helped lead the successful effort to
ensure that funds raised by the March
would go to statewide organizations,
people of color organizations and other
constituents underrepresented in our
movement. However, the Board has
¯ largely ignored the fundamental issues
that lead me into become involved: why
we should march, the agenda, and the
involvement of the entire GLBT
commnnity. I cannot serve onaBoard that
will not open itself to greater input and
see Letters, p. 3
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Talking with people inthe community, I was relieved to
learn that I was hardly the only one who was disappointed
with the celebrated Chastity Bono. Ms. Bono was "the
keynote speaker" at the recent Red Ribbon Gala benefiting
Tulsa CARES, our local co-ordinating organization for
HIV/AIDS services. The dinner was nice enough and the
attendance was about double that of last year’s inaugural
event. The organizers dearly deserve praise for their efforts.
But Ms. Bono was, to be kind, unimpressive, both as a
speaker and at her book signing at Tnlsa’s Gay Community
Services Center. To a number of observers at the Center, it
appeared that Ms. Bono had little interest in being there.
At the dinner, shefredy admitted that she’dmadenoeffort
to prepare any.remarks -and that degree of preparation
showed. Two things saved her performance. First, it was
mercifully short, and second, she did have a good, if
scatological, anecdote aboutconfronting the Rev. FredPhelps
of "godhatesfags" infamy in Topeka at a booksigning.
Her appearance may indeed have helped the event.
Attendance at the Red Ribbon Gala was about double but
then that might have happened just from being the second
year for the event. Her appearance does raise questions,
though, about America’s preocuppation with celebrity and
notoriety. AftermeetingMs. Bono, it’ s hard not to regard her
as a vcryho-hum ’~vonderbread dyke" (as one ofmy Lesbian
friends put it) who but for the accident of her birth would
hardly be getting a second hearing,!et alone a book contract.
Ms. Bono’s elevation seems to exemplify the worstAm~rican
tendency to Value notoriety over any shred of content.
But what really raises some concern about her appearance
was learning that despite her having reduced her appearance
feeby one-half, it still cost almost $10,000 for her irresistible
charms. Oursou~,,ce indicates thatMs. Bononormally charges
$15,000 for her appearances" but that du~ to her friendship
with the daughter of PFLAG’s Nancy McDonald, Bono
reduced it to only $7,500, plus expenses, of course.
This is what many wouM call a damnfine racket.
One wouldhope that the organizers came up with aspecial
donor to take on these expenses andno harm was-done to the
genuine financial needs of Tulsa CARES. And no doubt
organizers will argue that it wonld not have been nearly as
successful without her appearance.
But all I can think of is how much medicine or food that
$10,000 might have bought for persons living with AIDS -
Hello, the peop!e, this is supposed to be all about?
Maybe that $10k s money that would not have come into
this effort except for supporting Ms. Bono in the fashion to
which she’s become accustomed. But then, maybe, just
maybe, it could have been given to care-giving, and surely,
there are speakers, ones who actually prepare their remarks
andwhohave something worth saying, who’d speakfor, say,
only two or three thousand. Makes you wonder, don’t it?
- Tom Ne.al, editor &publisher
Several special ’levels. of participation in the event are
available with,the most cxdflsiCe being the Platinum table
($2500), whichincludes six seats at a table with Congressman
Frank. There will be only one Platinum table. Also Offered
is the Gold level, a table with 8 seats and an invitation to the
cocktail party with the Congressman ($1500), a SilVer level
($250) which is two seats and cocktails, and a Bronze level
($500), a table for 8 and the .cash bar cocktail party. For
tickets or for more information, call 743-4297.
Also, Sunday morning Congressman Frank will probably
be attending an interfaith prayer breakfast. Details for that
event will be announced soon.
Also in honor of Lesbian and Gay Pride, Community
Unitarian Universalist Cohgtegation (cuuc) has invited
the:Rev. DougStrong.of Community UU Church ~h ~iano~
T~xas to be guest minister attheir Sunday, May 16th, 1 lain
service. After the service, all are invited to’join CUUC and
Community of Hope ~for a potluck picnic cookout.~ The
service and picnic .will be at Community of Hope Church,
2545 So..Yale where CUUC meets regularly. Guests are
encouraged to bring both lawn chairs and food to share or t6
cook.
TheRev. Strong is a 6th generationUnitaftan-Universalist
and an openl~ Gay. man who has served congregations in
Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, California, Wisconsin and
Arizona. Mr. Strong was the first openly Gay man to be
called to serve as a pastorAn the history of the Unitarian-
Universalism f~iith. Thiswas in 1980 inAugusta, Maine.-
by Tom Neal
Editor & Publisher
The Tulsa WorMreally is gettmg better. Whileit’s not
of the quality of TheDallas Morning News or other such
papers,itis shedding someofits moreparochial qualities.
Ofcourse, since the state’s only other major daily is The
Oklahoman, now officially recognized as
the worst paper an the United States as
¯¯ Oklahomans have long known, it’s never
been hard for The World to look better.
¯
More investigative journalism is being
¯ allowed at The World. So instead of just
¯ supporting the status quo, an elected ¯
official like Dist. 4 City Councilor Anna
¯
Falling is being held accountable for her
¯ liberal spending of public dollars on
¯ "working" vacations or for possible
" conflicts of interest she may have had
¯ when her spouse was applying for public
¯ monies which theCouncil would have to
¯ approve.
¯ This last month, The Wormalso printed
¯ a week series of in,depth stories about
¯ Tnlsa’s Latino communities. This series
is similar to ones doneaboutTulsa s Black
¯ communities. All this is very well and
¯ good. Tulsa’s "establishment," our
¯ wealthy, our influential have long taken
¯
advantage of Tulsa’s minority com-
" munities without sharing the benefits,
; without sharing the decision-making
¯ process,-most often not acknowledging
¯
even the existence of our communities.
¯ The fact that The WorM, the ultimate
¯ establishment mou~piece of Tiflsa, the
: country club paper par excellence, is now
¯ willing to acknowledge the existence of
Latino, Black, Indian and Asian
commlmil~es is.progress.
But the real proof of The World’s
commitmenttojournalistic fundamentals,
i.e. covering the community as it is. rather
advertise my gift shop, tomfoolery! which now has
The Tulsa World
really is Settln$
better. While it’s not
of the quality of
The Dallas
Morrdn¢ News
or other such
papers, it is sheddln$
some of its more
paroehlaJ qualities.
Of course, slnee the
state’s only other
major daily is
Tl~e Oldal~oman,
now offleially
reeoSnlzed as the
worst paper in the
United States as
Oklahomans have
lon$ known,
it’s never been hard
for
The World
to look better.
than as its ownership wants to present it, will come
when The World does a similar piece on Tulsa’s Gay,
Lesbian, Bi and Transgendered’communities.
¯ Ironically, more than five years ago, Worldreporters
¯ were set to do such a series. I discussed aspects of the
¯ proposalwithTulsaWorldreporters,JanetPearsonand
¯ David Fallis. The proposal was killed by-then executive
¯ editor, Bob Haring. And while I believe Joe Worley, ¯
current executive editor, is fundamentally a fair person,
¯
in general, and in particular towards.Gay people, it
¯ appears that he is constrained by the prejudices of the
¯ paper’s ownership.
¯ The Tulsa World’s owners and top business
¯ management are responsible for the newspaper’s many
¯
year’ s oldandquite official anti-Gay advertisingpolicies.
: I first encountered these policies in the middle 80’s
when a Lesbian businesswoman tried to advertise her
Gay oriented book and gift shop. I later encountered the
exact same policy almost 10 years laterwhen I tried to
: scrutiny from the communities we claim to represent.
¯ ° Thesecondreasonformyresiguationisthatlcontinue
: to doubt the value of this March at this time. I honor the
¯ valueofour previous nafi6nal Marches andacknowledge
them as having been political turning points in the lives
of many current leaders and activists. However, the
effectiveness of sflCh dn enormous commiimeiit ofiJme
and resources at a moment when more and more energy
is demanded of the GLBT movement at the state and
local level is questionable. Nothing so dramatically
reinforced this as the success of Equality Begins at
Home.
’Held one month ago and sponsored by the Federation
of LGBT Statewide Political Organizations and the
Task Force, EBAH was supported by national and local
groups, including the March Board. It demonstrated the
incrediblepowerofinveslinginstate and localmovement
building. It also exemplified the real possibilities for
political advancement of GLBT equality in eyery state~
Morefavorable bills wereintroducedin state legislatures,
transmuted into The Pride Store at Tulsa’s Gay
Community Center.
The World’s anti-Gay policy stung PFLAG, Parents,
Families andFriends ofLesbians andGays, morerecently
when the orgamzation placed an advertisement
supporting fair treatment for Lesbians and
Gays but was not allowed to spell out their
full legal name because, of course, it
includes the forbidden word: "gay".
In contrast, The Worm accepted an
advertisement from West Tulsa churches
attacking Gay people but The ~VorM
allowed the churches to use the word
"gay"! It’s bad enough that they have the
bigoted policy but worse that they enforce
it selectively.
And it only adds injury to insult that The
World, counter to the pohcies of the best
media corporations in the country, has no
non-discrimination policy that includes
"sexual orientation" to protect the Lesbian
and Gay reporters and staff. Nor has the
corporation seen fit to provide equal pay
for equal work by providing benefits for
the families of Lesbian and Gay workers.
In a day when health care is so expensive
and benefits become a significant part of
the "total employment package", this is no
little issue.
But maybe it shouldn’t be too surprising
that The Worm doesn’t recognize the
families of their Gay workers since part-0f
TheWorld’s anti-Gay policy also includes
arefusal to print engagement, anniversary
or tmion announcements for Gay and
Lesbian couples. Several years ago, v~fien
I asked Joe Worley about thi~ discriminatory
policy, he responded by asking
if all I had to do each day was to dreamup
hard questions for The Tulsa World. The
answer to thatis "no"but the issue remains.
Would The WorMban such ads frominterracial couples?
Those relationships were once not recognized as legal,
in many states.
All this might not be that surprising for a corporation
which has barely integrated its newsroom racially, and
which was cited for (and settled) an EEOC (Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission) complaint for
racist hiring practices (this according to their own
pages). It still doesn’t make it right.
So while we are making progress with The World,
they really have a still some way to go. And as daily
newspapers struggle to retain their relevancy in an
increasingly media-diverse culture, organizations like
The World will have to lose their country-club
narrowness, with its largely useless and clearly
pretentious regular columns devoted to who attended
what soiree, and their outdated view of how-minority
Tulsans, Gay as well as racial and religious groups, are
to be treated, and look at our world as it really is.
more allies were reached and involved, more media
¯
coverage was generated in every state on GLBT issues
than had ever been achieved at the state level. Because
¯ . of its overwhelming success, the campaign is likely to
¯ be repeated in years to come, perhaps even annually.
"" The National Gay and Lesbiafi Task Fbrce has
¯ committedthevastmajorityofitsresources to deepening
¯ and growing political power in every state. The time I
have spent on the March Boardhas taken awayfrommy
¯ °iniportani work ~t( ~he state and i~tl level. I need to
¯ concentrate my energies on. NGLTF’s efforts to build
this state-by-state movement and on advocating for our
¯ grassroots constituents at the national level This is the
¯ heart and soul Of our work and it requires us to have the
¯ courage of our convictions. ¯
Finally as a Board member, I have had personal
¯
financial responsibility and liability for the non-profit
¯ corporation producing the March. I am concerned that
¯ theMarch is notmoving forward in a strategicmanner. ¯
I am also concerned that neither the Boardmembers nor
] our GLBT community have full access to information
] about March management and finances.
¯ see Letters, p. 10
Arkansans Challenge:
Gay Foster Care Ban l
LITFLE ROCK (AP) - Six people are suing the
state, seeking to overturn a state policy that bans ,
Gays from serving as foster parents. TheArkansas :
Child Welfare Agency Review Board approved ¯
the banlast month. It also prevents heterosexuals
from serving as foster parents, if a homosexual
lives in their home. "This prohibition imposes a
significantburden on (the plaintiffs’).., intimate,
highly personal relationships with their partners,
as they will not be allowed to serve as foster
parents unless,they terminate those intimate
relationships," says the lawsuitfiled in Pulaski
County Chancery Court:
Department .of Human Services spokesman
Joe Quinn said the state expected the issue to go
to court. "I don’t think there was ever much
doubt," he said. The state averages 2,600 foster
children daily in about 700 homes, Quinn said.
He said the state doesn’t keep track of how many
foster parents are homosexuals.
Board memberWandaGooden said before the
ban was approved that it was "my strong
conviction that children thrive best in two-parent
homes where there is a father and mother." Ms.
Gooden said thenew rulewonld not significantly
reduce thenumberoffoster families in Arkansas.
According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs are two
Eureka Springs men who adopted children ages
6 and 2 and want to be foster parents; two Little
Rock men who want to serve as foster parents; a
Fayetteville woman who wants,,to be a foster
parent and a Fayetteville man who has a
homosexual son living at home.
Fewer But More
Vicious Attacks
BOSTON (AP) - The number of hate cnmes
against Gays in Massachusetts dropped last year,
but the attacks thatdidhappenweremore vicious,
according to state figures. There was a36% drop
in the number of hate crimes against Gays and
Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders reported
to policeandother organizations, said theFenway
Community Health Center in Boston. But there
was a 13%increase in attacks that caused serious
injury, and a 5% increase in attacks with a
weapon.
Nationally, the number of hate crimes against
Gays was down 4%last year from 1997, but
cases of violence increased 12%. The National
Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs said 33
Gay men and women were, killed in hatemotivated
attacks last year, twice the number in
1997. The coalition said two of those killed were
in Boston, but police said they were not certain
those killings were hate crimes.
Friends said a27-year-oldGay man committed
suicide last October, about one year after two
men beat him in Boston’s South End and carved
an "F" on his shoulder with a knife. "Let’S not be
fooled by the numbers" showing a decrease in
hate crimes, said Attorney GEneral Thomas
Reilly. "I see a very frightening increase in
violence.’" ¯
David Shannon of the Fenway center’s
Violence Recovery Program said that since the
killing in October of a Gay college student in
Laramie,Wyo., "therehas been ahigher visibility
of hate crimes against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals
and Transgenders." "There has also been
increased targeting and violence," he said.
Dentist Refuses to
Treat Lesbian
FRANKLIN, N.H. (AP) - Tricia Thompson had
been going to the same dentist for two years. Dr.
Jay Roper had done her fillings and cleanings
and repatred cracked teeth. He s always bee
nice," she said. Or he was until two weeks ago,
when Thompson came in for a root canal and
Roperquestionedherabouthersexual orientation.
After learning she was a Lesbian, he refused to
treat her and told her to leave his office, she told
the Concord Monitor.
Katharine Daley, executive director of the
state Human Rights Commission, said for a
dentist to refuse to treat someone because,of their
sexual orientauon is illega! in New Hampshire.
Thompson said she may file a civil rights
complaint against Roper. ~f the commission finds
he i!legally discriminated against her, he could
be fined up to $10,000 and ordered to pay
compensatory damages.
Thompson said when she first signed up as
Roper’s patient, she put a former partner’s name
on the"spouse" lineofher registrationform. The
name was clearly a woman’s. About a month
ago, when Thompson went "ln with a bad
toothache, she was asked to fill out a new card,
~he said. She put down the name of her new
partner; they had performed a commitment
ceremony in February. Roper then told her she
needed a root canal, put in a temporary filling and
told her to returnMarch 23. By the time she came
back, accompaniedby her partner, the temporary
filling had come out and her tooth was in pain.
Before taking herinto his office, Roper heldup
the registration card she’d filled out and told her
he had questions about it, she said. Thompson
and her partner said Roper asked whether
Thompson’s "spouse" was the woman with her.
She said yes. He asked whether she had been
married to her previous partner, then divorced
and remarried. When she said yes, he asked if she
had a marriage license.
She said she asked him, "What business is it of
yours?" He shot. back, "Do you have AIDS or
something?" she said. She said she didn’t, but
she also told him she did not like his questions.
Roper shook his head, told her, "I.don’t believe
in it," and insisted he had the right to refuse
anyone treatment, she said. Roper then put her
file, her registration card and chart on the counter
and told her to take it and leave the office.
Thompson said she reminded him she had
been his patient for years. But he said he hadn’t
previously realized thatherpartner was awoman,
she said. "Basically, he kicked me out of his
office and said have a nice life," Thompson said.
’He didn’t even ask me how my tooth was."
Roper confirmed that he denied Thompson
treatment: ’qZor my own personal reasons, yes,’’
he told the Monitor. ’~ecause ofmyownpersonal
philosophy, yes." Asked what his philosophy
was, Roper replied, "I’hat stays in the office."
Asked ifhe routinely informed patients about his
philosophy, he responded, "What philosophy?"
Roper said he told Thompson she could file a
complaint with the state dental board if she was
unhaplSy withhis decision. TheAmerican Dental
Association’s "Principles of Ethics," which
governNew Hampshire dentists, say they cannot
refuse to treat patients on the basis of race, creed,
color, sex or national origin. It does not mention
sexual preference, but does say, ’‘The dentist’s
primary obligations include dealing wi~ people
justly and delivering dental care without
prejudice." A spokesman at ADA headquarters
said the issue of withholding treatment because
ofa patient’s sexual preference had ne~er come "
up before.
However, New Hampshire law is dear, Daley
-" said. In New Hampshire, health providers are
: considered a "public accomodation;" and equal
¯. access to public accomodations for Gays and
¯ Lesbians is protected by state law, she said.
¯ Gay Priest Being
:: Considered As Bishop
¯ WEARE, N.H.(AP) - The Rev. Canon Gene
". Robinson again is a finalist for bishop and if he
~ becomes the spiritual leader of the Diocese of
¯ Rochester, N.Y., he will be the first openly Gay
: bishop in the 2.5 million-member Episcopal
: Church of America~
¯ Robinson oneoffive nominees from a field of
¯ 86 applicants for the bishopric, was cited by the
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search committee for his spirituality and outspokenness.
The committee said his sexual orientation is irrelevant.
"I’m hoping it doesn’t become a big issue," said Janet
Farnsworth, president of the Diocese of Rochester’s
Standing Committee. "We wanted a person who would
lead us spiritually and a person who was willing to speak
out on social issues. We wanted someone who would be
apastorto all our clergy and theirfamilies andhe’ s known
for his work in clergy wellness," she told The Concord
Monitor.
Robinson, assistant to Bishop Douglas Theuner of the
Diocese of New Hampshire and a priest for 25 years,
finished third last year in his bid to become bishop of the
Diocese of Newark, N.J. "As honored as I felt to be
nominated in Newark, I’m overwhelmed at the privilege
of being nominated in a diocese like Rochester and the
courage they have shown in nominating me," he said.
"The way I can help Gay and Lesbian people the most is
by being a good bishop, not a Gay bishop," he said.
Buthis sexuality will be alightningrodfor some. Atthe
international level, the church has taken a strong stand
against homosexuality. A majority of Anglican bishops
at the Lambeth Conference of Bishops in England last
year declared homosexuality contrary to scripture. While
that group has no authority over the Episcopal Church -
the Anglican communion in the United States, it has
pressured American bishops to conform.
Thatpressure alsocomesfromwithin. Theconservative
Episcopalians United takeissue with Robinson, believing
homosexuality sinful. The group worries his dection
could cause rifts in the church. ’’We expect a higher
standard of our leaders than our members," said its board
chairman, the Rev. Sandy Greene of Christ Church in
Denver, Colo., who supports ministries that encourage
peopl9 to renounce their homosexuality.
Robinson was married with two children when he
acknowledged he was Gayin 1986. Henow lives with his
partner, Mark Andrew. In early June, he and2Madrew will
meet with voting delegates throughout the diocese. On
June 19, the diocese’s clergy and three lay people from
each of the 54 congregations will vote on a candidate,
who needs a simple majority from both groups to win.
Should Robinson be elected, he faces an even bigger
hurdle. To be ordained bishop, he must be "consented to"
by a simple majority of the nation’s Episcopal bishops as
wall as standing committees, comprised of laity and
clergy. The church went through a similar controversy in
1994 when it elected the first female bishop, Barbara
Harris of the Diocese of Massachusetts. Yet it hasn’t
rejected a bishop electedby adiocese since thelate 1800s.
James DeKovan, rejected twice, now is a church saint.
New Haven Police
Targeting Gays
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Police here admit they are
targeting bJacks, Hispanics, women, Gays and Lesbians
- not as suspects, but as candidates to join the force. At a
time when images of police brutality have been seared
into the American psyche, the New Haven Police
Department is recruiting the very people who have often
been seen as their victims. The department began its
campaignrecently, printing advertisements in alternative
publications and distributing fliers to inner city
organizations, churches, and a commumty center for
Gays and Lesbians. The fliers say, "I want you" in bold
letters and feature photographs of minority and women
officers. ’’We wantpopulations thathave beentraditionally
underserved by police and underrepresented in police
departments," said Kay D. Codish, director of training
and education.
Similar recnfitment drives have had mixed results in
San Francisco, Boston and elsewhere, said Penny
Harrington, director of the National Center forWomen&
Policing in Los Angeles and former chief of the Portland,
Ore., police department. "A lot of women and minorities
do not see policing as a place for them. In the media, on
television, they’re frequently shown in subsidiary roles,"
Harrington said. "If an agency is serious, they have to go
out and target."
Hubert Williams, director of the Police Foundation, a
Washington, D.C.-based research organization, said
mistrust of police in some minority communities has
reached crisis proportions because of "racial profiling,"
allegations that police make traffic stops and detain
people based on race. "In order for the police officers to
dotheirjob, they musthavepublic support," saidWilliams,
f6rmer director of police in. Newark, N.J. "You have
" populations that see the police in hostile ways, that
they’re not there to protect and to serve, but to control and
¯ oppress."
." James Mclver of the National Orgamzation of Black
Law Enforcement Executives in Alexandria. Va., said
¯¯ studies show thatapolice force that reflects the community
it serves demographically is less likely to have accusations
¯ of police brutality lodged against it. He pointed to two
¯ recent cases inNew York City. Four police officers have ¯
¯ been charged in the fatal shooting ofAmadou Diallo, an unarmed West African, and four other city officers are
¯ charged with sodomizing a Haitian suspect.
¯ According to the U.S. Justice Department Bureau of ¯
Statistics, there are about664,000 full-timepolice officers
¯ in the country. At the municipal level, the latest figures
: available show that roughly 11% are black, 6% are
¯ Hispanic, and about 9% are women. The federal
¯" government does not keep track of officers’ sexual
"orientation. New Haven’s 447-member department
¯ already is diverse compared to national statistics, with
¯ 39% being minorities and 16% female. ¯
In a newspaper editorial earlier this month, Police
¯ ChiefMelvinWearingsaid thereis noquotaandminorities
¯ don’t get extra points on their applications just for being ¯
who they are. "Our goal is simply to increase the number
¯
of applicants from those groups that, in the past, have not
¯ presented themselves for consideration in substantial
¯ numbers," he said.
¯ However, police union officials have questioned the recruitment effort and some have said they fear white
¯ male candidates will feel unwelcome to apply for the 40
¯ job openings. "Ifyoustartencouraging one certaingroup, ¯
others might feel slighted. We would like to see an open
¯ recnfitment. The key is that tlmy be qualified,’7 said Frank
¯ Lombardi, vice president of the local union. Most, if not
¯ all, police departments say they are "’equal opportunity
¯ employers,"butCodishbelieves lawenforcement agencies must go further by advertising in unlikely places such as
women’s health clinics and day care centers.
Catholics Attack Boston
Partners Benefits
BOSTON (AP) - City paramedic Kay Schmidt works
¯ hardand thinks she deserves healthinsurance benefits for
¯ her familyjust like any other city worker. Butthe Catholic
Action League of Massachusetts says its members don’t
¯ want the city to subsidize Lesbian relationships like ¯ Schmidt’s. The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments
¯ in the Catholic Action League’s challenge to the city’s
¯ domestic parmer policy. The court’s ruling could affect
¯ Boston and other communities that offer benefits for
¯ domestic partners. Springfield, Northampton, Brookline
¯ and Cambridge also provide domestic partner benefits.
¯ Thequestionbefore the state’ s highest courtwaswhether
Boston had the authority to extendhealth benefits to those
¯ not stipulated by state law. "Providing these health
¯" insurance benefits complements the state law, it certainly
¯ doesn’t defeat its purposes," said Jennifer Levi, of the
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, who argued
¯ before the court on behalf of Schmidt.
¯ Vincent McCarthy, representing the Catholic Action
¯ League of Massachusetts, said the city needed to get
permissionfromthe Legislature, but failed last year when
¯ Gov. Patti Cellucci vetoed the measure. Mayor Thomas
." Menino then signedanexecutive orderputting themeasure
¯ into effect. ’"What they’re trying to do now is an end run
¯
around the Legislature," McCarthy told the court.
¯ McCarthy, counsel for the American Center for Law
¯ and Justice, whichdescribes itsdf as a.nonprofit pro-
" family organization, said the city’s executive order was
¯ legally and morally wrong. "It encourages heterosexual
: and homosexuals to form what, in essence, are common
¯ law relationships which are illegal in Massachusetts, ¯
without the responsibilities of marriage, and really
¯ discourages people from getting married as well,"
¯ McCarthy said. The SJC took the arguments under
¯ advisement.
." Boston defines domestic partners as two people, of at
¯ least 18 years of age, who are not married, but who share
¯ living expenses so that one assumes responsibility for the ¯
¯ welfare of the other. It is not limited to Gay couples.
Schmidt, speaking outside the courthouse with her
¯ partner Diane Pullen and their 8-month-old daughter,
¯ said she was not looking for special privileges as a
: Lesbian, but the benefits her co-workers enjoy. She said
¯ they decided Pullen would stay home with the baby and
¯
their 7-year-old child. They said it was perfect timing
: when the city began offering health benefits for domestic
¯ partners in November. Were they to lose that benefit, the
¯
two women said Pullen would likely have to return to
¯ work and the two would pay for day care for the baby.
Responding to those critical of their"lifestyle," Schmidt
¯
said, "We are two parents rinsing two children. I work,
: we’re a family. There’s no way anybody can deny we’re
a family. And why shouldn’t we have affordable health
insurance like any other family, like your family?"
¯ Federal Hate Crimes Bill Uncertain
¯ WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation that would broaden
¯ the federal hate crimes law by including offenses based
¯ on sexual orientation faces an uncertain future despite ¯
President Clinton’s call forlawmakers to pass it this year.
: A similar bill, which Clinton also pushed, died in the last
¯ Congress. Neither the House nor the Senate or any of the
¯ appropriatecommittees voted onit. TheWhite Houseand
¯ other supporters hope public outrage over recent well-
" publicized hate crimes will help advance the measure tbis
¯ time around.
: But opposition, however, appears so strong that a lead
¯ sponsor, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., doubts whether
" Congress will approveit. "Wehave to face the reality that
¯ it’ s a very tough sell," Specter, a former local prosecutor,
¯ said in a recent interview. "After a while you can develop
¯ a majority (of votes)but I think we’re a long way from it."
¯ Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are expected later
this month.
At a recent White House ceremony, Clinton said
¯ Congress should pass the bill this year and "send a
: message to ourselves and to the world that we are going
into 21st century determined to preach and to practice
what is right."
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act would add disability,
gender and sexual orientation to federal anti-bias laws
andmakeit easierfor the Justice Department to inveslagate
¯
and prosecute such offenses. Current law prohibits crimes
¯ based on race, color, religion or national origin. Eight
¯ state have no hate crimes laws. Laws in 21 states cover ¯
sexual orientation, 22 state laws include gender and 21
¯ cover disability.
¯ Richard Socarides, Clinton’s civil rights adviser, said
¯ the White House was more optamistic this time because ¯
of public sentiment over the killings and the upcoming
¯ Senate hearings ,The signs are better than ever before,"
¯ he said.
¯ David Smith, spokesman for the Human Rights
Campaign, a Gay and Lesbian political advocacy group,
¯ cited a Gallup poll, conducted in mid-Febrnary, that
¯ found that 70% of the public favors having a hate crimes
: law in their state. ’’We would be very happy for there to
¯
be no need for this legislation," he said.
¯ Some opponents believe federal Intervention is
¯ unnecessary, because states already are prosecuting ¯
¯ allegations of hate crimes, and discriminatory. Social
conservatives,meanwhile, view thebill as creating speci~d
¯ protections for Gays. "By including hate crimes
: enhancement for some groups, the message is that the
¯ government cares more about those victims than other
¯ people," said Robert H. Knight, senior director for cultural
¯ studies at the conservative Family Research council.
¯ Among the recent hate-crime cases:
- In Texas, white supremacist John William King was
: sentenced to death in February for dragging James Byrd
; Jr., who was black, to his death behind a pickup truck in
;
June 1998. Two other men await trial in the slaying.
¯ - In Wyoming, Russell Henderson, one of two young
¯ men charged in the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a
¯ Gay college student, pleaded guilty Monday to murder
.. andwas se~itencedtotwoconsecudvelifetermsinprison.
¯ - In Alabama, two menface murder charges in the Feb.
¯ 19 killing of Billy Jack Gaither, who was Gay. Police say
¯ he was beaten with an ax handle and burned to death
because he allegedly made a pass at one of the men.
Coburn Calls For "¯ bMealiceGveusffieh,ew, htoohoa, disdecdiedaedd.toSboecowmheena
HIV ProgramAudits "- "medi missiona ,"touredthedis°ase- infested areas of western Kenya 12 years
OKLAHOMA C1TY (AP) - Questions " ago, sheunderstoodhow muchits residents
about spending pmctices and other aspects " were suffering. 1,,was appalled at what,
of federal AIDS/HIV programs have . they didn’t have, said the 75-year-old
prompted U.S. Rep. TomCobumand two plastic surgeonfromNew City,New York.
Republican colleagues to request an audit ¯ She returned home and founded the
of those programs. " Society for Hospital and Resources
Coburn, a practicing physician from Exchange to improve health care for
Oklahoma, House Majority Leader Dick
Armey of Texas and Commerce
Committee Chairman Tom Bliley of "
Virgima sent a letter requesting the audit "
to the General Accounting Office on ¯
Tuesday. They question spending ¯
practices and other aspects of the
programs.
"X2ongress has a moral obligation to
those suffering with AIDS/HIV to ensure
thatthenearly$9bilfion directed to federal
AIDS programs is s,p,ent for purpos.~ for
this it is intended, Coburn said m a
prepared statement. "Over the past five
years I have encountered too many
instances where federal AIDS/HIV funds
have been misused."
In addition to requesting any evidence
on misuse Of federal AIDS funds, the
letter requests a report on whether
disparities existinAIDS funding regarding
race or gender, what criteria are used to
determineAIDS Drug AssistancePro.gra~.
distributions and whether tkose criteria
favor any particular region, and
information regarding compliance with
federal laws within the programs..
Other requests madein theletterinclude
information on how much money fromfederal
AIDS programs is used to pay for
overhead and other non-care related
activities rather than on direct treatment
of patients.
Black Men 7x More " passioninitandputssomuchenergyint°
it, that probably impressed me more than
Likely For AIDS " anything," Violante said.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Public " Violanteesdmatedhehadtrainedabout
health officials are sounding an alarm, for
Alabamablack males,whoare seventtmes
more likely than white males (o contract
the virus that causes AIDS. The,
Department of Public Health, which held
a news conference last month to discuss
the problem, said the spread of the disease
has reachedcrisis proportions amongblack
men.
The dan,g,er .lies in the f.ac,t that. m~any
blacksdon tknow they areimected, they
might believe the disease is still one of
homosexual white males, said Jane
Cheeks, AIDS director at the state Health
Department. A former public health
worker in Jefferson County, Ms. Cheeks
recalled working with the first people i,n
Birminghamto be affectedby HIV, which
causes AIDS. Most were homosexual
white males.
Thediseaseis now strikingmoreheax[ily
among blac.k.la.e.te.lu.~ezx-uals ¯ "We’re seeing
this as aleading causeofdeathfor African-
American males ages 25 to 44, and that’ s
got to stop," she said. She said the state
has spen{ $1.6 million On HIV/AIDS
education programs since 1993, but more
must be done. "It’s not working," she
said. "Weneed to join commumty efforts
to address this at a local level."
HIV Fight in Kenya
KISUMU, Kenya (AP) - Dr. Martha
,’Bobby"MacGuffiehas knownpain.Two
of her sons died of the AIDS they
contractedfromblood transfusions. Their
older brother, crushed by the deaths,
disappeared into a haze of drugs. She
¯ westemKenyaby sta_,aing clinics, donating
medical equipment and educating
residents how to avoid disease. Kenya’s
government provides little medical care
for many rural districts, leaving private
groups like SHAREto care,f0r the _ps~o.pl,e.
Inrecognition ofSHARE s work, Lion s
¯ Club International named MacGnffie its
1998 Humanitarian of theYear, anhonor
¯ previously given to Mother Teresa and
¯ Jimmy Carter. The award comes with a
$200,000 grant.
¯ On a recent trip, she and other SHARE
¯ volunteersfromNewYorktreatedpatients
and sprinkled donations throughout
" Nyanza province, about 160 miles (250
". kms) west of the capital, Nairobi. They
¯ gave money to expand a local hospital.
¯ They paid the school fees for AIDS
orphans. They donated drugs to treat
¯
children wit.h, disfiguring Birkitts
Lvmphoma. "It s a greater need here than
~.,h....l~e" said Eleanore Schafer, a
N’~e~v~’~]t~y’;o~ial worker who set. up
¯ SHARE’s program for sponsoring
orphans.
~ David Violante, a paramedic from
¯
Wallkill, New York, was on his fifth visit
¯ to train Kenyans in emergency medical ¯
¯ techniques. HemetMacGuffie nine years
when she taught a course for his
¯ paramedics class, andthree years later she
¯ persuadedhimand threeotherparamedics
¯ to visit Kenya. "She just has so much
¯
500 local paramedics and brought over
hundreds of thousands of doll.ars worth of
] donated backboards, stretchers, cervical
¯ collars and other trauma equipment.
MacGuffiehas spent millions here, she
~ said, wheedling donations from drug
¯. companies, civic groups and corporations.
¯ Shehas raised.tens of thousands ofdollars ¯ from her Rockland County neighbors and
¯ collected single dollars fromchildren she ¯
lectured to at schools. She remains
determined to continue working inKenya
¯ as tong as Americans support her.
¯, Editor’s Note: SHARE, c/o Martha
MacGuffie, 591 S. Mountain Rd., New
City, New York. USA, 10956.
Dentist Settles
HIV Bias Lawsuit
BOSTON (AP) -A dentist and his office
manager will pay a combined $60,000 for
allegedly committing Medic~’,"dfr,aud and
discriminating against people who were
HIV-positive, the attorney general’s office
said. Dr. Guillermo Recinos, 38, and
Yolanda Jereidini, 46, were sued in civil
¯ court in October 1998 by the attorney
¯ general’s office. They were accused of
~ violating federal discrimination laws by
¯
refusing to treat patients who were HIV-
¯
positive.
¯ They also allegedly told employees not ¯
¯ to take patients who wereHIV-positive at
their clinic in the city’s Jamaica Plain
¯ neighborhood. When one dentist in the
¯ office took a patient who was HIVpositive,
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the dentist an assistant, and forced him to
clean his own instruments, Attorney
General Tom Reilly’s office said.
Recinos was also accused by Reilly’s
office of engaging in Medicaid fraud
between September 1994 and December
1998. He was accused of misrepresenting
his services, billing for services that
weren’t reimbursable through Medicaid
and engaging in duplicate billing.
Recinos and Jereidini have denied the
allegations and, inreaching the settlement,
did not admit wrongdoing. Their clinic
~emains open. The partners will split a
$20,000fmeapprovedby SuffolkSuperior
Court judge Diane Kottmyer in the
discrimination case. An $11,550 portion
of the fine will be distributed to 77
Medicare recipients in payments of $150
each. The remaining $8,450 will be
donated to the Battered Children and
Women’s program at the Elizabeth Stone
House in Jamaica Plain. Under the terms
ofthe Medicaidfraud settlementapproved
by Kottmyer, Recinos alone will pay
$40,000 in civil penalties and restitution.
So. African Women
Criticize Govt.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -
Women’s groups criticized the South
African government Thursday for failing
to provide medical treatment they say
could help prevent victims of rape from
contracting the AIDS virus from their
attackers.
The activists are demanding the
government provide rape victims with a
three-drug cocktail of AZT, 3TC and a
protease inhibitor Crixovan. The threedrug
cocktail is available for $820 on the
¯ private market, which represents five
¯ months of wages for an average South
¯ African.
¯¯ The Centers for Disease Control and
¯ Prevention in Atlanta recommends the
three-drug therapyforhealthcare workers
¯ who have been exposed to HIV through
¯ contaminated needles because some ¯
studies have found AZT alone has
prevented themfromcontracting the virus.
"The state has removed the death
¯ sentence" for crime, said Johannesburg
: journalist Charlene Smith. "Now we are
: asking them to remove the death sentence
¯ for rape survivors." Smith, who wrote
¯ recently about being raped and her ¯
attempts afterward to obtainAIDS-related
¯ medical treatment, spoke at a news
conference sponsoredby women’s groups
: who represent rape victims.
: Doctors and others have also
¯ complained about a decision by South
¯ Africa’s Health Ministry last year to shut ¯
¯ down pilot projects to treat HIV-positive expectant mothers in the last month of
: pregnancy with AZT, which reportedly
can reduceby half the transmission rate of
: HIV to newborns.
¯ A womanin South Africa is three times
¯ morelikely to be raped than in the United
¯ States, and South African men are much
: more likely to be infected with HIV, the
¯ virus that causes AIDS, said Nthabiseng
Mogale, head of People Opposed to
WomenAbuse. SouthAfricanwomenare
: entitled to treatment as a human right,
¯ Mogale said.
¯ One in eight South African adults is ¯
infected with HIV. The rate is tWice that
." for pregnant women, the government has
said. Police say about 65,000 women and
¯ girls are assaultedevery year, but activists
insist the number is much higher.
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¯ AZT treatment for infants born to HIV-
¯ positive mothers, said Vicki Ehrich ¯
spokeswomanfor Glaxo Wellcome, which
¯ produces AZT.
Glaxo Wellcome wants to supply the
¯ South African government with the drug
¯ for $65 perbirth, orone-third ofits market
¯ price. But the government says that’s too
: expensive. ’°We cannot afford this type of
intervention," said Khangelani
¯ Hlongwane, spokesman for the South
¯ African Health Ministry.
¯ Physicians at state-rim hospitals have ¯
clashed with the government on theissue.
¯ ’oWe’re trying to convincethegovernment
¯ that it’s actually cost effective," said Dr.
¯ Avy Violari, a pediatrician at Chris Hani
: Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.
." The United Nations AIDS program
¯ estimates that about 600,000 HIV ¯
¯ infections are spread during childbirth
worldwide, butnofigures for SouthAfrica
." were available. Transmission of HIV
¯ through sexual assault has been less ¯
studied, partlybecause rape and AIDS are
¯ not as widespreadin Europeand the United
: States, wheremostresearchis carried out,
¯ Smith said.
:$ for HIV Falling
Behind Its Spread
¯ GENEVA (AP) - Spending by donor
: countries to combat AIDS in developing
~ countries is failing to keep pace with the
¯ spreadofthe disease, now infecting nearly
¯ 6 millionpeople worldwide each year, the
¯ United Nations said recently.
¯ "it is alarming that AIDS is expanding
three times faster than the funding to
control it," said Dr. Peter Piot, executive
director of UNAIDS, the Joint U.N.
Program on HIV/AIDS. Piot called on
industrialized nations to do more to fight
the disease in developing countries.
The agency said wealthy countries’
support for the global fight against AIDS
IS being vastly outpacedby the epldennc,
which has infected47 million people over
the past two decades. That figure includes
those who have already died from the
disease and those hying with HIV, the
AIDS-causing virus.
Funding to fight AIDS in developing
countries was $273 million in 1997, less
than double the $165 million spent in
1990, it said. During the same period, the
number of people living with HIV around
the worldmore than tripled to 30.3 million
from 9.8 million.
UNAIDS said a study by the Harvard
University School of Public Health found
the United States was "by far the largest
tnbutor to the lnternat~onal campaign,
giving $135.2 million-in 1997. But it said
that other countries ranked higher when
their contributions weremeasured against
the size of their economies. Norway gave
$93 for each $1 million ofits gross national
product; the Netherlands gave $92.
Denmark was third at $52 per 1 million of
its gross national product, followed by
Swedenat $49. Australiagave $31, Canada
$21, Britain $19, Belgium $18, United
States $17, Finland $10, Switzerland and
Germany $6 and Japan $2.
Industrialized countries are spending
less than 1% of their development aid on
the fight against AIDS, according to
UNAIDS. ’oWeighed against the global
catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic, the
level of spending for HIV prevention
around the world is minimal," Piot said.
He said in order for any aid to benefit
¯ developing countries, more money needs
to be given to fight AIDS.
UNAIDS says 95% of the people living
¯ with the AIDS virus are in developing
¯ countries, most of them in Africa. ¯
Agency officials said developing
." countries are also contributing to the
¯ campaign against AIDS. The study ¯
showed domestic spending varied from a
low of 8% in the Caribbean and 9% in
¯ Africa to 57% in Asia, 67% in Latin
America and 79% in Eastern Europe.
¯ Economics Making
:HIV Fight Harder
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Asia’s
economic crisis is worsening Thailand’s
¯ AIDS crisis, experts said, predicting that
¯ more than 100,000 Thai children will be
." orphaned by the disease by the end of the
¯ year 2000.
¯ Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai,
¯ opening Thailand’s annualNationalAIDS
¯ Seminar, told hundreds ofresearchers and
¯ health workers that the government will
¯ scrimp to findnow-scarce funding to keep
the AIDS epidemic under control.
¯ But Wirut Poolcharoen, a Health
." Ministry official, acknowledged that
¯ Thailand’s government does not know ¯
how to cope with an expected explosion
¯ in the number ofAIDS orphans. Most are
taken care of by their grandparents or
other family members. "The number of
¯ orphans whose parents die of AIDS will
¯ double by the end ofthe year 2000,"Wirnt
¯ said. "The government does not yet know ¯
how to carry such a huge burden to ensure
¯ the well-being of these children."
¯" Statisticians at Mahidol University
released a report showing that in 1997, the
¯ year that recession struck Thailand and
: much of Southeast Asia, the country had
34,349 AIDS orphans, about a quarter of
them under age five. By the end of 2000,
¯
the report predicts the total figure will be
¯ 116,508childrenorphanedbyAIDS,with
30,845 of them under five¯
Acquiredimmunedeficiency syndrome
¯
claimed 51,000 lives in Thailand in 1997
alone, according to research presented by
¯ Bangkok’s prestigious Chulalongkorn
University. Death figures were not
¯ available for 1998. "It takes years for
~ p.eople to realize they have contracted the
¯ virus, and its consequences are thereby
affecting quality of life of their family
¯ members and of society as a whole,"Wirnt
said.
¯ In the early years after AIDS was
discovered, Thailand refused to
¯ acknowledge it had a single case of the
disease, fearing damage to the lucrative
¯ prostitution industry that is a mainstay both of tourism and the sex lives of many
¯ Thai men. A change of attitude coupled
¯ with aggressive condom distribution and ¯
¯ education programs brought the epidemic
somewhatundercontrolbythemid_ 1990s,
¯ but the gains are eroding due to cuts in the
¯ health budget in ’the recession-era
economy. The government’s spending on
¯ AIDS pre~iention has fallen about 25% to
¯ 1.4 billion baht ($39 miillion) Since 1997.
¯ Thailandneeds toprepareitselftohandle ¯
the social and economic consequences of
: AIDS and the HIV virus that leads to it,
¯ said Supachai Kunarattanapruek, an
¯ adviser to the Health Ministry.
Though Thailand spends little on long-
: term care for AIDS sufferers, the country
will pay a high price for the loss of
¯ economically active people, experts said.
About two-thirds of the country’s AIDS
¯ sufferers are 25-39 years old, their prime
¯ working years.
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Pride Store, chorale members or by
contacting the COMC Ticket Office at
585-COMC. Tickets will alsobeavailable
atthedoor. Tickets areS 10.00andadvance
purchase is recommended due to sdl-out
audiences at previous events.
The program will feature a variety, of
musicfrom"Swell the Full Chorus"by G.
F. Handel, to 60’s sensation’q’umArotmd,
Look at Me". "Our audiences have come
to expect the Standard choral repertoire
¯ with an occasional twist of humor that
¯ only the men of Council Oak can do so
¯ eloquently.., trust me, concert-goers will
not be disappointed," said Rick Former,
¯ Jr., Artistic Director.
¯ Recently, members of Council Oak
Men’s Chorale performed on the floor of
¯ the Oklahoma State House of
¯ Representatives as a lobbying effort for
¯ passage of House Bill 1211. The work
performed there, ’Wile Voice," was an
¯ original composition by chorale member
: Greg Davis, and will also be given its
¯ concert premiere on May 7 & 8.
-" . Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy an
¯ evening of beautiful and exciting music
¯ performed by Tulsa’s all-male chorus, ¯
Council Oak Men’s Chorale.
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Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
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Service - llam, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595
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Service - 11am, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
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Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210b So. Norwood
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Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088
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~ TUESDAYS
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Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group. Info: 743-4297
PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
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Gal-A-Vanting, Womens Social & Cultural Group
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OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization.
Long and short rides. Write for info: PUB 9165, Tulsa, OK 74157
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Tulsa City-County Library
Major publishers are finally beginning
to recognize the importance of lavender
money! Thepopular series ofJ. K. Lasser’s
financial guides now includes Gay and
Lesbian topics, and none too
soon. It is often mentioned, by
political friends andfoes alike,
that Gays and Lesbians have a
lot of expendable income.
Here is a book to help you
put together a rosy financial
future, regardless ofhow much
money you’re making right
now.
Through aseries of charts
and sample worksheets, you’ll
learnhow toprepareforbuying
a house, starting a business,
saving for a vacation and, yes,
retirement. Although many
people share similar financial
goals, Lesbians and Gay men
need to approach the topic
differently than straight
¯ people. The most obvious
concerns are the legal barriers
that prevent Gay andLesbian
couples from participating in
the financial benefits of
.marriage. In addition, most
rnsurance and benefit
programs do not yet include
same sex couples.
Although some people are
not planning to retire, some of
us are! There~sagoodchapteronpreparing
for retirement. (Hint: As youalready know,
the earlier you start, the easier it will be.)
The scary part of this is estimating how
long you’ll live after retirement, and how
much income you will need. The charts to
determine these figures are fairy simple,
I can no longer accept the personal risk
my participation on the Board requires. I
hope that my colleagues, many of whom
are working very hard and responsibly,
will push for information and
accountability in the planning process.
In dosing, I want to assure you that the-
Task Force will be visible at the
Millennium March on Washington to
encourage Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgendered people from around the
country to continue their work through
state andlocal organizing. They will come
to Washington to experience thepower of
gathering in their nation’s capital, to feel
strength in numbers, and to create a show
of force for the GLBT community. We
will be persistent in our efforts to ensure
that the energy and momentum of the
March cames to local communities. The
fmancial commitments madebythe March
.Board to organizations dedicated to
statewide organizingand people of color
organizing could:be the finest legacy the
March will leave to our movement.
If significant changes are made in the
March planning and organizing, the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
will gladly considerrejoining theplanning
efforts for the Millennium March on
Washington. In the meantime, we will
advocate for the inclusibn of our entire
community in the March process and for
the linking ofour agenda to those of other
movements for social justice. We hope
¯ although you will need to check with the
¯ Social Security Administration to
¯ determine your probable Social Security
¯¯ benefits during retirement.When youplug
the numbers in, you’ll probably be
¯ horrified toseehow muchmoney, adjusted
¯ for inflation, you will need for a
Although many
similar f’inanelal
goals, Lesbians
and Gay men
need to
approael~ t]ae
topic dffIerently
tha. straiSht
~ple. The
most
concerns are
l~al
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Achieving your financial
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etc., thatis sure to please all of
you business majors and
numbercrunchers. For therest
of us, however, it is
astonishingly boring, but
necessary reading.
Different insurance situations
(life, property, auto,
disability) are also addressed,
as is the inevitable topic of
estate planning. As difficult as
it may be, it is necessary for
every individual to have a
valid, up to date will. The
possible legal disputes that
arisefrompoorestate planning
canquickly wipe out any assets
you may have built. Don’t let
it happen to you, or your
significant other!
Although the topic is never
muchfun, it is vitally important
that everyone, regardless of
orientation, age or marital
: status, address their financial planning
needs. This is a good, basic book to help
you start thinking about the unthinkable.
." Cheek for this title and others on similar
¯ topics at your local library, or call the
Readers Services departmentatthe Central
~ Library at 596-7966.
: theseissues will be reflected in the March
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¯ both sides of the civil-rights issue.
¯ Mark Finks, a leader of the opposition,
: vowed to continue a petition campaign
¯ that would seek to overulrn the ordinance ¯
in a June election.
¯ Councilor Jacob Manheimer said he
¯ wouldnot be intimidated by Finks’ threat. ¯
"Let’s adopt the ordinance, but put it
¯ squarely to the people if they want to
¯ repeah"t,"he stu" d. CouncM" orJohnHobson
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¯ opponents convinced him the law was
." necessary. Councilor Dolores Vail told
." the crowd ofnearly 50people that she has
¯ a grown Gay son who straggled with his
¯ identity as a teen-ager. She said shehoped
¯ the ordinance will help families accept
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EditoJ"s note: last month the Do-It-
Yourself-Dyke advised us on refurbishing
your kitchen cabinets. This column looking
at updating your kitchen counters.
Now that you’ ve gotten ),our cupboards
in the kitchen all spruced up, it’s amazing
how, well. dingy the counter
tops look now. And the sink
looks about as stained as
Redneck Bubba’s teeth, what
there are of them. That’s the
down-side of a drawn out,
stage by stage renovation -
until you’re finished, youjust
have to putup with it. Hm, that
sounds like a straight girl’s
commentary on sex, but we
just won’t go there.
Instead, we’ll go to the old
drawing board and look at our
options for counter tops. As
usual, it will be time to review
the budget and sharpen the old
pencil when it comes down to
making your choice. The
constraints of this column
don’t allow me to teach you
about installing prelaminated
counter tops or tiling, but
fortunately, there are several
large home improvement
stores who will help you out
with classes and videos, so for
the skilled and intrepid, your
¯ options- and savings- will be
greater. And strictly from an
aesthetic view point, there are
usually lots of other ’Tamily" there, so
happy cruising. Honey, they don’t call it
"Homo" Depot for nothin’.The DIYD
blushes to admit that more than tool lust
carries her thither on a regular basis.
But yourDIYD digresses. Yes, you can
call in Surface Doctor or a resurfacing
company of that ilk, butby the time it’ s all
said and done, you might just as wall pay
for a new surface. Of course, check it out
anyway, but please review your options
before buying.Dating should be the same
way, but hopefully, you’ll show a bit
more discipline - if you’re the impetuous
sort. So that leaves you with the option of
removing the oldcounter top andreplacing
it with prdaminated counters, or tiling
over the old laminate, if it is only ugly but
not warped or popping up. You can also
remove the old counter top, replace the
surface and tile from scratch, but why
don’t we save that kind of labor for later?
The easiest optionmaybe replacing the
counter tops. If you have a relatively
uncomplicated lay out, with counters no
more than 10 foot long at a run, then you
can go and buy the counter top from a
largehomeimprovement store. Some will
do themitercut and cutouts for sink,range
or whatever; others won’t, but can
recommend someone who will do two
miters [one comer] and a sink cutout for
about $40,whichisn’tbad:Itis remarkably
easy to install these counters yourself if
YcoachOUhave a simple L, and the store will
youonwhatto do. The backsplashes
come pre-rolled inmost cases, so you can
finish them off with a smart little bead of
caulk.
If your counter top layout is more
complicated or longer, you will have to
have the counter tops custom made, and
possibly even installed by a contractoI
butthat will bepartof yourreview process.
: Tiling over is an option if the counter is
¯ basically sound - the base must be
: absolutely sound and solid to work.
: Darlings, I know some of us prefer to be
more loose and fluid, but save that
viewpoint for the finer things in life. Once
again, yourhomeimprove-ment store will
bemore than happy to help out And strletly
from an
aesthetle v~ew
point, there are
usually lots of
other "fatally"
there, so
happy erulsln~.
Honey, they
don’t call it
"Homo" Depot
for nothln’.
The DIYD
blushes to
admit that
more than tool
lust earrles her
tldther on a
regular basis.
with classes, advice and other
resources - they want to sell
you the materials, remember?
Keep in mind when buying
the tile that if you go with
lower-end, cheaper tiles fethe
most part and then use the
horrendously expensive
accent tiles, the job will be
more economical overall, and
quite attractive, to boot. You
will be applying a thinset
mortar, then your tiles and
then grouting the next day.
Consider using a darker grout,
or avoid white all together,
because darlings,itjustdoesn’, t
age well, even after sealing
the grout. And if you tile, you
will seal the grout, won’t you?
The DIYD does not tolerate
whining from those who
choose not to follow her sage
wisdom. The DIYD cannot
recommend highly enough
that you buy a long level and
using it for setting up your
lines. Also, lay out the tiles
dry and see if a little
rearranging of the cross lines
, won’t make for an easier job. Sometimes
¯ working off of true center is not best,
: especially if you’re cutting tiny pieces of
file.
¯ Realizing she hasn’t been of much
: practical help at all, the DIYD wishes you
: a fond bon voyage on your trip to the
¯ home improvement center until she
: astounds and amazes youagainnextmonth
: when she has you on your knees on the
floor. The mere thought of it makes her
¯ purr with anticipation...
:
¯" Hispanic and Native American Women
¯
Speak Out; Expanding Clinical Trials and
¯ Treatment Research for Women; Special
¯ Issues for Children in Families Affected
¯" by HIV/AIDS; The lank Between HIV
Infection, Violence Against Women,
¯ Homelessness and Substance Abuse; and
~ HIV Programs for Women: A Fdnder’s
¯ Perspective. ’This conference will allow
~ us a chance to look at the progress thathas
~ been made over the years, and the
¯ challenges which still confront us when
~ dealing with women and AIDS," says
¯ Nicklas.
¯ Conferenceregistrationfeeis $35before
¯¯ May 20 or $40 after May 20. The fee for
the luncheon only is $15. Special student
," rates are available. Seating is limited.
¯ Some confidential scholarships for
¯" housing, transportation and conference
fees are availableforHIV positivewomen.
¯ Call 585-5551 ext. 231 to receive an
¯ application. Arespiteroom and child eare
¯ are available for HIV positive women. ¯ Formore information or to register, call
¯ 585-5551.
Workshop topics will include: Breaking
the Silence - White, Mrican American,
by Esther Rothblum. Ph.D. . Research begins to happen when the
There has been some speculation about : governmentputs funds behindit, andright
whether Lesbians are at higher or lower ¯ now the Institute of Medicine of the
riskforbreastcaneerthanareheterosexual : National Academy of Science has
women. Buttherehasbeenlittleresearch. ;. publishedareportOnLesbianhcalthwhich
Now Dr. Deborah Bowen, a
psychologist at the Fred
Hutchin~nCancerResearch
Center and a member of the
Lesbian Health Research
¯ Institute, is conducting
researchonbreastcancerthat
includes Lesbians.
"Five years ago, this was
guess-work; there was no
data," shetoldme in a recent
interview. "At my Cancer
Center, we do a lot of
research about the causes of
breast cancer and how to
prevent breast cancer. There
are many experts on breast
cancer, so I had a lot of
colleagues I could talk to
about my ideas about
Lesbians andbreast cancer."
In talking with Lesbians,
Dr. Bowen realized that the
commonperception was that
breast cancer was more
frequent among Lesbians
and that perception was
frightening to Lesbians. As
a scientist, she knew there
was no proof yet one way or
the other. "That’s when I
beganthinking thatwecould
make some in-roads into
this," she said, "either by
collecting new data on
Lesbians or else by including questions
about sexual orientation into existing
studies." Dr. Bowen has done both - she
has written research grants to fund studies
specifically onLesbians andbreast cancer
and also begun to examine sexual
orientationin somelarge-scale community
surveys on hundreds of thousands of
women.
"Thebiggestriskfactorforgetting breast
cancer is being a woman," Dr. Bowen
said, "and the second biggest risk factor is
age. Even though we hear a lot about
younger women getting breast cancer, it
is really a disease of older women. And
the problem is that very few people have
studied older women who are past
menopause. So wedon’ t evenknow much
about breast cancer in womenin general."
Other risk factors for breast cancer are
having a family history of breast cancer.
"Having a close or even a distant relative
who has had breast cancer is now known
to ~put women at higher risk for breast
c~._cer, but we don’t know much about
why this is so," Dr. Bowen continued.
"Much of the research has focused on
women Who have multiple relatives with
breast cancer~ but that only accounts for
abOut 4% of all women. What about the
womanwhohada great-atmtMatildawho
had breast cancer? How does Aunt
Matilda’ s breast cancer transfer to her?"
Cancer researchers are also. beginning
to learn more about environmental
exposures, "the toxins, chemicals, and
maybe even the radiation that we
experience, some ofit naturally occurring
and some it put there by technology" as
Dr. Bowen described it, "but we don’t
how andwedon’ tknow whenthe exposure
to these environmental factors has to occur
inorder tobecomeariskforbreastcancer."
The theory goes
that ff Lesbians
have a harder
tlme finding
affordable and
affirmative
cheek-ups,
then they may he
less likely to have
mammo~rams
or to interact with
a health provider
in a Way that
would help with
early diagnosis.
So it may be that
Lesbians aren’t at
hi’her risk for
breast eaneer, just
that Lesbians
don’t get good
health eare . . .
will stimulate research on
Lesbian health issues. Dr.
Bowen said: "It’ s expensive
to do this kind of research.
You have to have lots of
money to call up 20,000
women, and with breast
cancer you have to call a lot
of women in order to reach
somewhohave thedisease."
Dr. Bowen’s research team
now asks about sexual
orientation inboth paper and
pencil surveys and in
telephone interviews. They
ask this in two ways - by
asking about identity (do
women identify as
heterosexual, bisexual,
Lesbian, or other) and also
by asking about sexual
behavior. "ffwe only ask the
former, we lose women who
have sex with women but
don’t identify as Lesbian,
and .if we just ask about
sexual behavior we lose
womenwho are notcurrently
sexually active," she
explained.
Dr. Bowen thinks there
are two camps of thoughts in
the Lesbian community
about breast cancer. ,One
has to do with reproductive
¯ factors. FewerLesbians have children than
¯ do heterosexual women. The ’fewer’ can
¯ range from about 36% to about 60% of
Lesbians whohave had children. Whereas
¯¯ with heterosexual women it’s actually
quitehigh-between 80-90% of all women
¯ havehad children. Nothaving had children
: or having had children late aright be a
¯ factor in developing breast cancer.
¯ Pregnancy might cease certain hormones
¯ that are linked to the development of
¯ breast cancer."
~ "The other camp of thought has to do
¯
with access to reliable, good, open, access
¯ to health care," Dr. Bowen said, "and
¯ Lesbians may not have such access. We ¯
know that if cancer is caught at a later
¯ stage when it has had more chance to
¯ growandspreadtootherpartsofthebody,
¯ it’ s harder to treat and can’t be treated as
~ wall. The theory goes that if Lesbians
: have a harder time finding affordable and
," affirmative check-ups, then they may be
¯ less likely to have m~mmograms or to ¯
interact with a health provider in a way
¯ that wouldhelp with early diagnosis. Soit
¯ may be that Lesbians arCh’ t at higher risk ¯
for breast cancer, just that Lesbians don’t
¯
get good health care and are likely to be
¯ diagnosed with breast cancer at a later
¯ stage when it is harder to treat."
¯" I asked Dr. Bowen what she would
¯ reconamend that health care professionals
¯ do to increase the comfort of Lesbian
¯ patients. Her suggestions: "The person
: who comes to a doctor has to trust that
¯ doctor and she has to feel comfortable
¯ bringing scary problems to that doctor.
¯ And I’m hypothesizing that one of the
~ problems bringing up sexual orientation
: in a health care setting is that you aright
¯ feel okay saying you have a cold or a
: stomach ache, see Psyche, p. 13
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by Lamont Lindstrom. Ph.D. ¯ romantic attraction and love is indeed an
Ahinad is looking for a boyfriend in " alien idea in societies where families
Califoruia.RaisedinPakistaninawealthy,
¯ originateonlythrougharrangedmamages.
rural farnilv he immigrated to the US a ¯ Like Parivaraj’s Gay schoolboys,
few years Ego. Ahinad telephones home " Ahrnad, some-how, has also learned to
regularly to talk with his desire a boyfriend. Sex on the
parents and sisters. He misses
his family but he’s not going
back. His parents expect him
to marry and if he returns to
Pakistan he knows he ..would
find tfimself quickly caught up
in an arranged mamage with
some woman selected by his
father. So he remains in San
Francisco, despite his homesickness,
hoping to arrange his
ownmamage- but withaman.
Ahmad’ s problem is shared
by the characters of a recently
publishednovel that deals with
Gay lifein India, P. Parivaraj’ s
~restern stories
of romantic
love, and the
emergence of a
separate Gay
identity are
powerful
notions that
have spread
Oobally.
Shiva and Arun. In this book, a group of
Hindu and Muslim schoolboys face
difficult challenges related to their
homosexuality. They can only be honest
with each other about their desires that
they hide from family and even their
closest friends.
After leaving school, one is fired when
his boss discovers his sexual orientation.
All of them are pressured by family to
marry and have children. One is rejected
by his father when he refusesto do so.
Another gives in and is only able to have
awkwardsex withhis new wifeby thinking
-. of his boyfriend. He soon kills himsdf.
Marriage has failed to quell his
homosexual desire.
I discussed Shiva and Arun with a Gay
colleague who has lived in India. Based
on his experience (some of thi.s rather
intimate), .my colleague argued that the
novel’ s tragic suicide is unbelievable. He
has met hundreds of happily married
homosexual Indian men who juggle
parallel lives with wife and children in
public, and discrete sexual encounters with
men in private. Almost all Indian and
Pakistani men - whether they desire
womenormen- marry without complaint
as the normal, human thing to do. Those
who want sex withmen can easily pick up
partners by cruisi,ng in appropriate places.
Stephen Murray s 1997 book, Islamic
Homosexualities, describes street corners
in Karachi where men drive by to find
dates.
I asked Ahmad why he just didn’t give
in and go home, make his dad happy by
getting married, and find an occasional
lover on the highway roundabouts. He
replied gloomily that he couldn’ t do this.
He wants instead to live as what he really
is, a Gay man. He is exiled in California,
torn between family duties and personal
desire.
Shiva andArun taps into this sentiment
- a model of Gayness that is recently
"diffusing" (as anthropologists put this)
from West to East. Parivaraj seemingly
rejects the conclusion that Indians have
borrowed Western patterns of sexuality.
None of his characters identifies himself
as"Gav,." Pather, they are "menwho love
men." Still,he clearlyhas adoptedWestern
concepts of individuality and romantic
love. Two of his boys manage to find
happiness in the end. They fall in love,
leave their families, and move in with
their boyfriends to establish at least quasipublic
homosexual households.
The notion of long-term household
relations between two men founded in
corner before going home to
wife and kids is no longer
good enough. .
Previously, in many
societies, even if you were a
man-loving-man, there was
no obvious alternative to what
¯ all men did. You accepted the
woman that your parents
arranged for you and you
served your family by
fathering children.
In future, however,
there may be more and more
Ahmads who are unwilling to
go along with traditional
¯ " expectations. Western stories of romantic
: love and the emergence of a separate Gay
¯
identity are powerful notions that have
¯ spread globally.
, When one of Parivaraj’s young men
breaks with his parents by confessing that
¯ he loves men, they think he must be a ¯
transvestite prostitute -the only local
¯ gender category they have available to try
¯¯ tounderstandhim. Buthe snot. Although
¯ hemay not call it thus, he has adopted the Western identity "Gay" that is
: fundamentally defined by a romantic
¯ desire for boyfriends. ¯ Those ofus who celebrate individuality
¯ andlovemight applaud Abroad’ s coura.ge
¯ at defying his father, abandoning his
mother and sisters, and casting himself
: into Gay-dating hell - that horribly lonely
¯ search for romance.
¯ In my more paranoid moments, ¯
however, I worry about the recent
¯ proliferation and spread ofall sorts ofnew
social identities, including "Gay." The
¯ global economic system in large part
depends on the cultivationof multiple and
¯ splintered identities that serve-as niche
¯ markets for its goods.
: So, in addition to all the foods, and
¯
clothing, and furniture, and art, andmusic
¯ that Ahmad seems to need to buy in order
¯ to demonstrate his Gayness, I pray thathe
can manage to snag a boyfriend. But he
: already knows that they can cost a lot.
¯ Lamont Lindstrom is a professor of
¯ anthropology at the University of Tulsa. ¯
However, this semester he is teaching at
"~ the University ofCalifornia, in Berkeley.
¯ but not that you want the provider to feel
your breast, for example. Lesbians might
also worry that the provider might force
them to use high-tech solutions for their
¯ problem when they would prefer to begin
¯ with alternative solutions. Lesbians often
¯ have good reason got to trust ’the system’
¯ and right now the solutions we have for
¯ breast cancer have to with technology,
: such as chemotherapy, radiation, or
¯ surgery." She also recommends that
¯ Lesbians look for open, trustworthy
¯ providers if these exist’ in their
¯ communities.
: Esther Rothblum is Professor of
Psychology at the University of Vermont
i and Editor Of the Journal of Lesbian
: Studies.ShecanbereachedatJohnDewey
: Hall, UniversityofVermont, Burlington,
: VT, email: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu.
If the hate crimes bill passes the Senate,
where it has been in committee, it will
¯come before Bush who can either veto it
or sign it into law.
"Wehope the state Senate and Governor
Bush will follow the leadoftheHouseand
the people of Texas and pass hate crimes
legislation," said Birch.
At aWashington press conference last
month, family members of twohate crimes
victims announced their supportforfederal
and state hate crimes legislation. Both
Judy Shepard, mother of University of
Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, and
Darrell Verrett, nephew of Jasper, Texas
resident James Byrd Jr., urged Bush to
pass the Texas legislation.
As reported in The Dallas Morning
News, in 1997 - the most recent year for
available statistics-360 hate crimes were
reported in Texas. The Department of
Public Safety reported that 167 crimes
were directed againstAfrican-Americans;
64 against Gays and Lesbians; 22 against
Hispamcs; and 21 against Jews.
Theeffort to pass hate crimes legislation
is led by Dianne Hardy Garcia, executive
director of the Lesbian and .Gay Rights
Lobby of Texas and state Rep. Senfronia
Thompson, D~Texas, Chair, Judicial
Affairs Committee.
’q~he incredible leadership of Dianne
Hardy Garcia and Representative
SenfroniaThompsonhas madeit po,s.sible
for the House to-take this great stride
forward," said Birch. ’q’his is a textbook
example of how effective engagement in
thepolitical process throughlobbying and
education can have a significant societal
impact. Today, millions ofTexans are one
step closer to receiving protection from
hate violence."
Only 21 states have hate crimes laws
that include sexual orientation and eight
s.tates havenohate crimes laws. Nationally,
since 1981, hate crimes have nearly
doubled. In 1997 - the FBI’s most recent
reporting period-race-related hate crimes
were byfarthemostcommon,representing
nearly60% ofall cases. Hate crimes based
on religion represented 15% of all cases.
And hate crimes against Gay, lesbian and
bisexual Americans increased by 8% - or
about 14% of all hate crimes reported.
The Scripps Howardpoll of 1,003 adults
was conducted by telephone, March 30-
April 17. It has amargin of error ofplus or
minus 3 percentage points.
The home can hold up to 6 or 7 kids from
infants to older, and is filled with plenty, of
toys. and a nice, little backyard for play.
The operation will belicensed andbonded,
and one of the morns is qualified to work
with special education and hearing
impaired children. And in a very 90’s
touch, they are considering adding an
internet camerawhichwouldallow parents
who have web access at work to log into
a web site and checkon~ their kids!.
GLAD, Ga)~. & ~bian-Daycare ~il1
als0 ~b~a [~t[¢: 1:~§~ ;expensi.ve~ than~
comparable:qUality opera.tions. The
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be more common. And they are willing to
provide evening and weekend care by
special arrangement. GLAD,’s orgamzers
will be having a special garage sale on
May7th&8thto help kickofftheprogram.
For more information, call 808-8026.
Good Food, Good Service,
No Anti-Gay Attitude
Tulsa’s neverhad that many choices for
late night dining but now, with Burger
Sisters,just opened the last week ofApril,
Tulsa’s Gay community not only can get
good food but be treated right in the
process..
John Rothrock and Steve Walley,
owners of the Silver Star, just down the
way in the same shopping center, have
opened a "comfortable, clean" restaurant.
Rothrock notes that the restaurant
welcomes all, Gays, straights, young and
old but especially, it will be a place where
Gay people can be free and comfortable to
hold hands or to come in late from the
clubs in drag or leather and not be hassled.
In other words, straight people are
welcome - as long as they behave
themselves !
Rothrock notes, "it’s time for Gays to
grasp the respect we’ve earned.., not tO
be ashamed..." and he adds, "when you
eat here, you don’t have to hide who you
are.
Burger Sisters, which opens at 6am
offers a typical, "downhome" breakfasts,
hamburgers, fries, salads as wall as a daily
dinner special. Monday to Thursday, the
cafe will be open till 10pro. OnFriday and
saturday, they’ll stay open till 4am and
Sunday, the hours will be 10am - 3pro (all
subject to some change, after all they’ve
been open only a few days when this goes
to press). At this point, the cafe accepts
only cash, no credit cards but their prices
are very reasonable. Burger Sisters is
located at 1545 So. Sheridan, just north a
few doors from the Silver Star. Tel: 835-
1207.
Four Years They’re There,
One Night They’re Gone
According to some of their now exstaff,
Concessions, for more than four
years one of Tulsa’s largest dance clubs
closed precipitously the last Saturday of
April. Andindeed, the business signs have
been removed from the building.
One local bar observer said that rumors
in the club crowd suggested that the
business was plagued by legal costs
associated with an ongoing lawsuit. A
member of the former bar staff stated that
they were givenjust one hour notice of the
loss of their jobs.
Other members of the Gay community
suggest that the owners of Oklahoma
City’s Angles have been said to be trying
to expand their operation into Tulsa for a
number ofmonths. Theirnames also have
been mentioned as possible buyers of
Concessions’ equipment or lease.
However, other real estate watchers
wonder if the gentrification of Brookside
may result in that space being leased to
other uses.
Under the direction of Lewis Routh,
OneFoolis fast-paced and wildly original.
Though Lesbian-themed, the play
humorously and aptly demonstrates the
.. universality of every person’s quest for
~ the perfect love.
¯ Decidedly ’ adult-oriented; admission
¯ will be limited to those 21 years and older.
$10 per person at the door, with all
: proceeds benefiting the Eureka Springs
¯ Diversity Celebration being held Nov. 5- ¯
7,1999.
¯ For further information, please contact
: the show’s producers, The Emerald
¯ Rainbow, at 501-253-5445.
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First Gay Ambassador,
James Hormel, Sworn In
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sedate events are the norm in
the gilded confines of the State Department’s eighth
floor reception room but there can be exceptions. The
atmosphere was downright raucous on Tuesday, June
29 over a seemingly routine happening.." the swearing in
of a new ambassador. James Hormel, who is Gay, took
the oath as ambassador to Luxembourg in the presence
ofhundreds offriends whohad siipported Hormel’ s ofttroubled
nomination since it was first announced 20
months ago.
Hormel’s supporters cheered loudly as he was sworn
in as America’s first openly Gay ambassador. "What an
inered!ible privilege it is to be standing before you
today,’ said Hormel, an heir to the Audiin, Minn.-based
Hormel Foods Corp. fortune.Secretary of State
Madeleine .Albiight was there, along with Sens. Ted
Kennedy, D-Mass., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Television cameras lined the rear of the majestic State
Department hall. Normal procedure on such occasions
is to bar the press altogether.
Uncertainty had shrouded Hormel’s appointment
almost from the day he was nominated because of
opposition from a few senators, see Hormel, p. 12
30 Years After Riot, Gays
& Lesbians Take Stock
NEW YORK (AP) -~,years ago, police raids on
Gay bars were a fact oflife~ You took themfor granted
the way you took being hated for granted," says Joan
Nestle, a writer and activist who started going to,
Greenwich Village bars as a tean-ager in the 1950s~
Volunteers carried a 120footRainbowflagfrom the Community
Center to Veterans Park where Congressman Frank spoke.
2000 Attend 1st Tulsa Parade
TULSA-Tulsa’ s firstGayPrideParade was declared a sweeping
success by its organizers and by almost all who attended.
-According to The Tulsa World, more than 2000 attended the
event which featured US Congressman Barney Frank, Democrat
from MassaChusetts as grand marshall and which had more than
35 entries. Frank spoke at the traditional picnic which followed
the parade and again at a dinner that evening at the Greenwood
Cultural Center. At both events, Frank suggested that straight
Americans are not essentially bigoted but rather bdieve that they
are expected to be anti-Gay. He strongly encouraged Gay &
Lesbian citizens to become politically active.
Sponsors of the events indued Mark & Mike, Cimarron
Alliance, the Parish Church of Saint Jerome, MCC United,
Council Oak Mens Chorale, PFLAG, Bud Light, Pepsi-Cola/Dr
Pepper Bottling Co. of Tulsa, Jason Reed, The Storm, Jack
Wallace, T.W.’s A.F.A.B. Catering, Tulsa Family News and
some others. Photos of the parade andpicnicfollow on page 3.
Cath, of St. John the Divine
Hosts Stonewall 30 Service
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, speaking on the
eve of the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall riot, urged Gays and
lesbians Saturday to bring their fight for equal fights to the ballot
box. The congressman, who was greeted with a standing ovation
ata Manhattan celebration of the 1969 incident, told the crowd
So when the patrons of a bar called the Stonewall Inn ¯
fonghtbackJune 27,1969-attackingpolice with rocks,
.bottles and fists that stmtling act of defiance became an .
instantwatershed event. Gayactivists considerit akin to
the .Montgomery bus boycott or the lunch-counter sitins
that galvanized the civil rights movement.
This lastmonth~parades andralfiesinNew York, San
Franciscoanddozens ofcities worldwidecommemorate
the Stonewall riotandmarkthreedecades ofremarkable
change.
While Gay pcople are not universally accepted - a
Time/CNN Foil last fall found that 48% of Americans
believe homosexuality is morally wrong-Lesbians and
Gay men are becoming increasingly integrated into
American society.
"We’ve made a sea change in notjust public opinion
but public policy as well:~ says Kerry Lobel, executive
director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a
lobbying groupbasedin Washington, D.C."We see that ."
in areas like civil rights, hate crimes; family issues and ¯
sodomy repeal, we have more possibility of legislative :
change than ever before."
Lobel cited Nevada, whose Legislature recendy ."
banned job discrimination see 30 Years, p. 14 .
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~.that the gains made by the Gay comm_u~,’,ty were substantial. But
¯ ne s~sed.~that the.struggle continues. °We have fought on our
.terms, said Frank, D-Mass., one of only three Gay members of
". Congress. ,ButI urge you to take the next step. Use our political
. ¯ power..You have to vote. Your friends have to vote."
Frank-was one of about two dozen speakers, performers and
activis~ appearing at "Stonewall 30: A Sacred Celebration."
Some. 1,500 Gays and lesbians turned out at.the Cathedral of St.
John the Divi~e for the event, which commemorated the start of
the Gay rights movement.
OnMonday,June28,the Christopher Street siteofthe Stonewall
Inn will .be Added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Angry Gays fought with police who had rousted them from the
Stonewall on June 27, 1969.
: Frank, whotookpot shots at closeted Gays in Congress and the
: -Rev. Jerry .Falwell, said that there should be no complacency
: among Gay civil rights activists. "No one should ask us to be
¯ grateful because there’s less bigotry," Frank said to rousing
cheers. "It never should have been there at all."
Therest of the ceremony,was by turns solemn andcomical. The
New York City Gay Men s Chorus sang a requiem for the late
Matthew Shepard, the Wyoming youth killed by Gay-bashers,
and a group called Lavender Light performed "We Shall
Overcome."
But actor Jay Goede did a hilarious reading of a 1969 Daily
News article on the Stonewall riot, opening with its homophobic
headline: "Homo nest raided. Queen bees are stinging mad."
Later, drag performer Miss Coco Peru - in red wig, matching
lipstick and sequined purple dr~s - stood in the pulpit with Gay
police Sgt. Edward Rodriguez. As a Gay boy growing up in the
Bronx," Miss Peru said, "I never dreamed I’d be in the world’s
largest Gothic cathedral, in the pulpit, in full drag." She smiled,
and the audience applauded.
Longtime activist Jimmy Flowers stands before
Parade Grand Marshall US Rep. Barney Frank.
Community Leadership
Meeting Called for 6/20
TULSA - Established community leaders, Marty
NewmanandDennis Neill, have called acommumty
leadership meeting for 6pro on Tuesday, July 20.
According to the letter that went out under
Newman’s and Neill’s names, the intent of the
meeting is to capitalize on the "renewed sense of
excitement and energy" that’s resulted from the
recent Pride weekend events: Tulsa’s first parade,
the annual picnic and the dinner featuring US
Congressman Barney Frank from Massachusetts.
The letter went to nearly 50 businesses and
organizations, from bars to churches inviting each
to send one representative to present their priorities,
fo seek ways better to work together, and to "work
towards building a more cohesive Gay & Lesbian
community." see Meeting, p.11
From one religibus extreme to another at the
Parade, Rev, LesliePenroseto anti-Gayprotesters,
Rev. PenroseAccepted in
UCC; l her Religi .us
i Groups Also Welcomzng
¯" TULSA- TheReverend Leslie Penrose, pastor of
: Community of Hope Base Shalom Congregation
¯ has had her request for transfer of her.ordination
: accepted by the Ecclesiastical Council of the
¯ Oklahoma Association of the United Church of
: ChrisL Penrose, _had received her ordination within
: the United Methodist Church but had been
: experiencing harassment within that denomination
¯ by anti-Gay activists because she had performed
: religious ceremonies that blessed same-gender
¯ relationships, i.e. "holy unions."
: Pem’ose, writing in Community of Hope’s
newsletter, noted that the process of being
nszderedfor transfeXincludedpreachingasermon
: and presenting several papers and then waiting for
: the vote by the council. But she also said that upon
¯ arrival, she’d been greeted with a comment from
: the Rev. Russell Bennett saying, "your name’s
," already on the cakeF’ And indeed after the "yes"
¯¯ vote, Peurose was .welcomed at a reception where
there was a cake that said,"Welcome, Leslie, to the
¯ United Church of Christ!"
: But the UCC is not the only Christian group
: trying to welcome Lesbians and see Leslie, p. 14
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by Tom Neal, editor &publisher
For this month, I’m going to try just to
¯ say something nice. It’ s not what comes
¯ naturally now. After almost 6 years of
¯ journalism and more than 10 years of all
but full-time, unpaid activism for civil
¯ rights for Lesbian and Gay Americans,
¯ I’ ve grown cynical. It’ s hardnotto become
¯ thatwayworkinginOklahoma andTexas ¯
- dearly not Gay-friendly environs.
:- But this last month’ s success of Pride
¯ ’99 helps to bolster that wee bit of hope
" that’s not entirely faded. And Pride ’99
: organizers deserve to behonored for their
¯ work.Severalnamesneedtobementioned
¯ particularly: Rick Martin who chaired the
¯ picnic for his second year, and Mitchell
Savage who chaired the Barney Frank
¯ dinner. Others also merit recognition:
¯ Steve Horn as TOHR president, Kerry ¯
¯ Lewis aspro-bonolegal counsd, andTim
Gillean who was honored as TOHR
," volunteer of the year, Robin Leach, and
¯ the rock, in the sense said by the Christ to ¯
Saint Peter (and graphic designer par
¯ excellence)ofthecommunitycenter,Greg
," Gatewood. There are others, no doubt,
¯ who should also be named, a host of ¯
additional volunteers, and I wish to honor
¯ -them as well.
¯ Congressman Frank was a joy to hear,
¯ an inspiration, a gentle goad to us as a ¯
commumty toovercomeourcomplacency.
: Especially in a state where Gay and
¯ Lesbian citizens effectively have no ¯
¯ politicalrepresentation,itseems ourvoices
are heard in our own government at least
: through this Congressman from
¯ Massachusetts. My hope is that his
message willbe taken to heart and that our
¯
people will get politically involved - we
: can change this state.
It’ s already happening, thanks in huge
: measure to the Cimarron Alliance’ s work
¯ at the Oklahoma Capitol, and as I have
¯ said before, in particular to Keith Smith’ s
¯ and Nancy McDonald’ s work there (yep,
¯" you did read that -nice words even for
", those with whom I’ve occasionally, or
: even frequently, disagreed).
¯ Now post-Pride, we must build on this ¯
success. There are signs this is happening.
~ Two of our most respected community
¯ leaders have called a leadership meeting
~ to see what common ground we can
: establish. This is great. It’s been tried
: before but the time wash’ t right and these
~ two have the stature to bring together
¯ those who might not otherwise meet.
¯
However, I’ll suggest that the goal of
: such organizing should not be "unity."
¯ We are a widely diverse group with class,
: race, gender, educational, age, and health
~ status differences, and recreational
¯ preferences. Unity in such a diversity is
¯ impossible, andinourpast,nationally and
locally, has frequently been "achieved"
: through a kind of Gay fascism, where
: those with dissenting views were told to
¯ conform or pay the price usually by an
: economic, gender and racial elite, i.e.
¯ rich, white guys.
: However, building consensus, through
¯¯ long hard work, by really listening to.the
diversity ofourcommunity(communities)
¯ is possible, see Pride, p~ 10
¯ Letters Policy
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¯ need to be considered. You may request that
," your name be withheld but letters must be
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: to other publications will be printed as is
~ appropriate.
A giantRainbowflag ends theparade at Veteran’s Park.
Cimarron Alliance may have had the most artistic float,
Al & David had the coolest bikes in the paradel
The University ofTulsa’s Bi/Lesbian/Gay/Trans Alliance
Gay-j~iendly straight supporters also marched.
Paul Barby behind Marthd Hardwick & her kazoo band..
Greg Gatewood, US Cong. Barney Frank, & BJ Medley
T.U.L.S.A. - butch guys with sweet smiles.
PFLAG’s McDonald
Hilary Kitz & son.
CSC"s Janice Nicklas
Father Walt Rockabrand
" Fabulousdiva&fundraiserAudraSommersandfriends.
Counci!OakMens ’. Chorale alsoperformed atthepicnic.
The cross ofHouse of the Holy Spirit stood in witness.
Theparadecoveredmore than a mile, Peoria to Riverside.
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Miss Gay Black Oklahoma America 1999
The University ofOklahoma’s Gay/Lesbian/Bi Alliance
¯ ,. FrustratedHousewivesplayedanexcellentsetattheend.
Lawmakers Fight Anti- ¯ agenda." - Supporters said it is a long-overdue
Gay Discrimination
WASHINGTON - Democratic and~Republican
lawmakers from New England revived efforts
last month to pass a federal law prohibiting job
discrimination against Gays. To boost the
measure’s chance of passage, lawmakers have
rewritten it to explicitly prohibit preferential
treatment of Gays, such as hiring to meet quotas
or designing affLrmative action standards to make.
up for past discrimination.
Opponents of the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act, known as ENDA, have
successfully fgught it in three previous
Congresses on the grounds that it would extend
special protections to Gays.
"ENDA will achieve equal rights - not special
.flights- for gays and lesbians," said Sen. James
J~fords, R-Vt., who plans to pass the bill out of
his Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
Committee andthen try to force considerailon.by
the full.Senate. In 1996, the Senate defeated a
similar bill by one vote.
Vice President A1 Gore, campaigning in Los
Angeles at a Gay and Lesbian center, voiced
support for the legislation. "It does not confer
any special rights, but it does outlaw the kind of
discrimination that has become all too common
in our society," he Said.
The bill was introduced by Jeffords and Sens.
Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Joseph
LielJerman, D-Conn., and in the House by Reps.
Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Christopher Shays,
R=Conn. "If they’re able to get it out of the
Senate, that would create tremendous pressure
on the House," said Shays, an influential
moderate.
Shays and other ENDA supporters argue that
the bill would pass the House - if conservative
Republican 1eaders allow it to comeupfor debate
-becauseit is backedby amajority ofAmericans.
ENDA would extend basic civil rights
protections in the area of employment to cover
sexual orientation. Such protections are already
afforded to people on the basis of race, religion,
gender, national origin, age and disability.
Eleven states --California, Connecticut,
Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey;
Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, New
Hampshire and Nevada - already prohibit job
discrimination against gays.
ENDA would prohibit employers of 15 or
more, employment agencies and labor unions
from using an individual’ s sexual orientation as
the basis for employment decisions, such as
hiring, firing, promotion or compensation. The
bill would exempt the .military and religious
organizations. It would not require benefits for
workers’ same-sex partners.
Oooonents aren’t buying the argument that the
bill- ~v~n’ t confer special-rights. RobertH. Knight
of the conservative Family Research Council
said sexual orientation shouldn’t be a category
that receives federal protection from job
discrimination because it involves behavior.
Other specially protected categories, such as
race, gender and disability, do not.
"What if that person was representing a
company and it became known that that person
had wild and bizarre sexual tastes?" he asked.
"That reflects on his employer. An employer
should have the right to say,’I don’t want to have
that kind of person working for me." "
: statement in support of equality, since same-sex
¯ couples cannot marry.
¯ The list would be similar to those in about 50
: cities across the country, including Atlanta,
~ Boston and Madison. Under the measure, same-
" sex couples could pay $30 to have their names
¯" placed on the registry. They would have to be 18
." or older, live together and show some form of
: financial unity, such as a joint bank account or
~ joint ownership of a vehicle.
¯ Two years ago, the council rejected by a vote
~ of 14-3 an effort to give health and funeral leave
~ benefits to unmarriedpartners ofcity employees.
¯ However, the currentmeasureis less controversial
¯ becauselittle,ifany, taxpayermoney is involved=
Still, about 130 people came to the meelang o!
~ the council’s Judiciary and Legislation
¯ Committee. T,,h,er~ewereapplause,hisses,mut.ters
~ and "Amens during testimony for and against
~ theproposal. CaseyLepianka, whocalledhimself
~ anevangelist, told the committeethattheproposal
¯ condones Sinful behavior and would help send
same-sex couples to "the fires of hell."
¯ Bill Attewell of Milwaukee said the.registry
would make it easier for himto get benefits from
¯" his partner’s employer. "It angers me that simply
: by living my life with my partner, it becomes a
~ politicalissue," Attewell said.
If approved July 13 by the council and signed
Milwaukee May
Register Gay Couples
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A Common C6~incil
committee has approved the creation of a
voluntary city-run registry that would allow Gay
couples to formally declare their relationships.
Tile measure, which passed 3-1 over the loud
objections of Bible-quoting critics, goes to the
full council next month.
Opponents said the registry is the first step
toward carrying out a destructive "Gay-fights
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Gore Visit.s LA Gay
CommunltyCenter
,de .N.M ! od
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Vice President AI Gore,
seeking to bolster his credentials as a unifier, ¯ " fo"rgi ~n_d_ _A~d~l-llt~
offered a forceful defense of affirmative action.
I MeG ted 6_2_3 71.e?
and paid tribute to aGay andLesbian.ommunity
center. He faced a skeptical audience at the Gay i.
1
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purdy political. I Gore’s tour of the center came exactly one
weekafter his rival for the Democraticpresidential
nomination, formerNew Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley,
visited it.
"I’m here to learn and to pay honor to this
~lace," Gore said, adding the Gay and Lesbian
Center of Los Angeles was helping to chang,
attitudes and abolish some .. irrationa~
discrimination thetis all toocommon."Hegranted
his only interview of the day to the Advocate, a
national Gay and Lesbian news magazine.
"Thevicepresidenthas alongtimecommitment
to bringing our country together," said Gore
spokesman Chris Lehane. "He strongly believes
that we’re much stronger as a country when all
aspects of our community work together and
come together."
Gore said he supports federal legislation that
would outlaw discrimination against
homosexuals at the workplace, and bills
criminalizing certain hate crimes.
Michelle Byler, 22, said she didnrt find Gore
convincing. "He didn’t really speak to me or say
anything to impress me," said l~yler, who said
she left the Army after acknowledging her~
homosexuality. She added that she had reef.
Bradley aweekearlier andfoundBmdleyequally.
tmimpressive.
Arkansas Sodomy
¯ Challenge Continues
: LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A group challenging the
¯ constitutionality ofArkansas’ law against s°d°my
; can continue with itscourt acdon against the
; state, the Arkansas Supreme Court-ruled. In its
¯ June 24th opinion, the court ruled against a
¯ request that the law be thrown offthe books.
¯ The court overturned a chancellor s refus to
~ grant a motion by the state attorney general’s
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¯ specificconsensual actsbetweenpersonsofthe same sex. ¯ discrimination, although the ordinance in
The court agreed with the attorney general and " Lonisvilleonlyaddressesemployment.’‘Thereis
¯ prosecutor that a chancery court lackedjurisdiction in the " a perception that all Gay and Lesbian people flee
small towns to live in big cities, and that’s not
¯ matter. However, the courtdisagreed with their argu.m,en.ts,
that a constitutional challenge must be.postponed until ¯ true," said Guess, of Zion United Church of
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The justices ordered that the case be transferred to ¯
communities of choice becauselegal protections
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¯ so that it doesn’t discriminate against employe~.s could be appealed to the Supreme Court. .
¯ The suit that seven homosexual men and women filed
on the basis of sexual ofientation. However, It
¯ " applies only to people working or seeking
¯ in Pulaski County.Chantry ~?.~,,t. ~,k.,e~l., ,Ch.:an~.d~ ~; e~ployment in;cit’y governmehL " CollinsKilg°re~°ldeclarethes°dOmyiawunc°nsttmu°n ¯ Guess said Fairness Campaign officials have
¯ and to bar enforcementof the statute. . : . ¯
¯ TheLambdaLegalDefenseand,FxlucationF.lm,d.hafltsedee
. met with the four city commissioners and the
mayor to share stories of people being denied
the decision ,,Welookforwardtotlaenextstepln,tmsca:s, ¯ apartments or being turned down for.jobs. ~dade]
¯ ---the chanc~ to show that the.sodomy,law, .violate,s,,tlae . Fairness Campaign plans to present a mo
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¯ ArKansans......staf. - ¯ ¯ " September. Opponents are promising to defeat it
Shehad argued the case since it was filedln January 1998.
The suit said members of the group had performed and
saying thelaw would guarantee special rights ant
¯ would perform in the future,sexual ac.t.s bar~ed, by~ me_
that homosexuality is morally wrong and against
statute, and that they feared prosecuuon. ~oaomy l~
" Biblical teachings. . ,
misdemeanor under thelaw, ptmishableby up to a year in
" City Commissioner Robby Mills opposes, me
ordinance but admits it has a chance ot passing.
jail and a $1,000 fine. The suit says the law violates their
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things, thattheirofficeswereimmunefromlawsuits, that " are going to pav,e, next and what sewer project we
: the chancery court was not the proper place to file the are going to d&
¯ lawsuit and that the law should be challenged only in ". Guess said the measure has the support of
several area congregations and church leaders,
: defense of a prosecution. " from Catholic priests to Presbyterian ministers.
: Gay Couples Covered by : Lon Oliver, senior minister at First Christian
¯ . Church, said he has been shocked by the tone of ¯ Domestic Violence Law someopponents,whohavesaidthattheordinance
" would lead to teaching homosexuality in schools
¯ TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A circuit judge has ruled Florida’s : and that Henderson would become a haven for
¯ domestic violence law covers Gay couples¯ "To hold Gays . ,’The harslmess of the rhetoric and the fear
¯ otherwise would undermine the efforts to safeguard, " has surprised us all," he said.
¯ regardless of gender, the rights of victims of domestic
¯ The Green Valley Baptist Association, which
¯ violence," Judge Ronald N. Ficarrotta wrote in his rifling, represents 30 churches andabout 14,000members
" " The ruling came in the case of David Baker who was . _themajorityoftheminHendersonCounty~has
¯ charged with violating a domestic violence restraining " adopted a resolution denouncing the ordinance.
¯ order taken out by his former partner, David Lozier, 39.
¯ Mills, the city commissioner, said that
¯ Public defenders asked the judge last week to dismiss " Henderson citizens generally do not accept the
¯ the case against Baker, saying the injunction was invalid. " homosexuallifestyle¯"Our community is apolite
¯ They maintained the judge who signed the injunction commumty that will not g. .I~O,,P,.......
’ " et in le’s face and
¯ ,,w.rongly recognized ahomosexual relationship a~ family.
" say, ’You shouldn’tbe doing that, lae sam.
. The court, in issuing, this, injuncu~on,, r,eco.~g~i~zed. a
¯ when this is brought forward, you’ll see a huge
¯ homosexual relationship as a family, which vlotates me " amountofpeoplewanting to voice their opinion."
¯ longstanding policy of ~e Flori,da, Constitution, s~tut.e~s_,
¯ The debate could go statewide. State Rep. Kathy
Legislature and courts, Baker s lawyers wrote, rmnoa - Stein,D_Lexington,hasproposedabillthatwould
¯ doesnotrecog~.’.zemarriagesbe.twee,ns,a,.m..e-,s.exp~,ar,m_~oS~ ¯ protect homosexuals, from discrimination.,s The
¯ FicarrottasaldBakerandLozter, wnouvextt°gemert . measurecouldbediscussedatnextyear General
.. seven years, sharing ahousehold andjointbank accounts,
¯ Assembly session.
¯
didlive together as family. Legislators who expanded the
¯ domestic violence law in 1991 intendedit to protect all " Namibian Court Rules ¯ meLmobzieerrshoafdaahcocuusseedhohlids,ohneetsiamideipnahrtinseorr°dfers.-trhkinghim for Lesbian Couple
andlaterharassing him wlth threatemngphone calls. I m . WINDHOEK, Namibia - Namibia’s high court
¯ very happy with the decision," he said. ¯
¯ Hillsborough County Public Defender Julinnne Holt
has ruled that Gay and Lesbian couples have
¯
saidherofficewillr,e,viewthejudge’sorderbef°redeciding
" exactly-the same fights in the country as
¯ whether to appeal. Webelieve that it’s not dear that (the
" heterosexual couples. The Namibian newspaper
" "d ..... if " said the ruling was a rebuke to often hom°ph°bic
’ " law) covers same-sex couples, she sal . the term, as
~ afnmily,"isnotdefinedinFloridala~v andthereapparently
¯ government that had sought to deny a German
are no previous cases on the issue, according to court
¯ woman a residence permit because of her
¯ " relationship with her Namibian parmer.
¯ records. In theruling, Judge Harold Levy also ruled the
¯ Small Kentucky Town May of Home Affairs must supply reasons
¯
for refusing an application for permanent : Ban Anti-Gay Bias ¯ residence.Thejudgerejectedministryatguments
¯ that the nature of the rdationship betw~m Liz ¯
HENDERSON,Ky.(AP)-WhentheLonisvilleB°ard°f " Frank, a German, and Elizabeth Khaxas, a
¯ Aldermen voted earlier this year to ban discrimination ~ Namibian, had no bearing on the application.
~ against homosexuals in the workplace, the Rev. Ben ¯ The couple has been living together for several
Guess was at city hall to celebrate. Now, Guess finds years and are ratsmg a son. Not only is thi
¯ himself involved in a similar debate in his own city of relationship recognized, but the respondents
¯ Henderson¯ A group of citizens is urging M_ayor Joan
¯ (HomeAffairs)shouldha,v,.etakenit~toa.ccx).unt,."
Hoffman and the City Commission to make it-illegal to
¯ Levy said in his ruling. I have no hesitation is
¯ discriminate in employment, housing and public saying that the long-term relationship between
¯ accommodations based on aperson’s sexual orientation.
¯
the applicants in so far as it is a universal
¯ If approved, Henderson would become the second partnership, xs recogmzeo t~y ia , wrote Levy.
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Tests Droppin
ATLANTA (AP) - Fewer Americans are
choosing to remain anonymous when
tested for HIV at federally funded clinics,
hospitals and prisons, according to a
government report¯ In most states, people
can get tested for the AIDS virus without
giving their names. But the number of
federally fundedanonymous tests declined
nearly 27% between 1995 and 1997, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reported recently.
"One of the reasons perhaps is that
people are beginning to see HIV as more
of a treatable condition and perhaps less
of a stigmatizing disease," RobertJanssen,
deputy director of HIV and AIDS
prevention at the CDC, said. The decline
coincides with theemergence of powerful
drugs that have allowed HIV patients to
live longer, more normal lives. Also, new
laws and regulations have been designed
to protect the confidentiality of people
who give their names when tested.
The study period alsoincludes the arrival
of the home AIDS test, which went on the
market in 1996 and gav.e people another
option for checking their HIV status
anonymously.
The CDC looked at 6.3 million HIV
tests conducted at health clinics,hospitals,
drug treatment centers and prisons.~Those
sites conduct about 15% of H~.V tests in
the United States. Federally funded HIV
tests declined8% overall,from2.5 million
tests in 1995 to 2.3 million in 1997. The
drop could reflect the wider options
available for testing and a growing
population thathasbeen tested anddoesn’t
feel the need to do it again, Janssen said.
Joycelyn Elders at
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DETROIT (AP) - Former Surgeon
General Joycelyn Elders advocated the
use of condoms, commumty involvement
and needle exchange programs in
Michigan’s fight against AIDS.
Elders kicked offAIDS Walk Michigan
- Detroit, a September fund-raising event
coordinated by the Michigan Women and
AIDS Committee. The walk’s organizers,
who helped bring Elders here, said they
hope to raise community awareness of
AIDS and HIV, especially among
minorities.
In 1997, AIDS was the leading cause of
death among blacks ages 24 to 44, despite
falling AIDS death rates for the general
population, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. It was
the second leading cause of death among
Hispanics in that age group in 1996.
But Denise Stokes, a member of
President Clinton’s AIDS Advisory
Council and a speaker at aregional AIDS/
HIV conference here this week, said HIV
and AIDS do not strike limited
¯ communities. "The only requirement to
get HIV is to be human," said Ms. Stokes,
who has lived with HIV for 17 years.
Elders saidthegovernment is harming
society bynbtmaking more clean needles
a~ailable to. drug users. ~’I consider that
absolutdy abuse," Eiders: said during a
Detroitnew~ conference. Some Michigan
cities have privately funded needle
exchange programs.
Elders also highlighted the experiences
of families with mothers with AIDS. She
said thatin thepast, criteriafor diagnosing
AIDS were based on men, not women.
Thus,womenoftenreceivedlate diagnoses
and didnotreceive treatmentIn time. "We
have almost 100,000 children who have
been orphaned because of the death of
their mothers,", she said.
She urged churches and communities
to talk with young people about HIV and
AIDS, but said telling them to abstain
from sex isn’t enough. Instead, she would
make condoms available to students, many
of whom are sexually active already, she
said. "Weknow abslinence works, heaven
knows it works," Elders said. "But we are
sexual beings, and the vows of abstinence
break far more easily than do latex
condoms."
Arab World Needs
More AIDS Info
ABHA, Saudi Arabia (AP) - AIDS
specialists, health workers and
government officials wound up a threeday
conference with the ~onsensus that
information onthe deadly disease must be
more vigorously disseminated throughout
the Arab world.
Cases ofAIDS and HIV - the virus that
causes AIDS - remain relatively low in
the Middle East and North Africa region
- 19,000 adults and children in the region
were infected with the human
immunodeficiency virus in 1998,
compared with44,000 infectious in North
America and 30,000 in Western Europe.
But the disease is slowly spreading; and
nearly 500 people gathered in this
mountain resort some 1,000 kilometers
(620 miles) south of Riyadh this week to
hear the latest on how to combat the
epidemic. "The stumbling block is that
thefigures (onHIV-AIDS infections) may
not be accurate," said Dr. Fahad A1-
Rabiah, a specialist oninfecfious diseases
at King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh, the
capital.
The conference, the third such gathering
held every five years, was organized by
the King Faisal Hospital and Research
Center, the World Health Organization
and the Saudi Health Ministry.
Strict social and moral codes that
prohibit premarital sex, adultery,
homosexuality and drug abuse are
effective in slowing the spread of HIV
infections in Arab and Islamic countries,
the speakers noted. But these same codes
consider discussing sex and sex education
taboo, limiting the flow of information
about the disease. WHO estimates that
there were 210,000 adults and children
with HIV or fully developed AIDS in the
Middle F_~st and North Africa region in
1998.
The conference speakers pointed out
that the number of cases will continue to
rise as more young people experiment
with sex and drugs without knowledge of
safe sex methods and other precautions.
MostHIV cases in the region are attributed
to heterosexual transmission and shared
drug needles.
Adding to the growing concern, many
Arab governments are not willing to treat
AIDS as athreatening epidemic, so testing
for HIV and medicine supplies are
inadequate.
According to ,1998WHOfigures, there
e~are~. 373 AIDS patients" in Saudi Arabia,
¯ considered the most socially and
religiously strictcountryin theArabworld.
"The figures are low, but that should not
make us become lazy (in combating
AIDS)," Dr. A1-Rabiah said. "The most
important way to fight the disease in the
kingdom now is to make people aware of
it and admit that it exists."
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Some Less Likely to
Get HIV/AIDS Care
WASHINGTON (AP) - Minorities, the
poor and people who contracted AIDS
through drug use are less likely to get
needed care, including revolutionary new
drugs that have prolonged life for
thousands ofpeople, according to the first
national study of AIDS treatment.
The disparities were particularly acute
in 1996, when the study began, and have
improved somewhat over two years. But
the gap persisted for many groups,
including women, who are most likely to
get HIV through sex with a drug user and
are also less likely to be in treatment.
Future research will focus on the cause
of the disparities: Are certain patients
failing to seek care? Or are the attitudes
and practices of doctors and hospitals
making it harder for these patients to get
it?
"At least on an unconscious level, some
providers may have more aggressively
tried to provide these treatments to certain
patients," said Dr. Martin F. Shapiro of
the University of California at Los
Angeles, lead author of the study being
published today in the Joumal.-of the
American Medical Association (JAMA).
Shapiro also noted that the differences
in care based on insurance type and race
persisted, evenwhenresearchers took into
account such factors as how the person
contracted the virus.
This, he and others said, reflects larger
disparities in the health system that go
well beyond AIDS. "The voices of the
poor are not heard well in this country,"
Shapiro said. ’-’In the case of HIV, the
consequences of that can be quite
profound."
Overall, care improved from 1996 to
1998. At first, just 29% of ~all patients
were receiving care that met all six
standards. Thatjumped to47% two years
later.
But the care differed widely among
groups. In 1998, for instance, 88% of
whites were receiving powerful protease
inhibitors, but just 80% Of blacks were.
Similarly, 87% of men infected through
sex with other men were taking these
drugs in 1998, compared with 81% of
those infected through drug use.
Some of the gap had narrowed, but
researchers found that tread had slowed,
meaning further improvements were not
likely. While disparities in access to health
care are widespread, unlike other diseases,
mostpeople with theAIDS virus can trace
their infection to one of two sources:
homosexual men or intravenous drug
USerS.
Part of the explanation is simple
economics. People infected through
intravenous drug use, or sex with a drug
user, generally have less money, less
education and more life problems - all of
which keep them from getting effective
care. Someone who can’t pay the rent or
buy groceries or who is addicted to drugs
may find getting medical.care a low
priority. "That tends to be much more of
adown-and-outpopulationinevery way,,
said Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, who studies
racial disparities in health at Harvard
Medical School.
At the same time, the Gay commLlnity
has mobilized around the disease,
educating its members about treatment
options and the importance of getting
care. But while the AIDS epidemic hit
homosexnal men first, black~ are the
fimting growing group of victims, now
accounting for nearly half of all new
infections, making the disparities in care
even more alarming to public health
officials. There are many AIDS clinics in.
the Gay community but few that are
targeted to drug users, said Peter Lurie of
Public Citizen’s Health Research Group.
"The injection drug users are a relatively
forgotten part of this epidemic," he said.
The new research comes from the HIV
Cost and Utilization Study, the first
national data on care for people with HIV
and AIDS. Researchers identified about
231,400 American adults with HIV.who
were receiving at least some medical care
outside the militaiy or prison, in all states
except Alaska and Hawaii.
From this group, a random sample of
more than 2,000 patients was chosen for
interviews beginning in early 1996 and
againin early 1998. Researchers measured
six components of care- three relating to
use of medication and three related to use
of doctors and hospitals.
Morgues Stay Open
Longer DuetoAIDS
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - State
morgues are extending their hours to cope
with Zimbabwe’s soaring death rate,
mostly as a result ofAIDS, the main state-
. controlled newspaper reported in June.
An estimated 3,000 people now die every
week in the southern African country,
nearly 70% of them from AIDS-related
illnesses, The Herald reported.
Harare’s main hospital will now staff
its morgue around the clock and other
hospital mortuary facilities will extend
closing time by four hours to 8 p.m.,
health authorities said, according to the
newspaper. Families ofthe dead also were
being asked to remove corpses within 24
hours of death to reduce overcrowding in
morgues, the paper said.
The National AIDS Coordination
Program estimaies that more than 80,000
Zimbabweans will diefromAIDS-related
illnesses this year. The World Health
Organization says some 25% of
Zimbabwe’s 12.5 million people are
infected with the virus that causes AIDS.
Churches Helping
Support PLWAs
RALEIGH (AP) - Churches and secular
groups in one area of North Carolina are
consolidating to work together on what
they call a holistic approach for AIDS
patients. A coalition of faith-based
congregations Will consolidate with two
secular AIDS service agencies to create
the largest Triangle organization helping
people cope with the virus. Triangle is the
¯ name for the central geographical area of
North Carolina.
: Thenew entity, which still has no name
¯" or central location, will help people with
HIV or AIDS secure federal funding for
" housing, track Social Security benefits
: andfind supportgroups. Anditwillmatch
¯. clients who want spiritual help with a
chaplain or a congregation ready to help
i them. "It’s one thing to give lip service t,o,
compassion; it’s another thing to do it,
"_ said Stacy Smith, who chairs the Triangle
¯ AIDS Interfaith Network’s board of ¯
directors. "For congregations, the
: consolidation points to a way they can
: walk the walk- not just talk the talk."
¯ BeforeAIDS advocates agreedto allow
: churches to work with them, they insisted
: on two conditions: All clients would be
i treated equally no matter how they were
infected, see Health, p. ~4
by TFN Entertainment Editor
Can youbelieve that it’s nearly the year
2000? And that 1999-2000 is Broken
Arrow Playhouse’s 20th ~nniversary
season? 13APC is celebrating this
milestone with six productions: You’re a
GoodMan, CharlieBrown, Murderonthe
Nile, Greater. Tuna,
Arsenic & Old Lace,
Steel Magnolias, and
The Sound of Music.
While none of these
productions are strict-.
ly Gay plays, this is a
company doing good
work that’s always
been Gay-friendly.
Yes, it is ajourney out
of mid-town to the
wilds of Broken
Arrow (except for
those of you who live
out there anyway) but the productions
merit the journey.
Speaking of good works, Saint Louis
Bread, and .local franchise owners, Jim
and Gaynell Magers havebeen great about
supporting local charities. So when they
opened their fourth _and fifth Tulsa
locations, it ~should be little surprise that
they gave 100% (100%! ! ! !) ofthe proceeds
of their opening "dry runs" to charity.
When the Woodland Hills ,location
opened, the proceeds benefit~l Tulsa
CARES (formerly the HIV Resource
Consortium) and the Girl Scouts. The
opening ofthelocationnear Bishop Kelley
benefited Bishop Kelley. So when you
dine next at St. Louis Bread, thank them
for their community spirit - they don’t
¯ have to do it and it really helps.
St. LouisBreadBenefitfor TulsaCARES
and the Girl Scouts: co-owners Jim &
Gaynell Magers, Tulsa CARES
presidentJoeINorvetl, &J.A. Hankins,
Bishop Kelley Director ofDevelopment
: And if you’re thinking of taking in a
¯
meal at The Polo Grill, consider dining
¯ thereonJuly 6th, whenthose two fabulous
¯¯ Gay guys, financial guru,SteveD,Wright
and his buddy, Taimadge Poweil will be
: the Polo Grill’s guest chefs. It should be
great menu - you can
get a preview on
KJRH’s morning
show on July 5th.
Make your reservation
now !
Don’t forget that
Gilcrease has the
exceptional show,
Taos Artis ts and their
Patrons, 1898-1950
up through July 18th.
And opening in
August is their show
featuring extra-
. ordinary masks from Northwest Native
¯ American tribes.
¯ At theendofSeptember,THENAMES ¯
PROJECT will hold its annual Feast for
¯ Friends on 9/25 at the Tulsa Marriott
¯ Sou-them Hills. If you don’t recall, this is ¯
theeventwhereyoudine withyourfriends,
¯ casually or formally and then join all the
: other Feast supporters for dessert. The
¯ event raises funds for HIV/AIDS
¯ education and specifically to present
: portions of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
¯ The next local presentation of part of the ¯
quilt is planned for World AIDS Day,
¯ Dec. 1, 2000. Into: 748-3111. Also,
¯ Council Oak Mens Chorale has a
" performance planned for August. We’ll
: bring you more about that. Stay posted.
by the Rev. Mel White, Soulforce, Inc.
On June 26, the Huntington Library in
Pasadena, California, announced the first
publicexhibitionof the Nurembergpapers.
Signed by Adolf Hitler himself, the
original documents havebeenonfile since
they were donated by General George
Patton in 1945. Hitler decreed these brief
laws to guarantee the"racial purity" ofhis
Third Reich. They redefined the role of
Jews in Germany and opened the doors to
holocaust. "I felt like I was viewing the
first draft of the death warrant that led to
the demise of one-third of world Jewry,"
said Dr. Uri Herscher. "Once deportation
began" added UCLA professor Saul
Friedlander, "these laws determined who
would live and who would die."
The four primary paragraphs were
pnblishedin the Los Angeles Times. I was
stunned by their familiarity. The minute
.they are on display, Gary and I will be
there to see them. IhopeI won’tembarrass
him with involuntary tears. We should
publish them in every GLBT paper in the
country With the warning: It could happen
again!
Paragraph 1: Ended theright of Jews to
marry freely. Sounds like a reason to work
even harder to defeat the "Antigay
Marriage" laws.
Paragraph 2: Ended the right of Jews to
have sexual intercourse freely. Sounds
like a reason to continue our efforts to
rescind the "Sodomy’’ laws.
Paragraph3. Ended the right of Jews tO
employee or be employed freely. Sounds
like a reason to support ENDA, the
Employment Nondiscrimination Act.
. paragraph 4. Ended the right of Jews to
¯ display/serve the nation’s flag freely.
¯ Sounds like areason to seek thatpromised
¯ executive order from President Clinton to
¯" end the ban on gays in the military at last.
; While we’re celebrating all our hard-
" earned victories (and we deserve the time
¯ to celebrate), we need to remember that ¯
Berlin in the 1930s was the most gayfriendly
city in the world. How quickly
¯ life as cabaret became a nightmare of suffering and death.
¯ Too many of us believe our adversaries
¯ are ~fools who are only using us to raise
funds and mobilize volunteers. In fact
¯ they are sincere believers, determined to
¯ end our rights.
Too many of us think that it is NOT
important for us to contribute time and
¯
money to help continue our struggle for
¯ equal rights. Infactany one ofour primary
adversaries raises more money every
¯ month in part to end th.ose fi.ghts than our entire commumty raises in a year to
¯ preserve and protect them.
¯ Too many of us think the danger is
passed and that time is on the side of
¯ justice. In fact Dr. King madeit very clear.
¯ "Time is on the side of injustice."
¯ Even if Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwdl,
¯
James Dobson and the others look to you
¯ likefools who arelosingpower, their antihomosexual
rhetoric is reaching critical
mass in thehomes and churches of our
childhood. Let these documents remind
us that it could happen again. Our
¯ "Nuremberg Laws" are in place or on the ¯
ballot. All it would take is for you or for
¯ me to do nothing.
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~" TUESDAYS
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One of the biggest controversies surrounding
the Gay civil rights movement
today is the act known as outing- one
person publicly identifying another,
closeted person as homosexual, against
their wishes. Although this
trend seems to be winding
down, there are still many
people, young and old, who
are unable to .identify themselves
as Losblian or Gay.
Because they ar~ not prepared
to,acknowledge their orientation,
they lead double lives to
disguisethe truthfromfriends,
families and eoworkers.
"Outing Yourself," by
Michelangelo Signorile,
recognizes the difficulty of
these situations andprovides a
step-by-step program for
making the .journey from
"Identifying Yourself" to"Not
Thinking About It at All."
Signorileoutlines 14 steps,
under six general parts which
include "Outing Yourself to
Yourself," "Outing Yourself
to Other Gay People," "Outing
Yourself to Your Straight
Friends," "Outing Yourself to Your Family,"
"Outing Yourself to Your C0workers,"
and, finally, "Coming Out Every
Day," which includes ways to help others
undertake the same journey.
Signorile examines the most difficult
steps in the first chapter, where he presents
the thoughts of other authors, including
film historian Vito Russo, who
said, "The truth will set you free, but first
it will be a pain in the neck," and Mark
Thompson, who commented, "Basically,
coming out is a death and rebirthexperience.
To come out, something has to diewhateveritwasyouthought
your were...In
asense, you’rekiiling aformer constructed
identity and creating anew one." Also in
this chapter are exercises to do whichmay
seem simplistic to some, but helpful to
others, depending on how comfortable
one is with the coming-out process.
We can create a list of shared goals,
particularly here in Oklahoma where we
have so far yet to go.
i’11 be so bold as to list afew I hope will
make the cut: continuing the work to pass
improved hate crimes protections in the
Oklahoma Legislature, asking for nondiscrimination
policies in private and
public corporations and agencies;
replacement .of elected officials who
support prejudice against Lesbians, Gay
men, Bisexuals and Transgendered
persons.
Some of this canbe the work ofjust one
individua. Rogers University, now OSUTulsa,
added~term "sexual orientation"
to its non-discrimination policy because
one.person asked them to do so. That was
me. Now had that request not been heard
by social progressives ontheRogersboard
like Nancy Feldman, Dorothy Dewitty
and SharonKing Davis, it wouldnothave
passed. But they wouldn’t have run with
that ff someone hadn’t asked. Each of us
canbring this reform effort to someaspect
of our lives.-
A. number of significant Tulsa
¯ As the journey continues, the author
¯¯ documents true experiences which reveal
the common frustrations related to-
" homophobia and the act of
: "deprogramming yoursdf" from stereo-
. types and the myths that cause lesbians
: and gays to feel out of place in a straight
S;~norlh...
presents the
thoughts of
other authors,
ineludlng
film hlstorlan
Vito Russo,
who s~;d,
’~Fhe truth
will set you
free, but
first it will be
society. In "Meeting Other
-Gay People," the reader is
reminded that today, with gay
community centers, organizations,
newspapers and computer
bulletin boards, the gay
bar is no longer the primary
gathering place. There is a list
of related books, many of
which arein thelibrary, which
should be consulted to further
explain the sometimes
complex and contradictory
feelings that many people
experience.
In "That First Talk,"
Signorile prepares readers for
the inevitable questions and
concerns that arise when
having thatimportant chatwith
parents or other family members.
He acknowledges that it
is not always wise to come out
to parents immediately.
Timing is everything, and it
may be best topostpone yourconversation.
As you get near the end of the book,
which deals with coming out at work and
helping others to come out, it is apparent
that a common thread has been woven
through chapter after chapter: maintaining
a positive approach. Regardless of
who is being addressed, people coming
out are urged to ignore negative comments
and concentrate on having a truth-"
ful, uplifting and educational conversation.
¯ Signorile has also authored "Queer in
¯ America" and numerous columnsfor na-
¯ tional periodicals.Afew years ago,hehad
: a notorious reputation for outing public
" figures, but he has mellowed consider-
" ably and this book is a patient and under-
. standing guide, free from harsh judge-
~ ments or urgings to sacrifice oneself for
"the cause."
." institutions have already made the pledge
¯ to treatGaypeoplefairlyin theworkplace:
~ our largest employer, American Airlines,
¯ Public ServiceCompany, Kimberly-Clark
_. and others. Wenee~l, to build alocal public
¯ awareness campatgn about their good
work and encturage others to follow that
: lead (like TU, for example and Home
¯ Depot to mentionanother).
: I have one last agenda item. We’ve got
: a great community center but as many
¯ know it’s got a lease that will not be
¯ renewed. Now is the time to plan for tke
: next center, one that is bigger and
: preferably owned by us. It’s certainly
¯ feasibleifalotofus withmodest incomes
: join withfew of our community members
: with not so modest resources to find a
i
buil~ng and to endowit. One community
wag s saidthatifafew of’ourcommunity’s
: wealthiest merely redirected a portion of
: their interior decorating budgets, we’d
: have a buildingpaid off and its annual
operating costs covered. I, ofcourse, don’ t
know if that’s true butwehave to ere.ate a
: vision of a better future. And while we’re
: atit, how about a Gay neighborhood too?
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: the fabric but one where we really can
: even hold hands, without fear. Imagine.
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Your DIYD found herself in a :
compromising situation
recently. She was hot. She was
sweaty. She was close to her
work. Polishing. Grinding.
And then it occurred to her -
"Am I being safe?" The
answer, unfortunately, was
"No." Removing rest with
power equipment requires a
minimum of personal
protective equipment (PPE) to
keep you safe. Rest assured,
Muffins, that your DIYD
promptly set her work aside,
had a cool drink of water, put
on her safety glasses, a pair of
leather gloves, a dust mask
and some earplugs. Then she
returned to her work, whioh
she brought to a very
satisfactory, and safe,
conclfision.
All too often, the important
element of working safely at
home eludes us. It’ s awkward.
It’s uncomfortable. The job
will only take a few moments,
so who needs it? Or, more
often, wejustdon’t think about
it. So this month, your DIYD
happily dons her Safety Cop
uniform to coax you ~nto
submitting to safer work
practices in your fabulous
home. Surrender, Dorothy!
First, read instructions. The
law requires s afety notices and
admonitions onmost products
fi .power tools, adhesives,
pmnts, and lawn chemicals. Follow the
safety instructions fully.
It’s a good idea to have some PPE
handy around the house for when you
need it. Make a kit and keep it sealed and
stored in a clean, dry place where you’ll
remember it. Suggested items: Dust and
mist tuasks (don’t reuse these,
Rockefeller!); latex or vinyl gloves;
earplugs (clean the reusable type after
every use. Don’t reuse disposable ones);
safety glasses and/orgoggles; work gloves
that fit.
Lawn and Garden Work: For mowing,
weed eating, grass blowing and edging,
preserve and protect them.
Too many of us think the danger is
passed and that time is on the side of
justice. Infact Dr. Kingmadeit very clear.
"Time is on the side of injustice."
Even if Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell,
James Dobson and the others look to you
like fools who arelosing power, their antihomosexual
rhetoric is reaching critical
mass in the homes andchurches of our
childhood. Let these documents remind
us that it could happen again. Our
"Nuremberg Laws" are in place or on the
ballot. All it would take is for you or for
me to do nothing. "" o
In 1997, the Rev. Dr. Mel White received
the ACLU’s National Civil Liberties
Award for applying the ’soul force’
principles of Gandhi and King to the
liberation 9fsexual minorit~’es. He ts a cofounder
of Soulforce, Inc.and the author
0fStranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and
Christian in America.
wear safety glasses to protect your eyes
from foreign objects, earplugs for your
hearing, and a dust mask if
~AII too often,
tke important
element d
workln~ safely
at home
eludes as.
It’s awkward. It’s
uncomfortable.
Thejob will
only take a few
moments, so
who needs ~t.~
Or, more Often,
we just don’t
think about it,
So thls month,
your DIYD
happily dons her
Safety Cop
uniform to coax
you into
submittln~ to
safer work
praetlees in your
fabulous home.
you are allergy prone or
asthmatic. Drinklots ofliquids
and work early if it’ s hot.
Lawn Chemicals: If using
liquids, wear long sleeves and
pants, work upwind, spray
0nly on calm days, wear latex
or vinyl gloves and safety
glasses. Most chemicals can
be absorbed through skin and
mucous membranes, andduckling,
if it will kill weeds
or ticks, think about what it
can do to you! For dry
chemicals, wear gloves, a dust
mask and safety glasses.
Shop Work: Wear your
earplugs and safety glasses.
Never disarm guards m~ant to
protect you. Don’t use worn
out blades, bits or other
components. Use a dust mask
and keep the area well
ventilated. Using a table saw?
Then use push sticks when
cutting your stock. Saw
kickbacks are truly ugly.
Refinishing and painting:
Do it outside, if at all possible.
Wear gloves, safety glasses
and possibly arespirator. Look
at less harmful options. There
are several products for
stripping and refinishing that
are more environmentally -
and human - friendly. Do not
use strippers, Solvents or
solvent based stains and
: finishes near flame sources, such as gas
¯ water heaters, oven pilot lights and
¯ furnaces. We do not want you to go Sha-
¯¯ boom, sha-boo~n. Na-na-na-na-na, etc.
Sorry. Having a retro moment.
¯
This is just an overview to get youin the
¯ habit of looking at the safety precautions
your home projects may require. Be safe,
¯
be healthy and be back for next month’ s
: column. Your DIYD wants to tell you
what to do.for a long, long time.
: meeting is to gather, learn and find ways
¯ several "possible outcomes:"
: - a commitment to regroup every six
¯ months;
- a review of our calendars for events
¯ where we might work together;
¯" - discussion of combining mailing lists
with provision for privacy of each
¯ organization’s original list;
: - discussion of a community wide
fundraising event, similar to Dallas’ Black
Tie dinner to benefit all organizations
¯
instead of competing for thee,same dollars;
¯ - consideration of aft ~fimbrell~ co¯
ordinating organization ~or these eff0~ts.
Those receiving the letter were
¯
encouraged tO alert the Organizers ~J any
¯ group not listed who should be invited.
¯ However, the contact number listed on ¯
the letter rings to a disconnected message
¯
but Newman’s no. is 582-4673.
: Editor’s note: this month’s editorial,
¯ Say Something Nice: Praise for Pride ’99,
also comments on this meeting and some
¯
possible community goals.
The letter suggests that the point of the
better to work together but also identifies
by Esther Rothblum : recommend the book Eden Built by Eyes:
What’s the first thing that comes to , TheCultureofWomen’sMusicFestivals,
mind when we think about women’s ¯ by Bonnie Morris (Alyson Press, 1999)
music.’? Many Lesbians will
recall Alix Dobkin’s album
Lavender Jane Loves
¯ Women.
I r~eq,ently spoke with Alix
and asked how she first
became a Lesbian musician.
"I was writing aboutmy own
life," she recalled, "so music
waspartofmyconsciousness
raising." Alix had been a
professional folk singer for
many-years. "I was at the
right place, at the right time,
with the right background,
doing the right thing," she
told me. She produced a
number of albums of
women’s music: Lavender
Jane Loves Women (1973),
Living WithLesbians (1976),
XXAlix (1980), These Women
(I986), YahooAustralia
(1990), andLoveandPolitics
( 1992, acompilation album). ..,
Living with Lavender Jane (1998) wa~ a
re-release ontoCDofthefirsttwoalbums.
In addition, Alix Dobkin’s Adventures in
Women’s Music (Not Just a Songbook)
was published in 1978.
I asked Alix what other music was
around for Lesbians when she first began
performing. The answer: notmuch. Robin
Tyler had produced Maxine Feldman in
1972; a 45-rpm record with two songs.
There was the Chicago Women’s
LiberationRockBandand theNew Haven
Women’s Liberation Rock Band Double
Album. And in New York, Lesbian
Feminist Liberation conducted a talent
show and recorded it - the record was
called A Few Loving Women: Lavender
Jane Loves Women was the first album of
women’s music that was distributed
internationally.
"Those days were tremendously
exciting," Alix said. "First of all, I was
writing about myself AS A LESBIAN. I
was writing the kinds of songs in which
you could not change a pronoun and have
it still make sense. In other words, you
could not change my music into
heterosexual songs. They were clearly
and openly songs about women loving
women. I realized that as long as I was
writing songs like that, I was writing
umque material. No one had ever written
that before, and even the women
depending on Lesbian audiences almost
never write about Lesbians - in fact; they
rarely mention womenF’
Even today, Alix feels that there is a
great need for Lesbians to be writing
about their lives. She has sensed at times
that women’s music has received a bad
rap, when in fact it is precisely because of
the foremothers in .women’s music that
performers like theIndigo Gifts havebeen
successful. "There is this belief that
women’s music is confined to folk music,
which it never was," said Alix. "The
negative reaction coming from many
young Lesbians is due largely to the
backlash against feminis~a. Our
communities very much reflect what is
going on in the world generally and
feminism has been dismissed, even by
women in our own communities. I would
"There is this
belief that
women s music
is confined to
folk music,
which it never
was," said Alix.
"The negative
reaction coming
from many
.young Lesbians
is due largely to
the backlash
ag.ai.nst
emlnlSm.
for an excellent overview
and more details. Women’s
music is about raising
consciousness, and most
people don’t even know
~vhat ttiat is anym0re.
Furthermore, due to budget
cuts in education, we’vealso
lost a generation that was
schooled to appreciate
music" Nevertheless, Alix
is excited by the fact that
many of her performances
these days are atuniversities,
so that she does have an
impact on young women.
After a lifetime in New
York, Alix is now living in
California. She stillperforms
around the country, and is
involved with a club that
features concerts by women
and holds and furthers our
chlture. The Director,
Barbara Price, used to co-
¯ produce the Michigan Womyn’s Music
¯ Festival. Alix is writing a column for
: Chicago Outlines and working on a book
¯ of her memoirs.
¯ Visit Alix Dobkin’s webpage at
: www.ladyslipper.org/vendors/
¯ ladyslipper/alix_dobkin.xtml To order
." Alix Dobldn’s music and music by other
¯¯ women and Lesbian musicians, contact
Ladyslipper Music, P.O. Box 3124,
¯ Durham, NC 27715, tel. 1-800-634-6044
¯ or 919-383-8773. ¯
Esther Rothblum is Prof. ofPsychology
", at the Univ. ofVermont and Editor of the
: Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be
¯ reatz-hedatDeweyHall, Univ.ofVermont,
: Burlington, VT, email:
¯ esther.rothblum@uvm.edu.
: President Clinton broke the impasse three
¯ weeks agowhenhemadeHormel a"recess
: appointment"-amethodthatcircumvents
: the normal Senate confirmation process.
," The State Department generally shies
¯ away from partisanship, but the whiff of
politics was in the air as Albright joined
¯ Hormel, a longtime Democratic donor
¯ and activist, for the festivities and spoke
¯ on his behalf. Civil rights for Gays and ¯
Lesbians have been a high-profile theme
¯ for the Democrats as campaigning for
: next year’s election picks up steam. Vice
¯ President A1 Gorevisited aGayandlesbian
¯ centerduringacampaignvisittoCalffornia
: last week.
¯ The Traditional Values Coalition, a ¯
churchlobby thatopposedthenomination,
¯ said in a statement that the swearing in of
¯ Hormel marks "the beginning of the Gore
¯ campaign’s efforts to woo thehomosexual
: vote." Coalition members demonstrated
~ in protest outside the State Department as
¯ the ceremony was taking place.
: ’"Unis is one of those glorious days
: when thenice guy finishes first," Albright
¯, told the gathering. "Neitherrace, norcreed,
¯ nor gender nor sexual orientation should ¯
berelevant to the selection ofambassadors
; for the United States.
¯ . Said Kennedy: see Hormel, p. 13
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by Lamont Lindstrom : Cook’s flagship: Kamehameha "with
A troop (or halau) of hula dancers . many ofhisattendantstookupquarterson
entertained the seminar that lamlecturing " board the ship for the Night; among them
to in Honolulu this month. Tourists ¯ is a Young Man of whom he seems very
appreciate hula dancing as sexually ." fond, which does not in the least surprise
charged exoticentertai.’nment.
The hula reminds them that
they are on vacation in
paradise, or at least the
tourisfic version of Such.
Locals, too, appreciate, hula
but for differentreasons. Hula,
like Hawaiian language,
surfing, slack key guitars,
kalua pork and lomilomi
salmon, and similar cultural
symbols, represents "Hawaiianness."
Hula dancers
celebrate their Hawaiian
identity and tla~ir links to
ancestral tradition. There.~e
twohula styles: ’auana,which
often is tourist-trash hula
which shakes to the beat of
guitar andukulele, and kahiko,
where dancers bodies move
When ,]ames
Cook’s ships
llM at the
Island of
Hawai’i in 1789,
the En~llsh were
hor~f;ed to
d~seover that
l ding
Hawai~n ehlefs
bo g n&
in addition
to
to accompany traditional chants. You
might guess that our stodgy academic
seminar was treated to the more formal,
higher status huta kahiko.
But I prefer kahiko style--I must
confess--in that the guys d~ce shiftless
in skimpy malo; orloindoths. It is certainly
easier to appreciate dance when the
performer wears little on his body.
Traditionally, only men danced hula.
¯ Although no doubt always entertaining,
hula was principally a religious ritual
meant to communicate with gods and
ancestors. Dances took place at temples
and shrines that were taboo to women.
Nowadays, hula is mostly-women’s
business though there are several popular
men’s troops that perform and compete in
regular hula festivals. Many male hula
dancers are gay as have been some noted
kumu hula (dance school teachers and
leaders). Drivenundergroundby Christian
missionary opposition in the early 19th
century, the hularetumed as a legitimate
art form in the 1880S under the patronage
of King Kalakaua. Gay dancers have long
cultivated and daborated hula and today,
a century later, huladoes very wall as both
tourist spectacle and marker of Hawaiian
cultural authenticity.
Nowadays the local words for "gay
man" that one hears most often are mahu
and "muffy," these often indicating some
degree of effemininl~y. Traditionally,
islanders also .spoke of:aikane - a word
that appears to have meant "male lover"
though today people use the word for any
dose friend.
When James Cook’s ships called at the
Big Island ofHawai’i in 1789, the English
were horrified to discover that leading
Hawaiianchiefs hadboyfriends in addition
to wives. Charles Clerke, second in
command of the expedition, wrote: every
chief "according to his rank keeps so
many women and so many young men
([aikane] as they call them) for the
amusement of his leisure hours; they talk
of this infernal practice with all"~’
indifference in the world, not do I suppose
they imagine any degree of infamy init."
Kamehameha, who would unify
Hawai’i and.become the archipelago’s
first king, also had a boyfriend. David
Samwell, ship’s surgeon, met the future
king’s lover when Kamehameha visited
us, as we have had
opportunities before of being
acquainted with a detestable
part of his Character which he
is not in the least anxious to
The Hawaiians -
shrewd observers no doubt -
asked the English if some of
the ship’s boys and young
sailors on board were the
aikane of the ship’s officers.
One might guess that a trim
ship’s boy might begin to look
rather attractive, even to the
most heterosexist officer, on
an extended two-year voyage
around the world in the dose
quarters of a small leaky ship.
Still, the English were offended
by the Hawaiians’ pointed
questions. I suspect they mostly were
mortified and embarrassed that the
Hawaiians, unlike the English, were not
anxious to conceal their homosexual
relations, nor "imagine any degree of
infamy" in them. Any officer who might
havebeenmessing witha ships’ boy would
have been desperate to keep this on the
down low.
Today, as Hawaiians ofall sorts continue
to argue the possibilities of homosexual
marriage, the aikane serves in this debate.
Some suggest that the State of HawaJ~i
should legalize gay marriage as a way of
respecting and celebrating the past and
these islands’ onetime traditions. The
"English" view of boyfriends remains
dominant, however, and aikane are still
partially in hiding. Where once Hawaiian
homosexuality was indifferent and
therefore normal, today it has become
different and thus dangerous to admit.
There are popular statues and images of
the great King Kamehameha on view in
many public places here but in none of
these does the King have his boyfriend at
his side. Nonethdess, the past lives on in
hula. As I watched the sinuous hula dancers
in their malo I could see back into a time
and place where men saw no reason to
conceal their honorable affairs with their
boyfriends.
"There was never any honorable question
abouthis qualifications tobe ambassador."
The opposition to Hormel was
¯ "irresponsibleandunacceptable," he said.
¯ Feinstein, noting that Hormel’s
¯ appointment teared the SenateForeign
~ Rdations Committee by 16-2, said he
¯ would have been approved by an
¯ overwhelming majority had the Senate
¯ voted as a whole. By tr~idition, even one
¯ senator can preventa Vote on anomination
¯ because of a personal grievance. In
Hormel’s case, his appointment was
¯ blockedby Oklahoma senator, Jim Inhofe,
who formerly represented in Oklahoma’s
¯ (mostly Tulsa) First District in the US
House. Inhofe has received national
attention for his anti-Gay views.
"In Jim’s [Hormd] appointment, I think
¯ we open a door," Feinstein said.
..)
and-AIDS education wouldcontinue, even
if it meant handing out condoms at Gay
bars. "We wanted to make sure we don’t
repeat the mistakes of the past," said
Jacquelyn Clymore, director of client.
services for AIDS Service Agency of
North Carolina.
The consolidation, which will become
official in December, will unite the AIDS
ServiceAgency of NorthCarolina, serving
Wake, Durham and Orange counties, the
AIDS Service Agency of Orange County
and theTriangleAIDS Interfaith Network,
a coalition of 60 churches and one
synagogue. The secular agencies will get
help from a crew of about 500 committed
church volunteers, many of whom feel
called to help people with AIDS.
In the early days of AIDS, Gay men
with the virus were unwelcome in many
churches, while those who had contracted
AIDS from heterosexual contact or blood
infusions were called "innocent victims."
But in recent years, many Christians and
Jews have quietly begun reaching out to
people with AIDS, acting on scriptural
commandments to love thy neighbor.
Today, HIV infection rates are- highest
among low-income African-American
men and women, many of whom
¯ contracted the virus througli heterosexual
contact or sharing needles.
It took four years of talking for the
consolidation to move forward because
this time, it was the AIDS advocates who
harbored stereotypes of religious groups.
Some feared they would bejudgmental, if
not sanctimonious. "We asked ourselves:
’What’s in the best interest of the client?’
"said Bill Brent, executive director of the
AIDS Service Agency of North Carolina
and director of the new agency. The three
groups, withbranches across the Triangle,
will consolidate their staff, apply for grants
and raise money as one.
Man3" church volunteers say they are
happy to avoid the politics of AIDS. They
don’t ask about sexual orientation or past
drug use. "We don’t even talk about that.
It’s the relationship here and now that’s
important," said Earl Wiggins, who leads
the care team at Greater St. Paul
Missionary Baptist Church in Durham.
"Love is the key component."
againstGays, andNew Hampshire, where
lawmakers repealed a 1987 law thatbarred
Gays fromadopting children or serving as
foster parents. "You can sort of pick the
state and measure progress in every state
on the legislative front," she said.
Unimaginablein 1969was the visibility
of-Gay people today in politics,
entertainment and everyday news
coverage. Think Ellen DeGeneres, k.d.
lang; Melissa Etheridge, Flton John, Ian
McKellan, Rupert Everett. Three current
members of Congress are openly Gay -
Democrats Barney Frank ofMassachusetts
and’Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and
Republican Jim K01h¢Of Arizona- as are
scores~of other.deeted officials around ’,
theS(ountry.
’:.The love that dare not speak its name
now ~on’t shut up," says TomAmmiano,
president of San Francisco’s Board of
Supervisors. In 1%9, Ammiano was a27-
year,old,, sp,,ec~_’al education teacher and
no~e,t, ’out as, a Gay man, although, he
salt. ’it wash t hard to surmise - the
wrists and everything." He subsequently
b~e a stand-up comic and a member
of die Board of Supervisors;,where three
of 11 members are openly Gay. President
of the board since November, he’s
considered a likely challenger to San
Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr.
The progress made by Lesbians and
Gay men has been accompanied by
setbacks as well. Eighteen states still have
sodomy laws ontheirbooks, five of which
single outhomosexual sodomy, Efforts to
include Gays in federal civil rights and
hate-crime laws have stalled. Current law
prohibits crimes based on race, color,
religion or national origin.
Recent murders of Gay men- Matthew
Shepard, a University ofWyoming student
who was beaten and tied to a fence last
October, and Billy Jack Gaither, an
Alabama textile worker who was beaten
with an ax handle mad set on fire - raised
awareness of the persistence of anti-Gay
violence. AIDS has decimated ageneration
of Gay men, and nearly 20 years into the
epidemic there is no cure.
Still, few could dispute that Lesbians
and Gay men in 1999 enjoy rights
undreamed of in 1969.
Karl Rusterholtziives in Mission Viejo,
Calif., with his partner and their twofoster
sons. They are active in their church,
where Rusterholtz and his partner
celebrated their union with a commitment
ceremony. "l would say that we’re just
pretty average," says Rusterholtz, 36, a
microbiologist. "We’ve gone to pride
marches and stuff, but it’s not our cup of
tea." Rusterholtz says he "would like to
see federal protection, that Gays and
Lesbians would not worry about losing
their jobs or losing their homes -or losing
their children." But his own experience
negotiating the foster care system inconservative
Orange County has been
"nothing but fabulous."
Margaret Blankenbiller, 21, works in a
florist’s shop inProvo, Utah. "I’d like to
be able to hold my girlfriend’s hand when
we go out to dinner and not worry about
someone slashing our tires," she says.
Still, her family is supportive and her coworkers
- many of them members of the
conservative Mormon church - treat her
Lesbianism "like it’ s pretty normal."
Nestle, who founded the Lesbian
Her’story Archives and is now 59,
remembers when being a Lesbian was
anything but normal. At one bar she
frequented, Nestle and her friends had to
line up to use the bathroom one at a time
"because we couldn’t be trusted" not to
misbehave inside together. Toilet paper
was doled out shut by sheet. "Something
in me was moving from knowing I was a
freak to saying that someday I will refuse
this moment of humiliation;’ she says.
Nestle has ;been chosen one of two
grand marshals for Sunday’s Gay pride
parade in New York. "It’ll be a very
special moment," she says. "I see it as the
largest grassroots demonstration in the
world."
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Church of Christianity at 3355 So.
Jamestown has welcomed a new pastor,
Steve Colliday, who happens to be an
openly Gay -man. The Unity tradition has
¯ been welcoming of Lesbians and Gay
~meri for some time.
And College Hill Presbyterian Church
(CHPC) is considering becoming a"More
Light" congregati.on which is the
Presbyterian version of bein.g a
"welcoming" congregation. College Hill
close by the University of Tulsa, has a
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Gay Couple Murdered In
California; Senate Passes
TwoAnti-Hate Crimes Bills
HAPPY VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - In this tiny, largely
conservative farming community, Gary Matson and
Winfield Mowder were accepted. It didn’t matter that
they were Gay. They gained respect through their
community Work. They helped create alocal children’s
museum, and Matson helped establish the 20-year-old
Redding Farmer’s Market.
Now tWO brothers who Eave been linked to a series of
arson fires at Sacramento synagogues are accused of
killing the couple, police said. Authorities said one of
the alleged gunmen, Benjamin Matthew Williams,
sometimes sold vegetables andherbs atM~son’s ~narket.
"It’s beyond words that the farmers market may be
the connectionbetween the victims and thekillers," said
Margaret Jensen, who tends a market stall stocked with
squash and onions. "If they burned the synagogues, too,
that takes it to a level that is just staggering from
someplace we think of as a small community."
The bodies of Matson, 50, and Mowder, 40, were
discovered July I at theirhomeinHappy Valley, a small
community just outside of Redding in northern
California. They had been shot in their bed.
Afew days later, after one of the victims’ credit cards
was used, police staked out aYuba City business where
the creditcardpurchasewas to be delivered, andarrested
the Williams brothers. The brothers were both armed
and one was wearing a bulletproof vest, police said.
Yuba City is about 120 miles southeast of Redding.
see Hate, p. 10
Council Oak Mens Chorale
Presents August Concert
Other UpcomingEvents: Feast + AIDS Walk
TULSA-TheCouncil Oak Men’sChorale, Tulsa’s Gay
men’s singing organization will present a concert,
Brothers Forever on August 27 & 28 at 8pro in the John
Williams Theatre at Tulsa’s Performing Arts-Center.
COMC will be joined in concert by Positive Voices of
Dallas, Texas. Areception willfollow theperformances
and tickets, $12, are available through the Performing
Arts Center box office at 596-7111 or 800-364-7111
(outside of Tulsa).
Also, coming up is the annual Feast for Friends, a
ftmdraiser .for-THE NAM-ES~ PROJECT-,. the. AIDS
Memorial .Quilt. In the event, organizations and
individuals join each other for private dinners at which
theattendees donate to supportTHENAMES PROJECT
and then all of the various dinner groupS’ come together
for entertainment’and dessert at 8:30pro at the Southern
Hills Marriott. For more information, call 748-3111.
Later in October, the annual AIDS Walk will be held
on October 2nd. For more information, call 579-9593.
DIRECTORY/LETTERS P. 2
EDITORIAL P. 3
US & WORLD NEWS P. 4
HEALTH NEWS P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT . P. 8
COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9
READ ALL ABOUT IT P. 11
DYKE PSYCHE P. 12
GAY STUDIES P. 13
" Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered TuIsans, Our Families + Friends
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° TOHR Center News: President
"Resigns; $5k Grant Received
TOHR&Community CenterformerpresidentSteve
Horn (right) and with hisfriend Phil at Pride ’99.
TULSA - Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, Inc. (TOHR),
Oklahoma’s oldest non-religions Gay and parentorganization of
the Tulsa Gay Community Services Center has experienced a
change in leadership. Board president Steve Horn resigned in
July in order to take anew job in Dallas. Horn had been employed
with CFS. Upon his resignation, TOHR vice president, Greg
Gatewood became president.
Gatewood praised Horn for his leadership and noted that the
change in leadership would not affect any of the programs that
TOHRand the Center had planned. He noted that for August, the
¯ organization had calle~,,a work day at the,,C.enter on 8/8 at noon,
a planning meeting for MilleniumPride, the Parade and Picuic Next Gay Community ’ for 2000 on 8112 at 7:30 and acommunity potluck with a"Cajun"
" theme for 8/21at Tpm. Meeting Called for 9/14 Other significant news for the Center was the receipt of a
" $5,000 grant for general operating expenses from the Gill TULSA -. With about 40 people attending,
° Foundation. Center volunteer of the year, Tim Gillean, was representing most of Tulsa Lesbian and Gay, and
¯ responsible for writing the grant application~ New president HIV related groups, the first community wide
¯ Gatewood emphasized that while the grant would help the Center meeting in several years brought together young
:. develop a small emergency reserve, see TOHR, p. 14 and not so young, Gay and non-Gay, political and
non-partisan groups. Therepresentattves spent over
two hours discussing their group’s goals and what ¯ NGLTF Starts Family Program common ground they may have.
: VeteranAttorney Paula Ettelbrick to Lead Initiative WashingtonHigh School’sGay-StraightAlliance
and TU’s BLGT Alliance were there along with
¯ JULY 26, 1999--The Policy Institute of the National Gay and most of the Gay-friendly religaons groups in the
¯ Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) today announced creation of a city. Cimarron Alliance and Tulsa Oklahomans for
° Family Policy program to secure inclusive definitions of family Human Rights also attended with RAIN, the
¯ in national, state and local policy contexts. The Family Policy Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, and HOPE,
¯ Program will engage in research, policy analysis, coalition HIV Outreach, Prevention and Education as well.
building, strategy development and collaborative work with a Under the facilitation of Marty Newman and
¯ wide range of family-focused organizations to ensure that the DennisNeill(who’dissuedthecallforthemeeting)
¯ needsofGay, Lesbian~BisexualandTransgender(GLBT)families a number of possible community goals were
¯ are considered and protected, identified: to replace the Tulsa Community AIDS
"We are in the midst of a revolution in family creation within Partnership funding (which is due to end soon),
¯ GLBT communities, but ironically, and inaccurately, our relocate the Community Center when its lease
¯ movement is characterized as being anti-family," said NGLTF ends, ~o-ordinatecommtmity fundraisingandeven:s
: Executive Director Kerr3, Lobel. "This Program at NGLTF’s to better support various organizations, and where
Policy Institute takes aim at the myths that persist about our appropriate, do political and civil fights related
families and will formulate a genuinel y pro-family public policy work. see Aleetin~, ~. 1]
agenda from the vantage point of GLBT people’s lives."
TheFamilyPolicyprogramatthePolicyInstituteisfundedby Saint Jerome to Host major gifts from several parents., including Seattle City
Councilwoman and philanthropist Tina Podlodowski, and Ordination Ceremony
California-based donors Jennifer and Kathy Levinson through a
TULSA - The Parish Church of Saint Jerome will
gift from the Lesbian Equity Foundation of Silicon Valley.
welcome clergy and lay leaders of the Evangelical
Urvashi Vaid, director of the Policy Institute announced that
AnglicanChurchinAmericafromacross thenation
nationally known Lesbian attorney and family advocate, Paula
for the denomination’s annual ordination
Ettelbrick, has been hired to direct the Family Policy Program.
ceremonies. The RightReverendCraig Bettendoff,
Ettelbrickha~ worked onlocal, state and national family policy presiding bishop will ordai~ or receive candidates
issues for the past 13 years. She is former legal director of
duringtheregularworshipservicesofSaintJerome
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, where she developed on Sunday, August 8th at llam. The weekend
the group’s.emphasis on family advocacy and founded the
eventsbeginatlpmonSaturday,August7thandan
Family RelatioushipslProject. She served as publicpolicy director
Evensong service will be held that day at 6pro with
for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
dinner to follow.
Since 1994, Ettelbrick has been legislative counsel for the
Candidatesfortbediaconatewillbepresentfrom
Fan.pire State Pride Agenda, where she is credited with helping North Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois, and Oklahoma.
wm passage of New York City’s comprehensive domestic
BishopBettendorfwillalsoordaintothe presbytery,
. partnership policy and drafting innovative municipal and state
¯ pro-GLBT family laws.
candidates fromNew Mexico,New York, Colorado,
¯ California and Florida. ¯ Ettelbrick and her partner, Suzanne Goldberg, have a two-year All events are open to the public. For more
¯ old son and are expecting another child in September. She has
information, call Father Rick Hollingsworth at the
¯ taught law for 10 years and currently teaches a course on
Parish Church of Saint Jerome, 582-3088.
." sexua!i~ty and the_law atNewYorkUni versity Law School and the
¯ UniversityofMichiganLawSchool.Earlierthisyear, Ettelbrick ¯ Served as the National Coordinator of the highly successful Tulsa C.A.R.E.S Gets
""EqualityBegiusatHome"campaigu, spousoredbyNGLTFand Phili.p Morris Grant ¯ tbe Federation ofStatewideLGBTPolitical Orgamzations, which
: encompassed 350 rallies and other events in all 50 states plus : TULSA -Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., Tulsa’s Center for
: Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia last March. ¯ AIDS Resources, Education and Support, formerly
and observed that Ettelbnck s experase will be invaluable to known as the HIV Resource Consortium, has
: .thenational GLBTmovement’s efforts to organizearoundfamily : received a grant of $15,000 to its food pantry from
¯ issues. She pointed out that as of June of 1999, almost 50 anti- : the Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
: GLBTfamilybillshadbeenfiledinstatelegislaturesthroughout ¯ Stephen C. Parrish, senior vice president for
: the country. "This nationwide mobilization against our families : corporate affairs came toTulsathelastweekofJuly
¯ comes directly from the anti-Gay religious fight and its think " to announce the award to the Tulsa Area United
¯ tanks," Vaid said. "It is an effective strategy because the GLBT : Way agency. According to comments reported by
¯ political movement at the state level remains understaffed and ¯ The TulsaWorM,executivedirector, SharonThoele,
¯ underfunded." " indicated that the grant word be matched by
The NGLTF Family Policy program will pursue three major " $15,000 from another philanthropic organization
" objectives: first, to provide the data and arguments that can " and wonldhelp purchase afreezer and refrigerator.
¯ enable activists to secure inclusive definitions of family in ¯ The award was oneof38 given to organizations in
- national, state and local policy frameworks see NGLTF, p. 3 " 24 states, and the only Oklahoma award.
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Zoning Concerns
On the eve of the August 10 bond
election for street improvements, I find
myself in the awkward position of being
asked to vote ’yes’ while some of my
basic property rights are under the threat
of seizure. Againstmy very vocal protests,
the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning
Commission (TMAPC) recently voted to
’downzone’ myhomefrom amulti-family
to a single-family category. I purchased
my house with the intention of adding a
rental .unit in the future for supplemental
income, and I wish to retain the existing
zoning designation.
Currently, I have theright to build eleven
apartments on my property. If the zoning
is changed, I will have the right to one
single-family dwelling. This constitutes
an obvious taking of my development
rights without fair compensation, and I
resent the TMAPCIs insistence on
rezoning without my consent.
Doesn’t theTMAPChave enough to do
without tinkering with the privateproperty
of a taxpayer who is satisfied with the
existing zoning? The ’planners’ should
attend to their business of more efficient
metropolitan planning by allowing
residential infill development in the
downtownneighborhoods. Then,perhaps
we would not be faced with multi-million
dollar bond elections to support hundreds
of miles of streets and utilities sprawling
across such a sparsely populated city.
-Sincerely, Paul Uttinger, Tulsa
TITLE VII. Earlier this month, another
Eastern Districtjudgehadrejected aclaim
that harassment aimed at gays is covered
under the federal anti-discrimination
statute, Title VII ofthe Civil Rights Act of
1964. In rejecting the suit of a Gay postal
worker who claimed he was subjected to
a hostile work environment, Judge
Leonard B. Wexler ruled in Simonton v.
Runyon, that discrimination based t~pon
sexual orientation did not fall within Title
VII’s ban of "sex" discrimination.
However, Judge Spatt ruled in Qninnv.~
Nassau County Police Department, No.
97-3310, that there is no such similar
limitation upon a claim framed.directly
upon the Equal Protection clause in the
U.S. Constitution.
Title VH specifically enumerates five
types of discrimination that it bans, and
the list does not include discrimination
basedupon sexual orientation, Judge Spatt
pointed out. In contrast, he wrote~-the
Supreme Court in Romer recognized that
homosexuals are directly protected trader
the Equal Protection Clause from
"invidious and irrational discriminationbased
on sexual orientation."
Chris P. Termini, of McCabe, Collins,
McGeogh & Fowler, represented Nassau
County. Two individual defendants were
separately represented by Ronald J.
Morelli, of Mulholland, Minion & Roe,
and Alan J. Reardon. Susan Fitzgerald;of
Leeds & Morelli, also represented Mr.
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In many parts of the United States, Gay, lesbian, " running for any office in this party." While I had good
bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) persons have
achieved an equal status in the communities in whichthey
live. But not in Oklahoma. Not yet. The Democratic
National Committee (DNC) recognizes GLBT persons.
But not the Oklahoma Democratic Party (ODP). Not yet.
In 1998 the DNC
adopted a policy
requiring each state
to nameGLBT
delegates to the
National Democratic
Conventions. The
DNC has recognized
that the majority of
GLBT persons, like
the majority of
straight persons, are
caring and
responsible citizens
entitled to an equal,
not special but equal,
presence in the DNC.
The ODP, once
moving towards
inclusion of GLBT
persons, now under
new party leadership,
rejects or ignores that DNC policy.
Much has been accomplished in Oklahoma for which
GLBT persons should all be proud. Moving a hate crimes
bill from a legislative committee to the House floor for
debateis somewhatmiraculous, considering the prevailing
Oklahoma attitudes only a few years ago when the
Oklahoma City Council rejected and terminated the
HumanRights Commission. Whathas been accomplished
can be attributed to the efforts of GLBT and affiliated
political organizations such as OGLPC (Oklahoma Gay
& Lesbian Political Committee), The Cimarron Alliance
Group, TOHR (Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights),
PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) with
the support of the NAACP and various labor and faith
organizations. Although these organizations are the heroes
in the efforts to date, they are not adequate for what is yet
to be accomplished. These organizations focus on issues
and review candidates from a non-partisan perspective.
What is missing in Oklahoma is the partisan participation
of GLBT persons, open partisan participation within the
major parties, not unlike the women’s organizations and
other caucuses.
Straights raise families; GLBT persons care for the
community in which those families live. Just look at who
we are. We are present in every profession and job
category as wall as present or have been present in every
elected office level, whether we admit it publicly or.not.
Throughout recorded history GLBT persons have often
been the movers and shakers for communities, the caregivers,
the compassionate, the artists, even leaders of
historical fame. Themajority ofus as GLBT persons have
the same expectations and dedication to our communities
as the majority of straights among whom we live and
work with side by side. But you would not know that if
youJistened to partisan leaders in both major Oklahoma
parties.
As a congressional candidate for Congress from
Oklahoma’s Sixth District in 1996 and again in 1998, I
made many friends with Democrats. I know and have
good contacts with Democrat. leaders in each of the 24
counties comprising the Sixth District. That is an asset
that I believe valuable as a party worker. I let it be known
that I wanted to serve as the District Secretary when the
incumbent indicated the day before the convention that
he would not run for re-election.
Without detailing the series of events leading up to the
conclusion of my attempt to place my name in line for
District Secretary, the man who became District Chair at
that April conventionblockedmefromrunning for office.
During a fifteen-minute conversation with him prior to
the Convention, hemade it clear that he and other elected
officials in the Sixth District did not want me to run for
any office. He would not say it was because I am Gay but
his remarks left me with only that justification for his
statement, "I am running for chair to keep you from
~ support among delegates I had contacted in that 24-hour
¯ period leading up to convention, I knew that it would be
." difficult to fnnction as a team. I did not seek the nomination
¯ during the convention. There was no caucus to turn to for
¯ support.
A quotation from the May 25 Daily
Oklahoman interview with the newly elected
ODP Chair, Mike Mass, speaks to my
concern as a Gay person:
"Mass said he thinks the party under Hall
has eottoned too much to what he calls
splinter groups¯ He and Hall were both at a
funetlon, and a Gay and lesbian advocate
asked Mass what he was going to do to help
the Gay eommunlty. ’Nothing,’ Mass replied.
Mass thinks the party has tended to make a
big deal about such groups."
Even amore glaring
concern for GLBT
persons is the election
of a new state chair
for the ODP during
its May 15 convention.
Representative
Mike Mass, a very
vocal opponent ofthe
hate crimes bill in the
legislature, was
elected by a two-vote
margin in an election
fraught with fraud.
(I am leading a
challenge of that
election for the
purpose of restoring
integrity to the ODP.
A petition calling for
a new election was
signed by more than
¯¯ 200 co-signors and filed with the DNC ou June 9.) ~
quotation from the May 25 Daily Oklahoman interview
with the newly elected ODP Chair, Mike Mass, speaks to
¯ my concern as a Gay person: ¯
"Mass said he thinks the party under Hall has cottoned
¯ too much to what he calls splinter groups. He and Hall
¯ were both at a function, and a Gay and lesbian advocate
¯ asked Mass what he was going to do to help the Gay ¯
community. ’Nothing,’ Mass replied. Mass thinks the
¯ party has tended to make a big deal about such groups."
¯ If therewas apartisan presenceofGLBTpersons in the ¯
ODP, or at least the acknowledgment of the DNC’s
¯ directive to include GLBT persons as delegates, this
¯ archaic attitude would be a relic of the past instead of
¯ facing us for the future in the ODP.
¯ There are national part~san organizations for both the
Democratic and Republican parties - The Log Cabin
¯ Republicans and the National Stonewall Democratic
¯ Federation (NSDF). GLBT persons in Oklahoma need
that partisan identification so that they can have a"seat at
¯ the table" when partisan political decisions are made.
: The NSDF was organized at Kansas City in May 1998
¯ for the purpose of mobilizing GLBT persons through a ¯
national grassroots network of GLBT Democratic clubs.
¯ There are GLBT Democratic clubs that are joined with
¯ their state Democratic party. Colorado and Michigan
¯ both have a federated GLBT Democratic dub within ¯ their State Democratic parties. GLBT Oklahomans need
¯ that presence in our state party. An Oklahoma Stonewall
¯ Democratic Club must be organized. I am a recently ¯
¯ electedregional director for theNSDFandurgeinterested persons to check out the website at
www.stonewalldemocrats.org or contact me by e-mail,
paulb@pldi.net.
The mere thought of a public GLBT presence in the
Oklahoma Republican Party (ORP) is breath-taldng. But
itcan midmustbe Created. WhenthoseGLBTRepnhlicafs
who have been supporting their party in the background
with contributions and party activismmake their presence
known to the ORP, then there is an opportunity for
inclusion in ORP policy making. Republican Oklahoma
GLBT persons should connect with the National Log
Cabin Republicans and establish an OklahomaLog Cabin
Republican Club.
Wemust do this. Wemust orgamze a partisan presence
of GLBT persons in each of Oklahoma’s major parties.
That is the Gay agenda that I am aware of- to be treated
as an equal in civic life as we continue to hold ourselves
to the same standards of responsibility and caring as
expected of straights. Wemust ask for a place at the table.
Editor’s note: I agree with Paul Barby but Would even
speak more strongly. We must demand our place at the
table and must challeng~ bigots like Mike Mass. We
might also question some of our "friends"like Tulsa
Democrat Sally Frasier who helpedgetMass "elected."
by Tom Neal, editor andpublisher
By now, Steve Hornis probably getting settled down in
his new home in Dallas. Steve, until his recentjob related
move, was in the middle of his second term as president
of the board ofTulsaOklahomans for Human Rights, Inc.
(TOHR) - the parent organization of Tulsa’s Gay
community center (the awkwardly renamed Tulsa Gay
Community Services Center).
Tulsa has been
fortunate in
havln~ a number
of dedleated
volunteers to our
Lesbian and Gay
eommunltles
(and BI and
Transgendered)
over many years.
Unfortunately,
we haven’t really
done a very ~ood
job of
reeognlzlng or
thanklng them
for their work.
Tulsa has been fortunate in
having a number of dedicated
~,olunteers to our Lesbian and
Gay communities (and Bi and
Transgendered) over many
years. Unfortunately, we
haven’t really done a very good
job of recognizing or thanking
them for their work. We use
themandthen ignore them when
we’re not actually vilifying
them. There are, of course, a
few exceptions, individuals who
repeatedly receive recognition
but many more don’t.
So I’d like to be one to clearly
thank Steve Horn for his
dedication to TOHR. Steve
became president just after I
served, inheriting the same big
mess with TOHR’s HIV testing
programs that I and several
previous TOHR presidents had
inherited. And while he and I
would still disagree profoundly
about how those issues were resolved, i.e. the separation
of the testing clinic into a stand-alone organization, his
work as a whole was great. He continued and expanded
onalegacy ofvolunteerism andleadership that’s continued
for nearly 20 years with TOHR. see Horn, p. ]4
Legal Win: Bias Against
Gays Unconstitutional
Editor’s note: the ruling noted below has greatpotential
for judicial remedies for anti-Gay bias in the United
States. Traditionally, many civil rights advances in this
country have come through court decisions and this
shows promise for fair treatment for Lesbian and Gay
citizens.- TN
by Daniel Wise, New York Law Journal, July 6, 1999
In a ruling believed to be one of first impression, a
federal judge in Uniondale has found discrimination
against homosexuals in an employment context to be
actionable as an Equal Protection violation.
Eastern District Judge Arthur D. Spatt issued the ruling
in upholding a $380,000 verdict that ajury awarded two
weeks ago to a former Nassau County police officer who
claimed he had been hounded out of his job by his fellow
officers and supervisors after they learned he was Gay.
The officer, James M. Quinn, resigned after enduring
nine years of taunts that included the prominent posting
in his stationhouse of cartoons labeling him a child
molester, a transvestite and a sadomasochist. "
"Judge Spatt is the first judge to explicitly recognize
that. discrimination based- upon, sexual- orientation .can
give rise to a hostile work environment claim under the
Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution," said
Mr. Quima’s lawyer, Frederic Ostrove, ofLeeds &Morelli
in Carle Place.
In concluding that harassment based upon an animus
against homosexuals was actionable lmder the Equal
Protection clause, Judge Spatt relied heavily upon a 1996
U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S.
620. Thatruling struck down an amendment to ColOrado’s
constitution that prohibited Gays and Lesbians from
obtaining any legal protections -legislative orjudicial -
from discrimination.
The Supreme Courtin Romerconcluded that the statute
withdrawing legal protection from homosexuals could
not stand because it was motivated by "irrational fear and
prejudice," Judge Spatt pointed out.
Similaxly, thejudge reasoned, thehatecampaignagainst
Mr. Quinn had been motivated "by irrational fear and
prejudice towards homosexuals." see Ruling, p. 2
Gay Conversion Group
Holds Convention
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - Exodus International, a :
Seattle-based organization that claims homosexuals
can be converted to change their sexual behavior,
openedits annual conference as protesters sang gospels
softly nearby.
"A whole new chapter has opened up," said Bob
Davies, executive director of Exodus. "For the first
time in our 23 year history, the body of Christ has
gotten behind this ministry."
About 1,200 people attended the rally, the biggest
attendance, since the group began in 1976. Leaders
attributed the large turnout to a nationwide ad
campaignpromoting conversionfromhomosexuality,
As the group clapped inside, the Rev. Bradley
Mickelson of the Metropolitan Community Church
of the Incarnation in Oak Park, Ill., led a quiet march
of 50 people outside. "We need to be a voice for
people who think they’re living in sin, to tell them
how to be liberated and free," said Mickelson, whose
Chicago-area church is open to homosexuals.
Exodus International burst.into public notice a year
ago with full-page ads m major newspapers
proclaiming its belief that Gays and Lesbians can
change. Conservative groups such as the Christian
Coalitionhelped pay for the.campaign. Exodus teaches
that"freedomfromhomosexuality is possible through -.
repentance and faith in Jesus Christ" and seeks to
provide hdp for "men and women who desire to
overcome their homosexuality."
The conference, a mixture of training workshops
and inspirational rallies, is meeting at Wheaten
College, a prominent Evangelical Protestant school,
but is not sponsored by the college.
Cynthia Marquardt, member of the Oak Park
congregation, said sexual conversion is impossible
and that Exodus’ message contributes to -violence
against Gays and Lesbians. "Exodus has a right to
their message, and we will continue to proclaim that
God loves us just as we are," she said,
Exodus is afederation of 131 independentministries
located in 38 states and the District of Columbia, plus
several overseas affiliates. Theorganizationis staffed
by people from a var~,ety of Christian denominations.
Manyofthegroup sleaders saytheyusedtobeGay
or Lesbian and merely offer options to people that
want them. Exodus is closely aligned with
Homosexuals Anonymous, a twelve-step movement
patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, and with the
National Association for Research and Therapy of
Homosexuality,madeup ofpsychological counselors
who work for change through "reparative therapy."
Both the American Psychiatric Association and
American Psychological Associationhave denounced
Christian-based reparative therapy, saying it doesn’t
work and can cause psychological damage.
Phelps to Protest
in Vermont
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP)- Members of a church that
organized a picket outside the funeral of a murdered
University of Wyoming student last year plan a
protest on the lawn of the Vermont Statehouse next
week.
The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kans.,
plans to have a dozen people in Montpelier on Aug.
3 to picket against Gay marriage, said Shirley Phelps-
Roper, a church a!!orney and dangh,ter of founder the
Rev.FredPhelps. Whenthenation smilitant, activist
fags brag about a place - watch out!" said an
announcement distributed by the church. "Well,
they’re bragging about Vermont from sea to shining
sea. They think Vermont will soon allow filthy fag
beasts to marry each other."
The Vermont Supreme Court is considering a
lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’ s refusal to issue
mamage licenses to same-sex couples. Some legal
experts have predicted that Vermont could become
the first state to legalize such marriages.
Phelps-Roper said a dozen members of her church
would spend the weekend in Ottawa and Montreal,
protesting a decision on domestic partnership by the
Canada Supreme Court and then picketing the
Montreal Gay pride parade. The group then will
travel to Vermont, slie said.
The church is virulently anti-Gay and pickets
frequently. In October, it picketed-outside the funeral
~fMatthew Shepard, who authorities say was killed in
part because he was Gay.
Oregon Anti-Gay
Marriage Bill Dies
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A watered-down proposal that
began as a ban on Gay marriages failed in the Senate
last month. The proposed ballot measure would have
asked voters only whether the Legis!~ture sh.ould
have the power to define What cbiastitutes a marnage.
As passedby the House, the proposal definedmarriage
as atmionbetweenmanand woman. Sen. Neil Bryant,
R-Bend, said the measure as reworked by the Senate
set a middle ground in the dispute, but foes argued the
revised measure would accomplish nothing.
The proposal stemmed from an Oregon Court of
Appeals ruling that employers cannot discriminate
against homosexuals and must provide benefits to
same-sex partners ofgovernmentworkers. Supporters
of the anti-Gay mamage measure contended that the
court decision opened the door for legalization of Gay
marriages.
Alabama Passes
Gay-Friendly Law
MONTGOMERY, AIa. (AP) - The Alabama
Legislature is drawing praise from the National Gay
and LesbianTaskForcefor passing domestic violence
legislation that could make Alabama the first state to
cover homosexual couples. In its legislative update
July 16, the task force listed the Alabama domestic
violence legislation as one of the "highlights" of
legislative sessmns nationwide.
Butthe sponsor of thelegislation, state Rep. Yvo,,n~e
Kennedy, D-Mobile, said, "That’s way off base. At
issue is a bill passed on the Legislature’s final day
June 9, when dozens of bills were flying through the
House and Senate with little or no discussion. Gov.
Don Siegelman signed the bill imo law June 19.
Ms. Kennedy and Carol Gundlach, executive
director of the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic
Violence, said the purpose of the legislation was raise
the cost of a marriage license by $15 to provide more
funding for shelters for domestic abuse victims and to
broaden domestic abuse laws to cover more than
spouses. The legislation expands domestic abuselaws
to cover violence "occurring amongfamily, household,
dating, or engagement relationships.’"
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a
Washington-based group that works to eliminate
prejudice and violence againstGaypersons, is focusing
eta the word "household" in the new Alabama law.
"You couldhave two peoplein a same-sex relationship
and that’s a household," said David Elliott,
communications director for the task force.
The task force’s legislative report said Alabama
"’became the first state to enact a bill expanding the
state’s definition of domestic violence to potentially
includeGay, Lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people
under Alabama’ s domestic violence law." But Elliott
concededit will probably take acourt case to determine
whether the task force’s view is correct.
Ms. Kennedy, who sponsored the bill for the
Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said the new
law is silent about sexual orientation. But she said
homosexual couples were never mentioned in any of
the legislative debate on the bill.
Ms. Gundlach said the language was copied from
Alabama’s 1989 warrantless arrest law. That law
allows police to make assault arrests without an arrest
warrant when an assault occurs between two people
living together. She said she has heard of cases where
police used the law to make arrests involving
homosexual relationships that turned violent. ’q’hat’ s
just common sense. People in homosexual
relationships can and do assault each other and the
victim needs protection," she said. But she said the
xndusion of"household" in the 1989taw and the 1999
law does not legitimize homosexual rdationships
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the new law was supposed to apply to couples who
could get married, but chose not to. "Whether you
could extend that to people who couldn’t get married
if they wanted to, I don’t know," he said. He agreed
with the task force’s spokesman that it would take a
court case to find out.
While the legislative update from the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force complimented Alabama on
the domestic violence legislation, the state Legislature
camein forcriticismfor refusing to expandAlabama’ s
hate crimes law to cover sexual orientation despite
the Feb. 19 beating death of Billy Jack Gaither of
Sylacauga. ButAlabama was not alone. Twenty other
state legislatures turned back similar ~.egislation, the
task force noted.
Gay Couple Appeals
Adoption Ruling
ERIE, Pa. (AP) -Twomenhope an appeals court will
allow them to become adoptive parents and help
defineparental rights forGay couples in Pennsylvania.
The couple has asked the state Superior Court to
overturn a decision by Erie County Judge Shad
Connelly, who nded las t month that state law dictates
that only one man can be the legal parent of the two
children. Lower court judges have differed on the
issue, and appeals courts have not made a definitive
decision. Connelly said the Legislature should
specifically sanction Gay marriages before judges
can allow Gay couples to adopt.
The children, an 8-year-old boy and a 7-year-old
gift, were adopted by one of the men and raised since
infancy by the couple. The man who does not have
legal custody said he wants to be officially named a
parent in case his partner dies. "The children have
been and will continue to live with their family
regardless of the court’s action," said Karen Engro, a
la~vyer for the couple. "ff the adoption is granted,
everyone wins. Bydenying it, everyone loses."
The men, who are 43 and 42 years old, have been
together for 18 years and are identified only by their
initials in court records. They have asked reporters
not to use theirnames to protect the children’s privacy.
Another lawyer for the couple, Chris Biancheria,
said other Common Pleas Court judges in the state
have granted "second parent" adoptions for Gay
couples. She said a Superior Court ruling in favor of
the adoption could help establish guidelines for lower
courts. "It would mean that these type of adoptions
would have to be granted in every county," she said.
She said Connelly, in ruling against the adoption,
ignored the Legislature’s stipulation that all adoptions
be consideredin light of "the children’ s best interests."
In his ruling, Counelly wrote that the "best interest"
issue was irrelevant because the request was illegal to
begin with. "Because the Legislature has not seen fit
to specifically sanction such adoptions-as this, this
court is not empowered to grant the petitaon for
adoption," he wrote.
High School Gay-Straight
Alliance Recognized
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - West High School on
Thursday formally recognized a support group for
Gay and Lesbian pupils. The action, in a formal letter,
gives theWestHighGay/Straight Alliance recognition
retroactive to April 1. The letter follows the school
board’s narrow margin approval ofthe dublast week,
10 weeks after several current and former pupils filed
suit over Principal Robert Baines’ decision not to
recognize the group without school board approval.
Jennifer Levi, a lawyer from Gay & Lesbian
Advocates & Defenders, a Boston nonprofit
representing thepupils, said Thursday the recognition
"is a great day for the students at Manchester High
School West." The lawsuit charged the principal
discriminatedagainstthe group under the Equal Access
Act because no other student association has been
required to get school board approval to use school
facilities.
Supporters of the Gay Straight Alliance say it
offers support and acceptance to pupils ~ho are Gay,
Lesbian or bisexual in an often hostile environment.
Italso helps educate others abouto~fensive stereotypes
and acceptance of differences.
Court Rejects Ex’s
Visitation Appeal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Despite pleas by Gay
civil-rights groups, the state SupremeCourthas turaed
down an appeal by an Alameda County woman who
sought the right to visit two children she helped raise
with her Lesbian partner. An appellate court ruled in
April that the woman, Kathleen C., had no parental
rights because she was not the biological mother, and
because there was no evidence that the children were
being harmed by living with their biological mother.
The state’s high court denied review of the case in
July. Only lustices Stanley Mosk and Janice Rogers
Brown voted to grant a hearing, two short of the
needed majority. The appellate ruling is now binding
on trial courts statewide.
The case was closely watched by Gay civil-rights
groups, who wanted California to follow a handful of
court rul!ngs in other states that have granted parental
rights to former members of same-sex couples.
Kathleen and her partner, Lisa W., started living
together in February 1985, when Lisa’s daughter was
almost 3. They had a child together by artificial
insemination in 1987 and separated in 1990. Kathleen
was allowed to visit the children onalternateweekend
until November 1994, when Lisa cut off visitation.
Kathleen argued that she should be considered the
children’s "de facto parent," one who develops a
parent-like relationship by providing daily care,
affection and concern over a long period.
An appellate court in New Jersey ruled this March
that a woman who had helped her .Lesbian partner
raise two children was a "psychological parent"
entitled to visitation. Courts in Wisconsin and
Pennsylvaniahave also granted limited parental rights
to former members of Lesbian couples.
ButAlamedaCounty Superior CourtJudge Roderic
Duncan ruled against Kathleen C. and was upheld by
the 1st District Court of Appeal.
Kathleen had shown the characteristics of a "de
facto parent," but there is no legal authority to grant
a non-parent visitation rights "’over the objection of
the biological parent and in the absence ofany showing
of detrimentto the child," said the opinionby Presiding
Justice Daniel Hanlon. The ruling means Kathleen
cannot see the children until they turn 18. They are
now 17 and 12.
The state Supreme Court appeal drew support from
the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Youth
La~v Center, the American Civil Liberties Union and
other advocacy groups.
The appdlate ntling "leaves the two children...
locked in the embrace of but one of their mothers,
denied by her - and by the courts of this state - any
contact with the other woman they call ’Morn,’ "said
E. Elizabeth Summers, alawyer for Kathleen, in court
papers. She acknowledged that a Lesbian partner can
get parental rights by adopting the child with her
partner, but said not all California counties, or judges
in the same county, allow adoptions by same-sex
couples.
Mormans Lose Members
Over Anti-Gay Stance
SALT LAKECITY (AP) - The Mormon church says
it regrets a protest by dozens of dissident members
trying to quit the church because of its campaign in
California against Gay. marriages. The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement
saying it was defending the "traditional family" by
pushing for a California ballot initiative that seeks to
preempt legalized same-gender marriages.
The dissidents say the church crossed a line from
religion to politics by asking its 740,000 California
members to "do all you can" to assure passage of the
initiative.
Church spokesman Dale Bills said, "we regret that
any member would ask to have his or her name
removed from our records because the church has
joined a coalition in California to oppose samegender
marriage."
New Test Catches
HIV Quicker
RICHMOND,Va. (AP)-Theagency that
collects most blood donations in central
Virginiais still usingtwo standard tests to
screen blood for the AIDS virus, four
months afterfederal healthofficials urged
blood baul~ to use a new test. The new
test, called Nucleic Acid Testing; was
recommended by the Food and Drug
Administration on March 3. NAT may
significantly reduce the time thatHIV can
avoid detection in current blood tests.
¯
reaching," MethodistHealth Care System
¯
president Peter Butler said.
: Science Advances,
i Prejudice Remains ¯
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - T.J.
¯
contracted the virus that causes AIDS 18
: years ago. He says nothing’s changed.
¯ "Wall, almost nothing," "he said. "A lot
: has changed in medicine, but very little
: has changed in stigma and prejudice." So
¯
little that he feels obliged to use T.J.
¯ instead of his real name.
TheFl’)A’sreq°mmendati°n~et"w°° i ,,~’li~eitl arural’~rea~
w~s~.~f_5,re ~iPetet~b~gman; William good iqtca, (o use my name, he said. T.J.
C C~ippy ¥6tmg~" tmderwent:V~seular~ ~ hdped form the Long Term ~Survivors
surgeryat~MedicalColleg~ofVirginia : Group for people living with AIDS in
Hospitals in Richmond..Young said he : Oklahoma. It has about 200 members.
contracted HIV from a blood transfusion
he received during the surgery.
Virginia Blood Services, the regional
blood bank., last week acknowledged that
a unit of blood it sent toMCV may have
been tainted with HIV. The unidentified
donor tested negative when theblood was
given but later tested posluve.
The NAT procedure is not yet required
because it is experimental and there are
questions abouL how to implement it
nationwide But FDA spo,k,eswoman
Len0re Gelb said the test will’ help close
the window" when. HIV cannot, be
detected.
Virginia Blood Services has used the
test for another virus, hepatitis C~"since
April 15 as part of a study, said
spokeswoman Laura Cameron. She said
the procedure would be used to test blood
when it is licensed by the FDA, which is
awaiting results .of NAT experiments
around the country.
Atthe timeYoung contendshe received
the taintedblood, only afew blood centers
had the technology to implement the ne.w
test for AIDS, said Dr; Celso Bianco, the
president of America s Blood Centers¯
"Even if the (NAT) test worked, it would
not have benefited this recipient," Bianco
said.
The new test detects HIV at very small
concentrations even before the body
produces antibodies to the virus. Blood
banks now use a test that spots antibodies
to HIV and another that finds a protein
attached to the virus.
In a study published this month in the
medical journal Transfusion, scientists
studying an HIV-infected chimpanzee
discovered that the new test narrowed the
detection window by three weeks. They
also found that blood from the HIVinfected
chimp did not infect another
animal until the virus concentration was
detectable using the new test.
New Medical Center
HOUSTON (AP) - A new cell and gene
research center here could revolutionize
therapy for many illnesses, including
cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes
and AIDS, say doctors. Formation of the
International Center for Cell and Gene
Therapy, a collaboration by Baylo,r
College of Medicine, Texas Children s
Hospital andTheMethodist Hospital, was
announced this morning. Officials said
the center will be the first in the world to
combine basic science mid clinical
research with pediatric and adult celland-
gene-therapy transplant facilities.
Creation ofthe center was prompted by
new understanding of the molecular basis
ofdisease and theneedfornovel strategies
for cell and gene therapy.-"We realize the
medical possibilities are endless and the
potential impact on patients is far-
: "We’ve had members burned out of their
¯
home and run out of town," he said. "One
¯ family just recently moved to the city
¯ (from a natal community) because they
¯ couldn’t take it anymore. The mother has
AIDS." T.J. said the quality and length of
life for people living with AIDS has
¯ improved because of medical advances,
¯ but there is still a long way to go. "People
~ have started believing thatit’s over. It’s a
¯ long way from being over," he said.
Pam Cross, director of the Regional
AIDS Interfaith Network, agreed that the
¯ much of the general public remains
¯ ignorant of the disease. "People have ¯
¯ become quite complacent. They’ve taken
good news from headlines and TV about
¯ medical advances," she said. "They think
it’ s a cure for HIV and there’ s not. "We’re
~ not seeing a drop. Nationwide, we still
have 40,000 people a y,e,ar becoming
¯ infected with this disease.
T.J., who got AIDS from a Gay
; relationship, fits into the Centers for
~ Disease Co~,trol and Prevention"Pre- 1987
: Definition. That definition refers .to the,
Original list of"oppormnistic infect|ons.
In other words,he got the virus that causes
AIDS before AIDS had a name.
In Oklahoma, there have been 5,441
reported HIV/AIDS cases, according to
theOklahomaState Departmentof Health,
which began tracking the disease in 1982.
Figures show no confirmed heterosexual
¯ cases were recorded the first four years
records were kept, but in the past four
¯ years about 10% of overall cases have
¯ been heterosexual. ¯ ’t ¯ Ms. Cross said documented cases don
¯
fully represent the amount of people who
¯ have the disease. "If they’re anonymous, ¯
¯ there’s noway oftellinghowmany people
have it. I’ve heard estimates that cases
¯ could be as many as 10 times higher (than
¯ what is documented)," Ms. Cross said. ¯
’qqaere are alot of people that don’t know
~ theDyorne"iJnofhecntseodn,, ashe19s-myea. r survivor of
¯ AIDS, said he thinks the biggest reason ¯
¯ for increase in heterosexual cases is
ignorance andalackofAIDS educationin
¯ Oklahoma. "There’s still a lot of that ’It
~ can’ thappenhere’ attitude.I don’ t see the
¯ education taking place that I see in
~ California," saidJohnson,41, whois G.ay.
¯ "The schools there have a curriculum that
¯ involves HIV prevention. There is not the
¯ samecommumtyawarenesshere, hesaid.
¯
Shelly Hickman, spokeswoman f.o,r .,file
i state Department of Education, sam m.e
¯ state requires that schools have a certain
: amount of AIDS education curriculum,
¯ but much of it is left up to the schools¯
¯ ’‘There is some discretion on how it is
~ taughtandwhenitis taught," Ms. Hickman
¯ said."Weareinfavoroflocal communities
~ that they use what’s best for them."
¯ Peggy, who would not use her real
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protect future generations from getting
.AIDS. "People think this diseaseis starting
to go away," she said. "This is afact oflife
- we have to protect our future and give
them the information they need to protect
themselves. How can we do that if we
have to be careful about what words we
say or don’t say in this state? "This
generation is not like generations in the
past. We can’t treat our youth like we did
three or four generations ago. They’re
having sex younger and younger."
Peggy said she got HIV from her late
husband when’he got it from a blood
transfusion in the mid-80’s. She said she
and herhusband hid their disease from the
community toprotecttheir children. "Until
society accepts this disease and is able to
talk about it, it will go on and on," she
said. "Heterosexual people are afraid to
¯¯ country can import lower-cost drugs
without infringing on patents.
¯ The issue of African access to AIDS
¯ drugs has taken on a political dimension ¯
recently. Gore has been caught in a fight
¯ between AIDS activists seeking cheap
¯ generic drugs for South African AIDS ¯
victims of the disease and U.S. laws
: intended to protect drug companies from
¯ having theirpatents violated abroad. Gore
: has saidhedoesnotopposeSouthAfrica’s
¯ attempts to produce or obtain generic
¯ AIDS medicines as long as those efforts ¯
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¯
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¯ government unspecified power to obtain
¯ cheaper AIDS drugs. About 40 ¯
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be tested because they’re afraid they’ll be :
labeled as Gay. So then they go and ~x;e :
it to someone else and the cycle goes on.r’ ¯
Congress Hears
¯African Appeal
WASHINGTON (AP)-AnAIDS patient
from Malawi asked Congress for help in
settling trade-disputes that could deprive
poor African countries such as her own of
vital drugs.
Chatinkah Nkhoma, 37, believes she
would be dead now had she stayed in
Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, where the
drugs she needs either are tmavailable or
cost too much. Millions of other Africans
are not as lucky, said Nkhoma, who came
to the United States as a graduate student.
~’I’m their voice. I’m here to cry for help,"
Nkhoma testified tearfully before the
HouseGovernmentReform subcommittee
oncriminaljustice, drug policy andhuman
resources.
The government did act in response:
Vice President Gore on Monday
announced a new $100 million proposal
to help Africa stop the spread of AIDS.
Nkhoma also appealed to lawmakers to
¯ reject arguments that the drags may cause
more harm than good in poor nations
unable to ensure AIDS patients adhere to
strict drug regimens. Experts have said
that people who do not take the drugs as
prescribed actually may become sicker or
devdop drug-resistant strains of theAIDS
virus.
AIDS deaths in the United States have
declinedbecause ofadvances in treatment,
but they remain on the increase in Africa,
where it is the leading cause of death.
Trade disputes have developed over
some countries’ efforts to reduce the cost
ofimporting AIDS drugs, withsomeblame
directed at pharmaceutical companies.
"What happens to countries who.., do
not purchase their AIDS drugs from drug
companies, instead looking to. buy them
through cheaper sellers, often times other
countries? Under direct pressure from the
pharmaceuticalindustry, they arepunished
bythe UnitedStates," Rep. Bernie Sanders,
I-Vt., said in a written statement. He said
thesecountries couldlose theirpreferential
tariff treatment "all because the
pharmaceutical companies do not wish to
lose any of their tremendous profits."
Joe Papovich, an assistant U.S. trade
representative, said the Clinton
administration believe it can resolve the
disputes, which involve drug companies’
efforts to protect their patents and help
recoup research costs. He said the
administration is working with South
Africa, where 45% of the military is
infected with the AIDS virus, so that
More Die From
: AIDSThan War
: NAIROBI, Kenya(AP)-AIDS killed 1:4
: million people in eastern .and southern
," Africa last year, overtaking armed
¯ conflicts as the No. 1 killer in the region,
," the U.N~ Children’s Fund said recently.
: Theepidemic, whichhas hit this portion
¯ of the African continent harder than
: anywhere else in the world, has left 6
: million children orphaned in eastern aud
¯ southern Africa, amounting to70% of the
¯ world’s AIDS orphans, said UNICEF ¯
DeputyExecutiveDirectorStephenLewis.
¯ 48% of the world’s AIDS cases are in this
¯ region, Lewis said during the release of
¯ UNICEF’s annual report on AIDS. It ¯
called for emergency action to curb the
¯ spread of AIDS in Africa.
¯ "Fundamentally,AIDS is spreading and
¯ stifling the economic and social
" infrastructure of the entire continent. It is
¯ killing the most productive age group,"
¯ Lewis said. "It is doubling and tripling
¯ infant mortality rates. It is returning life
-" .expectancy to the levels of 1960s." "It is
: the modern incarnationof the Dante’s
¯ Inferno," Lewis said. "Neaier has Africa
¯ faced such a plague."
~ Worldwide, some 16,000 people daily
" are infected.by HIV, the virus that causes
¯ AIDS, and there are 8.2 million AIDS
: orphans, most in sub-Saharan Africa, the
" report said. The report warned that AIDS
: could increase infant mortality in eastem
¯ and southern Africa by 75% and double
: the death rate of children under fivein the
¯ region in the next decade. "Thenumber of
: orphans in Africa constitute nothing less
¯ thananemergencyrequiring an emergency
: response," the report said.
¯ In Uganda, some 1.1 million children
¯ under 15 - or 11% of the country’s child
¯ population-have lost one or both parents ¯
to AIDS, the highest number of AIDS
¯ orphans in the world. In the developed
¯ wodd, that figure is at 1%. ¯
Especially important was educating
¯
people on prevention and on building
¯ tolerance in the region, where AIDS
¯ victims arefrequently shamedinto silence.
¯" Men, more than women, were intolerant
¯ of the disease, often refusing to be tested
: or to support wives stricken with AIDS,
¯ Lewis said.
: Lewis attacked Western nations for not
: financing the fight against the scourge in
¯ Africa. "It is morally indefensible," Lewis
~ said, "That the West is prepared to spend
: upwards of $40 billion to fight war in the
¯ Balkans then to engage in the economic
¯ restoration ofKosovo, andless than 1% of
: that to save the lives of tens of millions of
¯ women, children and men in .adriea."
by James Christjohn
Well, Just saw the new Muppets in
Space (MIS). It only served to make me
nostalgic for the days when Jim Henson
was at the helm of Muppetland. His son,
Brian, strives to follow in his footsteps
and for the most parts does a pretty good
job, but for whatever
reasons, the muppets
justseem to be puppets
now, not beings with
personalities.
In MIS, the plot
focuses on Gonzo,
who doesn’t know
what he is. Neither
does anyone else.
Turns out, he’s an
"alien from outer space
that.got left behind on
a mzsslon many years
ago, and now his
family is looking for
him. This could have
been the setup for a
really tinny "Pigs in
Space" type romp,
taking on all the big
space films, like Star
Wars, Close Encounters, Star Trek, etc.
And, while it has a few cute moments,
it fizzles like booster rockets with a furl
leak. I was really hoping it wout~d be good,
so it is with heavy heart I ~rite this.
Missing are the cameos that populated the
first three muppet films to such success,
the rapid fire jokes, and the witty
commentary on society that was the secret
weapon of the muppet minds. This is not
to say that you won’t find a few chuckles
in the film, which is worth seeing at the
dollar movie.
Especially relevant - and attention
getting - are the bits where Gonzo is
telling the gang that"I didn’ t choose to be
this way, I was’born this way." There are
other moments like that as well, which
indicates more of an overt Gay sensibility
to the film that one might suspect. These
moments are what makes the film worth
seeing.The pacing is-off on most of the
jokes - many of which absolutely depend
on the perfect timing to be funny rather
than misfires.
The ending leaves one wishing formore
- morebuildup,more climax, betterjokes.
It is kind ofperfunctory, and at no time do
the muppets sing any of the songs except
for one perfunctory number, and it’s an
oldie everyone will recognize, mainly
because it was overplayed in the 80’ s way
toe much. It was obviously thrown in at
the last minute, probably as a result of a
production meeting wherein someone said,
"But we HAVEto have a muppet musical
number! It’s expected!", and someone
else said,"Well... OK. I guess so. What’ll
we do?" "How about some old song from
the 80’s that everyone knows? That way
we won’t have to pay for songwriters?"
That, too, was disappointing, for one who
remembers the Muppet Movie for the
music as wall as the dream of one little
green frog to "make millions of people
happy."
Switching hats here, I thought I’d cross
over into TFN Book reviewer Barry
Hensley’s territory and make a
recommendation for "Queer Astrology
for Men" by Jill Dearman. Ms. Dearman
writes in a humorous style, which can
seem light until you read - really read -
whatshe’ s writing. (Shemustbea"sadge"
- Saggitarian) It makes the more
~ challenging aspects of the signs a little
¯ easier to take, and makes one aware of
¯ them without alienating or antagonizing,
¯ except in a good natured, "just kidding"
" kinda way. She’s been writing
¯ professionally aboutastrology for 9 years,
and has studied astrology since childhood,
and she does seem to
One of my favorite
numbers was the
"Jadhouse Tango",
wherein a bunch of
murderesses explain
why "they done it".
I think anyone who’s
been in a relationship
could probably
identify with many of
the reasons.
know her stuff.
As an astrologer
(Gemini MoonAstrological
Services, see
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I am always on the
lookout for new and
informative
information on
astrology, especially
pertaining to Gay and
Lesbian folk This
book fits the bill quite
nicely and accurately,
Informally written,
it is an overview of
the sun sign..(themost
basic part of one’s
personality. Of
course, for a really
accuratepicture, afull
interpretation or birthchart is necessary;
since the other planets can mitigate/
amplify the sun sign’s qualities in any
given person.) As such, it is scarily on the
target.
As a Sagittarius, I found that section
(sometimes unfortunately) to be dead-on:
And having spent more than my share of
time around Leas, I read that section as an
objective "test" of the accuracy of the
writing, and again, it was quite right. So,
if you’re looking for a quick overview of
someone’s personality, and what makes
them tick, tiffs would be one of the better
book.
For a more complete picture, if you
know the person’s moon sign and rising
sign, I would recommend reading those
sections as well. Sun: basic ego quirks and
personality; rising sign or ascendant: how
they appear to others (Which explains
why a sun sign appears to be something
else entirely, emphasis on the "seems".);
and moon sign: emotions and the
subconscious - the way someone filters/
expresses emotional tendencies. Or, in
the case of one Leo I know, not.
It’ s a worthy addition to thebookshelves
of anyone curions about what makes
people tick, psychology, or mateshopping.
And, as a former total skeptic
and a psychology major, I can say give it
arty; you’llbe surprised. Forget the overly
general newspaper tidbits (especially the
Tulsa World -"Sagittarius: Today you’ll
have a day" just doesn’t cut it with me),
and go for the real stuff. This is a good
start,
If you can, check out "Chicago", at the
PAC throughAugust 1 st. The Kander and
Ebb musical starring Sandy Duncan is
worth seeing. The men and women are all
gorgeous, and the staging is perfect. The
story of the "sensationalization" of two
murders for publicity’s sake is certainly
timely. Ms. Duncan is gorgeous and turns
in a great performance, and the dancing
alone is worth seeing.
One of my favorite numbers was the
"Jailhouse Tango", wherein a bunch of
murderesses explain why "they done it",
I thinkanyonewho’s beenin arelationship
could probably identify with many of the
reasons.
see Arts, p. 11
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reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-Couniy Library
For a short time, in 1997, the worldwas
mesmerized’by the odd and frightening
story of Andrew Cnnanart, as he went on
a killing spree across several
states, ending.with themurder Indiana’s
of fashion designer Gianni ¯ ". ~ "
Versace in Miami. This
¯recounting of Cunanan’s
interesting life and horrifying
death makes fascinating, ff
difficult, reading.
Growing up in a lower
middle class family,Cunanan
learned early in life to
embellish tte truth to make
him seem more important. He
studied the.finer things in life
beginning as a child, and by -
high school, dazzled his
teachers with his knowledge
andtaste, andwonrespectfrom
other students with his sharp
wit, easy’ demeanor and
exceedingly good looks.
As he eased into gay life in " sentence at
California, Cnnanan learned thathe couldeasilymanipulate ~’- 39~0 words!
otherpeopleinto situations that
were advantageous to him. He had a few
seim-serious relationships and even had a
sugar daddy at one point. The two people
he was serious about, David Madson and
JeffTrail, each soonrealized thatCunanan
was a fraud. To get away from him, they
each left the state, ironically both ending
up in Minnesota.
As Cunanan’s friends deserted him,
with no job and low on funds, he went to
Minnesota, hoping one of his old
boyfriends wouldinvitehim to stay awhile
- untilhe wasbackonhis feet. BothMadson
and Trail, who barely knew each other,
were simply hoping that he wouldstay for
acoupleofdays andleave. Whenitbecame
gravcst sin,
and the thing
that makes
the book so
hard to read,
is his highly
approach to
sentence
structure.
I do kd
The brothers were being held in lieu of
$150,000 bail on charges of receiving
stolen property after authorities said they
found awallet, credit card, driver’s license
and Social Security card belonging to
Matson.
Federal and local authorities said the
brothers also were being investigated in
connection with the Sacramento
synagogue fires onJune 18 that caused $1
million in damage..
TheWilliams brothers livedinamodest,
wood-frame house in Redding, where
investigators said they found material
espousing white supremacist beliefs.
Amongthematerial foundwas literature
from the Illinois-based World Church of
the Creator, according to news reports. A
former member of the church, Benjamin
Smith, killed himself last week after a
two-state shooting spree targeting
minorities inTndianaand ~linois thatkill~.~
two men and wonnded nine others.
Also found in the house was alist of32
prominent Jewish and civic leaders in
Sacramento, and FBI special agent James
Maddock said protection was ordered for
those individuals. Officials also urged
Reddin~’s only Jewish congregation,
Temple Beth Israel, to increase secun y.
ii
evident that no offers were forthcoming,
Cunanan tttmed bitter and surly. After a
minor betrayal by Jeff Trail, Cunanan
snapped, bludgeoning Trail to death with
a hammer. And so began his killing spree
which also included Madson, an elderly
friend in Chicago, an unlucky
cemetery worker whose truck
Cunanan needed, and finally,
Versace.
Author Gary Indiana did a
lotofresearch butmuch of the
book revolves around what
Cunanan was thinking, how
he formulated his plans, and
conversations between
Cunanan and his victims.
Since all of the participants
are dead, Indiana is simply
making up. a good story,, With
events that may ormay not be
true.But, Indiana’s gravestsin,
and the thing that makes the
book so hard to read, is his
highly unusual approach to
sentence structure. I clocked
one sentence at 320 words!
Frustrations aside, this
is an interesting story, and
there are some fairly good
photographs to help put faces
¯ with names. There is an unseemly photo
." Of Ctmanan’s bloody corpse, after his
¯ suicide, which is better suited to a tabloid
~ thanarespectablebook. Ctmananwas ful!
¯ of contradictions; smart but doing stupid
¯" things, sweet yet mean to those around
him, and;mostofall,complex yetshallow.
¯ His is a warning to materialistic social
". climbers that there is more to life than
superficial appearances, and if you take
¯ things too seriously, you can wind up
: hurting yourself and those you love.
¯ Check for Three Month Fever at your
: local branch library, or call the Readers
: Services departmentatthe Central Library,
¯ at 596-7966.
i Anti-Hate Crimes Legislation
: Advances in Senate
¯ WASHINGTON - The Senate has taken
i a ,strong stand against the rising tide of
hate violence in America by adding the
¯
Hate Crimds Prevention Act to the
¯ Commerce, Justice and State appro-
¯ priations bill, both the Human Rights
"_ Campaiguandthe National Gay&Lesbian
¯
Task Force asserted recently.
¯ "The Senate took a dramatic step
¯ forward in making this nation a safer ¯
place for all Americans," HRC Executive
: Director Elizabeth Birch said a day after
¯ the Senate added hate crimes language to
¯ the appropriationsmeasure. "We appla.ud ¯
this responsibleeffort to stem the growing
: trend of hate crimes in our country."
¯ ’q’his is the first concrete action taken
¯ by either chamber since America buried
¯" Matthew Shepard, James Byrd Jr., Billy
~ .Jack Gaither, and many transgendered
: people whose names and faces do not
make the newspapers," said Kerry Lobel,
¯ executive director of the National Gay
¯ and Lesbian Task Force.
_" "It is a good first step. But we have a
¯ long way to go and we must now mm to
¯ the House and tell our representatives
: how critically important this legislation
¯ is. In short, we must keep up the heat." ¯
Theamendmentapprovedby the Senate
: see Hate, p, 14
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And if you haven’t heard Sarah
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recommend that yougo get itnow. As one
of the few artists I’ve heard that sounds as
good live as She does on her studio
recordings, this is a standout collection of
live performances that showcase her
talents to a tee. A DVD/videotape is to be
released soon of-the performances
captured on this CD, with extra songs. If
you didn’t get to see her inOKC, I can tell
you that this is the next best thing.
Also, for those who have missed the
regular "Stevie" updates, Ms. Nicks’
album is nearly completed, with an
October release date,
The most concrete action taken,
however, was acommitmenttomeetagain
as a group on Sept. 14, at the TulSa Gay
Community Services Center (the Pride
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HUman Rights Campaign Fears Religious
Liberty Bill May Threaten Civil Rights
WASHINGTON - The House passed the ¯ discriminate on the basis of sext~A
~::i.: Religi~us Liberty ProtectionAct (RLPA) : orientation.
last month and defeated a substitute bill
that would have closed a dangerous
loophole in RLPA that could threaten
civil fights ff not remedied in the Senate,
according to theHaman Rights Campaign.
"In its current form, this bill poses a
grave threat to civil rights laws throughout
thecountry," saidHRCExecutive Director
Elizabeth Birch "In an unconscionable
vote~.the U.S. House of Repre.sentatives
has indicated its willingness, to trample onthb
civil rigllts ofwomen, people of color,.
people with disabilities and Gay and
Lesbian Americans."
"While we support the intentions of the
Religious Liberties Protection Act, it is
shameful that the House rejected an
alternative bill that would have protected
civil rights," said HRC Political Director
Winnie Stachelberg.
A substitute bill sponsored by Jerrold
Nadler, D-N.Y., was defeated in theHouse
190 to 234 after an hour-long debate. The
Nadler bill would have clarified RLPAby
preventing an individual from using
religious beliefs to undermine local or
state civil rights statutes. Without the
Nadlerbill, which was necessary forHRC
support, the Rep. Charles Canady0 R-Fla.,
sponsored Religious Liberty Protection
Act-a bill designed to safeguard religious
expression- passed the House306 to 118.
RLPA would prohibit any state or local
law from placing a "substantial burden"
on a "person’s religious exercise" even if.
the rule is not designed to infringe on a
person’s religious beliefs. The problem
is; the bill currently does not clarify
whether state andlocal anti-discrirhination
laws can be ignored by a person who
claims that these laws violate his or her
religious beliefs.
"We cannot support legislation that
might threatenanti:discrimination statutes
thatprotect Gay andlesbianAmericans in
11 states and 101 municipalities," said
Stachelberg.
Thefollowing is an excerpt of a letter
that was sent by HRC executive director
Elizabeth Birch to our allies who are
supporting the RLPA without civil rights
protection.
The- Human Rights Campaign is proud
to have the support of a broad-based
coalition ofreligious organizations in the
struggle for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual
equality. However, in light of the position
many such organizations took on last
week’s House vote in support of the
Religious Liberty ProtectionAct(RLPA),
I wouldlike to share withyou our thoughts
on RLPA. First, we believe the intent of
this legislation is a worthy one - religious
freedom is an important righL But, as
currently drafted, this bill is flawed.
We strongly believe support for this
legislation, as currently drafted, is not
consistent with support for Gay and
Lesbian rights....
Like you, the Human Rights Campaign
strongly supports the principle of
protecting the free exercise of one’s
personal religious beliefs that serve as the
foundation for RLPA. Just as strongly, we
believe that Lesbian, Gay and bisexual
Americans shouldnotface discrimination
at work, at home or in their communities
because of their sexual orientation. It is
clear from statements made by members
of the coalition supporting RLPA that
they believe individual landlords and
employers should be allowed to
’_ Unfortunately, the question
¯ answered during last week’s debate <~n
: RLPA is, in my mind, the most import~zt
: one: what religious liberty fights wo~.! d
¯ be lost or weakened by the inclusion of a
: civilrights provision?Formembers of the
¯ coalition supporting this bill who profc.qs
¯ a desire to resolve this impasse in good
: faith, I find the rejection of this provision
¯ completely bafflin.g....:
¯" " Our ~ concern! ls:.com~pou,n,ded by
statements made by (he bill’.s chief:
¯ sponsor, Congressman Charles Canady,
~ and one of the leading members of your
¯ coalition, Steve McFartand, of the ¯
¯ Christian Legal Society. During
Saturday’s broadcast of the CSPAN
" program Washington Journal, Canady
¯ said"I believe there are contexts in which
: this bill could result in a claimant who is
¯ defending agmnst the application of a
¯ local Gay rights ordinance to raise a claim
that would be successful - I think this law
would trump the Gay rights ordinance."
¯ Mr. McFarland also acknowledged this
." intended use of RLPA in response to a
¯ question fromCongressman Jerry Nadler ¯
during his congressional testimony on
¯ RLPA before the House Judiciary
¯ Committee.’s Subcommittee on the
¯ Constitution on May 12, 1999. I am sure
¯
you can understand why such statements
¯ do little to dispel the very real fear that
¯ some intend to use RLPA as a sword to ¯
strike down the civil rights of others in the
¯ name of religious liberty. Whether it is
; your intent or not, opposition to a civil
¯ rights exemption ts support for
¯ discriminationbased onsexual orientation
" - a position in direct opposition to the
¯ principles that are the foundation of the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
: We are particularly passionate about
: the need for a civil rights provision in
¯ RLPA because of the lack of any federal
laws prohibiting employment
." discrimination on the basis of sexual
; orientation. The eleven state laws and
¯ nearly 200local laws are the few and very
: hard fought civil rights protections
] availableforGay and Lesbian Americans.
: Many of those laws took fifteen years or
¯ more of struggle by the local community
¯ to pass....
The Religious Liberty Protection Act,
.~ as currently drafted, will put more
¯ Americans at risk of discrimination, not ¯
fewer. Enacting this legislation without
: stating clearly in the bill that RLPA does
¯ not provide a defense to non-compliance
¯ with stateor local anti-discriminationlaws ¯
undercuts those laws ....
¯ To allow RLPA as a defense against
: discrimination is to defend religious
¯ practices that do real and definable harm ¯
to others. From our perspective, your
¯ opposition to the civil rights provision
." means you are defending the right of a
¯ religious individual, who chooses to be a
: landlord or employer, to impose their
¯ religious beliefs on a Gay or Lesbian
¯ American by denying them a job or a
: place to live because of their sexual
: orientation. To find ourselves in this
: disagreement with you, our long-time
¯ allies, deeply saddens and angers us... ¯
We ask you to join with us as this bill
." moves forward to strongly encourage the
: Senate to include a civil rights provision
¯ and enact areligious liberty protection act
: for all Americans.
¯ - Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director
byEsther Rothblum, Ph.D.
Giventhenumberandrange ofresearch
projects about Lesbians in recent years, it
is easy to forget how challenging it was to
survey Lesbians even a decade ago. In the
1980’ s, Caitlin Ryan and Judy Bradford
conducted @hat became the National
Lesbian Health Care Survey. This study
eventually resulted in 1,925 completed
questionnaires from Lesbians in all 50
U.S. states. It figured prominently in the
recent Institute of Medicine
Report of the National
Academy of Sciences. Even
today, there are Lesbians
(including me!) who
remember completing a
questionnaire for this study
15 years ago. I recently asked
Caiflin and Judy to describe
the "herstory" and process
of conducting the National
Lesbian Health Care Survey
in the mid- 1980s.
In the late 1970s, Caitlin suggested
forminganational organization thatwould
be multi-disciplinary, focus on Lesbian
- and Gay health issues, and sponsor
research and education. She began to talk
with other Lesbians about the need for a
survey. There was no av~i~lable
information on how Lesbians
conceptualize Lesbian health. She was
also interested in how stigma affected
health, mental health, self care, and access
to care.
Sheapplied for agrant though thenewly
formed National Lesbian and Gay Health
Foundation and hired a research
consultant, Dot Parkel, who was a
sociologist and survey researcher. Dot’s
role was to help design the study and to
develop drafts of the questionnaire, using
the input Caitlin had received from many
Lesbians.
Caitlin told me: "I remember talking
with a researcher who was herself a
closeted Lesbian, who sat down with me
and basically told me that I could not
possibly do a study like this. She just felt
that it was not feasible. And, of course,
therewas no such thing as arepresentadve
sample. I saw this womanrecently and we
laughed about her earlier skepticism. She
said, ’I told you that you couldn’t do and
you went out and did it.’ "
Judy got started by attending the
Intemational Lesbian and Gay Health and
AIDS Conference atNew YorkUniversity
with a good friend, a man who was in her
class in graduate school. They were both
interested in AIDS research, which was
just getting started then. EverywhereJudy
looked- and she went to a lot of sessions
at the conference - there were mostly
men. Then she noticed in the Conference
program a scheduled time for a women’ s
group meeting. It turned out to be an
orgamzing meeting for the National
Lesbian Health Care Survey, and Caitlin
was facilitating the group. When Judy
said she was a graduate student and
described a little of what she was doing,
she suddenly became co-investigator and
was responsible for data analysis and
preparing the survey report.
One of the things Caitlin had been very
concerned about was inclusion. So many
of the early studies, and even those
conducted today, have shown very highly
educated samples of Lesbians. Shewanted
¯ . . it is easy
to forget how
challenging it
was to survey
Lesbians even
a decade ago.
: to include women of color and women of
¯ diffeient economic backgrounds and not
¯ have language be a barrier. So she talked
with people about how to ask clinical
¯ questions in a non-clinical way. Caitlin
¯ said: "I talked with women bus drivers,
day laborers, women who had been
¯ recently diagnosed withcancer, about their
¯ experiences and how we should ask these ¯
questions. All of that helped frame how
¯
we would shape a questionnaire."
She elicited
suggestions about language
in a series of focus groups
that took place in several
different parts ofthe country.
They pre-tested the
questxonna]re at several
Lesbian and Gay
conferences and with
individuals around the
country. They would ask the
womenin the focus group to
fill out the questionnaire, and
¯ then they would sit around and talk about
¯ it alittlebit, and hearwhat people thought ¯
of it to make it more accessible. After
" several go-arounds using that process,
: they finalized the questionnaire.
¯ SinceCaitlinhaddone the early Lesbian ¯
andGayhealth organizing, shehad alarge
¯ address baseofpeopleall overthecountry
who were willing to help distribute the
¯ quesdounaires. They set up a distribution ¯
plan that was kind of an unusual approach
¯ tO snowball sampling. The methodology
¯ was intended to get the questionnaires out ¯
as broadly as possible to people all over
the country, including Alaska; They were
concernedwithgetting the survey to underrepresented
populations that hadn’t been
sampled before, so they made a
commitment to getting it to Lesbians in
the military, Lesbians living on Indian
reservations, and Lesbians in prison.
They also. tried reaching non-English
speaking women and they tried to reach
Lesbians of color in a variety of ways,
including having Lesbians of color give it
out to their networks around the country.
The National Coalition of Black Lesbians
and Gays sent a mailing about the survey
and how important it was and how to
participate. The Wisconsin Governor’s
Task Force sent out mailings that went all
over the state of Wisconsin. The National
Organization of Women sent out
information abeut the survey, and
information about it was published in a
variety of Lesbian and Gay newsletters.
The survey went out in the fall of 1984
and by early 1985 they had received
surveys back from 1,925 Lesbians from
every U.S. state. It was a wonderful
experience for them,hearing from somany
Lesbians across the country, and had the
sense of a national movement. There was
an electric energy - everyone had a great
sense of how important the survey was.
Of course, a major issue was how to
obtain money to fund data entry and data
analysis. The early 1980s was not a time
for funding Lesbian projects. Once the
struggles for funding were over (though
the study was funded on a shoestring),
Judy sent the questionnaires out to the
Virginia State Prison, where all the lab’s
data entry was done at that time. She told
¯ me: "The questionnaires did not arrive ¯
back. When our project manager called
¯
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For years and years I used to gethaircuts
athome. Mona, spouse, roommates,lovers
- whoever was handy with scissors - had
a whack at my head. The result varied but
the price was right. So I was a latecomer
to theworld of barbers, professional haircutters,
hairdressers, and stylists. Thefirst
time I paid someone for a haircut I was
nervous. I was 40 years old but had never
been inside a salon. That chair, the sink,
those weird tools - it all reminded me of
the dentist. However, I soon learned to
appreciate hairdressers’ skills and also
the pleasure of a shampoo and an
occasional head massage.
But I was still worried when I moved to
Japan for seven months. My hair grew
faster than I could learn Japanese. I riffled
desperately throughmyratty oldJapanese
"useful phrases for tourists" looking for
haircut vocabulary. I had the book in my
pocket when I picked a shop at random
from the scores of salons in downtown
Kagoshima.
Lucky for me, the stylist and owner had
trained with Vidal Sassoon in London.
And he remembered enough English to
understand roughly how I wanted my
hair. He had an army of assistants, too,
who shampooed me and got me ready for
the cut. (They would drape a cloth over
my eyes while working on me - I wasn’t
sure if this was to keep out the suds, or
spare me the rude view of their nostril
hair.) The shampoo always finished with
a beautifully relaxing head massage - a
standard service in Japanese salons.
I have just finished reading an analysis
of hair styling written by anthropologist
Grant McCracken: Big Hair: A Journey
into the Transformation of Self.
McCracken interviewed both stylists and
customers about the transforming powers
of hair. He suggests that we Americans
get new hairstyles in order to recreate and
change ourselves. When we reach a point
in life where we need a change, we redo
our hair. Or when the boyfriend dumps
you, a new buzz cut and goatee can help
relieve the pain.
A few years ago there was a weird
outbreak of ponytails among my 40-
something straight-guy friends
Something about hitting the Big 40 made
these aging friends cultivate their long,
graying locks. Perhaps they figured this
was the last chance before it all fell off
anyway.
Psychologists from Freudondownhave
commented on the sexual meaning of
hair. Delilah cuts away Samson’s
hewas told ,they wouldn’ t code the surveys.
I got another company to.do it and the
same thing happened. Finally when it
came to the third company I was told that
the data entry staff were afraid to touch
the questionnaires for fear of getting
AIDS !"
Over the years, wherever Judy and
Caitlin are, they continue to nm into
Lesbians who participated in the survey,
and who want to talk about the impact that
it had on them. Many women wrote pages
of material in addition to the answers they
gave to the items on the questiormaire.
For published results of the National
Lesbian Health Care Survey, see:
1. Bradford, J.B., & Ryan, C. (1991).
Who we are: Health concerns ofmiddle-
¯ manhood by fleecing his curls. Though ¯ nowadays- thanks to Michael Jordan and
¯¯ others - the bald knob is equally sexy.
Whether one goes for flowing ponytail or
¯
smooth, shiny scalp, the pointis that when
¯ life gets messy or gloomy, we run to our ¯
barber.
¯ In Kagoshima, someof themoreelegant
¯ salon assistants had dyed their black
¯ Japanese hair blond and I wondered if ¯
they were Gay. But then I felt guilty for
¯ thinking stereotypically. All hair stylists,
¯" of course, are not Gay. Warren Beatty in
Shampoo.testified to that. Still, Gay men
¯ have, been deeply involved in the
¯ emergence of today’s hair industry.
¯ McCracken reviews some of the giants of
¯ 20th century hair styling: Ernest Adler, ¯
Alexandre, and Antoine - the 1950s
forerunners of Sassoon - and many of
¯ these men dearly were Gay. ¯
Furthermore, theAmerican marketplace
¯ feeds off cultural creativity generated
~ within local, often otherwise unap¯
preciated communities. It steals hiphop
stylefromurbanstreets;itborrows stylistic
¯ developments in language, dress, and hair
from Gay men and women. The long hair
¯ of the 1960s and the cropped hair of the
¯ 1990s both largely originated in Gay
circles.
The combination ofhomosexuality and
¯ personal service is not unusual across the
¯ world. Many of the small town beauty
¯ salons springing up in the Philippines and
elsewhere, for example, are established
¯ by Gay men.
¯o It may be that culturally ambiguous
¯ homosexuality-whichstands bothoutside
and between the categorical opposition
betw.eenmal,e andfemale-makes personal
service easier. If the server is somehow
outside the arena ofordinary heterosexual
gender competition and dalliance, then
his touch is easier to bear. It is not news
that. map.y Gay men provide personal
service m restaurants, hotels, hospitals,
rest homes, as well as in hair salons.
Next time you need a new you, do
something about that hair. It may be that
developments in genetics and cloning one
day will replace plastic surgery to allow
us effortlessly to remake ourselves:
Perhaps change our skin color, orbuy new
orange eyeballs, or a bigger set ofpecs, or
trade in our ears or more personal body
parts. But until that day comes, we’ve got
our hair. You can redo with a new do.
Which renfinds me. It’s about time for
a haircut.
Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D. teaches
anthropology at the University of Tulsa.
agedLesbians. In B. Sang, J. Warshow, &
A.J. Smith (Eds.) Lesbians atmidlife: The
creative transition (pp. 147-163). San
Fransisco, CA: Spinsters Book Company.
2. Bradford, J.B., Ryan, C.,&Rothblum,
E.D. (1994). National Lesbian Health Care
Survey: Implications for mental health
care. Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology, 62, 228-242.
3. Ryan, C., & Bradford, J. (1993). The
NationalLesbian Health Care Survey: An
Overview. In D. Garnets & D.C. Kimmel
(Eds.) Psychological perspectives on
Lesbian and Gay male experiences. New
York: Columbia University Press.
Esther Rothblum is Professor of
Psychology at the University of Vermont
and Editor of the Journal of Lesbian
Studies. She can be reached atJohn Dewey
Hail, University of Vermont, Burlington,
VT. E-mail: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu.
and to effectively refute the anti-family
policies of the right-wing; second, to
actively build an effective and
collaborative national pro-GLBT family
network among GLBT and mainstream
organizations working on family issues;
and third, to educate the general public
about the value and values of GLBT
families.
Ettelbrick will assist NGLTF in
articulating a voice in policy debates that
have a great impact on GLBT families,
including debates on adoption, coparenting,
foster Care, alternative
insemination and recognition of "broader
family support networks. In addition,
NGLTF will raise GLBT perspectives in
debates that have traditionally excluded
consideration of GLBT perspectiyes.
Examples include definitions of family in
Social Security reform proposals~ the
Older Americans Act and immigration
policy.
Noted Vaid, "A number of legal and
advocacy groups do excellent work in the
arena of family issues, but no group
currently coordinates the efforts of our
movement in this area so that
collaboratively we can muster the
resources weneedto changefamily policy.
In addition, there is no national research
center for policy development and policy
analysis ~n family issues. With GLBT
families facing attack on so maiiy fronts,
the need for a coordinated national
approach has never been greater."
Announcement of the Family Policy
Programis partofalong-term commitmenl
on the part of the NGLTF Policy Institute
toGLBTFamilies. Beginning in the 1980s,
NGLTFhousedthefirstnational Families
Project. Throughout the 1990"s, the Task
Force worked actively on a number of
family issues. Last year, NGLTF
organized "Celebrating Our Families," a
15-city national tour to raise the visibility
of GLBT family issues and to organize
against attacks by right wing groups. In
1999, the Policy Institute published The
Domestic Partnership Organizing Manual
to help employees and citizens around the
country mobilize to obtain important
benefits for their families.
Founded in 1973, the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force works to
elimiinateprejudice, violence andinjustice
against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
andTransgenderedpeople at thelocal, state
and national level. As part of abroader
social justice movement for freedom,
justice and equality, NGLTF iscreating a
world that respects and celebrates the
diversity ofhumanexpression andidentity
where all people may fully participate in
society.
For example, if anyone had suggested
that in the third year after weheld the first
Pride March (all 65 brave souls - likely
more non-Gay than Gay) that we would
have hnndreds at the Pride Parade and
Picnic of this year with no less than
Congressman Barney Frank as grand
marshal. While the principal credit for
that goes to Mitchell Savage and Ric
Martin and many others, it was nndcr
Steve’s leadership that these people came
together.
Andjustkeeping theCommunityCenter
afloat is no little task. While the Center
continues to serve many. groups and
members of the community, it still needs
broader support. Air conditioning has to
be paid for (air conditioning repairs have
to be paid for) as well as rent and other
expenses.
I would suggest that the greatest way in
which we can honor Steve Horn - and
those who served before him as well - is
to continue to support the work he did: to
help keep our community center open, to
improve it; maybe one day, even to help
build our own building - imagine.
would expand federal authority to
prosecute hate crimes. Currently, federal
officials canouly intervene if a victim is
engaged in a federally protected act such
as attempting to vote, go to school or serve
onajury. Federal officials catmotintervene
at all in hate crimes based on disability,
sexual orientation or gender.
The Senate also passed a watered-down
amendmentby Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,
that does not cover sexual orientation,
disability or genderand wouldonly expand
federal jurisdiction to hate crimes
committed after the crossing of state lines.
"The Hatch amendment fails to
recognize that no one should be a target
for bias-motivated violence," Lobd said.
"Hate crimes legislation that doesn’t cover
sexual orientation, disability and gender
is a farce."
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has
been a top. legislative priority of both
organizations and passage of the
amendment culminates months of
work."With strong administrationbacking
and bipartisan support in both houses of
Congress, we expect to be in a strong
position in the conference committee to
ensure final passage of the Hate Crimes
Prevention Act," Winnie Stachelberg,
HRC’s political director, said today.
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has
strong supportfrom President Clinton and
the administration has made passage a
priority. Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., has
scheduled a hearing on the measure in the
House Judiciary Committee on Aug. 4.
HCPA currently has morethan 180House
cosponsors from both parties.
theneed for individuals in the community
¯ to support the Center remained.
According to Tracey Conaty,
"- spokespersonfor the Gill Foundation,Tim
, Gill, software developer of Quark,
established the Fmmdation in 1994 as a
: catalyst for and’to provide resources for
: communities in pursuit of justice and
¯" equality. The foundation also seeks to
buildawareness ofthe contributions which
: Gay men and Lesbians make to American
¯ society. Since its inception, Tim Gill and
¯ the Gill Foundation have provided nearly
$13 million to hundreds of community
¯ organizations.
Gatewoodalso mentioned several other
¯" events at the Center. On Sept. 25th, the
¯ Centerwill host aFeast for Friends dinner
in support of THE NAMES PROJECT.
¯ And in Oct. the Center will present a
¯ National Coming Out Day Festival and ¯
¯ Fair. This event will include a mini film
festival as well beginning on Oct. 8th.
: More information will be available as the
¯ event approaches.
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Tulsa Family News, Volume 6, Issue 7
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English
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newspaper
periodical
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Tulsa(Oklahoma)---newspaper
Tulsa---Oklahoma
Oklahoma---Tulsa
United States Oklahoma Tulsa
United States of America (50 states)
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https://history.okeq.org/items/show/590
adoption
AIDS deaths
AIDS testing
AIDs Walk
Anti-hate crime legislation
arts and entertainment
attorneys
Barry Hensley
Bars
businesses
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
churches
civil rights
Civil Rights Act
Community Center
conversion therapy
Council Oak Men's Chorale
Dave Fleischer
discrimination
divorce
Dyke Psyche
Entertainment Notes
Esther Rothblum
Exodus International
Feast with Friends
Fred Phelps
Gary Indiana
gay bashing
Gay marriage
Gay Studies
Gay-Straight Alliance
Greg Gatewood
HIV/AIDs
HIV/AIDS research
homophobia
Human Rights Campaign
James Christjohn
Lamont Lindstrom
lawsuits
Malawi
marriage
marriage equality
Murder
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Native Americans
Parish Church of Saint Jerome
Paul M. Barby
Paula Ettelbrick
performing arts
Phillip Morris
Read All About It
religious liberty
restaurants
Steve Horn
Three Month Fever
Tom Neal
Tulsa CARES
Tulsa Family News
Tulsa Metropolitan Ara Planning Commission
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights
Tulsa Two-Spirited Indian Men's Support Group
Westboro Baptist Church