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Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities -Our Families of the Heart December 15, 1995- January 14, 1996, Volume 3, Issue I
National News
Oregon Lesbian
Activists Murdered :
"MEDFORD, Ore. - Police in Medford, :
Ore., report that they have located the ¯
bodies of Roxanne Ellis and Michelle "-
Abdill; long-time lesbian activists who ¯
have been deeply involved in fighting off
anti-gay ballot initiatives in the state for i
several years. The 2 women, who had :
been partners for 12 years, were found in :
the back of a pickup trnek belonging to ¯
Ellis. The couple were last seen on Dec. 4 :
see Murder, page 11 :
Hearings Feature
Anti-Gay Agenda
Washington, DC By the end of Dec.
6th, the "Parents, Schools and Values,"
Congressional hearing revealed itself-to
be precisely what youth advocates had
feared: a taxpayer funded platform for
anti-gay extremists. The two day hearing
came to a close today before the House
Economic and Employment Subcommittee
on Oversight and Investigations.. The
hearings became the focus of a national
outcry when Lou Sheldon, an anti-gay
extremistandChairman of the Traditional
Values Coalition, claimed the hearings
were scheduled at his request to discuss
the "promotion of homosexuality in the
public schools." see House, page 11
Hawaii Commission
Urges Gay Marriage
HONOLULU-The Honolulu Advertiser "
has reported that the state commission "
created to evaluate gay and lesbian mar- ,
riages will urge the legislature to "change ¯
Hawaii law toallow gay couples to marry." "
The Commission on Sexual Orientation "
and Law was created after the Hawaii
Supreme Court ordered alower court to
review a suit bylesbian andgay couples to "
get mamage licenses, saying that in order :
to refuse thelicenses the state had to prove ¯
a "corn pelling interest" to deny licenses
because of the gender of the 2 people "
involved. The commission has not yet ¯
released any actual recommendations, but
the paper reported that the commission’s ¯
report will be distributed for public comsee
Hawaii, page 12 "
Visitation Rights ¯
Case to Continue ¯
SayS-High Court 2
WASHINGTON- The U.S. Supreme "
Court has let stand; without comment, a ¯
Wisconsin statesupreme court ruling that ¯
would let .the former parmer continue ;
with her court battle to have visitation ¯
rights withher ex-lover’s biological son. ¯
After Etsbeth Knott, the biological mother- "-
of the boy, and Sandra Lynn Holtzman, "
ended their 10-year relationship, Knott ¯
attempted to prevent Holtzman from see: ¯
ing the 6-year-old boy. The Wisconsin "
Supreme Courtearlier tiffs year overturned ¯
a state lower court ruling denying ¯
Holtzman any rights, and ordered the case
12
Bill Stoskopf& Mark Lackey of Black &
White Charities present gifts to SharOn
Thoele of the HIVResource Consortium
One ofmany organizations at the World ($5000) &to Claudette Peterson ofTOHR
AIDS Day March at the Univ. of Tulsa, ($2500) from this year’s fundraisers.
see related stories this page and page 8. PFLAG was also a beneficiary ($2500). ¯ PFLAG, Thwarted In TV Effort, Turns To
Print Campaign For Anti-Hate Message
¯"" The Tulsa chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, in response
~ to the difficulties encountered in getting their Project Open Mind anti-hate commercials
~ on television inTulsa, have begun a campaign for a signature advertisement to run in The
¯ Tulsa World. The ad calls for Tulsans to stand against"hatred, hate speech and violence"
¯ against individuals based on their sexual orientation and "to recognize the strong link
~ between hate speech, teen suicide and violent physical attacks..." The Tulsa Worldis on
] record as having a policy banning the use of the words, Gay or Lesbian in advertising
¯ but apparently have chosen to allow an exception for this ad.The ad is scheduled to run
¯ sometime early this next year.
; Two Project Open Mind television commercials were to be tested in Tulsa, Houston
: &Atlanta. InTulsa, ouly Ch. 2,KTULbriefly aired one of the pair but stopped. Attorneys
¯ for the Christian Broadcasting Network, who objected to the use of footage of evangelist
¯¯ Pat Robertson &Jerry Falwell, had threatened legal action against stations broadcasting
the commercials. PFLAG is asking individuals and organizations, dubs, cong~:,e&atio~as,
¯ etc. to sign the anti-hate ad. There is no cost since funds that were to be iised ~6 buy TV
¯ air time will now oar for the-orint ad. Formore information call the PFLAG at 749-4901.
~r / ’
AIDS Day:
Tulsa & Elsewhere
NEW YORK - "Shared Rights, Shared
Responsibilities" was the theme of.World
AIDS Day, as the United Nations announced
a massive global mobilization
program to deal with the epidemic. From
UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-
Ghali to prominent Hollywood film personalities,
from the largest cities to smaller
communities, hundreds of thousands of
people and some 7,.000 groups in 190
localities around the world marked the
day in a varxety of ways.
In Tulsa, the event was marked by Interfaith
AIDS Ministries annual march
and memorial service held this year at the
University of Tulsa. Over 300 igeople attended
with many organizations carrying
banners. The service featured speakers,
Jason Smith of TOHR’s Testing Clinic
and attorney and longtime community.
activist., Bob Inglish. Choirs from Family
of Faith MCC, Tulsa Family Chorale
and FirSt Presbyterian Church performed.
TU Provost Dr. Lewis Duncan, the Rev.
Ken McIntosh, the Rev. Henry Knight
provided welcome or prayers, and Dr.
Doreen Wood read a World AIDS Day
proclamation from Mayor M. Susan Savage.
The American Foundation for AIDS
Research (AmFAR), a prominent nonprofit
U.S. group that has been headed by
actress Elizabeth Taylorannounced that it
is awarding.nearly a million dollars in
research grants to 14 scientists working
on the epidemic. The foundation also
named American actress Sharon Stone to
3
World 1/2M AIDS Cases
WASHINGTON-Somany young Americans
- one of ever." 92 young men and one
of every 33 young black men - are believed
infected with HIV that it threatens
to become a deadly "rite of passage" in
this country, said Philip Rosenberg of the
National Cancer Institute. Rosenberg’s
comments in the journal Science, coincide
with an announcement by the federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
that the AIDS epidemic has now
reached 501,310 cases in the U.S. since
1981 with 311,381 deaths. The sobering
statistics illuminate the government’s
warnings that AIDS is quickly turning
into more of a threat to the nation’s youth,
even as it tapers off among older people.
Using CDC. data, Rosenberg also estimated
that one in every 60 Hispanic men
see AIDS, page 3
White House. AIDS
Conf. Heard in Tulsa
WASHINGTON-"Wecan conquer this ,"
said President Clinton in convening the
first White House conference on AIDS in~
the 15 years of the epidemic’s history,
bringing together teachers, doctors, researchers,
people withHIV and their family.
In Tulsa, local HIV activists and specialists
gathered to listen to the conference
at the University Center at Tulsa.
After the broadcast, locals intended to
begin planning for current efforts to respond
to the epidemic. Outside the Executive
Office meeting in DC, however,
protesters and AIDS activists demonstrated,
charging that the conference
i Rob Hill To Run For
i School Bd. Seat 6
: Rob Hill, social services specialist with
¯ Helpline for 15 years, announces his
candidancy for Tulsa Public Schools Dis-
" trict 6. Hill is a graduate of Will Rogers
High Schogl and a 1968 graduate of North-
:: eastern.. State University in Tahlequah,
¯ with a Bachelors in Psychology.
; "I hope to bring my experience and
¯ knowledge of Tulsa’s community ser- ¯
vices and resources to Tulsa Public
¯ Schools," says Hill. "I have first hand
: knowledge to help our schools deliver
¯ high quality services as efficiently as pos- ¯
sine. I’m committed to combining fiscal
¯ conservatism with the best quality education
for our children." see Hill. p. 12
TOHR Votes for
¯ Community Center
¯
Tulsa moved a little closer to having a
¯ community meeting place when mem-
¯ bers of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human ¯
Rights (TOHR) voted at an emergency
~ meeting Nov. 21 to authorize TOHR of-
¯ ricers to put together an offer on a prop-
- erty. As of press time, the deal with the
¯ current owner is still in negotiation but ~t
¯ is hopeful that the issues can be resolved
: so that renovation of the building might
¯ ..~ti~_,.~g~: ’,~ v ex,t y-eaL At tlaat time, tnere
~W’Wi~.I~"’e a~ -n"~~."’d’ for’"c"o~’ "~;" ty" volunteers
¯ to provide painting, ci~-up, and light
:,ocoi~structiOt~ work. Info: 743-GAYS,
INSIDE EDITORIAL P. 2
DIRECTORY P. 2
NEWS BRIEFS P. 4
HEALTH BRIEFS P. 6
CALENDAR P. 9
EUREKA PAGES P. 10-11
New Pentecosta
Church Welcomes
Gays & Lesbians
The Rev. Clay Cody and Agape’ Christian
Fellowship, a new Pentecostal congregation,
have announced that they will
begin holding worship services at the
Sheridan Center, Suite H, at 21st and
Sheridan Road. The services will be held
at 10:30 am beginning on December 31.
Pastor Cody, formerly an Assembly of
GodPastor Evangelist, believes that there
are many Gay, Lesbian andTransgendered
Pentecostal Christians in the Tulsa area
who have had to worship in "mainstream’"
churches and who were unable to express
fully themselves as GayChristians. Agape’
Christian Fellowship "extends the fight
hand of fellowship" to everyone regardless
of race, gender or sexual orientation.
The Pentecostal movement had its origin
in the widespread desire in the hearts
of men and women for greater closeness
to God. It is a reaction to the formalism,
coldness and .unbelief Pentecostal Christians
perceive in modern churches. Pentecostal
Christians profess a belief in their
experience of the supernatural power of
God in their lives and their faith in the
Bible which they consider the infallible,
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Assistant Editor News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without
James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or
Writers/contributors photo does not indicate thal person’s sexual orientation.
Phyl Boler-Schmidt Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise
Barry Hensley noted, must be signed & becomes the sole property of Tutsa Family
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With this issue, Tulsa Family News begins our
third year. We give our thanks to you, our readers
& also to those who have-helped us; with stories&
with criticism. Especially, we thank, our writers,-
our advertisers & our enormously patient printers
whomakebringing qualitynews reporting toTulsa’s
Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender folk, families &
friends possible.
This is a labor of love, & sometimes, a little
profit. So, when we’re fending off censorship or the
flack that comes with having a viewpoint, it helps
to remember the praise we’ve received. We were
proud when distinguished former CBS News journalist,
Ann Northrup, lauded Tulsa Family News,
lamenting that she wished NYC had a paper like
this. And we’ve heard similar praise from others.
We promase you to continue bringing you the
best local & national news coverage of any Oklahoma
Gay paper. We have faith in Tulsa’s promise
&with your help, Tulsa wil1 get better and better for
us & our families. Happy holidays - Tom Neal
Suck & Blow Syndrome
by Pat ,.~lorehead
Merry Christmas andn~iLV the Ne~:Year bring
you a better yearth~ 1995. 95.hasbeen a weird
year. I’m not sure we ~3an view it as a "watershed"
year, but it has certainly pointed out the absolute
schizophrenia of our national culture. ~I learned a
long time ago of a psychological phenomenon
referred to as the "suck and blow" syndrome which
is where I think America is currently trapped.
The suck and blow ,syndrome in essence states
that one can’t.simultaneously "suck andblow". In
other words it is not possible, in a healthy mental
State, to perform to conceptual opposites. Translation,
you are not in a healthy mental state when you
are obsessed with a "pro-life" crusade that sanctions
killing physicians who perform abortions as
the way to advance your cause..
But it is exactly this suck and blow syndrome
which seems to be driving almost every cultural
force in America today. It is schizophrenic tO foist
Off a life view of 1950’s and 60’s television programming
in an America where elementary students
carry guns. Ozzie and Harriet never had to
deal with that situation. Or for cable compames to
promote a KIDS CLICKER remote control to protect
children from accessing what the very same
cable provider carries on ft’s other channels.
It is suck and blow time when in order to
improve life in America for the "next generation"
politicians are prepared to unfnnd and dismantle
Environmental Protection laws. Or for those same
politicians to continually summon images of family
life and cultural values of an agrarian America
which no longer exists. And at the same time to sell
off the National Parks of this country in order for
businesses to rape and plunder those same park
lands.
As my uncle used to say, someone needs to just
slap some sense into us. I have hopes that 1996 will
be the year when that happens. The hate-mongers
see UPC, page 3
- MCC~Grehte~-TiJIsa- Responds to TFN
First, Rev. Alice Jones left voluntarily because
she felt God’s calling in anew direction. Rev. Jones
served as pastor of MCC of Greater Tulsa for over
16 years. She frequently defended the whole Tulsa
Gay/Lesbian community in situations, such as the
recent Human Rights Commission hearings. Anyone
who leads any group for over 16 years will have
detractors who disagree with some things. Rev.
Jones accomplished many things, and the congregation
of MCC of Greater Tulsa are proud to have
had her as our pastor.
Regarding implied problems with the District of
UFMCC, it is true that we were changed from a
chartered.church to a commissioned church. The
demands on a chartered church have changed in
recent years, and this change has some important
advantages for MCC of Greater Tulsa as we seek a
new pastor. The main change is in the pastor
compensation package, giving the local church
greater flexibility. To imply a conflict exists between
MCC of [(]reater] Tulsa and District leaders
is wrong and inaccurate. The Board of Directors are
working closely with the District on the pastoral
search. Although, like many churches from time to
time, we are behind in our tithes to the District.
-~ However, the Board of Directors and the congregation
are taking steps to correct this, and we will
become a Chartered Church again.
Regarding perceived irregularities in our Financial
Records, the finances ofMCC of Greater Tulsa
have always been open to any member or friend of
the Church. Open Board meetings and Congregational
meetings are held regularly, and anyone
attending may ask questions. AnAudit Committee,
of church members, are currently reviewing the
Church records to clarify any bookkeeping errors.
Volunteers handling church records may sometimes
make errors, but there is no question as to the
honesty and integrity of those involved.
As MCC of Greater Tulsa seeks anew pastor, the
members and the Board of Directors look forward
to many years ahead serving the needs of the local
church and the entire Tulsa Gay/Lesbian Community.
- The Board of Directors & Members
Editor’s response:
TFN would like to make this correction: Alice
Jones did notpreach on Sunday morning, Oct. 29
as we stated in .our last issue. We regret that error
and apologizefor our mistake. However, we stand
by the accuracy of the rest of the artgcle.
¯ TFN also applauds MCC of Greater Tulsa for
: resp~idihgpublicdlly tdfU~ article~ We agreew~th
~ several oftheir points. The concerns raised in our
: article are not, however, the ones they addressed.
~ The question is: what’s going onfinancially?
What makes this issue a matter ofpublic concern
¯
are the size of thefinancial irregularities and the
’ appearance of no management overstght. The
¯ amountunaccountedfor,possibly as much as $6,000
¯ or more, is significant. This is about 10% of the
¯ annual income of this church. It is too much for
¯ members to dismiss with a comment, " volunteers
¯ make mistakes..." Also in the UFMCC, the pastor
¯ serves not only as staffbut also as moderator ofthe
¯
board ofdirectors. And in that role, as "president"
¯ of the board, that person is resposibility for the
¯ proper functioning ofan organization, especially
¯ overseeingfinancial accountability, see MCC, p. 3
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between the ages of 27 and 39 is infected
with HIV; that women are 4 times less
likely than men to become infected; and
that although the epidemic in the U.S. has
"officially" just passed the half-million
mark, the actual number of people in this
country infected with HIV is probably
.between 630,000 and 897,000, representmg
approximately 100,000 to almost
400,000 people whose infections have
not been reported or who themselves are
unaware they are already infected. "That’s
a very. disturbing future," Rosenberg said.
wasn’t about the disease at all, but was
"election year rhetoric." Inside, Clinton
underscored his administration’s commitment
to battling the .epidemic, saying he
had increased funding for AIDS research
and treatment during his term in office,
and promising to fight off efforts by the
Republican-controlled Congress to cut
AIDS spending next year. Clinton also
announced that early next year Vice President
AI Gore will host a conference of
scientists and representatives from drug
manufacturers to try to find ways to speed
up the development of promising AIDS
medications. "Our common goal must
ultimately be a cure," Clinton told the
some 300 people attending. "A cure for all
those living with HIV, and a vaccine to
protect the res t ofus from the virus. A cure
and a vaccine - that must be our first and
top priority." Although those attending
the conference generally applauded
Clinton, it was also dear that pressure on
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¯ the administration is far from easing up.
¯ Dr. Edward Morse, a research sociologist
¯ from Louisiana, also challenged the ad-
¯ ministration to make some tough deci-
¯ sions about the epidemic. "There is no
¯¯ point in beating around the bush," Morse
~aidin presenting Clinton with areport on
¯ IV drug abuse and HIV. "We must face
¯ the issue of needle exchange. A third of
¯ AIDS cases are based on substance abuse.
¯ That is a major key in the solution to this
¯ problem."
¯ When an activist shouted that Clinton
¯ hadfailed to keep his campaign promises
¯ about AIDS, Clinton vehemently rejected
¯ the charge. Clinton quickly replied, "We
¯ had a set of recommendations that. we
~ received whe~n w~got’here, m~st of w.hieh.
¯ have been i~mplemented. I am very sorry
¯ that thereis not a cure. I amvery sorry that
¯ there is not a vaccine. I regret that every-
" thing I have asked for has not been ap-
¯ proved by the Congress."
¯ have started stirring the pot and stuff is
; beginning to slop out over the edges.
¯ Things may well get worse before they
¯ get better. But I have faith that ultimately
¯ th~ basic decency and common sense of
ordinary people will take command. As
Mr. Lincoln said, you can fool some of the
: people all of the time, and all of the people
: some time, but you can’t fool all of the
¯ people all of the time.
I guess those two things are my mes-
; sage of positive hope for all of us for the
¯ coming new year. I believe in the basic
"- decency ofordinary people and their com-
¯ mon sense to react when things get to
¯ weird. I suggest we all start practicing
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those virtues for the coming year on a
daily basis. Drop in a little dol!op of
simple courtesy and civility and see if
things don’t begin to improve. Decency,
common sense, courtesy and civility, that
sounds like a pretty good recipe for anyone,
wouldn’t you think?
So from myself, my companion and our
dog, the best wishes of the season, to you
and all those in your life who make day to
day life a little sweeter and more palatable.
And one more suggestion for the
new year: always keep your powder dry,
otherwise it tends~to cake up when applied
around the eyes. HO HO HO!
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We hope that there is a good explanation
for the discrepancy between amount
presented in theyear~endfinancial report
and the much lower amount reported to
be in the church’s bank account(s) at the
congregational meeting. However, even
if there are explanations for every dime,
or even if this is an accounting error
repeatedforyears, the existance ofsuch a
large discrepancy in thefinancial report
speakspoorly ofAliceJones’ performance,
not as. pastor, but as moderator - the
person ultimately responsible. When this
discrepancy is combined with the issue of
back tithes owed and other outstanding
debts, some would say Alice Jones and
her board failed ~o do their job well
enough. Mismanagement is not dishonesty
and mismanagement doesn’t negate
the good Alice Jones has done but the
church and our communities do have a
right to expect accurate accounting.
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head a 3-year fundraising campaign. Hundreds
of museums around the world
marked the day by observing "A Day
Without Art," an effort by art institutions
to dramatize the effect of the epidemic on
the creative community. Tulsa’s Philbrook
Museum draped the Rodin statue that
graces its entry to recognize the day.
On the Internet, scores of World Wide
Websites from Japan to Finland participated
in their own version of the event,
dubbed "A Day Without Graphics," by
going blank, removing graphics and pho-
::r tos :for the ’day. Singers from the’Metro-
:- p01itan Opera in New York performed at
the United Nations, while at the city’s St.
Mark’s Church, Dancers Responding to
AIDS performed 24 hours nonstop, featuring
dancers from the Paul Taylor and
Merce Cunningham dance companies.
And at least 165 cable systems and local
television stations had slated a variety of
AIDS-related programming, including
broadcasts of "’Philadelphia," "And the
Band Played On" and "Longtime Compamon"
on leading premium cable systems.
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Poet E. Hemphill Dead : ronym that stands for "double pigs." An open letter to Mugabe " areas as insurance and pension Key West MCC Excluded
PHILADELPHIA-Poet, author,
editor and rights activist Essex
Hemphill has died of AIDS-related
complications. Mr.
Hemphill, author of highly acclaimed
"Ceremonies: Prose and
Poetry," also worked on the
documentaries "Looking for
Langston," "Tongues Untied"
and "Black Is ... Black Ain’t."
He was 38 years old at the time
of his death.
Nasty Reaction to ’Gay
Mortgages’ in Australia
" MEL’BOIJRNE,’~U~tr~fi~L~e
Australian gay paper Brother
Sister News has reported that an
announcement earlier in November
by Australian Mortgages that
it would start offering discounted
bank home loans to gay and lesbian
couples early next)’ear has
brought the lending institution a
number of hostile phone calls.
including abomb threat. Despite
the negative reaction from some
Aussies, however, a spokesperson
for the firm said it had no
intention of backing away from
the reduced mortgage rate offer.
"’We are not going to back off,"
Australian Mortgages" Ron
Guthrie told the paper. "I’m just
saddened and very disappointed
at the attitude of some people.’"
The company said the reduced
rates for lesbian and gaY couples
would probably be about 1.5%
lower than standard marketrates.
Australian Mortgage Saidit had
decided to offer the discounted
home loans partly because of the
history of antigay bias in the
mortgage .industry, but also because
same-sex couples represent
an excellent market segment
for the housing industry.
Guthrie’said that many gay
couples are fairy well-paid professiohals
with 2 incomes and
no children. "They are true
DINKS,’" he said, using the ac-
¯
income, no kids, single.’"
¯ Partnership Ceremony
¯ Proposal in S.F.
¯ SAN FRANCISCO - The San
Francisco Board of Supervisors
¯ has received a proposed mea-
¯
sure that would authorize the
¯ county clerk’s office to perform
¯ domestic partnership ceremonies
similar to the marriage ceremonies
it performs for couples who
¯ get married at city hall. The city
has had a domestic partner regis-
¯
tration ordinance for seve_ral
" ~ years, l~tit the d~unly cl~rk’~ 6ffice
has no authority tO officiate-
¯
at any civil ceremony connected
¯
with registration. The proposed
¯ measure to authorize performing
the ceremony, which would
¯
convey no particular legal sta-
¯
tus, was introduced by Supervi-
¯ sor Barbara Kaufman.
¯ Mugabe Rejects Critics
¯ AUCKLAND, New Zealand -
¯¯ According to the New Zealand
Herald, Zimbabwe President
¯
Robert Mugabe said he was un-
¯ concerned about sharp criticism
¯ he has received for his verbal ¯
attacks againsthomosexuals. On
:,,,leaving the annual Common-
"¯ wealth Heads of Government
meeting, Mugabe brushed off
reporters questions about criticism
he has received from hu-
¯ man rights activists, saying the
topic was "abhorrent.’" Lesbian
¯
and gay activists protested out-
" side the meeting of the Com-
¯ monwealth Heads of Govern-
" ment, to draw attention to the
anti-gay attacks by Mugabe.
Earlier this year, Mugabe’s gov-
¯ ernment barred the Gays & Les- ¯
bians of Zimbabwe from run-
¯ ning a literature booth at an in-
" ternational book fair in Harare,
¯ the nation’s capital. In a speech ¯
he called gays "’sodomists and
sexual perverts" and later said
gays were "worse than dogs and
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from activists said, "We protest :
moststrongly against these statements
as we.believe that you
have seriously endangered the
lives and good health of a significant
minority of your citizens."
Federal Court OKs
Anti-Bias Protections
SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th .
Circuit Court of Appeals’ governing
Judicial Council has voted
to include anti-bias protections
that include sexual orientation,
ifi~’fir’si ~d~r’al coh~t di~tfiCi io
adopt such a policy. The newly
adopted regulations apply to all
circuit employees, as well as to
workers under the supervision
of the federal courts in the large
9th Circuit, including federal
probation officers, marshals and
public defenders. The new employment
policy was adopted
after the federal Judicial Conference,
which is headed by Supreme
Court Chief Justice Will-
,am Relmquist, ordered all the
federal circuit appeals courts to
include anti-discrimination regulations,
although the Conference’s
recommendations only
extended to race, gender, religion,
age and disability. An initial
recommendation to include
sexual orientation protections
was dropped by a Judicial Council
committee earlier this year,
but when the Council reached
¯ the point of a vote on new em-
~ ployment protections xt put the
sexual orientation protections
back in with the approval of all 9
¯ Council members. The 9th Circuit
includes California, Wash-
" ington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii,
". Alaska, Guam and the Northern
¯ Mariana Islands.
: Canadian Gov’t. Adds
: Gay Couples Benefits
: OTYAWA - Canada’s govern-
¯ ment has taken a giant step and
extended at least some of the
¯" benefits enjoyed by mamed fed-
] eral employees to gay and les-
] bian partners of government
¯ workers as well. CanadianRights
¯ activists lauded the Treasury
: Board’s decision, which affects
: more than 200,000 government
workers, as a"great step forward
: for equality" in the country. The
new policy hardly represents
_" putting same-sex couples on an
¯ equal footing withmamedworkers,
however, and does not in-
" dude such ~mportant traditional
at all. But it does break dramatic
new ground, activists said, and :
does allow govenmlent employ-.
ees to take a leave of absence for
,an ailing partner, permits workers
to have bereavement leave in
the event of file death of a partner,
and extends to a worker’s
partner the same .flight and housing
allowances g~ven to spouses
of govenunent employees on
work asst~m~ents around the
cotmtry. Conservative le~slators
quickly attacked the move, saying
die government had made
the policy change "behind the
back" of Parlimnent. The Canadian
legislature recently rejected
a measure that wouldhave given
legal reco~fition to stone-sex
couples. The new benefits pro.-
granl does not apply to semiautonomous
government finns
(such as the Canadian Broadcasting
Corp.), to the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, to the
nation’s armed forces, or to Parliament
itself, which all regulate
their own employee policies and
benefits.
So. Africa May End
Military Ban
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -
The defense committee of South
Africa’s Parliament has approved
a proposal that writes
into the nation’s military policy
a prohibition against discrimination
based on sexual orientation
in the country’s armed
forces. African National Congress
representative Lindiwe
Sisulu said following the committee
vote that the policy decision
wouldn’t be binding on the
government, but would nevertheless
carry considerable political
weight for any future administration.
Military Recruiters Face
Legal Challenge in CT
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The
Connecticut Supreme Court has
¯ finished hearing arguments in a ¯
gay rights case that challenges
: the right of state-supported
schools to permit military recrmters
on their campuses. The
case argues that the University
: of Connecticut violated state
¯ anti-bias laws by allowing mili-
: tary recruiters on campus be-
: cause of the U.S armed forces’
: policy of excluding lesbian and
: gay. service members. Discriminauon
based on sexual orientation
is illegal under state law.
From Christmas Parade
(EY WEST, Fla. - Christmas
arrived in this south Florida resort
community with a resounding
"bah, humbug" for gays and
esbians who make up a substantial
portion of the town’s population
when the Lower Keys
Mira sterial Associatton refused
to allow the local Metropolitan
Co~nmunity Church in its annual
Christmas parade, the first
time the predominantly, gay
church has asked to parttopate
in the event. The Rev. Gary
Redwine, who heads up the celebration,
denied the association’s
decision was anu-gay, but said
allowing MCC to join would be
contrary to "the image of biblical
morality and family that we
wish to project." On the day of
the event, several hundred protesters
clustered outside one of
the largest churches along the
parade route in silent protest and
were joined by ministers from a
number of local churches who
refused to participate because of
MCC’s exclusion. The number
of people participating in the
parade this year was reportedly
almost half what it usually is.
Reporter’s Anti-Lesbian
Remarks Confirmed
NEW YORK - In May, Valerie
Hehnbreck, a reporter with the
Wilmington (Del.) News-Jour-
¯ hal caused a major flap in the
". sports world when she quoted
¯ CBS-TV golf commentator Ben
: Wright in an interview as saying
that women aren’t as good at go
: Ifas men becanse they are"handi-
-" capped by having boobs" and
¯ that "lesbians in the sport hurt
: women’s golf"and were turning
¯ itinto a"butch game"that scared
¯ away sponsors. Wright ada-
~ mantly denied saying any of the
~ things Hdmbreck attributed to
: him. CBS accepted his denial
¯ and shortly thereafter renewed
Wright’s 4-year contract. But
now, in the Dec. 4 issue of the
subscribers-only "Golf Plus"
~ edition, no less a source than
". Sports Illustratedhas confirmed
~ that Wright did indeed make the
.- remarks. The "Golf Plus" edition
quotes DanJenkins, a sports
writer, who said he talked to
] Wright shortly after the flap
¯. erupted. "I asked him" Did you
¯ say it?’ And he said, "Of course
¯
I said it. But I was granted com-
.- plete anonymity.’" The article,
¯ entitled"Living With a Lie,"also
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to Wright being interviewed
by Helmbreck and. confirmed
the quotes. "I heard Ben
say boobs (get in the way of
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¯ such a respected theologian in
¯
the church’s evangelical wing,
which generally opposes any
acceptance of homosexuals
¯ within the church. "The Bible
has been misinterpreted by
¯ evangelicals,"Vasey said. "They
¯ read anti-gay meanings into the
him say lesbianism h,,urts in get- ¯ Bible to explain theirfears. There
ting sponsorships, Doig is ." is no text on the lips of Jesus
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"I’m a golfer and golf is a game ¯
of integrity. I believe in telling ¯
the truth." The "Golf Plus" edition
is not sold on newsstands, _"
but goes out to some half-mil- ¯
lion subscribers of the maga- ¯
zine.
’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Goes to Appeals Court "
RICHMOND, Va’. - In an un- _.
usual step, all 13 judges of the .
U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of
Appeals heard the appeal of Lt.
Paul Thomasson in his challenge ¯
to the Defense Department’s so- .
called "don’t ask, don’t tell"
policy ofexcluding homosexuals .
from military service. °
Thomasson’s case is the first
°
against the new policy to reach
the federal appeals court level.
:
Thomasson told his command- o
ing officer he was gayjust 5 days .
after the new policy went into
effect. The former Navy
lieutenant’s attorneys argued that
Thomasson’s discharge violated
his First Amendment rights of
free speech. But Justice Department
attorneys representing the
Defense Department argued that
.by acknowledging that he is gay,
it was reasonable to assume he
has a "propensity" to engage in
homosexual acts, whichmilitary
officials insist "undermines the
morale of t he U.S. armed services."
The appeals court is not
expected to rule on the case until
sometime next year,
No Support in Bible for
Anti-Gay Attitude
LONDON - British gay rights
activists found unusual supp6rt
in their quest to reform the view
of the Church of England on
homosexuality with a prominent
evangdical theologian’s book
that argues there is no biblical
support for church con
demnation of homosexuality.
The Rev. Michael Vasey, a lecturer
at St. John’s theological
college in Durham, expounded
his views on the scriptures in a
just-published book Strangers
andFriends. His arguments have
been made before, but not by
sexuality." Vasey’s book was
published as the church’s general
synod was winding up its
annual meeting. Activists also
made their point ~to church leaders
as members of the rights
groupOutRage! nailed ademand
for a "Queer Reformation" of
the Anglican Church entitled
"Four Theses Against Church
Homophobia" to the doors of
Westminster Abbey. "What’s
needed is a new Reformation to
eradicate homophobia from the
Church of England," said Peter
Tatchdl of OutRage! "Anglican
endorsement of anti-gay discrimination
is a corruption of
morality and a violation of the
dignity oflesbian andgay people.
We want the synod to overturn
church support for homophobic
policies."
Romanian Parliament
Keeps Anti-Gay Laws
BUCHAREST - The Romanian
Chamber of Deputies has rejected
a draft proposal modifying
the country’s penal code to,
among other things, at least partly
decriminalize homosexuality
among consenting adults. The
proposed change would have
made homosexual acts punishable
only if they created a "public
scandal" and was proposed in
part to help ease Romania’s entry
into the European Commuuity,
which requires member
nations to assure basic equality
for all citizens, including protections
for gays and lesbians. At
least 2 EC nations have already
indicated they will vote against
admitting Romania to the continental
union if the anti-gay laws
are not repealed,
Jenny Jones Won’t
Testify in Murder ~ase
DETROIT - A county court
judge has ruled that television
¯ talk show hostJemay Jones won’t
have to testify in the trial of
Jonathan Schmitz, who is
charged with killing Scott
Amedure, a gay man, after he
confessed to being a "secret admirer"
of Schmitz on the nationally
broadcast TV show. Attorneys
for Schmitz had wanted
Jones to testify during the trial,
but the judge heating the unusual
case ruled thatJones’ taped
statements and a sworn deposition
she is expected to give is all
that would be required of her.
Schmitz claims he was misled
into thinking the "secret admirer"
he would meet on the show was
a woman and says he was humiliated
when he discovered it
was Amedure. Three days after
the TV program, authorities say
Schmitz shot Amedure to death
in nearby Orion Township.
Gay Book Ban Not Legal
OLATHE, Kansas - A federal
district court has ruled that the
Olathe, Kansas, school board
acted from its own anti-gay bias
and not out of the best interests
in the education ofstndents when
it ordered the novel "Annie On
My Mind"removed from school
libraries. Itis unclearifthe school
board will appeal the ruling. The
book, which portrays a young
girl’s growing awareness of her
sexual orientation, has been
highly commended by the
American Library Association
and other groups, but also has
become a lightening rod for antigay
activists throughout the
country.
UK Court Upholds Ban
LONDON The British Court
of Appeal has upheld a lower
court ruling supporting the Defense
Ministry’s prohibition
against homosexuals in the
country’s armed forces, ruling
that the ban "’cannot ... be sagmatized
as irrational at the time
these appellants were discharged."
Earlier this year a
lower court had ruled against the
3 gay men and 1 lesbian who
have sued because of their discharges
based on their sexual
orientation. The 4 ex-service
members vowed to appeal their
case to Britain’s House of Lords
- the highest judicial body in the
nation- and then to the European
Court if they lose in the Lords.
Detroit Plans for
Domestic Partnership
DETROIT- A Detroit task force
is in the process of wor-king on a
proposal that would, ifapproved
by the city council, allow gay.
and nongay couples to register
as domestic partners. The proposal
would also give live-in
partners of city workers health
and other benefits like those currently
enjoyed by the married
spouses of city employees. The
partnership registration would
give domestic partners the same
visitation rights as spouses or
parents at all city hospitals and
jails. Domestic partners of a parent
or legal guardians of children
would also have access to
their child’s school records. The
task force expects to present its
completed proposals to the city
council by the end of this year.
N.J. Judge Rules Against
Gays-in Boy Scouts
TRENTON, N.J. - N.J. Superior
CourtJudge Patrick McGannhas
ruled that a local chapter of the
Boy Scouts of America didn’t
violate state antl-bias laws when
it kicked out John Dale, who is
gay, in 1990. In his ruling,
McGann cited the biblical story
ofSodom and Gomorrah, saying
that "all religions deem the act of
sodomy a serious moral wrong,’"
adding that it was "unthinkable"
that the Boy Scouts would accept
gay men in leadership roles.
"The criminal law has changed,"
McGam~ wrote. "The moral law
- as to the act of sodomy - has
not."
AI Gore - Not a "Beauty"
WASHINGTON -An unnamed
gqfite House aide has told gossip
columnists that although AI
& Tipper Gore showed up for a
Halloween party dressed as
"’Beauty and the Beast, "it.wasn’t
exactly what the. "second family"
had at first planned. According
to the aide, the Vice President
had iuitially wanted to go as
"’Beauty" accompauied by Mrs.
Gore as the "’Beast. "The reports
indicated that the Gores were
finally convinced to go in the
more conventional costumes
only after political advisors suggested
the public might not quite
be ready "for a vice president
who is a cross dresser.’"
Tasmanian Law Fight
SYDNEY - Rights activists in
Australia have filed a brief with
the country’s High Court in an
effort to formally have
Tasmania’s sodomy laws declared
unconstitutional and
stricken from the books. After a
Uuited Nations comnfission declared
the Tasmmfian law a violation
of interuational human
rights, the Australian Parliament
enacted legislation guaranteeing
the right of privacy in an effort to
nullify the laws, but the state of
Tasmania has refused to repeal
its local anti-gay legislation.
Activists say they will use the
federal privacy laws in their case,
but say it is important to have the
Tasmania law overturned officially
to remove the stigma associated
with the criminalization
of gay men in the state.
Baptists Slam Disney
TAlVIPA, Fla. -The Horida State
Baptist Convention, one of the
denomination’s largest, has
called on its 1 million members
to stop supporting Walt Disney
movies, products and theme
parks because of the finn’s recent
decision to extend insurance
benefits to same-sex domestic
partners of its employees.
The, resolution, which was
overwhelmingly adopted by the
state delegates, says in part that
"Disney’~ moral leadership has
been eroded by that decision, as
well as its practice of holding
homosexual theme nights at its
parks." A spokesperson for the
Walt Disney Co. said the finn
"’regrets" the Florida Baptists
have taken the stand they have,
but so far the entertainment giant
has refused to back away
from the new benefits. Some
Baptists indicated they would
call for a boycott.
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HIV Suppressor Found
LONDON - Reporting in the prestigious
British scientificjournal Nature, researchers
with the Paul Erlick Institut in Germany
say they have identified a naturally
occurring substance in the immune system
that acts as a natural defense ag ainst
HIV by slowing the reproduction of the
virus. While canuoning against seeing
their finding as a breakthrough, the scientists
said"they fOffr~d thaf i~nterleukifi:16
(IL- 16),which i’s producedby the body’ s
T-cells known as CD8 cells, slowed reproduction
ofHIV in laboratory tests. The
researchers say that if tests of IL-16 with
animals prove encouraging, they may
begin human testing of the substance in
about a year - a strong indication of their
excitement about the finding. Their hope
is that if the treatment can be effectively
used it could perhaps be effective in keeping
HIV from overwhelming a patient’ s
immune system indefinitely.
Effective HIV Inhibitor Drug
BOSTON - Two studies in the New England
Journal of Medicine report that an
experimental drug that dogs the operation
of a key HIV protein seems to keep it
at bay for at least a while. The drug
ritonavir, formerly known as A~T-538
and developed by Abbott Laboratories, is
one of a promising new class of AIDS
medicines known as protease inhibitors.
AIDS researchers are excited about these
new drugs because they. appear to both
reduce the level of the°virus and to boost
the immune system’ s strength. Although
the scientists from the Academic Medical
Center in Amsterdam and New York
University’ s school ofmedicine who conducted
the studies concluded that ritonavir
was quick and effective in fighting HIV,
resistance to the drug did develop over
time. Abbott Laboratories quickly announced
that it will make supplies of the
experimental drug available to some 2,000
people with late-stage AIDS diseases and
CD4 cell counts of 513 or less around the
world through a lottery. For inforuaation
about the Abbott Laboratories lottery, call
1-800-414-2437.
Mechanism of ’Long-Term
Su rvival’ Possibly Identified
CHICAGO-; In a.small’-geale sm’dy published
in the Proceedings ofthe National
Academy of Sciences, researchers report
that the’cellular response of a group of
’long-term survivors of HIV appears to
help delay the progression of the virus.
The team of researchers from the University
of California at San Francisco, led by
Dr. Jay A. Levy, compared the immune
cells of people who had developed fullblown
AIDS or had seriously compromised
immune systems with other people
infected with HIV butwho remained otherwise
asvmptomatic for 10 years ormore.
The CD~ immune cells of the long-term
survivors produced greater amounts of
proteins that help regulate "immune-system
responses, the researchers report. This,
the scientists say, helps keep the CD8
ceils active in fending off HIV, thereby
stavingoff most of the impact of the virus
longer. According tc the UC-SF researchers,
the findings suggest that extra doses
of the naturally occurring proteins,known
as cytoklnes, might hdp more infected
people stay healthier longer.
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3 New AIDS Drugs
\VASHINGTON The Food & Drug
Administration’s Antiviral Drug Advisory
Committee has recon~nended that
the agency approve 3TC for both initial
tream~ent of AIDS as welt as for advanced
cases of the disease. Studies have indicated
that the experimental drug, when
used with AZT, reduced the spread of
HIV in patients’ systems and helped bolster
their immune response. The drug can
have serious side effects in children, including
possible pancreatitis, but appears
to produce no greater side effects among
adults than the AZT used alone does. The
¯ panel also recommended approv.ing the
AIDS drug stavudine (whichis also known
¯
as d4T and Zerit), for people who are not
responding to treatment with AZT. The
¯ advisory committee also recommended
conditional approval of saquinavir, the
: first protease inhibitor the panel has recommended
approving to fight AIDS.
Unlike other AIDS drugs, protease in-
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¯ drugs in the epidemic. The conditional
recommendation requires that saquinavir
not be used as a single-drug treatment, but
¯ be prescribed along with nucleoside analogs.
¯ Non-Lethal HIV Identified
: SYDNEY - A study based on a decade-
" old sample of blood donations known as
¯ the Sydney Blood Bank Cohort has found
¯¯ that the blood of one gay man infected
¯ with HIV and the 7 blood recipients who
became infected with the virus is infected
¯ with an entirely new - and harmless -
. strain of HIV. The finding, reported in the
journal Science, raises hopes that an AIDS
vaccine can be devcloped using the new,
benign virus s train. The researchers found
that the unidentified gay man’ s blood had
been used in transfusions between 1981-
84 before blood screening for HIV started
in 1985. The gay man, however, never
contracted AIDS. And when a Red Cross
,ocial worker began tracking people who
should have been infected as a result of
receiving the tainted blood, she found that
after 10 years, none of the 7 recipients had
become sick either although all are in fact
HIV positive. The newly discovered strain
has defects in its genetic elements, most
notably a gene called "nef," which other
studies have already shown is necessary
for HIV to replicate itself.¢’~This allows
the infected person’s immune system to
deal with the virus - in other words, to stop
it getung out of control," said Dr. Nicholas
Deacon, who led the Australian research
team. The discovery of the "neF"
defect is especially important for possible
vaccine development after studies on animals
at the New Englaud Regional Primate
Center showed that deleting "net"
from the sirman (monkey) cousin of the
virus, SIV, disarms the lethal microbe.
HIV Infection Risks Among
Lesbians, Bi Women
CHICAGO Researchers with the San
Francisco health department have reported
in the American Journal ofPublic Health
that lesbians and bisexual women are at
small risk of HIV infection, a finding that
contradicts the general idea thatthese
women have no risk of contracting the
virus. Researchers reported that 6 out of
498 bisexual women and lesbians tested
in San Francisco and Berkdey during
1993 were infected with HIV, an infection
rate of 1.2%. The researchers re-
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ported that they found no indication of
transmission from woman-to-woman
sexual contact among any of the 6 who
were infected, however. Four of the infected
women were both IV drug users
and also reported having had unprotected
sex with gay or bisexual men or male IV
drag users - all high-risk groups. The
other 2 infected women had had sex with
men of tmknown risk status, but had not
had sex with any female partners who
were infected. The researchers said that
educationand preventionprograms should
stop.indicating that lesbians and bisexual
women were at low risk of infection and
should instead emphasize the importance
of avoiding specific, high-risk behaviors.
AnOther AIDS Drug Approved
WASHINGTON - The Food & Drug
Administration has quickly approved the
use of lamivudine, also known as 3TC, in
combination with AZT. The FDA move
came just a few weeks after an advisory
panel recommended approval of the combination
treatment, and Glaxo, the manufacturer,
said the drug would be available
.quickly also - probably by the first week
m December. According to Glaxo, the
cost of3TC will be about the.same as that
of AZT, which can Cost:several thousand
dollars a year.
A!DS-Type Vaccine 100%
Effective in Monkeys
WASHINGTON - Scientists have reported
in the journal Science that an .experimental
drug called PMPA suecgssfully
prevented monkeys from becoming
infected with the sinnan immunodeficiency
virus (or SIV). In the study, none
Of the 25 monkeys who were given Gilead
Sciences’ experimental vaccine before or
up to 24 hours after they were inoculated
became infected with the simian version
of the virus, while all 10 of the monkeys
injected with salt water before inoculation
with SIV as a control group contracted
the disease. The researchers, led
by Dr. Che-Chung Tsai of the Regional
Primate Research Center at the University
of Washington in Seattle - cautioned
againstjumping to any conclusions about
preventing HIV-infection or treating individuals
who are already infected with
the human version of the virus, but they
did say they were greatly encouraged by
the findings. Publication of the findings
of the research were in fact delayed a full
year by the scientists because they were
worried there might be some mistake in
the results, which Tsai, describes as "almost
too good to be true." Human studies,
which are tentatively scheduled for next
year, would be required to determine if
PMPA is safe and effective in humans.
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Entertainment Notes
by Jmnes Christjohn
This is a new feature, dependent on
whims, timing and whether or not this
Assistant Editor had time/money to actually
see anything new: Otherwise, I’ll be
reviewing videos, revisiting (Read: inflicting!)
music reviews and looks at old
shows you just might like if you’d ever
heard of them and other ramblings.
Lately, I’ve been watching "High Society",
- Mondays, 8:30pm. If you haven’t
seen it, .it is one of the most hilarious
shows I’ve seen on American TV. So
what if it’s a "knockoff of "Absolutely
fabulous"? We can’t see that here, ’cause
the local cable comp..any doesn’ t carry the
comedy channel ~ a:t~e crime~:Anyway,
I recognize a lot of myself in this show,
which has a DEFINITE queer sensibility
to it. Watch it, you’ll see what I mean.
¯ Anyway, back to the subject at hand, the
: new colunm:
¯ Rating system: Four snaps: Don’t miss it,
¯ in fact, get going now! Three snaps: Ok,
¯ so put the paper down first. And drive
¯ safely. Two Snaps: Ithas enough redeem-
¯¯ ing qualities to be of interest, but see the
matinee. One snap. Well, if you’re really
¯ bored and can’t find anything else to do...
¯ No snaps: You’ll be sorry..
Well, what a full season thus far:
¯ Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella,
¯ a wonderful concert with Marilyn Maye
¯ and theTulsa Philharmonic, &Toy Story,
¯ the new must-see movie from the’~gayfriendly
folk at Disney. If you misse~ the
: live shows, well,’I’ll tell you myopinion
¯ ~a~yway (like yisii’coulil’stOp me:~.) sb -that
: If th~y’come through town again, you’ll
¯ know whether to ante up for a ticket, or
¯ stay home with the telly and a cup of hot
: chocolate, see Notes, page 14
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19
BroaOen Your Perspective at a celtic Music Concert.
Irish fiddle great Kevin Burke and his new world Celtic
enseml01e bring fiery instrumentals, dazzling footwork and
original songs.
8 p.m., John H. wilhams Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center
CALL: 596-7111 TICKETS: $12
Eve Sunday_ December:
$howtime 11p.m. ~2 Cover
Beer Bust 9p.m. ~ laom~
Januaru 11 - 14
I yr. Anniversary/C6stomer Appreciation
Extravaganza Weekend
M~n of the Southv~est
9-2 NO COVER
A~ll-Male RevUe
10 p.m. $2 Cover
Dance & Party
with your favorite Bar Staff
Kirk, Tern/, Tommy, Scotty, Mike, Bill,
Chrls & DJ Davld Oees
$2 COVER
Mr. Robbie Walker & the Sunday Slam
(Ivana B, Real, Kris Kohl, Michelle
~~tey, Domo~ueDarnels)
wiJh Special ~u~t To Be Announced
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K IN . COMMUNI CALEN R
SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All
Times Christian Center
Sunday School, 9:45 am
Worship Service, 11 am
2627b East 1 lth 583-7815
Community of Hope, _
(United Methodist)
Worship Service, 6 pm
~ 1703E. 2nd, 585d800,
Family of Faith ¯
Metro. Comm. Chureh-
AdultSunday School, 9:15 "
Worship Service, 11 am ."
5451-E South Mingo. ¯
Info: 622-1441
Metro. Comm. Church
of Greater Tulsa
Worship Service, 10:45am ¯
1623 N. Maplewood
Info: 838-1715 ¯
TheBanned, OKGay Band "
Practice weekly in OKC "
Info: 838-2121 ¯
Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay "
Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa "
6:30 pm at Canterbury ¯
5th & Evanston
Info: 583-9780 "
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17
MONDAYS
: HIV Testing
¯ TOHR Clinic
¯ Free &.anonymous testing
¯ using fingerstick
method.
¯ No appointment reqnired.
: Walk in testing: 7-8:30 pm
Results hours: 7-9 pm
TUESI
Minister’s Class
Bless the Lord at All
Times Christian Center
7:30 pm
2627-B East 1 lth
Info: 583-7815
HIV+ Support Group
Info: 742-2927 ¯ HIV Resource Consortium ¯
:~ii~am~la
: .,.,_ _: .~-~ ::-1,:30~pm~.,:J i . !~ "
Bowling League :,, 4t~S. Harvard, Ste.-H-1
Sheridan Lanes
8:45 pm
3121 S. Sheridan
PFLAG Family AIDS
Support Group
2nd Monday of month,
6:30 pm
4154 S. Harvard
Info: 749-4901
Info: Wanda @ 749-4194
Shanti-Tulsa, Inc.
HIV/AIDS Support Group
&
Friends & Family
HIV/AIDS Support Group
7 pm, call for location:
749-7898
Thi ’N6w Year
Drink Responsibly -
Have a Designated
Driver or Take a Cab
WEDNESDAYS
¯ Authority OfThe Believer
Bible Study, 7 pm
MCC of Greater Tulsa
: 1623 N. Maplewood
: Info: 838-1715
Bless The Lord At All
Times Christian Center
Choir Practice 7 pm
.~ 2627-B East 1 lth
: Call 583-7815 for info.
Family Of Faith MCC
Praise & Prayer 6:30 pm
Choir Practice 7:30 pm
5451-E South Mingo.
Call 622-1441 for info.
Community of Hope
(United Methodist)
Bible Study, 6:30 pm
1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
(no class, Dec. 27)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31
THURSDAYS
16-Step Empowerment
Group For Women
Community of Hope
1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Faith & Struggle Dialogue Group
Community of Hope United Methodist
4:30pm, 1703 E. 2nd (ongoing group)
Info: 585-1800
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17
Family ofFaith MCC
Christmas Concert & Silent Auction,
7:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19
GriefGroup
Community of Hope United Methodist
6pro, held at Butler/Stumpff Funeral
Home, 3rd St. west of Lewis (ongoing)
Info: 585-1800
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24
Family ofFaith MCC
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
10 pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24
Community ofHope United Methodist
Christmas Eve Peace Service, 6pm
ChristmasEve CandlelightService, 1 lpm
1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26
GriefGroup
Community of Hope United Methodist
6pm, held at Butler/Stumpff Funeral
Home, 3rd St. west of Lewis (ongoing)
Info: 585-1800
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29
Feed the Homeless
Community of Hope United Methodist
Meet at church, 1703 E. 2nd, 5:30 pm
Info: 585-1800
Family ofFaith MCC, "Let It Go"
New Year’s Eve Service, 1 lain
5451-E S Mingo, Info: 622-1441
SUNDAY, JANUARY 7
Faith & Struggle Dialogue Group
Community of Hope United Methodist
4:30pm, 1703 E. 2nd (ongoing group)
Info: 585-1800
SUNDAY, JANUARY 7
Prime Timers Monthly Meeting
Write for info: P.O. Box 52118, 74104
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9
Green Country Pride ~
Tulsa Oldahomansfor Human Rights
Community-wide Meeting, 7 pm
Alan Chapman Activity Center
University of Tulsa
5th St. west of Harvard, Info: 743-4297
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14
Family ofFaith MCC
Reclaim & Recovery Workshop: It’s
Never Too Late to Have a Happy
Childhood, 9 am - 3 pm
5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30
Rainbow Business Guild, 7 pm
Call for place and speaker.
Dinner Meeting, Info: 665-5174
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Family ofFaith MCC
Reclaim & Recovery Workshop:
Forgiveness, 9 am - 3pro
5451-E S. Mingo, Info: 622-1441
Co-Dependency
Support Group
7:30, Family of Faith MCC
5451-E S. Mingo
Call 622-1441 for Info.
HIVTestingTOHRClinic
Free & anonymous testing
using fingerstick method.
No appointment reqnired.
Walk in testing: 7 - 8:30 pm
Results hours: 7 - 9 pm
[nfo: 742-2927
Prayer Time
MCC - Greater Tulsa, 7 pm
1623 N. Maplewood
Info: 838-1715
Tulsa-Family Chorale
Weekly practice, 9:30 pm
Lola’s 2630 E. 15th
PFLAG Family AIDS
Support Group
1st & 3rd Thursdays
4154 S. Harvard
Info: 749-4901
Out & About With JD!
It’s that time of the year when you yearn
for time spent with friends, and visions of
fairies dance in your head. This month’s
featured establishment is a great place to
find both. GROUND
ZERO (formerly
Laffs-Underground) at
7th&Elan, in the heart
of downtown Tulsa, is
the place.
Steve Crow, a wellknown
promoter of
Tulsa’s night life, has
renovated this classic.
location into something
more than comfortable
and intriguing for that
first date (a dimly lit
table for two), or to find that first date,
(billiard and dart area), or for meedng a
group of friends (a conversation area and
well-lit bar). Watch for details about
Tulsa’s first Intemet party, linking up via
the info super hi-way to other bars across
PFLAG national vice president, Nancy
McDonald is joined by sevkral friends,
including Prime Timer, Wesley Bauer.
¯, SATURDAYS
¯ Narcotics Anonymous
¯ Meets weekly at 11 pm
¯ Confidential support for
¯
recovering addicts.
¯ Community of Hope
¯ 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
: NAMES Project
¯ AIDS Memorial Quilt
Sewing Bees
¯ 3rd Sat. of each month
Info: 748-3111
MORE GROUPS
Gay & Lesbian Student
Association
TJC Southeast Campus,
Info: 631-7632
¯ SWAN-Single Women’s
Activity Network
¯ Call 832-2121
TOHR Helplinc
Daily 8-10 pm
¯ For info. or to volunteer:
¯ 743-GAYS
Tool Box Technicians,
¯
Leather org.,
Info cio The Tool Box:
584-1308
T.U.L.S.A.
¯ Tulsa Uniform &
Leather Seekers Assdc.
¯ Info: 838-1222
¯ the country. Starting in January onThurs-
: day nights: chicks with d contests with
¯ cash prizes, and, as always, male dancers
¯ every Friday and Saturday nights. Be sure
: to join Steve and his wonderful manager
Mark on December 23
for a mini-Christmas
party with Reghenaand
company. Also, New
Year’s will be rung in
with male dancers
counting down the minutes
to midnight, and a
free champagne toast.
.Also Ladonna at Barracudas
sends a note of
thanks to all the new
Raghenna & Steve Crow faces thathave stopped
¯ in (see her ad about
¯ some new faces).
: I would like take a moment to wish
¯ everybody a joyful holiday season, and a
¯ v.ery warm and happy new year. I appre-
¯ caate all the support throughout the last
¯ year.
Community activists, Ken Draper, Lisa
Pottorf& Tim Gillean braved the cold at
TOHR Holiday Dinner & Silent Auction.
Eureka Springs Honors
World AIDS Day - Dec. 1
by Phyl Boler-Schmidt
Living in the heart of the Bible Belt, one
would not expect to find an ecumenical
service dedicated to World AIDS Day m
a small community. Yet, Eureka Springs
held one of the most moving celebrations
of unity in the fight against AIDS I have
ever witnessed.
On the evening of December 1, we
gathered at the United Methodist Church,
about 75 people in all, from all walks of
lifeand all faithS. The theme of the service:
was "Because God Cares," and the service
was co-sponsored by the Regional
AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN) and
Ozark AIDS Resources and Services
(OARS). A total of ten local and area
clergy were scheduled to participate in the
ev.ent, andfive were calledaway at the last
rmnute to attend to other events or emergencies.
Those who did participate came from
varying backgrounds, to be sure. Rev.
Stan Adams came from the United Methodist
Church, Rev. Jack Hammond is affiliated
with the First Christian Church,
and Rev. Mark Leuneville came from the
First Presbyterian Church, all in nearby
Berryville. Rev. Marilyn Webb participated
from the host church in Eureka
Springs. And, the m~in speaker was Rev.
Kermie Wohlenham~ Pastor of MCC of
the Living Spring.
It was a celebration of life and healing,
love; hope, and stories of miracles. Sonny
Mosley, the longest living AIDS survivor,
who last week graced the front page
¯ of the local newspaper, told his story. A
Grandmother read a letter of love, grace,
: and about her own 17-year, same-sex relationship,
a letter that had been written
¯ that same day to her HIV+ grandson. We
~ all shared, prayed, sang, hoped, and cried
¯ together.
¯
Sonny’s admonition to us all was very
¯ moving. "It is my hope, and I believe that
¯¯ itis God’s hope that when you leave this
piace tonight, you will go to someone and
¯ tell them you have seen a miracle. You
¯ have seen a miracle standing before you
¯ tonight.... " Sonny
] has survived 14years
and seven months
¯ living with AIDS.
¯ One young man
told the story of los-
" ing his partner of
: eight years some two
¯ years ago. He shared
¯ withus his partner’s
¯ last words to him:
¯ "Never miss an op-
¯ pornmity to love.’"
¯ It was a rare treat to experience an area-
: wide service in which the official coming
¯ out of Rev. Kermie Wohlenhaus to the ¯
religious community.was enacted through
¯ aninvitation toher to give the main talk of
¯ the evening, a sermon if you will. Her
¯ time at the pulpit was preceded by a mu- ¯
sical duet by twoMCC regulars, a request
¯ made due to past performances by the
¯ MCC choir at World AIDS Day services.
¯ Pastor Wohlenhaus gave a message of ¯
healing and-an admonition to the assembled
churchgoers that "This is
¯ everyone’s disease. Men, women and children
are all afflicted. Each one of us."
She told moving stories of Ryan White,
the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt,
Randy Shilts, and A Day Without Art.
"The loss to the world is amazing! "This
was Rev. Wohlenhaus’ assessment of the
loss to the art world because of AIDS.
But, "there is a healing part of this
disease." She talked of Joan Rivers and
the first AIDS benefit she put together.
Ms. Rivers could get no major stars to
participate in the benefit, and she received
hate mail and death threats. Yes, we truly
have come a long
Saglttarlus You also ]]ave way toward healing.
And there
deep desires to....huy were stories of the
expenslve, pointless, e~o- healing of families
gg~ra~t’aLr in" thln~s....you
and relationships,
how Disney wentout
l~n~w that last, red sports on alimb for its emear
won’t make you a better ployees,evemnspite
of pressure from the
person. Don’t you? pro-familygroups. It
was a moving talk
¯ indeed. "’What has happened is we are
¯ coming out as a nation. Weare healing
¯ AIDSphobiaas well as homophobiaas we
: have to deal with this disease."
¯ "The voices of people th~it are HIV+
¯ and (have) AIDS have tremendous spiri-
¯ tual messages for us. One of those mes-
¯ sages is living one day at a’fime to the
fullest. They are our teachers, aren t they.
¯ This was an admonition to most of the
¯ congregation. ¯
And; to those who are HIVe- and living
¯ withAIDS,"Call upon your higherpower
- whatever that is. Ask those very impor-
¯ tant questions, and be open to hear the
answers. One of the answers that you may
hear is to be of service, ff you are HIV+ or
living with AIDS, you have a tremendous
gift that you can pass on to someone.
You’ve gone throughprocesses that someone
else that just found out the other day
needs to hear from you."
’q’he wounded healer is probably one
of our most important healing persons.
Avail yourself to those people."
An offering was received to support
RAIN and OARS, and we heard from
Rev. Mark Leuneville that the Ryan White
Care Act will not have any more funding
until August of 1996 so, more than ever,
local organizations need our support, financial
as well as personal.
Welearned that Carroll Regional Medical
Center in Berryville has donated a fulltime
counselor to staff the AIDS clinic at
the hospital’s expense. A doctor also donates
medical services. Testing, quality
care, education and counseling are all
available. And this is the Bible Belt!
This reporter will not soon forget December
1, 1995. This event had a profound
effect onme, and it ismyfond hope,
that the same effect was felt by the rest of
the assembled people at the commemoration
of World AIDS Day 1995 in Eureka
Springs, Arkansas,
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EUREKA SPRINGS
Activist Pharr Briefs
Eureka Springs
by Phil Boler-Schmidt
DeVito" s restaurant in Eureka
Springs was the si te of an annual
meeting with Suzanne Pharr and
activists f.rom the Eureka Springs
co~nmunity on December 5th.
The setting was appropriate as
Jim andSusan DeVito had just
been named Volunteers of the
Year by The Women’s Project.
¯Ms.. Pharr was accompanied
by Linda Coyle ofThe Women’s
Project, and it was Ms. Coyle ¯
whofirst spoke to the group aleut
the activities of hate groups in
northwest Arkansas. Various "
hate groups have been active in
our part of the state for some
time, and the most noticeable "
has been the Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan. It was noted that this ¯
group has recently split due to
somedifferences ofopinion, and "
because of the split, the KKK "
has actually grown in size and
strength. .
Also noted by Ms. Coyle were "
the militia groups that have °
formed in several areas of Ar- ¯
kansas and that activity has in- :
creased in southeast Oklahoma °
as well. Other groups, mostly of ¯
the white supremacist nature, to ¯
watch out for are: the Aryan "-
Nations, the White Aryan Resis- "
tance, neo Nazi skinheads, the ¯
Identity Christian Church, the "
Holy Alamo Christian Church, "
the Populist Party, and none other °
than the Elna Smith Foundation, ¯
located right here in Eureka ¯
Springs. The Smith Foundation
hosts The Great Passion Play °
and houses the Christ of the ¯
Ozarks statue. .
Both Ms. Coyle and Ms. Pharr "
expressed concern that many of °
the militia groups, which they °
noted are made up of mostly .
disgruntled wlfitemen, havebeen "
infiltrated by theKKKand other :
hate groups in an attempt to recruitnew
members to their cause.
Ms. Pharr is well know for her
work with Gay leaders in those
states where anti-gay statues
have been placed before the electorate,
and her vast work with
women’s issues is well documented.
Her main thrust of the
evening was to show those assembled
what majormovements
have been presented in the U.S.
Ms. Pharr is well
know for her work
w .th Gay leaders
in those states
where anti-Gay
statues have been
placed before the
electorate...
over the past 30 years and how
those intermingle and confuse
the people when issues are presented
for a vote.
She defined three majormovements:
the liberation movement
(of which we are all a part),
globalization of the economy,
and the rise of the religious right
wing fundamentalists. At issue
in the liberation movement are
reproductive rights, affirmative
action, children’s rights, removal
of sodomy laws-, and environmental
action, among others.
The issues for globalization of
the economy are the anti-tax
movement, .deregulation,
NAFTA,privatization, and ahost
of others. It is Ms. Pharr’s contention
that the rise of the religious
right came upon the heels
of economic globalization, and
due to this, many people do not
.understand that they areresponding
to problems in the economy
rather than moral issues. The
religious right has done a tre-
,_
mendous job of demonizang entire
segments of the economy
and making them (us) villains
when, in fact, it Is the
globalization of the economy that
has taken jobs away and decreased
corporate investment in
employees.
Ms. Pharr strongly suggested
that we all become versed in
economic issues and use this
knowledge in our discussions
with people who feel that gays
and lesbians, people of color.,
rand women ha~¢~ contributed to
the moral decline of America.
She aptly proved to those of us
present at her talk that when
people see that they are respondmg
to economic issues and their
ownfinancial needs, not the need
to demonize us, we have more of
a chance ofconvincing them that
we are not the enemy.
The religious right has done
its job well, for sure. After President
Reagan began the move toward
economic globalization,
religious leaders jumped on the
bandwagon and began to work
at the grassroots level to convince
average Americans that
they should blame groups that
the religious right saw as immoral
for the decline in available
jobs, the rise in the number
of welfare recipients, the decrease
in the average American’ s
paycheck and companybenefits,
and the movement away from
keeping jobs at home.
Ms. Pharr suggested that
nearly every ill the religious right
seeks to use to its political advantage
has its root in racism
and sexism.
For more information on
Suzanne Pharr’s work, to receive
membership information, or to
find outmore about how you can
be involved, contact The
Women’s Project at 2224 Main
Street, Little Rock, AR 72206.
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hearing. Govt. Asked to Supervise
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came across loud and clear,"said murders, and a tragic history of
Helen Gonzales, Public Policy violence agmnst Gays in other
Director- for the National Gay states with anti-gay ballot initiaand
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Tulsa City-County Library armies "on the homosexuality battlefield
The gay rights debate will surely rise to ] of the culture war:" 1) Prohibitionists,
a new level with the publication of this ¯ who refuse to discuss homosexual intebook.
Sullivan, the gay editor of the New gration into society because of biblical
Republic magazine, has written an impor- ; beliefs; 2) Liberationists (at the other end
tant addition to the growing
number of books that
argue, in a straightforward,
readable and educated
way, that there is a
new politics of homosexuality.
It blends "liberal
equality in the eyes
of the state with conser-
[t]aere ~s] "a new pol;t~cs
of ]aomosexualaty...
[1,1e.d~] "l;1,eral
e~ual;ty ~n t~e eyes of t]ae
state vc~t]a conservative
social stability"
vative social stability in a program whose
twin tenets are open, un-impeded gay
military service and legal gay marriage.
Sullivan begins by asking, "What Is a
Homosexual?" By describing his childhood
experiences that he now realizes
were really gay oriented situations,
Sullivan makes a dear case for the inclusion
of gay themes throughout our culture.
Once, at the age often, heremembers
being"...happily engagedinreading. Then,
a girl sitting next to me looked at me with
a rmxture of curiosity and disgust. "Why
aren’t you out with the boys playing football’?"
she asked. Because "I hate it," I
replied. "’Are you sure you’re really not a
girl under there?" she asked, with the
suspicion of a sneer." With no mention of
homosexuality in his family, ]’i~ the newspaper,
at school or on television, he, like
most gays gr6_wing up, had no guidance,
discussion Or role models to help explain
the confusion he was gorng through.
The main part of this book is focused on
of the political scale)
which includes groups
such as Queer Nation and
ACI’-UP; 3) Conservatives,
the authors of"don’t
ask, don’t tell", and 4)
Liberals, who are often
simply piggybacking the
gay rights movement on
the back of the civil rights movement.
With the first two groups intractable,
Sullivan argues that a combination of the
best of conservative and liberal beliefs
can create a new consensus on homosexuality.
His idea "affirms a simple and limited
principle: that all public (as opposed
to private) discrimination against homosexuals
be ended and that every right and
responsibility that heterosexuals enjoy as
public citizens be extended to those who
grow up and find themselves emotionally
different." He means ALL rights and responsibilities,
including marriage and
military service.
Sullivan is remarkably eloquent, and it
is hard to disagree with his logic, although
he is often accused of being too conservative.
He has presented the best book to
date on how and why the gay rights debate
must move from the base of emotion and
fear to fact~ and logic. Check for "Virtually
Normal" on the Tulsa City-County
Library catalog, or call 596-7966.
ment shortly and will probably then be
voted onagain by the commission in early
December. The newspaper reported that
the commission’s recommendations will
also include an alternative proposal to
create a statewide domestic partnership
registration that would effectivdy extend
to same-sex couples all the benefits under
state control th at married opposite-sex
couples enjoy. The Advertiser, the state’s
largest-circulating daily, also editorially
endorsed the commission’s anticipated
action, sayang it was taking "a reasonable
stand that should be adopted by the legislature"
and that "gay couples should have
the legal right to marry in Hawaii."
Hill brings extensive experience as a
trainer in suicide imervention and has
served as a teacher of living skills -for
legally blind citizens for the State Visual
Services agency and has served on the
Advisory Committee for the Assistive
Technology Center. He is chair of the
Para Transit Sub-committee of the Special
Transportation Advisory Committee
(STAC) to the Indian Nations Council of
Governments (INCOG) and Tulsa Transit
Hill also volunteers with Youth Services
of Tulsa’s TYDD Program and is a
life-long member of 1 st Lutheran Church
of Tulsa where he is a member of the choir
and has served twice as a member of the
church board. He sings with the Tulsa
Oratorio Chorus and also worships with
Community of Hope congregation.
reviewed, saying that the state could give
visitation rights to an individual who had
a"parent-likerelationship"with the child,
whether the individuals were heterosexual
or a non-traditional couple. Knott appealed
that state high court ruling to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Court Rules For Gay Adoptions
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Appeals, the state’s highest court, has
ruled that couples do not have to be married
in order to adopt, a ruling that, while
it also applies to unmarried heterosexuals,
is strongly welcomed by same-sex
couples. "There’s been a collective holding
of our breath around the state," said
Paula Ettelbrick of the Empire State Pride
Agenda. Although the high court’s ruling
does notmean that gay and lesbian couples
will automatically be given adoption
rights, it does mean that state courts can
not use marital status in determining adoption
applications. In late October, a New
Jersey court ruled that a lesbian could
adopt the son and daughter of her lover
because i t was in the "best interests"of the
2 children.Alower state court had blocked
the adoption, saying it was not allowed
under state law.
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interest. For information, call 582-3212.
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1996 Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA Pageant
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Doors open at 8pm with a $5 cover and the
pageant begins at 9 sharp.
Cherry Monroe will be crowning the
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Notes continuedfrom page 8
First off: R & H’s Cinderdla: Starting
off as the only musical Rodgers and
Hammerstein wrote specifically for television,
and one of the first ever written for
TV, 1! was pleasant enough to see on
stage, but just didn’t quite make the leap
all the way across the chasm. The show
did have a gay sensibility to it as directed
by John Ruocco, who was assistant to the
director of Terrence McNally’s very gay
play, "Love! Valor! Compassion!". The
King, as portrayed by David Boughn,
was definitely wed to the queen as a
matter of convenience. He was definitely
more interested in the manservants (who
were quite beautiful as well) than his wife.
Like many "old-fashioned" gay man/
very missed entertainers and former Miss
Gay Oklahoma USofA’s. The winner and
first runner-up will represent Oklahoma
in the 1996 Miss Gay USofA Pageant in
May. Miss Gay USofA Pageant is the
largest pageant for female impersonators
in the country.
The Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA Pageant
has been honored by the National
Pageant with the Best New Preliminary
Pageant.award and the Hospitality award
and the Miss Gay Oklahoma USofA Pageant
owner, David Bridgrnan, was given
the Owners Award for Business Person of
the Year in 1995.
Interested contestants may pick up info.
packets at dubs and businesses across the
state or may contact the pageant promoter,
David Bridgman at 918-838-3701.
woman marriages, the queen is a"beard".
Probably best friends, and fond of each
other, but quite an interesting direction
for the father of Prince Charming. And
they worry quite frantically over finding a
woman to make him happy! Throughout
the play, he seemed much more comfortable
with his manservants. Speaking of,
he was quite a sight to behold. There were
certain attributes, visible from a seat
slightly towards the rear orchestra, that
were quite breathtaking to behold. What a
scepter! And visible even to my nearsighted,
astgmafic eyes! Needless to say,
the costumes were well executed, showing
off the best of the actors. The singing
was very beautiful - Matt Clemens, as
see Notes, page 15
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Notes cont’dfrom p. 14
Prince C, had quite alovely tenor
volce, and Miss Cindy was very
well sung by Leslie Lorusso.
However, this production was
meant for amoreintimate venue,
no doubt about it. No splashy
showtunes,just nice quite melodies.
The stepmother and sisters
were the high point of the show,
being played like really mean
drag queens havin~ a bad hair
day. The "Stepsister’s Lament"
really showcased their comedic
"talents excellently, and the
soundtrack (available in both
Julie Andrews or Lesley Anne
Warren versions) is worth having,
and the show worth seeing
for this song alone. It seems to be
the only song R & H put any
effort into. As for the rest of the
show, I found it rather bland.
The main problem was that the
actors were "playing down" to
the audience in the worst
"children’s theater" manner -
making sure every joke was extremely
over-the-top, so all the
kiddies would get it. This, I’m
sure, was not the intent of R & H
when they wrote the piece. In
order for the show to work, it has
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to be treated as an adult show -
much of the humor is certainly
meant for adults - while retain-
" ing the fairy-tale elements as
¯ well. Pacing was a crucial ele-
¯ ment as well, and unfortunately,
in this aspect, the show did not
¯ succeed. Ithadmoments,butnot
enough to fill two hours. Two
: snaps and a yawn for the show in
¯ general, four snaps for theprince
and the stepsisters.
¯ Marilyn Maye, however, puts
on a terrific show - everything
¯ from standards of the ’30’s to
¯ current songs. I’d not heard of ¯
herbeforeI was told I’dbegolng
¯
to the show, but I am now a
¯ dedicated fan. After the dedication
of a song "To lovers every-
" where.... no matter who they
love", and a wry look at to the
¯ audience- I realized this woman ¯ knew her audience included gay
¯ folk, andwas very inclusive. And
¯ what a stager/actres!! Some
: people can sing prettily, but miss
¯ the wholemessage/emotionofa
¯ song. Not so, Ms. Maye. She can
¯ make you feel a song. When she
¯ comes back to Tulsa, I would
¯ urge you strongly tO see this gay-
. friendly performer. Her stage
persona is delightful, and the
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Serving Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Communities Our Families of the Heart November 15-December 14, 1995, Volume 2, Issue 12
National News ¯ community center
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Clinton Backs Federal
Anti-Bias Measure
WASHINGTON ~- President Bill Clinton
has made history by becoming the first
U.S. chief executive to endorse federal
legislation that would bar. bias based on
sexual orientation, the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act. The act, sponsored
by Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.),
James Jeffords (R-Vt.) and others,is aimed
at preventing employment bias against
lesbians, gay men and bisexuals.
see Clinton, page 10
Researcher Confirms
"Gay" Gene Study
NEW YORK - The scientist who made
headlines two years ago with research that
demonstrated a link between male homosexuality
and specific genetic markers
has now reported in new research that the
so-called"gay gene" influences the sexuality
of gay men, but not lesbians, confinning
the link that drew enormous national
interest when first reported in 1993.
see Genes, page 10
MAINE SAYS N,O!
Radical Right Groups Thwarted
Portland, .Maine - Voters in Maine rejected
a discrirmnatory ballol measure
that sought to forever deny basic fights to
gay and lesbian Mainers. Question 1, the
only anti-gay measure on a state ballot
tiffs year, was the ill?st such initiative to
appear on a state ballot east of the Rocky
Mountains. Last year, voters in Idaho and
Oregon rejected anti-gay measures. Earlier
exit polls predicted the victory.
"Commonsense and decency tritunphed
over extremism. Today’s vote here in
Maine is in keeping with the national
trend. Americans are rejecting extremism,".
said Elizabeth Birch, executive director
of the Human Rights Campaign,
the largest national lesbian and gay political
organization. "But we must put this
campaign~n perspective. While this was a
wonderful victory, gay and lesbian citizens
of Maine have not moved one step
closer to having b~sic equal fights Gay
and lesbian people can still be fired from
their jobs, even in Maine, merely for being
gay." Birch noted that Maine is one of
the 41 states that does not protect its
citizens from discrimination based on
sexu~fl orientalaon, and that federal law
see Maine. page 15
Colorado vs. Gays
Supreme Court Update
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme
Court heard oral arguments in what is
widdy considered themost important gay
fights case in more than a decade. The
outcome of that case could affect local
and state laws across the country. At issue
in th e case is the anti-gay Amendment 2
narrowly approved by Colorado voters in
a statewide referendum in 1992. The
amendment prohibits state agencies or
local govermnents from adopting la~vs or
regulations extending anti-discrimination
protections to cover sexual orientation.
see Colorado, page 10
¯ " Organizers of an effort by Tulsa Okla-
¯ Open Your Mind, ¯ humans for Human Rights (TOHR) to
¯ " establish a community center for Tulsa’s
. Open Your Heart! ¯ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, &Transgendered
¯ : communities have located a prormsing
¯ ¯ site with two buildings. Because the cur-
. PROJE~r 0Pl:H M|ND " rent building owner has expressed a de-
. " sire to movequickly, organizers are work-
.
¯ ing feverishly to do necessary structural
¯ A simulated Gay bashing is featured in this 30 sec. TV spot created for PFLAG. ¯ and mechanical, evaluations as well as :
" ’ " nti " paig "financialrequirements. PFLAG BeginsA -Hate Media Cam n " Because TOHR By-laws require any
¯ proposal of this sort authorization of the
¯ Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gay (PFLAG) began a national media : general membership, several boardmem- campaign to combat anti-Gay ,dolence and attitudes. Tulsa, with Atlanta and Houston, . bets expect that an emergency member-
"¯ is one of the trial cities where the two 30 second commercials were to air. The .spots ¯ interweave tv clips of televangelists,like Pat Robertson, expressing very negative views ." isnhTiphmanekestginivgiwngillwbeeecka.llCede,rtpaoinsslyibltyheeasriltye ¯
about Lesbians, Gay men and homosexuality with images of a young woman contem- ¯
: plating suicide and a man being beaten in a Gay-bashing. will be discussed at the next TOHR board
National vice president Nancy MacDonald with Bill ~ Kathv Hinkle, Tulsa leaders, " meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 21
¯ were joined at the 11/8 press conference by representatives of local groups supporting ¯" at 7 pm.
¯ the campatgn. Mrs. MacDonald spoke eloquently of bet experience with anti-Gay ¯ Typically thesemeetings are held at the
¯ TOHR office at 40th & Harvard, 2nd
violence against herchildren. KTUL, Ch. 2 accepted one of the spots for broadcast. Other
stations declined to air them, citing fears that the spots might have the opposite effect as : floor. However, since these meetings are
¯ intended and might actually incite violence. Several expressed suppork for the proiect : by the bylaws, open to members and by
¯ goals but stated that they simply found them not appropriate to this market. They noted ¯ tradition, to the community, it’s anuci- ¯ - also that they had shared these concerns with PFLAG while the spots were still in the pated that a larger meeting place will be
¯ script stage. PFLAG hopes to take this program national. . required. Info: 743-GAYS, (4297).
Budget o.r Bias.? Larg.ent Co-sponsor.s" World AIOSOay, 12/1
Ultra Radical Right Anti-Gay Dornan Bill Theme: Shared Rights,
¯ Shared Responsibilities
In July, Steve I_argent, member of Congress forO-ldahOma’s 1st District (mostlvTulsa "
ounty) became a:eosp0nsof ofHR 862.This.bili ii~tr0dfiCed l~,Radi~Ri~,hi.,a~,.~l- n~ted ... ..... Tulsa organizations Will counnemorate
anti-Gay Rep. Bob Doman (R-So. California)forbidS theuse offederal funds to directly : \Vorld AIDS Day with events over a several
day p~riod. On Wednesday, Nov. 29,
o.r indirectly to promote, condone, accept, or celebrate homosexuality, lesbiamsm, or the Tulsa City-County Library System, bisexuality". The ~ ashington-based Human Rights Campaign, a national Lesbian: Gay
lobbying organization, selected I_argent for its Hall ofFame & Shame in the inaugural the HIV ResOurce Consortium, mad the
issu~ of their new quarterly magazine. Community Information Senice are spun-
" soring a panel discussion: WOrld AIDS
The impact of the legislation if it were to be passed is not clear because its language Day: A Tulsa Perspective at the Central ~s vague. However, since federal funds are widely distributed through even local and
state govennnent, the bill ~uight require public libraries, schools, and both public and Library, Aaronson Auditorinm from 7-
- private universities to remove any materials which could be seen as promoting or 8:45 pm. The panel of lo’cal experts will
accepting. The bill might also prevent even discnssion of civic i~sues in schools or be: Janice Nicklas, Sheryl Dagmig, Mary
universities; for example, the issue of Gays in the military nlight be untouchable. David Smith and TonmLv Chesbro, moderated by Claudette Peterson. The event is free
Buckel of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund noted that such restrictions dearly
raise 1 st Amendment/free speech issuesand that ifpassed, they tend to have a "chilling" a~ad open to the public.
effect since adminstrators may over-react. " On Friday, December 1 st, Interfaith
Largent’s chief legislative d~rector, Marie \Vheat, suggested that Largent’s cosponsor- " .AIDS Ministries will sponsor a candleship
was not motivated by anti-Gay bias but rather by an concern to cut the federal budget : light .march and memorial service to be
as much as possible. Media spokesperson, Nick ThimmesCh, added that this cosponsor- " see World, page 10
ship may have been due more to the v~ews of Largent’s legislative assistant for civil " CommunityActivists rights, Paul Webster. Thimmesch expressed concern about the possible 1st Amendment
xssues and expressed a willingness of the office to reexamine the bill to Host Lesbian/Gay
MCC - Greater Tulsa " New Gay-Friendly ¯ Internet Program
Charter Pulled; Next: ¯ Church: St. Jerome’s ¯ Tim Gillean ~ ~elly mrby, commu-
District Investigation Ecumenical Cathofic: uityactivistsandretiring°ft~cers°fTulsa ~ o . . " Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR),
Tulsa’s oldest predominately Lesbian ¯ Saint Jerome Ecumenical Catholic : are moving on to talk radio - sort-of.
&Gay church, the Metropolitan Commu- " Church, will observe its inaugural Mass ¯ Taylor Subscription Talk fiST) is a new
nity Church of Greater Tulsa, has lost its ¯ on Saturday, December 2, 1995 at 6:00 see lnternet, page 3
charter amid-charges, of poor manage- ¯ p.m.. The Mass’will be celebrated at the "
: ment made by some members againstits Community of Hope, 1703 E. 2nd St."IN~IO
¯ formerpastor, AliceJones.Theannounce- " Tulsa Oklahoma.
ment of the decision of the denomination ¯ The Ecumenical Catholic Church is an ¯
: to downgrade the status ofMCC-Greater ¯ independent Christian denomination in EDITORIAt. " - ~~ " P. 2 ¯ Tulsa was made at the annual congrega- " the Catholic liturgical tradition. It is a
¯ tional meeting, Oct. 29th. Pastor Jones, ¯ denomination inclusive of all people, DIRECTORY P. 2
NEWS BRIEF.S P. 4 ¯
who resigned in August but who had .- where being Gay or Lesbian is accepted. ¯ continued as an interim pastor after her In this Church, ~od loves you uncondi- HEALTH BRIEFS ":~ P~’6
¯ remgnadon, commuting to Tulsa from " tionally as you were made and as .you ar~. CALENDAR
: Dallas, preached thatmorning but did not ¯ HOI~’0sCoPi= - .: The servicrs should appeal to Episcopa- ¯
: remain for the congregational meeting. ¯ lians, Lutherans and Roman Catholics as EUREKA PAGES " P. 16-17 ¯ see MCC, page 3 . see Saint, page 3 PERSONALS P. 19 .
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Assistant Editor News and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without
James Christjohn written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or
Writers/contributors photo does not indicate that person’s sexual orientation.
Phyl Boler-Schmidt Correspondence is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise
Leanne Gross noted, must be signed & becomes the sole propert3~ of Tulsa Family
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Staff Photographer reader is entitled to one free copy of each edition at distribution
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Korean War, $250 billion spent, 54,000 lives lost,
Vietnam War, $350 billion spent, 58,000 lives lost,
Gulf War, $28 billion spent, 213 lives lost and
AIDS research, $6 billion spent, 250,000 lives lost.
This information from a GLAAD newsletter originally came from an advertisement in The New York
Times placed by a AIDS awareness organization, Motturrs’ Voices.
Although I feel 1 shouldn’t be surprised by these figures, still I was stunned..To any one whose lived
through this horror now of ten years+ of the AIDS pandemic, it’s been dear that WE, as a society, as a
government, and many as individuals, as Oklahomans, have valued the destruction of war more than trying
to save the lives of our own countrymen and women, and others around the world.
That seems a safe conclusion if you assume that our actions, i.e. where we spend our dollars, speak to
our true values. Again to look at the figures, this means the cost of each life lost in those wars was:
Korean War, $4.6 million/one human life,
Vietnam War, $6.0 million/one human life,
Gulf War, $132.0 million/one human life, and
AIDS research, $24,000/one human life.
Now despite all the rhetoric about Judeo-Christian values we’ve heard from politicians from Reagan on,
these figures do not speak for those "traditional family values" of compassion, seeking justice and helping
those in need which are at the heart of traditional Jewish and Christian (and other religion’s) messages.
And our current Congress, in its alleged attempt to balance the budget and return our government to fiscal
responsibility (worthy goals), may cut Medicaid which provides a~x~ess to medical care for low-income
persons and persons with disabilities - for example, people living with AIDS.The Congress is also stalling
action on Rvan White CARE Act
So when v~’e participate in WorldAIDS Day, and whenwe help with theNAMES PROJECT Quilt, which
was’so powerfuily displayed last month, let us not forget that political action is AIDS work too. When we
sew a panel or when we ring our bells, as we grieve and remember, and as we help those suffering now,
let us also act on their behalf and in their memory. National politics has real life consequences here in
Oklahoma. Silence still equals death for ourselve~ and those whom we love.
Action equals lif~.
Do something°
- Tom Neal, publisher & editor
by Phil Bob.’r-Schmidt
Queer politics is a volatile game, a mix of inyour-
face direct action and behind-the-scenes maneuvering
for position. It is a game with which I am
familiar and a game I fondly hope we, one day, no
longer have to play.
Over the years, as my involvement in the queer
political scene has broadened, I’ve watched as we
make the same nustakes over and over again, and
only recently has this repetitive revelation dawned
on me. I believe there is a way to stop the pattern.
During my involvement in the anti-Amendment
Two campaign in Colorado in 1992, I watched my
friends and colleagues, and even me, become political
animals. We had to. There seemed no other
conceivable way to defeat our opposition, a formidable
opposition with too much support from national
organizations that was way ahead of us in
planning.
I watched as normally passive resistors became
rabid direct action experts. I watched, sometimes in
shock and horror, as my own way of dealing with
the world became a thing of the past, and I lived in
a constant state of political awareness, ready to
jump on any opportunity to garner even one more
vote for our side. I was out of.my dement.
My partner and I had adopted a philosophy years
before that had served us well. We consciously
chose to work on changing the world one person at
a time. The advent of Amendment Two took us out
of that philosophy and into the world of in-yourface
politics. Changing the world one person at a
rime became a luxury; it was no longer an option.
What I learned from that experience and my
continued involvement in the queer political scene
is that someone HAS to give if we are ever going to
get along in this.world and make it work. I am not
~uggestIng that we give up the fight for equality,
either in civil rights issues or the quest to lift the
gender restrictions on the several States’ marriage
laws. Quite the opposite is true.
I AM suggesting we back off a bit and allow
some breathing room. Someone has tO do it, and as
long as both sides of the debate are in rabid soapbox
mode, no one will ever win. All we will do is allow
ourselves to continue to be taken out of our own
element and into THEIR element. It is a position
from which we can never make any progress. We
need a breather. We need to take time to work out
a strategy, a p!an. We need to actually afford
ourselves the luxury of doing something pro-active.
As long as we continue to press the Radical
Right from our current vantage point, we will
continue to be on the defensive, and they will
continue to have the upper hand.
I believe in working from our strengths, not our
weaknesses. One of our strengths as a community
is that we have the advantage of allowing our
neighbors, our friends, our communities the pleasure
of getting to know us as people. It is my firmlyheldbelief
that it is-0nly when others see us as
people that we stand any chance of really changing
anything. We cannot accomplish this from our
current posiuon.
Let’s consider a truce, a period of time off for
good behavior, even if our opposition chooses not
to participate. In the long run, I believe we will be
able to accomplish our goals more effectively and
with a lot less toll on us as people, on our relationships,
and our lives.
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Creative Collection, 1521 E. 15 592-1521
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Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
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*Dusty Roads at the Silver Star, 1565 Sheridan 834-4234
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan" 838-8503
Express Pools & Spas, 6310 S. Peoria 743-9994
Fidelity Home Health Care, Inc. Coweta 486-1174
Leanne M. Gross, Financial Harming 744-0102
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
*Imaginations, Lincoln Plaza, 15th & Peoria 584-4606
International Tours 341-6866
Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, POB 14011, 74159 747-5466
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Lean Ann Macomber, Realtor Associate, 671-2010
Massoud’s Jewlery, The Farm, 51st & Sheridan 663-4884
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*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 st 663-5934
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Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo 838-7626
Royal Travel, 6927 S. Canton .496-2410
*Ross Edward Salon, 1438 S. Boston 584-0337
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Southwest Viatical, 41’46 S. Harvard, Ste. F-5 747-3322
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Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733,
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B~L..G Alliance, University of Tulsa 583-9780
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Dignity/Integrity (Lesbian/Gay Catholics &Episcopalians) 298-4648
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Indian Health Care, Save the Nation 584-4983
Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
*MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715
*HIV ResourceConsortium, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H- 1 749-4194
NAMES PROJECT, 4154 S. Harvard, Ste. H-1 748-3111
P-FLAG, POB 52800 74152 749-4901
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TOHR Gay HelpLine (Info.) 743-4297
Tool Box Technicians, 1338 E. 3i’d 584-1308
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222
*Tulsa City Hall, Cafeteria Vestibule, Ground Floor
*University Center at Tulsg
Beaver Dam Store, 1/2 mi. N. of Dam on Hwy. 187 501-253-6154
Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-7457
DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807
*Emerald Rainbow, 45&1/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445
King’s Hi-Way, 96 Kings Highway, Hwy. 62W 800-231-1442
*MCC of the Living Spring 501-253-9337
McClung Realtors 501-253-%82
Rock Cottage Gardens 501-253-8659 800-624-6646
Southern Rose Bed & Breakfast, 9 Benton 501-253-2204
Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East 50L253-~6001
*The Woods, 50 Wall St. 501-253-8281
audio-on-demand subscription service via
the Internet.
TST company chairman, Edward L.
Taylor, states, "so often when it comes to
having a voice, the Gay and Lesbian community
gets left out. Commercial radio
stations seldom carry Gay shows....here
at TST, we hope to fill the gap..."
TST programming includes a weekly
radio show, The Gay 90’s by Buck Harris
that is produced out of state. On Dec. 1,
WorldAIDS Day, portions of the Harvard
AIDS Conference will be carried live and
the audio track of CablePositivewill be
available on demand.
Gillean & Kirby are hosting a program
called, Hear Us Out, focusing on "issues
from their viewpoint". TST also has set a
goal of20 "fresh" hours of Lesbian &Gay
programming a week. TST spokesperson,
Shellie Cook, said that the service will
consider providing "air-time" or access
for other programming though they cannot
provide studio support as they are for
Hear UsO.ut. According to Cook, extensive
experience may not required. She
stated that neither Gillean nor Kirby had a
background in radio and were chosen
because "someone knew someone..."
Program director, Ann Williams, formerly
with KWGS, radio station of the
University of Tulsa, spoke at a Rainbow
Business Guild meeting last spring about
the then in-development program and listened
to Lesbian and Gay community
b.usines s people about the lack ofcommunity
oriented programming.
~ommumty reaction has been positive.
However, one community observer, discussing
the announcement of the program,
expressed surprise at this new "visibility"
for Gillean since Gille’andedined
to serve as public spokesperson forTOHR
during the time he served as TOHR president.
Others have expressed regrets that
the impact of. the service may be limited
since it requires a somewhat expensive
computer equipment and paid access.
To hear the programming, listeners need
a "multi-media" computer and modem.
For more information:
website: http://www.tstradio.com
e-mail: mail@tstradio.com
or call ’481-0077 or 800-789-4506.
they are adapted from all three churches,
and to others who desire a more liturgical
form of worship. Membership is open to
all who would serve Christ without bigotry,
in truth and justice.
Saint Jerome ECC will be a parish
church in. the Diocese of the Mountains
and P1ains,joining 14 other parishes in the
US and in 3 other countries. Regular
Masses_will be celebrated on each Saturday
at 6:00pm at the Community of Hope.
For more information, contact Rick
Hollingsworth at (918) 742-7122.
Making Sense
TOHR Announces New
HIV Prevention Program
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights
begins a new and innovative, four week
program for Gay & Bisexual’men for HIV
prevention. The progrmn uses concepts of
harmreduction that emphasize non-judgemental,
flexible and individualistic approaches
to HIV issues. Topics will include:
identity, intimacy, health, relationships
& sex. Info: call Jason at 742.2927.
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The change in status means the church
loses some of its autonomy. Major decisions
will now have to be reviewed bv
district authorities. One reason cited for
the downgrade was the failure to pay
required tithes to the district and to
UFMCC headquarters. Church members
who spoke on condition of anonymity
allege that the tithes were as much as 5
months in arrears and that Pastor Jones
had received several written and verbal
communications asking for compliance.
District Coordinator Ed Paul declined to
comment on the communications issue
because of concerns about litigation but
stated that the tithes were in arrears but
not as much as 5 months.
Church members have also raised con:
cerus about perceived irregularities in the
financial records forthe yearending. Vvqaile
the yearend report shows an ending balance
on Sept. 30th of $9,307.38, by the
congregational meeting on Oct. 29th, it
was reported that the church had less than
$700 on hand. At press time, inquiries to
the church’s bank showed that the church’s
-account appeared to have balance ofabout
$1000-2000.~ District Coordinator Paul
said he was not personally aware of the
financial status but said that the district
would perform a financial review as soon
as they are able. Paul noted that he typically
advises pastors and church leaders
not tO try to sweep things under the rug,
even if y. be painful.
held this year on the campus of the Uni-
.versity of Tulsa. Marchers should gather
~n the plaza between Sharp Chapel and
McFarlin Library at 6:30. Parking is available
on the street south of Sharp Chapel
and on the street and in the lot at .the
Chapman Activity Center.
The march will move around campus,
ending at the Great Hall of the Allen
Chapman Activities Center where the
memorial service will be held. Organizations
may bring bamaers and individuals
should bring bdls~ Candles will be provided.
Around the country at 1:50pro on Dec.
1st, congregations are asked to ring their
bells 15 times to recall the 15 years now of
the epidemic. Between 7:45 and 8pm,
across the country, communities are asked
to dim their lights to demonstrate the
commitment to fighting AIDS and in tribute
to those living with HIV,"AIDS and
those who have died from AIDS
Interfaith AIDS Ministries wants to line
the march route with lumnarnias displaying
the names of those who have died. For
more information or to submit a name,
call 438-2437 or 800-284-2437 by Monday,
Nov. 20th. Contributions are requested
but are not required.
On Sunday, Dec. 3, this year’s Red
Ribbon Treefest will be held at the Spotlight
Theatre at 1318 Riverside Drive
with a reception at4pm & auction at 5:30.
The Red Ribbon Treefest is an annual
event where decorated holiday trees are
auctaoned to raise funds for local HIV/
AIDS organizations. This year’s proceeds
will benefit the HIV Resource Consortium’s
prescription drug program and to
assist Interfaith AIDS Ministries 800
AIDS information telephone line.
Tree set-up will be from 9-3pm on
Sunday. The SpotlightTheatre has a number
of steps at the entrance. To arrange
handicapped access, call 663-53721~"
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News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News Briefs News
U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds
Announces Retirement
BOSTON IJ.S. Rep. Gerry
Studds (D-Mass.), who became
the first openly gay member of
Congress when he came out on
lhc floor of the ltouse after he
had bccn censured for having
had sex 10 years earlier with a
congressional page, has announc
cd that hc will not run for his
(’.ape Cod di strict scatagatn next
year. Following that censure
vote, Studds was nevertheless
re-elected by a solid margin to
become the first openly gay person
ever elected to Congress.
Studds has held his scat for 12
terms, a total of 23 years.
Georgia Sodomy Law
Challenged Again
ATI ,A NTA -The Atlanta Const[
rut[on reports that L. Chi-is
(?hfis~cnscn is chailcnging the
Georgia sodomy statute, wlfich
the ~ I.S. Supreme Court upheld
9 years ago. Attorueys reprcscnlmg
Chfistcnsen, who was
chargcd with soliciting an undcrcovcr
sheriff’s dcputy, will
argue that Chfistcnscn’s right to
privacy ~s grcatcr under the state
C.onstitution than it is under the
I;.S. Constiluuon and that the
sodomy slatutc infringes on that
right.
Martina Debuts
Rainbow VISA Card
NI’;W YORK Tcunis great
Mart[ha Navratilova has stepped
inlo the corporate promotion area
bv inlroducing the "’Rainbow
(Sard,’" Visa’s credit card aimed
a~ the nation’s gay and lesbian
commnnity. Backed by
antomakcr Sub~L part of ~c
~d’s fccs will go to the R~nbow
Card Foundation, a nonprofit
organiz~tion ~at will help
fund gay and lesbian heath and
education groups in the U.S. The
Rainbow Card is available
throngh the Travelers Bank, and
domestic parmers ~n apply for
a.joint a~onnt.
"q’hc inspiration for the Rainbow
Card and the foundalion
calnc from thc incrcdiblc s~cng~
and unityso many ofus sh~ed at
the 1993 March on W~hington,"
Navratilova s~d. ’"l’~s
cxpericn~ promptedmy l~ends
m~d mc to evaluate ways to h~-
ncss the coo heroic power of the
gay community to achieve humanitarian
goals. "lk~ay, I’m
proud to inffodu~ the R~u~w
("ard as a fundraisiug tool that
will gcncralc a substantial
mnonnt of monc~ Ibr health ~d
eduction ~uscs rclcv~t to lesbi~
s ~dgays." The fund hopes
to r~se some $20 million for
v~ous ch~table groups wi0fin
¯e next5ye~s, Navmfilova s~d.
T~ find out more i~o~ation
about the R~nbow C~d, phone
1-800~-~INBOW.
Too Man~ ’Rainbows’
NEWARK, N.J.-Just ~ys ~ter
it made a ~g~y publicized debut,
the R~nbow C~d Fo~-
fen has been h~ded a "cease
~d desist" order from the R~nbow
Foundation, a New Jersey
charity that helps sick children.
A spokesperson from the Rainbow
Foundation said, "Their
causes are not our cause." Attorney
Mark Momjian, representing
the Rainbow Card Foundation,
which will distribute funds
raised for gay- and lesbian-oriented
groups, said hundreds of
charities use the word "rainbow"
in their names.
University Campus
Adds Lesbigay Institute
LOS ANGELES - Califonlia
State University’s Northridge
campus has OKed creating an
Institute on Gay, Lesbian &
Trausgender Studies. The institute
will conduct lectures and
seminars on the Southern California
campus, starting this semester.
In announcing the ne~v
institute, Donald Hall, an associate
professor of English at the
school, said it will serve as a
...Somner LeCroix,
an economist with
the University of
Hawaii...
legalizing gay and
lesbian marriages
would increase the
number of tourists
visiting the state by
about 172,000
people annually..¯
resource for faculty members
who would like to include gay
and lesbian studies in their course
material. Hall said the campus
has a large gay and lesbian student
population, which the institute
will serve.
Hawaii Gay Marriages
Equals 172,000 Tourists
HONOLULU - A state committee
holding hearings on the differences
in benefits enjoyed by
married couples that same-sex
couples are ineligible for, was
told by Sumner LeCroix, an
economist with the University
of Hawaii, that legalizing gay
and lesbian marriages would increase
the numberoftourists vi s-
[tiny the state by about 172,000
people amiually.
"’Adding more tourists of any
stripe to the state would in general
be good for the state,"
LeCroix told the Conunission
on Sexual Orientation and the
Law, authorized by the legislature
as the staie tries to deal with
the complex political and legal
questions raised by a court challenge
to the state’s refusal to
give marriage licenses to samesex
couples.
Nat’l. Gay Organization
Changes Name to HRC
WASHINGTON - Noting that
it is "so much more than a fund,"
the Human Rights Campaign
Fund has formally changed its
name to theHuman Rights,,Canlpaign.
HRC has recently begun
publishing "H,RZY’Quartefly," a
journal of political news and
perspective.
In announcing the namechange,
Elizabeth Birch, HRC"s
execuuve director, also announced
the organization’s latest
Internet addition, a World
Wide Web site that it says will
let Internet users keep track of
voting records for their members
of Congress and conlmumcate
with diem quicklyiThe -
WWW site is:
http://www.hrcusa.org.
Tennessee Williams
Honored by USPS
CLARKSDALE, Miss. - Playwright
Teunessee Williams is
being honored by a U.S. Postal
Service co~umemorative stamp.
Williams, best kalown for his
complex and emotionally intense
plays such as A StreetcarNamed
Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
and Suddenly Last Summer, was
born in Columbus, Mississippi
in 1911. He died in 1983.
Possible Gay Spouse Not
Enough for Annulment
DUBLIN, Ireland -The Irish
Supreme Court has refused to
nullify the 16-year marriage of a
couple, mmamed in court documents,
who each believed the
other was homosexual or bisexual.
The couple, who have 3
children, wanted to annul their
marriage even though neither
presented any concrete evidence
about the sexual orientation of
the other.
The wife said she thought her
husband might be homosexual
or bisexual because of a "close
friendship" he had with another
man and because she said that at
times he preferred masturbation
rather than sexual intercourse.
Similarly, the husband said he
with the caption "Roll One On."
The pilot is considering filing a
civil rights complaint over the
incident.
Disney Offers Partners
Health Benefits
IlOLLYWOOD The Walt
Disney Compauy has become
the latest member of the entertainment
industry to extend insurance
benefits to the domestic
partners of its same-sex workcrs.
A Dis~rey.spokesperson said
the new policy ."brings our health
benefits in line with our corporate
non-discrinfination policy."
The ncw benefitpackage applies
only to the s,’une-sex partners of
l)isncy employees and takes effect
in January 1996.
Fla. Lawmakers Attack
Disney Partners Policy
TAH.AHASSEE, Ha. - Fifteen
F’lorida state legislators have
written to Michael Eisner, chief
executive officer of the Walt
We wonder what
Walt Disney hlmseff
would think of your
decision if he were
alive today? We are
inclined to believe
he would be quick
to pull the Iplug on
such anti-tamily
eomPany Polieies¯
- Florida legislators
Disney Co., denouncing the
motion picture and theme park
giant’s decision to offer health
insurance benefits to the domestic
partners of its gay and lesbian
employees.
The 15 legislators charged
Disney with"belittling the Sanethought
the wife migh~ be a les- . : tity of mainage" and of forcing
bian because of a "long and very ° its customers to pay for treatclose
friendship" that she had
with a younger woman.
A lower court rejected the annulment
petition, and the Supreme
Court. upheld the lower
court ruling; noting that "an inadequacy
of the.ability to communicate"
was not justification
for an annulment and that despite
the difficulties the couple
faced "’the re must have been a
fair amount of full sexual intercourse"
simply to have had 3
children.
Condom-Ad Blocked
Over Football Stadium
NEW YORK - An air tralTic
controller in the busy New York
City region blocked an airplane
that was towing an ad for
condoms from flying over the
nearby Giants Stadium during a
weekend football game. A
spokesperson for the Federal
Aviation Administration said it
was not FAA policy to prevent
such advertising fly-overs because
of the content of the ad.
The towed ad depicted a 25-foot
silhouette ofan unrolled condom
¯ ment for people with AIDS
¯ through the new health coverage ¯
that "will result in an increased
number of AIDS cases."
A Disney spokesman in
¯ Burbank; Calif., John Dreyer,
said the company ~has no intention
of reversing itself on the
¯ new policy and Saidit was consistent
with the finn’s non-dis-
~ crimination policies. "This is
about providing health benefits
for our employees and nothing
more," Dreyer said. "When we
¯ get the letter, we’ll decide how
¯ to respond to them, butwewon’t ¯
do it through the media." The
" full text of the letter from the
lawmakers to the Walt Disney
Co. follows:
" "An open letter to Michael
" Eisner and the Walt Disney
¯. Board: We are deeply disap-
¯ pointed in.your recent decision
to extend health benefits to the
~ domestic partners of your homosexual
employees. The me~
¯ dia and entertainment industry
¯ may consider this a ’politically
¯ correct’ and courageous change
in policy, but we - and others
who have looked to you as the
provider of wholesome, familyoriented
entertainment - consider
your decision a big mistake both
morally and financially.
We are surprised at your belittlement
of the sanctity of marriage.
By implying that vows no
longer need to be made in order
to gain marital privileges, you
are alienating the millions of
)eople in this country who take
,the marriage covenant seriously
and believe that it is ordained by
God. We strongly disapprove of
y~)ur inclusion and endorsement
of a lifestyle that is unhealthy,
unnatural and unworthy of special
treamlent. Those who practice
homosexuality are engaging
in a life style that should not be
given the same status as heterosexual
marriages.
Financially speaking, how can
you give medical benefits to a
group of people with such a high
medical risk, "knowing full-well
that other Disney employees and
the American people will have
to pick up die tab for the inevitable
increased health insurance
premiums? With your decision,
you are alienating the vast majority
of fanfilie~ in this country.
Youmay be gaining the applause
of a vocal minority of your employees,
but you are jeopardizing
your finaucial base which
creates the need for those same
employees. We are also deeply
disappointed in the path that die
Disney .company has chosen to
follow. For more than 50 years
Walt Disney Co. has represented
all that is good and pure and
wholesome in our nation. Families
flocked to Walt Disney
World and Disneyland because
they knew that Walt Disney respected
and nurtured the traditional
American family and its
strong moral values. Disney
could always be counted on to
provide parents and children
alike with family-friendly, goodnatured
entertainment. Nowadays,
however, you are producing
and-fami!y films underother
labds,such as Miramax, and
moving even further away from
traditioual American values with
this policy decision.
Wewonder what Walt Disney
himself would think of your decision
if he were alive today?
We are inclined to believe he
would be quick topull.the plug
on such anti-family company
policies. We hope you will be
quick to reconsider your new
policy and work to reestablish
the Disney Co. as a family-oriented
brganization."
Dole Waffles on Log
Cabin Contribution
WASH.INGTON - Republican
presidential hopeful, Sen. Bob
Dole of Kansas, abruptly
changed.his time about a $1,000
campaign contribution from the
gay and lesbian Log Cabin Republicans,
saying it was a mistake
to return the money and
blaming the whole incident on
N.ews Briefs Ne.wp ,Briefs News Briefs
his campaign staff. _’ ~ The suit charges that"if the College,
Republicans were compelled
to-accept homosexuals ...
this would change the message
communicated by the College
Republicans’ speech and other
First Amendment activities.’"
The suit asks the U.S. District
Court to force the schools to
sanction the College Republi-
D~ole, whose GOP presiden- ¯
tial bidhas been lagging recently, -"
said his campaign staff had not :
cleared the decision to return the ¯
Log Cabin PAC donation with :
lfim. Dole’s latest statement on :
the returned funds contradicts
statements he made last month :
when he said on a television in- :
terview: "I didn’t want the per- ¯ cans, which would include proception
that we were buyinginto " viding them with office spaceon
campus. Leaders of the College
Republicans said earlier this year
that they had no intention of actually
barring homosexuals but
that they object to the colleges’
decision to require all student
organizations to sign the pledge,
which states: "The club will:not
discriminate on the basis Of ,abe,
color, creed, religion, age, gender,
disability or sexual orientation."
"We really feel the school
is violating our freedom of association
by shoving someone’s
"We reafly fed the
school is violating
our freedom of
association by
shoving someone’s
sexual,preference
down our throat,"
said Nate HalL.of
the Metropolitan
State C llege
Republicans...
sexual preference down our
throat," said Nate Hall. chairman
of the Metropolitan State
College Republicans. "If a person
is gay., so what’? Our biggest
concern is, are you. a Republican’?
But we don’t as a club condone
homosexual activity."
Sheila Kaplan, Metropolitan
State College president, said that
the school stands bY .t!~e antibias
reqnireme,nt "One of the
founding pfinci plUS 6~"Met~6 i~ a
cormnitment to maintaining a
campus environment free from
discrimination in any’ form,
where .all people are respected
and valued," Kaplan said. "We
believe Metro’s nondiscrimination
policies areLht~pl~r,O,p,ri- "
ate and legal." .
Santa Fe ProclaimsGhy
~&Lesbian History Month.
SANTA FE. NM - Debbie
Jarmnill.o, the lnavot of Sm~ta
’Fe, N.M., has :officially pros
~1 bd rited’ ~Oi:r~bef~ -’ as~, :::.]Le’Sbi~aiL
Gay’ &Bisexual Hist6~3: Mbfith’.
In makiug tli~’ 15f6~tanYation,
MayorJaranfillo’said it was necessary
’:’to make sure onr country
at least learns the lessons Of tolerance
mid faimess and accepts
the fact that we are all eqnal in
die eves of God." Lesbian, Gay
& BiSexual History Month was
originally the brai]lclfild of St.
Louis, Me., high school teacher
Rodimy Wilson after he found
that an 800-page history textsome
special rights for any group
or lifestyle or whatever it might
be with gays or.anyone else."
But a month later, Dole blamed
his campaign staff entirely for
the August incident, and implied
that he hadn’t known about the
deosion to realm the contribution
"I think if they had consulted
with me, they wouldn’t
have done that," Dole told reporters
in mid-October. "I just
didn’t agree with what happened."
Neither, obviously, did the gay
GOPers who have since handed
over their $1,000 campaign contribution
to Sen. Arlen Specter
of Pennsylvania, another Republican
presidential candidate. Rich
Tafel, executive director of the
Log Cabin Republicans, said he
believed Dole had figured out
during the past inonth of campaigning
that beating up on gay
supporters wasn’t a smart political
move. "~I think as he’s traveled
around the country he’s
found as we have that moderate
Republicmls, a lot of Dole supporters;
Werereally tumedOfflJy
tiffs .whole inddentY Dole said
he would not ask the gay Republicans
for the donation again because
"I don’t want to open it all
up again.
Temp Agency Sued for
Anti-Gay Bias
MINNF~A,POLIS - Marcus St.
Janacs has filed a lawsuit against
thc Dolphin Tcmporary Services"
Industrial Group, m~ emp!
tymcnt agency, charging diat
they fired him as an employee of
the company because he is gay.
In the suit, St. James also charges
thai the temporary agency
singled lfim out for retaliation
because he had refused to fabricate
data for some 500 job seekcrsin
order to meet equal opp0rtunity
employment requiremeuts.
Au attoruey for the finn
denied may ,reprisals against St.
Jmfies and insisted that his "job
~ pgrforLn.an,ce, ,.w,a~£k¢ sole.~eason
f‘or his. termination.’" St. James is
as’king ~tr,~0mc $50,000 in darnages
mid lost wages. .
COI.I~ege Repub!ieans Sue
Over~ Anti=Bias. Pledge
DENVER - A GOP student organization,
die College RepublicanS,
has filed a federal lawsfiit
,against Colorado State University,
the University of Northern
Colorado and the Metropolitan
State College in Denver, charging
that the 3 campuses violate
their First Amendment rights for
insisting that student groups sign
a nondiscrimination agremnent
that includes sexual orientation.
News, Briefs
book he was.usin~Vdidn’ t ha;ce a
single reference to the role of
gays and lesbians in history.
Papers Print Photo of
Greek PM’s Wife Nude
with ’Another Woman’
ATtIENS - Greece erupted in a
political uproar after 3 newspa7
pers in Athens published a frontpage
photo of Greek Prime MinisterAndreas
Papandreou’ s wife
Dimitra Liani in what purports
’to show her nude on a bea~hin
"an intimate pose with another
unidentified woman."Thephoto,
which Mrs. Papandreou has denounced
as faked, depicts the
unidentified woman fondling her
genitals.
¯ Authorities arrested the publisher
of one of the papers on
misdemeanor charges his publication
made an "unprovoked insuit"
against Mrs. Papandreou,
who met and married the Prime
Minister when she was an airline
stewardess. Thepublishers ofthe
two other papers that published
the photo also face warrants for
their arrest but have gone into
hiding, police say. Mrs
Papandreou, who is 40, said the
photo was a fake representing a
"dirty campaign" to thwart her
increasing political ambitions.
Albuquerque Gay &
Lesbian-History Month
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Albuquerque
Mayor Martin
Chavez proclaimed October
"’Lesbian & Gay His tory Month’"
in the city on Oct. 27, recognizing
the"important contributions
to our society" by gays and lesbians.
The proclamation also
notes that National Coming Out
Day~ whichis Oct. 11, was started
7 years ago by long-time Nmv
Mexico resident Robert
Eichberg~ who died earlier this
year. Earlier in the month, Santa
Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo also
issued a similar proclamation
recognizing "Lesbian, Gay’ &
Bisexual History: Month" in that
city.
Iranian Man Sentenced
For Dressing AS Women
TEHRAN -An Iranian newspaper
has reported that a man in the
capital city ofTehran was beaten
up by outraged women and later
sentenced toi201ashes by’ a court
~b~fig~"h~’ ~’6t- ~)n a municipal
btigdr~ssed in the heavv veils
and billowing caftan-lik~ gown "
of a woman. " " "
The3 i-year:~idma~, who Was
not identified, told’the newspaper
that he had dressed as a
¯woman’ ,m~’d~ sat; i~l’ tli~;Women-
- O~fl~:;~e~ secti6n of the bus ias
"]Yar~"tf’a’S33 bet ~vifll his father.
"" A’pparenfly the man~s large frmne
mid feet di&l’t fool the women.
however, mid he told the paper
they" "got aiagry mid beat me up."
The man was later sentenced by
a religious court to 20 lashes for
what it called his "ugly and improper"
prank.
Sailor’s Case Dismissed
BALTIMORE-Federal District
Court Judge Joseph Young has
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dismissed a lawsuit by Navy Lt.
Richard Selland who has been
challenging the Defense
Department’s new so-called
"don’t ask, don’t tell" policy of
excluding openly gay and lesbian
service members from the
military. The court ruled that
Selland’s Firstand FifthAmendment
rights do not take precedence
over Congress’ and the
Defense Department’s right to
set military policies. Selland currently
i s a supply officer at a base
in Virginia, but when he came
out in 1993, he was stationed on
the submarine Hammerhead.
Gay Couple’s Joint
Bankruptcy Denied
ATLANTA - U.S. Bankruptcy
Judge A. David Kahn has rejected
the joint bankruptcy petition
of 2 gay men, ruling that
they were ineligible because they
aren’t legally married. Judge
Kahn agreed that the men’ s long-
¯¯¯Sheldon had made
*’a career out of
vilifying lesbians,
gays and persons
with AIDS" and
had called
people infected
HIV to be "confined
in eoneentratlon
.. eam?-like ,
establishments.
tenn relationship had a number
of similarities to a heterosexual
mamage, but he :ruled that federal
bai"tkniptcy laws required
legal marriage or its equivalent
as "’more than a inere technicalitV.’"
The case is believed to be
the first of its kind in the U.S.
O.S. House of ReDs.
Opened by Prayer by
Radical, Anti-Gay Pastor
WASHINGTON Rights activists
and Democrats in the House
of Representatives expressed
disma? and outrage over having
far-right anti-gay milfister Louis
Sheldon of, the Traditional Values
Coalition deliver the daily
prayer that usually begin s the
legislative body’s ~lay on Thursday,
Nov. 2.
ReD. Lynn Wolsey, a CaliforniaDeumcrat
saidSheldon had
made "’a career out of vilifyiug
lesbimls, gays mid persons with
AIDS.’" and had called forpeople
.infected iwith:HIV. to~.be:?’con-
~finedinconcentration -camp.like.
establishrnents.’" ~ .......
Eli.zabeth Birch of.the I2iUman
Rights Campaign agreed. "’It is
outrageous that those in control
of this Congress would allow
that man, whose every waking
breath is spent attacking lesbian
and gay people in this country,
to lead the House in prayer,"
Birch said. "’Sheldon has created
a cottage industry out of polidcal
gay-bashing and hate, ..and:it
is insulting to every fair-mind&d
American." But a spokesperson
for House Speaker Newt
Gingrich said Sheldon’s invocation
was "perfectly appropriate."
Sheldon had been invited to deliver
the brief prayer at the request
of ReD. Ken Calvert (RCalif.).
NGLTF ’Creating
Change’ Conference
WASHINGTON, D.C. -The
National ’Gay, & "Lesbian Task
Force held its 1995 Creating
Changeconference, on Nov. 10-
12 in Detroit.
The Task Force released the
following statement: "More than
a thousand gay,lesbian, bisexual
and transgender activists gathered
in Detroit, Michigan, for
what was, perhaps, the largest
ever national gay’ strategizang
conference. The 1995 Creating
Change Conference occurs at a
critical juncture in the gay’ and
lesbian movement when many
battles and far-reaching decisions
are coming together at
once, the U.S. Supreme Court’s
pending ruling on die Colorado
Amendment 2 case, the prominencc
of gay, lesbian and bisexual
issues in the 1996 Presidential
Ele&ions, Right Wing
anti-gay b~illot initiatives in
Maine and other states, workplace
discrimination, and samegender
marriages, ainong oilier
controversial issues.’"
The conference present some
’180 wOrkshops~ - plenaries.
brown-bag sessions, and cultural
events. Plenary’ speakers included
Urvashi \,’aid, nationally’
known activist and author of Virtual
Equally.’: The Mains?reaming
ofGay and Lesbiaftgiberation;
Second-term Wigconsin
State ReD. Tmnmv Bfildwin
Elias Farajaje-JoneS, -author,
teacher, theologian, bisexual activist
recently’ featured in
Newsweek; and Harry Britt,.pioneer
gay politician and former
member, San Francisco Board
of Supervisors. Numerous other
gay" movement ’luminaries attended,
including Dee
Mosbacher, Deb Price, Elizabeth
Birch, Scan Strub, Debra
Chasnoff, Scot Nakagawa, Phill
Wilson,-Derek Hodel, Tim
McFeeley, Paula Ettelbrick, Mab
Segrest, Robert Bray, Suzmme
Pharr. Suzanne Goldberg, and
¯activists from almost every State.
Tulga activist, Tim Gillean, attended
the Conference as well as
native ONahoman and Dalras
Gay &’.Lesbian-A,tl’ianee.preSiConcerns
Over AIDS Funds in
Medicaid Changes
WASHINGTON - Government officials
and AIDS agencies say that potentially
hundreds of thousands of people with
HIV/AIDS could lose health care benefits
under legislation approved by Congress
that would give ~eater control of Medicaid
fun ds to states. Jesse Brown, secretary
of the Veterans Affairs Dept., and
Donna Shalala, secretary of Health &
Human Services, joined in criticizing the
legislative changes approved by the Republican-
controlled Congress. The legislation
would hand over a large part of the
federal Medicaid funds in block ~ants for
the states to administer, spar’king increased
concerns that people with HIV/AIDS illnesses
might suffer cuts in benefits as a
result.
Research Links Transsexualism
And Brain Structure
LONDON - Researchers in the Nether-.
lands have reported in the journal Nature
that male-to-female transsexualism may
have a biological basis, based on a tiny
region of the hypothalamus in the brain.
Prof. Dick Swaab of the Netherlands Institute
for Brain-Research in Amsterdam
said in the report that the stria terminalis
region of the hypothalamus that is linked
to sexuality is larger inmen than inwomen,
regardless of their sexual orientation. But
Swaab reported that, after studying the
post mortem brain structures of6 male-tofemale
transsexuals, he found that alI had
the smaller "female" structure in this area
of the brain.
Swash said the results imply that maleto-
female transsexuals had this smaller
stria terminalis area from birth and that
the re,on of the brain may be linked to
gender identity as well as sexuality in
general. Swaab said that there was no
evidence that transsexualism is genefi:
cally inherited, but noted that it was not
possible to say" how much influence environmental
factors play compared to inherited
traits. Swaab and other researchers,
including Dr. Simon LeVay of the
Salk Institute, have found similar differences
in the size of another area of the
hypothalmnus between gay and straight
men.
Straights Not Changing Sexual
Behavior Because of Epidemic
BOSTON - A report in the American
Journal of Public Health indicates that
heterosexuals surveyed in 1990 and again
in 1992 show no changes in their sexual
activities because of the AIDS epidemic.
The researchers noted that the 2 surveys
of some 9,000 people from around the
country indicate that the number of heterosexhals
who said they engaged in sex
with multiple partners had actually increased
slightly by 4% between 1990 and
1992. The researchers also reported that
the surveys indicate that straights showed
no increased likelihood of using condoms
or getting tested for HIV during the 2
years the)’ were surveyed.
Many Blacks Believe HIV a
Genocide Attempt
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the peopl~ surveyed in African-American
;<~churches believe that HIV was produced
by the government ingerm warfare labs as
part of a genocide effort aimed at blacks in
this country.
Dr. Sandra Crouse Quilm of the public
health school at the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, reported that another
third of the approximately 1,000
church-goers surveyed in 5 U.S. cities
indicated they were "unsure’" if the AIDS
epidemic was an a ttempt at genocide or
not. Quinn noted that black church-goers
are not representative of the larger African-
American population, but said the
"stnnfflng’" results nevertheless indicate
that a large portion of the country’s black
population doesn’t trust public health information.-
Quiun and Stephen Thomas of Emery
University said, however, that the finding
is backed up by similar studies of black
college students, housing-project residents
and African-Americans visiting clinics in
Washington, D.C. The researchers said
the other surveys also found that around
one-third of those survey believed HIV
was part of an effort to l~ill blacks in the
U.S., and another third indicated they
were unsure about the theory. The scientists
surveyed people who attended black
clmrches in Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Detroit,
Kansas City, Me., and Tuscaloosa,
Ala.
Asian, African HIV Strains
Migrating to the West
LONDON - According to the report in
the medical journal Ixtncet, U.S. and Uruguayan
military doctors are reporting that
Asian and African strains of HIV have
been introduced into the Western hemisphere,
brought back to their home countries
by military personnel returning from
foreign duty in those regions.
Military doctors at the Walter Reed
Army Institute and the Uruguayan Directorate
of the Armed Forces in Montevideo
said they isolated a common Southeast
Asian strain of HIV in 6 Uruguayan soldiers
and marines who served as part of a
U.N. peacekeeping f orce in Cambodia. In
a different study also reported in Lancet,
physicians at the U.S. Naval Health Research
Center in San Diego found the
same HIV strain in 3 U.S. sailors and
Marines who had been serving in Thailand.
They also found 2 African’strains of
the virus in 2 servicemen who had returned
from duty in Kenya and Uganda.
The scientists say" the findings could
complicate efforts to fight AIDS because
potential vaccines that might be devised
to protect against one strain of HIV may
¯
be ineffective or inadequate for another of
¯ the 9 known strains of the virus. "We may
¯ need to worry about different genetic ap-
¯ pearances of the virus and changing pat-
" terns of the virus in order to get vaccines
¯ that protect people who might be travel-
" ling or who might live in different regions
¯ of the world," said Dr. Andrew Artenste
¯ in, one of the researchers at Walter Reed.
"It might require either multiple strains in
¯ the vaccine or multiple vaccines eventu-
¯ ally to protect people.’"
¯ Fired Nurse With HIV Sues
HOUSTON -A Houston nurse, known in
court doctnnents only as "Jane Doe," has
filed a lawsnit against Surgicare, a medical
center where she had worked until
earlier this year. Doe’s suit charges that
after learning she was HIV-positive in
. January she was told by her supervisor to
¯ take time off work if she wanted to "deal
with the shock.’" But after a 2 week leave,
Doe was informed that she had been fired
: for "excessive absenteeism" because she
had been off work for more than 3 days in
¯ the past 6 months. The suit charges that
Surgicare violated federal anti-bias laws
and fired her because of her infection.
¯
China Begins Addressing
AIDS Epidemic
¯ BEIJING - According to a report in the ¯
Guangming Daily, Chinese health minis--
¯ try authorities have acknowledged for the
¯ first time that the 2,428 cases of AIDS
~ officially reportedin the country are probably
"significantly undercounted" and that
the ministry believes the actual number of
people infected with HIV in China is
probably about 100,000 people instead.
The health ministry officials also announced
that it would join in observing
World AIDS Day on December 1 and is in
the process of setting up a national agency
to address prevention and control of the
spread of HI\.’ in the country.
It ’Came’ In Outer Space
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Dr. Joseph Tash
of the University of Kansas School of
Medicine has been given a contract by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) to conduct sexual experiments
in outer space. Little is known
about sex in the weightlessness of space,
but there is some evidence that male sperm
is more active and aggressive in orbit. But
before you start suiting up and heading off
to NASA headquarters in Houston with
visions of astronaut orgies, however,Tash
notes, that these experiments will only
involve studying the behavior of the sperm
of sea urchins - which is chemically close
to that of human sperm.
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Justice Dept. Sues Moving
Companies Over AIDS
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Departmenthas
filed alawsuit against Bekins
Van Lines and Schloer Enterprises Inc.
Schloer, whichis Bekins’ agency in Philadelphia,
was sued for refusing to move the
household goods of two men because a
friend of theirs has AFDS. The federal
lawsuit was filed under the Americans
with Disabilities Act and charges that
.Bekins had agreed to move the furuishrags
of David Homan and Robert
Rosenbaum, who were relocating to Arizona.
But when the movers arrived at the
home of the men, a neighbor who has
AIDS was visiting Homan and
Rosenbaum, and the movers abruptly refused
to continue with the move, the suit
charges. The moving companies, have
denied any wrongdoing, but the Justice
Department says it filed the suit because
the 2 firms refused to .cooperate in its
initial investigation.
Antibodies May Not Disable Hiv
LONDON - AIDS researchers have. re-
HIV blood test as part of his application,
and asked to see his doctor’s records, both
of which LaBonte agreed to. But
LaBonte’s attorney says the company incorrectly
decided that the two men were
having unprotected sex, and in March of
this year r.ejl,e,c,ted LaBonte’s application,
saying that this type bf activity poses an
increased risk for mortality which we are
unable to price."
The suit charges that the insurancefirm’ s
rejection of the policy violates both California
and U.S. laws barring discriinination
against people who associate with
individuals infected with HIV. In a brief
.press release, Minnesota Mutual Life said
it does not discriminate and is in complete
compliance with Califomia’s insurance
regulations.
Health Officials Confirm 1st
rus. Officials with India’s health ministry
agreed that theWHOfigures are probably
corLeg~t,~:noting ,,.that the number of repor(~
d cases in the country has nearly
doubled in the last 6 months and that 7 out
of every 1,000 people screened for HIV
are now testing poslt~ve.
Viatical Firm Says It
Meets SEC Rules
WASHINGTON- Brian D. Pardo, president
of the Waco, Texas-based Life Partners
Inc., has filed a sworn report in federal
court that the viatical insurance company
"has developed revised methods of
operation that it considers sufficient to
eliminate any claim that the securities
laws apply." Life Partners functions as
the buyers’ agent in viatical settlements,
which allow people with terminal illnesses
such as AIDS to sell their life insurance
Bite Transmission o! HIV policies prior to death.
WEST PALM BEACH,.FIa. -The U.S.: : TheU.S.SecuritiesandExchangeCom-
Centers for Disease Control &Prevention ¯ mission has not yet commented on the
has confirmed the first instance of HIV. :
being transmittedby ahumanbite. Health ¯
officials noted that an unusual set of cir- -"
cumstances would be needed for HIV to :
be passed from one person to another °
through-a bite, and noted that this case, ¯
which took place during the robbery of a ,"
91-year-old man, was the first such docu- ."
steps outlined in Pardo’s sworn statement,
but its court filings acknowledge
that viatiCal transactions are not inherently
securities, that the participation of
an agent does not necessarily-invoke the
securities laws, and that the preliminary
injuncuonissued by a federal court earlier
this year allows Life Partners to comply
mented ease in 15:years they have been : "by restructuring the transactions in such
tracking the AIDSepidemic. ¯ a way that they do not constitute securi-
HIV can continue to be infectious evenafter
the individual virus has been trapped
inside an envelope of antibodies, normally
the way the body neutralizes other
microbe~. The Virginia Commonwealth
University researchers said the finding
may partly explain why it has been so
difficult to stop the relentless spread of
the virus. Dr. Gregory Burton, one of the
researchers, said the antibodies that envelop
HIV, instead of disabling it may
actually help spread the virus to the body’s
disease-fighting T cells.
Man Sues Insurance Firm
Over Lover’s HIV
SAN FRANCISCO-Mark LaBonte, who
ts HIV-negative, has filed a S1 million
lawsuit against the Minnesota Mutual Life
Insurance Company, charging that he was
turned down for a policy after the insurance
firm learned he is gay and that his
partner has AIDS. LaBonte’s suit charges
that his application for insurance was refused
after Minnesota Mutual Life learned
his lover, Joe Aviles, is infected with
HIV. LaBonte claims the insurance finn
believed that he was therefore at risk for
infection from Aviles. MinnesotaMuttml
Life had asked LaBonte to undergo an
ported in the British journal Nature .that ,: Alarming Growth inGIobal AIDS., _,:..-ties.’? The SEC must file a response to the.-
GENEVA ~ "The-staggering~ impact of : report.by Nov; 2., after which time the.
AIDS in non-Western nations around the
g~obe has been underscored by recent
statements by health organizations and
officials. Timothy Stamps, Zimbabwe’s
health minister, said in a newspaper interview
that the country estimates that some
100,000 Zimbabweans will die of AIDSrelated
illness during the next year and a
half. Stamps said he wasn’t trying to be an
"alarmist," but noted that "At present 25
to 30 bodies of victims of AIDS are put
into mortuaries...and hospitals" every day
in the country. In neighboring Sout~a Africa,
a study by the Universltv of Natal
says that nearly a million people in
KwaZulu-Natal, the country" s mostpopulous
province, will be infected with HIV
by 19%. The researchers predicted there
would be 920,000 HIV cases in the province
of 8.7 million. The nation’s health
department also indicates its latest data
indicates that of the country’s 40 million
people 7.6% (about 3 million people) are
already infected with the virus.
The World Health Organization has
also announced that even though HIV was
almost unknown in India 10 years ago, it
now estimates that between 1.6 and 2
million Indians are infected with the vi-
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HIV Scientist Sues New York
ALBAN’Y, NY- A former New York
health department research worker has
filed a lawsuit against the state, charging
that department officials destroyed his
career because he complained abou! unsafe
standards and procedures at a staterun
laboratory. Joseph Youme, who had
worked with the state health department
for 16 years and had studied HIV with
Robert Gallo, included written complaints
he had made involving what he believed
were tmsafe laboratory procedures. Included
in the complaints Yourno had made
in the past few years were criticisms that
tubes of laboratory specimen blood had
been dropped in stairwells, hazardous
waste had been tossed out with regular
building rubbish, and that on one occasion
in 1991 a large bird flew through an
open window and knocked over unspecified
lab specimens and equipment before
if flew out agmn. After filing complaints
about the conditions at the lab with superiors,
Yourno says he was demoted to a
desk job, virtually putting an end to his
career in laboratory research.
Equal Employment Commission
Sues Over Firing of HIV÷ Driver
FRESNO, Calif. - A California-based
trucking company is being sued by the
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission for firing an HIV-infected
truck driver. DEF Express in Kingsburg,
Calif., has been charged with violating the
Americans with: Disabilities Act in as
dismissal of driver .James Marion. The
EEOC isaskingthat,Marion receiYe back
¯ -wages~ compensation for emotional suf-
; feting and punitive damages again DEF.
~ An attorney representing, the trucking
¯ firm said DEFExpress wasn’t even aware
¯ that Marion was HIV-positive until he
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Biomathematics Looks at HIV
CHICAGO - Dr: Alan Perelson, an immunologist
with the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in New Mexico, and Dr. Thomas
B. Kepler, a biomathematician at
North Carolina State University, say they
think they’ve found out how the lymph
glands produce highly specificmolecules,
known as antibodies, that attack mic¢obes
an the body with such accuracy. In their
study, published recently in the Proceedings
ofthe National Academy ofScience,
the mathematicians" complex formulas
generate a model that scientists say "tells
us how the immune system can make
antibodies that are 100 times more effective
in just two weeks.’" Virologists and
other scientists say the mathematical modeling
could give"doctors important insights
into the most effective times in the
progression of HIV infection to prescribe
specific medications to fight off the virus.
Assertiveness May Help
Black Women Avoid HIV
CHICAGO - ,According to a study published
in the Journal of the American
Medical Association, African-American
women Who took classes in %exual
assertiveness" were two times more likeh’
to insist on theirmale sex partners using
condom s than a comparable group of
women who took a standard 2-hour AIDS
education class. Among other things, the
classes taught how to put condoms on a
partner, how to clearly express sexual
desires and how to deal with situations
where either the women or their partners
have been drinking. ,:~* .......
"We don’t think one session of HIV
education is really goxng to change any
behavior - and in fact it did not," said Dr.
Gina Wingood of the school of public
health at the University of Alabama ~n
Birmingham and one of the co-authors of
the study. Black women in the U.S. are 16
times m~)re likely to become infected with
HIV than American white women, possibly
because their male sex partners are
less likely to use condoms or more likely
to u se IV drugs, Wingood and her fellow
researchers said.
Young People Hit Hardest by
HIV in China
BEIJING - China’s leading medical publication,
Health Daily, has reported that
the AIDS epidemic is striking the nation’s
younger people harder than auy other age
group. According to the paper, nearly
two-thirds of those infected with HI\" in
the country are under 30 years of age. The
paper’s da~a, however, w’as based on government
health agency figures, which officially
have recorded ouly 1,774 HIV
infections in the country..klan)" global
AIDS experts believe that more than
10,000 Chinese are actually infected with
the virus.
French Hospital to Test 5,000
Ex-Patients of MD with HIV
PARIS - Officials at the Saint-Germainen-
Laye Hospital have announced that
the medical facility will test more than
5,000 ex-patients for possible HIV infection.
The enormous hospital-funded testing
program was announced after it was
~ discovered that one of its surgeons had
¯ . been infected with HIV for at least 13
¯ years. Hospital officials said it was "’very
¯ ~" uulikely’~ that the physician had infecte~l
any of his patients but that it wanted to
reassure former patients of the surgeon.
Male IV Drug Users at
High Risk for HIV
ATLANTA - A study by the C~nters for
Disease Control & Prevention and published
in the agency’s MMWR Summary
indicates that AIDS education and prevention
programs may not be reaching
male IV drug users ffho also have sex
with other men. TheCDC study was based
on xnterviews with men who inject drugs
and who also have sex with other men -
whether they identified themselves as gay,
bisexual or heterosexual - in Dallas, Denver
and Long Beach, Calif. The researchers
concluded that this subgroup now accounts
for 7% of the total AIDS cases in
the U.S. and 21% of all the cases among
IV drug users in tiffs country.
.." " The men in this group, ~e study said,
are at "’extremely high risk" of becoming
infected, noting that the majority of those
interviewed shared needles, often traded
sex for drugs or money, and had unprotected
sex with multiple partners. The
study also noted that how these men identify
themselves sexually may have little or
nothing to do with whether they have sex
with other males, with a full third of those
interviewed describing themselves as heterosexuals
even though they all acknowledged
having sex with other men.
Study: Lesbians, Bi Women At
Higher Risk for HIV
CHICAGO - According to a report published
in the American Journal ofPublic
Health, wo~nen who have sex with other
women are at greater risk for HIV infe6-
tion than women who are exclusively
heterosexual. The researchers compared
attitudes,, characteristics and HIV statns
of women at a sexually transmitted disease
clinic in New York City. Of the 9%
who said they have sex with other women,
more than 90% said they also had sex with
men as well.
The scientists found that the women
who had same-sex contact were more
likely than the exclusively heterosexual
women to be infected with HIV, to trade
sex for drugs or money; and to use intravenous
drugs. The researchers .said, although
the women who have sex with
other women were more likely to be infected
with HIV, the study found no instances
of actual female-to-female transmission.
Clinton to Host White House
AIDS Conference
WASHINGTON-Theadministration has
announced that President Clinton will host
the first-ever White House Conference on
AIDS on Dec. 6 to underscore his commitment
to doing more about the epidemic.
Mike McCurry, White Housepress
secretary, said it will bring many experts
on the disease to the high-level conference.
"’It will feature more than 130 individuals
from across the country," M~Curry
said. "Conference participants will discuss
the. latest trends in the .AIDS epidemic,
epidemiological stgveys and studies
of the AIDS epidemic itself, and the
central issues of AIDS research, prevention,
care and discrimination, among other
issue,s." McCurry said Clinton would take
partmsome portion of the conference, but
didn’t specify exactly what.
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CHICAGO - According to a research
study published in ithe Journal of the
American MedicalAssociation, the spread.
.ofHIV among IV drug users could be kept
an check through needle-exchange programs,
which should not only dispense
clean ne edles but also educate drug addicts
about how the virus is spread and
how to avoid infection. Investigators from
the Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth
Israel Medical Center in New York studied
needle-swap programs in 5 cities -
Tacoma, Wash.; Glasgow, Scotland;
Lund, Sweden; Sydney, Australia; and
Toronto, Canada. The researchers found,
among other things, that clean-needle programs
cost about $20 per addict per year,
"but treatment costs for people with AIDS
¯
were as high as $120,000 a year.
¯ The researchers also compared data
¯ from the 5 cities they studied with data
fromNew York City, which does not have
¯
a legal needle-swap program. The scien-
¯ fists found that HIV infection rates among
IV drug users there rose from under 10%
to more than 50%injust 5 years, while the
¯ 5 study cities kept infection rates among
IV drug abusers at very low levels.
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¯ SACRAMENTO,Calif.-CaliforniaGov_
¯ ernor Pete Wilson has signed into law a
¯ CA Gov. Vetoes Medicinal Pot
¯ SACRAMENTO, Calif. - To the surprise
of almost no one, California Governor
: Pete Wilson la~ vetoed a measure passed
¯ in September by the state legislature that
would have allowed people with AIDS
~ and some other illnesses to grow and use
: marijuana. Many AIDS activists and a
¯ number of physicians say the illegal drug
alleviates several debilitating manifesta-
¯ uons associated with AIDS,includingloss
of appetite, weight loss, and nausea. It is
the second such measure approved .by the
California Legislature that Wilson has
vetoed~’ "
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measure that requires health care pracu-. "
tioners offeringl~renatal ca~e tO offerHW
¯ testing to pregnant women. Expectant ¯
¯ mothers arenot,however, required to take " HAVANA - The Miami Herald has rethe
test. ¯ ported that Cuba has one of the lowest
HIV infection rates in all ofLatin America
- by forcibly quarantining those infected
with the virus. World Health Orgamzation
data shows that Cuba has only 0.8
cases of AIDS reported for each 100,000
citizens. Cuba has put people infected
with HIV inisolated sanatoriums for nearly
a decade. Dr. Reinaldo Gil, who runs
Cuba’s AIDS programs, told the Herald
that the isolation of people with HIV
AIDS was the main reason for the
country’s low infection rate. "People are
beginning to.see that what we did works,"
he said. The paper also quoted people
with AIDS who agreed that Cuba’s isolation
program had reduced possible infections.
But one patient told the paper, "’\Ve
have lost our freedom. That is the most
important thing there is."
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A White House letter from Clihton to the
Human Rights Campaign, a major backer of
the legislation and the country’s largest gay
lobbying organization, says that the president
considers the bill "important civil rights legislation."
The bill bans discrimination based on
sexual orientation in businesses with more
than 15 employees. Religious organizations
are exempt from the measure.
Clinton noted that the proposed le~slation
does not apply to businesses with 15 or fewer
workers, to the nation’s armed forces or to
i’eligious organizations or the schools they
operate, andthat 4t specifically excludes, an~"
quotas. The bill would not reqtfires businesses
to provide health or other benefits to domestic
parmers of gay or lesbian employees.
"’The bill, therefore, appears to answer all
the legitimate objections previously raised
against it, ~while ensuring that Americans, regardless
of their sexual orientation, can find
and keep their jobs based on their ability and
the quality of their work," the Clinton letter
says. George Stephanopoulos, a senior Clinton
advisor, said,"This is a reasonable response to
a real problem. It ensures that everyone receives
equal treatment and no one gets special
treatment." "Peopleshould not be fired from
their jobs for a reason that has nothing to do
wi th their abilities," said Elizabeth Birch, executiye
director of the Human Rights Campaign.
"Today in.America, it’s perfectly legal
to fire someohe for being gay or lesbiaJa. The
President stands with the vast majority of
Ameri cans in supporting equal rights in the
workplace for lesbian and gay citizens."
The bill laces opposmon on Capitol Hill,
"and has poor chances of passage at this time.
In the latest issue of Nature Gen¢,Jir~sv~,Dr.
Dean Hamer and his fellow researcli6rs at the
National Institutes of Health reported that the
expanded study confirms that there is a genetic
link between male homosexuality and the genetic
marker (known as X q28) il;herited from
X chromosome of the mother. The researchers
found that 22 of 32 pairs of gay brothers from
unrelated families (69%) shared the same version
of the genetic material, leading them to
confirm the genetic link. When the scientists
looked at the heterosexual brothers of gay
men, however, they found only 22% of the
heterosexual Siblings had inherited the Xq28
pattern.
At the same time, researchers examined 36
pairs of lesbian sisters, but found no evidence
of any shared genetic marker in the same
re.on. "The finding in gay men but not lesbians
suggests that the mechanisms underlying
male and female sexual orientauons a~e at
least partially distinct," Hamer concluded in
the report. Earlier statistical studies have also
shown that gay men were more likely to have
gay" brothers than lesbians to haw lesbian
s~sters, he noted. Hamer said, "’It shows that it
is not impossible to map complex psychological
traits to genes. It is still a very large genetic
re,on. We have narrowed down which haystack
in the field it is, but it’s still a haystack."
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Following the Supreme Court hearings on Tuesday, Oct. 10, Colorado’s
Attorney General Gale Norton told reporters that gays and lesbians as a group,
do not merit "special protections." "The status quo, in almost the entire United
States, is that there are uo laws granting special protections on the basis .of
sexual orientation," Norton said.."And Amendment 2 just says .that,there will
not be those additional special protections on that basis."
On the other side, attorney Jean Dubofsky argued before the Court that the
Colorado amendment violated the U.S. constitutional guarantee of equal
protection under the law She said that if the Supreme Court Upholds the
Colorado measure, homosexuals will lose their basic right to challenge discriminatory
laws and regulations anywhere inthe country.
. "’!f,~v~Llp,s~ !ki.~ case arid Amend~nent 2,g0es into effect, it immedimely
repeals all the local ordinfiri~.es and all the general state laws and policies that
protect people from discrimination on the basis of gay orientation only"
Dubofskv said followin_o the Court hearino "’And it .W,hff,ao ~., tho ~,...... ~,~;
genera~ poucy or any protectlon.at any level ofgovernment from discrimination
on the basis of gay orientation or from the opportunity to seek any protection
from discrimination."
During the hearings, several Supreme Court justices questioned the validity
of theColorado amendment, expressing fears that it could allow hospitals to
deny medical treatment to gays or permit hotels and restaurants to turn
homosexuals away.
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Guest Conductor and Solo Flute:
Ransom Wilson Saturday, December 2, 8 p.m.
Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa PAC
Mozart: Flute Concerto in D Major
Liadov: The Enchanted Lake
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Marilyn Haye
Fri., Dec. 8 & Sat., Dec. II
Chapman Music Hall
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LACK iWHITE INC COMMUNITY CALEN’ AR
SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All
Times Christian Center
Sunday School, 9:45 am
Worship Service, 11 am
2627-B East 1 lth.
Info: 583-7815
Community of Hope
(United Methodist)
Worship Service;~ 6 pm "
1703 E. 2nd, 585-1800
Family of Faith
Metro. Comm. Church
Worship Service, 11 am
5451-E South Mingo.
In/o: 622-1441
Metro. Comm. Church
of Greater Tulsa
Worship Service, 10:45am
1623 N. Maplewood
Info: 838-1715
TheBanned,OKGay Band
Practice weekly in OKC
Info: 838-2121
Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay
Alliance - Univ. of Tulsa
6:30pm at Canterbury
5th & Evanston
" Info: 583-9780
MONDAYS
HIV Testing
TOHR Clinic
Free & anonymous testing. "
using fingerstick
method. ¯
No appointment required..
Walk in testing: 7:8:3.0pm
Results hours: i7-9pn~
Info: 742-2927 ¯
Lambda Bowling League; ."
Sheridan Lanes
8:45 pm ¯
3121 S. Sheridan . :
TUESDAYS
Minister’s Class
Bless the .Lord at All
Times Christian Center
7:30 pm
2627-B East 1 ith
In/0:583-7815
HlV-g Support Group
HIVResource Consortium
1:30 pm
4154 S. Harvard,’Ste. H-1
Info: Wanda @ 749-4194
WEDNESDAYS
Authority OfThe Believer
Bible Study, 7 pm
MCC ofGreater Tulsa
1623 N. Maplewood
Info: 838-t715
Bless The Lord At All
Times Christian Center
Choir Practice 7
2627-B East llth
Call 583-7815 for inio.
PFLAG Family AIDS
Support Group
1st & 3rd Wednesdays
4154 S. Harvard
In/o: 749-4901
Family Of Faith MCC
Poduck 6:30 pm
Bible Study 7 pm
Choir Practice 8 pm
5451-E South Mingo,
Call 622-1441 for info.
THURSDAYS
16-Step Empowerment
¯ Group For Women
Community of Hope
¯ !703 E. 2nd, info: 585-1800
Co-Dependency
Support Group
¯ 7:30, Family of Faith MCC
¯ 5451÷E S. Mingo
¯ Call 622-1441 for Info. ..
: HIVTestingTOHRClinic
¯ Fr.ee & anonymous testing
¯ using fingerstick method.
¯ No appointment required.
¯ Walkin testing: 7 - 8:30pm
Results hours: 7 - 9pm
Info: 742-2927
Prayer Time
¯ MCC - Greater Tulsa, 7 pm
1623 N. Maplewood
In/o: 838-1715
Tulsa Family Chorale
¯ Weekly practice, 9:30 pm
Lola’s 2630 E. 15th
PFLAG Family AIDS
Support Group
1st & 3rd Thursdays
4154 S. Harvard
Info: 749-4901
¯
¯ SATURDAYS Narcotics Anonymous
¯ Meets weekly at 11 pm
¯ Confidential support for
recovering addicts.
¯ Community of.Hope
¯ 1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
NAMES Project
AIDS Memorial Quilt
Sewing Bees
3rd Sat. of each month
Info: 748-3111
MORE GROUPS
Gay & Lesbian Student
Association
TJC Southeast Campus,
Info: 631-7632
SWAN-Single Women’s
Activity Network
Call 832-2121
TOHR Helpline
Daily 8-10 pm
For info. or to volunteer:
743-GAYS
Tool Box Technicians,
Leather org.,
Info c/o Tile Tool Box:
584-1308-
T.U.L.S.A.
Tulsa Uniform &
Leather Seekers Assoc.
In!o: 838-1222
NOVEMBER 16-19
Broken Arrow Comnutnity Playhouse
Quilt - A A4usical Celet~ation
1800 So. Main, [nfo: 258-0077
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19; 26
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 10 & 17
Faith & Struggle Dialogue Group
Community of Hope United Methodist
4:30pm, 1703 E. 2nd (ongoing group) .
In/o: 585-1800
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Tulsa Oklahomansfor Human Rights
Monthly Board Meeting, 7 pm
Call for location., In/o: 743-4297
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Family ofFaith MCC,
Thanksgiving Service, 6:30 pm
5451-E S. Mingo, In/o: 622-1441
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26
Community ofHope
The Rev. Scott Sharp Preaches, 6 pm
1703 E. 2nd St., In/o: 585-1800
,TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28
Rainbow Business Guild, 7 pm
Mazzio’s at The-Farm Shopping Ctr~
Private Dining Room
Dinner Meeting, In/o: 665-5174
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29
WorldAIDS Day Panel."
A Tulsa Perspective, 7 pm
Aaronson Auditorium, Central Library,
In/o: 596-7977
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1
WOrMAIDS-Day March, 6:30 pm
Sharp Chapel, TU, Inio~. 438-2437
DECEMBER 1-2, 7-9
: Broken Arrow Community Playhouse
Androcles & the Lion, 8pm
1800 So. Main, hffo: 258-0077
DECEMBER 2, 9 & 10
Broken Arrow Community Playhouse
Androcles & the Lion, 2pm
1800 So. Main, Info: 258-0077
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3
Red Ribbon Treefest, 4 pm
Spotlight Theatre
1318 Riverside Dr.
In/o: 663-5372
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3
Prime Timers Monthly Meeting
Write for in/o: P.O. Box 52118, 74104
SUNDAY,IDECEMBER 3
Community ofHope
Bishop Dan Soloman & Jby Sblomon
Reception, 4 pm,Service, 6 pm
1703 E. 2nd St., Info: 585-1800
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4
Women, Children & AIDS Committee,
noon
1430 S. Boulder~ ~ollim!~R0~m
TUESDAY~~ DECEMBER 5
Making Sense ~HIV Prevention Group
Call for locadon & time.
In/o: Jason @ 742-2927
TUESDAY~ DECEMBER 5
AIDS Coalition ofTulsa
Gathering of the Evergreens, noon
1430 S. Boulder, Collins Room
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6
Womens Supper Club Dinner, 6:30 pm
Spaghetti Warehouse. 211 E. Brady
Info: 298-4648
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8
Tulsa Oldahomansfor Human Rights
Holiday Gathering. 7 pm
All Soul’s Unitarian, 2902 S. Peoria
In/o: 743-4297
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9
Dignity/Integrity Christmas Dinner
Lesbian/Gay Catholics & Episcopalians
6:30 pm, private home
Info: 298-4648
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10
Broken Arrow Community Playhouse
Auditions for The Lion in WMter
5pro, 1800 So. Main, Info: 258-0077
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10
Family ofFaith MCC "
Christmas Childrens’ Party, 5 pm
5451-E S. Mingo, In/o: 622-1441
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17
Family ofFaith MCC
:~ Christmas Concert & Silent Atwtion,
¯ 7:30 pm
¯ 5451-E S. Mingo
: Info: 622-144
: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24
¯ Family ofFaith MCC
¯ Christmas Eve Candlelight Service ¯
10 pro, 5451-E S, Mingo, Info: 622-
Out &About with JD
Here is anew section that will help you
keep abreast, of what’s going on with
Tulsa’s night life. Each month will feature
a local establishment and give you a
listing of what is happing through out the
month.
This month’s feature is an great little
bar on historic Whittier Square. Mosl
people have mistaken this bar for a an
exclusively Lesbian hideaway because of
the name,
BARRACUDA’S WILD NIGHTS, but it
is slowly becoming a great little show bar
and a nice stopping off point for a evening
.offun. Thefollowingmonthat Barracuda’s
~s just full of fun and benefits for the
OnNovember 17th, they will behaving
a benefit to help Interfaith Ministries of
Tulsain recognition of World AIDS Day;
December 1st. The evening will include
several different performers such as vocalist
Linda Rush, guitarist Harry Carroll,
entertainers suchas Sensuous, J.J. Gentrey,
Sugarbaker and many more. During the
beginning of December, Barracuda’s will
be hosting the first annual Ms. Whittier
Square please contact Ladonnafor further
information at 582-4340.
Over 0n.the east side, the gals at TNT’s
and Time’N’ Timehave got things going.
November 22, Time N Time is hosting a
Leather community meeting at 7:30. On
November 26, TNT’s will have a Carnival
at 8pm. December 10 TNT’s will have
a guest DJ at their annual Christmas Auction
for Needy Families. December 15,
Time N Time will have 5th Anniversary
Party. They also have a free brunch each
Sunday. Call for more information.
READALLABOUT IT
Reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-County Library
In 1992, Dab Price made history by
launching a weekly, informational
newspaper column in the Detroit The phrase "...and
News. Hercommonsense say tl~~ to__-|°yce," "
approach to life is unusual lS
for a columnist only be- the o en repeated
cause Price is lesbian and
her column addresses life
experiences from a gay
perspective, The phrase
"...and say hi’ to Joyce,"
is the often repeated closing
line ofmany ofthe fan
letters she. receives and
refers to her longtime
partner, Joyce Murdoch.
This is the story ofhow
the columnbegan, includdosing
line of
many of the fan
letters she reeelves
& refers to her
longtlme partner,
Joyee Murdoeh,
ing the behind-the-scenesdiscussions and
ultimate decision to have this column in
Detroit’s"politically conservative" newspaper.
Predictably, after the colunm began,
some subscribers, outraged at the
column’s inclusion in a "family newspaper,"
canceled their subscriptions. The
number of cancellations, however, was
qnly a fraction of what had been anticipated.
The edffors stood firm, andnow the
columnis distributed nationwide, through
Gannett, the country’s largest newspaper
chain.
Much of the book consists of Price’s
columns, reprinted in their entirety, The
¯ wide variety of topics in the col~mm convey
her background as a journalist: poli-
¯ tiCS, religion, travel and history, but also
¯ love and relationships.Columm fltles in-
" clude "Gay Souls Find a True Sanctuary
in the Buckle of the Bible
Belt," "City Living Gay
Transplants Taking Root
in Smaller Places" and
"Ignorance is the Great-
-est Threat to Opening Up
the Military to Gays.’" It’s
interesting to read about
the thoughts and events
that go into deciding top-
¯its and the responses, in
person, by phone and
mail, from readers who
strongly agree or disagree
with the column. Many
lonely, closeted gays,
young and old, seem to
¯ find cause for optimism
in Price’s column and write her to express
¯ theirappreciation. Coming out stories and
¯ positive letters from parents, friends and ¯
politicians are all included. There are, of
¯ course, many negative letters reprinted as
well, which often ~ve keen examples of
where those oppo_sed to gay equality are
coming from.
¯ This is a very enjoyable book, filled
¯ with lo~c, usal31e advice and uplifting
~ stories, writtenby womenwho really have
¯ a way with words. Check for this book,
¯ and others on similar topics, at the Read-
. ers Services department, Central Library,
¯ 2nd floor, or call 596-7966.
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¯ GLAMA Honors Gay
...... And Lesbian Music
: by Lester Strong
"’It takes a particular kind of courage to
be an out musician. It takes a particular
~ kind of artist to express musically what is
¯ often silenced by either the outside world
¯ oravoice within ourselves that says some
~ things are meant not to be spoken."
: With these words, Dan Martin and
¯ Michael Biello, life partners and founders
: of the national gay music organization
: Outmusic, inaugurated the kickoff event
¯ -for the Gay/Lesbian American Music
Awards (GLAMA) intended to acknowledge
and honor the work of openly gay
and lesbian music artists. Held October 1
at The Supper Club in the heart of New
York City’s Theater District, "A Night of
GLAMA" was hosted by award-winning
playwright and actor Han,ey Fierstein
and :attended b,y a mix of:over 350 performers,
gaymusic supporters,and representatives
from the media and recording
companies like Atlantic Records.
GLAMA creator/producers Tom
McCormack and Michael Mitchell along
with the GL&MA advisory board are currently
in the process of defining-categoties,
eligibility, and nominating andjudging
procedures for the first annual performing
awards to be handed out next
year.
..............................
categories are likely to include the year’s
best female and male performers, best
group, best ori~nal song, and best recorded
performance byan "out" performer
or group. But this year’s event saw the
introduction of two" special awards, presented
to individuals well known on the
music scene for their long-standing contributions
to the cause of openly gay music.
The Michael Callen Medal of Achievement
was given to Cris Willi0ms0n, a
pioneer ofthe women’s musicmovement,
cofounder of Olivia Records, and strong
community supporter in her work with
pediatric AIDS groups, while the
Outmusic Award was presented to Boy
George, the British popmusic star known
the world over for his gender-bending
music and style of performance.
In the words of Bob Guccione, Jr.,
Editor/Publisher of Spin magazine, who
presented the Michael Callen Medal: "The
¯ Callen Medal is given to an individual,
~ group, organization, or business cormnit-
~ ted to the courageous and important work
¯ of engendering, nurturing, and furthering
i
gay/lesbian music. Tonight the Callen
Medal honors Cris Williamson, a singer/
songwriter who has Used her music and
: good works as beacons ofhope and inspi-
¯ ration for lesbian, gay, and nongay audi- ¯
ences for more than twenty years."
¯ The Outmusic Award honors recording
¯ artists, groups, or songwriters who have
advanced gay/lesbian music through their
work as out musicians. As presenter
: Me’scheli Ndegeocello, recording artist
¯ onMadorma’s Mavericklabel, stated about
~ Boy George: "The recipients’ steadfast
; co~nitment to speak openly and specifi-
~ e,ally to the gay and lesbian experience
¯ through music qualifies them for this ¯
award. GLAMA has chosen to give this
~ inaugural award to a man who from the
~ beginning of his career in the early eight-
- ies has consistently called into questaon
: society’s perceptio’ns of gender roles."
: Adds Michael Mitchell about both
¯ awards. "There arepeople in the commusee
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They may not have a recordidg out this
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and Outmusic Award on an annual basis:"
The diversity of music embraced by
GLAMA was indicated by the evening’s
entertainment. Performing were qtaeer
pnnkers Pansy Division, a cappella group
The Flirtations with their newest and first
woman meznber Suede, renegade folk/
rock band disappear fear with lead singer
Sonia Rutstein, and drag diva Joey Arias
"’channeling" Billie Holiday. Cris
Williamson sang a few of her ballads, and
Harvey Fierstein did a turn, performing
"This Is Not Going To Be Pretty" from his
newly released CD of the same name.
"A Night of GLAMA" was scheduled
to coincide with the opening of the
Outmusic 5th Annual Festival of Gay and
Lesbian Music, held each October in New
York City, and Manhattan Borough President
Ruth Messenger was.on hand to read
a proclamation officially designating October,
1995 as "Gay and Lesbian Music
Month" in New Y’ork. Outmusic dedicates
itself to creating opportunity for--
and increasing awareness of--lesbian and
gay composers, lyricists, performers,and
their supporters. GLAMA also espouses
those goals, but the two are organizationally
distinct.
October 6,1996, has already been set as
the date for next year’s First Annual GaU
Lesbian American Music Awards ceremony,
to be held again in New York. For
more information, contact McCormack
and Mitchell at 267 Fifth Avenue, Suite
801-49, New York, NY 10016; tel. 212-
59,2-4455; e-mail GLAMAS@aol.com.
Enjoying the Momenff
by Pat Morehead
Now for something completely different....
where the hell did this snow come
from? Yesterday afternoon I was dodging
pecans inmy tee shirt as I tried to round up
leaves on my patio. Four hours later I was
towe!ing snow off the dog after his mid
evemng potty break. Oklahoma has to be
on.e ofweirdest places in the world weather
wise.
But the result this morning is unbeatable.
The entare north wall of my ’office’
looks out onto my patio and back yard.
Just beyond my monitor is a stretch of
shadowed blue and gray snow, then a
stretch of gleaming white-snow topped
and highlighted by brilliant golden yellow
leaves splattered across the trees in
the background which are interlaced with
swaths of cendean blue sky. It’s like one
ofthose images from the ubiquitous Christmas
Calendars.
Most of the time you look around Tulsa
and it all seems pretty blah, and that’s
being generous. Thenout ofnowhere some
little scene leaps out and you’re just
amazed at the accidental beat~ty. At least
I am. For me that accidenta] moment of.
something unique is the "JEEZ" moment.
The "JEEZ" moment is one of the best
things about Tulsa and life in general. _If
I’m waxing a bit too bucolic about the s,
please overlook my enthusiasm.
I want to enjoy this moment because
it’ll all get mined pretty quickly due to the
approaching holidays. No, I am not a
holiday grinch. But the COlrmiercial and
emotional overkill which I "know is coming
is about as offputting as anything you
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can imagine. And yes we will all get
sucked up into the holiday insanity. At
least most of us will.
My companion and I have reached that
stage where we can sit back and enjoy the
season in a relaxed low key fashion. We
put some real joint effort into a great meal
which we can enjoy in peace and quiet.
Then a .movie on tape which we have
purposefully avoiding renting until the
holidays. Occasionally we arejoined by a
couple of friends, people about whom we
really care. It may sound dull, but after
years of having dealt with crappy family
holiday discords, it is.shear bliss.
Christmas works pretty much the same
way. Naturally we do have to take care of
family recognition, but again we try and
keep that to a minimum. We start with the
presumption that someone is going to say
or do something stupid or hurtful. So we
give them as little opportunity as possible.
We have also reached the stage where
wecankeep the ’gifting’ to aminimum. In
fact we have already done most of that.
We replaced some aging furniture and
added a new TV as our Christma~ gifts for
our house. Part of the old furniture .went to
Goodwill and some directly to a friend
who could Use it. All that re~nains now is
finding that certain something special
~which will express the depth of love and
affection between us. No easy task let me
add.
[ "kno~v to you this probably seems about
as exciting ~s algebra. But for us it is a
refreshing break from all of the usual
turmoil, hurt feelings and anger which
have marked previous holiday seasons.
Answer tmtlffully, ho~v many of you are
already dreading the enforced family visitations?
Not to mention the other stuff
associated with the holidays which .you
really don’t want to be involved im but
feel compelled to do. "
I’ve developed a pretty simple approach
to life, which I offer as a recommendation.
ff there are people you don’t care for, and
who go out of their wav to make you
miserable, then avoid bei~g around them.
If there are situations whichget you crazy,
avoid them whenever you have the option.
If there is stuff that you really hate
doing (and which you don’t have to do to
live) just don’t-do it!
I used to waste a lot of time, energy and
fretting over doing stuff that I thought I
had to do even though I hated it. Gradually,
I have learned tha~ doing the right
!hing doesn’t mean doing what others
~mpose as "the right thing to do". Here’s
the secret. If you worry about what others
think, you’ll spend your entire life worrying.
If that sounds like the way to enjoy
life, more power to you, have ~t it!
As for me, I’ll sit here awhileqonger
with my coffee and enjoy the scene outsidemywindows.
The squirrels have come
out now. They are busy rooting_through
the snow and leaves looking those pecans
I dodged yesterday. The birds are hopping
through the snow looking for lord knows
what. The dog is lying here next to me
blissfully gnawing on his chew bone and
my companion / lover is messing around
in the "kitchen.. It’s a cozy pleasant Saturday
morning. Enjoy the holidays with the
people you really care about and who
really care about vou.
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TULSA The Silver Star SalooninTulsa,
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4 as a standing room only crowd watched
Aden Spitler win the title of Mr. Oklahoma
Leather ’96.
Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers
Association (T.U.L.S.A.) president Arnie
Holder produced this year’s event, pooling
talent from the Technicians and Tribe
an auction mad special entertainment provided
by Carmen del Rio of NLA Dallas/
Dallas Eagle fame. As always, Carmen
brought the house down!
While contestants sweated out the results
backstage, IML Larry Everett, who
was also Mr. Oklahoma Leather ’95, gave
the traditional stepping aside address to
the crowd. Cash and prizes donated by
Excalibur.
International Mr. Leather
’95, Larry Everett, was Master
ofCeremonies, while the
judging panel included International
Mr. Drummer
David Walker, International
Ms. Leather ’94 Cindy
Bookout, International Mr.
Fantasy JD Buchert, Queen
of Kink Jill Carter, Fantasy
and Great Plains Drummer
co-producers Bob Ewing
and Dustin Logan and IML
Finalist Lance Brittain.
Look for Aden
to shine bright
in Chiea .o as he
wkeels his way
into town as
Oklahoma’s
offieial IML
preliminary
entry.
T.U.L.S.A., Leatherworks
by Johnna, Shades of Grey
Dallas, the Leather Rack
DC, Utica Tri’s, NY, Silver
Star Saloon, JD Images,
IML, Inc., Viola Johnson
valued atalmost $3000 were
readied as the five contestants
were brought back for
the final results. Second
Runner-up was Danny
Pelletier. First Runner-up
was Victor Reyes, and
crowd favorite, Arlen
Spitler, was given the
The weekend’s events began Friday
evening with a shuttle bus bar crawl, sampling
a wide variety of clubs throughout
the city. The tour ended up at the Silver
Star where judges and contestants were
introduced to the crowd and contestant
numbers were drawn.
Interviews were conducted Saturday
morning while the host cout~try and W~Stern
bar stage was transformedintoa.cruisy
alleyway for the much anticipated event.
Starti,ng on time (as well organized events
do) the contestants competedin Streetwear
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Entertwined with the contest were
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with special interests in Advocacy
and Fnndraising for Children with disabilities,
sports and gay and lesbian youth
issues. Aden was First Runner-up to IML
larry Everett at the Mr. Tulsa Leather
contest last year losing to him by only one
po_in~. He then took over_the tit.!e as Mr.
Tulsa ’95 after Larry went on tO win Mr.
Oklahoma Leather and IML, respectively.
Aden also won Mr. Barechest in Washington,
DC earlier this year. Look for
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wheels his way into town as Oklahoma’s
official IML preliminary entry.
also offers no such protection.
Question 1 asked voters to limit "protected
classifications" in current and future
state and locai laws to ten specific
categories. The measure asked, "Do you
favor the changes in Maine law limiting
protected classifications in future, state
and local laws to race, color, sex, physical
and mental disability, religion, age, ancestry,
national origin, familial status, and
marital status, and repealing existing laws
which expand these classifications as proposed
by citizen petition?" The measure
effectively would have repealed two local
non-discrimination laws that include gay
people, and would have prohibited commumt~
es from passing such laws in the
future. Question 1 was written by Bruce
Fein, a right-wing lawyer based in Virginia,
to circumvent court decisions saying
that gays should not be singled out for
discrimination. Question 1 also would
haverepealed any anti-discrimination protections
in the state’s university and college
system, and gutted the state hate
crimes law by removing sexual orientation.
Unlike earlier anti-gay measures, the
language of Question 1 avoided mentioning
lesbian and gay people. The National
Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
"suggested that Question 1 was drafted to
be intentionally confusing. More than 70
state business, religious, educational and
political groups and leaders opposed the
measure, including the Catholic Diocese
of Maine. National extreme right groups
actively pushed for a"yes" vote on Quesuon
1. Bob Knight of the Family Research
Council toured the state calling on voters
to approve the measure, as did Beverly
LaHaye of Concerned Women for
America. Focus on the Family aired radio
advertisements in favor of the initiative.
A statement from the National Gay &
Lesbian Task Force noted, "’the victory
over Measure One offers us a tremendons
potential to seize the momentum and pass
a statewide non-discrimination law in
Maine. The law was recently introduced
in the state legislature by Dale McCormick.
Originally passed in 1993 but vetoed by
then conservative governor Kieman, the
bill can capture the new-fonnd awareness
of the extent of real discrimination and
persecution suffered by the gay and lesbian
citizens of Maine. Governor Angus
King, a huge supporter of the No On 1
campaign, is expected to sign such legislation."
NGLTF campaign consultant Susan
Hibbard, in the field in Maine, reports an
unparalleled grassroots educational and
visibility campaign in all 16 counties has
changed the way the state views its gay,
lesbian and bisexual citizens. NGLTF
added, "the isolation and fear of being
gay, especially in rural places, has been
altered by new-found and strengthened
visibility and support for gays and our
allies at the forefront of this battle. So -
many people came to our side to help.
They proclaimed, ’This issue brought me
out.’ Indeed, the ballot measure may have
even backfired against the?Radical Right.
Intended to push gays and lesbians back
into the closet, it instead galvanized us
and our supporters."
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ARIES, March 21, April 20
Not that you ever want people to boss you
around but, this month, even a sideways ..
glance from an authority fi.gure can send
your blood pressure soanng. You can
make great career progress now, especially
if you throw your energy into your
work instead of into fighting off every- :
imagined threat. Convert your anger into
passion, No, your lover really isn’t trying
to control you.
TAURUS, April 20 -May 21
Now is the perfect time to go new places,
learn new things and open up your views
of the world. You may be tempted to think
that nobody is as smart as you are. You
may be tempted to beat people over the
head with your opinions. YOU may even
be tempted to hire a lawyer to do the
beating for you; but don’t do it. The world
and its inhabitants are only trying to teach
you a thing or two.
GEMINI, May 21 - June 22
A month of crazed passion and deep desires.
Good news? Sure, if you work your
passions out in the bedroom, or in the
elevator on the way to work if that’s what
you prefer. The bad news? This is the vibe
that creates deep passion about everything
you share with others, from your
body to your bank account. Not a good
time to ask for a loan and if your parmer
picks fights over money, well, you "know
what to do.
CANCER, June 22 - July 23
You have been ’holding back grievances
for quite a while now, and this month
provides a great,opportunity to clear the
air. You’re energetic and assertive, and
the peopledoseto youmay wonderwhere
Cancer ever got the reputation of being
sweet, domestic and submissive. You’re
in a prime position to work hard with a
partner on a mutually satisfying goal.
Don’t waste the energies on pointless
conflict.
LEO, July 23- Aug. 23
Your discipli,n,e and self-control is amazing
and you 11 take great pride in the
amount of work you can accomplish.
You’d like it better if you got all the credit
for what you do, but your boss and your
coworkers are more
interested in taking
advantage of your
skills. Try to work
on your ownprojects
as much as you can;
and don’t hold back
on your frustrations
or your health may
suffer. If someone
steps on your paw,
go ahead and roar.
Sa~ittarlus - You also have
deep desires to_.buy
expensive, pointless, e¢o-
Cratffyln~ thlnCs...iyou
know that fast, red sports
ear won’t make you a better
person. Don’t you?
VIRGO, Aug. 23 - Sept. 23
This is the month for fun and games, and
your self-discipline will be at an all time
low. Existing relationships get a passionate
boost and you look particularly cute at
all the holiday parties, though the new
love interest youmeet now is likely to lose
your phone number for a month or two.
Have a good and pleasurable wallow tiffs
month and don’t feel guilty about it. You’ re
not reqmred to be dutiful and responsible
all the time. Really.
LIBRA, SepL 23- Oct. 23
Try to live by the saying,"A closed mouth
gathers no foot." It may s~emlike people
are trying to,pick fights ~ith you but, the
truth is, you re dredging:up old, unconscious
issues with deep roots in the past.
Unless you’re very conscious of whom
you’re dealing with, you’ll be prone to
saying silly things that have nothing to do
with the situations that really exist. Clean
out.your psyche, clean out your closets;
get rid of all the old junk. It’s time.
SCORPIO, Oct. 23 ~ Nov. 23
You’re always a very incisive communicator
but, this month, ~our words and
ideas have such intensily
that people
may quake in fear
when you pass
_judgement on the
weather. It’s a good
month to sell )’ourself
and );our ideas
because you will impress
everyone with
your intellectual
power. An equally
good month to start learning about something
new. Just try to avoid the tendency
to be argumentative mfiess a real, serious
issue is at Stake.
SAGITTARIUS, Nov. 23-Dec. 22
You’re obsessed with money and possessions,
a very weird feeling for someone
who likes to’travel as fast and light as you
ordinarily do. You have plenty of energy
and motivation to work hard for what you
want. You also have deep desires to throw
your monex around and buy expensive,
pointless, ~go-gratifying things. Staple
)’our money to the inSide of your pockets;
you know that fast, red sports car won’t
make you a beuer person. Don’t you?
CAPRICORN, Dec. 22- Jan. 21
This is a very positive time for resolving
old problems and accomplishing new
goals. Does that sound too good to be
true? Of course it does. You’re a Capricorn,
and that means you’re cosmically
required to be cynical and suspicious.
You also want to know how long it will
last, don’t you? Two months. Spend December
and J,anua~,,y going hardafter what
you want and you 11 get it. You even get to
set the terms. This is good. Lighten up
already!
AQUARIUS, Jan. 21 - Feb. 20
Aquarians are famous for two things: a
great capacity for friendship and humanitarian
impulses, and a great tendency to
do weird things that shock other people.
You’ll have to use one trait to overcome
the other this month. You seem te create
the wrong impression every time you open
your mouth and your ego can suffer as a
result. Hide out in the basement and invent
something, or throw your energies
into a good, whale saving cause.
PISCES, Feb. 20 - March 21
Youare read), to make the plans today that
will improve your life tomorrow. You
also need to actually do something to put
your goals in motion. Don’ t let your natural
optimism degenerate into an, "Oh,
well. It will all work out somehow,"frame
of mind. You’ll need a little help from
your friends to make things work out in
your favor. If you don’t already have a
supportive group of friends and collaborators,
go out and find them.
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""The thing that really sold us on the
place was the bumper stickers!" Such
was the main selling point for Linda and
Susan, two of Eureka Springs" newest
residents. A recent influx of new lesbians
in town has added to the already substantial
lesbigay population here. The reasons
for their relocation adventures were many,
but all resounded with a single, "I’m supposed
to be here," when it came right
down to it.
Linda had the most unusual answer to
the question about the defining moment in
the decision-malting process: "We’d studied
subsoils, studied taxes, studied temperatures,
organic growing seasons, all
this stuff. And basically, it boiled down to
thebumper stickers." Such is life in smalltown
middle America.
With between 30 and 40% of our population
being gay and lesbian, we live in a
bit of utopia here, but you’ve heard that
before. Wqay did all these new women
move here? Why did they choose Eureka
Springs, a small Victorian town in the
heart of the Bible Belt? And more to the
point, what keeps them here?
"’I was called by the Universe." So says
Rev. KermieWohlenhaus, pastor ofMCC
of the laving Spring. "I was looking for a
placewith spiritual diversity...The:e is so
much life here...It was really st irittm]
diversity versus conservatism.’"
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lots of gays and lesbians. We have lots of
fundamentalist: Christians. We have numerous
artists of one type or another. We
have quaint Victorian homes, and wehave
large developed music theatres. Preservauonists
abound, yet so do the developers.
It’s a wonderful contrast of opposites.
Linda points out, "...there is a really
high creative genius here. There is an
artist~,,c genius here, ajoy and bliss that we
felt... Linda and susan]ust recently relocated
from Wash. State via New Jersey.
Connie and B~ili~ re......
eei~tly movedbere from
Tucson and San Diego
by way of Mountain
Home, Arkansas. Billie
notes,"I read an article
in the papers about what
the percentage of the
population is in Eureka
Springs that’s gay, and
it’s a pretty large percentage
for a small
town, like one third of the population. I
thought, Yeah, that’s wonderful. Finally,
a place where you don’t have to hide."
Susanechoed that feeling,"There’s ahigh
population of gays and lesbians here, and
it feels like you’re really welcome." When
asked about the diversity m lifestyle
choices and religious viewpoints in our
town, Connie had this to sav: "My philosophy
has ahvays been mrre inclusive
than exclusive of any group of people....I
love the diversity here."
I am one of those relativenewcomers to
How come they can have
Jesus on East Mountain...
The Great Passion Play,
such a high percentage of
~ueeTts,
& still all ~et alon~?
.:F~k.a Springs,just now approachingmy
~ne-y~ar anniversary of packing up my
parmer, myself, our pets and belongings
and making thejourney from the Western
slope of Colorado. One of my main reasons
for wanting to make the move was
that I wanted to see why it works here. 1
remember talking to a friend and saying
something like,"How come they can haye
Jesus on East Mountain, and The Great
Passion Play, such a high percentage of
queers, and still all get along?" Sometimes,
I still wonder.
But, I can tell you this:
it really does work. I
attribute much of that
working to the balance
here. It would be difficult
to ignore the importance
of such alarge
percentageofthe population,
if not in public
issues, at the very least,
in terms of economics.
All of the women that were interviewed
specifically for this article had heard about
Eureka Springs from other people and had
visited prior to deciding to make the move.
So, I would suggest that you be aware of
this when visiting the place we call "’the
hole the buckle goes through in the Bible
Belt." After all, of the 16 or so new women
in town, not one felt she really had a
choice but to move here after visiting on
vacation orjust passing through. There is
a real magnetism here.
But, be ready for a shock, as Billie puts
it: "It’s almost too comfortable here. It’s
almost too safe here, and we son,crimes
forget that there still is a fight out thcre.
: There is still work to be done.’"
Connie tempers this observation with
one of her own: "...one of Eureka Spnngs"
strongest virtues is I have yet to run into
: apathetic people. They are very involved
¯ in their community, and whether I am in
¯ agreement with them and what they want
~ to seein terms of the future of the commu-
¯ nity is actually rather irrelevant."
I tend to agree with Conme On this one.
¯" Eureka has a population, of just under
: 2,000. Nowhere else have I seen so many
unique individuals, each doing his or her
own thing, respecting other people’s right
; to be just as unique, and all the while,
¯ caring deeply about this community and
." its future.
I could go on and on. But, it’s some-
~ thing youjust have to experience for your-
." self. Be prepared to pack up and move
¯ though. When two friends of ours left our
: small town ~n Colorado some two-plus
; years ago to relocate to Eureka Springs, I
¯ remember standingin their driveway while
¯ the moving van was being packed. One
: looked at me, and said, "’phyl, just go
; home and get your stuff. There’s plenty of
room on the truck, and we "know you’re
gonna be there eventually anyway."
~ We didn’t listen. We had to see for
: ourselves, and visited last September. Six
weeks later, we were the newest kids in
town. It’s a recurring theme in Eureka
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relationship. Relocation is most definite if
Daddy wants. Please leave a message.
=15358
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Oklahoma BIG BOY: GWM, 5’6", 250,
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friendship and more. Please leave a
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Tulsa PLAIN, SIMPLE, HONEST: GWM,
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active, seeks other GWM’s far friendship
and possibly more. Please leave a
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Tulsa LET’S LEARN TOGETHER: C~.WM,
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free, seeks inexperienced GWM’s. 18-25
for special encounters. Please leave a
message. Must be discrete and drug free.
=14856
Tulsa LET’S LEARN TOGETHER: GWM, 25,
5’10", 175, brown hair, masculine and
discrete, good looking, non smoker,
athletic, seeks other inexperienced males,
21-301 for friendship and possibly more.
Please leave a message. =14178
Oklahoma LET’S TEACH EACH
OTHER: Bi Curious WM, 27, 6’, 195,
tanned, seeks other males, 18-30, bi
curious preferred, far learning
experiences. Please leave a message.
=17153
Grove WANNA PUNK WITH ME?:
new to area, not into bars, Dave, 20 6’
185 brn/red/hzl, goatee, eyebrow
earring, love volleyball, good music, good
food great conversation, meditate,
spiritual, give me a call- =9385
Tulsa AMERICAN PRIDE: 5’9, 140,
trim physique, hairy chest, sincere and
honest person, like this in a person, give
me a call- =9464
Oklahoma BRAND NEW: GWM, 27,
150 5’8", brown hair, hazel eyes~ will try
anything once, varied interests, seeks
other guys for friendship and much more.
Please leave a message. =17465
Oklahoma LOOKING FOR SERIOUS
FUN: GWM, Oklahoma State University
student, 20’S, 5’9", 150", good body,
varied interests, seeks others for fun and
more. I am very discrete. Please leave a
message. =16686
Tulsa LOOKING FOR EXPERIENCE:
Bi Curious Married WM, very attractive,
good body, 6’1", 180, blonde hair, blue
eyes; seeks other white males far first time
experience. Please leave a message. No
need to be discrete. =16302
Tulsa TULSA TWO STEP: GWM, 26,
5’7", 145, good looking and in shape,
seeks others, 18-27, for friendship and
fun.Please lea~e a message. =.17238. -
COCKED AND LOADED: GWM, 22,
6’2", 185, biown hair, green eyes, seeks
GWM’s, 35-45, average build and weight
for friendship and possibly more. Please
leave a message. =13357
RIGHT ON THE MONEY: GWM, 31,
5’6", seeks, GWM’s, 25-50, into getting
acquainted instead of fantasizing about
our looks. We’rg not all Greek God’s or
are we built like horses. Some of us are
just average. Call me. =12799
BI,I~I BLUES: BiCurious WM, 27, 175,
.6’, attractive, seeks other attractive m~les,
20-30, who are patient and
understanding. Must be drugidiseose
free. Please leave a message. =13020
FUN IN THE CORRAL: GWM, 31,
brown hair, hazel eyes, ’stache, 5’6",
165, seeks companionship of mature
GWM, 23-40, who are aggressive, :
masculine and gentle. Furry cowboys a
plus. Call me! =13859
Tulsa LOADED: 27, 6’, 180 iso men 18-
30 for some fun, give me a call- =9298
OK City DADDY’S HOME: WM, 41,
6’ 180 blk brn, iso slim musc 18-41 for
ruband friendship-leave a message-
~9318
Oklahoma City GOOD TIMES ARE
WAITING: I’m 27 y/o, 5’11, 2151bs,
athletic build: Vmlkg4 someone to share
good times with I like dancing, I’m a light
drinker and a non smoker. =1663
Texarkana I’M YOUR MAN: I’m a 39
y/o WM, 5’8, 1401bs. I’m disease free
and I’m Ikg4 someone 18-45 who is well
built, call me, please be discreet. =9582
Oklahoma City PRIME TIME: I’m a 38
y/o WM "IV. I’m a total TV and I’m Ikg4
men who would like to spend some time
with me. I’m clean, drug and disease free.
=9808
Ada HOMO ALONE IN ADA: I’m 6’3,
brn/brn, 1901bs. I’m Ikg4 gay men 18-25
far good times, call me. =10271
Oklahoma City READY OR NOT: I’m
20 y/o, 5’6, 2151bs, WM. I’m Ikg4 a
relationship minded man 18-30’s with a
medium to slim build. I like singing,
bowling, golf, movies and cuddling. If you
are interested, please call me. =47265
Tulsa DEEP CHOCOLATE: GBM, 5’7",
well built, looking for GLM/GWM far hot
fun in the sun. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Leave me a message and let’s get together
soon. =10596
Oklahoma BOYS WILL BE BOYS:
GWM, 6’, brown hair, blue eyes, very
versatile, seeks new friends in the area far
fun and friendship with relationship
possibilities. Let’s get together and
celebrate life. =6571
Texarkana WILD BOYS: GWM, 26,
6’1 ", 185, blonde hair, blue eyes, very
hairy, seeking sub 18-35.GWM’s for
mutual fun and satisfaction. You won’t be
disappointed. Please leave a message.
=11036
Oklahoma City SHOOT THE
BREEZE: GWM, 22, brown
hair/eyes,. 5’6", seeks fun and
relationship oriented GWM’s under
30. Smoker/Light Drinker OK. Must
be disease/drug free =11041
Tulsa GAY OR BI: AI, 32, very mosc
prof~l, GBM iso Gay or bi male, masc,
race not Impt, into sports, outdoors, if u
like Iv a message thanks! = 7580
Tulsa LET’S PLAY: orofessional, 42
WM, iso other Gay or bi male, 30s -
40s, in the area, let’s play! = 7392
Tulsa SOMEONE TO LOVE: I’m 21
BM, kinda looking for someone to love,
tired of being by myself, love to sing,
read, like to go to the movies, have fun,
love all types of music, if this interests
you give me a call- = 7435
Tulsa SHARE SOME TIME: Dan,
BIWM, mid 40s iso BIWM 30-40, ht/wt
prop, very discreet, expect same, like
share some time, i! you are interesteo,
give mea call, VII returnall calls-
= 7822
Tulsa NEW TO AREA: Mike, new to the
area, 35, BIWM, bind/blue, work out
alot, phys fit, Ikg far a str to BI BM 35-65
to have a good time with, go out with give
me a call- = 7842
Eastern AR CUDDLE BY li’IE FIRF4 Jack,
GWM, 37, It. bmibm, mus~he,~masc, ~
appearing/acting, iso friends po~s rel in ~he
area, like all music, dining, Jhealer, silting by a
fir~, ould0a~, animals, you name it- give
me a call- = 7873
Oklahoma City JASON, 24, 5’10, 170,
Ikg to meet other hot guys, around my
age, if you’d like, give me a call- = 7885
OK. City YOUNG AND PREPPY:
Mike, like to meet people under 40,
just safe, discreet honest, 18 young
preppy, new to this, a little nervous, if
you are interested give me a call- =
8029
Malvern FANTASY FUN: Jack, 33 WM,
Ikg far guys into fantasies, give me a call
leKs get together. = 8031
Oklahoma City BI OR BI CURIOUS?
36, in the city the first wk of the month,
looking far bi or bi curious, gdlkg, 6’1,
175, 33w, give me a cal!- = 8514
Tulsa HEY GIRLS:athletic ath’. SWF early
30’s 5’4 1101bs bm/bm Ikg4 open minded
women for discreet hot fun. call me! ~45795
Dallas/Ft. Worth LEZ TALK: my name is
Usa, I’m Ikg4 someone to have great phone
fun with. I love talking on the phone. Im 42
y/o and I hope you call me. e45492
Arlington LESBIAN SISSY:my name is Miss
Michael. Im a sissy and I believe in lesbian
power. Im Ikg2 meet a lesbian who wants to
show me her power. =45901
Dallas DALLAS DOU4 36 y/o F into
reading, poetry and all types Of music. I love
doQs and’im r~al shy, not into’the club scene
and Im Ikg4 a friendin the Dallas area. call
me. ~38212
Dallas BI BI LOVE: my name is Kay, I’m a
married woman Ikg2 meet a bi wbman for
fun, dancing, dining for poss. long term rel.. I~
you are sen_sual and romantic, car!! ~46491
Dallas AFRICAN QUEEN: I’m a 37 y/o
African American Ikg4 the same 30-40. I’m
shy and I’m drug and disease free. I have.lwo
dogs and I’m sincere and honest. If you are
I~onest and sincere, call me. =38212
BUTCH/FEM: i’m a 23 y/o female and
like poetry, cycling and music. I’m Ikg4 a
friendship and a poss. relationship. I’m a ttle
butch and a little fern. all calls wil/be
returned. ~47521
Dallas SPECIAL FRIENDS: I’m a single
Woman with no kids Ikg4 a special female
friend to love and care for. call me. =1614
Arkadelphia, AR STAR GAZER: my name
is Angela, I’m a 21 y/o stbdent interested in
trying new things, stor gazing and more. I
would like to meet a nice woman for fun and
friendship, call me! =46392
Kansas Cily AFFECTIONATE AND
PLAYFUl4 GWF 32 y/o attr. affectionate,
playful and fun. I’m Ikg2 meet fun, honest,
ath’active women for fun and friendship.
=45977
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[1995] Tulsa Family News, November 15-December 14, 1995; Volume 2, Issue 12
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Politics, education, and social conversation toward Tulsa’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual communities.
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Tulsa Family News was a monthly newspaper; No. 1 issued December 1993-January 1994. The final issue available was published in September 0f 2001 (Volume 8, Issue 9).
The newspaper brings up important, evolving topics of marriage, Pride, TOHR, HIV/AIDs, events, advice, and politics all at the local and national level.
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Tom Neil
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1995
African Americans
AIDS/HIV
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AIDS/HIV education
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annulment
arts and entertainment
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Barry Hensley
Bars
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churches
Community Center
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Deb Price
Disney
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Don't Ask Don't Tell
Dornan Bill
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Employment Non Discrimination Act
Equil Employment Commission
estate planning
Eureka Springs
Federal Aviation Administration
Gay and Lesbian History Month
gay politicians
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healthcare
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horoscope
Human Rights Campaign
Human Rights Campaign Fund
injection drugs
insurance
Joyce Murdoch
lawsuits
Log Cabin Republicans
Making Sense
marriage
medical malpractice
medical marijuana
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa
Mr. Oklahoma Leather
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
needle exchange
Partner Benefits
Pat Morehead
performing arts
PFLAG
Phyl Boler Schmidt
Phyl Boler-Schmidt
Politically Un-Correct
Read All About It
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Republican Party
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sodomy laws
Steve Largent
Tennessee Williams
Tom Neal
Transgender
Tulsa Family News
Tulsa Oklahoman for Human Rights
Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights HIV Testing
Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association (TULSA)
viatication
whistleblowers
White House Conference on AIDS
World AIDS day