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Tulsa PLWA Sues Jail For
Withholding Medicines
TULSA (TFN) - Early in June, the Stipe Law Firm
notified the Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority,
that it was suing the authority on behalf of Daniel
McClure..McClure, aperson living with AIDS (PLWA)
was arrested onJune 12, 2000 andbookedinto the Tulsa
Jail. Per the notice of tort claim letter, and statements
made to TFN while being held at thejail, McClure was
denied access to his medicines as well as to timely
medical care despite repeated requests. Because anumber
of HIV treatments have strict regimens, failure to
take the drugs at the prescribed tim~" can result in
seriously greater illness.
The letter filed by the Sfipe Law Firm alleges that
"negligence of the Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority"
has lead to a faster progressirn of McClute’ s
disease, "a.worsening of l~s medical condition and
emotional distress." The.claim is for in .excess of
Parade. +Festival 2001
TULSA ~FFN) - It was a part new event and part old
event. The 2001 Pride celebrations, organized by Tulsa
Okla,.omans for Human Rights (TOHR) had a new
paraae route, alarger festival in the old sit~ and some o
the_same old protesters. The parade featured even more :
church floats anda shorterlength going along Cherry St. "
from Utica to Veterans Park. But true to prior years, a "
handful offundamentalist Christians mostly peacefully ¯
protested along the route. The protesters included some
of .the anti-Gay Fred Phelps cult of Topeka, Kansas.
The night before the parade and festival, the Tulsa
Country Club’w.as the site of a gala fundraising dinner. "
And while the event may have been slightly "
underattended, it was rinsed more funds than any prior
sort of event. Community Hero awardee, Rick Martil
used a spirited auction style to solicit funds from attend: "
ees to match a $5,000 commitment from TOHR supporter
Mark Bouney. NOt only was the match made but "
due to the generosity of Williitms Cos. DiVersity Director
Eric Watson, Who attended with his wife, over "
$20,000 wasraised. The attendence of Mr. Watson on ¯
behalf of Williams was a first for any major Tulsa ."
corporation as was their $5,000 donation. "
TOHR will be ho!ding their monthly meeting onJuly "
10 at 7pro at the LGBT Center and solicits feedback on
the Pride events fl~e. TOHR members also attended ."
the Okla. City parade, carrying the 120’ rainbow flag.
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US & WORLD NEWS
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¯ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Lesbian motorcade, which included topless riders waving rainbow flags,
¯ faux nuns, clowns and brides, rode down the street,
: kicking off the city’s 31st Annual Pride Parade and
¯ Celebration.
¯ An estimated 1 million people cheered as the group
¯ of Dykes on Bikes roared their motorcycles on Sun¯
day late in June and led floats of. drag queens, city officials, community groups and marching bands to
." the Civic Center plaza, where the celebration, lasted
¯ all day.
For Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders
¯ attending, the parade helped to create an atmosphere
." of acceptance and celebration. It’s also an opportu-
¯ nity to educate people about, their community. The
¯
parade is California’s largest public event and has .
¯ become one of the’world’s best known Gay pride
¯ celebrations.
¯ "Thi s is a great opporthnity to raise the visibility of
the Gay community," said city Supervisor Mark
¯ Lent, who is’ openly Gay and served as one the
¯ p ade s five marshals. S,a~,, Francisco has ,always
been a leader in Gay rights but nationwide, I m still
¯ a second-class citizen," Lent said. The parade is an
¯ opportunity to help oti~ers understand that Gay issues
¯ are everyone’s issues, he said.
The celebration also has became aforum to address
,,: the impact of AIDS on the community.over the past
¯ two decades. "I’m a survivor of the disease," said
David Lyons, an Oaldandresident whohas not missed
¯ aparade since !98l: "Tiffs is a great chance to educate
.you~..g_African-Ameri,¢~, ,~,,Gay people. We can’ t think
’ itself.
The 2001 Diversity Festival willfeature booths & entertaiment.
¯
U.S, Census Sh.ows More Gay
Couples; More Figures to Come ¯ WASHINGTON (AP/TFN)- U.S. census figures released at the ¯
end of last month for five states continue to show a dramatic
increase in the.number of households that comprise same-se~
partners but most likely still undercount the actual number due to
co,n,~,finued anti~.Gay bias, the Hum.an Rights Campaign said.
~ nese newngures continue to show a national trend where
record number of people are willing to acknowledge living in a
household with "a same-sex partner," said David M. Smith.
HRC’s communications director and senior strategist. "While
the census data suggest incredible progress, we believe thi
census continues to undercount same-sex partners because many
people are still not comfortable disclosingi~ a federal survey that
they are in a same-sex relationship. And despite an educational
effort by HRC and other, groups, not all respondents were aware
of the census question. -
s___T~_.e ~ensns ~B,urean released da.ta today for Alabama, Mis-
¯ oun, ~xansas, r~ew York and Ohio. New York reported the
largest number of same-sex households with 46,490, a 238%
increase from the 1990 census. Ohio reported the next largest
tiumber with 18,937 same-sex.households, a 401% increase.
Missouri ranked third with 9,428, a 388% increase. Alabama
reported 8,109 same-sex honseholds, a 659% increase. And
Kansas reported 3,973~ a 514% increas~
’.q’he census data have important social implications because
Americans will become acutely aware that Gay and Lesbian
families are numerous and face discrin~natory barriers in terms
Ofpubh"c poh"cy," stu" d Smi’ th. "Asmore of these families become
visible in their communities, people will work to end the unfair
treatment andlegal discrimination they often face." "
Census figures released also show that the number of same-sex "
unmarried partners in rural areas have. increased slightly. The
most substantial change was in Missouri, where 7,095, (75%) "
same-sex unmarried households are in urban areas while 2,333 "
(25%) arein rural areas. This marks a significant change from the "
1990 census when only 11% (1,711) of same sex unmarried
households were in rural parts of the state see Census, p. 9
G " " bymanywhohavefoughtfor
ay rights. Everybody did the hard work," she said.
’~Now, there are so many non-Gay people who.come
and bring th(ir children: This to me means acceptance.
It gives me a sense of belonging.’"
This year’s event featured several new additions
and promised more diversity than ever, plus a more
family friendly environment, organizers said.
Cecilia Chung, Gay Pride Parade president, estimated
1 million people attended Sunday’s celebration.
.
But the drag queens in sequined dresses and feathers
along with the young, buff men wearing tight
shorts were a bit too much ~or some tourists who got
caught in the middle of the celebration "It’s enlightening,"
said Sally Christenson, 48. "I was naive. I
never thought people would expose themselves to
this extent. You don’t see this in Minnesota."
However in Minneapolis...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -Anestimated 200,000 people
gathered in Loring Park inMinneapolis to celebrate
Gay pride. "It’s the one weekend of the year where
people can be themselves and not have tO worry," said
TBiw~i N~.n.al~, One ofthe organizers ofl~e 29th annual
in t~mes ~ay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Pride
Festival.
While likely a little less flamboyant than the event
in San Francisco, the turnout in Miuneapolis showed
that statem,,e.n,t above by Sally Christenson isn’t quite
accurate. It s a fun time," said Jolene K,o,stohryz,
who stud she attends the festival every.year. You get
to see a whole bunch of different kinds Of people."
And in Omaha,
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The city’s 17th a.~uualGay
Prideparadedrew hundreds ofparticipants and watchers
as it snaked through 12 downtown blocks. The
theme for the parade was "Phoenix Rising," which
organizers said was a reference to the movement’s
renewed efforts after last year’ s passage of Initiative
416.
see Pride; p, 5
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*~amboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*Play-Mor, 424 S. Memorial
Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st
~Schatzi’ s, 2619 S. Memorial
*The Star, 1565 Sheridan
*TNT’ s, 2114 S. Memorial
*Tool Box II, 1338 E. 3rd
*Vortex, 2182 S. Sheridan
*The Yellow Brick Road Pub, 2630 E. 15th
832-1269
610~5323
838-9792
744-4280
585-3405
745-9998
280-1316
834:4234
660-0856
584-1308
835-2376
749-1563
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Assoc. inMed. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 5231 E. 41 665-4580
BodyPiercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 712-1122
*Borders Books. & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955
*Borders B.ooks & Music, 801~ S. Yale 494-2665
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313
*Cheap Thrills, 2640 E. 1 lth 295-5868
Cherry St. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117
Commuuity Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
-*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
Doghouse on Bro0kside, 3311 S. Peoria 744-5556
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
Encompass Travel, 13161H N. Me~ofial 369-8555
Ross Edward Salon 584-0337, 712-9379
Events Unlimited~ 507 S, Main_ ~ 592-0460
Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
Four Star Import Automotive, 9906 E. 55th P1. 610-0880
Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 628-3709
G~y & Lesbian Affordable Daycare 808-8026
*Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
Leanne M. Gross,-Insurance &financial planning 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440.
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865-E. Skelly 745-1111
*International Tours 341-6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732.E. 15th 712-2750
*Jared’ s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018
David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236
The Keepers, Housekeeping & Gardening 582-8460
*Ken’ s .:Flowers, 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 .747-5466
*Li,~ing ArtSpace, 308 Soffth Kenosha 585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd 584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664~2951
Puppy Pause II, 1060 S. Mingo 838-7626
*The Pride Store 743-4297
Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 747-5932,
;’Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617
Teri Schutt, Ellen & Co. 834-7921,748-0224
Paul Tay, Car Salesman 260-7829
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558
Venus Salon, 1247 S. Harvard 835-5563
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733
*Wherehouse Music, 5150 S. Sheridan 665-2222
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N... Lewis 592-0767
www.gaytulsa.org - website for Tulsa Gays &Lesbians
Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & Universities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 579-9593
All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363
Black & White, Inc: POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-7314
Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815
B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa United Min. Ctr. 583-9780
Chaml~r of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence
Church of the Restoration UU, 1314 N.Greenwood 587-1.314
*Community of Hope Church, 2545 S. Yale 747-6300
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
Council Oak Men’s Chorale 748-3888
*Delaware Playh_ouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712-1511
918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615
POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159, e-mail: TulsaNew.s.@earthlink.net
Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal
Writers + contributors: James Christjohn, Karin Gregory, Barry
Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindst¢om,Esther
Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Hughston Walkinshaw
Member of The Associated Press
Issued around the 1 st of each month, the entire contents of.this
publication are protected by US copyright-2001 by Tulsa
Family News and may notbe reproduced either in whole or in
part without written permission from the publisher. Publication
of a name or photo does not indicate a person’ S sexual
orientation. Correspondence is assumed to be for publication
unless otherwise noted, must be signed & becomes the sole
property of Tulsa Family News. Each reader is entitled to 4
copies of each edition at distribution points.
Additional copies are avail-able by calling 583~1248:
¯¯ *Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457
Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics &
¯ Episcopalians; POB 701475, 74170-1475 355-3140
: *Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747:7777
¯ *FreeSpiritWomen’ s Center, call for location&info: 587-4669 ¯
Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827
¯ Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0438
¯ *Tulsa C.A.R:E.S, 3507 E. Admiral 834-4194
¯ HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education 834-8378 ¯
*HouseoftheHoly SpiritMinstries,1517 S. Memorial 224-4754
¯ *MCC United~ 1623. N. Maplewood 838-1715
¯ NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral P1. 748-3111
: NOW, Nat’l Org forWomen, POB 14068, 74159 365-5658 ¯ OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157
¯ *OSU-TUlsa
¯ PFLA-G; POB: 52800, 74152 749-4901
¯ *Planned Parenthood, 1007 S..Peoria 587-7674 Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152
¯ R.A:I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195
¯ *Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 584-2325 ¯
St. Aidan’ S Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 425-7882
: St.Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71St 492-7140
: *St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 582-3088
¯ Soulforce-OK,Rt.4,#3534,Stigler74462 587-3248,452-2761 ¯
*Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder 583-7171
¯ *TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225
¯ Tulsa County Health Department, 4616 E. 15 595-4105 ¯
¯ Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only
Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights,.Gay Comm. Center 743-4297
" TUL-PAC, PositiveAdvoeacy Coalition, POB2687,TUlsa 74101
¯ T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 298-0827
: .-*Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule
¯
*Tulsa Community College Campuses
¯ *Tulsa Gay Commtmity Center, 2Ist & Memorial 743-4297
¯ Unity Church of Christianity,3355 S. Jamestown 749-8833
¯ BARTLESVILLE
Barflesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353
TAHLEQUAH ~
¯ Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900
¯ Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church .918-456-7900
Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-453-9360
¯ EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
¯ Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23 501-253-7734
." Jim & Brent’.s,Bistro, 173 S. Main 501-253-7457
.. DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St. 501-253-6807
¯ Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St. 501-253-5445
¯
MCC of the Living Spring o 501-253-9337
¯ Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429 501-253-2776
¯ Old Jallhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery 501-253-5332
Positive Idea Marketing Plans 501-624-6646
¯ White Light, 1 Center St. 501-253-4074
¯
JOPLIN, MISSOURI
¯ Spirit of Christ MCC, 2639 E. 32, Ste. U134 417-623-4696
: ~ is where youcan find TFN. Not all are Gay-owned but all are Gay-friendly.
Council Oaks Men’s Chorale
As a Gay Dad, I recently experienced a
wonderful first. During the TOHR coordi:
~ J~ation of Tulsa Gay Pride week celebration,
: my younger son, his cousin and a high
¯ school peer of theirs attended their first ever
¯ " gay related function. Since divorcing and
¯ coming out five years .ago, this is the first
time one of my children has attended a gay
: function. Of the varied venues offered dur-
: ing the 2001 Tulsa Gay Pride week, we
chose to attend the Council Oak Men’s
¯ Chorale mini concert heldMonday evening.
at the central library.
¯ This was the first time my son and his
¯ friends had been exposed to the Gay com-
" muuity in such "large numbers", for high
¯
school "kids" accustomed to the top 10 rock/
¯ pop/rap tunes, the concert repertoire was a
¯ - bit austere, however, I am pleased to say
¯ these urban kids, left the concert with a new ¯
refreshing positive attitude and respect to-
" ward the Gay .community at large. As a
¯ compliment, FII tell you that the most re-
. peated comment was... "these guys are
¯
gay?" Fortunately, as we all began to openly
¯ talk during the eveni~ig many typical worn
¯, out"stereotypes andmyths"were dispelled.
Thank you Council Oak guys for your
¯ hard work and continued efforts to be a
¯ positive force and professional face on be-
-¯ half of .our community. You’ ve helped in
part to make a great difference in the con-
: tinuing relationship with my son. I am honored
to consider Council Oak Chorale as
¯ being part of "my extended family". ¯
- Milton-Nunley, Tulsa
¯ Oklahoma City Removes
: Gay Banners Despite Permit
¯ The Gay Pride banners which ~Tere hung
¯ on light poles at the north end of Classen
¯ Boulevard in Oklahoma City cost the spon\
¯ soring organizations $11,000. Their design.
¯ was approved in advance by the City of
¯ Oklahoma City. The legal permit to hang
¯ them extended through July 7. For the City
¯ to remove the banners ten days before the
." permit expired is a blatant <~xample of dis-
: crimination against the gay and lesbian or-
,¯ ganizations which followed procedures and
incurred great expense to have the banners
¯ professionally produced and placed on the
." poles.
¯ "No News is Good News" - Oklahoma
: City’ s Gay Rights March and Pride Parade
¯ on Sunday afternoon, June 24, included a
¯ festival beforehand in Memorial Park, with
¯ booths, tables, livemusic, and refreshments ¯
- and a huge street party afterwards. Some
¯ 7,000 to 10,000 participants and supporters
." took part in. the events, which were well
¯ organized; peaceful, and celebrative. That
" the events were poorly reported by the local
." news media - or not covered at all - repre-
¯ . sents more disc.rimination against homo-
. ¯ sexuals.
: Gays and Lesbians struggle to find their
¯ place in a society where, religious leaders,
¯ editorial writers, parents, and teachersjudge
i" them, condemn them, and vilify them for
¯ who they are. Gay teenagers commit suicide
." in far higher percentages than do hetero-
¯ sexual, teenagers.
: see Letters, p. 11
by Tom Neal
Oklahoma Today, the official magazine of the State of
Oklahoma, just released their July/August issue which
features Tulsa. But is it a rather peculiar Tulsa.
Just as once the majoritywhite culture refused to
acknowledge racial minorities, creating a whites only
image, Oklahomt~ Today(OT)has shownTulsaas "straights
only."
Now we should give them a very little credit. They did
get a few black folks in the issue and actually even ones
who are wall regarded in the black community in,~tead of
Tulsa’ s white leadership’ s favorite "acceptable" blacks.
Butjournalists, at least when they really do theirjob, are
supposed to reflect reality. And the reality is that there are
Lesbian and Gay people in Tulsa: we exist. ~
Oklahoma’s oldest Lesbian and Gay organihations are
here: the oldest, the Metropolitan Community Church
United, renamed but still extant, and Tulsa Oklahomans
for Human Rights (TOHR), which runs the Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgendered Community Center, And this
publication has been around nearly eightyears. It would
have taken very little to mention the community center, or
to identify, just as was done for Tulsa blacks, one or
another community leader, or mention a community publication-
as was done of, obviously, The World, but also,
The Oklahoma Eagle and that waste of newsprint, the
prejudiced and anti-Gay Urban Tulsa.
’What’ s baffling about Oklahoma’Today’s failure (~t its
heart, simply to tell the truth about our city) isthat after a
conversation ] had with its editor Louisa McCune about
four years ago, OT ran a mention of the first or second
Pride March (before the first parade). McCune knows that
we exist.
But perhaps the problem doesn’t lie there. Oklahoma
Today publisher Joan Henderson’s response to my coneems
was that when OT featured Oklahoma City some
issues back, they proudly ignored OKC’ s LGBT community
also.
Later in the conversation, she variously suggested that
they could not write about us because they give OT to 4th
graders and theycan’ t write "about sex," thattheir readers
are all about 62 years old and they don’ t even want to read
about blacks or Indians, and that they’re a state magazine
.and if we have a problem with what Oklahoma Today’s
doing, wecanjust talk to her Republican boss, Gov. Fr~tk
K.eating, Lt. Gov~ Mary Fallin, and Tourism and Recreataon
Executive Director Jane Jayroe.
Of course, I-wouldn’t waste my breath tr~ing to talk
with the ethically bd’uddled Keating et al, but I do think it
will be quite interesting to talk with members of the
legislature - see Today, p. 8
Official Refuses to
Perform Gay Marriages
LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands (AP) - A civil servant
who has refused to officiate Gay marriages could be
fired by the city, officials said last month. Nynke
Yxinga-Boomgaardt can only save herpart-time job if
she signs a contract agreeing to wed same-sex couples
at city hall, municipal authorities in Leeuwarden said.
Same-sex mamages were legalxzed in April, making
the Netherlands the first country to grant Gay
couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, including
~e right to adopt children. "In this job she has
the obligation to enforce the law, and under Dutch law
Gay couples have equal rights," said Jan van der Hoek,
a spokesman for the city, about 100 kilometers (60
miles) north of Amsterdam. If she refuses, the.spokesman
said, her contract will be .terminated in September.
Eringa-Boomgaardt refused to wed fwo Gay couples
over the past three months, saying she is principally
opposed to same-sex marriages. The couples are still
waiting to be married.
"This is about the battle betWeen equality and my
right to have conscientious objections," Eringa-
Boomgaardt told the Trouw daily newspaper..
Gay-Pride Flag
Burners Arrested
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man with a history of
desecrating the Gay-pride flag is one of two people
charged with burning the baiaher during a parade.
Police charged Charles Spingola, 45, and Thomas
Meyer, 47, both of Newark, with open buming, a firstdegree
misdemeanor punishable by as. much as six
months in jail. .
A state appeals court last week upheld Spingola’s
conviction on criminal damage charges for tearing
down:aGay-prideflag thatwas flying at the Statehouse
two:years -ago a~ a’similar parade. " .
Police said Spingolaand Meyer setfire to arainbow-"
colored flag they had been carrying as the last marchers
in the Columbus Pride Parade passed the Statehouse.
Police Sgt. Michael Piccininni said Spingola
had burned another Gay-pride flag about 21/2 hours
earlier outside Broad Street United Methodist Church,
where a Gay-oriented service took place before the
parade.
Piccininni said Spingola was given a waming, but
returned later during the parade with a new flag and a
small container 0f gasoline.
Andrea Critchet, head of parade security, said she
was splashed with gasoline after approaching Spingola
andMeyernear the Statehouseand telling themto keep
away from parade participants. ’°We were there to
protect him, to-keep the crowd away from him,"
Cfitchet said. "He said, ’You’ re all gonnaburn in hell,’
and he flipped it (the flag) up on me.". Cfitchet was
~checked by paramedics for burning in her’throat but
was not injured.
Teresa Spingola, 46, said her husband and her two
sons, 12 and 16, intended to burn the nylon flag, but
didn’ t expect the scuffle or arrests that followed. "It’ s
legal to bum the American flag. We thought it’ s OK to
bum the queer flag," she said. She said that last.year,
the family burned a Gay flag at the same intersection
without incident.
Presbyterian Pastor
Comes Out, Resigns
¯ chief policy-making body of the Presbyterian Church
¯ " (U.S:A.) voted to relmmmend lifting a ban on ordaining
homosexual clergy.
The measure must still be ratified over the next year
by .a majority Of the ~hurch’s 173 presbyteries, or
regional legislatures. That will be harder to achieve
and, besides,. Hawley cannot endure any=longer the
stress of living in two worlds.
’T ve had a lot of personal, emotional and health
struggles, and I just realized I could not live in the
closet anymore," said Hawley, 42, who led the Genesee
Valley Presbytery, which represents 73 congregations
in the Rochester region_ in western NewYork. "I knew
I had to get more open with my sexuality if I was going
to recover. There’ s been a lot of pain in terms of being
silent when I personally ~’elt I s.hould have been sw.aking."
Hawley did not plan to have his departure from the
church coincide with the emotional debate in Louisville,
Ky., where the General Assembly of thenafion’ s
. sixthlargest Protestant denomination voted 317-208m
favor of ordination of Gays attd Lesbians.
What his decision will do is allow him to speak more
forcefully on an issue that several mainline Protestant
denominations, notably the Episcopal Church and
United Methodist Church, have struggled with in recent
years. "I feel~badly in a way that I haven."t been
more outspoken but that’ s part of the problem with the
closet - it’s not safe to," he-said. "But now I can tall
people how destructive it was to try to live that life and
quietly serve."
Hawley, who grew up in Montrose, Pa., and studi_e,d.,.
atthe Jesuit-run University of Scranton~ said he didn t
realize he was Gay when he was ordained in 1983. He
¯ figured it out in 1995 after years of turmoil.
Although he was not in a relationship,Hawley said
: he constantly feared losing his job. He might have
¯ battled to keep it now, he said, but knew that conserva-
¯ fives in the presbytery would have pushed for his
removal. "That’ s the fight that I didnotpersonally want
¯
to take," said Hawley, who plans a new career in
teaching. ’-’The only way I can be honest and comfortable
about myself is to come out and to resign. It’ s a
. ¯ matter.of integrity."
¯ At last year’s General Assembly meeting, Hawley
said he was forced to listen quietly as conservatives
argued against inclusion Of Gays in the leadership of a
church that has a~ many as 3.6 million members. The
¯ remarks were not~"hateful so much as ignorant," he
¯ said. The push to remove the ban on Gay clergy from ¯
the church’ s constitution "would mean-the church has
made a really radical shift, and I’mnot sure that ithas,’~
he added.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - In hi’s .t8th year as a ¯
Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Bill Hawley realized ¯
he could nolonger keep his sexual orientation a secret. -’.
¯By revealing that he’s Gay, Hawley also decided his :
only real choice was to quit the church. ¯
His resignation took effect June 15, the same day the ~ :
Bank Refuses Account
to Anti-Gay Group
: MONTREAL (AP) - A Canadian bank is refusing to
¯ open an account for a coalition of conservative and ¯
religious.groups that opposes MontreaV s bid to host
¯ the2006GayGames.Montrealis competingwiththree
¯ U.S. cities- Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles - to
host the Gay Games, which typically draw 24,000
:’ athletes and 200,000 spectators.
: -The No ’C-ommittee2006 was formed in April after
¯ -Montreal announced its. bid. The. committee’s mem-
: bers indudethe Christian Heritage Party and the Cam~
¯ paign Life Coalition for Quebec. The Rev. Daniel
Cormier, who heads the committee, said the group
¯ fears visiting athletes could spread the HIV virus that ¯
leads to AIDS.
A Royal Bank spokesman-confirmed the No Committee
2006 was denied a bank account for donations
for supporters. "We refuse to support or oppose di.scriminatory
activities of ~any kind," said bank spokes-
"man Raymond Chouinard.
Cormier called thebank’ s refusal discriminatory. He
said at a news conference Friday that his group would
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East Ohio Methodists
Oppose Anti-Gay Stance
LAKESIDE, Ohio (AP) - A group of United Methodist
ministers and parishioners from the East Ohio "
Conference is preparing for another attack on th~ "
hurch s anti-Gay doctrine.
Thirty United Methodist ministers in the regional
groupjoined dozens of church members in signing the "
"East Ohio Declaration," whichopposes the doctrine’ s "
anti-Gay stance, andwill begin a series of discussions
in September aimed at the issue. The United:Methodist
church has more than 9 million members worldwide .
most are in the United States. ¯
During its national quadrennial meeting in Cleve- ¯
land last summer, about 1,000 church leaders voted 2- ¯
1. to uphold the church’ s stance on Gays. The doctrine .
states that homosexuality is incompatible with ~aris- ¯
tian teaching; thatno sexually-activehomosexual rain- ¯
isters should be ordained; and that same-sex mamages ¯
will. not be honored.
Bishop Jonathan D. Keaton - who oversees the ¯
192,000-member East Ohio Conference - planned a ¯
series of discussions in preparation for revisiting the "
issue when the United. Methodist Church meeots again "
in Pittsburgh in 2004.
Two representatives from each of the 12 East Ohio :
Methodist districts will attend a September 22 prelimi- ."
nary meeting. One representative will sent to support .
existing church doctrine, the other to argue for change. ¯
Those delegates plus 40 other church officials will air ¯
their views and be traine3l to organize similar meetings .
around the state.
: A magistrate had said the state did not have enough
: evidence to support the aggravated kidnapping charge.
¯ But the Supreme Court disagreed, saying though the
facts are in dispute, there is enough evidence to argue
them in court.
us," said Tom Aeschlimann, one of the event’ s orgamzers.
For the first time the parade had a grand
marshal, Scott Winkler, a native of Loomi s who is an
insurance agent in Omaha.
New York City Event Rivals SF One
NEW YORK (AP) - Three dozen Gay couples celebrated
their same-sex partnerships to kick off New
York City’ s 32nd annum Gay pride parade, a Celebration
of flamboyant costumes and floats. "We’d like to
be recognized as a couple," said Sheneen Ellis, wearing
awhite veil and mini-dress decorated with tiny red
rhinestones, as she stood with her partner, Alona
Hartnett, dressed in white ~lacks and jacket.
They were surrounded by their five children as two
ministers and a rabbi blessed them ifi a ceremony
Sunday at the entrance to Central Park just before the
Heritage of Pride parade.
"Two mothers are better than having only one,", read
a sign carried by one of the children, 10-year-old
Calhea Johnson. "I love mommy and mommy."
The parade included Lesbians on motorcycles, a
rainbow arch of balloons and a top-down convertible
carrying veterans of the 1969 Stonewall riots, in which
The initiative banning same-sex marriages passed
by 70% to 30% last November. "We’re going to be
here and we’ re going to stay around. You better accept
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and talk and agree that we are not of one mind about
this," that would represent progress for the church;
Taylor said.
Church leaders who signed the East Ohio Declaration
said they have no intenfi.on ofdefying the church’ s
rules on Gays, and doubt that it will cause schism. A
Methodist minister could be disciplined for perform- :
ing a marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple, but "
Taylor said he knows of no same-sex couples in the
East .Ohi,o Conference that are seeking a Methodist -"
mamage.
Men, Parents Accused of i
Abducting Lesbian "
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah Supre~m~ourt
decided to allow two Jordanian men to be tried~for
aggravated kidnapping in the alleged abduction and
beating of their sister in October 1999. The ’woman’s
mother and father also are charged in the alleged
attack.
Prosecutors saybrothers IehabHawatmehand Shaher
Hawatmeh, their father, Jami] Hawatmeh, and their :
mother, Wedad Hawatmeh, kidnapped and beat 23- ."
year-oldMuna Hawatmeh when they discovered she
was a Lesbian. The woman said she agreed to-return to ~
Jordan as away to stop the beatings. Thenext morning, "
.the family was driving her to the airport from their :
home in Sandy when her partner spotted them and ¯
called police. The family agreed to take the woman to "
the Sandy police station, and a doctor later found "
bruises on her arms and legs. ¯
Thefour are charged with simple kidnapping, which "
cames a sentence of up to 15 years. But Assistant "
Attorney General Fred Voros argued that the defen- "
dants’ alleged use of weapons and threats warrants the
aggravated kidnapping charge, which carries a life
sentence.
¯ sands of participants and spectators, and has been
replicated in’cities around the world. .
¯ Paris-, Berlin, Chicago and Atlanta
In Europe, Pads and Berlin celebrated Gay pride on
¯ Saturday .with rollicking parades. At the center of the
festivities were the cities’ mayors, both openly Gay.
In Chicago, organizers expected approximately
350,000 to attend what has become one of the largest
parades in the city.
hi Atlanta, thousands of people, including several
mayoral candidates, participated in the city’ s 31 st Gay
Pride celebration, which wrapped up with a parade
along the City’s main artery, Peachtree Street. "Events
¯ like this help increase our visibility and help to let ¯
p.eo.ple k~,,o,w that Gay people do exist, that we’re not
clevlants, Benson Cohen said. "We don’ tjust exist in-
" the shadows."
The New York marriag, ceremonies were not le-
! gaily binding but served as ~i rallying point for activists
who would like to see samp-sex couples accorded the
same legal rights as.heteros.exual couples.
New York City’s domestic partnership law gives
public employees who are same-sex couples the same
health benefits as married couples, along with privileges
such as visiting rights in city institutions like
hospitals and jails.
~ Vermont is the only state that offers Gay couples the
option o.f civil unions, which give them the ~ame rights
as mamed couples. Legislation to legalize homosexual
unions has been introduced in New York state
but has never passed.
Gay Health Ads :
Pulled in. NYC :
NEW YORK (AP) - Local officials condemned-
the city and an ad agency tmde~- ¯
city contract for pulling apublic service ad ¯
that promoted a free health line f0~Gays ’
from s,everal bus stopsin the Bronx.
"It is outrageous thal when .new HIV
infection rates are soaring, especially "
among men of color, that a responsible ad "
like ~this, intended to confront this health ¯
crisis, is censored by the city and by Infinity
Outdoor,’.’ said state Sen. Tom Duane. :
"It is the height of irresponsibility on the
city’ s part and the height of hypocrisy on ¯
the part of Outdoor, the company behind
the Howard Stem show, to call this ad "
inappropriate or indecent," Duane added. °
Infinity Outdoor is the advertising company
that maintains the city’ s bus shelters._
Its parent, Infinity Broadcasting, airs the "
sometimes-raunchy Howard Stem radio
show.
City Councilwoman Christine Qninn
said New York City "should be doing
everything in its power tO heighten public
awareness of the epidemic and to educate
those at risk about steps they can take to
protect themselVeS."
The ad, paid for by the Bronx Lesbian
-..and Gay Health Resource C0ilsortium,
showed two men, one with his arm around
the other~ above a caption that read, "I’m
not Gay, but sometimes I have sex, with
other.guys," and included a numberfor the
health line.
Infinity Outdoor initially approved the
content of the ads.But company spokes~
man Dana McClintock said a significant
number Of complaints were rdceived,specifically
about the reference to sex. "Making
these decisions is tough;’ McClintock
said. "It’s a,gray area. It’s not black and
white, it’ s doing our best to ~strike a bal-.
ance between First Amendment rights and..
community concerns."
ButLisaWinters, founder of the consortium,
said the original was "not at all an
offensive ad." "There are ads for ’Sex and
the City’ up all over the place,~Lshe said.
"What’s wrong with these posters?" She
has said the ads featuring the two men
were intended to reach men in the Bronx
¯ who do not identify themselves as Gay.
The city’ s Department of Transportation
owns the shelters, and Commissioner
Iris Weinshall supported~ the company’s
decision to pull the ad. "This poster was
totally inappropriate, and we applaud. the
contractor fortaking it down," she said.
"We feel,that good taste can supersede the
First Amendment."_
The same ads featuring the two menalso
are displayed inside city buses, and have
, not been pulled. Bus ads are controlled by
TDI Worldwide, another company owned
bY Infinity Broadcasting.
People.with HIV
Share Stories
UNITEDNATIONS CAP)-DavidBrooks
.Arnold, a ~65-year-old grandfather from
Washington; D.C., and Josephine
Chiturttmam, a 42-year old mother of four
from Zimbabwe, have more in common
than they expected. They both w0rkfor the
Red Cross, both lost partners mAIDS and
both are HIV-positive.
People-from all walks of life with HIV
andAIDS traveledfromevery continent to
share their stories in moviiag testimonials
that drew an audience of government officials,
AIDS experts and U.N. Secretary-
General Kofi Annam
Patinya Noyphon, a petite Thai wOman
with a sweet smile and soft brown hair,
found out shewas HIV-positive when her
husband died of AIDS in 1996. Her story
moved many to tears Tliesday as she re-
- counted the shock of learning her husband
had the disease and that he left her with the
virus.
Ini997; she joined a network of AIDS
patients that began counseling others with
the vires thinmore than~36 million people "
are living with. That network has grown
into an international movement of people
living with HIV/AIDS and Tuesday they
formed a partnership with the Red Cross to
bring mo,re infectedpeople into caregiving
¯ roles.
’~"~e active participation.of those living
with HIV/AID-S is absolutely vital," Annan
¯ ; told a room of over 200 people gathered to
:hear HIV positive advocates speak out.
Annan, who h’as-made AIDS a personal
¯ -crusade, said the alliance "sends a powerful
message to decision-makers, and to
¯
society as ~ whole, about the importance
of tackling stigma .and discrimination."
Many attending the session, part ofa
three-day U.N. conference on HIV/AIDS,
openly talked about shame and discrimination.
"We are not viruses," said Adam
P0well, a member of the Norwegian delegation
to the conference, who is HIV
positive: "We are humanity," he said.
Others ’used the opportunity to mourn
loved Ones and encourage those infected
¯ to continue fighting. Chiturumani, an AIDS Counselor in her
¯ nau,~e Zimbabwe, lost her husbandto the
¯ pandemic last year. She also lost her
¯ brother, a nephew, a brother and sister-in-
" law and numerous cousins- 22 relatives in
all since 1994 - all taken by AIDS.
Over 20 years, Arnold, director of international
relations for the American Red
Cross, lost more than 100 friends, including
his 10ngtimepartner, to AIDS, Despite
vastly different backgrounds, a fatal dis-
" ease has madethem instant friends. "It’s
an immediate bonding; Arnold sat . He
¯ said that "Josephine is living my past,"
¯ noting that the disease detected among
: Gay men in the United States in the 1980s
¯ is now ravaging whole communities in
¯ Africa.
"- Chiturumani said reaching out to others
¯ with AIDS has helped her live with the
¯ virus. ’~’It makes me belieVe that tomorrow
¯ there will be someone out there who will
: care for me," she said.
In Africa, Stigma
Prevails
BAMAKO, Mali (AP)- Long years after
: becoming the first in hisSahara nation to
: publicly acknowledge carrying the AIDS
: virus, Mamadou Barry is still fighting the
: samebattleas0n Day One. Themissionis
¯ "convincing people thatAIDS exists," says
¯ Barry, whoin 1994feltcompelledtoleave
"- his family business after he revealed that
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he had tested positive for HIV:
In apandemic that stigmatizes as it kills,
AIDS in Africa today, remains a disease
that leaves many of its.victims choosing a
quiet death overthe proSpecfof a life of
pfiblic shame.
In government after government, reluctan~
c~,to co~icede that Africans are dying of
what s seenas aWes.terndegeneracyhelps
keep impoverished countries decades behind
the West in confronting the disease.
In household after household, the shame
blocks testing and tr_eatment and even the
simplest known preventative measures,
such as condoms.
In Mall’s capital, Bamako, a foreign
publication’s report this month that the
death of a promruent Malian official had
been due to AIDS angered many, in and
out of government.
PrimeMinisterMandeSidibe"wentinto
a rage," one aide related, speaking on
condition of anonymity. Countrywide, the
near unanimous response was that it was
wrong to dirty the name of an illustrious
dead man.
In all of Africa, the top official to admit
to having AIDS is Edwin Cameron, a
judge on South Africa’s Constitutional
Court. But Cameron is white, openly Gay
and able to afford treatment.- in all, not
someone to whom the average infected
African would look as a model.
AIDS is "considered a disease ofpeople
of bad morals, of the ill-bred," said Dr.
Allou Sylla, director of a Bamako center
that tests the few who dare to find out
whether they have AIDS. In the general
absence of testing, often the only rough
confirmation that a~madO~ w0mmi died of
AIDS comes when a spouse follows them
in death one or two years later.-
Overwhelmingly, the tendency is to
blame the diarrhea, the rashes, thehorrifying’
wasting away on witchcraft. Sorcerers
andfaith-healers flourish. AIDS treatment,
meanwhile, remains a rarity, ,affordable
only to a few thousand among the 26
million living with HIV across the continent.
Even thosewhofall ill with diseases that
bring AIDS-like symptoms, such as tuberculosis
with its weight loss, are shunned,
Often losing their jobs.
In polygamous African societies, AIDS
is spread mainly by sex between men and
women. It is also spread by contaminat&t
blood and by unsterilized blades - used
interchangeably andcommunally for tribal
rituals, circumcisions andbarbering. AIDS
hit hard from the start among prostitutes,
who literally line the streets in some African
cities. That contributed to the enduring
Stigma.
In Mali, Aminate Nana Kasse is among
those closely following the news out of the
U.N. AIDS eonferenceinNewYork. Nana
Kasse was infected with HIV by her husband,
who has since died. Nana Kasse has
a dream, a distant one, for Africa - that
every government will require HIV tests
ing for couples before they marry. ’"No
African wife would dare _demand of her
husband that he wear a Condom, let alone
suggest that.he take a test," Nana Kasse
said. With mandatory tests, "at least One
would know who she’s marrying," the
widow said.
Mall this year became one of 10 African
countries to enter deals with Western drugcompanies
for low’cost HIV drugs - although
in poorAfrica dying without care
will remain the norm. for millions.
There are other signs of hope, coming
only when local powers acknowledge and
accept the fight against AIDS. An example
is in Senegal, where Islamic imams
preach the prevealtion message in their
Friday sermons at the country’ s mosques.
"People are starting more and more to
believe in iL" said Sylla, the clinic director
in Bamako.
Still; no family in Mali wants it said in
the. community that they have a relative
infected with HIV in their midst.
"I .knew that it was for the. best," says
Barry, explaining his decision to sever ties
with his family after discovering he had
the AIDS virus. Now in his 40s, he still
lives estrangedfrom them. "I believe I was
taking- from them a"decision that the faroi!
y, soonerorlater,wouldhavebeen obliged
to take."
600K in China
Have AIDS Virus
UN1TED NATIONS (AP) -.More than
600,000 people in China are estimated to ."
be infected with the AIDS virus and the :
number is increasing by 30% annually, ¯
p.rimarily because of an upsurge in infec- ¯
tlons among intravenous, drug users, .
China’ s health minister said.
Although the prevalence of the HIV
virus and AIDS is still low -just 0.5% of ~
China’ s 1.27 billion population- the government
has launched a five-year plan to ;
reduce the-ingrease ~rom 3Q% 5o 10% -.
annually,’Zhang Wenkang toId Tl~e Associated
Press.
Theplan calls f0r includingAIDS awareness
in the sex edUcation curriculum for ¯
!.5-year-01ds, prevention messages from "
leading actors, condom vending machines :
and education programs at all leadership ¯
levels. Impro ced treatment- including the -.
possibility of cheap drugs - is also part of
the plan, Zhang said in an interview after "
addressing the first U.N. General Assem- ~
bly Special Session on HIV/AIDS. ¯
Five years ago,. about 40% of China~s "
HIV cases were the result of the illegal :
selling of blood, primarily..in rural areas ¯
where dirty needles were often used, he
said. Following a gove.rp_ment crackdown "
on illegal blood-buying, the percentage of :
HIV cases from tainted blood has dropped
to 4 to 6%.
About70% of current HIV cases are the
result ofintravenous drug use, Zhang said.
Another 10% are infected through heterosexual
or homosexual relations and a
smaller percentage from mother-to-child
transmission of the virus.
Professor Shao Yiming, deputy director
of China’ s National Center for AIDS Prevention
and Control, explained that the
numbers are just estimates. As. a developlng
country China can.dnly do limited
AIDS testing and people in rural areas
often,don’t recognize the HIV virus, he "
said.
Zhang said the estimate of more than :
600,000 HIV sufferers was made by epi- "
demiologists based on the actual number "
of reported HIV cases - 23,905 at the end ¯
of March. At that time, there were also956 "
AIDS patients and 537 confirmed deaths, :
he said.
The Joint U.N.-Program on HIV/AIDS
has said that "while East Asia and the
Pacific region still appear to be holding
HIV at bay, the recent steep rise in sexually
transmitted infections in China and
tile vast transmigration ofpcople- spurred
by economic growth - could unleash an
epidemic.." "
Outlining China’ s five-year plan to cut
new HIV infections, Zhang said people
will be urged to take preventative measures
against the disease, "... for instance
to develop a healthy lifestyle, without so
many sex partners, and secondly without
drug using. We advocate m,a~i,’tal sex. we
discourage extramarital sex.
Zhang called on pharmaceutical companies
toreduce the cost of the drug "cocktail"
that has proven effective in treating
HIV and AIDS because the current cost"is
unimaginable for the peasants and citizens.’"
About 200 Chinese afflicted with the
virus are currently taking part in a trial
using free drugs, he said. Shao said China
has the capability of making ’cheap drugs
to treat HIV and AIDS because it produces
many of the chemicals used in the medications,
"but the drug is only one ring of the
whole chain of treatment."
He said China is preparing a comprehensive
treatment program, from health
care infrastructure and well-trained doc-
.tors and nurses to drugs, laboratory testing
and monitoring.
Though China is starting to confront its
AIDS Crisis, the government still harasses
activists seeking to draw attention to the
problem - especially when doing so uncovers
government negligence.
Last month, Chinese officials ref.used.to
issue a passport to retired physician Dr.
Gao Yaojie to accept the Jonathan Mann
Award from the Global Health Council at
aceremonyin Washington, D.C., attended
by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Gao,74, has publicized the spread ofAIDS
among poor farmers in central China,
blamed on an unsanitary, blood-buying
industry. She said officials accused her of
helping "anti-China forces."
Contacted at her home in Henan
province’s capital, 7Jaengzhou, Gao said
officials have told her patients to seyer ties
with her, saying she had been arrested.
People who have visited her at home have
been detained and officials have blocked
her from distributing donated medicine
and cash to AIDS victims, she said. Gao
has published her own report about AIDS
in China and plans to distribute tt free to
patients, health institutions and the media.
Eastern Europe/
Russia Hit By AIDS
NEW YORK (AP) - Eastern Europe and
the former Soviet Union,- which already
have the world’ s fastest rising rates ofnew
HIV/AIDS infections, are headed for a
large-scale" epidemic unless anti-AIDS
.programs go into full swing now, speciallsts
on the region have warned.
The numbers are still small compared
with Africa, where 26 million people ore
infected with HIV, the virus that causes
AIDS, but they are climbing fast. The
United Nations ~stimates that the number
of infected people:in the former Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe has skyrocketed
from 30,000 in 1995 to 700,000 as of
last year.
Ethan Nadelmann of the Lindesmith
Center/Drug Policy Foundation said the
region "leads the world in the connectioN’
between AIDS and intravenous drug use,
with80% of HIV infections linked to drug
abuse.
Nadelman moderated the panel discussion
"preventing an Epidemic" among
doctors, heads of rehabilitation programs,
politicians and researchers. Their meeting
was organized by the Open Society Institute,
a charitablefoundation active throughout
the region, and coincided with the
three-day United Nations’ Special Ses=
sion on AIDS.
Sergey Kovalev, a member of the Russian
Parliamentandlongtimehumanrights
activist, said his country has answered the
increase in intravenous drug use with repressive
measures that drive users underground,
rather than toward medical care.
Their sharing Of hypodermic needles has
spread HIV, especially among the young.
Kovalev said his government is not likely
to budge from that approach unless it is
p~essured to do so by Western nations.
Prison populations have swelled, with
correspondingincreases in drug useamong
inmates and in diseases such as tuberculosis
that prey on HIV-infected people. Although
there once was comprehensive
health care throughout the region, today
those systems have crumbled and there is
virtually no treatment offered for people
infected with HIV.
Paul Farmer, a Harvard Medical School
professor who leads AIDS programs m
Russia and Haiti, .said politicians in the
regi0I~ and internationally wil.l avoid tacklingthe
potential AIDS epidemic on their
own. To change that simalaon, he said,
- health professionals and activists need to
unite to establish fwo ’things: a comprehensive
plan for research, pre~,enfion, treatment
and care for orphans; and pilot programs_
that show how the work can be
accomplished. "All they need is division
in our ranks to say,’ No, i t can’ t be done,’"
he warned. "The search for excuses not to
do this is almost criminal."
.Konstanfin Lezhentsev, who helped establish
Ukraine’ s firstAIDS treatmentprogram
through Medecins Sans Frontieres,
or Doctors Without Borders, said the aim
ofhis group is to have"aneffecfive tool for
speaking with the government" about the
urgency Of every patient’s right to treatment.
A woman on the panel who asked to be
called only by her first nmne, Irina, spoke
of issues that go beyond government
policy: disci’iminafion against those with
HIV. Inherfirst public declaration that she
is infected with HIV, Irina described how
She became a drug addict, despite coming
from aloving family, studying at a university,
etc. She thought all her troubles were
over when she completed a drag rehabilitaftonprogram,
but soon she found out that
she was HIV-posifive.
HIV-infected people are shunned by
family and afraid to go to doctors, she said.
Even people she had helped through drug
programs deserted her.
by Jim Christjohn, entertainment editor
"Planets of the Universe", the first single
off Stevie Nicks’ .new album "Trouble in
¯ Shangri La" is scheduled for release to
stores on July 3rd. The single will include.
several club remixes. It should be good,
the song itself is great, and hopefully, for
the first time since 1986’ s "I Can’ t Wait",
fans will be able to go to
the clubs and dance t6 a
Stevie song. It would be
niceifthe clubs in Tulsa
are wise enough to get a
clue and play it rather
than the mixes they usually
spin.
One club version is
11 minutes long and
contains lyrics cut from
the album version.
The tour should be
interesting in that La
Diva Nicks is ~bandoning
the "Stevie Nicks/
ment jn theatre is taking place July 11-14
with Tulsa Experimental theatre’s production
of",The dkDistance Between Bod-
Ies Grows Greater Every Day:" Call
Summerstage for tix at 596-7111.
- "Always, Patsy Cline," an allegedly true
story about a fan’s relationship with the
singer is brought to you by American
"The Haunted Castle
opens its doors July 4th:
Johnny inherits a haunted
castle in EnOland (isn’t
that where they all are?)
and ~oes to claim his
inheritance. It’s a whole
lott~a troubleafter that, as
the devil seems to think
Theatre Company July
12-211 Featuring the
music of-the great lady,
.ax are available by calling
596-7111/ Hmm,
anyone else experiencing
drjh vu? Anyone
else got that number
memorized?
"Love Letters," a writing
exercise thatbecame
a romance and then a
play, is offered up July
12-21 by the Centerstage
Players, and once
more tix are available at
Fleetwo~d Mac Great- he’s the rightful owner. - say it with me - 596-
est Hits’ package,-in " ~ 71’1,1.
which only’ one or two new ~ongs were ¯ Adrian Zmed, 80 s heartthrob best
thrown in, and adding 5 new songs to the known for wrestling with William Shatner
set,includingsomeol~lersongsneverdone on that cop show he was in (Adrian was
in concert. She stops August 3rd in Dallas, hot, Adam not) and who showed his magand
tickets are going fast., nificen_t abs in the 80’ s tour of"Godspell",
Melissa Etheridge plays Will Rogers
coliseum in Fort Worth September 10th
and 1 lth, for which tickets go on sale July
7th. Karin, the .Raging Lesbian, reports-it
will.be two dates withjust Melissa and her
guitar. Sounds like a~ intimate evening,
which would be.great. The RLreports it is
called the ’,’Live and Alone Tour’’, as opposed
to the dead and en masse tour; RL
introduced me to her music, much like I
introduced her to Stevie’ s. (Read: "Forced
it down her throat until she knew every
song by heart!") Fortunately, m3’ enthusiasm
for Stevie took (asevidencedby find--
ing a Stevie cassette I KNEW.I hadn’t
g~ en her, and forced her to fess up that
she, indeed~ had bought it- and loved it.),
as did hers for Meli~sa
Interestingly enough, if ybu play the
track"I Miss You" from Stevie’ s "Trouble
in Shangfi" La" and.then play "Enough of
Me" from Melissa’ S"Breakdown", you’ll
find it’ s almost the same song - same chord
progressions, sameguitar. Whoinfluenced
who? John Shanks, Melissa’s producer,
produced some of Stevie’ s album, but not
that track. Interesting...
There’ s a new Imax 3-D movie coming,
and it’s sure to bring a bit of Halloween
into summer. "The Haunted Castle opens
its doors July 4th. Johnnyinherits ahaunted
caste in England (isff t that where they all
are?) and goes to claim his inheritance. It’ s
a whole lotta trouble after that, as the devil
seems to thinkhe’ s the rightful Owner. The
Imax Corp0fation actually tried to launch
an effort to ban this film due to its graphic
content, entreating theatre owners not to
show iLHow much of that is true and how
much hype I don’t know, but it did make
for an interesting press release. And it
looks like it would be a fun film to check
out, especially forhorror buffs.A new way
to get a chill in the heat of summer.
On the local front, an.intriguing expericomes
to Tulsa to play in "Big" - and oh
~e puns I could make endlessly here. He
is rather a tall man... And very broad
shouldered, actually. Anyway, back to the
column at hand-no, don’ t go there, either.
Anyh.oo, themusical that flopped onBroad-
" way is now suitable for touring produc-
’ taons and Theater Arts is bringing it to
town July 13-22 at the Van Trease Per-
¯ - forming Arts Center for Education
(PLEASE get a shorter name!) at 595-
¯ 7777. At least it’ s a different phone num-
- bet.
Tulsa CARES presents "Hairball 2001,
an event to raise bucks to combat AIDS
and raise awareness (and hair) in Tulsa. If
you canget it up- the hair, I should say, to
clarify for the more gutterminded among
thereadership - and, if you can’ t get it up,
for hair raising fun, call 834-4194 ~0r tix to
the Tulsa CARES hair ball, er, hair (raising)°
ball. And have a ball, at the ball. Oh,
I think this column has just descended to a
whole new level, and it ain’t up.
For the folks still reading after that last
¯" bit who are into women, Shadia Dahlal
." ("Hello, dahling!" she says to thekids) and
¯ her Purple Roses of Cairo dance troupe
: swing into town July 26-29 to writhe and
¯ swing hips for your delight. "Passage to a
: world of dark-eyed women, mysterious
¯ customs,veils,incenseanddrums."Hmm,
¯ I know a couple of Lesbians that would
like to explore those mysteries, I bet.
¯ And on the lighter side, Theater Pops
¯ weighs in with ,Bash" July 26-August 5. ¯
"Bash" is acollection of 3 one act plays
." about people capable of unspeakable acts
: of evil and complexity.
¯ Nothing like a dose of Complex "evil to ¯
get the brai,’,n working. Better than coffee.
: Bi~lledas a portraitofhowdarkthehuman
: spirit can become," which I think I discov,
: ered all too well from grade school on
¯ through high school.
American Theatre Co.
presents.
July-12-21
John H. Williams Theater
Performing Arts Center
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the folks who provide the funding that
Gov. Frank administers to Oklahoma Today.
While our legislature’s no model of "
progressive thinking, there are a few sena- ¯
tors and representatives who.believe that ¯
evenGayOklahomans deserve tobe treated - ¯
fairly - and who know that Oklahoma
Today is funded with our tax dollars too.
Last but not least, I should note that this ¯
problem of invisible Gay people i~ not
new. We saw the same problem with the
"homo-free" Tulsa Centennial. Andinterestingly
enough some of the same players
retum~
If one could bring "disbarment" proceedings
againsta professor as you can
against a negligent attorney, thenOU professor
of letters Danney Goble, Ph.D.
should have his credentials revoked for
deliberately suppressing the history, ofGay
Tulsans in his Centennial book.
Some might excuse this as an oversight
but within a day after Goble received the
contract to write the Centennial history~ I
called him and gave him names and phone
numbers of several individuals who could
speak about the last 30 years of Tulsa’s
Gay history. Goblenever even bothered to
call any of these people and .yet claimed
his book was more reflective of the history
of Tulsa’ s minority communities.
Hadhe called and found the information
lacking, the omission might be justified.
Instead we just have plain and simple
bigotry. Also noteworthy is the recogni:
tion OT gives to Sharon King Davis who
was chair of Tulsa’s bigoted Centennial
effort. Davis, is both a staunch Baptist but
also a major Democratic Party leader.
Ofcourse, OklahomaDemocrats, mostly
want to pretend that there are no Gay
people here except for when national
Democratic groups require that they m,
elude us, oh, and when they need money,.
like certain former governor or current
congressman who both received or asked
for major donations from "rich Gays"
Of course, some will argue who cares
about Oklahoma Today? The only people
who read it are 62 year old white bigots
(and at least this 43 year old editor). But
the way we as a community are represented
in the media is crucial to our survival
and progress. When we are misrepresented,
prejudices remain and help create
an environment where hatred, assault
and even murder can flourish. When we
are rendered invisible, in effect, told we
are not even worthy of acknowledgement,
Oklahoma Todayhelps reinforcea climate
of intolerance.
Rendering minorities invisible is a.mil-~
lenniaold technique. Those whoconquered
eradicated the language, the culture of
those defeated. In America, history was
written as that of white men, whether or
not it really was until quite recently.
In Tulsa, all notices of the 1921 Race
Riot were torn out of the archives, and this
was not taught in~ any Tulsa public or
private school w.ell into the ’90’ s.
And of course, in Oklahoma today, we
see that there are no Gay people.
and 89% (220) were from urban areas.
Jackson County, including Kansas City,
had the largest count of same-sex couples,
1,723.
But whenthe 1,463 same-gender couples
in No. 2-ranking St. Louis County were
added to the 1,297 from the city of St.
Louis, No. 3 on the list, the total of 2,760
mtranked Jackson County.
For Elizabeth Radford and Marlssa Pace
of St. Louis, describing themselves as a
couple on their Census paperwork "’just
came easily because it’s who we are and
we are comfortable withit," said Pace, 32,
a chemist.
Radford, a 34-year-old social worker,
said she and Pace took the step last year of
having a marriage ceremony performed
by clergy during a party attended by about
70 friends and relatives in St. Louis.
In Ohio, 16,244 (88%) same-sex unmarried
households are in urban areas,
while 2,288 (12%) are in rural areas, according
to the census data. This marksa
slight change from .the 1990 census when
only 9% (336) of same-sex unmarried
households were in rural parts of the state
and 91% (3,441) were in urban areas.
In Alabama 5,778 (71%) same-sex .unmamed
households are in urban areas,
while 2,331 (29%)are in rural areas.
In1990, only 25% (262) of same-sex unmarried
households were in rural parts of
the state and 76% (807) were in urban
areas.
In Kansas, the census figures showed
that 2,544 (64%) same-sex unmarried
households are in urban areas, while 1,429
(36%) areinrural areas. In 1990;only 29%
(185) of same-sex ufimarried households
were in rural parts of the state and 71%
(462) were in urban areas.
Mike Silverman, 28, a computer software
e~glneer, and his partner of more
than five yearL Dave Greenbaum, recently
returned from Vermont, where they had a
civil union ceremony. Lawrence is home
of the University ofKansas, and Silverman
said it’ s the only city in the state with an
anti-discrimination ordinance protecting
Gay men and Lesbians.
In New York, 43,529 (94%) same-sex
¯ tmmarried households are in urban areas,
; while 2,961 (6%) are in rural areas. In the
¯
last census, only 4% (561) of:same-sex
¯ tmmarried households were in rural parts
of the state and 96% (13,187) were m
¯ urban areas.
Men with a male partner accounted for
¯ 15,016 households, and female couples
¯ made up 1’0,890 households, in 2000. The ¯
census also confirms that enclaves ofGays
¯ are concentrated in the Manhattan neigh-
" borhoods of Chelseaandthe’vVestVillage.
¯ Data on other states will be released in
~ batches through mid-August, according to
¯ census officials. The Human Pdghts Cam-
" paign (HRC), the largest national Lesbian
~md Gay political organization, is working
~ with the Urban Institute, a Washington,
¯ D.C. think tank specializing in statistical
: analysis, to analyze same-sex partner
¯ household data. HRClobbies Congress; ¯
provides camp.aign support and educates
¯ .thepublic to ensurethat LGBT Americans
¯ can be open and safe at home and at work
~7 Lamont Lindstrom, Ph.D.
Lastmonth some970 guns, several bales
of marijuana, and forty or so boxes of
pornography went up in smoke The Tulsa
Police Department used fire
clean its evidence lockers
of items it didn’t want to
auction back to the community.
Thank goodnesswe
are now thus secured
against these three menaces
to society:, weapons,
drugs, and dirty pictures.
The day the lurid glossies
went into the furnaces,
I happened to be reading
Barry Werth’s recent biography
The Scarlet Professor:
Newton Arvin- A Literary
Life Shattered by
Scandal.
Arvin was an ennnent
literary critic and professor
of English at Smith (in
Northampton, MA), 0neof
the Ivy-league’s "Seven
Sister" colleges for women.
His books on Nathaniel
Hawthbm, Walt Whitman,
~ind Herman Melville (the
later of which won~the National
BookAward) helped
create the canon of 19th
century American literature,
loved or cursed by
today’s English majors. Literature made
Arvin, and literature -of a sort also
destroyed him. Arvin was arrested,~fined,
institutionalized,, mad forced to retire for
possessing Gay pornography.
Born at the turn of the century, Arvin
was-shy, short, balding, and: often depressed.
He hdd married and divorced in
his early 30’ s but only slowly and partially
reconciled himself emotionally to his homosexuality.
He progressed through a
number of short-lived relationships with
younger men, some of whom he recruited
as English instructors. (In thgse days, sleep:
ing with the boss could be a more obvious
requirement of one’ s job.)
Truman Capote, a young writer Arvin
met at an artist colony, dated Arvin for two
years, and dedicated to him his first novel,
Other Voices, Other Rooms. To Arvin’s
credit, he kept in touch with many of his
lovers years after they had parted.
In his 50’s, Arvin discovered nearby
Springfield’s several Gay bars, cruising
New York City bathhouses (the Everard),
and also skin magazines. Arvin’ s renewed
sexual adventuresomeness partly reflected
an increasing loneliness of late middle age
but also the sudden appearance in New
York City newsstands of accessible Gay
pornography. In the 1950s, pioneer pornographers
such as Sam Roth and also
Bob Mizer, in the guise of the Athletic
Model Guild, began publishing pictures of
mostly naked (apart from a posing strap or
two) young men. Thom Fitzgerald’s recent
video Beefcake documents the historyof
the muscle maga~i,’nes that led to,
Arvin’s downfall such as Grecian GuiM
Piciorial, MANual, and Trim.
Before the 1950s, Gaypornography was
to spnng-
"... Pornography
9nly exlsts in soeiet~es
where sexuality, or
aspects thereof, is
repressed and
inhibited.
Pornography’s
secrecy and
saladousness furl its
conslderahle charm.
One may imagine,
however, some sexual
ecology...- past or
future-where .all
facets of se- x are
simply mundane and,
as a eonsec~uenee,
pornography is
unthlnhahl-e... "
scarce and hard to find. Basically, one had
¯ to write or draw or photograph it onesdf,
: or else somehow acquire obscure special
¯ editions and art prints mostly published in
Europe. By midcentury, however, Ameri2
can enterprise and knowhow
had at last brought
graphicpornography home
to the masses. Arvin began
buying and collecting the
new musclemagazines, and
also films of nude wresfling
and the like. A novel
technology, 8ram film and
the home movie projector
(perhaps Arvin borrowed
his from Smith College
classrooms?), also boosted
the mass market for pom
-productions.- We’ve recently
experienced similar
technological boosts with
the VCR, .DVD, and the
Intemet.
Pornography, actually,
as an idea is rather recent.
The word, a fancy madeup
Greek term meaning
"writing about harlots,"
first appeared around 1850
or so. Victorian archaeological
excavations of Roman
Pompeii and
Herculaneum had uncovered
shocking sexual imagery
in murals, mosaics, and decorative
household objects. These artifacts were
quickly.squirreled awayin secret museum
caches but they inspired a fierce interest, a
fascination only partly disguised by
"’pornography’ s" net-Greek facade.of polite,
scientific objecfiyity. Terminological
alternatives similarly have historically
shallow roots. Obscene is a Latin worst
that originally meant ominous or illomened;
and smut an Old English word
meamng sooty or smudged.
Pornography only exists in societies
Where sexuality, or aspects thereof, is repressed
and inhibited. Pornography’s secrecy
and salaciousness ftiel its considerable
charm. One may imagine, however,
some sexual ecology - past or .future -
where all facets -of sex are simply mundane
and, as a consequence, pornography
is unthinkable.
But not in Massachusetts in 1960, on the
cusp of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.
Wily politicians then witch--
hunted pornographers and-their customers,
building careers on burning dirty pictures.
A new federal law, passed in July
1960, had made it illegal to send pornographic
material through the mail or to
otherwise distribute this. Arvin and his
circle of Gay. friends met occasionally to
trade magazines and films and to show off
new items in their collections. But postal
inspectors got busy tracking down pore
mailings-and, on September 2, 1960, three
police officers pounded on Arvin’ s door.
They seized his films and magazines and
Arvin too. Terrified, he ratted on Ms Gay
friends and colleagues two ofwhom, along
with Arvin, were convicted and lost their
teaching positions, see Studies, p. 11
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by Karin Gregory
You know when it hitS, don’t you? Ev- "
cry word she utters is golden, no matter ¯
how crude; every look she gives, you want .-
to capture on film to replay; every phone °
message she sends, you save mad listen to "
on your loneliest days(and especially ¯
nights!). You’re the homiest Lesbian in .
town, yet when you think of HER, you "
¯ don’t think of the next time you’ll have ¯
sex, just how good it feels to be with her, °
whether for an hour or a whole night, "
waking up with her the next morning. You .
want to learn her, be a part of her, and fuse o
yourtwo soulsinto one. Youwritehideous ~
purple prose in the second person that ¯
some poor folks in Tulsa will read (well, ¯
maybe not after this paragraph!). :
When-you’re with her, you’re on an "
emotional high, blocking out everyone ¯
around but the two of you. An hour after "
she’s left, you’re still high. Somewhere "
between the second and third hour, how- ¯
ever, your emotions sink so fast and so low
that you don’t think you can live until you "
see her again. When you hear from her, "
you sound like the silliest schoolgirl who .
ever lived. She’s the only woman who
makes you nervous because you can’ ttalk
to her like other women. You have to be "
honest. Her bluntness and honesty make
you want to be a better person, not only for "
her, but for yourself. Yoi~’re feeling emotions
you never thou.ght you had. Dare you
question? Analyze? Categorize every feel- .:
ing? Then put a label on those feelings? ¯
Can it be <gasp!> love? HELP!
Why do I need help?why don’ t Ijust sit "
back and enjoy the ride like most couples? ¯
For the first time in my life, I’m ready for ¯
that "R" word. She’s beautiful, talented, "
creative, interested in me. So what’s the ¯
problem? Miss Interested-In-Me has only
one flaw--the same flaw that haunts many
Gay couples--the dreaded_EX! Yup, I’min "
love with a woman who’ s stillinlove with ¯
her ex. Before you start calling me all °
kinds of stupid, I knew about the ex before °
I met Miss Interested-In-Me in person. I
just didn’ t know, nor did she, the extent of °
those feelings. Now you can call me all "
kinds of stupid! I walked into this trap. "
I even met Ms. X once at my,.., my,.
.. my.... whatever’s house. Gay Felix and "
I liked her very much. No, she couldn’t be "
rude, crude, and vulgar, could she? She "
couldn’t be evil and have a wart on her ¯
nose. Oh, no! Remember, we’re talking ."
Gregory luck here. She and "my girl" are "
- even best friends. OUCH! And Ms. X "
likes me. I found out about that when Miss °
Interested-In-Me and I spent aparticularly
soulful night together.. "She likes you," :
she said. "She. likes how attentive you are ."
to me." ¯
It occurred to me to say, "Well, it’ s nice "
to get the first wife’s permission,’" but I "
thought better of it. If this woman has ¯
taught me anything, it’ s to think before I ;
speak--a first for me. I’ ve also learned that "
it’s easy to live with a stake through your "
heart. It’s just when that stake is twisted ¯
around that you think you won’t ever be "
able to breathe again. She also tells me I’m "
.anincredible person to listen to her and not "
to run. I’dlike to say that incredible people
are not easy to find; that once you find one,
you hold on for dear life. But then I have to
think about that and realize that too much
too soon will run off Miss Interested-In-
Me.
Some people say she’ s using me. Others
say that shejust needs time. Hell, she’ s had
at least two years! Gay Felix, who’s been
around her more than others, told me the
other day, "Karin, she’s called you, invited
you over, initiated sex--I’ dbe happy!"
He’s a man--what else did you expect?
I’m also remembering a line from a
musical, for which mosrof you Gay men
would be proud. Around the end of ’~The
Music Man", when the townspeople discover
that "Professor" Harold Hill is a con
man, they run after him with tar and feathenng
in mind. Marian the Librarian’ s little
brother, Winthrop, tells Hill to run away.
Hill says he can’ t. He. looks at Marian and
declares,"For t_he first time in my life; I got
my foot caught in the door.’"
Marian, if you’re out there, think of my
foot and how it must hurt being stuck in
your door for so long. Think of "that stake
twisting through my heart. Know that this
salesman won’ t bemaking any morehouse
calls for a long time. Aren’t exes a bitch?
Arvin’s collection of soft, nudie guy
imagery, lugged imo court as evidence,
undoubtedly was subsequently burned.
Arvin died two years after his trial, in
1963.
Forty years later, it is quaint, one could
say, that the state still strikes matches to
protect us from the perils of pornography.
Butitmaybe alosing battle, particularly in
Oklahoma. The more sexual repression,
themorepornography. It’ s maybe no accident
that Tulsa spelled backwards, as ~veryone
knows, is A SLUT.
Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthropology
ht the University o[Tulsa, and can be
reached at lamont10@yahoo.com
It is time for society tO recognize that
Gays and Lesbians are a responsible minority
facing unjust discrimination and
mistreatment by the majority - just like
every other minority which has struggled
forjustice a~.d equal treatment inAmerica.
- Nathaniel Batchelder, Director
The Peace House, Oklahoma City
In statements to TFN, McClure noted
that repeated efforts to discuss and resolve
these issues with Tulsa Comity commis,
Sioner John Selph, a Democrat and with
Tulsa Mayor Susan Savage, also a Demo:
crat, both of whom are represented on the
Criminal Justice Authority, have been rebuffed
to date.
McClure also issued a written challenge
to Savage and the county commissioners
to meet with him to resole these issues.
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Brief for Dale v. BOy Scouts
by Tim Talley, Associated Press ~rite~ -
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Some state lawmakers
demanded in mid-April that Oklahoma Attorney General
Drew Edmondson withdraw from participating in a
U:S. Supreme Court case on whether to allow Gay boys
and men in the Boy Scouts of America. Resolutions
were f’ded in the state House and~ Senate opposing a
friend-of-the-court briefEdmondson filed supporting a
New Jersey court decision that ordered the Boy Scouts
to reinstate a homosexual scout leader.
"I think it is a dark day for Oklahoma that we have
taken this stand, by and through our attorney general, in
favor of Gay rights and against the Boy Scouts," said
Rep. Frank Davis, R-Guthrie, a former scout master
whoseresolutionhas70co-authors.Aresolutionpassed
by the Senate says Edmondson’s position "is in dramarie
opposition to the moral ideals of.our state and is
inappropriate in this case of first impression before the
United State Supreme Court."
In a statement, Edmondson saidhe respects the views
of lawmakers who oppose his action. But the attorney
general said the state’ s position see Attorney; p. 2
Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
: ,~. Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations
¯ Co!legeHill Presbyterian
::Church Welcomes Gays
TULSA - This last Palm Sunday, the Session (the board of
directors) of College Hill Presbyterian Church, one of Tulsa’ s
older"mainline" congregations, voted 13 yes, zero no’ s with one
abstention to become officially a member of"More Light Presbyterians."
College Hill, located a block west of the University of
Tulsa is the first Presbyterian congregation in Eastern Oklahoma
(o. take the position of welcoming
all to attend and serve
the church regardless of
sexual orientation.
More Light Presbyterians
is a national network of
churches and individuals
working for justice, love and
the full embrace and inclusion
of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
and Transgendered
persons and their families.
The name is taken from the
words of the Rev. John
Robinson (c. 1620),"we limit
not the truth of God to our
poor reach of mind - by notions
of our day and sect - crude, partial and confined. No, let a
new and better hope within our hearts be stirred, for Godhath yet
more light and truth to break forth from the Word."
The decision for College Hill came after more than 14 months
ofprayer, study and discussion. Acongregational voteon several
statements and positions, one affirming open inclusion, another
reaffirming the mission statement of More Light Presbyterians,
and for becoming a More Light congregation passed, 87%, 90%
and 80% respectively. .
Pastor Radford Rader noted, "College Hill has long been a
congregation which has stood for jnstice issues and with groups
of people who others ignore or exclude.., we cannot remain in
the closet, but want to rejoice in who we are as a family of faith.
¯ .we are blessed by our Gay and Lesbian members."
College Hill’ s history is one of s0cialjttstice, seeChurch,p.11
College Hill Presbyterian
GI,s Mom Suing Arm i- Supreme Court Hears Gay Civil
WASHINGTON(AP)-Them°ther°fas°ldiermur- " R|ghts Case: Dale vs. BSA dered in his barracks believes the Army’s attitude ,
toward Gays created the atmosphere that led to the
killing. Patricia Kutteles of Kansas City, Mo., said she
would file a claim with the Army, seeking roughly $1.8
million in damages for the death of her son, Pfc. Barry
Wincbell,21. Shesaidfellow soldiers believed Winchell
was Gay and harassed him for months before he was
beaten to death while sleeping in his cot last July at Fort
Campbell, Ky. The Army knew about the harassment
but did nothing to stop it, she said. "We want theArmy
to be held accountable," Kutteles said.
Pvt. Calvin Glover, 19, of Sulphur, Okla., was convicted
of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in
prison for the attack. Another soldier was givena 12.5-
year sentence for lying to investigators and obstructing
justice. Thekillingprompted criticism ofthePentagon’ s
policy onhomosexuals in the military. Under the policy
known as "don’t ask, don’t teli.;’:~,Gay-members of the
military can continue to serve.as Ibng as they keep their
sexual orientation to themselves.
Kutteles’ attorney,Adam Pachter, saidheplans to file
under a federal law that allows people to seek reimbursement
from the military for injury or death. The
claim will be sent toMaj. Gen. Robert T. Clark, the
commander of Fort Campbell, but Army Secretary
Louis CaldemprobAbly’will make thef’mal decision on
whether to pay, Pachter said. Kutteles’ claim also alleges
Fort Campbell officials ignored underage drinking
on the base and did not provide a way for soldiers to
call 911 from the barracks.:Glover has said he had been
drinking prior to theattack~ Maj. Pamela Hart, an Army
spokeswoman, declined to comment on the claim but
said soldiers cannow reach 911 from their barracks. She
also said soldiers hadreceived additional training about
the military’ s policy on Gays.
Kutteles said her goal is to get the Army to admit
wrongdoing and take corrective action. "I don’t think
you~put aprice on your child’ s life,’.’ she said. "Your
world is changed if you lose a child. Nothing caa ever
rip3at it."
¯ WASHINGTON, D.C. - Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is not
¯ entitled to expel an exemplary member who is openly Gay from
¯ its ranks, the National Gay and LesbianTask Force said at the end
¯ ofApril as theU.S. SupremeCourtwas hearingargumentsinBoy
Scouts of America v. Dale. The ruling on the case will likely be
: issued before the term ends in early summer.
: ’q’he Boy Scouts’ mission is to promote model citizenship and
¯ integrity," said Panla Ettdbrick, NGLTFFamily Policy Director.
: "It is ridiculous and wrong to exclude a man whose outstanding
¯ personal character fulfills this mission simPlY because he is
¯ Gay."
-" "The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case on appeal by the
¯ BSA after the August 1999 unanimous decision of the New
¯¯ Jersey,Supreme Court. The court found that the BSA falls under
New Jersey’ s anti-discrimination law and cannot deny any per-
" son "accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges"
: because of sexual orientation.
¯ Because the Scouts do not organize for a specific anti-Gay
¯ message; the New Jersey Supreme Court also found that the
¯ inclusion of openly Gay assistant scoutmasterJames Dale would
¯ not violate the BSA’ s First Amendment rights offree association
¯ and free speech.
." ~I’llis case represents a classic struggle in our country?s ever-
" evolving democracy," said Ettelbrick, a veteran attorney and
: national expertLon legal-issues facing.the Ga~y~ lesbian~ bisexual
¯ and transgender community. "It is the stragglebetween agroup’ s ¯
right to establish its own values and the government’ s obligation
¯ to ensure that the law does not give effect to those private biases
when they are used to inhibit equality." .. . ~
: Ettelbrick praised the Lambda Legal Defense and Education
¯
Fund, which has served as lead counsel for James Dale and has
¯ assembled a broad collection of groups to sign friend-of-the-
. court briefs. Those groups range from NGLTF and the National
¯ Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
: to the attorneys-general of 10 states, including Oklahoma Attor-
: ney General Drew Edmondson (see related story this page).
¯ NGLTF’ S brief can be found online via I..ambda’ s website at
: http:/Iwww.lldef.org/sectionslseetionsldalepresskit/
: amicusaclu.html.
i
Vermont Governor
Signs Gay Union Bill
by Ross Sneyd, Associated Press Writer
¯ MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Gov. Howard Dean ¯
signed into law on Wednesday, April 26, 2000, a
¯ bill making Vermont the first state to give Gay and
’ Lesbian couples all the rights and benefits of mar-
¯ riage - without legally declaring it a marriage. ¯
"I think the powerful message is that in Vermont,
¯ we tend to value people for who they are, not what
¯ they are," the Democratic governor said after the
House gave the measure final approval Tuesday.
° The bill, which House members supported 79-68,
¯ arrived at the governor’ s deskjust before lunch and
¯ was signed quietly prior to a2pmnews confe~e,nce, ¯
Vermont lawmakers didn’t use the term mar-
" riage to describe the official state sanction. Instead
¯ they set up aparallel track of"civil tmions," which
¯ would give Gay and Lesbian partners the property
and other legal fights of spouses. Such unions
¯ would become legal July 1. No state has ever gone
¯ so far in recognizing the relationships that Gay and
"- Lesbian couples form.
." Three couples and the lawyers who sued in 1997
¯ when they were denied marriage licenses watched
in the crowded Housechamber as the final roll was
¯ called and House representatives agreed to minor
." changes made by their colleagues in the Senate.
¯ Stacy Jolles and Nina Beck stood cradling their 5-
¯ month-old son, Seth. PeterHarrigan stood embracing
Stan Baker, who held a small necklace from
¯ which his parents’ wedding rings dangled. And
¯ Holly Puterbaugh held hands as Lois Famham
¯ wiped tears fromher eyes. "This isn’ tmarriage, but
it’ s ahuge and powerful bundle ofrights that we’ ve
¯ finally gotten," Baker said moments after the vote.
¯ After the vote, Rosana Vestuti, 41, of Montpelier,
sat on a window seat as legislators, Gay and
." Lesbian couples and thepress milled about. "It’ s so
¯ nice. I have all this in my eyes," see Vermont, p. 7
¯ OKC Gay Group Meets
With Daily Oklahoman
OKLAHOMACITY -Leaders in OklahomaCity’ s
are hailing an early April meeting with Sue Hale,
: the new executive editor of the Daily Oklahoman.
¯ The Daily Oklahoman which was characterized in ¯
the Columbia Journalism Review as "the worst
: newspaper in America" has been known for its
¯ unfair treatment of Lesbian and Gay issues, not ¯
only on the editorial pages but in regular, "objec-
¯ five" newscoverage.
¯ Those who met with Hale are participants in a
¯ new speakers bureau. "Speakers for Gay and Les-
¯ bian Issues" was organized with the goal of reach-
¯ ing out to the straight commtmity to facilitate ¯
¯ understanding of the realities of.being Gay and
Lesbian. Karen Pars0ns,Nathaniel Batchelder, Paul
¯ Thompson, and Rob Abiera attended the meeting
¯ with Hale, a thirty-year veteran of the Daily Okla-
" homan.
¯
Hale was chosen to be the successor to Stan
¯ Tiner, who left the Daily Oklahoman after several
¯ months of working to remold the paper into a more
¯ progressive, contemporary medium which would
¯ more accurately reflect the diversity of Oklahoma
." City.
¯ Halewas approached after reports.began to surface
of her interest in "social justice" issues. And
¯ though homophobic diatribes continue to grace the
editorial page - still under the firm control of
¯ Patrick McGuigan - the rest of the paper was ¯
showing signs of neutrality, if not being outright
; Gay-friendly.
¯ One place where the paper was showing signs of
¯ openness has been in the movie reviews. Kathryn
; Jenson White had come from the Oklahoma Ga-
: zette (OKC’ s alternative weekly) and had always
¯ been of decidedly liberal persuasion. It did not take
¯" long after Tiner’ s departure to see that she would
: continue to be so, and when two GLBT-themed
: Oscar coatenders see Daily, p. 11
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r task. This is true on a national as well as
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"focused on the issue of state’s rights"
and that the high court’, s ruling in the case.
"will have no direct effect in Oklahoma."
"Oklahoma does not have the same antidiscrimination
law as New Jersey,"
Edmondson said. "For me and my office,
this matter was soldy decided on the
advancement of states’ rights."
Theissue ofstates’ rights involves powers
reserved to the states under the 10th
Amendment and immunity from lawsuits
under the 1 lth Amendment.
Edmondson, a former Boy Scout and
see Attorney, p.7
by Christopher Graft, Associated Press Writer
On the day Unilever bought Slim-Fast for $2.3 billion
and Ben & Jerry’s for $326 million, it was the smaller
purchase that captured the headlines and attentionnationwide.
TheNew York Times, The Washington Postand The
Associated Press were among the major news organizations
that focused on the purchase of the tiny ice cream
company, mentioning the acquisition of the much-larger
Slim-Fast only to savor the unusual pairing of the fatten,
ing and dieting duo.
ceutical industry or whoever is his enemy of the moment.
It is remarkable, actually, that Vermont gets as much
attention as it does - through Ben, Jerry, and Bernie, and
through U.S. Sens. Pat Leahy and Jim Jeffords and Gov.
Howard Dean, all of whom have images of straight
talkers in a business full of bluster. I suspect the nation’ s
high interest in things Vermont has something to do with
"... More and more in recent years Vetmont
has been out front in tackling tough Why? Why does a $326 million purchase gain more
attcntionthatva$2.3~billionone?Qu~fle-simplybecauseno ¯ probl.ems. There is something about the
one ldab~s 6r~ cares ~h6 !o~vns Shn~-Fast." ~ . , ~ ¯ . ¯
Butdle k~d~Be~duidflie ’ldid,& J " ~’" ""~ ~ ,.small ~s~ze of the state that allows exper~-
¯ ! y ,, ! , y.:,. . ’. erry. mlamey care . .... ¯ ¯ : ¯
who owns th~s’c0mpa@.~ h~;ce ~dffay~ b~fi ~ttnazed’l~ ~. :nlentat~i0ii. Aiad ther is something a~ well
the wide interest in Ben & Jerry’ s. By the news media.
And by peo_p,te in general. Because, to be blunt about it,
Ben & Jerry s is a tiny company, with an insignificant
share of the ice cream market. The appeal, though, stems
from the fact there are two real guys at the heart of this
company; two guys who want t6~do good.
No faceless multinational ctlialj._"~,y with layers of
bureau...cracy. This xs Ben and Je~’.~,~-stlll doing a little
scooping here and there, and always keeping their eyes on
social concerns. And that strikes a nerve with the publicl
Twoguys who want to do good. Helping out the little guy
by earmarking 7.5% of the pretax p.r.ofits for charity and
running campaigns to help children and savethe family
farm. Two guYS. Doing good.
Bernie Sanders strikes that same nerve. This past week
found him gushingly profiled in the New York Times and
prominently featured in the Boston Globe, the National
Journal.and on Nagonal Public Radio. H~ is just one of
435 members of the U.S. House - and ye’~ he reaps far
more than his share of publicity - just like Ben and Jerry
do. Why? Because he, too, strikes a nerve. Bernie is the
fighter for the little guy, taking on the powerful pharma-
" about the attitude of its polltieal leaders
¯ and people, an attitude that champions eivll
i
r~ghts and foeuse~ on the little guy.
: As difficult as it seems for some people,
the debate this year over extending
i
benefits to Gay and Le~hian couples
is part of that tradition..."
: theseindi~iduals, but it als0 has s0me~ng to do with the
state, its people and its heritage.
¯ In a time when many people feel disconnected from
~ their communities, when they feel overwhelmed by the
¯ stresses and strains of everyday life, Vermont seems to
¯ offer an anchor and a hope. Vermont is small enough.to
retain the seBs¢ of community lost elsewhere, and is
¯ unafraid to try the unconventional - to stand up for the
¯ litde guy. ¯
Ben, Jerry, Bernie and the others are not creating a new
image for Vermont: They are simply building on what
Editor’s note: the following are remarks made by new
NGLTF Executive Director Elizabeth Toledo at the National
Press Club at apress conference held on April.25.
"Good morning. I am here this morning to discuss the
state of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
movement (GLBT) for equality in the United States.
As many state legislatures across the land wrap tip their
work and adjourn, we are seeing a frenzied pace of
legislative activity surrounding GLBT issues. For only
the second year in our movement’ s history, we have seen
bills favorable to our community outnumber unfavorable
bills - and the ratio is rapidly increasing.
So far this year, the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force has tracked 466 bills, of which 288 are favorable
and 178 are unfavorable. By comparison, last year, we
tracked 269 favorable bills and 205 unfavorable bills.
A trend has emerged which shows that although the
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender population remains
under fierce attack, the movement toward civil
rights for all is steadily gaining strength.
Today the Vermont House of Representatives is poised
to give final approval to a bill that would allow same-sex
couples the right to enter into official civil unions sanctioned
by the state. If approved and signed into law, the
Vermont bill will do what no state has ever done before
- it will pr0~ide same~s,¢x couples wi~ al! of the fights,
benefits iitid ~i~0fi-iilsNties Of niarfiag~ thai a state can
offer.
Vermont has garnered a lot of attention, and rightfully
so. But did_you know_ about Georgia? Indiana? Mai_ne?
Alabama?’GeOrgia this Tear foi~ ,the firs:t!time ever: has
passed and enacted a hate crimes law. Indiana has passed
and enacted a hate crimes data collection law. While not
a full-blown hate crimes law, it represents the first rime
hidianalegislators have everreacted favorably to aGLBT
issue. Maine has passed and forwarded to the voters a
full-scale civil rights law that includes sexual orientation.
In Alabama, the House has passed an historic bill adding
.sexual orientation to the existing hate crimes law. Thebill
is scheduled to come up for a heating in the Senate
tomorrow.
Five states - Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, Wisconsin - have defeated attempts to
either pass or strengthen anti-same-sex marriage laws.
¯
The pace of activity this year continues a trend we first
¯ noticed in 1999, a breakthrough year for the GLBT
; .- movement. Last year’ s legislative victories included his-
" toric advances in such disparate states as California,
: Kentucky, New Hampshire and Nevada. In California,
legislators passed and the governor signed a trio of bills
: "...Vermont has garnered a lot of
: attention, and ghtf lly But did
you know about Georgla.9
Indlana.~ Maine.9 Alabama?
Georgia this year for the first time ever
has passed and enacted a hate erlmes
law. Indiana has passed and enacted a
hate cr~mes data collection law..."
that established a statewide registry for same-sex couples,
added sexual orientation to thenondiscrimination clauses
under the state Fair Employment and Housing Act and
offered public school students some protection against
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
In Kentucky, tWO cities..and two_ 9oun.ties ad~pted, pro-
GLBT civil rights measures. In New Hampshire, a law ¯
preventing same-sex couples from adopting children was
repealed. And Nevada became the 1 lth state to ban job
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
~While we hav~ l~geiy ~picked-ul~iii flJ~ ~e’a~’2000 -
where we left off, the news is not all good. Two states -
Utah and Mississippi -have passed bills preventing "
same-sex couples from adopting children. Two state "
legislatures - Colorado and West Virginia- passed laws
preventing same-sex couples from marrying, and Call- "
fornia voters approved a measure banning the state from "
recognizing same-sex marriages in other states. The "
number of states that have explicitly passed laws banning
same-sexmamagewill reach 33 ifthe Colorado governor ,’.
signs that statefs legislation. :
Such activity reflects the unfortunate reality of our ,"
movement. There is a checkerboard quality to the legal ¯
and cultural victories for the LGBT movement, and too "
¯ was there. This state has always been seen as a bastion of
¯ common sense and a breeder of courageous people.
Yes, Vermont’ s pastoral image is of a bygone era of
¯ village squares and hillside farms. But its political image,
its heritage, in fact, is of courage, of caring, of going
¯ where others fear to tread.
Ralph Flanders was about as conservative as they
~ come. But he had the courage to stand up in the U.S.
¯ Senate and call for an end to Joe McCarthy’ s red-baiting,
¯ taking a stand that for Flanders was steeled in the values ¯
in the Bill of Rights. And so it was for George Aiken,
¯ fighting against :the banks, the rai!roadS, and~ flae marble
¯ and:~~ani,t.~i,n~t.u.stries in the ’3Os~ and spegaki~g up yche,It
¯¯ - others,would not .about the~ ,folly’,.of,Vietnam. :, . . . ..
More and mpre in. recent ~ears V,e.rmont:has been out
¯ front in tackling tough problems. There is something
: about the small size of the state that allows experimenta-
¯ tion. And there is something as well about the attitude of
¯ its political leaders and people, an attitude that champions
¯ civil rights and focuses on the little guy.
¯ As difficult as it seems for somepeople, the debate this
¯ year over extending benefits to Gay and Lesbian couples
¯ .is part of that tradition. Again the eyes of the nation are on
~ the state. Certainly there is apprehension and even oppo-
¯ sition, but it is reassuring and pleasing to see how much
: applause thereis. A South Carolinanewspaper writes that
¯ "Vermont has offered a sensible model for secular civil
¯ unions;" theArizonaDaily Star says "this is probably the ¯
¯ best solution possible to an emotional, important debate
that strains the bounds of Americans’ tolerance and
¯ respect for each other," and the Concord (N.H.) Monitor
; says Vermont has "passed what was a test of conscience."
¯ A tourist promotion campaigns a few decades back
¯ proclaimed that Vermont is what America was. It is more
¯ accurate today to say that Vermont is what America
¯ wants to be.
often the difference between legitimacy and illegitimacy
in the eyes of society may rest on something as arbitrary
as a state boundary. Many residents of thiS country
assume that the great strides of the civil rights movement
have afforded broad protection against discrimination for "
all. In fact the legal reality is that those of us in same sex
relationships have notbeen fully protectedfrom discrimination
in housing,jobs, family law, education - virtually
every aspect of our lives is subject to discrimination and
sadl y, hate violence or harassment remains a reality in
every state in the nation.
Too often the cultural strides that are made in the
media, in places or worship, in schools and universities
and in the workplace are misinterpreted as a sign that
equality has been won.
I’ll give you an example. The National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force frequently receives phone calls from
same-sex couples asking for alist of states in which they
can legally marry. These individuals see shows like Will
and Grace or Dawson’ s Creek. They worship in churches
or synagogues that welcome them. They are out in the
workplace or at school. They just assume, like many
heterosexual Americans, that the barriers of discrimination
have been eradicated.
The reality, of course, is quite different¯ Not a single
state allows same.sex mamage. 39 states allow Gay,
"Lesbian, Bisexual:and Transgender employees.to be fired
from ourjobs. 28 states lack hate crimes law s that include
sexual orientation. 18 states criminalize loving, same-sex
relationships.
.~ " T~day the GLBT movement i~ at a crossroads We.are
under open assault by those who would deny us basic
.human rights., and at the same time the nation.is witnessing
a surge in support for our cause. Ourtives, our
liberty, our pursuit of happiness depend upon our ability
to build strong political infrastructure and organize on the
state and local level.
Local orgamzing has always been the trademark of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Fortunately, we
are not alone. Today, the state and local political infrastructure
of the GLBT movement in the United States is
stronger than it has ever been before.
In 1996, NGLTFhelped found the Federation of Statewide
LGBT Political Organizations. see NGLTF, p. 11
College Course to Focus
On Net Hate Groups
BOSTON (AP) - One shows an image of a slain Gay
man burning in hell Another claims the FBI has
declared war on white Christians. A third pretends to
pay homage to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., then
suggests the civil rights leader was a sex fiend, a
communist and a "plastic god." They ~e radical,
hate-driven Internet sites and they are increasing
rapidly. This fall, they also will be the basis for a
communications class at Emerson College called
Hate.com. Robert Hilliard, an Emerson communications
prof~e,ssor, vlans to use ,the sites to examine how
radical gxpups use fi!e Internet to recrmt new members.
" "
Hilliard became interested in extremists~ when.he’
stumbled across a far-right talk radio show, and later
wrote abookonthe topic withBoston College professor
Michael Keith. "We began to listen and we said,
’Here we were, communications professionals and
we didn" t know about these people,’" Hilliard said.
"People have got to know what these people are
saying." Their book, "Waves of Rancor: Tuning in
the Radical RighC’ was well-received and ended up
onPresident Clinton’ s summerreading list. Hilliard’ s
says his class will .examine how the groups target
xmpressionable youth, how they multiply and how
they foment rage¯
More than 300 extremistWeb sites are on the
Internet today, ranging from neo-Nazi alliances to
Gay and Lesbian haters to Holocaust denials sites,
according to the watchdog Southern Poverty Law
Center¯ In 1998, the group counted 254 such Web
sites, up from 163 in 1997.
Experts say extremists are careful’not to urea away
viewers with upfront, inflammatory statements or
epithets. Instead, rock music and games draw in new
members gradually. OneNeo-Nazi site features bands
like RaHoWar, which stands for Racial Holy War.
"Others attract viewers with seemingly mainstream
articles, but the articles can lead to racist and conspiratorial
theories bolstered with passages from the
Bible and alternative historians.
Hilliard plans toinvite some hate site creators to the
class, giving them a chance to defend their work. One
rote creator satdhe s open to such challenges. I thi
the media is extremely biased against my point of
view and I want to provide an alternative to their
news," said Don Black, creator of Stormfront, one of
o.. the Web’ s oldest white nationalist sites.
Hilliard and others emphasize that extremist sites
are fully protectedby the First Amendment and stress
they are not calling for their removal. However,
Hilliardmakes no bones abouthis hopes that students
work to combat them. ’q?hese are people saying’We
must arm ourselves for a holy war to rid the world of
those who are not white, Aryan Christians or those
who disagree with our points of view,’" he said.
Idaho Public TV Faces
Program Challenges
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. (AP) :-Adding adisclaimer to
.controversial programming on Idaho Public Television
may pacify prograrnm~ug restrictions from the
.Legislature while allowing the stationto keep federal
funding.
Idaho Board Of Education member Curtis ’Eaton
¯ proposed.Friday the board require PublieTelevision
tO air a disclaimer stating the station does not sanction
acts or events depicted in programming. In a letter
dated,April 13, Eaton asked.the ¯board to consider the
option-as a way torectncile what he describes aft
contradictory statements in recent.legislation that
require theboard to regulateprogramming deemed to
promote acts illegal in Idaho.
The controversy over programming began last.
spring, when Idaho Public Television General Manager
Peter Morrill decided to air"It’ s Elementary," an
hour-long documentary abouthow five public school
districts across the country dealt with teaching kids
about homosexuality. Christian conservatives lobbied
the board to veto the program, but in June 1999
the board voted unanimously not to interfere with
Morrill’ s programming decision.
But the Legislature got involved this spring by
including restrictions in a funding package for the
network that reouire the board to monitor and reject
programming that "promotes, supports or encourages
the violation of Idaho criminal statutes." Because
sodomy is illegal in Idaho, the bill could be interpreted
tomeanprograms like"It’ s Elementary" should
be cut. Or, because robbery is an Idaho felony, documentaries
about legendary thieves Bonme and Clyde
mightbebarred. ButboardmemberHarold Davis said
he agreed with the restrictions and felt "It’ s Elementary’
crossed the line iiito promoting "the Gay
lifestyle." Heopposed Eaton’ s proposal, saying itwas
not sufficient to meet Legislative demands for new
policy.
Methodists Callings,For:+
Investigation of Bishop
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Some parishioners want
religious leaders to investigate the United Methodist
Church bishop who decided not to charge 68 ministers
who attended and endorsed a Lesbian wedding.
The western region of the United Methodist Church’ s
College of ~3ishops received two letters from parishioners,
asking for aninvestigationinto whether Bishop
Melvin Talbert disregarded church laws, including
one banning same-sex unions. Bishop Elias Galvan of
Seattle, a member of the religious body, said the o
letters would be reviewed to see if they merit complaint
status.
John Stumbo, a Fort Valley, Ga., lawyer and member
of the Coalition for United Methbdist Accountability,
said the complaints centered around comments
Talbert made when he announced that there
was no basis f01~ a trial. At the time, Talbert said it was
more important for the church to be all-inclusive than
to puuish someone for blessing a union not officially
sanctioned by the churcJa; But Stumbo said Talbert
and the church’ s investigative committee disregarded
a church law against homosexual, marriage in reaching
their decision,
If the-College of Bishops finds grounds for complaint,
a separate committee wouldinvestigate whether
Talbert should be tried in a church court, which would
have the power to impose a number of penalties,
including expulsion. Talbert’ s secretary said thebishop
was travding and could not be reached for comment.
The Rev. Don Fado of St..Mark’ s United Methodist
Church in Sacramento performed the January 1999
ceremony for churchmembers Ellie Charlton, 64,and.
Jeanne BametL 69. He and 67 other ministers offiCiated
en masse at the ceremony.
University Denial of
Benefits Ruled Legal
P1TTSBU-RGH (AP) - The University of Pittsburgh
has-legally denied health benefits to same-sex partners
of employees, an AlleghenyCounty judge ruled.
Judge Robert Gallo said that Pitt’ s policy is neutral
because health benefits are offered to all employees
regardless of sexual orientation, and Pitt also denies
benefits to unmarried partners of heterosexual employees.
"This ruling dearly iupholds what has been
the university’ s .position, thr0~ghout these proem,dings
- namely that the universityhealth benefits plan
is legal and nondiscriminatory," Pitt spokesman Ken
Service said.
But. Deborah Henso~, ia’former Pittinstn~ctorWho-’
sued when the university denied benefits to her Le~.-
bian partner, said she’would appeal to Common~
wealth Court. ’~Fhis is.important in terms of fairness.,,
and equality," Hens,on s~d.."pitt has .l~e~¯ ~gh~ng
tooih and nail, inmy opiuion,tojus,tff,y~ disenmina~tton
against Gay and Lesbi~in persons. Henson and six
others were plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging that Pitt
violated a city ordinance banning discrimination
against Gay~ and Lesbians. I-Ienson’ s attorneys had
wanted the case to be heard by the Pittsburgh CommissiononHumanRelations,
whichhears complaints
about violations of the city ordinance.
Ga!lo said the commission has nojurisdiction over
Pitt. In November, Gov. Tom Ridge signed a law
exempting state universities and colleges from being
forced by city anti-discrimination laws to provide
same-sex benefits. Pitt is a state-affiliated institution.
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"Recognizing that Pitt’ s health care contract on its
face prohibits Pitt from providing benefits to both
same sex and heterosexual unmarried couples, making
n~ distinction between the two, it is dear that the
commi ssion would be precluded from finding that an
unlawful practice hadbeen committedbyPitt," Gallo’ s
written ruling said.
Other universities in Pennsylvania that offer samesex
benefit~ include the University of Pennsylvania,
Swarthmore College and DickinsfnCollege. C.amegie
MdlonUniversity.faculty earlier this monthaccepted
a recommendation-that the:,.university ,provide samesex
benefits as wall..CMU’ s board of trustees must
approve the recommendation as well before samesex
benefits will be extended, according to university
spokesman Don Hale.
BOSh
on Vermont Civil Unions
¯ Clark delivered opening and dosing arguments ¯
while Richard Van Wagoner, another Salt Lake City
¯ lawyer, grilled Seidel on her decision to disqualify
¯ PRISM but sanction the Polynesian Club and the
¯ Odyssey of the Mind Club. ’Seidel also nixed a
¯ women’ s literature club, saying she had suggested a
¯ genderless literature club instead. Campbell seemed
¯ particularly interested in that decision a~d asked for
¯ district records on it. ~ "....
." The judge frequently turned oia Dan: Larsen, an
¯ assistant Utah state attorney general d~fending the
¯ school district, attacking his argiamentsand declaring
school administrators were not hb~v~:the law. Dis-
- trict Superintendent Darlene Roblds: who was in the
¯ courtroom but did not testify, S~iid tti~ school board
¯ "wasla:t tr~_’0g to violate studen[s" ~F,ifst Amendment
¯ ~nghk~ and welcomed any ~]anfi~ohC ~ ll~ear~
"bring on, the m~tte~r~ ,
TEMPLE,Texas (AP)-Republican presidential candidate
George W. Bush refused to be drawn into
comment on Vermont’s civil unions, which would
grant to same~sex couples some 300 state benefits of
marriage, including medical decision-making, tax
breaks and inheritance. Bush has opposed recognizing
same-sex unions in Texas. "They have a right to
pass a law," Bush said. "It’ s the right of the state to
.make that decision just like it’s the right of the state
of South Carolina to make the decision on the flag."
Bush also met with a group ofGay Republicans last
week in Austin and said he was "a better person" for
heating their stories but still disagreed with them on
Gay marriage. The Texas governor answered questions
after making an elementary school appearance
to_~,r.omote "character education" on the anni .v.ersary
of the Columbine shootings.
School District InC0urt
Fi0r Rejecting Gay Club
SALT Li~KE CITY (AP) - A fede~r,al judge recently
shai~ly questioned a’s~hoor distiict s refuSai.to’sanctibia’
"d" ’ ~~d:¢rff ~ dub ’ that would-focus:,on:Gay "~-:
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m~y~.~0!~ -th~ii,~’~iis~ Aiii~iidifiefi{iights; U..S,"
Di~ft Jildg~ Teiah’ chmp~~tttold’.a lawyer for’the
S~,t-~ .city’s~tiool ~’~&:Campbell made.no
d~Li~ionlasr m’or~,...B.~t.~:.i.s e.x_pected’t0 nile ~60n
o..n~a’reqye~ by stud~,nt org~:z~r~’i6b~c~ia~lVadnfiil:
is~t6r~ find .~_~ "PRrSM~’Peoi~l~ R~spectingIm~
pdrt~t s~iAl Mov-&ia~nt~= ter@o:rary school privileges.
Campbell will then’decide the crux of the case:
w3aether schoql 9ffici~s violated the First Amendmeat
or their own-policy in sh~bb~ag., PRISM:Tot-?
merly the Gay-Straight Alliaiice and_now, reconsti-.
ttitM M’ii~i" aii ac~id’6G~i~ ib~ar to satisfy new district:
c[abrules, -
_ .Cynthia ~¢i_.dd i. the_Oi,S_tri’~? s._as~istani,~upe~nten-:
¯ dent, struggled on the stand Tliurs~y.~0¢xplaii~ why.,
PRISM didn’ t.qualify as, an academic_club;.contend:
ing,it represents a~ narrow..viewpoi~ o.n ~.~.erican
hist6ry and sociology In 1996, the school districi
el.i_nu,’na,ted all nonacademicdubs’i:aiher.than idlow
Qay .dubat East RighS&ooL ambve.that ,was
in~federat court..... .....",.. ~ .... ~, , ,.
,,7i?ne,G~y,~cltlb ~, 0n!y .n~et ~t’e~ ,h~ ~s
qo~.l~.u~:~.g,rpup. thin, must ~efi( siJa~e aiii£.~hy
insurance~ Th~~i~a’l~ ;sn ’t~16~l t6 liand ~tU~t t’l,y..¢~ oL
c~uh ~ha~e.t0~ay.fQr~ :,es si Coh~:saia’.’C6iien ~’d:
i~qrpos; ,oLtll.e .cfii~ is tbi~i~ss history"f~bifi:the
pcrsp.e.,,~tive~ of’G~y~ a~a)’?!;~in~."Seida ti~Z them
~O~i~ :Uec~U~ ~e’d0ii~t t~ch c,,urri~ulum from the
viewpini:dfGays and Legblans. ’. .
Stephen.Clark, l¢.gal director for the American
Civil ,Liberties, U,ni"on of Utah, argued that the denial
was a straighff0.r~v)ffd First Amendment v,iolation.
Clark also contends the district manipulated its own
club policy and sealed its decision against PRISM
with a new, still unwritten rule disqualifying clubs
advocating an "exclusive viewpoint" of subjects.
Lesbian Housing Rights
NEW YORK (AP) - A lawyer for a Lesbian medical
student asked a state appeals court to order Yeshiva
University to let the woman and her domestic partner
live together in school-subsidized housing.
James Esseks told a five-judge panel of the New
York State Supreme Court’ s Appellate Division that
Yeshiva’ s policy discriminates on the basis of marital
status and sexual orientation in violation of city and
state law. Esseks said the university pern-ts married
students to live in school housing only with spouses
and children. Because Gay couples cannot legally
marry, the policy has a disparate, discriminatory
impact on them, he said. Esseks represents Sara
Levin, 28, of San Francisco, a fourth-year student at
Yeshiva’ s Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Yeshiva
University is the oldest andlargest institution of
higher education under Jewish auspices in the United
States.
University Members
Protest Anti-GaY Slurs
GORHAM, "{~/Iaine (AP) - Abou(.125.~t_udent~, staff
and administrators attended ameeting following three
incidents o£ anti-Gay bias at the University of Southern
Maine. One student and two others were arrested
_ by GorhamandUSMpolicein connection with one of
" the three_’in.cidents, all of which took place during a
¯ one-week period earlier this spring. President Rich-
- : ard Pattenande assured participants.at Wednesday’ s
:Tmeeting that anti-Gay acts will not be tolerated.
:’ "USM stands unflinchingly for equality~. -. homophobid
has.no place at USM," Pattenande said..
The incidents began on the weekend of April 8-9
when anti.Gay graffiti was foundin Woodward Hall.
The graffiti referred to a resideatadvisor. The next
incidenthappened on April 13 when the same
Woodward resident advisor and anotheradvisor intervenedin
an out-of-control party. Both were taunted
~ with violent, anti-Gay threats. Last Saturday, another
¯ dormitory.staff workerfoundawritten-anti-Gay death
threat had been slipped under her’dtbr~" .......
’ Alhb:ama Hate:i::Cii :i:mes
Law Revision In:Trouble
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - At:i~n-danc~..at. a Senate
comfifittee meeting could determine the fate Of
lcgist~tif~;to ~;po,laxkA!.~b._a~a,~’.A~h~.qrim,es !~w to
indud~NXnald~r~e~a~:.ti...on.!.7~.e.t)i:!$ pa~red~R~
49-39:on.April 6..George, Olssom Mbntgomery .area
coordinator for-the Gay and Le~ian,Al!iartc,e .of
Alabama~,s~d ’.~e ,J~c!~ci_ary _Co~t.t~~: sharply
which commi.B~me,_~a~bcrs shoN,upat tlag~tiil~eting.
Committee, cL~irman.:Rodger,:,Smi,ih~ianan, a
supporter Of the bill, agreed thdco~tteeii spfit 50-
50 and,attendance,could determine t!~.outcome.
Alabama law already mandates, mini.mm:n prison
terms that felons must serve for crimes motiyated by
race, color, religion, national origin, :ethnicity or
physical or mental disability. For instance,, if a person
committed a crime that is normally punishable by one
to 10 years in prison, the hate crimes law mandates the
person must serve at least two years in prison.
TB Spreading In
Transgender Group
ATLANTA (AP) - A tuberculosis outbreak
in the Transgender commtulities of
Baltimore and New York City may be
spreading to 0ther:cities, the government
said recently. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention confirmed 26 active
cases and 37 dormant cases of tuberculosis,
most of them connected to members
of the transgender community inthe
two cities.
The’ CD~,, ~s~ th~t~m~ig~asgender to:
encbn~Ss~"cro~-~dr~ss~dr~,~ those who
haveig~.,derg0~eI
and indi~id~Jai~ ~tio ~re’plafining to un~
dergo sex-change operations. All of the
cases in Baltimore were men except for
fourwomenwho w’ere eitherfamilymembers
of the men or health care workers
who treated them. Many had a strain of
TB treated with common antibiotics. The
government said 62% of the tuberculosis
patients tested positive for HIV, the virus
that causes AIDS. People with HIV are
susceptible to tuberculosis and could die
if not treated.
Transgenders often travd to many cities
frequenting social clubs and participaring
in fashion and dance competitions.
"Frequent travel and social network links
identified among the Baltimore andNYC
cases have raised concern that thi~ strain
¯ . may be circulating in other’~ities
among young, mobile transgender persons
withHIV infection," theCDCsaid in
a report¯
The CDC is checking for additional
cases linked to the same strain in Atlanta,
"Baltimore, Boston,NewYorkCity, Philadelphia
and Washington, D.C.
Actor Bruce Willis
Donating to Charity
LOS ANGELES (AP) - There’ s more to
theBruceWillis appearances on"Friends"
than a potential ratings boost. The actor,
who agreed to be a guest star on NBC’ s
"Friends" for three episodes during the
May ratings "sweeps," is donating earnings
from the show to five charities. The
amount of money wasn’ t disclosed.
The American Foundation for AIDS
Research, AIDS Project Los Angeles, the
Elizabeth Glaser PediatricAIDS Foundation,
the Rape Treatment Center and
UCLAUnicamp for underprivileged children
will share the money, Willis publicist
Paul Bloch said.
On "Friends," Willis plays the widowedfather
ofRoss’ new girlfriend. Willis
became friendly with "Friends" actor
Matthew Perry when they both starred in
the movie "The Whole Nine Yards."
Study on Prison
Sex in Kentucky
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) - A Morehead
State University professor is conducting a
study on prison sexuality, a topic he says
has been shrouded in silence but must be
dealt with. The information could be used
to combat the spread of AIDS and improve
prison safety. Christopher Hensley,
a sociology professor who directs
Morehead’s Institute for Correctional
Research and Training, said the survey is
the first of its kind in Kentucky.
Hensley studied prison sex in Oklahoma
and found that nearly one in four
male prisoners had engaged in sexual
activities with fellow inmates. Overall.
13.8% of all prisoners said they had been
: "threatened sextmlly" by other inmates
: and 1.1% said they had been raped.
". If they have AIDS or another sex~mlly
¯ transmitted disease, they’ll be spreading
: it to their partners, he said. "These people
: are g,oing to be getting out of prison and
¯¯ they re going to be having sex with their
wives or husbands," Hemley said.
: The sweeping 46-question survey .,asks
¯ about jailhouse consensual sex,
: autoeroticism and rape. About 3,600 of
: Kentucky’ s 15.300 prisoners have been
¯ asked to participate. The survey is volun-
!, ~tary and_anonymouL Funded in part b~ a
.: ~$1,600 ~ant from ’Morehe~id~State,! the ":~i ~ques~i~res have~n ~ent to i.m~tes
¯ ’. dt three Of the state’ s .12 male prisons and
: toinmatesatthestate’sonlyfemaleprison.
¯ Results will be released this fall.
Hensley’ s research has "extraordinary
value," said Cindy Stmckman-Johuson, a
professor of psychology at the University
of South Dakota. But~topic is so taboo
that few scholars focus on it, she said.
"We should have hundreds of people
studying it," Struckman-Johnson said.
"Sex inprisonis amajor cause ofviolence
... of upset and turmoil, a major cause of
disease."
Prisoners’ rights advocates also say the
sexuality data could be useful. "Prison is
a very violent place and ff (officials) can
get a better idea about the reality ofprison
rape and what’ s going on, hopefully they
caTu be more prepared to deal with that
issue," said Kara Gotsch, a public policy
coordinator with the Washington, D.C.-
based National Prison Project of the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Struckman-Jotmson said some prison
administrators try to quash these kinds of
studies out of concern about negativepublicity.
But Morehead State administrators
and Kentucky prison officials approved
Hensley’ s study.
Hensley also has co-written an article
on conjugal visitation in Mississippi, and
his study on consensual homosexual activity
in male prisons in Oklahoma is
scheduled for publication in December in
a prison-related academic journal.
Russian Prison
For HIV+ Inmates
MOSCOW (AP) - Authorities in a Siberian
region plan to open a separate prison
for inmates infected with HIV, the virus
that causes AIDS, a news report said last
month.
About 600 HIV-positive convicts are
serving time in prisons of the Irkutsk
region, and another 300 infected people
are held in pre-trial detention, said Boris
Gronik, chief of the regional Justice Ministry
branch in charge of prison administration.
Gronik said afflicted inmates
present a danger to other prisoners, and
need to be removed; the ITAR=Tass news
agency reported. "Unless they are all gathered
in one place, the situationmayget out
of control," Gronik was quoted as saying.
Russia already has one special prison
for HIV-positive convicts, ITAR-Tass
said. The jail is located in the Baltic Sea
enclave of Kaliningrad, which has one of
the highest concentrations of AIDS cases
in Russia.
In a separate development, authorities
in the southern Siberian republic of
Buryafia, next door to lrkutsk, said 101
HIV cases have been registered in the
republic, up from 24 at the start of the
year, ITAR-Tass reported.
HIV has been spreading fast in Russia
and more than 30,000 registered cases
March.
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reviewed by Barry Hensley . In the mid 1960’ s, Garlandstarted re-
Tulsa City-County Library ¯ cording her memories and feelings on a
Judy Garland’ s fascinating and tumul- " reel to reel tape recorder. Theoretically, it
tuous.life has become the subject of yet ¯ was to be a verbal, and hopefully moneyanothercontroversialbiography,
thistime " making autobiography, butinreality,forby
Gerald Clarke, author tifiedbyherfavoritewine,
of "Capote." Goddess of "Extraordinarily Blue Nun, it became a ti-
Gay men of a certain age, . oor, at~ ehoosln , . ~ade.ag~in~t~pe°p!eand
Judy died inlJun~iof. 196~,~ ¯-P. .... ~,~ :- ¯ ~ .; cbmpafli~s~ "who"~ had a week. before’thei tone.-" .... hn,s t~ d.s",,,:the ""~ ’.wronged her. C~arlde
wall rio.t in York,
her 77 ..... "s. ems especially proud
which started the modem that he had access to these
Gay rights, movement.
From Dorothy in "The
Wizard of Oz," through a
series of film successes, to
someembarrassing television
performances, and, fin.
ally., to aging songstress
staging substandard tunes
written by her lover, Judy
Garland’s career was a
rollercoaster ride unparalleled
in showbiz history.
. .Through thenewspapers, radio and television,
the public eagerly watched her
career rise and fall many times over a
thirty year period. Each triumphant performance
was soon followedby some sort
of disaster. Extraordinarily poor at choosing
husbands, the public followed her
volatile personal life as well, although
they were probably unaware of a few
Lesbian encounters that are mentioned in
Get Happy. Cycling down to an untimely
an-d-litigation filled end, Judy’s stormy
life finally exhausted and frustrated her
friends, fans and family. Her story is one
of the greatest indictments against the
excessive use of drugs and alcohol that
American popular culture has produced.
After ten years of interviews and meticulous
investigation, Clarke has written
ahuge tome, second only to GeroldFrank’ s
700 page biography, "Judy," in 1975.
Clarke had access to the personal diary of
Dottle Ponedel, Judy’ s longfime makeup
woman, who apparently found that Judy
was the most interesting thing in her life.
Clarke also interviewed many of Judy’ s
costars, friends, directors and conductors,
including Arfie Shaw, Lena Home, and
Judy’ s mostinfluential husband, SidLuft.
she said, wiping the tears and gesturing at
the joyous chaos on the House floor.
Their jubilahon was matched by anger
among opponents, who have complained
that lawmakers weren’ t listening to their
concerns. "The people of the state of Vermont
will be back in November and this
legislation will be repealed," said John
Nelson, a 70-year-old retired salesman.
The state Supreme Court unammously
ruled in December that the couples were
being unconstitutionally denied therights
and benefits of mamage. The legislature
decided to establish a parallel system for
Gays rather than broaden marriage statues
to include Gays and Lesbians.
The civil unions essentially duplicate
marriage, but are not recognized under
federal law denying Gay couples benefits
such as Social Security andirmnigrafion.
Under the law, Gay ~ouples will be
able to go to their town clerks and have
their unions certified by a judge or by a
member of the clergy. Breakups will be
handled in Family Court.
volatile personal life
as wall, although
they were probably
naware d a few
Lesbian encounters
that are mentioned in
~et Happy’..."
tapes, although at leastone
other Garland biography
has utilized them. Thecontent
of the tapes is very
interesting, although painfully
sad, as she lashes out
at the people who .made
millions off of her name
but left her penniless.
With the exception of
some films and her celebrated
Carnegie Hall concert,
Clarkelargely ignores Garland’ s professional
life, preferring to give us lurid
gossip and personal problems instead of
analyzing her varied career. In fact, of the
almost 500 pages in this book, only four
are dedicated to’q’heJudy GarlandShow,"
the 1963 CBS series that was the last,
sustained effort of her career (and which
is currently available on DVD.)
Reviewers and fans seem intensely polarized
about their opinions of this book.
(Check out the Amazon.corn reviews!)
While listing over 50 pages of notes and
acknowledgements, Clarke often relies
on unverifiable comments, some of them
quite ugly. He also seems obsessed with
Judy’s sex life, a topic well covered in
Judy Garland: The SecretLife ofanAmerican
Legend, by David Shipman. However,
his decade ofresearch pays off occasionally,
with someinteresting stories and
comments, although we must be aware
that what we are reading is quite probably
as much a juicy novel as it is a serious
biography. Either way, it’ s an intriguing
read.
Check out Get Happy, as well as many
of Garland’ s films or music at any branch
Library, or call Central at 596-7977.
the parent of a former Boy Scout, said
there have been 255 requests for the state
to join friend-of-the-court briefs since he
became attorney general in 1995. The
state has signed on to 111 of them, 68
dealing with states’ rights. "In making
those decisions, we have always tried to
focus on the legal issues rather than the
political ones," he said.
But lawmakers said Edmondson’s action
makes ~*. appear the state opposes the
right of the Boy Scouts to choose their
own leaders.
"’Drew Edmondson has put Oklahoma
on record in the highest court in the land
as being in favor ofthe homosexual movement
against the Boy Scouts," said Rep.
Bill Graves, R-OKC,-an outspoken opponent
of civil rights for Gay people. "I
thought the decision by the New Jersey
Supreme Court was an outrage," Graves
said.
Editor’s note: the switchboardfor the
Oklahoma House of Representatives is
800-522-8502.
Editor’s lugte: due to gremh’nesqueglitches
tn the e-mail, our regular "Amusements"
column byJim Christjohn never got to the
editorial desk. Unfortunately this came to
light at first::lighr’the mormng before
going to’.press, andbeing brave, but northat
brave, :I dtdt no:t invoke the wrath of
the dembn~ by Waking him at 5:30am.
Future issues.~willfeature interviews by
Christjohn: with members of the cast of
cal, will be at the
Tulsa Performing
Arts Centerbeginning
May 30 thro’
June 4th. As the
promoters, the
Tnlsa-based Celebrity
Attractions,
note interest
in the ill-fated
ship has been _ ~om Sesma
great, resulting in
televisionprograms, a"major motion picture,"
novels and "even a cookbook."
Indeed.
The show was written by Peter StOne,
known for other shows: 1776, T~e Will
Rogers Follies, My One & Orii~, and
music and lyrics are by Maury Yeston ..
(Nine, Grand Hotel).
Titanic wonmultiple’q’ony" awards~in
1997 and New York Observer critic, Rex
Reed claims, " you will never see anyder
of wonders, to TULSA! This Pulitzer
and Tony award winning work by the late
Jonathan Larson-was introduced to Tulsa
theatre and media, folk at a.recent PAC
reception.
Coordinated by the ever gracious and
lovely Tracey Norvell, fed a grea~ llmch
by the Polo GrilF s Tal.madge Powell, and
wowed by perfomances by two .current
Broadway casrmembers flown into Tulsa
forithe; ~vent.,~’sa~_~ hear,~d.: the veff~ .era
ergetie,(~md:cute-)-p~.~l~!ce~, Jeffre~ ~!1~
deseribethe off-off
Broadway .and
shaky origins of
Rent, as well as the
tragic death of an
aeortic aneurysm
of composer/
writer Jonathan
Larson on the very
eve of the show’s
successful opening.
Larson drew
inspiration for
Rent from Puccini’s La Boheme but set
his work in New York’ s East Village and
with people living with HIV (rather than
TB), Lesbian lawyers, drag queens instead
of Parisian poets and painters.
The music draws on!the traditions of
American gospel and in the words of.the
Houston Chronicle~ "Rent .is that rare.
musical whose content and style areo£the
present rather than the past..
words of pro.d.ucer Jeffr,y Sellers~ tradithing
this impressive anywhere elser on’ tional :upt wn . t_h_eatre;,t.e..Broadway,
Broadway." Certainly,Titanic seems cer~ .... was not-:~’our.characters ;,our stories, our
tain t0 pl~hse the target audience ofCelebi; "" music, i. 2;.S~1~8 addecL that ,The.New
rity Attractions and to bring in any nlmi: "~ York Ti~oa~.s,:q,a~:.,ed ;~e~t~Ya, shimm~
ber ofcharter buses full of traditional ~ea~ ¯ choonpceufrowr-i~ffei h~iAm.mmeri~_d.c’w~n.-ith th~Pe~q~ng
theatr~igoers. ~ ....
Theatre Tulsa Goes Gay!?!_,-. ~ Arts Center’s..director~-.33lm~e~i~ iii~t
.......for T~s.a.;:R.¢.n.tj~!O~ag0~erdue!
Tulsa Family News is delighted to re.:., Rent 9Li.t.lbe ip:Tulsa, f,om Augusi 29Rt
ceive notice that
TheatreZul~a’ S final
seasonproductionis
theTerrence
McNallyhit,Lips
Together, Teeih
Apart."
It Will run April
28, 29, and May3-
6 at8,l~.~,; ~e~e_w.ill
be a:~ma~lee
all
PAC Jolm~H.
............Io tP+~9..Pt., 3rd :~ith
-I ev.~i~n.g and marl:
nee,performances.
Tickets, range, be:..
$25 to.$55
,a~..dgQ:on ~.ale on
June 12. Call 596-
7111,800-364-
~731I. or go to
Willidins :Tkeatre.’ ..... :
Veto S~fanic~directs this "adult sitmi:"
tion" drama:~dae elegant beach house "
on Fi~I~taii~i:~;brother and sister and
their i(d~tig~e~pouses attempt to cel-:
ebrat~i=tll~-~t~6~li:0f July. Surrounded 6if:
bo.th s[d~Tb,~]~e~ii~ve h~ses~Ga~.~i~ieff:~ "
me" two sfi~:~i~t ~codpqeg’exi~Xa*
own!ives ~[li~it;sorrow, and agnawmgup.,,~
t~my~!~es their‘ affluen! hab’-’
it~ hfid]SeR~ pi~jii~li~s ~i~zle~n the:sum:~
,"~l)~:" ~" ?’Q *~ "~ .... - ;....
~’;" ~i’¢ " ~ "
Tl~eT~fl:aa 1§’one~,~(e!,ty-~Ndest
arts ,0.~g. a~!..~a,tlons ..and -ael~owle~t~mg
Gay~i~ ,th~"th~iff~ is ’a big step, n~ot t6 ¯
me~tidff~cNali~ is one Of
temporary pla~fights so check this production
out, W~:don’t get that many ¯
chances trsee theatre in Tulsa which
acknowledges-the eXistence ofGaypeople: "
525,600 Minutes :
Having said that, the extraordinary new
Ameficanmusical, Rent, is coming, won- "
;~ Do, you got:Hope? ~
Fran~_.~,C.~thy Kc~ting’, sfavodte~ulsa
designer_ ,~gd..H!.V/AtDS .. fund.raise-~,~
Charles-Faudree,-once again has, o~ga;
nized theHopeCafid~eli.~ht~0urforea~!y,
June. TI~.,"~,eve~t not,rnly,heips i~aise f~d~i
groups;p~c~yide~car~, toW-opl,e liv~:ii~
see some6fTulsa s mostbeau~i~f~@~,
rated, homes.- ......... -,.:~....
The pub!ic:tour on SituMay, i~; 3rd
and Sunday~ Jun¢.4th i%~tures fiv~ l~0mes
for a donation ofonly $10. Ticke,ts fi3r tliis
tour may be obtainld a~ each..home ¯
There is also a donor tourfeaturing four
more homes on Iune 1 for those who
donate $125. And patrons (donations of
more than $450) will gather at Doug &
Susan Pielsticker on June 10th.
For more information, call Charles
Faudree, Inc. at 747-9706.
I
to benefit Saint Joseph Residence +
Regional AIDS Interfaith.Network
Saturday, June 3rd, 10-5, + Sunday, June 4th, 1-5
$10 donation at the door or in advance.
David Daniel, 1603 S. Carson
Wiley Parsons, 1601 S. Carson
Monty + Jane Butts, 240 E. Woodward Blvd.
Brett + Maricarolyn Swab, 2112 S. Norfolk Ave.
Dr. Robert & Dena Hudson, 2707 S. Rockford Rd.
Tickets for this~,t~Jr may be obtaL"gd at each home.
For more intormation, call Charles Faudree, Inc, at 747-9706.
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giggled like girls and limp-wristed their
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a volleyball, opponents knew they were
facing some of the meanest men on a Thai
Bacldin 1996, a transvestite volleyball
team with a woman coach overcame an
anti-homosexual campaign to keep them
out and competed!ha meffs national club
volleyball championship They wonboth
the tournamentandthehearts.of the crowd.
Now; their tale has been turned into a
movie titled "Satree-lek," or "Iron Ladies,"
and it’ s quickly turning into one of
the biggest box office hits in Thai history
- while spotlighting the country’s ambiguous
feelings about transvestites and
homosexuality.
DirectorYongyootThongkongtoon said
that on the surface, Thai society is open
and tolerant of transvestites and homosexuality.
The two are often equated in the
popular mind, though not all transvestites
are homosexuals, or vice versa.
Transvestite cabarets are popular with
tourists and several television shows feature
transvestites-prompting an edict last
year by the government to broadcasters to
tone it down. The order, however, has
widely been ignored.
ButYongyoottoldTheAssociatedPress
that transvestism was a lifestyle far removed
from that led by most Thais, and
his debut film takes a look at how other
people : react to having transvestites as
neighbors, rivals and colleagues.
In the movie, the team was insulted by
words and gestures at the beginning of the
tournament. However, when they showed
they could play as well, and better- than
their rivals, they gradually gained respect
from fans and other players.
"I chose to present it as a comedy,
because I thought a drama might be boring,"
said Yongyoot, who formerly directed
TV commercials. "An audience is
more easily attracted by a comedy film."
When the movie began showing nationwide
in March, it became an instant
hit and pulled in more thaii 100 million
baht ($2.7 million) in thefirst month, 10
times what it cost to make.
That already makes it second Thai film
in all-rime box office receipts behind the
A walk-through butterfly exhibit at the
Tulsa Zoo and Living Mus~umwil! open
onMay 6 and will continue through October
8. The exhibit is open from 10am -
5pmand visitors canexperiencehundreds
ofnative butterflies up-el0seand in flight.
Nearly 30 species of North American
butt.efflies.and ~ few s,p~..’es ofmoths will
be represented itl an enel6~&l garden setring,
near the Animal Kingdom Building
and features a variety offlowering plants.
This exlfibit is free wi~ the ~regular Zoo
admission.
Wings ofWonderis set withina30x 96’
greenhouse covered with a light mesh to
contain the animals. The exhibit features
a "chrysalis house" where visitors can
watch as each butterfly emerges from its
chrysalis or pupa and prepares for flight.
Winding stone pathways, a water feature,
benches, andeducational exhibits enhance
the exhibit area.
Wings of Wonder is dedicated to increasing
visitor knowledge and appreciation
of butterflies which are signature
150 million baht (dlrs 4 million) earned
by "Nang Nak," last year’ s arty retelling
of an old ghost legend that is credited with
giving a new breath of life to the moribund
Thai film industry.
Pakorn Pimton, a transvestite and coordinator
of the Gays Against AIDS group,
said he was unsurprised by the success of
the movie and he hoped it would open
useful debate. Gays are accepted as entertainers,
Pakom said, because Thais d(,
see movie stars and television program
hosts as serious. ,~ -
"Howe~,ifthey go beyond’that line to
be a doct~,~polifiCi~, banker Or top~nfili,~
tary official - I guess the answer is no,
Pakorn said. "We still use a two-tier measure
for members of our society." Violence
against homosexuals is rare in Thailand,
Pakorn said, but many barriers remain
against open homosexuals. The Gay
rights movement is weak. His group regularly
receives calls fromhomosexuals who
-fear coming out of the closet because they
risk their jobs or status.
Kitikorn Meesapya, senior psychologist
at the Department of Mental Health’ s,
said that Thais can accept homosexuals
that keep a low profile. Homosexuals in
Parliament and the military are well treated
until their lifestyles are publicly exposed
- a fairly rare occurence. "But then they
will fac~ harsh criticism from society,"
Kitikorn said, expressing hope that
"Satree-lek" might encourage more tolerance
and help some people to express
themselves as homosexuals.
For Kongrith Singnukote, one of the
1996 champion players, the film’ s strongest
pointis that it’*talks about peacefully
living together in society by accepting the
differences of each person." Kongrith
works as a bank teller. He goes to work in
men’s clothes, but wears makeup and
¯" speaks in a girlie voice. All his colleagues
¯ know he is a transvestite. Kongrith says
: he gets teased a bit, but no one has ever
¯ shown violence toward him. He says he is
: grateful that his family accepts him as he
: is.
: Being the subject of a hit movie hash~ t
¯ raised.his celebrity ambitions,however,
and he doesn’t see a career for himself
: beyondretail service. "I know that thereis
¯¯ a barrier for us," he says. "For now, I’m
satisfied at being what I am."
¯ species for conservation. By fostering a
greaterunderstanding of theneeds and the
¯ life,cycle of butterflies we can hdp con-
" serve these delicate creatures.
-" In addition tothe butterfly enclosure,
: knownas"Butterfly Landing," the grounds
¯ aroundtheexhibithavebeen planted with
: butterfly-attracting plants to encourage
:
v~s~tataon by someof our natt,~e butterfly
residents. Thebutterflies exhibited inside
¯ Butterfly Landing have not been taken
~ from:the wild but are procured through
¯ certified butterfly suppliers. ¯
¯ Exhibits describing the lifecycle of the
butterfly, the differences between moths
¯ and butterflies, common butterflies of
¯ Oklahoma, chrysalis and butterfly !dent!-
: fication, and about attracting butterflies
¯
to yards will be included in the exhibit.
¯ Also planned for this summer is a vision
¯ exhibit that will enable visitors to see like
: a butterfly. The Animal Kingdom Build-
. ing will also house agift cart specializing
¯ in butterfly-related books, souvenirs, and
gifts. Info: 669-6600 orwww.tulsazoo.org
r
by Lament.. Lindstrom, Ph.D.
What do you call a dead Blond in a
closet?
- a 1964 hide and seek champion!
The recent flush of
Blendjokes is an interesting
cultural phenomenon.
Jokes are more than just
funny. They are also dangerous
because they are
polilical. Overthepastfew
decad~s~: change~ iri
Amefi’~t"~ ~olitib~[ arena
have affectedboth the content
and practice Ofjoking.
Itis alittleless easy than
it used to be to joke about
ethnic and religious
groups, handicap, gender,
or gender-orientation.
Blonds have emerged as a
safe target in politically
conscious, if not always politically correct,
America. Andmanyjokes that previously
featured Jews- or Blacks or Gays
have been reworked into Blond jokes.
This is not to say that offensive joking
has disappeared. Rather, it is just a little
less public. American politeness conventions
demand that I should not tell a joke
whose "butt" is in my audience, unless I,
too, am in the targeted category, or unless
I already have a close relationship’~vith
those I potentially offend. But I can joke
all I want as long as the butt can’ t hear me,
or if I do indeed intend to offend.
Thewebsite, www.whitepride.com, for
example, offers along list of by now very
stale Jewish, Black, and "faggot" jokes.
Here’ s a sample groaner from the"white
pride" boys:
Why was the faggot fired from his
job at the sperm back?
- for drinking on the job!
Jokesters sometimes complain about
the "political correctness" that has narrowed
the contexts in which they can
safely perform. "Come on, it’s only a
joke!" But of course jokes aren’t just
jokes. They are also assertions about the
world, or at least one particular view of
the world. The lines that jokes ckaw between
the funny and the unfunny reflect
local understandings of normality. Jokes
are potent oral texts that, retold over and
over again, maintain certain ways ofthinking
about people and behavior.
Why do brides wear white?
- so they will match the other
domestic appliances!
.Even ironic jokes, such as this, refresh
established ways of thinking about men,
women, and the gendered division of labor.
In particular, the swarm of jrke~
flying constantly around a community
protects existing systems of inequality.
People joke "downwards" more than
they do upwards.~ :People joke far more
often about the powerless than they
about the powerful. There are far more
jokes about women than there are about
men. "More jokes about ethnic and religious
minorities thanthe white-bread Protestant
mainstream. More jokes about the
handicapped than about the able. More
jokes about the old than the young. More
jokes about Oklahoma than about California.
Do you know what an Oklahoma
divorce and a Texas tornado have
in common? - in both cases
¯ somebody is gonna
¯ lose a trailer house!
And there are many more jokes about
being Gay than about being
Straight. We usually
"~V’hy is it so hard abide by the politeness
constraints ofjoke-telli~,
for women to find in fact, because we realize
that jokes (even "just-amen
that are jok~sT’) have this political
" weight. ,Th..o~sewhofeel tSe
sensitive, earing,, ~ ’ Sfing~hidd~n ’within the
.a.n..d ’geed-look"m
- because those guys
already have
ho rlends!?’
laughter sometimes protest
when etiquette breaks
down.
GLAAD, the Gay &
Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation, for example,
has attempted to police the
telling ofcertainGayjokes
in the m~ss media, notably
on a number of morning radio shows
whose sleazy hosts are keen to boost their
market share. Such policing, of course, if
successful merely shrinks the arenas in
which Faggot jokes are safely told. They
still circulate freely in less public Spaces.
Each time I teach Cultural Anthropology,
I have my students as a group collect
jokes from their friends. I figure that these
joke archives provide good evidence about
which of the joints of American society
currently ache the most.
Last week, the students broughtin about
150 jokes. For the first time in years, none
ofthese was a"faggot"joke. And the only
ethnic joke was turned in by a clueless
Japanese woman, happily ignorant of the
American politics of public joking. Instead,
nearly half the collection consisted
of Blond jokes. Blonds, poor things, are
nowadays the butt of choice when American
jokesters are nervous and unsure of
our audience.
What do Blonds put behind their
ears to attract boyfriends?
- their ankles!
Our collection also included several
"counter-jokes" whose butt is strategically
reversed. There are, for example,
Brunette jokes - the futile ripostes of oppressed
Blonds. There are also "stupid
men jokes" - invented jokes that attempt
to counteract the dominant targeting of
women within the’universe of American
jokes.
Why did God create man?
- because a vibrator can’t
mow the lawn!
While these attempts to resist inequality
by shifting a joke’s target upwards
may have only limitie~." politigal,fimpact, it
sfillfecls"goodtolaflgh.: ~:: ~ -~’~
Why is it so hard for women to
find men that are sensitive,
caring, and go~dqo~king? -~
because those guys _~
already have boyfriends!
LamontLindstrom teaches anthopology
at the University of Tulsa.
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"All About MyMother" and"Boys Don’ t
Meet Local
Guys for
Hot Ti
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Cry" - actually showed up in OKC, she
madeit abundantly clear that shehad been
completely won overby them and was not
about to be shy about saying so in print.
Sympathy towards GLBT issues might
be expected from someone like White,
but it was definitely a surprise to see the
much nibre conservative reviewer, Jerry
Shottefi~irk, being taken in by the Ma-
.donna:Rupert Everett"Next BgstThing."
¯ election - and what could be the most
¯ importantelectionofourgeneration. The
: GLBT voting bloc has proven to be one of
¯¯ the most powerful constituencies in the
country in recent election cycles. If our
¯ voters are motivated to the polls and elect
¯ supportive leaders, we could have the ¯
opportunity to shape groundbrealdng le-
: gal protection. If the nation elects leaders
¯ who are hostile to all that NGLTF stands ¯
for, we could witness a serious backlash
¯ to our h~rd-won gains.
¯ Dr. Martin Luther King. once said the ¯
moral arc of the universeis long but bends
Surprises were cropping up in the rest .: toward justice. Dr. King was right - but
!~f th~ p,gper ~. W~I!, indu~g the busi- ¯ with our continued o!;gahi~gg g~ad motif
~es .,~..; o ~ .w~i~ g~ ~)le on .~_~o ~,~ ~jzatmn, we~make ~at,ii~.~;0’~,.~
:~est~c p~mership~ p,6ilc~es..a~.ong OkI’fi- ¯ much more qmckly
fioma compames- mcludiffg qu,otes from: $~,,-.~oundectir~1973, ttie
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: Striking, 5wey r, was.a group of :. &red people at the local, state dnd naarticles;
oii 1~hate crimes in the Sun- ¯ tional level. As part ofdbrOaddr ~Ocial
iday, March 20 issue. Mostof these ar- : justicemovementforfreOdom;]usticeand
titles appeared in ~ Community see- : equality, NGLTF is creattYg d Worm that
fion, Milch w’as’d~_i’ilh~lPdedia.the late : ~respects and celebrates_ ttie’diversity of
~F,dition ’on Stmday’. The~e, in b!a~k and .’. ’human expression and identity where all
White, was the opeii as~ertidii.’.tiia~ Okla- i .people mayfully participate in society.
h°ma City"s Human Rights CASmmlssi°n i
I ] .Was abolished by(the City Council bemuse
they iesent&!havingt.6 deal with
the issue. 0fiG@’Ri~h?s, cbml~iete, with
~uote by c.ottt~,¢ilmenqbi~r~Je@ Fo~hee: " During WWII, the church Sheltered.Japa-
.-.; "The councilis tiredof.th6is~ue’hlways ; nese-American students who were given
being b~ought forward, and flae vehicle the opportunity to study atTU ratherth~a,n,,,
that is alWays brin~g.i’.t forward is the " beincarceratedinAmerican"internment
human rights comm, ss~on...~ If the vehicle
is bringing you dompany that you
don’ t want ... then you do away with the
vehicle."
In meeting with Hale, Speakers for Gay
and Lesbian Issues hoped that they would
open a dialog between the Daily Oklahoman
and the Gay and Lesbian community
of Oklahoma City. According to Speakers,
Hale provided them with many opportunities
by asking many questions
about Gay and Lesbian issues. Speakers
for Gay and Lesbian Issues noted the
positive trend in the paper’ s coverage of
Gay issues.
Hale revealed that those changes had
come at a price: while the articles on hate
crimes had generated both positive and
negative responses fromreaders, some of
the negative responses had been vicious
and involved actual threats. But, Hale also
said she was not going to let that stop her
from continuing to cover controversial
issues. She said that when a story generates
strong reactions on both sides, she
knows she’ s doing her job right.
This federation consists ofpolitical groups
that fight for equality. In just four years’
time, the Federation has grown to represent
members in every state in the union,
gro,wthinsuch ashort
period of time.
With the Federation’s help, last year
NGLTF was able to produce the largest
:~ grassroots mob~fion:inputmoyem~ntfs
history. We helped organize some 350
rallies and other events in all 50 state
capitols, plus D.C. and Puerto Rico, during
a one-week period. Our campaign -
called Equality Begins at Home- and the
work of the Federation paved the way for
the wonderful successes we have seen in
the past year.
Now many state legislatures are wrapping
up their business and adjourning.
Attention will soon shift to the November
camps. Later the church was involved in
the "Sanctuary" movement which offered
relocation of Central American political
refugees, both documented and-undocumented.
Aletter issued tomembers ofthe church,
signed by Rader and Clerk of the Session,
Kathy Evanson, notes, "None of these
actions changes who we are as a congregation;
but, they declare who we area and
what we want to be in our relationships
with one another. We are still a loyal,
supporting congregation of the Presbyterian
Church,U.S.A. We have done nothing
improper according to our
denomination’ s constitution. We are not
changing any signage, letterhead, preaching
or program. We are declaring inclusion
and affirmation of all our members
and our openness to a group of people
long rejected and stigmatized by society,
and within the Christian commtmity...
College Hill is a majority "straight"
church but with visible and welcome Lesbian
and Gay families.
Editor’s note: Tulsa Family Newspublisher
and editor, Tom Neal is a member
of College Hill Presbyterian Church.
An Evening With
The Quilt
On Thursday evening, May 25, the
NAMES Project Tulsa Area Chapter of
the AIDS Memorial Quilt will sponsor an
evening of meditation and remembrance
at Fellowship Congregational Church,
2900 So. Harvard in Tulsa, from 7-9 pm.
You. are invited to drop in anytime
during this time period to meditate, pray,
or simply view the Quilt. Feel free to stay
just afew minutes, or as long as you wish.
The NAMES Project Tulsa Area Chapter
invites everyonewhohas been touchedby
the AIDS pandemic to take a moment
from their evening to remember and reflect.
For more information, please contact
the NAMES Project Tulsa at (918)
748-3111 or TulsaQnilt@usa.net
Humanity Unites
f’or Hu’man Rights
Diversity .Celebration 2000
Grand Marshalls for the Millennium Parade
Dr. Grethe Cammermeyer
Distinguished Veteran of the United States Armed Forces
Gre£! Lou~lanis
US Olympic Champion
Pride Week Events,
.Interfaith Worship Service
The Tulsa Performin£l Arts Center
Speaker: the Reverend Dr. Mel
W.hite, author and activist
Friday, June 2, from 7pro (free)
TOHR Folbes.
1OO Years of Broadway
Saturday, June 8, 8pm, $15
PAC Doenges Theatre
Black Tie Optional Dinner
~i:Featuri~ 6re~q Louganis
The Summit Club
Friday, June 9th, $75 person
VIP reception at $50 person.
Benefitin~l Tulsa Oklahomans for
Human Ri/thts, the parent
or~Ianization of the
Gay Community Center
Millennium Pa~de 2000
Saturday, June IO, llam
Beginning at the Gay Community
Center at 87th and Peoria and
endin~i at Veterans Park
at 18th and BouIder
The Pride Festival
Veterans Park, llam 8pro
For more information about these
events, caIl 748-4297 (gays).
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Daily Oklahoman
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Elizabeth Toledo
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Gay Studies
George W. Bush
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HIV prevention
homophobia
housing
Idaho Public Television
Jim Christjohn
Karin Gregory
Lamont Lindstrom
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military inclusion
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NAMES Project
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'All About My Mother'
1999
ACT-UP
adoption
AIDS
aMUSEments
anti-gay legislation
arts and entertainment
Audra Sommers
Bars
Boy Scouts
businesses
California
China
churches
couple recognition
Dave Fleischer
divorce
Don't Ask Don't Tell
Dr. Jeffrey Beal
Dr. McCutchen
Dyke Psyche
E. Annie Prouix
Entertainment Notes
Ernestine Dillard
Esther Rothblum
Gay marriage
Gay Studies
Germany
hate crimes
hate crimes bill
Hillary Clinton
HIV
homophobia
James Christjohn
Jim Christjohn
Lamont Lindstrom
marriage
Matthew Shephard
military
military inclusion
Mount Zion Baptist Church
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Partner Benefits
performing arts
Quentin Crisp
Read All About It
restaurants
South Africa
Southern Baptist Church
Susan Savage
Tom Neal
Tulsa Family News
United Methodist Church
Vermont
World AIDS day
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Shepard Murder Update
LARAMIE,Wyo. (AP)-A suspect in the deathofaGay
University of Wyoming student admitted to an investigator
that he drove off with the victim and then told him:
’~3uess what. We’renot Gay. You’regonnagetjacked."
After hearing testimony at a preliminary hearing, a
judge ordered Aaron McKiuney to stand trial in the
death of Matthew Shepard, an attack thatbrought widespread
outrage, a condenmation from President Clinton
and calls for tougher hate-crime laws.
The other suspect, Russell Arthur Henderson, had
waived his fight to a preliminary heating and is scheduled
to be arraigned Dec. 2. Both men are charged with
first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery.
The21-year-old Shepard, who had been found tied to
a fence outside of town, died five days after the Oct. 7
beating.
The lead investigator, Sheriff s Detecfi~÷’e Sgt. Rob
DeBree, testified that McKiuney, 21, admitted to the
beating and implicated his friend Henderson, also 21.
According to DeBree, McKinney said that robbery was ."
the main motive but that Shepard was chosen,,as a targe~
because he was Gay. DeBreesaidMcKinney admitted °
Matthew did not hit on them or make advances" in the
.,~FiresideBar,.batthat they luredhimoutintending:to rob :
him and 6urgiari~e hi~ house. ....... :~ . 2 ~
According to DeBree, McKimaey told investigators
that the attack began after Shepard placedhis fight hand ".
on McKinney’ s leg as the trio drove on Laramie’ s east
side." ’Guess what. We’re not Gay,’ "DeBree quoted "
McKinney as saying. ’"You’re gonna get jacked. It’s
Gay Awareness Week.’"
DeBree said McKiuney admitted he hit Shepard two ¯
to three times with his fist, then pistol-whipped and
robbed him. see Shepard, p. 10
Tulsa MCC’s Merge! TULSA - After years of strife,Tulsa’ s two Mb~~poli’-
tan Community Church congregations have voted to
merge beginning at the end of November and at the
beginning of the Advent season. The Metropolitan
Church of Greater Tulsa (MCC-GT) is likely the oldest
Lesbian and Gay organization in the state at more than
20 years old. It was one of the first MCC’ s in the US to
purchase its own building in an innovative bond based
fundraising program. Family ofFaith’MCCwas younger
congregation that grew out of MCC-GT starting out in
Jenks, then later moving to a storefront in southeast
Tulsa.
Both congregations are currently without permanent
pastors and members of each congregation approved
the merger with "overwhelming majorities." The move
also enjoys denominational support. The new congregation
will meet at the building near Pine and Sheridan
which has been the home for MCC-GTbut the vision
that thenew congregationhas is tomove to anew shared
home and see MCC, p. 2
ATLANTA (AP) - Twelve years after the U.S. Supreme Court
upheld Georgia’s controversial anti-sodomy law, the state Supreme
Court threw out the statute late last month in a ruling that
Gay civil rights activists hope
will lead to the downfall of similar
laws around the country.
The state court voted 6-1 to
overturn the conviction of Anthony
Powell, now of Shreveport,
La. Hehad been foundguilty
of sod.omizing his 17-year-old
niece m 1996. He had beencharged
with rape, but his lawyers
argued that the sex was consensual
and thejury acquitted on
that charge.
The court’s majority opinion,
by ChiefJustice RobertBenham,
said the law violates the state
"We cannot think dany
other aetlvlty that
reasonable persons
would rank as more
private and more
deserving of proteetlon
from governmental
interference than
eonsensual, private,
adult sexual aetlv~ty,"
- Georgia Chld Justiee
Robert Benham
constitution’ s provision that citizens are entitled to privacy. "We
cannot think of any other activity that reasonable persons would
rank as more private and more deserving of protection from
governmental interference than consensual, private, adult sexual
activity," he wrote.
In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 165-year-old
Georgia law banning oral and anal sex, ruling that ~e U.S.
Constitution provides no right to private homosexual conduct.
see Georgia, p. 8
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US & WORLD NEWS P. 4
HEALTH NEWS P. 6
COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9
BOOK REVIEW P. 10
RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 11
DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES P. 12/13
CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14
¯ MarriageLawsuit Heard
: MONTPEIJI~.R, Vt. (AP)- Vermont’s Supreme
¯ Courtjustices dearly wereready for thepotenfially
¯ historic case before them. Before 10 minutes had
¯ gone by in their hour-long heating on the question
¯ of same-gender marriage, Justice Denise Johnson
: cut off a lawyerandtoldher to get to the point. "We
¯ have toknow what yourtheories are that entitle you
¯ to relief,"Johnson toldlawyer Beth Robinson, who
¯ was arguing the case for three couples seeking the
¯ right to marry.
: Throughout the hearing, justices peppered law-
, yers from both sides withquestions about theories
: of law, Gay politics and common sense. Each
: jnstiee, from the chief to themost seniormember of
: the court to its most recent appointee, asked at least
¯ one question. They listened intently, cajoled, prod-
¯ ded, occasionally chuckled and scribbled notes.
: "tit’ s good to know the court is thinking about these
¯ issues, and if you think hard about this, we win,"
¯ Robinson said following the arguments.
¯ Oral arguments before the Supreme Court can be
: curious affairs. Lawyers go prepared to fill their
¯ allotted time with an oral recitation expanding on
¯ the written arguments they have previously filed.
¯ They rarely get a chance to deliver their remarks
: tminterrupted because at least one of the justices
¯ generally wants to probe a point more deeply or
¯ perhaps go off in another direction. But seldom
¯ does the court become so immersed in the case
¯ before it. Seldom does the court have as much time
¯ as it allotted Docket No. 98-32, Baker v. State of
: Vermont. Lawyers had an hour to make their case.
¯ Normally they get half that, sometimes less.
: In the hearings in November, they had to share it
¯ pretty much.eq.ually with the three men and two
: women in black robes.-It was almost l~ke a law
: school class where thefivejustices were theprofes-
¯ sots and the individual lawyers were the students
: getting uncomfortably close seruuny.
: - When Robinson rejected a notion that
Local AIDS activist, Bruce. Begley before World AIDS Day
memorial service and march. For more, see page 3.
Tulsa Is Site to Test HIV Vaccine
: TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Researchers in Tulsa are participating in
: a nationwide trial of a vaccine that may help prevent infection
: from the virus that causes AIDS. Tulsa is one ofahandful of cities
_. chosen to participate in final testing of the AIDSvax vaccine,
¯ developed by California-based VaxGen Inc.
¯ "I think it is an opportunity to make history as the first major
¯ trial to prevent HIV infection," said Dr. Ralph Richter of St. John
.. Medical Center, who is leading the local branch of the trial. "It’ s
¯ aumque opportunity, and the challenge is to prove that this works
: by doing a very highly scientific study."
¯ Researchers are recruiting HIV-negative Gay men who are
¯ considered at high risk Of contracting the disease. That includes
: those who are not in monogamous relationships. They also seek
: women who currently are in sexual relationships with HIV-
: positivemen or who have had more than one male sexual partner
¯ and have been diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases
: within the past year.
: In preliminary trials of AIDSvax, nearly 99 percent of those
: vaccinated produced strong levels of antibodies. Final testing of
¯ the vaccine is targeting 5,000 U.S: volunteers at high risk of
~ contracting the AIDS virus and 2,500 high-risk people in Thai-
" land.
¯ John Lysight, 31, recently got his first shot of the vaccine and
: will get a second injection soon. ’ofhis is a beginning vaccine of
." the future. This is what is going to start what I refer to as the super
: vaccines," Lysight said. "I think we are reaching a totally
¯ different realm of meditfine, and it needs to be taken advantage
: of." Lysightlearned ofthe vaccinefrom Richter almost ayear ago
~ and plans to help the doctor recruit study subjects. He does not
: know if he is receiving the vaccine or a placebo.
¯ see Vaccine, p. 11
:
:
:
:
:
everyone’ s goals~ Justice James Morse responded:
"So the label is everything?"
Johnson was the most animated justice. AssistantAttorney
GeneralEveJac~bs-Camahan pointed
out that no other state in the nation had legalized
Gay marriage. Johnson observed: "Somebody had
to be the first in an interracial state," referring to
states that once banned interracial marriages. Trying
to recover, Jacobs-Camahan said that common
law had always made a distinction between men
and women in marriage statutes, but not between
the races, which was what made interracial marriage
bans unconstitutional. "What does that show
other than how long-standing the discrimination
was?" Justice John Dooley asked.
Reflecting that new legal ground was potentially
being plowed with the case, Chief Justice Jeffrey
Amestoy asked Robinson to explain why the state
would want to discriminate against its citizens.
Figuring that one out is a frustration, Robinson
replied.
The State of Vermont’s representatives have
contended that limiting mamage only to heterosexual
couples is good for procreation and childrearing
- a point characterized as discriminatory
and unconstitutional by Robinson, the lawyer for
three Gay couples who brought the case. Robinson
argued that Vermont’s 28-year-old ban doesn’t
serve to protect children. "If the state’ s concern is
about protecting Children, then that would be protected
by allowing these couples to marry," she
said, noting that two of the three couples have
adopted children.
State lawyers urged the court to turn down the
see Marriage, p. 11
see Editorial, p. 3
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Freedom To Marry
Recently, basketball star Dennis RodmanandBaywatch
starletCarmenElectra
were able to marry on a whim at 7 a.m. in
Las Vegas after anight ofpartying that his
agent says left Mr. Rodman too drtmk to
speak or stand up.
So much for the sanctity of marriage in
this, the second year of the Defense of
Marriage Act, which was passed by Congress
and signed by President Clinton. It
only forbids gay peoplefrom getting married.
Richard Ramirez, the night stalker currently
on death row for committing 13
sadistic, torturous murders can marry a
woman ~n prison, but a gay person who
never even gotaparking ticket can’ t marry
the person he loves.
Ministers who have merely blessed
same-sex unious have found themselves
in trouble with church leadership. One
was quoted as saying "I can bless a battleship.
I can bless a nuclear weapon. I can
bless dogs or animals, but I can’ t bless two
people who want to make a commitment
to each other."
The freedom to marry the person you
love is a basic civil right, a basic human
right, and an important, individual personal
choice that bdongs to the couple in
love, not to politicians or the government:
Some day, probably not un61 the next
century, that won’ t be an unpopular idea.
- William C. Stosine. Iowa City
With Credit to
The Village Voice
The 1998 Wacko Awards: Losers, Liars,
and Other Political Lowlifes
The Human Rights Campaign
Well, the folks- at the. Human~ Rights
Campaign sure do know how to pick ’em]
After a protracted internal battle, the
country’s largest gay fights group voted to
endorse Al D’ Amato. Actually, it was the
HRC’s board- in a 15-7 vote - that chose
to support the Fonz. Mostmembers backed
Schumer, who romped in the Gay community.
For mstanee, in Manhattan’ s 66th Assembly
Dislrict, Schumerrouted D’ Amato
by about an 8-to-1 margin. This Greenwich
Village district was the first to send
an openly gay woman, Deborah Glick, to
the state assembly and provided Schumer
with his biggest vote total ofany city A.D.
In recognition of HRC"s misguided endorsement,
we present the group’ s board
with the Out ofTouch Plaque and a global
positioning system, so they are better informed
when they next get the urge to
veer right.
¯ Letters Policy
: Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on
¯ issues which we’ ve covered or on issues
¯ you thinkneed to be considered. Youmay
¯ request that your name be withheld but
¯ letters must be signed&have phone hum-
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¯ cations will be printed as is appropriate.
by joining forces to be able to secure a
permanent full-time pastor as well. Tins
also will allow them to increase their
outreach to the community. Both congregations
were predominenfly women and
leaders stated the hope of encouraging
men to feel welcome as well.
World AIDS Day 1998i
WASHINGTON, DC - A new studyjust released resoundingly
debunks widely held beliefs about the economic status
of. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual (GLB) people. Contrary to
what has become the conventional wisdom on the subject,
Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual people do not earn more than
"We lmve long
known that
the myth of Gay
wealth
is ju,t that
- a myth . . .
lneome I~at~on
s~nes t~e
o~ truth on yet
another o[
The Ri~ht~
~stortlon
of the ~a~s,"
- Urv~hl Va~d
Heterosexual people. In fact, they
may even earn less.
lncome Inflation: The Myth of
AffluenceAmong Gay, Lesbian, and
Bisexual Americans was released
by the Policy Institute of the Na-
. tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force
and the Institute for Gay and Lesbian
Strategic Studies (I~LSS). The
report was authored by M.V. Lee
Badgett, Ph.D., professor of economics
at the University of Massa-
.chusetts at Amherst and executive
director of IGLSS.
Income Inflation is a startling
study of the economic status of a
frequently stereotyped population
ofAmericans. Badgett explores the
pervasive andinaccuratenotion that
GLBpeopleform aneconomic elite,
insulated from discrimination by
their wealth and disconnected frbm society at large by a
special, privileged status. After examining data from seven
different surveys, she finds that none support this stereotype.
"The evidence from many different scientifically sound
data sources points to the same dear conclusiom Gay,
Lesbian, and Bisexual people do not earn more than Heterosexual
people, either as individuals or as couples," reported
Badgett. "Some GLB people are poor, some are rich, and
most are in the middle,jnst as heterosexual people are. Now
that we have credible data, we can stop relying on flawed
stu~di.’e3, that were designed to find high income Gay people."
right-wing organizations and individuals perpetuate and
regularly exploit the myth of Gay wealth to bolster their
attacks against the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender
eommtmity. The mythis so pervasive and accepted that even
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia injected it into the
dissenting opinion in the Colorado Amendment Two ease.
"We have long known that the myth of Gay wealth is just
that - a myth," said Urvashi Vaid, director of the Policy
Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
"’Income lnflation shines the light of truth on yet another of
The Right’ s distortion of the facts," added Vaid.
by Tom Neal, editor andpublisher
One of the consolations ofgrowing older is that every
once in a while, something "right" happens you thought
you might never see. Justice sometimes prevails.
Forexample, in thelate 80’ s,my youngest
brother spent some time in the then German
"Democratic" Republic (the DDR in a program
organized by the University of Oklahoma);
and we wondered when, if ever, all
of Germany would be one again.
More recently, we’ ve seen Chilean murderer
and former dictator, Gen. Pinochet, at
least called tojustice-even ifhis age and the
legal wrangling may prevent any real payment
for his part in the systematic disaFpearance
and murder of his own, and foreign,
citizens.
So too, the decision of the Georgia Supreme
Court to say that the apparatus of the
State, here Georgia, has no compelling, legitimate
interest in regulating the private,
consensual sexual conduct of adults. Since
Georgia’s law was the impetus for the
wretched, horribly reasoned US Supreme
Court case, Bowers v. Hardwick, to have the
law undermined by its home state constitution
is sweet.
But it is a bittersweet victory because
Bowers still stands rendering Lesbian and
Gay Americans lesser citizens under our
own federal constitution. Like the 19th century
Dred Scott Supreme Court decision that
legitimized slavery, Bowers will someday
fall. But its decision, (based on primarily on
the logic that this behavior, oral and anal
sex, has always been despisedandtherefore,
based on popular revulsion, should be un- titan
constitutional, tliough note that though de~ - -
Spised, a lotof "them" are doing it too) continues to
butlress anti-Lesbian and Gay decisions, like child
custody battles where the Gay parent lives in a state
where "sodomy" is illegal.
What I like about this column is its flexibility to write
¯ . . it’s been both
~unny and l~tter
to learn that
former Georgia
Attorney
General
Michael Bowers
during the very
time in whleh
he was defending
the Georgia
"sodomy" statute
was himself
breaking a
different
Georgia law by
haGn~ an
adulterous affair.
Obdously,
all animals are
equal but some
are more e~ual
otherS.
¯ ABC’ s 20/20programhas never run a story critical of
¯ nuclear power. Come to find out, the show’ s producer
¯ Victor Neufeld’ s wife works for the nuclear industry.
¯ Rupert Murdoeh, an ultra right wing activist, (he initially offered Newt Gingrich a mulfmi!lion dollar
about any number of things without necessarily having
to pun them together into a completely coherent argument.
So be forewarned that this may wander.
Sent via the Internet: "Morality is what you do when
nobody is looking." - Oklahoma’ s own Congressman,
The Reverend J.C. Watts (R-OK) - who has fathered
two children out of wedlock. Indeed.
Also from our e-mail regarding the so-called "liberal
media": a 1996 Nexis search of sources used by major
newspapers and broadcasters, show that 7,776 medi~
citations were used from conservative think tanks (with
Heritage Foundation topping the list); 4,665 from centrist
think tanks; and 1,837fromliberal think tanks. That
means the news media used sources from conservatives
54% of the time, centrists 33% .and liberals 13%.
KABC, anABCaffiliate in Los Angeles refused to air
any anti-war protest stories during the Gulf war. This
from staffers inside the station.
: book deal thru his H,ar)pe_r Collins publishing firm),
owns the entire Fox media conglomerate, the Fox telei
visionnetwork andFox news channel. He also owns the
New York Post,and TV Guide magazine.
¯ ABC’s David Brinldey had to apologize for making
¯¯* insulting remarks about President Clinton on the air
during the 1996 election. He now is a spokesman for a
; multimillion dollar corporation. John Stossel, known
: for his ultra-rightwing pro-corporate views is a regular
reporter for ABC news.
¯
CBS canned a 60 minutes story on tobacco company
: lies because ofpressure from upper management. NBC
has squdched stories about boycotts of General Electric,
its parent company. CNN has no one as far to the
¯ It is even more bitter now that we’ ve learned that
: former Supreme Court Justice, the late Lewis Powell,
~ decided .that his vote, the"swing" votein Bowers (5-4),
¯ was a mistake. Powell never really seemed to understand
the impact of his act since he also
stated that his mistake never caused anyone
any harm. Indeed.
Also, it’ s been both funny and bitter to
learn that former Georgia Attorney General
Michael Bowers during the very time in
which he was defending the Georgia "sodomy"
statute was himself breaking a different
Georgia law by having an adulterous
affair. Obviously, all animals are equal but
some are more equal than others - if I may
paraphrase that line poorly.
Here in Oklahoma, our Supreme Court had
less courage or less commitment to fundamental
constitutional rights. Oklahoma’s
"crimes against nature" or "sodomy" statute
was declared unconstitutional in 1986. And
like the Georgia decision it involved heterosexual
citizens rather than Gay ones. But our
court chose to state explicitly that itwas only
addressing the unconstitutionality of the law
as it affectedheterosexual behavior. As Steve
Scarborough, staff attorney, Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund, Southern Regional
Office explained to TFN, it’s arbitrary,
it’ s unfair but it’ s what we’ ve got until
the statute’ s overturned in another statelevel
case or until Bowers v. Hardwick is overturned
at the federal level.
The great thing is that’s going to
happen. I don’ t know when, or exacdy how,
but to quote that song of solace for both
Black and Gay folk (and Black, Gay folk),
"deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall
overcome some day" Because the fssue here is not
really whatfolks are doingin theirbedrooms but whether
America’s promise, that all are created equal, is truly,
truly what we believe.
Left as Pat Buchanan is to the right on its nightly
political show Crossfire.
NBC’s reporter Pete Williams is a former Bush
administration official. CBS’ s and ABC’ s Diane Sawyer
was a Nixon administration insider before landing a
job covering the news. Britt Hume of Fox News is a
known conservative ideologue who used to play tennis
with George Bush. _
PBS has many shows dedicated to covering corporate
America - Nightly Business Report, Adam Smith’s
Money World, Tony Brown’s Journal, Wall Street
Week:etc., b~ut~noo’ s,hows dedicated to coveringconsum-
.ers or laoor, r’t~ s tongest running show is Firing Line
l~osted by ultra conservative William F. Buekley, the
editor of the conservative National Review Magazine.
Other shows hosted by conservatives regularly are:.One
on One, The MeLaughlin Group and American Interests.
Additionally, a show has been added to the PBS
lineupthat is based on holier-than-thou conservative
William Bennett’s book The Book of Virtues.
ti Talk"ra’di° is.hosted almost exclusively by conservave
talk snow hosts, headed by Rush Limbaugh, Ollie
North, Larry Elder, Michael Reagan and G. Gordon
Li’_d.dy. Former Republican presidential candidate and
religious rightleader, PatRobertson, owns theChristian
Broadcasting Network which airs nationwide. He also
owns the Family Channel and a radio news service
called Standard News.
And those are just a few things to consider about our
"liberal media" ~ except, of course, Tulsa FamilyNews
which is proudly pro-Gay, moderate to progressive in
our politics.
Hats off to Tulsa Oklahonmns for Human Rights,
the organization that provides our Gay CommRnity
Center, formounting alarge and very visible sign onthe
south face of The Pride Center. The sign can be seen
well down Brookside as you travel north. TOHR president
Steve Horn credits board member and volunteer,
Ric Martin, for getting the sign done. Kudos to Ric and
to Steve and see About, p. 14
Texas Sodomy Challenge
HOUSTON (AP) - Two men found having sex in a
private home pleaded no contest Friday to sodomy
charges, initiating a legal challenge to the 119-yearold
Texas law that bars Gay intercolarse. John Geddes
Lawrence, 55, and Tyrone Garner, 31, were arrested
for engaging in homosexual conduct on Sept. 17
when deputies- responding to a false report of an
_ armed intruder - found them having consensual sex
in Lawrence’ s apartment. Justice of the Peace Mike
Parrott fined them $125 each. The men, who want to
keep the case alive to fight the law, appealed the fine
and posted appeal bonds of $332.50 each, which
moves the case to state district court.
"I hope that the law changes," Garner said. "I feel
like my civil rights were violated and ! wash’ t doing
anything wrong." The sodomy law makes homosexual
oral and anal sex a misdemeanor, punishable
by a fine of up to $500. Although on the books for
more than a century, the law is rarely enforced. Gay
activists have worked unsuccessfully for years to
overturn the statute. Of the 19 states that have a
sodomy statute barfing consensual anal or oral sex,
Texas is one of five that specifically targets same-sex
partners. The other four are Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri
and Oklahoma, according to Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund Inc. of New York.
United Church of Christ
Leader Support Gays
CLEVELAND (AP) -The head of the United Church
of Christ has asked that a document he wrote supporting
the acceptance of Gay ~md Bisexual people into
the church and its clergy be read alou.d at services.
The Rev. Paul H. Sherry, president of the 1.4-million
member church, headquartered in Cleveland, mailed
a pastoral document to his denomination’ s more than
6,000 churches.
Sherry said he wrote the document in response to
the Slaying of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming and
other recent examples of anti-Gay sentiments that
have been in the news. "The hatred exposed in the
shocking murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyormng
last month underscores the critical importance of this
reflection and of the need for our voice to be heard,"
, " Sherry stated recently.
The pastoral letter is titled "Now, No Condemnations,"
and supports the full participation of Gay,
Lesbian and Bisexual persons in the membership and
clergy of the church. "Knowing how challenging this
issue can be for some in our churches, I hope it can be
helpful to you in the exercise of your leadership,
providing a way to initiate needed reflection, study
and action," Sherry wrote in a letter accompanying
the document.
Kentucky Lesbian Fired
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Baptist
Homes for Children fired a supervisor for being a
Lesbian after co-workers saw her pictured with her
partner in a photo contest at the Kentucky State Fair.
The fired worker, Alicia Pedreira, said she acknowledged
she was Gay when she applied for the job last
May. Pedreira¯was dismissed Oct. 23 on the grounds
that her"admitted Homosexual lifestyleis contrary to
the Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children core valties."
In the wake of Pedreira’ s firing, five other employees
resigned in protest, and two universities decided
to withdraw their studentsfromthe BaptistHomes for
Children’ s programs.
The picture of Pedreira that appeared in a contest at
the state fair was takenby an amateurphotographer at
alocalAIDS walk. Thepicture, whichshows Pedreira
standing in front of partner Nance Goodman wearing
an "Isle of Lesbos" t-shirt, was entered without
Pedreira’ s consent.
In an interview, Brenda Gray, a KBHC spokeswoman,
said: "We strive to be fair in our dealings
with all people, including, certainly, our employees.
At the same time, it is important that we stay true to
our Christian values. Homosexuality is alifestyle that
would prohibit employment."
Jack Cox, the home’ s manager until he quit over
Pedreira’s firing, said Pedreira acknowledged she
was Gay when she interviewed for the job as art
therapist and supervisor at the Spring Meadows home
for emotionally disturbed boys m eastern Jefferson
County. Cox said he told her that wouldn’t be a
problem, as long as she didn’ t talk about her private
life at work. In a letter to Pedreira after her termination,
Cox said that no one can be hired or fired at
KBHC without approval of its president, William
Smithwick. Citing privacy concerns, Gray, theKBHC
spokeswoman, declined to elaborate on what promises,
if any, where made to Pedreira when she was
hired or whether Smithwick knew about her sexual
orientation then.
Pedrcira said when she returned to work from a
vacation in August, she learned that several employees
at the children’ s home had seen a picture of her
and Goodman at the state fair and were discussing it
at work. Cox said that his superiors contacted him and
told him that they wanted Pedreira to resign. She
refused. Pedreira said that KBHC. after initially saying
she’d be fired, offered what she considered a
demotion. She said she turned that down and was
fired. She said she’ s still out of work.
After Pedreira was terminated, Cox said he resigned,
as did another supervisor; an employee who
worked for Pedreira; and two clinical social workers.
Cox said Pedreira’ s termination is contrary to the
code of ethics of the National Association of Social
Workers. "For me to continue to work for an agency
that embraces that is against my ethics and personal
belief," Cox said. Spalding University and the University
of Louisville’s Kent School of Social Work
said their students were leaving because discrimination
against Gays is inconsistent with the ethics and
ideals of social work.
TheKBHC,a part of the Kentucky Baptist Convention,
operates eight homes across the state for more
than 3,000 emotionally disturbed children. Most of
the children are placed th(re by the state. The KBHC
received about $12 milhon ofits $15.6 million budget
last year from state agencies, Gray said. The state can
withhold money from private child-care contractors
that discriminate against women, African-Americans
and others who are protected by state and federal law.
But, said Cary Willis, a spokesman for the Cabinetfor
Families and Children, "We can’ t base any funding
decisions on whether somebody discriminates based
on sexual orientation."
: California Marriage
Ban Advances
¯
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)-A proposal to declare
¯ that only marriages between a man and a woman
~ would be recognized as legal in California won a
¯ place on the state’ s prima~u¢ election ballot in 2000.
", The initiative was written by state Sen. Pete Knight,
¯ R-Palmdale.
¯ Knight’ s petition drive collected 677,000 signatures,
of Which more than 482,000 were projected to
: be valid voter signatures based on a random sam-
¯" piing. At least 433,269 voter signatures were needed
to qualify the measure for the March 7, 2000 primary.
¯ Iowa Town Looks at
¯ Anti-Bias Measure
¯
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - The Cedar Rapids
¯ Civil Rights Commission has agreed to recommend
¯ that the words "sexual orientation" be added to the
: city’ s civil rights ordinance. With the 6-1 vote Tues-
. day, the ordinance would prohibit discrimination
¯ based on sexual orientation in matters such as era-
¯ ployment and housing.
¯ Commission Chairman Gerald Matchett abstained
¯ from voting, while Commissioner Taha Tawil cast
: the only dissenting vote. Tawil said he thinks homo-
. sexuality is a"deadly sin" and that an amendment to
: th( civil fights ordinance would chip away at tradi-
~ tional family values. "It is an open door," Tawil said.
¯ ’q’his is a conservative city, and we need to keep it as
a family city."
: Commissioner Kathryn Coulter, who at first did
¯ not think the amendment was necessary, said she was
¯ swayed by comments made at public forums by
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the City Council.
Openly Bisexual Oregon
Legislator Not Hopeful
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Even though an openly Bisexual
woman now holds one of the Oregon Legislature’ s top
leadership posts, shebelieves Gay civil rights supporters
may have a hard time getting their agenda passed
next year. "I’m skeptical of the leadership," said Sen.
Kate Brown, D-Portland, the newly elected Senate
minority leader.
She noted that the breakdown in the Senate is still 17-
13 in favor of the Republicans, so despite any influence
she may have for civil rights issues, her caucus will still
be outgunned. Brown said civil rights backers might
have to settle for small steps, such as the last session’ s
funding of a state coordinator to help prevent teen
suicides, of which Gays make up a significant share.
"We’re treading lightly," said Jean Harris of Basic
Rights Oregon, thebiggest Gay civil rights organization
in the state. She sees the group’s posture as a mainly
defensive one. If the Legislature pushes an extreme
right-wing bill on Gays "we’ll be there to prevent them
from passing bad things... It’s a fight against the
religious right-wing agenda." "We’ re sort of waiting to
see how many anti-Gay things are going to come up and
whether they’ 11 pass theemploymentbil! after23 years,"
Harris said. "The employment bill is the only thing on
the front burner."
The measure to outlaw discrimination against homosexuals
in employment, first introduced in 1975, has
been a key part of the civil rights lobbying efforts for
years. The measure passed in the House in the 1997
Legislature but fell short of getting a Senate vote in the
waning days of the session. ’.’I certainly feel that’s an
unsolved issue out there," Brown said. "Gay, Lesbian
and Bisexual people still are discriminated against in
employment."
But House Speaker-elect Lynn Snodgrass, R-Boring,
who describes herself as a social conservative, said she
doesn’t particularly want to spend time dealing with
thorny social issues. "We need to focus on issues the
people sent us here to do," she said. But added she’ll
bow to the will of her caucus if the members want an
issue advanced.
Harriet Merck of Eugene, a Gay woman who works
at the University of Oregon, said it’ s discouraging that
"we still don’ t have an anti-employment discrimination
bill." But she said she doesn’ t have too much hope of
pro-Gay civil rights gains in the coming session. "You
have to work what you have to work with in any given
session," she said. "
1,000 in Chicago
Counter Phelps Protest
CHICAGO (AP) - More than 1,000 Gay-fights supporters
surrounded a church where an anti-homosexual
minister protested a marriage ceremony for two men
conducted earlier this year. The Rev. Fred Phelps of the
WestboroBaptistChurchofTopeka, Kan., and about 10
of his supporters gathered recently to protest a September
marriage presided over by the Rev. Gregory Dell,
pastor of the Broadway United Methodist Church.
Gay civil rights supporters surrounded the church,
gathered on rooftops, and held signs that read "Stop the
Hate," in anticipation of Phelps and his followers.
Phelps and his followers have engaged in anti-homosexual
picketing around the country, including a demonstration
at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a Gay
University of Wyoming student who was beaten to
death in October.
Chicago police surrounded the anti-Gay group with
barricades as they gathered on a street comer facing the
church. Phelps waved different anti-Gay signs throughout
the demonstration. One signread "God Hates Fags."
"This is tack3,, minimal, cheap, tawdry stuff," Phelps
said in referring to those protesting against him and his
followers.
Midway through the demonstration, some Gay supporters
approached Phelps and his group and were
forced back by police. The anti-Gay demonstration
ended whenPhelps andhis followers were escorted
away by police. Phelps said he plans to return to
Chicago in the next few weeks to continue the
protests.
"It’s unfortunate that individuals and groups
carry the kind of hate and fear that these folks do,"
Dell said of the Kansas protesters. "But however
offensive their message might be, the strength of
community, justice and love is stronger." Dell
performed the Gay marriage service despite a ban
on such ceremonies that was inserted in his
denomination’s "Book of I>iscipline" in August.
The United Methodist Church will put Dell on trial
next year for violating the ban. He could be
defrocked.
Is West Virginia Gov.
Gay-Friendly?
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Gov. Cecil
Underwood is exasmniDg several Gay civil rights
initiatives and has not ruled out proposing legislation
to enact them, his spokesman said recently.
"Does it fit in his legislative agenda? That is being
decided right now," Dan Page said.
Underwood sent a letter to a Gay member of the
state Republican Executive Committee saying he
does not support a "quick fix" on discrimination
issues. But he said "we shall examine very carefully
the positions" Larry Tighe Of Wheeling had
asked him to support.
Tighe asked Underwood in September whether
he stands by his 1996 campaign pledge to seek
changes in state fair housing and human rights acts
to make it illegal to discriminate against Lesbians
and Gays. Underwood said then, "I am opposed to
using sexual preference to discriminate. I feel they
are entitled to the same-protection we offer everyone."
Tighe asked Underwood specifically if he
supports amending the state I-Iumun Rights Act to
include aban against diseriminating againsthomosexuals
in empl0yment,housing andpublic accommodation.
The act now prohibits discrimination because of
race, religion, color, nationality, sex and age. Opponents
have said the additional language would
give homosexuals special privileges. Supporters
say it is necessary to protect homosexuals from
growing violence.
Tighe also asked whether Underwood would
sign an executive order banning discrimination
based on sexual orientation in state government
employment and if he would support changing
West Virginia hate crimes laws to protect homosexuals
as a class. And he asked Underwood to
include the proposals in his State of the State
address in January.
Underwood’s Nov. 20. reply, which Tighe received
Monday, said, "My position on human
rights issues is straightforward and unwavering:
No West Virginia citizen should suffer discrimination
for any reason. "We can realize the vision of
Americaembodied within ourconstitutionby maintaining
vigilance and fighting prejudice where we
find it. We cannot and should not opt for a’ quick
fix’ that touches only the surface of a problem," the
governor’ s letter said.
Page said Underwood’ s opposition to a "quick
fix" does not necessarily mean he has rejected the
legislation Tighe supports. "The governor believes
the long-term solution is changing people’ s attitudes,"
he said, noting Underwood has established
a commission to teach West Virginians about the
Holocaust and has an initiative to promote better
race relations.
Underwood’s letter said, "We should work together
to promote tolerance and understanding
among all Americans, especially those citizens
who would deny freedoms and opportunities to
others... That is a long-term process that deserves
our full attention."
Underwood opposes same-sex marriage and has
voted against ordaining Lesbians and Gays as ministers
in the United Methodist Church.
Rural Americans:
Some HIV Ignorant i!
ATLANTA (AP)-They had_unprotec~d..
sex withpartners ofthesameandoppostte
sex, somclinlcs in exchange f~ .d~gs -
yetmany neverlmew they were~il~
of gettiilg AIDS..I~,tervi.ews wire ~a~
infected pati__egts snow .tpat .s~e ¯
Americans still aren’ tgett~.gtttemessage
about how AIDS is uansmitted, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
reported recently. _ .
Despite theirrisky behavior, about~
never thought they were at risk of contracting
the AIDS virus, theCDCsaid. Of
those, roughly a third admitted they had
notdeahow thevtrus was spread. ~learly
it’ s the people who are engaging in the
higher risk behaviors who appear not to
be getting the basic information about
transmission,"CDCepidemiologistAmy
Lausky said Thursday-. "I guess we’d all
like to think that, 10 to 15 years into the
epidemic, people would know.how HIV
is spread."
Researchers interviewed608adults with
HIV living in rural areas of Georgia,
Florida, South Carol",ma. and Delaware.
Asked why they didn t consider themselves
at risk, 33% of men and 29% of
women said they didn’t know how HIV
was spread. Other reasons given included
not tl~nking their sex partners were infected
and the belief that only homosexuals
and intravenous drug users contracted
HIV. LTnprotected sex and cracl~’use were
common among those interviewed.
The CDC said it doesn, t know of any
studies in which it asked urban HIV patients
the same questions. Researchers
noted that the vast majority of AIDS cases
are concentrated in urban areas. AIDS
cases in rural areas made up fewer than
10% ofthe 641~086 cases reported through
1997, the CDC said.
ter. ’The disease also progresses faster"
in females~ she sai& She also saidwomen
and minorities are underrepresented in
clinical tri~,s, ofnew AIDS and HIV treati
ments, and There may be some biologi-
: cal and genetic differences in how some
people respond to the drugs."
! ~ Stone said everyonein her study had
i -some health insur~ce, so she eliminated
cost as a reason some were ~eated with
protease inhibitors and others were not.
i She said it appeared that patients were
more likely to get the treatment if they
knew about the drugs and asked for them.
’"Some said they had never heard of the
therapy. Whites weremuchmorelikely to
have heard of the new drugs," she said.
Heterosexuals were less likely to get
~ the therapy because they often face the
~ ailment alone, she suggested. ",Many
people get help through networks¯ Gays
i have their networks and so do IV drug
¯. users,"she said. Heterosexuals withAIDS
: usually are women who got the disease
¯ from having sex with men, who were or
: had been drug-users or Bisexual. The
: women often did not know anyone else
." with the diseas&, she said. ’~nis was sur-
¯¯ prising, but even IV drug users knew
more about AIDS than these women/’ she
: said. Of women with AIDS, 58% are
¯ black, she said. Nationally,43% ofAIDS ¯
patients are black; 36% are white, and
. 20% are Hispanic, according to data pre-
¯ sented at the conference.
i¯ HIVTreatments blot
Available to All
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Physicians sometimes
steer HIV-infected New Yorkers
away from the best drug treatment regi:
mens because they do not believe the
patients are motivated or stable enough, a
state-sponsoredpanel ofexperts has found.
Health providers often saw. those with
HIV as members of suspectpatient groups
- immigrants, homeless people, inmates,
¯
the mentally and physically disabled -
: and prescribed treatment accordingly, in-
" stead of treating cases on an individual
: basis, the group said.
¯ An HIV treatment plan "should not be
¯ based on presumptive judgments about
¯ people in any racial, ethnic, gender, age,
¯ riskor other category," thepanel declared.
¯
"The state of New York should ensure
: that every person with HIV has access to
¯ basic health services as well as to provid- ¯
ers with HI¥ expertise," the group con-
" cluded.
¯ The 44-member panel included physi-
¯ clans, medical ethicists, public health ex- ¯
perts and advocates for groups at highrisk
of contracting the virus that causes AIDS,
¯ including Gay Men’s Health Crisis and
¯ Housing Works. It was formed in mid-
" 1997 after reports surfaced that someHIV
¯ patients werereceivingless-than-op~dmum
¯ care because of who they are or because
¯ some doctors and other health care work-
" ers were not up to speed on thelatest drug
¯ treatment methods.
¯ Dr. Guthrie Birkhead, director of the
: state Health Department’s AIDS Institute
: andco-chair of the panel, said the report
: was thefirst ofits kindin theUnited States
¯ to examine the ethical issues involved ¯
with the complicated drug treatments
: which have evolved for HIV and AIDS
¯ patients. Those treatments have become
". especially prevalent in the last three or
¯ four years. Problems with matching pa-
: tients with optimum treatment regimens
¯ "are still not solved at this point" in New
: York, Birkhead said. "It’s very important
: not to make assumptions about people’s
For Some, Less
Access to Care
BOSTON (AP) -Women, minorities and
heterosexuals with AIDS are less likely
than others to get a new and effective
treatment, andignorance of the procedure
may be one of the reasons, according to a
new study, The situation maybe particularly
bad for women, who, according to
another report, may be more susceptible
than men to HIV, the virus that causes
AIDS.
The reports were given at the "AIDS at
the Millennium" conference sponsored
by the Massachusetts Medical Society
and Lemuel Shattuck Hospital. A study
by Dr. Valerie Stone of the Brown University
School of Medicine found that
nearly three-quarters ofMassachusetts and
Rhode Island men with AIDS got the
three-drug, protease inhibitors treatment,
but only half the afflictedwomendid. The
study also found that 75% of whites with
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ability to work with them (medications),"
he said. "In some cases, that may mean
deferring treatment- getting peoplehousing,
drug treatment, whatever. But in no
instances does that mean denying people
proper treatment."
Doctors and researchers have had the
best results in delaying the onset ofAIDS
among HIV-infected peopleusing a combination
of "antiretroviral’ drugs which
inhibit the development Of the virus in
human beings. Often, the drugs can extend
the lives of HIV-infected people for
many years.
Typically, HIV patients take three different
drugs two to three times a day,
Birkhead said. "For the average person,
withoutany problems,keepingona(medication)
scheduleis very difficult,"he said.
With HIV and AIDS patients, doctors
must recognize a whole series of related
problems that can prevent medications
frombeing taken, including havingproper
refrigeration for the drugs and language
barriers involving non-English speaking
- HIV victims, the panel found. And,recent
studies have shown that taking HIV drugs
in proper doses and sequences is crucial
because if some drugs are stopped, the
body could develop immunities to them
that will hasten the onset of AIDS.
Thepanel ofexperts saiditis the duty of
doctors and other health care providers to
stay current about the latest drug treatments
for HIV, to make them as widely
available to patients as possible and to
help get patients into situations where
they will stick to a medicinal schedule.
Patients, the panel said, have an obligation-
to religiously take the drugs, to eat
properly, to take other steps to maximize
the effect of the medications and to otherwise
aid in their own treatmentS. In cases
where a patient "demonstrates an inability
to initiate or maintain a treatment regimen"
it may be "appropriate" for a health
care provider to discontinue drug treatment,
the panel concluded.
Amemberofthepanel, Deunis DeLeon
of the Latino Commission on AIDS, said
he would like to see its recommendation
that all NewYorkers have access to anonymous
HIV testing become reality. ’There
was not equal access to appropriate preand
post-test counsding," DeLeon said.
’~3nce a person got tested, thefollow-up
in terms of the medical referral was lacking,
even in some major urban centers
throughout the state." State health officials
estimate that between 150,000 and
200,000 New Yorkers are HIV positive,
believed to be the highest snch population
in the nation.
Quilt to Move to DC
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The AIDS
Memorial Quilt, a 52-ton symbol born in
San Francisco as the deadly epidemic
ravaged the city’s Gay community, appears
to be headed permanently to Washmgton
D.C. The board of the Names
Project voted to begin searching for new
executive offices and a place to store and
display the quilt, which has grown to
more. than 100,000 pounds of cloth and
imagery.
The vote has not been formally announced,
but Names Project Executive
Director Andy lives told the San Francisco
Examiner the move won’t happen
for several years. ’XDbviously there is a
strong emotional tie to San Francisco,
birthplace of the quilt,"he said. "But what
began 10 years ago as an ad hoc response
to this tragedy has become an icon and the
No. 1 AIDS prevention .and education
tool in the country. "My position is that
logistically, we belong in the nation’s
capital... None of us has any interest in
having the quilt be this musty, dusty relic
stored on shelves:. 2’ The Names Project
intends to keepits original storefront space
at Castro and Market streets, where the
local chapter displays a segment of the
quilt. There are 52 US chapters.
~The quilt was the concept of AIDS
activist Cleve Jones during a candlelight
march on Nov. 27, 1985 honoring slain
Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor
GeorgeMoscone. Heaskedfellow marchers
to write on pieces of cardboard ~the
names of lovers and friends claimed by
AIDS. When the marchers covered the
Federal Building with their placards, "it
looked like a patchwork quilt of lives
cruelly cut short," Jones said.
’~ understand what they’re trying to
do," said Mike Salinas, news editor of the
Bay Area Reporter, a Gay newspaper.
"Relocating to Washington will let them
reach a broader audience of visitors from
around the globe, many of whom are in
desperate need of better AIDS education."
World AIDS Watch:
Indian Youth
MANESAR, India (AP) --Hard as it is to
talk about sex with young people, involving
them in AIDS education is crucial to
preventing the spread ofthe sexually transmitteddisease,
communityworkers, health
experts andyoungpeople themselves said.
’Young people have an enormous curiosity
about sex. So let’s build an information
systemaroundthem," saidLN. Balaji,
chiefofplanning ofUNICEF, India, which
is organizing a four-day workshop on the
role of youth in fighting AIDS epidemic
and HIV, the virus that causes the fatal
disease: People in their teens and 20s who
act as. health activists in their own communities
in 17 countries are attending the
workshop. They’ll return home with new
ideas about education and counteracting
discrimination against thosewho have the
disease.
About 1.7 million people in Africa. and
700,000 others in Asia and the Pacific are
infected with HIV every year, according
to United Nations statistics. Indiaaccounts
for the most cases in the world, at 4
million. One half million of the victims in
India are young people. Their number
will rise if young people do not have
access to information, skills and services
to fight the problem, Balaji told a news
conference in Manesar, a town near New
Delhi. Many participants in the UNICEF
conference said youth in their countries
are unable to discuss sex with their elders
because of societal taboos. They usually
endup gettingbadinformationfrompeers
or reading pornographic literature or experimenting
with unsafe sex.
In India, school principals balked at the
idea of health experts talking to studentsabout
drugs, sex or even problems of
youth. ’Talking about sex was considered
outrageous," said Gunjan Shah, one of the
4,000 students and teachers trained by
Sevadham Trust, a voluntary orgamzation
in Pune that is helping spread the
message of AIDS. Sevadham volunteers
slowly persuaded authorities to talk to
teachers. "Soon, they were saying’ This is
exactly what we want.’ From then, there
was no problem." Today, nearly all public
and private schools in Ptme and many
others in Bombay have asked Sevadham
to conduct training for their staff.
That ruling came in a federal lawsuit filed
by a homosexual who had been arrested
under the Georgia law, Which carried a
maximum sentence of 20 ysars.
’This is a symbolic victory," said David
Smith, a spokesman for the Gay civil
rights group, The Human Rights Alliance.
"It sends a message - the demise of
the Georgia sodomy law that was upheld
by the U.S. Supreme Court will hopefully
be a precursor to the U.S. Supreme Court
invalidating all thenation’ s sodomy laws."
Three other states - Kentucky, Tennessee,
and Pennsylvania - have recently
overturned such laws. ’This would help
the continuation of this trend," Emory
constitutional law professor Robert
Schapiro said.
Even though the law applied to both
heterosexual and homosexual activity, it
was seen as an example of discrimination
against homosexuals. The law "has made
Gays and Lesbians a target for unjust
police action in the past and unjust prosecution.
Wehope with this, that will come
to an end," said Harry Knox, interim director
of the Georgia Equality Project
Foundation.
Powell, formerly of Norcross, spent 14
months injail beforemakingbail last year
pending his appeal. "I don’t really espouse’
the Gay lifestyle,’ but’I:understand
their point of view," said Powell, whose
defense was helped by Lambda Defense
and Education Fund, aGay andHIV rights
advocacy group. Powell is now living in
Shreveport, La.
Theruling cannotbe appealed, because
the GeorgiaSupreme Courtis theultimate
authority on the state’ s constitution. Legislators
wouldhave to amend the constitution
to pass a similar law.
FormerAttorney General Michael Bowers,
who defended the law before the U.S.
Supreme Court in the 1986 case, said he
was surprised by the ruling. "I can’ t imagine
how. they can make such a ruling... I
would be very surprised if you don’ t see a
legislative move to alter that."
The 1986 case involved a challenge by
Michael Hardwick, a Gay Atlanta bartender
who was arrested for committing
sodomy in his home. Prosecutors later
dropped the charge..Hardwick, who died
of AIDS in 1991, sued state officials to
have the law declared unconstitutional.
The Georgia Supreme Court never ruled
on Hardwick’s case because his suit was
filed in federal court.
In the lone dissent to the ruling, Justice
George H, Carley wrote that the majority
misconstrued the state constitution and
"’usurped the legislative authority of the
General Assembly to establish the public
policy of this state." Carley said the Georgia
Constitution contains "no express recognition
of a right to privacy." The antisodomy
law was upheld by the state Supreme
Court in 1996, but that case turned
on the solicitation of sodomy, not the act
itself.
Eighteen states still have laws against
sodomy. Louisiana has such a law. It is
under state court challenge and a judge’s
ruling is pending. Thosechallenging these
laws in various states now have ’Tuel and
ammunition see Georgia, p. 14
to fight the battle," said Powell’ s attorney
Steven H. Sadow.
The following are excerpts from the
majority and dissenting opinions:
The majority opinion was written by
Chief Justice Robert Benham:
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University of Tulsa Bisexuai/Lesbian~Gay/Transgendered Alliance
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Tulsa City-County Library
With the millenium close to an end, the
rate of novels dealing with the subject are
sure to skyrocket. Some wise individuals
got onto the trend early,
though, and one of these is
British science fiction author
Elizabeth Hand. Due to my
intense love of sci-fi, I was
recently asked to review this
bookfor theTulsaCity-County
Library system in response to
a customer’s request to have
the book withdrawn from our
shelves. Customer objections
to material are always taken
seriously, and so I found myselfreading
this The Glimmering
looking for evidence of
obscenity in its rather graphic
sexual scenes.
Before you run out and
snatch this one off the shelves,
let me warn you - the sex
scenes aren’t that graphic, and
what’s worse, they’re written
with little, attention to the
beauty of the written word and
an inordinate amount of pornlevel
vulgarity. Hand is inept
at writing worthwhile erotica,
but there are other reasons to
devote some time to this dismrbing
and elegant novel.
For those ofyouwho dislike
sci-fi, you should know that
this book is more speculative
fiction (along the lines of
Marge Pierey) than science fiction. There
are no aliens here, only some premature
advances in technology and some lessthan-
scientific consequences. This novel
should not be enjoyed for its sci-fi aspects
anyway. The real beauty of The Glimmering
shines through its characters, thanother
note to the style, The Glimmering is
in split-focus, with every other chapter
altemating between two protagonists, Jack
and Trip. It is only near the end that
everything comes together, but keep reading-
the coalescent result is smooth and
logical (albeit extremdy coincidental).
Jack is a forty-something gay man dying
of AIDS; who finds an unlikely cure
called Fusax. Trip Marlowe is a teenage
Christian Rock idol who loses his faith
¯when he discovers sex and the female
body. The two characters could hardly be
reached a sagebrush-strewn area at the
foot of the Laramie Range where the
dying Shepard was found 18 hours later.
DeBree said that McKinney was asked if
Shepard begged for his life and the defendant
replied: "Well, yeah- he was getting
the (expletive) beat out of him."
The autopsy showed that the 5-foot-2-
inch Shepard was struck in the head about
18 times, prosecutor Cal Rerucha said.
Officers testified that Shepard’s face was
caked with blood - except where it had
been partially washeddeanby tears. They
said his wrists were bound so tightly, it
was difficult to cut the rope.
Explaining the violence, McKinney told
his girlfriend, Kristin Price, "’Well, you
know how I feel about Gays,"’ Police
Detective Ben Fritzen testified. And
DeBree said McKinney repeatedly re-
: in more polar opposition. While Jack is
: noble, dignified and worldly, Trip brings
: self-absorption, infantile behavior and ig-
¯ norance to new lows. The chapters focus-
: ing on-Trip will probably be tedious for
For those d
you who dislike
sei-fi, you
should know
that this book
iS more
speeulative
fietlon...
There are no
aliens here...
This novel
should not
be enjoyed
for its sei-fi
azpeets anyway.
The real
beauty of The
Gl;mmer~ng
shines through
its characters.
anyone with depth, although
he does have his looks and a
misguidedinnocentloyalty (to
the girl he impregnates) to save
him from complete inanity.
It is nldmately the character
of Jack that makes this
book so important. Jack constanfly
berates himself for being
selfish, but he is horribly
mistaken. Jack comes from
wealth, and in the political destabilization
of 1999,his home
is one of the few havens availablein
thenovel. Thoughmost
of his family’s money is gone,
he maintains the upstate New
Yorkestatein order to give his
aging grandmother comfort
and provide his friends with a
secure getaway in times of
need.
Jack undertakes a sort of
spiritual journey that we all
sometimes feel a need for: the
process of remembering what
is important in our lives. Jack
longs for health and sex and
stability, but what he really
needs is’the "knowledge thathe
has had a positive impact in
the lives ofthe people he loves:
It’s not a complicated lesson,
but for some reason it escapes
most of us, most of the time.
I’m aware that I haven’t given you a
great amount 6f detail about this particu-
¯ lar story, and my descriptions of the characters
are rather vague, but that really
can’t be helped. Although ElizabethHand
has a complete lack of skill with erotica,
her ability to create elegant, complex stones
and characters and weave them together
so intricately with her plot is superb.
To tell you much more about the
characters would reveal too much of the
progression of the plot. Read this one
before the millenium ends. It’s not going
to be accurate, but you’ll have plenty of
ideas to consider on December31 st, 1999.
Adam West is an associate with Tulsa
City-County Library System and an OSU
alumnus. He is not now and never has
been Batman.
ferred to Shepard as "queer" and "faggot."
McKinney sat expressionless for most
of the five-hour hearing, smiling once or
twice when he spoke with l’us attorneys.
Shepard’s parents, Dennis and Judy
Shepard, sat in the front row, his mother
crying when a deputy identified photo-
., graphs of her son in the hospital.
¯ Public defender Dion Custis said the
¯ state failed to meet its burden ofproof that
" the murder was planned and said Shepard
¯
was not kidnapped, but went willingly. A
¯ watch, money and other property left at
¯ the crime scene showed that robbery was
¯¯ not a factoreither, he said. Ms. Price, 18, and Henderson’s girl-
: friend, Chasity Vera Pasley, 20, will be
¯ arraigned Dec. 9 on accessory after the ¯
fact to first-degree murder. Henderson
¯ and McKinney are being held without
¯ bond. Rerucha has not yet indicated if he
¯ will seek the death penalty.
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Some of oureatin’ andda’tnkin’ buddies
will go to a restaurant, f’md a dish they
like, and then order the stone food, over
andover,eve~ time they go thct~. Notus.
We prefer the adventure of tr~ng everything
on the menu, and
the variety of selecting
differententrees ondifferent
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sampling, invariably,
we will decline
and eat something different.
Exceptat Phill’ s.
We have the waitresses well trained by
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come in after l0 a.m., they’d better put
aside a slice of the coconut creme pie for
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Phill’s Diner, located just east of
Harvard on 32rid Street, serves up a lot of
plain ,old .good Oklahoma cooking. In
fact, it s such a classic, that when we’re
¯ .entertaining out-of-town performing artists
in for a gig with the Phil or the Ballet
or the Opera, and they want some "Oklahoma
fOod," this is where weend up.
Only open for breakfast and lunch,
phill’ s is a classic diner. Blue plate specials.
Biscuits andgravy. Basichamburgers
and fries. Chicken fried steak. Homemade
cinnamon rolls that sell out almost
every morning. Sirloin steak and egg
breakfasts. And, unlike other popular diners
in Tulsa, Phill’ s hash’ t succumbed to
being trendy. It’ s still a neighborhood
place,marketing mostlyby wordofmouth.
But, you have to remember that this is
a low key kind of place. Vinyl banquettes
havethe occasional tapepatch. Sodafountain
bar stools face a functioning service
area. Glasses are plastic. Dinnerware is
mismatched - and includes the sundry
remnants of an IHOP going out of bnsi~
heSS sale. There is nothing pretentious
about this place.
On a recent visit, we decided to have
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Two-thirds of U.S. volunteers will re-
¯ sen from the chalkboard), and a basketful
: of-freshly baked dinner rolls, only cost
: $4.99. Theliver, an easy meat to over-
. e~ok, was nicely done, and our only corn-
: plaint was that we got a few onions from
¯ the outside stem-end of the bulb which
were a bit papery. Our
companion opted for
the chicken fried steak,
which cost just a little
moreat $5.69. His steak
filled the plate, and the
aroma was wonderful.
Phill’s recipe includes
abitmore than a hint of
garlic, and the steak
was very satisfying.
: The green beans with bacon were heavily
¯ seasoned with black pepper, and that is
¯ almostatrademarkcharacteristicofPhill’s
: food. He likes things to have seasoning.
¯¯ Somemay not like things so "spicy," but,
with his tendency to use exotic ingredi-
." ents like salt, pepper, butter, onions, gar-
¯ lic, and bacon, we find the spicing charm-
: ing - kind of like visiting a friend’s
: mother’s house for supper.
Another great time to visit Phill’ s is for
¯" a late breakfast on a Saturday or Sunday
’. morning. The chalkboard specials almost
: alwayshaveanmterestmg *orunch food,
¯ ~uch asMalibu French toast (French toast ¯
with orange marmalade), an avocado,
¯
bacon, and cheddar cheese omelette, and,
¯ for those who like corned beef, a hefty
, serving of eggs and hash. Prices vary,
generally in the $4-5 range. Huge, fluffy
¯ hotcakes are also apopularmorningitem,
: with one ample cake going for $1.29, and
¯ two for $2.29. If you really think you can ¯
eat it all, they also have a triple stack for
." $3.29 (but eating like that is not going to
¯ help youfitinthosenew bicycling shorts).
¯ And, in the best Southerntradition, one ¯
can also order a brealffast side order of
¯ sliced tomatoes forjust99 cents. After all,
¯ it isn’ t breakfast without tonaatoes.
¯ Whenthe autunm weatherbegins to get ¯
more of a nip in the air, we’ 11 be looking
¯ forward to several other Phill’s staples.
¯ especially his homemade Irish stew and
his pinto beans with ham. A big bowl of
¯
one of these ($1.99 cup, $2.99 bowl) and
¯ a basketful of his cornbread is more than
¯ enough to refuel on a chilly afternoon.
." Phill’ s slogan is, "home of good food."
: Go to Phill’ s. You’ II feel at home. Andthe
¯ food certainly is good.
: I Editor’s note: Mary Schepers. our Do-
"I It-Yourself-Dyke is taking this month
: off, and so we bring you this review by
Jean-Pierre Legrandbouchewhichfirst
". ran tn our November 1997 issue.
ceive the vaccine. Richter said the Tulsa
trial has enrolled about 12 volunteers but
can enroll as many as 150. No women
have enrolled yet. Volunteers receive free
shots and about $40 to help with transportation,
Richter said.
Lysight said Tulsa has a large Gay
community, making it an ideal.site for the
study. He said he has known at least 15
people who died of AIDS complications
within the past seven years. Study volunteers
commit to participatefor three years.
They receive three injections of the genetically
engineeredvaccine over several
months. Those are followed up with a
Phill’ slogan is,
"home of goocq food."
Go to Phill’ .
You’ll feel at home¯
And the food
certainly is good.
series of booster shots. The vaccine uses
: engineered copies of a protein found on
." the outer coating of the HIV virus. It is
¯ designed toprompt theimmune system to
: make antibodies, which can attack invad-
¯ ing viruses before they infecthealthy cells.
¯ Lysight said he hopes to help pave the
¯ way for avaccinethat blocks HIV the way
~ today’s vaccines target small pox or
¯ chicken pox. "Until there is a vaccine or
: anything to help it. nobody will want to
: accept what the problem is," he said.
: Local AIDSgroups and the Tulsa City-
County Health Department are collabo-
: rating on the project and will assist’in
: recruiting trial volunteers. Other cities in
¯ the study include New York, Chicago, St.
Louis, Denver, Philadelphia and sites in
"- Florida, Texas and California.
by Esther Rothblum
I recently talked with a group of five
young women in a Vermont high school
about what it means to be Lesbian, Bi, or
questionning. These women students -
and a teacher- have been
meeting weekly in their
school after hours. Hard as it
may be for us older Lesbians
to believe, but such groups
are a part of all high schools
in the Burlington, Vermont
area.
The women were proud
that their classmates hadjust
voted in (500 in favor, 100
against) a club to be called
the "Gay and Straight Alliance."
As one woman said
"what was so good about the
process was that it was so
out there, and an explanation
went along with it, so
.... ~bool life is not
wlthout harassment,
¯ . . Another woman,
who is Bisexual,
has been called a
"dyke"by another
student.
Als0, students in
their high school will
refer to something
they don’t llke as
"gay," as in "thatdress
is so
people knew it wasn’t just a
Gay thing." In fact, one of the club’s
organizers received a school medal for
her efforts.
BUt school life is not without harassment.
One student said: "Yesterday, a kid
came up to me and said ’I would really,
appreciate it if you didn’t make out with"
other girls in the hallways.’ I’ve never
done anything like that in school." Another
woman, who is Bisexual, has been
called a "dyke" by another student: Also,
students in their high school will refer to
something they don’t like as "gay," as in
"that dress, is so gay.’"
The women I interviewed were aware
of internalized homophobia as well. One
woman said: "In eighth grade there was
this kid that everyone said he was Gay. He
couples’ request to overturn the prohibition.
In legal briefsand arguments to the
court, they said mamage historically has
been defined as a union between a man
and a woman because same-sex couples
can’t biologically bear children. ’‘To say
(otherwise) would be to say there’ s absolutely
no connection between marriage
and procreation," said Assistant Attorney
General Eve Jacobs-Camahan. "It’s a
unique social institution based on the
sexual communion of a man and a
woman."
Vermont is now the only state with a
Supreme Court considering the question
of Gay marriages. In last month’s elections,
voters in Hawaii and Alaska essentially
overturned court rulings that were
moving toward legalizing such unions.
Robinson said refusing to allow samegender
couples to marry was as discriminatory
as bans on interracial marriage,
firstoverturnedby the CaliforniaSupreme
Court in 1948. "The parallels between
that case and this case are striking," she
said. In 1948, proponents of California’ s
interracial ban used many of the same
arguments as Gay marriage opponents
today, such .as the promotion of procreation,
she said.
But Assistant Attorney General Timothy
Tomasi said bothmen and women are
given the right to marry, and a court redefining
it would cut into the rights of the
Legislature. ’‘There’ s no benefit given to
¯¯ had a very hard time with harassment.
Then when I came out my freshman year,
¯ hestartedmaking fun ofm!! I said to him:
: ’Don’t yon remember how-bad it felt
¯ when everyone made fun of you?’ He
said: ’But I wasn’t and you
are." In s,o,me ways, I was his
revenge.
Another woman was concerned
about how her heterosexual
friend would be
viewed. She said: "I think
mybeing fairly out in school
affected her. We used to sit
together in class and spend a
lot of time together. We’ve
been friends since kindergarten.
I think the fact that
we were so close actually
negalively affectedher, with
people assuming that she was
Gay as well. I found myself
pulling away from her so
that she wouldn’t be stereotyped.
I wanted her to be able to find a
boyfriend and be happy; I didn’t want her
harasssed."
In some ways, being Gay is viewed as
trendy in their school, but only when it
refers to female students, mostly those
who are Bisexual. But the women I interviewed
felt that trends are viewed as a
phase, and their classmates wonder When
this particular trend will finalh, be over.
"My friends thought I was a "~oser’ because
I told them that I was Bi," said one
woman.
Esther Rothblum teaches Psychology
at the University ofVermont andEditor of
the Journal ofLesbian Studies. Ske can be
reached at Dewey Hall, Univ. of Vt.,
Burlington or: esther.rothblum@uvm.edu
males that isn’ t given to females," he said.
The lawsuit challenges a 1975 rulingby
the state’ s attorney general advising town
clerks that Vermont law defined civil
marriage as a union between a "bride and
a groom," in effect prohibiting same-sex
couples from marrying. Ten groups, ~ncluding
a coalition of other states, wrote
briefs supporting Attorney General William
Sorrell’s definition. Seven other
groups have filed arguments that contend
Vermont" s Constitution guarantees Gays
the same rights to marriage as heterosexuals.
Hordes of people showed to watch the
arguments. Folding chairs were setup and
the court, for the first time ever, required
tickets to get in the building. They were
snatched up the moment doors opened,
hours b.efore the scheduled arguments.
From the point of view of the couples,
who found themselves at the center of a
national debate and sat in a front row, the
arguments couldn’t come soon enough.
"Twenty-five years ago, when we met
and fell in love, mamage was not something
any of us that were same-gender
couples thought about," said Holly
Puterbaugh of Milton, one of the plaintiffs.
"it just was not in the conversation,
it was not in the thinking." She and Lois
Farnham are raising a daughter together.
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Whenl moved into Iankahar, a
small South Pacific village in Vanuatu, I
worked hard to learn all the names of my
70 or so new neighbors. I
was proud of myself for
memorizing everyone’ s
name in just a week or two,
particularly since many
people have both a local
name and a European one.
Or I was until the day I called
out to young Joshua, an active
5-year:old who liked to
hang around my hut. He
shyly informed me that his
name was now Tio. "But
what happened to Tio?" I
asked, confused. Tio, I
thought, was the helpful son
of my neighbors Vani and
Kaisaia. Joshua, or rather
now Tio, drawing in the dirt
with his big toe, told me that
Tio was now called Kamuti.
But this was equally confusing.
Kamuti - or so I had
memorized - was an older,
childless man who lived in a.
rattletrap hut at the end of
the village.
I pestered people in my
rudimentary Pidgin English
until they" helped me understand
that old Kamuti, sensing
death, had just adopted
20-someflfing Tio who took
his name. This left open the
Ameriean Gay
culture includes
several drag
naming traditions.
Much of the
attraetlon of drag
comes from its
eonstruetlon of
hyper-femlnlnlty
- an image of
perfected
womanhood that
no real female
could, in reality,
obtain.
This is why
RuPaul and
Barble are twins -
they both are
way beyond
female reality.
name-"Tio" that the former Joshua assumed.
Men’s names on this island are
really titles. They emplace individuals
within a structure of kinship groups. Each
nmne. moreover, comes with rights to
certain land plots. Joshua’s father had
more sons than nmnes to give out, so the
bob was making do with the European
"’Joshua" until a landed personal title (like
Tio) freed up. Persona! names in Iankab,ar
thus link individuals into land-holding
kinship ~oups which are the basic building
blocks of island society.
AnthropoloNsts study personal naming
systems in order to learn more about
people’ s understandings of selfhood, and
of the ways in which they conceive of
individuality and society. In many cultures,
people may have several names at
once, or may take on additional names as
they go throughlife. ,americans are familiar
with first names, middle names, nicknames,
family or surnames, pen names,
stage names, and aliases; and the majority
of ~american women still change their
familynames at marriage (as Hillary went
from Rodham, to Clinton, to Rodham
Clinton). Still, people in other societies
may have far more opportunities than we
do to collect various names or to swap one
name for another
In some cultures, each time an individual
enters a new phase of life (childhood,
adulthood, old.age), he takes a different
name. In classic Chinese society,
important men acquired "death names";
because, dead, you ate a changed person
and you need a different name. The Japanese
borrowed this custom which is why
theformerEmperor!tirohito is now called
Showa. Elsewhere, people takenew names
after important events in their lives, such
as surviving a major illness. In Samoaand
other Polynesian cultures, people commonly
have several names, one of which
may be a tide. Names are context dependent-
people call one another by whichever
of their names best fits the occasion.
Most American names are gendered;
some are male, others female.
It is not surprising,
therefore, that transgendered
individuals, and drag queens,
almost always acquire new
names as part of their transformed
personality. Something
similar to Samoa’s
context-governed names
occurs here with American
cross-dressers and drag artists.
When you meet up with
your friend, do you use his
boy name or his gift name?
This mostly depends on
where you are at the moment
and also, of course,
what s/he’s wearing. Personal
nmnes in Iankahar give
men rights to family and
land; here in America they
give us rights to be, and to
act, male or female.
American Gay cnlture
includes Several drag naming
traditions. Much of the
attraction of drag comes
from its construction of
hyper-femininity - an image
ofperfected womanhood
that no real female could, in
reality, obtain. This is why
RuPaul and Barbie are twins
- they both are way beyond
female reality. One drag naming tradition
is the hyper-feminine. Here, the queens
take on Barbie-ish names. I surfed through
a number of drag queen websites on the
Internet (yes, those gifts are online) and
turned up hyper-ladylike names such as
Zhanna, Monique, Vaunessa, Cookky,
Felicity, Chynna, Windy, Misty De Mute,
and so on. Sometimes these names pair
with the drag equivalent of a surname.
There are named drag houses in many
cities, and a daughter takes the family
name of her drag-mother (and sometimes
also drag-father). This creates a structure
of ficdve kinship that anthropologists call
matrilineal descent.
There is a second, comic naming tradition
in American drag. Her~ the queens
celebrate the carnival foundations of their
art. There are ancient and widespread
associations of masking and naughtiness
in Western culture, as all of us learn very
young ("Trick-or-Treat, smell my feet!").
Those sly queens adore bad puns. My
quick tour of the web discovered Miss
Pencil Vania, Charity Kaesse, Paige
Turner, Evian Water, Sister Dana van
Iquity, and of course Hedda Lettuce. And
I’m sure you can bring many coarser
examples to mind. But,just like people in
Vanuatu, China, and Samoa, the more
names you have, .the more you are.
Lamont Lindstrom teaches anthropology
at the University of Tulsa.
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distingnished history in Georgia. In 1905,
this court expressly recognized that Geor~
gia citizens have a ’liberty of privacy’
guaranteed by the Georgia constitutional
provision which declares that no person
shall be deprived of liberty except by due
process of law... This court has determined
that a citizen’ s right to privacy is
strong enough to withstand a variety of
attempts by the State to intrude in the
citizen’s life."
"v~re cannot think of any other activity
¯ .that reasonable persons would rank as
more private and more deserving of proteetion
from governmental interference
~consensual, private, adult sexual ac-
:~tivity. :. We’conclude that such activityis
at the heart of the Georgia Constitution’ s
protection of the right of privacy."
’q’he State fulfills its role in preventing
sexual assaults and shielding and protecting
the public from sexual acts by the
enactment of criminal statutes prohibiting
such conduct... The only possible
purpose for the statute is to regulate the
private conduct of consenting adults, the
public gains nobenefit, and the individual
is unduly oppressedby the invasion of the
right to privacy. Consequently, we must
conclude that the legislation exceeds the
permissible bounds of police power."
"In undertaking, the judiciary’ s constitutional
duty, it is not the prerogative of
members of the judiciary to base decisions
on their personal notions of morality.
Indeed, if wewere called upon to pass
upon the propriety of the conduct herein,
we would not condone it... While many
believe that acts of sodomy, even those
involving consenting adults, are morally
reprehensible, this repugnance alone does
not create a compelling justification for
state regulation of the activity."
"We agree with our fellow jurists that
legislative enactments setting ’social majority’
are not exempt from judicial review
testing their constitutional mettle."
The minori~ opinion was written by
Justice George H. Carley:
"Clearly, Powell has no right under the
federal constitution to engage in the act.
.. since there is no fundamental right
¯ . under theConstitution ofthe United States
~ to engage in consensual sodomy."
"The Court has exceeded the limits of
its judicial authority and usurped the legislative
power ’to enact laws to promote
¯the public health, safety, morals and welfare
of its citizens."
"Until the majority’s advancement of
: its overly expansive notion of the state
." constitutional guarantee of’liberty,’ there
¯ has never been any doubt that the General
~ Assembly,in the exercise ofpolicepower,
: has the authority to define as crimes the
¯¯ commission of acts which, withoutregard
to the infliction of any other injury, are
¯ considered to be immoral. Simply put,
¯ commission of what the Legislature has ¯
determined to be an immoral act, even if
: ¢gpsensual andprivate, is aninjury against
¯ society itself."
: "!’he majority should take no comfort
: in the fact that it has removed Georgia
¯ from the rank of those states which have
¯ held that thematteris for resolutionby the
." Legislature."
: otherboardmembers for their willingness
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Now it’ s time for the rest of us to help
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¯ Andnow’sespeciallythetimeforthoseof
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: Some of you who’ ve been fortunate to
¯¯ earn or inheritmore than the rest ofus also ought to start talking about creating an
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Wisconsin Lesbian Elected
To United States House
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wisconsin voters elected the
first opeuly Lesbian woman member of Congress on
Tuesday. But an acknowledged Lesbian House challenger
lost in Washington state and another was behind
in California. In Wisconsin’ s open 2nd District, Democratic
state Rep. Tammy Baldwin defeated Republican
Josephine Musser, the former state insurance commissioner,
to replace retiring GOP Rep. Scott Klug.
Baldwin, 36, made healtheare a cornerstone of her
campaign, saying the United States should adopt a
~national, publicly funded system like that in Canada.
’°Tammy Baldwin is a solid representative who happens
to be a Lesbian," said Elizabeth Birch, executive
director of the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign,
a Gay civil rights group that helped bankroll the
Baldwin campaign. "She has broken down a very large
door," Birch added.
see Baldwin, p. 10
Hawaii.+Alaska Voters
Reject Gay. Marriage
’Th~As;oc;’atedPress ~Stri~ggiingt; satisf~y~l~ot~.~0ei-al
conservatives and the law of the land, Hawaii on Tuesday
took another step toward banning same-gender
marriage, giving its Legislature the go-ahead to write a
new law. Elsewhere, Alaskans voted a Gay-marriage
ban into their constitution, and voters in Fort Collins,
Colo., defeated a measure to protect Gays and Lesbians
from discrimination.
News was more hopeful for Gay civil rights advocates
in Maine, whereindividual communities are fielding
anti-discrimination bills to circumvent this year’s
statewide vote that overturned protections on the basis
of sexual orientation. South Portland approved a Gay
rights initiative; Ogunqult’s vote on a similar proposal
was too close to call early Wednesday.
The Hawaii initiative was lawmakers" latest try to
sidestep the state Supreme Court’s 1993 ruling that the
state had no constitutional right to ban same-gender
marriages because that would deny some citizens the
rights provided to others. Because the U.S. Constitution’ s
Full Faith and Credit .Clause requires states to honor
each other’ s statutes and legal bonds, the 1993 ruling set
off some furious preemptive legislating around the
country. At least 30 states have now banned Gay marnage,
and Congress passtd the Defense of Marriage
Act, which denied federal recognition ofGay marriage
and allowed states to ignore same-sex tmions licensed
elsewhere.
The two sides in Hawaii spent millions of dollars in a
relendess media campaign. "It’s really sending aclear
message, a strong message, that the people of this
community will not allow homosexual marriages;" said
Mike Gabbard, a leader of the Save Traditional Marriage
group, seeVote, p. 10
UJ DIRECTORY/LETTERS P, 2/3
US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 ~ HEALTH NEWS P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 8
~ COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 8
BOOK REVIEW P. I 0
DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 11
DYKE PSYCHE/GAY STUDIES P. 12/13
~ CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14
¯
200 Attend Tulsa Vigil
For Hate Crime Victim
Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
Tulsa’s Largest Circulation CommunityPaper Available In More Than 75 City Locations
¯ The Associated Press & TFN- Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old
¯ Gay University of Wyoming freshman, was found severely
¯ beaten Oct. 7. He died Oct. 12 in a Fort Collins, Colo., hospital.
¯
His deathsparkedanintemational
"[your vi$11 represents]
a eommhment to an
end of vlolenee and
[to] appropriate
proteetlon under the
law... Matthew
Shepard’s death was
horrible and senseless;
it would be more so if
it. was in vain."
- Drew Edmondson
OkLaltom Attorney General
. .," outpouring of sympathy for vic-
¯ ¯ tims of hate crimes and calls for
~: a-federal hate crime law from
Clinton.
All across the US, communities
heldvigils andrallies tohonor
and mourn the slain student. In
¯
Tulsa, a group of about 150-200
¯ persons gathered at the Civic
Center Plaza. Anumberofclergy
¯ spoke, including the Rev. Father
: Rick Hollingsworth of the Parish
¯ Church of SaintJerome, the Rev.
¯ Leslie Penrose of Community of
: HopeUnited Methodist, the Rev.
¯ Helen Calloway of the Unity
: Church and the Rev. Russell Bennett of Fellowship Congrega-
¯ tional Church.
: Oklahoma’ s Attorney General, Drew Edmondson, sent a state-
: ment which was read by Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights
vice president, Greg Gatewood: "[your vigil represents] a commitment
to an end of violence and [to] appropriate protection
¯ under the law.. see Hate, p. 11
:
- Fayetteville Civil Rights
¯ Measure Overturned
FAYEFFEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -.Voters here rejected a resolution
: that backers said would have protected Gay people against job
¯ discrimination in city government. Final but unofficial results
¯ from Tuesday’. s .balloting 8howed7~811" v_otes against the measure,
6r58pe~-cent~ whil~ 5,731,or_42 percenL.we~_e cast in favor.
Known as the human-dignity resolution, the measure was passed
¯ by the Fayetteville City Council earlier this year, vetoed by the
¯ mayor, then passed by the council again in overriding the veto.
: It wouldhave required that all applicants for city staffpositions
¯ have equal access to employment, regardless of race, sex, reli-
: gion, color, national origin, age, ancestry, familial statUS, disabil-
¯ ity or sexual orientation, A group opposed to including "sexual
¯ orientation" on the list successfully petitioned to get the resolu-
¯ tion.on the ballot. ¯
Claudette’s Leaving!
Longtime AIDS Activist
Moving to Aggieland
¯
TULSA - For half a decade, anyone seriously involved with
¯ HIV/AIDS, knew Claudette Peterson. For a nu~nber of years, a
¯ Tulsan being tested for HIV anti-bodies likely had their blood
¯ sample taken taken and results given by her when she ran Tulsa
¯ Oklahomans for Human Rights HIV Testing Clinic.
¯ More recently, Persons Living with AIDS (PLWA’s) have
¯ benefited fromher tireless (and initially unpaid) efforts to establish
Food Chain, a food pantry and more. However, since her
¯
spouse, Tim Peterson has recently been taken a teaching job at
¯ TexasA&Mwherehe received his ph.D, Tulsa is losing Peterson
¯ to College Station.
Another prominent figure amongTulsaHIV/AIDS fundraisers
¯ and caregivers, Janice Nicklas, bemoaned Peterson’ s departure.
¯ "It’ s a major loss for our community.., she has tireless energy for
¯ developing resources for HIV prevention and care and we owe ¯
her a lot . . . anyone’s fortunate to have her living in their
community."
¯ Peterson noted that her work has been a labor of love, and is ¯
proud of the fact that she and Foo~t Chain have never had to turn
; away a client and they are now. serving over 100 PLWA’s a
¯ month. She notes that donating food has brought very diverse
: people together- drag queens working right next to conservative
church people. Peterson also recognizbA Audra Sommers for her
¯ very generous support ofFood Chain and other care programs as
¯ wall as support from the National AIDS fund, Tulsa Comm
¯ AIDS Partnership, the Rath Foundation, &Philip Morris Co. Inc.
: Tulsa Library Rever,s,es
Anti-Gay Paper Poltcy
¯ TULSA- Fornearlyfiveyears,Tulsa’sCity/County
¯ Library System (TCCLS) had refused to allow the ¯
distributionofGaynewspapers,TulsaFamilyNews
¯
in particular, in its lobbies. Early in October, TFN
¯ received a letter inviting the newspaper to provide
¯ copies to be distributed at the Central and each of
¯
the four regional libraries. Tulsa Family News is
¯ now found in those locations.
¯ The dispute over distribution privileges began ¯
when TFN publisher, Tom Neal, was representing
_" a now defunct out-of-town Gay paper and re-
" quested equal distribution access as magazines like
¯ TulsaKids, TulsaPeople and Urban Tulsa enjoyed ¯
a number of library lobbies. The response of the
." then TCCLS director, Pat Woodrum and the
¯ library’.s board of trustees was to change the rules
; to ban "out of town" publications.
Shortly after that decision, Neal began Tulsa
¯ Family News and reapplied as a local publication.
¯ Once again, TCCLS changed the rules to continue
to grant access to non-Gay publications and not to
." aGay one. Thesenew rules required that50% ofthe
¯ content of the publication be "local."
¯ TFN challenged TCCLS to clarify how it was ¯
defining and connting local content. Neal notes,
¯
"we had issues where it appeared that we met the
~ 50% standard as we understood it and yet we were
¯ told we didn’ t have enough local content. Further-
." more, we documented multiple violations of that
: rule by other publications but the library administration
refused to respond to our requests to clarify
the policies and to explain their seeming tolerance
¯ for rule-breaking by other publications."
see Library, p. 12
World AIDS ¯ IAM Director Decides to Step Down ¯
TULSA~interfaithAIDS Ministries is sponsoring
¯
its annual World AIDS Day Candlelight March.&
¯ Memorial Service. As is customary, the event is on
¯ December 1 st,Tuesday andwill beginat 6:30 at the
parkinglot of Centenary United Methodist Church
¯
(631 North Denver) just north of downtown. The
¯" march begins to the Parish Church of Saint Jerome
(205 West King) at about 7pro and the memorial
service will start about 7:30. There is a reception
¯
following the service. Marchers are asked to bring
: banners & bells, but candles & matches will be
¯ provided. St. Jerome will be accessible to the
disabled at the east entrance.
¯ Also, this will be the last World AIDS Day for
which ]AM’ s executive director ofmany years will
¯ serve. Diane Zike, who helped found the organiza- ¯
fion when it was part of the Episcopal Diocese of
¯ Oklahoma’s AIDS care, will be stepping down at
¯ the end of the yearforpersonal reasons. Zike stated,
"my work in AIDS ministry has been a very impor-
¯
taut and meaningful part ofmy life fore the past 12
years. I regret the need to step down now from my
role as director but I will continue to be active and
supportive in any way I can."
TFN publisher, Tom Neal, noted, "Diane is one
of the unsungheroes of the TulsaAIDS community
- she has worked long and hard at great personal
cost." Info: 438-2437 or 800-284-2437.
: Blues Concert for AIDS
¯ TULSA-Walkfor Life will presentits 2ndannual
." blues concert later this year (the date will be an-
¯ nounced). Last year’s event was held at at
¯" Streamroller Blues and featured a surprise visit
from Hanson. The tickets to the event will be $5 at
~ the door and will benefit local AIDS care organizations.
For info., call 918-579-9593.
see Editorial, p. 3
Tul;a C~ubs & Restaurants
*Bmnboo Lom~ge, 7204 E. Pine
*Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria
*Full Moon Care, 1525 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
*Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
*Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan
*Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main
*TNT’s, 2114S. Memorial
*Tool Box, 1338 E. 3rd
832-1269
592-2143
744-0896
599-9512
583-6666
749-4511
585-3134
599-7777
749-1563
744-4280
745-9998
834-4234
585-3405
660-0856
584-1308
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 747-1508
*Affinity News~ 8120 E. 21 610-8510
Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor
746-4620
*Assoc. in Med. & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard 743-1000
Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506
*Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034
Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15
712-1122
Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955
*Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale 494-2665
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S.-Peoria
746-0313
Cherry Sf. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902, 743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742:9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’ s Gallery, 13 Brady .
587-2611
Doghouse on Brookside, 3311 S~.’Peoria 744-5556
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337, 712-9379
*Iqoral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq: Med. Ctr. 628-3709
Gloria Jean s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
Learme M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning
459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney.
744-7440
*Sandra J. I-Iill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
341-6866
*International Tours
Jacox ~rtimal Clinic; 2732 E. 15th
712-2750
-~*Jared s Antiquesi i602 El 15th
’ - - ’ 582-3018
David Kanskey, Country Club Barbering
747-0236
~Ken’s Flowers, 1635 E. i5
599-8070
Kelly Kirby CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 747-5466
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady
585-1234
*Midtown Theater, 319 E. 3rd
584-3112
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31
663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place
664-2951
Novel Idea Bookstore, 51 st & Harvard
747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633
747-7672
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15
583-1090
The Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2rid floor
743-4297
Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74t01
747-5932
Richard’ s Carpet Cleaning
834-Q617
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921. 747-4746
Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 582-7748
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square
749-6301
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria
697-0017
*Tulsa Book Exchange, 3749 S. Peoria
742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis
481-0558
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling
743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis
592-0767
Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & U niversities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101
579-9593
*All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria
743-2363
Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159
587-7314
Bless The Lord at All Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6
583-7815
*B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S. Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th P1. & Florence
*Church of the RestorationUU, 1314N.Greenw°°d 587-1314
*Commlmity ofHope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 747:6300
*Commumty Unitarian-Universalist Congregation
749-0595
*Council Oak Men’ s Chorale
743-4297
*Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S Delaware
712-1511
*Democratic Headqtmrters, 3930 E. 31
742-2457
Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa - Lesbian & Gay Catholics &
Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475
355-3140
*Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo
622-1441
*Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777
*Free Svirit Women’ s Center, call for l°cati°n &inf°: 587-4669
747-6827
918.583.1248, fax: 583.46 15, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159
e-mai!: TNsaNews@earthlinl~net
website: http:Husers.aol.com/TulsaNewst
Publisher + Editor:
Tom Neal
Writers + contributors:
James Chfistjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud
Balry Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom
Esther Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Adam West
Member of The Associated Press
Issued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this
oublication are protected by US copyright 1998 byT~ J::.~. ¢L~
~and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without
written permission from the publisher. Publication of a r~ame or
photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence
is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,_oaust
be signed & becomes the sole prope,rty of, T,~.~. /:.~Lg,’...ff.*~.*"
Each reader is entitled to 4 copies o~ each eoition at msmouuon
points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248.
Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0438
*HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 583-6611
*HIV Resource Consortium, 3507 E. Admiral
834-4194
*Holland Hall SchOol, 5666 E. 81st 481-1111
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
834-8378
HIV Testing, Mon/Thurs. 7-9pm, daytime by appt. only
*House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood
Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
*MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood
838-1715
NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral Pi. 748-3111
NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 365-5658
OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157 .
*Our House, 1114 S. Quaker
584-7960 ¯
PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152
749-4901 .
*Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria
587-7674
*The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105.
743-4297 "
prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152 .
*R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 74%4195
Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159
665-5174 ¯
*Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8
584-2325
O’RYAN, support group.for 18-24 LGBT young adults
O’RYAN Jr suppOrt group for .14-17 LGBT youth
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Coors Donation Condemned
Imagine a Lesbian or Gay activist who
left the country a few years ago and just
recently returned back to our community.
Talk about culture shock! She or he would
witness a brave new’queer world, one in
which GLAAD has accepted $110,000
from Coors, theHumanRights Campaign
(a Lesbian and Gay PAC) has endorsed
D’Amato for Senator in New York, and a
young Gay man was tortured and murdered
in Wyoming. Importantly for us,
these three things are not unrdated -
appeasement comes at a price - and that
price is not acceptable to us.
Weare writing (respectively) as aformer
taffer and former board member of
GLAAD/SFBA. Therefore we will focus
rathe GLAAD-Coors connection.
GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation) has accepted
$110,000 from the Coors Brewing company
to support its new "sexual orientation
in the workplace" training effort.
GLAAD was founded by activists such as
Vito Russo (author of The Celluloid
Closet) with a single, very spedfic rmssion:
to watchdog and critique the media’ s
coverage of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgendered issues.
It has strayed from that mission often to
deal with the substance of issues rather
than how they are covered. We believe
that conducting sexual orientation in the
workplace trainings is outside GLAAD’ s
niche.
No other organization in our community
focuses on anti-defamation. There is
plenty of defamation (some have lately
taken to calling it hate speech) runmng
around loose these days. GLAAD has
plenty enoughmediaanalysis andresponse
to do and litde enough money to do th.at
vital work, without implementing a new
: project with dirty money.
Much has already been said about the
politics of Coors and the politics of accepting
money from Coors. We would
like to emphasize our dismay thatGLAAD
would accept money from such a source.
When we were with GLAAD, RJR
Reynolds (Big Tobacco, a key backer of
powerful, homophobic North Carolina
Senator Jesse Helms) was also offering
the community money and some were
considering taking it!
So, we in GLAAD/SFBA back then
"did the math" and realized that taking
money from people trying to kill youjust
doesn’t add up to anything that makes
sense. Same for Coors once removed -
that is the Coors Foundations.
- Tom di Maria, Exec. Director, 1993-95
- Jessea Greenman, Co-Chair, 1990-94
GLAAD/San Francisco Bay Area
[Editor’s note: the Coors family wealth
has been closely associated with a number
of the most ultra rtght wing and anti-
Gaypolitical causes. Coors Brewing Company
was once the target ofa boycott due
to anti-Gay company policies. Coors
Brewing now boasts a non-discrimination
policy that includes sexual orientation
and. supports Gay organizations.
Coors Brewing has supported the Tulsa
Pride Picnic for a number ofyears.]
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At the present time. there are only 25 states that have laws against
homoffexuals, most nbted are; Alabama 20 years, Georgia 20 years, l~hode
Is and ant ess than 7 years nor more than 20 years, Oklahoma 10 years. The
homosexuals are working hard to get these laws changed to permit their
perversion ofour country, and it appears they are successfuq at it. "
A great many laws have been changed. Until 1990
our country. In 1986the U.S. SupremeCourtuph,
(in a 5 to 4 vote), noting that "prohibitions again
jurisprudence since the colonization of the countr
the laws of’he original thirteen states when they r~
outlawed sodomy. Noah Carolina’s original sodl
the abonimable and detestable crime against natur
adjudged guilty of a felony and SHALL SOl:
CLERGY".
the U.S. barred admission ofsexual deviants into
d the constitutionality of Georgia’s sodomy law
homosexuality have been a part of Ainerlcan
" Sodomy was a criminal offense forbidden by
fiodtheBillofRights. Until 1961, allb0states
ay statute nut: "Any person who shall commit
not fit tb be named among Christians... Shall be
ER DEATH WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF
Without proper punishment of these, perveRs, u( great comitxy has become like Sodom &
Gomorrah. It’s gotten pretty sad when we allo’~ mmosexuals to teach our children that there is
nothing wrong with being *gay".- ttawthome I ementary public school, Madison, Wisconsin,
where lesbian TummY" Boldwln is Distriet Cotmty ~upcwisor, bes just one ofmany pilot programs
to teach against homophobia, At the direction of~[hoir teachers, Ist and 2nd graders made a book
titled "Everybody is Equal, A Book About Gay &. Lesbian." The book teaches our very young
chiltlrcn respect for homos, a.s well as the Ga~ Pride chant’Hay-Hay-Ho-Ho-Homophobia’s got to
go’and"Wewant rigbl,~tao*: 1ST&2..NDGRADERS!!! OneolderstudenL whenaskedwhatshe
had learned, statedshe’loaksatitlnadifferentlight. Toknowwhatbeinggay isallabout, it’snot
actually diffcrent from anybody else".
Cambridge Mass. schools hold functions like a Gay Family Photo Exhibit on school grounds, and
another celebrates Gay Pride Day as a holiday. Third graders n New York earn tolerance for
borons, tlomosexuals argue that wbat consenting adults do in the privacy oftbeir home is protectod
under lhe tight to privacy. Vsctlmless crimes, sucKas the possession and distribution ofillegal drugs
do not escape the law where they are committed at home; right to privacy in no way allows one to
break the law. Not State law and not God’s !aw...sodomy is a crime and must be prosecuted. By
dolng nothing and allowing sodomites to run amuck, just look around and see where our morals are
today. Prison terms for sodomy are designed to punish persons who undertake by unatural and
indecent methods to gratify a perverted and depraved sexual appetite which is an offence against
public dccancy and morality. To i mprison a conlinnod homosexual is like throwing Brer Rabbit i nto
the briar patch To ~ve our nation we need the DEATII PENALTY to put an end to the sodomites
~erverslon ofour country.
Can honmsexuals repent and be saved I I Corinthians 6:1 I)? A few are, but this still
does not mean society eannol INSTITUTETHE DEATI I PENALTY for this crime, just
as it has for the crime of murder. No one says a murderer cannot repent and come to
Christ, nor does society allow such a conv~’sion to stop the death penalty from being
carried out. Lev. 20:13: "Ira man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman both of
.them have committed an abominatiott. They shall surely be put to death".
Asa did that which was right in the eyes ofthe I.ord, and hc tookaway the sodimites out
of the hind (IKings 15:12). ]-lad Asa execu~.d these sexual deviants, Jehnsaphat
wouldn’t have had to remove the remaining sodomites out ofthe land (I Kings22: 46).
The Death Penalty is our only answer to ensure these pe~’erts are out ofour contr~’ and
stay out for good. ]
But God is love, oh yes, God is love ~nd if you love God, you will keep his
commandment {Matt 22:37 and Jol~ 14:15). So for our people to keep the
commandment of l.ev. 20:13 is tO love Grd. Romans 1:2~-32: :,re have changed.the .
troth ofGod into a lie. worshippingand se~ing the creature more than the Creatbr. God
has given us up to qle afflictions, even our woman go against nature, ~nd likewise also
the men burned in their lust one toward another, They \vhich commit such things arc
worthyofdeath, SodomandGomorrahwcredestro.vedforsuchthings. Ourendcould
be #n uch worse ifwe don’t follow God’s law’.and uphold the Death Panahy forsodom):
Pastor Pete Peters points out in his book,"Death Panalty for Homosexuals" that the top
6 leading scrialki||ers in the U.S- are: Donald | larvt:y - 37 killed. John \Vay’ne Gaq." - 23
killed. Patrick Keamev - 32 killed, Bruce Davis - 28 killed. Core Henley Brooks - 27
killed. Juan Corona -’25 killed, al! of which were homosexuals; add to that Jeffrey
Dahalcr.
In closing. I would like to poinrout that God has the answer to all our problems. God
has Ills law and the law is good tfa man use it lawfully( I Timothy 1 :g-I 0).
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"To save our nation, we need the DEATH PENALTY t~
put an end to the sodomites perversion of our country." No
doubt, your reaction is much like mine was - this is ludicrous,
almostlaughable! Andthatreactionis increasedwhen
we note the source: the extremely disreputable, publicityhungry
ex-Klansman, the "Reverend" Jonny Lee.Cleary.
But just as the extremist rhetoric of anti-abortiomsts has
created a climate in which extremists murder in order to
"save lives," this adds to a climate in which Lesbian and Gay
lives .(and those of our non-Gay friends who shand by us) are
already devalued and at risk.
Though ultra conservative political groups, like the Family
Research Council, Focus on the Family and the Republican
Party now distance themsdves from recent violence
against Lesbians and Gay men, their systematic attacks onus
and their exploitation of anti-Gay fear for political gain also
have helped create a climate ripe for violence.
Murdered University of Wyoming student Matthew
Shepard’ s death was horrible but it was not the only one of
its type, nationally or even locally. According to Kelly
Kirby, 1ongtimeTulsacivilrights activist, therewas one Gay
man murdered each .year from 1991 to 1996. And yet when
Tulsans held a public vigil for Shepard, not one elected
official came or sent a representative. Mayor Savage was out
of town but surely some one member of her staff could have
shown up? What about the district attorney? Only former
DA Bill LaFortune came and that reflects not only on his
decency and compassion see Penalty, p.14
Ray of Light Campaign Invites Gay People To Tellof Experiences With Ex-Gay Ministries
by Wayne Besen . Of course, you would never see a cover story about a
HRC Associate Director of Communications ".
It is morning once again, and as you rub your tired
eyes and peer into the unforgiving bathroom mirror, the "
shiny reflection of your head is a painful reminder that
you look just as much like Kojac as the day before.
Although your friends say you should learn
to accept your baldness, you desperately
want to change and have spent years pursu-
: ing the latest hair growth remedies to no
: avail. But today is your lucky day. While
: sipping the morning coffee, you pick-up a
¯¯ copy of a respected news magazine and a
bold, splashy headline proclaims: BALD
: FOR LIFE? Underneath the headline, two
¯ smiling, bushy haired people, who look en-
~ thralledby their new hair-dos, claim to have
: been "cured" by a miracle hair tome, corn-
: blued with bible study.
Ecstatic, you excitedly turn the pages un-
: til youf’md the story about this new "miracle
." cure." But as you read on, your enthusiasm
¯ quickly begins to diminish. First, you find
that the smiling mop-tops on the cover-page
: are full-time, paid employees for acompany
: marketing this product. Next, even the most
: fervent supporters claim that the success
¯ rate of this so-called panacea is a paltry
:
Currently, ~alse
notions about
Gay Amerleans
are beln~
perpetuated hy a
media whleh
erroneously
believes it is
honorable
journalism to
simply
regurgitate
sound bltes rom
both sides in the
name of bahnee.
30%. What about the other70%? According
to the company, the hair tonic is not working for these
folks because they are "not praying hard enough."
As you skim down the page, you perkup because you
read there is still hope! A competing company claims
that their hair tonic has a miraculous success rate of
71.6%. But when asked by the magazine reporter for
hard data to corroborate the claim, the company spokes-
person gli"bly repli¯es,. "I don’t have time to conduct
follow-up studies." How then, you wonder, does the
¯ company come up with a specific number like 71.6%
without ~’011ow-ti~ studies to document whether or not
: the patients sprouted hair?
~ The article then points out that the two scientists who
¯ founded the hair tonic formula have feverishly traveled
" to science conventions around the world to declare that
~ their invention.does not work as they once said it did.
~ They say that many people would he harmed psycho-
. logically if they pinned all ,of,their ho.p~,s a~,d dream~,on~
what they now Call a"fraud. The article atso states mat
"- all respected medical and mental health organizations
agreed with the inventors that the hair tonic was no more
i likely to help one grow hair than dipping ones head in
~ a vat of Ben and Jerry’ s ice cream.
¯ If that isn’ tbad enough, the companies promoting the
¯ hair tonic have taken out full page ads in major newspa-
: pers which have distorted a baldness study by one of the
¯ premier hair loss specialists in the nation. The ac-
"_ claimed expert retorted acrimoniously to the lies by
¯ saying, "It was a complete misrepresentation of what
~ the research actually said. It was taken completely out
~ of context. I am horrified and angry and they are
¯ spreading an awful and destructive message."
¯ Your dreams of looking like Fabio are dashed for ¯
good when you read that of the people lumped in the
¯ 30% success rate category, the majority believed that if
~ thehairtonicdidnot work, biologicalbaldness couidbe
¯ overcome bywearing atoupee. The article ends with the ¯
testimony of angry ex-ex bald people who claim that
] they were misled and cheated by the hair tonic compa-
¯ rues. One company’s spokesperson dismisses the in-
] convenient complaints of the ex-ex-bald people by
~ saying: "Some p~.ople fall of the wagon."
~ You now sit m your living room, enraged by the
¯ misleading story, wondering how a respected news
~ outlet would g~ve this "snake oil" that has been so
~ thoroughly discredited, the slightest bit of legitimacy,
~ no less a cover story. Shouldn’t the ex-ex-bald people
~ have been on the cover, or at least been the focus of the
¯ story instead because their experiences are a more
~ representative of the vast majority who took the tomc?
~ Dojournalistic ethics and standards exist anymore, you
¯ wonder? Whoops, you almost forgot, it is 1998, ’‘The
: Year of the Journalist."
discredited, unsubstantiated, cure for baldness, or anything
rise for that matter.., except homosexuality.
When it comes to a so-called cure for Gay people, (as if
one were wanted or needed) veracity does not seem to
be of much importance to the media. In the following
passa~, all of the shenanigans attributed to
the ex-bald movement actually occurred in
the so-called ex-Gay ministries, from the
bogus statistics to the distortion of scientific
research, to the founders of the ex-Gay ministries
marrying each other and repudiating
these "cures." Yet, despite these gross irregularities,
the media still unwittingly legitimizes
"ex-Gay" ministries by not holding
them to the same standard of scientific
proof that they would demand from any
other group.
Advocates for Gay equality believe
these ministries should have an opportunity
to voice their opinions. However, the media
has a duty to research the accuracy of statements
made or statistics reported. Currently,
false notions about Gay Americans are being
perpetuated by a media which erroneously
believes it is honorable journalism to
simply regurgitate sound bites from both
sides in the name of balance. While balance
is important, it is not an excuse to eschew
accuracy and tough, fact checking. All statements are
not equally valid and it is the media’ s responsibility, to
distinguish factfrom fiction. Inmost of the news stones
about the "ex-Gay" mimstries or the Right wing ad
campaign in which these mimstries are highlighted,
fiction has been the norm and the truth has been a
For example, ex-Gay leader Anthony Falzarano recently
said dn television that nearly 80% of Gay people
were:molested as children. This is factually incorrec~by
any objective standards, withGaypeoplenomorelikely
to be molested as children than heterosexuals. Unfortunately;
because he is talking about Gay people, the
lethargicmediafelt there was noneed to hold Falzarano
¯ iecountableforhis lie. IfFalzaranowouldhave mad.e .a9
outrageous claim about any other minority group, ~t ~s
guaranteed the media would have followed-up and
excoriated him for his hysterical statement.
At the Human rights Campaign, our biggest challengeis
not countering political religious activist ~oups
whoexistmdeny us equal rights. The toughest battle we
face is getting the media to accurately follow-up on
outrageous statements made by these groups. As it
stands, our opponents can say anything they want about
Gay people, no matter how despicable, and they never
. havemanswer for it~Through lazy reporting, the media
has becomean accomphcemthe Right s discnnnnalao
campaign against Gay Americans by giving bald faced
lies equal stature to documentedfacts. It is our hope that
as the news media begins to evaluate some of their
glaring ethical lapses in 1998, they will consider stopping
the harmful practice of printing false information
about Gay people perpetuated by the Right without first
verifying the outrageous claims.
This perpetuation of myths by the media has forced
the Human Rights Campaign to start the Ray Of Light
(ROL) project. TheROLseeks to shine the spotlight on
these ministries so people can see beyond the rhetoric
andhearfromthe vast majority ofpeoplewhohave been
through these ministries and now call their techniques
psychological terrorism. This project will invite former
¯
ex-Gays from around the nation to share their stories
¯ with the Human Rights Campaign and lift the veil of
¯ secrecy surrounding these mimstries. The Ray of Light
¯ will:
¯ *Seek and chronicle the stories of former ex-Gays;
¯ *Share these smiles with the public and the media; ¯
*Compile information by leading mental health and
¯ medical experts on the most recent studies; and
¯ *Examine the literature of the ex-Gay ministries to
¯ look for flagrant abuses and fraudulent claims.
If you have been through these ministries, please
¯
submit your story so we can share it and help others.
~ Stories can be submitted, to: www.hrc.org/ncop/rol
Churches Create Hate
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Mainstream Christian denominations
are to blame for a climate of hate and
bigotry that fostered the fatal beating of a Gay University
of Wyoming student, a United Methodist
Church pastor says. "It’s not just the fight-wing
conservatives" who are teaching that homosexuality
is a sin and that Christian churches should shun Gays
and Lesbians, the Rev. Jimmy Creech said while in
Minneapolis recently. "I hold the church accountable
for helping to create a culture that allows violence
against Gays and Lesbians," he said. "Churches don’ t
intend for the violence to happen, but they lay the
groundwork for it."
Creech gained national notoriety" for officiating at
a same-sex covenant ceremony in his Omaha, Neb.,
congregation. In August, he was narrowly acquitted
of violating church law. He subsequently resigned
from his Nebraska congregation.
Creech argues that when the church denies clergy
members the right to perform same-sex ceremonies,
it is preventing them from "being a pastor to all
members of the congregation.r’ For him, "’This is the
denial ofmy freedom to be a pastor to everyone, and
that’s very offensive."
Crecch was in Minneapolis to preach at two services
at All God’s Children Metropolitan Church.
Theday before, hemetwith several Minnesota United
Methodistclergy andlaity. Recently,22United Methodist
members from Minnesota joined 344 other
Methodists around the country in asking the national
bishops to address the issues of treatment ofGays and
Lesbians in the church.
Non-Biological L sbian
Mom Shares Custody
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A woman who stayed home
[o raise a 2-year-old boy while her Lesbian partner
earned a living can share custody of the child, even
though she isn’ t the biological mother, a judge has
ruled. The partner, identified only as R.E.M., stayed
home to take care of the boy while herpartngr, S.L..y.,
worked at a hospital. The Lakewood couple decided .
to have the child together, chose a sperm donor to
inseminate S.L.V. and sent out birth announcements "
with both women’ s fingerprints on them.
Experts who follow Lesbian custody battles say the ¯
decision goes further than any other in granting bro,a,d ,"
custodial rights to a woman who is not the child s
birth mother. "-
"The court is satisfied that R.E.M. has been able to ¯
show that she stands in the shoes of a parent to the
child and should be accorded the status of parent in "
parity with S.L.V.,’7 Superior Court Judge Vincent ¯
Grasso wrote inhis decision issued Monday in Ocean
County.
Kate Kendell, who heads the National Center for
Gay and Lesbian Rights in San Francisco, called the
decision "an enormous victory ." "Our children have
as much right to a continuing relationship with both
parents as any other child of two parents," she said
Tuesday,
Thejudge’ s declsxon, however, lsn t binding stat -
wide and is inconsistent with an opinion issued in
Essex County in September. Two other similar cases
have yet to be decided in Mercer and Union counties.
"Right now, you have a situation that really cries out
for an appeal," said Paul Urbania, S:L.V:’s attorney.
’q’he law in New Jersey shouldn’t depend on where
geographically you’ re located."
One woman in Essex County, who said she helped
raise 4-year-old twins with her ex-partner, lost custody
of the children and vowed to appeal. Attorney
Robin Wernik said the woman will use the Ocean
County opinion to bolster her case.
Lawyers are stillformalizing thedetails, butR.E.M.
will likely be able to care for the boy for three or four
12-hour days each week while S.L.V. isat work, as
well as on alternate weekends, said her attorney,
Bettina Munson. R.E.M., a former bartender, does
notworkbecause ofapermanentdisability toher arm.
Both women must share the cost of supporting the
boy, identified only as A.J.M.V., thejudge said. The
boy, who was born on March 2, 1996, goes by the
surname of both women.
The couple, who met in 1989 and moved in to-
¯
gether in 1991, chose a sperm donor together with a
¯ geneticprofilethatwas compatible to theirs once they
decided to have a child. S.L.V. was inseminated
¯
because R.E.M. had had a hysterectomy, the opinion
¯ satd. The women went by mommy and mamere,
¯¯ and drew up respective, detailed family trees for the
baby. The relationship ended in November 1996,
¯
although S.LV. remained in the home until Septem-
¯ ber 1997, the opinion said. R.E.M. sued for castody a
¯ month later.
"BBC Apologizes For
¯ Calling Politician Gay
LONDON (AP)-TheBritish Broadcasting Corp. has
apologized to a Cabinet minister who was described
as Gay during a news program. Aides to Trade Secretary
Peter Mandelson said Monday he had received
~ a letter of apology from BBC chairman Sir Christo-
¯ pher Bland. Mandelson, who prefers not to make an
¯ issue of his sexual orientation, planned no comment
: on the letter, the aides said.
The controversy beganwhen newspaper columnist
Matthew Pards saidonalate-nightBBCprogram that
¯ Mandelson was "certainly, Gay. The remark came ¯
during speculation about the sexuality of another
¯ Cabinetminister, RonDavies, whoresigned as Welsh
¯ Secretary last weekbecause ofwhathe called a"lapse
¯ of judgment" with a stranger who robbed him after
the two met at London’ s Clapham Common, a popu-
: lar Gay hangout, and left together. Davies has given
: no clear explanation of what happened. But he has
¯ denied he was seeking Gay sex or drugs, even after
days of banner headlines and tabloid stories.
: Meanwhile, the BBC added to the controversy by
¯ ordering staffmembers never to repeat the remark by
¯ Parris, who is openly Gay, on any of its programs.
¯
That move provoked charges of clumsy censorship
¯
and of giving special treatment to Mandelson, a close
¯ adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair and among the
¯" country’ s most influential politicians.
¯
Protesters included the opposition Conservative
~arty., severa! 9f whose.politicians were pursu.,e,d.by
the media over extramarital affairs when the party
was ~n power.
Also opposed to the BBCrs move was Northern
Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam, also a leading member
of the Blair Cabinet. Ms. Mowlam said she and
other panelists on a Friday nightBBCradio talk show
were told not to mention Mandelson and the Gay
remark. "I’m not about to be unfair or unjust to
colleagues, but we’ve all state~,,very clearly that to be
given guidelines is insulfing~ she said during the
show.
The BBC altered.anews quiz program last week to
remove a running joke about Mandelson, but the TV
¯ satare program .Ha. e I Got Ne~ws For You.’?" was
¯ allowed to broadcast a Clip of the Parris comment.
i Schools LawSuits Help
"Prevent Gay-Bashings
¯ OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - In the wake of the recent
~ death ofaGay collegestudeut, administrators, teach-
¯ ers and students methere this weekend to diSCUSS Gay
~ bashingin schools. They say lawsuits are a powerful
¯ weapon in the ending name:calling, harassment and
: violence agMnst young Gay people. S.chool districts
¯
that have ignored the problem are being held liable.
¯ No federal anti-discrimination laws cover sexual
: orientation, and Massachusetts is the only state to
¯ mandate such protection. But officials-fro_re, the U~S.
¯ Department of Education saidthat under T~tle IX of
theCivil RightsAct,new legal groundis being carved
; out to help Gay youth.
¯" For instance, a boy who is harassed by other boys
¯ because he is.effeminate may have a valid claim that
¯ he’ s being discriminated against because of his gen- ¯
der. Agency officials said they werelooking into such
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Wyoming student who was beaten and left tied to a
fence to die, officials said. "When you don’t deal with ¯
sexual harassment, it leads to society accepting it, and
that leads to tragedies like that," said Gloria Estolano, "
who works in the agency’s San Francisco office.
Those attending the second annual conference hosted
by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network "
said lawsuits should be a last resort. "The last time "
students needed lawyers ,to g~t them through high
school was in the ’50s and 60s’ during the civil rights
movement, said Kate Frankfurt, an organizer of the ¯
gathering. What’s needed instead, she said, is organiza- ¯
tions that can stimulate dialogue on the issue.
Learning how to better run her own such group ¯
brought Veronica Lopez, 22, from Stockton to the ¯
conference. Lopez, a college student who works full
time in a day care center, said homophobia starts early.
She said a 4-year-old boy recently came to her in tears .
because a 5-year-old had just called him an anti-Gay "
epithet. "It shows the parents are talking about it, ."
because kids don’t even know what (Gay) is," Lopez ¯
said. "I thinkit’ s important that people realize we’re not "
sick people... I consider myself pretty normal."
Gay Man in NY SenateI
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Thomas Duane, openly Gay ¯
and HIV-positive, describes himself as "distinctly "
progressive." TheDemocraticNew YorkCity Council- "
man is running for a seat m the state Senate that has ¯
rarely, if ever, been described in those terms. If Duane ¯
is elected - and the heavy Democratic makeup of his "
Manhattan district makes that very likely - he will ¯
become the state Senate’s first openly Gay member and
only the second openly Gay member of the state Legis- ¯
lature.-"I’m hoping to add something that has been "
missing from the debate in Albany," Duane said.
He runs as the recent beating death of Gay University ¯
of Wyoming student Matthew Shepherd focuses national
attentiononhatecrimes legislation, one of Duane’ s "
key issugs. Known for his outspoken support of issues ¯
relating to Gays, women and the disabled in.the rough ¯
and tumble city council, Duanehas said that the absence ¯
of hate crime statutes permits and, ina sense, encour- "
ages violence against homosexuals. This-year, he called
for can-cellation-of the annual GreenwiEii Village Halloween
Parade, clting rising anti-Gay violence in the "
traditionally tolerant New York City enclave. "
Such abate crimes law has been blockedinNew York ¯
by the very Republican-controlled state Senate Duane ¯
hopes to take a seat in. Senate Majority Leader Joseph ¯
Bruno opposes the law, saying it creates a special class "
of victim. "
’‘The state Senate has been absolutely backward,"
Matt Foreman, executive director ofEmpire State Pride ¯
Agenda, New York’s largest Gay advocacy group. ¯
"Someone like Tom is desperately needed there."
It is highly unlikely that Duane he will have any luck "
pushing legislation through the highly-regimented Senate
from the Democratic side of the aisle. Still, support- ¯
ers say his status is likely to hold sway in debates. "To ¯
have someone who lives with HIV talking about HIV- :
related bills will be quite powerful and I think his "
opinion willcarry real weight," said state Sen. Catherine ¯
Abate.
Duane is running for Abate’ s seat after she vacated it "
to nm unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination ¯
for state attorney general. The district winds from the ¯
Upper West Side through Times Square downtown to
Greenwich Village and the Financial District. Voter
registration is 67 percent Democrat and only about 11 "
percent GOP. His opponent, Republican Karol Murov, ¯
has failed to mount mu’ch of a challenge, observers said.
Bruno spokesman John McArdle refused to discuss
Duane’ s candidacy. But in response.to criticisms about "
the chamber’s attention to Gay issues he said "the ..
Senate has responded to concerns of New Yorkers as a
whole." ."
Duane’s election would bring New York even with ¯
Arizona and California, which both have two Gay ¯
members in their state Legislature. Only Oregon and "
Maine have more. ."
AssemblywomanDe_borah Glick, the-New York’s
first openly Gay legislator, points to legislation r~quiring
AIDs testing for newborns and this year’ s mandate :
that people who test positive for HIV notify their "
: partners as si.gns that New York’ s Legislature is ill-
" informed on issues important to Gay groups. Yet
she sounds a cautionary note for Duane, saying to
expect at least some hostility. "I’m sure he will
encounter homophobia. I did and still do," Glick
said.
Gay MayorforWinnipeg
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - A city councilman
once featured in a documentary about Gay foster
fathers has won the mayoral race in Winnipeg,
becoming the first openly Gay mayor of a major
Canadian city. "It was a history-making night,"
said Glen Murray after returns showed him winning
easily over six other candidates. Winnipeg is
Manitoba’s capital and, with 667,000 residents, is
the largest Canadian city between Toronto and
Calgary, Alberta.
Murray, 41, became one of Canada’s betterknown
Gay politicians six years ago when, with his
troubled foster son Michael Curtis, he was featured
in a film documentary called "A Kind of Family."
Murray did not make his sexual orientation a focus
of the campaign, concentrating instead on economic
issues and moderating some of the left-ofcenter
positions he espoused during three terms on
the city council.
His main opponent, grocery-store executive
Philip Kaufman, did not raise the homosexuality
issue explicidy, thoughhe made references early in
the campaign to family values. Late in the campaign,
a local minister organized a prayer vigil and
urged voters to oppose Murray. "This is not a
matter ofhating anyone," said Bruce Martin, pastor
of Calvary Temple Pentecostal Church. "It’s a
matter of biblical interpretation."
Murray’s victory was celebrated by Gays in
Winnipeg. "It’ s apotent symbol that an openly Gay
person should be elected to a high post like this,"
said Chris Vogel, a Gay rights activist. "It contributes
to the growing sense that there’s nothing
wrong with being homosexual."
Murray, seeking to portray himself as mainstream,
said he would follow the practice of previous
Winnipeg mayors and refuse .to officially proclaim
a Gay Pride week in the city. In fact, he said
he _will try to avoid issuing such proclamations on
behalf of any group or cause. "We’re a city of such
diversity, of so many cultures," he said. "We’re a
city of great tolerance, ofhope and Ijust think all of
those values were reaffirmed tonight." There are
only a couple of dozen openly Gay politicians in
Canada, including two members of the federal
Parliament.
Bishop in Bind
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A bishop who performed
two same-sex ceremonies when he was a
Columbus pastor said it was an agonizing decision
for him to file a complaint against a minister for
performing a Gay ceremony. Bishop Joseph
Sprague, head of the Chicago United Methodist
Church, said he performed services for two men
and two women.
Sprague charged Rev. Gregory Dell, pastor of
Broadway United Methodist Church in Chicago,
with "failure to uphold the order and discipline of
the United Methodist Church." Sprague said he
:’ chose to write the complaint to avoid inflammatory
language he expected others might use.
Dell will be tried before a 13-person jury of his
peers. Dell said he didn’ t talk with Sprague before
conducting the recent service, but knew the bishop
would be required to file charges.
Sprague said before he performed the Gay ceremonies
he first discussed it with Bishop Judith
Craig of the West Ohio Conference, which has
jurisdiction over Columbus. "I told him he could
not use the marriage ceremony in that setting... I
toldhim that in terms of any ceremony he designed,
I wouldleave it to his pastoral discretion to do what
was necessary to providepastoral care," Craig said.
Sprague has refused to remove Dell from his
duties pending the trial, and said he isn’ t sure what
he will do if the jury votes to oust Dell.
Jocelyn Elders:
No Regrets
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Jocelyn Elders,
who lost her job as U.S. surgeon
general four years ago, says she does not
regret taking such controversial stands as
advocating se~x education for kindergartners
and conitoms in teen-agers’ pockets.
"You look back on things like that more
than once, and I have tried to think how I
would have said things differently or
should I have said those things, and I have
to say I have no regrets," she said at an
annual state conference on sexually transfnitted
diseases and HIV, the AIDS virus.
Even the invitation for her to speak
stirred controversy. The state Department
of Health and Environmental Control last
month withdrew its sponsorship and
$40,000 in funding, saying Elders’ presence
would distract from the issues. That
left AIDS service organizations as the
primary sponsors, with funding frompharmaceutical
companies.
Eiders, who drew bursts of applause
and cheers from the audience of nearly
650, said she advocates explaining sex to
youngsters so they can protect themselves
from abuse. "We want tO teach our children
early that there are places that people
should not touch," she said in an interview.
What about leaving sex education to
parents? "We don’t let the parents teach
physics," Eiders said. "Your health is far
more important than physics." And if site
had a teen-age daughter? "I would never
want my teen-ager to go out on a date
without a condom in her purse," Elders
said, saying vows ofabstinence"are easier
to break than a latex condom.’"
Elders, the first black woman to be
surgeon general, held the job 15 months
until she was forced to resign in December
;t-994: ~Her downfall came. when she
said Gays and Lesbians must help save
children from the un-Christian religious
right.
Needle Exchange
Program Prevails
WASHINGTON (AP) -Even before a
congressonal bahon funds for needleexchange
programs became law, anAIDS
clinic in the nation’ s capital had set up a
private group to supply drug addicts with
clean needles. "This law is intrusive,"
said Jim Graham, executive director of
the Whitman-Walker Clinic. "It not only
tells D.C. how we can spend ourownlocal
tax dollars, but it tells charities like
Whitman-Walker how we can spend pri:
rate funds."
Congress, as part of the $520 billion
spendingpackage signedintolaw Wednesday,
banned use of local and federal funding
for any needle-exchange program in
the District of Columbia. That was on top
of a permanent ban on federal funding of
needle exchanges anywhere in the country.
The Whitman-Walker Clinic, one of
the nation’ s largest, has created a private,
nonprofit group to run theprogram, transferring
equipment, supplies and $50,000
in private funds to the new operation. The
Washington-based Drug Policy Fotmdation
gave the new group, Prevention
Works, an additional $25,000. "Sounds
like they’ ve. got some pretty sharp lawyers,"
said Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan.,
who sponsored the ban.
The clinic gets $7 million a year in
federal and local government dollars and
has operated a clean-needle exchange for
three years. It got $210,000 from the dis- -
trict last year for the effort and raised
$50,000 from private donors. Last month,
its van disU-ibuted 17,000 needles. Prevention
Works should have. enough resources
to keep the needle-exchange van
rnnning for four or fivemoremonths, said
Graham, who is running for City Council.
Needle exchanges are operatingin about
100 U.S. cities. Supporters say such programs
help prevent the spread ofAIDS by
allowing addicts to exchange contamimated
needles for dean ones. Opponents
contend the programs encourage drug
abuse.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, the distriCt’ s
delegate to Congress, called the provision
"callous... (and) ignorant, because the
entire scientific establishmenthas reached
the same conclusion: Needle exchange
markedly reduces AIDS infection and
deaths without spreading drug abuse." Its
racial implications are inescapable, she
said, because AIDS is hitting black and
Hispanic populations the hardest. Last
year, she said, the District’s AIDS rate
was nine times the national average.
Tiahrt and Sen. Jolm Ashcroft, R-Mo.,
the Senate sponsor of the ban, cite Canadian
studies they say demonstrate that
. clean needle programs have failed to reduce
the spread of HIV. "’Wherever the
needle exchange programs took place,
theybecame hubs for drug activity," Tiahrt
said. Addicts~ need "help ~o get off drugs,
not help to get new needles." A possible
White House contender, Ashcrofl likens
needle exchange programs to the idea
"that providing bulletproof vests to bark
robbers would make it safer for them to
rob banks."
The authors of the Canadian studies
have said congressional leaders misinterpreted
their report. Because the programs
served inner-tory neighborhoods, they
served users.already at the.greatest risk of
infection, they said, and the programs did
not provide enough syringes to be effecfive.
Investors Suing
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ofterminallyill patients, saying medi-
¯ cal advances are keeping AIDS patients
¯ alive longer. ¯
¯ The two companies targeted in the lawsuits
broker what arb known as viatical
¯ settlements. A terminally ill person, usu-
¯ ally an AIDS patient, sells his life insur-
¯ ance policy for less than the death benefit
to get the cash. The person who buys the
¯ policy becomes the policy’s owner and
¯ beneficiary and collects the full benefit ¯
when the patient dies.
¯ The deals were invented in the 1980s as
¯ thenumberofAIDS cases exploded. They
¯ have been controversial since their incep- ¯
lion because, in .crass terms, they are an
: investment in someone else’ s death. But
: the deals are touted as making the best of
¯ a bad situation. They often help AIDS ¯
patients pay for treatment and live out
¯ their final days in relative comfort.
¯ However, the lawsuits filed recently in ¯
Palm Beach County Circuit Court con-
" tends the system is falling apart. Medical
¯ progress means AIDS patients whomight
_- have expected to live only for another
¯ year are living for three, four or five years.
¯ Thelonger a patient lives, the lower the
¯ return. If an investor buys a $110,.000
: policy for $100,000, and the patient dies
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If the patient lives two years, the annual
return falls to 5%, in uncompounded interest.
At three years, it’ s 3.3%.
So for the investor, the deals are no
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Boca Raton attorney who is representing
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HIV & Elder, Sex
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Sue Saunders is 65
and has AIDS. As far as she’ s concerned,
the more people who know it the better.
Saunders pioneered aproject in herhometown
of Fort Lauderdale to educate Flori~
ans over age 50 about therisk ofde¯eloplng
acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Her first challenge was getting the
attention of an age group largely ignored
when it comes to AIDS education.
"Yes, there is sex after 50. After 60.
After 70. People think after 50 we die
from the neck down," Ms. Saunders said.
"People look at you like you’re crazy.
What?You mean, Grandma and Grandpa
are still having sex?"
Ten% of all AIDS cases in the country
are people over age 50, according to the
Florida Department of Elder Affairs. In
Florida, the figure is higher - ranging
between 12% and 14%. One in eight Floridians
living with AIDS is 50 or older,
state health officials said. Yetwhengroups
are addressed that are considered.at risk of
contracting the virus that causes AIDs,
older Americans are often left out.
Eighteen months ago, Ms. Saunders
began inviting herself to small South
Florida groups to discuss prevention, promote
education and warn seniors to abstain
from sex or use condoms. "You’ re
telling people 50 to 90 years old: ’You are
at risk for a fatal disease. Youjust went to
bed with aguy and y,oudon’ tknow where’ s
he’ s been.’"
Ms. Saunders was healthy and active.
She was divorced, in love and in a longlime
relationship. HerBahamianboyfriend
was the spark of her life. They spent lazy
days on the water, fishing. Life was good.
That was in 1990: Suddenly, her boyfriend
was diagnosed HIV positive. Nine
months later, he was dead. She feared the
same thing would happen to her and began
saying goodbye to her four grown
children.
A son took herto an HIV-infected doctor
in Laguna Beach, Calif. That visit
helped change her life. She dropped the
self-pity and went to the Broward County
Health Department but found little informarion.
After six months doing research,
she went to Bentley Lipscomb, elder affairs
secretary, who found $170,000 to
fund SHIP, the Senior. HIV Intervention
Project.
Ms. Saunders worked long and hard
getting into the crowded retirement condominiums
along Florida’ s Gold Coast to
give her message. In these building complexes,
women outnumber men seven-toone,
she said. "The women are starved for
affection. The men are having a ball. They"
can have all the women they want. "Ev~
erybody says ’it can’t happen to me. I’m
uot aprostitute. I don’ t fool around,’" she
said. "You’ie never too old. And all it
takes xs one partner - if he or she is
infected.’"
Older people are rarely targeted for
prevention. The health care system, including
doctors, often is reluctant or uneasy
about discussing AIDS and sex with
them, said Dave Bruns, elder affairs
spokesman. "Not only is it an insult, it’ s
rampant ageism," Bruns said. "Just who
do they think is buying all this Viagra?"
There are 67,282 cases of AIDS cases
statewide and 8,400 of those infected are
age 50 or older, according to the Florida
Department of Health.
When Ms. Saunders left the SHIP program
recently, the demand for lectures
was enormous. "Everybody wanted us to
come talk to them," she said. They were
scheduling 20to30 presentations amonth.
The project was so successful, a second
program was launched in the Tampa Bay
area under Edith Ellerson in June. She
encountered similar apprehension as she
started talking at senior centers, assistedliving
residences, senior nutritional programs.
Gradually, the audiences became more
receptive and willing to listen. She brings
condoms, urges listeners to be tested and
find out firstabout themselves, then question
their partners. "You’ re not only sleeping
with your partner, but with whomever
your partner slept with for the past five
years, and whoever they slept with - like
a pyramid or domino effect," she said.
Hemophiliacs to
Get Compensation
WASHINGTON (AP) - Last-minute lobbying
led to deceptively easy approval of
a plan to allow the government to compensate
hemophiliacs infected with HIV
during the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
The bill, passed by the Senate on a
voice vote, authorizes payments of
$100,000 apiece to compensate hemophiliacs
or their survivors for the
government’s failure to aggressively
screen tainted blood products.
The measure, which President Clinton
is expected to sign, does not put the checks
in the mail, though, because it does not
allocate any money. However, with the
authorization in hand, the bill’s backers
can lobby Congress to appropriate the
estimated $750 million it would cost.
The bill, named after Ricky Ray, a 15-
year-old hemophiliac from Florida who
died from AIDS in 1992, became controversial
late in the legislativeprocess, when
others who contracted the .disease from
tainted bloodtransfusions argued thatthey
deserved to be included.
Sen. James Jeffords, R-Vt., took up the
cause of the transfusion victims, and at
one point blocked consideration of the
Ricky Ray bill in an effort to force action
on a more encompassing authorization.
Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, said he
spent the weekend on the phone pressing
Senate leaders to move the bill to the floor
and dealing with the last-minute objections
of other senators.
Jeffords’ spokesmanJoe Karpinski said
he never planned to hold up the legislation
altogether, and dropped his objections to
the House bill after it became clear thathe
could not develop consensus to include
the.transfusion victims, potentially dou-
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b.ling the cost. Hemophiliac,~ m~d tra:>/;usxon
recipients were infected wifl~.~~,--,.,.,~.,..~.
¯
donated by people who carried th6 AIDS
¯ virus.
The Institute of Medicine, a scientific
¯ organizationthatadvises the government,
¯
later concluded that government caution.
¯ fear of criticism and inadequate leadership
delayed effective screening of donors
and proper blood testing.
¯
Hemophiliacs already have won
: $100,000 each from the blood industry
¯ through the settlement of a class action
lawsuit. Transfusion court victories have
¯
been more sporadic.
¯ Karpinski said Jeffords will try again
¯ next year toinclude transfusion victims, a ¯
move DeWine backs. "We should work to
¯ see that justice is done for this group of
¯ victims as well," said DeWine. "Wemade
¯ the decision that it was better to deal with
part of the problem than none of the prob-
" lem." "I think the precedent of this bill
¯ willmakeit easier to address the concerns ¯
ofthosewhohaveAIDS because oftrans-
¯ fusions."
School NamedAfter
Boy with AIDS
WESTMINSTER,Colo. (AP)-Ten years
¯¯ ago, a little boy from Broomfield began
first grade while 30 children stayed home
¯
in protest. Threatening statements and
¯ letters from parents demanded a separate
: bathroom and eating area for Ryan
¯ Sheridan, who was infected with HIV. He
¯ died ofcomplications fromAIDS in 1993.
Public perception of the disease has
¯ changed since 1988, but misunderstand-
, ings still exist. Reminding students, teach-
¯ - ers and admimstrators ol~the hard lessons
¯ learned about Ryan is a school named
¯ after him: Ryan Elementary School in
¯
Westminster. His picture, a plaque and a
¯ red ribbon hangin thelobby of the school.
"It’s tough to remember. People were
¯ backed in a corner and forced to deal with
¯
something they didn’ t want to deal with,"
¯ said Tim Sheridan, recalling the events
¯ leading up to his son’s first day in first ¯
grade. When the Shefidans, now divorced
¯
and bothlivingin ~Ihornton, told adminis-
: trators Ryan was infected, the Jefferson
¯ County school boarddecided to inform all
parents by letter that a student with HIV
¯
would attendJuchem Elementary School.
¯. Juchem closed in 1994 after being replaced
by a new school named Ryan Elementary.
¯ The letter caused a firestorm of controversy
that forced the school board to have
¯ a number of secret meetings with Ryan’ s
¯
teacher and publicmeetings to discuss the
¯
issue. Throughout, Ryanremained anony-
¯ mous to everyone but his teacher, the
principal and the school board.
¯
Ryan contracted HIV when he was 2
¯ years old from a blood transfusion during
¯ 9Pen-heart surgery. Teachers and admin-
¯ lstrators say Ryan taught everyone at the
¯
school difficult lessons about tolerance
; and courage, but AIDS educators say the
public still has a long way to go in understanding
the disease. "in my opinion, we
¯ haven’t gone all that far in 10 years. Our
¯ homophobia is what gets in the way of
¯ hearing about HIV," said Katy Fleming,
education director at the Boulder County
; AIDS Project. "Studies have shown that
¯ manytimes peoples’ attitudes towardchildren
(with AIDS) have been negative
¯
because of issues of sexual orientation "
¯ Although HIV and AIDS education is
¯ better today, moral issues still need to be
¯ separated from medical issues, Fleming
¯ said.
by James Christjohn : they would get the in-jokes peppered
ff there is a movie that I would heartily ¯ throughout the film.
recommend to all folks this Halloween,,it ; And speaking of magic, The Divine
is Practical Magic. It has something for ¯ Miss M’ s new release, "Bathhouse Betty"
everyone: laughter, tears, sus- is a must-have for any gifting
pense, horror, magic, and
Stevie Nicks (betcha were
wondering how I’d work her
in, huh?). A comedy about a
family of hereditary witches -
that actually gets the gist of
Wicca correct for a change,
even if adding a few "eyes of
newt and a liberal dose of
frogs" - and romance, the favorite
line will be the one
where one of the townsfolk
says of one of the witches
"Goodnews - she’ s come out!"
And, tomy delight, Stevie~ s
reworked "Crystal" is a major
theme in the film in the score
as well as sung. The advice
given in the film to those considering
or afraid of relationships
is well worth the price of
admission. Stockard Channing
and Diane Weist are absolute magic as the
Annties who pass on the family traditions
with liberal doses of love and laughter.
One of the lovely things about the film
is .that it deals with being perceived as
different, inhuman, "other" in the ’~mainstream"
world, and being a magical film,
how the wOmen of this family transcend
that difficulty. It very much has a Gay
sensibility to it and thus would be enjoyed
by those in our community especially, for
"I’m Beautiful,
Dammlt"
[Bette Midler’s
new recording]
is a standout
track that
should he a hit
in the dance
clubs, being an
anthem to
being-different
and eelebratln~
that dlfferenee
in .spite of the
flak it brin~s.
this season. It is Bette at her
best, full of everything from
tearful ballads ("One True
Friend") to bawdy blues (my
personal favorite, and new
theme song, "One Monkey
Don’t Stop No Show"), to
comedic with a message (another
theme song, a hiphoppin’
’Tm Beautiful,
Dammit!").
It marks a return to the
eclecticism that was one of
Bette’ s most delightful qualities,
whereyoumightdiscover
songs you’ d never find otherwiseifyouhadn’
t been liste~ning
to her albums. ’Tm Beautiful,
Dammit" is a standout
track that shouldbe a hit in the
dance clubs, being an anthem
to being differentand celebrat-
¯ ing that difference in spite of the flak it
¯ brings.
¯ Know someone that Loves Bette
¯ Midler? Perfect gift. Know someone that
has never heard of Bette? Perfect intro-
¯¯ duction.
James Christjohn, actor, writer, poet
¯ and Mac-guru extraordinaire provides
¯ TFN with entertainment news, commen-
~ tary and can be counted on for regular
¯ Stevie Nicks updates.
Gal-A-Vanting, Tulsa’ s new
tivities network specializing
in Ms-adventures for women,
kicked off its program with a
WomenIn the Arts nightat the
Pride Center on October 23.
While attendance was somewhat
thin, with approximately
20 women in the audience,
Gal-A-Vanting founders Joan
and Mary were still quite
happy with the event.
"Wedidn’ t takeinto account
Oktoberfest," Mary explains,
"And we are still developing
our mailing list and contacts.
The artists were really outstanding,
each with a style and
media that was quite unique~
We’re hoping to do a week
long show in the spring so that
the art exhibits can be stationary
and serve as an anchor for
performing arts such as readings,
music and so forth. And
this will give people a better
chance to see the works of
these fine women artists, and
support them by purchasing
their worl~ You don’ t have to
go to Eureka Springs or to Ptown
to find exceptional artwork
for your home."
social ac-
The
long-awalted
dance will be
held at the
Pride Center
on Saturday
November 14
from eight
p.m. tll ??? and
will be D.J.’d
by
Sue Knause,
who promises
to play a wide
array of tunes
for the
danelng
pleasure of
Tulsa’s
" play a wide array of tunes for the dancing
pleasure of Tulsa’s women.
With the smaller lounges in
the Pride center, opportunities
for a quiet conversation are
also available. Light refreshments
will be available and
the entry fee is $3 for singles
and $5 for couples.
"We’ ve had a lot of interest
in this dance, because somany
women like to dance but for
whatever reason don’ t care to
be arbund smoking or drinking.
It will also provide a nice
venue for women to meet new
friends and make new contacts."
says Mary.
The December Gal-AVanting
event will be a movie
night on December 16 at the
Pride Center, beginning at6:30
p.m. A feature film and a
couple of documentaries will
be shown.
We’re getting ready to prepare
our schedule of events
for the first of the year and
we’ d really like some ideas
from the women in the Tulsa
area of what they’d like to
do," explains Mary. "Please
feel free to call me with your
The long-awaited dance will be held at : wish list of activities at 743-6740. And if
the pride center on Saturday November . you’re not on our mailing/call list, please
14 from eight p.m. til ??? and will be : let us know, This information is strictly
D.J.’ d by Sue Knause, who promises to ¯ confidential and will not be shared."
Humperdinck’s
nse
rete
Parade of Lights.
Come celebrate the spirit of the holiday season
at the PSO Christmas Parade of Lights.
Saturday, December 12. Downtown Tulsa at 6 p.m.
View parade floats up close, Friday, December 11,
at the HolidayFest.(Brady Arts DistriCt) from 6-9 p.m.
Public Service Company of Oklahoma
A Central and South West Company
World AIDS Day 1998
Candlelight March & Memorial Service
sponsored by
Interfaith AIDS Ministries
Tuesday, December 1st
6:30, Gather at
Centenary United Methodist Church Parking Lot
631 North Denver
7:00", March Begins to Saint Jerome
7:30*, Memorial Service at the
Parish Church of Saint Jerome. 205 West King
Reception following seine.ice. *time approximate
Bring banners & bells~ candles & matches provided
st. Jerome will be accessible to the
disabled at the east entrance.
Into: 438-2437 or 800-284-2437
THE NOON NEWS NEVER
LOOKED SO TASTY.
The big news is Warren Duck Club’s new lunch menu. And the Horseradish Orange
Crusted Halibut with Apricot Basil Sauce is just one of the tastiest stories. From familiar
favorites, to late-breaking dishes hot from Chef Dan Broyles’ creative kitchen,
this is news to truly savor. Call 495-1000 for the whole story and for reservations.
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In the Doubletree Hotel At Warren Place
6110 S. Yale / Tulsa OK / 918-495-1000
~ SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - 1 lam, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - 1 lam, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service - 1 lam, Childrens Ministry also, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc.
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa
Service, 10:45am. 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America)
Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088
University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance
6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
Council Oak Men’s Chorale, rehearsals at 5pm, Info: 743-4297
~" MONDAYS
nIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard)
HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians.& Gays
2nd Monicach too. 6:30pro, Fellovcship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pro, call Shawn 491-2036.
Women/Children & AIDS Committee, call for meeting date, noon, 585-5551
~ TUESDAYS
AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 11 i 10, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
H!V+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium l:30pm
3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), lnf6: Wanda @ 834-4194
Multicultural AIDS Coalition, 11/3, 12:30pm, Urban League, 240 East Apache
Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 743-4297
PrimeTimers, mens group, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE)
Tuesdays, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297
!~ WEDNESDAYS
Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
¯House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210e So. Norwood
Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group, more information, call 582-7225
TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632.
Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~ THURSDAYS
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support/social group for 18-24’ s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194
I~" FRIDAYS
SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, 1st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th
~" SATURDAYS
Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pro, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2rid ft.
~OTHER GROUPS
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222
Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978
OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157,
Short rides, 6:30pro, Long rides, 7am: Meet at Z~igler Park,.3903 West 4th. Pride
Rides from the Pride Center, 3749 S. Peorial Write for dates.
Ifyour organization is not listed~ please let us know. Call 583-1248 orfax 583-4615.
Barry Hensley
~sa City-CountyLibrary
~lany Gay and Lesbian families have
rallies finding materials for children
h depict their family sire-
... In the past few years,
., has been a slow change
te publishing world and
re beginning to see a few
~ for children, early school
and .under, which depict
and Lesbian families.
ae trailblazer ~as Heather
Two Mommies, by Leslea
man, which stimulated
di "~
8t~’~
the
in
we
tifl
ag~
Ne
dis~ usslons across the country
and ’opened a new line of attad
~.on theGay community by
the Religious Right. A simple,
short book, it depicts a young
girl and her family: two pets
and two mommies. Heather
suddenly realizes that she
doesn’t have a daddy and becomes
upset. She is gently
shown other children who, for
a variety ofreasons, don’thave
fathers. Heather realizes that
there are many different family
situations and that she is
lucky to have two mothers.,
A companion book "i§
Daddy’s Roomate,by Michael
Wi!lhoite, depicting a boy
Willholte has a
third,
hilarious book,
Uncle What-ls-h
Is Comln~
To V;s;t.
It concerns a
youn~ brother
and sister who
.have just learned
that their Gay
uncle, whom they
have never met,
is eomln~ to visit.
They ask older
kids what it
means to be
Gay and are
horrified as the
stereotypes of
leather queens
and Carmen
Miranda look~alikes
spew forth.
Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit. It
¯ concerns a young brother and sister who
¯ have just learned that their Gay uncle,
¯ whom they have never met, ts coming to
visit. They ask older kids what
it means to be Gay and are
horrified as the stereotypes of
leather queens and Carmen
Miranda look-a-likes spew
forth. Their fears are shattered
when Uncle Brett shows up
and tunas out to be a normal,
everyday kind of guy.
Other appropriate books for
young children include The
Duke Who Outlawed Jelly
Beans, a satire on today’s polirical
scene. In it, the Duke
issues a proclamation: "I had
exactly one mother and one
father, and I turned out so well,
I thinkall children shouldhave
exactly one mother and one
father. Any that don’t- why,
we’ll throw ’em in the dungeon."
Fortunately, the Duke
learns the error of his ways.
For slightly older children,
ages 6-12, tryHow Would You
Feel If Your Dad Was Gay?
by A~n Heron and Meredith
Maran. Written by two Lesbian
mothers with help from
their sons,it depicts three chilwho’s
divorced father is in a long term,
canng Gaymlationship. AnotherWillhoite
rifle, not owned by the public library, is
Daddy’s Wedding, which continues the
saga of Daddy’s Roomate. Ask your librarian
to interlibrary loan Daddy’s Wedding
for you from another library system.
Willhoite .has a third, hilarious book,
"She has created an arch of hope that
future Gay and Lesbian candidates will be--
able to walk through." Baldwinis also the
firstwomanever elected to Congress from
Wisconsin.
Another openly Lesbian Democrat,
former Army colonel Grethe
Cammeremeyer, was defeated by incumbent
Republican Rep. Jack Metcalf in
Washington state. A third, Democrat
Chrisline Kehoe, was trailing in her bid to
upset California Republican Rep. Brian
Bilbray.
Gay Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe of
Arizona, bidding for an eighth term, held
a solid l(ad with more than three-quarters
of the votes counted in his race against
Democrat Tom Volgy.
In an Oklahoma rematch, Republican
Rep. Frank Lucas easily won. a fourth
term against Democrat Patti Barby, an
openly Gay OklahomaCity businessman.
Another openly Gay member of Congress,
Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of
Massachusetts, was unopposed for a 10th
term. Frank is an outspoken member of
the House Judiciary Committee, which
will consider impeachment charges
against President Bill Clinton.
In most cases, the Gay candidates and
their opponents kept sexual orientation
out of the campaigns. But 6ational Gay
civil rights organizations poured money
into the races, notably $1 million spent t~y
the Human Rights Camp~gn.
: drenwithGayparents.Ithasmulticultural
¯ characters andcompassionately shows the
¯ reality of different types of families.
¯¯ Don’t forget to check your local library
for information regarding Gay and Les-
¯ bianfamilies. Also youmay call the Read-
. ers Services department of the Central
¯ Library at 596-7966.
"People are taking a stand for traditional
mamage." Not surprisingly, Joseph
Mdillo, who with his partner and two
Lesbian couples sued the state when they
were denied marriage licenses in 1990,
felt differently. "It’ s putting into our state
constitutaon a discriminatory clause that
will distinguish us from other people," he
said.
Alaska’s constxtutional amendment
defines marriage as the union of one man
and one woman. The Legislature put the
question on the ballot after a Superior
Courtjudge ruled infavor oftwo Gay men
who challenged the state ban on same-sex
marriage. The judge said choosing a life
partner was a fundamental right and the
state had to prove a compelling reason to
regulate it.
In Fort Collins, a civil rights proposed
had become especially emotional since
the beating death of Matthew Shepard, a
Gay student from the University of Wyoming
who died in a Fort Collins hospital.
Ordinance 22 would have prohibited discrimination
in housing, employment and
public accommodations on the basis of
sexual orientation.
"National Gay civil rights advocacy
groups built this up as an important watershed
and I think it was," said Fort Collins
lawyer Jon-Mark Patterson, an opponent
of the ordinance. "I ~hink tonightitshowed
most people here don’t want the government
to take a side in a controversial
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by Mary Schepers, DIYD
Your.DIYD is fired and cranky, so let’s
snap to xt, get this fence up and get it over
with. After all, you’ve been waiting three
months to finish this project and it is
getting sooo tiresome. You’ve bought all
of your materials, put
up your posts and assembled
all your tools.
Your beverages have
been cooling and
you’ve got a pile of
pickets stacked in the
yard, and the neighbors,
the Nosey Parkers, are
still muchtoo interested
in your private life. So
put on that toolbelt
you’ve been breaking
in, and let’s work it.
The fence stringers
are the backbone of
your fence. If they are
on the inside of the
fence, you’ll want to
channel" your anal retentive
side and take
Your DIYD is
tired and cranky,
so let’s snap to it, get
this fence ~p and get
it over with.
After all, you’ve been
waitin~ three months
to finish this project
and it is getting sooo
tiresome... So put
on that toolbelt
y.ou’ve been breaking
m, and let’s work it!
particular pains to get everything level
and true. If your neighbors are getting that
side of the fence, one can be somewhat
more cavalier, though not messy, about
stringer placement.
For the perfect stringer array, you will
need enough string to stretch from one
end of the fence to the other, a spare body
for help, and a level. A chalk line won’t
hurt, either. There are small levels that
attach to your string and they are not
expensive; but if you’re tired of waiting,
we’ll make do with a regular level. Measurefrom
the groundup abouteightinches
and make a mark on the fence post on
either end. This will be where the bottom
edge of your bottom stringer will go.
Don’t worry, the tops (and the middies)
will get their chance momentarily. You
can no either stretch and attach a string
line from end to end, using a level to
ensure eveness, and mark the other posts,
or you can use a chalk line and snap the
mark across the posts. This saves time, if
you know how to use one. Attach your
bottom stringers withNo-Co-Rode screws.
drilling a pilot hole slightly smaller than
the diameter of the screw.
You will need help with this if you are
going for the perfect look. ff not, then you
can attach a 1x4 so that the top is even with
your bottom line. Do this on both posts
and use them to support your board while
you drive the two screws into each end of
the stringers. You can remove and reuse
the lx4’s as you go down the fence. The
stringers will meet in the middie of each
post, so if you’re over the length a bit,
measure carefully (twice!) and remove
whatever is necessary; if it isn’t long
enough, have you got trouble! The only
solution-is to b.uy a board two feet longer
and saw off the extra, and darling, that is
going to hurt.
Once your swingers are all attached,
you are ready to start putting up your
pickets, ff you are using Cedar pickets, the
wood is soft enough that drilling pilot
holes are not necessary, but they will be
for any other type of wood; otherwise, it
will split your pickets, and the possibility
of screw head cam-out is very much enhanced.
News Flash: your pickets will not
be even, square, or straight. Sorry, but this
would actually be desirablein wood. Keep
that level handy and use it when setting
each picket unless you want your fence to
develop a curious slant in a hurry.
Set up your first picket so that it is about
1/4 to 1/2" off the ground; put the square
in the middie of one side and move it
gently until the bubble is between the two
middie lines. Attach picket with the first
screw, in the middie.
This frees up your
hands,for attaching the
top and bottom screws.
Put two screws into the
picket at the top and
bottom stringer, about
3/4" from each outer
edge. Do the same for
the remaining pickets,
leveling each as best
you can.
As you approach the
end of your fence, you
will, unless most fortunate,
discover that the
last picket will not fit
perfectly, being either
too wide or too narrow.
Start paying attention
to this about a half
dozen pickets from the end. If you will not
be off by much, you can adjust the spacing
between the last few pickets so they come
out fine, otherwise, you’ll have to find a
way to np cnt an end picket, or to get
sneaky. You know what the DIYD prefers:
sneaky ways are deliciously evil and
always appeal, especially if they equate
with less work. On the DIYD’s last fence
project ( which is also the current fence
project...), a lx4" picket was used in the
last space, and the other pickets were
spaced ever so slightly wider apart without
being the least bit obvious. You’ll
have to play around with it, but if vou
haven’ t got access to a table saw to rip’cut
a picket, it is well worth it, and safer as
well. Rip cuts have a nasty reputation.
Now youare asking yourself what there
was about this project that took so long,
and the answer is the same as so many
others - prep work makes the difference
in any home project. It is well worth the
investment of your ume to measure, level
mad true up any part of your fence before
it becomes regrettably permanent. And it
looks so much more beautiful - mad darlings,
you are worth it!
There. Your DIYD is less cranky now
that you’ve built your privacy fence so
well. Rest up. We’ll have more fun next
month when we freShen up those fired old
kitchen cabinets with a bit of sanding,
some paint, and some more stylish pulls.
Matthew Shepard’s death was horrible
and senseless; it would be more so if
it was in vain."
Kelly Kirby, longtime civil rights activist
and Gay community leader spoke of
his family’s direct experiences with hate
crimes, including an assaultonhis spouse,
Ric, which resulted in over 100 stitches
being required. Kirby also claimed that
each year from 1991 to 1996, a Gay man
was murdered in Tulsa.
In New York City, participants of the
recent Fifth Avenue rally to remember
Shepard alleged that police beat them
with batons and ran into them with mopeds
and that police horses kicked them
because they had no permit for the event.
Police were dispatched to themarch when
about 4,000 people flocked to the event.
see Hate, p. 14
by Esther Rothblum
At a time when sexual orientation and
gender are being viewed as more continuous
categories, there is renewed interest
in the fluidity of who is a "woman" and
whois a"Lesbian." InmanyNativeAmerican
cultures, gender and sexuality have
not been as fixed as in western
cultures.
Recently, a number of
books have appeared on
"two-spirit¯ people," a term
coinedby Native Americans
for individuals in their cultttres
who are Gay or Lesbian,
or who are transgendered,
or who have multiple
gender identities. The term
"two-spirit" is an attempt by
Native American commttnities
to re-define their past
from the way in which it has
been depicted by white male
anthropologists,and also to
distinguishNativeAmerican
concepts ofgenderandsexuality
from those of the.western
Gay and Lesbian communities.
I recendy spoke with Sue-
Ellen Jacobs, one of the coeditors
of the book, Two-
SpiritPeople: NativeAmerican
GendertIdentity, Sexuality
and Spirituality. She
-said: ’¢Fhere are a number of instances
where there are Native women, living on
reservations, who don’t stand out, who.
don’t come forward. The Gay white men
who are out there studying Native American
men don’t see the women because
these.researchers don’ t recognize, these
Women as Who they are with~n their cul~
ture. Not many Native women use the
words ’Lesbian’ or ’dyke’ to describe
themselves. The researchers didn’t realize
that there was a movement going on
within the Native American communities,
the two-spirit movement."
Sue-Ellen Jacobs described instances
of"male-bodiedwomen"or "female-bodied
men" who took on the roles and became
known as being of the "other" genderin
NativeAmericancultures. AsJacobs
and the other editors state in the introduction
to their book: "Using the word ’two-
Spirit’ emphasizes the spiritual aspect of
one’ s life and downplays the homosexual
persona."
After experiencing several years of "discriminatory
treatment," and many efforts
to work out the differences with TCCLS,
Neal contacted Tulsa County Commissioner
John Selph to discuss what Neal
called"theseblatant violations ofthe First
Amendment" and his intention to file a
lawsuit to resolve the matter.
While Neal neverreceived any response
fromhis letter to Selph, shordy afterward,
TCCLS banned all free publications from
its lobbies- withthe exceptionofaLatino
publication, Imagen in the 3rd Street Library
which serves an increasingly Spanish-
spealdng neighborhood.
According to Neal; lmagen blatenfly
violated the 50% local content nile but
said he was told that TCCLS director,
Linda Saferite, approved that violation
because having the publication helped to
traditions
acknowledge that
the he-shes
and she-hes
. . . were amon~
the ~reatest
eontrlhutors to the
well-heln, and
advancement of
their eommunltles.
They were
(and we are)
the Sreatest probers
into the ways of the
future, and they
qulekly assimilated
the lessons of
ehan~in~ times
.... and people..."
." In the chapter "I am a Lakota womyn,"
¯ Beverly Little Thunder writes: "Most
¯
tribes that I have had the honor of know-
" ing have specificnames formenwholove
¯ men and women who love women... I
¯" can understand that theremay be a need
¯ by some to findapan-Native term that can
be used as a marker for the
general population of Native
Lesbians and Gays. We
are all so different in somany
ways, however. Culturally
and physically, we are all
different. Each tribe has its
own name, its own structure.
How canwe all even be
called ’Natives’?... The
words I would like to see
written about me and read
fifty years from now should
be words that reflect who I
am as an individual.’"
Came House, of Navajo!
Oneida descent, writes: "Our
oral traditions acknowledge
that the he-shes and she-hes
(those who hold in balance
the male and female, female
and male aspects of themselves
and theuniverse) were
among the greatest contributors
to the well-being and
advancement of their communities.
They were (andwe
are) the greatest probers into
¯ the ways of the future, and they quickly
¯ assimilated the lessons of changing times
and people. Recent studies into the lives
¯ of she-hes and she-hes have recovered
¯ models or near models of this rich, inven-
¯ tive, reverential, and highly productive
¯ approach t.o k.eg,ping balance within a s~-
¯ ciet~ viewed as an extension of nature."
Further reading, see: Sue-Ellen Jacobs,
¯
Wesley Thomas & Sabine l_xtng (’97).
¯ Two-SpiritPeople: NativeAmerican Gen-
: der Identity, Sexuality and Spirituality.
¯ Urbana, IL: Univ. of Blinois Press. Will
: Roscoe (’98). Changing Ones: Third and
¯ FourthGendersinNativeNorthArnerica.
¯- NY: St. Martin’s Press. Lester Brown
" (’98). Two-Spirit People. NY: Haworth
: Press.
: Esther Rothblum teaches Psychology
¯ at the Univ. of Vermont and edits the
: Journal of Lesbian Studies. She can be
¯ reached at John Dewey. Hall,Univ. of
: Vermont," Burlington, VT, email:-
¯ esther.rothblum@uvm.edu.
¯" serve a special needs population. Neal
¯ said his arguments about the Lesbian and
: Gay communities’ special needs were ig-
¯ nored.
¯
Neal adds, "I have no illusion that
¯ TCCLS made this change to accomodate
¯ Tulsa Family News. It’ s likely that given"
¯
the’society’ make-upoftheTCCLSboard,
¯ that the rifles were changed to keep Tulsa ¯
People happy rather than to be fair -
¯
however, I’m pleased with the result. I
: guess it means if you wait long enough
¯ andarepersistentenough, youwillacheive ¯
fairness."
¯ PFLAG - Parents, Family &
." Friends of Lesbians & Gays
¯ Tulsa Area Chapter
: POB 52800, Tulsa 74152
¯ 749-4901
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A Lesbian friend recently complained ¯ .ties. Women may not touch men’s bows
about the organizational shortcomings of " or arrows. Few women anywhere in
"Gay boys - They’re hopeless!" she ¯ Vanuatu drive vehicles. The night before
fumed. That same day, an- any important event, such as
other friend griped about A Lesblan a dance performance or socpacks
of Lesbians invading 17rlend recently cergame, menleavewomen
his favorite bar, poisoning
its atmosphere. Pleas for eomplalned about
behind in the village to sleep
by themselves. TheTaunese
Gay/Lesbian unity ("why the orffanlzatlonal practice the samesex taboos
can’t we all just get along")
shorteomln~s ot7
demanded by many Ameriare
perhaps as common as can football coaches: No sex
jokes that poke fun at this "Gay boys - before the big game! Every
continental divide in our They’re
. hopeless!" evening, men also go off by
commumty, themselves to prepare and
Public constemation about she ~ttumed. That drink kava (Piper
relations between women same day, another methysticum) - the traditional
South Pacific drug
differemntaennd -_good,evokedbad,memoi_nO-r t~rlend gaped substance that is becoming
ries ofmy years in Vanuatu. about pael~s o17 increasing popular in the
ThiSlocatedtropictahline archipelagOsouthwespta-iS Lesbians invadln~ U.S. as a natural relaxant.
Men assert that women can
cific-aculturalregioncalled h~.s 17avor~.te bar, strip away the potency of
Mdanesiathat also includes polsonln~ its kavamerely by touching the
the islands of New
atmosphere,
plant before it is prepared;
Caledonia, the Solomons, and drinkers bitterly blame
and New Guinea. RitualiZed hostility be- ¯ women, talking too loud back in the viltween
men and women is a cultural curi- " lage, for spoiling their kava high.
osity of much of Melanesia. Anthropolo- " Women endanger men notjust because
gists who first analyzed the phenomenon ¯ of their polluting vaginal fluids. Men are
labeled it "sexual antagonism," though " also threatened by naturally female crenowadays
we’d more likely call it"cross- " ative powers. Women are mothers. The
gender opposition" or the like. ¯ children they bear sustain the cycle of
Full-fledged sexual antagonism exists " human life and death. Women’s vaginas
notably in the highland valleys of New " are powerfully dangerous openings back
Guinea. My village neighbors on an is- " into the spiritual world inhabited both by
land called Tanna, on the eastern edge of ¯ the ancestors and the unborn. Men per-
~ Mdanesia, practice only an attenuated " haps fear the vagina as muelx for its lifeversionofgenderopposition.
Still,likeall ". giving as for its deadly powers. It’s a
Melanesians, they have’great ~ear and ¯ psychological commonplace that men are
suspicion of the body fluids of the oppo- ¯ jealous of natural female creativity. This
site sex. Men believe that contact with drives us, so the story goes, to various
menstrual blood and other vaginal fluids " sorts of "cultural creativity" - art, literacan
make them seriously ill. An anthro- ¯ ture, politics, business - as a sort of corn-
" pologistlonceknew, who worked among pensation for our inability to bear chil-
- the Enga of Papua New Guinea, attracted dren. .
much attention with his magnificent and ¯ Throughout much of Melanesia, along
luxuriant red beard, much admired by all. ¯ theselines,meniusistthatalthoughwomen
When people asked for hair-growing ad- ¯ give birth, only men can make boys into
vice, he liked to disgust and appall them men. On Tanna, fathers arrange male iniby
claiming that the secret was to rub ° tiation ceremonies for their sons. They
menstrual blood on his face. : circumcise these boys who then spend six
In many Melanesian cultures, women ¯ Weeks in the bush, isolated from all conretii’etomenstrualhutslocatedinthebush
" tactwithwomen.ElsewhereinMelanesia~
(outside the Village) during their periods. ¯ people believe that precious semen itself
One can imagine that many women look ¯ transforms boys into men. Male initiaforward
eagerly to these monthly vaca- ¯ dons include practices of ritual fellatio -
dons from thedailydrudgeryofcooking, ." young .boys masculinize themselves by
childcare, and farming. Nomenstrual huts : consnm|ug the semen of older, already
exist on Tanna, though men and women ¯ initiated youths. (Gil Herdt describes one
here rarely share the same sleeping mat. " such societyin his book The Sambia:
And a menstruating woman stops prepar- ° Ritual and Gender in New Guinea.)
ing her husband’s dinners. Men, particu- : So, next time those Lesbians (or, alterlarlythosewithrockymarriages,
aresome- ¯ natively, those Gay boys) invade your
times suspicious that angry wives may be " favoriteclub, whatis that sudden chill you
poisoning themby dripping bloodinto the ¯ feel -- is this the "death threat of sexual
cooking pots. : pollution," or a contentiousjealousy over
And if vaginal fluids don’t kill you, sex ¯ human creativity?
itselfmay. Melanesians also shareabelief " Lament Lindstrom teaches anthropol-
- one that reaches back into Asia - that ¯ ogy at the University of Tulsa.
men are born with a finite amount of ¯
semen. Worse, the faster one uses up his " NOW NOV, Meeting lifetime supply of semen, the faster he
ages and dies. Have too many girlfdends : at Pride Center
or too .much masturbatory fun, and you
die young! Fathers warn their sons about " The Tulsa Chapter of the National Orthe
deadly dangers of sex. Dry, flaky skin " ganization for Women will feature Lucy
Tamayo of DVIS, Domestic Violence
~s an early sign of semen depletion, and . Intervention Services, speaking about
those teenagers withunforttmate skinprob- ¯ methods of empowering women at its
lems get teased mercilessly for messing ¯ Nov. meeting, 12:30 pm at The Pride
around. ¯ Center, 1307 E. 38th St. 2rid floor. NOW
Men (and women, too) believe that ¯¯ will .also hold elections for its executive .
female substances may pollute, or other- : board at the meeting. Info: 365-5658.
MY KITTY
but also his leadership on Tulsa’ s Say No
to Hate Coalition. Nor have any other
officials ofOklahoma’ s establishment spoken
out. Our governor says our "hate
crimes" law doesn’t need to address violence
agai.’nst Gay people, though note
that he hasn’t suggested removing it for
Oklahoma Jews or Blacks 7,,.or Catholics
like him.
None of our congressional delegation
has exemplified the compassion which if
they were the Christians they claim to be,
they might show. For example, a few
months ago, I askedPam Pryor, JC Watts,
Jr.’ s press secretaryhow many Gaypeople
needed to die before JC would speak out
against, anti-Gay violence? Obviously,
Shepardi~not enough. Maybeifone ofus
were crucified on the South Oval of the
OU campus, Watts (and that other disappointing
Oklahoma politician, David
Boren) might take the issue seriously.
Butat least withWatts, I still believehis
spokesperson’s claims of some decency
in the man to bother to ask. With The Evil
Steve and his good buddy and roommate,
Tom Cobum, there’s no point in wasting
my breath.
However, given the desire of Matthew
Shepard’s family and friends that some
bit of good come out of the horror of his
tormentand death,let us resolveto change
our state to reduce the chance that this will
happen here.
Passing an amendment to our hate
crimes (Oklahoma statutes, 21:850, Malicious
intimidation...) has got to be the top
priority for Lesbian and Gay Oklahoroans,
our families and friends. Find out
who your representatives are and talk to
them now.
Furthermore, we must demand that all
those groups that claim to be working for
justice andfairness, must end their convenient
silences. For example, if the Methodist
Bishop of Oklahoma can work so
hard to ban same-gender marriage ceremonies,
surely he can finally open his
mouth to say something against anti-Gay
violence. But he must be joined by OklahomaPresbyterians,
theOklahomaCouncil
of Churches, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries,
our Catholic bishops and all others
who claim to value human life. Imagine,
maybe even human rights groups like the
National Conference for Community and
Justice, and others, like the Jewish Fed:
eration and African-American organizations
will standup to say that Gay Oklahomans
have a right to live too. Imagine.
8LAH BLAH
: police arrived, organizers said scores of
¯ arrestsbegan.Mostoftheorganizers were
taken away first, leaving the marchers
: adrift, participants said.
¯ And at the University of Wyoming, a
¯¯ visiting professorwhois teaching acourse on hate crime received a first hand view.
¯ "I reacted with shock-and disbelief," said
¯ Graham Baxendale, a Ph.D. student at ¯
England’ s Reading University. "I certMnly
¯ was not prepared for such an event here.
¯ One can read many textbooks and the
: academic literature, but until you are ac-
¯
tually confronted by something like this
¯ within your own community, you recog-
¯ nize that you really don~t understand this
¯
Baxendale said hate Crimes rarely end
Only 500 people were expected. Once
¯ in murder and usuallyinvolve low-level
¯ violence or intimidation. The victims of
¯ such crimes typically are selected at ran-
" dom because they represent a particular
¯ group. "Gay males are one of the largest
¯ victim catego.rie,s. for thrill hate crimes,
but ethnic rmnonty groups such as His-
" panics, Blacks, and Jews also are tar-
" geted," he said. The perpetrators of such
¯ crimes againstGays,Baxendale said, typi- ¯
cally are young male adults or youths who
¯ are experiencing the emotions that come
¯ with emerging sexuality. To demonstrate
: to theirpe~rs that they are wholly hetero-
¯
sexual, these people may express vie-
¯ lance and hatred toward Gays.
.. Hate crime victims,’he said, usually are
¯ chosen because they are available, not
¯ because of any individual characteristics
¯ or actions, and because of what they rep-
¯ resent to the perpetrators. Hatred towards ¯
the victim’s group is often manifested in
¯ exceptignal violence. "The perpetrators
: often despise and de-humanize their vic-
¯ rims, so such crimes typically are more ¯
violent than corresponding crimes that
¯ are not hate-inspired," he said. "Displayr
¯ ing the victim (Shepard) by tying him to a
fence is amanifestation ofsuch dehuman-
¯
ization."
¯ Baxendale, who has studied violence
¯ perpetrated by groups, such as the Irish
Republican Army, said it is important that
: the university, Laramie and Wyoming
¯ communities continue to be vocal in their
¯ condemnation of the crime and to show ¯
that the community fosters diversity and
¯
understanding, rather than intimidation
¯ and discrimination.
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New AIDS Vaccine
To Be Tested In Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Tulsa’s participation in the
national test of a vaccine that could help prevent infection
from the virus that causes AIDS puts that city at the
forefront of science, according to one doctor.. Homosexual
menat high risk of contracting the HIV virus will
be recruited for the study as will womenin relationships
with men who are HIV-positive. Candidates could
begin enrolling as early as October.
"It puts Tulsa on a
top levelin terms ofnew
science," saidDr. Ralph
Richter of St. John
Medical Center. "Here
is the development of a
new science - a potential
breakthrough that
could protect millions
of individuals from de-
"It puts Tulsa on a
top level in terms
o~ new sclence~
- Dr. Ralpla Richter
St. Jolm Medical Center
¯ Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, Our Families + Friends
! Tulsa’s Largest Circulation Community PaperAvailable In More Than 75 City Locations
¯ Pride Center VandalizedAgain Calling all Lesbians!
TULSA - A new activities-related group, GALAVanting,
wants you to come out and play. Recentl y
formedby local poetandTFNDo-It- YourselfDyke,
Mary Schepers and one ofher friends, Joan, GaLAVanting
will host a variety of activities for Tulsa
area women throughout the year.
"Not to disparage the bars, but there aren’ t many
social activities for women outside the clubs,"
explained Schepers. "If you prefer a different environment
or entertmnment, your options are limited.
Gal-A-Vanting is going to change that. And we’re
planning our activities before the regular bar hours
to avoid competition with those longtime community
institutions."
Gal-A-Vanting emerged from a conversation in
which Mary and Joan bemoaned an apparent lack
of Lesbian community in the area. They decided to
roll up their sleeves and provide those opportumties
they themselves would be interested in. "It
does sound like ’Hey kids, let’s put on a show,’ "
Schepers acknowledged, "but if we sat around
waiting for the situation to magically change, it
would be a long wait. We are the community, we
should do something about it."
Two activities are in the works for the balance of
this year: an Arts Night and a Dance. The Arts
Night is scheduled for Friday, October 23, 7:00:
9:00 p.m. at the Pride Center 1307 E. 38th on
Brookside. Featured will be works of art for display
and sale, poetry readings, and music. There is room
available to showcase more talent; call Mary at
743-6740 if you are interested. Schepers emphasizes
that, while this event is by and for women,
"our brothers are welcome, too." Most subsequent
events will be for women only. Light refreslunents
will be served and a two dollar donation, to benefit
the Pride Center, is requested.
The dance will be in November, before holiday
madness sets in. The date, nine and place haven’t
been~ s_et y,eL but the eny~ronment will be to~acc~_~
Events will be scheduled frequently throughout
1999, and Gal-A-Vanting wants to know what
activities women would like to attend. "We’ re here
to help people get together, have fun, meet new
friends. Joan and I are doing this as a non-profit
- service," Schepers said. "No agenda except a good
¯ time - come join us for a little Ms-adventure!’"
Holy Spirit Rev,val to
¯ Feature Rev, AliceJones
¯¯ TULSA -The Rev. Alice Jones, longtime Tulsa
commumty leader and former pastor of the Metro-
" politan Commmunity Church of Greater Tulsa
¯ (MCCGT) will lead a mini-revival for spiritual
¯ renewal on Sept. 23-25, Wed.-Fri. at 7pm at the ¯
House of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is located at
~ 3210e South Norwood, just south of Mall 31. Rev.
; Jones will also conduct services Sunday, 9/27 at
¯ 10:45am and the church will host a potluck lunch
after the service.
Holy Spirit will also hold a garage sale at the
church on Fri. & Sat. Sept. 11 & 12. For more
information, call 224-4754.
TULSA, Okla. (AP/TFN)-Vandals targetedacenterhererunby
aGay civil rights group again, smashing the facility’s glass door,
authorities said. The door at the Pride Center, operated by Tulsa
Oklahomans for Human Rights, was broken in with a bat or a
stick of some kind after 9:30 p.m. Thursday night, said Greg
Gatewood, a volunteer at the center. The glass door was also
smashed the night of Aug. 7, and was later replaced.
The buiIding in which the center is located also houses several
other businesses, none of which were vandalized. The center
caters to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender groups,
Gatewood said.
State law does not classify
crimes motivedby hatred toward
sexual orientation as "hate
crimes," but vandalism statutes
wouldapply to the incidents. The
police were called both times
and Pride Center organizers said
they will implement additional
security measures. Gatewood
said that in addition to a bomb
threat last fall, the center has
seen its signs taken down and
thrown away and several Pride The door ofthePride Center
flags stolen, prior to theglass replacement.
However, activities continue
at the Center with a number of organizations meeting regularly.
The Center also is now showing Lesbian and Gay-interest video
every Thurs. evening at 7:30 pm. For more info., call 743-GAYS.
’99 Parade Planning Begins
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Officers of Tulsa Oklahomans for Human
Rights (TOHR) are calling all interested community members to
come to a Lesbian/Gay Pride Parade planning meeting onThnrsday,
Sept. 22 at 7pm at the Pride Center, 1307 E 38th, 2nd ft.
While Oklahoma City has had a Gay Pride Parade for more
veloping HIV infection or AIDS." Tulsa will be among than 10 years, Tulsa had its first Pride March in 1997 with 65
nearly 40 clinical sites nationwide to participatein the people marching from Gilcrease Museum Road to the Tulsa
study. Other sites include New York, Chicago, St. ~ Pride Picnic at Owen Park.
Lo,ui~s~ ~en~~7~ PhiladelPhia and s~e~ in H-°rid~,.Tcx~ : -..~year t~e .M~ch ~i.~ a_bo..ut double..~~ip~ats~went -
Between 125 and 150 people will be recmited for the ]
Tulsa trial, Richter said. Local AIDS groups and the ]
Tulsa City-County Health Department are working on
the project and will help recruiting participants.
march can be held on the sidewalk, neither event required street
closings nor a permit. However, if there is suffioent commumty
interest,TOHR will organize a parade with street closings and the
opporttmity for community organizations to have floats. For
more information, call 743-GAYS (4297) or attend on 9/22.
Methodists: Apartheid - Yes!
¯ DALLAS (AP) -The United Methodist Church early last month
¯ elevated a guideline against same sex marriages into church
¯ canon [church law] and saidministers who perform the ceremonies
could be removed, The Judicial Council of the church, the
nation’ s second largest Protestant denomination with 9.5 million
members, ruled that ministers who violate the ban on Lesbian and
Gay Holy Unions are "liable to be" brought to church trial.
The decision of the nine-member council, which heard testimony
"in Irving, Texas, affects one sentence in the Social Principles.
It reads: "Ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions
shall not be conducted by our ministers and shall not be Conducted
in our churches." That statement was added by the 1996
General Conference, the denominati0n’ s top policy-making body.
The council decided the conference delegates "’were enacting
legislation that would be binding as the law of the church."
"The specific prohibition is law," said Bishop George W.
Bashore, president of the Council of Bishops of United Methodist
Church. The gmdeline, which was part of the congregation’ s
Social Principles, states: "Ceremonies that celebratehomosexual
unions shall not be conducted by our manisters and shall not be
conducted in our churches."
Social Principles serve as moral standards for the congregation.
The ruling has .the effect of transforming the standard into
church law, and pastors who violate the law may be.reprimanded
or even defrocked. "It has all of the potential for a minister to lose
his or her credentials in the Methodist Church," Bashore said.
The issue arose with the case of the Rev. Jimmy Creech, former
pastor of the 1,900-member First United Methodist Church of
Omaha, Neb. He was accused of disobedience after performing
a Lesbian wedding ceremony last September in defiance of his
bishop. Creech was acquitted six months later by a church jury.
The acquittal prompted the regional bishops to appeal to the
Judicial Council for a formal ruling on whether the guideline was
merely a moral standard or church law. see Apartheid, p. 3
The Food and Drug Administration approved testing
of the vaccine by a California company, VaxGen Inc., ,
in June. The AIDSvax vaccine alre?ady has been tested
in preliminary trials that included 1,200 people. Those
tests, which began in March 1992, showed that 99
percent of those-vaccinated produced strong levels of
antibodies. Final testing of the vaccine will include
5,000 U.S. volunteers at high risk of contracting the
AIDS virus and 2,500 high-risk people in Thailand.
In the "blinded" trial, two-thirds of the U.S. volunteers
will receive the vaccine, while the rest will receive
a placebo: Volunteers will participate for three years
and will receive HIV counseling about the dangers Of
unsafe sex. "We don’ t want to encourage people to go
and become more reckless," Richter said.
Volunteers will receive three injections of the genetically
engineered vaccine over several months. Those
will be followed by a series of booster shots. The
vaccine uses-engineered copies of the gpl20 protein,
which is found on the Outer coating Of the HIV virus.
Once injected, the vaccine is supposed to prompt the
immune system to make antibodies, which can attack
invading viruses before they infect healthy cells.
Opponents doubt the vaccine will be successful,
arguing that earlier tests showed the vaccine boosted
only one 15artoftheimmune system and therefore would
not be effective in large numbers of participants. Some
also question whether new strains of theAIDS virus
might render the vaccine useless.
MJ ° DIRECTORYILE’I-I’ERS P. 2/3
US & WORLD NEWS P. 4 ~ HEALTH NEWS P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P. 8
~ COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9
BOOK REVIEW P, 10
DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 11
DYKE PSYCHF_JGAY STUDIES P. 12/13
---, CLASSIFIEDS + WEERWOLF P. 14
Brookside Jewelry &
TNT’s To Host Benefit
TULSA- Two Tulsa businesses will host a benefit
for Oklahoma Indian HIV/AIDS activist, Lisa Tiger,
on Saturday, Sept. 19 at TNT’s on the NW
corner of 21 st & Memorial, The evening event will
feature music and other entertainment as wall as
Tiger posters and copies of the book, Voices From
the Next Feminist Generation, for $15.
Ms. Tiger has adopted 50glala Sioux children
from South Dakota’ s Pine Ridge Reservation and
greatly needs help to care for them. Anyone unable
to attend the benefit may help by sending any
donation to Lisa Tiger, c/o Tiger Blair Gallery,
2110 East Shawnee, Muskogee, Oklahoma.
For more info. call Mdody at 743-5272.
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine 832-1269
*Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston 592-2143
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria 744-0896
*Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria 599-9512
*Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th 583-6666
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria 749-4511
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston 585-3134
*Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria 599-7777
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th 749-1563
*St. ,Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E. 31st 745-9998
*Margaret’s German Restaurant, 10 E. Fifth 583-1658
*Silver Star Saloon, 1565 Sheridan 834-4234
¯ *Renegades/Rainbow Room, 1649 S. Main 585-3405
*TNT’s, 2114 S. Memorial 660-0856
*Tool Box, 1338 E: 3rd 584-1308
*Umbertos Pizzeria, 21st west of Harvard 599-9999
Tulsa Businesses, Services, & Professionals
Advanced Wireless & PCS, Digital Cellular 74%1508
*Affinity News, 8120 E. 21 610-8510
Dennis C. Arnold, Realtor 746-4620
*Assoc. in Med; & Mental Health, 2325 S. Harvard " 743-1000
Kent Balch & Associates, Health & Life Insurance 747-9506
*Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8620 E. 71 250-5034
Body Piercing by Nicole, 2722 E. 15 712-1122
*Borders Books & Music, 2740 E. 21 712-9955
*Borders Books & Music, 8015 S. Yale 494-2665
Brookside Jewelry, 4649 S. Peoria 743-5272
*CD Warehouse, 3807c S. Peoria 746-0313
CherrySt. Psychotherapy, 1515 S. Lewis 581-0902,743-4117
Community Cleaning, Kerby Baker 622-0700
Tim Daniel, Attorney 352-9504, 800-742-9468
*Deco to Disco, 3212 E. 15th 749-3620
*Devena’s Gallery, 13 Brady 587-2611
DQghouse on Brookside, 3311 S. Pei~i’ia 744-5556
*Elite Books & Videos, 821 S. Sheridan 838-8503
*Ross Edward Salon, 2447 E. 15th 584-0337, 712-9379
*Floral Design Studio, 3404 S. Peoria 744-9595
Cathy Furlong, Ph.D., 1980 Utica Sq. Med. Ctr. 628:3709
*Gloria Jean’s Gourmet Coffee, 1758 E. 21st 742-1460
Leanne M. Gross, Insurance & financial planning 459-9349
Mark T. Hamby, Attorney 744-7440
*Sandra J. Hill, MS, Psychotherapy, 2865 E. Skelly 745-1111
*international Tours - 34t’~6866
Jacox Animal Clinic, 2732 E, 15th 712-2750
*Jared’s Antiques, 1602 E. 15th 582-3018
David Kauskey, Country Club Barbering 747-0236
*Ken’s Flowers~ 1635 E. 15 599-8070
Kelly Kirby, CPA, 4021 S. Harvard, #210 747-5466
Langley Agency & Salon, 1316 E. 36th P1 749-5533
Laredo Crossing, 1519 E. 15th 585-1555
*Living ArtSpace, 19 E. Brady 585-1234
Mingo Valley Flowers, 9720c E. 31 663-5934
*Mohawk Music, 6157 E 51 Place 664-2951
*Novel Idea Bookstore, 51st & Harvard 747-6711
David A. Paddock, CPA, 4308 S. Peoria, Ste. 633 747-7672
*Peace of Mind Bookstore, 1401 E. 15 583-1090
~he Pride Store, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor 743-4297
Puppy Pause II, llth & Mingo 838-7626
Rainbowz on the River B+B, POB 696, 74101 747-5932
Richard’s Carpet Cleaning 834-0617
Teri Schutt, Rex Realtors 834-7921,747-4746
Christopher Spradling, attorney, 616 S. Main, #308 582-7748
*Scribner’s Bookstore, 1942 Utica Square 749-6301
*Sedona Health Foods, 8220 S. Harvard 481-0201
*Tickled Pink, 3340 S. Peoria 697-0017
*Trizza’s pots, 1448 S. Delaware 743-7687
*Tulsa Bookl~change, 3749 S. Peoria 742-2007
*Tulsa Comedy Club, 6906 S. Lewis 481-0558
Fred Welch, LCSW, Counseling 743-1733
*Whittier News Stand, 1 N. Lewis 592-0767
Tulsa Agencies, Churches, Schools & Universities
AIDS Walk Tulsa, POB 4337, 74101 - .579-9593
*All Souls Unitarian Church, 2952 S. Peoria 743-2363
Black & White, Inc. POB 14001, Tulsa 74159 587-7314
Bless The Lord atAll Times Christian Center, 2207 E. 6 583-7815
*B/L/G/T Alliance, Univ. of Tulsa Canterbury Ctr. 583-9780
*Chamber of Commerce Bldg., 616 S, Boston 585-1201
*Chapman Student Ctr., University of Tulsa, 5th PI: & Florence
*ChurchoftheRestorationUU, 1314N.Greenwood 587-1314
*Community ofHope United Methodist, 2545 S. Yale 585-1800
*Community Unitarian-Universalist Congregation 749-0595
*Council Oak Men’s Chorale 743-4297
*Delaware Playhouse, 1511 S. Delaware 712-1511
*Democratic Headquarters, 3930 E. 31 742-2457
918.583.1248, fax: 583.4615, POB 4140, Tulsa, OK 74159
o-mail: TulsaNews@ earthlink.net
wobsito: http://users.aol.com/TulsaNews/
Publisher + Editor: Tom Neal. Writers + contributors: Adam West,
James Christjohn, Jean-Claude de Flambeauchaud, Barry
Hensley, J.-P. Legrandbouche, Lamont Lindstrom, Esther
Rothblum, Mary Schepers, Member of The Associated Press
Issued on or before the 1st of each month, the entire contents of this
p~blication are protected by US copyright 1998 by T~u~ ~:..’~W
Nta,4 and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without
written permission from the publisher. Publication of a name or
photo does not indicate a person’s sexual orientation. Correspondence
is assumed to be for publication unless otherwise noted,.oaust
be signed & becomes the sole property of T¢ff.~ ~,o~.’. h/tag,.
Each reader is entitled to 4 copies of each edition at distribution
points. Additional copies are available by calling 583-1248.
Dignity/Integrity of Tulsa- Lesbian & Gay Catholics &
Episcopalians, POB 701475, 74170-1475 355-3140
*Family of Faith MCC, 5451-E So. Mingo 622-1441
*Fellowship Congreg. Church, 2900 S. Harvard 747-7777
*Free SpiritWomen’s Center, call forlocation &info: 587-4669
Friend For A Friend, POB 52344, 74152 747-6827
Friends in Unity Social Org., POB 8542, 74101 582-0438
*HIV ER Center, 4138 Chas. Page Blvd. 583-6611
*HIV Resource ConSortium, 3507 E. Admiral 834-4194
*Holland Hall School, 5666 E. 81st 481-1111
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education 834-8378
HIV Testing, Mon/Thurs. 7-9pm, daytime by appt. only
*House of the Holy Spirit Minstries, 3210e So. Norwood
Interfaith AIDS Ministries 438-2437, 800-284-2437
*MCC of Greater Tulsa, 1623 N. Maplewood 838-1715
NAMES Project, 3507 E. Admiral P1. 748-3111
NOW, Nat’l Org. for Women, POB 14068, 74159 365-5658
OK Spokes Club (bicycling), POB 9165, 74157
*Our House, 1114 S. Quaker 584-7960
PFLAG, POB 52800, 74152 749-4901
*Planned Parenthood, 1007 S. Peoria 587-7674
*The Pride Center, 1307 E. 38, 2nd floor, 74105 743-4297
Prime-Timers, P.O. Box 52118, 74152
*R.A.I.N., Regional AIDS Interfaith Network 749-4195
Rainbow Business Guild, POB 4106, 74159 665-5174
*Red Rock Mental Center, 1724 E. 8 584-2325
O’RYAN, support group for 18-24 LGBT young adults
O’RYAN, Jr. support group for 14-17 LGBT youth
St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 4045 N. Cincinnati 425-7882
*St. Dunstan’s Episcopal, 5635 E. 71st 492-7140
*St. Jerome’s Parish Church, 205 W. King 582-3088
*Tulsa Area United Way, 1430 S. Boulder 583-7171
TNAAPP (Native American men), Indian Health Care 582-7225
Tulsa County Health Department, 46 16 E. 15 595-4105
Confidential HIV Testing - by appt. on Thursdays only
Tulsa Okla. for Human Rights, c/o The Pride Center 743-4297
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform/Leather Seekers Assoc. 838-1222
*Tulsa City Hall, Ground Floor Vestibule
*Tulsa Community College Campuses
*Rogers University (formerly UCT)
BARTLESVILLE
*Bartlesville Public Library, 600 S. Johnstone 918-337-5353
OKLAHOMA CITY/NORMAN
*Borders Books &Music, 3209 NWExpressway 405-848-2667
*Borders Books & Music, 300 Norman Center 405-573-4907
TAHLEQUAH
*Stonewall League, call for information: 918-456-7900
*Tahlequah Unitarian-Universalist Church 918-456-7900
*Green Country AIDS Coalition, POB 1570 918-453-9360
NSU School of Optometry, 1001 N. Grand
HIVtesting every other Tues. 5:30-8:30, call fo~ dates
EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
*Autumn Breeze Restaurant, Hwy. 23
*Jim & Brent’s Bistro, 173 S. Main
DeVito’s Restaurant, 5 Center St.
*Emerald Rainbow, 45 &l/2 Spring St.
MCC of the Living Spring
Geek to Go!, PC Specialist, POB 429
Old Jailhouse Lodging, 15 Montgomery
Positive Idea Marketing Plans
Sparky’s, Hwy. 62 East
*White Light, 1 Center St.
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS5
*Edna’s, 9 S. School Ave.
501-253-7734
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* is whereyou can lind TFN. Notall are Gay-owned but all are Gay-friendly.
¯ Spending Commission has lifted the donation
limit of $1000 per person for an
"issue" campaign. The sky is now the
¯ limit, and North American religious ex-
¯ tremists arepouringmoney into Hawaii’s
vote on a proposed constitutional amend-
" merit. Dobson’s group [Focus ontheFam-
¯ ily] may be spendingthe most in Hawaii,
but the ChristianCoalition is raisingmoney
~ worldwide as well to use in Hawaii.
; The key team standing up to this on-
, slaught is: Protect Our Constitution,
¯ PO Box 235704, Honolulu, HI 96823.
Donations to Protect Our Constitution are
¯ not tax deductible. Donations are reported
¯ to the campaign spending commission.
¯ Protect Our Constitution is affiliated with
~ the national Human Rights Campaign.
¯ Other Players:
¯ Supreme Court- silent; no news on the
¯ final appeal of the Baehr case
¯ Legislature -not in session; most of ¯
them runniug for re-election
." Governor - running for a second term;
: uphill battle against a charismatic woman
¯ Republican who might even be Lesbian ¯
but vigorously denies it publicly
¯ Constitutional Amendment- ffthe vote
¯ were held today; the "no" would win. A
¯ "no" vote protects the equal civil rights of
Gays and Lesbians. However, the amend-
" merit is confusing to many voters and
¯ many more have yet to realize that itis on ¯
¯ the November ballot.
Call for a Constitutional Convention -
~ more and more people realize that such a
¯ convention, held under the shadow of
¯ hysteria over same-gender marriage,
¯ would be a disaster for environmental
¯ protection, native Hawaiian gathering
¯ - rights, the right to strike, the freedom tochoose
as well as the freedom to marry.
The only question is whether this broad o
coalition of interests can deliver the votes
on November 3rd[
The exact constitutional question [is]:
"Shall the constitution of the State of
Hawaii be amended to specify that the
legislature shall have the power to reserve
mamage to opposite-sex couples."
Note that it doe-s not directly ban samegendermarriage,
butmoves the topicaway
from protection of the bill of rights in the
constitution. Note also that it is a power
grab by the legislature at the expense of
theiudependentjudiciary. As mostpeople
in Hawaii learn this, they decide to vote
"no". Can they be educated fast enough,
in 72 days? In the meantime, the opposition
is working hard to make this amendment
a referendum of whether one supports
same-sex marriage (vote "yes" if
you oppose same-sex marriage is their
campaign focus).
The Role ofMarriage Project Hawaii
- MPH is operating under a tax-deductible
status that limits its lobbying and
election activities. It continues to support
the Baehr case, to educate the public on
issues related to same-gender marriage,
and to build a. network of supporters in
Hawaii. It’s address is PO Box 11690,
Honolulu, HI 96828. - Tom Ramsey
Hawaii Marriage Update
TheBIG change- Hawaii’s Campaign
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Creech, who now lives on Ocracoke Island, N.C., and
makes his living cleaning cottages, bitterly criticized the
nding. "I am grieving for the United Methodist Church,"
he said. "I am encouraging pastors to go ahead and
celebrate a covenant ceremony in defiance to this nding."
Creech toldTheLincolnJournal Starin aphoneinterview
that he feels the ruling is "evil." "It’ s still an unjust and,
I think, evil decision in the impact on people who are
Lesbian or Gay."
Nebraska Bishop Joel Martinez, who removed Creech
from the Omaha church, praised the Judicial Council’s
decision. "All ministers in the covenant of ordained
ministry in the United Methodist Church now have Clear
direction on this matter," Martinez Said. "I continue to
urge all United Methodists in Nebraska to berespectful in
dialogue and prayerful in attitude toward all others who
may hold opposing views on this matter."
Mel Semrad, a spokesman for church members who
left the Omaha congregation in protest over the wedding,
lauded the decision Tuesday. Semrad and about 450
others are working to start theirown Methodist church in
Omaha, saying they believe the Bible and church tradition
do not allow Gay weddings.
Mike McClellan, an Omaha attorney and member of
First United .Methodist, said he does not agree with the
Judicial Council’s decision. He called the decision a
political one, made under pressure from Methodist bishops.
"I think that they’ vejust r~ally made an unfortunate
decision," he said. "More than anything itjust sends abad
message to Gays and Lesbians. "It’ s difficult to convince
(Gays and Lesbians) to be apart of our churches.., when
the institution itself sends out such awful messages to
them, and hateful messages."
The Rev. Charlotte Abram, new ~issociate pastor of
First United Methodist in Omaha, said she was disappointed
by the nding. "First United Methodist Church
will continue to work toward the time when the United
Methodist Church will be a place where there is equality
for all God’ s children, including Gaymenand. Lesbians,"
she said. The Rev. John Thomburg, senior pastor for
Northhaven United Methodist Church of Dallas, which
has a congregation that is one-third Gay, saidhe will obey
they ruling but is disappointed.
Impact on Northern California Churches
The United Methodist Church’ s ban on Gay marriages
could have a big impact in Northern California, where
seyeral Methodist ministers have pledged support for
same-sex unions. The decision puts Northern California
Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert between a theological
rock and an ecclesiastical hard place. Ten Methodist
ministers are among 150 Christian, Jewish and Buddhist
clergy in the regionwhohave signed a declaration stating,
"I have officiated or would be willing to officiate at the
religious marriage of a same-gender couple." In May,
Talbert said he would not discipline any minister who
performed Gay rites ",until instructed otherwise by our
Judicial Council."
But Rev. Alan Jones said he doesn’t expect Talbert to
start cracking down on clergy who perform Gay marriage.
’qThose clergy who support holy tmion will continue
to do them," said Jones, executive director of San
Francisco-based United Methodist Mission. "For me it’ s
a pastoral issue. Either I respect the integrity ofmy sisters
and brothers, or I don’ t. I don’ tbdieve in ’love the sinner,
hate the sin.’ I either love someone, or I don’t."
Still, last month’ s ruling by the church’ s equivalent of
the Supreme Court gives Talbert’s opponents more ammunition:
Local bishops like Talbert "don’t have the
authority to overrule this decision," said Thomas
McAnally, a spokesman at the United Methodist Church
headquarters. "The decision is final."
Other Christian Groups
Joe Leonard of .the National Council of Churches,
which represents 34 Protestant and Orthodox churches in
the US, said the United Church of Christ is the only
mainline Protestant church that approves of Lesbianand
Gay ceremonies. Andon Aug. 5, an international Anglican
meeting, the Lambeth Conference, declared homosexuality
to be "incompatible with Scripture" and said
Gays should not be ordained. However, declarations at
Lambeth are not binding on national Episcopal Churches
and these statements are in conflict with positions taken
by the Episcopal Church, USA. Some US bishops do
ordain openly Gay persons and do sanction Holy Unions.
by Kerry Lobel
Wehear their names again and again, like a litany from
a relentless bad dream: GOP Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott, GOP House Majority Leader Dick Armey,
Family Research Council President Gary
Bauer, Focus on the Family President Dr.
James Dobson, California Republican Congressman
Frank RIFFS, and Colorado Republican
Congressman Joel Hefley. Together,
these men and others are controlling
the agenda of the Republican Party. Together,
they’ve launched an unprecedented
attack on the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
transgender community.
With the 1998 Congressional elections
only months away, the Presidential primaries
will be here in a heartbeat. As expected,
the extreme right-wing is literally and figuratively
using homosexuals as their favorite
poster children in an effort to consolidate
their voting base and raise funds from them.
Several extreme right-wing groups includingChristianCoalition,
Family Research
Council, and ConcernedWomenforAmerica
ran ads last month in the New York Times,
Washington Post, andUSAToday proclaiming
"We’re standing for the truth that homosexuals
can change." The ads offer a beguiling
elixir of "hope and healing." We’ re not
fooled by this kinder, gentler bigotry. These
ads arenot aboutreligionandhealing, they’ re
about politics and intolerance. Homosexuality
is not the problem. Homophobia and
the hatred and the discrimination it fosters is
the problem. Last month the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force and Equal Partners
in Faith gathered over 30 national religious
leaders from many faith traditions. These
"We’re standing for
the truth that
homosexuals
can change."
The ads offer a
beguiling elixir of
"hope and healing."
We’re not fooled by
this kinder,
gentler bigotry.
These ads are not
about religion and
healing, they’re
about politics and
intolerance.
Homosexuality is
not the problem.
Homophobia and
the hatred and the
dlserimlnation
it fosters is the
problem.
¯ Twenty-five years ago NGLTF was also involved in
~ effort to remove homosexuality from the American Psy-
¯ chiatricAssociaOon’ s listofmental disorders. This change
~ removed an important obstacle to our freedom, one that
the right-wing hopes to roll back. Year after
year, a growing number of Americans have
supported equality for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
and Transgendered people. The extreme
right-wing recognizes this and has
desperately attempted to solidify their donor
and voter base by trying by selling
America the lie that Gay people need redemption.
Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people do
not need hope, healing or prayers to change
our sexual orientation. We need our adversaries
to hope for our equality and to pray
for our civil rights. Weneed them to understand
that the only thing that needs to be
changed is the bigotry that continues to
divide our country across lines of race,
class, gender, religion and sexual orientation.
We don’t need to dignify the statements
of our adversaries by claiming that
sexual orientation is genetic or that we can’ t
change. This implies that most of us would
change if we could. Whether genetic or
chosen, sexual orientation is a deep-seated
part of our identity. One day, and I hope it
comes soon, we’ll live in a world where
people are free to explore their sexuality,
and free to live without discrimination and
violence. Until then, I’ 11 keep my eye on the
real prize, freedom, justice, and equality,
and not always focus on defending myself
from our adversaries.
Founded in 1973, the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force works to eliminate
leaders expressed their support for Gay, Lesbian, Bi- " prejudice, violence and injustice against Gay, Lesbian,
sexual and Transgendered (GLBT) peoplein the wake of ¯ Bisexual and Transgendered people at the local, state
the recent ad campaign. They also vowed .to speak out ¯ and nationallevel. Aspart .9~a i~roader socialjustice,,~ ,.~, ~ .....
together froma f~ith~persp~fiV~’ito challengethe reli=~-:: ~mO~ifo~fr~dr~;j~’~d~’~i~u&ii~),~lqdL~’7~~
gious right’ s manipulation ofreligion to promote a political
agenda, and to affirm the spirituality and equality of
GLBT persons and supporters all across the nation.
by Tom Neal, editor &publisher
Kudos to PFLAG
Last month, I attended the PFLAG (Parents, Families
¯and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) meeting to hear and
meet the remarkable Allen Family who’d spoken recently
on The Today Show about the harassment that their
son, Will Allen,_had experienced in a local high school.
They were smart, brave and articulate. I highly commend
thelia for their willingness to witness to our nation about
the inherent dignity of Lesbian and Gay lives and what
being a family is really, really about. And of course,
PFLAGandits boardpresident,TulsanNaneyMeDonald,
deserves praise for helping to arrange this appearance.
Another Brave Family
Also, during this same time, longtime community
activists Ric & Kelly Harrison Kirby, also made their
lives public (in major stories in USA Today, Hard Copy
and I’m told onNationalPublic Radio) to help respond to
the "ex-Gays" or "Gay conversion" messages that national
ultra-extremist religious/political groups were promoting.
Kelly&Ric have served Tulsa for years, as Tulsa
Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) officers and as
HIV/AIDS activists. Kelly has also served on boards
related to the Disciples of Christ denomination and is
treasurer of the national board of PFLAG.
Sometimes in our community, we don’t do a goodjob
of recognizing the gifts which community members give
us, so if you see Ric or Kelly, thank them. It’s no little
thing to give up that much of their privacy and that oftheir
four children.
Good Cop - Bad Cop
While at the PFLAG meeting, Mrs. McDonald, made
a remark some work she’ s been doing with the National
Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ, formerly
the National Conference of Christians and Jews) to
¯ creating a world that respects and celebrates the diver-
¯ sity ofhuman expression and identity where all people
mayfullyparticipate in society.
make that organization more sensitive to Lesbian and
Gay issues. I may be mistaken but the comment about not
~ pushing people into a comer seemed to have a little barb
¯ to it and it was delivered while she was looking right at
¯ me,
¯ Regular readers may recall that TFN has written several
times over a multiple year period about the failure of
the Tulsa chapter of the NCCJ, a human rights organization,
to include Lesbian and Gay issues, or Lesbians or
Gay men on its board of directors.
Iamdelighted to share thatnotonly has Mrs. McDonald
been in dialogue with the Tulsa chapter of the NCCJ but
they have invited her to be on their board of directors.
While it’s hardly a secret that Mrs. McDonald and I
frequently disagree about methods of creating social
change, she & I likely completely agree about our goals
for America’s, and Tulsa’s Lesbian/Gay/Bi and Transgendered
communities. I havefaith that she will represent
our commumty’ s interests well. And I have no doubt that
Mrs. McDonald will be as stem in correcting the NCCJ
board when she thinks they need it as she is with me ;-)
About Town is a new editorial column which will
appear occasionally. It, obviously, is an opinion piece.
Readers are welcome to call with information about
which they think this newspaper needs to know. Readers
are also welcome to respond by letter or by e-mail.
Kelly Curtis Ford, formerly of Tulsa and longtime
companion of Roger Morris, died suddenly on August
15th at the age of 52. Ford grew up in Duncan, attended
Cameron University and taught in Oklahoma schools in
Waiters and in Oologah for 23 years where he was
selected as Teacher of the Year in 1991. Ford is survived
by Morris and also by three brothers in Duncan. A
memorial service will held at 7pm on Wednesday, Sept.
3 at All Souls Unitarian Church, 29th & Peoria.
Hawaii: Wide Opposition " Phi!ly Partners’
to Same-Sex Marriage Benefits Challenged
shows more~a 2 l/2-tod m~n ,oppos~ to v~ues advo~tes have fil~ alawsuit ag~nst ~e city,
legMi~ng s~e-sexm~age. ~epoll conduct~for timing ~e institution of m~age will be i~ep~a- ~ ~ G~l~zr~~7~fyff~rts~7~n~
~e Honol~u S~ B~ledn ~d ~NL~TV fo~d 63 bly~edby a new or&n~~fing city workers
% o~os~ to legMifing m~ageS between two men wi~ s~e-sex p~ers ~e s~e benefits ~m~ I ~. burdem. ~me sMre ~ ~e~W0f ~’s
or twowomen, wi~ 24% in favor ~d 13% ~de- p~ple. ~ a battle~ck~~o~d ~e co~y, ~e
cid~. smt states ~at City Co~l&~’t have ~e au~ofi~ ~__ ~~ Cbi~renAreAlwa~sWelco~!
~en ~e s~e question w~ ~ked in Feb~y to extend h~ ~d pension benefits to Gay ~d
1997, 70% of ~e respondents voi~ op~sifion to ~sbi~p~ers~dto~o~bit&s~nafion~e h
s~e-gender ~ons, wi~ 20% in favor ~d 10% wor~la~ b~ed on m~ s~ms. "~i~ Co~ ~mm~
~s~e. Pollsters have ask~ ~e question five times ¯ shoed be uplff~g m~age, not r~efi~ng m~-
sin~ J~e 1993. ~e~ghest levd of op~sifion w~ " fiage," sMd ~e Rev. ~c~,a p~tor at Be~el
r~rd~ in M~ch 1996, when 74% of ~ose ask~ " Ddiver~Ch~chin~laddpMa.Thed~s-acfion
opposed same-sex marriage, 21% for and 6% undecided.
The poll did not ask voters how they would
vote on a November ballot question about whether to
limit legal marriages to those between one man and
one woman.
Supporters of same-sex marriage say they are not
surprised by the poll numbers, with David Smith of
the Washington-l~asedHumanRights Campaign saying
similar opposition would have been recorded in
polls 30 or 40 years ago if people had been asked
about interracial marriages. "But the U.S. Supreme
Court decided that the Constitution allows peopleto
marry who they choose in terms of race," Smith said.
Rev. Marc Alexander of Hawaii Catholic Conference
called the poll results gratifying, and said efforts
to win support for same-sex marriage .are failing.
’°Ittose figures are solid," he said. "Even with the
push to get same-sex mamage, it hasn’t made a
significant dent."
The telephone poll of 417 vote/s was conducted
from Aug. 4-7, and has a margin of error of plus of
minus 5% points.It was conducted by Mason-Dixon
Political/Media Research of Columbia, Md.
.Fayetteville
Anti-Bias Law Debated
was filed in Philadelphia County Court by the Urban
Family Council and 10 individuals~ including Lam-
Mayor Edward G. Rendell, a supl~orter of the
measdres,immediately dismissed thele~al challenge.
"It has no chance of being successful," Rendell said.
"All wedidis recognizewhatcities all across America
are doing - that ~ommitted relationships come in
different shapes and sizes."
At issue is a package of three bills passed by the
council in May that culminated a five-year battle by
Gay and Lesbian activists. Under the legislation, any
of the city’s 24,000 unionized workers with same-sex
. partners would qua~.ify for benefits after meeting
certain criteria proving that they are involved in a
"life partnership," including shared bank accounts,
dual property ownership and beneficiary designation.
The ordinance also exempted same-sex partners
from the real estate transfer tax.
More than 100 mtmicipalities across the country
give similar allowances to same-sex partners, according
to the Philadelphia-based Center forGay Law and
Public Policy. Boston MayorThomas M. Menino last
week signed an executive order to extend health
benefits to domestic partners and dependents of Gay,
Lesbian and unmarried city employees. Last month,
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani signed a
similar measure that activists called one of the most
comprehensive in the nation.
Opponents charged that the Philadelphia measure,
¯ especially the life partnership designation, created
¯ a new legal definition of marriage that benefits samesex
partners. State law does not allow individual
¯¯ communities to amendthat definition.WilliamDevlin,
director of the Urban Family Council, said thelawsuit
¯ is not intended to be anti-Gay or anti-Lesbian. ¯
"We’re saying,’ City Council, you redefined family,
you redefined marriage - that’s inherent in the
¯ (law).’ If anything is’ anti-’, it’s City Council, being
anti-family, anti-child and anti-marriage," Devlin
¯
said. "We have come to stand for what we believe.is
¯ right today," said Mary Campbell, a Philadelphia
¯ residentwho is a plaintiff in the suit. "We believe that
we are representative of many, man?,, people in this
, city, and hope that they will join us.
Gay and ~Lesbian civil fights activists disagreed.
: "The extension of workplace benefits to G.ay_ and
: Lesbian couples denied the right of marriage is loga-
¯ cal," said Rita Adessa, executive director of the
¯ Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Task Force." "We’re
dealing with at/issue of fairness," she said. "When
: you deny the people the right to marry, and attach
¯ benefits to marriage, it sets up a system where hetero-
¯ sexuality and marriage is privilege." ¯
Rendell said opponents to the measure should
concentrate their efforts in another direction. "The
(critics) will lose," the mayor said. "They should
probably spend their efforts promoting the values
they care ai3out rather than trying to stop this. This is.
not a big threat to our way of life."
SPRINGDALE, Atk.’(AP) - Opponents of an anti~
discrimination item on the fall ballot in Fayetteville
say the measure would affect surrounding communities
if it passes. The proposal would prohibit businesses
in One city from discriminating in hiring on the
basis of sexual orientation or family status. It also
says the city won’t discriminate on the basis of race,
sex, disability and other reasons. "When Fayetteville
sneezes, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville all get
wet," said Kirk Hartness of Rogers, coordinator for
the Citizens Aware Group.
Fayetteville’s city council approved the resol.ution
in April, but Mayor Fred Hanna vetoed it. The city
council overrocle the veto May 6, and a group called
. theCitizens Aware committee collected enough signatures
to put the measure on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Hartuess said that there is more to .the resolution
than meets the eye. He said businesses would be
"’forced to cave-in to hiring and benefit policies
catering to homosexuals."-He also said there would
be access to the public schools with an agenda t
teach children 5, 6, and 7-year-olds their bizarre and
. destructive sexualpractices arejustanotherlifestyle."
Hartness spoke after Christian Coalition chairman,
Brent Watson of Fayetteville, yielded the floor at a
candidate’s forum attended by about 20 people:
Hartness saidhewas asked by Rev. Gene Fulcher and
Rev. Charlie Brown, the co-chairmen of the Citizens
Aware steering group to head the campaign.
He said the group had struggled for a name of the
resolution, but "we have to be careful with these
things in the public though because we don’t want to
identify this specifically as a piece of homosexual
legislation- however you should be aware for the
purposes of discussion- that is what this is really all
about." He said similar resolutions hadbeen passed in
communities onor near college campuses and that the
resolutions are not about equal access to jobs or
education.
Citizens for Fair Government, a local political
action group, says ithopes to educatepeople about the
issue so they will vote for the resolution.
San Francisco Still
Leads in Civil Rights
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offensive against Gays, San Francisco is poised today
to solidify its stance on civil rights by asking private
businesses to extend special deals to domestic partners.
A year after the city inaugurated its domestic
partners ordinance, the Board of Supervisors is ex-
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last week, the proposal gets a second vote tonight and
Mayor Willie Brown is expected to sign it.
It would make San Francisco the only city in the
nation to require private businesses - such as gyms, car
rental companies and insurance agencies - to extend
discounts they offer to married couples to domestic
parmers as well.
The vote follows on the heels of a political backlash
against Gays that may cost San Francisco millions in
federal housing funding and a prominent Gay philanthropist
an ambassadorship. Less than two weeks ago,
the House voted 214-212 - most of them Republican
votes - in favor of blocking San Francisco from federal
housing money because of its civil-rights policy.
The pioneering EqUalBenefits Ordinance requires
businesses with city contracts to extend health benefits
to its workers’ partners. Since its introduction a year
ago, the city has battled corporations unwilling to recognize
Gay partnerships - including major airlines,
Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army.
"We should not force or coerce (businesses) to adopt
policies they find morally objectionable," Rep. Frank
Riggs, who represents the rural North Coast in Congress,
said in a heated debate.
Not long before that, Senate Majority Leader Trent
Lott, R-Miss., - who likened homosexuality to a treatable
condition like alcoholism or kleptomania - said it
was unlikely James Hormel wouldbecome the nation’ s
first openly Gay ambassador. Hormel, a San Francisco
philanthropist who has supported Gay causes, has been
criticized for what opponents call his "Gay agenda."
And Republicans -unsuccessfully - sought to overturn
President Clinton’ s orderbarring discrimination against
Gays and Lesbians at federal agencies.
.-Still, supervisors are expected today to send the
newest domestic partners proposal to the mayor in.an
act that suggests a determination to set a standard for
human rights. "Banning discrimination is. no new concept,"
supervisor Mark Leno, the proposal’s sponsor,
told the San Francisco Examiner last month. "We’re
talking about inalienable rights here."
tian groups paid $35,000 to buy the ad, which will
be published in a section of the Sunday paper
prepared by the San Francisco Examiner. The
Sunday paper also contains sections produced by
the San Francisco Chronicle.
The full-page ad suggests that Gay men and
Lesbians can change their sexual orientation if they
pray and get help from "ex-Gay ministries," groups
of people who say they once were Gay but became
heterosexual. It is one of four such ads that the
groups have placed in the New York Times, Washington
Post and other papers over the last month.
Some members of San Francisco’ s Gay community
considered running an opposing ad in the same
section, which is what other groups have done in
other cities. Some said the ads were distasteful, but
said First Amendment rights come first.
"It’s frightful, it’s horrific, it’s completely disturbing
to see these ads," said Supervisor Mark
Leno. "But I think we as a Gay and Lesbian and
progressive community would belittle ourselves
and lower ourselves to our opponents’ standards if
we were to deny them this most American right of
freedom of expression, as they are denying us the
most American rights - our malienable rights of
life, liberty and pursuit of happiness."
The Christian groups, led by Janet Folger of the
Florida-based Center for Reclaiming America, first
approached the San Francisco Chronicle - which
rejected the ad. "We reviewed it, and we had
several concerns about the ad and made the decision
that we were not going to run it," Chronicle
Publisher John B. Sias said. The San Francisco
Newspaper Agency, which sells advertising for
both the Chronicle and Examiner under a joint
operating agreement, suggested the ad could run in
the Sunday news sections, which are produced by
the Examiner.
Examiner Publisher Lee J. Guittar accepted the
ad. "We do not like to censor ads or suppress the
free flow of information," Guittar said. "This is an
issue up to debate. The Examiner’ s position is that
Commerce and theSmall BusinessNetw0rk, has faced ¯ fion is espousing, we oeneve mey nave me nglat to
little opposition from business owners. "It makes good express their opinion." The newspaper will also
business sense," said Leno. "It g~ves business an additional
marketing tool and could help them compete With
other businesses."
It’s expected to have more impact as a symbolic
gesture than as a business measure. Most car rental
agencies in the city do not offer special rates to married
couples, and some gyms already include domestic partners
in its "family" categories.
At 24 Hottr Fitness near City Hall, domestic parmers
already fall under the club’s "couple membership"
category. But there’ s a hitch: live-in couples - straight
or Gay - have to bring in proof that they’re more than
just roommates looking for a good deal. "Joint bank
accounts are nice, and (City Hall) certificates are nice,"
said Rick Hernandez, a sales manager. "(IDs) that show
both names are nice, too."
¯ 24 Hour Fitness, which has clubs up and down the
coast and in other states, is simply adjusting to San
Francisco lifeby recognizing Gay couples, he said. "We
sponsor the Gay Pride Parade. We’re pretty big in the
community," Hemandez said. ’qt just makes sense.
Otherwise we’d be shooting ourselves in the foot."
Laura Gilleran, 23, says she and her live-in girlfriend,
T.C. Myers, are more excited by the import of the
ordinance than by the discounts. "It’ s important, since
(Gay) marriage is not legal. It’ s.important to do what it
takes until it becomes such," Gilleran said outside a bar
in the Castro District, the heart of Gay San Francisco.
And it was Gay pride - and the chance to live in city
that recognizes Lesbian partnerships - that brought
Myers, 20, to San Francisco. She, her brother and their
mother, who i~ also a Lesbian, were moving from
Arizona to Oregon when they stopped in San Francisco.
"My morn got into San Francisco and said, ’We’re
staying here. This is the Gay city of the world!’ "
Anti-Gay Ads in SFCA
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Christian groups are bringing
their national anti-Gay advertising campaign to San
Francisco’ s Stmday newspaper, causing concern in the
city’ s large Gay and Lesbiancommunity. Fifteen Chrisprint
an editorial that will challenge the ad. The
Examiner’s decision means that although the
Chronicle refused the ad, its readers will see it
Sunday. The Chronicle, which splits revenues with
The Examiner, also will get half the profit.
Examiner Executive Editor Phil Bronstein said
running the ad was a business decision and had
nothing to do with the newspaper’ s commitment to
coverage of Gay and Lesbian issues. "It is also our
responsibility to cover the controversy over these
ads, which we are doing," Bronstein said, "and to
deal with the deeper issues the ads raise, about
claims made in the ads, and about the obviously
contradictory, views people hold."
Candidate for Hawaii
: Gov. Says She’s Not Gay
: HONOLULU (AP) - The Republican gubernatorial
candidate in Hawaii claims the incumbent’s
¯ campaign is spreading false rumors that she is
homosexual. Linda Lingle’ s allegation was denied
¯ by Democratic Gov. Ben Cayetano, who has been hurt in the polls because of Hawaii’s slumping
¯ economy. A crowd member asked Lingle during a
¯ recent campaign stop whether she was Gay. "No, I
¯ amnot,"repliedLingle, themayor ofMaul County.
¯ Lingle then told The Honolulu Advertiser that a
¯ Democrat had given her a copy of a report from a
Cayetano campaign committee that raised questions
about her sexual orientation. Lingle cam-
" paign chair Bob Awana declined to release copies.
¯ Cayetano said his campaign does not discuss the
¯ private lives of any candidate:. He demanded that ¯ Lingleproduce evidence t0 substantiateher charge.
: "If they are going to make accusations,.they have a
: responsibility to back themup,’"he said.
¯ .Republicans believe they have a solid chance of
." w]nmng in Hawaii, where Democrats have held the
¯ governor’s office since 1962.und dominated the
¯ Legislature since 1954.
BALTIMORE (AP) - The first time Dr. ¯
Joel Gallant laid eyes on Michael Willis, :
he was struck by how truly awful his new :
pafientlooked. Askinnylittleemaclated ¯
creature" is what the doctor remembers. "
Willis was in the full grip of AIDS, coy- :
ered with eczema, partially paralyzed by ¯
aherpes infectionofthe spine, 140 pounds
and falling~ Death within a
year seemed almost cerlain.
Thatwas 21/2 years ago.
Now Willis, at 37, exudes
energy. He is-toned and
trim andhandsomeenough
tomodel two or three times
a week at the Maryland
Institute College ofArt. As
stunning as Willis’ turnaround
seems, it is hardly
unique. He is one of the
thousands of Americans
rescued from the edge of
death by the AIDS cocktail,
the combination of
pills that changed a uniformlylethal
disease into a
treatable one.
However,Willis’ storyis commoii~lace
for another reason as well. Despite his
look of health, he clearly has not escaped
HIV. In the brutally precise language of
medicine, Willis is a treatment failure.
Estimates vary, but perhaps 30 percent
to 60 percent of all people taking the
AIDS cocktails are considered treatment
failures, because HIV can still be found
on standard tests that are sensitive enough
to spot as few as 20 copies of the virus in
a milliliter of blood. Either their viral
levels never g.o.t thatlow or they rebounded
after a prormslng start.
When Willis first learned of his disease,
600,000 bits of virus circulated in
every milliliter of his blood. At the time,
he had been sick for a year, often so
exhausted he could not get out of bed. He
felt oddly relieved to learn the cause, even
though it turned out to be HIV. While he
steadily got better on a combination of the
protease inhibitor Crixivan and two other
drugs, the lowest his virus level ever fell
is around 1,000 - far from the zero that
defines success.
Most of his friends.with HIV have seen
- their wrus vanish. The failure of treatment
to do the same for him is obviously
di,s,a,ppointing. "Sometimes I cry about
it, he admits. But mostly he focuses on
his good fortune. He enjoys the pleasure
of playing and singing withhis rock band,
the Radiant Pig, enjoys feeling wall, enjoys
being alive. "I just try to ignore it,"
says Willis. "I wish somebody would tel!
me what is going to happen, but I don’t
want to ask, either."
But even if he asks, there are no clear
answers. No one knows for sure what will
happen, to those whose virus stays stubbornly
visible despite all~out .treatmen~
Fromthe Start ofthe epidemic, me amount
of virus has been the surest barometer of
the diseaser s course. Thehigher the level,
the faster it kills. Experts believe that if
there’ s enough HIVto measure, it’ s probably
continuin~ to damage the immune
system, even ~f more slowly than befor .
"Right now, we are seeing people like
Michael who are having less than satisfactory
virological responses. Yet clinically
he is doing wonderfully and is as
healthy as he has been in years," says
Gallant, anAIDSexpert at Johns .Hopkins
University. "We don’t know how long
that will last. But our assessment is that
without complete viral suppression, it
won’ t last forever." The doctors wonder:
Will these people start to go downhill in
two years? Five? Ten or even. l,o.nge.r?
They worry that the dramatic aecnne m
AIDS deaths of the past
... without
complete viral
suppression . ¯ ¯
[we] wonder...
will these
people start
to go. do lall
in two years?
Five? Ten
or even longer?
two years is a honeymoon,
a lull beforethe epidemic
reawakens.
"We are winning many
more battles than we won
before, but we still haven’ t
won the war," says Dr.
Michael Saag of the University
of Alabama at Birmingham.
His program
averaged 10 to 15 deaths a
monthamongits 700AIDS
patients in 1995. Then
came the cocktail. In 1996
and 1997, there were just
one to three deaths amonth.
But this year, the figures
are creeping up again, averaging
five to eight deaths a month. For
now, though, many like Willis continue to
thrive despite stable or even rising viral.
levels.
"You still see wonderful, wonderful
things happening with this therapy," says
Dr. Lori Fantry of the University ofMaryland.
"People come into the clinic and
they think you’ re God. Their symptoms
melt away before y,our eyes. The people
aren’.t failing yet. It s the numbers."
The Numbers
Scientists estimate that for every unit of
virus in a milliliter of blood, somewhere
in thebody between 100,000 and 150,000
infected cells are making HIV. A viral
load of 1,000, like Willis’, suggests between
100 million and 150 million virusmaking
cells.
Over time, these viruses may elude
AIDS drugs.by doing a sloppy job of
reproducing themselves. No unit of HIV
is exactly like its parent. With each copy
it makes, HIV introduces an average of
one error into its~genetic code. Chances
are, everyone with HIV carries a virus
with a random mutation that makes it
capable of resisting whatever drug comes
along.
When patients start treatment, doctors
give them three drugs - typically a protease
inhibitor and two older medicines -
that they have never taken before. The
idea is to hit the virus hard, knocking its
production so low that lurking resistant
versions never have a chance to be made
¯ in quantity.
¯ Whentreatment pushes the virus below
~ detectable levels and keeps it there, doc-
~ tors feel fairly certain that patients will
stay healthy for several years. If treatment
" fails, it’s because swarms of drug-resis-
: tant viruses have been produced.
¯ Doctors listthreemainreasons for treat-
" meatfailure: Patients neglect to take their
~ medicines on schedule; they already have
: lots of resistant virus because of earlier
: exposure to medicines, or their doctors
, treated them inadequately.
" Failure to take medicines consistently
." is probably No. 1. Missing just a few
¯ dosesallows resistant viruses to grow
explosively. Once that happens, there is
: no guarantee that switching drugs will do
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Not Protect
BOSTON (AP) - A study challenges the
popular belief that spermicides protect
against AIDS and other sexually transmitted
diseases. The research, conducted
onprostitutes in Cameroon, found no sign
that combining the common spermicide
nonoxynol 9 with condoms worked any
better than condoms alone. The findings
were first reported in Washington last
year. They are now being published in a
recent issue of the New England Journal
of Medicine.
Thestudywas conductedon 1,292 HIVnegative
prostitutes and directed by Dr.
Rohald E. Roddy of Family Health International
of Durham, North Carolina.
The women were given condoms and
were randomly assigned to get either a
spermicide film or an inactive placebo
film. They were told to insert the film into
their vaginas before, intercourse and to
require their sex partners to use the condoms.
The._study~. was conducted between
March i994 and December 1996. Just
under7 percent ofwomen in both groups
became infectedwith theAIDS virus during
thecourseofthestudy. Thespermicide
also didnot reduce the risk of gonorrhea
or chlamydia infection.
The research contradicts earlier work
suggesting that nonoxynoi 9 is moderat~
y effectiveagainstgohorrheaandsome
~other sexually transmi~edinfections. Tests
in animals and test tubes have also shown
signs that spermicides can inactivate the
AIDS viruS, but studies in people have
: track people, eitherby name or by code, it
would seek permission to notify past and
: present partners of those infected with
¯¯ HIV. Parmersatriskwouldbeurgedtobe
tested. "If we continue to focus only on ¯
AIDS and not HIV, more broadly, werisk
: failing to do everything possible for prevention
and care," added Daniel Zingale,
i executive director of AIDS Action, a ha-
: tional AIDS advocacy groupin Washing-
" ton, D.C.
¯ Ms. Forbes said studies show "people ¯
will avoid getting tested altogether if they
¯ believe theirnameis going tobereported."
¯ Texas Looking at
: HIV Reporting
: AUSTIN (AP)-A Gay and Lesbian civil
~ rights group is raising concerns about a
¯ proposal that would require health-care
¯ providers to report the names of pep.pie
: who test positive for the AIDS vmm.
:’ oDfiathnee LHeasrbdiyan-GaanrdeiGa,ayexReciguhtitvseLdoibrbeyctoorf
¯ Texas, saidher organizatio~has not taken.
: a formal position against the propos~
¯ pending before the Texas Department ot
: Health.
¯ Butshe saidmanypeopleonthe group’ S
¯ 17-member board of directors are con-
" cerned about possible discrimination
¯ agaiusf those who test positive for the
: Human lmmunodeficiency Virus.
¯ Health department officials said the
: names of people with AIDS and other
¯ sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) al-
: ready are reported. But those who test
¯" ies because stringent testing meant the
¯ clinics did not carry the same risks as
¯ private donor insemination, notably the
¯ possibility of AIDS contamination.
¯ However,the state SupremeCourtover-
: turned the decision, after the clinic ap-
¯ pealed, saying it had the right to refuse
¯ treatment because the woman was not
¯ infertile:
¯" The Court of Appeal upheld the Su-
: preme Court f’mding on Tuesday, saying
¯ thewomanhadnotbeen direcdy discrimi-
: nated against on the basis of her Lesbian-
" ism.
¯ Justices Bill Pincus, Geoffrey Davies
: and James Thomas found the Lrib,nal
: president, Roslyn Atldnson, erredin find-
" ing that Lesbianism was thereason for the
¯ refusal of treatment. ¯
However, the court sent back to the
: tribunal issues of indirect discrimination
¯ and a possible exemption under the Anti-
" Discrimination ACt. "
~
: The issue of indirect discrimi_nation re,
: lates to whether the clinic: acted reasonably
in its imposition of a condition that
all women t~eated must :have a consent
: form signed by a male partner.
i Conn. City-Debates
Needle Exchange
." NEW BRITAIN, Conn.. (AP) - Heroin is
: the drug ofchoice in thisdepressed,Work-
¯ ing-class city, where addicts sharing dirty
: needles have pushed the HIV infection
_" rate to four orfive times the state average.
: The mayor acknowledges that drugs are
positive for HIV are reported to the de- - far and away the city’s the biggest law
p.ro.au.c.ea.c.om.u.c.un.g.re.su.tt~...A.~.tuu.,y.. u_f .; paa:r,,tm, .e.n.t.via 12-digit numbers. The 12- : enforcement heada$he,. ~.o h.... ~,,’,’- ,,sed for four ’ Yetsevenvearsatter~ew navenesta0-
the contracepUve sponge,, conducted on .,~. D....1.~,4,~.~..t,~,~..t~.irlth~vstem .... lish_e~dComke~ef!cuf slurs
pmsttmt.esAn Kenya, :was s:tpp~ e._arl~ : .hfi~5if~;h-t~bfllv.26 tier~entof the~gtat~’ s " ..program, ~ew B~n tias
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AIDS infection. "Weneed a more accurate and reliable " summed up m a word: Politics. "’This is
Family Health International is a non~
profit research group that focuses on improving
reproductive health, primarily
through contraception and the prevention
of sexually transmitted diseases.
Penn. Looks at
HIV Tracking
HARRISBURG, PA (AP) - The state
Health Department already tracks AIDS
cases and now is considering monitoring
HIV cases in hopes of treating people
earlierandmoreeffectively, officials said.
Monitoring HIV, the virus that causes
AIDS, has been overlooked in the past,
saidDeputyHealth Secretary Gary Gurian.
Pennsylvania is one of 19 states that
doesn’ t trackHIV cases. Thirty-two states
already track the number of people with
HIV, two of which use codes instead of
names to record HIV-infeeted people.
Thenew state.plans arebeing applauded
by AIDS advocates and officials with the
Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
"Tracking HIV cases is important because
it helps us to understand how the
epidemic is moving and where resources
need to be allocated," Anna Forbes, an
AIDS activist and policy consultant in
Philadelphia said. In Pennsylvania, more
than 8~200 people haveAIDS, statehealth
officials said.
Within the next few months, the CDC
will establish guidelines forPennsylvania
and other states on HIV surveillance and
reporting, said Dr. Helene Gayle, director
for the CDC’s National Center for HIV
STD and TB Prevention.
But it is not known when the system
will be in place, Gurian said. The Health
Department said once it decides how to
¯ way to link populations affected by HIV,,
¯ with preventive and medical services,’ said Dr. Sharilyn Stanley, head HIV and
¯ STD-Prevention for the department. "If ¯
¯ wehavenamereporling ofHIV,wewould
be able to help a lot more people earlier."
: Ms. Hardy-Garcia said her group feels
: caught in a tough position. While they
¯ wantmore accurate counts ofpeople with ¯
HIVfor medical treatment and funding
¯ purposes, they don’ t want those people to
¯ be exposed to discriminati6n, she said. "I
think one thing that we have talked about
¯
is maybe there should be civil penalties
¯ for disclosure," she said.
¯ Ms. Stanley said the names of people ¯
with AIDS and other STDs are confiden-
: tial. Those with HIV wouldbe treated the
¯ same way, she said. "More than 45,000
¯ casesofAIDS havebeenreportedinTexas
: with no breaches of confidentiality," Ms.
~ Stanley added.
¯ The Texas Board of Health will for-
~ really consider the proposal in Novem-
¯
beg.
: Aussie Lesbian
: Loses Sperm Case
¯
BRISBANE, (AP) -Queensland,
¯ Australia’s highest state court ruled re-
. cendy that a donor sperm clinic did not
¯ discriminate against a Lesbian when .it
; refused to inseminate her.
: LastJanuary, the QucenslandAnti-Dis-
¯ crimination Tribunal found the 24-year-
¯ oldwomanhadbeendiscriminated against
: by the clinic on the basis of her sexuality.
¯ The woman, who is now a mother of
¯ two, has gone on record as saying she led
the crusade for Lesbian access to the din¯
still a very conservative, very blue-collar
kindof town," MayorLucian Pawlak says.
¯ "People are very divided on this issue."
¯ Pawlak says the prevailing sentiment is
¯ that drugs are mostly a Latino problem. ¯
Other issues, such as revitalizing the city
: andlowering the tax rate, are seen as more
¯ pressing.
¯ Hudson Birden, the city’ s health direc- ¯
tor, is more interested in stopping the
¯ spreadofAIDS than political demograph-
: its. He’ s pushing for a needle exchange
¯ program and says his seven-member
board, appointed by the mayor, is behind
¯ him. At present New Britain’s AIDS
¯ awareness program is funded strictly by ¯
state and federal money. Birden and Gail
¯
Ide, who runs the program, note that fed-
: eral funds may not be used for needle
¯ exchange programs. They hope to fund ¯
¯ their proposed program with a combination
of state and private money. Birden
¯ sa.vs he may ask for as little as $25,000, or
¯ evenhalf that. It depends on the program.
¯" "It’ s a local decision as to whether or
¯ not a city has a needle exchange proi
gram," said Kenneth Carley, an epidemi-
¯¯ ologist in the state Health Department.
"The research indicates that the program
¯ is effective in reducingtherisk ofHIV by
¯ 33 percent a year. It also gets people into
¯ drug treatment."
: Birden expects thathe will face opposi-
¯ tion in theNew BritainCommonCouncil,
~ buthe says itis very important toholdthe
¯ line against HIV. Mayor Pawlak, mean-
: while, says he’ s not sure that the program
: doesn’ t make it easier for drug addicts to
¯ shootup."I needmore informationbefore
¯ I decide... It could be that I 11 decide not
¯ to spend my political capital on such an
¯ emotionally charged issue."
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you host the Annual Miss Gay Croquet
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yoOx own yard? Does
thatold chainlinkfence
clash with your fabulous
landscaping?
Then, gentle reader, it
is time to install that
privacy fence. The
DIYD whimsically envisions
a barebreasted
dtaimming circle.., but
we digress.
Privacy fencing is a
majorinvestment, even
when you do it yourself,
although taking on
the labor, as always,
results in a substantial
savings. If you can persuade
yourneighbors to
help defray the cost (after
all, you are enhancing
their privacy and
property too), the
projectwillbe evenless
painful; however, a caveat
is in order. If the
guy nextdoorhelps pay,
he will be tempted-
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heterosexuality of your
neighbors get you down?
Tired of the bucolic
voyeurism that occurs
whenever you host the
Annual Miss Gay
Croquet Tournament?
Do you lon~ for
privacy in
your own yard?
... Then, ~ent]e reader,
it is time to install
that privacy fenee.
The DIYD whlmsleally
envlslons a ]~arehreasted
drummln~ elrele
... hut we alltess.
fence. Now, for your picket choices, in
order of expense: white wood pickets
have no protection, can be easily stained
any color you want, and will not last more
thanfiveyears or so, dependingonweather
conditions. If money is tight, go with that
optionnow,use screws
to attach them, then replace
them out later
when you can afford
to, but this is wasteful
of time, money and resources.
There arenow
pre-treated pickets,
same as above except
that you didn’ t have to
stain them. They cost
slighdy more.
Next option is pressure
treated pickets,
which have been
soaked in pickling
compounds topreserve
the wood long-term.
TheDIYDdoesn’ tcare
forthese chemicals and
strongly urges you to
use gloves when handling
them, and a dust
mask when sawing the
wood. Thepickets were
trees only a couple of
weeks ago, so they will
be heavy and damp
no, obliged-tostickhisnoseinandoffer " when you first get them and may warp
advice ad nauseum. Usually, this doesn’t ¯ when they dry. Cedar is the creme de la
extend to his actually digging a post hole : creme of pickets - beautiful, fragrant,
or hel in in an other hysical way. : enduring, lightweight, tough and expen-
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Once you’ ve chosen your picket type,
you can determine your spacing betwee..n"
posts. Assuming a six foot fence, you wall
need to have eight feet between them for
pressure treated pickets and ten feet for
the cedar and white wood pickets. Depending
on the length of the fence, reducing
the number of holes you have to dig
may influence your picket choice! Measure
the length tbbe fenced, calculatehow
many posts you’ll need (don’t forget that
lumber length isas nominal as the width
mentioned above), andthen calculatehow
many stringers you’ll need. Stringers will
be 2x4’ s, and there will be three per section.
Calculate how many pickets you’ll
need. and add a few for a fudge factor.
For fasteners, you will use either nails
(frown, frown) or screws, and you will
use about five per picket. If you choose
cedar, be warned that only stainless steel
fasteners will work. Cedar has volatile
oils and acids that corrode metal and will
bleed’black goo down your lovely fence
otherwise. We 11 discuss thi alittle more
next month and a source will provided for
buying a superior fastener.
Ifyouhave donethe mathonthis project
already, theDIYD will fetch her smelling
salts post haste. Wood security fencing is
one of the more expensive fencing options,
after masonry-and cast iron, but it
will increase the value of your home. and
¯ the quality of your life if privacy is an
: issue, so do consider the investment until
¯
next month, when we get down and dirty
¯ with our PHDs. And learn that posthole
¯ diggers aren’t your only 0pti,o,n,, either.
¯ Stick with the DIYD, doll; she 11 see you
¯ through the rough times.
all means, let them have the homely side
of the fence - even if they help pay. After
all, you are the poor schlepp out there ¯
doing the donkey work, so reap your ben- ~
efits where you may. ¯
How much privacy do you need? No, ¯
this isn’t your mother questioning you --
through the bathroom door. If you have a ¯
pool orare surroundedby twostory houses,
an eightfoot fencemay be more appropri- ¯
ate than the standard six-footer, but keep ¯
in mind that you will be adding substantially
to your materials costs, ff you decide
to space artistically between your
fence pickets, that too is a privacy issue.
Decisions, decisions -wait, there are
more! You have choices to make about
the width of your pickets and the type of
wood. Standard widths are4 and 6inches,
nominally. Sawmills are allowed to be
scandalously generous withwhatis lostin
the milling, so a 6 inch board may only be
5-5/8 inches wide. The DIYD personally
prefers the wider picket; it is aesthetically
more pleasing, it covers more area, and
you use fewer fasteners. Woods range
from untreated white wood to pressure
treated lumber to cedar. Posts and stringers
(theboards runningbetween thepost.s)
can and shouldbe pressure treated, but the
externals are up to you.
There is now a metal po.st option, butbe
warned that the posts will cost more than
double, so think long and hard about
whether it is worthwhile. Also, part of the
workmustbe done on the other side of the
fence, so if you and the Fundies next door
detest each other, stick to the wood posts
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by Esther Rothblum
There has been a lot of recent media
focus on crimes that take place based on
victims’ membershipin oppressedgroups.
To find out more about anti-Lesbian and
Gay hate crimes, I phoned Dr. Jeanine
Cogan, apsychologist whohas conducted
research and influenced federal policy on
this issue.
¯¯Hate crimes are defined legally by
specific !egislations," saidJeanine Cogan,
"howeverthecommonality across the different
pieces of legislation is that hate
crimes are crimes that are based on real or
perceivedgroupmembership. Usuallythat
includes race, ethnicity, national origin,
and religion. Sometimes it also includes
sexual orientation, disability and gender.
Thatmeans you were specifically chosen,
sometimes out ofa crowd, because you
belonged to or were-thought to belong to,
one of the above groups."
Along with Drs. Gregory Herek, Roy
Gillis and Eric Ginnt at theUniversity of
California at Davis, Jeanine worked on a
long-term grant funded by the National
Institute ofMental Health (in fact, the first
grant ever funded by that organization
about Gay and Lesbian issues that did not
focus on AIDS). The purpose ogthe re=
search study was to look at the psychological
consequences of having survived
an anti-Gay or anti-Lesbian hate crime.
The researchteam also predicted that experiencing
a hate crime would have more
serious consequences than experiencing a
crime that was not based on the group
membership of the victim.
They surveyed more than 2,500 people
in the greater Sacramento, California area,
including people who lived up to 100
miles away in rural areas. "When we were
recruiting participants we never said
¯ please takepartin astudy ofhate crimes,’
because we didn’t want to bias the kind of,
personwho wouldparticipatein the study,"
said Jeanine. Instead, they referred to the
study as one examining a range of experiences
important to Lesbians, Gay men,
and Bisexuals with a focus on health and
well-being All members of the research
team were familiar members of the Gay
and Lesbian communities that-they studied.
The research team found that one in
four Gay and Bisexual men and one in
five Lesbians and Bisexual women had
experienced a hate-motivated crime since
the age of 16. Jeanine said: "We found
that individuals who experienced a hate
crime against their person - a physical or
sexual assault, an attempted assault, a
robbery - had more psychological distress
after such a hate crime-than people
who experienced a crime of Similar severity
that was not aimed at them because of
their sexual orientation. We also found a
time factor. We know that people who
experience a crime tend to be psychologically
distressed. And; over time, people
recover. In our study, we found that those
who had experienced a crime that was not
abate crime tended to feel better after two
years. But people who experienced a hate
crime took much longer - five years on
average- for their symptoms to dissipate.
So if you’re around someone who experienced
a hate-crime years ago, you may
still see some symptoms ofdistress."These
symptoms of distress could include depression,-
post-traumatic stress, anxiety
~ and anger.
¯ Thentheresearch teaminterviewed450
¯ of the 2,500 respondents. They compared
" those who had experienced a hate crime,
¯ those who had experienced a crime un~e-
¯ lated to their sexual orientation, and those
¯ who had experien,c,ed no crime. "We got a
¯ lot of information about hate crimes,"
¯ Jeaninesaid, "and those people who had
¯ experienced a bate’crime often defined it
¯ as such based on tangible evidence. For
, example, the language that was used -
¯ being called adyke while being assaulted.
¯ Or, the vandalism indicated a hate-moti-
¯¯ vated crime, such as having the word
’Lesbian’ smearedontheirdoorwithpaint.
¯ Or theirs was the only car with a rainbow
flag, and the only car damaged in a park-
. ing lot."
." Jeanine found that listening to the re-
" spondents’ stories was quite frightening
¯ to her. She counseled the other interview-
¯ ers about this fear, a phenomenon that has ¯
been termed "indirect trauma" (for ex-
¯ ample, Lesbians feeling victimized just
¯ by hearing of hate crimes happening to ¯
¯ other Lesbians). She also found a difference in the way
¯ Lesbians and Gay men were victimized.
¯ "SomeLesbianswerephysically assaulted ¯
by a formermale partner, suchas aformer
; husband, when the Lesbians came out to
~ these men," Jeanine recalled, "We ended
¯ upcallingit’heterosexualrevenge.’ Some
~ -Gay men, on the other hand, were lured to
¯ have sex by other, presumed ’straight’
] men and then assaulted by these men.
"And this. was a pattern we found only
; amongib’~ff.’,.....
¯ Jeanine is now working at the Ameri-
; can Psychological Association in Washington,
D.C., where she is involved in
~ changing hate crime policy at thenational
¯ level. "I’ve been working with Sharon
¯ Shaw Johnson, who is the director of ¯
GLOVE-Gay Menand Lesbians Oppos-
: ing Violence- and they collecthatecrimes
: dataand do interventions. Both ofus have
¯ noticed that it is the butch woman and the
; ’effeminate’ man who are at particular
¯ risk for hate crimes because they defy our
; ideas of gender."
¯ Jeanine’ s policy Workfocuses onbroad-
; ening the definition of hate crimes. As
¯ part of a hate "crimes coalition, she is
¯ ; attempting toamend a current civil rights
¯ statute that canbe used against aperpetra-
-" tor who bashes a person based on that
¯ person’s group membership. Sheis trying
; to include sexual orientation~ disability
¯ andgenderinthedefmition ofhatecrimes. ¯
’q’he real hot pOtato is gender," she says.
~ ’qqae FBI is concerned that if every rape
¯ against a woman is a hate crime, they
¯ don’t have the personnel to cope with the
¯ huge numbers." With a broad-based hate
¯ crimes coalition, Jeanine had many con-
¯. versations with.the Department of Justice
abotit the inclusion of gender as a hate
¯ crime. In the end, they supported adding
¯ gender, and President Clinton has en-
¯ dorsed the:Hate Crime Prevention Act ¯
and has put fundsinto the budget formore
: FBIagents t6 work on hate crimes.
¯ Jeanine is also thrilled to have been
¯ successful in combining research with
: policy. The Bureau of Justice Statistics
: conducts an annual survey on criminal
i
victimization. TheySample 50,000 households
in the Lr;S. about crime experiences
] in the past year. see Psyche, p. 14
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by Lamont Lindstrom
Someone left amessage onmy answering
machine the other day and a friend,
who heard it, said that the voice sounded
like a"real woman." This was no complimerit.
My friend was disgusted
that any guy could
sound that much like a gift.
This set me thinking about
Americancultural categories
- the basic opposition we
make between masculinity
and femininity.
These categories occupy
our minds and have wormed
their way deep enough into
our bodies so that, like my
friend, we often feel emotionally
queasy when they
are challenged: When, for
example, we overhear a person
who looks boy but talks
girl.
Male and female, black
and white, on or off, dot/
dash, 1/0, straight versus
Gay. Even though the world
presents us with continuums
of difference, we often tidy
up these endless chains of
variation by squeezing everything
into two opposed
states or categories.
",in America, despite our
Crayola mix of skin colors
not to mention our promiscuo.
usancestries, many ofus
are forced to identify ourselves
in terms of a simple
For many
Americans,
trapped wit]fin
a cultural order
that permits
only pink girls
and blue-boys,
Homosexuals
are not kosher.
Like ancient
Israelites, they
define Gays
who mix up
their categories
to be unholy,
polluted,
unclean, or just
downright icky
abominations¯
opposition black or wlaite,..., _: _ .. i(-;.~~-. ’-.~.
~m~larly, despite the ~a~ ~om~ s~me
geneticists propose the existence of.five
or more "real" genders (as defined by. the
mix of an individual’ s sex chromosomes,
e.g., XY, XX, XXY, XYY, and soforth)~
all of us find ourselves slotted eithermale
or female. Just one or the other. You can’ t
be neither, and you can’ t be both at once.
Binary oppositions of this sort are ubiquitous
in human culture. Dualistic structures,
certainly, are easy and efficient
ways of breaking down the world’ s.complexity,
even if nuance and variability get
lost beneath gross simplification.
The French anthropologistClaude IMvi-
Strauss made a career of investigating the
basic binary structures he saw as inhabit:
ing human culture-and as shaping individual
thinking. Dualism almost always
demands the existence of a third category;
of something in the middle to "mediate"
relations between the two opposed sides.
Gray stands between black and whitethough
with ethnicity, the pertinent color
hereis "red," or "high-yellow," or"bright."
And many cultural orders admit a variety
of "third sexes" or hermaphrodites, real
and symbolic, positionedbetween thetwo
male/female gender poles.
The mediating position is rarely a comfortable
one. Individuals who fall through
the cracks of dual structures of understanding
inhabit a realm of anomaly and
abnormality. On the one hand, they are
neitherfully malenorfemale; ontheother,
they are both male and female. This has
positive and negative consequence. Positively~
people who are neither man nor
women can serve to bridge the two categories
that they fall between.
Homosexuals, for example, mediate a
series of oppositions in Western society
that build on a fundamental masculine/
; feminine opposition. Thesebinaries range
¯ ~rom agent/patient to culture/nature and
¯ sacred/profane.
¯ -, Cultural theorists find important sym-
¯ bolic functions for intermediateindividuals
as’well. Their existence
shores up ruling understandings
ofmasoflinityandfemininity
- to remind people of
how tO be "normal" by presenting
them with examples
of the abnormal.
The boy learns how to be
a real man by fearing the
sissy. But those who fall
between cultural crackshave
to struggle against cognitive
structures that positively
value the normal (the real
man and true woman) by
devaluing the categorically
deviant (the sissy boy, the
rough girl).
Anthropologist Mary
Douglas offers an apposite
analysis of food taboos demanded
by the Old Testament,
the so-called"Abominations
of .Leviticus." She
asks, "Why should the
camel, the hare and the rock
badger be unclean (or unholy)?
Why should some
locusts, but not all, be unclean?"
Her answer is that, in old
Hebrew culture, "holiness
was exemplified by com-
.pleteness. Holiness requlred::!~i, :
° the class to which they belonged. And
¯ holiness required that different classes of
¯ things not be confused."
: The model of good eating, for ancient
Israelites, was the cud-chewing ungulate:
- herd animals such as cattle, sheep, and
", goats. Other creatures, like the hare and
¯ rock badger, appeared to be ruminant but
¯ were anomalous in that they had paws
instead of cloven hooves. And other am-
" mals - notably the pig- walked on cloven
feet but did not chew cud. Therefore,
because pigs and hares violated categorical
definitions of the"normal" cud-chew-
" ing cloven-hoofed animal, they were un-
¯ clean.
Jewish food taboos reflected a cosmo-
¯
logical system that defined as unholy and
¯ inedible any animal who appeared abet-
¯ rant or "mixed" in terms of ruling cat-
¯ egorical structures.
¯
Insofar as wecontinue to slice the world
¯, up into male versus female, we too may
¯ feel queasy when we come across bits of ¯
reddity that escape our structures ofunder-
¯
standing. For many Americans, trapped
: within a cultural order that permits only
¯ pinkgirls and blue boys, homosexuals are
¯" not kosher. Like ancient Israelites, they
¯
define Gays who mix up their categories
¯ to be unholy, polluted, unclean, or just ¯
downright icky abominations.
¯
This comes fromliving inside theprison
¯ house ofculture-ofmindlessly accepting
¯ dualistic constraints on thought and emo-
~ tion. But cultural systems do change over
¯
time, and they may be challenged and
¯ restructured. Shake up those cultural cat-
: egones a little and pigs become good to
¯ eat. And so do delicious boys who can
¯
sound like girls.
¯ Larnont Lindstrom is a professor of
¯ anthropology at the University of.Tulsa.
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However, staying on treatment isn’t easy.
It often means taking 15 or 20 pills a day
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As the medicines do their job, HIV
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and this summer he had his first bout with
an AIDS-related illness. ’q’hcre arc an
awful lot of us who are just a little bit too
late," he says. "I don’t think they will
come up with something that will make
miracle stories out of us."
¯ S.om.e appear to suffer because of phyr
Slclan incompetence, too. For instance,
doctors may err by adding a protease
inhibitor to two other medicines their pa-
¯ tients are already taking, instead of starting
themon three fresh drugs. This greatly
increases the risk of rampant resistance.
AIDS-care has become so complicated,
many believe, that it now should be done
¯ only by specialists who know how to
: avoid such potentially fatal mistakes.
¯ Once someone fails AIDS treatment,
: the next step is what doctors call salvage
therapy - the art of crafting a second
¯ attempt to knock down the virus. They
¯ may prescribe five or six drugs at once.
: "You end up with a kitchen sink ap-
¯ proach," says Dr.. Kenneth Mayer of
¯
Brown University. "You try to pull to-
" gether every possible combination to keep
¯ the virus in check."
Willis is an extreme example, of this.
Gallanthas himonsevenanti-AIDS drugs,
plus an assortment of others to ward off
AIDS-related infections.
Once aweek, Willis hauls out an orange.
crate of big white pill bottles and counts
outhis week’s dosage. Hetakes afistful of
pills with breakfast, another handful with
dinner; anda couple.more at bedtime, 35
in all. "I’ve just made it part of my life,"
Willis says. "I don’t really have any options.
If I’m dead, I know that my options
are limited."
Along withmany other advocates, Jeanine
was successful¯in getting this survey to
includequestions about hate crimes. This
will allow for. national statistics about
hate crimes over the next years. Documenting
the prevalence of an issue is an
essential step for receiving an appropriate
government response. So this will be all
important contribution.
EstherRothblum teachespsychology at
the Univ. of Vermont and. edits the JournalofLesbian
Studies. Shecan be reached
at John Dewey Hall, UVM, Burlington,
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Inhofe Still Blocking Gay
Ambassadorial Nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate faces a decision
soon on whether America will have its first openly Gay
ambassador. Supporters of James Hormel are demanding
he at least get a vote while conservative opponents
insist that Republicans take a stand on a key "lifestyle"
Issue.
Hormel, President Clinton’s choice ~to be envoy to
Luxembourg, was the only foreign ~elations nominee
not acted upon at the end of last year’s session. Three
Republican senators, expressing concern that he would
use the post to promote a "Gay agenda", put "holds" on
the nomination, effectively freezing it.
Democrats now-are demanding action. Before leaving
for the Easter recess, 42 Democrats sent Senate
Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., a lett~r supporting
the nomination and urging a vote. Democrats also took
: -Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual + Transgendered Tulsans, ,Our Families + Friends
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i
Tulsa’s Gay You!h Progra,ms
Hurt by States Inact,on
: O’RYAN Program in Limbo Dueto Funding Lapse
¯ TULSA - Red Rock Behavioral Health Center is in a financial
: crisis with its Lesbian/Gay youth support program. The program
¯ which goes by the acronym, O’RYAN for Oklahoma Rainbow
¯ Young Adults’ Network, provides."developmentally appropri-
¯ ate" education, support and social activities for "Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgendered andquestioning" adolescents and young
: adults from 14 to 24.
~ According to Betsy Murphy, program director, a large portion
:’ of the program had been funded through a federal grant for HIV
¯ prevention and education from the CDC, Centers for Disease
¯ Control. However, the grants are administered through the Okla-
¯. homa State Dept. of Health (OSDH) which is running weeks
behind schedule in seeking grant proposals. While Murphy was
¯ extremely reluctant to criticize OSDH, she acknowledged that in
¯ the past OSDH has handled grants so that a new year’s grant if
¯ won, began close to the time the prior year’s grant ended. And ¯
although Red Rock pays for a substantial part of the costs of the
¯" O’RYAN program, theOSDHgrants typically have paid most of
¯ staff salaries. As ofApril 1 st, nomore funds are coming fromthe
CDC/OSDH and Murphy is appealing to theTulsa community to
¯ provide financial aid. "
,,
¯ In a press release, Red Rock states, while in the past, we have
: been able to weather out these funding cycles, the situation now
¯ is dire and without outside help, we cannot continue.. "
¯ Red Rock notes that the program has helped hundreds of youth
: in Tulsa County and surrounding areas. O’RYAN. provides
: weekly support groups, individual and family counseling, HIV
¯ peer education and HIV testing and counseling, a informational
¯ library, and safe, alcohol-free and drug-free recreational and
social events. O’RYANhelps to providepositiverole models and
to the Senate floor to express concern that confirmation : helps to foster a sense of self-esteem and worth.
w,.aso..em..gn.e.ta.up.o.m.y.tw..,cau¯ se’t"iIorm,e,l"-,isVOay "r~rej"u.."... D.on.au.on.s c.an.be7m.a.de.t.o O..RYAN, c/oRedRockBeha ]oral :" : =
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Oklahoma Gay : ROdeo: ..........P[a-nning for Tulsa-Pride
Group Holds 13the.Event : March. &. Picnic Under Way
Red Ribbon Revue.& Concessions Carwash Slated
TTULSA - Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, in conjunction
with several co~umuaity businesses is preparing for this
June’s Pride Events. On June 6th, Concessions will be again
holding another Drag Queen Car Wash from 11-4 in the back
parking lot of the dub, 3340 S. Peoria. Organi,zers promise the
event will happen come rain or shine, and last year’s car wash did
have a little rain.
This year’s event will benefit TOHR and Tulsa’s Gay Pride
Picnic. Organizers say yon will see all your favorite Broo"kside
Divas and some of Oklahoma’s top title holders wash cars for
charity in full drag and there may also be a man or two in a string
bi"kini helping out. Donations will be collected for these charities
through out that weekend- notjust at the ear wash. Tickled Pink
will have ffome Pride items available for sale also. Organizers
added that last year they raised $1000 and that this year they hope
to double or triple that amount.
Later on that Saturday, Renegades/Rainbow Room will be
holding their annual Red Ribbon Revue which will also benefit
this year’s Pride events. Helga will host this event and call
Renegades at 585-3405 for details and times.
This year’s Pride events have moved again due to concerns
from the City ofTulsa’s Parkand Recreation Dept. about parking
problems at Owen Park~ This year’s site is Veteran Park between
18th & 21st Streets at Boulder. Rick Martin, Pride Events
coordinator noted that this park is larger than Owen and though
it doesn’t have much parking itself, it is surrounded by business
parking lots which should be available on a Saturday.
While a few community members, such as those in sensitive
professions, like public school teachers, have expressed concerns
about the more visible location, many others have welcomed the
new site - especially the owners of Renegades/Rainbow Room
which is 2 blocks north of the park. Details are not yet available
: but organizers indicate that Renegades will host a post picnic
¯ event. TOHR co-organizer Greg Gatewood said that plans are
¯ underway for the 2rid annual Pride March to be held just before ¯
and to the picnic but that details will be forthcoming. Organizers
¯
note that community organizations and businesses are Welcome
¯ to have booths at the Picnic for a modest fee.
: Later in June, probably June 28th, Oklahoma City will ho~t the
¯
statewide Pride parade. More details should be available in early
¯
June on those events. Info. on Pride events, call 743~4297.
OKLAHOMACITY - OKC will host the annual Great "
Plains Regional Rodeo on Memorial Day Weekend, ."
May 22 -24. While the rodeo will take place in the newly ¯
remodeled and air-conditioned Barn Six of the Okla- "
homa State Fairgrounds in southwest Oklahoma City, ¯
registration, parties and the awards ceremony will be’at ¯
the Ramada Inn Airport Northwest. :
The Great Plains Regional Rodeo is One of a number :
of continent wide rodeos sponsored by 23 member
associations of the International Gay Rodeo Associa- ¯
tion. While many of these organizations are in the "
southwest, there are also groups in California, Wash- "
ington, DC and in Canada.
The Oklahoma Gay Rodeo Association (OGRA) was ¯
formed in 1984 to promote rodeo-ing and to raise funds
to fight HIV and AIDS. Since 1986, OGRAhas contrib- "
uted over $60,000 to Oklahoma AIDS organizations.
OGRA invites all who are interested to join the "
organization -neither riding nor competing are re- "
quired. Tickets f0r this year’s rodeo are $30 for the "
packet which includes both days rodeo events, the ¯
Friday evening party and the awards ceremony. Tickets "
to individual~events are available at the door. Room "
rates at the Ramada are $55 for up to four persons, and "
suites are $95/evening. Call 405-~47-2351 for reservations;
"
OtherDivisi0n III rodeos are: Omaha, NE, June 19- "
21; Wichita, KS, AUgust %9;. and Kansas City, MO, ¯
August 29-31, The Internatii~nal:iGay !~odeo..Association
Finals Rodeo .will beheld ~inPho~i~x-, ~AZ0n "
October 22-25. ¯ ’ "
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DIRECTORY~E~ERS P..~
US & WORLD NEWS P..4
HEALTH NEWS "- P. 6
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES P: 8 COMMUNITY CALENDAR P. 9 -
BOOK REVIEW P~ 10
RESTAURANT REVIEW P. 11
GAY STUDIES + DO-IT-YOURSELF P. 12
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i Oklahoma House
Attacks Gays Again
¯ TULSA, Okla. (AP)-Oneoftheresolutions adopted
in 1997 by the Democratic Party State Conventiofi
¯ says the party "opposes, deplores and disavows
¯ discrimination, extremism and hatred of every ¯
kind."
But state Democratic lawmakers raised no argu-
: ment recently when a bill to bar convicts from
¯ working in schools was amended to also bar "ho-
¯ mosexuals or lesbians": Nor did they say anything ¯ when legislation was amended to bar children
¯ being placed in the foster care of"someone who is
¯ a homosexual or a lesbian." ¯
Both amendments were offered by Republican
¯ lawmakers who are vocal about their opposition to
¯ homosexuality. But it was Oklahoma Democratic
¯ Party ExecutiveDirector PatHall who was taken to
task for the inaction of Democratic lawmakers, a
¯ story in Sunday’s Tulsa World said.
¯ In aletter toHall,TomNeal, editor and publisher
of Tulsa Family News, said it may be the Republi-
¯ cans who publicly bash Gays, but it is the Democrats
who are passing the legislation.
¯ "I genuinely believe that these nearly unanimous
votes help create a climate where physical assaults
¯ are considered perfectly acceptable," said Neal,
¯ citing Gay-bashing crimes, including an assault on
¯ two men in Tulsa. "Why is it, Pat, that Democrats ¯
only recognize my.community’s existence when
¯ they’re voting to compare us to convicted felons
¯ who should notbe allowed to teach, but when we’re
¯ being assaulted.., we don’t exist," Neal asked.
Hall tried to defend House Democrats and their
¯ failure to debate the amendments.’ If) ou debate it,
¯ it gives thos~ preaching hate a bully pulpit," he
~ ’ said. "If youjustmove it through with a voice vote,
¯ then you have eliminated, see House, page 3
Equality Begins at Home
:1999 March= on The
Oklahoma State Capitol
¯ April 29, 1997 - The Federation of Statewide
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and April 29, 1997 - The
; Federatiola of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
¯ and Transgender Political Organizations will spon-
: sor a historic, coordinated weekofactions focussed
: on state government and statewide organizang.
," After many national and statewide discussions and
¯ after conducting a state-by-state assessment from
¯
its members, the Federation of Statewide Lesbian,
¯ Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Orgam-
¯ zations has decidedit is time to focus energy on our
¯ home states. Under the theme Equality Begins at
¯
Home, each state is called upon toplan an activity
¯ - amarch, rally,lobby day, state conference, or any
other visibility campaign m their state capitol to
: occur during the week of March 21-27, 1999.
¯ Equality Begins at Home will provide an opportunity
to focus the national spotlighton the organiz-
: ing challenges and legislative battles faced by the
¯ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender people in
¯ state houses across the nation. The goal is to build
¯ statewide orgamzing capability across the nation.
: The purpose of the Equality Begins at Home ac-
¯ tions will be to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
¯ and transgender equal rights in every state.
: "The Equality Begins at Home actions enable us
¯ to focus our energy on orgamzing and educating at
¯ the state level. Clearly, more and more battles are
¯ fought in the states. With anti-Gay initiatives and
: referendums from Colorado to Maine, and the right
¯ wing organizing against our families; we must
¯ build,,a stronger grassroots movement in every state, explained Paula Ettelbrick, Co-Chair of the
: FederationandLegislativeDirectorofNew York’s
¯ Empire State Pride Agenda. ¯
"The Equality Begins at Home actions give us a
tremendous opportunity to strengthen our efforts in
: the states and create a more powerful network
¯ across our country," stated Dianne Hardy-Garcia,
co-chair of the Federation see March, page 15
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Carbon Copy:
Gay people should be
included, in Scouts
Letter to the Editor
Petaluma (California) Argus-Couri’er
I am 12 years old and a Life Rank Boy
Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. I like
Scouting alot. Iamwriting to youbecause
I wantpeople toknow that the Boy Scouts
of America is a great program but it excludes
Gay people. The Boy Scouts won’t
allow Gay.kids or grown-ups in Scouting,
The Boy Scouts of America discriminates
agaihst Gay people. Every time the
Scout Law is read at our troop meetings,
I don’t even say it because the Scout Law
is not followed by the Boy Scouts of
America when they discriminate against
Gay people.
¯ The Scout Law says a Scout is true to
his friends.., nation.., world commu.-
nity. This is not true when not everyone ~s
included in that community, when Gays
are excluded.
. The ScoutLaw says a Scout should be,
hdpful. A Scout should be concemeo
about other people. This is not true for the
Boy Scouts ofAmerica whenit bans Gays
or expels them when they are found out.
. The Scout Law says a Scout should be
friendly to all: He seeks to understand
others. He respects those with different
ideas and customs. This is not true w_hen
the Boy Scouts ofAmericaban Gays from
scouting.
The Scout Law says.a Scout should be
kind. He should treat others as he would
want to be treated. I don’t know anyone
who wants to be discriminated against the
way the BoyScouts ofAmerica discriminateagainst,
Gays- My dad and I-were ¯
told we can t e~en bring this issue up at
ourmeeting with other Scouts in our troop.
I hope to change this one bad things
about the Boy Scouts of America. I hope
all of you who read this letter to the editor
will also want to help me in my efforts by
calling Scouting For All at (707) 778-
0564.
Gaykids shouldbe allowed to be Scouts.
And I know kids who have Gay dads
would want their dads to be able to be an
assistant Scoutmaster like my Dad.
- Steven Cozza, Life Rank Boy Scout
Appreciates Coverage
I wanted to say thank youfor the stones
Tulsa Family News does about different
commumty organizations. Many times I
don’t agree with your editorials but I do
like.that I get more Tulsa information
from Tulsa Family News than from other
Gay community newspapers.
Also please continue to look hard at
those who are revolved in HIV/AIDS
services. Some are doing a great job.
Others need more oversight to make sure
they treateveryone as good as they should.
Iknow youhaye received a 1ot of criticism
for this but please conunue. Thank you
but please don’t print my name - I don’t
want the grief I’d get.
- name withheld by request. Jenk~
Editor’s note: thank you for your kind
words - we’ll do the best we can.
¯ Letters Policy
Tulsa Family News welcomes letters on
¯ issues which we’ve covered or on issues
". you thinkneed to be considered. Youmay
¯ request that your name be withheld but
¯ letters mustbe signed &have ph°ne num-
~ bers, or be hand delivered. 200 word let-
" ters are preferred. Letters to other publi-
: cations will be printed as is appropriate.
¯ Do Tulsa Jews Hate Gays?
First they came for the Gays and ! didn’t
speak up because I was not Gay... finally
they came for the Jews, and by that time
there was no-one left to say anything at all
- aparaphrase ofGerman pastor Martin Niemoeller
who referred to the systematic persecution ofJews,
other Germans, including Gay men,
and non-Germans, by the Nazis.
Now that we are just a few weeks past Passover, the
ancient celebration of the liberation of Jerks from Egyp-
¯ dan slavery,-and right after Holocaust remembrance
ceremonies, perhaps it’s equally just to comment on the
ongoing silence of Tulsa’s Jewish leaders about recent
Oklahoma House of Representatives legislative attacks
on Gay & Lesbian Oklahoma citizens (see related story;
page one).
Ofcourse, to those who follow these issues, this silence
is nothing new. Last year when the legislature attacked
s,Tulsa s Jewlshleadership was silent too. And the year
before that. And back to those nasty, hate-filled public
hearings about the City’s Human Rights COmmission’s
Task Force report, Tulsa’s Jewish leaders were silent.
Yolanda Chamey, formerly community relations specialist
with the Jewish Federation, claimed that the Jewish
Federation did send aletter to Mayor Savage supporting
fair and equal treatment fo!~ Gay & Lesbian citizens
but no one ever saw this letter, or wouldeven haveknown
about it if not for this newspaper asking. And while such
a position could have set a standard for the greater
community had it been known, the secretive manner in
which the letter was sent guaranteed that no one would
know about it.
Some will ask why pick on the Jew~.~Why not ask why
other groups which should speak out for social justice
remain silent? It is a fair question. Indeed, the silence of
the Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Disciples ofChrist,
even the Roman Catholics - most ofwhom haye 0fficial
denominational policies which call them toworkfor civil
rights protections for Lesbians and Gaymen (not just
oppose attacks) - is troubling. And of course, Tulsa
Metropolitan Ministry which hardly has met a social
justice issue it couldn’t embrace, seems to continue to
find Gay people not worthy of justice or even minimal
civil rights protections.
Even the voice of the courageous Rev. Russell Bennett
of the most Gay-friendly "main-line" Christian denomination
inTulsa, the UnitedChurch ofChrisL has not been
heard publicly on this matter as ofourpress time¯ To their
no place in the Senate andno#ace in America," said Sen.
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
Hormel, a (>-year-old San Francisco businessman,
philanthropist, Democratic Party contributor and heir to
theHormel Meat Co. fortune, receivedunanimous Senate
confirmation last May for another post, as an alternate to
the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly¯
He sailed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
winning approval on a 16-2 vote last November,
after Secretary of State Madele’meAlbrightassured Chair-.
man Jesse Helms~R-N.C., that Hormel was highly qualified
and would not promote his personal interests. Helms
voted against Hormel but let the nomination advance to
the Senate floor¯
In a letter to Sea. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., a committee
member, in February, Hormel said: "I will not use, nor do
I think it is appropriate to use, the office of the ambassador
to advocate any personal views I may hold." He
pledged to resign from mostofhis board seats, limit his
charitable giving and prohibit use of his name in fund
raising.
But that has not satisfied Republican Sens. Tim
Hutchinson of Arkansas, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and
Bob Smith of New Hampshire, who put holds on the
nomination. Conservative groups also continue to oppose
Hormel as a "radical Gay activist".
Gary Bauer’s Family Research Council cited Hormel’s
financial support for a documentary aimed at educators
that the group said promotes "Gay lifestyles"¯ It also
pointed to a Gay and Lesbian materials wing in the San
" crediL some Tulsa Unitarians and the Episcopal Diocese
¯" ofOklahoma, and I hope, Bennett, are doing workbehind
." the scenes to protest these hate-based actions.
¯ However, it is the Jews with whom Gay people share
~ the experience of systematic Nazi persecution. Gay men,
¯
like Jews, were targeted by Nazi legislation which essen-
¯ tially made their existence illegal and which set the stage
: for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. And while
the persecution of Gay men may not havebeen part of a
: .systematic genocidal theory, the.experience of the camps
¯ m which Gay men typically suffered some of the worst
." conditions and were most despised of all the prisoners,
¯ leftthemjustas dead. AndwhilethoseJews who survived
¯ can speak of "liberation" from the camps, and even
-" received reparations with which to beginlife again, those
; Gay menwhodidsurvivewereimmediatelyreincarcerated
¯ as "criminals" - for the crime of loving - by the Allies.
¯ Soitis this sharedhistory as well as the observation that
: in the US, Jews have traditionally heldleadership roles in
¯ social justice movements, that makes this silence so
paiufU~. Jewish Americans were active in the civil rights
movement of the 50’ s and 60’s which sought to end legal
segregation. This was true in Tulsa as it was elsewhere.
It’s not that Tulsa’s Jewish community has not been
¯ asked to help¯ The day after the first piece of hate
-" legislation was passed (the amendment of Senate bill
; #1394 by Rep. Bill Graves, R-OKC), Rabbi Charles
¯ Sherman of Temple Israel who is also president of the
¯ National Couferenee of Community and Justice (for-
." merly of Christians and Jews), and David Bernsiein,
". executive director of the Jewish Federation were tele-
¯ phoned to ask for their help. To date, nearly four weeks
-" and several follow-up calls later, neither has responded.
." What does this mean? Are they scared? Is it that
; speaking up for Gay people would somehow threaten the
¯ security of Tulsa Jews? This is hard to believe. Tulsa’s
: Jewish community, though Small in numbers, has largely
been rather successful and now is represented on nearly
¯ everymajorinfluential community organi7ationfrom the
¯ Chamber of Commerce to TU’s Board ofTrnstees to the
: National Conference.
: Whetherit isjustplain old-fas_hionedbigotry, ormerely
: ¯ the catering to other’s pi’ejudice, it’s coming from those
¯ who ought to know better. Hebrew Scriptures, whichJew
: and Christian each revere, exhort us "to seek justice" -
; not "to seek justice - except for those socially inconve-
¯ nient Gay people over there". Hopefully, Tulsa’s Gay
¯ community will see Tulsa’s Jewish community take this
: exhortation more seriously someday, and the next time
; thelaws of the land are used to attack Gay citizens, there
¯ will be as much outcry as there was when a cross of
: Christmas lights was placed, wrongfully, on a public
: building. - Tom Neal, editor &publisher
:. Francisco public library supported by and named for
¯¯ Hormel that contains controversialliterature. Further, the
council said, Hormel presided over a 1996 Gay pride
¯ parade in San Francisco at which he was heard laughing
¯ at n/ale drag queens dressed as nuns. Bauer said Luxem-
¯ bourg is 97 percent Roman Catholic, and"appointmg an
; ambassador who shows no~hing but contempt for certain
¯ groups of believers should offend every American who ¯
believes in the Constitution."
¯ Hormd said he had no role in deciding the contents of
¯ either thelibrary collectio,n or the documentary. "I hardly
view myselfas a’radical. I amabusinessman and lawyer
¯
withmore than30years ofcommitment to public service,
¯ social justice and human rights," he wrote Smith.
¯ InconsideringHormel’s n0mination,Republicansmust
deal both with general gripes by socialconservatives that
-" they haven’t done enough to advance pro-family pro-
_" grams, and conversely with concerns about being de-
¯. picted as hostile to Gays.
"I don’t see how the Republican Party wants to be
¯ known as the party that discriminates on the basis of
¯ sexual orientation," said Winnie Stachelberg of the Hu-
¯ man Rights Campaign, a leading Gay political organiza- ¯
tion. Hormd is on the board of the Human Rights Cam-
" paign Foundation, the group’s educational arm.
¯ "’It’s not his sexual orientation," countered Herb
Johnson, chief of staff to Inhofe, one of Hormel’s leading
¯
Senate opponents..’q’he biggest problem is he has been
¯ inclined to use this to push an agenda that doesn’t neces-
.. sarily represent the agenda of the American people."
¯ a hate pulpit." Hall said Democratic leaders in the House
of Representatives don’t want "to let hate spill out on the
¯
floor of the House." Hall also said House Speaker Loyd
Benson deserves credit for "literally making sure Oklahomais
not shown nationally as a state of hate mongers.’"
¯
Both of the bills in question were sent on to conference
¯ committees for more work.
"I think the bottom line is you need to look at the final
¯
vote on those measures and look at the final versions of
the bill. I think that will speak for itself," said Benson, DFrederick.
¯
Rep. Bill Graves, R-Oklahoma City, author of the
¯ measure to prohibit"knoWn homosexuals and Lesbians"
¯ from working as contract or support employees in public
schools, acknowledged that similaramendments onother
¯
bills have failed to survive conference committees.
¯ Whether the amendments are quietly removed in con-
-¯ ference is beside the point for Ncal, who maintains that
the failure to oppose such measures loudly creates bigger
¯
problems for the Gay community.
Hall admitted that another reason the amendments
¯ were passed without protest is that this year is an election
¯ year. Those who openly oppose such measures could be
¯ branded by their political opponents as promoting homo-
" sexuality.
In fact, in 1996 Sen. Penny Williams, D-Tulsa, was
¯
criticized by her Republican opponent for voting against
¯ an amendmentbamng same-sex marriages in Oklahoma.
Ms. Williams, who won re-election, was one of only two
state senators who voted against that amendment.
¯
Republican lawmakers aren’t always behind such con-
" troversies. In 1995, Democratic state representatives
wrote resolutions opposing teaching about homosexuality
in public schools even though no public schools in the
¯
state taught such subjects.
The president of the Oklahoma Education Association
said the resolutions were b~ed on a "blatantly misconstrued"
measure passed by the National Education Asso-
¯ ciadon that dealt With training programs for education
¯ employees."for~the purposerf identifying and eliminat-
¯ ing sexual orientation stereotyping in the education s~tting.’"
Hall said the finai resolution byRep. Jim Hamilton,
D-Poteau, was rewritten so that it was not offensive to
¯ Gay people.
¯ Editor’snote: there was considerable disagreement in
¯ OMahoma’s Gay communities about whether the final
¯ resolution was in any way "acceptable" as Hall claims.
International AIDS
Candlelight Memorial
and Mobilization
SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1998
4:00 P.M.
LaFortune Park
Southeast Shelter
61st & Yale
PICNlC SLIPPER FOLLOWING THE SERVICE
~}R MORlg INI~3RMATION
INTERFAITH AIDS MIN~TRIES
438-2457
Gay Couples Provide
College Leadership
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The names Harvard
and Yale by themselves evoke decades of tradition
and conformity. Now these Ivy League bastions are
breaking new ground for universities, as homosexual
couples provide new models of domestic life for
undergraduates as dormitory leaders. And so far, the
ground-brealdng appointments have created little
commotion.
This July,.a Lesbian couple will assume duties as
housemasters at Harvard’s Lowdl House, asix-story
brickbuilding with a grassy quadrangle anda bell
tower close to the fabled Harvard Yard. A Gay man
appointed dormitory dean is moving with his partner
into Yale’s Trumbull College, a Gothic structure of
seam-faced granite with limestone trim and arching
windows enclosing three courtyards.
"I think it’s a great new erain being able to provide
role models that have not been available at this level
before," said Peter Novak, 32, the Yale.appointee.
"We’ve been welcomed, and it says a lot about the
Yale community and how tolerant it is, especially
within the administration."
.. At Haryard, professor Diana Eck, 52, realizes that
she and her partner of 20 years may raise some
eyebrows. "We know what it’s like in the culture
generally: There are many people who are still very
uncomfortable with this issue, so I’m sure that will be
the case here," said Ms. Eck, a professor of comparafive
religion and Indian studies at Harvard.
The dormitories are not forsaking their traditions,
however. The housemaster’at Lowell House, for
example, has been host of a weekly afternoon tea
since 1930, a custom Ms. Eck plans*’to continue.
Novak~ who is-pursuing a master of fine arts in
dramaturgy anddramatic criticism at theYale School
of Drama, says he will h,e,!p students with aead.emics
and personal problems. This will allow me to be an
influence in people’s lives)’ Novak said. His partner
¯
first leading homosexual character, butGays will still
¯ be seen elsewhere on American television.
: One year ago this month, "Ellen" made television
¯¯ history as the first series with a homosexual lead
character. It drew both praise and fire for its
¯ groundbreaking portrayal of a woman coming to
: terms with being Lesbian. What it didn’t draw was
¯ ratings on a consistent basis. After months of specu- ¯
lation, ABC confirmed late Thursday that Ellen
¯ DeGeneres’ last show would be a one-hour finale
: May 13.
¯ Both ABC and DeGeneres declined to comment ¯
recently. The conservative Southern Baptists Con-
" vention praised the decision, while Gay rights groups
¯. said theloss of amajor Gay character andperspective
: on television is a serious blow.
¯ The sitcom, which has been airing Wednesday
¯ : nights after thehigher-rated’qqae Drew Carey Show,"
¯ made its debut in 1994 with DeGeneres playing a ¯
¯ singleheterosexual with a,,Friends~’_like close group of pals. After the comedian and her character, Ellen
¯ Morgan, both came out as Lesbians last season,
¯ DeGeneres and the network fought over the show’s ¯
content, including story lines that concentrated on
: sexual orientation.
¯ More than 36 million people watched the April30,
: 1997, episode when Ellen came out. This year, the
: series averaged fewer than 11 million viewers - a 22
" percent drop over the previous year.
i Kansas "Sodomy"
: .- Law Upheld
: TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)-A state law that makes homo-
: sexual sex a crime has been upheld as constitutional.
: A three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals
¯ refnsed Friday to overturn the muuicipal court misde-
¯ mean0r conviction of Max D. Movsovitz, a Topeka ¯
artist. Movsovitzwas arrestedinTopeka’s Gage Park
: in April 1995 after soliciting sex from an undercover
¯ police officer.
of four years, Curtis Lee, a store manager, will not x~.....it? rh.]]~noed the constitutionality of a
lntramura.l., sports ana being a part oI StiMd~HL/S "11.v¢~, :. arguing theY, v~ol"a.ted." h.is.rights, to p’nvacy;, e~.ual
- Novak sat& - ¯ treatment under the law and freedom of expression.
: He and the American Civil Liberties Union claimed
the law unfairly discriminates against homosexuals.
¯ The Court of Appeals panel, in a unanimous un-
In a Yale dorm, the dean and.the master act as
surrogate parents in the lix,esof the 440 students who
live there. Master Janet Henrich, amedical professor,
has lived in the durra for ayear with her husband,
Victor, a physics professor.
At Harvard, Ms. Eek and Dorothy Austin will
become housemasters overseeing daily life for 450
students. Ms. Austin will split her time between
Harvard and Drew University in New Jersey, where
she is an associate professor of psychology and religion.
"We knew that it would be an issue for the first
time to have a same-sex couple as masters," Ms. Eck
said. "I don’t know if we would have been appointed
10 years ago."
Administrators say sexual Orientation made no
difference in the appointments, which:were decided
by student-faculty committees. Dean of Harvard
College Harry Lewis saidmany peoplehad suggested
Ms. Eck for the position notknowing what her sexual
orientation was. "Our first criterion in looking at
people was the quality of the individual master and
what they would bring to the house," he said.
At Yale, Novak will succeed dean William di
Canzio, who lived alone in the dorm for eight years
and is leaving for California.. Ms. Eck and Ms. Austin
will replace professor William H. Bossert and his
wife, Mary Lee, who are retiring after 23 years.
Harvard students seemed to see the appointment as
little cause for concern. "People are more interested
in who she is, and what her dedication to the house is,
than her personal life, which isn’t our concern," said
Lisa Mignone, a senior from Bronxville, N.Y.
The same goes for many at Yale. "It’s really not a
big deal," said Tya Harris, a sophomore from Nashrifle,
Tenn. "There are a lot ofpe0ple who are openly
Gay on this campus."
Ellen Gone But
Gays Still on TV
LOS ANGELES (AP) L The cancellation of ABC’s
"Ellen" will leave prime-time television without its
: signed opinion, rejected all of the arguments.
¯ Movsovitz can appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court.
"As societal values evolve, the Legislature may fol-
¯ low some other state legislatures and decriminalize
: private sexual behaviorbetweenall consenting adults,"
¯ the court satd. Ho ever, these are issues that should
¯ be addressed by legislatures and not courts."
According to court records, two men approached
.. Movsovitz while he was parked in Gage Park, the
¯ city’s largest park and home of the Topeka Zoo.
~ During a conversation, Movsovitz agreed to engage
." in oral sex. The two men were undercover police
¯ officers.
: Canada Recognizes
i Same-Sex Spouses
TORONTO (AP) - Ontario’s highest court has ruled
¯ thatthe Canadian government’s definition of"spouse"
¯ is unconstitutional because it excludes same-sexpart- ¯
¯ ners.. A three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of
Appeal ruledthat the definitionof"spouse" shouldbe
¯ amended in the federal Income Tax Act to recognize
¯ same-sex couples as well as opposite-sex couples. ¯
¯ The ruling came in a case involving pension benefits
and technically applies only to the Income Tax Act.
: But Gay activists said it could set a precedent that
¯ would affect similar sections of other federal acts. ¯
"It opens the door for same-sex pension benefits,
¯ certainly, but it’s also a very significant statement by
¯ the courts thatdiscriminating against same-sexcouples
is not only immoral, it’s unconstitutional," said John
¯
Fisher, executive director of Equality Ior Gays and
¯ Lesbians Everywhere.
: The case was broughtby Nancy Rosenberg andher
¯ employer, the Canadian Union of Public Employees,.
: regarding pension benefits which R0senberg sought
¯ to arrange for her Lesbian partner. The union in 1992
amended its pension plan to’extending spousal ben-
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Canada’s revenue department argued the amendment
violated the tax s opposite-sex definition of spouse.
The court ruling gave the union the right to include
same-sex partners in its private pension plan without
losing any tax benefits. Revenue department officials
said they hadn’t decided whether to appeal the ruling to
the Supreme Court of Canada.
Special Classes for Gay
Students Nixed
BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) - Gay and Lesbian students
who say they dropped out ofpublic high school because
of harassment almost got their own one-room schoolhouse,
but organizers forget one detail: getting permissi’on
from their bosses.
Top officials of the sponsoring government agency,
the Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Education
Services, said they learned about the schoolhouse from
a Newsday reporter. Board president Bruce Brodsky
immediately halted plans to open the school, the newspaper
reported last month.
He was unaware that members of his own staff had
enlisted a teacher, arranged for a classroom at the Long
Island Gayand Lesbian Youth Inc. in BayShore, and
had been advertising to attract students for several
weeks. Three had signed up. The board Serves youngsters
with special needs, including those who are pregnant,
handicapped or seeking occupational training.
"I don’t believe there should be a separate facility for
Gay and Lesbian students. I don’t want to throw them
back into the closet;’ Brodsky said.
David Kilmnick, executive director of the Gay youth
agency, said he would still push for the separate classes.
"We want to make sure that this school happens, that
these kids are not harassed or subject to violence because
oftheir sexual orientation.-Theyneed a safer place
to-learn," he said.
Californian Trying
to Ban Gay Marriages
SACRAMENTO (AP) -Alawmaker who failed in two
attempts to get a law bauning Gay_m~ages through the
Legislature has received~the go-ahead to start collecting
signatures to submit his proposal direcdy to voters.
State Sen. Pete Knight, R-Palmdale, has until June 25 to
collect the 433,269 signatures needed to place his initiafive
on the November ballot. If he misses that date, but
collects enough signatures by Sept. 21, his proposal
willbeplacedonthe presidential primary ballot in 2000.
His proposal, which was certified to circulate petitions,
brings the number ofproposed initiatives seeking
a spot on the November statewide ballot to 47. Knight’s
proposal, tided the "California Defense of Marriage
¯ Act," adds just one sentence to the state Family Code:
"Only marriage between a man and a woman i s valid or
recognized in California."
Statelaw already says that any marriage pfrformed in
California must be between a man and a woman. But
that lgw also recognizes as valid any marriage performed
elsewhere. After a Hawaiian court riding in
1993 made recognition of Gay and Eesbian marriages
possible, Congress gave states the authority not to
recognize same-gender marriages performed in another
state. An earlier attempt to place aban on Gay marriages
on the June primary ballot failed to collect enough
signatures.
Students Sentenced
for Anti-Gay Attack
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Three teen-age boys have
been sentenced to eight days each on a work crew and
a year or more of probation in the intimidation and
assault of a Gay high school student in February. Paul
.Miller, a senior at Corvallis High School, said the boys
taunted him and then punched him, knocking out his
two front teeth.
Cyle Schroeder, 15, and Robert Huffaker and Michael
Nash, both 16, appeared before Benton County Circuit
Judge Robert Gardner. Miller did not attend the hearing.
Schroeder, who threw the punch, will serve two
years’ probation after his time on the work crew. He
:¯ earlier spent 16 days in juvenile d~tenfion at the
Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility. Huffaker,
¯ who served five days at Oak Creek and 69 days of
¯ home detention, will be on probation for one year. ¯
Nash, who served five days at Oak Creek and 33
¯ days of home detention, will be on probation until
: his 18th birthday.
¯ All three must undergo diversity education, pay ¯
restitution to Miller for his dental bills and write a
¯ letter of apology, the judge said. While what was
done to Miller can’t be undone, Gardner said the
case can send a message to people in the commu-
: nity to think twice before taunting others. The
; judge said he got the impression that the boys have
: come to realize the seriousness :of what happened.
If people are assaulted because of their particular
status, the assault is notjust on that person, but also-
: on the group, he said. "That’s the reason I think this
¯ case had the publicity and had the attention I think
¯ it deserved," Gardner said.
Support for Gays
Provokes Death Threats
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Gay-rights issues have
divided the United Methodist Church, but death
threats against a student who supported Gay rights
¯" at the church’s Nebraska Wesleyan Uni.versity
¯ have caused a deeper controversy. "Everyone is
¯ welcome at this university, regardless of how they
¯ live or how they love," the Rev. Bill Draper Finlaw ¯
told a crowd of about 300 people gathered on
¯ campus Thursday to show support for sophomore
: Jonathan Judge.
¯ The small, liberal arts Methodist school, which ¯
has about 1,500 students, was rocked last week
: when Judge received two messages on his answering
machine threatening him with death for supporting
a campus Gay rights group. Judge reported
’. the messages to police. Judge, who is not Gay, is a
¯ member of the student senate and has introduced a
bill on behalf of the Gay civil rights group, Plains ¯
Pride, to have it recognized as a legitimate campus ¯ organization.
¯" The rally camejust two days before the church’s
¯ national Council of Bishops is to meet in Lincoln.
The bishOps have been asked to call a special
: session ofthe General Conference, the church’s top
¯ legislative body, to discuss Gay civil rights.
¯ These rights became a hot-button issue among
: the church’s 9.5 million members when a Method-
" ist minister in Omaha was acquitted last month on
¯ charges of disobeying church rules for performing
; a Lesbian marriage. The Rev. Jimmy Creech per-
" formed the ceremony in September in defiance of
: anorderby Nebraska BishopJoel Martinez. Creech
: was suspended and put on trial before a jury of
¯ Methodist ministers.
Following a two-day inquiry in Keamey, a panel
¯ of 13 ordained elders voted 8-to-5 to convictCreech
of violating the church’ s Order and Discipline. The
¯ vote fell one short of the nine required for convic-
¯ tion. Creech presented the first challenge to the
denomination’s 1996 decision in its Social Principles
to prohibit"ceremonies that celebratehomo-
. sexual unions." The United MethodistChurch is
¯ the second largest Protestant denomination in the
United States, after the Southern Baptists. It has
about 120 colleges nationwide, including Southern
Methodist, Duke and Emory universities in addition
to Nebraska Wesleyan.
: Dina Weisser, a 21-year-old junior at Nebraska
¯ Wesleyan, said she has several Gay and Lesbian
: friends whohavebeenharassedoncampus.Weisser,
¯ wh0is not Gay but belongs to Plains Pride, said two
¯ members of the group have been attacked on or
near campus in recent weeks. ’q?here’s been so
¯ much violence going on - so much hatred," she
¯ said. ’q’hey are trying to silence us by threatening
¯ senators in our student senate ~.. trying to take away
our First Amendment rights"
¯ Judge sat on a brick wall during the rally, stanng
¯ down at the sidewalk as he listened to the speakers.
¯ "It was very reassuring." he said. "It ¯renewed my
faith in this campus." Judge appeared nervous
¯ when asked how he was coping after the death
threats. "I’m here," he said.
Every 5 Minutes,
Another Young
Person’s Infected
MOSCOW (AP) - Every minute worldwide,
five people between the ages of 10
and 24 become infected with HIV, according
to a report released here inMoscoW.
The UNAIDS report also warned that
Eastern Europe is set to become "one of
the next epicenters" of the world AIDS
crisis, with HIV’ infection.rates having
increased at least sixfold .since 1994. It
said that 190,000 people in the region are
infected, a contagion rate driven by a
sharp rise in the use of injected drugs.
In conjunction with the report, thejoint
U.N. Programon HIV/AIDS launched a
yearlong campaign called "Force for
Change: World AIDS Campaign with
Young People." The report was released
in,Moscow to draw attention to the threat
facing Eastern Europe. "In.Russia, where
injecting drug use and unsafe sex are
fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, it is time
for young people to engage in HIV/AIDS
prevention efforts and make their voices
heard," said G4anni MtuTi~ UNICEF’s
Moscow representative. "They have the
right and responsibility to change the
course of the epidemic and the support of
adults is crucial to make it happen."
The report said that the young are particularly
hard-hit by the world epidemic,
with at least one-third of the 30 million
HIV carriers being 24 or younger. Each
day, 7,000 young people worldwide contract
HIV, adding up to 2.6 million new
-infections annually, it said. The report
warned Of an explosion in sexually transmitted
diseases across Eastern E~ope.
New syphilis cases have gonefrom 10 per
100,000people each yearin thelate 1980s
to - in some regions-- hundreds per
100,000.
UNAIDS is a grouping of 5 U.N. agencies
and the World Bank.
More $ Could 1/2
New Infections
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - More spending
could halve the number of new HIV
infections worldwide, according to a
United Nations study presented at a San
Francisco AIDS conference. "We know
what works. We’ve shown it’ s effective.
What we need now is the money to implement
them," said Martha Bulter deLister,
director oftheDominicanRepublicAIDS
organization Fundacion Genesis. "We
can’t wait for a vaccine."
The result could be achieved if affluent
governments, corporations and individuals
dug deeper and spent 10 to 15 times
more on global preventionprograms, said
the UN study presented at this week’s
University of California, San Francisco
conference. HIV infection is rampaging
through Africa, the Caribbean, Latin
America and Southeast Asia, but many
countries are unable to afford something
as simple as a blood test to keep the blood
supply dean.
Nor can they afford testing, and counseling
of HIV-infected people to warn
against transmitting the infection to others.
Sexually transmitted diseases, known
to boost the risk of HIV infection, go
untreated. Furthermore, mothers pass on
the virus to their infants because they lack
access to theAZT drug regimen that could
interrupt deadly viral transmission.
While much of. the globe is riveted by
three- and four-drug anti-viral regimens,
costing $25,000 to $37,000 per person a
¯ year, an estimated 16,000 men, women
~ and children in developing countries are
¯ newly infected each day.
." Conference co-chair MargaretChesney
¯¯ of the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention
Studies, working with AIDS specialists
¯
from 38 different nations, sought pmcti-
¯ cal and affordable solutions to the growing
epidemic.
Among the prevention costs estimated
by experts:
- 50 cents to test blood for theAIDS virus.
- Several dollars to cure a sexually trans-
" mitted disease.
-$50 to give an infected mother a short
course ofAZT to prevent transmission of
the virus to her baby.
Worldwide, about $1.5 billionhas been
spent each year on comic books, radio
spots and condom rallies in devdoping
.nations. But such prevention efforts have
proved to be mere speed bumps, not roadblocks,
in the path of HIV, the report
found.
US HIV Infection
Rate Steady
ATLANTA (AP) - The rate at which
people arebecoming infected withHIV in
the United States has heldrelatively steady
despite a historic drop in AIDS cases,
suggesting thatmany people are not heeding
warnings about prevention. A study
released by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention estimated a2 percent
decline from 1995 to 1996 in.the number
ofnew HIV cases diagnosedamongpeople
13 or older.
"This is a case of the glass is half full,"
said CorneliusBakerof the National AS:
sociation of People with AIDS. "People
are living longer. That’s great. But with a
steady infection rate, it means the epidemic
isn’t going away."
"- The study Used statistics from the 25
~ states that report infection r~ites. AIDS
_" deaths dropped 21%in 1996, while the
¯ number of people with AIDS dropped ¯
6%, according to figures previously re-
: leased by the CDC. AIDS deaths were
¯ down an additional 44%in the firsthalf of
1997. People diagnosed with HIV are not
¯
considered AIDS cases until they actually
: develop symptoms of the disease. So de-
" laying the onset of AIDS and prolonging
¯ the lives of AIDS patients can reduce the ¯
numberofAIDS deaths even while there’s
~ little changein the rate ofnew HIV cases.
¯ "We’renot seeinggoodnews in the fact ¯
that we are not seeing a substantial de-
" dine," in the H_IV infection rate, said Dr.
¯ Palricia Fleming, a CDC researcher. The ¯
¯ CDC estimated that HIV cases between
1994 and mid-1997 dropped slightly
among menbut increased among women.
The study also showed HIV infections
¯ among young people overall had leveled
off, but minorities now make up a greater
¯ portion of that group. Of the 7,200 cases
¯ of HIV reported among 13- to 24-y.ear¯
olds, 63% were black and 5% Hispamc.
Ms. Fleming warned that not all states
¯ were required to report infection rates.
~ The new figures don’t include California
¯ and New York, so the true national infec- ¯
tion rate could be higher or lower, she
¯ said. The CDCwants all states to create a
¯ name-based HIV reporting system.
~ "You need to know about the front end
¯ oftheepidemicifyou’retryingtofindout
¯ what’s going on With the disease," said
¯ Eve Mokotoff, chief of the HIV/AIDS ¯
epidemiology unit at the Michigan De-
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House Bars Needle
Exchange Funds
WASHINGTON (AP) - Not satisfied with
what members called a halfhearted effort
by the administration, the House voted
Wednesday to bar federal money for
needle-exchange programs.
The 287-140 vote came during a week
when the parties were vyi.ng for the high
groundin anti-drug policies. Many Democrats
said the GOP-backed bill was political
posturing that would cripple programs
proven to stop the spread of AIDS. House
Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas,
said the action was needed to counter "a
deadhead president that supports a program
that gives free needles to drug addicts."
The House action came just days after
the White House announced that it would
continue to ban federal money for needle
exchange programs while recognizing that
suchprograms have been effectivein fighting
the spread ofAIDS without encouraging
illegal drug use. Linda Ricci, spokeswoman
for the White House Office of
Management and Budget, said the GOP
bill.was "unnecessary and unwarranted."
The Health and Human Services secretary
"should have the authority to determane
the merit of such programs and...
the decision on which HIV prevention
strategies to use should be in the hands of
state and local offidials,’.’ Ricci said.
The issue divided the administration.
HHS Secretary Donna Shalala encour-
. ~aged local ~Orn)nlmiti~st0,expandthe 1 i 0
.~e&tleexchar~ge~programs now operating
in 22 states while drug policy chief Barry
McCaffrey argued that theprogramsjeopardize
the administration’s war on drugs.
Clinton’s surgeon general, Dr. David
Satcher, said he was "disappointed" funds
wouldnotbe availablefor effective needle
exchange programs. Members of theCongressional
Black Caucus last week called
for McCaffrey’s resignation, saying lives
would be lost if needle distribution is
halted.
But Republicans said the administratiou
policy was consistent with its failure
to get tough on drugs. They disputed scientific
studies concluding that needle exchange
programs are working. "The
Clinton administration’s endorsement of
needle exchange programs is part of an
intolerable message to our nation’s children
sent by the White House that drug
use is a way of life;" Said Rep. Gerald
Solomon, R-N.Y., a sponsor of the legislation.
Democrats accused Republicans of
rushing a bill to the floor withom hearings
to make a political point. "This legislation
is a travesty and a blight upon true medical
science and it plays into the hands of
those who would" use the lives of our
children aud those addicted for political
purposes," said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee,
D-Texas. "You’d think we’re having a
meeting of the flat earth society," said
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "How can we
turn our back on science?"
The federal government since 1989 has
barred the use of federal funds to provide
hypodermic needles and syringes to intravenous
drug users. The legislation, which
still needs Senate consideration, would
repeal, language in a 1998 spending bill
that would allow funding if the HHS secretary
determines exchange projects are
effective in preventing the spread of HIV,
the virus that causes AIDS, and do not
encourage illegal drug use.
TheHouse votecameas the Republican
leadership prepared to unveil an dectionyear
package of anti-drug proposals, including
more money for border guards,
tougher penalties andgrants to small businesses
that fight workplace drug use.
House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt
of Missouri sought to get thejump on the
Republicans Wednesday by issuing aninepage
report critical of the GOP record in
fighting drug.s. "By making the war on
drugs a parusan war, Speaker (Newt)
Gingrich is drawing thebattle lines against
imaginary enemies. The onfy thing he
will accomplish is to reduce the prospects
for bipartisan anti-drug legislation in this
Congress," he said.
$1rn Offered for
Needle Exchange
NEW YORK (AP) - International financier
George Soros has offered $1 million
in matching funds to support needle exchange
programs around the country. The
move came in response to the Clinton
administration’s position that it does not
favor federal funding for the programs,
which are credited with helping slow the
spread of the AIDS virus.
The Sorts pledge "was in the works,
and we d~cided to announce it when the
federal government decided not to fund
programs," said Ty Trippet of the
Lindesmith Center, a drug policy research
organizanon that is part of the Sortssponsored
Open Society Institute.
Sorts said an estimated 35 percent of
all new HIV cases in the United States are
due to druginjectionwith unclean needles.
"It has been scientifically proven, and the
federal government agrees, that making
sterile syringes readily available to addicts
reduces the spread of HIV and does
not encourage drug use," he said.
Health and Human Services Secretary
Douna Shalala has urged state and local
officials to use their own funds to implement
such programs. Last 3ear, Sorts
donated S1 million to various needleexchange
programs. This year’s repeat
donation will be used to match the amount
that donors increase their donations over
last year. For exan~ple, if a foundation
don£ted $50,000 to a needle exchange
program last 3,ear and is donating $75,000
this year- then Soros will donate $25,000.
It is oifl.v the latest in a series of contributions
to various causes by the Hungarian-
born financier, who is ~ U.S. cidzen.
In 1997, Soros made charitabledonadons
of about $’540 million, according to Fortune
magazine. Much of his largess has
gone to benefit eastern Europe, including
Russia.
Also Baltimore Mayor. Kurt Schmoke
said Clinton would agree to exchange
programs if he saw how well they worked
in Baltimore. Schmoke renewed his offer
to talk to officials throughout the country
in support of needle exchanges, including
to the nation’s" chief executive. "I’m convinced
if we can get the president over
here, we can change his opinion," he said.
Baltimore’s program, providing needles
to about 7,000 addicts at a cost of about
$300,000 a year, is the largest city-rim
program in the country, Schmoke said.
Mom Pleads for
Infected Child
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - The 7-yearold
boy already is slowly dying of a disease
that authorities say his own father
deliberately inflicted. The mother of the
¯ youngster, whose father is accused of
¯ injecting him with the AIDS virus, says
¯ her goal now is to prevent him from bei;ag
i victimized again.
The mother, identified on!y as Jennifer,
¯ said she was grateful for the compassion
¯¯ she had received. But she was obviously
shaken by the number of reporters and
¯ television cameras she faced at a news
¯ conference. She took no questions after
¯ making a brief statement. "I plead with ¯
you to respect the privacy and dignity of
¯ my son andmy family. He’s been through
¯ so much already," she said. "My main
¯ concern is to protect my son from any
: further victimization."
Her voice broke several times as she
¯ explained how her son’s illness - he was
¯ diagnosed with full-blown AIDS in 1996
- has affected their lives. She said her son,
who was once near death, ~s dome, better
¯ now" but that she realizes he will eventu-
¯ ally die of the disease. The boy must be
¯ fed small amounts of food frequendy and
¯ must take about 10 medications several
¯ times a day. He is trying to live as normal
: a life as possible, even going to school
¯ when he is able.
Brian T. Stewart is charged with firstdegree
assault, accused of deliberately
¯" injecting his infant son with AIDS-tainted
¯° blood six years ago. He haspleaded iuno¯
cent and is being held on $500,000 bond.
County prosecutor Tim Brann said he
could not comment on any of the evidencc
policemayhave gathered against StewarL
except to say that there was enough to
allow a judge to issue a ~varrant for
Stewart’s arrest on charges of first-degree
assault: - ¯ : ¯ 7
Police said Stewart once told the bo\"s
mother not to worry about trying to collect
child support because the boy ,votdda’t
live that long. His lawyer, Joe Murphy,
has said Stewart maintains that he is immcent.
Murphy has accnsed prosecutors of
trying and convicting his client in the
media.
HIV Positive Kid in
Day Care Dispute
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - An agreement
with two day-care centers sets a precedent
by applying the Americans with Disabilities
Act’s protections to a child who has
the virus that causes AIDS, a govenmaent
prosecutor says. The Beloit centers were
accused of denying service to the bm
because ofhis HIV virus. They have agree~t
the v~rus is a disability under the act,
according to U.S. Attorney Peggy
Lantenschlager. "What this says is, because
someone is HIV positive doesn’t
mean that they can be discriminated," she
said. The lawsuits claimed the centers
illegal|y turned the boy, now 5, away in
1996 because of his disease. The centers’
lawyers had argued the boy was not protected
by the federal law, which requires
that people have an impairment that substantially
limits a major life activity. The
lawyers said the boy was well-adjusted
and functions normally, despite his suppressed
immune system.
Last week, U.S District Court Judge
John Shabaz allowed prosecutors to proceed
with the lawsuit against the centers.
Shabaz ruled that there was enough evidence
to let a jury find that the boy could
beconsidereddisabled under the act. Chris
Kinast, the lawyer for Kiddie Ranch, said
his client settled because federal prosecutors
have virtually unlimited resources
and the center could not afford to defend
itself.
Well, happy May day! For those who
don’tknow,inPagan terms, it~ s the ,d~,y.
celebrate fertility and creativity in au it s "
many forms. Maypoles, phallic symbols
and dancing are the Usual forms of celebration
as Spring returns.
Speaking of creative endeavors, the
Council Oak Men’s Chorale is pleased to
announce our first formal
concert! It will be
atAll Soul’s Unitarian
Church at8pmonMay
29. Hmm. I’d better
start practicing. ,,
"Song and Dance~ ,
my favorite of the
Lloyd-Webber musicals,
Opens here in
Tulsa for a 3 day performance
June 26 at
Tulsafest at the Performing
Arts Centerfor
Education,TCC South
Campus, 10300 E. 81st
Street. The musical is
unusual in that the first act is .to.ldfrom the
perspective of an English g~d newly arrivedinNewYorktobe
withherlovcr and
to pursue her hat making career..The r~est
of ~ct one follows her relationships as her
perspective and lovers change:’,The.first
acti~ done entirely in song. The second
act is told in dance; and follows a young
man who she falls inlove with, andworks
from his perspective. I saw the National
TourwittiMefissaManchester (Bernadette
Peters originated the role here in the
States), andfell inlov¢withthechar,a~c,t~s
and the show. And even if you don t like
dance, if their choreography is anything
even close to what I saw, you will be
.......enchanted and amazed: SEE IT!!!!
It is part of an arts festival which indudes
many other fine events, from orchestras
to dance to pop(call for info) and
"An EveningWith Patti Page", who is a
Claremore native, June 20th at the PACE.
For Ticket info, caI1.595~7777.
Opera buffs, rejoice! June holds lots_a
fun for fans of Gilbert and Sullivan, with
Light Opera Oklahoma p,r,o~_u.d,ng thre~,
shows: ’ffheNew Moon’ by Si..g.m,,una,
¯Romberg, an operetta with all kinds oi
romantic hijink~ of a French chevalier
fleeing royal fury, falling in love and
buckling I~is swish, swash. Sorry. That
opensJune 11; and June 1.2 brings Pineapple
Poll.. The description for this is
infi-iguing: Pineapple Poll and all her
friends are madly in 10ve with the Captain
Philbrook is bringing
old masters to light in
an exhibit entitled
"Old Masters brought
to Light". Catchy,
huh? The exhibit
features some really
beautiful works from
the National Museum
of Art of Romania...
Broken Arrow Community Playhouse
comes to the rescue of an otherwise dull
month with ’q’he Importance of Being
Earnest" by Oscar Wilde May 8 --17. M.y
fav.orite classic comedy, Oscar turns society
upside down in this comedy.of manners.
Call 258-0077 for reservauons.
The Thomas Moran exhibition winds
down May 10 at
Gilcrease Museum, so
catch it while you can.
Philbrook is bringing
old masters to light in
anexhibitentitled"Old
Masters brought to
Light". Catchy, huh?
The exhibit features
some really beautiful
works from the National
Museum of Art
of Romania, where, by
the way, the real
Dracula made many
peasant’s lives rather
difficult. The real
¯ McCoyhad apenchant for punishing anY-
¯¯ one who violated his sense of re,orals by
impaling them on stakes. No, it s true -
¯ ro~ "In Search of Dracula" . He was a ¯ .cad .
convertedChristian, to boot. Andhis sense
". of morals changed on a whim - kind of
". like Pat Robertson, Robert Tilton, Jerry
¯ Falwell, and Jimmy Swaggart. But I di-
". gress, much I’m sure, to the eternal cha-
". grin of my editor, who never d...o~.s ~at.
-’. At any rate, the paintings will t~e hung
~ baroque eras from such diverse locales as
¯ Italy, Spain, Germany, and the Nether-
" lands. Masters such as ElG~eco,
[ Rembrandt, Veneziano, and Jordaens are
re1~resented. This is not to bemissed.
! " "On May 24, a lecture on ’~he Age of
ii BdiesrcnuasrsdinogSGtroenzzoie"sewpilalibnetinggivienntahte2eparrloy,
17th century. Another exhibition cel:
~ ebrates a recent acquisition by Philbrook
¯ of Strozzi’s "St. Francis in Ecstasy" ,
i subtitled"An Acquisition in Focus" ¯ rnnning
May 17 - July 12.
i ¯ Local news: vaudeville was all the rage
i when Doris Travis lied about her ageto
~ join the Ziegfeld Follies. Now 94, she’s
: pulled, out tier tap shoes for a return en-
¯ gagement "I dance the same as I did 79
i years ago," Mrs. Travis said. "Maybe not
~vith th~ same spring in my foot, but my
i style hasn’t changed. I haven’t tried any
of the ttMS Hot Cross Bun. Yes, folks, ". of these new jazz or rock moves!" She
tbheattteirs:~qh’haetythceopnrtersivsereallelamseeasnasyst.oI.Itxg~ear~a :~ hfoeramdeedr ZtoiegNfeewld gYirolrskfotroajnoAinIDfiSvebeontehfeirt
his ship". I bet they do. Seems to me the ¯ at the New Amsterdam Theatre, the remen’s
chorus could have fun with that "¯ storedvaudeville-erashowplaceoffTimes Square where the original Follies were
piece. Oh my, it’s getting warm here. ,, . st,~ged. Mrs. Travis was ju.st l~4,,w.hen~s_h_e.
And.the 3rd offering is "The Mikado , i lied a,.bout her age to join me uomes, t nat
which is a more well-knownwork. And
with character names like Nauld Poo, "- wasn t the last time she refused to be
Yum.Yum,andKo-Ko,it’ssur¢,toaw.ak¢,n : limited by her years: She gr.ad..ua2~ ~[~hm~
the appetite. Theperforman._ces wi.11 runat : theUniv~rsitv ofOklahomamlv’yzatm.
the University of Tulsa, in 3 week reper- ~ age of 88, as ~ history major and mem.b~.r
tory format. Formore info and reserva- : 0fPlaiBetaKappa. Wayt.ogo!,Ilove.tl~,s.
ti6us, call 583-4267. . story, becaus_eitgoesto.snowtlaeremtgmo
"Ohieetof Mv AffectiOus:~ ; a comedy ~ jus"tEblelehno;p’ tehfeotremleeviyseiot!n sitcom that was
about a stratght woman who falls mlove ¯
withhergayroonimate,iscurrently show- ~: the first with a Gay leading character, has
ing at Parklane, Eton, Easfland, and M°v- beencanceledafterfive seas’°~"TheA.BaCnC
ies 8. It comes higtdy recommended,and show will not remmfor a mxthlseason,
I would have had a review for you, but "- network spokeswoman said, declining
lfirfoem’s sleitetilneghtahnedfiglmreinnadtiemsepfroervtehnisteidssmuee, ~ fthuertshuebr jecoctmomfneantti.onTahledepbroagterawmh.e~n~beea~te,n,e,
There’s always Mayfest, and the ¯
played by comedian Ellen DeGeneres,
Renegade’ s answer to that, Gayfest.
" see Notes, page 11
PHILBROOK Visit Tuesday- Sunday
Adults $5, Seniors & Students $3
¢ous¢iL oak
meN’5 ¢i-IoKaLe
will present a flee performance on Friday,_
May 29th at All Souls Unitarian Church at 8
For more information, please call 743-4297.
TOHR/the Pride Center
presents
1998 Tulsa Pride March &.Picnic
Saturday, June 20
Veterans-Park, 18th & Boulder
March: 11:30,.Picnic: Noon- 5pm
_ .Community Organization& Businesses Booths,
Games,-Music & Free Refreshments.
Information? Call TOHR/the Pride Center at 743-GAYS (743-4297)
This ad donated by Tulsa Family News.
Follies Revue,. Inc.
presents its l Oth anniversary benefit
The-Best of Follies ’98
John H. Williams Theatre
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
Patron’s Night
Thursday, June 25, at seven o’clock
Champagne reception to follow, $~0
Benefit Performances
Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27
at eight o’clock, $2o
Tickets available at t~e PAC Box O ffice: :596-7111,
¯ 800-364-7111 or Carson Attractions~ 584-2000.
Beneficiaries are: Community of Hope, HIV-Resource Consortium,-Hope
Testing Clinic, Hospice of Green Country, O ur House, St.Joseph Residence,
Tulsa Community~ AIDS part.i~rshiP, and .the Visiting Nurse Association’.
1 st Annual
Red Ribbon Run
5k Run, Race Walk &.,Casual Walk
mbenefitHIV services ofInteffaithAIDS Ministries
& Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership
sponsored by Bank of Oklahoma, Stax/Circle K
Bama Companies, Interim Health Care, Joel, Tracey &
Clay Norvell, & Tulsa Family News
Saturday, June 13
Mens- 7am, Womens - 7:30 am
LaFortune Park, 61st & Yale
Registration SW Shelter, 6 am
Parking at south 10t only, USATF sanctioned event.& c.ertifie~
coordinated by-Glen’s; Ine Prereg.istratio.n: $1.2 wit~ }=sla!~, $~
withoutl Race Day Registration: $15 witla t-shirt, $1o wlmout.
Awards to top three men and women-in each USATF age group, as
well as top overall male& femalefinishers&top threerace walkers.
You dont have to run .to help! Join the Red Ribbon
Booster Club by making a donation to the Red Rib,b.on.
Run. Those donating $25 or more will receive a t-start.
Info: IAM.438-2437orPOB691438, Tulsa, 74169
I~P SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - .11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Community of Hope (United Methodist), Service - 6pro, 2545 S. Yale, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - 11am, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - 1lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service - 5pm, Childrens Ministry - 5pro, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, .Inc.
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:~tSam, 3210e So. Norwood
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa
Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America)
Mass - 1 lam, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088
University of Tulsa Bisexual/Lesbian/GayfFransgendered Alliance
6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
~ MONDAYS
Council Oak Men’s Chorale, 7 pm, leave message for more information: 743-4297
HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonymous testing. No appointment required.
Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard)
HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
7:30pm, 2207 E: 61h;583-7815
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
2nd Mon/each mo. 6:30pro, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pm, call Shawn 491-2036.
Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 3/2, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
I~" TUESDAYS
AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 5/12, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
HIV+ Support Group~ HIV Resource,Consortium l:30pm
- 3507E Admiral(east ofHarvard), I~fo: Wanda@ 834-4194
Mnlticultnrai AIDS Coalition, 5/5, 12:30pro, Urban League, 240 East Apache
Shanti-Tulsa, Inc. HIV!AIDS Support Group~ and Friends & Family HIV!AIDS
Support Group - 7 pm, Locatiom, call: 627-2525
Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group. Info: 743-4297
PrimeTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues/each rot., 7pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 381h
Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE)
Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297
~ WEDNESDAYS
Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer - 6:30pm, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210c So. Norwood
Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group
For more information, calI 582-7225, John at ext. 218, or Tommy at ext. 208
TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632.
Lambda A-A, 7 pm, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~" THURSDAYS
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 ~- 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support/social group for 18-24"s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325
From Our Hearts to Our House~ 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/cach mo. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194
~ FRIDAYS
SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group, tat Fri/each rot. 8pro, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th
Community Coffee House, varying dates, 7 pro, Pride.Center, Info: 743-4297
~ SATURDAYS
Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community of Hope,1703 E. 2nd, Info: 585-1800
Lambda A-A, 6 pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
I~’ OTHER GROUPS
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222
Womeus Supper Club, Call for info: 584-.2978
OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157
Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call orfax 583-4615.
Reviewed by Barry Hensley
Tulsa Cir,-Count, Library
Author Isensee has ,’m interesting approach
to currentGay male culture. With
analogies to posttraumatic
stress syndro~ne, he explains
how events ,and society conspire
to create a d,’mgerous
enviromncut for Ga3 males.
While understanding that
mm~v Gay men come l~om
dvsf{mcfi~md or abusi ve fromlies
~md ~e trying to overcome
the effects of our
homophobic culture, it is important
to realize that. in
Iscuscc’s approach, tiffs is a
book about, m~d for, victims.
Divided lUtO two scctmns.
Reclaiming Your ldJ~ begins
by cxamimug homopho~m.
abusive f~nilies, shmne
self-destructive behavior.
Iscnscc sees a direct ton’elation
between posttraumatic
stress (uustmsl. uightmarcs.
With
analogies to
posttraumatie
stress
syndrome, he
explains how
events and
soeiety
conspire to
create a
dangerons
environment
for Gay
males?
m]xict\ ) mid the problems that kc.cj~ some
Gay u’mlcs from living full m~d "happy
lives. Guilt. shmnc, withdra~v~d, m~d isolation
arc cxmnincd, thrlv scxwfl abuse
nla31 cause the adult Gay m[dc to engage m
scxuall3 compulsiv c behavior, often pracuqing
uns~d’c sex. "’Associating sex with
sh;mm, a sexuM abuse snrvivormav seek
out sexmd contact in wlfich he is li~ely m
feel degraded."
Overwork is mmfl~cr area of compulsive
behavior. %Vhen xour sense of sellis
dependent ou overacl~ming, it is vulnerable
to the shifting fortunes of success or
-failure -just as your self-esteem was
dependent on how your parents felt about
themselves at any particularmoment. You
cma never do or accomplish
enongh to gain the approval
that you never had from your
pare~’~ts. Instead you can ~:ieve
for thig loss. This will enable
you to b,’dmace work that expresses
yonrmminterests wifl]
rest. recreatmn, mid intinlate
relationships."
The sccoud half of this
book ex,’uniues the stages of
healiug, including acknowledging
abuse, recoguizing
sclf-desmmtive behavior, nurturing
yoHrself ,’rod asserting
\onr-o~\n needs. Being a so-
[’ial \yorker mid psychotlacrapisl.
Iscnsce has ma interest in
iudi\iduld m~d group fllerapy.
Because of his background.
nmch of his knoMcdgc about
(];.ix lllell COllieS fronl his patients.
Solnctn’ncs the reader gob the incorrect
imprcs.,ion that ~dl Ga.v Ulell
vicums of abuse lind iuc incapable of life
without tlierap3.
X luch of tiffs book is ps3 cholog3 101.
.but it will be of v~fluc to 3 oung adults grad
older Gay men ~ 1~o just
their lives togclher..kn upqo-datc list of
resources and refere~lces is provided.
Check for tCeclaim:n~ })~ur 1.(/~’ at xour
loctd brmich librz~x or c~dl the Readers
Services dep~ncnt at Tulsa (’itx -( "otlnlx
Centr~ libr~v at 596-’9~.
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!~y .ludy .\ lcCormick, s±~ecial contributor
This week has been a week of l)rtilizmg
Grass, trees, slm~bs,just about cver3-
thing except m3 a/aleas.
Some of then]
haven’t finished
blooming )el, so I mn
waiting until 1 can
fertilize them ~dl at
tim smnc time. This
is i~l oplllllUln lime
for feeding because
cvcoflfing is acovch
growing. Xlan~.
plmlls go into a scmidonnm~
t stage in the
hot summer and they
don’t imll as inuch~ml of the soil at that
lime. Now you get the best use Of your
fertilizer
Itcrc ~s a scene that was played oul
mmiv mncs when I had a lawn and g~den
touter; a customer would come in m~d
sayS’My plm~ts just ~en’t growing like
they should." "They are Mire, they just.
aren’t doing ~at wall.’" Then I would say,
"’llow oftcu do you fertilize them." There
would be a lon~ silen~ mid the customer
would get a gipsy look in their eve ~d
say, "’Fertilize the~." TNs is probably not
SOlnetlfing you could relate to at ~1, but it
is common. Feeding your plm~ts is m~
importmlt p~t of spnug mid now is the
time. Arc you tired of me nagging you
about l)rdfi~ng yet?
Plm~t yo~ ~adimns m~y time now, it is
warm enough I saved some bulbs over
from last year It \viii be fun to see their
return pcri’om]~mcc
My pansies look so ~ood that
I haven’t planted the ammals
¯ that $o in their spot . . .
ma:,be I’ll Set one of those ¯
[sugar erystallzin~ kits] so
I can preserve all nay ~ansies
in sugar and decorate desserts
with them. Now all I have to
do i~ find ~omeone
else to flx the de~ert~.
My t)m>acs look
~o good flint I haven’t
pllmtcd the
thai go in their spot
vet. I )ust doll’t have
ihc hc~t to get rid of
thcnl x cl. I Mt~ a
cry ~t~d~izJng kit in a
caudog dm o~]cr
maybe I’ll get one of
th~;se so I cm~ preserve
Ml my pm~sies
in sug~ mid decorate
desserts with
them. Now all I have to do is find someone
else to fix the desserts.
If you havcu’t tfimlned your crepe
myrtl~.vet, it isn’t too late. We had ~m oak
with fungus last vc~ and I should have
sprayed our tree When it first ledcd out
but I didn’t. Oh well. maybe ins year
won’t be as ~vct m~d we won’t have the
problem. I wish this tree would let mc pay
a fine or solnething mid then do what I
shouldhavc done t~vo weeks ago, maybe
I’ll tMk to Nm aboul it’ m~d see what we
~work out. If you have been working in
your g~dcn this last few weeks ~d it
didn’t m~e you fecl better, go back out
there - you ~:eren’t paying enough attention.
Go Ye Forth mid Fcrtilize~
Judy McCormick formerly w~ the
owne; of Cox Nursery m 7~dsa.
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on the sabatical- under the circumstances,
how do you say, mysterieux, et Iamdrafted
to fill in. Bien-sur, he will be back,
probablement. Mats maintenant, je ne
parlerai pas en francais - I will use the
English.
This Sunday, I had the pleasure of dining
at Philbrook Museum’s brunch buffet
The atmosphere was lovely, as we
arrived just as the rain fell in
droves, and were seated near
the window by the striking
maitre d’. And as I had noted
some particularly handsome,
er, scenery in the restaurant in
addition to the loveliness of
the verdant grounds be~nd a
veil of rainfall, I odjusted my
seating position so I could enjoy
the best of both worlds.
The tableful of handsome
gentlemen provided a lovely
v~ew m one direction,not to
mention the fact that the waiters
were cute, too.
And the sen’ice was excellent.
My glass of iced tea was
never empty very long, which
~s one of my barometers of
good sela’ice.’Leave me thirst).
and go without a tip -well,
other than this verbal one: "’you
really should keep the patron" s
glass full.’" The ambience was
lovely, and the player piano
tinkling gaily in the background
added just the right
touch. Dress ranged from suit and ties to
leather jacket and jeans, so informal is ok.
The buffet, which looked gorgeous,
included something for everyone.Various -
salads, grilled veg~es (squash, zucchini,
and carrots), rosemary potatoes, veg~e
lasagna (they must of had one heck-of-a
deal on the squash and zucchini), roast
beef, grilled chicken over wild rice, cheese
grits (which I found unusual - more later),
ham, and for those more inclined towards
brealffasty-things, an omelette bar and
Bet~an waffles to order.
And the dessert table.., ah the dessert
table. Westarted offatthe salads ofcourse.
I had mixed greens though afew pieces of
which were brown, and a vinegar and oil
concoction. T’was a bit tart, but good. A
CaeS.ar and pasta salads were also featured.
They servedpoppy seedmuffmettes
and also biscuits, which unfortunately
were your average, everyday ones. My
dining companion was daring, and tried
the cole slaw, which he left untouched
after the first bite since it looked much
more interesting than it was - lovely preannouTnced
her sexual orientation a year
ago.
Since then, however, the show’s ratings
have been disappointing. This year,
"Ellen" averaged fewer than 11 million
viewers, a 22 percent drop over the previous
year. The sitcom, which airs at 8:30
pm Wednesdays, made its debut in 1994
with DeGeneres’ character, Ellen Morgan,
playing a young heterosexual. But
the actress and her character both came
out as Lesbians last season.
DeGeneres and the network have since
disagreed over the show’s content, including
whether a kiss between women
could be aired.
[ sentation but an ordinary sugary mayon-
¯ naise dressing.
They also offered a thick cheese-broc-
~ colt -I hesitate to call it soup, but there’s
¯ not really another word that fits. It was
¯ luke-warm, with crunch.), broccoli florets
." that could have used some more blanching.
Where’s Bette Davis when you need
¯" her?
: The main courses - I had the chicken
(dry and cold) and rice (cold),& a small
Sunday Brunch
at
Ph;lbrook
la Villa
2727 So. Rockford
Hou,s:
Tu~. - S~n.. llto 9
Brunch on S~-Mays
Prices:
Expensive
Payment:
~V/ajor eredlt cards
Smoking:
None
Alcohol:
FMIy licensed
Rating:
bit of veggie lasagna. I use the
term lasagna loosely. It was
basically scorched lasagna
noodles, tomato sauce and zucchini
and squash, cut to look
like potato chips. In fact, I
hesitated to get some because
of that - so did my companion.
It looked like potato chip lasagna.
And it too, was cold to the
taste. I think I tasted sun-dried
tomatoes, but I couldn’t be
sure. The roast veggies ~ver
also tepid.
My dining colnpamon had
pretty much the same thing,
with the addition of rather glutinous
cheese grits that had
solidified as soon as the)" hit
the plate. Mnm~!
On to the denserr table, which
~vas ~vondrous to behold. Carrot
cake, the most succulent (I
love that word!) chocolate
cheesecake I’ve ever tasted,
regular cheesecake, and
chocolate cake with mousse
filling and dark chocolate ic-’
¯ ing and pecan sprinkles. The latter was
¯ good, but the mousse had a slight bitter-
-¯ ness to it, which was unexpected and not
too pleasant -though my companion
¯ thought other~vise. We were too stuffed
¯ by then to try the other selections, but they
¯ were very tempting.
¯ My advice: go straight (so to speak) for
." the dessert table. The rest was a disap-
¯ pointment and a waste of appetite. Hope-
" fully, this will be corrected, or perhaps,
¯ this wasjust aparticularly bad day, but till
¯ then: caveat emptor. And at $15 per person,
you can get a much better meal for a
¯ great deal less at Piccadilly Cafeteria.
Editor’s note: Jean-Claude de
¯ FlambeauchaudwillcontinueTulsaFam- ¯
ily News and Jean-Pierre Legrand-
¯
bouche’s tradition ofrestaurant reviews
¯. which are distinguishedfor theD" candor.
¯ Unlike most other Tulsapublications, we ¯
do not use our reviews as an advertising
¯ tool. In.fact, we’ve lost advertising be-
". cause we did not cater to the egos ofsome
¯ restaurateurs. With us, you get the truth as
¯ we see it. If they don’t like it, tant pis.
~ Joan Garry, executive director of the
¯ Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,
said the cancellation was a disap-
¯ pointment but not a surprise.
¯ "We’re all disappointed ABC made a
decision based on ratings. We really wish
¯ that they had seriously considered the
¯ impact of Ellen’s work and looked at it ¯
from a broader perspective," she said.
:. "The show may have been canceled, but I
¯ think she gave a gift to Gay and straight ¯
Americans and that’s a legacy that the
¯ cancellation cannot take from her," Garry
¯ said.
¯ The show’s one-hour finale is sched- ¯ uled for May 13 and will take viewers
¯ through a satirical retrospective of her
¯ career. Guest stars will include Jennifer ¯
Aniston, Glenn Close and Phil Donahue.
y
Lesbian mothers ¯
¯ Lesbians that we interviewed even a few
and their children: ¯
¯ years later had begun to use known do-
Interview with Nanette Gartrell ," nors. We actually stopped inviting new
by Esther Rothblum ¯ participants in 1992 because the ’old’
In the early 1980s lots of Lesbians were ¯ Lesbians differed so much from the’new’
beginning to figure out
ways to have children by
donor insemination.
Nanette Gartrell, a Lesbian
psychiatrist, was interested
in studying these pioneer
Lesbians. "We had no
money," she said in a recent
interview, "but of
course none of the work
I’ve ever done has been
funded. It’s usually too
controversial to be funded
by any of the traditional
sources, such as the National
Institutes of Health.
It’s years ahead of its time
in terms ofwhensuchagencies
would fund this kind
of research. We decided if
we waited for funding
agencies to get over their
homophobia to fund this
study, we’d be waiting another
decade. So we went
ahead and funded it our-
"We had no money,"
she said in a recent
interview, "but of
course none of the
work I’ve ever done
ha~ been funded.
It’s usually too
eontroverslal to be
funded by any ofthe
traditional sources
¯.. It’s.years ahead
of its time in terms
of when such
agendes would fund
this kind of
research. ~¢e deelded
ff we walt~d for
selves." Nanette’s studyis- ,’~.funding ageneles to
now the longest-running
study of Lesbians who had
children via donor insemination.
"It’s already been walldocumented
that kids of
Lesbian morns are
healthy," Nanette told me,
"so we’re not trying toreestablish
that. What we’re
interested in is how they
get over their
homophobla to fund
this study, we’d be.
wa;t;ng another
decade. So we w~nt~
ahead and funded it
ourselves."
hav~copedwi.thhomopho- ,
bia. At the time, Nanette s major collaborator
was living in Washington, D.C.
and Nanette was living in Boston, sothey
began the research with Lesbians in those
two cities. Then Nanette moved to San
Francisco and included Lesbians from the
Bay Area.
Thefirst step was finding Lesbian mothers
to participate. Nanette’ s research team
advertised in bookstores and Gay and
Lesbiannewspapers. Theymade upflyers
to distribute at Lesbian films and community
events. They went to all the workshops
on choosing children and told par:
ticipants about the study. The original
study began with 154 mothers.
The first interviews took place when
the mothers were pregnant. Then the mothers
and co-mothers were interviewed again
when the chil&en were a year and a half
old and when they were five. Nanette’s
team is currently interviewing the families
now that the children are 10, and this
for the first time includes interviews with
the .children themselves. Then the families
will be interviewed next when the
children are 17 and when they are 25.
"When we interviewed the mothers at
first, when they were pregnant, they anticipated
being out as Lesbians," said
Nanette. "For the most part they used
unknown donors, because there was a lot
more fear at that time that somehow the
state would come in and take the children
away. By the lime of the next interviews,
when the children were toddlers, many of
them regretted this and wished they had
used a known donor who could have participated
in the child’s life as a father.
ones interms ofdonoridentity."
Not surprisingly, the
children were very. much
desired. When" the Lesbians
were first interviewed
while pregnant, about half
the women werelncoupled
relationships, andhad been
with their parmers from a
few months to a decade or
more. Others were single
mothers.
When Nanette’s team
re-interviewed the mothers
when the children were
a year and a half, they were
not surprised to find completely
exhausted, harried
mothers whohadvery litile
time for their own lives
other than childrearing and
paid employment. One of
the areas of difficulty was
the little contact with their
partners, and this was often
a source of tension. By
the time of the interviews
when the children were
five, a number of the
couples had broken up.
Those couples where the
mothers had spent time
. away from the children,in
order to have more time
with each other, weremore
likely to still be together
than the couples that had
been most child-focused.
¯ Now the team is interviewing the ten-
" year old children. "It’ s very exciting to be
¯¯ interviewing the kids for the first time,"
said Nanette.-"Because we have these
: very articulate kids who are highly edu-
: cated around issues of diversity, racism,
¯ and homophobia." ¯
Doinglongitudinal research is not easy.
: WhenNanettehad a floodinher basement
: a few years ago, some of the file cabinets
¯ got wet. "I was frantically using a hair
¯ dryer to dry the pages of the interviews so
¯ the data wouldn’t be lost," she recalls.
¯ Nanette phones all the families each year
: to see if they have moved, so she won’t
¯ lose touch with them. A couple of women
¯ who once identified as Lesbians are now
¯ involved with men; a few women have
died. ButNanettehas stayedintouchwith
¯ just about all the women from the original
¯ sample. As couples break up and then get
¯ involved with new parmers, Nanette in-
" corporates all these "step-m0ms" in the
¯ study. ’This means we may be the only
¯ study that has more participants at the end
of the study than at the beginningU’ she
¯ said.
¯ More information about the study re-
-¯ sults can be read in: Nanette Gartrell et at.
(1996), The National Lesbian Family
¯ Study: InterviewsWithProspectiveMoth-
: ers.AmericanJoumalofOrthopsychiatry,
¯ volume 66, number 2, pp. 272-281.
: Esther Rothblum is Professor of Psy-
¯ chology at the University ofVermont and
¯
iseditoroftheJournalofLesbianStudies.
¯¯_ She has been chair of the Committee on
Lesbian and Gay Concerns of the Ameri-
¯ can Psychological Association.
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by Mary Schepers, Do-It=Yourself-Dyke
My .friend J. was so delighted that her
leaky toilet was featured in last month’s
column that she set her girlfriend on the
project right away. The DIYD is happy to
report the repair was a success, much to
her friends’ mutual satisfaction.
J is so happy, in fact,
that she promises to bfiy her
girlfriend a tool belt very
.soon -since a pair of silk
boxers will be tucked in one
of the pockets, the DIYD
can only assume the nature
of the first project...
A continuation of the toilet
theme was originally
planned for this month, but
after further consideration, I
have decided to defer unmasking
the mystery of the
wax ring for a later date.
Tttming a toilet over is not
forthe timidorfaint-hearted!
Instead, we will begin a
journey together in developing
that most versatile and
most necessary of all skills -
painting. Dear ones, do not
groan and run away so
quickly! Certainly, unguided
paintingprojects have almost
spelled out D:I-V-O-R-C-E
for too many ofmy brethern
... we will begin a
journey together
in developing that
most versatile and
most necessary
d all stalls -
painting. Dear
ones, do not groan
and run away so
qttlcl~y!Certainly,
unguided
painting projects
have almost
spelled out
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
¯.. but it doesn’t
have to be so
traumatic.
and sistern, but it doesn’t have to be so
traumatic. Indeed, follow the advice proffered
in the next few colunms, and perhaps
your delighted love will buy you a :
tool belt with all the accessories, too. ¯
The DIYD begs your indulgence; a ,"
whole colunm devoted to the selection :
and.care of paintbrushes is not as bizarre ¯
as youmayinitially think. Over ,theco~se ."
ofyour Do-It-Yourselflife, youmaypaint
every room in your house as well as some
or all of the exterior at least once. ff
you’ve ever paid a paint contractor, you
can see the economy of widding a (good)
paintbrush yourself. And the grim fact is,
the type and quality and care of your
paintbrushes is directly related to the finished
quality of your paint job.
Yes, ducklings, wereturn to theDIYD’s
recurring theme o" tools : Always Buy the
Very Best That You Can Afford. You
may choke at the prospect of paying $13
- $24 for a brush, and certainly they canbe
had for cheaper (although I don’t recommend
buying even a small brush for less
than $5), but this is definitely a case of
.getting what one pays for. And please
don’t look at brushes as a limited use,
throw-away commodity; my father, the
original DIY Oracle, has brushes that are
about my age, and they are as marvelous
looking and functional as I am, too! Well,
maybe more so. I will teach you that
lesson in longevity, too, so that you can
get the most out of your investment.
In selecting brushes, you will want a 1
l/2 inch or 2 inch brush and a4 inch brush
as a minimum. When you buy a good
paintbrush, you don’t need a smaller one
for the anal retentive job of cutting in
(painting around trim, molding, etc.); if
you have a real steady hand and good eye,
you won’t even need to use masking tape
very often, and that’s a great time saver.
You will seldom use a 4 inch brush indoors,
but it’s very handy when you do
need it, and absolutely necessary if you
are painting outside. As you go up the
quality and cost ladder, the brushes will
be marked specifically for external or
¯ inside paint jobs, and {hat should be re-
, spected. However, if you are in the upper
¯
middle range, the brushes can, with care,
: be used interchangeably..DO NOT BUY
¯ BRUSHES WITH VINYL BRISTLES!
¯
TheDIYDcaunotbediscreethere: reader,
they are crap. Natural bristle
brushes are the sine qua non
ofpaintjobs; yours will probably
read "Natural China
Bristles" and they are made
of hogs hair; if you have
ethical objections to this,
skip down a paragraph.
After you have sucked up
and bought your precious
brushes, takethemhome and
continue to treat them with
the loving respect they deserve.
Before usingyournew
brushes, dip them in what-
. ever solvent is related to the
type of paint you are using
(paint thinner for oil-based
paint, water for water based
paint); this moistens areservoir
located up at the top of
the bristles, and is essential
to the longevity of the brush
as well as the quality Of your
paintjob. Tap off the excess
moisture (please, no crass
comments) so that the brush
is just damp. Repeat this if
." your brush starts to dry out oryou stop for
: lunch or whenever you are going to use a
¯ clean and dry brush to paint with.
As youpaint, dip yourbrushhalfway up
the bristles into the paint, the tap the side
of the brush on the side of yourpaint can.
This is called loading your brush; if you
scrape most of the paint off on the side,of
the bucket, you are completelydefeating
the purpose of loading the brush. That is,
a dry brush is not a) going to apply much
paint and b) is not going, to last very long.
A loaded brush is going to apply the paint
smoothly and with little friction; as soon
as it sounds a little raspy, load up again
(more on painting technique next month).
Please do not squish the brush downor get
thebrisdes all bentand broken and crooked
as you paint; you’re not trying to kill the
poor thing. Smooth and gentle and flowing
is the technique you’re after. Painting
is a Tao thing, if you please.
You may have read the helpful hint of
putting abrushin aplastic bag and storing
it in the freezer if you will be continuing
¯ your paint job later; the DIYD strongly
¯
discourages you from doing so, with all
¯ duerespect to Heloise. Using the Oracle’s
¯¯ techniques, it doesn’t take long to clean a
brush and it will prolong the life of your
¯ expensive tool. For water based paints,
¯ rinse the brush under a tap of.running
¯ lukewarm water, gently working the ¯
bristles from side to side to get the paint
¯
out of the reservoir. Workin a dab of dish
¯ soap on the bristles and rinse some more;
¯ tam the brush on its side and work the ¯
water in from that angle too; it’s ok to use
¯ your hands, and it’ll help you clean up a
¯ bit, too. When all traces of the paint are
: gone and the rinse water is clean, squeeze
; off the water, put the brush head on a
; paper towel androllitup flat (don’t squish
¯ the bristles tightly together). It keeps the ¯
bristles safe and dust free
¯
An oil based paint is more finicky to
: clean up after, but is not a chore to be
¯ dreaded. You’ll need paint thinner (It’s
: .flammable, so don’t useit near a flame
¯ source and see Dyke, page 14
by Lamont Lindstrom ¯ is a challenge for you: Reflect anthropo-
A few years ago, at a dinner party, my " logically on Oklahoma culture and why
friend Andrew dropped his pants to show ¯ this shouldfear tattoos. Nonetheless, some
me two piercings. Or rather, he showed " of you may have come across a tattoo
me one (a t-bar) and some ripped skin " eslablishmentthatsetupshopintheBrady
where the second had been. He somehow District late last year. Delighted, I took
had lost this on a flight from the UK to " advantage of this local opportunity to
NewZealand. (Ididn’tthen have tattooed on me my
want much to go into the No one l~,nows Japaneseinkan-thesmall,
details, halfway through where and wlaen round name stamp that all
my salad, of just how this banks inJapandemand one
loss could have occurred.) laumans ~rst uses in order to deposit or
Andrew since has some- transformed t~elr withdraw anymoney. Next
how arranged a replace- time I am in Japan, I plan
ment. He likes to fiddle bodies into worlds Of just to pull up my sleeve
with hisjewdry, so he tells art. T]als eertalnly instead.
me, duringlongandtedious No doubt I will horrify
business meetings at the occurred tlaousands thebankladies. Tattooing
London architectural firm - per]aaps tens of in Japan (like Oklahoma)
where he works. These is scandalous. This despite
piercings, there inside his thousands - of years the fact that Japan has an
pinstriped trousers, com- a~o. En~llsh internationally renowned
pensates for the boring
businessman’s garb he has speahers, in tl~e late
tradition of brilliant fullbody
tattooing. Japanese
to wear. 18th century, bor- tattoos,however, arediffi-
Andrew is less happy cult to find and admire.
with some of his other rowed the word Many of the public-baths I
piercings. He complains, "tattoo" from the frequented had signs proin
a recent email message:
Polynesian ’tatu’..
claiming "NO tattoos al-
"I have JUST ABOUT de- ¯ lowed." This reflects aseider
to remove my nipple Tattooln~ qulehly sociations of tattoos with
rings... Amobile phonein -
the top pocket also causes became a fad amon~ mafiathe yakuzagangs thatJapaneSecontrol
considerabledamagewhen "-both urbanites and much of the underground
running across the office.
Noonehaseveraskedwhy the avant-~mrde r~eb economY.thoughI, hadOneclimbedday’
I suddenly collapse in a (muela as it is today, Sakurajima volcano and
heap swearing,., so I think "
they will have to go." He two centuries later), itsWasbackside.makingmYi WaYranintod°Wna
hopes, though, to get him- . party ofWell-dressed sightself
a tattoo by way of compensation for " seers sporting black patent leather shoes.
the sacrifice of his nipple d~cor. They off&ed me a ride back to the city in
I am a fan oftattoos mysdf, so I hope
¯
their van. Squeezed into the back seat
Andrew does decide to undergo the inky " with two ofmy hosts, I noticed a tattooed
needle. No one knows where and when ¯ wristjustshowingfromnnderashirtsleeve
humansfirsttransformedtheirbodiesinto ¯ cuff. Soon, my new companions had hapworksofart.
Thiscertainlyoccurredthou- " pily pulled off their clothing to’reveal
sands - perhaps tens of thousands - of : magnificent kaleidoscopic tattoos coveryears
ago. English speakers, in the late ¯ ing every inch of their bodies, except
18th century, borrowed the word"tattoo" : head, hands, and feet. Bygone yakuza
from the Polynesian ’~atu’. James Cook, - ¯ sometimesarrangedforthemselves,when
and his fellow explorers, came across: ¯ theydied, to be partly skinned, and the
richly decorated male Polynesian bodies " skin tanned, in order to preserve their
in Tahiti, the Marquesas, Hawai’i, and " luxuriant tattoos.
New Zealand. Eager sailors pulled up ¯ Fewof us would be so willing to betheir
shirts to offer their skin to the bone ¯ come altogether a body-art canvas. Still,
needles of Polynesian artists. They thus ¯ tattooing allows us to remodel our bodies
imported Pacific tattoo designs back to " and thereby our senseand presentation of
Europe. Tattooing quickly became a fad ¯ self..IrecentlywanderedaroundHouston’s
amongbothurbanitesandtheavant-garde " Gay ghetto, the Montrose district - it
rich (much as it is today~ two centuries " could have been ancient Tahiti. Many of
later). This actually was a reintroduction - : us, too, will make handsome, decorated
of forgotten body art to Europe. Ancient , corpses. I am suggesting to Andrew that
peoples from across Europe once also had this time he just have a ring tattooed onto
decorated themselves by needling dyes " his nipple. That way those troublesome
under the skin. ¯ cell phones won’t get inthe way.
Oklahoma is one of only three of the ¯ Lamont Lindstrom is a professo? of
United States that outlaw tattooing. Here : anthropology at the University of Tulsa.
¯ more. Your brush should be nice and
¯ dean now, so use a paper towel to absorb
: the excess thinner, then store as above.
get lots of ventilation going), an empty ¯ Storetheusedthinnerinyourcontainerin
paint can or bucket, and a sealable con- ¯ a wall ventilated spot away from ignition
tainer and a couple of paper towels. Pour " sources. The next time you use an oilsome
thinner in your dean bucket, and " based paint, you can reuse the thinner
work the bristles firmly but gently back ¯ from that container. The paint settles out
and forth against the bottom and side of " and the thinner and oil can gently be
the bucket. This will get the majority of ° decanted from the top. The Oracle swears
the paint out of the bristles. Pour the used ¯ that this product is even better than virgin
thinner into your sealable container and " thinner, and you’re recycling.
replace the lid; be a good eco scout and " Now that you are savvy with brush
mark"used paint thinner" on the lid. Pour basics, we’ll get prepped for the big paint
another inch or two of dean thinner into ¯ job: "Gird your lions" as Aunt Carmen
your bucket and work your bristles some " used to say; we’ll beback next month.
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Rights Lobby ofTexas. "More states than
ever before are facing anti-Gay measures
and/or are fightingforpro-Gay civil rights
protections. Nearly every state has faced
abill banning the recognition of same-sex
marriages in the last two years. Over thirty
states have groups activdy working on
pro-Gay pieces of legislation."
"In Oklahoma, the logical lead organization
for this action is the Cimarron
Alliance," noted community activistTom
Neal who had represented Tulsa Oklahomans
for Human Rights in last year~s
Federation meetings. "Hopefully a consortium
of organizations, like TOHR,
OGLPC, PFLAG and others, will come
together for such an event," he added.
The Equality Begins at Home actions
will be organized by. each of the existing
36 political organizations active in the
Federation. Each state will desig-n an ac~
tion that best fits with their state and their
political goals. Each state will develop a
plan for integrating local groups and our
allies into the Action.
The National Gay Lesbian Task Force
will help to organize the states that do not
have e:dsting statewide political groups.
The Equality Begins atHome actions has
been g~ven office space in the National
Gay Lesbian Task Force office.
Kerry Lobel, executive director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
said, "The political center of gravity is in
the states. Equality Begins at Home will
allow organizers to focus their energy on
building the movement in all fifty states.
At this critic~ time in our movement,
NGLTF is fully committed to the Federaraon
and the state actions. We urge our
colleague or~ mizations to join us in suppo,-
txng this critical political work.
Several national and local groups have
jointed in supporting the Equality Begins
at Home Actions by helping with re-
5~udraising, publicity-, organiz-
,.~ ~’,~ ~w-~.ic.~ and expertise. There will
also 0e a pc,~ .~i’~d effort to make sure that
both the Equality Begins at Home actions
and the Millenium March compliment
each-other and share resources.
"The Equality Begins at Home actions
enjoys the full support and enthusiastic
supportofthe organizers of the Millenium
March," said Elizabeth Birch, executive
director of the Human Rights Campaign.
"It is imperative that we focus our energies
as a movement at both the state and
federal level. These two events will cornpliment
each other as together we build
the momentum to achieve equality in the
next century."
"Each state capitol must hear voices of
every color thatmakes-up theLGBTcommtmity.
LLEGO will make sure that
Latina/os are active in this event and looks
forward to making a forceful manifestation
ofunity and inclusiveness. Ourmovement
will be raised to anew level with the
success of Equality Begins at Home, said
Martin Omelas-Quintero, Executive Director
of LLEGO, The Nadonal Latinwo
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Organization.
For more .information about Equality
Begins a~ Home, contact Tom Neal at
583-1248 or tulsanews@earthlink.net.
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TU/BLGTA Presents
Annual Film Festival
Women at RiskVideo AIso Showing
q~,3LSA The University ofTulsa’s Bisexual/Lesbian!
New MCC-GT Pastor Brings
Radical Past + Present Grace
TUI~qA - After two years,
Tnisa’s oldest Lesbian and
Gay congregation, the Metropolltan
Corunauaity Church
of Greater Tulsa has a pastor
again. Tracy I. Barber came
to Tulsa about 2 moaths ago
from Los .Amgales. She’s only
recently ordained as a Metro
politan Conununity Church
pastor having [men originally
ordained as a Mennonite after
graduahag from the lfigMy
respo~ted Fulhi~ Theologieul
Seamnat~ in 1994. And
though she was born in Califomi~
L shehas ties to this ~’ea,
having studied at Evangel MCC-GT Pastor Tracy Barber
Collage hi Spr~gfield, MO. featuredonthe¢overoftheOet.
Barber, uldike some 26, 1990 la)s Angeles Roader2
who ve become clergy, has an unusual profess olml background.
WhJhi th Cafifomia, she worked in Hollywood film production:
commercials, music videos, and Entertaitmlent Tonight, serving
as Leeza Gibbons’ assistam. She Mternated between doing hatter
paying filial work and non profit work.
In one extraordinm-y stint featured in the Los Angeles Reader,
she infiltrated the radical and-abortion group, Operation Rescue
(OR). as an Unpaid spy for a coalition of feminist orgimlzadons.
This work was crucial to defense work and gave OR its first
substantial defeat.
But for MCC-GT, Barber and her congregation is m the thick
of preparing a rtfission statement, a statement of die vision of
where they want to go, and of their vahles. Barber. with
injoumniism,recafls that tbeulogian Carl Bart said that a nfihister
needs the Bible in one hand and a newspaapar in the other - you
have to know what is ~oin~ on in the world.
Lesbian Health Care : Mel WhiteSays to PFLAG:
NEW YORK (AP) - For 20 years. Nayla Rolle lived
with a paralyzing pain that dectors distthssed a.s stress
related, It wasn’t until the B~oldyn social worker
skarted seeing Joan Waitknvic,z - a spacialist ia Lesbiau
health issues - that her aliments were diagnosed cor
recfly, as lupus and asthma. "Other doctors saw me as a
young woman of color, a l~sbian and they couldn’t get
beyond what I was saying."says the 41 -year old Rolle.
Wailkevicz, who began seeing Rulle hine years ago
whihisha was in private practice, is now director ofBeth
lsrael Medical Center’s Gay Women’s Focus. Heulthcare
workers say it is the first hospitul-hasext health care
provider in the country fo~ 1 esbialxs. The connection to
the hospital, proponents say, conid give Lesbian patients
better access to SlX’Cth~sts and more comprehensive
insurance than they wonid otherwise have. "’We
want women to come in here and feel uulniubiled about
their lifestyle,’says \Vaitkevicz.
Gay Women’s Focus is a plimary care provider and
gives referrals. Since opathng in 1996, it has treated
more than 3,000 patients - 30 parcent of them Lesbians.
There have~similar hospital bosed clinics - often
AIDS-related that focas on Gay men’s health.
Experts say Gay women have spatial medical cow
ceres: They may be at higher risk of developing coro
nary disease, breast and colon callcer, and some ~ aginai
infections, research shows.
And sexual practices can have an effect. Teresa
Cuadsa, the cento"s gynecologist, says ma~y Lesbians
may go y~rs without vhatmg a gynecologist, for ex
,’maple, because they think they are not at risk for
Truth + Love, Relentlessly
TULSA - The Rev. Mel \Waite. former ghost,\alter to the likes of
the Gay-ba.~hing TV preaebers Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson
pregehed the gospel of Ghandi and Martin Luther King. Tlfis
message of r~n-violem
elal change was delivered to
about 200 who attended Pareats.
Families and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays. PFL~.G’s
re~onaiconferenee dth~erat
All Souls Uthtafian Church
on Sat. March 7.
~q’fite. who was formerly
associated with the Metropolitan
Communit.~ Church-
The Rev. L~el White, joined !Lv
es’DallasCathedraiofHope,
Tulsan S ~e Knause, and White s
now works with his life partner
Gap, Nixon in an interpartner
Gary NLron at All Souls. faith justice minisl~, called
Soulforce based in Laguna Beach. California. see White, page 3
MinisterAcquited Church Trial
Over Lesbian Union Ceremony
major change !n church policy. "1 don’t know the implicatig,m~ of
tkni r dncision," Ct~ech said from the pulpit. "But I believe it s the
TOHR HIV Program
ChangesAmid Criticism
News analysis by 7T’N staff.
TIYLSA At March s general nembership n ecting.
a member of Tulsa Oldahomans for Htm~an
Right. Inc. who had joined ouly earlier dmt da)
made a motion that the membors o~ edde the vole
the orgathzadon’s board of directors and tfl g~c
away TOHR’s HIV prevention programs to
yet non existent nonprofit "l~is svas approved h
the hanth’ul of members present. Most of those
votin against the board of directors were emplo.’,
Tulsa Clubs & Restaurants
*Bamboo Lounge, 7204 E. Pine
*Boston Willy’s Diner, 1742 S. Boston
*Concessions, 3340 S. Peoria
*Empire Bar, 1516 S. Peoria
*Full Moon Cafe, 1525 E. 15th
*Gold Coast Coffee House, 3509 S. Peoria
*Interurban Restaurant, 717 S. Houston
*Jason’s Deli, 15th & Peoria
*Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
¯ *The Palate Care & Catering, 3324G E. 31st
*St. Michael’s Alley Restaurant, 3324-L E, 31st
*Samson & DelilahRestaurant~ 10 E. Fifth
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Homosexual Marriage and the
Assault on Your Family
by Jay Alan Sekulow~ Chief Counsel
American Center for Law & Justice
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23467 - 4429.
We stopped homosexual activists m
Hawaii last year, but now they are putting
together a desperate new assault. Wecant
: afford to lose this battle for the family.
¯ Please read this letter carefully. - Jay
Thehomosexual community is about to
; launch a massive assault on the family,
; and once again Hawaii is the focus of their
¯ attack. Militant homosexual groups from
~ across the nation are joining together to
: defeat a stare-wide referendum in Hawaii
¯¯ this fall. Itis all part of the gay andlesbian
community’s sweeping ag_end,2., fo.r 1.,99.8
that seeks to redefine the family m mexr
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584-7960 " agenda.
First, I have established a special task
749-4901 ~ forcededieatedtomonitq_ring .a.n.d.respot~idr~
587-7674 ~ ingto developments in Hawaii. tam pe -
743~4297 ¯ soiaally spearheading this task force,
¯ which, wliich incl,u,d_es senior deputies in
749~4195 " the Chief Counsel s office, our research
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~ STRATEGIES OF THE MILITANT
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i propaganda that will soon blanket tia-
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: HOLDING OFF THE ENEMY in the
: courts of law. Now, we. must .win. the
¯ battle in the court of pubhc optmon:
~ In addition, I must ensure that ACI.J
¯ attorneys are ready to respond to the
¯ mounting evidence that CHRISTIANS
ACROSS AMERICAN ARE BEING
HARASSED FOR OPPOSING THE
HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA.... WE
ARE AGGRESSIVELY DEFENDING
CHILDREN FROM HOMOSEXUAL
INDOCTRINATION IN SCHOOLS
ACROSS AMERICA - ¯ ¯ the enclosed
¯ situational report gives more details on
¯ how homosexuals are undermining the ¯
family. The fact is, no business, no family,
no schoohaged chi!d is safe from this
sweeping pu.qh see Anti-Gay, p.3
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Gay-Baiting + What
Well M. Susan Savage, our"pretty and nice" as well a~’
politically savvy mayor squeaked on through the election
despite her opponent’s last minute Gay-baiting tactics.
Our mayor’s advisors spent weeks worrying about
rumors that her Republican opponent, Terry Simonson,
would use "Gay issues" to attack Savage. They were
right. Simonson, with advicefrom Oklahoma’s "hate and
lyingAREChristian values’~ Congressmen Steve Largent
and Tom Cobum, and their "Oklahoma Values" Coalition,
did air TV advertisements that attacked Savage for
issuing a Gay Pride proclamation:
What they didn’t say is that the proclamation was from
1994, and that Savage has refused to issue another since.
Her reason: by allowing the "mainstream" media, i.e.
Channel 6, to see the proclamation, Pride Picnic organizers
were using the proclamation "for political purposes"
which is not allowed.
Hundreds of proclamations are given to non-profits
which routinely share these with the media but if a Gay
group does precisely the same thing, it is being ~’political".
Does this sound like doubletalk?
Wall, consider this is the same mayor Who claims that
she doesn’t issue proclamations for "commercial" purposes,
and yet, issued one for "Jackie Cooper Imports
Day" in honor of breaking ground for a new south Tulsa
dealership. Not to pick on Jackie Cooper Imports, since
other commercial enterprises have been similarly honored.
And with Cooper, the business really has done a
great deal of good civic work, especially around HIV/
AIDS issues in Oklahoma City.
The Gay-baiting ads, however;, may well have helped
our mayor get dected. Going into the race, some politicalobservers
thought she might lose, or at best, win by the
thinnest of margins despite being the incumbent, and
having more than one-hundred thousand in campaign
dollars. But the ads, which aired a few days before the
race, may have shifted some votes. ~-
My father, as rock-solid a Republican as you will find,
after he heard the Simonson ad, tore up his Simonson
sign, threw it in the trash and went to Simonson HQ to
express his anger- and changed his vote. His view is that
others didso as well. And that The Tulsa World article on
Tony Orr and Tim Beauchamp, (about whomTFN wrote
last fall when they spoke at th~ National Gay!& Lesbian
TaskForce/TOHRhate crirn~e~ forum) who had been-Gay-
Really Happened in the Mayor’s Race
bashed, may have made real for many non-Gay citizens
what can result from Simonson-style verbal attacks.
So now Mayor Susy’s back, and we, Lesbian and Gay
citizens and our friends and family need to hold her
accountable. It is no longer acceptable for her to act like
merely talking to us is enough. We need to see some
specific results like diversity training for our often Gayr
hating Tulsa police officers, though such traimng also
shouldbe extended to fire and other city departments. The
mayor should also ~ssue an executive order banning
discrimination in city employment - something she can
do under the city charter. And since proclamations are
essentiallypublic paper towels - important to those who
.want them but of little use for anyone else - our mayor
should treat her Lesbian and Gay consti:uents as well as
all others, and give us Lesbian and Gay Pride Week
proclamations, even Pride Month as we asked for in ’96.
After all, we supported her in this race, more than ever
before. Cimarron Alliance Group, Oklahoma’s Lesbian
and Gay political action committee donated $2,000 to
Savage (this is no secret I’m disclosing, donations of this
size are public by law). And several of our most prominent
commumty members worked themselves into a
frenzy helping her and my guess, resulted in further
donations to Savage of many times that $2k. Remember,
$5k is the legal maximum donation, so S2k should get our
items at least some consideration not that quidpro quo
ever has anything to do with Oklahoma politics
The real danger to these reasonable reforms: that public
employees should have the training to act appropriately
with all citizens and that our own government should
pledge not to discriminate against any of its own citizens.
is likely M. Susan Savage’s further political ambitions.
Our mayor says she’s not looking at higher office. But
some think she’s just waiting until her daughters are
college age to run. If so, she may still hold fairness to
Tulsa’s Lesbian and Gay citizens hostage, not because
she’s personally opposed but because she feels it’s politically
advantageous. But maybe,just maybe, this election
in which Gay-baiting likely’ helped her win, will give her
the courage to appeal to the decency mad intelligence of
Tulsans. Then she will say’, as-she did about the "94
proclamation in response.to Simonson in the debates,
"I represent all citizens" and-do’what"s right.
~ Tom Neal, publisher & editor
one other person not yet named at the last TOHR board
meeting), a .single proposed new board member was
interviewed. However, Neal noted that, ",after Frank
Ramirez began his presentataon by stating, seemingly
proudly, that he violates Oklahoma’s Open Meetings.,’
Open Records laws in ranning Morton, I have to question
the ethics some of the persons to whom HOPE is being
given. Hulsey and Thompson have good reputations, but
after hearing Ramirez’ comments, and after learning that
Fr~sbee was already accepting donations for the as-ofthen
yet non-existentnew organizationwhile she was still
working forTOHR, and that she was doing so in violation
of her board’s instructions, I am appalled by the misconduct
and unprofessionalism of Frisbee."
Indeed, in the often stormy membership meeting, Neal
accused Frisbee of unprofessional conduct. He toldTFN,
"I hired Kristi Frisbee after our board voted to fire
Mallory Degen Brown for cause. But I hired her to fix the
problems of TOHR’s HIV programs, not to redesign it
with by-laws she wrote, with a board of her own chosing.
A good non-profit professional certainly has the right to
try to persuade her board of her vision but ultimately she
works for the organization. An organization should not
rum itself inside out for her convenience?"
Neal continues, "The real loser here is the whole Gay
community. A program that was created because few in
Tulsa gave a datnn that Gay men wer~ dying has been coopted-
to deal mostly with HIV for non-Gay people.
That’s worthy but other ’health organizations could do
¯ that. And the consideration of whether this historically
Gay-focused program should address Lesbian and Gay
health needs hasfallen victim to Kristi Frisbee’ s ruthlesshess."
Neal also criticized Horn strongly, "when I was
president, we built consensus. The difficult vote to fire
Mallory was unanimous. You have to wonder about a
leader who forces through that which a majority of his
board voted against." Neal said he resigned because the
members were not given advance notice of this proposal.
Their business card features the likenesses of King and
Ghandi, and \Vhite told of his recent travels in India with
Ghandi’s grandson to see the site~ that were significant in
the life of the man who inspired King and also White to
his work challenging those in Christianity who attack
Lesbians and Gay men.
Throughout the dinner, \Vhite persuaded his overflowing
audience to repeat as a mantra, "truth and love
relentlessly"; that is that he~ and they, should do their
work inspired b~ the truth, full of love but working for
change relentlessly. This lesson, White noted, was taught
to him by Coretta Scott King, and her assistant, Gay
activigt Lynn Cothren, when White was despairing of
having any dialogue with his former friends and employers,
Robertson and Falwell.
And in remarks of praise for the work that PFLAG
does, White added a comment of local interest. He stated
that Tulsa evangelist Oral Roberts should be a PFLAG
parent, since his older son commited suicide because due
to being Gay. Tulsa’ s new Council Oak Mens Chorale
also performed for the dinner to a very warm reception.
to re-define marriage and force acceptance of the gay
lifestyle.., please add your voice to mine by signing the
enclosed statement of support. In the coming weeks I will
take our case to the media and key public officials in
Hawaii. Your signature on this statement of support will
allow me to say that tens of thousands of concerned
Christian citizens have written and askedme tomake sure
the pro-family voice can be heard above the shouts of the
militant homosexual... Next, please send of a gift of $50,
$75, $100 or more today so we can defend the family in
the court of public opinion as wall as courtrooms across
America.
Your friend advocating Jesus, Jay Allen Sekulow
Omer Cowan andPrime Timers President John Madigan
present a check for a $1,000 donation to TOHR/Pride
Center President Steve Horn.
Grassroots vs. DC/LA Elite
March on DC-Who Decides?
by Billy Hileman
The current debate of a LGBT civil rights event in
Washington, D.C. in 2000 may look like "’politic~ infighting"
if one only takes a quick glance. But just below
the surface is one of the most important community
discussions to occur in decades. Our community is in the
process of redefining the movement.
If organizing for a national LGBT civil rights event an
Washington proceeds on its current course, then progressive,
grass-roots, democratic organizing in our co~mnunity
will suffer a serious iujury.
The tragedy of this situation is that the.Hmnan Rights
Campaign’s (HRC) executive director Elizabeth t3irch,
comedian Robin Tyler, and the Universal Fello~vsl~p of
Metropolitan Community Churches’ Troy Perry are the
willing architects of this attack on queer democracy.
Right now, Perry, Birch, and Tyler are frantically
lobbying the community to sup,tvort an event they decided
to produce. They are trying to prop up grass-roots support
for an event on] y they had input on. Perry hasjust sent out
a letter with "’six very specific steps, very definite steps"
¯.. to lobby congress?. . no, to lobby the president’?..
¯ no, to zap Jesse Helms? No. Troy Perry is asking you to
lobby the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the
¯ ’Natitnal Black Eesbi~n mad Gay Leadership Fornin to
: support the Mille~inimn .March! What s wrong with that?
in Troy Perry’s plea for help, he says, "’If you are a
contributor, member or supporter of these organizations,
be sure to mention that too." That is sickening.
The MillenmumMarch is about money. It is not about
whether 2000 is a good year to rally in Washington. It is
not about ENDA, or domestic partnership, or about
lesbians and gays in the military. Right now there is only
one organization in our community with the resources to
support a huge national action in Washington. And there
is only one organization that has vowed to have 1 million
members by the year 2000 - HRC.
Never before has one of our organizations been xn a
position to unilaterally call for a March on Washington.
The Millemfium March is a test of HRC’s new power. It
is a test whether the community will allow HRC to
¯¯ o circumvent the progressive, grassroots, democratic principles
that were the basis of the three previous marches
and the heart of our movement.
At the end of Perry’s letter, he writes, "History’s
greatest movements have been grassroots movements.
~ And history’s greatest leaders have been those who
heeded the call of their grassroots members." But, there
¯ has been no "call." HRC and UFMCC didn’t allow the
forum for a"call."’ And now that people are voicing their
¯ concern about the process, Birch, Tyler and Perry are
putting a call out to the grass-roots instead of the other
¯ way around.
In March of 1991 the executive directors of NGLTF
¯ and HRCF, Urvashi Vaid and Tim McFeeley hosted a
meeting i~ Washington, D.C. for activists to discuss a
¯ third march on Washington. Minneapolis City
Councilmember Brian Coyle had pushed the idea at the
¯" 1990 Creating Change Conference. During the March
¯ (E91 meeting, and a second national meeting in .May,
dozens of proposals’~and -concerns were discussed by
." hundreds of activists.
~ Proposals for marches in 1992 and 1993 were dis-
.¯ cussed. Bi-annual MOWs with a permanent committee;
52 regional marches: states, DC and Puerto Rico; and a
¯
MOW before every presidential election were all pro-
" posed, seeMarch,page15
Houston Judge Blocks
Civil Rights Protections
HOUSTON (AP) - A~judge has blocked the city, at
leasttemporarily,fromenforcing MayorI~eBrown’s
executive order banning discrimination against Lesbians
and Gays in city government. State District
Judge Patrick W. Mizell agreed with City Council
member Rob Todd and conservative businessman
Richard Hotze that Brown lacks authority under the
city charter to impose such an order.
After a briefing by city attorneys, Brown said he is
considering an appeal. "We are disappointed with
Judge Mizell’s ruling," Brown said. "We continue to
bdieve that our interpretation is correct, that the
mayor has the power to issue executive orders."
Brown signed the order in January, fulfilling a campaign
pledge to ban discrimination in city government
on the basis of sexual orientation.
Although criticized by some City Council conservatives,
Brown’s idea had the support of a council
majority if he decided to seek an anti-discrimination
ordinance..But Brown issued an executive order,
instead.
Mizell said the charter authorizes only the council
and the Civil Service Commission to.make rules
regarding discrimination, not the mayor. Todd has
denied that their lawsuit was intended to suppress
homosexuals. He and Hotze say their suit is aimed at
procedural concerns alone. .
But some in the Gay community remain
unpersuaded, including some Gay conservatives who
said eradicating discrimination is a goal all conservafives
should share. "It’s certainly ironic that Mr.
Hotze wants to perpetuate discrimination, and that in
all the years he has been involved in politics in
Houston he has never questioned the~ayor’s right to
issue executive orders until it comes dtwn to employment
equality for Gay city employees," said Clarence
Bagby, president of the Houston Gay and Lesbian
Political Caucus.
Judge Overturns Alaska
Anti-Marriage Law
JUNEAU; Alaska (AP)- A State judge hearing a
challenge to Alaska’s ban on same-sex marriage says
choosing a partner is a fundamental right that could
result in a"nontraditional" choice. Anchorage Superior
Court Judge Peter Michalski said that the state
must show why it should be able to regulate who
petple marry.
The court challenge, began last year when Jay
Brause and Gene Dugan of Anchorage challenged a
1996law banning same-sex marriage. TheGay couple,
who sought state recognition of their relationship of
20 years, said the marriage ban violates the Alaska
Constitution. Michalski threw out the state’s bid to
dismiss the case and ruled that choosing a partner is
a fundamental right.
"Itis the decisionitself thatis fundamental, whether
the decision results in a traditional choice o~ the
nontraditional choice Brause and Dugan seek to have
recognized," Michal’ski wrote. "The same Constitution
protects both." John Gaguine, the assistant attorney
general who argued the case, said the state probably
will ask the Alaska Supreme Court to review the
decision. Proving a compelling state interest in banning
same-sex marriage may be difficult, said Matt
Coles, director of the Lesbian and Gay civil rights
Project of the American Civil Liberties in.New York.
’The state is. going to have to have a very good
justification," he said.
Deat,h Sentence Holds for
Murderer of Gay Man
AUSTIN (A~) -~A death sentence .imposed against a
former~h;§b]a~bol football starwhbwas convicted of
abducting and Shooting to death a Gay man has been
upheld by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
According to court records, Demarco Markeith
McCullum and threecompanions targeted a Gayman
for robbery in 1994becauseMcCullumbelievedGay
men always carried a lot of cash.
According to the court, McCullum saw Michael
¯
Burzinski, 29, walking to his car parkett" outside aGay
¯¯ bar. He attacked Burzinski, who the court said was
noticeably drunk, and threw him into the backseat of
¯
Burzinski’s car. According to testimony, McCullum
¯ announced that Burzinski had to be killed because he
¯ knew his attackers’ names. He then shouted aloudhis ¯
own name and the name of the men with him -
¯ Decedrick Ganious, Terrance Perro and Chris Lewis:
¯ McCullum then drove Burzinski to a secluded loca-
¯ tion, forced Burzinski from the car and shot him once
." in the back of the head.
,Massachusetts Men
Sued for Gay Bashing
¯ WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Two men accused of
¯ using an Internet chat room to lure a Gay man to a
¯ deserted field and then beating him have been sued
: for civil rights violations. The attorney general’s civil
¯ rights division filed a proposed preliminary injunc-
: tion against William D. Peters, 21, and Frank Labbe,
¯ 18, both of Webster. If successful, the injunction
¯ would mandate stiff punishments should the men
¯ commit additional civil rights crimes.
¯ Peters and Labbe allegedly attacked a 46-year-old ¯
Cambridge man in the early morning hours of Jan. 8
: after exchanging messages in a Gay-oriented online
¯ chat room. According to court documents, the defen-
¯ dants used anti-Gay language to taunt the victim and ¯
wamedhim,"Ifyougo to the cops, we’ll kill you. And
: if we ever see you online again or in a~!_.y (chat) rooms
: again, we will kill you!"
¯ Earlier this month, Labbe and Peters were indicted
"- . on charges ofarmed robbery, assault and battery with
: a dangerous weapon, civil rights violations, threaten-
: ing to commit a crime, intimidating a witness and
¯ conspiracy, according to the Worcester County dis-
: trict attorney’s office. Assistant Attorney General
¯ Richard ,Gordon said the civil rights action filed
: Thursday, whichis separatefrom the criminal charges,
¯ was brought because of the severity of the case.
: In the affidavit filed this week,the victim said he
remains terrified of his alleged attackers. "The defen¯
dants’ threats and intimidation towards me have
made mefearful for my safety, even in my own
¯ home," the testimony reads.
Bias Protections Under
Attack in Colorado
ii
Maine Towns Consider
Civil Rights Protections
: FORT COLLINS,Colo. (AP)-Theday after the City
¯ Council voted to extend anti-discrimination protec-
: tion to Gays & Lesbians, opponents to the new law
said they will petition for a vote on the plan. Council
: members said two years of study and months of
¯ public meetings convinced them that discrimination
¯ is a legitimate problem for Gays and Lesbians.
¯ The new law, adopted recently, adds sexual often-
: tation, defined as actual or perceived heterosexuality,
¯ homosexuality, bisexuality and asexuality, as a prohibitedbasis
6f discrimination. Opponents argued the
¯ ordinance gives homosexuals special rights by con-
¯. doning and protecting their lifestyle. One man accused
city leaders of "government tyranny"for endorsing
the measure. "I’m sure it’s going to be
: challenged,"said the Rev. Ken Stephens of Front
¯ Range Baptist Church. "We do not need the ordi-
¯ nance for a lifestyle which I believe is a chosen
lifestyle." ~
¯ Opponents said they are gearing up for a referendum’on
the controversial law. City Clerk Wanda
Krajicek said petitioners would have until mid-April
to collect 1,783 valid signatures from registered voters
who live in the city. The City Council could then
repeal the ordinance, submit the measure to voters in
a general election, or call for a special election to
settle the matter. A vote could be scheduled as early
as this summer, Krajicek said.
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Harbor expressed fear that some would-be vacationers
may boycott all of Maine this summer
without realizing that both towns support Gay civil
rights.
Camden and Bar Harbor voted about 3-1 in favor
of the Gay civil rights legislation that was narrowly
defeated in the Feb. 10 referendum. After two of its
members raised the issue, the Bar -Harbor Town
Council voted in March to ask the town attorney to
draft an ordinance that would be a focus for debate
at a future meeting.
The night before, Camden real estate broker
Susan Dorr asked the Boar,d,. of Selectmen to adopt
a Gay civil rights measure. Itjust makes use of the
very clear message that Camden voters have said
twice on this matter,"said Dorr, who pointed to the
town’s strong anti-discrimination stance in two
statewide votes. ’¢Fhis is an important area to
explore, to say unequivocally that Camden won’t
discfiminate,"she said.
While expressing support for Gay civil rights,
selectmen instructed the town attorney to review
the legal ramifications and advised the town manager
to seek information on local anti-discrimination
ordinances. If the proposals pass, the two
¯ coastal towns wouldjoin Portland and Long Island
as the only Maine communities with Gay civil
rights ordinances on the books.
A leader in the Gay civil rights campaign, Karen
Geraghty of Maine Won’t Discriminate, said she
could understand the frustration of townspeople
that prompted the local efforts but reiterated that a
statewidelaw was theideal solution. "Every citizen
in Maine ought to have the same basic rights,"
Geraghty said. "I don’t think that ifyou grow up in
Bangor that you ought [o have to move to Portland
or Camden or any other place in order to have
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doesn’t mean that I have a shaved head and wear
Doc Martens, either."
On a recent morning, this 20-year veteran of
corporate America happened to be wearing a white
turtleneck, brownjacket and tan pants. The muted
outfit and Parker’s low-key style certainly gave no
clue to the fact that she’s a trailblazer who has
broken a major barrier in becoming Houston’s first
openly Gay elected official.
That distinction became official on Jan. 2, when
Parker took the oath of office with her partner of
seven years at her side. She joined only 122 other
openly Gay elected officials in the U.S., according
to the Washington, D.C.-based Gay and Lesbian
Victory Fund.
At City Hall, though, Parker says she’s just
another councilwoman. Parker is an at-large council
member, meaning she was elected by voters
across the city. "There’s no difference inside this
¯
tive legislative work." Still, Parker doesn’t shy
¯ away from her role in Houston’s history or the
¯ responsibility that comes withit. "Somebodyhas to ¯
be first and you want the first to do a great job, so
: that the next one has it easier. And I feel that
¯ responsibility, but I’m very pleased that within ¯
these walls and when I~m at a civicforum that that’s
¯
not the issue," she said.
¯ Houston’s Gay and Lesbian community cer¯
taiuly claimed Parker’s victory. "Voters care more
about what our representatives doin council chain-
: bets than what they do in their bed chambers and
¯ that’s a good sign for the future of this city," said
, Dale Carpenter, a Houston lawyer and past state
president of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of
¯ Gay and Lesbian conservatives. Over the years,
: Houston’s Gay community has seen many disap-
¯ pointments, including the repeal 13 years ago of a
¯
city ordinance Nving job protection to Gays
." During the firstfew council meetings of the year,
¯ a man showed up spewing what Parker termed
; "rather ugly" comments toward her and other mi-
¯
nority councilmembers. Healso made obscene and
¯ threatening phone calls to her office. "It’s part of
¯ the job," Parker said. "You’re a public figure. ¯
You’re a target because you have to be accessible
¯
and everyone has First Amendment rights."
But there have been some signs that the nation’s
¯ fourth-largest city is growing up. During last ¯
November’s election, incumbent city controller
¯ Lloyd Kelley lost to Sylvia Garcia after calling her
: his "Gay opponent." ’q’he atmosphere has dra-
¯ matically changed here for the better," Carpenter
: said. "Annise Parker’s election is certainly the
¯ most prominent example of that." Parker spent
¯ about 20 years working for Mosbacher Oil and
; Energy and in that time also owned two small
¯
businesses. She’s also served on the Houston Po-
¯ liceDepartmentAdvisory Committeeand thecity’s
Citizen Review Committee. She has been a police
liaison for the Gay and Lesbian community.
Parker’s activism also has extended to the restoration
and preservation ofhistoric sites in Houston.
"I care about the architectural heritage in the community,"
she said. "Ijust care about old buildings."
Now she is navigating the transition from private
life as abusinesswomanand activist to city official.
Meeting the needs of her constituents, she said,
largely means dealing with their concerns about
everyday issues like street repairs and garbage
collection. Said Parker: "Potholes aren’t Gay or
Lesbian or black or Hispanic or Asian."
: Illinois Civil Rights Bill
." SPRINGFIELD, ill. (AP) - The state of Illinois
." forbids discrimination based on race, color, reli-
¯ gion, sex, marital status and six other characteris- ¯
tics. Now, sexual orientation might be added to the
: list. A bill advanced by an Illinois House commit-
. tee wouldltrohibitlandlords,employers and credi-
¯ tots from discriminating against Gays.
: Themeasure, sponsoredby Rep. Larry McKeon,
; D-Chicago, would amend the state’s human rights
¯ lawby addingthephrase%exual orientation" to the
list of categories protected against bias. McKeon,
." who is Gay, told the Human Services Committee
¯" that the bill "highlights Gays’ status as citizens
under Illinois law" but does not :’promote or con-
" done any lifestyle."
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Fellow councilman Jew Don Boney Jr., who
considers himself a staunch supporter of Parker’s,
said she’s a welcome addition to Houston government.
"She is a seasoned veteran who is a decisive
advocate on behalf of neighborhood interests," he
said. "She is fiscally responsible. She is a worker.
She is not here to profile. She is here to do substan-
: require religious institutions that regard homo-
: sexuality as immoral to hire or promoteGay people.
¯ It also would not require employers or unions to ¯
give preferential treatment or other affirmative
: action to Gays, he said. The committee approved
: the bill onan 8-2 vote. The House defeated a similar
¯ measure by McKeon last April.
Proteins Protect A
Few Hemophiliacs
NEWYORK (AP) - Fourteen hemophiliacs
whorepeatedly gotHIV-contaminated
infusions resisted infection because they
had high levels of certain immune system
proteins, a study suggests. .
The proteins are called chemokines.
Prior studies have shown they can block
HIV infection in ~he test tube, and scien- "
usts have been hoping to use them to :
develop AIDS drugs or a vaccine. ¯
TheAssociated Press reported the study :
of hemophiliacs in September when it .
was presented at a meeting. The work
now appears in a recent issue of the Pro- "
ceedings of the National Academy of Sci- :
ences.
It was presented by Daniel Zagury of :
the Pierre and Marie Curie University in :
Paris, Alessandro Gringeri of the Univer- "
sity of Milan in Italy, Dr. Robert Gallo of ¯
the Institute of Human Virology at the "
University of Maryland, and others. "
The hemophiliacs, from Italy, were ex- ¯
posed to theAIDS virus through contaminated
infusions of blood products. Blood "
cells taken from them Were found to pro- :
dace about twiceas muchofthree kinds of "
chemokines as didcells fromhealthy blood
donors, or from hemophiliacs unexposed
to HIV.
The study involved 128 hemophiliacs
who had repeatedly been expo~.d to HIV
from blood products between 1980 to .
1985, before a test to screen blood for the "
virus became available. Only three were .
infected by the first infusions. The total ¯
number of those infected rose to 59 in "
1982, 84 in 1983, 103 in 1984 and 114 in ".
1985. The pattern shows mosthemophili- ¯
acs had a natural but temporary resistatice ....
to HIV infection, the researchers said.
Faster HIV Test
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ATLANTA (AP) - Tony Braswell’s staff
spends weeks, sometimes months, waiting
for people Who took anonymous HIV
tests to return for their test results. Many
never show. "It’s an anonymous testing
site. It’s not like you can call these people
up and say ’Hey, your test came back
positive. We need to talk to you,’ "said
Braswell, executive director of AID Atlanta.
The federal government recently recommended
the use of a new HIV test that
yields results instantly, making it possible
for health workers to cut down on cases
slipping through the cracks.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention estimated the new test would
catch nearly 700,000 people a year, including
8,000 infected with HIV, who
take the test but never return for results,
said Bernard Branson, a medical epidemiologist
at the CDC.
Thereis a downside: A~additional 8,000
people would receive false-positive resuits,
~aid Branson, the chief architect Of
the CDC;s recommendation. "It’s clearly
a risk messing with people s psych~, telling
them the,y are HIV,pOsltlve, he sm .
"Bin ~b.:.u~h~i~O ask.whether the"beaefit
outweighs~ ~e risk." " ’
Both the new and the old tests look for
antibodies in the blood. But the traditional,
one-week test also looks for specific
protein bands that are considered the
absolute indicator of HIV. The CDC estimated
the false-positive rate of infections
using 1995 data.
The Bell Flower Clinic in Indianapolis
has been using the rapid test for about a
year, said Mary McKee, spokeswoman
for the Marion County, Ind., health department.
To combat false results, the clinic gives
three quick HIV tests. If one or more
comes back with a false-positive, a traditional
bloo.d test is taken and the results
are made available in about seven days,
she said. "Most people felt it would be
better to know.., because they could take
the precautions they need to take with
their partners", while they waited, Ms.
McKee said.
The’CDC said the use of the new tests
should be based on a combination of factors:
the prevalence of HIV in a community
and return rates for test results. In
cities where there is a high prevalence of
HIV and a low return rate, the new tests
should be used, Branson said.
The new test is not publicly funded and
costs S 10 to $25 at public clinics across
the country. TraditiOnal AIDS tests at
public clinics typically are free.
Currently, only one rapid test has been
approved by the FDA for use in clinics in
the United States. The test, manufactured
by Murex ofNorcross, Ga., takes about 10
minutes to determine whether the virus is
present. Several other tests are awaiting
FDA approval, Branson Said.
. ClintonAide Favors
:Needle Exchange
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Making a
strong statement in favor of needle exchange
programs, President Clinton’s
AIDS adviser said 33 Americans contract
the HIV virus through drug injections
every day.
’q~hese are not numbers but real lives,’:
Saiadra Thurmah said Wednesday ih a
speech to the National AIDS UPDATE
Conference. "I have cradled them in my
arms, often in their last moments. I am.
haunted by the responsibility to use my
position,to do everything I can to stop this
carnage.
A congressional moratorium onfederal
funding for local needle exchange programs
expires at the end of March. Health
and Human Services Secretary Donna
Shalala then could order release of funds
to commtmities that have programs exchanging
clean needles for contaminated
ones, a commonsource of the AIDS virus.
Thurman has been lobbying Shalala to
support such programs.
Barry McCaffrey, head of the White
House Office of National Drug Policy,
opposes the programs, contending they
promote drug use. Shalala has declined to
recommend funding in the past, saying it
needed more study. Shalala’s office did
not return a telephone call seeking reaction
to Thurman’s speech.
Thurman’s comments were welcomed
Thursday by Daniel Zingale of the advocacy
group AIDS Action. The speech
"sends a signal that the time is now to let
locals get the dirty needles off the street,"
he said. "It’s the strongest signal we’ve
seen."
Lastweek, Clinton’s Presidential Council
on HIV/AIDS unanimously expressed
noconfidencein the administration’ s commitment
to reducing the spread of the:
disease. The council said the refusal to
support needle exchanges "threatens the
public health and directly contradicts current
scientific evidence."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., saidThurs- .
day she would call on Shalala to lift the
funding ban after March 31. "The findings
are dear," she said. ’q~he only thing
standing in the way is politics."
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GENEVA (AP) - The spread of AIDS is "
expected to trigger more than 3 million ¯
new tuberculosis cases worldwide over -"
thenextfour years, the U.N. AIDS agency "
saidin March. UNAIDS said tuberculosis ¯
is on the increase because it spreads rap- :
idly to HIV-infected people. A person ¯
with HIV is 30 times more likely than a :
non-infected person to develop tubercu- ¯
losis.
The dual epidemic of tuberculosis and
HIV has become one of the most serious ¯
publichealththreatsintheworld,UNAIDS ¯
said. "One third of the world’s population ¯
has TB, but inmost peopleit is dormant," :
UNAIDS spokesman Gareth Jones said. ¯
’q’B is only dangerous when it becomes ¯
active; Ifyouhave the HIV virus and your ¯
immune system is down, the odds of dor- "
mantTB becoming activeis muchhigher."
The World Health Organization estimates
that more people will die from TB .
this year it than any other year in history. "
Tuberculosis, which attacks mainly the "
lungs, is a bigger killer than malari~ and ¯
AIDS combined. Last year over7 million :
people worldwidebecame sick andnearly "
3 million died of TB, the WHO said. ¯
Last year, AIDS killed 2.3 million ¯
people and infected 16,000 more people
daily. UNAIDS says more than30 million
people worldwide areinfected withAIDS.
Reparative Therapy
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Some therapists
contend unhappy, homosexuals can "
_ ’abandon their lifestyle through so-called "
"reparative" or conversion treatment, but ."
a Utah social-work group says they ¯
shouldn’ t try. "
In aunanimous affirmation ofa 2-year- ¯
old stance by its parent group, the Utah
chapter of the National Association. of ¯
Social Workers has adopted a policy dis- "
couragingreparative therapy. Thegroup’s ¯
state board found there is insufficient scientific
data supporting the treatment. The ¯
American Psychological Association in "
August also passed a resolution opposing ¯
reparative therapy.
"Social stigmatization of lesbian, gay :
and bisexual people is widespread and is :
a primary motivating factor in leading ¯
some people to seek sexual orientation ¯
changes," the policy states. "Discomfort "
about working with this population may "
lead to inappropriate, ineffective and even ¯
damaging interventions by social work- ¯
ers." "
Board president Joanne Yaffe said the ¯
action came after it received an anony- ¯
mous complaint, redirected from the national
committee. "They toldus they knew "
of Utah social workers who were practic- "
ing reparative therapy and asked us what ¯
we were going to do about it," she said.
°
The state chapter’s action was criti- "
cized by such groups as Evergreen Inter- ¯
national and LDS Social Services. ’q’he ,
church’s licensed professional counselors
take the position that thereis substan- ¯
tial evidence that individuals can dimin- ¯
ish their unwanted homosexual attraction -"
and make changes in their lives," said "
Mormonchurch spokesmanDonLeFevre. ¯
"The church and these professionals are :
supportive of a person’s right to seek ¯
assistance in doing so." :
Reparative or conversion therapy at- ¯
tempts to change homosexuals to heterosexuals,
and has existed for more than a "
century. Earlypracticesincorpomtedelec- ."
tric shocks, castration, lobotomies and
aversion therapy. Today, therapists instead
use psychoanalytic, cognitive or
behavioral therapy techniques to diminish
or eliminate same-sex attraction.
Critics contend the therapies have a 60-
70 percent failure rate, but supporters
insist there is ampleproof thathomosexuals
can change, or at least curb their behavior.
NASW board member Shirley Cox, a
Brigham Young University social-work
professor and Evergreen Intemationa
board member, said there is a distinction
to be made between reparative therapy
and what she calls "lifestyle-change"
therapy. "Reparative therapy assumes
people are broken and in need of repair.
don’t believe that," she said. "But I will
help people who want to live as heterosexuals.
They have a right.to choose."
Egergreen Executive Director David
Pruden said NASW made itself "vulnerable
when, as an organization, they become
the arbiters of lifestyle decisions.
What happens if something goes wrong
because they have affirmed a certain
lifestyle7’ Pruden said about 40% of the
people served by his organization leave
homosexuality entirely and about 30%
diminish their homosexual behavior. ¯
US Supreme Court:
Are HIV+ Disabled?
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a major test of
disability rights, Supreme Court justices
sparred Monday over whether HIV-infected
people should be considered disabled
because of dangers involved in sex
andchildbearing.
The lawyer for Bangor, Maine, dentist
Randon Bragdonargued that Bragdon did
not illegally discriminate against anHIVinfected
woman by refusing to treat her at
his office. The patient, Sidney Abbott,
suffers no AIDS symptoms and therefore
is not protected by the Americans With
Disabilities Act, said attorney John
McCarthy.
But Ms. Abbott’s lawyer said lower
courts correctly found that Bragdon violated
the law, which bars discrimination
against the disabled in jobs, housing and
public accommodations. The law - responsible
for such aids as wheelchair
ramps at countless public places - says
people are disabled if they have aphysical
or mental impairment that "substantially
limits one or more major life activlties."
HIV-infected people should always be
considered disabled because the contagious
andfatal nature ofacquiredimmune
deficiency syndrome severely limits their
ability to have sex and bear children, said
Ms. Abbott’s attorney, Beunet,t hi. Klein.
Some justices disputed whether HIV
infection really creates such a limit. Justices
David H. Souter and Antonin Scalia
suggested an HIV-iufected person faces a
"moral choice"rather than an actual physical
limit on his ability to have children.
"I’m not sure that’s what the statute is
talking about," Souter said.
However,JusticeAnthony M. Kennedy
said that if .a person with highly iufectious
tuberculosis stays away from other people,
-"we don’t just call it a moral choice."
Someone with bubonic plague would be
considered disabled, added Justice
Stephen G. Breyer.
Bragdon’s lawyer said the disability
law aims .to protect people whose disabilities
affect their "day-to-day indepen,,dent
living andeconomic self-sufficien~y, not
HIV-infectedpeoplewhosufferno symptoms.
¯ The disability-rights law says disabled
¯ people can be treated differently if they
: pose a"direct threat to the health or safety
: of others." "Dr. Bragdon believes that
¯ when he provides a service in the face of
¯
the risk of death he should be allowed to
¯ take additional precautions" such as in-
¯, sisfing on filling Ms. Abbott’s cavity at a
hospital, McCarthy said.
¯ However, Breyer said that "after 15
¯ years andhundreds ofthousands ofdeaths"
¯ fromAIDS there appeared to be no docu- ¯
mentedcasesinwhichadenfistcaughtthe
¯
virus from a patient. "How can we say
: here that your client exercised reasonable
¯ medical judgment.’?" Breyer asked ¯
McCarthy replied that there were seven
¯ possible cases of HIV transmission in
; dental procedures.
¯ Klein said that unless HIV-infected
: people have clear protections under the
¯ law,many will hide the fact that they carry
¯ the virus.
¯ The court never has decided a case
¯
involving an HIV-related issue or the dis-
" ability-bias law, signed in 1990 by Presi-
¯ dentBush. Adecisionis expected by July. ¯
Thejustices’rulingcouldprovidedues as
¯
to whether the law covers other kinds of
¯ disabilities, such as cases of epilepsy or
¯ diabetes that are controlled by medica- ¯
don.
¯ Titanic Necklace
¯ Raises $$ for AIDS
¯ BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -A 170-
¯ carat sapphire and diamond necklace
¯ modeled after a piece of jewelry in the
movie ’q’itanic" sold for $2.2 miilion at a
¯ fundraiserheldinhonorofPfincessDiana.
¯ The black:fie Princess Ball was part of a
gala to raise money for the Diana, Prin-
. cess of Wales Memorial Fund and South-
" era Califomia~s Aid for AIDS. The two
charities will split the money. The neck-
"¯ lace was valued at $3.5millionbefore the auction. The buyer was not identified.
Volunteers Needed
:f_or TU Study of
¯ Anti-Gay Violence
.. Elana Newman, Ph.D., a clinical psy-
¯ chologist who joined the University of
¯ Tulsa faculty a year and half ago, is an
¯ expert in studying the impact of violence
¯ and post-traumatic stress disorder. In col-
. laboration with her students, she is con-
: ducting several studies regarding the psy-
." chological impact of sexual assault, as-
: sault, hate-violence, workplace violence,
¯ accidents and natural disasters.
¯ Currently Dr. Newmanis collaborating
¯ with studeiats Tim Studebaker and Bradley
Hunt on a study investigating the
: impact of hate violence on psychological
: heath and political beliefs. Gay, Lesbian,
~ Bisexual, Transgender, and Straight vol-
¯ unteers (both who have and have not
: experienced hate violence) are needed to
¯ complete an anonymous and confidential
¯ survey. Not much is understood about
¯ hate violence and the results may help
¯ develop psychological treatment and
¯ policy for potential victims. Volunteers
: can obtain a copy of this sensitive survey
¯ byleaving amessage with their name and
." address at 631-2031.
Several studies onhate violence, sexual
: assault and alcohol use are planned to
¯ begin in Fall 1998. Volunteers who are
¯, interested in participating in future stud-
," ies are encouraged to contact Dr.
¯ Newman"s research lab and leave their
: name, phone number and address.
by James Christjohn
If you missed Betty Buckley’s concert,
you missed a lot! She w~s in fine voice -
and what avoice! The stateside originator
of "Memory" from "Cats", she gave that
song moremeauing than any of ~hose who
have followedher. Andshe is one of afew
performers who could make the vast caverns
of the PAC seem
like an intimate cabaret.
She reminded me
very much oflocal performer
Susan McBay
in her deceptively
simple approach and
enjoyment of the musicians
playing with her.
Having run the
gamut from Broadway’
s"Pippin"toTV’s
"eight Is Enough" to
"Cats" to her most recent
star turn as Norma
Desmond in "Sunset
Boulevard,, she had a
multitude of stories to tall. And "With
One Look" will never be the same for me.
No one can toUch her version.
Her stories were witty as well - I really
enjoyed the one in which she was in
Pippin, and one’of the writers wrote a
show called "’The Baket~.Wife" with her
in mind for the lead. "’A show written for
me! I was thrilled!". Unfortunately, the
producer was unfamiliar with her work,
so she had to audition. 9 times. She did not
get the part. After many therapy sessions,
in wfiich she acknowledged that she"was
somewhatresentful andbitter", the thera-
: genuinely get a sense of what itmust have
; been like to be on that ship.
¯ Having sailed on the Tomtanic, and
: bumped into all kinds of icebergs but
: miraculously never sinking completely, I
¯ could relate to the captain’s arrogant atti-
". tude that the ship was unsinkable and the
¯ White Star Line’s manager, Bruce Ismay,
who according to some
sources waved away all
warmngs of ice that
were coming in and
urged for more speed.
Not to mention that the
ship and her Captain
only had one day for
testing and maneuvers,
where six weeks was
After her Friday Pops performance
the norm. How ’could
with theTulsaPhilharmonic, thefabu- the captain or any of
the crew have "known
lous Betty Buckley graciously met
with Council Oak Men’s Chorale di- that the rudder was too
rector, Rick Fortner and TFN Enter- small to turn the ship in
tainment writer, James Christjohn.
time?Andthatifthey’d
¯ hit the iceberg head on,
the ship would have stayed afloat until
" help came? The film does a really good
~ job of showing how such small decision
¯ can forever alter the course of history, .
." sending ripples through time.
¯ I will say that Cameron borrowed a
". trick or thr~e from the time travel film,
," "Somewhere in Time", starting Christo-
", pher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Particu-
¯ larlv at the end, but I’ll l~t you figure out
~ wh~t I mean by that. And if you’ve not
; seen "Somewh’ere.. "’, it’s well worth
~ renting. And "Tita~fic’" deserved the Os-
¯ cars it took home. So if you’ve resisted
pist finally said "Claim the song from the : seeing ,it due~to the hyp~rinflated hype,
show written for you - and get over it!" : don’t. It’s wall worth seeing. But ~o while
And so, "The Meadowlark" became her ," you can still see it in surround sound
s~gnature tune. (And a beautifully haunt- ¯ ~heatre~. That really’ puts youin filemiddle
ing song itis, too.) After the Show, I was
fortunate to share a moment or two with
her, and to tell her how much I enjo.yed the
show. She was very gracious.
I went to "Titanic" late in. the game -
just a few weeks ago. I was prepared to
hate it and mock Jim Cameron for an
budgetarily overinflated flop¯ Instead,
what I saw amazed me. Despite my attitude
going in, I was drawn into the story,
and "’went down with the ship. "And even
though I knew how they did the effects, I
was still left with total astonishment at
what the thousands of people behind the
scenes worked so hard to create. In short,
they put you on the ship - no mean feat.
Now, I’m not a DeCaprio fan and tomy
eyes, he was the weakest link in the film.
He seemed too young to play the p~.t he
did - and yes, I know he’s 25 and the
character was 20. He still looks 15, and
could not adequately convey a character
who’d had a hard knock life and been all
over the world as the Jack Dawson character
had.
Billy Zane portrays the villain of the
piece, though if he showed up in my
stateroom and showered me with jewels,
I’d ~e, hard pressed to say no. I understand
Rose s (Kate Winslet) repugnance all too
wall. His h~.dsomeness andmanners were
o~fly surface. And surface is’what the
world saw. The reality in private was
much different. Been there, dealt with
that. He’s an easy character to hate -
almost too easy, as the character tends
toward stereotype.
Although I’ve read about the Titanic
many times as an historical event, and
despite those flaws, the film does capture
you and suck you in (or down?). You
of the action. Blub.
Just had the first "Follies Revue" Rehearsal,
and it looks like it’ll be a ftm
show. The dates are June 25-27, and I
believe it’ll be at the-PAC again. Stay
tuned for mtre details...
TheCouncil Oak Men" s Choral~ (which
was Council Oak Chorale, until someone
pointed out that the acronym, COC, could
be cause for some consternation. I was
disappointed- imagine all the wonderftd
fodder for this colunm it could have provided
- pity.) performed to much applans~
at thePFLAG spaghetti supper last
month. Mel White was the guest speaker,
he also did well on the applause--o-meter.
He’s a very good speaker, and makes
some good points when it comes to what
the religions wrong is all about. Scary
stuff, that.
~ Anyway,COMCis in rehearsal now for
¯ a concert TBA. Rick Fortner, the fearless ¯
leader ofthislittlebandofvocalists,lhinks
~ perhaps May-endor June mightbe appro-
: pilate. Details comc-ing soon.
Broken Arrow Community Playhouse
~ presents "The Dresser", abackstage ~anee
¯ at lifein a3rdrate Britishtheatrical troupe
¯ in 1942, just when most touting companies
(which took theatre all over Britain to
¯ small communities and grand dries in the
~ days. before film and television were as
commonplaceas they are now) were fold-
" ing due to the film industry’s takeover of
¯ entertainment. Performances run through
¯ April 5th at the BACP, 1800 Main St. For
¯ ticket info and reservations, call 258-
¯ 0077. ¯ Over at the Comedy Club, Jeff Dunham
¯ can be heard throwing his voice around.
see Notes, page 10
PHILBROOK
749.7941
Visit Tuesday - Sunday
adults $6.25, children 12 & under free
Music on Exhibit IV
At Philbrook Museum
T U L S A PHILHARAAONIC
Woodwind Quintet
Brass Quintet
String Quartet
Music by Nielsen, Ewald, Brahms
For tickets, call 747-7445
The University of Tulsa’s
Bi sexual/Lesbian/Gay/TransgenderedAlliance
presents on April 16 - 19 in Lorton Hall, the
Tulsa Queer Film Festival
Thursday, April 16 Saturday, April 18 9 45 She’s Safe
9:00 Nitrate Kisses
10:30 Blooclsisters
Friday, April 17
7:00 Cruel
7:30 Boys’ Shorts
9:30 Wavelengths
10:00 Girl Talk
1:00-4:00 Feminist Films
Girls Like Us
Under the Skin Game
¯ My Feminism
Real Indian
6:00 Rules of the Road
6:30 Elevation
7:00 Shinjuku Boys
Sunday, April 19
1:00 Out at Work
2:00 Faggots Are For
Burning
Stop the Church
3:00 Thank God l’m a
Lesbtan
8:00 Defying Gravity 4:00 Hide and Seek
All.tim,s.and details ofschedule are tentative. IZ~yers will be Fosted closer to tl~ event. Ad donated by Tulsa Family
Parish Church ofSt. Jerome
Evangelical Anglican Church in America
An Inclusive Anglican Community
Holy Week Services
Sunday - April 5th
Blessing of the Palms - 11:00AM
Maundy Thursday - April9th
7:00 PM
Good Friday - April 10th
Rosary - 6:30 PM
Service - 7:00 PM
Holy Saturday - April llth t
Prayer Service - 10:00AM
Liturgy of Light - 7:00PM~_
Easter Sunday - April 12th
11:00AM
205 West King
Tulsa, OK
(918) $82-308S
The Rev. Canon Rick Hollingsworth, Pastor
The Rev. Debbie Starnes, Deacon
~SUNDAYS
Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 11 am, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Community of Hope. (United Methodist), Service - 6pm, 2545 S: Yale, 585-1800
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Service - 11am, 2545 S. Yale, 749-0595
Church of the Restoration Unitarian Universalist
Service - 1lain, 1314 No. Greenwood, 587-1314
Family of Faith Metropolitan Community Church
Service - 5pro, Childrens Minislry - 5pm, 5451-E S. Mingo, 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc.
Sunday School - 9:45am, Service - 10:45am, 3210e So. Norwood
Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Tulsa
Service, 10:45am, 1623 North Maplewood, Info: 838-1715
Parish Church of St. Jerome (Evangelical Anglican Church in America)
Mass - 11am, 205 W. King (east of No. Denver), Info: 582-3088
University~ of Tulsa BisexuaULesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance
6:30 pm, Meets at the Canterbury Ctr., 5th & Evanston, 583-9780
~" MONDAYS
Council Oak Men’s Chorale, 7 pm, leave meSsage for more information: 743-4297
HIV Testing Clinic, Free & anonym6us testing.. No appointment required.
,Walk in testing: 7-8:30pm, 834-TEST (8378) 3501 E. Admiral (east of Harvard)
HIV Rap Sessions at Bless the Lord At All Times Christian Center
7:30pm, 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
PFLAG, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays
2nd Monieach mo. 6:30pm, Fellowship Congregational Church, 2900 S. Harvard
Mixed Volleyball, Helmerich Park, 71st & Riverside, 7pm, call Shawn 491-2036.
Women/Children & AIDS Committee, 3/2, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
~TUESDAYS
AIDS Coalition of Tulsa, 3/10, noon, United Way Bldg. 1430 S. Boulder
.HIV+ Support Group, HIV Resource Consortium l:30pm
3507 E. Admiral (east of Harvard), Info: Wanda @ 834-4194
Multicultural AIDS Coalition, 3/3, 12:30pm, Urban League, 240 East Apache
Shanti-Tuisa, Inc. HIV!AIDS Support Group, and Friends & Family I-IiViAr~)S
Support Group - 7 pm,-Locations, call: 627-2525
Rainbow Business Guild, Business & prof. networking group, Info: 743-4297
PrimeTimers, mens group, 3rd Tues/each mo., 7pro, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th
Coming Out Support Group (TOHR/HOPE)
Tuesdays, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E. 38th, info: 743-4297
~" WEDNESDAYS
Bless The Lord At All Times Christian Center
Prayer & Bible Study, 7:30 pm 2207 E. 6th, 583-7815
Family Of Faith MCC Praise/Prayer = 6:30pro, 5451-E S. Mingo. 622-1441
House of the Holy Spirit Ministries, Inc. Service - 7pm, 3210 So. Norwood
Tulsa Native American Mens Support Group
For more information, call 582-7225, John at ext. 218, or Tommy at ext. 208
TCC Gay & Lesbian Association of Students (GLAS), Call for info: 595-7632.
Lambda A-A, 7 pro, 1307 E. 38th, 2nd ft.
~" THURSDAYS
HOPE, HIV Outreach, Prevention, Education
Anonymous HIV Testing, Testing: 7 - 8:30pm 834-8378, 3507 E. Admiral
Oklahoma Rainbow Young Adult Network (O’RYAN)
Support!social group for 18-24’s, call Red Rock Mental Health at 584-2325
From Our Hearts to Our House, 1 lpm, 3rd Thurs/each mo. Lola’s, 2630 E. 15th
Substance Abuse Support Group for persons with HIV/AIDS, Info: 834-4194
~ FRIDAYS
SafeHaven, Young Adults Social Group; 1 st Fri/each mo. 8pm, Pride Ctr., 1307 E. 38th
Community Coffee House, varying dates, 7 pm, Pride Center, Info: 743:4297
~ SATURDAYS ’ ......
Narcotics Anonymous, 11 pm, Community ofHope,1703 E. 2nd’i tnfo: 585=1800
Lambda A-A, 6 pm, Pride Center, 1307 E~ 38th, 2ndfl.. ¯
~" OTHER GROUPS
T.U.L.S.A. Tulsa Uniform & Leather Seekers Association, info: 838-1222.
Womens Supper Club, Call for info: 584-2978
OK Spoke Club, Gay & Lesbian Bike Organization. Info: POB 9165, Tulsa 74157
Ifyour organization is not listed, please let us know. Call orfax 583-4615.
CHECK OUT THE LIBRARY!
by Barry Hensley
Tulsa City-County Library
Incase youhaven’tchecked
out the library in the last decade
or so, it’s not just books
anymore! Besides magazines
(Advocate, Out, LambdaBook
Report) and CDs (Melissa
Etheridge,kdlang, EltonJohn,
lots of Cole Porter), the library
has some entertaining
videos that are of interest to
the gay and lesbian community.
Newer films include:
Philadelphia (1993): Ton~
Hanks won an Oscar for his
portrayal of a lawyer with
AIDS who is wrongly fired
from his prestigious law firm.
He sues, and wins, with the
help of homophobic Denzel
Washington.
Celluloid Closet (1995):-
Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this
- is an overview of homosexualityin
themovies andincludes
interviews With Harvey
Fierstein, Whoopi Goldberg
andGore Vidal, among others.
The Sum ofUs (1996): Stamng Russell
¯
Crowe (L.4. Confidential), this fun Aus-
¯ tralian filmrevolves around a well mean-
" ing father who tries to help his son find
In ease you
haven’t eheeked
out the
llhrary in the
last decade or
so, it’s not
just hooks
anymore!
Besides
maffazlnes . . .
and CDs . ..
the library has
some
entertaining
videos that are
of interest to
the Gay and
Lesbian
eommunlty.
No, not screaming at the hecklers, but as
one Of the fiinnlest ventriloquists around.
Most of you might remember Peanut th~
Woozle, Walter the grumpy old man, and
Jose thejalapeno from appearances on the
Tonight Show and
other talk shows, as
well, as many of the
comedy shows
broadcast from comedy
clubs onTV. Just
named Stand-upComedian
of the Year,
again, at the American
Comedy
Awards, he’ll be doing
4 showshere in
Tulsa at the Tulsa
Comedy Club, 6906
S. Lewis. For info,
call 481-0558.
Jerry Lee Lewis will be at Cain’s Ballroom
April 17. Tickets available at
Mohawk Music (51 & Sheridan, behind
Wendys, 644-2951, or by calling 747-
0001~
Barbara Ariadne will be one of the
featured photo~aphers in the npcoming
Tulsa Photography Collective’s exhibit at
Rogers University. These shows highlight
some really goodlocal artists, so I
would encourage you to take ajaunt out to
Rogers ,for a coffee and a viewing.
Barbara-~?photos are really beautiful images,
and each one tells a story and will
leave you thinking about what you’ve
seen. She’ll bea talent to watch in coming
years.
Stevie’s tour dates just announced ! She
will perform in Dallas July 17 at the
Starplex, otherwise you can catch her in
St. Louis at the Riverport Amphitheater
on July 11, or in Kansas City at the SandstoneonJuly
11. Tickets available through
ticketmaster, from $40 to $80. I remember
paying $25 in 1982 to see Fleetwood
¯.. the Turner exhibit at
Philbrook Museum vAll be
ending on April 12.
Don’t miss this exhibit
whieh is the sole worldwide
venue. Turner is considered
the greatest British painter
of the 19th century, and one
of the monumental figures
of Western painting.
; song’s about.
Mr.Right.
When A Kid is Gay (1995):
Younglesbians and gays share
their thoughts and feelings
about their sexual orientation,
families and the church.
Classic older rifles include:
La ,Cage aux Folles (1978):
The original Birdcage, from
France, which inspired the
fabulousBroadway musical.
How can you force a flamboyant
drag queen to actlike John
Wayne?
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
(1971): Classic love mangle
with handsome Murray Head
caughtbetween Glenda Jackson
and Peter Finch. Director
John Schlesinger dared to include
a male-to-male kiss in
this groundbreaker.
Videos check out from the
library for three days and
they’re free! (Fines, however,
are $1 per day for videos.)
Check for videos and CDs at
die Media Center at the Cen-
¯¯ tral Library (596-7933) or contact your
local libra@.
¯
Mac. The rimes, they have a-changed!
¯ The Stevie Nicks boxed set, EN-
¯ CHANTED, will be releaged on April 28,
¯
followed by an appearance On Letterman
¯ April 30. Then, she will release a newly
¯ recorded album in fall, with perhaps m~- ¯
other tour to follow that effort. And
hopefully, all these
things will occur
when the publicists
say they will. To
quote Stevie, 1 Can’t
Wait. As of right
now, the first single
from the boxed set is
scheduled to be Reconsider
Me. Since
her music and lyrics
eerily coincide "with
happenings andcrises
in my life, I can’t
wait to hear what that
¯ Wayward Theatre Company will ¯
present THE BALTIMORE WALTZ on
¯ April 2-19in collaboration with the Dela-
¯ ware Playhouse. For more information, ¯
call 712-1511.
¯ The Thomas Moran exhibition will be
¯ continues through May 10 at Gilcrease ¯
¯ Museum. But the Turner exhibit at Philbrook Museumwill be endingonApril
¯ 12. Don’t miss this exhibit which is the
sole worldwide venue. Turner is considered
the greatest British painter of the
19th century, and one of the monumental
figures of Western painting.
Tulsa Opera brings to a close its 50th
anniversary season with Madama Butterfly
onMay2,7 and9,1998 at the Perform-
. ing Arts Center. General Director Carol I.
¯ Crawfordmadeher conducting debut with
¯
Butterfly when it was last performed in
¯ 1991. Maestra Crawford said "Madama
] Butterfly was the first grand opera the
¯ Companypresented (1953 -54), and seems
¯
¯ a fit.ting conclusion t,,oTulsaOpera’s 50th anmversary season.
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Tonight we dined with the Emperor.
Yes, we were in Tulsa, and no, their
Imperial Majesties, the Emperor Akiinto
and the Empress Michiko, were not in
town for an intimate little dinner party
with Jean-Pierre. The little hovel in winch
we live wouldhardly be suitable for entertaining
the descendant of the goddess of
the Sun and ins gracious partner.
When amongst Polite Society in Japan,
one can pay no greater compliment
to one’s host or hostess
than to compare the foodthe
art- presented, with a meal
fitfor the Emperor. And, while
we’ve always found the susin
at Fuji to be good, we were
unprepared for the magnificent
feast we were presented
tonight.
Japanese cuisine descends
from an ancient and glorious
heritage, stretching back a
millennimn or two. Everything
is carefully planned and executed
with meticulous attention
to detail as only the Japanese
can do.
Upon arriving at the restaurant,
we were immediately
welcomed and escorted to ot~r
table in the large, open dining
room. No sooner had we gotten
settled in, then we were
greeted by our waiter, who
distributed hot washcloths to
each diner, permitting them to
cleanse their hands before dinner.
Anassistantamred, bearing
a small basket of warm
shrimp chips - very light and
airy cinps made of rice flour, flavored
wi[h shrimp, colored inassorted pastels-,
and fried to a crispy crunchiness.
The menus are lengthy and detailed,
and present offerings representative of
the major varieues of Japanese cmsine.
We had been to Fuji many, many tirnes
before, but, for some reason, we had always
made selections only from the long
list’of sushi, sushi rolls, and sashimi. So,
we asked our waiter to bring us ins choice
ofdimmer, highlighting thenon-sushi items
that we had not before tried in Tulsa.
Mist soup arrived immediately. MisO,
a soup made from fermented soybean
paste, is a staple of the Japanese breakfast
table and practically every other meal.
Fuji ser~’es a mild, light-colored mist
characteristic of the soups of Kyoto and
Osaka, that also contained small cubes of
tofu and bits of nori - sheets of dried
seaweed. The soup arrives in a pretty,
lidded bowl, and one partakes by sipping
directly from the bowl. It was followed in
qnick succession by the Japanese concession
to American tastes, a salad oficeberg
lettuce and a tomato wedge. It was garnished
with little fried noodles and shav-
!rigs of red cabbage, and dressed in an
interesting sauce of ginger, sesame paste,
and peanut oil
It was now time for the appetizers, mad
what an embarrassment of riches we received!
First came the Hiya-Yakko Tofu,
which was probably the only food we ate
requiring an "advanced" palate. Twolarge
wedges of cold, delicate, custard-like tofu
were garnished with sliced scallions and
grated ginger, and served with a gentle
ginger-soy sauce. Yakitoriis alittle skewer
of charcoaled cincken meat interspersed
with onions and bell pepper, and served
warm with tonkatsu sosu, a dark spicy
Fu~i Japanese
Cuisine and
Sushi Bar
8226 East 71st
Hours: Lunch
. Mon. - Fri.,,
11:30 to 2: dinner
5:30-10, until
10:30 on Fridays.
Sat. 11:30 to
10:30~ Sun. 11:30
to 9:30. Prices:
Expensive to
very expensive
Pa,~anent: NIajorcredit
cards
Smohin~: Separate
smokin~ section
Alcohol: Fully
licensed,
including
Japanese ~tems
Ratin~: A list
¯ sauce similar ~o soy enriched with toma-
¯ toes and fruit. We also had exquisite
~ Sunomono: crab leg, sin-imp, octopus,
" cucumber, and wakame (seaweed) lightly
¯ pickled in a sweet, bonito- flavored vinegar.
" The next course was sashinfi. Many
¯ Americans are squeamish at the thought
of eating "’raw fish" at a sushi bar, and
nothing takes sushi eating to an extreme
more than sashimi, winch is simply fish
without the rice. When the
Japanese eat seafood that has
not been cooked, they do not
eatjust any fish or sea creature
that comes along. Strict standards
of the highest quality
and freshness are required.
Fish and sea creatures for sushi
mad sashimi are very expensive,
and it is eaten uncooked
to accentuate the crisp freshness,
the delicate flavors and
the wonderful textures of the
dish. Our plate of sasinmi was
artfully arranged with three
slices each of wonderful,
bright red tuna and the tender,
.purple-tinged winte flesh of
octopus tentacles, plus a
mound of some of the most
fabulous squid dredged in
caviar that we have ever eaten.
Often times, squid is a bi~
chew),, but this sashimi was
so exquisitely delicate and
fresh, that we ~isk nmning out
of superlatives to describe the
experience. The plate was also
garnished with carved pieces
of carrot and cucumber, and
strewn with delicious young
radish sprouts.
Awordof education for thosewhohave
never done the sushi experience is ~varranted
for another item thatappears ou the
plate with sushi and sashimi. There will
almost always be a little ball or mass of
green paste the Japanese call wasabi. Beware.
Do not put the green paste into your
mouth ~vithout proper preparation, or it
will give you such an incredible rush that
your sinuses will clear, the top of your
head will feel as though it is coming off,
your eyes will water, andyou will want to
stop breathing. Wasabi is Japanese horseradish.
It is a delicious condiment, but
potentially fatal in novice hands ! On your
table, you will find a little tiny bowl or
plate. Put alittle of the wasabi on the plate
(using your chopsticks, of course), and
pour soy sauce into the bowl. Mix the two
together until you make a thin sauce,
winch you can make hotter or milder to
your own tastes. When you eat your piece
ofnigirisusin or your sasinmi, dip the fish
in.to the sauce before conveying the whole
pwce to your mouth.
By this point in the meal, we were quite
completely stuffed, but it was now time
for the main course to arrive. Our waiter
had selected two large salmon filets prepared
in the Sinoyaku style ~ charl~roiled
with sea saltand special spice,s, and served
with a:ginger sauce. Tins salmon was
unlike anything we had ever tast~l before,
with an amazing, full-bodiedflavor,
and it was so incredibly rich that we were
unable to eat the entire, enormous serving.
The salmon was accompanied by
vegetable tempura and an artfully carCed
anddissected fresh orange. Rice, ofcourse,
was present throughout the meal.
Truly, we had eaten so much,
see Fuji, page 12
by LarnontLindstrorn."
Nowadays everyone has his or her "culture."
This one-time anthropological term ’
used to mean the system of knowledge ¯
sharedby members of a society. For an- ¯
thropologists, thus, thereis only one corn- "
prehensive culture in the U.S. despite the :
fact that American understandings of the ¯
world may be contested, variable, contra- "
dictory, and negotiated. But for the rest of ¯
us, the term ’.~culmre" has become person- ¯
alized.Tormentedby 1990s worries about :
losing, finding, building, eroding, establishing,
proving, celebrating, andmarketing
identity, wehave fervidly grasped this
word to help make sense of who we are.
(There are good reasons why personal
identity in late 20th century America is
such aheadache, but we can save those for
another column.)
This all has led to "Let a thousand
cultures bloom." All over the country, we
hear new talk of youth culture, gang culture,
Chicano Culture,Black culture,White
culture (no trailer-trashjokes, please) and,
closer to home, Gay culmr~ and Lesbian
culture. One could argue that all these are
just minor components of an encompassing
albeit multifaceted American culture.
It is dear, though~ that we have taken to
phrasing our individual distinctiveness
and why we are special in a language of
cmtur , and we struggle to defend the
righteousness and honor of this particularized
"~culmral" uniqueness.
But I am not complaining about this
recent popularization of anthropological
jargon: The more cultures out there, the
more wor,.k there is for us an,t,h,r,opologists!
Thei’bi~~il6~ 6fadffon around academia as
scholars debate whether or not some distinctly
Gay culture, language, and lifestyle
exist and, ifthey do, what exactly they are.
Politically, too, there is the debate between
those who believe that Gays are (or
ought to be)just the same as everyone else
with oneminor erotic difference, and those
who argue that there.is a unique Gay
sensibility.that should be celebrated, p.rotected,
and passed along to upcotmng
generations x, y, and z.
I was thinking about difference - cultural
or otherwise - when I stopped in
Philadelphialastsnmmerto visitmy friend
Lenny. Lenny is African-American, Gay,
and deaf. If he wanted to talk that way, he
surely could claim to have a few more
cultures than most of us do. And there is
somejustification to admit a distinct deaf
culture, if one associates cultural boundaries
with language difference. Lenny’s
native language, like most deaf people, is
American Sign Language (ASL). ASL
has its own set of morphological and
syntactic rules that are independent of
English. Unlike most fashionable warnings
ofmulticultural bewilderment, Lenay
that watt,ere_.~apable ev~en to b~temptegt bythe~
eleeti0~.of~de.ssert’~, ~whidii~iuded
tea~g~L~tg.gq~.a-~attered~an~d~- ~i
cheesecake; ice. eream,~or banal_~.~:,/~
Several other noteworthy meniacategories
are on Fuji’s long menu, including
various teriyakied meats, nabemono dinners
- stews for two cooked tableside -
including sukiyaki, shabu-shabu, and
yosenabe (thekitchenrequests eighthours
advance notice for these fabulous specialties),
and various meats prepared in the
would be right if he wore a t-shirt marked
with the ASL signs for, "You wouldn’t
understand. It’s. a Deaf thing."
Lermy’s command of written English
grammar is spotty, but he is brilliant at
negotiating the boundaries between deaf
and hearing as wall as all the other boundaries
(Gay/Straight; male/female; black’
white) that most of the rest of us also
encounter daily. I first met Lenny several
years ago as he made the rounds of a
downtown Philadelphia dub with small
notebook and pencil stub in hand. His bartalk
took the form of short notes that he
rapidly scrawled in his own version of
English. (Lenny could scribble impressively
fast.) He then handed over the notebook
and pencil, and waited for a written
response. Last summer I ran into Lenny
again in a bar in New Hope, PA. He was
the only deaf person there but was having
a great time socializing with his hearing
friends and,perhaps, arranging some more
intimate date for that evening. It would be
a challenge for many of us, I imagine, to
scribble and make love at the same time.
Lenny’s cross-cultural skills in navigating
the deaf/hearing divide are much
better than mine. He took me along to a
club where Philadelphia’s deaf Gay community
meets every second week or so.
The room was crowded with people all
vigorously signing among themselves.
This was one of the oddest bar experiences
I ever have had. No noise. No talk.
No wild laughter or greetings yelled from
across the room. Just a rich, silent chore- -
ography of hand and ann gestures, a
hushed language of bodies and the quiet
motion- of faces." Unlike tae; the two or
three other hearing people there knew
ASL. One of them complained, though,
that hewas getting a headache trying to
make sense of the conversations around
him since most people were holding drinks
and were signing one-handedly. ’Although
in unfamiliar territory, I still knew enough
about Gay-American "bar culture" successfully
to order a drink ("read.my lips,
bartender, wwhiittte wwiirme") and otherwise
not make a fool out of myself.
As Americans living in the same society,
even when our "cultural" differences
are greatest (as between the Engh.sh-speaking
hearing and the ASL-sigmng deaf),
¯ we still have a 1.ot in common. In fact, the
various personal differences that we pur-
¯ sue, maintain, and today protect as cul-
¯ rural-like those asserted to exist between ¯
¯ Gay and Straight-only can be recognized and made sense of as parts of the larger,
¯ American cultural whole. Lenny is deaf,
¯ but he is also Gay. He is black, but he is
also African-American. Like all of us
¯ nowadays, Lenay is "multicnltural" (Gay
plus whatever else), but only in the singu-
~ larly American sense of this word.
¯ agemono technique, which dusts themeat
with special Japanese bread crumbs be-
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¯ sauce. And, of course, there is a large
¯
selection of sushi and sashimi.
¯ Fuji also features several tradition.a!
¯ Jap~~esd- be~,dragesi,,such a~ ,~e~ve~
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: hot sake- rice wine- served at the precise
¯ 110 degree temperature (any hotter, and
: the alcohol would evaporate away).
: This imperial dining experience is one
¯ which we shall not soon forget. Ofcourse,
:’ such quality and such art does have its
: expense, and Fuji is not cheap.
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Toilets - Liberate thought them ¯
unglamorous, Edmund White finds them
seductive, and most of the straight men I,"
work with find them an inspirational device
(well, they say they go in there to °
think deep thoughts, and it
takes sooo long...). But the.
Do-It-Yourself Dyke, quite
prosaically, sees only an afternoon
project that isn’t as
daunting as people make it
out to be.
And no small wonder that
toilet repairs seem so mysterious
- anything a plumber
values so highly must be
awfully complex and arcane.
The DIYD merely replies
"Poop-ola!"Afriendofmine
said her toilet ran all the time
and that it was going to cost
$50.00 to have it repaired, so
she ought to just go ahead
and buy a new one. Well, for
about $7.00 and a half hour
of ti~ne and with some of
those tools you rushed out
and bought aftermy last colunto,
you can have a qmet,
efficient toilet. Now, that’s,
something to contemplate!
The plumbing section at
Homo Depot or Builder’s
Queer or any other hardware
store will have a universal
repair "kit that includes afloat
and a rubber stopper. Yes,
these are the mysterious
~vor’kihg parts of the toilet.
You may now be nonplused.
Don’t worn that the float
The plumbing
section at Homo
Depot or Bu~/der~
~eer or any other
hardware store will
have a universal
repair kit that
includes a float and
a rubber stopper.
Yes, these are the
mysterious working
parts d the toilet...
Dolt worry that
the float doesn’t
look llke the one in
your tank - you
know, the copper
rod with the little
~loaty thing
attached. That was~
quite honestly,
called the
"’ball cock", so if I
say your ball eoek
is dripping. ~o~’t
tahe it persona~|y.
doesn’t lool~like the onein your tank- you ~
know, the copper rod with the little floaty
dfing attached. That was, quite honestly, ~
called the "’ball cock", soif I say your ball ~
cock is dripping, don’t take it personally. ;
They are a thing of the past, at least as far
as plumbing is concerned. This should be
all that you need, but it dqes prompt me to
a standard warning - anytime you work
on your plumbing, you may need to make
extra trips for other parts you didn’t think
you’d need. That’s because pipe fittings
[to rust, and those nice little chrome water
cut-offvalves under the tank have a bitchy
way of just twisting off.when you try to
shnt them off. But that isn’t always the
case, so dick your heels together three
tittles and wish real hard.
The first step is to get your tools together.
You’ll need an adjustable crescent
wrench and a pair of channel lock pliers,
and it doesn’t hurt to have a pipe wrench
on hand, either.
If you don’t have these tools or the task
is too daunting already, find ahandy dyke,
buy her some beer and cook her something
fabulous and turn her loose. It’ll still
be cheaper than the plumber. Have some
paper towels or rags ready, because the
toilet will leak, sometimeand somewhere.
Next, turn off the water. Most of the time
there is that chrome shut off valve under
the tank and running into the wall, It
probably hasn’t been moved in years, so
expect some resistance (kind. of reminds
m~ ofan ex. : .); you might have to wrap
a rag around the handle and use your
channel locks - gently! - and turn the
handle counter-clockwise until it closes
completely. If it doesn’t turn or, more
likely, the handle twists off but the valve
.doesn’t move, grab your keys and head
for the hardware store - but we’ll address
that in a little while.
Assumang youhave successfully dosed
the valve, flush the toilet to drain the tank
and mop up the water remaining in the
bottom of the tank. This will also get those
nasty deposits out ofthe bottom
that can cause problems
later, so that’s aplus. Unclip
the little hose that empties
into that tube in the center of
the tank, remove the ball
cock (if you have one) or
float assembly, and then
comes the furl ~art: removing
the vertical water supply
line into your tank.. This is
attached to the float assembly.
You have to loosen a
threaded collar on the bottom
of the tank directly under
that vertical inlet tube.
Use your channel locks and
remember that you’re working
upside down and that it
will unscrew the opposite of
whatyou’dnormally expect.
Well, it’s still counterclockwise
to loosen, but only if
you’re on your head.
This is the time you’ll appreciate
whether or not your
toidy is in a tight spot or not.
The cussing is directly proportionate
to the amount of
workspace you have. Welcome
to Plumber’s World.
rake the collar off, remove
the veaical water supply tube
and mop up the water on the
floor. Replace it with thenew
float device and tighten the
collar over the bottom. It will have a new
rubber or plastic tube that you clip onto
the outlet pipe - pretty much opposile of
the removal. You may have to adjust that
"Tea cup" at the top of the float so you can
put the toilet hdback on, but that s sxmp 3
accomplished by twisting itup or down as
needed. You can also control the water
level this way, but don’t get too chintzy
with the water supply, or you’ll regret it.
Reattach the water supply, from the shutoff
up to the tank and you re ready for the
next step.
Now, remove the old rubber stopper
that’s attached to the handle. Take the "
¯ little chain loose and then remove the
¯¯ flapper - it usually is attached to the stem
of the outlet tube by a couple of little
¯ rubber or plastic ears and comes off eas-
¯ ily. The rubber on the flapper can be kind
¯ of slimy, so use a rag to hold it when ¯
you’re taking it off. Replace it with the
~ new flapper in the kit just the opposite of
¯ how youremovedit:Thelittlechainneeds
¯ abit of slack, but not toomuch or itwinds ¯
around the lever from the handle and the
¯ water will still run and annoy the hell out
: of you.
¯ There are pretty good instructions on
¯ the pac,~ka~e, complete with illustrations,
¯ ~6don t feel too confused. However, the
¯ first kit I used forgot to tell me about that ¯
locking collar on the bottom of ther tank,
¯
and. was I one frustrated.lezzie until I
: figured it out! If you’re still:uncomfort-
¯ able doing this job but are determined to
] learn, find someone patient enough to
¯ coach you while you do the work. It’s a
¯ great way to learn this stuff.
¯ If youhave troublewith the shutoffyou ¯
have two options - yell for help or replace
~ it yourself,
This is where the pipe wrench come in
handy. You have to be able to shut the
terms of health care issues,"says Kate.
Kendell, executive director of the National
Center for Lesbian Rights.
Advocates have made gains in recent
~akears in getting the _m__edical,co~_n~_un~ty, to
enotice. AtGayWomen s t~ocus, helping
women who have been afraid to see a
doctor or acknowledge their sexuality !s
the priority. Robert G. Newman, premdent
of the Greater Metropolitan Health
Systems Inc., who proposed the clinic in
1994, says Lesbians have had "spe~.ial
"difficulty accessing sensitive,compassionate
care."
A small sign reading "GWF"is theonly :
marker outside the office at Beth Israel
where Waitkevicz treats patients. ".We
don’t want to label people coming in if
that would be a barrier to getting
treatment,"says Waitkevicz, who was a
founding member of New York’s St.
Mark’s Clinic, one of the first community-
based clinics for Lesbians. "Wehave
to be non-judgmental,"she says.
Pat Troy and her partner began seeing
Wai~evicz more than 16 years ago, after
Troy s previous gynecologist molested
her. "I was afraid to go to a male doctor
after that,"she says.
Experts say such stories are common.
In addition, Lesbians may avoid doctors
for fear they will be denied insurance
coverage orbeforced to reveal their sexual
orientation at work. "For some women it
is still not completely safe to come out,"
says Marj Plumb, director ofpublicpolicy
for San Francisco’s Gay and Lesbian
- Medieval Association.
According to a 1994 survey of members
of the American Association of Physicians
for Human Rights, 67 percent of
doctors and medical students said they
knew of a Lesbian, Gay or bisexual patient
who had received substandard care
or been denied care because of sexual
orientation.
In the 1970s, independent Lesbian
health clii~,cs began popping up in cities.
But in the 80S, with the AIDS epidemic,
activists’ focus shifted to AIDS advocacy,
and interest in Lesbian health care
waned.
The bonds created in the fight against
AIDS have helped, however."One thing
the AIDS movement dirt was to expand
from the self-help experience to an interaction
with the health establishment;"
Plumb said. "We said we are going to
fightyouto treatus better,~learned the
language and held our own.
In addition to Beth Israel’s program,
other recent de,v_elopments are! .
- TheWomen s Health Initiative, a longterm
study by the National Institutes of
Health, will include-a question about
sexual orientation on its questionnaire.
The study of about 164,000 women is
aimed at determining the effects of. diet
andhormonereplacement therapy onheart
disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and
bone disease.
- The National Academy of Science’s
Institute of Medicine is preparing arep~,.rt
addressing theneedforresearchonLesmans’
he~l~, and will review methods for
studying the Lesbian population.
- The American Medical Association has
written policy.papers outlining the need
for physicians to pay attention to Lesbians’
health issues.
Such moves, says Waitkevicz, gives
"those of us who want to teach professionals
ontheimportance ofLesbianhealth
the encouragement weneed to keep doing
our jobs."
water off at the curb; the valve for your
main water supply is in the meter box by
the curb and the bar on top of the valve
needs to be turned 180 degrees to shut it
off. You can use a large wrench, but you
can buy a device called a water key that
makes it easier; it has a long hand, which
is nice if your meter box is full of questionablewater.
They only costabout $8.00
and are priceless when you really need
them, so consider investing in one.
After turning off the water, flush the
.oilet. If it fills back up, the main water
isn’ t off and you’ll have to try again. If the
rater is off, put some ra~s under the
valve, grasp the pipe going into the wall
with a pipe wrench and turn the collar of
the valve with a crescent wrench. If the
parts are rusted together, you can have a
real wrestling match. Once the valve is
off, remove the tube from the valve from
the bottom of the toilet with the crescent
wrench. Take everything tO the hardware
store,handit tO thehapless clerkinplumbing
and tell them you want ’q’his". Go
ahead and get a new water inlet hose -
you’ll be sorry later if you don’t. Also
pick up a roll of the Teflon tape they sell
in plumbing. Check out and cuss some
more, because this is costing more than
the replacement kit, but remember that
the plumber wouldbe charging you labor,
and that hurts.
Back at home, wrap a couple of turns of
Teflon tape clockwise around the threads
on the pipe sticking out of the wall. Use
your wrenches again to attach the shut-off
valve snuggly in place; wrap the threaded
end on the valve with Teflon tape and
attach the water i...nl,et hose. Rule of thumb
in plumbing - if it s threaded, us.e T.eflon,
tape on it. This helps give a good sea] ana
alsb makes it a lot easier if you have to
remove these parts again in the future.
Now you can proceed with your toilet
repairs as above.
Once everything is attached and snug,
turn your water back on and admire your
handiwork. Yonrll be flush with pride!
Before thedecision, activists onboth sides
agreedthatthepanel’s f’mding co.uld shape
how 9.5 million Protestants interpret
policy affecting Cmys and Lesbians.
Creech presented the first challenge to
: the denomination’s 1996 decision in.its
¯¯ Social Principles to prohibit"ceremomes
that celebrate homosexual unions." Ac:
¯
cording to church procedure, nine of 13
¯ panelists had to agree to sanction Creech.
¯ One vote short, the close decisionintensi-
¯ fied debate.
¯
"Eight jurors, a majority, thought in
this ease that conducting a homosexual
¯
¯ ceremony was wrong, andwe agree that it
is sinful," said the Rev. Bob Kniper of
¯ Bakersfield, Calif. But, he also added: "I
¯ just hope this kind of decision will at least
¯ keep us away from witch hunts to find
¯
those who have conducted these ceremo-
¯ nies." Kniper is a spokesman for Trans-
" forming Congregations, a group of
churches, primarily Methodist, that iden-
¯
tifyhomosexuality as anillness thatneeds
¯ to be treated.
¯" They are opposed by Reconciling Con-
: gregations, aprogramledby gay Method-
" isis to encourage churches to welcome
: GaysandLesbians. seeCreech,page15
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congregations throughout the world have
adopted the program, but not Creech’s
church. Mark Bowman, executive director
of Reconciling Congregations, called
the decision "some measure of welcome
from the church" and reassuring to homosexual
members "that not all of the
church’s doors are dosed to them."
The panel of Nebraska ministers, four
women and nine men, denied that the
finding served as a positive signal about
homosexuality. "Just because this jury
~ church, does not believe that Gay rites
¯ will become policy anytime soon. The
", Methodists’ General Conference; alegis-
¯ lative body that can change policy, does .:
¯ notmeet againunti12000. Two years ago,:i~:
voting 577-378, these Methodist clergy’
: and lay members endorsed church policy
¯ that declared homosexuality incompat- ¯
ible with Christian teaching.
¯ Not all Gay Methodists think same-sex..~
¯ unions are worth fighting for, Lawrence :/.
¯. said. As he noted, other issues of hate
crimes and job discrimination may be
." more important.
... During Creech’s two-day inquiry in
vo.t~d this way doesn’t mean the next one
Keamey, even those presenting the
church’s case exp.ressed overtones ofsupwill:’
one panelist, the Rev. M. Maniek :., port.!n an. 0Pemng.smtem_ent, the Re.v.
Samuelofl(,linden~toldth~Om~h~aW,tbtl~l
Herald. " lated current church policy-even though
The decision, he added, is no authorization
for more Methodist ministers to perform
same-sex ceremonies. During the
inquiry, Creech said he wouldcontinue to
officiate at unity ceremonies, if asked.
Butdespite whathe called"activetalk;’
the Rev. Bill Lawrence, a professor at
Duke University studying the Methodist
Stonewall 25 organizers pleaded that no
national action take place before 1994..A
call for indnsion of youth in the orgamz2
ing was made and a request tobe aware of
the dates of the many women’s music
festivals was voiced. Native American
gays andlesbians explainedthat they could
not participate in the fall of 1992 - the
500thauniversary ofthe survival ofindigenous
cultures. And that is a very small
sample.
In 1998, all that expression and creativity
has been silenced in one meeting between
Perry, Birch, andTyler. They want
to control the timing, message, andmoney
associated with the Millennium March.
They may achieve that. Butin the process,
they’ll lose the movement. Arrogance is
not the word. Only sheer contempt for
democracy can describe their organizing
style.
Several national leaders authored letters
distributed at the !991 meetings explaining
why a march before 1994 was
misguided. Where are their voices now?
Some of the very same people have privately
expressed their concerns about the
Millennium March, but won’t do so publidy.
Why?They’re afraid that in the year
2000, they’ll be on the outside looking .in..
- There shouldn’t be an outside. Orgamzpolicy
may someday accept Gay unions.
Support for Creech came from a retired
bishop, who admitted that the church may
need to reconsider its policy regarding
homosexuals. "As I get older," observed
the Rev. Kenneth Hicks of Little Rock,
Ark., "it.burdens me to know that maybe
the church needs to make a change."
ing a national civil rights event without a
grassroots "call" is exclusive no matter
how much multicultural rhetoric they try
to pour over it.
But its worse than that. Birch is smart
enough toknow that Barney Frank is right
when he says that big marches do nothing
politically for the community. All that
stuff about the political benefits of being
in Washington before the dection is a lie.
Birch wants her Millennium March so she
can get her 1,000,000 members and the
associated loot. Grassroots democracy
mightproduce 50 state marches. Bigbummer
for Birch.
In a recent Out magazine article, Birch
responds to her critics by saying, "Imagine
what you would have done if three
years ago you woke up and found that
someone had handed you the movement.
.. I’ll bet that you would have made most
of the decisions I made."It’ s time to wake
up again. It’ s not your movement~.We can
help. :
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