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.Vermont Couples Bring
Marriage Ban Challenge
by Ross Sneyd
COLCHESTER,Vt. (AP)-For25 years, Lois Famham
and Holly Puterbaugh have built a life together, commired
in every way except one: legally. On Tuesday,
they and two other couples sought to fix that. They sued
the state and their hometown, of Milton, asking a
Chittenden Superior Courtjudge to declare legal marriages
between couples of the same gender.
Start Baker and PeterHarriganofShelbumeand Nina
Beck and Stacy Jolles of South Burlington joined the
lawsuit, which thrusts Vermont into the center of a
national debate over whether society should recognize
unions between Gays and Lesbians.
’q?.wenty-five years ago when wemet and fell in love
mamage was not something any of us that were samegender
couples thought about," see Vermont,page 13
Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
,Tul~s~a!~’~rge~tC~oulationCommunityPa-perA vailable In More Than 60 City Local.ions
i PFLAG Pres,.Joins Gay
Activists at White House
-" WASHINGTON (AP) - President. Clinton met Tuesday with a
: dozen Gay and lesbian activists at a meeting .organized by
¯ Richard Socarides,White House liaison to the Gay, Lesbian,
: Bisexual and Transgender community. Nancy McDonald, na~
: tional president of the board of directors of Parents, Families and
: Friends of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG) and cofounder of the
¯ Tulsa Chapter of PFLAG attended at meeting where the Presi-
: dent pledged support for two employment concerns: anti-Gay
: bias in the workplace and high-ranking appointments in his
: administration. Thepresident spentmore than anhour discussing
: a range of issues from adoptions to homeless Gay youth and
¯ problems confronting Gays and Lesbians in rural areas, such as
: access to AIDS medicine.
: Clinton pledged his support for the Fmployment Non-Dis-
~ crimination Act, which bars firing or discriminating against an
¯ employee on the basis of sexual orientation. Andhe assured the
¯ group thathe has putforthfivenominations ofopeulyGay people
: for administration jobs that require Senate confirmation.
¯ "Each one of them will take work," said Elizabeth Birch,
" executive director of the Gay political advocacy group the
~ Human Rights Campaign. "We have a tough challenge ahead."
¯ Maria Echaveste, White Honsedirector ofpublicliaison, said the
¯ president wants Gay appointees so that his administration can
~ provide an example of how to reduce anti-Gay attitudes in the
: workplace. "Fhe more people work with them, the less preju-
¯ diced they are," Echaveste said. ’q’hat’ s why appointments are so
: pivotal."
: According to Kerry Lobel, executive director of the National
¯ Gay & Lesbian Task Force, "we found the President to be open
¯ and knowledgeable on issues affecting the LGBT community.
: This is a President who at heart seems to have a deep commitment
¯ O’RYAN’s New Home Private Conduct or Sex Crimes?
By Laurie Asseo
WASHINGTON (AP) - What lovers do in private still : ~~1 ¯ I/-’,~1,.~ ~.,~& 1/I ..~ ...~ ~=~....-Jcanland
~em!njail.- butin asteadily s,,h~nking n,~;,:~:!~ act.y ; IV!O|11$.~U~[,~.U
of states ¯ Earher this month’ Montana s ban on homo- ¯ TULSA - After two months of.cam.pin.g o.ut in loaned office
sexual sex was thrown out by the state Supreme Court ¯ space, Betsy MurphyJones and Melissa Champlin of the Tulsa
as a violation of the state’z constitutional right to privacy.
Sodomy laws in Kentucky and Tennessee also
were struck down by state courts in recent years.
Many other states have repealed laws that banned oral
and anal. sex for Gay people and heterosexuals as well.
"We’ ve made incredible headway," says Ruth Harlow
of the civil-fights Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund.
But about 20 states, operating under a green light
from the Supreme Court, still have laws making sodomy
a criminal offense. Consenting adults have no
federal constitutional right to private homosexual conduct,
the court said when it upheld Georgia’ s sodomy
law in 1986.
Arkansas, Kansas, Maryland, and Missouri ban homosexual
sex acts. Sodomy is banned for Gays and
heterosexuals alikeinAlabama,Arizona, Florida, Georgia,
Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North
Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.
Penalties vary widely, with maximumjail terms
ranging from 30 days in Arizona to 20 years in Virginia
and Rhode Island, or even life in Idaho.
Laws banning sodomy also are on the books in
Oklahoma, Texas, Massachusetts and Michigan, but
they have been cast into doubt by court rulings.
Oklahoma’ s sodomy law was ruled unconstitutional in
1986 but the particular case involved heterosexuals and
legal experts disagree as to whether the law should be
seen as in force just for homosexuals or whether it’ s
been completely ov.ertumed. Sodomy laws in all other
states have been repealed see Sodomy, page 3
i US Statewide Groups
¯ Create. New Federation
¯ OK Represented by Oldest StateGroup
¯ Knoxville,TN-Animportant chapter in the move-
; meatforlesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT)
¯ equality was marked on July 11-13 b~ activists
¯ from statewide political groups from 32 states. At
¯ the mdeting, activists officially launched the Fed-
" eration of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
¯¯ Transgender Political Organizations.
The Federation’ s purpose is to bolster the efforts
¯ of these statewide groups through a network that
¯ will foster strategizing across state lines, building
¯ stronger state organizations and developing good
¯ working relationships between state and national
¯ groups. The meeting was the result of an eight
¯ month collaboration between the National Gay and
¯ Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) and the Federation.
¯ Itwas thelargestgathering ever ofstatewide groups.
¯ States represented were: AR, CA, CO, CT, DE,
¯ GA, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MI, MS, MO,
MT, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OK, PA, RI, TN,
¯ TX, UT, VA, WA,~WV.
: The three day Federationmeeting was held at the
: renowned Highlander Center outside Knoxville,
¯ Tennessee. For over fifty years, the Highlander
: Center has been a training center for labor, civil.
: rights and other s~ocial justice movements. There,
¯ activists focused bn adopting the organizational
¯ structure for the Federation and debating strategies
’. on legislative issues. These issues included "sod-
" omy" law repeal, passage of civil rights bills and
¯ family recognition strafegies, as well-as building
¯ strategies see ,States, page 13
"New Coming Out .and
¯ Men’s Group Offered
TULSA - HOPE:
: HIV Outreach, Pre-
¯ vention & Education,
INSIDE DIRECTORYA.ETTERS P. 2
EDITORIALS P. 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
CLASSIFIEDS P. 14
office of Red Rock Mental Health Association finally have
adequate room for their work. But they really gained much more
thanjustdecent offices
for themselves, the
program now has several
rooms in which
O’ RYAN and
O’RYAN, Jr. can
meet. O’ RYAN stands
for Oklahoma Rainbow
Young Adults
Networkwhichserves
Lesbian, Gay, Bi,
Transgendered and
O’RYAN’s George, Champlin & Marry questioning young
adults from 18 to 24
years old. O’RYAN, Jr. is a new program that will serve 14 to 17
year old young people. O’RYAN, Jr. will kick off in early
September.
Red Rock Mental Health Association is primarily an Oklahoma
City based organization. Several years ago Betsy
MurphyJones returned to Tulsa and began the program that later
was named O’RYAN. At the beginning, theprogram was housed
in offices in the Youth Services of Tulsa building in downtown
Tulsa. Youth Services already had a program, TYDD,Tulsa
Youth Discovering Diversity which served Lesbian, Gay, Bi,
Transgendered and questioning youth.
However, over the year in which .the two organization were
working together, tension developed between Red Rock and
Youth Services over how public to be with these programs.
Diplomatically, Champlinindicates that Youth Services’ Board
of Directors was not willing to be public in suppori of these
programs,for fear of losing funding.
l’~ow O RYANis funded independently through an Oklahoma
State DepartmentofHealth (OSDH)grantwhichtargets "MSM’s"
- men who have sex with men under the age of 25 and a TCAP
(TulsaCommunity AIDS Parmership) grant targeting womenfor
HIV/AIDS prevention and education.
O’RYAN meets weekly as a support and social group. While
earlier the group was predominately young men, it’ s now about
half young women a~dhalfmen,..Two men, Marty, who’ s 23 and
G~orgeCcho’ s"2:l~joinedChamp!in~ ~. see O’RYAN, page 10
¯ a special program of ¯ TOHR,TulsaOklaho-
¯ mans for Human
¯ Rights, the oldest ex-
¯ isting civil rights and
: Gay health orgauiza-
¯ tion is beginning sev-
¯ eral new programs
¯ under the direction of ¯ new outreach educa-
¯ tor Johnnie Eilarts. ¯
Eilarts, who came to Tulsa after working with the
-" Triangle Foundation in Oklahoma City, has begun
." amen’s issues group called Men on Men that meets
¯ at Gold Coast Coffee House. And in response to
; calls’to the Pride Center, see Group, page 12
: Cunanan Finale
: MIAMI .BEACH, Fla. (AP) - When Andrew
¯ Cunanan’ s 1ong,murderous flightended, itbrought
¯" relieffromanxiety-butnotfrom sorrow. Omanan’ s
: suicidein a Miami Beach houseboat ended the fear
." that a killer was free. Five killings, including the
¯¯ shooting ofdesignerGiannl Versace, were blamed
on the 27-year-old man.
; "There’ s a sense of relief that they finally caught
¯ him and ’that people don’t have to be looking
behind their backs," Eric Velasco said in front of
: the South Beach gay bar Twist.
In Minnesota, Cunanan was charged in the death
; of a former lover, David Madson, and was sus-
¯ pected of killing a friend, Jeffrey Trail. Trail’s
¯ father, Stanley Trail of DeKalb, Ill., watched the
." televisionreports as the situationunfolded. ’q~hat’ s
¯ one of the bad things about him dying like this: ¯
Nobody will be able to ask him," Trail said. "No-
: body will be able to tell me why this happened.
: "I’m very glad that he’s been stopped and that
¯ nobody else gothurtwhen hegot stopped,"he said. ¯
¯ "But I take nojoy inhis death. That doesn’ t helpme at all." see Killer, page 12
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Tulsa’Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7200 E. Pine I
*Blue Room, 606 S. b-agin
¯ *City Bites, 3348 S. Peoria
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Gold Coast Coffee House,3509 S. Peoria
*JJ’s Country &Western Dance Club, 6328 S. 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 13. ,3rd’ " , ": . ~ ..... ’. ~ " ~"’ ""
*Tucei’s Restaurant,. 134~ E 15 " ~
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
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 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. Pec~ria 746-0313
Don Carlton Honda, 4141 S. Memorial 622-3636
Don Carlton Mitsubishi, 46th & Memorial 665-6595
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515.8. 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, 1438 S. Boston 584-0337
"Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-8040
Lealme M. Gro~s, 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
David Kanskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236
*Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, POB 14011, 74159 747=5466
Langley Agency, 1104.S. Victor 592-1800
Laredo Crossing, 1519 E. 15 585-1555
Susan McBay, MSW: Earth-Centered Counsdiug 592-1260
*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
ZiRita Parish, Indoor/Outdoor Co. HomeRemodel"g 587-6717
*Peace Of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090
Pet Pride, Dog & Cat Grooming 584-7554
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2rid floor 743-4297
Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo 838-7626
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
*Sophronia’sAntiques, 1515 E. 15
*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
832-1269
592-2583
748-9600
744-0896
749-4511
712-2119
749-1563
745-9899
745-9998
585-2221
834-4234
585-3405
660-0856
" 584-I308’
582=3456-
585-3134
481-0201
592-2887
697-0017
743-7687
742-2007
481-0558
743-1733
592-0767
Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & Universities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 1071, 74101-1071 579-9593
Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 58%7314
Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center. 2207 E. 6 583-7815
*B/IAG Alliance, Univ of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780
¯ *Chamber of Commerce, 616 S. Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence
*CommunityofHopeUnitedMethodist, 1703 E. 2nd 585-1800
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
*Church of the Restoration, 1314 N.Greenwood 587-1314
*Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457
Dignity/Integrity-Lesbian/Gay Catholics/Episcopal. 298-4648
:¯ 918.583.1248, f~:’583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159
~-mail: TulsaNews@ earthlink net
¯ website: http://users, aol.com/TulsaNews/
¯ Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal
Entertainment Writer: James Christjohn
Writers + contributors: Dr. Mike Gorman, Leanne Gross. Barry
Hensley & Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche "
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*Family of Faith MCC, 54511E So. Mingo
*Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard
*Free Spirit Women’s Center, call for location &info: 587-4669
Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827
Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0038
HOPE (TOHR), HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
1307 E. 38, 2nd ft. 712-1600, HOPE/TOHR Anonymous
HIV Testing Site; Mon/Thurs. eve. 7-9pm, call 742-2927
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
*HIV Resource Ctr., 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 749-4194
NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H- 1 748-3111
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, 2rid 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
OrRYAN, 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. 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 HumanRights, 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 Comrntmity College Campuses
*Rogers University (formerly UCT)
BARTLESVILLE
*Barflesville 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, call for information: 918-456-7900
*Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 918-456-7900
*Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-458-0467
NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand
HIVevery other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call for date
EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
*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
Kings Hi-Way Inn, 62 Kings Hi-way 800-231-1442
Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646
Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-6001
’FAYETTEV!LLE, ARKANSAS
*Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442-2845
~ indicates a distribution point. Listed businesses are not all Gay-owned
but welcome Lesbian/Gay/Bi &’ Trans communities. ~ ~.
Several years ago, Youth Services of
¯ Tulsa began a support group for Lesbian,
¯ Gay, Bi and questioning kids. The group
¯ -was desperately needed and ,was led by
¯ the Saintly Lisa Pottoff whose good work
: fionisbeginnifi~asimi]aigroupt~e~mple-
¯ ment their young adults group. This too is
¯ a good move - having more than one
¯ group will serve the population better.
¯ But what’s interesting is that Red Rock
has concluded that Youth Services’ lead-
: ership is still unwilling to acknowledge
: this programbecause offears about fund-
, ing, andperhaps, becanse ofhomophobia.
: Youth Services’ "closeted" approach has
: handicapped the outreach, for their pro-
, gram.
: RedRock’ s conclusion echoes thepoint
: TFN made editorially several years ago.
¯ Unfortunately, whatever small gratifica-
¯ tion thereis in being proven right is damp-
" ened by the fear that during these inter-
" vening years, some Gay kids who needed
¯ our help were lost just because Youth
¯ Services valued money more than lives.
¯ the local and national press, we’ve de-
" duced that murdered fashion designer
¯ Gianni Versace had a life partner named
¯ Antonio D’Amieo - that in fact, a horri~ ¯
fled D’Amico rushed tothe spot wherehis
~ partner lay dying, then chased the killer
¯ down an alley, only to be turned back by
the gun that had just murdered his long-
" time companion.
: Seeing one’s life partner gunned down
¯ by a maniac is surely among the worst
: tragedies imaginable, which is why the
: sorrowfulimages ofJacqueline Kennedy,
: Betty Shabazz, Yoko Ouo, and Coretta
: Scott .King are seared intothe. American
¯ consctonsness.
; ’ But we observed no such respect in the
¯ mesa for D’Amieo. The facts outlined
¯ above were scattered over several news ¯
stories, often buried or omitted entirely.
: Photographs of the family in mourning
often identified the sister of the deceased,
¯ but failed tO identify the man with whom
¯ he’d ’shared his life for more than a de-
" cade. Is it any wonder that gay andlesbian
¯" citizens are increasingly indignant when
¯ our most precious relationships are rou- ¯
finely trivialized not only by the media,
." but also by a lack of legal recognition?
¯ - Martha Barnette & Debra Clem
¯ Louisville, Kentucky via e-mail
Regarding ver,sace’s Murder
Reading between many, many lines in
: @ Black& White, Charities
Dancers to suitmany tastes sweatedfor several hundred
guests, including some of TUlgar~ finest. No problems
were reported, the officers werejus’t enjoying the views.
when all states had some type of ban on sodomy.
Sodomy, considered by some to be a crime against
nature, was outlawed for centuries in England. States in
this country followed Britain’s example, banning such
sex acts in 19th century criminal codes. There is some
supportforanti-sodomy laws today.:The Rev. Lou Sheldon
of the Traditional Values Coalition said, "The sodomy
law tells us that heterosexuality is a preferred status in
society."
These days, hardly anyone is prosecuted for private,
consensual acts of sodomy, saysWilliam Eskridge Jr., a
Georgetown University law professor who is writing a
book on how laws affect Gay people. Instead, prosecutions
tend to be for public solicitation of sodomy or for
situations involving rape or coercion. But sodomy laws
are used indirectly in other cases involving Gay people,
such as custody or employment disputes. A Gay person
might bejudgedabad candidatetohave custody ofachild
because he or she is assumed to be breakin~ a state’s
Sodomy law.
In. Georgia, then-Attorney General Michael Bowers
withdrew a job offer to a Lesbian in 1990 after learmng
she planned to marry another woman in a religious
ceremony. The woman sued, but a federal appeal,s ~,oui~
ruled this spring thatBowers - who successfully defended
Georgia’s sodomy law before tli~’Supreme Court- was
entitled-to, think the public would I~’confused if he hired
someone m a same-sex marriage. The Georgia Supreme
Court upheld that state’s sodomy law last year, saying it
was a valid exercise of the state’sauthority to promote
moral well’are.
Courts that threw out sodomy laws in Montana, Kentucky
and Tennessee said they violated the right to
privacy under their state constitutions. The Kentucky
ruling also said the law violated a state ~uarantee ofeqtial
protection under the law.
Gay civil=riglits advocates hope an equal protection
argument may eventually be used to throw out sodomy
laws in the states that target only same-sex conduct. Last
year, the Supreme Court cited equal protection grounds
whenit invalidated a Colorado constitutional amendment
that forbade laws protecting homosexuals from discriminataon.
The Kansas law now is being challenged on equal
protection grounds in a case being handled by the American
Civil Liberties Union’s Lesbian and Gay rights
project.
,, "It’s a tremendous, priority of ours," Harlow said.
Sodomy laws cast a dark cloud over Gay people getting
equal rights. Wewill keep making them apri0rity Until all
.of them are gone."
ditq~,~ note: Laurie Asseo covers the Supreme Court
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Yes, We HavO No Bananas
: by Kevin Isom
We should have seen it coming. Everything was going
so well. First, there was Lesbian chic. Then there was
: "Ellen - The Episode." Then Mickey Mouse and Goofy
stood up to the caltoonish Southern Baptist boycott.
But then along came an alleged Gay spree killer- yes,
the authorities are calling him a spree killer - who swept
: into South Beach and casnally murdered Gianui Versaee,
: the talented,rich, and influential Gay fashion designer.
¯ A gasp of horror went up from fashionable Gay and
; r straight folk. all. around the, world,, and celebrities as
: dlverse a~ PrincesS Di, Naomi Campbell, Elton John, and
: Sylvester Stallone were grief stricken. And with good
¯ reason. Versaee wasan openly gay rolemodel of success-
: ful and caring living, whose senseless death narrows the
¯
world a little for Gays and straights alike.
¯ Besides, without Versaee, who would create trends
¯ like those" ubiquitous white ieans9 Who would ~ive
Ehzabeth Hurley clothes that would make her stand out
." from the shadow of her actor/boyfriend/befriender of
¯ prostitutes., Hugh Grant?
." More importantly, where would we find homoerotic
¯ images of male beauty in straight magazines? Even for
¯ people who don’t buy into the whole d~signer cacheL
¯ Versace made a difference - and an improvement - in
body-conscious style, not to mention the buffed-up types
:. of bodies he promoted. I, for one, am all for eye candy.
: Will we now be left with only Calvin Klein?
: The mainstream news media was, of course, all over
: the case like Bruno Magli shoes on O.J. Simpson. Here
was an alleged spree killer who, in his mother’s words,
: was a "high class’Gay prostitute." What copy this made
¯ for the nightly news!
¯ Forget Ellen, forget Disney. Lesbian chic? What was ¯
that? Here’s an alleged queer Heidi Fleiss with murder on
: the mind! Hard Copy even came out of summer hiatus to
jump right on the case. And if Hard Copy ~s on the beat,
¯ you know it’s gotta be big.
¯ For days, there were alerts on nighfl.y news in every podunk.
town with even a smidgen of openly Gay culture.
: (’:B.ucksnort, Tennessee: Is the Killer Here?") In oart,
¯ because the F.B.I. neglected to get out information to’Gay
¯
comm6nifies across the country when they first knew of
the very real threat. " -
¯ Cmiously; though, instead of just ’accepting a spree
killer for what he was - bananas- the mainstream media
: seemed obsessed with finding areason, an explanation,
for his killings. They suggested, without any evidence t~
¯ back up the assertion, that the alleged killer l~ad disc09-
". ered he had AIDS and just snapped. Sort ~0f like Mike
: Tyson, but without the ear goop. ¯
¯
But isn’t it seem the least bit Strange thiit thousands
¯ upon thousands of Gay men have died ofAIDS, and none
: have gone on across country killing spree? Isn’t it worth
¯ noting that most Gay men instead have thrown their
"- efforts into a brave, and largely successful, community
¯ response,to AIDS? .
Doesn tit also seem strange that the mainstreammedia
¯ has tended to lump Versace and his alleged killer into the
¯ same "lifestyle" - youknow, the Gay one?While both the
¯ victim and his alleged killer might both have been Gay~
: their lifestyles were hardlyidentical. But themediahasn’t
seemed to think so. They must also think that Princess Di
¯ and Queen Latifah, both being royals, must live the same
¯ lifestyle, too.
." The saddest part of all this hoopla is that Versace’s
¯ !ongtime compamon, Antonio D’Amici, was rarely men-
. tioned, if at all. Instead, the focus was on"Poughkeepsie,
New York: Is the Killer Here?"
On the twisted road to equality, we seem to have taken
an ui},expected step. A step which, with the alleged
¯ kill,er s apparent suicide, will soon be forgotten.
I m looking forward to getting back to Disney, those
¯ zany Southern Baptists, and Lesbian chic. ¯
Kevinlsom is a syndicated travel writer and humor
" columnist. His short story The Brothers Mangrum ap-
. p.e..q~,s..!.n th~.~pr.ing!997 issue of~s Transcontihental.
At last count there were six or seven publications
serving the Lesbian/Gay/Bi and Trans communities of
Oklahoma. Of those actually based in state, the oldest is
The Gayly Oklahoman,now more than 12 years old. Next
is this newspaper at nearly 4 years. Then comes the baby
of the group, OMahoma City CommunityNews, an ambitious
"vanity" publication. In our media watch, we have
.been mos.t .amused for several montlm By the self-promotional,
allX~lt somewhat despetat~ sliemani~ans 5f Oklahoma
City Community News. ~
Primary among these has. been running "filler" ads
which tout some aspect of their publication which they
deem. superior to other newspapers. These ads have
mostly beenjust rather tasteless. But recently in response
to a format changeby The Gayly Oklahoman, Community
News ran an ad crowing about how The Gayly was now
imitating Community News!
Tulsa Family News wonders, how Community News
would feel if we ran a self-promotional ad saying how
Community News wasjust imitating Tulsa FamilyNews?
After all, most of whatdistinguishes their publication are
things we’ve been doing successfully for almost 4 years
In fact, shortly after Community ~lewsbegan, editor
Bruce Devault called us for "how-to" advice. And for all
their noise about being found in ,mainstream7 locations
because of their "dean content," that approach was done
first by Tulsa Family News to such ~uccess that when
Community News came over fromi~OKC to Tulsa, they
just used~0ur distribution list. "..
More seriously though, we reall~ have .to -wonder if
~ashing other Gay businesses in self,promotional advertasements
really helps to build our communities? This is
not to say that there isn’t a roll for debate anddiscussion
about issues and [eadership. TFN~does precisely that
regularly.
Community News has alluded in iis ads to some issues
that deserve serious public debate - such.as therole of
sexually-oriented advertising incommumtypublications.
However, in reputable newspapers, this sort of debate
occurs in editorial pages, accompaniedhy,reasoned arguments,
not by snipes in advertisements.
¯ " But ire should have ~een it coming. After all, we’ll : sexIundaelleyd-o, wrieenatlewdaaydsshliakveetchhooseseonfnTohtetGo rauynlyi,nb-uyotaulrs-ofawcee
: never be truly equal to Straight folks until We re equal in i: havenever attacked The Gayly-for their deeibions-..Maybe
:- every way. Andthat means bad aswell as good. Strange : because we remember how,things on~ewere in Okia-
: as well as stylish. Straight folks have produced years and ¯ homa, we want to state our admiration for The Gayly’s
: y~s of serialkillers.-Remember Ted Bundy? ¯ pioneering work. For those who are tooyoung to remem:
¯ ber, there was a time not too long ago that theouly sources
¯
of advertising for Gay newspapers were either bars or
¯ sexually oriented services.
~ ,, TFN has b~,roken new ground in this. state4n getting
,mamstre.am or non-Gay advertising, but we,recognize
mat once that was not possible, and that.TheGayly served
our commumtaes under much more difficult circumstances
in the past.
We would also caution the apparently happily coupled
¯ staff of OKC’s C&nmunity News not to be sex-phobic,
¯ and insensitive to the needs of those who are single.
¯ While we agree that there are discussions of specific ¯
sexual preferences and of particularities of anatomy that
¯ are preferably not conducted in print, we hope that
Community News will recognize the legitimate n~eds for
¯ members of our community .to.date, and ev.en .to have ¯ casual sex (though, of course, individuals should be
: sexually resp.onsible). They might also note that many in
¯ our commumty like the candor of The Gayly.
¯ Finally, e d ask the Community News to stop its silly.
¯ criticizing of 900 numbers. After all, even The Tulsa
¯
WorldandUrbanTulsahave9OOnumberdatingservices,
: but Community News isn’t attacking them yet!
¯ Our point is to respect those who’ve come before us,
¯ and the work they did that lielped us all to get where we
¯ are now. The ads attackingTheGayly, andus too, arejust
¯ nasty. Anyway, if your work is good enough, that should
¯ speak for itself.
: -Tom Neal~ editor & publisher
¯ PS, we welcome letters ’ ofsexually,oriented ¯
advertising or ’. Letters by *~
White. Ho...u.se Chan,ges
Gays M,l,tary P0s,tion
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trying to shaooth over a
wrinkle in its relations with the gay commtmity, the
White House on Monday clarified its statement on a
federal judge’s ruling on the "don’t ask, don’t tell,
don’t pursue" policy for Gays in the military. Presidential
spokesman Mike McCurry said that, after
hearing "legitimate concerns" raised by activists, his
reaction to the ruling should have included that a
review under way at the Pentagon analyzing how the "
law is being implemented. "In retrospect,. I would "
have pointed that out if I had looked into the issue ¯
more," McCurry told reporters. "I had a typically :
McCurry off-the-cuff reaction.’? ...... r ~ "
Earlier this month in New York, U.S! DiStrict "
Judge Eugene Nickerson ruled that the policy violates ¯
free-speech fights of gay service members and sub- "
jects them to separate, discriminatory regulations. "
Activists told the White House thatmorehomosexual ¯
service members have been discharged since the ¯
policy was adopted by the Clinton ad~ainistration in
1993. Last year, 850 Gays were discharged from all "
branches of the armed forces except the Coast Guard, ¯
according to Pentagon data compiled by the Service ¯
Members Legal Defense Network, an independent "
legal advocacy group. In 1994, there were 597 dis- ¯
charges.
The Justice Department is appealing Nickerson’s
decision, and the issue is expected to ultimately be "
decided by the Supreme Court. There are several .
cases nationwide challengin~ the 1993 policy, adopted ¯
by the administration as a compromise. The policy
bars commanders from asking service members what ¯
theirsexual orientations are. It allows Gay troops to."
serve as long as they refrain from homosexual acts
and don’t reveal their orientation. "
When Nickerson _issued his ruling, McCurry said :
"wg continue to believe the policy is a good one" and .
was being implemented satisfactorily. McCurry said ¯
Monday he had neglected to mention that Defense :
Secretary William Cohen "has expressed some con- ¯
cern about the implementation of the law" and had
ordered a review group to study it. "The bottom line ¯
is, the law is still the law," McCurry said. "We must ."
continue the work of effectively administering the
law and making sure we do so with the kind of ¯
sensitivity that gecretary Cohen has said should ap- "
ply."
"The good news here is that Mike McCurry, in ¯
thinking alitflebit longer about his comments, recog- ¯
nized that ... there are some problems with enforce- ¯
ment Of this poficy," said Winnie Stachelberg, legis, "
lative director of the Human Rights Campaign, the
country’s largest Gay political organization. ¯
School Fails to Stop
Anti-Gay Harassment
PACIFICA, Calif. (AP) - A woman plans to sue her
son’ s school district for not protecting her son from
classmate’s gay slurs. The 12-year-old boy said fellow
students have insulted him ever since he was in
kindergarten, calling him"gay-gay," "girl" and "faggot"
dozens of times a week. The boy, unidentified to
protect his .privacy, lost 30 pounds after the taunting
escalatedlastyear. Hedevelopedmigraines, his grades
sank and he thought of suicide.
The seventh-grader, who said he is not Gay but
knows he is more feminine than other boys his age,
asked the Laguna Salada Union School Board this
~aastet fsuprlitnogmtoe,’.~P,,Uht ea sStoaipdlto,tIht-eauffneecntdshinogwepIitfheeetls.ab"Iotu’st
myself, my schoolwork, everytl~ing. I have been
called those names in all my schools for as long as I
can remember.., about my perceived sexual orientation,
and ithas to stop. I Wouldlike to go to school and
not have to worry about h~ethings that somebody’s
going to call me."
Since then, the district amended its sexual harassment
policy. It says no student shall be subject to any
kind of sexual harassment, "including harassment
because of sexual orientation." The most serious
penalties include expulsion. But months of working
with administrators at Ortega Middle School appar-
;ently have not stopped the slurs, so the boy’s mother
said she intends to sue the Laguna Salada district for
not protecting her son. She alsbpians t~ue a han’c[f01
of administrators and school c~unsel0rs.
Oakland attorney Sandra Sprin~¢who represents
the boy, said in the notice of intent to sue that the
district violated both its own and state-mandated
harassment policies. The boy’s mother said the little
taught in class about sexual liarassment pertains to
treatment of gifts, not boys.And no positive images
of homosexuality are taught, she said. The school
offered an in-class training session on sexual harassment,
but the boy said his Classmates thought it was
ajoke. The students were given 20 minutes to read a
booklet that contained one passing reference to boys
who harass other Ix)vs. "We went through all the
channels and hit bricl~ walls," the woman said. "For
my son it’ s morehate harassment, sexual-harassment,
homophobic.harassment. ~I came to Ortega-to say,
’Please help me, please help my son.’ The policy
needs to be clarified."
Increasingly, lawsuits have been filed to force
schools to stop sexual harassment, especially of girls.
But cases involving boys are rare. The boy has since
left Ortegafor an alternative school in Pacifica, where
the principal and teachers keep close tabs on him. He
has gained back all the weight he lost and his migraines
and asthma have vanished. "It’s been the best
year ofmylife- and it was only two months," he said.
Chrysler Now More
Gay-Friendly?
DETROIT (AP) - Ellen DeGeneres lost the Chrysler
Corp.’s approval when she announced she was a
lesbian, but the company’s gay and lesbian workers
are hoping for a better reception. The company drew
protests from gay support groups when it pulled
advertising from the episode of ABC-TV’s FJlen in
which the lead character, played by Ms. DeGeneres,
came out of the closet.
But since then, Chrysler has formally acknowl=
edged, for the first time, "People of Diversity," an
employee group formed early this year "to p~ovide
support fofqesbians, gays,, bisexuals and transgendered
people through business and social activities."
It’s part of a trend among the Big Three automakers
by employees who are pushing for, and receiving,
some recognition ofgay and lesbian workers’ rights.
Ford Motor Co. recognizes a Similar employee
grgup, and in November expanded its anti-discrimination
bylaws to include sexual orientation. General
Motors Corp. does not formally recognize gay employee
organizations but GM PLUS, a gay group, is
pushing the automaker for acceptance.
"The momentum is definitely picking up and moving
in the right direction," Alan Gilmour, a former
vice-chairman of Ford who retired in 1994 and last
year disclosed he is gay, told The Detroit News.
¯ While they hail the moves, critics say the Big Three
¯ are responding too slow to shifts to protect gay and ¯
¯ lesbian employees particularly blue-collarworkersfromharassment."
Anyforwardmovementisprogress,
¯ but the reality is that they aren’t showing a true
¯ commitment to what they say they are doing in
¯ creating a hospitable workplace," said Jeff Mont-
" gomery, president of the Triangle Foundation, a De-
" troit gay and lesbian civil rights group.
¯ Alice McKeage, an openly gay computer pro-.
¯ gramer at Ford and co-founder of the automaker’s
¯ gay emp!oyee.group - GLOBE - still receives calls
¯ from Ford employees, mostly in factories, who are
¯ harassed on the job and looking for help. ¯
"Our biggest challenge is to promote a safe work
¯ environmentbecause themanufacturingbnv~6niii~nt
¯ is stillhostile to gays,’~McKeage said. "We’vemade ¯
progress because Ford Chairffian Alex Trotman is
¯
committed todiVerSity, butit’s coming along slow ’"
Chrysler has quiedy resumed ad,~ettising onEli~n,
¯ but the spotlight-.on gay and lesbian issues won’t g6
¯ away. The company saidit’*changingwitha strihg of
moves designed to foste£ ~i: Workplace marked by
¯ tolerance for gays and lefibians. Bef0~e recogn~!~g
.- People for Diversity, ill January it revised forma!,.
¯ standards of conduct- that eautions employees against
: harassing any person based on that’person’ s sex’, race,
.’. religion, age or sexual orientation. It will soon rercise
¯ its code of ethical behavior to ~c,!~e.,.se&ua!...p~._e~ta-_.
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tion. This fall, Chrysler’s 114,000 worldwide era- :
ployees will have the opporttmity to participate in :
diversity training.
"We can’t create ai~eli~ironment ofinclusion over- :
night," said Monica Emerson, Chrysler’s director of :
workplace diversity. "We recomaize that diversity in ¯
the workplace is a journey.’-Michelle Wahers, a :
Chrysler worker and co-founder of People of Diver- -"
sity, says the "positive spirit of change at Chrysler" :
came about because of several recent developments .
that put pressure on the automaker. "We’ve now ¯
opened a formal dialogue to discuss other issues and "
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Bias Results in Job Loss :
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - The couple’s relationship
was on shaky ground. So they sought counseling
through an employee assistance program maintained
by North Mississippi Medical Center. But counselor
Sandra M. Bmff refused to see the couple. The
reason? They are both yeomen;
Mrs~ Bmff was fired Oct. 23, 1996. She is now
suing North Mississippi Health Services Inc., the
parent company of North Mississippi Medical Center,
for unspecified damages. Mrs. Bmff, of Marietta,
contends she was fired from her job as medical
services counselor because she cited her religious
beliefs "as the reason for refusing to see the homosexual
couple. She is asking in the lawsuit to be
reinstated with full benefits and seniority.
Herlawyer, GrantFox ofTupelo, said at issue in the
suit is whether she can be fired because of her religious
views. Fox said Mrs. Bmff worked in the
employee assistance program, in which outside em-
~olroyth.eersirpawyotrhkeerms.e,~Mcarsl.cBenmtefrfthoapdrobveiedne ccoouunnsseelliinngg
this woman, this patient for some time, when the
asked for help in working out problems with her
lesbian lover. When Mrs. Bruff said she could not, the
individual was not happy with that... "Fox said. Fox
said Mrs. Bmff told the patient that she could continue
counsding her on other issues "not contrary to
Mrs~ Bmff’s Christian faith."
Fox said Mrs. Bmff also explained her position to
the hospital in writing, adding that her beliefs also
would prevent.her from counseling someone about
adultery. He said the hospital responded that "that
was not acceptable ... (she) shouldbe terminated."
LenGrice, director ofmarketing services forNMHS,
said hospital officials had not seen the lawsuit. "Of
course, we have no comment. This is a personnel
matter," Grice said Tuesday. However, the hospital
had been through at least two proceedings involving
Mrs. Bruff. Mrs. Bmff filed a complaint with the
federal Equal F~nployment Opportunity Commission,
which ruled in May that it could not find any
violation of law, and the Mississippi Employment
Security Commission, where a hearing officer ruled
she was eligible for unemployment benefits.
the law, thejudge wrote. ’This court.., has failed to
find objective reasons to usurp the discretion, power
and authority of the legislative branch to enact this
law."
Adoption Battle Loses
MIAMI (AP) - An effort by a lesbian Dade County
jail guard to overturn a state law banning child adoptions
by homosexuals was rejected Monday by a
Broward County judge. June Amer, who sought to
have the law declared uncon.stitutional, must wait for
the state Legislature to change the law, Circuit Judge
John A. Frusciante said in his ruling. Florida andNew
Hampshire are the only two states that ban adoptions
by homosexuals. ~
Ms. Amer, who has a son by artificial insemination
and wants to adopt another child; lives with a retired
prison gtmrd, Gail DeShon. Amer testified during the
week-long trial in early May that the 6-year-old boy
calls the women Mommy June and Mommy Gail
."We’re very disappointed," said Ms. Ame’r’ satt~rhey,
Karen Coolman Amlong, of the American Civil
Liberties Union. The attorney said her client is
undecided about appealing. Ms. Amlong said during
the trial that the law was unconstitutional because the
Legislature was trying to exclude an entire group of
Florida’s population from adoptions.
"There is no evidence.., that the law was passed for
the purpose of disadvantaging the group burdened by
Episcopal Church
Apologizes to Gays
PHILADELPHIA (AP)-As they closed their 10-day
national convention, leaders of the Episcopal Church
apologized to Gays and Lesbians for years of rejection
and mistreatment by the church. The House of
Bishops and House of Deputies, composed of clergy
and lay leaders, approved the measure Friday on
behalf of the 2.5 millionb~lieveks. ’ ......
A feared Episcopal Church split never happened,
¯ but leaders remained divided on sexuality issues. In
¯ efforts to reduce division, several leaders of the 2.5 ¯
million-member church vowed to keep open the
debates over ordaining homosexuals and forming a
¯ rite to bless same-sex unions. Conservative leaders
¯ said they will spend the next few years fighting these
¯ proposed changes. However, the 72rid General Con:
: vention, dosed without any significant changes to
¯ current church policy, But the 1,100 church leaders
¯ came close. A proposal to bless same-sex unions lost ¯
in a nearly even vote, and resolutions rdated to the
¯ ordination of homosexuals also narrowly failed.
¯ Gay and Lesbian advocates considered the votes
¯ signs that the church one day. may fully endorse
" ordination and blessings _for same-sex unions. And
¯ they enjoyed Some victories as well The convention
¯ narrowlyapproved a resolution to allow dioceses to
¯ extend health benefits to domestic partners of church
¯ employees, though a similar resolution that would
: have qualified domestic partner~ for the church pen-
" sion fund failed.
~ Church leaders also endorse0~:a plan to continue
¯ study on the theological implications of same-sex
: umons. A report on the topic will be presented at the
:" next general convention in 2000in Denver. However,
.. House of Deputies member Byron Rushing, a la~,
¯ person from Boston, Mass., said he believes the
¯ division ~vill be smaller by then and the church will
¯ become even more welcoming to gays and lesbians. ¯
One mission of the church is helping Gays and
¯ Lesbians become more included, Bishop Suffragan
¯ Catherine Roskam said. Bishop Joe Doss from the
¯ Diocese of New Jersey said he believes another part ¯
of the church’s mission will be teaching the kind of
: acceptance itlearnedfrom the sexuality debates to the
¯ worldwide Anglican community. But before that
¯ happens, Doss said, the church needs to consider how
its theology applies to Gays and Lesbians. Old inter-
:-~ pretations of scripture encouraged exclusion, he said.
." "We need to rethink how we’ve pushed baptized
people aside," Doss said of Gay Episcopalians.
¯ Presiding Bishop Elect Frank T: Griswold III of
¯ Chicago, chosen during the convention, saidhehopes
¯ the discussion on sexuality will continue. But he said
¯ he would like to see the factions also focus on. their
common beliefs.
Murderer of Gay Man
¯ Goes to Prison Finally
: HOUSTON(AP) -Aman convicted in the 1991 Gay
: bashing murder of a Houston banker has had his 10-
¯ year probation sentence revoked and is going to
prison for 10 years. State District Judge Brian Rains
: onThursdayrevoked the probation ofDefi’ikJ. Attard,
¯ one of 10 men convicted in the slaying of Paul
¯" Broussard, because he failed’to perform community
: service.
: On July 4, 1991, Attard and nine friends went to
¯ Houston looking for Gays to harass.. They .brought
; nail-spiked boards and rocks as weapons. The 10
; youths attacked Broussard and two of his friends as
.. the three were leaving a gay bar..Jon Christopher
.. Buice stabbed Broussard to death. Buiceis serving45
¯ years. Four others were sentenced to prison terms.
; Five, including Attard, were assessed probationary
.- sentences and sent to bootcamp. Broussard’s mother,
: Nancy Rodriguez said she was glad Attardis going to
¯ prison. "I’m glad Judge Rains gavehim the 10 years,"
: she said. "I wish it could be more."
AZT Just Doesn’t
Work Right
NEWYORK (AP) -Ten years afterAZT
hit the market, scientists say they’ve figured
out why it doesn’t work better:
Chemically, it’s a bad dance partner. The
discovery might lead to better weapons
against the AIDS virus, the researchers
said. But the company that makes AZT,
Glaxo Wellcome Inc., which has its U.S.
headquarters in Research Triangle Park,
N.C., was skeptical.
AZT, the first drug approved for attacking
HIV, sabotages the virus’s attempts to
reproduce itself. But it doesn’t work perfecfly,
and HIV eventually .spawns, mutant
strains thatresistthemedication. Many
more anti-HIV drugs have come along
since AZT, but the drug is still widely
used.
Thenew research studied whathappens
to AZT once it gets into a person’ s body.
An AZT molecule goes through an intricate
dance in a user’s calls. It has to be
modified three times to become effective
against HIV, and to get that done, it has to
dance with three different molecular partners.
These partners are enzyme molecules
that latch onto AZT one at a time,
makea modification, and then let go.
The dance goes fine with the first partner.
The problem comes with the second.
When this enzyme and the AZT molecule
pair up, the enzyme is far less efficient at
making the crucial modification than it
should be. This creates a bottleneck in the
process, reducing the amount of activated
AZT that can.be built up to work on the
AIDS virus.
What;s the problem? The AZT molecuie
is basically-stepping on the second
partner’ s toes, German scientists report ~n
the August issues of Nature Medicine and
Nature StmctumlBiology. Moreprecisely,
theenzymemolecule has aloop-like structure
that’s important in making the modification,
and the AZT molecule has a
protruding finger that bends this loop out
of kilter. That makes it harder for the
enzyme to act, the researchers concluded.
So scientists might do well to design
drugs that,avoi:d bending this loop, they
said. or/hey .could provide AZT with a
new danc..e., .partner that’s more coopera- "
five. That would involve giving patients a
gene tb"m~l~ their cells pump out an
altered fortii of the enzyme, one that isn’t
binderieS,byAZT’ s protruding fmger, they
said.
Ram~r~"’J~i~es, a spokeswoman for
Glaxo W~i~03h~ inc., said the new work
offers abetter explanation for the processing
glitch than scientists had before. "We
don’t think this one piece.of information
is going to really change drug development
that much," she said. "But certmnly
~y.,!nformation added to the mix is help~ -
Surge,ry Debated
for Positives
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - As Joe Young
saw it, he had two options:iisk majtr
experimental surgery~rdie of congestive
heart failure, Nevermind that the surgery,
which includes slicing a wedge from a
-pailent’ s enlarged,weakenedhearttomake
it smaller~and more efficient, is far from
routine- or that he is HIV-positive. "I was
afraid my heart was going to give out
before they find a cure for AIDS," Young
says.
Last month, a cardiac surgeon performing
the procedure for the first time "remodeled"
Young’s heart. He repaired its
valves and removed a section to make it
more compact, to beat faster and pump
more efficiently.
Dr. Alex Zapolanski says he had nS"
qualms about accepting Young as a surgery
patient, but the case has stirred debate
among colleagues. Some warn the
procedure is far from ready for widespread
use, especially on patients whose
defenses are weakened by other illnesses.
"Most of us in the field are .very skeptical,"
says Dr. Sharon Hunt, a transplant
cardiologist at Stanford Medical Center.
Stanford, a major heart facility that does
40 heart transplants and 1,000 other heart
surgeries each year,, has yet to perform
heart remodeling, even on patients without
complications.
Elsewhere, American doctors are only
beginning to try the procedure, an alternative
to transplantation. Since May 1996,
fewer than 100 remodeling surgeries have
been done in the United States, compared
with an average 2,300 heart transplants a
year. Doctors say the surgery fails in30
percent ofcases, makingimmediate transplants
necessary.
To even themostexperienced surgeons,
the idea of cutting into the heart muscle is
foreign. But for Dr. Randas Batista, the
Brazilian heart surgeon who pioneered
the procedure, it was a last-ditch effort to
save dying patients in the Amazonjungle,
where donor organs are all but nonexi stent.
"Most of my patients would be dead
in a short time anyway," Batista said in a
telephone interview from Brazil "So I
have survivors."
Batista contends that the situation in the
United States - with hundreds of thousands
of congestive heart failure cases
each .year and fewer than 2,500 donor
hearts available - is.not so different. And
those odds don’t include .thousands of
patients likeYoung, forwhom transplants
are not an option because of serious systemic
ailments such as HIV, cancer, advanced
diabetes or active hepatitis.
Young, 46, now recuperating at a San
Francisco hospital, has known since he
was diagnosed with both HIV and congestive
heart failure in 1989 that his HIV
status made him ineligible for a transplant.
When his condition worsened early
this year, he felt "remodeling" was. his
only option.
.When Zapolanski first saw Young this
spnng, the former.cab drivcr, andhotel
clerk was constantly,short of breath and
bloated with fluid. Carryingaiaything substantiai
from one end-of the. room, to..the
other was outof the question.."He was
going downhill. Anyone .could see. that,"
says Zapolanski, who.believes ¥oung’s
heart disease may have been causedby his
~weakened immune system.
However, Young’s health was otherwise
reasonably sound and he showed no
symptoms ofAIDS, whichhe attributes to
the new drug combinations that. are pro-
. longing some lives. "When the patient is
¯
willing to take the chance, then it doesn’t
¯¯ take a doctor to see what is the right thing
¯ to do,", says Zapolanski¯, who operated on
¯" Young, with -Batista assisting, at Seton
¯
Medical Center in Daly City,just south of
¯ San Francisco.
.. That attitude alarms some but is good
¯ news for others, including a heart patient
’ who’sbeentumeddowntwiceforremod_
¯ eling because, like Young, he is HIV,
¯ positive. "I really felt that people weretelling
me, "What you’ve got is not worth
¯ our time because HIV is going to kill you
." dead,"’ says John, a 35-year-old Oakland
¯ man. John hopes Zapolanski can operate
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on his heart .this summer; the surgeon is
reviewing the patient’s medical history.
’:~)ii~of the first U.S. surgeons to remodel
a heart was Dr. Patrick McCarthy
atthe Cleveland Clinic. McCarthylearned
the procedure from Batista but says he
would not use it on any patient who has a
major health problem beyond congestive
heart failure. "Before undertaking this
sort ofradical heart surgery, I would look
under every stone," McCarthy says. "If
patients are HIV-positive and they go
through surgery; they have a much harder
timerecovering... (and) arejust thatmuch
more susceptible to catch an infection."
To date, he and his colleagues have
performed 56 remodelings, with a failure
rate of just 10 percent - substantially
better than the national rate of30 percent.
McCarthy credits careful screening of.
surgery candidates. He rules out heart
remodeling even for patients with other
heart problems, such as dogged arteries.
A month after surgery, Young suffered
a stroke - a liability for some post-surgical
heart patients - that paralyzed part of
his left side~ A spokeswoman at Davies
Medical Center, thehospital whereYoung
is recuperating, says heis improving daily.
Andhe remains hopeful and ever ready to
go home. "I still have faith," Young says
r
: serious concerns and high risks, a synipa-
: thetic physician has to do what’s right,"
he said. "If you would take it, you have to
: recommend it,,he added.
¯ But Saah was among those who in-
¯¯ sisted the timingisn’tright for the government
to rule on an issue that has so little
¯ proof of success. "A lot of us just don’t
¯ believe this works," he said. Some criticized
a CDC study that said health care
¯ workers in the United States. the United
¯ Kingdom and France who took the AIDS
drug AZT after being stuck with a needle
¯ cut.their risk of contracting HIV by 79
¯ percent. That study is the best evidence ¯
the CDC has that the post-exposure treat-
. ment works.
: Dr. Alastair McLeod, who has treated
¯ AIDS patients in Vancouver, British Co-
" lumbia, since 1984, added: "I don’t be-
" !ieve that 79 percent stuff either. The data
¯ is indeed a bit soft. This is potentially a
¯ quagmire for the agency."
Another concern was that some people
¯ might comeinfor treatment a second time
¯ after engaging again in risky behavior.
¯ "Do we give it to them the first time and ¯
then withhold it the second as punish-
" ment?" asked Kahn.
: Also, emergency rooms, which serve
¯ about 100millionpatientsayear, couldbe
between deep breaths. ’t..To me, this is : inundated because they are often the first
like half of a miracle. The other half will " place people go for medical care, said
be a cure of AIDS."
Morning-After
Treatment Debated
ATLANTA (AP) - In a debate over who
might benefit from a moruing-after treatment
for HIV, Michigan AIDS director
Randy Pope said he’s more concerned
about what to call it first. "Is it prevention
or is it treatment?" Pope asked a group of
experts who gathered in Atlanta to mull
the idea of a blast of AIDS drugs for
patients who fear they may have contracted
HIV from a night of risky sex or a
needle.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention is i~ing to figure out whether
to endorse the controversial practice or
not. But first, they must dispense with the
name game. The government shuns the
"morning-after" title because it wrongly
implies one pill will do it. Then, there’s
"post-exposure prophylaxis." That didn"t
seem to work. Now, its wrestling over
"post-exposure treatment."
It may sound trivial, but it’s the root of
disagreement among doctors over whenit
should be used, who would receive it and
whether it will take money away from
prevention programs that already work.
The treatment, which would likely take
about a month, would give AIDS drugs to
people as quickly as possible after a potential
exposure to HIV. The idea is to
start fighting right away the development
of AIDS, even before people are certain
they have HIV.
An HIV-infected man has sex with his
wifeand the condombreaks. Aprisoner is
taped by a gang of men. A child is molested.
These are all cases experts debated
during a two-day conference in Atlanta
that ended Friday. There is little proof that
such a treatment works, although some
preliminary studies suggest it might. But
some doctors are already doing it.
Dr. James Kahn, an associate professor
of medicine at the University of California
in San Francisco, said he would offer
the treatment to anyone who needs it.
"When you’re ... sitting across an exam
tablefromsomebody whohas plainneeds,
¯ Richard Rothman of Johns Hopkins Uni-
¯ versity.
: The CDC initially said it was consider-
" ing the morning-after treatment for one-
¯, time use. But doctors at-the meeting said
¯ that should be reconsidered, since chil- dren can be abused repeatedly andprison-
: ers can be raped more than once.
¯ Saah called for more animal studies.
Twounpublished studies presentedThurs-
: day showed that giving monkeys the blast
of drugs within hours after they were
¯ infected with HIV kept some of them
virus-free after almost a year. Those stud-
: ies are still in progress~ however.
i¯ OSwtundRy:epHrIoVdSupc.tu=.orsn
: WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have
¯ proved a long-expected trait of the AIDS
: virus:.It produces aprotein that stimulates
¯ cells to enhance its deadly reproducd0n.
¯ The protein is called Tat, and researchers
¯ from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
¯ willreportTuesday thatit essentially pro-
: .vides a wake-upcall that renders slumber-
, mg immune cells susceptible to HIV in-
" fection.
-" HIV works best in active immune cells,
¯ not quiescent ones. So for HIV to sustain
: its killer viral levels, it must continually
: replenish the active cells it kills, Dana-
" Farber research Chiang Li writes in a
: recent Proceedings ofthe NationalAcad-
¯ emy of Sciences. Tat secreted-from in-
: fected cells enters resting neighbor cells
_" and "activates" them, Li discovered in a
¯ series of test-tube studies.
: Li proved an HIV pathway that scien-
¯ tists were so confident existed that they
: already had hunted drags to attack Tat,
¯ said Dr. Anthony Fauci, an AIDS expert
" with the National Institutes of Health. So
: far, that research "didn’t work, to the
¯ point that at least one company has aban-
¯ donedtheirendeavorsfora Tatinhibitor,"
: Fauci said. But "that doesn’t mean that
¯: somebody won’tnow, withthis more con-
: firmatory evidence, try another approach
: to blocking Tat."
by James Christjohn : rock festival, became a m~mmoth under-
Onthe local front, RIVERDANCEissure : taking and received the attention of the
tobeaneventnextsnmmer.Ifyouhaven’t : most prominent female artists, the tour
seen the video, let me tell you it is a ¯ itself being billed as "a celebration of
magical show blending tap, traditional ." women in music."
and modem Celtic music
anddanceand gorgeous men
and women dancing their
feet off. The music is fabulous,
and the show is quite
beautiful. WhileIamtaking
the term "Advance Notice"
to an extreme, I would plan
to reserve seats as so~n as
the tickets go on sale for the
PAC August 18-23, 1998
pei~ogmances.
Until then, the Broken
Arrow Community playhouse
will keep us tapping
with their season-opening
gala, "MUSIC TO REMEMBER",
on August 23
at the Main Place, 1800 S:
Main in BA. A reception
and silent auction will be
held at 6:30pro, and the
show’ s curtain rises at 8pro.
Featuredentertainers are the
Bits & Pieces Theatre Chorus,
and The. happy Hoofers.
Please make reservations
by August 15 at 258-
0077. Special guests Teri
Bowers and Frank Mitchell
from Channel8 will be emceeing
the event.
Shades Of the triple Goddess!
My three favorite divas
are certainly getting a
lot of attention these days.
The most successful lineup
ofFleetwoodMac’s long
and winding career-featuring
Lindsey Buckingham,
With a rotadng
llne-up,
LILITH FAIR
........ ~slst~ 6f
Traey Chapman,
Sheryl Crow,
Jewel,
Joan O~l,orne,
Fiona Apple,
Mary Chapin-
Carpenter,
Emmylou Harris,
Indigo Girls,
Shawn Colvln,
Panla Cole,
Meredith Brooks
and more...
LILITH FAIR
has been selling
out across the
eountry~ [It]
occurs in Dallas
August 4th.
STEVIE NICKS, Christine McVie, Mick
Fleetwood, andJohn McViehave reunited
and have recorded alive albumfor release
on Reprise September 23. The album ineludes
four new songs-two from
Buckingham and one each from Nicks
and McVie-plus live performances of
many classics, such as "Dreams" &
"Rhiannon. "Thealbum was recorded over
two nights in May. Those two concerts
marked the first time this version of
Fleetwood Mac had performed an entire
concert together in 15 years. Viewers will
be able to witness the event when MTV
airs its Fleetwood Mac concert special on
August 12.
Well, loyal readers, FLEETWOOD
MAC concert dates are flying around the
rumor mills. As of press time, rumor has
it that they will be playing .the following
nearby cities: October 25th and 26th -
Oklahoma City, October 29th and 30th -
Dallas. (Confirmation yet to come) If any
other MAC/NICKS fans out there would
like to get together for a road trip, I can be
reached via the newspaper and would be
glad to help organize. I’d love the company
of any other MAC/STEVIE NICKS
fan-arics. We could scream along with
Stevie on the way, and terrify thousands
of other travelers...
LOREENAMcKENN1TT’s new album
is due out end of September. Entitled
’~3OOK OF SECRETS", it isreported to
have an Italian influence, although I hear
that the Celtic influence she is known for
will also be evident. Put ~ogether by SARAH
McLACHLAN, her two managers,
andher agent, LILITH FAIR, thewomen’s
With a rotating line~up,
LIL1TH FAIR consists of
Tracy Chapman, Sheryl
Crow,Jewel,JoanOsborne,
FionaApple,Mary Chap~-
Carpenter, F.mmylou Har-
~.ris,-Indigo .Girls, Shawn
Colvin, Paula Cole,
Meredith Brooks andmore.
Having recently been .featured
on the covers of both
Time and Entertainment
Weekly and with SARAH
featured in magazines na-,
tionwide, 1 .l1.1THFAiRhas
been selling out across the
country. -I .H- ~.ITH°FAIR occurs
in Dallas August 4th.
SARAH?s new album,
’~URFACING", is doing
extremely well, having debuted
at number 2 on the
Billboard charts andhitting
#1in her native Canada. It
is an excellent album, full
of moody atmosphere and
interesting rhythms.
Ellen DeGeneres, who
made TV history by coming
out as a lesbian in her
series "Ellen," was nominated
for an F~nrny as best
actress in a comedy series.
Now that they’ve brought
her out of the closet, will
ABC let the star of its TV
sitcom "Ellen" actually
have a sex life this season?
Maybenot.ABCEntertainmeritPresidentJamieTames
¯ has told TV writers the network plans to
: moveslowlyindeveloping the Ellen char-
¯ acter as an open lesbian. I guess we’ll see
¯ just how slow a lesbian can move... With
¯¯ the heat the way it’s been, I don’t think
I’ve seen anyone moving too fast.
¯ Magician DAVID COPPERFIELD
¯ (Whom I had quite the crush on once) has
¯ launched what could be his greatest trick
i
- prying $30 million damages from Pari~
Match magazine for alleging his romance
¯ with model Claudia Schiffer is bogus.
~ (Oh, I dunno if HE would say that’s his
¯ greatest trick Sorry, I had to. Even if it
: was too easy.) Copperfield filed a defa-
¯ marion suit in Lo~ Angeles against the
¯ French magazine’s pubfishers and a rival
¯ magician. According to the suit, Paris
¯ MatchspreadafalsestorythatCopperfield
¯ and Schifferperpetuated afraud, pretend-
" ing to be romantically involved, but that
¯ Copperfield pays Schiffer to accompany
¯ him and pretend to be his fiancee. ¯
Hmm Shades of Liberace. (Who, for
¯ those too young or not interested in trivia
: enough to know, popular pianist Liberace
¯ successfully sued a British tabloid in the ¯
’50’ s for claiming he was Gay. Andwe all
¯ know the end of that story.) Now why
: wouldDavid wanta"beard"? Can’t imag-
¯ ine. And if the job, goes up for grabs,
¯ what’s the salary? I could stand there and
¯ look beautiful. Stop laughing; it used to
¯ happen.., occasionally. Probably the best
: I could manage right now is vapid, but so
¯ often these days the two are interchange-
" able. Excuse me, I have to make a phone
¯ call. "Operator, can you get me David
Copperfidd’s manager on me nne ....
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Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pm, 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universahst Congregation
Service- llam, 1703 E. 2nd, 749-0595
Family- of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Adult Sunday School,. 9:15 Service, 11 am, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
Metropolitan Community Church ofGranter Tulsa
..... Service,, ,10:45am, 1623 North M.ap.,le~.qod, Info: 838~ 17
PrimeTimers- : ,~
Social groupfor men~qst Sun/eachmo. ~-6pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gayfrransgendered Alliance
Not active this summer. Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
~ MONDAYS
HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm Results: 7-gpm, Info: 742-2927
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
2nd Mon/each too. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Gay & Lesbian Book Discussibn Group, Borders Bookstore
1st Mon/ea.mo., 7:30pm, 2740 E. 21st, 712-9955
Aug: Obejas’ Memory Mambo, September: Gary Reed’s Pryor Rendering
Womeus Literature Discussion Group, Borders, 3rd Mon/ea: too., 7:30pro
Mixed Volleyball, 6:30pm, Helmedch Park, 71st & Riverside, 587-65,57
Unity Lambda Al-anon, 7:30pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2rid ft.
~TUESDAYS
Lesbian.Mothers Support Group, 2nd+4th Tues/ea. mo. 7pm; 1307 E. 38th
HIV+ Support Group, HIV ResourceConsortium 1:30 pm -
4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-l, Info: Wanda @ 749.4194
Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HIV/AIDS Support Group, and Friends & ~amily HIV/AIDS
Support Group - 7 pro, Locations, call: 749-7898
~" WEDNESDAYS
BlessThe Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
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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 scheduled events.
Info: 631-7632 or Jeremy at 712-1600
l~- THURSDAYS
Co-Dependency Support Group - 7:30 Family ofFaith~ 5451E S. Mingo, 622-1441
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pro, Results: 7 - 9pro, Info: 742-2927
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at-~63~7272
Tulsa Family Chorale, Weekly practice - 9:30pm~ Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
From Our Hearts to Our House, 11pm, 3rd Thurs/each ran. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS 4154 S. Harvard,
Ste. G, 3-4:30pm, Info: 749.4194
~ FRIDAYS
SafeHaven~ Young Adults Social Group, 1st Fti/eachmo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th
Arts Coffeehouse, Poetry readings & art display, Pride Center
Call Mary for more information: 743-6740
I~" SATURDAYS
St. Jerome’s Church, Mass - 6 pm Garden Chapel, 3841 S. Peoria, Info: 742-6227
Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pro, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Fun Night at the Center, July 12th & 26th, 6-10pm, Pride Ctr. Info: 743-4297
SENSES, Society for Exploring New Sensations, Educating & Socializing.
July 19, 6-apm, Info, call Kathy at 743-4297
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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. Long and short rides.
Info: PUB 9165, Tulsa 74157, 8/20, 6:30pm, short tide; 8/23, 7am, long fide; 8/30,
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READ ALL ABOUT IT
Reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa Ci&-County Library
Thepublic library has many wonderful,
older books of interest to the gay/lesbian/
bi/transgendered community. By searching
on the library computer catalog under
the subject ofhomosexuality, hundreds of
entries come up with subtopics (history,
fiction, humor, etc). While searching the
older fiction titles, I recently
came across a wonderful,little
novel, The Drowning of
Stephan Jones.
In the ficticious town of
Parson Springs, (a thinly disguised
Eureka Springs), antique
dealer FrankMontgomely
andhis longtimelover and
business partner Stephan
Jones have recently opened a
shop and are enjoying the
simple, small townlife. Away
from the crowded and oppressive
big cities, Frank and
Stephan can settle down and
enjoy the finer things in life.
Or so they think.
When choosing Parson
Springs as their new home,
the guys thought they had
found an artistic oasis where
peoplereally cared abouteach
other. They didn’t factor in
the overwhelming presence of
simplistic and absolute religious
beliefs that often blanket
small communities.
Stephan, a former seminary
student, convinces Frank to
attend a service at the dominant
church in town. The service
turns out to be a "family
." thetownlibrarian, befriends them.Trouble
.. begins when dashing, young Andy, high
¯ school jock and the object of Carla’s af-
¯ fection, prodded by his intolerant family
¯¯ and teammates, begins intimidating the
gay couple. The unprovoked harassing
¯ slowly escalates into violence and tour-
¯ der, as the horrified Carla tries, unsuc¯
cessfully, to avert tragedy. There is a
moderately successful surprise ending to
satisfy Stephan’ s grief stricken
survivors.
Technically a young adult
novel, it is rather simply written
for maximum effect, and
does contain some violence
and mild profanity, although
no sex. While the story is
strong, the characters are
sometimes simplistically written
and occasionally fall into
stereotypes.
Sensitive, confused Carla
realizes that her neff boyfriend,
(her first), is blinded to
trothbyhis unquestioning faith
in religious extremism, but is
too anxious to be "part of the
group" to recognize the danger
in his behavior until it is
too late. Car.!,a’ s mother i"s the
black sheep of the community,
fighting to keep challenged
books on the library
shelves after attacks by the
town’s influential Baptist
preacher.
For a straightforward but
dismrbinglook athomophobic
extremism° check out The
.Drowning ofStep.hanJones. It
is an eye opemng read for
young adults and a timely re-
" minder to adults of what happens when
¯ goodpeople ignore intolerant and danger- ¯ ous behavior.
¯ Check for The Drowning of Stephan
¯ Jones at your local branch library or call
¯ the Readers Services Department at the
¯ Central Library at 596-7966.
: Dees. Champlin also anticipates speaking
:. more openly about the program and the
¯ need for the program tO high school coun-
¯ selors, teachers and principals as well as
." to mainstream media.
: O’RYAN memb~s ara not just con-
. cemedwiththemselves. Martyis theleader
¯ of the group’s Condom Crusaders who
¯ are .trying to educate their peers about
: HIVrisk. The group also wants to start its
." Own RAIN Care Team. Other goals indude
possibly fostering Gay/Straight
: Clubs in local high schools to provide
: support andinformation.
: And O’RYAN is actively seeking support
from the older Leshian and Gay corn-
: munity and friends,family and allies. The
" group has a "wish list" of things that
: they’_d like to have to make their meeting
¯ spacemore of a home-like drop-in space. ¯
Ultimately they’d like it to function al-
¯
most like a coffee house, like Java Dave’ s
: even. However, they’re just not waiting
¯ around for the larger commtmity. They ¯
tentatively arranged to make 5,000 rain-
: bow bead keychains for PFLAG, Parents,
¯ Families and Friends of Lesbians and
¯ Gays to raise funds.
~. Champlinl Marty and George empha-
: size that the group is very careful to pro-
: tect the see O’RYAN, page 12
For a
straight
forward but
disturblngloo.k
at homophoble
extremism,
cheek out
The DrownJnO
d
Step ,an Jo.es.
It.ls,an e~t
opemn$ reaa ~or
young .a.dults
and a timely
reminder to
adults of what
happens when
good people
ignore
intolerant and
values" lecture where homosexuals are
.uniformly denounced as lower than pornographers
or child molesters. Unfortunately,
the guys don’t get the hint.
A local girl, Carla, has become acquainted
with themen and, being raised in
a welcoming household by her mother,
to talk about &RYAN. Both who are
regulars in local clubs said that they really
,v’,paleuoeptlheehgarvoeupt:oM: baertryeSal~tuthnalitkien ginrotuhpe,
clubs wherehe characterizes relationships
as morejust acquaintances. In the group,
they’ re friendships.
Champlin, who’s been with the group
about a year, brings counselingand psychology
experience to the job. The 1994
TU graduate, along with MurphyJones
also provide free individual counseling
along with the group meetings. Sheestimates
that of the 15 to 20 meeting regulars,
about 10 also get individual counseling.
Champlin, along with Marty and
George, note that the group is not for all
Lesbian, Gay, Bi,Tramgenderedand questioning
young adults. Some are just too
closeted or find the groups too structured
if they are in a more rebellious stage. But
likely many in the city just don’t know
that the group exists.
Marty, George and.Melissa, however,
are working on changing that. O’RYAN
now has a web page, courtesy of Concessions
and noted Concessions dj, David
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telephone booths. The entire
Midtown neighborhood has
been awaiting anxiously developments
at the location.
This past spring, the wait was
over and a new restaurant un--
veiled.
Local diners can eat and
drink at the Milestone Grill,
now under completely different
ownership and management.
And, those who frequented
Charlie Mitchell’s
will not recognize the place
after themajor remodeling and
redecorating. The dining areas
have been Opened up into
one large, two level room, divided
by a working fireplace.
The bar now sits against the
west wall, andis stylishly conceived
with broad panels of
tortoise shell covered lighting.
Seating in the bar i s multilevel,
and includes a comfortable
sofa area. The decor is
starklymodern throughout the
restaurant, and oil pastel art
work is framed and hanging
onthe painted grey wails. Contemporary
light fixtures are crafted from
bareflame bulbs andmetallic coppermesh
shades, contributing to a dean, fresh look.
As one sits down to dinner, one quickly
discovers that this place Js no longer
Charlie Mitchell’s. Where once one ordered
a round of beers, now, one orders
ultrapremium cocktails. Milestone features.
a menu devoted stric.tly to cocktails,
includingnine different martinis. And they
¯are all delicious, We’ve tried them all
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and you can s~p andsample the various
gins and vodk~s,Anclud~ng Tangueray,
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Chambord (a raspberry Jiqueur),. and a
~.twist of lime. The bar als0 Ca~es an
’Impressive s..election ofsinglemait Scotcl~
whiske,cs.
’ ApiS~tizer selecfi’bns, are varied, and
display the almost schizophrenic menu
plaJming 0f the kitchen. Tl~e best are the
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11am-llpm, Frl.
5pm-llpm, Sat.
5pm-10pm, Sun.
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with premium
stock & wine llst.
Smokln~ in
the bar area.
A~mospkere: -
Dressy casual.
Prhes: Expensive.
Ratln~:
A llst
ing ’q’hai."
Though only open a few~
months, a new menu was introduced
in July. The kitchen
is still experimenting, and trying
to find itself, so we hope
that they will soon be able to
establish their niche. A few
slight problems exist, such as
having both teriyaki ribeye and
teriyaki salmon, and having
both a filet mignon and a tuna
steak wrapped in bacon and
prepared like a filet mignon.
Nevertheless, the.entrees we
have tasted hagebeen flavorful
and wall done. Weparticularlylike
therotisserie chicken
($12.95), which .is tender and
juicy, served ona ~edof garlic-
laced "smaShed ’ potatoes;
and adorned like a party hat
with a big ~prig.of rtsemary.
The variou~past~of~the day
dishes are .also tasty~ full o~
additional 2vegetables and
mush~.oomg; and--delicately
sauced. All.bf the entrees are
served with:~a choice of soup
or salad.
Those not interested in
a full entree can also get a very
¯ nice, good sized Milestone burger ($6.75)
. or a great dub sandwich ($6:95) with
¯ roasted turkey and Arkansas bacon. At.
." lunch, a chicken salad sandwich ($6.25)
." and a meat loaf sandwich ($7:75) areaiso
¯ available. All of the sandwiches come
with matchstick fries.
¯ Dessert, always one of our favorite
courses, is $4.50, and varies: daily. Re-
: .cenfly, they have included: a~tasty indi-
~, vidual cobbleralamode made ononehalf
." of blackberries and on the 0ther ?half of
¯ raspberries~ which was ~gd~~as,
¯" had been microwaved to~*~~r ~o
:- serving. The ubiquitous flOuriess’ehoco._
~ late.gateaux is there, plus- the .stereotypi_
¯ cal cheesecake- this one with~chocolate,
¯~ pecans, and caramel. All of these are quite
¯: tasty. Yet, the presentation and combina-
." :tions,not onlyin the dessert courses but in
¯ the entire menu, still lack that subtle flair
which is the hallmark of a great restau-
~ rant. A good example is the roasted ha-
"- nana cream pie. We were offered the
!potato crustedlobster ,c,3kcs ($9.95). Ther¢
:is also a shrimp cockudl ($6.95), andfrom
there, the menu gets. odd. Spring rolls
($5.7~), an Oriental standard, are juxta-
:posed againstthe traditi0nai Fr~nch.~rilled
bile cheese ($7’.95): Artich0ke dip.(~5:95)
~emindS:us of.th~ spo~ts bar oi:igiils 6f the
’site. And~ like everyone else in town, they
are doing wraps -.this time, chicken
wrapped with a’ lettuce leaf ($4..95) instead
of a tortilla.
Thesoup selection varies daily, and is
$3.95 per bowl. On the night we visited, it
was corn and red pepper, which we expected
to be a spicy cream soup, but which
was a surprisingly thin vegetable soup
with kernels of corn and strips of roaste~i
red bell pepper. Basic salads are also
$3.95, and jump $4 with the addition of
dessert, and anticipated.,a large wedge of
tasty pie. What arrived was a small indi-
¯ vidual tartlet shell filled, with roasted ha-
: nanapudding, topped withwhippedcream,
and garnished withalargewedge bf white
~ and dark chocolate protruding from the
: tarflet like a shard ofbroken glass.:Next to.
the tarflet was a bail of ice cream that had
a strong and delicious espressoflavor and
¯ included little chunks 61’ fudge brownie.
; The whole large serving plate was deco-
¯ rated with a swoosh of creme Anglaise, ¯
¯ drizzles of chocolate, and a few scattered fresh berries. Individually, each compo-
¯ nentwas delicious,but together, they were
¯ too much and not a pleasant match. The ¯
espresso-chocolate ice cream comp!etely
¯ overpowered the delicate sweetness of
the roasted banana, see Jean, page 12
ration techniques are all down, we look
forward to the kitchen staff developing
the culinary maturity in matching foods
that will makethis restaurant an outstanding
dining experience.
Similar problems arise in the service.
When we’ ve been seated in the dining
room, service has been attentive and adequate
(though not outstanding) for arestaurant
of this calibre. However, when
we’ ve been seated in the smoking section
in the bar area, the service has been woeful.
In fact; on our last visit, the handsome
pony~led bartender (worth a trip just to
gazeuponhim,by theway) tookpityupon
our table and volunteered to take over for
ourabsent waitress. Nevertheless, wehave
great expectations that management will
soon work out these minor flaws, espedally
since themenus advise that a seventeen
percent gratuity will be added to
tickets for groups.
On the whole, we enjoy going to the
Milestone Grill. As they grow- and become
more comfortable with their identity,
we think the staff will make a fine
team. And, we hope they’ll stir be in
business come winter time, so we can
lounge around that wonderful fireplace in
the dining room.
to moving every American forward. At
those places where we disagree with the
President, and there are many, we know
for certain now that he acts, not out of
ignorance, but out of his political analysis
for advancing his agenda."
Lobel added that the President spoke at
length about how the cultural map of
America must shift ifLGBT people are to
gain civil rights. "We look to the President
to speak out loudly and often on
issues affecting Gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender Americans. But we must
be realistic. The President will not move
unless activists at the local and state level
move him and the administration forward."
There also was discussion of Clinton’ s
upcoming White House conference on
hate crimes later-this year. The activists
said they want the conference to address
"widespread" violence against Gays and
would like to include Gay youths who
often are prone to violence on the streets
because of family rejection and
homelessness. "There is agreement that
violence against any group is something
that must be combated," Echaveste said.
The group expressed concern about the
implementation of the Clinton
administration’ s "don’ t ask, don’ t tell,
don’ t pursue" policy on Gays in the military.
A study by the Service Members
Legal DefenseNetwork showedthatGays
are being discharged from all branches of
the armed forces in greater numbers since
the policy was instituted in 1993.
"We made it dear there are a number of
instances in which the administration has
come down on the wrong side of issues
that are important to us, not the least of
which is the Gays-in4he-military issue,"
said Lorri Jean, executive director of the
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
The policy bars commanders from asking
service members to reveal their sexual
orientations, and allows Gay troops to
serve as long as they refrain from homosexual
acts and don’ t reveal their orienta-
Besides McDonald, LobeL Jean and
Birch, other participants at the meeting
were Kevin Jennings, executive directoe
of the Gay, Lesbian and StraightTeachers
Network; Tim Gill, founder of the Gill
Foundation; Gloria Nieto, executive director
of the People of Color AIDS foundation
of New Mexico; Brian Bond, executive
director of the Gay and Lesbian
Victory Fund; Martin Omelas-Qnintero,
executive director of the National Lation/
a Lesbian and Gay Organization; Jeff
Sorer, Co-Chair of the Empire State Pride
Agenda; Dale McCormick, Treasurer of
th~ State of Maine; Kevin Catheart, executive
director of Lambda Legal Defense
and Education Fund; and Vema
Eggleston, executive director of the
Hetrick-Marfin Institute.
confidentiality of those who attend, especially
outside the safety of the meeting
space. O’RYAN has also scheduled several
special events in August and Septem,
ber. On August 16, the groups is holding
its "Snmmer Fling" dance party. Later in
the month, by popular demand, the group
will have a slumber party-properly chaperoned
and alcohol, smoke and drug free,
of course. In early September, the group
will go on afloat trip on the Illinois river.
To donateor to volunteer for O’ RYAN,
call 584-2325.
Madson’s father, Howard Madson of
Barron, Wis., watched the developments
Wednesday night as well, but declined to
discuss them. "There will come a time
when we have something to say. I can’t
tell you now when that will be," he said.
Cunanan was suspected in the death of
Chicago developer Lee Miglin and
charged in thekilling ofNew Jersey graveyard
caretaker William Reese. Reese’s
widow, Rebecca, had no comment on
Cunanan’s death when reached by telephone
at her home in Upper Deerfield
Township, N.J..
Sorrow was unabated for Cunanan’s
family as well. In the Philippines, where
his father lives, his aunt Barbara Carlos
was resigned to her nephew’s death, but
still baffled by his life.
"He is a good boy. He can’ t do all those
things. I thinkhe is innocent," Mrs. Carlos
said, but added that his family "should
accept the truth. They should accept what
happened to them."
She had not seen Cunanan since he was a
child. ’‘we are saddened," she said. ~’Even
if we have not been together for a long
time,we are saddenedby whathappened."
Eilarts will begin an all ages coming out
group in cooperation with Melissa
Champlin of Red Rock Mental Health
Association. This group will meet at the
Pride Center and will be for all ages.
Eilarts, who has considerable experiencein
counseling around substance abuse
issues, will focus on communication and
negotiating skills as,well as ,triggermechanisms"
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Puterbaugh said. ’It just, was not in the
conversation, it was not ~the thinking."
She and Famham, who describe them- ¯
Selves as beingin their "early 50s,"thought ¯
about but never ended-up having a corn- "
mi.tment~ceremony in honor of their 20th
anmversary. Then two years ago, they
attended a conference devoted to the notion
of a civil marriage between couples .
of the same gender., "We walked out of ."
that conference, looked at ourselves and ¯
said,’ That’ 8 what we.~ant,’’. Puterbaugh
said. .
But the Milton town clerk, relying on a ¯
22-year-old opinion from the attorney ¯
general’s office, refused to issue them a
marriage license when they applied on
April 25. Baker and Harrigan applied in
Shelburne on June 13 and Jolles and Beck
applied in South Burlington six days after
that. All Were denied and lawyers decided
they had a case.
"Finding a partner, finding a mate and
getting married is a basic human right,"
said Middlebury lawyer Susan Murray.
’The state of Vermont should not be al- ¯
lowed to step in and tell two consenting
adults that they cannot marry one an- "
other."
Attorney General William Sorrell,who
~v9a3~_aospkiendiobnu,t sdaeidclitnheedistosuoevsehrtouurlnd-tbhee
decided in the Legislature, not the courts:
Lawmakers already have extended civil
rights protections to Gays and Lesbians "
and included them among the classes protected
in a hate crimes statute, he said. If :
the Legislature. had intended to .include ¯
marriage among those ,rights, it would
have said so, he ~rguedi ’rhe Legislature
has done nothing that. we can find’ that
affirmatively extends the ri,g,ht to same-
,g,endermarriagein~Vermont; "S orrell said.
~’he Legislat-~re for 2:2~3;~s has had the
opportuni,,~ to change thatlaw. It has not
done that. ’
Gov. Howard Dean said he believed the
Legislature should avoid theissue for the
time being. "I Would prefer this not be
addressed in the Legislature until it’ s resolved
in the courts," he said. "I think it’ s "
a very personal matter. This is a very ¯
difficultissue and I think the courts are the ¯
place to.resolve it." :
Murray and the other lawyers said no
change in theIaw was necessary. Denying "
Gays and Lesbians marriagelicenses rio- :
lares not only state marriage statutes but
also Chapter 1, Articles 1 and 7, of the "
Vermont Constitution, the couples claim ¯
in their lawsuit. The first article states ¯
people are born equally free and indepen- ¯
dent; the seventh says the government
exists for the common benefit, and not for ¯
any particular set of people. .
"We are challenging the notion that a
couple in love can’t marry each other "
.simply because they made the ~mi_’,stake of ¯
falling in love withsomeone ofthe wrong’
gender," said Mary Bonanto of Gay &
Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, .a:New
England=wide Gay civil rights group.
Vermont statut~,s describe m~a~e as
aunion betweena ~bride and t,ro~m. "but
say not.m.n.g.:a.n.y.,:°.’;mO" re exp~l’-ic" it a’bout
gender~: ~orrdl s’~id~,~e ~l~dictibnary:
meaning of ~e phrase proved lawmaker~7
intended marriages to be between men
and women. ~.: ~ ....
The lawsuit asks only for:~ legalization
of civil marriages and does not ask
churches opposed to same-sex unions to
recognize them or perform ceremonies.
¯" "It’s not g~ng to affect any religious
: 9~anizationatall,"Murraysaid.Itwould,
however, offer them a wide range of civil
¯ benefits. "Married couples receive over
150 supports and protections under Vermont
law, which are not available to Gay
and Lesbian couples, no matter how long
they have been together, no matter how
committed their relationship is, and no "
matter how much they need those legal, ."
protections," Bonauto said. ¯
Among the benefits she listed were "
family leave; bereavement leave; retirement
and pension benefits; health insurance;
inheritance; and the right to ,make
medical decisions onbehalfofasame-sex
partner.
The issue of Gay and Lesbian marriage
: has been hotly contested around the coun-
¯ try, especially a groundbr_._e._a_,kii’,ng case in
Hawaii in which that state s Supreme
¯ Court rnled in 1993 thatitwas unconstitu-
¯ tional to deny marriage licenses to same-
" sex couples without a compelling public
¯ interest.
¯" Before a lower court could rule on
whether such an interest had been demonstrated,
the Hawaii Legislature passed a
bill granting such benefits as the rights to
share medical insurance, joint property ¯
ownership and inheritances to couples "
: who could not legally marry. Lawmakers "
: also proposed a referendum on whether ¯
the Hawaii Constitution should be
¯ amended to outlaw Gay marriage. That !
.’ referendum is scheduled for next year.
With the Hawaii case awaiting court
ruling,Gay civil rights activists have been ¯
lookiiag for another test case. Vermont
already has an active organization on the
¯ issue, known as the Freedom to Marry
¯ .Task Force, andit has worked with Lesbian
& Lesbian Advocates & Defenders,
¯ a group that has been active on same-sex
¯ mamages. A lawyer with,GLAD was
scheduled to be at Tuesday s news con-
: ference.
The issue also is pending in the Ver¯
mont Legislature, where a bill that would
¯ ban gay marriage remains alive in the
House Judiciary Committee. No action
¯ was taken on the bill when it was mtro-
¯ duced in January, but it remains alive for
the second year of the Legislature’ s sesfor
effective multicultural and coalition
organizing. The need for the Federation
grew out of meetings of statewide acti,vists
during the past two years at NGLT s
annual Creating Change Conference. The
Task Force coordinated the logistics of
the. Tennesseemeeting, providing scholarships
and staffing and assisting in the
planning.
"We have known for many years that
the real battles facing our communities
wouldbe foughtinthe State Houses across
the country," stud Paula Ettelbn¯ck of the
Empire. State Pride Agenda, who is a
fouhder and a co-chair ~f the Federation.
"It is essential that we create an orgainz-
¯ ing structure that helps us to Strategize as
¯ a hational network of lesbians and gay
i men in order to support each other, sh~re
resources, andf,i,ght our common enemy
of h0m0phobia.
Oklahoma wasrepresented by TOHR,
: Tulsa Oklah0mans for Human Rights
: which at 17 years old is the oldest non-
" religious organization in the state. TOHR
: .presidentTomNealnoted,"TOHRclearly
¯ ~s not a state-wide organization. Okla-
: homa, unfortunately,qaas no organization
¯ that is genuinely statewide. However,
¯
TOHR has been for several years the only
¯
iOaarrkl,caohnotmacatowrgiathnizNaGtioLnTtFh.atT,shbeereenfoinrer,egwu_e
went to the meeting in order to come back
and to try to foster state level organizing."
¯. Neal added that he hoped that Tulsa and
¯ Oklahoma City groups and individuals
will set aside their historical friction to
work for the benefit of the whole state.
The Federation will consist of 13 Executive
Committee members, selected
¯ from each region of the country, who will
set forth the mission of the Federation.
¯ The National Gay and LesbianTaskForce
¯ will ser~e as coordinatorof.theFederation
for the next three years: NGLTF will
¯
coordinate and. support the Federation’s
¯ work through the dedication.of staff and
¯ resources including the creation and dis-
: semination of information and materials,
regular conference calls, cyber resources
¯ and more.
¯ "States are ground zero in the struggle
for equality andjustice, and it is essential
that these state groups become better
¯" resourced., and supported if we are to en¯
sureourultimate success as amovement,"
said NGLTF executive director Kerry
¯ Lobel.
,’I ¯ amthrilled that the stateLGBTgroups
have united to. form this Federation. The
Federation will focus on strengthening
state organizations so that we aJ’e better
equipped for the upcoming civil ,ri,’ghts
battles we are facing stat~l~y state, said
Dianne Hardy-Garcia of’~e Lesbian/Gay
Rights Lobby ofTexas an~t co:chair:bfthe
Federation. ’Theformation ofthe Federation
wouldnothave beenpossible without
~ the assistance of NGLTF. NGLTF has
¯ provided the resources needed to pull
¯ togetherthe Federation. The Task Force
.continues to illustrate a real understand-
" mg mat our movement must be a local,
¯ state an,d, national movement if we are to
¯ su~eed, ’ added Hardy-Garcia."
The Federation is p,lanning its next
meeting for November s NGLTF Creating
Change conference in San Diego,
¯ California. In addition to the. meeting,
there will be a series or workshops geared
: towards activists doing statewide work,
especially onlegislation. These workshops
, ~ill be open to all.
! SpiritWoman Contor
: Longtime Lesbian activist Tay Clare is
¯ the volunteer coordinator ofthe Frec Spirit
Woman Center, based in a private mid-
. town Tulsa.home. The Center provides
the following ongoing weekly programming
from 7-9 pm.
¯
On Tuesdays, the Center sponsors a
¯ poetry writing workshop. Women with
¯ much or no experience are encouraged to
participate or just to observe.
¯
Wednesdays, Charlotte Kasl’s famous
¯ 1~6 step,e,mpowermentprogram is the topic.
¯ according to Tay, Charlotte Kasl claims
women should never say they have no
¯ power; by doing the steps, they can find
their own powerful wom~n within. ,
¯ EveryThursday,Clareleads awomen s
spirituality workshop. Ihdividuals are en-
¯ couraged to bring their own materials as
part of their journey. ~ .....
¯ A support and discussion group i~ held
i .on Fridays. The current topi~ iS a studyof
¯ the journals of radical Gay women..~ "
¯ The Free Spirit Woman Center oper-
: ates by consensus without domination by
"anyone person. Facilitation is minimal
." and is used primarily to insure that all get
¯ a chance to speak. The Center has no ¯
funding but small donations are always
: welcome to pay for coffee and other sup-
" plies. Info: 587-4669.
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Pride in Tulsa +
Worldwide! TULSA- Tulsans celebrated Pride Month with a series
of events from church services, benefit play performances
to the annual Pride Picnic andTulsa’ s first Pride
March. Anumber ofTulsans also attended and marched
in the Statewide Parade that takes place in Oklahoma
City.
A spokesperson for Tulsa Oklahomans for Human
Rights (TOHR) noted that organizers of the March were
hoping to get from 30-50 people to participate in the
March. TOHR spokesperson said he was delighted to
get. 65 marchers who represented organizations from
TOHR, PFLAG, the National Organization for Women
(NOW) to see Pride, page.. 13
Don’tAsk, Don’t Tell
Loses CourtAppeal
White Houseto Fig ht for Anti-Gay Policy
NEW YORK (AP) - The Clinton administration’s
"don’t ask, don’t tell" policy for Gays in the military is
unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday,
reaffirming his earlier ruling.
The 48-page ruling by U.S. District Court Judge
Engene Nickerson concludes that the policy violates the
U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment’s free speech
protections. A military "called on to fight for the principles
of equality and free speech embodied in the
United States Constitution should embrace those principles
inits own ranks," thejudge wrote. Thejudge also
argued that for the policy "to single out Gay and Lesbian
members denies them, without legitimate reason, the
right to openly participate as equals in the defense of the
nation."
Under the"don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue" policy,
Gays can serve as long as they keep their sexual orientation
to themselves and do not engage in homosexual
acts: Otherwise, they can be honorably discharged. In
addition, commanders may not ask a service member
his or her sexual orientation.
Nickerson first declared the policy unconstitutional
in 1995, calling it "nothing short of Orwellian" and a
violation of free-speech rights that barred people from
saying "I am Gay." But last year, a three-judge panel of
the 2nd U:S. Circuit Court ofAppeals sent the ease back
for review because it disagreed with thejudge’s reasoning.
"It is plzln to us that governmental restrictions on
speech that would run afoul of the Constitution if
imposedin civilianlifeean pass constitutional musterin
the military context," see Don’t, page 3
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non-religious’ Lesbian and Gay organization has announced a
change inits board ofdirectors. Deb
Statues who had served as TOHR
president in 1996 and for half of
1997, resigned citing the need to
spend more time with her spouse
and children, and the demands of
their non-profit management consuiting
firm. A TOHR spokesperson
noted that under Stames leadership,
the organization’s HIV prevention
programs, HOPE: HIV Outreach,
Prevention and Education,
grew substantially, and that Statues
brought a level of professional skill
to TOHR which greatly benefitted
HOPE.
Under TOHR bylaws, first vicepresident,
Tom Neal, became presidentfor
the balance of Starnes’ term.
Neal, TFN publisher and editor, issued the following comments:
"following in Deb’ s footsteps will be a real. challenge but with the
support ofthe excellent board of directors and staff, I trust we can
continue Deb’s good work." Neal added, ’~OHR became an
HIV/AIDS organization because that was what the community
needed in the first years of the AIDS epidemic. But our original
mission is as a civil rights organization. My goal as president is
to maintain HOPE in the great shape in which Deb has gotten it
and to recommit ourselves to civil rights work. The Pride Center
is part of that mission of strengthening the Lesbian, Gay, Bi and
Tulsa’s shady Owen Park was the sitefor the 11th
or 12th Pride Picnic (organizers are not sure - do
you know? Call TOHR at 743-4297.) Local.activist,
JimmyFlowers, stands infrontofTulsaPFLAG’s
booth. See page 3for more Tulsa & OKCpictures.
With a stated goal of getting a sense of the issues
and trying to develop an
agenda for a very diverse set
of communities, TOHR has
called a "community summit"
to be held on Saturday,
July 26 from 2-5pm at the
Pride Center. The topics for
the summit are: "where~ are
we, where do we want to be,
what do we need to do to get
from here to there, and what
will you do to get us from
here to there?"
TOHR’s spokesperson
stated that the event is open
to organizations andindividuals
who support fairness and
equality for Lesbians, Gay
men, Bisexuals and Transgendered
persons. The Reverend William Chester
: McCall III, pastor of the Unitarian-Universalist
~ Church of the Restoration is tentatively scheduled
¯ to serve as moderator.
TOHR’s spokesperson stated that the organiza-
; tion believes that this summit is the first time this
: idea has been tried in Tulsa but TOHR hopes that
¯ this event will be the first in at least an annual series
¯ of events. Those seeking more information may
: call 743-4297.
Gay & L.esbian Attorneys " Gay-ow.ned Ma.g.azine
Organize New Group Stand F,ghtsC,tyHall
:. Gay-owned Magazine Stand Fights City Hall
OKC :- A number of ’Le~bian-and Gay attorneys have:incorpo- TULSA - Local Gay businessmen, Lee Gregory
ratedThe Oklahoma Lesbian andGay Law Association (OLGLA) and David Haas, are indeed fighting City Hall. The
to achieve several goals. Among these are to act as a resource for
attorneys who are working with Lesbian and Gay legal issues and
for the legal system by providing amicus curtae briefs (papers to
support, or not, a particular legal position) and to dispel stereotypes
of Lesbians and Gay men in the legal professions. OLGLA
jo~ns 31 similar organizations in 18 states across the US and will
work with the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association
(NLGLA) which is affiliated with the American Bar Association
(ABA),NLGLA has formal representation in the ABA’s House
of Delegates.
The inaugural event forOLGLA was held inOklahoma City on
June 27. The dinner featured remarks by Jay Novick, a Miami
attorney, who is one of the founders of the Florida Lesbian and
Gay Law Association as well as a recent chairperson of the
NLGLA. see Atty. page 10
IAM Ice Cream Social
Black+White Shockwave!
TULSA- TULSA- TwoTulsa non-profit organizations will be
holding fundraisers to benefit organizations that help persons
living with HIV/AIDS or that do HIV/AIDS education and
prevention. Interfaith AIDS Ministries (IAM) with the St.
Matthew’s Episcopal Church Women’s. Auxiliary .will hold an
old-fashioned Bean Supper and Ice Cream Social indoors at St.
Matthe.w’s in nearby Sand Springs at 6pro. The "all you can eat"
supper is planned for 6pro on Saturday, July 19. The suggested
donation is only $5 for adults, $2.50 for kids and only $15 for a
"family" ticket. The event will feature music by local performers
and a raffle of prizes including some donated by Big Splash and
Bell’s Amusement Park. Donations of food or time to the event
are encouraged. For more information, call IAM at 438-2437.
Later that evening,"the kidz @ black + white charities" will be
holding two rather less traditional parties, First Volt for those 21
and older, nmning 8pm to midnight, and from 2 am until 5am,
Last Jolt, open to those who are 18 and above.
see B+W, page 2
owners of Affinity News Corporation, at 8120 East
21’st are caught in city "red tape" that threatens to
close them down. Although they went to the City of
Tulsa to get all the proper licenses for their news
and magazine and novelties store, now that they’ve
opened, the City has just informed them that they
may be in violation’of a zoning ordinance. At issue,
is the amount of the materials in the store which be
characterized as "adult" or sexually explicit. What
prompted the City of Tulsa was a complaint from a
nearby church, Fourth Church of Christ Scientist,
which is located behind the store. City zoning
requires that any business that is zoned as sexually
oriented be at least 500 feet from a church or
residential area. see Store, page 10
Tulsa Prime Timers
TULSA - Tulsa Area Prime Timers is a thriving
local organization whose primary purtx~e is to
provide mature Gay and Bisexual men--and their
admirers, with social, educational, and recreational
activities in a safe and supportive environment.
Prime Timers are mostly older men, andyounger
men who admire mature men. Other than-that
commonality, no single definition can describe all
Prime Timers, as they come from all walks of life.
These men involve themselves in the community
with volunteerism, politics, Gay community is-
:i sues, arts, entertainment, and every other facet of
¯ healthy.living. Many are fathers, or care-givers.
¯ Someare businessmen or entrepreneurs. Some
: work and others are now retired. Some are very
: activeandothers areless so. Butonethingis trueof
: all: they enjoy opportunities and friendships that
¯ they develop with other Prime Timers throughout
: the wOrld.
¯ The original Prime Timers organization was
¯ founded in 1987 by a retired professor in Boston,
: Woody (the organization typically lists only first
names in see Prime Timers, page 3
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Piner
*City Bites, 3348 S. Peoria
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*JJ’ S Country &Western Dance Club, 6328 S. 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
*Tucci’s, 1344 E. 15
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
832-1269
748-9600
744-0896
749-4511
712-2119
749-1563
745-9899
745-9998
585-2221
834-4234
585-3405
660-0856
584-1308
"58~-3456
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cdlular 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
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S, Lewis 58t-0902, 743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9,504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’ s Gallery, 13 Brady 58%2611
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556
Don Carlton Mitsubishi, 46th & Memorial 665-6595
Don Carlton Honda, 4141 S. Memorial 622-3636
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon, 1438 S. Boston 584-0337
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
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, 1104 S. Victor 592-1800
Susan McBay, MSW: Earth-Centered Counseling 592-1260
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 P1 664-2951
*Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA,,4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672
ZiRita Pailsh, Indoor/Outdoor Co. Home Remodel ~g 58%6717
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090
Pet Pride, Dog & Cat Grooming 584-7554
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 743-4297
Puppy Pause II, 1 lth & Ming0 838-7626
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
*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, POB 1071, 74101-1071 579-9593
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 Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780
*Chamber of Commerce, 616 S. Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PI, & Florence
*Community ofHope United Methodist, 1703 E. 2nd
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation
*Church of the Restoration, 1314 N.Greenwood
*Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31
Dignity/Integrity-Lesbian/Gay Catholics/Episcopal.
*Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo
*FellOwship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard
*Free SpiritWomens Center, call for location &info:
Friend.For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152
Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101
585-1800
749-0595
587-1314
742-2457
298-4648
622-1441
747-7777
587-4669
747-6827
582-0438
b) Kerry Lobel
As I travel the country I amboth heartened and impressed with
the level of energy and expertise of the activists I meet. At the
same time I am aware that weface an increasingly organized and
insidious opposition. We are witnessing an unprecedented wave
of organized and orchestrated intolerance perpetrated by leaders
of the right and targeting our commtmities.
Recently, three major movements have signaled a heating up
of anti-gay rhetoric and mobilization against the gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgendered communities signalinga step,up in,.
the "culture years." The actions and words coming out of these
,~0UI~’ are cause for real concern.
Just last week, the Southern Baptist Convention took the
unusual and extreme step in the name ofpreserving family values
of asking its members to participate in a national boycott of one
of the world’ s most family-oriented corporations. They ask for
the full-scale rejection of Tigger and Mickey because of the
company’s "gay friendly" policies, including domestic parmer
benefits and Ellen’s coming out. They cite Disney’s active
participation in America’s moral decline. Rev. Tom
Elliff,president of the Southern Baptist Convention, referred to
gays as "moral trash."
All summer Promise Keepers will be mobilizing for its massive
gathering of one million Christianmen at the foot of the steps
of the US Capitol this October. see NGLTF, page 3
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education, 1307 E. 38, 2ndfl.
712-1600; HOPE Anonymous HIV Testing Site: 742-2927
TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225
Interfaith AIDS Mimstries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
*MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715
*HIV Resource Ctr., 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 749-4194
NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H- 1 748-3111
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 663~7272
St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cjncirmati.......425-7882
St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 3841 &,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, call for information: 918-456-7900
*Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 918-456-7900
*Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-458-0467
NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand
HIVevery other Tues: 5:30-8:30, call for date
EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
*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
Kings Hi-Way Inn, 62 Kings Hi-way 800-231,1442
Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624~6646
Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501:253~6001
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
*Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave. 501-442~2845
* indicates a distribution point. Listed businesses are not a~,,Gayzpw,,n.~d.
but welcome Lesbian/Gay/Bi & Trans communities,
918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615
POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159
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Entortainmont Writor: James Chfistjohn
Writors+ contributors: Dr. Mike Gorman
Leanne Gross; Barry Hensley &
Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche
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does not indicate a person’s sexual
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The parties will be held in the Evans
Electric Co. warehouse located at 116
North Lansing, right at the edge of downtown
and near Rogers University.
First Volt features dancing, party pictures,
free beer and a cash bar. Tickets can
be pre-purchased through Carson attractions
for $20, or at the door for $25.00.
Last Jolt tickets are $5 at the door. First
Volt tickets include the after-party.
Entertainment will be provided by Matt
Myers, an Oklahoma City DJ, courtesy of
Angles, the prominent Oklahoma City
dance club. And at the ShockWave party,
"the kidz @ black + white charities" are
giving away a trip for two to New Orleans
for the two-day "Halloween in New Orleans"
event the weekend of 10/31/97.
The trip has been donated by Central Park
Luxury Residences. Other ShockWave
sponsors include Pepsi, and Budweiser.
ShockWave will provide security both on
site and in adjacent parking. Proof of age
will be required at the door.
Proceeds from ShockWave will benefit
the Planned Parenthood’s Facts of Life
Line, the HIV Resource Consortium, Int.
(HIVRC), and the RedRock Mental Health
Center’s Oklahoma Rainbow Young
Adults Network (ORYAN).
For more information on ShockWave
call 587-7314 or 800-458-4662 or e-mail
blkwhtprty@AOL.com. In addition, the
kidz @ Black & White Charities have a
web site under construction, check out
black/white.org for further updates.
Metropolitan Community Church-Greater Tulsa’s booth
was one ofabout ten booths at the Tulsa Pride Picnic.
Thesefine women and men, and splendid horses led the
Paul, Espeth andfriends were looking.good, promoting
the upcoming ShockWavepartiesfor Black& White, Inc.
PFLAG, from Bar~lesviile, Tulsa and Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Pride Parade, Sunday, June-22..: werewell repreSentedinOklahomaCity.
_Although they claim to be a movement of Christian men
li~ing theirlives by biblical v~ilues,in fact their le.ad.er~.s~p
is closely linked to rightwing organizations. F0nnd~er B~!~
McCartney has gained national notoriety for his anti-gay
rhetoric, declaring that "homosexuality is an abomination
ofAlmighty God," and that gay people are "curable."
Promise Keepers’ literature itself reads, ’~homosexuality
violates God’ s creative design for a husband and a wife
and is a sin." McCartney made his plans clear when he
said, "Many of you feel like you have been in a war for a
long time, yet the fiercest fighting is just ahead. God has
brought us here to prepare us. Let’s proceed. It’s wartime!"
Finally just a few weeks ago, a conference of rightwing
political activists and academics came together in
Washington, DC at Georgetown University to demonize
the GLBT community in the name of science
andscholarship. The benign sounding conference "Homosexuality
andAmerican Public Life" included a who’s
who of right-wing homophobes including Robert Knight
of the Family Research Council who argues that "there is
a strong undercurrent of pedophilia in the homosexual
subculture." Ex-gay Anthony Falzarano claims that the
gay community "has been working for the last30 years
like an army of termites, secretly eating away the floorboards
of moral integrity inthis country."
Where is the silver lining? Our response to these acts
has been heartening. In rejecting to the boycott, many are
voicing support for Disney and its policies, including
President Clinton. Coalitions are coming together in
cities and towns across the country to expose the true
agenda of the Promise Keepers. And a broad range of
scholars, students, and organizations are coming forward
to challenge the bigotry Of pseudo science.
The more we orgamze our supporters, the more
marginalized the right wing becomes. We must be dear
about our vision.Our country must move into the future
guided on the principles of religious and political pluralism,
freedom, and equality.
The National Gay andLesbian Task Force has worked
to eliminate prejudice, violence and injustice against
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people at the
local, state and national level since its inception in ]973.
NGLTF is located at2320 17th Street NW, Washington,
DC 20009 and on the web at http://www.ngl~.org
order to respect the privacy ofindividuals). He felt a wide
gap existed in today’s society which seems to cater "
almost exclusively to youth- particularly in Lesbian and ."
Gay culture. Woodybegan theBoston Chapterbyplacing
see this page, second column to the right
, WHITE HOUSE
’~-Ga~ & LesblanPrlde Celebration 1997
~ Warm ~reetln~s to all those participating ~n the
1997 Gay and Lesbian Pride Celebration.
ThrouChout America’s history, we have overcome
tremendous challenges by drawln¢ strenCth
from our Crest diversity. We must never hdleve
that our diversity is a weakness. The talents.
eontribntlons, and ~oodwill of people from so many
different haek~rounds have enriched our national
llfe and have enabled us to fidfill oureommon hopes
and dreams. As we stand at the dawn of a new
century, we all must rededleate ourselves to reaehin
the vital ~oals of acceptance and ineluslon.
Amerlea’s eontlnued success will depend on our
ability to understand, appreeiate, and care for one
We’re not there yet, and that is why our efforts
to end discrimination a~alnst Lesbians and Gay
men are so important. Like each of you, I remain
dedleated to endln~ dlserlrninatlon and preservln~
the elvll riChts of every eltlzen in our soeiety. We
have he~un to wa~e an all-out eampai~n a~alnst
hate erlmes in America - Crimes that are often
vieiously dlreeted at Gay men and Lesbians. I have
also endorsed and fouCht for elvll riChts le~islatinn
that would protect Gay and Lesbian Amerleans
from discrimination. The Employment Non- Diserimlnation
Act now beln¢ eonsldered in Contess
would put an end to discrimination a~alnst Gay
men and Lesbians in the workplace - discrimination
that is currently legal in a9 states. These
efforts reflect oar belief in the riCht of every
American to be ~d~ed on his or her merits and
abilifi~, and to be allowed to eantribute to soeiety
without raCine discrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation. And they reflect our on¢oln~ fiCht
a~alnst bigotry and intolerance in our eountry and
in our hearts.
My Administration’s record of ineluslveness is a
stron~ one, but it is a record to build on. I am proud
of the many openly Gay men and Lesbians who
serve with dlstlnetlon in my Administration, and
their impact will eontlnue to he significant in the
years ahead. I pledge to you that I will eontlnue
strivin~ to foster eompasslon and ~-~lerstandln~,
workin~ not simply to tolerate our differences, but
to celebrate them.
Best wishes for a memorable edekratlon.
- Bill Clinton
JeffCowanjoins Father RickHollingsworth at the booth
for the Parish Church ofSaint Jerome.
A number of not-exclusively Gay Organizations, like
Amnesty International, shown here, also marched.
ads in local newspapers and soliciting hiS many friends.
He expected only a small handful ofmen to attend the first
meeting and was surprised when over40 showed up. This
indicated the need for a social and, cultural organization
to aid and support older Gay and Bisexual men. There are
now over fifty chapters throughom North America and
Europe. Oklahoma has two of these’chapters: Tulsa Area
Prime Timers and Central Oklahoma Prime Timers in
Oklahoma City.
Tulsa Area Prime Timers (TAPT) was started in August
of 1993. TAPT meets on the first Sunday of each
month at the Pride Center, 38th and South Peoria at 4 pm.
A newsletter, Prime News, is published monthly including
a calendar of that month’ s events.
Some activities the Tulsa chapter will enjoy this summerinclude:
a day trip to Spring Creek for swimming and
sun bathing followed by dinner at the Country Cupboard
in Locust Grove, and a fourth anniversary cocktail and
dinner party celebrating the chapter’s beginning. Other
monthly activities have included, dinning out, Prime
Diners, card night, video night, and day trips such as the
:. Morrow Mansion in Ponca City. During a cool fall
¯ evening thirty-five TAPT’ers.had dinner at the Amish
: farm in Choteau. Guests have visited during the monthly
: meeting speaking on subjects particular to Gay lives.
The opportunity to build friendships all across the USA
:. and the World is possible through attending activities
sponsored by other chapters and Prime Timers World
Wide. These activities include the bi-yearly World Wide
Cowcention (1997, Palm Springs, CA,) and the Labor
Day Weekend, (1997, Oklahoma City, OK).
Formoreinformation about the Tulsa chapter, call 743-
4297 or write: Tulsa Area Prime Timers at POB 52118
Tulsa, OK 74152-0118 or e:mail wesomer@gorilla.net.
the appeals court said. The New York case is one of
several around the nation challenging the policy, which
the Clinton administration adopted in 1993 as a compromise
between the views ofGay civil-rights advocates and
those flatly opposed to Gays in the military.
The Clinton administration will appeal the rejection of
its "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy. Asked recently if the
Justice Department would appeal the riding that the
policy violates the rights of Gays to participate equally in
nationai defense, Attorney General Janet Rent told reporters,
"Yes, it will." She did not elaborate.
Montana Court Voids
’Sodomy’L.0w ,
HELENA (AP)-The Montana Supreme Court threw
out the state’ s 24-year-oldban on homosexual sex.In
a unanimous decision, the court said the law violates
the constitutional right to privacy and that governmenthas
no business in the private sexual relations of
consenting adults - no matter what gender. The
majority acknowledged that many in society may
frown on homosexual acts. But it said that does not
give the state authority to infringe on a basic right of
citizens - to be left alone in their sexual behavior with
a consenting partner.
The court also said the government.can show no
interest in ontlawing.homosexual sex~th.at.outweighs
Montana’s right~o pfi’~acy: ChiefJusticeffeanTnhiage
concurred Jn the rest~,t blit~ not: in ~lie i~eas0ning,~ H’e
said the law should be overturned because the ban
does not provide equal protection for all Montanans
- not because it violates anyone’ s privacy.
Tennessee Students
Want Anti-Bias Policy
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gay students at the
University of Tennessee say a personal statement
from the chancellor is fine, but they’d rather have a
change in the school’s anti-discrimination policy.
Since last year, the students have been petitioning the
school to include language in its policy that protects
them from prejudice. The policy includes race, sex,
color, religion, national origin, age, disability and
veteran status-as reasons for which the university
cannot discriminate against individuals. Sexual preference
is not mentioned.
: UT Charicellor Bill Snyder is revising his personal
statement on campu~ diversity to clarify that all types
oY discrimination, including that associated with their
sexual orientation, will not be tolerated. "We have a
commitment to enhancement, tolerance and accep,
tance of diversity of all forms. We’ re trying to change
¯ cate school children about differences among people,
: including Gays and Lesbians, which drew fire from
: much of the community. Newman’ S book, which tells
¯¯ of ayoung girl beingraised by tw~Eesbians, was part
of the curriculum’s suggested reading.
¯ Atameeting at the University ofArkansas,Newman
¯ said she was considered by some to be the "most ¯
¯ dangerous writer living inAmerica today" because of
the book. But she said parents shouldn’ t feel threat-
" ened by the book; it doesn’ t promote sex of any kind.
¯ She said the book is about families and wasn’t in-
" tended to "recruit" anyoneinto the gay commumty.
¯ "The most important thing about a family is that all
¯ the people in it love each other," the book concludes.
¯ Newman chastised groups who criticized this con-
" clusion. She sarcastically.referred tcr "outlandish"
;: behavior promoted in the book sudi~S-goingto the
"." park and eatingdinner together._Newman said schools
¯ .need to go further than just condemning violence.
¯ They need to stress cultural education to ensure that
." violence doesfft happen at all, she said. While par-
: ents of heterosexual children may feel it doesn’t
¯ affect them, Newman said, numerous children have
: been beaten before simply because they were thought
¯ to be. gay, but weren’ t. "It’ s everybody’ S problem,"
¯ she said of the violence.
¯ Anti-Bias Policy Debated
: YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) - In the coming days,
: restaurants, stores, inns and other businesses where
¯ most gay people spend money will get cards from
customers. They are pink in color, and very pointed in
: theirmessage. "Thank youforservingme,"theyread.
: "Did you know that it is legal for your business in
Ypsilanti to discriminate against me?"
Scores of gay people in Ypsilanfi are getting ready
¯
for another skirmish in the batde to enact an ordi-
¯ nance to protect them against discrimination. "We’re
going to blanket this city,’.’ gay activist Charles Duty,
~ 42, told the Detroit Free Press. "This is going-to be a
~ movement that involves every single person in
¯ Ypsilanti that believes discrimination is wrong."
attitudes, behavior," Snyder said.
Graduate student Dawn Becker Duncan is 0he.of ."
those: who pushed for an amen,.dment to the school’ s ¯
. policy. She said.the chancellor s personal statement :
is awatered-d0Gcn version of the ~inti-disCriminati0n :
policy,-but may serve its :ulti,mate purpose:’~Alot of :
peoplewho have been discnminated against on that-?
basis we:re not omfortable filing a complai,n,t because: :
the), didn’t feel .they.. hadany protection, ~ Duncan ~:
said. "A student will see those words in wrldngfrom ¯
the chancellor and. may be more .likely .to come out ,
and file a complaint.’" .
Students like Duncan originally hoped UT would."
join theranks of Vanderbilt University inNashville, ¯
which offers.Lesbians and Gay men, along.with other :
mino,,fi,ty groups; formal protection from di~crimina- .
tion. Vanderl~ilt University is Committed to the prin- ."
ciple of non-discrimination on the basis of being, or
being perceived as, homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual,"
the -private university’ s policy reads.
Snyder said he tried to institute a policy like
Vanderbilt’s, but failed after UTlawyers advised him
to follow state precedent. "I know a lot of schools
have doneit, but I’m told by the legal people that if
there should be a lawsuit one day, the schools would
not prevail because there is not a legal standing of
protection against discrimination on the basis of
sexual~orientation. "Personally, I would have no
problem including the statement anyway." Snyder’s
personal statement is set to be published and circulated
across campus during the upcoming fall semester.
"2 Mommies" Author
Still On The Defensive
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Leslea Newman,
whose children’s book started a debate years ago over
homosexuality and school instruction, finds herself
still defending her work.
"Heather Has Two Mommies" became central to a
New York City School District controversy five
years ago when the district piloted the "Rainbow
Curriculum." The curriculum was intended to edu-
And when the Ypsilanti City Council meets on
Tuesday, gays and their supporters will be there,
clamoring for the council to adopt a pending proposal
on the. matter. Last week, Ypsilanti’ sHuman Rda:
tions Commission voted 5-4 to reject a proposal that
wouldhave piotected gay peoplefrom discrimination
in all: Of t~ieir dealings with the city. But ithe
commission’ s recommendations are nonbinding
The cit)’ alread.y has an ordinance that forbids
discrimination against gay people in housing and in
large city. contracts - but many bdieve that isn’t
enough. In February, Tri-Pride, a small dubof"gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgendered" social work
students at Eastern Michigan University, approached
a print shop to print raffle tickets. But Owners Loren
and Carole Hansen, devout Baptists, said taking the
job would violate their consciences as Christians.
Since then, the dispute has rippled through the city,
with demonstrations and counter-demonstrations.
Councilwoman S.A. Trudy Swanson told the Free
Press that someone will be vexed by the council’s
vote. "This is a no-win situation," Swanson said.
"They’re going to have to meet us halfway. We’re
going to have to come together and reach some kind
of middle ground."
Gay Asylum Case
: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court
¯ revived a lesbian’s, political asylum case, saying
Russian prosecutors’ ~fforts to forcibly "cure" her
: homosexuality amounted to persecution. The 9th
: U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a government
¯ might subject a particular group to persecution even
" if it asserts benign motives. Using an example from
¯ the 13th century, it cited the Spanish Inquisition,
¯ which claimed to save souls by burning bodies. ¯
"Persecution by any other name remains persecu-
: tion," said Judge Betty Fletcher in the 3-0 ruling
Tuesdayjoined by Judges Charles Wiggins and The-
¯ mas Nelson. ’’The fact that a persecutor believes the
¯ harm he is inflicting is good for his victim does not
¯ make it any less painful to the victim."
The court didnot decide whether Alia Pitcherskaia,
35, was eligible for asylum but told the U.S. Board of
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Anti-Gay GroUps Fight to
Recall Anti-Bias Law
AUGUSTA,Maine (A£)-Twoanti-gay-rishts groups
officially ]ricked off a campaisn Friday to gather
enough siguamres to halt a bill pro~dbiting cecmin
forms of discrimination agarnst Gays. "We can do
this," said Paul Voile, e×ecutive director of the Christian
Coalition of Maine. ’%he organization has come
together. It’ s vet7 possible that we will get more than
52,000 siguatur~s."
The coalition is wor]dng with the Christian Civic
League of Maine to collect the sis~atures of more
than 5],000 ceYdfied voters wit~a 90 days. If the
Stoups succeed, the bill passed by the Le#slature
must go to a statewide vote. Lawmakers in May
approved a measure that prohibits discrimination
against gays in housing, public accommodations,
employment and credit. Gov. Angus King sisned it a
f~w days later with much farLfare.
The two CKdsdan orgamzations oppose homo=
se×uality on moral grounds. Michael Heath, e×ecutire
director of the Chi’Jstian Civic League, has called
homose×ualiW "a morally i~ppropdate versmn of
human se×ual~tythat is properly stismatized by civilized
cultures."
Rouse Speaker F.]izabeth Mitcbd] called the refer=
e~dum effort "misguided ana wrons., i I am firudy
convinced that civil rights laws should protect, all
~eople, regardless of se×ual orientation," the
assalbor6 Democrat said "Our laws should not
permit somcoue to be ~red from ajob or refused a seat
iP.# restaurant or demed a barLk 10an merely because
of Lheir sexual oneatadon." t-{ca& said he has ac~eved
his goal of sig~ng up 1.000 vo]umeers who agreed to.
~6]iCit 60 signatures each.
Whitewaterl nvestigators
DoAnti-Gay Witch.Hunt?
WASHINGTON (AP) -Interior Department official
Bob H.attoy says his two-hour grilling with Whitewater
investigators was "something out of the McCarthy
era" when.questions swung to hisrecruitment Of gays
for government jobs. Hattoy said two Whitewater
prosecutors and an FBI agent probing payments to
fallen presidential friend Webster Hubbell questioned
Hattoy for two hours in April about whether he
attended any fund-raisers or helped Hubbell’s wife
get ajob at Interior. Hattoy is White House liaison for
the Interior Department and an activist who spoke
movlingly~ibOut livil~g withAIDS at the i"992 Democratic
convention.
Early in the interview, investigators switched gears
_ap_d asked Hattoy about his fo,.r~,,er job in the White
blouse personnel officc,;he Said/ All of&~uddenthey
said~ ’By the way, one of your jobs w~:t6 hire
homosexuals,,m, thehighestpos~laonsmgovernment,
Hattoy said. They said, "’Do you thiilk you were
successful?"’ Hattoy said the "question was way off
the subject. I was appalled. It chilled me.
Debbie Gershman, a spokeswomanfor Whitewater
Independent Counsel Kenneth Start, declined comment
Wednesday. Prosecutors found themselves in
the midst of an uproar Wednesday about their tactics
after reports about them questioning Arkansas troopers
about PresidentClinton’ s personal life and whether
he had extramarital affairs.
Minnesota: Anti-Gay
Hate Crimes On Rise
ST. PAUL (AP) - A gay rights organization says
reports ofhate crimes based on sexual orientation are -
on the rise in Minnesota, although its numbers are 5
times higher than those authorities have collected.
The Gay and Lesbian Community Action Council
documented 227 reports of hate crimes last year, a 4
percent increase from 1995, according to the report
released Wednesday. "The reports continue to be
more violent with each passing year and the number
of victims affected by these incidents continues to
dramatically rise," said Constance Potter, coordina-
I£r..fOro the~ gtot!p~ s anti.-yiolen~ program........
:j Thegn.urn_b~rs :werei ~0mpiled from~reports to the
organization~ s Minneapolis offic~e, it~ Anti=Violence
Program - which tracks crimes against Gays - its
helpline and its Legal Advocacy Program. Neither
the report nor officials were able to pinpoint why
reported crimes increased. Potter speculated more
incidents were reportedbecause ofanincreasedprominence
of Gays in the Twin Cities.
Theoffenses were concentrated in theseven-county
Fwin Cities metro area and ranged from hate mail to
assaults. The number of victims increased 15 percem
from 268 in 1995 to 307 last year, the report said. But
the numbers contrast with the incidents noted by
police who said only 46 anti-Gay crimes’ were re--
ported last year. "We know the fear of social and
systematic revictimization prevents many gay community
members from coming forwardy Potter said.
France May Recognize
Same-Sex Unions
PARIS (AP) - France on Tuesday took a small step
toward legalizing unions between loving couples, be
they homosexual or unwed heterosexuals, with a
~oup of leftist lawmakers presenting a proposal to
put such unions on a par with marriage.
Socialist Premier .Lionel Jospin, appointed earlier
this month, had promised durinff the .campaign for
parliamentary elections to set aright what is.perceived
by many as an anachronism in the laW.books concerning
couples. The Socialists had filedz ~imilar proposal
Feb. 3, before a leftist coalition came to power
with their victory in June 1 parliamentary elections.
The proposed new status for couples is expected to be
taken up by the parliament this fall:
’q’hat is a commitment we made, andwe will keep
it." Justice Minister Elisabeth Guigou said in an
interview publishedin Tuesday’ s edid on.ofthe newspaper
Le Monde. "The homosexuals-have raised the
issue, but they are not the only ones concerned.. We
cannot lump together all unions between two people
under the single institution of mamage?
Deputy Jean-Pierre Michel submitted hi~,l~roposal
to the National Assembly on Tuesday. Itwas backed
by his Citizens Movement party and the Greens party.
The proposed "contract of civil and, social union"
covers everything from health insurance to inheritance
to, yes_, taxes. In 15 years, the number of marriages
per year has fallen by 30 percent, the number
of births outside marriage has doubled ,and homosexuals
increasingly seek the life ofa eouple, Michel
and colleagues said. "These evolutions reflect a profound
change ofattitudes and behavior... But, outside
o;f,mamage, the;re is no legal framew,ork for thesenew
forms of social bonds," the lawmakers said.
A group representing,homosexuals, Lesbian and
Gay Pride, saluted the proposed bill. "It’s a law for
every couple, homosexual or not;" said the group’s
president, Jean-Sebastian Thirard. "Its universality is
its feature.
c~th61ic Families A~ss:ocm": ta"’~on: ~ sa~" d i"n:~.a..s..t.a.tement,
the~proppsal would:~lead to "discouii~ m~a~s"
cre~itilig ,sham famili~s."’Only mamage 6an gi~e a
chii’d ’~the means to structure himself and become a
citizen," the group said. Homosexual couples can
transmit inheritances, in a private act in front of a
notary, it added. Likewise, the conservative Association
for the Promotion of the Family said it was
"totally opposed" to suchlegislation, whichit claimed
would have "heavy consequences" for traditional
families.
Y
Each Day 1 K More
Children with HIV
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - At le~t a
thousand childrgn are contracting the
AIDS virus each day, according to a U.N.
report that warns of sharp increases in
deaths among children unless immediate
steps are taken.
There were some 400,000 new HIV
cases involving children under 18 last
year, and some 350,000 children died of
AIDS, the disease caused by HIV, the
Geneva-based group UNAIDS said in its
report released Friday. The report did not
supply comparable statistics ,f.,o,rprevious
ye,~rs, but said tJdo~il~ imdLq" 18 a~e!dlie’ri~
[.l~e fastest-growing~ groups’bf AIDS vic-’~
rims. It warned of big increases ininfant
mortality due to the disease or rates of
death for children less than 5 years old -
especially in developing countries where
thereis alack ofmedicine and health care.
In some regions of the world~ those rates
would increase by as much as 75 percent
by the year 2000 unless there is immediate
medical intervention, UNAIDS executive
director Peter Pitt said.
AIDS is spread most often by sexual
contact, bycdntimainated syringes or exposure
to infected blood. But children
often contract the disease from their mothers
- either in the womb or through
breastfeeding, the rei~ort said. "Anything
that affects dhildren’hffects half of society,"
said Elizabeth’ Mataka, director of
the Zambia-based iidn-profit group Family
Health Trust. In’Zambia, about half of
infant AIDS victims i:tieby the age of two,
Mataka said. In E~ope, by contrast, 80
percent of chi_’ldren With AIDS reach their
third birthday.
Antibiotics Could
Reduce HIV Spread
LONDON (AP) - Antibiotics could help
reduce the spread of AIDS in Africa,
according to a U.S. study that showed that
they dramatically lower, the level of the
virus in tlie seraPh’of men also infected
with sexually transmitted diseases The
scientists reached their conclusion after
studying a group of 135 HIV:positive
men,mostofsufferingfrom sexually transmitted
diseases such as gonorrhea, in the
African nation of Malawi.
TheUniversity ofNorth Carolina study,
published Friday in the British medical
journal The Lancet, found that when
treated promptly with antibiotics to fight
the less serious diseases, the level of HIV
in the semen dropped considerably. The
results are significant because scientists
have known for some time that a lower
level of HIV, the agent that causes AIDS,
in semen reduces the likelihood that the
virus will be transmitted during sexual
intercourse.
The Malawi project was the first largescale
study to demonstrate quantitatively
that antibiotics sharply redqce the HIV
content in semen, said Dr. MyronS. Cohen,
ofthe University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel
Hill, Department of Medicine. "We are
never going to say to an individual," Now
you are at longer contagious,"’ Cohen
said in a telephone interview. "But if you
treat the whole popularion aggressively to
try and reduce the level of HIV in genital
secretions, the end result will be les s HIV."
AIDS is prevalent in Malawi and other
African nations, where the disease is transmitted
predorninanfly via heterosexual
sex. "Weare trying to understand why the
AIDS epidemic in Africa has been so
devastating," Cohen a~d.. Maybe~t sas
si.mple as that the concentration of the
v~rus in the genital secretions is higherthat’s
the hypothesis:"
Withresearchers at Malawi’ sLilongwe
Central Hospital, the American doctors
measured HIV levels in the semen of the
135 patients. Of the group, 86 suffered
gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted
diseases. Members of this group were
each given one dose of an antibiotic that
cures gonorrhea in four hours, while the
rest received nothing.
Before treatment, the HIV level in the
semen of the 86 men was eight times
higher than that in the sem~ep,of the 49., .the,
’ sta~dy: s~d.7~tdi"t~:’. w’~k~~ the HIV:
level in thd ~dinen ofthemen treated wifli
antibiotics hadfallen so dramatically there
was virtually no difference between the
two groups, said Cohen. At the same rime,
the level of HIV infection in the blood of
both groups remained the .same.
AIDS Drug
Company Boycott?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -AIDS activists
and city officials who claim Glaxo
Wellcome is holding back a promising
HIV drug are boycotting the company’s
biggest money-maker, the antacidZantac.
The dispute centers on a drug known as
1592, which both activists and Glaxo say
.appears far more powerful and less toxic
than AZT and 3TC, two HIV drugs also
made by the London-based drug giant.
Activists say Glaxo~ which has its U.S.
headquarters at Research Triangle Park,
N.C., has been slow to market 1592 to
protect its $441 million in annual AZT
sales - a charge the company denies.
"What I find repulsive is that as they’re
taking their time, people are dying," said
city Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who
authored a resolution that would put San
Francisco on record in support of the
boycott. "I lost my lover of 18 years to
AIDS ... To drag your feet is inexcusable.
~Jlaxospokeswoman RamonaJones
said there is "absolutely no truth" to the
group’s allegations about 1592. ’;We don’ t
have any data that this will have any effect
in people in advanced stages of the disease,"
she said-. "And there is a very lira!
!ted amount of the drug available. There’ s
just not enough to give it to everyone in
that category."
Glaxo will shorflymake 1592 available
to about 2,500 children and adults under
theFoodand DrugAdministration’s "compassionate
use" program. But that’s not.
enough, said Jeff Getty, an AIDS activist
who underwent a failed baboon bone
marrow transplant. An estimated 10,000
people who have built up resistance to
AZT or calmot take the drug should get
1592 under the FDA’s "expanded access"
program, he said. "Glaxo Wellcome takes
millions of dollars in profits from people
with AIDS yet doesn’t have the decency
to show adequate compassion by allowing
earlyaccess to drugs," Getty said.
Hoping to inflict maximum damage,
the activists targeted a drug that accounts
for nearly $3 billion of the company’s S 13
billion in sales. Zantac loses its exclusive
patent protection next month, but a legal
dispute between two generic drug makers
may leave Glaxo as the only manufacturer
beyond then.
The drug 1.592, known generically as
abacavir, was first isolated nine years ago,
Jones said. but wasn’t rigorously tested
until the end of 1995 because other compounds
looked moreprolmsing. Since then
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Are you stressed out, feeling a little on
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A: Well, I’d say modem day existence
¯¯ spouse or yourself) seems to possess.
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by nature - extrapolate these as you will.
Q: What does stress do to us (our bodies)
physiologically andpsychologically?
A: I must touch on the physiological
aspect first in order to help you understand
the psychological changes. As we
start to take on and accumulate stress (it
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The chemical changes that occur
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Corlisol is released from the adrenal gland
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"As medical researchers, we have
an obligation to make sure we understand
the safety and efficacy ofa drug before we
make it available to people in large numbers,"
she said.
The delay may be due in part to Glaxo’s
$14.8 billion buyout ofWellcome PLC in
1996, said James Rooney, who ran a
Wellcome clinical studies department
before the merger, and is now a vice
president of Gilead Sciences Inc. in Foster
City, Calif. Many Wellcome research
managers who shepherded the drug
through early trials lost their jobs in the
takeover. Scientists believe that 1592’s
chief valuemay be in the three-drug "cocktails"
now commonly used to treat the
AIDS virus, possibly as a replacement for
AZT.
Southern Baptist
Pastor Hit By AIDS
AUSTIN (AP) - The_Rev. Jimmy Allen
saw his family devastated twice: First by
AIDS, then by the intolerance of the
churches they turned to for solace. His
daughter-in-law, who got AIDS from a
blood transfusion, died. His two grandsons,
infected before birth," died. One,
who lived to be 13, was turned away from
at least seven church Sunday schools during
his short life,.His son Scott, who said
he was fired from his job as a Christian
church rmmster in Colorado after telling
his semor pastor of his wife’s infection,
has turned to Eastern religion. Another
son, Skip, is Gay and has the AIDS virus.
Jimmy Allen remains a Southem Baptist.
Churches are changing for the better,
.he says. Not fast enough, but his missaon
is to help them along that learning curve
of compassion. "Fear is the great problem,
and fear.comes out of ignofaiice or
not knowing. Fear also comes out ofjudgmental
attitudes," said Alien; the preaching
chaplain for a mnlti-denominational
church in Georgia who retaifi~ i~is membership
in the First Baptist Church in
Arlington, Texas.
Allen spoke recently at a T~iis Conference
onsexually transmitted diseases. "We
have moved toward a self-centeredness in
our congregations across America. We’re
more interested in how many people we
get in the room, and how the activities are
going at the bowling alley and the basketball
games. All ofwhich are OK, but ...
we’re not giving oursdves away in the
way we ought to," he said. "I’m asking
churches to come back to that base of
-compassion" and go to the people who are
hurting most, he said. "Because I think if
Jesus were in our town, this day, right
now, that’s where he would be."
Allen recounts posative changes he’s
seen: He and Scott last year went to the
Colorado church that fired his son for an
AIDS awareness program. He recently
visited several Black churches that are
working to prevent AIDS and to support
those with AIDS. And, he said, "Every
congregation that rejected us now has an
AIDS program. Theyhave supportgroups.
¯ . . All of that has come out of that
experience."
Allen, who wrote the book "Burden of
a " ’ ¯ ’ ¯
~ Secret about his family s ordeal, as a
Iormer president of the Southern Baptist
Convention.
by James Christjohn
Hello, folks. I’m baaaack! Lots more
views and reviews, of life, love, and music.
Not necessarily in that order. Mother
has survived her cancer and her surgery
and is just as rob.an and ornery as ever,
Pity.
I’.vebeen collecting some
music to share - First off,
LINDA EDER has a new
CDoutcalled "IT’ S TIME",
and it is wonderful. It’s the
perfect CD to share WiLll
that significant other, or potential
significant other. If
you’re not into masochism,
listen to it alone and imagine.
the perfect Sig Oth. Her
voIceis similar to Streisand,
only better. Streisand is
great in terms of technical
perfection, but I find her
music lacks feeling, particularly
in her later albums.
Eder’s voice captures the
perfection and adds theemotional
punch that Streisand
lacks. Her songs .are well
selected standards to be, and
the perfect music for romance.
She mixes a little
jazz, a little cabaret, and a
little pop with a dose of
Broadway for good measure.
My favorite song is "I
Want More", an upbeat ode
to the fact that romance is
sometimes forgotten or ne-
.glected. "I want more relating
and less debating" has
become my new anthem.
The other songs are perfect
for starting a romance, commumcating
about feelings
you can’t quite verbalize
("Hear, dear, listen to
this..."), or rekindling an old
flame.
ERASURE’s new CD "COWBOY"
gives us the reliable beat of the dance
flOor mixed with intelligent lyricism (for
those who actually listen to the lyrics).
More love-oriented songs, with a different
beat. "RAIN", the first track, could
easily become an anthem for the equal
fights movement as well as a more personal
love song. For the cynics among us,
"Boy" decries the anger of love’s labor
lost, as Andy sings "These years of love
and giving surely must be something to
you/still you dare to change your mind,
you’ll be sorry when it’s over". Something
f~r everyone. And all extremely
danceable.
BERNADETTE PETERS recorded
"SONDHEIM, ETC.", a concert benefiting
the Gay Men’s Health Crisis at
Carnegie Hall, and it’s a hoot! She coyly
flirts, with the audience, toying with the
imagery of herself as a Lesbian. Her singing
of Sondheim’s "Johanna" from
SweeneyToddis given awholenew twist,
as she does not change the gender of the
song, which is originally about a man’s
love for Johanna. ,Making Love Alone",
and ode to the joys of masturbation is a
must-hear for its hilarity. And when she
.sings "Hello, Little Girl" (which the wolf
m "Into The Woods" sings as he is about
to devour Little Red Riding Hood - it’s
.full of double-entendres), without changing
genders, the result gives a whole new
spin to the song and it’s context in the
show. In all, one of the best concerts on
¯ CD with Ms. Peters reaching out and
¯" holding the audience in the palm of her
hand - so to speak...
¯ The soundtrack to POLTERGEIST has
: been remixed, remastered and re-released
¯ on CD and it is perfect for those dark
She _
:.Peter.s].......
, eoyiy flirts, with
the audlenee,
toyln with the
imagery or hersel
as a Leshlan.
He, sln i.n , or
Sondhelm s
"Johannd’ from
Sweeney Todd is
iven a whole
new ~s~, ~ she
does ehan e
son , whleh
o inally agou
lov
"Mahln Love
Alone", an ode
joys
m urgaGon is
a muse-hear
its hila~ty
stormy evenings when you
want to scare your parmer
into your arms. It’s one of
Jerry Goldsmiths most un-
. .d..e.rs~ t,ate.d,,~yqt powerful
scores. Quite frankly, it’s
the nlost memorable thing
about thatfilm. MAUREEN
MCGOVERN has a new
CD out entitled "The MUSIC
NEVER ENDS", and
it’s comprised of standards
composed by Alan and
Marylin Bergman. It is wonderful
to hear her interpretation
of classics like "How
Do You Keep The Music
Playing", "It Might Be
You", "The Windmills Of
YourMind", and "TheWay
We Were". She gives a
slightly jazzy feding to
these classics, making old
songs new again.
SARAH MCLACHLAN
has a new album coming
out July 15, and FLEETWOOD
MAC (Lindsey
Buckingham, Stevie Nicks,
Christine McVie, John
McVie, and Mick Fleetwood)
will have the CD recording
of their MTV UNPLUGGED
special available
on August 12.. They
will be touring in September.
Durmo about you, but
I’ll be in Dallas When they
swing through there.
PANSY DIVIS ION has
a new album due out August
12 as well. "More Lovin’ From Our
Oven" i s the title. Andno, l’m not kidding.
And from the vaults, Rhino records is
releasing an Ethel Merman collection July
15.
For those who are into obscure movie
musicals (Hey, I liked this one!), Rhino is
re-releasing the soundtrack to the 1973
musical version of "Lost Horizon" August
19. And there are rumors that"Young
Frankenstein" soundtrack will be remastered
and re-released on CD soon.
Broken Arrow Community playhouse
has announced their new season and it
looks like a winner. "The Rainmaker"
comes to Tulsa in September, "Once Upon
A Mattress" plays in December, "The
Owl and the Pussycat" make rhymes in
February, "The Dresser" helps dress up
the stage in March and April (Exactly
what is his relationship to the aging star,
eh?), and much is made of "The Importance
of Being Earnest" in
, May.One of
Oscar Wilde s best farces, in tile opinion
of this author, and a show that is not to be
missed. Li’l Abner yodels inJune, and the
bonus is a reenactment of the radio show
that scared the world in 1933 - "War Of
The Worlds". (You mean, you get to hold
the script during the show? Maybe I’ll
audition for that one!) For more info on
tickets, or better yet, season tickets, call
the BACP at 258-0077.
Last but not least, enjoy a true Tulsa
tradition of a picnic followed by classic
film on the lawn at Philbrook. It’s a fun
and affordable way to spend an evening!
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Outside Tulsa 1-800-776-7071. Public Servke C0mpany 0f 01dah0ma
"ii-i~ ~~Central aMSouth West Company
~ SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Communityof Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - 11am, 1703 E. 2nd, 749-0595
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Adult Sunday School, 9:15 Service, 11 am, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
Metropolitan Community Church ,of Greater Tulsa-
’ Service, !0:45am, 1623 North Maplewood,!nfo: 838-1~i5
PrimeTimers
Social group for men, 1st Sun/each mo. 4-6pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
University of Tulsa BisexuaULesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance
Not active this summer. Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
~ MONDAYS
HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testang. No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm Results: 7-gpm, Info: 742-2927
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Guys
2nd Mon/each m0. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Gay &Lesbian Book Discussion Group, Borders Bookstore
1st Morgea. mo., 7:30pro, 2740 E. 21st, 712-9955, Aug: Obejas’ Memory Mambo
Womens Literature Discussion Group, Borders, 3rd Mon/ea. mo., 7:30pm
Mixed Volleyball, 6:30pro, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 587-6557
Unity Lambda Al-anon, 7:30pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~" TUESDAYS
Lesbian Mothers Support Group, 2nd+4th Tues/ea. mo. 7pm, 1307 E. 38th
HIV+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium 1:30 pm
4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-l, Info: Wanda @ 749-4194
Shanti-Tulsa, Inc, HIV’AIDS Support Group, and Friends & Family HIV/AIDS
Support Group - 7 pm, Locations, call: 749-7898
~" WEDNESDAYS
Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pin 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Family OfFaith MCC PraiseiPrayer-6:3Opm, Choir-7:30,5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
TNAAPP, Talsa Native American AIDS Prevention Project
GayiBi Native American Mens Group, 6 pro, , 1703 E. 2nd, 582-7225, 584-4983
TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for scheduled events.
Info: 631-7632 or Jeremy at 712-1600
~= THURSDAYS
Co-Dependency Support Group - 7:30 Family of Faith, 5451E S. Mingo, 622-1441
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm, Results: 7 - 9pm, Info: 742-2927
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support/social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 663-7272
Tulsa Family Chorale, Weekly practice - 9:30pm, 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 withHIV/AIDS 4154 S Harvard,
Ste. G, 3-4:30pm, Info: 74%4194
I~" FRIDAYS
SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, 1 st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th
Arts Coffeehouse, Poetry readings & art display, June 20th, 8-10pro, Pride Ctr.,
Call Mary for more information: 743-6740
I~" SATURDAYS
St. Jerome’s Church, Mass - 6 pm Garden Chapel, 3841 S. Peoria, Info: 742-6227
Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pro, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Fun Night at the Center, July 12th & 26th, 6-10pro, Pride Ctr. Info: 743-4297
SENSES, Society for ExploringNew Sensations, Educating & Socializing
July 19, 6-8pm, Info, call Kathy at 743-4297 ’-
!~" OTHER GROUPS
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222
WomensSupper Club, 7pro, July 23 at Jasons Deli, 15th & Peoria in Lincoln Plaza
Call for info: 584-2978
OK Spoke Club, Gay& Lesbian Bike Organization. Rides: Short Rides, 7/9 +
7/23, 6:30pro; Long Rides, 7/12 + 7/19, 7am. Info: POB 9165, 74157
All rides start at Ziegler Park Recreation Center, 3903 W. 4th St.,
Ifyour event or organization is not listed, please let us know.
Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615.
Read All About It! ¯ America PFLAG members discussing
Reviewed by Barry Hensley ~ their journeys toward acceptance of their
Tulsa City-County Library ¯ children. Parents are told to forget every-
Here are two terrific ne~ books~to.he!p- : " thing, they learned growing up abou~masparents
-come t0:~i~s ~with~ ;: ~ ~ .:-:~ !-: . "-~ :- ’"/~ ..~ -~Uiifi~ ~d f~hih~:=~6’-’
their adult children who are ~ ~’W~bile lift a :ty~e’s: "~ ’ -
¯ fea~s of parents to rest, With middle
living"alternate lifestyles?’, book exeluslvely
While not a book exclusively
forGay or Lesbian situations,
Caplan’s book contains
valuable information for
parents of Gays and Lesbians
as well as children who have
joined unfamiliar religious
groups, become vegetarians
or chosen any other tmconventional
way of living. This
book attempts to "bridge the
gap of alienation and separation"
between parents and
children. Itis notamanual on
rescuing, deprogramming or
kidnapping a child from their
lifestyle.
Helping parents to understand
that their relationship
with their child is more important
than being "right" is
-the major thread running
through this book. The chapters
guide parents through
their emotions, including
"’When You First Find Out",
"Approaching Your Son or
Daughter", "Social Stereotypes
and Cultural Conditionfor
Gay or
Lesbian
situations~
Caplan’s booh
contains
valuable
information for
~rents of
ays.and
Lesbmns
as well as children
who have.~.olned
unfam,liar
religious groups,
become
vegetarians or
ChOSen any
other
uneonventlonal
way of living.
ing", "How To Support When You Don’t
Agree", and "Letting Go and Looking
Ahead". In these days of "family values,"
this book encourages differing family
members to stay together and search for
common ground.
Griffin’s book, a revised edition of
Beyond Acceptance, attempts to put the
Tulsa attorney, Kerry Lewis, who attended
the dinner, applauded the formation
of the organization but raised concerns
about how better to involve legal
professionals outside the Oklahoma City
area. He noted that he was actively working
to get more attorneys in Northeast
Oklahoma involved.
For more information, call.OKC attorney
Jane Eulberg at 405-340-1957, or
Kerry Lewis at 582-1173.
Affinity News.’ back door is 450 feetfrom
the Church.
However, owner Lee Gregory is challenging
the City’s characterization of the
business as sexually oriented. He notes
that Affinity News sells many other items
which do not meet the "adult" definition.
He also clarifies that some magazines
that, such as Penthouse, or some Gay
men’s magazines which to a casually observer
seem "sexually oriented" are actually
classified by law as "risque." He
points out that many of those magazines
Variou~ true family narratives
address the common
myths that continue to pervade
society, such as "Homosexual
Seduction Causes Children
to be Gay", "Gays and
Lesbians Are Easy to Identify",
and "Gays and Lesbians
Live a Lonely Life and Contribute
Nothing to Society."
The rebuttals to these myths
are very educational.
For struggling parents, there
is an informative chapter ti fled
"’Communicating with Others."
It hdps parents understand
that there are friends,
groups and organizations to
help them through difficult
situations. Another |nspiring
chapter deals with "Religious
Thinking in Transition," which
will helps some parents deal
with theiradult childrenin light
of their religious beliefs.
When they first learn that
their children are leading unconventional
lifestyles, many
parents need somebasic reassm:
ance that both they and their
children can continue to live t~appy and
healthy lives. These two books are valuable
resources for concerned parents.
Checkfor these andother titles on simtlar
subjects at your local branch library
or call the Readers Services department
at the Tulsa Cio,-Coun~v Central Library
at 596- 7966.
¯
are also commonly sold in convenience
¯ stores.
¯¯ Gregory particular complaint with the
City is one of no co-ordination between
¯ all the regulatory bodies, rules and ordi¯
nances. He feels that business persons
who go to the City in good faith to obtain
¯ the appropriate licenses should be guided
¯ through all possible regulations prior to ¯
opening a business.
Gregory is appealing the City’s current
ruling that Affinity News is not in compliance
with the required zoning. He and his
partner, Haas, hope for the best but if they
¯ have to pursue this matter to a public
¯ hearing, they hope that community mem- ¯
bets would be willing to attend a meeting
¯ in a show of solidarity. No one would
¯ need to speak on the issue. For more
¯ information about the status of the appeal,
call 610-8510.
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The Episcopal Church
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by Jean-Pierre La Grandbouche, TFN Food Critic
Few subgroups of society are more discerning, more demanding, and less forgiving
when it comes to the culinary arts than the Gay and Lesbian community. Could that be
because so manyfamily members have restaurant experience? Does our Gay gene come
equipped with extra-sensitive taste buds? Or do wejust eat out more than the average
boring person?
Tulsa Family News is pleased to give its faithful readers the opportunity to express
their thoughts about food and drink in Tulsa. Please cast your ballots for your favorite
restaurants and chefs. Voting rules are simple. Please vote only once. Candidates must
be located in the city limits of Tulsa. All ballots must be received by Jean-Pierre La
Grandbouche at Tulsa Family News, POB 4140, Tulsa, Oklahoma74159, by August 10;
1997. Results will be announced in the September edition.. " ; ’ . .
Now, pencils ready? Here are the 1997 official Tulsa Family Favorites categories:
1. Cookingis.an artform that takes skill, training, talent, anddedication, not tomention
a keen business sense and the ability to please the customers with the foods they want
to eat. Who is your favorite chef in.Tulsa?
2. After a hard day at the office and an even harder night at the clubs, sometimes you
just have to find a great place to kick back and refuel before heading back to the old
hacienda. Where is your favorite late night place to eat?
3. Everyone knows that good food and great atmosphere can go a long ways inmaking
a date successful. Which restaurant would you choose to impress a potential boyfriend
or girlfriend on a first date?
4. St. Valentine’s Day, birthdays, anniversaries--all occasions to celebrate:with:that
special someone--demand a perfect locale to show how much you care.-What restaurant
m. town do you think is the most romantic place to take your sweetie?
5. Tulsa and Oklahoma are meat and potatoes country, and nothingt~eats a perfectly
grilled, thick, juicy steak. Who has the best steaks in town?
6. Gorgeous, buff bodies require maintenance both in the gym and in ~he dining room.
Vvqaere is ),our favorite place to eat for a healthy, low-fat meal?
7. Dining alone? What restaurant in town has the cutest waiters?
8. Whether it’ s a business associate or morn and dad coming to visit, you’ve gotto have
a perfect place to take important company. Where is the best place in Tulsa to take out
of town guests to dinner?
9. Sometimes the situation demands comfort food in a low key comfortable atmosphere.
Which Tulsa ~easy-spoon is your favorite diner?
10. Exotic foods can take you away on a short evening’s mini-vacation. Which is your
favorite Tulsa ethnic restaurant?.
11. We’re supposed to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day as a part of a
balanced diet for American rabbits. Where is your favorite salad bar?
12. With waiters expecting twenty percent tips these days, service is aerucial part of
the dining experience. What restaurant has the best and most attentiV~ ~¢tvice?
13. Alittle fruit of the vine makes both dinnerandconversation go down better. Which
restaurantin townhas the best bar?
14. After eating all of your vegetables and cleaning your plate like a g~-iit~e boy
or girl, you’re ready for dessert. What is the best dessert you’ve ever had in Tulsa and
which restaurant served it?
15. Same old, same old gets a little monotonous, but fortunately new restaurants are
opening up.all the time. Where is your favorite new restaurant?
16. Visiting friends in the hospital is aregularactivity formany ofus these days. Which
Tulsahospital has the bestcafeteriafood?
17. On the go? No time to eat? Which deli makes your favorite sandwiches?
18. W~.ere would we be without our late afternoonjolt ofcaffeine?Whomakes the best
cappuccmo in town?
19. Being so near Dallas and Santa Fe has its pluses. But, it also has its downside, and
we’ve been chili peppered to death. Nonetheless, a great enchilada or burrito is a cheap
and tasty way to dine. What Mexican restaurant makes your favorite Mexican
food? "
20. Jean-Pierre tries to make the rounds of all the restaurant in town on a regular basis,
but he is just a poor, working boy trying to exist on the slave wages paid by that mean
TFN publisher, Tom Neal, so Jean-pierre hasn’t had a chance to review every Tulsa
eatery. Which restaurant would you most like to see reviewed in an upcormng edition
of Tulsa Family News?
Statistical background:
Are you: male,
Are you Gay!Lesbian,
How old are you?
Have you ever worked at a restaurant?
How well can you cook?
¯ professionally trained
pretty good
able t6 do the bare essentials
or female?
or straight?
Yes No
~eat amateur
o~ay
kitchen? what’s that?
individual activists like Jimmy Flowers.
Flowers led the event with a Rainbow-
.American flag and a large placard declaring
that "Gays are children of God too."
Flowers was followed by the Tulsa
PFLAG banner, carried by Chapter copresident,
Kathy Hinlde and by board
member Tim Gillean. Others marching
were NOW board member, Lea Anne de
Rigne andRAIN staffer, Kathy Bird, with
her puppies.
The 1/2 mile March received, only one
megative, commeat ~.,~.,-~passersby.~and
was accompanied byi.a~ Small~numberof
very enthusiastic and cheering supporters
driving and parked along Edison St. During
part of the March, the participants
chanted various Gay-positive slogans,
such as "hey, hey, ha, ha, homophobia’s
got to go!" When the marchers arrived,
chanting, at Owen Park, the picnic site,
they received a welcoming round of applause.
Event organizers also noted their pleasure
at the "sensitive and appropriate"
coveragethat the event received from The
Sunday Tulsa World on the day after the
event. Organizers also related that the
Pride Events Committee, after much discussion,
had purposefully not alerted talevision
stationSto the event because community
members have expressed fear of
being inadve~ently "outed." TOHR’s
spokesperson-°stated that the committee
regretted this approach but felt the need to
keep the event feeling "safe" for as many
as possible. However, the committee noted
that it didinvffe radio broadcasters since
that medium i~ unlikely to accidentally
expose anyone. Unfortunately, none of
the local radionews departments chose to
cover this year’s event.
200K Celebrate
Paris Pride
PAR~S. iA~) - Homosexuals and their
supporters in several world capitals participated
in marches to commemorate riots
in New york nearly 30 years ago that
galva!~.Z..edith,gay civil fights movement.
Aroun:ff~2OOXJO0 people from across Europe
danced and chantedtheir way through
the streets ofParis in the country’s biggest
Gay. rally ever.
"Equal rights without sexual discrimination
in France and in Europe," chanted
one group ofparticipants at the head of the
march, accompanied by the heavy beat of
technomusic. Colorful floats, represent:
ing gay and lesbian groups from Spain to
Denmark, were involved in the march. At
one poimthe rally stretched for more than
five miles from Place de la Republique on
Paris’s Right Bank to the Vincennes forest
in the city’s cast, where the march
finished: ..... :
The threatening rain clouds over Paris
did little to diminish the flamboyancy of
the marchers. One couple had painted the
European Union flag =. a circle of gold
stars on a blue background - on their
faei~s: A group~’of Swiss men dressed in,i
traditional:lederh0sen,.While a float repre-~
senting north .African homOsexuals :car-~
ried Cleopatra look-a-likes. - ’
The parade comes at time when homo-!
se.xual rights is receiving renewed interest
from the French parliament. Environment
minister Dominque Voynet, the only
ecologist member of the French cabinet,
joined the rally. She was among agroup of
Frenchleft-wing lawmakers whoproposed
a "contract of civil and social union" bill
earlier this week, giving new legal recognition
to homosexual couples or unwed
heterosexuals. The bill would put sudfi
unions on par with a married couple in the
eyes of the law.
The June celebrations commemorate
the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York.
Almost 30 years after gays fought police
at the Stonewall Inn, the anniversary celebrations
showed just how far the movement
has come - and how far it has to go.
"We thought that everything was going
forward, but now it seems we can have a
backlash in Denmark too, even ifwewere
the firs.t to have civil marriage,".. Juda
i~s.eft ~6[ Demark:"said:. ~B.as~ i~?s~l, a
fece~n~ d~cisifn in Denm~k’io baff-ie~bians
from having children through artificial
insemination in state~nmmedical lin-
-ics was a.backward step.
Several cities, including New York,
San Francisco and Toronto, had parades
scheduled for the same day. This year, for
the first time, dozens of European brganizations
joined Paris’ annual march supporting
homosexuality. Many were calling
for greater rights for the gay communities
in their country. "We come from
Italy and do not have the same rights as
Denmark or other countries," said
Maximilliano Rosselli from Milan, Italy.
Mexico City Pride
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Thousands of
gays andlgsbians marcheddownMexico’s
main boulevard on Saturday in a show of
pride and to demand rights in a society
better known for machismo. "There has
been a kind ofrelaxation" in official and
social treatment of homosexual s, said actor
Tito Vasconcelos, one of th~ marchers.
"Thereare more places for Gay gatherings."
But. he said Gays arrested for
unrelated crimes are sometimes mistreated
due to their sexual orientation or charged
with prostitution if police find a condom
in their possession.
Chants of"No political freedom without
sexual freedom !"rose from the marchers,
most of whomwere in everyday dress.
But the crowd was dotted with exuberantly.
dressed transvestites and with men
weanng g-strings or sexually oriented
leather gear. The march was sponsored by
a coalition of gay organizations from
around Mexico, ranging from the Leather
Club ofMexico to the Gay Bicycle and
Basketball Group.
San Francisco
Pride Parade
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)- Thousands Of
marchers = straight and Gay alike -
marched down Market Street in the city’s
27th annual Pride parade. The parade,
with an estimated attendence of a halfmillion
people, culminated, a weeklong
series ofparties; film screenings and other
events. The official theme of this year’s
~arade, which,,h,.,as a budget of more than
500,000, is ’One,’Community, Many
Faces." ~q~nat was,chosen because it’s so
inclusiveand signifies the diversity of our
community," parade spokeswoman
Denise Ratliff said. "We truly are every
age, every race, every religxous background,
every economic and educational
background. We’re everyone’s brother
and son and sister and daughter."
The parade began at the-Civic Center
and proceeded down Market Street to a
huge street fair along the Embarcadero.
And as they have for two decades, the
th.e Pride Center
TUlsa Oklahomans for Human Rights
Community Summit
Saturday, July 26, 2 - 5 pm
The Pride Center
1307 East 38th
Topics:
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What do we need to do
to get from here to there?
What will you do to get us
from here to there?
Organ-izafions and individuals who support fairness
and equality for Lesbians, Gay men, Bisexuals
and Transgendered persons are invited
to participate~ in a moderated and civil discussion.
lnfo? Call 743-4297.
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BERLIN (AP)-7 Hundreds of thousands
of gays and lesbians march each year
around the world in parades commemorating
the 1969 riots at New York City’s
Stonewall Inn that galvanized the gay
rights movement. Yet many historians
say the modem struggle for acceptance
and an end to discrimination actually
started 100 years ago - in Berlin.
A summer-long exhibit at the Academy
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¯ have homosexuality decriminalized.
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of theNazi era, the rebirth of the
movement in the United States and Europe
up to today’s AIDS crisis. Portraits
by gay artists David Hockney and Andy
.Warhol of gay writers Christopher
.... Isherw0od and Truman Capote mix with
newspaper clippings; police reports, old
photos and video clips. ’‘The exhibit gives
us a chance to:put this day (the Stonewall
riot) in a historical perspective," said exhint
director Andreas Stemweiler. "Without.
the past, you can’t define yourself
today.’"
Marchers parading through the heart of
Berlin passed a stage with actors dressed
as historical figures, including a concentration
camp prisoner branded with the
pink triangle the Nazis forced homosexual
lumates to wear. James Stcaldey, a professor
at the University of Wisconsin and
author of ’‘The Homosexual Emancipation
Movement in Germany," estimates
tens of thousands of homosexuals died in
Nazi concentration camps. After the war.
the harsh Nazi law criminalizing homosexuality
remained on the books in West
Germany until 1969.
"People had to live in fear of being
arrested when they openly stated that they
were gay," says museum spokesman
Albert Eckert. "That meant that most of
whathadbeen in the secondWorldWaror
before tended to be forgotten." One gay
concentration camp survivor, who ke
the reason for his nnprisoument a secret
for decades after the war, came to Berlin
to speak about his experience and participate
in the weekend celebrations. "You
have to keep working so that it doesn’t
return - Nazism and fascism," said Pierre
Seel, 74, of Toulouse, France. "On the
one hand we have more .freedom today.
On the other, when you see how the politics
are going, then the work. isn’t finished."
27th Boston
Pride Parade
BOSTON(AP) -I~lbya squadofleathercladwomenonmotorcycles,
drag queens,
gay clergy and lesbian couples with toddlers
made their way through the streets
of Boston Saturday in the city’s 27th
annual gay pride parade. Organizers said
more than 200,000 people from around
New England took part, but police put the
number closer to 100,000.
Unlike last year’s parade, which included:
c_ontroversial nudity, this year’s
ev.en~.neluded,onl~y some,oaflandJsh~and
occaSional!,.y:skimpy costumes~ ,And that,
some participants said, was a good thing.
"It’s a public parade. There’s a time and a
place for everything and nude dancing
isn’t necessarily for a Saturday afternoon
in Boston," said Jeff Durkee, 29, who
came to watch.
Some of the floats, however, did border
on the risque. On one, perfectly sculpted
men with bulging pectorals teasingly
pulled down their shorts to reveal Gstrings.
Others were more tame, like the
O’Gay Corral float - a Western motif
flatbed truck followed by two-stepping
dancers.
Dozens of young children on foot and
in strollers accompanied their gay and
lesbian parents through~the city’s Back
Bay neighborhood. Taped to the stroller
of one toddler: "I was ~hatched by two
chicks." Winograd and her partner, Betsy
McNamara, 37, brought~their 4-year-old
son with them to the festi~ilies. Ten years
ago, McNamara said, there were hardly
any children represented.,?There’ s been a
huge baby boom in the Gay and Lesbian
community," McNamara said.
Several Christian and Jewish Gay and
Lesbian clergy also were represented, as
were many students from New England
colleges. Michelle Samson, 29, was visiting
from California. She said she had
always thought of Boston as a conservative
city. "It’s fantastic to see the support
we have," she said. "It says Boston is in
the real world and sees things that are
happening and they are supporting it."
¯ Pride in Omaha
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A parade to mark
this year’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender Pride celebration included
balloons, dn~mmers and a drag queen
riding atop a Jeep. Organizers estimated
that more than 700 people participated in
the 13th annual celebration.
Les Meyers, 32, of Omaha Said he attended
the parade to support equal rights
for homosexuals. "Not special rights," he
said, "but equal rights that everyone
shares.". Deb Johnson, 28, of Lincoln said
the climate toward gays and lesbians in
Nebraska is tolerant. But she said the state
should pass legislation for same-sex marriages
and including gay lovers on insuranee
policies. An effort to deny recognition
to same-sex marriages performed in
other states stalled this year in the Nebraska
Legislature.
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April 15 - May 14, 1997, v. 4, no. 5
Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual & Trans Communities
Lesbians’ Kids: Just Fine
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lesbians who become parents
through artificial insemination are rinsing emotionally
healthy and well-adjusted children, according to three
new studies presented at a recent meeting of social
scientists. Researchers said standardpsychological tests
found no significant differences between children of
lesbian parents and those of heterosexual parents.
"When you look at kids with standard psychological
assessments, you can’t tell who has alesbian parent and
who has a heterosexual parent," said Charlotte J.
Patterson, a University of Virginia researcher. ’°That’s
really the main finding from these studies." The studies
were conducted in the United States, Britain and the
Netherlands. They were presented at a meeting of the
Society for Research on Child Development.
"Most of the children in the lesbian families were
conceived at fertility clinics. Some of the children of
heterosexual parents also were conceived at fertility
clinics, see Kids, page 3
Marriage Update
Oregan Ban on Marriage?
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A bill that would define marriage
as a union between a man and a woman drew emotional
testimony at a legislative hearing. Suzanne Cook testified
Thursday that being raised by a gay father denied
her a proper role model and led her to a life of pronnscuity,
drug abuse and depression. "I believe homosexual
marriage is detrimental to our society," Cook
said. But Donna Saffir told the committee, "I am here
.today as a very upset and angry mother." The legislation
Is mean-spirited and a veiled attack on her gay son and
her family, she said.
About 60 people packed a hearing room to listen to
the first debate on the bill, -known as the Defense of
Marriage Act. Opponents argued thatunder current law,
gay men and lesbians cannot marry in Oregon anyway.
They accused supporters of pushing the bill tO promote
intolerance of homosexuals. Supporters claim to have
enough votes to pass it through the Republican:controlled
Houseand Senate. Gov. John Kitzhaber, aDemocrat,
opposes the bill, but it is uncertain whether he
might veto it.
"The institution ofmarriag,,e is not under attack by the
gay and lesbian community, Said R~p. ChuC,k C~n:’
ter, one of three openly gay House members. "To me,
this piece oflegislation is amean and vindictive ai~ck.."
But Sen.~ob Kintigh, said his marriage of 53 years Was
.... s~dcial. ’The relatiOnship we have.i~ad ic~tdd:not::l~
duplicatedby twopeople ofthe samesex," Kintigh Said.
Hawaii House & Senate
Wrangle Over Marri ige
HONOLULU (AP) - The state House won’t budge
from its position that a proposed constitutional amendment
state clearly that marriage in Hawaii t0be limited
to couples of the opposite sex,H0use Speaker Joseph
Sould said. That position stands, even if it pushes the
same-sex marriage dispute into next year, he said. Sould
and House Judiciary ConLmittee see Vows, page 12
"Christians’, Harassing
Gays in Riverside Park?
TULSA - Jimmy Flowers, a Gay civil rights and HIV activist,
livesnear Riverside Park and frequently goes to feed the ducks
and geese near the 21st Street Pavilion. On April 14th around 1
pm, he went as usual, and after feeding the birds, sat to enjoy the
sun near the cage.
Flowers says he noticed-a group of couples going up to
individuals in the park but that he didn’t pay much attention until
they came up to him. He says that this group of male/female
couples asked him if he was Gay. Not being particularly shy,
Flowers answered tothe effect of’:yes and do you have a problem
with that?" Heclaims that theirresponse was that"this is afamily,
Christian park," that Gays are "child molesters" and are not
welcome, and that he should leave. Flowers notes that he, as a
longume activist, was not the person to whom they should have
said that. The couples told Flowers that they would’all the police
if he did not leave. Flowers said he’d love for them to call the
police, and that he was proud to be Gay and see Park. page 3
Ellen Coming Out!
Pride Center to Hold Watch Party
NEW YORK (AP) - Ellen DeGeneres is coming out in real life,
too. After a season of controversy-stirring rumors, her character
on "Ellen" will acknowledge her homosexuality on the ABC
sitcom April 30. Now, DeGeneres says she’s a lesbian, too.
"When I decided to have my character on the show come out,
I knew I was going to have to come out too," DeGeneres says in
the latest Time magazine. "But I didn’t want to talk about it until
the show was done. I never wanted to be the lesbian actress. I
never wanted to be the spokesperson for the gay community.
Ever. I did it for my own truth."
DeGeneres admits being confused sexually as a young woman.
"I dated guys," she says. "I liked guys. But I knew that I liked girls
too. I just didn’t know what to do with that." The 39-year-old
comedian says she quit dating men at about age 20 and recently
met a woman she hopes to forge see Ellen, page 3
3rd TU Film Festiv lll=i TULSA - The Bisexual/.Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance
of the University of Tulsa (BLGTA) is presenting the 3rd Tulsa
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on April 18-20 in’ Lorton Hall
The Festival was originally ojoint effort of the then BLGA and
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) and Tulsa Family
News. The films and videos for the first Festival in 1994 were
selected by a student and community committee lead by Jason
~S,_n~_’_th of the BLGA and by Tom Neal for TOHR. Tulsa Family
News was and continues to be the media sponsorfor the Festival.
The original festival included 15 works that ranged from 1975
to 1992, and varied from highly inaccessible and experimental to
very conventional styles. Two works by the late and acclaimed
filmmaker, Marion Riggs, were featured. Most of the w6rks were
from theUS buttwo were Canadian.Amodest donation benefitted
the BLGA and TOHR.
The 2nd Film Festival at TU was produced in 1996 as part of
TU’s 2nd Annual World Cinema Festival presented by the TU
Student Association and the BLGA. This event was free and
featured film and video organized around three themes. The first
n~ght was Gay & Lesbian History, see Film, page 3
HIVIAlDS Conference
Facing the HIV/AIDS Crisis, a Callfor Unity andAction will be
held ~n April 18 at the Rogers University Tulsa Campus Confer-
:~ ence tseat~t at700 No. Greenwood. The Conference 6~ganizedby
¯¯ members ofTulsa’sAfrican-Americancommunity to address the
particular ways that HIV/AIDS is impacting people of color,
," .w.Qmen ,and yOUth wi.ll feature anoon address by Dr. M. J0ycelyn
: Elders,:form~rUS~urgeonGeneral~. :~ , ; i .= " ’. ~
: The conference i.~ divided int0 three tracks beginning after:the
¯ welcome at 9 am: youth, general and clergy issues. A particular
: goal of the conference according to organizer Beverly Benton is
to get North Tulsa churches more involved in HIV/AIDS issues.
¯ And the conference is sponsored by. several churches: Higher ¯
¯ Dimensions Family Church, Revelations-Revealed Truth Evan- gelistic Center, United Methodist Oklahoma ConferenceAIDS
¯ Taskforc¢ and Co.mm~unity of Hope, TU’s Canterbury ~,entef,
¯ Al! Tribes ~o.ring_mfi_’t3; ~hurch, as well as rndtiy brg~z,~tion~
from PFLAG to the NAACP.
¯ " R~’gls’~afi6iiincludes lunch andis $25 ($10/students). At 6 pm,
the Gospel Fest AIDS Memorial Service will be held at the
Greenwood Cultural Center. This event is free. Info: 622-6059
New AIDS Czar Praised
WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign
(HRC), the AIDS Action Council and other DC
based organizations praised the selection of Sandra
L. Thurman as the new White House "AIDS czar."
"’Sandra Thurman is a solid choice to take the
Office of National AIDS Policy to the next level
said Elizabeth Birch, HRC’s executive director.
"She brings the right mix of leadership, political
skills and commitment to the fight against HIV and
AIDS.’"
The HRC legislative director, Winnie
Stachelberg, added Thurman has the experience to
design and execute the administration’s programs
in the changing struggle to end the HIV/AIDS
epidemic. "Thurman was intricately involved in
the creation and enactment of the Ryan White
CAREAct in 1990 and its reauthorizadonin 1995,"
said Stachelberg, who is a member of the executive
committee of the tunbrella group National Organizations
Responding to AIDS. "She knows AIDS
policy and politics from the inside -a critical
combination of skills for this job.’"
Thurman becomes the third person to hold the
position known informally as the national AIDS
czar. Thurman, a native of Atlanta, is past executive
director of AID Atlanta, the Southeast’s first
and largest AIDS service provider. Under her stewardship,
AID Atlanta tripled in size, becoming a
multimillion-dollar direct service agency with 90
staffers’and more than 1,000 volunteers, serving
thousands of individuals and families with HIV
and AIDS.
Oklahoma Gay Rodeo
Oklahoma City will host the 12th Great Plains
Regional Rodeo organized by the Oklahoma Gay
Rodeo Association (OGRA) on Memorial Day
weekend, May 23-25. It features 2 days of rodeo at
the OKC State Fair~rounds and 3 nights of parties
and exhibits at the Hilton Inn NW. A ticket package
is available for $36 which includes the competitions,
a barbecue dinner, Friday night party and
Sunday’s award ceremony.
OGRA began in 1984. The Great" Plains Regional
Rodeo was formed through the efforts of
Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma and held its first
rodeo in 1986. In 1993, Arkansas formed the Diamond
Stare RodeoAssociation andjoined the Great
Plains organization. OGRA gave over $10,000 to
HIViAIDS organizations in the state.
¯ Membership is not limited to rodeo competitors.
¯ Members of OGRA participate in events ranging ¯
from campouts, trailrides, shows and fun
¯" fundraisers. For more information, call 405-842-
0849. Hotel reservations can be made by calling 1-
¯" 800-848-4811. The next regional rodeo will be in
"- Kansas City in August.
i Tahlequah’s Stonewall
: League Aims to Serve.
: Tahlequah’s Stonewall League may be small but is
: definitely ambitious. They aim to provide support,
¯ advocacy, outreach and education to Lesbian, Bi-
: sexual, Gay, Transgendered and Intersexual per-
. sons. For now, the fledgling group has conceni
trated.0n ~Upport;and.q0mmunity building but they.
¯ also hope to provide a safe space for you~ iidul~ ......
¯ whoarejustdiscoveringtheiridentities.TheI_~ague
¯ meets at a friendly religious organization on the
," 2nd &4th Thursdays each month, andis open to all
: wh0silPi~4 ~he.g~lslofthe .League For informa-
¯ tion, leave a message at 918-456-7900.
INSIDE- EDITORIAL/DIRECTORY P. 2
US & WORLD NEWS P. 4
HEALTH NEWS P. 6
HEALTH & WELLNESS COLUMN P.7
COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 10
BOOK REVIEW .... P. 10
RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 11
CLASSIFIEDS P. 14
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may not be reproduced e~th~t tn whole or ~n part w~thoutwntten permission
918,583.1248 from the publisher..Publication of a name or photo does not indicate that
fax: 583.4615 Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal p~,rson’s sexual orientation.
POB 4140 Tulsa, OK 74159 Entertainment Writer: James Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,
e-mail: Christjohn, Writers ÷ contributors: must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tulsa Family News. All
TulsaNews@aol.com Barry Hensley, Dr. Mike German correspondence should be sent to the address to the left. Each reader is
website: Jean-Pierre Legrandboucfie entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution points. Additional
http://users.aol.com/TulsaNews/ Member of The Associated Press copies are available by calling 583-1248.
by Tom Neal, editor &publisher
It’ s interesting to watch the machinations of the latest Oklahoma City_ export that’s come to Tulsa.with grand ambitions - and grand
pretensions, but also with he-humjournalism and questionable business practices. Once again, some OKC residents have decided that
they know what’s best for the rest of the state. Pity that we were just too witless to realize that we needed them to save us. Oh well.
What we’re talking about is the warma-be Dallas Voice weekly rag. Unfortunately while they’ve mostly got the weekly part down,
they haven’t gotten the quality local journalism part that The Dallas Voice has provided for years. Despite claims of local coverage,
their content remains consistently almost all wire stories. The slight local content is inaccuratemoreoften than not. AndTulsa observers
are regularly amused by the consistently fictional aspects of parts of their Tulsa calendar.
In contrast, The Gayly Oklahoman and Tulsa Family News have provided consistent, serious and nationally praised coverage ofOKC
and Tulsa news, respectively. And while we cannot speak for The Gayly, Tulsa Family News has always been run on sound financial
principles. While we never, ever will get rich, TFN was in the black from its first issue, see Spit, page 3
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bmnboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Ground Floor Cafe, 51st & Harvard
*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, 2114 S. Memorial
"*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd
832-1269
744-0896
749-1563
749-4511
749-5678
745-9998
585-2221
834-4234
585-3405
660-0856
584-1308
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 585-3134
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 747-1508
*Affimty News, 8120 E. 21 610-8510
Deuni s 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, 2722E. 15 712-1122
*Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 So. Peoria 743-5272
*Creative Collection, 1521 E. 15 592-1521
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis -581-0902, 743-4117
Counnunity Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’s Gallex3’, 13 Brady 587-2611
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556
Don Carlton Mitsubishi, 46th & Memorial 665-6595
Don Carlton Honda, 4141 S. Memorial 622-3636
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
Tulsa Organizations, L;hurches, & Universities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 1071,74101-1071 579-9593
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 Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PI & Florence
*Community ofHope United Methodist, 1703 E. 2nd 585-1800
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
*Church of the Restoration, 1314 N.Greenwood 587-1314
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 SpiritWomens Center, call for location &info: 587-4669
Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827
Friends in Unity Social Org. (African-American mens group)
POB 8542, 74101, call c/o HOPE @ 712-1600
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education, 1307 E. 38, 2ndft.
712-1600, HOPE Anonymous HIV Testing Site, 742-2927
TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225
Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
838-1715
749-4194
748-3111
365-5658
584-7960
749-4901
587-7674
743-4297
749-4195
665-5174
584-2325
¯ attn: Jean-Pierre Legrandbouche ¯
re: March ’97 restaurant review
¯ When writing, your articles, I should
¯ think thatyou should add that your critic’s ¯
are based on a personal opinion. By not
¯
doing so you have not only insulted your
¯ hostess, in more ways than one but about
50,000 people thathave eat (sic) atMolly’s
Landing on an average each year for the
: last 12 years.
Before stating how overly expensive
you feel that Molly’s is, have you ever
tired some of the other restaurants in the
Tulsa area, because.you not-ouly.pay a
equal amount for the entree, but you pay
extra for the baked potato and/or salads.
No hints will be given, because we feel
you need the experience.
If you did some investigation, I think
you will find that your beloved
Montrachet’s is closed because people
didu’t like the food. I realize that not
everyone has the same pallet (sic), bnt
there are enough people to keep a restaurant
open that has decent food.
Most people feel it a compliment to
Molly’s that people from all walks of life
and every dress preference, feel comfortable
and enjoy the same food in the stone
buildiug, at the stone time.
Molly’s was approached not long ago
to adve’rtise in you paper, I wonder how
the critic would have read (sic) had we
doue so. - Molly’s Landing, Linda Powell
Editor’s note:
Several ofMs. l~owell’s claims deserve
correction. TFN’s restaurant critic works
independently. A professional who has
traveled attddined widely, attd who has
visited nearly all ofTulsa"s better restaurants,
he is well qualified to comtnent on
the ones he chooses to review. Furthermore.
neither I nor any other member of
TFN staff have ever solicited Molly’s
Ixznding for advertising: We suspect that
"" Ms. Powell may have confused us with
¯ l)dsa Kids or Oklahoma Family. And as
¯ publisher and editor, l neither assign nor
¯ prohibit the coverage of any establish-
’. ment by this independent. 1 limit my edit-
" ing to issues oflength and the excision of
¯~ the rare, over-the-top c.omment. There-
. jbre, the suggestion that somehow there
¯ could be a connection between your deci-
¯ sionsaboutadvertisingandTFN’sreview
has less than no merit.
Infact. there has been only one restau-
*Ross Edward Salon, 1438 S. Boston
Leaune M. Gross, Financial Planning
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney ..
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotlaerapy, 2865 E. Skelly
*International Tours
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E. 15th
Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15
Kelly Kirby, CPA, POB 14011, 74159
l~mgley Agency, 1104 S. Victor
bean Ann Macomber, Realtor Associate
Susan McBay, MSW: Earth-Centered Counseling
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720C E. 31
*Mohawk Music, 6157,E~ ,51, PI
*Nothing Shocking Salon, 2722 E. 15
*NOvd Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633
Pet Pride, Dog & Cat Grooming
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor
th~ppy Pause .II, 1 lth & Mingo
584-0337
744-0102
744-7440
745-1111
341-6866
712-2750
599-8070
747-5466
592-1800
671-2010
592-1260
584;3112
663-5934
.664-2951
712-1123
747-6711
747-7672
584-7554
743~4297
838-7626
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
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
*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
*MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood
*HIV Resource Ctr., 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1
NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1
NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159
OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165,74157
*Our House, 1114 S. Queer
PFLAG , POB 52800, 74152
*Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria
*The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor
Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152
*R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network
Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159
¯ *Red Rock Mental Center, 302 S. Cheyenne #108
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Asked about the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who resorted to
name-calling in blasting DeGeneres’ morals after news
of the upcoming on-air announcement was released, the
New Orleans native said she’d heard it all before. "’Really,
he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate?" she said.
"I’ve been getting that since the fourth grade."
In a related event, Birmingham television station
WBMA,known as "ABC33/40," decided that the lesbian
theme of the show was not suitable for prime-time family
viewing and won’t show it. ABC hasn’t heard whether
any other of its 223 affiliates has rejected the hour-long
special planned for April 30, spokeswoman Arme Marie
Riccatelli. said.Thursday......
Jerry Heilman, president and general manager ofABC
33/40, said the station tried to get permission from ABC
to air the episode at 11:30 p.m., rather than the scheduled
8 p.m., but the network would not approve the switch.
"Our stance rightnow is that we will not be showing the
first episode. There’s a possibility we won’t carry any of
the episodes in May if it deals with the same thing. We’ll
take it an episode at a time," said Heilman. In its place, the
station plans a special on an Alabama football coach.
Other ABC affiliates that serve the major Alabama
markets - WAAY in Huntsville, WHOA in Montgolnery,
and WEAR in Mobile - plan to carry Ellen’s outing
episode. "As far as we’re concerned, there’s no real
decision. It’s just another episode," said Joe Smith, operations
managerforWEAR, which is based in Pensacola.
Asked about the Rev. Jerry Falwell,
who resorted to name-e.allin ....,
[Eflen] said she’d heard aftbefore.
"Reafly, he eafled me that?
Ellen DeGenerate? ... I’ve been
getting that slnee the grade."
The network has received criticism from both sides on
the issue. Lana Metcalf, a policy analyst for the Alabama
Family Alliance, commended ABC 33/40 for deciding
uot to carry it. "I thimk it’s certainl y a harmful episode and
not conducive to families," she said. But the pastor of a
Woodlawn church that serves a largely homosexual congregation
said the show could offer insight into what a
gay person experiences in coming out. "We’re very sad
that ABC 33/40 will not show this process to the world at
large," said Covenant Metropolitan Cormnunity Church
paslor Margc Ragona.
Also ABC rejected a TV ad promoting the lesbian
cruisc line, Oakland-based Olivia Cruises and Resorts.
ABC broadcasl editor Bob Reynolds said in a fax to the
public relations firm that represents Olivia that their
proposed ad had been rejected for use during the "’Ellen"
coming-out episode, even though the spot would have
helped make up for ads pulled by Chrysler and J.C.
Pcaney. "It is our position that discussion about same-sex
lifcstyles is more appropriate in programming,-
Olivia’s presideut, Judy Dlugacz, called the April 30
"’Ellen" episode "lfistoric," since it will be the first time a
show’s lead character has revealed that she or he is
homosexual. But - knowing that a large number of
lcsbians will watch the show - Dlugacz also sees a prime
marketing moment slipping away. "Here was this incredible
opportuuity forme to reach a group that often doesn’t
want to be identified," said Dlugacz, who has run her
travel and ~nusic co~npany fbr more than 20 years-: .....
"FED Inc., the New York public relations finn that
handles advertising for Olivia, is now pursuing air time
on ABC affiliates in New York, !~os Angeles, Chicago,
s-hn ’Fraiici~co, Houston, Eiallas, Mimni and Seattle.
"’Needless to say, it will cost ~nuch more to air the ad in
these individual ~narkets than it would have cost to air
uationally," said Bob Fitzgerald of TED Inc.
It is the second time in less than a month that sponsors
ofa gay-related ad have had to shop it to local ABC
affiliates after rejection from the national network. The
Washington-based Human Rights Campaign wanted to
place.an ad about discrirmnation against lesbians and gay
men m the workplace. HRC’s ad is aimed at raising
awareness thatjob discrimination based on sexual oftenration
is legal in 41 states.But Vice President Harvey
Dzodin said that script violated network’s policy against
. .i’~controversialissue advertising," such as abortion, union
~ssues and Gay civil rights.
HRC says ABC’s stance on the Olivia ad, which would
have brought the broadcaster ~;000, iridicates a specific
bias against businesses trying to reach the gay and
lesbian market. "This discriminates against gay comparues
trying to reach amarket," said David Smith, a Human
Rights Campaign spokesman. Smith said he askedABC’ s
Dzodin for clarification on the policy, but was refused.
Currently, HRC is planning to air the ad in the following
markets: Albany, Albuquerque, Anchorage, Alaska,
Atlanta; Austin, Bismarck, N.D., Boston, Cleveland,
Columbia, S.C.; Dallas, Denver, Erie, Pa., Fargo, N.D.,
Fort Smith, Grand Rapids, Mich., Honolulu, Jackson,
Miss., Los Angeles, Madison, Wis., Manchester, N.H.,
Minneapolis, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Phoenix,
Portland, Maine, Portland, Ore., Raleigh, N.C:, St. Louis,
San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, Traverse City, Mich.,
and Washington. The spot was declined by the network’s
affiliates in Chicago, Colorado Springs, Eugene, Ore.,
Grand Junction, Colo., Houston, Knoxville, Memphis,
Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, and Wichita.
Meanwhile, ABC is attempting to fill slots that could
have been filled by such skittish advertisers as Genera]
Motors and Johnson &Johnson, which have- in addition
to regular advertisers Chrysler andJ.C. Penney - decided
not to advertise on the April 30 episode. Johnson &
Johnson’s competitor, Home Access Health Corp., has
announced it would advertise its HIV-testing kits during
the show. Microsoft Corp. plans to buya spot.
In Tulsa, The Pride Center will host an Ellen Watch
Party in the Pfimetimers Lounge beginning at 6:30 for the
7-8 pm broadcast. Popcorn and soft drinks will be served.
All are welcome.
but the studies also compared these groups with children
born from natural conception.
Though the studies found no differences between the
groups, Patterson noted that "the existing body of research
is relatively sparse and open to criticism." ~he said
many of the studies are based on small samples and the
lesbian couples studied often have volunteered for the
research, which can affect the results. The studies involved
children up to age 9.
Interest in the development of children bona to lesbian
couples has increased in recent years because more and
morelesbians are choosing to raise afamily, said Patterson.
"There is a lesbian baby boom," she said. "’It hasn’t been
quantified, but there is a general community sense that
more and more lesbian couples are having children." Part
of the reason may be that more fertility clinics now are
providing services to lesbian couples, she said. These
clinics hdp lesbians become pregnant with the sperm of
anonymous donors.
Fiona Tasker of Birkbeck College in the Netherlands
said her study found that non-biological lesbian parents
were usually more involved with the children than are the
fathersof heterosexual couples. "The woman who is the
co-parent in alesbian family is more likely to take a major
role in raising the children," said Tasker.
In a study of 15 lesbian couples and 41 .parents of
clfildren born throughnatural conception, Tasker said she
found that 90 percent of the lesbian co-parents assumed
the common child-raising tasks. Only about 37 percent of
the fathers in heterosexual Couples, however,, took an
active role, she said. In disciplining the children, Tasker
found, 60 percent of the lesbian co-parents took an active
role, while it was only 20 percent of the fathers in
heterosexual families.
Raymond W. Chan of the University ofVirginia said
his study of lesbian and heterosexual couples with children
included reports from the children’s teachers. Chan
¯ children in Chan’s study were conceived at fertility
¯ clinics andsome were being raised by single heterosexu,~l
¯ parents and some by single lesbian parents. The researcher
said his tests found no differences between the
: groups. "The children of insemination are developing
normally whether in lesbian or heterosexual families
when compared to the available norm for the community
at large," Chan said.
Contrast that with a vanity press, held iogether with
spit, volunteers, prayers, and some OKC sources claim,
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the subsidy of a wealthy businessman who was gunning
for The Gayly. Should readers care whether a newspaper
has sound financial practices? Only if they expect it to
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last. In contrast to the newly amved, The Gayly has
¯ operated for more than a decade and Tulsa Family News
¯ is well into its fourth year of giving Tulsa serious,
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sometimes-controversial, but thorough news coverage
." for Lesbians, Gay men, Bisexuals and Transgendered
¯¯ folk and our families and friends.
And while we are happy to distribute TFNto other parts
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of the region (we’vejust added Oklahcma City, Norman,
..... Tahtexluah andBartlesville sites); we recognize, a~ Serious
newspapers have for years, that it is nearly impossible
to cover competently a city in which one does not live.
That’s why TFN has chosen to cover Tulsa well rather
than cover a region poorly.
By the way, the dirty little secret of Lesbian/Gay
newspapers is that the reason for "’regional coverage" is
so that there’S more towns_ from which to suck out
advertising - not because covering more towns can be
done well. Just look at the consistently marginal quality
of news coverage in our "regional" newspapers if you
need any further proof.
Anyway, our advice to the wanna-be’s is: don’t give up
ygur day jobs yet or at least, make sure you keep the
spouses who are supporting you happy.
next was American Gay & Lesbian Experience, and the
final day was International Film with works from France,
Spain, Canada and India.
This year’s event will show 10 works of varying
lengths and origin beginning at 7 pm on Friday, 2 pm &
6:30 on saturday, and 2 pm & 7 pm on Sunday. (see page
11 for ad with schedule). BLGTA spo,kesperson, Tedd
Adams, noted that the organizers had hoped to screen
"’Beautiful Thing," a highly acclaimed~xvork about two
teennage boys first love, made for the l~K’s commercial
Channel 4. Adams noted that if they were able to get the
film (which showed in Tulsa at Movies8 for a week), it
would be added to the Sunday night program.
Organizers note that Lorton Hall can be difficult to find
the first time. From 8th Street and Evanston, attendees
may go north on Evanston between Shaw Alumni Center
and Twin Soutl~ Hall. Where Evanston dead ends sits
McClure Hall ~or TUalums - where youpaidthose bills).
Lorton is just to the left, or west. There is a very small
parking lot and the screening room (#207) is just to the
left inside the door that opens onto the parking lot. For
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that Gay people had as much right to be in the park as
anv others.
At this point a bystander came forward and identified
lmnself as Bisexual and asked if they had a problem with
that? At this point, Flowers claims that the couples
backed down and said that they didn’t mean to do anything
wrong but were just doing what their minister told
them to do. A local HIV educator who does some park
prevention outreach adds that in the last few weeks, that
he may have seen similar things going on at 21st and
Riverside. While he hasn’t overheard-any conversations,
he has seen groups of couples approaching single men
who then have left immediately.
A source with the City of Tulsa, speaking anonysaid
the teacher reports, ~using standard osveholo~ical "" ’ ~nously, noted that intimidating Gay people out of ~the
evaluations, found.’!no significant difference" in ah~t-. " ~park is reprehensible but is probably well within the area
ment or behavior between the groups of children. All the ~ of protected First Amendment speech, noting that there
: likely is no crime involved. However, an area Gay attor-
,. hey when asked if the situation were reversed and Gay
people were harassing straights out of the park, com-
." mented that he had no doubt that the Tulsa police would
find a way to arrest Gays.
: Representatives of the Pride Center/TOHR have taken
¯ complaints from Flowers and encourage others with
¯ similar experiences to report thereto the Helpline at 743- 4297 to help in tracking these problems. The Pride Center
¯ representatives also note that those willing t,o do so may
also file written complaints with the Mayor s office.
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Firing of Anti-Gay Civil
Rights Official Upheld
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A pul~lic official who
"preaches homophobia" as a member of San
Francisco’ s anti-discrimination agency is not assured
job security, says a federal appeals court. The 9thU.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the city’ s firing of
the Rev. Eugene Lumpkin, who said he thought
homosexuality was an abomination and appeared to
endorse anti-gay violence. Neither freedom ofspeech
nor freedom of religion gives an appointed public
official the right to undermine the tolerance his office
is supposed to promote, the court said Thursday.
Lumpkin had the right to speak as a private citizen,
"but the First Amendment does not assure him job
security when he preaches homophobia" while serving
on the city’ s anti-discrimination agency, the court
said. Lumpkin’s lawyer, James Struck, said he would
probably appeal further. "This opinion shows complete
intolerance for religious beliefs that are widely
held," said Struck, of the Rutherford Institute, a
conservative religious-liberties organization. He said
Lumpkin did not support anti-gay violence and held
views no different from those of orthodox Catholics,
Muslims and Jews. "Now the 9th Circuit has painted
all those people as homophobes," Struck said.
Lumpkin, a pastor appointed to the commission by
then-Mayor Frank Jordan, was fired by Jordan in
1993 after a furor over his public comments about
homosexuals. "The homosexual lifestyle is an abomination
against God," Lumpkin said. "So I have to
preach that homosexuality is a sin." He also said he
believed "everything the Bible sayeth." Asked by a
television interviewer.about a statement in Leviticus
that a man who-slept with a man should be put to
death, Lumpkin said, "That’s what God sayeth."
Jordan, in announcing the firing, said Lumpkin had
the right to his religious beliefs but had "crossed the
.line from belief-to behavior to advocacy" and "implied
that he condoned physical harm." San Francisco
supervisors backed the firing. Lumpkin’s lawsuit,
claiming violatidns of his constitutional rights, was
dismissed by U~S. District Judge Fern Smith. The
appeals court upheld her decision in a 3-0 ruling.
The court cited the Human Rights Commission’s
official responsibilities, "to eliminate prejudice and
discrimination" based on race, religion, sex, sexual
orientation and other grounds, and to promote "equal
opportunity for and good will toward all people."
Lumpkin’s statements "are not simply hostile to the
commission’ s charge, they are at war with it," said the
opinion by Judge William Norris.
"Neither the First Amendment nor the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act (a 1993 federal law) requires
government at any level to put up with policylevel
officials who work at cross-purposes with the
policies they are responsible for carrying out." Deputy
City Attorney Burk Delventhal said the court endorsed
the city’s argument that "when a person accepts
public office, his ability to engage in whatmight
otherwise be protected speech is limited to the extent
necessary to enable the person to discharge his public
duties."
CA School Protections
BillWins CommitteeVote
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Public schools and colleges
couldn’t discriminate against students and employees
because of;their, sexual orientation, under-a bill
that passed an Assembly test without a vote to spare.
The measure by Assemblywoman Shelia Kuehl, DSanta
Monica, cleared the 21-member Education
Committee On Wednes-di~y with a bare. maj ority of 1
votes after stalling for several hours, one vote short.
The bill now moves to the Appropriations Committee,
the last stop before the Assembly floor.
Current law bars public schools and colleges from
discriminating on the basis of race or gender in their
programs, admissions, hiring or financial aid. In
some instances, the anti-discrimination ban also covers
religion, disabilities, age, and national origin.
Schools can’t use instructional materials that reflect
adversely on people because of their race, creed,
national origin,.ancestry, gender, disability or occupation.
In.addition, school personnel commissions
¯ NH Students Denounce University Violence
~ PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - Several years ago, Ply-
. mouth State Collegejunior Judy Pich was attacked by
¯ a man who punched, kicked and spit on her while
¯ calling her names like "queer" and "dyke." When she
¯ tried to talk about the incident with her peers, she"-felt
¯ more like an offender than a victim," Pich said.
¯ "There are good people and there are bad people, but ¯
everyone is at fault because the good people don’t do
¯ anything about it. Peoplehave to breakthe silence and
¯ ignorance."
¯ Pich told her story to the 2,000 students, faculty,
[ staff and alumni who turned out Wednesday for an
¯ emergency "Forumon Hate" organizedbythe school’ s
¯ Task Force on Homophobia. The forum was held in
¯ ~eaction to an incident involving another fema!e
¯ student, who said she was attacked by two men in
¯ March.. The woman, whose identity has not been
revealed, told campus police the two men punched
¯ her and urinated on her face after calling hera lesbian ¯
and telling her she "had no right tobe allowed to be
¯ walking around the world."
Plymouth police Chief Tony Raymond said even
¯ though the girl has decided she does not want to
¯ pursue the case, the investigation will continue; The
¯ student government is offering $500 for.information
¯ about the attackers. While some students who turned ¯
out at the forum said they were shocked that a hate
¯ crime occurred on the campus, many said milder
¯ incidents of intolerance, suqh ~s .name-.calling and
¯ telling derogatory jokes, happen all the time. Many ¯
said they were ready to tackle the problem and try to
¯ solve it. "We need to look out for each other and not
¯ stand idly by while these things happen around us,"
¯ juniorMikeHeber said. "We needto take responsibil- ¯
ity for the safety of each other."
¯ Several people pointed out that alcohol is often a
¯ factor of violent crime. College President Donald
¯ Wharton railed against bar owners he said encourage ¯
drunkenness and even sexual assault with such promotions
as ladies’ nights, where women drink for
¯ free, and tan-line contests. But many students said
cannot ask job. applicants questions about their race,
¯ sex, marital status, political opinions or affiliations or
¯ religious beliefs.
¯ Kuehl’s bill would expand tlgose,..prohibitions to
cover sexual orientation. An ~lmost identical bill,
"¯ also by Kuehl, one of two openly gay members of the
Legislature, died in the Education Committee last
¯ year, when the Assembly was controlled by Republi-
¯ cans. Supporters suggested the bill would lead to
¯ changes in school policies and attitudes that would ¯
help curb the harassment of students that are, or are
perceived to be, gay.
Stephanie Reed of Petaluma said her son Robin
¯ committed suicide after being taunted by other stu- ¯
dents while a teacher looked on without intervening.
¯ "Robin did not commit suicide because he was gay;
¯ he-committed suicide because he was in pain;’: she
¯ said. Another bill supporter, Michael Malcolm, a
~ high school vice principal from"Union City, said
¯ schools must provide a safe learning environment.
¯ "Our district adopted a non-discrimination policy,"
¯ he said. "I believe our campus is a different place ¯
because of the change in policy."
¯ Opponents claimed the bill could be used to silence
¯ criticism of homosexuality. "(The bill) is not about
¯ discrimination; it’s about letting one group of people
~ bring their personal agenda into the classroom and
¯ tell students that the homosexuallifestyle is all right,"
said Herbert Hall of Garden Grove, who said he was
¯ a former homosexual. "This is a cunning political
attack that uses children as pawns," added a witness.
¯ who identified himself only as Mark and who also
said he used to be gay. Other opponents said the
: measure could prevent private schools that discrimi-
¯ nated against homosexuals from playing public
schools in athletics, and Assemblyman George House
¯ contended the bill would lead to a "massive boycott ¯
of public schools." Kuehl suggested the opponents’
¯ fears were unfounded. "This bill does not do anything
¯ but bar discrimination by public educational institu-
¯ tions against their own students on bases that do not ¯
relate to their merit," she said.
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while alcohol often accompanies violence, it isn’t the
problem - people are. "I don’t drink a six-pack and
say ’I hate that guy bee-~s’~6’tae’s ghy,"’ sophomore
¯John McKittrick said. "A drunken man’s words are
sober man’s thoughts. I think we need to go after the
people who did this."
Maine Civil Rights Bill
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Jbel Abromson and
Michael Quint come from different backgrounds and
even represent opposite parties in the Legislature, but
they.say they share one thing in common: discrimination.
Abromson, who recalls the prejudice he endured
growing upJewishdnMaine,ds sponsoring a~bill..that
could help Quint and others like him who say their
homosexuality makes them second-class citizens
when it comes to housing and other rights; "Discrimination
happens every single day," said Quint, a Democratic
representative from Portland. "I know because
I have seen it, I have experienced it and still carry
around with me the expectation, even the fear of it
because I know it could happen anytime."
About 500 people attended a public hearing on the
bill held by the Legislature’ s Judiciary Committee. A
similar bill passed both the House and Senate four
years ago, but was vetoed by then-Gov. John
McKernan. But Gov. Angus King supports the legislation,
which would extend to all citizens, no matter
their sexual orientation, the same civil rights guaranteed
regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age,
national origin and physical or mental handicap.
Discrimination in the areas of employment, housing,
public accommodations and credit would be prohibited.
Abromson, a Republican senator from Portland,
recalled his own personal experiences as a Jewish
man growing up in Maine, and how he was called a
"dirty Jew" and a "Christ killer." As a student at
Bowdoin College in the late 1950s, the Portland
Republican said he saw fraternities deny invitations
to Jews and blacks. Later, during a tour of the infamous
Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland,
Abromson said he learned theNazis tried tb exterminate
not only Jews, but gays, Gypsies and Slavs, as
well. Abromson said his bill "ends forever any similarity
between the Nuremberg laws (legitimizing
anti-semitism) of 1930s Germany and state laws of
1990s Maine. This bill is that important."
The bill’s most vocal foe is Concerned Maine
Families, an anti-gay rights group which calls the
proposal a "jobs bill for gays." The organization’s
leaders have warned the bill would give special job
advantages to anyone claiming to be gay or perceived
as gay. Many at the hearing held signs that said, "Stop
the Special Jobs Bill for Gays" and "Equality for ME.
The way life should be." "The effects of this mandate
on small business will be burdensome, unjust, unenforceable
and will heighten the unfriendly business
climate that we must already tolerate in the state of
Maine," said Randall Clark ofCape Elizabeth, president
of Small BusinesS Benefits Inc. and leader of the
CMF!s 1,200-member Business Advisory Board.
Rod Smith of Buxton told the committee he was
fired from his job as a nursing assistant in Lewiston
last January because he was gay. Another gay man,
Guy Riddick of South Portland, said several landlords
in Gorham, Westb.rook and Scarborough toldhim
and his male partner last year they did not rent to
homosexuals. Alandlord in POrtland also refused, but
because that city has an ordinance protecting homosexuals
from housing discrimination, the couple was
able to sue, Riddick said.
In 1995, Maine voters rejected a ballot question by
Concerned Maine Families to restrict gay civil rights,
53 percent to 47 percent. Civil rights advocates are
cormng off a recent loss over same-sex marriages.
The Legislature last month approved a ban on gay
marriages, making Maine the 18th state [o do so. King
let the measure become law without his signature.
Several legislators said they voted for the ban only to
avoid sending the issue to a statewide referendum,
where they feared a negative campaign could hurt the
drive for gay rights.
So far this year, about 17 bills favoring civil rights
for Lesbians and Gay men have been introduced in at
least 14 states, according to the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force.
¯ First Montana Gay Pride
Parade In Bozeman
BOZEMAN (AP) - Despite protests from about 200
¯ people, Bozeman city commissioners unanimously
¯ approved apermit for a gay pride parade this summer,
¯ saying they had no choice. "Ifwe didn’t, it’s discrimi-
¯ nation," Mayor Don Stueck said after the 5-0 vote.
~ Stueck said the city’s attorney, PaulLuwe, had warned
¯ that if the commission banned this parade, it would
¯ have to cancel all parades, including the Sweet Pea
¯ and Montana State University homecoming parades.
¯ Stacey Haugland, a Pride member who attended
¯ Monday’s meeting, said she was pleased by the vote.
’- Pride’has-been a:’~r~al’respectfUl ~bn~m~n~ity gtot~p,"
¯ Haugland.said. "I donrt think the people have any-
~ thing to fear from the parade." The Pride Weekend is
¯ planned June 6-8 at the Emerson Cultural Center to
¯ celebrate gays, lesbians and bisexuals living in Mon-
¯ tana. Three annual weekends have been held before in
other Montana cities.
Raven Kargel of Belgrade, who organized an anti-
. gay march in Bozeman two years ago, said the city
¯ really didn’t have a choice because it would have
¯ been sued by Pride if commissioners rejected the
¯ "sodomites"’ parade. People who oppose homosexuality,
she said, may raise money to sue the city
themselves. "I think it would be better to boycott the
¯ city," specifically downtown, Kargel said. "People
¯ who don’t want to see people bragging about bi:eak-
¯ ing the law need to boycott." KGVW, a Christian
¯ radio station based in Belgrade, had urged listeners to
~ call Bozeman City Hall to protest the parade, and that
¯ prompted about 200 phone calls from around the
¯ Gallatin Valley. "It is like inviting leprosy into the
¯ community," one caller said.
: Transexual Parent Seeks
¯ Custody Rights Back
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A father who lo~t custody of two
¯ song after undergoing a sex change operation says she
¯ plans toask an appeals court to reconsider its ruling.
¯ "There are things only a parent can provide," the
¯ father, now known as Sharon, told the St. Louis Post-
" Dispatch. "That is unconditional love, guidance and
~ wisdom. There is no reason I can’t give that to my
kids."
¯ Sharon, 38, is a graduate of the Air Force Academy
¯ and a former officer in the Air Force and Army. She
has had no direct contact with the boys since late
¯ 1992. Sharon said that the children - now 7 and 10 -
¯ needed both their parents. She plans to ask the Mis-
¯ souri Court of Appeals in St. Louis to reconsider its
¯ March 11 decision giving the boys’ mother sole legal
¯ custody.
¯ Hundreds of battles similar to Sharon’s are waged
~ nationwide each year, but nearly all are fought out-
. side public view, a national advocate for transsexuals
¯ said."Mostcasesdon.t&"splaythecourageofSharon,’
~ who was willing to go public;" said Riki Anne
¯ Wilchins, executive director ofGender Public Advo.
¯ cacy Coalition, or Gender PAC, in New York. Such
¯ custody battles are seldom conducted "on a level
¯
playing field," she said. "Usually, the mode of attack
¯ ~s to portray the transgender parent as, bydefinition,
¯ deviant and anendangerment to their own kids, even
¯ in the absence bf any evidence to support the claim."
~ In Sharon’s ’case; -the appeals ’courtin St:Louis
¯ ruled that a St. Charles County Circuit Court judge
¯ must decide whether visits with Sharon would be in
¯ the boys’ best interest. The appeals rulingo overturned
¯ ajoint-custody decision by anotherjudgein St. Charles
¯ County where the boys’ mother lives.
¯ "Ifyou asked them, I know they would want to talk
¯ with me," Sharon said. "I have never, ever presented
~ myself to my children.as anything other than their
¯ dad. I do not need my chi" ldren’ s vali"dati"on ofm¯ yself
¯ as a.woman."
~ Sharon acknowledged that both boys would need
¯ counseling before they could resume a relationship
¯ with their father. Sharon said her original plan for
¯ reconciliation with her sons called forphone calls and
~ counseling leading up to visits. "I know they would
¯ recognize me as their dad," she said. "I would never
¯ do anything that would harm them."
Y
Teens Feel No Risk
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Th,~re is a
perception amongrural Indiana teen-agers
that AIDS won’t happen to them, according
to a recent study by two Indiana University
professors. "They think they know
everyone, what they are doing and who
they should avoid," said William L.
Yarber, one of the researchers. "That is
really significant relative to the fact that
we are finding, in our center, that AIDS is
growing faster in the rural areas."
Yarber, senior director of the Rural
Center for AIDS/Sexually Transmitted
,Disease Prevention, and Stephanie Sanders,
associate director of the Kinsey Institute,
condUcted the study of 38 adolescents,
ages 11- to 17-years-old. Both males
and females said they would not practice
sexual abstinence just to avoid HIV, and
females expressed a greater fear of pregnancy
than of HIV infection.
"There is a real perception in the rural
communities that they don’t believe their
ownrural town has been touched by AIDS
and that they are invulnerable," Yarber
said. But state statistics show that both
counties involved in the study have AIDS
cases and several HIV diagnoses as well,
Yarber said. "They may not know people
as well as they think," he said. "But they
don’t feel they have to worry about it."
1st Nat’lCurriculum
About; HIV/AIDS
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A new tool to
slow down the~spread of HIV where it is
increasing fastest - among teens - has
been u0y~iled,~gcently. "The Science of
HIV,?~.a. l;84-page teachers’ guide and 30-
minute Video, is:the first gcience program
designed to ~each students about the human
immunodeficiency virus, how it
causes,AIDS, and how to avoid it. The
guide wasunveiled at a National Science
Teachers Association (NSTA) meeting.
"The research community has made
encouraging progress in treating AIDS,
but the only 100 percent effective treatment
we have is prevention," said James
Gallarda, with Abbott Laboratories. "By
teaching the science of HIV and AIDS,
we hope to give students a better understanding
of how this disease is prevented
and treated."
Gallarda, who helped put together the
Chicago Museum of Science and
Industry’s AIDS exhibit, said that work
prompted Abbott to ask the NSTA about
developing the program.
A new report from the Centers for Disease
Prevention and Control found that
new AIDS cases among 13- to 25-yearolds
infected thrdugh sex and drug needles
rose 20 percent between 1990 and 1995,
he said. One quarter of all new HIV infections
are among people younger than’22.
Even science teachers in the audience
murmured in surprise Friday at the results
of one demonstration designed to show
how quickly a virus can spread.
Author Michael DiSpezio passed out
clear plastic cups of clear liquid to the two
dozen teachers and reporters who attended
the breakfast meeting. Four of the cups
were "infected" with an alkali and would
turn bright pink when the right chemical
was added. He had each person turn to a
neighbor, mix the contents of their cups
together, then divide the mixed liquid
back between the two cups. Then each
person turned to a different neighbor and
did the same thing. DiSpezio went down
the aisles with a vial and eyedropper,
adding the telltale chemical to each cup.
Every single one turned bright pink.
¯ Sharon Nelson, a biology teacher at
Waunakee High in Wisconsin and an ad-
¯ visory board member for the project, told
~ the group that when she used the demon-’-~’
¯ stration in her class of 22 students, two
¯ cups remained clear- and one was held by
¯ a student she had asked to abstain from
¯ mingling fluids.
¯ "I wasjust- ’Wow! The kids will really
¯ go for that! That is very emphatic,’ "said
~ WillaRamsay, a high-schoolteacher from
¯ San Diego. "I am going to my district
¯ science-math manager with it. I think it
¯ needs to be promoted throughout our en-
¯ tire district" she said.
¯ DiSpezio said he thinks that teaching
¯ H1V as science, rather than morality, will
¯ help thecurriculum avoid the fate of safe-
] sex education programs. A committee
¯ namedbytheNationalInstitutes ofHealth
¯ reported in February that moral and gov-
¯ ernment objections are blocking safe sex
¯¯ education programs.
She asked if it could also be used in
¯ middle school, and the developers said
¯ yes. "By the time they get to us at ninth
¯ grade, they’re pretty well educated the
¯ wrong way," Ramsay said. "I think we
¯ need to get to the students in sixth grade."
¯ Condoms for Kids
~ SEATILE (AP) - Adults can buy con-
. doms at clubs, bars or gas stations, but
¯ access isn’t as easy for youths. A publicprivate
partnership campaign aimed at
¯ lowering HIV infection hopes to change
¯ that. The campaign, dubbed Project AC-
¯ TION, is placing condom machines in
¯ Seattle businesses where young people
¯ gather. It’s an attempt to reduce the risk of
¯ sexually transmitted disease and preg-
¯ nancy rates among youths ages 14 to 20.
¯ Kae Lee Dozier, 14, says about a third ¯
of her friends are.having sex. Many of
¯ them think they are immune to sexually
¯ transmitted diseases, HIV, or pregnancy.
¯ "They think ’it can’t happen to ~me,’ but
¯ they’re wrong," Miss Dozier says.
¯ Miss Dozier, other youths and numer-
¯ ous business, religious and political lead-
" ers on Thursday announced their support
¯ for Project ACTION. Organizers de-
. scribed it as the first broad effort to make
¯ low-cost (25 cents) condoms available to
¯ youths with no strings attached. The two-
" year, $450,000 campaign is modeled after
¯ a project started in Portland, Ore., which
¯ includes public education and peer coun-
¯ seling. Seattle and San Jose, Calif., are the
~ next cities to go "online" with the project.
¯ Five condom machines have been in-
- stalled in two Seattle businesses so far and
~ the Project hopes to place dispensers in
¯ 130 otherbusinesses with significantyouth
¯ patronage. In King County, health sur-
¯ veys among youths show that 60 percent
~ ofhigh school students are sexually active
¯ by graduation, yet only half of them use
, condoms.
Lisa Bond, president of the Seattle
¯
Council of Parent Teacher Student Asso-
~ ciation, said even though the PTA has
¯ taken no official position on condom avail-
" ability, she personally views the project
¯ .as a step forward. ’Td rather have them do
¯ an end run and save my child’s life than
¯ have a child die from ignorance," Ms.
¯ Bond said. "The more kids know about
¯ the dangers they’re facing, the better deci-
¯ sions they can make."
Gwen Williams, director of Holiness
Missions, acknowledged that the avail-
. ability of condoms is disturbing to many,
¯ particularly churchgoers who emphasize
¯ abstinence. But, Ms. Williams, said,
~ "We’re talking about saving lives. We
¯ find a bias in church ... that people don’t
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A User (Un) Friendly Guide to
(Mis) Managed Care
By Dr. Michael Gorman
Who is managing who? Is Managed
Care managing yourhealth oryourmoney?
And which is more Important, money or
health? And to whom? What is happemng
in the dynamic field of health insurance
providers and third party payer organizations?
First, a simple (if possible) explanation
on how the system seems to be
operating currently...
For example.: an insurance company
presents a "plan" to a potential purchase
group (Le., an employer with, say, so
many employees). The "Plan" will provide
certain services for each insured at a
cost of $100.00 per person (employee)
per month. This plan has a $300.00 annual
deductible and pays 80% of your medical
bills after that deductible is met. Sounds
pretty easy so far. Here’s where it gets
complicated... A third party approaches
your insurance company and tells them
they can cut their expenses by 40%. This
third party is the Managed Care group. It
functions as an intermediary (negotiator)
between you and your doctor, hospital,
pharmacy, etc., and your original insurance
company. Its function is to make
.money (profits) for themselves and for the
Insurance company. It is not in the busi-
¯ gist, "Sorry, no money is left in the Heart
¯ Transplant Fund. Procedure demed.
That’s it! After all, money talks. This is
¯ how our civilized, capitalistic society func-
¯ tions. Now, I wouldn’t have such a prob-
¯ lem with all this, if the Managed Care
~ groups were going broke orifthese groups
¯ functioned as not-for-profit institutions.
¯ But when insurance and Managed Care
¯ companies are showing record profits, it ¯
becomes extremely difficult to rationalize
how someone could be turned down
¯ for a life-saving procedure.
Have yourpremiums gonedown lately ?
Have your deductibles or co-payments
been reduced this year? Physicians’. pay
has dropped by nearly 40% in the past few
¯ years, so they are not benefiting..Ask
¯
yourself, "If premiums are up and benefits
are down, who is making out? It
¯ doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure
¯ that the Managed Care groups and your
insurance company are laughing all the
¯ way to the bank. If you think (or don’t
¯ think) managed health care is bad now,
¯ here is a look into the crystal ball...
~ Primary care physicians will be called
¯ uponto make decisions (final decisions in
¯ some cases) about health care procedures
¯ based on age and need. For example, say
~ I am your primary care physician, you are
60 years of age, and you need kidney
¯ dialysis. But, I can have only five people
¯ a year on dialysis treatment. Four slots are ¯
already filled and, just before your apness
to serve you.or-your doctor!s, ¯ pointment, a 25 year old patient of mine
hospital’s, and pharmacist’s (etc.) best ¯ also needs dialysis. Who gets dialysis slot
interests:~ Which is your health! Period. ¯ #5? In the future, the care will go to those
The sooner.you understand the princi.-. ~ : who can pay out ofpocket: In other words,
pal motives of the Managed Care gr0up’s~- . just likeih~judici’ai system, the rich will
interest (which is money-making), the- ¯ prevail in health care.
better equipped you will be to deal with. ~ Obvi~usly this is avery simplistic overthe
pr0blei~s you may encounterl Tile ,~’ vi~c.0f thetotal managed health Care
decisions made in health care today .are ¯ picture. "What can I do?" you ask. Get
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say you need a heart transplant. Your ~. the State Insurance Commissioners. And
primary care physician must refer you out o take care of your health by becoming fit,
to a specialist (cardiologist)~ and he/she
must ask the Managed Care group if you
can be approved for the heart transplant.
Mind you, there are funds allocated for
these procedures for each group or plan.
Well, guess what?! It’s toward the end of
the fiscal year and the Heart Transplant
Fund is depleted. An accountant from the
Managed Care group tells your cardiolo-
¯ ea.ting right, and supplementing with vita-
¯ mlns daily in order to avoid feeding the
~ (Mis)Managed Care Monster!!
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want to deal with these issues- not AIDS,
not sex before marriage," she said. "But
we must face the reality or we’re going to
lose our youth."
Miss Dozier said condom availability
reduces, rather than encourages, sexual
activity among youths. "Knowing more
about this gives you the power; you don’t
think of having sex because you’re drunk
or rebelling or because you feel pressured,"
Miss Dozier said. "After getting
all this information aboutAIDS, I’m holding
back from .sex. It made me want to
wait, and I think more youths will wait
and hold off more, the more they know
about the risks."
Gore Seeks More $
For AIDS Drugs
WASHINGTON (AP) Hoping to improve
access to AIDS-fighting drugs, the
Clinton administration is exploring the
possibility of expanding Medicaid coverage
for people afflicted with HIV, the
virus that causes AIDS. Vice President A1
¯ Gore has asked the Health Care Financing
¯ Administration "to look into the possibil- ¯
ity" of making Medicaid available earlier
¯ to people with HIV to get them the cut-
. ting-edge drugs needed to help them. -
¯ "If it works out, as I hope and expect it
¯ will, it can ease suffering, renew hope and
¯ help ensure that goodpeopte are notpriced
¯ out of lifesaving medicine," Gore said
¯ Wednesday. He said the move was neces-
¯ sary because people diagnosedwith HIV
¯ can develop full-blown AIDS before be-
. coming eligible for Medicaid, "and that
¯ makes some of these new drugs prohibitively
expensive for people who need
¯ them."
¯ Gore made the announcement after re-
" ceiving the 1997 National Leadership
Award for Public Service from AIDS
¯ Action, an AIDS advocacy group. He said
¯ he has asked the HCFA to report back to
¯ him in 30 days after exploring the possi-
~ bility. "Our view is that getting these
¯ drugs to people earlier will not cost more
¯ in the long run," he said. "Itmay even save
¯ money, and it will certainly save lives."
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READ ALL ABOUT IT
Reviewed by Barry Hensley
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An apparent oxymoron, Steve
Gunderson was a multi-term, gay Republican
congressman from a rural
Wisconsin district. Amoderate,
traditional Lutheran,
Gunderson had quietly represented
his district since 1981
before deciding not to seek
reelection in 1996. The story
ofGunderson and his long term
partner, coauthor Rob Morris,
is inspiring, but somewhat disappointing.
Told in alternating narratives
by each author, House
and Home is a refreshingly
candid view of a major, gay
publiC figure. Many moderates
and progressives were
deeply disappointed when
Gunderson declined to run for
a ninth term. He had risen to a
position of seniority and influence
when he decided that
he could no longer trust his
own party for support. He realized
this one day in 1994,
while attending a Wisconsin
Republican caucus: "it was
composed mostly of right-
¯
Gunderson to become more vocal about
his life with Rob Morris. They had met in
¯ 1983 and Gunderson had occasionally
¯ mentioned Morris during political
¯ speeches. After being outed, Morris con-
Gundel n
lashes outat
whathe
considersthe
liberal,
left-w_’mgof
theGa-y ci rigrit
movement...
. t_iayacfivists
taavetoaccept
thatGays are
not
automatically
that
vinced Gunderson to respond
forcefully to critics by pointing
out that the Republican
Party had "an historic role in
fighting prejudice." Gunderson
insists that "anyone who
was familiar with the history
ofthe Republican Party would
understand that, like Barry
Goldwater, I could legitimately
say, ’I didn’t leave the
party, the party left me.’ "
Morris, comments are
mostly short contributions of
apersonal nature. Being a Congressional
spouse, he had to
maintain a careful balance
between G/anderson’s public
and private life. Morris dutifully
details his perspective,
but without much of the wit
and humor that he apparently
possesses.
Gunderson lashes out at
what he considers the liberal,
leftwingofthe Gay civil rights
movement. He has often, been
accused of "sleeping with the
wing ’true believers’ who had "[~t=r~ ]]’~ll¢~,~ne
come .to the caucus straight . xx~~oa~a
from services at their funda- .aren t _
mentalist churches. Mostwere
people I had never met before au~oxx.~u.~,c.ttt,y
in politics. They were part of enemies....
the ’family values’ army, loyal
in every way to the Religious RighVs high
command. Not schooled or motivated in
partisan politics, not educated about government
or history, and not informed in
any deep, objective way about many of
the major issues, they were there because
they had been told that the only way to
save the lives of fetuses from abortion, to
save their children from the influence of
predatory homosexuals, and to save
America from degradation was to show
up at these caucuses and compel the Republican
Party to do their will."
His 1994 outing on the floor of the
House of Representatives, by controversial
congressman Bob Dornan, forced
.enemy,’/. : Gunderson~ s response:."
Gay activists have to
~aecept ~that gays are not auto-
.matically DemOcrats, that Republicans
aren’t automatically
enemies, and that it is vital to
have friends in the majority
¯ party. More specifically, it is crucial to
~ have openly gay Republicans who are
¯ willing to do the sometimes tough and
¯ thankless work of sensitizing the party to
¯¯ gay issues, gay rights, and gay humanity."
Gunderson, ofcourse, decided in less than
¯ two years after his outing, that this was the
¯ responsibility of someone else, someone
who has yet to show up. The abdication of
¯ his essential role diminishes the impact of
his otherwise impressive story.
¯ Checkfor House and Home, and books
¯ on other related topics, at your local
¯ branch library, or call the R~aders Ser-
¯ vices department at the Central Library
at 596-7966.
Email is a wondrous thing. At the moment,
I am in Fort Worth, and having to
write a colmnn for deadline. Fortunately,
computers allow tiffs to happen. Or unfortunately,.
depending on your perspective.
You will notice this column is a bit differcnt
from others. I have a story to tell. It
may be meamngful, it may be entertmning.
I hope it is both.
Story one: In 1986, my Father was
diagnosed with cancer. He was admitted
into the hospital for a biopsy. I, as well as
the rest ofmy fanfily, were strained mad in
denial He had never shown his age frotu
the time I was born up to that point in his
lifc. 1! sccmcd he would always be there
lor us. I was in a play at the time, a
drcadflfl nmsical review. I had a solo part
in a song (my lirst ever). I was in school
full timc and working, so I didn’t have
much time for hospital visits. According
to fanfily that did spend time at the hospital,
his wish was that I continue in the
rehearsals and not miss any on his account.
Since we all thought he’d be home
at any time, I suffered through the rehearsai,
trying to conquermy fear of singing
in front of people. His biopsy kept
being delayed, and a two day visit stretched
into three weeks. I did visit him a couple
of times, and each time he seemed older,
as though the years were catching up to
him all at once. It scared me, but still I kept
thinking he’d be home soon. I remember
him looking out the window once, a sad,
resigned look on his face. He said something
- I cannot to this day remember
what, but I know it had to do with what
was coming.
I continued struggling to smile while
singing and remembering choreography
and lyrics at the same time. Dad continued
to go downhill, each time they’d think he
was ready for biopsy, see Jim, page 13
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Tulsa, one need go no farther than Cherry ¯ The lunch time crowd has welcomed
Street to wakeup their tastebuds. Tucci’s, the addition of daily pasta specials to the
located at the site ofthe former
long-beloved Cherry Street
Bakery, serves up food in the
New Italian mold with strong
California influences.
While not exclusively a
pizza parlor, it’ s pizza that has
made Tucci’s a Cherry Street
destination, even with such old
standbys as The Hideawayjust
across the street. Nothing promotes
a restaurant more than
the Shock value and talk factor
of previous customers telling
their friends about their dining
experience, and diners here
will certainly have something
to talk about. The kitchen at
Tucci’s makes up a fine, handtossed
pizza crust, and then
covers ~t with some unbelievable
toppings. Two ofthe most
talked about combinations are
the Stone Temple Pie, which
features marinated cactus,
smoked fajita chicken, and
black beans, and the Thai Pie,
an interesting mix of spicy
peanutpesto, teriyaki chicken,
bamboo shoots, and chow
mein noodles.
Intrigued? Shocked and appalled?
Read on. The Upstream
Dream, a fairly new
addition to the menu, is topped
with smoked salmon. The
Aglio Arrosto (roasted garlic
for the non-Italianophones out
there) has roasted garlic,
pinenuts, and Italian sausage.
The California Pie is loaded
down with artichoke hearts,
sun dried tomatoes, olives, fresh basil,
and feta cheese. And, the list goes on.
The true artistry at Tu_cci’ s is that, while
certainly bizzarre sounding, these unusual
topping combinations work. Oftentimes,
we see restaurants trying to be too creative,
and they can’t quite pull it off, but
that is not the case here. The pies inspire
strong emotions from the diners--they either
love it or they hate it. We’ve never
heard anything in between.
All of the pizzas are accompanied by a
wonderful lemon Caesar salad, crispy romaine
with a zesty and bright lemon juice
dressing, instead of the more traditional
egg yolk-based Caesar. And, when the pie
amves, it immediately takes center stage,
since it is presented on a metal footed cake
plate. But, after the shock of the toppings,
be prepared for another shock. The bill. A
large pizza is $19.50.
Pizzas are not the only menu item available,
especially since the recent menu
redo, which added additional entree
choices, mostly in the sandwich department.
An Italian "rich boy" is offerred for
$5.75, as is a chicken parmesan. Grilled
Italian sausages and peppers goes for
$5.25, while smoked turkey breast and
chicken salad tarragon sandwiches come
in a $4.95. A very interesting Roasted
Italian vegetables in pita bread sells for
$4.95, and we’ve found this sandwich
interesting, though a bit heavy on the
lettuce and short on the vegetables .All of
Tucci’s
1344 East 15th
11 am- 10pm
Mon - Thurs
Fri/Sat til 11
closed Sun
Cuisine:
Nuovo
Italiano
Dress: Casual
Payment:
Cash, checks
MC, Visa,
and AmEx
Alcohol:
Domestic and
imported beer
Smoking:
Smoking on
outdoor deck,
non-smoking
inside (sort of)
Cost:
Moderate
~kat{.1nsgt:
menu, selling for $5.50, which
includes the lemon Caesar and
Italian bread. On the day we
reviewed Tucci’s, the special
was a spinach fettuccine with
basil cream. Assuming one
likes spinach (which we
don’t), the pasta was freshly
made and had a distinct
spinachy taste. The basil
cream sauce had pieces of
fresh basil leaf in it and was
light and pleasant. The only
surprise was that the dish was
served with a large soup spoon
on the plate. Why? There
wasn’t any soup on the menu?
Surely, they didn’t expect us
to. eat our fettuccine with a
spoon ! (for those who haven’t
memorized the writings of
Miss Manners, Jean-Pierre
insists that it is incorrect to eat
spaghettior fettuccine using a
spoon to~,~help twirl the pasta
around th~ fork.)
Several.~alads are also available,
from a large lemon Caesar
at $4~50, to the chicken
salad an~t~he.Mediterraneo at
$6.50. Could s~m.eone please
tell us why the: Mediterranean
salad proudly proclaims that
it contains shrimp from the
Gulf ofMexico? There is also
antipasto for $6:50.~
Beverages are fun here. Certainly,
the mostpopular is iced
cappuccino. They also make
Italian sodas, soda water with
a shot or two of various flavoring
syrups, and have an
¯ extensive selection of bottled waters, in-
~ cluding the Welch "Ty Nant," the pricey
¯ stuff in the pretty cobalt bottle.
Biscotti and cheesecake are always avail-
" able for dessert, and, when the kitchen
~ makes it and there is some left, a nice
¯ spumoni ice cream ($3.00) can be had.
¯ Even better is the tiramisu, sponge cake
¯ soaked with espresso and layered with
¯
Italian cream for $3.75.
The food at Tucci’s is good, and a
¯ relatively goodvalue for the money. The
¯ major area needing improvement is the
service. Chronically understaffed, the
¯ friendly and earnest wait staff will get to
¯ one’s table as soon as they can, but still,
¯ the wait can be annoying. On ourlast visit,
~ the iced cappuccinos and Italian sodas
¯ arrived at the table with no spoons or
¯ straws. And, the music being broadcast
¯ over the speakers was so loud, we could
~ hardly hear one another talk, making us
¯ feel like we were at the Full Moon Cafe
¯ across the street.
¯ But, the future is looking bright. The ¯
ownership triumvirate of husband, wife,
¯ and mother has recently extensively re-
- modeled the kitchen, and the menu under-
" goes regularrevision and freshening. The
¯ outside deck remains a popular spot for
¯ watching the Cherry Street traffic. We
¯ like Tucci’s.
~ Not feeling up to cactus or pineapple or
¯ peanuts on your pizza? There’s a-Pizza
¯ Hut just down the street for the timid.
Y
Chairman Terrance Tom called a nmvs
conference mad insisted that without referring
the opposite-sex couples in the
amendment, it will continue to invite la~vstfits
challenging the marriage law.
House and Senate conferees were fac;
ing an internal deadline of resolving their
differences over the stone-sex marriage
bills, although Sott~ acknowledged that
deadline could be waived upon an agreement
with Senate President Norman
Mizuguchi. Both Souki and Tom expressed
confidence that an amendment to
ban same-sex manJages and a package of
benefits for gay mad lesbian couples will
be approved before the Legislatm’e adjourns
April 29.
Tom defended his decision at die latest
House-Senate meeting Wednesday night
not to take up the rights package for samesex
couples. He said as far as he’s concerned,
the Senate has failed to provide a
comlter proposal to the House’s latest
proposal. Senate conference co-chairnlan
Avery Chumbley said the Senate will
meet with the House when the Itouse
agrees to take up both the anlendment mid
tile Lesbian/Gay benefits package and not
separate them. "They are both are part of
the stone problem mad we’re not going to
separate them," he said.
Rhode s and Kills
Anti-Marriage Bill
PROVIDENCE, RA. (AP) _ A bill to ban
gw marriages was voted down by a powerful
House couun{ttee on Thursday.
"Life in Rhode I~l,’md is not going to
change tomorrow if we don’t pass tiffs
bill," said Rep. Timoth3 Willianlson, DWest
Warwick, a member of the House
Judiciary Connnittee.
A1 though Rhode I slmad doesn’ t recognize
gay marriages uow, the bill’s supporters
worried the state would be forced to recognize
them if legalized in another state.
Debate over the issue led Congress to pass
and President Cliuton to sign last year the
Defense of Marriage Act. The law says
the federal government will not recognize
gay nlamages andit allows states to refuse
to recognize them as well.
No states allow homosexuals to marry,
although the Hawaiian Supreme Court is
considering the issue.
Rep. Michael Pisaturo, D-Cranston, opposed
the bill so much he introduced one
of his own to legalize same-sex marriages,
although henow plans to let his bill
die.
City Grants Partners
Health Insurance
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Saying he
hopes to lay down a model for the rest of
the state, MayorMichael Albano on Thursday
began offering health insurance to
gay and lesbian partners of city workers.
He acknowledged talat the move is bomld
to breed some dissent, saying, "There are
.those who do not yet understand that tails
IS a new world we live in." But he added,
"It is the right thing to do. My adininistration
will not discrilninate based on ...
alternative lifestyle. And no other city in
Massachusetts or in America should elfiler."
Springfield, file third largest city in tale
state with 160,000 residents, became the
second Bay State connnunity with such a
nleasure in effect, according to Gay mid
Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a Boston-
based group that monitors gay rights.
Mary Bonauto, tlae group’s civil rights
direc.tor, said Cambridgeis tale other commumty.
"It’s a basic stand by the mayor
and city of Springfield for fairness to all
fmnilies and also for equal pay’ for eqtml
work," she said.
Albano signed the executive order in a
brief late-afternoon ceremony before city
and .state officials, gay-rights advocates,
jottrnalists mad others. State Attorney
General Scott Harshbarger, a supporter of
the policy, was also there. Albano said he
expects perhaps 20 or 30 of the city’s
6,500 employees to sign up for such coverage.
But he predicted it won’t create the
need for any larger appropriation. The
progranl now costs about $32 ~nillion a
year. The mayor ordered bereavement
and sick time rights for gay mid lesbian
partners of city workers in January 1996.
The city is defining a gay or lesbian
"domestic pm:tner" as someone sharing
expenses and living with the city employee
for at least a year "in a relationslfip
of mutual support, caning and counnitment
in wlfich they intend to remain for
file indefinite
In western Massachusetts, the town of
Palmer briefly adopted such a policy, but
oppouents m,’maged to dismantle it within
months. In Northmnpton, city leaders approved
apolicy ofletting stone-sex couples
register as such tbr certain rights, but not
health insurance. Voters later blocked the
move in a public referendum. In Springfield,
not everyone was embracing the
idea. "As a resic]ent, I find it reprehensible
that file3’ can do something fl~at so many
citizens are morMly opposed to," said
Ronald Crochetiere, a resident who said
he has been active on some political issues.
Maine Gov. Lets
Anti-Marriage Bill Pass
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Sayiug his
decision was not an easy one, Gov. Angus
King will let the gay marriage ball enacted
by’ the Legislature last week become law
without his signature rather than force a
referendum by vetoing tale bill.
King said he has "a deep respect for the
institntion of marriage and its religious
roots," but he does uot bdieve the bill
remedies a problem because there’s no
movement in Maine to make same-sex
marriages legal. The governor also said
he does not believe traditional marriage is
under assault in Maine. "I believe that this
bill has very little to do with marriage and
nothhlg to do withlove," said King.
Concerned Maine Families, which led
the initiative that forced tam legislative
vote, said the law protects traditional
marriage from threats by inilitant gay
activists.
The governor had three options after
the bill was enacted by overwhelming
margins last week by the House and Senate:
sign file bill, veto it, wlfich would
force a referendum, or let it become law
without his signature. King said a referendum
would trigger a bitter and divisive
statewide campaign that would not benefit
the public. The governor also said he
expects the law to be successfully challenged
in court. He believes it violates
both tile equal protection and full faith
and credit clauses of the Constitution.
"This bill will briefly become law in
Maine, but it will nothavemynameonit,"
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"~ d~)’mplication would arise. The last visit
the fanfily had with him, he looked plNn
tired and we~. I had never seen him look
that way in my life. At one point, he ended
up in the intensive care refit. The last time
I saw him, he was so heavily sedated that
nay brother’s voice brought no reaction at
all. When I spoke, his eyelids fluttered as
he straggled to open his eyes. He finally
did, and tried to speak - in vain, because
they had a breattfing robe stuck down his
throat, making it impossible to talk. But
he. came to, tried to speak, and became
extremely agitated when he couldn’tcommunicate.
My brother and I were ushered out by
the nurse, for fear our presence would
disturb him further, causing him to damage
the numerous tubes and devices connected
to him. Keeping him alive. Sort of.
That is the last time I saw my father alive.
A couple of weeks later he lapsed into
coma. Momgave the orders to remove the
life support.
My father left this plane alone. No one
who h~ew him was there. I vowed then
that if anyone I was close to was in the
hospital, my first priority was being there.
No show, nojob, no other event would be
more important than being there - for
fmnily, friend, or lover.
The show went on. I remember the day
Dad died. The director berated me venomoush’
in front of the cast for not smiling
and"selling" the numbers I was in. I
had left a message on the answering machine
that morning, he didn’t get the message
until after the rehearsal. I for a change,
~vas the first one out the door, so he ufi ssed
me. I was ready, for the first time, to walk
out on a show. I just about told him he
could take the bloody solos and give them
to someone else. gcrew "’professionalism".
It had cost me too much Nready.
There ,are times that "The show must go
on" is absolute poppycock. There will be
other shows. I held my tongue, but barely.
I was in too much shock to say anything at
that Moment. He did apologize later.
Story two: I am in Fort Worth because
nay Mother has breast cancer, and had
both of her breasts removed on Monday
the 7th. According to several doctors, she
will need help for 2 -3 weeks, as she
won’t be able to lift her purse, so I am here
to help. Mom’s health is not so great.
She’s 74, a heavy smoker, and is handicapped,
and thus cm~’t get around solo
under the best of Circumstmaces. I have
too many scars and unanswered questions
leftover from Dad (as do all the members
ofmy f,’unil y) to ever let anyone I know go
into a hospital without me being there.
People can slip away too damn fast.
And all the political ballyhoo and bickering
in the world doesn’t change that.
Yes, it’s important to fight for what’s
right, and to use your time wisely. But
don’t forget the other things that are import~
mt, too - the smell of a flower, the
voice of a loved one, and the time you
spend with them. In the end, that.., is ....
ALL... that.., matters. Nomatterhow mnch
they am~oy you. You will miss them when
they’re gone. Jobs are replaceable, things
are replaceable, people ~e not. And too
many filings can go wrong.
My father died of cancer, my morn is
dealing with cancer, and we have tbund
out that three male cousins on her side are
dealing with/have died from cancer. Her
sister had breast cancer. I can’t shake the
feeling that I ana seeing how I will die,
barring bus crashes, plane explosions, and
bank robberies. It is ~t too likety, given
[hmily history and genetics Not to mention
that there is no more severe issue thm~
losino a pare~t I~sing one is bad enom,h’
it t~rces you to den with mortNity m a
way that no other loss can do. When a
parent Nes, you lose not oNy apart of
your Nstory, and present, but Nso your
clfildh~d. No one will be there to dean
up yot~ nfist&es or save you frown yourself,
if you were so fortunate to have had
fmNly like that. Some axen’t.
I’ve been lucky thus t’~. I ~ow Mom
will not l~t forever. Quite fray, the
f~ly has been expecting a Nagnosis of
lung ~acer to pop up for ye~s, yet she
has remNned in fNr heNth. She never
expected to outhve Dad. And when he
died, she stepped up the ~ount of algareties
consumed in order to ~tch up with
Nm. Didn’t woN. Bre~t ~cer was a
sunrise to us ~1. I and my fanfily have
certNNy had, and continue to have, our
differen~s. But they have always been
there for me, t~ough my back surgery,
tl~ough nasty splits with exMovers, and
whatever other crises I had. Now, it’s my
turn to be there for them. I tN~ this is
what should Ne meant by the term "fmnily
values."
And with that rather drmnatic ending, I
do have a Mnd of review. Anyone catch
toNght’ s "Dr. Qnim~, Medicine Woman"?
It’s not a show I usual3 watch (I am not at
~I parti~ to westerns - sacrilege coming
from an OM~oma resident and nativeborn
Texan, but there you ~e,), but b3
complete accident (except I, like Obi-
Wan Kenobi, don’t believe in accidents.
So~y, had to get that St~ Wars reference
in there, ya M~ow.), I happened upon it
tolfight. I was about to change the chanuel,
when the gist of the plot line lilt me.
Dr. Quinn was brining Walt Wlfitm~
into her dusty little Colorado county town
for a p~try reading. I though t~s a rather
novel idea. I wondered if they were going
to de~ With Iris being homosexual or just
gloss it over. So, I stayed tuned. I was
pleasantly suwfised.
Dr. Quiim, noticed that WdtW~
w~ depressed (Hmnun. Sounds fm~li~.
Have I wfitmn about ~s before?) and
asked lfim what wm up. He w~ saddened
that Iris so.mate could not be wi~ ~m.
She sfid, tot~ly t~owing of what gender
~s so.mate ~ght ~ (heterosexist
assumptions, don’tcha ~ow), "Well,
bring lfim on out from the ~st Co~tF’
Well, Waltw~ happier than a Gay m~in
a gym, and perked nfighfily. Me.time,
Her young son, a writer for the school
paper, interviewed Wilt for the school
paper...flone with ~m...during a solit~y
wflk in the woods. Back to subplot number
two,in w~ch the mwns~ople, thrilled
at the prospect of a man of W~t’s stature
bestowing a bit ofculture upon ~eir dusty
town, become rather discfinfinatory upon
being ~e gossip that W~t (GASP[) is a
"Nmmy-boy", "one of them fellers who
don’t like women ~e way most men normflly
do". Dr. Qui~m is hogtied that her
boy has been ~one with trim. She t~ks to
Sully, plwedby the everhm~yJoe ~do,
who tells her that she’s ove~eacting, that
in lfis Nbe, gay folk are ac~pted~dhave
eqtu~ status. His is the voice of reason,
and he’s given excellent diNoN~e in tlfis
episode. Well, She questions the boy, and
tells lfim not go into the woods None with
X~qfitman. She does do some research, and
finds ~at some German literature of the
day ch~flks it up to a defective gene. She is
upset, because she emwnined Whitman
and didn’t "see" anytlfing like this wrong
with lfim. see Jim, page 14
~JJr~ continued from page 13
Stdly tells her she should just
accept him for who he is, that he
is still the same mm~ whose writing
tlmlled her.
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looking. Call if you’re fun and can be discreet.
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s.~ng friend to share with. I’m most interested in
other ~l),, White males, betwean 21 and 45 who
are willing to go slowly. (Tulsa) ’~23748
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should be hbeast, loving, caring, and drag frea, as
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me theway. (Tulsa) ’~26412
TULSA TIME I’ve got time on my hands.
Would you like to spend it with me? This Gay
male, enjoys reading sports, and music. Ad ust
the vo ume, and let s taFk. (Tulsa) =25617
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year old Gay male, 6ft, 1501bs, with Brown
hair, and Blue eyes. I like tno’~ies, sports, and
anything athletic. I’m not yet "out" to the world,
but I want to try a relationship with a guy
between 18 and 25. (Tulsa) =25579
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good times in Tulsa. I want to meat some new
I’m 5’9, 1701bs. Give me a call and let’s
out. (Tulsa) =25403
TRANSYLVANIA BEAUTY I’m a white,
Transgender, Bi Male, 26, 5’9, with Brown
hair, and Blue eyes. I’m very beautiful. I’d like
to meat another Bi, or Gay, Transgender male,
26 to 30, who is good looking, clean, kind,
and nice. (Tulsa) =25080
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years. Find out what’s so hot about me. Call
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THE SECRET SHARER Can you help me find
a dominant Bi or Straight guy who wants to
have a discreet relationship? I’m an attractive,
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at more. I’m a financially and emotionally
~, White male, 33 years old, 5’11
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to give it to me hard. I’m a cute guy in my 30’s,
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want to have a gay old time. (Tulsa) =24840
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search of another Gay, White male, between
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h:)llowed by a long, hard day. I’m versatile.
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Sept, 15 - Oct. 14, 1996, vol. 3, no. 10
Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual & Trans Communities
ENDA
DOMA WASHINGTON- The U.S. Senate voted on the Defense
of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), two key pieces of
legislation affecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender Americans. The Senate passed the anit-
Gay DOMA bill, 85-14, as was expected. The Senate
then voted 49 to 50 to defeat ENDA.
Oklahoma’s senators, Don Nickles and Jim Inhofe,
both noted for their hostility to their Lesbian & Gay
constituents, voted against ENDA and for DOMA.
Nickles was the Senate sponsor of DOMA and Inhofe
an original co-sponsor.
TulsaOklahomans for H~_~man Rights (TOHR) issued
a statement strongly condemning their votes, particularly
criticizing Inhofe for his refusal to meet with
Lesbian and Gay constituents, community leaders or
Gay press. Sen. Nieldes sent a letter to colleagues
calling for a vote against ENDA because it would
"promote sexual promiscuity". He also equated homosexuality
and bisexuality with bestiality, pedophiliaand
adultery, and suggested that local school boards should
be able to fire or not hire staff who express opinions
advocating homosexual or bisexual relationships.
The measures had became hopelessly entangled in a
series of political moves, counter-moves, and countercounter-
moves. DOMA, which has already cleared a
House vote, would define marriage as a legal commitment
between one man and one woman. The effect
would be to deny any federal benefits to married samesex
couples.
No state currently recognizes such marriages, but a
lion of the work of several
TOHR boards and longtime
community supporters. Tim
Gillean, former president of
the organization, was recognizedinparticularforhis
leadership.
’‘This project has been
the dream of many but without
Tim Gillean, we would
not be where we are today,"
noted pres. Debbie Starnes.
The Pride Center will be
open to all community organi
zations andindividtmls who
share its goals which include
ending discrimination and oppression
based on sexual orimany
but without
oR.]DE CENTER N ON BROOKSIDE OCT. 4TH ¯
Officer ’ - ..... _" Many community organizations have enabout
to i dorsed this project. Prime Timers has donated
Bisexual
i $1,000 for The Pride Center and Rainbow
Brookside Business Guild, The Black &White Charities,
Rights (TOHR) and Inc., PFLAGleaders, Bill &Kathy Hinkle and
foot center open in October. pastors of the churches that reach out to the
A spokesperson for the or- community support The Pride Center.
ganization noted that The " Part of the 3,500 s. f. of The Pride Center
Pride Centeris theculmina- been the dream o~" " will provide offices for HOPE, HIV Outreach,
¯
Prevention, Education which are the preven-
¯ tion programs of TOHR. HOPE’s director,
T;m G;llean,
[former pres.],
we would not
be where we
are today,"
- Deb Starnes
Pride Ctr. Pres.
entation. Officials stated that The Pride Center opens with a modest
budget and will be supported by individual and organizational mem-
.berships, as well as byindividual pledges. Membership is $20/yearfor
individuals and $35/year for couples. Pledges range from $3-5/month
up to $100/month with most at about $15 to $25
Statues added, ’"dais is a way for each and every member of the
community to make a difference. We appreciate those individuals
who can pledge hundreds but the support of those who can just help
with a few dollars a month are equally important. This is a center for
all."
Fellowship Congregational
i Welcomes Lesbians & Gays ¯ Another Tulsa "mainline" Protestant church has become an offi- ¯
cially welcoming congregation to Lesbians and Gay men. Fellowship
¯
Congregational Church joins a number of "open and affirming"
¯ churches that are part of the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomi-
¯ nation.
¯ The leaders of this church of about 200 near 31st and Harvard
¯
characterized the year and 1/2 process of becoming a welcoming
¯ congregation as both stressful and as exciting. The issue first seemed
¯ to rise about 3 or 4 years ago. The church which as a tradition ofbeing ¯
involvedin socialjusticeissues realized that they had a certainamount
¯ of ignorance about homosexuality. Over the year and 1/2, at a series
¯ of events, the congregation had the opporttmity to personalize the
: issues. A divinity student who had ties to the congregation came back
¯ to preac.h and also came out as Gay. see Fellowship, page 3
¯ Claudette Peterson, was estatic at finally hay-
¯ ing adequate space for her staff. The highly
" successful programs now have seven staff
¯ members and additional volunteers who can
: not fit.into the current spaces near the HIV
¯ Resource Consortium (HIVRC). Peterson ¯
notes, however, that HOPE will continue its
: HIV antibody testing program at ’the HIVRC
¯ with which it works closely.
¯ A workroom and a conference room of The
". Pride Center will be available for community
¯ organizations that do not have their own of-
. rices. The site has adequate parking at the
¯ building which is unusual for Brookside with
: even more overflow parking nearby. The Cen-
¯ ter will be accessible to those with mobility
¯ disabilities. ¯
Additionally, ThePride Center will behome
¯ to The Pride Store. The Pride Store will serve
¯ community needs rangingfromgreeting cards,
¯ rainbow stickers, flags and other Pride items, ¯
news magazines, t-shirts, etc. Gay business
: owner Tom Neal is volunteering as a consult-
: ant and is donating merchandise from his store
¯ tomfoolery] see Pride Center, page 3
¯ Community Leader Lost
:
see Community Notes, page 9
National Coming Out Day
Workshop, Leatherstuff,
Bible + Homosexu,a,lity
Study Group, Two Splrlted
Mens’ Group + TU/BLGTA
Safe Haven, RBG Dinner
Gay Comedy Jam, IAM
Street Carnival, Lesbian
Comedian, AIDS Mastery
ComingSoon : OKLAHOMA CITY- Oklahoma’s Gay community is in shock from
¯ repo~tsofabrutalkillingofagaymaninthesmalltownofWoodward,
¯ near the Oklahoma Panl~mdle, by two men whom witnesses say later
: bragged they had ’~ust killed that queer." It is the second vicious anti-
: gay murder in the state this year. Police say Albert J. Bixler was
¯ apparently beaten to death with a car fire jack and his body dumped
." inatrashbinby Shannon LeeJones, 23, and MarkJones,30. Bothmen
¯ live in Woodward but are not related to each other. One witness at an
i apartment building where the two suspects were staying told police
¯ she overheard Shannon Lee Jones say, "The queer son of a bitch got ¯
what he deserved." Shannon Jones is being sought by police on
murder charges. Mark Jones, 30, is being held on murdei charges.
¯ Authorities have also issued amaterial witness warrant for a thirdman
whom they identified as Clifford Green, who sometimes goes by the
name of Clifford Beard.
Only a week earlier, two Guthrie, Okla., teenagers, identified by
police as skinheads, appeared in court in Oklahoma City to face
¯ charges of murdering Charles Meers earlier this year. Alexis N.
Perryman, 18, and Nicholas J. Karlin, 15, have been charged with
¯ brutally beating Meers, stabbing him, shooting him, and then dousing
his body and home with gasoline and setting them on fire in an effort
: to cover up the killing.
case pending in Hawaii see ENDA/DOMA, p. 3 " Oklahoma’s ’96 Anti-Gay Murders
INSIDE EDITORIAIJLETrERS/DIRECTORY P. 2
NEWS BRIEFS P. 4
HEALTH BRIEFS P, 6
CALENDAR P. 9
EUREKA HAPPENINGS P. 11
BOOK REVIEW/ENTERTAINMENT P. 12
RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 13
CLASSIFIEDS P. 15
¯ " Robert Fitzgerald Renfro, known as RF or
¯ just as Renfro, one of Tnlsa’s most respected
¯ community leaders and HIV/AIDS educators
¯ died at St. Francis Hospital on August 23 after
¯ a brief, though severe, illness.
¯ A Celebration of Eternal Life was held at
Shiloh Baptist Church with the Rev. Eddie
¯ Cook preaching and the Rev. Melvin Bailey,
: host pastor, see Renfro, page 3
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by Phyl Boler-Schmidt
A number of months ago, I reported on a rather suspicious
death that occurred here in Eureka Springs. It was a death that
struck terror in the hearts and minds of many lesbigay cidzens
because the victim was known to be aGay man, andhe was killed
by a teenager who suggested tO police that he did the deed in selfdefense
againstacts the description of whichI Would probably
incite major homophobic responses from the police. It.appeared
at that time that investigation of the.death was being permanently
swept under the rug.
However, Iamhappy to reportthat the death ofChris Klein will
not go unpunished, or at least untried. Anthony Fleetwood was
arrested in August .and charged with 2rid degree homicide, some
seven months after the slaying. Bond was set at $30,000, and if
the bond is raised, Fleetwood risks losing the services of the
Public Defender appointed by the court. DNA and serum test
results were finally completed and failed to back up Fleetwood’ s
story, a story that said, in part, that after polishing off a 12 pack
see Justice, page .3
by G. Miller, M,A.
Last month I gave some simple advice on dealing with the
outside forces in your life. The aim of that little treatise was to get
you thinking positively about ways to improve you daily existence
byhandling the external forces you confront This month I
want to spend a little time on how to get your personal force into
the positive mode.
This will sound way too simple but the truth usually is simple¯
Youcan either choose to see your life as positive or negative. You
. make that choice every morning of every day, When you head to
work, understand what it is you are doing. If you’ re lucky you go
to ajob that challenges and fulfills you, or you are going to ajob
which permits you to earn a living. The income from that job
provides the where with all.which allows you to do the things you
want to get enjoyment out of life. So while thejob itselfmay not
be the most enjoyable thing in the world, it is the springboard to
enjoying the other areas of your life. If you can make that logic
stream work in your favor then you can stop bitchin’ about your
job and start making each day mean see Life, page 3
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: Dignity/IntegrityrLesbian!Gay Catholics/Episcopal. 298-4648
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Opposes School Tax Increase
Tulsans who pay property taxes just
felt a significant bump this spring, and if
the October 8 bond issue passes, we’ 11 get
ajolt. Renters, you won’ t escape either-
.your landlord will have to pass on the cost
increase to tenants. But isn’t the bond
issue for a worthy cause - Tulsa schools?
The school district’ s demanding $94.5
million for a district with about half as
-" many students as ithad 20 years ago. Last
¯ year they said they needed $89 million
: from us, but they have "upped the ante"
¯ because they claim buildings have dete-
-" riorated that much since last year. Yet
¯ they have sold two of their 18 unused
¯ properties in the meantime- where are
¯ the millions from those? They also claim
¯ that they need chairs and textbooks, but
." many parents tell me the P.T.A.’s have
¯ provided those since last year in various
..
school~. They made dire predictions, that
our property taxes would fall if we didn’ t
"support our schools"- but values are up.
And does each classroom really need tele-
¯ communications and a telephone as re-
, quested? I’ think not, We all want our
¯ schools to be fine ones. But each person
has to ask, "What benefit will I see from
," yet another tax hike?" Vote NO Oct. 8.
- Leah Farish
Editor’s note: TFN neither endorses nor
¯ Opposes this vote. We encourage readers
tb consider carefully and to vote.
¯ We applaud those represented by the
¯ letter above [or reaching out to Lesbian ¯
and Gay voters. This community is usu-
¯ ally simply ignored though we are af-
¯ fected- as parents, as teachers, as
¯ homeowners and tenants. In a tight race,
¯ minority communities can make a differ-
"~ ence. The writersees that. Thesupporters
:. of the bond vote have made no effort to
¯ reach out to this community.
¯ Carbon Copy - Full Text
¯ Editors, The Tulsa World
~ Why are we afraid of same-sex mar-
" riage? Is it change? Without change, we
¯ can not grow. Why are we afraid of any¯
one or anything that is different fromus or
our views? What would the world be like
¯ if we were all the same?
~ Marriageis acommitmentbetweentwo
¯ people who love one another. Single-par-
" ent homes, illegitimate children, abusive
: spouses, alcoholism, joblessness and
: multiple marriages are aspects that are
¯ tearing the family and marriage apart.
Please tell me where same-sex marriage
." will destroy the institutions of marriage
_. and family. And is it wrong for a married
¯ couple not to have children and go against
the marriage is for.pro-creation theory?
: Heterosexual couples enjoy the right to
¯ tax breaks, spousal benefits, and hospital ¯
visitations. Same-sexcouples donot. Isn’ t
." this discrimination? Have we forgotten
~ about the Constitution? Doesn’t it give
¯ every American the same basic rights?
." When will the politicians realize they
." arenotsupporting every American?When
¯ will they realize they are teaching hate
~ and discrimination? Where is the love
¯ they supposedlyhavefor Americaandit’ s
¯ people?Whyhas the government decided
¯ it should dictate what our morals will be
¯ and how we will define marriage and
¯ family?
." We are all human beings. The hatred
¯ and discriminationhas to stop. I urge each ¯
of you to please look deep into your soles
¯ and bring out the love God intended us to
¯ share with one another and bury the hate.
¯ America will be a much better place.
" - Lance Brittain. Collinsville
something in terms of what else it is you want to ¯
accomplish. "
The same thing is true of your personal rdationship.
If you spend all your time finding fault with ",
your companion, then each day will be a trial. If on ¯
the other hand you recognize what good things
come from the relationship, and understand how "
important that contributionis,thenyour daily inter- "
action will become more positive and enjoyable.
Don’t forget the reverse of that statement is also ¯
true. If you are doing some trivial thing which ¯
obviously makes your co.mpanion nuts, quit doing
it! Making a concession m a triviality is nothing ¯
compared.to slowly poisoning a rdationship over ¯
sbmething which is probably of little meaning to "
you anyway.
Sit down in a quiet moment and start looking at
your reactions to the things you experience each
day. If you are spending most of your time being
angry or upset or unhappy, figure out why. Is it that
someone is purposefully trying to make your life
miserable, or are you doing it to yourself? There
was a time when the slightest suggestion that I was
not competent enough, or smarL or clever or handsome
or whateverwould sendmeinto ablack funk.
Finally I ~at down and took stock ofwhat was rea~_ly
going on.
No I am not the smartest person in the world, but
I’m smart enough: Yes there are some things at
which I am totally incompetent. No, I am not the
most handsome person, but then neither am I Frankenstein.
What I lack in smarts, I make up for in
common sense. What I am incompetent at, I make
up for by being very competent in other areas.
While I may not be Porno Star material, I have an
excellent dry wit! Make your own inveiitory of all
the positive things about yourself and recognize
that everyone is deficient in some area.
You don’t have to become a Saint, but if you will
start to be reasonable about who and what you
really are and quit trying to be something else, then
life gets much less complicated and much more
fun. Better than that, you will begin to feel better
about yourself and life in general. Then you can
start doing the things in your everyday world which
actually make things better for yourself and others
around you.
Now here is the biggest secret abouthow to make
your life more fulfilling and enjoyable. Learn
to say, ’I was wrong!, sorry. My mistake, sorry!"
Whenyou screw up,just admityou screwedUP and
get down to work correcting the screw up. Fixin.g a
mistake is much less time and energy consmmng
than trying to cover up that you made a mistake.
Admit that everyone screws up from time to time.
Quit trying to cover up your mistake, or bludgeon
someone rise for their mistake. If you fall into the
trap of the one-upmanship game, you will regret it
in the end.
There is nothing hard about finding the enjoymeat
in Life. It is only when.we set unreasonable
expectations of ourselves and others that we make
life hard. I had some very wise people try to get this
across to me years ago, but I couldn’t grasp the
concept then~ Perhaps it is only with lime that we
come to these realizations. Or maybe it’s because
we are so ego-centered that we can’t see the simple
truths in front of us. I don’t know, maybe I’m not
smart enough to figure that one out. But I have
figured out how to be more positive about myself,
about my place in the word and about how to get
the most out of enjoying the word as it exists
around me.
I remember a short quote from a 19th Century
Americanpoet, possibly Stephen Crane or Stephen
Foster, I could be wrong about the name. I may
have the exact quote a little wrong, but don’t miss
the point. A man said to the Universe, "Sir I exist."
and the Universe replied, "Sir, that fact does not
createmmea sense of Obllgatton . Your exlsten
is up to you to make ofit something. Youcanmake
it negative, combative and endlessly hard, or you
can make it something else. What you make it is up
to you.
Copyright © 1996 Gerald Miller
Organizers and featured speaker at the recent fundraisin~g
dinner are: Martin Newman, MarkGoldman, and[3ill Stoskopf
of Black & White Charities, Nancy McDonald, of PFLAG,
speaker Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human
Rights Campaign, Kristie Suttee, Steve Wright, and Mark
Wright, also ofBlack & White Charities.
This yearPFLAGbeganitsSWANawards to recognize those
in Tulsa who have stood up for fairness and for justice. The
recipients are the Rev. Russell Bennett, pastor of Fellowship
Congregational Church. His congregation has recently become
an officially wdcoming one for Lesbians and Gay men. Eddie
Faye Gates, a wall respected educator &writer is honored for
herleadership ontheHumanRights Commission. Dennis Neill,
an attorney, also served on the Human Rights Commission and
with the ACLU and was founding president of TOHR. Lisa
Pottorf of Youth Services was recognized for her heroic work
with and for Lesbian and Gay young adults. Sharon Thoele,
director of the HIV Resource Consortium, is known for her
commitment to HIV/AIDS issues &THE NAMES PROJECT.
That business successfully served the community for
two years from a space leased from The Silver Star. The
Pride Store will-benefit The Pride Center and HOPE
prevention programs~ Director Peterson anticipates that
the Store will be staffed by volunteers but that The Pride
Store possibly also may be able to provide appropriate
work opportunties for persons living with HIV/AIDS.
Other office space will be available for seminars, video
showings and exhibits. While not all details have been
: resolved, it’s hoped that part of the space can be used for
"_ Lesbian and Gay young adults who have few other safe
: places to go.
Pride Center organizers note that volunteers are needed
for clean-up, painting, minor repairs to get the Center
ready to open. Later, those with strong backs and a few
vans and pick-up trucks will be asked to help move the
prevention program offices. To volunteer or for more
infolmation, call 743-GAYS (743-4297).
is expected to lead to the legalization of gay marriages in that
state in the next year or two. Civil libertarians have argued that
" DOMA is highly questionable because marriage has always
: been a state issue that Congress has never before touched. The
¯ Constitution’s "full faith and credit" clause makes it question-
¯ able whether federal legislation can impose such restrictions.
¯ Activists and several members of Congress were quick to
¯ criticize DOMA as election-year political maneuveringaimed
¯ at embarrassing President Clinton, noting that one of the origi-
¯ hal Senate co-sponsors of the measure was Bob Dole, the
: Republican presidential candidate. Clinton drew fire from
: rights activists when he quickly said he would sign DOMA - at
¯ leastas itwas introducedin theHouseearlier this year. But since
: then, the measure has gone through several changes in the form
: of a bewildering set of amendments. The capper in all this, of
¯ course, was ENDA, the anti-discrimination amendment that
¯ was supposed to be tacked on to DOMA by Seas. Edward M.
: Kennedy (D-Mass.), James Jeffords (R-Vt.), and Joseph
: Lieberman (D-Conn.).
¯ Inan 1 lth-hourmmof events, Senate Majority Leader Trent
¯ Lott of Mississippi announced that ENDA would be voted on
: separately from DOMA. The eomplex political mish-mash the
: Republicans and Democrats had made of DOMA and ENDA
¯ had created so many objections from both sides of the aisle that
: Lott moved to extricate the two measures from each other.
¯ Richard Tafel, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans
¯ noted of the close vote onENDA, "I’his sends the message that
: the 105th Congress will be ready to pass some form of non-
: discriminationlaw to protectgays andlesbians." said. ’q’he real
¯ surprise is we now have 8 Republicans who support ending
: discnnnnalaonagamstgays mthe workplace. We rebegium g
¯ to see what happens when the gay community works with both
: parties. I’m sure we can bring on more Republicans in the next
¯ Congress, we had a couple on the fence on this vote. This vote
¯ proves working with Republicans instead of writing them off
¯ benefits the entire gay and lesbian community."
¯ MelindaParas, executive director, National Gay and Lesbian
¯ Task Force commented, ’~foday is a historic moment for
¯ lesbian and gay people, despite the outcome of the Senate votes.
: In spite of the intolerance of many Republican and Democrat
_" lawmakers, weknow wehavefinally broken the legislative log-
; jam that has blocked Congress from even discussing our civil
¯ rights in aserious manner. Weknow we will have tolose a few i votes.before we win the battle. We lost ENDA by only two
votes. We know that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
¯ equal rights have taken center stage in American politics, and
¯ we can never go back to the days of silence."
Renfro was a founder and leader of FUSO, Friends in
Unity Social Organization, Inc. a non-profit that seeks to
educate African-American men of diverse sexual orientation
aboutHIV/AIDS. Healso served withmany groups,
including TulsaAIDS Walk, AIDS Coalition,TOHR, the
Community Planning Group, Tulsa Pride Picnic and
more. He was an ordained minister, active in his congregation,
Bless the Lord at All Times Christian Center.
Friends and family expressed shock and sorrow at his
sudden death. Most did not know RFhad been living with
HIV/AIDS for 10 years. Donations inhonor ofhis memory
may be made to FUSO, c/o TOHR, POB 2687, 74101.
At other events, they had the chance to meet parents of
Lesbians and Gays.
The task force for this issue lauded the leadership of
their pastor, Russell Bennett. They praised, in particular,
his balancing the need to push the church forward but
without getting too far ahead of it as wall. The group
noted also that Pastor Bennett had performed, with their
knowledge, a couple of holy unions, or blessings of same
gender couples.
The United Church of Christ is the only mainline
Protestant denomination that ordains openly Lesbian and
Gay persons as amatter ofpolicy, and therefore shouldbe
expected to be friendly to Lesbians and Gay men. However,
in the Congregationalist tradition, it is up to the
individual congregations to implement these policies and
to call individuals to ministry. Fellowship is the only
UCC church in Tulsa though there are some others in the
staie_.
Some members of Fellowship Congregational asked
why it was necessary to adopt an official policy of being
open and affirming since they felt that that was what
they’d practiced all along. Other noted that in these days
when politics and religion are so mixed togeth,, r, that
their congregation needed to stand up and be counted.
That is since so many ugly thingswere being presented in
the name of religion, they hope to counter that ugliness.
They hope that their actions will inspire others to have the
courage to do something similar.
Services are at 10:30 am. Info: 747-7777
of beer with Klein and falling asleep on the couch,
Fleetwood awoke to find Klein ejaculating on his face
and tee shirt. This was his motivation, he said, for pointing
a .410 shotgun at Klein’s face and pulling the trigger.
Tests showed that sperm found on Fleetwood’s tee
shirt, confiscated the night of Klein’s violent death,
"...could not have been that of the victim but instead was
consistent with the blood" of Fleetwood.
Newly appointed Eureka Springs Police Chief Earl
Hyattwas aninvestigator withthe Carroll County Sheriff’ s
Office at the time of the slaying and worked with Eureka
Springs Investigator Morris Pate at the crime scene. If
convicted, Fleetwood faces a five- to 20-year prison term
for the Class B felony.
Lesbians’ Killer: It"
Was ’Hate Crime’¯
MEDFORD, Ore, (Aug. 20)- Rol~rt J.
Acrement, the California man who is
charged with the December 1995 execu:
tion-style killings of lesbian activists ¯
Roxanne Ellis and Michelle Ab’dill, told "
the San Francisco Chronicle in a prison
interview that he killed the two women
because they were lesbians, not in a
botched robbery attempt as he had first
claimed.
Acrement also sent aletter to the Stockton
(Calif.) Record telling the paper in the
city where he was arrested that he had
earlier in the year killed Scott George
because themanhadmadea sexual pass at
him. In his letter, Aerement, 27, said he
Lesbian Loses
Child to Killer Dad
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Aug. 30) - The
Florida Court of Appeals has upheld a
lower court ruling that ordered Cassey
Ward, age 12, removed from the home of
Mary Ward,~her lesbian morn, andhanded
¯¯ over to the custody of her father, John
Ward.
. The father called the court .ruling a
"victory for my daughter and every other
child in this nation ffho may be faced with
~ being raised in a household in whichho-
¯ mosexual role modeling distorts.and per-
" verts, or is like to distort or pervert,.soci-
¯ etal norms thathave been established and ¯
recognized from the beginning of eivili-
¯
zation."
had invented the robbery .motive in the ~ : Mr: Ward was convicted of killing his
slayings Of Ellis arid Abdilli who were ¯ fir~twffein 1974;firing.12bullets,during
,f,_0und shot througla tile head, b~.cau~e he : aright over their daughter. He-pleaded
¯ was nervtus about inmate reacti0n~ to. : guiity to.sec0nd degree~urd~ran~] ~erved
my reason fbrkilling~’ whiehhe said was - ¯ .eightlyears.in.prison. - ~ . .. ~ .
a "hate crime." - i ~ , = ~ ~ " The~thr~e-judge appeals_ panel ins~stexl
Acrem~nt wen’t ori in th~ letter to say, " that its =decigionwasn"t based on mother
however, that now he doesn tcare wha
.anyone thinks - :inclbdingthe’ji~ that
Will decid,,e his-fate~ "They cankilt me forall
!care,. the letter:s~y~i ":/i" :)
Neo-Nazi" -Judged
Guilty of Murder
HOUSTON (Aug: 29) = After deliberating
fortess than 3 hours; a jury has found
Daniel C. Bean, 19, guilty.of the January
4 kilting of Frederick Mangi0n~ merry
because he was gay.~Bean, who pblice
said belongs to a neo-Nazi group known
as the German Peace Corps in Washington
state, was found guiltt of stabbing
Mangione 35 times with a large knife
outside a suburban bar where they met.
Evidence given during the trial indicated
that Bean and his stepbrother, Ronald H.
Gauthier, 21, both bragged to patrons in
the bar that they were going to assault
someone who was gay. Police also told
the court that the two menlater boasted of
brutally stabbing Mangione. Beanfaces a
maximum life sentence for the killing.
Gauthier is still awaiting trail.
¯ Mary Ward’s- sexual, orientation, but on
¯ the"best interes~ts of thelchild ’: Activists
: -were quick ’.to point ,out,-howe~er, that
] Judge Joseph Tarbuck, whosetowercourt
¯ ruli~gwas beittg revie~ved by the appeals
:. cour~,.clearly istated in hivcustody decision.
thathe wanted the gift takenfromher
. " .morn and handed over to heri convicted-
¯ kiil~r dad to give bet a chance to live in."a
¯ non-lesbian world.’"
John~ .Ward ctiallenged the mother’s
¯ custody after.she applied for anii~crease
¯ in child support. Attorneys representing
MrS. Ward have Said slle Will pr~obably
¯
appeal the ruling to the state supreme
¯
court. ¯
D.P.’ Benefits Come
¯ From Court Ruling
PORTLAND, Ore. (Aug. 9) - AnOregon
". statejudge has given the gay rights movement
a surprising victory in partnership
¯ benefits. Thejudge has ruled that Oregon
¯ must offer insurance benefits to gay domestic
partners of state employees. In
¯
issuing the ruling, the judge said it was
~ "beyond debate" that gays and lesbians
hav~ been discriminated against. Law- ¯
yers for the state and attorneys for the "
three lesbian couples who filed a lawsuit ]
on the issue say they believe the ruling ~s ¯
the first of its kind in the nation.
¯ State Rep. George Eighmey, who is "
¯ gay, praised the decision, saying "it’s a
¯ big step in the fight direction." But Lon "
¯ Mabon, the leader of the anti-gay-fights "
: group the Oregon Citizens Alliance ira- ¯
¯ mediately said the judge is "flat Out prohomosexual"
and was trying to destroy
¯ the notion of family. The statehas 30 days
to decide whether to appeal.
¯ SchOol Censorship
i=. EffortsContinue :
: -WASHINGTON.(Sept. 4).-According to
¯
¯ the 14tk annual report on school, censor- "
ship; People for the American Way says
¯ there were a record 475 attempts last year ¯
¯ to restrict books, classes or educational "
proced_ures that opponents claimed were .. too sexually explicit, too violent,too raciM,.
anti-religious,, an,ti-family,
¯¯ .unAmerican. ~ or all these things.
. A~cording to.the report, the things~bjected,
to last year ranged from accep.ted
¯ classics inliterature to Halloween partles.
" _In-.41% .of the,cases, .th6 rep0rt~ .says,
: -school officials bowed to Objections and
¯ rembved matelials or restricted activities.
¯ The" report, "Attacks on the Freedom to,
¯¯ _ Learn~" cites-conservative Christians mid
especially members of the Christian Coa-
¯ lition as chief objectors in mostof the
¯ . cases it reported on.
California, which has the largest num-
" ber of public school students of any state
¯ in the country, also led in the number of ¯
¯ attempts to restrict materials or classes,
with 56 incidents reported by the group.
¯ Carole Shields, president of People for
¯ . theAmericanWay, noted thatmany ofthe
¯ school.materials objected to mirrored ha-
¯. tional debates on issues, such as racism
poverty, homosexuality, crime, drug and
alcohol abuse, and AIDS.
: "We must analyze this report and de-
" cide as a nation: Will we bequeath to our
¯ children the tools and information they
¯ need to address these complex issues as
¯ they growinto adulthood?" Shields asked.
"Or will our gift to them be ever-narrowing
horizons of thought and speech?"
California to Ban
Gay Adoptions?
SANTA ANA,~ Calif. (Sept. 5) - At a
public hearing, the state department of
social services listened to testimony on
Tire 22, aproposed regulationthat would
recommend adoptions in California only
for married coul~les. Despite the ob_vio.us
¯ restrictions ongay andlesbiancouples the
¯ proposed regulation would impose, state
Officials denied it was anti-gay. "We’re
not talking about sexual orientation," said
Janice Ploeger of the state health and
welfare departme.n,t. "This has to do with
marriage andwhat s in the best interest of
the child."
Butrights advocates strongly disagreed.
Tara Rose,31, testified at the hearings on
the regulations that she was raised by two
¯
mothers’, but adoption was impossible
while shewasgrowingupand she sees the
regulation as abig step backward in Call-
- fornia. "ff we’re talking about-marriages
-. only.that’s one issue/’ said Rose. "But
this is’ discriminating agaiast gay and les-
¯
bian parents."
¯ The new rule could go into effect next
-- October around the time partners Lisa
"" Pratt and Julie Thompson .will be adopt-
" ing a second child, six-month-old Katy.
¯ They told the hearing that they’re con-
- cerned the child won’t get the same ben-
" efits as. their daughter Elizabeth. Even if
¯ the regulation goes into effect, the final
¯ decision will bemadeby thejudgein each
¯ adoption case, state officials say. There
were some6,000 adoptions in the state in
¯ 1995 according to state officials,andabout
a fourtli of them were by single parents,
¯ straight and gay.
:City OK’s $1.2 m
for Gay Center
: SAN FRANCISCO (Aug. 12) - The San
¯ Francisco board of supervisors voted
: unanimously to lay out $1.2 million in
~ city funds to buy property for a 5-story
¯ proposed Lesbian & Gay Center. The
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¯ The religious group charged that Disney
: had abandonedits "commitment to strong
¯ moral values" and was promoting gay-
. themed books and films. Walt Disney
¯ Company officials declined to comment
: on the group’ s call for a boycott. Earlier
¯ this year, the Southern Baptist Conven-
¯ tion called for a boycott of Disney be-
¯ cause the firm has recently extended do-
Calif. County OKs ". mestiClesbian workers.Partnerbenefits to its gay and
Intel Offers Benefits
: SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Aug. 16)- Intel
¯ Corporation, the computer chipmanufac-
: turer whose Pentium processors run rail-
¯¯ lions of computers throughout the world,
has announced that starting in 1997 the
: same-sex parmers of its workers in this
: country will be eligibleforthesamemedi-
¯ cal, dental and other employees benefits
: thatthe spouses ofits workers have access
: to through the giant computer firm.
¯ The company said it had jbined with ¯
¯ scores of other U.S. high-tech firms in
extending thebenefits package to thepart-
: hers ofits gay andlesbian workers to help
¯ "attract top talent and retainkey perform-
" ers" in the very competitive industry.
i HRC Fights Helms
: DURHAM, N.C. (Aug. 24) - The Wash-
" ington, D.C.-based lobbying group Hu-
¯ man Rights Campaign has launched a
: campaign in North Carolina to persuade
¯ undecided voters in the state’ s U.S. Senate
race this November to dump Jesse
Helms.
HRC says it will be operating phonebanks
and direct mail campaigns to convince
swing voters in the state to vote
lently anti-gay memberofCongress. HRC
xs expecting to spend some $220,000 on
the anti-Helms campaign in North Carolina.
Town Reconsiders
Rights Measure
SAUGATUCK,Mich. (Aug. 26)-Months
after the city council tabled a proposed
ordinance that would add sexual orienta-
Dom. Partnerships
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Aug. 14) - Following
a tense, prolonged and sharply divided
late-night debate, the Santa Clara County
board of supervisors refused to bow to
organized conservative religious opposi-
’tion andunanimously approved settingup
a county-wide domestic partners registry.
Religious opponents lined up to speak
out against the proposed registry during
the nearly 6 hours of public testimony,
charging that it would undermine the traditional
family, and said immediately after
the board vote that they would launch
a petition drive to put the issue before the
voters this November. Nearly 2,000 people
attended the packed board chambers, an
adjoining auditorium, and spilled onto the
sidewalks outside the county government
building.
SantaClara County, with some 1.4 million
residents, is the home of many highteclmology
firms that already extendbenefits
to the same-sex partners of their
employees. Approval of the measure
makes Santa Clara County the largest
government entity in the state to OK a ."
parmership registry. "" :
2nd Church Calls !
for Disnev BOVe_ott
though it’ s best known for its wholesome "
family films likeAladdin, theWaltDisney ¯
Company is facing another threatened :
boycott by a conservative religious orga- .
nization. :
The Assemblies ofGodis urgingits 2.5 :
million members to stop going to Disney ¯
films, buying Disney products and going "
to the company’s popular theme parks. ¯
’tion to its anti-bias protections, the council
has now voted by 6-1 to undertake the
issue once again. The council voted to
create a committee of 3 council members
and 10 city residents to discuss including
sexual orientation in its anti-bias protections
and to report back to the council.
Anti-Gay CO Org.
Opposes Partners’
Health Benefits
DENVER (Aug. 28) - Will Perkins, the
used-car dealer and head of Colorado for
Family Values which backed the state’s
unconstitutional Amendment 2, told
Denver’s city council that they shouldn’t
extend health benefits to the partners of
gay and lesbian city workers, calling the
move an "economic jihad."
Perkins broughtwithhim Paul Cameron,
the discredited psychologist who was removed
from the American Psychological
Assn. forfudging statistical data. Even so,
Cameron insisted studies he did using
obituaries indicates gay~ and lesbians are
high health and violence risks.
A spokesperson for Equality Colorado,
a gay rights organization, said Perkins’
group is a "fringe anti-gay organization"
and said Cameron offers nothing but ’*oogus
anti-gay statistics." The council will
take up the question in a vote in September.
Lawsuit. Follows
" PBS/NPR Extend
"Partner Benefits
¯ City Distributing Inc.
: River City Distributing was targeted
¯ for the boycott, bar owners and activists
¯ said, because of Mrs. Shedd’s involve-
" ment in Kentucky’s Eagle Forum, the
¯ anti-gay groupheadedby Phyllis Schlafly.
: They also noted that Mrs. Shedd served
¯ on the state Republican Party’s executive
¯ committee the year before when it unanii
mously passed a resolution in favor of
reeriminalizinghomosexuality inthe state.
In addition to the popular bars and res-
¯ taurants involved in the protest, the boy-
: cott was also being supported by
Kentucky’s Fairness Campaign, the Pro-
. Choice Coalition, the Metropolitan Community
Church and the Louisville Chapter
: of Parents-Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
¯ Organizers said at the time that the
, boycott could cost the distribution company
as much as $15,000 per week in lost
¯ sales. Just months after the River City
¯ boycott was announced, Miller Brewing
: severed its relationship with Shedd, who
¯ has also sued Miller. The boycott itself
¯ was ended earlier this year after the orga-
: nizers declared it had been a success.
: Now the Shedd family has filed a wide-
¯ ranging suit, charging the bars, restaurants,
and organizations with conspiracy,
interference with contractual relations,
criminal harassment, defamation of character,
and other aetious that the family is
seeking unspecified damages for.
¯ Sucessful Boycott : WASHINGTON(Aug.20)-Without.any
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¯ areaover a 1995 boycott launched against
¯ a firm co-owned by the family with the Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee.
Nine local gay bars and restaurants
launched the boycott in August 1995 because
of what activists called the "right
wing activities"of Donna Shedd, whose
husband David was president of River
¯ agencies to offer such benefits.
¯ Donald Wildmon, president of the farright
anti-gay American Family Assn.,
: immediately denounced the move by the
: two public broadcasters as a "misuse of
¯ tax money". "Bill Clintonis willing to use
." tax dollars to support the radical homo-
. sexual agenda and promote homosexual
¯ marriage," Wildmon said in a press state-
. ment condemning the PBS-NPR move.
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CHICAGO (Aug. 10) - A report in the
Journal of Infectious Diseases suggests
that HIV could eventually be "flushed
out" of its hiding places in the body’s
lymph nodes] Researchers at the Chalucet
Hospital in France reported that after intensive
treatment with antiviral drugs, the
amount of HIV identified in blood and
lymph nodes of patients had decreased
significantly. The French scientists said
that ff HIV replication in the body can be
halted entirely through medical therapies,
they believe infected lymph .node and
other body cells will eventually be replaced
by new, uninfected cells. The finding,
if substantiated by other research,
could be important because one concern
AIDS experts have expressed recently is
that even with powerful new anti-HIV
drugs that appear to dramatically reduce
infection, continual drug treatment might
be needed if the virus cannot be entirdy
eliminated from the body..
HIV Infects More Blood Cells
LONDON (Sept. 6) -According to a
report in the medical journal Lancet, researchers
at the University of Edinburgh
in Scotland have confirmed that a second
set of blood cells - CD8 cells - is also
vulnerable to infection by HIV and may
play a crucial role in how the virus develops.
It has for some time been know that
HIV progressivdy destroys CD4 T-lymphocytes,
the cells that the body produces
to fight off infections. But scientists had
previously believed that CD8 cells were
immune from HIV infection,,,possibly
because of structural differences in the
cell itself. The Scottish researchers re-
¯-,~r+ however, that 5 of 16 people with
AIDS that they studied had CD8 cells
infected with HIV at high levels. The
researchers said the next step is to discover
whether the virus destroys thebody’ s
CD8 cells or simply invades them until
they become active later.
British Rights Group Wants
Aversion Therapy Ended in UK
LONDON (Aug. 9) -The British say
rights organization OutRagehas formally
asked the Royal College of Psychiatrists
and theHome Ministry’s health secretary
to issue guidelines barfing the use of aversion
therapy, to set up a board of inquiry
into how extensive the treatment has been
and continues to be as an attempt to "cure"
homosexuals, and to offer a public apologyandcompensationforindividuals
who
have been harmed by such treatment, either
physically or psychologically.
The continuing use ofaversion therapy,
often involving electro-shock treatment
and psychrtropic drugs, was the recent
subjectofaBBC-TVprogram and shocked
many in the country who were unaware
that such attempts to "cure" homosexuals
were still being used, at least occasionally.
In a letter to the health secretary,
OutRage called the government sanctioned
use of aversion therapy "scandalous"
and"barbaricpseudo-medicine" that
had "caused untold suffering and harm to
ual~own numbers of gay and bisexual
people."
Twins Studies Suggests Genetic
Factors in Sexual Orientation
TORONTO (Aug. 12) - Researchers reported
at the annual convention of the
AmericanPsychological Assn. thata new,
large-scale study of twins in Australia
adds further suggestive indications that
sexual orientation among gay men is in
fact a hereditary factor, although it failed
to find a similar pattern among lesbians.
The findings were based on a study of
some 4,500 sets of twins, fraternal and
identical, in Australia.
Lead researcher Dr. J. Michael Bailey
of Northwestern University reported that
about 20% of the twins studied identified
their sexual orientation as other than
"strictly heterosexual." Of the 312 sets of
men who were identical twins, who are
formed from a single egg, nearly half had
the same sextml orientations. Among fraternal
twins, who are from 2 separate
fertilized eggs, having the same sexual
orientation was significantly less likely,
Bailey reported, saying that the f’mdings
were "consistent with the idea that there is
a male gene for sexual orientation." Although
the study was one of the few that
have included women, the researchers
reported that they could not find enough
identical twin lesbian sisters to indicate a
statistical relationship between possible
genetic factors and lesbianism.
Oral Sex Riskier Than
Previously Believed
PHILADELPHIA (Aug. 14) - According
to a study published in the Annals of
Internal Medicine, University of Washington
researcher Timothy Schacker reports
that even people who are engaging
in lower-risk sexual behavior are continuing
to become infected with HIV. The 3-
year study of 46 people found that while
nearly halfhad had sex withjust 1 partner
during the month prior to infection, oral
sex, which has been generally considered
lower risk for transmission, was the most
common form of sexual contact among
the patients in the research. Schacker and
his ~olleagues in fact were abi~ ~6 ;~3,~’~[~.-
cally pinpoint 4 cases in which oral sex
was the only possible route of transmission.
The report is the 2nd recently to
indicate that oral sex appears to be a
higher-risk behavior than has been previous
believed.
NJ Offers 3 Protease
Inhibitors Free
TRENTON, N.J. (Sept. 4) - New Jersey
state health officials have announced that
the state will make3 importantnew AIDS
drugs available withoutcharge to patients
who earn lessthan $30,000 a year and are
either tmiusured or do not have policies
that will cover the costs of the new drugs.
The drugs include 3 of the new protease
inhibitors: saquinavir (Invirase by
Hoffmann-LaRoche),indinavir (Crixivan
by Merck & "Co.), and 3TC (Epivir by
Glaxo Wellcome). The drugs have been
shown to be able to reduce detectable
levels ofHIV dramatically inmanypeople
infected with the virus. State health officials
warned, however, that ifdemand for
the new drugs outstrips the state’s ability
tounderwrite the giveawayprogram, some
restrictions - such as co-payments or
deductibles - may be added later. The free ~rug plan is being paid forfrom the state’ s
9 million AIDS Drug Distribution Program.
About 1,700 state residents currently
getAIDS drugs withoutcostthrough
the program.
More Women Being Tested
ATLANTA (Aug. 3 i)-The federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
reports that the number of women in the
U.S. who are being tested for HIV has
been rising dramatically for the past few
years. Between 1991 and 1993, the CDC
reports, the percentage ofwomen 18 to 44
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~,ears of age who had been tested for the
virus increased some 60% overall. The
agency reported that a 1993 survey of
more than 6,000 women indicated that
31.8% said they had been tested. A similar
surveyin 1991 of 13,000womenfound
.that just 18.8% said they had been tested
at the time.
HIV Programs Widespread in
Schools, but Often Don’t
Teach About Condoms
ATLANTA (Sept. 5) - According to a
survey by the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, some 85% of the
nation’s public middle and high schools
teach required HIV prevention classes in
39 states plus the District of Columbia.
That’s the goodnews fromtheCDCstudy.
The less-than-good news was that only
about61%ofthe school districts provided
in-service training for teachers; about54%
said they taught students the "basic facts
about HIV/AIDS"; only about a third of
all the teachers involved in school AIDS
education programs said they had any
training about HIV prevention during the
2-year period before the survey; and only
37.1% of the instructors said they taught
their students the "correct use of
condoms."
In issuing the report, the CDC said one
obvious and important area that needs
improving in the country’s HIV/AIDS
school education programs is increasing
the percentage of teachers who both teach
preventioninhealth education classes and
who regularly receive in-service training
on the subject.
Younger Inner-City Women at
High Risk for HIV Infection
CHICAGO (Aug. 15) - Two just-published
studies in the American Journal of
Public Health report that younger urban
women are at very high risk ofHIV infection.
A Medical College of Wisconsin
study estimated that about a third of all
younger inner-city womenare at high risk
ofHIV infection, mainly because of risky
behavior like IV drug use by their sexual
partners. The researchers also reported
that while most of the women had a fairly
good knowledge of HIV transmission
risks, they were poorly informed about
the correct use of condoms and lubricants
during sex. Another study of younger
urban women in the same issue said that
high rates of syphilis among thesewomen
who are drug users is an indication of the
high-risk sexual behavior they are also
engaging in. Both groups of researchers
said HIV prevention programs aimed at
theseinner-city womenare needed tohelp
reduce growing infection rates.
: ’Playboy’ Surveys College
¯ Students Attitudes on AIDS
¯ CHICAGO (Aug. 25)-A Haybo.y maga-
: zine survey reports that 9 out of 10 college
¯ students are sexually active, that sligh.tly
: more than half say their sexual behavior
: wouldn’t change if the AIDS epidemic
: disappeared, and thatjust over a third say
¯ they’ve been tested for HIV.
: The survey, published in the October
: issue of the magazine, reports that 66% of
¯ women and 49% of men in the more than
¯. 1,000 students surveyed say they wouldn’t
: change their sex lives much if the epi-
: demic wasn’t a factor. The magazine also
¯ reports that 39% of the males and 35% of
: the females in the survey said they had
¯ been tested for HIV, and that 27% of the
: men and 19% of the women said they
¯ knew someone with the disease. Some
: 63% of the males and 79% of the females
: surveyed also said they believe their
¯ chances of contracting HIV/AIDS was
". either unlikely or barely likely. The sur-
: vey also reported that 57% of men and
¯ 71% of women said they had only one
¯¯ sexual partner during the previous year.
¯ The magazine also found that condom
use appears very highly corrdated with a
¯ steady relationship. While 41% of the
¯ males and 54% of the females reported
: being in a steady, monogamous rdation-
¯ ship,40% of these students also said they
: do not use condoms. Only 6% of the
¯ students surveyed who are not in a too- ¯
nogamous relationship said they don’t
: use condoms.
: Psychologists Delve Further
¯" into Sex & Biology
TORONTO (Aug. 13)-Dr. James Dabbs,
¯ a psychology professor at Georgia State
¯ ~Uuiversity, reported at the annual Ameri-
: can Psychological Assn. convention that
¯ in studying testosterone levels of 28. les-
; bian couples,it was the sdf-definedbutch
¯ partner in the relationship who consis- ¯
tently had the higher levels of testoster-
¯ one, the "male" hormone that all women
¯ also have in smaller amounts. Dabbs re-
: ported, however, that despite the higher
: levels when compared to their partners,
: none of the women in the study had sig-
¯ uificandy higher testosterone levels than
: women in general.
¯ In another study presented at the APA
; conventionby RayBlanchardofthe Clarke
¯ Institute ofPsychiatry inToronto, aniden-
~ tifiable group of men are predominately
¯
or exclusively attracted to genital males
¯ who dress and act like women- transves-
: rites or pre-operative transsexuals. A1-
¯
though Blanchard said that these
¯ "gynadromorphile" men he studied were
." sexually attracted to cross-dressers, they
¯ were not attracted to post-operative trans-
¯
sexuals - men who have been surgically
] and hormonally changed into genital fe-
¯ males - and considered themselves "bet-
: erosexuals of some stripe."
Ex-Boxing Champ Says HIV
Not ’That Big a Deal’
: KANSAS C1TY, Mo. (Aug. 26) - In an
¯ interview with the Kansas City Star,
"¯ former heavyweight boxer Tommy
¯ Morrison said being infected with HIV
"doesn’ t seem like that big a deal" and
: that he is not taking drugs his doctor has
¯ prescribed to combat the virus. Morrison,
¯ who has also appeared in a few films
; including "Rocky V" where he played a
~ featured role as a boxer, announced that
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 24) - The U.S.
Dept. of Housing & Urban Devdopment
(HUD) has announced some $7.8 million
inhousing grants to non-profitagencies in
communities in9 states that offer housing
assistance for low-income people with
AIDS. Community-based non-profits in
Baltimore, West Hollywood, Calif., San
Francisco, Savannah, Ga~, SantaFe,N.M.,
Tucson, Ariz., New York, Philaddphia,
Burlington, Vt., and Seattle are expected
to receive HUD grants of various sizes
The federal funding was established in
1992 as part ofHUD’ s Housing Opportunities
for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA)
program to help agencies that provide
housing assistance and related support
service to people with HIV/AIDS.
The AIDS Legal
Resource Project
by Darlene Shadid
Being HIV positive means facing new
challenges and new issues. In addition to
the personal, medical, and other quality of
life issues, youmay face extraordinary (or
evenmundane) legal demands for the first
time. The AIDS Legal Resource Project
may offer a solution.
The AIDS Legal Resource Project was
created more than three years ago to empower
people with HIV/AIDS with the
knowledgeand assistance needed to maintain
control over their lives. The Project
offers free and effective legal assistance
to those who qualify by connecting them
to one of the more than 150 attorneys
statewiad wh6 have agreed to serve on a
Pro Bona Panel.
Attorneys on the Project’s Panel offer
help in several critical areas. Perhaps one
of the most important (yet one of the
easiest) is estate planning. For example, a
Power ofAttorney can be drawn up which
allows you to choose exactly who can
make decisions about almost any matter
related to your care. Other documents
include an Advance Directive For Health
Care (Living Will), a Final Will and Testament,
and Disposition of Bodily Remains.
ffyou have been de~ed Social’Security
benefits, an attorney can l~elp collect the
necessary documentation for the Administrative
Hearing. In fact, havin an attarhey
present at the Hearing increases the
chances of being awarded benefits by
more than 50%. We also give advice regarding
other state and federal entitle-
In the past three
years, the AIDS
¯ Legal Resource
: Project has provided
: legal assistance to ¯ more than 584 ellents
i with attorneys from
¯ around the state.
i One of the recent
i successes is a preee-
: dent-setting ldwsuit
¯i in .which a FtIV n.ega- txve man sued
: former employer after
i being fired because
¯ his partner was HIV+.
ment programs.
We also assist clients who have been
unfairly denied health, life or disability
insurance. Informationis available onhow
to keep and extend insurance coverage
¯ after work is no longer possible.
¯
If you are fired from a job, denied
." housing or equal access to health care
¯ because of your HIV status, an attorney
¯
can file a Complaint with the appropriate
," authorities. If necessary, the representa-
¯ don-will continue through the various
¯ stages of the process, including litigation
¯ and settlement negotiations.
¯ Family law matters such as adoptions
and child custody can be handled by an
¯ attorney in that area when HIV/AIDS is
¯ directly involved. Finally, we can help ¯
end harassment by creditors.
¯ In the past three years, the AIDS Legal
: Resource Project has provided legal as-
¯ sistance to more than 584 clients with
¯ attorneys from around the state. One of
." the recent successes isaprecedent-setting
." lawsnitinwhich aHIVnegativeman sued
¯ his former employer after being fired be-
" cause his partner was HIV positive.
." If you are HIV positive or have AIDS
~ and you have a legal problem you may
¯ qualify for free legal assistance from an ¯
attorney on the pro bona panel of the
¯ AIDS Legal Resource Project. Call the
¯ project collect at 405-524-4611 for more ¯
information.
", This is thefirst column in a series writ-
: ten to help Oklahomans with HIV/AIDS
¯ know and understand their legal rights. ¯
Starting next month, each column will
¯ deal with a legal issue related to HIW
¯ AIDS and will be written by a local attar-
¯ ney who is on the Pro Bona Panel of the
" AIDS Legal Resource Project.
Clinton Wows ’Em
CHICAGO - This year’s politicking got
underway in Chicago with theAug. 16-18
OutVote ’96. The Human Rights Campaign,
sponsor of the gathering, called it
the "first lesbian and gay national political
convention." Just a week before the
Democrats held their convention in Chicago,
the President addressed the some
500 OutVote in a pre-taped video speech.
"l’mproud ofthe accomplishments we’ve
made," Clinton said. Tacidy acknowledging
the sometimes strained relationship
between Clinton and the gay and
lesbian community, he said: "All Americans
face a critical choice this Nov. I
believe we must put aside our differences
and focus on what unites us, on our common
ground....in 1992, I told you about
my vision forAmerica - a vision you were
and are verymuchapart of. I’m especially
proud to be the first president ever to
endorse a civil rights bill that specifically
includes gay and lesbian Americans."
Community Events
BAPC Quilt Performance
If you missed this highly acclaimed
performance as part of the Summer Stage
Festival, you can see it on Sunday, Sept.
29 at 2pm at the Tulsa Community College,
Southeast Campus Performing Arts
Center on 81st St. near Hi. 169. Tickets
are $S/adults, $5/students. Info: 595-7182.
Wro~tling Enthusiasts Sought
A wrestling enthusiast seeks similar
individuals interested in forming a wresfling
club for recreational matches. He is
also seeking an experienced coach. Call
Keith at 918-438-8340.
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Advance Ticket Purchase
Is Strongly Recommended
Tickets Available At:
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Box Office Location And Al!
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A Portion Of The Proceeds Benefit Black & White Charities, Inc.
TULS FAMILY NEWS COMMUNITY CALENDAr,
SUNDAYS
Agape Christian
Fellowship
Services, 10:30 am
6540H East 21th
pager: 594-9692
Bless the Lord At All ¯
Times Christian Center ."
Sunday School, 9:45 am "
Worship Service, 11 am ¯
262T0 East 1 lth 583-7815 "
Community of Hope ."
(United Methodist)
Worship Service, 6 pm .. ¯
1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800 ."
Family of Faith
Metro. Comm. Church
Adult Sunday School, 9:15
Worship Service, 11 am
5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
Metro. Comm. Church
of Greater Tulsa
Worship Service, 10:45am
1623 N. Maplewood
Info: 838-1715
HIVMTOeNstDinAgYCSlinic TUESDAYS WEDNESDAYS I-HV+ Support Group ¯ Agape’ Christian : Free & anonymous testing " HIV Resource Consortium "
¯ using fingerstick method. Fellowship 1:30 pm . Service, 7 pm
’" WalkNa°prpeoteiqnsttiumngei:nrt7e-8d:3.0inrm :: 41 54 S. Harvard, Ste. H_I
Sheridan Center, Suite H
¯ Results hours: 7-9 pm
Info: 742-2927
Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay .
Alliance. Univ. of Tulsa "
6:30 pm at Canterbury .
5th & Evanston, 583-9780
Mixed Volleyball for
Fun & Competition
Helmerich Park, 6:30 pm
71st & Riverside
Info: 587-6557
PFLAG Family AIDS
Support Group
2nd Mon. of month
: 6:30 pm, 4154 S. Harvard
¯ Info: 749-4901
-" OTHER GROUPS
¯ The Technicians, Leather
¯ org., Info c/o 621-5597
¯
T.U.L.S~4. Tulsa Uniform
¯ & Leather Seekers Assoc.
¯ Info: 838-1222 ¯
Gay & Lesbian Student
Association
TJC Southeast Campus,
SWANI~2.."oS:in6g3l1e-7W6o3m2 en,s
Activity Network
Call 832-2121
THURSDAYS
Co-Dependency
¯ Support Group
7:30, Family of Faith MC(
Info: Wanda @ 749-4194 ¯ ¯ 5451-ES.Mingo,622-1441 21st & Sheridan, 747-2482 "
¯ HOPE ¯ Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. ¯ Bless The Lord At All
¯ HtV/AIDS Support Group " Times Christian Center " PrevHeInVtioOnu, tErdeauccha,tion
¯ & .¯ Prayer & Bible Study " Anonymous HIV Testing
¯ Friends &Family " 7:30pm 2627-B East llth ¯ Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm
" " HITV/AIDScpaml,lSupp°lrotfcoatrion:Gr°up Call 583-7815 for info.
¯ Results hours: 7 - 9 pm
749-7898
¯ Info: 742-2927
Alternative Skating
8:30 - 11 pm, 241-2282
$4, Sand Springs Skate
Grief Group
Buder/Stumpff
Funeral Home
2103 E 3rd St.
Call for time: 587-7000
Family Of Faith MCC :
Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm "
Choir Practice 7:30 pm :
5451-E South Mingo. .
Call 622-1441 forinfo. :
TNAAPP
Tulsa Native American
AIDS Prevention Project
Support group
for Gay & Bi Native
American Men, 6 pm
at Community of Hope
1703 E. 2nd
582-7225 or 584-4983
Tulsa Family Chorale
Weekly practice, 9:30 pm
Lola’s 2630 E. 15th
PFLAG Family AIDS
: Support Gl:oup
¯ 1st & 3rd Thursdays
¯ 4154 S. Harvard, 749-4901
¯ Alternatives
¯ Weekly social events for
¯ LGBT men & women, 7pm
Info: 646-5503
Substance Abuse
Support Group
: for persons wi th HIV/AIDS
4154 S. Harvard, Ste. G
¯ 3-4:30 pm
: Info: 749-4194
: SATURDAYS
: St. Jerome’s Church
¯ Mass, 6 pm
Garden Chapel
: 3841 S. Peoria
¯ Info: Father Rick
: at 742-7122
¯
Narcotics Anonymous
¯
Meets weekly at 11 pm
¯ Confidential support for
¯ recovering addicts. ¯
Community of Hope
¯ 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
¯ NAMES Project
AIDS Memorial Quilt
: Sewing Bees
: 3rd Sat. of each month
¯ Info: 748-3111
Community Events
Interfaith AIDS Ministries
Old Fashioned Street Carnival
I_AM will hold the 2nd of these fun
events on .Sat. Sept. 21 from 10 am to 6pro
.at SouthminsterPresbyterian Churchparkmg
lot (near Concessions) at 3500 So.
Peoria. JoinIAMfor this day offun for all
ages. Info: 438-2437.
Rural Men’s Group
H.OPE,H1V Outreach, Preven’tion, Edu_
cation, is sponsoring social/discnssion
group formen whohave sex withmenand
who live-outside Tulsa. The group will
meet the2nd&4th Saturdays each month,
7-gpm at the Gathering Place, 4154 So.
Harvard, Suite E-3. Upcoming dates are
9/28, 10/12, 10/26, 11/9, 11/23, 12/14 &
12/28. Call Brian or Jeremy at 918-742-
2927 or 1-800-282-8165..
Tulsa AIDS Mastery Project
This group will present Tulsa’s 1st
Mastery workshop on Friday, Sept. 20 -
Sunday, Sept. 22. This is anintense week- "
end experience designed to assist those ¯
individiduals who have been affected’by "
HW/AIDS tocome to terns withtheimapct "
faaflc~c~!.l.flltaaetvoirrsuswhaeslcroamdoenitnhdeiivrliidvueasi.sTrlaivininegd ¯"
with ,HIV/AIDS, family, loved ones, ¯
friends, earegivers, and HIV/AIDS professionals.
The weekend is free because ¯
this event is sponsoredby a grantfrom the ¯
Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership
(TCAP) but donations offood, beverages
are needed. Info: Melissa @ 584-2325.
Two Spirited Mens Group :
The Tulsa Native American AIDS Pre- "
vention Project is sponsoring a group of
Gay, Bisexual or Two Spirited men f-or a
weekly group to explore their roles in
traditional Native American culture and
i I~v~i~.g-heal.~y lives. Tommy Chesbro, "
¯ ~xx~ coordmatoreforindianHealthCare
¯ Resources Center of Tulsa, notes that the ,
: group helps provide peer suport forliving
: a life in balance physically, mentally, "
." emotionally and spiritually. The group is
¯ open to men living with HIV/AIDS as
¯ well as those not infected. It is specific to
men but Indian Health Care would like to
, work with women also if there’s interest¯
¯ The Two Spirit Mens Group meets on "
¯ ~W~ednesdays at 6:30 pmat Commtmity of
r~ope Church at 2rid & Utica¯ Info: "
¯ Tommy, 918-582-7225, or write, ¯
¯ TNAAPP,915 S. Cincinnati,Tulsa74119. ¯
¯ Bible & Homosexuality Study
¯ Community of Hope will pilot a new
interdenominational Bible seminar, on .
Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8:30for4weeks
beginning on Sept. 18. The study has been
developed by the United Methodists Rec- ¯
onciling Congregation Program with "
.Welcoming & Affirming Baptists, Dig-
" nity/Integrity (Catholic & Episcopali~t~), "
GLAD (Disciples of Christ), Reconciled
in Christ (Lutheran), Supportive Congregation
Network (Mennonite), and More
Light (Presbytwerian).
Leather and Healing Workshops
The weekend of October 19 and 20 will
be a busy one in Tulsa as lance brittain,
Mr. Alameda County Leather 1994;
H.O.P.E., formerly TOHR, and the Silver
~aaCh" le~,,der, w_ith special guest Duncan " rows, tools for application, the power of
19a9c6L. aAcms aGnu, yMBr.aldLweainth,earmutahnorToofroTnietos ¯ positive thinking, how to avoid the pitThat
Bin.d, states ’~f you try to find your falls (New Age and otherwise), andmore.
way in the SM/leather scene by yourself, The workshop will include meditation,
you are doing it the wrong way--there is ritual, storytelling, group exercises, and
opportunities for sharing. no need".
¯ ¯ The suggested offering is $5.00 for
~ikTehisw.whoorkasrehoipntiesrefostrewd timneonrancudrmioeuns ¯ reiaaclsh, winoforkrmshaotpiotno, caonvdefruwtuorerkwshoorkpsmhoaptes-,
anout leather/SM. "It’s an educational but no one will be turned away for lack of
oppormmty you will not want to miss. ¯ funds. It is suggested that the participants
Whether it’s your cup of tea or not, the _bring a cushion for comfortable seating.
information will be valuable for under- ¯
Juice, coffee, and water will be provided.
standingthediversityofourcommunity,,, . Please free to bring a snack, pencil, or
heralds Larry Everett, International Mr 7pa~p,er.t~F_or more information please call
Leather 1995¯ "So co.~.~.,u.o.ut.an.d ex-" " plore with us", sa s lan ’+~-zv2/, 371-0496, or e-mail
S " Y ce" " mrac194@aol.com.
unday, .O,c,t. 20, Duncan Ma~c,,La,chlan
will present ’Healing The Spirit ,. It will Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa
be held 1-5pro. Duncan states, ’Native D/I, agroupforLesbianandGayCatho_
American teachings and other spiritual lies and Episcopalians will meet on Oct.
12, and then on Nov. 9th at 5 pm at St.
learnreS°urceStolivehaVebettermUChwitht° offerHiV. USspirituawlaeS
¯
Dunstan’s Episcopal Church, 5633 E. 71 st
traditions teach us that the source of all " TO National Coming Out Week ¯
h.ealin.g.is spiritual." He also asks, "What ¯ Oct. 8: A Roundtable discussion of
does t!us mean? How can this knowledge "Sexuality: Nature vs. Nuture" 7:00 pmin
¯ be applied in practical ways?" ¯ the Chouteau Room of Allen Chapmafi ¯
Duncan is a workshop leader, group ¯ Activity Center
facilitator, counselor, and educatorliving ¯ ,Oct. _9: Panel discussion concerning
in Toronto. He describes his living with aoout Gay Marriage, 7:00 pm in the
~IV. since 1983.,asahealingandamiracle. " President’s Loun e, Cha man
,-, g P
r~e is very enthusiastic about passing on uct. 10 (National Coming Out Day):
¯ what he as learned and likes to make the Unity Party on Sharp Chapel Plaza, TU
Star, .Sal~oon combine community spun- " ~work,s,hop a safe andnurturing experience " Campus. All campus groups are invited to
,s°rsmp Ior two,, very,,different, workshops,.
Ior ml participants with his warm and .a,tt.end and will receiv.e letters concerning
’~’Le.ather 101 and Heahng The Spirit" inclusive style. He does ask that all par-
/~oth workshops will be held at 4f58 SI .ticipants wear loose, comfortable cloth- ~m~ event. 3:00 pm w~th speakers at 5:00
.Harvard, suite E-3 in ’The Gath~,q,,
" mg and to please bring a small obj~t of " During Naffonal Coming Out Week,
Place" at the H.O.P.E. and R-e~o~r’~C~’~a~_ pers,o.hal significance. Duncanadds, ’This " BLGTA will be taking donations in supsortium
building. " womshop will be useful for people who ¯ port of Breast ~2ancer Awareness Month,
~ ’Teather 101" will .be held Saturday, " are affected by HIV includi,n~ caregivers
in October. Info: BLGTA at the Canteroct.
19, 12-6pm and will be facilitated by and health care professionals ’. bury Center for United Ministry at 583-
¯ Duncan will be offering the teachings " 9780 and leave a message for Maureen
lance, Brian Jackson, a H.O.P.E. out- . of the medicine wheel and the seven ar- ¯ Curtin or Rob Crenshaw.
WHAT IS VIATICATION?
Viaticafion is the process through which a person
living with an terminal illness canreceive a cashpayment
from the face value of their insurance policy.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE FORA
VIATICAL SETTLEMENT?
Generally, to be eligible for a viatical settlement you
must have a documentable terminal illness, and life
insurance coverage in either an ~hdividual term, whole
life, or a group policy.
HOW MUCH IS MY
POLICY WORTH?
The value of your life insurance policy in a viatical
settlement is determined by the specifics of your policy
and your unique medical situation. Not every policy is
suitable for viatication, but settlement offers typically
rangefrom 60% to 90% of a policy’s face value, depending
on the specifics of your policy and medical history.
HOW DOES A SETTLEMENT
WORK?
With your written pernfission, we gather medical and
insurance records with which to determine your policy’s
value. Then, a settlenmt offer is presented to you. You
may always decline the offer with no obligation whatsoever.
Should you accept the offer, payment is made
directly to you. Youpay nothing else on your policy, and
you owe us nothing.
IS VIATICATING MY
POLICY THE RIGHT
CHOICE.FOR ME?
Many factors influence whether viaticating your life
insurance is the best financial alternative available for
you. Southwest Viatical can discuss all of the factors with
you and your family in person, in detail and can recommend
an experienced Certified Financial P1anner to assist
you in planuing the best outcome from your unique
financial situation.
HOW IS SOUTHWEST
VIATICAL DIFFERENT?
Today, many companies offer viatical settlements,
doing business only by bulk advertising and 1-800 numbers.
They transfer your insurance and medical records
by mail, and do business from another state.
At Southwest Viatical, we believe you should be assured
of complete confidentiality and the best poss~le
service by working with us in person, face-to-face. We
are involved on a community level, and are responsible
directly to our local community.
By working with you in person, but at the same time
having access to nationwide financial resources, we are
able to deliver the best value on your policy available
today. And because of our established resources, we can
deliver a settlement in less than a third the time other
companies take by mail, typically in fewer than 30 days.
~¢Ve’ll do what it takes
to find the best solution for you.
Kelly Kirby
Oklahoma Representative
4021 South Harvard, Suite 210
Tulsa, OK 74135
918-747-3320
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Services held
Sunday evenings at 7 o’clock
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Gay Mecca. ofthe Ozarks
by Phyl Boler-Schmidt " able, or you can bring your own. The Gay
It’s Jazz Festival timein Eureka Springs, ¯ Family Reunion is always a fun event, a
and the excitement is building as the 12th great way to meet and greet new folks and
annual event approaches. This year’ s dates ¯ to spend lime with family toward the end
are September 19th - 22nd, and both big ¯ ofthehectictouristseason. Plan toattend.
name and local talent will be performing , For those of you looking for complete
all over town.
hair styling and other sa-
Featured artists for
JazzFest include Stanley
Turrentine & Band,
Allmad Aladeen & The
Deans of Swing, Emie
Durawa & Los Jazz
Vatos, andGrady Nichols
& Moment’s Notice. All
will be performing at the
Historic Eureka Springs
City Auditorium
Small clubs will host a
number of local and big
name performers as well,
and nightly there will be a
post-performanceparty at
the top of the Basin Park
Hotel in the ballroom.
These events are hosted
by the Eureka Springs
Jazz Society and will feature
performers from the
JazzFest ticket.
There is still time to get
tickets for the scheduled
events though JazzFest is
always one of the hottest
tickets tobehadduring the Eureka Springs
season. For reservations and information,
call the Jazz Festival Hotline at 501-253-
6258.-TheJazz Festival canalso bereached
via e-mail atjazz@nwark.com. Complete
information about the 12th Annual Eu-
.--_~bo q.,qn.~ t.~’~’7 Festival is available
online at: http://www.eureka-usa.com/
events/creative/index.html
Also coming up fast is the annual Eureka
Springs Gay Family Retmion, to be
held this year on Sunday, October 6th
starting at 2 pm at Beaver Dam Site Park.
A canoeing event will be held that morning
beginning at 11. Rentals will be avail-
It’s Jazz Festival
time in Eureka
t....
year s dates are
September 19th -
9.2nd....AnOther
musical hot
ticket hits town
the weekend
followina
JazzFe t. The
~gth Annual
Ozark Folk
Festival comes to
Eureka SprlnCs
from September
96th- 99th.
Ion services, we have a
new family cutterin town.
Tymythy Aieran is affiliated
with the Holiday Island
Hair Salon at 92
Woodsdale Drive and
performs the full range of
salon services - haircuts
& styles, perms, color,
manicures, pedicures,
w.axin.g, facials, and ear
piercing. To contact
Tymythy, call 501-253-
9712.
Another musical hot
ticket hits townthe weekend
following JazzFest.
The 49th Annual Ozark
Folk Festival comes to
EurekaSpringsfrom September
26th - 29th. A full
board of performers is
scheduled, including: Peter
Rowan, Townes Van
Zandt, Joe Cart & Alan
Munde, Crow Jolmson,
Still on the Hill, the Jones
: Brothers, Charles C. Hammer, Doe Broth-
. ers, Jim & Kim Lansford, and Richard
¯ Johnson & Doug Reid.
For more information on the 49th An-
: nual Ozark Folk Festival, call the Eureka
¯ Springs Chamber of Commerce at 501-
¯ 253-8737.
]ae season IX wlaum~ u,,,,u, .....
¯ biggest Ozark attraction of them all is yet
¯¯ to come. Plan to visit ourVictorian utopia
in October to watch Mother Nature show
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off in all her spendor. There’ s nothing to
" compare with the autumn colors in the
¯ Ozarks.
: See you in Eureka!
Exciting
Reaching OUT
to all People
Rev. Clay Cody Sunday Services, 10:30 am
6540-H East 21st
. pager: 594-9692
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marriage._D~.et . .: ]~e ~ree to take posl- itspositiononotherre- | |
tivities of me rtawan ¯ ¯ "1.1 li ons or on cmzens
Supreme Court, same- tlon$ on issues l~ke
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sex mam:a_ge may same-sex marrxa e~ religion." /
be legal m that state. " ~ ~ :,, "tally there is a "
The backlash against_ and the state cannot
trom
this, the Defense of
portion of the Lesbian
MarriageAct, willsoon require religions to and Gay community
approve of or
eo~duet such
become law and will
prevent other states
from having to recognize
same-sex marriages
fromHawaii.The
debate, however, will
not end there.
Author William
Eskridge, a Washington
DC professor and
lawyer, has addressed
the issue as aproponent
of same-sex marriage.
Hisbookexamines constitufional
issues, court
eeremonles.
Butnelther can one
religion force its
pos~.tlo.n on other
relldions or on
clt e following no
organized ren~on.
decisions, the history of
Lesbian and Oay commumty~ .-.reranstream"
objections to same-sexmamages.
Eskridge discredits many of the standard
arguments agains__t. same-s.ex
fiages, including one ot- me most popmar
viewpoints which concerns the ihability
of same-sex couples to conceive children.
It is hard,to, dispute the author’s logic in
this area: A state could and, to be consisthat
also is against the
idea of same-sex marriage,
though not for
the above reasons.
They feel thattheimtitution
of marriage is a
flawed,patriarchal system
that Gay and Lesbian
couples should
avoid. Eskridge gives
a good overview of
thesepositions, exploring
not only the ,marriage-
is-rotten" argument,
but also the "alternatives
tomarriage"
view (domestiepartnerships) andthe antiassimilation
perspective which suggests
that formal marriage would "dedaw the
~radieafism of the gay liberation moveand
has an appendix tiffed "Letters from
the Faithful on the Legal Recognition of
Same-Sex Marriage." It includes selected
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against sterile, impotent or
aged couples would be lmaeceptable to
citizens of many different perspectives."
The often used religious argument i.s
also addressed. Eskfidge’s reasomng is
that "state espousal of one religion’s beliefs
risks state supression of another
: by citing avariety ofreligious doc.u~ent.s.
¯ The battle over same-sex mamage ~
: sure to continue for years to come an
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~ the Readers Services dept. of the Central
: Library (596-7966) or at thelocallibrary.
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SUZANNE WESTENHOEFFER
brings her umque brand of queer comedy
to Tulsa 10/5 at 8pm in the Williams
Theatre, PAC. An outspoken (no pun intended)
Lesbian, her humor has a broad
appeal (sorry, that one really w.as un~conscions).
Her resume is ~mpress~ve, irqm
her own ground breaking HBO show
(nominatedfor anACEaward, thel~,mmies
of cable), ’Out there on Comedy Central",
’mainstream’ shows such as
"evening at ~,e Improv" & ’X~aroline’s
Comedy hour , and more. She is hilarious,
so this is the must-see for October!
Info. call the PAC at 596-7111.
CAROL CHANNING will be appearing
in Hello Dolly! at the PAC 9/27-29,
and trust me, this is a show that must not
ben~,’_ssed! Forgetall the disp..~g~ng things,
you. ve ever heard about tins snow, ana
completely disregard any other version.
Ms. Channing is the real thing, and this
show is magic! I was surprised at how
effective it was when Ms. Channing took
the stage. Only one lady has the charm
and charism~a to pull it off, and this is a
chance that shouldn’tbe missed. Tickets:
596-7111. And Ms. Channing is as gracious
& charming offstage as she is on!
CAROL BURNEIff comes to town
October 13 for a question and answer
session at thePAC. I’m sure I’mnot alone
in claiming that her show was a bright
spot in an otherwise dark childhood/adolescenee.
It was the Carol Burnett Show
that fueled in me a fire to perform, and to
take people out of their troubles, even if
only for an hour or two, and make them
laugh and think. Thank you, Carol, for the
inspiration, the dream, and the laughter.
GUYS & DOLLS will be presented by
the University of Tulsa’s theatre department
October 17 -27 at the Chapman
Theatre. For ticket info, call’. 631-2567.
BACP presents ’ffhe Taffetas" a 50’s
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by Jean-Pierre, TFNFood Critic ¯ pet peeves is a kitchen staff too lazy to
Nested ataprimecomer ofUticaSquare ¯ remove the entire shell from the shrimp.
next door to the Polo Shop is a long time ¯ How is one expected to gracefully eat a
popular restaurant site, in this declension " dish with a thick sauce and an incomknown
as Capistrano. Previous on-site ¯
eateries have included Santa Fe, French, plet,ely shelled shellfish? Does one dip one s fingers into the hot sauce to grasp
and Italian cuisines, and
those ghosts continue to the shrimp by the tail and
haunt the current menu.
It’s hard to categorize
Capistrano, though, since
it bills itselfas arotisserie
.(a restaurant specializing
in roasted or .broiled
meats), but only has one
rotisserie item on the
menu. It bears-a passing
allegian.ce to F~en~hfoods
due to its close a~sociations
with its Owner’s
other Tulsa restaurant,
The.FTe.nch Hen, but the
preparattons are certainly
not, French (of course,
we’ ve also made that observation
about the
French ’HEn, but that is
the subject of another review)..
We can 6nly call
Capistrano eclectiC.
Ecldcfic might also describe
the service here,
too, though esoteric also
fits. Certain customers
and tables seem to get a
lot ofattention, while others
are left to flounder unattended.
The al fresco
tables are particularly a
service wilderness. Some
of the staff is definitely
friendlier than others,and
all of them seem to be
lacking in training in the
finer points of service.
Our waitress was also totally
ignorant as to the
.preparation technique and
Ingredients of the menu
items. Nevertheless,
Capistrano remains a busy restaurant
filled with upseale Utica Square shoppets.
Where to start? Try to think of every
cuisine and every culinary fad item, and
then expect it to appear on the Capistrano
menu. Soups include a limed chicken tortilla,
a clam chowder, and a soup du jour,
which on the evening of our visit was a
spicy tomato, which we found rather thin
and tart. Appetizers include baked brie
with sun-dried tomatoes, snails, and a
brick oven pizza. Salads include the Caesar,
a broiledmozzarella, nicoise, oriental
duck, andalderwoodsmokedsalmon, plus
a vegetarian medley presented on a bed of
greens. The nicoise, duck, and salmon
salads come in two sizes, small for $8.95,
and large for $14.95.
Pastas are important menu items, including
fettucine ticino, a pesto, and an
angel hair with salmon. We chose to split
the fettucine Riviera ($12.95) as an appetizer
course, and were generally pleased
with the result. The fettucine was cooked
to the proper degree of al dente doneness
and was sauced in a rich and delicious
lobster cream, redolent with parmesan
cheese, and sprinkled with bits of lobster
meat, scallops, and three whole shrimps.
The dish was marred only by the presence
of the tail shell on the shrimps. One of our
Capistrano
Rotisserie
171~8Utlca Square
¯ Hours:
Lunel,, 11 to 2:30
Dinner 5 to 9:30
closed S.nd~ys
.Cuisine:
Eclectic
Dress:
’C~uM
Prices:
Expensive
Pa~ent:
A~ ~o~
No~-Smo~
Section:
Alcohol:
Ratln~:
convey it dripping to the
mouth? Or does-one use
one’ s fork, riskingmouth
lacerations from sharp
bits of tail shell, and then
later gracefully and elegantly
spit out the offending
bits?
This .wasn’t the first
time we’d been to
Capistrano, so we passed
up the signature Santa Fe
Blue Corn Plato ($9.95),
the rotisserie chicken
($10.95), the pan grilled
brooktrout ($12.95), and
theloin oflamb daily special
($21.95). We wish
we hadn’t. Instead, we
tried theGuthriepanfried
steak ($15.95), which is
the Capistrano answer to
traditional Oklahoma
chicken fried steak. This
"dish" was a piece of
round steak served with
new potatoes and sliced
mushrooms, absolutely
drowned in the most offensive
brown gravy
we’ve ever tasted. Flavored
with Worcestershire
sauce, the gravywas
overpowering with the
anchovy-vinegar
Worcestershire flavor,
and the taste would not
leave the mouth, even
afternumerous washings
with the $6.50 a glass
wine. Our companion
tried the toumedos au
¯ poivre ($17.95), ordered
medium rare and received medium and
¯ almost cold. It was a small piece of dead
¯ cow with pepper on it.
Our dessert was a bread pudding in a
: Jack Daniels sauce, which our waitress
.- announced was a Jack Daniels "bourbon"
¯ sauce, even though our table all knew that
." only Bourbon County, Kentucky, pro-
. duces bourbon - Jack Daniels is Tennes-
¯ see whiskey. But, good whiskey notwith-
¯ standing, thebreadpuddingwas dry, bland,
¯ and rubbery. We also tried the creme
¯ brulee. Creme brulee is a milky custard
with a sugar crust that is caramelized and
¯ toasted under the broiler immediately be-
¯- fore serving. Our sugar crust was burned
¯ black. But, the underlying custard was
smooth and very tasty.
¯ Ah, the sacrifices we make for our
¯ readers! This simple little dinner for two ¯
endedupcosting us $76. Wewere shocked
and appalled. Shocked and appalled not
¯" only because of the price, but because of
¯ the quality of food we received on the
night of the review. We’ ve never been so
¯ disappointed with their food before.
¯ If one is shol~ping and hunga3, while on
¯ the west side o[ Utica Square, stop in at ¯
Capistrano for a bite to eat. The outside
¯ eafe seating can be pleasant. Just hope
¯ that those legendary birds drop by laden
: with cash.
Black boots,jeans, black belt, tank top ."
and armband, i am ready to go and the,¯
nerves are setting in. Will i be accepted?
What will it be like walking into a leather "
¯ ¯ bar?Will ~bemovermy head.9"These are °
a few of the thoughts that raced through ¯
myhead as i embarkedonmy first venture ¯
to a leather bar. i knew i had to fulfill this "
yearning that was growing deep in my "
soul. Little did i know that i was about to ",
begin the journey of my life with no ,
turning back.
Upon arriving at The SF Eagle, i saw a :
line ofhuge,beautifnl motorcycles, i never ;
knew a sight, such as this[could get my
heart to racing so. i made iny way to the :
patio and all i could see was a sea of ]
leatherdad.men. The day was hot and the ¯
air smdled of sweat, leather and cigars, i "
was in heaven. But then reality set in. :
What was i supposed to do? Look? Ap- :
proach someone?i waslost. Thisis where ¯
my training began, i had foundmy home. ~
My family. ¯
Basic training taughtmethat not every- :
oneinleatherwas intoSMand vice-versa. ¯
Leather relationships ran’the gamut from "
monogamous with leathersex only, to "
Daddy/boy or Mistress, Master/slav.e and :
that these relationships did not always
involve pain..Leather involves scenes "
which Race Bannon, author of1~earning "
the Ropes, says, a scene is a comblnatton ¯
of mental, physical and/or environmental ~
components, with an exchange of power .
as a key element, thatmix in such away as
to produce a satisfying experience for all
participants. Scenes canhappen anywhere
as the focus inSMis the mind. Sexmay or
may not be part of a Scene. SM has been :
defmed as theater, where you create your
own fantasy and as music, where you ~
..... create your own score". ¯
i learned about networking, negotiat- ".
ing and feedback. Networking is about ¯
finding out who is safe and who is not, :
building a circle of friends and acquain- :
tances to help you and attending parties, :
workshops and club events. Educating
oneself is important and no question is ~
ridiculous. Negotiating a scene helps "
both parties get what they want, feel each
other out and not get in over their head.
Feedback, such as safe words, helps everyone
involved to know how thin.gs are
going. Safe words such as red, yellow, or
green can be used for checking out the
scene, halting the momentum for a while,
or stopping the scene all together.
"Safe, Sane and Consensual" is the
leather creed. Safety is of utmost importance
inleather and includes not exchanging
body fluids, getting to know your
partner and not trying anything you are
not ready for. Sane means trusting your
gut instinct and not involving alcohol or
..... drugs as they can impair your.j.ud,gment,
causeharmandincrease yourriskoI sexually
transmitted disease. Consensual stems
from all parties involved should consent
to everything that is transpiring. Communication
is the key. But most of all, have
fun.
Through my experien~s, i came to
realize leather is lovemaking. It is safe
and non-demeaning as it is a carefully
....negotiated, safe, and caring exchange between
partners. Leather is not about pain,
but sensation. Leather has helped me become
a stronger person and to understand
the true meanings of trust, honor and love.
Lastly, leather h,a,s taken me to a heigh,t,.
see lance, Mina ~pace, no. one, page 1~
World War II seems to be when
leathermen emerged. The men, coming
back from war, were used to strict orders
of rank and respect; the camaraderie, and
theman-to-manbonding in the absence of
women. Some were able to adjust while
others yearned for the unspeakable.
Themenbeganhanging out at the shipping
yards, loading docks, and the bars of
the larger port cities. Soon, groups of men
begancoming together and "hanging their
colors" in their "home bar". Motorcycles
came onto the scene largely due to the
appreciation the American soldier~ devdoped
while serving’in Europe. rBike
clubs emerged and the followers came
from far and wide. Uniforms had their
beginning when themenwore them out to
display their rank for those who understood
their insignia and would give them
the respect they called for.
Between the 1960’ s and 1980’ s organization,
less secrecy, and the leather network
helped increase the growing numbers
of leatherpeople. From the 1980’ s to
the present the Old Guard, which is well
defined, and the New Guard have been
combining the two philosophies resulting
in a stronger leather community. Fetishes
and the educating of others have grown
and brought about a more diverse and
stronger tribe.
SM stands for sadomasochism or the
deriving of enjoyment from the infliction
and/orreceiving ofpain. SMencompasses
¯ many forms. Pain is not the key clement
¯ here, but the exchange of power is. This. ¯
exchange is totally voluntary. It defines
¯ the roles and the relationship. The bottom
relies on trust then expresses his desires
and finally gives up his power to the Top.
This exchange continues throughout the
scene as the Top watches the reactions of
the bottom. The bottomis controlling with
his/her actions.
Areyounow asking yourselfhow I take
action with my curiosity? Joseph Bean,
author ofLeathersex, describes it as: Taking
action is like lowering yourself into a
tub of hot water, one timid body part at a
time, only to discover it Wash’ t all that hot
after all. Sojustgoforit. Leatherlifestyles
celebrate and affirm sexuality. Be honest
andlisten until youunderstand the image!
reality, fantasy/foreplay give-take flows.
Also realize that you are play~ng a ro!e
and wearing a costume. Leatlaerpeopie
are playing their roles for themselves, for
something powerful within and are looking
for aproper counterpart. Please donot
wear cologne, loud colors, use a loud
voice, or disturb a scene. It is not proper
etiquette.
Dressing for Action is not all that involved.
A tight fitting t-shirt, jeans, black
belt, and black boots will suffice. Leather
and accessories are expensive so play by
the motto "Performnow, reward yourself
later". Do not be afraid to ask questions
about what is appropriate for you and
your role. Collars are worn to imply that
you are owned or taken. If you are not
¯ owned, but would like to be, thread the
¯ collar under the right epaulet of your
¯ jacket. ¯ Communicating with clothing can be
¯ misinterpreted. Please take the time to
¯ learn thehankie colors and their meaning.
¯ Do not mistake interests for requirements
" and don’ tassume that yourmessages have
: notbeen misread. Take all these things as
¯ points to be considered and discussed
see lance, Mind Space, no. two, page 15
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We all want to look our best. If notjust
for our health, looking our best can make
an incredible difference in our own selfesteem
and how we view others around
us...in short, Gay or not, it’ s a must.
Maybe you have never wanted to be a
competitive body builder, but you may
still want to feel better about yourself.
There are a variety of ways to do that but
this month, I am discussing one I truly
have passionfor- weight training. Maybe
_y.ou already life weights but you can’t
figure out why you don t looklike that hot
guy (or girl) dancing next to you on a Sat.
night. Many times the difference can be
narrowed down to a few basic points.
1. Lackofintensity. Too often, many of
us just go through the motions of exercise
without fully understanding the importance
of intensity. I’m sorry to break it to
you but weight lifting hurts. You must
work out hard and consistently, pushing
.yourself to add more weight while keepmg
a perfect a form as possible. Intensity
is simply trying hard enough.
2. Too much intensity & not enough
rest. The number that fall into this category
is significantly smaller than the
previous one. Unless you’rejuiced to the
gills (steroids) or on supplements, you’re
not going to be able to work out every day
of the week. Normal guys and gals need to
Mind Space, no. one
¯ recuperate. The trick is finding out the
right amount that suits you. For some,
¯ working out 2-3 per week is best. For the
: more advanced, 5 per week is optimum.
¯ 3. Inconsistency. You must commit ¯
¯ YOurself toworkingout on aregularbasis. If you make working out a priority, put-
¯, ling it ahead of social engagements, you
¯ will make progress. And if you’re only
working out three times a week (5 max.)
¯ that lives plenty of time for other things.
¯. 4. Too much time on "shaping" exercises.
Unless you’re a professi-on~l body-
" builder, there’s little need to concentrate
¯ on various parts of the body. Stick with
¯ the powermovements like bench presses, ¯
squats, leg presses, etc. These are exer-
¯
cises that build size andstrength overall.
¯ 5. Inadequate rest and/or nutrition. If
¯ you follow all these tips yet fail to get ¯
¯ enough sleep or you eat poorly, what
you’re doing is equivalent to swimming
¯ in a cement overcoat. You must sleep an
¯ amount that’s right for you. Eat lots of
¯ whole-grainfoods, vegetables, fruits, and ¯ low-fat protein sources.
¯ 6. Rottenform and time in between sets.
¯ There are various ways to make an exer- ¯
cise easier. Almost all of them constitute
¯
cheating and waiting too long in between
¯ sets. Swinging a barbell up, using your
¯ body weight, momentum and maybe a ¯
¯ eatapnltmaymakecurling aweight easier, but it will do absolutely nothing to make
¯ your muscles grow. Wait more than 30
¯ seconds (45 max.) in between sets and ¯
you lose your fatigue/tension and your
: muscles can cool down to where you’re at
: the starting point all over again.
¯ There are plenty-of other pitfalls to ¯
achieving your best physical shape, but
¯
~we’vecoveredthemostimportantofthem..~.
: Despite the image that weight-lifters ofened
awareness of my inner self and has
allowed me to stand tall and be proud of
whoi am.
i would like to here your comments,
.any questions you may have, or any subjects
you wouldlikeme to talk about. You
can e-mail me at mrac194@aol.com or
write tomein care of Tulsa Family News.
Mark your calendars for September 20.
RonGreenwoodproduces ’q"he Mr. Tnlsa
l_xather Contest" at The Silver Star Saloon.
Until next time......
Author’s note: in the leather community
Tops are recognized in upper case
and bottoms as lower case.
Mind Space, no. two
with a possible partner. Here is a tip to
remember: A Top flags left and a bottom
flags right.
You do not have to be all dressed and ."
have no place to go. There are the bars, ."
dubs, events, dub runs and more. There ¯
are many national events that happen annually
and local events you can find out
about through the local papers, the community,
leather magazines, and the
intemet. Always ask. The information is
there for your disposal.
The world is for your ialdng. Don’ t be
afraid. Take one step at a time until you
feel comfortableandremember, theleather
community is there for you with open
arms. This .tribe will help you with your
journey. After all, we are all on this journey
together.
i aminterestedin yourcomments, questions,
or topics you would like to see
discussed. Please e-mail me at
mrac194@aol.com or write to me in care
of Tulsa Family News. In October i will be
discussing leather relationships. Until
then...Play Safe, Play Sane, Play Consensually,
but most of all Have Fun!
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Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities - Our Families of the Heart February 15 - March 14, 1996, Volume 3, Issue 3
National News
Clinton Slams HIV+
Military Discharges
WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration
has announced that it believes the
HIV discharge provision in the $265 billion
Defense Department’s 1996 authorization
defense authorzafion bill is unconstitutional
and has ordered the Justice
Department not to defend the provision.
That provision, written by arch-conservalave
Rep. Bob Dornan, R-Calif., would
discharge within sxx months, regardless
see Clinton, page 3
Anti-Marriage Bills
ExplodeAround US
PIERRE, S.D.- Sparked by the likelihood
that state courts in Hawaii will soon declare
same-sex mamage legal there, a
rapidly growing number of state legislatures
throughout the country have started
arush to outlaw gay and lesbian marriages
from being recognized locally, even if
they should be legal elsewhere in the U.S.
Legislatures in at least 18 states: AL, AK,
CA, CO, GA, HI, ID, IL, IA, MO, N19I; RI,
SC, SD, TN, VA, WA, WI - had various
versions of"gay miscegenation" proposals
before thein at press tame.
In Virginia, where same-sex marriages
are already forbidden by state law, under
pressure from Radical Right Gov. George
F. Allen, the Virginia Housing DevelopmentAuthority
has reversed a 1994 policy
and now effectively prohibits mmaamed
or gay and lesbian couples from getting
see Marriage, page 3
Gay Morn Appeals
Custody DecisiOn
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Mary Ward has
appealed an August ruling that ordered
her 11-year-old daughter be given over to
the custody of the child’s father, who was
convicted of killing his first wife.The decision
last year by state Circuit Court
Judge JosephTarbuck stunnedmany when
he ruled in favor of John Ward, the girl’s
father, who served 9 years in prison for
killing his first wife during an argument
over custody of their daughter. In deciding
against Mary Ward, Tarbuck ruled
see Morn, page 3
Tennessee Sodomy
Law Thrown Out
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ~ The Tennessee
Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously
that the state’s anti-gay sodomy statute is
unconstitutional. In overturning the state
law the court ruled that the right to privacy
includes "the fight of the plaintiffs to
engage in consensual, private, non-commercial
sexual conduct" that were none of
the state’s business because they involve
"intimate questions of personal and family
concern." State officials gave no immediate
indication of whether they would
appeal the ruling to the state supreme
court or not, but most rights advocates
expect an appeal.
FUSO: Friends in Unity
Social Organization
Tulsa’s organization forAfrican-American
Gay men ~s expanding its efforts to
meet both social and health needs of their
immediate community, and the larger one.
Over the past year they’ve established a
RAIN team, which has its first client, and
which may be the only all African-Amencan
team in Oklahoma. Its leadership also
is working on the non-profit’s tax-exempt
status with the Internal Revenue Service
so that they can actively seek grant funding
to provide HIV education and care.
Ultimately they would like to provide
case management, peer education, information
and referra! services, HIV testing
and counseling, health and nutrition, and
substance abuse counseling and a food
bank in North Tulsa.
Over this last year, FUSO has donated
canned goods to Our House, made a gift to
the victims of theOKCbombing They v e
helped to represent Tulsa African-A~eri ¯
cans by sending representatives to Hoist
ing the Bamwr. the state HIV AIDS con.
ference in OKC addressing issnes of
people of color and also participated in the
statewide HIV/AIDS conference held last
summer at the Doubletree Hotel, Warren
Place. Its members marched in the "95
Tulsa AIDS Walk and the World AIDS
Day March held at University of Tulsa.
Derrick Davis, who is one of FUSO’s
officers, has been nominated to be cochair
of the Multi-Cultttral AIDS Coalition.
FUSO also is participating in the
planning of the Women and AIDS conference
that will be tleld in April.
Last Labor Day, FUSO held a successful
Labor Day Weekend event with guests
see FUSO, page 10
Vicious Pink, In the Red?
OKC-owned Store Closes
Vicious Pink, a Gay-oriented gift store
owned by Anthony Klatt of Oklahoma
City has closed after barely 6 months. The
store located in Concessions at 3340 So.
Peoria opened with ambitious plans and
claims of being the largest such establishment
in the state.
Kirk Glines, one of the owners of Concessions,
indicated that he and his partner
Terry Kerns will reopen the shop themselves,
possibly by March 1st. Klatt also
opened a shop, Dusty Roads, in the Silver
Star Saloon. Star owner, John Rothrock
could not say whether Dusty Roads was
still in business, noting that it was closed
without explanation for a week recently
and had not been dependably open.
Tulsa Man Seeks
Relief From Threats
A 31-year 01d Tulsa man’s been driven
from one home, has had to send his children
away for their safety, has had other
members of his family threatened and
may have to flee his new apartment, all
because he’s living with AIDS. Roscoe
Pilant, who goes by the nickname, JR,just
wants to be left alone to hve, and to work
when he can. However, despite having
swastikas and death threats marked on his
door and threats to murder him left on his
answering machine, Tulsa Police initially
were hardly cooperative. And as a result
of his complaint, investigation by legalaid
attorneys have discovered that the
Oklahoma S tate Bureau of Investigations
might have been violating the OK hate
crimes statute by not keeping statistics on
hate crimes directed toward any disabled
persons, including those living with AIDS.
Pilant says his troubles began when he
had to take a HIV related medical absence
from work. After he returned, he feels that
his employer, a national finn, fired him
becauseof his HIV status. After the finn
was contacted by Oklahoma Legal Aid
attorney Darlene Shadid andwas informed
that discrimination based on HIV’AIDS
status is illegal under federal law, the
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA),
he returned to work. And then the harassment
began.
see Threats, page 2
Lesbian & Gay
Domestic Violence
Two police officers from Tulsa area
police departments spoke to the members
and guests of Tulsa Oklahomans for Hnman
Rights (TOHR) about do~nestic violence
issues, both within and out the LesbianGay
con~nunities. Both officers who
are 10 year plus veterans work pmnanly
on domestic violence (hereafter abbreviated
as DV). Each gave profoundly sobering
statistics on the extent of DV. For
example, they noted that 50% of US
women ~vi!l be DV violence victims, that
wom_en are at a 9 times higher risk of
injury in their homes than they are on the
street, and that every 15 seconds a women
is beaten in her own home. The officers
outlined some of the social psycholoNcal
dynamics of DV noting the stages of the
syndrome and gave details of legal opti’ons
and other resources to help victims
and to identify abusers.
The officers who had dealt with Lesbian/
Gay DV issues bemoaned the lack of
research in this area but noted that the
causes are similar to those of DV for
heterosexuals. They suggested that 30%
of Lesbian/Gay relationships have some
DV problems but they suspected that these
cases tended to be underreported because
the criminal justice system rmnains
homophobic. They also stated that Lesbian
relationships appear to be more physically
violent than those of Gay or Bi men.
Also, Gay men may not report DV when
it happens because the general perception
is that DV ouly happens to women and
often the agencies that deal with DV are
not well equipped to help men.
Saks 5th Avenue to
Show AIDS Quilt
DKNY Fashion Fundraiser-2/29
Tulsa’s Saks Fifth Avenue will display
10 sections of The NAMES PROJECT
AIDS Memorial Quilt on February 21 to
March 1st. Saks Fifth Avenue is the first
corporation to spensor a multi-site display
with 45 Saks Fifth Avenue stores and
60ff5th’s outlet centers showing memorial
panels that are geographically specific
to the store’s site.
Later this year, the panels displayed in
Tulsa will join the nearly 32,000 panels
now in the Quilt. The Columbus Day
weekend (Oct. 12-13) display on the Capitol
Mall in Washington, DC will be the
first time in four years that the Quilt has
b~en seen in its entirety as it has grown so
large. All fifty US states are represented
as well as 39 other countries. Panels made
by Saks Fifth Avenue associates from
across the US will be exhibited in New
YorkCity in August before going to Washington.
On February 29~ Saks Fifth Avenue,
Tulsa will present a DKNY Fashion extravaganza,
Give My Regards to Donna,
to benefit the Hope Candlelight Tonr. A
silent auction and fashion show, featuring
local celebrities, will unveil DKNY’s
spring collection and be Tulsa’ s exclusive
launch of DKNYfor Men. A few models
are Debbie Campbell, I.J. Gannam,
Aleksandr Lunev, Beth Reng,’d, Kevin
Steincross, Mike Jones and Sonya Colberg
Nanc3 Renberg, Charles & Francie
Faudree. Hope Candlelight Tour benefits
St. Joseph Residence and RAIN, the Regional
.-kIDS Interfaith Network
INSIDE-] EDITORIAL P. 2
DIRECTORY P. 2
NEWS BRIEFS P. 4
HEALTH BRIEFS P. 6
CALENDAR P. 9
EUREKA PAGE P. 11
Music for Life John McCarthy and Beverly Stanley,
chairing the Walk for Ltfe committee,
have zumounced that a "Blues" Festival
will kick off tiff s 3’ear’ s series of events for
the fourth annual Walk for Life Campaign.
Mark Snider, renowned Tulsa musician,
has organized an outstanding
evening of the "Blues" featuring local
musicians. The event will be held at the
Sunset Grill, 3410 South Peoria on Tuesday,
March 12. The admission donation
of $5 will include two raffle tickets for
items donated by the Blue Rose Cafe, the
Doubletree at Warren Place, and the Celebrity
Club, to nmne a few. K-MOD
Radio and Budweiser will join the Sunset
Grill as hosts and Paine Webber and Roche
Laboratories are patron sponsors.
This event is the first of several plam~ed
to raise funds for Tulsa area HIV/AIDS
support agencies. Other events include an
art show in June and ajazz festival in July,
and the 4th Walkfor Life to be at Riverside
Park on October 12. Proceeds from the
1995 Walk went to 12 Tulsa community
HIV/AIDS related non-profit age~l~ies.
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74159-0140
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Assistant Editor News and mav not be reproduced either in whole or in part withot{t
James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or
Writers/contributors photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation.
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Using Gays as the scapegoat for the demise of the
family is; reprehensible nonsense.. Unfortunately,,
in order, to get in good with.Pat Robertson’ s Christian
Coalition, Republican presidential candidates
are all too willing.to go along with the lie that Gay
people are somehow, a.threat.to.thefamilv.
Wqaoles~le divorce among heterosexuals doe;
the real damage. With a 50% divorce rate. adultery,
abused women, financial conditions that require
both parents to leave children home alone, abandoned
and abused children and so forth, it doesn"t
take much effort to see that heterosexuals have
succeeded quite well in crippling the family without
any he!p:from Gays and Lesbians.
-~- J.J. Stogsdill, Broken Arrow
I recently had the distinct pleasure Of being one
of the stops along District 6 City Councilor. Art
Justiss" campaign tour. I felt like I shouldn’t be the
ordy one who has the advantage of "knowing how
Mr. Justiss feels about Gay rights in Tulsa before I
cast nay vote in the up-coming elections for City
Council.
My partner and I asked Mr. Justiss about the
status of the Human Rights Depar.~nent (Committee
on Sexual Orientation Discrimination) Proposal
to the City of Tulsa. Mr. Justiss said that he
would never put such a thing on the City Council
agenda and he felt :quite confident that no other
councillor would either. When questioned about
why he was too afraid to even consider a proposal
from one of the city’s own commissxons. Mr.
Justiss admitted that he didn’t want to "’take the
heat.’" He told us that to put something like the
current proposal on the agenda would be political
suicide. Of course, he added that he wouldn’t
discriminate on the basis of "’race, color or sexual
preference," but he felt protections for Gays against
discrirmnation had no place in city government.
Mr. Justiss’ visit to our home was a reminder to
him that .there are Lesbians alive and living in
Tulsa, OK and a reminder to us that we can’t vote
for a representative who will only entertain ~ssues
and concerns that are popular. - Kharma R. Amos
. Many of the threats were specific in saying that
if he returned to work he would die. Pilant feels his
privacy was deliberately compromised by co-workers
who posted his unlisted number counter to his
request.
When Pilant first reported the phone messages
and the graffiti on his door, Tulsa police did not
even send out an officer. Calls to the Mayor’s
Action hotline were also unhelpful. However, after
intervention by community-activist Nancy
McDonald, li~ing up to her appellation "Saint
McDonald", Tulsa police were more responsive
and took more thorough reports.
Pilant also nbted that Claudette Peterson, director
of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights’
(TOHR) HIV Testing Clinic was helpful in getting
him assistance as was former TOHR president,
Kelly Kirby, through whose contact, KJRH, Ch. 2
became aware of Pilant’ s dilemma and reported on
by Phvl Boler-Schmidt
,:~ .A t~ureka. Spri_ngs man i.s dead. A 17-year-old
Who admitted to the "killing has not been charged.
And, the whole event is shrouded in mystery.
This is what we -know. The "killing o~curr~d at a
~popular local lake park where the young mau was
helping his; ~andmotlXe~- cSaretake th~ i-esort for the
Winter. It happened at night. The dead man, in his
forties and -knownby his friends to be a closeted gay
man. was shot at point blank range in the face with
a shotgtm. The young man did not have the gun at
his immediate disposal, but had to go to another
room, locate the gun, find the shells, load the
weapon, then return to the place where he shot and
killed the victim.
The young man has said that he awoke with a
start to find the he was being sprayed with ejaculate
as the older man was masturbating all over him. He
says he killed the man in self-defense. There aren’t
many Queers in these parts who are buying that
story. The police have been silent. The ~oroner’s
report is not due out of Little Rock for a few weeks.
No arrest has been made, no charges filed. It is
minored that the dead man was found completely
nude though there is no official word on this.
I have decided not to publish any names here so
as not to interfere with what the police are calling an
ongoing investigation. Since there have been no
public statements made regarding the case, I am
giving law enforcement authorities the benefit of
the doubt that they will continue to investigate this
case. and if the facts warrant it, an arrest will be
made. The benefit of the doubt. For now.
I’ve spoken with a number of Gays mad Lesbians
about tiffs issue. No one is taking it lightly. There is
some fear that, if the case is swept under the carpet,
and the young man is not charged, it will send a
signal that it is okay to kill Queers because no one
will do anything at~out it. I remain hopeful though
skeptical.
The facts that we DO "know are alarming. Even if
the young man’s story is true, how could it possibly
be grounds for murder’? Semen in these circumstances
is not a deadly weapon, certainly not enough
justification for murder. Most assuredly not - if he
was free enough to leave, mad chose to go to another
room, find a shotgun, load it, and return to the
scene. Justhow frightened for his life could the
young man have been? see Murder, page 3
it. Attomey Darlene Shadid said she was told by
sources in OSBI and the Tulsa DA’s office that a
decision had been made, apparently informally at a
seminar in the past couple of years, not to consider
persons living with AIDS to be disabled, despite
federal law on the matter. Later, Shadid determined
that OSBI appeared not to be keeping any statistics
on hate crimes based on any disability of any kind.
In response toTFN, Tim Hams ofthe Tulsa District
Attorney’s office indicated that their office would
enforce the Oklahoma hate crime statute as it applied
to disability and noted thatnew DALaFortune
has participated in the Say No to Hate Coalition for
some time. Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau
of Investigations (OSBI), Dwade Langley said that
they would keep statistics on hate crimes based on
disability but that they were entirely dependent on
the local law enforcement agencies to report the
incidents to them.
Meanwhile, JR Pilant hopes that he can return to
a quiet life with his children and family sal’e from
hate and intimidation.
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 832-1269
*Barraccuda’s, 2405 E. Admiral 582-4340
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 744-0896
*Ground Zero, 311 E. 7th 585-5622
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 749-1563
*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
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Derails C..Arnold, Realtor 746-4620
*Assoc. in Medical & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000
¯ Kent Balch & Associates, Health~& Life Insurance ~ :*Barnes & NobLeBooksellers,-8620 E. 71 747-9506
. ~ 250-6034
" Brookside Jewelry, 4649 So. Pec~ria . 743-5272
¯ Creative Collection, 1521 E. 15 592-1521
¯ Cherry St. Psychotherapy Assoc. i~)5S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117
¯ Tim Daniel, Attorney ~ ~ 352-9504, .800,742-9468
DAnnques, 1508E 15th 592-5356
i *Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
¯ Don CarltOn Mitsubishi, 4423 S. Memorial 665-6595
~ *Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan
838-8503
i Express Pools & Spas, 6310 S. Peoria 743-9994
; Fidelity Home Health Care, Inc. Coweta 486-1174
¯ Foxlinx, Computer Consultation 690-2974
Leanne M. Gross, Financial Plarming 744-0102
*Sandra J. Hill;MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
*Imaginations, Lincoln Plaza, 15th & Peoria 584-4606
*International Tours 341-6866
JD Images, Photo~aphy 621-5597
; Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, POB 14011, 74159 747-5466
Loup-Garou, 2747 E. 15 742-1992
Lean Ann Macomber, Realtor Associate 671-2010
Massoud’s Je~vlery, The Farm, 51st & Sheridm] 663-4884
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31st 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 P1 664-2951
David A. Paddock, CPA,-4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672
Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo 838-7626
*Ross Edward Salon, 1438 S. Boston 584-0337
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
Scott Robison’s Prescriptions, see ad for 3 locations 743-2351
Southwest Viatical, 4146 S. Harvard, Ste. F-5 747-.3322
Thomas Chiropractic Clinic, 4138 S. Harvard, Ste. C- 1 742-8868
Kellie J. Watts, attorney 493-1959
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733
Tulsa Organizations, Churches, & Universities
*Agape’ Christian Fellowship, 21st& Sheridan 599-7688
*Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Ctr. 2627B E. 11 628-0594
*BiLiG Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780
*Chapman Student Center, University of T{tlsa
*Community of Hope (United Methodist), 1703 E. 2nd 585-1800
Dignity!Integrity (Lesbian/Gay Catholics &Episcopalians) 298-4648
*Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441
*Free Spirit Lesbian Center call for location &info: 587-4669
Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827
Friends in Unity (African-Amer. men), POB 8542, 74101 425-4905
Indian Health Care, Save the Nation 584-4983
Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
*MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood ." 838-1715
*HIV Resource Consortium, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 749-4194
NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 748-3111
PFLAG , POB 52800 74152 749-4901
Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118 74104
R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195
Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 665-5174
*Shanti Hotline 749-7898
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Right~ (TOHR) POB 52729 74152
TOHR Gay HelpLine (Info.) 743-4297
Tool Box Technicians, 1338 E. 3rd 584-1308
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uuiform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222
*Tulsa City Hall, Cafeteria Vestibule, Ground Floor
*University Center at Tulsa
Beaver Dam Store, i/2 mi. N. of Dam on Hwy. 187 501-253-6154
*Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-7457
DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807
*Emerald Rainbow, 45&1/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445
King’s Hi-Way, 96 Kings Highway, Hwy. 62W 800-231-1442
*MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337
McClung Realtors 501-253-%82
Rock Cottage Gardens 501-253-8659 800-624-6646
Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 501-253-600i
The Woods, 50 Wall St. 501-253-8281
home loans through the state housing
agency itself. The new definition.of a
household adopted by the VHDA states
that a "single-family loan can be made to
more than one person only if all such
persons ... are related by blood, marriage
or adoption or by legal custodial relationship."
Albert Eisenberg, one of theVHDA
commissioners, disagreed loudly with the
change. "It is bigoted nonsense elevated
to formal state policy," Eisenberg said of
the new policy, which he said may lead to
~xpensive legal court challenges as well
as possible trouble with federal housing
agencies that underwrite most of the loans
the Virgima agency makes. Most of the
state’s real estate organizations opposed
thenew definition, as did gay rights groups
and the ACLU, which said the change
would "inspire lawyers to look for loopholes."
In addition to Gov. Allen’s backing,
the rule change was also supported by
the Virginia Family Foundation and Concemed
Women for America, which argued
thatonly "traditional" families should
be given economic benefits from the state
agency.
However in Nebraska, an exception to
the "stop-the-wedding" frenzy has come
Nebraska where state Sen. Ernie Chambers
of Omaha has introduced a measure
that would amend Nebraska law to let
gays and lesbians legally marry in the
Cornhusker State. Chambers acknovCl--
edges that his proposal, LB1260, probably
won’t win approval on its first pass
through the state legislature, but he says
he’s determined and won’t give tip. ’q’his
is an issue related to civil rights mad civil
liberties that can’t be dodged by political
bodies,"-he says. "It has an impact on so
many people."
And in San Francisco, its Board of
Supervisors created a "civil ceremony to
solemnize" same-sex domestic parmerships
under the aegis of the county clerk’s
office, the city official who also perfolans
civil wedding ceremonies for heterosexual
couples. The measure, which would extend
no benefits beyond its symbolic ceremony,
is believed to be the first time any
govenfing body has moved to create a
civil rite to acknowledge same-sex umons.
A board committee quic"kly approved the
measure mad sent it on to the full board.
Five of the board’s 11 members are cosponsors
of the ceremony. The county
clerk’s office has estimated that adding
the ceremony would probably increase
the number of registered partners by 2 or
3 times. And with a $30 fee for the ceremony
itself, the clerk’s office also esti-
: mated the proposed rite could add close to
¯¯ $50,000 to the city’s coffers.
Back in Hawaii, Gov. Ben Cayetano
¯
has .suggested that the way for the state to
extricate itself from the ongoing controversy
of same-sex marriages is for the
¯ state to stop giving marriage licenses to
anyone and just offer domestic partnerships
to gay and non-gay couples instead.
¯ ’The institution ofmarriage shouldbe left
to the church," Cayetano is quoted as
saying in a report in the Honolulu Adver-
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its role in marriages. The government
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marriages. That’s when they nminto problems."
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~ssuing marriage licenses, they do agree
that the most important benefits of legal
marriage are derived from the federal
government in the form of income taxes,
Social Security benefits, and pensionregulations
- all ofwhich depend on state legal
definitions of a mamage.
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oftheir ability to serve in the armed forces,
the 1,049 HIV-positiveU.S. service members
and immediately cut off all health
care benefits to their dependents. Half
these service members are married and,
on average, they have served in the military
for a decade, according to the Pentagon.
Nearly 20 percent of them are officers.
Clinton legal counsel, Jack Quinn, told
reporters in making the announcement
that "the President has determined that
this provision is .unconstitutional and he
has therefore directed the Attorney General
not to defend it in court." The Pentagon,
Gay & Lesbian civil rights advocates,
AIDS activists and a number of
members of Congress oppose the provision.
But President Clinton signed the
appropriations measure because it is vital
to the country’s defense needs, in spite of
the Dornan provision.
A measure has also been introduced by
Sens. William Cohen (R-Maine) and Edward
Kennedy (D-Mass.) to repeal the
Dornan provision. A similar bill to overturn
the measure was introduced in the
Houseby Reps. PeterTorkildsen, R-Mass.,
Jane Harman, D-Calif., Connie Morella,
R-Md., and Ron Dellums, D-Calif. Elizabeth
Birch, head of the Human Rights
Campaign, applauded the \Kqaite House
announcement. "We asked him [Clinton]
to put the full force of his administration
behind overturning it and he has done just
that," she said. "This is precisely the kind
ofleadership we expect from Bill Clinton."
Winnie Stachelberg, HRC’s senior
health policy advocate, said, "q’hat [the
Dornan provision] ~ as one of the meanest.
most vindictive measures to come out
of the 104th Congress, and we will do
everything in our power to ensure,, repeal
of that discmninatorv measure, The
repeal bill is expected to have broad bipartisan
support in both honses,
Stachelberg said, noting that Georgia Sen.
Sam Numa, ranking Democrat on the Senate
Armed Services Committee, has called
the HIV expulsion measure "pmfitive."
Dornan and otherGOPextremists added
the HIV provision to the House version of
the defense authorization, but it was not in
the Senate bill. When the two versions
went to a House-Senate conference committee
for reconciliation, House Republicans
made sure this discriminatory measure
became part of the final bill,
Stachelberg said.
Currently, service members with the
virus that causes AIDS may serve their
country as long as they can perform their
duties, but they are not deployed overseas.
The same policy is applied to service
members who have other chronic medical
conditions such as diabetes, asthma, heart
disease or cancer.
The Human Rights Campaign is the
largest national lesbian and gay political
organization, with members throughout
the country. It effectively lobbies Congress,
provides campaign support and
educates the public to ensure that lesbian
and gay Americans can be open, honest
and safe at home, at work and in the
community.
that the daughter "should be given the
opportunity and the option to live in a
non-lesbian world." One new witness
slated to testify in the appeal will be
Michelle Mclr£nes, 25, the daughter of
John Ward and the wife he "killed. During
a television interview am~onncing that
she ~vould testify, McInnes said her father
also tried to molest her ~vhen she was 14
3ears old.
This reporter does not claim to be a
legal scholar, bnt from what I do kaaow,
the evidence points toward premeditated
mnrder, even if the provocation the young
man talked about happened in exactly the
way he said it did. I, for one, donbt the
story, but I also doubt there is any way to
disprove it. What will the offici~s cal[ it’?
Murder? Justifiable homicide? A -killing
in self-defense? A hate crone? Stay tuned.
I’ll keep you posted.
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Survey: Less Opposition
to Homosexuality
WAbH., D.C. - According to
the annual survey of college
freshmen around the country by
the University of California, the
nation’s students continue to
have less objection to same-sex
relationships. The survey, conducted
under the aegis of the
American Council on Education
and given to more than 300,000
freshmen entering some 641 colleges
and universities in the U.S,
fouud that o~fly about 31% of the
students this year believed that
homosexuality ~s wrong and
should be forbidden. That figure
is the lowest reported since the
survey started in 1987 when53%
said they disapproved of gay and
lesbian relationships.
Fed. Court Topples
Alabama Anti-Gay Law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - U.S.
District Court Judge Myron Thompson
has declared a 1992 state
law prohibiting state agencies
frown using public funds in direct
or indirect support of gay and
lesbian orgamzations as unconstitutional.
The law was quickly
passed by. the state legislature
and signed into law after officials
at Auburn University g~ve
recognition to a gay student
group on the campus. Lawmakers
had argued that because sodtroy
is illegal in Alabama, no
state funds should be used to
support-the "’gay lifestyle." Judge
Thompson, however, ruled that
the law was simply an attempt to
restrict discussion at public
schools, an illegal restriction of
free speech.
’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Hearing Begins
SFATTLE - The attorueys representing
Navy Lt. Richard
Watson, called the military’s
"don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on
gays and lesbians in the armed
forces"the height ofhypocrisy,"
arguing in federal court that it
was an unconstitutional invasion
of privacy. Watson, a 34-yearold
officer who was training to
eventually captain one of the
Navy’s nuclear-powered submafines,
has said he told his commandingofficer
he is gay to avoid
the possibility of being blackmailed
as his naval career advanced.
He continues to serve in
the Navy wlfile his case, one of
several like it, is in the federal
courts.
Canadian Censorhsip
Case: Mixed Ruling
VANCOUVER - The British
Columbia Supreme Court has
handed down a utixed ruling in
the case of the Little Sister’s
BookStore, a gay and lesbian
shop that had charged Canadian
Customs officials with unconstitutional
censorship. The provincial
high court declared that
Customs officials had in fact used
their power to seize published
materials counng into the countU
in ways that violated the
nation’s Charter of Rights and
Freedoms. Customs officials
have seized, and sometimes destroyed,
hundreds of gay m~d lesbian
books and magazines ordered
by Little Sister’s, maiulv
from UTS. publishers, claiming
the materials violated Canadian
pornography laws. The court
ruled that the Customs actions
"’in large part.., are die arbitrary
and improper consequence of a~
inadequate mad flawed admimstration
of the legislation.’" It also
ruled that the incidents involving
Little Sister’s were isolated
episodes, but constituted a"~ave
systemic problem." The most
d~sappointing part of the court
ruling, said Janine Fuller of Little
Sisters, was the justices’ failure
to declare the statute that gives
Customs officials the authority
to seize materials as unconstitutional.
Fuller called the failure of
the court to overturn die Customs
legislation "disappointing"
and said the store would be appealing
that part of the ruling,
but that she was otherwise
pleased with the rest of the high
court’s ruling. "Ttfis decision is
a complete vindication of thc
gay aud lesbian conmmmty and
the lives of its people mid for that
we celebrate die decision," she
said. "It has been a long, hard
climb. We haven’t quite reached
the smmnit but we’re dimm closc.
We are colffident that we will
succeed at the Court of Appeal."
Cincinnati Bias Costs
City $35 Million
CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati
Enquirer reports that the cit\"s
Convention & Visitors Bureau
says it has lost some $35 million
in tourist and convention income
because of an anti-gay measure
approved by voters in 1993 to
repeal an earlier anti-bias measure
that included gays mid lesbians.
The visitors bureau report
had been requested by the city
council and cited 10 ~arger national
organizations, including
die A~nerican Library Association.
that specifically mentioued
the repealed rights measure as
their reason for not holding conventions
in the city.
Catholic Bishops Speak
Upfor Gays in Zimbabwe
HAt~kRE, Zimbabwe - Gays
and lesbians in Zimbabwe have
gotten some limited support from
an unexpected source when the
country’s Catholic Bishops’
Conference issued a pastoral letter
denouncing attacks against
homosexuals. Zimbabwe President
Robert Mugabe, who is a
Catholic, sparked an international
flap last year when he refused
to allow a gay rights organization
in the country to operate
a booth at an interuational
book fair in the nation’s capital,
calling homosexuals"sodomists
mid sexual perverts" who ,are
"’worse than dogs and pigs." He
followed up later by saying the
gays and lesbians have "no
rights" in Zimbabwe and threatened
to imprison homosexuals.
Although the Catholic Church
considers homosextmlity a "disorder"
that should be dealt with
as sucll, the Bishops Coifference
letter condemned what it "called
"’any attempts toinstitute a witchhunt
or hate campaign" against
homosexuals. "It is therefore not
right for anyone, induding govenunent,
to harass, persecute or
torture people simply because
they are known to have this indination,’"
the Bishops’ Co~fference
letter said.
Anti-Bias Measure for
CA Students Dies
SACtL~kMENTO, Calif. - AB
1001, a proposed measure in the
¯ Califonfia legislature to bar discrimination
because of sexual
orientation in the state’s public
schools and universities, failed
by an 8-7 vote in the Assembly’s
education colurnittee. The measure,
introduced by Assemblywoman
Sheila Kuehl (DFa~
cino), has languished in the
committee since April 1995
when it failed to pass on a first
reading there. The vote against
sending the bill to the full Assembly
was along party lines.
Utah Wants to Stop
School Gay Group
SALT LAKE CITY - According
to a report in the Deseret
News, the Utah State Board of
Education has told state officials
to find "all available ~neans" to
control the kinds ofnon-curriculum
dubs that are formed at public
schools in the state.The move
is aimed at preventing a gay and
lesbian student club from being
formed at East High School in
the state’s capital city. C. Grant
Hurst, who introduced the directive,
told the newspaperit wasn’t
specifically about the gay dub at
the high school and said he was
concerned the current legal situation
could allow net-Nazi
groups to be formed at public
schools in Utah. Hurst admitted,
however, that he had gotten"numerous"
phone calls opposed to
the gay club and none about possible
net-Nazi dubs forming..
The board’s resolution speaks
only about the"formation of any
organizations, in schools, that
may create a disruptive or unsafe
atmosphere for children or
that may attract or entice children
tomake decisions tllat could
have a long-term negative impact
on their lives." The Utah
attorney general’s office told
educators late last year in a letter
that federal law and court rulings
mandate that scllool clubs
have to be treated equally no
matter how potentially controversial.
The board’s own attorney
late in 1995 said the only
way the state could keep the gay
dub at East High from forming
would be for all clubs to be prohinted,
stop receiving federal
education funds entirely,.or to
ask Congress to repeal the Equal
Access Act.
Rally Against Blocking
Gay School Clubs In Utah
SALT LAKE CITY - Hundreds
of gay rights activists, including
the parents of gay mid lesbian
teens, rallied outside the state
Capitol to protest a move by
conservative lawmakers who
have said the state should not
allow gay and lesbian student
groups in public schools, even if
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the state has to refuse a $100
million education grant from the
federal government or even bar
all student groups. Kelli
Peterson, the East High School
student who asked to organize
the gay and lesbian campus club,
told the cheering crowd she
didn’t try to start the group to
advocate homosexuality or to
recruit heterosexual classmates
into a "homosexual lifestyle."
In.stead, she said, "I started this
group to end the misery and isolation
of being gay in high
school."
Utah legisli~tors held a secret
meeting earlier in the week with
the state school superintendent,
the commissioner of higher education
and members of the Utah
Attorney General’s office, reportedly
to discuss legal methods
to prevent gay clubs from
being formed at schools in the
state. But Senate President Lane
Beattie dismissed the protest as
a tempest in a teapot. "The infermarion
given them was in error,"
he said. "It [the secret meeting]
wasnot an anti-gay, anti-lesbian
meeting. The meeting was not
held to discuss issues they tlfink
we discussed.’~ Beatrie said that
lawmakers at the meeting were
not anti-gay bnt were anti-immorality.
"That includes heterosexual
immorality as well as
homosexual iunnorality. We m’e
not going to allow immorality to
be taught or encouraged in our
public education system. Period."
But rights activists point
out that a measure that has not
yet been printed for public review
- SB 246 - would"prohibit
schools from supporting illegal
conduct" and may well mimic
an Alabmna state law barring
publicly supported schools from
supporting any orgmfizarion that
advocates illegal activities. That
Alabmna measure was specifically
aimed at preventing state
colleges from allowing gay and
lesbian student groups on campus
because sodomy is illegal in
Alabama, as it is in Utah. The
Alabamameasure, however, was
recently declared unconstitutional
by a federal court.
Episcopal Bishop
Faces Heresy Trial
WILMINGTON, Del. -Theheresy
trial of retired Episcopal
Bishop Alter Righter for ordainingan
openly gay priest is slated
to start before a panel of 9 bishops
Feb. 27, only the second
such heresy proceeding in the
history of the church although
the bishops who brought the
charges against Righter say it
won’t be the last. Righter, the
retired bishop of Iowa, ordained-
Barry Stopfel as a deacon in
1990. At the rime Stopfel not
only acknowledged that he is
gay, but also that he had been
living with his male partner
throughout his seminary studies.
The 10 bishops who brought
the charges against Righter say
bishops in New Jersey, Philadelphia,
Detroit and Washington
may also be charged With heresy
for similar ordinations if the
ecclesiastical court finds Righter
guilty.
TX Radical Right Wants
No Gays In Library
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Antigay
flmdamentalists have tried -
so far without success - to keep
the Unity Foundation, an organization
that’s working on plans
to open a lesbian and gay community
center in this SouthTexas
¯ city, fromholding mmeetings in
the city’s pubhc library. Organizers
of the anri-gay group have
protested outside the library and
city hall, and say that homosexuals
shouldn’t be permitted to use
~ public facilities because sodomy
¯ is illegal under state law. But so
far the anti-gay protests have
been small and failed to draw
wide support, while a number of
mainstream religious leaders
have vocally backed the Unity
Foundation’ s rights both to meet
at the library and to work on the
community center.
San Francisco Police: A
’Commanding’ Lesbian
SAN FRANCISCO- As part of
sweeping changes from top to
bottom being instituted by newly
elected Mayor Willie Brown in
San Francisco, Melinda Pengel
has become perhaps the highest
ranking openly gay police officer
in any major U.S. police e
force. Pengel, who was in the
first class of women cadets to
join the SFPD in 1975 and iu
1994 became one of the
department’s highest ranking
officers when she was awarded
her captain’s bars, has now been
made a commander on the force
of some 2,000 officers. Colnmander
Pengel, 41, was named
to hernew rank by Brown’s handpicked
Police Chief Fred Lau.
The rank of commander is below
only the chief and deputy
chief officials. Among her new
duties, Pengel will oversee the
department’s pohcing efforts on
the city’s trouble-plagued public
transportation system. Pengel
said of the promotion, "It’s not
just for me; it’s for .the other
women in the department too.
We’re moving into a nmv era,
and I get to be a part of that."
Virginia ’Diversity’
Billboard Covered Up
CHRISTIANBURG, Va. - A
billboard erected recently in the
downtown area of this small
community of some 11,000
people west of Roanoke, proclaiming
simply that "Diversity
Enriches,’" has been covered over
by the owners of the billboard
after callers threatened to damage
the finn’ s property. The billboard
was paid for by an informal
group known as Gay &
Straight Citizens of Southwest
Virginia with the help of the
local chapter of PFLAG (Parents
& Friends of Lesbians And
Gays), and went up January 18.
Aside from the simple phrase,
"’Diversity Enriches," the only
other print on the rainbow billboard
was the much smaller
sponsorship tag for Gay &
Straight Citizens of Southwest
Virginia, which paid $450 for
having its sign up for a month.
But after au article with a photo
of the billboard appeared in the
local newspaper, Frank Amburn,
manager of the lo’cal office of
Outdoor East, the company that
owns the billboard space, says
his office was flooded with calls
complaining about the sign, including
several from people who
threatened to destroy other billboards
owned by the advertising
finn. At that point, Amburn decided
to cover up the billboard
out of fear for his company’s
property. The ad agency’ is refunding
the money paid for the
billboard space.
Forbes’ Gay Views
Become a Political Issue
DES MOINES, iowa- Dmnonstrating
once again - for better or
f6r worse - that gay fights can no
longer be separated from uational
politics, Republicau pres. hopefuls
have increasingly tried to
derail the unexpectedly surging
candidacy of multi-~nillionaire
Steve Forbes by portraying him
as "’pro-ga.v.’" In Iowa iu Jan.,
state cmnpaign officials who
were supporting Sen. Phil
Grannn’s bid, told reporters that
Forbes supports allowing gays
m~d lesbim~s to serve in the U.S.
military under the current "’don’t
ask, d’on’t tell’" compromise
policy. Recently, Forbes was
asked ifhe was in favor of allowing
same-sex marriages. Although
clearly uncomfortable
with the question, Forbes responded,"
Compassion is not approval.
There should be special
fights for none, equal rights for
all."
Brits Expected to Keep
Anti-Gay Military Policy
LONDON" - London ucwspapers
have reported that British
defense lmnistry officials remmn
opposed to ending the ban on
gays and lesbians in the nation’ s
armed forces. Several newspapers
reported that Michael
Portillo, the defense ~mnister,
will announce sometime in Feb.
the findings of a ministry review
of the policy excluding homosexuals
in the military, but several
ministry officials have atready
said the review found no
reason to change the policy. If
the govenunent keeps the current
policy there will almost certainly
be a legal challenge before
ihe European Court of fluman
Rights, where 4 discharged
gay and lesbian service members
have already’ applied for a
review of their case. The uational
gay rights group Stonewall
has also applied for pervm ssign
to appeal the policy to the
House of Lords, Britain’s highest
court of appeal.
Gay arit to Play Wilde
LONDON - Openly’ gay British
comic actor Stephen Fry, perhaps
best known to American
audiences for his portrayal of the
erudite and condescending butler
in the BBC,’PBS "Wooster
and Jeeves,’" says his next role
will be starnng in a film bio-pic
of 19th century playwright, wit
mad ben vivant , Oscar Wilde.
Wilde was finprisoned in 1895
for a sodomy statute violation.
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Drug Combo Treats Eye Disease
WASHINGTON - According to a report.
in the Archives ofOphthalmology, a daily
injecteddose of 2 drugs - foscarnet and
ganciclovir - is a more effective way to
combat the blinding AIDS-related eye
disease cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis
than either of the drugs used alone. Patients
in the research who were given one
or the other but not both drugs had recurring
CMV retinilis infections in a month
or two of starting the therapy. But patients
in the study who were given both drugs
were able to keep it under.control for 4.
months or longer.
Just Say No School Programs
WASHINGTON" - Part of the massive
welfare overhaul confessional Republicans
have proposed in this year’s ongoing
budget battle includes $75 millionin federal
funds for state schools to each students
the "gains to be realized by abstaining
from sexual activity" outside marnage.
The abstinence pro~am proposal
would provide money for schools to teach
youngsters that complete abstinence is
the oulv certmn wav to avoid unwanted
pregnancies and sex~ally transmitted diseases
such as AIDS. Ignoring gays and
lesbians ~vho cannot legally marry in this
country, the language of"ihe G~)P proposal
states: "A mutually faithful monogmnous
relationship in the context of
mamage is the expected standard of human
sexual activity" mad that sex outside
marnage "’is likely to have laarmful p~ychological
and physical effects."
Gay Medical Journal
NEWYORK-The Gay &Lesbian Medical
Assn. has announced plans to begin
publishing what it says will be the first
science journal devoted to medical issues
faced byhomosexuals. Thejournal, which
as yet has not been given a name, will
focus on publishing findings in research
on AIDS and HIV, mental health issues,
breast cancer and other medical issues.
FDA OK Sought for AIDS Drug
STOCKHOLM - The U.S.-Swedish drug
manufacturer Pharmica & Upjohn has
released preliminary data on ,still-incomplete
clinical trials of its drug Delavirdine
(also -known as Rescriptor) because early
results hold so much promise, the firm sa
vs. Hoping that the early results will help
get faster approval from the U.S. Food &
Drug Administration for the drug,
Pharmica & Upjotm said Delavirdine appears
to help some patients infected with
HIV stave off developing full-blown
AIDS. The firm said that preliminary data
from its ongoing tests with the drug indicate
that patients receiving Delavirdine
had been able to lower the amount ofHIV
in their blood system by at least 68% for
as long as 60 w~eks. Some 3,500 patients
have been participating so far.
Infants Shed HIV Completely
LONDON - According to researchers
reporUng in the medical journal Lancet,
nine infants who were infected with HIV
bv their mothers at birth have fended off
tl~e virus. Only a few such reports of HIV
relnisston have ever been reported, an~
those have beeu received with some skepticism.
But the uew findings - which come
from Italy, Belgium m~d Swedeu : may
not be so easiix disufissed. Of some 264
babies who were born HIV-positive, the
research team found nine who subsequently
became free of the virus. In seven
cases, both HIV tests used went from
positive to negative during the course of
the study; in the other two, the virus was
detected even though the antibody tests
indicated that the baby was not infected.
2 Different AIDS Epidemics
NEW DELHI - Max Essex of the Harvard
AIDS Institute said at a conference on
infectious diseases that increasingly there
are 2 different AIDS epidemics globally -
one in the Western industrial nations,
which is slowing, and another in Afr ica
and Asia, which is continuing to Wow
with noend in sight. Essex told the conference
that the 2 epidemics are spread by
different strains of HIV- 1, and that the B
and E strains of the virus behave differently.
Unpublished research by Essex and
his team at the Harvard institute, he said,
indicates that subtype E is more efficient
at infecting cells in the female reproductive
tract, so is more readily transmitted
during heterosexual sex. The E subtype is
largel y found in Africa and the Indian
subcontinent. But, Essex said, the viral
subtype that is largely responsible for the
AIDS epidemic in Europe and North
America - subtype B - targets different
body cells and seems more prone to being
passed on during anal sex, perhaps explaining
its predominance among gay men.
Essex noted that in the West, about 2
million people are infected and that that
number appears to have leveled off. But,
he said, there are an estimated 15 to 20
million cases in Africa and the Indian
subcontinent, and that number apparently
is continuing to grow unchecked.
"RELIEF FROM PAIN"
THOMAS CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC
DR. REX M. THOMAS
DR. SHIRLEY A. THOMAS
FREE CON~(.LTATION
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
NO NEEDLES ACUPUNTURE
NECK & BACK PAIN
CHRONIC PAIN
ASSURED PRIVACY
NUTRITION COUNSELING
HEADACHES
CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
4138 S. HARVARD. SUITE C-1
TULS& OK 74135 (918) 742-8868
Free & Anonymous
Finger Stick Method
By & for, but not exclusive
to the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Communities.
Monday & Thursday evenings:
7-8:30 pm for testing, 7-9 pm for results.
Daytime testing, Mon-Thurs by appointment.
TOHR Tulsa Oklahomans
for Human Rights
742-2927
4158 South Harvard, Suite E-2
2 doors east of the HIV Resource Consortium
Look for our banner on testing nights.
Intimacy
for
Gay & Bisexual Men
A 10 WEEK THERAPEUTIC GROUP EXPERIENCE
The focus of the group will be the introduction of a
cognitive behavioral group model for examining intimacy
and .barriers to intimate relationships among gay and
bisexual men. This approach is skill-based, and builds
upon the strengths of group members while promoting
growth at intrapersonal, interpersonal and community
levels.
Facilitated by Richard Reeder, M.S.
When: Monday evenings, 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Beginning March 4, 1996
Concluding May 6, 1996
Cost: $25.00 per session or
$200.00 advance registration
Where: Cherry Street Psychotherapy Associates
1515 South Lewis
Tulsa, OK 74104
FOR INTAKE APPOINTMENT, PLEASE CALL 743-4117
THE GROUP WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS.
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QUALITY
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ALTERNATIVE
WHAT IS VIATICATION?
Viatication is the process d~rough which a person
living with an terminal illness can receive a cash payment
from flae face value of their insurance policy.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR A
VIATICAL SETTLEMENT?
Generally, to be eligible for a viatica1 settlement you
must have a documentable terminal illness, and life
insurance coverage in either an individual term, whole
life, or a group policy.
HOW MUCH IS MY
POLICY WORTH?
The value of your life insurance policy in a viatical
settlement is determined by the specifics of your policy
and your unique medical situation. Not every policy is
suitable for viaticanon, but settlement offers typically
range from 60% to 90% of a policy’s face value, depending
on the specifics of your policy and medical history.
HOW DOES A SETTLEMENT
WORK?
With your written penmssion, we gather medical and
xnsurance records with which to determine your policy’s
value. Then. a settlemnt offer is presented to you. You
may always decline the offer with no obligation whatsoever.
Should you accept the offer, payment is made
directl y to you. You pay nothing else on your poli(y, and
you owe us nothing.
IS VIATICATING MY
POLICY THE RIGHT
CHOICE FOR ME?
Man?,’ factors influence whether vxaticadng 3’our life
insurance is the best financial alternative available for
you. Southwest Viatical can discuss all of the factors with
you and 3our family in person, in detail and can recommend
an experienced Certified Financial Planner to asnst
you in plmming the best outcome from 3our umque
financial situation.
HOW IS SOUTHWEST
VIATICAL DIFFERENT?
Today, many compames offer viatical settlements,
doing business only by bulk advertising and 1-8,00 numbers.
They transfer your insurance and medical records
by mail. and do business from another state.
At Southwest Viatical. we believe you should be assured
of complete confidentiality and the best possible
service by working with us in person, face-to-face. We
are involved on a commumtv level, and are responsible
directly to our local community.
By working with you in person, but at the same time
having access to nationwide financial resources, we are
able to deliver the best value on your policy available
today. And because of our established resources, we can
deliver a settlement in less than a third the time other
companies take by mail, typically in fe~ver than 30 days.
We’ll do what it takes
to find the best solution for you.
Southwest
Home Office
Dailas, Texas
800-559-4790
Kelly Kirby
Oklahoma Representative
POB 14011
Tulsa, OK 74159-1011
918-747-3320
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WHO: Sponsore~ by TNAAPP
WHAT: Weekend Retreat for Gay/Bisexual
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WHEN: February 23-25, 1996
WHERE: For More information Caii Today
582-7225, Extension 21~
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SUNDAYS MONDAYS
Agape’ Christian ¯ HIV Testing
Fellowship TOHR Clinic
Worship Service, 10:30 am : Free & anonymous testing
Sheridan Center, Suite H
21st & Sheridan, 599-7688
Bl~ss the Lord At All
Times Christian Center
Sunday School, 9:45 am
Worship Service, 11 am
2627b East 1 lth 583-7815
Community of Hope
(United Methodist)
Worship Service, 6 pm
1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
Family of Faith
Metro. Comm. Church
Adult Sunday School, 9:15 :
Worship Service, 11 am
5451-E South Mingo.
Info: 622-1441
Metro. Comm; Church
of Greater Tulsa
Worship Service, 10:45am
1623 N. Maplewood
Info: 838-1715
Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay
Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa
6:30 pm at Canterbury
5th & Evanston,’ 583-9780
using fingerstick method.
No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30 pm
Results hours: 7-9 pm
Info: 742-2927
Lambda Bowling League
Sheridan Lanes
8:45 pm
3121 S. Sheridan
PFLAG Family AIDS
Support Group
2nd Monday of month,
6:30 pm
4154 S. Harvard
Info: 749-4901
OTHER GROUPS
: Tool Box Technicians,
: Leather org., Info c/o The
Too1 Box: 584-1308
T.U.L.S.A. Ti~sa Uniform
¯ & Leather Seekers Assoc.
Info: 838-1222
~ The Banned, OK Gay Band
Practice weekly in OKC
Info: 838-2121
TUESDAYS
HIV+ Support Group
HIV Resource Consortium
1:30 pm
4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1
Info: Wanda @ 749-4194
WEDNESDAYS
Authority OfThe Believer
Bible Study, 7 pm
MCC of Greater Tulsa
1623 N. Maplewood
Info: 838-1715
Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. Bless The Lord At All
HIV/AIDS Support Group : Times Christian Center
.&
Friends & Family
HIV/AIDS Support Group
7 pm, call for location:
749-7898
Community of Hope
Grief Group, 6 pm
1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
Womens Grief Group
sponsored by
Community of Hope
6pm, Butler/Stumpff
Funeral Home
2103 E. 3rd St.
Info: 585-1800
¯ Prayer & Bible Study
7:30 pm 2627-B East 1 lth
Call 583-7815 for info.
Family Of Faith MCC
Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm
Choir Practice 7:30 pm
5451-E South Mingo.
Call 622-1441 for info.
Community of Hope
(United Methodist)
Service for Peace, 6:30 pm
Bible Study, 7 pm
1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
TNAAPP
Tulsa Native American
AIDS Prevention Project
Support group
for Gay & Bi Native
American Men, 6 pm
at Community of Hope
1703 E. 2nd
582-7225 or 584-4983
THURSDAYS
16-Step Empowerment
Group For Women
Community of Hope
1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Co-Dependency
Support Group .
7:30, Family of Faith MCC
5451-E S. Mingo, 622-144 1
HIV TestingTOHRClinic
Walk in testing: 7 - 8:30 pm
Results hours: 7 - 9 pm
Info: 742-2927
Tulsa Family Chorale
Weekly practice, 9:30 pm
Lola’s 2630 E. 15th
PFLAG Family AIDS
Support Group
1st & 3rd Thursdays
4154 S. Harvard, 749-4901
Alternatives
Weekly social events for
LGBT men & women, 7 pm
Info: 646-5503
Substance Abuse
Support Group
for persons with HIV’AIDS
4154 S. Harvard, Ste. G
3-4:30 pm, Info: 749-4194
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Community ofHope Movie Night &
Discussion: A River Runs Through It
6:30 pm, 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Family ofFaith MCC Reclaim &
Recovery Workshop: Forgiveness
9-3 pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Community ofHope
Companioning Celebration
2 pm, 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
St. Jerome’s. Catholic Church (ECC)
Fat Tuesday Party
Ash Wednesday Service
Info: page Father Rick at 646-7116
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Alternatives Social Groap - Dinner
7pm, Golden Corral, 71St & Mingo
Info: 646-5503
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Shanti Mardi Gr~ Ball, 8-midnight
Natl. Guard Armory, Fairgrounds "
Info: 749-7898
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29
Alternatives Leap Year Party
7pm, Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
Info: 646-5503
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Rainbow Business Guild
7 pm, Full Moon Care, Cherry Street
Dinner Meeting with speaker.
Info: 665-5174
." FRIDAY, MARCH 1
¯ Community ofHope
¯ Movie Night & Discassion: Priest
: 6:30 pm, 1703 E. 2nd, hffo: 585-1800
OF
Safe Haven, a free, non-political, nonreligious,
non-recovery-oriented social
gathering for LGBT voimg adults. 18-30
: Family of Faith MC~, 8 - rmdnight
5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441
SATURDAY, MARCH 2
Rosary at St. Jerome’s Catholic Charch
The Garden Chapel, 3841 S. Peoria
Info: page Father Rick at .636-7116
TUESDAY, MARCH 5
Tulsa Oklahomansfor Haman Rights
Community Meeting, 7 pm
Chapman Activity Ctr., Univ. of Tulsa
5th St. west of Harvard, Info: 743-4297
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 Marsha Stevens Concert
presented by Agape Christian Fellowship
7 pm, All Soul’s Unitarian, 2952 S. Peoria
Info: 599-7688
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6
NewLGBTPolitical Groap, I st Meeting
7 pm, Martin East Regional Library
2601 So. Garnett
SATURDAY, MARCH 9
Dignityllntegrity Meeting
Lesbian/Gay Catholics & Episcopalians
5 pm, St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church
5635 E. 71st, Info: POB 701044, 74170
SATURDAY, MARCH 16
Gaylapalooza, 8 pm
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
110 E. Second, Info: 596-7111
SATURDAYS
St. Jerome’s Ecumenical
Catholic Church
Mass, 6 pm
Garden Chapel
3841 S. Peoria
Info: Father Rick
at 742-7122
Narcotics Anonymous
Meets weekly at l 1 pm
Confidential support for
recovering addicts.
Community of Hope
1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
NAMES Project
AIDS Memorial Quilt
Sewing Bees
3rd Sat. of each month
Info: 748-3111
OTHER GROUPS
Gay & Lesbian Sttulent
Association -
TJC Southeast Can~pus,
Info: 631-7632
SWAN-Single Women’s
Activity Network
Call 832-2121
TOHR Helpline
Daily 8-10 pm
For info. or to vohlntecr:
743-GAYS
SCOTT
ROBISON’S
PRESCRIPTIONS
,Serving Tulsan’s
Since 1947
Major credit cards
In-store charges or
Direct insurance billing
for your convenience!
3 locations to serve you:
Hillcrest
Physician’s Building
1145 So. Utica
743-2351
Utica Square Area
1560 East 21st, Ste. 104
743-2351
The Plaza
8146-D South Lewis
299-1790
Reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-County Library
This entertaining anthology combines
essays, personal narratives and poetry regarding
the multitude of rites and phases
of lesbian life. Coming from the position
that the lives of lesbians are, in many
ways, very unlike the lives of heterosexual
women or gay men, Dyke Life
~ves an inside perspective of lesbian
marriage, parenting, stereotypes and lesbians
in corporate America, among 0{her
topics.
There are five parts to Dyke Life: 1)
Relating to Others, 2) Relating to Each
Other, 3) Sex and Gender Identity, 4)The
Public World, and 5) The Lesbian Body.
Each section includes several entries by
both well-known and obscure lesbian
writers. Some of the better-known authors
include JoAnn Lonlan, Del Martin,
Leslea Newman and Rutt~&im Robson,
all of whom have other books available in
the library.
The entry rifled "outing and the Politics
of the Closet," by Victoria Brownworth,
is an entertaining examination of the social
circumstances which make the outing
of women a difficult and sensitive proposition.
"Creating Lesbian Families," by
Heather Conrad and Kate Colwell shows
the challenges and controversies surrounding
lesbian parenting. One of the more
unusual entries is by Hon. PanlaJ. Hepner,
who is a judge on the New York State
Family Court. Her entry is titled, "Oy
Veh, t’he Judge on the Bench is a Dyke!’"
Another valuable entry is by Jeanne
Adleman, member of Old Lesbians Organizing
for Change (OLOC), who contributes,
"We Never Promised You Role
Models."
One of the best things about this book is
the extensive bibliographical information
that many entries contain. Often, not only
books and magazines are cited, but organizarions
as well, complete with address,
fax and phone numbers.
For aninteresting and enlightening treat,
check,out Dyke Life. This and other
books on similar topics are available at
Tulsa City-County Libraries. Please call
your local branch library or the Central
Library Readers Services Department at
596-7966, for more information.
traveling from around the region to participate
in a picnic mad other festivities.
Particular thanks went the support FUSO
received from METSAS, Metropolitan
Tulsa Substance Abuse Services..
On Feb. 15-19 , FUSO members are
joining with members of Brother to
Brother, an Oklahoma City organization,
to attend the 9th Annual National Black
Lesbian & Gay Conference, taking place
in Dallas, titled, Black Lesbians and Gqvs:
Continuing the Struggle.
FUSO meets the 1st Thursday of each
month at 6:30 pm at Rudisill North Regional
Library, 1520 No. Hartford, 596-
7280. The meetings and membership are
open to those 18 and above.
presents in concert
March 6th, 7prn
In Her
All Souls Unitarian
Church Auditorium
2952 South Peoria
For more information, call Agape"
Christian Fellowship at 599-7688
Tul~sa’s only Gay-owned Funera~ Home
Butfer-Stumpff
Funera¢ Home gg Crematory
~103 /3ast Tftird~ 587-7000
Complete Services Available. For Example, Only $2820 for Casket with
Complete Service. Includes: Quality Steel Sealer Casket in one of four colors,
Standard Single Lawn Crypt, Service at your church or in our chapel, Hearse,
Family Limousine, Pallbearers Limousine, Thank You Cards, Register Book,
Memorial Folders, Visitation, Embalming, Hairdressing, Cosmetic Services, All
Professional Services. If you have a prearrangement elsewhere, and paid too
much, transfer your policy and you may be eligible for a cash refund.
Wasfiin~Iton Memorial~ Gardens
4300 East 91st Street South
Special Offer! Burial Space for Just $200, pre-construction.
by Phyl Boler-Schmidt
An excitement has erupted in
Eureka Springs, and you’ll find
j.’ust about everyone talking about
it - gay, straight, businessman,
minister, lodging owner, photographer,
realtor, even computer
geek. Okay, especially computer
geek!
So, what’s :the fuss? ~ureka
now has a whole lot of information
available on the Internet and
WorldWide Web. Most of it has
just popped up, seemingly out of
nowhere, in the last month. And,
where is it coming from? Who
would spend a lot of time promoting
Eureka Springs?
Positive Idea Marketing Plans
(PIMP, for short) is the source of
all the hubbub, and not surprisingly,
PIMP is a family-owned
and operated company. Jan and
Kim Ridenour own PIMP, and
they. have put their company in
literal overdrive on this new
project since the year began.
You probably remember Jan
and Kim. They are the soon-tobe-
former owners of The EmeraldRainbow,
andKim frequently
writes the astrology column for
Tulsa Family News,
PIMP (among other things)
owns its own Web domain, and
the Ridenours have been processing
and publishing pages on
that domain (PIMPS.corn). Everything
imaginable is available
with the click of a mouse, mad
new pages are being added daily.
Just what is available for Eureka
on the Web? As of this
writing (you never know what
else will be there by the time we
are published and distributed)~
you can access pages about the
town of Eureka, complete with
gorgeous photographs, and there
is also a page about the Ozark
region.
When you first see the pictures,
some may seem familiar.
That’s because many of the pictures
are from the collection of
Susan Storch, master photographer.
Susan is responsible for
many of the photos that appear
on .postcards for Eureka and the
reg~oni And Susan’s shop, The
Imagery also has a page on the
Web, complete with more
samples of her work.
There is a page for Weddings
and Holy Unions and how to set
up the honeymoon of your
dreams right here in the Ozarks.
A standard wedding page also
exists (you know, standard - one
boy, ,one girl), complete with
more photos.
Pond Mountain, a favorite bed
and breakfast inn, has a page
complete with details on lodging,
wedding setups, honeymoons,
and breathtaking photos.
Two local realtor~ are represented
in the Enreka pages: Century
21 Woodland Real Estate, a
partly family-owned operation,
and McClung Realty, a regular
advertiser in these pages.
For those of you that were
fortunate to stop in and visit The
Emerald Rainbow in the past
year, you may have met Alice
P(ig) Bailey. Alice now has her
own page on the information
superhighway, and even has an
advice column. Stay tuned for
pig astrology.
There are a number offamilyspecific
sites as well. In addition
to the weddings and holy unions
page, there is a site for g/l/b/t
retreats, Our Worm Magazine is
published on line, and Guru to
Go, Kim’s astrology.page, is
there too. So, I guess you could
call tiffs Queer Eureka OnLine
too.
Local weather forecasts are
easy to access, and there is a
feature site of the week as well.
Yahoo, one of the premiere
Internet search engines can be
acces sed, and you can download
the latest in browser software.
I know of several more pages
that are in the making, and there
are listings of pages that are due
to be available soon. The Eureka
pages continue to grow in number
every time I look at the
WorldWi’de Web. But, it doesn’t
stop with Eureka Springs.
The Internet and the Web are
national and international communications
systems. I+inks tO
related sites can be found ~dl
over the PIMP pages, and other
companies that aren’t specific to
Eureka Springs have an opportunity
to get on the PIMP bandwagon
too.
If you have never had the opportunity
to browse around the
Web, it is a thrill you will not
easily forget. Once a person realizes
how easy ~t is to access an
entire world of information with
the click of a mouse, the task of
looking things up in a phone
book, a dictionary, or an encyclopedia
becomes downright
mundane.
For those of you who are already
on line: if you haven’t
used thatWebbrowser that came
with your signup package, give
it a try. You’ll never look at a
compute.r screenin quite the same
way again. And, if you want a
first place to look, use this address:
http://www.pimps.com/
For you experienced Web
browsers out there, go to the
address above, then put it on a
bookmark. New pages are being
added all the time. Follow all the
links on that front page, and you
could easily spend a couple of
hours just looking at what is
available in and near Eureka
Springs, and especially what is
available that isfamily-specific
If you don’t have a computer,
or hive one and have not vet
made the leap to cyberspace, n~w
is the time. An entire world of
information, resources, new
friends, business contacts, and
just plain fun is to be had.
Since I’m your basic computer
geek, this has been an especi,’dly
exciting time for me. I have
watched as numerous people
have accessed the Web for the
first time, and I gotta tell you, it’s
an amazing thing to see thc excitement
in the eyes of someone
who has just discovered the answer
to his or her dreams.
If you don’t have access to the
Interuet, find a friend who does.
Buy the beer and bribe your
friend into showing you how to
access cyberspace. If you do have
access, point your browser to the
address given above. You can
also reach PIMP by e-mail at
emerald@intellinet.com. If you
aren’t on line, or if youjust want
to talk to a real live human, call
501-253-2401. Be brave. Step
out. You’ll be glad you did!
Georgia Ragsdale, who has
filmed a movie, "’Never Met
Picasso, soon to be released, with
co-star Margot Kidder.
Their shows have been sellouts
wherever they’ve played.
Tickets for this "Doh’t-miss"onc
of a -kind show are available at
the PAC and Carson Attractions,
for S15.50 to $18.50. The show
has one performance at 8 pm
Saturday, March 16th
Mark your calendars now, because
this is one show yon won’t
want to miss out on, and it’s the
first of its kind in Tulsa.
That’s progress !
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MCC of the
Living Spring
...a community of friends...
Rev. Kermie Wohlenhaus
Pastor
We welcome you to attend!
Services held
Sunday evenings at 6 PM
17"Elk Street
(at the Unitarian Church)
Eureka Springs, AR 72632
501-253 -9337
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501-253-9682 (days)
OR 501-253-8969 (evenings)
Offerings include: Bed & Breakfast
Inns, Victorian Homes, Hotels/Motels,
Commercial Properties/Businesses,
Quiet Country Estates, & much more.
McClung Realty, Inc. has catered to the
diverse G/L/B/TG community in Eureka
.Springsfor over 20 years. Call or write
for a listing brochure. Or better yet, stop
in, and we’ll show you around.
We specialize in creative financing.
EUREKA SPRINGS
"Jim & Brent have opened the ultimate intimate local
eatery. A special, eclectic dining experience..."
Stop by our house for a taste of local flavor. Dine outside on
the patio & porch or ill our three beautiful dining rooms.
Fine food at an affordable price.
Green & Yellow Night
FAMILY NIGHT
Private Dinner Party, lstThurs, ofEach Month
6pm - Midnight, Dine, Drink & Relax Among Friends
Featuring Jim & Gwendolyn’s Select Dinner Entrees
& Brent’s Superb Desserts
"With Family In Mind"
Gay-owned, Operated & Rainbow Proud
20% of all proceeds will go to the support of family causes
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The New Thinking in Automoo~les
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Family Finances
by Leanne Gross
Happy New Year Everyone!! The only problem with
the new year - is now we have to pay the taxes for last
year. Here’s some thoughts on how to help you
decrease some of your taxableincome and help get the
new year off to a great start.
* For the individual Your 401K plan at work is
the best way to.stash retirment dollars and this will
lower your taxable income. You can also open an
Individual Retirment Account (I.R.A.); however, if
you have a retirment plan at work, there will not be
much room, if any, to deduct your I.R.A. If you do not have a retirment plan at your place
of employment, try opening an I.R.A. at your bank or with a financial consultant.
* If you are self-employed or a small company employer of25 or less employees, you
may ~ualify for the Simplified Employee Pension plan (SEP) A SEP provides an
employer with a simplified way to make contributions to an employee’s Individual
Retirement Account or Individual Retirement Annuity.
1. Employer contributions are made directly to SEP-IRAs set up for each employee
with a bank, insurance company or other qualified financial institution.
2. Employer contributions are tax deductible.
3. Contributions are not taxed currently to the employee.
4. Earnings accumulate income tax-deferred.
ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
1. ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION. No annual contribution is required. If a contribution
is made, the allocation must be the same percentage for each eligible employee.
2.INDIVIDUALLIMITS.The allocation of employer contributions to a participant’ s
account may not exceed the lesser of 15% of compensation or $22,500. For the selfemployed,
these values are reduced to 13.0435% and $19,565.
3. TIME OF CONTRIBUTION. Contributions can be made until the due date (plus
extensions) of the employer’s return.
4. VESTING. Vesting must always be 100%.
5. ADDITIONAL IRAs. Additional IRAs are permitted if the combination meets
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by Jean-Pierre
It’s 2 a.m., the bars have closed, and
you’re hungry. Where in Tulsa can you
go’? The restaurants revxewed here are
open all night and have table service.
Clearly, the unquestionable winner in
the all-night category has to be the Village
Inn chain. While service quality varies a
bit from store to store, it is generally
reasonably prompt, and, as long as you.
d.on’t have any special requests or instructions,
reasonably efficient.
Breakfast is.Village Inn’s forte. They
" are Particularly known for theirextremely
fluffy omelettes, made so by a quick whirl
in the blender before cooking. Otherpopular
breakfasts are the several varieties of
"skillets", which feature diced potatoes, a
meat, and onions and other vegetables, all
sauteed together, and then topped with
eggs to order and a sauce or gravy ofsome
sort.
Of course, you can also get sandwiches
and regular diner food. We particularly
like the Cobb salad, of mosdy iceberg
lettuce, but topped with aplethora ofother
tasty items like bleu cheese, fresh bacon,
grilled chicken breast, an~ diced avocados.
Be sure and ask if the avocados are
ripe, since we were served hard and tasteless
avocados on several occassions. Those
of you not counting fat grams will no
doubt be quite favorably impressed by the
double cheeseburger, f~aturing two j’ulcv
hamburger patties, grilled onions, ba0o~
~trips, cheese, & thousand island dressing.
Our biggest complaint with the Village
Im] chain is that the3 close at midnight on
Sunday and Monday nights.
On those unfortunate nights, the default
choice has to be Kettle. We are sorry to
report that the corporate Kettle entity was
recently purchased by Denny’s. None of
the employees in any of the local stores
are able to tell us whether ornot there will
be any change in the restaurant’s Policies ,
orif the Kettle stores will become Dermy’s.
Kettle’s food is pretty standard and
generic fare. They also do a better job on
dinner entrees than most of their competitors,
but even so, none meet the excruciatingly
high Jean-Pierre standards.
Denny’s is the traditional American allnightrestaurant,
andis the standard against
which other competitors are measured.
Fortunately for those competitors, the local
Denny’s don’t meet the old Denny’s
standard.
Over the last three months, we made
twovisits each to three ofthe local Deuny’s
stores. In each case, the service was unacceptably
slow. Twice we heard patrons at
other tables get almost violently loud with
their server over delays, wrong orders,
and poor food. The most frequent problem
we encountered was cold .food. Runner
up was overcooked food. To make all
of. this worse, Denny’s famous budgetsaver
"Grand Slam"brealffast is not served
during the midnight to 6 a.m period.
Frequent road-trippers will no doubt be
familiar with the Waffle House chain.
Small and unpretentious, Waffle House
can serve a decent and cheap breakfast.
Unfortunately we found that food quality
vanes greatly from store to store.
All Waffle Houses have wmtresses that
call their customers "Hon." It’s a tradition.
But, what realh scares us at Waffle
House is the fa~t tl~at your short-order
cook works in full view.’Some thin2s are
probably better left unsaid.
Waffle House has an All You Can Eat
special for $4.59, slightly higher during
the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. period, that is worth
yourmoney and probably the best way for
you to eat. The signature food is the pecan
waffle, which appears hot off the iron
golden brown, fragrant, and filled with
pieces of pecan throughout the batter.
We’ve never yet had a bad pecan waffle at
a Waffle House. Other items are not so
lucky. The grits we were served were a
congealed mass of got bathed in some
type of yellow oi!y substance we took to
be melted margarine.
Three ’local" restaurants exist Unfortunately,
with no nadonal standards to
meet, all three have definite short-comings,
and we tend to avoid them. They are
Mama Lou’s, Perry’s, and Kelly’s.
So, as you can see, goodreaders,Tulsa’a
late night dining scene Is not paricularly
condusive to the gourmet experience. We
do, however, have to ~ve honorable mentlons
to the Whataburger and Tact Cabana
chains. The food at Tact Cabana is
pretty good, although not as good as what
we’ve had at their San Antonio stores.
Also, a favorite spot we had to mention is
the Country Ketde/Texaco truck stop way
out east of town on 1-44. Technically, it’s
in Catoosa city limits, but just across the
highway is sti]l within Tulsa city limits.
Ourrecommendation?Hone vou~ gourmet
skills at home for your friends. Eat
before ten o’clock. Move to New York.
Otherwise, head to a Village Inn, maybe
eat at Tact Cabana, or try your luck with
a gamble at one of the other restaurants.
by James Christjohn ¯ If you missed the last two concerts in
the Celtic Music series at the PAC, you
: missed some great entertainment! Celtic
music is the great-grandperson of bluegrass
and country, yet has a quality all its
¯ own. Haunting and celebratory, often at
the same time, it is great music to dis-
, cover, or if you already have, to explore.
¯
Coming up is the third and final (sadly)
; concert of the Celtic Music Series, the
¯ Cassidys, 5musical Irish brothers (hate to
be in the middle of one of their family
¯ spats!),atthePAC nMarch 13. They ve
¯ played for two Presidents, and filled Ra¯
dio City Music & Carnegie Halls. This
will be their Tulsa debut. For info and
¯ tickets, call the PAC ticket office at 596-
: 7111. And doit soon, because these shows
¯ usually pack the house! ¯
For an amusing evening, don’t miss
¯ Broken Arrow Community Playhouse’s
¯ production of"the Lion in Winter. This is
¯ the last weekend to catch it; Friday & ¯
Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm.
¯ Catch the kiss in the second act - it’s quite
a show stopper! (Not to mention the numerous
pacemakers planted throughout
¯ the audience!) For info, call 258-0077.
¯ Well, I haven’t seen any ghosts lately,
¯ but I’ve been haunted by a Phantom. Yes,
he looms large on the horizon... Oh, never
¯ mind, that’s not him, just my shadow! I
¯ really must stick to that diet more stricdy.
¯ Where was I? Oh, yeah, Phantom. THE ¯
Phantom, of Opera fame, is arriving the
¯ 22nd, and will haunt the PAC until March
23 - they’ve added a week. According to
my info. The Phantom himself, Thomas
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