1 20 1 https://history.okeq.org/files/original/88f80168e33808ae4edef3440c0952c8.jpg 51d0603c1901386d92dfa1e15ce61811 https://history.okeq.org/files/original/0f6cffda4fae053c8f9105e94b7420b5.pdf 082442d5723e9f3a97a2689ddfc3d1bf PDF Text Text ~Serving ~Lesbian’ ,.,=,.Gay’ ~~,Bisexual =~+ T~ansgend~red¯ ~ Tulsans, O0r.. r__ammesFamili + Friends" =mo ’ Everywhere.. NYC, ng¯ -’¯ D vers!ty :¯ _Pride Tulsa Pride Parade & Festival i San Francmco + Omahti SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Lesbian motorcade, ¯ which included topless riders waving rainbow flags, ¯ faux nuns, clowns and brides, rode down the street, : kicking off the city’s 31st Annual Pride Parade and ¯ Celebration. Tulsa PLWA Sues Jail For Withholding Medicines TULSA (TFN) - Early in June, the Stipe Law Firm notified the Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority, that it was suing the authority on behalf of Daniel McClure..McClure, a person living with AIDS (PLWA) was arrested on June 12, 2000 and booked into the Tulsa Jail. Per the notice of tort claim letter, and statements made to TFN while being held at the jail, McClure was denied access to his medicines as well as to timely medical care despite repeated requests. Because a number of HIV treatments have strict regimens, failure to take the drugs at the prescribed tim~" can result in seriously greater illness. The letter filed by the Sfipe Law Firm alleges that "negligence of the Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority" has lead to a faster progressirn of McClute’ s disease, "a.worsening of l~s medical condition and emotional distress." The.claim is for in .excess of Parade. +Festival 2001 ¯ ¯ An estimated 1 million people cheered as the group ¯ of Dykes on Bikes roared their motorcycles on Sun¯ day late in June and led floats of. drag queens, city officials, community groups and marching bands to ." the Civic Center plaza, where the celebration, lasted ¯ all day. For Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders ¯ attending, the parade helped to create an atmosphere ." of acceptance and celebration. It’s also an opportu¯ nity to educate people about, their community. The ¯ parade is California’s largest public event and has . ¯ become one of the’world’s best known Gay pride The 2001 Diversity Festival willfeature booths & entertaiment. ¯ celebrations. "Thi s is a great opporthnity to raise the visibility of ¯ the Gay community," said city Supervisor Mark ¯ Lent, who is’ openly Gay and served as one the ¯ p ade s five marshals. S,a~,, Francisco has ,always been a leader in Gay rights but nationwide, I m still ¯ a second-class citizen," Lent said. The parade is an ¯ opportunity to help oti~ers understand that Gay issues ¯ are everyone’s issues, he said. The celebration also has became a forum to address ,,: the impact of AIDS on the community.over the past ¯ two decades. "I’m a survivor of the disease," said David Lyons, an Oaldand resident who has not mis s ed ¯ a parade since ! 98 l: "Tiff s is a great chance to educate .you~..g_African-Ameri ,¢,~,~,,Gay people. We can’ t think ’ itself. G " " bymanywhohavefoughtfor ay rights. Everybody did the hard work," she said. ’~Now, there are so many non-Gay people who.come and bring th(ir children: This to me means acceptance. It gives me a sense of belonging.’" This year’s event featured several new additions and promised more diversity than ever, plus a more family friendly environment, organizers said. Cecilia Chung, Gay Pride Parade president, estimated 1 million people attended Sunday’s celebration. . But the drag queens in sequined dresses and feathers along with the young, buff men wearing tight shorts were a bit too much ~or some tourists who got caught in the middle of the celebration "It’s enlightening," said Sally Christenson, 48. "I was naive. I never thought people would expose themselves to this extent. You don’t see this in Minnesota." U.S, Census Sh.ows More Gay TULSA ~FFN) - It was a part new event and part old event. The 2001 Pride celebrations, organized by Tulsa Okla,.omans for Human Rights (TOHR) had a new ¯ WASHINGTON (AP/TFN)- U.S. census figures released at the paraae route, alarger festival in the old sit~ and some o ¯ end of last month for five states continue to show a dramatic the_same old protesters. The parade featured even more : increase in the.number of households that comprise same-se~ church floats anda shorterlength going along Cherry St. " partners but most likely still undercount the actual number due to from Utica to Veterans Park. But true to prior years, a " co,n,~,finued anti~.Gay bias, the Hum.an Rights Campaign said. handful of fundamentalist Christians mostly peacefully ¯ ~ nese newngures continue to show a national trend where protested along the route. The protesters included some record number of people are willing to acknowledge living in a of .the anti-Gay Fred Phelps cult of Topeka, Kansas. household with "a same-sex partner," said David M. Smith. The night before the parade and festival, the Tulsa HRC’s communications director and senior strategist. "While Country Club’w.as the site of a gala fundraising dinner. " the census data suggest incredible progress, we believe thi And while the event may have been slightly " census continues to undercount same-sex partners because many underattended, it was rinsed more funds than any prior people are still not comfortable disclosingi~ a federal survey that sort of event. Community Hero awardee, Rick Martil they are in a same-sex relationship. And despite an educational used a spirited auction style to solicit funds from attend: " effort by HRC and other, groups, not all respondents were aware ees to match a $5,000 commitment from TOHR supof the census question. porter Mark Bouney. NOt only was the match made but " s___T~_.e ~ensns ~B,urean released da.ta today for Alabama, Misdue to the generosity of Williitms Cos. DiVersity Direc¯ o un, ~xansas, r~ew York and Ohio. New York reported the tor Eric Watson, Who attended with his wife, over " largest number of same-sex households with 46,490, a 238% $20,000 wasraised. The attendence of Mr. Watson on ¯ increase from the 1990 census. Ohio reported the next largest behalf of Williams was a first for any major Tulsa ." tiumber with 18,937 same-sex.households, a 401% increase. corporation as was their $5,000 donation. " Missouri ranked third with 9,428, a 388% increase. Alabama TOHR will be ho!ding their monthly meeting on July " reported 8,109 same-sex honseholds, a 659% increase. And 10 at 7pro at the LGBT Center and solicits feedback on Kansas reported 3,973~ a 514% increas~ the Pride events fl~e. TOHR members also attended ." ’.q’he census data have important social implications because the Okla. City parade, carrying the 120’ rainbow flag. Americans will become acutely aware that Gay and Lesbian Couples; More Figures to Come IJJ DIRECTORY E DITORIAL/PRI DE.15HOTOS ~ US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS P, 2 P, 3 P, 4 P, 6 P, 8 GAY STUDIES/RAGING LESBIAN P, 10/11 ENTERTAINMENT + MORE families are numerous and face discrin~natory barriers in terms Of pubhc " pohcy, " " stud " Smith. ’ "As more of these families become visible in their communities, people will work to end the unfair " treatment andlegal discrimination they often face." Census figures released also show that the number of same-sex " unmarried partners in rural areas have. increased slightly. The most substantial change was in Missouri, where 7,095, (75%) same-sex unmarried households are in urban areas while 2,333 (25%) arein rural areas. This marks a significant change from the 1990 census when only 11% (1,711) of same sex unmarried households were in rural parts of the state see Census, p. 9 However in Minneapolis... MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -An estimated 200,000 people gathered in Loring Park inMinneapolis to celebrate Gay pride. "It’s the one weekend of the year where people can be themselves and not have tO worry," said TBiw~i N~.n.al~, One of the organizers ofl~e 29th annual in t~mes ~ay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Pride Festival. While likely a little less flamboyant than the event in San Francisco, the turnout in Miuneapolis showed that statem,,e.n,t above by Sally Christenson isn’t quite accurate. It s a fun time," said Jolene K,o,stohryz, who stud she attends the festival every.year. You get to see a whole bunch of different kinds Of people." " " And in Omaha, OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The city’s 17th a.~uualGay Pride parade drew hundreds of participants and watchers as it snaked through 12 downtown blocks. 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Of the varied venues offered dur: ing the 2001 Tulsa Gay Pride week, we chose to attend the Council Oak Men’s ¯ Chorale mini concert held Monday evening. at the central library. ¯ This was the first time my son and his ¯ friends had been exposed to the Gay com" muuity in such "large numbers", for high ¯ school "kids" accustomed to the top 10 rock/ ¯ pop/rap tunes, the concert repertoire was a ¯ - bit austere, however, I am pleased to say ¯ these urban kids, left the concert with a new ¯ refreshing positive attitude and respect to" ward the Gay .community at large. As a ¯ compliment, FII tell you that the most re. peated comment was... "these guys are ¯ gay?" Fortunately, as we all began to openly ¯ talk during the eveni~ig many typical worn ,¯ out"stereotypes and myths" were dispelled. Thank you Council Oak guys for your ¯ hard work and continued efforts to be a ¯ positive force and professional face on be-¯ half of .our community. You’ ve helped in part to make a great difference in the con: tinuing relationship with my son. I am honored to consider Council Oak Chorale as ¯ being part of "my extended family". ¯ - Milton-Nunley, Tulsa ¯ : ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ." : ,¯ Oklahoma City Removes Gay Banners Despite Permit The Gay Pride banners which ~Tere hung on light poles at the north end of Classen Boulevard in Oklahoma City cost the spon\ soring organizations $11,000. Their design. was approved in advance by the City of Oklahoma City. The legal permit to hang them extended through July 7. For the City to remove the banners ten days before the permit expired is a blatant <~xample of discrimination against the gay and lesbian organizations which followed procedures and incurred great expense to have the banners ¯ professionally produced and placed on the ." poles. ¯ "No News is Good News" - Oklahoma : City’ s Gay Rights March and Pride Parade ¯ on Sunday afternoon, June 24, included a ¯ festival beforehand in Memorial Park, with ¯ booths, tables, live music, and refreshments ¯ - and a huge street party afterwards. Some ¯ 7,000 to 10,000 participants and supporters ." took part in. the events, which were well ¯ organized; peaceful, and celebrative. That " the events were poorly reported by the local ." news media - or not covered at all - repre¯ . sents more disc.rimination against homo. ¯ sexuals. : Gays and Lesbians struggle to find their ¯ place in a society where, religious leaders, ¯ editorial writers, parents, and teachers judge i" them, condemn them, and vilify them for ¯ who they are. Gay teenagers commit suicide ." in far higher percentages than do hetero¯ sexual, teenagers. : see Letters, p. 11 �by Tom Neal Oklahoma Today, the official magazine of the State of Oklahoma, just released their July/August issue which features Tulsa. But is it a rather peculiar Tulsa. Just as once the majoritywhite culture refused to acknowledge racial minorities, creating a whites only image, Oklahomt~ Today(OT) has shown Tulsa as "straights only ." Now we should give them a very little credit. They did get a few black folks in the issue and actually even ones who are wall regarded in the black community in,~tead of Tulsa’ s white leadership’ s favorite "acceptable" blacks. But journalists, at least when they really do theirjob, are supposed to reflect reality. And the reality is that there are Lesbian and Gay people in Tulsa: we exist. ~ Oklahoma’s oldest Lesbian and Gay organihations are here: the oldest, the Metropolitan Community Church United, renamed but still extant, and Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR), which runs the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Community Center, And this publication has been around nearly eightyears. It would have taken very little to mention the community center, or to identify, just as was done for Tulsa blacks, one or another community leader, or mention a community publication-as was done of, obviously, The World, but also, The Oklahoma Eagle and that waste of newsprint, the prejudiced and anti-Gay Urban Tulsa. ’What’ s baffling about Oklahoma’Today’s failure (~t its heart, simply to tell the truth about our city) isthat after a conversation ] had with its editor Louisa McCune about four years ago, OT ran a mention of the first or second Pride March (before the first parade). McCune knows that we exist. But perhaps the problem doesn’t lie there. Oklahoma Today publisher Joan Henderson’s response to my coneems was that when OT featured Oklahoma City some issues back, they proudly ignored OKC’ s LGBT community also. Later in the conversation, she variously suggested that they could not write about us because they give OT to 4th graders and theycan’ t write "about sex," thattheir readers are all about 62 years old and they don’ t even want to read about blacks or Indians, and that they’re a state magazine .and if we have a problem with what Oklahoma Today’s doing, we can just talk to her Republican boss, Gov. Fr~tk K.eating, Lt. Gov~ Mary Fallin, and Tourism and Recreataon Executive Director Jane Jayroe. Of course, I-wouldn’t waste my breath tr~ing to talk with the ethically bd’uddled Keating et al, but I do think it will be quite interesting to talk with members of the legislature see Today, p. 8 �Official Refuses to Perform Gay Marriages ¯ chief policy-making body of the Presbyterian Church ¯ " (U.S:A.) voted to relmmmend lifting a ban on ordaining homosexual clergy. The measure must still be ratified over the next year LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands (AP) - A civil servant by .a majority Of the ~hurch’s 173 presbyteries, or who has refused to officiate Gay marriages could be fired by the city, officials said last month. Nynke regional legislatures. That will be harder to achieve and, besides,. Hawley cannot endure any=longer the Yxinga-Boomgaardt can only save herpart-time job if stress of living in two worlds. she signs a contract agreeing to wed same-sex couples ’T ve had a lot of personal, emotional and health at city hall, municipal authorities in Leeuwarden said. struggles, and I just realized I could not live in the Same-sex mamages were legalxzed in April, makcloset anymore," said Hawley, 42, who led the Genesee ing the Netherlands the first country to grant Gay couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, inValley Presbytery, which represents 73 congregations cluding ~e right to adopt children. "In this job she has in the Rochester region_ in western New York. "I knew I had to get more open with my sexuality if I was going the obligation to enforce the law, and under Dutch law to recover. There’ s been a lot of pain in terms of being Gay couples have equal rights," said Jan van der Hoek, a spokesman for the city, about 100 kilometers (60 silent when I personally ~’elt I s.hould have been sw.aking." miles) north of Amsterdam. If she refuses, the.spokesman said, her contract will be .terminated in SeptemHawley did not plan to have his departure from the ber. church coincide with the emotional debate in Louisville, Ky., where the General Assembly of thenafion’ s Eringa-Boomgaardt refused to wed fwo Gay couples . sixthlargest Protestant denomination voted 317-208 m over the past three months, saying she is principally favor of ordination of Gays attd Lesbians. opposed to same-sex marriages. The couples are still What his decision will do is allow him to speak more waiting to be married. "This is about the battle betWeen equality and my forcefully on an issue that several mainline Protestant denominations, notably the Episcopal Church and right to have conscientious objections," EringaUnited Methodist Church, have struggled with in reBoomgaardt told the Trouw daily newspaper.. cent years. "I feel~badly in a way that I haven."t been more outspoken but that’ s part of the problem with the closet - it’s not safe to," he-said. "But now I can tall people how destructive it was to try to live that life and quietly serve." COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man with a history of Hawley, who grew up in Montrose, Pa., and studi _e,d.,. desecrating the Gay-pride flag is one of two people atthe Jesuit-run University of Scranton~ said he didn t charged with burning the baiaher during a parade. realize he was Gay when he was ordained in 1983. He Police charged Charles Spingola, 45, and Thomas ¯ figured it out in 1995 after years of turmoil. Meyer, 47, both of Newark, with open buming, a firstAlthough he was not in a relationship,Hawley said degree misdemeanor punishable by as. much as six : he constantly feared losing his job. He might have months in jail. . ¯ battled to keep it now, he said, but knew that conservaA state appeals court last week upheld Spingola’s fives in the presbytery would have pushed for his conviction on criminal damage charges for tearing ¯ removal. "That’ s the fight that I didnotpersonally want down:aGay-pride flag that was flying at the Statehouse ¯ to take," said Hawley, who plans a new career in two:years -ago a~ a’similar parade. " . teaching. ’-’The only way I can be honest and comfortPolice said Spingolaand Meyer setfire to arainbow-" able about myself is to come out and to resign. It’ s a colored flag they had been carrying as the last march- . ¯ matter.of integrity." ers in the Columbus Pride Parade passed the State- ¯ At last year’s General Assembly meeting, Hawley house. Police Sgt. Michael Piccininni said Spingola said he was forced to listen quietly as conservatives had burned another Gay-pride flag about 21/2 hours argued against inclusion Of Gays in the leadership of a earlier outside Broad Street United Methodist Church, church that has a~ many as 3.6 million members. The where a Gay-oriented service took place before the ¯ remarks were not~"hateful so much as ignorant," he parade. ¯ said. The push to remove the ban on Gay clergy from Piccininni said Spingola was given a waming, but ¯ the church’ s constitution "would mean-the church has returned later during the parade with a new flag and a made a really radical shift, and I’ m not sure that ithas,’~ small container 0f gasoline. he added. Andrea Critchet, head of parade security, said she was splashed with gasoline after approaching Spingola and Meyer near the S tatehouseand telling them to keep away from parade participants. ’°We were there to protect him, to-keep the crowd away from him," Cfitchet said. "He said, ’You’ re all gonna burn in hell,’ : MONTREAL (AP) - A Canadian bank is refusing to and he flipped it (the flag) up on me.". Cfitchet was ¯¯ open an account for a coalition of conservative and religious.groups that opposes MontreaV s bid to host ~checked by paramedics for burning in her’throat but was not injured. ¯ the2006GayGames.Montrealis competingwiththree Teresa Spingola, 46, said her husband and her two ¯ U.S. cities- Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles - to host the Gay Games, which typically draw 24,000 sons, 12 and 16, intended to burn the nylon flag, but didn’ t expect the scuffle or arrests that followed. "It’ s :’ athletes and 200,000 spectators. -The No ’C- ommittee2006 was formed in April after legal to bum the American flag. We thought it’ s OK to : bum the queer flag," she said. She said that last.year, ¯ -Montreal announced its. bid. The. committee’s memthe family burned a Gay flag at the same intersection : bers indudethe Christian Heritage Party and the Cam~ ¯ paign Life Coalition for Quebec. The Rev. Daniel without incident. Cormier, who heads the committee, said the group ¯ fears visiting athletes could spread the HIV virus that ¯ leads to AIDS. A Royal Bank spokesman-confirmed the No Committee 2006 was denied a bank account for donations ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - In hi’s .t8th year as a ¯ for supporters. "We refuse to support or oppose di.sPresbyterian minister, the Rev. Bill Hawley realized ¯ criminatory activities of ~any kind," said bank spokeshe could nolonger keep his sexual orientation a secret. -’. "man Raymond Chouinard. ¯ By revealing that he’s Gay, Hawley also decided his : Cormier called the bank’ s refusal discriminatory. He only real choice was to quit the church. ¯ said at a news conference Friday that his group would His resignation took effect June 15, the same day the ~ : Gay-Pride Flag Burners Arrested Find out for yourself how good the Lord is! - Ps. 34:8 Come share the goodness of the Lord with our community ~ Sunday Morning 11:00 AMChildren’s Worship During Service MCC United Rev. Cathy Elliott. Pastor 1623 N. Maplewood (918) 838-! 715 mcctulsa@aol.com Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Community "of Hope 2545 South Yale, Sundays at 1 lam, 749-0595 A Welcoming Congregation HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 pm, Sunday Eve. Service, 6pm 1517 S. Memorial, 628-0802, Info: 224-4754 The Open Arms Project Young Adult Support Group Outreach Program Thurs. 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The initiative banning same-sex marriages passed Thirty United Methodist ministers in the regional by 70% to 30% last November. "We’re going to be group joined dozens of church members in signing the " here and we’ re going to stay around. You better accept "East Ohio Declaration," whichopposes the doctrine’ s " us," said Tom Aeschlimann, one of the event’ s orgaanti-Gay stance, andwill begin a series of discussions mzers. For the first time the parade had a grand in September aimed at the issue. The United:Methodist marshal, Scott Winkler, a native of Loomi s who is an church has more than 9 million members worldwide . insurance agent in Omaha. ¯ most are in the United States. New York City Event Rivals SF One During its national quadrennial meeting in Cleve- ¯ NEW YORK (AP) - Three dozen Gay couples celland last summer, about 1,000 church leaders voted 2- ¯ 1. to uphold the church’ s stance on Gays. The doctrine . ebrated their same-sex partnerships to kick off New states that homosexuality is incompatible with ~aris- ¯ York City’ s 32nd annum Gay pride parade, a Celebratian teaching; that no sexually-activehomosexual rain- ¯ tion of flamboyant costumes and floats. "We’d like to isters should be ordained; and that same-sex mamages ¯ be recognized as a couple," said Sheneen Ellis, wearing awhite veil and mini-dress decorated with tiny red will. not be honored. rhinestones, as she stood with her partner, Alona Bishop Jonathan D. Keaton - who oversees the ¯ Hartnett, dressed in white ~lacks and jacket. 192,000-member East Ohio Conference - planned a ¯ They were surrounded by their five children as two series of discussions in preparation for revisiting the " issue when the United. Methodist Church meeots again " ministers and a rabbi blessed them ifi a ceremony Sunday at the entrance to Central Park just before the in Pittsburgh in 2004. Two representatives from each of the 12 East Ohio : Heritage of Pride parade. "Two mothers are better than having only one,", read Methodist districts will attend a September 22 prelimi- ." nary meeting. One representative will sent to support . a sign carried by one of the children, 10-year-old existing church doctrine, the other to argue for change. ¯ Calhea Johnson. "I love mommy and mommy." The parade included Lesbians on motorcycles, a Those delegates plus 40 other church officials will air ¯ rainbow arch of balloons and a top-down convertible their views and be traine3l to organize similar meetings . carrying veterans of the 1969 Stonewall riots, in which around the state. ¯ . _ _ " pa.tronsofaGaybarinG-reenwichVillagefoughtback ThomasTavl0rofBrockville aretir .... , : " .r euNnmsterwno ¯ a--’n-" ¯ "" .. .............. gm stapouceram ..... , , ,~:. - -s " ¯ ~,~ u,~. oz~tto1, a Vzmt. ,-.v~u n we corot just sit flown and talk and agree that we are not of one mind about this," that would represent progress for the church; Taylor said. Church leaders who signed the East Ohio Declaration said they have no intenfi.on of defying the church’ s rules on Gays, and doubt that it will cause schism. A Methodist minister could be disciplined for performing a marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple, but Taylor said he knows of no same-sex couples in the East .Ohi,o Conference that are seeking a Methodist mamage. years to a colorful pageant drawing hundreds of thou ¯ sands of participants and spectators, and has been replicated in’cities around the world. . ¯ Paris-, Berlin, Chicago and Atlanta In Europe, Pads and Berlin celebrated Gay pride on ¯ Saturday .with rollicking parades. At the center of the : festivities were the cities’ mayors, both openly Gay. In Chicago, organizers expected approximately " 350,000 to attend what has become one of the largest -" parades in the city. hi Atlanta, thousands of people, including several mayoral candidates, participated in the city’ s 31 st Gay Pride celebration, which wrapped up with a parade along the City’s main artery, Peachtree Street. "Events ¯ ¯ like this help increase our visibility and help to let p.eo.ple k~,,o,w that Gay people do exist, that we’re not clevlants, Benson Cohen said. "We don’ t just exist in" the shadows." The New York marriag, ceremonies were not le! gaily binding but served as ~i rallying point for activists who would like to see samp-sex couples accorded the same legal rights as.heteros.exual couples. New York City’s domestic partnership law gives : public employees who are same-sex couples the same ." health benefits as married couples, along with privi- Men, Parents Accused of i Abducting Lesbian " SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah Supre~m~ourt decided to allow two Jordanian men to be tried~for aggravated kidnapping in the alleged abduction and beating of their sister in October 1999. The ’woman’s mother and father also are charged in the alleged attack. Prosecutors say brothers Iehab Hawatmeh and Shaher Hawatmeh, their father, Jami] Hawatmeh, and their mother, Wedad Hawatmeh, kidnapped and beat 23year-oldMuna Hawatmeh when they discovered she was a Lesbian. The woman said she agreed to-return to ~ Jordan as a way to stop the beatings. The next morning, " .the family was driving her to the airport from their : home in Sandy when her partner spotted them and ¯ called police. The family agreed to take the woman to " the Sandy police station, and a doctor later found " bruises on her arms and legs. ¯ The four are charged with simple kidnapping, which " cames a sentence of up to 15 years. But Assistant " Attorney General Fred Voros argued that the defen- " dants’ alleged use of weapons and threats warrants the aggravated kidnapping charge, which carries a life sentence. leges such as visiting rights in city institutions like hospitals and jails. ~ Vermont is the only state that offers Gay couples the option o.f civil unions, which give them the ~ame rights as mamed couples. Legislation to legalize homosexual unions has been introduced in New York state but has never passed. " �Gay Health Ads Pulled in. NYC : Red Cross, both lost partners mAIDS and are HIV-positive. : both People-from all walks of life with HIV and AIDS traveled from every continent to NEW YORK (AP) - Local officials condemned-the city and an ad agency tmde~- ¯ share their stories in moviiag testimonials city contract for pulling apublic service ad ¯ that drew an audience of government offithat promoted a free health line f0~Gays ’ cials, AIDS experts and U.N. SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annam from s,everal bus stopsin the Bronx. Patinya Noyphon, a petite Thai wOman "It is outrageous thal when .new HIV infection rates are soaring, especially " with a sweet smile and soft brown hair, among men of color, that a responsible ad " found out shewas HIV-positive when her like ~this, intended to confront this health ¯ husband died of AIDS in 1996. Her story moved many to tears Tliesday as she recrisis, is censored by the city and by Infinity Outdoor,’.’ said state Sen. Tom Duane. : - counted the shock of learning her husband had the disease and that he left her with the "It is the height of irresponsibility on the city’ s part and the height of hypocrisy on ¯ virus. Ini997; she joined a network of AIDS the part of Outdoor, the company behind patients that began counseling others with the Howard Stem show, to call this ad " inappropriate or indecent," Duane added. ° the vires thin more than~36 million people " are living with. That network has grown Infinity Outdoor is the advertising cominto an international movement of people pany that maintains the city’ s bus shelters._ Its parent, Infinity Broadcasting, airs the " living with HIV/AIDS and Tuesday they formed a partnership with the Red Cross to sometimes-raunchy Howard Stem radio bring mo,re infected people into caregiving show. City Councilwoman Christine Qninn ¯ roles. ’~"~e active participation.of those living said New York City "should be doing with HIV/AID-S is absolutely vital," Annan everything in its power tO heighten public awareness of the epidemic and to educate ¯ ; told a room of over 200 people gathered to those at risk about steps they can take to :hear HIV positive advocates speak out. Annan, who h’as-made AIDS a personal S" protect themsel V e. The ad, paid for by the Bronx Lesbian ¯ -crusade, said the alliance "sends a power-..and Gay Health Resource C0ilsortium, ¯ ful message to decision-makers, and to society as ~ whole, about the importance showed two men, one with his arm around of tackling stigma .and discrimination." the other~ above a caption that read, "I’m Many attending the session, part ofa not Gay, but sometimes I have sex, with three-day U.N. conference on HIV/AIDS, other.guys," and included a number for the openly talked about shame and discrimihealth line. nation. "We are not viruses," said Adam Infinity Outdoor initially approved the P0well, a member of the Norwegian delcontent of the ads.But company spokes~ egation to the conference, who is HIV man Dana McClintock said a significant positive: "We are humanity," he said. number Of complaints were rdceived,speOthers ’used the opportunity to mourn cifically about the reference to sex. "Makloved Ones and encourage those infected ing these decisions is tough;’ McClintock said. "It’s a,gray area. It’s not black and ¯ to continue fighting. Chiturumani, an AIDS Counselor in her white, it’ s doing our best to ~strike a bal-. ¯ nau,~e Zimbabwe, lost her husbandto the ance between First Amendment rights and.. ¯ pandemic last year. She also lost her community concerns." But LisaWinters, founder of the consor- ¯ brother, a nephew, a brother and sister-intium, said the original was "not at all an " law and numerous cousins- 22 relatives in all since 1994 - all taken by AIDS. offensive ad." "There are ads for ’Sex and Over 20 years, Arnold, director of interthe City’ up all over the place,~Lshe said. national relations for the American Red "What’s wrong with these posters?" She Cross, lost more than 100 friends, includhas said the ads featuring the two men ing his 10ngtime partner, to AIDS, Despite were intended to reach men in the Bronx vastly different backgrounds, a fatal dis¯ who do not identify themselves as Gay. " ease has madethem instant friends. "It’s The city’ s Department of Transportaan immediate bonding; Arnold sat . He tion owns the shelters, and Commissioner ¯ said that "Josephine is living my past," Iris Weinshall supported~ the company’s decision to pull the ad. "This poster was ¯ noting that the disease detected among totally inappropriate, and we applaud. the : Gay men in the United States in the 1980s contractor fortaking it down," she said. ¯ is now ravaging whole communities in "We feel,that good taste can supersede the ¯ Africa. "Chiturumani said reaching out to others First Amendment."_ ¯ with AIDS has helped her live with the The same ads featuring the two men also ¯ virus. ’~’It makes me belieVe that tomorrow are displayed inside city buses, and have , not been pulled. Bus ads are controlled by ¯ there will be someone out there who will TDI Worldwide, another company owned : care for me," she said. bY Infinity Broadcasting. People.with HIV Share Stories UNITED NATIONS CAP)-DavidBrooks .Arnold, a ~65-year-old grandfather from Washington; D.C., and Josephine Chiturttmam, a 42-year old mother of four from Zimbabwe, have more in common than they expected. They both w0rk for the In Africa, Stigma Prevails : : : : ¯ ¯ "- BAMAKO, Mali (AP)- Long years after becoming the first in hisSahara nation to publicly acknowledge carrying the AIDS virus, Mamadou Barry is still fighting the samebattleas0n Day One. 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In household after household, the shame blocks testing and tr_eatment and even the simplest known preventative measures, such as condoms. In Mall’s capital, Bamako, a foreign publication’s report this month that the death of a promruent Malian official had been due to AIDS angered many, in and out of government. Prime Minister Mande Sidibe"wentinto a rage," one aide related, speaking on condition of anonymity. Countrywide, the near unanimous response was that it was wrong to dirty the name of an illustrious dead man. In all of Africa, the top official to admit to having AIDS is Edwin Cameron, a judge on South Africa’s Constitutional Court. But Cameron is white, openly Gay and able to afford treatment.- in all, not someone to whom the average infected African would look as a model. AIDS is "considered a disease of people of bad morals, of the ill-bred," said Dr. Allou Sylla, director of a Bamako center that tests the few who dare to find out whether they have AIDS. In the general absence of testing, often the only rough confirmation that a~madO~ w0mmi died of AIDS comes when a spouse follows them in death one or two years later.Overwhelmingly, the tendency is to blame the diarrhea, the rashes, thehorrifying’ wasting away on witchcraft. Sorcerers and faith-healers flourish. AIDS treatment, meanwhile, remains a rarity, ,affordable only to a few thousand among the 26 million living with HIV across the continent. Even those who fall ill with diseases that bring AIDS-like symptoms, such as tuberculosis with its weight loss, are shunned, Often losing their jobs. In polygamous African societies, AIDS is spread mainly by sex between men and women. It is also spread by contaminat&t blood and by unsterilized blades - used interchangeably and communally for tribal rituals, circumcisions andbarbering. AIDS hit hard from the start among prostitutes, who literally line the streets in some African cities. That contributed to the enduring Stigma. In Mali, Aminate Nana Kasse is among those closely following the news out of the U.N. AIDS eonferencein New York. Nana Kasse was infected with HIV by her husband, who has since died. Nana Kasse has a dream, a distant one, for Africa - that every government will require HIV tests ing for couples before they marry. ’"No African wife would dare _demand of her husband that he wear a Condom, let alone suggest that.he take a test," Nana Kasse said. With mandatory tests, "at least One would know who she’s marrying," the widow said. Mall this year became one of 10 African countries to enter deals with Western drug- companies for low’cost HIV drugs - although in poorAfrica dying without care will remain the norm. for millions. There are other signs of hope, coming only when local powers acknowledge and accept the fight against AIDS. An example is in Senegal, where Islamic imams preach the prevealtion message in their Friday sermons at the country’ s mosques. "People are starting more and more to believe in iL" said Sylla, the clinic director in Bamako. Still; no family in Mali wants it said in the. community that they have a relative infected with HIV in their midst. "I .knew that it was for the. best," says Barry, explaining his decision to sever ties with his family after discovering he had the AIDS virus. Now in his 40s, he still lives estranged from them. "I believe I was taking- from them a"decision that the faroi! y, sooner or later, w ould have been obliged to take." he said. The Joint U.N.-Program on HIV/AIDS has said that "while East Asia and the Pacific region still appear to be holding HIV at bay, the recent steep rise in sexually transmitted infections in China and tile vast transmigration of pcople- spurred by economic growth - could unleash an epidemic.." " Outlining China’ s five-year plan to cut new HIV infections, Zhang said people will be urged to take preventative measures against the disease, "... for instance to develop a healthy lifestyle, without so many sex partners, and secondly without drug using. We advocate m ,a~i,’tal sex. we discourage extramarital sex. Zhang called on pharmaceutical companies to reduce the cos t of the drug "cocktail" that has proven effective in treating HIV and AIDS because the current cost"is unimaginable for the peasants and citizens.’" About 200 Chinese afflicted with the virus are currently taking part in a trial using free drugs, he said. Shao said China has the capability of making ’cheap drugs to treat HIV and AIDS because it produces UN1TED NATIONS (AP) -.More than many of the chemicals used in the medica600,000 people in China are estimated to ." tions, "but the drug is only one ring of the be infected with the AIDS virus and the : whole chain of treatment." number is increasing by 30% annually, ¯ He said China is preparing a comprep.rimarily because of an upsurge in infec- ¯ hensive treatment program, from health tlons among intravenous, drug users, . care infrastructure and well-trained docChina’ s health minister said. .tors and nurses to drugs, laboratory testing Although the prevalence of the HIV and monitoring. virus and AIDS is still low -just 0.5% of ~ Though China is starting to confront its China’ s 1.27 billion population- the govAIDS Crisis, the government still harasses ernment has launched a five-year plan to ; activists seeking to draw attention to the reduce the-ingrease ~rom 3Q% 5o 10% -. problem - especially when doing so unannually,’Zhang Wenkang toId Tl~e Assocovers government negligence. ciated Press. Last month, Chinese officials ref.used.to The plan calls f0r including AIDS awareissue a passport to retired physician Dr. ness in the sex edUcation curriculum for ¯ Gao Yaojie to accept the Jonathan Mann !.5-year-01ds, prevention messages from " Award from the Global Health Council at leading actors, condom vending machines : a ceremony in Washington, D.C., attended and education programs at all leadership ¯ by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. levels. Impro ced treatment- including the -. Gao,74, has publicized the spread of AIDS possibility of cheap drugs - is also part of among poor farmers in central China, the plan, Zhang said in an interview after " blamed on an unsanitary, blood-buying addressing the first U.N. General Assem- ~ industry. She said officials accused her of bly Special Session on HIV/AIDS. ¯ helping "anti-China forces." Five years ago,. about 40% of China~s " Contacted at her home in Henan HIV cases were the result of the illegal : province’s capital, 7Jaengzhou, Gao said selling of blood, primarily..in rural areas ¯ officials have told her patients to seyer ties where dirty needles were often used, he with her, saying she had been arrested. said. Following a gove.rp_ment crackdown " People who have visited her at home have on illegal blood-buying, the percentage of : been detained and officials have blocked HIV cases from tainted blood has dropped her from distributing donated medicine to 4 to 6%. and cash to AIDS victims, she said. Gao About 70% of current HIV cases are the has published her own report about AIDS result of intravenous drug use, Zhang said. in China and plans to distribute tt free to Another 10% are infected through heteropatients, health institutions and the media. sexual or homosexual relations and a smaller percentage from mother-to-child transmission of the virus. Professor Shao Yiming, deputy director of China’ s National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, explained that the NEW YORK (AP) - Eastern Europe and numbers are just estimates. As. a developthe former Soviet Union,- which already have the world’ s fastest rising rates of new lng country China can.dnly do limited AIDS testing and people in rural areas HIV/AIDS infections, are headed for a often,don’t recognize the HIV virus, he " large-scale" epidemic unless anti-AIDS said. .programs go into full swing now, specialZhang said the estimate of more than : lsts on the region have warned. 600,000 HIV sufferers was made by epi- " The numbers are still small compared demiologists based on the actual number " with Africa, where 26 million people ore of reported HIV cases - 23,905 at the end ¯ infected with HIV, the virus that causes of March. At that time, there were also956 " AIDS, but they are climbing fast. The AIDS patients and 537 confirmed deaths, : United Nations ~stimates that the number 600K in China Have AIDS Virus Eastern Europe/ Russia Hit By AIDS of infected people:in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe has skyrocketed from 30,000 in 1995 to 700,000 as of last year. Ethan Nadelmann of the Lindesmith Center/Drug Policy Foundation said the region "leads the world in the connectioN’ between AIDS and intravenous drug use, with 80% of HIV infections linked to drug abuse. Nadelman moderated the panel discussion "preventing an Epidemic" among doctors, heads of rehabilitation programs, politicians and researchers. Their meeting was organized by the Open Society Institute, a charitable foundation active throughout the region, and coincided with the three-day United Nations’ Special Ses= sion on AIDS. Sergey Kovalev, a member of the Russian Parliament and longtime human rights activist, said his country has answered the increase in intravenous drug use with repressive measures that drive users underground, rather than toward medical care. Their sharing Of hypodermic needles has spread HIV, especially among the young. Kovalev said his government is not likely to budge from that approach unless it is p~essured to do so by Western nations. Prison populations have swelled, with corresponding increases in drug use among inmates and in diseases such as tuberculosis that prey on HIV-infected people. Although there once was comprehensive health care throughout the region, today those systems have crumbled and there is virtually no treatment offered for people infected with HIV. Paul Farmer, a Harvard Medical School professor who leads AIDS programs m Russia and Haiti, .said politicians in the regi0I~ and internationally wil.l avoid tacklingthe potential AIDS epidemic on their own. To change that simalaon, he said, - health professionals and activists need to unite to establish fwo ’things: a comprehensive plan for research, pre~,enfion, treatment and care for orphans; and pilot programs_ that show how the work can be accomplished. "All they need is division in our ranks to say,’ No, i t can’ t be done ,’" he warned. "The search for excuses not to do this is almost criminal." .Konstanfin Lezhentsev, who helped establish Ukraine’ s first AIDS treatment program through Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, said the aim of his group is to have"an effecfi ve tool for speaking with the government" about the urgency Of every patient’s right to treatment. A woman on the panel who asked to be called only by her first nmne, Irina, spoke of issues that go beyond government policy: disci’iminafion against those with HIV. In her first public declaration that she is infected with HIV, Irina described how She became a drug addict, despite coming from aloving family, studying at a university, etc. She thought all her troubles were over when she completed a drag rehabilitaft on program, but soon she found out that she was HIV-posifive. HIV-infected people are shunned by family and afraid to go to doctors, she said. Even people she had helped through drug programs deserted her. �by Jim Christjohn, entertainment editor ment jn theatre is taking place July 11-14 "Planets of the Universe", the first single with Tulsa Experimental theatre’s prooff Stevie Nicks’ .new album "Trouble in duction of",The dkDistance Between Bod¯ Shangri La" is scheduled for release to Ies Grows Greater Every Day:" Call stores on July 3rd. The single will include. Summerstage for tix at 596-7111. several club remixes. It should be good, - "Always, Patsy Cline," an allegedly true the song itself is great, and hopefully, for story about a fan’s relationship with the the first time since 1986’ s "I Can’ t Wait", singer is brought to you by American fans will be able to go to Theatre Company July the clubs and dance t6 a 12-211 Featuring the "The Haunted Castle Stevie song. It would be music of-the great lady, niceif the clubs in Tulsa opens its doors July 4th: .ax are available by callare wise enough to get a ing 596-7111/ Hmm, Johnny inherits a haunted clue and play it rather anyone else experiencthan the mixes they usuing drjh vu? Anyone castle in EnOland (isn’t ally spin. else got that number that where they all are?) One club version is memorized? 11 minutes long and "Love Letters," a writand ~oes to claim his contains lyrics cut from ing exercise that became the album version. inheritance. It’s a whole a romance and then a The tour should be play, is offered up July lott~a troubleafter that, as interesting in that La 12-21 by the CenterDiva Nicks is ~bandonstage Players, and once the devil seems to think ing the "Stevie Nicks/ more tix are available at he’s the rightful owner. Fleetwo~d Mac Great- say it with me - 596est Hits’ package,-in " ~ 71’1,1. which only’ one or two new ~ongs were ¯ Adrian Zmed, 80 s heartthrob best thrown in, and adding 5 new songs to the known for wrestling with William Shatner set,includingsomeol~lersongsneverdone on that cop show he was in (Adrian was in concert. She stops August 3rd in Dallas, hot, Adam not) and who showed his magand tickets are going fast., nificen_t abs in the 80’ s tour of"Godspell", Melissa Etheridge plays Will Rogers comes to Tulsa to play in "Big" - and oh coliseum in Fort Worth September 10th ~e puns I could make endlessly here. He and 1 lth, for which tickets go on sale July is rather a tall man... And very broad 7th. Karin, the .Raging Lesbian, reports-it shouldered, actually. Anyway, back to the will.be two dates with just Melissa and her column at hand- no, don’ t go there, either. guitar. Sounds like a~ intimate evening, Anyh.oo, the musical that flopped on Broadwhich would be.great. The RL reports it is " way is now suitable for touring produccalled the ’,’Live and Alone Tour’’, as op- ’ taons and Theater Arts is bringing it to posed to the dead and en masse tour; RL town July 13-22 at the Van Trease Perintroduced me to her music, much like I - forming Arts Center for Education introduced her to Stevie’ s. (Read: "Forced ¯ (PLEASE get a shorter name!) at 595it down her throat until she knew every ¯ 7777. At least it’ s a different phone numsong by heart!") Fortunately, m3’ enthusi- - bet. asm for Stevie took (asevidencedby find-Tulsa CARES presents "Hairball 2001, ing a Stevie cassette I KNEW.I hadn’t an event to raise bucks to combat AIDS g~ en her, and forced her to fess up that and raise awareness (and hair) in Tulsa. If she, indeed~ had bought it- and loved it.), you canget it up- the hair, I should say, to as did hers for Meli~sa clarify for the more gutterminded among Interestingly enough, if ybu play the thereadership - and, if you can’ t get it up, track"I Miss You" from Stevie’ s "Trouble for hair raising fun, call 834-4194 ~0r tix to in Shangfi" La" and.then play "Enough of the Tulsa CARES hair ball, er, hair (raisMe" from Melissa’ S"Breakdown", you’ll ing)°ball. And have a ball, at the ball. Oh, find it’ s almost the same song - same chord I think this column has just descended to a progressions, same guitar. Who influenced whole new level, and it ain’t up. who? John Shanks, Melissa’s producer, For the folks still reading after that last produced some of Stevie’ s album, but not ¯" bit who are into women, Shadia Dahlal that track. Interesting... ." ("Hello, dahling!" she says to thekids) and There’ s a new Imax 3-D movie coming, ¯ her Purple Roses of Cairo dance troupe and it’s sure to bring a bit of Halloween : swing into town July 26-29 to writhe and into summer. "The Haunted Castle opens ¯ swing hips for your delight. "Passage to a its doors July 4th. Johnnyinherits ahaunted : world of dark-eyed women, mysterious caste in England (isff t that where they all ¯ customs,veils,incenseanddrums."Hmm, are?) and goes to claim his inheritance. It’ s I know a couple of Lesbians that would a whole lotta trouble after that, as the devil ¯ like to explore those mysteries, I bet. seems to think he’ s the rightful Owner. The ¯ And on the lighter side, Theater Pops Imax Corp0fation actually tried to launch ¯ weighs in with ,Bash" July 26-August 5. ¯ an effort to ban this film due to its graphic "Bash" is acollection of 3 one act plays content, entreating theatre owners not to ." about people capable of unspeakable acts show iLHow much of that is true and how : of evil and complexity. much hype I don’t know, but it did make ¯ Nothing like a dose of Complex "evil to ¯ for an interesting press release. And it get the brai,’,n working. Better than coffee. looks like it would be a fun film to check : Bi~lledas a portraitofhowdarkthehuman out, especially for horror buffs.A new way : spirit can become," which I think I discov, to get a chill in the heat of summer. : ered all too well from grade school on On the local front, an.intriguing experi- ¯ through high school. American Theatre Co. presents. July-12-21 John H. Williams Theater Performing Arts Center For tickets and information, call 596-7111 or 800-364-7111 www.tulpac.com Timothy W. Daniel Attorney at Law An Attorney who will fight for justice & equality for-Gays & Lesbians Domestic Partnership Planning, Pers0nalInjury, Criminal Law & Bankruptcy 1-800-742-9468 or 918-352-9504 128 East Broadway, Di’umright, Oklahoma Weekend and evening appointmenls are available. �Holland Hall A SCHOOL THAT HAS iTS ACT TOGETHER Holland Hall ranks first in the city of Tulsa and second in the state for average ACT scores. And, our seniors, Class of 2001, have received acceptances to colleges that include Brown, Colorado College, Georgetown, Harvard. MIT, Tufts, Tulane," University of Michigan, Vanderbilt and Yale. Laboratory work engages students in the new 18,000-square-foot Duenner Family Science, Mathematics and Technology Center. ~ P reSchool through G’i~tde 12 (918} 481-1111, ext. 251 and 89% (220) were from urban areas. the folks who provide the funding that Jackson County, including Kansas City, Gov. Frank administers to Oklahoma Today. While our legislature’s no model of " had the largest count of same-sex couples, progressive thinking, there are a few sena- ¯ 1,723. But when the 1,463 same-gender couples tors and representatives who.believe that ¯ even Gay Oklahomans deserve tobe treated - ¯ in No. 2-ranking St. Louis County were added to the 1,297 from the city of St. fairly - and who know that Oklahoma Louis, No. 3 on the list, the total of 2,760 Today is funded with our tax dollars too. Last but not least, I should note that this ¯ mtranked Jackson County. For Elizabeth Radford and Marlssa Pace problem of invisible Gay people i~ not of St. Louis, describing themselves as a new. We saw the same problem with the couple on their Census paperwork "’just "homo-free" Tulsa Centennial. And intercame easily because it’s who we are and estingly enough some of the same players we are comfortable withit," said Pace, 32, retum~ a chemist. If one could bring "disbarment" proRadford, a 34-year-old social worker, ceedings againsta professor as you can said she and Pace took the step last year of against a negligent attorney, then OU prohaving a marriage ceremony performed fessor of letters Danney Goble, Ph.D. by clergy during a party attended by about should have his credentials revoked for 70 friends and relatives in St. Louis. deliberately suppressing the history, of Gay In Ohio, 16,244 (88%) same-sex unTulsans in his Centennial book. married households are in urban areas, Some might excuse this as an oversight while 2,288 (12%) are in rural areas, acbut within a day after Goble received the cording to the census data. This marksa contract to write the Centennial history~ I slight change from .the 1990 census when called him and gave him names and phone only 9% (336) of same-sex unmarried numbers of several individuals who could households were in rural parts of the state speak about the last 30 years of Tulsa’s and 91% (3,441) were in urban areas. Gay history. Goble never even bothered to In Alabama 5,778 (71%) same-sex .uncall any of these people and .yet claimed mamed households are in urban areas, his book was more reflective of the history while 2,331 (29%)are in rural areas. of Tulsa’ s minority communities. In1990, only 25% (262) of same-sex unHad he called and found the information married households were in rural parts of lacking, the omission might be justified. the state and 76% (807) were in urban Instead we just have plain and simple areas. bigotry. Also noteworthy is the recogni: In Kansas, the census figures showed tion OT gives to Sharon King Davis who that 2,544 (64%) same-sex unmarried was chair of Tulsa’s bigoted Centennial households are in urban areas, while 1,429 effort. Davis, is both a staunch Baptist but (36%) areinrural areas. In 1990;only 29% also a major Democratic Party leader. (185) of same-sex ufimarried households Of course, Oklahoma Democrats, mostly were in rural parts of the state and 71% want to pretend that there are no Gay (462) were in urban areas. people here except for when national Mike Silverman, 28, a computer softDemocratic groups require that they m, ware e~glneer, and his partner of more elude us, oh, and when they need money,. than five yearL Dave Greenbaum, recently like certain former governor or current returned from Vermont, where they had a congressman who both received or asked civil union ceremony. Lawrence is home for major donations from "rich Gays" of the University of Kansas, and Silverman Of course, some will argue who cares said it’ s the only city in the state with an about Oklahoma Today? The only people anti-discrimination ordinance protecting who read it are 62 year old white bigots Gay men and Lesbians. (and at least this 43 year old editor). But In New York, 43,529 (94%) same-sex the way we as a community are represented in the media is crucial to our sur- ¯ tmmarried households are in urban areas, vival and progress. When we are misrep- ;¯ while 2,961 (6%) are in rural areas. In the resented, prejudices remain and help cre- ¯ last census, only 4% (561) of:same-sex tmmarried households were in rural parts ate an environment where hatred, assault of the state and 96% (13,187) were m and even murder can flourish. When we are rendered invisible, in effect, told we ¯ urban areas. Men with a male partner accounted for are not even worthy of acknowledgement, ¯ 15,016 households, and female couples Oklahoma Todayhelps reinforcea climate ¯ made up 1’0,890 households, in 2000. The of intolerance. ¯ Rendering minorities invisible is a.mil-~ ¯ census also confirms that enclaves of Gays are concentrated in the Manhattan neighlennia old technique. Those who conquered eradicated the language, the culture of " borhoods of Chelseaandthe’vVestVillage. Data on other states will be released in those defeated. In America, history was ¯ ~ batches through mid-August, according to written as that of white men, whether or ¯ census officials. The Human Pdghts Camnot it really was until quite recently. In Tulsa, all notices of the 1921 Race " paign (HRC), the largest national Lesbian ~md Gay political organization, is working Riot were torn out of the archives, and this was not taught in~ any Tulsa public or ~ with the Urban Institute, a Washington, ¯ D.C. think tank specializing in statistical private school w.ell into the ’90’ s. And of course, in Oklahoma today, we : analysis, to analyze same-sex partner ¯ household data. HRClobbies Congress; see that there are no Gay people. ¯ provides camp.aign support and educates ¯ .thepublic to ensurethat LGBT Americans ¯ can be open and safe at home and at work �Tulsa Oklahomans for ~7 Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D. scarce and hard to find. Basically, one had Last month some 970 guns, several bales ¯ to write or draw or photograph it onesdf, of marijuana, and forty or so boxes of : or else somehow acquire obscure special pornography went up in smoke The Tulsa editions and art prints mostly published in Police Department used fire to spnng- ¯ Europe. B y mid century, however, Ameri2 clean its evidence lockers can enterprise and know"... Pornography of items it didn’t want to how had at last brought auction back to the com9nly exlsts in soeiet~es graphic pornography home munity. Thank goodnessto the masses. Arvin began where sexuality, or we are now thus secured buying and collecting the against these three mennew muscle magazines, and aspects thereof, is aces to society:, weapons, also films of nude wresrepressed and drugs, and dirty pictures. fling and the like. A novel The day the lurid glosstechnology, 8ram film and inhibited. ies went into the furnaces, the home movie projector Pornography’s I happened to be reading (perhaps Arvin borrowed Barry Werth’s recent bioghis from Smith College secrecy and raphy The Scarlet Profesalso boosted its classrooms?), sor: Newton Arvin- A Litthe mass market for pom erary Life Shattered by conslderahle charm. -productions.- We’ve reScandal. cently experienced similar One may imagine, Arvin was an ennnent technological boosts with literary critic and profesthe VCR, .DVD, and the however, some sexual sor of English at Smith (in Intemet. ecology...- past or Northampton, MA), 0neof Pornography, actually, the Ivy-league’s "Seven as an idea is rather recent. future-where .all Sister" colleges for women. The word, a fancy madefacets of sex His books on Nathaniel - are up Greek term meaning Hawthbm, Walt Whitman, simply mundane and, "writing about harlots," ~ind Herman Melville (the first appeared around 1850 as a eonsec~uenee, later of which won~the Naor so. Victorian archaeotional Book Award) helped logical excavations of Ropornography is create the canon of 19th man Pompeii and unthlnhahl-e... " century American literaHerculaneum had uncovture, loved or cursed by ered shocking sexual imtoday’s English majors. Literature made agery in murals, mosaics, and decorative Arvin, and literature -of a sort also household objects. These artifacts were destroyed him. Arvin was arrested,~fined, quickly.squirreled awayin secret museum institutionalized,, mad forced to retire for caches but they inspired a fierce interest, a possessing Gay pornography. fascination only partly disguised by Born at the turn of the century, Arvin "’pornography’ s" net-Greek facade.of powas-shy, short, balding, and: often delite, scientific objecfiyity. Terminological pressed. He hdd married and divorced in alternatives similarly have historically his early 30’ s but only slowly and partially shallow roots. Obscene is a Latin worst reconciled himself emotionally to his hothat originally meant ominous or illmosexuality. He progressed through a omened; and smut an Old English word number of short-lived relationships with meamng sooty or smudged. younger men, some of whom he recruited Pornography only exists in societies as English instructors. (In thgse days, sleep: Where sexuality, or aspects thereof, is reing with the boss could be a more obvious pressed and inhibited. Pornography’s serequirement of one’ s job.) crecy and salaciousness ftiel its considerTruman Capote, a young writer Arvin able charm. One may imagine, however, met at an artist colony, dated Arvin for two some sexual ecology - past or .future years, and dedicated to him his first novel, where all facets -of sex are simply munOther Voices, Other Rooms. To Arvin’s dane and, as a consequence, pornography credit, he kept in touch with many of his is unthinkable. lovers years after they had parted. But not in Massachusetts in 1960, on the In his 50’s, Arvin discovered nearby cusp of the Eisenhower and Kennedy adSpringfield’s several Gay bars, cruising ministrations. Wily politicians then witch-New York City bathhouses (the Everard), hunted pornographers and-their customand also skin magazines. Arvin’ s renewed ers, building careers on burning dirty picsexual adventuresomenes s partly reflected tures. A new federal law, passed in July an increasing loneliness of late middle age 1960, had made it illegal to send pornobut also the sudden appearance in New graphic material through the mail or to York City newsstands of accessible Gay otherwise distribute this. Arvin and his pornography. In the 1950s, pioneer porcircle of Gay. friends met occasionally to nographers such as Sam Roth and also trade magazines and films and to show off Bob Mizer, in the guise of the Athletic new items in their collections. But postal Model Guild, began publishing pictures of inspectors got busy tracking down pore mostly naked (apart from a posing strap or mailings-and, on September 2, 1960, three two) young men. Thom Fitzgerald’s repolice officers pounded on Arvin’ s door. cent video Beefcake documents the hisThey seized his films and magazines and toryof the muscle maga~i,’nes that led to, Arvin too. Terrified, he ratted on Ms Gay Arvin’s downfall such as Grecian GuiM friends and colleagues two of whom, along Piciorial, MANual, and Trim. with Arvin, were convicted and lost their Before the 1950s, Gay pornography was teaching positions, see Studies, p. 11 Human Rights (TOHR) invites individuals, businesses and organizations to a Community-Wide Meeting: A Permanent Location for the Community Center saladousness furl Thurs., July 26th 6:30, meet & greet, program at 7pm_ LGBT Community Center, 21st & Memorial Discussion Topics: Where? How Big? As Focus for New Neighborhood? For info,, call 743-GAYS (743-4297) IGTA member Call 341. 6866 Intorn tion l ~To u rS formoreinformation. TULSA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY Country Club Barbering Custom Styling for Men & Women David Kauskey 3310 E. 51st, 747-0236, Tues.-Fri., 8-5:30, Sat. 8-5pm �Want to save Money and Help Build a Community Center? Switch to Rainbow Communications Long Distance and More, 10% of Revenues Will Benefit Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights. Capital Campaign and General Fund For more information, call 665-3401 or evenings at A.A.7-8602. Tulsa’s only professional body-piercing Kelly Kirby,-CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional-corporation Lesbians and Gay men face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. Electronic filing is available for faster refunds. 747-5466 4021 South Harvard Avenue, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 by Karin Gregory are not easy to find; that once you find one, You know when it hitS, don’t you? Ev- " you hold on for dear life. But then I have to cry word she utters is golden, no matter ¯ think about that and realize that too much how crude; every look she gives, you want .- too soon will run off Miss Interested-Into capture on film to replay; every phone ° Me. message she sends, you save mad listen to " Some people say she’ s using me. Others on your loneliest days(and especially ¯ say that she just needs time. Hell, she’ s had nights!). You’re the homiest Lesbian in . at least two years! Gay Felix, who’s been town, yet when you think of HER, you " around her more than others, told me the ¯ don’t think of the next time you’ll have ¯ other day, "Karin, she’s called you, insex, just how good it feels to be with her, ° vited you over, initiated sex--I’ d be happy!" whether for an hour or a whole night, " He’s a man--what else did you expect? waking up with her the next morning. You . I’m also remembering a line from a want to learn her, be a part of her, and fuse o musical, for which mosrof you Gay men your two soulsinto one. You writehideous ~ would be proud. Around the end of ’~The purple prose in the second person that ¯ Music Man", when the townspeople dissome poor folks in Tulsa will read (well, ¯ cover that "Professor" Harold Hill is a con maybe not after this paragraph!). : man, they run after him with tar and feathWhen-you’re with her, you’re on an " enng in mind. Marian the Librarian’ s little emotional high, blocking out everyone ¯ brother, Winthrop, tells Hill to run away. around but the two of you. An hour after " Hill says he can’ t. He. looks at Marian and she’s left, you’re still high. Somewhere " declares,"For t_he first time in my life; I got between the second and third hour, how- ¯ my foot caught in the door.’" ever, your emotions sink so fast and so low Marian, if you’re out there, think of my that you don’t think you can live until you " foot and how it must hurt being stuck in see her again. When you hear from her, " your door for so long. Think of "that stake you sound like the silliest schoolgirl who . twisting through my heart. Know that this ever lived. She’s the only woman who salesman won’ t be making any more house makes you nervous because you can’ ttalk calls for a long time. Aren’t exes a bitch? to her like other women. You have to be " honest. Her bluntness and honesty make you want to be a better person, not only for " her, but for yourself. Yoi~’re feeling emotions you never thou.ght you had. Dare you Arvin’s collection of soft, nudie guy question? Analyze? Categorize every feel- .: imagery, lugged imo court as evidence, ing? Then put a label on those feelings? ¯ undoubtedly was subsequently burned. Can it be <gasp!> love? HELP! Arvin died two years after his trial, in Why do I need help? why don’ t I just sit " 1963. back and enjoy the ride like most couples? ¯ Forty years later, it is quaint, one could For the first time in my life, I’m ready for ¯ say, that the state still strikes matches to that "R" word. She’s beautiful, talented, " protect us from the perils of pornography. creative, interested in me. So what’s the ¯ But it may be alosing battle, particularly in problem? Miss Interested-In-Me has only Oklahoma. The more sexual repression, one flaw--the same flaw that haunts many the more pornography. It’ s maybe no acciGay couples--the dreaded_EX! Yup, I’min " dent that Tulsa spelled backwards, as ~vlove with a woman who’ s stillinlove with ¯ eryone knows, is A SLUT. her ex. Before you start calling me all ° Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthropolkinds of stupid, I knew about the ex before ° ogy ht the University o[Tulsa, and can be I met Miss Interested-In-Me in person. I reached at lamont 10@yahoo.com just didn’ t know, nor did she, the extent of ° those feelings. Now you can call me all " kinds of stupid! I walked into this trap. " I even met Ms. X once at my,.., my,. .. my .... whatever’s house. Gay Felix and " It is time for society tO recognize that I liked her very much. No, she couldn’t be " Gays and Lesbians are a responsible mirude, crude, and vulgar, could she? She " nority facing unjust discrimination and couldn’t be evil and have a wart on her ¯ mistreatment by the majority - just like nose. Oh, no! Remember, we’re talking ." every other minority which has struggled Gregory luck here. She and "my girl" are " for justice a~.d equal treatment in America. - even best friends. OUCH! And Ms. X " - Nathaniel Batchelder, Director likes me. I found out about that when Miss ° The Peace House, Oklahoma City Interested-In-Me and I spent aparticularly soulful night together.. "She likes you," : she said. "She. likes how attentive you are ." to me." ¯ It occurred to me to say, "Well, it’ s nice " In statements to TFN, McClure noted to get the first wife’s permission,’" but I " that repeated efforts to discuss and resolve thought better of it. If this woman has ¯ these issues with Tulsa Comity commis, taught me anything, it’ s to think before I ; Sioner John Selph, a Democrat and with speak--a first for me. I’ ve also learned that " Tulsa Mayor Susan Savage, also a Demo: it’s easy to live with a stake through your " crat, both of whom are represented on the heart. It’s just when that stake is twisted ¯ Criminal Justice Authority, have been rearound that you think you won’t ever be " buffed to date. able to breathe again. She also tells me I’m " McClure also issued a written challenge .anincredible person to listen to her and not " to Savage and the county commissioners to run. I’dlike to say that incredible people to meet with him to resole these issues. �present.s I JuIy 14, 8pm, PAC’sWestby Pavilion ~ LaFortune Studio, $80 donation. Call Rebecca at 834-4194 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Tulsa PLWA Sues Jail For Withholding Medicines TULSA (TFN) - Early in June, the Stipe Law Firm notified the Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority, that it was suing the authority on behalf of Daniel McClure..McClure, aperson living with AIDS (PLWA) was arrested onJune 12, 2000 andbookedinto the Tulsa Jail. Per the notice of tort claim letter, and statements made to TFN while being held at thejail, McClure was denied access to his medicines as well as to timely medical care despite repeated requests. Because anumber of HIV treatments have strict regimens, failure to take the drugs at the prescribed tim~" can result in seriously greater illness. The letter filed by the Sfipe Law Firm alleges that "negligence of the Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority" has lead to a faster progressirn of McClute’ s disease, "a.worsening of l~s medical condition and emotional distress." The.claim is for in .excess of Parade. +Festival 2001 TULSA ~FFN) - It was a part new event and part old event. The 2001 Pride celebrations, organized by Tulsa Okla,.omans for Human Rights (TOHR) had a new paraae route, alarger festival in the old sit~ and some o the_same old protesters. The parade featured even more : church floats anda shorterlength going along Cherry St. " from Utica to Veterans Park. But true to prior years, a " handful offundamentalist Christians mostly peacefully ¯ protested along the route. The protesters included some of .the anti-Gay Fred Phelps cult of Topeka, Kansas. The night before the parade and festival, the Tulsa Country Club’w.as the site of a gala fundraising dinner. " And while the event may have been slightly " underattended, it was rinsed more funds than any prior sort of event. Community Hero awardee, Rick Martil used a spirited auction style to solicit funds from attend: " ees to match a $5,000 commitment from TOHR supporter Mark Bouney. NOt only was the match made but " due to the generosity of Williitms Cos. DiVersity Director Eric Watson, Who attended with his wife, over " $20,000 wasraised. The attendence of Mr. Watson on ¯ behalf of Williams was a first for any major Tulsa ." corporation as was their $5,000 donation. " TOHR will be ho!ding their monthly meeting onJuly " 10 at 7pro at the LGBT Center and solicits feedback on the Pride events fl~e. TOHR members also attended ." the Okla. City parade, carrying the 120’ rainbow flag. IJJ DIRECTORY ~ EDITORIAL/PRI DE.15HOTOS US & WORLD NEWS HEALTH NEWS ENTERTAINMENT + MORE P, 8 GAY STUDIES/RAGING LESBIAN P, 10/11 P, 2 " P, 3 P, 4 " P, 6 ~Serving ~Lesbian’ ,.,=,.Gay’ ~~,Bisexual=T~~ans+gend~r~ed¯ Tulsans, O0r.. r__ammesFamili + Friends" =mo ng¯ -D ’ve¯rs!ty :¯ _P’ ride Everywhere.. NYC, Tulsa Pride Parade & Festival i San Francmco + Omahti ¯ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Lesbian motorcade, which included topless riders waving rainbow flags, ¯ faux nuns, clowns and brides, rode down the street, : kicking off the city’s 31st Annual Pride Parade and ¯ Celebration. ¯ An estimated 1 million people cheered as the group ¯ of Dykes on Bikes roared their motorcycles on Sun¯ day late in June and led floats of. drag queens, city officials, community groups and marching bands to ." the Civic Center plaza, where the celebration, lasted ¯ all day. For Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders ¯ attending, the parade helped to create an atmosphere ." of acceptance and celebration. It’s also an opportu- ¯ nity to educate people about, their community. The ¯ parade is California’s largest public event and has . ¯ become one of the’world’s best known Gay pride ¯ celebrations. ¯ "Thi s is a great opporthnity to raise the visibility of the Gay community," said city Supervisor Mark ¯ Lent, who is’ openly Gay and served as one the ¯ p ade s five marshals. S,a~,, Francisco has ,always been a leader in Gay rights but nationwide, I m still ¯ a second-class citizen," Lent said. The parade is an ¯ opportunity to help oti~ers understand that Gay issues ¯ are everyone’s issues, he said. The celebration also has became aforum to address ,,: the impact of AIDS on the community.over the past ¯ two decades. "I’m a survivor of the disease," said David Lyons, an Oaldandresident whohas not missed ¯ aparade since !98l: "Tiffs is a great chance to educate .you~..g_African-Ameri,¢~, ,~,,Gay people. We can’ t think ’ itself. The 2001 Diversity Festival willfeature booths & entertaiment. ¯ U.S, Census Sh.ows More Gay Couples; More Figures to Come ¯ WASHINGTON (AP/TFN)- U.S. census figures released at the ¯ end of last month for five states continue to show a dramatic increase in the.number of households that comprise same-se~ partners but most likely still undercount the actual number due to co,n,~,finued anti~.Gay bias, the Hum.an Rights Campaign said. ~ nese newngures continue to show a national trend where record number of people are willing to acknowledge living in a household with "a same-sex partner," said David M. Smith. HRC’s communications director and senior strategist. "While the census data suggest incredible progress, we believe thi census continues to undercount same-sex partners because many people are still not comfortable disclosingi~ a federal survey that they are in a same-sex relationship. And despite an educational effort by HRC and other, groups, not all respondents were aware of the census question. - s___T~_.e ~ensns ~B,urean released da.ta today for Alabama, Mis- ¯ oun, ~xansas, r~ew York and Ohio. New York reported the largest number of same-sex households with 46,490, a 238% increase from the 1990 census. Ohio reported the next largest tiumber with 18,937 same-sex.households, a 401% increase. Missouri ranked third with 9,428, a 388% increase. Alabama reported 8,109 same-sex honseholds, a 659% increase. And Kansas reported 3,973~ a 514% increas~ ’.q’he census data have important social implications because Americans will become acutely aware that Gay and Lesbian families are numerous and face discrin~natory barriers in terms Ofpubh"c poh"cy," stu" d Smi’ th. "Asmore of these families become visible in their communities, people will work to end the unfair treatment andlegal discrimination they often face." " Census figures released also show that the number of same-sex " unmarried partners in rural areas have. increased slightly. The most substantial change was in Missouri, where 7,095, (75%) " same-sex unmarried households are in urban areas while 2,333 " (25%) arein rural areas. This marks a significant change from the " 1990 census when only 11% (1,711) of same sex unmarried households were in rural parts of the state see Census, p. 9 G " " bymanywhohavefoughtfor ay rights. Everybody did the hard work," she said. ’~Now, there are so many non-Gay people who.come and bring th(ir children: This to me means acceptance. It gives me a sense of belonging.’" This year’s event featured several new additions and promised more diversity than ever, plus a more family friendly environment, organizers said. Cecilia Chung, Gay Pride Parade president, estimated 1 million people attended Sunday’s celebration. . But the drag queens in sequined dresses and feathers along with the young, buff men wearing tight shorts were a bit too much ~or some tourists who got caught in the middle of the celebration "It’s enlightening," said Sally Christenson, 48. "I was naive. I never thought people would expose themselves to this extent. You don’t see this in Minnesota." However in Minneapolis... MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -Anestimated 200,000 people gathered in Loring Park inMinneapolis to celebrate Gay pride. "It’s the one weekend of the year where people can be themselves and not have tO worry," said TBiw~i N~.n.al~, One ofthe organizers ofl~e 29th annual in t~mes ~ay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Pride Festival. While likely a little less flamboyant than the event in San Francisco, the turnout in Miuneapolis showed that statem,,e.n,t above by Sally Christenson isn’t quite accurate. It s a fun time," said Jolene K,o,stohryz, who stud she attends the festival every.year. You get to see a whole bunch of different kinds Of people." And in Omaha, OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The city’s 17th a.~uualGay Prideparadedrew hundreds ofparticipants and watchers as it snaked through 12 downtown blocks. The theme for the parade was "Phoenix Rising," which organizers said was a reference to the movement’s renewed efforts after last year’ s passage of Initiative 416. see Pride; p, 5 Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants *~amboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine *Play-Mor, 424 S. Memorial Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main *St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st ~Schatzi’ s, 2619 S. Memorial *The Star, 1565 Sheridan *TNT’ s, 2114 S. Memorial *Tool Box II, 1338 E. 3rd *Vortex, 2182 S. Sheridan *The Yellow Brick Road Pub, 2630 E. 15th 832-1269 610~5323 838-9792 744-4280 585-3405 745-9998 280-1316 834:4234 660-0856 584-1308 835-2376 749-1563 Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals Assoc. inMed. & Mental Health, 2325 S. 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During the TOHR coordi: ~ J~ation of Tulsa Gay Pride week celebration, : my younger son, his cousin and a high ¯ school peer of theirs attended their first ever ¯ " gay related function. Since divorcing and ¯ coming out five years .ago, this is the first time one of my children has attended a gay : function. Of the varied venues offered dur- : ing the 2001 Tulsa Gay Pride week, we chose to attend the Council Oak Men’s ¯ Chorale mini concert heldMonday evening. at the central library. ¯ This was the first time my son and his ¯ friends had been exposed to the Gay com- " muuity in such "large numbers", for high ¯ school "kids" accustomed to the top 10 rock/ ¯ pop/rap tunes, the concert repertoire was a ¯ - bit austere, however, I am pleased to say ¯ these urban kids, left the concert with a new ¯ refreshing positive attitude and respect to- " ward the Gay .community at large. As a ¯ compliment, FII tell you that the most re- . peated comment was... "these guys are ¯ gay?" Fortunately, as we all began to openly ¯ talk during the eveni~ig many typical worn ¯, out"stereotypes andmyths"were dispelled. Thank you Council Oak guys for your ¯ hard work and continued efforts to be a ¯ positive force and professional face on be- -¯ half of .our community. You’ ve helped in part to make a great difference in the con- : tinuing relationship with my son. I am honored to consider Council Oak Chorale as ¯ being part of "my extended family". ¯ - Milton-Nunley, Tulsa ¯ Oklahoma City Removes : Gay Banners Despite Permit ¯ The Gay Pride banners which ~Tere hung ¯ on light poles at the north end of Classen ¯ Boulevard in Oklahoma City cost the spon\ ¯ soring organizations $11,000. Their design. ¯ was approved in advance by the City of ¯ Oklahoma City. The legal permit to hang ¯ them extended through July 7. For the City ¯ to remove the banners ten days before the ." permit expired is a blatant <~xample of dis- : crimination against the gay and lesbian or- ,¯ ganizations which followed procedures and incurred great expense to have the banners ¯ professionally produced and placed on the ." poles. ¯ "No News is Good News" - Oklahoma : City’ s Gay Rights March and Pride Parade ¯ on Sunday afternoon, June 24, included a ¯ festival beforehand in Memorial Park, with ¯ booths, tables, livemusic, and refreshments ¯ - and a huge street party afterwards. Some ¯ 7,000 to 10,000 participants and supporters ." took part in. the events, which were well ¯ organized; peaceful, and celebrative. That " the events were poorly reported by the local ." news media - or not covered at all - repre- ¯ . sents more disc.rimination against homo- . ¯ sexuals. : Gays and Lesbians struggle to find their ¯ place in a society where, religious leaders, ¯ editorial writers, parents, and teachersjudge i" them, condemn them, and vilify them for ¯ who they are. Gay teenagers commit suicide ." in far higher percentages than do hetero- ¯ sexual, teenagers. : see Letters, p. 11 by Tom Neal Oklahoma Today, the official magazine of the State of Oklahoma, just released their July/August issue which features Tulsa. But is it a rather peculiar Tulsa. Just as once the majoritywhite culture refused to acknowledge racial minorities, creating a whites only image, Oklahomt~ Today(OT)has shownTulsaas "straights only." Now we should give them a very little credit. They did get a few black folks in the issue and actually even ones who are wall regarded in the black community in,~tead of Tulsa’ s white leadership’ s favorite "acceptable" blacks. Butjournalists, at least when they really do theirjob, are supposed to reflect reality. And the reality is that there are Lesbian and Gay people in Tulsa: we exist. ~ Oklahoma’s oldest Lesbian and Gay organihations are here: the oldest, the Metropolitan Community Church United, renamed but still extant, and Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR), which runs the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Community Center, And this publication has been around nearly eightyears. It would have taken very little to mention the community center, or to identify, just as was done for Tulsa blacks, one or another community leader, or mention a community publication- as was done of, obviously, The World, but also, The Oklahoma Eagle and that waste of newsprint, the prejudiced and anti-Gay Urban Tulsa. ’What’ s baffling about Oklahoma’Today’s failure (~t its heart, simply to tell the truth about our city) isthat after a conversation ] had with its editor Louisa McCune about four years ago, OT ran a mention of the first or second Pride March (before the first parade). McCune knows that we exist. But perhaps the problem doesn’t lie there. Oklahoma Today publisher Joan Henderson’s response to my coneems was that when OT featured Oklahoma City some issues back, they proudly ignored OKC’ s LGBT community also. Later in the conversation, she variously suggested that they could not write about us because they give OT to 4th graders and theycan’ t write "about sex," thattheir readers are all about 62 years old and they don’ t even want to read about blacks or Indians, and that they’re a state magazine .and if we have a problem with what Oklahoma Today’s doing, wecanjust talk to her Republican boss, Gov. Fr~tk K.eating, Lt. Gov~ Mary Fallin, and Tourism and Recreataon Executive Director Jane Jayroe. Of course, I-wouldn’t waste my breath tr~ing to talk with the ethically bd’uddled Keating et al, but I do think it will be quite interesting to talk with members of the legislature - see Today, p. 8 Official Refuses to Perform Gay Marriages LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands (AP) - A civil servant who has refused to officiate Gay marriages could be fired by the city, officials said last month. Nynke Yxinga-Boomgaardt can only save herpart-time job if she signs a contract agreeing to wed same-sex couples at city hall, municipal authorities in Leeuwarden said. Same-sex mamages were legalxzed in April, making the Netherlands the first country to grant Gay couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, including ~e right to adopt children. "In this job she has the obligation to enforce the law, and under Dutch law Gay couples have equal rights," said Jan van der Hoek, a spokesman for the city, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Amsterdam. If she refuses, the.spokesman said, her contract will be .terminated in September. Eringa-Boomgaardt refused to wed fwo Gay couples over the past three months, saying she is principally opposed to same-sex marriages. The couples are still waiting to be married. "This is about the battle betWeen equality and my right to have conscientious objections," Eringa- Boomgaardt told the Trouw daily newspaper.. Gay-Pride Flag Burners Arrested COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man with a history of desecrating the Gay-pride flag is one of two people charged with burning the baiaher during a parade. Police charged Charles Spingola, 45, and Thomas Meyer, 47, both of Newark, with open buming, a firstdegree misdemeanor punishable by as. much as six months in jail. . A state appeals court last week upheld Spingola’s conviction on criminal damage charges for tearing down:aGay-prideflag thatwas flying at the Statehouse two:years -ago a~ a’similar parade. " . Police said Spingolaand Meyer setfire to arainbow-" colored flag they had been carrying as the last marchers in the Columbus Pride Parade passed the Statehouse. Police Sgt. Michael Piccininni said Spingola had burned another Gay-pride flag about 21/2 hours earlier outside Broad Street United Methodist Church, where a Gay-oriented service took place before the parade. Piccininni said Spingola was given a waming, but returned later during the parade with a new flag and a small container 0f gasoline. Andrea Critchet, head of parade security, said she was splashed with gasoline after approaching Spingola andMeyernear the Statehouseand telling themto keep away from parade participants. ’°We were there to protect him, to-keep the crowd away from him," Cfitchet said. "He said, ’You’ re all gonnaburn in hell,’ and he flipped it (the flag) up on me.". Cfitchet was ~checked by paramedics for burning in her’throat but was not injured. Teresa Spingola, 46, said her husband and her two sons, 12 and 16, intended to burn the nylon flag, but didn’ t expect the scuffle or arrests that followed. "It’ s legal to bum the American flag. We thought it’ s OK to bum the queer flag," she said. She said that last.year, the family burned a Gay flag at the same intersection without incident. Presbyterian Pastor Comes Out, Resigns ¯ chief policy-making body of the Presbyterian Church ¯ " (U.S:A.) voted to relmmmend lifting a ban on ordaining homosexual clergy. The measure must still be ratified over the next year by .a majority Of the ~hurch’s 173 presbyteries, or regional legislatures. That will be harder to achieve and, besides,. Hawley cannot endure any=longer the stress of living in two worlds. ’T ve had a lot of personal, emotional and health struggles, and I just realized I could not live in the closet anymore," said Hawley, 42, who led the Genesee Valley Presbytery, which represents 73 congregations in the Rochester region_ in western NewYork. "I knew I had to get more open with my sexuality if I was going to recover. There’ s been a lot of pain in terms of being silent when I personally ~’elt I s.hould have been sw.aking." Hawley did not plan to have his departure from the church coincide with the emotional debate in Louisville, Ky., where the General Assembly of thenafion’ s . sixthlargest Protestant denomination voted 317-208m favor of ordination of Gays attd Lesbians. What his decision will do is allow him to speak more forcefully on an issue that several mainline Protestant denominations, notably the Episcopal Church and United Methodist Church, have struggled with in recent years. "I feel~badly in a way that I haven."t been more outspoken but that’ s part of the problem with the closet - it’s not safe to," he-said. "But now I can tall people how destructive it was to try to live that life and quietly serve." Hawley, who grew up in Montrose, Pa., and studi_e,d.,. atthe Jesuit-run University of Scranton~ said he didn t realize he was Gay when he was ordained in 1983. He ¯ figured it out in 1995 after years of turmoil. Although he was not in a relationship,Hawley said : he constantly feared losing his job. He might have ¯ battled to keep it now, he said, but knew that conserva- ¯ fives in the presbytery would have pushed for his removal. "That’ s the fight that I didnotpersonally want ¯ to take," said Hawley, who plans a new career in teaching. ’-’The only way I can be honest and comfortable about myself is to come out and to resign. It’ s a . ¯ matter.of integrity." ¯ At last year’s General Assembly meeting, Hawley said he was forced to listen quietly as conservatives argued against inclusion Of Gays in the leadership of a church that has a~ many as 3.6 million members. The ¯ remarks were not~"hateful so much as ignorant," he ¯ said. The push to remove the ban on Gay clergy from ¯ the church’ s constitution "would mean-the church has made a really radical shift, and I’mnot sure that ithas,’~ he added. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - In hi’s .t8th year as a ¯ Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Bill Hawley realized ¯ he could nolonger keep his sexual orientation a secret. -’. ¯By revealing that he’s Gay, Hawley also decided his : only real choice was to quit the church. ¯ His resignation took effect June 15, the same day the ~ : Bank Refuses Account to Anti-Gay Group : MONTREAL (AP) - A Canadian bank is refusing to ¯ open an account for a coalition of conservative and ¯ religious.groups that opposes MontreaV s bid to host ¯ the2006GayGames.Montrealis competingwiththree ¯ U.S. cities- Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles - to host the Gay Games, which typically draw 24,000 :’ athletes and 200,000 spectators. : -The No ’C-ommittee2006 was formed in April after ¯ -Montreal announced its. bid. The. committee’s mem- : bers indudethe Christian Heritage Party and the Cam~ ¯ paign Life Coalition for Quebec. The Rev. Daniel Cormier, who heads the committee, said the group ¯ fears visiting athletes could spread the HIV virus that ¯ leads to AIDS. A Royal Bank spokesman-confirmed the No Committee 2006 was denied a bank account for donations for supporters. "We refuse to support or oppose di.scriminatory activities of ~any kind," said bank spokes- "man Raymond Chouinard. Cormier called thebank’ s refusal discriminatory. He said at a news conference Friday that his group would Find out for yourself how good the Lord is! - Ps. 34:8 Come share the goodness of the Lord with our community ~ Sunday Morning 11:00 AMChildren’s Worship During Service MCC United Rev. Cathy Elliott. Pastor 1623 N. Maplewood (918) 838-! 715 mcctulsa@aol.com Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Community "ofHope 2545 South Yale, Sundays at 1 lam, 749-0595 A Welcoming Congregation HOUSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Sun. Worship, 10:45 am, Sunday School, 9:30 am Wed. Bible Study, 7 pm, Sunday Eve. Service, 6pm 1517 S. Memorial, 628-0802, Info: 224-4754 The Open Arms Project Young Adult Support Group Outreach Program Thurs. 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Atlanta Place. 742-7381 OPENARMS OPENMINDS OPEN IqFARFS Saint Dtmstan 5635 East 71st, 492-7140 Trinity 501 S. Cincinnati, 582-4128 The. EpiscOpal Church Welcomes You take the case to court or the Quebec Human Rights. Commission. East Ohio Methodists Oppose Anti-Gay Stance LAKESIDE, Ohio (AP) - A group of United Methodist ministers and parishioners from the East Ohio " Conference is preparing for another attack on th~ " hurch s anti-Gay doctrine. Thirty United Methodist ministers in the regional groupjoined dozens of church members in signing the " "East Ohio Declaration," whichopposes the doctrine’ s " anti-Gay stance, andwill begin a series of discussions in September aimed at the issue. The United:Methodist church has more than 9 million members worldwide . most are in the United States. ¯ During its national quadrennial meeting in Cleve- ¯ land last summer, about 1,000 church leaders voted 2- ¯ 1. to uphold the church’ s stance on Gays. The doctrine . states that homosexuality is incompatible with ~aris- ¯ tian teaching; thatno sexually-activehomosexual rain- ¯ isters should be ordained; and that same-sex mamages ¯ will. not be honored. Bishop Jonathan D. Keaton - who oversees the ¯ 192,000-member East Ohio Conference - planned a ¯ series of discussions in preparation for revisiting the " issue when the United. Methodist Church meeots again " in Pittsburgh in 2004. Two representatives from each of the 12 East Ohio : Methodist districts will attend a September 22 prelimi- ." nary meeting. One representative will sent to support . existing church doctrine, the other to argue for change. ¯ Those delegates plus 40 other church officials will air ¯ their views and be traine3l to organize similar meetings . around the state. : A magistrate had said the state did not have enough : evidence to support the aggravated kidnapping charge. ¯ But the Supreme Court disagreed, saying though the facts are in dispute, there is enough evidence to argue them in court. us," said Tom Aeschlimann, one of the event’ s orgamzers. For the first time the parade had a grand marshal, Scott Winkler, a native of Loomi s who is an insurance agent in Omaha. New York City Event Rivals SF One NEW YORK (AP) - Three dozen Gay couples celebrated their same-sex partnerships to kick off New York City’ s 32nd annum Gay pride parade, a Celebration of flamboyant costumes and floats. "We’d like to be recognized as a couple," said Sheneen Ellis, wearing awhite veil and mini-dress decorated with tiny red rhinestones, as she stood with her partner, Alona Hartnett, dressed in white ~lacks and jacket. They were surrounded by their five children as two ministers and a rabbi blessed them ifi a ceremony Sunday at the entrance to Central Park just before the Heritage of Pride parade. "Two mothers are better than having only one,", read a sign carried by one of the children, 10-year-old Calhea Johnson. "I love mommy and mommy." The parade included Lesbians on motorcycles, a rainbow arch of balloons and a top-down convertible carrying veterans of the 1969 Stonewall riots, in which The initiative banning same-sex marriages passed by 70% to 30% last November. "We’re going to be here and we’ re going to stay around. You better accept ThomasTavl0rofBrockville aretir....¯ . _ _ " pa.tronsofaGaybarinG-reenwichVillagefoughtback " : " .r . , euNnmsterwno ¯ - -s " . .............. ag--m’n-s"tapou""ceram..... , , ,~:. ¯ ¯ ~,~ u,~. oz~tto1, a Vzmt. ,-.v~u n we corot just sit flown years to a colorful pageant drawing hundreds of thou and talk and agree that we are not of one mind about this," that would represent progress for the church; Taylor said. Church leaders who signed the East Ohio Declaration said they have no intenfi.on ofdefying the church’ s rules on Gays, and doubt that it will cause schism. A Methodist minister could be disciplined for perform- : ing a marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple, but " Taylor said he knows of no same-sex couples in the East .Ohi,o Conference that are seeking a Methodist -" mamage. Men, Parents Accused of i Abducting Lesbian " SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah Supre~m~ourt decided to allow two Jordanian men to be tried~for aggravated kidnapping in the alleged abduction and beating of their sister in October 1999. The ’woman’s mother and father also are charged in the alleged attack. Prosecutors saybrothers IehabHawatmehand Shaher Hawatmeh, their father, Jami] Hawatmeh, and their : mother, Wedad Hawatmeh, kidnapped and beat 23- ." year-oldMuna Hawatmeh when they discovered she was a Lesbian. The woman said she agreed to-return to ~ Jordan as away to stop the beatings. Thenext morning, " .the family was driving her to the airport from their : home in Sandy when her partner spotted them and ¯ called police. The family agreed to take the woman to " the Sandy police station, and a doctor later found " bruises on her arms and legs. ¯ Thefour are charged with simple kidnapping, which " cames a sentence of up to 15 years. But Assistant " Attorney General Fred Voros argued that the defen- " dants’ alleged use of weapons and threats warrants the aggravated kidnapping charge, which carries a life sentence. ¯ sands of participants and spectators, and has been replicated in’cities around the world. . ¯ Paris-, Berlin, Chicago and Atlanta In Europe, Pads and Berlin celebrated Gay pride on ¯ Saturday .with rollicking parades. At the center of the festivities were the cities’ mayors, both openly Gay. In Chicago, organizers expected approximately 350,000 to attend what has become one of the largest parades in the city. hi Atlanta, thousands of people, including several mayoral candidates, participated in the city’ s 31 st Gay Pride celebration, which wrapped up with a parade along the City’s main artery, Peachtree Street. "Events ¯ like this help increase our visibility and help to let ¯ p.eo.ple k~,,o,w that Gay people do exist, that we’re not clevlants, Benson Cohen said. "We don’ tjust exist in- " the shadows." The New York marriag, ceremonies were not le- ! gaily binding but served as ~i rallying point for activists who would like to see samp-sex couples accorded the same legal rights as.heteros.exual couples. New York City’s domestic partnership law gives public employees who are same-sex couples the same health benefits as married couples, along with privileges such as visiting rights in city institutions like hospitals and jails. ~ Vermont is the only state that offers Gay couples the option o.f civil unions, which give them the ~ame rights as mamed couples. Legislation to legalize homosexual unions has been introduced in New York state but has never passed. Gay Health Ads : Pulled in. NYC : NEW YORK (AP) - Local officials condemned- the city and an ad agency tmde~- ¯ city contract for pulling apublic service ad ¯ that promoted a free health line f0~Gays ’ from s,everal bus stopsin the Bronx. "It is outrageous thal when .new HIV infection rates are soaring, especially " among men of color, that a responsible ad " like ~this, intended to confront this health ¯ crisis, is censored by the city and by Infinity Outdoor,’.’ said state Sen. Tom Duane. : "It is the height of irresponsibility on the city’ s part and the height of hypocrisy on ¯ the part of Outdoor, the company behind the Howard Stem show, to call this ad " inappropriate or indecent," Duane added. ° Infinity Outdoor is the advertising company that maintains the city’ s bus shelters._ Its parent, Infinity Broadcasting, airs the " sometimes-raunchy Howard Stem radio show. City Councilwoman Christine Qninn said New York City "should be doing everything in its power tO heighten public awareness of the epidemic and to educate those at risk about steps they can take to protect themselVeS." The ad, paid for by the Bronx Lesbian -..and Gay Health Resource C0ilsortium, showed two men, one with his arm around the other~ above a caption that read, "I’m not Gay, but sometimes I have sex, with other.guys," and included a numberfor the health line. Infinity Outdoor initially approved the content of the ads.But company spokes~ man Dana McClintock said a significant number Of complaints were rdceived,specifically about the reference to sex. "Making these decisions is tough;’ McClintock said. "It’s a,gray area. It’s not black and white, it’ s doing our best to ~strike a bal-. ance between First Amendment rights and.. community concerns." ButLisaWinters, founder of the consortium, said the original was "not at all an offensive ad." "There are ads for ’Sex and the City’ up all over the place,~Lshe said. "What’s wrong with these posters?" She has said the ads featuring the two men were intended to reach men in the Bronx ¯ who do not identify themselves as Gay. The city’ s Department of Transportation owns the shelters, and Commissioner Iris Weinshall supported~ the company’s decision to pull the ad. "This poster was totally inappropriate, and we applaud. the contractor fortaking it down," she said. "We feel,that good taste can supersede the First Amendment."_ The same ads featuring the two menalso are displayed inside city buses, and have , not been pulled. Bus ads are controlled by TDI Worldwide, another company owned bY Infinity Broadcasting. People.with HIV Share Stories UNITEDNATIONS CAP)-DavidBrooks .Arnold, a ~65-year-old grandfather from Washington; D.C., and Josephine Chiturttmam, a 42-year old mother of four from Zimbabwe, have more in common than they expected. They both w0rkfor the Red Cross, both lost partners mAIDS and both are HIV-positive. People-from all walks of life with HIV andAIDS traveledfromevery continent to share their stories in moviiag testimonials that drew an audience of government officials, AIDS experts and U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annam Patinya Noyphon, a petite Thai wOman with a sweet smile and soft brown hair, found out shewas HIV-positive when her husband died of AIDS in 1996. Her story moved many to tears Tliesday as she re- - counted the shock of learning her husband had the disease and that he left her with the virus. Ini997; she joined a network of AIDS patients that began counseling others with the vires thinmore than~36 million people " are living with. That network has grown into an international movement of people living with HIV/AIDS and Tuesday they formed a partnership with the Red Cross to bring mo,re infectedpeople into caregiving ¯ roles. ’~"~e active participation.of those living with HIV/AID-S is absolutely vital," Annan ¯ ; told a room of over 200 people gathered to :hear HIV positive advocates speak out. Annan, who h’as-made AIDS a personal ¯ -crusade, said the alliance "sends a powerful message to decision-makers, and to ¯ society as ~ whole, about the importance of tackling stigma .and discrimination." Many attending the session, part ofa three-day U.N. conference on HIV/AIDS, openly talked about shame and discrimination. "We are not viruses," said Adam P0well, a member of the Norwegian delegation to the conference, who is HIV positive: "We are humanity," he said. Others ’used the opportunity to mourn loved Ones and encourage those infected ¯ to continue fighting. Chiturumani, an AIDS Counselor in her ¯ nau,~e Zimbabwe, lost her husbandto the ¯ pandemic last year. She also lost her ¯ brother, a nephew, a brother and sister-in- " law and numerous cousins- 22 relatives in all since 1994 - all taken by AIDS. Over 20 years, Arnold, director of international relations for the American Red Cross, lost more than 100 friends, including his 10ngtimepartner, to AIDS, Despite vastly different backgrounds, a fatal dis- " ease has madethem instant friends. "It’s an immediate bonding; Arnold sat . He ¯ said that "Josephine is living my past," ¯ noting that the disease detected among : Gay men in the United States in the 1980s ¯ is now ravaging whole communities in ¯ Africa. "- Chiturumani said reaching out to others ¯ with AIDS has helped her live with the ¯ virus. ’~’It makes me belieVe that tomorrow ¯ there will be someone out there who will : care for me," she said. In Africa, Stigma Prevails BAMAKO, Mali (AP)- Long years after : becoming the first in hisSahara nation to : publicly acknowledge carrying the AIDS : virus, Mamadou Barry is still fighting the : samebattleas0n Day One. Themissionis ¯ "convincing people thatAIDS exists," says ¯ Barry, whoin 1994feltcompelledtoleave "- his family business after he revealed that The Power Connect. Public Service Company of Oklahoma Service Is Now Available 24 Hours A Day, Seven Days A Week. These days, traditional 8-5 business hours aren’t always convenient. So PSO has made it easier than ever for you to contact us. Our Customer Service Center operates 24/7 - offering around:the-clock answers to your questions - and better.access co service. Now it’s easier for you to inquire about your monthly electric bill. Or report a power outage. Or arrange to have your power ~urned on or - off. Our professionally trained, friendly and knowledgeable customer service representatives are standing by to serve you. 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In household after household, the shame blocks testing and tr_eatment and even the simplest known preventative measures, such as condoms. In Mall’s capital, Bamako, a foreign publication’s report this month that the death of a promruent Malian official had been due to AIDS angered many, in and out of government. PrimeMinisterMandeSidibe"wentinto a rage," one aide related, speaking on condition of anonymity. Countrywide, the near unanimous response was that it was wrong to dirty the name of an illustrious dead man. In all of Africa, the top official to admit to having AIDS is Edwin Cameron, a judge on South Africa’s Constitutional Court. But Cameron is white, openly Gay and able to afford treatment.- in all, not someone to whom the average infected African would look as a model. AIDS is "considered a disease ofpeople of bad morals, of the ill-bred," said Dr. Allou Sylla, director of a Bamako center that tests the few who dare to find out whether they have AIDS. In the general absence of testing, often the only rough confirmation that a~madO~ w0mmi died of AIDS comes when a spouse follows them in death one or two years later.- Overwhelmingly, the tendency is to blame the diarrhea, the rashes, thehorrifying’ wasting away on witchcraft. Sorcerers andfaith-healers flourish. AIDS treatment, meanwhile, remains a rarity, ,affordable only to a few thousand among the 26 million living with HIV across the continent. Even thosewhofall ill with diseases that bring AIDS-like symptoms, such as tuberculosis with its weight loss, are shunned, Often losing their jobs. In polygamous African societies, AIDS is spread mainly by sex between men and women. It is also spread by contaminat&t blood and by unsterilized blades - used interchangeably andcommunally for tribal rituals, circumcisions andbarbering. AIDS hit hard from the start among prostitutes, who literally line the streets in some African cities. That contributed to the enduring Stigma. In Mali, Aminate Nana Kasse is among those closely following the news out of the U.N. AIDS eonferenceinNewYork. Nana Kasse was infected with HIV by her husband, who has since died. Nana Kasse has a dream, a distant one, for Africa - that every government will require HIV tests ing for couples before they marry. ’"No African wife would dare _demand of her husband that he wear a Condom, let alone suggest that.he take a test," Nana Kasse said. With mandatory tests, "at least One would know who she’s marrying," the widow said. Mall this year became one of 10 African countries to enter deals with Western drugcompanies for low’cost HIV drugs - although in poorAfrica dying without care will remain the norm. for millions. There are other signs of hope, coming only when local powers acknowledge and accept the fight against AIDS. An example is in Senegal, where Islamic imams preach the prevealtion message in their Friday sermons at the country’ s mosques. "People are starting more and more to believe in iL" said Sylla, the clinic director in Bamako. Still; no family in Mali wants it said in the. community that they have a relative infected with HIV in their midst. "I .knew that it was for the. best," says Barry, explaining his decision to sever ties with his family after discovering he had the AIDS virus. Now in his 40s, he still lives estrangedfrom them. "I believe I was taking- from them a"decision that the faroi! y, soonerorlater,wouldhavebeen obliged to take." 600K in China Have AIDS Virus UN1TED NATIONS (AP) -.More than 600,000 people in China are estimated to ." be infected with the AIDS virus and the : number is increasing by 30% annually, ¯ p.rimarily because of an upsurge in infec- ¯ tlons among intravenous, drug users, . China’ s health minister said. Although the prevalence of the HIV virus and AIDS is still low -just 0.5% of ~ China’ s 1.27 billion population- the government has launched a five-year plan to ; reduce the-ingrease ~rom 3Q% 5o 10% -. annually,’Zhang Wenkang toId Tl~e Associated Press. Theplan calls f0r includingAIDS awareness in the sex edUcation curriculum for ¯ !.5-year-01ds, prevention messages from " leading actors, condom vending machines : and education programs at all leadership ¯ levels. Impro ced treatment- including the -. possibility of cheap drugs - is also part of the plan, Zhang said in an interview after " addressing the first U.N. General Assem- ~ bly Special Session on HIV/AIDS. ¯ Five years ago,. about 40% of China~s " HIV cases were the result of the illegal : selling of blood, primarily..in rural areas ¯ where dirty needles were often used, he said. Following a gove.rp_ment crackdown " on illegal blood-buying, the percentage of : HIV cases from tainted blood has dropped to 4 to 6%. About70% of current HIV cases are the result ofintravenous drug use, Zhang said. Another 10% are infected through heterosexual or homosexual relations and a smaller percentage from mother-to-child transmission of the virus. Professor Shao Yiming, deputy director of China’ s National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, explained that the numbers are just estimates. As. a developlng country China can.dnly do limited AIDS testing and people in rural areas often,don’t recognize the HIV virus, he " said. Zhang said the estimate of more than : 600,000 HIV sufferers was made by epi- " demiologists based on the actual number " of reported HIV cases - 23,905 at the end ¯ of March. At that time, there were also956 " AIDS patients and 537 confirmed deaths, : he said. The Joint U.N.-Program on HIV/AIDS has said that "while East Asia and the Pacific region still appear to be holding HIV at bay, the recent steep rise in sexually transmitted infections in China and tile vast transmigration ofpcople- spurred by economic growth - could unleash an epidemic.." " Outlining China’ s five-year plan to cut new HIV infections, Zhang said people will be urged to take preventative measures against the disease, "... for instance to develop a healthy lifestyle, without so many sex partners, and secondly without drug using. We advocate m,a~i,’tal sex. we discourage extramarital sex. Zhang called on pharmaceutical companies toreduce the cost of the drug "cocktail" that has proven effective in treating HIV and AIDS because the current cost"is unimaginable for the peasants and citizens.’" About 200 Chinese afflicted with the virus are currently taking part in a trial using free drugs, he said. Shao said China has the capability of making ’cheap drugs to treat HIV and AIDS because it produces many of the chemicals used in the medications, "but the drug is only one ring of the whole chain of treatment." He said China is preparing a comprehensive treatment program, from health care infrastructure and well-trained doc- .tors and nurses to drugs, laboratory testing and monitoring. Though China is starting to confront its AIDS Crisis, the government still harasses activists seeking to draw attention to the problem - especially when doing so uncovers government negligence. Last month, Chinese officials ref.used.to issue a passport to retired physician Dr. Gao Yaojie to accept the Jonathan Mann Award from the Global Health Council at aceremonyin Washington, D.C., attended by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Gao,74, has publicized the spread ofAIDS among poor farmers in central China, blamed on an unsanitary, blood-buying industry. She said officials accused her of helping "anti-China forces." Contacted at her home in Henan province’s capital, 7Jaengzhou, Gao said officials have told her patients to seyer ties with her, saying she had been arrested. People who have visited her at home have been detained and officials have blocked her from distributing donated medicine and cash to AIDS victims, she said. Gao has published her own report about AIDS in China and plans to distribute tt free to patients, health institutions and the media. Eastern Europe/ Russia Hit By AIDS NEW YORK (AP) - Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union,- which already have the world’ s fastest rising rates ofnew HIV/AIDS infections, are headed for a large-scale" epidemic unless anti-AIDS .programs go into full swing now, speciallsts on the region have warned. The numbers are still small compared with Africa, where 26 million people ore infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but they are climbing fast. The United Nations ~stimates that the number of infected people:in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe has skyrocketed from 30,000 in 1995 to 700,000 as of last year. Ethan Nadelmann of the Lindesmith Center/Drug Policy Foundation said the region "leads the world in the connectioN’ between AIDS and intravenous drug use, with80% of HIV infections linked to drug abuse. Nadelman moderated the panel discussion "preventing an Epidemic" among doctors, heads of rehabilitation programs, politicians and researchers. Their meeting was organized by the Open Society Institute, a charitablefoundation active throughout the region, and coincided with the three-day United Nations’ Special Ses= sion on AIDS. Sergey Kovalev, a member of the Russian Parliamentandlongtimehumanrights activist, said his country has answered the increase in intravenous drug use with repressive measures that drive users underground, rather than toward medical care. Their sharing Of hypodermic needles has spread HIV, especially among the young. Kovalev said his government is not likely to budge from that approach unless it is p~essured to do so by Western nations. Prison populations have swelled, with correspondingincreases in drug useamong inmates and in diseases such as tuberculosis that prey on HIV-infected people. Although there once was comprehensive health care throughout the region, today those systems have crumbled and there is virtually no treatment offered for people infected with HIV. Paul Farmer, a Harvard Medical School professor who leads AIDS programs m Russia and Haiti, .said politicians in the regi0I~ and internationally wil.l avoid tacklingthe potential AIDS epidemic on their own. To change that simalaon, he said, - health professionals and activists need to unite to establish fwo ’things: a comprehensive plan for research, pre~,enfion, treatment and care for orphans; and pilot programs_ that show how the work can be accomplished. "All they need is division in our ranks to say,’ No, i t can’ t be done,’" he warned. "The search for excuses not to do this is almost criminal." .Konstanfin Lezhentsev, who helped establish Ukraine’ s firstAIDS treatmentprogram through Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, said the aim ofhis group is to have"aneffecfive tool for speaking with the government" about the urgency Of every patient’s right to treatment. A woman on the panel who asked to be called only by her first nmne, Irina, spoke of issues that go beyond government policy: disci’iminafion against those with HIV. Inherfirst public declaration that she is infected with HIV, Irina described how She became a drug addict, despite coming from aloving family, studying at a university, etc. She thought all her troubles were over when she completed a drag rehabilitaftonprogram, but soon she found out that she was HIV-posifive. HIV-infected people are shunned by family and afraid to go to doctors, she said. Even people she had helped through drug programs deserted her. by Jim Christjohn, entertainment editor "Planets of the Universe", the first single off Stevie Nicks’ .new album "Trouble in ¯ Shangri La" is scheduled for release to stores on July 3rd. The single will include. several club remixes. It should be good, the song itself is great, and hopefully, for the first time since 1986’ s "I Can’ t Wait", fans will be able to go to the clubs and dance t6 a Stevie song. It would be niceifthe clubs in Tulsa are wise enough to get a clue and play it rather than the mixes they usually spin. One club version is 11 minutes long and contains lyrics cut from the album version. The tour should be interesting in that La Diva Nicks is ~bandoning the "Stevie Nicks/ ment jn theatre is taking place July 11-14 with Tulsa Experimental theatre’s production of",The dkDistance Between Bod- Ies Grows Greater Every Day:" Call Summerstage for tix at 596-7111. - "Always, Patsy Cline," an allegedly true story about a fan’s relationship with the singer is brought to you by American "The Haunted Castle opens its doors July 4th: Johnny inherits a haunted castle in EnOland (isn’t that where they all are?) and ~oes to claim his inheritance. It’s a whole lott~a troubleafter that, as the devil seems to think Theatre Company July 12-211 Featuring the music of-the great lady, .ax are available by calling 596-7111/ Hmm, anyone else experiencing drjh vu? Anyone else got that number memorized? "Love Letters," a writing exercise thatbecame a romance and then a play, is offered up July 12-21 by the Centerstage Players, and once more tix are available at Fleetwo~d Mac Great- he’s the rightful owner. - say it with me - 596- est Hits’ package,-in " ~ 71’1,1. which only’ one or two new ~ongs were ¯ Adrian Zmed, 80 s heartthrob best thrown in, and adding 5 new songs to the known for wrestling with William Shatner set,includingsomeol~lersongsneverdone on that cop show he was in (Adrian was in concert. She stops August 3rd in Dallas, hot, Adam not) and who showed his magand tickets are going fast., nificen_t abs in the 80’ s tour of"Godspell", Melissa Etheridge plays Will Rogers coliseum in Fort Worth September 10th and 1 lth, for which tickets go on sale July 7th. Karin, the .Raging Lesbian, reports-it will.be two dates withjust Melissa and her guitar. Sounds like a~ intimate evening, which would be.great. The RLreports it is called the ’,’Live and Alone Tour’’, as opposed to the dead and en masse tour; RL introduced me to her music, much like I introduced her to Stevie’ s. (Read: "Forced it down her throat until she knew every song by heart!") Fortunately, m3’ enthusiasm for Stevie took (asevidencedby find-- ing a Stevie cassette I KNEW.I hadn’t g~ en her, and forced her to fess up that she, indeed~ had bought it- and loved it.), as did hers for Meli~sa Interestingly enough, if ybu play the track"I Miss You" from Stevie’ s "Trouble in Shangfi" La" and.then play "Enough of Me" from Melissa’ S"Breakdown", you’ll find it’ s almost the same song - same chord progressions, sameguitar. Whoinfluenced who? John Shanks, Melissa’s producer, produced some of Stevie’ s album, but not that track. Interesting... There’ s a new Imax 3-D movie coming, and it’s sure to bring a bit of Halloween into summer. "The Haunted Castle opens its doors July 4th. Johnnyinherits ahaunted caste in England (isff t that where they all are?) and goes to claim his inheritance. It’ s a whole lotta trouble after that, as the devil seems to thinkhe’ s the rightful Owner. The Imax Corp0fation actually tried to launch an effort to ban this film due to its graphic content, entreating theatre owners not to show iLHow much of that is true and how much hype I don’t know, but it did make for an interesting press release. And it looks like it would be a fun film to check out, especially forhorror buffs.A new way to get a chill in the heat of summer. On the local front, an.intriguing expericomes to Tulsa to play in "Big" - and oh ~e puns I could make endlessly here. He is rather a tall man... And very broad shouldered, actually. Anyway, back to the column at hand-no, don’ t go there, either. Anyh.oo, themusical that flopped onBroad- " way is now suitable for touring produc- ’ taons and Theater Arts is bringing it to town July 13-22 at the Van Trease Per- ¯ - forming Arts Center for Education (PLEASE get a shorter name!) at 595- ¯ 7777. At least it’ s a different phone num- - bet. Tulsa CARES presents "Hairball 2001, an event to raise bucks to combat AIDS and raise awareness (and hair) in Tulsa. If you canget it up- the hair, I should say, to clarify for the more gutterminded among thereadership - and, if you can’ t get it up, for hair raising fun, call 834-4194 ~0r tix to the Tulsa CARES hair ball, er, hair (raising)° ball. And have a ball, at the ball. Oh, I think this column has just descended to a whole new level, and it ain’t up. For the folks still reading after that last ¯" bit who are into women, Shadia Dahlal ." ("Hello, dahling!" she says to thekids) and ¯ her Purple Roses of Cairo dance troupe : swing into town July 26-29 to writhe and ¯ swing hips for your delight. "Passage to a : world of dark-eyed women, mysterious ¯ customs,veils,incenseanddrums."Hmm, ¯ I know a couple of Lesbians that would like to explore those mysteries, I bet. ¯ And on the lighter side, Theater Pops ¯ weighs in with ,Bash" July 26-August 5. ¯ "Bash" is acollection of 3 one act plays ." about people capable of unspeakable acts : of evil and complexity. ¯ Nothing like a dose of Complex "evil to ¯ get the brai,’,n working. Better than coffee. : Bi~lledas a portraitofhowdarkthehuman : spirit can become," which I think I discov, : ered all too well from grade school on ¯ through high school. American Theatre Co. presents. July-12-21 John H. Williams Theater Performing Arts Center For tickets and information, call 596-7111 or 800-364-7111 www.tulpac.com Timothy W. 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While our legislature’s no model of " progressive thinking, there are a few sena- ¯ tors and representatives who.believe that ¯ evenGayOklahomans deserve tobe treated - ¯ fairly - and who know that Oklahoma Today is funded with our tax dollars too. Last but not least, I should note that this ¯ problem of invisible Gay people i~ not new. We saw the same problem with the "homo-free" Tulsa Centennial. Andinterestingly enough some of the same players retum~ If one could bring "disbarment" proceedings againsta professor as you can against a negligent attorney, thenOU professor of letters Danney Goble, Ph.D. should have his credentials revoked for deliberately suppressing the history, ofGay Tulsans in his Centennial book. Some might excuse this as an oversight but within a day after Goble received the contract to write the Centennial history~ I called him and gave him names and phone numbers of several individuals who could speak about the last 30 years of Tulsa’s Gay history. Goblenever even bothered to call any of these people and .yet claimed his book was more reflective of the history of Tulsa’ s minority communities. Hadhe called and found the information lacking, the omission might be justified. Instead we just have plain and simple bigotry. Also noteworthy is the recogni: tion OT gives to Sharon King Davis who was chair of Tulsa’s bigoted Centennial effort. Davis, is both a staunch Baptist but also a major Democratic Party leader. Ofcourse, OklahomaDemocrats, mostly want to pretend that there are no Gay people here except for when national Democratic groups require that they m, elude us, oh, and when they need money,. like certain former governor or current congressman who both received or asked for major donations from "rich Gays" Of course, some will argue who cares about Oklahoma Today? The only people who read it are 62 year old white bigots (and at least this 43 year old editor). But the way we as a community are represented in the media is crucial to our survival and progress. When we are misrepresented, prejudices remain and help create an environment where hatred, assault and even murder can flourish. When we are rendered invisible, in effect, told we are not even worthy of acknowledgement, Oklahoma Todayhelps reinforcea climate of intolerance. Rendering minorities invisible is a.mil-~ lenniaold technique. Those whoconquered eradicated the language, the culture of those defeated. In America, history was written as that of white men, whether or not it really was until quite recently. In Tulsa, all notices of the 1921 Race Riot were torn out of the archives, and this was not taught in~ any Tulsa public or private school w.ell into the ’90’ s. And of course, in Oklahoma today, we see that there are no Gay people. and 89% (220) were from urban areas. Jackson County, including Kansas City, had the largest count of same-sex couples, 1,723. But whenthe 1,463 same-gender couples in No. 2-ranking St. Louis County were added to the 1,297 from the city of St. Louis, No. 3 on the list, the total of 2,760 mtranked Jackson County. For Elizabeth Radford and Marlssa Pace of St. Louis, describing themselves as a couple on their Census paperwork "’just came easily because it’s who we are and we are comfortable withit," said Pace, 32, a chemist. Radford, a 34-year-old social worker, said she and Pace took the step last year of having a marriage ceremony performed by clergy during a party attended by about 70 friends and relatives in St. Louis. In Ohio, 16,244 (88%) same-sex unmarried households are in urban areas, while 2,288 (12%) are in rural areas, according to the census data. This marksa slight change from .the 1990 census when only 9% (336) of same-sex unmarried households were in rural parts of the state and 91% (3,441) were in urban areas. In Alabama 5,778 (71%) same-sex .unmamed households are in urban areas, while 2,331 (29%)are in rural areas. In1990, only 25% (262) of same-sex unmarried households were in rural parts of the state and 76% (807) were in urban areas. In Kansas, the census figures showed that 2,544 (64%) same-sex unmarried households are in urban areas, while 1,429 (36%) areinrural areas. In 1990;only 29% (185) of same-sex ufimarried households were in rural parts of the state and 71% (462) were in urban areas. Mike Silverman, 28, a computer software e~glneer, and his partner of more than five yearL Dave Greenbaum, recently returned from Vermont, where they had a civil union ceremony. Lawrence is home of the University ofKansas, and Silverman said it’ s the only city in the state with an anti-discrimination ordinance protecting Gay men and Lesbians. In New York, 43,529 (94%) same-sex ¯ tmmarried households are in urban areas, ; while 2,961 (6%) are in rural areas. In the ¯ last census, only 4% (561) of:same-sex ¯ tmmarried households were in rural parts of the state and 96% (13,187) were m ¯ urban areas. Men with a male partner accounted for ¯ 15,016 households, and female couples ¯ made up 1’0,890 households, in 2000. The ¯ census also confirms that enclaves ofGays ¯ are concentrated in the Manhattan neigh- " borhoods of Chelseaandthe’vVestVillage. ¯ Data on other states will be released in ~ batches through mid-August, according to ¯ census officials. The Human Pdghts Cam- " paign (HRC), the largest national Lesbian ~md Gay political organization, is working ~ with the Urban Institute, a Washington, ¯ D.C. think tank specializing in statistical : analysis, to analyze same-sex partner ¯ household data. HRClobbies Congress; ¯ provides camp.aign support and educates ¯ .thepublic to ensurethat LGBT Americans ¯ can be open and safe at home and at work ~7 Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D. Lastmonth some970 guns, several bales of marijuana, and forty or so boxes of pornography went up in smoke The Tulsa Police Department used fire clean its evidence lockers of items it didn’t want to auction back to the community. Thank goodnesswe are now thus secured against these three menaces to society:, weapons, drugs, and dirty pictures. The day the lurid glossies went into the furnaces, I happened to be reading Barry Werth’s recent biography The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin- A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal. Arvin was an ennnent literary critic and professor of English at Smith (in Northampton, MA), 0neof the Ivy-league’s "Seven Sister" colleges for women. His books on Nathaniel Hawthbm, Walt Whitman, ~ind Herman Melville (the later of which won~the National BookAward) helped create the canon of 19th century American literature, loved or cursed by today’s English majors. Literature made Arvin, and literature -of a sort also destroyed him. Arvin was arrested,~fined, institutionalized,, mad forced to retire for possessing Gay pornography. Born at the turn of the century, Arvin was-shy, short, balding, and: often depressed. He hdd married and divorced in his early 30’ s but only slowly and partially reconciled himself emotionally to his homosexuality. He progressed through a number of short-lived relationships with younger men, some of whom he recruited as English instructors. (In thgse days, sleep: ing with the boss could be a more obvious requirement of one’ s job.) Truman Capote, a young writer Arvin met at an artist colony, dated Arvin for two years, and dedicated to him his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. To Arvin’s credit, he kept in touch with many of his lovers years after they had parted. In his 50’s, Arvin discovered nearby Springfield’s several Gay bars, cruising New York City bathhouses (the Everard), and also skin magazines. Arvin’ s renewed sexual adventuresomeness partly reflected an increasing loneliness of late middle age but also the sudden appearance in New York City newsstands of accessible Gay pornography. In the 1950s, pioneer pornographers such as Sam Roth and also Bob Mizer, in the guise of the Athletic Model Guild, began publishing pictures of mostly naked (apart from a posing strap or two) young men. Thom Fitzgerald’s recent video Beefcake documents the historyof the muscle maga~i,’nes that led to, Arvin’s downfall such as Grecian GuiM Piciorial, MANual, and Trim. Before the 1950s, Gaypornography was to spnng- "... Pornography 9nly exlsts in soeiet~es where sexuality, or aspects thereof, is repressed and inhibited. Pornography’s secrecy and saladousness furl its conslderahle charm. One may imagine, however, some sexual ecology...- past or future-where .all facets of se- x are simply mundane and, as a eonsec~uenee, pornography is unthlnhahl-e... " scarce and hard to find. Basically, one had ¯ to write or draw or photograph it onesdf, : or else somehow acquire obscure special ¯ editions and art prints mostly published in Europe. By midcentury, however, Ameri2 can enterprise and knowhow had at last brought graphicpornography home to the masses. Arvin began buying and collecting the new musclemagazines, and also films of nude wresfling and the like. A novel technology, 8ram film and the home movie projector (perhaps Arvin borrowed his from Smith College classrooms?), also boosted the mass market for pom -productions.- We’ve recently experienced similar technological boosts with the VCR, .DVD, and the Intemet. Pornography, actually, as an idea is rather recent. The word, a fancy madeup Greek term meaning "writing about harlots," first appeared around 1850 or so. Victorian archaeological excavations of Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum had uncovered shocking sexual imagery in murals, mosaics, and decorative household objects. These artifacts were quickly.squirreled awayin secret museum caches but they inspired a fierce interest, a fascination only partly disguised by "’pornography’ s" net-Greek facade.of polite, scientific objecfiyity. Terminological alternatives similarly have historically shallow roots. Obscene is a Latin worst that originally meant ominous or illomened; and smut an Old English word meamng sooty or smudged. Pornography only exists in societies Where sexuality, or aspects thereof, is repressed and inhibited. Pornography’s secrecy and salaciousness ftiel its considerable charm. One may imagine, however, some sexual ecology - past or .future - where all facets -of sex are simply mundane and, as a consequence, pornography is unthinkable. But not in Massachusetts in 1960, on the cusp of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Wily politicians then witch-- hunted pornographers and-their customers, building careers on burning dirty pictures. A new federal law, passed in July 1960, had made it illegal to send pornographic material through the mail or to otherwise distribute this. Arvin and his circle of Gay. friends met occasionally to trade magazines and films and to show off new items in their collections. But postal inspectors got busy tracking down pore mailings-and, on September 2, 1960, three police officers pounded on Arvin’ s door. They seized his films and magazines and Arvin too. Terrified, he ratted on Ms Gay friends and colleagues two ofwhom, along with Arvin, were convicted and lost their teaching positions, see Studies, p. 11 Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) invites individuals, businesses and organizations to a Community-Wide Meeting: A Permanent Location for the Community Center Thurs., July 26th 6:30, meet & greet, program at 7pm_ LGBT Community Center, 21st & Memorial Discussion Topics: Where? How Big? As Focus for New Neighborhood? For info,, call 743-GAYS (743-4297) IGTA member Call 341. 6866 Intorn tion l ~TourS formoreinformation. TULSA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY Country Club Barbering Custom Styling for Men & Women David Kauskey 3310 E. 51st, 747-0236, Tues.-Fri., 8-5:30, Sat. 8-5pm Want to save Money and Help Build a Community Center? Switch to Rainbow Communications Long Distance and More, 10% of Revenues Will Benefit Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights. Capital Campaign and General Fund For more information, call 665-3401 or evenings at A.A.7-8602. Tulsa’s only professional body-piercing Kelly Kirby,-CPA, PC Certified Public Accountant a professional-corporation Lesbians and Gay men face many special tax situations whether single or as couples. Electronic filing is available for faster refunds. 747-5466 4021 South Harvard Avenue, Suite 210, Tulsa 74135 by Karin Gregory You know when it hitS, don’t you? Ev- " cry word she utters is golden, no matter ¯ how crude; every look she gives, you want .- to capture on film to replay; every phone ° message she sends, you save mad listen to " on your loneliest days(and especially ¯ nights!). You’re the homiest Lesbian in . town, yet when you think of HER, you " ¯ don’t think of the next time you’ll have ¯ sex, just how good it feels to be with her, ° whether for an hour or a whole night, " waking up with her the next morning. You . want to learn her, be a part of her, and fuse o yourtwo soulsinto one. Youwritehideous ~ purple prose in the second person that ¯ some poor folks in Tulsa will read (well, ¯ maybe not after this paragraph!). : When-you’re with her, you’re on an " emotional high, blocking out everyone ¯ around but the two of you. An hour after " she’s left, you’re still high. Somewhere " between the second and third hour, how- ¯ ever, your emotions sink so fast and so low that you don’t think you can live until you " see her again. When you hear from her, " you sound like the silliest schoolgirl who . ever lived. She’s the only woman who makes you nervous because you can’ ttalk to her like other women. You have to be " honest. Her bluntness and honesty make you want to be a better person, not only for " her, but for yourself. Yoi~’re feeling emotions you never thou.ght you had. Dare you question? Analyze? Categorize every feel- .: ing? Then put a label on those feelings? ¯ Can it be <gasp!> love? HELP! Why do I need help?why don’ t Ijust sit " back and enjoy the ride like most couples? ¯ For the first time in my life, I’m ready for ¯ that "R" word. She’s beautiful, talented, " creative, interested in me. So what’s the ¯ problem? Miss Interested-In-Me has only one flaw--the same flaw that haunts many Gay couples--the dreaded_EX! Yup, I’min " love with a woman who’ s stillinlove with ¯ her ex. Before you start calling me all ° kinds of stupid, I knew about the ex before ° I met Miss Interested-In-Me in person. I just didn’ t know, nor did she, the extent of ° those feelings. Now you can call me all " kinds of stupid! I walked into this trap. " I even met Ms. X once at my,.., my,. .. my.... whatever’s house. Gay Felix and " I liked her very much. No, she couldn’t be " rude, crude, and vulgar, could she? She " couldn’t be evil and have a wart on her ¯ nose. Oh, no! Remember, we’re talking ." Gregory luck here. She and "my girl" are " - even best friends. OUCH! And Ms. X " likes me. I found out about that when Miss ° Interested-In-Me and I spent aparticularly soulful night together.. "She likes you," : she said. "She. likes how attentive you are ." to me." ¯ It occurred to me to say, "Well, it’ s nice " to get the first wife’s permission,’" but I " thought better of it. If this woman has ¯ taught me anything, it’ s to think before I ; speak--a first for me. I’ ve also learned that " it’s easy to live with a stake through your " heart. It’s just when that stake is twisted ¯ around that you think you won’t ever be " able to breathe again. She also tells me I’m " .anincredible person to listen to her and not " to run. I’dlike to say that incredible people are not easy to find; that once you find one, you hold on for dear life. But then I have to think about that and realize that too much too soon will run off Miss Interested-In- Me. Some people say she’ s using me. Others say that shejust needs time. Hell, she’ s had at least two years! Gay Felix, who’s been around her more than others, told me the other day, "Karin, she’s called you, invited you over, initiated sex--I’ dbe happy!" He’s a man--what else did you expect? I’m also remembering a line from a musical, for which mosrof you Gay men would be proud. Around the end of ’~The Music Man", when the townspeople discover that "Professor" Harold Hill is a con man, they run after him with tar and feathenng in mind. Marian the Librarian’ s little brother, Winthrop, tells Hill to run away. Hill says he can’ t. He. looks at Marian and declares,"For t_he first time in my life; I got my foot caught in the door.’" Marian, if you’re out there, think of my foot and how it must hurt being stuck in your door for so long. Think of "that stake twisting through my heart. Know that this salesman won’ t bemaking any morehouse calls for a long time. Aren’t exes a bitch? Arvin’s collection of soft, nudie guy imagery, lugged imo court as evidence, undoubtedly was subsequently burned. Arvin died two years after his trial, in 1963. Forty years later, it is quaint, one could say, that the state still strikes matches to protect us from the perils of pornography. Butitmaybe alosing battle, particularly in Oklahoma. The more sexual repression, themorepornography. It’ s maybe no accident that Tulsa spelled backwards, as ~veryone knows, is A SLUT. Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthropology ht the University o[Tulsa, and can be reached at lamont10@yahoo.com It is time for society tO recognize that Gays and Lesbians are a responsible minority facing unjust discrimination and mistreatment by the majority - just like every other minority which has struggled forjustice a~.d equal treatment inAmerica. - Nathaniel Batchelder, Director The Peace House, Oklahoma City In statements to TFN, McClure noted that repeated efforts to discuss and resolve these issues with Tulsa Comity commis, Sioner John Selph, a Democrat and with Tulsa Mayor Susan Savage, also a Demo: crat, both of whom are represented on the Criminal Justice Authority, have been rebuffed to date. McClure also issued a written challenge to Savage and the county commissioners to meet with him to resole these issues. present.s I JuIy 14, 8pm, PAC’sWestby Pavilion ~ LaFortune Studio, $80 donation. 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